The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-02 00:00:00

THE . EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1852..

sea say °dm mamas et neaklag public your
waatas hot if you p to • oewspapu I will has
1541 MO shilling aad @hippo owls gas,. what is that
1•16,:i„. We ROM to drive the world stray from sap-
aowepapor pees." (Cheers.) Now we have
111611111119 is the stamp that seam newspolors Wu/
that %ha INISMINII say be affected by the rivalry of Amp
galantine; hot the fear of inferior publications emus to
am M emosal is this ; ausaly, that the stamp In Itself has
some sigh. poser of Improving the quality of newspapers.
if UM this I am only say, that some of the 'Ueda(
ouvripagen wield bo very much benefited by inorsaaing
the stamp. gge.ttghtilt.) DO they mean to my that to make
this pany belfries would improve the Montag
Hawk, sad the MortsV: If not, bow is it that this
stamp au be said to thseezality of the press t
(Hem hear.) asked of a wittier in
sosamigeas god be sold that be theargist s lido oddities
went prolese as lap meat is the entalinked peels.
But U that wove se, why not add • Hai. moue, sad go ea
until we had stamped up to a state of aboilets perfostkm.
(Chine sad leaghter.) I bewve that the eutahliehed pipers,
dune whisk hew a public 'spanks owl army its public
seendssee, would retain the bell whin they new puma
apse the genesal opinion of Ms nensunity I that M.
sheep papers whisk would one oat if we said AAA
then sales would ha elreulated in a dal whin Is net es-
pigged by the existing unpins. Ines; sad tbog mos.
sandy tiny wed* net ISM We ftest egammlitisa
with NISEI. (Ron, hoer.) Let us thereinto devour by by ',numbing no inense upon sou Mew
countrymen that It we are really n have ea
educated mid enlightened peep* we must reeneve these
Anal ebonies to the Main of knowledge. (Cheers.)
No penes in a iseelipi GOO will over give ucredit for
No dodge to diens absestiss, mini we de all in our
power is NUM nese then regeistiess, whisk were
impend net ki Os salts of meat" bat Ikon akw din
our iinmes wash mg he sate Ws. the people were
Len in ignsanos. tileardwora Ws bold. however, a
diMesenspiden. owl we ose so beim nib far ear hatta
tins se thee of as enlightened penis. (Lend dress.)
Mr. I. wu.sisarm mapprad the resee=n.d dwelt
at some length upon the gems! topis
The reeslatioa was then pet and seeded inessimensly.
Mr. If ocurez.t., n litesed, deseibed the mean to
which be had boon treated by the naked amass Oasis.
H. had bus implied to disosatinu a otomthly oostemped
publketioa by throws of prosecution. ILL Debitaell con-
cluded by moving a ressistisa attributiag the *etudes of
the newspaper pimp tea dein to swam the liberty of the
prem.
Mr. BO:June,' of :Lowestoft, seconded the ropolutiou,
and described a similar mse Is his neighbourhood.
Tim !notation was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Moir Sense e, M.P., snored the third resolution,
which appointed the c the president and committee
of ths emaciation, Mr. Co Mr. C. Knight, and Mr.
Dighy Seymour, • depntatios to wait upn the Prime
Minister, to pia the repeal, rather than tM amendment,
of the Newspaper Stamp Act.
Mr. Pniz.urs seconded the resolution, which wu also
carried unanimously.
Mr. Mimes Olsson then moved • vote of thanks to
the chairman, which was seconded by Mr. COlDilt, and
curried by acclamation.
Mr. JIUROLD appropriately acknowledged the compli-
ment, and the meeting separated at 11 o'clock.

CITY OF LONDON UNION.-THE POOR-LAW
COMMISSIONERS AND THB NEW RELIEF
ORDER.

