The Sun. — London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night :—] GERMANY. - • A letter from Frankfurt of the 22d states that a (levitation of the American, English, and Frankfort Committees of the Peace Congress went the day be fore to Cologne, to receive the visitors expected from America and England. These new arrivals, to the number of between 400 and 500, arrived the same evening at Frankfort. About 2,000 cards of admis sion to the Congress bad been issued. The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Ber lin of the 20th, stating that the day before a Cabinet Council was held there, at which the King presided. " Prussia," the letter says, " consents to enter into a negotiation, having for object to effect an arrangement between the two great powers of Germany, but she will not re cognise, either directly or indirectly, the restricted federal council, nor the re-establishment of the Ger manic Diet. She h as f orma lly re f use d t o accede to theinvitation to send a minister to the restricted council, and the other states of the union will follow her example. Prussia will treat only with Austria and her allies ; and it will be necessary, therefore, before a negotiation can be entered on, that Austria renounces the idea of putting down the union." The Independance of Brussels has the following un der date of Berlin, 21st :—" It was understood yester day, in a general though rather vague manner, that the Ministry, in a Cabinet Council of the 19th, had decided on opposing a formal refusal to the invitation of Austria with regard to the restricted Diet. Prussia shows herself inclined to enter into the neutral com mission under reserve of the unitary consequences which may result from it. The news is confirmed to-day, and further details added. The reply to. Austria was not perhaps definitively decided on the day before yesterday. To-day there is to be a fresh meeting of the Council. In addition to the reserve I have above mentioned, Prussia appears to demand that Austria should explain herself on the composition of the neutral commission. The dispatch of Prince Schwarzenberg is as obscure on this point as on many others. In the affair of the Baden troops the Council are also agreed. That was not difficult, Austria having accepted the propositions of Prussia on that subject. Oldenbourg and Cobourg wee each talked of as the arbitrator of Prussia in the affair, but the former is considered to be the most likely. Public attention has been much occupied during the last few days with an incident which has occurred. A private correspondence from Rendsburg, in the German Reform, represents things in the Duchies in such a gloomy and discou raging manner that an outcry was raised by all the press. The writer of the letter was discovered at Rendsburg, and proceedings immediately commenced against him. It was found that this correspondent, whose name is Isidor Helier, wrote at the s line time for the German Reform, the organ of the Cabinet of Berlin, the Free Press of the North, an ultra-demo cratic journal, and the Lloyd, the Ministerial journal of Vienna. A correspondence by the same person to j ournals of different political opinions is not an un usual thing in Germany, where people calling them selves political writers are not always overburdened with amour propre. In this case, however, a disre gard to 'acts and principles was carried rather too far. Count de Nesselrode has arrived at Stutgard. He is to proceed from Tessingen to Vienna. A letter from Cassel of the 19th states that M. de Shacten had just been charged by the Elector of Hesse-Cassel to form a new Ministry. THE CONGRESS AT WIESBADEN. The Stcle gives the following letter from Wies baden of the 20th, giving an account of the proceed ings of the Count de Chambord at that place : " Until noon no visitor is admitted. If any French man presents himself before that hour, the answer is that his Majesty is engaged. About one o'clock the doors are opened for presentations, which are almost exclu sively made by M. de Levis. The Prince approaches his visitor and interrogates him as to the political feeling of the department to which he belongs, and there is not one who does not eagerly declare that all the population of his department is Legitimatitt. This is the kind of information gives to the Count de Chambord. There are, however, some exceptions to this rule. On Thursday last an old officer of the ex-Royal Guard, when interrogated on the subject, raising his voice, replied, Monseigneur,l arrived here this morning, and I shall set off again in ten minutes. I came here on purpose to warn you that you are deceived. I belong to the department of the Oise. I have talked with the great majority cf the farmers, and I am sorry to confess to you that they are all against you.' These words caused a great emotion in the crowd of persons presents the Count de Chambord looked astonished, but he took the hand of the officer and shook it warmly. On the following day M. de Is Rochejaquelin, the rudest cham pion of an appeal to the people, who had come to dispute the lofty - nee of M. Berryer, suddenly lett Wit aAden, and left the field to his rival. This precipitate depar ture of M. de la Rochejaqueliu has produced a deep sensation in the ranks of the little French colony. Many persona are much discontented, but not daring to express their opinions to the Prince, they sneer at those around him. They accuse the old MM. de Levis, de Patoret, end some others of monopolising the Count de Chambord, of confiscating him for their own benefit, and of depriv ing him of all liberty of thought and action. Will you believe it,' said a young Legiematist to me on this subject, ' that his Royal Highness cannot even go and take a bath without M. de Levis taking a seat in the room with him?' tinder any circumstances, the cold reception given to M. de la Rochejaqualin proves that the fraction of young legitimatism is disavowed as well as its ordinary organs the Gazette de France and the Opinion Publigue. The Count de Chambord did not say a single word to M. de la Rochejaquelin on the subject of his last pamphlet, inti tuled L'Appel au Peuple, and the latter, astonished at this premeditated silence, took the liberty of asking the Prince what he thought of it. ' There are good things here and there in it,' was the reply. By that you mean, Monsigneur, that there are bad things in it,' observed M. de Larochejaquelin. ' Mon Dieu! I dared not avow it to you, but I think so,' remarked the Prince. Allow me, Monsigneur,' replied the author of the pamphlet, to view it in a different light from your Royal Highness.' ' Yon are at liberty to do so, Monsieur le Marquis,' drily replied the Count de Chambord, but France must really be a republic when a Larochejaquelin allows himself to differ in opinion from a Bourbon.' Such was the dismis sal given to M. de Larochejaquelin. Who after this will dare deny the salutary influence of pilgrimages? After the presentations come the private audiences ; these are readily granted "; but here again the inevitable Duke de Levis will be found to listen to all that is said, and take note of every word. M. de Levis plays in the monarchical comedy of the Hotel Durgenger the part of Banquo's ghost. A visitor arrives with the hope of speaking privately to the Count de Chambord, and ex pressing his opinions confidentially, when just as he begins to open his mouth the phantom of old etiqaette appears and freezes the words on his lips. At times it is said the Prince appears much annoyed at this ob. stinate determination not to let him he for a moment alone with a stranger, but he dares not hazard an obser vation, and submits in silence to the yoke of this mayor of the palace of royalty without a kingdom. The audiences generally continue until the dinner hour. There are covers every day laid for from twenty-five to thirty. The guests are carefully blended. The dresses of workmen who have come on a pilgrimage temper what the luxury of the blue ribbons spread over white waistcoats would make appear too aristocratic for a Court in partibus, which endeavours to make itself popular. Last evening there was much talk of a female Vendean peasant having been admitted to the royal table, and to whom the Prince had even condescended to offer his arm. I saw this woman at the theatre, and asked her what she thought of the Prince? Ah, Monsieur,' said she with delight, he is a saint that King; look at the present he male me;' drawing from within her dress some thing which had been suspended to her neck, and which proved to be a locket with a lock of hair of the Count de Chambord. She then replaced the locket in her bosom after kissing it several times with the greatest devotion. Poor woman, she doubtless thinks that she is one of the puppets which will be put in motion in this Legitimatist representation. In the evening, when the Count de Chambord does not attend the theatre or a concert, all those who have been presented have a right to come and pay their ruspects to him. The Prince, always followed by M. de Levis or by M. de Pastoret, passes among the groups, and speaks to every one. S omet i mes he does not disdain to seat himself at the pianoforte, or to sing. It is stated that he has a very fine baritone voice. He lately commenced singing a romance, Pauvre exile sur la terre it7angere,' but at the second verse he was so affected that he could not proceed. This sentiment a l scene caused a great sensation, and it appeared that on that evening the enthusiasm was so great that the vene rable and dreaded presence of M. de Levis could not prevent the assembly from crying loudly Vive le Roil' What a singular fieesre the H in. M. Berryer must cut in the midst of these puerile demonstrations." ITALY. The Italian journals state that neither the amnesty, nor an extensive commutation of sentences on poli tical prisoners, which had boen expected in the Lombardo-Venetian provinces on the occasion of the birthday of the Emperor of Austria, had taken place. The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 20th, states that the parish priest of Bonneville, when about to cele brate a funeral service for M. de Santa Rosa, an nounced that he did so only because the Minister when on his death-bed solemnly retracted what he had done against the Church. The announcement caused such dissatisfaction that the National Guard and the Municipal Council declined to attend the service. Letters from Leghorn and Sienna of the IGth state that, in order to prevent any disturbance, extraordi nary precautions had been taken by the authorities, who had ordered about 100 individuals of the former place to present themselves three times a day to the police. The Osservatore Romano of the 14th, a semi-official organ of the Papal Government, records the arrest of the Archbishop of Turin and the removal of the Ser vites, without any comment. Brigadier Hearsey, C. 8., has received from Sir Richard Jenkins a cadetship for his son. Many years hare elapsed since the battle of Seetabuldee, but time has not ob literated Sir Richard's recollection of tha gallantry of Lient. 