The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-29 00:00:00

:-~,-~ ; ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-I.A.NE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. 'fIIIS EVENING, is nearly related to the chosen Ruler of France— one of the young blood royals that will replace the effete and corrupt dynasties that have pro voked the wrath both o GOD and man, who have )rofited nothing by the past, and can hold out no ;lopes for the future. The policy of France and England is not one of aggrandisement. But although they may not seek personal profit, the exigencies of the hour may compel interference—the neutral territories may become the arenas in which the sanguinary strife will be carried out. Each of the belligerents will of course transfer the lonflict from their own dominions, and that which the folly of its rulers has rendered " neutral ground " will be the venue of the most deadly conflicts, which must render important changes inevitable. We may reasonably hope that the victory will not be on the side of despot ism, that. there will be no " Holy Alliance" to enslave free nations, but that, on the contrary, the object of France, and England, and Sardinia will be to promote the cause of liberty and civilisation, and to bestow Constitutional Governments on peoples who are now the serfs of despotism. The vacillation of Prussia, the treachery of Austria, the tyranny of Naples, may do more to advance the sacred cause of freedom all over the globe than the most energetic and patriotic efforts that have ever been made by a high-minded and in dignant community. Will be performed ROB ROY. Characters by M-ssrs. J. Ander• on, hay. Stuart, llerberte, H. Braharn, Barrett, and J. HaHord Mi•s Lams, Miss Dy , r, and Mrs W. J. Wallack. To be :ollowe i by T'4E BOFP - MIAN GIRL. Characters Messrs. a Brah .In, J. Raiford, Farquharson, and Eiliot Galer ; and Lucy Escott. ences of admission: --To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle o• boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; sta Is, 4s. • private boxes ti Admit two p ersons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office Open from 10 to 6 daily. L'OY.s.l, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buctotono THIS EVENINIJ, Will be performed THE BUSY BODY. To be followed by OLYMPUS IN A MUDDLE; or, Wrong People in •Vrong Places. Followed by COMIC FAVOUR. To conclude with THE SP. , NISEI DANCERS. tiOYAL FRINCE.*i'A THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CaAlum JUAN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha Inc. Mr-. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPUL PTorrtetor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dlrectrems, Mulame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PAUL PRY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby, rarselle, and Wright; Misses Mary Keeley and Woolgar, and Mrs, L. Murr ay . After which, 110 W'S YOUR UNCLE ? To conclude with FRATERNISATION: ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG HUS:,Ar. DS. E`ollowed by FOUNDED ON FACTS. After vrtiich. a new Ballet. To conclude with GANEM. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke. 'Unabated and triumphant attraction of Mazeppa.—Fourth and last week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams. THIS EVENING, Lord Rvron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE, designated b the public pees 3 the Phenomenon of the Day. -M r. William Cooke y liar trainel his matchless stud of horses expressly for this unrivalled and most popular spectacle. After which, the Equestrian SCENES in the CIRCLE, arranged by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with Mr. Nelson Lee's Farce, A RAFFLE for an ELEPHANT, introducin; Mr. W. Cooke's sagacious Elephant. Itcr,...oulee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. We . Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Mr W. Cooke, hut. About the last charge that folly and malice could bring against this journal would be that of sycophancy to royalty and men in power, for it is sufficiently well known that if the interests of the country appeared to call for it, we would not hesitate a moment to administer a firm, loyal, and temperate rebuke to any offender, however high his position. The cordiality, therefore, with which we hail the return of her most gracious Majesty the QUEEN and the Royal Family to our shores will not be misunderstood, and the terms in which we express our opinion of her demeanour And bearing, in connection not only with this visit, but also with the visit of the Emperor NAPOLEON to this country, will be received as the expression of our sincere opinion. The granddaughter of GEORGE 111. has proved herself an Englishwoman, having her country's interest at heart, on many occasions, but never more signally than in connec tion with the formation of the happy alliance now existing between France and Eng land, and especially during the interchange of visits between herself and the chosen Ruler of Franco. The most inveterate grumbler cannot take exception to her conduct throughout, and no dutiful subject but must be deeply gratified by it. ft was an affair of no little moment the reception the Emperor NAPOLEON might meet with at the English Court. His sagacity and magnanimity, and his knowledge of the real feeling of the people .)f England would undoubtedly have counteracted, so far as he was personally concerned, in a great measure the hostile promptings of a cool recep tion, but the people of France would have resented for years to come the insult offered their imperial head, and the Alliance, if continued in form, would have become a hollow mockery, and pos sibly a dangerous snare. - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THU DAY—Morn. 58 min. aft. 2 I Evening 19 min. aft. 3 To - Moßnow---Morn.39 min. aft: - 3 j Evening 0 min. aft. 4 610:3211,H.—80a Urtioa , Ang. 20. TiOraIiONItTEEI, THR SRAD/A. 74 hzilest since noon yesterday. t'l .0 west this morning and during the night. 72 —this day, at noon. BAROMETIIt, 30'15. WTYD, W.—Light, with fine weather. 4 fria.s. :1> I, kV - ~~ w §A4II LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1855. One of the fables which first attracts the atten tion of the rising generation is that of " the Dee in the Manger." The vile conduct of the brute in refusing to permit any other animal to benefit by the store of provender of which he himself can make no use, has formed a theme for many moralists and strongly excited the indignation of juvenile minds. The fact is now enacted ou grand scale. The Austrian dog----and a ver 3 nasty hound it is —not only refuses to perform its own engagements, or to furnish the aid it solemnly and deliberately promised to supply, but it strives to prevent our obtaining assistance from other quarters. It is jealous of Sardinia for doing that which it has not the courage to do itself, and would strive so far as practicable to prevent the formation of an Italian Legion. Threats are ful minated against all, who seem in any degree desirous of entering into the British service, and innu merable police annoyances are resorted to in order to repress the martial enthusiasm, not only in Lombardy, but in the adjoining States. Whatever anticipations may formerly have been indulged in by the Governments of France and England it must now be perfectly manifest that there is no possible hope of the co-operation of Austria. Nay, more, that she is striving to as sist the enemy by every means that will not draw down the vengeance of the Allies on herself. The delusions which so long existed, and which, despite the warnings of ourselves and other journalists, kept us two years "waiting for Austria" are com pletely dispelled. It is therefore time that ener getic measures should be adopted, towards that treacherous and dmible-dealing Power, to show that we will no longer be bamboozled or made the laughin - g-stocks of Europe, by even appearing to be taken in, by her false and fraudulent