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15 ._ __, , .. -- I. , ,t I i -• _ - „. 11 /* es ed to 4s ad ; Lamb, Sa ad to 43 10d; Veal, 3 ICI .4 4s 4d; and Pork, 4s to 5s 4d per 81bF. by LIB carcase. RAT MANKETS. ditto, 21 Meadow Hay, 3/ 3 to 31 IPs; New 2/ 8s to 8s; Old Clover, 41 4s to 5/; Ncw ditto ug 10s t) 4/ 1( s ; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ 10.3 rer load moderate Fl pply and a sluggish demand. CU DIBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 5 s to 3 / 15- ; New ditto, 21 8s to 31 8s ; Old Clover, 4/ to 41 18s; 'IOW ditto, 3/ 10s to 4110 s; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 101, per load. Trade dull, at barely late rates. , T WErtmatenci..—Old Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 15 s '.eve ditto, 21 8s to 31 8s; Old Clover, 41 to 5/; Nt ott, Si 12s to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 10s peg Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. COAL BURKE' Bate'a West Hartley 15s 6d B uddle's W. Hartley 16s 6d' Chester Blain l3s 9d asi ltison'sWeitHartley 16s 6d, Nlywell Main l4s 6d New Pelton Main ll3 odl New Tanfield l4s Od North Percy Hartley lss Od M's Redh eug h yanfield Moor .. rraatield Moor Bu tes ' 13s Od Townley l3s 9d Walker's Primrose '.-YESTERDAY. Washington Eden Main Lambton Primrose Belmont lss 9d Braddyll's Hetton les 01 Bell Hetton Haswell l7s 3 Lambton Russell's Hetton les 0 Stewart's 'South Hartlepool Thornley Adelaide Tees Denison Seymour 'fees South Durham l4s 9d Tees Het tc n West Cornforth ........ 15s 01 Howard's W. 11. Neth. les 6: Hartley lss 9 , Powell's Duffryn Stm. 19s 6d W. E. Elgin ..... 15s 6d Wall's Lia, -. Bewieke and Co. B.- , 15s Od Brown's Benson Harton Hotspur Hilda l4s 3d Nillingworth l4s 9d N orthumberland Mulgrave Walker CORN AVERAGES. - - GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN for Week ended Sept. 2 1, 848, made up from the Returns of the 41 sPectors in the different Cities and Towns in Esigland and Wale Per Imperial Quarter. WiIEAT. I BARLEY.] I OATS. RTE. I BEANS. PEAS. 1; -... 1" CE .. 163 e Sd I 33s 3d I 22s 2d 33s hd I 38s 10d 403 2d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 1111 AT. I BALLET. I OATS. I BEE. I BEANS. PEAS. ‘S Od 2s Od Is 6d 2s Od 2s Od 2s Od CITY OF LONDON REGISTRA TION.—(THIS DAY.) IMPORTANT DECISION.—Mr. I.l l Christie delivered the following decision this morning, by which 1,400 objcc tma, nearly the whole of the objections taken by th e onservat:ve side, will be set aside, and the parties ren dered unable to enter upon them, and which, it was !gated, if acted upon by other revising barristers, would nave the effect of rendering altogether void some thou sands of objections taken to the names of voters in other parts of the country:—He said, George Franks, of No. 45, Drummond-street, Euston square, a freeman of city of London, and liveryman of the Company of Baker s entitled to vote for the City, was objected to esterday by Mr. Brown, and a paper was put into my 411, d which was stated to be a duplicate of a notice of ction which it was said had been sent to Mr. Frank s through the Post-office, and I was called upon to receive these papers as evidence that the alleged notice of objection had duly reached the hands of Mr. Franks. That paper is addressed on .the face of it, " To Mr. George Franks, - 45, Drummond-street, Euston-square," and gives that gentleman notice, in the terms req uired byth. Act, of an objection to his name being retained on the list of voters. It has also on the face of it the Posteoffica stamp. Mr. Sydney Smith and Mr. Ledger aPpe„red for Mr. Franks, and objected that the paper produced was not such a notice of objection as the Act of Parliament contemplated, which makes it lawful that a notice of objection may be sent through the Post office, They contended that the document was a nul lity, because it did not appear from it that its coun terpart had been addressed, as directed; on the out side cr back of it, to the party to whom it was Said it had been sent ; and they, therefore, sub mitted that I ought not to call on Mr. Franks to appear to defend his title to remain on the list. Brown, on . the other hand, strenuously ar gued that the notice was in all respects in strict conformity with every requisite of the statute ; that the decisions which had been come to, as far as they Could be made applicable to the present question, were all in support of the perfection and legality of the notice, and that consequently Mr. Franks must appear, or his name be expunged. The arguments were sustained on both sides with great ingenuity and ability ; and it is net to be wondered at that a. good deal of zeal cLould have been imported into the case when it is known, as it was stated, that if I hold that no legal notice of objection has been given in this case, the consequence will be that no less than four teen hundred objections, taken in the city of London this year by the parties whom Mr. Brown represents, must fall to the ground; and when, too, as Mr. Smith added, a vast number of notices of objection, in the pre cise form of the one no w under consideration, have been sent this year from persons at other places throughout the different parts of the country. Now, by the 20th section of the Registration Act, one person Objecting to another on a Livery list shall, on or before the said 25th day of August, give to such other person, or leave at his place of abode, as described in such list, a notice according to the form numbered 4, in the said schedule C, or to the like effect. Section 100 enacts, that in all cases it shall be sufficient if the Lotice of objection be sent by the post. free of postage, or the sum chargeable as postage for the same being first paid, and whenever any person shall be de sirous of sending any such notice of objection by the post, he shall deliver the same, duly directed, open and in duplicate, to the postmaster of any post-office, and the Postmaster shat, compare the notice and the duplicate, and on being sate•fied that they are alike, in their address and in their contents, shall forward one of them to its ad dress by the post, aLd shall return the other to the party bringing the same duly stamped, with the stamp of the said Post-office; and the production, by the party who op- Posed such notice, of such stamped duplicate shall be evidence of the notice having been given to the person at, th e place mentioned in such duplicate, on the day on Which such r otice would in the ordinary course of post have been delivered to such place. Then the 101st sec tion enacts that it shall be sufficient if such notice be sent by the pe at, provided with respect to sending notices of objection by the post, free of postage, or the postage thereof being first paid, addressed with a sufficient direction to the person or persons to whom the same ought to be given or sent, at his or their usual place of abode. Now Mr. Smith submitted that this paper which has been produced is not a notice of objection " directed to the person to whom" it was intended to be sent ; that it is not a notice " duly directed ;" that it i s not a notice having an " address," and also having " contents ;" that it is not a notice " addressed with a sufficient direction to the person" to whom it was to be sent, and that, therefore, I cannot act upon it. Mr. Brown, however, insists, that it is sufficiently addressed, having the voter's address on the face of it; that the Act requires that it shall be delivered to the postmaster open; and that it having the post-office stamp on the face of it, I am bound to receive it as evidence that the party has received that legal notice by which he is required to attend this court. Had there been no decisions at all of the Court of Common Pleas bearing on this question, I do not think I should have had any difficulty in disposing of the point; but there are cases which, in my opinion, place the law b yond all doubt. Mr. ll`Christie:then proceeded to qt.ote several authorities. The document produced before me has no address on the outside, though it has one inside, and which is precisely the case Mr. Justice Maule dealt with in his judgment ; therefore, as in " Birch v. Edwards," so there is here "an entire omission of evidence to show what it was that the party sending the notice di rected the Post-office to do." Mr. Justice Williams likewise states in that case his clear opinion to be, that if a notice of objection is served through the agency of the Post-office, it must have a direction on the outside. He goes further; he declares that in his judgment, even if it has an address in the inside, it must also have one on the outside. Con sidering how self-evident it is that a document to be sent through the Post-office, which the statute re quires shall be duly directed; end' properly and sufficiently ad dressed to the 'person - for whom it is intended, should be thus duly directed, or properly addressed on the out aide, even without the clear and explicit authority of the Common Pleas, which I have, I should have held that this document which has been handed to me, called a notice of objection, is no notice of objection whatever within the statute notwithstanding it has, upon the face of it, the Post office stamp. This is the first time that my attention has been called to the form of these documents, and the course that has been adopted in bundling them off, and I am only surprised to think how such a mistake in the way of transmitting these things through the Post-office could have been fallen into. The form given by the schedule of a notice of objection to be sent through the Post-office to a liveryman of London, does not require the address of the party intended to be objected to, to be given inside at all, but it the form bad required that, according to Mr. Justice Williams' judgment, it would have to be addressed outside also. Here, however, the objector thinks proper to place the address inside, omitting to put any address or direction whatever