The Sun. — London, England, 1850-08-23 00:00:00

......-------- _ BANK RET URNS. -.....---_ (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eig'nth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Arnotin:-. of Bank Notes of the several B Inks of ISsile in England and Wales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 10th day of August, 1850:-. Average PRIVATE B X NKS. Aml4ount. Andover Bank , Andover-Heath and C 0... ...... ,230 Ashford Bank, Ashford-jecimitt and G and Pomfret 1 0.842 42 Aylsham Bank, Aylaham -R. Copeman Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt ............................................. 27,354 Baldmk Bank and Baldock and Bisglesivade Bank 3aldock-Virells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 21,977 Btrn staple Bank, Barnstaple-M trshall and Co 10,268 Basingstoke and Odiha" Bank, Basingstoke - Seymour, Lamb, and Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard .......... ... 30,399 Bedford and Bedfordshire Ban&, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. ........................ 461 Bywney Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank. Bicester - Tubb an d Co. .. ••• •-• ... 15,221 Birmingham Bank, Birmingharn-Attvroc. ds, Spooner, and Co ..................................... 22,907 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming- 11 686 ham -J. L. Moi!liett , and So ns ............. .... . Ft l a ndford Bank, Blandford -Bastard and Oat. 7.570 Bot:ton Bank, Boston-Garßt and Co ...... .. ..... 52,955 Bost'n Bank, o. ank, Boston - Gee and C. .............. 8.481 Bridgvater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Scaley 5.769 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 35,284 Broselcy and Bride:north, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank , Broselcy-Messrs. Pritchard 17,122 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, l'arrott, and Co. ................................. 19,826 Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- 61.420 Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 26,229 Banbury Old Bank, Banbnry-Messrs. Cobb... 22.397 Bath City Bank, Bath-Me g and Son ......••• 2,935 Bedfordshire L et g hton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard -Bassett and Grant ..................... 34,217 Birivingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and 30,343 Llords . Bradford Ol d Bank, Bradford, Yorks hire-H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 13,256 Brecon Old, Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 61,359 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Ball, West and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, B u rlington- Harding, Smith, and Co - 10,465 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledme and C 0.1,709 Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Brorns grove Bank, BrOD33grOVe-Safford, Biggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and 14,966 Sons Cambridge and Ca mbrid g eshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and 25,280 Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen- M orr is and 17,171 Sons Chertsey ank, -Messrs. La oste ..• Colchesterß Bank,Chortse Colchyester-Round,C Green, 2,607 and Co. Colchester and Es sex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree , and Co 30,584 Cornish Bank , T ruro -Tweedy and Co, .... 32,410 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood - • 6,950 cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 17,059 Craven Bank, Settle-3irkbeck 3 and Co. C hr i stc h urc h Bank, Christchurch - Tice , Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Rank, Chepstow----Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derbysrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and C 0..., 23,170 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes Locke, and Co 9,564 Digs Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co 9,827 D oncaster tank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew. and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, 8z Co 66,286 Davonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetahire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster and Co. Eaat Riding Bank, Beverley—Bo war, Hall. and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford • Bank, Chelmsford —Sparrow, and Co. 39,088 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 25,003 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. awing:don Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far rinfy,clon—Barnes and Medley 5,360 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 11,296 Faversham Bank, Favershamllilton and Co 4,990 m Godalmg Bank, Godalming—llellersh and 6,765 Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Gnillford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. 9,059 Grantham Bank, Grantham —Hardy and C 0.... 20,460 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hader, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford — Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams 10,674 nod Co Hull .Bank and Kine,ston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull --groith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Vease y Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Cc 5,760 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempitead— S m ith, and Whittingstall ...... ... Honiton. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. — Hertfordshire, Hitches Bank, Hitchen—Sharpies and C 0..................... - 31,023 fleref..)rd , Ross, and Archenaeld Bank, and Ross anti A rehenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoslci ns , wit' Co 18.755 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadlel,gh Bauk, Manuingtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— AlexarAlers and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer . 13,994 Sine,on and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co 18,996 Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co 6,805 Knaresborough Old Ban k ant Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborovh—Terry dCo Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Cc. 35.967 Ketterintz Bank, Kettering—Ooh and Sons.. 7,979 Lone End Staffordshire Bulk, Lane End—C liarvzsy and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co 52,694 .p.k 3 / 4 1s nion Bank, Leeds— W. Willia , ns, Brown, 35,92 and CJ. ......... . ............. Leek ari Staffordihirc ilan'rt, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—FowlPr,Gaunt, andCo, Lo.tester Bank, Leicester--Pallets and Kirby 23.447 LeiveF , Cud Bank, Lewes—Ntolinenx and Co 25.931 f,ichFeld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green.— 15,235 Ltncoin Bank. Lincoln—Smith and Co 72,448 Larepeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very _David Jones and Co. Louzhborous,,h Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lyminqton Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe ................. 3,668 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurney's and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst 19,54 and Co Manningtree Bank,Aanningtree—Nann and Co. M a rlborough, Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Ilungerford Bank, and llungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 8,431 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 1,865 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Willia ns Miners' Bank, Truro—Wiltrims and Co M on mouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny —Baileys and Co 25,194 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Haudley, Peacock, 15,188 5,693 and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and lindsons ... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nneaton Bank, Nuneaton —Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co. New Serum Bank, Sarum Everett, and 5.291 10,958 Go Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os we9tt y Croxon and Co Oxford sank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, snd C 0..... I I /01 : Elks# Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge <-__,.... .lrei Old' Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge 5----; Wells, and sdvenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— ^-': r.,..,.' Biteelifik einctSoas ••.. :'Outoxisbire Vfilney Bank, Witney—Clinals, '''''''. --" : / 12 7 a s . 15,686 7,7'70 18,446 37,340 21,294 17,386 43,315 62,709 7,355 3,012 23,692 11.902 27,195 14,158 6,015 29,916 7,133 8,074 TILE SUN, Average Amount. tease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 38,713 Penzance Bank, Penzance—.Batten awl Co 10,269 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter borough—Moses. