The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

lorb EDition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. " Your directors annex to this report a statement of the position of sour etriirs, anti submit also for your consideration a statement showing, that by a deviation of your present ParLamentary line, by which you will avoid 1.400 yards of tunnelling, your line from Creditcn to Barti.taple can be finished by the means proposed, for 100,000/. less than the Parliamentary estimate, viz. for 447 8211., instead of 548,0001.. and have a surplus of 40,5791 to meet inters st and contingencies." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, sta , ed that the existing liabilities of the compauy amounted to 20.0001., hut to wind up—the concern it would require 13,000/. more, involving a further call of 2/. per share upon all solvent pro prietors. The line, however, could be made for 13,001. per mile, and as there could be no doubt thaT, hen made, the traffic would prove highly re mom rstive, he thought the sooner the recommenda tiw's in the report were adopted the better. M. W. CHAPLIN, M P., did not think so. Under all the circumstances, he thought it better to wait a longer. Mr. GILLMAN objected to that proposition in toto. It was perfectly ridiculous to think of still further pro( rastinating, incurring, as they were, an expen din re of 10,000/. a year. He suggested that a con mittee should be appointed to confer with the dire ctors on the best mode of raising funds to con stri ct the line, which, there could be no doubt, would pre ye a profitable one. Eventually, after much noisy discussion, the mo th n, for the adoption of the report, was adjourned r further consideration, and thanks having been oted to the Chairman, the meeting terminated. LONDON A 11) BLACK WALL RAIL WAY.—(THIS DAY.) . The usuual half•yearly meeting of this company was held thia day. at the London Tavern, Mr. J. N. Daniell, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The following was the report of the directors : " The directors have to report that the works con• nected with the alteration of gauge and the adaptation of the railway to the locomotive system were so far corn pleted on the 2d of April last as to admit of the line being re opened throughout on that day; and it has since been worked by locomotive power. " The traffic accounts for the past half-year embrace the charges under the locomotive and stationary engi❑e systems ; and do not, therefore, enable the proprietors to judge of the comparative costs of working under each. Tne expenses, as contrasted with those of the corre sponding period of last year, however, exhibit a reduction of 3,2071, nearly the whule of which may be attributed to the change in the mode of traction. " On the other hand there has been a diminution in the receipts. But it must not be forgotten that during the first three months of the year, only one line was in operation, working half-hour time, and it was only after some experience with the locomotive power that it wss found practicable to resume working the trains every fifteen minutes ; to which circumstances a comiderable portion of the falling off in the traffic must be ascribed. " The following is the comparative statement of the passenger traffic, during the first six months of this and last year:— 1848. 1849. Passengers. Amount. Passengers. Amount. January —.190.958 £3,272 110 149,479 .62,650 15 6 February —148,690 2,527 5 0 111,014 1,944 6 0 March 166,834 '2,822 0 7 100,268 1,738 10 6 April 1 8 4,053 3,229 7 7 201,915 3,553 17 0 May ..... 314,222 5,496 2 2 199,329 3,530 10 8 June 264,207 4,676 0 8 233,152 4,140 12 10 1,273,969 £22,022 17 10 995,137 .£17,558 12 6 "The aivantagea of the extension-line to Bow and the Eastern Counties Railway have not yet been deve loped, by reason of no satisfactory arrangement having been effected with the Eastern Counties Company, for the joint working or the lines; ner has any benefit been derived from the Emit and West India Dock and Bir mingham Junction Railway, from which sources the directors reasonably look for a large augmentation of the passenger- traffic. " The director.; have to make the following remarks upon the accounts, which are already in the hands of the shareholders : " The revenue account shows a balance of 3,162/. 17a. 2d., which amount is placed at the dis posal of the proprietors. "During the half-year a sum of 1,988/. has been paid, under a decree of the Court of Chancery, for tithes in dispute, being 467/. less than the amount claimed, and the directors have, with the approb a ti on o f t h e au di tors, charg e d 5251 . in ,th the balance t o be pre sent speread revenue accou n t, l eav i ng over the three su ccee di ng halt years, in equal amounts. "In accordance with the promise made in the last report, the directors have caused to be prepared separate statements of the accounts for the extension-line and for the adaptation of the to locomotive power. " The extension account, tilheerotore, now includes only that line, the such charges as appertain to payments on account of which amount of that 236,586/. this sum must be added the To 18,376 L, and fren. , . the total there must be u e e for works, r o t k h: value of the surplus property, estimated at showing that the actual cost of the line will be 215,9:4Y Tbis amount includes 10,000/. for the substitution of a brick for a Tv, oden viaduct, 17.5231. for interest on paid. up capital and loans, and 6,300/ for rolling stock, none of which were included in the original estimate of 200,0601. " The cost of the alteration of gauge and the adapta tion of the main line to the locomotive system of work ing, after deducing the old materials sold, has been 43,7841., and the sum of 1,500/ is still due in respect thereof, but upon the value of the stationary engines and other machinery, estimated at 12,000/, being deducted, the amount will be reduotd to 33,284/. This sum in eludes 2,650/ for parapet wall, 1,7571, for roofing and TAW VALE RAIL WAY AND DOCK. (THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly general meeting of the pro prietors of this company was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Mr. John Charlotte, chairman of the Ooard 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 Maroh last, with the exception of such as they were compelled to? roceed with. 3 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 line, 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 lins, 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 arrear, 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 pro-pacts 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 20/. scrip preference shares, with credit for 4/, as a deposit paid thereon, bearing interest or preference dividend at the rate of 5/. 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 per• 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.—let. 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 reprs seated 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 31. per share he 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 3/. per chare 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 corn eae Les on the whole amount of 20/., the let 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 if unpaid for one month with in terest, the scrip shares and all previous payments there on shill, without further notice, become absolutely for!e!ted. `• 31 That the said preference scrip shares issued in lice of the said forfeited shares, together with such additional preference scrip shares as may be issued in lieu of 2UI. shares hereafter forfeited, shall be the only Alerts 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 ference scrip shares and the borrowing powers of the csmpiny shall be tested. " sth. The directors propose that the existing 20/, share; on which 8/ 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 line is opened from Crediton to Barnstaple, after which they shall take all surplus income, after payment of the preference shareholders THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1849. screens, 2,571/. for new goods warehouses, 1,1751. for altt, alums .pf platforms. and other items amounting to 2,1331., which were not included in Mr. Locke's esti mate of 26,0461., laid before the proprietors in February, 1847, and it must be observed thit the expense of alter ing the carriages has been increased to 6,782 L, by the substitution of entirely new under-frames and wheels, for the mere alteration of the gauge of the wheels. " With the desire to afford the shareholders every possible information as to the financial position of the company, the directors have appended to the accounts, as audited, a statement of assets and liabilities, which shows that 61,9451. will be the probable sum required beyond the present share capital, of 1,266,0001., to pro vide for the cost of changing the system of working. the Parliamentary charges, and the excess of the cost of the extension line beyond the estimate. The directors re commend that this sum should be raised by the issue of debentures, which will ultimately be the only mortgage upon the undertaking." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, assured the meeting that the accounts were true and correct, and promised still further vigilance on the part of the executive with regard to economy. The proprietors would perceive by the accounts that a great saving had been effected in the working ex penses, from substituting the locomotive for the rope. The report having been adopted, Mr. GOLDSMID proposed a resolution, to the effect that a committee of five proprietors be appointed to consider whether any and what measures can be adopted to increase the revenue, decrease the expendi ture, and improve the mode of administering the affairs of the company; that the committee send a copy of their report to each proprietor at least one weak before convening a special meeting to con sider itt. The resolution gave rise to a good deal of desultory discusssion, but the directors seeing nothing objec tionable in the motion it was ultimately put and agreed to. - The following gentlemen were then elected on the committee—Messrs. Goldsmid, Coleman, and Carlisle, with power to nominate the other two. A resolution was then proposed authorising the directors to divide the balance alluded to in the report amongst the proprietors, but it was rejected and the amount ordered to be carried to the next account. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting terminated. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The second half•yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company took place to-day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors, and for the dispatch of the general business of the company. H took the chair shortly after o A ne . A o, g el li oe on k b . y, Esq., M.P., The usual c formalAazTnTread h businesst efoll o w i ng important having The s report : "In convening the proprietary for the half-yearly general meeting, the directors have the gratification to report, that since they last met the proprietors they have concluded a contract with the East India Company. based on the terms and conditions submitted to, and approved by, the special meeting of proprietors held in April last, and which they trust the proprietary will feel places the interests of this company on a sound and satisfactory basis. "This contract has been printed, and a copy will be delivered on application at the offices of the company, to each shareholder. "The interest of 5 per cent. per annum, guaranteed by the East India Company, will, on and from the 17th of August instant, include the preliminary deposit of ss. paid on the existing shares in the company, and upon which hitherto no interest has been paid. "During the past session of Parliament the Act of Incorporation, by which the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount of bis or her shares in the company, has received the Royal assent. " In pursuance of powers conferred by that Act, the board of directors have, in accordance with the pledge given to the proprietary, reduced the shares in the com pany from 501. to 201., and have made a re-distribution of the capital into 50,000 shares of 201. each; of the ar rangements consequent on which duo notice will be given by advertisement. " In consequence of an intimation, that it was the eeling of the authorities that the number of directors should be reduced, powers for that object were inserted in the Act, and the directors have now to recommend that their number be reduced from 13 to 9, of which it is proposed that 3 be a quorum. " Your directors have received a tender from Mr. Jackson, of Pimlico, for the construction of the first line of railway to be undertaken by the c , mpany. This tender embraces the construction and completion of the railway within two years from the commencement of operations, and its maintenance for three years after completion, at a cost, including a double line of rails and stations, of 8,5001. per mile. Mr. Rendell, your consulting engineer, has recommended the accept ance of this tender, and your directors are diposed to concur in an arrangement on that principle; but they feel the question to be one of great magnitude, and they have submitted it to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, for their consideration. " On a review of all the circumstances of the past history of the company, the board cannot close this report without congratulating the shareholders on the measure of success which, after so great a lapse of time, and so many opposing obstacles, has at length attended the efforts ot• the company. It expense has necessarily been incurred, in advocating and introducing a new prin. ciple, under circumstances of great difficulty, the present proprietors are, by the nature of the arrangement effected, relieved from any of its burden, by having the full amount nibscribed by them allowed as part of the capital of the company, bearing interest at five per cent. It time has been consumed, its lapse has not only been attended with the advantages of increased experience, but still more of cost diminished in an extraordinary degree. Without all the information which has been the result of the measures already adopted, the company could not have been in a position to receive a tender from a contractor, so satisfactory in proof of the suffi• ciency of their estimates, as that of Mr. Jackson ; nor could they have approached the execution of the work with that confidence which they now feel in its issue. From henceforth they consider the un dertaking to be tinder the direct auspices of the East India Company. No step can be taken as to the con struction of the railway until possession of the land has been given by the Government of India, and all the ulterior proceedings of the company are subject to the control of the East India Company, and dependent for success on the cordial concurrence and co-operation of the authorities both at home and abroad." The CHAIRMAN then shortly addressed the meeting, congratulating them on the state of their affairs, and moved the adoption of the report. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question from a proprietor, said, that the Government of India hal the power, if their profits exceeded 10 per cent., to step in and insist upon the reduction of the tolls, but he did not think they would do so if their profits were 11 or 12 per cent. After some discussion, the report was unanimously apopted, thanks were voted to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. EAT _S _ AND WEST INDIA DOCKS AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half yearly general meeting of the share. holders of this company took place this day at the company's offices in Old Broad•street. John Scott, Esq., the chairman of the company, took the chair shortly after two o'clock. The usual routine business having been gone through, the secretary read the following report, which, after a short discussion, was agreed to, and ordered to be printed and circulated among the pro prietors, as was also the report of the engineer. " The directors, during the past half-year, have been steadily pressing forward the works of the line; and in order to afford full information to the proprietors with , regard to the progress made, they have requested the engineer to prepare a report, which will be submitted to the meeting. "It has been tl• . e endeavour of the directors to carry out the object referred to in their report of February last, of opening a communication into the City, in order that such portion of the line as may be completed might be profitably used, whilst the works south of the Lea Cut Canal, which afford the direct communication to the docks and ship ping, were being proceeded with. Difficulties have, however, arisen in procuring the land required for the branch line, and the directors have been compelled to defer this work; but arrangements are in progress for contracting for the completion of the main line to the East and West India Ducks and Blackwell, thus so far effecting the object in view. " Since the meeting in February last, the directors have found it necessary, in carrying on the works, to make further calls upon the proprietors, and they have intimated the probable periods at which the remainder of the capital will be required. Loans have as yet been effected to a limited amount only, but they will be in creased by the issue of debentures and by the payment of land purchases; and in the meantime the progress of the works has not been impeded, the necessary funds having bees obtained from payments in advance of calls, on the portions of capital held by the London and North- Western Railway Company and the East and West India Dock Company. " The directors, since the last meeting, have taken the necessary preliminary measures for the recovery of calls which the proprietors had neglected to pay; and it will be seen by the accounts that the sum of 3,605/. bas been in consequence received : the directors trust that payments s fu e rt a h a er teg th o i r s ou a s cc s o t u e n p t s , being resorted to. prevent will th e shortly neeea.sl t y be e m i a m d o e re on ri ter ' n ' 1 R t negotiation ctiaotmiopnay for w n ithth l e ea L sin o g nd t o h n e and lie North-Wes tern referredr t h - W e t s 0 - in the l as t h a lf- year ' s report, has not y n et , led to nl agreement f or t h at purpose; but that company has ex pressed its readiness to arrange for the working of the line; and as the construction-of the railway approaches completion, thedirectors will have to give their attention to this subject, and they doubt not that an arrangement may be effected on mutually advantageous terms. " The increased engagements of Mr. George Carr Glyn having compelled him in March last to express a wish to retire from the direction, the board have elected Mr. Richard Creed to fill up the vacancy, being happy to avail themselves of the valuable assistance of so expe rienced a coadjutor." Mr. GLYN congratulated the shareholders on the 1 2:1 West India Regiment--Ensign John Deane Reece to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cox, who retires; John Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reece, Aug. 28. 