In the afternoon of Tuesday a meeting of the
board of guardians for the City of London Union, most
numerously attended, wu held in the Board-room, 61, St.
Mary-axe; Mr. TH0114701( In the chair.
Two matters tended to make this meeting of the guar-
dians of especial interest: the first was that it was expected
a communication would be made to the board on the subject
of the report on the new relief order, and the rumour that
Mr. Hall, the district commissioner, would attend; and the
second, that Mr. Singer would move, according to notice,
the following resolution, namely :
"That this board, being deeply imprened with the eon-
viction, that the recent relief order of the Poor-law Board
is calculated to inflict extreme hardship upon that clam of
poor, who, though reduced to poverty through unforeseen
misfortune or auction, still maintain a character for re-
spectability and industry; and having in vain represented
this point to the consideration of the Poor-law Board, do
forward a petition to the House of Commons praying the
suspension er alteration of the said order ; and that a com-
mittee be formed for the purpose of framing such petition
and ensuring its due presentation."
The minutes of the former muting having been read by
the Clerk (Mr. Rouen), the ordinary business was gone
through. The Annum Commissioner, Mr. Hall, was
present during the whole of the proceedings.
The following Letter, from the Poor Law Commi•sioaen,
was then read

"
" Poor Law Board, Whitehall, Noy. 29.1862.
am directed by the Poor-law Board to acksow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, in
which you transmit to them • copy of the report mad* to
the guardians of the City of London Union, by the eons-
mittse appointed to consider the provisions of the general
relief order of the Poor-law Board, dated the 25th of August.
1852. iam directed to state that your letter and the report
enclosed in it will receive the consideration of the beard,
and that they will osannuoicate farther with the peahens
on the subject in a short time.—l am, sir yoga as
abode.
servant, " W. Ktstatis, is&
" John Thomas Rower% Esq., Clerk to the
Guardians of the City of London Vales."
Aftr the communication had been roseival,
The Ciotti's/a odd, Vat, as Kr. Mall, the aseletant-
remashisser for that &Met. wee thIPPIONAPP=a
weld be the &awn of the Board. Were they
to Mame_ any matters hat*, referents to the morel order
of the Pier.kw Beard as to ent-deer uhf, to beer any
obssevadens the loareed meminiener AIM Mak ft meow
ems to aidrms to them. Re (the ehennen) embattled
that mesh • amen trgeht be Rest desirable. _

