The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies. REDDITCH. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday at Itedditch ; Mr. J. Osborne in the chair. The report stated that the deed of transfer of this undertaking to the Midland Railway Company had been duly executed by both companies, and that the transfer would be very shortly completed. The Midland Company had intimated their readi ness to pay the balance of the purchase money under, the contract early in November next. The ordi nary dividend of £4 per cent. per annum would be paid immediately by the Midland Company. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re port, which was seconded by Mr. S. THOMAS, and carried unanimously. A dividend at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum was then declared, and the proceedings terminated. PENARTH. The half-yearly meeting was held at the offices, Penarth, near Cardiff, on Friday ; Mr. Crawshay Bailey, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the docks and the railway were now in the hands of the Taff Vale Company, and from the rents received a divided per annum on the preference capital, and at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they would shortly be able to divide the full guaranteed dividend of 4i per cent. on the or dinary shares. Mr. CARTWRIGHT seconded the adoption of the report. The Taff Vale had lost by the lease during the past half-year, but he believed this wouldnot be the case long, for Penarth offered facilities that must eventually command a large traffic. They had a heavy claim against Smith, Knight, and Co., the original contractors, and he had full confidence that the arbitration now in process would prove favour able. Mr. WATKINS questioned whether the most judicious spot had been selected for the dock, but he considered that the Taff Vale had made a good bargain' in leasing the undertaking at 4i per cent. per annum. _ The report was adopted and the dividends recom mended were declared. Mr. W. CLIVE, M.P., was elected a director in the place of Mr. D. Davis, deceased. A of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. PEMBROKE AND TENBY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Tenby ; Mr. W. Owen in the chair. The report congratulated the shareholders on the completion of the junction of their line with the South Wales Railway at Whitland. An agreement had been entered into with the Great Western Com pany for running powers over the 14 miles of their line between Whitland and Carmarthen. Early next year the directors expected that the line will be in connexion with the narrow gauge system in the Midland Counties and the north. The traffic between Pembroke Dock and Tenby continued to increase satisfactorily. The directors were enabled to propose a dividend for the six months at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference and ordinary shares of the company. The report was adopted, and the retiring direc tors and auditors were re-elected. The directors were prepared to carry the mails, exclusive of Sun days, for £2OO a year, but the contractors objected to work the line on Sundays. CENTRAL CORNWALL. The half-yegrly meeting of this company was held at Wadebridge on Friday. The report, which was adopted, called the attention of the shareholders to the bill introduced into Parliament last session. Such powers were asked for as would in effect, firstly, enable the company's authorised railway and the various portions of the other narrow and mixed gauge railways constructed or authorised between Exeter, Falmouth, and Penzance, to be effectually , worked as one system ; and, secondly, would di rectly connect such system with the general narrow gauge system of the country by means of the Lon don and South-Western Railway at Exeter. Not withstanding the strong opposition of the London and South-Western, the associated broad-gauge companies, and various local companies, the com mittee of the House of Commons expressed their opinion of having uninterrupted communication to the west of England, and passed the bill in its in tegrity, with such moderate conditions as would guarantee the proper use of the company's powers. In the interval between this decision and the time for bringing the bill before the Ifouse of Lords, the opposition requested the withdrawal of the bill, pro mising that every endeavour should be made to arrive at a fair and just settlement. The request was complied with, and since the withdrawl nego tiations had been prosecuted, and it was expected that the directors of the central undertaking would soon be able to announce that they had been con cluded satisfactorily. WEST CORNWALL. The half-yearly meeting was held at Penzance on Friday ; Mr. L. Vigurs in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, observed that the amount of loan on the security of preference shares had been reduced to the extent of £6,180, of which £BBO was provided by the allotment of preference shares t 9 that amount at par, and £5,300 paid in cash. The directors looked forward to a further reduction. With re ference to the sum of £6,190 appearing as a balance available for dividend, it was not solely composed of the past half-year's earnings, but included a balpice of £1,709 left last half-year, after payment of the preference dividend, and which, owing to the then unsettled state of affairs between the West Cornwall Company and the associated companies, was carried forward. He was happy to state that the matters in dispute had all been settled, and he might add that in every instance the award had been favourable to the West Cornwall Company. The directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, but this was an excepti ona l dividend, and must, in fact, be considered as a year's profits. The report was unanimously adopted. BUCKFASTLEIGII, TOTNES, AND SOUTH DEVON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at Totnes—Mr. A. Seymour, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. The change in the money market was much in favour of the company, and he hoped that before long all their difficulties would be surmounted, and the works rapidly pushed forward. One mile and a half of permanent way was finished. Many of the landowners had acted very liberally, but the direc tors had thus far been enabled to arrange any terms with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who owned a portion of the land required. The report was adopted ; and Mr. S. Huxham and Mr. J. W. Batten were elected directors, in the room of Mr. T. Michelmore, deceased, and Mr. C. Lempriere, resigned ; and the meeting separated. 31ANCHE STER,SHEFPIELD AND LIN CO LNS HIRE. The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from July 1 to Aug. 26,1866, amounted to £80,569, as against £71,869 for the corresponding period of 1865. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from July 1 to Aug. 26 amounted to £6,757, as against £6,703 for the corresponding period of 1865, and the expenses to £3.240, as against £2,736. DUBLIN AND ANTRIM JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday a t B e lfast--Mr. IV. F. Stannus chair.inthe s The - that re port, which was unanimowly adopted, stated £61,075 had been, expended on the works, and it was expected that an application for a loan made to the Public Works Loan Commissioners would be complied with, to enable the company to complete the construction of the railway. WATERFORD AND LMERICK. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at Waterford—Mr. Malcomson in the chair. The report . stated that in the goods and cattle traffic there had been a considerable increase as com pared with the corresponding period of last year ; the excess in goods carried was 7,632 tons, and was larger than at any former time. In live stock they had an increase of about 25 per cent. The passenger traffic was nearly stationary, they now ran third class carriages with nearly all the trains, which re sulted in a continued increase of third-class passen gers and a serious loss in second-class passengers. The receipts for first-class passengers amounted to £2,054, against £2,004, for second-class to £2,409, against £3,373, and the third-class to £3,976, against £1,004 in the corresponding half of last year, show ing a falling off in the receipts for second-class pas sengers of £964, and an increase in receipts for third class passengers of £1,004. The decrease in the number of second-class passengers was 6,810, and the increase in the number of third-class passengers was 15,683, showing an increase in the number of passengers of £8,873. The total traffic receipts for the half-year ending June 80 amounted to £35,469, and for the corresponding half of last year to £33,541, showing an increase of £1,928. The re sult of the train charge made last year caused weekly 600 miles of additional train running, at an expense of at least £1,500 per annum, and for this wholly unremunerative expenditure they had only been able to obtain from the Port-office £l5O an nually as compensation. From this and other causes the directors regretted they were unable to offer more to the original shareholders than 2s. 6d. per £5O share. They proposed to pay the usual dividend on the preference shares, to transfer £5OO to the reserve fund, and to carry forward a balance of £240. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the report was adopted, and the dividend recommended therein was declared. DANUBE AND BLACK SEA. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the offices, Abingdon-street, Westminster; Mr. J. Lewis in the chair. The report stated that the receipts to the end of May were £20,628, against £17,305 in the corre sponding half of the previous year, showing a gain of 19+ per cent. The receipts of June and July, however, showed a great falling off, which was at tributable to three causes-1. The grain crop of last year was a short one, and almost entirely cleared off by the end of May, while shipments of the new crop had scarcely as yet commenced ; the German war, during its continuance, stopped all goods and pas senger traffic from Western Europe via the Danube to the East ; 3, the establishment of a quarantine, in consequence of the fresh outbreak of cholera on the Danube, had interrupted the trade since the conclusion of the war. The crops of this year had just commenced to come forward. Inthe neighbour hood of Kustendjie they were extremely good, but it was as yet impossible to say what might be the result of this year's working, as the bulk of the trade was maize, which did not come down till somewhat later in the year. The directors regretted to have again to report that the convention with the Otto man Government respecting the harbour was un concluded. A change of Government at Constanti nople threw back the negotiations at the last moment, and the same ground had to be again traversed. Mr. Barkley was now at Constantinople, and was using his utmost exertions to carry this protracted business to completion. The manager reported that the rolling stock was in an efficient state, and that by a re-arrangement of the service he had been able to reduce the mileage of the engines very consider ably ; for whereas the train mileage last year gave lls id per mile, it now gave 13s 3d. The issue of bonds authorised in 1864 having been completed, it had become necessary to obtain the authority of a general meeting for the creation of further amount, in order to provide for the additional works which were sanctioned at the last general meeting, and which were now in progress ; and with the view of placing all bonds henceforward to be created on a common footing it was advised that a general au thority be given the board to exercise the remaining borrowing powers, i.e., to the extent of £99,300, by issuing bonds as occasion might require, and on such terms as the condition of the money market might from time to time admit. In the issue of these bonds the principle of offering them rateably among the shareholders would of course be adhered to. On the motion of the CIIAIRMA.N, the report was -‘nanimously adopted ; and the directors were autho rised to issue the remaining bonds, but it was stated that not more than £lO,OOO or £12,000 would be required for some time to come. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the London Tavern ; Air. J. Brown-Westhead presided. The CHAIRMAN; in moving the adoption of the report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, said he was aware that a very strong influence had been exercised among the shareholders in various parts of the country with the view of obtaining proxies to be used at that meeting, for the purpose which some of the shareholders thought desirable, and so far as he was concerned he had no fault to find with the efforts made to elicit as much infor mation concerning the affairs of the company as mild be obtained. He had not taken much part in the management of the affairs of the company lately, as he was about to retire from the board, but so far as he had observed he believed that, making allow ance for those errors which were unavoidable even with the most intelligent and conscientious directory, the affairs of the company had been conducted in a manner which, however and whenever investigated, would-redound to the credit of those who were at its head. (Hear, hear.) The arrangements for the traffic on the line, could not but be deemed satisfac tory. A manager had been found in the person of Mr. Bonfield, who was in every way qualified for the office, and it might be reasonably hoped that with the addition to the population which might be expected from the increased facilities afforded for locomotion the receipts of the railway would not only prove equal to the guarantee of 7 per cent. which had been given by the Government of Buenos Ayres, but would ultimately surpass that amount. Mr. GILPIN, M.P., seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. HODGKIN asked what had given rise to the correspondence between the secretary and one of the auditors appended to the report. Mr. WANKLYN (auditor), in reply, stated that he had been dissatisfied with the manner in which the accounts were, kept, and contended that they .re quired amendment. • Mr. HODGKIN said it would not to him that the statement of accounts t a n s o fy os t e h d b e ythe pay ment of a dividend of 5 per cent, a s s a s pr i p s di r ectors, and he therefore moved a that a committee of inquiry be appointed tov amendmenteti in gate the affairs of the company and report to the shareholders at an adjourned meeting. Mr. S. HERATATII seconded the motion. After some discussion, The CHAIRMAN said that if it was the wish of the majority of the shareholders present that a com mittee should be appointed, the directors would offer no objection to it, as they had nothing to conceal, and would rather court inquiry than otherwise. (Hear, hear.) The amendment was carried by a large majority, and it was agreed that the committee should consist of Mr. Wheeler, Mr. S. Herapath, Mr. A. Buckley . (Manchester), Mr. 11. I'. Bowring (Liverpool), and Mr. Moxon. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned to the 26th September. SOUTHAMPTON DOCK. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the offices, Bishopsgate-street ; Mr. C. Capper, M.P., in the chair. The report was taken as read. On the motion of the chairman the report was adopted, and a dividend of £2 10s. per cent. for the past half-year was de clared on the ordinary stock of the company, leay ing a surplus of £2,247 for the next account. DAGENHAM DOCKS. The half -yearly general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the London Tavern ; Mr. 11. Browne in the chair. rho report stated that as questions had arisen be- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1866. tween the contractors and the Board, they had thought it,ijecessary to take a surrender of the con tract, and the directors regretted they were unable to state that much progress had been made with the works during the last three months. The terms of thc surrender of the contract by Messrs. Rigby had been definitively arranged under the advice of coun sel for the company, within the limits of the certifi cates granted by the company's late engineer, and negotiations were now pending with other con 'actors for finishing the docks. Meanwhile two large store sheds were being erected by Messrs. Eassie and Co., which would shortly be finished, and it was expected that immediately thereafter the trade for which they were intended would be secured and the jetty brought into profitable use. The bill applied for in the last session of Parliament received the Royal assent on the 18th May last, by which the company were empowered to raise further capi tal to the amount of £300,000 (making £600,000 in all), with greatly enlarged powers. The directors stated that the difficulties they had met with, and the delay in carrying out the works, had in.no de gree lessened their confidence in the success of the undertaking. The report was adopted unanimously. The re tiring auditors were re-elected. The Fenian Picnic. A Fenian pic-nic ! is a charming idea. Ten thousand