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

The Thames Embankment• It will 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 Westminster and Waterloo. Just now the works connected with this really gigantic undertaking are in 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 aga in 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-pumps ; 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 hollow tube 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 81b. 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 sons 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 them. From this space the mud has been flushed out, and here in this space next week the labour of building the Embankment proper will begin. The first operation will be to clear out all the shingle a d e pth of 14 feet behind the cais and gravel to 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 he this will be laid the brickwork, and over all, on the river face the solid blocks of granite , which are to rise in a.massive wall to a height of 30ft. above the river. It may give a good rough general idea of t he gigantic proportions of this work if we merely men tionquantities with which Mr. Furness, the con tractor for th e fi rst portion only, * from Wes , tnuns . ter to Waterloo-bridgeeartloads of eartil;as has to deal. Fi rs t, th en , 71,000 to be exca va t e d, an d 60,000 cartloads of co ncrete 70,000 t ve onsteofbetipped 30,000 to rods, or nearly in," 4,000 brickwork have to' be laid and faced with be fil s led ofci granite, and the whole has afterwards to 400,000 cartloads of earth. l who are now To those behind with so often blocked up in the Strand bythe se slow moving, dismal string of carts laden with g ' ti dings that at the earth for the Embankment it will be sorry least 200,000 more cartloads have yet to Pass that way. We fear, however, that the nuisance is una voidable. It is not, as in the case of a railway em bankment, where a tramway takes any quantity of earth from one end of the line where it is to be got to the other end where it cannot be got at all. In the case of the Embankment both ends are equally in 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 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1865. 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'; e speed, is that between Montague-house and ungerford, where the steam piledrivers are busy ~v ci 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 buildi ng as easY:as possible. The length, however already enclosed towards the river, and over which' the water now flo ws b e hi n d th e 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 Eni 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- 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 utilization. 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, of 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 which' 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 toMessrs. 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 are 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, b ea ring date the 30th of October, 1861, they spoke of an area of 30,000 to 40,000 acres which were t o be inclosed, but in their letter to the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, dated the 25th of November, 1861, theyment to lo g n e ed the 2 r oCl iw ,O t o h acres their only. When these g entlemen, Select Committee, Mr. en gineer, Mr. Hemans, were under examination be fore Lord Robert Montagu' o h o e o se a w e a r g e e os f the north side of t he m thPutt , Hemans was asked, 6 Youpetrroopoposieis on 2O of the Dingie Flats a nd Ma p lin Sands, do you not ? —y es : Mr. Hope, however, was asked, You smaller area, do you not . 9 —Yes • That we have done give up the Dingie Flats and confine yourself to a on both practical and scientific advice.' The reduce the area com mittee find that this alteration would to be reclaimed from the ocean to 12,000 acres. From M r . H ope ' s answer to question 575 the com mitteed find th a t th e se gent l emen originally di not contemplate the possibility of inducing the farmers it app rs to take theythe haveoverareacom mittee changed their opinion on this point also, and that they propose to distri bute it over as large an area as can b e commanded by gravitati on f rom the culvert. I n answer to ques tion 605 M r . Ho said, Mr. He mans estjmates that the area comm but Mr. Heman s in nd to commanded wou ld b e 20,000 acres ;' answer question 618, states, that an area of 30,000 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 Roar& From Mr. Hemans' letter the committee gather that, in addi- ion to theAlaplin Sands, the Dingie Flats, which ➢Tr. Hope informed the Select Committee had been abandoned ' 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 12s.fid. 