3d West India Regiment—Assistant Surgeon Jobn Summers, M.D., from 21st Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dods, appointed to the 36th Foot, Aug. 28. MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Quarter master M•Naughten of the 13th Fuot are " Duncan Cameron." Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieuienant of Lincolnshire. To be Deputy•Lieutenahts—Ay=cogho Boucherett, Esq ; Charles John Henry Mundy, Esq.; William Elm hirst, Esq.; henry Smith, Esq.; Edward Wright, Esq.; Frederick Chaplin, Esq,; Maurice Johnson, Lq.; Mat thew Clark, E.q ; George Augustus Moore, Esq.; Joseph Gleed, Lg., Aug. 18. BANKRUPTS. James Deeves Ireland, licensed victualler, Lewisham, Kent, to surrender Sept. 5, at one, and Oct. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Symes and Co., Fenchurch street. William Mays Hartridge, gro.:er, Woodbridge, Suf folk, Sept. 7, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 12, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Needham, New-inn, Strand; Moore, Woodbridge. Sarah Matters, dealer, l'ilch-street, Wapping, Sept. 3 and Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen nell, official assignee; de Rhe Philipe, Gray's Inn •square. Thomas Lewis, timber-merchant, Hereford, Sept. 11 and 29, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Warburton, He reford; Suckling, Birmingham. Andrew M'Conchie, draper, Nottingham, Sept. 21, at ten, and Oct. 10. at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleson, official assignee ; Brown, Nottingham. • John Lloyd and George Lloyd, builders, Brinnington, Chester, Sept. 12, and Oct. 4, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man chester; Coppock, Cleveland-row, St. James'; Coppock and Oldham, Stockport. Juliet Annie Winder, draper, Pendleton, Lancashire, Sept. 13 and Oct. 4, at twelve. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row; Cooper, Manchester. Thomas Davis, James Glossop, rand James Brankley, dyers, Pilsworth, Lancashire. Sept. 13 and Oct. 4, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assigned, Manchester; Clarke Gray, and Wood cock, Lincoln's Inn fields , Lo n d on; Grundy, Bury, Lan cashire. COURSE OF. EXCHJ Amsterdam •• •• 12 3 Ditto, at sight 12 1% eottcrdatn •... • • ...• 12 3 Antwerp........... 25 75 Elamburgh .... • • 34.73. 13 13 Altona ...... .......... Paris, 3 dayesight .• 25 45 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 67% Uarseilles .• •• • • .... 25 67% Bourdeaux.... ..... • 25 67N Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Patersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 36% .• iNGE.-(THIS DAY.) Glbriltar•• •• ........ •• Leghorn • • .. • • 31 40 flenoa .. • • • • 26 50 tllan ..... ......... Venice.... • • .. • • sTaples • • ...... 40% Palermo, per0z........ 120% Messina • ..... 121 X Llsbon.• ...... ........ 53;6 Oporto .• 53X Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres .• • • . • • • New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia PZICZB OP • BULLION, MI og, Foreign Gold in bars.. 43 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• .. • • 0 4 10% Silver in bars •• 0 4 1114, Vienna, effec. fio•• •• 12 Trieste, ditto.... •• 12 NEadtid •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 50 Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 50k . • .. •• •• •••• Barcelona •• . • • •• .• •• SeVille•• •• •• •• •• •• •• MARKET INTELLIGENCE. - - (From the London New Price Current, Aug. 28.) SUGAR.—To-day there was a fair buiiness concluded in the West India Sugar market fir both grocery and refining purposes, but holde?s are compelled to take former terms for all sorts : at auction 165 hhds Barba does wentjwith fair spirit at firm rates; low and middling yellow realized 37s 6d to 395, and good to fine 39s 6d to 40s 6d per cwt. _ REFINk.D.—To-day Refined Sugar met with a good home-trade demand, and the market was firm; the sup ply has also become small. Sales of brown Lumps were made at 49s to 498 6d, and fair grocery at 50. to 50s 6d per cwt. Bohdcd Crushed Sugar is unalterd in value. DIAUBITIUS.—This afternoon four parcels of Mauri tius tiu,gar were 011 red at public sale, amounting to 11,754 bags. There was a slackness in the biddings, and prices declined 6d per cwt; rather more than half found buyers, fine yellow at 394 to 40w, middling and good 37s to 38s 6d, low 36s to 368 6d, ordinary to good grey 35s 6d to 38s 6d, low and very ordinary brown 298 ( to 33a, middling 33s 6d to 34a, and good to fine 34s 6d to 35s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the market; was more freely supplied with Bengal Sagar: the quantity offered at public sale amounted to 4,610 bags ; there was not much desire evinced to operate, and the rates taken were rather under thou current on Friday, but the chief part avid ; su. probability of their completing their line within the estimate proposed by the engineer. From the accounts of the receipts and expenditure, it appeared that the total receipts were 473.6651.85. 4d., and the expenditure was 468,4591. 14s. 7d., leaving a balance in hand of 5,20`,;/. 13s. 9d. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question from a shareholder, stated that he expected the line would be open by April or May next. Thanks were then voted to the chairman and direc tors, and the meeting separated. NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) The sixth ordinary half•yearly meeting of this company was advertised to take place to. day at the London Tavern, at twelve o'clock. At one o'clock there not being a sufficient number of shareholders present to constitute a meeting it was adjourned sine die. The following report of the directors was intended to be submitted to the meeting had it been formed : " The directors have, upon this occasion, but little to report to the proprietors, inasmuch as their attention has been confined to a reduction of the several unpaid ac counts of the company as they hare been respectirdy applied for, and in a supervision of the working of the Lb.cvihangel, Grosmont, and Hereford trare-roads—the revenue of which has been appled to paying off the interest on the balance of the purchase•money under the agreements which have been entered into with these • companies —as explained at the last meeting. The balance of the purchase•raoney is 28,730€, mad the annual interest thereon is 1.4361. 10s. which the directors hope will be met out of the future revenues of the tram-roads; and the shareholders are already aware, that under these agreements, this company has the option of paying off the balance of purchase-money in July, 1851, or of then can celling the purchase, and torfeiting the money already paid. Since the last meeting of shareholders, arrears of call have been received, amounting to 2,4551. 10s. As was anticipated in the last report of the directors, the lines, north of llereford, are assuming active progress, and it cannot be too strongly impressed on the share holders, that the value of their property will be c ome greatly enhanced by the completion of those lines to Hereford. It will be satisfactory to the meeting to be informed, that the bill in Chancery which had been filed against this company by the Rhymney Railway Com ewnit,thadsrawwneil a a s nd to th t e he c p la a i y m . p a n a y ilu h l fi a l s m b e e n e t n o a f g t r h e e e d a g t r o ee b ni e t m o ent of the deposit of 10 , 0001 . abandoned, on payment by this company of the costs of the suit. The costs of all parties therein will not exceed 260/. The shareholders will perceive by the annexed statement, the ascertained accounts unsettled, includ• ing the above 260/, are reduced to 1,4581 2s. 6d., to meet which, and the balance due to the bankers, there are arrears of call to the amount of 22,2614 on 7,835 shares. and which may be estimated to produce 6,0001; be yond which there is a sum of 1,3231. 10s. 3d. cash at the bankers. The directors have only further to add. that in addition to the entire relinquishment of their own annual allowances, and a previous reduction of the secretary's salary, they have succeeded in a further re duction of the office expenses of the company, to the extent of 2301. per annum, to take effect from the 29th September next; whilst under this arrangement they will still retain the services of the secretary." THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 28, 1849. The Queen has been graciously 'pleased to give orders 'or the appointment of Thomas Nicholas Redington, Esq., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. WHITEHALL, Am. 25. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto Timothy O'Brien, of Merrion-square, in the city .if Dublin, and of Borris-in-Ossory, in the Queen's County, Esq., Lord Mayor of the said city of Dublin, and the heir., male of his body lawfully begotten. Tho Gazette of this evening contains a notice from the Speaker that he shall issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the western division of the county of Surrey, at the end of fourteen days after the publication of this notice, in the room of the late William Joseph Denison, Esq. WAR-OFFICE, Auo. 28. 4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Herbert Dawson Slade to be Captain, by purchase, vice Puref o y, w h o re tires; Cornet Hugh Mallet to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Slade, Aug. 28. 21st Regiment of Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Andrew Edge to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Summers, promoted in the 3d West India Regiment, Aug. 28. 