isi7g-areeTeneuelyegn;d a,
Mr. Hem. mid be did set appear um that tension
macially epos the abject of the relief ardor, or with refer-
ees' to the repot of the board of gusediine therrapea
made. It we Ms pleasure to sell is that day at their heard
raw tag, iaeelafaf test is aim degree at lent he might he
useful to theieeeCetiosalkek la famishing oapiameisse
whisk might 1e aeseW while the subject woo seder dis-
bard
maks. -(0 Me.,," mid ohms.) min thew se Me
had pmettasil him to opisiess, be woaid
ay ha amid rageork se to the " guagestresse" to the Peer-
law Bard wide h bed emassied hem that bard of guar-
diaak that the anew used in the report wee expressive
of wafts feeling, and parka's hardly so judicious es it
might have bas. ("Hear,' sad " No.") However, be
that sa it might, he would say he knew it to be the feet that
it wee the with of the Pear-law Board not to act milady
or Malay towards the peer, ear uneeemly towards the
board of risrlins whom the tommissiesen sought
in this oak wee ishinaaties epos a soMfoot
deeply ialessatiag to the board, the yardage. the
Memel@ at large, and the demean pear dna-
ashes. The heart of wake* would mamba Ma
shaelimeeedy with the psheaties of the_
_asemi the
seder as imemustisaal letter wee Weed, wash stated the
MUM Wily the Poor law Beard had thought it lobe ex-
pedient to Mae to certain padebesead usage the "Samara
Order" the edsdahtraties of relief; prorates,
maims labour teat he able-
=S as
eades. The kept is view in all tholes-
vision if that under was that wash was estaleaber
the harthied of Intabeth, cap. 2, ammels, that the
cabled
yre three ha Wined. sad the alsio-bodled is am
; w Meg prima* el dripper law was aid
wa in Mrshisk mei Wert sante The alturamorialte
sad ateasers thee Isko ardar is.. gee to gas bar snag
to week the shins of all sash ensue paints nog ass
by the said elnrawardsms and .amen, or the peeve
pert of them, be ihought obis Is keep and ineintoin Ask
children ; and also be "sign to work all stook possins,
married or ameideil, as sans to minstaia thim.
and tasks no Nana sod trade of lib to get their
living by; and she to rain, weakly or otbonries, a un-
easiest sleek if fins, hemp, wool, thread. Its., eel ether
ware ad rag to set the poor in work; mad sin widest
sans at more bar and maze the ansissay sad ot Ins
ham impasse, dd. bind. sad wash sober arm nen Inn
wase sail neS
On to won." Tho Poer-law Deed. be
(11r. ettlet se/
and
hay of ogasion that thin twin
whisk and not be entrovensd, notwithstind-
Zitheasseital ronnetranses they had received hen Met-
ant melees; amd, twined, it was dm hot that in me ewe
bed the roommetnate ettesked the pahmiple,eattues %ania
as loftily agony their existing system of
The comakeksses were therefore MOW ie the opines
that the peineiple upon which the law was band was a
sound principle, for although it did appear that in INN
cues something wee alleged ea belay nappilialis to the
circumstances of a certain union, in alma sit of theta the
spirit of the order was more or lees genial est. Ia the
remarks be (Mr. Hell) would make to the bend, however,
upon the order, he would nut go gemorogy ins the ques-
tion, but confine himself to his ewe-the matropsikaa dis-
trict, and in that extensive area he kart that the mint of
the order was observed ; still non hal bows difilmoness of
opinion, and circumstances which had aredexploaatke,
but he ad found that in most ease expasatios only was
nee wary Nan effective working of the measure. The
principal objection to the crier had been taken
against part of the Article 1, which provided that
Wh the guardians should allow relief to
any indigent poor person out of the workhouse, one
third at least of sea relief allowed to any paean who
should be indigent end heigekes from ago, *Mien, acci-
dent, or teak er mestal alemity," Ms., " Assad be gives
in artisan of iced or teal or eller srdsissof absolute neces-
sity:" With arenas to this Mine they hod received a
variety of remonstrances, mil some pigs hod even gone
out of their way to Mate tint the nest wog inhuman and
cruel, forgetting, as nth paten meet have dem% that the
application of the pronism emit wassisseity have to be
notified amain to the eirmmelasses sommens4 with the
digit's' ears to which it might bi onstiend applicable.
(=sr.
Inman'w was se Nimbi maks with regard to the
of relief In lid to no oil and imam, bet
*sin wan an places to be bind elms IS ions not isms in a
resist or a item degree; but the paper of rah relief
meet fa ague* mains sod paLYa Ann SS to OS per
seat. during tiepin onnentinwhes the arenas sisefaisly woe
exceediWily tow. The peoportion of relief in hied cad rano,
in the City of Louisa anon wee not mere thee le per
sat., mid the opentin of the ardor would eensagently
maks a itt slings la their relief, and, Norge,
the giss sinless of that board as
the nanlosisnass had mound the to
give the sew orOtt a fair trial roped lha