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson and White Peaaorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest--J. and 8,785 W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading — Simonds and Co 27,599 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and 26,888 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 5,813 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.. Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 8,488 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 10,553 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and 50n............ 19,838 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret an d Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and - 8,297 5,470 Co Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard 4,014 and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton , Llo y d, and Co 11,970 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and 21,806 Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons. a . . 26,029 and Co Sittingbourne anti Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Vallance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddisnn and Pearce 11.802 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie — Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Ilampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall . 3,180 Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,365 Stourbridge Ban:c, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 11,208 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Ca 11,189 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. .. 21,330 Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins 17,233 Shrewsbury and Welshpool ... / Bank Shrewsbury _ 19,596 2,996 —Beck, - Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Harts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart — Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 22,352 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 9,265 Thornbury Bank, Thorubury—Rolph, Yates, and _ Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 8,671 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring, Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and 9,887 Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. 17,751 Wallingford Bank, ‘Vallingford—Allnatt & Co. 8,107 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co 41,142 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 10,909 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham apd Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester %nil:, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurcey and Co. 9,079 Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good rieke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, 7,510 and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 61,427 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster —Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and 1,310 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Ilalesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 37,814 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,722 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of W hitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... .... Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . .. Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,637 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 17,351 Dudley and \Vest Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,603 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 16,448 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 125,026 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 18,724 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,310 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifak Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 43,802 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,441 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 15,765 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 20,422 Kingsbridire Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,417 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 50,661 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 42,489 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,218 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 30,277 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham ... 25,424 Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 343,!66 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 37,332 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 59,667 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 21,316 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,730 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,092 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 43,410 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge .•• Sheffield and Hallamshire Bankin 1,275 54,217 Co, Sheffield _ Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking 23,605 Company, Sh.•.lli,A Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond . Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury ........................................ Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield Wolverhampton sad Staffordshire Banking Com - pang, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,537 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, 21,340 Whitehaven Warwick and Leuinir.gton Banking Company, Warwick West of Englane and South Wales District Bank. Bristol Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 65,387 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch . 2,357 Worcester City end County Banking Company, Worcester York Union Banking Company, York 63,140 York City and County Banking Company, York 79,020 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Nita limatte t ..Bgmerset House, August 17, 1950. 9,69 EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. 6,995 6,369 MEETING AT THE LONDON TAVERN. The hP.if-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway Company was held yestee.ay at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for t'ne purpose of receiving a report from the direr tors, and for the transaction of other business. Long before the hour of meeting (one o'clock) Coe room was immensely crowded with shareholders, as was also the gallery across the end of the room. Precisely at one o'clock the Chairman, EDWARD LADD BETTS, Esq., and the directors entered the room, which was the signal for a clapping of hands. Tne Secretary, Mr. RONEY, read the notice con vening the meeting, and also the following report of the directors : 6,057 9,136 "On completing the first year of their official duties, the difecore have to report that, nctwithstanding the many difficulties and complications arising out of ,the past, they have reason to be satistiel with the progress which has been made towards the establishment of order in the current business of the company, the restoration of its credit, and the arrangements that have been effected, materially tending to reduce the heavy ex penses to which the revenue has been hitherto sabj ct. 'lle accounts fur the halt-year have been made out on the principles and form approved by the proprietors at the last meeting by Messrs. Qailter and Co., and they have been subject to the continuous audit of Messrs. s and Mayhew, to whom that important duty was assigned by their cu-proprietors. The capital account having been virtually closed, in accordance with the re solution of the last half-yearly meeting, the revenue is now debited with all disbursements, tied it will be ob served that the half-year's income has been charged with 15,4184 2s. 2d. for the rebuilding and replacement of engines and carriages, and that the sum of 8,0001. has been carried to the credit of the reserve fund for the renewal of permanent way and works. A portion of this fund has been applied to the renewal of the Col chester line, and the repair of stations, as shown in the accounts. The directors being of opinion, from the ex perience they have acquired of the condition of the pro perty, that a smaller sum than that recommended by the committee of investigation will be sufficient for the renewal of tbe way and works, recommend . the share holders to sanction their reserving hereafter 22 0001. a year in place of 32,0001.; and it is proposed that this sum should be apportioned by charging the revenue of each half-year ending the 4th of January with 14,0001., aid the half-year ending the 4th of July with 3,000/. The receipts of the halt-year are 400,705/. 12s. 5d., of which 33,5361. I Is. 3d. has been derived from the Nor folk Railway, and the charges as apportioned by the ac countants against that line amount to 37,1811. 