33d Foot—Ensign Charles Carter Barrett to be Adju tant, vice Pretyman, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Aug. 28. 36th Foot—Surgeon George Douglas Dods, M.D., from 3d West India Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Russell, deceased, Aug. 28. 40th Foot—Ensign Thomas George Gardiner to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Snelling, deceased, Aug. 12. 53d Foot—Ensign Marcus Antonius Waters, frcm 41st Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shiffner, promoted, Aug. 28. 67th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Hudson Wood to be Captain, by purchase, vice Coape, who retires; Ewign Edward Daubeney to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Murray, who retires; Ensign Alfred Addington Jones to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wood, Aug. 28. 98th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Frederick Giffard, from half-pay 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Riordan, appointed Quartermaster ; Ensign Donald Macleod Farrington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Giffard, who retires, Aug. 28. SALTPETRE.—To-day there was net more desire evinced to operate in rough, and at auction 500 bags were taken in at 27s 6d to 28s per cwt for 5i to 34- per cent refraction, and these are full rates. SPlCEB.—Rather higher rates have been paid fir Nutmegs, and the parcels offered at public sale, amount ing to 40 pkgs, found ready purchasers—middling brown went at 2a 9J to 2s 1 Id, good mid and good 3s to 3s 5.t, fine 3s 6d, to 3) 7d, and one lot of very superior 4s 7d per lb. Mace is wanted; 15 cases at auction went at 2s 4d to 2s 5d for mid, and at 2s 6d to 3s 7d or good. The better sorts of Cloves have been in good ,le wand at a small advance, and 11 cs Bencoolen at public sale realised from Is 7d to 2s Id for good and fine; com• mon sorts are, however, less wanted, and 80 bags Z azibar were taken in at 8d per lb. Black Pepper is not to be obtained at lower rates. At public sale, a part only of 4,313 robins and 2 03i bags of Aleppy found buyers at from q to 21d for middling and good half heavy black, Malabar, good 31 3id. White met with more attention, whilst 243 chts and 300 bags at auction sold at 6d to 8i for good and fine Tellicherry, and at 4id for middling Singapore. There are several buyers of Pimento, the value is from 4d to 4d. In Cinnamon there has been little business concluded. Ginger is not much wanted by exporters, and at public sale 237 packeages Jamaica went from 413 s to 71 per cwt. TALLow.—Only a limited business has been con cluded in Russian on the spot, and prices have *till a downward tendency. There are sellers of fine P.Y. Candle at 38s 9d for 39s per cwt. Home melted is cheaper, but at s7s t•) 37s 6d nett cash, sales to a fair extent have been made. For other sorts of Tallow nether lower rates are acceded to, and the quantity on off-r is yet large. The public sale of 1,384 pat kaltes South American went at 34s to 36s 6.1, and 25 casks of Sydney at 34s to 36s 6I per cat. Rough Fat is still 2s Id to 23 lid per stone of 81b3. OILs.--There are sellers of Linstei Oil for delivery up to the close of the year at 25s to 25s 3d per cwt, still few contracts have been eratred into. Oa the spot a good home trade has ben experienced, and several par- cels have been sold for export. The ,rates paid are 25s 6d, and iu some ea es 25s '9d per cwt ; Rapeseed 0,1 met with less attention, and more desire Is evinced to sell ; pale at 37s 6d to 384, and brown at 36s 6d to 375. For Odra the market remains firm. Gallipoli at 421 to 43/ per tun, :and other sorts at 391 to 41/ 10s. For Cocoa Nut Oil sellers are ready to accept 33s to 35 s per cwt. for lair to fine quality. Palm has been much inquired for, and the trade are compelled to pay 31i to 31s 6d for good and fine quality. On the part of holders of Sperm there is firmness, and holders ask 791 to 80/per tun. None has been offered at auction. Seal—Pale at 32/ to 33/, straw and tinged 29/ lOs to 31/ 10s, yellow and brown 27/ to 29/, still only small sales have been made. Cod 271 to 2715 s is the value. Southern Oil, at auction 264 tuns were all sold; fine at 29/ 15s to 301 15s, good 291 to 291 10s, and lo,v to mid at 261t0 281 per ton. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN Asmust.--Yester day the half-yearly court of the governors of this charity was held at the London Tavern, Capt. Nelson in the chair. From the report which was submitted by Mr. R. Geddes it appeared that the resources of the institu tion had suffered in common with others having the like charitable objects in view. The income during 1848 amounted to 5,3691., and by rigid economy on the part of the committee the expenditure had fallen short of that amount. There was at present the sum of 5,1614 10s. invested in the funds iv the names of the trustees, and the building account was rapidly progressing. Several very handsome donations and legacies had been received during the past year. After the transaction of some routine business, the meeting proceeded to the election of ten boys and six girls, from a list of 35 candidates for admission into the asylum. The poll closed at three o'clock, when the names of the successful candidates were called over. A considerable number of the boys and girls of the asylum were in the room during the proceedings, and attracted much attention by their neat and orderly appearance. THE CONVICT ‘VILSON.—The murderer in Kirk dale Gaol, even now that the dread sentence of death has been passed upon him, remains the same unconcerned being as before. He is as cheerful as he has been at any period since his committal ; and, restricted to the prison diet, he eats heartily, and sleeps well. At his request, the clothes that originally belonged to him (those in which the murders were perpetrated) have been obtained from Bridewell, and these he is per • witted to wear. With singular perversity he still main tains that be is innocent, and that the authorities have got the wrong man. The day after condemnation he dictated a letter to his father; but none of his family or relatives have been to see him from the day that he was brought to prison up to the present time. He exhibits no symptom of repentance, and it is thought that the same obduracy will attend him to the last. There is a strong but morbid desire on the part of m an y o f t h e public to see th e pr i soner , an d with this object yester day morning several well-dressed ladies and gentlemen applied at the gate for permission to attend the church in gaol. The a p p li cat i on was of course re f use d . With the same vi ew , with applicati ons f or or d ers t o see through Kirkd a l e several of the magistrates are hes e i ge d Gaol; but ev en if a d m i ss i on b e obtained, none o f t h e visitors ar e a l lowed to see the capital offender. The execution, which will take place in the usual course in three weeks, will, without doubt, be attended by thou sands ; even yesterday, 'the lane near to the gaol was thronged by p art i es who appeare d to h ave no other ob j ect in view than to loiter and gaze upon the place where the scaffold will be erected.—Liverpool Albion. FREARS or A FURIOUS BULLOCE. — Yesterday afternoon one of a d rove o f oxen, being d r i ven f rom Smithfield to Carnaby-market, when near the end of Hatton-garden broke away from the herd, and made off , at a rapid pace up Holborn and down Gray's Inn-lane. The beast selected the footpath for its flight, greatly to the alarm of the numerous pedestrians and shopkeepers, knocking down several persons who were severely bruised and contused; an immense crowd of boys and men, accompanied by dogs barking and yelling, followed at his heels. In the King's-road he knocked down a vendor of earthenware named Callum, residing in Agar town, St. Pancras, whom he severely gored, tossing the poor fellow's goods, which were all destroyed. Ile con tinued his flight through Brunswick-square and Judd street ; in his career several other persons were knocked down, and Mr. Tregoning, of Burton-crescent, so severely injured that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. He pursued his flight to Tottenham-court-road, where he was secured and lodged in Richards's slaughter house. WANTED A N AME l — A l e tter with the f o ll ow i ng address, and bearing the postmark of Kingstown, Jamaica, came through the post-office last week : " Mr. and who keeps first Lodging house low fiat right hand side first lane above Old Steeple leads throu g h from Overgate to Nethergate Dundee Scotland N.8."--Dundee Courier. Genius, like the sun upon the dial, gives to the human heart both its shadow and light.—Eliza Coves Journal perior white Benares went at 42s 6d to 435, middling and good 39s to 40s 61, fine yellow, like •Mauritius 403 to 41s 6d, good 39s to 39s 6d, middling and good soft 35s to 37 6d, and grainy white 44s to 47s 61. Of Madras 200 bags sold at 30s 6d to 32s 6d for brown of soft quality, and at 33s 6cl to 34s for low yellow, which are rather lower rates. FOREIGN.—There has not bees a more active demand for Foreign Sugar for exportation, and the rates taken have been rather under those current on this day week. By private treaty only a cargo of yellow Ilavannah has been sold at 23s for fine quality, for the Baltic, one of brown at 20s, and half a cargo of superior yellow at 23a 6d per cwt. For home trade purposes the trade has been limited. On the part of refiners working under bond little desire has been evinced to operate in any sort. MoeassEs.