on the outside, tumbles it into the Post-office, and then thinks all is right, but which cannot be correct, as the case of " Birch v. Edwards" was decided long before these things called notices were thrown into the Post-office. My only difficulty from the first has been, to satisfy my mind that I ought not to give stoats in the case: how ever, upon the whole, I do not this time give the costs, but I reject this document as evidence that a notice of objection has been given or sent to Mr. Franks by Mr. Perkins. Mr. Brown said, the decision which the Revising Bar sister had just given would affect tens of thousands of similar objections in different parts of the country. He therefore trusted that the Court would at once grant a ease on which an appeal could be ,made to the Common Pleas. • Mr. M 4 CHRISTIE-It would be absurd to grant an appeal when the question has been so clearly and directly decided by the judges of the Common Pleas. I shall not at present say anything about costs. The Court then proceeded with revising the livery lists, but nothing of interest occurred. COAL PIT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, William Whittaker, engineer at Hollin Grove Pit, near Burnley, Went down into the pit to change the water bucket, and as he was ascending, the rope broke at a part where it was spliced, and he fell to the bottom of the pit, a distance of sixteen yards from where the rope gave way. His arm was broken, and his head and breast severely bruised. The poor fellow died on Sunday morning, at kir Volock.—Manchester B.rantincr BANK OF E GLAND-(THIS DAY.) A half-yearly general court of the Governor and Pro prietors of the Bank of England was had at twelve o'clock, this day, in the Court-room ; Mr. James Mor ris, the Governor, presided. The attendance of Proprietors was very large. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, The GOVERNOR said—l beg to inform the court that this is one of the quarterly general courts appointed to be held by the Charter, and also one of the half-yearly general courts appointed to be held by the bye-law s, for the purpose of considering a dividend ; and that the Court of Directors having considered the state of the Bank accounts, are of opinion that a dividend may be made if the court think fit of three and a half interest and profits for the halt year ending on the 10th of October, without any deduc tion for income-tax. The Court of Proprietors regret that they are not able to propose the same amount of dividend as at the last half yearly court ; but owing to the rate of interest and the little demand for money the Proprietors must necessarily anticipate such an an nouncement on the part of the Directors. I bad better state the rest. The rest on the 29th of February, 1848, was 3,946,5241., out of which a dividend, at the rate of tour and a half per cent. was paid in April, amounting to 654,881/., leaving, after the payment of the dividend, I have mentioned, 3.291,643/. The rest on the 31st of August, 1848, was 3,808,5441., out of which it is proposed :o pay a dividend of three and a half per cent. in October, amounting to 509,355/. after which a rest will remain of 3,299,189/., showing an increase in the rest as compared with that of the 29th of' February, 1848, after the pay ment of the dividend, of 7,5461. Mr. FIELDER wished to make a few observations, but in the outset of his remarks he wished it to be expressly understood that he did not wish to suggest anything which might by any possibility destroy the permanent stability of England's bank—the glory of the world — nor in speaking of the government of the bank, and the course it had adopted in its manage• ment, should he say anything which was improper w ken applied to those entrusted with the ad ministration of their affairs. The proprietors were much indebted to the governor for the very accurate and useful summary of the proceedings of the bank for each week. He found by that summary that the profits aris ing from the business of the corporation—not capital but cash, were 14,553,000/. (as we understood for the halt'- e showing that the bank possessed a nett capital of 18,381,6721., independent of the amount funded in 1832, and other property valued at near 1,000,000/. Such, at least, was its value in 1832, and he apprehended that the great improvements that had been made in the bank and its vicinity, that it was of that value now. In round numbers, it might be said that the funded property amounted to 19,000,0001., of which he found that no more than 11,000,000/. had been subscribed, and that no less a sum than 7 739,267/. were entirely from profits.— (Hear, hear)—interest and profits on the business of the corporation. In looking at the Act of I n c or p oration he found that the spirit of the charter was to the effeet that the annual profits were to be shared amongst the proprietors without the deduction o f one single shilling. —(Cheers.) That was the spirit of the charter. It did not say a single word about hoarding up their profits for future generations, although he admitted that sufficient of their profits should be retained for the efficient working of the establishment. The Act of Anne spoke in a similar strain with respect to the disposal of the profits; and the great principle which was understood to guide the operations of the establishment was, that di vidends should not in any case be paid out of capital, but out of the legitimate profits. The Act of George 111. laid down the same principle for their guidance, and laid much stress upon the profits of the Bank being divided every year amongst the Proprietors. But there was another class of persons to whose interests they were bound to look, because they were comparatively help less—namely, aged widows and orphans, and others, perhaps, entitled to a life interest only. Why should they accomplish the hoarding up of a large, and to his mind an unnecessarily large, sum at the expense of those en ti'led only to a reversionary interest?—(Hear.) He was opposed to the adoption of the principle in the Bank of England of paying the proprietons only 700/. a year when they made 1,000/., reserving 3001. to increase the capital for the benefit of those persons of whom the widow and the orphan knew nothing. He would ask the professional advisers of the Bank, whether a Court of Equity would sanction the payment of a similar sum out of an estate yielding 1,000/. a year on the ground that it would be well to lay out 30W. of it in increasing the land and building upon it, when the heir-at-law devisee would derive the sole benefit, not the life pro prietor, who was to be the sufferer? In 1694, 12,000,000/. was subscribed, which was subsequently increased, and he found that they had for many years been in the habit of sharing the profits fairly and justly, and without appl)ing any portion of them to swell the capital. Whilst this plan was in operation, they went on extremely well; but from the time they began to accumulate from the profits to the extent of 7,000,0001. or 8,000,000/. an entanglement of their affairs ensued from which they had not recovered. No proprietor of right feeling would favour the application of any portion of the pro fits for the creation of capital. In 1816, 2,910,0001. was taken from the proprietors for this purpose, but he should consider an old man of business could not understand why it was done, since it was at the sacrifice of those who had only a life interest. Instead of paying it off, the same system was pursued up to the hour he was speaking. Hence all the entanglement of " the old lady in Threadneedle-street."—(Laughter.) He did not wish to cast blame upon the directors, nor to cripple the efficiency of the Bank, he merely wished to point out how they might best avoid the errors of the past. He considered they should be dividing 10/. instead of 7/. per cent.. He begged to more the following amendment, and trusted the Governors would take it into their serious emsidoration :—" That the Proprietors should have the same bonus, in addition to the dividend, as they were awarded at the last meeting."—(Hear.) Mr. 1)E WINTON seconded the amendment. After paying a dividend of 41 per cent. for the half-year, they would have a rest of upwards of 3,000,0001. Mr. LEVY said that this question was discussed in 1847, and he believed it was then understood that when the rest was 3,000,0001., the remaining profits ought to be divided.. He defied any one to s a y th a t t h e B an k had been inj ured by dividing 44 per cent. He thought the directors were not the best judges of how the funds of the Bank ought to be appropriated. It they did not know how to lay out th e money o f t h e Bank, the proprietors did. The GOVERNOR said they had not earned more than 31 per cent. during the last half-year. Mr. SELWYN supported the amendment. Mr. GREY wished to know, when a larger profit had been made, why the proprietors bad not had a larger dividend than 41 per cent? He concurred in the amend ment that the dividend should be 41 per cent. A PROPRIETOR thought they should have had a pro posal for a dividend o f 4 p er cent., but he considered it monstrous to propose a dividend of 34 per cent., and he was determined to give it his most strenuous oppo- CREVIINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LITERATURE. SERMONS ON PRACTICAL SUBJECTS. OLD CO URT (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) Edward Sharnock, aged 21, described as a labourer, was charged with robbing John Roots of 30s. The prosecutor came up from Rochester to endeavour to get into an hospital, and being unable to get lodgings by sat down on a door step, and fell asleep at twelve o'clock one night. Whilst there he was struck by a person whom he swore to be the priu3ner, who was ac companied by another person. Whilst in a senseless state he was robbed of his money. The policeman came up and found the prisoner, whom he gave into custody, standing near Lim. No money was found upon him. The jury did not consider the case