The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

His'roily of th q , pRop ER r y.T 1803-1815. tli k Th , wi.!lllected legisl a ti ve measure of a Property thatu 7 11 ) it is st a t e d , the present Ministry will keel:4l3lg fo rward for ad o pti on, ren d ers a recur - Rhe a thee the existence of this tax in former times lift o peration operation, eration under the Ad m i n i s t ra ti ons o f M r . ilevoiZtord C astlereagh', not altogether ill-timed, or 1 %1 in, terest and information. nielik t4l „ ll r . e of the Income-tax—a measure by ' e n rally • Pitt expected to have realised a sum of b e n w i, ; ` 4 °, l ls- to meet the necessities of the country, ilik,„lell, !after its full trial, brought in but six 4444 ce -' ' .ea i tt6 ed him to open up some new train of Ileiv p' Woieh developed itself in his proposition of a li, „ re D ". s' 4 Stl, - " 1 "tax• The Income-tax was repealed L'40 1 ,,,,;„ q April, 1802, and the Property:Act began u l the 6.. - "! )4 ) after being duly settled by Parliament, Th e inning of 1803. With, : 13 "V-tax was introduced by Viscount S . id- sedj"," a rate id first of 5 per cent. This wa l s_in- . Tu t of Y Mr. Pitt to 71 per cent. ; and by the A , ar t4 tie r fftsdowne, when Chancellor of the Ex letie,Llll 1806, to 10 per cent. In 1809, its ex % f„.711 to he rigorous and oppressive ; the ar t tli Ne1;' 11 !1 th is year became heavy, and payments (* heti", "te consecutive years were restricted, or §lBl s, the avoided by large masses of the people.ln 0116-" e avoided to the tax became so universal IlapQ•t the country, that it was at length found proteeilble to withstand its ultimate repeal. We now ,ro st litrty. t. to notice succinctly the nature of the 1 - 4.4419 ,16,1`,-14developed in the Act of 1803, and to trace `c Erg circumstances which subsequently attached Th e 41 :.,. i . 1 1 the twelve years of its continuance. fi 'iell, P " l* lPle of the old Property-tax was that_ - Ill ' i N t ka ° t e° b 4 rse, must be the chief guide in the for ,' - ' ° Pofti ° ,Lie neW, namely, that of the tax being a + " 4 a „ ; ' 4 , te c ontribution on the means of subsist rerty , B '- 11 $ from every species of productive pro -141161114 Personal exertion, whether combined, we t 'Nil with property or not. ,t eat t r : D i l rty Act, of 1803, comprehended four dif t7eske4ees- du rofit, as applicable to four principal - . o a eaxndivials ' under different modes of taxa ': if C () ,f which ' eived a distinct consideration, Z'"l oii had formed the subject of four distinct iro Ity arliareent. They were, first, Landed of- t: I llst v see°ll ( l l Funded Property ; third, Produce r. 1,714:14i. w hether from professions or trades, or ce . 7 1 Fin c i - n, B in the nature of trade ; fourth,. Offices o f ‘'. w lt Cr G overnment, and the Public Institutions 1 - 8 '`" 11 , although ' certain of .the offices were . th tir e 4ste nature. k 3 tea Oh landed property was separated,,yo two Tenants b , ; 1 : 1 ) 4 11 t he " Landlord's Duty," and the i ' lt 'aae. " A hof these duties, were, however, in th e e n fi first i ltrti eli - t ei be charged on the occupier, and by him oh h -, according to the various relations in property.s might stand with others, either . having_ l a e 11 ° l' Interest in the land, or a claim on tl A 4. Tl+ °l hlallti ~C'e first of these was contained in schedule and -.an-pet' .0 at the rate of Is. for every 20s of t4l lt ill c io _volue of all lands, tenem•nts, or hereclitar Liliki l erst `ireat Britain. This annual value was to 1 1 11 0. .: , c1 of the rack-rent, at which lands . had t : ea , 0 ,,,',,1f the commencement of the letting had ; 1 be 1,,,',"n seven ears ; if not so let, then it was "ere -"erstood to years the rack-rent of which they Worth to be let. ~,k ill aie t •,( ll4. l7 on funded property extended to all 1, -4 4 5 t 1 17 1 di vidends, and shares of annuities payable „Itej the revenue, ' contained in the Schedule C, .' ta t E t ie h public annuties as belonged to the Bank ,fthefr'id; South Sea, and East India Companies, ttrit'le4Porate capacities. The charge in the case di ( is th urk leh of the tax was never made on the Ivicl e ernse ives, but on the persons entitled to the ‘4e ek's or shares of those public annuities, as being girt'Nssessor I. l4 4 ° P e rtY acqu . ired by the employment of capital . .", dt:' wi th its increase by the - application of Indus ''34°l''' W as chargeable to the hands of the first . pos es 4 rwith 11° 4, bout regard to the claims that might rest sit lita salaries and emoluments under appointments_ to hl'Ali e r °1 • Private nature were subject to be charged thi t el - fall ex tent, without reference to the mode o la tilbsequent application. t b. llo , tis . Zl , o ,_f these . mstances provisions were made, au te"l4:4llta t ' e ue e aPpoii , itment of the original charge the _ -- ata c i .mane, the persons specifically appointed 1 3 , 1 . their collections, &c. &c. Such is the brief 14 4 0 f the leadin features of the Act. NetS,` B .9 6 ; the Pgroperty-tax Billencountered I t ° talMosition in its way through the House not " e aeli e -f,roM the members seated on the opposition ' P l is ?4° on the contrary expressed . theirhearty t s_ ' s tbsi noi,s tl ° l l of its principle, and praised the Ministers ,„-a t i f - ~ 48 * it forward, as from independent Mem hloiti-A;,, rliament, who disliked the harshness and -••' ili t t_< i ts provisions, and disapproved of so great kodifi t L49ll to tlie burthens of the people. Several 131 'clia„t ti °os and alleviations of the tax were t a e c r - s ktpkt-7.„1. PrOpOSed, to some of which the Min s t of thi,i'l; though they rejected the greater 131:r Pr5(14,°.4 account of their tendency to dim in e is a n su t r h e e . ~ ObiLlveness and destroy the efficacy of the m ~q , , tlV h7„t i°o ; however, to the sudden increase of the tk. '"Rit4 6 .4116 i tO 10 per cent. was made with much re 'he e e- L a nd many suggestions put forward to divert l et Z.. 11e °f p()lfey, but of all the propositions only ' , yi t , - keeeded to by the Ministers, namely, that of li ft,' as th e the unfunded debt in the same l nfainn ,„•qt,faire funded. The clause, however, for and warm 'llk, . a nlcunt of 10 per cent., after a long an course of thi el°l-1, was carried by a majority. In thec .. h Was ti a lehate, Mr. Fox owned to the House, that he °Pt ilt ?' a friend to the tax, or any of its principles . o 't 4 ii i tl d t)11 ; ; Ile was sensible the objections to it were e AtCtila- 'lllllitnerable but his Majesty's Ministers wer o _ sextriltltly forced to adopt it, under the pressure thef 1 ; 4 4 31 stlobes." After this enactment had passel,_ f -keth°f of Majesty's private income was exempted t The Pro oPeration of the tax. •t 'tia ti.:r°Pert - twhich in 1809 still continued to t°ll ect er l 1)41 k of the ax' direct imposts, was at this time fat44l4 ' withgreater rigour than at first—the . per eritrusted g with the management of it ofhavingg t 1444 :lp bee°111 , e more skilful, and acquired a more in ti- Vbee 'll,_. -aowlecl ~ Was ex ledge of people's affairs. The effect o Pa 4 , actly the same as if the rate of that tax had delreet-tglnented. But the difficulty of procuring t be e , nevertheless, also increased in an alarming ttl k i,_ il li ' s The assessment .' of 1805 was not quite six 1 srsv:l)cl-411.:_drna:__uater,thlat of 1806 amounted to ! quarter, although there ir tit %fl y i l l )e millions and . 15 the amen imposed s an d a a d t di a tion of 31 per cent. much higher rate. N: A pril ( 7 also increased year e there remained due of • 11 , 1 POt S ; r nent of 1805 only only 92,0001., but of the assess -1 s c o ) ; ' 80 6, above 900600/., and of the assessment I ht , 110 less than 2,3,57,000/. tk, rt,,_ into 14.° 1* 411111 s paid the Revenue arising from the '' 844' 'la, from 1812 to 1816, were as follows ; at d sh e , e aed t. .Ne place the amount of the land an h La n a contrast : "12 and Assessed Taxes. Property-tax. tsi4 ............ 7,444,000 41 4 ••• .......... 7,884,000 15 ............ 7,979,000 lai 6 • ........... 7,716,000 Paid ti ti ." ' ..... 7 347 000 -e,,,glipiti-,`,,; which ' amounted to 2,635,000/., ll wer e e . TkOts o 4' Ile four subsequent years; so that 0 a a I , L fhe - s toe repealed tax were closed by 182 ur.. 'l n. a c , foregoing table of sums can, of course, f e itt lZ l Pr e e„ °tr en e t et tia data of what the collections would 1. a ri-1 . 5 t :,, I6 ' the li:ope ty-tax having reached its ut -"Ieli r``lont, raised r - 'awards of 141 millions, ,of las -Il lij ae ß 4l Y, s 4 were pail b landlords, above 2k _b_ r 3l , i:-; W agnce, re - vs a landlord of the period, w(': Illfhuilirloa-aeiratnilocit_tshe income of the . former was about 55_ th, r espe c ts the latter 28 , but adding eight and AI% Whol e ili ve lY for the incomes f below 601., we have ti e „7, 1 th e ~,,..73 1 1 1e arising f t Oftral:`; . coMery of the t r a n x7h . a l d an a d t ' tai 9 n s ed m p il e l r io fe n c a - . Ili Ilt Petft* n y property escaped aP it ionAa 1°1- Is against the Propety-tax, in the above tiltlet:d t4,-'tl3l`e7alrfectionet.inued day alter day, to be pre tioNtibiect w " e ' speechesrather than debates on -‘) el l e "; with s ,„ whi t multiplied in corresponding propor oil e t ax. , i _ very few exceptions, a „, e Point . -rne petitioners were chiefly violent upon m'ere adverse agea *e a . ; /14 .1 that Mr. Pitt had laid on the tax . only . 'ler e 4 4 :'• To this the Chancellor of the Exehe_ 1: :AP1 1 ( L",ed, that at its first introduction, instead ~- -" tneex - „ r, ring given for its conclusion at the end s 6 .ailh o ••• I ', its produce was actually mortgaged for 01 . 118""tioit • app. Ag a i . which would take eight years to pay rat, Tl ' l li 18 06, when the tax was raised in its Ilel'er, the Ministers gave a pledge that they wou h ld a ill asu r : lt in the time of war, have recourse to suc beh. a. : Ill ore %es, ho ever, in the House now began to get 4,1:44i,iti-i:ainhi niefienprileaaalar ttsiyeod(nim. tgqh.ittner4eni: e,inelcistren approached .. the Ministers .-... e for d . . recriminative and m b i i n tt is e t r e ; rs and as the and their their efforts to make it appear l ' t otol i ° PP°sition to the tax was fostered by popular manoeuvres and was bno means . krt 0 - f ea 'iOn of the clamours of the most respectable This statement however, m atch 4 1 , defeat b a petition presented o n I ner e i, ',"e 18 , t h, by 1 : h Sir William Curtis, from the (111. -711"' b an h + and traders of the City of Lon- Who ttt e nu ke rn, signatures was 22,000, among Cit y Were many persons of the first property in the Nat e ,. 