The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-13 00:00:00

The Thames Embankment. Itivill not be for the want of excellent practical ex amples of the science if the general public do not - become in a rough and ready sort of way tolerable engineers. No one can walk far now-a.days, or journey much by road or rail, without coming in sight of some stupendous mechanical contrivance for facilitating traffic or erecting bridges and buildings. The Thames Tunnel is a mere trifle as an engineer ing work to what has been accomplished in the sub terranean railway, and the subterranean itself is about to be outdone by its own extension, for the completion of which it will be necessary to make a second tunnel underneath the first. Tunnels, viaducts, and scaffoldings are, in fact, familiar to every one. Of the latter we have in London just now four excellent specimens—that for the bridge at Cannon-street, that which forms the temporary bridge at Blackfriars, that for the removal of the old bridge, and that which will soon dam out some 10 or 11 acres of - the Thames, and reclaim it for the great Embankment between Westminst er and Waterloo. Just now the works connected with this really g igantic undertaking are i n full ope ration, and the whole series of processes by which cofferdams are commenced, continued, and com pleted can be watched in all their stages, from the first pile driven at Hungerford-bridge to the perfect series of caissons which now shut out the Thames from the large area enclosed below Westminster. It will probably be very long before Londoners will again have such an opportunity of studying practi cal engineering on the most extensive scale. Steam and hand pile-drivers, steam and hand pumps, steam cranes and travellers, with steam machinery for driving air-pump s ; men working at the top of lofty timbers, or down in the darkness far below the bed of the river, filling the cofferdams by sluices to flush out the mud, and then pumping it out again by steam ; with stones, bricks, rubbish, offal, dirty water, and all the unsavoury flotsam and jetsam which go to make up the river Thames—these and a hundred other operations and contrivances are always in work day after day, and from morning to night. The works next to Westminster-bridge are those which attract the greatest amount of public atten tion, for there everything can be watched from the Pumping out of water, to the puddling in of clay be tween the timbers of the cofferdam, and here also can be seen the whole plan of struts and cross timbers which enables the iron caissons to keep out the whole flood of the Thames for a depth of 40ft. above them, and resist a pressure of no less than 120 tons on each caisson. From no point of the river can the whole system on which the Embank ment is to be built be better seen than here, for here are both the iron and timber embankments behind which the massive granite face of the real Embankment is to rise. The method of building this iron cofferdam, though very simple, is from its very simplicity of great interest. The caissons are elipti cal tubes of wrought iron rings or belts, each ring or belt being 12ft. long by 7ft. wide and 4ft. deep, with a flange or edge that admits of the rings being bolted one to another. Three or four of these rings are bolted together and sunk between guiding piles to their proper position in the bed of the river, then others are similarly added on till the height of the whole is sufficient to raise them above high-water mark, and the weight of the whole is sufficient to sink the hollowtube of iron which they form through the soft mud on which they rest and keep them, water-tight from below. When this result has been attained the water is pumped out and the tube gra dually weighted with iron to force it lower till it has reached a fair depth, and has a firm hold in the ground, when the agency of the pneumatic machi nery is called into play. After the workmen have descended and dug out the gravel and shingle to a depth of some 2ft. or 3ft. below the lowest in ternal edges of the tube, a weight of 60 tons of iron is placed upon it from the inside, with an air -tight iron cover, which closes in the top. Through an aperture in the top of this cover the air is forced in by steam power till it has reached a pressure of Sib. to the inch—a pressure which dilates the tube more than half an inch in all directions, when the air is suddenly released, and the cylinder as suddenly contracts and sinks through the earth - which it has itself enlarged to a depth of 2ft. or 3ft. lower. This process has to be repeated over and over again till all the superincumbent mud and silt and gravel has been penetrated, and that mysterious geological compound like heavy, brown plaster of Paris, though as hard as marble, and known by the name of the London clay, has been reached, when no effort of modern engineering can contrive to get any thing much further. The presence of this London clay on the banks of the Thames varies in an almost unaccountable degree. In some cases it crops up close under the mud ; in others it can only be found after a laborious penetration of 40ft. below it. Thus one caisson may only penetrate 10ft. or or 12ft. below the surface, and its next neighbour may have to gO to a depth of 40ft. or 45ft. Once, however, that it is reached the sinking of the cais sorts stops, they are merely filled up to the level of low-water mark with solid concrete, and thus filled they will remain till the time shall come when the Embankment itself will totter, for behind them it is intended that its foundations are to be built, and it is to be hoped to last for centuries to come. The lower parts of these iron banks are never to be removed. The upper parts, which now shut out the Thames at Westminster, will of course be taken away as the wall of the real embankment is built behind them. To take this part as exemplifying the process of construction, we have here a length of 240 feet of iron caissons towards the river, shut in by a cross dam near Montague-house, which reaches back from the caissons to the shore, so as to enclose a water-tight space of nearly an acre and a quarter. This space, though enough to make a fair orna mental lake, the screw pumps of Messrs. Wood -wards and Murray soon cleared of water, and as the supporting mass of this water inside diminished and the weight of that shut out increased powerful timber struts have been added to the caissons till all are now said to be equal to more than double the weight which a full spring tide can bring against b them. From this spac e th e mud has n flushed out, and here in this spac e next week theee,, labourThe first e building the Embankment p roper will be ' first operation will be to clear out all the shingle and gravel to a depth of 14 feet behind the cais sons, or more than 40 feet below high-water mark, additional and still more powerful timber sup ports being added to the caissons as the men get lower down beneath the river, and the pres sure of the great mass of water overhead in creases. This somewhat hazardous work will be done in short sections at a time, and as fast as the required depth is reached—that is to say, on a level with the concrete with which the caissons are half filled—the excavation will cease, and the space is then to be filled up rapidly with solid concrete. On this will be laid the brickwork, and over all, on the river face, the solid blocks of granite, which are to rise in a mas s i ve wa ll t o a h e i g ht o f 30ft. above the river. It may give a good rough general idea of the gigantic proportions of this work if we merely men tio n the quantities with which Mr. MrFurness the con tractor for the first portion only, * from Westminster to Waterloo-b cartloads of earth have has to de a l. Fi rs t, th en , 71,000 of concrete to be excavated, a n d 60,000 cartload s have to be " tipp e d i n ," 4 , 000 rods, or nearly 70,000 tons of brick wor k h ave t o b e laid and fac e d with 30,000 be tens of granite, and the whole has afte rwards Lo d those wh o are now 400,000 cortloads o f earth. filled up behind with so often blocked up in the Str ladbeY with the long earth for slow tin moving, dismal string of carts yet t s to that at the that the Embankment it will be sorry di least 200,000 more cartloads have nuisanceva:ss way. We fear, however, that the voidable. It is not, as in the case o f a railway a tula. em bankment, where a tramway takes any quantity of earth from one end of the line where it i s to be got to the other end where it cann ot b e go t a t a ll . In the case of the Embankment both ends are equally i n want of earth, and none is to be had of any sort but what the contractors buy in different parts of London, and this ever-varying quantity, of course, can only be brought in carts, and the carts can only come along the Strand. For the present, therefore, we fear that an abatement of this nuisance, however