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TN) DIRECTORS hereby Give Notice, that it is intended wilco the charges shall have been previously paid) to SELL, on the 28th of MA RCH NEXT, certain Deals, Staves, Flattens, and other WOOD GOODS, lying at their South Dock, which, from the l ength of time remaining on hand, are not considered to be worth the charges due thereon. The Sale will include several Parcels for which delivery orders have been paned. A. List of all the Goods may be seen at this House. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, Billiter-square, Feb. 17, 1853. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1853. No . 18,850.] [PRICE D. RMELTING WORKS to be DISPOSED of, 'With immediate possession. The PENCLAWDD COPPER 'YORKS, on the River Burry, near Llanelly, about eight miles from Swa nsea, and three from a stati on on th e S ou th W a l e s Railway, comprising about eight acres of l an d, on w hi c h t h e presen t works are tot ; manager's residence ; a private dock, admitting vessels of ',Fife burden ; ex ce ll en t coa l at h and, which is delivered b y ra ilway throughout the works; and an ample and untailing s upply of water 'or 411 purposes. The erections are o f th e b es t materials and con structloti possess every requisite for copper smelting, for which they have been hitherto used, but may easily be converted for other pur- Defies, and may be increased to any extent. For further particulars apply to Low's Patent Copper Company 58 , Old Broad-street, London. This day is published, price 25., THE COUNTY COURT of WOLVERITAMP TON. Its Abuses and their Remedies considered, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Brougham. Shares, &c." The sum charged against capital for the half-year as " interest on loans and on capital and ad vances" is 34,3881. 14s. sd. The report of the directors will be found in another column. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. (From the Times.) By B. BLUNDELL, F.S.A. Loiadon : Davis and Amer, Law Booksellers, 57 Carey-streeet, Lincoln's-inn. CAUTION. TO TRADESMEN, MERCHANTS, SHIPPERS, OUTFITTERS, &% REGENT GALLERY, 69, Quadrant LlfeThe GRAND HISTORIC %L DIORAMA, Illustrative of the and Exploits of the EMPEROR NAPOLEON BONAPA.RTE, OPOP i nted by Mr. Ch ar l es M ars h a ll , o f H er M a j e sty's Theatre, IS NOW OPEN. Perfo rMances.—Afteinoon, 3 o'clock; Evening, 8 o'clock. A.dmlssion, Is.; Stalls, .2s. 6d. Reserved Seats, 3s. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's, le ssee, Charles Emile Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road, o , s _ Li censed pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11. 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VirLAND'S ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRIFICE, preserves and 7 utifies the Teeth, strengthens the Gums, and renders the Breath "Net and pure. B°l4 by A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hattoi-gardens, London ; and by Chemists and Perfumers. LAIR'S' AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. , The foliowing testimonial is another proof of the great al of this medicine : 14 ?dew 57.. Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex . IVetteed by takingßLAlß'S GOUT and RHBIJMATIC PILLS, w rel that I a m b u t performing a duty to that portion of the public .. ° Puty be similarly affected. 1„ About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout 11 Y hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va -147 of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and . tnabi, under Sir John Moore, in the 18th Hussars. I always pro ' 4 14 ;, - . the best medical ald, without obtaining any essential relief, • th;:,n 2 l sufferings can be appreciated only by thbse who know some "eBof this disease. It • t em , Was during one of those paroxysmci, between twelve and thir loir Years ago, that I was recommended to try 13LAIR'S PILLS. I she time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity h v'un tad entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect ealth. • e as 'ruin that moment. whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis keel approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to te .. B so valuable, that were it not that the days of magic have e2Ced. I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. r enver, I rej o i ce t o say that my health has not in any degree suf - 1 4p_. but en the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS ',..o,yrards its improvemen. ' ll ave recommended the Pills to many friends, .and the result ', 'ays been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, "To "GARRET FOSTER GILL. Front, 229, Strand." every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo nhL &C., BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a retnedy, contain neither mercury. opium, or any other oigerous drug, require no care whatever in their use, and to ra gn7.iDl cure and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Iteal„,_`` by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable ifi;f rne Vendors. Price 2s. 9d. per box. itlisir BLAIR'S GoUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe (2 6 , ` Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the li ~,°niment Stamp. 4EbI CALL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF bit . 4 , YOUTH AND MkTURITT. bock, -341 JEL LL'MERT, 87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, XdIMI t Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of 3 ocl err", Licentiat Honorary .llember of the Londoa Hospital Medical Me of Apothecaries ' Hall, London, &e., &c. 4 1- be consulted, personally, or by letter, on • restuti e •t? i ,„ , • arious disorders of the nervous and generative system, t, hired ducc ~: `nari Juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro ' ''' d Z" Q ra misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ' e i , o _27caY at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dia.- 1 ,:• 4 :. &mown to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience .7 p ine treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist e secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in t risteliCe, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous nobility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Mang- Nies, Impotency, Local and Constitutional weakness, 'and their e ndless modifications owe their ahnost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that an men should know that there are D, r inciples of p e rsonal management which cannot be violated without ,Tcurringgriev ous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed Le hey day o f inconsiderate self-indulgence , how these penalties ''aY be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove-I, and' how the evil and its con-equences may be avoided, and above all, tilh.at there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional Vagement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. i °Cum, .LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged In DOCTOR N u le extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate coin- et „hl, ad is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardss the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had .1. ' • .., c onfidence, through theediu r rn rom of w the ch pu n b o li g 'e press, to direct rade of society is .',erstion to these enormous ells, t f hi • ...le, ),,,,.. In selecting this dpartmen e practice, he has been amply b..;_arfled by the great success that has attended his efforts in the s k i r - l t raent of these cases, which are too ge nerall y confided to the ' / 4% 0 1 unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated ,Zoations, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues kC eir Patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who • been induced to place faith in their pretensio n s. Sixtill borne for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from t PI batii, -‘ght. All letters must contain the fee of 11., and advice and IT, ei nes can be forwarded to any initials or address. __ an desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'ME RT "''' ilrst obtain a copy of his work on 411„,„ SELF-PRESERVATION. Oe n '"'eal Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and tribrative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des •es...4 i n detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and ~ -s e , ese r ,.. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct r'r 4 ,,,,i'Lion of thei mans, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, ._rot e I: 4 'i Blianish Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Alg n „ -e ra and Co. ' 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; a 3, '") 39 . Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or fre l e a eli _st for forty-two stamps, to any iddre33 from the Author's res - < ...._ e, 87. REDFOISM-SVARE, LONDON. IM PORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, J et Published, by R. