The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-17 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times) SALZBURG, Aug. 11. How did the old Generals get on at all before the electric telegraph and railway were ? No one will ever know what battles we t re lost, what nations were ruined, what reputations made or marred by the miscarriage of a message, or the failure of an aide to reach a given point in time. Here, at Salzburg, have troops been pouring in on their way to our friend General-Major Kuhn, as if the war in the Valley of the Adige were not all over, and there is a regiment of the Line—say 5,000 men, and a bat talion of Jagers, say 1,100 men coming, in addition to the 12,000 sent down within a few hours towards Innspruck. As to the road to Gortz and Trieste, and its swarming masses, it will cost Austria thou sands to clear it, and I am told the Kriegs-Ministe rium could not raise the money the other day to pay the poor fellows. Even where they have money the soldiers are often unable to obtain tobacco, meat, wine, or beer in the little villages they inundate. The head of the column enters, disperses on halt ing, and buys and eats everything. The next who follow find nothing. " What is come over Deutsch land ?" exclaimed a despairing private, with his hands full of dirtypaper notes and copper kreutzers. " Time was when money was scarce, but now a man may seek in vain for bread, or meat, or wine, though he has fullpockets." In Bavaria it is not so. The land is rich. War has not devastated thefields nor touched the villages and towns between Augs burg and Munich or the fine district between Munich and Salzburg, and all the comforts of German life are to be had in abundance. There fore the people are not so very much enamoured of peace as the peasantry of Bohemia and Mo ravia and of the country around Vienna, who have been literally eaten out of house and home, and are left with only a few sagacious geese or secluded cows on their holdings to represent tax-paying and rent-paying resources. The train was crowded with men returning from Augsburg to Munich, or to the towns beyond Salz burg, who had been called out for military duty, and had been sent home" again. They wore blue cloth caps with a crown embroidered in yellow on the front, and some had tall hats with feathers in them, but they had no uniforms or arms. Large of frame, heavy, big-footed, coarse-limbed, given much to ponderous pipes and foaming tankards of beer, to cheese and sausages, these Bavarians form with the aid of drill sergeants -and military tailoring the ma terials of amassive solid infantry. As io military tailoring in Bavaria, it must be said that the princi ples on which armour was made in the old days still prevail in this softer age of broadcloth, and these principles led to the construction of coverings made to suit all figures and dimensions. The prominent idea of the German contractors for the Bavarian army is to give the soldiers the largest amount of cloth and leather that can be put into tunic and overalls; but they probably make up for their prodi gality in the quality of the material, for there is a glaze about the surface of the fabrics in which these warriors move suspiciously indicative of " shoddy." They are not at all contented with being defeated, and would like another encounter with the Branden burgers and Pomeranians, for they are of a pugna cious nature, notwithstanding their deliberate ele phantine ways. The pretension to superior prowess, founded though it be on actual success on the part of the Prussian; is most galling to men who they are quite as strong and as brave, and the uses made by the conquerors of their victories have not reconciled the conquered to their fate. The causes of the sudden submission of Austria in the field are not as yet easily ascertained. The diffi culty of defining them accurately is increased by the exhibition of military strength she now makes to the world, and by the development of her power when the necessity for using it has passed away. A dwarf may surprise a giant in the act of putting on his armour and bind him, or may set pitfalls for his tremendous opponent when he is armed, and may sit on him when he is down. Prussia is not a dwarf, but the resistance made to her assault by Austria by no means represented the force Aus tria could and ought to have exhibited in the con test. In considering the circumstances which led to such tremendous consequences as we are yet trying to grasp in all their magnitude without much suc cess, it may be at once admitted and maintained that Austria was not prepared for the war she encoun tered or provoked, and that Prussia was. Austria was not sustained by a unanimous population, neither was Prussia at the outset of the war ; but Prussia was able to kindle national enthusiasm Ey her victories, whereas Austria only encouraged in ternal dissensions by her defeats. At the end of the third week in June the Austrian army was not con centrated, its leaders had no matured plans, its transport was ill-organized, its commissariat defec tive. At that time the Prussian armies were as sembled in pursuance of well if not long digested schemes of operation, close to the enemy's frontiers, with an excellent railway system to conduct and supply their troops with efficient transport and com missariat. The Austrian railways were so placed, and were, besides, of such a nature, being only single in the line of certain important points, that the trains became cumulative as they approached the places of concentration. The Prussian lines, on the contrary, were so disposed that troops could be de posited as the trains went on from point to point, fed by lines at right angles to the main railways, and in connexion with great magazines. Neither Josephstadt, Koniggratz, nor Olmutz contained stores or supplies for such an army as was required to meet the hosts Prussia was directing to a point of junction inside Bohemia, and there were no vast magazines in any part of the Empire to make ade quate provision for its wants. As to the army itself, brave and well disciplined as it is believed to have been, there was not to be found either in the ranks or in the staff the same intelligence as cha racterized, we are told, the army of Prussia. It was not homogeneous. Even now the Hussars scarcely consider their comrades, horse or foot, as part of the same army, and fight as Hungariansfor the King of Hungary, having a profound contempt for Polish Uhlans, a grand patronage for German dragoons, and a lofty dislike of the Croats and oth er Sc coves, w ho with Germans and Italians constitute that ' por tion of the Austrian infantry which is not Hun ga _ rian. An Austrian officer ought to speak at least six different languages to be able to converse with the troops under the " double eagle." Benedek, as a Hungarian Protestant gentleman, may not have been quite acceptable to the German Roman Catholic nobles, but there is in the higher ranks of the army nothing of the strong prejudice which causes jea lousies and dislikes lower down, only restrained by discipline from breaking into violent quarrels. Al though most of the regiments were excellent, there were exceptions which caused a deterioration in the quality of a whole corps, as the strength of a chain is to be measured by its weakest link ; but among the principal causes of the rapid disintegration of the Austrian army there must be included, in my humble judgment, the want of a corps d'elite such as a division of Guards. The Jagers, with all their good qualities, are not Guards, nor is such a regiment as the Hoch Deutschmeiste; equivalent to the Guard of Prussia or of France. A division of Guards could scarcelyhave failed to drive the Prussians out of Chlurn—ind ee d ' any regiment ought to have done that ; and, at all events, would have been a standard for the rest of the army to look up to ; but years ago Austria abolished her corps