The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

N• p'Oftlll' ~ma„ roe rn, '' Qnd tbo ikers fr° brief i l of Stalf°'y the, , that r Pilcbe r i in i'l vas put toia "'O% Me e he ;Nik n ifig' Est eyv• . biC host V' of )itina ti° „ea as pro P t. t he ° * of vvbierth. o vo ` kie s olat i°P e ted to ,00 Lth o f t 1-1;•0 t when ALIO' id iie, ; - bop 'on •er dor [or the of be wit'lode' 9t ac t i d 311 il°l/ try SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALUS—YESTERDAT. The odds quoted underneath will be unil to agree in almost every instance with those laid on Wednesday at Warwick, Miss Sarah, Weatheiblt, The Baron, ,:no Mid-Lothian alone being in any serious deinand. Men tor, Th• Merry Monarch, and Red Robin were bac:.- in three or four quarters, but left off with plenty of op- Ponents. The attendance was thin, and the betting ST. LEGER. 301 to 100 agst Jobn Day's lot—taken 3 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Miss Sarah—taken 11 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken to 203. 12 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Merry Monarcht.&of. 15 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken. 15 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's The Pacha 17 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken 20 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Duc-an-Durras—t. & af.off. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's The Baron—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Mid-Lothian—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Worthless 35 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland 2000 to 35 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way—taken 500 to 100 agst The Baron, Red Robin, and the Merry Monarch—taken MO to 100 agst the Pacha and Pantasa—taken 500 even between the Merry Monarch and Old England DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm WARWIcK RACES—THURSDiT. The Stand Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50 added; the winner of the Leamington Stakes to carry 71b extra. Once round and a dis. (7 Subs.) Mr. Waller's b c Columbus, 3 yrs, sn 71b Mr. Rolt's ch h, ilampton, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b 2 Won easy by a length. T__, The Q uetn ! is Plate o f 100 guinwo. Heats, two miles. "Jura We.twick's Gwalior, 3 yrs, Est 21b 1 1 Mr, 11 —avgoTth's Kilgram, 4 yrs, 9st 61b Alr —'4l9.tow's strissima, 3 yrs, Bst 2lb ECCLES RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added. Weights the same as the Hunters' Stakes. Winners 'extra. Half-bred horses allowed 71b. The second to save his stake. Heats, twice round and a distance. .„( 3 Subs.) 'V% Robinson's b m Wasp, aged (Barker) 1 1 Heap's b g Chintz Print (h b), 5 yrs Mr. Sheppard's br g Mudlark, aged 3 dr ria k First heat won easy. Second walked over for. ""`Le Selling Stakes of 2 sous. each, with 15 added. • (r.eights, &c., the same as the Trafford Park Stakes. The winner to be sold for 501. if demanded, &c. rfeats, twice round. (4 Subs.) ~,.. Thompson's b g Hudibras, aged (Stagg) 1 1 1. 141. • nuckley's b m Alice (h b), aged • t Bower's b g Phoenician, 4 yrs Both heats were won easily. •" s " Manchester Stakes of 20 sous., added to a Sweep !takes of 2 sous. each ; three-yrs .old, 7st 71b. ; four, 4 1 ' five, 9st 101 b ; six and aged, 10st. Mares and b'tdings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 60 , mi . "`"k if demanded, &c. If entered to be sold for 501 ., 3lbs ; 40/., 7lbs.; 30/., 101bs.; 201., 141b5.; and 6" 1 4 211bs. Heats, twice round and a distance. (1 1 sub s.) 41t; Rogan's b f Do-it-again, 3 yrs (20/.) (C arrington) Ekn ne tt's br f Ada, 3 yrs (101) 0 1 4 2 ti r t . n bavis's b c Talleyrand, 4 yrs (100— 1 0 2 3 ' „rooks's br Bonn. ts o' Blue, 4 yrs ( 10 0 0 0 3 dr lr' l'it• Xvans' s br Cerito, aged (301) 0 2 dr t ain Rooke's b e Bozph °roils, aged (200 0 0 dr I? U r . r ° slB ch f Emma, 4 yrs (301.) 0 0 dr C arter's ch f April Noddy. 4 rs `,- YOur very good heats ; I won by a head. for th The CI bARLINGTON RACES.—TUESDAY. erVau x Castle .iltes 410 sow'. each, ith 25 added, ref vrs old colts, Bst 711); fillies, 8.4 41b; the see-il to 84%1111s stak e . O ne m il e a nd a half. Mr. Holland's gr c Robin Burns walked over Terrace Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 25 added. tlr two yrs (4d colts, Bst 7lb ; fillies, Bst 41b ; the second to save or is st a k e. About half a mile. • Ird Zetland' s b f Ada, b y the B ar d ..(Joy) 1 air. W. Scott's b c Driffield 2. Mt• Heseltine's bk f The Slayer's Daughter 3 Arrowsmith's ch c Cranebrook The follo w i ng a l so started, b ut were not placed :—Mr. Al tin br f Lady Abbess, Mr. Bowes' ch f Curiosity, Lord Thersites, and Mr. Dawson's Grimstones. Free Handicap Stakes.of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added. One _ ....... mile and a half. , Itir..Kitching's br f Lucy, 3 yrs (Skeene) 1 711 r. Meiklam's b h Poussin, 5 yrs ... 2 Lord Zetland's br m Coheiress, 4 yrs 3 • Mr. Allen's ch tn The Wasp, 6 yrs 4 The Tees Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 40 added; the winner W pay 3 sous. towards expenses ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the second to save his stake. Heats, mile and a half. Mr. Gully's ch g Yates, 4 yrs (Francis) 1 2 1 Mr. T. Dawson's b f Fat-Fair-and• Forty, 3 yrs ... 4 1 2 Mr. Holland's gr c Robin Burns, 3 yrs . 3 3 dr Mr. Salvin's b f Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs 2 4 dr INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. . . HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S RACES. -4q9e,pt - ati - e - e - s for the Hastings and St. Leonard's Handl cap. Ratnpton, 6 yrs, 9st 71b —The Devil among the Tailors, 6 yrs, 9st—Pocket Viper, aged, Bst 21b— Mask (late Chunee), aged, Bst 21b—Lady Charlotte, 4 yrs, tat 11 b—Verbena (late Molly Mogg), 4 yrs, 7st 101b— itL ee tator (h b), 6 yrs, 7st 81b—Si tten b am , 3 yrs, Est ii Freystr o p, 4 yrs, 6st 111b—Alkali, 3 yrs, 6st Tere sa , 4 yrs, 6st 11.1b—Beggar Girl, 5 yrs, 6st %C.—Adonis, 3 yrs, 6st—f by Samarcand, out of La 111 a1 Gardea 3 yrs, 6st—Sylvanus, 3 yrs, sst 121 b. ' OSWESTRY RACES. lleot k ,„ Acceptances for the Cup. S°lllatul': yrs, Bst 121b—Tippo, aged, Bst 31b—Dr. rs, Bst 2lb—Arumgzebe, 5 yrs, Sit Ilb— '°cin 4 rs, 7st 41b—The Elbe, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Cock Port, 3 ,4: l 6 , s 7 t s S t i — b. t by Physician, 3 yrs, Est 51b—Ex- MONMOUTH RACES. A riin et e „ c ePtances for the Monmouthshire Stakes. " - Ad i,, - •""e, 4 yrs, 9st—Norna Creina, aged, B st 101 b Yrs, g r- t. aged Bst 51b—Tariff, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Jack, 6 7 st th—Arungzebe, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—Eveline, 4 yrs, Sy r . oerision, 5 yrs, 7st 1r Tough (h b), 4 y r :" 5t 21 b —Paul Clifford, 5 yrs, 7st 91b-01 George, 710 ,_ 7 st 9 1b—Brenna, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Zela, 4 yrs, 7st gby Tippl e Cider, dam by Polio, 3 yrs, 7st 21b i s4 ek Cade, 4 y, 7st 21b—Rein Deer, 3 yrs, 7st 21b— v.413Pa, 4 yrs, 7st—Little Taffy (h b), 4 yrs, Est 131 b 3 yrs, Est 101b—Wild Roe, 3 yrs, Est 101 b. NOTTINGHAM RACES. Acceptances for the Chesterfield Handicap. Queen of the Tyne, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Nottingham, 5 yrs, (et Saltoun, 4 yrs, 7st 51 h — Pergularia, 4 yrs, 7 , 8 t 51b—Crikey Billy, 5 yrs, 7st—P g d ometer, 4 yrs. 6st ', 111 )---Ironmould, 3 yrs, 6st 21b—J enny W ren, 3 yrs, Est Ib--yellowboy, 3 yrs, 6st. Acceptances for the Cup. queen of the Tyne, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Nottingham, 5 yrs, 1/1' 41b Pergularia, 4 yrs, 7:4 41b—Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs, 5 53st t t4 1 91 2 bl I bL-.1"I r d"111 t 4 yrs, Est 7113—Jenny Wr'n, 3 yrs, P er, o. _ __ e3 y, s °lunould, 3 yrs, sst 1-11)—Y .11 b WREXHAM RACES. Rem A.1 a. ,...._ ...Accepter( es for the H , ncheap. ..me 4 . 3 71b—M it.w,, 4 yrs, Bst 3ih— r,.. . yrs, ,i. it tnitu iint, aged, BA—Dr. Litiz,ba,,d. 4 yrs, 7,t 11Ib— tu, al .,' 4 Yrs, 7st 6ib —Dean SA if f, 3 ) rs, ist 41b—Reb ee l 0 yrs, Est. GORTON RACES. , Acceptances for the Ma ta thestvr Cup. Roderick, 6 yrs, Bst 81b—NottinErham, 5 yr., 7,t soh— r.td Saltoun 4 yrs, 7st 6th—Jack Sheppard, aged, 63ttn6lbc—The Nobbler, 4 yrs, 'l*t. 31b — Ironmuuld, 3 yrs, "w" — Gibby Young, 3 yrs, sst 10Ib. Acceptances for the Sloan Purse. se l) ,?ctor Husband, 4 yrs, Bst 21h — Xanthus , 5 yrs, Bst Uuthbert, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—Princess Royal, 3 yrs, 6st 416 ... 6 7 - Ironinould, 3 yril, 6st 81b—Bretwalda, 3 yrs, 6st North Briton s 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Broomstick, 3 yrs, fist LEICESTER RACES. 3 Acceptances for the Handicap. :ten of the Gipsies, 5 yrs, Bst 31b—Welbeck, 4 yrs, 6,6 1 ,,r", Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Kilgram, 4 yrs, 1ip,,,`" 3- --Master Stepney, 3 yrs, sst 31b. - art MARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. T a e Nominations for the Cesarewitch Stakes. TaShadow, aged—Lothario, 5 yrs—Coranna, 6 yrs j 4 Queen Mab, 6 yrs—Discord, aged—Minotaur, 5 yrs— ,heritress, 5 yrs—Gorhambury, 5 yrs — The Cure, 4 yrs A ( tueboy, 6 yrs—The Era, 5 yrs—Aristotle, 6 yrs -144 tin, 5 yrs—Roderick, 6 yrs—Winesour, 5 yrs— %,lll of the Tyne, 6 yrs—Naworth, aged—Glossy, 4 Lightning, 4 yrs—lntrepid, 4 yrs—Plantagenet, tro--Miss Robinson, 5 yrs—Extempore, 5 yrs—Miss ' 4, 3 yrs—Red Deer, 4 yrs—Ajax, aged—Rochester, 6 %* - ,:-The Libel, 3 yrs—Johno'Gaunt,aged—St. Bernard, -Valerian, 4 yrs—Cataract, 5 yrs—Fitallen, 3 yrs °, r efraction, 3 yrs—General Pollock, 5 yrs—Laird • p,ZTekpen, 3 yrs—Morpeth, 4 yrs—Sorell!s, 4 yrs -4/1 °Dieter, 4 yrs—ldleness; 4 yrs—Boarding School b u t' 4 yrs—Vattel, 4 yrs—Crcesus, aged—Due-an- Si 3 yrs—Best Bower, 4 yrs—Red Rover, 4 yrs -7,r to Cherokee, 4 yrs—Mainstay, 4 yrs—Bob Peel, 4- -Conntaght Ranger, 3 yrs—Elixir, 5 yrs—The Little' 3 Irs—The Pacha, 3 yrs—Nottingham, 5 yrs— Fury, 4 yrs—Rowena, 4 yrs—l-am-not-aware, C e( lWoithless, 3 yrs—Giantess, 3 yrs—Winches t4ji gt 3 yrs—Doctor Phillimore, 4 yrs—Teeto -6 yrs—Pantasa, 3 yrs—President, aged— vollie, 3 yrs—Longitude, 3 yrs—Pug, 3 yrs— aw,--e,by, 3 yrs—Alarm, 3 yrs—Orion, 5 yrs—Little 11 -40 , 4 yrs—Sesman, 3 yrs—Paint Brush, 3 yrs—Wee lir , 5 yrs—Stomacher, 4 yrs—Titmouse, 3 yrs—Merry \r, ° 1 1410 11,3 yrs—Doleful, 3 yrs—Remorse, 3 yrs—c by ont of Fair Jane, 4 yrs—Ould Ireland, a f' rB--- Mangler, 3 yrs—Vol-au-Vent, 4 yrs—Mongrel, 01 l l —Correct Card, 3 yrs—Anna Perenna, 4 yrs e i., r gularia, 4 yrs—Agin, 3 yrs—Venatrix, 5 yrs—My le k Hat, a ge d—A nnan d a l e , 3 yrs—Py this, 3 yr5...4", ... 4 " , 5 yrs—Yellow Boy, 3 yrs—Mid-Lothian, 3 yrs kentor, 3 yrs—Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs—Venus, 3 yrs— o'iPejton 5 yrs—Hope, 3 yrs—Dartaway, 4 yrs—Alice a u), 4 yrs—Sparsholt, 3 yrs—Elemi, 4 yrs—Deodara, ‘ , l F ts —Petit M orceau , 3 yrs—Keslieng, 3 yrs—Arthur, 3 fr i s--- Devil' s Dust, 3 yrs—Topaz, 3 yrs—Get, 3 yrs— Th r4 bria, 3 yrs—f by V( locipede, out of Amaryllis, 3 yrs— e Co k, 3 yrs—Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs—M , ,guet, a b Yrs—Salo p i an , 3 )rs —C o l u mbu s , 3 yrs—Red,trealc, 11(, 1 1 : 3--- Fee Si m pl e , 4 y rs —S even ' s th e M ini , 4 .yrs -Ictilus Mug, 3 yrs—Y. Eclipse, 3 yrs— I.i erryman, ~jirs.