The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

Mittion EGHAIVI RACES. (THIS DAY.)-BY EXPRESS The Prince of Wales's Stakes. Mirror Master Murray Bastilion .. elebeia .. Tneodore Hook.. Anions Blarney Fernando Slang ... Gardenia Companion The King John Stakes. Won by half a length. The Gold Cup. ... ... ... Won by six lengths. O 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 3 O 3 4 O 5 5 NEWMARKET AND CHESTER FORD RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly general meeting of the pro prietors of the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway, wan held this afternoon at the London Tavern ; Mr. C. S. Mortimer, deputy-chairman of the board of di rectors, in the chair. The following was the report of the directors : " Immediately after the adoption of the report made by your committee of investigation, a new board of di rectors was formed consisting of the following gentle men :—Lord George Manners, Mr. Ball, Mr. Fane, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Shelley, and Mr. James Wheeler. " Upon reviewing the different subjects which Fre seated themselves for consideration, it was obvious that nothing could be immediately done on the subject of the relations of the Newmarket Company with either of the larger companies, by which its interests and prosperity must be mainly affected. Your directors, therefore, turned their attention first to the ascertaining and settling those liabilities as to which the committee of investigation had expressed an opinion, that they would admit of ' considerable reduction,' and they are happy to state that they have made satisfactory progress in the adjustment of some of the heaviest of them. " The unsettled state of the Eastern Counties' Rail way Company has prevented your directors from at tempting any negotiation with that company, or seeking any better arrangement as to the working of your line. Your directors deemed it necessary to oppose the pro posed amalgamation between the Eastern Counties' and Norfolk Companies, an amalgamation which must ob viously have been highly injurious to all smaller compa nies a orking in the eastern district, and they congratu late their proprietors on the defeat of that measure. "Your directors, in their last report, expressed their great dissatisfaction at the result of the working of their line by the Eastern Counties Railway Company. That dissatisfaction has increased rather than diminished, and it is the intention of your directors to resume the work ing of their own line at an early period, unless some ar rangement should be arrived at, which may ensure more satisfactory results. " Your directors attach the greatest importance to the completion of the Cambridge Branch, and they are sa tisfied that when it is completed, and such additional accommodation has been provided on the main line as is indispensable to develop the traffic, the undertaking will become remunerative. Your engineer has made an estimate, by which it appears that the necessary accom modation on the main line may be completed for a sum not exceeding 2,500/. The works on the branch have been delayed until it is ascertained at what point the Great Northern Railway will ultimately enter the town of Cambridge. "In accordance with the suggestion in the report of the committee of investigation, your directors waive all claim to remuneration. They have not, however, thought it necessary to appoint a managing director hilst the working of the line is entrusted to the Eastern Counties Bailway Company. "C. S. Alortither, Esq., having been appointed one of your directors, it will be necessary to appoint an auditor to act in his place. " A resolution will this day be submitted to you, fur confirming the declaration of forfeiture made by the directors of 315 shares, of which notices, as required by the Act of Parliament, have been given to the respective proprietors, who are reminded that the fact of forfeiting their shares does not release them from their legal liability in respect of all calls made previously to this date. The directors take this opportunity of reminding those shareholders whose calls are in arrear of the necessity of their being immediately paid, otherwise they will be compelled, in justice to those who havo been punctual, and thereby supplied the necessary funds for liquidating the company's liabilities, to take legal steps to enforce their payment." The revenue accounts represented the receipts of the balcyear to amount to 3,4414 ss. 4d., and the expendi ture to 3,4631 9s. 6d., exhibiting a loss. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, regretted the absence of their Noble Chairman, but assured the meeting that he still took a great in terest in the success of the undertaking. He was happy to say many of their liabilities and outstanding debts had been satisfactorily disposed of. He, how ever, could not congratulate them upon the successful operations of the line. The meetin4 was aware that it was worked by the Eastern Counties Company, who did not feel it for their interest to do much to develop the traffic, while their charges for working were most exorbitant. For instance, they were charged Is. 01. per mile for locomotive power. On the Southampton line the same power cost only 6d. or 7d. In addition, however, to the working charges, the Eastern Counties Company had imposed upon, them a further incumbrance of 600/. for what they called " management," but it ought rather to be for " mismanagement."—(Laughter.) In answer to questions, The CHAIRMAN stated that the board had it in con sideration to let the working of the line on contract to independent parties, and it was anticipated a large siving in the expenditure would be effected—indeed, au offer had been made to work the line for Bd. a mile The report wa; then adopted, and its recommenda tions agreed to. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. FRANCE. One of the journals which receives communica tions from the Government, having stated that the Minister of Commerce was about to propose modifi cations op the tariff of customs, the Constitutionnel says it has made inquiries, which enable it to declare that there i* no intention of diminishing in any way the protection afforded by the tariff to national indubtry. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Gazette of the 23d publishes the fol lowing :—" After his defeat at Waitzen, Georgey, during his retreat, made several attempts to enter into negotiations w ith the Russian Generals Rudiger and Tscheodajeff, and with Marshal Paske witch. But as his letters only spoke of a desire of mediation, of a pcification, and not of a submission without r'serve, they were sent back unanswered. On the 11th of this month, General Rudiger received a letter from Georgey, dated Alt-Arad, announcing that, in consequence of the dissolution of the Provisional Government of Hungary, he felt called on to arrive at a solution ; that he was accordingly decided to submit without condition ; that he and all the officers of his corps d'armee were ready to lay down their arms before the army of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia. Georgey, at the same time, ex• pressed the conv i c ti on th a t th e ot h er c hi e f s of corps d'armee would follow his example and offer their sub mission. Marshal Paskewitch accepted the absolute submission of Georgey and his troops, in order to put an end to the effusion of blood, and to preserve a part of the states of the empire of Austria from the ravages of war. The column of Georgey was in a desperate situation. General Rudiger received orders to disarm it. The 138 cannon of Georgey's corps, the ammunition, the horses, the arms, and the stores of all kinds have been deposited at Grosswardein in the hands of the Austrian troops. Marshal Paske witch has already taken measures for giving up, as soon as possible, the insurgents encamped under the guard of the Russians, and for placing them at the dis posal of their sovereign, the Emperor Francis Joseph." The Minister of Finance in the Magyar Cabinet, M. Fuschek, is said to have been arrested at Arad, as has also M. Perinyi, President of the Upper Chamber. At the same time, the personnel of the Ministry, and the m a te r i e l for making bank•notes fell into the hands of, the Austrians.