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NATIONAL LOAN FIINI) LIFE Agglrclicer. SCC TETT. 26, cogairmx, LONDON. Capital 4500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Ithe leading feat ures o f th e S oc i e ty are guaranteed of an ample rldarY C. oderate Rates of Prendums. Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured. Annual Division of Profits. ti.alf the .Preinivu may remain as a Loan for Five Tears. tziensive Travelling Leave granted, withoitt extra Premium. 3l9erate extra Premium for Residence In Tropical Climates. 4,,n_ The last Annuatilenus•to the Assured varied from 27 to 6 5 'ut• (according to age) on the Premiums said. Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options. . ' 1 • Perms- Suml the .4,1 e ~,,, .'4 Annual P o u cy lßonus in Bonus nent Re-: Assured g Pre- taken [ addition in duetion of may bor o a rejurn.• out in to Sum Cash. Annual row on ......__ iAssured. '"----• ------:,_ ' I 1 Premium. Policy. ..£ s. d.I £ ' s. d X s. d.l.£ s. d. 1827 276 14 3 128'14 3 t 21 7 2.593 6 8 t 183.12 M 18 10 ,11.5 11 & 18 12 8;543 17 9 60 tw o 1339 226 6 0;102 15 11 16 2 9.494 8 10 ie s.d. J 2841 173 0 01 82 14 2 1 12 14 111445 *0 0 43 4 1841 174 0 078 3 41 12 3 0095 11 1 1 1812 147 4 2 's'll 101 10 2 4'346 2 3 1843 , 99 18 . 4 41 8 4 615 111 296 13 4 ----_____ 1811 62 6 8 27 13 4 4 4 _ 0'247 4 5 ProS or „ , '„, , usos, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the office, e, :7, 01 Its branches 1n the country ; .or, ou application. will be for ‘'‘,l Post free. W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary. S'A, FIRE, LIFE 'ASSURANCE OFFICE ; United with the • A.JPORT OF LCINDON' 'ASSURANCE COMPANY. .Ticorporateil on-5n it to Act of Parliament, April 22, 1847. -74raunttalel to Lloyd's by of tha Committee, January 15, 1848 ai nated pursuant to It e atolls dated February 5, 1849. Offices : 31, CORNIIILL, LONDOIi. ' 0 Prp 4t, s with Powers of Extension reserved to the 1 Proprietors under the 16th Llause of the £lOO,OOO in Shit' D:ed of Settlement), * • • . of of Twenty Shillings each, all pa 3 ; affording the security 4 l ArZe. actual paid-up Capital, constantly augmenting, DIST'qGUISRING FEATURES. Pl [ I.lo3d:" — Limiteci risks in and upon vessels of the first class at theilßeduced Premiums on buildings erected In conformity with th, ull adh; Act, 7 ancll3 Vic c. 84, proportioned to the diminn tirio frisk secured by the provisions of that statute. - • proti — tal h . e t u nnlixed u ay . stem its pure,st form—whole of 4, 3 . - ris Tg divided among* the Assured, without the ent . ailment nAILw ky ." A The operation of this deplrtme . nt also exten . ling to rd ; (DEN T COM PE SS A.T LOIN , at model ate Pre lims Gu Altivi t urn' . tru s " TF 'r , fo.r assuring tha fidelity of persons in situations of t and confidence on the Annual Payment of a stipulated rate "r tiler Cent•, eith er i n connextm with Life Assurance, or distinct efro n i unit e d - iv ?' r 4, DPlication for Provincial Agencies in those towns of the obt al Ki ngdom where none have been already appointed may be Dotal from the Head Oilico an above. London, Jane 9, 1 A 84 :1 9 0- . . COLLINGRIDGE, 31anaging Director. 111 ETROPOLITAN COUNTIES AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 27, REG E NT-STRE E r, WATE RLOO-PLAC E,. LONDON. ty- r , Incorporated Pursuant to Act o . Parliament.`c E ASSURANCES to meet every contingency; also nnnit es, otediate and deferred. their Payment of fixed sums to th Assnr d at any specified age, or dieir Representatives In case of death before that age. ...Credit given for half the premiums for the first five years. Ifliree fourths of the Pr ,fits divided amongst the assured, and - vans granted, repayable by instalments. ENDOWMENT 3, given to each child of a marriage a certain sum ... un attaining the age of 21, and also the return of the whole of the .441 „ Paid for the same at a given period. i„I IL k.nWAY every 100 TRAVELLERS assured, by ONE single payment of for 1. tledical Referees remunerated for their reports, and the usual °,7lrnission allowed on the introduction of business. 14 the with the rates, the Annual Report of the Society, 14`,V0l Information, may be obtained at the office, or of the Agents EoUntry. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. MEAT WESTERN RAIL WAY. lit it A , I,l :atice is hereby given, that the next HALF-YEAR . LY GE 31BETING of the Proprietors of this Company will beheld, u se :Zit to the Act of Parliament, in Bristol, at the Bristol Sta tor th e n Tin naDAY, the 16th ",day of August next, at Twelve o'clock, is , elen ,.. general rely urposes of business. The Chair will be taken at One ` ci • Wile T r C. RUSSELL, c hairman. Meetfansfer-tooks will be CLOSED on the 6th of August, and i ri e g t bn be the or 6 E lZE 1) until after the said Half-yearly General London Terminu+ CHAS. A. SAUN DERS, Secretary. Paddington, July 13, 1849. irntleeerai, m_ReOetilrlrolvfVtihetr:orT-Tsmar7e..hereby Informed that the HaT-yearly OP rA.TENT SALT COMPANY. zo, Poultry, on than' 'Till be .August next, a held a T t en th o e ,c lC lo h e i k g . s Head Tn ..— WILLIAM CLAY. l~ ELL GWYNNE TAVEttN and CHOP liousE, B u l l Inn -court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners, Ad a "DPe street Three D oors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite zleas r , fr iencb 3 .:,,,'"nOTIE.1"; and HOLT most respectfull invite room, hich 1,,1_ the Puigle to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee lived. peen fitted up iu the style of the period in which she Bo to to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with the i.Zt House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find ko at e (I'l-Tote, which takes place at Ilalf-past Five p - ecisely, the .lohnse°,,alfertable and rea , onable in the mAropolls.—Fish and 14 ° 'eloci . `s. Per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers anti. One -*i t; flt; rivat2 p ining -rooms excellent Beds, superior Wines and e Ales, and Barclay and Ferkins's Stout. 11 . 13 . An Entrance also from Maiden lane. I '& ----------- ---------____Fl 1 , '& a 'I-Eel - RAN DRESSING-CASE, the most tontaijortable ever invented, being only the size of a cket-book. '4 o, 4 gic st n L cm e Pair of Mechrs ivory-bandled peculiar steel . razors, his ... - "e sati,L v :,;°, ll lb. and badger hair shaving-brush, price only 255. , "" 4 tea """ 'lair-brush and soap-dish, 355. To military men, and able _ T-boat or . traV 111 om anion this invention is an invalu tor i a lrisition. ~‘, -Am immense variety Of other dressing. cases, both L_rices, 4. a'. gentkmen' either in fancy wooda or leather, at all Kole., of 'i!it either the economical or luxurious. An extensive Kole., ral:ritinp,'-deas, writing•cases, work boxes, and bagatelle .qantif or -strops, table cutlery, superb papier mache articles, &c. ::-............ „. T0rY. 4, Leadenhall-stroet, Four Doors from Cornhill. j l° 14 I t PR 0U T, 229, STRAND. No. 208, Piccadilly, London, October 19, 1847. all sllen„, . 11 eNv three and a half years since I was sorely afflicted Gout the suffering from which induced . me to try e _P° eI. remedies that extensive medical experience conld Otie oetZiLitout obtalaio, nriVaroxystats any satisfactory relief trom pain. During ' friend advised me to try BLAIR S GOUT e4 ,_ take„llrATlC PILLS, observing that he had in some Beyer! 