The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

, MO the SHAREHORDERS of the SOUTH- EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. One of the retiring Directors having obtained numerous proxies on the faith of Ids using them for himself only, and `this gentleman having since avowed his intention of using them, not only to secure his own, but the re-election also of all the other retiring Directors, such Shareholders as have given their proxies for the special purpose stated in the application forth= , a copy of which is subjoined, are ea! neatly r.luested to attend the GENERAL MEETING, on THURS DAY, the 28th inst., in order in person to prevent their proxies being used for other purposes than those for which they were solicited. Extract from WlCay's circular accompanying his proxies : " I am, therefore, under the necessity of again troubling you for your proxy, in order to give effect to your selectien of me as one of your Directors, and permit me to request that it may be returned at your earliest convenienee." GEORGE MAXWELL, Holder of Liverpool and other Proxies. THEATRE ROYAL, DRULY.LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. I'. Smith., THIS FVENING, NOT 1 3AD JUDGE. 3 .3'n ludo with NET DIDDLE DIDDLTA ar. tia.rtequtn ging Nonsense and the Seven Agei of Mau. TIMATRE ROYAL, 11_8.VMARKET. Miler the MatiAgament of Mr. Bucket:Me. 1C1.1C3 EVMSINO, TYE BUSY BODY. Followed by THE LITTLE TitEAURE. Atter which the New Goinic Chriat:nas Pantomime, entitled THE RIITTERFLY'R BALL ANT) THE GIZASAHOPPEIV3 FE AST ; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. ROYAL PRINOI:33'i Tril'ATßg. OX7OIIO-STRECT, Under the Management of Arr. CUABIZII KW". TIIIi NV'ZNIN'G, The Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet by Mr. C. Kean. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE MUD AND TLL MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and /Lanky Panty. the Enchanter. ihriequf h. Mfr. Cornaacec • flown. %(r. Milne ; Pantaloon, lift Panlo ; and Cohnnhine. Bliss CArOIIIIC Adams. TIMATRE ROYAL ADELPEIL P:optletor, ?dr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING. BETSY BAKER. To be Mowed by TIIAT BLESSED BABY. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN' STALK: or, Harlequin and Mother QOO3O at Home n. In which Masai's. J. Bland. P. Redford, Madam Celeste, Miss ►Yyndham, and Miss E. Arden will ap,eir. ROYAL OLY )11 1 1C THEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Alfre I Wigan. THIS EVENING. STAY AT HOME. After which will be produced a New and denhly-moral, though eicessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled VIZ orscazEr parg ,- , , gsi; tha Thres Giais Distarn. I n which messrs. Erne-y, F. Itabso2, H. Cooper, Miss Marstoi, and Miss Afasitell will appall', ROY ,11", StrIREY TEIIMTRE. Lessees, Mears. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING JASPER LANGTON . ; or, A Duel to the Death. To conclude with A PRINCE Or P T.ARLS.; or, flarleiuln anl lane Shore. LOYAL iTaAND TilEATIte. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THI3 PEACE AT ANT PRICE. Followei by TEIE 11.331 . ANNC WIDO T. ftex which, LE CHALET. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. AsTLnrs ZOr.IL Lome and Mana.ter, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THl't EVENING, Exemplification of tbe perfect docility of the horse, in actionl cloeely - allied to reason, in anew Grand Oriental Eqnertrian Spectacle, called THE ARAB 01' DEAERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. The hone traine3 by Mr. VT. Cooke. • After which, the DELINEATIONS of EQUESTRIAN ART in the ARENA. To conclude with BARI, TQUIN AND CT. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON - ; or, the Seven Chaaipioni of Chrietendwn. The Perfeinance of the Waje,tic E'epharifs will tike place during the Evening, and the ascent from the ring to the stage. Box-ofilce open from Maven till 'sour. Ste,Te Maaaor, `Sr. W West. Equestrian Director, W. Cooke, jun. EMSIA. KTINTLEY'S SEVF.NT A.GZS W)'LtN, Every Evening at S, and on Saturdays at 3. Pronounced by the unanimous vo , no of the brews. and by Mealy increasing audiences, to be the Greatest Artistical Triumph of the day. Stalls, 3s. ; Reserve.l Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, Is. SAINT MARTIN'S ILtLL, Long-acre. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tire DAT—Morn. 32 min. aft. s—Evening 48 min. aft. 0 RR° rv—Morn. 3 min. aft. 6—Evening 21 min. aft. 6 THE WEATHER—Sux OFFICE, FRB. 27. THERMOMETER, IN VIZ SHADR. 56 highest since noon yesterday. —iowest this morning and daring the night. 52 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-30 47—rising. WIND, N.N.W. - Light, with dull weather. 1 A . , ~.._, ) j,..,4"- , „,:t,,,;, , i-i----..„: . , - )43 , <11. , 1 r,„.. _. ...,_ „A., _, _ -, -.., .- --.-rj.-=;.!..-i44 L3NDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 185 G The appointment of the " Crimean Commis sion," as it has been termed, will not pass alto gether sub siblntio. Not only has the Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Member for Sheffield already given notice that he will, on Friday next, move the following resolution : " That to appoint a Committee of General Officers to report upon the Report of Sir JOHN M'NECL and Colonel TuLLocu, is to substitute an inefficient for a very efficient means of investiga tion, and that such appointment will tend to strengthen an opinion already prevalent, that the real purpose of such proceeding is to shelter in competence, and excuse the misconduct of those by whom various departments of our army have been subjected to the command of proved inca pacity ;" but the Right Honourable Baronet the Member for Droitwitch has announced his inten tion of proposing an amendment, which, although different in terms, is equally condemnatory of the conduct of the Government in striving to shield the accused parties from the consequences of their alleged misconduct. The resolution to be proposed by Sir JOUN PAKINC:TON is in the following terms: " That, in the opinion of this House, the Reports of Sir JOHN APNFaL and Colonel TULLOCH ought to have been submitted to the Commander-in- Chief before they were presented to Parliament, whereby her MAJESTY'S Government might have avoided the objectionable proceeding of appoint ing a commission to inquire, without equal or adequate means of information, into the conclu sion& at which another commission had arrived ; *and, while this House laments the indication thus given of a want of concert and co-operation between the offices of the Secretary of State for War and th e C omman d er . in-Chief, which cannot be interrupted with ou t ser i ous injury to the p u bli c service, it, also observed with regret the prema ture appointment to posts of importance in this country, while the inquiry of the Commissioners was still in progress, of officers whose conduct is impugned by the said re orts " p . Let Ministers choose between the two. It will be at best a disagreeable alternative. Either horn of the dilemma. will be peculiarly painful. itut they can scarcely hope to escape with inapt tiity, when the, Members on both sides of th e House are eletermined to question the policy and justice of their proceedings. The new Commission is neither more nor less than a reversing of the ordinary course. It IS placing the quondam Judges on trial, and chang ing the accused into Crown prosecutors. Sir Jo my M'NZIL and Colonel TuLLociit, who dig- c h arg ed the arduous duty entrusted to their c h arge with such zeal and impartiality, who have won golden opinions from all classes of her MA.. Jasn's subjects, an :law virtually impeached. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEINIINO. FEBRUARY 27, 1856. The materials which they li ad before them when they so strictly investigat ed the objectionable transactions are not now a vailable, or, at least, cannot be produced without great delay. Their inquiry was conducted on the spot, with a super abundance of creditable witnesses, capable of giving full information on every point on which it was required. They had every element neces sary to arrive at a fair conclusion ; and a further investigation on any preliminary stages, and more especially on inferior data, is practically impeach ing the accuracy of the con cl unions at which they con scientiously arrived ! Who will, under such circum stances, be willing to act as Royal Commissioners when titled personages--or, as the sailors term it, " Gentlemen with handles to their names "—are concerned ? It must be manifest, from the course now adopted, that unless they are prepared to cook the evidence, and to make things pleasant to the accused under any circumstances, however in auspicious, they had better avoid the invidious task. We have had already two stringent inves tigations. The Committee of the House of Com mons seriously inculpated the parties on whom the inquiry has been nominally directed. It was attempted to get rid of the effect of this severe censure, and a Royal Commission was appointed. But the additional chance thus afforded did not turn up favourably for the ac• cused. The high-minded and honourable men selected not only corroborated and confirmed the former Report, but materiallystrengthened its most serious features. The first chance being un favourable, another stake of " double or quits," as a morning contemporary correctly terms it, was proposed ; and should that again prove adverse —should the veteran officers nominated refuse to blemish their high reputations by casting their own characters into the breach a fourth trial, in the shape of a Court-martial, must take place before the national justice can be adequately vindicated. The result cannot be satisfactory under any circumstances. The manifest object is to screen the accused. But when it is considered that the inquiry will be conducted with closed doors—that no' gzounds for the decision can be produced to the anxious public—that any judgment must totally fail, other parties will be inculpated. The veteran Generals, if they lend themselves to this plan, or suffer themselves to fall blindfold into the snare so unfairly spread in their way, will be the sufferers. But under any circumstance the sinister influence that pervades alike the Cabinet and the Horse Guards, which is omnipotent at Dawning-street and Whitehall will be at once brought into unto ward notice, and the cup of public indignation, already full to the brim, may possibly overflow at the unequivocal testimony of the deplorable effects of " Germanism," in matters in which the honour and welfare of the United Kingdom are so deeply involved. The Spanish proverb, " Prisons are never beau tiful," conveys a sentiment worthy of an English origin, and certainly finds no exception in New gate. Rugged, grimy, and frowning, its pon derous architecture is but too suggestive of the glorious days of GEORGE the TIIIRD, when the gallows ran a hard race at decimation with gaol fever, to excite nowadays much admiration. It is a structure of the past, in keeping with it, but quite out of harmony with the present, where those who enter, generally ;peaking, are not called upon to leave hope behind. Stone walls, however, not unfrequently outlive institutions as well as individuals, and a rugged exterior is sometimes compensated for by the excel lence or internal arrangements. To this commenda tion even, as appears from the Report of the Com missioners appointed to inquire into its state, Newgate has no claims. Rugged and depressing A 3 is its exterior, within little is to be found worthy of anything but unqualified censure. Prisoners, .it is true, are better fed, and have more comforts than they used to have, thanks to the advancing humanity of the times ; but this praise is hardly less applicable to dog kennels, while in the matter of discipline it will at least admit of doubt whether kennel manage ment does not bear away the palm. It is no exaggeration, but an admitted and certainly a de plorable fact, that the central prison of the me tropolis is to this day without a system—not that no system applicable to a great city prison has been discovered, but that Newgate as it stands will not admit of one. The following extract from the Report will show the state of affairs within its walls :—" Its present structural condition is such as to render any satisfactory classification of the prisoners alto gether a hopeless task, and the carrying out of any well-considered plan of discipline an utter im possibility. No satisfactory separation can, in its present condition, be effected, because or the insufficient number of cells, and no satisfactory supervision is practicable with anything like the present number of officers. 'We believe that as much as could be done, in reference to those great desiderata, is done ; but until -some very import ant alteration is made in the physical structure of the interior of the budding, Newgate must con tinue to be a standing reproach to the city of London. The want of proper supervision, and its impossibility in the present state of the gaol, is, must be, a source of constant anxiety to filiCh Governor, if only ua account of the safe custody of the prisoners. Groups of half-a-dozen or more being locked up together for many long hours,, without the presence of au officer, they naturally discuss the chances of escape. It is well known_ . that last year three prisoners got away by breaking out of the gaol, and within this very month an attempt was made during one night to escape by breaking through the wall of one of the yards. The num ber there confined together W 43 five, three of whom were old offenders ; the other two are sup posed to have been unwilling, inactive observers. They cleared away the brickwork by raking out the joints of mortar with a long nail, but their progress was checked by the solid massive masonry of the exterior face of the wall, and the next day the imperfectly concealed operation was discovered by the officer. It need hardly be stated that no ?mis chief of this sort could possibly have been attempted at Holloway." In other worth, the supplementary Newgate, which, though under the sannauthori tieB, has for years presented a striking contrast—a system being in operation there, and the keeper looking after the prisoners, instead of, as at New gate, the prisoners looking after the keeper ! To crown all, the Old Bailey —the Central Criminal Court—is constructed on such a plan that, accord • lug to Alderman SIDNEY, " during the last few years several prosecutions have been abandoned, and the summary jurisdiction of magistrates asked for, rather than parties should be put to the in- convenience and annoyance of mixing with the .. __.„ persons who loitered about the Central Criminal Court. In fact there was no proper accommoda- A pretty Lion for either prosecut ors or witnesses." state of things truly. Justice i•, sad to be blind, —so she is turned into a bagnio, and surrounded by rogues and vagabonds at large ! To remedy these evils three plans have bon constructed and laid before the Committee. Tho first embraces alterations which would give 120 separate cells, at a cost of 10,0001., and in the opinion of the Committee, if carried out, would enable the Governor to establish a degree of separation and supervision which would be almost, if not altogether, unobjectionable. The second boldly grapples with the evils complained of, and proposes the entire demolition of the Courts and of the gaol, and there -construction of the former, and of such portion of the latter as will suffice for the custody of prisoners while the trials are going on —with this exception, doing away with Newgate altogether. The cost of carrying out this plan is estimated at 87,0001., against which is to be set the sum of 9,0001., being the value of land set free by the alteration. The third plan may be described as subsidiary to the second, and pro vides such addition to the Holloway Prison as will enable it to receive the prisoners now kept in Newgate. Of these plans the first has met with the approbation of the majority of the Court of Aldermen, and this much may be said in its favour, it may hereafter be merged in the larger one. It will admit of rea sonable doubt, however, whether in this instance the wisdom has not been with the minority, and in their advocacy of the larger plan they have not merely show* a better appreciation of the absolute necessities of the case, but also a more prudent regard for real economy. The plan of the majority is on the face of it ex tremely defective, and if carried out will shortly have to be merged in that which has been rejected. The heart of a crowded metropolis is no place for a prison. The " Treaty Map," just published by WYLD, furnishes a most clear and startling view of the acquisitions