The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Lords of the Admiralty, from Portland in the Enchantress, arrived yesterday afternoon at Plymouth. Several ships of war , supposed to be the Channel squadron, were at some distance from the coast ; one was entering the Sound, the others were expected to follow. The Royal Marines at Storehouse will be inspected to-morrow. The levee is postponed until Monday, at 2 30 p.m., when it will be held in Devonport dockyard. The screw steam frigate Phoebe, 35, Capt. John Bytbesea, will leave Plymouth Suund shortly for Halifax. The screw steam corvette Rattlesnake, 19, at Devonport, of 1,705 tons, with engines of 400 horse power, will be commissioned in a few days for a Second-Class Commodore, to relieve Commodore liornby on the West Coast of Africa. The half-yearly change of quarters of the brigade of Foot Guards will be made on Tuesday next, when the Ist battalion of the Grenadier Guards re move from the Tower to Windsor, the 2d battalion from Chelsea Barracks to St. George's Barracks, and 3d battalion from Wellington Barracks (new wing) to Wellington Barracks (old wing) and out barrack. Coldstream Guards, Ist Battalion, from St. George's Barracks to the Tower ; the 2d batal lion will remain in Dublin. The Scots Fusilier Guards, Ist battalion, from Windsor to Chelsea Barracks ; and 2d battalion from Wellington Bar racks (old wing) to 'Wellington Barracks (new wing.) The depot of the 2d battalion of the 22d Regi ment, under the command of Capt. J. W. Trevor, after being inspected by Major-Gen. F. Murray, left Chatham garrison on Wednesday evening, and pro ceeded to Gravesend, where the officers and men embarked on board the Earl of Percy steamer for conveyance to Newcastle, there to await the arrival of the service companies of the 2d battalion of the 22d Regiment from the Mauritius. The strength of the depot is seven officers, six sergeants, 58 rank and file, 10 soldiers' wives, and 19 children. Staff- Assist.-Surg. J. C. Knipe proceeded in medical charge of the troops. At a late hour on Wednesday night a series of highly interesting siege operations was commenced on the field-works, Chatham, by the officers and sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers, for the purpose of ascertaining what field operations could be undertaken by a large force of Royal Engineers, when working at night, with the assistance of the electric light, and in the face of a large hostile force. The whole of the arrangements connected with the proposed operations, as well as the nature of the works intended to be undertaken, were kept con cealed from the force to be employed in the siege works until Wednesday evening, when the order was issued by the Director of the Royal Engineer Estab lishment (Col. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8.) for the working parties of sappers and miners to make pre parations for mining operations in the face of an enemy in the field. Shortly after 8 o'clock the entire force to be employed assembled on the vacant ground at the rear of Brompton Barracks, facing the Crimean Memorial Arch, under command of Lieut.-Col. IV. 0. Lennox, C. 8., V.C., to whom the duty of effecting the intended operations was intrusted. The working implements having been served out to each man, the Royal Engineers marched away, under cover of the darkness, to the scene of the proposed operations near the lower ex tremity of Chatham lines, where extensive field works had already been thrown up by the sappers and miners, who have been occupied in military engineering operations for several months past. The plan of attack supposed the force in the field to be resting with their base at Brompton, and the efforts of the Engineers were directed to the forma tion of an indented sunken battery for three guns, together with a single sap, and the driving of the necessary galleries of communication, all of which were to be undertaken in a more than usually ex posed portion of the siege-works. On the arrival of the force on the ground pickets were posted, and the electric light having been thrown on the works, a body of several hundred men commenced the con struction of the battery, similar working parties being at the same time employed in the forinaLion of the single sap, and pushing forward the galleries. The management of the electric light was undertaken by a party of Royal Engineers under the personal superintendence of Capt. F. J. Bolton, 12th Regiment, who is attached to the Royal Engineer establishment on duties connected with his system of day and night naval and military sig nalling. The experience of Wednesday night proved most conclusively that in future military operations in the field the electric light is destined to become a most valuable auxiliary in enabling sapping and mining operations to be carried on under the most favourable circumstances during the night, the powerful rays of light, which were directed on the exact locality where the works were in progress, enabling the operations to be carried out under cir cumstances as favourable as siege works undertaken during the day. In about three hours from the time of commencing the works the Royal Engineers had succeeded in completing the battery in readiness for placing three siege guns in position, the face of the battery being sloped off and rivetted with the ordi nary sand bags, as well as with galvanised iron gabions, the valuable invention of Quartermaster Jones, Royal Engineers. The superiority of the gabions constructed on Quartermaster Jones's plan was fully established during the siege operations on Wednesday night, a party of only eight men con structing 50 gabions in about an hour and a half, while to make an equal number of the old wicker gabions in the same time would have required a working party of 300 men, the whole of whom must of necessity have been taken away from the siege works where their services would be required. Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning the force of Royal Engineers had completed the whole of the operations ordered to be carried out—the battery, sap, galleries, and other works having all been placed in readiness for the mounting of the guns, with which fire would be opened at daylight, the whole having been completed in the comparatively brief space of between four and five hours from the time of tracing the site for the battery. The order was then given for the working parties to return to their quarters, which were reached about 2 a.m. Yesterday another party of officers and sappers of RoyalE ngineerswere engaged in erecting in proximity to the newly constructed batterya new description of flying bridge for the passage of artillery, troops, and war stores, the only materials used in the construc tion of the bridge being ordinary scaffold poles bound together on what may be described as the double truss principle, by which system of con struction the lateral and vertical strains are distri buted over every part of the structure, and by means of which enormous strength and rigidity are obtained. A flooring of planks completes the bridge, which is of sufficient strength to admit of the passage of field-pieces, horses, ammunition waggons, and other field equipments. The bridge constructed yesterday would, on ordinary services, occupy the working party about five hours in its erection. It is understood that some further night siege operations will be carried out at Chatham in the course of a few days. Lieut.