11 earsey on that memor a bl e and eventful occAiicil of Sir Richard's residence at Naragpor. THE SUN, LONDON, T'UESDA'Y' EVENING, THE DANISH QUESTION. At the conference held on Friday at the Foreign oflce the Court of Austria signified its adhesion to the principles laid down in the protocol of the 21 of August, relating to the D Inish question, without prejudice to the rights of the Germanic Confederation. This adhesion has been accepted by the Danish Plenipotentiary, who, on the part of his Government, has declared that it is well understood that those federal rights extend only to the duchy of Holstein and of Lauenberg, forming part of the German Con federation. The above declaration has been received by the re presentadves of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Sweden, who have unanimously rendered full justice to the intentions which have induced the Court of Austria to give its adhesion to the principles stated in the protocol of the 2d of August as being in con formity with the general interests of peace and of the European equilibrium. The protocol was signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the respective Powers present. This document is im portant, as it sets at rest the question of the preserva tion of the integrity of the Danish monarchy, which consideration, in fact, forms the main feature of the former protocols of the 4th of July and the 21 of August. Austria, it appears, hesitated in the first instance to express her assent, on the ground that, as one of the great German Powers, she considered it necessary to reserve the rights of the Germanic Confederation. These rights were not in any way jeopardized, it being clearly understood that no alteration could take place in the existing relations between the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg and the Confederation. The ill-founded pretension of the Ultra• German party in the duchy of Schleswig might alone have given rise to some difficulty and misconstruction. This diffi culty has now, fortunately, disappeared. The decla ration of the Danish Plenipotentiary, forming part of the protocol signed yesterday by all parties, distinctly places on record the limitation of the rights of the Confederation to Holstein and Lauenburg. This solution, acknowledged by all the parties (with the sole exception, we regret to say), of Prus• sia), may be considered as one step more towards the establishment of peace in the Duchies—a result of such great European interest. THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY The London Gazette of Friday contains the addi tional instructions directed by the Queen in Couoeil to be forwarded to the Governor-in Chief of New Zealand, for the purpose of modifying the royal in structions to that officer, so far as they relate to the disposal of lands in that colony. These further in structions have become necessary in consequence of the notice given, under the seal of the company, that they are ready to surrender the charters which they hold to her Abjesty. After reciting the provisions of the various Acts of Parliament under which the waste lands held by the company were distributed, and the proceedings which must be taken to effect the dissolution of the said company, the paper proceeds as follows : " Whereas the directors of the New Zealand Company did, on the sth day of July last past, give to the Right Honourable Earl Grey, our Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, such notice as aforesaid, in pursuance of the above-recited provision; and whereas, on the giving of such notice as aforesaid, all the landQ, tene ments, arid hereditaments of the said company, in New Zealand, reverted to and became vested in us, as part of the demesne lands of the Crows in New Z ?island, subject, nevertheless, as aforesaid, to any contracts which were then subsisting in regard to any of the said lands: " And whereas certain contracts have been entered into between the New Zealand Company and certain bodies of settlers and others, in regard to lands in New Munster aforesaid, namely, with the settlers at Welling ton, Nelson, and New Plymouth, and the Associations of Otago and Canterbury: " And whereas it is apprehended that the provisions contained in the ISth chapter of the said Instructions are, in certain respects, inconsistent with the said con tracts between the New Zealand Company and the said respective settlers and associations; and it is expedient that the said instructions should be repealed, so far as regards the lands comprised in or affected by, the said contracts, as far as the same may be inconsistent with the said contracts respectively or any part thereof: " Now, therefore, know you, that we have revoked and determined, and do by these our instructions under our sign manuel and signet, revoke and determine so much and such part only of the thirteenth chapter of the said Instructions as relates to the lands comprised in or affected by the aforesaid contracts between the New Zealand Company sad the settlers at Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth, and the associations of Ot tago and Canterbury, and so far as the same may be in consistent with the said contracts respectively, or any part thereof. " And we do hereby declare that the said contracts respectively, or any amendments in such contracts which may hereafter be made by and between us, cur heir and, successors, or parties on our or their behalf lawfully au thorised, and the said bodies respectively, are and shall be in force as regards the lands comprised in or affected by the said contracts; provided always that on the ex piration or sooner determination of any such contract, the regulations comprised in the said thirteenth chapter of the said recited Instructions shall again become and remain in force as regards the lands comprised in or af fected by such contract." conveyed, so that the only carriage road of the many which intersect Hyde- park which will be in the slightest degree interfered with, is the c:)mparatively little frequented drive parallel and close to the Ken sington•road, and this will merely be interrupted by the carts and waggons crossing from one side of it to the other. The saunterer by the south bank of the Serpentine, and the horseman in Rotten-row, will not find their comforts in the slightest degree inter fered with. 'Within the space marked out the workmen are now busy in rearing the needful workshops, and in staking out, under competent direction, the proportions of the intended edifice. Instead of reproducing, as we might, in our own language, Mr. Paxton's account of what that edifice will be, we prefer, as the simplest and surest mode of impressing upon the public the idea of its dimensions and its proportions, to print the description cf his plans given by the architect him self, at the recent interesting meeting at Bakewell : " The building would. be 2,100 feet long by 400 broad. The centre aisle would be 120 feet broad, or ten feet wider than the conservatory at ChAtsworth. The building is divided into broad and narrow compartments, and by tying these together there is little for the cross-ties of the centre to carry. The building is entirely divided in twenty four places—in short, everything runs to twenty-four —so that the work is made to square and fit without any small detail being left to carry out. The number of columns, 15 feet long, is 6,024 ; there are 3,000 gallery bearers ; 1,245 wrought-iron girders ; 4.5 miles of sash bars; and 1,073,760 feet of glass to cover the whole. The site will stand upon upwards of 20 acres of ground ; but by an arrangement cf his (Mr. Paxton's) the available space which may be afforded by galleries can be extended to about 30 acres, if necessary." " Mainme,—You have handed to the Iley. Pier D3lly, on behal of the Sister; of Nl , sr , y, 5001. the Eu n a.),•reA to bo ree•:•ivtd tor yoar (i.ugi - aer, Har riet Nl'DLmell on her b' professed a nun in this community, which sum we engage to return you, free of interest, should either the nuns ox your daughter chanw their minds before the period of her said profession ur rives or in the event of her decease before then. " AMELIA WHITE. _ " Mrs. Eliza „'Donnell." __ _ In the month of August, 1847, Miss ANDonnell took a malignant fever. After all hopes of recovery were over the nuns had her a professed nun. They gave no notice to her family of her illness until she was past recovery. They now contended that as she was professed on her dying bed they had complied with the terms of the agreement. The jury found a ver diet for the plaintiff for the sum claimed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGII-sTREET. Charles Sharp, a young man very respectably con nected, was charged with indecently exposing his per