The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

YORK RACES.

[Hy E.ectneltkvaph.]
Yona, MONDAY ArTICKNOON, 6 o'ckut K.—The follow-
ing are the present arrival,: Clothworker, Nancy. Snow-
drift, Lady of the Grove, Calculator, lifty.Three, Follow-
me-lade, Miss Flyaway, ch f by Ithuriel out of Snowdrop
(2 yrs), Deceitful, Prune Minister, Smith, Candlewick,
brother to Shyloek, th•e Nun, Ludy Hanna, Itudulphus,
Augur, Sweetheart, Vivandiere, fby Merry Monarch out
of Cestus, Prestige, Cowan, Tightwaist, Sister to Fencer,
and hone.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.

The report of the directors, to be submitted to the'
half-yearly meeting or proprietors. which is to be held at .
York on Tuesday, the 26th of August, 1861, is as follows: !
" CAPITAL ACCOVIST.-Atuount received on Capital Ac-
count to the 30th June, 1811: Consolidated stock,
3,004,8211. Os. 2d.; preference share capital, 613,2'131.; de-'
benture debt, 1,523,6231. 10s.: total capital entitled to divi-
dead or interest, in addition to rent and interest of bonds
of Hull attd Selby Railway, 4,141,6771. 10s. 2(1. The ex-
penditure of capital account during the half-year, exclusive
of Mull and Selby builds paid off, has been 96,30.31. 12s. 6t.,
which ai ty be Lositi las follows in di-:hare of arrears
".gils. is.. lid. ; w, works iu progress when the present
directors took *thee, 32,70.8/. Ils. 2d. ; on works undertaken
by the present board, 13,0991.195. The items included under
the first head are-land and conveyance, 19,1071. as. 11d.;
Crawshasv's arbitration, 4,2011. 94.; payment to Messrs.
Faviell and Sykes (contract un the Church Fenton and Harro-
gate line) 9.3001.; calls on shares in the hlalton and Drif-
field Railway, 6,001/. 10s. ; parliamentary expenses,
1,6071. 17s. Stl. ; miscellaneous items, 4101. less. id. The
second head consists of the following sums, viz., payments
to contractors, Knottingly branch, 28,2361.; Hull hotel
and offices' 2,321/. 69. 10d. ; laying rails round the I
Hull docks (half to be repaid by the Dock Company)
1,2981. os. 4d.; Scar Wall Deviation on the NN filthy
line, 3821. is. 6d.; and sundry small balances on engineer-
ing work in various parts of the 10g. id. The expendi-
ture on works commenced by the present board has been
as follows:-Additional engine-shed, and alteration, in the
goods yard, York, including new turn-table, saw-mill, and
ti,h platform, 3,294/. in. 3el. ; works for creosoting sleepers,
4661. 1811.1 d.; Semaphore signals for the main line, 202/. 10s.;
station and sidings, Milford Junction, 1,897/. 59. 4d.; pur-
chase of land and houses, Marsh-lane,Lecils,l 4401. 19s. 2.1. ;
construction of goods warehouse, coal depots, and sidings,
Marsh-lane, 4,5411. 10s. 0.1.; corn warehouse, Bridlington,
4241. Its. 6d. • coal depots, &e., Scarbro', 1841. 3s. 6d.;
warehouse, dulcet Weiahton, 250!, 75.; a new crane,
Whitby, and other smaller items, 402/. Is. 7.1. In addition
to the above payments, 4,2171. 13a. 3d. is charged fur new
waggons; 3,4891. Ils. 9d. for new carriages; and
3,204/. 18s. 2(l. for increased weight of materials used in re-
laying portions of the Leeds and Selby, and York and Nor-
=intuit hues. The working stock here charged to capital,
the particulars of which will be found in the
return printed below, is considered necessary for
the proper tarrying nu of the Company's business,
and will form a permanent addition to the working stock,
to be maintained out of revenue. The charge for increased
weight of rails is made in accordance with the principle
laid down iu the report of the company's engineer to the
committee of investigation, and adopted at the special
general niceting held 29th November, 1819; that when in
relaying any part of the line rails of a heavier description
are used than those originally laid down, the excess weight
should be charged to capital, iu consideration of the addi-
tional value thus given to the permanent way. The most
expensive works undertaken by the present board have
been those at Marsh-lane, Leeds ; the amount expended in
previous half years having been 4,331/. his. Hkl.' and the
estimate for their completion falling little short of 800/., the
whole expenditure will probably reach 11,1001. The great
extent of the business at that station fully justifies such an
outlay; and for this sum between one and two acres of land
have'becit obtained in the town of Leeds, on which severed
small houses were standing, which it was necessary to pur-
chase.

