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In addition to the trains which leave Waterloo ..for Winds.). at -9.45, 10.45, 11.45 ant.; 12.45, 2.15, 3.45, and 4.40 p.m., retarni.4g from-Windsor at 4,30, 6.96, 7.40, and 8.20 p.m., a Special Train will leave Windsor at 10 p.m., after the display of fireworks. ARC HD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo Station, July, 1853. oNnoN & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. atl CHEAP> EXCURSION TRAINS To PORTSMOUTH, SAM:RiII:TRY, WINCHESTER, or SOUTHAMPTON, AND BACK, - FOR 3s. 6d., Every SUNDAY from WATERLOO STATION. For Portsmouth and Salisbury at 7.45 a.m., returning at 7 p.m.; and for Winchester and Southampton, at S a.m., returning from South ampton at 7.30, and Winchester at 8 p.m. FARES THERE AND BACK:— Closed Carriages, 6s. 6d. I Seated Open Carriages, 3s. 6d. By Order. ARCIID. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo Station, July, 1853. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.—FAMILIES to SCOTLAND.—For the convenience of families, a Through First•class EXPRESS TRAIN for SCOTLAND Only, leaves the Easton-square Station at 9 a.m., arriving at Carlisle.. Edinburgh ...... Glasgow 9 20 „ Servants accompanying their employers are taken 6econd Class. At Carlisle the splendid new Railway Hotel adjoining the station Is now open, offering on moderate terms, every accommodation that amiti es can possibly require. General Manager's Office, Easton Station, July, 1853. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR WAGGON MATERIALS. The Directors are desirous of receiving TENDERS for the follow ttg MATERIALS for the CONSTRUCTION of 500 COVERED GOODS WAGGONS:— Staffordshire iron—bar and sheet .. 630 tons. Axle-Box and other Castings.-- ~, .... 91 ~ Nails . .. ... 4 " Wheels and Axles.. ••• • .• ..... ..... ..... 503 sets Bearing Springs .. Patent Waggon Locks .• .. ..... .. • ....... 560 screws.... • • ...... White Lead ...... Tarred Felt • • —........... ...... ....... 900 yards. Parties desirous of tendering may obtain the specification and form of Under on application at this office, and any farther informa tion may be procured from Mr. Henson. of Camden, and Mr. Owens, of the waggon works, Newton, Lancwhire. Tenders, addressed to the undersigned, should be sent in on or before the 30th inst. CHAS. E. STEWART. Secy. Secretary's Office, Euston Station, July 16, 1853. THE GREAT MILITARY CAMP. — By GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, via WINDSOR PARK and VIRGINIA. WATER.—In addition to the regular Trains, a SPECIAL TRAIN w.ll leave the PADDINGTON STATION daily (except Sunday), at 8.45 a.m., for Passengers only, arriving at Windsor at about 9.20 a.m. Omnibuses and carriages wilt be provided at the Windsor Station by Mr. Thumwcod, to ensure which previous application should be made. I'arties taking their own carriages and horses may have them booked at the Paddington 'tation en the previous day, at the following fares:—To. Windsor and back—Carriage, 225.; pair of horses, 17s. Bd.; single horse, I Is. Paddington Station, July lipit MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-GENE RAL"wiII receive TENDERS for the supply of the under- Meraiend articles, for the service of the General Post Office, for I lVe years, commencirm on t ER he Ist September next : LEATHER and CANVAS BAGS. POR,TMANTEAUS. SADDLE BAGS. PISTOL HOLSTERS. TIME-PIECE POUCHES, Ste. Samples of the different articles required may be seen, on appli alba, at the; Inland Office of this Department, between the hours of 11, a.m., and 3,p.m. The Tenders are to be addressed to " Her Majesty's Postmaater- General," and superscribed " Tender for Bags, &c." They must be delivered at the General Post Office at or before coon, on Thursday, The 18th August next. bond fot 5001. will be required for the due performance of the contract. General Post Office, July, 1853. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA -and. PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, etii,t ail Boast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to lbertectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe tliard to health. Sold by the proprietors. Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, ndon, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay anti Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N .B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA EltitlNS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. DEEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, qesulting from juvenile Irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages ogilife, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modernithelogists. Long and practical experience :in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist fence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitibl Marri "Sea, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their °l idless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It !s absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are 1 3 r inciples of personal management which cannot be violated without In timing grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties Mav be mitigated, bow the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequenc es may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarc e ly an y d eg ree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure iCTOit LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and s the only legally qualified l'hysician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous tree. In selecting this from which no grade of society is edepartment of practice, he has been amply rewarded by the great success tresteient of these cases that has attended his efforts in the care th' unqualified and i, gnoranht are too generally confided to the publications, assumed foreign names and who, with their pirated Of their patent nostrums, have infi i. .a er titles, and pretended virtues pretensions. At thetaerions injury on those who have been induced to place faith At borne for consultation daily e ront r SIN till Flight. All letters must contain th e h r en till Two, and from rnedicines can be forwarded to any initial, or address. It., and advice and to consuruelsts.Dr. LAILEET It is aesirable that patients wishing altOuld first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION. e- Medical Treatise on the Philos o p h y of Marria ge and Nervo us ( rr s d Generative Debility, illustrated b y flfty-coloured en g r avings, and crtb,ing in detail the various disorders resulting from s ecret habitsa nd excesses. The perusal of t his treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in Yrerch, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. P iper brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; lidann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie , Titchbonie-street, Hay market ; or free by Pose for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's reg. dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE. Lotman'. R CIJL v ERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row , Carvalho, 14 7. Fleet street; Mann, 39, Cernhiii. Price One Shilling each ; by Post, Is Cd. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. 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" What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." StrencT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties Oflieentioutness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tive, and umediative. Advocacy of early marriages. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORIES„ Just published, by U. BaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London No I. vo, in cloth. price se. by post free, ss. 6d., ON TRUE dr, FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Generative System, or Sexual Hypoc.hondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first t.me, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his -ower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We uromised in a former number that we should recur to this war.c, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of `Quiet Symathisers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who staffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hmdreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat mant upon a more rational and physiological basis. 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JAMES HARMER, Esquire, deceased.—All persons haying any claim or demand upon the Estate of James Harmer, late of hr.tri as Park, in the county of Kent, Es q uire, de ceased, are requested to send the full particulars thereof for examina tion to the ucdersißmed• ADAM RIVERS STEELE, 1, Lineolns-inn-fields, London. the Commissioners of Sewers, and a fourth was abandoned in consequence of the change of Government, which gave other occupation to the authorities of the Home office. In the present session Mr. Morewood and his friends have renewed their application. Their principal opponents in Committee were the City and Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, and ultimately the Committee reported the pre am bl e not proved. We do not dispute thejustice of this decision, for there were undoubtedly objections to the scheme suggested, and one material provision, at least, was unusual, though not unprece dented ; but we must impress upon those who thought proper to come forward as its opponents that they have taken upon themselves no light responsi bility. They are bound without delay to produce a comprehensive and practical measure of their own, and to give some satisfactory assurance that the new lease of power which Parliament is now about to bestow upon them shall be spent, not in discreditable quarrels or costly jobs, but in the systematic and scientific prosecu tion of the great work with which they are entrusted. The promoters of the rejected Drainage Bill contem plated the formation of one main intercepting sewer on each side of the river—that on the north extending from Westminster-hall to Barking-creek (about ten miles), and that on the south from the Effra sewer to Horn lane, below Greenwich-marshes. The depth below the surface was to be throughout very considerable—in St. Paul's Church, no less than sixty feet ; the works would have been carried on with little, if any, obstruction of the thoroughfares above them ; and the evidence showed that there would have been no difficulty in connecting the existing sewers with these, main lines. It was further proposed that, at each terminus, the tunnel should discharge itself into a well, and that the sewage should thence pass into a series of tanks, in which it Ras to be subjected to the operation of liquid lime, the deodorising properties of which are well known. This mode of treatment has for some time been practised with success in the county gaol of Cardiff, where .the material obtained is sold, after 'desiccation, for 31. per ton. It appears, from the calculations of one of the witnesses, that the number of tons which might be annually collected from the sewer age of London would be more than 100,000—the price of which may be taken at 3 00,000/., subject to a deduc tion of one-half for the cost of manufacture. It was strongly urged by the opponents of this bill, and ad mitted by the promoters, that sewers of the size proposed would be too small to carry off the sudden rush of water occasioned by storms; but it was contended, and appar ently with good reason, that the first flush of water would wash all the deposit out of the existing sewers into the intercepting tunnels, which would not previously be more than half full, and would thus be ready to re ceive it. The surplus water, which would be compara tively pure, might then, it was argued, be safely left to find its way into the river by the existing outlets, which would be left undisturbed. The whole expense of the projected undertaking would have been, according to the estimates furnished by competents engineer, about 900,0001.—0 f which sum one-ninth might have been saved by terminating the northern sewer at Bow-creek, to which there did not appear to be any substantial objection. In order to secure the interest of the advanced,tchapeitpadartihsuhses in principallyit was liability, which was to conti nue f or t wen ty-fi v e years, and which could not, under any p oss ibl e c i rcum stances, p es r t o e p d o s e ad certain t o throw limitedupon have exceeded 27,0001. in any one year. We have above alluded to this proposition as a very unusual one, and it may be fairly questioned how far the promoters were entitled to expect so great an indulgence ; but it is right to observe that no opposition was offered to the bill by the parishes or districts upon which the burden would have been thrown. We believe that it is only by tunnel sewers of the description proposed that the low-lying districts of the metropolis can be effectually drained. Such was the challenge offered by the promoters of the bill, and not very satisfactorily met by their oppo nents. For the present, however, the opposition has been successful, and we are left in the power of the Com missioners of Sewers. We now ask those gentlemen what steps they intend to take ? Mr. Brunel, one of their witnesses, objected to the measure which we have been considering as " too vast and comprehensive." Are we to understand that petty and inefficient mea sures are deemed preferable ? The same gentleman ob jected to creating a monopoly, which might, he con ceived, prove disadvantageous to the public if the specu lation should turn out profitable. Are the Commission ers, then, to have a monopoly of inutility and extrava gance ? Is it true that they contemplate the extension of inland drainage only, and do not intend to take any steps for relieving the Thames from its pollution—that its vast bed of mud is still to be exposed at low water, "red with animalculm," and more and more offensive as each year increases the discharge which it receives ? Are our sewers to continue, as at present, for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four, vast cesspools, sending back into our dwelling-houses their fetid stench, preg nant with disease and death ? And lastly, are our agri culturists still to be compelled to obtain from distant countries, at a heavy expense, precarious supplies of that fertilising material which we possess in abundance at home ? 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The depot of the 20th Regiment proceeds from Chatham to-morrow, via Gravesend, Blackwall, and London, to Winchester barracks, to join the head-quar ters of the corps that has lately arrived from America. The undernamed detachments embarked this day at Gravesend on board the freight-ship Hotspur, for con veyance to the Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta :- 12th Lancers—Lieutenant Fletcher, 1 corporal, and 16 privates. 2d Foot-4 boys. 43d-1 armourer sergeant and his wife and child ; 60th Royal Rifles—Captain Annesley, Second Lieutenant Charles Williamson, and 8 privates. 