ardently to be desired, is not yet to be looked for. Another section of the Embankment besides that we have mentioned, and which Mr. Fu' ness is hurrying forward with the utmost possi'o7e speed, is that between Montague-house and I ungerford, where the steam piledrivers are busy eve) y minute of the day. This section is composed entirely of wood. The cofferdam is formed of wood piles in two rows seven feet apart, and driven through the shingle as close as they can be got together. The interval be tween the first and second row is then " puddled" in in the usual manner with stiff clay till it is water tight, when the river is pumped out, the cofferdam strengthened with struts, as in the case of the iron caissons, and the work of excavation, filling in with concrete, and, finally, building will go on as behind those we have already mentioned. Altogether, no less than 1,300 feet out of the 2,000 feet of the first section to Waterloo-bridge have been dammed in with piles or caissons, and this length will be subdi vided by nine cross sections leading backwards, so as to render the work of pumping and subsequently building as easy7as possible. The length, however already enclosed towards the river, and over which' the water now flows behind the cofferdam only on sufferance, is very great, and will, when the Thames is entirely shut out, give a space of nearly 11 acres reclaimed from an unsightly, muddy, foreshore into one of the noblest, and, we may add, one of the most needed, thoroughfares in Europe. Nothing is, of course, yet being done either with the low level sewer or the subway which is to pass along the whole length of the Embankment. The former will be a simple circular tunnel of nine feet in diameter, and laid almost as low as the foundations of the Em bankment itself. The subway above it will be nine feet wide by seven feet high for the gas and water-pipes and telegraphic wires, so as to do away with all that endless competition between gas and water companies as to who shall oftenest pull up the pavements and stop the greatest number of streets in the course of the year. These works, how ever, are likely to be kept well in hand as the Em bankment progresses, and it is only to be hoped that the railway which is to pass under it and behind it may be in the same state of readiness. Certainly, the works of the latter ought to * proceed as the granite face of the Embankment itself advances, or else on such very new-made ground there might be a movement caused by the railway works which would be as injurious to the railway as to the Em bankment itself. We believe, however, that in a short time it is intended to commence this railway, which will complete Mr. Fowler's celebrated metro politan inner circle. The Corporation of London and the Utili- sation of Sewage. The Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee of the Corporation of London have just presented a re port on this subject to the Court of Common Coun cil. They state that on the 12th of November last they presented a report to the Common Council, on the reference to them to consider the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Sewage, in which attention was drawn to the facts that town sewage, as proved by the evidence, is a manure suitable for all crops ; that when poured over land in enormous quantities, as at Edinburgh and Rugby, the land was reduced to the condition of a morass, the produce was inferior and the manure wasted ; but that, when applied in moderation, like any other fertilising agent now in use, the results were most satisfactory. Keeping these facts in view, and taking into account the enormous value of the London sewage, the Corporation Committee were of opinion that the area for its economic and profit able utilisation should not be less than from 500,000 to 600,000 acres. The committee, how ever, not having had sufficient evidence before them to enable them to say whether or not it would be possible to distribute the sewage over such an area, were of opinion that this point, upon which the entire question of economic and profitable sewage utilization depends, should be decided by a Parliamentary inquiry. The committee, therefore, concluded their report by recommending that be fore a concession of the sewage was made to any party a further and more searching investigation should be undertaken by Parliament into every scheme for its utili7'ttion. This report was agreed to by the Court, and it was referred back to the committee to take such steps therein as might be deemed expedient, with instructions to put them selves in communication with Her Majesty's Go vernment, with a view to the further investigation of the question. Acting on these instructions a de putation of the committee had an interview with Lord Palmerston, and afterwards, at his Lordship's suggestion, with Sir George Grey. Sir George, at the end of a long interview, said that without pledg ing himself to any particular course the inclination of his opinion was that further inquiry was neces sary. The committee were the more anxious that this inquiry should be made in order to protect not only the rate-payers of the metropolis, but the country at large from being misled as to the agricul tural and commercial value of sewage and the most profitable method for its utilisation, by the bad re sults obtained from the numerous experiments car ried on at Rugby by Mr. John Bennet Lawes for the Royal Sewage Commission. These results themselves prove that the system of large dressings upon which they were carried out is a mistake, and yet, strangely enough, they are cited by the advo cates of this wasteful system to prove that it will not pay commercially to utilise sewage on the eco nomic principle, than which nothing can be more illogical. The committee find that Baron Liebig, commenting on the evidence given by Mr. Lawes be fore Lord Robert Montagu's Select Committee in support of these experiments, has lately written as follows :—" The experiments made at Rugby are excellent specimens to show whichi way ought not to be followed to get a fair estimation of the value of sewage. The experiments succeeded in this, that they transformed very good land into a swamp. There was a very large amount of sewage matter that ran away ; but they would use a greal deal more if sewage could be got for nothing." The re port of the committee was unanimously adopted by the Court, and a copy was forthwith sent to the Metropolitan Board of Works. That Board, how ever, on the 15th of the same month, made a con cession of the sewage of the north side of the me tropolis to Messrs. Hope and Napier; the committee have, therefore, considered the scheme of those gen tlemen, on which they report as follows : " The committee find that Messrs. Hope and Napier propose to take the sewage from a point near Abbey Mills and conduct it by means of a brick cul vert to the seacoast of Essex, where it is to be dis charged over a portion of the Foulness Sands and Dingie Flats, which arc to be reclaimed from the ocean by means of a great embankment, but the precise area to be inclosed the committee have' been unable to ascertain. In their original tender, bearing date the 30th of O c t o b er, 1861, they spoke of an area of 30,000 to 40,000 acres which were to be inclosed, but in their letter to the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, dated the 25th of November, 1861, they mentioned 20,000 acres only. When these gentlemen, together with their engineer, Mr. Hemans, were under examination be fore Lord Robert Montagu's Select Committee, Mr. Hemans was asked, ' You propose to putthe sewage of the north side of the metropolis on 20,000 acres of the Dingie Flats and Maplin Sands, do you not ? —Yes.' Mr. Hope, however, was asked, give up the Dingie Flats and confine yourse 'Youlf to a com mittee smaller area, do you not .?