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 Inianure, 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 than £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 7i 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 asto the value of the sewage and the proper method for its utilisation. The committee find that Baron Liebig's analysis of the various fertilisingmat ters found in sewage and inPeruvian gilano 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 Peru vian guano ; and estimating the value of the ammonia, phosphoric acid, and potash found in a ton: of guana 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, asmight 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 description 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 present in them in but small quantities.' Baron Liebig, however, 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 farthinks 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 tghiatnsitoo d straw of w n remain on the farm, and, therefore, need nothing to replace th em . B y means o f P eruv i an hese c phosphates onstitu t e h n e ts. farmerßßy m means replaces only sewage,a on the contrary, he is fully enabled, with the proper addition of phosphates, to restore all of them to his 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 greatest value 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 Napier, 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 beingapplied by flooding the land from open gutters, it would be impossible by their plan to use it on hose arable land and for general farmin g p ur p oses, as for t such it must of necheosssietygebnetalepmp h en ed en b t y ire th ly e repudiate and jet, which system and hold up to ridicule. The committee haying maturely considered the 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. A. Isaacs, John Stewart, George Arnold, Webb, JohnHnry e Richardson, W. C. Fowler, William Brass, W. Jone s , an d D epu t y L o tt , mem bers of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, and has since been adopted by the whole Corpora tion. Railway and other Companies. 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 Of This 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 £lO, 793, pri nc ipally on account of the late lamentable accident at E g h am. Of this the directors had debited the half-year's accoun t s w ith £25,000, leaving avail able for dividend £210,938, out of which it was proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 51- 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 151 miles, the Midhurst line 9 1 miles having been opened on the Ist of September last, and the Thames -Valley Railway, 61 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 45.11 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 pried 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 Bidefoid 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 line to Hatherleigh, which, tha Okehampton Company had been induced to add to the contemplated extension of their autho rised railway through Ifolsworthy to the Cornish coast at Budo. Provisional arrangements for t h e wor ki ng o f th e Okehampton Comp any ' s li nes, which were on th e narrow guage, had been m a d e . The ex 638,940. p en diture on capital account amounted to £l3, NORTH-EAS TERN. Tho 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 £ 8 01,617, 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 amalgamations which had from time to time been authorised, and which had enabled them more effectually to develops the resources 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 2 d. per mile for first- c l ass, li d, Per mile for second class, and ld. p e r 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 St per cent. per annum, leaving £3,983 on tire Leeds account, £28,282, and a dividend at the rate of £3 17s. 6d. per cent. per annum, leaving £1,265 ; on Thirsk and Xalton account £1,581, and a dividend at tho rate of 4i per cent. per annum, leaving £456 ; on Carlisle account £51,156§, 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 dodo. Negotiating Detwcoh 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 tioja. 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 HIINSTANTON. 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 £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 year 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, from 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 The 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. KELK 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. llolroyd 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. H. 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 4 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. Tho 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 Com 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 were presented to the direc tors, signed by a large number of the inhabitants of Ventnor, in favour of the proposed extension. Captain Hunni explained that the proposed extension would not destroy more than two cottages, and would greatly increage 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. P. 