The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-30 00:00:00

THE FISHERIES.

The following statement shows the allowances to
vessels employed in the fisheries, and bounties on
piehlt d fish exported from January 1, IS2O, to June
30, lfitfl

Bounties en Allowances t'
l'irlded 11-h `oeds em•
Expirtd. plole4 in the
Years. Fisheries
Ti 31st December ....11120 d 015.11,168 71 du15.197.834
....1821 11,107 170,052 91
....1822 10,158 3,1 149,897 43
....1623 10,888 50 176,706 08
....1824 10,162 80 208,924 08
....1825 10,560 60 198,724 97
....1826 13,640 40 215,869 01
....1827 8.879 20 206,180 55
....1828 9,026 23 239,115 20
....1829 9.007 60 261.669 94
....1830 9,073 10 197,612 28
....1831 13,406 20 200.428 39
....1832 14,392 00 219,745 27
....1833 13,284 43 215,182 40
....1831 10,802 21 218,218 74
....143.5 9,536 80 223,744 93
....1836 6,731 80 213,1C1 03
....1837 7.360 42 2.50,181 02
1838 5,174 39 314,110 49
....1839 4,743 00 319,812 03
• .• .1840 4.9.53 90 301,629 34
" ....1811 4.760 40 35.1,140 01

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62/ 30 :945.613 07
6 months to June 30....1843 3,315 05 160,9;12 33

Year ending "
It 01

-.1814 6,663 60 219,074 25
-.1815 4,174 20 289,840 07
-.1846 6,540 60 274,912 98
....1847 6,488 20 278,429 38
....1848 745' 83 243,482 23
....149 68 40 286,703 37
-.1850 - 287,988 75
....18i 30 00 3.24,285 01

41 41
44 46

Total
The ship-builders of New York and vicinity have
launched 23 steam-vessels and 20 sail-vessels since
the Ist of January last. The tonnage amounts to
30,000. Tho tonnage now on the stocks is estimated
at 38,000.

Mrs. Oeneml Taylor, relict of the late President,
died at East Pascagoula, New Orleans, on Satur-
day the 14th.
In the extradition ease of Thomas Koine, Judge
Nelson has mado the following order :
The Marshal, It, F. Tallmage, having made the return
in person, to the habeas corpus, ordered, That in conse-
quence of the difficult and important questions involved
in the cue, it be heard before all the Justices of the
Supreme Court in Bank, at the commencement of the
next term thereof, and that in the meantime the mi.
boner remain in custody of the said marshal.—Mr. Ed-
wards for the British government, and Mr. Busteed for
Koine.

\►'e learn by telegraph, from Washington, that in
the Senate on Tuesday, the 17th, a message had been
received from the President, in reply to a resolution
calling upon him to state whether any proposition
had been made to the United States to transfer the
sovereignty of the Sandwich Islands to that country.
The President declined to state any particulars, and
a resolution was laid on the table, to the effect that
the President should send a commission to those
lands, to inquire into the expediency of instituting
negotiations for the acquisition of those islands.
The correspondent of the Daily Times, writing
from \Washington, August 16, says:
I learn, from good authority, that the British minister
has proposed, under instructions from his government, to
negotiate as international copyright similar to that reicntly
concluded between England and France. Ile desires to
secure for British authors the privilege of copyrishtinf
their books, and thus controlling their puhl canon and Net
in the United States. President Fillmore has signified ha
willingness to enter upon such a negotiation, and the sa'✓
Oct is now under consideration.
The stock of cotton by actual account in Nes
Orleans on the 15th August was 7,500 bales, includ-
ing 1,71 X) on shipboard.
Two California vessels bad arrived in New York.
from California, the Illinois and Northern Light.
bringing 13 days' later intelligence from the die'
gimp, and upwards of 2,000,0110 dollars of gold der:•
The British steam•packet Dee, Captain Wilson, sath.
at San Juan. .

Iler Britannic 'Majesty's steam-ship Calypso. Cii
Forbes, was off the port of San Joan on a CrUldV. Ilh
officers and crew were all well.