45th—Ensign Blair and Ensign Gray, with 42 privates and 1 woman. Staff Assistant-Surgeon Snell embarks in medical charge of the troops ; and 1 sergeant and 6 privates of the 14th Light Dragoons (volunteers from the 3d) also embarked for Calcutta, for the purpose of taking charge of some entire horses for the studs of the East India Company's service. WOOLWICH, JULY 19. Thirty-two nen-commissioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artillery arrived in the garrison here yes terday from Canada, the non-commissioned officers on promotion, and the gunners on being invalided. Captain Burrows's company, 4th battalion, at pre sent stationed at Montreal, and Captain Stace's company, 7th battalion, stationed at Quebec, and both serving in Canada since July, 1848, having been ordered home to head-quarters at Woolwich, without any other companies being sent to relieve them. The whole of the Royal Artillery in garrison assembled to day in heavy marching order, for the inspection of the commanding-officers of battalions,: preparatory to the annual inspection of the commandant at Woolwich, which is intended to take place on Thursday and Friday next. NAVAL INTELLIGBNCE. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 19. The Agamemnon, 91, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., steamed into harbour this morning. The Firefly, 5, paddle-sloop, Commander G. A. Sey mour, arrived at Spithead from the coast of Africa squadron this morning. She left Accra on the 26th of May, at which time there were no other members of the squadron at that station ; she arrived at Ascension on the 4th, and sailed on the 9th of June, leaving the Tor toise, 12, Captain Kitchen, Waterwitch, 8, Commander A. H. Gardner, and the Volcano paddle-vessel, Com mander R. Coote, at that island. The Waterwitch had undergone an official survey by the carpenters of the squadron on the south coast, and been pronounced rot ten and unserviceable. Rear-Admiral Bruce, in the Penelope, paddle-frigate, was at St. Helena, about to sail for the south coast. The Firefly arrived at Sierra Leone on the 17th, and left on the 19th of June ; ar rived at St. Vincent's on the 25th, and left on the 27th ; arrived at Madeira on the 7th of July, and left on the 9th, at which time the Bloodhound, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander Henry Christian, was there, en route to Spithead. The American expedition for Japan, consisting of the United States frigate Vincennes, 26, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Ringgold,the John Han cock screw frigate, the Porpoise brig, and the Fenimore Cooper schooner, together with the brig Perry, from the coast of Africa, were at Madeira at the above date. The slave trade on the coast of Africa was getting brisk, principally in shipments to the Havannab, owing to the few ships on the various stations. The Linnet, 8, Com mander H. Need, had taken two prizes on the north coast, and the Firefly has captured one prize, a Brazilian brig of 247 tons, but with no papers. Mr. Livesay, mid shipman, from the Crane, Mr. Barre, passed clerk, from the Tortoise, Mr. Hearne, gunner, from the Volcano, and a few invalids, have come home in the Firefly, which brought a small mail from the squadron and dispatches for the Colonial-office. She has been generally very healthy, Mr. G. R. Barnes's, acting master, being the only death on board. Mr. Earle, master of the Harle quin, died on board the Volcano at Fernando Po. . The Medea, paddle-sloop, Commander J. C. Bailey, arrived at Halifax from Jamaica on the sth inst., leaving the Imaum, Buzzard, and Mega ra at Jamaica. She went to Halifax to seek the Commander-in-Chief, in order to have trials by court-martial on Lieut. Thomas D. Wil liams (First of the Medea) and Mr. Thomas J. Murray, chief engineer of the vessel, but, as the Cumberland flag ship was the only man-of-war at Halifax, the trials are put off until the requisite number of captains can assem ble. The Devastation, 6, paddle-sloop, commander C. G. Campbell, is in the Bay of Fundy. The Vestal, 20, is on the Newfoundland station. According to report, she has been ashore, and has knocked away some of her keel and forefoot. Her new Captain, T. P. Thompson, ar rived by the packet on the sth inst. The Calypso, 20, Captain Forbes, is at Barba,does. Vice-Admiral Sir Geo. Seymour, K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief, and family, are gone to visit the falls of Niagara. The fever had subsided at Jamaica on the 16th of June, but had revived a few days afterwards. Lieutenant ell, R.M., who went out in the Medea to join the Calypso, had been seized with it, and was left at Port Royal Hos pital. PEMBROKE DOCKYARD. The Cmsar, 90, will be launched to-morrow, the 21st. The principal portion of the dockyard strength has been placed upon this vessel in order to hasten her comple tion, and painters, caulkers, &c., have been very busily engaged upon her outside for some time past. Four new vessels have been ordered to be built at this yard, and the lines have been laid down. They are all to be fitted with the screw propeller, and embrace a ship of the line, a heavy frigate, and two smaller class vessels. WOOLWICH, JULY 19. APPOINTMENTS. Mates.----Thos. G. Baillie (1852), to the Terrible steam frigate, at Greenhithe ; Spencer M. Wilson (1852), to the Terrible ; Henry L. C. Robinson (1852), from the Highflyer screw steam-frigate, to the Ajax, 58, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; Frank Stanley (1852), to the Queen, 116, at Devonport. MasterAssistants.—H. G. de Carteret, to the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steam-ship, at Devonport ' - W. H. Adlam, to the Queen, 116, at Devonport ; J. F. Goul land, to the Rhadamanthus, steam store-ship, employed on particular service ; J. W. Ashton, to the Terrible ; B. S. Jackson, to the Sybille, 40, at Devonport ; S. C. Tracey, to the Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, and C. Evershed, to the Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate, at Portsmouth. The Cressy, 80, building at Chatham, and originally intended as sailing ship of war, was commenced in 1843, from a design by the Committee on Naval Architecture, on similar lines to the Superb, 80, at present in ordinary at Chatham, and will be launched on Thursday next. The lines of the Cressy were considered so suitable for being fitted with a screw propeller and engines of 400- horse power, that it was deemed advisable not to lengthen her, or make any alteration, with the exception of put ting up an additional sternpost, and making the neces sary opening in her stern for the shaft of the screw pro peller. A number of shipwrights have been at work on the slip from which the Agamemnon, 91, screw steam-ship, was launched at Wcolwich Dockyard last year, in laying the blocks for the Edgar, 91, to be built on nearly the same lines as the Agamemnon, the only difference being that the Edgar will be about 10 feet longer than that fine screw steam-ship. It is now understood that the launch of the Royal Al bert, 131, will be postponed until next spring. Mr. Willcox, master shipwright at Deptford Dock• yard, is about to retire on the superannuation allowance of his rank. The launch of the Hannibal, 90, at that dockyard, is postponed until next spring. THE ACCIDENT AT CHOMIAM.