The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES SOUTH EASTERN. The directors of this company have just issued their report. It states that the gross receipts for the half-year ending July 31 amounted to £630,435, including £27,474 for steamboat traffic, as compared with £596,895 for the corresponding period of 1864, being an increase of £33,540. The ordinary work ing expenses during the half-year amounted to £266,895, the rates, taxes, tolls, and Government dutyto £43,633, and the working of the steampacket service to £13,994. After providing for the fixed charges against revenuethereremained a net balance of £111,012 available for dividend on the ordinary consolidated stock of the company. A dividend of 2 per cent. per annum would absorb £95,253, leav ing a balance of £ 15 , 760 . The directors recom mended the payment of that dividend on the 11th September next. The balance proposed to be car ried over was unusually large, but the directors thought it right to recommend that it should be re served to meet claims for compensation arising out of the calamitous accident which happened at Staple hurst in June last. The increase in the gross receipts, as compared with the corresponding period of 1864, amounted to £33,540, and the increase in the ex penses to £54,170, but this includes £32,171 for com pensation. The sum paid for compensation during the past half-year amounted to £34,360, against £2,189 for the corresponding period of 1864. The total number of passengers conveyed during the past half-year was 7,878,970, and for the corresponding half of 1 8647,440,046, showing an increase of 438,924 and of £19,294 in the receipts. Of the 7,878,970 pas sengers, 5,230,275 were third class, 1,725,960 second class, and 922,735 first class. The total receipts for Passengers amountedto £400,304, of which £148,568 was for third class, £106,416 for second class, and £145,320 for first class. The increase of £6,781 under the head of rents and sundries arose principally from the letting of arches and property along the Charing-cross Railway, an item which might be expected to exhibit a large increase in future half-years. The company's steamers had performed their voyages between Folkestone and Boulogne during the past season with their accus tomed regularity. A portion of the direct line to Tunbridge, extending from Lewisham to Bickley and Chiselhurst, was opened for public traffic on the let of July last. The works on the remainder of the line as far as Tunbridge were proceeding satisfactorily, and were expected to be completed in the course of next year. Various causes had con curred to delay the completion of the City branch and terminus, but the works were now well ad vanced, and it was expected that the City station would be available for traffic by the beginning of next year. The interest on unproductive capital had from time to time been placed to suspense, in respect of interest on capital expended upon works in progress and unproductive. As this burden was one notiairly chargeable against revenue the direc tors intended for the future to carry such amounts directly to capital. The directors had recently suc ceeded in disposing of the principal part of the St. Thomas's Hospital estate for the sum of £170,000, of which £150,000 had been received and credited to capital account, and the balance of £20,000 secured by mortgage on the estate. Of the measures opposed by the directors in Parliament in the course of last session, the most important was a hostile scheme promoted by the Brighton Company, through the district of this company, for a new line from Croydon in the direction of Tundridge-wells and Hastings. Notwithstanding an amicable agreement entered into between the two companies, the directors of the Brighton Company took the first opportunity of fostering and supporting the hostile scheme of the Surrey, and Sussex Junction Railway. As this line, when constructed and opened, would have the effect of establishing a competition for this company's traffic at Godstone, Edenbridge, Westerham, and Tunbridge-wells, it would be necessary for the di-. rectors to take such steps as might seem best calcu lated to protect the company's interests in the mat ter, and to neutralise the injurious effects of such competition. The agreement entered into with the, London, Chatham, and Dover Company was to avoid the injurious effects of undua competition be tween the companies, and to provide for the econo mical and effective working of traffic in which both were mutually interested, dividing the receipts in the proportions specified in the agreement. The directors had entered into a provisional agreement with the London and North Western Company for the working and maintenance of the North- Western and Charing-cross Railway (connect ing the system of the London and North- Western Railway at Euston station with that of the South Eastern Company at Charing-cross) on such terms as would secure interest on the bor. rowed capital of the company, and a dividend a the rate of 5 per cent. on its share capital, which i was intended to offer in the first place to the pro. prietors of the two working companies. TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD JUNCTION. The half yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Poet's-corner, Westminster, Capt. Arrow in the chair. Mr. Horn, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the line would be ready for opening early in May of next year. Two bills had been pro moted by this company, one to effect more com pletely and perfectly than the line authorised last year a junction with the Midland Railway at St. Pancras, the other to give accommodation to an important district lying north of the main line. The directors were successful in carrying the first bill through Parliament, but in the second case they were not successful, from the strong opposition of the Great Northern Railway Company and some of the local proprietors. Under the first Bill the company had power to apply the moneys previously authorised to be raised, viz., by the — Act of 1863 £50,000, and the Act of 1864 £lOO,OOO to the completion of the company's undertakings. The company's share capital now stood at £310,000. Of this amount the Great Eastern Company and the Midland Company had each power to subscribe £103,500, being together two-thirds of the whole capital, and when either company held shares to the nominal amount of £50,000 the directors might nominate two members of its own Board to be directors of this company. The report of Messrs. M'Clean and Stileman, the engineers, stated that the works had been carried on by the contractors with energy, and the quantity of earthwork executed was very large. All the iron work was now in course of execution, and some of the largest girders were nearly ready for delivery. They were of opinion that the line would be ready for opening early in May next. The capital account showed that £193,871 had been received and expended. The CIIMRMAN, in movinc , the adoption of the report, and statement of accounts , said that owing to troubles amo ng t h e men in the building and iron trades, the progress of their works had been retarded ; but as the line would be opened for traffic early next year he trusted the shareholders would not have long to wait after that event for a suitable return on their outlay. The motion was carried unanimously. The meeting was then made special, and the directors were authorised, under the Company' s Acts, 1863 and 1864, to raise, by the creation and issue of shares, further capital not exceeding £150,000 ; and the proceedings terminated. WEST YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Monday at Bradford ; Mr. W. Firth in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report (an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun) said that the shareholders had every prospect in the present year of receiving from the ordinary stock, merged in that of the Great Northern Com pany, a dividend equal to £lO 10s. per cent., so that the dividend which the company had sought to obtain for their stock was likely to be fully realised by the amalgamation. Mr. BUCK seconded the motion of the chairman, and it was carried unanimously. A