—Yes.. That we e The have one on both practical and scientific advice.' find that this alteration would reduce the area to be reclaimed from the ocean to 12,000 acres. From Mr. Hope's answer to question 575 the com mittee find that these gentlemen originally ' did not contemplate the possibility of inducing the farmers to take the sewage over an extended area ;' but from their evidence before the com mittee i t it appea rs th ey h ave c h ange d t h e i r op i n i on on thi s point also, and that they propose to distri buteover as large an area as can b e comman d e d f b y gravitation rom the c u l ver t. I n answer to ques tion 605 Mr. that the Hope said, ' M r . H emans es ti ma t es but Mr. areaHernans co inmmanded would be 20,000 acres ;' that an area o f to answe r to question 618, states, osoo acres is commanded, and could be watered by this culvert.' The committee find that since the tender of Messrs. Hope and Napier was accepted by the Metropolitan Board of Works, Mr. Hemans, in a letter which appeared in the newspapers of Thursday, Nov. 47, gave a de scription of their present plan, which largely modi fies that one approved by the Board. From Mr. Hemans' letter the committee gather that, in addi tion to the Maplin Sands, the Dingle Flats, which Mr. Hope informed the Select Committee had been abandoned 4 on both practical and scientific advice,' are to be reclaimed from the ocean ; that the em bankment wall was not to be constructed, as origi nally intended, along the edge of the deep water, in order to inclose the 12,000 acres, but nearer the shore ; ' the remaining portion,' as Mr. Hemans observes, ' will then, by the ordinary process of na ture, warp up, and ultimately the whole 25,000 acres will be reclaimed ; perhaps a good deal more.' From the answers, however, of Mr. Hopkins, C.E., before Lord Robert Montagu's Select Committee, to questions from 1,010 to 1,014 inclusive, the com mittee are induced to think that the remaining por tion of these sands would not warp up for several hundred years. Mr. Hemans also stated in his let ter, that 80,000 acres could be commanded from the culvert, but he did not say how much of this land lies beneath the level of high water in the Thames, and which from excessive moisture and defective drainage would be unfit for the profitable reception of a liquid manure during the greater portion of the year. The committee find, from Mr. Bazalgette's replies to certain questions, that the sewage of the north side of the metropolis is estimated at 168,033,115 tons per annum, which, according to the analysis of Hofmann and Witt, would contain an amount of fertilising matter equal to 134,424 tons of Peruvian guano, and taking guano sold at the present retail price of £l3 128.6 d. per ton as the standard of value, this would be worth £1,831,557. The committee also find that the volume, and consequently the value of the sewage, must increase year by year with the population ; while Baron - Liebig has given it as his opinion that the value of the manure may at once be doubled by the introduction of, compara tively speaking, a very small portion of superphos phate of lime. It is evident that Messrs. Hope and Napier could not possibly recover in crop off their maximum area anything like the present value of their manure, without making any allowance for landlords or farmers' profits, taxes, interest on capi tal, working expenses, or other charges ; much less could they recover the value of the increased volume of the sewage in future years. Indeed the committee find, from the evidence of those gentlemen, that bas ing their idea of the value of the sewage upon the re sults obtained by Mr. Lawes, whose system they follow, they do not calculate on a larger income to divide with the ratepayers thah £390,445 a year, as appears from Mr. Hope's answer to question 679, out of which is to be deducted a preference dividend of 73. per cent. on the capital before the ratepayers are to receive any payment for their property. The committee have examined Baron Liebig's most valu able report, and desire briefly to draw the attention of the Court to the opinion arrived at by this great authority as to the value of the sewage and the proper method for its utilisation. The committee find that Baron Liebig's analysis of the various fertilising mat ters found in sewage and in Peruvian guano have led him to the conclusion that in 828 tons of the London sewage, taking its total annual amount at 226,000,000 tons, there is asmuch ammonia as in one ton of Pesu vian guano ; and estimating the value of the ammonia, phosphoric acid, and potash found in a ton: of guava to be worth £7 145., he is of opinion that the fertilis ing matter contained in one ton of sewage is worth 1-84 d., and the annual amount of, the metropolitan sewage is worth £2,040,715. He, however, further states—',lf the ammonia be reckoned at the price farmer pays at present for it in Peruvian guano, the ton of sewage water would be worth something more than the double of that price.' This would give £4,081,430 as the annual value of the metro politan sewage—a sum somewhat larger than that arrived at by the committee, basing this estimate on the analysis of Messrs. Hofmann and Witt and the present retail price of Peruvian guano, which price must necessarily rule that of every other manure. The committee further find that Baron Liebig points attention to the power of soil to abstract from sewage the fertilising matters therein contained, but that of all soils pure sand possesses this power in the smallest degree ; and with reference to the dilution of the sewage he states :—' A series of experiments with artificial sewage water proved that a dilution with water as great as that of the sewage of the metropolis in no wise diminishes the absorbing effect of the soil. I found, moreover, last summer, by experiments regarding the growth of plants, that a soil completely saturated with manuring matter did not, as:might be supposed, further the develop ment of the plants' growth, for to many, on the contrary, it was prejudicial.' The committee also find that Baron Liebig conclusively proves the fitness of sewage as a manure suitable for arable land and general farming purposes, and emphatically points attention to the error of continually applying one dekription of manure to land. He states :—' No one will ever think of supplying the full effect of farmyard dung by the employment of phosphates or guano, nor is it to be done either by the use of sew age. The chief value of sewage lies in this, that by its application the effects of phosphates, guano and stable dung are made sure and lasting, and the crops raised to that maximum which the soil can produce, be cause, by means of sewer water these elements are given which are wanting in those other manures, or are preseht in them in but small quantities.' Baron Liebig, ho wever, shows by a comparison between the constituencies of sewage and those required for the proper nourishment of grass that although it will un doubtedly benefit that crop, yet that it is less suit able for it than for any other to which it could be applied, and will yield a much less profitaleb return, and that whereas the fertilising matter contained in a ton of the London sewage, if applied 'to arable land' would be worth 1.84 d., taking guano sold at £7 14s. per ton as ;the standard, it would only be worth 2.8 farthings if used for grass, that being, as Baron Leibig states, ' three-eighths of that which I have computed its absolute value to be. The reason of this difference is, that sewage water contains an excess of ammonia and phosphoric acid which is without effect on the growth of grass, and for this reason is not paid for.' And further on, speaking of the application of sewage to thesame crop he states, ' In all localities which by nature are adapted for the employment of sewage, its use is unquestionably an advantage. But if a large capitalbe required in order first to adapt the ground for this purpose, the specu lation would hardly profit anything, even though he obtained the sewage for id. a ton.' But with refe rence to its peculiar fitness for general farming pur poses, he observes, , The full value of sewage, and of its separate constituents, can only be got out of it when it is employed on arable land. While, in the case of a meadow, the whole of that which has been taken from it the harvest must be replaced in order to make the yield constant, it is sufficient in the sys tem of farmyard manuring to give the farmyard manure those ingredients in addition which were taken from the ground in the preceding harvest in the seeds and meat sold. The component parts of the straw remain on the farm, and, therefore, need nothing to replace them. By means of Peruvian o nt ray, phosphates, he is fullyguano and ph osp h ates the farmer replaces only a e contrary, r to portion th of these c ons tit uents. By means of sewage, on reesntaobrle all of enabled, with th t e h m e proper ilisoper addition field, and to increase those particular ones which the field most wants, for • ' • giving higher and more con stant crops. Sewage, as a never failing source of am monia, will prove to him of the value greatest when the supply of Peruvian guano is at an end,' Turn ing from the examination of the report of Baron Liebig to the scheme of Messrs. Hope and N • apier, the committee find that they not only propose to apply the sewage in enormous and wasteful quan tities to grass exclusively, for which crop, in their opinion, it is alone suitable, but that, as their plan is one of gravitation from first to last, the manure being applied by flooding the land from open gutters, it would be impossible by their plan to use it on arable land and for general farming purposes, as for such it must of necessity be applied by the hose and jet, which system those gentlemen entirely repudiate and hold up to ridicule. - - - - The committee having maturely considered the THE SUA, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1865. report