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Txrs DAY.—Morning, 4h. 58m.—Afternoon, sb. 15m. To-Monnow.-Morning, sb. 31m.—Afternoon, sh. 50m. Olt . SUIT, LONDON, IVEDNESD.IY, AUGUST 15, 1866. The weekly return of the births and deaths in London, for the week ending last Saturday, con firms the favourable intelligence which we had previously gathered from the daily reports. The deaths from the prevailing epidemic show a de cided diminution—those from cholera and diarrhoea together amounting to 1,045, instead of 1,407 as in the preceding week. The total number of deaths registered last week was 2,299 ; in the week before, 2,661 ; so that they were less by 52 daily in that ending on Saturday. This is very encouraging, and the decrease in the mortality of children is, says the Registrar, a gratifying proof of the effects of increased care. In the eastern districts, where the enemy seems to have concen trated his forces, and where the poverty of the dense population lays them open to attack, there is a marked diminution of cases, the deaths falling from 1,041 to 774, so that there is good reason to hope that the energetic measures taken to assist the sufferers, and to relieve extreme destitution, have already produced their effect. At the same time this should not induce the public to relax their efforts, but rather to increase them, since the mor tality is still very high, and the epidemic, though a little less fatal, is still formidable. During the last five weeks, according to the Registrar-General, 10,898 persons have died in London, of whom 4,454 have died from cholera and diarrhoea. These figures, of course, represent a much wider range of illness and distress ; and in many cases where the heads of families have been laid low the children are left penniless. Many harrowing scenes are daily brought under the notice of the Mansion-house Committee, and liberally as the subscriptions have poured in, they are by no means unnecessarily large. The efforts of these gentlemen to give relief in the emergency are nobly seconded by the local committees. England never wants for volunteers in any good work, and the pre sent distress has called forth a number of self denying and laborious workers wherever their exer tions are needed. Some idea of the magnitude of the suffering with which the Mansion-house Committee have to deal may be gathered from the report of yesterday's proceedings. Nine gentlemen from Mile-end Old Town pre sented themselves yesterday. They have been exerting themselves to raise a fund for the assist ance of persons suffering from cholera, convalescent patients, and widows and orphans of persons who have died from the epidemic. There are 12,000 houses in the " hamlet," and the population is about 84,000. In the four weeks ending last Saturday there had been 412 deaths from cholera, of which 84 were the deaths of husbands, who left 84 widows and more than 400 children. During last week nearly 2,000 cases were treated daily, excluding those in the Union. The Mansion -house Committee granted £l5O and ' ten gallons of port wine for the relief of this district, which we may easily believe will be of most valuable assistance in stemming the tide of 1 disease. From Bethnal -green, from St. George's- 1 in-the-East, from St. Luke's, illillwall, from Strat ford and Wapping, the same tale was told with I trifling variations, and in every case the committee made substantial grants. From the House of Charity in Greek-street came a request for a grant ' for clothing for the poor little children sent there from the London Hospital. The efforts being made by the various local authorities in provid ing medicines and advice for the poor without any delay are also commendable, and we may hope that a continuance of all such efforts may, under PROVIDENCE, lead to still more reassuring results. At the same time we must not be over-confident, for as the Registrar-General expressly says, 6 ' No greater mistake could be made than to relax the efforts for combating the disease or for relieving the distress which it has already wrought. .Each. s hould do his share ; if he cannot give what is best of all personal assistance, he can give money ; if he cannot give money he may give stores of old clothes, which, humble, as they may seem, are very serviceable, rzspecially at the hos pitals and refugees." The sums already subscribed are munificent, but it is a juncture which demands munificence, and we have all a heavy debt to pay to those districts of Eastern London on which the burden has fallen so heavily. Their sanitary con dition has long been a disgrace to the metropolis. The wretchedness of their population in some places was a byeword, yet the evils have never been dealt with in an enlightened and comprehensive spirit. The severity of this visitation will recall us to a sense of our neglected duties, and a thorough refor mation of two or three points is imperatively neces sary. The water supply must be looked to. It is quite inexcusable that with our scientific and sani tary knowledge, we should suffer half London to be poisoned by impure water, which has again and again been proved to be one of the primary causes of disease. Dirt and squalor are not to be re moved by Act of Parliament, but if we can secure that people have decent habitations, and can guard against the monster evil of over crowding, we shall do much towards removing the temptations to dirt. Again, we cannot prevent poverty or remove extreme destitution, but we can take care that the burden of the rates is not so oppres householder as to help to sive on the struggling pauperise him, and that the parish funds are not so miserably restricted in the most necessitous dis tricts that a wise temporary assistance cannot be given in cases which would keep a whole family off the parish for life. The more favoured portions of the metropolis have come nobly to the rescue of the eastern districts in this time of trial, but much will remain to be done when the crisis has passed. We have remained indifferent only too long. Now that we have been aroused from our lethargy by so stern and terrible a monitor, it will be strange in deed if the warning pass unheeded. All is for the present tranquil respecting the sub ject of the French demand, but it is by no means settled in any shape, and the various confused and contradictory statements only tend to bewilder the public instead of enlightening them. There is one decisive thing to take hold of, and that is, that the Emperor NAPOLEON has appeared on the scene claiming some territory for France, and we know that he will