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Z// e - Ce 6 ) • (_ ( • I • • .• _ -41111, 4 '4 • • -I , fr 4 • • • , 0 4 -/ *, 4k' / ^ f ,y) 'O 4 1 • •, I • 7' • *--e, r, „ftrif • + • _ - - tw.— E tn . , 44 , • • 1 0 „-, - 1 2..tgT•4 As\ - r' z l~ /////7 EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. BARLOW"S CAST-IRON SLEEPERS. In consequence of its being necessary to make an alteration in the Specification fer these sleepers recently issued from this Company, each party who has tendered under the said Specification can have his render returned to him on application at this office any day after the 7th instant, when a copy of the amended Specification will be handed. to him gratis. The charge to all other parties will be ten shillings a copy. The last day tor receiving Tenders under the amended Specifica tim will be Tuesday the 22d instant. The Direct:rs do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender. By order, N°. 18 110 LONDON WEDNESDAY 1: v. • S OCTOBER 9 ) 1850. C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Bisbopsgate Station, October 2, 1850. [PRICE SD. QTEASI to ABERDEEN, INVERNESS, and the NORTH of SCOTLAND. The ABERDEEN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S splen did and plwerful Ships will start as under, weather, &c., permitting. For ABERDEEN —The City of London, Saturday, October 12, at Eight Evening. For INVERNESS —The Duke of Sutherland, Monday, October 14, at Nine Morning, calling off Burghead, InTergordon, Cromarty, and Chanonry Point. Offices : Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; 82, Lombard-street ; or, 257, Wapping. CAMBRIDGE MONUMENT. GENERAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. CusinmAN—The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR. DErurr-Cueißuss—The Right Hon. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, M.P. _ _ Just published, price One Shilling, THE PHILOSOPHER'S MITE to the GREAT EXIIIBITION of 1851. directly opposite the bolt, which would enable a per son with a crooked instrument to force the bolt back. I examined two cupboards in the kitchen which is next the scullery, a door communicating between them. I found these cupboards had been broken open. I have compared a screw-driver which I re ceived from Richard Giles with the marks on the cupboard doors, and I have no doubt that they were made with that instrument. The marks correspond exactly as to their width. I found that one of the doors communicating between the kitchen and the dining-room had been forced. There is no passage between the kitchen and the dining- room, but a double door and two steps. One of these doors did not appear to have been fastened. The passage between the dining-room and the front passage had also been forced, and tbere, too, the marks on the door co rrespon d e d w i th the screw driver. The front door had not been forced. About two yards from the step of the front door, on the gravel of the carriage drive, I observed two foot marks—both of them were the marks of right feet, without shoe or stocking. The impression of the toes was quite distinct, which showed that there was no stocking. These footsteps were in the direction from the house. About thirty-seven yards further on, in the direction of the front gate, there is a tree, I think a cypress tree, on the lawn. Under that tree there was a good deal of - trampling, aa if parties had been standing there for a consider a bl e t i me . F rom th a t to the front gate is a distance of from seven' to ten yards. At the gate I saw the impression of a man's heel, as if he had slipped, and on the side of the green, but on the gravel there was the impression of a man's- arm, as if one man had fallen down there. I should have stated before that where the trampling was under the tree I picked up this piece of worsted. (Witness • here produced a small piece of blue worsted, apparently a shred of a woollen stocking.) I received, as I already stated, from Richard Giles a screw-driver, a cotton handkerchief, and part of a worsted stocking; and from Ellen Yeller some paper, which I suppose to have been the paper that rammed down the bullets, as it was doubled up like wadding paper.—(Witness here pro duced some shreds of half-burnt paper, which still retain the smell of powder). From inquiries I made my suspicions fell upon the three men in custody, which I communicated to Mr. Hollinton. On the following day Mr. Hollinton accompa n i e d me to Frimley, and we arranged to take them into custody on the following day. The names are Levi Harwood, James Jones (but I shall prove that his name is Bur bage), and Hiram Smith (but I shall bring a person to prove that his name is Trower). They w ere ap prehended on the charge. I have since measured th e right foot (on Thursday) last) of Har woo d an d . Smith, and I find that the naked foot of Harwood is 9f inches long and 3 1 t inches wide, and that Smith's is 94 inches long and 3f wide. These are as near as possible the dimensions I found in the garden as to length and breadth. I measured them on the Sun day morning. I only found them on the Saturday night by candle light, and it being too dark then to measure them I covered them up. I found the great toe of the right foot of Harwood very much cut, as if it had come in contact with flint, or as if it had been running on flint stones. The stocking also had a quantity of blood on it. The stocking was taken off him by Hollinton. CORONER—Have you reason to believe that if this inquiry were adjourned other and important evidence will be forthcoming ? Witness-4 have not the least doubt of it. CORONER—Do you know that there is a fourth man in custody ? Witness—Yes, Hollinton took him. CORONER—Ii Hollinton here ? Witness—No. CORONER—Do you know the prisoner's name ? Witness—His name is Harwood, I believe Samuel Harwood. He is first cousin to the other prisoner Harwood. spoons, which she was able to identify. She went for a policeman, and also called in a Mr. Green, who re sides next door to Mr. Fisher. The table and tea spoons she had borrowed from Mary Jones, grand daughter to Mr. Morley. Mary Jones, on being sworn, deposed to lending the table and teaspoons to the last witness, and could identify them. She knew them by the letters which were engraved upon them: The tablespoons had the letter G on them, and the teaspoons the letters B.W.M. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS " Forewarned, Forearmed. ' V Lendon : Iroulston and Stoneman, 65, PatGrnoster-row. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. Aldrich, Stephen J., Esq. (Secretary to the Royal General Annuity Society), 18a, Basinghall-street Anderson, the Rev. J. S. M., M.A., Brighton Anderson, George, Esq. (Hon. Sec. to the Royal Society of Musicians) i 2, Lisle-street, Leicester-square Bain, George, Esq. (lion. Sec. to the Highland Society of London), Parliament-street Barber, the Rev. J. R., D.D., St. Paul's, Vauxhall Barnard, J. A. L., Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St . Ann's Society). Royal Brit sh Bank, Tokenhouse-yard *Bartley, George, Esq. (Hon. Treasurer to the Covent-garden Thea bical Funl), 11, Woburn-square *Bennett, William, Esq. (secretary to the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund) Csbbell, B. 8., Esq., M.P., F.R.S. (Treasurer), Brick-court, Temple *Chatter, J. Esq. (Secretary to the Royal Humane Society), 3, Tra falgar-square Clift, James, Esq., Bloomsbury-square *Cochrane, Charles. Esq. (Chairman of the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen), 40, Leicester-square Cox, R. s., Esq., 7, St. Paul's-churchyard Davies, William, Esq. (Secretary to tie Asylum for Female Orphans), Westminster-bridge-road Douglas, Lieut.-General Sir Howard, Bart., 15, Green-street, Gros venor-square Dousberry, Thomas, Esq. (Secret4ry to the Domestic Servants' Be nevolent Institution), 32, Sackvffle-street. Edridge, Thomas, Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Leicester square Soup Kitchen), 40, Leicester-square *Farrance, G. J., Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society), 47, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square Granby, the Most Hon. the Marquis of, M.P., 102, Piccadilly slrant, George, Esq. (Secretary to the servants' Provident and Bene volent Society), 8, Cork-street Hale, J. W., Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution), Tollington..park Hall; S. C., Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Governesses' Be nevolent Institution), Marlborough-chambers, Pall-mall Harley, John Pritt. Esq. (Hon. Treasurer to the Drury-lane Theatri cal Fund), 14, Upper Gower-street Holland, J. W., Esq. (Secretary to the Royal Society of Female Mu sicians), 13, Ilacelestleld-street, Soho-square Hutton, Rev. Henry, M.A., Rector of St. Paul's, Covent-garden James, John, Esq. (Secretary to the Society of Ancient Britons), Gray's Inn-road Jones, John, Esq. (Secretary to the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen), 40, Leicester-square Jones, Jonathan, Esq. (Secretary to the Industrial Home for Gentle women), 39, Brunswick-square Labouchere, John, Esq. (Treasurer), Birchln-lane *Laing, the Rev. D., M.A., F.R.S. (Secretary to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution), 62, Mornington-road, Regent's-park Lilford, the Right Hon. the Lord, 10, Grosvenor-place Londonderry, the Most Hon. the Marquis of, Holderness House Lon;, W. S., Esq. (Deputy-Chairman of Queen Adelaide's Free Die pensary), Bethnal-green Lott, Mr. Deputy, F S.A., 43, Bow-lane Lusignan, the Rev. 31. W., M.A. (Member of the Metropolitan Sani tary Association), Allhallows, Upper Thames-street Lutwidge, R. W. S., Esq., 19, New-street, Spring-gardens Mackenzie, the Rev. Charles, M.A. (Hon. Secretary to the London Orphan Asylum), St. Helen's-place *Mackenzie, Colin, Esq. (Secretary to the National Philanthropic Association), Leicester-square *Marsden, W., Esq., M.D. (Founder of the Royal Free Hospital), Lincoln's Inn-fields Marsh, Henry Edmund, Esq., 2, Charlotte-row Meadows, Drinkwater, Esq. (Secretary to the Covent-garden Thea trical Fund), the Grange, Michael's-grove, Brompton Meymott, Edward, Esq. (Secretary to the Royal Infirmary for Chil dren), 31, Stamford-street Nash, Charles, Esq. (Secretary to the Metropolitan Free Hospital), 8, Devonshire-square Nepean, the Rev. Evan, M.A., 21, Bolton-street Nicoll, Mr. Sheriff, Albany Nisbet, James, Esq., Berners-street Page, Thomas, Esq., C.E., Middle Scotland-yard Peckston, the Rev. Thomas, M.A., 1, Gloucester-terrace, Cambridge heath *Phillips, J. S., Esq. (Secretary to the Public Dispensary), Lincoln's Inn Fowles, J. D., Esq., Bank-bnildings Pownall, Henry, Esq., 27, Gloucester-gardens, Westbourne-terrace *Rayner, T. 0., Esq., M.D., Associate King's College (Secretary to the Royal Maternity Charity), 1, St. Matthew's-place, Hackney road CAU TIO N.