armed fillibusters . going through military evolutions with their eyes fixed on a peaceful terri tory over the border of the land in which they find shelter is a " truly rural" spectacle. What Canada has to do with English misgovernment in Ireland is a problem we have vainly attempted to solve. Why should our unfortunate colony be kept in a scare—why put to enormous expense—young men taken from their honest employments—old women terrified out of their wits—people's lives and pro perty endangered ? What have the Canandians done to deserve this treatment at the hands of the Fenians ? If this be the only way in which the Fenians can wreak their vengeance on England, they had better drop their agitation, instead of wading through such crime and misery to inflict a blow which under no possible circumstances can be felt injuriously in this island. If the Fenians suc ceeded in overrunning the province, in covering the land with bloodshed and ruin, there would be little injury inflicted on England, and Ireland would benefit in no possible way that we can see. Two infantry regiments are under orders to proceed im mediately to Canada, and the 13th Hussars will land and be horsed in the colony. A sharp spur has been given to the military organisation of the Province, and no doubt a deep sense will be long entertained throughout the .land of the wanton and unjustifiable attacks to which they have been threatened and subjected. Democratic principles are exposed to their most violent assaults by the intemperance of those who endeavour to carry out selfish and infamous schemes under their shelter. If Canada were Ireland there would be a colour of excuse for these threats and invasions. Because the principles advocated by the Fenians would find in that island the support of a large, if an ignorant party. But in Canada nothing could be more hateful to the inhabitants than to be subjected for an hour to the rule of detestable fili busters, saturated with vice and bad whisky. What a desecration of liberty is involved in the proceed ings of these plunderers. The danger of permitting these armsd demonstrations of reckless and ruthless men will be felt more strongly hereafter, and will react injuriously on the United States. If Canada, by a free vote of its inhabitants, chose to enter the Union, she would go with the best wishes of the English people. That such a union would be for the benefit of both parties we are not prepared to dispute ; but it should be voluntary, and not the result of such an intolerable pressure. If such an union be aimed at, nothing could be more ill advised than these detestable demonstrations against the peace of the Colony, which can only excite strong feelings of indignation and annoyance. The Fenians are acting as firebrands, and can be pro ductive of no more good, and, perhaps, may be productive of more than all the harm, of a general conflagration.—Anglo-American My Dog and Gm?. (From the Sporting ilfagazine for September.) It is always with considerable pleasure that sportsmen welcome the return of the shooting season, though, it is true, they aro all one year older, for time admits'of no stand-still during the happiest hours of our existence- And whilst we spend days and weeks of enjoyment and delight, Old Time is all the while creeping upon us, and bearing us onward so much nearer to that which may L. our last day's sport ; and he is always busiest and most fleeting when our pleasures are at the highest pitch. Grouse shooting has fairly commenced, and ere this number of our magazine reaches the hands of our readers, the season for partridge shooting will have arrived. There are many circumstances which are calculated to inspire a greater love for grouse shooting in the breast of a sports man than either partridge or pheasant shooting. In the first place it is the earliest sport of the season with dog and gun, and there is the greater pleasure in looking forward to it all through the sultary weather of July, as an approaching release from the toils of political and pro fessional life, and an opportunity of enjoying the cooling breezes of the Highland and the moor. Nothing is more refreshing and enjoyable after a hot July than a months grouse shooting on a well stocked moor, but although these among many others are reasons why grouse shooting stands so high in the estimation of some sportsmen, there are many who if they do not prefer partridge shooting to any other, are at all events so passionately fond of the sport that they look forward to it every year with _an eager desire and anxious delight. Tho present season promises well for partridges ; it is generally spoken of as a good season, the covers are large and the birds strong ; and if not as good as last year, it may still be a very favourable season. Last year was unusually good, but then we had the advantage of a very warm spring and early summer, which we certainly have not had this year. But although the spring was cold it was not wet, and therefore the young partridges would struggle through it with far less danger than in a wet season. Very great alarm was created in some parts of the High land this year as to the grouse, but it has proved generally a groundlessalarm, for with a few exceptions it has turned out a very fair grousing season, not an overabundant ono, but far better than was expected after the reports raised by alarmists. The truest test, both as regards grouse and partridges, is the state of the weather during the sitting and hatching time. If dry and warm the birds are sure to be abundant, if wet and cold, very scarce ; if dry though cold, they aro tolerably abundant. In fact, the little fledglings can stand any weather but wet, they draggle themselves to death in a few hours during a heavy rain, the mud sticks like birdlime to their tiny feet and downo bodies, and so completely gets tho mastery of their feebly little frames, that they lie down and die on the cold wet ground. Those only escape which happen to find a dry sandy shelter in some hedge or thicket, to which they are lcd by their anxious mothers. A season may be too dry, and if so, it has an injurious effect upon the young birds, which must have moisturo frequently, and for this purpose the heavy morning dews are of the greatest assistance to them during a dry season. We have the best of reasons for believing that in most parts of the country where game is preserved, sporttimen will take the field this year with every prospect of sport, and that there will be no need to complain of the scarcity of birds. Sportsmen have, therefore, to be careful to pro vide themselves with good dogs, and go steadily to their sport ; and we strongly recommend all young sportsmen during the early part of the season to read over very care fully some approved treatise on shooting, and as to which we believe there is no bettor book ever published on the subject than " The Dead Shot "-- a little book that is well known to be the work of a highly successful sportsman, and the lessons contained in it on shooting anddog-break ing are clear, concise, and instructive ; and if well-digested and remembered in the field, considerable improvement is almost certain to follow. - . A good dog is a great acquisition to a sportsman, but such au animal is very easily spoilt by an inexperienced or bad shot, and when such a man has ruined his dog, he wonders wdy he can never fill his game-bag. We have heard it said that it is impossible to spoil a thoroughly well-broken dog if wall bred. It is, however, by no means impossible. On the contrary, the best dog may be spoilt by any man who is not, in the true sense of the word, a "sportsman." And so it is that high prices are sometimes old for really valuable dogs which afterwards turn out almost worthless. Tho whole art of shooting requires as careful an apprenticeship as a business—that is to say, to carry it out successfully. A man can no more become a dead-shot without a long practical experience than ho can a skilled musician. A gun, like a musical instrument, re quires practice in the use of it, and the art of finding game, beating the field, and other sportsmanlike accomblishments, require to be as practically taught and learnt as a trade or profession. True it is that some persons are far more apt than others, and take to sport with an early success, whilst others spend the best part of their lives in endeavouring to acquire proficiency in the use of the gun, but are never able to accomplish it. A man is very far from being a good shot who misses half his birds, and he is a very bad shot if he merely wings or wounds