proved, and Ac quitt( d the prisoner. (Before Mr. Justice EARLE and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) George Holden, aged 42, a labourer, was indicted for committing a violent assault, with a rake, upon a lan named William Payne, with intent to murder, at Brom ley, on the 22d of May last. It appeared that they quarrelled, and the prisoner, in the heat of passion, inflicted the blow, which eausro much blood to flow and rendered it necessary that he should have an operation performed upon him at the hospital, and to be an in-patient for six weeks, and he was now an out patient. The prisoner expressed his sincere regret, and said he struck the boy after much aggravation. The jury found the prisoner guilty of the assault, but not with the intention of murdering the boy. Mr. Justice EARLE sentenced the prisoner to im prisonment in the house of Correction, with hard labour, for nine calendar month% THE CHARTIST PRISONERS. Mr. BALLANTYNE applied to have a copy of the in dictment furnished by the Crown to the prisoners, for whom he appeared. Mr. Huddlestone and Mr. Kinderley made a similar apprcation onlkhalf of other prisoners. Mr. Justice EARLE said the trials of the prisoners were for felony, and it appeared to him that they should be conducted in the same way as other cases of felony, and that it would be improper to make any difference between the m by furnishing the parties with copies of the indictments. The depositions with which the pri soners were supplied would give them full information as to the charge which they were called upon to an swer. He did not think it right that any other facility should be afforded to the prisoners except that which was allowed by the law. ASSAULT.— William Joseph Bailey, 21, a labourer, was indicted with feloniously cutting and wounding John Payne, with intent to murder him. It appeared that the 'prisoner, while in a state of in toxication at a public-house, was engaged in a quarrel, when Payne interfered, and in doing so the prisoner struck him under the left arm with a knife, by which a deep, but not a dangerous wound, was inflicted. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and ,he was sen tenced to transportation for ten years. 1 Vol. pp. 363. By the Rev. Samuel Warytn. It is not only as the father of one of our most dis tinguished novelists that any literary production whatever from the pen of Dr. Warren, of Man chester, is welcome to our heart and agreeable to our imagination. It is also, and in a particular manner,. because of his own ripened abilities. The fruits of his meditations, mellowed by the sunshine of piety, and smacking of the flavour of a scholarly and re flective intellect, form a rare contrast to the crudities of thought which are thrown off in such`abundance by the younger and less experienced members of his pro fession. Of this the goodly volume before us is a sufficient evidence, containing as it does the musings of one whose religious feelings have been neither embittered by fanaticism, nor darkened by the wrathful motions of which are too often generated in the heat of polemical dispu tation. Although we are seldom induced to touch upon matters at all approaching to an ecclesi astical character, and although the present volume is merely an improved edition of what had already been prin:ed, we are impelled to notice the circumstance of its publication because of the amenity f disposition and the sweetness of philosophy displayed in almost every syllable. Among the twenty-five sermons eo:nprised in the volume, we must particularize in an especial manner the one upon " The fading of the Leaf." It brings to our remembrance the brilliant and condensed eloquence of old Jeremy Taylor, that eloquence which glittered with the gems of wit, and the gold of wisdom. THE STORY OF 7'HE PENINSULAR WAR. 1 Vol. pp. 399. By the Marqui sol Londonderry. Better, immeasurably better, in our estimation, than the " Story of the Battle of Waterloo," by that indefatigable book-maker, that semi-clergyman, and demi-semi-soldier, the Rev. Mr. Gleig, is the story of the campaigns in the Peninsula. as told by Lieu tenant• General Charles William Vane, Marquis of Londonderry. The story has the advantage in this instance of the storyteller having himself partaken of those perils in " flood and field" which his pen delineates. As colonel of the second regiment of Life Guards the noble author shared in the vicissi tudes and glories which marked the progress of British arms on the Spanish and Portuguese peninsula. He was, therefore, peculiarly qualified to record the achievements of his gallant brethren in arms, and the more so, because :he : has: betrayed no disposition to gratify a petty vanity, by pushing himself forward into an unnecessary prominence in the course of his manly and soldier-like narrative. In speaking thus decidedly of the merits of this com position, we are aware that the work is long since familiar to the majority of English readers. We are commenting upon a narrative whose merits and de merits have long since been weighed in the balance of miscellaneous criticism. Nevertheless, we con ceive ourselves to be justified in some measure in our allusion, from the fact of the re-publi cation of the work of the Marquis of Londonderry in a more accessible and portable form than hitherto, in a form calculated to extend the range of its popu larity, and to render it welcome in the public estima tion as a running commentary on the more ornate and laborious effusion of the historian Napier. Mr. Colburn deserves some expression of eulogium for the production of this fascinating account of the Peninsular War in a manner so singularly elegant and compact, and at a price so peculiarly moderate. The work is embellished with engraved likenesses of the author, of the Duke, of Lord Hill, of Viscount Beresford, of the Marquis of Anglesey, and of General Sir Hussey Vivian ; besides an elaborate map of the entire Peninsula. It is w o rthy of remark that the republication of the " Story of the Peninsular War" has some direct pretensions to originality, inasmuch as, appearing in three parts, the whole of the third part, with the exception of the 28th chapter, has never before appeared. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) James Kingsley, a respectably dressed young man, who rave his address No. 267, Strand, was . broughtibefore Mr. Bingham, charged with begging. Mr. George Fred. Hardy, a gentleman residing in Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, said last night as he Ras proceeding along Berry-street, St. James's, the pri soner came up to him and asked him to assist him (pri soner). Witness immediately recognised the prisoner by his voice as the same individual who had addressed him in a similar manner some few weeks ago. Witness, to satisfy himself as to that fact, questioned the prisoner, when he repeated exactly the same tale as he had done on the former occasion, which was that he was a student of Trinity College, Dublin, and that he had been dis charged from a situation in a school at Cowley, near Oxford, for having a quarrel with a fellow tutor, and that his family had discarded him and refused to assist him ; he was, therefore, in the greatest distress. Witness told him if he really was a schoolmaster in distress, and his tale was true, he would give him a sovereign. The prisoner, however, declined to satisfy witness as to the truth of his state ment, and on arriving in Regent•street he gave him in charge. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he had lately left a situation as tutor in a school at Cowley, near Oxford. He previously held the situation of a tutor in a school at Sunbury. By writing to those places the Ma gistrate would be perfectly satisfied as to the correctness of his statement. HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION From 1789 to 1848. Part I. By T. W. Redhead. A very remarkable compilation, of which the pre sent part is the first instalment, has just commenced by the Messrs.iChambers. To the other boons which those industrious and gifted publishers have conferred upon the people of these islands will undotibtedly be added, and that, moreover, in a very prominent posi tion, the work written by Mr. Redhead upon the French Revolutions. From the Preface and Advertisement we observe that the history will be completed in six monthly parts, forming three volumes octavo. It will embrace the narrative of all these wonderful events which occurred in, or emanated from, France from the year 1789 to the year 1848, inclusively. The style of the writer is perspicuous, and occa sionally even characterized by a nervous energy of expression. Complainant said he would leave a sovereign in the Magistrate's hands, in case the prisoner's statement should prove true. Mr. BINGHAM said he proposed to let the matter stand over until Saturday next; and if he really was in the distress he said he was, it could not in the least act as a punishment, as he would be extremely well cared for in prison. He (Mr. Bingham) would direct that prisoner should be furnished with writing materials, to write to the places mentioned, as he (Mr. Bingham) held it his duty to make the fullest inquiry into the case. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BEDFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Bedfordshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., Scco with 70 added. Two miles. Mr. Parr's Sponge, 3 yrs ... (W. Butler) 1 Mr. Stephenson's Doctrine, 4 yrs ... 2 Count Bathyany's Egremont, 3 yrs ... 