—The German Reform a d l b ates that the garr i son o f C omorn h ave l a id down as the condition of this submission a complete amnesty in favour of the sol diers of all ranks ; and they demand that their officers who occupied grades in the Austrian army shall return to active ßefo service. if this be refused they have, says the and the l threatened to defend themselves to the last mannupwith t a h s e t f extremity, and then to blow themselves of the journals again declares th a t the Magyar forces a s sembled at Orboa a seem disposed tocontinue Generalthe struggle, as do also the guerilla. bands. Gruzine had lac Vienna for Tetneswar with the reso lutions of the Emperor r lative to the Magyar army. i A lert , r from Vi.nna of the 23d, addressed to the Indepoulance f thussels, says that great dis:atisfac tam existed in Vienna in consequence of the delay of the Minister of Finance in issuing the new loan. By retarding the issue the Minister hoped to effect the loan on more favourable terms. The Austrian bank notes were at 17 to 20 per cent. discount, and bills on foreign countries paid the same rate. The same journal has the following : "We receive from a traveller, who lately passed through Bohemia and Hungary, curious information re lative to the issue of bank•notes in those countries. After the events of Vienna in 1848 the Austrian Government, after having published the most severe or- donnances against the exportation of specie, was obliged, in consequence of the almost complete absence of gold and silver, to authorise the bank of Vienna to issue notes of 15 kreutzers and six kreutzers. Some bankers of Vienna were also authorised, on depositing equivalent values, to issue bank-notes of 10 and 20 kreutzers. All these modifications only served to make specie scarcer. Thu;, not only Kossuth and his Provisional Government issued such notes, but a number of towns, villages, and private individuals did the same. Bohe mia is literally inundated with them, notwithstanding the prohibition of the Government. At Eibogeu (Carlsbad), notes were issued for five kreutzers, and pri vate persons issued some for 1; the hotels and cafit have them with their address inscribed. We have seen some lo three kreutzers, with the issuer's likeness on them. Although these notes are of value only in the town, or at most the district where they are issued, yet Bohemia is inundated with them to such an extent that the postmasters give them to travellers; and when these latter complain, the others reply that they have nothing else to give. The details show what immense embar rassments the Austrian Government will have to sur mount to liquidate these notes, and bring back the cir culation to a regular state." THE SUN, ITALY. The Risorgimento of Turin has the following from Florence, 20th inst., concerning the prohibition of the funeral ceremony in memory of Charles Albert:— " A subscription had been opened here for a funeral ceremony to be celebrated to the memory of the late Charles Albert, and permission had been applied for to Go vernmen t f ur t h e purpose. The permission was delayed some time, but was granted at last, and the ceremony was to take place in the Church of Santa Croce. Half the inhabitants of Florence intended to be present, notwithstanding the ceremony was to be restricted withing the limits of the greatest simplicity. Th ere was to b e a s i m pl e in scription over the door as follows:—' To Charles Albert the Magnanimous,' then the arms of Savoy over the cenotaph, nothing else. General d'Aspre even published an order of the day to his troops inviting the Austrh.n officers to assist at the ceremony. It so hap pened, however, that the Sardinian Ambassador, Villa marina, neglected an invitation to a grand festival given by General d,Aspre in honour of the anniver sary of the Emperor of Austria's accession to the throne. General d'Aspre took offence at this, hastened to the Ministers, and insistedion the funeral ceremony for Charles Albert being suspended, which was accordingly done at the eleventh hour. Villamarins, it is said, in censed at such an insult, has written to his Government for authorisation to celebrate a funeral ceremony in the name of the Sardinian Embassy. The Tuscan Govern ment has extended its prohibition to Pisa , Lucca, and al other principal towns." I t n ho th 2 e 3 s a it t t h in e g mioi o fth s e te C r ha o m f b G er ra o o f e D a e n p d uti j e u s s o ti f oo Tu p r r i e n of . s ented a Bill on several refor ms to be introduced in different articles of the Civil Code, in order to make them harmonise with the Constitution. The Minister of Finance also presented a report on the situation of the public treasury, and the ways and means to meet the present financial difficulties. The Milan Gazette of the 23d gives an official account of the disturbances that took place at Milan on the 18th on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday. It further states that 20 of the persons arrested have been condemned to the bastinado, and 14 to several months' imprisonment. THE COMMON SENSE OF THE HUNGARIAN QUESTION. It is a gallant and noble thing to trample upon a fallen nation. We may expect that the reverses of the Hungarian arms will be followed up by attacks upon the Hungarian character. Already this has been begun by the writer of an article in Thursday's Times, headed as above. The writer professes to have resided on various occasions in Hungary, and to have carefully studied Hungarian history and political geography. If this is the case, he has done so to little purpose. He says, " the ultra Magyars wished to drive the Croats and Tschechs by force into a foreign na tionality ;" and proceeds to assert, that "the unjusti fiably violent methods used by them are indisputable. The flogging of peasantry that refused the change of language in public worship; the innumerable cases of forcible interference between parent and child, in the matter of education ; the refusal of the Magyar censors to allow the Tschechs any newspaper what ever, in their mother tongue ; are all too incontest able to be effaced from the page of history." Now it happens that there are no Tschechs in Hun gary. The writer, doubtless, means the Slovacks, who belong to the same great Slavic branch as the Tschechs of Bohemia. But letting this pass, we may ask why, instead of vague charges, he does not pro duce at least one single fact bearing upon these charges. Such similar accusations as have been made in German papers have been invariably refuted. As for Magyar censorship, the notion of such a thing is most ridiculous. The censorship in Hungary was in the hands of the Government, and consequently anti- Magyar ; and it was always the policy of that Govern ment to fan the jealousies which existed in Hungary, as they do everywhere else, betwedn races speaking a different language. It is false to date the occupation of the greater par of Hungary by the Turks from the battle of Mohacs After that battle, Solyman withdrew without occupy ing a single village of the realm. Whatever he and his successors acquired was gained from Sovereigns of the House of Hapsburg. After Austria had been saved by Sobieski, the Austrian arms made progress in Hungary, and gradually the Hungarian kingdom was re-extended to its present limits ; but Hungary could never, according to any maxim of national law, have been considered a conquered province by the House of Hapsburg. The election of each Hapsburg Sovereign was accompanied by a solemn oath on his part to respect the liberties and independence of the realm ; and when, in 1687, the crown was rendered hereditary in that family (consequently after the time from which the writer of the letter dates the com mencement of the Constitution in Hungary), an equally solemn oath was taken to the same effect by the heir Joseph 1., who was crowned in the lifetime of his father Leopold ; and has been repeated by every one of the hereditary Sovereigns since that time, with the exception of Joseph ll.—who is therefore always counted an.usurper. But it seems that Austria " rendered Hungary e jure an independent kingdom, but de facto married to Austria, by the imperial and royal armies forming ore corps under the War-office of Vienna." This the writer of the article asserts ; and does not perceive that by so doing he shows, in its strongest colours, the perfidy of the House of Hapsburg. For 165 years, according to this calculation, the House of Hapsburg admitted by solemn oaths the de jure inde pendence of Hungary, while she was doing all in her power de facto to render that independence a nullity. Of course, as long as the House of Hapsburg could send Hungarian regiments to Italy, and garrison Hungary with Bohemian and Italian troops, her inde pendence was in a most precarious condition. The Hungarians were fully justified in demanding a sepa rate Ministry of War, without which there could be no permanent security for their liberties. Such was the opinion of that great man, Count Szechenyi, whose name has been pressed into the service of ab solutism in a way that he would be the first to repu diate if Providence should be pleased to restore his faculties, and who himself took office, by the side of Kossuth, in a Constitutional Ministry formed upon those principles. The curious ascending scale of civilisation in rural Hungary, according to this writer's views, is one that will hardly bear the test of inquiry. It must he indeed a very strange taste that would prefer the condition of the military frontier to that of any part of civil Hungary. In most parts of