malt to the mosiethsiours at Whitehall. He (Mr. Hall)
we glad to say that shout half the onions and parishes
under his supervision bad agreed to carry out the order.
/guy ethers were asking the experiment, and several had
made arrangements to do so. (Hear.) He did not blame
the guardians for remonstrating; certainly not; but he
thought it to be his daty to refer to other eclat' in speak-
ing to that board upon the subject, se that be might show
to the 'Birdies" that there was not that objection to the
order which some of the members had expressed, namely,
as to its being contrary to humanity, and " calculated to
lafifetextreme hardship upon the deserving poor." (Hear.)
It bad silo been said that it wan impossible "to carry it
out. This could net be so, as he had shown that it wan
now and had for mom time bees in operation in sever.)
Having said this pelt in the shape of what might
Ciewil lse;ned an stad* the Put Law Commissioners—
leave to my that they (the Poor Law
Mes:)-11.ere behead to review the local objections raised by
the srasrdises of that union. (Loud cries of " lies,, hear.")
They were inclined to view each local objections favourably.
Mr. Roen—l plumose any modification of the order will
not necessarily tend to its abrogation?
Mr. HALL should say not; but he intended very briefly
to say a few words the order, following the man-
nor in wish the eallest beta treated by that board in
tksir 10:54:1zr the= to the Poor-law Board.
Having 1, he would proceed. To
article II they aerie obiestiae. As to article 3, which
&dared it not to be lawful for the guardians or their
WAIN w establish any applicant for relief in trade or busi-
ness, art to redeem tram pawn for any such applicant any
reek bedieved that no board of guardians
report Midis auk eases and in such manner to be
desirable. He remembered, however, an instance of a
good-natured gueedina who onto said might be a good
thing to give to the able-bodied bottles to hawk; bat an-
other rejoined, " Why then you would have to find the man
a hawker's license." (laughter.) Of course there would be
instances in which a relaxation of the rule might
be absolutely , but there could be no doubt,
he thought, of the souls nem of the principle upon which
the article 3 was based. In almost every instance is which
the system was followed in that union, the amount given
was exceedingly small. (Mr Hock—. It is quite the excep-
tion.") Undoubtedly he (Mr. Hall) believed it was so;
and what was the result? Why, that they found the people
had in • great measure ceased to resort to and tease the
guardians in order to obtain that kind of assistance.
(" Hear," from several guardians.) He held that it would
not be right for the guardians to allow any party to leave
the union, or any applicant for relief to go away in a state
of absolute destitution. (Hear, hear.) Supposing they
wore any of the union clothing, at such a time it would be
hard to divest them of every particle and turn the unfor-
tunate creatures upon the world gimlet in a state of nudity.
finch a thing was never contemplated by the Poor-law
Board. (Hear, hear.) Such was not the practice at that
board, he was sure ; nor was it the general pracEce ; nor
did any such system exist ; nor had it ever existed. (Hear,
hear.) There was, however, solid grounds for the article as
authorised by the Poor.law Board. Thee (the guardians) !
might search all the statutes upon the subject of relief to
the able-bodied poor, and they would find the order to be
agreeable with the great and judicious principle enunciated
in the 43rd of Elizabeth, the main provision in which was
to set the able-bodied to work, and to relieve those
who were not able. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Hall) had,
known of such cases as giving a man a badge, so that he
might earn his livelihood as an omnibus conductor; and in
another case, that of purchasing a license fora man to ply
for hire with a cab. This, however, was a foreign mode of
relief—a mode which he did not hesitate to denounce at
once as Inexpedient and improper. (Hear, hear.) In con-
clusion, as to Article 3, he would candidly tell them that he
would not hold maths slightest hope that the commissioners
would introduce thereinto any modification, though they
might do so in the first article. With reference to Article
4, requiring residence as a condition of relief, that must be
admitted to be a good regulation, and the laws of settlement
and of removal had done good service in adjusting the diffi-
culties which once surrounded that question. With respect
to any remaining cases of extremity, he imagined that the
"exceptions" appended to the "Article" would meet
every case. If they were to go through their relief list, he
felt persuaded that they would find but few cases to which
the exceptional clauses did not refer.

Mr. Stmosa said thalweg not so. They had agony cumin
she City of London in which relief from the poor rates was
given, although the party did not live in the parish. In-
deed it was not possible for the poor persons to reside there,
inasmuch as the small houses had been swept away by so
called improvements, to make way for the large warehouses.
la the arse of • widow, also, he remembered a similar
hastens*.