pretences. It would be far better to have her openly arrayed against us than that she should act the perfidious friend, rendering covert assistance to the foe. Openly she can do nothing to be for a mo ment dreaded. Sufficient employment would arise for her at home on the first signal. Poland:, Hungary, Lombardy, are " the talismanic words " the 'mere utterance whereof woulf I speedily dispose of Austria, and compel her t abandon the intrigues which she has so long bee n practising withimpunity, in fayour of Russia, an d to look solely to her own interests.. In Italy p2tio sees a constitutional government, the object of b er mot;, abject fears, springing up on her ye ry threshold. She se e s V ICTOR EMMANUEL gaini golden Opinions from all 'classes of men, and knows that her own subjects are pining to ex change the galling yoke under which they area so grievously oppressed, for his gentle rule. !The Sardinian prowess exhibited on the Tchernayai has excited alike her jealousy, and her fears. She en vies the fame won byarival, from any partieipa tion wherein she is excluded by her own sneaking and timid policy, and she dreads the period when t hose tried and gallant soldiers, arrayed in the gloi ions cause of Italian freedom, should be supported not only by the moral opinion of Europe, but by the physical force of the Allies, whom she betrayed and slighted, and .on whose behalf they bravely fought and conquered. We say supported by " the physical force of the Allies ;" because it will be an imperative cluty on France and England to continue the alliance, offensive and defensive, into which Sardinia so nobly entered when they pro fited by the 'Treaty. Austria has already been the most serious suf ferer by her own duplicity. Her influence and her credit have both failed ; while those of Sar dinia have greatly.risen in the scale. None of the belligerent Powers now pay the slight est attention to her suggestions or remonstrances, autl her finances are involved in inextricable con frtsion. She urgently requires a loan, but is de barred from obtaining a - florin or even a kreutzer in the markets of London or P a ri s . Under such circumstances there seems no re source' but the tatima ratio of "a forced loan" or, inother words, direct and avowed , ti confisca on. Every man, with " purse to pay or person to • Pule, is awaiting the commencement of the Plunder, in fear and :trembling. The openin g o r the budget of B -is generally re garded DE RUC R re garded as the signal for the beginning of the open robbery. The other German and Italian neutrals are scarcely in a more enviable position. King BOMBA is pec u li ar l y sensitive, with 'lie know s that h e i s re gardedcontempt by strangers and execration by 'his own subjects—that .there competitor for th e C rown which is • a formidable 1 lie is unfit to Wear--a rival whose claims would be supported Y a large majority of the people, a'n-d Bat far above all German pettiness, and in abounding loyalty to her people, her MAJESTY wel comed the worthy successor of NAPOLEON and his charming EMPRESS with a heartiness of manner and a sincerity of feeling that won the friendship of both; and on her return visit to France she certainly has met with a magnificent returti. The EMPEROR and EMPREAS welcomed her not merely as the Island QUEEN', the white cliffs of whose dominions haa for long centuries looked pale with distrust or watchfulness of France, and as the powerful Ally, but as a beloved and honoured kinswoman, holding those relations ; and the people, proud of tkeir chosen EMPEROR, and of the tribute thus paid to his sterling greatness, brought a gallantry wrought up to enthusiasm to demonstrate the satisfaction with which they had looked forward t o her promised appearance among them—a satis- faction that, on her arrival, grew more and more intense as they witnessed the queenly grace and womanly good feeling with which she recognised the chivalrous homage and cordial acclaim with which she was everywhere greeted. All Paris, we are gratified to learn, rang with her praises, and admired the presence and promise of her offspring. The street cries related to the early and late manifestations of the kindness of her disposition, and many a little incident during her visit gave proof of a tact, a cordiality, and a de licacy of feeling which none are readier to appre ciate, or more likely to remember, than the Parisians. To visit the tomb of NAPO LEON, for instance, was to tread on delicate ground, but seeing her MAJESTY before that august cenotaph paying Queenly homage to the remains of the great Emperor whose transcendent genius still inspires European council, and will in all human probability be productive of good to the people of Europe when his victories are but dim histories, the proudestFrenchrnan could hardly fail to erase once for all from the tablet of memory the record of Waterloo. The expiation, so to speak, was complete. The QUEEN, in short, has deserved well of her subjects, and France may be proud of her EMPEROR, for both have done honour to the people over whom they have been called upon to rule, and have, though in a diffe rent degree, of course, thine their best to pro mote and cement an alliance which will not merely insure the well-being of the two countries, but will elevate them still higher in universal opinion as the protectors of civilisation, and ,the hope of the oppressed throughout the world. Grisi and Mario are about to appear for a few nights at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool. Mr. Webster and Ma dame Celeste are fulfilling an engagement at the same house. Another batch of 140 recruits left Heligoland on the 19th fbr England. There were still 200 men there, awaiting their turn. The sub-prefects of Silistria have just issued orders for the arrest of 132 Poles, who have crossed the Prussian frontier from the Government of Radom, in order to avoid the conscription. The memorial to the Lord Mayor, with reference to the filthy state of the Thames, has already received up wards of 200 signatures in the Baltic coffee-house, and is also meeting with considerable support on the part of the merchants and brokers at Lloyd's and the Stock Exchange. MR, BROOKE, THE TRAGEDIAN--At the Victoria Theatre, the talented performer, Mr. G. V. Brooke, has been fulfilling an engagement. He made his first ...:ppear ince on Thursday, May 10, as Othello, His engagement n Sydney will shortly cease, previous to the time origi n sally contemplated, his success, notwithstanding his in doubted talents, having fallen far short of what might r of Aonably have been anticipated.—Sydney Empire. .A. first-class gold medal has been awarded to Captain Cu rrie, of the English merchant vessel Robert Finnie, of : Dumfries, for picking up and keeping on board his vessel for 42 days the shipwrecked crew of the Louis le Gr: snd, of Bordeaux, in May'last. . Is letter from Stockholm of the 17th, in the Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, states that a portion of the British fie et has burnt all the government magazines and store . So uses at `Vasa, and a considerable number of small craft t h at had taken refuge in that port. A. proposition of Mr. Kennard, an English engineer, to construct a suspension -bridge from Pera to Scutari, h. ta been well received by the Turkish Government. T :le cost is estimated at 700,000/., which it is proposed to raise by a company of English capitalists. A fire broke out in a suburb of Alessandria (Pied s.rit), on th e 17 th, and was not mastered until noon of fI t' to following Lay, notwithstanding the exertions of the authorities. Several house of poor people were burnt do , Nii, and it was. only owi ng to the daring intrepidity of the firemen that the adjoining gas-works were saved. Th e damage is stated to be considerable. THE SU.l4;' LONDON, WEDNES I DAT ErigNiNn, AUGusr 29 1856 have proved themselves your worthy rivals. The bridge of Traktir has been the theatre of an heroic struggle which covers with glory the gallant men who