the Banat there are local advantages which will ac count for its flourishing condition, without seeking any such cause as that of its having been longest under imperial civil admininistration. But vil lages, could be pointed out in the Banat as wretched as any that are to be found in any other part of Hungary ; and villages could also be named in other parts of Hungary that would do credit to the Banat. With regard to passable roads and bridges, smiling villages and neat cottages, the best-informed travellers have been able to discover them in Hungary without ascending the Save, Drave, or Danube, into Styria, Austria, and the Tyrol. If the Hungarian Reform Bills were passed only at the eleventh hour, it was solely because since 1832 they have met with a most determined resistance on the part of the Austrian Government. The present war in Hungary cannot be said, according to any known and familiar application of language, to have begun in preventing a repeal of the union : for no union ever existed except according to this newly fangled, far-fetched de facto interpretation. But a union did exist, and had existed for eight centuries, between Hungary and Croatia; which the House of Hapsburg attempted by the most perfidious means to dissolve. As for the supposition that Austria will introduce any system but that of absolutism, it is too childish to be worth answering. The essence of the Austrian system of government is to govern by a complicated mechanism of salaried officials. The charter of Count Stadion makes no provision for any real self-govern • ment, and can only be forced upon the various peoples that inhabit the Austrian territories at the point of the bayonet. The fruits of the great crime of the annihilation of Hungarian Independence will be reaped by Russia. The Austrian Emperor is henceforth the vassal of the • a C fiwgr z isal a tli r dependent n , wustnahidtiesr till subjects. all he r t ihn u efl pn s fu o reunil ssce, a s sr i ni a iap n ew b , i a ale y lnn o db utt e i hne t ed s he f p o re rr r oh t p veii r rmn o c t e d ec e. so protection nf nion. The last ba rr i er is sw4 t t h away between - Russ i a and Turkey.— Examiner. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The Cambria's reports of injury to the growing cotton from excessive rain, followed by the anomaly of a quiet market in Liver- LONDON,. pool, have added not a little to day to the perplexi ties of our market. The commonness of such reports at this period of the year, in every kind of season, causes them to be now received with much suspicion ; and yet it is felt that statements made by all parties engaged in the busi ness, even the most cautious and trustworthy, cannot be without some foundation. Still, the favourable fact is looked at, that the rains had ceased, and finer weather commenced, just before the dates of these advices. The effect of all this has been a good deal of irregularity in yarns. Many sppinners of such numbers and qualities as are suitable fur home manu facture, have either raised their quotations or shown an indisposition to enter into fresh engagements; while there are others who have been a little more inclined to accept orders; and on the part of consumers, again, conflicting views and courses have been observable, with a preponderance, however, on the side of resistance to a further advance. The India merchants may be said to be out of the market—they are waiting for the mail, which may be looked for towards the end of the week. The buyers for the continent and markets of the Mediterranean have operated with much wariness and hesitation, and altogether on a very restricted scale. The limited business now doing on foreign account, is the direct consequence of a lower range of prices in almost every other market than in our own. In order that prices may rise to our level, additional supplies must, for a time, be sparingly sent out. After all, however, we have to report considerable steadiness in the prices of spinnings for exportation. In goods, the makes suitable for the east have continued as dull as they were last week; indeed, almost all fabrics have been neglected, except printing cloths, which, in some widths and qualities, have been in good demand, at full rates. The Greeks are pur chasing rather more freely, than of late, in conse quenCe of somewhat improved advices from Constan tinople and from Persia, particularly in regard to printed calicoes. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The market has been un commonly brisk again to-day, especially for low wakes week, there but, on account of the past, being the e re was a more limited number of priced flannels • pieces, and in pricesthema s r t k e e a t d. . y The wool market continues slack MACCLESFIELD ;O STUESDAY.—SiIk suddenlythrowing show being a slow T does tEs D n A O r t de pression or improvement as other staple trades. A esa:it few bales of silk, of tedious winding, require a month or two ere they can be passed through the machinery, and hence we have to report a continued steadiness of employment in this department. Probably the steady employment of the hands in this department may in some measure be accounted for by the higher rates at which thrown silk is now selling (prices having advanced considerably) and also by the manufacturers in Manchester and elsewhere, having been large buyers of raw silk, which they are giving out to throwsters here and in Congleton, to work for hire. We are surprised to hear of the continued slackness in the manufacturing department, as we un derstand the dyers are well employed, which is generally considered a fair criterion of the state of trade. This must be owing to the very large quantities of weaving sent from here to the , rural districts of Cheshire and Lancashire, in consequence of the lo w prices at which weaving is done there. The import of foreign silk goods appears to go on increasing; but this may probably be accounted for by the large quantities re-exported to America and other markets. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The goods at all adapted for the season exhibited in the Cloth-hall, met with purchasers as early as ten o'clock this morning. In the warehouses there is still considerable activity. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—No large amount of goods has changed hands in our Piece Hall to day, but there is a good deal doing to order, and in the warehouses. In prices there is no variation. Yarns continue to be in good demand at former quotations, and there_ is a moderate inquiry for wool, at late rates. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Not much doing today at the halls, but there have been considerable deliveries of goods made to order direct from the clothiers. Prices are steady and stocks lower than usual. A very brisk business is doing in the warehouses, both for home and foreign trade. TAW VALE RAILWAY AND DOCK. The usual half-yearly general meeting of the pro prietors of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. John Sharland, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The following was the report : " Your directors have forwarded the financial state ment for the past half-year to each proprietor, and have confined their operations since the last meeting to en forcing calls and paying off various claims on the com pany; having suspended the construction of works in March last, with the exception of such as they were compelled top roceed with. "Your directors regret the decision of the Commis sioners of Railways, in opposition to the all but unani mous prayer of the shareholders, and of almost every landowner and occupier on the lice, as to the gauge, has operated so ruinously on the shareholders, that many have transferred their interests, and others cannot be induced to pay the calls; your directors, however, are not without hope that Parliament may yet relieve them, by sanctioning a change of gauge at no very distant period, particularly as the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, who, before the Commissioners of Railways, and the Parliamentary Committee, expressed their readiness to take the line, have now declined to do so on any terms. " Your directors are under the painful necessity of submitting for your confirmation the forfeiture of 4,640 shares, upon which calls are in arrest., the required notices of the forfeiture of which have been given to the respective proprietors; a resolution for such purpose will be submitted to you. " The directors submit to the consideration of the shareholders, the following plan for re-issuing these forfeited shares; also a statement, showing the present position, and future prospects of the company ; these, with other matters, they intend to submit, with the ap proval of this meeting, for confirmation, to the share holders, at an extraordinary meeting to be convened for the purpose. " Ist. That the forfeited shares be re-issued, as 201. scrip preference shares, with credit for 41. as a deposit paid thereon, bearing interest or preference dividend et the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, in perpetuity, and shall be issued to the proprietors of Taw Vale Railway and Dock shares, rateably to the number of shares held by each proprietor, who stands registered in the com pany's books on the day fixed for such extraordinary meeting, and who shall on or before that day have paid 81. on each share. " 2d. That the holders of these 201. scrip preference shares shall have the privilege of paying all or any por tion of the calls in advance, receiving interest thereon from the Ist of the month next following the day of pay ment of such advance; and, until the 30th December, 1852, shall have the option of claiming to be registered as either proprietors of Taw Vale Railway and Dock shares, or stock; or, as proprietors of 5 per cent. per petual preference shares. "That the following be the conditions on which the preference shares shall be issued, viz.