at fair distances when he ought to kill. A dead shot is the man who is thoroughly master of the art of shooting and who can be sure of his bird, let it fly off in whatever direction it will, so long as it takes wing within range of his gun. Whether flying slow or fast, to right or left, rising or descending, over head or down-wind, one and all are unerring marks to a dead shot. And he does not merely wound his bird, so that there is considerable difficulty in recovering it, nor, on the other hand, does he cut or mangle them, so that they are unfit for the table. He simply kills his birds by hitting them in the most vulnerable parts ; they die in the air and drop dead to his unerring aim. There is no need to rush forward to pick up his birds for fear of their straggling away ; where they fall they lie, and are picked up or re trieved by the dog as soon as the sportsman has reloaded. The pleasure of shooting side by side with a dead shot can only be appreciated by actual sport in company with him. A mere pen-and-ink sketch wholly fails to convey to the reader the true enjoyment and delight of a day's sport with such a man, and the instruction to be gained of him is considerable. He is cool, calm, and collected ; he never appears to make a quick or sudden movement ; and yet, if a brace of _birds get up within range, they are no sooner on the wing than they drop, first one and then the other to his deadly aim. Every movement is easy and apparently slow, and yet the quickest bird never escapes him. A few days' sport with such a man never fails to enkindle in the breast of a young aspirant, a thorough sportsmanslike feeling. To shoot as a dead-shot shoots is the very ambition of those who indulge in the use of the gun ; but real dead-sh ots are few and far between. We have met with several in our time, though not many ; one in particular who lived to a great age, and who has now been dead only about three or four years. At 70 years of age he could shoot as well as ever; the only thing that beat him was fatigue. He could not, at that age, stand long days of fatigue without inconvenience. We have frequently seen him shoot all day without a miss, and this, too, in a good partridge-country in the months of Sep tember and October. We have heard his companions tell him, they thought, if he liked, he could hit any particular feather in his birds, so deadly was his aim. One thing we always noticed : his birds were killed so much cleaner than those of other sportmen, and were almost always hit in the fore part; those only had wounds in the rump that were shot whilst flying in a direct line from his gun. In all his cross and other shots the birds were hit in the head and neck, or under the fore-part of the wings. Many a sportsman of the present day would do well to take a hint from such observations. The big fault of young sportsmen and learners is, that they shoot too slow and too far behind the bird, and thus they fail to bag half the birds they actually strike with their shot. So, too, of hares and rabbits ; they do not shoot forward enough, and so thoy either miss their aim or hit the animal in the least vulnerable part of its body. In shooting at a hare the sportsman should be sure that his gun covers the tips of the ears at the moment of firing, and he may be sure of his prize. A dead-shot is, too, of necessity, a most accurate calculator of distances and rate of flight of the objects of his sport. If it were not so, it would be jmpossible that he could kill his birds with so much certainty. He estimates in a moment, with his eye, the distance at which a bird rises, and the same on firing; and so ho wryer shoots out of:range, for it is no sport for him to wound his birds and not to bag them. The rate of flight is also readily esti mated by th e eye, an d he shoots more or l oss qu i c kl y, an d in advance of the bird, according to the speed or velocity of its flight ; for it would be unreasonable to suppose that by firing only two inches in front of a partridge crossing at right angles at fifty yards, at a rapid flight, you would, therefore, kill the bird, or even touch it, because expe rience and a few moments reflection show it to be as absurd as it is impossible ; whereas, if the bird were flying slow and laboured it might be killed, though the sports man took his aim about two inches in advance of the head of the bird. But for a rapid flight, crosswise, at such a distance, twelve inches in advance of the bird would be none too much for a deadly aim.. It is impossible that that any precise rules can be laid down on these points, so to as to ensure success. The variations in the rate of flight, the distance of the bird, the route or direction of its course, and other circumstances, all tending to different degrees of calculation, which can only bo acted upon with success by sportsmen of skill and expe rience, who, by long practice, have acquired the art of measuring distances with the eye, and calculating the rate of flight through the same medium. Bad shots, nervous sportsmen, and those who never reflect on these rudimen tary principles, might, in truth, here find the sequel to their ill-success. Whenever such plain glaring rules are disregarded success can only be a mere matter of chance . . And so it is that, out of every ton or dozen shots, the worst of sportsmen, by chance, knock down a bird, but they rarely kill one, as a good sportsman does—viz., so that it dies in the air and lies whore it falls, all the time the sports man re-loads. To mangle a bird to atoms, breaking every bone in the skin, is unskilful sport ; so also to merely wing a bird, or hit it hard in the rump, or break both legs, is equally unskilful, and is very bad shooting, because in all three of the latter modes the bird would be very difficult to capture, and probably half an hour or more may be con sumed in each case in looking after the bird, and yet after all it is not recovered. Such shooting is, too, as cruel and unfair as it is unsportsmanlike ; and unless a man ern, after considerable practice, improve upon such a mode of sport, ho should retire from the field, and leave others to sport who are better able to use the gun. It is positively ludicrous to witness the state of excitement into which . some people work themselves in looking for a wounded bird—one they have chanced to knock down, but not to kill. How eagerly they hunt for it ! how perseveringly ! though the bird has probably wandered half a mile or more from the spot since (if only winged); or may be with its legs broken, it lies exactly where it pitched, but the identi cal whereabout cannot be hit 'upon by either the shooter or his dog. An excitable person cannot shoot well, or, at all events, only in his cool and calculating moments. In our experi ence we have always found such men downright bad shots. They are too hasty in every movement. No matter how near a bird gets up, the gun is instantly levelled at it, and, generally, the bird is missed. We knew one of these sort of shooters who used, unconsciously, in his excitement on a bird getting up to bend his body, and lean his head and neck forward, in such a ridiculous attitude, on levelling his gun, that it seemed absurd for one moment to imagine that he could hit the object aimed at; and, indeed, he never did in our presence when in such an attitude. We improved his shooting very much by fairly laughing him out of his "excitable attitude " as we termed it ; and on drawing a sketch on paper of his peculiar position on pre senting the gun to fire, and showing it to him, ho declared he had no idea that he ever threw himself into such an attitude, but, on watching himself afterwards, he told us he found it quite as we had sketched him. The unerring sportsman has none of those bad habits ; he stands erect, in an easy and natural position ; and as easily, raises the gun to his shoulder, and drops the bird. If the bird rises very near, he follows it with his eye until it has gone a fair distance, and then he lightly raises the gun to his shoulder, and down falls the bird—dead, but not cut to pieces ; on the contrary, so cleanly shot that scarcely a feather seems ruffed—blood oozes from the mouth, and such is a certain sign that the bird is hit in a vital part ; and the vitals are in the fore part, not in the hinder. If young sportsmen would only remember that little fact, and shoot forwarder and higher at flying and running objects, they would have the satisfaction of kill ing oftener instead of wounding. In all our experience we never met with a young sports man who had the fault of shooting