The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-07 00:00:00

Railway and Other Companies. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at Euston station ; Mr. R. Moon in the chair. Mr. Reay, the secretary, having read the notice of adjournment, The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to submit was for making a railway from the Merthyr, Tre degar, and Abergavenny Railway, near the Bryn mawr station thereof to Blaenavon. The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which authorised the London and North-Western Railway Company to subscribe £25,000 for making a branch to the ironworks and to enter into working and traffic arrangements. A formal resolution approving the bill was car ried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal reso l u ti o n ap proving a bill for authorising arrangements between the North-Western and C harin g- cross Rail way Com pany, and the London and North-Western Railway Company, and the South -Eastern Railway Com pany, and for other purposes. Mr. BROWN-WESTHEAD seconded the motion. The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which conferred powers of working and using the line w hen completed on the London and North-Western and on the South-Eastern Railway Companies, and it provided that if, in any year, there should be a deficiency in the net receipts, the two latter compa nies should subscribe a sufficient sum to make up the net receipts to £40,000 ; and in case there should be any further deficiency it must be made up by the London and North-Western Railway Com pany. The CHAIRMAN said it was very desirable that there should be a railway communication between the London and North-Western system of lines and those of the South-Eastern Railway Company. They believed that it would be of great importance to both companies. They guaranteed between them that the net receipts should be £ 40 ,000 a year, and it appeared that other parties would be willing to find the money for the construction of the line. Looking at the traffic on metropolitan lines it was probable the railway would pay its own way and be ' a SUM'S& The Solicitor, ix reply to questions by Mr. C. BELL, stated that there were no other agreements between the companies than those mentioned in the bill. The share capital authorised was £990,000, and the borrowing powers were £330,000. The two companies were to subscribe sums not exceeding £20,000, each to make up the guarantee of £40,000 a year. There was no engineering difficulty in the construction of the line, and it was believed that the estimates for lands and works were su fficient. The Secretary read the agreement between th h. e two companies, from which it appeared that shares of the new company were to be offered in the first instance to the shareholders, of the South- E as tern and London and N orth-IN extern Railway Companies. A formal resolution approving the bill was car ried unanimously. The meeting was then made special, to consider the propriety of raising £1,118,000 by the issue of ordinary stock in the company to that amount rate able among the shareholders. The new capital was required for the purpose of carrying out the powers of acts passed in 1865—viz., £BO,OOO for the Lon don and North-Western (additional powers, Eng land) Act, 1865; £lOO,OOO for the London and North-Western (additional powers, Wales) Act, 1865 ; .100,000 for the Leeds New Station Act, 1865 ; £BO,OOO for the Lancashire Union Railway Act, 1865 ; £B,OOO for the Preston and Wyre Rail way Act, 1865 ; and £30,000 for the Wrexham and Minera Railway Act, 1865. The CHAIRMAN said there had been some mis apprehension kr respect to the issue of the stock. The shareholders have the option of paying up the money on the 30th inst. or any time between that date and the Ist of August. A circular would be issued to the shareholders on the 14th inst. stat ing the terms. The concern was in first-rate con dition, and there was nothing whatever to affect the value of their stock. The fires that had recently taken place at Liverpool were fully covered by the insurance fund, and the directors would take care that the new capital should be expended on produc tive works that would yield as good a dividend as they were now paying. lie concluded by moving a formal resolution authorising the directors to raise 11,118,000, as they might deem most expedient for the interests of the company. Mr. BROWN-WESTITEAD seconded the motion, which, after a short discussion, was unanimously carried, and the proceedings terminated. MIDLAND. An adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday in the Derby Station ; Mr. W. H. Hutchinson presided. The CHAIR3IAN said the first bill he had to submit was a bill for granting to the Great Northern Rail way Company running powers over a portion of the - Newton and Compstall Branch Railway of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, and for authorising the said two com panies and the Midland Railway Company to exe cute certain works, and for authorising the Great Northern Railway Company and the Midland Rail way Company to become joint owners with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, of that company's Godley and Woodley Branch Railway, and for transferring to the said three companies the powers of the Chester and West Cheshire Junction Railway Company. The Mid land Company's share of the capital for this pro posed purchase was £90,000, with power to borrow £30,000. Mr. BEALE having read the marginal notes, A formal resolution approving the bill was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said the next was a bill for autho rising the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway Company to raise further moneys, l and for making provision with re s p ec t to a ea amalgamation of the undertaking. This' sale,or railway fU commenced at Hampstead by anction with the Midland Company's new line from Bedford to Lon don, and terminated near Tottenham, on the Great Eastern Railway. By an agreement with the Great Eastern Company the Midland Company was ac corded running powers from Tottenham to the Vic toria Docks, on the river Thames. They had also running powers over the London and Blackwall Railway, and were to have the use of the new sta tion in Bishopsgate-street, the Midland allowing the Great Eastern to use the station in Euston-road as their western terminus. The bill authorized the creation of £lOO,OOO, one-third of which was to be supplied by the Midland Company. A motion approving the bill was adopted. The following bills were also approved :—A bill for autho r i z i ng the Chester and W est Cheshire Junction Railway Company to make extensions of their railway at Cheater, and to the river Dee and to Neston respectively, and to raise further moneys —a bill to confer further powers upon the Hemel Hempstead and London and North-Western Rail way Company ; a bill to authorize the Newport Pagnel Railway Company to extend their railway to the Northampton and Peterborough line of the London and North-Western, to the Leicester and Hitehin line of the Midland, and to the authorized Bedford and Northampton Railway. The meeting was then adjourn e d until Tuesday next. DEVON AND CORNWALL, A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, Westminster-chamber s ; Mr. T. C. Hainlyn in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of the following hills: Abill for authorising the London and South Western Raiiway to make and maintain the Brentford curve and the Kew bridg e curve, and other works, and for authorising arrangements between them and other companies, and for the increase of their capital; and a bill for auth or i s i ng the Central Cornwall Railway Company to run over divers railways, and for authorising arrangements between them and other railway companies. The C AIRIIAN then moved resolutions approving the bills, which were carried, and the proceedings terminated. CRANNOCK CHASE AND WOLVERHAMPTON. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Great George-street, West minster, for the purpose of con sidering a bill to enable the company to extend their railway to Hed nesford and to the South Staffordshire Railway. The bill was approved, and the proceedings ter minated. TENDRING HUNDRED. A Wharncliff e meeting of this company approved the Thorpe and Great Clacton Bill. The extension line of the Tendring Hundred, now in progress, was expected to be completed to Kirby-cross this month, and to Walton-on-the-Naze by the end of July. MOLD AND DENBIGH. A Wharncliffe meeting of this campany was held, on Tuesday at the offices, Westminster-chambers ; Mr. A. Roberts in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to enable the Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway Company to make branch railways and a deviation, and to alter their authorised railway. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap proving the bill, which was carried, and the proceed ings terminated. SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the offices, Westminster-chambers ; Mr. A. Billson in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to authorize the company to deviate from and alter parts of their authorized works, and to make new branch and junction railways ; and to participate in the owner ship of the Wellington and Drayton Railway ; and also the heads of a bill to amalgamate the Shrews bury and Potteries Junction Railway with the Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company. Formal resolutions approving the bills er illtswmeied.rneactar ried unanim ous l y , an d the proceedings SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Monday, at Westminster -chambers ; Mr. Mo catta in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to enable the company to make certain railways, and also certain deviations and alterations in their author ized line ; and also of a bill to amalgamate the Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company, and the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Rail way Company. Formal resolutions approving the bills were car ried, and the proceedings terminated, CENTRAL WALES. On Monday a Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held at the offices, Westminster-chambers; Mr. IL G. Price in the chair. The Secretary read the heads of the following bills, viz. :—A bill for making a railway from the Taff Vale Railway at Aberdare to the Neath and Brecon Railway at Capel, Coclbren, and a branch to the Vale of Neath Railway; a bill to authorize the construction of railways between Presteign, Clun, and the Craven Arms, and for other purposes relat ing to the undertaking ; and a bill to change the names of the Pembroke and Tenby Railway Coin pany, and to enable them to extend their railway to Carmarthen and to Milford Haven, and to lease their undertaking. The CHAIRMAN moved formal resolutions approv ing the bills, which were carried nem con., and the proceedings terminated. CENTRAL WALES EXTENSION. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Monday at the offices, Westminster-chambers — Mr. C. F. Maitland in the chair. The Secretary read the heads of the following bills :—A bill to enable the Vale of Towy Railway Company to lease their undertaking to the Knighton Railway Company, the Central Wales Railway Company, and the Central Wales Extension Rail way Company ; or to the two first-mentioned rail way companies jointly; and a bill for making a rail way from the Taff Yale Railway at Aberdare to the Neath and Brecon Railway at Capel Coelbren; and a branch to the Vale of Neath Railway. The CIIAIIt3fAN moved a formal resolution ap proving the bills, which was carried ; and the meeting separated. 1 ATLANTIC: AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending May 15 amounted, on 507 miles, to £18,812, against £15,653 on 450 miles in the cor responding week last year, showing an increase of £3,159. The total receipts from Jan. 1 to the above date amounted to £117,632, against £222,146 for the same period last year,showing an increase of £95,486. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending May 19 amounted for local passengers to £2,038; for foreign passengers to £2,632 ; for emigrants to £826 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight and live stock, to £12,807 ; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £2,595—t0ta1, £23,804, against £25,252 for the corresponding week of last year, showing a decrease of £1,387. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £488,367, and for the same period last year to £479,625, showing an increase of £8,742. PUNJAB. The traffic receipts on this line from the Ist of January to the 15th of April last amounted to 363,607 r., being a weekly average of 24,240 r. The receipts for the last week to which the returns were made up amounted to 30,914 r. R lILWAY BILLS. In Lord Redesdale's Committee, on Tuesday, the following bills were passed :—The Bristol and Exeter (additional powers), to raise £125,000 by shares and £41,500 by loan ; the South Yorkshire (to raise £150,000 by shares and £50,000 by loan) ; and the Wrexham and Minera (transfer). The Presteign, Chin, and Bishop's Castle was adjourned. In the Standing Orders Committee the Macclesfield, Knutsford, and Warrington Bill, to raise £400,000 by shares and £133,000 by loan, was passed. In the General Committee of the House of Com mons the following bills were passed :—The Stour bridge ; the North British and Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton (Amalgamation); the North British (St. Margaret's Diversion), to raise £lO,OOO by shares and £13,000 by l oan ; the North British (New Works, &c.), to ra i se a dditional sums of £ 160,000 ' by shares and £53,300 by loan • the North British Stirling, &c., Branches) ; the Brynmawr and Blaen a von, to rais e £50 ,000 by shares an d £16,600 by loan ; the Devon Valley and North British (Arrange ments), to. raise £20,000 b y shares, t o en able the North Bri▪ tish to subscrib e £60 ,000; t h e N ew Rom ney, to rai▪ se £85,000 by shares and £28,300 by loan ; the Bedford and Northampton and the Longton, Adderley Green, and Bucknall, t o ra i se £60 , 000 by shares and £20,000 by loan. In seven other committees the following bills were heard and adjourned :—The South Eastern and Lon don, Chatham, and Dover (London, Lewes, and Brighton) Bill; the Midland (Ashby and Nuneaton, &c.) ; the Midland (Branches, &c.) and London and North Western and Midland Counties Coal Fields; the Pembroke and Tenby, the Swansea and Clydach, and the Swansea Vale ; the Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction and the Ogmore Valley (No. 1.) ; the Caledonian and Scottish North East ern, the Caledonian (Corstorphine Junction), and the Caledonian (Lanarkshire, &c., Branches). GRAND JUNCTION CANAL. The half yearly meeting of this company was held on Tuesday, at the office, Surrey-street, Strand ; Mr. Anderson in the chair. Mr. ROGERS, the secretary, read the report, which stated t n hat the net receipts for the p ast half year had £36,122, or an increase of £991 over those of the corresp on di ng half of 18 64, while thet e canal anal expen diture bad been £893 less. The works of the were in good order. mmittee had