—lst. That a call of 3/., making 71. per share paid, be paid within one month after the issue; and unless paid by the date named, the letter of allotment to become cancelled, and the scrip shares represeated thereby be immediately otherwise disposed of at the discretion of the directors. That a second call of 3/. per share be made payable three months after the first call. A third call of a per share be made payable three months after the second call. A fourth call of 31. per share be made payable three months after the third 'call. A fifth call of SI. per share be made payable three months after the fourth call; and a sixth and final call of 11. per share be made payable three months after the fifth call. The interest to com mence on the whole amount of 201., the Ist of the next month after the third call is paid. " 2d. That if any one of the last five calls be not paid on or before the day specified, all interest from that day shall cease; and it unpaid for one month with in terest, the scrip shares and all previous payments thereon shall, without further notice, become absolutely forfeited. " 3d. That the said preference scrip shares issued in lieu of the said forfeited shares, together with such additional preference scrip shares as may be issued in lieu of 201. shares hereafter forfeited, shall be the only shares having a primary preference dividend. " 4th. The directors propose that only 21. per share more shall be called on the existing 201. shares, making in all 101. paid, until the money to be raised by the pre.. ferenco scrip shares and the borrowing powers of the company shall be tested. " sth. The directors propose that the existing 201. shares, on which Si. has been paid or may be paid on or before the said extraordinary meeting, shall continue to receive interest from the day of such meeting, until the lino is opened from Crediton to Barnstaple, after which they shall take all surplus income, after payment of the preference shareholders. •° Your directors annex to this report a statement of the position of your affairs, and submit also for your consideration a statement showing, that by a deviation of your present Parliamentary line, by which you will avoid 1,400 yards of tunnelling, your line from Crediton to Barnstaple can be finished by the means proposed, for 100,0001. less than the Parliamentary estimate, viz. for 447,8211., instead of 548,0001., and have a surplus of 40,5791. to meet interest and contingencies." The CHAIRMAN, in answer to questions put by a proprietor, said he had much difficulty in addressing the meeting on the subject of the report, as the do cument had been altered since it had been agreed to and printed. The report in the hands of the proprie tors had been aggceed to on that day week by a very small board ; but to day the board had been more numerously attended, and it was thought by a inajo rity of the directors present that they had better not put that report forward; but that it would tend to advance the interests of the company to leave out the portions alluded to and insert the additional paragraph just read. There were, the Chairman said, gentle men present who would no doubt explain why the document had been altered. He certainly felt himself in rather a difficult position, as he had taken a prin. cipal part in drawing up the original report, because he thought the propositions set forth would promote the interests of the company; but the majority of the directors were of a different opinion. He felt convinced the Taw Vale Railway would be a paying concern, and he would state his reasons for thus thinking. In the session of 1844 the North Devon line was brought forward. It was thirty-two miles in length, and was to go through the very same district of country that would be traversed by the Taw Vale. The capital to he raised for it was 400,0001. Proper parties were em ployed to take the traffic, and they proved before a Committee of the House of Commons that the gross receipts for passengers and merchandise would amount to 44,0001. per annum. A PROPRIETOR said he believed that fact was never proved. The CHAIRMAN said he was not saying that it was, he was referring to the evidence given before a Com mittee of the House of Commons. Taking the work ing expenses at 40 par cent., namely 17,6004, the net profit on the traffic would be 26,400/ When they went for their extension they made it 31 miles long —that was a mile shorter th an t h e other, and they did this by a projected tunnel. It was now thought right that the tunnel should be avoided, and the intention was to Take it of the original extent-32 miles. Mr. Pare s estimate of the traffic of the line was 42,4801. Now, taking the working expenses at 40 per cent., namely, 16,992/., the net profit would be 25,490/. They were at that time contemplating an arrangement with the Bristol and Exeter Company, between whom and themselves, if the arrangement had been effected, the surplus of 3,570/. would have been divided. He had recently been over th e di s t r i c t through which this line would pass, and with every inch of which he (the Chairman) was intimately acquainted. He eras accompanied by a gentleman, also acquainted with the neighbourhood, who was also satisfied that the calculations which he (the Chairman) was about to give of the estimated taffic of the line was perfectly correct. They made out passengers, goods, a n d m i nera l tra ffi c would produce 40,405/. per annum, a n d th e ren t s o f t h e that the sheds and the dock dues would produce a further sum of 1,000/. per annum, giving a gross revenue of 41,405/. Allowing forty-two per cent. for working expenses on 17,1991., and paying the interest on the 182,600/, borrowed capital, the preference shares and the sum required to open the line, there would be a surplus of 1,4361. The estimated traffic of 22/. per mile per week was a very moderate estimate. He found from the railway returns that the Bristol and Exeter cost 32,000/. per mile and earned 56/. per mile per week; the Eastern Counties cost 39,0001. per mile and earned 551. per mile per week ; and the Great Northern, 126 miles of which were open, had cost 33,0004, and took 201. per mile per week, but the Great Northern had not yet the advantage of the through traffic. The Great Western had cost 47,000/. per mile, and its receipts were 82/. per mile per week. The Lancashire and Yorkshire had cost 45,000/., and its receipts were 981. per mile per week. The Hon. Gentleman.gave the cost per mile and the receipt per mile per week of the following railways as follows : Colt Receipt per mile. per mile. London and North Western £42,000 .. £ll2 London and Brighton Midland South-Eastern .... 50,000 ... 72 South Devon .... 35,000 .. 39 York and Newcastle York and North Midland .. 17,000 .. 43 And the Taff Vale Railway, which most nearly resembled this railway in the character of its length, had cost 20,5001., and the traffic produced 411. par mile per week. Now, the cost of the Taw Vale would be, for the 35 miles which they proposed to open, 12,7951 per mile, including docks, &c. The town population along the Taff Vale Railway, was 55,000, and its length 38 miles. The receipts per mile per week were 411., or 41,9201. per annum. The company paid four per cent, on . some portion of their preference capital, and five per cent upon another part ; yet they divided Si. 7s. 6d. percent. on the original share.. Now, the Taw Vale town population was 91,000 ; the traffic in coal, lime, and calm, &c., was estimated to be con. siderable, and he firmly believed there was no line in the kingdom that would show a lower cost per mile, or pay a better dividend. The Hon. Gentle. man then proceeded to move the adoption of the re port as altered. Mr. J. WILKINSON (solicitor) inquired the names of the directors who were present when the original report was agreed to. The CHAIRMAN said himself, Colonel Henderson . Mr. Wilton, Mr. Tite, and Mr. Mr. J. WiraiiNsoN wished also to know the names of the directors present when it was altered. The CHAIRMAN said himself, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Wilton, Mr. Woolmer, the Hon. Mr. Scott, and Colonel Henderson. Eventually, after much noisy discussion, the mo tion, for the adoption of the report, wa s a dj ourne d fur further consideration, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting terminated. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Thomas Povey, 36, labourer, was indicted for stealing a quantity of silk tabaret, valued at 131., the property of the Eastern Counties Railway; and Sa muel Jones, 49, Joseph Lucas, 43, and James Thomp• son, 39 —the three last-mentioned persons surrender ing to take their trial—were indicted for feloniously receiving the property in question, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Cockerell conducted the prosecution ; Mr. BPMahon appeared for Povey ; and Messrs. Prendergast, Payne and Metcalfe defended the receivers. It appeared in evidence that on the 2d of June a parcel of goods, among which was the piece of ta baret in question, was dispatched by the Eastern Counties Railway from Braintree, addressed to 'Messrs. Warlter and Co., Wilson-street, Finsbury The train arrived in due course at the Shoreditch station on Sunday morning, the 3d of June, and it was moved off the main line and remained there until the following morning, when, upon the train being unloaded, it was discovered that Messrs. Warlter's parcel had been opened, and the piece of tabaret stolen therefrom. The prisoner Povey was employed upon the railway, and therefore had an opportunity of taking the property, but there was no distinct evidence when or how it was removed. In consequence of inquiries, however, that were made by Inspector Shackell, who is engaged now in the service of the company, the whole of the prisoners were apprehended, and by his subsequent exertions the circumstances connected with the robbery were discovered. Sergeant TEAKLe, deposed that on the 29th of June he went, with Mr. Shackell, to toe shop of Messrs. Hampton and Co , in Leicester-square, and inquired of the shopman what was the price of the piece of tabaret which he saw in the window. The shopman replied that it was 3s. 9d. per yard, and he added that it was " very cheap" at that price. He saw a gentle man in the shop, and informed him that the tabaret had been stolen, and he then inquired how they be came possessed of it, and he was informed that they had purchased it of a person named Jones. Upon receiving this information he took the prisoner Jones into custody, and inquired of him if he had sold any tabaret lately in Leicester-square, and he replied that he had, but said he had forgotten the price he received for it. He then told him that the article had been stolen, and asked him where he got it from, and he referred him to Lucas, whom he accordingly took into custody, and upon his questioning him regarding the stolen property, he said he had got it from Thompson, the fourth prisoner, and on his being taken into cus tody he said that Povey had brought the article to his house to sell, and that knowing nothing of the value of such things he had applied to Lucas and Jones. Povey was then taken into custody, and on his being informed that he was charged with stealing the tabaret he admitted that he had taken it to Thompson to sell, but said that it had been given to him by a man named Bolton, who was also employed upon the railway. Shackell confirmed the evidence given by Teakle, and also produced a bill of parcels given by Messrs. Hampton and Co., to Jones, by which it appeared that they had given ls. 3d. a yard for the article, which was valued by the manufacturer at ss. per yard. the GsGeorge he had given him Bolton,e Teakie, d e t p h o e s e person t t referredhere was t o n i e n t t r h u e t h evi dencell o a or tement made by Povey, that gf the tabaret. Mr. W. Hampton was next called—He deposed that he carried on business as an upholsterer in Leicester-square, and that he purchased the article produced of the prisoner Jones. The number of yards appeared by the bill of parcels to be 38k, but the actual quantity was 40 yards. The RECORDER asked why the exact quantity was not stated ? Mr. H am pton replied, that a por tion of the tabaret was stained, and that was not in cluded. _ . The RECORDER inquired what price he gave for it ? Mr. Hampton said 15d. per yard. The RECORDER—Then was it " very cheap" at 33. 9d. F—The witness said he was not in the way when that price was a,!lted. He should have sold it much cheaper. The REcoanEn—What was your price ? Witness —We did not agree to sell it. _ The REcoaDEn-LThenWhat did you put it in the window for ? Witness—We put all our goods in the window. Mr. BALLAcTINE—And I suppose the shopmen have instructions to say that everything is cheap ? The RECORDER—At the rate this article was bought, this ought to be the cheapest shop in London. Mr. Hampton said, he would not give a farthing more than he did for such an article. The RECORDER—What did you give ? Mr. Hamp ton—l gave 21. Bs. Mr. BALLAETIRB—Not quite is. Did you not WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1849 , take off %. sd. for discount ? Witness—We always take discount for cash. Mr. BALLANTINEJ-The manufacturer values the pro i ;erty at 131. Pray, do you often buy things in this way, Mr. Hampton ? Witness—Not very often. I bought this of Jones because I had known him for two years, and was aware that he was in the habit of having" job lots." By Mr. PAYNE—Jones asked me 2s. 9d. or 3s. a yard for the tabaret in the first instance, and I told him to take it away, and he did so. We afterwards had some further dealing fur it, and he agreed to take what I offered. The RECORDER here gave directions that in the allowance of expenses to the witnesses Mr. Hampton should not be included. Mr. BALLANTINE remarked that his conduct had been most improper and was well deserving the cen. sure cast upon it by the Court, and he at the same time time ob•erved, that in a robbery of a most ex tensive character brought before that Court a few sessions back a similar facility appeared to have been given by persons in an apparent station of respecta bility for the disposal of the stolen property. The RECORDER said, that in this instance there appeared to be very little distinction between the case of Jones and that of the witness Hampton. Mr. Hampton declared he had given the full value of the article. The RECORDER said he had no business to have bought it at all under the circumstances. This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. METCALFE submitted that there was nothing to go to the jury against Lucas, for whom he ap peared. He was not proved to have made a single Ellie statement, and the stolen property had never been shown to be in his possession. The RECORDER said, that the case was certainly, in a legal point of view, very slight against that prisoner; and he at the same time observed, that although a great deal of pains had been taken to get up the pro secution, he was rather surprised that all the interme diate parties should have been placed at the bar, and that the person who eventually purchased the property should have been made a witness. Mr. BALLANTINE had no hesitation in saying that if he had been consulted originally, he should have advised a different course, and should certainly have directed the indictment of the person in Leicester square, and should have asked a jury to say whether the purchasing of property at such a totally inade quate price was not evidence of a guilty knowledge on the part of the purchaser that the property had been stolen. Mr. Prendergast, Mr. M'Mahon, and Mr. Payne then addressed the jury for their several clients, the counsel for the receivers contending that there was no proof of any guilty knowledge, particularly relying upon the fact that they had told no falsehoods, but had each truly represented how he became possessed of the property. The RECORDER then summed up, and The jury, after deliberating a short time in the box, expressed a wish to retire. They were absent nearly an hour, and on their return into court gave a verdict of Guilty against Povey, and Acquitted all the other prisoners. The jury at the same time expressed their opinion that there had been a great want of prudence on the part of the witness Hampton in purchasing the property. The RECORDER said, he quite agreed in the opinion expressed by the jury. It really was a fearful thing for the public that persons keeping shops, and in re spectable posiiions, should give such facilities for the disposal of stolen property. Mr. Ihmpton begged to be allowed again to state that the article was damaged, and he considered he had given the full value for it when he paid 15d. - a yard. - The RECORDER (with warmth)—Then why did you ask 33. 