--Jenny Wren, 3 yrs—Lady Wittlair, 3 yrs—J L a yra c , 3 yrs—Clumsy, 3 yrs—My Mar% , 3 yrs—Ly 3 Metal, 3 yrs—Rolf, 3 yrs—Sister to Ma MO', YrB..''"Arctic, aged. 200, h ft; T.Y.O. Doke of 11-d -rct s Oakley, 9st 71b, agst Ir. n. , n's H trtski rn, -AST BOURNE.—The weather has been &lit/fitful ffing the past week, and the harvest is proceeding rapidly. neighbourhood the corn is very fine ; the only cry 1111 now t ° be about potatoes, which have suffered gr e atly from itri°3 m atte r , rains es p . The loss of this crop to .Brighton is a fz .2 atte,especially when 'bur d ear• Wiwi, • THE SUN, LONDON, PRADAY IVI THE SCREW AS AN AUXILIARY. BOOKSELLER;' PROVIDENT (From the Liverpool Albion.) l llEtiltAT. The screw, both as 4 principal and as an auxiliary I A very numerously and fashionably. attended dejeuner ala propeihng power, is now being rapidly adopted ; and , f ourchet te took place on Wedries.lato at Abbot's Langley, on the whi e the some:, whioh has attended its ad /vital into occasion of laying the n r st stone of a building intended to be the stoitoos - lp Great Britain, as demonstrated to the d by her purpose of forming a Comfortable asylum for recent voyage to New York, will undi nhtettly remove all 1 flu 'li t :- - fits of the Booksellers' Provident Institution. This l exist against it, and lead tve has been such way, as we believe it will, to its almost univ erse use ..atitution was estahlised , in 1637, and recently its prosperity prejudice which may Still use in as to induce the Committee 'Co forte the design place of the paddle-wheel, the, infeernation ~e - are now of establishing a residence in the neighbourhood of London, about to lay before our leaders suft.ei etitiy attests ~.. Where the annuitants of the t'ociety might enjoy those comforts " 3 and that quiet retieereent so desirable to secure for those de progress as an auxiliary. serving members of the bookselling trade and their widows We have previously noted its adoption in this latter who may tit 'rendered incapable, at an advanced age, of pro capacity into the new line of communication about to be eirlinet for themselves. opened between this port and Constantinople ; and we This intention they have been at length enabled to carry are now enabled to state, that . not only is it ceseitera- into execution, owing to the munificent kindness of Mr. plated to adopt it, between Liverpool and the Dickenson, who gave ' the intitution, for that purpose, a east, but that within a shore period it will be in beautifully-situated piece of land, opposite the King's Lang extens've use in packet likes le( tweed this port and ley station of the Birmingham Railway. A more delightful site could not be selected for the projected building, lying as it various parts of the cie r ui nen t o f A m erica. Ne less three iron vetsdoes in a highly cultivated and picturesque district, and pos ers, than to till of which it will be fitted, 'sessing the advantage of being so near London, almost within a are now being bui' it by Messrs. James Hodgson and Co , few yards of one of the termini of the great northern artery of iron shipbuild , ,rs, of this town ; one an iron ship, of communication, the frequent passing of the trains on which, in twelve hund:eed tons burthen, with engines of one hun- such a rural district, will rather serve to remind the inmates of dred and eighty horse-power, the first of a new line of the asylum of the busy and anxious bustle from which they stealr:ers to ply between Liverpool and New York ; the shall have escaped, than to unpleasantly interfere with the calm se'Zlond, one of six hundred tons burthen, with engines of and quiet retirement of this asylum. one hundred horse-power, the first of a new line of seven The building will be a very handsome specimen of the Tudor steamers destined to run between Rio de Janeiro and the architecture, from a design by Mr. H. Cooper, and the cost of its erection will be defrayed by a fund especially contributed Mersey ; and the third one for Buenos Ayres. All these for that purpose by the members of the trade and by many are to be fitted with the screw propeller and Grantham's favourable •andthe fund ' other persons to the object ; as in patent direct action engines. Nor must we omit to point 'creases, additions will be made from time to time of other especial attention to the fact that all these vessels are buildings, in such order as they may be required. constructed of iron. The inmatei of the Retreat will be selected from the Bnok- In addition to these, a steam packet ship has lately sellers' 'Provident Institution, and every member of the Also been constructed at Boston, in the United States, and; ciation will be entitled to vote at their election, the manage being advertised to leave New York on the 6th instant, meet of their affairs being entirely placed under a Committee she may be expected to arrive in the Mersey towards annually chosen from amongst the members. the 26th instant. This vessel is intended as a pioneer of The day was peculiarly favourable for the performance of the ceremonial, and a very numerous party, graced by the presence a regular line of steam packet-ships ; and her steam of many of the fair sex, evidentl y enjoyed the rich and varied power is intended for use during calms or to make way scenery in the neighbourhood. against head winds—in fact, whenever. advantageous At one o'clock a procession of the stewards was formed, who The motive power may be described as follows :—A accompanied the Earl of Clarendon to the spot fixed on for the condensing engine of 170 horse-power, consisting of two deposition of the foundation stone, which was surrounded by a cylinders, of twenty-five inches diameter and three feet tasteful canopy for the accommodation of the ladies, where, as stroke, working at right angles ; two boilers, with two eld Chaucer would say : furnaces each, fourteen feet long by seven wide and nine "Neither Phesbus' beams could to them thronge, high ; blowing-engine and blowers, so arranged as to be Nor Eolus' sharpe blasts could wor k e them anie wron g e." out of the way, and to be only used occasionally to raise At two o'clock the stone, which contained in a hollow space the steam quickly ; one heater ; and a propeller of nine- specimens of the various coins of the present reign, was placed and-a-half feet extreme diameter, constructed entirely of in its position, and mortar applied with a silver trowel, in a wrought copper and composition metal, which revolves most workmanlike manner, amidst deafening cheers, by Lord abaft the rudder, the main shaft coming out close by the Clarendon, after which a prayer was read by the vicar of the stern-post, and supported by a stout brace attached to parish, and the party proceeded to a spacious marquee , where the same. The propeller can be shipped or unshipped a sumptuous repast was provided for them. The Earl of Ceaesenoir presiding. The Noble Chairman by the aid of a shaft coming out of the ship above the proposed, in eloquent terms, the usual toasts which the loyalty main shaft, and is entirely within the control of the en- and patriotism of Englishmen claim precedence for on ail public gineer in the engine-room. The mechanism within first occasions ; after which he again called for a bumper, and said unships or rigs in the lower shaft from the hub of the that he was about to propose to the assembly a toast which he propeller, then, by turning the upper shaft, the pro • felt confident would receive the warmest approbation of every peller is brought up to the flat of the stern, entirely out individual present, connected as it was so intimately with the of the water, and in a few minutes the ship assumes the Purposes of the Booksellers' Provident Institution.—(Cheers.) character of a packet-ship, without anything to drag That excellent institution was established in 1837, for the pur pose of affording pecuniary relief to members of the trade, or after her. The engine-room is floored with cast - iron ; their widows, who were overtaken by age or infirmity, without every protection is given to the woodwork near the the means of , providing sufficient comfort under such circum boilers ; and the chimney comes up through the pump s ta nces ; an d that institution had been since conducted in a and between decks, and is surrounded by a ventilating manner which was so perfectly in accordance with the intentions trunk. There is also a powerful fire-engine, with which of the founders, that it had attained a very deserved and high the ship may he wet tore and aft, below and slot t. The degree of prosperity.—( Cheers.) There had been no appeal in space taken up iu the lower hold of the ship is about the newspapers in its favour, nor had its meetings been presided forty-seven feet in a direct line forward of the stern post. over by persons of high rank, yet, notwithstanding, it had The boilers together being but fourteen feet wide, leaves been successful to such an extent as to obtain four or five hun , (rood space in the wit o.s tor coal bunkers, which are ac - dred members, and a corres p ondin g amount of subscriptions.— tr eessible both from the outside of the ship as well as in (Cheers.) The society felt the great advantage which they the hetoosen dot 1t Besides the space indicated, the co n u a l h d e confer if, in a e d e d o itio o n o to pecun e i t ar r y e t r r e e l a i t e in ' t t h h e ey ne 7 i g e h re bo a u l' r .o trunk for ventilation around the smoke pipe, there are e hood l o d f t i z o g o r d a o n n t , th where mf mem o h f a er q s ui of the society who received twt t sittoller trut k coming up through the poop over the assistance might also have an asylum in their old days, in which oyl- to - ler heads. Th..• boto pen decks is otherwise clear they might enjoy those comforts and that quiet so essential to too ood tot, tho crew heino arc , totoodott-ii in a top-ga'- their condition, and that deign was most benevolently assisted hint f .reetis te, wit: do • earth. passeitoero its a psi -p which and encouraged by Mr. Dickenson - (Cheers)—who gave for runs to ant imood, , the-' illit Illili't.. Ti ,- 't, are also va 1- ever the piece of land on which they weie then assembled, for tots Improvoinents in Coe eoostritoto nto tOo how. i h the purpose of affording facilities for the erection of such an :.hip sal hate oecominte otion f-r thirt) c o in,' p eeF ee_ asylum, and it was now placed in the hands of trustees for that * . OO , too ; ~,,,p 1 ,,, room oir m o n , " f i . 1e .,,.,, g , pas .„„ g , rs object The building would be proceeded with at once , and he in hor well-ventilated between oecks. She ie xpected was happy to be able to state that it was to be in a style of e to make five ceinvete roptges per aotinin, making her architecture . _ which, having in view the purposes fur which it was deigned, must be pronounced most appropriate_ and w 11 passag s in an average of thirteen to is days, the and reflected great credit on the good taste and no- nittium bait thirteen and the maximum twenty-five. judged, architect,A judoment of the lr. Cooper. It was to consist As an illustration-of the advance of steam ettumuniva- of seven houses of four rooms each, with every suitable con tion, we refer our readers to a paragraph in another venience, so that each member would have a separate and in column, from which it will be seen that the novelty of a dependent dwelling; and there were also two larger rooms native American steamer may be expected shindy in the in the plan, one to be devoted to the purpose of a committee- Mersey. Since the above was writtenwe have noticed the er- room, and another a hall for the assembly of the inmates, rival in the Mersey of another vessel he which the screw which hall was, he was happy to say, to be fitted up as a is combined as an auxiliary—the Q. E. D., from Mon- library.