dividend of 14s. per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company was declared. This being the last meeting of the company, prior to its dissolution and amalgamation with the Great Northern Company, a special meeting was held to dispose of the reserve fund of the company, amount ing to £22,000, and a resolution was passed, in vesting the sum in three trustees, to be disposed of as follows-410,000 to be given in consideration of services to the directors, including £4,500 to the chairman, and £1,500 to each of the other direc tors, the rest of the fund to be divided rateably among the shareholders. !LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JITNOTION. .The report states that, according to agreement with the Great Northern Company, the dividend, payable for the six months ended the 30th of June would be as follows :—On £557,875 stock at the rate of £6 per cent. per annum (guaranteed), and on £4,281 share capital at the rate of £6 per cent. per annum. It had been arranged to call up the remainder of the capital payable on the "New £5 shares, 1863," in two equal payments. The first call would be due on the 30th of September, and the second in January, 1866. HATFIELD AND ST. ALBANS. The directors stated in their report that the con struction of the line was so nearly completed that they had been enabled to give notice to the Board of Trade of their intention to open the railway on the Ist of September next. The capital account showed that £70,097 had been expended to the 30th of June last, leaving a balance of £8,550 at the banker's. SOUTH DEVON. The directors state in theirreport that the revenue receipts during the half-year ended June 30, amounted to £101,518, as compared with £96,625 in the same half of 1864, showing an increase of £4,893. The expenses amounted to £53,370, show ing an increase of £723. The profit on the working was 47,615, against 44,254 in the same half of 1864, £34,970 in the same half of 1863, and £32,504 in the corresponding half of 1862. The directors re commended the payment of a dividend to the ordi nary shareholders at the rate of £2 2s. 6d. per cent. per annum, as compared with £1 12s. 6d. for the corresponding half of 1864, leaving a balance of £1,499. The expenditure on capital account during the half-year amounted to £20,877. This outlay had been incurred principally in doubling the line between Newton and Teignthouth and in payments on account of new plant. The company were bound on the application of the Okehampton Railway, and on their undertaking to comply with the terms and conditions to be imposed in default of agreement with the Board of Trade, to lay down the mixed gauge into and on their railways at Plymouth, and to provide station accommodation there forthe nar row gauge traffic, at or before the Okehampton Rail way to Lydford. The effect of this legislation was to utilize the company's railways between Lydford and Plymouth both for the narrow and broad gauge traffic, as previously contemplated by Parliament. The directors recommended that the capital autho rised by the company's Act, 1865, be created, and that they be empowered to raise £250,000 by the issue from time to time of preferential capital, at a rate of interest not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum. The visit of the Royal Agricultural Society to Plymouth during the past month caused a large increase in the passenger and goods traffic of the railway. The trains carried during the show a week 64,635 passengers, as compared with 35,628 in the corresponding week of last year. CORNWALL. The report of the directors states that the total amount of receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last had been £44,211 as compared with £44,004 in the corresponding half of 1864. The working expenses had been £24,411, or 55.21 per cent., as compared with £24,994, or 56.79 per cent.; and the profit, after payment of working expenses, had been £19,800, against £19,010 in the cone spondirig..,half of 1864. The whole profit was appropriated to the payment of interest, leaving a deficit of £8,907. Me goods carried over the line had been increased from 59,478 tons to 63,929 tons in the past half-year, the live stock from 7,397 to 9,221, and the receipts for their conveyance from £10,854 to £11,916. During the week of the Agricultural Exhibition held last month at Ply mouth the ordinary and additional trains which were run conveyed 39,788 passengers, as compared with 11,725 in the corresponding week of last year, without delay or accident of any kind, and this fact showed that the railway was capable of accommo dating a much larger traffic than it had hitherto enjoyed. The West Cornwall Railway having since the Ist of July last passed into the hands of the associated companies the broad guage was about to be laid from Truro to Penzance, whereby the great delay and expense arising from the break of gauge at Truro would be entirely avoided. The capital account showed that £1,824,961 had been expended. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE, The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from July 1 to August 13, amounted to £51,952, as against £51,333 for the corresponding period of 1864. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from July 1 to August 13 amounted to £5,010, as against £5,043 for the corresponding period of 1864, and the expenses to £2,000, as against £2,046. VALE OF NEATII. The report of the directors of this company states that the bill for the transfer of the undertaking to the Great Western Company had been withdrawn, but that the withdrawal did not in any way affect the arrangements entered into between the two companies, which provided that the Vale of Neath lines should, as and from the Ist of February last, be worked by the Great Western Company as part of their general undertaking. The application to Parliament was to be renewed next session. The bill introduced by this company for authorising the Vale of Neath Company to raise further moneys and for giving effect to agreements between them and the Aberdare Valley Railway Company and the London and North-Western Railway Company re spectively received the Royal assent, and a resolu tion will be submitted to the meeting to raise addi tional capital for the purpose of discharging the company's liabilities. The new shares would, in accordance with the Act, be offered in the first in stance to the existing holders of ordinary stock and shares in the company. The sum of £42,500, being the half-year's proportion of the minimum guarantee of £85,000 by the Great Western Railway Company, would provide for the payment of all preference and other charges, and enable the directors to recommend the declaration of a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum (less income-tax) on the ordinary stock and shares of the company, payable on the 9th of September next. The directors had given their earnest attention to the realisation of the as sets of the company and the adjustment of their lia bilities; they would continue their labours until the same were finally ascertained. Until this was ac complished the Board were unable to state precisely what the minimum permanent dividend would be. The capital account showed that £1,547,582 had been expended, leaving a balance of £60,949. HEREFORD, HAY, AND BRECON. The report of the directors stated that the act authorising an agreement for an amalgamation with the Brecon and Merthyr Junction had received the Royal assent. Clauses were inserted in the act con ferring running Powers upon the Mid-Wales Rail way Company. Pursuant to the act an agreement bad been completed whereby the company's share holders, according to their priorities, would enjoy a fixed dividend of 5 per cent. The separate com pany henceforth exist o n l y f or the purpose of w i n di ng u p its affairs. The expenditure on capi tal account was £415,554. BRECON AND MERTHYR TYDFIL JUNCTION. The report of the directors states that the traffic managed by Messrs. Savin and Ward, under Par liamentary contract, continued to be highly satis factory, and the payment by them in pursuance of their contract would enable a dividend as usual, at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, to