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London. I No I. 0BYO:, in cloth. price ss. by post free, ss. 6d., 11 ,TRUE dr FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, 111 reh; tl „with the View; o the Correction of wide-spread Errors ''t , t ‘ te, aw "...n to the Treatment and Cure of'Sufferers from Debility of the Una_ System , or Sexual HypochondriasiS. cloislated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD oil o known to English readers by his frequent practi e, One to German medical literature. This is the first : 11 re, ft d: 4l :o " rms us, that he has addressed himself to the nos-medi 4teet 4 ` - ' We trust this may not be the last, if he shall w er PY other equally, flagrant evil which it may be in his * We t ; ° , eorrect."--London Medical Gazette. May 30, 1851. i r —in ised in a former number that we should recur to this :nth be order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes v _ ll chi a t severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying .` ll B tt et edulity of the public. The tribe of Quiet Symathisers,' '4,114 i' et cal Friends,' are inere f ilessly exposed ; aria if this book Od it s b e —A•or wh , ay into the hands of those who suffer from th com eved .eh it treats, we are satisfied that many hindreds would lui t ,r„4ch needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of ths tt 4,4anee, though it is that which the quacks most prize— to-"Dirleai ' e Y • • • • • • . This volume is well qualified to put an end to the ent p2Ystem of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ely t,'„"1 1 more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, do Much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. so. n. „, „ Ivo., in cloth, price 3s.by post free, 48., it - 4 t - n' ltE . OE STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi apare y lutr °—' oirtiple actablsafe ' an Fordm Efficient, in even its most Inveterate , nt e s. BY F. B. COURTENAT, In ember of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Pr°ol of his views he (Mr ,tory n , Courtenay) has given 111". Y Whi" ,` great many cases successfully treated, as bad re e- Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. ` th , ri oel a of eas e B ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had rea sted, fi for ll a 14ed n wel7 ears, thetreatment b d; . l . i . tation , d anwas , na udurs t ße nin y ny weeks tre But cases y xvin. and x.f x. both ‘'ev (41 , sev • • • f s niptoms, of a more ag tr Med enty, and complication o y 6, and yet the eetreentenaracter than any detailed by Mr- Srn ful --I' Mics,,, a4lo Pted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently success . li, atho nt of s'frictstre. ) 1 4) 1,, T . O LVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. I;4td-s.treet:altd row a o tin f S:Arwood, 23, Paternoster - . Cernhill. Price One S g each ; by . ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. . _ cl l °l4 'xi•,:,l; e 'util, Recreation, and Rational Uss of T ime. 5i0,,11--Early Rising —Spring and Suraer M Lan nin e Z I.7osts, tin t the Environs of London—The Parks, ki„,%telda. 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A.ogent•str wh may be consulted daily from l , ang . s. eat, o Ylk_till Nine. comehfrinleaiptieedlypersonor persons to my haveki iwrr le H dge that EA S it unprincipled some time past been imposing upon the pub?'. , by selling to the trade and others a spurious article, under the name of BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK, This is to give notice, that I am the Original and Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer of the slid Article, and do not employ any Traveller, or authorise any person to represent themselves as coming from my Establishment for the purpose of selling the sa'd Ink. This caution is ptiolished by me to prevent farther imposition upon the public and serious injury to myself. E. R. BO D, Sole Executrix and Widow of the late John Bond, 25, Long-lane, West Smithfield, London. GREAT CHANGE or a REVERSIBLE WINTER.—Not "once upon a time," but at the present time, Christmas day and St. Valentine's day have changed places, the former being moister than many people wishei, and the latter too chilly to keep Cupid's embers glowing ; but happily for every one, Ladles or Gentlemen, Merchants or Mechanics, the Dress manufac tured by E. MOSES & SON is in all senses suitable for the change —its strength and neatness, its style and workmanship, its quality and price, still leading onward, under the attention and patronage of the Public. A GUIDE TO PURCEIA.SERS OVERCOATS, in several hundreds of styles, comprehending speci mens of the Tailoring art which have no c tunterpart in the Trade These are novel and gentlemanly costume—they are made to Fit with correctness and comfort—they are cut from superior - matadal 4 , and finished in the best and firmest way—they are sold at much lower prices than are charged elsewhere, acd have had more pa tronage than any previously manufactured. SPORTING DRESS, proof against cold, damp, and wet—is easy in all exercises—its quality is proved superior to any as yet produced, and it is charged according to E. MOSES & SON'S uniform low scale of prices. MECHANICS' WORKING DRESS, serviceable, warm, and comfortable, and free from every imperfection which appears in working clothing manufactured by others, The LADIES, whose judgment in HOSIERY, FURS, and cloth ing for themselves and children cannot be doubted, are politely re quested to irspect the novel Stock of Goods offered at the Establish ment of E. MOSES & SON. The prices in all articles are lower than at any house in the world. EMIGRATION TO AWSTRALIA. All emigrants find London the best port for embarkation to the land of golden realities. All Emigrants have likewise found E. MOSES & SON'S OUTFITS the most advantageous, and those who 13• ocured them previous to their voyage, have had more comfort and success than any of their compeers ; indeed, the benefits they have reaped in the quality and price of the goods are said to have equalled the most fortunate "diggings." To supply all Emigrants with OUTFITS and CLOTHING, with every other requisite, E. MOSES & SON keep a separate depart ment in these great Business Establishments, where the best and cheapest goods can be selected by all classes now intending to emigrate. Ship sailing information, and full lists of Outfits for ladies and gentlemen, may be had on application, or post free, to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradosman-like falsehood of " Being connected with heir Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have NO CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OP LONDON, except their own Dstablishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, 3, Bart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, end General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, trim which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A. new Book, entitled "The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions for self-mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for t:,e year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. Id Pon perle Francais. Qui si parla Itrliano. Hier slricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espanol RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of hearing the result of the poll on the question as to whether the board should consist of 13 or 14 mem bers ; to elect directors to fill vacancies at the board ; and also to elect an auditor ; the Hon. F. Scott, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by stating that it was now his duty to inform them of the result of the poll that had been demanded upon the question of whether the direction should consist of 13 or 14 gentle men The number who voted in favour of the board consisting of 14 amounted to 13,566, and the number who voted in favour of 13 was 19,542, showing a ma jority of 5,976 votes in favour of having 13 directors at the board. With regard to the number of proxies, there were 12,521 votes recorded in favour of having 14 directors, and 17,650 in favour of the number being 13. Of those who voted in person, 1,045 votes were recorded in favour of the number being 14 ; and 1,392 votes in favour of the number being 13. The result was, in round numbers, a majority of 6,000 votes in favour of the board consisting of 13 members. This would leave them three vacancies to fill up. Mr. BAKER moved a resohition to the effect that the meeting do now proceed with the election of three di rectors, which having been seconded, Mr. HERAPATH said, he would move the following amendment :—" Considering that.the hoard of directors introduced into an act of Parliament, 11th' and 12th Victoria, chap. 125, sec. 53, passed in 1848, a clause which enacts ' that every auditor shall at and for 12 months previous to the time of his election, and during all such time as he shall continue an auditor, possess in his own right at least 1,0001, Of the consolidated stock of the company, or shares in the undertalcing on which that full amount shall have been paid up ;' considering, also, that a committee of shareholders, appointed on the 28th day of November,,lB49, justly concluding the prin ciple thus affirmed by the board to be at all events ap plicable