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1. 1. ONDON must have a G en tl eman ' s SUPPER -4 and MUSIC ROOM " EVAN'S " a ft er Alfred ONDON Concerts. LL WHISKY v. COGNAC Tots celeitrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It Is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delioious, and very Wholesome. toin B o ttl es, Ss. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by 1" A gent; in the pri nc ip a l t owns in E ngland ; or wholesale tt 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. “ Observe the Bed Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Ri nahanta LL Whisky.' MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850). 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LENDS MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums V O l .£2O to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending over le, two or th - ..ec years. The l arge C ap i ta l of th i s Associa en ena:Aes it to complet e it s t ransact i ons without delay. f's° Inquiry or office fees, and strict secrecy observer,. Bills Disc ounted at short notice. F orm sen t free on receipt of a directed sta aped envelope. The lernis s° bAgsociitioa tenant, n al orso lends Moneyion for tofhe of a pu for the mortgages,liquidat on most advantageous to thq,borrower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. AY OF HAVANA AND MATANZAS RAILROAD (in the Island of Cuba). Loan of £40,000 sterling, in Bonds of £lOO, bearing in terest at 7 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly in London. AGENTS. In London—Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co. In Havana—The Bank of Commerce, Francis Fraser, Esq., Manager. This Company was formed in 1857, obtained its conces sion the same year, and in 1861 the main road was com pleted from Regla, idthe Bay of Havana, to Matanzas, a distance of 54 miles. . • , Sines then bran& line's of considerable value have been co nstructed. The cost of construction to this date is £1,056,000 ; of this sum £448,000 was raised upon shares subscribed in the island. . £250,000 was raised in London, in 1861, by a first mort gage loafl, bearing 7 per cent. interest, and repayable by t he operation of a sinking of £25,000 per annum, com mencing 1867, which will redeem the entire loan in 1876. £lOO,OOO was similarly raised in 1863 fo r th e cons t ruc ti on of two branch roads, secured by a second mortgage on the tact and•gnamnteed by'the Bank of Commerce, - repayable 'L T the eperation of a sinking f un d o f £4 , 000 per annum, co olmencing in 1873. 4. considerable portion of the remainder of the capital has been supplied from time to time out of the earnings of the road. The results of the undertaking have been very satisfac tory, and show the following returns : 1862 Gross receipts £100,700 1863 1864 71 And 1865 gross receipts from 71 January to June £93,000 Against same period, 1864 .... 82,000 The Bay o f H avana and Matanzas Railroad Company has now effected the purchase of the 'Coliseo Railroad, fining from Matanzas to Bemba, a distance of 35 miles, a v ery valuable road, and of immense importance to the Bay of Havana and Matanzas Company, inasmuch as it is in direct junction with that road at Matanzas, traversing a district rich in sugar produce; and being connected at 13 einba with the Cardenas and Jucaro Railroad, becomes a section of the central road of the island, which will very B,ll.ortly reach Villa Clara by the completi on o f th e Car itas and Jucaro Railroad. folio The returns of the tr a ffi c o f th e C o li seo R a il roa d are as ws : 1860 Gross receipts £49,100 1862 71 71 1864 71 ,200 And the r e t urns o f 1865 , from Jan. to 20th 71 May...£49,000 A gainst 1864, same time 45,000 ~.To comp l ete this purchase the Bay of Havana and Matanzas Company desire to raise a loan in London of t 400,000, bearing interest at 7 per cent. per annum, pay able half-yearly in London. As security for this loan, the Bay of Havana and Matan zas Railroad Company will effect a first mortgage on the Coliseo Railroad, its rolling stock, appurtenances, and all properties; and also a mort g a ge on th e B ay o f H avana and stanzas Railroad and its branches, subject only to the existing mortgages of £350,000, of which the first mort gage of £250,000 w ill b e pa id o ff entirely in 1876, by the eO Peration of the sinking fund which commences in 1867. The property thus mortgaged is as follows : The Cohseo R a il roa d t o b e purc h ased out of the proceeds of this loan, producing a gross revenue in 1864 of £71,200. b The Bay of Havana and Matanzas Railroad and its ra nches, costing£l,os6,ooo, producing a gross revenue in 1864 of 4143,000 (subject only to the above-mentioned 111 °rtgages). It Will be noticed that the revenue of th e B ay o f H avana ; t ad Mata nzas , as we ll as th a t o f t h e Coliseo Railroad, has or some years been steadily increasing at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, and it is beyond a doubt that oft amalga blation of the two roads, by a natural increase raffic and a l arge saving of expenditure in the administration, will for a far larger revenue, and may be fairly estimated the coming year at £250,000 gross, or fully £lOO,OOO set revenue. Pot. the repayment of this loan a sinking fund is nr llulged for, whereby £20,000 is to be paid off annually, %tile r by the purchase of bonds or public drawing, its ope tation to commence in 1877, by which time the first mort gage loan of £250,000 will be entirely redeemed. + ,The Bond s will be issued in sums.oidloo, and bear in lost coupons, pay a bl e 10th June andrlOth December, at th e c ounting-house of Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co. ---it.l4Arst coupon will be payable 10th Jun o nex t. l outs no subscription price is 90 p er cen t., p aya bl e as f 0 1............... ............... on a p p li ca ti on. zO ............... on a ll o t ment. 30 .. ... on 10th November. £3O Os. Less 0 14s. interest at 7 per cent. per annum upon previous instalments. 2 ,..3 6s ............ on 10th December. , In terest at 5 per cent. p er annum w ill b e a ll owe d f or pro -443111ent of any of the instalments. 4PPlication for an allotment to be made to Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street ; or to the Brokers— Messrs. LAURENCE, SON, and PEARCE. No. 7, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. 145, Leadenhall-street, London, Sept. 7, 1865. SIVEET OPOPONA X, PIESSE and LUBIN'S new Perfume.—OPOPONAX is a native flower of 1 0 „" 1 ,c0 i of rare tranrance. This scent, and a thousa n d o th ers 6 9 0 ce, Es. 6d.' and ss. each. 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RNAMENTS for the Drawing room, Library, aut ing-room, consisting of a new and :pent of VASES, " Figures, Groups, Candlesticks,Ob elis ks, Ink tlaba'leautiful Inlaid Tables, Paper weights, dtc. - , in Italian, Ft Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, 4zo. biported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine. htloglat to her Siaiesty, 149, Stand, W.C.. London. iwiltr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, of RALS the , and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition tlell's Elements of Geolog y; the_y win greatly fiollitate had study of MINELtALOGY and GEOLOGY, `, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to DO guineas each. v, N PItA.CTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY - ndmonc. at giy n by Mr.TENANT,F.G. • i4O. Strand. SAILORS' ORPIL LN GIRLS' SCHOOL and RoIIE, H P :npstead. Ofileea, 77, Cornhill -PATRON—The QUEEN. ta rn. ~,_ TRUSTEES. it,Lsr l e non. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon ('hampneys Thomas Baring, Esq., m r • • TREASURERS. • 1 3. L. üßevanon av Es Robert Hanbury, Esq. Institti ' is dealgned to supply a great national tb n uc_,E. viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in i t 4o Yal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines_ ae„., clothes, maintains, and educates them fort domestic fe:, and provides a home free of expense for former ;le g ,rgiAtio While out of situatio ns , th us shielding them from the Vl4ns they ea rnest otherwise be exposed to. ,CoMmittee y APPEAL for CONTRIBU teee,„O io meet the increasing applications through the ep eb ", ,, storrns and loss f life at sea, and t o enable them tpZ i lally to obtain premises more commensurate with the s,,7Bsities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 iCrfi annually by casualties alone, without including those „11124a3, parlsh by war s erintions thankfully mew by the bankers, Messrs t0...e.43% Bevan, and Co., Lombard-strect, and by the Seem •.i) at the Offices, No. 77, CornhilL R. SWEETTNG, Hon. Sao. CITA RLES NASH, Sea tit RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another , ; 1110 3. ;gnu to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer kat oor, friendless, young females were rejected from 4,I,.IfUNDS and room, making a total of 087wo have s l the "‘ e. - way in five years. Here are brief details of a few ,Inclat recent cases: k aged 16. fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. tt , aged 17d ge 1, home ather leip, both parents dead. a, I), fa 3 llen, f dead, deserted by her mother. 1 0.g,' ar,eed 15, fallen, mother dead. MA e aged 15, fallen, mother dead, • 8 , aged 16, fallen, both p aren t s d ea d . • ad le aged 14, hnmeless, deserted by her parents, Q• I t a ged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G' , aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. 401 aged 18, fallen, father dead. 5..11 , aged 18 fallen, both parents dead, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. a W ,,aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. 4 --01 e . ;i; , ; 2(4 5, fallen, both parents dead. 40 4 home the Committee wish to form would be for al:e b,W,'; 3 ! filmost children, from the age of 8 to 10, who li r ant r ir.j,a astray from the path of virtue. t. • ba n i e , , tpns will be received gratefully by the Secretary, ‘tch t , a ~00per, 85. Queen •street Cheapside; or by Messrs 111 ' CO • Lombrdstreet. . k . l W °till., FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, In 4., "Y Te).,..,-,e Immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail _ r,_ - ', tilils, Ring's-cross. yi f, LrOn_,T i ea-N tir er ildost Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Prem, (”I—llis Royal Highness the Prince o f WALE 3, K.G l'i l i ~,,,-ent—llis '•race the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. B.G. Bah 041eitoapital. foundel in the year 1828, the first to estab hibe la y of free admission to the sick poor, wi thout e. . - end e i,il atld difficulty of Governors' orders. is whold .It gi r d s Ir eurtport on voltmtarycontributions and le gacies. 'aditio relief to a large number of in-patients,and, in :estit ute w) this, the average number of attendance of the a sic k has for iderable per;od averaged between .11, tid 'I,OOO weekl a con 13;4 Cohlinlttee ea Y. sti licit the ASSISTANCE of the 1:1 04. lOieut, t, thPreclntlinteg ite '74 l v u l nundi:ed more e , premises rneya o c f this Hospi a ta d l t a h r e e c c e a m pa mi bl t e te o e f b ds h t ~ontrib„„ lads to maintain them. ,trrtift, ~,,ions are received by the Treasurer, Edward alas Zrittntt ,tri:Ciiindie°o?l4GB-11ynanandCo.; e, also by and Co ; Ransom H a e f rri ess e r a s. Conn! , and Co.. 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Charles, 26, Suffolk-street, all-Mall East, S.W Bankers—MesSr6 : Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard- The British American Provinces. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times) OTTAWA, Aug. 19. For two generations it has been the practice throughout the United States, with the exception of Massachusetts and Virginia, to remove the seats of Legislature from the great cities to small towns situated as nearly as possible in the centre of the Commonwealth. The reasons alleged were— first, the facility of access, supposed to lie in the equidistance of the Parliamentary centre from all points of the State; and, second, the freedom from mob influence and intimidation, to be found in the rural districts, and which could not be expected amid the rowdy and excitable population of large manu facturing and commercial cities. For a system of government whichrests upon the suffrages of a whole people, in which the mob (to use the word in no offensive sense) forms so large a proportion of the constituency, the plea of such a necessity is some what damaging. No one ever heard that the Parlia ment of Great Britain was not as safe in Westmin ster as it would have been in Kenilworth; but the people of the large States of New York, Pennsylva nia, and Ohio mi s t rus t e d th e crow d t oo muc h, though they always boast of it s e d uca t e d i n t e lligence, to consent that populous and wealthy New York, Phi ladelphia, and Cincinnati should be the seat of the Legislature. The consequence is that the capitals of these and most other States of the Union are but in , considerable places, deriving a fictitious importance from the presence once a year of the local Legislature, but striving in vain to expand into the size or the dignity of cities. Washington itself, selected for the same reasons as the capital of the Union, has little of the appearance, and none of the amenities, of a veri table metropolis. It is a place of immense promise and small performance. Its design upon the topo graphical chart is magnificent. Its actual condition is petty and disappointing--a mixture of imposing public edifices, separated from each other by long intervals of inferior or half-built streets, in which the pigstye, the cabbage -garden, and the wooden shanty, alternate with the brick house and the marble mansion. Unpaved and unfinished, dirty and dis reputable, swarming with beershops, groggeries, gambling dens, and brothels, Washington can give no other excuse for its existence than the meeting of a Congress, which would have been much better housed at New York. To a great extent this unflattering but not incor rect description applies to Ottawa, the legislative capital of Upper and Lower Canada, and, if the proposed Confederation of the Provinces be consum mated, of the British American Union. Its situation is much more picturesque than that of Washington, and the noble quadrangle formed by the Houses of Parliament and the Government offices, standing on the crest of a hill which overlooks the beautiful valley of the still more beautiful river, from which the city takes its name, is alone sufficient to impress upon it a character of individuality and grandeur which few cities in America possess. In Ottawa the memory of the oldest inhabitant extends no further into antiquity than 39 years. It was but in 1826 that the first tree was cut down in the wilder ness, on which the city now stands, and when Colo nel By, of the Royal Engineers, gave the name of Bytown to the little collection of wooden huts that were the first results of his scientific " prospecting" in