of Baron Liebig, the greatest known autho rity upon agricultural chemistry, are of opinion that the scheme of the Messrs. Hope and Napier, if it could be carried out, would be a glaring violation of the laws of agricultural science, from which the least possible increase to our home supplies of food would be obtained, as well as the smallest return to the ratepayers of the metropolis for their property. The committee express their extreme surprise that the Metropolitan Board of Works, who are trustees of the ratepayers, should have disposed of this large property to Messrs. Hope and Napier (who base their scheme upon the assumption of the compara tive worthlessness of sewage), until after those who ground their plan on its great value had had an op portunity afforded them of fairly testing the cor rectness of their opinions before Parliament, and had failed. And more especially are the committee surprised at the course adopted by the board, when they consider the enormous benefit that would have been conferred not alone upon the ratepayers of the metropolis, but upon other cities and towns and the agriculture of the kingdom, were those who advocate the system of moderate dressings, and a wide dis tribution of sewage, able to demonstrate that that system could be made commercially successful. In conclusion, the committee are of, opinion that it is for the interest of the nation that a searching inves tigation into the system of economic sewage utilisa tion should be instituted by Parliament before any steps are taken for the utilisation of the sewage of London or of any other town, and that the interest of the ratepayers of the metropolis demands that the plan of Messrs. Hope and Napier should be strenuously opposed. And, having considered the re port of Mr. Hopkins, C.E., upon the scheme of Messrs. Hope and Napier, together with the answer thereto of Mr. Hemans, C.E., and Mr. Hopkins's reply, as well as Mr. Hopkins's evidence before the Select Committee, the committee think it is an en gineering impossibility to recover from the ocean the sands proposed to be reclaimed by the great embankment except by the expenditure of so enor mous a sum of money as to render the entire scheme perfectly hopeless as a commercial speculation. The committee recommend that the Court should peti tion the House of Commons for the appointment of a Select Committee to take into consideration the best mode of utilizing the sewage of the metropolis and other towns of the kingdom, and to inquire into all the plans for dealing with the sewage, and spe cially to report upon each of such plans, for the in formation of the country, with a view to secure for the ratepayers of the metropolis the greatest amount of profit from the utilization of this property, and also that they should be authorized to take the ne cessary measures for opposing the Metropolis Sew age and East Kent Reclamation Bill in Parliament, which has for its object the obtaining of the sanction of Parliament to the carrying out of the arrange ment entered into by Messrs. Napier and Hope and the Metropolitan Board of Works. The report is signed by Messrs. William Lawley, Samuel Green, Deputy Perkins, William Lister, James Waterlow, Thomas Lintott, Henry Gibson, J. G. Arnold, Henry A. Isaacs, John Stewart, George Webb, John Richardson, W. C. Fowler, William Brass, W. Jones, and Deputy Lott, mem bers of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, and has since been adopted by the whole Corpora tion. Railway and other Companies. _-e- TAFF VALE. The directors have determined to recommend a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the half-year end ing the 31st of December last. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The report of the directors eitiiis company states that the balance of the revenue accounts for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, including £8,641 from the preced ing half-year, and after deducting all preferential charges, amounted to £235,938 ; but against this amount there was the large sum of £40,793, principally on account of the late lamentable accident at Egham. Of this the directors had debited the half-year's accounts with £25, 000, leaving avail able for dividend £210,938, out of which it was proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 5} per cent. per annum, amounting on £7,562,229 of paid-up capital to £207,961, leaving a balance of £2,976. The gross revenue showed an increase of £46,825 as compared with the corresponding half of 1863. This amount had been carried on an increased mileage of 154 miles, the Midhurst line 94 miles having been opened on the Ist of September last, and the Thames Valley Railway, 6-} miles, on the Ist of November. The in terest on the company's mortgage debt averaged only 4.21 per cent. per annum in the past half-year, notwithstanding the adverse state of the money market. The total traffic receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December amounted on 4704 miles to £749,905, the working ex penses to £335,064, the taxation to £33,507, and the net revenue to £381,334, against £703,080, total receipts for the corresponding half of 1863 on 454} miles, £322,179 working expenses, £31,971 taxation, and £348,930 net revenue, showing an increase of £46,825 in the total re ceipts, £12,885 in the working expenses, £1,536 in the taxation, and £32,404 in the net revenue. The rate per train Mile for locomotive and carriage expenses was reduced from 10-43 d. in the corresponding period to 10.23 d. in the past half-year. Various additions to the stations and sidings had been rendered necessary owing to the increasing traffic, and were being carried out. Tho Salisbury and Yeovil Company had up to the present date made but little progress since the last report in the doubling of their line. The Andover and Redbridge Railway was finished, and would be shortly opened. The works on the Netley Railway were making satisfactory progress, and the directors hoped that the contractor would enable the line to be opened in the coure of the coming summer. The works on the Chertsey•Extension line, as well as those on the Wimbledon, Tooting, and Merton line and at the Clap ham Junction, had been let to responsible contractors on satisfactory terms, and would be immediately proceeded with. The delay which had arisen in the opening of the Weymouth and Portland line had been a source of regret to the directors, but they were satisfied that the course they adopted was the right one, as the points at issue be tween the Weymouth and Portland Company and this Board, having been referred to Capt. Galton, he had decided that the line was not completed according to the terms of the agreement. It now remained for the Weymouth and Portland company to complete their undertaking by pro viding suitable station accommodation at Weymouth. On the Ist of January in this year the amalgamation of the North Devon and Bideford Companies with this company took place. In regard to the liabilities incurred in respect of compensation arising out of the Egham accident, only a few cases remain unsettled. Arrangements had been con cluded with the Brighton Company for the running of goods and mineral trains by agreement over their lines to the river at Deptford. The terms made in respect of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company's lines and stations would be immediately submitted to Parliament for confirmation. In the district of North Devon the directors had deposited a bill for authorising the construction of a new railway from their Bideford station to Torrington, about five and a half miles in length, at an estimated cost of £BO,OOO and borrowing powers of £26,660. At Torrington it was in tended that it should be connected with a branch Hue to Hatherleigh, which the Okehampton Company had been inducedto add to the contemplated extension of their autho rised railway through Holsworthy to the Cornish coast at Budo. Provisional arrangements for the working of the Okehampton Company's lines, which were on the narrow guage, had been made. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £13,638,940. NORTH-EASTERN. The report of the directors of this company states that the total traffic receipts on 1,095 miles of railway for the half-year ending Dec. 31 last amounted to £1,682,756, and for the corresponding half of 1863 on the same mileage to £1,510,085, showing an increase of £172,671. The working expenses amounted to £801,617, against £711,110, showing an increase of £90,507. The net receipts for the past half year amounted to £881,139, and for the corresponding half of 1863 to £798,975, showing an increase of £82,164. The directors attributed the steady increase in the prosperity of the company to the various amalgtunationswhich had from time to time been authorised, and which had enabled them more effectually to devel o p e th e resourc es of the district served by the railways of the company. As the passenger traffic had increased, the directors had greatly augmented the number of trains and improved the train service, and also effected a considerable diminution in the charges made to the public by abolishing express fares, extending the system of return and cheap tickets, and reducing the first class fares ; and the directors intended, in the course of the next three years, to make such further reductions as would bring the charges for passengers to a maximum of 2d. per mile for first-class, per mile for second class, and ld. per mile for third class, clear of Government duty. The balance available for ordinary dividend on Berwick account was £245,428, out of which it was proposed to declare a dividend at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum, leaving £4,944 ; on York account, £100,366 ; and a dividend at the rate of 5f per cent. per annum, leaving £3,983 on the Leeds account, £28,282, and a dividend at the rate of £3 17s. 6d. per cent. per annum, leaving £1,265 ; on Thirsk and Malton account £1,581, and a dividend at the rate of 4i per cent. pe r annum, leaving £456 ; on Carlisle account £51,558, and a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per an num, leaving £2,358; and on Darlington account £75,442, and a dividend at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £3,561. All those dividends were on the ordi nary stocks. Negotiations between the directors and those of the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company had resulted in a provisional arrangement for an amalga mation of the two companies. The terms of amalgamation were that this company should, in addition to the preference charges, pay on the unguaranteed stock (consolidated) di vidends at the rate of 31 per cent. for the year commencing on the Ist of July, 1865, increasing. a quarter per cent. in each succeeding year until the Ist of July, 1868, when the holders of that stock would become entitled to a preferen tial dividend of 4 per cent. per annum, and the directors re commended that this arrangement be confirmed. The di rectors were about to let the construction of the Team Valley line. With regard to the bill introduced into Par-, liament for the formation of a new line from Leeds to Stock ton, with a branch to Scarborough, the directors considered that this scheme was wholly uncalled for by any public ne cessity, and would give it their utmost determined opposi tion. The new line to Otley was opened for public traffic on the Ist inst. The Market Weighton and Beverley branch was nearly completed. The contractors had com menced operations on the Blaydon and Conside line, and the branch to the Quayside at Newcastle. The capital ac count showed that £31,816,081 had been expended. HULL AND HORNSEA. The directors' report states that the expenditure on works had been larger than was anticipated, but that after further accommodation was added it would be still a very cheap line, and .that the traffic of the district was sufficient to insure an ample return on the expenditure. In order to in duce farmers and others to use the line the rates have been lowered to the minimum, and it was hoped that the carriage of grain, gravel, and lime would soon provide ample re venue. The passenger traffic had been almost exclusively from and to Hull, as Hornsea, was as yet little known as a watering place in the interior of the country. The net earnings had been equal to 2 per cent. dividend, but as more capital was required to complete works this would not at present be declared. The Board recommended the raising of new capital by ordinary shares. In order to avoid the expense of Parliamentary proceedings, the Board would avail themselves of the Railway Companies' Powers Act, 1864, by which, through an application to the Board of Trade, power to issue additional capital could be ob tained. The engineer reported that the permanent way was in good order. LYNN AND HUNSTANTON. The report of the directors states that the line was opened in Oct., 1862, and the receipts for the year 1863 amounted to £7,262, and for the year 1864 to £8,908, showing an in crease of 0£1,646. The directors, out of a balance of £2,114, recommended a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum upon the share capital for the half yeat ending the 31st of December last, leaving a balance to be carried over. The declaration of a dividend of 6 per cent. upon a line opened little more than two years was an unusual event. The line was 15 miles in length, froth Lynn to Hunstan ton, and was constructed for £BO,OOO, including every thing ; being at the rate of £5,333 per mile. The line tra versed a purely agricultural and sparsely-populated dis trict. Skirting the sea, it was fed only from one side, and the terminus was a sea-bathing village. The success of the line was attributable mainly to economy of construction and the co-operative spirit in which it was undertaken and carried out. A great portion of the land was obtained at agricultural prices, paid in shares ; the East Anglian Company subscribed one-third of the share capital, and in the several departments of contractor, solicitor, and engineer payments to a large proportion were made in shares. It thus became the object of the several interests to maintain at once the value of the line by a judicious ex penditure, and the value of the shares by sound economy. The West Norfolk line was being constructed on the same principles, and promised similar success. The line was worked by the Great Eastern Company. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at Duke-street, Westminster— Mr. W. Lee, M.P., in the chair. , The report, an abstract of which has appeared in 7he Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders upon the very prosperous condition of the company. The directors had been enabled to close the capital account, and having done this they would now carry out their intended arrangements. The company had realised everything that the directors had anticipated, and the present dividend was the last small one that the shareholders would have to receive. Mr. BLYTH seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was carried. Mr. lima said that, considering the, very flourishing con dition to which the directors had brought the company, and the good dividend the shareholders had received and were likely to receive, he would propose - a motion at the next meeting to the effect that £3,000 shOuld be *placed at the disposal of the directors, to be distributed as they think fit. A dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum was then declared ; Mr. W. Lee, M.P., and Colonel Fledgate, the retiring directors, were re-elected ; and Mr. G. F. Holroyd was re-elected auditor. The meeting was then made special, and the directors were authorised to issue 41 per cent. debenture stock to an amount not exceeding £137,500 for the purpose of extin guishing the mortgage debt of the company to a like amount. The CHAIRMAN proposed that in future the half-yearly meetings should be held in January and July, instead of in February and August, which was carried unanimously. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. ISLE OF WIGHT. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday, at 29, Great George-street, Westminster—Mr. J. Simpson in the chair. Mr. R. Hicks, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the first portion of the line, from Hyde to Shanklin, a distance of eight miles, was opened for passengers on the 23d August last, and although the summer was nearly over the returns had fully equalled the anticipations of the direc tors. During the short period to the 31st December 91,624 passengers had passed over the railway, and the receipts amounted to £3,577. The expenses included every item of cost to the end of the year, and amounted, with the Go vernment duty and local taxes, to £1,828, leaving a balance of £1,749. The directors had decided on charging the inte rest of two-thirds of the entire bond debt against the re venue from the date of opening, eight miles out of 12 miles having been opened. It amounted to £464, leaving £1,285 to the credit of the current half-year. The facilities afforded by the natural harbour of Brading, to which the short branch was open, for the rapid and economical discharge of heavy materials and coals, were such as to warrant the directors in anticipating a considerable trade there; so soon as the company's jetty and tipping stages at Brading were completed, a further diminution in the cost of coals would be effected. The directors hoped that by increased energy the contractors would enable them to open the whole line in time for the summer traffic. They had lodged a bill to provide and work steamers of a superior class, and these coupled with an improved service of trains between Lon don and Portsmouth, promised by the South-Western pom