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 a balance of £1,421. The CHAIRMAN., in moving the adoption of the report, said he believed, the line would be as remunerative as the L y nn a nd Piunstanton, to which it would be a valuable adjunct. Th e report was adopted, and the proceedings closed with a Y° 4 % 'of thanks to the chairman and directors. BISHOPS'-CASTLE. The half-yoarly meeting was held on Friday at the Westminster Palace Hotel ; Mr. Whalley, M.P., in the chair. The repo r t s t a t e d th a t th e wor k s on th a t p or ti on o f t h e line between its junction with the Shrewsbury and Here ford Railway and the town of Bishops'-Castle were in so forwtu'd a state as to insure its opening for traffic in June next. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, thclught it must bo satisfactory to the glaaroltoltlorg• 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 chArman for his great attention to the inte rests of the comiaany concluded the proceedings. The Great Fires at Dockhead. -- --s-- - 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-sergeants 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 Arnett "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 ufostly 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 he 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 himself had delivered some goods without a piss. 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 Badman 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 Fage, and some others were present. He heard the witness Fage 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 not be put in evidence. Witness continued—He found„ then, that there were 378 bales by the Onwards. Nothing passed between 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 ation. 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 one 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 Fage 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 Page 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. 11e 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. He 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. I Whiting was present and heard it, and was also present at I the meeting. He did not hoar it mentioned, and believed lit 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 Burry 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 the 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 himself 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 Fage 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 thero was a committee formed upon that occasion, and it was decided to confer with Mr. Humphreys. Several meetings had been hold 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 daut§ were issued. The defendants worn il3 the employ- ment of Messrs. Barry, at the time they were apprehended Mr. Giffard said that was as far as he proposed to carry 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 two 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 he might well ha" done in the discharge of his duty, if ordered to do s o b y hr s employers, Messrs. Barry, and which he contended was 11° , t sufficient to justify his being kept in prison until t he next' examination, and he therefore hoped the alderman would admit him to bail on good and substantial sureties, wi th which he was quite prepared. Mr. Giffard opposed the application, and said if the pro secution were well founded, there could be no dou bt that the insurance offices had been defrauded of many thousands of pounds, and if, as it had been already suggested on the part of the defence, it should turn out in the course of the ,. proceedings others were behind, there could be n o do t they were persons with ample means who would have dot he interest in getting rid of the men who were at pre; sent under charge ; and until it was fully ascertained Wits shape the charge would take he thought certainly the de" fendants ought not to be admitted to bail. Mr. Lewis, in reference to the same subject, said on behalf of Arnett and Sedgewick, for whom he appeared, that the charge upon which the prisoners were being exa mined v taa . one of conspiracy, and was an offence upon which they wer" entitled to be admitted to bail by the law, even if th,e,YA were committed for trial and the evidence was concles" - against them ; and how then ought it to be where they were merely under charge with such scant evidence as t here h a been brought in the present case ; The evidence which ha been adduced that day did not amount to more than s"" contained in the information. But his clients had bee „ mi li t many years in their employment, and had borne exce"`" characters, which ought surely to go a great way in the to favour, and Fage himself had said that Arnett was 11°t ,:j blame, and it was said that not a farthing of the m ono/ gone into the