44 the same time there was an attempted *Li 1 11 1;r titi°11, which bearing only 27 signatures In the debat e N'c'red that which followed, Mr. William Smith icle . .h, th no less tlian 11,000 surcharges had been the 3 ! I nr _ e City of London alone in the last year-- ' 4 41 '"" had be • o , l „et tlainati on • been set aside on app . eal, after en '.A"Zut o f the into the appellant's circumstances ; number made no appeal. re ar . g th „„..,_ . h 46 " was tho ''''Kers who followed, Lord Castle -441 het% lll°St diffuse in recapitulating all that 84 ' 411 0 in favour of the measure. At length _ _ ;co corm' !cted the be could over the )Bld take ;sped he bbe d ott a mount o si ninationt e , stated 0:1 11 ainatiot : harge of 1‘(651, ro coa ch, es to the the , 1 1 ' e ed ° . n 48 e,4 ihould b!) on, un nl 11 , 1 ° a fter t h e ijosj should ,001 tioa ,lid r s aid tu ~..e . i h.street , .ebruarP shop, sod f or them Behrioret name °9 .o.NloobY• whetbL f er Teri betiree° r ? Vl4- !hie' ,nches ttr ' had b e ` P mcb. wove that • t h e list ° I noroeg th O per VS tot ) ; ad Lti° °— not o r: d Alecto. ev er' bete ie j rta, r Eng f EPS' a ibs • ht , 01"- hair' prison " e as l ' mr) go I r r u i , 1 : 0t i, 14 ret bg.t t!roos Viri7,ol tith W ' rl6 0 h ie) t in W " - 130 7riclaYi ,note 26th f.t# j tbst r the.— i 1 r. ewso' prir— u o I nd he tPi , ca, ,:- r ifornis et bate/ irg ot oet: oa • 119 f O. oper $ O6l D ope 15t rt l,„ 0 1. ,pogi oe t Te„ ; e q . ow acu v 3 no o' 3ll ,cio ° • tv , ' r • el` 0 4° , 4 11 GT' tAI r• qiier bY ' 4 O $Ol t . t he t •JO4 ( A ° oft , P' ° ; ol. o r 0 A ' to ', boo t - et , 10 08 P t he of Iti°' jo ~ to 10 F,i ` ~ every voice was drowned in the cry of " Question," and the House divided, when the numbers were— For the Property-tax 2Ol Against it lajority, condemnatory of the tax - 37 It was observed during these discussions in Parlia ment on the Property-tax, that the petitions, though numerous, did not represent the general sense of the people, for that much the largest proportion of the country p ro secuted no petitions. - The Property-tax ceased on the sth of April, 1815, but was revived for one year more (1815, ending sth April, 1816) in consequence of the renewal of the war. The assessments charged for 1814 were continued without fresh returns, and without the power of in creasing them, except in respect of the dividends of funded property and interest of Government securi ties, &c., under schedules C . and E ; but in conse quence of the great distress among the agricultural and other classes at that time, provision was made for abatement of the duties in certain cases of diminution of rents and profits under schedules A B ;and D. The opinion of Lord A lthorp on this question of a Property-tax is conveyed hr the subjoined extract from one of his spoeches, made at a time when the point was under agitation : " Much has been said about a Property-tax, and he believed he differed on that point considerably from his friends about him. Still he had no hesitation in saying, that to grant relief to the productive popula tion by a reduction of taxes, and to impose a Property tax to meet the deficiency thus occasioned, would be. a very good measure. That was his own individukt H opinion. It might be alleged that he was inconsistent in what he he now said, when his present was . con trasted with his former opinion ; and perhaps it might seem to many that he was so. But the country was now in a situation very different from that in which it was formerly placed : and he would say to the land owner that if a Property-tax of 10 per cent. were im posed, he would be the gainer ; because he thought that the landowner, in consequence of the ex isting distress, and the large sums he was obliged to advance for the maintenance of the poor, lost consider ably more than 10 per cent. on his rents. He was perfectly convinced that it was the ill-arranged state of the taxes, more than the amount of the taxes, that pressed heavily on the country." Palev's opinion, with regard to the Property-tax, as to the scale of equitable proportion—proposing to affix certain rates of taxation upon certain amounts of property, proportioned to the general conveniency of subsistence of those by whom such payments are to be made, is worded thus : " We are accustomed to an opinion, that a tax to be just, ought to be accaately proportioned to the cir cumstances, .or more correctly perhaps to the amount of property of the persons who pay it. But upon ' what, it may be asked, is this opinion founded, unless it could be shown that such a proportion interferes the least with the general conveniency of subsistence ? Whereas I should rather believe that a tax con structed with a view to that conveniency, ought to rise upon the different classes of the community in a much higher ratio than the simple proportion of their incomes. The point to be regarded is, not what men have, but what they can spare ; and it is evident that a man who possesses a thousand pounds a year can more easily give up a hundred than a man with a hundred pounds a year can part with ten ; that is, those habits of life which are reasonable and innocent, and upon the ability to continue which the formation of families depends, will be much less affected by the one deduction than by the other. It is still more evident, that a man of a hundred pounds a year would not he so much distressed in his sub sistence by a demand from him of ten pounds, as a man of ten pounds a year would be by the loss of one; to which we must add, that the population of the country being replenished by the marriages of the lowest rank of society, their accommodation and relief become of more importance to the State than the conveniency of any higher but less numerous order of its citizens. AWFUL DOINGS IN SCOTLAND. (From the Spectator.) Extracts from Scotch journals, in our news depart ment, communicated to our readers last week the appal ling information, that " Scotland is at this moment an object of intense interest both in Heaven and in hell !" being " the battle-field in which the Powers of Light and Darkness are engaged in a desperate conflict !" Such intelligence had not been received from the North since, under the auspices of the sapient King JAMIE, an attempt was made to stem the growth of witchcraft by increasing the staff of " prickers (the officials who de tected the seal set by the Evil One upon those who had sold their souls to him) in every town and village. It appeared that the scattered bands of the " powers of the air," carrying on a guerilla warfare over the whole earth, had been called in for the purpose of concentrat ing the Satanic force upon Scotland. The good people of the South, relieved for a time by this step from the assaults of the tempters, had the more leisure to watch the progress of the Northern struggle. The first news from the theatre of war was alarming— the Powers of Darkness had triumphed! It was some re lief, however, to learn that their opponents were not disheartened. The minority of the shareholders in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company met on the very evening of their defeat, in Cotton's Wellington Hotel, and resolved " that the Committees at Edinburgh and Glasgow do declare their meetings permanent."' It was high tune ; for never since Dr. Martin Luther threw his inkstand at Satan's head, had that great author of mischief stood so clearly revealed to view. Do not the fire and smoke of the locomotive engines, and the unearthly scream or whistle with which they give notice of their approach, betray their parentage? It is clear from the vote of the proprietors of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Railway, that " the dread Fire-lung" does not lend them his services for nothing; he repays himself by taking them bound to promote Sabbath-dese cration. Dr. Symington seoms, from a speech he delivered at a meeting of the minority on the evening of the 25th of last month, to see the matter in its true light—" It was said that the agitation against the Railway was a Non intrusion measure : the Nonintrusionists need not be ashamed of being the advocates of Sabbath-observance ; but, though he denied it was a party measure, he would like to see the great seal applied to a deed to prevent engines and railway-trains, with their din and their smoke, and their congregations of desecrators, from being intruded into any of the parishes of Scotland con trary to the will of the people." The Docto r is right. Whoever handles pitch will be defiled : into whatever parish these unholy engines are allowed to penetrate, they will carry irreligion along with them. Keep them out I Let us, however, see what the proprietors of this Railway are going to do, in order that we may more justly estimate the measure of . their iniquity, as masters obliging their servants to work on the Sabbath : for those who may avail themselves of the railway accommodation they are not answerable. " You will have," said Mr. Hamilton, at the meeting which has occasioned all this outcry, " about ten or twelve engineers and as many stokers : of these, - two will be on duty each Sunday; that is, their turn will come round once in five or six weeks; in other words, they will be employed about ten Sundays every year, and have about forty Sundays at their own disposal. Again, they need not be taken from their families even on those ten Sundays. By the regulation of the Man chester and Liverpool line, when the trains meet midway the Company's servants meet and cha n g e trains. and each returns home. This rule might be adopted here, so that the whole length of time they would be separated from their families weuld be about three hours morning and evening for ten Sundays in the year." The sacrifice is not so very great after all : what is the object proposed to be obtained by it ? Not lucre : for two trains with a limited number of coaches despatched from each end of t he railway, in one day will scarcely pay expenses. The object is to af foid an accommodation to the public which it has a right to demand. When individuals, or a company, establish a regular system of conveyance for passen gers, their calculation is that there are a sufficient number of individuals obliged to travel, and yet obliged to economise, to insure to them a constant succession of customers. They profess to extend to the less wealthy classes of the community that power of travelling with expedition, which otherwise would be exclusively con fined to the rich. They are well paid by the public, and become bound in equity to supply it with .all necessary accommodation in the way of travelling. Now, viewing the question only in this point of view—assuming, for the sake of argument, that Sunday-travelling really is the deadly sin some account it to be —it must be taken into account that there are cases when people must travel on Sunday. If these traffickers in travelling are to keep their promise to the public, there must be provision made for the accommodation of those who are forced by contingencies to travel on Sunday. This can only be done where, as in the case of Edinburgh and Glasgow, two communities; numbering respectively nearly 200,000 inhabitants. rely upon these passenger carriers for accommodation, by a regular despatch of conveyance on Sundays as on other days. No one can say when they may be wanted ; and stopping them for a whole day may be productive of painful consequences. The most rigid will not deny that any person receiving late on Saturday night the intelligence that a parent was dying, would be warranted to travel to see him on Sunday ; or that a medical man summoned to a consul tation might travel on the Sabbath without sin ; and many parallel cases might be imagined. Regular public conveyances are the only means by which the middle