pany, could not fail very largely to increase the resort of families to the island. The directors had also prepared a bill for a short extension from the present very incon venient and contracted station ground at Ventnor to a point singularly eligible both for Ventnor and Bonchurch. The capital account showed that £162,129 had been ex pended. Mr. J. Fowler, the engineer, reported that from Shanklin to Wroxall the works of construction were nearly completed. The excavations of the Ventnor tunnel was ready for the necessary brickwork. There would be no dif ficulty in completing the•works from Shanklin to Ventnor for public traffic during the ensuing summer season. The CHAIRMAN having moved the adoption of the report, a long discussion ensued respecting the proposed extension of the line into Ventnor. A memorial, signed by a num- : ber of landowners, was presented by Mr. Moore against it, while three other memorials wore presented to the direc tors, signed by a large number of the inhabitants of Ventnor, in favour of the proposed extension. Captain Huxsx explained that the proposed extension would not destroy more than two cottages, and would greatly increase the value. of the property in the district, giving very great facilities to residents. The great difficulty was to get enterprising, builders to erect suitable houses in Ventnor and the neighbourhood to make it a second Brighton. Mr. MAXWELL said he believed it would be a great bless ing for thousands of invalids if suitable houses and other accommodation were provided at Ventnor. The report was adopted. Mr. J. Simpson and Mr. F. H. Atherley, the retiring di rectors, were re-elected, and also Mr. Phillips, the retiring auditor. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. WEST NORFOLK JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Lynn on Saturday—Mr. L. Simpson in the chair. The report of the directors stated that the works were being prosecuted with energy by the contractors, and that the line would be opened as far as Burnham in the autumn. The principal landowners had met the company in a liberal spirit. The receipts on capital account to the close of 1864 had been £26,063, and the expenditure £24,642, leaving it balance of £1,421. The CHAmmiusT, in moving the adoption of the report, said he believed the lino would be as remunerative as the Lynn and Hunstanton, to which it would be a valuable adjunct. The report was adopted, and the proceedings closed with a rote of thanks to the chairman and directors. BISHOPS'-CASTLE. The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at the Westminster Palace Hotel ; Mr. Whalley, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the works on that portion of the line between its junction with the Shrewsbury and Here ford Railway and the town of Bltihops'-Castle were in so forward a state as to insure its opening for traffic in June next. The 4CHAMMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, thought it must be highly satisfactory to the shareholders• There was every reason to expect that the three bills now before Parliament would receive its sanction, as they had already passed the standing orders without opposition. The report was agreed to. The retiring directors were then re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman for his great attention to the inte rests of the company concluded the proceedings. The Great Fires at Dockhead. -O ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FRAUDS UPON THE IN SURANCE OFFICES. On Saturday the three men, named James Arnett, Wil liam Sedgewick, and Charles Thorne, who were until they were apprehended employed at Messrs. Barry's wharf, were again brought up at the Mansion-house, in the custody of Detective-surgeants Brett and Hayden, before Mr. Alder man Stone, the Lord Mayor being too indisposed to pre side, to undergo a further examination upon the charge of having conspired together to obtain and obtaining by frau dulent pretences several large sums of money from the Royal Exchange and other insurance offices, with intent to defraud. Mr. Giffard, barrister, instructed by Mr. Humphrey, of the firm of Humphrey and Morgan, Giltspur-chambers, Newgate-street, appeared to conduct the prosecution; Mr. Sergeant Atkinson, instructed by Mr. Moss, appeared for Thorne; and Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for the prisoners Arnett and Sedgewick. Mr. Branford, superintendent of the M. division of police, was present to watch the proceedings on the part of the metropolitan police. Josiah Fage, the witness who was examined upon the last occasion, was again placed in the witness-box, and in ad dition to the testimony already given by him, he said he remembered seeing Arnett and Sedgewick together a few days after the November fire. He noticed them more par ticularly in No. 1 warehouse. Sedgewick was calling out the goods to Arnett, who had some papers in his hand, and was checking them. He afterwards saw Sedgewick by him self with the papers in his hand. He saw him go along the wharf into No. 1. A few days afterwards he again saw Arnett and Sedgewick together, and afterwards on the same day he saw Arnett and Thorne together on the third floor. Thorne had the papers in his hand at that time, and Arnett was calling the' goods. He heard Thorne say to Aruett "Is it all here ?" and Arnett replied, " Yes, Panama's wheat, and rapeseed by the Burton Bell." They afterwards went into No. 4. He afterwards saw them in No. 12, and a day or two subsequent to that he saw them in the yard together. Thorne was holding the papers. He thought the papers Thorne had were the same he had a day or before. Cross-examined by Sergeant Atkinson—He did not state what he now stated before because he was not asked. Thorne kept the books, and was generally in the office, and was very seldom seen about the wharf except about dinner time. If he were told by Mr. Barry to assist in stock taking it would of course be his duty to obey his orders. The goods were mostly lying on the floor. Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—He had said several times with regard to Sedgewick and Arnett, that he thought they ought not to be where they were, and that ho thought the proper persons were those who would obtain the bene fit with regard to the " overs." Arnett and Sedgewick could remove them if they thought fit to do so. Sedge wick could not. He could not say whether any of the overs had been removed. There were none missed. There were thousands "over." He fancied some of the bales of jute had been removed off one of the stacks, and he said so ; but after some inquiries were made it was concluded that none had been removed. There was a watchman kept, and the goods which left the wharf would have to pass him ; but there was no pass given to him. There was a pass given to the foreman. Goods were delivered without a pass. He hiniself had delivered some goods without a pass. He asked the foreman what ship's name he was to put them down to, and the foreman said sundry ships, which was the same as delivering them without a pass. Re-examined—When he gave the information to the in surance offices he expressed his opinion that neither of the prisoners would get the money, but the Barry Brothers would, and that was why he expressed his opinion that neither of the prisoners ought to be where they were, although they knew well enough who was to get the money. Edward Radmall was then called, and said he was ma naging clerk to Messrs. Brown and Roberts, the. auc tioneers and surveyors. He went, on Jan. 11 last, to Messrs. Barry's wharf, and there saw Mr. Alfred Barry. Arnett, Mr. Whiting, the witness Fag°, and some others were present. He heard the witness Page say that the tal lies had been taken off the goods by thepnwards, and other tallies substituted. Fage also said there were about 100 bags of rice in No. 45 warehouse, of which no account had been rendered to the office. Mr. Barnett turned to Arnett and said, "Now, Mr. Arnett, is this true ?" and Arnett re plied, " It is true." He also heard Fage say there were some bales of jute by the William Cole and other ships put into a barge called the Cat. After the first fire, and after knock ing about the docks for two or three months, they were re landed, and were burnt in the November fire. Arnett said it was false, but afterwards said it was quite true. Fage further said if his statements were denied, he would chal lenge them to produce the prisoner's books. Mr. Whiting told him (witness) to go with him and take stock of the goods then on the premises. Witness, with Mr. Field, a clerk in -the employ of Messrs. Barry, Gatehouse, the fire man, and the witness Fage, then proceeded to examine the stock on the premises. Witness put the quantities down. About a month back he had received a list of the goods that were saved. He received it from one of Messrs. Barry's clerks. He had that list in his hand at the time he