purchased T th il e e ic'oaddington embankment the wharf property for £12,000. To me n et the existing and threatened competition by railway companies, and with the view of the enti re or partial conversion of the canals THE SIPS, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1866. between London and Birmingl' .am into a mineral and goods railway, they had 1111 itructed the engineer to make a survey, which wo uld be completed in about a month. The profits for the half year, after paying interest on the preference stock and working expenses, amounted to £:26,513, which, added to the balance in hand, made a total of £32,755, from which the committee recommended a dividend of £2 ss. per share, free of in como tax, leaving a ba lance of £7,264. The CHAIRMAN, congratmlati n 7; on the sound condition' 'le undertaking, moved the adoption of the re 'the shareholders ~- i been agreed to , port and dividend, which hav inga vote of thanks to the chair man concluded 'le proceedings. - .... _ NPaval and Miltary Intelligence. We understand that Capt. H. W. Hire, of her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, has submitted to the Admiralty a plan for utilising the present " bridges" on the upper deck of troop and other pas senger screw steamvessels as " lifeboats." The screw now having superseded paddlewheels in these ves sels, the old paddlebox lifeboat is lost as a means of saving life at sea, or of landing quickly any large body of troops. It is with a view to meet this de ficiency that the plan now proposed as the joint de sign of himself and Mr. John White, shipbuilder, of Cowes, has been so far matured. A boat is to be built for the Orontes which will also serve as a bridge. It will be 10ft in width and 50ft long, the breadth of the ship, and it will be constructed on Lamb and White's patent. When launched from the ship and filled to the gunwale with water, it will, by means of air cases, be able to carry 150 men, each man carrying with him 20 pounds of food or stores. There can be no doubt as to the fitness of Lamb and White's patent in the construction of such a boat, and the most important point after wards remaining for consideration is the mode pro posed forgetting the boat in and out of the ship from its bridge position, above the level of the hammock nettings, to its boat position, afloat on the water alongside the ship, and back again from boat to bridge. This is accomplished in the following manner:—The boatis mounted athwart the ship's deck as a " bridge" on a platform which is nothing more or less than a set of launching ways, the keel of the boat fitting in a groove, and the bilges of the boat resting on the side " ways." These ways are pivoted in the centre on stout stanchions, and their ends are held in position over the ship's hammock netting on each side by screw stanchions. The ship's bulwarks next these screw stanchions are cut into a large port on each side rather wider than the boat, and when open throw outwards. If the boat has to be lowered, the screw stanchions are lowered on the side re quired, the port opened, and the boat on its ways lowered down until the lower end of the ways rest on the ship's side over her waterway. The striking up then of an ordinary dogshore releases the boat, and sends her off and afloat alongside the ship. In getting her in again two threefold tackles, from davits fixed at each end of the ways, lift one end of the boat on the lower end of the inclined ways ; another tackle from their further end hauls the boat into its seat ; the ways and boat are then swayed into posi tion again, screw stanchions are set up and fasten ings made good, and the whole has now become a bridge again. The boat is thus got in and out of the ship without any purchase from her masts and yards. The platform of the bridge is formed with properly-fitted planking laid over the boat's thwarts, and left on board the ship when she is sent afloat. The only objectionable feature suggested on consi deration appears to be the probable weight of the boat and its ways when in position on board a steam ship as her bridge. This, however, Capt. Hire will have to deal with ; and if the scheme can be carried into practical effect a very considerable addition will be made to the troop-landing powers of our screw troop steamships and to the life-savingpowers of all our screw steamships at sea. The Royal Sovereign, 5, turret-ship, Capt. Herbert, has landed her gun from her after -turret at Ports mouth, and made ready for the firing test at her after turret from the 10-inch rifled gun now on board the iron frigate Bellerophon, Capt. B. Tatham, also lying at Portsmouth. No day has yet been named definitely for the experiment, although, of course, all kinds of rumours are current both as to time and conditions, but the steel shot have been received at Portsmouth dockyard, the 10-inch gun is mounted on board the Bellerophon, the gun has been dis mounted and landed from the after turret of the Royal Sovereign, and both ships have but now to go out of Portsmouth harbourto make the experiment. The Pearl, unarmoured screw corvette, 1,469 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. J. F. Ross, fitting out at ' Portsmouth for service in China, received yesterday bronze and silver coin to the amount of about $500,000 for conveyance to Hongkong. The Pearl is complete tor sea. The large floating shears in Chatham harbour, which have been employed for some weeks past in lifting the engines, machinery, and iron masts on board the armour-clad frigate Northumberland, in Victoria-docks, were yesterday towed back to Chat ham dockyard, their ser ficesbeing no longer required. The old line-of-battle sailing ship Belleisle, for t merly used as an hospital ship in Chatham harbour, has, on the application of the committee of the Sea men's Hospital Society, been lent by the Admiralty to be used as an hospital for seamen arriving at the port of London suffering from cholera. The Belle isle has been towed round from Chatham by the Medusa, paddlewheel steamer, Master-Commander Potter, but during the passage up the Thames was run aground. She was got off during the following tide without having sustained any but trifling in interfered with this portion of the intended arrange ments. Yesterday Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole re sumed and completed the inspection, and intimated his satisfaction with the efficient state of the corps. In consequence of the Ist Battalion of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regiment being considerably be low its proper strength an order has been received at Chatham garrison directing 23 men of the 2d Battalion of the 2d Royals to proceed to Cork to join the service companies of the Ist Battalion. The 2d Battalion of the Ist Royals and the Ist Batta lion of the sth Fusileers are also both below their proper complement, and an order has been received at Chatham from the Horse Guards directing volun teering to be opened for both those regiments from the depot of the Ist Battalion of the 10th Regt. Yesterday the 11th company of Royal Engineers left headquarters, Brompton-barracks, and pro ceeded from Chatham by railway to Dover for the purpose of being employed on the engineering works con nected with the defences on th a t part of the o a s companyat of Royal Engi neers a l so left Chatham t garrison h 4.30 y es t er d ay morn i ng, The t and marched to the Isle of Grain for th e p ur p ose of occupying the casemated barrack s j us t comp l ete d c within the fortifications erected at the entrance to the Medway, for the better protection of Chatham