—(Hear). It was unnecessary to detain them with treal. The date of her departure from that city not being a description of the more minute arrangements, but they given, we cannot state the length of her voyage. were all to be in strict accordance with proper economy and a due regard to the comfort of the inmates. The objects contemplated in this retreat were such as ought to com mand the sympathy, not only of those connected with the bookselling business, but of every class in life ; for that trade was almost sui generis, and possessed the strongest claims on all, from the highest to the lowest in the land. When persons enjoyed the advantages that were derived from the extensive 'diffusion of enlightenment and civilisation, they seldom thought of the great enterprise and risk which were required in order to produce that diffusion of knowledge—they seldom thought of the cost and anxiety which were required to carry it into effect—they seldom considered what a lottery was the business of publishing.—(Hear, hear.) They seldom considered how difficult it was to discover beforehand the intel lectual taste of the public, or what might be called, perhaps, the caprices of public opinion, against the decision of which it was hopeless to appeal.—( Hear, hear.) He felt that the interests of the booksellers were identical with those of the public, and therefore he felt that in aiding to confer this benefit on them the public were conferring a benefit on themselves.— (Cheers.) They ought to recollect that the booksellers was the medium through which the principles of religion' and patriotism were spread abroad. They ought not to forget that through their exertions knowledge was diffused amongst all classes, and their morals improved, whilst their enlighten ment was increased.—( Cheers.) He should, therefore, with out further preface, give " Prosperity to the Booksellers' Pro vident Retreat."—(Loud applause.) The health of she Noble Chairman was then drank, after which the health of Mr. Dickenson was most warmly received, and several other toasts having been proposed, the company separated, very much delighted, not only with the benevolent purpose which had called them together, but with the agreeable manner in which the day was spent. A sum of 600/. towards the fund for erecting the building was subscribed before the party separated. AN ACT FOR THE PROTIICTION OF MERCHANT SEAMEN. A most important measure, affecting the welfare of that numerous and useful body of men, the sailors of the merchant service, received the royal assent on the last day of the fesion. It will ro doubt elevate the charac ter, improve the habits, and better the condition of sea men—all objects of the highest importance to the mari time prof,sston. The crimps, lodging house-keepers, agents, the self-styled " shipping-masters and others, will no longer be able to prey on seamen, and defraud them of their hard-earned wages. The baneful traffic in advance notes, which has brought so many to the cri minal courts and the hulks, will cease, and owners and masters of ships will no longer be imposed upon by the crimps, who frequently send incompetent persons on board as able seamen, who are unable to hand, reef, or steer, or do any part of a seaman's duty. This Act will protect the homeward, as well as the outward-bound sailor. The numerous " land-sharks" in London, Li verpool, Bristol, Portsmouth, and other great ports, .will have to look out for other prey. The preamble states, " that the seamen of this kingdom have been several years subjected to grievous impositions by cer tain persons who undertake to procure seamen to enter on board merchant ships who have no interest in the said ships." To abate this evil, it is enacted " that from and after the 10th of September next, the Board of Trade shall license such persons as they may deem to be requisite and fit, and who may be desirous to take out such licenses to hire, engage, supply, or provide seamen to be entered on board merchant ships ; and every such license shall be granted for such periods, upon such terms, and upon such security being given, and shall be revocable upon such conditions as the Board of Trade may at any time or times appoint." No person not being duly licensed, or not being the owner, part owner, mas ter, or person in charge of a merchant-ship, or the ship's husband, shall hire, engage, or supply seamen for ships ; and no person, whether licensed or not, other than the owner, part owner, master, or person in charge of a merchant-ship, or the ship's husband, to demand or ob tain the register ticket of any seaman for the purpose, or under the pretence of engaging him on board any merchant ship. No seaman is to be received on beard ship who has been hired contrary to the provisions of the Act. A penalty not exceeding 201. to be imposed on evert person for every seaman hired, engaged, or sapplied. and for every register ticket demanded ne obtain d contrary to the Act:, and a similar penalty will be incurred by every owner, master, or ills litisti,nd, receiving any seaman on board net less d A , .y , n ,114, uul•crnstii age-t to provide seditici t.r rneicioii,t-- tops, o r aey poison entrdiymg an) itolicenzed p. resin, or (tie same p. rsou to tint. Is isey aunt not ex• cer.iing 20!., Slid, in audition thereto, shall forfeit and lose his license. It will be seen Unit the Act will afford a very wholesome control over the crimps, for the loss ad' their licenses will step their career a; once. The 7th clause enacts, that no advance note tor wages shall be given to any seaman until six hours atter the ship's ar ticles have been duly signed, and then only to the sea man himself, unless such wages, or advance of wages, be paid in money, in which case the payment may be made to the seaman ,himself at any period most convenient after the signing of the ship's articles, and all payments of wages contrary to the provisions of this Act shall be null and void. For cashing an advance note of 21., the Jews charge ss. interest, and compel the sailor to purchase clothes to the amount of 30s. more, or at least clothes alleged to be worth that sum ; but in reality the sailor gets for his advance note for a month's pay clothes worth about 155., and ss. in cash, and the Jew realises one hundred per cent. by the transaction. If all owners and masters of ships would advance .money instead of notes to sea men, those shameful impositions would be abolished. The Bth clause is one of the best. It enacts " that if any person shall demand or receive from any seaman, or from any person other than the owner, part owner, master, or pi rsun in charge of a merchant ship, or the ship's husband, requiring seamen, any remuneration whatever, either directly or indirectly, for and on account of the hiring, supplying, or providing any such seamen, he shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding 5/." The sections already referred to apply to the protection of the outward bound sailors. The 9th and 10th sections more particularly refer to the homeward bound, who are indeed subjected to "grievous impositions," and " great injustice" from the whole tribe of land-sharks, who soon make a clean sweep of Jack's hold. No sooner does a vessel arrive within sight of a British port than it is boarded by the veriest scoundrels in existence, who first obtain possession of the sailor's hammock, chests, and clothing, and then promise him a snug berth and good treatment ashore, and afterwards plunder him of his hard.earned wages. The 9th clause states that it shall not be lawful for any person (other than any officer or person in her Majesty's service or employment) to go on board any merchant vessel arriving or about to arrive at the place of her destination, before or previous to her actual arrival in dock or at the quay or place of her discharge, without the permission and consent of the master or person in charge of the vessel, under a penalty of 20/. The 10th clause enacts that no person shall, on board any merchant ship, within twenty-four hours after her arrival, solicit seamen to become lodgers at the houses of unlicensed persons, or take from any ship the chests, bedding, or other effects of seamen, except under their personal direction, or without the permission of the master or person in charge. The penalty for a viola tion of this clause, which will put an end to the touting system and the disgracofui brawls on board ships, is si. The 11th clause iefli•ds a penalty of 10/. on lodging liou.se-kee•ers rec , iving remuneration for they boarding of sailors for a longer p,Tiod than is actually due, or tor neglectin A to ri turn moneys or t fleets belonging to sea men. The 12th clau-e iiiieets the recovery and applica tion ‘:f penalties, and states th;it "In alt cases of com plain; m.id, or on bi.litX of any sea;nan under this Art, the evidence of such simian shall be r-c•-ived and taken, notwithstanding be may be interested i n th e in.,tter " For non payment, it pt-nalties cffenders may be c •mtnitte.l, r won or without hard labour, for any time not exceeding six calendar months. The Act comes into operation this day. RESCINDING OF THE RULES AND ORDERS FOR THE DISTRICT ASYLUMS. It appears by the following document sent by the Poor-law Commissioners to the Churchwardens, Overseers, and other parochial authorities of the parishes of the " Western Metropo litan Asylum District," that the hostile demonstrations against the recent orders for forming the district asylums for the house less poor, have induced the Commissioners to rescind them. " THE SOUTH-WESTERN METROPOLITAN ASYLUM DISTRICT. " To the Board of Management of the South-western Me tropolitan District Asylum : To the churehivardens and overseers of the poor of the several parishes respectively, comprised in the said district: to the clerk or clerks to the jus tice or justices of the petty sessions held for the division or divisions in which the said district and parishes respectively are situate ; and to all others whom it may concern. " Whereas by an order bearing date the 30th day of July last, the Poor-law Commissioners did order and declare that the following unions, that is to say, the St. Saviour's and Wands worth and Clapham Unions, and the several parishes of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, in the borough of South wark ; St. Mary, LaMbeth, and St: Mary, Newington, in the county of Surrey which said several divisions and parishes are situated within the district of the metropoli.an police, should be combined into a district, to be termed The South-Western Metropolitan District,' for the purpose of providing and managing one or more asylum or asylums for the temporary relief and setting to work therein of the destitute houseless poor persons who are not charged with any offence, and who may apply for relief or become chargeable to a poor-rates within any of the unions or parishes above mentioned ; " And the said Commissioners did thereby order and declare that a Board of Management should be constituted for the said district, which should consist of the ex-officio members entitled to act according to the provisions of the last-recited Act, and of twelve members to be elected as therein prescribed ; " And whereas, by an order bearing date the 11th day of August instant, the Poor-law Commissioners did prescribe certain rules and regulations for the observance of the Board of Management of the said district, and did direct that proper officers should be appointed to carry into effect the orders and directions of the said Board, and to assist in the administration of the relief of the poor in the said district ; " And whereas it is expedient to rescind the said last recited ordex " Now, therefore, we, the Poor-law Commissioners, in pursuance of the authorities 'vested in us by an Act of Parliament passed in the filh year of the reign of his late Ma jesty King William the Fourth, intituled ' An Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales,' do hereby rescind the said last recited order, and every matter and thing therein contained. " Given under our hands and seal of office, this 30th day of August, in the year 1845. (Signed) " GEO. NICHOLLS. " EDMUND W. HEAD." GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAlLWAY.—Traffic returns for the week ending Aug. 30:—Passengers, 17,325; amount received, 4191. 6s. EFFECTS OF THE STORMS IN FRANCE.—At Ma rolette, a little village near Alamers, in the department of the Maine•et-Loire, several houses were unroofed, a /a Asmodeus, by the violence of the hurricane of the 19th ult. ; and the electric fluid, after having consumed the greatest portion of the furniture and melted all the metal in one of them, struck two persons, who remained for several hours in a cataleptic condi tion. At the farm of Butte, near the source of the river, several lofty trees were torn up by the roots, and almost en, tirely stripped of their bark and branches. A sow in the farm yard was dreadfully burnt, and lay the next moment a heap of cinders. On the Ballon road a person employed in the fields during the time when the tempest was raging most furiously saw several trees torn up and hurled to a great distance, and his companion was lifted from the ground, and thrown into the midst of a thorny hedge. The poor wretch was fearfully bruised and pricked by the thorns, and could only be extricated from the hedge with the assistance of some peasants, who were compelled to make use of their billhooks to cut out a passage for his body. _ _ NEW LINES OF STEAM-VESSELS.—New lines of steamers from this country to distant parts of the world are constantly forming. On Wednesday last the Novelty sailed from Liverpool for Constantinople, as the first of a monthly line of steamers' between this port and the Turkish capital. We see be the Times that steamers have just begun to run between London and Leghorn, and in a short time the line from Liver pool to Rio and the River Plate will commence operations. British enterprise has now established steam communication with the following countries :—To Russia, Sweden, and Den mark, by the Hull line ' • to St. Petersburg ; to North Ger many, by the Hull and London lines to llamburg ; to Holland, Belgium, and France, by the General Steam Company's ves sels; to the north and south of Spain and to Portugal, by the Peninsular Company's vessels ; to Italy, by the new line from London to Leghorn ' • to Malta, the Levant, and Constanti nople, by the new line from Liverpool ; to Egypt, Arabia. Ceylon, India, Sincapore, and China, by the Oriental Steam Company's vessels ; to British America and the United States, by the Cunard and Great Western lines from Liverpool; to the West Indies, Mexico, and the north coast of South America, by the West India line ; to Peru and Chili by the West Coast line. To Brazil and the River Plate by the line now building in Liverpool. The only British colonies of any importance which have not now the advantage of steam communication with the mother country are the Cape, the Mauritius, and Australian colonies.—LicerPool Times. BODMIN.—The potato crop in this neighbourhood, almost without exception, are all spoiled; there are many con jtetares as to the cause of this great calamity, but it baffles all. The effect on the poor, who generally depend on this !fir wiata'ippporti wiU , it (nod, be very serlom RELATIVE CLC RAILWA PRINCIPAL CIMS AND SCOTLAND, AN g - NAMES or RAILWAYS. —0 t c.: - g . g 0. Sept. Sept. 3. 3. 4% 4% Aberdeen . • • • • • • • • Airdrie and Coatbridge Arbroath and Forfar Ditto Half Shares • Armagh, Coln, & Portrush 3U 3 Bandon and Bantry Belfast and Ballymena • • Belfast and County Down 4 B irknha, L & C hes 15 Birmingham and Glo'ster 133% Do. Nev.* (iss .at 7% dis.) Ditto Half Shares •• . Birminghm IzOxfrd.Junc. 5% Blckburn, and' Preston Blckburn, Darwn;& Boltn 10 Bolton, W igaa, & Liverpl. 34 Boston, Stamftd and Birm 5 Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. Bristol and Exeter 92% _ Ditto New ..;• •••• • • • • 12 Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union — Caledon. and Ayrsh. Junc Caledon. & Purnbar. June. _ Caledonian •••••• • • • • ' 11% 12 Ditto Extension •• • • Cambridge and Lincoln• 4% 5 Chester and Birkenhead — 67% Ditto NOW Shares •• • • Ditto Half Shares •• • • Chester and Holyhead Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley ... • • • • .• Clitheroe Junction • • • • • • Clydesdale Junction .•. • . Cork, Blackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon .. • • • • • Cork and Killarney .• • • . Cork and Waterford • • • Cork and Youghal • • • • Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.. Cornwall . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Derby and Crewe . • • • • • • Direct Lon. and Manchstr Dies, Beccles, & Yarmoth D irect3lan. (Remington's) Direct Northern • • • • • • • • Direct Norwich .. Dublin and Belfast Junc 934 Dublin, Belfast, & Colrne • 2% Dublin and Drogheda• • • • . ••••'` Dublin and Galway • 7 4 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath .• • bx - 2%1 72 - 24 - 2% 3% ! 4% 5% 3%21 4U % 3% Ditto New .• • Dundee and Perth • • Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) .. Eastern Counties . • • 20% Do. New .... •• • ...... 7Up 12% Do. Pap. spr Ct., No. 1 1 Do. do. N 0.2 -p 293 East Dereham & Norwich 1% East Union •••• • • • • Ditto Extension •• .. 3 Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. 91 Do. Quarter Shares ... Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb. Leith, and Grantar Do. Pref. 5 per Cent. • Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles • Edinburgh and Perth • • • Ely and Huntingdon • • Enniskillen and Sligo • • - I 7% ..._ I 15 - I 2S - 3 - 15% Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Flt Wood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow Glasgow and Ayr. • • • Do. Quarter Shares • • • • Glasgow and Greenock • • Ditto New . .• •• • Ditto Preferemee • • • • Glasgw, I nnfries, and Car. Glsgw, Kilmarnek, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster • • • • Grand Junction ...... Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto New Quarters' • • Ditto Eighths • • • Grand Union . .• • • • .• • • Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield I Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (bind) 26% —196 s - 1 72 _ 2% - 3 - 247 23% 4% 3% -3% - .71A Ditto Extension • • • ..• Great Munster • • • • • • • • • • Gt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares • • Do. New 301. Shares .. - Great Western •• • • • • .... 17 Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Fifths Guilfed, Farehm, & Ports. Hudrsfld & Man. R. & Cant Huddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough.. Hull and Selby .... Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Half Shares .• .. 23% Inverness and Elgin •• • • Isle of Jersey ...... Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray Killarney Junctions .•• . • - Lancaster and Carlisle .. Lancaster and Preston .. Leeds and Bradford •• • . Ditto Extension •.. Leeds and Dewsbury •• • • Leeds and Thirsk.. ••• • • • 20% Leeds &W. Riding June. 17% Leicester & Birmingham 2 p 3% Leicester and Bedford ... 2% p 4 % Limerick and Waterford 7 Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jne. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liv. Man. &GtN. of Eng. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares •• • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • 53 Liverpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn 7N London and Birmingham 225 Ditto Thirds .......... Ditto Quarters •••• • • • 28% London and Blackwell • • 10% London and Brighton • • • r 77% •zn , Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon •• • • 27 27 Ditto New . ••••• • • • • iNp Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt. London and Greenwich • . Do. Pref. or Privilege • • London and South Westrn 78 1 / Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501. Shares. • 15 Do. New, 401. Shares • London and York •• • • 6% 7 Ditto (Bawtry) .••• • • • 5 London and Windsor •. • . 1% 2 Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl 314 ._ Londonderry & Coleraine 514 Londonderry & Enniskilln 31,4 Lynn and Ely _ • 8 12 Lynn and Dereham .• 5' Manchester and Leeds • • 214 211 Ditto Half Shares • • 101 10: Ditto Quarter Shares • . - Ditto Sixteenths .• • _ Manchstr and Birkenhead Manchester & Birminghm 66 . • Ditto Quarter Shares • 11 Ditto New Quarters . . 10 Do. Con. & Welsh June. Manchestr, Boltn, & Bury _ Mnchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk B%p. Man. Shef. and Mid. June. Manchestr & Southamptn Midland.. •• • Ditto Fifths Ditto \ew Do. Con. libm. & Derby I :13 Midlud Gt Westrn (Irishl Do. Extension to Sligo N ewcstl &I) aringtn J unc • 54% • Do. New (Brandling). • Newcastle and Berwick • • 17% Newcastle and Carlisle • . N a cstle, Durham, & Lan. 4% Newport & Abergavenny 3 Newry and Enniskillen • . 3% Newark and Sheffield • North British • • • • • • • • • • Ditto New Shares Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) Do. Quarter Shares North Devon ••••• • • • - North Kent • • • • • • • • • • • • North Staffordshire • North Eastern • • • • • • • • • • North Union (A) • • • Ditto (B) • • • • • . • • North Wales Mineral.... Ditto New Shares •• • • North Western ........— . North Wales ..... . 51A Norwich and Brandon • • 23% Ditto New .• •••• Not., Belvoir, & Granthin Nottingham and Boston • • Nott., E'rwsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Birming. June Oxford and Worcester • • . Oxford and Cambridge . • Perth and Inverness •• . • - Portsmouth Direct .. :. • • 7 % Preston and IVyre". ••• • • 46% Ditto Half Shares •• • • - Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Preston & Wyre Exteng. Richmond &W. EndJunc Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring Scottish Central • . ..... • Scottish Midland • • • • • • • • Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto ditto (No. 2) • • • Ditto ditto (No. 3) • • - Sheffield and Lincoln. •• • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry & Grand Junc. Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe 5% Shrws.,Wolv., Dudl, & Bir 7 ghrwsbry & Trnt Val. U... 3% Shrws, lierefd,& N. Wales 4% 1 20% • • • • • • • • 1174 3014 3: 10 - 68 - Slamannan .. • • • South Devon ..••.• • • • • • South Midland • • South Eastern and Dover 46% Do. New (i55.:321.) No. 1 2 Z Do. (iss.33/.68.8d.)„ 2 1654 Do. (iss. 301.) „3 054 18 Staines and Richmond .• • 3 'Staffordshire &Shropshire 4 Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales • • • • • • • • • • • • Tean and Dove Valley • • Trent Valley .••.•• • • • • • • Do. and HolyheadJune. 3% Vale of Neath •• • • • West London, Old Shares -- - West End & Sothrn Coun. Wexford aNd Carlow • • • • Warwick and Cheltenham 254 1 Waterford and Kilkenny -- Watrfd,Wxfd,Wick & Dub 2% Wakefield and Bradford . • Wakfid, Pontefrct, & Gool Wakefield and liarrogate Warwick and London .• • West Lancashire •• Worcester and Tring •. • • Wititehaven and Furness 1)o. New Half Shares • • Welsh Midland ... • • . • 4% We t Cornwall. ••••• • • • • West Yorkshire ••..• • • • Wilsontwn, M.& Coitus!! -- Wilts, Somrst, & We 3 mth Yarmouth and Norwich 29},j Ditto New. • • • • • • York and Carlisle .••• • • • 6 4 York and North Midland 110 Ditto Half Shares .• • • Ditto Scarbro' Branch 54 Ditto Selby ••••• • • • • • Ditto Extension .. • Yorkshire & Glasgow 'ln. ►STOCK EXCLIASGE.- 2 181, 9d. p.--Hull au! SEPTEMBIA , S, MO. )SING - PRICES OF Y SHARES Ttiv ToMrSts IN ENGLAND, D IRELAND. i 4 • • Oi zi 3 • 4 . A A u al 0 Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 3. 3. 3. 2. —76 s 4 111% 12% 12% 12% 13 —76 s 2141 2,,, - 3.1- 20%1 - 25 - 22%1- - 7%1: '% 7 U Pli 6 ! 1% 1 5Y2 220 "I - 13 I4s 364:1 1 2%14756d 1378 p 15s p 7;4 iss6d 12756 d 6O - 56% - 140 s pl 64s p p. 13; u/ s 34 —30 s - 73 12% N 10% {% 3 3 ,4 9% 10 1s .1 0 - --_ • 8653d1 L . v`l-7- I 6% 4 4 1 ,E - 2% - 5% 5 3% % - - LS [O4l, _ 14 34s p 399 - - - IA 11% ii% 11% 16(1 - - - 16 - I 44 I - - -1 9%, -L. 9% 3% 7133 d 7% - 2%1 2%1 3 14 1 _ 14 [9 3 22 - L 74, 19 - ?% 9 % - 66% 5 4 - 9% 5% - 4% 4% - 4% 5 B % ' - 48% - 7%p1891 6%1 ---. 1331 9il - 5 % 1- I- 3 % 1_ 1_ 31i1 3 1 - 5 I- [OAI 7y, - I - - 3 / 4 4%, 41i 4% ry, 1s 17% - 4 % I -- - - 6 I 6,1 _t 1 - 1 4 - 6s6pl ULL, SErr. 3. .The sales are—Eastern Countie,tio. Olby, Half Naares, 233A—Zondon and Croydon, New, 365. p.-Preston and Wyre. Half sharer, 9 1 / 2 -Blackburn, Darwen, and B dton, 10 1 / 2 -Eastern Union latension, 314-Great Orlrnst.v !tod Sheffield ;Quarter Shares, 4 3 /-Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 22.--Lynn and Ely, B,North British, Half Shares, 10--Nartli Wales, 5 1 / 2 -Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 11-Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 31. Is. 3d.-Bandon and Bantry, 2 -Boston, Newark, and Sheffield. 7-Ccitentry, Nuneaton, &c., WA-Direct Northern, 3%-East Lincolnshire, 31. 18s. 9d. p.-East Coast, 15s. p.-Glasgow and Dumfries, 23i gi Grated Union, 41s. p.-LiverpoOl, Manchester, and Newcas tle Junction, 6-London and Birmingham Extension, 375. 6d. eft. p.-London and York, 7-London and Manche ter (Re inington's), 30s. p.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matloch, Pd 16s. ad.-Nottingham, Erewash, 84- 43, -Nottingham, - Belvoir, and Grantham, 4-Nottingham and Mansfield, 3 12 - -North Western, 6 1 / 2 -North Staffordshire, 7-Rugby and Huntingdon, 415-South Midland, 7 1 4 p.-Shrewsbury and , 1 7 7 4 Herefordshire, 2%-Tean and Dove Palley, 2% p.-Wake field and Bradford, 5 p.-Welsh Midland, 5-York and Carlisle, 6 1 A-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 38s. p. YORK, SEPT. 3. STOCK EiCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Union Exten • sion, 3 / 7 4-Great North of England , N ew, 34-Midland, New, 26% -York and North Midland (Selby scri), 77- - - Clitheroe Junction, 5%-Grand Union, 3 5 / 4-Lee p ds and - York, 10%-Leicester and Bedford, 4/. Ss. 9d.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 734-London and York, 7-Man chester, Buxton,' &c., 101 A-Newcastle, Durham, and Lan cashire, 54 -Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 51A - Warwick and London, 5-Welsh Midland, 51/8-West York - shire, 18. SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 3. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-London and Croydon , New, 365. p.-Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 37-Yerk and North Midland Extension, 253/4-Caledonian Extension, - 37A -Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 1 4 -Derby and Crewe, 5%- - Es" Lineolnßbir , '. 5 -Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension Igialondort and Wialsor, 415.-London and York, Direct \ortueru, ii' i z-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 12-Nottingham and Mansfield, 35A -Shrewsbury --• and Herefordshire, VA-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 51A •- Wakefield and Harrogate, 80s.-Welsh Midland, 5 3-16. HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 3. STOCK EXCITANGE.-The sales are-Cambridge and Lin -- coin, 54 -Direct Northern, 3% -Essex and Suffolk, 225. p. - -Grand Union, VA -Glasgow and Dumfries, 555.-Hud -2% dersfield and Manchester, 22% -Huddersfield and Sheffield 3 % Junction, 29 c. n.-Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North East - em, 4-Leeds and Thirsk, 22 3 4 -Leicester and Birmingham, 3 1 / 2 p.-Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, 355. p.- _ - Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 633 -West Yorkshire, 194- - Clitheroe Junction, 618-Newark, Sheffield, and Boston, 7%. EXETER, SEPr. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % p.-North Devon, 2% p.-Exeter, Topsham, 9i and Exmouth, % p.-South Devon, 37-Newark and Shef - field, 71 2 -Eastern Counties, 21-London and Blackwall, 3 ,, 10%. 2% EDINBURGH, SEPT. 1. - STOCK EXCILANOE.-The salep are-Aberdeen, 31. 10s.- - Arbroath and Forfar, 25/.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/.-British - and Irish Union, 31. I Is.-Caledonian, 12/.-Caledonian Ex - tension, 31. I Is.-Clydesdale Junction, 101. 2s. 6d.-Direct 7- Northern, 21.-Dundee and Arbroath, 37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 18/.-Dundee and Perth, 5/.-Edinburgh and Bath - gate, 2/. 17s. 6d,-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 901.-Ditto, - Quarters, 211. 155.-Ditto, New, 15/. - Edinburgh, Glas gow, and Dumbarton, 11. IN.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Gran - ton, 251. 10s.-Ditto, Preference, 17/. 10s.- Edinburgh and 1 Northern, 2/. 25.-Ditto, New, 1/. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 135.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, M.-Ditto, New - Stock, 221.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 41/.-Glasgow and - Greenock, 21/.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 55.-1 - MU°, Prefer - ence, 21.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2 /. Is. 6d . -Great - North of Scotland 3/. 75.-Inverness and Elgin, 11. 2s. 6d. -London and York, iv. 10s.-Menkland and Kirkintilloch, 331.-North British, 291.-Ditto, Halves, 91. 55.-Perth and - Inverness, 21. 55.-Scottish Central, 71. 145.-Scottish Mid - land, 2/. 75.-Slamannan, 18/. 10s.-Stirling and Dunferm -24 line, I/. 17s. RAILWAY GENCE. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS. MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—The halt-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the Manchester and Leeds Railway was held to- day at noon, at the Palatine Hotel. At the conclusion of the half-yearly meeting, a special general meeting of the Shareholders was held, for the purpose = of authorising the Directors to create an additional number of shares, for raising further capital for the Manchester and Leeds Railway, the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway, and the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railways respectively, amounting to ,209,1001. ; also, for paying off = the mortgages, which amount to 862,0001. And for taking into consideration and deciding upon certain arrangements be tween the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company and the Leeds and West Riding Junctian Railway Company, the West 26 Yorkshire Railway Company, the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway Company, the Huddersfield and She! field Junction Railway Company, and the Leeds and Brad _ . ford Railway Company, in reference to the making_ of new lines in the West Riding. —• There was a crowded attendance of the proprietary. HENRY HOULDSWORTII, Esq., Chairman of the Board of --- Directors, took the chair, and said this was the eighteenth half-yearly meeting of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and he trusted that the statements which they would have to lay before the Shareholders would confirm the sa — tistaction which the Proprietors had beers pleased to express since the commencement of the undertaking. Mr. DUNSTAN, one of the clerks, then read the report of the Directors, of which the following is an extract:- - " The. satisfactory state of trade during the period on which your Directors have no to report, has produced its natural and ex pected effect upon the income of the company. Although an itn. 0 - , portant reduction was made early in the year on the passenger fares and in the rates on certain classes of merchandise, the receipts of the six months present an increase over those of the corresponding period of last year of 23,892/. 12s. 9d. Towards this sum the passenger traffic has con £6,618 14 11 tributed And the goods traffic £23,892 12 9 GHQ The gross income of the six months amounts to £153,279 10 8 8 The working expenses, including rates, taxes, and duty, to Showing a balance of £101,232 12 7 The progressive increase of businessis shown in the following comparative statement : PASSENGERS. Number booked in six months,s viz., Ist January lB44 to 30th June. . 1843. Ist Class 2d Class 3d and 4th Class 627,493 487,031 381,570 Total. • Miles travelled... 12,167,480 10,024,141 7,955,339 The accounts show that the gross receipts of the twelve months have been 315,093/. 19s. Bd.; and the gross disbursements, in eluding allowance for depreciation, 110,247/. Os. 2d. ; leaving a - profit on the year's business of 204,8511. 19s. 6d. ; which shows net - a return of 6h per cent. for the year on the total expenditure. I - Since the Ist of January, one call entitled to dividend at the present period has been received, increasing the paid-up capital _ to 1,487,3891., and by the annexed account, No. 2, it will be seen - that the total sum expended from the commencement in 1635, - to the 30th June last, has been 3,372,2401. 9s. The net ha - lance on the six months' business, applicable to dividend, is 60,3441. 2s. 6c1., which, added to the undivided surplus of the _ previous half-year, makes a disposable balance on the present _ occasion of 67,901/. Bs. 9d. (as per account No. 4). Your Directors recommend that a dividend of 4 per cent. for the - half year upon the paid-up capital be sanctioned, viz., 2/. 