this lonely region. Now, the streets of the capital that has been arbitrarily, and, perhaps, un fortunately, fixed in this out-of-the-way spot are laid down on a scale sufficient to accommodate 150,000 or 200,000 inhabitants. Though so lately covered with forest trees, scarcely a bush flourishes within the municipal boundaries. With a strange wantonness of destruction on the part of the early settlers, and with an equally strange want of foresight on the part of the municipality, not an old tree remains and not a new tree has been planted to supply its place. As the heat in summer is as oppressive in this latitude as in New York, the omission to plant such umbrageous trees as are to be found lining the main thoroughfares of all the cities and towns of the Federal Union is not easily to be accounted for on any principle consis tent with the public spirit, or even the common sense of the place. It is true that the evil admits of remedy. Nevertheless, it is to be feared that the , street, E.C. I rr Le mode of admission to the House is twofold, Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till they are 11 years of age. With the view t o secure the election of the moat deserving cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers. The voting papers contain a description of each case, i as care ful y inve s ti ga t ed b y the Committee, and with this informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1884. It was designed to take Ia the little ones whose charact r and circumstances disqualify the e for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Re fuges. Such are those who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Such are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 11P, and the Committee would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait for the necessary subscriptions. The Committee feel constrained to plead for those who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not h-lp her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must ail go into " the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. I s it doin to others as we sh unto us that when these g little ones have would unnatural par o ents ulddo who tura them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "run away," none of us shou' d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them ? Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's keeper ?" The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi dent from the police statistics, which show that in London alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom were convicted sad punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too young to punish. though not too young to learn the beginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli ance and self-help be permanent burdens to the St a t e . i'he Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour to make them useful members of society. The daliy routire of the Institution presents all the fea tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals, their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning is devoted to echo. .l work—reading, and writing, and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in oljects and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early period in life, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So :he after noons are occupied with various industrial occupations— making brown paper bags for bankers, and white taper bags for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any who will bay them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending the C othes, & c. Some assist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots, knives, ice. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active working life. 2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any time as soon as approved by the Committee, Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi cally Forms of Application for the admission of children may be had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary, A Single Truss, 165., 215., 268. 6d., and 318. 6d. Postage, le. & Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 428., and 525. 6d. Post age , i s An Umbilical T russ, 428. and 525. 6cl. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Modally. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, Ace., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Veakness and Swelling 01 the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price Is. 6d., 7s. &I, 10g., to Hs. each. Postage 6d. JOIIN WHITE. Manufacturor. 22R. Plocadillv. vL ./t/ //r/Z(vc„ /ti IA" st7, l 4> • • 110 • av • t: f% 444 .. ..•. ( 71 ! : • rel! , • ; IL! • , 1 1V%-'^t a' f:7 •• 41 • , . 4w" - at/ 1 w "•-"\ ‘,/ \ • 7r - 14 0 or 01T • 440 -LITE A:: ke t :0 4. • 13 a. , Fe / THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1865. GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone. Dull Care," every evening at 8. A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3. " The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide the Press. Admission, ls. PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON. — Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic, and character actor. VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic, &a, in his original entertainment, " Bego n e, Dull Care," "Miss Mary May," "Early in the Morning." Balcony, 28. ; reserved seats, Ss. ; stalls, ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St. James's hall, 23, Piccadilly. A. NIMHO, Acting Manager. T HEOX F O R D 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by Misses Russell. Barrie, Waimealey, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. Et. Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, &c., by the celebrated D•Au bans, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY and SARA. GUBNIES. NO ucE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated, Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock. The Classical Ballet, entitled TH E BRIDAL of BEAUTY, in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear ance THIS EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. KO KO RI KO. This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest hit ever made, will be repeated• EVERY EVENING, in ad dition to the Operatic Selections, supported by the whole talent of the establishment. Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall, Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur Lloyd. _ _ Director, Mr. F. Jongmans. All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to the above establishment. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with the season, the Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description, faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been renewed. Modern Cou..t Lot esses of the most splendid de scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London, and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view. Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and CONSTANCE KENT are now added. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. mercenary and mean ; but the poor Canadas and the rich United States are equally sensitive to sor did influences, and the writer who would faithfully record the state of public feeling with regard to any great subject such as this, cannot justly omit to mention even the lowest of the motives which may mould the actions of a community and affect the course of public policy. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WENSUM VALLEY. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the office, Poet's Corner, Westminster, Mr. W. P. Greenfield in the chair. The report stated that the directors were 'not in a position to report that effective progress had been made with the railway entrusted to them to carry out. The circumstances causing the delay had been be . - gond the control of the board. With regard to the prominence given to the case in the recent discus sions between sections of the Great Eastern Board, they state that the proposal to construct the. Wen sum Valley Railway, often broached, was submitted to Parliament by independent promoters in the Ses sion of 1864 ; the line constructed was universally supported by the landowners, and was in every sense a landowner's line. It had been carefully laid - out by engineers of character and experience, who fixed the capital in "the usual way in the bill. The only opposition with which the bill was ever threatened in Parliament was that of the Great Eastern Com pany ; and in March, 1864, the directors of that com pany finding that there was no reasonable ground for opposing its construction, adopted, of their own spontaneous will and without solicitation from the Wensum Valley directors, the following resolution : " Parliamentary Committee, March 11, 1864.—Wensum Valley Railway. "Resolved,—That Mr. Maynard be instructed to offer to the Wensum Valley Railway Company the following terms : " That the Groat Eastern Railway Company aro prepared to contribute one-third of the capital, and to work their line at 50 per cent., and will be prepared to concede, through booking from Lynn to Norwich, on the undertaking that they get corresponding through booking arrangements from March to Lincoln over new line." Negotiations followed, and a formal agreement was drawn up and executed in the usual manner, and scheduled in the Act, which passed without opposi tion. The agreement thus concluded gave the Great future legislators of the British provinces will have but too much reason, as they swelter on a day such as this, in the unshaded streets of their dusty capital, to deplore that the -contemporaries of Colonel By were too busy with the axe, and the men of to-day too indifferent or too ignorant to repair the evil they inflicted. The actual population of Ottawa is about 14,000, which will probably be increased by another 1,000 or 1,500 when the Legislature, together with the clerks and employes of the various public depart ments remove into the city, as they are expected to do within the next six weeks. Notwithstanding the sparseness of the people, compared with the extent of ground occupied, the indications are strong that the profesSional and educated classes, always hard pressed for an opening, expect the city to grow and expand to the height and size of its pretensions. Several monster hotels after the American pattern are built but unoccupied, patiently awaiting the flush of business which is to enrich their lucky pro prietors. In addition to these are a score, more or less, of minor hostelries, of various degree of excel lence(and the reverse) alone sufficient to accommodate a travelling public thrice as numerous as is ever likely to need them. And still, after the American, rather than after the slower English fashion, two daily newspapers are pOlinhed in the place, to com pete for 0:16 political influence and the advertising business which every capital city is supposed to afford. The medical profession is so largely repre sented that if one-half of - the practitioners whose signs meet the eye, 2nd whose advertisements cla mour for notice on the hoardings and dead walls of the city and in the columns of the newsapers, are enabled to earn a decent subsistence, the people of Ottawa must be among the most credulous and per sistent valetudinarians in the world. And as for the barristers and attorneys (the one resolving into the other at will, as in the United States), who are attracted to the capital in the hope of future busi ness, Edinburgh itself, where no one can tell where so many advocates and writers to the signet con tinue to make both ends meet, must be considered a very desert of the legal fraternity as compared with Ottawa. In anticipation of the future develop ment of the place, the price of land has gone up so extravagantly as to defeat the calculations of the too sanguine or too sordid proprietors, and to leave upon their hands many valuable " lots" which with more moderation on their parts might long ago have been disposed of at handsome profits. Ottawa is well lighted with gas, but though it stands on the bank of a river, which at the magnificent falls of the Chaudiere possesses a water power only second to that of Niagara, its inhabitants have no other water than that which the roofs of their houses sup ply from the rain, or which they pump from the private' wells in their gardens. It does not appear any steps have yet been taken to remedy this seri ous defect, though it is obvious to the meanest capa city that, if nothing be done in this respect, Ottawa will never be a great city, or deserve to become one. The Parliament House and the two Departmental Buildings, the pride and ornament of Ottawa, are rapidly approaching completion. The foUndation stone was laid in 1860 by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the works have since been pushed vigorously forward. The original estimate of cost was $900,000; but it was found necessary to expend nearly the whole of that sum in the foundations, and the subterranean buildings and apparatus necessary for the warming, the ventila tion, and the water supply of the three edifices. Upwards of two millions of dollars have already been exhausted, and it is calculated that when all the bills are paid the sum of three millions, or about £600,000 sterling, will not be found much more than sufficient for the purpose. The Government offices are so far advanced as only to need furniture to be ready for occupation, and it is the present intention of the heads of the several departments to migrate from Quebec to the new capital, in October or November. The Houses of Parliament are not in the same state of forwardness ; but as they will not be required until February or March, there is ample time to prepare them for the ensuing Session. The two Halls or Chambers for the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly are alike in size and design, and are simple and massive, rather than gaudy, or even ornamental in appearance. Both are of the exact dimensions of the House of Commons in the New Palace at Westminster, from which fact it may be inferred, without error, that the members, who are not likely, even in the case of Confedera tion, to exceed 200 or 250 in number, will have abundance of elbow room. In Canada, as in other parts of America, the representatives of the people— ultra-democratic as they are—have a more aristo cratic regard for their Parliamentary comfort than their compeers in the old country. The member of the nritish Parliament, aristocratic as he may be in heart and sentiment, is content with a very demo cratic amount of luxury and convenience. If the House be crowded, it is not without difficulty that he can obtain a seat, except in the gallery, and on all occasions he has no other place for his papers, memoranda, and documents, than his pockets, his lands, or perhaps his hat. But not so in the United States and Canada. Each repre