d' - elite and she needed them at Koniggratz. Wh en an army ' is beaten and is obliged to fall back on its r ear , its own trains, supply and reserve waggons, prove a serious obsta:cl o e, and a dd to the confusion which renders it difficult to gather up the fragments o f a broken force and reintegrate them. The army of Bened e k could not have fought another battle in the °nen for 1 many days. Its losses in material were enormous, . and its degradation in morale was marked ; but if Ohnutz could have supplied them all, and afforded a basis for reinforcements and supplies, the troop s would soon have been ready to try the fortunes of another battle. The march of the Prussians and their superiority in force put the capital in danger. But the Government was not only menaced from without, but from within ; troops were needed to defend the lines of Floridsdorf from the Prussians, and at the same time to stand with their back to the foreign enemy to keep down disaffected citizens. Thus it was that Benedek's army was broken up— part was sent to Vienna, part kept at Olmutz, part directed to the Danube, above and below, part left in the garrisons of Josephstadt, Koniggratz, and Olmutz, while the Prussians in two great compact armies spread over Bohemia, Moravia, and Upper Austria, as two streams of lava pass over the corn fields. Thewhole of the richest parts of Austria were lost to her, and made fat her enemy. Another capital illustration was afforded of the truth of the great maxim in war, that the belligerent who takes the initiative and acts on the aggressive has decided advantages in his favour. But it must also be consi dered that Austria, though very strong and powerful, owed much of her strength and power to her position as an aggressive nation, and to her exemption from invasion. As long as she could keep her enemy out side her borders, and strike him with a long arm, her blows were tremendous; but when penetrated through her outer armour, her vitals were soon reached, and she fell as the Southern States of America did when Sherman marched through Georgia and Carolina. Indeed, Austria is not peculiar in that respect. The rule may be applied to almost any nation, and it is not without cause that belligerents seek battle grounds outside their own territories. Had not her army been so large the defeat of Koniggratz would not have been so crushing ; but the forces of Prussia were so large that Austria had to hurry up every man to the front. Then was revealed her pitiable weakness. Austria was in the camp of Benedek. She had no reserve—not a corps to fall back upon. The victory of Koniggratz gave Venetia to Italy ; for Austria was obliged to take the army of the Quadrilateral as her reserve, and of the whole of her 800,000 men she could not place 300,000 in line. It is said that there had been great mismanagement, peculation, and the like in the departments, but of the truth of these charges I know nothing ; they are readily made, and in the days of disaster readily credited. It is alleged, too, that ever since the Schleswig-Holstein war,—fons et origo malorum,— the common soldiers had conceived an undue respect for the Prussians, and had an almost superstitious idea of the effect of the needle-gun, though their officers thought only of the inferior position they were made to assume in the campaign. The high reputation of the Prussians and of their arm, and the ideas of their comrades, became known to the Astrians at home, and they saw, too, that Austria was not even playing second fiddle to Prussia, but was sent off apart to play on the Jew's harp. The character of Austrian diplomacy and of Austrian generalship became damaged among the citizens and the army, and, at the same time the popularity of the Emperor, which had been for some time on the wane among the non-military classes, was di minished in the regiments employed on a distaste ful service. Had the Prussians been led by a Na poleon they could have made Koniggratz worse than a Jena. Vienna must have fallen if, instead of ap pearing before Presburg on the 23d July, they had come down on it with the same rapidity they dis played in the invasion of Saxony and Bohemia. The most mischievous result of delay which has occurred has been perhaps the irritation caused in the Austrian army by the discovery that all was not lost in Austria, and that Prussia in her advance was daily getting into greater difficulties. I do not think the Austrians could have beaten the Prussians in another great battle, but I do believe that the Prussians might have been repulsed in an attempt to cross the Danube and take Vienna, and I am quite certain their posi tion would have become in the last degree precarious had they been compelled to undertake a regular siege of Floridsdorf, while it would not have been much better had they tried to overrun to Hungary and Styria. Situated as she was, Austria had no course left but submission, but she gnaws her lip as she lowers the point of her sword and asks for terms, and I am much mistaken if there be not in her mind an arribT pensee in which she finds some consolation for present discomfiture, and that she looks forward to no distant time for a renewal of the strife, in which, prepared and armed, she can wipe out the memory of Koniggratz in blood, and avenge all her disasters. It may be a vain hope ; it certainly is an unfortunate aspiration ; for, resigning her dreams of hegemony and Germanic Imperialism and culti vating the arts of peace, Austria has a grand role to play, in which her success would be greeted with the blessings of a happy and contented people, and with the approbation of the civilised world, and in which her glory would be greater and mo — re lasting than if she wore the diadem of a hundred Caesars. (From the Times ililitary Correspondent.) GORTZ, Aug. 11. _ Austria and Italy are again in a state of war, if that may be called war which consists in the mere absence of declared peace without much probability of an actual collision ; for, though the Italians have formally refused the conditions ou which Austria would agree to prolong the truce, or enter into an armistice, they have already complied with the most important of them. These conditions were as fol lows: 1. That the Italians should withdraw beyond the Tagliamento, and suffer the Austrian army to occupy all the country on this side of the river for purposes of subsistence. 2. That they should withdraw their columns which have penetrated into the Tyrol. 3. That the space included between the four great fortresses of the Quadrilateral should be left free. Now, Austria has no arrire pensee about Venetia; the country has been resigned for ever, and though the amputation has doubtless cost many apang, there is an evident sense of relief at the loss of the diseased limb, which was not only a burden of itself, but ministered evil to the whole body. But Italy would not receive it at the hand of the Emperor of the French, and must be content to pay for it in trea sure sorely needed by the Austrians, unless she will spend both blood and money in its acquisition. And, indeed, there can be little doubt that the Ita lians are incapable of winning Venetia by arms, for though the Piedmontese are excellent troops, and Garibaldi's Volunteers are full of spirit and hope, the bulk of the army is composed of softer material, which could ill stand the shock of Austria's solid battalions. Unfortunately, the idea of building up their nation with their own hands has become a ruling passion in Italy, and the people refuse to take a practical view of the case as ft stands, exclaiming, with true Italian warmth and susceptibility, that the conditions of the armistice are too humiliating. But on the side of the Austrians the case admits of no doubt, for they have collected a large army on a country which grows nothing but rocks and trees, and the only animals of which are game, birds, and lizards, unless, as a last