have sustained it. Soldiers, this battle, in which the Russians lost upwards of 6,000 men, several Generals, and left in our hands 2,200 wounded and prisoners, and the materiel they had prepared to effect the passage of the river, does the greatest honour to General Herbillon, who commanded the line of , the, Tchernaya, and to his division. The divi sions of Generals Camou and Faucheux maintained, their f3rmer reputation. The Generals of Brigade, and in particular Generals de Failly, Cler, and Wimp fen, and Colonels Douay, Polhas, Dannar, and Castagny, are entitled to the gratitude of the army. I cannot here name all those who distinguished themselves for their valour, but I feel bound specially to notice the able direction imparted by Colonel Forgeot to our energetic cannoaiers, and the brilliant conduct of the artillery of the Imperial Guard, and of the divisions. An English battery, placed on a height commanding Tchorgoun, powerfully assisted us in compelling the enemy to retreat, before we could bring up our reserves. The Turks, upon whom a false attack was made, sup ported us with six battalions and a battery of artil lery. The English cavalry was-- ready with the Sar dinian squadrons to second the brave African Chasseurs of General Morris, if the pursuit of the enemy could have been useful to success ; but I have not lost sight of our grand enterprise, and I desired to economise your blood, after having obtained a result which once more confirms our superiority over that boasted Russian in fantry—which is a presage of new victories, and which increases our right to the gratitude of the country. " A. PELISSIER, General-in-Chief. " Head-quarters before Sebastopol, Aug. 17, 1855." HONE Y MARKET . AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed steadily, and compared with Friday's rates prices of all kinds were unchanged. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales (500 of which were taken for export, and 500 on speculation), comprising 250 Pernam and Maranham, at 64d. to 7d. ; 100 Egyp tian, at sid. to 6.0. ; and 1,200 Surat, at 4d. to bid. per lb. In the Railway Share Market very little business was done, and without alteration in prices. BOURSE, AVG. 28.—CLO8IN4 PRIOES. Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents 95 —95 f. —c. 3 per Cents 66 80 66 80 Credit Mobilier 1245 Roman Credit Foncier 535 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes Piedmontese _ 85 Home Debt There is nothing of interest in the letters from the Continent this morning. The scrip of the new Turkish loan is expected to be ready at the Bank of England next Monday. There were full rates obtained yesterday after noon for bills upon the continent, Paris excepted, as 90 days' paper was taken at 25 321 to 35. Ham burg was 13 71 to 8, Amsterdam 11 17i to 18, Frankfort 1171 to 118, and Trieste 11 34 to 36. Rather contrary to expectation the gold just received from Australia and America has been bought for the Continent, and probably in connec tion with the Turkish loan. English Stocks are flat, and the business doing is still very limited. Consols have been quoted 911 to for transfer, but not higher than 91k to k for account. The New Three per Cents. have realised 92i to and the Reduced 91k to 921. Exchequer Bills are 17s. premium, Bank Stock for account is at 216. Exchequer Bonds are 100 k. For Foreign Stocks the market is extremely dull, and in several instances the quotations are nominal. Turkish Bonds are 931, which was yes terday's closing rate, and the New Scrip is flat at 21 premium. Venezuela Bonds are 31, being lower. Chilian 3 per Cents, are 68, and Brazilian 44 per per Cents. 941. RAILWAYS -aOll CASH. fr. c. -- ----- fr. a Orleans 1220 Rouen Western 823 75 Strasburg Cotta 742 50 Havre 7OO =- Mediterranean 1330 Cherburg Northern ... 917 50 Grand Central 646 25 Lyons .. .. 1225 Austrian Coin 715 ---- The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71; Mexican, 21i to 211; Peruvian, 81 to 82 ; ditto Three per Cents., 58 to 59 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to , 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 100 to 102 ; ditto Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to 19 ; ditto Three per Cents., 371 to 381 ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 41 ; ditto Passive, 41 to 41. The company of the Western and North-Western Railways of France inform the holders of shares of the old companies, comprised in the fusion of the railways of Normandy and Brittany, namely, the companies hitherto known as the St. Germains, the Paris and Rouen, the Rouen and Havre, the Western of France, and the Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg Railway Companies —that the old shares of the said companies may now be exchanged for shares in the amalgamated company of the Western and North-Western Railways of France' in the proportions regulated by the fusion treaty, viz. : " For twelve Paris and Rouen shares will be given nineteen amalgamated, or new shares. "For seven Rouen and Havre shares will be given six amalgamated, or new shares. " For seven Paris, Caen, and Che r b ourg s h ares will be given six amalgamated, or new shares. " Fur two St. Germain shares will be given one amalgamated, or new share." The St. Germain shares being each entitled to half a new share and half a I,ooof. obligation, bearing 50f. interest per annum, and re-inibursable at 1,250 f., there will be delivered, as stated above, a new share for two St. Germain shares, and these shares stamped will be returned to the proprietors, to be hereafter exchanged for the obligations to which they are entitled. In consequence of the delays necessary for stamp ing and signing the new shares, the certificates of shares in the Old Western of France Railway Company, which represent an equal number of new shares, will not be exchanged until the Ist of October next. Up to that period the o:d Western of France shares, fully paid up, will be for all purposes of negotiation assimilated with . he new shares. The exchange of shares is made at the offices of the company of the Western and Worth-Western Railways of France, 124, Rue St. Lazare, Paris (the old office of administration of the St. Germain Railway), and at London, at Mr. S. W. Morgan's, agent of the company, 38, Throgmorton-street, to whom application may be made for sale or purchase of fractional parts of shares. I❑ railway shares there is but little variation, and although some of them rule flat others show a tendency towards improvement. Great Western have advanced per cent., and North-Eastern and York are at fuller rates. Antwerp and Rotterdam are a shade lower, but the foreign generally are the same as before. Canadian are steady. The mines, banks, and miscellaneous undertak- ings call for no special remark, being firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. ( Front the Ofixictl List. ) lin.illetib don. Bank Stock .... ..... . I per °out. Reduced Annuitie5.............., 92 I„ 11 2 11 , 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ls Ve w 3 Per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities Lon.: Annuities, Expire sth Jan,,, 18P0 • 4 Ditto :30 Years, Expire stb /an., 1860 3l Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1883 16 15-16 India Stock Bank Stock for Account 216 Consols .'or Account, 6th September 9lf i txchequor Bills, 2i 21000 2500 — I Small Etchequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Cent .. . . 1002 Ditto 1359, ~ .. 1001 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. .... Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. . Ditto New, 1852, 4/ per Cont. 941 51 • Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent •••••••••••• Ditto 3 per Cent. &lexican 3 per Cent. ipanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3B Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account l9 Tarkit,ll Bonds, 6 per cent 931 ;3 4 Ditto for the account Ditto New Scrip. 4 per Cent. Venezuela Bonds, 44 per Cent 3ll Ditto for the Account -'1 2 ivuipon. (n t , , above payable in T. ,,,, 0n !Preach Rentals, 3 per Cent ... 