—It is satisfactory to state that Brigadier Bentinck is progressing satisfactorily, and has been pronounced out of danger. Mr. Wildbore, surgeon of his own regiment, remains in constant attend ance upon him. The gallant colonel is still at Hyam's Lodge. THE RIVER THAMES. (From the Timee.) The Thames seems to be attracting just now almost as much notice as the Danube. Sir William Molesworth has brought in a bill for constructing, not only a new bridge, but a considerable embankment. Mr. Oliveira wants a select committee to incplire into the state and condition of all the bridges, and of all the points where there are no bridges, and " generally to report upon any measures for improving and facilitating the inter course between the two sides of the stream." the Committee on the Great. London Drainage Bill have published the minutes of evidence received, and given us the opinions of a dozen engineers on the capacities of the river generally. We anticipated most of the present agitation on behalf of our metropolitan stream. When the plans for the Great Drainage scheme were sent in to the Commissioners of Sewers for inspection, there was one project amongst them which attracted con siderable admiration. It proposed, if our memory does not deceive us, to embank. the Thames on both sides throughout the whole length of the metropolis, by means of structures which would comprise a pro digious system of sewers internally, and furnish ma ny miles of spacious and airy quays beside. No thing could exceed the splendour of the plan. It had one fault, and one only, which was, that it would cost about 50 millions of money and 100 years of labour. Sir William Molesworth's proposition is insig nificant in comparison with this, but it has at least the advantage of being practicable. There is to be a new public park at Battersea. This park will, of course, re quire a bridge, and the bridge a roadway. Moreover, the Thames is to be " embanked " at this spot—that is to say, its banks are to be made sound, straight, and solid, like the quays at Paris, or like the terrace by the Houses of Parliament, except that there will be no need of quite so much expenditure. We feel perfectly sure, however, that when this has been done the sight of the thing will create an irresistible desire to continue the' process. It will be just like laying down a piece of pavement in a town for the first time—all the streets will be clamorous for the same luxury. There can be no doubt that this plan should have been put in practice long ago, and, if each successive generation had em banked its own portion of the river as the metropolis extended, we should now have little difficulty in accom plishing our share. As it is, the expense looks serious. Sir William's specimen is to cost, with the roadway and the street, 146,0001. ; but we do not see it stated how much of this is to go to the embankment itself, or what is to be the precise extent of the operation. In one of the arguments used on Monday evening we entirely concur. The funds for the proposed works at Battersea were to be provided by advances from the Exchequer Loan Commissioners. Then came the ques tion of repayment; and Sir William Molesworth could only suggest that what was not forthcoming in the form of contributions from those whose property would be benefitted by the undertaking should be raised by tolls on the bridge. This drew down remarks, not only from Sir De Lacy Evans, but from Mr. Henley, who very properly objected that such an arrangement would go far to neutralise the whole advantages of the project. To establish a park of recreation for the working classes, and then put a tollgate on the road to it, is little less than an absurdity ; for the tendency of such a proceeding could only be to exclude those very classes for whom the park was designed. It is of no use to say that the toll would only be a penny, or even a half penny. This may seem no unreasonable contribution to ask from those availing themselves of the benefits proposed ; but, not to mention that twopence or threepence may be a serious consideration to a labourer wishing to take his half-dozen children out for an airing, it is perfectly notorious that small charges levied in this manner are always dis tasteful to the public, and always tend to defeat their own object. We believe this sentiment is a feature of the national character. An Englishman is more an noyed at being stopped on his way and asked for a penny than he would be by an impost of ten times that amount collected after the fashion to which we have be come resigned. We must pay our rates and taxes, and thewe a o t n't ei e g i ru 4 d d r or them m in u t c h h e m p o o r u e n odr. Buteh less to b w e h ethe pulled r up short for a penny or twopence, when we are talking or thinking, or have forgotten the circumstance, or have got no change, or in a great hurry, is a nuisance which puts most of us out of temper, and, leads to very unde sirable reflections on the Commissioners of Public Works. The operation of the sentiment is manifest on all the toll-paying bridges. Very likely the tolls may be low and the conveniencee offered in return very great, but it is perfectly notorious that such bridges, where passen gers have any option left them, are next to useless. They do not divert the traffic or relieve the other bridges in the least. If there is a free bridge within reach people will go to it, and the new bridge is left deserted, while the other is thronged as inconveniently as ever. We suppose it is upon some such convictions as these that Mr. Oliveira wishes his committee to inquire " whether it would be desirable to throw open to the public the present toll-paying bridges"—a question which can only receive one reply. §ir,.4l. ,Villoughby asked, " how the ways and'ineans were to be'pievided for with out a toll ?" But how are all other metropolitan im provements provided for ? Nobody, we are sure, can say that our pavements are not taken up often enough, and yet we have no tolibars in Cheapside. In all these discussions about the river, it will not be forgotten, we trust, that the arguments employed are perfectly worthless if applied to a ditch. There is every reason in the world for embanking the Thames and im proving it in a thousand ways if it is to flow in its natural character, but none whatever for expending money upon the adornment of a common sewer. We possess a noble river—a river which might be made to give infinite addi tion to the health, convenience, and ornament of the metropolis. We are bound to take all care of this pos session, and, indeed, there are certain officers, we be lieve, entrusted with authority and revenues for so doing. At present, however, the real conservators of the Thames—that is to say, those who keep it what it is, appear to be the Commissioners of Sewers. Though they have made the most energetic pro fessions of enlightenment in this particular, and even published plans of their own for accomplishing the puri fication of the river, it appears that they have coolly thrown over their owa declarations, and reverted to the original doctrine of the Commission, that no better main sewer could be found than the Thames. But this doc trine can never be maintained again. It has not only been convicted, but, what is more, it has been publicly given up, and it must be perfectly understood that we are not going to build new embankments for the pleasure of promenading more leisurely by the margin of a mon ster drain. The Crystal Palace at Sydenham begins to cast be fore it a very distinct shadow of the magnificence to come. Those who have availed themselves of the pri vilege, now open to all, of inspecting the works on pay ment of a ss. fee, must have been sufficiently impressed with the thoroughness with which the business is being done. They must have felt, if not said to themselves, "This promises to be, not only the finest exhibition in the world, but the finest exhibition possible, at the world's present stage of progress." In magnitude and variety, the display will certainly extend to the extreme verge of the practically comprehensible. To have seen the old Exhibition thoroughly, would have required no small fraction of the leisure of a lifetime ; but the Sy denham display will be one which, if numerically more finite, will yet demand far more,time for its entire com prehension, on