San Juan was perfectly healthy. The market was
dull and well supplied with good; wish the exception
of flour, of which there was tone in the market. 'the
Interior was perfectly quiet.
The barley crop in Sacramento Valley is neatly all
harvested. The yield is said to be very heavy ad
the grain of superior quality.
It was reported in San Francisco that a tire hsa
broken out in George Town, El Dorado county. .
n s
Daguerreotype establishment in that city, near the
round tent, which had consumed the principal part
of that town.
One of the most splendid specimens of geld eve:
brought to San Francisco was dug at Viaeita Cala.
versa county, by the present owner, Mr. Durham
Its weight is somewhat over 26 pounds, and, with
the exception of a few specks of quartz which can be
removed with a knife, the lump is a solid mass al
pure gold. This was found 60 feet below the Ar.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1852.
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ha, in adrift of nearly 30 feet from the main hole. TREATY OF EXTRADITION BETWEEN gbe eCotirt. RAILWAY MEETINGS. 1
1
Thow prophets who shake their wise heads and as. FRANCE AND NEW GRANADA. • --a.— I
pert that the mints are " giving out," would do well
____. OSBORNE, fIaTMIDAT. CHESTER AND HOLYIIIRAD RAILWAY. 1
to look at this delicate little " chispa," and alter their (Frannie Dahl AWL) Her Majesty and Prince Albert, aceonipaaled by the o. i
ihe half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was ,• • Its value is about 3,400 dohs.opinion& (Custurnicsaao.) Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and Prince Arthur,
held at the half
-square terminus of the London and '
A Butch barque, called the Cornelia, arrived at The presence of M. Persiguy, the French Minister drove out yesterdsy afternoon in the direction of Newport. i
North-Western Railway, on Saturday. Mr. 8. M. Pero, t
M.P.., was in the chair. The Lord Colville attended on horseback.
Fan Francisco on the 14th ult., from Panama, after of the Interior and confidential adviser of Louis Lieutenant. Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon bee succeeded
edtbadenv read. refute by_which the c
an extremely long passage of 114 days. There was 1 Napoleon, in London, taken in connexion with the Colonel Bouverie as Equerry in Welles to Prince Albert. meeting
olgthweactieonvenn wassubmiti.g:.ll"°ll°•nalf r°- t
dreadful mortality on board, 30 of the Paalealferilmission which report has confided to him, and the I Lord Cowley arrive( yesterdayrriloiltionado;ccittaa",..' "The statemeat of accounts fee the half-year ending
having died. debates on the law of extradition in the British par-
sal' dja.dr with her Majesty.
Jane 30 last exhibits • gross increase of receipts from ,
The detachment of United States :trope ender liament j
ustj prior to its dissolution, gives such an ts:! M. ' Gibbs also had the hamar of receiving ag urn-
traffic to the amount of 8,2581. W. 10d. ; of which sans '
command of Lieut. Moore, who were in pursuit di additional importance to the following Beaty as to I
B,NDAy. 5,6441 Ov. AL have been derived from the railway, and ~
a party of Indians concerned in the murder of some excuse its textual publication, though tome time has Yesterday her Majesty and Prince Albert gave their an- 2,6041. ss. 2d. from the steam boats. The tables subjoined t
snipers, on the head waters of the Merced, succeeded display the number of passengers and tons of goods carried, j
I elapsed since it was promulgated by the New Om- nest jets in honour of the Prince's birthday, to the la.
the receipts from these and other sources, and the eapentli- i
In eurprisine them on the evening of the 4th inst., I
lna&an government. The treaty Las for its object limners and work people employed on the estate, and their
lure in working charge, during the half-year under re- .
hitting five and taking twelve prisoners, and also in the mutual extradition of criminals between then w'ves • lIIRO to the seamen and marines of the royal yachts,
view, untreated with the results of the corresponding t
destroying their raneheria, and a large quantitr of . public of New Granada and the republic of France ; the Coast'
Guard and Trinity-house men, and the detach-
ment of the 88th Regiment, quartered at East Cowl,. periods of 1851! and 1851 respectively. a
ve,,,inions, with the loss of one private Ili 1
(--- tY/ ' and all its provisions appear to have been agreed to The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited c, V. er4TIMMT Or t lICISFT4 ARO SIIPFAIDITORIL I
Lin, d. Iby the respective ministers of the two republics so her Majesty in the afternoon, and remained to witness the tiatt-year liall.year Halt year u
mann June wallow Juni waling Jape
'lke excitement respecting foreigners has, says the , far back as the tith of April, Itso, though they were r.st
30, tree. 10, 1831. 80, 1832. 1
njr,s ll
sport..
tent was erected on the lawn near the house, or-
Fait Joaquin Reel/Miran. in th:s county, nearly sub - , not ratified until the 12th of May in the present n enter.; with laurels and flags, in which were laid tables gateway. C • (.. C a d. C s. d. 9
Sidra. Alood deal of unnecessary symPathr has year. It is worthy of remark, therefore, to all who for the dinner extending the whole length. eseeragers -. 11,529 7 . 20,7 re 19 Ii 51,716 9 0 h
bee n west on this atfair. We believe that if the recollect how the strong for government of Lord On one aide the royal marquee was pitched for the use of parcels
fortigners had not assumed a hostile attitude, and Derby, with the Earl of* blalmesbur as its the Queen and the royal family, in the front of which tiwas 9,166 9 9 13,558 It 5 174014 18 7 .
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had complitsl with the laws in the diggings, there Foreign Secretary, was ready and willing three flag piles were erected for the royal standard and the
to standards of Prince Albert and the PrIIICO of Wales. Mats
14 077 0 0 14,577 0 0 14,9.5 10 9 I
110'12 have been no row at all. They claimed six 'succumb to the impudent pretensions of Louis The whole cf the party invited being assemblid a little eiLrewsbary aud Cluster toll 1,324 I 2 1,3J8 19 5 1,750 0 a
irilis nlong the creek, and wanted to establish laws Napoleon, to give up on the most slender excuse the bee,,, three o'clock, seventy seamen and matinee from the !Cab.
Klock were to rule American citizen,. We are in refugees who had offended him politically, that the yachts were marched to the royal kitchen, and, together 'transfer km - 110 1 : - n
favolr ..f admitting foreigners, and allowing them to impoverished republic of New (ironed* stipulated with her Majesty's servants, preceded by the bands of the
Total laceine
37,441 .3 1. 81,Wia 13 9 07,316 13 8 1
Wuik, if they will comply with our usages, customs, for, and succeeded in exacting from France, conditions Royal Marine, and 88th regiment, el iying "The Roast worm.. ,t,e,„,e
amt laws; but things have come to a pretty peas if which completely screen the political offender from Beef of Old Fa land," carried the eatables to the tent in - -"•-•--
price. soon, her PMajesty, Prince Albert, with the whole of Ilalance Infavourof railways 31,643 13 4 1f1,477 19 1 27,897 16 8 0 they are allowed to establish laws over our heads- the vengeance of the mock pretender to imperial eh- the royal children, standing in front of the house -- -- t
In Let, to he our local legislators. solutism. In this respect the 10th article of the pro- to see it.... pus by. Ine pant having taken besairsorrs. f,
The Chinese continued to arrive in San Francisco malgated law does great honour to the statesmen of their film es, her Majesty and , . high- 11101047
is royal „.p.
... 4,09 18 I 4„30/1 3 1 9,913 10 3
tag 17 8 6,839 10 9 8,833 13 a
in withinliudes Nearly 4,000 had reached the New Granada-it ahowB that, though their country !"'? • with the royal family, attended by the
cita fortnight. They stopped but a short unies and gentlemen is wait
may be deficient in pecuniary resources, and there- bends playing ~ tied sere the
ting, p del to the tent, the
Queen," and passed down Lore
time. and made their way at once to the mines. The fore comparatively weak in opposition to great between the table* Grace was thin said by air. Toward, COMPARATIT. RAMIRO OF TARARMISA AMP WOO% TRAFFIC. 6
hostility of the miners towards them appeared to be
. , European states, their public men are actuated by a her Majesty's bailiff, and the thence, which comisted of thlf.7e.r H.l7.jear I Half.year j
Ishalag, as few reports were received of their expo ' ' love of freedom which, unhappily, the tory ministers roast beef, eautoo, lamb, and plum pudding, with ale, ending June ending Just endine June
80,1830. 30, 1631. 30, 1631.
*ion (ruin the mines.commenced.
of Great Britain know nothing of, except by name...
The mints continued to yield handsomely. The While France was urging for power., in a treaty Albert,
Arterninner her Majeety's health and thole of Prince .4 ber of p
... 113,:111 1113163 107,155 a
the Prince of Vale., and the rest of the royal ' wreeLeeofg=dera - hands upon any political malcontent who had sue- country dance, foot races for prizes, and different games traffic, both of the railway and the steam-boats, is steadily a am!. as Dng the beds of risers-constructing long emit,' in react
tj Our 81107 CS, her President must and dances were carried on with great spirit, h 110 i
-er --eesty on the increase, and, although the results of the half-year's j
canals for the conveyance of water to spots known have had before hint for ratification the treaty, a and rd,farlywiteares:janaestthernan fdreirprithe m_anurer... working certainly falls short of the expectations of your di-
to be auriferous, but unproductive from lack of ' translation of which we give below, and to which we
tired, t • r. s again p eying j"
trod save
water. invite the attention of our readers. The royal dinner party
_yesterday included the Earl of undertaking are gradually improving. The increase of
The immigration into California from all parts of, espi minute has been occasioned by the measures which
"Art. 1. The Grenadian government and the French 'labeller, Lady Caroline Ilarrington, Baroness Spoilt, and your directors have taken, after careful consideration, with 1 the world continued immense. For the nine weeks goverunitart rect rocallyengage to surrender all individuals, Captain Crispin. it N.
coding July 8, the arrivals had amounted to 22,000. fugitives from .ew Granada, taking refuge in France, and Mr. Corder, from Birmingham, transacted business, on increased traffic which those meuures are calculated to
all fugitives from France taking refuge in New Granada,secure. The accounts show a net balance of 7,951/. 17s. ltd.
Saturday, at the Home-office.
Our l'anatua correspondent writes as follows: if pursued ur condemned by competent tribunals, as authorsto the credit of revenue, from which your directors retain-
l'ANAM.l, Ac Gest* 3 of,
or accomplices in any of the crimes enumerated in the mend the payment bf a dividend of 3e. 6d. per share on
' mail steameri second article of the present convention, and the cztradi- The lion. Charles A. Murray, the British Consul-
Arrived
this day the United States'the first preference ohms. The development of the t
ties shall take place on the di mond of either of the two General in Egpyt, has, we understand, resigned that post, slate-traffic has hen' partly delayed, in cense- t itteril.erner, Irma San Francisco. with 281 passenger and g nnnnn meats, addreseed through their respective diplomatic arid is on the eve of leaving this country for Americi. quenee of the alterations necessary to afford to the Listi.3l6 il.ils. 7.ie. in g.ild due. Dites . Fan Fraacisco, channels.
n0...4...r Pn. 77....1........i p..... v 5.......,. ......1.-:....