-Gen. W. Cowper Coles died at Woodcote on Tuesday last, aged 77. The gallant General had seen considerable service in the early part of his professional career, and had serve 1 in the 14th and 40th Regiments of Foot and in the 4th and 12th Dragoons. He entered the army in the autumn of 1605, and served in South Aenerica with the 14th in 1807, including the operations previous to and storming of Montevideo. Afterwards he served in the Peninsula from August, 1808, to November, 1611, and again from April, 1813, to the end of that war in 18,14. With the 40th Regiment he was present at the battles of Roleia, Viniiera, and Tala vera; with the 4th Dragoons at Buasco, Albuera, and Usagre ; and in the 12th Light Dragoons at the passage of the Bidassoa, the Nive, and the Adour. The General had received the silver war medal . with seven claps, and his commissions bore date as follows : —Ensign, Oct. 31, 1805 ; lieut., Feb. 8, 1807 ; capt., Nov. 19, 1812; major, June 9, 1825 ; lieut.-col., Dec. 10, 1830; col., Nov. 9, 1840 ; major-gen., Tune 20, 1851 ; and lieut.-gen., March 9, 1801. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Adtuiralty :—George L. Miller, a.sist.-pay master, to the Bellerophon, and Owen Davey, assist.-Paymaster, to the Dauntless. Railway and other Companies. S 0 UTH -EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon street ; Mr. E. W. Watkin, M.P., the chairman, presided. Mr. CHUBB, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they had made arrangements for admit ting some of the Brighton Company's trains to run into the Cannon-street station on Monday next as well as the South-Eastern trains. They were anxious to give the public the advantage of coming into that station as soon as possible under the agree ment with the Brighten Company. The report of the directors was very full, and gave the proprietors all the information that was necessary to enable them to judge of their affairs. He had thought it would be to the advantage of the company to charge the interest to revenue on all the expended capital of the company, although it might be looked upon as a hard measure. In the expectation of having the Tunbridge-wells line open for traffic he had been disappointed. Some delay had taken place in consequence of the wet weather, and therefore it was not advisable to open it until the works were more consolidated. They thought it better to postpone the opening for a short time, until everything was per fectly ready for traffic. But as it would be opened soon they would not suffer much from charging all the interest to revenue on productive capital. By this means the company would be placed on a hard and solid basis, and he trusted that with the aid of downright hard work and economy they would be enabled to increase the net revenue available for dividend, and thus make the future of the company satisfactory to all concerned. They were paying in terest on the cost of a large amount of plant to pro vide for the working of the new Tunbridge line, and also for the development of the traffic for the next few years. He hoped it would be a long time before they again had to ask them for money to purchase new plant. A number of new engines were added to the stock in the past half year, and their cost would appear in the next account. He found that in the past half year there had been an increase in the pas senger traffic of £50,000 ; but at the same time there had been a decrease in the merchandise traffic of £4,200, which had arisen from bad trade and com mercial distress. As to the passenger traffic, it was upon the whole satisfactory. During the first two months the Exhibition was open in Paris it was a failure, and a very small increase iu the number of passengers was due to its opening. The continental passenger traffic showed an increase of £26,000 the half year, and the local passenger traffic an increase of £24,000. The local goods traffic had fallen off from the depression of trade. He found that the total net increase of the traffic in the half year was £57,000, and it was earned by an additional expen diture of 50} per cent. on that account. He found that the increased receipts on the Great Northern Railway were earned at an expense of 521 per cent. of the increased receipts, and that the increased re ceipts on the Midland Railway had been earned at an expense of 120 per cent. of the increased receipts, so that the working expenses had more than eaten up the increase of traffic. The increased traffic on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, which was an exceed ingly well managed line, was earned at an expense of 80 per cent. He thought they would see that their general manager, Mr. Eborall, had not lost any of his usual care and vigilance, as he had worked their increased receipts at 50} per cent. The number of passengers conveyed during the past half year over their lines was 9,700,000, showing, as compared with the corresponding half of last year, an increase of 1,228,000 passengers, of whom 931,000 were carried on the line between Cannon-street and Charing-cross. He told them that 9,700,000 pas sengers were carried over the company's railways during the past half-year, and he had now to tell them that 7,15),000 passengers were conveyed in and out of the Cannon-street and Charing-cross stations, and this showed them the great importance of those metropolitan stations, and that their chief traffic emanated from London. He had no doubt that great as the expenditure on these stations had been, when the traffic to and from them was deve loped, they would pay the company a fair interest on the outlay. The receipts on the Greenwich branch showed a decrease of £l6O, in consequence of the distress in the cast and south of London during the half year. But there had been an in crease of £10,870, or 163 per cent. in the receipts between Cannon-street and Charing-cross. From observations he had made in travelling to and fro he hail suggested to the general manager that it would be better to do away with the second-class carriages between Charing-cross and Cannon-street, and have only first-class and third-class, charging for the first-class return ticket 81., and for the third class return 4d. The increase in traffic between Charing-cross and London-bridge as compared with London-bridge only was £40,000, and as compared with London-bridge, Charing-cross, and Cannon street and London-bridge only, £74,000, exclusive of £17,500 the local traffic on the Charing-cross line, making together £91,500. That showed the kind of increase that would take place. The increase in season tickets had been £6,500. Oa Easter Monday they had conveyed on their lines without accident 135,000 passengers. There was now a steady in crease in their receipts of £3,500 a week, and he thought as to traffic receipts and other matters they had fairly turned the corner, and as time went on their affairs would improve. There were two teats of careful management in con lusting railway tralli3 —viz., making but few bad debts, and having to pay very little compensation for lost luggage. 