7s. 7d. The Norfolk revenue has been charged with 4001. as the expenses of the joint committee during the year. The directors regret to announce the unsatisfactory result of the working of the Norfolk line during the past half year as compared with former periods; this is chiefly to be attributed to the opening of the Eastern Union Com pany's extension to Norwich, and the consequent division of the traffic to and from London and Norwich and the districts lying between the two lines of railway; while their junction, which must bring a considerable traffic upon the Norfolk Railway, still remains to be made by the Eastern Union Company. The charges and expenses against revenue during the half-year amount to 365,2101. 4s. 3d., leaving 35,495/. 8.. 2d., to which must be added the surplus left after paying the last dividend, namely, 1,6201. 175., making an available balance of 37,1161. ss. 2d. The directors therefore recommend a dividend upon the consolidated stuck of the Eastern Counties Railway Company of 23. per share. and a payment to the Norfolk Company suffi cient to give an equal dividend on their consolidated stock, according to the agreement subsisting bet even the two companies. The directors have purchased No. 2 Five per Cent. Stock, amounting to 3,2661. 13s. 4d., formerly issued in excess, and have cancelled the certificates, as was resolved at the last half-yearly meeting; they also gave notice to the holders of the York Extension Five per Cent. Guaranteed Stock that they might be paid off at par on the 10th of June last. In pursuance of which notice, holders of that stock, to the amount of 25,8401., had consented to receive payment when the half-year's aecounts were closed, leaving 18,0801. then to be dealt with, part of which has since been paid off; and this stock will be replaced by debentures at lower rates of interest. Your accountants are still engaged in the ex amination of the capital account, which they have not been able to complete during the past half-year. Sundry payments formerly made in error or in excess have been discovered, some of which are now re coverable; these will amount to more than sufficient to pay the cost of this laborious investigation, and the directors therefore recommend that it be steadily pursued. Since the half year's accounts were closed, the reference between the company and Mr. George Hudson, arising out of the Wisbeach and St. Ives Railway transactions, has been decided, and the sum of 1,000/, with interest at five per cent. for three Sears and three-quarters, making to• gether 1,1871. 10s., have been awarded to the company and paid by Mr. Judson, who has also paid the coats of reference. The attempt, by a separate company. to obtain an Act of Parliament to make a railway from Cambridge to Shepreth having been defeated, and the powers of this company to take land for a branch line in the same direction—namely from Shelford, near Cambridge. to the termination of the Royston and Llitchin Railway at Shepreth, bAng limited as to time, the directors wilt means to get possession of the ground without delay, and they have the satisfaction to state that it was obtained on comparatively reasonable terms, and in all cases by amicable arrangement with the owners and occupiers. Specifications have been pre pared, and contracts are advertised for the whole of the works, which are intended to be completed in time for the opening of the Royston and Hitchin Railway. During the present session of Parliament an Act was sought by the Blackwall Railway Company to obtain running powers over the whole of the Eastern Counties Railway; and, hal the attempt been successful, the result to this company would have been unjust and in jurious. The directors, however, have the satisfaction to announce, that by the opposition they were enabled to present to this Bill in the Committee of the House of Commons, the powers sought were reduced to such limits as to render it unnecessary to carry the opposi tion further. There have increased the law charges of the company during the past half-year. The Eastern Union Company have obtained an Act of Parliament, giving them an extension of time to make the branch to Harwich, and other powers; and although the direc tors felt it their duty to call on the proprietors, at their last general meeting, to refuse their assent to certain clauses intended to have been keened in that Act, they believed great advantages to both companies would result from the opening of the Harwich brancb, and they shall be glad if the Eastern Union directors are enabled to devise some mode of completing it, in which the directors can advise this company to co-operate with them. The directors regret that they have not succeeded in con cluding an arrangement with the Great Northern Rail way Company; but being well aware of the loss which must be sustained by both companies in the event of a hostile competition, they trust that a good understanding may be maintained between them until some definite arrangement be made. The directors regret that it should have been deemed expedient by the Newmarket Company to discontinue the working of their railway. It has been a subject of much care and anxiety to this board, and several propositions have been made to the Newmarket Company tor working their traffic, but the directors feel it impossible, consistent with your in terests to offer more than they have already done, namely, to work the Newmarket Railway at cost price, and without any profit to this company beyond what might arise from treffic tbus brought upon the Eastern Counties Line. The carriages and other materials be longing to that company, held by the Eastern Counties as security for their debt, will shortly be taken at a va luation. The Electric Telegraph Company's agreement to work and maintain the apparatus upon this railway having some time ago expired, remained in abeyance when the present directors took office; negotiations have been since pending which have resulted in a new agree ment between the two companies, to the effect that a fair allowance shall be made to this company out of the re ceipts for commercial and general messages sent along their line, so that in future it will be their interest and policy to extend more freely to the public in the eastern counties the benefits of the telegraph, and to induce the more frequent use of this rapid mode of communicating intelligence. The Lowestoft harbour has been finished within the estimate, under tbe superintendence of Cap tain Andrews, the harbour-master, who has been de servedly appointed by the Trinity Board superintendent of pilots for the port, which is now much frequented as a harbour of refuge, accessible at all times of tide to vessels of twelve feet draft of water, and to ships of the larger class at high water. The trade of the port con tinues steadily to increase, nearly a thousand vessels having entered the harbour for trade or refuge during the past year; and new residences are rapidly rising on the south side of the harbour, which, with the esplanade and pier, will render Lowestoft an attractive watering place for the citizens of Norwich and the inhabitants of the midland counties, who have ready access to it by the railways converging at Peterborough. The works upon the Eastern Counties Railway being now completed the directors are enabled to dispense with the services of a resident engineer, besides effecting other reductions in that department, and to place the maintenance of the way and works in charge of the superintendent. The directors suggest that provident funds should be raised among their officers and servants, to which the com pany should contribute, in order to afford, under pro- per regulations, some provision for their families in case of accident or injury, to which such men are much exposed, as also in the event of their becoming unab'e to perform their duties through age ; sickness, or infirmity. In the extensive workshops at Stratford there is now training up a body of men to work and repair the com pany's engines, upon whose skill and intelligence much depends. The directors desire to assist them in acquiring a practically useful education, to fit them for such service. These obj , cts, to encourage education and prudent habits, may be effected at a very moderate expense; the duty as well as the interests of the com pary require it, and they trust it will meet the approha , tion of the proprietors. During the past half-year pro posals to work the locomotive engines and carriages by contract have been urged upon the directors by several, whose knowledge and experience in railway manage ment are entitled to great respect, and persons of skill gad responsibility have come forward with substantial offers to undertake such contracts, so that the board felt bound to give this subject their best attention; but after having maturely considered it they are of opinion that it is not for the interest of the proprietors that they should lease the working of their line. The directors have, therefore, appointed Mr. John V. Gooch, late of the South- Western Railway, as superintendent of the locomotive