67f.12c. Ex. 25f.5c THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for tll3 'Account..... THE WAR POETRY OF THE LAUREATE. TO ALFRED TENNYSON, P.L. (Fi.oin, the Weekly Dispatch.) Sits,—As a poet you are amenable to literary criti cism, and as a patriot to political criticism. With re gard to the first that is not my business. J shall not inquire here whether "Maud " be " Maudlin,"er whether its beauties add another leaf to the wreath which you worthily wear. My dealings with you are those which na turally take place between apolitical critic and a political writer. Such you are, to a certain extent, in the poem of ".Maud ;" and yet more directly in one or two of the appended compositions. Your spirit is too manly to shelter yourself under any plea of poetical privilege. You know that "song is but the eloquence of truth," and by the truth of principles must it be judged. The bard who sings falsely i 3 as justly censurable as the historian who records falsely. Perhaps more so; for to misguide the feel ings of the people may be a more grievous offence than to mislead their judgments on a matter of fact. I hold, therefore, that all poets are morally answerable for their politics, so far, I mean, as they express, and thereby en force, a certain phase of political thought in their poetical compositions. Thus I esteem you eminently praiseworthy for the many noble songs of progress scattered through your publications. They combine for you the honours due to poet, patriot, and philanthropist. They win for you the civic crown as well as the bays. As Laureate, you have a yet further and peculiar responsibility. The office is not exclusively nominal or honorary. It is something more than merely the excuse for a pension. It is something besides the Royal adjudication to you of the highest merit in poetry of which the empire can boast. The age of Birth-day Odes is happily gone. To that servile mummery you have never been condemned. With Pye it departed, and for ever. Illustrious predecessors had raised and dignified the office before you were nominated to it. But it has not, therefore, become a mere sinecure. You are the Laureate of Queen Victoria, the Sovereign of the British empire. Of you it may reasonably be expected that when the country sustains a great loss, in the death say of one of its greatest men, you give articulate sound to the public sorrow in some noble dirge ; that when the nation's heart swells high with joy or triumph, you harmo nise the tone of exultation ; or that when it is needful to importsonse heroic impulse to the public mind, yen point to the glory that shines afar, and join your trumpet call to the inspiring pursuit. To these claims you have responded, con ceding thereby the justice and fairness of the right which I would now exercise of criticising what you have done, and the manner in which you have done it. And first, I mu , t take exception to your description of the national character as affected by the long peace. It is an egregious and disgraceful caricature. It dishonours the country, and is most untrue to the facts. It is one sided ; and the one side which it presents is inexcusably darkened. That long peace tends to selfishness, and that we had by no means altogether escaped that taint, I know very well. This was part of the theme of my last letter. In that I depicted the transition, which may be ascribed to the war, from a species of contented and sor did selfishness to one of large and generous sympathies. But it cannot be conceded to you of the blessings of peace, that " we have made them a curse." We were not " pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own." There was no such degradation as to justify the I question, " Who but a fool would have faith in a trades man's ware or his word ?" Peace had nothing to do with the poor being " hovelled and bustled together, each sex, like swine ;" in fact, peace was exploring remedies and palliations for these social evils. True, while we see "Peace in her vineyard," "a company forges the wine;" but the adulteration in our port goes on quite as largely in time of war. And so the wife-beating under the in fluence of drink, the " chalk, alum, and plaster sold to the poor for bread," the lying down armed "for the villainous centre-bit," the poisoned potion of the apothe cary, and the " mamrnonite mother" that "kills her babe for a burial fee," why all these have just as much to do with war as with peace. Nay, it might be shown of some of them that they are more likely to be promoted by the privations of war than by the plentifulness of peace. The " ruammonite mother" is a right-down calumny ; it is not, like the other allegations, a gross exaggeration ; it was originally only a suspicion, and it has been so disp rove d as to d emo li s h all right to assert it as a fact, unless, perchance, in a rare case of monomania, which has no business in such a catalogue. One pauses and asks oneself, wonderingly, what grains and atoms of truth there are in this detestable picture And if there be some petty fragments of reality, still one inquires how far they can plausibly be said to affect the national character—it what way they can be traced to either peace or war, by any logical connection of cause and effect—how a people, so sunk and lost, could ever, by the bare proclamation of war, be roused up into a high-spirited arid generous nation—nay, and how it could possibly happen that such a people could be not only capable of honourable transformation, but should itself be the moving and impelling power that actually goadei on its reluctant rulers, as d with difficulty commanded and enforced obedience in them to its own warlike spirit. Perhaps you will disown these foul imputation=, and tell us you write dramatically— that you depict the deeply embittered feelings of the hero of your poem—that we are to suppose you in a state of metempsychosis with the impoverished son of a ruined and perhaps murdered father. But that will not serve. Your hero goes mad afterwards, but he is not such a fool as to gene ralise in this wholesale way from a private misfortune. He is quite in his senses a little further on, and that, too, before requited love has brightened the world to his per ceptions. He characterises very justly the broad-brimmed hawker of holy things, whose ear is " stuft with his cotton," and who would " preach our poor little army down." He joins in the general aversion and contempt for the Peace-mongering tribe. So your vituperations on the national character in time of Peace have no more of dramatic consistency than they have of historical truth. The nation was ripe for war in the time of peace. It was then, as now, just and generous. Half a century of quietude and commerce, and prosperity had not " so effaced the image of our sires" as to render us listless on-lookers at Russian aggression. I will not say that the public responded to the cry to arms ;" the pub lic originated the cry. They left response to their rulers only. It was their determination " that an iron tyranny now should bend or cease." They would not allow that " Britain's one sole God" should " be the millionaire." They never had established or tolerated that idolatry. It was not their will that " commerce" should be " all in all." And when the hero of your poem Stood on a giant deck and mixed his breath With a loyal people shooting a battle-cry, he only added his individual mite to the popular enthu siasm. Away, then, with your calumnies on the natio - nal character as it stood after those long years of peace. Blot them out. You have often blotted better things, as I shall presently have to show. Your national de scription is a nauseous compound of disgraceful excep tions. It is a picture of the sun as only a congeries of spots. Rise into truth and justice ; and so be our coun trs.''s bard and our Sovereig n ' s L aurea t e . Your volume closes with the mangled corpse of the most glorious of martial