pockets of the defendants, and that it 'Pi' impossible that they could gain anything by the transactio - 0. He considered a great injustice would be done the &fee dants if they were detained in prison until the next exareio nation. Why had Mr. Giffard not the boldness to clislo those who he insinuated were in the background• was torturing the defendants because he had n et ti l l courage to charge Messrs. Barry. It was not hO l 5t they would run away. They were apprehended #OO their homes, being still in the same employr se l at ; ] - 0 days after the conversation with Mr. Whiting, e n De trusted under all the circumstances justice Weil l( ' done, and the defendants would be admitted to bail. Mr. Alderman Stone said he was presiding fo r the L o rd f 1 Mayor, and he did not see anything in the evidenc e to ins c o him in altering his lordship's decision, and he h ad decl not to admit the defendants to bail. It was therefore ot duty to refuse to admit either of them to bail in the r e° instance. The prisoners were then again remanded. COUNTRY MARKETS YORK—SATURDAY. Our market was moderately supplied, and th ere Trl S 0 ; slow demand at the rates of last week. The show of,}),„iace, was by no means abundant. A steady demand tomlbero and prices for the best sorts were the turn higlier.„, ore was a fair trade doing in oats, and previous row" maintained. • 9s P er New white wheat, 40s to 45s ; new red, 3 6 s to ding, 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s to 31s per q r ; ctoo. 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20s to 22s per Beans, 40s to —s per 38 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. 10, ; The supply of wheat was pretty for the se a l,/ bariel ness was slow at no material change in prices. d f o ra 5 there was a tolerable show, and the demand r ule prices rather in sellers' favour. The demand for 0," moderate, and recent rates were sustained. ' 410" ll el Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 3 85 to - ne. Bar in white, 40s to 45s ; new red, 30s to 41s per 3 6 S o to ley, new malting, 28s to 34s per qr ; old gellur ) Vto 27s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, 01(11 ms — Dew' naw, 22s to 25s ; old foreign, 24s to 26s per s tone. old, 40s to 43s ; new, 37s to 39s per 38 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. 1,0- 0 The supply of wheat was limited at this market „lore and little or no alteration occurred in the trade. was a fair supply of barley offering, and fo r the he s' i - so rts ing qualities late prices were about maintain ed ; low met a limited sale on former terms. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 4o 45S „ ; ;t r iol ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 38s Est r a : c iitto barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; ins dl 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling dittoes, 370 ing 521 b to 531 b), 84s to 28s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; ne t ( 2 0 to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr barley,or, zv: l9 (1 0.1 6d. Average—wheat, 2,000 qrs, 33s 4d ; 9l 29s 2d ; oats, 32 qrs, 26s 7d. --- LEICESTER—SATURDA Y. tv.e r 0 V ;l° We had a tolerable show of wheat was l/seti...so-0001,1 a slow demand at previous rates. There supply reeent raofter were fully f f u o l r ly w in h a ic d h e. th o e if and there was a fair Inuiry at late currencies. Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 388 to 41s ; f i n ft e r white, 40s to 45s ; new red, 37s to 41s per 36 stow). r SO adtesrawaenrctl3iwnalsint e e a d lth su Y l3 , ;V, ley, malting, 32s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 28S 1100. stone. Oats, old, 24s to 26s ; new, 21s to 23s per 2 4 s Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. r set i Fair attendance, principally farmers looking 06' oats. Wheat, oats, and barley in good supp l y , at loreigil reduction on wheat and oats, with a slow demand. ,„ yo wheat—few millers in the mar ket ; not inclined cit:ufod chase. Nothing doing in maize - Flour in g ood at the prices of last week. 245 6d ; r ed dlt o, Currencies :—Whte wheat, 22s 6d to s od; 20s 6d to 22s Od; grinding barley, 12s 6c l t ° 12 : . black "."' to ing do., 14s to 15s ; white oats, lls_d 108 6d to 11s Od. • • Foreign Mail packet .1-4 1°t Feb' 18' . e • 44 2, .. Australia and New Zealand, v i a SouthaniPt ou ***.* Feb• " Ditto, via Marseill e s ....................... gar. , Brazil and Cape V er d e , by B r iti s h pacLet ........ .. .• F e b. 2§_ . • Ditto, by British packet ...........Fe • 1Y• Cape of Good Hope, As c e n si on , and St. Ile-e .os• • •..Feb 18. de , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hautPt°' r eD• Ditto, via Marseilles .................... • ..... Falkland Islands ............................... ... w e b. 11 ' .j. Gibraltar, via Southampton • .......• "re India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via S cu thamptOn•• • . Feb• t. Ditto, via Mar s eilles ........... • - .... Feb. 1 0 , India (Bumbay), via Southa m pton. ................. 