department. It is the painful duty of the directors to report that, owing to cucumrtancte arose on inquiring into the payments formerly made for land and other purposes, through Mr. Duncan, the late solicitor to the company, they found it neces sary to direct the. accountants strictly to examine all those transactions; 'and the result of these inquiries, as reported by Messrs. Quilter and Company, hs bein that various sums of money, for which cheques had been given to Mr. Duncan, were not paid by nice for the purposes intended; that other sums had be ,n charged and paid twice over; and that cerain pqm , . , nts reported to have been made, had not been made. Mr. Duncan having delivered, and having been paid, his Parliamentary accounts to a point, by the former direc tory, according to a scale of charges r:greed upon, he has since also demanded to have additional remuneration for - - the same services, on the ground that the scale agreed upon was below the usual charges, and that he has not had the amount of busine!s be was led to expect when the scale was fixed. A copy of the accountants' report was given to Mr. Duncan, and an explanation required. The answer received contained no offer of resignation, . . which the directors accepted; and they forthwith sought the assistance of Messrs. Croy der and Maynard, who are at present acting as solicitors to the company, and by whose advice they are and will be guided in any proceedings which may take place. It will be remem bered that, at the tim3 the present directors took ( Mr. Duncan continued to conduct the law business of the company, although he hail pr, vion,ly tendered his resignation. The well-known talent of Mr. Duncan, the intimate knowledge he poste sed of all the company's aff.►irs, and the zeal and industry he displayed in their service, during a period of transition, when there was also much dispute and litigation, rendered it prudent •. . and necessary to request him to withdraw his resigna -- - - • - tion, and it was not until time and opportunity had been found to search int) past transaction=, that the present directors could obtain knowledge of these errors. In concluding this report, the directors venture to state their hope and belief that, difficult and harrassing as their duties have been, and still are, they shall, if they continue to possess the confidence and support of the proprietors, be able substantially to improve the condi tion and prospects of the company, and to lessen the working expanses. In so doing they would repeat their resolution, more than once expressed, to endeavour, by conciliatory means, and by co-operation with neighbour ing railways, rather than by competition with them, to secure to this company and to the great systein of rail ways in the eastern division of England, the traffic and revenue which they ought to possess and retain. " EDWARD L. BETTS, Chairman." The following is the Auditors' report: — "57, Coleman-street, Aug. 9, 1850. " Gentlemen,—We regret that, notwithstanding the utmost diligence and perseverance, we find ourselves still unable to make a complete report of the result of our investigation and analysis of the capital expenditure of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. " The examination has a twofold object: namely, the ascertainment of the integrity of the expenditure charged; and the production of an accurate and lucid statement of it, in order to the due exhibition, under appropriate heads, of the cost of the various lines and works executed. " The extent and multifarious character of the trans actions which constitute the subject-matter of investiga tion would alone render much time and great labour necessary in order to its satisfactory completion; but the difficulties we have met with in the conduct of our in quiries have not been simply those which necessarily pertain to every operation of the like nature; we have had to act upon contused, imperfect, and erroneous ac counts, only partially supported or explained by vouchers, while the vouchers that could be found were promis comity heaped together without order or arrangement; added to which there existed a general want of uni formity in the mode of treating various parts of the same o i similar accounts at different periods. "In this state of circumstances we fund it indispens ably necessary, in order to carry on the examination in telligibly and with certainty, to establish supplemental books; and, in effect, to re form the entire accounts fur a considerable period, opening a personal account with each individual recipient of the company's cash, and al lowing no credits to such recipients in discharge of cash paid to them, except upon the authority of bills, in voices, certificates, or other adequ to vouchers. " The deficiency of ♦ouchers has thus proved a fruit ful source of difficulty and delay, leading unavoidably to much correspondence and personal discussion with par ties, in order to obtain from them the information which the vouchers would have afforded. " Although to the causes thus glanced at is to be mainly referred the non-termination of this inquiry, it is to be borne in mind, that in aidition to the continued investigation of the capital expenditure, we have been called upon during the half year to perform certain other special services connected with, or arising out of, the accounts, such as -extensive calculations to determine the . amount earned by the company's traffic over each particular section of the line, with a view to the formation of a basis whereon to fourd a re vision of the present system of rating railways for pa rochial purposes, the preparation of the voluminous re turn made to the House of Lords in answer to the order obtaiced by Lord Brougham and other matters. " We may also mention that the examination of the important items of land purchases and compensation has been attended with peculiar difficulties; the course of our examination into these matters in connexion with the pecuniary transactions conducted through the agency of the late solicitor to the company, made clear the ne cessity, in order to do justice to the interests of the shareholders, of subjecting the whole of those transac tions to a most rigorous scrutiny. " The meagre and unsatisfactory state of the infor mation which we found existing in relation to this branch of the inquiry had been an especial cause of delay; but haring already made a report to you upon it, we do not feel it to be necessary now to refer to •the subject, further than to state that we are still pur suing it; and that since the date of the report alluded to, we have found further sums to be accounted for by Mr. Duncan, which, together with those reported, make a present totsl of about 30,0001. to bo accounted for by that gentleman. The items of which that total is com posed occur at various dates during the years 1845, 1846, 1847, sad 1848. " Independently of the advantages which must neces sarily result, from this extensive examination, in the sense of a well informed conviction produced by it, of the truthfulness of the accounts when finally settled, and the more intelligible and comprehepsive view which it will have been the means of presenting of the character and location of the objects to which the company's capital has been applied, it has already been productive of direct pecuniary benefit in the discovery and setting right of errors to the extent of upwards of 6,0001., ex clusive of the important result of a similar character arising out of the examination of the transactions and proceedings of the late solicitor.—We remain, gentle men, your most obedient servant!, " QUILTER, BALL, and Co. 6 , To the Cbairman and Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway." The CHAIRMAN said in that room there was gene rally a great diversity of opinion, of re(ete and he trusted to day they shoul d g ain a better character for order than greatt g h e e t y tii h , g d a idffichooiurt correct et e ic r et t s o nh o i b ot t r a mt i h n ae e t d ido ._li t hs a e r b , ca h od e m a e hear. an t se n h a o e f fe v ad e i r r i s y n, y and the want of d isci p l ine they had found i n ever y d e partment of their service, had rendered it a lmost impossible to car r y out those reforms whi ch the y all o felt to be necessary, and now more than ever.—(Hear, hear) The most important point, which was now so much before the public, and in which the shareholders were all so deeply interested, was the locomotive de partment of their railway. This substantial half year gentlemen thein tenders ea t had who been were wiltingreceived t fromo ttalcs e mostthe working er a nd satisfied it had their been founda fiai s a were of a very considera ble savin g to the sharehold ers. The directors were data, ques tion to decide how th e proposed saving was to be difficult based on correct carried out. It bad been thought desirable by the directors to advertise for a suitable locomotive superintendent, and out of seventy or eighty appli cants they ha chosen Mr. John Gooch.