be declared. The various powers' bill of last session, with some exceptions, had become law. It authorised the amal gamation of the general and separate undertakings of the company, and the raising of new capital for rolling stock and other purposes. The directors re commend the renewal of the application to Parlia ment for power to make the West Taff Extension. Permissive powers to subscribe to the Alexandra Docks at Newport had been inserted in the bill for that undertaking, and powers had been granted to to use with this company's engines the Dock Com pany's railways. The report of the engineer stated that the New port section of the line had been opened to public traffic during the half year, and the Bargoed branch was now ready for inspection. Those sections com pleted the through communication between Brecon and the north and the port of Newport. The capi tal expenditure on 'the separate undertakings was £769,610, and on the general undertaking £425,572. THE SIT B, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1865. the Government ; and the furtherance of this matter would continue to receive the best attention of the directors. The balance of revenue account for the past half-year was £28,736, to which was added £2,970, the balance from the preceding half-year, and £B2O interest received on balances and Consols, making together £32,526. There was paid during the half-year £39 in respect of back dividends. It was proposed to write off the first establishment charges, £2,500, and to add to the general reserve fund £2,500, making £5,039, leaving a balance of £27,487. Out of this it was proposed to declare the usual dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, with a bonus of Is. per share, making to gether 3s. per share, equal to 71 per cent. per an num, free of income tax, and leaving a balance of £4,767 for the next account. The property of the company represented £591,600. The revenue ac count for the half-year showed that £302,956 had been received, and £274,220 expended, including £25,124 for government mileage duty, leaving the balance of revenue as above, £28,736. DAGENHAM (THAMES) DOCK. The directors' report states that the shares already taken up combined with the borroWing powers being sufficient to enable the works to be carried on with vigour it was not considered advisable to issue more shares at present. Messrs. Rigby, the con tractors, were pushing on the works as fast as pos sible, and it was confidently expected that the Dagenham docks would be completed within the time specified in the contract. It was now intended to advance the entrance to the docks further than was originally designed, so as to obtain a greater depth of water on the sill of the entrance gates, and admit of vessels of considerable draught entering the docks at low water. To colliers and coasters requiring quick despatch this would be a great con venience, and could not fail to bring a large portion of that class of shipping to the docks, while for vessels of the largest draught no other dock in the Thames would have greater advantages as to depth of water, facility of entrance, berthing, &c. A landing-wharf was now in course of construction, and within three months would be completed, in direct connec tion with the London and Tilbury Railway, by which goods might be landed and distributed to all parts of the kingdom. The directors were in duced to incur the expense of this wharf by the promise of a certain important trade which it was estimated would yield a remunerative return. As a landing-place for cattle this wharf would be most convenient. On their arrival they might be in spected and refreshed in the excellent adjoining grazing grounds, and be forwarded by rail direct to market as required. The directors expressed their increased confidence in the success of the undertaking. RHYMNEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Gray's-inn Coffeehouse, Holborn ; Mr. J. Boyle in the chair. The report stated that the balance of revenue, after payment of the usual charges, interest, and preferential dividends, amounted to £1,999. The directors recommend a dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, which would leave a balance of £95. The Bargoed branch was recently opened for mineral traffic, and in a short time the revenue might be expected to im prove. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the diminution of the dividend, from 3 per cent. to 2 per cent. was accounted for by an increase in the working expenses from 36i to 41i per cent. The latter, however, was below the aver age cost of working the mineral lines. There was every prospect of additional traffic. From the open ing of the Bargoed branch there was every reason to expect an increase in the traffic, and that the re turn would be satisfactory. Mr. Alderman DAMN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. In answer to a question, it was stated that all interest was charged to revenue. The report was adopted, and the dividend de clared. The meeting was then made special, and the directors were authorised to raise for the construc tion of branch lines, and for providing additional rolling stock, £250,000, in 25,000 shares of £lO each, bearing a fixed preferential dividend of 5 per cent. per annum. DUBLIN, WICKLOW, AND WEXFORD. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Monday ; Mr. Wm. Dargan, D.L., in the chair. The report was adopted, and a dividend of 4 per cent. per annum declared. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that the railway was fast approaching completion. The directors were of opinion that the opening of the line should be delayed until the works were entirely completed and ready to receive traffic throughout the entire length of the line, after undergoing the inspection of the Government surveyors. This opening might be looked for about the beginning of October. The rapidity with which the works had been executed might be estimated from the fact that the first sod was turned on the 7th of March last year, and that all the materials had been shipped from this country since that time, including the heavy works of the Riachuelo bridge and the Samborombon viaduct, and that several cargoes of rails lost in the transit had to be replaced. The contractors and their represen tatives at Buenos Ayres, together with the engineers of company, had laboured incessantly to push for ward the works, with due regard to their construc tion in a solid and durable manner ; nor had a single drawback or accident occurred in connection with them. The contract would be executed to the strict letter, and within the stipulated amount. The rapid progress of the works had necessarily required equally rapid calls on the shareholders until the full amout of £2O per share had thus been called up. The directors were now issuing to the public the £lOO,OOO debenture bonds to complete the required capital, and they had reason to hope that the entire amount would be gradually taken up, and that they would be enabled to close the construction account simultaneously with the opening of the line or very soon after. The capital account showed that £591,068 had been expended, leaving a balance on June 30 of £39,432. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. The half-yearly meeting of thistompany was hek yesterday at the LondonTavern—Sir J. Carrnichae: in the chair. The report stated that there was a satisfactory in crease in the receipts, and that the usual proportion of the gross receipts had been added toreserve fund, which now amounted to £14,764, and there remained a net balance of £8,009, out of which the directors recommended a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. In March last a congress, composed of delegates from the different continental governments, was held at Paris, to con sider and revise the whole system of telegraphic com munications between their respective States, and it was agreed that a convention should come into ope ration from Ist January next, by which the rates throughout the whole of Europe would be consider ably reduced, and the directors anticipated a further increase of traffic over the wires of the company. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders upon the Un proved position of the company, and on the satisfac tory and progressive increase, which enabled the directors to declare a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. It was believed the receipts would largely increase when the new tariff came into operation. He believed that the whole of the debentures would be taken up by the shareholders. It was proposed to issue debentures to the nominal amount of £88,320 at the rate of £lOO for £BO cash bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. for 23 years, which was the unexpired term of the French and Belgian concessions. At the end of the 23 years the company would be totally free from debt, and the shareholders would have the reserve fund at their disposal. The report was adopted ; the retiring directors, Messrs. Edwards, Saunderson, and Scamell, were re- elected, and the Hon. A. Ponsonby was elected a director. A resolution empowering the directors from time to time to borrow on mortgage a sum not exceeding one-third of the capital at the rate of £lOO stock for £BO cash, and bearing interest at the rate of £6 per cent., a portion to be redeemable half-yearly at par, was carried, and a vote of thanks to the chair man closed the proceedings. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that the reserve funds amount to £44,296. Of this sum £31,157 was invested in the purchase of £35,280 of Consols, and the balance formed part of the general cash ac count of the company. It was not anticipated that the prices of grain or straw would be unfavourable to the company's interests during the coming winter. The number of passengers carried during the half year was 21,364,957 ; the number of miles run was 6,029,801; the average number of omnibuses working daily was 592, and the number of horses 6,364. The average receipts per mile run by the omnibuses was Is. ; and the average fare per pas ienger 3kd. The average gross earnings per omnibus per day amounted to £2 16s. 64d. The capital ac count having been closed, every item of expenditure was charged, as it arose, against revenue account. A new item had consequently been introduced into the account under the head of " Improve ment of capital stock." The charges this half year amounted to £2,0494 of which £1,380 was ex psattienoancbnidteehsdi n the pu rc h ase o f l ease o f l an d i n Lock's fields, W a l wort h , and the erection thereon of new goodwi ll af K ilburn nuo drf t ahi ude rds andios t n ui 0 m e n m pa 0 l f a i b n d xu o d i r 6s 1 i6 w l ng,e o t s in o r skn on hrn o oenta the e, t u h vr and n r ih cdapt purchase et e r ih m oaef i Bs the ha s l de. .; Ford-road, which had from the date of purchase yielded an excellent return for the money invested. The number of horses belonging to the company on the 30th of June was 6,790. With regard to the mileage duties, the directors thought there was every reason to believe that the time was not far distant when the claims of the omnibus proprietors would receive favourable consideration at the hands of Pacified Poland. The following is part of an interesting letter, dated the 9th and 10th August, communicated to us by a friend of Poland belonging to this country. The letter is from a Pole, and gives a touching description of the many distresses to which patriots still in Poland, Lithuania, &c., continue to be sub jected by the unabated tyranny of Russia, Prussia, and Austria : " When I last met you my thoughts were much oc cupied with the melancholy news from my country. In fact each day tells of new persecutions directed against the families of the emigrants, who are interest ing themselves in the fate of their countrymen in exile. Different pretexts are made for imprisoning them, send ing them to Siberia, or oppressing them in various ways. When no other pretence can be found, the false denunciation of a Russian agent, or revolutionary placards affixed by the Russian police itself, are employed—the source being easy to recognise from the language being full of Muscovite expressions and phrases foreign to our language. I have received several letters from young exiles, who write to me in despair at the per secutions which their families undergo intheir own country, for this reason only that they have a father, a brother, a husband, a son, or some other member of the family among the emigrants. Besides this, secret agents are sent to other countries, whose mission is to sow discord among the emi grants, to intrigue against them, acting so as to prevent their obtaining any employment or means of subsistence. It is by means of theso infernal subterranean intrigues that they have succeeded in obtaining the dismissal of 20 emigrants who had found occupation on one of the rail ways in France, and who were dismissed ono morning sudden without a reason given. They culminate in dividuals, they excite passions, they raise discord, they sow mistrust among us, they endeavour to plunge each of us in misery, so as to succeed by this means iu breaking the bond which unites the patriots—to divide them and kill them morally. And it is not the Russians only who distinguish themselves by these ignoble machi nations, but also the other two Powers which have torn Poland to pieces. Only lately, we were informed, that, following the inspiration of Russia, Austria, which at the present moment seeks to throw liberal powder in the eyes of Europe, sent on the 4th of May a secret agent, Andre Mikuli, formerly an officer of Austrian cavalry, provided with several passports for different names, with the object of sowing discord among the emigrants, and of trying to weaken the sympathy of the nations for the Polish cause. Recent news comes to me also of a failure of corn and grain, and of an impending famine, both owing to this cause, and to the conflagration of towns and villages, prac tised upon a great scale by Russia by means of organised bands of evildoers in order finally to devastate the coun try, and by these Tartar-like measures to compel the in habitants to transport themselves into the distant Russian province. The Ruthenian provinces (that is to say, Podo lia, Volhynia, and the Ukraine), and more especially Lithuania, are the scenes of this barbarous devastation. In many localities the inhabitants have caught the Russian soldiers with torches and packets of inflammable matter ; they have given them into the hands of the Muscovite authorities, who have allowed them to escape from the pri sons. Out of a great number of these malefactors caught by the inhabitants in the criminal act, there was only one soldier shot, but the Russian papers denied that he was shot as an incendiary, saying that it was for having struck his commanding officer. It is believed that, besides the de vastation of the country and depopulation of its native in habitants, the Russians have yet another object. The papers have even spoken of it ; that the peasants of the confiscated lands in Poland, during these last times, not wishing to belong to the Crown, have rather preferred burning their own houses and villages than to see those in the employment of the Russians installed there. This has produced a lively sensation among all classes. To prevent this having evil consequences for the Government, to turn away i the Russians' attention from the real cause, they have themselves begun to burn the towns and villages that had been under the nobles. This may perhaps be true, for the fact is proved that the Muscovite Government tolerates and excites clandestinely these conflagrations. I am also informed that in the schools they create innume rable difficulties in the examinations, to prevent the young ones being able to advance into the upper class. When any one has not so advanced, they force him to quit the school, not granting him permission to enter another, so as to cut off from him all road to instruction. By such means this year, after the annual examination before the holidays, they succeeded in sending away about nine tenths of the youth frequenting the schools. You may imagine the despair of these poor young people, and of the parents who have no means of giving education to their children; for it must be observed that, besides the public schools of