The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

Railway and other Compana. SOUTII DEVON. The directors of this company have recommended the payment of a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, at the rate of £3 10s. per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the com pany, carrying forward a balance of £837. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST. The half -yearly general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the International Hotel, London- bridge. Mr. P. Northall Laurie, the chair man, presided. The report (an abstract of which has appeared in Vic Sol) was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it conveyed the intentions and opinions of the directors with respect to the increase of capital on account of the additional works. The revenue account showed a great increase in the receipts,which must be considered satisfactory. The increase of traffic in the past year was £T3,000 in excess of the previous year; which itself was £67,269 in excess of the traffic in 1864. There was a larger increase in the two past years than in any previous year. Last year was one of unexampled gloom and depression, and, as their line was a pleasure line, it was susceptible to influences which lines in manufacturing districts did not suffer from. A great portion of their line ran through agricul tural districts which had suffered from the cattle plague. The traders in the agricultural districts and those whose means were limited curtailed all unnecessary expenses. The weather had affected the traffic, but not so much as the monetary pres sure, although they had carried 2,000,000 addi tional passengers. The increase was principally in the third class. The first-class traffic was confined in its proclivities, and the second class was se riously affected. The increase in the number of passengers was attributable to the opening of new lines. The East Grinstead and Tunbridge-wells was opened in October, and the Mid-Sussex and Mfdhurst Junction in December, and other lines were recently opened. It was, however, premature to take the traffic on the new lines into account, but, as far as it had gone, it was perfectly satisfactory. The expenses of the opening and working new lines were immediate, while the returns were more re mote. The decrease of the dividend was explained iu paragraph 8 of the report by the increase in the expenditure of £89,300 over the corresponding half year. This included about £52,300 for compensa tion for accidents, and arrears of tolls due to the West London Railway, neither of which belonged to the half-year ; the remainder was from £7,400 paid for renewals, £5,500 loss on steamboat traffic, and about £23,970 as the increased expenditure in working the newly opened lines, and the general increase in wages, stores, &c. There was also an increase in the amount of capital upon which they had to pay dividend. They thought it better to make a clean sweep of the £52,000 due for compen sation and arrears of West London tolls not belong ing to the half-year as soo❑ as the actual accounts were ascertained. This amount would have given them one per cent. on the ondinary stock, so that otherwise they would have been enabled to pay 3 per cent. out of revenue, instead of 2 per cent. for the past half-year, which, with the 2 per cent. paid for the first half of last year, would have given them 5 per cent. for the whole. Some of those items would, perhaps, not occur again, while others would not happen every year. They had made a large addition to their second-class carriages, which was not fairly chargeable to the half-year. The goods traffic had shown an increase of 95,000 tons, and an excess of £l,BOO. They had no manufacturing towns on their line, the chief towns on the coast being Hastings, St. Leonard's, Seaford, Brighton, Chichester, and other places, to which the goods traffic was from London, and they had no return goods trade. The South London line was only par tially open between a place near Brixton and Lon don-bridge, but when opened to Victoria station there would be a large traffic on it. When they found that running the boats from Littlehampton to St. Maio and Jersey produced a loss they suspended the traffic, and removed them to Newhaven to run to onfleur and Dieppe during the Exhibition in Paris. The n _;Nv line from Horsham to Dorking, which would form part of a second line to Brighton, would be opened in the summer. It passed through a beautiful district, and would be important as a relief line in case of accident to the main line. The Tunbridge-wells line to Brighton would be impor tant as to increase of traffic. They had since the last meeting made a reduction in the mileage of the trains, which would enable them to work with fewer engines. The advantage of this arrangement would be seen in the next half-year. Comparing the ex penses of January with the same month in 1865 a large reduction was shown. In the locomotive ex penses there would be a saving of £5OO a week during the current half-year. As to the issue of the new stock of £1,600,000, the directors were entirely disappointed by the shareholders not taking it up. It caused considerable annoyance, as the money was required to discharge obligations to contractors and others, and in consequence the works had to be re tarded as much as possible, instead of being pushed on to completion. They could not delay the con tractors without incurring additional expense. It was of importance to complete the works on the lines in the neighbourhood of London as soon, as possible, and also the works on lines that were nearly completed, so as to bring them into profit able operation. The bill before Parliament was to enable them to carry out arrangements with other companies with greater economy than at present. He complained of the course adopted by Parliament last session in respect of sanctioning the new line to Brighton. The decision as to granting or reject ing railway bills rested entirely with the commit tees to which they were referred, and therefore he contended that Parliament had practically aban doned its functions with regard to railways. Such matters should, in his opinion, be referred to an ex ternal tribunal properly constituted, before which decisions would be given on railway matters in ac cordance with evidence. lle ventured to say that of the £450,000,000 now invested in railways, the ordinary stocks did not produce 3 per cent. on the average. He then referred to communications and conferences between himself and Mr. Watkin, chair man of the South-Eastern Railway, by which it was agreed that no competing schemes should be pro moted for 12 months, and there was every reason to believe from the disposition of the boards of the Brighton and the South-Eastern Railway Com panies that amicable traffic arrangements would be entered into, so as not only to be mutually beneficial to the two companies, but advantageous to the pub lic. He trusted that those arrangements would lead to the establishment of a permanent peace between the two companies. (Cheers.) By means of the contemplated arrangement it was