resource, the caves of Adelsberg be ransacked, and the strange proteus anguinus be resorted to as an article of human food. How is it possible, under these cir cumstances, for this army to remain where it is? If it cannot advance peacefully into a more fertile country, it must force its way, for it is not likely to leave Trieste and the Tyrol defenceless again since the Italians have declared their intention of possess iLg The second condition means that the Italian columns are to withdraw from the territory which Austria has not yielded, and the third that the gar rison of the Quadrilateral may have some room to stretch themselves, for it cannot be supposed that they could execute thence any important demonstra tion, and communication with the main army is not demanded. Yet the Italians refuse to comply with these terms, which they declare to be too humiliating, and nothing remains but to advance to-morrow and occupy as an enemy the country that might other wise be friendly, or at least neutral. The usual success has attained the arrangements of the military trains. From Vienna to Neustadt the line is broad, and with two and sometimes three lines of rail, so that two trains can, if necessary, travel side by side. From Neustadt a line runs south east to Oedenburg, near the Neusiedler See, and thence a new line leads to Kanista south-west of the Platten See, where it is connected with the railway from Pesth and Comorn to Pragerhof, a station on the Vienna an d Trieste line, further south than Marburg, the junction for Villach. Let us suppose two trains starting together from Vienna, and con veying troops to the South. The stations at which they are all to stop are clearly laid down, and are always the same for the same line. Suppose the first to be Baden and the second Neustadt. At Baden, then, they pull up and wait till the telegraph from Neustadt informs them that the line is clear. They start again and proceed to the latter station, whence they diverge—the one mounting the Sommering Pass, the other turning off towards Oedenburg. The distance by the direct route to Marburg is considerably shorter than that to Pragerhof round by Oedenburg, Kanista, &c., so the first train has reached Marburg, and is speeding along the valley of the Drave towards Villach before the second has rejoined the direct route below Mar burg junction. To judge by the distance, the latter should reach Laybach on its way to Gortz by Na bresina at about the time that the former arrives at Villach and commences to disembark the troops, which, having had plenty of sleep on the way, are ready to March at once through Tarvis and down the valley of the Isonzo, or, as is more probable, to feel their way down the Tagliamento, for Tarvis is not far from the sources of both rivers, and is the point of junction of the two roads. Fortunately, as soon as the mountains are passed, the Tagliamento road runs down the left or Austrian bank of the river till it reaches the railway from Gortz. Thus, with almost equal facility, the columns of trains leaving Vienna can forward their military freight, concentrating either at Gortz or on the line which the Austrians have chosen for their front. But, in fact, the Villach route is not, I believe, so broad or BO convenient for traffic as the southern line, so it is probable that there is more delay in the former direction, and certainly the smaller force has been sent there. For obvious reasons I cannot send the exact force now assembled, but there is no doubt that the Italians are overmatched, and cannot hope to measure their strength against Austria in the field with any probability of success. Vienna can still forward troops to this quarter at the rate of 10,000 a-day, with horses, artillery, train, and all the requisites for an army, but it is to be hoped that, in the name of common sense, the Ita lian Government will be satisfied with what they have obtained, and cease to deluge their, beautiful land with blood, to throw away its richest fruits— the lives of their countrymen. They have lost the superiority of numbers on land, and the command of the sea, for the Austrian fleet has left Lissa and Pola to take care of them selves, and is to-day at Trieste protecting the em barkation of troops iu transports for a destination which is carefully concealed for the present. They are free enough now ; their genius is undoubted ; they were once foremost in arts, literature, and science ; they gave Europe not only the revival of painting, sculpture, and architecture, but also of mathematics and engineering ; nay, the first authen tic account which we have of the introduction of cannon into Europe is tobe found in the archives of Florence ; may we not ask at their hands something worthy of the descendants of Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Dante, Petrarch, and Galileo, some proof that they are worthy of the free dom that has been won for them by the blood of others as well as their own ? They may say that the times are troublous, and the political horizon not yet clear, but the Medici did not flourish in profound peace, nor were the lives of their great poets and artists uncheckered by banishment and imprisonment, unclouded by the dread of a violent end. If their statesmen will but become more practical, and their artists give up dilettantism, and turn from perpetual copying to real study and original work, they may yet produce something worthy of their ancient fame. Messages have come in from the front. Cavalry were pushed forward to-day to reconnoitre, and crossed the Tagliamento in three places without dis covering any enemy. The Italians have doubtless retired out of reach. Palmanova is free, and there seems nothing now to check the steady progress of events towards peace. IREL AITI3. DUBLIN, Aug. 16. Yesterday, the Corporation of Dublin, with a number of invited guests, in all about 200, paid their annual visit to the Dublin Waterworks, at the river Vartry. As these works are now approaching completion, and are, indeed, in some important parts quite complete, a description of their promi nent features may not prove devoid of interest, especially as the construction of works of similar nature is now looked on as among the great projects of the age. The main reservoir is situated about 17 miles south of Dublin, and is gained by 12 miles of railway; and the remainder by road travelling, Bray being the intermediate point where the rail way journey ends and that by carriage begins. The road from Bray to the works passes through one of the most picturesque districts of Wicklow, and at the village of Newtown Mount Kennedy rises at a sharp ascent of about two miles from the cultivated lowlands, up a steep hillside to the great catchment plain of the river Vartry. This plain, in great part a wild moor, is in extent about 20 square miles, and from its westward side rises the long and graceful ridge of the Wicklow mountains. At the base of one of these, the Djonce mountain, also at the side of the greater Sugarloaf mountain to the northward, rise two tiny streams, so small that the passing sportsman can scarcely obtain sufficient water wherewith to fill his drinking flask. These are the sources of the Vartry, and after winding their respective ways for some ten miles through the bog lands they combine, and being directed by engineering skill, form the main source of supply for the reservoir at Roundwood, the chief one of the works. This reservoir is formed out of a natural hollow in the land, and is some 400 acres in extent. It may be briefly described as of a horshoe shape, a line at the narrowed end repre senting the great embankment. With the excep tion of this embankment this storage reservoir is simply surrounded with a wall, intended more as a boundary line and fence than as an enclosing dam. The embankment is the great feature of the works. It is 1,600 ft. in length, 30ft. wide at the summit and 70ft. at the base. The