"Reverse ACCOUNT.—The receipts front ordinary
traffic in the half-year ending 30th of June last have been
178,8161. 3s. 6d., thus showing an increase of 4,068/.145. 3d.
over the corresponding six months in 1840. There are
good reasons for believing that this increase would have
been greater, had not tlw attractions of the Crystal Palace
produced such an universal desire to visit the metropolis,
that Seerbro', ll:irrigate, and the other watering places of
the district have been onp neglected; and the
low rate of the excursion lutes to Loudon has rendered it
nearly impracticable to get up excursion trips in any other
direction; whilst, as the London tragic passes over so short
a proportion of the lines of this company, it by no means
COMO:II,AS, fur that which it lia.s taken away. This view
is corroborated by the fact that the net receipt:: from excur-
sion trips, from June 2nd to August 11th, 1640, were
4;111.35.; while these between June Ist and August 10th,
Mil, amounted only to 2,317 i. Os. 9d.; and that the receipts
from passenger traffic during the first four months of 11S51
showed an increase of 2,446/. 10s. 4d. above the same month
of 1840, whilst those during June and July lust were
2468/. Is. 7d. leas than in June and July, WO.
'lbis cause, however, cannot affect the receipts many weeks
longer; and it is satisfactory to observe that, notwithstand-
ing the inereased compctition of the Lincolnshire lines in
the conveyance of goods from Ilull to the Midland districts,
which has been brought into full operation during the last
six months, the receipts from goods traffic have been main-
tained, and would have shown an increase over the corre-
sponding period of IB'O, had they not beets charged with a
larger amount of cartage and other terminal expenses than
actually belonged to the half-year, in consequence of an ac-
cidental omission at the time of the transfer of the goods
accounts to the head office, at the close of last year. The
amount of ' working expenses and renewals of rolling
stock' shows a considerable increase over the amount
charged under these heads, in the half-year ending 30th of
June, Wk. The whole of this can be satisfactorily ae•
counted fur, and for this purpose the expenditure in each
department, in the corresponding hail yearn of 18341 and
lhal will be successively compared and explained. ' Main-
tenance of way :' Considerable attention has been paid to
this subject ; and the company's engineir is of opinion that
it will be more economical to replace failing sleepers with
tow creosoted ones, instead of as heretofore laying down
old sleepers which seemed likely to last till the time when
entire renewal would be necessary. By adopting this mode
of repair, he states that the renewal of several of the
branches may be postponed, which will relieve the renewal
. s

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—A parlia-
menturT return has just been issued (obtained by the Mar-
ital' of Blandford) respecting the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion. It appears that the property, consisting of lands and
houses in possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
whether by lapse of lease or purchase, to the end of the
year 1849 was 3,284 acres 2 roods and 34 perches. The rent
received by the commissioners amounted to 7,1901. 1821. bid.
The net annual value of the tithe rent charges amount to
7,992!. 4s. 3d. Of property bolo aging to preferments, the
interest on which has been commuted, and which on the
expiration of certain leases will come into possession of the
Ecclesiastical Commission-es, the acreage is 16,787 and 2
roods. The estimated net annual value in land and houses
is 23,520!. Ils., and in tithe rent charges, 13,7491. (is. Id.
A similar return is given in the same document of all pro-
perty belonging to vacated preferments and now trans-
ferred to the commissioners, held on leases lior lives or
terms of years. The acreage is set forth as 10,218 1 rood
:tad 29 perches. The estimated net annual value in land
;mil houses 73,2421. 13s. 3d., and the annual rent charges
41,8421. 12s.
Roth, ARTILLERY.— WOOLWICH, AUG. Is.
Captain St. George's company, 10th Battalion, received
orders on Saturday afternoon to be in readiness to embark
in the Essex, freight-ship, for a passage to Ceylon, to re-
lieve Captain Wodehouse's company, Bth Battalion, and the
latter will proceed to China to relieve Captain Price's
company from the Hong Kong station. hitherto the reliefs
of the companies of Royal Artillery in Chins has only
taken place at intervals of eight years, but by the new
arrangement the reliefs ut both places will take place every
six years, and will be effected in the billowing manner :
Captain Wodehouse's company proceeded to Ceylon is
July, 1817, and have now been tour yettri at that station,
which is to be the future period of service in Ceylon, and
the remaining period of the six years to be served at Hung
Kong. Ihe authorities think that the companies, utter a
period of tour years' service in Ceylon, will be better able
to endure the climate of China fur the short period of two
years, and that the men will enjoy latter health and spirits
owing to the limited period they will have to serve iu the
Celestial Empire previous to their return to heal-quarters
at Woolwich.