-MEC EH'S MAGIC STROP. " The Real Magic Strop," " The Double Magic Strop," " 7 he Magic Strop," are all base imitations of MECHPS MAGIC STROP. None arc genuine without Mechi's name, which imitators dare not put on the spurious strop; yet, strange to say, ninny perfumers call ing themselves respectable, endeavour to palm•this rubbish (they cost from V. to sd. each in Sheffield) on the public as Mechi's genuine strop, although they possess no sharpening properties whatever, but the way reverse. The well-known Magic Paste is an invaluable auxi liary to the Strop, and its renovating properties • arc truly astonish ing. Mechi's Razors stand pre•eminekt as well as his Table Cutlery. C. W. WILLOUGHBY, Agezt. COLLECTION of RENTS, DIVIDENDS, &c. Owners of Houses and Estates are informed that the LAW PROPERLY ASSURANCE and TRUST SOCIETY (Offices, 30, Essex-street, Str.and) undertakes the Collection of Rents, Dividends, any part of the United Kingdom, at the usual Commission. On payment of an•EXTRA COMMISSION, the Rent will be guaran teed. Tae z-ocie'y offers the advantages of the security of a Regis. tered Company, and accommodation to owners of property by ad vances on account. Apply personally, or by letter, at the (hikes of the Society, 30, Essex -street, Strand. The Rev. James i'isher was the next witness called. He swore that he slept at Everton on the 29th ult., and had left Great Crosby in the afternoon, about twenty minutes past five. He left his servant Ann Smith in the house, and returned on the follow ing Monday morning. As soon as he returned he found that the back lobby door had been bored, and the bolt drawn. The circular holes bored in the pan nels were about six inches in diameter. On seeing this his first care was to go into the sacristy, which is in the chapel 'that adjoins his house. He found the door leading to the chapel open. The sacristy is what is called a vestry. He went to the drawers, and found all in great confusion. On examining them he missed two silver pyxes, and two holy oil stocks. He also missed an incense boat, and a spoon 'belonging to it, also some copper money. He could identify the pyres and the oil stocks. Lawrence Khoe, an officer of the Liverpool detec tive police, was then called, and proved that he went to London on the Ist of October. Knows the pri soner Sirrell. His place of business is at 54, Barbi can. He went there on the 2d of October, about eleven or twelve o'clock in the forenoon. When he got there he saw a man go• into his (Sirrell's) shop, with two parcels. Sirrell keeps a shop and a counting-house, and a smelting place at the rear of the shop. The parcels were wrapped in a brown paper. Immediately after the man came out without the parcels, and be (witness) went in. He had Inspector Lund, of the metropolitan police, and Sergeants Whicher and Shore, besides two other officers in uniform. Lund went in before him. Can not say whether it was before or after the delivery of the parcels. When he went in, be saw Lund stand ing at the counter and the two parcels were placed on the desk at the end of the counter. Lund seized the parcels and witness went into the counting-house where Sirrell was. On entering he pulled out his warrant card, and then said to him that those two parcels had come to him that morning from Liver pool. He said he did not know who they were from. He then asked him if be had not got any letters of advice respecting them. Sirrell became restive when be asked him respecting the letters, and inquired what he wanted with his private letters, and that he would not allow him to come there. Witness then arrested him, and told him if he could not conduct himself properly he would make him. Lund also told him that be must hehave himself quiet. He then produced a letter which he got respecting the parcels. It was to the following effect : " Sept. 30, 4, Hope-street, St. Jude's, Liverpool. "I have forwarded some silver, about 15.5. Your attention as usual will oblige yours respectfully, .C th.rhoe n ew o p w pnoal s iprec h aee l p j es A arnw, u da l e e nrt y deh , eoo b npp u eer t wsdeoadonseeisirn‘ WILLI A M t i r Tts l k i Lnh(nLewoclywAai (witness's) ees s : t h ese l e ,r where rT u pa i phee e pes r ele pid . nv : ceiresn:. b n cel produced is the one that was only in paper, tied with a string, fastened with selling-wax. It was ad dressed, " Mr. T. C. Sirrill, 54, Barbican, London," and contained two broken silver table-spoons, two silver pyxes, four silver teaspoons, two salt and one eggapoon, a silver sugar tongs, two castor tops, and two holy oil stocks. 4, Leadenhall- street. Just published (Seventieth Thousand), AGUIDE to Persons commencing the HYGEIAN or MORISON lAN SYSTEM of MEDICINE, being a selec tloa of the most recent well-authenticatell Cures effected by Mori son's Vegetable Universal Medicine. May be had of all the Hygeian Agents throughout the country, price 2d.. or sent free on enclosing a Fourpenny piece to the British College of Health, New-road, London. FORD'S WELLINGTON FAMILY and COMMERCIAL HOTEL, DALE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. This Hotel, situated in the Immediate vicinity of the Exchange, Docks, and other places of public and commercial resort, is fitted up in 111'st-rate style, and the accommodations f or American, Foreign, as Well as English strangers. will be found everythi ng that is desirable, While the arrangements of the "Cuisine" are in the hands of a first-rate Cook. The Proprietor urther wishes to intimate that his Coffee and Conamercial Rooms, as well as Sitting and lied Rooms, will be found second to none in the kingdom, N.B. The charges for servants are included In the Bill (except those Who only stay a few hours), viz., Waiter, Porter, and Chambermaid, and it is reapectlaUy intimated that all further payment is unne cessary. THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Emgravings on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA. PACITY, AND IMVEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE: New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct troth the Establ'shfnent, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive Indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Eerners-street, Ox tord-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 11, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Staric, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in lulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. . . . PA r 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection: either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is Illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Ungiavings. fear It. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's notice. PART V. is devoted to the eonsideration of marriage, and its du ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. TrIE CORDIAL Bata( OF STRIACIIM is exclusively employed in treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I ls. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic remed:, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I 1 s. and 235. per bottle. 'erry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Its. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, , gleet, stricture, and chronic) inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, aid posi tion in society. 11. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Jetta bllslament only by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendance daily at 19, Bemers-street, Oxford street, London. from Eleven till Two and rive to Eight : on San day. 