and poorer classes can avail themselves of these e xemptions ; and in such numerous cormicunities they are of sufficiently frequent occurrence to render it neces sary that they should be attainable on Sundays as on other days. The question is not whether speculators in the trade of public conveyance should he al towed to convey passengers on Sunday, but whether under any pretext. they should bo excused from convey ing them on that day. Mr. Hamilton's statement, quoted above,'shows with how slight a sacrifice of Sabbath leisure this accommodation may be kept open for the whole public where there is ft. railway. The railway owners are bound to find all comers the means of travel ling : whether the travellers do right or wrong in tra velling, is their own concern, with which no human being has a right to interfere. If that class did not travel by railway, it would desecrate the Sabbath in some other and perhaps gresser manner. Above all others, railway proprietors are bound toprovide this a cc o m modatian, for they destroy even posting on the lines along which they furnish the means of travelling : you must go by them or not at all. LONDON AND CROYDON RAIL WAY COMPANY. The thirteenth Half-yearly General Meeting of the Pro prietors of the London and Croydon Railway Company, took place yesterday at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., in the Chair. The seal of the Company was affixed to the list of the Pro prietors, and the advertisement calling the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN calTHEled upo REPORT n the Secretary to read " Gentlemen. —Since our last General Meeting your Direc tors have had to contend with difficulties of a most vexatious and unprecedented character, difficulties which not only could not be foreseen, but which could not fail to be seriously detri mental to the traffic of the railway, and, in consequence, they are obliged to submit a Report and statement of accounts very different from those which they had hoped they should have been enabled to present, and which the concluding paragraph of the last Report had, doubtless, led the Pi opaietie s to expect. " From the period of its opening to November last, then nearly two years and a half, the traffic of your line had never once been interrupted, not even by the partial closing of one rail, a matter of frequent occurrence on railways, although through the whole of that time the earthworks have been a of that con tant source of trouble and expens but on the 2 month, a land slip occurred at New-cross, by which many e ; , 1 thousand tons of eartb were thrown upon the line, so as to block it up, and entirely prevent the passage of the trains. "In the unfortunate position in which your Directors were placed by this circumstance, they felt it to be their duty to adopt the readiest measures, so that as little inconvenience as p assible might be sustained by the Croydon and Brighton pas sengers; they were perfectly aware that the best arrangements they could make could not but be attended with considerable discomfort to travellers, and no exertions were wanting on their part, or on that of your resident eng neer, and the other officers of the Company, to render the state of things as little annoying and uncomfortable as the nature of their misfortnne would admit. The slip took place at about nine o'clock in the evening, and before the first train of the next morning a path way had been cut, boarded and sanded on the opposite slope, about 300 yards in length, for the purpose of enabling the pas sengers to walk past the obstruction from one train of carriages to another placed ready to receive them; as this path, how ever, was necessarily very steep and exposed to the weather, omnibuses were likewise provided at the Dartmouth Arms in time for the first train, by which the passengers were con veyed to New •eross. 't his mode incurring a considerable loss of time, as well as great expense, we's afterwards abandoned with the concurrence of the passengers, and a covered way was constructed lower down the slope by which they passed over with very slight inconvenience and delay. The most energetic measures were at the same time adopted to clear the line under the advice of your consulting engineer, Mr. Cubitt, who wss immediately on the spot, and by a large force of men working day and night, this was effected in about seventeen days, the trains again passed regularly, and your Directors had every reason tohope that they would continue so to do. On the al of Decemher, however, another slip took place, which again blocked up the line until the 23d of that month. Again, on the 7ih of January, an extension pf the slip at New-cross covered both lines of railway, and from that time almost to the present, with scarcely an interval, one fall after another has on stirred, by which, although through the greatest exertions of the officers of the Company, the means of traversing the line at the slip have always been presented to the passengers, the traffic has been nevertheless greatly and seriously interrupted. Your Directors are conscious that the traffic of the Brighton Railway has suffered materially from this interruption, and they desire to bees testimony to the great gsod nature and forbear ance with which the necessary inconveniences have been sub mitted to by all parties, and the readiness with which assist ance has been afforded by the Directors of the Companies on either side of them. But the disasters on the Croydon Rail way have not been the only impediment to the development of the Brighton traffic. The unfortunate occurrences on thatillail way soon af:er its opening, by which the weekly receipts were reduced from 3,5841. to little more than half that amount, pre vious to the first obstruction on the Croydon line, have no doubt contributed largely to the defalcation of those receipts. , " It must be expected that in consequence of these inter ruptions to the traffic, and the bad state of the weather, the in come of your railway, both from fares and toll, has fallen very short of the former anticipation of your Directors, and that under these circumstances, the hope previously held out of a division of profits, at the present time would be likely to be dis appointed; nevertheless, as will appear by the annexed account, the result of your own traffic for the last half-year, together with the toll received from the Brighton Company, have suf • fined to defray the ordinary expenses of the railway, and pay the meaonnetheasr,etehle y fail to improve Proprietors may interest of your borrowed capital ; and as the position of the very Company considerably iis sueih i thna the h i e t s n i e le t o m six e perhaps be justifiel4n div ding the remainder of the sum ac cumulated to the credit of the traffic account, to which course, if it .hould be desired, your Directors do not wish to snake any objection, since the only item fairly chargeable to this account is the depreciation of the Company's stock, which, under the circumstances above alluded to, may doubtless be safely deferred. Your Directors regret to say that the serious character of the land slips at New-cross, Forest •hill, and indeed throughout the cuttings on the inclined plane, together with the necessa rily great cost of removing these slips, and the attendant ex penses of working the traffic under the existing circumstances, will not only exhaust the whole of their available funds, but will render it necessary eventually to make application to the Proprietors for a further advance of capital, which, six months ago, your Directors hoped that their arrangements had enabled them to avoid. Your Directors, however, trust that this appli cation will not be required until the resources of the railway have been still further developed. " Your Directors are happy to inform you that they have concluded an arraneement with the 'South Eastern Company, for the joint working and management of their.locomotive power, upon the principle that the cost to each Company shall be in proportion to the use thereof. By this arrangement the greatest possible economy will be effected, and the public safety essentially promoted, and the further benefit will accrue to this Company, that it will be thus enabled, without unnecessary loss, to accommodate the quantity of its traffic to the operation of the tell levied, or to be levied for the future, by the Greenwich Company. " Your Directors cannot allude to this subject without draw- ing the attention of the Proprietors to the toll arrangement about to he concluded between the Northern and Eastern and Eastern Counties Companies. These Companies are somewhat similarly situated to the Croydon and Greenwich Companies, having an agreement for a 4d. toll for a distance of 34 miles. The Eastern C',unties Company is reported to have agreed to a reduction i f this toll to 3d., 20., and 2d., for the first, second, and third class passengers respectively, between Ponders-end and London, which for the distance of the Eastern Counties Railway used, is equivalent to an average of less than id. per mile, while the present charge of the Greenwich Company to the Croydon is more than led. per mile, and the contemplated charge more than 2d. per mile. The tact that the Eastern Counties Company has seen the good policy of modifying their original agreement, is a strong proof of the soundness of the views of your Directors upon this subject, • and will, it is to be hoped, sooner or later, carry conviction to the minds of the Proprietors of the Greenwich Railway. " With a view to facilitate access to the Croydon and other lines from the western end of London, and to afford a goods and cattle station for the South Eastern Railway, which can not be so conveniently obtained at London•bridge, your Direc tors have entertained a proposition, for which the necessary Parliamentary notices have been given, to join the latter Com pany in procuring an approach to your railway at Corbet's lane, frem the Grange-road, a spot about two miles from West minster -bridge. The Bill for this. object, however, will be submitted to your consideration at a special meeting to be called for that purpose. " The Directors who go out by rotation, pursuant to the Com pany's Act of Parliament, are James Whiskin and John Lewis Ricardo, Esquires, who are eligible for re-election. " Your Directors have received the resignation of Newman Smith, Esq., and have elected Charles Sedgfield Crowley, Esq., of Croydon, in his place. Y our Di rec t ors h ave likewise received the resignation of Robert Hollond, Esq , M.P., but as this gentleman. and John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P., who goes out by rotation, have ceased to take any active part in the direction of your affairs during the past six months, in pursu ance of an understanding with the Proprietors that the number of Directors should be reduced, it is proposed that the va cancies occasioned by the retirement of these gentlemen shall not be filled up. " The vacancy among the Auditors, occasioned by the re signation of Henry Tudor, Esq., has been filled up by the elec tion of John Norbury, Esq., and Richard Sterry, Esq., is pro posed in the room of Charles Sedgfield