was examining the stock. Mr. Giffard proposed to put the list in and make it evi dence. Sergeant Atkinson and Mr, Lewis, however, objected. Mr. Alderman Stone was of opinion that unless it could be shown that the prisoners knew the contents of it it could hot be put in evidence. Witness continued—He found„ then, that there were 378 bales by the Onwards. Nothing passed betiveen him and Arnett with regard to the saved list. Witness in some in stances referred to the saved list, and pointed out the dis crepancies between it and the goods he found. Arnett was present during part of the time he was making the exami nation. He believed Arnett knew to what list he was refer ring. The list produced was the list of the goods saved that he had made out. It was all in his handwriting except one page, and that was in Mr. Field's. The average value of a bale of jute was about 50s. Witness did not know how much had been paid by the insurance offices. Cross-examined by Sergeant Atkinson—Mr. Roberts was connected with several insurance offices. Witness had only been to ono company's office in the matter of the present prosecution. There were secretaries of other companies there at the time. Mr. Humphreys was present at the time. By Mr. Lewis—He was present at the whole of the con versation between Fage and Arnett at the wharf. He heard Page say once that Arnett was not to blame, but he did not hear him say so more than once. Fage gave the names of the ships from which the goods came that were put into the cart. He did not hear Arnett say it was false that Page knew the name of the ships ; that they were from sundry ships. He (Arnett) might have said so, but he did not hear him. He did not recollect hearing Fage give the names of the ships the second time, but he would not say he did not do so, nor did he hear Arnett say anything about the goods being from sundry ships. He (witness) went over the stock and superintended the counting. It took him almost three days to go over the stock. He, Fage, Field, and Gatehouse counted the goods. He could say the goods were then pro perly entered. He occasionally checked them as they were counted. He heard that Messrs. Humphreys and Harvey were engaged in making a list of the goods saved, but he did not know how long they had been doing it. He did not think that Arnett alone could have gone through the stock in half a day. If he did, he shouid say it was not done right. He sent down to the wharf on Jan. 11. Ho did not know when the warrants were obtained. The in terview at the insurance office was before the warrants were obtained. Witness did, not report at that meeting that Arnett was not to blame. He did not do so because Mr. Whiting was present and heard it, and was also present at the meeting. He did not hear it mentioned, and believed it was not. Mr. George Henry Whiting said he was the manager of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, 67, Threadneedle-street. On the 11th January he went to Messrs. Barry's office. Fage was there, and Mr. Alfred 813117 was present. He asked Fage to explain the nature of the communication he had made to him, and Fage then accused the firm with having sent in a false statement to tho offices of goods destroyed by the fire, and said he had been told by Arnett to remove all the marks and tallies from the bales by a vessel called the Onwards, and to burn them. Fage stated that some goods were put into a barge called the Cat, and were knocking about there two or three months, and were destroyed in the last fire. Fage made some further statements, and he (witness) addressed hiniself to Arnett and asked him if what Fage had been saying was true, and Arnett said it was. He then addressed Mr. Alfred Barry, and asked him how he accounted for these discrepancies, and said it was a very important matter both for him and the insurance offices. Mr. Barry asked Arnett how he ac counted for it, and said there seemed .to be no check on the goods in the warehouse. Arnett made no reply, and some further comments were made, when rage said that it was all very well to blame it all on to Arnett ; but Messrs. Barry knew all about it. Witness expressed to Mr. Barry a wish to see the goods in the warehouse alluded to, and Mr. Barry said he had no objection; so they all proceeded to the ware house, together where Fage pointed out a stack of jute the front bales of which were marked " City of Dublin," and said the black bales would be found to have no marks at all on them. Fage also alluded to some bales which were up stairs. Witness then gave directions to Mr. Rodwell to take stock immediately, and in consequence of what he had seen and heard he took steps to call together the represen tatives of the offices interested. Cross-examined by Sergeant Atkinson. The meeting took place at witness's office, and there was a committee formed upon that occasion, and it was decided to confer with Mr. Humphreys. Several meetings had been held since, at which Mr. Humphreys was present. By Mr. Lewis—We heard Fage say once that Arnett was not to blame, and he reported that to the committee. That was before the warrants for the apprehension of the defen dants were issued. The defendants were in the employ ment of Messrs. Barry, at the time they were aPPrehen e cr. Mr. Giffard said that was as far as he proposed to caril the case that day, and asked for a further remand. Sergeant Atkinson then proceeded to address the alder man upon the subject of bail. He said there were but tyro, points in the whole of the evidence that had been adduced that at all affected his client. One was, that he was check . ing the lists, and the other that he transmitted the lists to the insurance offices, both of which acts redh ight well hat e done in the discharge of his duty, if orderto do so by hi; employers, Messrs. Barry, and which he contended was D: t sufficient to justify his being kept in prison until the n e .id examination, and he therefore hoped the alderman WO; admit him to bail on good and substantial sureties, 01 which he was quite prePared. Mr. Giffard opposed the application, and said if the 319 ; secution were well founded, there could be n o doubt thma the insurance offices had been defrauded of many thous° „ of pounds, and if, as it had been already suggested on tl i 3 ; part of the defence, it should turn out in the course of the proceedings others were behind, there could bo n o ° t he they were persons with ample means who would We re , deepest interest in getting rid of the men who were heat Pre sent under charge ; and until it was fully ascertaineu " de . shape the charge would take he thought certainlY the fendants ought not to be admitted to bail. ' behal f Mr. Lewis, in reference to the same subject, sail on of Arnett and Sedgewick, for whom he appeared, tbAthat+ the charge upon which the prisoners were being exan'ine here - one of conspiracy, and was an offence upon which theY ot entitled to be admitted to bail by the law, even theyc if las i ; were committed for trial and the evidence was against them ; and how then ought it to be where ll3 merely under charge with such scant evidence as there had been brought in the present case ; The evidence , a idh 4 ; 3 5 been adduced that day did not amount to mo re than beo contained in the information. But his clients ha d n ot many years in their employment, and had borne acetbeir characters, which ought surely to go a great waY t to favour, and Fage himself had said that Arnett was ° bad blame, and it was said that not a farthing of the nme9.,..1 gone into the pockets of the defendants, and that it 7 0 ;,, impossible that they could gain anything by the transe t He considered a great injustice would be don e the de dants if they were detained in prison until the nest esvfa nation. Why had Mr. Giffard not the boldness to Ch7s o those who he insinuated were in the backgros ed ' t t o was torturing the defendants b ecau se he had 'l it " Ay courage to charge Messrs. Barry. It was 11° 1 - d e at they would run away. They were apprehe llue ; t teo their 'homes, being still in the same employ" and ha days after the conversation with Mr. Whiting, ,i e i - c t ba trusted under all the circumstances justice wo done, and the defendants would be admitted to Ds' Tol l Mr. Alderman Stone said he was presiding for f lje . to tiff Mayor, and he did not see anything in the evidence deeded him in altering his lordship's decision, and he had ;C: not to admit the defendants to bail. It was there'e;melii duty to refuse to admit either of them to bail in the instance. The prisoners were then again remanded. COUNTRY MARKETS YORK—SATURDAY. 0 1* ther e bold Our market was moderatel supplied, and f slow demand at the rates of last week. The show olbc,. was by no means abundant. A steady demand he and prices for the best sorts were the turn hig a les was a fair trade doing in oats, and previous ra maintained. t 39L4, New white wheat, 40s to 45s ; new red, 3 65 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s to 31s per qr; °lots' 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, now, 20s to 22s Pe r Beans, 40s to —s per 38 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATunDAY. „„, 804 .. 