suggested by Mr. \Vatkin that in future a very large outlay of capital might be avoided by both com panies, and a large outlay in contemplated works be dispensed with. The energies of both boards would then be available for the legitimate development of their traffic, and for the exercise of a rigid eco nomy in expenditure, with a view to produce satis factory results for the shareholders. (Cheers.) Colonel BARTTELOT, M.P., deputy-chairman, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. A SHAREHOLDER suggested that something ought to be done by railway companies to obtain a modi fication of Lord Campbell's Act in regard to com pensation for accidents. Mr. WRIGHT remarked that at the last half -yearly meeting between £BO,OOO and £90,000 had been carried to capital for interest of money expended on unproductive works, which, if charged to revenue, would bare stopped the ruinous course adopted. Thre was a further sum now charged of £85,000 , making together £170,000 for the year. Be thought it a great mortification for English railway com panies that a petty American State should be able to borrow money in England on much better tering than a British railway company could. A great number of railway directors were members of Parliament, and he thought they might by a little exertion relieve railway property from the Government duty. The fares of the company had been reduced all over their system on the faith that Parliament would not grant a new competing line to Brighton ; but, as Parliament had granted one last session, the circumstances had been altered, and therefore he thought they should ask for power to revert again to the former fares. Mr. BURTON called attention to the large increase of capital expenditure in the past six years, and the comparatively small increase in the receipts. The capital had been increased from £9,500,000, 223 miles open, to £16,500,000 in 1866, 315 miles open, while the gross traffic receipts were increased from £903,000 to only £1,190,000, showing an increase of £7,000,000 in the capital and of £287,000 in the gross receipts. Deducting 50 per cent. for working expenses left only £143,000 available for dividend on the £7,000,000, or about 2 per cent. Redid not think that an encouraging result. Mr. COIIEN stated that the working expenses of the company amounted in 1818 to £l-17,C00, and , that in 1866 they amounted to £586,000, showing an increase of £439,000, while the gross receipts in 1848 amounted to £453,000 and in 1866 to £1,189,000, showing an increase of £736,000. He considered that the working expenses were too high, and that they ought to have a report from the locomotive engineer with the half-yearly accounts similar to that given by Mr. Beattie, locomotive en gineer of the London and South-Western Com pany. He suggested a revision of fares on the line and a uniform charge of a penny a mile for 3d class passengers over the whole of their system, and that the passenger duty should be added to the first and second class tares on their lines. Sir C. JACKSON said that various items which were charged to capital in the present accounts ought to have been charged to revenue. Among those was £20,435 for the Parliamentary expenses of last session charged to capital, which, in his opinion, ought to have been charged to revenue ; and if all the sums to which he objected were placed against revenue, the dividend would be nowhere. In 1848 the capital amounted to £2,485,000, and the gross receipts to £453,000; in 1866 the capital expended amounted £16,721,000, and the gross receipts to £1,189,000. So that the capital had increased in the ratio of 7 to 1 while the traffic receipts had in creased only as 2i to 1. He thought nothing could be more damaging to their prospects than that course. As they had to expend £2,000,000 more of capital to complete the works in hand, he wished to know how they were to pay any dividend in 1868, even if last year's traffic were to increase in the present year by £lOO,OOO, allowing an increase of £50,000 to the working expenses. They had charged £176,673 last year to capital as in terest on money expended on unproductive works, and if this was to go on they might require more capital than the £2,009,000 to com plete the works. They ought to have an account of the company's liabilities and assets, similar to that given by the Great Northern and other companies. Mr. ADAMS thought the cost of maintaining the permanent way was undercharged. On a compari soil with other lines the cost of maintaining the permanent way of the Brighton Company was per train mile, while the South Western paid 6id., the Chatham Gid., the Great Northern 5d., and the Great Eastern 71d. per train mile. The average cost of maintenance of the 10 principal railways was 51d. per train mile. After some observations by Mr. GOEZ, The Cumr.mAN replied to the various observa tions. He said he could not entertain the despond ing view taken by Sir C. Jackson of their affairs. The large amounts paid for compensation were ge nerally inflicted by juries. He could not see the justice of awarding one first class passenger £l,OOO and another, because he was richer, £lO,OOO, unless he paid a higher fare in proportion as an assurance. Some of the lines they had formerly promoted were now unnecessary, and they would endeavour to abandon unproductive or unnecessary lines as much as possible. They would economise outlay of capi tal, and do their utmost, if the shareholders would supply them with the requisite capital, to complete productive lines and make them remune rative. He held a different opinion from Sir C. Jackson as to charging Parliamentary expenses in defending the estate of the company. Ths report was then unanimously adopted ; a di vidend of 2 per cent. for the past half year was de clared on the ordinary stock of the company ; the retiring directors and auditor were re-elected ; the directors were authorised to convert certain paid up preference shares into a like amount of preference stock in the company ; and the proceedings ended. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Waterloo Station—Captain Mangles 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, said the directors regretted as deeply as the shareholders the decreased dividend (at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum) recommended in the re port. At the same time they could point to the causes of that decreased dividend, which as honest men the directors had felt it their duty to recom mend, and these were causes, temporary he was glad to say, which had operated to lower the dividends of many companies. The first cause was the miserable state of the weather in last autumn, 28 out of the 30 days of September being wet, which lowered the passenger traffic on this, a tourist line, at that sea son. The cholera, too, at Southampton prevented holiday makers travelling to that place, and these matters, added to the commercial crisis of the year, had operated to stop people from enjoying them selves, and so had lowered the company's receipts. Then the cattle plague had affected the company very prejudicially, as the company, before