'from Eleven to One. THE FRIMLEY MURDER. ADJOURNED INQUEST. The articles were then identified by Mr. Fisher, his servant Ann Smith, and Mary Jones, as those taken from his house and chapel at Great Crosby. This was all the evidence produced by Mr. Dow ling, who proceeded to the case of Maguire, for steal ing plate from Mrs. Tinley. The cases were remanded till this day week, although Mr. Lewis addressed the bench, stating that no case had been made out against his client, Mr. Sirrell. RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE COMPANY; Erni owered by Special Act of Rarliament, 12 and 13 Vie., cap. 40. °filets, 3, Old Broad -street, London. DIRECTORS. • Chairman -JOHN DEAN PAUL, Esq., 217, Strand. Deputy-Chairman-GEORGE BERKELEY HARRISON, Eaq., 24, Great Tower-street, City. Humphrey Brown, Esq., M.P., Twining Park, Tewkesbury. James Clay, Esq., M.P., 25, Montagu-square. George Clive, Esq.,' Sanderstead Court, Croydon. Samuel Whitfield Daukes, Esq., 14, Whitehall-place, Westminster. Harvie Morton Farquhar, Esq , 16, St. James's-street. Alexander Greig, Esq., 10, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, The Han. Arthur Kinnaird, Pall-mall East. George Robert Paul, Esq., Portland Lodge, Worthing. Ban kers-Nlessrp. Strahan, Paul, Paul, and Bates, 217, Strand; • Messrs. Ransom and Co., Pall-mall East. Standing Coun,el-Henry Davison, Esq., Brick-court, Temple. ~„ Solicitors-Messrs. Fry and Holt, Walbrook House, C i ty. ourgeon__Baruard Wight Holt, Esq., F.R.C.S., 5, Parliament-street, Westminster. Secretary-Alexander Beattie, Esq. T his Company ha s been established for the purpose of affording co mpensation in cases of personal injury, and the payment of a cer tain sum in the event of death by railway accident. During the year just closed the following are the particulars of the claints that have been made on this Company by 37 persons who have sustained injury in travelling by railway :- No. 1. A holder of a periodical ticket, No. 5,091, met with an ac cident by falling off the platform at Preston, on the night of the Ist November. Adjusted by a payment of 71. Gs. No. 2. A mail guard, insured by a periodical ticket, No. 5,584, . Whilst travelling from Coatbridge to Perth, on the 29th November, having occasion to get out at the Stirling Station, he slipped between the platform and post-office van. The injury he sustained prevented him from attending to his duties till the 3d January. Awarded 201. No. 3. The holder of a periodical ticket, No. 5,396, whilst travel ling from Macclesfield to Manchester, on the 31st December, was thrown against a gentleman sitting oppasite to him, and received a blow on his face, which rendered him incapable of attending to his _business for a few days. His claim was settled by the Company pay ing at his r equest 5 guin eas to the Manchester Infirmary, the claimant eig i m a man. No. 4. A comercial traveller medica , l and holder of a periodical ticket, No. 16,880, met with an accident at the Thirsk Station of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, whilst about to proceed to New castle on the 24th of January. The injury consisted of a severe bruise of the thumb, caused by a porter shutting the door of the car riage, on his left hand, before he could take his seat ; the accident obliged him, after remaining a week at Newcastle, to return home from his journey, which he was unable to resume until February 11. Awarded 311. 10s. No. 5. The holder of a first-class ticket, issued at Leicester,Ja.nty 28, wa s a passenger is the train that ran off the rails between is- Worth and Wolverton ; he was thrown with great violence against another passenger, and the shock unfitted 4irn from attending to business for some days. Awarded 141. 14s. No. 6. The party in this instance is a clerk in the Travelling Post , offiee, and the holder of a periodical ticket, No. 5,474, and was se verely injured, especially In the face and eyes, by the collision of the mail with the goods' train, that occurred on the 13th February, near the Abingdon Station, on the Caledonian Railway. Awarded 2101. The injury to the eyes appearing to be of a permanent character. No. 'l. The holder of a single journey ticket was also a passenger in the same train. The claimant was about to proceed to New York, by the Canada, but the injury he received prevented him from doing so. Awarded 301. No. 8. The holder of a periodical ticket, No. 7,343, was injured by the collision between the passengers' and goods' train in the long tunnel in the Leeds and Bradford Railway, on the 18th February. Awarded 401. No. 9. A commercial traveller, holder of periodical ticket, No. • 16 . 8 51. was travelling by the mail train that left Newcastle at 4 P.M. on the 15th March for Manchester, and susta ned a severe shock by the engine running off the line near the Victoria-bridge. Awarded 101. No. 10. A Government officer and his wife were passengers by the bMail train that left Durham at halt-past four o'clock P.M. on 6th a by, which ran into an engine in the siding from the points not been properly set, near the Belmont Station of the York, New , Castle, and Berwick Railway, They were both much hurt by the collision. Awarded 351. No. 11. An engine-driver, whilst driving the engine of a goods' train on the 25th of May, between Blisworth and Wolverton, was thrown b•-neath the engine from the train coming in collision with a bale of cloth that had just fallen on the line from a passing train ; he Was much scalded and otherwise severely injured. Awarded 421. Claims 12 to 17 were made by parties who were travelling by the excurs on tea n on the 3d July from Leek and Macclesfield to Liverpool, the weight of which overpowered the breaks on entering the station. O. 12. The claimant, with his wife and mother-in-law, from Leek, second-class passengers, were all bruised. Awarded 61. , No. 13. A y oung woman from Leek, a th ird-class passenger, had her face hurt. Awarded 21. No. 14. A man and his wife, employed in the manufacture of s'lk, third-class passengers, were both sightly injured by the shock. Awarded 21. No. 1.5, A. passenger from Macclesfield had insured himself and family, six in number, th ree of w h om rece i ve d some i n j ur i es from t he Concussion. Awarded 51. ss. No. 16. A s.entleman holding a periodical ticket, No. 8,751, left Macclesfield in the above train, and was so shaken as to be inca pacitated from attending to his business for a few days. Awarded 6/. No. 17. A secend•class passenger from Macclesfield was severely injured about the spine and neck, which still confines her to her room. No. 18 and 19. These claims were made by two gentlemen, holders of periodical tickets, employed in the railway post-office, and travelling by the mail train that left the Euston Station on the evening of the 6th of July, and ran into some waggons of a goods' train, proceeding on the same line, near Harrow. One of them sprained the muscle of his back, and the other was thrown against tke corner of the post-office, breaking one of his ribs, and being otherwise injured. Claims No. 17, 18, and 19. are in course of adjustment. No. 20. he claimant and his wife were third-class passengers by the same train ; he escaped with a few bruises, bu: his wife was Much injured. Awarded 151. From the accident that occurred to the excursion train at Vow lairs, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, on the Ist August, When six persons wore deprived of their lives, and many others in jured, the following claims have arisen : No. 21. A termer from Dubheads, near Crief, was hurt about the head and face. Awarded 61. No. 22. A carpenter from Auchterarder, received a b'ow in the head. Awarded 41. 'No. 23. A farmer from Strathallen, was also hurt about the head. Awarded 5/. and No. 24. A drap er f rom A uchterarder, was injured about the thigh side. Awarded 3/. 3s. No. 25. ribs. A man. front Auchterarder, was severely bruised about the No. 26, A brother to the abeve was slightly injured. Awarded '2/. 2s. A N0 . 2 7. A female was bruised, and otherwise internally hurt. atiled 6 1. No Avraid2eBd.2Al.n2ost.her female was injured about the chest and side. 29.. A loan, from Auchterarder, was slightly injured. 3() A f armer, from Tulliebardine, was seriously bruised. claims2s, 29, and 30 are in course of adjustment. In most of the above cases the sum awarded is exclusive of the Medical expenses incurred by the sufferers which have been defrayed by this Company, in addition to that of their own medical officers. Who promptly visited the injured parties on hearing of the accident. The utility of such a Company IC demons trated by these cases, and the conviction that the premiums which the railway traveller Pays are but a small addition to the cost of his journeys, and create a Mild for the relief of those who from time to time suffer by railway accidents, which no human f.)resight can prevent, will it is hoped secure the public support to this Company. Table of Premiums. Table for a Single Journey, irrespective of distance, to Insure 1,000/. in a first-class carriage, at a premium of 3d. 5001. in a second ditto ditto 2d. 2001. in a third ditto ditto Id. ?or the convenience of frequent travellers, the Company also issues periodical tickets, to insure 1,000/. far one month, at a pre- I t nlurn of 33. ; for three months, 10s. ; for six mon, Its. ; for W elve months, 205., with th e opt i on of travelling in ths any class car nage, and in any railway in the kingdom. These tickets may be obtained at the stations of most of the rail `rays in England and Scotland, of the provincial agents of the Com- IssrlY, and at the Company's office, 3, 0.01 Broad-street, London. ARGYLL SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great Windmill -street, St. James's. Open every Evening with Laurent's celebrated and unrivalled Principal Cornet-a-piston, Mona. BOULCOURT, from Paris, and Artiste Attache to Mr. Strauss's Orchestra at the Baths of Vichy, ' , ranee. The Subscribers are respectfully informed that Mr. Laurent, jun., having become Lessee to the above Rooms, begs to announce his in tern:in of applying to the Honourable Magistrates for a Licence to the same Rooms, and, If granted, he will give CONCERTS of a very superior description, in conjunction with his Dancing Academy. Mr. Laurent, jun., solicits the patronage of the subscribers and nobility In this new undertaking, pledging himself strenuously to cater for their amusement, and hopes to deserve a continuance of that liberal I MPPOrt which has hitherto been bestowed on this distinguished and popular establishment. Terms of Subscription:—Six months, 51..55.; one month, 11.1 s.; one evening, is. Doors open at H a lf- pas t Ei ght, Dancing commences at Nine pre cisely, closing at Half-past Eleven. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster - row ; Carvaiho; 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or direct from the author , price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d. EIVOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time." CONTINTB :—Early Rising —Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex enrsions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills 'trips and Forests, Fields, High- roads, and other pleasant places—Country —Music— Ramble s — The Sea—London at Ni g ht—E vening. at Home The Drama —On Eating D zest, Ease, O ccupation, Drinking Sleeping, B a thi ng , A l; &c., &c. . FRAGMENTS FROM TIF . MOUNTAINS. Two Vols. A VISIT TO THE LAKES; sx.ETCHLOF EDINBURGH, ik Vol. 11. o. THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, Br,c. 111. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. "That three store years and ten o ur course may ran." p•pular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses the yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em- Miters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physi ca l ragu. lAtlon of every -day life. IT. THE PASSIONS. - ----- --- " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." ?Money : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent ofthe passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, aad reznediative. Advocacy of early marriages. V. THE MARRIAGE STATE. " To be or not to be, that is the question." PROGRAM:ft "Laws and obligations of nature, society, and Ta li ion reongarding ma rriage, to be observed by eith e r sex . Ti me an d eb.oice, both sides, RI to age, temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physizm defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. &c. (111248 y R. T. .T. cULV E RWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R . C .S. (1527), L.S.A. ) eve Years Medical and Forensic Referee in theBo ttan• Reception hears daily till dm Eventing, saran till nine. lt,AisrUlLece, Regent-stre4t, Reed, Andrew, Rev., P.D. (Hon. Secretary to the Asylum for Idiots), Poultry Richardson, Henry F., Esq., F.L.S. (Founder of the British Bunn cent Society), 9, Lincoln's Inn-fields Rowden, tha Rev. Dr., Temple-grove, East Sheen Rowland, Lieut.-Colonel (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society), Woolwich Shed len, Alexander, Esq. (Secretary to the Middlesex Hospital), Charles-street *Solomon, Samuel, Esq. (Secretary to the Jews' Hospital), 5, Houndsd itch Soul, Joseph, Esq. (Secretary to the Orphan Working School), 32, Ludgate-hill *Stone, David Henry, Esq. (Hon. Secretary to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest), 6, Liverpool-street Street, W. Jesse, Esq. (Member of the Committee of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution), Lincoln's Inn-fields Talbot, the Right Hon. the Earl, Park, Old Brompton Tapster, S. E., Esq. (Hon. Secretary to the Hotel and Tavern Keepers' Provident Institu'ion), Craven-street Tett, Charles, Esq. (Secretary to the Choral Fund Society), Polygon, Clarendon-square Thornton, lloyes, Esq. (Hon. Secretary to the Hospital for the Cure of Diseases of the Skin), 25, New Bridge-street Twining, it., Esq. (Treasurer of the Public Dispensary, Line Inn), Strand Watts, Francis, Esq., F.S.A. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society), I, Warwick-square, Pimlico Wire, Mr. Under-Sheriff, Swithin's-lane *Wood, George Watson, Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society), Victoria-square, Pimlico Wood, John, Esq. (Treasurer of the Royal General Dispensary, Al derogate), 8, Falcon-square Wright, the Rev. T. P., M.A. (Hon. Secretary to the London Orphan Asylum), Dalston Those marked with asterisks form the Acting Committee. Treasurers —B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., and John Labouchere, Esq. Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Messrs. Twining; and Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. The Members of the Committee are anxious to collect such an amount of subscriptions as will enable them to raise that description of monument which will do equal justice to their own feelings and to the many exemplary virtues of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Cambridge. The above-named bankers and gentlemen are c, Ming to receive subscriptions; and Mr, John Smart, the only authorised collector, will wait on such parties as may be desirous of contributing to this national object. By order. EDW. FREDK. LEEKS, Honorary Secretary. 2, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, August 22, 1850. FRIMLEY, TUESDAY.—The proceedings of the coro ner's inquest in this mysterious murder, which stood adjourned from Tuesday last, were resumed to-day. The interest connected with the affair, as may be supposed, had in no degree abated in the meantime. The village was visited by many parties from the neighbourhood anxious to be present at the proceed ings, and the crime which had been committed was the theme of general conversation. No new facts have been allowed to transpire beyond those that have been already published, which, it must be admitted, are not of a very conclusive nature so far as they tend to implicate those persons now in custody ; but the police-officers who have charge of the case are very sanguine as to their being able to connect all the mi nute circumstances which have been allowed to trans pire with the prisoners, and trace home to them a guilty knowledge of the deed. In the meantime, it seems as if there was some want of a controlling power with regard to the inquiry. It has been already stated that there is no rural police in Surrey, and one con sequence of this has been that no one appears to be charged with the sole and exclusive management of the case. There are three parties acting, each inde pendent of his neighbours. The first on the scene of the murder, and not the least active throughout the whole inquiry, was Mr. Biddlecombe, superintendent of the small police force in the town of Godaltning. Sergeant Kendall, of the metropolitan police force, was dispatched from Scotland-yard, as soon as intern • gence of the murder arrived there ; and, besides these, there is Mr. Ilolliuton, superintendent of the police in the borough of Guildford (the town nearest to Frim ley), and who apprehended the prisoners. Between these three there is no more concert than their own good sense and zeal for the ends of justice dictate to, each ; and it is hardly possible but that some little jealousies, or at least emulation as to who shall derive the greatest credit from the affair, should creep in, and to that extent prevent co- operation. There is the further evil arising from the want of a county police, that both Biddlecombe and Hollinton have the affairs of their own special districts to attend to, and cannot give their undivided attention to the investigation of this affair. An instance of the inconvenience which may be expected from this arrangement occurred at the coroner's inquest to-day, when Hollinton, though a most important witness, was not forthcoming before , the coroner, having been detained, it was said, by the investigation of a robbery which occurred the night before in Guildford. We may mention here what we ommitted to state on Saturday last, that Mr. Neale, solicitor in Guild ford, presented himself befor the magistrates on Fri day, as attending the examination on behalf of the prisoners, and that the magistrates denied his right to appear in that capacity, and refused to permit him to remain during the examination. Since then Mr. Neale applied to have an interview with the priso. ners, in order to prepare their defence, and was again refused. We understand that he appealed to the Home-office, and that he has received an official com munication, to the effect that he cannot be permitted to see the prisoners until after they shall have been committed, if the present inquiry should issue i❑ such a decision. There was, therefore, no appearance for the pri soners at the coronor's inquest to-day, nor were the prisoners themselves brought forward. But some time before the appearance of the coroner, the room in which the inquest was to be held was crowded with parties anxious to hear what further evidence was to be adduced, and among these we noticed Mr. Burrell. lord of the manor of Frimley ; the Rev. Sir Henry Dukinfield, Bart.; Mr. Tickell, Frimley, &c. Mr. W. Holiest, younger brother of the deceased, and clerk to the magistrates of the district, was in the village, and had a private interview of soma length with the police officers, but he did not attend the in- quest. _ _ _ - The jury having answered to their names, The CORONER said it must be quite fresh in their recollection that at the inquest on Tuesday last they had taken some preliminary evidence, which tended to attach suspicion to three, or rather to two out of three, individuals then in custody. Since they had met an active inquiry had been going on, minute researches bad been made by the police officers, and other additional evidence had been procured. A fourth person was now in custody, against whom strong circumstancea of suspicion had transpired. He apprehended, from the information given to him by the police officers, that it was hardly possible for them to conclude the inquiry that day. That though there were several witnesses to be examined who would give evidence that tended to throw suspicion on dif ferent parties, still he thought there would hardly be aufficient to justify the jury in returning a direct verdict of guilty against any one. There were two courses open for them—one was, if the evidence was not sufficient to implicate any one, to return a general verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. But if the evidence, in their opinion, tended to attach suspicion to any parties, they were bound fully to investigate the matter, and to go into the whole in quiry. It was as much within the province of the coro ner's jury, in cases such as the present, to inquire into all the circumstances, and to take the evidence, before returning their verdict, as it was the duty of the magistrates to do so before committing prisoners for trial. Now, as the witnesses were not present to day, and as he thought the present evidence was not sufficient to justify a verdict, though he thought it not improbable that other circumstances would yet tran spire which would render the matter clearer, be pro posed that they should now take the evidence of one or,two of the officers who had the matter under their charge, and then he would