with far greater force' in 'the case of directors, unanimously concurred in the followino. recoinnaendation: That every director shall at and for 12 months pre vious to the time of his election, and during all such time as he shall continue a director, possess in his own right at least 2,0001. of the consolidated non-preferential stock of the company, or unguaranteed shares in the undertaking on which that amount shall have been paid up ;' it is the opinion of this meeting that none of the present candidates have any claims which should exempt then from the operation of this general principle, nor can any of them properly be considered eligible for the office of director who have not been shareholders in the company for; 42 months at least." Mr. PUNCHER seconded the amendment. This led to a warm and rather personal discussion, but ultimately the amendment was withdrawn, and the motion for proceeding with the election of three directors was carried. _______ On putting the names to the meeting there appeared 45 in favour of Count Eyre, 49 for Mr. M. Uzielli, 15 for Mr. Helps, 35 for Captain Johnston, 2 8 for Mr. Kay, and 10 for Mr. Snell. The CHAIRMAN then declared that Count Eyre, Mr. Uzielli, and Captain Johnston were elected directors. Mr. HELPS demanded a poll. The CHAIRMAN then announced that as a poll had been demanded the votes would be taken that day up to 5 o'clock, and again on Monday, at the York-road offices of the company, from 10 to 4 o'clock, and the result would be declared at the offices, York-road, on Wednesday, at 3 o'clock. The next business was the election of an auditor. Mr. Close retired by rotation, and was eligible for re-election. The motion for the re-election of Mr. Close was put. After some observations, in the course of which Mr. PUNCHER expressed his hostility to the board, a show of hands was taken, and Mr. Close was declared to be re elected. A poll was demanded, and it was arranged that it should be carried on simultaneously with that for the directors, and be declared at the same time. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. DEAN AND DEAN FOREST. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Gloucester on Saturday—Mr. S. Baker in the chair. The report of the directors stated that the whole of the share capital of the company had been raised, and that a very small portion remained unexpended. The outlay at the Gloucester station had been large, but it had greatly increased the public accommodation and facilitated the traffic. This expenditure had exhausted the company's share fund, and had left the works on the dock branch at Gloucester to be completed by the Great Western Company, in whose hands they might be safely left with the fullest confidence of their being carried out with effi ciency, and with regard to the best interests of the port of Gloucester. The sum of 25,0001., needed to meet the company's subscription to the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway, had been raised upon debentures at 4 per cent. per annum. One half of the amount had been paid to that undertaking, and the directors had taken steps to make the remaining half productive of interest during the interval until it should be required to liquidate future calls. The share capital having been expended, the half-yearly payments to shareholders would take the shape of dividends, and not of interest. The rent received from the Great Western Company, under the lease of the line, would form the source of dividend, subject to deduction for the management of T a h n e d i r n e t e e e r i p e s t t a of from thein callsd eb e a n n t d u r e d e d h e e b n t t n a r n e d e he company,income-tax. were 279,0951., and the payments left a balance at the company's banker's of 13,0781. n t t h e. e mere adoption of The r p e r p o o c r e t e d a i n n d g e e n e t n o fi f h a e d c c o t u e sstwateerme VALE OF NEATH. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at Cardiff, Viscount Villiers in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. J. Williams) read the report, which explained that out of 3,115 shares forfeited 2,038 had been disposed of on satisfactory terms, leaving at the last meeting 1,077 in hand. Of these 280 had been disposed of under special and advantageous circum stances realising the full amount of arrears due upon them, and the others would be disposed of as opportti• I nity occurred. The financial affairs of the company were never in a more satisfactory state than at the present moment. The revenue account showed an increase of about 59 per cent. on the gross receipts,' and a decrease of 19 per cent. on the working expenses, as compared with those of the previous half-year. The increase of traffic is the mere satisfactory, as the more important portion of the line is yet uncompleted, while the mineral traffic is still undeveloped. The credit balance shown by the general revenue account justifies the directors in recommending a dividend of 1/ per cent. per annum to be declared on the profits of the past half-year. Two ironworks in the. Vale of Neath, which had been sus pended for some years, had been reopened, and one of them had been taken by one of the largest iron firms in the kingdom, in connection with the Aberdare Iron works, already an important feeder to the line. The open ing in October last of the South Wales extension to Car marthen had already tended to improve the traffic, though the full advantage of, direct railway communication between the Welch iron districts and the country west of Swansea cannot be experienced until after the open ing of this line to Merthyr. Considerable accession of traffic was expected from the establishment of an im portant steam navigation company at Milfordhaven. Two directors, Messrs. Morgan and Vaughan, and Mr. Wayne, auditor, retired by rotation, but were eligible for re-election. Mr. Brunel's report stated that the entire line would be ready for opening early in the summer. The accounts showed that the receipts on account of capital had amounted to the sum of 538,6041., and the half-year's revenue had produced 8,4921. The CHAIRMAN said, the dividend which the directors proposed to declare of 1 per cent. had been fairly and justly earned ' upon the half-year, leaving undisturbed the balance of 1,0001. which had been left over at the last half-yearly meeting. As to the general statement of accounts, they would see that great care had been taken in the expenditure, the working expenses having been reduced 19 per cent. in the last half-year alone. He reminded the proprietors that two years ago only 14,000 shares had been paid up ; the number of shares now in the hands of responsible parties was 24,000. (Cheers.) He trusted this state of things would be re garded as satisfactory,. and that the proprietors would give the board of directors credit for having discharged their trust faithfillly. (Cheers.) As to the future pro gress of the works, they were in hopes now of a speedy completion of them. They were aware that in conse quence of the extraordinary rains and floods the progress of the works had been considerably impeded. He con cluded by moving the adoption of the report. The motion having been seconded was carried unani mously. . The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend at the rate of 1/ per cent. should be paid. Mr. H. A. BRUCE, M,P., seconded this resolution. A short discussion followed, the proprietors appearing generally satisfied with the prospects of the concern, and at receiving a dividend before its resources were half developed. ' Other formal resolutions were adopted, the retiring directors and auditors were re elected, and the proceed ings terminated. EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION. On Saturday the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at the Euston Terminus ; Mr. J. Suitt in the chair. The report showed that the gross receipts from traffic during the last half-year amounted to 37,663/. 55., and the expenditure to 22,1351. 10s. 10d. ; leaving, after adding the surplus of 121. 18s. 4d. from the pre vious half-year's accounts, a total net receipt of 15,540/. 12s. 6d. ; from which, deducting interest on debentures (5,1361. 18s. Bd.), there remained a balance available for dividend of 10,4031. 13s. 10d. This sum world admit of a payment of 15s. a share, and leave 653/. 13s. 10d. to be carried forward to the credit of the next half year's account. The directors recommended a divi dend at that rate. The . Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the meeting on the progressive increase of th; traffic, observing that the number of passengers in, excess of the corresponding half year of 1851 was 135,558, making an addition to the receipts of 1,8451. 