Crowley, Esq., who has been elected a Director. sf WILLIAM ARTHUR WILKINSON, Chairman." The meeting decided to dispense with the reading of the accounts, as each Proprietor bad been furnished with a copy of them. The CHAIRMAN, in rising to move the reception of the Report, trusted he might be permitted to make a few observa tions, to explain to the meeting the manner in which he pro posed their proceedings should be conducted, and as the organ of the Directors, to lay before the meeting the view which the Directors entertained of the policy which the Company ought to pursue at the present crisis of their affairs. He trusted that the Report would be received and adopted at once, and then he proposed that they should proceed to discuss, with the Proprie tors, the various important matters on which the Directors had thought it proper to seek the opinion and advice of the Pro prietors. He trusted the Report would be received with as little discussion as possible, in order to save time. The Report had been drawsi up in such a manner as not to pledge the Proprietors. In fact, the only part which could possibly pledge the Proprietors, was the paragraph relating to the arrange ment with the South Eastern Company, and he did not apprehend that there would be any Proprietor found. who would dissent from that arrangement. The Direc tors were most anxious to lay before the Proprietors their views of the general policy which the Company ought to pursue in this, which might be called the crisis, of their fate, for the time had.at length arrived when, he trusted, they were about to reap the fruit of their labours. Never had any body The late Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Bert., of Directors better reasons for holding out bright prospects to dividend rr ed .n u t h y was second son 'of Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten, Bart., the Proprietors than they had had atthe last meeting; but d,and the Dunkin, of Clogher, and was born in 1793. At an early line at that time had been opened, Company on it was in • by Miss Dunkin, eldest daughter of the late Sir William since that period disaster had followed disaster. The Brighton prospect of receiving,ompanf yllwhichtifithede a Judge of the Supreme Court of Madras ; and, on that Croydon Company age he went to India with his father, on his being appointed creasing. The toll h s ad fro a m 't Brighton of 10s. to ejußsrigh d' h d . was necessarily there some time with the family. In 1823 he married Mrs. 205.; but sh Learned Gentleman's removal to Calcutta, in 1815, resided them in anti o c r i t p i a T ti a n f g tee th . that e lhe is r as e t w e o r ul a d b e :La u the Brighton this had been followedt by the slips civil service of the East India Company when young, and his traffic most andmaterially, Ne 11PClintock, widow of Colonel 3PClintock. He entered the ton line, which sad retarded the development ofßrighton civil The Re long residence in Bengal and other parts of our Indian tie- en their own line at New - had thought it Report able to explain pendeneies fully qualified him for the highest agency. In long, because the Directors they had been 1839 he was appointed Envoy and Minister from the Indian fully the difficulties in which placed, in but no words could conse- Government to his Majesty Shah Shoojah-001-Moolk ; and it quence of those disasters; give any idea of on the was for his eminent services during the Affghan war in that the labours which had devolved engineer; officers of the C om p any . year that he was created a Baronet by her Majesty, at the To Mr. Gregory, their , to Mr. Coulson, recommendation of her Ministers. His venerable father, now the superintendent o f the works store-keeper .t o his son, Mr. ; in his 79th year, is still living at, we believe, his seat in Henry Coulson , their to Mr. Pulford, Ireland, having retired from the Bench in 1825. and to all the officers of the Company, their thanks for their exertions, day and ' night, to FOUNTAIN OF FIRE.—I have just visited a jet of were eminently due With respect to, the rd sliplMr. Cubitt, natural gas, which rises through a small river about li mile remedy these disasters. esent,would affo from Pont-y-pridd (Newbridge), Glamorganshire. The their engineer, who was Pr With regard to them any infor the cause of the brook has its source in the valley between the Llantrissant and mation they might desire. p.....p istlll s, Dines Mountains, flows into the Ronda, and joins the Taff at slips, they had consulted Mr. p. the geological chemist, was attributable to a pecu- Newbridge. In the centre of this river or brook, is a con- who had reported that the accidentwould tinued rising or strong bubble, of about eight or ten inches liar formation going on, which mostaccount for the extraor above the stream, as though the water was blown up by a cur- denary phenomena, for it was a . rent of air, or natural gas (and exceedingly cold to the hand ) . cu t t i ng had remained two and half years, such extensive slips Directors, , This, when ignited, produces a powerful flame, from four to should take place. The i had every reason five feet in height , with intense heat ; and the smell is the to ho p e that their traffic would increase ; and although they same as burning sulphur. There are two jets in the field ad- not thought it right to • deelare any dividend, yet, if the Pro joining, and three on the other side the brook • , but they are prietorsthat it should be of opinion __. re would be adviseable to di not so strong as the one passing through the water. The vide the small sum in hand, th e pi . t ctors would not object, al effect by night is g r an d and h ea taifills having the appearance thou g h the y had not thought itrighto do so themselves, their of one mass of large, brilliant blue flames. This singular being some little difference of opinion rinse/1g them on the srib- Phenomenon was accidentally discovered by one of the men iect ; that being, however, the only subject on which a n y diffe at the adjoining mill about two months since.—Correspondent i rence of o p inion subsisted. With respect to the great expense of Athenceum. would ' woo give them • of the Blips, Mr. Cubitt every information THE ST. ALBAN'S BRIBERY CASE.—The friends of 1 they might require ; aml that, and other circumstances, would for more capital.' , it was Taking all the Dr. Webster have invited him to attend a public dinner this , render it necessary to call oo. ideration day, to celebrate his acquittal from the charge of bribery, which ! circumstances into c pounds would i: e a ' expected that the hypocritical and bribery-steeped Tories of that town were about fifty thousan d . . _ required. Be. t was base enough to trump up against him. sides the slips, which, t calculated would cost them between 20 000/. and 30,0 001 . it was proposed to get rid The Patriots de Saone-et-Loire relates that, on ' of ' on the line; that was estimated - Ithe levels f Sunday last, as one of the men of the Hirondelle steamer on • 5,000/. The joint station at London-bridge had cost more than the pas sage from Macon to Chalon, was running along the deck, they had expected, the sum they should have to pay being about he fell, and thetube of his pipe, which escaped from his pocket 300001• besides the approach to the Railway from the Grange and stood vertically on the plank, entered his head above the road, which would cost about 15,0001. The paragraph in the right eye, and penetrated to his brain. The first effect was to Report referring! to the South Eastern Company , was a ma tter deprive him of his hearing; he then became delirious, and on of congratulation to the Proprietors. The Directors had felt M on d a y was so raving and violent that he was necessarily that greater econorey was prantidable, and the arrangement trapped down on his bed. His life is in imminent clanger • I enters jAto with the South Eas C 7 was emme tern -ampan• ntly GREECE AND HER FINANCES. ATHENS, FED. 12.—The anniversaries of the arri val of the King and Queen in Greece, their birth days, and their name days, are all high holidays in the capital, and hopes are cherished that on each of these days some favours will be bestowed, some pro motions made, or some act agreeable to the nation published. Such hopes have too often been disap pointed, and never more so than on the 6th instant, the ninth anniversary of King Otho's landing in Greece. The usual ceremonials were observed ; but the only honours bestowed were crosses of the Sau veur to M. Christides and his associates, in reward for their betraying the national interests, and endeavouring to deceive Sir Stratford Canning. The Greeks care little to see their Ministers covered with cheap• deco rations ; they would not feel jealous or angry were they so covered from head to foot, before and behind, so little do the nation esteem them ; but the whole capital is indignant at the dotation made on the above day to M. Kriesis, the Minister of Marine, of 100 stremata of rich currant grounds in full bearing, in the plain of Corinth, and worth near 7,0001. sterling, yielding near 10 per cent. annually. This act is illegal ; no national lands can be given away or sold without the concurrence of a National Assembly. These lands, some of the most valuable in the country, are specially pledged and mortgaged by the acts of the National Congresses for the payment of the British loans of 1824-25, for the Na tional Bank Actions of Capo d'lstrias' Government, and for the Alliance Loan. It is high time that the bondholders and Messrs. Eynard and Rothchilds should protest against such wanton illegality. M. Kriesis is the minister who, by treachery and ill-faith, aided the King in forming a Ministry when Mavrocordato re signed ; he has sold himself to -the King for this gift— and the Greeks with one voice cry out, shame ! If the King is once permitted of his own free will to grant such gifts, what is to become of the liberties of Greece?—whence are to be paid the claims of the veterans of the war of independence ?