the Government, there are no private esta blishments which are not strictly prohibited by the ukases of the Czar. I say nothing of the fresh transportation of unfortunate prisoners to Siberia, and to the works of the fortresses, for these are ordinary well-known occurrences, which continue to be repeated daily, and of which we can not foresee the end. The civilised world will not believe in all these infernal machinations, because they seem too ignoble, too degrading ; besides, the Russian policy consists in denying all, and deceiving all the world. They say the contrary, and pay numerous agents and papers, which de fend them, and relate false facts ; but I can assure you, by all I hold most sacred, that I have not added one word to the confidential information I have received, and I might even cite the persons and places, if this would not give occasion to new prosecutions. . . . Among other things I am told that quite recently they have sent to Siberia from the provinces called Ruthenian (Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine) 150 persons, and that there are several parties of prisoners who are destined to follow the same route by Kiev. They have fixed a fresh tax of 5 per cent. Besides this, they have diminished by one-half the indemnifica tion for the lands given to the peasants, which makes a loss of a sixth at least on the property of each Polish proprietor possessing lauds. Then, again, a fresh tax, and this is the way in which they make it :—During the last two years the Russians had employed in each village guards composed of peasants, four, eight, twelve, or even more men, according to the size and number of the roads crossing each village. These men were armed with pikes and scythes. The duty of these guards was to stop any one entering the village, and to load him before the village police, who visa his pass port and left him, or arrested him to send him before a Russian employe in the city, according as the traveller might appear to them suspicious or not, or simply according to the humour he might be in; for each man in going even to his neighbour must he provided with a passport, which he must constantly keep. You may imagine what an enor mous waste of tune—what a delay in business—when one is obliged to pass through several villages in - one day, especially if the policeman is not to be found, for ho does not choose to remain always at home. This has lasted since 1861 till tho present day. It is still continuing. For the last two years they have ordered the noblemen, pro prietors of villages, to pay to these guards 40 kopecs (Is. 4d.) per day to each man, making about £5l for each guard —of whom there are at least four, but generally more. This crying injustice is a refinement, not only to rob the proprietor, but also to inspire the peasantry with a taste for playing the spy for the Government, and to raise one class against the other. 1 say nothing of an infinity of disagreeables towards the proprietor on the part of the peasants when they are unable at once to pay all that is due, and in this position almost all the citizens find them selves—for the financial state of the country is deplorable." —Scotsman. The Holborn Murders. 4. The latent malignity which always co-exists with vanity was never more clearly illustrated than in these Holborn and Ramsgate murders. The key to those crimes, and to the whole history of their perpetrator, is simply diseased vanity, vanity of that extreme kind that it hates every hu man being who will not gratify it. Throughout his known career, in the wild autobiography which he published in April, 1864, in his applications to the police to make Sir Bulwer Lytton inquire into his " attributes," in the papers which he insisted on reading before the magistrates of Ramsgate, Stephen Forwood has been consistent. The world, which would not acknowledge his greatness, give him the chance of revealing his latent powers, enable him to rise to some pleasant ledge where he could stand idle and let all below admire, was a world out of gear, a stupid world, even, as he became ulcerated by delay and hardship, a criminal world, to be taken by the throat and punished, and forced to perform its first duties. To make the recog nition of his merits easier, Stephen Forwood, insolvent baker of profligate habit and some trace of that education which makes men write puffy letters, and use words like " baneful" and "uncongenial," and "the mournful requiem of all earthly joy," took the name of Ernest Southey. With the same object he adopted the trade of billiard sharper and writer of begging letters, not because he thought bil liard sharping or begging right, but because right and wrong seemed to him trivialities when compared with the moral duty which he owed to mankind of getting money enough to secure himself fair play. It is related of a Swiss employed by the Empress Catherine to kill her husband, that he took the money earned by his crime, went home, and lived ever afterwards a worthy citizen, noted for his benevolence and scientific acquirements. After his death a paper was published, written by him to reveal both his crime and his motive. He had always, he said, been a good man. He had never done a wrong thing save only this murder, and he had done that because he had found that to live a good life, to have full possession as it were of one's self and one's soul, it is essential to have some inde pendent means. So he turned assassin for an hour to earn the gold which was to make him philanthropist for a life. Forwood's logic was of the same kind, but somewhat baser. He did not want to be a good man, but to be acknowledged as a great one. "What I have suffered," ho says in the autobiography, "has made me, who was a common, an un common man, and has taught me to live not for life, but for its aims." That idea is not an unfrequent one, particularly among men with just enough wit to be self-conscious, and not enough to use the self-consciousness for purposes of comparison, but it did not bring to Forwood its usual con sequence —a conceited content. Usually the man who be lieves himself superior to his soundings becomes rather sar castic and depreciatory, or good-humouredly tolerant of his inferiors' bettor luck. But Forwood wanted before allthings to make his "uncommonness " manifest, could- not be content with being anything unless he also seemed to be. He says he sought money by "play" in order to provide for the woman he had seduced—whose life he meanwhile made so miserable that she hid herself away from him ; for the children—whomhe quietly, and as it were scientifically, put to death with prussic acid; and for the legitimate wife —whose brains he sprinkled on the floor. He really sought it only for himself, confident that once possessed of it he could force the world to acknowledge that his self-estimate was correct. "Even in billiards I reasoned that I could there show to men of position and power that I was go verned by principles and aims which were worthy of bet ter employment, and I then engaged to conduct a billiard establishment." " I have the courage," he writes, "to do this duty to society, and 1 ask in return that society shall do its duty to me." If it will not, then a "private misfor tune may becoine a public calamity." Judging from this hint, and from another in a statement made after the exa mination before the magistrates, we imagine that Forwood contemplated for some time the assassi nation of some distinguished statesman, probably of Lord Palmerston, as to him the most con spicuous. The theory in his mind evidently was that so ciety was a personal foe, who owed him money, and who, not paying it, must be taught in some striking way that every wrong brings some retribution on the wrong-doer. Not having the power to spread pestilence, or fire the me tropolis, or produce an earthquake, or inflict any striking injury on the whole body, it remained to affect and injure it all by killing ono of its most valuable members. Then the world would have sat in sackcloth and ashes mourning over its own wrong-doing, over, as it appeared to Forwood, its own criminality which had produced this necessary fruit ; might even—for vanity is capable of all things— have made a