—P, ices are still on the decline for all sorts of West India, and the purchases have been only 250 puns since this day week; fine Antigua at 18s to 18, 6.1, and fair Trinidad at 16s per cwt. East India Treacle can be purchased at. 153 to 15s 6d per cwt. COCOA.—West India—Of 250 bags of Trinidad offered at public sale a small part only sold at 39s to 42s for grey, and at 40s to 49s for red, and 300 bags Grenada 388 to 425. Foreign Cocoa has been operated in with caution, and a desire is evinced is sell at from 26s to 28a, as thole is a large quantity held by importers. TEA.—None has been offered at auction since this day w' ek . For Congou the rates paid are fully equal to those current on this day week, and th e d eman d conti nues good, especially for low and mid sorts. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in green, at the rates of this day week. COFFEE.--Today Native Ceylon Coffee was in excel lent demand by private treaty, prices are still on the advance and rule at from 38s to 393 for good ord. At auction 38 bags went at 38s 6d p er cwt. P lantation was dealt in with greater freedom, and the public sales of 180 casks 900 bags went at an advance on last week's rates of 2s to 3s per cwt, mid and good mid went at 56s to 635, low mid 53s to 555, fine fine ord 48s to 525, fine ord 44s to 475, and good ord 393 to 43s per cwt. The market has a firm aspect. RlCE.—There has again been much inquiry after common sorts of East India. The supply is smaller and shippers are yet the chief operators; cargo Madras has been sold at 78 3d to 7s 6d, pearl barley 7s 6d to Bs, pinky white 8s to 9s, low Bengal 8s 6d to 95. The better sorts have met with a fair sale at full rates, and 3,300 bags at auction were partly sold at lOs to lOs 6d for good white. On the part of holders of all descriptions (there is firmn ess . Cl eane d Rice has been in lively demand, and :prices keep on the advance ; town dressed Carolina selling at from 23a to 28a, Patna low to fine 123 to 20s, and American cleaned Rice 21s to 23s per cwt. Serearrs.—There are free sellers of Jamaica Rum, and the market is well supplied. The value of plain and mid quality 28 to 33 per cent over proof is from 2s 2d to 2s 9d, better sort 32 to 36 over 2a 10d to 3s 3d, and fine 3s 4d to 4s. East India has been dealt in with caution at is 3d to Is aid proof, but upon these terms there are not free sellers. The market for Lee ward Island has been in a quiet state, and the small parcels sold were at Is 4id to is 5d proof, and there is a fair amount on offer. In Demerara a good business has been done at 23 to 2s 3d for 30 to 40 per cent. over proof. l'he demand for Brandy continues active, and in the market there is much firmness. We quote Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1841 at 3s 10d to 4s, 1847 ditto 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1846 ditto 5s 6d to 5s Bd, 1845 ditto at 5s 8d to 5s 10d, inferior marks 3s 4d to 3s 10d, and Bordeaux 2s to 2s 2d per gallon. Geneva is firm at is 9d to Is 10d for shipping sort, and at 2a 3d to 33 3d for fine adapted for home trade purposes. The value is still 9s 8d for British made Spirit, and 8s to Ss 6d for Gin 17 to 22 per cent under proof. ' COCHINEAL.—To day the quantity offered at auction amounted to 50 bags of Teneriffe. The former only in part sold at 33 3d to 3a 9d for black, and silvers 3s 4d to 3a 6d, whilst the latter was taken in at 3a 10d, these are rather lower lower rates. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. CHRONICLE.—The great questions connected with the working of free- trade are eminently questions of fact. The whole of the argument resolves itself into one laconic formula, viz.--What is the result? Is it true, or is it not true, arithmetically, that we have more to do— that cotton is in greater demand—that mills are in mcen rapid motion —workmen better employed—ships - in greater request—than they were before the late exten sive and momentous legislative changes? These are the perpetual interrogatories of a man anxious to judge for himself, and to judge truly. There is only one qualifi cation to this test of figures—but a qualification so ob vious, that to omit or overlook it would indicate a total incompetence to pur.•ue the simplest train of reflection, or to discriminate the moat obvious differences. In the first place, there can be no fair comparison where the conditions are mani'estly out qual. Nobody believes that there can be any even competition between a man in full health and spirits, and one who has just broken his leg or lost his fortune. Nor would any one dream of accusing of failure a man who is unable to move with as much celerity under a load of three hundred weigtit, as under a loaf of one. It is not only within the province of Euclid that things which are equal to the same are t qu it to each other. The law is univ, rsal, and no where is it more palpably arplic ible than in the region of commer cial statistics. There, at least, the similarity of the things ani seasons compared is always the primitive element of any rational comparison. It you choose, :,ou may make yourself at once miserable and ridiculous by insisting upon the melancholy differences between a bad year and a good one—between a time when wheat is 90s a quarter and a time when it is only 40 -,—between a year of war and a year of peace—between a season of insurrection and a period of prosperous loyalty; but, for all fair comparative purposes, the result will be about as valuable as a parallel between a prizefighter and Tom Thumb—between Niagara and the fountains in Trafal gar-square —or between Mont Blanc and Holborn-hill. Plain, reasonable, and distinct as these canons of criticism must appear to all rational people, they are certainly beyond the comprehension of the Country Party. Those most eccentric persons who endure the daily task of defending the figments of Protec tionism have the advantage, or the misfortune, of being remarkably singular in this respect. With them a difference is a difference—and there's an end. Certain figures are un'ike certain other figures—aud the case is settled. The whole of the problem is contained in two parallel columns, and they fancy that they can read the solution in the totals—at least when these totals suit their own views—a coincidence, by the way, which occurs so seldom as to amount to a luxury. Now, at all events, free-traders aspire - to something better than this. The imposition which we reject is too gross to circulate for an instant beyond the atmosphere of the nursery. And it so happens that at this moment we can very ap positely illustrate, by the same arithmetical method, the success of our free-trade legislation—while the proofs by which that success is rendered obvious are entirely un tainted by those clumsy devices and those tricks -of ma nagement in which the statistical sterility of the country Party condemns them to seek a precarious and transi tory refuge. Returns have just been published, showing in detail the quantities and values of several descriptions of manufactured articles exported to the various countries of the world, during the halt-yearly periods respectively ending on the 30th June, 1848, and the 30th Juue, 1849. These returns, although not formally official, are com piled under such auspices, and are issued under such authority, that they may be safely accepted as accurate statements of the facts which they profess to contain. It is nut the less, however, a reflection on the statis tical department of the Government, that information so full of interest and importance cannot be collected under its supervision and issued with the certificate of its im primatur. Now, with reference to these returns, the facts are very striking. If we could permit ourselves to adopt the horn-book practice of our opponents, and to rest contented with a comparison of the strongest facts in the strongest places—proclaiming incessantly that we had achieved a triumph wherever we found a seem ing agreement with our own views—nothing could ex ceed the facility of our task. We should have simply to compare the figures of 1848 with those of 1849 leaving the adherents of Mr. Disraeli to exhibit their amazement. Ilea that would be a deceptive victory, to which neither our taste inclines, nor our cause compels us to resort. For the purpose in ques tion, the two years have little in common ; and it would be as futile to employ the com mercial statistics of these two years as fair exponents of the free-trade argument, as it would Le to deduce the average heat of oar summers from the recorded tempera. tures of June and - January. We shall proceed, there fore, upon a more fearless plan, and work upon a surer foundation. We shall take the year 1846—that propi tious year, when, if we are to believe the rhetoric of the Country Party, the land flewed, or rather overflswed, with milk and honey—when farmers sold their cern at 60s.