lyrics iu modern times—" The Charge of the Light Brigade." It is no more like itself " than Ito Hercules." For these extraordinary omissions I must call you to account. They commence with the second stanza. You first delete the following : Into the Valley of Death Rode the six hundred, For up came an order which Some one had hlundered. "Forward, the Light Brigade ! Take the guns," Nolan said— Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. You afterwards tell us that No man was there dismayed ; Not though the soldier knew Some one had blundered. All this you have obliterated. And why ? Wherefore do you suppress the fact that the command for that famous Balaklava charge was a blunder' I will not seek to divine your motives ; a misplaced charity for the dead perhaps ; or a more misplaced leniency towards the living ; but, whatever the inducement, the omission falsi fies the fact. The blunder is abundantly proved. It was a disgraceful and sanguinary blunder in itself, though the devoted heroism of the deed eclipsed the mistake in its blaze of glory. But that there was carelessness and am biguity of expression in the original order—that there was want of distinct understanding on the part of Lord Lucan—that there was misinterpretation on the part of Capt. Nolan—and that there was fatal acquiescence on the part of Lord Cardigan—all this is in proof, by the letter of Lord Raglan, and the various facts elicited in the Parliamentary discussions. It suited the tactics of the Government and of the party leaders to hush the mat ter up ; and hushed up it was. But that was no prece dent or guidance for you. The discussions in Parliament were patched up as if it were only a misunderstanding between Lords Lucian and Cardigan, and a private inter ference of Lord Hardinge to order the former home, at the request of Lord Raglan. The responsibility of all of them for the lives of the brave soldiers thrown away in utter waste by the blunderirgs amongst them was blinked altogether. All was slurred over, upon the principle of leaet said soonest mended. That was no reason why you should not speak out. You bad spoken out. Your words had pealed like a trumpet over the land. And now you suppress, you recant and shirk. Oh ! this is miserable. For the blundering, and the cognisance of the blunder, are no important part of the transaction. They are essential to a full ineed of justice to the soldiery. They knew that they went to certain destruction. That admirable and graphic chronicler of the war, Mr. Rus sell, of the Times, says, "Don Quixotte, in his tilt against the windmill, was not near so rash or reckless as the gallant fellows who prepared without a th oug h t to rush on almost certain death." ' Yes, " reckless" in one sense they were ; but not in the sense of not seeing the peril ef the enterprise and the madness of the order. Peace to their souls and glory to their names. But for the sake of no conventional respect for the dead, of no scrupulosity as regards the living, let us allow one iota to be abstracted from the justice due to them in their heroic self-sacrifice. Let what may become of our Lucans and Cardigans, of our Nolans and Aireye, of our Rag lans and Hardingee, justice to the memory of the de voted should be paramount. Its omission would be discreditable to you, Sir ; its retractation by suppres sion is what it grieves me to charge you with, The fault is far greater than that of having enfeebled and emasculated one of the grandest offsprings of your muse, one of the noblest outpourings of your excited spirit. It offends against moral truth and historical justice. Your besetting sin is that of making alterations and suppressions after you have published. I recommend all who possess them to preserve and prize the earlier editions of your poems. They have treasures of beauty of which you have since done your best to rob the world. But this is matter of taste only ; which, were I inditing a literary criticism, I should not despair of substantiat ing, but w hi c h i s b es id e my present purpose . This ten eency of yours does not and cannot account for the omis sion on w hi c h I h ave b een comment i ng . There is evi dently, in this case, an ulterior reason. You have marred the beauty of the laurel wreath which you bad LLOYD'S SHIPPING_ (THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 29.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S ; light pleasant breeze, and fine clear weather. FALMOUTH, Aug. 28.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Cor della, from Aquilhas ; John Hillman, Rio Janeiro; Wal ter Morice, Havana. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 28.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived— Joseph Grant (tpt. 15), from Malta, &o.• Helen A. Miller, Bremen, for Newport, M onmouth, anti Baltimore, U.S. ; Royal yacht Victoria and Albert and the Royal steam squadron, Boulogne. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 27. Wind S.W.—Arrived—Au rora, from Monte Video; Malabar, Liverpool, for Quebec, leaky. Off the port —Niger, Callao, and sailed for Leith. LONDONDERRY, Aug. 27 . — Arrived—Mary Ann, from St. John's, N.B. ABERDEEN, Aug. 27.--Wind W. to S.W.—Sailed—Ri chibucto, for Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 28.—The Simla and the Cleopatra, both screw-steamers, have been in collision near Constan tinlple, and received serious damage. The Ringdove, of this port, was as h ore on the Hellespont on the 16th ins t. SUNDERLAND, Aug. 28.—The schooner Snowdrop, of this port, and the schooner Charles, of Lyme, were in contact off Whitby, on the 26th inst.; the latter sank, and four of her crew were drowned; the former received da mage to stern, &c. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived.—D u k e o f C ornwall (s.) from Dublin. Sailed --Pet and Valiant, for Nt , wport ; Duke of Corn wall (s.), London ; Neptune, Saumlersfoot ;• Transit, Jer sey ; Brunswick (s.), Ply mou th ; Ann and Charlotte, Guernsey. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind, Westerly. Arrived —Express, from Bonny; Woodman, Maranham ; Asterion and Mary Hale, New Orleans; Humber, Pug wash ; Enterprise, Smyrna ; Schroder, Trieste; Union, Ostend ,• Cullodeu, Bombay ; Hermann, Magellan ; Rosa mond, Bahia; Williams, Rio de la Hache ; Palm Flush, St. Stephe n ' s , N. 8.; Esther, Wilmington • Partisan, Alexandria ; A po ll o, Leghorn ; Wm. Barber, 'Marseilles ; Joven Gulielmo, Malaga ; Relative, Havre • Thessalia (s.s.), Gl asgow ; Her Majesty's screw•steomer'Assistance, Malts and Portsmouth • Elizabeth Walker, Trieste ; Nymph, Seville; Maria, Copenhagen. Sailed—Ellerslie. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 27. Wind, 5.8. W., with rain. Arrived —John den 11. , from Trieste ; Aurora, Monte Video. Sailed--Mary Ann Caroline, for Havre. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) A w r i rnivde,d7A.;ugt.o2e4L G o ß ew A hw vz isatti s en E r :D ch , aar W ozyli e .n d e n , e f s r d o a m y, 9 DEAL, Wednesday, 9. 