son in Kensington-gardens. The evidence, which is unfit for publication, rested on the testimony of three park constables, who distinctly proved the charge, and of a woman, who deposed to similar indecent acts on Wednesday last. Mr. I.3itiortem committed the offender to hard labour for three mouths. An old gentleman, a relative of the prisoner, applied to Mr. Bingham to reconsider the sentence, on the ground that the charge could be disproved. Mr. BINGHAM said he could not on the conclusive evi dence brought before him do otherwise than he hal done. If the applicant thought he could shake the credibility of the witnesses, he might colhect evidence for that pur pose, and then make his application to Sir George Grey, at the Homo office. In the course of the day Mr. Fisher, from the office of Mr. Dod, applied to the Court to admit Charles Sharp to ball, having, as he said, some. evidence to establish an alibi on one of the days when he was charged with having indecently exposed himself. Mr. Biscriem, from the youth of the prisoner, was very glad that his judgment was to bs eppettled moinst. However, he would remind the applicant, that the evi dence of indecent exposure on the la“ occasion was so fearfully strong that it was impossible he could do other wise than convict. Before admitting to bail, he must have some clue to the station of life of the prisoner. Mr. Fisher replied, he might say that the prisontT was the protege of a Noble Lord, who was about to interest himself to got him an appointment in Lloyd's banking house. Mr. BINGEIAM said he would take two sureties in 100/. each. MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK. GLASGOW FRIDAY.—We have only learnt to-day a very painful catastrophe which has occurred on the shores of Coll, one of the small islands which lie off the western coast of Mull. It appears that on Sun day and Monday last a hurricane of great violence was experienced over the whole Western Highlands, and the wind blew from N.W. and W.N.W. with greater severity than it did at any time during the depths of the past winter. Early on the morning of Monday a large barque was seen to the westward, ap parently in great distress. She was running before the wind with scarcely a stitch of sail set, and being unable to clear the island, she struck on a rock or islet called Ellenore, which is nearly an acre in extent, and lying i about sixty yards from the mainland of Coll. Almost immediately after the devoted ship struck the masts went over the side, and the hull was dashed to pieces, many of the beams being broken against the rocks in a few minutes down to the size of small billets. Toe calamity occurred nearly opposite the farm of Breach cahu, occupied by Mr. M'Lean, who with his family and servants, witnessed the sad scene, without being able, from the fury of the waves, to put forth a hand to save. It was observed that the crew got the boats overboard when the ship was fast nearing the rocks, and eight or ten got into the largest, but the boat swamped almost immediately after leaving the ship's side, and all perished. Those who remained with the ship shared the same fate a moment or two after warda. The logbook, and some other ship's papers, along with a large portion cf the cargo, were washed ashore on the island during the day, and from these it appeared that the unfortunate barque was the Mandane, of Sunderland, Hutchinson commander, bound from the Clyde to Demerara. She was of about 400 tons burden, carried eighteen men as crew, and had at least one passenger. Any further particulars regarding the immediate occur rence of this appalling catastrophe will, of course, never be known ; but it will be difficult to explain how, if the ship was well found and well commanded, she could be so far out of her course as the island of Coll within four days after leaving the Clyde for the West Indies. The Mandane carried a miscellaneous cargo, consisting of cottons, woollens, haberdashery, hosiery, iron castings, &c., with 325 tons of coal. The ship is insured In Sunderland, and the cargo in Glasgow. Coll, it will be remembered, was the island to which Dr. Johnson and Boswell were steered by the young laird of that name, under such perilous circumstances, during the celebrated trip to the Hebrides. Even in these steam-boat days it is rarely visited, and the lonely islanders are still de serving of all the kindly words that have been spoken of them by the great lexicographer. THE WEATHER and the CROPS. A severe gale of north-west wind was experienced over the entire Highlands, south at least of Sutherland, on Sunday and Monday last, which has done great damage to the crops, and interrupted the harvest. It was experienced as far south as Perth—the rain, however, did not extend to the south of Blair-Athole- In the district of Easter Ross the wind was not ac companied by rain and all the light and ripe grain has been severely shaken. In other districts of Ross, and. over the whole county of Invernl ss, the rain was ex ceedingly heavy, and whole field s Of beautiful wheat, and large patches of oats and barley, are everywhere lodged. A severe hail-storm occurred here to-day, and we understand there was a fall of snow at Fo chabers. IVheat cutting has commenced at Corntown farm, Ferintosh, on a field of 15 acres of new land—au excellent crop, and the quality very superior. This however, is nothing new ; for many years ago a field of 21 acres of new land on the same farm produced four quarters per acre, weighing 651bs. per bushel, and sold at 755. per quarter. The ryegrass seed at Corntown and on the Tillowsow, &c., farms, Brahan, is all secured in good order, and weighs from 25 to 301bs. per bushel. Mr. Ure has been at considerable expense in procuring the finest perennial ryegrass, and this season he had several quarters from the south of second year's cutting, which cost 40s. per quarter, and wi,ighed 311 b. per bushel. GAIRLOCUY, AUG. 19.—The crops, as far as I have seen, continue to progress most satisfactorily. Pota toes alone give occasion for doubts. In low moist rich soils disease seems spreading, but in all high, light, dry soils the crop has escaped, and the potatoes are as good and healthy as in their most palmy days. From present appearances I do not suppose that the crop, as a whole, will suffer to so great an extent this season as in former years. CARR BRIDGE, STRATHSPEL-00, the farm of Benanach, Duln an Side, shearing commenced on Tuesday, the 15th, nearly a month earlier than usual in that high district. BADCALL, DT SCOURIE, 15TH AUG. 1850.—There is a great appearance of herrings on the coast betwixt Stoer Head and' the island of 'Janda. There are some Clyde vessels now here fishing, one of whose. boats took this 'morning 20 trans of good herrings , . The weather is fine. Some here has been cut down at Scourie. Po tato disease has appeared, but does not spread with its wonted rapidity. The corn crops are remarkably Ene here this season. Salmon fishing has been a failure. The same early maturity of the crops was obser vable in Caithness. " During the past few days," says the John 0' Groat Journal, " especially on Fri day last, we had a greater fall of rain than was ex perienced in this quarter for the previous six weeks, which has pro vcd most serviceable to the pasture grass, turnips, &c. It has also been beneficial to the corn crops, in preventing their over-early ripening,, of which there was some danger. Generally speak ing, the grain crops look well, but wiil not be very heavy, and straw will be rather short. Along the road betwixt Wick and Thurso, which we had an opportunity of viewing last week, the crops appeared promising and further advanced than they had been for some years, at - the same period. Several fields or bere were fast approaching maturity, and a fine field of bearded wheat, at Stirkoke, will be ready for the sickle in the course of ten days. We do not hear much about the potato blight, and it is hoped that this crop will prove tolerably abundant. The ac counts from a distance respecting the potatoes are contradictory, but: most agree in supposing that the disease will be light this season.—lnverness Courier. ACTION AGAINST A NUNNERY. At the Galway Record Court, a few days ago, the case of " M‘Donmell v. White" was tried. The action was brought by the administrator of Mrs. Eliza M'Donnell, to Tee :over the sum of 5001. given by heir to the Sisters of Tdercy in the town of Galway. The circumstances were these:— In March, 18-146, Miss Harriett M'Donnell, the. daughter of Mrs. M'Donnell, being desirous of be coming a nun of the order of the Sisters of Mercy, her sister, Mrs. Ireland, at the request of Mrs. M'Donnell, called :at the Convent of Mercy to inquire as to the terms of the convent, and to settle with the nuns. Mrs. White, the mother abbess, stated that it, was absolutely necensary that Miss M'Donnell should spend six months as a postulant in the convent pre vious toher recepti or, as a novice, and that after the cere cporuonf e t s shortens professed cere mony of h er recep t i on h ad taken place she should pass two years as a nov i ce i n the convent before she could be ac sh e t h e s 4 l t d i e m d e t o h f a th etheyprofession, could and ot thato na i any could not be do ne w i t h out a dispensation from the Pope ; they agreed to take the sum of 500/. from Mrs. M'Donnell for her daughter, and that it should be left in the hands of her brother-in-law, Mr. Ireland, until after her pro fe ssion, and that in the meanwhile they would receivr! the interest for her support_ In the month of May, 1846, the Rev. Peter Dally called on Ireland, and told him it would be of great service to t'ne nuns if the family would give the money at once',, as they were going to invest some money on very fuv o urable terms. Mrs. M'Donnell agreed to give them the money on their undertaking to return it, in eats either her daughter should wish to leave the consalat before the regular time of her profession, as s ,by ta+f-d themselves, or in case of her death before then. 