greatest body of water it is intended to confine is about 60ft. in depth, and this water is about 1,000 feet above the level of the highest houses in Dublin, so that a very high pressure indeed is an ticipated. The public road is carried along the ridge of the embankment, and affords a very com prehensive view of the whole. Inside the embank ment a high water tower has been constructed, with receiving troughs at various levels, and outside, the filtering beds, laid out tastefully in circular ponds, interspersed with gravelled walks and well-grassed banks, present themselves to view. The embank ment is " pitched" with granite on the water side, the centre being composed of concrete "puddling," thus forming a wall of material impervious to water, and so far as already tested by confining the Vartry supply till it reached some depth has been deemed satisfactory. A handsomely arched " overflow duct" passes through the embankment at its eastern end, to convey waste water away down the old channel of the river, through the Devil's Glen, and so to the sea at the town of wicklow. The chief difficulty m tinin e t t gen w odf i e t d h a t in toune c on o n m evl pleting the works has been the cut ting for som e thr e e sometmh miles, till waterh high by b t y o f 3 t f n t e . g i n r e b a r t e r a e d s t e h r line of 33iu. diameter metal piping, l iitis. n d o fr w ec c t o e m d p i l n e t t o ely a laid down bet ween this point and the reservoirs at Stillorgan. In formation this tunnel has necessi tated the sinking of some 20 shafts, and the stone cut through, while admitting quantities of water on the workmen, is found to be of a nature tedious and difficult in working. The estimates for this work have been far exceeded, and its com pletion will defer the water supply of the Irish me tropolis till next spring or summer at. the earliest, the cost of the entire works at that time being pro bably not far under three quarters of a million. It is estimated that the main reservoir here described will hold in store 2,000,000,000 gallons of water, ,or a. 200 days' supply at the rate of 12,000,000 gallons daily. That such a storage will I b r e ar n tr e y eted c apisabilm it a i n es ife rn st s t u o mm th er o , se wh w e h o o o k ft n e oz ev t e h n e horse. How fteheert e of is a sc tr a a r v ce e l l y ler w ,s ater enough in e i a t v t s e i b r t :ed s w h to o id u e l c s d o t o p a l a l t l r h t g e o well, the promised supply will have been procured at a much cheaperrataettitiavnera proportionate supply from the waterworks. Liver pool or Glasgow for those respective cities. From THE SON, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1866. the tunnel mentioned the water will be conveyed in a single line of pipes similar to those of the Loch Katrine waterworks, past various relief tanks, to a pair of extensive reservoirs at Stillorgan, situated on the Dublin and Wicklow Railway, about eight miles south of the metropolis. These reservoirs, with their filtering chambers, have been long since completed, and with a double line of 32in. diameter pipes connected with Dublin, these water stores being about 170 ft. above the level of the city houses. Such is now the exact state of the Vartry works as examined yesterday by the Corporation party under the guidance of the acting engineer, Mr. Neville, the local engineer, Mr. Andrews, and the working contractors, Messrs. Green and King. The inspec tion closed with a dejeuner in the grounds, at which Sir J. Gray presided, and at which several political as well as appropriate speeches were delivered. Railway and other Companies. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday, at llawkstone-hall, Waterloo road ; Mr. C. Castleman, the deputy chairman, presided. Mr. F. Clarke, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last ordinary and several subsequent special meet ings, which were confirmed, the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, regretted to say that their chairman, Captain Mangles, was unable to attend in consequence of very severe illness. He bad intended, if possible, to be present, and address them on the affairs of the company, but at a late hour last night he, as deputy chairman, was requested to perform the duty. He hoped, therefore, they would give him their indul gence and support. It was painful to meet share holders with a falling off in the dividend, and it would be his duty to explain the causes which had led to that result. They were not at allan exception to the general rule. The causes which had led to a reduction in the dividend from 41 per cent. in the corresponding half of 1865 to 4 per cent. in the past half-year had nothing to do with the permanent good and advantage of the undertaking. They had opened and worked a large additional mileage. The receipts per mile per train were not less than in the same half of last year ; but owing to the general diminu tion in the traffic and the additional mileage run, their expenditure had been greater in proportion to the receipts. The monetary crisis had also effectei them very materially, because, instead of borrowing at rather high rates, they could have issued their ordinary shares, which they had a right to expect would be taken up. The crisis had also prevented a large amount of pleasure traffic from coming on the line, people having a smaller amount to spend that way. The traffic had not increased in proportion to the increased mileage run. The cattle plague had also affected the cattle traffic. They had large . markets on their line at Salisbury, beyond it at Yeovil, and also further on to Exeter. They had also been prevented by the regulations import ing cattle from France at Southampton and bring ing them straight over the company's railway into the London market, by which alone they had lost about £.300 . a week; in fact, the whole of the cattle trade had been stopped. They had a memorial presented to them by people at Southampton on the subject, and they considered themselves ilhised in the matter. Ports on the Thames had been allo wed to land foreign cattle and drive them to the London market, while the people of Southampton were not allowed to land cattle, from which place they could be sent direct by railway into the London Cattle market. The company felt that they had been ill used in that matter, but he hoped the restrictions would soon be removed. The directors believed in the soundness of the undertaking, and he was glad to say that the Bank had that day reduced its rate for money from 10 to 8 per cent. When the rate of interest was reduced to a moderate amount and the cattle restrictions were removed they would have an increase of traffic as heretofore. They had a large amount of new and undeveloped lines to work ; and it was well known that the earlier years of railways were the most expensive, the opening of the South ampton and Netley, the line from Alton to Win chester, the new service between Kensington and London-bridge, the Andover and Redbridge, the Okehampton, and other lines had increased the working expenses. There was a portion of the Chatham and Dover line from Clapham Junction • to which the company had subscribed £200,000, but owing to the failure of the contractors the works on that portion had been stopped, but the directors had since made arrangements with the Chatham Com pany by which the money to be paid by the South- Western Company should be expended directly on the works for the completion of the line, so as to enable the South-Western to run their trains through to the Ludgate-station. Those works, he believed, would be completed in eight or nine months, and from which the directors expected considerable ad vantage to the traffic of the company. So long as the junction line remained incomplete the traffic to Ludgate could not be developed. As to the circui tous service from Euston to Kensington, passing through their Waterloo Station to