The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-27 00:00:00

-- _ Railway and other Companies. GREAT NORTHERN. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on Saturday at the King's-cross Station ; Colonel Packe, M.P., in the chair. Mr. OAKLEY, the secretary , having re ad the notice convening the meeting, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it had hitherto been his good fortune in presiding at their meetings to congratulate the pro prietors on the dividends they were to re . ceive. H was e regretted to say on the present occasion he compelled to recommend a decrease m the dividend at the rate of a half per cent. per annum fort he past half-year, as compared with the same half of 1865. They had earned £50,000 more than in the corre sponding period, but it had cost them £47,000 to earn it. The capital account had been increased during the half-year by the sum of £766,700, but about £131,000 of it was due to the incorporation of the West Yorkshire Railway with their own ; they had got that line for the capital which was in vested in it. There had been a large expenditure on the works they were now carrying on for the de velopment and accommodation of the traffic, also for the purchase of land, the West Cheshire, Liver pool Extension, and other joint lines, of £335,478. On the rolling stock for carrying on the traffic they had expended £156,719. The increased re ceipts from traffic had not been confined to any particular branch, but had been derived from nearly all sources of revenue. There had been an increase of £23,000 in passengers, mails, and so forth, and of £35,000 from merchandise. There had been a slight falling off in mineral traffic, not from any deficiency in the tonnage, but in the rates they had charged, owing to the fact that they had carried more from coal-fields that were nearer than from the more distant fields of Yorkshire and Durham. There had been an increase in the expenditure of £3,456 in relaying the line, partly from an addi tional length relaid and in having laid down steel rails in stations and on some of the steep inclines. In Mr. Sturrock's locomotive department there had been a considerable increase of expenditure. The trains had run 290,000 miles more than for the cor responding half of last half year ; they repaired 25 boilers as against 15 boilers last year, and many of the engines had got so much below " par" from 111,rd work that it was necessary to increase the number and extent of the repairs. The work had been done, and the charge had been heavy. In the coke and coal consumed there had been an advance in price to the extent of £2,000 ; there had also been a heavy increase in the cost of labour. Pro bably the proprietors were not aware that nearly 9,000 hands were employed in the undertaking, and the increased amount they had been obliged to pay during the half-year on the item of labour was not less than £13,000. They could not foresee this additional charge at the beginning of the half-year, but the demands upon them were of that nature that they were bound to comply with them. The item for compensation was also heavy, amounting to £12,058. The amount paid to passengers was £2,250. The claims upon the company for damage, loss of goods, and parcels, some of which ought never to have been brought against them, and although they did all they could to prevent those charges and to sift them, had amounted to more than £5,000. There was also that unfortunate accident in the Welwyn tunnel, where, owing to the negli gence or mistake, of the signalman at the mouth of the tunnel, a collision took place, and serious damage was caused by the conflagration which en sued. They did all in their power to avoid acci dents, as it was their duty to do, but certainly £12,000 in the half-year was a frightful amount, and they hoped it would be much less in future. There had been an increase of £4,818 in the item of rates and taxes. A large portion of this increase had arisen from the cattle disease, which had spread over the country through which their lines passed. The cattle-rate had amounted to £1,200. In addi to the cattle-rate they had been compelled to expend £BOl more, in compliance with the Orders in Coun cil, in painting and whitewashing the cattle pens and trucks. He trusted that those items would not ap pear again in their accounts. The cost of fooder for horses amounted to £2,800 more than for the corre sponding half-year, and it was those items that had made up the £47,000 increase in the expenditure. Then with regard to another matter they took pos session of the West Riding line on the ist February last, by which the traffic between London and Leeds had been accelerated by about 20 minutes in time, to the satisfaction of gentlemen in the West Riding district, and he trusted it would prove aremunerative investment. Their position with respect to the Roy ston and Ilitchin line, which had reverted to them on the Ist April last, was not quite so agreeable, because the Great Eastern had not yet doubled the piece of line and covered the station to give that accommodation at Cambridge they were bound to provide for the Great Northern by Act of Parliament. At present the state of things at Cambridge was most unsatisfactory. There w as no shelter for passengers, and the trains had to come as they best could, when those of the Great Eastern were out of the way. They had already fre quently pressed this matter on the Great Eastern, and would continue to do so until the accommodation they were bound to provide had been afforded them. lle then referred to the bills that had been promoted by the company in the last Session, and which had received the Royal assent—the Great Northern (Additional Powers) Bill, to authorise the company to acquire land and to construct sidings and works to facilitate the working of the goods and passenger trains at the London stations, and at various stations on the line ; the West Riding and Grimsby Transfer Bill; the Cheshire Lines Bills ; the Bradford, Eccleshill, and Idle Bill ; the Edgware and Highgate Bill, for a line between Finchley and Barnet was passed, and as the whole undertaking of the Edgware and Highgate Company had been acquired by the Great Northern Company, the line now sanctioned be tween Finchley and Barnet would be constructed by the Great Northern Company. Arrangements had also been made with the Midland and c r o a m i w p a a n y y b t e o t wee avoid n the construction of a project e d Saxby and Bourn adversely to the interests of this Company ; but in lieu thereof the two companies had agreed to lease joint l y the two short eabe tween King's Lynn and Bourn. Running Powers had also been obtained over a short line to be con structed by other parties, from Wood-green, on th e main line, to the Alexandra Park ; and an agree ment had likewise been made to work a line, when constructed, between Louth and Lincoln. The Great Northern, acting in concert with the North Eastern Company, had obtained the insertion of clauses in the Bill for amalgamating the Scottish North-Eastern and the Caledonian Railways, which was passed by both Houses of Parliament. He trusted that those clauses for facilitating traffic with Scotland over the East Coast line would be found to work satisfactorily. They had had a great struggle and incurred heavy expenses in Parliament to get the various powers, and he had no doubt they would be beneficial to the company. He was ready to answer any question they might think requisite to put to him, and concluded by moving the recep tion and adoption of the report. Colonel DUNCOMBE, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion. Mr. HuGuEs said he objected to the policy of ex tensions acted upon by the directors, and att r ib u t e d circumstances that policy to the mstances that, with one or two exceptions, theethedirectorsprox were a self-elected body. So long as system existed this ; state of things would continue it was no use what any one said at those meetings, h e wa s sure to be overwhelmed by a host of proxies. He was ()lad that the subject of proxies had attracted the atten tionb of Parliament, and he hoped something would be done. He had protested two years since against the loan of £300,000 to the London, Chatham, and c Dover Railway Company , the interest u p o n which he understood had not been paid for three-quarters of a year by that pompauy. His protest on that occasion was