'The whole expense for the latter was £8 9s. 2d., and for bad debts under £lO during the half-year. (Hear.) This showed that they had people who knew how to attend to their Lusiness. During the half-year the directors had offered a certain amount of debenture stock to the proprietors, and it was all readily taken up by them. (Hear.) He called the attention of the proprietors to an Act passed in the last session of Parliament " to amend the law relating to rail ways." They would remember that a decision of Lord Cairns had caused great consternation among debenture-holders in the case of the London, Chat , ham, and Dover. It was practically to the effect that the directors of a railway company might get the company into debt, which no directors had any business to do ; and, according to Lord Cairns, the trade debt would claim before the debenture-holder and might cause the engines and rolling stock to be seized and sold, the working of the line might thus be stopped, and the security of the debenture would be endangered. By the provisions of the new Act the debenture and debenture stock would have priority against the company over all other claims except rent charges and land claims ; and this placed all railway debentures in a safe position. (Hear, hear.) He would ask them to divide the ordinary shares of the company into two equal portions, but it would not be compulsory on any holder to divide his shares. It was suggested by some very large holders of ordinary shares that, if they could fix one portion of the ordinary capital entitling it to take the ordinary dividend pay able to the undivided share until it amounted to 6 per cent. on the preferred portion, it would be a great advantage, leaving the deferred portion to take any dividend that might remaia as coming to the whole share. It was believed that a share thus divided would' bring a higher prici in the market than the whole share, as shown in the case of the Great Northern Railway A deferred half-share and B preferred halt-share, which together brought a higher price in the market than the whole or undivided share now consolidated into stock. Ile also intended to ask them to ap point an audit committee of five shareholders to select auditors every year, after the plan which had been successfully adopted by the London and North Western Railway Company since the year 1851. The five gentlemen he proposed to name held in the aggregate £300,000 of the company's stock, namely, Mr. Fielding, M.P., Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Sealy, Mr. 11. Wheeler, and Mr. Fort. The next matter he had to propose was that as Mr. Eborall, their gene ral manager, was at present in a very unsatisfactory state of health he should have leave of absence for two months, and he hoped he would return less careworm than he looked at present, and he was sure he would carry with him on his journey the good wishes of the proprietors and directors. (Hear, hear, and a voice, " Pay his expenses.") He then called attention to the successful exertions of the Rev. Mr. Allcock, who had collected £4,000 and built a church at Ashford to accommodate 600 of the working people employed by the company. He commenced his exertions in 1861, and had lately completed one portion of the task he had undertaken. Mr. Allcock had again renewed his exertions with a view to provide an endowment for the church, and he hoped the shareholders would kindly assist Mr. Allcock to accomplish that desirable object. The chairman then called attention to the unjust state of the law as affecting rates and taxes on rail ways and compensation to passengers for injuries. He hoped the recommendation of the Royal Com mission on Railways would induce Parliament next Session to pass an act to remedy those grievances. The rates aud taxes on the South-Eastern Company's railway amounted to £30,000, or 9 per cent. of the net earnings. A railway did not cast any burdens on the rates, and it got no benefit for the good it did in the various parishes through which it passed. They had paid in one year £85,000 out of revenue for composition for accidents. With regard to their liabilities, the best way was to meet every charge at once out of revenue, and not place anything to a suspense account. He thought directors should be prudent and thoughtful men ; and as to the present board, he believed that no body of men could work more pleasantly together than they did for the bene fit of the company, and as to the shareholders they had given them their cordial and unanimous sup port. If the board had not had that support, they could not have gone on so successfully. The agree ment between the company and the Brighton Com pany, if prudently, carefully, and faithfully carried out, could not fail to be beneficial to both compa nies, and the more he thought of it the more clearly he saw his way to a development that would arise, and the more reason they would have for not dis turbing that arrangement. The capital account would lie in a nutshell, and he now thought that the services he had rendered to the company ought to relieve him from the position he now occupied, and which he accepted at request of friends who were large shareholders in the company. His time was fully occupied, and he thought they might go on without him now. He would not advise his friends to part with their stock in the company. He thought the concern had turned the corner, the re venue would steadily increase, and they would again enjoy good dividends. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. J. BYNG seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. MORPETII suggested that the second-class carriages on the Charing-cross line should be re tained, and that the affairs might be modified ; and, after asking several questions with regard to items in the accounts, he agreed that everything charge able against revenue should be paid in the half year, and that there should be no suspense account for any purpose whatever. He thought the surplus lands should be sold, and that the time had arrived when they should endeavour to retain the valuable services of Mr. Watkin by offering him suitable compensation. (Hear.) Mr. PUNCHER approved the course pointed out by the Chairman, recommended a modification of the fares on the Charing-cross Railway, and a pro vision for smoking carriages, to relieve those who did not like smoking. After some observations by Mr. Adams and Mr. Morrin, The CHAIRMAN explained that when the Tun bridge line was opened for traffic it would save 13 miles to Tunbridge, Dover, Hastings, Ramsgate, and other places, and would practically make the South-Eastern line as short to those places as the Chatham and Dover line, and by means of which they hoped to recover some of the traffic they had lost by the competition of that company. 