obtained from neighbouring States by the Colossus of the North, through a career of encroachment unequalled since the days of the wholesale pirates of the Seven Hills. By "Treaties" Sweden was on four several occasions mulcted of her extensive possessions on the coasts of the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia. By " treaties " Persia gave up territory exceeding the area of the whole of England ; China was deprived of tracts of enormous extent ; Poland, like the victim in the jaws of the merciless boa, was gradually absorbed in the insatiable maw of Muscovite ambition ; and the several items of plunder of which the Otto man Empire was in like manner, from time to tims despoiled, are collectively equal to the entire of the Spanish Peninsula. This system of gigan tic robbery has been in unremitting operation, growing with its growth, and strengthening with its strength, for upwards of a century, and the experience of the last very few years 11 Is thoroughly satisfied the world that Russia was filially bent on making a grand and long-meditated coup on Con stantinople, and thereby becoming absolute mis tress of the Black Sea, and developing her preda tory propensities on the waters and coasts of the Mediterranean. There is now another Treaty on the Lapis, in which Russia, is no longer in the ascendant, whereon she cannot enforce her ukases with the high hand, or compel her victims to submit to any terms she may think proper to dictate, however unpalatable or injurious. The tables have indeed been completely turned, and the people anxiously look forward to the use that may be made of the golden opportunity. The "Treaty Map" shows the very moderate extent of our demands. The line running through Bess arabia, and taking back scarcely a third of the ter ritory plundered from Turkey in 1812, indicates the full extent of the retribution demanded from Russia. She is required to disgorge no other portion of her enormous plunder, and that is net for the benefit of the sefferer, but of Austria, who has stood by, backing Russia until she saw a fitting occasion for benefit ting herself at the expense of both parties. Is this what the spirit of German ism has done for Europe, and for England, when such things may be effected without danger and almost without remonstrance ? CABINET COUNCIL. —A. Cabinet Couhcil was held yes terday afternoon at the Foreign Office, Do xning-street. The ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, E irl Granville, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmura, the Chancellor ,t the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. I'. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat two hours. The Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort have signified their intention to dine with h;s ft)yal Highness the Duke of Cambridge on Friday next, at the Royal Duke's residence, St. James's Palace. His Majesty the King of the Belgians intends to leave Brussels toe week after next, in order to visit her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. It is said that his Majesty's sojourn will not exceed six days. M. Lannartine is said to be revising for the press a new volume of poems entitled " Des Illusions." HER MtJESTY'S VISIT TO THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S - PARK.--Yesterday naot ning, shortly after ten o'clock, ber Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, attended by the C )untess of Des irt, Major•Gen , :ral Bonverie, and Captain Du Plat, visited the Royal Zoo logical G'ar,ictie, Regent's-pa;it. The Qieen was re. ceived by tin inauaLfiiig 'directory arid professors, and =ducted over the gardens. The royal party remained a very considerable time. ThIR WEST MARIPOSA COMPANY. —At a meeting of this company, held yesterday, it was resolved to accept the p;•oposal of the disect.ms to return 4s. GI. per share out of the remaining assets of the undertaking. TIE RECTORSHIP OF ALIIIISCHAL COLLEGE.—W e learn that lelters have been rec-ived from the Duke, of Newcasde and from the Lord Advocate declining to be nominated for the rectorship of Marischad College._ Aberdeen Herald. NEW JOINT-STOCK BANK. —Tile prospectus has been issued o f another j.)iiit-3t()&i bank, to be called the West Metropo:itaii, with a capital ,rlf 300,0001., in 1001. shares. Lord Torrington is the chairman, acd it is pro posed to undertake the business of army and navy agency as a distinct d3partment. TiE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—At the half•yearly meeting of this company, held yesterday, a dividend wag declared of 144. per share (or at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum), together with the usual winual bonus of 2i. 61. per share, both free of income tax. HAYMARKET THEATRE. —Mr. Bucketone announces the present week to be the last of his excellent Christ mats Pantomime of " The Butterfly's Ball and the Grass hopper's Feast," Saturday next being the 63d and last time of its representation. A. new and original comedy from the pen of B kyles Bernard, Esq., is in rehearsal, and is to be produced next week ; while preparations for novelty at Easter are in active progress. Her Ma jesty and Prince Albert on their visit to this theatre on Friday last, to witness "The Little Treasure," were graciously pleased to express their satisfaction in the warmest terms. Thai; still popular and well-acted comedy is performed tonight for the eightieth time. A CAUTION TO SHIPPERS.—At the Liverpool Poiice court on Monday, Daeiel W. Rae, drysalt-'r, South John-street, was summoned by Inspector Hassell, for having sent to the ship Ala, lying in St. Ge rrge'e Dock, 20 casks, containing bottles of rnuriatic acid, without having labelled the same, and given notice to the Dlck• master, thereby rendering himself liable to a fine of 201. Mr. Rae said he hal verbally communicated the fact to Mr. Purnell, the Dackreaster. In consideration of this the mijgated penalty of si. was inflicted. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE EIGHT-OARED RACE.--it bas now been finally settled that this event shall take place on Saturday, the 15th of March, and as it is high water on that day at a very early hour, it will ho, in all probability, rowed down from Mortlake to Putney. NEW BISHOP OF CARLlSLE.—Whitehall, Feb. 25, 1856.—The Queen has been pleased to order a cong( l d'aire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Carlisle to elect a bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of Dr. Hugh Percy, late bishop thereof; and her Majesty ban also been pleased to recommend the Rev. Henry Montagu Villiers, M.A., to be elected by the said dean and chapter, Bishop of the said see of Carlisle. ALDERSHOTT CAMP.—A bill, introduced by Lord Pal merston and Mr. Monsell, extinguishes certain rights of way over certain roads and paths in the parishes of Al dershott, Yateley, and Farnham, which have heretofore been common lands, situate near Aldersbott Camp. The bill excepts the turnpike-road from Farnham to Bagshot, and that from the village of Aldershott to the said turn pike-road, at a distance of 300 feet eQ3ith cf the third agleam frOm Farnham to liiguizok • LATEST NEWS. LARGE ISSUE OF TREASURY BILLS. BERLIN, FEB. 25. An Imperial (Russian) uklse has ordered the immediate issue of Treasury bills, in seven series, amounting, in the aggregate, to 21,000,000 roubles. A Cabinet courier has arrived with despatches for Count Orloff at Paris. It is said that Russia consents to what is demanded relative to the islands of Aland and Kars. The Post Ampt Gazette. contains the follow ing letter from Vienna, of the 23d :—"Ac counts from Batoum state that the British Government has taken steps to exchange General Williams and the other English officers wt :o were made prisoners at Kars. An English steamer has been at Batoum for the last three weeks, awaiting letters from the general, to whom the captain on his arrival had sent both letters and baggage from England. But the last news from Tiflis only ga to the 20th January, the com munications being cut off by the extreme rigour of the winter. Accounts from Kamiesh state that General Luders has recalled all the superior staff officers who were on leave at Odessa. There are not more than 42,000 men at Nicolaieff, Perekop, and Cherson. The fortifications at Nicolaieff and along the river have been continued during the winter with great activity. The military stations in the Crimea have again received provisions for three months." THE WAR IN ASIA. ERZEROUM, JAN. 29. A French merchant has just arrived here from Tiflis, by the way of Alexandropol and Kars. It appears certain that the Russians are preparing to invest our city in the spring. They are alro.