—where is the security for the public debt of Greece ? Capo d'lstrias never attempted such dishonest means to gain partisans. To show the falling off in the revenue, I will give you a statement of the British trade, for 1840 and 1841, in the Gulf of Patras, which I have from sources that can be fully relied upon, and I call the attention of all who are interested. in Greece to examine it. In 1840, 60 British vessels entered Patras, of the tonnage of 7,926 tons, and with cargoes worth In 1841, only 47 vessels entered, 6,235 tons, with cargoes worth . £39,500 18,500 'ailing off in entries, 14 vessels ; in cargoes £21,000 n 1840, 62 British vessels cleared from Patras, with cargoes worth £230,200 n 1841, 47 British vessels cleared, with cargoes worth Falling off 15 vessels ; and value of cargoes f 120,800 Thus the aggregate British trade last year in that part of Greece was less than half what it - was in 1840. The deficiency in the revenue from this falling-off, is— On imports, the duty being 10 per cent. ad valorem, On exports, duty and land-tax 16 per cent £2,100 19,328 Total deficit in revenue £21,428 Or 600,000 drachmas from one district of Greece, on one branch of trade, and with one nation only. When you consider that this large deficit forms 1-25th part of the total revenue of Greece, and that all branches of trade and industry, as well as agriculture, have equally suffered during the past year, it is not too much to calculate the total deficit at 3,000,000 of drachmas, or one-fifth the revenue. Is this a moment to alienate national property ? Is this good faith to the nation, or to the foreign bondholders ? These latter must make themselves heard, and the powers that guaranteed the last loan must take instant means to put a stop to such proceedings, which exceed in in iquity all the blunderings of the Regency and its le gion of Bavarian leeches who so long sucked the heart's blood of Greece. NE WEST LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS FOR MARCH. (From the World of Fashion Monthly Magazine.) CARRIAGE HATS AND BONNETS are being generally made in velours epingle, and plain velvet; they are mostly ornamented with drooping feathers, either round or spiralees ; others have flowers of the most natural appearance. Some of them are worn with no other trimming than a voile d'Angleterre. For in stance, a capote in sky blue velvet has a charm ing effect ; the voile d'Angleterre being plaited, and totally enveloping the capote, and folds being gathered on the left side, and passing through a nceud of ribbon composed of velours epingle of the same colour, shaded with white. Capotes are being made in velours des Indes, of a new and graceful form, trimmed with bouquets of feathers. BERTHES or PELERINES are now all the fashion ; it simply a berthe which opens in the front, but is sufficiently deep to almost shade the ceinture CAPS are now being mostly made in lace ; those in point lace are considered most recherche, trimmed with nwuds of grenat velvet ; those in blonde are generally made in the following style : the cap is composed of a double barbe of blonde, the two ends being reunited on the left side by an agrafe of drooping roses ; the laced edge of the blonde falling over the front, throws a becoming shade over the forehead. HEAD DRESSES.—The greatest novelty are those pretty little turbans in velvet : the top of the turban being perfectly flat and plain, ornamented with Arabian acorns. The arched bandeaus are still fa vourites with those whose complexions are somewhat dark ; then there is the Arabian head dress, composed of cherry coloured rouleaus in velvet, and gold cords, or with the barbes d'Alencon. WALKING DRESSES.—The most fashionable style adopted for out-door costume are les robes redingotes, made in pearl grey satin, faced with velours epingle, edged with a plain face, and down the centre of the skirt are placed bows en chola. A double pelerine or cape is always worn with this style of pelisse, moderately high, bordered with velvet and lace ; the corsage plain, and waist rounded, no band b e i ng worn ; th e sleeves plain, having facings of velvet, edged with lace. EVENING AND BALL DRESSES.—The form of. eve ning costumes differ more in the skirts than in the style of the corsage, the latter being gene rally made a pointes, the top of the body ra ther high, plaided, or a schall ; sleeves very short and simple, and solely ornamented with the same kind of trimming which decorates the skirt. We select the following, as being the prettiest, and in tended to grace the form of the beautiful Duchess of B. ; the material of one of the dresses being in white moire, the jupe open, with the faeings of a pretty colour, worn with a satin skirt underneath, the whole ornamented with a silver ribbon about three .fingers wide, Another dress was composed of crepe crepee, of a delicate sky blue; the skirt a deu jupes; a draped body, and very small short sleeves, the two jupes being caught up with two agrafes, composed of tips of marabouts, at tacved upon a bow of brilliants. THE KAZAWIKA.—This .is a charming fantasie, made in velvet, the body high, and showing the figure to great advantage ; brandebourgs and cordelieres in chenille ; the sleeves large a la reine, somewhat in the Amazonian style of the regence ; and underneath this wrap is worn a dress of ) Tros de Tours, with rows of gympe trimming a fille d argent. COLOURS. — The most fashionable colours are mar ron, Oreille d'Ours, greens of different shades, blue marine, and torturelle. The darker co:ours being still worn. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH li, 1842 calculated to effect this object. It was proposed that the whole locomotive establishment of the Croydon line, including work shops, tools, and stones, and everything excepting the ear ria :es and waggons should be taken an account of and credited to the Company ; any Stock belonging to the South Eastern Company should be charged and credited in the same manner ; each stock would be worked together, and each Company would pay for its locomotive power in proportion to the use it had of i t. This would be a great advantage to the Croydon Railway in its peculiar position with respect to its difference with the Greenwich Company, as to the tolls. Whether they had much or little business, their locomotive establishment would shrink or enlarge in proportion to it, and if they ran two trains or twenty, they would only have to pay for the number used. A clause in the agreement left it open to the Brighton Cempany to join it also, if it was found to answer in the working By the agreement with the South Ea s t ern Company *there would be two locomotive managements , in s t ea d o f three; and if the Brighton Company should join, there would only be one. With regard to the paragraph referring to the toll, he should merely observe that it was written before the meeting of the South Eastern Com pany. The arrangement had not been perrectly carried out, but the delay had not occurred from any objection to the terms of the modification, but from some miner arrangements about the payment of the duty ; the principle of the modification was not objected to. The formation of the approach from the Grange-road would afford them an opportunity of forming a goods and cattle station, which would prove a great advan tage to both Companies. With regard to the Directors, it was understood at the last meeting that six would he sufficient to conduct the lousiness of the Company ; the two gentlemen retiring had consequently not taken any part in the affairs of the Company during the last six months, and they proposed that their vacancies should not be filled up. A PROPRIETOR asked whether the Bill for forming the ap proach from the Grange-road, had not been thrown out on Monday night last, in consequence of their not having corn pli -(1 with the standing orders of the House. Mr. BURCHELL (the Solicitor of the Company) stated that the Bill was not thrown out, but was referred back to the Stand ing Orders' Committee, who would decide on it this evening. A short conversation ensued on this point, the Chairman explaining that the only r ason the Bill had not yet been sub mitted to the Proprietors, was in consequence of its being neces sary to take certain preliminary steps, but it would not be pro. ceeded with without the concurrence of the Proprietors. With re gard to the retiring Directors, the Chairman also explained that there was ric formal resolution for limiting them to six, but it was an understanding that that number would be sufficient to conduct the business of the Company. The CHAIRMAN having put the question that the Report be adopted, A Peoratx - roa said he wished to know whether the account furnished in the Report included all the expenditure up to the present time ? . _ The CHAIRMAN Slid it did not ; the account only reached to the 31st of January last. With respect to the proposal ad verted to of giving away the Croydon traffic, he would take this opportunity of observing, that, in so doing they would give away a traffic, the profit oa which amounted to upwards of 9,000/. yearly. In rely to a question from a Proprietor, Tho SECRETARY stated that the expenses of the London bridge station were borne jointly and equally by the two Com panies, the Croydon and Brighton. When the South Eastern Company came into operation, it would also bear its portion of the expenses of that station. Mr. PA RE said he understood that the station referred to would cost 30,0001. more than had been at first supposed. He desired to know was such the case ? The SECRETARY said the original estimated expenditure was 111,0001.. to be borne equally by the three Companies. Thus p ac ts would have to incur an outlay of 37,0001. It was now found that the whole cost would amount to 250,0001., leaving about 83,0001. to be paid by each Company, thus causing the additional disbursement of the Company for this station to be about 46,0001. or 48,000/. It had never been expected that 37,000/. would cover all the expenses of theCom pan}• on that head. The increased expenditure arose from ereati..g increased accommodation at the stations, consisting of large warehouses, and other appurtenances necessary to the ad vantageous working of the line. An. Hos. PROPRIETOR inquired of Mr. Robinson if the contract for the station was entered into. Mr. ROBINSON—Yes ; and I think it is not probable the es . timates will be exceeded. An Hos. PROPRIETOR asked what wouldbe the consequence of a separation of the Companies The CHAIRMAN said that in the event of such a contin gency, arbitrators were to be appointed to settle and apportion the expenses to be borne by each Company ; but he did not contemplate any such separation. An HoN. PROPRIETOR inquired how the Station was to be paid for by the other Company ? The CHAIRMAN said that the premises were to be paid for at a price agreed on by both Companies. A l'itor HIETOK asked how was the expense of the:Grange road to be borne by each Company ? The CHAIRMAN said that the South Eastern Railway Com pany wished to have a cattle station, and though it was not ne cessary for them, they did not think it expedient to disagree with that Company, whose interests were so bound up with them on the subject. A Puoceirroa asked what might be the cost. The CHAIRMAN-32,0001. A PROPRIETOR said he apprehended the Report bound them to that expense, and he did not think that was right. The CHAIRMAN did not think it did. A PROPRIETOR suggested that it would be expedient to choose an auditor from the general body of Proprietors.-- ( Hear, hear.) He had not the least doubt of the integrity of the Directors, but he did not think it right that art au ditor should be selected from that Board to check their own accou.,ts.—( Hear, hear. ) The CHAIRMAN said that it was the duty of the Directors to manage the money items, and the auditor to be appointed would be proposed to the meeting. A PROPRIET*II said it is the duty of the auditors to look to the receipts, and that was very important. A Paoratrrort asked if the expense of Grange-road was included in the 52,000/. ? The CH AI RM AN—Yes. A PROPRIETOR. suggested it would be expe lient to get the station removed as near as possible to London-bridge.