—manufacturers enjoyed protections —wages were regulated by the price of food—and the leaders of the Protectionists had not begun to feel the pressure of their mortgages. Everything, we are assured, is to be dated from 1846. That was the year before the flood—the last point of solid land above the whirlpool. Then what are the facts as regards this model year? We shall first ,are all select three descriptions of manufactured articles which are among the most important of our textile fabrics, and in all of which the Protectionists allege that we are daily succumbing before that lugubrious and universal nightmare which they call the " untaxed foreigner." The articles we speak of are plain calicoes, printed calicoes, and woollen and worsted stuffs. Now, as re gards these three commodities, the exports of the first six months of 1849 have been in the following propor tions more than those of the corresponding periods o 1846 and 1848—speaking in the only accurate languagi of per centages:— More than 1846. Pe•r cent. Printed calicoes 34 Plain calicoes Stuffs More than 1848 Per cent. 40 31 23 These facts certainly indicate none of those symptoms of superseded industry of which we have been compelled to hear so many prognostications from all sorts of pro phets. Nor must it be supposed that the above•namt d branches of trade are, in any sense, insignificant. The exports of plain calicoes are about 800 millions of yards per annum—thosp of printed calicoes, about 500 millions of yards—and tire value of the stuffs exported is not less than three millions of pounds sterling. But this is not all. The facts we have given refer to the total export of these articles during the periods specified. An examination of the details of that export places us in possession of re-tilts equally striking and equally satisfactory. If we collect together the exports to the eight foreign countries upon which we depend most largely fur the consumption of our cotton fabrics, and if we compare tie figures indicating the resp , ctive amount of these exports in 1846 and in 1849, se shall arrive at some moat instructive facts. From the Ist of January to the 30th of June, 1846, for example, we exported to Holland, Russia, Portugal, Gibralt,r, Malta, the United States, Brazil, and the Levant, 96,600,000 yards of plain calico —and, in the corre,pond ing six months of 1849, no less than 125;700,000 yards. To the same countries, i n 184 6, we exported of print, d calico, 52,300,000 yards, and in 1849 as many as 89,300,000 yards. And again, reducing these quantities to a pe r tentage comparizon, we have the following figures. The exports of 1849 have been more than those of 1846, in Plain calicoes by 3O per cent. Printed by 7l Si But not only are we prepared to analyze the total *xporis of these articles into groups of countries— we are equally ready to decompose these groups into separate states. We should like it to be gene rally known, that, so far are the Manchester people from being ruined by free trade, they have sold to the Levant alone, during the first six months of the present year, 21,200,000 yards of plain calico, and 16,400,000 yards of printed calico, more than during the same period of 1846—that to the United States the sale of plain calico has increased 17 per cent., while the sale of printed calico has increased tourfold—and that in the Mediterranean markets of Gibraltar and Malta our trutde in these cotton fabrics has been doubled. We have said little, thus far, of 1848, nor have we said anything of those countries which, during that year and the present, have been devastated by foreign or domestic war. These facts we reserve. But so far as we have gone we can scarcely be accused of timidity, or of having selected the topics and the time least favourable to those whose mis chievous hallucinations we would expose. Let it be borne in mind that 1849 has been, up to the present period, a year of dbly partial revival—that the field open to our enterprise and industry is still 'encumbered with the huge and disorderly fragments of an epoch of almost universal anarchy—and that we have not hesitated to challenge comparison between even the incipient pros perity of a free•trade year and the perfect and mature prosperity of a season which came as the climax of a long series. Let these circumstances be remembered, aad we can have no feeling butane of the utmost willing ness to leave the facts to make their ewn way, and the argument to tell its own story. TIMES.—If we return to the subject of the Peace Congress, whose meeting at Paris has just terminated, it is not that we are inclined to modify our opinion as to the utter absurdity of its proceedings from a more inti mate acquaintance with the sentiments of the speakers. The French press, we perceive—at least the more Mu - ential and authoritative representative of public opinion in that country—has taken precisely the same view of the case as we have done in London. Their utmost en logy has been to damn the Congress with the faintest praise that ever slipped from the pens of public writers. Not one single Frenchman of any weight in political affairs, with the single exception of M. Emile de Girar din, has by his presences countenanced the gathering. A s for MM. Coquerel and "Victor Hugo, it is the sacred pro fession of the first of these gentlemen to preach "Peace on earth, and goodwill towards men,"—and we have not a word to say against his appearance in public on such an occasion; but with Victor Hugo, the poet acd the novelist, it is a duff rent ,affair. How long ago is it since that gentleman favoured the world with a political dis sertation at the cod of a work bearing for title Le Rhin in which all the nations. of Europe were of ered up in a holocaust on the altar of' Bellona, so that France should be reinstated in what the , Author was pleased to describe as her natural limits. We are certainly gratified at finding M. Victor flpgv going mad rather on the subject of peace than of war, but we sadly fear for the stability of his impression, , . Breezes from the sweet soutb, impregnated with faint odours of the tuberose, the jessamine, and the orangeebloona to-day—to mor• row a gale that would do oonour to the Bay of Biscay or the Cape of Good Hor,e—such are the conditions of the Poetic) temperament, We look upon M. Victor Hugo's peace speech .a 1 his last work—aad a very feeble one it is—and there is an end of the matter. As for M. Emile da Girardie he is a very clever man; his worst enemy will not hi u ; ! hat attribute; and the Peace Notoriety 511i . tr 4 his p_ose just 1.7. There is a famous old passage, ' dear to purp ose Of 141:12414 :Uri° P°434l' and which Sir Robert Liglis loves to recite in his own oily way over poor Mr. Roebuck—it begins " Qui& Lula* Gracchos ?" and M. Etude de Girardin, hi his character of a peace-prophet, will not permit us to forget its force and application to modern times. We see in some of the reports of the last meeting that M. Coquerel opened its proceedings by producing a little book containing a scheme for universal peace, that had been conc , )cted by the Quaker Penn some hundred and sixty years ago. The scheme was us good a scheme as any of these devisers of airy nothings could have de• sired. llon:ist Penn, with his shovel-hat, had imagined something to the full as satisfactory' as the famous "arbitration idea" which is the leading characteristic el the present peace theory. Now, in spite of all the it :go nuity that bad be, n lavt , hsit by poor Peen on his greet plan for regen-rating inank:r.d, what fias•heen the his tory of Europi• since his day t Is it anything else than a record of wars—of Louis XIV. aid Marlborough's wars—of Chatham's wars—of Frederick the Great's wars—of Nspoleon's wa,s—and of we know not what wars beside ? What it fiance bus a little collateral preaching from a set of harmless enthusiasts ex erted up n the pis-ions, this prejudices, and the follies of mankind ? An Ear pan war is be coming every day more and more impossible, not though any peace preaching, but because by the natural development of society, a nation now-o'-days would refuse to enter upon an armed coniest to carry out the mere views of its rulers. In fact, as we piiinted out last week when writing upon this subject, interna tional wars—that is, the wars of nation against nation— are not the evil of the time. We are soinewnat more modest of prophecy than Mr. Cobden, or we should say, looking at what has taken place in Europe since the February days in Paris, and that the continental nations have passed through the fiery ordeal without a general war, that such an event appears now to be very ream'e indeed. Our friends of the Peace Congress, however, are firing their blank cartridges away at a delusive nark as merrily as a squad of raw recruits on practice days. If they would turn their attention to composing internal differences and social anomalies, each man in his own country, they would be much more usefully and profitably employed. The strange inconsistency of choosing Paris as the place of session for the Congress appears to have struck at least one of the speakers. We spoke just now of the production of Penn's little book by M. Coquerel, and of the effect it would most probably have produced on any one not blinded by prejudice, en thusiasm, or interest. But there was something before the eyes of every member of this precious peace meeting which should have been more convincing than even the practical exposition of a scheme such as their own, with its results. There was a monument before them more striking than the record of a Quaker's harmless folly; there was Paris itself, with its arches, its quays, and its bridges. The Congress was heal in a vast city, every brick and stone of which gave a practical denial to every one of their assertions. It you enter Paris by that mag nificent arch dedicated to the recollection of Napoleon and his triumphs, or pass along the quays and bridges which be ar the names of the great battles in which Frenchmen have triumphed; or enter the public galleries and look upon walls covered from the ceiling to the floor with painted representations of battle and slaughter —you will find the attention of the population, past and present, to have been busy with little else than the pomp, pride, and circumstance of the battle-field. Every little gamin you meet or see at his play is in some way or °tiltrprepar ing himselt for