18s. - on the 1001. shares ; 1/. ss. 4d. on the 501. shares, and the usual 2s. per share on the quarter shares, all subject to the income-tax. On the subject of their late proceedings in Parliament your Directors have to report that they have - been successful in obtaining the following Acts, viz. An Act to raise additional capital ; an Act to make a branch railway from Todmorden to Burnley, also a . 3 - 7 branch from Hey wood to Bury , also a branch f rom branch , Oldham to Mumps ; an Act to make a Junction between the - Manchester and Birmingham Railway and this Company' , line ; an Act to ii ake a line from Wakefield to Goole. In the case of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railways Bill, which had been favourably reported on by the Board of Trade, one part of the scheme, extending from Cooper 13: idge to Huddersfield, was, after a week's contest, granted by the Committee of the House of Commons to whom it was re , ferred, to the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway Company, and another part, extending from Dewsbury to Leeds, to the Leeds and Dewsbury Company ; the remainder, however, comprising about three-fourths of the whole, was, after a farther contest of two weeks, assigned by the same Com mittee to this Company, but the Bill was subsequently lost by an unexpected decision of the Committee of the House of Lords. In respect to the Bill for authorising the amalgama tion with the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and Railway Company, it was postponed until next session, in consequence of as objection on standing orders ; but every needful step will in the meantime be taken, and provision made for carrying out and obtaining from Parliament its sanction to the existing agreement between the two Companies. The total capital which the Company has power to raise under their various Acts of Parliament, now amounts to 4,720,900/., of which is already capitalised 2,589,6001., remaining uneapi talised 2,131,300/., but deducting 60, 0001 . (part of the capital • under the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Act. not yet con vertible), it is proposed to divide the remaining 2,071,300/. into 103,565 shares of 201. each, to be called fifths, and to allot of such shares to each registered proprietor (less the fractional parts of a share) a value equal to 75 per cent. of the nominal amount of the aggregate stock standing in his name on the 20th day of this present September. It is in tended that a first call or deposit of 1/. per share upon the new creation shall precede the issue of the certificates, and shall be payable on or before the 20th of October next, but the time of the remaining calls will depend in the first instance upon the progress of the new works, and afterwards upon the periods when it may be thought expedient to pay off the mort gage debt. It is anticipated, however, that at least, 71. per . share may be called up within the next three years. It is also . proposed that the new shares shall participate in dividends im mediately in proportion to the nominal amount of the said shares, subject, however, to a deduction for interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum upon the proportion from time _ to time not paid up, such proportion being determined by the - amount paid up at the commencement of each half year. They - have now the satisfaction of reporting, in furtherance of the - objects proposed, that they have made arrangements for apply - ing to Parliament in the next session for an extension of rail _ ways in the neighbourhood of Oldham, under the title of the - Oldham District Railways Company, in conjunction with local - parties of influence whose co-operation will be beneficially - exerted to promote the scheme in questien, under an agreement - based upon that entered into last year with the West Riding Company. They have also to report that a line from Bacup - to Rochdale has been surveyed and determined upon to connect - with the main line and with that part of the Oldham District -- scheme which extends from Rochdale to Ashton, and also a - short line to Middleton, both of which, with your sanction, - will be applied for by this company as branches of the parent 23z - line ; and that the projects have been moat favourably received by the inhabitants of the populous districts through which tl.ey 3 1 / 4 are intended to pass. They have also to state that they have 2% agreed with the Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and - Goole Company to proceed at once (the consent of the land - owners having been already obtained) w ith the branch from - the Goole to the North Midl oul line at Methiey, to connect the port of Goole directly with Leeds, which was made a con - (titian by Parliament in the Wakefield, Pontefract and ,is ole - Bill; and further, in applying for the forma: sanction of t, h . lature to that branch , to se ek p owers to extend it in a sout easterly direction from some point on the Goole line to a jutic tion with the London and York at Askern,thus connecting Leeds - more directly with Lincolnshire and the south. The attention of your Directors has also been drawn by parties of local in• fluence to the rich mineral district lying between Horbury on -- the Manchester and Leeds line and Sheffield, a tract of country unprovided with railway accommodation, containing an ac'ive population, including the town of Barnsley, and the connexion of which distr.ct with the populous valleys of the Calder and the Aire it appears a desirable and legitimate object to pro mote. It is proposed that your Directors be authorise;l to enter into an agreement with the promoters of the line. on the basis of the arrangement with the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Company. The most important measure, however, Vthloh your Directors have adopted in reference to the nex e *ion, is an arrangement with the promoters of the opposing schemes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by which an union has been effected on the principle (more than once approved of by the Proprietors a t.23iS company) of a thorough identifica tion of the interests of the resweetive parties. This arrsno-e -itrient had been concluded to the eritiro• satisfaction of the re presentatives of the various companies coneerned, and if sanc tioned by the present meeting will obviate, it is to he hoped, further opposition in Parliament in respect to tLet dis trict, and secure at the same time the important influence of a vast majority of the inhabitants in carrying out the complicated and extensive system of railways essential to its convenience and prosperity.—(Cheers.) By the agree ments entered into it is proposed to carry out the net-work of Onte required to connect the varians important towns and villages in the West Riding with each other, and with thet Manchester mid Leeds Railway, in conjunc•ion with this com pany. The capital to be furnished, 187,5001., by the promoters of a line between Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Company, and the rest to be contributed in three equal parts by the Yorkshire section of the West Riding Company of last year, the promoters of the West Yorkshire Company, and the Manchester and Leeds Company, such capital to become an integral part of the Man chester and Leeds stock upon the Act or Acts being obtained, and to be entitled to dividend when and in proportion as the lines are opened.—(Cheers.) One immediate advantage of this arrangement is, that it brings the Manchester and Leeds Company at once into harmony with the district, and gives to the inhabitants an immediate interest in the parent line ; and the more effectually to secure a spirit of union and co-opera tion, it provides that six or eight gentlemen residing in different parts of the West Riding shall become at once members of the Manchester and Leeds board, in anticipation of which, powers to increase the number of Directors of this Company from twelve to eighteen have been obtained. At a future day a special meeting will be called to consider all ques tions connected with the Parliamentary proceedings of the next session. In the mean time, however, your Directors beg to intimate that it is their intention to recommend that the capi tal which may be required for the new projects then to be sub mitted to you shall he issued in the form of scrip, and offered pro rata to the Proprietors, under the condition of s ubscribin g a deed or deeds in the usual' form. In conclusion, it may be desirable on the present occasion to repeat, for the information of Lose who have recently become Proprietors in the Manches ter and Leeds Company, that the calls upon the existing stock will take place as nearly in accordance with the annexed speci fication as the engagements of the Company will admit, and that the quarter shares will, by their original constitution. rank with the original shares from the Ist of January, 1847, and be entitled to receive dividends from that date, on the calls from time to time paid up at the same rate as the original shares." The CHAIRMAN, adverting to the business of the company during the past half-year, congratulated the Proprietors on the important advance in the prosperity of the company. For a long period they had exercised a great deal of patience and a considerable amount of faith. But now, from the develop ment of traffic, and the improved state of the country, their increase had arrived at such a point as to afford a firm founda tion on which to build the prosperity of the company, and to establish its value in the public mind. They could now feel assured that their undertaking ranked amongst the most successful of an enterprising country. It was now ten years within a few weeks since the first meeting was held and the company originated. Much exertion, time, and labour had beers expended since then, and many calls hail been made upon the proprietary for a continuance of their confidence in those who had undertaken the responsibility of the management. The Proprietors would see, on reference to the report, that they had only arrived at the end of the first half-year since the com pletion of the works of the Company. The receipts amounted to 204,8511. 