harbour and dockyard. The annual military games and athletic sports by the infantry troops of the line at Chatham garrison took place yesterday afternoon on Chatham lines, under the patronage of Major-Gen. Sir R. Wal pole, K.C.8., in the presence of an unusually large concourse of spectators. The sports consisted of throwing the hammer, putting the stone, high and wide jumping, foot races over a course of a mile and under, hurdle races for both officers and men, flat races, and other games and sports, the entries for each race being very numerous. A sum of nearly £3O was distributed in prizes, which were given in sums varying from £1 Is. downwards. All the races and games were exceedingly well con tested, and the sports gave the utmost satisfaction to the numerous spectators present. The bands of the several corps attended and played appropriate selections of music between the games. An order has been received at Woolwich from the War Department for the manufacture of 5,000,000 cartridges for the supply of Schneider's breechloading carbines, 20,000 of which are ordered to be issued to the army for immediate use, and a number of them are to be tested at the Arsenal butt in the Plumstead-marsh. A naval court-martial assembled on Tuesday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the trial of Lieut. E. F. Keppel and Mr. J. P. Snell, officers serving on board her Majesty's ship Pearl, Capt. Ross. The charges against Lieut. Kep pel were, his having been drunk on May 27, and of having, on or about March 27, caused a boat to be lowered, and being in the gangway with intent to leave the ship in the said boat without having obtained permission from Capt. Ross. The Court comprised Capt. E. Tatham (Bellerophon), presi dent ; Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, A.D.C. (Vic tory), Capt. M. Connolly (Pallas), Capt. J. Sec combe (Liverpool), Capt. Hire (Orontes), and Capt. Herbert (Royal Sovereign). Capt. Ross (Pearl) prosecuted; and Mr. E. Hoskins sat as officiating judge advocate; Mr. R. W. Ford, solicitor, of Ports mouth, was present as prisoner's friend. After hear ing the evidence the Court ordered " That Lieut. Keppel be dismissed her Majesty's service." The Court then proceeced to try Mr. Snell, master of her Majesty's ship Pearl, on the charge of being drunk. Captain Ross prosecuted. The prisoner pleaded guilty. He laid before the Court certifi cates he had received since he entered the service. He obtained full numbers at college, for which the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty favourably noticed his name. lie also produced an extra cer tificate as pilot from the Board of Trade. The Court, after deliberating an hour, sentenced the prisoner—in consideration of the position he ob tained at college, and the excellence of his certifi cates —to be only dismissed his ship, and placed at the bottom of the list of masters. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander G. 11. Clarke (now employed as naval agent in contract mail service) to the Royal George, additional, for service as trans port agent at Kingstown, vice Lieut. E. 11. Blake ; Staff Commander George L. Carr to the Indus, for service in tenders ; Lieut. Hugh Davis, Lieut. Chas. E. D. Willcox, Lieut. Frederick Hammond, and Lieut. Francis itomilly to the Lord Clyde ; Lieut. Edward C. Royse to the Pearl ; Francis B. llen wood, master, to the Pembroke; W. F. Parsons, master to the President ; S. W. Browne, master, to the Pearl ; S. J. M'Beau, assist.-surg., additional, to the Ganges; J. W. Arnott, assist.-surg., to the Wizard; Dr. W. M‘Mahon, assist.-surg., to the St. George ; C. Strickland, assist.-surg., additional, to the Bristol ; N. T. Conolly, assist.-surg., to the Supply ; E. W. Thomas, engineer, and J. F. Hat tersley, first-class assistant-engineer, to the Cale donia, for the Pigeon. dew-point temperature and air temperature was 9.2 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 72, complete saturation being represented .by 100. On four days of the week the humidity was only 62 or 64. Rain fell to the amount of 1 . 80 in., of which o.Boin. fell early on Sunday, and the remainder, equal to lin., on Thursday and Friday. On the latter day the rain-fall at Birmingham amounted to but there was scarcely any north of that town. King's College Hospital. The 27th anniversary festival of this charity was held yesterday evening at Willis's Rooms, Sir W. Ferguson, Bart., in the chair. There were between 150 and 200 guests present. The report circulated in the room pointed out that the hospital was in the centre of a district containing 400,000 inhabitants, and that it received patients from all parts of Lon don and the suburbs. Last year relief was given to 1,900 in-patients, 35,792 out-patients and 733 poor married women at their own homes. No London hospital afforded to its patients a greater quantity of space, air, and light, or more perfect ventila tion. Ten beds were set apart under the auspices of Miss Nightingale, at the charge of the Nightingale fund, for the reception of poor mar ried women, of whom 168 were confined in the hospital during 1865. By these means midwife nurses were specially trained. There was a ward for sick children called the " Pantia Ralli" ward founded recentlyby a gift of £6,000 from Mr. Peter P. Ralli, the Greek merchant, in memory of his late father. The entire cost of conducting the hos pital could not be put down at less than £B,OOO per annum, while the committee had only annual sub scriptions to the amount of about £2,200. Between the toasts vocal music was given by Mr. Winn, Mr. Coates, Miss Dalmaine, and Miss Randal. The loyal and patriotic toasts were given by the chair man, and Major-Gen. Sir J. Garvock acknowledged the toast of the army. In giving " Prosperity to King's College Hospital" the chairman made an earnest appeal on behalf of the institution, and cha ritable institutions generally, referring incidentally to his 40 years' professional experience of them. Since its foundation he said 700,000 applicants had appeared at the doors of King's College Hospital, and of the 40,000 persons who applied every year 2,000 were admitted. After dwelling upon the ad vantages of the hospital as a charity, the chairman enlarged upon its educational character, remarking that it was one of the only two hospitals in London devoted from its opening to educational purposes, and that the present number of pupils was 140, while the total number educated was 1,300. The facilities offered for the training of nurses was also commented upon as one of its important and inte resting features. Subscriptions exceeding £2,500 were announced. The Earl of Dartmouth and Mr. Justice Keating were amongst the speakers during the concluding portion of the proceedings. It was hoped that £B,OOO would have been subscribed dur ing the evening, that sum being required to place the charity in a healthy financial position. juries. _ The hired transport Queen of the Clippers, J. Hitchens, commander, and the Arid, T. Winter, commander, are now at the Royal Arsenal pier, Woolwich, taking in cargoes of hutting materials for military accommodation in the Island of Bermuda. The former ship will carry 220 tons, consisting of iron beams, girders, planking, &c., and the latter will ship a similar cargo, amounting to about 800 tons, and will be ready for sea in a few days. The Italian ram vessel Affondatore has left Mill wall, having been completed for sea. She is now at Greenhithe, it is stated, swinging for the adjust ment of her compasses, and her convoy, the Prin cipessa Clotilda, has gone down from Woolwich to Gravesend to await her arrival there, in readiness to proceed to Naples, their present destination. The Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief, visited Aldershot Camp on Mon day, and reviewed the troops at the station. His Royal Highness, accompanied by Major-General Lord George Paget, Inspector-General of Cavalry, and Lieut.