not regarded, and the money was lent accordingly. They were now going to ask to spend another £1,000,000, and no doubt the proxies would carry it. The CHAIRMAN in reply to a question, stated that the new preference shares would be issued pro rata to the holders of both ordinary and preference stocks. Mr. V. KNIGHT thought the shareholders acted more like a number of boobies than sensible men in allowing the directors to go on making those con stant additions to the capital account. With a view to prevent accidents he had suggested on a former occasion that the directors should visit the line and stations more frequently ; but when he mentioned this matter to their highly-respected chairman, Mr. Denison, he would not admit of any such service being placed on directors. Mr. R. WOODS believed that the directors were in every respect as honest as the shareholders, and thought that both should do their duty to them selves and the company. lie believed the chairman might have safely taken a much more hopeful view of the prosperity of the company than he had, as the company had not suffered so much in divi dend as other companies. _ _ _ Mr. NiouoLL s said the shareholders should strenuously oppose continual expenditure on capital account. He wished to know whether the chair man and other directors had given their full sanc tion to the further additional expenditure of £1,075,000, or whether any of the directors were opposed to it. He believed some of those proposed lines would never pay working expenses. He thought too in the face of the rapid progress of the Midland extension line into London, and their grand metro politan station, which would abstract a large por tion of the traffic from the Great Northern, it would not be right to lay out so large a sum as £400,000 for the improvement of their London and other sta tions. He thought they should follow the example of the Great Eastern Board and go next session to Parliament for powers to abandon some of the un profitable branches and extensions. (Laughter.) Mr. V. KNIGHT thought the directors had done many worse things than lending the £300,000 to the Chatham Company, even if they did not get the in terest regularly paid. The Great Northern had power to develope their coal traffic and run over the Chatham lines to Victoria station and the Crystal Palace. . _ The CHAIRMAN, in reply to observations, said there was scarcely one of their extensions which the company had not been driven to make, with the ex ception of those to Manchester and Liverpool. The Great Northern had at one etxremity of its line a population of 3,000, and at the other 1,500,090, each yielding an enormous traffic. He might tell them at the present moment they were getting one third of the goods traffic between Liverpool and London, and at Manchester they divided with the London and North-Western, but carried more than their proportion. He was at a loss to see where the increased dividend could come from if it were not for these important extensions of the line. It was not the wish of the directors to add to the extent of the undertaking, because it would add considerably to their trouble and anxiety. As to the observations by Mr. Hughes about the directors be ing self-elected, he, for one, certainly did not owe his appointment to any of the shareholders, for he was one of the original promoters of the line, and was nominated as director in the Act of Parliament. The shareholders had the power at any of the Feb ruary meetings of electing or rejecting the gentle- men recommended by the directors. The railway traversed very extensive districts of the country ; it was desirable, as far as :possible, to have gentlemen in the direction connected with every one of these districts, and it was a task of no small difficulty for the directors to find gentlemen of commercial influ ence to act upon the direction. As to the London, Chatham, and Dover, the Great Northern ran traffic over that line, and they deducted out of the tolls for so doing the money due for the interest on the loan of £300,000. The receiver had been ordered by the Court of Chancery to pay the amount as a rent charge upon the line, and there was no doubt as to the ultimate payment of the interest. Since the com pletion of the through communication by the Me tropilitan the Great Northern had sent over the Chatham and Dover line 62,900 tons of coal, although there were at present no coal drops pro vided. In respect to the £400,000 to be raised un der the Company's (Additional Powers) Act, it was required for various works on the line necessary for enabling them to carry on the traffic. All that was required of the Great Eastern at Cambridge was to double the line for about three miles and lay out about £3,000 or £4,000 to accommodate the Great Northern traffic there. As to closing the capital account, he could not hold out any prospect of that, When proprietors complained of increase of capital, they should also remember that they enjoyed, also, a large increase of revenue. At present there was £1,000,000 locked up because the works were not completed, but which should become productive when the necessary works were completed. _His firm opinion was that the dividend would recover itself, and keep up to its former rate. His great object was to see the line maintain a 7 per cent. dividend, and if be succeeded in that he thought no one present would have cause to com plain. (Hear.) The report was then adopted ; the dividends for the half-year on the 14 preference stocks of the com pany were declared, and also at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the original undivided stock of the company ; at 3 per cent. for the half-year on the B stock, and of 2 per cent. for the half-year on the A stock ; being the balance after payment of £3 per cent. to B stock. The meeting wes then made special, and after sonic discussion and the rejection of an amendment by Mr. Hughes, it was agreed to authorise the di rectors to create and issue, under the powers and for the purposes of ten acts of Parliament, £1,075,000 permanent 5 per cent. preference stock, the dividend to be payable half-yearly. Any defi ciency in the first half to be made up in the second half-year ; but no deficiency in any year would be made good out of the profits of any subsequent year. The stock was to be paid up by five instal ments, the last being the 31st of Alarch, 1868. The proceedings then terminated. GREAT WESTERN. The report of the directors of this company for the half-year ending the 31st of July last states that the revenue account shows the following results as compared with the corresponding half-year of 18G5 RECEIPTS. 1865. 1866. Increase. From passengers, mails, &c., £812,817 £851,570 £38,573 From merchandise, coal, &c. 809,993 879,381 69,388 Fromparcels, warehouse, runt, &c. 77,573 92,076 14,503 £1,700,383 1,823,027 122,644 EXPENDITURE. Maintenance of Way £151,866 £179,864 £24,998 Locomotive expenditure 195,437 205,259 9,822 Traffic expenditure 373,760 410,738 36,978 Other expenditure 77,067 80,811 3,744 a c r a i r l g ab es le w a i f l t l er achn , J. OW providingfor all fixed itf 876 h ,6 e 72 pay 7 m 5,54 n 2 t £BOl 130 an Td i p le re b f al er a e n n e c e e of the following dividends—viz., on Great Western Consolidated Stock, at the rate of per cent. pe r annum ; West Midlan d ( Oxford ) stock, 17s. ditto West Midland (Ne w p ort) stock, 17s. ditt o ; South Wales Consolidated Stock, £3 ss. ditto. The balance to be carried forward will amountto £7,458. The improvement both in the passenger and goods traffic has been steady throughout the half-year. The outlay incurred during the last two years in the purchase of new rolling stock and in the extension of sidings and station accommodation has enabled the directors to meet the increased traffic with com parative ease. and efficiency. The increase in the ex penditure is attributable to a general increase in the rate of wages, and in the consumption of materials for the permanent way, and to an addition of 387,963 miles in the number of train miles run during the half year. The high rate of interest which has so long been maintained has also increased temporarily the charge under the head of " Interest Account." The bills promoted by the company "for conferring further powers on the Great Western Railway Com pany in relation to their own undertaking and the undertaking of other • companies, and for other pur poses," and " for the amalgamation of the Vale of Neath Railway Company with the Great Western Railway Company, and for other purposes," have become law. The necessitated the objectionable provisions which withdrawal of the Vale of Neath Bill last year have n act hasalso been passed aut o h t ,, n i owbeen inserted. An by the Great Weste rn and Bristol s andingthe construction com panies jointly of the Bristol Exeter Harbour Railway. 