tardy rcatitution, anti given Stephen Forwood a reward instead of a gallows. "I am an innocent man," he exclaims even now, "and I will not be photographed ;" and in a burst of irrepressible conceit asks, " Is there none who can read what must bo the formation of a mind which could, under its own strong sense of right, offer up for theirs and the public good the lives of others for whom he had lived and faithfully struggled through many years of the bitterest suffering." Somebody, we suspect, whom the world would have missed has, as Forwood hints, had a terribly narrow escape. A man whose mind has been ulcerated by dwelling for years on his own virtues and the hideous ingratitude of society is just of the temper which political assassins have always displayed. The ultimate direction of the murderous desire developed by this indulged vanity was probably suggested by Mrs. White's departure. Forwood seems to have formed a connection with this woman before her marriage, to have continued it during her marriage —Mr. White talks of being the "putative father" of his children—and to have at last taken her to live with him. When his ill-treat ment, as he says, compelled her to fly, his vanity, once more outraged, suggested that he might include his ven geance on her and society in a single blow, and after un availing threats to Mrs. White of horrible consequences to follow her non-return, and an endeavour, happily frus trated, to seize her last child, he framed a plan of massacre every step of which displays cool, deliberate forethought. He had first to obtain possession of the children, who were with their "putative" father, and this he did by represent ing that Mrs. White was about to emigrate, and wished to take them with her. The father, who did not believe them to be his own, but knew them to be his wife's, readily gave them up, and Forwood took them to the little coffee house in Red Lion street, and there, in a cool, de liberate, almost thoughtful way, gave each of them a spoonful of prussic acid, killing them almost instanta neously. He ought, he thought, to maintain them ; society, blind to its duty, would not by recognising greatness enable him to perform his; he would punish society by showing the alternative it had compelled him to embrace. The guilt, of course, fell to society, of which he was only the agent and the victim. He next bethought himself of those others whom also he was bound to maintain. Mrs. White he could not get at, for he did not know whore she was, but he could get at his own wife, a quiet, decent woman, maintaining herself and his child at Ramsgate by assisting a dyer. Putting on a false moustache and whiskers lest he should le arrested before his work was done—or was it from some secret conscious ness that his vanity was lying all through, and that he should wish to fly, and so leave society unwarned ?—he went to Ramsgate, obtained an interview with his wife, shot her and his child, and when seized by the dyer confessed that ho had murdered three children. Before the magis trates he exhibited the same vanity, read papers declaring himself a social victim, specified well-known men as crimi nals because they had declined to do their duty by sending money in answer to begging letters, and loudly complained that the prison authorities would not let him read the jour nals, which were sure to contain comments to which ho should like to reply. Even in prison, with five murders upon his hands and the prospect of a shameful death before him, the diseased vanity of the criminal is stung with the idea that he has not at the last compelled society to recog nise how right he was, how wrong all other men, how just a retribution itself had suffered for the crime of compelling him to work for his bread.—The Spectator. AN ELOPEMENT.—The Liverpool correspondent of the Scotsman tells a curious story. A gentleman of that town having made several successful hits in blockade running, went abroad to settle his affairs, leaving his young wife in a fashionably furnished house in Liverpool. The lady is described as possessing great personal attractions, and is only 20 years of ago. At the beginning of this month the gentleman returned, and two days afterwards his wife disappeared. An ex-detective officer was employed, and if the story be true, has succeeded in partly unravelling one of the most singular cases of elopement ever brought to light. Somo six months back the lady gave out that she was going on a visit to some friends in London ; but instead of this it seems she engaged herself as barmaid at a noted tavern in Manchester, where a certain commercial gentleman from London was in the habit of frequenting. The pretty bar maid and the commercial gentleman left Manchester for Liverpool together, and two days after the faithless fair one had rejoined her husband she eloped with her Man chester lover. They were traced to London, and there the clue was lost.—Birmingham Post. 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This irregularity disturbed the equanimity of the Judge, Mr. Baron Bramwell, and he requested the removal of the hat. The Quaker urged that conscience compelled him to keep it on. The Judge replied that " conscience no more compelled him to keep his hat on than it did his shoes, and that he must have respect for others," and threatened to fine him £lO if he did not take off the hat. "It is a reverence for the Almighty," said the juryman, which compels me to keep it on." " Don't be non sensical," retorted the Judge ; " your reason is dis creditable to common sense." The Quaker persisted, and the Judge at length fined him £lO and ordered him to leave the box. " Any person," he added, " with such nonsense in his head is not fit to sit upon a jury. I shall call upon him again to-morrow, and if he still persists in his nonsense I shall fine him again." This is a singular scene for the present day, and one could hardly have believed that it was still possible for a man to be fined £lO because he held It a point of conscience to wear his hat in a court of justice. There are few places, perhaps, where old forms and ceremonies have lingered so long as in Courts of Law; b u t one m i g ht h ave th oug h t suc h a piece of punctiliousness as this beyond even the most scrupulous observer of customs " whereof the memory of man r unne th no t t o t h e contrary. " I n this instance, such scrup u l os ity i s p ecu liarly absurd, for if the juryman had succumbed to the judicial remonstrance, and by taking his hat off had re tained his seat in the box, he would immediately have proceeded to asse r t a peculiarity of far greater importance, in which he would have been dis tinctly protected by the law. Being a Quaker, he would, of course, have objected to be sworn, and Baron Bramwell would then have been obliged, in obedience to an express statute, to accept his affirmation in place of his oath. When the law has thus expressly recognised and allowed the scruples of Quakers in a matter of real im portance, there is not only an absurdity, but even an impropriety, in the representative of the law re fusing to respect a far more insignificant scruple. But the judge appears equally unfortunate in all the observations by which he justified his proceedings. " Conscience," he told the man, " no more com pelled him to keep his hat on than it did his shoes." This is a mere equivocation, and in the ordinary sense of the words is simply contrary to the fact. When we speak of conscience, we mean individual conscience, and no general principles of right and wrong. Every man has some peculiarities of con , cience, just as he has pecularities of digestion and of ways of thought. Baron Bramwell has some ways of thinldngpeculiar to himself, and is no doubt conscientious about some points on which his neigh bours feel no scruples at all ; but the fact that their consciences allow them to do a certain thing does not alter the fact that his conscience forbids him to do it. The Quaker's conscience did not compel him to keep his hat on. It is a mere matter of fact. The conscience may be a very silly conscience, but it is a conscience nevertheless. Just so with the sum mary reply, " Don't be nonsensical." A judge ought to have known that