'They agreed to give the strongest.' guarantee to that ell set, and Mrs. White entered into the following agn teg lent : MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. The Lord Chancellor, accompanied by Lady Truro, has left Eaton-square for the country, for the vacs ' tion. The Premier and Lady John Russell intend to make a tour of the Highlands for a fortnight, and after paying their respects to her Majesty and the Prince-Consort at Balmoral, proceed to Minto-house, ' near Hawick, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Minto, where the Noble Lord and Lady intend to stay some days. The Marquis of Lansdowne is with the Marchioness at Bowood-park, Wilts, surrounded by a select family circle. The Right Hon. Sir Geo. Grey leaves Fallodon, near Aln wick, this day, for York, in order to receive her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, at the railway terminus, on the Queen's way to visit the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard ; the Right Hon. Baronet, as Home Secretary, having been selected to attend on her Majesty during the royal progress to the Highland retreat at Balmoral. There is no truth in the report that her Majesty would visit Fallodon, the seat of the Right Hon. Baronet. The Earl of Carile arrived at Castle Howard in the early part of the week, from Naworth Castle, the ancient family seat of the Howards in Cumberland, in order to make every preparation for the reception of her Majesty to morrow evening. The Countess Dowager and Lady Mary Howard had previously arrived there from the Duke of. Devonshire's seat in Derbyshire. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Leveson Gower, Lady Dover and the Hon. Misses Ellis, the Right Hon. W. T. and Lady Caroline Lascelles, Miss Lascelles, Lady Elizabeth Grey, and other membe rs o f th e family, are to assemble at Castle Howard, to have the honour to meet the Queen and royal party. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and family have repaired to Brighton. The Noble Marquis occasionally comes to town during the week on business connected with his department in the Government. The Lord Privy Seal, accompanied by the Countess of Minto and the Ladies Elliot, arrived at Minto-house, N. 8., on Tuesday last from town for the autumn. A large family party will shortly assemble there. The Earl and Countess Grey intend to remain at Hawick. hall until the middle of next month, when the Noble Earl is expected to return to London to relieve the Secre tary of State staying in London. Viscount Palmer ston continues in town, and is not expected to leave fur Broadlands, his seat in Hants, for three weeks to come. The Right Hon. Sir Francis T. Baring ar rived at his official residence at the ‘idmiralty on Sa turday afternoon, from Portsmouth, after attending her Majesty on her marine excursion to Ostend. The Right Hon. Baronet and Lady Arabella Baring and family leave town far Brighton, and afterwards go to Stratton-park, Rants, for the autumn. The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, are making a tour of visits in Scotland ; also the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. The Right llon. Fox Maule is at Birnam-lodge, near Dunkeld, N. 8., and is not ex pected in town before November. The Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse is at present residing at Erlstoke-park, Wilts. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATIONS. The preliminary operations for its realization are going briskly forward. The whole space, and, of course, something more than the exact space to be covered by the building for the Exposition, is fenced in by a substantial paling, within which masses of timber are being deposited, and the necessary sheds and temporary workshops are being rapidl y run up. The space which the fence circumscribes is about 112 yards in breadth, and 740 yards in length ; but of course the actual limits of the building will not be quite so great. The paling may be said to com mence opposite the Royal Humane Society's receiving house, and to end close by the bridge across the Ser pentins.ln the enclosed space are two rows of trees — one a scattered clump of fine old elms, the other a line of smaller and younger trees. Matters will be so arranged that none of these ornaments of the park need fall. The few trees the destruction of which was inevitable have already disappeared. The ground to be covered by Mr. Paxton's palace of iron and glass lies contiguous to only one of the entrances, and that a minor one, to the park. This is the Prince's-gate, opening from the Kensington-road, not very far from the turnpike. From this gate a foot path leads diagonally across towards the bridge over the Serpentine, and this little-frequented path is the only thoroughfare which will be shut up by the " profanation in question. The carriage entrance at this point will not even be obstructed, for a second entrance has been made from the public way, exactly opposite the main gate of the enclosure. Through , this, all heavy loads of materials, and so forth, will be I LAMBETH. Edward Goden, of 27, Royal-street, Lambeth, a dealer i❑ furniture, was charged with having violently assaulted Sarah Goden, his own daughter, a lirtle crea ture not yet ten years of age, on the night of Saturday, the 24th inst. A Mr. R. Jones and several other neighbours proved that the child had been most inhumanly beaten by her father on the night i n ques ti on , t h a t it ran out i nto th e street in a state of perfect nudity, and that its little body was all covered with weals and bruises inflicted on it by the unfeeling father with a cane, which was then produced in court. The poor child had been ben-rally allowed to run about the streets with scarcely a stitch of shoe or stocking on. Mr. Goden, with the greatest sang-froid imaginable, expatiated on his p a t erna l r i g ht t o act a s he pleased in his domestic affairs, and reprobated the idea of any per son interfering therein; he seemed strongly impressed with the idea that he, like many other much greater men, had a right to do what he liked with his own. Mr. ELLIOTT, h owever, h a pp en ing to differ with him materially on the subject, said he 811011 Id tine him the sum of 205., or send him to prison for fourteen days; h . e also required hi m t o enter i nto hii own recognizance ft r 20/. to keep the peace for six months. WORSHIP-STREET. George and kic;;;de;li reaan. two respectable•look ing brothers, were brought up before Mr. lismmill, charged with disorderly conduct, and obstructing the officers of the Eastern Counties Railway, under the fol lowing circumstances:— Stephen Badgery, inspector of the railway police, and Molloy, a metropolitan constable of the li division, stated —the former, that while on duty on the departure plat form at half-past two o'clock that afternoon, just as one of the Stratford trains was proceeding on its journey and had get clear of the station, the prisoner George Meehan ran down the platform on to the line of rails, and open ing one of the carriage doors, attempted to force his way inside. The carriage had its full complement of paisen gers, who objected to being inconvenienced by him, and an elderly gentleman remonstrated with him on his con duct, and endeavoured to keep him out; but he persisted in forcing his way into the vehicle, assisted by his brother, who pushed him forward, and seizing the gentleman by the collar, swung to it, and tried to pull him out. The gentleman was so incensed by the violence of the prisoner's conduct that he would have given him into custody, but that he must have lost his train if he had done so, and witness having expostulated with and endeavoured to re move him in vain, was obliged, from the perilous pesi tion in which they were both placed, to call for the as sistance of the police. Tho constable quickly made his appearance, but the instant he attempted to secure him he was struck by Gorge a very heavy blow upon the shoulder, and it was only afair a lever° contest and struggle upon the step of the carriage that ho was at length overpowered uud token back to the platform, re sisting most violently all the way. The prisoner's gross misconduct exposed them all to the greatest danger, as the passenger train was going at least at the rate of four miles an hour, a goods train, which had just come in, was standing on the line of rails to which the passenger train bad to be shifted, and but for its being signalled to the engine-driver of the latter to stop his train, the in terval between the two was so trifling, they must some of them have been forced off the step between the car riages and trucks, and most probably crushed to death. Molloy gave a similar account of the transaction, and added that his position was so perilous that it was only with the greatest difficulty he had saved himself from death or some very serious injury. The first prisoner denied having struck the officer as described, — and Alexander said that he was not aware there was no room in the carriage or he would not have attempted to enter it himself or help his brother in, which was the only part that he had taken in the matter. Mr. lismmtu , commented upon the outrageous nature of the conduct displayed by the prisoner George Meehan, and, having ordered Alexander to be discharged, sen tenced the former, under the provisions of one of the committed to th e H ouse o f C orr ection r resisting the i ns p ec t or i n the exe cution of his duty, and then to undergo a further term f company's ,r thrteoe swt b ae y ne - kd l , w f s o: to Pay a p ena l ty o f 405 ., or i n de fault Imprisonmentt f or hi s attac k upon th e coofnsatafbolre!night's WANDS WORTH. Lewis Laces, a Jew, said :tohbe well-known on the principal race-courses some years since, as a proprietor cf roulette and French hazard boards and tables, was brought