'Ple provisions :in the Great Western act in re- ' f:erence to the raising of additional capital, and to the alteration of the gauge, have been sanctioned substantially in the form in which they were in troduced. Strong representations have been made by influential traders, especially in South Wales, of the inconvenience resulting from the want of uni formity of gauge throughout the Great Western Railway ; and there can be no doubt that a break of gauge is urged as the excuse for the prosecution of competing schemes with which the company session after session is threatened. Apart from the comparative merits of the two systems, which need not now be discussed, the directors can not but feel that the great extension of narrow gauge lines which has taken place during the last few years, renders the adoption of thatgauge on portions of the Great Western broad gauge system, especially where circumstances favour an interchange of traffic with other companies, an object very desirable to be obtained at the earliest period consistent with the economical use and convenience of the existing roll ing stock. Such an extension of the narrow gauge will undoubtedly tend to increase the traffic, and in the bill which has just been passed power has been obtained to deal with the question, specifically on the Wycombe and Ely Valley lines, and generally on such other parts of the broad gauge system as may from time to time be thought advisable. The direc tors propose, with the sanction of the proprietors to convert the Hereford, Ross, and Glocester, and the Ely Valley lines, from broadgaugetonarrow gauge, and to lay the narrow gauge on the main line from the junction of the former at Grange Court to Glocester, and from the junction of the latter at Llantrissant to Cardiff and to Newport, at as early a period as the funds attheir disposal will allow. An arrangement has also been made with the Pembroke and T,enby Railway Company under which the nar row gauge will be laid between Carmarthen and Whitland, a distance of about 15 miles. Withoutfix ing at this moment a definite period for the exten sion of the narrow gauge on other portions of the broad gauge system, they would propose to deal with the question from time to time as the necessi ties of each case appear to be most pressing, and circumstances will permit. The Act of 1866 con tains provisions authorising the creation of new and the conversion of old capital, the exercise of which will improve the general financial position of the company, and enable them greatly to reduce, if not to extinguish, the temporary loan debt. But the recent period at which the act containing these provisions became law would render it difficult for the directors to take complete action upon them at present ; while the improvement which has already taken place in the state of the company's finances has rendered any immediate proceeding unneces sary. The directors, therefore, propose to ask the sanction of the proprietors for the autho rity necessary to the exercise of the borrow ing powers authorised by the act. Although the resolution as to the exercise of the borrowing powers will extend to the whole amount au thorised so to be raised the effect of it will be to increase the powers already exercised by no more than £386,000. In accordance with the terms of the agreement with the Wycombe Railway Company, 'and under the powers of the Great Western Railway (Wycombe Transfer) Act, 1866, a resolution will be submitted to the meeting for the creation of rent-charge stock to the amount of £420,000, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The Wycombe Company will be dissolved on the 31st of January, 1867, and the undertaking will from that date be come transferred to and vested in the Great Western Company. It is with much satisfaction that the directors are enabled to report the settlement of the long-pending suits in Chancery between the company and the representatives of Mr. M'lntosh, the con tractor engaged in the construction of portions of the original Great Western Railway. Mr. M'lntosh claimed a sum of between £300,000 and £400,000 in excess of sums which had been paid to him, while the ' amount for which the company were prepared to ad mit their liability scarcely reached £lOO,OOO. After more than 20 years of litigation, Mr. M'lntosh's representatives have agreed to accept 'the sum of I £120,000, which has been paid by the company in full settlement of his claims, including costs. The capital account to the 31st of July shows that I £27,659,345 had been received on stocks and shares: £13,207,694 on debenture loans, and £1,136,219 on temporary loans, making together, £42,003,258. The expenditure on capital account amounts to £41,609,400, and the balance appears to be £393,858. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st of July last shows that £1,832,092 had been received, and £876,673, or 48.09 per cent. ex pended, in working ; the rent-charges for 25 rail ways amounts to £110,302, the joint interest to £97,489, the law and Parliamentary to £11,557, the accident account to £lO,OOO, and canals to £6,159, leaving a balance of £719,912, of which the Great Western portion amounts to £529,783, the West Midland to £112,378, and the South Wales to £77,750. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1866. MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. Dr. Forbes, an Indian officer, of great experience in the cotton cultivation of India, was despatched by the India Council on a tour through the Southern States to report on the probable supply of cotton from that quarter. He proceeded through Virginia into the Carolinas, North and South, throng', Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. He reported unfavourably of every State. In North Carolina little had been sown ; in South Carolina he estimates the sowing at a third of the usual quantity, but care had there been shown in the cultivation, and puts the two States at 100,000 bales. In Georgia the condition was much worse, accounted for by damaged seed, and scarcity of labour --quantity, 150,000 bales. Alabama seemed better, though large districts had been destroyed by floods, and his estimate of the crop was under 200,000 bales. Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee were completely desolated by the war. Every establishment for hundreds of miles along the river had been destroyed, and these four States, which formerly raised 2,600,000 bales, he thinks will now give but 550,000. His most favour able view is that the entire crops, including Texas, will yield no more than 1,200,000 bales. He is aware that more favourable accounts have been circulated, but he states that changes have since occurred, and that the planters backed their applications for ad vances from the North by putting the best aspect they could on their growing crops. It is generally admitted, he says, that not more than half the num ber of negroes are now employed in the cotton fields, and that the labour of each man under freedom has not been two-thirds of the value of his work before the war. The above Report of the Cotton Commissioner of the Indian Government at once drew forth a reply from Charles M. Todd, of the eminent firm of tNeill,wo r e B p o r r o t t s h e t r o s , s h a o n w d h C o o w . , d a i n ffi d N o v l e t t i h t u i s s t c o o n g t o r t a s a t o t o hoe rate estimates of the growing crops of cotton. The main reason of this is that cotton has become the great medium of speculation, and reports are n e ar ly always coloured by the interest of the reporter. Dr. Forbes was employed by a Government whose earnest wish it is to make the country they repre sent the chief mart for this staple. Now that the crops are about to come into the market, the object of the planters is to keep up the price by showing a large deficiency in the growth. Mr. Todd speaks with contempt of the official estimates put forth, of the ignorance and carelessness of the clerks em ployed, and