14 alitl y edo " met himself, and they proved very "c"!sfnl iorm l e in nt soo n becan his advice, and to my joy the excruciating since Wh lell I liev:hehate, and a few boxes restored me to health, t o , " ,,, l i _trilSt n -a( 2,! 1 0 return of the complaint. -4 üblicity to my case, that suffering humanity °W hely to obtain a remedy for this distressing disease. " I ale, Sir, your obedient humble servant, Th and MICHAEL NASMYTIL" CoUt ve te stimonial is a further proof of the efficacy of Blair's With Rheumatic Pills which afford Speedy relief to those afflicted hems put, r heumatism lumbago, sciatica, tic doloreux, pains in the face, and all aLlogons complaints. pO_never-failing effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC se e „," in curing every description of Gout end Rheumatism, have or : "4 to thera a celebrity unequalled by any medicine of past aterere.sent times. Th ey not only_give relief in a few hours, but re are !° Perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. They or f.aly speedy and certain in lumbago, sciatica, pains in the head e h ,Zee, and indeed in every rheumatic or gouty affection : in fact. ~1 / 4 4 1 has been the rapidity, pertect ease, and complete safety of this that it has astonished all who have taken it ; and there is Seely a city, town, or vi , lage in the kingdom but contains many Fateful evidences oflts benign influence. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London, and, by his appoint olent, by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box.. the name for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe name and address of "Thomas Prout, '229, Strand, Lona - • on, 11171- ;muted upon thi Government Stamp affixed to each box o:fth e ` e ntllne Medicine. I' 0 AN OLD NEWSPAPER, Time-honoured print, with interest o est os. peruse Thv par agra ph s o f long - forgotten . While , eading thy live 11ig_ e eit.cea,rls ago.know What busy man was doing I read of men and maners as they odto stir. were, A nd muse on topics which have ceased Arid much I dud to please, while I peruse Thy paragraphs of long-forgotten news. , 'W bile at thy advertisingsheet With trod ng and commercial names I nieel; A nd while I l oo k th y b us i ness columns o'er, I read of houses which arc now no more. _ guess, Some change, old print, has taken place, I 1 Since thou was% issued from the public press. rthy columns, but my searching closes,. With my coming to the names of Moses . .A.,_ trading Lame, which 110 w- a -days is seen ,V may paper —many a magazine. 0 sins anynd Son, rnethinke, would smile to se -4e hi gh-Priced clothing advertised in thee. The since thy old advertise : outs were printed, khe tailors' profits have been greaVy stinted. Loo k lll at the prices charged by Moses now, Their cloning,Ytheir dress is good, as all allow. hosiery, hats, and boors, and CO O What th e most particular would cheo• s shoes, That strikin g evidenc e i n thee appears, ...Thahat /doses was required in by-gone years. ree goods thouda,' advertisest, like thy ell; And other goods, for other prices marle, arta laid upon tha shelf, Pro ve Messrs e Moses first in all the trade. LIST OF PRICES. ken' s al a n *WADY WADE. . from 10 8 6 Th r " - I , and Bummer Wrappers • lionoßr p..i. and e very der , c rl P - 2 6 ~, of li g ht " , . , a, Paletot, .... .. 1 ailoth Over *st Over -coats .... •• •-• • • and hand' .. 1 1 0 C oats, of a light testa re, somely trimmed ... •••• • • • •• 1 8 o Do. ••.•••..... 1)9, tclio. lined with silk . ...... •••• • • • is 0 .. . • j ea u• soPerior quality .-••• • ' • • 02 9 , o and Rolland Blouses.... •• - - • • 04 0 x anoY Victoria do • • .... 4 6 Tweed d 0... • • ••••• • • • • •••• • ** 0 ° Drers Coat ••• • • • •••• • • • ******** ..• • • •• . • " 17 ° Frock Coat ...• •.::•• • • • * • • :: ••: • .- •• • • 1 °4 0 „ S Fring and Stn; summer **************** :•-••••• • • • • ' ° 0 6 •uoeskin and Bucluskln ' ' • - '•' 0 7 1 6 Black and Fl S Prlog and summer Vests in every variety•• ' 4 6 Black d, Figured Satin Vests...... •••• • • • • o - 6 superior quality ... ........ 0 9 Whites_ Marcella Vests .. • • .. ▪ ... . ° .1 6 !Ten's Black Voth Vests : .• • • :::: ........ ( 0 1 ii 106 -.03"s Spring ana rummer Vesis.• • • • • •• • • - on' Beasts and .. 13 0 Idea's Fishing Coats in great variety .......„ 0 4 0 ~ WADD TO IttABVER. l'aletots Made from a variety of material, fitted for Summer wear.... - 1 I ° ..... . ..... •• •• Do . ' ye rY elegantly trimmed .............. 1 8 ° VPerior Cloth of a light texture, •••• 1 15 0 Ditto ditto lined with m a •• '• •• • • 22 0 DRat itto Drees Coat.: 8•••• • ''• ••1 12 0 •• •‘•• •*•• **•• •• • 2 1 0 setSuPertine rano, d •• •• • • ** • • '. • • • • • • •• •• • - 1- 13 Fancy dn. e• •• • • •......... , ...... 1 a b oe iii ••.. • • . ...... ......... • • .... 3 3 0 Black do. Trcg Lge. rsi ......... . }BBest d 0... .... ••-'•• • i. s; .... ...... . ..... .. 0 16 0 Back Cl othii4is . :.***• •• •••• • • ............ 1 6 0 Splest d 0......... ...... •• .• ** ** • • • • • ... 0 8 Bendid Satin Veal ......... • •• • ' • • •• •• • • .. • • 0 134 6 est do.. ....... ..• • . ........ •• •• - •• *: 0 0 18 6 EuPsear and Tunic • silits . :: .. :.•••'•• • • • - • • ' 1 5 0 eralle do. .......... •• •• • • • • . ... .. : • •• ]den's Whlte Marcella Veste . : • • .•.. - .. 0 1 15 0 0 Ilahing Coats in endless variety flogs - (i 10 6to 1 16 0 variety .......... •`4egaut Dressing Robes ingreat .. .... ... from 0 16 oto 5 0 0 IW°nllllllll , to an 7 extent at Five Minutes notice. 0...„40 ... Q uit of Clothes complete for 11. 10s. .._sar Rale . "' boOk, entitled the " Great Fact," with ftill directions e, to'lleMurernent, can be had on application, or forwarded, post ar,,, a u/ Part of the kingdom. novelty of. 41..-eace—The Shawl the season and Parasol Department are now r e pl e t e with ` k u Y article purchased, either ready made, or mad e t o ljE, e, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned. etier lll . ° .. Rl B and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, flatters, 4, 15g + m, arr lers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Ouffittere. 154, , 0 --.' ,uu, 4 157 Minorlea, end 42, 14, as, and 86 Alitgate, City. I. 4tabil l : an eerninunicating with each other, and forming one vast eikt!araent. 'mai the public stheasrun.. Moses and Son regret having to P. , ___,, ie r t alaia. on. ," I mPosition ; but having heard that the trtradeinna,7 „ 4% , - ., - - , 4 of being connected with them, or " It is the same concerrt, I-7,1 resorted to in many instances, atd for obvious reasons, l a or be to state that they have yo connexion with arty other house a nte, s et London , except their Braneh 36,Establishmentsr F_a_r"*. lei' 1 ettield ; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Y_lelevil itt 0 ,..' 0 85 Wha require chat - a) and genuine cletilinca &0•• shush ille 11,..t y 'd to the Minorles and Aldgate, City, Loudon ; or either of tizleb Establishments, as above. II atelal l°ll ere•,...._ ..a-This Es tablisament is eloaed from sunset Friday, ~. 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N.. ~..dt. .. .4 AA ~....--, 6y , " ' torT.- Atfri.k\\, ~..- - - [PRICE SD. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 11th, the House was occupied, and with no very decisive result, in endea vouring to ascertain the meaning of " Opaque Smoke." A Bill is introduced which is to place the owners of tall chimneys at the mercy of an informer who shall undertake to swear that he has witnessed the issue of any " opaque smoke." Notwithstanding the seg ge:d,ed difficulties, I would submit that " opaque smoke" , means smoke that can be seen. Whether there is any such thing as smoke that cannot be seen, or smoke that is not opaque, is what the authors of the phrase_ are alone responsible for. It shlll be ad mitt.A, and in all probability is the simple truth, that. " opaque smoke" means any smoke at all, its exist ence being determinable by the only sense by which anybody ever proceeded to discover smoke, the sight. The case therefore is to stand thus. A manufacturer is to be fined five pounds every time any interested witness chooses t.) declare he saw smoke. It is not to be much smoke, or annoying smoke, or smoke amounting to what anybody will declare a nuisance; but if the smoke of the stoker's tobacco pipe should make itself visible to the naked eye of the curious bystander, it is a smoke under the Bill. Things of this kind are the after-blows which are brought against the manufacturing interest since their suc cess upon the Corn Laws; and it the 'manufacturing interest does not know, bow to defend itself against them, the time will come when it will have to defend itself against something else. On Thursday it was determined in Committee to move for :eave to bring in a Bill for a lt er i ng t h e laws relating to Pilotage;. and another for " improving t t ee Merchant conclit io se of" 'ter% Motes, and S eamen in From old connexions with the interests concerned, I feel desirous of intimating that in these proposed Bills there is both good and evil, and that they should be well sifted and looked after, in order to secure the good and escape the evil. The object of the Pilotage Bill, so far as seen, appears to be, to free the merchants from unnecessary charges fur pilotage ;—that is to say, from being obliged to pay for pilots where pilots are not wanted and could be done withcut. On which the remark is obvious, that it would be well to diminish the charge for pilots, to the extent that will not equally raise the charge fur underwriters. It is better a ship should have too much piloting than too little ; as there can be no doubt the underwriters will perfectly understand. ! In the other Bill, for improving the condition of • Masters, &c. I cannot help suspecting that the words " condition of" are to some extent superfluous, and that the Bill is directed to improving the indi viduals themselves ; on its effectiveness for which end, there may allowably be some doubt. With mere acquaintance with the merchant service than pro bably the majority of the House of Commons, I can not undertake to say I ever saw either master or mate who was palpably unfit for his situation. Such things have been heard of, as an owner's son going in com mand of a snip, with an old mate to take care of him, as what the sailors unceremoniously call a " nurse ;" and the same thing, with the same term attached to it, has been heard of in the navy in the case of a young captain of high family with an old firt lieu tenent of undoubted nautical experh-nce. But the facts hardly make cut a necessity for novel legislation. On on point the seafaring part of the community ought to rally «bent the Government. It was inti mated that the intention of the Government was to abandon the Registration of Seamen, which means that it gives up the intention of resorting to impressment on the occturence of a war. As the Government was not unnecessarily distinct, the secret might have been kept, but for the zeal of a Conservative man-of-war's men in the House, who stood up and protested against the intention of the Government. The seafaring part of the community, therefore, are fore-armed. In connexion with the Bill for legaliiug marriage with a deceased wife's sister, an unusual circumstance has taken place. The proposal to subject the par liamentary legislAtion to the d:)guns of churches by excepting Scotland. and Ireland from the operation of the Bill, was on the 4th of July rejected by a ma jority of 119 against 66. Yet after this clear decla ration on the subject, on the 9th appears a notice by the mover of the Bill, that on the consideration of the Report he will move a proviso that nothing in the Bill shall extend to affect the powers of the Church Courts in Scotland ; thereby leaving those it was intended to relieve, exposed to all that can be inflicted on them by the perpetuation of the ecclesiastical stigma. Of course a parallel amend ment appears on the same page, for extending the like provision to the Church of England ; and it is im possible to suppose, that if one is conceded, the other must not. On the whole it is as if Mr. Wilberforce after carrying his Bill against the Slave Trade through the previous stages, had been found moving a proviso in the latest, " that Liverpool be a free port." Everybody knows, that the substantial object of the Bill was to g.in a step in repressing the hostile operation of Established Churches upon the civil welfare of the community ; and to let the public down on this point, is the same kind of move as supposed in the case suggested. There is probably not a single Member who voted for the Bill, who has not done it at the expense of in curring the displeasure of some portion of his con stituents who do not share in his opinions on the subject. And why this sacrifice should be incurred for the sake of a slave-trade abolition with Liverpool a free port, it is not easy to descry. It may, therefore, be a matter of serious considera tion, whether the best thing both for Members and for the suff, rers whom they wish to serve, would not be to vote against the emasculated Bill on the Third Reading, and let somebody try again with better chances. On the same evening, eighteen Members went through the process of " dying on the floor of the House," to oppose a motion for voting a sum of 361,8001. without waiting for the reportof a Committee which had been sitting on the subject. And they were not martyrs for nothing ; for they carried their point for delay. The absolute value of tha delay may be of comparatively small moment; but the im portant thing was, that a warning was given of the unadvisablenes of breaking the apostolic precept, that " all things be done decently and in order." The business on Friday consisted in Committee on Stil.ply, varied with debates on questions connectei with Inland, of which it was not easy to define the beginning or the end. I am, Sir, your obedient Eervant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, July la, 1849. DEPARTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN SURE.ti FRIGATE SHARKIE. P O RTSMOUTH SUNDAY. -- The Sharkie, Egyptian s!e3ca-frigate, left Spithead on Saturday evening, at five. o'clo:k, under steam for Gibraltar, en route to Alexan dria. Iler flee old commander, or admiral, as ho is called on board, and all the officers, more particularly the first lieutenant, &liana Nenv rn Bey, have gained