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Ongley's Bird of Paradise, 3 yrs Mr. Russell's Legislator, 4 yrs The Two years old Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 lidded. Last half mile. _ THE ROYAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1 Vol. - pp. 129. Translated by J. A. F. Ju+lge. A little book, emblazoned with the royal diadem, and consisting of the Private Letters between Queen Victoria and Louis Philippe—those letters which, with other strange manuscripts, were discovered in the port folio of the ex-Sovereign of the French, on the cap ture of the Tuileries, and which subsequently ap peared in the Revue Retrospective. As a curio sity in the Belles Lettres the correspondence is not unworthy of preservation, and especially as contain ing very important materials for the future historian. (Pettit) Duke of Bedford's Newport ... Mr. Dyson's Christiana ••• ••• Lord Lonsdale's c. by Epirus darn, by D'Egville ... 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Ongley's Maid of Lorn ••• 0 Mr. Cnarlton's Kiss-a-way ••• 0 Major Martyn's Cmsarian ••• 0 Mr. Douglas's Repletion ..• ••• • 0 The Preparation Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 25 added. Once round and a dis. Gentlemen riders. Mr. J. Daley's Wee Bit, 4 yrs ...(Mr. Townele) ) 1 Mr. Lowther's Chapelgorie, 3 yrs Mr. Ongley's Bird of Paradise, 3 yrs Count Bathyany's Bellinden, 3 yrs Mr. Edwards's Polly, 6 yrs The Town Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats, THE MILITARY LIFE OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. 1 Vol. pp. 504. By Archi bald Alison. Had this noble volume by the historian of Europe appeared in the first instance in its present state of isolation, we should have indulged ourselves in a comprehensive criticism upon its general character. As the work, however, originally appeared as de tached and fragmentary sketches in the pages of Blackwood s Magazine, and as Mr. Alison has merely compacted those brilliant sketches into a finely-proportioned biography, we find ourselves only enabled to record the fact of its publication. As a companion to Maxwell's "Life` of Wellington" and Gur wood's edition of the Duke's Dispatches, Ali son's " Life of Marlborough " will be an essential addition to the bookshelves of every true Englishman. The volume is embellished with a map of France and the Netherlands, with a plan of the siege of Lille, and plans also of the renowned victories of Blenheim, Families, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet. Now that the biography of Marlborough, by Alison, has ap peared in this substantial and elegant guise, the public can no longer be accused, without blame, of having as feeble an idea of his fame as of the fame of Tiwour and of Bajaset. one mile and a quarter. Sir S. Spry's ch m by Sir Hercules out of Taglioni 6 vrs ...(Nat) 1 1 Mr. Pettifor's fby Martin Chuzzlewit dby Belers 4 2 Duke of Bedford's Sable, 3 yrs ... ... 2 dr Mr. Edwards's Amazon, 5 yrs ... ... 3dr AQUATICS. ST. JOHN'S, WAPPING, AND ST. GEORGE'S REGATTA. This regatta, which commenced on Tuesday and was adjourned in consequence of some fouling and the late ness of the hour, came off yesterday. A coat and badge and tradesmensundry e other prizes vicinity. w e T e given he contestby t h e gentry wasm a an d nn eight g together wawas fro m rom a St. w m large atKeeraetnheeanernipnrl concourse plying at of ectat various stairs, and drew Dock Buoy, and ta de go n is tw a i c c e e round a boat moored off New Crane wharf. First heat—Thomas Lucy (stripes), 1; John Cannon (purple), 2; William Teery (pink), 0; George Jones (green), 0. Lucy took the lead, kept it, and won easily. Second heat—R. Jones (blue), 1; J. Pumfrey (orange), 2; J. Legan (red), 0; T. Watkins (yellow), 0. Won easily. Third heat—This heat was composed of the two first men of the two preceding heats:—T. L uc y ( str i pes ), 1; R. Jones (blue', 2; J. Cannon (purple), 0; J. Pumtrey (orange), 0. This was a well-contested heat between Jones and Cannon. Lucy at starting rowed right away from them, and won by some boats' lengths. Fourth heat ; This, the grant heat, was comprised of the two first men of the last heat:—Thomas Lucy (stripes), 1; Richard Jones (blue), O. This heat was rowed with good pluck and skill on both sides. Lucy first took the lead, but was passed by Jones, who, how ever, soon lost his position. They were, towards the end of the heat, Nearly scull and scull, Lucy winning, alter a severe struggle, by about two boats' lengths. sition. Mr. Coos, considering the present state of the Coe op i o s r e a d t i a o n s 0 , u f e n l dt discretionbound o say in t p h r a o t r o t s h i e n g d i the r e c t o d r i s v d h e a n d d e they had done. Mr. Alderman SALOMANS thought the Court of Di rectors ought to give . some reasons to the Court of Pro prietors why they had reverted back to the dividend of :4 per cent., when, if they paid 4i per cent., there would be a rest of upwards of 3,000,0001. The GOVERNOR said the reason of their making larger profits on previous half-years was the railway deposits, and the high rate of interest. During the last half-year they had only made the .3f per cent. He could assure the proprietors that the directors had well considered the subject, and he trusted the Court of Proprietors would support them. Mr. Alderman SaeomANs, under such circumstances, would support the proposal of the directors, expressing at the same time a hope that when greater profits were made they would have a larger dividend. Mr. GOLDSMID had heard no reason for the dividend being decreased, and if the directors were to make what dividend they liked, it was no use the proprietors com ing there. After some short discussion, The GOvERNoit put the amendment, and declared it to be carried by a show of hands. A ballot was then demanded by nine proprietors being members of the Court of Directors. Mr. JONES LOYD thought that before a ballot was demanded it was necessary to put the original resolution as amended. The GOVERNOR said, as the amendment had been carried the original resolution had fallen to the ground. Under the advice of Sir F. Kelly, he thought Mr. Fielden had better make his amendment as an original motion. SADNESS AND GLADNESS. A Novel, by the Don. Miss Sidney. 3 Vols. TEE DISCIPLINE (.11.' LIFE. A Novel. 3 [ c ols. IVe cannot refrain from uniting in the same re view these two works, which, we believe, made their public appearance on the same day, and which in many respects singularly resemble each other. Their very names conjure up a similar train of ideas. " Sad ness and Gladness," and " The Discipline of Life." The object of both works is the same, and that object is a high and a holy one . Both arefrom the pens of ladies, and of ladies of the aristocracy—one authoress being a descendant of Sir Philip Sidney, and the other the daughter of a Noble Lord (now deceased) justly celebrated for his admirable qualities as Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland. The position of the wri ters in this instance adds an additional in. terest to their works—those ladies reared in affluence, and surrounded by all the luxuries of life, have dedicated their talents to the illustration of the trials and troubles of humanity, and not to illustrat ing those trials and troubles only, but to showing how those trials may be overcome and those troubles turned to advantage. The object of both works is, as we have already said, a high and a holy one. But by classing these two works together, and by declar ing them to be to a certain extent very similar, we are far from meaning to recommend either one as being capable of affording the amusement an I benefit of both. The perusal of the one is in no wise ci lculated to diminish the interest of the other, for resembling each other as they do in name and object; in plot, s t y l e , an d manner, they are totally dissimilar. The one is a com plete novel filling three entire volumes, the other work consists of three 'separate tales. But, in order the better to demonstrate their points of resemblance and of dissimilarity, let us enter more particularly into the peculiarity of each. " Sadness and Gladness," from the pen of the accomplished authoress of " Home and its Influence," consists of one story occu pying three volumes. Its object, as implied by its name, is to illustrate the different influences of joy and sorrow, or rather the different effects of a joyous and sorrowful temperament. " As half in shade and half in sun, The world along its course advances," there' are some individuals whose path seem to lead perpetually through the sunshine, and others who are as continually in the shade. So it is iith the two heroines of Miss Sidney's tale. Mal is a creature of " gladness," endued with that hapiiest of dispositions —happy to its possessor and to all who come within its influence—the disposition which is prone to look on the " bright aide" of every thing. Lady Flora, on the contrary, is one of those untie ppy ones who, miserable in themselves, can find " gli ,dness" in nothing. As if more particularly to den ionstrate how little fortune and worldly circuua staiices have to do with happiness, the sa d e heroine, the. Lady Flora, is the daughter of an Earl, and is surrounded by all the appurtenances of wealth, while the "glad" Mabel is reared in comparative pov erty, and compelled to devote her talents to the support of an unloving and ungrateful father. In this pictu re of life in its various phases, which Miss Sidney here presents us with, if some of the adjuncts of the picture be not quite natural, we are willing to for give, and we can easily forget these incidental blunders, inconsideration of the reality and vitality of We are happy to state that, according to accounts I received from Canada by the last mail, the health of the I Countess of Elgin aas in a fair way of permanent im provement. It is now understood that the Noble Earl has abandoned all idea of retiring from his high office for the present. The Earl and Countess of Harrowby and Lady Frances Ryder, Lord Dudley Stuart, and a select party are visiting the Hon. G. M. and Lady Louisa Fortescue at Boconnor. THE OCEAN MONARCH.—About noon on Friday the steam-tug Skerryvore and a smack were dispatched from the Mersey to the scene of this disaster (which has been duly buoyed), to endeavour, if possible, to recover some part of the property sunk with the ill-fated vessel. The steam-tug had on board a skilful diver, with the ne cf ssary dress or apparatus to make respiration endur able beneath the wave, and from his exertions great hopes are entertained of the recovery of much that is valuable.