11'ben the directors of the London and South-Western were prepared to allow them a fair consid,:ration for running trains into the Cannon-street Station the South-Eastern directors would be ready to meet them on fair and reasonable terms. The report and statement of accounts were unani mously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent per annum was declared for the past half -year on the consolidated stock of the company, payable on the sth of September; a bylaw was agreed to for imposing a penalty of £5 upon persons putting in action without reasonable cause the telegraphic communication between passenger and guard ; an Audit Committee was unanimously appointed, con sisting of Messrs. Fielding, Scaly, Fletcher, Wheeler, and Fort, for the selection of auditors ; a resolution was passed authorising the division of the ordinary stocks, as proposed by the chairman. On the motion of Mr. Bibby, a director, seconded by Mr. Stuart, a director, both holding a large amount of stock, a formal resolution requesting Mr. Watkin, M.P., to retain his present position in the company, and voting him £2,500 a year for his valuable services, was unanimously adopted by the meeting. On the motion of Mr. MORPETH, £lOO was unani mously voted to Mr. Ebdrall out of the funds of the company to defray the expenses of his journey for the benefit of his health, and the proceedings concluded with a hearty vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. CRYSTAL PALACE AND SOUTH LONDON JUNCTION. The half -yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Winchester buildings ; Mr. J. Leveson Gower in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the Board had succeeded in obtaining a settlement of the accounts between the company and the contractor. He was of opinion that if they took the cost of the construction of the line it would be found that it was the cheapest of the metropo litan lines. Ile believed that the traffic of the line would be quite equal to the traffic on the metropo litan extensions of the London, Chatham, and Dover. The station at the Palace could not be assailed, and they had every reason to believe that all the metropolitan railways would be glad to have access to the High Level Station at the Palace. The East London proposed in their bill to make arrange ments to get to the Palace, but it was not suc cessful. He believed it was intended to renew the project as soon as the railway property revived; this company would be the first to benefit by it. Mr. HOTILAM, in seconding the motion, said the position of the station at the Crystal Palace could not be better, standing as it did at the top of a nar row summit with slopes running down on all sides. The weak point in the line was the want of city ac commodation, and the manner in which the line was worked by the London, Chatham, and Dover. Mr. BURKE, Q.C., said he had a very large inte rest in the company as a mortgagee, and as the directors had not given the mortgagees any infor mation he had qualified himself as a shareholder for the purpose of gaining that information. He had been told that the line had been worked at a loss, as the receivers had only taken £5,000, while the ex penditure was £B,OOO. If that was the case they had better shut up the line. The line was badly worked by the London and Chatham. _ Mr. MAYNARD explained that the line was worked by the Chatham Company at cost price. The directors had not yet taken steps to get possession of the line, as they believed the closing of the line could do no good to any one. liter some further discussion the report was adopted, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AITGLIST 30, 1867. F URNESS. The half-yearly general meeting was held yes terday at the offices, Great George-street, West minster ; Mr. Ramsden, the managing director, in the chair. The report stated that the receipts, with the ad dition of the balance brought from the preceding half-year, amounted to £138,187, and the working expenses, debenture and preference share interest, to £103,192, leaving a balance of £34,995, out of which the directors proposed a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock. An expenditure on capital account, exceeding £300,000, on which a guaranteed dividend of 5 per cent. was paid out of the revenue of the half-year, was still unproductive, owing to the unfinished stato of the works. The Furness and Midl: load line was opened in June last, and the directors: "had reason to expect a good return for the expendi lure, besides the increased traffic that must accrues to the main line and to the Barrow Docks by more , direct com munication with Yorkshire and the east ern districts. This line was the joint property of the Furness and of the Midland Railway Companies, and, under an agreement just entered into with the Mid Lind Com pany and other parties, the steamers to Bell ast which had hitherto plied from Morecambe would be trans ferrt dto Barrow, on the 2d September next. An ar rangement had also been made to run a fast steamer from Barrow to Douglas, Isle of Man, daily, during the summer months. The sea passage -would be materially shorter than by any other rout( , and a large passenger traffic would pass via Bars•ow, both to Ireland and to the Ile of Man. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was adopted, and the dividend at the rate o 1 8 per cent. per annum was declared. A resolution for authorising the directors to raise by mortgage or bond £lOO,OOO, under the company's Act, 1866, was agreed to, and the proceedings ter minated. SEVERN VALLEY. The half yearly meeting of shareholders was held yesterday at the office, Victoria-street, Westmin ster ; Mr. J. Parson in the chair. The report stated that since the 30th of June the forfeited shares had been disposed of, and the directors hoped that the proceeds, together with the company's other assets, would be sufficient to meet the few outstanding lia bilities, and they would be enabled by the end of the present year to close the capital account. The war rants for the dividend on the preference shares at 4} cent. per annum, and on the ordinary shares at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum would be issued im mediately on the receipt from the Great Western Railway Company of the requisite moneys. The report was adopted, and the dividend declared. COLNE VALLEY AND HALSTEAD. The report of the directors of this company states that after the contract with Sir D. Gooch had ex pired a contract was entered into with Mr. Sperling to work the line ; but it became evident, after three or four months' experience, that the working ex penses would exceed the receipts. To prevent this the contract with Mr. Sperling was terminated, and a new contract was entered into with the company's traffic manager, Mr. R. J. Watt. The directors considered that it would be better to have the line well and efficiently worked as an independent line at present. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at Lancaster on Wednesday ; Mr. E. W. Hassell in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving that a dividend at the rate of 9f per cent. upon the consolidated stock of the company be declared, said that, although it was somewhat less than in former corresponding periods, he thought the shareholders had no reason to be dissatisfied. Mr. W. JACKSON seconded the motion, which was carried. A dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. upon the preference stock was declared. Mr. GREG strongly urged the desirability of the London and North-Western Company coming, if possible, to some terms with the Midland Company in regard to the proposed Settle and Carlisle line. The CHAIRMAN said he was satisfied that the London and North-Western directors had done everything they possibly could to effect terms with the Midland Company. Several proposals had been made, and rejected. He thought that the proposals of the London and North-Western were perfectly reasonable, and those of the Midland unreasonable. Mr. BANCROFT thought it would be a serious matter to have another line made parallel with the Lancaster and Carlisle, and that if fair terms were offered by the Midland no obstacle should be offered to an arrangement. At present the Midland propo sal was unreasonable, and altogether inadmiisible. Mr. W. N. llodgson, M.P., Mr. W. Birley, and Mr. T. E. Bolden were re-elected directors, and Mr. 11. Crossfield was re-elected auditor. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. WESTERN GAS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Argyll-street, Regent-street ; Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, said it required little elucidation. He referred to the bill which had been thrown out in the past session, and said if the companies we re l e ft t o con duct their own affairs without interference, it would be greatly to the advantage of the public at large. The house seemed to forget how long the companies had paid no dividend at.all ; and the average divi dend of the Western had been 5i per cent. Those who were loudest in their complaints about divi dends would be little prepared to receive only the same rate upon any capital they had embarked in their individual undertakings. Mr. L. SIMPSON seconded the motion. Mr. :SLATER thought the amount of bad debts was tn f i a t c e t n , "sundrybeing only £5BB ; and called te creditors, £14,587." Mr. DOANE asked whether the companies had a h t i io g n hly to sat the is done anything towards amalgamation. Mr. WILMOT KNIGIIT referred to the item " Par liamentary and Incidental Expenses," £1,873, and inquired how much was due to 44 Parliamentary" proper. He also asked what was the current rate which the company was paying upon its loans in these days of a money plethora.. Referring to the agitation going on among the:gas stokers, he said with every desire to assist the working man he had read the letter appearing in the newspapers of that morning signed g 4 A Stoker," but it seemed to him that the communication of 'Mr. Phillips, tne secre tary to the Chartered Gas Company, made out an answerable case. He proved beyond dispute that the stokers earned good wages and had many privileges. Mr. A. GRAY said the price in the city had been reduced voluntarily from 15s. to 6s. per thousand cubic feet, and deprecated the constant attempts made to undo a Parliamentary compact. He did not believe that amalgamation would reduce the price 2d. per thousand. With regard to the stokers, in stead of their employment being for 12 hours out of the 24, in the city they were absolutely engaged only four hours ; and there was no ground for the complaints which were made. The CH kIRMAN, in reply, said the company only exercised its borrowin g powers as the business ex tended. The Parli amentary ex penses had been £1,200, and the average rate o f interest on loans was 41 [per cent. He thought Mr. Knight had taken a right view of the question connected with gas stokers. lie agreed with Air. Gray on the sub ject of amalgamation, and did not think it would effect the reduction supposed ; but the directors of the various companies were quite ready to do any thing that should be proved to be desirable. The motion for the adoption of the report was passed nem. dis., as was one authorising the pay ment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. The retiring directors and auditors having been re-elected, a vote of thanks to the directors con cluded the proceedings. 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Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.— In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., lls. ; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 408.—BAARY Do BAURY and Co., No. 77, aiegent-street, London; also'Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 289, Ogyrd-titrefat 330 Otruct • and 01l fir9Orkibild 91")24443' EXECUTION AT TAUNTON. Yesterday morning George Britten, who so foully murdered his wife at Woolverton, nearFrome, on the 18th of July, and afterwards attempted to conceal his crime by burning the body, suffered the extreme penalty of the law in front of Taunton gaol. The utmost secrecy had been observed as to the day fixed for the execution, and the consequence was that the crowd in front of the scaffold was much smaller than usual, and did not number more than 3,000 persons. It bad been very generally rumoured that Britten would be hanged on Tuesday, and on the morning of that day quite as many persons re paired to the vicinity of the gaol as were present at the execution. Britten, who was a man well to do in the world, had been a farmer, and was at one time guardian of the poor for the parish in which he lived, and for his services in that office was pre sented with a testimonial. Some time ago, without having previously expressed his intention of doing so, he went to New Zealand, and for a period of two or three years his wife and friends did not know where to find him. On his return to this country his wife, contrary to the expressed wishes of her relatives, went to live with him again, and they were re siding together with their only child, a boy about 7 years of age, in a house belonging to the prisoner at the time the horrible crime was perpetrated. At tached to this house was a malthouse, which the prisoner let to a Mr. Moser, and on July 20, at an early hour in the morning, this malthouse was dis covered to be on fire. An alarm was raised, and Mr. Superintendent Deggan and others went to aid in suppressing the flames. The fire was soon extin guished, and the prisoner, who assisted, was con gratulated upon his house having escaped, and on being asked where his wife was, said she had gone to visit her friends a few days previously. On some of those present going into the malthouse they dis covered the half-consumed corps of a woman lying upon a pile of burning wood and coke. An exami nation of the body showed some very severe wounds upon the head, which, singularly enough, seemed to have escaped the effects of the fire, and suspicions of foul play were aroused in the mind of Mr. Deg gan, who questioned the prisoner more closely as to his wife. He prevaricated, and on being shown the body declared it was not that of his wife, but he was ultimately obliged to confess it was. He was then taken into custody and locked up at Frome police station, where on the next day (Sunday) he confessed to having murdered his wife on the Thursday even ing, and to having put the body into a sack, tied a rope around the neck, and then dragged it a consi derable distance over the roof of an outhouse into the malthouse, which he set on fire, in the vain hope of concealing his crime. The prisoner was tried before Mr. Justice Willes on August 10th at Wells, and when called on to plead, he said, " Guilty, but not of malice aforethought." He was ably defended by Mr. Prideaux, Q.C., but the jury almost immediately found him guilty, and the judge, in sentencing him to be hanged, expressed a pretty strong opinion that be must not look for any remission of the full penalty, and commented on the diabolical attempts he had made to consume the body. There were those, however, who sympathised with the perpetra tor of this horrible outrage, and two or three me morials to the Secretary of State were got up pray ing for a remission of the sentence ; but it is probable that the majority of the signatures were prompted by an aversion to capital punishment, a feeling pretty generally expressed by those who signed it in Taun ton. These efforts, however, were fruitless, and on Tuesday a letter was received from Mr. Ilardy stat ing that he could see no sufficient grounds for ad vising her Majesty to extend her royal clemency to the prisoner. The attempts which were being made to save the wretched man's life were unknown to him, and he from the first fully expected that the sentence would be carried into effect; he became exceedingly penitent, and attended to the