9d. for the same article, and represent it as very cheap ? The more you stir in the matter in the more unfavourable light your conduct appears. You will not have your expenses, and I recommend you to consider it good advice not to be connected with such a transaction again, and to be more prudent in future. The prisoner Povey was then sentenced to be trans ported for seven years. Martin Hansell, who was convicted on Monday of misdemeanour and having attempted to extort money by undertaking not to publish libellous matter con cerning a gentleman named Bevan in the Satirist newspaper, was brought up for judgment. It was intimated to the Court, prior to sentence being pronounced that the prisoner was in a danegrous state from consumption, and that a long confinement would, in all probability prove fatal. The RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that the defendant had been convicted of the offence of en deavouring to extort money by refraining to publish scandalous matter in the newspaper of which he was the proprietor ; and, upon a careful considera tion of all the facts, he felt bound to say that he entirely agreed in the verdict that h a d b een pronounce d b y the jury. He found, upon inquiry, that the woman Mills, who was included in the indictment with him, and who had, no doubt, been the instrument of putting him forward, had been sentenced to six months' im prisonment, and taking into consideration, his superior position in life, and his advantage not seetageinp how wof it was over that person, he did possible to pass upon him a more lenient sentence than the one she had received. He then ordered the defendant to be imprisoned for six months, and at the same time observed that he had no doubt he would receive every medical attention whi c h . . his condition required, and that the Secretary of State would also interfere if the state of his health, resulting from confinement, should render such a step necessary. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. BULLOCK ) Thomas Langston, 33, a smith ; John Low, 18, and Charles Low, 22, also smiths, were indicted for steal ing a tea-pot, a spade, 120 keys, a quantity of iron, and articles of ironmongery, the property of Arthur Williams, their master. Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton and Mr. Cockle severally appeared for the prisoners. Although the prisoners were separately tried upon different indictments, the whole of th 3 cases arose out of one transaction, which was this :—The prosecutor, an ironmonger, carrying on business at Hammer smith, in the early part of the present year, took the business, which is a very extensive one, of a Mr. Wright, a great number of whose previous servants he continued in his employment, but in the middle of July, finding that he was being robbed, he gave in formation to the police, who upon searching the various places of residence in the occupation of the prisoners, a quantity of his property was found, of which they could not give any satisfactory account as to how it came into their possession. The jury found them Guilty, and having been strongly recommended to mercy, they were sentenced, Langston to four months, and the two Lows to thr t e months' imprisonment an d hard labour. Henry and George Alfred Norris, the two brothers who were yesterday found guilty of defrauding a number of pawnbrokers, were this morning brought up and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. This finished the business of the session, and the Court adjourned until Monday, the 17th of September. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. The following letter was received by the Lord Mayor in the course of the day : "No. 5, Church-court, Clement's-lane, Aug. 27. "My Lord,—l think it my duty to inform your Lordship that Manning, who is now being sought for by the police, was at my office inquiring the charge for a passage per the Constant for himself and his wife. This was just before the discovery of the murder took place. I need not add I have seen nothing of him since, but there is a probability of his hanging about Plymouth, to which port the ship is now on her journey, and he stated that he wished to join her there. He did not give me his name, but I have a per fect recollection of him, and have made it my busi ness to go over to the Town-hall and read again the description of his person, which is correct, and I have no doubt in my mind of his being the same person. " I have the honour to be, " Your Lordship's most obedient servant, " H. HoRNENtAN. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." His Lordship immediately sent the communication to the magistrate at the police court at which the woman accused of being accessory to the murder of O'Connor has been examined. Joseph Powell, alias Bright, was brought before his Lordship, charged as having been included in an indictment upon which his brother was tried some time ago, and convicted and sentenced to be trans ported for seven years. Heddington, the officer, stated that a true bill had been found against the prisoner and his brother in the Central Criminal Court Session in the month of July, 1848, for robbery, and that Robert Powell, the brother of the prisoner, had been tried, found guilty, and transported ; that on Saturday witness appre hended the prisoner in Great Carter-lane, and that the prisoner made a desperate resistance and did all in his power to dis:sble the police, an d bi t and kicked those who laid hands upon him ; that the prisoner denied his real name, and threatened to dis patch the. officer, seized him by the throat, and cut away from him by means of a penknife, and was at length secured by a grocer, who threw a rope over him and crippled his legs. The prisoner said that Heddington mistook him for another person, and laid violent hands upon him without provocation ; that his name was Jack Bright instead of Joseph Powell; and that it was almost time for him to stand upon his defence when he was roughly handled. The LORD MAYOR said he would send the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court, in order that it might be ascertained whether he was the party who had been engaged with Robert Powell in committing the robbery for which the latter had been transported. Committed for trial. John Walters, who was a few days ago charged with having forged and uttered a cheque, purporting to be an order for 1571. 10s., upon the banking-house of Barclay and Co., of Lombard-street, was brought up for re examination. The prisoner had been identified, upon his first examination, by one of the waiters at the Guildhall Hotel ; and a witness swore that he believed the handwriting in the cheque, and also in a note pre viously sent to Messrs. Barclay, to be the prisoner's. By accident, however, a gentleman of the name of Jerram was sitting in the Justice-room with the Lord Mayor, and with Mr. Jerram, it appeared, the prisoner had lived for six or seven years, before he had entered the service of Mr. Da Silva, whose cheque it was supposed he had counterfeited; and the prisoner, after having looked at the instrument which he was accused of having forged, said, " With the permission of the Lord Mayor, I should wish to ask the gentleman who sits with his Lordship a question." Mr. Jerram, thus appealed to, said—My Lord Mayor, I will of course answer any question the man at the bar puts to me, but I think he had better not ask me any. The prisoner —I beg, Sir, that you will consent to be sworn. Mr. Jerram was then sworn and examined—He stated that the prisoner had been six or seven years in his service, and he had often seen the prisoner write. The prisoner—ls the writing on the cheque like mine ? Mr. Jerram—lf it is your writing, it is greatly altered from what it was when you were with me. Alderman GIBBS (who sat with the Lord Mayor) said, he was present at the first examination, and he did not consider the evidence sufficiently strong against the prisoner to justify a committal, as it was impossible that a jury could convict upon it. The prisoner was then discharged. William New, a Thames steam-boat commander, pleaded Guilty to a charge of having navigated a steam-vessel between Hampton and Teddington-lock at a quicker rate than was allowed by Act of Par liament. The LORD MAYOR said he would inflict but a small penalty for the offence. If the charge had been that of overloading he would have inflicted the highest fine. He had lately witnessed a case of tremendous overloading, from which he apprehended serious dan ger, and he considered it to be his duty to wait upon the Board of Trade, and represent the circumstance. It appeared that the Board had been most grossly imposed upon on the occasion of the application for licences to steam vessels, the numbers to be carried being vastly disproportioned to the size of the boats, and they promised to bring in a Bill in the nex session calculated to remedy the evil. His Lordship said, that he should, instead of inflicting