of the delight with which those who have a direct interest in the deception cram the Government Gatherer of Facts. "Now," continues our authority, " having more :recently than Dr. Forbes travelled on a zig-zag course from Texas through the heart of the Cotton States, I, too, ought to know something of the condition and pro spects of the present growing crop in America, and I unhesitatingly allege that Dr. Forbes has been as egregiously crammed as either Mr. M'Culloch or the Allahabad Board of Revenue were about the supplies of last year ; and I warn the cotton trade that if they act upon any such estimates as those he has reported to the Indian Government they will court a repetition of the disappointment of last sea- son. lam prepared to stake my reputation, and I am confident that I may stake that of the firm of Messrs. Neill, Brothers, and Co., in which I am a partner, on the correctness of the opinion. In order to show I do not speak at random, I may be par dolled for referring to the results of the report which I made last year on the State of Texas. In consequence of that report my Firm, in their crop circular of November last, estimated the supply in that State at 190,000 bales, whereas the general opinion among local authorities was that it would not exceed 125,000 to 150,000. The crop may now be said to be all in, as only driblets or 200 to 300 bales per week are now reaching the ports, and the receipts till date amount to £lBB,OOO. It would be very easy, were it not that would trespass too much on your valuable space, to give facts and quote authorities to prove that in each State which Dr. Forbes particularises the crop may, and with a late frost and good picking season, probably will, double his estimate. I know nothing of Dr. Forbes, and it is painful for me to be compelled so emphatically to challenge his report and dispute his conclusions. I have no motive whatever for doing so except my interest in the general prosperity of the trade, but I feel that the trade at large cannot stand another sea son of losses like that from which we are just emerg ing, and, having had the experience of several years to enable me to judge of the cotton crop, and so lately as last month the opportunity of seeing how it was progressing in several States, I have felt it my duty to protest against the fallacies (as I con sider them) which are so authoritatively put forth. —I am, your obedient servant, " Manchester, Aug. 20." " C. M. TODD. We hear from Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury has, under a law passed at the late session of Congress, appointed J. Ross Browne commissioner to collect mining statistics in the States and territories west of the Rocky Mountains. He proceeded to the Pacific coast by steamer on the 11th inst. This is an important mission, and will embrace statistics of the products of bullion, the population engaged in mining, description of mineral lands, capital, cost of labour and yield. Similar statistics are collected by the British Go vernment in Australia at great expense, also by the Governments of Spain, Prussia, Austria, and others. France has already had a scientific and statistical report made on the mineral resources of California and Nevada. The New Yo . ric, Daily Tribune states that Colonel Herman is to have 5 per cent. of all the bounty money collected for New York soldiers, under the recent Bounty Bill, which will be a " big thing" for Colonel Herman. The Democrat - has a special despatch from St. Joseph, saying that the Indians in Idaho are getting quite troublesome. They made a raid on Boulder Creek and Ruby City on the Ist of July, but were surprised by United States troops. A fight occurred and seven soldiers and thirty Indians were killed. The latest advices state that Captain Jennings, with 40 men, was surrounded by 300 men and fighting desperately. Reinforcements were hasten- ing to him. We are indebted to the kindness of Colonel Norton, agent for the Commission appointed by New York for the Exhibition at Paris, for a copy of the proclamation of Governor Fenton to the citizens of the State ; and we consider it a duty to publish it in full, to show the interest felt by the Government and the authorities of the United States toward this undertaking : EXHIBITION AT PARIS. PROCLAMATION OP GOVERNOR FENTON. State of Now York, Executive Department, Albany, July 23, 186 G. The Congress of the United States—by section 2 of a resolution passed by the Senate and the Chamber of Re presentatives on the sth instant, for the object of enabling the people of the United States to participate in the ad vantage of the Universal Exhibition of Agriculture, In dustry, and of the Fine Arts, to be hold in Paris—has decided as follows :—The governors of States are forth with required to invite' the patriotic inhabitants of their respective States to organise a suitable representation of the natural and industrial products, which constitute the glory and wealth of our country, and also to take all ne cessary measures to disseminate the knowledge of the projected Exhibition, and to assure their respective States of the advantages which it offers. In conformity with the section above referred to, and the said resolution, I respectfully invite the citizens of this State to exhibit watever is best in America in art or in industry. By its happy geographical position —the extent of its resources, the intelligence of its inhabitants, and the importance of its progress in every respect, the State of New York has the worth and originality of a nation in itself. These considerations alone will suffice, I doubt net, eo i i nue uhetmo:uti sest to inspire my fellow-citizens with a just feeling of pride' and emulation when engaging to take part in the approach ing Exhibition, where the products of the genius and the industry of the Universe will be found assembled together. We have just emerged from a war which has cost us many trials--if it has also yielded us a great success. During this difficult crisis we have over shown ourselves ready to meet the greatest exigencies, and we have shown in the working of popular institutions eateain:p;otoahrNticevdoee.frput present this sr Uo niversal Et xhibition indu w stry tiair f bty o f iortaori and ndra s the ebd(ce,latntrene a lls. d et i i p. . t a ioi t nr i lt o pun n husirp o ttly.t. f er es t ett h inh, the marvels of our industry and the proofs of our spirit of enterprise, we shall add to the impression which was spread by the war, —the moral forco of our persevering progress in all that exalts the character, and constitutes the true greatness of a nation. Such an object will surely raise our legitimate pride to a just ex tent, and will stimulate our highest ambition. In order to aid the liberal wishes of the general Government, and to secure to the exhibitors of this State the advantages of a proper representation, I have taken measures that special agents, acting in the name of this State, shall givo all in formation and assistance to producers and inventors, and shall watch over the proper arrangement and installation of the productions. All cases can be embarked at the ex pense of the general Government on addressing them to A. C. Derby, Esq., general agent, No. 4, Park-row, Now York City. I confidently hope that this appeal to the spirit of en terprise in the people of New York will meet with a ready and sympathetic response. (Signed) It. E. FENTON. We like to record the public acts of the authorities of the United States, for we always see by the side of stern rules the most elevated sentiments of the dignity of mankind. It is thus that free citizens speak. With such a document before us, of which no doubt there are many similar in the other States, it is certain that America will be largely and worthily repre sented at the Palace of the Field of Mars. It will be an advantage if Frenchmen, in seeing these enterprising Americans in the field of industry and of material progress, will be able to appreciate all the power and force of character possessed by these people free to give expression to their wishes under the direction and control of moral duty. Returns have been received from 23 counties of North Carolina, and the vote as yet for the ratifi cation of the constitution points to the probability of the measure in that State being defeated. The numbers are 5,188 for the measure, and 6,258 against it, giving a majority of 1,070 for