not be so easily put off in his schemes when once he has made up his mind to effect any thing. It does not follow that war will be the immediate result of the affair; on the contrary, some time may elapse before any hostilities commence, but however emphatic may be the assertions of the French journals, there is no doubt that the French Government must have been fully aware of the risk they run in broaching this subject at all, and also they must have comprehended the dissatisfaction it would cause if the matter dropped without any I notice being taken of the claims of France. All kinds of politicians of whatever shade of opinion seem to concur in the idea that Prussia will refuse to yield to the demand just made, and if so, sooner or later there must we war. What object could the French have in putting themselves forward just to get insulted, and make themselves ridiculous in the sight of the nations of Europe. It is quite absurd to entertain such a notion for a moment ; and, indeed, there can be only one way of accounting for the new turn which events have taken, and that is to come to the conclusion that France is resolved not to allow Prussia to have it all her own way. It has long been observed that Prussia has become very inimical to the French, and of course a war with that Power would be popular in France. Ever since the Dano-German war the feel ing has been augmenting, and the irrita tion and indignation then naturally excited by the cruel and arbitrary conduct of the Germans has not been allayed by subsequent events. There are no sharper politicians than the French, and they per ceive that their so-called allies, but in reality most insidious enemies, have been steadily pursuing their way for some time, and are now about to reap the fruits of their endeavours. No wonder, then, that they should feel indignant and mortified at such wanton acts, and that they should be quite willing to make some sacrifices in order to insure themselves immunity from the designs of so crafty an opponent. As for the notion that prevails in some parts that the French EMPEROR will take a part or the whole of Belgium for himself that is hardly likely, for several reasons, and when he had perpetrated the act of injustice, he would not be in reality much the gainer, because the inordinate gains of Prussia would not be cir cumscribed. The French EMPEROR entertains be sides a great idea of the opinion of England, and it would cause a feeling of great indignation over here were the little kingdom of Belgium to be despoiled in order to suit the views and pretensions of the German despots. As for the great anxiety which is said to prevail in Paris for the complete unity of Germany, we do not see how that can be true, for the French care very little for such things at any time, and just now they are not so enthusiastic about the Germans. The Prussian Chambers have been occupied in considering the bill of indemnity introduced by the Minister of Finance, and he also asked the house to authorise an expenditure for the current year of 154 millions. It seems altogether as if the Prussian Go vernment were in need of a large sum. When the costs of this war come to be estimated no doubt the Prussians will bitterly regret the lengths to which their Government have gone in prosecuting this costly and unnecessary war. The armistice between Austria and Italy has at last been signed, and for the present, at least, there is a cessation of hostilities. Great efforts are being made in Schles wig to prevent the manifestation of any feeling favourable to Denmark and adverse to Prussia, but it is not likely that any one will be credulous enough to believe that the inhabitants prefer the tyrannous rule of Berlin. It is quite idle to put any faith in these manifestoes and appeals : they are made up for the purpose, and obtain the concurrence of those whose interest or fear induce them to acquiesce. The only difficulty that has lately arisen in the peace negotiations s h a a id s been t on the subject of Bavaria, and it is even war may be renewed against that State Really affairs assume a more favourable aspect. the arrogance of the Prussians knows no bounds, and lamentable as war would be in many respects it will be some consolation if France should come forward and check the presumption of the Berlin Government, which has become almost intolerable, and threatens to interfere greatly with the interests of Europe. On the occasion of the recent visit of the Board of Admiralty to the naval establishments at Chatham, their Lordships had an interview with a deputation representing shipwrights, joiners, sawyers, messen gers, labourers, and other workmen employed in the dockyard, the members composing which laid before the Board the inadequate pay given to the workmen employed in that and the other public dockyards as compared with the wages paid in private establish- 1 ments, and urging upon the Admiralty the justice of their making a proportionate increase in the pay of the workmen. Their lodships addressed several questions to the deputation, and promised to give the application their careful conzideratio.i. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The Moniteur, in its bulletin, says—" The com mandants of the fortresses of Venetia, occupied by the Austrian troops, have received orders to expedite towards Vienna before the 25th inst. the moveable war materials of the fortresses. The Venetian political prisoners, who had been confined in the fortresses, have already returned home to their families. All the Italian portion of the Austrian police has been dismissed with an indemnity of three months pay. The surrender of Venetia to Italy, through the mediation of France, it is foreseen will take place shortly." The Paris papers continue to discuss very ener getically the proposed change in the frontiers of the Rhine. It seems to be understood that France claims nothing more than the restitution of the fortresses which belonged to her before 1789, and - which complete the iron barrier of the celebrated engineer Vauban, viz., Philippville, Marienbourg, Sarrelouis, Landau, and perhaps Luxembourg. It seems from the various details collected rela tive to the objects of the visit of the Empress Char lotte of Mexico to Paris that it comprises two essen tial points—politics and finance. The position is simply this. Juarez, who is said to be always de feated, is still so powerful that the Emperor Maxi milian is not able to cope with him, or at all events he does not consider his kingdom safe unless he be completely overthrown. This cannot be done with out the