Arrived this day the United Stateemail steamer
ffiorherner, trout SAO Francisco, with 2tll passenger. and
1,1.11.316 Job. 73e. in g.. 1,1 du.'. Dates. San Francisco,
July Acapii!c.i, July 21. No newt; of importance.
Arrived a:so, this day, the I'. 'dander Steam Navigation
Compare'. ,tamer Quito, Ws 11., from Valparaiso, Callao,
do . with her 31ajesty's mails, thirty.sis passengers, and
274.000 dol.. in specie and bullion for Europe.
tinier.' Florae espedition agninst the Ecuador is •
templet.- failure.
General times, it appears, went on shore • little be
for, Guayaquil to attack • troop, and lost several
332.. n killed and wounded. The latter he sent en
heard hr. steamer Chili, under charge of a colonel, who
fowl I the crew of the steamer in a state of mutiny, :
hating .tcur.l the arms of the ship, and b nand most
of th.• VOICOT. ; in • few minutes the crew,
prior p I c Chinon., were in complete possession of
the ste..m. r,
:and said they were going to deliver her up in
Oei sr r ono, president of the licuad. rjwbo had off, red
thin' dols. to do so, and that any who did not wish
to join e..uld embark in • small schooner then towing
astern of the idea ner, and go where they pleased, which
many did, and proceeded to Payta.
At. Grueral Flores' fleet was at Payta when the steamer
passed, and were obliged by the Peruvian authorities to
disarm, and then allowed full liberty.
General Flores landed at TrimSes (a small port
north of Pats`, sad was expected at the latter port in a
few days.
General Flores is spoken of in the highest terms by all
his men and of cers. of all nations ; but General Wright is
moat bitterly complained of.
Oates par Quito, Valparaiso. 16th July . • Coquimbo, lith
July; C.ldera, 18th July; Cobija, 20th; Arica, 21st;
Islay, 22nd; Canso, 27th; l'ayta. 30th.
The brie Canickfergus, from Liverpool (general cargo),
arrived • few days ago.