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'ruE inoRMONS ; OR, " LATTER-HAY SAINTS "
We understand that several persons of this strange sect are
about to quit Brighton and other towns in the vicinity,
and to emigrate to Nauvou, a territory in California, almost
as large as all England, and where not less than 300,000
of them have taken up their abode, on or near the hanks
of the Oreat Salt Lake. Some of them are busy in this
town at present in circulating tracts and in endeavouring
to make converts. We know none of them, that we are
aware of, ourselves; but we have been told that they arc
Plain, simple, uneducated men, but very zealous in their
view.—Briyhton llerald.—tWitut is the Vicar about 1.)
GOVERNMENT MINE INSPECTORS. It is rumoured
that Mr. J. Kenyon Blackwell has resigned the appoint-
ment ho holds under the government as an inspector of coal
mines. No reason has been assigned why he should so soon
I elinquiA an office for the efficient discharge of the duties
of which he is in every way so well qualified; but we pre-
sume the inadequate remuneration for the onerous and labo-
rious services required is the chief, if nut the only cause.
If this be the case, the remedy rests with the government,
whose duty it is to select first-rate men to fill this important
office. These cannot be obtained fur second or third rate
salaries. Some of the large coalownere in the north pay
more than double the amount of the government salaries to
their chief viewers; and it is unreasonable to expect that
such men will serve the public for less than half their present
salaries. Parsimony in this respect, and in limiting the
number of inspectors to only tour, is must ill-judged and
unwise economy, and seriously militates against the
beneficial operations of the act of Parliament.—.llininy
Journal.
THE GAME-LAWS.—A case under the Game-law
Act was brought before blr. Sheriff Barclay at Perth, on
Monday last, which is deserving of notice, that persons may
know the penalties to which they expose themselves by
tampering with these obnoxious laws. A box containing •
few muirtowl (twenty five birds, we believe) was found id
the possessiou of a Highland carrier, in what is called the
close 5t.1.11 j and according to the statute in such tams
made and provided, he was charged .51. for each bird.
admitted having purchased the birds, but pleaded that Ise
was not aware of breaking the law in doing so. This was
held to be no excuse, and he was lined in the mitigated
penalty of 2.55. for each bird, or 311. ss. altogether. it Is I
well to know, that there is no mercy for transgression
against the game-laws. You may go to the verge of high
treason with impunity, but beware of even frightening a
muir-cock or partridge I—Perthshire Advertiser.
ANOTHER "GAROTTE" ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.
—Shortly before 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, an old man
named Thorley was walking home along King-street, Sal-
ford, when he was overtaken by two men, one of whom
threw his arms round his neck, and held him fast. The old
man struggled violently, upon which they knocked him
down, and indicted a wound on his head with a stone. Two
persons, who were standing near, and witnessed the affair,
ran to the man's assistance. The robbers immediately took
to their heels, leaving u watch which they had taken from
Thorley's pocket, on the pavement. One of them, named
William Green, was caught about 150 yards from the spot,
but the other escaped. The stone was found on the pave-
ment where the rubbery had been committed. The prisoner,
I who has only been discharged from gaol recently, was
brought up yesterday morning at the Salford Borough
Court, and committed for trial at the anises.
INCENDIARY FIRE IN CAMBRIDOESHIRE.—Another
diabolical case of incendiarism has been perpetrated at the
village of Over. On Thursday night last, about nine
o'clock, a large straw stack, in the centre of the farm yard
of Hr. Silk, a farmer, was wilfully fired; and, although
exertions were instantly made to check its progress, the
flames communicated to the whole of the buildings in the
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fund ; and a; it at the same time increase, the cost of the
current repairs, he proposes that this increased charge should
be borne by the renewal fund, under the following limitation.
In his report laid before the e onmittee of investigation in 1849
the estimated cost of maintaining the lines in good repair,
independent of renewals. was 6.11. per mile of double teal
451. per mile of single line. Two years' additional experi-
Coe., has confirmed the correctness or this estimate ; and he