London-bridge, nothing whatever could arise from it. The trains were unremunerative, and no profit whatever ,had arisen from it. This had been undertaken to pre vent competition, with which they were threatened. The scheme of the junction line between the South- Eastern and North-Western line from Euston to Charing-cross would render the roundabout service by Kensington totally unnecessary ; and the South- Western Company would then have their Waterloo Station again free to themselves. The high price of provisions had necessitated an increase in the wages of the men, although he thought their men had fair and liberal wages. He then alluded to the extensive repairs of the rolling-stock during the winter months for the summer traffic, which had been charged against the past half-year. They had run an ad ditional mileage of 272,000 train miles during the past half-year, that had increased the expense of working, but a committee of the directors were engaged in the investigation of the whole of the re quirements of the traffic, with a view to reduce the mileage of the trains without injuring the traffic, and to ascertain what improvement could be made with a view to a reduction of expenditure. In the locomotive department, with the assistance of Mr. Beatie, their engineer, they expected to be able to save a large expense. They were asked nearly every week or fortnight to put on a fresh train somewhere, perhaps to accommodate one or two in dividuals. The whole system of train service was now occupying the attention of the directors, and he trusted improvements would be introduced. At the river side they had a very fine wharf for cattle and goods, the frontage to the Thames extended about 250 yards, and they had two steam cranes which travelled alongside the wharf. They had made an improved arrangement there by which barges and vessels might come alongside the whole front and be loaded or unloaded, whether the tide was in or out, instead of waiting as formerly for the tide, by which they could now have about four or five times the work done in a given time. They would proceed in the most cautious way with new works while the shares they had r m e n a r e dy tmoatrhkeetsraelismbauinryedainnditys Yeovil i ent state. With p b a ee r n , a b n u d yi h ng ad th e e x in pe u n p d w ed ith l i 2 n l th 2 more than they , e oo l o asttwo months at were authorised by the proprietors to expend for that purpose, but as the Yeovil line paid 6 per cent. dividend, the shares were not a bad investment at par. The Act of Parliament years ago had given the South-Western Company 20 years to purc hase ' th e Salisbury and Yeovil R a ilway. They now held two thirds of the capital o f th a t line, so that come what might they would only have to buy up the remain ing one-third. In the last session there were pro moted 19 different railway bills affecting the com pany's interests, o f w hi c h bills eight were aban doned, five l os t b y t h e i r oppos ition, four were thrown out by the co mm i ttee, an d one was passed, sub ject. to the i nser ti on of certa i n c lauses which gave power to the Great Wesfern and South-Western Companies to work the traffic jointly over the pro posed Colebrook railway, which ran in a northern direction from their line to the Great Western. Notwithstanding the opposition of the Great Western and South-Western Comp the Hounslow and Metropolitan Bill was passed. He must say that the Great Western did their best in the matter, and even refused to have powers for working it, and he was glad to say they were on the best terms with them : instead of quarrelling they were desirous of developing the traffic on each other's lines. The South-Western Company was pre pared to act with every neighbouring company on that principle. Arrangements were being made with the broad gauge lines beyond Exeter for al lowing the South-Western Company to run on the narrow gauge to Falmouth on a fair and equitable footing. He trusted and hoped that the effect of the panic would be to crush the spirit of competi tion originated by hungry men in various districts for desolating railway property ; and that, at least, the railway companies might have a few years of peace to develope the traffic on their lines and improve the accommodation for the pub lic. There would soon be an end of these injurious schemes, if established companies would resolutely and honestly have nothing to do with them. So long as the present system of contractors' competing lines were tolerated railways would be a perilous pro perty to hold. If a line be really wanted let the established companies in the district make them. He would be happy to answer any questions, and concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. WRIGHT thought the proprietors should in sist upon having no further extensions. Several years ago the proprietors elected new directors on the Board for the express purpose of adopting a non extension policy. But they had not adhered to it. There was also one of their directors on the board of finance company which were eating into the vitals of railway companies, and he thought that should not be tolerated. He wished to know what amount the company had now to expend on the new lines that were authorised by Parliament. The CHAIRMAN said £997,000. Mr. WRIGHT thought this very disheartening. After some further observations, and cries of " Question," the report was adopted unanimously. A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary steck of the company, for the half year ending the 30th June last, was declared pay able on the Ist September. The directors were authorised to create and dis pose of a further amount of share capital authorised by the company's (Works and Capital) Act, 1858, on such terms and conditions as they might deem expedient for the purpose of acquiring shares in the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Company. Also for the creation and disposal of the further amount of share capital authorised by Acts passed in 1865 and 1866. A long discussion ensued in respect of a proposal for rescinding a resolution passed at a general meeting of the company in 1847 against allowing free tickets over the line to shareholders attending meetings of the company. The proposition was objected to by several shareholders, the motion was withdrawn, and notice given that it would be brought forward at the next ordinary meeting of the company. A SHAREHOLDER hoped the directors would in future hold the meetings of the company in some more suitable place, as it was impossible to hear one•- tenth of what was said. The CHAIRMAN assured the proprietor that the suggestion should be attended to. Mr. WRIGHT moved a resolution to the effect that the South-Western Railway Company required rest, and that no further extension be proceeded with. Mr. VILLEBOISNET said he understood the direc tors were very much opposed to branch and exten sion lines, and theiefore there was no occasion to propose it. Mr. NORTON said that all the extension lines had been sanctioned at meetings of shareholders. Mr. SNELL, a director, was opposed to extensions as much as possible, but there were cases in which it was prudent and necessary for a company to take the lesser of two evils. The CHAIRMAN contended that every extension line had been forced upon the company; they had to defend the property intrusted to them from in vasion ; and it was evident from the nature of things that such a resolution could not be adopted in this country by any railway company. There were 5,000 shareholders in the company, and there were not 100 cf them present in the room. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. DUTCH RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending July 31, 1866, amounted to £10,196, and for the correspond ing period of last year to £15,500, showing a decrease of £5,304. The receipts since the com mencement of the present book year, on the Ist of May including the above, amounted to £61,860, showing a decrease as compared with the corre sponding period last year of £17,991.;;The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £4,467, or 43.81 per cent. of the receipts, and for the cor responding period of last year to £4,892, or 30.74 per cent., showing a decrease of £425. The work ing expenses from the Ist May, 1866, to the 31st of July, 1866, amounted to £26,608, or 43.4 per cent. ; and for the year 1865-66, 36.87 per cent. of the receipts. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. 'The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending July 28 amounted for local passengers to £6,279 ; for foreign passengers to £2,726 ; for emigrants to £1,513 ; for mails, &c., to £1,007 : for local freight and live stock to £ll,lBB ; and for fo reign freight and live stock to £3,224—t0ta1, £25,577, against £24,138 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £1,439. The total re ceipts from July 1 to the above date amounted to £102,803, and for the same period last year to £98,976, showing an increase of £3,827. LONDON DISTRICT TELEGRAPH. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Cannon-street—Mr. R. Taylor in the chair. The report stated that had it not been for the storm of January last there was no doubt that the receipts for the past half-year would have shown a considerable surplus, as the number of messages were daily increasing. A considerable portion of the company's property had been renewed on an im proved and secure system, with the exception of a short distance in the south-eastern district, and the result was that, instead of having three-fourths of the system overhouse and . unprotected there was now only about one-third so constructed, the re mainder being underground, or equally well protected by the new routes adopted. The private wire con tracts continued to increase, several new lines having been ordered by Government and the Metropolitan Board of Works. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he stood in the very disagreeable posi tion of not being able to recommend a dividend. It was believed that when the company was started that it would be a success, but it bad not yet turned the corner of success. The time, however, would come when it would be the agreeable duty of the chairman of the company to announce a dividend. At the present time the company was in negotiation with the Post-office, the Board of Works, the Fire Brigade, and the London Salvage Corps, which would eventually result in a profit to the company. Mr. STEWARD seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report, which was carried. Mr. Reales was appointed auditor in the place of Mr. Earmes, resigned, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES INFLICTED BY A DRUNKEN MAN.—A farmer named Matthews, living near Boroughbridge, was sued at the Leeds Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice Mellor, for compensation for injuries ho had inflicted upon the plaintiff. The plaintiff is a black smith and wheelwright at Cowton, near Tadcaster. On the 19th of October, 1861, the parties were at a sale, and afterwards went into an inn. The defendant being in liquor became quarrelsome, and attacked the plaintiff, inflicting upon him a wound in the cheek, penetrating to the jaw bone, and another under the ear, very near the jugular vein. The defendant had been indicted for the offence, and sen tenced to 12 months' imprisonment, which he had under gone. The plaintiff now claimed compensation for the personal injury he had sustained. Before the occurrence ho had been able to earn from 50s. to £3 per week, but sinco he could only make 12s. or Hs., and had had to pay a doctor's bill of ten guineas. The jury . found a verdict for the plaintiff for £lBO. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Great men have sometimes to nerve themselves to decisive acts of will, and, what is still harder, to decisive acts of change of will. There is nothing in which a great mind differs from an in ferior one more than in this power of change. The inferior man is the slave of the resolution he took last week or yesterday—he is a slave to himself ; be is too weak to unfasten any mental tie by which he has bound himself, and therefore he is obliged arbi trarily to assume that at a given moment he had possession of absolute truth, and assumed a position in consequence from which he cannot afterwards move a step. But power of change is the first con dition of a statesman, for he knows that judgment should follow knowledge, and that knowledge varies and grows. This pliancy, this flexibility, however, requires two muscular a mental act for - averag-e men. The Emperor Napoleon's withdrawal of his claims on German territory is another proof to the world of his remarkable intellectual fibre. No one knows better than he the sort of comments which such a change of mind gives rise to • no one knows better what kind of criticism it will provoke in France ; but he has braved the censure of hostile, acute, and inflamed critics, and he has appealed from passionate and aggressive France to France considerate and wise. He has had very little time for this re-ar rangement and fresh consideration of the data before him • he has had to form his last resolution very quickly; but a rapid review hasbeen enough to take ih the differences which the result of the war had made, and he has had enough confidence in himself to avow the conclusion which a fresh state of affairs has forced upon him. He refuses to involve Europe in a war, and to expose French interests to a great risk on a small question of territory ; and he will be supported in this conclusion. There will be abundance of taunts. There are, in the first place, plenty of people who think all change of mind in itself weakness, and are ready to cry out against it at once, without the slightest reflection ; and there is, in the second place, the war party in France. But men of sense know that change of mind is sometimes the mark both of the strongest intellect and the highest courage, and the war party in France should know that petty territorial wars are now obsolete. There was a time when a French monarch would have thought nothing of expending the blood of a hundred thousand Frenchmen upon one or two forts in the Netherlands or a small strip of Bavaria ; but those days are past, and a new atmosphere of opinion has risen upon these subjects even in military France, hitherto so apt to be dazzled by dreams of unsubstantial glory. T her e has been a new growth of feeling in that country, the mer cantile class has been gaining ground, and every year has added to the strength of that more sober and more practical and reflecting portion of the community which thinks the happiness and pros perity of a nation lie in peace rather than in war. French military enthusiasm has been replaced by less showy but more solid tastes and aims, and the people have shared in the great progress shich utili tarian sentiment has of late years made in the world. The French Emperor has doubtless not overlooked this growing change of feeling in France, and he knows that he does not govern quite the same people that his uncle did. He has never, indeed, accepted the First Napoleon as an infallible oracle. He has taken him only as a guide to be followed with the proper qualifications and exceptions which the changing circumstances of the world suggest. The uncle ruled France by the motive of military glory; but that is no reason why the nephew should do the same when the French are a very different people from what they were. There has been an origina lity in the whole of the present Emperor's plan of government ; he has thought for himself and ob served for himself ; he has never gone upon assump tion of any kind, or supposed things to be in a certain state in France because they once were so, and the national spirit to be the