sentative of the democracy has ample room and a private desk, provided with writing materials, and stowage for twenty times the amount of documents which Mr. Gladstone might need to refer to in the introduction of his Budget. In this manner a Canadian legislator occupies three or four times as much space in the House as a British member of Parliament ; and for this reason the Parliamentary buildings at Ottawa are none too large for the gen. tlemen who are to occupy them. It might be supposed that at Ottowa, if anywhere in British America, public opinion would be unani mous on the necessity and advantage of a Confede ration of the Provinces. Such, however, is not the case. Many of the citizens have a vague mis giving, notwithstanding all the money that has been spent,as it were, o n th e very outskirts not be a ver y con venient capital for a Confede ra ti on of which such that their wilderness,c city, remote countries as Nova Sc o ti a, N ew Brunswick, k rt s of the Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, must form parts. They anticipate, and not without reason, that the Maritime Provinces, if ultimately they waive all other objections to the projected union, will agitate in favour of some more agree able and more accessible capital, such, for instance, as Montreal, which is and will continue to be the real metropolis of British America, in spite of all that legislation may do to create artificial rivals to it. Were Confederation defeated, or indefinitely postponed, Ottawa would be the capital of Canada, and perform all the functions for which it was selected. It would be enriched to the full extent anticipated from the annual presence of the Legis lature, and the perennial residence of the func tionaries and employes of the Government, and if it did not expand so much as the proprietors of the soil and its other projectors desired, it would certainly grow more rapidly than it would have done had it remained, which may be called a pri vate rather than a public City. There are other reasons of a similar kind that induce many of the people of Ottawa to look somewhat coldly on the idea of Confederation. If Ottawa, on account of its beautiful public buildings and the money spent retained as th e ca pital of t u h p e o n t new h e u m n , i s n h , o it ud w o b u e l d cease to be the capital of Upper and Lower Canada, each of which would have a capital of its own, the one at Toronto and the other at Quebec, for the transaction of its local business. The Ottawa people - have consequently begun to reckon whether it would not be more to their pecuniary advantage to accommo d a t e the Legislatures of the two Canadas, as was originally intended, than to part with that source of profit, and content themselves with the emoluments to be distributed among them and the dignity to be con-, ferred upon their city, by the assembled Legislatures of all the provinces. The calculation is no doubt ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill -street Piccadilly. will RE-OPEN for the Season on SATUR , DAY, Sept. 9. The above Rooms have been entirely re. decorated by Herr Rubardt and assistants. Musical Director, N. LUIGI CITRTL Manager, Mons. GRENET. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close live minutes to 12 o'clock. Admission to Promenade, One Shill,ng. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. It. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. GLENFIELD PATENT Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. Sold b 7 all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &c. STAR C WOTHERSi'OON and CO., Glasgow and London. RUPTORES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERMITED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ExHIBITIONB OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of Il ERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, .s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the t‘ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease tnd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being Sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. Eastern Company the perpetual and exclusive use of the line--thus for all defensive and strategical pur poses constituting them owners of the line for one third of its cost. The Wensum Valley Company were to complete the line of works to the reasonable satisfaction of the engineer of the Great Eastern Company. On subscribing one-third of the capital the Great Eastern were to appoint two directors at the ,Wensum Valley Board. The agreement also contained provisions for arbitration. In August, 1864, the Great Eastern Company unanimously agreed to subscribe one-third of the capital, and in the following October the Great Eastern Board ap pointed two of their body to sit at the board of the Wensum Valley Company. The report states that all subsequent proceedings of the Wensum Valley Board took place with the assent and in the presence of Great Eastern representatives. It was when the subscription of the Great Eastern Com pany was pressed for that, for the first time, excep tion was taken to the nominal cost of the railway. Discussions ensued, explanations were given, the serious contingencies as to land and other matters which the contract embraced were explained, and eventually the directors, while dissenting from its expediency, consented to obtain a fresh arrang?ment with the contractors, limited to works, excluding land, legal, engineering,Parliamentary and other expenses. This proposal was accepted, a new contract so limited was submitted to Mr. Sinclair, and dis cussed between him and this company's engineer; the differences between them were narrowed by a comparative trifle, and would doubtless have been entirely removed by further examination and ex- planation, when Mr. Sinclair was instructed by his board to suspend all action in the matter. It had also been stated in evidence before a Parliamentary Committee, by an influential member of the Great Eastern direction, that the directors had agreed to pay in cash, shares, and debentures for completion of the railway £293,000, whereas Mr. Sinclair's es timate was only £lBO,OOO. How far there was ground for charging (on Mr. Sinclair's or any other authority) extravagance in the arrangement contem plated by the directors might be estimated by the fact that on two several occasions, and as to two distinct contracts, this company's engineer and Mr. Sinclair had been on one occasion injactual accord, on the other at a point so approximate as to have insured that ultimately there would be no real diffe-' rence between them. The report concluded by stating that the directors had been reluctantly corn, pelled to take proceedings at law to enforce payment of the Great Eastern subscription. On the motion of the CIIAIR3IAN, seconded by Mr. QUICK, the report was unanimously adopted, and a Tote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. LLYNVI VALLEY. The report of the directors of this company stated that the traffic continued to increase, and the gross receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last had been £11,192 against £10,134 for the cor responding half of last year. The balance available for dividend, after deducting all expenses and in terest, amounted to £4,959. The amount required for the payment of 5 per cent. upon the first and second preference stock was £3,715, and the sum of £1,244 remained for division on the ordinary stock, being at the rate of £3 12s. per cent. per annum. In order to pay