gol den opinions at Portsmouth, as they did in the Thames, for the courteous ci‘ility and hospitality they exhibited to the various parties of ladies and geatlernen who visited their splendid vessel for curiosity and information. We speak from experience, and can safely assert that for int,rior order and cleanliness the Sharkis is nothing in ferior to our own war-steamers. The crew are also well clad, but are (with the exception of Hafiz Bay himself, and some of the officers, who are fine-looking men) emaciated and diminutive in their appearance, though active and intelligent. Captain Purcell, of the Superb, visited the Sharkie on Friday ' • and on Saturday Hafia Bey and a number o f her officers visited the Superb. After going round the ship they lunched on on board her with Captain Purcell. On Friday the Shackle took on board the state barge that has been built for the Paella of Egypt by Mr. Camper, the yacht builder of Gosport. This boat is ei nilar in size, in model, and in her paint work and gilding to her Majesty's state barge. The Sharkie also takes out for the use of the Pacha and his son several English built carriages with eight horses, four being of the Eng lish breed, and four French, with an English coachman and groom to look atter them. A few days ago one of t the French horses kicked the horse-box to pieces, got adrift, and galloped round the deck, puttingo..t oefo e re the Egyptian crew to the rout, and it f_) horse had done some serious injury t s o ects red. wa hilself and to several of the crew, that he could llafiz Bey is a strict disciplinarian,beand awards summary of discipline occurs. A few punishment when a breach days ago one of the crew struck a subordinate offi cer , and the Boy ordered him seized, and throw n on the . i k on his face, hi s arms and l e gs extended , and on each 100 lashes. The m an wat Et .e sat an Egypt* ; t wo othera, with a ropo gasket, proceeded to inflict the pu nishment over the breech with ou t t h e removal of the c l ot h e s. 'Tho culprit cried out piteously, while receiving t he first forty strokes, after which ha lay quiet; after receiving the 100 stripes h e was li fted up, and when being conveyeel away made some ob: oxious remark, for which he was again laid prostrate, and received an additional twenty stripes with the gaskets. Notwith standing this rigorous punishment, the Egyptian crew are said to be happy and comfortable, and that punish ment of this sort is only aaata:ed in aggravated cases. ST. FISHERY.—The tew boats em iNycd on the mackerei fishery have been taking as as no° ti , h, wnich have hem sold o 10.7,. and 15s. aundr4d of six score. The te,:or;, giver: by those on this employ is that there is a great vantity of pil chards eight and ten leagues from the land, but none have as. yet been descried from the hills on the coast. — Cornwall Gazette. Gt - --<4 , ,J 1) STATES. HE AMERICA. 'OL, SUNDAY EVENING. belonging to the British and North American Royal Mail Company, after another of her speedy and successful trips across the Ocean, reached our port this afternoon about four o'clock. She brings a fair complement of pasiengers, and her Majesty's Mails from Canada, New Brunsvricic, Nova Scotia, the United States, &c. The America left Boston on the 4th-instant, and Halifax, where she had put in to receive the mails and passengers from British America on the 7th ; her advi.2es, therefore, extend as follows :---In auditio n to the dates given from Boston and Halifax, she brings accounts from New Yotk to the 4th, Philadelphia, Ba!timc.re, and Charleston to the 33, Mobile end Montreal to the 24i, and New Orleans to the Ist. The intelligence, though not more than ordinarily iroportrA, is somewhat more interesting than usual. The West India mail steamship Clyde had arrived at MAile. The British and North American mail steam-ship Hibernia, which we kern by last arrival had put into Halifax, subsequently arrived at New York; and the Canada, which sailed hence on the 23d ult., had reached Halifax, and proceeded onwards to Boston. The most important, as it is the most alarming, fea ture of intelligence brought the America is the rapid spread of cholera, which is now raging with extreme malignity in many parts of the Union. Notwithstanding all the sanitary efforts of the ad thorities in New York (and these in some instances enforced with violence, such as pulling down or clearing filthy houses against the will of the in habitants), the disease was spreading in the city. Not only were the cases more numerous, but the proportion of deaths was greater and the con tagion WAS more equelly divided amongst the several classes of society. Among the other cities and towns more severely visited are St. Louis and Cincinnati, whilst in Texas, Tennessee, and in some of the boats on the larger rivers many fatal cases are re ported. It is not .so alarming at New Orleans, Mobile, bcce, .as . might have been expected. Several deaths are also reported from extreme heat and sun strokes, the latter of which seem to be very common throughout the southern portion of the Union. The spread of cholera had cast a gloom over society at a period generally joyous ; and if in the beginning of July the health of the country is so effected, what will it be until September, as that portion of the year from July onwards is generally the most un healthy. The arrival of Father Mathew, an event so long anticipated in the States, is announced in our present advices. The celebrated apostle of temperance met a most enthusiastic reception, all classes joining in testifying their admiration of the man and of the cause of which he has been so successful an advocate. The authorities of New York have pro vided proper accommodation for him at the expense of the city, and invitations were pouring in upon Mtn from all parts of America. It is not improbable that his successes in America may equal, if not exceed, those he has already experienced, there being a vast Irish population in the leading cities and towns of the Union similar in disposition and practice to those he experimented upon in the sister kingdom. The 4th of July was expecte d to be celebrated with the usual eclat, notwithstanding the cautions and advice which were put forth by the New York press to avoid, in the present condition of affairs, any unnecessary excitement. The Mayor of New York was strictly enforcing the closing of all taverns and public places of resort on the Sabbath, and it .was Loped by this means to aid in the suppression of disease. A contribution for the Pope, proposed by that prelatical meddler Bishop Hughes of New York, hai given rise to much acrimony and "bid blood." The accounts from Rome had created much feverish feeling amongst th mixed population of the city, and the brand thrown in at such a juncture was most inap propriate. The collection was taken up‘ in a few churches in New York with even less success than had been anticipated. By way of counterpoise, it was proposed on the celebration of the anniversary of independence to send fbrth expressions of sympathy for all nations in Europe evidencing republican feeling (Italy in cluded). The anticipations formed as to disturbances iti California era being verified. We have reports of serious rioting having already taken