same as it once was. No ; he has accurately watched the current of facts, and he sees that the France of the present day is not the France of the beginning of this century. The age has produced the new power of an informed and practical public opinion, and the new power, when once it has arisen, is just as real and just as great and influential a power as any former one that existed and swayed the mass in its day—the military sentiment and love of conquest. This new power must be recognised now just as the ruling principle of any former age was recognised' in its day. This great arbiter now receives the homage which was formerly paid to the spirit of ambition and conquest. The Emperor Napoleon has just now paid an act of homage to it in the withdrawal of his claims on Prussia. But this act of homage, so far from indi cating any defect, is only another proof of his pro ficiency in the science of government and of the in tuitive sagacity with which he has mastered the secret of success—that a ruler must follow, and not be at war with, his age. Collision must, sooner or later, produce a crash ; the only strong and vigorous prin ciple of government is an essential concurrence with the age. Even the first Napoleon followed the spirit of his age, though he exaggerated it, and fell by that exaggeration ; but his age was unlike this. Had the present Napoleon taken blindly his uncle's pro gramme, he must have been crushed by a European coalition ; but he has accommodated and adapted the Napoleonic idea to the altered circumstance and temper of this age, and therefore he has been a; strong and successful ruler. The French Emperor may rest assured that his courageous avowal of a changed intention in withdrawing his claims on Ger man territory will be appreciated by the whole intel ligence of Europe, and the more so because it, is no con tradiction to, but strictly of a piece with, a general and systematic policy which has always watched and ac commodated itself to facts. This is no new manifes tation of his character ; no new turn in his course ; it is only what might have been expected from the whole tenour and principles of his government as shown from the first. He has rejected the idea of a paltry territorial war as contrary to the spirit of his age. But this, although no new proof, is another proof of the respect in which he holds the public opinion of Europe ; it is a signal indication that the France which he desires to stand high and challenge admiration is social and prosperous, rather than fighting and aggressive France ; and it is an im portant additional guarantee to the world that , 4 the Empire is Peace." PosT.- - -It is a heavy penalty that we Londoners have to pay for whatever convenience the extension of railways into the heart of the capital may have brought to us. We have to put up with the hideous disfigurement of our streets ; the displacement of property and of the trade connected with it ; the eviction of the poorer classes by hundreds; and the destruction of our thoroughfares by the works in progress. All this is bad enough, but it is dwarfed to nothing beside the great danger to life which keeps pace pari passe with what we may, by strain ing a point, call intramural railway extension. The increase of public accommodation and comfort ought to be enormous to compensate for all these evils. Take, to begin with, the disfigurement of our streets by the abominable girder-bridges which, thanks to the insolvent Ch a th am and Dover line, intersect every thoroughfare south of the Thames, and deface Ludgate-hill and St. Paul's. The utter ugliness, the unredeemed coarseness, the sheer vulgarness of these structures are a disgrace to architecture. Once, the prospect that met one's eye in walking over London-bridge from the City was somewhat imposing. The thoroughfare was wide, the buildings on each side were good, and the hos pital straight in front looked, on the whole, hand some, and spoke of charity if not of art. But now Christendom does not hold a thing so ugly as the immense bridge that spans Wellington-street. That it is very creditable engineering we do not deny, but it is a monstrous deformity without a single at tempt to mitigate its hideousness or to soften its bare, broad, brazen, and repulsive features. Granted that nothing less ugly in form could satisfy the en gineering conditions of the task of making a girder bridge of such dimensions, yet are we to understand that neither architect nor artist could soften down with lines of beauty the hard nakedness of those horizontal, segmental, or rectangular abominations which meet one at every turn ? Take, again, the bridge across Ludgate-hill. It pretends to have some ornamentation ; but what must have been the attainments of its designer ! As a piece of art it is a piece of impudence—a mere mockery and a sham —bearing about the same relation to true artistic work that a painted mask does to a real face. It is no slight grievance that we cannot have a line between Farringdon station and Blackfriars with out a nuisance of that kind and magnitude. But, worst of all, these bridges are as dangerous as they are hideous. We might have expected—seeingthat we have a Board of Trade—that some code of stringent rules would have been issued showing what might and what might not be done in transitu across a crowded thoroughfare, over the heads of thousands of people, and over horses and vehicles of every description. But, so far from that, it wou ld seem as if all parties had combined to make these bridges a constant source of annoyance and injury. In some instances the bridge over some large tho roughfare is used as a ticket platform. The ugly bridge over the Westminster-road is so used by the South-Western Company. At any hour of the day, if you are driving near that bridge, you may have your horses frightened out of all manage ment by the hissing of steam and the puffing of an engine just moving on. But if any particular bridge be not also a ticket platform, as in the Waterloo-road, at Ludgate-hill, or at the Elephant and Castle, the danger to horses and people below is even greater. Over such bridges the trains whirl with alarming noise and clatter, an d gene rally with a sharp and startling whistle. This same whistle is becoming one of the great nuisances of London, and it i s time that it was -` put tfnder some more salutary restriction. No doubt the whistle is of immense necessity and ser vice. It is wholly indispensable. But it need not therefore be a source of annoyance and danger. The cases must be exceptional in which it is neces sary to use it in passing over crowded streets. It can never be ;used in such places without alarm, while in many instances it is impossible to avoid mischief. The evil is forced upon public attention just now by the lamentable accident in the Water loo-road. A gentleman is riding a well-bred horse near the South-Western terminus. A train comes dashing over the girder-bridge. The engine-driver takes that opportunity to sound his whistle, the horse below is startled and becomes unmanageable , plunges against a cabman, and so injures him that he dies shortly after, though his rider miraculously escapes. The jury at the inquest append to their verdict an appeal to the Board of Trade, calling attention to the danger of the practice of whistling in the midst of the traffic of the metropolis, and stating that it has been represented to them that this practice is the cause of numerous accidents and frequent deaths in London. We wish we could think that the Board of Trade would take some effective steps to stop this dangerous and unneces sary practice, but experience forbids. The man killed was only a cabman, so his case is not likely to attract much observation. But some of these days a London, Chatham, and Dover engine may send the Lord Mayor's horses dashino. down Fleet street, smashing the state carriage, and leaving the• highest civic functionary