the rejec tion. There are 62 counties yet to be heard from, so the result is doubtful. Messrs. Neill Brothers and Co., of New York, in their cotton circular, dated 7th August, give the following respecting the crops in Arkansas :—" to the crops on Arkansas River, great improvement has taken place in the last five or six weeks. The spring was wet and cold, afterwards hail storms cut down and damaged the crops, and later the largest freshet in the river since 1842. But every thing has recuperated. No doubt, on the bottom lands, the crop has been reduced, but still there are good prospects for what is. left. On the h ill s and upland back country the small farme r s w ill turn out considerable cotton in the aggregate, though the individual product will be small. Corn looks pro mising, and both corn and cotton much better than in Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Mississippi. The information I had on White River goes to show even better than on Arkansas ; but you must recol lect that White River is not, and never has been, much for cotton ; yet they will, in proportion to what they have planted, have a better product than on Arkansas. I find also that, from want of labour, and from difficulty in managing hands, there must be large deductions from expectations at the time of planting, and there are very few if any large planters who have not been obliged to abandon a portion of their crop to the grass, so as to save the balance." General Baird has been superseded in command of Louisiana by General Stoneman. The President seems to have acted in this matter without consult ing General Grant, who had received no informa tion whatever on the subject. The Mayor of New Orleans has been informed that no official act can be performed by him without the approval of the military authorities. The Military Commission was still in session on the Bth instant, investigating the causes of the late riots, but the proceedings had not been divulged. The excitement described by the Chicago corres pondent of the New York Tribune in that city over the New Orleans horror is intense to the last degree. The Memphis massacre was appalling, but the New Orleans massacres—frightful ! At no time since active hostilities ceased has the war spirit mounted so high as now. A single spark would bring on an explosion. The removal of General Baird occasions various comments, the staple sentiment being one of profound regret that he was not removed in the beginning for criminal inactivity. The course of the President is denounced in unmeasured terms, and when he arrives on the sth of September he may be the most distinguished, but he will certainly be the most unpopular man in the city. The wig-wam intended for the use of the Phila delphia Convention was almost completed by our latest accounts from that city. Seats are to be provided for 130 reporters, who will also be enter tained by the Press Club of that city. The delegates are arriving daily in large numbers at Philadelphia. They comprise some of the most eminent men of the country. Ex-Governor John Bigler is one of the Californian delegation. New York is repre sented in part by General Dix, Hon. Henry J. Raymond, Hon. Sanford E. Church, and Samuel J. Filden. Hon. Reverdy Johnson and ex-Governor Pratt are among the Maryland delegates, and among the Massachusetts delegates are Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. George Ashman, and John Quincy Adams, a son of Charles Francis Adams. It is believed that General Dix will be elected chair man of the Convention. The General, by the desire of the President, in the hope of succeeding Mr. Fenton, as Governor of New York State, has de clined the appointment of Minister to the Hague. The War of the Banks. The vast ruin wrought by the late financial panic in England has excited attention far and wide, and will furnish a subject for deep thought and discussion for a long period to come. The Fortnightly Review has taken up the question, and proposed a measure in the number under discussion. The matter is ably worked out from the beginning to tho end—from the causes of panics to the effects, from the reasons to the remedy : "Ever and anon the Banks of Europe engage in a dis astrous international struggle. Disastrous, but not to them. They need no declaration of war by the , Crown—neither do they wait for the sanction of Parlia ment. They declare war for themselves, and they raise the supplies out of the pockets of the community. The community at large, and especially the commercial and industrious classes, are but the pawns, common soldiers, unpaid for their service, with which—that is, at whose expense—the Banks carry on the contest. Governments have an interest in avoiding war, because it impairs their resources ; but the promoters of this new kind of inter national conflict have no such motive for keeping the peace. The Banks pay themselves for making others fight, and their gains augment in proportion to the severity and duration of the conflict How often during the last few years have we seen this inter national warfare declared—this conflict waged, and the losses inflicted ? In 1857, in 1864, and again this year, in greater or lesser force, wo have seen this strife carried on. In almost all cases the Bank of England assumes the initiative in the contest; the proclamation of war proceeds from the Bank-parlour in Threadneedle-street. The simple announcement that the Bank of England has raised the rate of discount, spread like wild-fire over Europe by the wires of the telegraph, makes every bank at once stand to its arms, and engage in the conflict. A weak state, when menaced by its neighbours, may yield ; but the banks do not yield, —they unfailingly accept the challenge—they at once engage in the war. Why should not they, when, whatever be tho issue, the loss does not fall upon them, and when the only certain result of the war is to augment their gains ? "Let us take a case, say that of 1857, or of any subsequent crisis. What is the mode of procedure ? What is the form of the war ? The Bank of England raises the rate of discount; that is the first step, the declaration of war. Why does the Bank take this course ? It does so, wo are told, partly to prevent the export of gold, partly to bring more gold into the country. To retain or acquire a cer tain amount of gold, that is the motive for this international war of the banks. . . . The worship of that canonised metal, discarded as an antiquated heresy in this country for a century and a half, has of late been revived in a more slavish form. And ever and anon the Bank of England adopts the most extreme measures towards the community, for the sake of wringing from other countries, or of pre venting them getting from us, a portion of the yellow metal, so insignificant in amount as hardly to equal in value the property of not a few private individuals amongst us. " Such is the cases belli. Let us next see how the war thus declared is carried on. The Bank of England, for the sake of keeping or acquiring a certain quantity of gold, raises the rate of discount. What follows ? The banks of all other countries immediately follow suit. They also raise the rate of discount. They may have had no pressure upon them, and this is usually the case; there has been no special demand upon them for money, either in notes or specie; but the moment the Bank of England raises its rate of discount they also raise theirs. In some countries the bank rate is usually lower than it is here ; in other countries it is usually higher. But whenever the Bank of England raises its rate, the rate is raised in all other countries likewise—France within the last few mouths furnishing a noteable exception. " What is the consequence ? Simply this, that the posi tion of the various banks of Europe remain unaltered. The inducements to export or import gold between country and country remain exactly the same as before. The re sult of this international war of the banks is simply nil. It is a game of perpetual ' check' to try the others ; and the game goes on, the Bank of England taking the initiative, and being always met by ' check' until matters come to a dead-lock ; and the game ends by leaving the belligerents as regards one another, exactly in statu quo ante bellum. They gain nothing from ono another; the banks of one country do not attract a single ounce of gold from the banks of Europe. The results of their