either too high or too forwards, but we have met with scores who had the reverse fault, and who found it difficult to got out of it. The ex planation is easily given ; they insist on seeing the object along the barrel of their gun at the moment of pressing the trigger, instead of taking a sight at it along the top of the barrel, they would have the pleasingsatisfaction to find that instead of missing or wounding almost every time, they would kill their birds " dead as door nails." These are no idle theories, but lessons in shooting derived from the result of long practical experience and close observa tion, and we recommend them to the consideration of in experienced sportsmen, bad shots, and young shooters, who aspire to become " sportsmen" in the true old English style of the term; And now as to the sportsman's dogs ; and here again common sense must be called in aid. A dog is a very obe dient and intelligent animal: all rational instruction bestowed upon it well repays the sportsman ; but irrational and inconsiderate attempts to instruct a dog are as absurd as they are useless. Who has not seen the ignorant booby bullying his dog in such language that unless the dog were gifted with a thorough knowledge of the English language it is quite impossible it could understand what is required of him. Such as, "Ah ! you rascal ; what did you do that for, eh 2" " Where have you been, sir, eh ?" "If ever you do that again, I'll give it-you, sir !" and hundreds of such observations, to say nothing of oaths and imprecations, which fall from the lips of some men whenever they ad dress their dogs. We knew a fellow who used to curse and swear at his dog so often that on one occasion wo heard him swear at one of his men ; tho pointer was near by, and having heard its master address it in tho same lan guage, tho poor brute put its tail between its logs and ran off home. "Your dog is too much of a saint to listen to such lan guage as that," I said ; "see, he has run off." The follow turned, and seeing the dog was running off as fast us ho could, called out, "D —n you, come back, will you ?" But no; the poor brute feared it had incurred its master's dis pleasure, and not at all knowing what "come back, will you ?" meant, only ran away the faster. I then suggested that the simple way of calling a dog was to whistle him, and speak kindly to him ; on doing which the dog returned immediately. Dogs qui c kly l earn names and short sen t ences, suc h as "hold up!" "co me iu !" eL f e t c h it "go seek !" and such like ; but long sentences are unintelligible to dumb animals.. The best system of dog-breaking is by dumb or silent signals, i.e., by motion of the hand or other part of the body. Everything required of a dog in the field may be taught by the silent process, and it is of all others the most rational and successful. With a dog perfectly trained to obey signals instdad of words, the sportmans chances of getting within shot of game are very much increased, par ticularly if the game is wild. The human voice disturbs and frightens game, and, therefore, the sportsman silent of tread, and dumb of tongue, always gets nearer to his game than a garrulous or talkative ono. A single note or a soft whistle is sufficient to call a dog's attention to you in a field, and thou tho rest may be done by the motion of the hand ; and it is astonishing how very quickly a well-bred dog acquires the habit of understanding your signals, pro vided you do not change them so as to confuse him. The advantages of keeping silent when in search of game are easily appreciable to those who practise it ; and even the dog is intelligent enough to know and observe it in the field. Many sportsmen have a habit, too, of cheering their dogs on to hunt, by constant interruptions of encouraging words. But it would be much wiser to say nothing, and merely give, by wave of hand, directions to the dog as to the course he is to take on beating the field. We strongly advocate the silent system of dog-breaking as the most successful that can be pursued. As to the sportsman's gun, breech-loaders aro now so much improved and are so attractive, now that rifles of that sort have become the favourite national weapon, that most sportsmen to whom expense is no object, will now probably provide thomselvos with a breech-loader ; and indeed there is now a greater demand for breach-loading guns than for muzzle-loaders. The breech-loader has its advantages as well as disadvantages ; the muzzle-loader is very much the lighter weight of the two, but in the hands of a strong man the extra weight is no very great objection. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Now that Italian unity seems at last permanently secured, men have leisure to take note of the progress of German unity. Germany has on her side that element of physical force in which Italy was so sadly deficient. What Germany really desires no power on earth can gainsay ; but it is questionable, after all, whether weaknessitself was not Italy's strength, and if, on the contrary, Ger many's strength is not her weakness. It was her very weakness that gave Italy earnestness and sin gleness of purpose, patience, and self-denial. Italy, above all things, well knew what she wanted. She was perfectly aware that freedom was not to be had without independence, nor independence with out unity. Events favoured her beyond all hope ; she had on her side all sympathy. She availedher self of every opportunity. She had address, prompti tude, and suppleness. The force she lacked was supplied by doubtful friends like France, by open foes like Prussia. With precisely identical aspira tions, Germany is in an altogether different position. She has nothing to wish for, nothing to fear from without. She has only to shape her own policy, to follow her own course ; all she wants is to know her own mind—an extremely difficult thing, as it seems, for Germany. Unity is not all in all to her. She thinks union may answer all her purposes. Union was all she wanted in 1813 to repel an invader, to become in her turn the invader. But, alas ! times have changed strangely since that famous " Year Thirteen." Germany is still strong enough against her neighbours, but not against herself. The disorders of division, which brought her so much misery under her old Empire, were hardly to be cured by the ill-contrived Bund, which took the place of it. While freedom was everywhere at the mercy of local despots, her national Government was a prey to hopeless anarchy. German Sove reigns, indeed, were not so ruthless a set as Italian Princes, but their sway was equally irresponsible. The Fatherland was not so constantly exposed to the inroad of foreign nations, but these, at any rate, reckoned that " their expansive force," if checked in every other direction, had always an open outlet across the Rhine. Under such circumstances, the want of unity, or at least of a closer unity, began to be felt in Germany. But there were great vague ness and infirmity, great lack of unanimity, of pur pose. The man was wanted—a man who not only should well know his own mind, but who could also bring his countrymen to have a mind of their own. Hero-worship will not probably be set down against us as our common failing; and we have not, on a variety of occasions, hesitated in expressing our opinion of the policy of Count Bismark and of the conduct of Prussian civil and military authorities. But it is impossible to deny that if either unity or closer union was necessary for Germany, it was only to be achieved by such means as Prussia and Count Bismark have supplied. In order to create a Germany, it was necessary to drive out Austria, to break up the Bund, to bring all the minor States under subjection. A revolution of that nature could not be made with rose-water; it could not be handled with kid gloves. There are nations that only re quire gentle leading ; there are others that need hard driving. Very great firmness, and even a cer tain amount of harshness, was at all times found to ' answer best with your patient and somewhat slug gish German. Count Bismark has done wonders hitherto, but he is yet far from his goal, and his frankness in avowing the difficulties with which his great undertaking is still beset amounts almost to rashness. Even in his anxiety ,to make his peace with that Prussian Parliament against which he waged so violent a war in former years, he conies before them bidding them to think less of local mat ters, and to turn their attention to " the unfinished task of foreign policy." He expresses himself con fident of a good' understanding