the fine of 51., be satisfied with the penalty of 55.; but he assured the defendant that any further mischief to the banks of the river, occasioned by rapid transit, should be visited with a severs penalty. MARLBORO UGH-STRE ET. Thomas Alexander Beale, the ostensible proprietor of the Saloon, Piccadilly, appeared yesterday to an information laid by the police for knowingly per mitting and suffering prostitutes to congregate in his house and to remain there. Mr. l3eresford, the superintendent of the C division, said, in consequence of the complaints to the Commis sioners, the police were instructed to ascertain if the saloon was conducted in an irregular manner. TLe complaints were to the effect that music and dancing were indulged in to the annoyance of the inhabitants up to a very late hour in the morning. On Tuesday ni i ,,;ht last witness, accompanied by a number of con stables, paid a visit to the Saloon. He found a great number of men and women in the saloon having re freshments. At least twenty of the women he knew were c , mninon frequenters of the Quadrant. He did not hear any disturbance, nor did he see any intoxi cation. There was neither music nor dancing at the time. Police sergeant Burnett corroborated the superin tendent's statement, and, in addition, stated that at least fifty or sixty women were in the room at the time, the majority of whom were prostitutes. A police-constable, who was stationed at the door on the night in question, said he saw at least seventy women enter the Saloon and remain for some time, most of whom he knew to be street-walkers. Mr. Woolridge, surgeon, Jermyn• street, said his house was situated exactly at the back of the Saloon. For the last six months the frequenters of the Saloon indulged in music and dancing from twelve until about four o'clock in the morning, during which time it was impossible for him or his family to get any rest. In consequence of the nuisances which these junkettings caused to him, he had made a complaint to the police, and the present proceedings had resulted from that complaint. lie could not say that music or dancing was going on at the time when the police paid their visit to the Saloon. Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for the defence, con sidered that he had nothing to answer according to the evidence before the Court. Witnesses had not shown that any drunkenness or disturbance was taking place, or that anything more was going on than that numbers of men and women were conversing and taking refreshment together. Admitting that some of the women were of loose character, that he appre hended would not induce the Court to convict, as a conviction would be totally opposed to a decision given some time ago (he believed by the very magis trate whom he then had the honour of addressing) that the mere assembling together of prostitutes for purposes of refreshment did not constitute such an offence as brought the owner of the house within the meaning of the Act. Mr. HARDWICK admitted the full force of the Learned Counsel's remarks, but at the same time could not but feel the force of the stringent language of the Act, which recited that no keeper of a public house or other house of entertainment should know ingly permit or suffer prostitutes to congregate or remain therein. The Act was directed against those houses where prostitutes were encouraged to congre gate at late hours, and where drunkenness and dis orderly conduct occurred. It was impossible to con ceive a greater nuisance to a neighbourhood than a house where prostitutes congregated, who came into the streets drunk at late hours and created a disturb ance. Against such houses he was determined to direct the full weight of the law, not only by the heaviest fines, but by causing the licences to be with held altogether. But where it was only proved that unfortunate women assembled for the purpose of re• freshtnent, he certainly did not feel justified in inter preting the Act rigidly, for if he did so he should be obliged to exclude them from all houses of entertain meat, and must debar them from the opportunity of obtaining refreshment in any public-house. 'I heir lot was unfortunate enough, and he could not bring himself, by a harsh interpretation of the law, to aggravate , its bitterness in virtually excommunicating them from all society. If he did apply the Act in such cases as those in which it was proved that prostitutes were in a public-house for purposes of refreshment only, then he must extend it to every case in which it was shown that two women of loose character were seen in a public house under any circumstances. This he could not consent to do, and he must, there fore, give those cases the benefit of ,a doubt where nothing more had been proved than in the present case. According to the evidence neither dancing, music, intoxication, or disturbance, was in operation when the police entered the Saloon. The parties were only refreshing themselves, or in conversation, and as this did not constitute a sufficient breach of the Act ; he should dismiss the case. The superintendent made some inquiries relative to music and dancing in the Saloon. Mr. HARDwicK said, if music. and dancing took place without a licence the law appointed a mode of proceeding, and in case of conviction, a very heavy penalty. WANDS WORTH. Mr. Samuel Kingston, the landlord of the Duke of York, Lark Hall-lane, Clapham, was charged with being drunk, and creating a riot in front of his own house. Police-constable Spice, 47 V, proved that on Mon • day evening, about six o'clock, he found the defendant outside his house drunk, and creating a great disturb. ance. He had caused a large mob of people to assemble, to the extreme annoyance of the respectable inhabitants, and when remonstrated with by Mr. Coleman, the inspector, he used most insulting and idisgusting language, and his conduct was altogether so bad that they were compelled to take him into custody. It further appeared that the defendant had been charged at that court as recently as Friday last with assaulting a constable named Collins, and was fined 10s. At the same time and place an Irish girl, who had been acting as servant at the Duke of York was charged by Mr. Kingston, jun., on suspicion of steal ing four sovereigns from the till ; but it was admitted by the profligate parent that he had given the girl the money for an immoral purpose, an d s h e was discharged. Mr. Kingston,jun., on this occa sion stated that his father had been twice in Peckham Lunatic Asylum, but the Commissioners of Lunacy released him as soon as the effects of drink had worn off. Mr. PAYNTER, after imposing a fine of 205., now said that, unless some restraint was put upon the de fendant, he would enforce a power that had been given him under a recent Act of Parliament, and suspend his licence, which would have the effect of shutting up his house; for the continuance of such disgraceful scenes was not to be tolerated in a respectable neighbourhood. Genius, like the sun upon the dial, gives to the human heart both its shadow and light.—Eliza Cook's Journal. HOP INTELLIGENCE. BOROUGH, AUGUST 27.—The accounts during the pat week have come more favourable. The warm nights have caused the good grounds to progress. In the blighted hops little or no improvement has taken place. The duty has advanced to 90,0001. Our market remains quiet. MAIDSTONE.—In the Mid Kent parishes, gene' rally, considerable improvement has been witnessed during the past week, of which the weather has been most favourable. A large number of grounds will do nothing, but many, which were given over, nov show a sprinkle of hops, and the top crop of those which were better, will probably exceed former anti pations. In the opinion of many of our best judgea, the duty will be even higher than now quoted. MEREWORTH AND WATERINGBURY.—The hops 1 0 these parishes have much improved within the las, fortnight, and have this y ear s t r i ct l y ver i f i ed t h e o ld saying as to their coming out of the poles. Th e grounds have been moderately clear from venni" , look well, and promise a good crop, and where the vermin has been bad there will be a few good holt But there are many grounds in that state, and shwa of bine, and in many of the strongest grounds the mould is making dreadful ravages; some of the growers will begin picking in a week or ten days 13 " that account ; and although there is every appearance that we shall have as many more hops as were ex' petted, yet we shall not have now more than half a crop. TESTON.—The hops in this parish have looked rather better as regards quantity of bine than th e adjoining parishes, and have been more free from vermin and mould, although we have had both, an' have some mould still. They have improved fal: beyond our best hopes within the last month ; shalt' they continue so to do, we hope to obtain rather more than an average crop for the year. NETTLESTED.