therefore suggests that the cost of ' maintenance of way,'
with the exception of stations and bridge., shall be fixed at
this amount, which will be charged to current working ex-
penses. This plan has been partly acted upon during the
past hoilflear • and the number of sleepers renewed having
been eutoiolerAle, a charge of 1,111/. .s. 7.1., calculated ae-
voding to the rule above mentioned, has been placed to
debit of the renewal rand, and the director. now recom-
mend that it should be permanently ndepted, in which case
1 the maintenance of way will, in future, be a fixed charge,
with the sole exception of repairs of stations and bridges.'
Locomotiie Power The increase under this head is
2,2301. 2s. 7d. Of this, 746/. 4s. 2.1. is due to repairs of
engines, and 167/. Fif . 7d. to stationary engines, an addi-
tional one having been employed in working the hydraulic
cranes at Hull. The remaining 1,3161. 12s. 10d. is spread
over several items, all directly connected with the train
mileage run during the half-year, 5.5,469 more miles
having been run than in the corresponding Fix
months, and the increased charge is small in pro-
portion to the increased mileage, the coke espe-
cially having only increased by 62 tons, thus showing
that the consumption has been reduced 2.1311 n. per mile.
—' Coaching Expenses' : The principal items in this depart-
ment on which an increase will be observed are clothing
and stationery, in both of which the increase is chiefly
owing to the adoption of shorter settlements, which the
directors wish to see invariably adhered to, but which, in
the outset, produce heavier charges than actually belong to
the half-year.—' Merchandise Expenses The expenses of
this department appear to have increased considerably. On
examimition, however, dwill be found that 1,1481.175. 3d. of
this increase arises from the repairs end renewal of waggons
and rulleys. The amount required for this purpose is ne-
cessarily variable, and the cost of such renewals should be
considered in in a great measure distinct from the ordinary
expenses of carrying on the goods traffic. The two heads
under which the largest increase will be observed are
horsekeep and gearing,' and ' sheets and ropes.' The for-
mer arises from a large purchase of horse corn having been
made by the goods' manager when oats were selling at a
low rate, of which upwards of 300 quarters still remain on
hand ; a considerable stock of materials for sheets is also on
hand, which will relieve the charges under these heads in
the current half-year. A charge of 1,7881. 3s. 941. appears
under the head of Hull Creek Account. The whole of this
accrued previous to the lot of January last, and is conse-
quent upon the settlement of a disputed claim of long
standing between this company and the Hull Dock Com-
pany, arising out of an agreement between that company
and the Hull and Selby Railway Company, whereby the
latter were made liable to pay wharfage on goods landed at
the Limekiln Creek, Hull. Legal proceedings would
I have been resorted to against this company had not an ar-
I rangernent been made, the terms of which are considered
, equitable, via., that this cm:amine should in future pay half
the wharfage rates hitherto charged—the sum of 1,3501.
being taken as a payment in discharge of all arrears which
had accumulated during the continuance of the dispute.
The disposable balance, after payment of 46,385/. 9s. 6d. for I
rent of the Ilan and Selby Railway, end interest on the I
preference shares, amounts to 45,5111. 4s. 4d., out of which
the directors recommend that a dividend be declared after the
rate of 11. per cent, per annum (deducting income tax) on
the consolidated stock of the company ; after payment of
which a balance of 3971. Ils. 10d. will remain to be carried I
to the credit of the current half-year.
" At the special meeting held on the 4th of June last, the
approval of the proprietors was given to the proposed amal-
gaination between this company and the East and West
'Yorkshire Company, and also to the terms of a working
agreement which is to remain in force until the amalgama-
. tiou can receive the sanction of parliament. In conformity
• with this agreement, the line has been worked by this cons-
' rimy since the Ist of July last. The advantages of possess-
ing this line, in a defensive point of view, are very evident,
• and the Mastic on it is increasing ; but no estimate can be
j forurzol of its capabilities until a communication has been
opetmed with the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, at Starbeck—
; res pecting 'which terms have been arranged and will be ins-
oadiately brought into operation."