with Austria, but he is sure it would be idle to rely on the good will of any other European State. He reminds the Committee of the Chamber that Silesia had to be conquered three times over ; and he sees the possi bility that three successive wars may be required to vindicate the possession of what has been lately acquired. The Emperor Napoleon looks forward to " an era of tranquillity." The Prussian statesman wishes present questions to be promptly solved, so as to take from foreign Powers all pretext for interfe ence. " By doing at once what is to be done," he says, " a double advantage is gained." It is difficult to say how much of Count Bismark's real mind is conveyed in these apparently most candid confes sions. His position is certainly full of peril and difficulty, but he has also an interest iu exaggerating its danger, so as to rouse to exertion the representa tives he addresses. Of the ultimate drift of his long meditated policy he leaves no doubt. The annexa tion of Hanover, Hesse, Nassau, Homburg, and Frankfort, he says, is not merely grounded on the right of conquest. It was on the necessity of Ger many to live and breathe that Prussia grounded her right to incorporate such of the scattered members of the nation as had been won in honest warfare. The Prussian Minister was well aware that such words would find an echo throughout Germany. Had Austria, or the Blind, or any of the minor Princes had their own way, France would by this time have been marching her legions across the Rhine. Hap pily for all Germany, Prussia was tuo prompt, too strong, too fully successful to allow time for foreign interference. The idea that Prussia's strength is the strength of Germany cannot fail daily to gain ground. All that Prussia gets at the expense of Hanover, Hesse, and other States must be allowed to have been won for the common security and inde pendence of the Fatherland. There is, indeed, good reason to regret that some of the oldest and most illustrious dynasties in Europe should thus be brought to a sudden and violent extinction. As Count Bis mark himself avowed, not a few of the people be longing to the minor German States, especially in the capitals, are disposed to look upon the intended change as fraught with ruin to a variety of local and personal interests ; but the great mass of the nation, he added, look upon the matter with more enlarged views, and even the present opponents will soon be brought to the same manner of thinking. Whatever clemency and forbearance Count Bis mark might have shown to the conquered, there is hardly a doubt that Prussian supremacy was neces sary for the welfare of Germany, and it could not be established without offering all the minor States the alternative between extinction and mediatisa tion. Hanover, Hesse, and the others upon which the former lot has fallen, think theirs has been the harsher treatment, and would fain compound with any loss of the substance if they could only preserve the bare semblance of sovereignty. On the other hand, Saxony, in whose behalf France and Austria interceded, and Darmstadt, for whose sake also powerful agencies are at work, shrink from the subordinate position which Prussia has made out for them, and would seem to prefer the absolute loss of their Crown rather than the diminution of its lustre. In her own self-defence, and for the safety of Germany, however, Prussia cannot depart from the principle she has laid down for herself. She must have absolute control over the military and diplomatic affairs of the Northern Confederacy. She can hardly hope to hold her own on the Elbe and on the Main unless she assumes such a position in Saxony and in Darmstadt as will take from there stored Sovereigns of those States any possible chance of doing mischief. However hard these con ditions may prove to the Sovereigns themselves, there is no doubt of the acquiescence of their sub jects in the new order of things, and also of their eagerness to do away altogether with the past, and proceed to the immediate annexation of the whole country to Prussia. Evidence of a similar state of mind in various districts of Saxony, in Baden, in Bavaria itself, may be gathered from all the correspondence that reaches us on all sides. l'he Lower house at Munich, while giving its ratification to the Treaty of Peace, recommended the closest union of their country with the Northern Confederacy for all military purposes. Yet Bavaria had been flattered by Count Bismark himself with the prospect of the leadership of a Southernßund, to be unit e d t o P russ i a by a compact of alliance. Even at the head of Wurtemberg, Baden, and part of Darm stadt,' however, Bavaria feels herself too weak to hope for any advantage in a separate existence. After all, this merely political revolution has been long since shadowed forth by the negotiations so often carried on by the different States of Germany for the constitution of their Commercial League. Austria and the South have in all instances offered a long resistance to the overpowering influence of Prussia and the North ; a long yet invariably un availing resistance. Austria always ended by being excluded from the Zollverein. The South never failed to be dragged along and absorbed by the North. In the same direction as material interests set, political combinations must necessarily follow. POST.—When a year ago we had to record the failure of the attempt to lay the cable of the Atlantic Telegraph, we ventured to foretell that its recovery, as well as the ultimate success of the undertaking with a new cable, might be looked upon as amount ing, upon a sound calculation of probabilities, simply to a question of time. Only a year has elapsed since then, and not only has a new cable been made and laid successfully, and is now in excellent working order, but the old cable of 1865 has been fished up and spliced, and is in equally good working order, so far as its continuity and powers of transmission are concerned. It will be remembered that after this cable had parted and been lost, it was dragged for and found more than once, and each time raised a considerable distance towards the surface, but as often lost again through the strength of the appa ratus employed not being equal to the strain upon it. Had this been adequate to the task the cable would have been then and there recovered, spliced, and the attempt to complete the enterprise renewed ; but when all the cable provided for the purpose of fishing up the lost electric wire had been used up there was nothing for it but to bank up the fires, turn the head of the Great Eastern towards England, and steam home at full speed to bring the unwelcome tidings of failure. The precau tion had, however, as a matter of course, been taken to carefully record the bearings of the spot where the end of the lost cable had for the last time slipped through the hands of its temporary recoverers, no less than to moor conspicuous buoys there, so that there might be a twofold guide to those who would come, when the calm season again returned, a year afterwards, with improved and stronger tackle to search for it again. The perse verance which has marked the progress of this un dertaking throughout has now been doably success ful, and the Great Eastern, so unfortunate hitherto, has wiped out her former ill-starred antecedents by a double triumph. She will have succeeded this year in connecting the Old World with the New by successfully laying not only the cable,of 1866, but the one of 1865 also. When the former object had been attained the expedition steamed to the spot where the cable of last year had been lost, and pro ceeded to drag for it ; and it was found, and lost, again and again, until at last it was safely recovered and spliced. The Albany was the vessel which claims the credit of first finding the cable. This she did on the 10th of last month, and succeeded in buoying it, but here her triumph came to an end, for the chain broke and the cable was again lost. Two days afterwards the Great Eastern herself had arrived on the spot, and by midnight on the 15th August had not only caught the cable but had raised it five hundred fathoms. The process of buoying, however, proved as fatal to her success as it had done in the case of the Albany, and the cable had to be fished for again. These successful attempts, however—successful, that is, as attempts to find and grapple the cable—served to confirm the expe rience of the past, and to show that the recovery of the old cable, like the laying of a new one, was but a question of time and perseverance. The Great Eastern renewed