sprawling in the mud, or a peer or member of the House of Commons may be killed, and then the Board of Trade will begs to move. Till then it is only by constant reitera tion that the public can be made to see the danger and speak out. If accidents are to be avoided the bridges ought to be so screened as to prevent pass ing carriages being seen from below, and it ought to be a punishable offence to use the whistle within a prescribed distance of a public road. The price we have to pay for the passing nf railways through the metropolis—if limited only to actual discomfort and disfigurement of the streets—is heavy enough but when to -this is added a constant danger to human life, it is time that a sufficient check upon the recklessness of engine-drivers were promptly established and rigidly enforced. If the Board of Trade has any care for its own credit it will look to this. - - COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM—ThunsDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat at our corn market to day, and the inquiry was inactive at a small reduction on previous rates. For barley the demand was firm at full rates. Beans lower; peas firm ; oats slow at late prices• BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY. There was only a small show of wheat at this market to-day, which realised an advance of fully is per qr. on la st week's prices. The supply of new wheat was good, con dition varied. The few dry samples of Talavera made quite as much money, while those which came to hand damp were quite unsaleable. White wheat, 58s to 60s; old red, 49s to 51s; 44s to 48s; grinding barley, 35s to 38s; Page's prolific bar ley, 39s to 40s per qr. Averages :—Wheat, 707 quarters, at 47s ; barley, 41 ' qrs., at 29s 7-id ; oats, 17 qrs, at 24s Od. ne w red. MANCHESTER—TnunsDAY. At our market this morning both English and foreign wheat brought the extreme prices of this day se'nnight. English flour ruled firm, and French must be quoted 6d per sack dearer. In oats or oatmeal no change was observabl e. Beans were steady. Indian corn advanced 6d to 9d per qr• EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top,. Os 4d up average, Os 9d doh• Barley on the top, is Od down average, is Od up. Oats on the top, Os 6d down average, Os 6d up. Beans on the top, is 6d up average, Os 3d up. Total supply and sales. Wheat B2O qrs sold 552 Barley 6O qrs sold 30 Oats 773 qrs sold 530 Beans 75 qrs sold 73 Average prices. Wheat, 47s 9d I Oats, 31s 5d Barley, 3Gs 2d 1 Beans 53s 9d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 41s 6d; extra superfine, 40s Od ; superfine, 38s 6d ; fine, 37s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. To-day's market was well attended. Wheat was 1 01 , 1 at Monday's quotations, but the business done was row" Flour was steady at the late advance. Feeding-stuffs 01- main unaltered. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. ...............__ _. Australia and New Zealand, vin Southarapton.„...Aurg. 19• Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. ---* Brazil and Cape Verds„ by British packet ...... __Sept. 1 Ditto, by ?much packet Cape of Good 'lope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 21 ' China, Penang. and Sing +pore, via Sou: hampton Aug 1 0 . Ditto, via Marseilles Aug- a Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 19 . India (Calcutta\ and Ceylon, via SouthamOtOn•—• Aug. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug 2/- Ditto, via tiarseilles Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 19 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 13 ' Mauritius, via Southampton Aug. 9 Ditto, via Marseil:e3 S e pt. 13 Newfoundland .••' Aug. 29 ' Portugal 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 .. Aug. 17. West Coabt of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife „„ .. Sept. 1 0 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) ' AUX. 28 Cuba and Mexico . Aug. 26 • Bermuda, via Halifax Aug• 29 ' Bahamas, via New York. Aug• 29' THE EXHIBITION PALACE, DUBLIN.—The C Olll4 mittee of muliagement have arranged for a series of con certs in the Great Hall, and from the success that attended the opening performance a most satisfactory result rosy safely be predicted. The interior is brilliantly illumina te and the splendid baud of the 92d Highlanders fill up th e intervals in the concert, which is sustained by first-rats artists. A brilliant display of fireworks in the pleasure grounds also takes place every evening. [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Dyspepsia (indigestion), conStlO: tion, debility, consumption, Etna all nervous, bilious, storttscu„, and liver complaints in every stage. are only aggravated an . accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cg :x able by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabi'. Food, as proved by thousands of oases which had been N u ,. sidered hopeless, such as-cough, asthma, also diarrhol; limmorrholds, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousn e l; biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, c ol d s ' influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout , LT purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, i ility, sleepest, mess, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, deb dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in 1 04 4 nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness o f the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between "' el , shoulders, &e. We quote a few :-Cure No. 46,276. Mrj al l , Roberts, limber merchant, of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 y e ';;, diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, audr % .. tial deafness.-Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobi, 01 '., ( 1 treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, 5.:d nervous fancies. -Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de DeeleS,lo;2 lieut. of aterford, of many years' dyspepsia.-No. 19 ' 8 Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, uervotlelle"nd asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness' vomiting-Maria Joly.-Cure No. 54,8:6. The RSV' . 4° 4.. T. Campbell, Fakenham. Norfolk, of indigestion and to r P`„, ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatmea t i N In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, 115 ; 121 b, 22s ; 21 0; JOEL-Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lon d° o o also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; at 6t, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsga d; street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strange, 54, Upper Baker-street ; IC3, Tottenham-court-roa d 4, 0 0 Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; `' Brothers, 65, High-street ; and 'Stubbs, Queen'a.terraC e l ,, John's-wood. London; and all respectable grocers sad mists.-Beware of spurious imitations. 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Foster, Esq., of c- ros••• inn, barrister-at-law, eldest surviving son of J. ter, Esq., St. Andrew's, Biggleswade, to gali„ c r k , of younger daughter of Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, rs'et. 40, Eaton-square, and Court-place, Monkton, Deaths. r aCel CALLAWAY—On the 15th 'lust , at St. George's -ter Canterbury, Wm. P. Callmi ay,. Esq. aged 28. Charles V. DOHERTY—On the 14th inst., at Brighton , Col. Doherty, late 13th Light Dragoons. a ts IlAwKiNs—On the 14th inst., at 17, Grove-end a, , -rn° John's-wood, Anthony J. awkin E., ag ed 5.• KEMBLE—On the 14th inst., at Welwyn, Frances aged 68. • OLIVER—On the 15th inst., at West-hill, Sycleribitrui Nelson Oliver, aged 33. I'o 3 ' the SMITH - On the 13th inst., at Balled, Perthshire, the Right Hon. Thomas B. Cusack-Smith, Mas ter v. Rolls of Ireland. A , i llStli S WHITE—On the 13th inst., at Herne Ba y , Capt. •a•-t 7 B. 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