the Order in Council which made it imperative that all cattle for the Channel Islands should be slaughtered, was doing a very profitable trade in cattle, which trade had been stopped for a time by that order. Another cause for the lowering of the dividend was the fact that the company had several new lines in work which bad not yet had time to develope. The inte terest of the unproductive capital in these undeve loped lines, amounting to £26,000, had been charged to revenue, and not to capital. With respect to the capital account, which was regarded generally with great misgivings by shareholders, payments had been made for good stations at sine Elms, £20,000; Chertsey Extension, £5,000 ; Portsmouth station, £7,500, and other expenses, leaving only £42,000 as additional capital. Then steel rails had been laid, and the difference between the cost of steel and iron had been charged to capital. With regard to debenture interest, the average rate was 4•26 against 4.28 of last year, and this proved that the company was regarded as solvent by the public. The directors had nothing to conceal, and had given a very full report, and this, doubtless, accounted for the public confidence. The books were at all times open to the shareholders. (Cheers.) He then referred to extensions. He said that companies were not always to blame for the extension mania, but Parliament was at times to blame for encouraging competing lines, and so driving established companies to make other lines to present their trade from being carried from them. He, however, looked forward to times of peace, and as peace brought plenty, there was hope for increased prosperity in times to come. (Cheers.) He was happy to inform the proprietors that the company's books had been inspected by Mr. Russell Gurney, who had certified that the company had not overdrawn its borrowing powers one shil ling. (Loud cheers.) The company was perfectly solvent, and well able to pay its way, and this was proved by the fact that the gross receipts for the last half year amounted to upwards of £400,000, and that the interest on the debenture debt amounted only to £94,000. It would be satisfactory to the shareholders to be informed there would not be the slightest difficulty in the company renewing its de bentures as they fell due. lie then described with the aid of a large map the bills the company in tended to oppose or promote ' • among the former was one between Ilf racom b e and Barnstaple, and men tioned those which the company would work. He looked forward, he said, to great advantages for the company from au alliance called the " quadruple alliance," between this'company and the Bristol and Exeter, the Great Western, and South Devon, and he asked the proprietors to sanction what the direc ' tors had done, and to give them full discretiOnary power for completing the negotiations entered into. Mr. IlurrcuENs seconded the adoi tion of the re port. Nr. &Lis, of Exeter, expressed his hearty con- currence in the alliance spoken of, and hoped it would be completed. Mr. It. LOPEZ acknowledged that his view had been greatly changed since hearing the chairman's speech, inasmuch as when he came into the meeting he thought that there must be something wrong when their shares, which once stood at 114, were down to 84. lle hoped much from the quadruple alliance, but he asked if the directors would not do well to revise the tariff of charges for passengers and goods in order to raise the fares, so as to increase the dividend. (Cries of " No.") He concluded by moving a resolution to this effect. Mr. PAGAN hoped no such motion would be sup ported by the meeting. Sir C. IlAwLiNsoN contended that there was more likelihood in the dividend being increased by a les sening of the fares than by increasing them. He thought that the South-Western was the dearest line out of London, with the exception of the Great Eastern, for 70 or 80 mile distances. Those lines which charged the lowest fares paid the best divi dends. Ile urged that return tickets should be issued to third-class passengers. He said the rdasons as signed by the chairman for the diminished dividend were not borne out by the figures in the report. Mr. LANCASHIRE also advocated lower fares, and other remarks were made to the same effect by pro prietors. Mr. SCOTT, the traffic manager, said that where facilities were given for travelling third-class the traffic increased, but the receipts fell off, and that in some parts the farmers and clergymen even tra velled by third-class, so that it was unadvisable generally to give return third-class tickets. He al lowed that the fares for the 70 and 80 mile journeys were high. The report and dividend were then adopted una nimously. The retiring directors, Viscount Bury, Count Eyre, and Lieut.-Col. Luard were re-elected, as was Mr. Ashmore, the retiring auditor. Resolu tions empowering the directors to conduct certain Parliamentary business, and to raise the money au thorised to be borrowed by various powers, were passed. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. THE SUN, LOSUON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15 1867. on board the Severn and Hunter from February, 1800, until December, 1802, and was engaged with the batteries at the Isle of Bas. In 1803 he entered the Royal Marines, and served in the Spartiate off Brest, in the West Indies, and at Trafalgar. In 1806 he embarked in the Argo, and served until 1809 on the Coast of Africa, Canary Isles, West Indies, and Spanish Main. He distinguished himself by zeal and gallantry. The late General was at the siege and blockade of St. Domingo, and at the bat tering of Fort St. Jerome in 1809. After his return to England he was voted a sword from the Patriotic Fund. He had received the war medal with one clasp for Trafalgar, had for years been in receipt of a pension for wounds received in the service, had also enjoyed a " good service pension" since September, 1858. In December, 1851, he was appointed Col. Commandant of the Plymouth Division of the Royal Marines. Ilis commissions bore date as follows : Second Lieut., July, 6, 1803; First Lieut., August 15, 1805 ; Capt., July 31, 1826 ; Brevet-Major, • Nov. 23, 1841; Lieut.-Col., May 6,1844 ; Colonel, May 25, 1849 ; Col. Commandant, Dec. 23, 1851; Majo-Gen., June 20, 1855; Lieut.-Gen., Feb. 6, 1857 ; and General, Sept. 8, 1858. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lord Win. B. Phipps, midship man, to the Galatea; Robert F. Smyth, assist.-pay master, to the Victory, as supernumerary ; Simon Matthews, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for Myrmidon ; John F. liattersley, engineer, to the Royal Alfred ; Stephen B. Williams, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Caledonia, for Pigeon ; and John A. Leicester, first class assist.-engineer, to the Royal Alfred. NORTII-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting took place yesterday at Leeds ; Mr. 11. J. Hare in the chair. The report recommended dividends on £471,336 A Consolidated Stock, for the half-year, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and on £314,224 of B Consolidated Stock at the rate of 11 per cent. The directors an ticipated a further increase in traffic from the de velopment of English and Scotch traffic. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, recommended the shareholders to continue the policy of patient abiding. He anticipated great results from the amalgamation of the Midland and Glasgow and South-Western Railways, and said it must necessarily render the property of this proprie tary much more valuable. The Midland Branch from Bedford to London would probably be opened for goods traffic in the autumn, and that would be another matter of importance to this company. The report was adopted ; Mr. Alcock and Mr. J. Burkill were re-elected directors ; Messrs. B. Bailey and R. Frost were re-appointed auditors. HULL AND SELBY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Hull; Mr. J. Alder in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that there was a balance of £34,614, which would admit of the payment of the full dividend. The directors, therefore, recommended a dividend at the rate of £2 10s. per whole or £5O share, for the half year, and in proportion on the half and quarter shares. The CHAIRMAN moved, and Mr. WHITAKER seconded, the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously. The retiring directors, Mr. J. Alder and Mr. H. Garbutt, and the retiring auditor, Mr. E. Meggitt, were irs;-elected, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS (LIMITED). The directors of this company, at the general meeting on the sth of March, intend to declare a dividend and bonus amounting to 3s. per share, equivalent to 7} per cent. per annum, free of in come-tax. Naval and Military Intelligence. Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, attended by his aide-de-camp in waiting, Colonel C. B. Johnson, Bengal Royal Artillery, yesterday rode down to Woolwich, for the purpose, as stated in in his capacity of F. 7 r h es e i S d u e t n i t of of yes th te e rd p ay ef , e o n f ce ac c ti arrived at Woolwich a few minutes before two, au d, o n n g unittee. The Duke having been received by the Major-General Com manding and the staff of the garrison, proceeded to the Assembly-room iu the Rotunda. The impor tant question as to the most effectual method of con structing our national defences was entered into, and many plans were discussed for about two hours. The Duke then returned to London. A large number of Palliser shot and shell were yesterday shipped from Woolwich Arsenal for supply to our foreign stations, in Jamaica, Ber muda, and various other ports in the East and West Indies and the Mediterranean. In order to meet the demand an additional number of men has been added to the foundry in Woolwich Arsenal, and the work is continued night and day. Major Palliser's 9-inch gun, rifled on the Woolwich prin ciple, has lately been received at Woolwich, and has passed proof with charges of 551 b. of powder and shot of 2501 b. weight. The gun weighs 121 tons, of which 10 tons are composed of cast iron, over coiled wrought iron barrels, weighing 21 tons. The Ordnance Select Committee arc also carrying on experiments at Shoeburyness with several 32-poun der and 2 4 -pounder cast-iron guns, converted on Major Palliser's plan into 64 - pounder and 56 pounder rifled guns. These experiments are being made in order to decide upon the precise weight of the charges, as well as the sizes of the bores for the new rifled guns. Various slight mo difications of the " Woolwich" system of rifling are now being tried. Each plan appears to answer well, and the accuracy of shooting of all the guns has, it is stated, never been exceeded. The experi ments have been made for the purpose of carrying out the proposal of Major-General Lefoy, president of the Ordnance Select Committee, to convert the smooth-bore cast-iron guns which are mounted on the land fronts of fortifications into rifled guns of the above-named descriptions. Yesterday the annual distribution of the prizes for excellence in shooting to the best marksmen in the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry took place at head-quarters, at a general parade of the officers and men of the division, under the com mand of Col. C. W. Adair. The total number of non-commissioned officers and men of the division entitled to prizes for proficiency in shooting is 226, of whom Private John Rogers, the best marksma n in the division, and the second best shot through.. out the corps of Royal Marines, was awarded a gold distinguishing badge, and the additional pay of 3d. per day for twelve months. Ten men in the second class received 2d. per day, and wear a gold badge for twelve months, and 115 third-class shots re ceived Id. per day, and wear a distinguishing worsted badge for the same period. Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding the forces at Chatham, attended by the divisional staff, paid an official visit to Fort Pitt for the pur pose of inspecting that establishment. On his ar rival be was received by Deputy Inspector-Gen. J. A. Fraser, M.D., the principal medical officer of the garrison and the medical staff, by whom he was conducted through the establishment and over the various wards and other parts of the hospital, i n the inspection of which he was engaged for some time. ller Majesty's screw corvette Cossack, 20, 250- horse power, Captain Richard I). White, from the Mediterranean, having been inspected by Vice- Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Commander-in- Chief at the Nore, has now commenced being dismantled preparatory to her being put out of commission and placed in the third division of the steam reserve in the Medway. General John Raw lins Coryton, senior officer of the Royal Marine forces, died on Tuesday last, aged 77. The deceased General served as a Midshipman in the Royal .Navy COLCHESTER ELECTION. The nomination for this borough took place yes terday afternoon on hustings erected in front of the Town-hall. The Mayor (Mr. P. 0. Papillon) pre sided as returning officer. There was a crowd of about 1,000 persons. Much noise prevailed at in tervals, but, upon the whole, the proceedings were of a good-humoured description. Dr. BaEE proposed, and Major BISHOP seconded, the nomination of Mr. E. K. Karslake, Q.C. Mr. J. B. HARVEY proposed, and Mr. 11. S. GOODY seconded the nomination of Dr. Brewer. Mr. KARSLAKE, in addressing the electors, said he trusted that many of the men who were beneath him, and who had not the franchise, would have it when he next had the honour of addressing them. There were also many young gentlemen, inhabitants of the borough, present, who had not at present the franchise, and as he hoped to represent the borough for many years—(laughter)—he trusted he should have their support also in due time. He might sum up his principles by stating that he was an advocate of reform and progress, but he was an enemy to revolution. (Cheers and groans.) He was an enemy of those measures which would tend to undermine the foundations of our time-honoured constitution. Mr. Harvey, who wasprobably much engaged in business appeared to have forgotten what happened in 