her work, and two days subsequently—that is, on the 17th August, between one and two o'clock in the morning—she again grappled the cable and raised it to her bows, but in the attempt to land it on board the cable itself parted, as on the occasion of its first loss, and again went to the bottom of the Atlantic. A couple of days later—on the 19th—she had, however, found it again, and not only raised it eighty-six fathoms, but buoyed it. Meanwhile the other ships of the expedition had not been idle, for on the same day the Albany, which had been the first to discover and fish it up, again found and grappled it, but as speedily lost it. In the account which we published yesterday the latitude and the longitude are given where each of these recoveries and losses took place, but it is not necessary here to repeat the figures over again. A week later another vessel of the expedition, the Medway, fastened her grapplings upon the cable, which, however, parted by its own strain after it had been raised a thousand fathoms. All the ships of the squadron were now evidently over the line of the lost telegraph, and had settled down in earnest to their work. Such repeated losses must have been exceedingly provoking. To find the cable slip through the fingers of its recoverers lik a huge eel, just as they thought they had secured it, must have been irritating enough, no doubt, but it only served to put them on their mettle, and the different ships emulated each other in their labours. Neither night nor day was the work relaxed. The calm season is a short and precious period, which, in such an enterprise, at such a spot in the middle of the Atlantic, is to be made the most of. The first time the Great. East ern grappled the cable was about midnight ; the second time was between one and two o'clock in the morning ; the third time was between nine and ten. On the same day as that on which the Medway,' at five o'clock in the afternoon, last found and lost the cable, namely, on the 26th August, the Albany, at eleven o'clock in the fore noon, again succeeded in raising and buoying it, showing that these vessels were indefatigable in dragging the bottom of the ocean. The Albany was the ship which, on the 10th, was the first to grapple and raise the cable, but subsequently lost it through the apparatus giving way. It will have been observed that generally throughout these experiments, when the apparatus seemed strong enough, the telegraph cable itself gave way, and when the cable seemed strong enough to bear its own strain the apparatus was inadequate to sup port its weight. These united efforts were now, however, about to be crowned with success, for the expedition had by this time got a firm hold on the cable, and, after much hard and successful work, the old telegraph wire of 1865 had been got on board the Great Eastern on the 2d—last Sunday— had been spliced, and the process of paying out re newed, so that the thread of last year's enterprise was taken up and continued, some twelve months later, just where it had been broken off. On the application of the proper tests the whole line was shown to be in perfect working order. It w;l1 be remembered that several defects were found to exist in the cable as it was paid out last year, through pieces of wire having penetrated it, and these im perfect portions had to be cut out from time to time as they were discovered, and the wire properly spliced. No such blemishes appear to have existed in the new cable, and there was no solution of con tinuity from first to last. Should a further hitch of the kind occur in the old cable, it need not cause any alarm, as the former ones were so easily re medied. At the time the latest intelligence, which we published yesterday, from the other end was despatched, all was going on well and the tests were perfect ; it was expected the Great Eastern would reach Heart's Content by Saturday. The popular aphorism, that in all cases it is as well to have two strings to your bow cannot fail to be illustrated with peculiar force in the present instance. One advantage of having two Atlantic telegraph aables will necessarily be a reduction of the tariff of charges for the transmission of messages, and, con sequently, a great increase in the amount of news and the rapidity of its conveyance. Between one telegraph cable and two cables there is all the difference between a railway with a single line of rails and a double one. Now, too, that the art of laying ocean telegraphs has been so far perfected, may we not conclude that more than these two lines will at no distant future connect the Old World with the New ? An American project has been talked of for laying a cable between that con tinent and Spain, taking, as a matter of course, the route most peopled with islands. In enter prises of this sort the first great success is generally sure to stimulate rivalry and competition. Consi dering the enormous news traffic which the Old and New Worlds would supply by this direct and rapid means of despatch, there is no reason why several lines should not pay a high per tentage on the capital invested. is it beyond the resources of science to lay simultaneously a cable in duplicate, that is, two telegraphic wires instead of one ? The question of whether they should have separate sheaths or not, supposing the other difficulties to be overcome, is quite a subordinate one. is there any reason why the Great Eastern should not this voyage have laid two cables instead of one, now that we have learned the art of ocean telegraphy ? May it not be doubted whether, in such skilful hands as those which have just brought this enter prise to a successful issue, a much lighter cable might not have been laid down with equal success, and therefore two light ones, which might only have been equal in weight to this heavy one ? Of course it may be that . the great strength and con sequent weight of the new cable insured its success ; but is this so ? Have we not found the old cable, which was lighter and weaker ; has it not be en ; fished up from the bottom and spliced" and is it not again in course of being relaid ? And could not the practised skill now at our command, if presided over by proper care and caution, equally succeed in laying a much thinner one than either ? Then, again, would not two light cables, equal together in weight and bulk to the new thick one, be equally strong if paid out simultaneously, and therefore equally safe, even assuming that a less degree of strength would be inadequate to the strain ? We shall ere long probably have a practical and satisfac toiy answer to these problems. COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFO The supply of new wheat ii and the condition middling ; maintained for all sorts, and i] samples an advance of is per able trade was done. Spring Whedt, old white 46s 57s new 41s 56s I old red 41s Us new. 40s 51s Barley... 2ss 3.1 s Chevalier -- 8 —8 Grinding 25s 30s Malt.. 58s Os Chevalier 60s 62i Oats ... 2os 26s RD—SEPT. 1. n the market to-day was fair the prices of last week were n the case of a few of the best qr. was obtained, and a toler corn without alteration. ,„ Peas, Partridge...... 4s t 4 S White ...... ....328 360 Bulling ........ -0 - 0 Dun.......... 4 40 0 ditto, new-- -0 Beans, Tick, 01d......40a 450 new....38s 428 Harrow licks.42s 403 new....40s 440 Mazagan. ..... 38:3 420 GRANTHAM—SEPT. 1. There was a plentiful supply of wheat. Trade rather improved, and late rates were well supported. A gn ° t show of oats, which sold in favour of buyers. late rates. Means unaltered. ey/ Old white wheat, 53s to 565!; old red, 50s to 52s ; n white, 52s to 56s ; new red, 47s to 52s per 36 stone. par ley for malting, 36s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 33s p . (, 3 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per z* stone. Beans, old, 48s to 51s; new, 41s to 46s per 38 stone• Peas, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. Barley a COLCHESTER —SEPT. 1. The supply of wheat was not so large as last week' Scarcely any old wheat ; new sold steadily at an advanV of is to 2s per q. Barley easier to buy than last vree' Peas is per qr. lower. Beans very scarce. d 444 Wheat, white 4's 528 Beans, Mazagan....••• , - - 4 83 red' 42a tOs Middle and 5ma11._ 446 424 Barleßarley 43s Peas, white. ......... n-Ss 4 2 : y .... Oats ..... ... —a a grey.........