religious ministrations of the chaplain of the gaol, the Rev. F. Howse, with great apparent devoutness. He was also visited by the Rev. Mr. Clark, vicar of St. Mary's, and both these gentlemen express their be lief that his penitence was sincere. Ile made no further confession, though he occupied a great deal of his time in writing. At about 8 o'clock yesterday morning he attended Divine service at the chapel within the gaol, and partook of the Holy Sacrament, after which he addressed the other prisoners who were assembled, and warned them as to their evil courses. He then walked from the chapel to the pinioning room beneath the drop, where his arms were bound in the usual manner by Calcraft, the executioner. lie exhibited the greatest fortitude on the scaffold, thanked the chaplain and the turnkeys for their kindness, and shook hands with the rev. gentleman and with Calcraft. When the drop fell his hands were uplifted in the attitude of prayer, but they immediately afterwards became clinched, and he gave several convulsive struggles before life was extinct. The last execution which took place at Taunton was that of two brothers, named Wedmore, who murdered their aunt, Sarah Waterman, at Dundry. They were executed on the sth of April, 1861. FALL OF A RAILWAY VIADUCT IN INDIA. The Times of India gives the following account of the fall of a viaduct on the Bhore Ghaut incline on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway : "In our last overland summary we reported the occurrence of a melancholy disaster on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, whereby ,from 50 to 80 passengers lost their lives. The precise number has never been ascertained, as Government allowed its order for an independent investigation by Govern ment officers to be frustrated, and on the one-sided investigation instituted by the railway officials the public can place no reliance whatever. It is felt that in this matter the local government has egregiously failed in its duty. Scarcely had the gap which oc casioned the accident referred to been repaired when another break-down occurred, happily unat tended with loss of life, but, in every other way, perhaps the most serious calamity that could have befallen the company. The most extensive viaduct on the Bhore Ghaut incline—the Poona and Bom bay line—has totally collapsed, sacrificing the labour of two years, and half a million of money. As the Syhadree mountains, or 'Western Ghauts, run parallel to the line of sea coast, they cut off Bombay and other ports from the interior of the country. Across these mountains, by a series of tunnels, viaducts, and gradients, some as steep as 1 in 37—the most magnificent railway works in the world—goes to the South-Eastern lines of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. This Bhore Ghaut in cline is 15 miles and 68 chains in length ; the level of its base is 196 feet above high water mark in Bombay, and of its summit 2,027 feet, so that the total elevation surmounted by the incline is 1,831 feet, at an average gradient of 1 in 18. The works consist of 26 tunnels (the total length of which is 3,985 yards), and of eight gigantic viaducts, besides numerous extensive cuttings. The viaduct which has collapsed is that which crossed the Mhow-ke- Mullee Khind, between Wonee and Thakoorwada, and was thus the most important on the Ghaut, connecting, as it did, the upper and lower rangesof hills. It was also the most extensive on the line, consisting of eight semicircular arches of 50 feet span, and 139 feet above the surface of the ground. So far as the actual works were concerned, how ever, this does not show the real height, because it was necessary to excavate to a depth of 2 ift before a sufficiently solid foundation could be obtained. The viaduct was thus 163 ft above the footing, and it was built on a considerable curve. It had Ineu known to be at least superficially unsound for seve ral years, cracks having been visible in two of the piers. Iriether these cracks had been becoming larger, or whether others had been making their appearance elsewhere, we are unable to say ; but, at any rate, some fears seem lately to have been enter tained regarding the stability of the fabric, for a special examination of the viaduct in question was made on Monday last—three days before it fell— by Capt. White, R.E., deputy consulting engineer to Government in the railway department, and the engineers of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. It did not seem to them that there was any special cause for increased alarm, as the piers did not ap pear to be more extensively or fatally cracked than they had been for years. This is the moat un satisfactory feature of the whole, tending, as it does, to create a want of confidence in the judgment of even the most experienced engi neers. The cause of the fall of the viaduct is undoubtedly to be found in its very faulty construction. Sound and substantial as the masonry may have seemed outside, any attempt at inspection when the work was proceeding must have shown the merest tyro in building that the inside masonry was disgracefully insufficient. The lime and mortar, too, used by the contractors must have been very in ferior, probably owing to the terrible scarcity of water at the time. So scanty was the supply that there was not even sufficient to supply the wants of the 24,000 or 25,000 men employed on the works, and who were decimated by cholera in consequence. The mortar and the stones being too dry, no care in building could bind the courses of masonry together —hence the cracks and downfall of the whole. " Though this accident was attended with no loss of life, the escape of two passenger trains was as astonishing as it is gratifying—one which was ascending the Ghaut having been stopped just in time to prevent its being precipitated into the ravine ; and another, descending the Ghaut, having been apprised of the danger at the station immediately beyond it, and thus prevented from getting on the incline, when escape would have been extremely difficult, if not, under the circumstances, absolutely impossible. The work of clearing away the ruins and rebuilding the viaduct will occupy at least a twelvemonth, and meanwhile the traffic for about six miles must revert to the old route, via Cam poolee, crossing the Ghaut in bullock carts. The utter destruction of this great viaduct can only be regarded as a great public calamity for Bombay and the Deccan." THE FRENCH ARMY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) CAMP OF CHALONS, Aug. 24. It has often struck me as curious that Frenchmen, who seem so unfit to colonise, should, when they are made into soldiers, become such good cam paigners, while, on the contrary, Englishmen, who have such success in colonising, should, as soon as they put on the red coat, become so helpless. This apparent contradiction in both cases is evi dently owing to the system in the first instance, and then to the national peculiarities of the two races. The Frenchman, as a rule, if left to himself, is the most wretched and helpless being, while all the energy of the Englishman will come out when he has to rely upon himself. Now, in campaigning, the English soldier, who has all his life been made to think that he is there merely as a fighting animal, which is to be provided with everything by others, loses as it were the faculties which he has in his native state. Of course, those who defend the system tell