1859. Mr. Harvey had said that those present ought to be surprised at hearing for the first time Conservatives advocate reform ; but he had forgotten the mea sure brought forward by her Majesty's present Ministers in 1859, and he had forgotten, or he had chosen to forget, that that mea sure fell through because of that spirit of party fac tion which was, he hoped, going to cease this session, and which was based on the desire to obtain office at the expense of the country at large. He had not heard from the proposer and seconder of his hon. opponent one word as to the extent to which they or those whose principles they advocated were pre pared to go as regards a lowering of the franchise. He would state what his own views were ; but as he should go to Parliament for the purpose of support ing in its integrity a great party, he must go there in a spirit of compromise ; for not even the noble lord at the head of her Majesty's Government could have all he wished for. What must be done was to lay down such a line as would effect a compromise between both parties, and would secure for many years to come—perhaps for the whole of the present generation—a settlement of one of the most difficult questions with which the Legislature ever had to deal. No one could deny that we had arrived at a great crisis in parliamentary history ; no one could deny that we had a great problem to solve, and it behoved all of us, for a time at least, and for the sake of the nation at large, to exert our best en deavour to solve it. Five or s i x years ago, during the " rest-and-be-thankful" reign, we h a d a Con servative statesman at the head of affairs, who, by a singular combination of circumstances, was thrown into the same truckle bed with other persons enter taining totally different opinions. Now we had three parties to deal with, and by the speeches which the chiefs of each had lately issued we had a clear and distinct exposition of their sentiments and o f the limits to which they were prepared to go. It would be remembered that Mr. Gladstone's bill of last session proposed a £l4 suffrage in counties, but he fixed the borough franchise at £7 instead of £6. By the statistics which Mr. Gladstone produced it ap peared that a £6 franchise in boroughs would have added 242,000 electors to the constituencies, while a £7 franchise in boroughs would only create 144,000 new electors ; and Mr. Gladstone deliberately pre ferred a £7 franchise to a £6 franchise, thus enunciat ing a principle which he enunciated over and over again, that it was not well to make sudden and sweeping changes in the depositaries of political power. There were now thus three parties in the State—her Majesty's Ministers ; a party headed by Mr. Gladstone, who had positively pledged himself to support a fair measure for the representation of the people ; and a third party headed by Mr. Bright—(cheers) —who advocated sometimes man hood suffrage, or at least houshold suffrage, such as would swamp the present constituencies. He (Mr. Karslake) might sum up his own creed in words partly his own and partly those of one of our most able men and best writers and statesmen—he meant the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Cheers and groans.) He reverenced the past, he did not revile the present, and he was prepared and desirous to bring about a good, and, as far as might be, a filial and comprehensive settlement of the reform question in the future. The reform question was not intrinsically of paramount importance, but it had become so by the force of circumstances. But the questions which he regarded as of the gteatest importance were :—First, the protection of the Established Church—(laughter)—and next, the maintenance of our army and navy on such a foot that no foreign country should be able to inter fere with us, so long as we did not interfere with them, and so that no body of rioters in any part of Great Britain should be enabled to overawe the Executive Government. (Hear, hear.) Alluding to the project for the federation of the North Ame rican provinces, the hon. gentleman said he was for the maintenance of colonies, which he regarded as the brightest and proudest glories of Britannia. (Cheers.) Dr. BREWER, who spoke at great length, also complained that the hon. candidate on the other side had not enlightened the constituency as to the true nature of his political sentiments. As to the question of reform, he would ask which party hadshown in the greatest degree either their attachment to the people or the honesty of their intentions. The party which had staked the existence of their Government itself upon the proposition which they were prepared to leave before the country ; or the other party which came forward with this proposition—" If you will give us place and power, if you will give us the pa tronage of our position, we will allow you to do what you like upon the subject of reform." (Cries of " No, no," and cheers.) Ile would ask any man who wished to be returned to support the party now holding power, " What are your special views with regard to reform ? Are you a member of the Salis bury faction, of the section which acted under Gen. Peel, or of that which Mr. Disraeli led himself ?" Because Mr. Disraeli was as much opposed to Gen. Peel and his section, and to Lord Salisbury and his section, as it was possible for the most advanced Radical to be to Mr. Disraeli himself. Mr. Disraeli was the black beast of his party. (Laughter.) Every body knew that it was with the utmost difficulty that Mr. Disraeli could obtain permission to pro ceed as he had now clone by resolution ; and even now there was no reform measure before Farha ment, but simply some resolutions which were a re petition of the principle of their last Reform Bill. He objected entirely to any system of bolstering up the Church of England by church rates. It was not a shocking and filthy system of Churchmen putting their hands into Nonconformists' pockets which could keep up the Church ; the security of the Church depended upon the truth which it taught, and the way in which that truth worked in the hearts of the people. With regard to education, he considered that he wanted good sound teaching among the people, so as to maintain public morality, public virtue, and public independence. The stabi lity of the country rested upon public opinion, and that public opinion must be enlightened. Mr. Kars lake said he considered a good army and navy of paramount importance. Ile (l)r. Brewer) sup posed it was wanted to keep down any expres sion of the wish of the people contrary to the will of the Government. Ile would tell Mr. liarslake, however, that the people were not to be in timidated, and that reform was a matter of para mount importance, as it was of the utmost necessity that the House of Commons should be a fair repre sentation of the people. With regard to the Government resolutions, he must strongly condemn any attempt at legislation by class as impolitic and unconstitutional. Dr. BREE asked Dr. Brewer whether he would vote for household or universal suffrage. Dr. BREWER, amid great confusion, stated that any one going into the House of Commons must vote with his party, and not attempt to carry out any crotches of his own. He was prepared to stand or fall by what was done by the responsible leaders of the Liberal party. Dr. BREE and several other leading Conservatives emphatically declared upon this that Dr. Brewer appeared under false colours. Mr. KARSLAKE, in answer to questions, said he was in favour of some measure for the protection of voters, but he was decidedly opposed to the ballot. A show of bands was taken, and was declared by the mayor to be in favour of Dr. Brewer. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Karslake, and was fixed for to -day (Friday). IRELAND. DUBLIN, Feb. 14. No less than 37 persons were arrested on suspi cion by the Dublin police yesterday morning, in addition to 67 taken on the previous day. The police had been informed by telegraph from Holy head that a great many Irishmen had come down by the London and North-Western Railway, but had not embarked for Dublin. On the arrival of the Hibernia from Holyhead during the night only three men, named Sheehan, Donavon, and Walsh, were arrested as likely to be connected with the Fenians. But when the Trafalgar came alongside, about 5 o'clock, 20 men, who stood in a body, and tried to get ashore as speedily as possible, were taken into custody. Not aware that the Habeas Corpus was still suspended in this country, they were loud in their complaints at having their freedom interfered with. Others were arrested on board the Sea Nymph. The Freeman's Journal says :—" It would be hard to bring together a more daring and reckless-looking lot of men than the prisoners. Some of them had been in the late American war, others were discharged soldiers, but the majority stated that they had been operative tradesmen, millworkers, and dock labourers. A few of them had money, but by far the greater number had none ; but there appears to be no doubt if they had succeeded in es caping the vigilance of the police they would have had all their wants supplied by persons in the city on whom the detectives are keeping a close watch. Orders have been issued by the Government to the constabulary stationed at all the seaports in the kingdom to exercise a strict watch on all incoming steamers from America and from across Channel,' and to arrest all suspected persons who cannot give satisfactory accounts of themselves and their move ments. A few of the persons who had been arrested at the North-wall this morning were released from custody on proving to the police that they had legi timate business in this country." The prisoners have been removed to Richmond Bridewell. The reason generally assigned by the prisoners for their coming over in such numbers just now is that they were seeking employment, but it is stated that many of them are known to have given up employment worth ss. or 6s. a daybefore leaving for this country. Some who were able to give a satisfactory account of themselves were discharged ; 22 were detained in custody. A watch is still kept on the quay by the police, under Inspector Devine, for any further arrivals of suspicious characters. At Drogheda yesterday morning a body of 35 police boarded the Colleen Bawn, from Liverpool, and arrested five . men, who, like those arrested in Dublin, appeared to be labourers and mechanics. Two were discharged by the magistrates. The steamers arriving from England at Belfast have been searched in the same way for Fenians, but no arrests have been made. At first people were dis posed to think " the movement on Chester" a hoax, or merely some tentative manoeuvre to try what the effect would be of a real rising ; but there seems to be now no room to doubt that mischief was in tended, and that this affair is another abortion of the Fenian conspiracy. It must be confessed that the unprotected state of the military stores in Chester Castle was almost an irresistible tempta tion ; but it is hard to imagine what rational men, ever so well armed, could have hoped to do against the garrison of Dublin. The business:of the Commission was delayed yesterday for want of jurors. Only about a score answered to their names on fines of £2O, and the Attorney-General asked to hare the trial of the Fenian prisoners postponed to give time to send to the residences of the jurors. Some of the Fenian prisoners were in the meantime arraigned. Edward Power, known as " Dr. Power," John Devoy, T. Baines, E. O'Regan, E. O'Keefe, G. Brown, and E. Cahill respectively pleaded not guilty. The fol lowing persons pleaded guilty :—M. Stanley, W. Moore Stack, D. Cashman, and E. W. Williams. S. J. Meany was then put forward. The priso ner was pale and seemed to be much reduced since his appearance at the police -court. He was defended by Mr. O'Loghlen and Mr. Malloy. At counsel's request the Attorney-General allowed the case to be postponed that a motion might be made to quash portions of the indictment. Other prisoners were put forward. R. Stowell, E. Joyner, J. Kavanagh, and Denis Downey pleaded not guilty ; and I'. Walsh pleaded guilty. Mr. O'Loghlen later in the day made his motion to qu IA portions of the indictment against Meany, on the ground that the same overt act was applied to each count, and that he did not know what count to reply to. He produced no authorities, and the court refused the motion. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, after which the commission was adjourned till this morning. The engineers at the Vartry Waterworks tele graphed to the Lord Mayor and Sir J. Gray yes terday :—" The ball had been removed from the 4-foot pipe, and the safety-valve is now in full ac tion. The water is being rapidly reduced, the bank is firm, and all is going on well. We shall soon know the cause of the leakage." The Ulster Railway Company held its half-yearly meeting at Belfast yesterday. The report stated that the working expenses, exclusive of rates and taxes, and after deducting £2,612 13s. 9d., received for working the Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway, amounted to £35,114 Bs. 11d., being £2,486 3s. 11d. in excess of the amount for the cor responding half• year of 1865, consequent on heavier disbursements in the traffic department, and in creased wages in the permanent way and locomo tive departments, and more extensive repairs of stations and engines. The report likewise recom mended a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares, and at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on the company's preference stock. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.