•••• 30 4 NORTHAMPTON—SEPT. 1. There was a fair supply of neat wheat ; old sorts 'Wer e & meagre show, and for those late rates were about realise No material change in the price of barley. Oats a =lode" rate show, and sold at former quotations. New white wheat, 48s to 51s; new red, 46s to 50s ; 13' 1 ! white, 47s to 50s; old red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone. e sb for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 36s per stone. Oats, old, 22s to 31s • now, 28s to 30s per 24 stoe. ' Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; now, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. reo , 38s to 42s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—Am 31. tittle The attendance at market to-day was 13M1111, and business doing. Prices remain unaltered. White wheat - 46s Od to 48s Odl bushel. r ,,,,,, I f t b us hel. Red wheat 45s Od to 48s Odc "- 40/b b ush Potato oats 27s Od to 27s 6dt el. Common oats 24s Od to 24s 6d j Bore 30s Od to 31s Od t 53115 Barley 32s Od to 32s 6di II 111 Oatmeal 19s 6d to 20s Od ? boll of 28010. Flour, fine 38s Od to 39s Od 13 sack of 28010 KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 1. 1 of Small supply of wheat and oats, and only one sample barley. Wheat 6d and oats is per qr. dearer. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...—. -As 6d ' —s Od I 29s 6d 95s 64 I—s Od 31s Od Tliird . 478 Od —s Od —s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d• Walls End Hetton 22 0 Original Hartlepool .. 22 g Eden Main Braddyell's Hetton 2l 3 Cassop ........... .. 21 3 a Heugh Hall 2l 3 Holywell Main......... 19 0 Hetton Lyons Ellison Steam 15 6 Tyne Main,. ......... 25 Norton's Anthracite 23 6 Ships at market, 40—sold, 39. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. t . 19 Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton S - q Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. P"' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ..... SeP t • Ditto, by French packet Sept. t Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. lielena SeP .- n China, Penang. and Singapore, via Bout hampton Sep t Ditto, via Marseilles Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept' Z. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sep t. Sep t, ? Ditto, via Marseilles ...s e pt. 6 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept 13 .. Mauritius, via Southampton Sep t. I Ditto, via Marseille e , Sept. 1 - ; • Newfoundland .•• , ..... Sept. 12 ' Portugal ept. $* Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ....... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet .. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton • • Ditto, via Cork . •• .. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Sept - West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Sept* I West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) ............. ........ Cuba and Mexico .................. 2 12693 . 1 Bermuda, via Halifax Bahamas, via New York. Sept. 12. SAFE DEPOSIT.—The New York Safe DeP °- sit Company's establishment is thus described by a pondent :—"Among the new institutions growing oat monetary affairs is the Safe Deposit Company. This es tablishrnent occupies a front basement in Broadway, 5 : 13(1 . is now attracting a good deal of attention. The ee ta ' a - , basement is devoted to the reception of valuables, safety is now reduced to a certainty. A receiving cler waits on all applicants, and no one can pass his desk with out a permit. Behind him iron doors open into a vault, lighted by gas, and on either side of the passage °- drawers with locks and keys, and each distinguished by. 6 number. These drawers contain bonds, moti.gages, C" t c t c orres: ficates of stock, insurance policies, & c., and into the vu u .„ only one person is admitted at a time. At intervalsin thlo passage trap doors open into safes, which are leased h i e parties who want larger accommodation, or for the storegig of bullion, or gold and silver plate. The whole plo . . ag e burglar proof, and, as an additional precaution two 0 ° 74 keep a nightly vigil, each with a loaded gun and I t o bayonet. A book is at hand in which all visitors re c .„ t their names, and the novelty of the affair brings a long ' l " t daily. The President of this company informed us ho had had this enterprise in contemplation for many l e— o f and that now its success is established. The deposit bonds, bullion, and plate is of the value of millions, s.ntal the owners can feel assured of their safety. The eaPl „d of the company is $600,000. Its vault cost $50,000, it't to exhibit the rate of rent, we state that for this baes°l°ll' forty y fifty feet, $12,000 is paid per annum. [Anv b EnTrsEmENT.]— Dyspepsia (indige st i on , , c 0-a 8 1 ion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, 0031 ,, a s - od and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggrava; suce. acceleraced by drugs of every description, but perfceCY l os able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Art io . Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been sidered hopeless, such as-cough, sthms, also diar el e o, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, ffitulency, nerv ouBll ,oS, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, cv.inr. influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gottt e ; purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sl ee F i litib ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, devi'eg, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in p r s of nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti,ghtn e ' g oo the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and betWe e , ll o eB shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—Cure N o . 46,276. 3 11 dgi oa rs' Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 3 0 Ir m o. diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement , an r e g. tial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Mi ss Eli za b e th Jacobi' of and treme nervousness, indigestion, ga th er i ngs; low _ , iota nervous fancies. —Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Den ie r ° Xl' lieut. of Waterford, of many ye a rs' dyspepsia.-10' Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, •aervoll o „„cl asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sioknesS;eo vomiting—Maria Joly.—Cure No. 54,816. The ItO',„ ji t old' T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and ity of the liver, which had i esisted all medical t - eat vl 1 411)* In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b, 118; 121 b, 22 !„'„don; 408.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street , P,,,r - ef ilee also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street; g o' at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bis h larld_ a l street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3 3 ° , 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court -rn ot i° Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill' , Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's - t er d John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers .. j- m I sts.—Beware of sr.urious imitations. Births. , aie , the BERESPORD —On the Ist inst., at the Recto* De — Hon. Mrs. John Berosford, of a daughter. ,arcle l3s ' DERRYMAN—On the Ist inst., at 23, P r inee's - 9 4 of t i Hyde-park, the wife of Captain Dertiruaul 1/ '" . " daughter. the VALLANCEY—On the 31st ult., at Dinan, France' " of Lieut.-Col. G. P. Vallancey, of a daughter. „ f op' WOODROFFE—On the 3d inst., at Bay Tree Lodbr gasp' stead, the wife of John E. Woodroffe, Esq., of 1411 inn, barrister-at-law, of a daughter. GARDNER—BEVERLEY Ist inst. church, Lewisham, y_ M o a n ni th a e g Marriages. ~ 10 13 a t the .$4 , 0 Beverley, Esq., the Asst.-Solicitor Grove, Blackheath, to Amelia Maty, daughter to ~, , s. 01Gf mat.ne,rs,:sus,toCligh7:ellba* ORD—YouL—On the 30th ult at Ail Saints' u'l),111: Clapham-park, William M. Ord, ' Esq. , of Streatbaf ieAkt Surrey, to Jane, eldest daughter of arnes A. Waratah House, Clapham-park. Deaths. N o. ASHRURY—On the 3d inst., at his London resideuee,' eto, 9, Sussex-place, Hyde-park-gardens, after she 130 John Ashbury, Esq., of Mauchosterand Londo rain,,,,, Gist year. Friends will kindly accept this intinuv,dso, BunliltlDGE—On the Ist inst., at Kilburn, Mr. T. 13' 11.1)13 late of 71, Nowgate-street, City, aged 78. f 16 DRA7GER—On the Ist inst., Mr. George Draegen 0 S ackville- street Picea(' at . OO DAvis- -On the Ist inst , at Has:ings Matilda. W 3r 'Dal eldest daughter of Mr . . T. Dav:s of 'Clifton Lodgo, stun, N.E., aged 17. ' l3 4' GIP.BS —On the Ist inst , at 35, Gloucester - c reScer" gent's-park, John GibbS, M.D., agod 86. 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