before Mr. Beadon, charged with being con cerned with three others not in custody in robbing and defrauding Mr. John Oldfield, an artist, residing at No. 100, Upper Ebury-street, Pimlico, of notes and gold to the extent of 401., in Battersea-fields, on the 27th June last. The facts connected with the apprehension of the pri soner, and another man named Robert Gibbins, and their examination at Guildhall, on Saturday, have already ap peared in our journal; and it will be recollected that the offence occurring within the jurisdiction of Wandworth Police Court, the prisoners were remanded to that court. On their arrival, however, at Wandsworth, the sitting magistrate had left for Hammersmith, and the prisoners were taken there. A recapitulation of the evidence taken the same day at Guildhall was made, and ulti mately Mr. PAYNTER, considering there was not suffi cient evidence to detain Gibbins upon (who was the man supposed to have beckoned to the gang immediately prior to their breaking up), discharged him; the prisoner Lewis Isaacs being remanded to be further examined at this court yesterday. Mr. Oldlield's evidence was taken afresh, and he re peated much the same account he had given at Guild hall. He said that having been twenty years at Brussels and returned t ) England very recently, he was perfectly ignorant of the sn ares that are set fur strangers. The parties he met in the steam-boat appeared to be perfect gentlemen, and th e assum ed ignorance they had of the thimble-rig man ( t h e prisoner) was i nimitable. The prosecutor said h e cou ld n ot undertake to say that the prisoner was the man who snatched the 101. note out of his hand, the act was so sudden. He had at that time 80/. in 101. notes rolled up in his hand, and the one that was stolen was just detached from the others to lay on the table or board. He had no doubt it was the inten tion a the party who made the snatch to have had the bundle. City policeman Daniel May, 337, said be had no fur ther evidence to offer than that he found 4/. 17s. on the prisoner, and on G i bbi ns three thimbles , a pea , and a pack of cards. of Mr. W. Galb ra i t h Wellington-cottage, South Lambeth, who was i n , attendance in another case, said that seven or eight weeks since, on a Tuesday, he was going to a shooting-match at the Rod house, when he saw the prisoner with a board, thimbles, and peg, hard at work. He was asked to " try his luck," but he de clined. On the following day he again saw the prisoner near the same spot; there was a pile of half-crowns on the board. Mr. BEADON said there was no evidence to establish the charge of felon 3, but there was ample evidence to show that he was a regular gambler, and as such he should commit him to Guildford House of Correction for three months' hard labour. The money found upon him was evidently partly the produce of the fraud or the robbery, and he should order the expenses incurred in the prisoner's apprehension to be paid out of it, as also his keep in prison, and the r esidue would be given him when he left the gaol. The m a g istrate also re marked that he hoped it would be a warning to Mr. Oldfield for the remainder of his life not to become intimate with strangers he might casually meet on a steam-boat. The prisoner was then removed to the cells, apparently well satisfied with the result. of Horton, was l ast week diggm A labourer i n t h e ern.ploy of Mr. William Brown , about a mile n ort h of Tan-hill, when he came upon a human skeleton, burned i n a s i tt i ng p o sture, .and perfectly entire: , for chalk on the down , There is little doubt that the body, of which this is the re mains, was buried in the time of the ancient Britons, an earthen vessel being found with the skel eton, constructed of sun-burnt clay, and otherwise bearing the character of the domestic uten s il s o f that remote per i o d. Remains of pottery of the same char acter and age are ver y frequently found on these downs.—Bath Herald. AUGUST 27, 1850. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, - f ; ='; FIE LD, HUDDEW.FIELD, N 1) tit;OLE. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Wakefield yesterday. Mr. E. B. Beaumont, the chairman of the board, presided. The line is leased to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company at five par cent. in perpetuity, with half surplus profits. The re port stated that the total cost of the railway would not exceed 3,253/. over the amount of thrt rent guaranteed by the lessees. The liabilities hai been reduced to 16,0001. The rent from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company would be payable on the Ist of Sep tember, and the dividend warrants would be issued imme diately afterwards. Two directors had been nominated to seats ut the Lancashire and Yorkshire board, who would act without remuneration. The statement of accounts gave the following results:—Total receipts up to the 30th of June, on the guaranteed stock, 256 0711. 16s. 33., which sum had all been expended except 3521. Bs. 2d., which remains in the banker's hand. The receipts on the shares for the southern division of the line, which is not guaranteed, amount to 69,787/. 7s. 7d., and dis bursements to 66,3521. 18s. Bd., the balance in hand being 3,4341. 9s. 4d. The CHAIRMAN said he had great confidence that the line would eventually yield more than 5 per cent.; and after alluding to the various matters in the report, he moved its adoption, which was carried. The dividend, at the rate of 5 per cent., was also agreed to, and after some discussion the meeting sepa raLd. ways displayed in the views I have b•- , ,n ertl'el upon to e :ntruc -,; :; Eh., te,,, 4 1 { %,,,ul4l have pr , v -d more: filth 'tilt than it has proved; but, I assure you the value of this confidence is much enhanced in my estimation by the feet that you gave it when the balance of opinion was de cidedly against me." EAST INDIAN. The report of the directors, to be submited to the I,roprietors on Thursday next, says— " Mr. Stephenson, the managing director, and Mr. George Turnbull, the resident engineer-in -chief, em barked for India on the 20th of March last, arriving at Calcutta the latter end of April. The directors have received a very int , re3ting report from Mr. Turnbull as to the line of rainay which, in his opinion, should be first constructed; and the directors have the gratification to state that the report entirely confirms the views already taken by the bJard on this question. " The board understand that the Government engi neer has also made a report to the Government of India on the same subject, and that the views of this officer and of Mr. Turnbull, upon all essential matters, are in per fect harmony.: " The boa - rd further understand that the report of the Government engineer has been forwarded by the Legis lative Council of India to his Excellency the Governor- General for sanction. In the meantime Mr. Stephenson has received, through his Excellency's Secretary, ' his Lordship's assurance that his best and constant attention will be given to the undertaking, and that he entertains an anxious desire to facilitate, by every means at his command, the operations of the East India Railway Company, and to secure the successful conduct of an en terprise in which both the Government and the share holders have so greet an interest.' Pending his Lordship's decision, the board consider that it would be premature to print Mr. Turnbul►'s re-- port, but it is opea for the inspection of any shareholder who may wish to see it. " The statements which have appeared in some portion of the Indian press, and thence copied into the home journals, announcing the abandonment ot the under teking, are totally untrue. " The directors think it right to correct a misappre hension which has been industriously circulated, to the effect 'that the capital of the company is limited to 1,000,0001. sterling; and that, in consequence of such limitation, and of certain proposed details of construc tion, the experimental line to be laid down by this com pany must terminate at such a point as to prevent its being remunerative.' The line first to be made is to be a fair experiment, and is to be carried to such a desirable point as, in the opinion of the Government of India, will render it sure of being so. If the million of capital be insufficient for this object, new capital is to be raised under the guarantee of the East India Company, on pre cisely similar terms as the original capital. " In a return presented to the House of Commons, in July last, on the subject of ' Railway Communication in India,' is a copy of a dispatch addressed by the Court of Directors of the Supreme Government of India, on the subject of the contracts between the East India Company and the railway companies, and contains, in explanation of this particular point, the following extract:— "' Clause 17 provides for the excess cf capital which may be required above the respective sums of 500,000/. and 1,000,0001., in order to complete the exact length ot line which may be determined upon. In the first plaec, our guarantee extends only to those sums, but as it is impos.ible exactly to define the cost of the under taking beforehand, and more especially as in neither case is the exact route fixed, and in the case of the East Indian Railway the point of its termination is not even fixed, it was necessary that some provision should be made for any margin either of excess or deficiency ot ca pital necessary to complete these experiments. In the case of the Great Indian Peninsular Company, the two points ot Bombay and Callyan are determined, but in the case of the East Indian Railway, the starting pint (Cal cutta) only is fixed. Yost will not only have to deter mine the exact route ot this line, but also the point to which it would be most expedient, with a view to a fair trial c.f the experiment, it should he carried, always hav ing reference to the sum which is contemplated to