—(Hear, hear.) It may prevent others from attempting a new line. The Report was then put from the Chair, and passed. James Whiskin, Esq. was then appointed a Director, and Richard Sterry, Esq., Auditor, Mr. LEVY said he would propose that the surplus in the hands of the Directors, should not be divided. He did not think it worth while to divide so small a sum. They did not wsnt a dividend of 6s. or 75., when in a short time they may be obliged to pay so many pounds. Sir. HERE said that he thought it would be very desirable to make a dividend. He believed there was a surplus of 11,0001 , and he thought that those who had the brunt of the battle should now get something. They may be desirous to sell their shares, and he would therefore move as an amend ment to Mr. Levy's motion, that a dividend on the shares be declared. —( Hear, hear. ) Mr. CAPEL seconded the motion. It was not li ke taking capital from stock that a dividend should be declared among the Shareholders. What wer e the y to do o ith it if they did not divide it? It appeared to him the best thing that could be done was to declare a dividend.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. LEVY thought it would be deceiving themselves when they had 11,0001. only in hand, and were in expectation of being shortly called upon for 50,0001., to make an y division of th 11,0001. The CHAIRMAN said that the sum being derived from traf fic, he did not see how it could be carried to the capital ac count. It might be borrowed for a time, but it would even tually have to be divided. Mr. LEVY would not oppose the motion, although he did not like to be paying with one hand and receiving with another, If another slip should come they would have no money to go on with at all. In answer to various questions from Proprietors, The CHAIRMAN said that the Company had still power, under their old Acts, to borrow 43,0001., but that if it was found necessary to raise more money, it would most likely be raised partly by the issue of new shares, and partly by the bor rowing of money ; but the Directors had not as yet given the subject much consideration. A PROPRIETOR said that if the whole of the money in hand were divided it would make the dividend 6s. Bd. per share. The CHAIRMAN said that would leave no balance in hand. A PROPRIETOR thought it would be advisable to make the dividend as large as possible, and therefore he should move as an amendment that the dividend be 6s. Bd. per share. The amendment having been seconded. Mr. LEVY said, what are we to do if we have another slip? A PROPRIETOR — For goodness sake do not talk about slips, I hope we shall have no more of them. Mr. LEvy.—Why, we are told we are to have an earthquake next.—(Loud laughter.) A PROPRIETOR wished to put it to the Chairman, as a pub lic man, whether he would recommend the division of this balance. What had occurred might take place again, and he contended that it was not just to place the sum expended on account of those accidents to a bye-gone account; it ought to he abstracted from the annual receipts. He did not see in the account any charge for wear and tear of carriages. That surely ought to be taken into account before they declared a dividend. The CHAIRMAN said that his individual opinion was, that as a general rule, it was not wise to pay with one hand and receive with another. But it had always been the practice of Railway Companies to carry all sums received for traffic to the profit account, and to pay all costs of construction out of their pockets. It was a matter of no groat importance, for they could not have the money both ways. A l'aornizToit said, that the real fact was, that their profits were 1,0001., and their losses 21,0001., in consequence of the slips; and it was at the time when they had met with a loss of 'AWOL that they were about to declare a dividend. Such a course of proceeding was most inconsistent. The amendment for a dividend of 6s. Bd. was then put and carried by a large majority. The CHAIRMAN then stated that the dividend would be paid as soon as possible. A PROPRIETOR wished to know what was the amount of the Sunday traffic ? The CHAIRMAN said it might be ascertained at the office; and if any Proprictor wished to remit his share of it, °Clem , would be very glad to receive it. He then stated to the meet ing that they had had an offer from the Brighton Company to lease the railway from them ; it was an offer they had not felt justified in accepting, but it was proper that the meeting should be told what that offer was. Mr. Young would, therefore, read the correspondence that had taken place on the subject. The SECRETARY then read the communication containing the offer, on the part of the Brighton Company. It stated the inconvenience of having portions of the line which were not under the control of one Company, and offering to lease the Croydon line for a term years, terminable by a four years' notice. The Croydon Company to cease to convey goods and passengers, and their carriages to be disposed of to the Brigton Company. who undertake the maintenance of the works, and permanent way, and to have the sole use of the stations ; all rates and ex penses to be borno by the Brighton Company. The reply of the Croydon Company pointed out that the chief inconvenience complained of by the Brighton Company was the detention of their trains, and the difficulty of forming their time tables ; this the Croydon Company contend could not be attributed to the present mode of conducting the traffic on the line, but arose in great part from the inaccuracy of the Brighton trains them selves, and would still continua, were the control placed in any other hands. It concluded by stating that they could not re commend their Proprietors to accept the sum offered, since it was less than the toll at present paid by the Brighton Company alone, independent of the a dvanta g es of the Croydon traffic. The CHAIRMAN said he could not help thinking that they had got hold of a good concern, since he saw other parties so anxious to obtain possession of it. He had formerly opposed a similar offer from another Company, and now they had an offer from the Brighton Proprietors. It appeared to him that they were in the position of the man who was exposed to the operation of the wind and the rain, trying which could first make him take off his cloak. At the period he first alluded to, the wind blew from the south-east --(Laughter)— but now it blew more f rom the south. But he thought they ought to try and keep as much as possible in their present position. It was most natural that the Brighton Company should desire to possess the Croydon li n e ' • he was not at all astonished that they had made the offer, but he was astonished at the manner in which it was made. They expected that the Croydon Company, after having waited for seven years, having received no profit, and having paid during that time, five per cent. on the money borrowed. should hani over all their perpetual Advantages for the sa ke of five per cent. for their money. He appre hended that they were in a position to gain much more than that; if they were in 'an hopeless position it would be very well to take the offer, for the sake of getting out of it. But though they had met with disasters and misfortunes, yet in all the main lines of their policy they had gone on progressively improving up to the pre ant moment. He could not see why they should make a bargain in the dark. To do so would not effect the only objeA which they could have in view, namely, economy. By the arrangement which they had entered into they had effected that object, and that was sufficient. With respect to the tolls charged by the Com pany to the Brighton Company, the latter had made a propo sition to them of having those tolls lowered upon third-class carriages, which they meant to run on their line. The Corn nany had refused to accede to that proposition, on the ground that the charges of the Brighton Company for pas s , ngers did not bear a fair proportion to the tolls charged. He would next call their attention to an offer made by the Directors to the Greenwich Company on the subject of the tolls charged by that Company. In order that they might better understand the matter, he would request 111 r. Younge to read the correspondence which had passed between the two Companies on this subject. Mr. YOUNGE then read the letters referred to. The purport of them was that the Croydon Company, having in con templation the constantly decreasing traffic on their line, w ere desirous to try the experiment of lowering the rate of fare, they felt it impossible to make that attempt if the toll of 3d. for each passenger was still charged by the Greenwich Company, much less could they make the attempt in the face of the proposed toll of 41d. on each passenger. They therefore offered that, for the next five years,there should be a fixed payment of 6,0001. a year made by them to the Greenwich Company instead of 41 j d. on each passenger as toll. The Greenwich Company, in reply, stated that they were net now in a position to accede to the proposition of the Croydon Company, inasmuch as, on the faith of the toll which they required being paid, they had incurred large expenses lately. The CHAIRMAN said, that the offer which they had thus made to the Greenwich Company, washy no means an extrava gant one ; but, on the contrary, an economical one. If the Company remained as it was, they would have the same num ber of passengers without an increase of toll. If they lowered the rate of fare the number of passengers would be increased, and in consequence, the amount pair: for toll would also be greatly increased. The Greenwich Company were, he thought, wrong in refusing their offer, for it was clear that, by keeping the rate of fare as at present, the Croydon Company could keep the amount of toll within what it was in former years, which was considerably under the sum of 6,0001. It would be remembered that in the autumn of 1839, a select Committee, appointed for the purpose, had made areport on the Greenwich and Dover Railway, which showed that that line was not suf ficient for the purposes for which it was made. The necessity of remedying such a state of things was urged upon the Direc tors of that Company, but they had refused to do anything ; whereupon the Company addressed the two other Companies, and entered into arrangements with them to go too Parliament on the subject. For this they were called robbers by the Greenwich Company, and that Company was obliged to go to Parliament, and they asked for leave to levy a toll commensu rate with their own ideas of what they wanted. They thought they would be able to get 9,000/. instead of the 6,0001. which was offered them. They were told that the toll they sought was excessive, and that it would injure themselves. The toll was 3d., and they wanted to raise it to 41,4 d. The case was argued by their talented Counsel before the Committee with great ability. The Croydon line would be rendered useless to the public if the additional toll were required. The Proprie tors of the Greenwich line would, if they persevered, very much deteriorate their awn line. As 'tag as the Brighton Railway Company could not become possessed of their line, anti as long as the Greenwich Railway Proprietors could not get more than they ought, they would have disputes with them ; but however anxious they may be to dip their hands into the pockets of this Company, he did not accuse them of any conspiracy—they would be defeated if this Company was true to itself.