-General Sir Hope Grant, Quartermaster- General, arrived at Farnborough by the 8 o'clock train from London, and immediately proceeded to Cove Common, where the infantry were drawn up in quarter distance column by brigades. The march ing past of the division being dispensed with, field manoeuvres commenced, lasting without intermission h a e o c d on m c a lu re st h o e n d the pas regi mentst his y er t e w o o r h d o er u e rs d . for near w l Royal Highness in open column of companies. The hot t e t , was lost by an brigade was formed up. No time Duke then proceeded to Elmoor, where the cavalry i ns p ec tion or marching past ; b ut the re g iments im mediately proceeded to manoe uvre b y the new pivot drill, at which they were employed for about an hour and a half. After this they were dismissed to their quarters. On Monday Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., in command of the troops in the Chatham district, commenced his half-yearly inspection of the corps of Royal Engineers, at head-quarters. The inspection was commenced at 10 o'clock by Major- Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, attended by his staff, in specting the barrack buildings, halls of instruction, lecture rooms, schools, offices, and other portions of the Royal Engineer establiAnaent, accompanied by the officials at head-quarters. In this duty he was occupied until the afternoon. The entire force at head-quarters numbers 95, non-commissioned offi cers and men, together with upwards of 100 officers, including the 7th, 11th, 21st, 22d, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th companies. The garrison orders issued directed the whole of the companies to assemble in review order on the inner lines for the customary inspection and field-day manoeuvres ; but the heavy rain which fell during the afternoon The Public Health. The following is the weekly return of the Regis trar-General of births and deaths in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom : General Register-office, Somerset-house, June 4. In the week that ended on Saturday, June 2, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,380 ; the deaths resistered, 3,314. The annual rate of mor tality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,111 boys and 1,025 girls, in all 2,136 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 1,922. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,540. It was the 22d week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week was, with a correction for increase of population, 1,195. The mortality is still very high. It is in excess of the estimated amount by 345. In the last six weeks the weekly number of deaths from whooping-cough has ranged from 97 to 117. Last week it was 185, the corrected average for the end of May being 53. Of the 105 cases, 12 occurred in Pancras, 6 in Islington, 10 in the Shoreditch dis trict, 10 in Lambeth. There were 63 fatal cases of measles, 59 of typhus, 48 of scarlatina, 24 of small pox, 19 of diarrhcea. Six children died of measles in Westminster, and 6 in Islington. The following two deaths from cholera were regis tered :—On May 28, at 58, North-street, Walworth, the son of a labourer, aged 10 months, died of Asiatic cholera (one day)." On May 31, at 3, Charles-street, B ethnal-green, the son o f a ware houseman, aged 5 years, died of ,‘ choleraic diar rhoea" (24 hours) ;convulsion (6 hours). A blacksmith, aged 47 years, died o f i‘ me l anos i s following of the lung" ( 6 months). The fi ve d eaths were caused by car riage accident s in the streets :—The widow of a 7 bootmaker, aged • 0 years, k noc k e d down by a brougham h orse in Elizabeth-street, Pimlico ; died a fter five days' illness. The daughter of a carriage trimmer aged 7 years, run over b y a M cart ; died o n —ay 25 in the Middlesex H os p ital. on May 17, The daughter of a shoemaker a ged 3 over by a cart ; d ied on May, 22 in Abbey - lane, H ampstead. rt , 4011 of a ship joiner, aged 6 years, run over by t wo vans. Manslaughter ; died on May 21 in Gro ve years, run car man, aged Grove -road, 55 y ears, jammed between a cart and .a wall at Deptfo r d ; died after s i x days' illness in Guy's Hospital. ad, Bethnal-green. A coal The annual rate, of mortality last week w as 26 per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, an d 24 in At the Loyal Ob servato ; Dublin ; 26 i in BriEstol, 26 in Birmingham, 41 in Liverpool, 33 in M anchester 23 in Salfor d, 30 in Sheffield, 30 in L eeds, 15 in l i all, 2G in Newcastle upon-Tyne, find 34 i n Glascrow. Greenwich, t he mean height of the b arometer in the week was 29.633 m. The atmosph er i c pressure rose to 29 . 8 1 on Wed nesday, and f e ll to 29.51 in. on Friday. Th e mean temperature of th e a i r in the wee k was 56 . 2 deg., which is very near the average of t h e sam e week in in 50 years (as d e t erm i ned b Mr. Glaisher). The highest temperature in the shade was 75 de g . on Saturday ; the hi g h est i n the sun 101 deg. on Mon day and Frid a y. y The difference between the mean Austria, Prussia, and the Duchies. The Wiener Abendpost, the official journal of Vienna, publishes in its edition of Tuesday evening the following article : " The declaration formerly made by Austria at the last sitting of the Germanic Diet hands over to the Confederation the further dealing with the Schleswig-Holstein question, so far as Austria was in a position to exercise in respect of that question a direct and determinate influence. The motives which induced this step of the Austrian Government are well known ; those motives are based upon the conviction, fully established by events, that an un derstanding with Prussia for a definitive arrange ment in accordance with German rights and with those of the Duchies is impossible. If we look for ward to the consequences of this act of the Austrian Government, we find that the Cabinet of Vienna has not departed from the original and undoubtedly legitimately principle of Austro-Prussia action, and that the terms agreed upon by both Powers are based upon an admission of the German right of re cognition. Austria assigns as her legal basis of action the Treaty of Vienna, and she is far from contesting, even with respect to the definitive settle ment of the affairs of the Duchies, the importance of the provisional arrangements of the Treaty of Gastein. The convocation of the Estates of Hol stein is a proof of that disposition. The position of affairs stood thus :—The peace of Vienna gave to the two great Germen Powers the right of disposing of the Duchies, but certainly not of doing so con trary to law and right. The essential points of the arrangement may be stated briefly--that the trea ties confer upon Austria and Prussia the right of seeing that right be done. The first -mentioned right could, perhaps, when we remember the assis tance afforded by Pussia to the deliverance of the Duchies, the position of that Power in the north of Germany, as well as her political necessities, be subjected to certain restrictions, but to ignore it altogether is what neither Austria nor Prussia could do without repudiating the object of their common action against Denmark, without substituting in the Duchies a mere arbitary domi nation in place of that which has been driven ou by