belligerent policy, on the part of the banks of Europe, is, as we have said, as regards one another, simply nil. Tho process, so far as the international strife fur gold is concerned, is absolutely use l e ss. This fact of itself suffices to condemn the policy recently pursued by the banks. The policy is useless to attain the object for which it is put in force. Instead of drawing gold from other countries, the inducement to ex port or import gold, as a question between country and country, remains the same as before. Surely, then, it must strike every intelligent observer that this interna tional war of the banks is a most preposterous thing. It is commenced by the banks of some country (usually England) which experiences a casual and transient drain of specie ; but as the banks of other countries now instanta neously raise their rate in proportion, nothing comes of it • Even in 1864, when our minimum rate was raised to 9 per cont., no gold was attracted either from the Continent or from the United States of America ; one small parcel of French coins (which would not circulate in this country until they were recoined) was all that arrived " Check trade, and money at once becomes plentiful This is precisely the principle on which the banks now-a days act. The only, or at least the chief, the most im portant, the grand use of gold is, as international currency, to settle the trade payments which have to be made be tween one country and another. Kill trade, and the amount of these international payments is at once dimi nished. Tho war of the banks does kill trade ; this is its only effect ; and not in our country only, but in every country whore a like policy is in vogue. Hence every season of an exorbitant bank rate is followed by a collapse of trade, and specie thereupon accumulates in the banks simply because the ordinary demand for it has been checked. When the Bank rate is raised to 10 per cent., the industrial classes, whether merchants, or shopkeepers, or manufac turers, aro ruined by scores. They have not only to pay an exorbitant rate for the discount of bills, by which so much of our trade is carried on, but at the same time the markets aro so depressed that they cannot make their usual sale except at a depreciation of from 20 to 30 per cent." Hence hundreds of them are ruined, and the rest con tract their operations to a minimum. Trade is paralysed, and hence money accumulates in the banks, simply because it can no longer be employed. The only use of money is to carry on trade; the banks destroy the sole object for which money exists. They make money plentiful at such times, in exact proportion as they render it useless. In stead of facilitating the expansion of trade, their great principle of action nowadays is to keep it in check by re peated stranglings." The system is a revival of "protection" in its worst form,—a revival of the exploded doctrine, that the wealth of a country is increased by encouraging the imports, and repressing the exports of the precious metals. That doc trine was wrong, and being wrong was more likely to bo injurious than to succeed in the object ; and so it is our monetary system lessens instead of increasing our wealth. It begins by killing the export trade, for manufacturers at once contract their operations and merchants their home orders; while the imports being ordered some time before the sudden rise in the rate of discount (these rises are al ways sudden); the importer is committed and must abide the result. The war to the banks is most profitable, their dividends increasing in proportion as they raise the rate. " Why, then," asks our author, "do they ever halt in the process ?" As well ask a farmer why he does not shear his sheep twice over. . . . A ten per cent. rate means wide-spread ruin and failures among our commercial and manufacturing classes, and loss of employment and actual want to tens of thousands of our working classes. It is strange, too, to observe that this collapse of trade occurs first and to the most serious extent in the very country which provokes this bootless international strife. As the bank rate all over Europe goes up and up, the Bank of England always taking the initiative, the event which at length stops the process is a break-down of trade Li England itself. The war which the Bank of England is the first to declare, which, but for it, indeed, might never be waged, inflicts its losses most speedily and most heavily upon ourselves. Is this wisdom ? is it civilisation ? It is barbarism and folly, practised, too, chiefly at our expense. "While making trade free by our commercial legislation wo keep it all, every branch of it fettered and in bondage by our monetary enactments. While trade expands, when wo desire above all things that it should expand, we con trast the means by which alone it can be carried on. Can anything more absurd be conceived ? What else can we expect but convulsion and damage when we combine with an over-expanding trade a contracted and inelastic cur rency? Our folly is like that of a man who should plant a growing oak in a vase of iron. He carefully waters and manures the tree, desiring that it should attain its amplest proportions, and he wonders why ever and anon the tree droops, or the vase is shattered. So it is with our pre sent incongruous and incompatible systems of trade and banking. Trade is ever and anon strangled by the banks, and When, as sometimes happens, our restrictive monetary system is shattered in the struggle, our legislators com placently replace the broken fetters, and leave our mone tary system to strangle trade anew. "Nor is gold the only cause for which the Bank of Eng land wages war. Often a demand for notes is the only reason. In no other country but England do banks con sider such an event as a cases belli. The one evil is occa sioned by a natural, the other by a purely artificial cause. The latter cause is simply this ; that our banks aro no longer permitted to utilise their credit, by the issue of notes to meet a temporary requirement for domestic currency. Such a requirement always arises whenever there is either a monetary or a commercial crisis. At such a time au in creased demand for currency takes place when the demand for capital is actuallylessened. It happens (1) because com mercial credit is thereby lessened, causing money to be required in payment instead of bill ; and (2) because, ow ing to the depression of the market caused by the high bank-rate, merchants prefer to cash a larger portion of their stock of bills than usual rather than lose 20 or 30 per cent. by making forced sales of their goods. The po sition is an increased demand, not for capital, but for cur rency. More of the currency issued by banks is wanted in exchange for, and also to replace, the decrease in the currency of trade, i.e., bills. A temporary increase of bank notes is all that is required. Andes these notes are not meant to bo cashed, and never are cashed, such a transient addition to their circulation in no way creates a difficulty for the banks. But such a remedy for our ever-recurrent times of difficulty is now prohibited by the Bank Act, and the consequence is immense disaster to our national indus try, and also an artificial cause for the Bank of England to commence that international war of the banks which we have already described." The Review recommends that banks should not hold their reserves of securities in the Government stock of their own countries, but of those to which the main drain of gold flows. For instance, the Bank of England, on selling or borrowing on Government securities, is paid in its own notes. But if it held the reserve in securities of, say, France, India, and the United States, the drain to these countries might bo met by the sale of their stocks, and enable the Bank to give drafts upon these places equiva lent to specie, and thereby, pro Nato, prevent any export of the precious metals. We confess that we do not see this. Such sales would be paid also in notes of the Bank, unless the securities wore sent for sale to the country caus ing the drain; nor would the demand for gold in that country be extinguished by shipping to it their national promises to pay. The process might help, although the reviewer considers it clumsy and trifling compared to th 3 improvements which will yet be made in the science of banking. "Banking must assume an international form. In all departments this is the tendency of the times. The barriers of seclusion behind which communities have so long kept themselves apart from their neighbours aro being thrown down. In finance—that most cosmopolitan of all trades—we already see the new system of concert freely adopted. 