—(Cheers and hisses.) That gentleman had come to the directors with the higheit testimonials from every leading -en gineer of this country ; and from the knowledge they had of his private character and his professional experience the directors were satisfied they had taken a right step in placing Mr. Gooch at the head of the locomotive department.—(Hear, hear, and disapprobation.) With respect to the strike among the engine-drivers, the drivers complained that they were not fairly heard. The men were asked to wait until the directors had ex amined into the causes of their complaints. He (the Chairman) asked Mr. Gooch, with a view to that inquiry, to state to him all the fines that had been imposed on the men. He did so ; but in the interim every „ man of them resign ed.--(Cries of " Hear, hear, and " Shame.") Under the circum stances the directors considered it prudent to accept the resignation of the men. He (the Chair man) and another of the directors had investigated every one of the fines that had been imposed, and he told the meeting, as a practical man, that there was not a fine imposed which ought not to have been im posed.—(Hear, hear.) Such had been the want of discipline among the men at Stratford, that it had resulted in the loss of almost the whole dividend.—(Hear, bear.) The men were generally fined for not reporting instances of mischief which they bad done, whether they -had any -c them or not. (The Hon. Gentleman here related several instances of misconduct on the part of the men.) Another question had b e en mooted as to whether these fines had b een returned to the men. The fact eves, t h a t when the men came to he paid they in the test the directors to understand that they int ended to legality of the fines which had been imposed, an d the directors, not wishing to insist , on the fines, re- On Thursday last the mitred them.—(Hear, hear.) directors commenced with their new men on the Norfolk district, and, with the exception of a trifling shaking which one ofident the passenger trains had, there had been no acc on the s ; and although a great number of strang e men had been kee brought together, they were ping time better than he (the Chair m an) ever could have expected,— (Cheers.‘ The Honourable Gentleman then pro ceeded to detail several malicious .acts on the part of the drivers previously to leaving the:companys em into, the:Yngineeboilere, , ploy, such as putting soap which it was difficult to K e e; aistl,ta ciw . grease end sand into the axle-bcuLea of ; We_ carriages.--, (A Voice—" Don't take them bacle) He (the Chair. man) held is tie bond the cluitiOter. of every Dun who had assisted the company on this occasion. He had looked through every one of those characters, and there was not a man on the line at this time who was not equal to his duties ; there were seventy five of them, and eighteen more of a first-rate character were now on their way to join the E istern Counties line, from the north and south. The directors did not intend to reduce the wages of the drivers.—(Hear, hear.) They were only de sireus rf exercising such eeononorny in the maneg,e meat of the line as any man would wish to do in his own private business.—(Loud cheers.) With respect to the accounts, althouga the directors had not been able to effect much saving, what there was was in the right direction. The receipts per mile in the corresponding half-year with this were 1,236/. ; this year they were 1,2401 ; and while their working expenses of the corresponding half-year were 6221, this year they were 5981.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the re newal fund the directors had thought it right to bring it down at once to the point at which they thought it prudent to continue it. The capital account stood exactly in the same posi tion as they placed it last half-year, and al though Mr. Duncan's eefalcations had occurred, the directors had the great satisfaction of telling the meeting the m irgin they then took was still amply sufficient to cover them, and there would be no increase on that account. The irregularities of' Mr. Duncan took place before the present board came into office, and it was a matter over which they had no control. The Norfolk estimate of this half-year was any thing but sati , fectory.—(Hear, hear.) They had upon the Eastern Union line an apparent loss of revenue, compared with the corresponding half-year, of 20,0001.—that was on the actual revenue on that line, an I there had been an increase in the mileage which had been adopted, more fully to develope the resources of the district, and possibly that had been a mistake. The Hon. Gentleman concluded, after some farther remarks, by moving the adoption of the report and accounts. Mr. THOMAS .WOODLEY, a grocer at Cambridge, was grieved to say he stood there as the representa tive of a deceased friend, who had left him a very nice legacy in the Eastern Union Railway.—(Laughter.) He would ask why, when the Cambridge people took a day ticket from Cambridge to London for 155., they should have ls. 9d. tacked to it? Where was the justice or policy of such a charge ?—(Laughter.) IVith respect to the combination among the drivers, he thought some blame attached to the directors for not having shown the men a little more courtesy. — (Loud cries of " No, no.") The speaker proceeded to recur to the grievance of "one and ninepence," but the proposition was received with bursts of laughter. The CHAIRMAN said if the gentleman would call at the office, he would give him every satisfaction in-re lation to his complaint. Mr. WOODLEY, amid a scene of great confusion, attempted still to dilate on his complaint. Loud cries of " Turn him out" resounded from all parts of the room ; and Mr. Woodley eventually sat down amid loud cheers. Dr. RILEY, of Ware, had attended there at much personal loss, and until he arrived in London he was totally ignorant that the report of the directors was in circulation. He contended that it was a great in convenience to the shareholders that they had not had the report in their hands till just immediately before the hour of meeting. He asked the directors to give a reason for so bad an arrangement.—(Uproar.) Mr. NATHAN complained that the directors had raised their fares on the Colchester line, to the pre judice of the Eastern Union line. The CHAIRMAN said the directors had endeavoured to raise the fares at every point legitimately to the highest limit, where there was not competition. Mr. NATHAN asked if the directors were going to bring the Norfolk line before Parliament again ? The CHAIRMAN was understood to reply in the ne gative, unless the shareholders should determine otherwise. Mr. NATHAN was proceeding, on the authority of an anonymous letter, to question some of the items in the accounts, when Mr. Eeeice, a director, intimated that that was not a question which could come fairly before that meeting ; and asked Mr. Nathan if it was prudent to read an anonymous letter to such a meeting as that? Mr. NATHAN, waiving the question, proceeded to say that the directors ought to do their duty by their men, but he would rather lose his dividend than see any one of the drivers who had struck do an unjust thing to the directors, or the directors do an unjust thing to the men.—(Cheers.) Mr. Cox, of the Harrow-road, said he was on the side—if he was on any side—of the engine -men, because they were the weakest. It was highly im proper that any body of men should ever be in the power of those who employed them. He was sorry to see in the Times—(lronical cries of " Hear, hear") — a leaning to the conspiracy on the part of the men. The question for the meeting, however, was whether the men were in the right or the wrong. He denied the statement made by the men that the directors had said that they might go about their business on the following Monday morning.—(Hear, hear.) It was the men who sent in their own resignations.— (Hear, hear and cheers.) He contended that the Times' proprietors themselves would not tolerate such a combination among their own men.—(Bear, hear.) There was an example on record where, on such a combination showing itself among the men at the Times' office, the paper was one morning, through the address of the late Mr. Walters, printed by steam, to the great amazement of them all. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question put by the preceding speaker, said the directors would not gain by shutting up the Enfield line, but they gained very little by keeping it open. Mr. Box asked under what agreement the direc tors were acting with the Norfolk Company ? The CHAIRMAN said there was no agreement of amalgamation, but there was a working agreement entered into in that room on the 2d May, 1848, under seal and confirmed by the shareholders. Mr. Box submitted that by reason of that amalga mation the shareholders had sustained considerable loss, and that but for it they would now have a divi dend of 4s. instead of 2s. a share.