the triumphal march of the German armies to the frontiers of Jutland, nor without inflicting a suicidal blow upon the fundamental conditions of the exist ence of the Germanic Confederation. Any natural and impartial interpretation of the treaties must lead to the conclusion that the Schleswig-Holstein dispute ought to be referred to the decision of the Diet. If the rights of the Duchies had been from the beginning established beyond doubt, and if, especially, Austria and Prussia had been able to agree upon a definitive settlement of the question upon the bases of those rights, there would have been no necessity for an appeal to the assistance of the Confederation in order to arrive at an arrangement based upon the disposing right conferred upon the two great Powers by the Treaty of Vienna. But all the efforts of Austria directed towards obtaining the concurrence of Prussia to an arrangement which all the rest of Germany recognised as right and law ful were unavailing. What, then, was more natural than that Austria should transfer her free action to Federal right—a right which had the claim of prio rity, and which could not disturb the agreements entered into between Austria and Prussia? What, therefore, could be more natural than to leave the further prosecution of the business to the decision of the Diet ? As to Prussia, she appears less entitled to dispute the action of Austria, because her position in respect of this question rests mainly upon her connection with the Confederation. It is a fact that during the long course of years in which Prussia has taken an active part in the Schleswig-Holstein question she has done so in her character of a member of the Confederation, and not as a great European Power. She entered upon a conflict with Denmark in order to give effect to a decree of Fede ral execution before the contest had assumed the gravity of war. She now raises pretensions over the Duchies of which it is impossible to permit her to constitute herself the sole judge. If momentary advantages do not constitute the fundamental prin ciples of her policy, if she has preserved, despite her system of military conventions, separate alliances, and dallyings with foreign Powers, one remnant of fidelity to Federal right, she will submit to the de cision of the Diet as Austria has determined to sub mit herself. It is not her rivalry with Austria—a rivalry which has been the occasion of more than one complication--which can now determine the course she should pursue. Austria, indeed, without at all attacking the right of Prussia and without prejudging the ultimate decision of the Diet, retires individually from the conflict, and thus opens a new path for the maintenance of peace. If Prussia should refuse to follow that path such refusal will be directed against the Confederation. By rejecting the deci sions of the Diet she breaks the links which unite Germany. Is it possible that people in Prussia can be alive to the consequence to which the next pro ceedings of the Bismarck Cabinet may lead ? Let us hope that those proceedings may be dictated by really German sentiments, freed from all passion— from that belief in the destiny of the Prussian Monarchy which has for too long a time exercised a dominating influence upon the policy of the Cabinet of Berlin." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The events which have attended the abandonment of the Conference show that the pro spects of its success would have been faint indeed. 'Though Austria alone proclaimed her reservations beforehand, and so disposed of the attempt, yet it seems almost evident that not only Italy, but Prus sia too, entertained similar' resolutions of foregoing nothing. Unless, indeed, the Government of Berlin were determined to keep the Danish Duchies at all hazards, it would have no ground of complaint against the present proceedings of Austria in referring that question to the decision of the Gerrhanic Bund, inasmuch as that, beyond all doubt, is the tribunal to which the jurisdiction pertains. It is true that as the case stands at present Austria is under a private engagement with Prussia to reject the authority of the Bund, and settle the question by special arrange ment, and that is the weak point of the Austrian cause. Still, however, th e C onvention of Gastein, by which this understanding was established, repre sented only a provisional or temporary agreement, and left the ultimate settlement of the question still in suspense. The termination of the understanding even if it had not been provoked by the insolent de monstrations of Prussia in the Duchies, could hardly be equivalent to the violation of a treaty. It would merely place the contracting parties in the positions occupied before the convention, and that, indeed, is the view on which the Prussian Government imme diately acted. Before the Convention of Gastein, Austria and Prussia jointly occupied both Duchies: After the agreement, Austria alone occupied Hol stein, and Prussia Schleswig ; and as the agreement was terminated by the resolution of Austria to dis solve her private partnership with Prussia and refer the whole case to the Bund, Prussia now claims the right to share the occupation of Holstein as before. This in itself is not unreasonable, but it merely shifts the difficulty from one point to another. The pre sent policy of Austria is just as irreconcilable with the joint occupation of the Duchies as with their par tition, and the title of Prussia to occupy the Duchies at all forms the new question before Germany. It is as well to remember at this conjuncture how the conflicting claims arose and were constituted. The Germanic Bund, or Confederation of German States, decrees " execution" against the King of Denmark as Duke of Holstein, and marched a Federal army into his Duchy. Had the operations which ensued been conducted by these forces only, and under this authority, the whole affair would have borne a legal aspect according to European law. We might have doubted whether the Duke of Holstein had really provoked such treatment, or whether the Confederation had been honest in its pretensions, but the Diet or Federal Assembly was undoubtedly competent to coerce or chastise a re fractory member of the body, such as the Duke of Holstein was assumed to be. If, therefore, the Federal troops, directed by Federal authority, had first occupied Holstein and then directed the right of succession in that Duchy, there would have been no overt illegality in the proceeding. But such a proceeding did not suit the views of Prussia. She anticipated, with good reason, that the Diet would assign to some independent Prince—probably the Duke of Augustenburg the Principality torn from Denmark, whereas she had long coveted the territory for herself. She therefore thrust herself rudely between the combatants, ejected the Federal army, and took the work of " execution" into her own hands. Austria, jealous of her pretensions, and apprehensive of the consequences, demanded to share in the expedition, and the Duchies---Schles wig as well as Holstein—were conquered by the combined armies of these two great Powers. The conquest was followed, first by the joint occupation of the whole territory, and then, in pursuance of the arrangement at Gastein, by the allotment of Holstein to Austria and Schleswig to Prussia till a final settlement could be agreed upon. These proceedings, however, were all in defiance of German law. 