—A favourable change has take ° place within the last fortnight in the hops, which we are likely to take our s h are o f , although we hav e mould, and some grounds are slack of bine. YALDING AND HUNTONOUr hops in the best grounds, some of which are very good, have much improved during the past week. The weather has been much in their favour. The mould is much ca the increase in some gardens. DIALLING.—The past week's weather has dia" tinguished more clearly those grounds that will de nothing, and those that will do a little. The effect great in the few better grounds, in which we shall grow a few more than was anticipated, if the mould does not carry them off. HORSMONDEN.—A change, as unprecedented as it is welcome, has taken place in our hop group,' within the last fortni g ht. Th ey are now, in a ma r rity of instances, presenting a very splendid apPeaf,;• ance. In many plantations, whi c h a month since dah not appear likely to produce a pocket per acre, there will now probably be three; while those grounds that were then considered middling, are now yell fine. We are now likely to get an average for tn e . parish of from six to seven cwt. per acre, of a quality which bid fair to be very superior. EAST MALLING.—The late fine weather has Pr e ' duced but little improvement in the blighted gardens, but in the more favoured plantations there is de cidedly a great i m p rovement. They are fast coming out into a good sized hop, and look well for condition. %VROTHAM.—The hops here are decidedly proving ; the last few warm nights have done a very great deal of goo d w h ere the hops have app eared, hut there are some bines without any signs e ve° of burr. EDENBRIDGE.—There is an improvement in the best ground s s i nce our last, but there are a greil number of acres which will not produce a pocket per acre. ORPINGTON.—What few hops there are have growa out very nicely. About one cwt. per acre may be grown upon the best grounds. CANTERBURY.—The recent warm weather has don e much for most plantations that were not previously past all chance of rallying, and the produce of this neighbourh oo d w ill exceed the estimate for some tune' past generally calculated on, although there are many grounds into which a basket will not be put. T he duty, at from 75,0001. to 80,0001, is supported pretty freely. 11- URSTGREEN.—The hops have made a little ja i ; provement since last week, but not to any 8 16 ', extent, and some are past the hope of doing anxtbl i t worth mentioning; some of the best ground is also attacked with flea. A meeting takes place liere,L Friday next, in consequence of the refusal of tviv i Chancellor of the Exchequer to grant the prayer ° the Hastings memorialists. TlCEHURST.—lmprovement is going on in the n en ? favoured grounds; but th e crop on t h e genera lity °f the plantati ons i n thi s ne i gh b ourhood will be 1?- p o small.—Maidstone Gazette of Tuesday. RAILWAY SHARI& MARKETS. BRISTOL, AUG. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market remains very inactive , with scarcely a transaction doing. Exeter Thirds, how ever, were done to-day at 91 dis. In Great Westerns there were sellers of Quarters at 8 , 4 dis., buyers at 8% dis. LIVERPOOL, Atm. 2S. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business trans' acted in our share market to-day; price=, however, have no; given way. The sales are—Great Northern (5 per cent. f terence), 13a dis. -Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 370 dis. Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, IS p' —London and North-Western, 128— Oitto, New Quarters: 2% c. p.--Midland, Halves, 15 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent., 41.65. 3d. MANCHESTER, AUG. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE. --The transactions to-day were its follow East Lancashire, New, 16 c.—Leeds, Preferenc e (Registered), 12% Great Northern, Preference, 1 3 A c. P' —North Staffordshire, 6v s dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 4 1-16 c. London Stock, 128—W est R iding Union, 4 16-16 dis. YORK, AUG. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were 93 follow:—Midland, 62—North British, 31. 16s. 31—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 18 , 4—Ditto (Newcastle Exten sion), 12%. GLASGOW, AUG. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were follow :—Aberdeen, Preference, 6 14—Glasgow General Ter minus, 91 / 2 —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 49 tish Central, 23. ENGLISH PROPAGANHISM.----A very ex t raor dinary scene for Paris occurre d yesterday evening in the Plac e , de la Bourse. S oon a f ter s i x o ' clock a young and we.". , dressed Englishma n go t upon a post, w i th a small poc k s! , Testament in his hand, and a few persons having assero' bled be began to harangue them in very good French on the bles,ings of peace. Two sergens de tulle, who wero on duty at the Vaudeville Theatre, perceiving that a crowd was assembling, went to the spot and informed the z •alous but imprudent orator that open-air lectures in Paris were contrary to law. The Englishman per sisted, and said that his object was pacific. The officers replied that they did not question the excellence of his motives, but that no person could deliver harangues in the public thoroughfare without a permission from the Prefect of to Police, and th ey requested him politely but earnestly withdraw. lie replied in French,. Je as m e retire pas," on which the sergen s de ville took him by th e arm and led him away.—Galignani. A NOBLE ACT. -11 few years since a profound mathematician died in this town, leaving a wife and fa mily unprovided for. Th ose who knew and esteemed the, deceased rai se d 600 L, and invested it for the widow and children in a railway. Subsequently the stock was g reatly depreciat e d, b ut the gentleman who recommends. the investment took up the shares, and paid the dig*" rence; that gentl eman was one who never tires in act s of benevolence and unostentatious charity, Mr. William Rat bone.—Liverpool Journal. LADVERTISENENT.:I—THE EARL OF ALDEOIOIIOg AND HOLLOWAY'S PaLs.—An astounding cure by this miraculoa s medicine, alter every other means had failed. See extract from Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 184 1, Professor Ilollovray—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have ef fected a cure et a disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had n ot been able to effect ; nay, not ever the -waters of Carlsbad or Ma rienbad. (Signed) %. ALDBOROUGH." These wondertUl pills will cure may dleesse-or the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, a by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. . BIRTHS. • Ori the 27th inst., at Upper Brooke-street, the lady of the Hon. Captain Gough (only son of Viscount Gough), of son and heir. On the 17th inst., at Rosstrevor, the Hon. Mrs. Ross, of Badensbury, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Manor-house, East Acton, Countess d'Avigdor, of a s o n. On the 22d inst., at Colkirk, Norfolk, the wife of Arthur A. Heitland, Esq., of a son. • On the 25th inst., at Upper Clapton, the wife of Frederick Janson, Esq., of a daughter. • On the 26th inst., the wife of R. 11. Witty, Esq., of Essex street, Strand, of twin daughters. On the 16th inst., at Corsley-house, Wiltshire, the wife of N. Barton, Esq., of a son. On the 27th inst.; at Mrs. James Curling, of Albion•rogd. Stoke Newington, of a son.. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at Edinburgh, Robert Green Hibbert Weare, Esq., 8.A., of Qaeen's College, Cambridge, to Ellen Barnsley, youngest daughter of the late Robert Stuart, E 5( 1 4 of Annat, and fleriot-row, Edinhurgh. On the 23d inst., at Bryansrord, Downshire, Alexander! son of the late John Cheyne, Esq:, M.D., Physician-Genera l to his Majesty's Forces in Ireland, to Dora Lynn, daughte r of the late Francisco de Jove de Bernardo, son of Bill Bee' DIED. On the 25th ult., at Burton-hall, the Hon. Eliza E. 1011° son, eldest daughter of Lord Monson, aged 16. On the 15th inst., at Queen-street, Brompton, Mr. Barnard Chalon, animal painter, aged 79. On the 17th inst., at Mornington-house, near Droghed.ss Gustavus ll am ilt on, o f B ellewstown, Meath, grandson o f the third Viscount Boyne. • On the 24th i ns t , a t Sp a l d i ng, Ab raham Cutto, Esq., A -- v• ged 85, fOrmerly Assistant-Commissioner of Excise. Samuel the 25th inst.., at Ilanham-h a ll, Gl ocesters hire, Whittuck, E-q. On the ,at of Ges j r oh t illalnern n 25th hin son t. of Barbadoes. orWe,otr,cBqes.t,eorfshthireet a ged island second`27, haiezer, • • On the 26th inst., at Beigrave-terrace, Stockwell -park, Brixton, Surrey, Miss Margaret Arundel youngest daughter of the late Bev. John Arundel, age‘i 37. On the `,7th inst., at Museum-street, J. Lowe, Esq., late of the East India House, aged 94. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Sfevoy. in the county of Ziliddleeex, Wednesday, August 29, 1849. _ sh th In