—(Hear.) Mr. HOWES attempted to show from the accounts that a lots of something like 13 0001. during the last year had resulted from the continuation of the Nor folk amalgamation. He asked whether the agree ment with the Norfolk Company was of such a cha racter that they could, if they thought proper, repu diate it to-morrow ? (Cries of "No, no.") The CHAIRMAN said the agreement had been drawn up by counsel, and the directors had been advised by Messrs. Talbot and Hope that it could not be set aside. Mr. Howes was sorry to hear it. He hoped, how ever, that this amalgamation would not be continued at a loss to the company any longer than could pos sibly be avoided.—(Near.) Mr. 'W. PRICE said any agreement, working agree ment or otherwise, which should alter the accounts of the company, without having first been sanctioned by Act of Parliament, was illegal, and could not be jus tified. He made his solemn protest against the faith fulness of the printed accounts of the company, in that they were not rendered precisely in the form re quired by the Act of Parliament. The CHAIRMAN assured the meeting of the perfect legality of the agreement. Mr. MCLAURIN admitted that the accounts ren dered with respect to the Norfolk Railway Company were correct, as far as those accounts went; but he contended there should be no distinction made be tween the working expenses on the Norfolk line and those on the E istern Ccunties line, which had been made by Mr. Quilter in making up the accounts. The CHAIRMAN said, everything that could be kept separate had been kept separate on the two lines. Mr. MCLAURIN went in'o a statement of figures, from which he sought to deduce that the working expenses of this line were unnecessary, extravagant, and enormous—(Hear, hear)—and that it only re quired economical and prudent management on the part of the directors to make this company one of the finest and most remunerative of any in the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. GILBERTS, of Hertford, said it gave him pain to hear the acts of the directors questioned in the way they were, without those gentlemen offering any de fence or explanation of themselves. He complained that there had been fictitious entries of shares in the share list in several instances, and that that had been done with the knowledge of some of the directors. Mr. BAGSHAW, M.P., defended the , conduct of the directors with reference to the Norfolk amalga mation, and the legality of the existing agreement. Mr. Goocn, of Birmingham, deprecated the time of the meeting being taken up in asking and answer ing questions which might be far more readily solved by a reference to the accountant. The company was a large body of carriers, and they could not of ne cessity carry out their objects collectively, and it was necessary, therefore, to delegate the management to a smaller body of individuals. It was, however, the duty of the shareholders to see that the directors, in whom that trust was reposed, did their duty. Th ey must to a great extent repose confidence in their directors, and assist them in carrying out the legiti mate purposes of the company, until they found out that they were dishonest and incapahle.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which he was a eventually declared to be carried unanimously. Mr. MCLAURIN moved that the abstract o f th e agreemen t existing between this comp any and the Norfolk Railway Company be made out by t h e soli citorsfor the use of the proprietors of th e E astern Counties Railway. xb of is ths company, and seconded, that the sami e ent i be printed uily a dopted amid considerabl e uproar. resolution as an i A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, ' and the meeting, vrbkh 6G f A bOmewh4t noisy 9,892 5,529 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1850. character thro o'clock. larated a FitANCII:. The Ptecse states that severe orders have been is sued by the Prefect of Police for the seizn.ve of all prints of a MonarchizAl or Legiri!nist tendency. During the last week, it says, more than 20,000 por traits of the Count de Gh. - ,mhord have been seized and taken to the Prefecture. It Ldds that the zeal of the police agents has been carried so far as to seize prints representing Charles X. and Loui4 XVIII. GERMAN 'Y. According to the Colog ne Gazette, the intention which the thvarian and Wurternhurg Governments had of forming a corps of observation on the Loser Maine, or the Central Rhine, has been abandoned for the present. _ _ _ A: letter from Frankfort of the 15th says—" The Prussian Government, feari ng th a t th e Customs Union between Belgium and France which is spoken of may be effected, has resolved to make some con cession to Belgium, and to renew its treaty of com merce with that country." A letter from Berlin, of the 17th, in the Cologne Gazette, says—" Yesterday our Government received the invitation of the Cabinet of Vienna to send a Minister to the restricted Federal Council. It is unnecessary to say that Prussia refuses to accept the invitation. In yesterday's sitting of the provision;.) College Of the Princes the question of a war between Prussia and Austria was discussed. Yet, notwith standing all this, it is believed that all will terminate amicably." The German Gazette of Vienna, of the 18th, says that the corps d'artn6-3 of "Vorarlberg has received orders to leave for Holstein, under the command of the Archduke Albert. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter from Copenhagen of the 12th inst. gives some further account of the modification of the Danish Ministry. The Count de Moltke, lately Minister of Foreign Affairs, remains President of the Council, a post which he has occupied since 1848. The port folio of Foreign Affairs passes into the hands of M, Reedlz de Palsgaard, well known in diplomatic mat ters, who, conjointly with M. de Pechlin, Danish Mi nister at the Diet of Frankfort, concluded last month the treaty of peace with Prussia. M. D'laminger is appointed Minister of Marine ad interim, and Count de Reventlow-Ci itninil has the ad interim portfolio of the Interior and of Justice. Letters from Hambnrgh state that the inaction of the armies is generally attributed to the efforts of the envoys of the foreigu powers, who, it is said, have been sent into the two camps to prevent the renewal of hostilities. The Cologne Gazette states, on the authority of a letter from Lubeck, that orders had been sent by the Russian Government to Cronstadt to have all the vessels of war in that port immediately fitted out, and sent on the 15th to join the fleet off the coast of Den mark. ITALY. Some of the Piedmontese journals say that the French Government is disposed to act as medi ,tor in the differences which have arisen between the Sar dinian Government and Rome. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 17th states that friendly relations have been completely re-established between the Sardinian Government and the Argen tine Republic. The Piedmontese Government has just ordered the expulsion from its territory of two Lombard refugees, M. Munro Macchi, a writer in the Italia, and M. Bianchi Giovini, a writer in the Opinione. THE INUNDATIONS IN BELGIUM. The Brussels journals of Tuesday announce that the waters had entirely ceased that morning in the city and the greater part of the faubourgs, and that the inhabitants were engaged in emptying their cel lars. It was on Saturday night at nine o'clock that the inundation ceased to rise. It remained stationary some time, and then began slowly to de cline. At midnight on Saturday the fall was 4 centimetres ; at ten o'clock on Sunday night 10 centimetres, and at seven o'clock on Monday morning it was 1 metre 13 centimetres. During the inundation the Bourgmestre caused cart loads of bread and fresh water to be conveyed to the populations of the submerged quarters. In the evenings the gas lamps could not be lighted, and torches were at tached to the pillars. On Sunday the waters rushed from the Canal de Charleroi down the Rue de Flaudre with the rapidity of a torrent. The damage done is very considerable, but, on the whole, it appears that fewer lives have been lost than might have been ex , petted. Subscriptions have been opened for the re lief of the sufferers, and in several streets boxes have been placed to receive contributions. Large crowds had begun to visit the places in which the ravages had been greatest. _ Leers from Louvain, Hal, Vilvorde, Beverne, Melsele, Calloo, Doel, Kieldricht, Namur, Mons, Marbes-le. Chateau, and innumerable other towns and villages, give painful accounts of the damage done by the floods. In some places howes have bean thrown down, in others bridges carried away, in others trees uprooted, in all crops and .property to an immense amount destro:, ed. All the letters, how ever, represent that the floods were retiring. FORGERY ON TILE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMEN r. BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.