assistance of France, and the Emperor Maximilian not only begs the Emperor Napoleon not to withdraw the French troops, but wants him to send more. As there is likely to be a little bill to provide for the current expenses in maintaining Maximilian upon the throne, he also wants some money, and earnestly desires the guarantee of France for payment of a loan. It will be difficult to achieve either of these objects, for France can hardly gainsay . her declarations about the with drawalof her troops. As to money financial matters on her own account require careful consideration. So it is generally feared or believed that the Em press Charlotte will take nothing by her long voyage to Franca, but will have to report a decided failure to her husband. French intervention in Mexico was never popular in France. To prolong the duration of it would be to add another disagree able ingredient to the many already existing. Politics, nay, everything, is forgotten in the an- ticipation of the Emperor's fete to-morrow, which will be the most splendid on record if (much virtue in an if) the weather should be reasonably favour able, of which at the present writing there is little hope. Like yesterday it has been dull, raining at intervals, and not at all like one of the dog-days, unless, indeed, it be described according to the old English expression, by saying you would not turn a dog out in such weather. In the provinces and towards Switzerland the clerk of the weather has made himself equally unpopular. There has been snow on the Jura mountains, a circumstance almost unprecedented at this season of the year. These signs of unsettled weather are noticed at the Obser vatory. However, thousands upon thousands are upon pleasure bent. Paris was hardly ever so full of foreigners and provincialists. English visitors form more than their accustomed proportion. In the leading streets you hear almost as much English spoken as French. The police records in regard to pocket picking contain enough English nomenclature to prove that the profession is abun dantly represented in Paris at the present time. The fete will begin to-morrow. Cannon will an nounce at six o'clock in the morning that the joyous occasion has commenced. The Journal des Debats, in allusion to the article of the Constitutionnel, which I mentioned yesterday, relative to what is delicately termed the " rectifica tion" of the frontiers, hints that it spoke without any authority. It is to be hoped that it will lead to another " disavowal," which will at length induce M. Paulin de Limayrac to send his promised 100,000 f. for the poor. A better season could not be selected than the Emperor's fete. The cholera is rather on the increase at Arles, in the south of France. The average number of deaths, however, at present is but four a day. The Semaphore of Marseilles states that on the night of the Bth of August, M. Stephen, the direc tor of the Observatory, discovered a new planet in the constellation Capricornus. It has been more clearly seen at Paris with better instruments. On that occasion its night ascension was 20h. 52m. Ms. 23. Polar distance 106 deg. 43m. 575. 1. This discovery makes the number of known planets amount to 88. The shooting season in the departments of the Centre and North will commence on the Ist of September' Paris is in the North. It appears that at Berlin the partisans of annexa- tion regret that Saxony is not incorporated with Prussia. The Gazette du Potpie condemns the " thirst for conquest which tends to parcel out Ger many. Some recommend annexation (it says) be cause the population ardently love Prussia ; whilst others argue in favour of annexation because Prus sia is detested in the country." Orders have been received at Cherbourg to enter in the second category the transports Calvados, Durane, Garonne, Nievre, and Gironde. The Aveyron is completed, so that there will be six powerful transports ready for sea. The Journal de Bruxelles states that Prussia has detailed a considerable force from the army of Bo hemia to march towards the Rhenish provinces. This military movement is supposed to have refer ence to the proposals of France in regard to the " rectification" of territory. It is stated that a good business is now done in toads, which are found very useful by farmers in destroying vermin. In London toads are said to fetch six shillings a dozen. In Paris the figure is not so high, only about two shillings a dozen, and what is curious is, that great numbers are now ex ported from France to England. I suppose people believe in the truth of Shakspere's assertion that the toad has a valuable jewel in his head. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E V_ENIN GI, AUG UST 15, 1866. THE NEEDLE-GUN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln your journal of the 13th instant, I see a statement that the needle-gun was claimed by Ire land. The truth of that statement I live to verify. For five consecutive years I commanded and led a company of her Majesty's 9th Regiment through all the sieges and battles of the Peninsular War. No wonder I was impressed with the necessity of breech loading fire-arms ; and after the conclusion of war devoted much time to that desirable object, and having accomplished both a musket and cannon as now used, I submitted the invention to General Smyth, then commanding the Artillery in Dublin, who advised me to carry it to the committee at Woolwich ; but learning that I was likely to be treated coolly there, I withdrew from such an un promising field for inventors ; and having sacri ficed £lOO, the preliminary step for a patent, thought no more of it until the late victories of Prussia acalsaciyea quietus nt p asv r i o esfn v oht e rei d ropen m r d3i.avrt yt iee h tnEly e f o bri r :on from 1823, h o i r s r e i c n t v . e n N t o o n w , I a s b t e o l e all ylBassuring later all suchcta claimants n t a h n a were either not born, or, if alive, must have been sucklings. JAMES WHITLEY, IL P. Capt. 9th Foot. The War Department vessel Lord Vivian, Mr. Dimond master, yesterday arrived at Woolwich, laden with return stores from Leith ; and the Rag lan, Acting-Master Moors, sailed from Woolwich with a cargo consisting of GO tons of ammunition and other war stores for Pembroke and Dublin. THE PRICES OF TULIPS.