be expended. And you will have to determine, in the event of the sum mentioned in the contract (1,000,0001) appearing sufficient only to bring the line to some inter mediate point, at which it would be undesirable to stop, whether you will make your terminus at a nearer or morn distant point, and to that extent increase or de crease the capital as the case may be, and the surplus or deficiency will be dealt with as provided fir in the 17th and 27th clauses of the contract. I❑ the one case, the capital will be increased on the same terms as the original capital; in the other case, the excess will be retuned to the shareholders.' " Upon a requisition frcm Mr. Turnbull, the board, with the sanction of the East India Company, have sent out by the steamer of the 20th of the present month three additional engineers, and have authorised the ap pointment of a fourth on the spot. The services of these gentlemen will, therefore, be available at the commence ment of the ensuing cold season in Indio. " The board adopt this medium of acknowledging and communicating to the shareh dders the liberality of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in educing the passage money of the engineers and others who have proceeded to India in the service of the company. "Tilt; accounts are made up annually, and, conse quently, are not submitted at the halt-yearly meeting; but it will be satisfactory to the proprietary to know that the interest guaranteed by the East India Company is now accruing upon the sum of 354,567/. 55., being the amount paid into the treasury in London up to the 30th June last, and upon 2,4241 ls. 81 , the amount raid into the Government treasury at Madras. "Pending negotiations for carrying out the details of the contract in India, the company's funds in Calcutta were invested in Government loans. The last mail brings intelligence of arrangements having been con cluded with the Government for the transfer of these funds to tie treasury, in accordance with the terms of the contract." EASTERN UNION. The report of the directors, to be submitted to the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting on Friday, states that the net revenue of the company, which amounted, at the corresponding period of 1849, to 9,9261, has gone on increasing, and now, in the least favourable half-year of 18.50, amounts to 26,5622 The directors concur entirely in the belief expressed by Messrs. Webb and Head, the auditors, that the shareholders during the current half-year may look forward to a further con siderable increase of revenue. The liquidation of the liabilities, which are the main causes of the preference stooks being at a discount, demands the earliest consi deration of the directors. The proprietary, if they are united in a resolution to clear away the outstanding debts, might do it, not only without any sacrifice what ever, but with a certainty of raising every portion of the company's stock. The Act which passed in the late ses sion has enlarged the time for making the Harwich line; and the Eastern Counties Company having admitted that it would be a great advantage to themselves ae well as to the public, and having shown a williugeess to cc-ope rate with this company to insure its construction, the di rect irs hope, before they:need expend any further money upon the undertakieg, that the arrangement of 1815 tray be entered into between the two companies to pro tect the shareholders from any unremunerative outlay in carrying a line into Harwich. The directors have referred all unsettled professional accounts to Mr. Dax, the senior Taxing-Master of the Court cf Ex chequer. They trust it will be a means of reducing some of the demands against the company. With a view to stimulate the local traffic, sever :l excursion trains are now running and carrying great numbers of the inhabitants of Norwich, Bury Bt. Edmund's, and the vicinities towards Harwich, and of those of Colches ter, Ipswich, and Bury, through Norwich to Yarmouth. This traffic, it is believed, will tend to improve the present halt-year's revenue. The report of Mr. P. Bruff, the engineer, states that the working expenses continue to diminish, being now 2681. per tide, or 49 per cent. upon the receipts. The rolling stock, permanent way, and works continue to be maintained in excellent condi tion. Tho Trowee branch to connect the E ester n Union line with the Norfolk line at Norwich will undoubtedly be of great service in facilitatingand economising the traffic arrangements of both companies; the estimate of cost including lard and every expense is 16 0001. The bee is set out, and the works can be commenced forthwith upon the land being given up to the contractor. The au ditors state in their report that the liabilities of the company aro in course of reduction, and they tee no resew] why the whole amount should not be easily (le frayed from the powers possessed by the company; that it would greatly improve the value of the a hole stock of the company if the preference and ordinary share holders were to co-operate in assisting the directors in some scheme by which the simple contract creditors of the coaspany should be satisfied by the issue of the fur ther preference stock at a moderate rate of interest, and the re-issue of debenture bonds as they fall due at a lower rate. The preference stock, as well as the ordi nary stock, would not then fail to acquire ao increased value, whilst the company would be placed in a sound and proper position. The capital account to the 30th of June last shows that 2,104, 6401. had been received, and 2,098,6381. expended, leaving a balance of 6,001/. The company are authorised to raise 1,860,0001. on shares, and 620,0001. on loans, total 2 ,480,0001 The amount of shares issuer', and loans raised, is 2,115,9792, leaving powers to raise 364,0211. unexercised. The loan account shows that 523,5741. has been obtained on mortgage bonds, of which 56,6001. was borrowed at 6 per cent. per annum, 44 1,7681. at 5 per cent., 20 6564 at 4i per cent., and 4,550/. at 4 per cent. The amount falling due in 1850 is 221,7591., of which 198,5531. is at 5 per cent. The revenue account for the half-year ending June 30 states that 52,3211 had been received, and 25,575/. ex pended, including 880/. for Government duty, and 6161. rates and taxes, leaving a balance of 26,746/. to pay in terest cu borrowed money, 12,3951.; on 6 per cent. stock 8,936/., interest on 10 per coat. stock, 2,2741.; rent to Stour Valley C om p any, 2,00/ ; rent to Stowmarket Navigation, 535/., and rent to Lark Navigation, 186/.; making together 26,3271., and leaving a balance cf 4181, of which 183/. is appropriated to the renewal fund. MIDLAND. At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of tl a Midland Railway, held at Derby, on Friday last, Mr. Ironside carried a motion that the names, duties, and salaries of all the servar.ts of the company in the receipt of 100/ a year and upwards be published and circulated with the half-yearly statement of accounts. The follow ing is the list of salaries according to Mr. Ironsidt's motion : Secretary's department—J. P. Bell, secretary, Derby, 70 1 / 4 John Moore, dttto clerk, ditto, 155/ • John 0. Burton, accountant, ditto, 1951 . ; W . li. Hodges, ditto, clerk, ditto, 1001.; W. Coulton, cashier, ditto, 1851 . E,.ginen's Department--11". IL Barlow, engineer, Derby, 800/ ; T. H. MerChand, assistant ditto, ditto, 250/. ; J. Eekett, clerk, ditto, 1251. ; F. Campion dratipitsman, ditto, 1101.; N. Eokersley, int peotor, ditto, CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD. The following report, will be submitted . on Friday next, at the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders " It will be in the recollection of the shareholders that at the last half-yearly meeting your directors obtained their approval of a Bill authorising this company to lease their line to the London and North-Western Rail way Company, or to make other arrangements with that company for its working. They hoped that long before this time they should have been placed in a position to convene a special meeting, to which, after receiving the formal sanction of the measure required by the House of Lords, it would have been their duty to submit th e pl ans by which the scheme then contemplated might, in the judgment of the directors, be most beneficially carried into execution. They regret that they must now an nounce to you that these expectations have been entirely frustrated. " Parties haying interests at variance with those of the London and North-Western Company, and seeking to encroach upon its traffic, took occasion, from the pro motion of the Bill in question by this company, to urge upon the Committee of the House of Commons the intro duction of a clause giving to those parties powers aod pri vileges quite incompatible with any practicable arrange ment between this company and the London and North- Western for thecompletion or working of the line; and, in spite of the earnest remonstrances of your directors, they succeeded in effecting that object. The House, how ever, threw out the clause, and when the same parties made an attempt to reinstate it, it was again rejected. But the same short sighted hostility . pursued the Bill before the Committee of the House (f Lords, although it was certain that with such a clause the Bill would be valueless for any public or private object, because the London and North-Western Company would refuse an alliance coupled with the conditions imposed; and the issue proving unfavourable, the measure has been ne cessarily abandoned, to the serious detriment of your interests, and without a particle of benefit to the parties whose opposition to the London and North-Western Company led them to strike at that body through this company. " The result is a matter of deep regret to your direc tors. Their best hopes of improving your position were founded on the possibility of combining your interests with