— A Parliamen tary return shows that in the year 1864 992 companies with power to raise in shares an aggregate capital of £237,437,083 wore registered under the Limited Liability Act ; in 1865 1,013 companies with power to raise £205,391,818; and iu 1866 758 companies with power to raise £76,599,823. The Fenians in Chester. But little additional intelligence has been re ceived from Chester, but accounts of events in other quarters tend to shod more and more clearly that the mysterious assemblage there on Monday was the result of a deep-laid plot. A strange incident has come to light. On Monday a stranger, speak ing with an American accent, applied at the works of the Chester 'Waterworks Company for permission to inspect the machinery. The man in charge said he had no power to grant the request, but that a superior servant of the company, whom he named, would doubtless give the required permission. The stranger said time pressed, and he could not stop to see the manager, but if the man would take him through he would make it worth his while to do so. The Cestrian replied that he would be glad to take his visitor through the works, and receive his fees, if the rules permitted him to do so ; but if, while doing so in disregard of the rules, the manager should come in, he would lose his place. The stranger accordingly left, with many expressions of regret. Not long afterwards another stranger called, and preferred a similar request to see the works. He also was refused ; but this circum stance excited the Cestrian's curiosity, and, watch ing the second man as he left the works, he saw him join the first who had called, and they walked away together to the banks of the canal, where they dropped a goodly-sized parcel into the water. It is supposed that the contents of that parcel (efforts to recover which will be made) were materials to interrupt the working of the machinery, so that in case of the city being fired the water supply would be wanting. At the meeting of the Chester Town Council on Wednesday, Mr. G. BOYDELL said—Before calling upon the overseers to verify their accounts, or proceed in any way with the business, he could not refrain from saying that, had it not been for the judicious energy of the authorities in the city, it was doubtful whether the members of that council could have been there in peace and security to transact any business whatever. (Hear, hear.) But through their judicious energy, under Providence, the authorities had been instrumental, he firmly believed, in saving the city, and they must all feel grateful for the steps which had been taken. But they must also feel proud at the noble way in which the volunteers came forward iu response to the orders of the authorities. (Loud applause.) He begged to move the best thanks of the citizens to the authorities. Alderman GRIFFITH seconded the motion. He fully concurred in the resolution, because the magistrates and volunteers at large fully deserved thanks for what they had done. The motion was carried. Major FRENCH, the senior city magistrate__ Gentlemen of the Council, I take the liberty of thanking you for the very kind resolution you have passed expressive of your approbation of the magistrates' conduct. I take the liberty of doing so because I see I am the senior magistrate of the city present ; therefore I take the liberty of thank ing you in the name of the magistrates. I think we are very much indebted to our deputy-mayor Mr. Williams. (Applause.) He was the first person who received the information, and without a moment's delay he took all the steps in his power to sift the thing to the bottom, so far as he could do so with the facts before him. Having con vinced himself that danger was hovering around us, he at once communicated with the magistrates, and we assembled to make the bat arrangements for the safety of the city, as it was our duty to do. (Hear, hear.) I quite concur with Mr. Boyden in saying that the volunteers, the fire brigade, and all the local armed forces in the city, were most prompt in attending to their duties, end preserving the city from the ravages of these deluded men, who evidently had some mischievous intention. (Hear, hear.) Upon these occasions every man who is in authority of course comes forward to give what help he can. Capt. Smith was very prompt in mustering a great force that would have been of service to us if anything had occurred. We have upon our bench of magistrates now a good deal of young blood, and they sh.)wed that young men in activity have a great advantage over old men. (Laughter.) I must say that the magistrates lately appointed gave most prompt aid and valuable service, and I hope you will always find the bench of magistrates willing and prompt to protect the city. It was a proud thing for the bench of magistrates to think upon this occa sion that, when sceptics pooh-poohed the whole thing, said it was a hoax, and there was no necessity for exertion, they were satisfied there was some thing in it, and took all the measures possible to protect the citizens. lam satisfied that on all such future occasions the magistrates will take the same prompt steps for the preser vation of the peace. I think the authorities in London also gave us prompt assistance. They, like ourselves, were inclined to think there was mischief, and you see the effect of their measures. (The speaker pointed to a large body of Scots Fusi lier Guards, who could be seen from the council chamber on parade in the Castle-yard.) The Com mander-in-Chief left the House of Lords for the purpose of giving orders for these men to appear in the city for our protection. There was another feature in it—and I am only mentioning these cir cumstances to prove to sceptics that danger was imminent. A number of these deluded men took their passage to Dublin, and there, where the Habeas Corpus Act is suspended, they have been arrested. In their anxiety to get away and leave no evidence that might cause their arrest, they threw away their ammunition. That must prove that mischief was intended, for they came here with ammunition upon their persons. (Hear.) In the name of the magis trates I thank the town council, and hope they may never have to regret the expressions they have used to-day. Alderman WILLIAM MAYSMOR WILLIAMS, the deputy-mayor, thought it desirable that some steps should be taken in the way of a memorial to Go vernment. When he was called upon on Saturday night to discharge what was his duty, he tried to do everything that was possible for the protection of the city, and he was greatly assisted by Mr. Fen wick and two officers from Liverpool. He might mention that an immense quantity of ammunition had been found in the river. He was at the police office that morning, and a man made a statement that two men were seen on the opposite side of the river to the waterworks. One of them by some means went across the river to the waterworks and asked to see the engine, represent.. ing that he thought it was a chemical works engine. But before he asked to see the engine he had thrown away an immense quantity of ammunition. The man who made the statement dragged the river, and recovered a packet which contained 12 rounds of ball cartridges. A few moments after the first man had come to see the engine, a second man made his way to the works, and asked to be allowed the same privilege as the first. This man spoke in a'disguised language ; it was thought he was a Canadian, and the sharp, intelligent engineer refused to let him see the engine. He might here remark that both Earl Grosvenor and Lord Richard Grosvenor came down on hearing of this threatened attack. Both having put themselves in communication with