suggest that they should adjourn the inquiry to a future day. Sergeant Kendall was then addressed by the Co roner without being sworn, and stated that he had been engaged in the inquiry since Tuesday last ; that circumstances had transpired to attach suspicion to certain parties, and that there was some clue to fur ther evidence, which would be forthcoming at another day if the inquest were adjourned till that time. He further suggested that Mr. Biddlecombe's evidence should be first taken, as he was first on the spot after the murder. W. H. Biddlecombe was accordingly sworn. He said, I am superintendent of police at Godaltning. On Saturday, the 28th September, I was directed by the magistrates to come to Frimley ; and about five in the evening I examined the house of the Rev. George Holiest. I found that an entrance had been effected by breaking a pane of glass in the scullery window, and then, by boring a quantity of holes with a centre bit or other instrument, to enable the person to remove an iron bar that was fastened to the wood work. On examining the scullery door, I found that two holes had been boxed in the frame of the door, Ellen Valler—l am a single woman, and was in the service of the late Mr. Holiest. I had been with him for sixteen years as a servant of all work. There was another female servant, and a man servant. The name of the other female servant was Elizabeth Tanner. On Friday, the 27th September, I went to bed about eleven o'clock, the same time as Mrs. Hol lest. Elizabeth Tanner had gone to bed earlier. We both sleep in the same room. Before going to bed I had seen that all the doors and windows were fastened. This was a little before ten o'clock. My mistress and I were the last persons out of bed. I was in the scullery between nine and ten o'clock. I did not look at the window. Elizabeth Tanner fastened the scul lery-door, and I bolted the inner door leading from the kitchen to the dining-room. The bolt , s on the side of the dining-room. I also fastened the door leading from the dining-room to the front passage. The bolt was on the passage side. There are two bed -ro om floors in the house. I slept on the upper bed-room flo o r. The window of our bed-room looks to the side of the house, to the east side. I was disturbed about three o'clock in the morning by the firing of a gun or pistol, and screaming. I know the time, because when I came down stairs I looked at the clock. The report and the screaming were both in the house. I got out of bed and unlocked the door. My fellow servant rose at the same time. I met the man servant at the bottom cf the stairs; he was coming for me. He said that master was shot, and that thieves were in the house. I went up stairs again to my master's room. There was a door on the land ing, which I found fastened. Either my master or mistress opened it directly. They were both stand ing at the top of the stairs when it was opened. I saw blood on my master's night-dress. I looked be low the bed, and in the n ext room, to see if any per son was left, as master said he was not sure that all were out. On Saturday morning I found as many as five pieces of green baise lying in the parlour, and gave them up to Biddlecombe. [The Coroner here remarked that these had not been produced.] They were small round pieces ; and in the bed-room over had srn allpiece of black silk, very been wrapped in it. In the of cotto n h an dk e rchief. I g t k h ir t e ecah k s e i y t n, c kitchen es found fu l an f d o c u a an n d d Ipe a i e e gave all these to Biddlecombe. I afterwards saw where the window had been broken. I saw nothing of any men about the house. CORONER — Did you find any pieces of paper? Wit ness—Oh, yes ; I found some pieces lying down by master's bed, near the fi rep l ace, which i s very near the bed. They looked as if they had been pieces of match paper. I gave th ese also up t o the police. I also picked up a gun cap outside the bedroom door on last Friday afternoon, when I was sw eeping The cap was split, as if i t h a d b een ex ploded. I think 1 had swept this all th roug h the b e droom over the carpet. I gave it t o M r. IVilli am Holiest. I went into my master's b e d room d i rec tly be opened M the door to me. the room. Y master went into bed directly. My master used to have the curtains drawn on the side of the bed, but not a t t h e f oo t. I cannot a say how the curtains were that n i g h t, as I wa s in such state of confusion. I thi n k t h e cu rtains were un drawn, but I cannot speak pos i t i ve ly. In answer to the CORO NER , Sergeant Kendall stat e d t h a t there were no. other material witnesses pres en t, b ut t h a t he expected, at a future time, to produ ce ot h er ev id enc e, which would throw more light on the transaction. The room was th en c l eared, an d a fter a few minut es spent in deliber a ti on b etween t h e Coroner and th e jury, it was announced that the further proceedings of the inquest was a dj ourne d till Tuesday, the 22d inst., at half-past ten o'clock. ROBBERIES. charges pr e f erre d THE LIVERPOOL pLATE an d Martin Maguire, of a ra g n a g in e s m t en w ts ill t i h a e m hearing LIVERPOOL, TUESDAM—Accord in g to p rev ious Br . the u g ley of Liverpool, for having stolen a quantity of plate from the chapel and house of the Rev. James Fisher, of Great Crosby ; and a l s o a furth er q uan tity of plate from the residence of Mrs. Finley, of Hill-street, Toxteth-park ; and the case ag a inst Mr. T. C. Sirrell, Of 54, Barbican, London, silversmith, &c., for felo niously receiving the said plate, knowing it to be stolen, was heard by the county magistrates, at the Central Police-office, High-street, this afternoon. The affair excited much interest ; there were, there fore, a large number of persons present, and a pretty extensive muster of the most noted " prigs" in Liver pool. The following mag istrates m were on the bench ; chairan J. R. Thenkstone, J. T. Bourne, R. Neilson, and J. Rosson, E , luires. The prisoners, who have been confined in Rirkdale since Friday, were placed at the bar shortly after eleven o'clock. Mr. Sirrell was defended by Mr. Lewis, of London, s olicitor; and M'Auley and Maguire by Mr. Simon, barrister, who was instructed by Mr. Wheeler, of Liverpool. The first case t a ken was that preferred against Mr Sirrell, for receiving t h e plate, knowing it to be stolen, and APAuley for stealing the same. Mr. Dowling, the barrister, and Commissioner of the Liverpool Police, •who has been appointed by the Town Council a public prosecutor, conducted the prosecution. He first called Ann Smith, who is servant to the Rev. J. Fisher. She proved that on the 29th ult. she locked all the doors and bolted the windows of her master's house, at about half-past six o'clock. She then left the house and returned next morning, when she found the doors opened, and also observed that the house had been robbed. She missed a pair of silver sugar-tongs, and some silver table and tea- SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY AND RIVER DUN COMPANY. At the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL and also SPECIAL MEET ING of Shareholderss, held at the Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, on Satur day, 31st August, 1850, Lord WIIARNCLIFFE in the Chair, The Secretary read ties advertisement convening the meeting. On the motion of the Chairman, the Common Seal of the Com pany was affixed to the Register of Shareholders. The Secretary read the Report. On the motion of the Chairman it was resolved— That the Report now read be received and adopted, and printed for circulation amongst the Proprietors. That the forfeiture of the following Shares declared by the Direc tors be confirmed, and that such Shares be disposed of by cancelling the same : Frogs To Shares. From Shares. 145 .. 289 .. 145 9160 .. 9253 .. 94 11375 .• 11384 .. 10 22217 •• 22263 47 23077 .. 23086 .. 10 33021 .. 33028 .. 8 13920 .. 13959 .• 40 13980 .. .. 1 35090 .. 35124 .• 35 3 , 208 .. 35224 .. 17 11880 .. 11907 .. 28 20544 .. 20553 .. 10 12734 .. 12747 .. 14 7394 .. 7399 .. 6 20554 .. 20558 .. 5 12780 .. 12792 .. 13 13045 .. 13068 .. 24 13125 .. 13180 .. 56 13292 .. 13296 .. 5 32998 .. 33006 .. 9 7400 .. 7419 .. 20 19418 .. 19437 .. 20 18284 .. 18293 .. 10 17216 .. 17229 .. 14 21548 •• 21594 .. 47 32750 .. 32758 .. 9 33195 .. 33214 .. 20 18294 .. 18340 .. 47 86168 .. 36188 .. 21 14545 .. 14554 .. 10 2050 •• 2072 .. 23 35771 .. 35802 •• 32 33294 .. 33295 .. 2 14682 .. 14691 .. 10 36520 .. 36553 34 36568 .. 36644 .• 77 33739 .• 33754 .• 16 6045 .. 6143 99 6144 .. 6167 •• 24 19186 .. 19190 .. 5 21283 .. 21294 12 34011 •• 34044 .. 34 32598 .. 32611 .. 14 19392 .. 19417 .. 26 6929 .. 6951 .. 23 5740 .. 5789 .. 59 19438 .. 19520 83 22987 .. 22996 .. 10 32729 .. 32735 .. 7 13429 .. 13843 15 7041 .. 7045 .. 5 9100 .. 9101 .. 2 32496 .. 32500 .. 5 22174 .. 22192 19 7932 .. 7952 .. 21 9274 .. 9278 .. 5 7468 .. 7514 .. 47 36459 .. 36485 .. 27 37394 .. 37404 .. 7 9767 9771 .. 5 10140 .. 10149 10 36189 .. 36208 .. 20 11974 .. 11978 .. 5 12579 .. 12718 .. 140 36445 .. 36451 .. 7 3354 .. 3400 .. 47 14001 .. 14036 .. 36 36747 .. 36760 1 4 1093 .. 1107 .. 15 1284 .. 1297 .. 14 3589 1598 • • 10 1713 1729 .. 17 14435 • • 14444 10 14469 .. 14487 •• 4 19 17603 17612 • • 10 33029 • • 33'50 • • 22 33916 • • 33962 .. 47 1839 .. 1862 • • 24 17994 .. 18059 .• 66 22316 .• 22329 .. 14 32759 .• 32997 .. 239 33300 .• 33322 .. 33 33376 .• 33380 •• 21838 .• 21856 .. 19 34065 • - 34078 .. 14 31311 • • 32248 •• 938 5015 •• 5435 •• 421 5949 ......2 • • • 24 14876 .. 14899 • • 24 33902 • • 33908 .. 7 5974 5993 •• 20 6364 .. 6385 .. 22 6655 • 6688 •. 34 6890 .. 6918 • • 29 19191 .. 19260 .. 70 21239 •• 21282 •• 24 34079 .. 34132 .• 54 7096 .. 7283 • • 188 7308 • • 7330 •• 23 7336 • • 7315 • • 10 7318 .. 7357 • • 10 19359 .. 19392 .. 24 7284 • • 7307 .. 24 7360 .. 7393 • • 34 37311 .. 37328 • • 18 19521 • • 19569 .. 49 14579 • • 14588 .. 10 19261 .. 