account of the vastly greater average in terest of the objects displayed. The objects will be:precisely those which are fitted to be of the best and deep est interest to the greatest possible number of persons. Those of the fine arts which are capable of being put under contribution for exhibition will be represented with an extent and completeness hitherto unknown. Fac similes of all the noblest sculptures which ancient and modern times have produced, will be assembled in one spot. Architectures —Egyptian, Greek, Arabic, and Gothic—will not only be represented, but re-produced, "life-size," in all their ___ more notable forms, and with practical illustrations of the popular mysteries of polychromy, hypcethral roofs, (Rota the Morning Chronicle.) honey-comb vaulting, ancient frescoes and arabesques, A bill to continue the Metropolitan Sewers Commis- &c. ; and, furthermore, the main building itself will be sion, which, under the existing Act, would expire on the the first and most glorious specimen of an entirely new 7th of August, is now before the House of Commons, style of architecture of singular beauty, and of great, and was read a second time on Monday night. There though, as yet, very imperfectly foreseen powers of adap can be no doubt that, under the circumstances, some tation to our peculiar modern wants. Mr. Ruskin, who temporary measure of this kind is necessary, as it is im- said of the architecture of the old Crystal Palace, that there hic h i s its importance great possible, at this period of th e sess i on, to give the subject demands. The earth has bubbles as the water bath, that Yet carefulit must consideration owned that which will be found to have committed a memorable blunder ; in passing, session after session, "An Act to con- and he will doubtlessly be not slow to retract it when he tinue an Act and we are glad to infer, fro m w h a t beholds, from the lovely western valley, the terraced hill Lord Palmerston said on Monday, that this - is the blazing with millions of flowers and jets d'eau, and last occasion on which such an expedient will be crowned with the lofty transepts, vaulted naves, and resorted to, and that the measure of next year will be soaring towers of the new cathedral of the arts and based on a more permanent and satisfactory principle. sciences. If, in the presence of so poetical a subject, Mr. Peto stated last year, in the house, the circum- we may be permitted to express ourselves by a poetical stances which led himself and several of his most dis- figure, our old stone and brick architecture may be said tinguished colleagues to resign their places at the board , • . to have died, like Goethe, calling for " more light," and and he drew attention to the internal differen ces which to have arisen, in the present form, with the full enjoy had impeded their efficiency, as well as to the difficulties ment of the desiderated brilliance. which they had experienced from their inability, under The art of nature will be represented side by side and the terms of the existing act, to give satisfactory security hand in hand with the art of man, and in the same order for moneys advanced. On the other hand, strong corn- —that is, historically. The marvels of Karnak and Nine plaints have been made of the enormous sums expended veh, with their sphinxes and bulls as big as the Trojan by the Commissioners on particular u n d er t a ki ngs , an d horse, will be matched with the productions of the of the very heavy charge for superintendence, which has "heroic ages "of nature—the vast mud lake, the dreary amounted, en the average, to 40 per cent. on the cost shore of the prie-Adamite isle, with its rank cover of of the works executed. On these and other points the ferns, and its mighty denizens, the Ichthyosaurus, the public are entitled to fuller and more satisfactory ex- Mastodon, the Plesiosaurus, and the Megatherium, as planations than any which have yet been furnished, and large as life, and larger than credible to the modern eye. there is no subject more imperatively demanding the The race even of man will be called upon to render a full close and vigilant attention of the metropolitan mem- account of itself, and the halls of the Sydenham Palace bers in particular. We believe we a re correc t i n saying will present to our astonished senses every variety of that the act which constituted the present Commission the posterity of Shem, Ham, and Japhet from the "pure passed both houses without an hour's discussion. One Caucasian" to - the osjesman, and from the giants of member, indeed, announced hisintention of opposing it in Patagonia to the Aztec Lilliputians, together with the its earliest stage, but the house was forthwith counted physiology of these personages, we shall be enabled to out, and no subsequent attempt was made to arrest its contemplate their main attainments or s h or tcomings in of progress or to amend its details. Similar apathy w ill the use f ul arts; especially the useful art o f war , which not, we feel assured, be exhibited on future occ as ions. the i mp l ements will no doubt appear to h ave constituted Since the period to which we refer the cholera has again the chief staple products of nine varieties out of ten. visited our shores, and we know not how soon it may After the men among their war-tools, will come the once more appear among us ; and science, moreover, beasts, birds, and fishes of modern times—j e c, the last has taught us that, while we are directly sacrifi c i ng s i x thousand years or so—with their favourite botany ; human life by neglecting to make proper provision for mon k eys i n the i r real skins climbing up their parasite the removal of substances prejudicial to the public bound columns—of the palace; bats and vampires health, we are guilty of the most wanton extravagance clinging to its leafy roof ; lions and their prey coursing in wasting fertilising materials which would be of in- through the shadowy and everlasting summer of the aisles; estimable value to our agriculturists. The facts of the dodos and penguins squatting in appropriate recesses ; case are simply these :—The metropolitan district corn- marvellous moluses taking their tranquil pleasure in prises more than 100 square miles, and requires 2,000 crystal tanks ; and fishes distorting themselves, secure miles of drainage ;it possesses only 1,000 in good work- from every danger. unless, perhaps, that which was con ing order ; and the number o f deaths annu a ll y occasioned templated in the famous rhyme which describes them as by diseases which efficient sewerage would prevent, was sweating and swearing under " the sun's perpendicular estimated, by the noble lord who recently presided over heat." the Commission, at no less than 12,000. Full advantage of the opportunity is to be taken for While the public have b e en content to leave this mat- giving a system of . illustrations . of geology upon the 1 and, in connection with this de partment, idle, in so unsatisfactory a state, individuals have not been natural scale ; . idle, as is sufficiently proved by the minutes of evidence we are .. to have complete exemplifications of the pro taken before the select c o mmittee on the Great London ceases of mining, quarrying, well-sinking, and tunnelling. Drainage Bill, and recently printed by order of the Although there is every reason to suppose, from the House of Commons. In 1832, the subject attracted present appearance of the works, that th e Palace will be the attention of M r . Morewood, who has devoted eight sufficiently advanced by next May to be thrown quite years to the consideration of bis plan, and incurred very open to the public, it is not to be supposed that the