—This morning James Hill (who was apprehended in this town some three weeks since on a charge of being concerned in the forgery of bank notes on the Austrian Government) was again brought before the magistrates, the necessary evidence not having yet arrived from Vienna. The facts of the case were gone into in order to induce the magistrates to extend the remand. Mr. Gem, who appeared on the part of the Austrian Embassy, detailed the circumstances under which the charge was preferred. The notes which haie been forged are known in Austria as " Cass Assignation," and it appeared that on the 11th of July the prisoner, who formerly resided in the neighbourhood of Wolver• hampton, called upon a lithographer named Underwood, and showed him a note, having a small piece cut out of it, at the same time asking him if he could produce an imitation of it. Mr. Underwood intimated that there would be considerable difficulty in imitating it in let ter • press on account of the peculiarity of the type, but that it might be thine with tolerable exactness in litho graphy, and the prisoner at once gave an order for it to be done. The space cut out from the note was the Austrian Eagle, having in fact at the back of it the figures indicating the amount of- interest from time to time due, upon the note, and the times at which these were payable. Whilst the work was being executed Underwood showed the note to several persons, and ulti mately it came to the knowledge of Mr. Stephens, the chief superintendent of police, who gave the lithographer an indemnity on the part of the Austrian Government, and directed him to carry aut the prisoner's orders, giving from time to time such information as might be mcessary. The prisoner saw a proof of the note, and at that time and subsequently gave an order for 1,500 impressions. When these were completed, he called, and left a carpet bag with Mr. Underwood, directing that the notes should be put into it and sent to him at the George Inn, Digbeth, at the same time intimating that he wished to pay liberally, and he thought that he had not been charged enough. It was at this hotel that the prisoner was taken into custody, and la,t Saturday Mr. Stephens also took into custody a person named Steele, residing in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, who had been employed by Hill to choke a punch having on it the Austrian eagle." Mr. R. A. Stephens, the chief superintendent of police, detailed some additional particulars concerning the cap ture of the prisoner. On the 29th of July he saw the prisoner about mid-day going along the Bull-ring to the George Inn, and an hour afterwards saw Mr. Under wood's man go into the room where the prisoner was, with a carpet-bag; he followed, and having charge Hill with having in his possession a quantity of forg-d notes on the Austrian Government, at once took him into custody. Prisoner replied—" You don't know how much our countrymen are robbed by the Austrians, or you would not apprehend me." The key of the carpet!. bag was found on the prisoner's person, and in it were found the 1,500 notes in sixty parcels. He gave his name. as James Hill, of America-square, London, but on inquiry it was ascertained that he had resided there for two days only about five weeks previously. He in formed Hill that he had taken the prisoner Steele into custody for having made the punch, on which the former offered to give full information on the subject, but the punch has not yet been discovered. Mr. Underwood, lithographer, detailed the facts as far as he was concerned, as set forth above. To him the prisoner gave his name as " James William," and re quested that the transaction might be kept as private as possible. Mr. Henry Minte, a German merchant, gave evidence to the effect that the notes forged were in the shape of Austrian Exchequer-bills, each note representing in value 100 florins or 104 sterling. - The magistrates consented to a further remand for a week. [A f t e te cot' 21. d o - j ist!'i l o Nv -, Auo: 0 • to- o d 0,, ,, G LA tros ,cio kurg h oi o 1 , op swag ExcHANGB.--The ~_ d in. sco . , ic 1 57 : 2 --- s. A 6 b d er_de s e c n o , u s is i. h ts e . rit t , viiciac. tii, o 7od o w- , Junction, 8/. 2s. 6el.—York , I 4e E. Purchase), 4/. 4s. Ili j til e B/RTEI3" s,B , f it 0 F A SOO', e s hire, • be • Pi . ter Weo la' Geo O r ti g t ia ll u e a ‘26 B t a h lf i o a u s r t . 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Townsend, Eq., of Kentnareo,2,y of C er ° t l , Pi ' ti nest or pleasure. They act mildly on the bowels, without pain 6.4 0 !;f i or griping, strengthen the stomach, and promote a healthy sc•it ag d youngestH. Townsend, of Derry, r k i e hlt got oo tie.n of the liver, whereby they purify the blood, cleanse the common, Kent. daagliter of 11 'l'7 nvi d ra t 1, skin, brace the nerves, and invigorate the whole system. They p i ta , • r , Ca a h.. ~,rt •ere of 1 reecii, A _ qv prcive an admirable remedy algofor those who suffer from a de- On the 17th inst., at ot• n f bt• _,,, , r oad' g o. bilitated constitution, as they create en appetite,. correct indi gestion, remove bile, giddiness, nervousness, or sick headaches Rev.. William Hichens, s,.arS. _ Chi phA P " yoo o ll o al ' Hichens, Esq., of East llui" and_ r palpitation of the heart.—Sold by all Druggists, and at v i' °lessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. wife e n o the f A 1 1 . 1 8 . A ,STRANGE PUBLIC • HOT'S a Visrroit.—Last week On the 18th inst., at Gil" Esq , °I , tar, ..t as a butcher lad, named Ellis, was conducting a tat cow to- 1 ' P „, t A h lf i r n e s d t 3... act (Pletire.c ,r y : : 1 : 18 p ee i ' ebilram. F . 04 ,1 t te ) l 4 i a c ,rOO wards Mr. Titley's slaughter-house, situate in Swine-market, son of the late T. W. Filga te ' ar.se stel ee ' 47 .4 :1 40 7 of Louth. a t Tredeg E s q., o , Ow ,bow' Wellington, on passing Mr. Vickers', Barley Mow public house, the cow entered Mr. Vickers', to the no small alarm of the inmates, looked into the kitchen, where several persons ane, relict of . at Leek, , eilui,`' Jane On the 19th the in l s a t t . e , were drinking, but appearing to disdain plebeian company theOn 3, gtf • „AMP' i • NV, gilsrttielk•oobirel 1 ter o i ,cohi 1 1 '10 the cow turned round,and with the most patrician air, walked wifeth On the 19th inst., .„ Tra c e' ' ~ c am pton - -- b r itP um-Spv-- - `' A c e r r jti e o l f 7 jthohi.nnsct.,raisn, Ant? , serves, 2, into the parlour, where was seated one solitary old gentle man, an ex-butcher, taking. a snooze, who was a little sur- Southey, Esq •, „,br, 80° iti tt e • prised at seeing such a visitor. After looking at old marrow- an d Pu- , i, bones for a few seconds, the animal, being a teetotaller, re- London: Prite 4 d ri ~ printe , at qle saco , . .. 112. ‘itt• 0 turned out of the house, without calling - for any drink or Precinct o f ' Oa. • doing any damage, apparently acting the; art 9( A Police Man i Strand, in the . _.....,,,t A , - " 911I Y juit PoPPed ila tO Pi 4pm gAgliti." ' A rAtiddAtori, IKiclAti 61/36 " 1 _ . .ttlo before four ----------"-----------rirtie BuT,HE COUNTRY 111A1111-a•„1/ ~TL'LI AuG. 22.—The vveatber has 011000f:ill out wh,,at _ a le, end with occasional heavy ralss, ant„aelt markets rule very dull, and prices both for riwiedlis end far..i k an old are at a decline of Is per quartet... white tEhiel,flo•l-riight. A fem samples of really 6ae a s* jil the: d i.h brough". 443 per imperial quarter to-dap', ft e 403 tl's market English new q ua fetche d fr°oo 444 to 46; imperial quarter; foreign white, r 423 to to 46 per asotb; ditto red, extra fine qualittea r 00; and hard, ditto, fine ditto, 39s to 41s; ditto, ordina 100, at ;harpde,r 37, to 393. For fl air there is a 31at reduction ) of ad per sack; English seconds fselt)tcle!..frfealt , l 33; per sack; American, &c., Sweet , 23s 13 ,,rbric e o ba o r v re a .. In oats, barley, and,other spring cora, f e et: bed nation to notice. Oats, Devon, and Vern 6d from 153 to 16; per imperial quarter; Irish w bite aa' latirisl to .13 61 per 3201 b; ditto, black, 153 to 168 PI ' w o r i fter l quarter._ o Beans, English, 28s to 323 per inaperisl,atek rhaveeig.o, 24; to 28; per 480 lbs. The arrivals for.t_osarlet, tme 1,6J3 barrels; 3.833 quarters; oats, . 12 ! l e. 00 u i,t,9 barrels; barley, 1,72 1 a re , u` 7 ' 4d• siiel4est, 44i ' - is. The averages for the week are- - IT i oats, 15, ...1 • I 1, beaus, 29:; 4d. tasrliell on ,i_ BI_es....mINGFIA.3I, A u,G. 22.--A.t Gloucester . „ e eta . 