you that it is the nature of the Eng lish soldier to be dull and helpless ; but how comes it that the brothers and cousins of this same helpless being can shift as backwoodsmen as none else can ? The French soldier in garrison is, on the contrary, encouraged to turn his faculties to account, and although a provident " Intendance" supplies his wants, there are always means for an odd job which will eke out his pittance. This tendency to strive and better himself he brings with him to the camp, emulation helps, and the result is that he contrives to make himself more comfortable than could be imagined. Whoever wants a practical proof of this has only to come from Aldershott to Chalons if he had no op portunity to make the comparison in the Crimea. Chalons, although now burnt up by the sun, is a comfortable place, and, curious enough, most com fortable, not where the permanent huts are, but where the troops are under canvas. In the huts there is only room for a Division and a half, while the remainder of the infantry—that is, two and a half Divisions—a Division of cavalry and all the complement of artillery, eight field batteries, be sides the reserve artillery, are in tents. Round every tent there is a little garden, and in front of the line a succession of artistic beds, in which you can still see the remains of flowers, while the bor ders turfed over show various patterns, some of which, especially in front of the 63d, camped near " Mourmelon le petit," would do honour to a pro fessional gardener. As for the quarters of the Com mandant of Engineers, they display even now a blazing mass of colour. In the rear of the tents are vegetable gardens, most productive, of course, iu the cavalry and artillery regiments. The presence of the Emperor has stimulated emu lation, and the regiments have vied with each other to express their devotion in the most artistic form. The huts display ornaments and devices in turf, and before every regiment there is a more or less appropriate trophy. The devices do not show much variety, consisting mostly of the sacramental "Vive l'Empereur !" to which is often joined "Vivo l'Emperatrice !" " Vive le Prince Imperiale !" or "Vive la Famille Imperiale !" There is more variety in the trophies, although the bust of the Emperor occurs too frequently. But there are a few which display artistic merit. The first among them is in front of the sth Chasseurs, and represents a ser geant who, on the 18th of June, was the first to get into the Malakoff, and, what is more, got out of it. The figure, cut in soft chalk stone, is really expres sive, and so thoroughly " chasseur-a-pied" in the face and attitude as only a regimental artist could contrive. The 90th Regiment has likewise its hero in front, an ensign who carried the colours of the regiment at the battle of Solferino. The silk was torn, the staff shattered, and the ensign bleeding, yet on he carried the colours. The 63d has a Cri mean hero, like the sth Chasseurs ; the 85th come back from Rome, from the Castle of St. Angelo and St. Peter's, with the colonnade. The Emperor gave prizes for the best, and that was, of course, the trophy of the Chasseurs. The cavalry, first in vege tables, are decidedly last in trophies and gardens. It is said they have too much to do. The horses certainly look as if they had done too much. There is no heavy cavalry here this year ; two regiments of Lancers and two of Hussars form the cavalry division, and their horses look like overtrained racers. As for the two Mourmelons, " le grand et le petit," I observe but little change from what they were six years ago. The church in "Mourmelon le grand" has been rebuilt in what I should call " Imperial Gothic," with a steeple in wood covered with tin, a sort of style which you can see in almost all the churches rebuilt in France during the present reign, and which will at some future time serve as a land mark, just as the half-barrack and half-palace like structures in the large towns, built in what is called the Neo-Casernic style. Nor is it very surprising that not much alteration should be made. There is no increased demand ; every year, more or less, the same number of troops arrives, and for these the accommodation, such as it is, suffices. As in all camps, hotels, restaurants, cafes, " brasseries,' " buvettes," and billiards abound, but you will be surprised to hear that there are two baths. They are, of course, for officers andthe floating camp popu lation. The idea which is prevalent in England that Frenchmen are not so clean as Englishmen does not hold good with the French soldiers and the French lower classes in general. They are, as a rule, cleaner than the English of the same class. You cannot pass a row of teats or huts without wit nessing the ablutions of some of the inmates, and whoever saw the two armies, French and English, campaign together can have no doubt of the fact. The old theatre in the pleasant grove close by the Place is still extant, and to judge by the remains of the playbills on the walls seems to have made great efforts this camp season. Then there are the cap concerts, and the balls four times a week, and fur some time the troops had even a circus among them, with giraffes, dromedaries, zebras, and monkeys. But alas ! all this glory, or rather the little that remains of it, will soon be over, for in a week's time the camp will be broken up, and the huts left in charge of the solitary regiment which is told off every year for this duty. The troops have already received their route, and those which are trans ferred to some other garrison are scanning the chances of comfort in their new quarters, and col lecting information from those whom they relieve. To-day was probably the last field mass, and a line sight it was to see those 40,000 men who form the camp massed together before the altar raised in front of the *artier Imp6riale. I . don't know whether especial care has been taken to et toge ther seasoned regiments this year to have a thorough trial with the new breechloader, and to make expe riments with new evolutions, but certainly the sight was calculated to rejoice the heart of every mili tary man. I never saw French troops look better and more up to their work, especially the in fantry and the artillery. They looked the very beau ideal of light, active troops. In less than a quarter of an hour every division was back on its road to its own encampment. They looked so emart in their present dress, the short jackets and baggy Zouave breeches, that it seemed almost s pity to think that all this is to be changed. And changed it will be. The change will be back again to the old dress ; the Zouave trousers are to be given up, and the old trousers coming down to the instep rehabilitated. The tight short jacket is to give way to the old long tunic for garrison work, while the cloak is to be replaced by the oid overcoat► which can be worn either alone or else over the tunic. Instead of the present bonnet de police, with out a peak, the old cap with a peak is again to be introduced, and the shako is to be in future of cloth, and not of patent leather as hitherto. It seems that practice has proved that what was very suitable to Zouaves was not adapted to the gene rality of the French soldiers. STATE OF TRADE. BRADFORD, Aug. 29.