those of the London and North-Western Company, and of rendering it safe and profitable for that power ful body to aid in extricating you from your embarrass ments. But your directors could not, of course, expect that that company would undertake so arduous a task, under the additional pressure of an Act of Parliament, which prop ssed to deprive them, in favour of a third party altogether without rightful claim, of a large share of the lsgitimate advantage of the projected en terprise. Nor is this the only disappointment which your d rectors have experienced. liiMs.rch last you were ap• prised that they weze ' in communication with her Ilia jesty's Government, having for their object such assist ance as would enable the company to complete the un dertaking at the earliest reriod;' and they continued their endeavours to this end until a very recent date. They urged upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with all the force which they felt to be warranted by the justice of the case, their claim to temporary aid from the public press, on the ground-Ist, that the contract for the mails having been granted to the company, be fore it broke ground in its works, for the avowed reason that the traffic was insufficient in itself to afford recom pense for so great an undertaking, the loss in that re spect resulting from the visitation which had desolated Ireland ought not to be thrown exclusively on the com pany, without any contribution from the Government, so greatly benefitted by the opening of such an import line of communication; and, 2dly, that the peremptory requisition of the Admiralty, backed by a Parliamentary Coramit!ce, in regard to the mode of crossing the Menai Straits, having imposed on the company an additional and unlooked-for expense of nearly half a million ster ling, it was equitable that the Government, thus re lieved from all shire of the cost necessary to reconcile two public objects (to wit, the free navigation of the straits, and the continuous line of railway feom London to St. George's Channel), should afford some assistance, by way of a loan, to enable the company to complete its works, in order to its reimbursement. "Your directors are sorry to state that, whilst they have been personally treated with every consideration •and courtesy, the Government has refused to entertain these reasonable and moderate claims for a contribution in the shape of mere temporary aid, although it was shown in the clearest manner that no risk could be in volved in the transaction. The only concession made to the company—at the same time that its success in over coming not merely the vast natural difficulties of the un dertaking, but the impediment thrown in its way by a public department, was used by the Prime Mi n i ster as a cogent argument for the abolition of the Lord-Lieute nant of Ireland—has been the abandonment by the Go vernment of its claim for a contribution of 200,000/. to wards the new harbour at Holyhead. The directors feel, however, that such a demand for a contribution to a public refuge harbour is one which never ought to have been made. In the same spirit of indifference to the difficulties of a company engaged in carrying out an en terprise of pre-eminent public importance, the contract for the performance of the mail service between Holy head and Kingstown was given to parties who have a direct interest in diverting the traffic to the route by way of Liverpool. And this was done notwith standing that a Select Committee of the House of Com mons, of which the lamented Sir Robert Peel was chair man, after considering the question whether this com pany should be permitted to own steam-boats, had ex pressed a deliberate opinion with respect to the advan the management and contr o l o f t h e tage of placing whole line between London and Dublin in the hands of a single party. " Under the heavy discouragements briefly described in the foregoing paragraphs, and labouring constantly under the pressure of the pecuniary difficulties with which the company has bad to struggle, your directors have exerted themselves to the best of their ability to accomplish, at the earliest possible date, such a comple tion of the line as may fit it for general purposes of use fulness. In furtherance of this end, the last tube of the Britannia Bridge has been raised to its intended place; and your directors hope that that wonderful structure will be finally completed during the month of October nest. "In their last report, your directors stated their in tention to open a separate revenue account from the lat of January last. That course has been taken, sod the net proceeds have been applied towards the paymi nt of the half-year's interest on debentures due on the 10th of July last, which, amounting to 24,5491. 10s. 5d., haves a balance of 8,5211. 16s. 7d. chargeable against the earnings of the current half-year. " The proprietors will observe that the gross traffic of the six months under review has yielded a return of 38,6521. 3s. 3d. contrasted with 31,9831 ss. 1,1 (irre spective of the mails in both cases), earned during the same period of 1849; and your directors are using all the means at their command so to increase their power of meeting the demand for accommodation for minerals as to afford all the desired encouragement to that im portant branch of business. As an instance in point, they are now engaged in arranging for the construction by private parties of several sidings and short branchee, for the purpose of bringing upon the line the produce of adjacent quarries and the like, with the stipulation that the expense of the work shall be repaid to the construc tors from the proceeds of the toll. A resolution will be submitted for your approval, giving your sanction is ar rangements of this description, which cannot but con duce to the advantage of this company. " The attention of your directors has been earnestly given to the cost of working the line and its adjuncts, with a view to every practicable and prudent reduction of expenditure, in respect especially to the packet service; and they have now so organized the system of managing the steam-boats that they have good reason to expect that, taking into account the earnings of those vessels, and of the express trains to which they are exclusively attached, and which would be useless without them, the proceeds will more than counterbalance the expenditure. It may be added that, finding the psymenta on account of insurance to be ex tremely heavy, amounting iu the aggregate to 6,497, from 'the Ist August, 1848, your directors are of opinion that it will be expedient that the company should become the insurer of its own steam-boats, setting aside a certain sum annually to cover the risk of loss, and they request your sanction accordingly. " The arrears of calls due at the last half-yearly meet ing amounted to 40,666/. 103., sinoo which 2,816 L 10s. bas been received. Your directors have declared the forfeiture of 65 shares, which requires the confirmation of the present meeting." The report of the engineer, Mr. Robert Stephenson, says— "lt affords me very great satisfaction to report to you that the whole of the tubes of the Britannia Bridge are now safely deposited in their final positions. Nothing now remains to be done but to complete the junctions between those composing the second line. "A fortnight will fir's — h the junctions in the Britannia Tower; three weeks more will complete the junction with the Carnarvon small tube; and by the end of Octo- Ater I have no doubt all the remaining preparations for • t 4 opening of the second line will b e b rought to a ;atis ;fitoiory conclusion. _ " +, "As this will probably b e th e l ast report I shall have the honour of addressing to you in reference to the works of the Holyhead Railway, I deem it only proper, after several years cf intense anxiety respecting the Conway and Britadnia Bridges, to return you my sin cere thank* for the unwavering confidence you bare al- ( 1 .. :10/. ; T. Aim:worth ri;tt ------------------",.---- ar 070 0 o. ditto. 1 0 91 ; ' ''tto 149 " ;.""'' '`'''''• 12 '?!. ; ,T. H. ;-'u , , e,,, sr : 'e Iv'. land ; j Swann, assi,tant ditto, ditto, 10-1/.; a 13 ; 0 1 ,1; 1301 surveyor, ditto, 1501.; G. Payton, inspector, .i.obl, Dew, ;.u.• N. Browne, sccretarr, Leicester,2oo l ; u 140 1 . , o , c l o ospector, 1401.; W. Winn, ditto, Gloucestqi .Te.,, ...._.l-4r.nmt otive and Stores Department--Jo J‘ r A 7 1 4,,, 1` 3 1 1' 0 ; : 4ndent, Mtby, 700 1 .; S. 1,0015, e'er , s 'O h . W. George, ditto, ditto, 100/4 1 1 ditto;.di. 1001.; J. Nicholson, ditto, ditto;o des, Gener 'L l o, 0 1113 Manager's Department $, general 11 Horse Department—Joseph Derby, 6001. ger, S ig ' enartment—Joseph Shepherd, rasa mingham, 1001. ot iellto Coaching Department—C. Mills, superintlL I DPrh Yy_2so4; E . assistant ditto..vnel. 100/.A. Palternan, ~_s wi e t ...i. H. Riokman, station-masta, Der* V,vid'os, cashier, travelling inspector, Derby, 110 1 ; Vi• ,1 2011 James 'A Derby 100/.• G. Musson, audit offieLoo sp:nall, ptrcel'ditto, Derby. 12014 ./.' P.otictr static; bea,t n-master, Barton, 1251.; E. M. Needhalb station' mas b t er, Birmirgha.m, 125/ ; Wooe. -ster, Chesterfield, _Anaberglte, 100/.; J. Cooper, etst!°„%oster, Ecki .erfield, 120/. ; W. Dinhaco, sti„tia,aotibr h%ton, 100/. ,• W. Beck, ditto, °''62.7. •I' 1201. Swain, W. Cubby, ditto, Sheffiel, 0° ditto, iinsPoctitr Leeds, HO/. ; J. Crshrret,,bash Leeds' 120/ ; J. OOL; J. 'Pittifor, station-master, Nottglsio, Carr, ditto, Loughborough, 1014 V' ditto,. Newton, Leicester, 1201.; J. Gill, ditto, Newark, 100a_feri, h, ditto, Lincoln 100/ • F• Tonlis, ditto,S! P A'y $. 