19267 • • 7 17846 • • 17848 .. 3 8063 8147 • • 85 8255 .. 8348 • • 94 19664 • 19687 •• 24 23021 .. 23063 .. 43 9654 .. 9678 • • 25 21397 • • 21420 .. 24 33799 • • • • 1 36997 • • 37042 .. 47 9644 •• 9712 •• 29 19757 .. 19786 .. 39 22193 •• 22202 .. 10 13606 • 13661 • • 56 36924 • • 36950 •• 27 10456 • • 10470 .. 15 16706 • • 16737 .• 32 20333 • • 20374 .. 37 33800 .. 33807 .. 8 35808 .. 35922 • • 115 36645 .. 36664 • • 20 10586 10.595 .. 10 11075 •• 11151 .. 77 11182 •• 11195 14 That a Dividend, at the rate of 6/. per. cent, per annum, from the 23d January to the 19th April last, be now declared, and also that a Dividend, at the rate of 21. per cent, per alumn i be declared from the 20th April to the 30th June, 1850. SPECIAL MEETING. The Meeting was then made special. • Moved by the Chairman, and carried unanimously, That the Directors be authorised to raise, on Mortgage or Bo n d, a sum of money not exceeding one hundred thousand pounds. Moved by the Chairman, and seconded, That the Directors be authorised to create and issue such number of Additional Shares, to be denominated Navigation Shares, as shall be equal to 150 Shares of 201. each, in the Capital Stock of this Company, in respect of each Share in the River Dun Navigation ; and that the Company guarantee the payment of a dividend, after the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum, in preference to all dividends on the ordinary Shares of this Company, on such of the said Navigation Shares as shall be by the Proprietors accepted in lieu of the ordinary Shares of the Company, upon condition that such guaranteed Divi dend shall be in lien of all varying and other Dividends, until or un less such stock shall be redeemed by payment of 3,000/. for each 150 allotted Shares, according to the provisions of the Company's Act. Whereupon an amendment was proposed by Mr. Hadfield, and seconded by Mr. lloothroyd, That this meeting be adjourned for twelve months, to be held in Yorkshire. The Chairman put the amendment to the meeting, when fourteen voted in favour of it, and ten against. '1 lie amendment was declared to be carried. WHARNCLIFFE, Chairman. Oa the motion of air. Ironside, it was Resolved unanimously— That the thanks of the meeting ha given to the Chairman for his able conduct in the Chair, and for the fairness and candour of his explanations to the meeting. J. CHARLES lIANDFIELD, Secretary. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar ker, illustrated by his own compositions, every Evening (excep t ." a. " turd ay ) at Ei g ht o ' clock.—Lecture on the Hydro-Electric-Electric Machine, by Dr. Ba c hh offner.—Lecture on Chemistry by J. H. Pepper, Esq., il lustrating the An c i en t Fiery Ordeal and the handling of Red Hot Metals.—Modelof Weston's * Patent Nova-3ietive Railway, at work daily. — Dissolving Views illustrating some of the Wonders of Na ture, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings at a Quarter to Ten; also a Se r i es, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic Regions and Ceylon, daily at Ono e'clock.—Diver and Diving-bell, &c., &c. Admission, lB.—Schools, Half-price. Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex cept Saturday) from Seven till Half-put Ten. ItAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, AND SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER, AND SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANIES.—It is rumoured in a quarter where accurate information generally circulates, that such a change is likely to take place in the management of the Shrewsbury and Birming ham Railway as will, in all probability, put an end s w it hc s e r iously ue i s t ot s i myrfoeuafna yffto traffi c, trethearteiot to the unfortunate dispute which has so long existed between that company and the authorities of the London and North-Western Railway. The necessity of some change in the policy of the two companies— the Shrewsbury and Chester and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham—who are associated in opposition against the London and North-Western Company, would appear to be self-evident from the fact published by us a few days since, viz., that the Shrews bury add Chester Company absolutely applied to the Court of Chancery for the committal to the Queen's Bench Prison of three of the London and North-Western directors, who, as members of the Chester general station committee, felt it to be their duty to oppose the measures advocated by their opponents belonging to the Shrewsbury and Chester acd Shrewsbury and Birmingham party. It is not to be expected that anything like an amicable arrangement can be entered into with persons who are actuated by so violent a personal spirit as would appear to have characterised some of the proceedings of the two northern companies. One of our contemporaries states this dispute will and great g t r h e e a t in crease cost the London and North-Western Company 50,0001. Our contemporary is mistaken. We should say 5,000/. at the outside. But whatever the loss to the London and North- Western Company, it will, c a 11 t u hgba s ees aihrobwa rates rumoured ea f o l y tep sa e aa asrnoarafltpoyi dividend. fv early reib they approaching balances a l d a ce n hn c idn e s. unfeltg pro prietors, w h i te the loss to the Shrewsbury and Ches ter and Shrewsbury and Birmingham Companies hsettlementango change Shrewsbury ianmdatuinhss and management a o f u rt destroying. I n e o tt o t hbee Shrewsburycorrect, property and a Birmingham nodf tt hhea that hsaushare holders eh. cchpCompany i c c h o w m i i is slpl WEST INDIA MAIL CONTRACT. The particulars of the mail contract, recently en tered into between the Ad miralty and the 'Vest India Steam Packet C om p an y, have just been printed and published by the Government. According to this document, the 'West India and Brazilian form one contract, which is to commence on the Ist of January next, and to last 11 years. The company are to provide 15 wooden steam-vessels; ten of them are to be of 400, four of 250, and one of 60 horse power. They are to provide also a sailing vessel of 100 tons burthen. All these vessels are to have lightning con ductors, and the commanders, and chief, and second officers, must have certificates of fitness from the Boara of Examiners appointed by Act of Parliament. None of the small vessels are to perform the Atlantic' service. The company are to receive 27,0001. a-year from Government, and the penalties to which they are liable are 50,0001. for non-performance of the con tract ; 5001. for not starting from Southampton at the proper time ; and 2001. for not starting from any other port. They are bound to vary, if required, the route of their vessels employed in the North And South Atlantic Oceans, between the latitudes of 27 degrees IS ortb, and 37 degrees South, and 20 degrees, and 97 degrees, 52 seconds, West longitude. They are to receive 9s. 10d. for every additional mile their vessels are required to perform in the course of a year beyond 547,296 nautical miles. They are bound to make improvements in the construction, equipments, and machinery of their vessels, as the advanced state of science may suggest. If the packet station is re moved from Southampton, they are to receive com pensation for the expense of removal, and for dimi nution of receipts. In case of war, they are to be paid extra—that is, in the event of increase of rate of insurance, and of the freight of coals. But the extra pay is not to exceed in one year 75,0001., nor are they to be paid for additional freight on more than 75,000 tons of coals annually. They are bound, if required, to convey as passengers on board eac h ship a limited number of officers in the navy, army, and civil service of her Majesty, and of non-commis sioned officers and soldiers, at reduced fares. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Another Proof of the Effi cacy of Holloway's Ointment and Pills for the Cure of Bad Legs.—Mrs. Mandeville, of Stretton, suffered for nearly three years with fearful sores in both legs. Notwithstanding the various medicines and treatment of which trial was made, the ulcerations grew worse, and for months s h e was una b le to stand. At length it was decided that Holloway's Ointment and Pills should be used, and these excellent medicines soon worked wonders, for in a few seeks all the wounds were healed, and the use of her leg so perfectly restored, that she is now able to walk several miles a day with ease.—Sold by all Vendors of Medicine, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. AN AMERICAN GAROMETER.—The Philadelphia Ledger states that the gasometer being put up at the Phila delphia gas works will be the largest in the world. It is built in the telescopic form, with two sections. The di mensions are one hundred and forty feet in diameter, by seventy feet in height, capable of containing one million cubic feet of gas• TIMES.—The French crusade against the great anonymous is assuming the ugly look of a struggle between matter and spirit. The press makes little resistance, hut the Government makes no way. All sorts of difficulties show themselves, not in the humour of the people, but in the operation of the law. It begins to be evident that the object of attack is too airy, too impalpable, too subtle and illusive, to be chained, or transfixed, or cloven, or crushed, or other wise subjected to the laws of matter. Countless ques tions arise. 'What is an article? What is a " discuss. siren ?'' What is en opinion ? What is a fact ? What is a signature ? What is an author ? Indeed, the troops are on the move before it is precisely un derstood what they are to attack. 