place, the particulars of which are not fully detailed. The growing population were becoming discontented. Tne waters were so high as to make the " placings " less profitable than heretofore. Still new discoveries were being made, as each exploring party moved to a fresh district. Amongst the late arrivals are some Mexicans, and a large influx from Oregon was ex pected. Bilious fever, ague, and diseases incidental to the occupation of th e p eop l e were prevalent. Some of these are very fatal in their character, and speedy in their work of death. It was supposed that they would continue more or less for two or three months from the last advices. The months of September, October, and November were looked forward to with much interest, as they were reckoned the best for mining purposes. The want of ships' crews was being very much felt, a large number of vessels lying idle at San Francisco. Slavery had been introduced by one or two parties; but it is said that, if per severed in, those who practice it will experience the vengeance of the " diggers," and as every man goes armed with a pistol and a dagger, it is not difficult to conjecture in what form that vengeance will manifest itself. Gambling is very prevalent in the colony. Canada is, if anything more agitated than when the Cambria advices left. Although quietness pre vailed, the agitation was kept up and had a bad effect upon trade, which was in a dull state. The cholera is alluded to but slightlyin our present reports. The League carried on its proceedings, and continued to enrol a good number of partisans. Our accounts from Mexico are rather more alarming than they have been for some time past. The guerilla attacks have sunk into insignificance in presence of a spirit of insurrection which had manifested itself in the Republic, and which had caused much terror amongst the peaceably disposed. The interference of the United States in.the California territory was causing much jealousy in Mexico, which might lead to unpleasant results. The experiments in wheat growing at Texas have been most successful, and have given satisfaction to those interested in them. The cotton corps in Georgia, Alabama, &c., are nckt satisfactory spoken of. We subjoin the commerial advices received by this arrival. Although money is reported to be tolerably plen tiful, no scarcity being felt, the tone of our advicein regard thereto is evidently not so satisfactory as that received by the last few arrivals, and this view would seem to be corroborated by our advices regarding the state of dturlaldeannaenraglulyis,hivinhgicchonis. doubt by mentioned as being in a dition throughout the Union, _ol3, g no the extreme heat and the accounts of progress of disease. The New York market for breadstuffs is reported quiet, without any material changes in quotations, which are given to us as follows ;—Western Canal flour, 5 dolls. 50c. to 5 dolls. 621 c. ; Genesse prime wheat, 08e. to 1 doll. per 601b5.; southern wheat, 1 doll. 04c. ditto; Indian corn, round yellow, steady at 58c. to 60c. ; ditto southern white, 540. to 66c.; Indian meal, 2 dolls. 871 c. to 3 dolls. Cotton at New York was reported to he most active. The demand was very good, morn than an average business being transacted at advanced prices. New Orleans and Mobile middling fair to fair is quoted at Bic. to Dc., whilst Uplands and Florida middling fair to fair i s quo t e d a t s i c . to 810. 1 an in crease on the whole of per cent. Exchange on Londo n rules from 109 fair buiiness to 109 f, the demand being good ; Paris 5 25, w i th doing; Hamburgh, 35 to 351; Bremen, em en 78 to 781- uoted at 6 to 6 . Freight of grain to Liverpool is q a per bushel; cotton to 316 per lb. 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BANVARD'S true original PAINTING of the MISSISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, exhibited by com mand to her Majesty the Queen, H.R.H. Prince Albert, and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, NOW OPEN, at the EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, every Morning, at Half-past Two; Eve ning, at Half-past Seven. Admitsion—Lower Seats, 25.; Gallery, I s. " That there was any other original painting of these rivers is an impudent imposture."—Loulsville (American) Democrat. CHARTER. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-NEW Her Majesty •has granted to this university a new charter, which is likely to excite great interest and at tention in the educational world. As our readers are doubtless aware, persons who have graduated for ho nours at Oxford and other universities are sometimes compelled to refrain from taking a degree owing to their conscientious objections to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles. By the new charter the Council will be em powered to confer the respective degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, and Doctor of Laws, on any persons who have graduated at Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Trinity College, Dublin, or any other university in the kingdom. Another point in the new charter, which will be of great service, is, that the Council may institute examinations for certificates of proficiency in any subject which they may think fit, con nected with the Sciences or Arts—such as Architec ture, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, Zoology, Geography, Political and Physical, Navigation, and Hydrography. The examination for certificates of proficiency was one of the original designs of the Council, which they were prevented from carrying out under the old charter. DREADFUL SUICIDE OF MAJOR VERITY, LATE OF THE 99D HIGRLANDERS.—On Saturday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at 21, North terrace, Thurloe square, lirompton, on the body of Major J. L. Verity, aged 72, late of the 92d Highlanders, who destroyed himself under distressing circumstances. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased bad been suffering for some years, from disease of the urethra, and been att, nded by Mr. Cahill, and latterly by Mr. Ferguson, surgeon to the Queen. On Wednesday he was exceed ingly ill, and complained of excruciating pain, which continued to increase; but on the following day Mr. Ferguson performed an operation, and he seemed ;much relievei, but towards evening the pain returned, and he walked up and down the room in much agony. Mr. Cahill was sent for, and attended, but while he was gone for some medicine deceased, being very anxious for his return, repeatedly asked if he had come back. At length, between four and five o'clock on Friday morn ing, the deceased left the room to look out of the draw ing-room window s fo see if Mr. Cahill was coming; in a minute or two afterwards the family was alarmed by a discharge of firearms, and deceased was found in the back drawing.roo m on the floor, on his back, quite dead, with a d ue lli ng p i stol in his right hand, having shattered his head t o p i eces, the pistol having been dis charged in his mouth. D eceased had been very eccen tric in his manners, and of a very excitable temperament. He had suffered from a sun -stroke in the East Indies, and a second one two years age while at work in his Garden. Verdict--" Temporary insanity. " DEPARTURE CF THE EUROPA.