" Art. 2. The crimes for which extradition shell be reci-
procally granted are the following:—Assassination, poison-
ing, parricide, infanticide, murder, mutilation, violation
(either attempted or consummated with violence), keen-
diariass, (robbery, when it has been accompanied by circum-
stances which =pert to it a criminal character in the eyes
of the legislature of both countries), foreery of public or
authenticated documents, forgery of private or commercial
writings (when such defile arc punished by the laws
of both countries with afflictive or infamous penalties),
coining or issuing of false money ; fabrication or issuing of
false paper money; alteration of paper money; abstraction
of funds, effects, or documents of whatsoever nature belong-
ing to the state, committed either by ensployt's, holders of
public deposits, or by private perscns (when such abstrac-
tion is punished, by the laws of both countries, with afflictive
land infamous penalties); fraudulent bankruptcy, either to
the prejudice of the public treasury or private persons;
false testimony ; subornation of witnesses.
"Art. 3. The documents which must be produced in
support of the demands for extradition see :—Et mandato de
arrests, equivalent to the French mandof ~'anal (rispect-
ing the significance of which so much unlearned and un-
profitable discus ion took place on a recent occasion in the
British parliament), against the accused, Inconformity with
the laws of the country, whose government demands the
extradition, and all other documents having the same force
as this mandato, and indicating equally the nature and
gravity of the offences charged, as well as the penal disposi-
tion applicable to such offences.
" Art. 4. When it shall be necessary at the extradition,
all articles that may have been seized which might serve to
prove the offence, as well as all effects that have been stolen,
shall be transmitted to the reclaiming power, whether the
extradition shall take place (the accused having been
arrested), or it cannot be effected in cocsequence of the
escape of the accused. The transmission of stolen effects
and documents necessary to prove the offence shall take
place even though, on account of death, extradition cannot
take place.
" Art. 6. If individuals who are foreigners to New Gra-
nada or to France shall take refuge in either of those coun-
tries, after having committed any of the crimes enumerated
in article 2, extradition shell not be granted until the go-
vernment of the country to which the demanded foreigner
shall belong, or its representative, shall have been consulted
and made acquainted with all the motives which he may
think proper to oppose to the extradition. This disposition
shall be equally observed by the Grenadian governmeat
with regard to Frenchmen and by the French government
with regard to Grenadian' whose extradition should be de
mended of them by other governments.
" Art. 6. If the individual whose extradition is demanded
was pursued or had been condemned in the country where
he had taken refuge, for crimes or misdemeanours com-
mitted in that counter, he may not be delivered up until after
trial, acquittal, or paidon; and, in case of condemnation,
until after submitting to the penalty pronounced against

" Art. 7. The demand for extradition shall not be ad-
mitted if, since the facts imputed, the pursuit or condemna-
tion, the time prescribed for the expiring of the penalty,
shall be passed according to the law of the country in which
the foreigner may be found.
" Art. 8. If the individual demanded shall have con-
tracted towards private persons obligations of which his ex-
tradition may prevent the fulfilment, be shall not be re-
' moved until that party shell have penned his rights before
Use amamttent autlimity.
" Art 9. The expenses esseiseed by lb* arrest, &tes-
ticle, and reneval of the redeemed parties shall be at the
andel this state ia while ansased shell be seised,
at state shall be misaligned by the recline* party.
" Art. 10. Palled Melee et asiedreasesocirs ere ex-
cepted frees the pp,eeeeeseat eteventioa. It is expressly stipu-
lated that the dedlvidael whew extradition *ball have been
granted, shall net he, la sees, pursued or punished for
any political oilman eemmille9 anteriorly to the extradi-
tics. liatraditiem caret tab *se bat for the purpose of
eheedslas the esames mW6wailed in Article 2. It
tsi=ll, ea/shied thee the applicsdoe of the present ten-
dril bees hr he essesesseeskant the date of its
sigostare, red that ask esmallted anteriorly to this date
cease' be wade the aliest at a cismod for extradition.
" Art. 11. The prom stasintles will continue to have
foree sad viaear trita ere of the sestracting parties shell
have te the ether on. year is advance its wish he
• essestiee.

"Are. 12. The pees) neventiss obeli be ratified es-
inviable to the leepestive emailluesee of the two seer
=ail the vetileseleme sbell be *ashamed et Bevis
does* if sr seam poesible. Ia
Ilikb et white Use reepeethe have *reed
the yeesest esevestiee, eadi aired thereunto their
eeeL
"Done el Begets, 9th April, 1850.
E. Di Liii.,
V.ICSOZIA/10 Di DTAMDIII.

" All the formalities of ezebinit7Moi We:1,4;7;74
falelled at Bozota on tb. 12th May, 1852, and sigsed en the
part of New Granada by
" JOBll MAILIA PLATA.
Fisals--Bmaox Uotair DI BOMAN."

A NEW DERBY DODGE.—Numberless as the dodges
have been of the present • •
• , we he this week dis-
covered a scheme, intended to smite the public, which,
for the deepness and nefariousness of the design, is, we
should think, unparalleled. About the close of the last
Isession, Mr. Moffatt, M.P. for Dartmouth, moved for "A
return for the amount mussed or raised in each county
iin England and Wales, during the year ended at Lady-
. day, 18.52, or at such other period as the account of the
rate is usually made up in respect of the following local
rates, vie.:—poor's rate, highway rate, church rate,
eounty rate, borough rate, watch rate, lighting rate,
land-tax, &e. Nothing, we should think, can be more
clear than the return which is required by this notice, yet
• letter has been addressed to the overseen of the poor,
and we presume to other bodies, accompanied by a blank
tabular form, to be returned properly filled up, and this
forte requires not the amount of poor's rate for the year, as
we should naturally expect, but " the amount assessed on
the parish or townurip for poor's rate, on the last rate mule
in the year ending Lady-dsy, 18.52," The return therefore
when made will be perfectly delusive. It will give the
yearly amount paid by the farmer for the county rate, high-
way rate, church rate, for these taxes are generally im-
posed once • year, and the last rate will be all that is re-
quired. But in towns, where the poor rate is generally
levied once a month, or once in two months, the " last
rate" will not show more than a sixth or seventh of the
actual taxation, and the agricultural burdens compared
with those of townsmen will thus be made to appear im-
mensely greater than they actually are. There cannot be
the smallest doubt of the intention of this piece of trickery,
but this very lame attempt to dress up the distresses of the
agriculturist will soon be u widely and indignantly exposed
as the attempt deserves.— Newcastle Chrossich.
Tim CAPE MAIL—The Propontis, Capt. Glover,
belonging to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company,
nailed Dorn Plymouth with a supplementary mail for the
Cape of Good Ilope, &c,, on Saturday. She took some
specie, 40,000 f., and a general cargo. This vessel goes out
ia order to provide for the regular homeward mail, in con-
sequence of the extension of the route to Madras and
Calcutta.