100/ • 1 •, 1. D.yk.., e ., • . •', F. ~ t j 250 14 , superintendent, bits o , Fry, station -master, .._ -master, Gloucester, 110/. riorbf, #1; Goods B. s eir, D h epartment—J . West, Dilanager, m-00 ditto, Derby,P ... s, clerk, Derby, 14014 B. 0 ' r j • ' Y N 120/.; W. T. Cole, ditto, Derby, 11014 J. 00; ditt ~ W. /3 . Darby, 100/.; J. Ashworth, ditto, ps.rbllnerbi, 100/ .riggs. ditto, ]Vrb ,1001; W. Parker, to, ; p oet ditto .' ST. Norwood, ditto, Tipton, 1001; A Ch i pedi, , heffield,' 1101. • John Pepper manage pier 2501.; S. Job ' ' j Allse• ,d. ason, clerk, Leads 1101.; • , J 13a,7., L , edsi 100 /• ; G. Ellis, ditto,: Leeds, 13° ` -; ic . " e m e a s u e ager, Leicester, 250/. ; W". WCrath, clera ;I. Grim r, h lool. ; W. Smith, ditto, Lcicester,ll:;* Dv name:aw, ditto, Nottingham, 125/.• T. Virti-Oralif hair, o , _ Birmingham, 200/4 J. Got;ld , °l er ' iti 1° 1 J. B. Wilkinson, /. ; E . F. Wright, ditto, Birroh3oloooo, ditto, lkin'oP, ditto, Bristol, 150 1 . ; J . • baro o s l4 1004 Gloucester, 1401.; T. Hurst, ditto, Peter • aOr CORNWALL , me et,. 15 RAILWAY.—The half-yearrl te d tO t o the proprietors place on of Saturday last a t Truro, but a sumeterr _4,tiog, shareholders did not attend constitute 1;7;00 consequentlywill issue it stood adjourned sine de. 01000010 sh i o li w i s " t u h e " report, The statement of t he ; o ,,,ifed• and 7481. 5 t durinc , ~ the half-year 7281. had .. be°n t be 01 „; expended. The total received 1r0wn8.59/•1`: mence which sum of the undertaking had beertAlVoiel; beancesum 197,638/. bad b: en expet Pu 't e in hand on the 30th June last of 949.. At I I SIIREWSB II Y 12 A ILViAf' g ill of It _ AND HEREFORD J. 1... - Awe. _ meet indeputations from several local canoe IP Here f J g r dahire, just held in Leominster, to pro c oke raising ' of the further capital of 26,0001. br t he „,ba ° „ lion of 0l this line, Mr. Ormsby Gore, 3.f.r. , al - d r eggli the company, saidthat do this it WO° 0 pOIP . to 2,800 more third c' 5 00' not be pressed, shares to be taken, but the , r , oh o sed, and that there were only . 67 paid upon. . beieg CANADIAN egg I I eh. RAILWAYS.—A general 030/ern in .-- made in Canada r ~.ilfror S for the construction Oi t-- b oo - t . provinces, j aeld tbr and meetings of the inhabitants „ s o O . the promotion of a railway ( an t s 'JO! Louis to Provinc f he Ott e to 0 " e, or another from t t ratts - to the Lower British provinces, and from •,... John and Bangor. ____.---..t.....•'- ' —nig, THE COUNTR Y 111 A -11 en titr o The following is the official statement of t e m tbe eit.s ol corn, & c., received in the port of London_lth Asgo Essex, from the i 9th Aug., 1850, to the N 4 both inclusive : hssex, from the i9th Aug., . 10, '" , 4 both inclusive : 1i , S W .-3 .1 f.: g p. 2 I )* • - 1 0 I PI :7, --. i _ ...... ....:20 - Colchester 7,„,1 , ....-5 •••• liarwich - ...._ ~... 1 2sl ...,, Leigh 2Ol/ --- -- ! f ilow' os i Malcion - ,- ,81 were s 9 fe d, ~e r (1.4-, , ...c...-,,," A,.,, 9 fl --Prices 0 - .a,a.Y to 4 ? ; . c.be. /su h. SO ." CHEL:xrt(e),RDoidAu444.9 to , 7 0 1:r ; ie n e e - w t 747 to s : eP e li ‘,45i, 4:: , were 15 rekt.,,, 4 7 is he t a o t, 433; new, 39s to 42s ; barley, 23 1 0 to to b o ; 0 , ; 6 , tO 24s to 263; grinding 219 to 233 • oats 1 55 . de , ne l t 4; to 55s ; chevalier 645 to 56s ; peas, Pa rtri Thd,"' s A 9. " 265; old, —s to —9; white, new, 233 to 26s ; ° 26 ,. 010 o r dun, new, 233 to 255; bean., tick, new 23 0 tc ,',.. u; O W to 27s ; harrow ticks, new - 24s to 270; old tA- red zagan, new 229 to 24s ; old 00s to 009 p , e , r . l r " to 5 ,2! 0 4/111. COLCHESTER, AUG. 24.--Wheat, Whit. ---!. to 7 ,„,7 to 463; barley 22s to 249; beans, ma ssgaa 25 ' 40 0 and small 26s to 239 ; peas 24s to 289 per qr_..... sit v''' 4 11° .. KlR l K F A h L e p a r t. , Aua. 21.—The following ah` Y e pd up to this date : Oats. /3 : 111 1 ~. ....1 Of Barley'. First 43s Od 2ls lid 21s 61 '.'",. Od O V ° Second 41s Od 203 Od 213 Od --- 01 ' .... 0d. Third 363 Od —s Od 18s 0,1 a-lhitogliceS Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 263 Od t o P- H ADDINGTON, Atm. 23.—The following 13igla grain at our m ar k e t to-d ay:— I SP ea Wheat. I 0 1 cd -46 s Od S I Selti Barley. 22s 6d 3cl Ost°' 6d 22! jod oj 21! ThirdS eco n i Total Do. •: n :. ti t y :: 43 : : f Wheat a l t ol l a l 22m0jaras ke 6 t cl 1 I S ti g r i lii4ry ol d Barley do. do 2" qrs., 65 0 m Oats • e , q rs., 0 01 , 7 Country eggs,Beans do. ~t , 40st .r , os pe retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skirn Wu' , lb. 11 0 1, m,trpAystro. 21.—Provisions--t.,,,,eti00 Es rh p 0 1 ,5 ; Bcl oat p s e , r dozen. Hens, 25 6d per 17 tpoe roGdct..:Ats;Gcloourd: uG.,frB2eds3h.ti bBwrhtee;rae,to,nl4ondotrsytoopodOtwd:leerciietehsdode,o,,,;:biotltoaeols,l:oll,' Sd per . dozen ; evi l , psi bo r ; lei, ; p °l)(7l2 e wdees r rrP l tte. i 2R ; Ti r i,HßnC t quarter . Oatmeal, eil, 2 :00; to A, 2l E s L o s d o, Arc. 23.—Wheat, old, Os to Os; u; ;1(4 °6 5 01 to 33s Od ; barley, new, 14s Od to 163 6cl; ditto od pd potato oats, 14s to 16s ; ditto new, 00s Od to ° C c ; , pestbelf• oats 13s 6d to 15s 6d; ditto new, 000 to 00s 0 ;, is i bw• sittoi iniertopi !I h STIRLING , roefignis, _ 53,1 , or iilr, one' Os to Os; ditto ditto new, 195 31 to 915 165 to to „ 0 ,1; boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to ' d i tto new, I °' o d to 14 ' l itt Os Od; as ~.A• ss .., Oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto neW, ~, 0 , v. , boy 4i:to, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto 1 1., 'to 359; -. 515. ditto, 18s 6d d2s to od 20s a d i coitattmo brewers, 315 ns Od; P ell4° per boll, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 12s 9d tolo : ditto eV; 6d to Os Od; fl our, new per sack, 31s Od to 33 5 ~' od t° , 0 9 4; 27s 6d to 295 Od ; dit e t a o l barley , per ton, Us Od to Os ; ditto new, ditto ne w hayfresh butter per lb, 8,1 to 10d; eggs PFel:llq2lz,e7id'.Bd,tlolo 60s to , in tlO i rALKIRK, AUG. 22. —The supply of graglsOil pe r 0 0, c 0; market 00 Vv a a o s d 53 t0 O b s o o ll d s ;; wohaetsa,t 005 at 20s Od to •••,, . bo ng, uv.. im to 00s Od Wive,' IP - average Bzßwpiecprie:LbApoelulrGi;a:lo2:2tum.a_retaewl:.hOesatto, 03sd9psteor6Idt:d7, de, „ , oats, COs Od ; rye 00 a Od; beans, 00s 0. 1 ,451 , new, 155 to 00s Od ; ditto old, HAWICK, Arc. 22.—Whtat, old, 3 1, 04 1 ; m ile 2 9 s to d e ts•- 00 , , , oatmeal, load, usits, 0 . , 4; t l o 4s 22 6 s cl o t d o ; 16 be s s O ns d , ; 2 c o o s m o m d common o2a2tss,lo,lsl3stgdit6°93;l Pesislll°PerlP Pe r 11)0 11 °' bushels. Os a 0 Buddle's W. COAL HartleyliClvin,s NelavrTtlea Begbies yn M -------Al4RslfidETEirsTdcrllTlr ................ ..... .. ,15 , 1 .... s t field . . &swell .......... ...... .... 05 Cresswell • iu- ... '''''' 12s Odiltichnfundl o p..' Os ' 6 °l North Percy Hartley. lls 6cll NI. Hetton to II 45 , i 1 Ord's Main ll's get° ... 4 O t ' 1. s 6dlßusse , ....... 1 5 'Canfield Mo 13s Od Stewart s ......... 14g pd 'Canfield Al °r • ough ..... ~ U" its 6dlScarbor . ...... le 4 ,1 oor But West Wyla es lls 6d C ara •••". • .. ...... " igs - 6 a m WYlam „. 125 6dßentley .. " ..... ..... 1 ,4 J , •• •• 133 J d Heselden ..". .. . . 40 bo. Wall's End, &c. h g a ll .... , i'' Oa lleug .. .... of Acorn Close s ..„.. 145 wn ••• Gosforth ... l2s 6d; Relloe... .............. . I gs , e•.... ' . . 9J Hedley ~ 0 . h ....... , Ma da n Hilda 133 6d, Adelaide Tee!..'........• i'm ~1 Welke gas :.-3d Tees ...... :. _, 3 ...... .45 0: Eden Main ... 13s 31' Birchg. Gringo_ ~..., f : „, Is flartleY . Bell Belmont l4s 9dSnapethorpe....._ ....., 14s 9d'whitworthcou shit)74. o' 9l- or P pi' [ADvErtTis.. c o g _A b 1 Es t pelaq .:MENT.I—A daolzerous ~cu ¢d Pr, lowa -, attended with Swelling and Ingarolnati° e' , (I % to 1 , 4 °- K Kiel, s s Pills and Ointment.--Extract of I je ll s 1 beP o lf _," nounce Pt ilsby, Lincolnshire. October 8, 1. 1 84 . l' t u pon lee s : your pills° you a most wonderful care w u ° f ru a ttae lc o milii pelas ► 1 and ointment. I had a very sec , an d , ho ot th tion . n my right foot and ankle, with sweliutoye 01.100( an alarming extent. I was unable to OP u ge o w t , assistance of crutches. I consulted an 0 11° by i be 0 no purpoikg, of 9 i e. However, in less than two Wee Sold r I); your ointment and ' to the sort), o4, knew me. S. pth, I was c ured, ,_riner. 0, Dru • ggists igned, Joseph Gildon, ala abliOnie and at Professor Holloway's P'S' Sttand , L -.....! ondon. _ ninv O gn n hate the h of 2'76 2 t 4 h t In n ' s t Peter ug m, the fatly a t OlFCBeinßAsri allsgis°tOrn, the Wife , j„„- Barker Esq. at Upper Clapton, . of c the 22d :it Raithby-ha l/ t WO it. •A, th e OF A DAUGIITO 000, On inst., hi .cIOI O. heEdward Rawnsley. i• W. V ic. olo • ' o_n the 22d inst., at the Guildhall,laa. Abbot On the Dth hist at the Vicarage, Henry Douglas. ~ ,eftl 11U i d' On • 114.1iBIED• b gicbleoverfcg' at; the 20th inst ,at St. Bride's Chao , g fog" tlfo r third son of the late . John tort Phillips, da ub of - ~,e9 west , to Frederica M •est chine' law aria Lou,Louisa, e P de Rutzen, of Slebech hll Pembrokeshire. . bu rf , o f .a Oa the 2' • - a , , , s ilo rl "d fogloir r Ed 2d inst., at St. George ~ Geo l , fr o rI , yard, fifth sou of the late Gerald Fitz J A ao James's. ~ cur e, civ square, Bath, and the Queen oficou Lincol Fanny, eldest daughter of G. Draper of CoEflloioo o lfrßeonnon n r:at:c t idthhi h ilfieele e ee2: l 2l;2 4 oa,..l,2.iti t tdirhh l hel i jtttn,...o:,eharataktGgLP Catherine,aea jw r i i p si s sb , E l o, : uci j , g e i fi r h ero l yog b i fee !u te r h s f2 l o e e i r.v : . : :v r il lj n. li o. j it6o C ;soo: 00 : 0 o. rie l lolo te e : 01,001 ; T h On the thw A a t o i h g r r' Ev.ert_on, E sq. Plin ;Or( tttnihela,:eestwAnectonEiirnsgsostti.i.,,otahaftt:PF:eiereseirtsktt:onrnisiesn,:_ chee4 7 iigiee On the n s e h 4 l a - t r . h l , l :i u i n v s' e e t r. : 1 0 a o 2 e 5 1 l Joann:heel:le: is:1: 11 P 01.1 of Browne s '' a g e ' d IZegel' 0,015 Lo i O A d n o dn t w of the late W. F. Gardner, gAT.:'°"c,);E:(ll4 P 2l r s in t t i e n d st an J d h pa ß b ;Tapas htotbruyo, d fished 11111 " -- 00 °6 0 0 13 ti Strand, in the"pr:cillnot"orfkte::::"l' '414.1 -11° No 11 2. Strand, Printer, at gaol 411 1 Atiddieocx, Tuesday, APO 1" First