2s. 9d. He also remarked, that in the first seven weeks of the current half-year there had been a comparative increase of nearly 9501., or about 16 per cent. The goods traffio was gradually de veloping itself, and a very great accession might be an ticipated, which would now be aided by the completion of the communication with Haydon-square. In reply to a question, the chairman stated that the company had no financial interest in the Woodford scheme, though the directors hoped that, if carried out, it would benefit the line. The report was adopted unanimously ; the dividend recommended, which is at the rate of 3 per cent., was declared ; and, after re-electing the retiring directors, and passing a tote of thanks to the chairman and his co-directors, the meeting separated. BRISTOL AND EXETER. The report to be presented to the approaching half yearly meeting states that the gross traffic receipts upon the Bristol and Exeter Railway, from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, 1852 (including the sum of 2,2651: 4s. 7d., received on the Exeter and Creditors ' Railway, and due to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company), amount to the sum of 129,8211. 2s. 5d., 'which is 2,1771. 6s. 2d. more than in the corresponding half or the year 1851. The working expenses, during the same'periOd, amount to 57,3801. 19s. 4d., or 44.20 per cent. on the grosd receipts, and 623/. 14s. ld. ppr mile on 92 miles ofrailway. This increase of 10,819/. os.9d. above the working expenses in 1851, arises chiefly upon the maintenance of the permament way and the repairs of locomotive plant, both of which have been very much improved. The number of passengers is 488,219, conveyed 13,710,025 miles ; but in order to institute a comparison with the corresponding half of the year 1851, the pas sengers on the Exeter and Crediton line, namely, 79,694 conveyed 557,858 miles, must, be deducted. The num bers will then be 408,525 passengers, conveyed 13,153,067 miles—making 30,566 more passengers on the Bristol and Exeter line prnper, conveyed 1,630,341 miles more than in 1851. The disposable balance of the revenue account, including the sum of 9,004/. 19s. 7d., brought over from the former half-year, is 55,534/. 3s. 3d., which will • provide for a dividend of 41 per cent. per annum, or 21 per cent. for the half-year on 2,000,0001. of consolidated stock. The surplus then remaining to be carried to the credit. of the next half-year will be 10,534/. 3s. 3d. GREAT NORTHERN. The half-yearly accounts of the Great Northern Rail way Company have been made up. Tne following is the nett revenue account to Dec. 31 last : Da. To dividend to 31st Dec., 1852, due to the proprietors of the 5 per cent. perpetual pre f ere nce stock ... ••• £32,329 7 6 due to the To dividend to 31 st Dec, 1852, proprietors of the 5 per cent. redeemable preference stock ... ••• •••• ... 17,556 18 4 To six months' guara n teed rest, due 31st Dec., to the East Lincolnshire Railway Company •• • •• • ••• ••• 18,000 0 0 To six months' interest on the bonded debt of East Lincolnshire Railway Company 439 17 7 To six months' g uaranteed rent, due to the Royston and Hitchin Railway Company 8,000 5 0 To six months' rent of navigations, viz. : Of the Foss Dyke Navigation 4,785 2 8 Of the Witham Navigation £5,272 10 0 Interest onWitham mort ••• ... 557 510 gages 5,829 15 10 Rent o fLouthNavigation 750 0 0 Interest onLoUthmortgagees 772 17 5 1,522 17 5 To balance carried down ... 122,891 16 11 £211,356 1 3 NOTE. The total amount of interest duo on the mortgage debt of . Ne company for the six months is ... •• • ... £59,084 5 2 Which being deducted from the opposite balance, will leave, available for dividend 63,807 11 9 £122,891 46 11 CR. By balance from last half-year 72,905 6 2 Less proportion of the in terest on the mortgage debt, due July 15, 1852 . £23,719 2 8 And third dividend, at 2 per cent. per annum, on the original 25/. stock, and 4 per cent per annum on the B Stock, voted by the general meeting, August 26, 1852 .. • .. 48,0520 5 0 71,801 7 8 Net balance ... • 1;1,103 18 6 By amount due from the Eastern Counties Railway Company for six months' inter est and rent charge on Royston branch to 31st of December ... ... 8,400 0 0 By balance from revenue account to this • ,201,852 2 9 date £211,356 1 3 By balance brought down _2122,891 16 11 The above balance of 63,8071. 11s. 9d. enables the directors to propose a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum on the original 251. stock, and of Si. per cent. per annum on the B stock, with a balance of 3,7021. 2s. sd. for the next June account. The receipts on capital account have been as follows : the amount re ceived on the original 251. stock, 4,808,4371. 10s. ; ex tension capital, 185/. ; preference capital, 1,297,927/. 15s. 3d. ; redeemable preferende capital, 750,000/. ; balance in hand of religious instruction fund, 511 11s. lid. ; temporary advances to traffic account, 138,0811. lls. lOcr. ; temporary advances, 100,0001. The latter sum was paid off in January last. The loans on mort gage are 2,596,5721. Of these the sum of 1,238,4401. has been borrowed at 5 per cent. ; 706,8171. at 41 per cent. ; 193,0921., at 3} per cent. ; and 100,0001. at 31 per cent. The expenditure on capital account during the past half-year has been 323,4391. 6s. ld. ; and the total payments 9,572,840/. 7s. 7d.. The balance in favour of capital is therefore 118,415/. ls. sd. This balance "includes the sum-invested in South Yorkshire LEEDS NORTHERN. The report of the directors to be submitted to the half-yearly meeting on Friday next states that the amount expended during the half-year ending Dec. 31st, 1852, under the head of capital, was 60,453/. The directors have adhered to the policy of postponing any further calls upon the preferen ce s h ares, and they have been en abled to meet the mor e urgent claims upon t h e com pany, chiefly by means of temporary loans and advances, and by the sale of forfeited shares. They are also con tinuing their endeavours to renew the debenture loans of the company at lower rates of interest, and they have recently succeeded in obtaining considerable sums on loan at 3i per cent. The gross traffic receipts during the half-year were 38,513/ ., f rom which deduct wor ki ng expenses 18,4371., and G overnment duty 754 1 . (being a total of 19,2021.), l eav i ng a surplus for the ha lf- year o f 19,3111., to which add th e b a l ance of last half-year, 1, 607/ , and there remains a tot a l di sposa b le surplus of 24,9 18/ . A s the eutire interest upon the company's loans on deben ture, as well as its other advances on loan, is now for the first time chargeable ag a i ns t revenue, and the sum requ i re d to cover these charges amounts to 18,467/. remains a balance of 2,451/.-; and, inasmuch there only as several large sums are still due by th e company as compensa ti on for the unfortunate accide n t s w hi ch occurred last autumn, and which are chargeable a ga i nst revenue, th i s b a l ance must necessarily be carried over to the next half-year's account. This amalgamation, which, after mature con sideration, has been so fully approved of by this com pany, will, it is hoped, receive the sanction of the share holders of the two York companies to the improved terms to be submitted to them. In the meantime, the present independe n t wor ki ng o f th e li ne has been placed on an amicable and satisfactory footing as regards the two other eel:lvan - lei; and, in case the assent shareholders in those companies is obtained, as expected, it is proposed that the interim working traffic arrange ments, until the act of Parliament sanctioning the amal gamation can be obtained, shall commence from the Ist of April next. The requisite preliminary steps have, in accordance with these arrangements, been taken to wards obtaining the act of Parliament to legalise the amalgamation of the three companies under the name of " the North-Eastern Railway Company." UPPER INDIA. The Upper India Railway Company gains steadily in public opinion, and all the previous estimat es o f tra ffi c are found to be considerably under the the mark. Mr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent engineer, has assured to the undertaking his active support, with advice and assistance whenever required. From the paramount and acknowledged impoi tance of this railway to the good governmept and prosperity of India, the directors have every hope of obtaininig from the Hon. East India Company the same terms and con ditions as have been already accorded to similar under takings the existing traffic securing a retur n on the capital invested far beyond the amount of any guarantee that could be required. The chief divisions of the line are— Ist. From Allahabad to Cawnpore, about 130 miles in length. Allahabad is an ancient and populous city of great fame and importance in the East. Crowds of pilgrims resort to its sacred shrines and temples ; it is the entrepot for the trope by the steamers and the larger country craft, and a principal civil and military station. Cawnpore is one of the largest military stations in India. 2nd. About 80 miles in length to Ferruckabad, a civil and military station, and the most important emporium for the valuable products of the fertile province of Rohil cund. 3rd. About 90 miles in length, to Agra, once the capital of India, and now the seat of the Government of Upper Indi, or the Agra Presidency. Agra is besides an opulent and commercial city. 4th. This section, about 100 miles in length, will ter minate at the imperial city of Delhi, connecting by means of the railway the ancient metropolis of India with permanently deep water in the Lower Ganges. Future sections will carry the line on to Lahore and the Indhs. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA. The half-yearly report of the directors, to be submitted to the next general meeting, shows that the traffic re ceipts for the half-year ending 31st of December, 4852, amounted to 30,3471., being an increase over those of the corresponding half of the preceding year of 3,1161. This increase appears to the directors as very satisfac tory, and leads them to look forward to such a further augmentation of the company's income, when the via duct over the Boyne will be completed, and extension of the Navan branch to Kells will be opened for traffic, as will afford the shareholders a fair return for the capital they have embarked in the undertaking. The viaduct over the Boyne at Drogheda has been steadily progressing ; and though the weather during the winter has been very unfavourable, the contractor, Mr. Evans, still hopes to have it ready for the passage of trains at the time originally agreed on, viz., in the month of May. In pursuance of the resolutions passed at the last general meeting, the preference of 4 per cent. shares then created have been issued to the extent of 1,454 shares ; and with the proceeds arising therefrom, and other moneys in the hands of the company, the mortgage debt due to the Dublin and Belfast Junction Company has been reduced from 183,4331. to 130,0001. As these preference shares afford a most unexceptionable security, the directors have no doubt that they will soon be dis posed of, and the company thereby enabled to effect a saving in the annual charge for interest. The balance of net profits for the half-year is 10,7141., out of which the directors recommend a dividend of 245. per old share, and Bs. per third share, to be declared, which will amount to 9,1261., and will leave a balance to be carried to the reserve fund of 1,5881. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRELAND).—The half-yearly meeting of this company was held in Dublin on Saturday. The attendance was large, and the chair was taken by Sir E. M‘Donnell, chairman of the com pany. The directors, in their report, stated that the traffic for the past half-year, as compared with the cor responding period of 1851, showed an increase of 16,139/., nor was the increase confined to any particular traffic, but appeared to be extended to passengers, goods, and cattle. There was a slight increase in the working ex penses, which, as compared with the receipts, were equal to 34 per cent. The .nett surplus revenue for the half-year was 60,9581., out of which a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent., or V. 2s. 6d. per share, was recom mended. This would leave a balance of 4,708/. to be carried to the next half-year's account. Arrangements had been made for carrying out the magnetic telegraph between Dublin and Cork. The Killarney Junction Railway. will be openel in May next. The report was unanimously adopted. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY.—The annual general meet ing of this company was held on Friday, at the office, 50, Old Broad-street; Mr. H. A. Aglionby, M.P., in the chair. The report, which we have already published, was then read. A balance-sheet, and a statement of the receipts and expenditure during the past year; were also submitted to the proprietors. The home receipts, for calls on original shares, deposits on extension B shares, guaranteed interest, &c., were 200,0681,115. ld. ; India, 9,9851. 6s. 11d. ; total, 210,5031. 18s. Payments, in cluding interest to proprietors, 1 44,3841. 12s. 7d.; India, 161,2281. 13s. ld. ; total, 305,6131. ss. Bd, The chair man moved the adoption of the report, which was unanimously agreed to ; and, in reply to a question, stated there was no reason to apprehend any interference, as regards any other line, by which their interests would be affected. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors terminated the proceedings. IS THERE A BOURBON IN THE UNITED STATES l—The Mo fausaezvienri f eaao of the second Amer n an um s b er e i r al o ? under Puena in th 's e M con n d th u l c Y t most eminent literary men in the United States—con tains an essay professing to establish the existence, in writerlak s the person of the Rev. Eleazer Williams, an American missionary, of Louis XVII., heir of the throne of France—in other words, that young Dauphin attempts a wen t, in whom Simon, the jailor, treated with such brutality, and whom historians relate to have died in his childhood. The narrative is by one Rev. John Hanson, w h ose " worth k an n d ow ab n il c i l t4" y i ra s a a n ssu of re N d , b w y y th o e rk ß . ev T . h D e r. to prove, amongst other things, that Belanger, in 1848, confessed, when dying, that he had conveyed the Dau phin to the United States ; that the French A.mbassa dor, Genet, acknowledged that the Dauphin was in the state of New York in 1817 ; that the Indian woman, his reputed mother, does not acknowledge him to be her child, whilst boxes of clothing and medals of Louis XVI. and Maria Antoinette were left with the child ; that he recognised the portraits of Simon the jailor, and of Madame Elizabeth, when unexpectedly placed before him by Professor Day; that, like the Dauphin Williams was idiotic at the age of thirteen, and that various in quiries have been made about him, from time to time, by ecclesiastical and other dignitaries of France. This is the substance of the various allegations attempted, to be substantiated by outward testimony; but the evidence most direct, and at the same time most susceptible of in stant disproof, is that advanced by Mr. Williams, him self, and which is to this effect :—He asserts, and is so 1 far supported by the evidence of others, that when the Prince do Joinville was in America in 1841, he sought out the rev. gentleman, and paid him d istinguished at tention. But this is far from being all. The Prince not only sedulously cultivated the rev. gentleman's acquaint ance, but, in an interview fixed by himself, disclosed the facts of William's history. A variety of circumstantial evidene is given, but most of the rest is highly impro bable, and almost refutes itself. Thus it is said, " With dto documents Mr. Williams has regar be en unaccount since he rec.& • ably careless. A short time . wed a letter, purporting to be from the private secretary of Louis Napoleon, making inquiries in a respectful manner con cerning the events of his life, and also similar communi cations from several French bishops, and a cardinal, but for reasons best known to himself, he returned no i answer. These letters, together with one from Louis L Philippe, were accidentally burned a few weeks ago ; whilst lying on his table " (!) All this i s very clumsy— )4 unworthy of a rappist or even a clairvoyant. The blighting and withering curse which has so long brooded over the destinies and darkened the prospects of the Australian colonies, in the midst of all their golden prosperity, is at last withdrawn. Transportation to Van.Dienien's Land has ceased. The vial of wrath which we have for sixty years been pouring forth on this noble and beautiful region is spent to the last drop ; the deadly wine we have poured out for our remote colonies is drained to the dregs. Henceforth we shall plant wheat without tares, and cease to burden one com munity with the crimes and vices of another. This victory of right and•juitice has indeed been slow. The transportation system received its first shock from the report of the committee of the House of Commons in 1837. It has lingered since then for fifteen years, but has never recovered the blow it _ . then received. That report effectually discredited transportation in the form in which it was most lucrative to the settler, least injurious to the con vict, and most economical to the mother country. Before 1840 transportation was, in fact, a system of slavery, of forced and unremunerated labour for the benefit of individuals, stimulated by the free application of the lash. We have not one word to say against the nume rous and conclusive arguments which the committee of the House of Commons, presided over by Sir William Molesworth, adduced against what was called the assignment system. Material wealth was purchased at the expense of frightful moral pollu lion, and the new society was deepliiii - o - FuMfa with the poison of crime. But bad as this system was, experience has shown that it was infinitely better than any that has succeeded. Change has followed change, each in its turn announced as an important improvement, each in its turn discarded as a failure and a scandal. We rejoice sincerely that the struggle with Australia is brought to an end, and congratulate the country that the end, though tardily arrived at, has been reached soon enough to enable us to concede the point without disgrace. The resolution to discontinue transportation was, it appears, taken by Sir John Pakington, but great credit is due to the Duke of Newcastle for the bold and decisive manner in which he has carried it out. It had been intended to