—With the extraordinary history of the tulip mania a great deal of fiction is, no doubt, mixed up, but it is still amazing after a liberal de duction. In one case it is related that a landed proprietor gave a furnished country house, a well-stocked house, a well-stocked garden, and a couple of cows, for an espe cially rare root; in another, a carriage, a pair of fine grey horses (and perhaps the coachman and footman into the bargain), were exchanged for a similar treasure. One rich merchant gave his pretty daughter to a penniless man whom he detested—and whom, as a necessary consequence, she dearly loved—to acquire a tulip which no other man had. In another, a cook, having mistaken a precious tulip root for an onion and cooked it accordingly, was seized with such remorse on discovering the mistake that he in otantly couraittocl suicide.—Dickens's " Ali 00 Rat Rood." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 14. The Official Northern Post of to-day publishes the following : " The investigation into the late attempt to assassinate the Czar has terminated. " Several accomplices in the attempt have been arrested, and have confessed their guilt. Their names will shortly be made public. " Two societies, founded on the principles of Socialism and hostility to the Government, existed at Moscow under the names of Organisation and Hell. These societies were in connexion with the European Revolutionary Committee. " A number of Poles, who supplied the members with poison, belonged to these societies. " The object of the attempt on the life of the Czar was to bring about a general rising and revolu tion in Russia. " A Polish agency for the introduction of forged Russian Bank notes in the Empire has also been discovered." AUSTRIA AND FRANKFORT. VIENNA, August 14 (Evening). The Abdenpost (evening edition of the Vienna Gazette) declares entirely false the statement of the Swabian Mercury that the free city of Frankfort would not, even had Austria been victorious, hare maintained its independence ; and that the Frank fort Senate, upon asking at Vienna during the first fortnight in June whether Austria would gua rantee the independence of Frankfort, received an evasive reply. OVERLAND MAILS. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS MALTA, Aug. 14. The Tanjore leaves at 8 a.m. to-day. She may be expected at Marseilles on the evening of the 16th inst. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Syria, from Southampton on the 14th inst., reached Malta on the 13th at 8 a.m., and left at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. QUARANTINE AT MALTA. MALTA, August 14. All departures subsequent to the Ist of August from Cronstadt, Stockholm, Antwerp, the Nether lands, Stettin, and the ports of France between Dunkirk and Nantes, and subsequent to the Bth of August from Algiers, Taranto Brindisi, Constan tinople, and the Black Sea ports, are subject, on arrival here, to fifteen days' quarantine. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Aug. 14. The Philadelphia Convention has assembled, and harmony prevails. THE BRA ZILS. ARRIVAL OF THE NAVARRE. (By telegraph from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, July 25. Exchange on London, 22fr to 24. Coffee, 6,400 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last mail 77,000 bags, of which 4,500 were for the Chan nel. Sales, 30,000; stock, 90,000 bags. BAHIA, July 29. Exchange on London, 24 to 24i ; sugar, whites, 2,200 to 2,300 reis ; browns, 1,800 to 2,000 ; cotton, 15,500. PERNA3IBUCO, August 1. Exchange on London, 24fr to 25 sugar, 3,300 to 3,800 reis; browns, 2,200 to 2,600 ; cotton, 14,000 to 15,000 reis. The Royal Mail steamship Rhone arrived here on the 27th. LISBON, August 14. The Imperiales Co m p any ' s steamship Navarre es hereat 7 a.m. t o -d ay with the I essa g e r i Brazil mails. A arrived FRANCB. PARIS, Aug. 14.—Two o'clock. --The market has again been little more than nominal, and scarcely variations are in significant. s s bperiincge Prices w transacted ere first qt closing figure of yesterday. French Threes were done at 69f., or a rise of sc. ; Italian Fives at 52f. 25c., or 10c. higher; Mobilier unchanged at 648 f. fEor 6f. 25c. lower ; C 7 5 1 . p ; t oCredit 50c.. Scarcely anything is doing in the R a il way Market. d'EscomptcFoncier at at 1,290 f., or or a fall o f 2f. Three o'clock.—The market has closed with a slight improvement :- 4 per Cents 97 90 Do. and month — 3 per Cents. 69 Do. end month 69 05 Credit Mobilier 650 Do. end month Credit Foncier 1300 Do. end month 1297 50 RAIL Bank Shares 3550 Italian Loan 52 45 Do. end month 52 40 Mexican Loan 27 Do. Bonds 173 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred lore. For Account. Orleans Northern 1132 50 Lyons and Mediterranean B6B 75 Southern 530 Western — Eastern 536 25 Sardinian BO Austrian Lombard 3BO North of Spain lO2 50 Saragossa 125 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman — MARKETS.---This Day. MARS LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day the receipts of wheat from Essex and Kent were on a limited scale. For both red and white parcels the trade continued quiet, yet late rates wore supported. Foreign wheat, the show of which was moderate, moved off slowly. Tho prices realised, however, were quite on a par with those quoted on Monday. In floating cargoes of grain a moderate business was transacted, on former terms. The trade for barley ruled firm, at late rates. The show of samples was moderate. _ The show of oats was good. Good and fine parcels changed hands at full prices ; otherwise the trade was heavy. Beans were dull, and in peas very few transactions took place. . - The flour trade was quiet, on former terms. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1,000 740 1,110 Irish Foreign 7,730 2,880 24,490 520 sks. 48,701 bls. COMPARATITE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending Aug. For the corresponding week 11, 1866. last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 45,980—Ms 2d Wheat .......53, 311-42 s Od Barley ..... 628-35s 2d Barley ........• 463-27 s 10d Oats BOROUGH 110 P. The trade for hops is firmer, and good and fine parcels command rather more money. The plantation accounts are unfavourable. WHITECHAPEL. Moderate supplies of moat are on sale. On the wholo ,ho trade is st ea d y , a t our quotations : Per 81b. by tie carcaso. Beef 3s 6d to 4s 10d Mutton ... Ss 8 d to 5 s 8 d I Veal 4 s 2d to 5s 4d Pork Lamb, 5s 8d to is Od. Lord Stanley, S ecretary for Fore i gn Aff a i rs , ar rived at Portsmouth yesterday morning, and having embarked on board the steam-yacht Fire Queen, Staff-Commander Paul, proceeded to Osborne on a visit to her Majesty. The double screw iron gunboat Vixen was yes xrday taken out of No. 1 dock at Woolwich, and ;he sister Yesiel Viper wars clocked yesterday. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TAFF VALE. The directors have resolved to declare a dividend at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum for the half year ended the 30th of June last. STAINES, WOKINGHAM, AND WOKING-. The directors of. this company have,,declared a dividend of ss. 6d. per share, or 24 per cent. per annum, for the half year ending the 30th of June last, against 4s. per share, or 2 per cent. per annum, for the corresponding half of 1865. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. The following is the report of the directors, to be submitted to the proprietors on the 24th inst. : " The annexed statement of accounts for the half year ending June 30, 1836, duly audited and veri fied, presents the following results :—Net proceeds of the half year's working, £962,293 14s. 10d. ; ba lance from last account, £12,262 Bs. 11d. ; dispos able balance, £974,556 3s. 9d. ; which enables the directors to recommend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the ordinary share capital, leaving a balance of. £28,169 15s. 3d. to be carried to the credit of next half year. The proprietors will observe a change on the present occasion in the form of the accounts, the capital of the undertakings dis solved and vested in this company having been brought into the General Statement of the Capital Account, and the dividends accruing thereon included in the Dividend Statement, instead of, as hereto fore, in the General Statement of Revenue Account. The auditors concur with the directors in consider ing this a preferable mode of stating the accounts. The results of the last session have not been encou raging to parties promoting schemes for purely spe culative purposes, the majorities of which were either withdrawn or rejected. Other projects, more or less affecting the company's interests, were passed, but the directors were generally successful in secur ing the right of the company, either by making ar rangements with the promoters, or by obtaining clauses in the several acts. An act has been sanc tioned by Parliament relating to the issue of railway companies' securities. The &rectors trust that the effect of the measure will be to cause increased con fidence in these investments. An agreement has been entered into with the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Railway to vest that undertaking jointly in this and the Lancashire and the Yorkshire Company ia.equal proportions. The proprietors are aware that the Midland and North British Com panies some time ago began proceedings in Chan cery against this and the other companies parties to the English and . Scotch Traffic Agreement, and that consequently a very large sum of money remained in the clearing-house undivided. A decision has recently been given by the Court, under which the money has now been apportioned. The directors have to reportthe resignation of their colleague, Mr. John Platt, M.P. The favourable consideration of the proprietors is asked for church accommodation and the extension of the burial ground at Crewe. The directors request votes of the proprietors to the amount of £210,339 for new works, &c., at about 50 stations on the line. For works on:the Lancaster and Carlisle line, £15,780, and on the Chester and Holyhead line, £13,287." The capital account to the 30th of June shows that £44,652,141 had been received, including £31,515,031 on share capital, and £43,325,788 expended, leaving a balance of £1,326,353. The revenue account for the half-year shows that £2,975,122 had been re ceived, against £2,788,331, for the corresponding half of last year, showing au increase of £186,791, and £1,426,494 expended, against £1,305,160 in the same half of last year, showing an increase of £121,334, leaving a balance carried to the general account of £1,548,627, against £1,483,171 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £65,456. MIDLAND. The half-yearly meeting of this companywas held yesterday at Derby ; Mr. W. E. Hutchinson in the chair. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN,' in moving the adoption of the report, said the traffic receipts for the last half-year had been most satisfactory . , the increase' had been large, amounting to nearly £125,000, and that was spread over nearly all the different branches of traffic, excepting cattle, in which there had been a decrease of from £5,000 to £6,000, the cause of which was obvious. The shareholders would ob- serve with satisfaction that in carriage of minerals there had been an increase of £21,000, whereas in the preceding half-year there had been a decrease of £6,000. The discrepancy between the aggregate receipts for the half-year and the published weekly returns arose out of circumstances connect3d with the Scotch traffic and the large amount in dispute which had accumulated in the clearing-house; of that amount within 25 per cent. of the undisputed had been divided, reserving the whole of the dis puted ; but as to that a decision in the Court of Chancery had been given in favour of this company. In those circumstances the directors had thought themselves justified in crediting the accounts of the half-year with the whole of the amount received on account of the undisputed traffic. The decision of the Vice-Chancellor gave to this company £lOO,OOO. Of this they had only appropriated £25,000, leav ing the remaining large surplus to be dealt with at some future period. There might possibly be an appeal, but the money had been actually paid. (Hear.) The directors had hoped to declare the same dividend as in the corresponding period of 1865, but they had been disappointed. This was attri butable to the large increase in .the amounts paid in salaries anti -wages, in the maintenance of way and works and in the traffic and locomotive departments; there had also been an increase in the price of the mate rials used on the railway; and finally, there was the stringency in the money market, which had prevented the company borrowing money on such favourable terms as it had done hitheito. On account of the lamentable accident to an excursion train they had paid up to June 30, £34,000, and there were a few small claims still unsettled. That was the most un fortunate accident which bad occurred on the Mid- land line, and he hoped there would be no repetition of it. The legal and parliamentary expenses had been heavy—the former in defending unjust demands ; the latter in the parliamentary committees. With reference to their law charges, one result had been a decision in their favour in a dispute with the Great Western Company, the award being for between £60,000 and £70,000. Since June 30, 