(ly e3cupied in disciplining the Armenian and Georgia' levies. The regular army of the Caucasus consists at present of about 80,000 men. Of these 10,000 are in Tiflis, 10,000 are stationed so as to serve as a protection against Schamyl, 10,000 watch the army of Omer Pacha, and the remaining 50,000 are close to our frontier, under the command of General Mouravieff. In addition to these forces they will have in the :Ewing 20,000 new troops, more or less disciplined. We hear at last that we are to have here an Eng• lish army of 30,000 foot and 10,000 horse. It is reported that this force will be under the command of Sir Cohn Campbell. It is tolerably certain that the Egyptian troops to be sent here will amount to 30,000 men. ‘Ve hear that for some days past strong Russian detachments were seen in the neighbourhood of Olte, sixteen hours' journey diJtant from here. Their intenth.m is, perhaps, to get possession of the stores of corn in the district. the peace, as the measure best calculated for set tling, all the questions , f real imp or t ance t o th ose Powers. The final re s ult of this congress would be the establishment of a new international balance of power, in harmony with the changes which have taken place during the last forty years." The Augsburg Gazette states, from Vienna, that the mortga ge b an k annexe d to the national bank is about to be re-organised by the Minister of Finance. Hitherto the mortgage bank was only accessible to great landholders ; the minister now proposes to render it available to the smaller ones also. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Feb. 19.—The finance committee pur sue their deliberation upon the measures of Sr. Dontes ; but, judging from the tone assumed by the organs of the Opposition, it seems unlikely that there will be any substantial hostility shown to the more important clauses of the Minister's report. A meeting has been held by the Portuguese bondholders in this city, who appear to think them selves entitled to be placed upon the same footing as the foreign holders of government stock. The other day the Duke of Saldanha and the Count Thomas found themselves face to face in the Chamber of Peers, which by the way was the first meeting in the public arena since the .o►erthrow of the Cabral administration. Thomas seized the op portunity to animadvert ut on certain expressions the duke is said to have used at the time of the poli tical changes, in which he, the count, was accused of serious speculations. Of course the house listened with bated breath to the wordy warfare of two such leading men iu their first parliamentary encounter, and it was thought that the old Duke's reply was quite worthy of his soldier-like reputation, for, in stead of withdrawing the imputation, he very po litely strengthened it by adding that he meant it strictly in a personal sense, and not as applying to the administration of the ex-Minister. This would seem to establish guerre a l'outrance between the two statesmen. In Port—Her Majesty's ship Glatton (floating battery) and St. George, steam-transport Europa. The Igniz de Castro (s.s) has arrived from Glas gow ; the Cintra (s.s.) has sailed for Liverpool. A. letter from Cattaro of the sth, in the German, Journal of Frankfort, says :—" The discontent in Montenegro is increasing. The taxes are being collected with great rigour. The Prince has, moreover, sold the property of the convents, which has produced a bad effect. The Prince has like wise excited anger by having offended a Montene grin chief and deprived him of an hereditary em ployment." RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS FOR PEACE! The following letter has been received in Paris from Stockholm, dated Feb. 12 : " Public opinion throughout Europe seems to have undergone such a sudden and unacccuntable change that you probably will be surprised to hear that there is one remote corner of the globe where some doubts are still entertained concerning the sincerity of Russia, some ap prehension still felt that peace on any conditions may not be for the future advantage of the civilised world. We see the press of France and Austria veer round from doubt to the uttn ,, st confidence, from animosity of the bitterest character to feelings little short of admiration and gratitude for the Emperor Alexander ; but we cold. blood , d nurtherns are more difficult of persuasion. " We see many questions mooted, none resolved ; many great interests at stake, none really secured. Is the acceptance of the Four Points the only result of this .y_reat ^ar ? Are the arsenals of Kherson and Nicolaieff to remain unmol, sted ? Is the Russian Government still to oppress the Circassian tribes, and to command the high road to India ? '`These questions are daily put by our press, and I would fain address them to you. I say nothing about our own position, which I have so often czpl , ined to you ; it is now clear that tte Scandinavian question has b( e ca,t aside as a superfluous weight in the genet-Al steeplechase after peace, but it may interest you to hear something of the giant works now carrying on at CrJn stadt. "You are pr ‘bably aware that by next spring the Russian steam fl et will co :gist of 18 line•of-battle ships and frio,tes, 14 corvettes, and 70 gun-boats, which for inidaLL: force may ride secure behind an impassable bar lier, and defy the united navies of iho world, thanks to the forifications planned by Admiral Schanz, at which 30,000 men are now working under his direction. This formidable work consists in a triple row of piles right ,acriss the Gulf of, Finland, about six rai'es from Cron stadt, and should the ice be strong this spring it may be finished this year. This maritime bulwark, 12 miles across, will have but few openings, which can be easily closed or defended in time of need, and not a boat can he imperilled let the attacking force be ever so etrong. " Are these symptims of an exhausted nation, sin cerely anxious for a durable peace?" FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF NO/;FOLK. The remains of this nobleman were consigned to the family vault of the }Towards, in the private chapel at tached to the parish church of Arundel, yesterday morn inn... The funeral was of a simple character, the mourners following the corpse on foot from the castle to the church; but the presence of a large body of the tenantry, coup , ed with the members of the corporation, and indeed the whole population of the borough combine:l to give the ceremonial an imposing effect. The body was removed on Monday night into the crypt of the castle, where it remained caul 11 o'clock yesterday morning, at which hour the burial had been apooiated to take plabe. The coffin, being very massive, was placed upon a plain funeral car, drawn by two black horses richly capari• soiled. The procession was headed by the members of the late Dime's household walking two and two. After them came the pursuivants and officers of the Herald's College, viz. : Rouge Croix, J. R. Planelie, Esq. Blue Mantle, TI. i. Lane, Esq. Portcullis, G. W. Cullen, Esq Six Heralds. Somerset, W. Courthooc, Esq. Windsor, G. R. Harrison, Esq. York, T. W. King, Esq. Richmond, C. H. Gibbon, tag Lancaster, A. W. Woodr, Esq Chester, W. A. Blouat, Esq, A Plume of Feathers. Norroy, King of .5 rms, R. Laurie, Esq., hearing the Coronet and Earl Marshal's Baton on a erims , m velvet cushion. Ga, ter, Sir Charles Young. Pall Bearers. The Coffin, Tall Bearers. Earl of Carnarvon Containing the Body of Earl or Suffolk Lord Petre The Deceased Earl of Effingham Sir Edinun i Lyons Covered with a black velvet Lord Stafford Mr. P. liovcard Pall, ornamented with Mr. H. Howard o:Corley. Heraldic Escocheons, and of Greystoke. borne upon a Car, drawn by two horses. Chief Mow ne,, The Duke of Norfolk, hang 1a..) infant scn, the Earl of Aran lei and Surrey. Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard, M.P. Lord George Manners, M.P. Lord Foley. The Marquis of Westminster. M. Bickerton Lyons, lion. Robert Curzon Hon. A. J. Ashl y Er. John Abel Smith, M.P. Mr. %v. S'nane Stanley Sir George Pechell, Bart., M.P. Colonel 115 ndhani Mr. Prime Mr, R. W. Grey, M P. Fir John Kir;,land Right Hon. James Parker Captain Appleby, R.N. Mr. W. K. Gratwieke Mr. Sanctuary Mr. T. The Rev. Thomas Medland, 11. D., Vicar of Ste) r•.ing, The Rev. M. A. Tierney. h;s Grace's Roman Catholic Chaplain. Dr. Steadman of Arundel. Dr. Kingsley, Private Physhlan. Mr. M. Ellison. Mr. J. Musket. Mr. T. Bounce. Mr. Dendy, secretary to the late Dul:e. Mr. Charles Few, jun.. Family So'icitor. The mourners were followed by the Duke's favourite charger, caparisoned and led by two grooms, and then came the tenantry, two and two, to the number of about 50, all wearing scarfs and hatbands. Oa emerging from the courtyard of the castle the fune ral cortege was met by the Mayor and corporation of Arundel in their robes of office, who fell in between the members of the Duke's household and the officers of Herald's College, and preceded the body through that portion of the borough lying between the gates of the ca-ale and the church, which was thronged by a multi tude of sp°ctators. At the entrance of the church the body was received hv the R?v. G. A. F. Hart, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen and vicar of Arundel, by whom the service for the burial of the dead was impressively read—the body meantime resting upon a bier in the centre aisle of the church, with the pursuivants and heralds on either side, and Garter at the feet of the corpse. At the proper p rigid the coffin was removed into the Fitzalan Chapel situated behind the altar of the church, and lowered into the family vault. At the close of the religious service Garter pronounced the style and titles of the deceased Duke, and deposited in the grave the wands which bad been broken by the controller and master of the Duke's household ; after which the present Duke and his bro ther descended into the vault for a few moments. On the return of the mourners to the caste the inhabitantt of the borough were admitted into the chapel without restriction, and many hundreds of persons availed them selves of the opportunity of inspecting the vault, within which are deposited the remains of very many of the deceased Duke's predecessors. The ceremony pa=ised off without au incident to :nar its solemn effect, and the whole arrangements reflected much credit on the firm to whom their direction had been intrusted—Messrs. Morant and Boyd, of New Bond-street. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of EnglishwJato;;;;TeTn to-day's market was chiefly the refuse of Monday, and in very middling condition. For all kinds we had a slow trade, yet, no change took placa in the (potations. We were rather scantily supplied with fresh f ore i gn wheat. Millers, however, purchased with extreme caution on former terms. The barley trade was steady at fall prices, but malt sold heavily at the late decline. Oats moved off slowly on former terms. In beans, peas, and flour only a limited business was transacted. A/VW/ALS MIR WEEK. Wheat. Barley. 'trigDen .. 410 3,610 Irish .... Foreign 1 1 3,077 1 2,459 Malt. i Oats. J Flour, 3 020 410 —brls 8,032 10051;3 I BOROUGR, HOF. We have a Inoderato sale for fine hop; at full pricos. Other kinds are very dull. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s 4:1; .rnotton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ; Yoal, 3810 d to is ; pork, 33 4(1 to is 101 per 81132 by the carcase. Trade study. THE LATE S iDLEII?, M.P. The question as to the extent of the delinquencies of the late Mr. John Sadleir continues a subject of absorb , ing interest in the city, since it is impossible to ascer tain at present in what quarters the heaviest losses will fall. It is certain, however, that no ground exists ' for the supposition on which the inquest was ad journed yesterday —namely, that Mr. Sadleir may pos sibly be shown to have laboured tinder a delusion with regard to the magnitude of the offerces he imputed to himself in the letters written on the evening preceding his death. At the same time there is reason to believe that on some points there has been unnecessary Alarm. The undertakings with which Mr. Sadleir was chiefly connected were the Royal Swedish Railway, the East Kent Railway, and the London and County Bank. He was likewise grsatly interested in the Tipperary Joiset stock Bank, of which his brother, the member for Tip perary, was chairman, and he also acted as receiver or agent for some Irish landowners. U rgen t i nqu i r i es are consequently being made as to the ep cial nature of his transactions in relation to each of these bodies. As regards the Royal Swedish Railway, of which he was the chairman, it appears to have been ascertained with. out doubt that he has issued an immense amount of the shares and obligations of the company without authority, although with genuine cignatures. Whether he has pu's forth any which are forgeries seems not yet to have been clearly established. The capital of the company is 416,0701., in 51. shares, on which it evils a guarantee from the Swedish Governieent of 4 per cent. interest and 1 per cent. sinking fund, and the share , are payable to name or to bearer, at the option of the share holder. A considerable number were forfeited for non-payment of calls, and some time back, in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, the com pany obtained power to raise 100,0001. en de bentures or obligations. They required the signature of two directors and the secretary and Mr. Sadleir, hav ing obtained passession of the unissued quantities for the purpose of completing them with his signature, seems to have got rid of them in the Stock Exchange, or in any quarter where he could raise money, The no minal amount thus marls away with is reported to range between 200,0001. and 300,0001., although probably the advances he received upon them were not more than a fourth or a third of that total. The case is nearly ana loeoue to the fraudulent issue made a year ago at New York by Mr. Schuyler of a large number of shares of the New York and Newhaven Railroad, of which he was president, and which, owing to the company having con tested their liability, has ever since been before the law courts of the State. The actual extent of overissue will, it is expected, be speedily made public, the directors having instituted an inqu'ry, which has been carried tee by Messrs. Broom and Co., the accountants, and the results of which will be communicated to a general meeting of the shareholders, which has just been summoned for Friday next, at. the London Tavern. With regard to the East Kent Railway, it is stated that, with the exception of some ar rears of calls, Mr. Sadleir is not directly indebted to that undertaking. In his capacity of deputy chairman, however, he induced the board to depo sit 8,0001. of their unemployed capital with the Tipperary Bank on deposit notes, which fell due at the beginning of last week and were diehonoured. In the case of the London and Ceutity Bank it is affirmed that no loss whatever has been sustained, Mr. Sadleir was chairman of that company, hitt obtained no advances from it except upon sufficient securities. Many rep its having been in circulation to a contrary effect, it is under stood that, in order to remove all dout,t on the subject, the three new directors, Messrs. Nicol, Hoghton, And Laming, who were last week added to the board, have required that the securities in question should be ex amined and reported on by some independent solicitor, assisted by the solicitors of the hank, and that a resolu tion to that effect was passed this afternoon. The va lidity of the deeds held by the company from Mr. Sadleir is stated to have been fully tested by registration. In relation to the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank, it appears that this establishment was promoted by Mr. Sadleir in 1838, its head office being at Clonmel, with eight branches in the district. Although it paid dividends at the rate of 6 per cent. it seems to have made no return of the number of its partners, the amount of its shares, or its paid-up capital, and, with the exception of one or two familie.e the shareholders are said to be per pone if limited means. The families in question are alleged to be fully able t,, meet the claims that will fall upon them, but it is probable that the ruin or distress which will nevertheless he inflicted in this quarter was among the chief causes of the pain a. d self-reproach described in Mr. Sadleir's