—LIVERPOOL, SA TURDAY EVENTNG.—It was near four o'clock before the al st,em- ship Europa took her depar:ure f rom th e M erse y. She m b Exileder of passengersf for New York, o nand i the fax mails for the having a large United States and Canada. Lieut. Reid, U.N., is the nu Admiralty agent in charge of the mails. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND Bliß- WICK R &IL \ V AY. The ff.:Hawing are extracts from the second report of this Committee of Investigation, and which is to be pre sented to the meeting at York, on Thersday next. Your committee :eel it to .he their duty, without further delay, to repoit upon certain matters, some of which, in their judgment, require the immediate atten tion of the shareholders.' 1. The application of - the funds of this company in the purchase of 2.345 shares i the Sunderland Dock Company. • • 2. The allotment and mode of disposal of shares. 3. Purchases Of iron rails for the Noicastle and Ber wick Railway., • 4. Certain alleged payments to landowners and con tractors, on which the committee deem /relight to impart „ a we information. Your committee refer to their' former report as the sanction by the shareholders of a subscription by this company to the Sunderland Dock for 3,003 shares, or 75,0001. That ieport also stated that 2,345 additional shares were purchased by'Mr. Hudson in the Sunderland Deck underteking, principally in the year 1847, and transferred into ,the joint oanaeS of 'himself and two other directors, and that calls had been peid cut of the funds of this company, .not caly on account of the 3,000 shares originally agreed to be inles,cribd for, but also upon the additional 2,345 shares.' It-was also stated in your committee's former report. that 62 8171. 10e. had been paid nut of the funds of this company, up to the 31st of December last, On account of the Dock trausaetiens, awl that the smoue - t had been increased, at the date of that report, to 91,79P1. 18v. 111 There is now due a further sum of 5,8821. 10s. for an unpaid call on these 2,345 shares. Your committee have referred to the' minute books of the company to esccrtain whether any -resolution bad been previously come-to by the Board of Directors to increase the interest held by this company in the Sunder land Dock, but they do not find either a resolution or any intimation whatever that such,a step was contemplated on the part of the company; and all the directors deny any knowledge of such a purpose. Your committee direct attention to the fact that, although Mr. Hudson states ho made the purchttee of those shares on behalf of this company, no minute of his having done so appears in the books of the directors until more than two years afterwards—not, indeed, until the appointment of a. Committee of Investigation was known to be in contemplation—and then in terms which assume the previous ignorance of the Board. The calls which became due from time to time upon the Dock shares were paid oat of the fun& of the company, and entered in their books when made; but were kept from the knowledge of the . shareholders by excluding the: amount from all the half-yearly accounts until February last, when the sum of 62,6871. 10s. was en tered, but no information was even then given to the shareholders that any further interest had been taken in the dock than the 3,000 shares originally sanctioned. It will be seen from the evidence that the transfers of the 2,345 shares were taken in the joint names of Mr. Hudson, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Richardson, but that these transfers have not yet been delivered to thei Sunderland Dock Company for registration. Your committee have taken pains to ascertain whether the shareholders' present at the half-yearly meeting in February last (when the company sanctioned the Bar Moor Branch Bill, in which was a clause authorising an nlarged subscription for the Sunderland Deck to the extent of 150,0000 had any information before them to justify the statement that they approved of the subscrip tion to that amount; and your committee do not hesitate to express their opinion that no such information was aff mit d them, the clause never 'having been read or its existence referred to in any way at the meeting. They have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion, that what was passed at that meeting ought not to preclude the share holders from now determining the amount to be sub scribed by this company to the Sunderland Dock under taking. Your committee, however much they regret the indi vidual consequences which may follow from the company refusing to adopt these 2,345 shares, are of opinion that they ought not to be adopted, and that steps should be taken to recover, the amount which has been illegally paid. . . . . . . The Newcastle and Berwick Railway nas projected for the purpose of extending the line of railway communica tion to Berwick. During the autumn of 1644 opposition was raised to the scheme of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and a rival line was projected. This rendered a larger out • lay necessary than the 700,0001., which had been first contemplated, and the estimate of the engineer was in creased. The directors of the Newcastle and Berwick Bill, therefore, incn ased the subscription of contract for the Newcastle and Berwick line to an amount eqeal to the iocreaFed estimate. Previous to the Bill being in troduced into Parliament, Mr. Hudson executed the subscription•contract deed for 8,000 shares; Mr. Davies, the deputy-chairman of the Newcastle and Darlington Company, executed it for 4,000 shares ; and Mr. James Richardson, another director, also executed the deed for 2,000 shares; bat neither Mr. Hudson, Mr. Davies, nor Mr. Richardson ex( cuted it in respect of the shares to which they were severally entitled as holders of New castle and Darlington shares. Mr. Thomas Backhouse, Mr. George Dods‘vorth, and the late Mr. Richard Nicholson, who were all more or less connected with the Newcastle and Darlington and York and North Midland Railways, V 6 hich were at that time inti mattly associated in management, also executed the subscription contract for 2,000 shares each; thus making an additional subscription for 20,000 shares in the names of the six parties mentioned. The reason for this execution of the subscription con tract has been fully explained to your Committee by the solicitors to the company, as having been merely for the purpose of meetieg the standing orders of Parliament; and it has been proved to your Committee that no bona fde payment of deposits was made by the parties subscribing for the twenty thousand shares. If any choques were given by the parties, which is very doubt ful, the operation was a mere device, asual at that period with the directors of railway companies having to comply with the standing orders of Parliament; and none of the six subscribers for these twenty thousand shares pro ressed, at the time, that they executed the deed on their individual account. . . . . Your committee now find that instead of the register of shareholders cerresponding with the statement of the chairman, the number of registered;' shares has been in creased to 56.000, being mere by 14,000 shares than the number which the chairman's statement would justify. The