—( Hear, Lear.) They were in a different position with the South Eastern Rail way, because that Company did not require more than was just, and that this Company was ready to give them.--Hear.) With respect to puulic opinion, he would show that it was in favour of this Company, because, on the 2.2 d of October, shares on the Greenwich line stood at 14, while those on the Croydon were 9; but, on the 26th of February, shares on the Greenwich line stood at 61.4, and on the Croydon at 1111 2 . — (Cheers. ) He hoped the meeting would express its satisfac tion at. the course pursued by the Directors on this subjects. An HON. PROPRIETOR. wished to know whether the offer of 6,0001., to the Greenwich Company, in lieu of toll, included the traffic from passengers on both the Brighton and Croydon lines, or on the Croydon line alone? The CHAIRMAN said that had not escaped the attention of the Directors. If they were to reduce the rate of fares, it would, in his opinion, reduce the traffic. It would be utterly impossible for them, or ally other Company, to compete with others who had a power of levying a toll of Is. 41d. if they were to reduce their fares. MI. LEVY thought the Proprietors must be perfectly satis fied with the answer which the Directors had returned to the proposition of the Brighton Directors. It was monstrous to think of such a proposition.—(Hear, hear.) But they ought to give the Greenwich Directors the same credit that they took to themselves. Why should the Greenwich Company be ex pected to accept 6,000/. a year before they knew what would be likely to be the amount of the increased value of their line in consequence of the improvements which they had made. He was himself a Greenwich Proprietor, and was acquainted With many of the Directors. He knew that the great body of the Greenwich Proprietors would not be inclined to accept the 6,000/. a year, and therefore they ought to allow those Directors the same credit which they took to themselves. He felt convinced that the Greenwich Company would consent to any reasonable terms. fhe CHAIRMAN felt the greatest respect for many of the Greenwich Directors, and must bear his testimony to the courtesy with which he had always been treated by the Chair man of the Greenwich Board. He wished the Proprietors of the Greenwich Company would seriously consider what was the operation of a fixed toll, and if it did so, he felt convinced that they would see the reasonableness of the proposition made by the Croydon Company. Now he would put a case to show the operation of the fixed toll. Suppose it took 400,000 passen gers at a shilling a head, that would give 20,000/. Suppose the expanses to have been 50 per cent. they would have 10,0001. left ; then if they bad to pay a fixed toll of 3d. a head to the Greenwich Company, that would leave 5,000/. profit for the Company. Now suppose that, in consequence of reducing their tolls one half, they were to carry four times the number of passengers, that would give them 1,600,000 passengers at 6d., which would give 40,0001. ; allowing 50 per cent. for expenses, that would leave 20,0001., and then if they paid the Greenwich Company a fixed toll of 3d. a head, that would amount to 20,0001., and would leave the Croydon Company no profit whatever. What they desired was, that the Greenwich Company should have their fair proportion of profit; that they should have all they were entitled to, but that they should abstain from taking that which fairly belonged to the Croydon Company. A PROPRIETOR said he was also a Proprietor of the Green wich Company, and lie thought the proposition of the Croydon Directors a very fair one, and one well worth a trial on the part of the Greenwich Company. A PROPRIETOR thought it incumbent u:son him to move a resolution expressive of the high approbation of the Proprietors of the conduct of the Board of Directors for the last six months. 'fhe integrity and the firmness which they had exhibited, in taking care of the interests of the Proprietors, entitled them to their warmest thanks.—(Cheers.) He had at first been in clined to depart from the proposition for a new terminus, but when they considered the eireums`ances of the case, he felt called upon to admit that he considered it a very fair and pro per outlay of their capital. The Greenwich Company certainly had a tight to demand a toll, but the proposition they had made would work against themselves. With respect to the manner in which the Directors had treated the offer of the London and Brighton Company, the highest praise was due to them, for a more monstrous proposition could not emanate from any Company calling themselves respectable. The Directors had done all they could expect of them, and had shown them selves watchful over the interests of the Proprietors at large. He, therefore, moved that the best thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Directors for their perseverance, good manage ment, and attention to the interests of the Company during the last six months. This was seconded by several gentlemen, but it was sug gested by Mr. RICARDO that the resolution was hardly explicit enough ; he therefore proposed to substitute the following : " That the conduct the Directors had vursued with regard to the Brighton, Greenwich, and South Eastern lines, had been highly satisfact ry, and the meeting hereby expressed its per fect confidence in their management of the questions then un• der consideration from the same Companies." This resolution was carried unanimously. Tile CHAIRMAN returned thanks for the resolution that had just been agreed to. After some conversation as 'o the publication of the corres pondence between the Croydon and Brighton Companies, Mr. CURITT, in answer to questions from various Proprie tors, stated, that the slips on the line could not have been foreseen, nor prevented, unless by very expensive operations of widening the banks, and draining, cutting, Ike., which would necessitate an increased outlay of enormous amount. They could not widen the embankments without the power of an Act of Parliament, which when the public safety was con cerned would enable the Company to take land for the pur• pose. That power would be given by the General Railway Act now pending before Parliament. The slips were caused by the nature of the soils and the heavy rains, and could not have been prevented, by planting the banks with any species of shrub, as was suggested by one Hon. Proprietor. In answer to a Proprietor respecting the Bill to be laid be fore Parliament for the proposed approach to the line at Corbet't lane, The CHAIRMAN stated that the draft of fhe Bill would be laid before the Company as soon as convenient. The Direc tors bad no desire to take the Proprietors by surprise, or com mit them to any measure which might not be satisfactory to them. The object of the Bill might be defeated by bringing it under the consideration of of the Proprietors at too early a stage. After some further conversation of a desultory nature, the subject was dropped, Thanks were then voted to Mr. Cubitt, the Consulting Engineer, Mr. Gregory, and the other officers of the Company, and the meeting separated at a quarter after four o'clock. THE MEMBER FOR KNARESBOROUGH.—The exhi bition of Mr. Ferrand, on the motion for total repeal, was that of a mountebank or pantaloon in a pantomime. His extrava gance and rhodomontade were only injurious to his own party, much as the speech delighted the Tories. To Sir Robert Peel, the lunatic oration was gall and wormwood, because the Right Hon. Baronet knows the mischief of falsehood and fanaticism to his cause; and because he doubtless apprehends a repetition of Mr. Ferrand's farrago of nonsense against himself on the coming questions of the Poor-laws and the Ten-hours' Bill. Wild ora tors of this species usually find their level early in the Session of their first appearance. Air. D'lsraeli commenced his Parlia mentary career in the same style of bathos and rambling declamation, but he soon fell from his pedestal; as will Mr. Ferrand, especially if he is not made of importance by those be so innoxiously maligns. He is a young man of about 30 years of age, lately an unemployed country attorney in a north coun try town, elevated to the Legislature by the accidental succes sion of his mother to a large property, which enabled him to impose himself for a time on the constituency of Knaresborough. Uninstructed, and devoid of all knowledge of political science, he will soon find his level. Ido not think I ever observed Sir Robert Peel more palpably annoyed than by the indiscreet ad vocacy of this new ally. The buffoonery, however, of the orator, convulsed the House with laughter, and his abuse of the manufacturing classes appeared most acceptable to the monopolists.—London Correspondent of the Scotsman. An aged widow, a portress, was sweeping the street, a few days since, in the front of her house, in the Rine du Cherche Midi, when a female, in the garb of a Sister of Charity, accosted her, and inquired if she had need of relief, and was invited into the lodge to hear a tale of distress. Having examined the scanty furniture, the representative of benevolence invited the poor old woman to accompany her to the church of Saint Sulpice, where she would be presented to the Countess of Karadeuck, president of a charitable society, who would, no doubt, grant her a small pension for the rest of her life. They set out together, but, when on their way, the Sister of Charity recollected that she had a sum of money arid a pot of comfiture to leave for a lying-in woman, in the Rue Cassette. She desired the portress to walk on, and she would overtake her at the steps of the church. The deluded old woman did so, but having waited an hour without seeing any more of her supposed benefactress, returned home, hoping that she would come again another day. She was soon unde ceived, for, on opening her drawers, she discovered that they had been stripped of all her little store of property, consisting of two napoleons, five sf. pieces, a small gold chain and cross, and a snuff-box, which had been adroitly abstracted by the pre ' tended philanthropist. ,~: THE GOODWIN SANDS. Alltkion was made no t long since to the:many sirs projects for dealing with this dream land, as if it woreV ,-- —#.