Mr. Hatt. would advise the board, in this and every
other ease of doubt as to the fitness of the provisions of the
general order, at once to set about ascertaining the facts for
the information of the Poor-law Board. That was one of
the objects the commissioners had in view in requesting the
guardians to try the effect of the "order" as an experi-
ment. (Hear, hear.) In such a ease as the on. alluded to
by Mr. Singer such a cue might be at once made " special,"
and be disposed of accordingly by the guardians pending
further instructions upon the subject. (Hear, hear.)
He bad no doubt the Poor-law Board would allow the
amount granted without any interference. He wished
to say, however, that the Poor-law Board did think it right
to discountenance the practice of out relief, still they
were anxious to make the exceptional clauses as perfect as
possible without their being arbitrary or oppressive.
(Hear.) He would, therefore, ask the Board of Hasidim@
to suspend their judgment until the order was matured. If
they were cognisant of any proposition which they believed
to be impracticable or likely to be injurious to the poor in
its operation, be hoped the board would furnish readily
such information as would tend to the cosautisaionen
. _

—The Pcer-law
more perfectly informed. (Cheers.)Board salted them to make out their case; they invited
them to do so, and he (Mr. Hell) had no hesitation in say-
ing if they thus laboured mutually together that the best
possible results would be realised. (Loud cheers.) He
felt that it was not necessary for him to go into the other
parts of the order : the most vital points he had alluded to,
sad he would therefore sit down and content himself with
answering any questions as to the order which the guardians
might think fit to propose to him. (lieu.)
In answer to a question pet to him by the chairman, Mr.
Hall distinctly stated that the operation of the order wee
rosEsetive " not " retrospective."
FINIAT-Fll3Ol the summary of the general order in
the supplemental letter of instructions, the guardians are
directed to report as to certain cans to the Poor-law Board.
Are these cues to be individually reported?
Mr. HALL—Yee, that is in accordance with the Act of
Parliament. The Poor-law Board are not responsible for
that; the statute makes it necessary that the soden of the
Poor-law Board and the Board of Guardians should be
" concurrent." _

iliZialuusr—suppose a cue stands ovor while te
ported opal. soy for 14 days, who lo to pay T—will the
amount bo slimed

Mr. Hat L—l gas only say that for the Lit six or seven
yams I have lad espariems if onashiag sager 630 unions,
sail have dead as dilllsaity, although than has been in
semen ardor wee Whose than this.
Mr. Lem wished to laow whether wader emy
eiresm-
etaaam relief might be given to as able bodied per, sap-
ha only made • hw shillings pm weak aid had •
Tr.ramily ?
halms this will be as digieralty. You
will ia sash • saes, el aesrw, es usaid. have • mom of het
to deal with, smi yea mast gaaiioeassedingly.
Lvov—ls the sest et a *Jibs pew 52f lastiumo.
Hr.llall—By a "jobbiaggseemo I einem yea soma
• Weever .ay casually angle/et It so, the are is the
NEM _

Surobs—After the is seisms' hen the work
apes whisk he has beta ageged, lad this falls into We-
ems, OSMIUM Midis seeessery, Relief is such a ease is
set prohibited seder lite sew War, soft 01111 it be refused.
It does set bile, bosom tbe mat may bare a basket of
to* that be Meson Ineligible.
Kr. Bars—Desidedly sot.
BNITE--81111,00S a Ma son out of work tosterday,
and obtained relief is coasepeesee, sad today • is eat
seta, what doion do with his t
Mr. Hat.t.—Rsilitwe him.

Mr. Stmona—l knew the ease of a man who had seven
children. He was by trade a boot-closer, but out of work;
he also wanted tools. We gave him a small pant of money,
after being satisfied es to his character. For some time
did well, but trade falling off, he became again destitute.
Can we, under this order, give him another start ?
Mr. HALL—Yon may pre him relief, but you cannot
give him another start." (Hear, hear.)
Mr. thma—Has there ever been an attempt to cony on
miens upon the atiltsupporting principle, kir. Hall /
Mr. HatA—We have done so; but we have invariably
tab& (Hear, hear.)
=A$ this state of the proceedings Mr. Singer agreed to
ikdraw the nation of which he had given notice.
Mr. Larne moved a vote of thanks to the Assistant
Poorlaw Commissioner, Mr. Hall, for his urbanity, and
the ready information he had afforded to the board upon
dist comerion.