1865, the amount of unproductive capital on which dividend and interest had to be paid was over three millions of money ; notwithstanding that drawback the divi dend declared on the open stock was within ss. per share of this time last year. He thought that was a cheering feature in the accounts. When that dor mant capital became productive there must be a con siderable rebound in their dividend. Several of the new lines were in a forward state ; and in reference to the last parliamentary campaign he said it had been a successful one for this company. Having ob tained lines of their own or running powers into all the great seats of our commerce, they would now pause for a time, in order that they might consoli , date that which they had acquired. (Hear.) It would be unwise to give any pledge that no mere new lines should be made; there were some fillings up to be done, but nothing requiring large outlay; the board was well aware that the concern required rest. (Ap plause.) They were anxious in future to devote their energies to the management of the great system which had been built up, so that the Midland Rail way might be not only an advantage to the public, but a source of increased profit to the proprietary. (Applause.) Mr. PRICE, M.P., seconded the resolution. A PROPRIETOR asked when the £3,000,000 of un productive capital was likely to become productive; also when the St. Pancras station would be opened,' and whether the line from Bedford would be opened simultaneously with it. The CHAIRMAN replied that a portion of the new lines now unproductive would be opened this year. As to the Bedford line he hoped it would be opened to the goods station in the autumn of next year, and ;the St. Pancras station some months later. The total amount of unproductive capital was £3,068,000; the amount of interest paid on it in the half-year was about £60,000, which was equal to 1 per cent. on the half-year. After some further discussion, the resolution for the adoption of the report was carried, and the various dividends therein recommended were de clared. Resolutions were also passed for the consolida tion of certain shares of the company into stock. THE CHOLERA. -_ .s _ - MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. Last evening the fund now being raised at the Mansion-house, under the auspices of the Lord Mayor and a committee of eminent bankers and t merchants of the city of London, for the relief of the distress consequent upon the visitation of cholera, amounted to nearly £7,000, as the result of a week's subscription. Of that £664 odd was received at the Mansion-house alone, in addition to the sums paid into the different banks in connection with it. At 1 o'clock the committee held a meeting to hear applications for assistance from the fund, and to make grants, there being present the Lord Mayor, Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr. R. N. Fowler, the Rev. William Rogers, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr. Alderman Cotton, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Mr. Charles Hetton, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. Ripley, Mr. Needham, Mr. P. C. Glyn, and Mr. W. J. Maxwell. A deputation of six of the principal inhabitants of St. Luke's, Millwall, waited upon the committee to ask for a grant. The population was about 6,000, almost entirely poor. There were now 50 or 60 cases of cholera. The disease had slightly abated, but the distress was very great, private charity being nearly exhausted, and the £25 given to the clergy by the Bishop of London's Fund was very inade quate for the exceedingly pressing wants of the poor families suffering from the epidemic and its atten dant diseases. The committee granted £5O, as a beginning, and five gallons of port wine. A local committee of nine gentlemen formed in Mile-end Old-town had also an interview with the committee. They are raising a fund for assisting persons and the families of persons suffering from cholera, convalescent patients, and especially the widows and orphans of persons who had died from the effects of the disease. There are 12,000 houses in the " hamlet," and the population is about 84,000. The deaths from cholera from the outbreak were 56 in the week ending the 21st July ; 136 in the next week ; 155 in the third ; and they decreased to 65 in that ending Saturday last—making 412 deaths in all from cholera.alone. Of these 84 were the deaths of husbands, who had left 84 widows and upwards of 400 children. Throughout the whole hamlet 1,912 cases of cholera and choleraic diarrhoea had been treated during the week ending Saturday last, or 273 on an average daily, excluding those in the Union. The committee granted £l5O and ten gallons of port wine. They also granted £5O and five gallons of port wine to the Stepney Relief Society. An application was made by Mr. Walter C. Cocks, honorary secretary to the House of Charity in Greek-street, Soho, for a grant. He stated that 20 children, who had been cholera patients at the London Hospital, were now residing there, and would be kept until sufficiently strong to be re moved, when other children would be admitted. The charity, he stated, had been put to great ex pense in providing bedding, food, and clothes for these children, especially in clothes, as the children were sent from the hospital wrapped in blankets, consequently clothes had to be provided for them. £25 was granted by the committee for clothing. From a communication addressed to the committee by the Rev. Sherrar4 Beaumond Burnaby, rector of Wapping, it appeats that the total number of cases (not including those in a temporary hospital there) treated for cholera and diarrhoea in Wapping and that portion of St. George-in-the-East which was attached to his benefice, have been 1 ,091, and the deaths 23, from July 21 to Friday last. That amount of illness had caused great distress. In addition to those numbers 93 cases had been ad mitted into a cholera hospital in the parish, from July 28 to Friday last; the deaths there had been 32, and 33 patients had been discharged as cured. From 40 to 50 out-patients had been treated daily since July 28. Out of about 1,200 men employed at the Great Eastern Railway works at Stratford New Town there had been an average of 80 cases of cholera and diarrhcea, 13 of which had terminated fatally, and very many of, the wives and children had perished besides, leaving in many cases large families in the deepest poverty and misery. In one case a father, mother, and one child were taken away, and eight other children left helpless and dependent. In