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DEPARTURE OF THE Eciu,PA.—On Saturday fore-
man, at elites o'clock, the British and North Americso
royal mail steam ship Europa, Capt. Leitch, departed from
the Mersey with 120 passengers, a fair cargo, and the usual
weekly mails, for the United States and the British pro-
vinces, in charge of Lieut. J. Grant Raymond, R.N., the
Admiralty Agent.

TILE Q UELN'S PROGRESS TO SCOTLAND.

BIRMINGHAM.

Queen Victoria will peas through the Midland
metropolis this afternoon, for the second time since she
ascended the throne. Preparations for as loyal a reception
and greeting as a five or ten minutes' stay will afford have
been made, the weather fortunately bidding fair to be some-
what more propitious than on the occasion of her Majesty's
passing through on her return from Scotland in 1819, when
the mayor of that day hastily read an address from beneath
an umbrella. amidst a perfect torrent of rain, and flanked
by long rows of ladies fair with draggled dresses and woe.
ful looks—results of a stormy October morning.
A wry strong desire has been felt in the town, especially
since her Majesty's visit to Manchester and Liverpool, that
a similar compliment should be paid to Birmingham, and
as 6000 as the mayor received an intimation that the Queen
would pass through on her northern journey, it was
suggested that her gracious pleasure should be taken on
the subject of her extending her brief stay, but such a pro-
ceeding was ascertained to be somewhat unusual and irre-
gular. The Queen did on one occasion visit Birmingham
when heiress presumptive, and the impressions lett on the
royal mind arc said to have been not altogether favourable.
Liberal and radical, however, as the borough is, we believe
that whenever the Queen renews her visit, that the re-
ception will exhibit one feeling only, and tkat of unfeigne l
loyalty and attachment to her person.
The royal train, attended by Samuel Beale, Esq , deputy-
chairman of the Midland Railway Company, and its prin-
cipal Akers, is expected at Birmingham at five o'clock,
where her Majesty will be received by the mayor and other
civic dignitaries, by military guards of honour, and as many
of the influential inhabitants of the town as the station a ill
accommodate.

The address will Ds presented immediately on the
arrival of the train, which will without delay proceed to
convey the royal party on their northern journey as far as
Derby, without stopping at Tamworth, the distance be-
tween Birmingham and the first-named town being arranged
to be run in an hour and ten minutes. The distance is 41
miles.

GLOUCESTER, SATCILDAY NIGHT.
Mr. Sanders, the general manager to the Midland
Company, visited this city to-day, for the purpose of super-
intending the final arrangements here for the reception of
her Majesty on her route through Gloucester to Scotland.
ller Majesty having graeously signified her intention to
receive royal addresses from the mayor and corporation,
and also from the clergy of Gloucester, a gallery has been
erected to-day for the accommodation of those gentlemen
at the end of the platf 'rm. A guard of soldiers will be in
attendance here, and the old pensioners of the district will
also be called up. The platform will be kept quit* clear,
but a convenient arrangement has been made which will
permit of a large number of people witnesaing the arrival
and departure of the royal party from the adjacent Great
Western platform. Mr. Sanders proceeded on to Brow-
grove in the evening to complete the necessary arrange-
ments there.

Her Majesty will arrive at Swindon about • quarter to
two o'clock, where eh* will rest half an hour for luncheon,
and then proceed on to Gloucester, arriving bore at
3.16 p.m.

(BY lILIOTRIC TZLIO/ALPI.)
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY Mosstso.
The Queen left Osborne et a quarter past 10, and
started from Gosport by special train at 10 minutes
past 11.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT HORSELTDOWN.-011 Sa-
turday evening, Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the
Honeljdown Tavern, Fair-street, St. John's, Southwark,
respecting the death of Elizabeth Wilton, aged 40 years,
who died under the following circumstances :—Mary Ann
Dickies, of No. 4, Fressamee-lans, Horselydown, stated
that the deemed was a widow with three children, and
melded I. the Imes rem with witness. The decea•ed had
been wawa liege Seedy week, bat witness could not m-
essed tag It OM had hese attended medically, and by. her
ewe mediae be Illeekwell together with the oecemonal
sesiebries a the budgets. Dressed was frequently in au
excited Mrs hem sire nue, but she would sem divulge
an=bee tempers& The deceased aspired on
, mid Moo her death wrists had seen
various womb es marks a miasma on her per-
son which theses was rade be amount for.
John Ilichmadairk es segineer, said be had !mown the de-
ceased for • liesettie time. She weereerally in Rood
health, and id a eineelid disperse. Witness bad been
keeping OSIMINIay with the deemed shout twelve months,
and was to have been amnia le her a week since, but the
ceremony had been pcolparmsdl /a easseequence of her sudden
illness. Witness and derma west out for a walk on Sun-
day evening, the loth iseleat, and before they returned
the deemed wee take. einiendy ill. Ones that time she
W set left her ass.. Dossed hed boss very low
end whim Minim era bee the e ream,
, shere-
plied, ill: They ban seed me surseful." Red heard of the
wounds on the deimied's beck, &A.. but be wee quite igno-
rant of the maser is which they were iallira. Us bad
made Inquiry, hat the nee was enveloped bit the widest
mystery. The modem a the decreed was emmmiesd at
great length by the iseened serener wire was weehie to
elicit the slightest iellimitlin respeethrg the swift dia.
covered on the body a desired, who sever mad* any com-
plaint to her during the period of her illness. Mr. David
Phillips, of No. 7, F Honelydown, surgeon,
deposed to the state that he bead the deceased in on Sunday
week. She was lab Take pest nervousness, fever,
and vomiting. Her mind wee la a distreeted state, and she
was suffering from histerinerfeing great mental excite-
ment.'W itneas attended the Ceeeea, mod prescribed for her,
but site grednelly grew worse and died es Wednesday.
Wiesen, made sped secirreas examination el the body. 'The
stomach and loesntises were in a state ofinflammatles. The
viscera gensally were is an unhealthy Nate. Upon exa-
mining the bed, externally witness found at the bottom of
the back or spine two wounds or punctures. One was an
inch long, sod the other about half an inch. There were
also other marks ors similar character on the right aide and
thigh. The injuries had been indicted about a fortnight
with some sharp instrument, but were progressively heal-
ing. The inflammation of the stomach was most probably
caused by some active poison, but, not having made an
analysis of the contents, be could not speak positively. The
coroner closely examined the whole of the witnesses, but
none could throw any light as to the manner in which the
deceased had met with the injuries on her person. The
inquiry, after considerable discussion among the jury, was I
adjourned for further evidence and to allow time for an i
analysis of the centents of the stomach. 1
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN REPRINTS OF ENGLISH
I
Boots. —An Order of Council, dated August 18, sets forth I
that her Majesty, in pursuance of the powers granted her
by the 10th sod I lth Victoria, has directed that an act'
passed by the legislature of St. Vincent, authorising the',
importation lien that oo;ony of books being foreign re-
prints of hooks first printed or published in the United
Kingdom of (in-at Britain and Ireland, in which a copy-
right exists, whereby due provision is made for securing the
rights of British authors in the said island, shall rennin
and continue in force, and that the acts of the imperial
parliament relating to the importation of such books shill
be suspended so far as regards the said island.
AUSTRALIAN WOOL.—lhirty-acircn bales or
Aus-
tralian cashmere wool were leaded lost week at the South-
ampton docks from Hans.