'!W woreeeen did by Mr. FINLAY; and carried smug.
The Lesurrmer COMM/MONIS acknowledged the eon-
rapitertat. Immediately after II hill the guardians sepa-
te/1.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting
of this learned society was held on Tuesday last, at Somer-
set Home, the Earl of Rase, the President, in the chair.
There was a very large attendance of Fellows. The noble
President delivered the customary address, after which his
lordship awarded the following medals : The Copley medal,
to Baron Humboldt, for his eminent services in terrestrial
physics. The medal was received for the Baron by his
excellency Chevalier Bunsen (the Prussian minister), who
thanked the misty in the name of his distinguished coun-
trymen. The Rumford medal, to Professor Stokes, of
Meenheilipt hehie disperser of eee in the refrangibility
of t, Is lir Philosoph Transactions ; one of
the al mollals te Mr. Joel*, for his paper on the Me-
itodmilent of Heat ; the eseemi Royal medal, to
Mr. Wediey, he hie paper en the Anatomy and Affinities of
tke Pandly oldie Medullar. The society then proceeded to
the election of the following officers for the ensuing year :
Preddent, the Earl of Rose, H.P., M.A. ; treaturer, COL
Waned Sabin., • eeeretaries, Mr. Samuel Hunter
431shase, M.A., and R.A.dr.:Thomas Bell ; foreign secretat7,
Captain W. Smith, RM. After the election, the Fel-
lows and their friends dined together at the Freemasons'
Tavern. The Earl of Ross, the President, twed the
chair, supported by his Excellency Chevalier boners, the
Earl of Enniskillen, Sir Robert H. Ingra, M.P., Sir Chas.
Lemon, M.P., Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Babbege, &s.
WPAT FLANDERS RAILIVAIL Trait, for the
ltinith of September, 1862; 1,8311. 12s. Bd. ; tememeading
I period lid Pare link. lid.

PASTERN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

The half yearly meetinir of this company was held
yesterday, at the London lavers, Sishomgats-street,
11. T. Hope, chairman of the company, presiding.
The SZCANTAILT (Mr. Yates) read the report, from which
the following ace eatrards

" In conformity with the proceedings at the extraordinary
general meeting of proprietors, held on the 12th of July
Last, by which the directors were authorised ' to take all
necessary 'measures for carrying the objects of the company
into effect,' your directors have been engaged in further
summation into the practicability and the best means of
constructing vessels of power and capacity to perform the
voyage from England to Calcutta, and, if deemed advisable,
to Australia, without stopping to coal by the way, and
have continued their inquiries as to the amount of pas-
sengers and merchandise that can be obtained, in order to
melu the employment of such a class of vessel. remunera-
tive. On the first point your directors have satisfied
thesseelves, upon what they conceive to be the highest
authority, that vessels can be constructed with capacity for
carrying their coals for the whole voyage, with increased
ability to provide for passengers, luxurious and roomy
cabins, with air, comfort, and accommodation, on a scale