send several more ships to Van Diemen's Land,—in fact, to continue the system till new arrangements could be matured and decided upon. This was a very imprudent resolution,—a very ungracious way of doing a gracious act. The quarrel has been suf fered to go so far with the Australian colonies that every fresh ship sent out was felt by them as an insult—almost as a blow. Every such event has lately been received with one universal outcry of indignation, and with demonstrations of popular displeasure gradually increasing in fierceness and bitterness. It was not worth while to incur all this odium, and stir up all this hatred, for the sake of a mere temporary convenience—for the sake of a policy which we were about to abandon. Govern ment has fully met the wishes .of the colonies, at the expense of much inconvenience and some pecu niary loss. We sincerely trust that this liberal policy will be met and appreciated with a corres ponding spirit by the colonies. Canada conciliated by the Clergy Reserves Bill, Australia attached to us by the cessation of her great grievance, afford a favourable earnest of the colonial administration of the Duke of Newcastle. A career thus begun bids ' fair to triumph over many " impossibilities." The " impossibilities" of restoring peace, order, and good government to the Cape, and of giving self government to the Australian colonies, on the same terms as have been given to North America, are, we trust, about to disappear before that unpre judiced judgment and strong will which have alone been wanting to carry into effect principles the truth of which has come to be universally recog nised. The abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land had become so clear and obvious a necessity that very few practical statesmen can be found to contest it for. a moment. But this step, so clearly wise and right in itself, is but the beginning of a controversy involving questions the most difficult and opinions the most opposed. We have got rid of transportation, but crime unhappily remains. How shall we deal with it ? Shall we bury it out of our sight in some other remote corner of the universe, or shall we retain it among us, and seek to turn it to account by employing it on national works ? For a limited time transportation is to be continued to Western Australia. It would be un reasonable to cavil at this resolution. The colony is separated by a long and stormy voyage and an impassable desert from our eastern settlements ; and, possessing neither_ good harbours, a fertile soil, nor, as far as we know, mineral riches, is in some danger of being deserted for the golden regions o the east. There is no fear of any intercourse by land between the two extremities of the Australian continent ; nature has placed between them a burping and river less waste, the waters of which are salt, and the level below that of the ocean. This is, so long as we make Western Australia a place of transporta tion, a fortunate circumstance-, and we ought to be careful, if we do not wish to find in Western Aus tralia a new Van Diemen's Land, so to regulate our steam-packets as not to remove its isolation. We trust this resolution of Government will,, at any rate, teach us something of the geography of Wes tern Australia—whether it be a narrow strip of land closely confined between the sea and the great desert, oriwhether a range of mountains is interposed between them. The splendid geographical situation of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the beautiful -pastoral country at its head, and the singularly temperate climate which all who have visited the gulf describe ,as prevailing,there, may attract, and possibly de serve attention. Removed by fifteen degrees of latitude from our most ' northerly settlement, such a colony could hardly excite a reasonable jealousy, and would seem to offer better prospects than the settlement of Port Curtis, formed and abandoned some years ago. But, while we are indulging such speculations, causes are at work which seem to point to the speedy extinction of transportation as a punish ment. The terror of transportation as opposed to forced works at home lies principally in the igno rance of the people. A long sea voyage and a foreign land are beginning to lose their awe-inspir ing influence on the mind of the English peasant. The tree of knowledge has been plucked, the whole earth is mapped out before us, and its remoter re gions are as well known to this generation as the neighbouring country was to their forefathers. Transportation is, after all, a species of emigration, and emigration is no longer regarded with dislike. When everybody wished to stay at home it seemed reasonable to send our criminals abroad; now that the wish for expatriation is becoming general, it may not be unwise to keep them at home. If Cain had been a Scot the old. epigram tells us his doom would have been to stay at home, and England seems to occupy towards Australia somewhat the same relation as Scotland was supposed to do to wards England. Possibly, the vexed question of secondary punishments will 'at last be solved by economical rather than by moral or philanthropic considerations. The day is probably not far distant when we shall be relieved of a superfluity of labour, and glad to retain on our own shores those criminals whose services we have hitherto been so anxious to dispense with. If, however, this be not so, and transportation is to continue, we trust we shall avoid the error of selecting the most delightful climates of the world, where existence is itself a luxury, for the punishment of our criminals, and seek for less genial skies and a sterner and wilder nature to add new terror to crime. THE AUSTRALIAN MINING COMPANIES. (Front the Observer.) We referred, in tho. Observer of Sunday last, to the wonderful impetus that had been given by the recent discoveries in Australia to the land compa nies, which had been for so many years struggling for a bare existence, and without any apparent prospect of an ultimate return for the capital in vested. These companies now give evident indica tions of turning out among the most valuable specu lations to which the Australian settlements have given birth, and have had the effect of directing the attention of our capitalists to the many other remu nerative investments which these colonies present. We propose, therefore, in the present article, to devote a few remarks to another department of the material wealth and yet undeveloped resources of this vast and extraordinary region, of which little beyond the coast lines have yet been explored, although these have already put forth attractions which, within the last year or two, have produced a mighty stream of emigration, not from England alone, but from every quarter of the globe. COPPER.-it is evident that we are only yet upon the threshold of the discoveries which a. few years, or even months, may bring forth. The geological character of the soil has, as yet, been only cur sorily examined; and when . the aid of science is called into requisition, the most barren and in hospitable districts will, in all probability, disclose subterranean treasures which will effect the most extraordinary revolutions in the social stat us an d future advancement and prosperity of the colony. Upon this point we do not speak without past experience, and in the complete absorption of the manual labour of these colonies from 'all the other departments of industry, by the astounding discoveries of the gold fielils, the public of this country have probably forgotten the enormous returns which were obtained a few years since from the Burra-Burra copper mines in South Aus tralia, the extraordinary results of which were then considered as among the marvels of mining speculations. These mines were started in 1845, with a capital of 12,0001. subscribed by a few mer chants,and traders of Adelaide. In five years the company had with these slender means raised up wards of 56,000 tons of valuable copper ore, the value of which was 738,0001. Nearly all the ore hitherto raised has been sent to this country for the purpose of smelting at a very considerable expense, but the vast coal fields which are now being worked will enable the Australians to smelt their own cop per, while the general importance of bringing into active operation these coal resources to both the colonies and the mother country cannot be too highly estimated. It appears that there is no na tural deficiency of this valuable mineral ' • for on the eastern coast of Australia, about 70 or 80 miles to the north of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, and conveniently situate within a short dis tance of the coast, coal fields, with seams of the best quality, have been discovered, and the appropriate name of Newcastle has been given to the district. COALS.