the usual rate at 4 per cent. per annum upon the ordinary stock, free of income tax, it was necessary to add only £l3B from the reserve fund, which would then amount to £3,324. The capital account showed that there had been an expenditure on works during the past half-year of £12,263. This had been incurred in laying the nar row gauge between the junction with the Ogmore Railways and Porthcawl, and in additional works to render the line to that place fit for passenger traffic, as well as for the improvement of the old harbour. The narrow-gauge railway was now in. use for both passengers and goods traffic, and the harbour was open for shipping. Considerable pro gress had been made towards the construction of the dock, breakwater, and other works, and the direc tors fully expected that this immense improvement would be completed in the course of next summer. The capital account showed that £307,306 had been received, and £304,905 expended, leaving a balance of £2,401. The report and dividends were agreed to by the shareholders. VARNA. The report of Mr. M'Candlish, the chief engineer, states that the works on this line were progressing most satisfactorily ; that, although the surveys were only commenced in April and the works in June last year, the earthworks had been completed ready for the ballasting and rails upon about 85 kilometres (53 miles) at the Varna end, and 60 kilometres (37 miles) at the Rustehuk end of the line. The whole force of labour was now employed upon the earth works on the central portion of the line, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) in length, and these would be completed, with very slight exceptions, before the ensuing winter. The masonry was well advanced, and the bridges and culverts were nearly completed. All the station buildings along the line have been commenced, and many of them completed, and all would, he hoped, be roofed in before the winter. On about 33 kilometres at each end of the line, or 66 kilometres (40 miles) in all, the rails had been laid. He had no doubt that on 80 miles of the line the rails would be laid before the winter, leaving Only about 59 miles to be laid during next year. The Turkish Government had lately received from Total 356,000 £5,710,000 A creation was made of 176,334 provisional shares of £2O each divided thus :—Orleans, one fusion share for one old share, 80,000 ; Centre, one fusion share for two old shares, 33,000 ; Bordeaux, one fusion share for three old shares, 43,334 ; Tours and Nantes, one fusion share for four old shares, 20,000 ; total, 176,334. These 176,334 shares indi cate a capital of £3,526,680 ; but the general meeting of May 25, 1852, considering that the capital of £5,710,000 really paid up by the shareholders of the four companies ought to be represented, decided that the number of shares should be carried to 300,000, with a capital of £6,000,000. In consequence of a resolution adopted to this effect, the 176,334 provisional shares were exchanged for de finitive shares at the rate of five provisional shares for eight definitive shares. This arrangement absorbed 282,134 definitive shares, and the 17,866 shares remaining were taken up at £2B each by the shareholders of the four companies. Tho 300,000 old shares of the Orleans re- present., then, a paid up share capital of £6,210,208—viz., £5,710,000 actual share capital of the four fused companies, and £500,248 received from the subscription for the bal ance of 17,866 definitive shares. Ten years more rolled away—ten tranquil years of kindly despotism—kindly, at at any rate, from a capitalist's point of view. A large num ber of new concessions and responsibilities were assumed, and an immense pyramid of obligations, or small deben- tures, was created. To givo additional security to these ob ligations the Minister of Public Works insisted that more capital should also be raised by shares; and accordingly in 1862 a creation was made at par of 304,000 new shares, which carried the share capital to 600,000 shares, with a nominal capital of £12,000,000. To give an idea of the con tinual extension of the undertaking, we may note that the Paris, Sceaux, and Orsay ceded its concession to the Or leans by a convention concluded in 1855, and approved by the Government in 1857 ; the transfer was made in consi deration of 5,000 obligations, bearing an interest of 3 per cent. per annum, handed to the smaller company by the larger one, while the Orleans also undertook the charge of the loans contracted by the Paris, Sceaux, and Orleans. A part of the concessions (6731 miles) of the Great Central of France was attributed to the Orleans by a decree dated June 19, 1857, the consideration being the 'exchange of the shares of the Great Central against obligations . of the Orleans, and the service by the latter of the obliga tions of the Great Central in the proportion of 66 per 100, the remaining 34 per 100 being at the charge of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean. At the same time that the Or leans thus obtained the greater part of the concessions of the Great Central it acquired from it the Aubin mines and ironworks, in consideration of its accepting the service of the obligations which the Great Central had devoted to the purchase of this portion of its undertaking. The Orleans had also a concession to the extent, of one-third of a lino from Paris to Lyons, via Bourbonnais; bi:t it retroceded this concession in 1857 to the Paris, Lyons, an d Mediter ranean, in consideration of an indemnity of £44,006 or annum from Jan. 1, 1857, to the date of the opening of the entire line from Paris to Lyons, viaßoanne and St. Etienne (Sept. 21, 1861), and of £BB,OOO per annum from the date of that opening to the expiration of the three first complete exercises (Dec. 31, 1864). After this latter date the indem nity to the Orleans is to be fixed by umpires for the whole duration of the concession of the Bourbonnais. Scarcely year has elapsed since 1852 in which various minor con cessions have not been granted to the company. It would be tedious to an English reader to go into further details on these heads, but we may sum matters up by stat ing that, according to the, last convention concluded with the State, in 1863, the aggreg ate con cessions of importance -Old company had attained the f ollowin g —Old network, 1,2621 miles ; now network, 1,3361 miles ; total, 2,5981 miles. The estimated cost of the old network, as thus defined, is £21,720,000, and of the new network, 00,640,000; making a total of £52,860,000. The amount actually expended by the company to the close of 1864—01 d network, £16,939,826 ; Aubin works, £675,752 ' - new netw?rk, £20,740,685 ; making a t o t a l o f £38,356,263. As the estimates are almost cer t a i n to be exceeded, we may fairly conclude that the company will require at least an other £20,000,000 to carry out the imperial programme of which it has accepted the responsibilities. The gradual growth of the company's colossal undertaking will be best summed up by the following recapitulation of the distance worked by it during the 25 years which have elapsed since it first began to run its trains-1840 51 miles, 1841 191 miles, 1842 19/ miles, 1843 711 miles, 1844 831 miles, 1845 81384191487 miles, 1 846831 miles, 1847 831 miles, 1848 83 1 miles, 1850 83/ miles, 185183} miles, 1852 515 miles, 1853 6351 miles, 1854 714/ miles, 1855 723/ miles, 1856 7181 miles, 1857 798/ miles, 1858 890 miles, 1859 1,100 miles, 1860 1,163/ miles, 1861 1,2341 miles, 1862 1,3691 