filial, consisting of farm house and premises, large barn,
granaries, bullock hovels, stables, and other out-buildings.
The fire then spread to some houses on the opposite side of
the road, which it consumed, as alsoanother farm. It then
attacked the lied Lion Intl and its stables. These quickly
fell, beside sixteen houses on each aide of the street. It
was past twelve o'clock before the flames could be got
under. The perpetrators have not es yet been detected.
GREEK CLAIMS.—Mr. P. Demetrakarakos, a Late
member of the Chamber of Deputies at Athens, as represen-
tative of Sparta, and a barrister of the courts of law in that
capital, is at this moment in London. It is said that the
Greek merchants and shipowners who have ezperienciAl
great losses by the blockade and seizures of Admiral Pari‘er
have commissioned this gentleman to lay their case be fore
English counsel, and to take their opinion whether the*/ can
bring their claims for indemnity before an English co urt of
equity. Amongst the claimants who have deputiAl Mr.
Dernetraketrakos, ere the two brothers Kenides, tt,e one a
imitator, the other a deputy, both shipownen of Vie island
of Specie; end Mr. Orlando, from the island of Hydra.—
' Standard.

Orleans to Tours; the third relating to general matters
connected with the undertaking ; and the last giving a
statement of the financial position of the company. The
section from Tours to Poitiers, 101 kilometres (63 English
miles) in length, was opened to the public un the Ist of July,
1851, and it required immense exertion on the part of the
board of directors to have the iron way laid down, the rolling
mid other stock uugmented, and the stations constructed—
all within the space of nine months—in order to attain that
object, specifically mentioned in the bill which passed the
Legislative Assembly on the fish of August, 1850. The re-
port specifics the various works which it was necessary to
have executed, and their amount is certainly extraordinary
for the short time allowed. The hoard, having to choose be-
, toTell a Syst,la of a-input:try or o 1 peraimient ron.tru,-tian
for the stations, determined on the latter course us most ad-
vantageous to the interests of the company. Inconsequence
of a clause in the bill of August 6 which declares that
the company was to execute at its own expense all the
works still remaining to be adjudicated for the stations," the
Minister of Public Works insisted that the earth-works of
the stations were to be included in the item. This the com-
pany resisted, and on the question being referred to the
Superior Railway Cotumission' the decision was given
against the minister. This was the more important for the
company, as the cost of some of these earth-works
would be considerable, being 00,000 f. at Libourne, and
300,0001. at Bordeaux, oic. The works of art on the
part of the line nearest to the city just mentioned are all
completed, and present every guarantee of solidity. The
section between Libourne and Bordeaux may be delivered
to the company in September. It is from that period that
the first line of rails is to be laid down on the whole sec-
tion between Angouleme and Bourdeaux, sibling 133 kilo-
metres (83 English miles) to the part already open to the
public. Witlt respect to the results of the working fur the
year ending June 30,18.51, as the section between lours and
Poitiers was only opened on July 5, its receipts are not in-
cluded. It is, however, known that they arc steadily in-
creasing, and more than equal what was estimated for them.
The receipts for the part of the line between Orleans and
'fours amount to 4,154,596 f. 86c., and the expenses to
2,142,603 f. Mc., leaving a profit of 2,011,993 f. le. ; add the
balance remaining over from last year 12,777 f. 95e., and
there remains a total of 2,024,770 e Ode. From that sum
must be deducted the interest us. 175 f. per share paid up,
910,000 f., and there remains to be divided 1,114,i Of. 96e.
From that amount, when 5 per cent. is deducted, and then
one-half of the remainder Or the reserve-fund, according to
the statutes, there remains a sum of 520,000 f. to lie disposed
of, which gives a dividend of 4f. per share, payable at the
offices of the company, un and after the Ist of September
next. Looking at the general results of the working,
it is found that the passenger traffic has Well constantly
improving during the year, the first and second chimes
proving most productive. The augmentation under this
bead is 117,9361. 82e. In the goods traffic there has been
an improvement of 31,387 tonsiuweight, and of 98,040 f. 90e.
Is receipts ; and iu the transport of cattle an augmentation
of 11,302 bead, and 25,0001'. in receipts. Passengers' luggage
has naturally followed the development which has taken
place in the number of pamengem, the improvement being
to the extent of 77,002 f. 21c. The transport of wine gives
no augmentation of 11,174 tons in weight, rind 38,4071'. in
receipts. It thus appears that there is an improvement in
every branch of receipts. Under the head of general facts
connected with the undertaking, it is stated that the suit
between MM. de Rothschild and the company, relative to
the interpretation of an article in the treaty entered into
between the two parties, concerning banking matters, and
which had been carried before the Court of Appealuf Paris,
won decided on March 8, 18-31, by the court quashing a
former judgment, which sentenced the company to pay to
MM. de Rothschild damages to the extent of 60,000 fr. the
company is consequently now discharged from the eltect of
the previous condemnation. The suit of the Post-office,
relative to the trucks of the moving post-otficea, is nut yet
terminated. Of the 130,000 shares of the company, up-
wards of 80,000 are held in Englund, by about :-AlO persons
—a proof of the confidence felt in the line. Lust year the
number was only 71,500, so that in England that confidence
still increases. The report enters into most ample details
on every point of expenditure mentioned in the table
distributed amongst the shareholders WOW days previously.
'the call., it states, were paid up satiaartorily ; and it adds,
ineidentally, that the sum of 104,932 fr. due by the state to
the company, for the inumlatiou of the Loire in 1816, still
remained unpaid.
. . . .