11.4,11-, 1' th, the wheat trade ruled dull at aboat.'hua wee d , ney o f the previous week; but at Vceste rt;alated la' s ; 3;1 a reduction of is per q' Mora Was 6 0 :0 Os , Be '3' in improved demand. gore doing ' I , .pet q 4 u i arter lower. Daring the acs maintained their value; but Pea s it ' a r „ e le bad s t ßa r ri sale for wheat, with the turn in favour of t er Pl ° present w eek we '•a he baf er. realises quite as much rnoney. n at e f a ila i s eels without giving ratese,dear have been accepted for light oats- Deal! aittgof 'le ; but little pro er can be made i n dor Atte awa e y ss ioprioe. At this day's Oro there wee a less supply of wheat from the i tirnier e e i j i ll tions. Barley ' the t ra de r ul e d dull at rather under the currend Ageir „b r eorr day so'nnight hut we make no alteration io our s '''''• LOUGBRO', u3ers of 1.1 was taken freely at fully as ro lo ots No o b ats but little doing. Beans held for some AUG. 22. —At oar raarket Was.' st met a slo• peas, except at a further decline:4.d 0:14 beans but a better r RY (6100 r ~.• • W sale at about last week's currencies; ° S o f t ea few offering, and the turn 1 0 tia et he eh S: w llT of ill , I seller. A few samples of now oats, bat mos ./..aigtea \ tenor quality, which made from 183. to 203. P1'1,4000 WO $ die attendance ' 600 fir.- ece of purchasers, without any aitata _ o b e r Di fiaEti*DstiM)ctilitchEisT, mitollro;o2g°,-- 6411 .P h " . e from several preceding weeks. Thee,.l3so i t tvo last p_ a a a nd lambs was considerably larger 01% re ___T.. :day, but the trade was not so brig; idt t he , ;ta'nrbtitYratihere were acme pens of sheep left 00f%';'01 was ue was very inactive. The sOPPIY orajdetasodi l' again large, for which there WO a i g°,„0000, 41,, Fat sd; lamb, were scarce. Beef, 41-cl to sa; 7 , 61 61 1 a to „_ IT.; lamb, 50; veal, 40 to 5d per lb; lib. oda. l i s id to score. Rough fat, 3s 3d per stone ot 1 lite 43S Bon' 1 ' calt skins, W heat, to 4d Per lb• 4 3: W- 1 to ON, AUG. 21.—W heat, red 37n '00164 to _ 455, extra 45s to 475; oats , old 125 too ah 19s; beans 263 OO to 30; per quarter. et V; ALFORD, AUG. 19.--Wheat 40s Ilia P 16 , a a 2 os te d 4 1 ; beans 28 i , per quarter. WRY LOUTII, AuG. 21.—V1i heat 393 to 449; 22s • , oats 133 to 15s; beans 23s to 265 per 4 t fl e e 43510 LYNN, AUG. 20.—Wheist, old 383 te s ; 100 on° 463 per ~ quarter. Oriel to 4651 r. UPPI ' NGHAM, AUG. 21.—Wheat 42$ • 30 , per rl t 223 to 24 •s, oats 19; to 225,• be 28i to eourfbes Butter 10L1 to 10Id per lb. E 320 for Is. x c i c i 01 0 2s Od, thirds 1 We s Bd, coarse 184 d pet stone; 6d per 41b loaf. 55 t a "h redNElv"L AUG, 21.—Wheat, old whet i 4 red 4 2i to ..3 42s to 46s Od, new white 443 to 473 red to 2 1 4n4ew; barley, grinding 18; to 21s; oats, of ' 4 2 3 - 03 01 18; to 20s; bean;2Bs to 315; tares 40e to ,d per 54s to 56s a is I per qr. Flour, flue 23, secon stone ; tread sid . . per 41b loaf. . barley CARLISLE, AUG. 20.—Wheat 463 Ild, oats 22, d a sr' qaarter. eve r,' ' ti ea GLASGOW, A UG.A 21.—The suPPlies froto , ~ 0091,.5t • ter have b -en light. At Grangemouth tu e a. es of w ih , ()f . about 1.344 quarter; of wheat, 230 quart With I t ley, and 220 Tuners of pew, from abroata b o teoe. exueption of zeunday and. Monday , Whetted fe 60306b1 rain and wind, the weather has contie 0000 g were fairly. The : di p 0 Ottl. a during • the week were for the supply of jai° ibialf.e,_ t former prices. This day's market was nv a ttll o tended, a reta,l.b a e„ -i ° business only , c a i i, vela . had without lead' tng to a qua ab,e C hang' Heel bagu rea'ise _o IA hole sale, however, an abatement wa s Th ere E DO sub nitro to. Vilei••••• leo EDINBURGH GRAIN MARRET, AUG. 21. ~ing 91 (11 1 4 01 , were 461 qrs of wheat in the market to-dal, "''' ' sod " to. than last week. Prices were 6d up oo t he top,oooo 4 on the average-17 qrs unsold. lesse eßarley--rberfo isst 0'59 4_ y e 's market 118 qrs barley, being 77 ers Th top price was 156 d up, and the aversg et aets', ad qrs unsold Oats—The quail ' tity of oats in the le nt o 11- The qrs, being the same as last week. The li°l 'esots;47t, average bd down--:22 qrs anaiseere tbsahlaseseerse supply of b e eans was 9 qrs, being 9 nrs "' Prices were cloP°l2w 2 the same on the top, and ls 11 Od qrs unsold. 46 5 d Top of Wheat ... ... ~.. 641; g m 6 4 ,1 ~ Barley ••• ••• .. 654,1 b. 9,39 , i d a Oats... ,„ .. ... 4 b els a o ber ss Bea ns • 45 1 • Th e au o p EDINBURGH ••• ••• - 21.! • e is 1 CRGH CATTLE MAREST, AO. Topef , 6 , 6,, of cattle was 415, or 11 more than last weelL. sorts' bid. current, per 6s to 6s 9d ; middling and infero _T r so , led ge l o, Dutch stone. At the close a good cleat°. * w it u, t o, The number of sheep and lambs this ea .. °l of beit th 1 . P1 ) or 2,064 , ~. , more than last wet''. Top price ( f per '"d Joe at i per lb ; middling and inferior from ld 1 ° ', O Lao s n price of lambs, 17s Od ; current, trona lis ' op tol2lo bt 4s ad a bro ag Deana head. a 64110, bro ht a, AUG. 21—Wheat, weigiline% O , b oor; and pricesoosod to a7s Od. Barley, vveighuing_ 41 1110, _Oil), 20s 6,1 ant! prices to 09s 'd. Oats, weiall pos, Wae . , and prices to 18s ad. Beans Au 6 ,1, ~. 1 0 a, —lbs, brought el- Con ~ht, o , s Gel, and prices to is 0 .„., 4 . te second A UG• 21. Flour—First 12s 6d t 0.40: ibtta..uabaste 11,64 to 12 , 6d ; households lea 1 i° 0 : 1 ,74 3,1 ;03p er per cwt. Oatmeal 10 • than ' 9 ',lto 611 rse mea l . 10 sto 10s 6d, In ve sto 1036 iper cwt. Indian corn 6110 s taa „,sges ..0 roe. Bran , I 1 to 4i P " Farmers lzfees;selfAll-tO4 53 , id per ton. Has ; dealers tofu '-- - tri i .a • 54s to 00; Od; average 00s per a ca t to 6r, 16: Od to r s 3:0 ,1 to 0 25 s Od - average COs ; deale o f o. I S -. d ' average 00s 0 ' In, stea 0 per ton. Bread--ree-f. o h Ise co , household loaf 5d t Sod per 41h, r oclreu• Col° 9J per lb. E o h Od4 0‘ Newport 14s ; Eggs-4s 24 to 48 s ' PA.? 10 ~f eat 13s Od Lydney 15s Od; 1,1 „!, tc , Oes r ilfr ea• 4,1 to Whisky, per r 5 ton. Tart 385 . ut_al g all , ~. 0 . p., 5s bd per ntirr''.6d ; 1171 peril" —.Beef 4d t 4/l el t° 5d . pork ..o 40 ; mutton ~, . waste_ Os/ Ho'ps7i() 4dto Od ; bacon 6d to se , eaal e bo pea •-• slates a. oh ape ton. Bark—Barbary to 01 Os per cwt. Dangor.,. , ia of to n., ,e i t ei ~ .nfc Barbary 7159 to 8/ss; !Veil 15 , to 0 1 "'„fpol! e , 'i.Spanish 91 to 101 per ton. Fleece Iwo° .n..130`",,,105.1' Hemp 321 t'per F h Scotch berrt aa.. to e v oel ditto 15s ' ton. is .d 6/ la ton T to 20s per barrel ; Newfounalan . 6 3i s;10.:, Timber—Memel, 803 per ton ; red F l 1 . 100. _if sr ° (lat . M a r o k 21 15s per ton ; deals, 131 to 181 P e r of f ; cl' l lol oA 3d t et 20s to 325; salted 210 to 326,11.0 6id; 'i sOll 0 31d per lb. Potatoes, white 4,. hs b a e, 9iP e Od to Tar ° 4. c l ; Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s; ac" rchange1,._ ................. 190 per barrel. 11, K 'ilS. ----------MA--- • RAILWAY SLi 18.11 E .., tiro il tio- 0 BRISTOL, Atria. 2e• sa ge to e a STOCK E no chagt° a 4° ' tbg scuANGF..—IN e have as , bee _ a l e s this share market. A small bnsinass The fot ; I 131•0 1 ` prices took place e erally remain stationa9a W est to $ • were confined to the Great a and Exeter a to lines. a • aoioB 1 LIVERPOOL, AO' 2'satess ''- si f a , STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little 11,00 efelo, 9' day, ol but prices were ateady. The tralleroltal t d it ' flortb.„ low: .L Lancashiie and Yorkshire, ConV.so,loo s„sidhs", (li ancaster and Preston, P• I'l_l6 P• afidlSe . Western, 111.1aN w Quarters, d Sortb, 15c, 323/ ..„,,, , —Ditto, e , 5 /,4 , listo, 'delves, 24.ta dis. -York 111 (so. i be tlit • aa's —South-Eastern and Dover, Co ' blanchester, Ditto (N o . Registered, 5 1-16-- and 4), , t o Lincolnshire, Preference,7-1 4• , , 22, to . Aol l'il AN CLI ESTEK, la t ' G ' ritet wcisrig,i" STOC an . K EXCHANGE.—The sh,re nit' titeriel,..,.e 8'I:d r.,•l i e rnated, and prices remain without loy rtocoopi',..l,e.- ! I transactions were as follow :--- lot' 'l-111Vs andri: Lancashire o f, Ditto larsk, Via London and Nor ipechspeal 6 Birtni New Quarters, 1-16 IN --• fru'abesterßadli4l, 'Thaw Quarte • ' 1 c IN— lit, tero OW and La te 1 ' . r. (G), ,C. S ear '3l lton' 6it' 15 _D. o nehire, Preference, 734-.- o 5,,,0 0) , i Itto, Consolidated Stock (N0.3%1 I l re6c 9 ( Aal burn, ' Clitheroe, and \Veer Yorkshire. a re•e9 a iti. A 2 . aiii 0 9 , STocK Exc BIBMINGLIAIg, All6l. OS e s e l set i 0 FL,' GH„—The share prat n i bos d of 111 active to-day' 'fact,tlittle it A a° acted. "I there was, in sou ht after , a there are few stocks are m 0.5 g sellers. 4 fe r / A eil YORK, AO°. 21' to-04 to l'.••1 STOCK E actions ~,pst ;II follow • ' xcHArvos.--The trans . Ol3 lit a , :—York, Newcastle, and 13erwica ~,,a,alorto 4 castle * E — Prefer xtension), 92'E/1 —Great Northern Taestleo, ence (guaranteed 6 per cent. for,,avt loaabila cent.in perpetuity), 43/ York arid for ence, 71 . Bs. 9d. 4