hitherto wholly'unattainible, and that the size and power
of such vessels will eoestitute, in a high degree, the
elements of greatly increased mimed, certainty, and safety,
while the disposable capacity for passengers and cargo wall
be multiplied in a higher ratio and be attended with an
actual diminution in the proportionate working expellees.
On the second point your directors are satisfied that a suffi-
cient number of pusengen, with such an amount of mer-
chandise, will be obtained as will render the employment
of the class of vessels referred to, making one voyage out
and home every two months,. the source of a large
return lip= the Capital invested. • • • • • •
As regards the class of ships prqposed, your directors have
satisfied themselves that a vessel of unusual strength, ca-
pable of resisting any strain that it can possibly be subjected
to, divided completely into numerous water-tight compare-
meets, so that no local injury can affect its safety, may be
constructed of the necessary dimensions to carry the re-
quired quantity of fuel, and yet to draw only 21 to 22 feet
water on arriving at the mouth of the Hoogly, and they
have satisfied themselves that this depth of water at least
can, with certainty, be obtained up to Diamond Harbour,
while a greater draught exists is both the principal ports
of Australia. Should a greater depth be found hereafter
to be attainable in the Hoogly, as many experienced men
runert, it will afford increased facilities ; but your directors
have determined, in the first instance, to limit the draught
to that stated. Hy the use of paddle-wheels, combined with
the *crew' which your engineer recommends, the most
competent and experienced men concur with him
in opinion, that such vessels will, notwithstand-
ing their size, be more easily managed, and be
more completely under control, than the present steam-
' boats, even of small dimensions. With respect to the size,
' the experience of the last twenty years has proved deci-
sively the advantages of increased dimensions for all classes
of sea-going wools, but for steam-boats especially ; and the
I introduction of iron in ship-building, which has enabled
vessels to be constructed of any dimensions, with any de-
gree of strength that may be determined upon, has nitro-
duced an entirely new law in the determination of the site
and capacity of ships for any given trade. Increase of
size is now ascertained to be au element of increased secu-
rity, speed, and relative economy, such dimensions ivies
limited only by a due regard to the amount of capital to be
embarked, to the supply of freight and passengers that can
be obtained on any given line, and to the peculiarities, such
as draught of water, of the ports to be frequented. The
very great advantages of increased size for vessels running
to distant ports, such as those of India or Australia, may
thus be briefly explained :--Steam-vessels of the sizes now
in use require to coal three or four times in • passage to
Calcutta; and although the power of engines at present
applied to such vessels is small, being called on that account
auxiliary, and the vessels obliged to be prepared for sailing,
and nearly full-rigged, and consequently compara-
tively slow as steam-boats, yet nearly the whole
ship is surifieed to the engine and coal, very little cargo
space is left, and the number of passengers and the accom-
modation is limited. Great delays result from the taking
in of coals at the various stations ; and the coal, thus sent
at great expense, and stored at the different ports, costs,
with all contingencies, when on board the steamboat, some •
what above 40s. a ton: 4,000 or 6,000 tons are consumed
in a voyage out to Calcutta and home ; and each a vessel
will scarcely make more than two voyages in the year. If
the Name amount of capital embarked in several such small
ships be applied to the construction of one of much larger
dimensions, the following very striking results -an ob-
tained. Bach a ship will be able to carry a much larger
power of engines proportioned to her resistance, and yet
will have ample capacity to carry the whole fuel to supply
her engines for the voyage out and home, the fuel seating
only 12a. on board instead of 40s. The total quantity of
fuel consumed by the large ship on the voyage, at a high
rate of speed, is proved by all past experience to be much less
than the aggregate consumption of the smaller ship' during
their lengthened voyages, and the pries per ton being reduced
by two.t 'Ms, the largest single item in the whole expense
of working the smaller boats is reduced by 76 to SO per
ant., while the charges of ship's company and ether work-
ing expenses not being increased in nearly the same ratio as
the size, the total cost per annum becomes materially re-
duced in proportion to the capacity of the ship for freight,
while the capacity over and above that occupied by the fuel
rapidly increaseswith the increased size of the dip. In
addition to this the same ships can easily make three
voyages out and house in the year, instead of two, with
much longer intervals for rest, thus further increasing the
amount of return, in proportion to the capital embarked,
by 50 per cent. uch a ship running direct from England
to Calcutta at the rate only which our past experience
proves steam-vessels capable of, will perform the voyage
easily in 32 days. She will afford such extended accommo-
&Boa in the state rosins, with single berths, airy and roomy
saismee, and pprriivate cabins, ample supplies of water, and
mist Sea , with an almost unlimited amount of
Wangs M passengers, as will effect an entire
ohms, In the character of an Indian or eastern
voyage. The saving of time, the saving of ex-
poses, the ahem, of all the usual fatigues, Moon-
'embank sad annoyances, nownsulting from want (depute
in keg ma voyeges—must lead immediately to a great in-
grown of the number of travellers, as it has, in all other
011810, etletpreved facilities of communication. AU them
amemmaktions an be afforded in the proposed ships to
ems setable of passenger which at present an be expected
on a MN to Calcutta, and to a greater number then is at all
•■=ito ensure very large profits; while upon a voyage
whim larger numbers may be expected,l,6oo or
WiesTsiegers mead be accommodated with an amount of
roam end eemeset not now afforded in the best and the
leeekesewdeil steam pockets. Moreover, such ships will be
abet to take. over and above the fuel for the voyage, 4,000
er 6,000 tars measurement of cargo ; and it is a striking
feature at this plan, that to attain these important results
ft is act aecusary to apply a single novelty, or to depend
apes a single uncertain or speculative expedient, but
merely to carry out fully and completely the result of the
pail kw years' experience. • • It will bee question
.ly whether the great trunk line of the eompany
:eld=a or Australia, or both alternately, according to
the Most favourable seasons in each ease, in what mode the
ialonaediateeemmunication should be dealt with; bat, at
the t mement, no necessity exists for an immediate
deoiiw mast point. It will be in the recollection of the
shereboldees, that at the general meeting, held in July lest,
whets the present plan was first proposed, an option wee
twr to
aanyplrrriretitirsownrly o gthveantire,hoes trot asdoMnPti.:rwnsof
this offer, and receivedP back a return of their deposit from
the parties who agreed to take their shares. soar directors
will only add, that on the 11th of August they made a call
of 18e. per share, which was responded to as well as the
then state of the company's arrangements made it reason.
able to expect, and that they have every confidante that
when their plans are fully known, there will be ao diffi-
culty in obtaining the requisite amount of 'spite] to carry
the objects of the mummy into the fullest effect. In the
meantime, your directors have thought it right to muse all
the shares upon which the call remained unpaid on the 27th
day of October last to be forfeited ; and they propose to
minus those 'hares in the manner most conducive to the
permanentinteretts of the company, allowing interest on
the calls at the rata of four per cent. until the teasels com-
mence running."
Mr. 1:101/1.ADAILI1110Ted the adoption of the report.
The motion was agreed to.
The following members were added to the Board of
Directors :—Mr. T. Bagley, Mt. B. L. Betts, Mr. R. M'Cal-
mom, Mr. H. Davidson, Mr. A. Robinson.
Sir C. Fox moved the following resolution :—" That it
appears to this meeting that the plan proposed of building
large steam-vessels capable of carrying their own mak on a
voyage to Calcutta, and, if deemed eventually expedient,
to Australia, holds forth prospects of great advantage to the
public and large returns to the proprietors." He had long
taken • interest in steam communication, and had
expo to Mr. Brunel the opinion that steam-vessels
generally ought to be of greeter length. In the reduction
of the aisle of the midship section, es compared with the
other parts of the ship, lay, he believed. the great secret of
increased speed ; and he was confident that vessels of greeter
length would not only be as safe as but safer than those now
in use.