--- reality, and .sterecting, constructing harbours )(caudate, while those projects are yet i n Lighthouses,"pelts, : t and, , n rd i be useful to record particulars of a deed accomplished— eooe:fl mi may i of the "safety beacon" erected there by Captain Bullock under the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty, and which has now withstood the storms of two winters, and one of them of unusual severity. Captain Bullock, in a letter to Captain Beaufort, hydro g,rapher to the Ad miralty, states, that in carrying on the survey of the Thames it was found expedient, as the work proceeded seawards, and the receding landmarks grew indistinct, to erect fixed marks on the diffel ent sands. The first of them was nothing more than an iron bar driven into the sand, with a flag-staff affixed to it. This stood but a tide or two, and was succeeded by various modifications of the same simple plan, stayabeing added to support the shaft ; but in vain, the marks erected in this manner all yielded to the first gale of wind. It then appeared that some foundation was wanted to enable them to resist the force of the waves. To remedy this defect the bar was fixed in a broad cross of wood, from the extremities of which chains were attached to the staff, and after many trials success :vas attained by this means. The results of the experiments above related, joined to the know ledge of the lamentable loss of life annually taking place on the " Goodwin Sands," induced the persuasion that, since it was found practicable to fix a beacon on them, it was an imperative duty to erect one calcu lated for the preservation of life. The safety beacon now standing upon the Goodwin Sands inay be thus described :—The shaft, or mast, forty feet in height, and 12 inches in diameter, is sunk into the sand, through a strong frame of oak, in the form of a cross, firmly secured by four long bars of iron, and laden with several tons of ballast, chalk, &c. The mast is sustained by eight chain " sin ouds," in pairs, and attached to iron piles, 17 feet long, which are driven down close into the sand, and are backed by mush room anchors to prevent their coming home, or to wards the mast. On the shaft is fitted an octagon gal lery, capable of holding 30 or 40 people, and never less than 16 feet above high water mark ; beneath the gallery there is temporary safety for 20 persons more. 'the mast is also fitted with a light topmast, on which a blue flag (always at hand) can be hoisted, when aid is required from the shore, but which is kept struck, or down, to give the wk the appearance of a wreck, thus ansaaling the dontle • purpose of a beacon of warning, and a place of refuge. Directions are given in eight languages, and bread and water, with a small supply of spirits, are left upon the beacon, properly protected from the weather. To the beacon is also appended a chain ladder of easy ascent, as well as " cleats" to the mast, and a large • basket chair is kept in readiness, with ropes and blocks, • to succour the exhausted. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. The following extracts afford a fair specimen of the opinions of the Whig, Tory, and Radical press in Scotland, on the mo tion of the Agnewites to stop Sunday trains : ( From the Aberdeen Herald.) As far as the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway is concerned the question of a reasonable amount of Sunday travelling ac commodation to the public has been set at rest, for a time, if not for ever. But the sensible portion of the community must. not imagine that the efforts of the Pharisees will cease, or that there will be no further need of resistance to encroachments on civil and religious liberty. The wild party in the Church are at the bottom of the movement, and we may rest assured that they will not speedily desist. They look. to it as a means of restoring clerical influence, which has lately been rather on the wane, and they are aided by some professing friends of religious freedom, who, while they loudly clamour for secta rian equality, are afraid to carry out their own scriptural and Protcs:ant principle to the leg itimate length of emanicipatiog individual minds from their dgrading subserviency to ecclesi astical superiors. Some Dissentinn clergymen seem as much afraid to allow their hearers the right of private judgment as ever the Pope of Rome was. (From the Edinburgh Chronicle.) The tyrannical attempt to stop the running of trains on the Edinburgh arid Glasgow Railway, on the morning and evening of Sunday, was most signally defe, ted by the shareholders at their half-yearly meeting on Tuesday last. On no former occasion have the high-flying section of the Church exerted more base and unscrupulous means to gain an object of their ambition. The forced and forged signatures, of boys and girls, of servants, shop-keepers, and other dependents ; the mad abuse poured upon those who conscientiously approve of the course adopted by the Railway Company; the frantic conspi racy to ruin the Company, and ab ore all the injurious assumption of a thorough knowledge of the Divine will, on matters concerning which there is no revelation, have tended to disgust all sober and intelligent men, and to create in their minds a feeling of indignation against the pharisaical pretonde-s to exclusive piety, more general and intense than has been manifested on any former occasion. One would suppose from their language that neither mail coaches, nor private carriages had ever run on Sunday in Scotland, although both in Edinburgh and Glas gow the latter are more common than on other days, and cause more labour and Sabbath desecration than railway trains can ever occasion. ( From the Renfreu'shire Reftrmer.) After having procured shares to be permitted to plead, and, if possible, force the proprietors of this great national undertaking to succumb to the doctrines of the Agnewites, the father of the flock, Sir Andrew, on finding himself beat, most unchristian like attempts to inforce his notions of Christianity by means of the Court of Session, by running opposition coaches, and by every other method he can contrive to annoy the public, and injure the interest, of the proprietors. Meetings—(not public meetings, the Sir Andrew's dare not face the public)—but meetings of the select to support such schemes are now to be set on toot to cover their defeat, and, if possible, to raise the means of running coaches in opposition to the railway. This is even more ridiculous than the feigned petitions got up by the Kirk Sessions in omosition to Sunday trains. It was a simple thing to get up a pile of petitions on pious S.r An tress's principle of employing the parish sch, lmas'er to write down the male and female names of the rural inhabit ants on pretence he was sending in a clean copy ; but Sir An dre w will find it a very different matter indeed to extra,t mo. ney from the pockets of the lieges to gra'ify his whims, froin obtaining leave for the schoolmaster to write their names. gr Andrew's subscriptions will be a greater failure than his m,- tion on Tuesday, because though he were foolish enough to run coaches for ten years round, though they were even to ra ry passengers gratis, such coaches would never go fourth part filled. MONEY MARKET .11(1 CITY NE SUN. —We have had a very dull market for the English Stocks yesterday, although the accounts from India, it is hoped, will eventually prove to be less disastrous than has been repre sented in some of the published ads ices. It is evident that were full credence to be attached to them, the fall of prices would have more likely been lor 2 than kto per Cent. Cell sots for immediate transfer were flat, at SO to 89k, and for the account at 89k to SOL Exchequer Bills were rather (lull at 30s. to 325. prem. ' • and India Bonds at 10s. prem. ; New Thre •-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 98a to In the Foreign market business was not active, but there was more doing in the Mexican bonds. Prices were without any very material alteration. Spanish Active Bonds were at 2414 to 11 ;New Three per Cents. Portuguese, at 33 1 ,4 ; and the Old Five per Cents. at 59. Colombian bo nds were at 243 to 24i 6 - ; Mexican Pt a rally to 37i; and 38{ ; and Peruvian at 16 Dutch Five per Cents, were worth 1024 to 1024. The R ilway Shares rallied a little to-day. Brighton ob tained I4i, Blackwall l3i, Midland Counties 19i, Northern and Eastern 4k, North Midland 30, the New bk, the Bir mingham and Gloucester 43, the Eastern Counties l 3k, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow 7 disr oust, being for the latter a slight decline. London and BirminF,ham were 84k to 8.5 k, the Thirds 26k, the North Midland Thirds 3 ,4, the Liverpool and Manchester 88, the Great Western 23k, and the South Western I 9 premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 2k premium. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. 13cans. reAllty. R t • I. 30 4S 35 40 36 :1 ♦Wheat. Barley. j Oats. P. to R. 55 70 52 70 60 (8 51 64 60 73 56 74 (36 72 50 67 60 67 4:0 Gt; 50 0 50 67 f 6160 57 61 ; 54 CM (1 71 61 64 57 6.3 58 (8 60 69 1 ERPOOI List), White Red „ Scotch, Welch, Irish, While... a. to r. 22 38 27 34 28 37 I. to e. 18 22 93 29 22 28 25 33 22 33 29 33 129 33 29 33 I 27 34 28 .32 32 3i 24 3C an 99 £5 31 21 31 25 32 21 94 32 36 28 34 24 30 SO 32 . 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I; ii 414 I !Irv, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter ........... 4h 0 13 0 CI.F.ANLINESS.—You will excuse the freedom I take in giving you advice on various duties. 1 assure you I have no object but your own improvement—the real welfare of your selves and families. I could like you duly to estimate the ad vantage of personal cleanliness. The skin contains innu merable pores, or little channels, through which the body disch•rges the perspirable matter—a process essential to health. All dirt and filth should be constantly removed from the skin, tor the purpose of allowing this matter to discharge ; but if the pores be clogged up with dirt, it not only prevents this, but a quantity of matter injurious to the body is also taker. in, and the consequence is, that heaviness and dulness which you often feel. Every animal, by instinct. continually tries to keep itself clean, even the pig, by rolling in the dirt and dry ing itself afterwards, is attempting to remove the dirt from its skin. Why are girls in factories healtheir than boys ? The doctors say it is because the pay so much more attention to personal cleanliness. Though soap be dear, water is cheap, and if persons once get into the habit of daily selves, they would find such comfort from it as to c ont , imietli practice. Never consider it an honour to be called the un washed."—Struggle • o f 700 The Bordeaux papers state that a meet i ng 1. washing them; or 800 persons took place, a few days since, at thteh:commission that city, in consequence of a circular f , r , o d in to memorialise of wine-growers to appoint delegates, of their interests. A the Chambers on the depressed ed to give wine instead o t the e petitionn c 'a ° ll e e w y c son agreed p g o a r r y e might b suspended, or else that they . 6 co i nT i e d riTed p , ra m Yi i; g ht th be at Caillie, the French traveller in colossal bust, in sculpt, e o r the very feit , Europeans that have Africa, who , ra , . M. Sue, the seulpteoiretfoinf th /: - a e n vi te a s to , t h ial as r j egl us .o t n fi s. nished a :: : :: o : ll , :o as th a e r r a ref t ec he t e s y t o a a ri v it ew h r e o e passed across that conttp Per Quarter Boston 'rlraintree Brighton Cambridge Chichester Dunmow Grantham Grimsby Hai!sham Hitchin Ipswich i.ewsts Lynn I►laidstonc Norwich eet worth [loin ford Sandwich Trietford Wisbech Witha , n (*mouth Li WHRkT, EngU a. to s. 33 38 a 3 38 37 44 A 10. 4)