heavy expenses in making the requisite experiments. Exhibition can be perfected by that time. The Winter- The history of the impediments which have from time garden and the Departments of Manufactures and to time obstrusted his progress, is not without interest. Zbology will require a long time for their completion, In 1845, the necessary deposits were made, but the but whatever may be the incompleteness of the Palace matter was referred to a Select C omm itt ee , w hose re- next May, the public may rest assured that, in general port was, however, deferred till after` th e c h ange of Ad- effect, the display will almost surpass our present con ministration in 1846. In the autumn of that year, the ception, and that, in matter of detail, there will be far deposits were again made, but "the Government inti- more than can be inspected in one season by any person, mated to the Lord Mayor their intention of bringing in I with only a reasonable amount of sight-seeing time on f a bill." A third attempt was foiled by a resolution of his bands. [I)R10E SD. RAILWAY _INTELLIGENCE. EASTERN COUNTIES. Yesterday afternoon a special general meeting of the proprietors in this undertaking was held at th e L on d on Tavern, "to consid er , an d, if approved, to authorise the directors to carry into full effect an agreement proposed to be made between the Eastern Counties Railway Com pany of the one part, and the Newmarket Railway Com pany of the other part, for the purchase of the Cam bridge and Chesterfield lines of the latter company, and for working their Bury Extension line, and also to sanc tion such applications to Parliament, if any, as may be necessary to carry the proposed agreement into effect." The chairman, Mr. Waddington, M.P., presided. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement con vening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN stated that the shareholders of the Newmarket Company and those of the Newmarket and Bury Company had held their meeting, and confirmed the arrangement entered into with this company. It would be remembered, he stated, that in 1851 a com mittee was formed for the purpose of considering the arrangements which were proposed to be entered into by the Eastern Counties, the Newmarket, and the Eastern Union Companies, for the amalgamation of the three companies. That committee recommended that the arrangements should not be carried into effect. The New market Company shortly after applied to Parliament for leave to amend their line between Newmarket and Bury, and Parliament sanctioned a deviation of their line. Matters remained in that position until about two months ago, when the directors received a proposition from the Newmarket Company, and an interview having taken place, terms which will be found in the resolutions below were agreed to. He then entered into a variety of statistics showing the good which would result to the Eastern Counties Company by the adoption of the pro posed agreement, and stated that the manager had esti mated the probable receipts over the thirty miles of railway at 5451. per week, or 28,3401. per annum, against a liability of 27,7961. That calculation was made by the manager without his knowing anything about the proposed arrangements, and was not made for the purpose of meeting the case. By the adoption of this proposition the Eastern Counties Company would be placed in a position to meet the aggressive warfare of the Eastern Union, and to compete with them on equal terms. After stating that the increase of traffic this year over that of 1851 amounted to no less than 110,0001., he concluded by proposing the following resolutions— " That the directors be and are hereby authorised to complete the purchase of the railway from Newmarket to Cambridge and Chesterfield, for the sum of 151. per share. That the directors be authorised either to apply out of any capital or funds which may be in their possession or under their control, or to raise by mortgage or bonds for the purposes of such pur chase, a sum not to exceed 210,0001. That the directors be authorised to conclude an agreement with the Newmarket Railway Company for working their extension line from Newmarket to Bury St. Edmunds, from the time the said extension line shall be opened for public traffic, upon terms of accounting to the shareholders in that line for an annual sum equal to 5 per cent. per annum upon an outlay not exceeding 45,000/. ; and that the directors be authorised to make the necessary applications for powers to carry the above into effect." The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN seconded the resolutions, which, after a short conversation, were carried unani mously. _ _ A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the busi ness of the meeting. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. Yesterday an adjourned general meeting was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of receiving a report containing the decision of the Court of Exchequer in a case pending between this company and the Great Northern Railway Company, Lord Wharncliffe in the chair. It appeared that the question at issue was whether, in the contract between the two companies, the parties contracting had acted ultra vires, and a report was nowpresented which stated that the case was heard in the Court of Exchequer on the 24th and 27th May, when the question was fully argued by Sir Fitzroy Kelly on the part of the com pany, and by Mr. Bramwell on behalf of the Great Northern Company. The Court delivered its judge ment on the 6th July in favour of the South Yorkshire Company, Mr. Baron Martin alone dis senting. Mr. Baron Parke, in stating his opi nion said that in this matter th e law co i nc id e d with justice; but, nevertheless, the Great Northern Company, encouraged by the dissent of Mr. Baron Martin, had given notice of app ea l. Si nce th e deci sion had been given application had been made to the directors of the Great Northern Company for payment of the tolls without prejudice, to January, 1853, as ex pressed in the contract, but that company had offered to pay only 10d. (instead of one shilling) per ton, which would not be sufficient to enable the directors to declare a dividend. Since the decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, however, that tonapany had been paying them is. 6d. per ton toll. The CHAIIMAN, in moving that the report be adopted, said he regretted the company should be involved in liti gation, and for his own part he could have wished that the question at issue had been at once settled rather than any further proceedings should be instituted. It was understood, he said, that the appeal to be made by the Great Northern Company would not, in the first in stance, be to the House of Lords, but to the Exchequer Chamber. The report was then adopted, and the meeting sepa• rated. THE WEST END AND CRYSTAL PALACE. Yesterday the committee on the merits of this mea sure went into the case of the South-Western Railway against it. Mr. TITE, the architect, was examined, and expressed an opinion that it was desirable a development of the promised attractions of the Crystal Palace should take place, before a railway which would take, he thought, nearly two years to make, was specially constructed for the purpose. Apart from this, he was of opinion that the existing means of communication by road and rail to Sydenham would be sufficient to accommodate the traffic. Mr. ITAWKSHAW, C.E., considered that the line was not well laid out for its objects. A better one, two miles shorter, and costing 70,0001. less, might be constructed. A growing desideratum in connection with the metropo lis, on both sides of the river, was a