19s. 6d., which would show that the amount re ceived would give a return of 6i- per cent. He was aware that this would fall short of the anticipations of many ; but when they looked at the vast excess of the expendi ture beyond that contemplated in the first instance, they could not look to the return of 6 per cent. but as confirming in a strong point of view the opinions of those gentlemen who had originated this company that theenterprise would be eminently successful. It was impossible to conceive that such an amount of expenditure would be required, and had they been able to restrict themselves within the bounds that were at first contemplated, it was clear that their undertaking would have been the foremost of all the lines up to the present period. fhs was owing no doubt in part to the improved condition of the manufacturing districts, and to the increase in the various classes of passengers, which latter circumstance had been at tributed to the reduction that had taken place in the fares. The total increase in passengers had been 26 per cent. The first-class passengers had increased 50 per cent., the second class 11 per cent., and the third-class 33 per cent. He was sure that it would not detract from the satisfaction that this statement would afford when he stated that the increased ac commodation to the public had resulted in increased gain to the Company ; though the sum received was absolutely less. If the public had paid the same fares this year at in the last, the receipts would have beets 11,0001. more, which was in effect the carrying of 100,000 people fourteen miles on the line for nothing. There would be a balance of 11,0001. which, added to the reserve fund, would make that fund amount to 36,0001. Having alluded to the purposes for which the depreciation fund was intended and applied, the Chairman next referred to the Acts which they had obtained in the late session of Parliament. These would place the Company in a more advantageous position than they stood in with regard to many of the populous towns in the neighbourhood of the main line of railway. The railway to Burnley, looking at the ex tension of the line towards Clitheroe, must be a great advantage to the main line. They had long known that there had been a considerable traffic in grain from the Calder navigation to that district. The branch from Haywood to Bury would con nect their line with the populous town of Bury. The im portance of this line would be felt from the circumstance of Parliament having granted a direct line from Liverpool through Wigan to Bury; which would make the most direct route from Liverpool to the valley of the Calder that could possibly be. The next branch was from Oldham to Mumps, and those who were connected with that district had stated that it was impossible to overrate the importance of the connexion between the Leeds line and the series of railways that would be formed in the Oldham district. Another Aet had been passed for connecting the Leeds line with the Manchester and Birmingham, by which there would be nearly a direct line from Birmingham south, to Todmorden and Burnley north, which would be a meat important channel of communication from north to south. There was another line from Wakefield to Goole, which was granted by Parliament to the Wakefield and Goole Company, but which would be worked by the Man chester and Leeds Company, and might be looked upon as an extension of their main line in that quarter. Having referred to the capital stock of the Company, the Chairman alluded to the course to be adopted by the Company in the next session of Parliament. They had previously stated to the Share holders that when they considered the excited state of the rail way market last year, it was impossible for this Company to stand still. That excitement was a matter of serious conside ration to those gentlemen who had invested money in railway property for the purpose of an investment, whether they ought not by every means in their power to discountenance the various new schemes that were now daily being brought forward. Lines were brought forward with the view of ex torting from existing lines that which the parties had no real claim for, or for the purpose of taking advantage of the pre sent speculative spirit; and the consequence of such a course must, at no very distant period be ruin, and at the same time a great national waste of capital. As he saw a great many gentlemen present from Yorkshire, he would advert to an un dertaking which had appeared before the public within the last few weeks, entitled the Liverpool and Leeds Railway. He believed that no company ever appeared before the public with a more respectable list for a provisional committee than that company. He knew many of the gentlemen whose names were on the list, and it was to him a matter of surprise that they should have lent their names to an undertaking of that kind. But he knew sufficient of provisional committees, and of the way in which they were got up, to induce him to acquit the gentlemen of the committee in question of a false repre sentation of .their prospects. He held in his hand a letter from one gentleman well known to many gentlemen present, repudiating all connexion with the line in question (which he read); and with reference to the line itself he wondered why they had not called it the Liverpool and Leeds Direct. But the prospectus stated that the line was not going to start at Liverpool, but some miles from that place—at Bury ; and, so far as the locality was concerned, it might be called the Direct and Independent. It seemed to be of a somewhat matrimonial character, for the Committee held out the prospect that they would not be unwil ling to ally themselves to sonic, other parties. He next referred to the amalgamation with the West Riding Junction Company. He said that, at the termination of the recent parliamentary contest, they had the assurance that the contest would be re newed with vigour, but their opponents, like themselves, had sat down to count the cost of the contest, and, after an inter • view, in which their opponents manifested the greatest cor diality, an offer was made, which was ultimately accepted by the Manchester and Leeds Company, and the presence of a great number of gentlemen at that meeting, who were formerly their opponents, showed that they had them with them heartily as Proprietors of the Manchester and Leeds Company, and they had thus placed the prosperity of the Company on a grand basis. That iron link would now bind them together, and they would promote the interest not only of one line but the other, as the Manchester and Leeds Company, as men of sense, and as men of business.—(Cheers.) The Chairman concluded by moving the adoption of the report. The motion having been seconded, passed unanimously. The other formal motions with reference to the dividend, lex., was agreed to nem die., and Messrs. G. Pollard and Ed- I ward Ackroyd, of Halifax, William Rand, of Bradford, William Frith, of Leeds, J. T. Clay, of Raistrick, an - IC. H. Jones, of Huddersfield, were appointed as an addition to the Board of Directors. Colonel POLLARD (late Chairman of the West Riding Junc tion Company) paid a high eulogium to Mr. Houndsworth, the Chairman of the Leeds Company, throughout the whole affair between the Companies. The CHAIRMAN said that the Board had derived great as sistance from Mr. Hawksworth and Captain Lewis. Mr RAND, of Bradford, said he felt great satisfaction at the termination of the late contest. The West Yorkshire Com pany sought possession of the whole of that particular district, and it was again proposed to apply to Parliament to get their Bill ; but he spoke the sentiments of the whole of the West Yorkshire body, when he said that they would prefer a share of their scheme of lines in conjunction with a more powerful and ably conducted Company, than have it all to themselves. No event of his life had given him greater satisfaction than the termination of the late contest. With regard to the Chairman, although once in opposition to him, his conduct had been marked with honour and ability, and even though he (Mr. Rand) had respected him as an opponent, he felt a stronger attachment to him as a friend.—( Hear.) The business of the special meeting then commenced, and resolutions in accordance with the wishes of the Directors, as set forth in the circular, were proposed. WILLIAM MARSHALL, Esq., of Penworthana, having taken the chair, J. C. HARTER, Esq., of Manchester, moved that a suitable testimonial be presented to Henry Houldsworth,Esq., in proof of the high opinion entertained by the shareholders of his ser vices to the company.—( Cheers.) DANIEL GRANT, Esq., seconded the motion. After several gentlemen had spoken in support of the motion, it was suggested that Capt. Laws was worthy of the considera ao:ilrd.swlloortuhLtnhse,nvopiatTssieldeeade:cvnn.kittrizaisioaleiltwweoliaeeisdd,higcbaehly,deeteirltoeshf.e tion of the Proprietors. good feeling with The motion for a Committee to prepare a testimonial to Mr. testimonials ob proprietary. ee op presented e as had been s th n e t e f d r a e t o "tci.ohalpi,clatraill.isni:Biase.Lriessaesiwiroovi:eetpsheserhhmacadopovbsinpany, f The motion having been put from the cii. the case on other railways. Captain LAWS briefly acknowledged the air compliment, and the proceedings terminated at twenty minutes past two o'clock. THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. (From the Dumfries Courier of Tuesday. ) A great deal of interest has been excited throughout Annan dale by the commencement of the works of the Caledonian Railway. About the head of the valley of the Avon, huts to ac commodate 500 men are in the course of erection, as it is here that the heaviest excavations on the line will be made. The most of the workmen will be drafted from the Carlisle and Lancaster line, as the Messes. Stei henson are contractors for both. Already several waggon-loads of shovels, spades, pick axes, &c., have arrived from Penrith. Lower down little has been done as yet, save marking off the line, by placing wooden pins in the ground at every little distance, making slaps in laws, and cutting down a tree here and there to prevent iG 1150 mistakes. Engineers after engineers have followed each other, shifting pins backwards and forwards, which in some instances eventually landed in their original holes. The Erie, after en tering Dumfriesshire, runs north-west to Ecelefechan, where there will probably be a station at the distance of less than a quarter of a mile from that village. This will be the nearest point on the main line for the accommodation of the town of Annan +lnd the surrounding district. From this the line runs west of Burnswark to Lockerby, passing right through the vil lage, crossing the street which leads to the hill e. little below the Pr'e Church. It is supposed that the statio:t here will be close to that building. The line then runs up valley of the Annari, and comes upon the Edinburgh and Dun;fries mail road near Craigielands ; this road for some distance will be taken up by the railway, and it is intended to join the roan with the Carlisle and Glasgow one about Kirkpatrick-Jui t a Church. It has not been fixed whether the station here will be at Craigielands or Beattock, The line then runs up the Moos valley, till it enters the wilds of Lanarkshire. A great deal of money will, no doubt, be circulated in the district daring the progress of the works ; and in this tranquil rural district a good deal of annoyance may be expected, as the " navies" are ',tot the most peaceable of her Majesty's subjects. It is to be hoped that due precautions will be taken to prevent riots about pay time; and something like Donald Caird's warning should be impressed upon all the good folks of Annan dale, as, although the workmen themselves are well paid and want for nothing, a .Iwarm of idlers generally attend them, who i,o nseum and tuum, and the blame of are not very particular . whose ill deeds is often thr own on the innocent " navies.'" Three of these gentry were iodv..n supplying themselves withd in the Dumfries gaol the ) other day, having been detected shirts just washed and laid out to dry, and all should re collect— Steek the awmrie, lock kist, Or else some gear will sune .be mist." It is understood that Mr. Hope Johnstone has contracted for supplying the Company with railway sleepers to the tune of 10,000/., and that there is abundance of timber in the noble woods of Raehills to supply double the quantity, or e Fen more. To no place on the line is this railway likely to do so much good as to Moffat, from the facilities which railway travelling af fords to all, and especially to invalids, who may be, by-and .bye, es, pected to test the healing virtues of Aloft:At Well, and enjoy the beautiful scenery and various attrac t i ons of this delightful wa tering-place, from all parts of En_gland and Scotland ; in course of time, the British and Irish Union way transport to its quiet hills and waters many who are fretted with agitation in the Emerald Isle. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, Aus. 31.—We have received to-day from Ger many a piece of news which, in the present .tate of things, is not without importance. The excessive drought in the south of Russia has injured the crops, so that the prices of corn have risen considerably in the market of Odessa. The Bres.au Gazette quotes the following words as h a ving been addressed by the Emperor of Russia to the students in the college of Warsaw :—" 1 know you all. You resemble tile revolutionists, your fathers. 1 know in what principles youx have been educated; but beware of putting them in practice, for I should send you to a place where yeu will remember me.'" On Thursday next the King and Queea of the Belgians: will leave Boon early in the morning to return to Belgium. The royal carriages will wait at Cologne for their Majesties, who will arrive at the palace of Lacken in the evening. BRUSSELS, SEPT. a—The King and Queen were to leave Coburg-Gotha yesterday, to return home, and will pass through Cassel, the capital of the electorate. The Queen of England and Prince Albert will leave on Saturday, and proceed direct to Antwerp, where their Majes ties will go to meet them. The Archduse Frederick of Austria landed yesterday at- Antwerp, coming from Holland, and arrived this morning at. Brussels. BAIIBURGH BORSENIIALLE, Ara- 30. Bills. Money. 114!..i Austrian 5 per Cents • ...... . • Bank Shares • • • . • • • • • • . • ............ 1655 Anglo-Russian Loan .•••• • • • • • •• • • 113 ) ,‘ Russian 5 per Cent., 'lamb. Certificate. 105 Ditto Ist series Inscription. Ditto, /lope and Co., lid and 4th series • • 99% Ditto, in Certificate . • • • • • • • • • . • • • New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. Ditto Stieglitz • • . • • • • • • • Spanish New 5 per Cent • • • Ditto 3 per Cent .. Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent .• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...... i 2% Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • • • • • • • Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.. • • 86% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 ptif Cent •• • • 87 National Bank 5hare5.5hare5................ PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEaux, Aro. 30. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 33 per Cent .•••• • • • • • 100 99% Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.. Exchange on London, 2 months ••• • • 6 25}i 6 24% Universal Prussian Gazette, Aug. 31. AUSTRIAN 1" UNDS.—Vmma, Ito. 27. 5 per Cent. Metalliques ••••• • • • • • ••• • • - 11214 4 per Cent. ditto •• • • • • • • • • ..... . • • 101 3 per Cent. ditto. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • 77 Lean, 1834 Ditto, 1839 Bank Shares .. • . • ....... ,•.••• • • • • • • 1618 Esterhazy's Loan .• • • • • • • ..• • • • • • • • • • • RAILWAYS. vThieemiNao_rthmeirniaii, F . erdinand 91 313 Gloggnitz ..... .••••• • • • • • " • • •• • • • • • • • 152% Leghorn ••• • • ..... • , • •••••• • • • • • • • • • • 122% —Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 30. BELGIAN FUNDS.-133.1:55EL5, SYYT. 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••.•.•• • • • • • . • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.. • • Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto — Ditto, ditto, 1840 . 101% Ditto, ditto, 1842 • Ditto of the City, 1832 Ditto, 1843 • • • • • • • • • • •• •............. 101% BIM of Belgium •• • . . • • . • • • • 685 —BrUssels Papers, Sept. 3. •91% _ 86i CALCUTTA CATHEDRAL ORGAN. A magnificent organ for the new cathedral at Calcutta having just been completed by Messrs. Gray and Davi son, a public performance on it took place on Wednesday in Guildhall, by permission of the Lord Mayor, the pro ceeds of which are to be applied to augment the build ing fund, the cathedral being not yet completed. The distinguished organist, Mr. Adams, displayed to great advantage the powers of this noble instrument, which is of great magnitude, contains a great variety of stops, and is remarkable for the fullness, richness, and variety of its tones. He exhibited his learning and fancy in several masterly extemporaneous per formances, and captivated the less scientific part of the audience by his sweet and expressive mai.ner of playing several vocal pieces of Handel, Mozart, and other great composers. The hall was full, and the performer was much applauded, several pieces (par ticularly Mozart's charming air " Ah, perdona") being encored. A beautiful model of the cathedral, carved ini white marble, was placed in the hall for the inspection. of the company. That building is 248 feet long, 116 feet wide at the transept, and 206 feet high. The choir, where divine service will be usually perforined, is 131 feet by 61 feet internally, and 47 feet high. It will seat a thousand persons. It is in the Gothic style, and thee design is chaste and beautiful. The erection of the ca thedral was commenced in October, 1839. The whole boJy of the edifice, with the tower and spire, is erected. Some of the pinnacles, however, are not yet finished, nor are the small corner turrets of the tower completed. The works are expected to be finished, and the sacred building consecrated, by the end of next year ; but it is expected that 4,0001. to 5,0001. may be yet wanted for that purpose. DEATHS BY DROWNlNG.—Wednesday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Queen's Head, High-street, Poplar. on the body of Aizah Hene Nanee, aged 40 years. Patrick Donovan deposed that deceased was a ship-carpenter, in the employ of Messrs. Green, the extensive ship-builders of Blackwall. On Monday afternoon the witness was stand ing on the shore of the dockyard, in which lay the Windsor East lndiaman, when he observed the deceased in the act of falling from the fore-chains of the vessel. In descent he struck his head against the shores or props and fell into the water. itness immediately divested himself of the greater part of his apparel, and plunged into the dock after him , but, although he dived to the bottom, a depth of twenty feet, could .not succeed in laying hold of deceased, who was ultimately got out by means of a boathook. Several medical gentlemen were in at tendance, but all efforts to restore animation were fruitless. PIGEON FLYING MATCH FROM GRAVESEND.—We d nesday forenoon a pigeon flying match came off between Mr. Benjamin Bates, of the Southwark-bridge-road, and Mr. Ed ward Hall, of the George Tavern, Gravel-lane, Southwark, for 51. a side. The match was made a fortnight s ince,.to Ay fl birds each from the Terrace Pier, Gravesend, to their respec tive houses. The bird were duly marked and thrown up at the time appointed, and those of Mr. E. Hall arrived home in twenty-four minutes and a half, and the five belonging to Mr, G. Bates occupied exactly thirty minutes. The money was given up to the winner at Mr. E. Hall's at night, in the.pre sence of a large number of friends of both parties. MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF THE BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN, AND NEWRY, BANSKIDGE, AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES.--A numerous and highly influential meeting of shareholders of these companies was held in Belfast, on Saturday, to consider the proposed arnalgama-.. tion with the Great County Down Railway Com p an y . A good _ deal of discussion took place, and resolu tions were carried strongly condemning the amalgamation prop osition, partly beu cause it was deemed impracticable, and partly because it_ w own considered that an amalgamation with th e Great Coun t y Down Company would be adverse to the inter ests of th,e, o her r com panies, traversing, as the line puiported to ala ge trict of unproductive country. or thern If hig. WHAT A BARRISTER MAY D O, AND WHAT UV MAT NOT Do. — There seems to be at p resent a very considerable difference of opinion among the gentlemen of the bar as to what may or may not be done by a barrister. We , had "—N some idea of publishing a small hand-book of etiquette for the exclusive use of th e g entlemen of the long robe ; but as what is etiquette to-day may not be etiquette to-mor row, we feared the work would not possess the permanent utility . which alone woul , l recompense ea favour vh w r oa t u t h g r e a e lonwafebot barrister railway . h r w o . u i f sa l rules ' m s p r Br al professional f i ,l n ,:ss g ds ;uio : foundedtnaa and on our what bn h ait a t yv l e —o , ew h lntn i:w ao • Ay e b v ,n e eob r r• drawn radriioiso,tne r consis tentlyaumsp at a o be employed in inducing paper. 2. A barrister may practise m bu err t .b m e a rs of Parliament to vote in ise no tb t e 7 a o r r t t fu r doadgfet,?wfsu-r the purpose of defeating the ends of justice ; bat he roust not enter an assize town in an omnibus. 3. A barrister may tout for i a small judgeship ; but he will be very properly de barred f he advertises his readiness to plead the cause of clients. 4. A barrister may libel a rivr.l candidate for a n othee in a " private and confidential" circular ; but he must not degrade himself by asking an attorney to dine with him on the circuit. 5. A barrister may take a lee when he knows he cannot attend to the case ; bet lie may not return the money, for his doing so would be very unprofessional. 6, and lastly. A barrister may be a very honourable man ; but many things which professional etiquette allows him to do would be thought disgraceful and dishonest among ordinary people.—Punch. SEEING WITH THE EYES OF OTHERS.—AII the French surgeons are renowned for their ingenious and extra ordinary operations. It was recently announced at the French Academy of Sciences, that some experiments had been made in what the French call Kiratoplastie, which consists in re placing a deceased cornea by a portion of the cornea taken from another individual, and which, in fact, is a kind of animal transplanting. At the sitting of the Academy on the It3th instant there was read a communication front Dr. Plouvies, of Lille, in which he states that he recently performed the opera tion on a female, twenty-three years of age, and who became blind from smallpox at the age of three years. He removed the cornea, and substituted by suture that of a young d og. which he sacrificed for the purpose. The transplanting pro cess was entirely successful, but it does not appear that much benefit was derived from it. The girl does not see well enough to move about without a guide, and the only difference between her present state and that before the operation is, that she cut now just distinguish night from day. 11 I I