means which have been adopted for carrying on and concealing from the shareholders this operation while it was being performed, are ouch as call for the strongest reprobation. If the register of shareholders had been made up, as it ought to have been, at the first meeting of the Newcastle and Berwick Company, in August 1845, such an issue could not have taken place without at once exciting attention. The evidence before your committee establishes the fact that Mr. Hudson has taken for his own use from the Newcastle and Berwick Company the extraordinary number of 10,894 char€s, while the number to which the resolution of the company over which he presided entitled him, was 937 only. Of these 10,894 shares, 2 ; 965 were obtained by him before the meeting of August, 1846, while the shares were as yet scrip, and when, as will be seen by the evidence, they were selling at very large premiums. When the month of August arrived, Mr. Hudson had disposed of all his scrip —it roust be assumed at these lisp premiums —for, accord ing to the secretary's evidence, all the scrip came in for registration in the names of other parties, and not in the name of Mr. Hudson. Your committee, can not characterise this appropriation of scrip by Mr. Hudson on his own individual authority, and for his own use, other than as a most flagrant abuse of the con fidence reposed in him by the shareholdt r 3. The mole in which Mr. Hudson appropriated to him self the other 7,929 shares is equally reprehensible. The register of shares had not been sealed at the meeting in August, 1845. Mr. Hudson, however (unknown to his brother directors), as stated by them, required the secre tary to enter upon the register of the company the names of parties as shareholders whom he well knew could have uo right to be there. His own name was inserted for different lots, amounting in the whole to .5,184 shares. The names of the solicitors to the com pany were placed on the register as holders of 1,546 shares, is hen they were not so in fact. Th e same was done to the extent of 815 shares in the name of Mr. Hudson's London broker; 85 in the Peale of the secre tary of the company; 80 in the name of th e th en manager of the b a nk o which Mr. Hudson was chair man; and 420 in the name of the late Mr. Richard Ni cholson. The committee have it in evidence from the secretary, as well as from the solicitors, that these en tries of shares in their names were made by Mr. Had son's sole authority for his own profit; and it appears that as Mr. Hudson effected sales, ho sent or wrote to the secretary to prepare certificates, which were made out concurrently with the transfer of shares to the pur chasers; and the proceeds were appropriated to his own use. The committee have obtained evidence of the value of shares in the market at the respective periods when Mr. II uebmn was thus secretly carrying on these operations, and they refer the strareholders to the quotations. It appears from this evidence that the profits realised by him on these transactions must have amounted to 145,704/., if the sales were effected at market prices. . AS TO THE ALLOTMENT OF THE BICANDLINO JUNCTION SHARES. The Brandling Junction Railway was purchased by Mr. lludton on the 13th of August, 1844. On the 16th of the same month, at a meeting of the directors of the Newcastle and Darlington Company, at which were present Mr. Huilson, Mr. Davies, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Oxley, it was resolved that, "In considera tion of Mr. Huthwn transferring the purchase to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Company on the same terms on which he purchased the slid railway, the directors of this cnnpuly agree ,to give him 500 shares of the new shares proimsed to be issued by this company to pay the amount of purchase." At a meeting of the Newcastle and Darlington Com pany, held on the 4th of Februarb 1845, th e purchase was confilined, and 22,000 shares m that company were created at the meeting, for payment of the Brandling Junction Railway. These 22,000 shares were appro priated among the proprietors of the Newcastle and Darlington Company, in the proportion of one new share to each holder of Newcastle and Darlington stock, and thus disposed of 20,000 of the 22,000 Brandling Junction shares. It was . then resolved " that the surplus, be placed at the disposal of the directors." • • On the sth of March following the Board of Di• rector?, at a meeting at which were present Mr. Hud son, 'Mr. Davies, Mr. Richardson, ail Mr. Flews, placed the 2,000 shares at the entire disposal of the chairman. The 2,000 shares thus given to Mr. Hudson were worth 21Z premium at the time of the appropriation to him, being equivalent to a bonus of 41,0001.1 but it is B..ated to your committee by Mr. Close that Mr. Hudson gave shares out of the 2,009 to the following parties : Mr. D2.vies (director) ... 100 Mr. James. Richardson (director)... ... 100 Mr. Close (secretary) ••. ••• ••• 50 Mr. Harrison (engineer) ... 25 Mr. Hobert Steptu‘nson (engineer) ... 25 Mr. Wood (director) ... 20 Tho committee have thus brought under the notice of the shareholders the leading facts attending this transaction. AS TO THE PURCHASE OF IRON RAILS FOR THE NEW- CASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY. Your committee refer the sharehuldersto the evi deuce and correspondence upon this subject, from which it appears that on the II th of January, 1845, and im mediately before the 811 for making the Newcastle and Berwick Railway was submitted to Parliament, M r . liudspn concluded a contract which had been parry made in the previous month of October with Messrs Thompson, Forman, and Co., iron manufacturers, of London, for the purchase of 10,000 tons of iron rails, at 6/. lat. per ton. The first meeting of which any record appears of the provisional committee of the I\ ewcastle and Berwick Railway, was on the 30th of January, 1845, at which were present, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Davies, And Mr. James Richardson, when it was i resolved to ad vertise for tenders for the supply of 20,01/0 tons of iron rails, and an advertisement accordingly appeared in the I?ailmay Times of the Ist of Feb., 1845, signed by Mr. Hudson, as chairman, requiring tenders to to be sent in. On the sth of March the same parties, with the addi tion of Mr. Plews, assembled, and tenders were received from various persons. Messrs. Thompson and Forman then sent in a tender, which was accepted, for 14,000 tons, to be supplied at 121. per ton. Four other patties were permitted to supply 1,000 tons each. It appears that by arrangement with Thompson and Forman; Mr. Hudson was interested in this contract to the extent of 7,000 tons, that quantity having been sup plied out of the 10,000 tons purchased by Mr. Hudson at 6/. 