letters. The most serious features of fraud remain still to be ad verted te—riatnely, those committed by means of his opportunities as agent for the landed estates of noblemen and other-, and also by direct forgeries of title deeds. The trust property made away with is supposed to be extremely large, and many deplor able circumstances are likely to arise in this part of the history, the full• scope of which will probably never come before the public. At present many of the sufferers are themselves ignorant of the position in which they stand, and most likely several months roust elapse before all the actual facts can be un ravelled. As respects the forgeries of title deeds from the Encumbered Estates Court, it is satisfaction co be able t state that only two cases have thus far been dis covered, although very general inquiries have been made by some leading solicitors in Dublin. In one of the se , so far from the forgery having been perfectly executer], the attempt is described to hare been such as could not for a moment deceive the eye of any Irish solicitor con versant with the practice of the Court, since it was de ficient in no I,ss than four requisites, one of them being a certificate of the commissioners for payment of the pur chase money. The other was a conveyance of part of the Por'arlington estate, which was probably in better form. Beyond these cases it is questioned if any will be found. Many of the deeds assigned by Mr. Sadleir passed through the hands of Messrs. Hal iwes and Hamilton, of Dub in, and the London clients cf that gee - gentlemen have to-day been informed that in none of I these instances do es an y i rregu l ar i ty ex i st. —Ti mes ' City Article. - COURT 011 A IMEteIIIEN. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public business. EXPEDIENCY OF REMOVING THE GAOL OF NEWGATE. Alder,nan CUBITT brought up the report of the cern initee appointed to inquire into the state of Newgate, with a view to its present adaptation to the classification of prisoners, and carrying out any well-considered plan of discipline, and also to inquire into the expenses con nected with the gaol with a view to their diminution, and to report generally as to what steps it may be ex pedient to adopt both with regard to its offieers, their salaries and duties, a-id also as to the expediency and legality of abolishing the prison altogether, sect making provision for the prisoners at Holloway or elsewhere. It stated that the committee referred the subject to a spe cial committee, who had fully considered the subject. The folio wing are extr',cts from that report : " Having proceeded to con-iilyr the reference, we beg to report that the state of Newgate in its present struc tural condition is such as to rer der any satisfactory classification of the prisoners altogether a hopeless ta , k, aed the carrying out of any well-cossidered plan of dis cipline an utter impossibility. No satisfactory separa tion can in its present condition be effected, because of the insufficient number of celle, and no satisfactory super vision is practicable with imp hing, like the pre-ent num ber of officers. We believe that as much as could be done in reference to these, great desiderata is done ; but, until eorne very important alteration is rni , de in the physical structure of the interior of the building, New gate must coetioue to be a standing reproach to the city of London. The want of proper , upervi-ion and its im possibility in the present state of the gaol are and must be sources of constant anxiety to the oovernor, if only on account of tie safe custody of the prioner Groups of half-dezene or more being locked up together for many long hours without the preence of an officer, they natu rally discuss the chances of escape. It is well known that last year three pris oners g o t a way by breaking out of the gaol ; and within this very month an attempt was made during one night to escape by breaking through the wall of one of the weeds ; the number there confined to gether was 5, 3 of %velem are old offenders ; the other 2 ere supposed to have been unwilling, inactive observ ers . They cleared away the brickwork by raking out th e j o i nts of m or t ar w ith a long nail, but their progress was checked by the solid massive masonry of the ex t er i or f ace of the wall, and the leitt day the imperfictly concealed operations was discovered by the officers. It n'ted hardly be stated that no mischief of this sort could possibly have been attempted at Holloway. Your special com mittee have had a plan under consideration by which it is believed that Newgate could be cured of its great defect,, and the city relieved from th e reproach of stand ing almost alone in having a gaol without a system. The plan would give 120 separate cells, and we are of opin ion that if such a plan were carried o u t it wou ld ena bl e the govern•r to establish a deg ree of separation and su pervision which would be almost, if not altogether, un objectienable. The cost is estimated by the City Archi tect et 11 0001. We have also given our attention toan- oth , .rpla of a comp re h ensive nature for the entire de moittion of the court; and of the gaol, and of the recon strtic).i,u of the courts and such a portien of the g ao l as.might suffice for th e cus t o d y o f pr i soners wi He the trals were going on ; t h e o bj ect of this plan being to dispense with Negate as a prison, except only as above stated. A plan has also been submitted tr us for such addition to Vv.; prison at Holloway as would enable it to receive the prisaners now kept at Newgate. The cost of these com bi ned operations—that is, the reconstruc tion of th e cr i m i na l courts an d a portion of Newgate— is estimated by the City Architect at 87,0001., from which may b e deducted the value of a piece of laud at the Old Bailey set, free by the alteration of the system, which the City Architect estimates at 9,0001. In work ing out these plans the City Architect Las so arranged as to permit the smaller one to form an integral part of the larger one, so that should it be the p'easure of . the Court to carry out th e recominendatien of the committee in adopting the first-named plan, and it should here after be devilled expedient to carry out the larger one, no material alteration would he necessary, and but little loss would accrue. That portion of the reference which relates to the expenses of the gaol, and also as to what steps it may be expedient to ad pt with regard to the officers, their salaries and duties, cannot well he dealt with until the question as to the alteration of the gall is determined. The question A as to the e x p e di ency an d legality of abolishing the prist% altogether having been considered, it dues not seem to be expedient, and the legality, therefore, hardly seemed to be an object to be ascertained, and that has therefore not been made a matt, r of inquiry." The report of Vie sub‘coinmittee was signed—William Cubitt, W. T. Copeland, T. Q. }lnnis, R. Hartley Ken. Tidy. The report of the committee recommending it to the adoption of the Court•was signed by 10 , aldermen., Sir P. LAI= said that the subject t rea ted iu that FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Plenipotentiaries did not meet to-day. They will meet to-morrow (Wednesday), at 1 o'clock. We hear Russia will make a stand in the Confe rences about the Greek Church not being affected by the proposed reforms in Turkey. Prince Jerome Napoleon yesterday received the Grand Vizier Aali Pacha and Count Orloff. The former was presented by the Turkish Ambassador. Prince Jerome also rec, ived the Baron de Mender strom, the new Swedish Minister. The Constitutionne/ gives the following parti culars relative to the proceedings of the congress : ".A.ccrzding to diplomatic u-ages, and following the precedent of the conferences of Vienna, the sitting com menced by the nomination of Count Walewski as president. The verification of the powers of the plenipotentiaries having next been duly gone through, the president delivered an address, in which he briefly summed up the object of the meeting, and pointed out the order in which the deliberations were to proceed. All the Plenipotentiaries pledged their wor,is to observe the most profound secrecy on the subject of the discussions. M. Benedetti, director of the political division at the Department of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed by the Frduch G,veroment to draw up the protocol of the C ,, nferences, and is assisted by a Fob-director of the Caine section. Ou Thursday :ast the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Powers, exclusive of those of Russia, 1,a,•1 a preparatory sitting at the l'tliniGtry of Foreign Affairs, in order to agree as their attitude and the language to be held towards the Plenipotentiaries on all the prin cipal questions. It was in order to be present at this preparatory sitting that the Turkish Ambassador re turned in such haste to Paris, instead of waiting at Marseilles fur the arrival of Aali Pacha." The Debats, on the same subject, says : " The Plenipotentiaries have taken rank to the right and left of the President in the order established by the regulations of the Congress of Vienna. These regula tions allowed two forms of precedence • one according to the alphabetical order of the names Of the Powers re presented, and the other according to the order in which the Plenipotentiaries were presented to the Sovereign. It is the latter forth which has been adopted on the pre sent occasion, and according to it the places to the right of Count Walewski are occupied by Lord Clarendon, Count Buol, Count do Cavour, Count Orloff, and Aali Pacha ; and the places on the left by Lord Cowley, Baron Hubner, the Marquis Pes d e Vidamarina, Baron de Brunow, and Meherned-Djemil Bey." A decree in the Moniteur promotes Colonel C. Muidebled, of the sth Legion of Gendarmery, to the rank of Commander in the Legion of Honour. Other decrees make four promotions to the rank of Officer, and 34 appointments to that of Knight in the same order, and confers 69 military medals on different officers, sub-officers, and privates of the Imperial Guard. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the customs revenue for the month of January, which amounted to 11,105,280 fr., showing a decrease of 1,396,786 fr. on the corresponding month of 1855, and an increase of 2,074,184 fr. on that of 1851. BOURSE, Feb. 26.—The following were the closing quotations : Cash. tr. e. End of Month. 4: per Conte 96 -- —f. —c. 3 per Cents 73 15 73 40 New Loan 74 Bank Shares 3,460 Roman t.:redit Mobilier 1,565 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 03i Spanish Threes Piedmontest (5) .:;... 8',./ 25. Home Debt RAILWAYS—you Ce.ss. 871 89 42 38; fr. c. fr. c. lirYlans ........ .1,275 Western B7T 50 Northern Lyons .....,.......... 1,25 ) New Ditto 835 Uti , litorraneau . 1,44 i 'Grand Central: 64i 25 Lyons Geneva 705 Y.sto (Jetta RUSSIA. BEILLI N . , Feb. 24.—One of the most satisfactory features of the Russian press of the last dates that have come to hand, is the circumstance that iu a number of official documents that have been pub lished of late with reference to the navy the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff are no longer mentioned. This looks as if ilie . Goviinment recognised the destruction of the Rack Sea fleet, and the disper sion of the small remnant of its crews still extant, as a fait accompli, on which the Conferences in Paris are about to impress the stamp of perma nence. In the columns of the Wojenny Listok (Military Journal) are to be found official data as to the strength of the late Black Sea Fleet, which, as be ing official, will have a certain historical interest of authenticity. According to these the Russian Pontus Fleet consisted of 4 ships of the line of 110 to 120 guns ; 12 ships of the line of 80 to 100 ; and, finally, 2 reserve liners, of 80 guns ; altege:her 18 ships of the line, carrying 1,628 guns. Of frigates there were 12 of 52 to seguns, together with about 40 sailing vessels of 10 guns each, and 15 war steamers. The total force of the Russian war fleet in the Black Sea consisted thus of 85 vessels of all rates, mounting 2,810 guns. The entire commer cial fleet that Russia po ,, sessed in the Black Sea has been destroyed, with the exception of 11 vessels still lying at Odessa, some 20 odd at Nicholaieff and Cherson, and 20 odd that have taken refuge up the Don. The craft destroyed in the Sea of Azoff are stated to have amounted to several hundreds. The Emperor has ordered that the two Grand Dukes, Nicholas and Michael, shall at once enter upon their respective functions, the former as In spector of Engineers, the latter as Master o f th e Ordnance. G enera l nalm, of the Engineers, aud General Koff, of the Artillery, have been asso ciated with the two Grand Dukes in these offices under the title of Assistants. Prirate letters from St. Petersburg state that General de Berg reported that he could not under take to answer for the fidelity of Finland to Russia, in case of au invasion, unless his army was tripled in numbers. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vieina says :—" It is now cer tain that Prince Gortschakoff has confidentially stated, in the nam e o f hi s Cabinet, that the Court of St. Petersburg con s idered the convocation of a ' =gen of Europe= Powers, after tho signing of report was one of such vast importance that a specia day ought to be app,inted for the discussion of RI merits, which would then be fully and deliberately gone into. He did not object to the report, but it would be satisfactory to get the.unanimous assent and concur rened of the whole Court, instead of the simple report of a committee, however numerous it might be. (tears hear.) Alderman COBITT said, the report had not been hastill cent:acted, nor had any name been attached to it by ant member of the Court who had not gone fully and thoroughly into the stiject. Last year circumstance s had arisen which brought the state of Newgate more prominently before the Gaol Committee. The govee' nor, from age and infirmity, resigned, and a new gore , ' nor was appo nted, when it became absolutely necessary to revise the system of discipline and management in order that the official might have full and proper icy structions for the necessary conduct of the gaol. It Wae then found to be utterly impossible to get a sat:sfactorY system of supervision unless great alterations were made in the structural part of the prison. He (Alderma n Cubitt) moved—" That the report be received, and that it be referred hack to the committee to act therein se they shall think fit." Alderman FINNIS said, he seconded the motion le 0 W E.° he was satisfied thkt, in laying out 10,0001., that so li , would not be lost, but would ultimately lead to a cool' derable savin.T. A few days ago 13 female prisoners wire coefined in Newgete, and, on account of the de' fective structural err..ngunents, it was necessary to bign, 19 fires for the purp ose o f t a k ing care o f t h em. (H e ar*/ Alderman SIDNEY said, he very much rejoiced te l think that the report had at length come to the Coll for considerati o n. H e agree d w i t h t h e f ormer pa rt the report, which condemned the gaol of Newgate.o being altogether irremediable, and which was probabli at that moment the worst disciplined gaol in the kw' dom. They had under their jurisdiction one of the best disciplined as well as one of the worst disciplined gaol° in the country. They had a prison at Holloway whicu admitted of the easiest possible extension, and where t . ` , l same discipline which wa. ad o pted th ere cou ld b e car r ie d out ; and they had Newgate, with all its sinuosities, the prisoners actually Jo king after the keep ers , instead °I the le-epers looking after the prisoners. To his (Aide* man Sidney's) knowledge, during the last few Yea rs several prosecutions had been abandoned, and the Fu ni. mary jur:sdicilon of magistrates asked for rather 00, that persons should be put to the inconvenience and an: royance of mixing with the p ersons w h o l o i tere d a bout the Central Criminal Court. In fact, there was 0° proper accommodation fir either prosecutors or 'wi t : nesses. (Hear, hear.) Alderman Sid ne y then We!). into a variety of details,' showing that the cost of th e support of prisoners in Newgate was double the amottai of the expenditure at Holloway. Alderman and Sheriff Ross testified to the immen te inconvenience sustained by the public from the arrange' meets connected with the courts while trials were pro ceeding. It was an evil loudly calling for remedy. • f Alderman CARTER said that th e s t a t e a lt oge ther o ei Newgate was of a most unsatisfactory character, anh that a complete alteration ought to be ma d e i n it, W I with respect to classification of p r is oners an d s t r ucture arrangements. Alderman SIDNEY then proposed the following atnea d. ment " That a deputation of the Court be appointed to Can: fer with the Secretary of State for the Home Departures' with reference to the projected alterations in Navigat e, and to report thereon to this Court ; and to learn froo that Minister whether there is any objection to the P of removing the prison to Holloway." Alderman CARTER seconded the amendment, wh ich waq put and negatived. The original motion was then put and carried, an the Court adjourned. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERLIAII r- TON. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company pe g held yesterday, at the L on d on T avern , Li eu t.-Colo ne l Rusbout, M.P., pre-iding. The CHAIRMAN, afterea few remarks, moved the /OW tien of the report, an abstract of which has already er peared in The San. Mr. T. S. PAKINGTON seconded the motion. Mr. MAXWELL said he could not assent to the rnotioldt for the adoption of the report, and therefore be roo" an amendment, calling for the appointment of A o ° °). mittee of shareholders to examine into the accouo affairs, and management of the com p an y, th e i r relatil2Pl with other companies, and the expediency of creati new capital, with power to call f or b oo k s , p a pers, tr_. information, and to employ an ac coun t an t, or s uch otter! as istance as they might deem necessary to enable theme! properly to prepare a report, to be laid before a futur e meeting. (Cheers.) Mr. WALLACE seconded the amendment. After a desultory discussion, The 01AI/terve moved that a dividend should be n e " dared upon the first pr e f e r en t ia l s t oc k a t th e ra t e of 5i per cent. Mr. SERJEANT GASELEE, as an amendment, moved that the dividend should be postponed until after th e r -0 , 101 of the report of the c immittee of ins estigatio n • Mr. PARSONS seconded the amendment. Alter eoine in ther discussi m, the motion for payroen t of the dividend was unanimously agreed to. The CHAIRMAN teen, amid much laughter, proposed a resolui ion authorising the directere to postpone pay' ment of the dividend until it could be made withou t detriment to the interests of the company. A good dell of discueilion followed, resulting in a de' cirion that dividend warrants should be issued to Pre' sent shareholders bearing interest until paid. Mr. Maxwell', motion, for a committee of investie tion was then again brought forward, and agreed to, th e following gentlemen being appointed to act—via' Mes.rs. Fenton, H. Maud, W. Lethain, Wilson, AO Sir S. M. Peto, Dart. The CHAIRMAN stated that the next business of the meeting was the election of the retiring directors; but Mr. Serjeant GASELEE prop ose d th e adjournment of f the meeting until the Shit of April, for th e rece ption ° A the report of the committ ee , w hi c h was at once a gree" to, the election of directors being postponed. EAST KENT. The directors in their half-yearly report state they ar e happy to be enabled to inform the proprietors that the, progress made siuring th e p as t h a lf- year i n the wor ks sb Rochester Bridge has been satisfactory. The found* . tions, as appears by the engineers' report annexed; are complet , -d, and a con-iderable portion of th 'l‘ superstructure fi n i s h e d an d d e li vere d at Rochester . f large sum has been expeeded in th e purc hase 0 land, and the a r rangements w i th landowners between Chatham and Sitti ng b ourne are so far advanced that the company will b e a bl e to ta k e possession of t°6 land at an early period. The works at the Roches ter and Chatham tunnels were commenced s hort l .9 . , before the half-yearly meeting,and were continu ed till the end of Nes ember. About that period sur gestions were made to the board by their late de' puty chairman, Mr. Sad'eir, in favour of an arrange' meet to effect a rapid completion of the whole line, by means of a strong combination of parties for the purpos e , of carrying out the whole of th e wor k s b etween St r oott and Dover sunulta .eously. In pursuance of this policy negotiati us were opened with var i ous par ti es to e ffect this object, and the board had hop e d t o b e a bl e to re pel' , that a sati,factory arrangement had been agreed on, bu t the suddeniteath of Mr. Sadleir, and other circumstances , have prevented the board from being able to complete any arrangement. They therefore propose, after trans' acting the business contained in the notice, to a djourn the meeting to the 4th April next, by which time the, expect to be in a po-itipn to ley before the proprietor s such a combination as will besati-faetory to them, and wil l insure the completion of the line. With the view of c arry' ing out speedily and effectively any arrangement on whinb ti ey may decide, the director., have made a call of 2/. lOe' per share, payable on the 12th of April next. The Per; manent survey of the Dover Extension line is complete° , and the notice plans for purchase of land are prepared. An of enieg having presented itself for improving . till company's lin e , arid connecting it with th e au th o rised line th Westminster Terminus ,Company, by con' lam tiag a line from Dartford, thraugh Lewisham, t o join the termilius of that company at Clapham, and o ' , thus securing to this a West-end terminus, and also the shortest and most direct route to Dover, the board con; sidere'l that they ought not to lose the opp or t un ity °' obtaining so valuable an addition to the East Kent line' Accordingly a bill was introduced into Parliament tO session for a line from Dartford to Lewisham, and from Lewisham to Clapham, with running powers over the Westminster Terminus Company's line, and over the Salvia Eastern Company's line from Strood to Dartford. This bill has passed standing orders, and been read * first time in the House of Commons." The engineer, in his report, states as follows :--- " During the past half year the works of the founds' Vona and superstructure of the Medway Bridge at Rochester have been proceeding with vigour, and I bar' the satisfaction of reporting that the cylinders are nO O all down, complet4 in place, filled with concrete read! for the re?,eption of the brickwork and masonry, which latter branches of the work are also in a state of cow siderabie forwardness, and proceeding in a perfectly satisfactury manner. "The ironwork of the bridge, lam glad to say, is als ) in a very advanced state, and of a character entirely satisfactory both as to workmanship and material ; considerable portion has arrived, and is in course of being put together in place, upon staging erected for the purpose. The manufacture of the rest is rapidly pro ceeding, and is so forward that no delay need be appre . hended in its delivery. " I see no reason to doubt the completion of this impertant work by the end of the ensuing summer► and considerably within the time fixed by the act of Parliament. " Some considerable progress has been made with the works of the tunnels at Fort Pitt and Chatham, but these operations are at present in abeyance, for rea• eons rattier of finance and general policy than of en• gineering." BLYTH AND TYNE. The directors of this company recommend a dividend of 10 per ceLt. en the preference shares, and 9 Per cent. on the ordinary and extension shares. NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION. The half-yearly meet i ng o f t hi s company was he ld o' s the Euston station yesterday—!dr. H. Tootal in the chair. The report stated that the balance available for dividend was 1921/. 14s. 3d., out of which th e directors r ecommen d e d a dividend to be paid for the half-year at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, 'easy; ing a balance in hand of 4251. ss. 6d. to be carried forward. The report was adopted. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA. The report of the directors of this line las been issued to the sharelloid.ors. A dividend at the rate of 4i per cent, per annum is recommended,. ing of and sl th e la No Values ha ve - , h oweN of stip/ th e u duri N hav e th e y and al is diA er y e pr 3 Per Reduc Sin ( com e , lati ve and 9 The st ocks 201 ; P ortal Cents. a Per ( Oertifi Rai] e ntere, ttlen B RITJ black Dittc Lox , wi n Arri kndri a chicht,: Vit , Inql 4 er m, Sail, 'early an( 31( per fiat Is nc retai nier als6' C9llll actiN Ti ' Wi Capit take' Loa Wi z Ani l .ails .