—These coal-fields have been. worked upon a'Tery tmited appliances of improved machinery and modern mining science ; they have been in the hands of private individuals without adequate means, the only association that has hitherto worked them to any extent being the Australian Agricultural Com pany, to which we alluded last week, although, from the want of labour and means of transport; the revenues of this company have been by no means so large as their coal vend might otherwise have led them to anticipate. The chief seat of the coal deposits in New South Wales are the counties of Durham and Northumberland, to the north of Sydney. Through these two districts, and, form ing the line of separation, runs the Hunter river, terminating at the port of Newcastle. The valley of the Hunter is, independently of its coal fields, extremely rich and fertile, and it is in this district that a new company, the Australasian Coal Mining Company, which has just been established in this country, has undertaken to commence its opera tions. They have already obtained upon favour able terms the lease of the Four Mile Creek Col liery, situated near Morpeth, a rising town en the Hunter river, about twenty miles from the sea. This colliery is already well 'mown for the superior coal it produces. It has the peculiar advantage of being worked upon the level, the coal actually crop ping out to the surface, which insures its freedom from water, one of the most troublesome visitors and most serious sources of expense in a coal mine. Besides the seam of steam coal there is, in the Four Mile Creek Colliery, a lower seam of coal of a de scription well adapted for smelting purposes, aid this is the fuel of which the copper companies of South Australia will doubtless largely avail them selves, while it will also be extensively employed in smelting the rich masses of iron stone which in many of the coal fields are found in close proximity, as we find them in Staffordshire and South Wales at home. In addition to this colliery the directors of the Australasian Coal Mining Company have se cured a lease of a valuable block of 320 acres, close to the town of Hexham, a little lower down, and also situate on the Hunter river, about 15 miles from the port of Newcastle. This last district has a ten feet seam of valuable coal, and as it is pro posed to work the mines at a royalty of 9d. per ton, and as the mines can be surrendered at any time on giving a twelvemonths' notice, the liabilities are comparatively trifling, and the outlay of capital merely what is required for the requisite machinery and the laying down a tramway to convey the coal, a distance of fifteen miles, to the port of Newcastle. By the terms of the royalty agreement the company are required to raise 10,000 tons of coal per annum, or to pay for so much ; but it is evident that when the mines are once fairly in working order the quantity raised will fax exceed this amount. The valley of the Hunter, through which the proposed line of railway will run, is almost level—there are no engineering difficulties ; and, independently of their own coal and passenger traffic, the company anticipate that they will derive a very handsome revenue from the conveyance of the coals from the other collieries higher up the river, as well as from the conveyance of goods, many rising towns being already built upon the banks of the Hunter, among which are Maitland, Darlington, Dulwich, Leming ton, &c. LABOUR.—In the present position of the colony it may naturally be expected that the difficulty of procuringi anything like a sufficient supply of manual labour, upon reasonable terms, would form one of the chief obstacles to the efficient working of these mines, the superior attractions of the gold fields having already drawn off the greater portion of the miners employed in the Newcastle coal dis tricts. To facilitate their operations and get rid of this serious difficulty, arrangements have been made with an eminent house for a regular supply of Chinese labourers, who will be indentured for a specified period, and at a fixed rate of wages. It is well-known that the wages in China are merely nominal, and that large numbers of the natives of that country have already emigrated to California, and that they are extensively employed in the Aus tralian colonies. Experience has shown them to be as efficient labourers as the Europeans, and they are, generally spealii ng, steady and industrious, while the re t muneration which, in our colonies would be looked on as low, are deemed bythem unusually large. It may also be anticipated that, whenthe novelty and excitement of gold digging have worn off, those, and they are by far the greater number, who have had a great deal of hard work without any adequate return, will be glad to go back to the comfol is of civilised life, to continuous, but not oppressive and exhausting, labour and regular wages. It will scarce be believed that though coals may be raised and delivered at a fair profit at the colleries of 12s. to 13s. per ton, such are at present the difficulties in the way of providing means of transport, either by land or water, that at a (distance of barely 100 Rifles from the pit's mouth, in the town of Sydney, they are selling at 3/. 10s. per ton. When these obstacles are removed, and a regular supply can be obtained at a fair price, the consumption through out the colonies will, as a matter of course, be largely increased. The production of coal is inti mately connected with the most necessary wants of civilised life, and must largely increase every year in a country which is making such wonderful pro gress. IRoN.—With the supply of coal will keep pace the development and working of the rich copper and iron mines of the colony, while the proposed extension of steam communication to its shores will add largely to the demand that already exists. But great as the home consumption must necessarily be, other and most important markets are at this mo ment open for Australian coal. Our steamers trad ing with India, China, and the western shores of America have been hitherto supplied with their fuel chiefly from England, and the great additional expense they entailed, and the loss and incon venience from delays, when the coal depots, as sometimes happens, are exhausted, are well known to all engaged in the shipping trade of this country. Now it has been ascertained that the vessels trading from Australia to India, China, and the Pacific usually proceed to their destinations in ballast, and the freights are in consequence almost nominal. Coal shipments may, there.bre, be effected at very mode rate rates to these countries, and nearly all that can be raised for some time to come might be ab sorbed in these quarters alone. We need scarce remind our traders of the great inconvenience felt at Melbourne, Geelong, and other towns in Southern Australia, to which the tide of immigra tion has recently set in with so full a current, from the want of fuel. A load of wood will sometimes fetch three or four pounds ; and one settler, writing home, states that, having offered 20s. for a truck full of wood, the man turned round upon him with great indignation, asking, did he suppose he had stolen it ? FUTURE PROSPECTS.—AIthough it is known that coal exists in abundance upon the Eastern coast, and within a week or ten days' sail of Melbourne, such is the difficulty, under present circumstances, of obtaining a supply, that orders have been ac tually received in this country to send out coals on freight to Australia ! With an illimitably supply of the finest wool in the world, with a climate suited to the growth of cotton, which has been al ready cultivated in some districts of South Austra lia, with an abundant supply of iron and copper ores of the richest quality, it only requires the full development of the vast coal fields of Australia to set in motion that spirit of manufacturing and pro , ductive industry which is so striking a characteris ---- tie of The Anglo-Saxon race, and which has enabled r _ . _land to assume the first rank in the comity of nA le h . Under these circumstances we can no t doubt at the opening of the Australian coal mines upon an extensive scale will be the first step in the future manufacturing progress of the country; nor can we hesitate to believe that, as a commercial speculation, it offers a safe and legal , mate field for the profitable employment of capital, as furnishing an abundant supply of an article of general consumption, and for which, at the present moment, there exists an almost unlimited demand, the exigencies of the, colonists having actually coal pelled them to import steam coal from Engla,nd . into Melbourne and Sydney. In the selection of the directors of the new company we are glad to observe that gentlemen of high standing and expe rience have been chosen—some of them connected with the leading steam-ship companies trading with Australia, and all of them practically ac quainted with the trade and requirements of the colonies. It is proposed to obtain a charter of incor poration, which will limit the liability of each share holder; and application will also be made to the Colo nial. Legislature for an act of Council to authorise the execution of the works which are required, namely, the construction of a railway and the erection of the necessary machinery. To accomplish all these important results the whole amount of the capital sought to be raised is only 200,0001., in 40,000 shares, of 51. each ; but this is explained by the