'The combined expedition of Aus tria and Prussia into the Duchies was wrong ; the joint occupation of the Duchies was wrong ; the private Convention of Gastein between the wrong doers was wrong; and it is only now, in forsaking that Convention, that Austria is right. Austria now, in acting with the Confederation for Federal purposes, is in her proper path, and Prussia is just as liable to a decree of Federal " execution" as Den mark was some time ago. She has not, indeed, a single claim to advance, and it will have been seen that she has confined her complaints to the " arma ments" of other Powers,and her pretensions to vague and obscure assertions of " legitimate" interests and expectations. But these pretensions have no foun dation whatever. They only mean, plainly inter preted, that the Duchies were wrested from Den mark mainly by Prussian arms and at the cost of Prussian blood ; that the actual position of Prussia in Northern Germany points her out as the proper successor to Denmark ; and that the Prussian Go vernment intends to support by might the small amount of right which could thus be constituted. But the Prussian army had never any business in the Duchies at all. If any Power whatever had any grievance against Denmark, it was not Prussia, but the Germanic Confederation. The Prussian inva sion of Denmark was actually in violation of law,and no lawful claims can be founded on its results. The aggrandizement, again, of Prussia on the coasts of the Baltic is a proposal to which Austria and the other German States may fairly take exception. Austria thinks her rival strong enough already ; the others have found her insolent enough and domi neering enough, and have no desire to see her territory extended or her power increased. It is instructi ve t o see h ow the great tempes t is rolling round to this point—the point where the first wrong was .done. It is all for Holstein that Silesia is menaced. The armies of Austria were drawn into Bohemia by the proceedings of Prussia in Holstein, and by nothing else. The Middle States of Germany are collecting their forces to aid in settling the Holstein question. Prussia knew all this perfectly while she was complaining of gratui tous and offensive armaments. She herself had not armed, but she was not, therefore, innocent. She treated the Duchies, both in word and deed, as her own, and it seems as if she would-49w have to fight for them at last. But it is terrible to think how this storm may spre a d. It a l y, t h oug h no t declining to attend the Conference, made no secret of her designs upon Venetia, to be asserted in any event and at all hazards. But in the rear of Italy stands France, and in the rear of Austria stands Russia, already committed, in common opinion, to some interest i n the fray. It i s even sa id th a t the designs of Italy against the Adriatic provinces of Austria have sug gested some political concert between the Emperor and the Sultan ; nor dees anybody seem to d ou b t, indeed, that the war which begins upon the Baltic may extend to the Black Sea. All this is fo r t err i - tory. If the Austrian condition of forbiddi ng, i n any case, the territorial aggrandizement of any litigant Power had been admitted, the Conference would simply have been superfluous, for on that presumption there would have been nothing for either Prussia or Italy to fight about. The neutral Powers, of course, discerned the inevitable conclu sion. If Prussia would f orego her intentions of annexing the Duchies, and It a l y h er h opes o f acquiring Venetia, there would be no need for States to meet in Conference. If Austria would not allow of the annexation or give up her Italian pro vince, the Conference could make no approach to an arrangement. So the appeal is left either to pri vate negotiation or to the sword. DAILY NEWS.—The condition of the freedmen in the Southern States is the subject of much discus sion and of great divergences of opinion in the American press. Mixed up as the question is with the political quarrels of the hour, it is almost im possible to arrive at definite and trustworthy infor mation about it. On the one hand, the President and his friends try to represent it in the most favour able light, and to prove that Congress, in its care for their welfare, is doing more harm than good. On the other hand, the advocates of negro suffrage —among whom we may reckon many of the old and honoured names of the anti-slavery party —repre sent it in the darkest colours, and ask for stronger measures of protection than the constitution em powers Congress to provide. Each of the parties has its theory, and interprets the facts in accordance with it. The President's theory is that the South is the true friend of the negro, and th a t th e true wis dom is to leave his status to be determined and his condition to be fixed by his former masters. His policy proceeds on the assumption that a people who went to war for slavery, who tried to build a new social and political fabric with negro slavery as its chief corner stone, are not only ready to accept their disappointment and defeat, but to do justice to the race they had thus hoped to wrong. The theory of Congress is that they who have freed the negro are bound to protect him, and that having given him the rights of manhood, they should secure those rights against infringement. The policy which this theory suggests is that which is represented by the present F ree d men ' s B urea u, by the Civil Rights Bill, and by the proposed Constitutional Amendment. It proceeds on th e conv i c ti on th a t the best friends of the negro are those who have given him his liberty and elevate him from the condition of a chattel to the status of a man, and that to leave him unpro tected and helpless in the hands of his former masters would be to give him back to as much of the reality of slavery as is consistent with the semblance of freedom. Looked at in the light of those irrecon cileable theories, the most indisputable facts are read in opposite ways. The President and his friends charge the violence which so frequently happens to the account of the very measure which Congress has taken to provide against it. It is the injudicious interference of the Freedmen's Bureau, we are told, which excites the anger of the Southern population against its wards, and leads to so many A outrages against their freedom, their Property, an' even their persons. Let them alone, and they would be gentle enough. On the other hand, every act of high-handed violence that is attempted con firms Congress and the Northern majority i n their conviction of the need of protect i ve m easures. Whi le to one side quotes the many favourable rep orts the show the friendly tone of Southern soc iet y , other quotes them to prove the excellent dispos - ition of the freedmen towards their work, and the ad mirable working of the Freedmen's Bureau. Mean' is while it is hardly possible to discover what the real disposition of the mass of Southern people, or the actual condition of the great body o f the freeu to men. We are, however, promised an inclu-rY this. The President has had a commission host!. au to the Freedmen's Bureau inquiring into its werlf,_ ing, and exposing some irregularities in its ministration • and now a joint committ ee a Cow_ gress is likely to be appointed to take evidence on it, and to report in full at a future day, e It is not in the least to be expected that ut two races will adjust their new relations without difficulty on the one side and suffering en an other. All the world knows what the " as whites " of the South arc. Constituting, A they do, a majority of the Southern population, an d l- ' coming, as they now must, into direct contact,..o:. even competition, with the freedmen, it is l' wn lutely certain that they will not at once laY." ° i t y. their pride of race, or learn to tolerate with dignt the equality of the negro with them. The l e t 7d civilised part of the American population, celebran_ alike for their pride and their poverty, their llviolethc: and their idleness, they are not likely to a°!