—Manchester Examiner. CURIOUS IF TRUE.—Nearly all the birds in the animal world (at least in England) this year are of the male gender. The registrar's return shows a majority of men children in most districts; and amongst the cat tle, sheep, &c., the farmers say there is little else bid male produce. t , toevhi WEDNESDAY.—The denrehnan,m uhradsere murdered i e nr lastmquine s a t twe ed o e n ki n t b h y e a bodiesverdictSince i nt al : o ol et f .C h w o h G e t n o i hH l e wr e ful As roi brkl m eh u oo r uc d sc e eu r ra a r gainst the unfortunate woman.en at Wolverhampton theolverhal‘re m . p t t c o h n ed wo ina m s a ta n te ha o s f insanity. She, however, is sufficiently sensible of having committed the terrible offence, and has repeatedly ac knowledged her guilt. She will be removed to Stafford gaol to take her trial at the next assizes. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20.—The Ocean Steam Navigation Company's ship, Hermann, Captain E. Crabtree, sailed this afternoon with the United States mails from Germany, France, and Eng land, for New York. The Hermann took out 129 pas sengers, amongst whom was the famous Dr. llecker, the leader of the insurrectionary party in Baden—an exile to the United States. The cargo was a large one, con sisting of valuable silks, watches, jewellery, lace, &c., from France ; woollen goods from Bremen ; and cotton and silk manufactures from England ; also some opium, and raw silk, and specie value e 25,000. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Indus, Captain Soy, also took her departure, with usual East India and China mails, via Gibraltar and Malta, to Alexandria. The Indus had ninety first-class and some second class passengers, and about 160 tons of manufactured goods, cottons, linens, &c., on freight. The auxiliary screw steamer, Waterwitch arrived this morn ' ing, in six days, from Oporto, with seventy-nine head of cattle. Mr. FIELDEN did not care how he put it, so as they g t h o e t A a qf tu d eer i s v ts i i d oo e mn ud es d o o f 4 p further u 1 be e e d r si se e ct e ut n ise t. sid b n y , t i t b e w a b s a i te t t , e w r i e n t e b d e r t h t b e e t place on Wedn es d a y di tT ic h te e nd ba s l h lo o t ul w d as be b 3 r Lo r r ed 4i to pe ta r c k e e n next between the hour of eleven and four. Mr. DE WINTON then brought forward the motion of w hi c h he gave notice at the last Court, relative to the alteration of the constitution of the Court of Directors, and proposed certain resolutions. A PROPRETOR suggested that the resolutions should be printed and distributed among the proprietors, and their conFideration postponed to a future Court. After some further discussion, Mr. DE WINTON ultimately postponed his motion to the next Court. Mr. WEEDING gave notice, for the next Quarterly Court, to move that a Committee be appointed to consi der and report on the present state of the bye-laws of the Corporation, and if, in their opinion, It be expedient to make any and what alteration therein. The Court then adjourned, at two o'c!ock, till Wed nesday next, at eleven o'clock. On Sunday afternoon, about five o'clock, some . children playing with limiter matches on the premises of the Rose public-house, at Crofield, near S to nham, set firo to the straw in a bullock-shed, and the flames rapidly extended to the barn and the public-house, which, with about six coombs of wheat, were entirely destroyed; but Mr. Somers, the landl or d, succee d e d in removing his fur niture andeffects.—Bury Post. GLASGOW AUTUMN ASSIZES.--TUESDAY, SEPT. 19. —Th3 Glasgow Autumn Circuit Court was opened to day by Lords Moncrieff and Cockburn. The only case of interest tried during the day was that of Margaret Park, accused of child-stealing, or " plagium," as the offence h termed in Scottish law phraseology. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner picked from the streets a little girl, the daughter of a Mr. Morrison, a pattern drawer; that search was afterwards made for her in every direction; and that many days afterwards the child was found in a state of nakedness in this woman's possession in an obscure part of the city. The prisoner was convicted and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. PR P NTY 1 1 41 , ." r lAttlqr ) ON, TArrtgliAV EfrNINTI . ) II.EPT/IMIIE I /849, the most conspicuous portraits. The character of Lady Flora, for instance, is delineated with most painful truthfulness. Naturally neitl er beautiful in person nor captivating in manner, yet possessed of a good heart and amiable disposition, poor Flora was reared in an ungenial climate. her natural affections were allowed no vent; she grew up painfully con scious of her own defects—defects greatly exagge rated by that very consciousness. Lady Flora was proud, and bashful, and painfully sensitive, and the numerous trials and annoyances to which these qua lities exposed her on her entrance in the world are admirably described. We do not purpose following the career of the timid debutante; we will not say how the influences of kindness at length converted into "gladness" the "sadness" of her heart, neither shall we speak of the trials of the happy Mabel, nor the disappointed ambition of Georgina Mulgrave, whose portrait, disagreeable though it be, is capitally drawn. We prefer leaving these interesting pass , ges to the consideration of our readers. Turn we now to the "Discipline of Life." The three tales which con stitute this work are all must beautiful. If their brevity renders them individually less attractive than the more elaborate walk we have just been considering, that defect is more than compensated by their pecu liar characteristics. Necessarily less interesting, as far as regards the complication of the plot or the va riety of the incidents, than the three-volume now 1, the three tales which illustrate the discipline of life are imhued with a beautiful pathos, and fraught with a depth of passion which render them most attractive. " The course of true love never did run smooth' . is apparently the text upon which these tales were written. The sorrows of love are here made to act as the most effectual "discipline" of life, and perhaps they are so. Be this as it may, the heroines of these three tales are most assuredly sufficiently disciplined by love and sorrow. The third tale, "lhe Moat;' illustrates the moral most effectually, yet it is perhaps too much pervaded by an air of melancholy. Margaret, one of the heroines of this tale, endeavours, not (happily) without success, to emulate the conduct of Marion in the " Battle of Life," and surrender her lover to her sister, because that sister also loves him. But' The Moat" concludes to our thinking, more happily than the "Battle of Life." The lovers are united, and the unloved sister, "disciplined" by the trial, obtains that highest kind of happiness which is inseparable from self-conquest. It is not fair, however, thus to dis close an author's secrets, and tell the denouement of a tale; we will therefore leave undiminished the inte rest of "Isabel Denison" and "The Country Neigh bour." This latter tale is peculiarly attractive, on ac count of its peculiarly attractive heroine, the sprightly, joyous, wilful Evelyn Villars. Her light-hearted genial gaiety is most infectious, the reader of her history is perforce fascinated and amused. Her joyous presence suffuses the pages with a spiritual sunshine. PAYNE'S ROYAL DRESDEN GALLERY, from Pictures by the Great Masters. Divisions 1,2, and 3. The Dresden Gallery is well known as one of the richest in Europe, both iu Italian and Flemish masters. To make the glorious works enshrined in that Gallery familiar to all the lovers of art in Eng land is the object of the present publication. Each division contains ten splendidly engraved plates by Payne, from the originals in the Dresden Gallery, and each plate is illustrated by a notice, biographical or critical. These notices are exceeding well written, and, taken as a' whole, Payne's Dresden Gallery is not only one of the cheapest, but the best, of the artistic serials. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—In addition to the attrac tions of fireworks, music, dancing, Juba, Van Amburgh, the lions, horses, &c., the proprietor has caused a model on a large scale to be constructed of the contemplated transformation of these gardens, hitherto used only as summer gardens, into a place of winter recreation, and into gardens that shall flourish all the year round. Ac cording to the plan described in the model, which fills one of the large apartments in the premises, the covered walks will be enclosed on the sides, in such a manner that the cold air will be excluded. They will be illumi nated with an immense number of gas burners, by which heat as well as light will be obtained; the sides K ill be so contrived so that they will afford a pano ramic exhibion of the overland route to India, com mencing with the city of Marseilles, and showing all the principal points. The Rotunda will be made into an elegant dining-room, a conservatory will be erected, and stocked with plants and flowers ; and on the ground now devoted to fireworks will be raised an immense Hippodrome, in which it is stated that M. Franconi, from the Hippodrome at Paris, will exhibit his chariots, horses, and equestrian pageants. There are many minor alterations and additions to be made for the opening of the place for the winter amusement of the inhabitants of the metropolis. The model, which is a very perfect one, will be interesting to all who are in search of recreation, and who have been accustomed to seek it at Vauxhall. If the design be carried out in the manner proposed there is little doubt of its meeting the patronage of the public, although the project is a novelty which a few years ago would never have been thought of by the most speculative caterer for public entertainment. The gar dens were last night well atter.ded, and the performances went off in their usual well arranged manner. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—Dr. Bach - hoffner is at present engaged in delivering a course of most useful and interesting lectures on the history and uses of Gutta Pcrcha at the above named establishment. The substance has become so important, entering as it does into the arrangements of our manufactures—the ac coutrements of our horses and the ornamental portions of our furniture—that a knowledge of its character, its origin, and capabilities, seems absolutely to be necessary. Dr. Bachhoffner's method of handling the subject is ex ceedingly happy. From the natural history and the chemical analyses of this newly-discovered material, he passes easily and opportunely to its manufacture and its application in an economic point of view. The Gutta Perch& Company have supplied the Doctor with a large and well-assorted supply of beautiful manufactured articles; and as the lecture embraces practically every style of solution and fabrication experimentally shown, we would strongly recommend all interested in the bear ings of discovery and of science upon the progression of civilization to visit the Royal Polytechnic Institution, for the purpose of hearing the learned Doctor's discourse on this interesting material. DISTILLING FROM SUGAR.—On the 4th instant, an Act (11 and 12 Victoria, cap. 100) was passed to permit the distillation of spirits from sugar, molasses, and treacle in the United Kingdom. The Act 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 6, is repealed, and also part of the 4th George IV., cap. 94, and 6 George IV., cap. 80. It is sow enacted that licensed distillers may distil from sugar only, or from potatoes only,' or from molasses only, or from treacle, or from any of these materials, and malt or grain mixed. the In chargeth the annual may account bem ede on of duty, the when distiller, sugar only is used, but when other materials are mixed, then a different mode is to be adopted. There is a clause in the Act, directing that no sugar or molasses shall be received by distillers, except from the Customs warehouse, and must be in the same state as when cleared on the payment of duty, and to be aceompanied with a certificate from the proper officer of Customs. Treacle and molasses to be used for the purposes of distillation are to be kept in storehouses until used to prevent adulteration. Notice is to be given to the proper officer of the removal of ma terials, and scales and weights are to be provided for his use. Distillers are to make declarations to claim the al- [(mance, and are to deliver an account of the quantity of the articles used. R c I o C at the offic E e ivr of a nt n) IMPUD ' TK— pLo r a a s r t y w in ee t k his a c t t ; nagnedr ordered a large number of handbills, annouecing a masqued ball at the Royal Subscription Rooms, " d la Jullien," on Tuesday night last. Dr e sses and masques were to be obtained at the rooms two days before the gala ; but there was a positive declaration that " no person in the garb of a clown or harlequin would be admitted." At the appointed time the rooms were prepared for the accommodation of the travelling wardrobe, but it came not, nor were there any tidings of its being on the road. At last Tuesday night arrived, with the same result, and the consequence has been a general feeling of amuse ment at the thing being a hoax. The only persons who appear to have suffered arc our contemporary and the bill-sticker. He is no doubt the same person who at the same time placarded the walls of Taunton with the an nouncement of a grand concert of eminent London vocalists in that town on Wednesday.—Devonshire Chronicle. COLD WATER CURE.—The: body of John Smith, a labourer, well advanced in years, belonging to the parish of St. Cyrus, who died here suddenly about a fortnight ago, was on Wednesday exhumed, in order to an inquiry by the Fiscal before the Sheriff. It appeared that the deceased had been attacked by rheumatic fever, and was under treatment by a respectable medical gen tleman; when, acting on the advice of another, he was subjected to the cold water cure, having been wrapped up in cold sheets for an hour or two, when he expired. The inquest clearly brought out that death followed from the appliance of cold. The individual who recoils mended the cure has been committed for trial, but libe rated on bail.—M ontrose Review. Ithaikcimous ESCAPE.—A man named James Col lins, a miner at St. Blazey, whilst picking nuts at a dis tance from St. Blaney, on an old burrow mine, known by the name of St. Blazey Consols, overreached a bush hanging over an old shaft, seven fathoms deep, and fell to the bottom. Having providentially escaped serious injury, be resolved to exercise every effort to extricate himst lf; and his only means of escape was by climbing up the shaft, He at once set himself to the task, which he happily accomplished in about ten hours, from eight, A.M., till six P.M. As the place was at a distance from the public road, and he was, of course, quite beyond hearing, he must otherwise have inevitably been starved to death.—Mining Journal. During the last two weeks, that is from August 23 to Sept. 11, the eight military commi,aions have deci , hd on the fate of 2,827 insurgents; of these 1,839 have been set at liberty, 858 condemned to transportation, and 30 sent before councils of war. From the time of their entering into functions these commiasions have pro nounced 8,700 judg ments in all, by which nearly 4,890 persons were set a t liberty; somewhat less than 3,600 condemned to transportation, 2'29 sent before councils of war.—Gaiignani. REDUCTION OF DUTIES ON COPPER AND LEAD.— The following duties are now payable on copper and lead, under the Act 11 and 12 Viet., cap. 127, vs hich took effect on the sth inst. Copper ore and regulus of copper, ls. per ton ; old copper, unwrought copper, rods or ingots, in plates and coppe coin, at 2s. 6d. the ton. Lead, pig Sin, sheet, per ton, 2s r . 6d. CHESTER AND HOLYIIEAD RAILWAY. The ninth lialcyearly ge err.l meetirg of this cAn pany was held y, sterday a t the company's office, , , 61, Moorgate-street, City; L.lr. W. B. Collett, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he would only occupy the meet ing a short time, as the directors had in thefr report gone more fully than usual into the details. Since his return from abroad he had been much over the line, and had attended to the development of the traffic across the Channel. The directors had recently inspected the line, and they were satisfied with the state of the works and the progress of the local traffic. The most satisfactory event which had taken place since the last meeting was the confirmation by the Legislature of the powers of the company to take passengers across the Irish Channel by having steam boats under their control. Although the trade was in its infancy, it proceeded in a satisfactory mann, r, and gave the directors great confidence of suc cess. On the arrangement being made for 30,0001. a year from Government, Sir H. Peel stated that it would be in the power of the eotnpany to do the distance Iron] London to Dublin in 1.1. In Ins, when considerable doubt was expresied in the llou,e of Commons whether it would be possible to do so; but the fact was, that al though there was a break of four miles on the way, they h:d been able since August to do it in little more than 13 hours. The whole traffic for the week ending Aug. 9 exceeded 2,0001., although the mineral traffic was not yet developed, and there was a break in the line. Before long he hoped that Ireland would be in a very satisfac tory condition, and that the i' mpany would have the whole trade between Ireland and this coun:ry, which he presumed must be very large, Nit h 16,000,000 of people on this side and 8,000,000 on the other. 'I hey would have also 30,000/. a year fur tl.e mails, and - were in treaty with the Admiralty for the Post office service ucross the Channel. There was every prospect, a hen the line was opened, that they would have a traffic of 5,0001. per weak, which would pay a very handsome divi dend on their shares. The Secretary then read the following report : " During the six months that have passed since your directors last met you, considerable progress has been made in cc mpleting the link in the great chain of com munication between London and Dublin which it is the object of your incorporation to supply. On the Ist of May last your line was opened for the conveyance of passengers between Chester and Bangor; on the Ist of the following month the carriage of goods was under taken; and on the Ist of August the whole line from Chester to Holyhead was brought into use, with the exception of a break of about four miles at the Menai Straits, across which the passengers are carried in conveyances provided by the com pany. Simultaneously with these operations, your di rectors were engaged in carrying through Parliament a Bill empowering the company to run steam-boats from Holyhead to Dublin. This object, which had been de feated in the present session, your directors had the satisfaction of accomplishing on the 22d of July last, when the Royal assent was given to their Bill, notwithstanding the strenuous opposition offered to it by parties interested in confirming the stream of traffic to other and less eligible channels. And they are satis fied that this decision of the Legislature will confer at least as much benefit upon the public as upon the company, whose interests in the rapidity and certainty of the whole journey are indeed identical. The vessels has ing been prepared, in anticipation of this successful issue of their endeavours, your directors were enabled to begin running them on the 12t of August, on which day, and since, notwith standing the break in the line above adverted to, the entire journey