4 0 1 Tho supply of wheat was pretty for the sos'of __ d m 0 ness was slow at no material change in prices•, A d nras there was a tolerable show, and the demand rur, o lo o prices rather in sellers' favour. The demand ne A moderate, and recent rates were sustained. 41s; or Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 38s 1° n o. Lto white, 40s to 45s ; new red, 308 to 41s per 36 st! 9- frcs; al 5 ley, new malting, 28s to 34s per qr ; old grins t; 3 " 01 ,06 27s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, naw, 22s t0 . 25s ; old foreign, 24s to 26s per stone' old, 40s to 43s ; new, 37s to 39s per 38 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. lot ter' to- 41°r' The supply of wheat was limited at this Ina r . 1 . It' and little or no alteration occurred in the t rade. best 101.0 was a fair supply of barley offering, and for the ,sirot ing qualities late prices were about maintained ; 1° 0 61 met a limited sale on former terms. 4 5 5;04 White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 4 45 ' ° . o o ll ,,ato ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 38s ; ( ",,r barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 330„;„--0 (Op (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; nolls; /6 4 ing 521 b to 531 b), 84s to 28s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; 265 to 0 , to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flou r ' 9,4 49 6d. Average—wheat, 2,000 qrs, 33s 4d ; barley , 29s 2d ; oats, 32 qrs, 26s 7d. ,10 4 LEICESTER—SATURDAY. We had a tolerable show of wheat to-day, a slow demand at previous rates. There Was se ltilY'v ° l ( t supply of barley, for which the demand was kited 01% recent rates were fully made. Oats were in time 1 and there was a fair inquiry at late currencies. f ig; - Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 38s to 'x white, 40s to 45s ; new red, 37s to 41s per 36 et°,l . fe r e ley, malting, 82s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to A'',4 0 0 ' stone. Oats, old, 24s to 26s ; new, 21s to 236 Pe r :, Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 3 8 ot ° " -. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. but t,lliseo'ooo4o for s ` ie 6t• Fair attendance, principally farmers looking d to oats. Wheat, oats, and barley in good suPP I Y' ` WO' reduction on wheat and oats, with a slow de in ue c tl iied 'a ci t e o oo P wheat—few millers in the market ; not chase. Nothing doing in maize. Flour ing a a'', at the prices of last week. 6d ; ifil t Currencies :—Whte wheat, 22s 6d to 27- 0 Od; lj ao 20s 6d to 22s Od ; grinding barley, 12s 6d to b iacl‘ ing do., 14s to 15s ; white oats, 1.86 d to 120 ' 108 6d to uls Od. Foreign Mail Packet Li t ' tE. 4---- .Feb' il. Australia and New Zealand, via SouthaMpt oll '.''..'' VD' 6, Ditto, via Marseilles ....................... gar' !. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao,..et .......... yelN jg . Ditto, by British packet . .......... .reD. is , Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena•::yei) 0. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sow hanIPW P . yeti' Ditto, via Marseilles ...... 0, Falkland Islands .............. vett. 3 ,, Gibraltar, via Southampton ........... Feb' 1.7, India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Scuthampton"..reD• 4 1, Ditto, via Marseilles ........... 44 -•• " Feb' 'O , India (BAnbay), via Southampton.. ................Feb' ji. Ditto, via AI arseities .. ........................ F eb , 5 , Mauritius, via Southampton . ....... , go. 0 , Ditto, via Marseil e 4. ......................... ,Fe lb ' 14. Newfoundland ................................... :.0. Portugal • 00000000000 Ditto, by by private ship to Lisbon... ..... . •",.. „g, United States and British Norih America, bili r 'yet• ' tish packet .. •• • Ditto, by United States packet, via SouthaDW ten 1 . .. 1. •••• Ditto, via Cork "11 1 1S• Ditto, by Canadian pac ket, via Londonderrf 00. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .• •• • 4 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba'ol)..g, and Mexico .................. .... ............ ••' jog' 0. Bahamas, via New York. .......................... F eb' 0, 1 Bermuda, ditto .. . . ............. rep, Cuba and Mexico ............... ' ................. lietl oe r 0 THE LATE JEWELLERY ROBBERIES. -- , t 00 13 0 0 , of Manchester apprehended some seven or ergs ilie,'ief' Saturday who are supposed to have taken Par t '''. ell e ' '' A 3 11° • e extensive jewellery robberies in Cornhill an t belf )if' Besides drilling apparatus, the prisoners 1 101 ill ob o6 oo l session 60 crowbars and 80 skeleton keys. 111 r brolc ell 'ilir Howard's shop in Manchester a drill had bean o ff V e c i ill' the thieves incautiously left the piece brelo ii ; foll A ti o‘ them. The other part of the drill has new be i e 01 1° 1 6 their possession. Unfortunately, none of tl l . O ... li e t ese td 0 stolen property has yet been discovered. I t is ' l r . Do° Je robbers acted on commission, delivering tileiteforo other parties, who will have got away I°l3g el, beyond the reach of detection. - Ag ( D 'o 64 o, [ADVERTISEMENT.j—HoIIoway's Ointnien'cot e pt 4 1 Pains.—lt is gratifying to hear sufferers roc o itit,l l t4 4 they derived when first they applied tbis+ioii,,lol`oo,l their ulcers, sores, or abscesses, with whici l ",, to l 'i 1 21 0' afflicted for years. Soon after its applicatieweo o ci 0 1 ,1 or inflammatory ulcer, it restrains the excitf, o ss I ,l3 ,ter l a fr vessels and nerves, and at once brings co° Till w - of r e. fort, and furthers the gradual deposits of he:Val l i 8 0 ) to fill up the ravages caused by violence, l o is rat ; 0 0 ease It expels all noxious matters, an bad '.O l l/ , soundly. It gives ease to varicose veill' 0 01, 1 00 swellings of the feet and joints when the l i es OP _.................,/ unremitting and the pain too much for a gl` AT of 111 ' 11 1)17 'A 41 1 ; ; Det ' Or b 0 aro We 'e n h ."te g r " ORIP St. A ste r , 4!t e l vl atu: l 'm Cou • bti fi rlE7 " ROYA ot.cit( la ~ Pi °' t e tr nEr P r e ;lllt a t )::ft ain y cs tj: : ' r h od r S~r hu ata~ ;, 1 1 1 : a r e r nent 4 44 41 1rie, , 1 a ol " 13,11, l'h e A Zra an( r t - i; P. ir st , BS ' v'4 git k i P11 4 441 11, 11 ear t?a4 19 1 a tao~ thirßfre e il l4rti 1, 1 A Ar (31 '1 ktk (11,1 y 3t ( DI ES 'sr 4, tow. otl 011. t1 1 1e. 111 11, 1 . 4 % I I I }orA te-, Ar t o h , a ' i pt I: t} le t he je B't4 l 4 ,Deei a l kt i etZtb / :10, l'4 4 tio b Y ktitielt and Ntlla the I I It 4 te th 4 t; kritl a4 ti e It o °l l4 O WIII a 6 y 41 til t l e , t,t l %) t} 4 '4' 4 1101 / 1, 0 41 01 t o kb , a / I+. "Ir 'e Ir, tl tt/, B e o rriDa it . t t i Wad ; he fi f a , S' ' l l o '4 Fe r ? ' tttelsßip, .k ,, , 1110 ; it thi L 14 Dil e rr 'e 4 51 : 4, 0 P e 80 1)11 At, a ON th ri o +, p jL Qei :4 4 ' 1 :1 4.10 14' .4' ft bi k4 th e tt, a ddi e s °4 bi e 2 ItB 1 - 04 444 (7 ' d s I, ZII 4 cli e r , "je Il tl qol l W . Fi k eo aim " kr, tv ii h e n 1 1.14 h , t , Cut. kiEp hit 'h i, 44, s k\ p. t tt he htPh it I ° y,' jtpi, I°,lt y. 1111 E: er tp,,„ titp„, t e444'11' tph 14: 112 ; e a , 41 t /41 tItc vi th !I to c h 4 ri t tZ„b4w 8, 4 b 0 e4,.. kixt ._1 Births. 16f1 10 6 DONOVAN.—On the Bth inst, at Brighton , „: Donovan, Esq., of Framfield, of a daugh"-„,,* er• EVERS.—On the 10th inst., at 33, lArestbon." jh e wife of Gustaf Evers, Esq., of a son. stoOE WAR.NER.—On the 10th inst., at Norton„ 6 Tees, the wife of Wm. Warner, Esq , CO ' MarMarriages.sieeff ft lt 0 4 . f BE*NETT—BUCKLEY.—On the 9th in st., . pel, near Ashton-under-Lyne CaVto-Alll.e Bennett, Austrian Service, to 'Saran 2"lt'llo''re* the late James Smith Buckley, of RYe etc : o oth , to Td 0+ HARRIS—Gulot.—On the 7th inst., at PlY b k.Ov" son of Sir William Snow Harris, iCt't the lat e garet Sibella Gertrude, daughter of Escl- "Tor i gel li4 Deaths. C~npol, WiPor, CHESTER.—On the 10th inst., at Rubypall/ the Hon. Elizabeth Chester, widow of tb 4.o vra Chester, and second daughter o f the Cap 13' to in aged 73. t o, ; HITCHENS.—On the 7th inst., at Ravisb — Hitchins, R.N. Vi r Loxo.—On the 10th inst., at Croydon,.,, e a 6 9 - 4 00t 1 • Esq., of Croydon, and of Clifford's -inn' ' e at Osmoxp.—On the Bth inst._ suddenlY,sirol, Chiswick, John Osmond, Esq., of 87, crovi le ' h s og Sormy.—On the Bth inst., at Oak House/ cIAPs tershire, Thos. Soley, Esq., aged 8 2 - dace/ .. 1 13 0 WRIGHT.—On the 11th inst., at road, John Law Wright, Esq. , Ireland. - 0 1' 1 11 ' la Ar4 7 1° - T ° London : Printed and 'inhibited by' W.."' " i 4 , '" t' COO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Viz t pe Strand, in the Precinct of the Saroa Middlesex. —Monday, February 13, 18