miles, 1863 1,5331 miles, and 1864 1,630 miles. At the close of last year the company's concessions had thus still to be carried out to the extent of about 900 miles, but it is ex pected that by 1872 the whole system will be completed, unless fresh privileges and responsibilities are accepted in the meantime. The execution within the period named of the additional lines still remaining to be carried out is, of course, ma terially dependent upon the state of political and monetary affairs. Of late the works on hand have made considerable progress, and last month (July, 1865) the extent of line in operation on the new and old concessions combined had been carried to 1,8391 miles. The amount of capital raised in 1864 to meet the requirements of what is known as the first establishment account was £5,1 38 , 653 . Of this sum, £1,967,271yras derived from calls on the new shares—which from Jan. 1, 1865, take dividend rateably with the old shares—while £3,171,382 was obtained from 112,250 obli gations forming the balance of the eighth , _ series, and 162,918 obligations of the ninth series. rho 275,618 obli gations issued in 1864 produced an average of £ll 10s. 6d . each, and they are repay able b y drawings • at £2O each, while until their repayment they bear an annual interest of 12s. each. In 1863 the obligations sold realise an average of £lll6s. Bd. each, the falling off of Cs. 2d. per obligation observable with respect to last year being the result of the relatively greater dearness of capital in 1864 as compared with 1863. The total receipts on capital ac count in regard to the old network amounted to the close of 1864 to £18,009,950, made up thus :—Share capital - , £12,000,000 ; first loan, £392,960 ; second loan, £399,960 ; and third loan, £5,210,000. The expenditure on the old network to the close of 1863 was £15,790,584; At the Guildhall police-court, yesterday, Mme. Louise Pierrette Valentin appeared on remand before Mr. Alder man Finnis to answer a charge of perjury. Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. Leverson conducted the defence. The case against the defendant consisted, it will be re membered, in her statement that she first came to London on the 27th September, whereas it was alleged that she came on the Bth September. M. Jean Ignace was now examined, and he said—l am a mason, or builder, but I have sold my business. I carried it on in Paris, where I now reside. I came with my cousin to London, and arrived here yesterday. I was in London before about a year ago ; it was in the month of September, 1864 ; that was the first time that I had been in London. We started on the 7th of September from Paris, and arrived on the Bth in London. We came via Dieppe. The witness went on to say that he travelled in the same carriage with the defendant, and stopped at the Hotel de Vile de France, and saw her there several times. Remained seven days in London, and returned to Paris on the 14th September. A cousin of this witness gave similar testimony. Mr. Leverson, for the defence, said that the evidence of a double voyage, on which the charge of perjury was founded, had been concocted to take them by surprise, but he would bring forward evidence which would clearly show that Madame Valentin was in Paris during the whole of the first half of September, 1864, and that neither she:nor the other witnesses could have lodged at the Hotel de Ville de France, as it was shut up to all lodgers up to the 12th or 14th of the same month, in consequence of a fire. Mr. Leverson then called M. Jules Bourcier, who said— I reside at Paris. I am an ex-mayor, and also an ex French consul. On the 31st August or the beginning of September, I was called upon officially to appear before the chamber of the French advocate—it was for the purpose of giving some evidence to the President—and, therefore, as I saw the defendant almost daily for some days afterwards, when sbe called to visit my wife, it was impressed on my me mory. At the latter end of September she called and bid adieu, as she was going to London. She had not done so before. Mrs. Eulalie Katzenstein said—l am the wife of Fiddle Katzenstein, who keeps the Hotel de Vile de France, 38, Dean-street, Soho. On the 3d September a fire took place at a timber-yard next door to our hotel. Some of the timber was brought into the house from the back ware house. All the back of the house was damaged, and tho painters were at work for some time, ,both inside and out. Whilst the hotel was in this condition we were not able to receive any gues t s i n th e rooms, as we were a ll i n di sor d er. Eugenie Coulano gave evidence as to her going on a visit to the last witness in the early part of September, 1864, and corroborated her evidence as to the state of the house. Mr. Ribton said that he had a right to recall his witnesses as they had not been examined on the point as to the stato of the house. Mr. Leverson objected on the ground that Mr. Itibtort had closed his case, and said that his witnesses fixed their date by a fire the same as the other witnesses fixed theirs by letters. Mr. Martin—With respect to the re-examination,of the witnesses for the prosecution, I must say that there has been a communication with them. Mr. Leverson—Yes, I saw Mr. Hall go over to them, and I accuse Mr. Hall with tampering with witnesses, with perjury, forgery, and robbery. Mr. Ribton—l must submit to you, sir, not to allow such infamous kmguage to be used by Mr. Leverson towards a professional gentleman of far greater respectability than himself. Mr. Leverson—l never committed forgery. Mr. Leverson here asked Mr. Ribton a question. Mr. Ribton (in answer)—l shall not answer any ques tion you ask ; you have conducted yourself in such a way that I do not think you are entitled to it. Mr. Alderman Finnis—l do not think that I can do any thing 6-Ise but send this case f or tr i al. After some discussion it Was agreed that Madame Valen tin should be Admitted to bail, herself in £lOO, and one surety of £5O. Mr. Leverson then applied to the court to impound a certain document put in evidence, and order Mr. Hall into custody for forgery. Mr. Alderman Finnic declined to take this step, and said it would be better for Mr. Laverson to pursue the regular course. Mr. Hall said he had no objection to the document in question remaining in the hands of the court, and if Mr. Leverson thought propeito give him into custody he would remain, in order that he might have the opportunity of doing so. Mr. Leverson then said he would charge Mr. Hall with having fraudulently uttered, put off, and altered a docu ment for tho purposes of the prosecution in that court; but it did pot appear that the oharge was made. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Sept. 18, Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Sept. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... sept. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept- 12 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Sept. Ditto, via Marseilles .. . • . Sept. 12, t India (Bombay), via Southampton. ................. Se p t.Se pt . 4 1 O . . Ditto, via Marseilles Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseire 3 Sept. 4. 4 1 Sept. le. Newfoundland Portugal .............. .....Sept. 1. htoNoLritshbon America,. Bri. uniteDdiTiabteysprainvramishitisp by iisll packet .. • . • ..Sept. 7. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp. • ton Ditt o, itto b via Canadian Ditto, packet, via Londonderry Sept. 8. west Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife Sept, 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Sept. 13 Bahamas, via New T ork. Sept. 13 Bermuda, ditto Sept 28. Cuba and Me2cico ABD-EL-KADER.--A Paris correspondent of the Semaphore of Marseilles relates the following anec dote of Abd-el-Kader :—"During his recent stay in Paris the Emir went to Versailles to see the paintings represent ing the war in Africa. When passing before that repre senting the capture of his Smala, one of the persons of his suite constantly placed himself so as to provent the Emir from seeing what was likely to excite painful feelings. Abd-el-Bader begged the person in question to cease this manoeuvre, which he did not understand. The person then stood back, and the Emir, at once discovering the cause of the interference, turned to his suit and said, Ah ! gentleinen, if I had had painters in Africa, I should have had my pictures too." %~~/~-, PRICE 4(1, STAMPED 5(1.' their commissioner so favourable a report upon the progress of the works that they had agreed to return at once to the company the whole amount of the caution money left in their hands, and which, according to the terms of the con cess i on, was only repayable by instalments. The Government was making arrangements with Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Crampton for the immediate commencement of the works of the harbour at Varna. He trusted, there fore, that by the time the railway was opened for traffic sufficient harbour accommodation would be provided, and he had no doubt whatever that the whole line would be completely finished and ready for traffic before the winter of next year. NEWS PAPI"R Z vet and a further sum of .£1,149i2404 , upon this portion of the systetki.444lni4iriegielki penditure on the oldnetworkt pe0;:k14.341459456. Of the £1,149,242 expended uporitik:oldin-41364, £320,582 was laid out on lines prevfoitsly inroperVion, and £828,660 on lines of the old network still in course of con struction. The total receipts on capital account in respect to the Aubin mines and ironworks to the close of 1864 were £685,911, and the total outlay to the same date was £675,752. The receipts on capital account to the close of last year in respect to the new network were £20,906,076, made up thus :—Obligations of the old Great Central, £2,359,174; obligation of the Paris and Orsay, £159,720; obligations attributed in exchange for the shares of the Great Central and the Paris and Orsay, £3,555,517 ; fourth loan, £1,847,000 ; fifth loan, £2,971,597 ; sixth loan, £3,55'1,042; seventh loan, £1,271,215; eighth loan, £3,508,179; and ninth loan (partly negotiated), £1,882,632. The outlay made on the network to the close of 1864 may be summarised thus :—Amount paid for the Great Central, £5,722,178 ; amount paid for the Paris and Orsay, £214,970; payments by the company fur works on new lines (after giving credit for State conventions to the amount of £ 2 ,264,140), £9,990,686; service of interest on the capital engaged in the network (after giving credit for profits de rived from the lines in working to the amount of £066,013), £4,532,852 ; and contributive share of the company in the cost of the Pyrenees network, £280,000; £20,740,685. It will bo seen that a heavy item in the ex penditure on capital account for the new network was in terest paid out of capital. By a convention concluded with the State in 1859 the company undertook to make good the interest and redemption service of the obligations de voted to the now network, after giving credit for the profits actually acquired upon that part of its system ; and it will be seen that the responsibility thus assumed involved in 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864,' a very considerable outlay. The annual charge of the obligations, interest, and redemption combined, is calculated at 515 per cent. per annum ; and after the Ist of January, 1865;this charge is to be sustained for the greater part of the new lines out of the revenue of the old network, less, however, a State guarantee of 1.65 per cent., reducing the burden to 1.10 per cent., which will further be materially minimized by , aaguai profits acquired. The total amount of capital raised to the close of 1864 for the old network, the Aubin works, and the new network combined, was £39,601,937, of which only about £12,000,000 had been obtained from shares (the nominal share capital figures in the accounts f0rX12,000,000, although £12,210,248 had been actually paid up to the close of last year). The amount derived from obligations was thus £27,391,689. The English theory in respect to borrowed capital is that it should not exceed one-third of the whole amount raised by a company ; in France, the theory appears to be reversed, and shares take the place of debentures. The obligation, however, is such a favourite channel of investment in France that it has gradually become a kind of preference share, as well as a de benture. The Charge of Perjury against Madame Valentin. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines the week ending the 19th of August amounted for local passengers to £6,675, for foreign passengers to £4,247, for emigrants to £238, for mails, &c., to £829, for local freight and live stock to £10,176, and for foreign freight and live stock to £1,832 ; total; £23,997, against £22,433 for the correspond ing week last year, showing an increase of £1,564. The total receipts from the Ist of July to "the above date amounted to £173,108, and for the same period last year to £159,003, showing an in crease of .£14,105. Great English And French Railways, THE ORLEANS. Many months have elapsed since a review was com menced in these crowded columns of the position of the great railways of England and France. We have disposed in succession of the London and North Western, the Great Western, the Midland, the North Eastern, the Great East ern, and the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean ; but " eir cumstances"—a brief but frequently most expressive term —have prevented our fully exhausting the subject. Per haps, after all, we are not losers by the delay, as we are now enabled to profit by the acquired experience of another year. To pass to another great French network—the Orleans—we may observe that that company was founded, May 26, 1838, by M. Cassimir Lecomto, as the Compagnie de Chemin de Fer de Paris l Orleans. A concession of the main line and various branches was accorded toM.Lecomte by a law dated July 7, 1838, and the statutes of the company were approved by a Royal ordonnance of Aug. 13, 1838. Such was the Orleans under Louis Philippe. That sovereign fled ten years later from the Tuileries, but the Orleans sur vived the barricades of 1848. Indeed, it began to expand and flourish under the firm rule of the Prince-President, and before Republican pomp had finally culminated in Im perial splendour the already powerful company absorbed (Sept. 27, 1852) the undertaking of the Centre (from Or leans Chateauroux and Nevers), the Tours and Nantes, and the Orleans and Bordeaux. These important amalgama tions—or fusions, as they term them in France—were ef fected on the following conditions. The share capital of the four companies, as really paid-up, was— Company. Shares. Paid-up. Total. Orleans 80,000 £2O £1,600,000 Centre ... 66,000 20 1,320,000 Bordeaux 130,000 11 1,430,000 Tours ankNantes 89,000 17 1,360, 000 they the lies dm- e in ilge, hod ,tro f, be Wag Dek-'s t o 2s ,ring bite, r for ) 263 3841 Eone. ,per noir,