St. George's-in-the-East the total mortality for the five weeks ending 6n Saturday last had been 149, as compared with 39 in the corresponding five weeks of last year, and as compared with 95 in five weeks of September and October, 1854, the last visitation of cholera. In the parish of St. Mary, St. George's-in-the-East, 31 cases of cholera and diarrhoea ended fatally during last week, and there were many new cases of both this week, chiefly arising, it is believed, from want of good food. There have been some distressing cases of bereave ment among the poor German and Dutch in the Bow-road. From Bethnal-green an influential de putation, headed by Mr. Bevan, attended before the committee and asked for a grant towards a fund they are raising for the express purpose of relieving the widows and orphans of persons who had died of cholera. The whole population of Bethnal green is estimated at 108,000. The disease, they thought, was abating, but many were suffering from the consequent bereavement. A poor woman called upon one of the deputation that morning to ask for assistance. Her husband and one child had died, and she was left with five children. The committee made a grant of £2OO to the deputation. The Rev. William Rogers, rector of Bishopsgate and a member of the committee, took occasion to speak in the highest terms, on his own personal knowledge, of the efficient manner in which a local committee of comparatively humble men in the district of St. Matthias, Bethnal-green, with the assistance of the curate, are working to gether to relieve the distress in that very poor quarter consequent upon the epidemic. It was in striking contrast, he said, with the very unchristian spirit which existed in some other paris of Bethnal green in this emergency. A long conversation arose on an application made by Mr. Palmer, a director of the Bank of England, for a grant towards the cost of, establishing a tem porary cholera hospital in Commercial-street, White chapel, by adapting a large unoccupied warehouse there to that purpose. The building is said to be large enough to accommodate 200 patients, and £l,OOO has been already subscribed or guaranteed towards carrying out the enterprise by private muni ficence. Mr. Palmer dwelt on the vast importance of taking the cholera sick from the healthy in. poor and crowded districts, and removing them to a temporary hospital, properly conducted, both as affording means and chances of recovery and with the view of gradually stamping out the disease itself. The committee were a good deal divided on the sub ject, both as to the necessity for such an institution, seeing that the epidemic was said to be abating, and on other grounds. Sir M. Wells contended that in the event of a large outbreak of cholera the London Hospital would be wholly unable to cope with it, and that it was the duty of the committee, in the common interest, to prepare for any emergency that might arise, cholera being now present, and they knowing not what turn the disease might take in the next week or ten days. In the result Mr. Palmer was informed in effect that in the event of his consplying with the rule they had laid down for their governance in distributing the fund through local committees, by forming such a committee for the management of the proposed hospital, they would be prepared to reconsider the matter with the view to a irant in aid. The following is the official return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea for Aug. 13 and 14 : Cholera. Diarrhoea. West districts ... North districts ... Central districts... East districts ... South districts ... -123 Total ~, ,„139 eitilnot io HER MAJEST Y. 41.- OSBORNE, Tuesday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, embarked yesterday afternoon on board the Royal yacht Alberta, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, and steamed through Spithead, passing close by the forts in course of erection there. In attendance were Lady Waterpark, the llon. Flora Macdonald, and Col. Du Platt. The Duke of Marlborough had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family in the evening. The Queen drove out this morning with Princess Louise. Prince Leopold drove out also. Lord Stanley had an audience of the Q ue en to day, after which he presented to her Majesty the Rev. John Fladd, lately detained in Abyssinia. gr. Fladd, whose family remains in that country, is about to return there, under instructions to effect, if possible, the release of the remaining prisoners. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle left town on Monday evening for Mrs. Hope's seat, Blayney Castle, Castleblavney, Ireland, where the duke and duchess intend to remain a fortnight, and then go to Clumber for tho autumn. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare and family are expected to leave Carlton House-terrace, on Monday next, for Kilkee Castle, their seat in Ireland. Viscountess Jocelyn, accompanied by Viscount Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Jocelyn, is expected to r eturn home in a few days from a tour 'hi the south'of France. The Count and Countess de Jaucourt have ar rived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris. The Countess de 1•T ()allies, accompanied by Mr• Vicars, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Ingatestonet Essex. The Lord Chancellor left town ou Saturday to . join Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger at Folkestone. Lord and Lady Walter Scott have joined the family circle staying with the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch at Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and family, accompanied by the Countess of Chesterfield, passed through town yesterday on their way to Buxton, Derby -- shire, from Highclere Castle, near Newbury. Lord Henry Percy, M.P., left town yesterday for a tour in France and Spain, and will be absent abroad for several months. We understand that a marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between Mr. Henry Arthur Her bert, of Muchross, Killarney, and M.P. for Kerry, and the Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord and Lady Keane. MARRIAGE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. morning, Lady Rose Sophia Mary Fane, only sister of the Earl of Westmoreland, 0,13., was married in Westminster Abbey to Mr. Henry Weigall, the eminent portrait painter. The Abbey was thronged, and outside it there was a vast amount of bustle and excitement as the nume rous carriages poured into Dean's-yard. The bride, ac companied by her noble brother, left her mother's house, 