22 a.m. L2.3g9staer.n.l• Wind N. W., light. Passed—Courier, from London, for Constanstinople. A nchored—lndemnity, from London to Melbourne ; Matilda, London, to a Tr' 'd d, • Ja ne, London, to iniJa maica, Passing —Eclipse, from Madeira, to London. Sailed—Daphne, fur Port-Philip; Asia, London. LATEST NEWS. SUCCESSFUL SORTIE AT KARS. The French Government has received a tele. graphic despatch from Therapia of the 25th, which states that the garrison of Kars had made a successful sortie, and that the Russians have retired from Erzeroum. VIENNA, TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 28. The Oesterreichische Correspondenz publishes the following : CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 23. The French are sending all their spare troops to the Crimea. Many wounded Russians and prisoners have arrived at Constantinople. Lord Redcliffe has gone to Balaklava, to invest several officers with the Order and insignia of the Bath. Omar Pasha is still at Constantinople. PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 29, 8 A.m. The Moniteur publishes General Pelissier's.re port of the battle of the Tchernaya ; also a copy of the plan of battle found upon the person of a Russian General who was killed. The Moniteur also publishes General Pelissier's order of the day, the report of the Intendant- General of the army in the East, and a report of Admiral Penaud, Commander of the French squadron in the Baltic. ST. PETERSBURG, 17TH EVENING. General Gortschakoff writes from the Crimea, under date of the night of the 24th ult., that at that time the state of things before Sebastopol still remained the same, but that at times the fire of the Allies became stronger. The accounts by the Carmel state that the Allied cavalry is to winter in Turkey. WAR DEPARTMENT, AUG. 28. Lord Panmure has received the following tele graphic despatch from General Simpson, dated Crimea, Aug. 27 : We have just concluded the ceremony of in vestiture of the Bath. Nothing could have gone off better. The Naval and Military Commanders of the. Allied Forces assisted at the ceremony. In other. respects nothing of interest occurred. STOCKHOLM, A ua. 27. Archbishop Holmstrom, Primate of the Swedish Lutheran Church, and the most important cede uiastical dignitary of the kingdom, died this morn ing, at Upsal. MADRID, 27TH. Some others of the band of the brothers Hier ros have been arrested in the province of Bur gos. The insurgents of Catalonia are closely pursued, and do not increase in number. The Valetta arrived at Marseilles, at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, with the India and China mails. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 24th, in the Leipsic Gazette , says :—" Lord Elli o tt, w h o re places Lord Westmoreland at the Embassy dur ing his absence, had a long conference with Count Buol yesterday, in consequenceof despatches received from London. The subject of the inter view is stated to have been the formation of the Italian legion. Lord Elliott is said to have de clared, in the name of his Cabinet, that the Wes tern Powers are still resolved not to take advan tage of the present crisis to moot questions of na tionality, and that the depots of recruits now at Novara will be removed further from the Austrian fron tier." The Austiian Gazette of the 23d says :—" The most contradictory reports have been in circulation on the subject of the sittings of the council of the empire, which for some time past have been held every day. It appears that financial questions only have been under consideration. The Emperor has declared that it was necessary that the state should at any cost repay the debt contracted with the na tional Bank, in order that that establishment may resume its cash payments, and the means for effecting this reimbursement have been under con sideration. It is positively stated that it is in con templation to reorganise the direct taxes, and that large properties will be taxed more heavily. It is also endeavoured to establish an equilibrium be tween the receipts and expenditure, and the an nouncement of some important financial measure is very shortly expected." FRANCE. -PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. We read in the M owiteur :—" The Queen on Friday visited the tomb of the Emperor, and none of tier visits produced such a deep impression. As the review was not over antil very late her Ma jesty was no longer expeeed at the Hotel des In- , valides ; nevertheless, in spite of the lateness of the hour, she decided on going there. The Queen, therefore, arrived at dusk, followed by a numerous staff, surrounded by the veterans of our old wars, who flocked together on her passage, as she ad vanced with melancholy lutes rest towards the last home of him who was the mast constant adversary of England. What a spectacle ! How many re miniscences, and what tonne asts were suggested ! But when to the glare of the t arches, and the sound of the organ playino. " God is sve the Queen," the Queen was conducted by the Emperor to the chapel, where the mortal rem aims of Napoleon re pose, the effect was most striking and imposing, and the emotion most profound, :for every one was in spired with the idea that .it was not a simple homage at the tomb of a grew t man, but a solemn act, attesting that the rival ries of the past were forgotten, and that the unii in between the two nations was thereby hence forth solemnly gua ranteed." The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Keeper of the Privy Purse to the Queen of England, addressed the following letter to the Minist;e r of the Interior on the day of the departure of bier Majesty : " Monsieur le Mini‘s‘trPealaTeeheo4Qsute.n to transmit t o your Excellency the sum of 25,000 f., A r u. which h er : Majesty begs you to have the goodness to Queen has od g er . e 2 d 7 me distribute satnong the poor of the City of Paris. Acce t' t T h h e e h M u r i e n a is t i t i e r d o e f h t i h e e n f l a n i s t a e u r i e o e r &c., Pairrs.' l3 oifmPlna reidsiattoelymachkaergthede distributicm, comformably to the generous inten ticns of h ea. Majesty. Genera / Count de Montebello, aide-de-camp of the Empe 'Tor ; Col. Fleury, first equerry and aide de-camp ( ff the Emperor ; the Marquis de Belmont, • ehamberl. sin ; the Countesses de Labedozere and de Rayne ival, dames du palais of the Empress, attached to the service of the Queen during her residence in France ; Viscount de Walsh, cham berlain of the Emperor ; the Marquis de Lagrange, equerry t• c , his Majesty, attached to the service of Prince Al b ert, continued their attendance on the Queen and . the Prince until the moment of their embarkatie ,n. The font ,wing is the order of the day of General Pelissier, A which an extract has been sent by telegraph ' _ _ " Soldio rs,— On the 16th of August you fought gal lantly, an , 3 you chastised the Ru.ssiaa army for its ad venturou 13 attempt against our positions on theTchernaya. Though won the day after the day of St. Napoleon Your vier ory does not the lees celebrate the fete of our Emperor. Nothing could be more agreeable to his great heart than Ole new laurel with which you have decorated our eagles...3f 'ive divisions of Russian infantry, supported by a numerous; artillery and considerable masses of cavalry, forming a strength of 60,000 men, attempted to force your lines. The enemy meant to drive you track to the' plateau of th t , Tchernaya. You have baffled these pre- ,-,truptuotts ho pes, and he has failed along his whole tort of att ck, and the Sardinians on your right SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 23d have arrived. The Gazette contains a royal decree, dated the 21st; which enacts that, for various reasons set forth by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Eleuterio Juantorena, " who represents himself to be charged with the affairs of the Holy See by delegation of Cardinal Brunelli and Mgr. Franchi," shall imme diately cease his functions ; and that, until a per son shall be specially nominated by a brief of the _Pope to exercise the jurisdiction in disputed mat ters of the Nuncio's Tribunal, and shall have re ceived the Queen's approval to exercise it, that Tribunal shall be closed. The Queen has given 28,000 reals (7,000 fr.) to the funds for the relief of sufferers from cholera in Madrid and other parts of the kingdom. The Minister of Finance has deter mined on presenting the budget for 1856 to the Cortes without delay. A letter of the 24th, re 7 ceived in advance of the mail, says :—" The Go vernment is taking measures to pay the interest on the debt due at the end of December, 1854, and June, 1855, as it is anxious not to present itself to the Cortes without having fulfilled that obligatio A letter from Tunis states that at noon on the 15th, in honour of the fete of St. Napoleon, a sa lute of 21 guns was fired from the fort ; and that one of the Ministers and the first aide-de-camp of the Bey waited on M. Leon Roches, the French Consul, to offer the congratulations of his High ness. Au Austrian corvette which was at anchor in the roadstead, waiting the arrival of the squad ron of the Archduke Maximilian, also hoisted the French flag and fired a salute of 21 guns. A mass and a Te Deum were performed at the Catholic church. A letter from Bucharest, of the 16th, says that on the previous day the fete of the Emperor Napo leon was celebrated with great pomp in that city. After mass and a Te Deem in the Catholic church, the French Consul, M. Beclard, received the visits and congratulations of the Count Corinini, and the Austrian military authorities, the Ministers and dignitaries of the principality, the Consular Body, dtc. In the evening a grand banquet was given, and toasts to the Emperor and Empress were drunk with enthusiasm.