such an observation was as much beside the mark as it was unbecoming the courtesy of the bench. He must have heard of Quakers before, and must have known perfectly well that they have no intention of being " nonsen sical," but pretend to justify their peculiarities, and among them this one of keeping on their hats, upon reasonable grounds. Their sense is not the general sense, or, in other words, it is not common sense, but they believe it to be sense nevertheless. Indeed, if we discussed the abstract sense of the matter, we should be half inclined to take the Quaker's side ; for there is certainly more to be said for a Quaker's hat than a Judge's wig. But, in fact, there would be just as much reason in calling a Quaker " non sensical" for refusing to be sworn as for keeping his hat on, and in either case such an epithet would be as much out of place as if the Speaker were to tell a Roman Catholic not to be " nonsensical" when he presents himself at the table of the House of Commons and objects to the Protestant oath. Nor was it more to the point to tell the jury man that he " must have respect for others." Respect lies in the mo ti ve , no t i n th e f orm o f an action, and there is no more disrespect shown by a Quaker in wearing his hat than by an Oriental in wearing his turban. But when the Judge added that no person with such nonsense in his head was fit to sit on a jury, he was equally rude, and still more mistaken. It is perfectly possible, and a matter of very ordinary occurre n ce, for people with nonsense, and particularly religious nonsense, in their heads to be quite capable of serving on a jury. Any one who has lived in the world as long as a Judge must have learnt that nothing is more com mon than for people without any nonsense in their heads to be exceedingly stupid, and for others who have extraordinary nonsense in their heads to be extremely acute. The observation, again, is pecu liarly unhappy in this particular instance, for Quakers are notorious for their extreme acuteness and common sense in all matters of ordinary life. If it is necessary to point out any other " nonsen sical" features in the Judge's proceeding, they will be found in the insignificance of the occasion. What is the importance of a stray Quaker that his hat should be thus exposed to the animosity of a Judge's wig ? A more distinguished Quaker than Mr. Josiah Carson is said to have once kept his hat on in the presence of Charles 11. The King ob served it, and took his own off. " Friend Charles," said the Quaker, ' put thy hat on." The King replied that it was usual for only one person to wear his hat in that room. Charles 11. knew how to manage a little difficulty of this sort much better than Baron Bramwell. Indeed, if there is a hope less task, it is to force a Quaker to abandon his peculiar crotchets. The law gave it up long ,ago, when it allowed Quakers to substitute an affirma tion for the usual form of oath, and Baron Bram well had much better follow its example. We trust he will reconsider his intention of re-enacting the same useless and indecorous scene. The hat will only damage his wig, and the wig will do no harm to the hat. DAILY NEWS.—The Industrial Exhibition move ment in London having now made the complete circuit of the compass, halting for a display at each of the cardinal points, we may briefly advert to some of its features, and endeavour to ascertain what is to be learned from the experience of twelve months. A year ago Woking Men's Exhibitions were only an idea. Some people thought it a very vain and empty idea, which could only be indulged at the price of much disappointment and loss. Those who, in the confidence of fuller and more exact knowledge, dared to set these sinister prognostica tions aside, may now fairly recall the difficulties they encountered in the scepticism of lukewarm friends, and compare predictions with results. That some mistakes should be made was only natural, and every generous mind will regard them favour ably. What can be done has been shown, and the demonstration is not impaired by the fact that in one or two instances the earlier success has not been repeated. The project of the first Working Men's Exhibition arose from the feeling that the skill which gave the chief attraction to the Great Exhibition of 1851, and to others which have been held since, was not sufficiently referred to its actual possessors. In a certain sense, all exhibitions of arts and manufactures are Working Men's Exhibitions, but neither in Hyde-park nor at South Kensington three years ago were the names of the art work men at all recognised. The temporary employer was everything, and the artist nothing. It was as if a chalice of Cellini had been exhibited in the sole name of Pope Clement. It was natural that this should be regarded by many workmen as un fair, though whether the institution of Working Men's Exhibitions supplies the best corrective of the evil may be doubted. We question whether many of the cunning workers who made our great exhibitions so brilliant have since exhibited in their own names. The interests of capital and skill are best promoted in affiance. Still the idea, having been warmly. .embraced, became fruitful. Bodies of working men in various parts of London, assisted by good advisers, took the work in hand, and the result exceeded all expectation. The exhibitions furnished a striking proof of mental activity among those who labour with their hands, and their skill showed a facility of production, exercising itself not only in the channels prescribed by the ordinary laws of supply and demand which must govern the directions of the employer, but disporting itself often with much grace in the by-ways of industry. The first exhibition of this order was opened in South London, and the second in North London, and it is in them that most success has been achieved. They had the advantages of novelty on their side, but that is far from explaining their success. They were well planned ; their originators had carefully calculated the means at their disposal, and under took no more than they could accomplish. They avoided speculation, and entered into no engage ments fatal to the freedom of their management. Their administration was marked by a simplicity of aim which preserved it from many errors, especially from that of relying on extrinsic attractions adverse to the character of their enterprise, and therefore likely to hinder its success. The working classes took pride in the scheme, and both exhibited freely and went in families to pay their money, and see what had been done by men and women of their own order. All this gave a strong distinctive cha racter to those exhibitions, and caused them to be visited by members of other classes who were will ing to pay liberally for admission. But all exhibi tions have not been so fortunate. That which was closed on Monday at the Floral Hall, and which, as originally projected, was designed to represent the industry of the West-end, has failed to pay expenses, and has entailed a debt of £l,OOO, being more than half the receipts from all sources, a deficiency which will probably have to be made up by the subscribers to the guarantee fund. The committee appear to have made a mistake in the choice of a place of exhibition. The Floral Hall could of course only be hired for a very large sum, and it does not appear what advantage was to be gained by holding the Exhibition there. A bad bargain seems also to have been made with Mr. Gye, who was not only to have £l,OOO, with one-fourth of the receipts, for the use of the hall, but had besides the right to fix the rate of admission. A shilling was the price he appointed, and the consequence was that the working classes were shut out of their own ex hibition while it was in its freshness. Then, further, a " musical performance" was instituted, contrary to the covenant of the tenancy, and disputes arose, leading to the interdiction of concerts. The com mittee had departed from the simple idea of the earlier exhibitions to speculate on making theirs attractive by the hackneyed devices of the showman. With failure and disappointment came recrimina tions, and what we fear we must call appeals to charity. It was complained