—T0-day's market has been quiet in all its branches. Although many staplers report that they could more readily move stocks at old rates, there are others who state quite the re verse. The demand for wool is far from general, and spinners cannot be induced to purchase beyond their actual wants. Choice wools, especially of the fine-haired class, alone are in request, while inferior sorts continue quite as much neglected as hitherto. Prices may be reported as steady, without anY change. The account of to-day's worsted yarn market are rather conflicting ; while some spinners report that they have done rather better, others report an entire absence of business. On the whole, few fresh orders have been received. The conti nental demand is still most restricted. Very le offers are made, but cannot be accepted. The home trade is also much quieter. Prices are without aI 3 I change. There is little new to report in the piece trade. The American merchants have been buying a little more from stock. Whenever they plac e orders, which is seldom, speedy delivery is required. Although there is a slight improvement for this quarter, it is only as yet very partial, and confined to certain sorts of goods. A few manufacturers are still busy for the home trade. A little more busi ness has been done for Germany, but the aggregate transactions are small. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRIS TOLJTiniusbAv. On our market to-day th e re was a moderato supplY fo English wheat on offer, which sold at from 60s for red t° 66s for white per 4961 b. In foreign wheat, which met an active inquiry, prices were at about the same as last we Some new samples of barley were on show, quality rough , and very few changed hands ; grinding met with a trifli demand, and made previous currencies. Oats scarce, un dear. Beans met a better trade. Maiz e qu i e t, a t fornle t prices. MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. Our market this morning was fairly attended. The re was only a limited business done i n w h ea t, an d Ene s i declined about 3s per qr and foreign 4d to 5d per coutlj A limited trade in flour, and is per sack l ower . In oats not much change, but now were cheaper. Oatraw declined is per load. Indian corn and beans as before. BURY ST. EDMUNDS—WEDNESDAY. not The supply of wheat at this market to-day was n f large, quality indifferent, and trade ruled at a decline fully 2s per qr on previous rates. In barley no busine''" Other grain unchanged. Average prices : Wheat, 68s 2d ; barley ) " _3 7s Od.; 05t * 4 ' 285 7d; beans, —s Od. BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair supply of 11 1 wheat, which was cleared off early at 2s to 3s per quar t ] under the quotations of last week. Barley in short suPP and higher in price. ars ruled at former prices. Be au and peas were Is lower. ED INBURGII—WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, 2s Gd down q,verage, is Od &AO' Barley on the top, 2s Od down lverage, Os 8d 111 ) • Oats on. the top, Os 9d up average, is 9d uP Beans on the top, is Od down • average, Os Gd up' - • Total supply and sales. Wheat 535 qrs sold 429 Barley lB7 qrs sold 5 6 Oats 931 qrs sold 43 9 Beans 7l qrs sold 3 4 Average prices. Wheat, 63s ld I Oats, 35s Ild Barley, 39s 10d i Beans 48s 7d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 53s Od; el tr superfine, els Od; superfine, 49s Od; fine, 47s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. e a To-day's market was w e ll attend e d, and the done in wheat and flour was quiet, the latter at a de c ":a of Gd to is per sack. Fe e di ng b ar l e y Gd d earer . Fore 's beans 9d and Indian corn 3d decline. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. t 1) ALtistralla and New Zealand, via Southampton , Ditto, via Marseilles ...........Sept'sept• "' Ditto, via Panama . 3. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Selit• 22 Ditto, by French packet . . . SePt* s. Cape Verds, by Brazil packet ...... ...... SePt" . 27 . Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. anti St. Helena.... Sep t ' 1. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton—Seri' 2' t Ditto, via Marseilles Sep • 3 Faikland Islands ..,. Aug' ". Sept' tiibraltar, via Southa m pt on . India via Southampton Ditto, via Mansell es 2. Malta, Egypt, act: . Ditto, Marseilles Sept' v Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via 1 9, Southampton SeP t '3. Pitt,, via 31arseilea Sep t ' , I. Newfoundland Portugal .......... ....... • SePt" Ditto, by private ship to Oporto . Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c,, by British packet S e pt. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditt 3 ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Aug West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe...• • a pt . West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- 25. mas) ,- 2 0. Cuba and Mexico Baha:nas, via New York Bermuda, via Halifax SEPTEMBER PROSPECTS. —On Moudai sportsmen will commence the shooting caniPaig-ado English counties. Many ineffectual efforts have WO Pl o c.l a to defer partridge shooting for a fortnight, in cons l° rt of so much corn standing out. The prospects for t4 4 ga te are favourable in the home counties. Berks and abundantly stocked, the covies varying from 14 to . "0 0 4 number; and Surrey and Sussex will produce 3 vats average of partridges. On the manors in Kont birds if/ numerous, covies large and in very forward conditioow, Essex and the Eastern counties partridges are P l , eilt n i with more than the usual number of " runners" (r r ts -1) ,0 0 partridges), and in other counties shooting prosl 3°G c l th e equally promising. The disease among grouse 80 b ees scarcity of good shooting on the Scotch moors 1 10° , d productive of an increased demand for shooting rig advanced prices have boon paid. Births. BOOKER—On the 29th inst., at The Parade, Edutopt°"' wife of Fred. Booker, Esq., of a daughter. WILSON—On the 21st inst., at Falmouth, the wife t:A wander J. E. Maitland Wilson, of a daughter. VO l ' WRIGLEY—On the 28th inst., at Bridge Hall, Bu r ." r, of a daug hte cashire, the wife of 0. Wrigley, Esq., Marriages. Pe; GLENNIE —BUTT—On the 27th lust. at St. 1 1 / 4 .iarY''' joir• 60 ston-square, George Frederick, third son of OW D. Glennie, of 51, Green-street Grosvenor-of t; Ann Sophia, second daughter of Win. Butt, Of t rot Bury, llerts, Esq., and 56, Upper Seynaour-stree i ce man-square. PIIILBEICK —JONES —On the 24th inst., at Ipswich, oiof; Philbrick, of 51, Lincoln's-inn-fields L o ndon; I c i i est° o / third son of F. B. Philbrick, Esq. so'licitor,,(loo6 to Charlotte Anne, daughter of the ' Rev. 1 %. Ipswich. , ampton, John Bullar, Deaths. , soot il. D A , LmitNE—On the 25 E t11 81 :1 BULLAR—On tho 23d inst. at Basset-wood, ne ft. ,l 60. EDWAR , DS —On the 26th inst. at 'Richmond, , D Ahnaine, Esq., lato of Havt:e 'France, age d l ' . r o `,.t . s t irre d , Dig.- s b t a , rt .i i t s barrister -at - l aw ' t u t tb-il iadwg,:,_gai7orge !it B. Edwards, Esq., K.H., late Major in the 3 of Dragoons. . Vsel ., ,a ROWCLIFFE —On the 27th inst., Et and Rowcliffe, , e ci 11, Mark-!ane, and Holly House, Blackheath -13'11! 8:3-ftne" TROyBRIDGE—On the 29th inst., in London , image, 13itt* wife of Col. Sir Thomas St. Vincent Troubrlag ' vs C.B. aged 36. 00 ) WILLIAMS—At Blenheim-place, SummertoWli, Commander Richard Williams R.N., age ,___ _ --.--- 9 _ London : Printed and Published b y WILLIA -11 2 1.1 0 1e 11 5 .-i f of No. 112, Strand, Printer , a t THE SUN 0 1,4 c ' co ol Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa voy, , 112 - the blidclleso.—Friday, Augmt 300807.