„ oa , despised race of former slaves to stand on an.Y., uo f lity with them without the protests characterieu4s them. We cannot but think that General Fe d e ral desire for the increase of the permanent F e , w ill army arises in part from the conviction that lb, not be safe for a long time yet to leave the freee.lit v at unprotected. They have publicly complainf„kees they are frequently told, " When the It w ill leave you had better leave with them, or 3:f :i r on wish you had." And one of the latest rep o pia , a the South mentions that in the State of Virg: freedman who was merely importuning a the for wages due to him was boasht by the Who p t he and that on his trial y white jury yio derer was acquitted. But all this tewrieneY rw of lence is miserably increased by the present s," - av e a politics. The Southerners feel that they have friend in the President, and that he ma/ P g :to ti e succeed in thwarting the efforts of Congre - t s ome their hands. A lingering hope still exists that substitute for slavery is even yet possible. •t' t la ws, efforts are often made to enforce " vagra ll pore which are mere relics of slave legislati on ; an civil the Freedmen's Bureau withdrawn, and southern Rights Bill declared unconstitutional Os a ws judge has already ventured to declare it), eilieefthred would be at once in action as would make t . sue be man only free in name. This is the real _l s hus ori t g tween Congress and the President. Air. e'ensettle policy is responsible in great degree forth e, 11 ,, so uth• mont of the relations of the two classes in tr rou derg It fosters illusive hopes on one side, an e ther. beneficent legislation almost impossible t theo o re- And if the great work of emancipation ah7ciayecif ceive a serious check, and its completion he u. b i e for history will hold President Johnson respetisl the calamity. - COUNTRY MARKETS• SALISBURY.—T UESDAY. -31 S ij°ll The Bath and West of England Agricultul thinned the attendance at the corn exchange this'll rP it iity, ~ A short supply of wheat was offered of various _T rco of and more money was asked by holders in cosoCsover, the warlike character of foreign news. Business, 01 , i ,. 10 was limited, at rittlp2r more money than last pe e k• haley there was nothing doing, but oats, Pea s, a nio dorat ti ruled firm, at previous quotations. For flour a inquiry prevailed, at 335, 355, and 37s per sack. . d frost The following are the quotations :—.VLteat real ise 4 4 03 3 t 0 8 s 5 2 t os 525; and d ; b p a e l a i s e , y, , 42s ss t 0 00 50s s s p ; e o r at q s i ,.. 2 2 T s tt:e3s,2 a fr ; o l d i ti e t FT: 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 38s per sack. LULL.—TUESDAY. no Vey At our market to-day there were few buyer 3, be olio little business was done. No material change o n d. Th in quotations. Barley supply •equal to the de rma market for linseed was firmer46s* A4s to , English old white wheat 50s to Ms old red , to .". Barley, English, 368 to 375. Oats, Russian,. 24t iee, 403 Beans, new English, 43s to 445. Peas, Engli sh to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. ITESDA I *-; 10 °5 ! NEWCAS T L 0 N-T YNE—T At our market to-day there was a small sup 'le V! from the growers, and a moderate quantity COastsvo'd a good arrival from abroad. A much better del u Angli' s „ experienced, and a largo business was dine in bot r , a tur dai,; and foreign, at an advance of fully is per qr on rates. Barley,' beans, and peas were u nchange'"oic° was firm. Oats were more inquired after at hd" Flour was from Gd to is per sack dearer. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. I'l l The following are the average quotations: — l v ns. 5s Gd to 5s 9d per bushel ; inferior ditto, 5s Od to .. gr ip . a m : white, Gs to Gs 3d ; malting barley, 38s to 42s pe r ( I,:dto ing ditto, 27s to 325; beaus, 445; white oat s, 24a " black ditto, 23s Gd to 24s Gd. LYNN—TUESDAY. r 0 ".- The supply of wheat was rather limite d, and t e - w eelro a firm demand evinced at the full ra tes of 13sddlinr0 The supply of barley was short and the demand 111' at late rates. la villito.! New wheat, 42s to 46s ; new red, 41s to 44s ; & r id I°` 51s to 53s ; old red, 48s to 51s per 36 stone. pats, ol s ; secondary, malting, 37s to 40 248 2' to 6s per 24 stone. 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Cuba and Mexico ...................... ,0 46 Bahamas, via New 1 ork. ........................... .'',., / y . Bermuda, via Halifax ....... ... .......... ...., .. i'" LADVERTI . 60 10 SE-----------11ENT•] —}lolloway COO° Able a C s onviction.—No investment of in'oSn!;Till,..,hoAresPtalbittilitecia that which ensures good health. It has Mich cost i . a . - oe• t beyond dispute that Holloway's pills, i ll 'hrovi ° I " tio o rifle, will successfully wrestle with and overt ird ises ii .. In all the many forms in which dyspoPsit' c o i r b y thos e jeti presents itself, it may be thoroughly roniovo a clitA lovg mustbe e s mple in quality and moderate in ( in, o r for, - „a indisposition, resulting from defective aPl 3°•3 went ; 5 0a nausea, disagreeable tastes in the feet assimilation, yields to this efficient trea „ lo be, Aq , the annoyin collection of phlegm which P I Z s o baW mouth, IrZes tha ii ,lo speptic in the morning, will be banished 11 ' and strengthening pills. Births. , 1 ICSb lr g e' BOyD —On of te A. ult., at Wellshot Hogs° , ..,-;"` j6 , lt hl - r an del" the w if e of daughter.' A' R. Boyd, Esq., 92d Gordon ..al'e a .n„rigeler BAILEY—On the 4th inst ,at 3, John-strostlArghter. _- square, the wife of C. Bailey, jun., Rill c ' s ,. f ! al :a -1100E4 j ° DUFF—On the 4th 'inst., at 4, Queen's-gaw dabg-er‘ w wife of Mountstewart E. Grant Duff, lif.P., co Wagon, (, _DDILOVE —On the sth inst , the wife of O. 7:0 0. Esq., of 25, Devonshire-terra.ce, 11yde-Pal% °- Marriages. ry s 01 11/1.° 0 14 COTTON—FLETCHER—On the 2d in_ l st , at St.3olldest 0-1/3 1 0 3Fapston-square, the Hon. R. W. S. Cotton, el es 0 ; 1 childyisount Combermere, to Charlotte ii• fall, an (11 ' of the late J. Fletcher, Esq., of Peel flaot - ton, Lancashire. itrY lir COLQUHOUN—C f St. 3 ' A 1 tif ATHROW—On the sth inst., 5. - , tr o s bone Church, Sir Robert G. Colquhoun, of Cal% jt.t'p ', ly child of W. Cathrow. Esclati-`O,O of 42, Weymouth -street, and of . Stoke Lodge , - -1 ' Deaths. Or. CHALDECO9 , — E On the Ist inst., at Hologrood7 roori'3ls' Chaldecott, sq., aged 68. IS' pi%on , DIXON—On the 2d inst., at Littleton, Janteo of Stanley-place, Chester. fiel (11 CRETILLEIa ril -. On the 4th inst., at Ormelle Villa, .1,- ° / .0.b. near Edinburgh, R. K. Groville, Esq., L L ' I) " .''''t late HAND _ , r I n the sth inst., at Paris, Robert Hand, I'7' ogan-place, °Or' aged 78. aof the • i• Hi s l ire -- e -pr the sth inst., at his residence, -, „ he e rlV, ,_ Piccadilly, Henry St. Hill, Esq., one c°,',, o v eto! Resident Magistrate of New Zealand, and upvrards 0 , 4 4 tha b magistrate and Sheriff at Wellingtoo, ' colony, aged 59. jOh li , STUART—On the sth inst , at 9, Nottinghill-square' ttoru 11 Donald Stuart, Esq.,. Hon. F•R.G.S. Louder), E.G.'S. Berlin, South Australian. Explorer. IA Jal lieli WHEELER—On the 3d hot, at Wokingliara, Der- Wheeler, Esq., aged 74. _ i f A PO Vi i ° London : Printed and Published by Via LIA- - „, ti. 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