'When tyros legis late they invariably substitute their intention for the actual process, and think that a motive makes a law. In the present instance the National Assembly have done little more than express their feelings ,against anonymous journalism. They certainly have not yet given effect to that feeling. They trust possibly to an assistance which even the most experienced and practical legislators occasionally are fain to depend upon ; namely, that the courts will supply the defects of the law, and put the new principle into working form. That is all very well when we are moving in the track of existing law, when we are dealing with things already recog nised, and when there are precedents to guide us ; for jurisprudence favours those that keep in the old paths. But the sample of legislation now before us is alto gether uncustomary i • it introduces new things into legal discussion, and demands new interpretations. In the first place, what is an article ? Does a black line—do two or three asterisks—does a total change of subject, destroy the unity of an article ? If a writer is not able in the hurry of composition, or by the habit of his mind, to arrange his thoughts in mechanical continuity, but throws them out in the form of "thoughts," though with a perceptible unity of subject, is he writing one article or a dozen ? On the other band, if a man gives a mechanical unity to his composition, and pours it out in one continuous paragraph, without break or halt, but begins with an indecent story from Lucian, proceeds to a criticism on the original text of -Job, glides off to Whigs, stock brokers, and Jews, and winds up with some corn-law statistics, is that one article merely because it is one paragraph? If we regarded only the subject, a strict interpretation of the French law would require only one signature in the former instance, and in the case of the multifarious gentlemen would insist that he should pause, and write his name at full length half a dozen times in the course of a half column. The Moniteur made several distinct statements on the au thority of the Attorney-General, with the name of that functionary only once expressed, and did not dream that it was breaking the law ' • nay, it daily repeated the offence till th e G aze tt e d e France pub lished Pewees diverses, separated by asterisks, with only one signature for the whole, and the National did something of the same kind. It then became evi dent that the law was evaded, and all the offenders have been called to account. But we need not look to the other side of the Channel for proof of the fact that there are people not so much ingenious at evad ing the rule of unity as incapable of observing it. There is also the conversational style, such as that of " Christopher North " in our northern contemporary. 'What is to hin der every variety of subject from being brought into a dialogue between two imaginary per sons, or more, if necessary ? The British public would recoil against the requirement of a signature to every little morsel of with--ta a pun, for example —not two lines long. Charivari is already ground to dust by this process. Again, what is to prevent the use of mouth-pieces ? We do not mean what somebody has called a go-to-prison editor, or any con• trivance of that obvious description. But there are men who habitually gather round them their juniors, or their inferiors, or peogle with less force of charac ter, and more easily moulded than themselves. Their fol,owers repeat their sentiments almost as faithfully as they could do it themselves. Socrates never wrote a word, but we know %abet he thought and felt on every possible subject of philosophical discussion. Boswell did Johnson more justice than Johnson did himself. We have frequently read arti cles in reviews which left no doubt of the im mediate inspiration to which they were in debted. The " Tinguy .Lahoulie amendment," as it is called, cannot touch this sort of influence. It can only extort the name of the man that holds the pen, though he may be little more than reporter to the real original. The moving spirit of the National or the Presse may go into the office of his journal every day, gather a set of young spirits about him, and set them all of a flame on some topic of the day. They will not be good for much if his facts, his images, his quotations, his antitheses, and a good many of his very expressions do not appear in the paper the next day. Everybody acquainted with the press knows that an article is often a condensed and perhaps a dry form of an animated conversation. Everybody knows, too, that many a good article is nothing more or less than a private letter, translated into the dialect of journalism. Now, how does the Tinguy-Laboulie amendment affect articles of this class, in which, by a natural and innocent process, the prompter and the writer are two different persons? The result will be that some young hand, or some ready writer, wholly un known to the public, will sign his modest name at the foot of the article, while the prompter will retain his incognito. If this is not already the case at Paris, things are in train for it. The old hands are lying by to wait for the event, and youngsters are supply ing their places for the time with tedious articles that are not the better for being owned. Paris wilt not stand this very long ; and if its chief political writers do not choose to comply with the new law, they will at least have to put more life into their proxies. Could we suppose the law to continue in force, and the signatures of well-known men regu larly appearing in the papers, it is evident that what the Government and the cause of order may gain in one respect they will lose in another. Journalists will write in a more guarded, but perhaps a more sarcastic, more allusive, and more telling style, than now. They will get into the way of con veying an impression, when they seem only to be stating a fact. They will learn the insi dious and powerful tone by the use of which so many writers of the last age succeeded in sapping the foundation of sound policy or religion, without leaving the censor one word to lay hold of—the style of Voltaire, of Hume, and of Gibbon. These men owned what they wrote, but they were not the less dangerous; and the two former at least were not the less shrouded. The difficulty of drawing a line, and possibly a wish,to appear impartial, have led to the prosecution of no less than six journals ; one of them a devoted Minis terialist. As usual, the most hostile amongst them affect a laudable desire to become acquainted with the law, but ask for some less inconvenient mode of in struction than a series of prosecutions, each elucidating some one mystery of the new law, but at the expense of a considerable fine, or worse penalty. It is sug gested, or rather demanded, that the Attorney- General should give practical lectures on the opera tion of the law, with examples of what a journal may do, and what it may not. In England this is certainly no part of the Attor ney-General's functions. The Evißeinent, how ever, has succeeded in extracting an opinion gratis, though there is some reason to apprehend that the opinion is a bad one. At all events, it is at variance with the proceedings taken against the six journals. In reply to questions from the Evenement, the Attorney-Ge neral is said to have given an opinion that a number of facts might be clustered together, with asterisks between them, and with only one signature below ; and also that the editor's signature would do for an article prepared at his discretion by another hand, a responsible signature being all that the law desired. Such an opinion is so lax, so open to abuse, and so contrary to the line already taken by Government, that some people suspect an intention of backing out of the Tinguy-Laboulie amendment altogether. Whether there be such an intention or not, the result will probably be the same. The attempt to destroy the old position of the press, and to split it up into individual names, is too: serious an attack on its power and independence to be readily complied with. It will open a festering sore between the Govern ment and popular feeling, in which all the accidents and opportunities of the quarrel will be in favour of the latter. CHRONICLE.—The Journal des Debuts, of two or three days since, made a very true remark the foundation of a singularly false conclusion. After observing that English jurisprudence clings servilely to the letter of the law, and that the legists of France make it their. business to discover its spirit, the writer proceeded to infer that the new enactment against the Press would be absolutely intolerable in London, while, under an equitable application of its provisions, it might possibly be endurable in Paris. We leave the controversy, as to the abstract merits of the English and French systems, with the hint, that each might borrow with advantage from the characteristics of the other; but we must express our strong dissent from the notion that a law requiring the signature of articles in a journal would operate with greater severity in England than in France. It might be urged, with much greater plausibility, that such a law would be a mere dead letter in the English z - statute•book. We d4ot mean to say *ha t any great difficulty would be experienced in compelling the ap pearance of the English newspapers with a Christian and surname attached to each article or paragraph; but we are quite unable to see what guarantee could be provided of the authenticity of the signature, or in what manner the affiliation 'of an article or an indi vidual guiltless of its production could be brought home to the real or to the putative parent. Will any one suggest to us the form of an Act of Parliament which should enforce the signature of the right article by the right man ? How would the draftsman attain his purpose unless he were to invent a machinery so inquisitorial that in no state of public opinion, how ever exceptionally morbid, it would for a moment be tolerated; and unless be were to reverse what are now the settled first principles of English jurisprudence in arranging the procedure on the indictment of a sup posed offender ? The security of English journalists, against