From these comparative statements it appears that the
traffic, both of the railway and the steam-boats, is steadily
on the increase, and, although the results of the half-year's
working certainly falls short of the expectations of your di-
rectors, there is sufficient proof that the prospects of the
undertaking are gradually improving. The increase of
expenditure has been occasioned by the measures which
your directors have taken, after careful consideration, with
a view to the eventual advantage of the company, front the
increased traffic which those measures are calculated to
secure. The accounts show a net balance of 7,9511. 17s. Ild.
to the credit of revenue, from which your directors recom-
mend the payment bf a dividend of 3e. 6d. per share on
the first preference shares. The development of the
slate-traffic has been partly delayed, in conse-
quence of the alterations necessary to afford to the
quarries at Port Per.rhyn and Port Dinerwie, the desired
facilities of communication between the tramways
and the railway. The tramways of flarnarron are not as
as yet connected with your line. The depot for storing the
slate, and thus maintaining the means of constant supply,
is in course of construction. This arrangement will, it is

believed, materially tend to secure to your': railway this im-
portant branch of traffic. The heads of an agreement with
the London and North Western Railway and the City of
Dublin Steamboat Company have been arranged and have
passed under the seals of those companies respectively. In
consequence of this sett:ement the traffic in goods and cattle
from Ireland, via Holyhead, will commence immediately.
Your directors have the satisfaction of stating that, with
one exception, the several disputed accounts with con-
tractors and other persons have been settled, on terms
which must, on the whole, be considered favourable to the
company. In the matter of the purchase of the Mold Rail-
way, authorised at a meeting of the proprietors held on the
30th March, 1849, Mr. Stephenson, the referee in respect of
the terms of purchase, has given his award, fixing the rate
of conversion at 10 'hates of 151. each, in the Mold Railway
Company, for three shares of 431. each in the Chester and
Holyhead Company. Your directors deemed it to be their
duty to withdraw the bill before parliament last session, in
consequence of the Shrewsbury and Chester Company hav-
ing succeeded, when the bill was in committee of the House
of Lords, in obtaining the insertion of a clause, giving that
company a power of interference with Oho rates on your
line, &ciliated to affect your interests injuriously. This
disappointment of their reasonable expectations, arising
from a cause entirely beyond their control, has pre-
vented your directors front carrying into effect those finan-
cial arrangements for the diminution of your debenture debt,
to which they alluded in their last report ; but it is satis-
factory to them to be able to state that, although the course
which they proposed to take has been thus impeded, they
have been enabled to renew all the debentures that have
recently fatten due, at a rate of interest more favourable
than heretofore. The annexed report of the resident engi-
neer is most satisfactory as regards the general condition of
dhe railway, and progress of the works."
The resident engineer's report, which is as follows, was
miss read :