that the upper classes had not done their duty—as if they are not always ready to pay for seeing what is worth looking at, and as if they had any further duty to perform in the matter. Then, if we remember rightly, an applica tion was made for the favour of a visit from some of the younger members of the Royal Family ; and when this failed, some large firms were canvassed to buy bundles of tickets as a mode of assisting the concern. All this is very derogatory to the inde pendence of the working classes, and strangely in consistent with the self-sustaining spirit in which the earlier exhibitions was conceived and administered. Without inquiring further into the causes of this particular failure, we may express a hope that great care will be taken to prevent a repetition of it in any future exhibitions that may be meditated. In these days every fruitful idea is in danger of being discre dited by excessive or ill-understood application. Emulation, the desire to excel in merit, has given US some good exhibitions, but the spirit of imitation which seeks to reproduce the outside show where the soul is not; will prove the parent of bad ones. Society at the present day is infested with imitators who live by consulting what they fancy is the humour of the hour, and when these men resolve that there shall be a Working Men's Exhibition, the very ease with which they find implements and materials ready to hand is a source of temptation. There are stock chairmen and stock committee-men, just as there are stock objects of exhibition, which these men know exactly and at all times where to find. It is desirable that all parties should understand what the public will encourage with its patronage. It would be a great mistake to suppose that these exhibitions are, so to speak, the order of the day, that they form a want of the times, and must be got up—well, if possible—but in any case must be got up. The fact is quite otherwise. If Exhibitions like those of South and North London spring unexpectedly out of the spontaneous action of the class in the name of which they appear, and are vindicated by the re sult, the public will applaud the energy and skill . and power of combination of which they are the evidence, and gladly recognise in them the promise of social progress ; but let North-West-by-West and South-by-East London rest in peace, nor fear that anybody will think worse of them if they should not see their way to hire halls and challenge all comers to a competition of skill. Exhibitions belong to a class of undertakings that are to be judged strictly by success. Much is forgiven to those who do their best in difficult situations which they have not sought, but little sympathy is extended to those who fail and injure others in the mere act of self-assertion. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a moderate attendance of town dealers and of millers from the country districts, who bought largely of wheat at the prices of Tuesday last. Flour also in good demand, and prices fully supported. Oats not dearer, but oatmeal brought is per load advance. Beans and peas improved is per qr. Indian corn met only a moderate inquiry ; prime qualities of European and Ame rican brought full prices, but inferior wore rather lower. The weather continues fine. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Tho arrivals this week aro not large. The wheat trade is only slow to-day, but prices are is per qr. dearer than Tuesday last on what transactions have taken place. Oatti and beans quite as well sold. The aver - age prices for the week ending Aug. 21)vere Wheat, 45s 91d per qr. ; barley, 26s 9d ; and oats, 24s 7d. NE WCAS TLE-UNDER-LYNE-MONDAY. We had a middling supply of barley, and the demand in active, but extreme rates reali s ed. Oats came sparingly to hand, and sold at about last week's prices. Small show of beans, and a moderate business done ; no change in prices. INIABKET HARBOROUGH.-TUESDAY. New white wheat, 43s bo 480 ; new red. 39s to 43s per 30 stone. Barley, fine, 353 ; other kinds, 28s to 30s per qr. Oats, new, 22s to 24s ; old, 25s to 28s per qr. Beans, old, 40s to 425; new, 34s to 38s per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE -MONDAY. The supply of home-grown wheat was about the aye" rage, and for fine qualities as much as 5s 8d per bushel was freely asked. Everything now depends on the weather . for tho next fortnight. Stocks of foreign not large. Grinding barley changed hands to meet the requirements of barley, and in malting a few purchases continue to be made. The following are the average quotations :—Wheatt lid to 5s 8d per bushel ; barley, 3s ld to 30 Od ; oats, 21 2d to 2s Bd. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. The attendance of farmers was thin but factors Mug" tered strongly.. Higher terms asked for wheat, but the weather being fine advanced prices were given reluctantly . Business was dull at an advance of 2s to 3s per qr. on last week's terms. Beans, oats, and barley firmly held at lata prices. Flour advanced 2d per 141 b. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....l6s 6d to 180 0 White do do ....188 Od 200 Od New red do do ....1613 6d 370 6_l New white do do .... 17s 6d 20s Od Beans do do ....15s Od 17s Od Peas, per qr OO •• 4os Od 421 0 1 Grinding bat ley, per qr 30a Od 32 0 0,3 Malting barley, t o 32s Od 3!8 0d Oats, do 248 Od 288 Od F10ur....18 bd to 23 Od per 141 b. KIRKCALDY—Aua. 19. Fair supply of wheat ; small of oats and barley. Wheat is to 2s up. Oats and barley unchanged. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...... tigs 6ct I 25s Oct I 24s 6d Second.... 418 6d 28s Od 26s Oct Third.— 42s 6d —s Od I —8 Od Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Sept. 18 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12 " Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pactet Sept. 4 • Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. 2 1 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Sept. 1• Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 26 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton d ug. 2 5 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 1. Ditto, via Marseilles . . ....Aug. 26. India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Aug. 25• Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. Mauritius, via Southampton - 10. Ditto, via Marseil'e3 Sept. 4• Newfoundland .Oll Aug. a 0• Portugal Sept. 4• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry..Ang. 25. West Coast of Africa. _Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 1 0 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Aug. 28. Bahamas, yia-New York. Sept. 13 Bermuda, ditto .. Aug. 30• Cuba and Mexico Aug. 18• Births. DENT.—On the 18th inst., at Ribston Hall, the wife of Pi Dent Dent, Esq., M.P., of a son. DIINDAS.—On the 22d inst., at 3, Wilton-crescent, the lv if4l of Major Thomas Dundas, of a son, stillborn. . GAISFORD.—On th e 20th i nst., at 12, Bruton-s t re et n the Lady Emily Gaisford, of a daughter. Marriages. " NEWENI I AM — BERKELEY.—On the 17th •me t a t Dall °l Wil l Church, William Henry Newenham, Esq., late OW c s 63d Regt., to Emily, the only daughter of Robert M l ' Berkeley, Esq., Q. 0., of Upper Mount-street, BECKLES—IIARRISON.—On the 22d inst., at St. Maryl el)° , o l l parish church, the Roy. John Alleyne Beckles, o € 3 ,c,;' o t son of the Bishop of Sierra Leone, to Harriot,•the_e , '' daughter of Edmund Harrison, Esq. Deaths. BEVAN.—On the 20th inst., at Wragby Parsonage, yorY' shire, Edward Bevan, CoMmander - , COPELAND.—On the 19th inst., at Abingdon, Thos. OW laud, Esq., aged 87. CARSLAKE.—On the 19th inst., at Clifton, John Carshin Esq., formerly of Sidmouth, Commander R.N., ttg 78. CROWTHER.—On the 20th inst., at Somerville AStOD, _ _ cestershire, Win. Crowther, Esq., aged 53. LLOYD.—On the 22d inst., at Brighton, Henry Ea" d Lampkin Lloyd, Esq., of Nelson-square, Lond on, age 59. POWELL.—On the 20th inst., at Finchley-road, Powell, Esq., aged 67. -••*.t.% London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDICE. of No. 112, Strand, Painter , at Tar. Sur{ Office, No /7,‘ Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in COW I/1 Middlesex...—Wednesday, August 23, 1865.