a blow imitated from M. de Tinguy's amend ment, rests much less on anything in the temper of English lawyers, than on the potency of certain maxims which have not only forced themselves into our law, but which are engrafted upon the character of our people and have b e come neces s ities of th e i r fashion of thinking. The merciful axiom of our jurls prudence which throws the burden of proof on the prosecution, and which shields the accused by the presumption of innocence, would conclusively defeat an attempt to wring the secret of authorship from an unwilling writer. It is a safeguard for which we have no peculiar reason to thank either the wisdom of our ancestors or the clemency of our legists. It is simply the result of painful experience. The English nation has suffered much at the hands of its Governments ; and upon its emancipation from each successive stage of tyranny, it has extempo rized a new rule to protect it against the recurrence of the latest of its wrongs. But the French codes have always appeared to us to be constructed on the principle that Governments are necessarily and per petually beneficient. The annoyance from which the French journals are just now suffering is a direct consequence of the very characteristic;,of French ju risprudence on which the Journal des Dibats seems disposed to set an overweening value. An undue disregard of the letter, from a pretended respect to the spirit, not only governs the interpretation of laws in France, but affects legislation most injuriously. The habit of couching enactments in vague and loose phraseology, which flows immediately from it, make Judges occasionally oppressive and senators always careless. The spirit of M. de Tinguy'a amendment demands the annoyance of French journalism. The letter requires the signature of all " articles of discussion" by their author. One of the law officers, taking the spirit, we pr esu m e , as hi s gu id e to the letter, has construed " articles of discussion" to mean articles in which conclusions are drawn from facts. Can this learned person have reflected on the true scope of his definition ? On examining the double sheet which forms our yesterday's impres sion, we have made up our minds that, in about two thirds of the matter imprinted on it there are to be found conclusions inextricably connected with facts. If the rule were to be inexorably applied, it is incre dible what difficulty the most innocent-looking para graph would have in 4scaping from it. The corre spondent who informs us of the continued fineness of the weather in the north of Scotland, and thence infers that her Majesty will be able to carry out her intention of travelling from Balmoral on October 10, draws a conclusion, and must sign. Not even our obituary would be safe. We caught sight, the other day, of a notice which, after stating that a lamented lady had lived in the charity and died with the aspi rations of a Christian, went on to presume that she was in the enjoyment of celestial bliss. The afflicted writer would have to authenticate his hopes by his signature. Why, our very advertisements would have to be penned like a special verdict. Our appreciation of the purely material obstacles which forbid the imposition of similar restrictions in England, has hitherto kept us aloof from a contro versy into which one or two of our contemporaries have plunged with considerable zest and zeal. We believe that a measure analogous to the new French law would be utterly impracticable on our side of the Straits, and any interest we may feel in the questions it raises is therefore exclusively speculative. But we still adhere to the opinion which we early expressed, that M. de Tinguy a legislation is vicious in princi ple, and nothing that we have read from English pens French journals are hostile to the change with out an exception—has materially modified our im pressions. We may be permitted to pass by the amusing assertion which has been hazarded in one quarter, that an enactment of the description in ques tion would be perfectly innocent, since every respec table English journalist is as well ascertained by the tone of his articles as if he actually signed them. In fact, this argument puts us to the painful alternative of either disclaiming our own respectability, or forget • Ling the ionttmerable mystifications which have been practised cn the public, as to the authorship of our productions. The residue of the apologies recently advanced—we may mention that an evening contem porary has arrayed then' with great skill—revolve themselves into the single position which M. de Tin guy developed in the French Assembly, that society, as against the journalist, has a right to some security for the good faith and wholesome morality of the counsel which he supplies. 'The safeguard demanded is supposed to be found in the publicity given to his name. But, under the existing system, the public has a far higher and surer guarantee at its command than the prohibition of secrecy. It has the same re medy which it wields against the dealer who offers it vitiated sugar or spurious tea. Card emptor. Den% buy the newspaper whose principles you suspect. If you point to examples of perfidy or ruffianism in the English press the answer is the success of those who openly vend the deleterious matter. Society can have no right to a higher standard of taste or morality than the one which it continues to patronize. A more spe cious form of the same objection occurs when it is urged, that to be emancipated from the restraints of public opinion is good for no man, however brilliantly endowed and however naturally upright. There is, of course, much weight in the argument when put nakedly, and we acknowledge that it would be most difficult to answer it, if it were certain that society would visit nothing or, the journalist but the sins of his pen. But would the vigilant enemies of the man who should step forward as the general vAius content themselves with exposing his illogicalities and rebuking his injustice P One writer is ill-tempered. Another is ill-born. Another is unhappy in his domestic, relations. These are features tar more salient than inaccuracies of thought or style, and who can doubt for a moment that they are those of which the mass of mankind would be sure to lay hold ? Whenever the Wbigs felt themselves particularly stung by the eloquence of Canning, they went about repeating that he was the son of a play. actress—and there used to be a tradition that, after a peculiarly brilliant speech, a paper to this effect was always wafered up over the fire-place at Brookes's. The truth is, that in a society like ours, with its multiplicity of conventional deco rums and its hierarchy of grades, public opinion would allow a journalist to be discredited for a hundred faults which have nothing to do with his capacity for giving advice. It is idle to object that, if this were true, the members of the Legislature might as well hold their tongues. Parliament is respectable, be cause it makes laws and enforces them. We of the Press are a Parliament whose proceedings are all speeches, and our present system affords our best security for gaining a hearing. O'CONNELL'S GRAVE. The following letter appears in a morning paper of yesterday, in reference to an article copied from a Cork paper : _ _ _ " Sir,:--In your paper of this morning an allusion is made to my father's burial-place at Glasnevin ; and it is stated, on the faith of some nameless Excur sionist,' that the attendant or guide bad said that, until certain monies were paid, the coffin should not be al lowed to be removed. " The very ingenious argument of the writer of the article proceeds to enlarge on this text. Unfortu- nately, like many other ingenious lucubrations, it has no foundation in fact ; and .the Excursionist' must have either misunderstood what was said, or wilfully misled the author of the article. The statement of a servant should, I submit, not be taken as authority in most matters; and, in justice to the employers of that servant, it might have been well to have ascertained the correctness of his statement. " I shall content myself by simply contradicting such statement. The Cemetery Company, no doubt, will take proper measures to prevent mistakes on the subject in future. "It is unfortunately too much the habit in this country to form conclusions on Irish matters upon in sufficient evidence, and upon none bas the custom been followed more exactly than the present. "I have the honour to be, Sir, yours, &c., " MAURICE O'CONNELL. " Reform Club, Oct. 7." [ADVERTISEMENT.] l'he further examination of the parties suspected of the Frimley murder will take place on Saturday, which will enable the Observer of Sunday, Oc tober 13, to give the fullest particulars, and all other matters connected with this atrocious affair. The Observer, of Octo ber 6, gave nearly four columns of the murthr, including edi torial remarks. The extensive publication of the Observer commences on Sunday mornings at four o'clock, in time for all the Sunday morning railways. Monday's edition at four Monday afternoon. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY, OCT. 8. —The dulness which for a few weeks has pervaded our market, is in no way abated to-day. Still, if anything, there is a slightly better feeling, and prices are maintained with , g l r s e i r a t . li ß ri u u s u e e :s s, a i r n e c h o o n w se e q v u e r e . n u c en unwilling, e o x f t e h p e t v e i r c e e s p r b e y s t i n h g e orders comitel them, to accede to the present rates, in the hope of a change in the appearance of the cotton crop. Th e finer qualities of yarns, 50's upwards, both mule and water, are most in request, and purchases have been made to a fair amount. Fine printers and Madapollams are largely on hand, and prices are barely supported. Shirtiuss command a m derate amount of business at the firm pima cutreat dull; the pot fortuight. - . . ff °