between London and Kingstown has been performed with regularity in little more than thirteen hours. And when the abort gap in question is filled up by the completion and opening of the Britannia bridge, and other facilities of the railroad are matured, it may be expected that the time will be reduced to twelve hours. The efficiency of the steam-boats that have been built for the service of the com pany have greatly contributed to these satisfactory results. Their speed and accommodation have fully realised the promises of their builders, and the expecta tions of your directors. The quickest passages have been from Holyhead to Kingstown, three hours and thirty-two minutes. From Kingstown to Holyhead three hours and thirty-four minutes. And the average of the six weeks of their employment from Holyhead to Kingstown three hours and fifty minutes; from Kings town to Holyhead three hours end forty-five minutes. Your directors are happy to believe that these vessels (the :peed of which is considerably in excess of the rate which a few years ago was thought to be possible) have given quite as much satisfaction to the public, who have bad occasion to make use of them, as to themselves. " At your last half-yearly meeting you were informed that the Tube through which it was intended to pass the line across the river at Conway had just been floated to the foot of the piers prepared to receive it. It was placed in its position without any accident or difficulty; and, from the Ist of May last, the whole traffic of the line has passed through it. This experience, now of nearly five months' duration, has tested with the most satisfactory results the entire soundness of the views of the eminent engineer who had the boldness to project, and the ability to construct, this extraordinary work. Since the Tube has been carrying the trains across the Conway, no deflection bas taken place. The passenger through the Tube is not sensible of the slightest vibration, and the noise of the transit certainly does not exceed, if it is equal to, that experienced in an ordinary tunnel. Your directors, therefore, have the gratification to be able to report that the issue of this remarkable experiment has been signally successful, and such as to justify tke most entire confidence, that ibe same method of transit which it is intended mploy, upon a much larger scale, at the Menai Straits, r ill a qually answer its important ends, and raise still higher Mr. Ste phenson's character. The tubes fbr the last mentioned structure, and the stupendous piers of masonry intended to support them, are advancing to their completion simultaneously, and as rapidly as is consistent with the sa±ety of such a work; and your directors trust that early in the ensuing spring, the pas sage across the Britannia• bridp e w ill be open. Whe n this object has been achieved, and the magnificent struc ture has been placed on a site, the natural beauty and grandeur of which admirably suit it for the location of one of the greatest works of art, your directors are satisfied that it will become an object of the highest in terest to men of science in all parts of the world, and that nose of these, nor any travellers of enlightened curiosity, will visit England without inspecting the mighty work with which Mr. Stephenson's name and reputation will be inseparably connected. "Her Majesty's Government having commenced the railway for carrying the stone from the Holyhead mountain to the harbour of refuge and packet pier, your directors expect to be called upon shortly for the first instalment due from this company on recount of these works; but they do not intend to proceed with the ex tension of the line to the new packet pier until some considerable progress shall have been made in the works undertaken by the Government, as above adverted to. "You will have perceived from the statement of the receipts and disbursements of the company, which has been for some time iu the hands of the shareholders, that whilst the latter amounted on the 30th of June last to 3,007,1011. 18s. Bd., the receipts fell short of that sum to the extent of 24,827/. 10s. 4d., being only 2,982,2741. Ba. 5d., which amount includes the whole of the subscription which the London and North-Western Railway Company were authorised to make, both in the original and the preference shares. Of the 42,000 pre ference shares created under the resolution which you passed in August last, only 31,256 have been taken up. " Your directors estimate at 200,0001. the sum that will be necessary during the next six months, ever and above what may be raised upon the original shares, to meet the liabilities which have been already incurred. Of this sum the London and North-Western Company have undertaken to advance 120,000/., being the amount of capital which they are further authorised to subscribe by the Act of this session, alluded to in the commence ment of this report. The remainder y our directors trust to be able to provide either by the issue of debentures, or by the further sale at par of the preference shares al ready sanctioned; a price at which the y have been eagerly sough t for, but fur 13e Y wou ld certainly the unexampled depression of railway property, in common with all com mercial investments. Should it be found expedient to issue debentures instead of these preference shares, your directors now solicit your sanction to their taking that step. " The results as to the traffic of the partial opening of the line that has hitherto taken place have been satisfac tory to your directors, and appear to them, as they trust that they will to you, to "fiord a good prospect of very considerable further development as soon as the line is completed throughout, and time has been afforded for personal intercommunication, and trade to flow into the new channel thus afforded to them. As long as the line was open to Bangor only, and the company's fast steam vessels had not been placed upon the passage across St. George's Channel, the traffic, as might have been ex pected under the circumstances, was almost purely local, the original Parliamentary estimate for which was as follows: Passengers Merchandise and Agricultural Produce 100 ~ Minerals £l,lOO „ " This estimate your directors are happy to report was exceeded within eight wt elcs of the opening of the rail.. way, under all the disadvantages inseparable from the first operations of such an undertaking, in a part of the country where the inhabitants may be supposed to be more than ordinarily backward to avail themselves of a novel means of locomotion, or of carrying on their trade, having amounted from that period to the end of July, to an average of 1,203/. 4s. 9d. per week. On the Ist of August, as above stated, the line was opened through Anglesea, and the steamers were placed upon St. George's Channel. From that date the accession of through traffic has been encouraging, the whole returns having averaged during the weeks from the Ist of August to the 9th inst., 2,2071. 13s. Bd. per weck. The full ud. vantages of the line cannot, of course, be appreciated, nor its value ascertained, until the improved means of intercourse which it affords are more generally known — until the considerable break at the Menai Straits is filled up—and until the mineral traffic has been in some measure developed. With a view to the latter important object, your directors have made arrangements with the Mold Railway Company to become the purchasers of that line after i's completion, which will bring to your railway the produce of an important mineral district. Hitherto the traffic in minerals can hardly be said to have com. nseneed, the first consignment of slates having been Lrought upon your line at a very recent date. O n th e hole, your directors feel that they can safely assure you that, whilst the past traffic under the qualifying Dss r ( circumstances above adverted to, and the de pression of the country, has surpassed their expectations, will Iso they see reason to believe that it highly satisfactory ratio as the line is perfected, as its capacities unfold themselves, and the general increase in a as people for whose use it was constructed become cognizant of its advan. tages. '• The sums above given as the results of the traffic, neither include any payments from her 2,lejest3's Go vernment on account or the Post office service, nor from the Shrewsbury and Chester Company on acceut:t of toll. The contract under which her Majesty's Govern ment is to pay 30,0001. per annum for a term of years on account of Post-office service, will not, it is believed, commence till the line is opened throughout—a con struction of the agreement which, of course, equally postpones the conclusion of that term. Meanwhile, the amount which the Post- office is to pay for the single mail, carried daily each way, is to be settled by arbi tration. '• At present, the passage between Hub head and Kingstown, and Kingstown and Holyhead, are t limited to two each way eerily, one journey being performed by the Admiralty vessel which carries the mull, and the other by the vessels of the company. Negotiations are pending with the Admiralty for tio.dertakii;g, on your behalf, the whole Post-office service bvtween the LvVO countries by the Hob load route, including the transfer to the company of all tloi l stublithment connected with that service. After a full consideration of all the be arings of the case, in respect to the el:dm of the original shut eholdets for interest for the period during which the line has kart partiaily opened, your directors de. en it equitable that such interest should be continued until the line is opened throughout, being the same construction as has been put by hi r Majesty's Government upon the I'ost-office contract. The stipulated interest upon the preference shares, of course, commenced on the Ist of April last. For the sake of conve nience, your directors recommend that the payments to both classes of shareholders should be brought down to the same date, namely, the 