—The funeral of the Grand Vor nik Alexander Ghika, brother-in-law of the _Hos podar Stirbey, was performed on the 12th with great ceremony. A correspondent of the Universal German Ga zette writes from Berlin, 23d, that the late reduc tion of the Austrian forces will lead to a similar measure in the Prussian arm, in order to dimi nish the expense caused by the great increase lately made in the artillery and cavalry depart ments. The King of Wurtemberg is travelling at pre sent in Switzerland, under the name of Connt de Teek. His Majesty intends proceeding by Zurich, Lucerne, and Berne, to Interlaken. A telegraphic despatch announces that on Sun day the Princess, wife of Don Miguel, gave birth to a daughter, in the Palace of Heubach, in Ger many. The Belgian Moniteur publishes a decree from the king, nominating a commission to prepare the revision of the present commercial code in that country: It is to be divided into two sections, one to sit at Antwerp, and the other at Brussels. A letter from Vienna of the 22d says :—" The concordate between the Austrian Government and the Papal See now only waits for ratification. It is drawn up in Latin, and the text is now being composed at the imperial printing-office. The clerical - party are not, it is said, exactly satisfied, as-they regard the affair as a kind of compromise. The relations of the high ecclesiastical functiona ries with the Holy See have become more easy than they were under the late Emperor." THE CLAPTON POISONING CASE.—The adjourned in quest on the body of Mrs. Emma Candy was resumed on Monday before Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner. The jury, after some deliberation, returned the following verdict : —" We find that the deceased, Emma Candy, died by swallowink a quantity of arsenic, by whom given we have not sufficient evidence to prove." GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The Gist half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company was beld yesterday at their offices, 71, Lombard-street; John Wilkin, Esq., in the chair. The report of the directors, and a statement of the accounts for the half year ending 20th June last, were read to the meeting. The report, which was very satisfactory, was unani mously received and adopted by the proprietors. The usual, dividend was declared, and the cordial thanks of the proprietors voted to the chairman and directors for their continued zealous services in the management of the company's affairs, after which the meeting senarated. BATTLE OF THE TOHERNATA.—Among the killed on the field a Russian general officer was recognised by his uniform ; his head bad been carried away by a round shot. Another general officer, wounded, was taken to one of the French ambulances. He was in much dis tress. Speaking in French, he said to a French officer by his side at the ambulance, "This is a sad day of dis grace for Russia, not to have set free the passage of the Tchernaya, defended by one French division." Another Russian officer, who was made prisoner, and conversed in German, asked " What was done in front of Sebas topol t" and nn Leing told that nothing important had taken place there, expressed surprise. He afterwards explained that it was understoofi in the Russian army that simultaneaus with the attack to gain the Tchernaya an assault was to be made by an overpowering force against the French and nglish works before the Kara belnaia. Three new medals have just been struck at the Paris Mint. On one is placed the portrait of the Emperor, with the following inscription on the opposite side: " Victoire de Tractir par les Armees unies de France, d'Angleterre, et de Piedmont, 16 Aout 1855." The second is in honour of the Queen of England's visit, and gives on one side the portraits of the Emperor and Empress, with the legend—" Napoleon 111,, Em peror ; Eugenie, Imperatrice ; and on the reverse, por traits of the Queen and of Prince Albert, with the in scription—" La Heine d'Angleterre et le Prince Albert visitent la France, Aout 1855 ; and on the reverse, within a crown, the following words—" Leur sejour a Paris, 18 Aout 1855. A letter from Warsaw of the 18th in Speller's Gazette, says :—" It is now certain that Prince Paskiewitch will retain his post. He has received a very gracious letter from the Emperor, in which he is charged to effect dif ferent reforms. This fact is sufficient to prove that the Grand Duke Nicholas will not, at all events for Rome time, succeed him as viceroy of Poland. The visit of the Emperor to Warsaw has been postponed, r probably on account of th e i n t ens it y o f th e cholera." PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par (according to the last tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for stan dard gold, gives an exchange of 25 . 17 ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.07 i, it follows that gold is about 0 38 per cent. dearer in Paris than in Lon don. By advices from Hambure.' the price of gold is 427 per m ar k, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17w. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 13 6 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at abort being 13'4 it follows that gold is 0 . 71 per cent, dearer in Hamburg than in London. The (ionise of exchange at New York on London for bills at 64 (lays' sight is 110 per cent. ; and, the par of exchange between Engl an d and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.42 per cent. in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of,transport and difference of interest, the pre sent rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation of gold from the United States. woven for the 300 fallen heroes, by suppressing the El` that they were martyrs to the blunders of their 0 , ; inanders. In this you have Ppared the livi n g ; bctjcii I think, at the expense of the dead ; you have eh is , o the glory of th e poldiet, to leave untarnishe d the lb, .of the officer. Thi s is a weak tenderness which 'O3 country cannot afford. Rather let us echo the ear e 'l; of the Russian, who said, " Your men are lions , le, your officers are donkeys." Physical bravery they no doubt, plenty o f pl uc k, but more than that goes to composition of th e h ero who is appointed to be thel.,3',f of heroes. Here h as b een the great failure of our znillts;, operations. We are rich in enthusiasm in the figb t want skill in the command. Our Generals are i e ', o arise. We de s id era t a th e f u lfilment of your predietl that— Many a darkness into the light shall leap, And shine i n th e su dd en ma king of splendid 0 0 1 , upon u Speedily ma y suc h sp l en d ours b urs t u s • and riously may you celebrate them in rich strains stirring melody, " unmixed with baser matter." PUBLICOLA, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. • SAMBRE AND MEUSE. he _Op " The half-yearly mee ti ng o f t hi s company leas terday at the offices, Moorgat e - s t ree t, Richards in th e c h a i r . t .t° The report, an ab s t rac t o f w hi ch has already nor , was taken as read. ah , reu • The CHAIRM AN , i n mov i ng the adoption of 1•7:013r said it was a very i nteresting meeting, as tm-1138 , complete account of one half year's working. 