10s. per ton. The profit on the supply of these 7,000 tons would amount to 38,500/, and Mr. Hudson must have known that he was acting illegally in being interested in any such contract with a company of which he was chairman. PAYMENTS FOR LAND AND TO CONTRACTORS ON THE NEWCASTLE ♦ND BERWICK RAILWAY. Your committee, having referred so fully to the Newcastle and Berwick share allotments, would now direct attention to the mode in which the general funds of that company were dealt with at the concurrent period. The first account presented to the shareholders of the Newcastle and Berwick Company was for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1815. That account, which will he found in the evidence, contained the follow hog item among the list of payments:— " Land-37,3504" _ _ _ and is signed as " Audited and allowed, January, 1846, " THOMAS BARSTOW, / Auditors." " HENRY RICHARDSON, Your committee find that the actual psyments for land at the period referred to amounted to 6,350/. only, and that 31,000/. of the above-mentioned 37,3501. was not, in fact, pail, but had been taken by Mr. Hudson out of the company's funds, and applied by him to his own purposes. The m/Rie in which this was done shows the very loose manner in which the auditors tested the accounts, inasmuch as if they had called for proper vouchers none such could have been produced. It ap pears th:st, on the 30th of December, 1843, Mr. Hudson took two of the company's cheques, to the amount of 14,000/, signed by himself and Mr. Davies, one of which cheques was made payable to the Duke of North umberland for 10,0001, and the other to the Earl of Tankerville for 4,0001 ; and it further appears, that on the following day, Mr. Hudson took four other of the company's cheques, signed by himself and Mr. James Richardson, and which were made payable to the fol lowirg parties, viz : k.il Grey £5,000 Lady Mary Stanley ... ... 2,000 Sir M. W. Ridley 3.000 Earl of Carlisle ... 7.000 .E 17,000 NOIIC of these cheques were handed by Mr. Hudson to the parties in whose favour :hey purported to bo drawn. These cheques formed the only dJeuments which were presented, as vouchers, to the auditors, and it will be at once observed that such a mode of audit presents no security whatever to the arm-holders. In the case of this item of " land," the accounts have, by this system, continued overcharged in each half-year, down to that which is now current; for the evidence shows that until the appointment of this committee Mr. Hudson had re tained by far the greatest portion of this sum of 31,0004 in his own hands, but on the day after your committ?.e were appointed, he restored to the company the several sums of 3,000!, 2,0001., and 4.000/., which he had previously taken as on account of Sir Matthew W. Ridley, Lady Mary Stanley, and Lord Tankerville. The evidence fur ther shows that on the 12th of May Mr. Hudson restored to the company 7,0001, which he had taken as on ac count of the Earl of Carlisle; and that on the 14th of May ho further restored 10,0001., which he had taken us on account of the Duke of Northumberland. The whole of these sums were so refunded by Mr. Hudson, with interest for above three years, during which he had improperly held the money, but the sharehol ders will observe that such has been the inattention to the real state of the company's accounts, on the part of both directors and auditors, that the solicitors have been subsequently allowed, in some of the instances referred to, to draw cheques for payment of the same land and to the same parties for whom Mr. Hudson had so ob tained cheques in December, 1845, and the moneys so drawn by the solicitors must have formed the subject of twilit by the same two gentlemen who had passed the account containing the previous payments. In the Construction Account of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, your committee also find that on the 31st of December, 1847, Mr. Hudson drew out of the funds of the company the suaa of 40,0001., under circum stances which are fully detailed in the evidence, and which establish that the accounts of the half-year end ing on that day were overcharged by that amount under the head of " Works," inasmuch as the cheques which constituted this amount, viz:— To Messrs. Rush and Lawton ... .£30,000 Hattersley end Newell ... 5 000 M'Kay and CuR 5,000 were all taken by Mr. Hu - dson on the day they were drawn, and paid to his own private credit at the banker's. In this instance, too, the vigilance of t!a, auditors appears to have been eva d e d by th e mere p ro . duction of the cheques, without any evidence of the sums having reached the parties to whom they purported to be payable, while, if that vigilance had been rightly ex ercised, the auditors must have discovered the et ror, in somuch as your committee have it in evidence from the clerk who kept the'books, that the ordinary course of business was departed from, and that no entries were made of these sums to the debit of the indivi4uals in whose favour the cheques were drawn, but that by spe cial instructions from the secretary the clerk posted , such payments to a distinct account, entitled Works.' Until your committee was appointed, this sum of 40,000/. was standing as a payment to the debit of this company, and the conarmtion account was to that ex tent overcharged. Mr. Hu6son, on the 15th of May last, restored the whole amount, with 2,4791. 13s. 7d. for interest thereon. Your committee bring these matters under the atten tion of the shareholders, as instances of the imperfect mode in which the company's accounts have been kept, and of the funds and books of the company having been so entirely under the control of its chairman, so as to enable him to apply those funds to his own or the company's purposes, as his convenience required. All the security to shareholders which the appointment of a body of directors and auditors, and the rendering of a periodical statement of accounts, are expected to afford, have in this instance become altogether nugatory. Your committee have called upon Mr. Hudson to offer his own explanation of these matters. That explana tion is stated at length in the evidence. Your committee will only observe upon it, that it has failed to convince them of any right in Mr. Hudson to have so dealt with this company's funds, and to have falsified its accounts in the manner which the evidence proves him to have done, and they leave it to the shareholders to draw their own conclusions upon the facts which the evidence has established. JAMES MEEK. HORATIO LOVE. JAMES LEECHMAN. JOHN KIPLING. D. MsLaarr. J tt onN SHIELD. Yotk, July 12. G. LEEDIAN, Secretary. EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS. The Select Committee appointed (by the House of Commons) to consider the present practice of this House in respect of the exclusion of strangers, have considered the matter to them referred, and agreed to the following report:— " That the existing usage of excluding strangers during a division, and upon the notice by an individual Member that strangers are present, has prevailed from a very early period of Parliamentary- history; that the in s'ances in which the power of an individual Member to exclude has been exercised have been very rare; and that it is the unanimous op:nion of your Committee ti t there is no sufficient ground for making any alteration in the existiugpractiee with regard to the admisssion exclusion of strangers. "July 12, 1849." Mr. Sergeant Dowling supplies the place of the late Mr. Justice Coltman on the Norfolk Circuit, and took h s seat on the bench at Aylesbury, on Saturday. The bucetssor of the We itlagebu IMP; been appointed. 7st riVo the e- An' ao t of 0 It, or 7 ,, a Of I