2 .. Ditto, via Mar5ei11e5..................... • • .Feb" al. Mauritius, via Southampton ............ • .......... . .0. Ditto, via Marseil e 3. ..................... J . Newfoundland .................................... 5 01. Portugal .......... ...... • " Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ..... • '.„• . N •n 3, United States and British North Americ a, bY"r• et. _ _ .... _ . tish packet ... - Ditto, by United States packet, via Southatnir Wi— t. n ...... ... ...... .• • • Ditto, via C ark ... 11. .. . 2 ,0 Ditto, by Canadian pac ket, via Londonderry. _,%,..;i5. West Coast of Africa , Made ira, and Teneriffe. ..... Jo* West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,_, e h . IS' and Mexico .................. .. ~ ................ r" ft .30 / ' t 6. Bahamas, via New York. .................... 14 Bermuda, ditto..., ................... .................. e;: Cuba and Mexico ............................. , Th e THE LATE JEWELLERY ROBBERIES. --- ° o ll of Manchester apprehended some seven oreig''' Saturday who are supposed to have taken par t i ll 0:00 e : extensive jewellery robberies in Cornhill and 14511 ,,ir Besides drilling apparatus, the prisoners bad session 60 crowbars and 80 skeleton keys: In 11) :,1 7, ( 1 Howard's shop in Manchester a drill had boll fri)elno the thieves incautiously left the piece brok en ° f on' o r them. The other part of the drill has no-' bee their possession. Unfortunately, none of the "-supposed -to stolen property has yet been discovered. It is DootYbio robbers acted on commission, delivering thei f, for' ) t ' other parties, who will have got away long "e .0 4 beyond the reach of detection. LADvEnTisEmENT.T—Holloway's Ointmen t ' t Pains.—lt is gratifying to hear sufferers re e"-;; F: At tr , a gi°l' : eille he ft e r: they derived when first they applied this c d ha,"ied their ulcers, sores, or abscesses, with which 01 % afflicted for years. Soon after its application. 0' or inflammatory ulcer, it restrains the exciteniellod '-014 s COoblet miter' vessels and nerves, and at once brie fort, and furthers the gradual depositsd c °/. re ° to.fill up the ravages caused by violence, deb ease It expels all noxious matters, and hel t i l" jeg'3 o o 4 soundly. It gives ease to varicose veins, . 1)3 ; ‘ , 0 41 1 . swellings of the feet and joints when the ag°,7 o o ol ' unremitting and the pain too much for a gian"''______// 1) EU "' Po tot ,_ _ 1( INA Thi4 It t+ Pu r Rold in the l ize tt at: 1 are p i r i lliE ( r rlcorp oi be "IP b P"It 4 1 ;ru 5 Per sh of 4.)0 call t, T fir Way • , eub„— , e o n Da 41 17' .4 0T ) ai lway r i • I I h Chi:a Y ao , RE (1 , Pal ly 'anc Latil Aj'a A c r! Ja al ide r r ia etiiJhnn N. 1) 4'l ari gat to In 4eeB!trs 8 14 '°. Gibx les 3r r '• Sixti k,,Pore, Cun 4e B s a r . D en 6itT4',POr;iC smi ion, ,i n of nit tloltbay, th 11.0 e It ao Ge n tte th l4 ,,,,or ' ' j s r Da kh°t i -4,, tha• :41te ct tTt I; (111- ?; 144' oetgttr 01 2 r, , ir I l h : 2, rillkilt OF T ° ti ie N o I)iit: h, Otte Vh,, '4) 4 , ( 4' kli e l , t o qt , 1 1 th, t4, 4, eq,1 thi 0'44 °4 tti444 e ts 4 B o f Si ttt:Y 41 O o iati, 41,1404 Births. Ife of OP DoNovAtc.—On the Bth inst., at Brighton, the s" -- til e Donovan, Esq., of Framfield, of a daughter- ,s+ EVERS.—On the 10th inst., at 33, Westbourli e- 0 0' wife of Gustaf Evers, Esq., of a son. b.teA WARNER.—On the 10th inst ,at Norton, St()c Tees, the wife of Wm. Warner, Esq., of a o° l3. 6 (10 . Marriages. , ro ft ,- yr, BENNETT —BUCKLEY.—On the 9th inst at 13 1 e 1 131 'r 0 pel, near Ashton-under-Lyne Captain S3llteglite Bennett, Austrian Service, to 'Sara h Arttletj„ - ii. „,4g , the late James Smith Buckley, of Ryecroft - 1- ",: - 0 0 ' : r HAnnis--GLINN.----On the 7th inst at Plyitl'A' to.r", o ' l 'ol son of Sir William Snow H a " • lit., 1 1. 6.1 garet Sibella Gertrude, daughter 'of the late Esq. i Oll4 Deaths. TT 1 S ii g i Tlit'.l' CnEsTmt.—On the 10th inst., at Kirby Can° - -v -31 ' l' 1 el.' the Hon. Elizabeth Chester, widow of the ,-.10343111 Chester, and second daughter of the late 14° IP .1. aged 73. Cryp t , HITCHENS.—On the 7th inst., at Ramsgate, i,0 13.10 Ilitchins, R.N. W'llitt ill LONG.—On the 10th inst., at Croydon, • ,:69. „vet Esq., of Croydon, and of Clifford's-inn, ag e 7„ .: reeiurl OSMOND.—On the Bth inst suddenly, at li,i s n - d ecl ','o.• S Chiswick, John Osmond, Esq., of 87, Strallat "Vat" OLEY.—On the Bth inst., at Oak e n ouse, Gr °/vje' , lv: tershire, Thos. Soley, Esq., ag B2 . 010, 1 1 'i ,4 WRIGHT.—On the ,11th inst., at 1, Forel - 0 8 oit i t ° tc W 133- lizi a , n J d ohn Law Wright, Esq., of th e PPr ._.--- --- 4 ° ' --.--- ___ _ ----- s o, o p London : Printed and Published by wa r-J[l ' ll :i ' I° ' °I of No. 112, Strand, Piinter, at Ton Surt 0 c e c olii Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy', in ill° . Aliddlesex.-1119nday, FeDruarY 1 3, 18°'