0 0 .4 ° ' ceipts am oun t e d to nearly 29,0001., and the e f ° pros; 19.7501. Th e expenses were always larger ulfici.Veto tion to the receipts during the first half-yea r t rec‘ l N opening of the li ne th roughout. The prese % sufficiently indicated what traffic the countP as eb. c o produce, especially when they considered the u h r e - iodo they had had from want of railway stock, not "ecicl"t)/ to carry the traffic which could be obtained. 0" , e r.o, to the net revenue, there was about 3,500/. au e h V ie s Government in respect of the guaranteed brat'. e du p it was not now in course of payment, but ill nt ioli toe they would r ece i ve it. S everal things were: 3 ; e e r. l3 o- in the la s t le p or t as b e i ng l"c unfinished vlbin orto. completed. They had mentioned that tra tr isl ments were being made with the I nci lindHOl t he and the Northern of France Erquelinee ,„ Ae* ee r preliminaries were now settled, and they on l y tb be f formalities to complete them. They w e d re ' A ll dpi fore, in a very comfortable position, a n a foo. wanted was rolling stock to develops the ° d oe% te supply of additional working stock would Pr i n oit responding increase of the traffic. They had n it by be coal prop r i e t ors, b ut they were presse d into ctol great oppositi on t h ey h ad to contend with ieclell o' owners and boat- owners ; an d , so far as they as coal merchants, they had done exceedingly t en th of the li nes h e h a d ment i oned to which the ar r 3; &ta e s , referred w as a j unct i on li ne to run up to to " el s and the other was to enable the Erquelinee ` a olg e io. through th e i r station and to give the Sambra dois tibt b ol. Company facilities to go to Charleroi. 41 a the 0. would be mad e w h ere a s i ng l e one existe d. an. IA I v arrangement wa s b ase d upon equitable prin ai P t. to be mutually a d vantageous to all parties. t ere or e, Resolutions w ere p asse d a d opt i ng t h e I'o° 'diee.'", e 4 ing Mr. Sheward and Mr. Lyall, the re tiring, the and fixing for th e p resent t h e remunerat ion n r t s , te d. at 5001. per annu m , Th e meet i ng then sePs ITUft SS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RE_ P iD LONDON, BRIGHTON, A ND S OUTH COA g ! 15 6 Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 2 ° , 0 . 7 4 0 / 1 6 1855 ............................................ ... 'd 1 5:8 ,8 9 13 1 1 Corresponding week last year. ................... 1 3 Totallof the half-year to this date, 1855....•• 10,94 1 0 co' Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 ...... _Aysa l o LONDON AND BOUTH-EASTERN RA1LWA1:23,3 21 3 3 1 turn for the week ending Aug. 25, 1855..... 2 1,3 1 Corresponding week last year .................... rr, Increase in 1855 ....... _ Tt 6 1 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILS"' .............. 19 turn for the wee k en di ng A ug. 25, 1855 • .... Corresponding w ee k l as t year ..................... Increase in 1855.............................. Roe' WIND AND WEATIIER t , os' 40 f TUgS ri f t - r ' 1° 1... Stations. Coarse of Wind. SO,',„. c l o udy' Greenwich S.W Partial's Lothbury Manchester S. Sheffield N.E. Fine. Stoke-on-Trent Carlisle Lancaster Maryport . Whitehaven ...... W... Much rata- Leeds Great Grimsby Gainsborough ..... S. W Fine. Boston S. Leicester S . W very fin e. Derby S.W Cloudy Nottingham S.W Fine• Leamington Yarmouth Cambridge S . Lowestoft S . E . Hague S.E. H , )lyhead .. N.E. Dublin S.W . Liverpool Brighton S.S . W . ...... F e FFVFC l i iiile o n nnour i l e eeuey . a.ld : y I:1 6 . N.E. Very fine. Southampton S.W Cowes S.W Fine. Portsmouth Veri fin . ' Poole Bristol S.W Cloudy. Cloudy. Plymouth Cl o udy'. Exeter... Gloucester Cardiff W Rain. Swansea W Fine. Haverfordwest ... scvir Shrewsbury........ N.W Unsettled. York Aberdeen.. S.E. „•...., Fine. Dundee Perth S. ............ 11-... Edinburgh S.W .......... Very flue Berwick Cloudy. Sunderland S.E. Darlington S .. Whitby Scarborough v ir e e r r y y r n e o l l Hull S.W Very fin e ' iouc ly. Strood S. Partially c Cloucileas. Tunbridge direc t The Peesse of Vienna arinounea that "° t 04 raills oit between Vienna and Paris , by PragtlB and 1 will commence running on Saturday next. DSHIRE. A meetingSOUT of this company STAFFOR was held at Lich ° n cs e ti r Monday, wh en th e usua l di v id en d o f 4 per cet' jl l annum was declared. Th e mee ti ng was ma de I P eci o , for the creation of new shares, under the act of last $ l3 Rion for m a ki ng th e D ar l aston, T i pt o n, and Pri eed i2 l°l ‘ OO branches. The terms of suc h' creation vie re--- o 'or shares of 101. each to the present holders, in the P r , , P l ,,t tion of one new 101 . s h are f or every entire Ilu ffi c t s l seven 121. old sha res . Th e 27 t h o f S e ptembe r r ' A e- od the period fix e d f or accept i ng the shares so tender e '", n eli any shares not then applied for will be available t° a te of the proprietors as Elrly desire more than the proportion, provid e d a p p li cat i on b e ma de for theca rt°, to the 27th of October next. In acc ordance wi i b terms arranged with M r . M'Cl ean, the lessee, dit'i"°- , 0 0/ of 5 per cent, will b e pa id on the new s hares fro- o ac'' opening of su c h b ranc h es. The resolutions lve re : mously carried, th e th an k s of the meeting were f tea the chairman, and the meeting separated. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND HAMPTON.'beII The half-yearly meeting of this conipani 11 " - 41 0 °' yesterday a t th e L on d on T avern, Co l on el M.P., in the chair. rts i Fr Mr. N. T. Smith, th e secre t ary, rea d t he - -a ' ment convening the meeting. seri The report w a s t a k en as read. ,he ter. , The CHAIRMAN, in mov i ng t h e a d opt i on of the be' vb and accounts, sa id th e net b alance of Prnts 13,5581., the di rec t ors b a d set apart the sum 01 ' re fort , as reserve to m ee t this difficult leaving, the o lder* 8,5001. to b e di v id e d among the preference elis r , e t h . f eet. which was at th e ra t e o f 1 per cent. for the 10";;;J, After some observations, the report was atinP:•of The CHAIRMAN pr o p ose d a reso l ut i on autborleisor directors to raise 49,000/. upon rn taae 01. the r , bridge extension c ana l s , which was °srecondecl by THORP, and carrie d unanimousl l i6 h ree°l e The CH AIRMAN then submitted a formal d empowering th e di rec t ors to enter into co ot rso to joie the London and North-Western and the Mi dlAl l ;torc er way Compa n i es f or th e work i ng of the Oltbra'oaioos° ter, and W o l ver h ampton Railway on such c°,,n,. ° 130 may be agreed up on , w hi c h was seconded by ; 4" a director. lo op Mr. FENTON moved, as a rider to the r eg ,, ° t " That a comm itt ee o f proprietors be appo i n teu suit with the di rec t ors on t h e matter o f the Pr arrangement for worki ng th e li ne. " After a short discu ss i on the proposition weelle„tied iv t i and Mr. W. Bay nes , Sir Morton Peto, ~p Mr. o 0" Mr. B. Oliveira, M.P., M r. Fenton, and gr• were appointed members of the committee. „te of i A dividend upon the preference stock at th°, l- t eri' Per cent. was then agreed to, payable on an d the _° ° „ lr 21st of September next ; and a resolution • f° r ,„ . l B l' , '„ solidation into stock of the shares in the ChiPP,`"oor ton branch having been also agreed to, a vote 0 1 , e per was passed to the chairman and directors, and t " ceedings terminated. STAINES, WOKINGHAM, AND 117(). o JUNCTION. 11. ° The half-yearly meeting of this companiii g e t° yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. Glyn" - I, rod chair. The report stated that every exertion has "l e , a li sl j j to forward the works on the line between St a ;;; e ll Wokingham, but, from circumstances over ' l 'l l o i ' directors had no c mtrol, the works are not B° , s oo r d vanced as to enable them to open for traffic i n - se rr they had expected. The contractor, howeve r ' ; 4 . 11° that he has every confidence of completi n g during te course oe year. A vote h f of thanks to the chairman conclude d t Prcf eeedings.