29, Portman-square, about half-past eleven, and entered the Abbey, attended by the following young bridesmaids , dressed in the Earl of Westmoreland's turf colours—whit e and green :—Lady Grace Fane, Miss Thomson (daughter of the Archbishop of York), Miss Alice Weigall, glee Lowther, Miss Ada Ibbetson, and Miss Alice Bagot. Fred. Cockerell wad the bridegroom's best man. The cere mony was a musical one, a chorale being sung, the peals' chanted, &c., by the full Abbey choir. His Grace the Archbishop of York was the principal celebrant. After the ceremony a grand wedding breakfast was given by the Dowager Countess of Westmoreland, at her town residence , 29, Portman-square, and at 2.30 Mr. and Lady Rose Weigall were to leave for Apethorpe Hall, Lord West moreland's seat in Northamptonshire. Among the valu able presents received by the bride are some from her Majesty the Queen of Prussia, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Countess of Jersey, &c. TO BOMBAY via BRINDISI. We have received the following communication in reference to a proposed line of steamers to Bom bay via Brindisi, in Italy. It would certainly be impossible to over-estima+e the importance of re ducing the time of transit from twenty-four to seventeen or eighteen days, as the promoters of this enterprise assert : The'report from the select committee of the House Of Commons on the subsidised "East India Communications" states that a weekly service to Bombay alone is strongly recommended, and that " the separate postal service be tween this country, Madras, and Calcutta should be dis continued ;" and this decision is arrived at in the pro spect of the early completion of the main lines of railway communication connecting the • port of Bombay with Cal cutta, Madras, the North West Provinces, and the Punjab• There can be no doubt that Bombay is destined to be come, on the completion of the great lines of railway, the chief port in India for the arrival and departure of passen gers, as well as her Majesty's mails, specie, and the entire light traffic of the overland route. " The London and Born" bay Steam Transit Corporation, Limited," which was formed and registered here in November last, are again exerting themselves to secure the establishment of the company on a sound, comprehensive, and substantial basis. This desidera tum has been delayed solely in consequence of the sever e monetary crisis at home and in Bombay, as well as in other parts of British India. By the latest advises from Bombay, however, every encouragement i s now h e ld out _ _ in favour of the immediate prosecution of the undertaking , in which several European and wealthy Parsee and other merchants and bankers take a deep interest. We under stand, moreover, that the directors are sending out their agent by an early mail to reopen the subscription list, as numerous applications have already been recorded in Boni bay. By the prospectus of the corporation, it appears that their vessels are arranged to start from Falmouth; Liver' pool, or Milford Haven, or some other port in England, and from Brindisi (the ancient port of Brindusium), in the south of Italy, and thence to Alexandria, from which the transit will be continued via Suez to Bombay, and vice versa. By fixing on Brindisi as the port of departure from the Continent in place of Marseilles, a saving of 800 miles/ or about three days of sea passage, will be effected an d other collateral advantages secured. The official report of Captain W. H. T yler, of the Royal Engineers, to his Grace the Duke of Montrose, her Majesty's Postmaster-General, dated the 19th ult., which has just been issued, is strongly and conclusively in favour of Brindisi ;as the best port in the Mediterranea n for the arrival and departure of the overland mails via Egypt, because the time of transit between London and Bombay will be shortened by several days. He WI in his most able, exhaustive, and elaborate report. that "Under all the circumstances of the case, I am of opinion that the route via Brindisi may properly be adopted for the Eastern mail service, as affording greater advantages at the time than any other route, and further that it might be brought into operation by the Ist June, 1867. It will thus be..possible next year to convey the Eastern mails between. London and Alexandria punctually in 150 hours." The Italian Government, Captain Tyler says, are ca" tremely favourable, and have volunteered to grant °ve i l assistance, and to facilitate the rapid transit of the as well as to cause special attention to be devoted to th e Comfort and safety of the passengers, by every mealiS at their command. In the transit to Brindisi there is the option Of t W° routes overland, which the directors of the comply intend shall be made available - viz., the one through Franco, via Macon and over Mont Cenis to Susa in Italy —thence to Alexandria, Piacenza, Bologna, &c., along the Eastern Italian coast; the other by way of Ostend and the European Central route from Lucerne, in Switzerland, to Belliuzona, Como, Milan, and thence by the East C oast. Railway, which is now complete, to Brindisi. vi a The contract time for the conveyance of the mai ls, Marseilles to Bombay, is at present twenty-four day s, bu r t the new company point out that, by laying on a super , class of vessels and of larger tonnage, the time via Brindisi vi'ould be reduced to about seventeen or eighteen d tl Y a " which would be a great boon to all who are interested la our vast Indian Empire. The present Government have, with a highly creditable to them, agreed to carry out the recoil:a" mendation of the "select committee" to despatc h a 131_,, from London to Bombay weekly ; and on this point v.,: would venture to suggest. that this mail should be rat up every Friday evening, and thus permit our _ e:_ India merchants to enjoy relaxation from business 1-111' the following Monday. Promptitude • Is DISEASE AMONG STOCK ON THE WOLDS.---n useless longer to conceal the fact that an epidenue disease is spreading over the Wold district, among sheep and pigs. By some this is stated to be rinderpest, but others deny its identity with the cattle plague. Fr onl in quiries made on Monday, farmers on various parts a the Wok's could be heard of as having lost fro m 20 to 50 pig?, by a mysterious disease which they cann ot understana It is also stated that the veritable riuderpe st is re-aPPa..r:: ing here and there among the cattle. It is stated several re-appearances have occurred during the late N'!:e i ! and cold weather in the East Riding. Farmers look Wi r " some alarm on this aspect of affairs. ,