" To the Chairman and Directors of the Chester end
Holyhead Railway.—Gentlemen,—l have the satisfaction
of reporting that the permanent way and works of this
railway are in good order and condition. The
branches of the elate wharfs at Port Penrhyn and
Port Dinorwie, with the necessary communications with
the tramways, are completed, and in good working order.
The slate depdt at Salteney is programing, and will, I ex-
pect, be finished in the course of two months. The cattle
sheds, yard, and loading plates at Holyhead, necessary for
the full development of .the Irish traffic, are completed,
and ready for use. The railway from Bangor to Cernervon
is now open, both for passenger and goods traffic.—l re-
main, gentlemen, your obedient servant, HXDWORTH
Lme.—Engineer's-ollee, Banger, August 23, 1&52."
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen, it
now becomes my duty, in moving the adoption of the report,
to offer to you a few remarks; and I will begin by stating
to you at once candidly that when I took the presidency of
your company, now some five months since, I then antici-
pated a more rapid development of your traffic than the
exertions of myself and my colleagues and the executive
have been able to effect. Perhaps I took somewhat too
sanguine a view of the prospective progress of our traffic
from my not being accustomed, as a director, to deal with
such matters, and looking at them, perhaps, more in the
light of a man of business accustomed to direct his own
affairs, and not expecting to meet, in regard to them, with
tnose impediments which experience has now shown me
must be contemplated in connexion with an undertaking
s• situated as the Chester and Holyhead Railway. Never-
theless, my opinion with regard to its future prosperity
remains unchanged. (Hear, hear.) The traffic remains
to be developed. The reasons why it has not been de-
veloped more rapidly, I will now state to you shortly, and
I hove satisfactorily to yourselves. (Hear.) In the first
place, 16 months since, as I stated when I became chairman
of your company, I found your line terminating • mile and
a quarter from Holyhead, having no connexion with the
harbour, without the possibility of loading or unloading •
single ton of goods, and with the means only of taking our
passengers on board the packets by • number of omnibuses,
not very well served. (Rear, hear.) Your board applied
themselves immediately to the obtaining from the govern-
ment the right of carrying down a railway to the end of
the pier. They were met, after strong representations on
their part (I must say in this instance) more liberally
by government than they were ever met before and your
company have now • railway complete to the end of the pier
at Holyhead. Together with that railway, you have ample
accommodation for the conveyance of good. and cattle ; you
have a station in every way suitable for your trafilo—you
have refreshment rooms, sad in feet everything necessary
for the conduct of your traffic at the terminus. I had
hoped, when I last had the pleasure of meeting you, to be
able to report on she present occasion not only the oomenee-
meat but • considerable development of your goods traffic
with Ireland, but I regret that it is not in my power
so to report, and the reasons simply are these. In the first
place we have had to deal with the City of Dublin Bteam-
Packet Coinpany:and with 16 railway companies in Ireland,
and to carry out the numerous details connected with such
an arrangement, which thine only are able to understand
who are brought into contact with them and follow them
up every day. (Hew, heir.) It was indeed only last week
that we obtained the seal of the companies to the agreement,
and completed the various arrangements with the other
companies for the trough working of traffic over owe line.
I can only say that I believe your board have in this
matter exercised a sound discretion. (Cheers.) It is
not our fault that the legislature have granted to us the
Vail.end of an undertaking; and it was, therefore, that
your board—as I consider in the exercise of a wise and
mud discretion—could only deal on principles of amity
with all the various interests with which the wel-
fare of our undertaking is necessarily, I may say,
identified. (Hear, hear.) Your board have, for
the purpose of carrying on our slate traffic, secured
eight mesas of land, near Chester. Oa Tuesday I went
down, purposing to inspect the work., and I fled that
within six or 'seven weeks from this time we may expect to
have wharf room for 80,000 tons of slate, at a cost to us of
only 2,000/. Our Carnation line is complete. The passewrer
traffic has now been proceeding these eight or ten weeks,
and the goods trade has commenced during the present
week. So far u our connexion with the London
and Noith Western and the whole of the Irish
companies, is considered, nothing can be more grati.
lying. We heve had the most effectual aid from
all of them. I wish I could say the same results have
been secured in other quarters ; but I am bound to tell you
the whole truth of the matter, and I may say that the
state of our relations with the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Companies is anything but gratifying to your directors. I
look at it in connexion with this Kellner, that if your line
is to he treated as a Chester and Holyhead line
merely, and not as connected with the whole of
Lancashire and Yorkshire—if it is not to be con-
sidered ea a Liverpool and Dublin, a Manchester and
Dublin, and as a Dublin and Yorkshire and Lancashire
line, why it is nothing, and it is right that you should know
that (.. Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) The Lancashire
and Yorkshire lines, if properly managed, would contri-
bute greatly to the development of our traffic, but there are
circumstances which, at the present moment, prevent that I
result, and until • better understanding exists between the
comp nice, and the various battles that are going on he-
' tween them are not allowed to affect their relations, your
ietcrests are sacrificed, and no effort of mine can prevent
l it. Some of you have, no doubt, seen the letter which
appeared in the Times newspaper the other day—and
here I say that we ought to be very thankful to the press
for calling attention to these matters. The complaint was

that a great number of passengers were left behind at
Chester, simply because the Manchester train was not In
time fur our express. I mare you that no one can regret
the eirenmistance more than I do. I have, is emijneetion
Ira admiral Moorsom, who works heartily with me in
*s Mllidar, looked again and again to see what we can do,
hod we have delayed our 'epee,. train ten minutes in order
Off emit for the passengers coming in from Manchester. We
Om do no more than that, and if we attempted it we should
Is open to public animailvereion. But I will read to you
lies result of this disjointed system of working, as contra-
distinguished from railways working as they should in
perfect unity, and affording the best accommodation to the
public, and the best return to the proprietor.. (Hear.)
will just take the returns of the arrival of the Manchester
train. to meet our express during the last two months.
Recollect that i n that depends the whole of our Lancashire
and Yorkshire traffic ; and when you know the enormous
amount of the population of that district connected with
the through traffic to Ireland, you will feel the great import-
ance of this matter to our interests. The other day when
was at Chester I had the mortification of seeing 20 or 30
passengers from Manchester left on the platform when oar
train, alter waiting nine or ten minute., had started. All
I could do was, us politely as possible, to say bow very
sincerely I, as the chairman of this company, regretti el it,
but it wan not in my power to prevent it. At the same
time, you must recollect that while you ere not in a position
to run your trains to Liverpool and Manchester, through the
Cheshire Junction, so you ought to do, though passengers
will not come over your line, despite your shortees pass ,ge,
and until the legislature with a strung hand compel; the
railway companies to agree so far that the public shall
not be sacrificed while they are squabbling among them.
selves, and spending the shareholders' money, I fear we
may continue to 'hirer from the circumstance I have men-
tioned. I will now read to you a return, showing the time
of departure of our 2.24 p.m. express train from Chester from
the Ist of July to the 25th of August, 18.52. It is as
follows :
Time of Me.
Date. Dep from after

Time of Min.
Date. Dep. from
Citemar. 1 .11. e.

"iiestir: fin».

----.. .....
3
&May 4
July 6 3.13 34
« 8
• I 3.73 33
.. 10 3.27 32
!III!l• it

Aut?st.

tUUUI:4I 1 —
Aug. 3 — 25
• IL— 3.111 1".
7 3.20 23
9Unday 11 , ..._
2'l
11 .. 1.13 2,
II 3.39 33
I 3
14
Sun& 13 —
Aug. 14 3. 3 19
u. 17 3.14 19
„ 1A 3.13 to
~ 19

July 21 3.20
15...... 3.13 17
3.11 To
u......