fact of the mines being already in working order, and only requiring machinery and labour, while the construction of the tramway will not cost more than similar lines in the. United States, which average 1,5001. to 2,0001. per mile. The whole history of the Australian colonies has been a series of marvellous discoveries and unex ampled progress , and there is little doubt that both will be mutually promoted by the inauguration under such high and satisfactory guarantees of a company established for the purpose of developing one of the most valuable and important elements of the natural wealth of a country. THE INQUIRY AT CROYDON. On Baturd.ay Anne Duff, who, it will be remembered, in the previous week had made a complaint against the medical officer of the Croydon and Epsom union of hav ing assaulted her under very extraordinary circumstances, and which charge was dismissed by the bench, appeared to answer a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury arising out of the transaction. The case excited very great interest on account of the position of the gentleman against whom the charge was originally made and the other circumstances connected with it, and the Town-hall was crowded during the inquiry,. which occupied several hours. Messrs. Byron, Ruards, and Eyles were the presiding magistrates. Mr. Everest, of Epsom, appeared to support the charge ; and Mr. Burgon attended on behalf of the defendant. Mr. J;seph Henri Shorthouse, the defendant in the formery inquiry, now appeared as prosecutor, and he swore positively that he had never on any occasion as saulted the defendant, or had any improper intimacy with her, and that, in fact, her story upon that subject was an entire fabrication. He also gave some evidence, which was of a character not farther to be alluded to, tending to show that the condition of the girl at the time the assualt was alleged to have been committed, was such as to render it impossible for such an act to have been committed. Cross-examined—Witness attended her two or three months, and she got better. Although he had no medi cal order, he looked upon Anne Duff as a parish patient. He made no entry in his books of the medicine and attendance upon her, because he did not expect to be paid. In point of fact, she was not a pauper patient, and he would have been entitled to pay ment. He did not make any charge to the parish, because he understood that as the family had come back to Carshalton, after being passed home to their own parish, they would have been liable to punish ment for again making themselves chargeable. Would swear that while Ann Duff was ill, he did not call regu larly to see her at her father's house. He might have gone twice a week, but not so often as three or four times. If he did go so often, it must have been to see other members of the family who were ill. They were , an ailing family. He did not ask for payment of any money until after Ann Duff was confined, and he then demanded his fee of half-a-guinea for attending the labour. This was all he expected. The disorder she was suffering from only required him to see her every week or ten days, and if he called to see her twice a week, it was be cause she was otherwise ill. He did not recollect saying before the child was born that it was rotten, but he would' not swear he did not do so. He thought, from the state of the mother, that the child would be dead. Mr. Burgon told the prosecutor to be particular and remember what occurred. The prosecutor said he was not there to swear to every expression he might have used. He could not do it. Mr. Burgon—You should have thought of that before you preferred this charge against the girl. Will you swear that when Mrs. Clark brought the child into the room you did not say to her, " What, have you brought that little wretch back ?" Prosecutor—l won't swear I did no t say . so. Mr. Burgon—Do you consider that proper language to be used by a medical man T Prosecutor—l am not here to answer for that. Mr. Burgon—Did you not, after the child was born, go up to the mother and whisper something to her, in the presence of Mrs. Clarli,? Prosecutor—l did. Mr. Burgon—Did you not tell her not to tell Mrs. Clark who was the father of her child ? Prosecutor—l swear positively I did not. Cross examination con ti nue d—Wh en the girl ' s father came to me, and demanded the expenses of the child's funeral, he told me that he considered I was the father of the child. The sum demanded was 235. 6d., and I told him it was not the amount, but if I paid any money I should be considered the father of the child. I told him to call upon me again in a week. By Mr. Everest—What I whispered to the girl had nothing whatever to do with the subject of the child, but was probably in reference to her health and condition. I intended to prefer a charge of attempting to extort money against the father, and my object in getting him to call again was that I might have a witness to hear what he said. By the Chairman—The girl was , not in the family way when I first saw her. I don't recollect when I first told' her she was in that condition. Mr. Doubleday, assistant to the prosecutor, confirmed his statement with regard to the state of health of the defendant, and also proved that he made up medicines for that particular disease for her. By the Chairman—He considered Anne Duff was a private patient, and that Mr. Shorthouse was to be paid for his medicine and attendance, but yet he made no en tries in the books, either for medicine or attendance. There were many other similar cases which were not en tered.. He did not make a rough guess at the end of the year what the amount of charge should be for each. In ordinary circumstances, undoubtedly, it was his duty to have entered the medicines and attendance in the books. By Mr. Everest—The girl's family occupied a misera ble cottage, and had the appearance of being very poor. The Rev. Mr. Cater deposed that upon his questioning the defendant, she told him that the prosecutor was not the father of her child. ~ By Mr. Burgon—She said at the same time that she had promised not to tell who the father was, and she afterwards said that Mr. Shorthouse was the father. Other evidence, to show that the defendant had made contradictory statements with regard to the circum stances under which the assault was committed, was then given, and this closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Burgon then addressed the bench for the defen dant, and he proceeded to adduce evidence for the de- fen ce. Mrs. Clark, who was examined last week, was again called, and, in addition to her former testimony, she said she was present when Mr. Shorthouse went up to the side of the bed and whispered to Anne Duff. She like wise said that the defendant told her to take the child away, because he did not want Anne Duff's father to see it. She also stated that she was present when money was given by the prosecutor to Anne Duff, and that she told her upon one occasion he had given her five shil lings, and that he had tucked the money under the bed. Mr. Burgon having intimated that there were several other witnesses he intended to call, The Bench said it was now past fire o'clock, and as it would be impossible to conclude the inquiry in any rea sonable time, it would be better to adjourn the case at mos. The inquiry was accordingly postponed for a week, bail being taken for the appearance of the girl at the next examination. THE MURDER NEAR ILFORD, ESSEX.—Charles Saun ders, aged 32, the man charged with the murder of Mr. Thomas Toiler, near Ilford, by striking him on the head with a bludgeon, and afterwards cutting his throat, was brought up again on Saturday before the magistrates at Ilford. It will be recollected that the prisoner upon being first apprehended, acknowledged his guilt. Some further confirmatory evidence having been adduced, he was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. It is understood that there are no grounds for the report of the prisoner's insanity. Since his imprisonment he has behaved well, and has conversed rationally, except upon the subject of the murder. When this is men tioned, he seems to think there are persons out of doors who intend him harm. It 'is stated that his mother is in a lunatic asylum. His friends are respectable and welt conducted. FRAUDS ON EMIGRANTS.---Mr• Bromley Moore, for many years chairman of the Liverpool docks, states— " The frauds and impositions now practised on the emi grant from the moment he arrives in Liverpool to the time of his embarkation, are perfectly incredible, con cept to those who have witnessed them. There is scarcely an emigrant who arrives who is not plundered of his money—plundered at every `stage and every step." SOUTH WALES COLLIERIES AND IRONWORKS.—At the close of the present month there will be another advance in the rate of wages paid to colliers and miners in South Wales. QUEEN HORTSNSE.-A work called the "Album de la Reine Hortense" has just been published in Paris. It contains some of the unpublished musical compositions and private letters of her Majesty. Amongst the latter were several addressed ttp her son, the Emperor, shortl before her death.