the Duke of Cambridge and Lord de Tabley, they came down to Chester by the Irish mail, and rendered every as sistance. At 12 o'clock on Monday night there were upwards of 1,400 Fenians•—for he might so call them—in and around Chester. It was proved by figures that there was that number. He, thespeakcr, had requested Lord R. Grosvenor to see 111 r. Wal pole to urge upon him the necessity of having more troops at Chester, and late last night he received from Lord Richard a telegram which was to the effect that he had seen Mr. Walpole, and had urged upon him the matter he was requested to do, but the Home Secretary waited for reports. He (Mr. Williams) begged to acknowledge the services of Mr. Binger, the traffic manager of the Chester and Holyhead Railway ; in fact, but for the assist ance afforded him by Mr. Binger, the whole thing would have been thwarted. Information stated that a lot of men would come from Liverpool by the 9.30 train on Monday morning, and it was ne cessary that the two superintendents then in Chester should be on the landing-stage, Liverptol, when that train left, so that they might send information to Chester. There was no train which could take them. He went to Mr. Binger's house, and that gentleman at once placed a special train at the dis posal of the detectives, and they were thus enabled to get back to Liverpool in time to apprize the Ches ter authorities of the departure of the men from that town. The authorities in Liverpool, ➢lanches ter, Leeds, and Halifax put themselves in commu nication with Chester during the day. His object in rising was to suggest that some steps should be taken to ask the Government to place the city in a more secure state than it had hitherto been. (Hear, hear.) It should be borne in mind that in this emergency there were only 54 men and two officers in the garrison. It was a perfect disgrace that the city should be left in such an insecure state. There were 800,000 or 900,000 rounds of cartridges in the castle at the present time, and it was very desirable that the council should prepare a memorial on the subject to be, sent to head-quarters. Mr. Sheriff BOWERS was in hopes that some cne would upon that occasion have proposed a motion with reference to this subject. He thought it highly important they should pass the motion unanimously. After what had been remarked so well by the ex mayor, nothing more need be said. He thought it was a matter of the highest importance so far as the city itself was concerned ; and it did appear strange that such a depot of arms and ammunition as was in Chester should be left so unguarded, close to such an immense population as that lying in Lancashire, vast numbers of whom they had reason to believe were connected with this movement. That nearly a million rounds of cartridge should be left under the protection of 50 men seemed a monstrous thing. Now that the city had had such a narrow escape, he could not but think the Horse Guards would consider the thing, and order a proper and sufficient number of men to be stationed in Chester. (Applause.) Mr. FARISH said it had been a strong temptation to those deluded men to know that the place was so unprotected. The least the council could do was to make a strong recommendation on the subject. The suggestions of Alderman Williams was a right one, and they had been taken at the right moment, but if the step had been taken two months ago they would have been saved the anxiety and expense in curred. Alderman WILLIAMS said he had forgot to men tion that the ammunition found was wrapped in pieces of a Belfast newspaper. It was agreed that a memorial should be pre sented to the Government, and the town clerk was instructed to draw it up. The ordinary business of the council then pro ceeded. COUNTRY MARKETS. M ANC HES TER-THURSDAY. This day's market was well attended, and holders wore firm in requiring the extreme currency of this day se'n night for all articles, but only a limited business resulted, and we make no change in our previous quotations. BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a small supply of English wheat, but the demand for it was not active; in some in stances is more money was paid for the better descriptions. Foreign was pressed and rather cheaper. BURY ST. EDMUNDS-WEDNESDAY. We bad a good show of wheat at this market to-day, and sales were effected at improving prices. Barley slow- Peas, beans, and oats also a dull trade. ERIS T OL —THURSDAY. On our market to-day English wheat was in short supply, and met a moderately fair sale at the rates of this day sen'night. For foreign the inquiry was very limited, at the decline noted last week. Malting barley dull, with values in buyers' favour. Grinding very scarce, and sold at extreme prices. Oats in fair supply, and demand with out alteration in value. Beans and, maize is per quarter lower. EDINBURGH—IVEmEsDAy. Wheat on the top, Os 6d up average, Os 3d up. Barley on the top, Os Gd up average, is 2d up Oats on the top, Os 9d up average, Os 5d up. Beans on the top, 4s Gd up ...average, 2s 2d up. Total supply and sales. Wheat 1119 qrs sold 635 Barley 1565 qrs sold 1058 Oats... 2308 qrs sold 1-102 Beans 260 qrs sold 161 Average prices. Wheat, 56510 d I Oats, 3os ld Barley, 39s '9d j Beaus 45s 8d Town-made flour sells as follows:—White, 55s Od ; extra superfine, 53s Od ; superfine, 51s Od ; fine, 49s Ud. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. We had a good show of wheat hero to-day, which was somewhat improved in condition, and tho trade was firm at last week's prices. Foreign Mail racket List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa Feb. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. —Feb. 27. China. Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Feb 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 27 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Ft b 19. Ditto, via Marseilles . ....... Feb. 22 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 22 _ ....... _ _ Ditto, via Marseilles .. Feb. 19 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 22. Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. i 9. Ditto, via Marseil.el Fe b. V. Newfoundland ... Mrr. 13. Portugal , Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri- . . tish packet .... Feb. 21. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork •• • Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Feb 15 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) Feb 13 Bahanr...4, via New York Mar 7• Cuba and Mexioo Feb. 28 Bermuda. via Halifax »•• Feb. 13. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ..„Mar. 8. Lord M. Wm. Graham, brother of the Duke of Montrose, was married yesterday at St. Michael's Church , Chester-square, to the Hon. Mrs. Dashwood, eldest daughter of the late Lord Bateman and sister of the Pre" sent peer, and widow of Capt. George Dashwood, brother of Sir Henry Dashwood, Bart., of Kirtlington Park, OX fordshire. The noble bridegroom was attended by CaP t ' the Hon. Wm. Herbert as "best man." Lord Baton s° conducted his sister to the altar. 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