3tily ii. 7- sas 30
“ Sl. . 3.13 13
22
2.10 23
. 223
13
24 3.13 30
3tis d . 13
. .

July 36 620
13
o 22
3. 3 10
• 29 3.10
13
or SO 3. 7 13
. it 3.10 13

21 —
&and. 23 ...„ -
Aug. 24.. 3.12 20
„ 23 3.13 20

Will, gentlemen, how am I to command the through
traffic from Lancashire and Yorkshire with this elate of
things? 1 say the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction are
sacrificing their own interests, while they are alai prevent-
ing us earning a dividend for ourselves. I have this return
from the station books at Chester, and I defy contradiction
to the statement ; and I say to you, while this state of
things canna, while you have simply the London traffic to
depend upon, the views I stated to you on taking this chair
cannot be carried out, and I am not responsible fur their I
not having been carded out. (Ifeer, hear.) Although we '
have been disappointed, as is stated in the report, with'
regard to the bill brought into the last parliament, to enable
the London and North Western to endorse our debentures,
yet I am happy to tell you we have gnt them renewed r n
favourable hems—within a t per cent. of what the London
and North Western are paying on their debentures ; and
when I tell you the fact, that even at a half per cent. higher
than the London and North Western endorsement would
enable us to inure them at, we should effect a saving to you
of 14,0001., a year, you will naturally believe that the cir-
cumstance is one that ought to occupy (and it dots occupy)
the anxious attention of your board. Gentlemen, I will
not detain you longer, and will merely say that I shall be
happy to answer any inquiries that may be put to me.
(Cheers.)
The report having been adopted, and
Capt. Ilutatt having addressed the meeting,
A SUA REM/LOLA wished to know whether there
would not be 18s 2d. due on the preference shareholders,
after the declaration of the dividend of 3s. Gd.

The CHAIRMAN replied certainly, and moved the re-
solution for the declaration of the 3s. Gd. dividend on the
preference traffic, which was unanimously carried.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors wee then
moved by Mr. Bassett, seconded by Mr. Oliveira, and
dirtied unanimously.

LEEDS NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

The ordinary general half-yearly meeting of the
shareholders in this undertaking was held in the Philoso-
phical Hall, Leeds, on Saturday last, Thomas Constable,
L.A., the chairman of the directors, presiding.
Mr. Smiles, the secretary, having read the notice convening
the meeting, the register of shareholders was sealed by the
chairman.

The report and statement of accounts (an abstract of
which appeared in the E.rprcis of Wednesday last) was
taken as read.

The CHAIIMAN then said, that the report and statement
of accounts having been presented to the shareholders, it
became his duty to move that they be received and adopted.
In doing so be would address a few observations upon that
part of the report which alluded to the position and gene-
ral prospects of the undertaking. lie must, with the other
directors, congratulate the shareholders on the important
event of the last half year—the opening of their extension
live to Stockton. (Hear.) When they considered that no less
than six years had elapsed since the royal assent was given
to the act for making that extension, it might well be ima-
gined that there had been much anxiety and much strug-
gling on the put of the company to overcome the difficulties
in their way before the event to which he alluded could
be accomplished. The line was now open and in full working
condition. The stations were but provisionally supplied in
the first instance, but they were now all being proceeded
with ; a few miles, under 20, had at the commencement
only a single line of rails ; the directors were anxious to
make a double hoe with as little delay as possible, and then
they would have a double line for the whole of the distance.
(Hear, hear.) On the line being opened, those arrange-
ments which had been intended were commenced with the
Northern Company, with whom they had a junction ; they
commenced the transmission of traffic over this line cut
ward to Middlesbrough and northward to Darlington. The
shareholders would ho anxious to know how far the directors
were satisfied with the prospects of the working of this ex-
tension as far as they had gone. Unthr the circumstances,
which were patent to them all, they could not say they bad
much reason to be disappointed. The passenger traffic
during the last three weeks had averaged 1,2001. per week,
being 4001. per week in excess of the passenger traffic for
the corresponding period of last year. (Hear, hear.) When
they considered the low fares at which they had been
obliged to work this traffic, they could not consider this
anything but a satisfactory result; it was a proof of the
feeling which appeared to be developing itself amongst
railway companies, that they scarcely could go too far in
low fares for passenger traffic in districts where they had •
sufficient population; which seems to sanction a sugges-
tion made the other day by an influential por-
tion of the public press, that excursion fares should
be the rule rather than the exception. Then as
regards the general traffic of the line, he had also in the
first instance to congratulate them on an event scarcely less
important than the opening of their extension—he alluded
to the opening of the Commercial Doek, at West Hartle-
pool. That event took place with the eclat due to such an
occasion, for it was the opinion of the large number of
commercial, railway, and nautical men present, that a more
suitable situation for a harbour could not be found ; and
art had dune everything necessary to make it as efficient as
possible. In proof of this he might tell them that ever
sine, the op enibg of the port, the traffic had continued to
flow into it in a most extraordinary manner. The reason
why the merchandise traffic brought upon their line
was not so great as might have been expected
was that they had no outlet beyond Leeds,
whereas they wanted to get to Manchester, and
other large commercial and manufacturing towns, the rail-
ways to which places were in the hands of three great com-
panies, the Midland, the London and North Western, and
theLancashireand Yorkshire. In answer to attemPts at
negotiation with them, they had always said they wished
the Leeds Northern Company well, and when they had set-
tled their differences with the York and North Midland and
the Berwick lines, they would then feel more at liberty to
enter into arrangements. The directors of this company
were quite ready to enter into an arrangement with the
York companies, and he was happy to say that the directors
of these two companies had recently manifested • desire to
put an end to the differences which existed, and to enter
sato arrangements which would be mutually satisfactory ;
and he hoped before long they would meet together again
in that room to hear the details of that arrangement_
Mr. Joust Gorr seconded the adoption of the report.
After some convereation, the report was then adopted
Neu. dia., as were also the other resolutions, declaring a
dividend of 6 per cent. upon the quarter shares, and giving
the directors the usual powers to protect the interests of the
company.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceed-
ings.