'English, French, Germans, Russians, Ameri cans may all be found subscribing to the same loan, or co operating financially in the same enterprise. Banking will and must follow the same onward course. Financially, at least, Europe is becoming one community, and one of the immediate wants of the times is the establishment of a Bank of Europe." . _ Having carried our readers to the Reviewer's main remedy for the prevention of panics caused by drains of gold, we will for the present leave this subject, and here after show bow the proposed bank should be constituted and what service it would perform. Already the merchants of America are moving in the matter as regards the exchanges between the United States and Europe, but it would bo more advantageous to the world that the bank should re gulate the exchanges between every nation. The measure when carried out—and some day or other it must be car ried out— should be made as broad as possible ; the broader the basis on which it is to stand the more useful it is likely to prove. Execution at Manchester, MANCHESTER, Aug. 25. James Burrows, aged 18, convicted at the recent assizes of the murder of John Brennan, an Irish labourer, at Hopwood, was executed this morning at the New Bailey Prison. A great number of people assembled to witness the excutiou, which took place on the north-eastern side of the prison in New Bailey street. A portion of the wall had been removed so as to admit of a door opening upon a small scaffold on which stood the gallows. Hundreds of people present had taken their stand in front of the drop yesterday evening, and remained all night. The scene was one entirely novel to the great majority of the people here. The numbers in front of the scaffold began visibly to increase so early as 4 o'clock. By 5 o'clock there were fully 6,000 people assem bled, with only a slight sprinkling of women among them. As the pressure of the crowd increased many became so worn and fatigued even so early as six o'clock as to cry out with brutal impatience to those above them in the windows on the north-east side of the street to know the time. Every foot of space from which the merest glimpse of the gallows could be got appeared to be occupied before the time fixed for the execution. There could not be fewer than 20,000 people assembled, after great numbers had turned back, deterred by the impossibility of finding standing room. Among the crowdbefore and on each side of the drop there were apparently a good many mill hands, labourers from foundries, and other work shops where unskilled labour is employed, and country people, besides the commonest dregs of the idle and dissolute. An old man, conspicuous because of his height and bare white head and flowing beard, who had found his way into the very densest of the crowd, from which escape was hopeless till all was over, be came an object of painful interest to those more favourably situate—swayed helplessly backward and forward, and whirled round in the constant eddyings and movements of the multitude from side to side of the street, till he appeared almost dazed. Some men fainted from the heat and pressure, and water had to be poured down from windows to those willing to assist in restoring them. For hours the great majority behaved much as they would have done at a wake or fair. The laughter at times was most boisterous, and their way of showing their humour and drollery of ten took the form of practical jokes. Sometimes men's; hats were rudely seized and thrown backward and forward over the heads of others and battered till rendered worthless. At such times the taste for this kind of amuse ment would spread so rapidly that every one waa to take off his own covering in self-defence, and multitudes remained for a time bareheaded. At in tervals some one or two men with switches would commence beating people back, so as to form a ring for prize-fighters, or for some exhibition and such rough pleasantries to relieve the monotony of the hour were continually recurring, and the hum and noise ofvoices would rise at times almost to a roar. About six o'clock the first real relief to the impa tience of the people was afforded by the door in the prison -wall being opened, and the appearance of Calcraft and some workmen on the scaffold to make preparations for the execution so many had come to see. The workmen had come, among other things, to enclose the scaffold and drop in a drapery of black cloth, and as the draping progressed it soon became evident that the cloth would be carried so high as to afford only a very limited view of what was to take place, and then cries of indignation burst forth, which again gave place to shouts of laughter at some slight mischance occurring through the nervousness or clumsiness of the workmen. As the time neared 8 o'clock great impatience was manifested, and cries of " Hats off !" and " Time, time," followed. Precisely at 8 o'clock the prison door opened, and the murderer, the hangman, and several officials stepped upon the platform. The murderer was a pitiful object to look at as he stood trembling with his pinioned hands raised and his eyes directed upwards. By those who stood within 100 yards of the scaffold little more than his head could be seen above the drapery. All being in readi ness, the white cap was drawn over his face, and one .end of the halter being already round his neck, Cal craft had but to lift the other to a hook on the drop. Then the bolt was withdrawn, and the guilty crimi nal disappeared behind the drapery. Only the top of his head could then be seen even by people on a level with the scaffold. The whole proceeding so far as it was public lasted barely 30 seconds. The peo ple appeared wholly unprepared for its suddenness, and a shock seemed almost visibly to pass through the whole assembled mass. A slight scream burst from some of the women, and several fainted. A man on the leads of the warehouse opposite the gaol sank down in a fit, and blankets had to be passed up to make a bed for him till means could be adopted for his safe removal. The murderer left the following statement in the hands of the chaplain for publication : "I, James Burrows, do acknowledge that I have, by slid" denly cutting off the life of John Brennan, made his Wif° widow and bis children fatherless. May God help thou' My sin is ever before me now ; and, rather than Heger 5 miserable life on earth, I would wish to cast myself on the mercy of God. I acknowledge the righteousness of his 10 and the laws of my country. As Ido not wish to mak e 14 speech on the drop, I beg, through this paper, which I /1 0 ,1 asked the chaplain to write out for me to sign, to warn al l young people of both sexes to be obedient to their parents+ not to neglect the Sabbath, the school, and the Bible, an d against all profaneness and debauchery, and especially A against evil company—my ruin. My last word is, may Go `" be merciful to be a sinner, through Jesus Christ's sake, Amen. "JAMES Bunnell's. "From the condemned Cell, Aug. 25. " Witness, JAMES GRETREX, Warder." COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat at market to-a 3 l; The larger proportion was of the new crop, and pri i c e ; were about 2s per qr. below those of last week. A ',l" samples of barley were shown, but not for sale ; the quauti was various. White wheat (weighing 641 b), 53s to 55s ; old red ditto weighing 651 b), 51s to 53s ; new red ditto (weig h 601 b to 631 b), 50s to 52s ; best malting barley (weig',,i ) ,).