burning cartridges at a future nay. There is certainly a kind of propriety in holding a ses sion of a Peace Congress at such a place, just as there would be just now in giving lectures upon the Asiatic cholera in Walworth or Bethnal green; or as there would have been two years back in delivering a series of discourses upon probity in the neighbourhood ot Capel court. One word in conclusion. It is somewhat unfor tunate for Mr. Cobden that where foreign nations are concerned he never ventures upon a striking prediction without some event happening instantly afterwards to cover him with confusion. e all remember the time when Mr. Cobden, who had gone out from amongst us, like the dove, to report upon the condition of the troubled waters, came back. after a careful inves tigation, with a sprig of green in his mouth. No sooner, however, had he arrived than the windows of Ileaven were opened in every direction, and the flood begun in right earnest. That was the time when Mr. Cobden returned from his continental journey, to tell us that we were to have tranquillity in Europe for the'next century. The prophecy was uttered in January, 1848, or thereabouts. We have now a pendant to that little prediction. Some three or four weeks ago Mr. Cobden, at a public meeting, crumpled up a sheet of paper in his hand, signifying thereby that he was prepared to serve the Emperor of Russia in the same way on the smallest provocation, and that the Emperor in question had no greater force of resistance than the sheet of Bath pest so crumpled up. Well, now, look at Hungary, and think of this second instance of Mr. Cobden's political sagacity and foresight! Mr. Cobden will do well to re• member a very homely proverb, and confine himself to those topics with which he is practically acquainted, and in discussing which he has earned the high reputation he has lately seemed anxi,ius to d stray. 0) • • • 7: . 5 r; 0 o ` 9 700, Colchester Harwich Leigh ...... Mahlon .... 191 - 384 - • - 478, - 300 - 371 40 481 74 o Ps*J Wheat. B ar l ey . O ats. Beans. I„ 0 First 50, Od 28, O d 22s Od —s Od Second 47s 6d Od 213 61 —s Od I pd Third 423 Od 23s Od 19, Od —s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 280os. imp., 288 to 2950°' pd GLASGOW, AUG. 23.—Pro v i s i ons —C heese, 40 1 to 41 1 _, r per cwt ; retail, 54c1 to 6d per lb. Ski m milk, 18s to cwt. Country tri-sh butter, 9d to 10d per lb ; rbd dered, in lump s , 9d to 1 0 d ; country powdered, wholesale p, oil to Bd. C ountry eggs, 9d per dozen; carried hen ditto, 55 per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair; 2s Od. KxLso, AuG. 24.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s; ditto, ne - i i c ito to 4 a d ; b ar l ey, new, 17s to 20s Od ; ditto old, Os oots' Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s to 1550 d ; mon oats, 12s to 14s Od ; ditto new, Os Od to Os Od ; P e ti s , to 25s Od; b eans , 2 4s to 25s per boll of six imperial bou'ditto STIRLING, AUG. 24.—Wh ea t, f ore i gn, 22s to 26 s 04; per home, Os od to 030 d; ditto ditto new, 22s Od to 005; barlef,64; of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 17. Od to 19 2, oats, common, Os Od to O s Od ; di tto new, 1 2, 0 d to I"pisli ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Ud ; ditto ditto new, Os 04 ; 10 ,05• distillers, 35 s t o 38 s ; d itto b rewers, 375 0d to 395; !Oh per boll, Os 6d to Os Od; ditto new, 15s Od to 17s 6a ; jai° . 145 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 348 to 35s • ditto co; od; Os ' Od to 1 1 _ 0 4; ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, ditto new 26s Od to 28s • ditto per peck of 71bs, t ° r o 7d; fresh butter, per lb. gd to 10d; eggs per dozen, " hay per ton, 45s to 50s. nri PERTH, Ana. 23.—Wheat, 40s Od to 483 Od ; 28t to 25s Od ; oats, 17 s t o 20 5; peas and beans, 255 oa to per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 261 to 28s. d . FALKIRK, Aug. 23. —Th e supp l y o f gra i n i n t ; market was 230 bolls; wheat at 22s 6d to 23s 6d Fei - i i s Od barley, 00s Od t o O s Od ; oats , 14s 3d to 16 , 6d; b eat O P to 00s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. ditty HAWICK, AUG. 23.—Wheat, new, 378 Od to 43s Out tar old, 00s to 00s ; barley, new, 18s to 21s 6d ; potato 13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 2 33 to 25, Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25s Od 'per boll of six iioPe r bushels. , BERWICK, AUG. 23.—Wheat, 655 5d ; barley, 245 91d; oats, 20, ; rye, 00s Od ; b eans, 2 8s 8d ; peas, 00s 0 4 at ' rage per imperial quarter. NAVAL IA TELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Salutes from the flag ships and the platform at five o'clock this evening announced the arrival at Gosport of the Lords of the Admiralty to make their annual inspection of this important station. The movements of the Board of Admiralty having become so hackneyed a subject of detail, especially on petiodicaLvisits to the dockyards, and as all dockyards are much alike in their equip ment, and consequently afford no diversity for description in chronicling the perambulations of visitors, whether official or less consequential, we shall not inflict upon the reader the task of wading through the monotonous chapter of arrival, embark ing, saluting, steering, landing, reception, inspection of stores and houses, re-ernhirkings, re landings, and such like uninteresting minutia connected with the duties of this puissant body, but leave them to per form their tedious labours unintruded upon. Should their visit, however, be productive of any benefit to the port or to the service, or should any vessels be commissioned, new works ordered, or occurrence of interest take place consequent upon their Lordships' presence, the public shall have the benefit of it; but we think it high time that the chronicling of mere cursory inspections and " dining out " of official bodies should give place to the more sensible chroni cling of business. The Pallas, Russian frigate, did not sail last night for Madeira, as she appeared to have done by getting under way and firing salutes of 21 and 17 guns, but after working round Spithead, and displaying consi derable seamanship in her movements, she dropped anchor again to know the reason why her parting compliment of 21 guns to the garrison was not re turned. Captain Purcell, of the Superb, communi cated immediately with the Commander.in-Chief, and we believe the circumstance was through him com municated to the Lieutenant-Governor, as the salute was eventually fired by the Platform battery, a few minutes before eight o'clock, by moonlight. We are informed that a poor Marine sentinel is charged with the offence of not "reporting" the Russian's fire ; but at this moment (six P.m.) we have not time to inquire whether the report be correct or not. It seems, however, both too absurd and too tyrannical for truth. A salute from the garrison at so unusual an hour caused no little consternation at the port, no one but the officials knowing the cause. At six this morning the Pallas sailed for Madeira. The Elf4d, royal dispatch yacht, Master Com mander Ball iston, having had her bottom scrubbed and the needed stearn-ppes fitted, was taken out of deck to-day, ready for service. The Encounter screw corvette was taken into dock this morning, to Lave her bottom inspected, prior to commission by a Commander. Wind—West; light breezes and fine weather. PLYMOUTH, Mao. 25.—0 n Tuesday next, on board her Majesty's ship Impregnable, 104, Captain Sir T. Maitland, in Hanioaze, a court-martial is to be held for the purpose of trying Commander Pitman for alleged acts of cruelty, oppression, and tyranny, towards the officers and crew of her Mejesty's sloop Childers, 16, when recently in command of that ship on the African station. COAL .MARE E East Adairs Main 133 6d 1 Hedley's Hartley Holywell Main Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15s 6d snfield Moor Wylam .. Wall's End, &c. Brown's Gas . l3s 6: 1 Morrison lss 6 , Riddell's lss Od , Bell Belmont l6s 9 , Braddyll T.—YESTERDAY. IlTetton Haswell l7s !,; Lsmbton 17$ fi Russell's Hetton 17 uu • 6d Stewart's ............. : Kelloe iss West Hartlepool 165 ;id Adelaide Tees Consett Tees 17$ , 4 tees Alloa - 92 64 Garnaut 5t0ne....... • Bartley .......... 16$ Ships at market, 109' RAILWAY SHARE MARKET S ' BRISTOL — Au.a. 27. 4131 ' STOCK EXCHANGE.T he market has been As . ' -f0 s scarcely any transaction s h av i ng b een closed i n Exchang hours. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27. ; Wa g. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business down acted in our share market to-day, and prices have a u u , or d, ward tendency. The sales are—Birmingham and 0% , 24—Great Northern, 11% dis.— 'itto (5 per centPrefere2lutti'.,', 1 5 ,4 dis. - Lancashi re an d Y or k s hi re, F i fths. 4 dis. vt:ern, Halves (L. and 8.),12% di s. —L ondon and N ort h- _ 148 c.— itto, New Quarters, 2% p.—Midland, 624 Ditto, Halves, 15% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick N. E. Purchase). Preference, guaranteed 6 per cent., 413 —Shropshire Union, 5-s. ' d. dis. MANCHESTER, Aug. 27. _ Dm 0 Excitation. —The transactions foIIo STOCK w : Eastern Counties, 8 4 E ast Lancashire, y Prefereric -7,-;,—Dover, No. 4 (Scrip), 6 13-16 —Manchester and Leal' — al Fifths, 4 1-16 dis.—M anc h ester and Birmingham kw' Quarters, 2 13-IM p. BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 27, STOCK EXCHANGE.— There has been a considerable 01' vance in the price of South Staffordshire shares which whic h : l b er6 i r' done at 4% dis—North Staffordshire, 6 1 4 d' shroP- Union, 3 dis. Sir Henry Floyd, Bart., accompanied by Cap Peel, R.N., ca me pasierigers by t h e General Stea m o vigation Comp any ' s steam-ship Soho, from Antwerp yesterday, a n d arr i ved in London early Yester " morning. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Astoniabing Cure of very o d Bad Leg of Thi r ty Y ears ' Standing by Holloway's p r is e f ►intStockton-on-Tees,ment,—The wife of M r . G eorge Bourne, butcneA4l Stockn-on-Tees, suff ere d f or full thirty years with a dre ad bad leg, apparentlyoriginating by the b urst i ng of a vein in te naily r es ; the pair was intens e . Th e most eminen t medical _ in the neighbourhoOd tried to cure it, but in vain ; at last ' P was induced to try Holloway's Pills and Oi n t men t, when, t, the astonishment of herself and all who knew her, the leg, A, the course of eig ht wee k s , was th oroug hl y h ea l e d and ca, l r i `": and has remained soun d an d f ree f ro m p a i n f o r the last S . msotwatbhiLT.Seonit. 2db4, by all Strand, Dru London.ggists.ancl at Professor HoL oWAY E FATAL ACCIDENT TO Tun HON. T. E. PAGET GRAVES: ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—On Friday after noon the second master of her Majesty's ship Impreg nable, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., the flag ship at Devonport, and Mr. Croke and Mr. De Mon tezuma, midshipmen, and Mr. Brownrigg and the Hon. Thomas Edward Paget Graves, naval cadets, were in a small shore boat, cruising about the Hamoaze, when, passing between the Impregnable and the Mount Edgecumbe shore, a proposal was ma d e by Mr. Croke to change seats with the second master, and Mr. Graves, who had been steering, proposed that some one should change with him, so that he might pull awhile. All the parties stood up in the boat to make these changes, and immediately the boat upset, and they were all precipitated into the water. The second master and Mr. de Montezuma, on rising to the surface, caught hold of the boat, which was lying keel up, and held on until they were taken off by a boat from her Majesty's brig Crane, on board of which the accident had been observed. Mr. Croke took charge of Mr. Brownrigg, and with him swam towards the shore, and after having proceeded some distance, was taken on board a boat by Mr. Banks, ship-builder, of Cremill, who, on seeing the accident, had at once called the assistance of some of his work people, and put off in a boat in the hope of relieving the young gentlemen from their perilous position. Having Mr. Croke and his charge on board, Mr. Banks wired if all were safe, and found that one was missing; and this turned out to he the Honourable Mr. Graves. After rowing round the place where the boat had upset, a young man, named Robert Bruce, in the employ of Mr. Banks, be. lieving he saw the deceased some distance down in the water, gallantly dived, but found the object he had noticed to be a handkerchief; which he brought up. Drags were obtained, and after about one hour ' and a half's labour the b o d y o f the unfortunate )(hung gentleman was recovered, quite dead. The deceased was the eldest son and heir of Lord Graves ; he was a naval cadet belonging to the Southampton, Admiral Reynolds flag-ship, but was serving on board the Impregnable, and was about thirteen years of of age. The body was subsequently removed to the No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun O ffi ce, 1 4 % 7 44 4 London: Print©d and Published by KURD° YOteb-1, 2 , family residence on the banks of the Tamar, and I Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the o kudcueoz, Tuesday, August 28, 18* about two miles sad h a lf fk om t h e some of the sea- BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., at Heydon-house, Essex, the wife of d i. Rev. C. Boothby, of a son. • I' On the 23d inst., at Weetbourne-terrace-road, the in.° cf E. M. Perkins, Esq., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Oak-cottage, Hanover-park, Peckl lB°4 the wile of Mr. E. Fyffe, of a daughter. obyr On the 23d inst., at Gainsborough, the wife of M. -- jun., Esq., of a daughter. On the `44th inst., at Southampton-place, S'ew-road, 21111 R. D. M'Cracken, of a son. bra , On the 24th inst., at Stanley-villas, K ens i ng t on -par k, G. Hay hees, of a son. On t 25th inst ,at Gresham-place, D a lt on , Mrs. r ode rick W. Pr ce. of a son. On the 25th inst., at Stratford, .Essex, the wife of Van Putten, of a son. MARRIED. k On the 14th inst., at St. J o h n ' s , N otting-hill, F re ieric Bell, Esq., of Springfield, High W ycom b e, to C aro line Jc": 11 . son, third daughter of the late William Barr, Esq' , °I .134 place, Peckham, ile. At the Cathedral, M anc h ester, on the 23d inst., Neil Pf nisb, Esq.. merchant, to E liza, third daughter of T. —war , Esq., the Howe, Douglas, Isle of Man. Mr on On the ' , 3d inst., at St. G eorge ' s, H anover square, von, Dennis, second son o f M r. R. Dennis, of Hartland , 1, 0 to Elizabeth, s econ d d aughter of the late Mr. J. 11° " it'°1, of Winchester. DIED On the 2lst i ns t , at Old hrompten, aged 6'. th e 1161:10. Morgan, many ' years curate of St. Martin's-in-the -Fier and late of Camden-villas, Camden-town. t nd- On the 20th inst., a ge d 39, H e l e n, the wife of E. it- '''''-- cock, Esq. B of On the 20th inst., at Pentonvir.e, aged 44, Mr. Bird' s-4 Bow Church-yard. On the 2,:d inst , at Margate, Anna, the wife of C. Cradock, Esq., of Burton-crescent, Tavistock-place. aged 58. Esq-, Of On the 23d inst., aged 95. Arthur Palmer, sen. , Park-row, Bristol. We On the 23d inst., at Putney, Harriett, daughter of the Charles Shepherd, Esq, of Bedford-row. r wen On the 23d inst., at Cheltenham , the Rev. Ralph ~,e Benson, formerly rector of Easthope, Shropshire, aged 50. ~ At °acre-terrace, Lee, Kent, on the 24 th inst., Ann, se cOnu daughter of the late Mr. J. Clark. dent. On Saturday an inquest was held on view the remains before Major Herring, the Mayor o t, I Saltash, when a verdict of " Accidentally drowned , Iva! returned. The interment of the body is to take place in the family vault at Antony this day. It is remarkable circums!ance that Lieutenant, Boys °` the Impregnable, had only on the previous day beep speaking to the d ecease d an d young B rownr i ggs loll learning to swim, a n d h a d g i ven M r. Brownrigg °13„" les:on in the arts, and the deceased had consulted hts father about learning to swim. As Mr. Brownrigg had got so much confidence by his single lesson as i n swim a fe.v strokes, it may be presumed that this ls some measure contibut e d t o hi s escaping t h e fate of hi , . young triend. SUNDAY, At:G. 26.—1 n honour of the birthday the Plince Cori,ort, P r i nce Alb ert, the Rqiii Standard was hoisted at an ear l y h our at al l t h e nsvi arid military stations, at th e R oya l W estern YseP k t Club, and at other publ ic establishments, and the i ; naval and merchant s hip s i n port were profuse's decora'ed with fLigs. A t one o'clock royal salu tes were filed from the citad e l at Pl ymouth, the plat at Mount Wise, a n d th e b a t tery at Mount Edgeeug97l and were promptly responded to by her Blajes t f is flag ship Impregnable, 104, Captain Sir Dot, Maitland, in Hamoaze, and by the steam bloclou'r La Hogue Captain M'D o u ga ll, i n B arn poo l. Wind—N.W., light breeze and fine weather. WooLwicu, AUG. 27.—The African steam Ye ss ' if was taken out of the inner basin to-day, being na again nearly ready for service. The Vivid steam-ve sse l, C ap t a i n Smithett, bee returned to Dover, and resumed her duties as a 13°1 l. packet on that station. This vessel, when attenl the Queen as one o f th e roya l squadron, per forine . . her work rema r kably we ll, an d proved the faste st ; well as the most ser v i cea bl e vesse l i n the Wb° squadron. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. o f The following is the official statement of the quantitil s in corn, &c., received i n t h e port of London from the Por,l4g, Essex, from the 20th Aug., 1849, to the 25th Aug., both inclusive : CHELMSFORD, Ausi. 24 —We had a large supply d wheat in good con d ition at our market this cay, and 01 of it was s o ld at a b out ,h e pr i ces of last week. Last les f o crop is now almost unsaleable at any price, °d s. samples are generally re j ecte d . All else without l ois Io Wheat, white, old 44s to 50s; new 46s to 525; fedt i ller Id 40s to 420; new, 40 s t o 46 s ; barley, —s to —a ; 01k°,, 4 b4i —s to —s; grindi ng 22 s to 28s; oats 17s to 235; ° la ; to to 565; chevalier 54 s t o 58 s ; peas, partridge, new ku,;"l,; 3is ; old, 30s to 32 s ; w hi te , new, 28s to 30s ; old, 29, to dun, new, 278 to 30s ; beans, tick, new 289 to 31s ; old, to 31s; harrow ti c k s , new 2 8s to 31s; old 303 to 32 9 ; op Sagan, new 243 to 26s ; old 26s to 28s per qr. j 4 20 , COLCHESTER, Auo. 25.—Wh eat , w hi te 4 6 3 to 52 s ; joie to 465; barley 3U s t o 00 s; beans, mazaga.n 26s to 28s; mid and small 28s to 30s; peas 26, to 30a per qr. Of H ADDINGTON, A tic. 24.—The following are the prices grain at our market to-.day W heat. Barley. Oats. Bpd First ... 54s Od :18s Od 223 Od 3 : 3 04 Second 463 9d 26a 8d •20s 7d 323 Third 40s 6d 24s Od 179 Od 315'014 Total quantity of Wh ea t i n mar k et 296 qrs., 28 1 c j i l Do. Ba r l e y d o. 51 qrs., 5 , 5 0 5 1 d Do. O a t s d o. 234 qrs., x " Do. Beans do. 39 45 ors., quota KIRICALDY, Auc. 25.—Th e f o ll ow i ng are the Tic.' up to this date : - ....-' 88 5 10 0° 781 4444 Sir Aru 'ho Don Sam n fc rand Sur i D in p Tor i Pe In G of e v Doti licies Inenl num A O , 0111 Tb Polk Tt -Lend to re T 1 With Si ne twat] has, feitu at tb alzti au e , it; .$ ‹.,. Rey Eci n ; lien otoz am Pr torw .e.dm A