well-organised su burban railway, so as not only to accommodate the inha bitants of the populous outskirts, but to relieve London of the excess of traffic in its principal streets, and the Crystal Palace line, if constructed independently, would interfere with the adopticn of such a plan, and, if adopt ed, would be so far a waste of capital. The proposed junction with the South-Western woulJ, in his judgment, be dangerous, and prevent the widening of their lines as the traffic increased. Mr. J. E. ERRINGTON, consulting engineer to the South-Western Railway Company, deposed that no ad vantage would arise to the public from the construction of the Crystal Palace line, equivalent to the extent to which it was calculated to cripple the South-Western Railway traffic at its junction. After some further evidence, the committee declared the preamble of the bill proved, inserting certain clauses protecting the space that may be required by the South- Western Company for the expansion of their line against inconvenience or encroachment. MADRAS. The first half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, New Broad-street—Colonel D. Sim in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he believed it contained every important point re lating to the undertaking.. In reply to a question, it was stated that th e 9th of June last was the day appointed for cutting the first sod on the line, at a place situate about one mile and a half from the powder mills at Madras, and they had no doubt the event had taken place. The report was unanimously adopted, and the pro ceedings concluded by a vote of thanks to the chairman. LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE. The remaining section of this company's line from Newtownlimivady to Coleraine was inspected on Thurs day last, and approved by Capt. Wynne, the Govern ment inspector. On Friday the directors made a trial trip over the line, which proved to be in a satisfactory state from Londonderry to Coleraine. The inhabitants of the latter place unanimously resolved to celebrate the event by giving a public entertainment in the Town-hall to the directors, engineers, contractors, solicitors, secre tary, and other officers of the company. The town Was decorated with flags and banners, and every , means was adopted to testify the universal gratifica tion felt by the people at the event of having the facilities of railway communication. An excursion train was placed at the disposal of the town committee, and about 300 of the inhabitants were conveyed to Downhill and Magilligan and back to Coleraine. On the arrival of the train a sumptuous entertainment was prepared at the Town-hall, to which about 150 persons sat down. Several loyal and appropriate toasts were drunk and responded to, and everything passed off in the most cordial and harmonious manner. ‘e•(' J KENDAL AND WINDERMERE. The statement of receipts and expenses of this com pany, to the 30th of June last, on capital account, shows that 207,9861. had been received, and 213,6471. ex pended, leaving a balance against the company of 5,6611. The revenue account for the half-year ending 30th June last shows that 5,1491. had been received, and 1,7141. expended, leaving a balance of 3,4351., out of which is deducted 1,2091. for interest on debentures, and 1,1501. for interest on preference shares and bank accounts, leaving a balance of 1,0721. a pplicable to divi dend on the ordinary shares. This sum, added to 3,897/., the balance of reserved profits from the opening of the line, makes a total of 4,969/.. out of which it is proposed to pay a dividend of 7s. 6d. per share, less income tax, amounting to 1,6261., and 1001. allowance to directors, leaving a balance for the next wont of 3,2424 _ _ fdnq' s POLICE INT.PILLIGENCE. THE NEW HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT. 4> 4 's' BOW-STREET.—The ben e fi c i a l wor ki ng o f the nelcil';% Hackney Carriage Act continues to be in a great mom+ sure frustrated by the non-publication of the official book of fares. The want of some conclusive authority of this description, to settle questions of distance, is constantly attended with great inconvenience to the public, and in some instances. no doubt, with considerable injustice to cabmen. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bond, a gentleman residing at Victoria-grove, Fulham-road, attended s ith a cabman named Thomas Phillips, to have a dispute upon the above point settled before Mr. Henry. Mr. Bond stated that he was driven by the defendant from his residence (opposite the Cemetery), to the cor ner of Wellington-street, Strand. Several stoppages occurred, and the ca b wen t roun d b y Bird-cage walk, instead of the more direct road ; but still witness was satisfied that the distance did not exceed three miles. There was no dispute about the stoppages, each party having estimated these at one hour, or 2s. ; but there was an extra passenger, &I.—making in all 4s. The defendant claimed 55., on the ground that the distance exceeded four miles, and this was the question at;issue. The cabman stated that he was engaged the previous night to call for Mr. Bond, and was consequently en titled to charge for the distance from his stand to Mr. Bond's house, which was three-quarters of a mile. This, he contended, made the whole distance four miles and a half. Mr. Henry said the official book of fares had not yet appeared, unfortunately ; but if the parties were disposed to have the ground measured, it could be done on pay ment of ss. each into court. The complainant agreed to this proposal, but the cab man said he had not got ss. in his pocket, for it wa; his first job that day. Mr. Henry—Then as you cannot pay the ss. deposit, I shall take Mr. Bond's statement as evidence of the fact, and convict you of the overcharge, for which you Must pay the penalty of 405., or go to prison for a month. Mr. Bond, who appeared rather startled at the sud denness and severity of the decision, said he did not think the matter would have taken this turn. The cab• man was very civil throughout the transaction, and he hoped that the penalty would not be imposed. Mr. Henry refused to listen to this appeal. The ob ject of the act in enabling passengers to get at once' to the police station was not to dispense with the penalties, but to save the complainants the trouble of applying for summonses. The cabman was committed to gaol in default of pay ing the fine, and his horse and cab was sent to the greenyard. Robert Clark, cab-driver, appeared to the summons obtained by Mr. Bigg, fruiterer, whose application in the " pine apple" case has been already noticed. The defendant admitted that he was in error as to charging 2d. each for the 120 pine apples, although they nearly filled the inside of his cab ; still he thought it *as worth 3s. to take the lot, with Mr. Bigg, from Monu ment-yard to Covent-garden Market, but the gentlethan would not go to Bow•street at once and settle it. Mr. Henry sad the defendant was in error on every point. He was wrong in consenting to take a load of pine apples in the first place, for cabs were not designed for any such purpose. Then he was wrong in seeking to charge them as " luggage." He was wrong in demand ing more than his fare for the distance, and f flatly' he was wrong in supposing that the new act gave b'm the power to take the hirer of his carriage to a police-court upon the question of a disputed fare. By the law, the hirer could compel the driver to go to the nearest magis trate, but the act gave no power to the driver to convey the hirer to a police -court without the consent of the latter. The defendant, therefore, was altogether wrong. The defendant—But I did not use any abusive lan guage. Mr. Henry—Neither are you charged with that offence. Your object in taking the pine apples, no doubt, was the belief in your mind that you could make them the excuse for extorting an extravagant fare. You must pay the penalty of 405.. or be committed for a month. The defendant preferred the latter alternative, and was accordingly sent to prison. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Afr. Barry Du Barry was summoned for refusing to pay James Russell, cab driver, his legal fare. The complainant said that on the 11th inst. he was on the Haymarket stand. The defendant asked him if he would go to Finsbury-circus, Fenchurch-street, and back for 3s Gd. As this was more than the mileage fare under the new act, he consented, and drove the defend ant to Finsbury-circus, remaining there a quarter of an hour ; then to Fenchurch-street, where, having waited an hour, he sent a message to the defendant to state that he could not wait longer for the money pro mised. The defendant came out soon afterwards, and witness drove him to Regent-circus, and when dis missed was paid only 55., though he demanded Bs. as his fare. He had been altogether engaged three hours and a quarter. _ _ _ _ Mr. Du Barry relied upon the bargain made in the first instance, but as he had detained the cabman longer than he expected, he had given him an additional is. 6d. as compensation. Mr. Bingham said this was the clearest case that had yet come before him. The cabman, in addition to his fare, was entitled to the waiting time, and this made his demand of 3s. more than he was paid even less than he was legally entitled to. With respect to the bargain, he had to remark when a bargain was made it was to be interpreted fairly on both sides. The arrange ment to go to Finsbury-circus, Fenchurch-street and back for 3s. 6d., no doubt meant on the part of the cabman, that he would perform the contract in such a way as• to allow of five or ten minutes waiting, but certainlynot that he was to have more than three hours of his time occupied in waiting. It was not likely that any gentleman in making a bargain of this kind could have meant to diddle a cabman out of three hours. Therefore, he must consider the contract as set aside, and must require the defendant to pay 3s. additional fare, 2s. summons, and 2s. 6d. loss of time. TVni. Parker, cabman, was charged by Mr. Michael Craig, 16, Charles-street, St. James's-square, with de manding more than his fare. Mr. Craig hired the defendant in Pall-mall, and before getting into the cab said " Mind, I hire you by the hour." The defendant went to Kensington-gardens and back, and then refused to be paid by time, alleging that he had gone more than four miles within the hour. The defendant said he agreed by the hour, but as the distance he had gone exceeded the four miles prescribed by the act of Parliament, he conceived he had a right to the fare by distance, which would be 3s. Mr. Bingham asked the complainant-if he required the defendant to go quickly, or any particular pace ? The complainant said he made no stipulation of the sort. Mr. Bingham ' on referring to the act, said it appea re d to him that the defendant was not entitled to the shil ling over the two shillings for the hour which he claimed, for though he had gone over six miles of ground, he had not been required to do that distance. He ought to have kept within the four miles, which was the d istance he was to accomplish for two 4hillings. If he chose to drive such a spirited horse as could not be restrained to that distance within the hour, the driver must be at the loss. •• Case dismissed. Wm. Hatton, cab driver, was fined 10s. and costs, for taking ls, when his fare was Gd. Mr. Gee. Russell was ordered to pay Gd. additional fare, 2s. summons, and 2s. 6d. loss of time to a cabman. Mr. Edward Penford was ordered to pay 4d. addi tional fare on a dispute whether the distance gone was over or under eight miles, ss. for measuring distance, 2s. summons, and 4s. Gd. loss of time to driver. LAMBETH. — Iien r y Grout, driver of the cab No. taking l 35 0, was car of e c h h '‘r i horse vehicle. charged ed o w r s it be ingdrunk and i ncapa bl e o f Police-constable Thomas Lee, 188 L, having proved the offence, said that' on searching him at the station house he found on his person two sets of tickets, such as the recent act of Parliament requires the drivers of cabs to supply their fare with when they are required. One of these sets consisted of the proper number of the cab which the prisoner drove, and which were in writing, and the other in print, and of a different number. Mr. Elliott remarked that the fact of the double set of tickets having been found on the prisoner looked very suspicious, and proved the necessity of those who had any fault to find with the conduct or regularity of the cabmen comparing the number handed to them with that on the cab. He then convicted the defendant in the penalty of 205., or, in default of payment, to 14 days' imprisonment. WESTMINSTER. —Lieut.-Colonel Boyle, No. 22, Chester-square, was summoned by John Estwell, owner of a cab, No. 1 , 281, for refusing to pay the sum of 6d„ the fare justly due to him for the hire of the carriage. Lieut.-Colonel Boyle, previous to the statement of the complainant being received, was asked what he had to say why an order should not be served upon bim, when he stated that on Tuesday last he hired the complainant's cab at Palace-yard, and directed that he should be driven to Buckingham Palace. The fare for the dis tance is 6d. Before he got into the cab he observed some of the cabmen laugh, and some of them made a remark to the complainant. After he got a little dis tance on the road, he told the driver to;go quicker, and observed that if he did not he should leave the cab and walk. He said that he could not go quicker. The horse was not going at a rate more than five miles an hour. He went a little further in the cab, when he got out, as the complainant did not go any faster, and walked to Buckingham Palace. He asked complainant for his ticket, as he intended to summon him. He was compelled to leave town, and the cabman had summoned him. Mr. Broderip—Are you prepared to swear that he did not drive you six miles an hour ? Lieut.-Col. Boyle—Yes ; I am. Lieut.-Col. Boyle was then sworn, and having re peated his statement, again alluded to the laughter that was raised among the cabmen upon hiring the cab to take him to Buckingham Palace. Mr. Broderip —Did it appear to you that there was an intention to drive slow on purpose, in consequence of the small fare ? Lieut.-Col. Boyle—That is my impression from tLe amusement among them. The complainant said that his horse could walk for r miles an hour, and that it was in full trot wh Lieni Col. Boyle was in the cab. Mr. Broderip observed that his opinion was, that the complainant was going at a slower pace than required by the act of Parliament, in consequence of the smallness of the fare. He should, therefore, dismiss the summons with costs. The complainant must be cautious, and nqt try the experiment again ; or if he did he would he NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. BANK OF DEPOSIT. NATIONAL ASSURANCE & INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION. 7, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London. The WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on the Investment Stock of this As sociation, due on the 30th June, will be ready for delivery on and after the 9th of July, and will be payable at the Offices of the Asso ciation, between the ho PET ER Eleven and Three o'clock daily. 51ORRISON, Managing Director. 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