` 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 34s to 36s • distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 30s ° 32s ; oats, ' 24s to 26s ; beans, 578 to 39s ; peas 013001 34 to 38s per qr. Flour, 37s 6d per sack. LE ICES TER SATURDAY. Our market was fairly supplied with wheat, and thel was a tolerable sprinkling of new samples. An improil supply of barley, the trade in which ruled steady, at the prices. Oats plentiful, and prices rather in favour of If, buyer. Beans had a downward tendency. This wee'• good breadth of corn has been stored. New white wheat, 50s to 53s ; new rod, 47s to 51s; of white, Ms to 58s ; old red, 51s to 54s per 36 stone. - n „, ley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 004 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 31s to 34s ; new, 25s to 30s per stone. Beans, old, 52s to 51s ; new, 48s to 30s par 38 st one Fine flour, 41s ; seconds, 38s to 39s per 20 stone. • YORK—SATURDAY. About the usual supply of wheat at market to-d81d: which sold at reduced rates. Barley came slowly to 11 0 and, with a fair demand, last week's prices were fully OP; ported. Oats a fair show ; trade heavy, at recent pr ice Beans were in favour of the buyer. New white wheat, 54s to 58s ; new red, 48s to 52s P. stone. Barley, for malting, 32s to 34s per qr. ; grin 32s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, now, 28s to 30s per 2 4 stes. no Beans, new, 50s to 51s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to 6° Flour, 33s to 40s per sack of 2801bs. NORTHAMPT ON—SATURDAY. • 0 The show of wheat to-day was plentiful, there Win mixture of new and old. Thero was not much deman d and a decline of 2s per qr. took place. A middling 511° 0 of barley, at late prices. Oats were in limited suPPIY , a t prices in favour of the buyer. Beans a moderate sboY6 lower prices. old New white wheat, 48s to 51s; now rod, 46s to 50s ; i©9 white, 47s to 50s ; old red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone. 133.1. 0 for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 36s Per„,. stone. Oats, old, 22s to 31s ' • new, 28s to 30s per 24 std Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. ---- —. . , ...., Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton A11 . 6* i s. Ditto, via Marseilles S e p t t Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ... sept. 3 • Ditto, by French packet • Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sel ) . t • a •. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug 1 7 , Ditto, via Marseilles ~. Aug. ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. /9. , India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Au.' 19 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. m" Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 6. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 1 .7; Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. ,' 16 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil:e3, SePt 1 0 1 . N ew f oun dl an d Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ...... United Statea and British North America, by Bri tish packet Au g. 29 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry „Aug. 31. There are some interesting details of the 10 ' ges _i of both armies at Koniggratz given by the SP ee- t Correspondent of the Times. The total nu n O r o co, engaged was 425,000. The battle lasted nine ' The actual losses in killed and wounded amountc d o 30,000. The proportion on the Prussian side %g m 1 in 23 ; and on the Austrian 1 in 9. At '- Alma we had 1 in 10 killed and wounded action lasted three hours. At Inkerrnann ou lob!h was lin 5. The correspondent, strangely 0 1. 1 e ij adds, "It may be that our own Armstrong -r a Artillery is far superior to either the Prussial3.., the Austrian rifle-guns, and I think it is." ,• 31 1 this might account for heavy losses on the Rini side, but what it can have to do with our ownl ° ,7 e , we do not perceive. Such guns might be a pr c ' e ft tion, but certainly not a loss to their possessors. a appears that both armies played at long balls fl 9r 'l ll° lengthened period with their rifled artillery. 14 Austrians assert that the P russ i an s hells Set -e e , did any harm—few of them bursting, and t' to fore falling like solid shot without ricochet. '.."0 bt , Prussians declare that only 1 in 6 of the Ans tri shells burst properly, if at all. The Prussian s 0 4 235,000 men engaged against 190,000, and 3 V I to 2 against the Austrians. 40 0 ' [ADvEATISEMENT.]—Consumption, and all nervous , ,,,, stomach, and liver complaints, in every stage, are ornr v'' gravated and accelerated by drugs of every descriptionients perfecily curable by Du Barry's health restoring fl e , / , 14 Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases Wh" *. „6lA been considered hopeless ; such as indigestion (y ii cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation 'mos' hcea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, we! ." - 00 99 plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers' throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, WW II 1 :00 head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities. erne pBl' hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, aeld itl ;oo pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drops)" , ar t 0 0 ; spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy o r - eieo" sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the id ols pains in the pit of the stomach and between the 6 10 : b ertt &c. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James 1/ , e 0 0 6: timber merchant, of Fernley' Surrey, of thirty years deo: lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partt.,' ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, a — O ,O nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and i ; 00' fancies.—Cure, No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lora-9, tenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia--114),,',0 $O. 0.; nee' Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, neci" asthma, cough, const petits°, flatulency, spasms. sicko i .,, e ' vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54 , 816. The Rev , Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and t'"`oll.' of the liver, which had resisted all medical treat°. ON In tins, 11b, '2a 9cl; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, Ils ; 121 b, 22'3'00! 405.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-stree t, also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-stree t ; 1 ' s ota: at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bls h ltrisn oA df street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 33° '_A; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court -I-00r Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting -0 1:o. t Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's - t el :,,d John's-wood, London; and all respectable gropers mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. ni pto le DOUGLAS— On the 21st inst., at Scaldwell, North 6— shire, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Douglas, of a son. pate DORMER—On the 24th inst., at Shaftesbury nc lu t. e ia . ter*„ sington, the Hon. Mrs. Hubert Dormer, of a ‘ 1311 ,.,'" Ay; Moonm—On the 24th inst., at 30, Albion-road, I.lryjrhA road, the wife of Aflock Moodie, Esq., of Lillcc).- a, barrister-at-law, of a son. ' g gar de te fj SHEPHERD—On the 24th inst., at 24, Que en Hyde-park, the wife of J. Shepherd, Esq, 01 5 - 911 h Marriages. l i v GORDON—MAXWELL—On the 21st inst., at Ca' - ' o f Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Sir Wm. Gordout s - ir Vi , ston, Bart., to Mary Grace, eldest daught 4r Maxwell, of Cardoness, Bart. LONG—FARTHING—On the 23d inst., at Chr ist VA' Chime!t Freemantle, Southampton, Georae R. Long . ',l - 05 1ite Bareilly, India, civil engineer, to Julia, 0 ,30°d 3" ..- of the late James Farthing, Esq., of Not tingh' . Deaths. T. ALCOCK —On the 22d inst.,Great at Malverl3, 1. Esq., of Kingswood, Surrey, aged 5 9 . o °' 4 1 BRtenhaOANDN-0 n the 24th inst at 2 Tht s-hill-terracpAriV m, Lt.-Col. John Brandon,,lat'eYof the Bc o g 3 aged 79. o' l EDWARDS—On the 22d inst., at Clifton, Rich. • ' V. a i ll° Commander R.N., aged 73. ~,,,,,or GossE--On the 24th inst., at Epsom, Anne, Ivi u " late Henry Gosse, Esq. aged 76. 11 , 15 0 0 MENziEs—On the 23d inst ,at East-hill 'Taus° , ik 01 General Sir Chas. Menzies, K.C.8., KC.117 a n ' - . Colonel of the Royal Marino Artillery. , in ilit)r' J 3- MILLER—On the 23d hist at Ile Brewers, °ej te Esq., late of the Treasury, aged 73. -0- I gl)g,lre , STEVENS—On the 24th inst., at Millfield-lano, ..--,, / rise, Chas. Stevens, Esq., Secretary of the Coll"' -- office, aged 68. e. , - g- -if - - - - --- - INIDI t- li' London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A- $O. , o f of No. 112, Strand, Painter . at TIM SUN 0 1- ",' ntiAtl . Strand, in the Pmeinct of the Savoy, in the " 1 " Middleaes.- Monday, August 27, WA. A' Tl l 4- ' ll bl It mo t , o. by t: Ithoi T( abi a for p. yet, feet het