Mr. Buses, in seconding the resolution, said he was
quits willing to leave the engineering question in the hands
of Mr. Brunel, and as regarded the commercial part of the
question he felt confident of success. The dead weight
would, under the proposed system, be greatly reduced, and
all that was necessary betides was to secure public appreci-
ation.

The motion was then agreed to.
Some further diecus.ion ensued with regard to the dis-
ponil of the shares not taken up, and ultimately the follow-
ing resolution, mitred by Mr. Field and seconded by Mr.
Harvey, was unanimously agreed to:—" That the board of
directors be, and are hereby requested, to issue the forfeited
shares to the public, to the extent in the whole, with the
shares already held, of a capital of 1,000,000/, sterling, in
such manner and on such terms slithey may deem ad-
viuble ' • and as soon as 40,000 shares be taken up, they do
proceed with such other measures for carrying into effect
the mentions of the company as may seem to them most
conducive to its interests ; but that no further issue of
shares, beyond 1'1300,0001. sterling, be made without giving
a preference to existing shareholders."
VOW of thanks were thee passed to tho chairman and
la board, and the proceedings terminated.
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NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—Trafild A-
lum for railway and *anal, for tie week ending Nov. 21/2.
1852, 6,1984. (1214 miles open.) Coneopowling week, 1861,
4,6141. (112 lona open.)