30th June last. If this recommendation be sanctioned by the meeting, you will have now to declare a dividend of 4s. lid. per share on the preference shares, which your directors recommend to be made payable on the 25th instant. The peyment of interest on the original shares to the 30th Juue last, they propose to make payable on the same day as last year, namely, the 10th of October next. " Your directors deeming it necessary to take steps to compel payment of arrears of calls, amounting in the aggregate to 70,1501., and being desirous to act with impartiality towards all patties in default, have issued circulars to all shareholders who are in that predi cament, apprising those who have been long in arrear, that unless payment be made on or before the 10th October, the directors will be compelled to put in force the powers of forfeiture with which they are in vested, as well as such other measures, in order to compel payment, as they may be advised to adopt. The shareholders who have not been so long in default, have received notice that their arrears are likewise required to be paid immediately to prevent the forfeiture of their shares. With reference to the state of the money market in regard to railway property more especially, your directors have taken these measures with great reluc tance; but acting as the trustees of the general body of shareholders, they have felt it to be their duty to pro tect those who have punctually discharged their liabili ties, from any hazard of suffering from the default of the comparatively few parties who have not fulfilled their obligations in the like manner. " In conclusion, your directors whilst deeply regret . . ting the present extreme, yet, as they are persuaded, undue depreciation of your property, feel that they are entirely warranted iu assuring )ou of your conviction that with the completion of the line, and the return, under the blessing of Providence, of that public prospe rity which has now been so long denied to these king doms, your income will be such as to justify the enter prise which planned this great undertaking, and the pa tience with which you have awaited for its fruits." The following report of Mr. George Stephenson, the engineer of the company, was also read:—" The only works now remaining to complete are the following : About two miles of the Bangor Contract; the second tube of the Conway. bridge; the Britannia• bridge. The completion of the Bangor Contract has been much de layed by the want of arrangement on the part of the contractor, together with the circumstance that the three tunnels, although constructed in hard rock, have, since the exposure to the action of the atmosphere, indicated the necessity of arching being introduced; this is now in a forward state. In the Llandagai Tunnel about eighty yards will require lining to be made perfectly safe. In the Bangor Tunnel about 140 yards of side walls, and 400 yards of arching yet remain to be done. In the Bel mont Tunnel, out of the entire length (700 vards) about 200 yards will require lining. The other works of this contract are very inconsiderable, and consist only of a portion of permanent way, dressing slopes, and finishing the entrances to the tunnels. In the course of November all may be completed. The construction of the second tube of the Conway-bridge is far advanced ; the castings at the ends are partly inserted, preparations are being made for floating it into its place, and there is no doubt that it will be ready for removal by the middle of October. The pontoons have been strengthened, the capstans re-erected, and every other arrangement in a forward state for that purpose. The state of progress in the masonry of the Britannia-bridge will be gathered from the following statement : Cubic feet. Carnarvon and Anglesea Abutment finished. Carnarvon Tower—Stone set at present date 185,366 Required to complete...- 22,627 Britannia Tower—Stone set at present date 191,951 Required to complete .. 131,323 Anglesea Tower—Stone set at present date 159,128 Required to complete Taking the progress %I bich is now making as the guide, and I do not think that it can be materially accelerated, we may reckon upon being ready for lifting the first tube in the course of March or April. The it n work at the Brittannia-bridge has progressed even more rapidly than was expected, and the four large tubes are just approach ing completion. The whole of the central portion of the tubes is finished, and the castings at the ends are now being inserted. The temporary piers are in course of construction under the first tube to be removed, which will probably be completed and resting upon them in the course of six or eight weeks. The scaffolding fur the end tubes on the Angiesea side is com plete, and a large proportion of the iron is already punched for their immediate commence ment. The scaffolding necessary for the tubes on the Carnarvon side will be erected immediately, to open the line throughout as rapidly as possible. Every arrange ment is being made for floating the tubes, as soon as the masonry is ready. The extra iron pontoons are partly constructed, the additional hydraulic press required is also in hand, and the excavations under the tubes will be commenced immediately, so that the operaiion of raising might take place in January, provided the masonry were sufficiently advanced. The works throughout the whole of the line are standing in the must satisfactory manner. The tunnels, sea walls, and viaducts for carrying the line round the promontories of Penmaen Bach and Penmaen Mawr have effectually resisted the action of the sea during several heavy storms, and will, I have no doubt, continue to do so. The daily passage of heavy trains through the Conway Tube for tour months, together with a series of careful observations as to the effects [produced, have completely established the correctness of the views upon which the designs for this and the Britannia were based. I regret that the cost of these structures has very much exceeded what I originally calculated upon; on re-considering, however, the whole subject, and taking into account also the numerous suggestions that have been made for c arrying a railway across the Menai Straits, I am satisfied that the method which has been adopted in the present s tate of our knowledge is certainly the most el i g ible, it ' not the only practicable one." After some discussion, both reports were agreed to. The CliAzaxui, in answer to the question of a pro prietor, said that the company had now three steam boats running, and one nearly ready to run. Mr. WILLIAMSON was anxious to know who was the present secretary of the company ? He was also desirous of knowing the cause of their late secretary 's resignation. The CHAIRMAN said that the secretary, pro tem.,,waa Mr. Gifford. With respect the causes of Mr. King's re signation, one was a domestic affliction. Mr. WILLIAMSON said that a rumour had gone abroad that the cause of Mr. King's resignation was interference of one of the directors. he undue The CHAIRMAN observed that when Mr. King sent in his resignation there was a unanimous feeling of r:Tret expressed by the board. Mr. King had been presced to retain his situation, but be said it was impossible, as d the death of his lather strengthened that dc termination.• lie could assure the meeting that the resignation of Mr. King was regretted by every gentleman in the direction. A resolution empowering the directors to grant de bentures instead of preference shares was unanimously agreed to, as was also a resolution declaring a dividend of 4s. lid. on preference shares, payable on the lath of October. Thanks were then voted to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. COACH ACCIDINT AT ROTHERHAM.— On Tuesday an alarming accident happened on Rotherham bridge by the upsetting of the old Pelham coach, which runs between the Masbro' Railway station and Gainsbo rough. The coach, with a good many passengers, left the station as usual, in the afternoon, on the arrival of certain trains, and on reaching the declivity of Rother ham bridge one of the di wheels came off, in conse quence or which the coach capsized. The passengers were of course much alarmed, and several were more or less hurt, but all were able to proceed with the coach as soon as it had been righted, with the exce ption of o a w oman with an infant, who had been violently thrown from the top of the coach, and, n s afety for the sake of that of her child, ha g d sustained cons iderable cons iderable injury. The per sons inside ' the coach escapede n tirely o un r hu l t N .— E S G / u se o gi ._ ad on Tim es . SUFFOCATION _Tuesday evening J. M. Favell E an inquest was held by sgo. , n a tt r he b . A d ly of u r- ray's, the Ship public-ho use , G ateshead George Thompson, a negro, a cook and steward on boardthe g€ C d al 3 :is : Pa i t ee et as C e a d pt w a a in g Alexander Ellis (the property of Mr. John C ' arr, coke manufacturer), having shipped on board that vessel on the eve of her last On Monday, Passage from London to the Tyne. when she was lying on the Tyne Main Patenta,) ' ,at Messrs 's, Messrand L b' hi . Gaddy arrangementsbuilding-yard were made for smoking her with charco a l and sulphur to destroy the rats; and Mr. Lamb, therefore, at the instance of Mr. Ellis, t ook lodgings f or th e night for all the crew. They had "- a glass" together on shore, at Mr. Eennison's, the Neptune public-house, where, at twelve o'clock, the negro still remained, occupying the neutral ground between drunk and sober. The rest of the men slept at their lodgings; he, on Tuesday morning, was found lying upon a chest in the forecastle of the ship, dead. Medical aid was instantly procured, but he was past that—he had perished with the rats. Verdict, " Died of suffocation." Nothing was kncwn of the poor African previous to his engagement in London, but his comrades inferred from his conversation on the passage that ho had a wife and ehildreu.—Gateshead Observer I ~ i ii •4'i~ = I