When the'reading of the report terminated,
The CIIALILUAN inquired if any person desired to make
any ola.ervation.
A SHAREHOLDER inquired if any new determination
had been ewne to respecting the time ut whirl, the culls
were to be made.

The CHAIRMAN replied that there was no reason to
apprehend that they would exceed 7d fr. during the year,
in three payments of 2d fr. each ; they might even only
amount to d,l fr. in all. Yet, although the position of the
company woo so satisfactory, the hoard could not make any
more explicit declaration on the point. (hear, hear.)
A SHAREHOLDER inquired whether it would not be
preferable to have the general meeting held at a more early
period of the year.
The CHAIRMAN said that the time fixed had originated
in the formation of the company ; it was found more con-
venient for the English shareholders, who were SO numerous
a Wily, than either autumn or winter. No complaint had
ever oven made of the period of the year fixed; still, if the
shareholdos thought fit to make any representation on the
subject, the board would be ready to take it iutu considera-
tion. (Loud cries of " No, no.")
Nu other person expressing a desire to speak, the report,
'mids, and dividend were agreed to unanimously, amidst
chipping of hands and other marks of approval.
The meeting then separated.

liotinTON AND HITCIIIN RAILWAY.- -The directors
of this company propose to convert the share Capital into
consolidated stock, to be divided among the shareholders
according to their respective interests in the original shares
of the capital of the efimpany, the influent of cavil of which
shares is by the provisions of the Great Northern Railway
Act, 1851, renewed to 6/. As. per shore.
Ptots AND Hot' I.*.N ItAll.WAY.—'l he French go-
vent.neut has assented to the reduction of this company's
sinkiug fund from 34.10,000 f. to 25,000 e, the remaining
::35,0001. going towards dividend.
litte:Nrwoou OitAmm.tit Betioot..—t)n Saturday
ufteruoon a meeting of inhabitants of Brentwood was held
at the White Hurt Inn to take into consideration the posi-
tion of this charity, which, alter many years of litigation,
is about to be placed on an efficient footing by a special act
of parliament, just passed. The hew scheme which the
act embodies is of u most comprehensive character, and
teems to give much satisfaction throiighout the wide district
that will share the benefit of it. Dr. Jackson war in the
chair. Mr. Duncan briefly recapitulated the history of
the proceedings, and reminded the meeting that in 1833 a
decree of the Court of Chancery was made, directing the
master to furnish a new scheme tor the charity, and to call on
Mr. Tower, the master of the school, fur an account of the
back proceeds. In 1817 the inhabitant. of Brentwood, find-
ing that nothing had been done on Cr the decree, appointed
a committee, the result of whose labour was till' present
scheme. The regulation of the school and almshouses is to
be placed under the management of the head-master and
twelve must respectable wardens, who have been appointed
hy the patron, with the &nation of the Master in Chancery.
1 he chief object of the meeting was to give expression to an
apprehension in the district that in the appointment of of-
heels and the preliminary proceedings the patron was en-
deavouring to exercise an uudue influence. The following
letter from the patron to one of the wardens was read to
the meeting : -" I shall have haunches of venison two liar,
next week, and shall be happy to see you on either of these
days. It will give me pleasure your voting for Mr. Landon,
who is canvases rag, with my approval, fur the receivership
of the charity. 1 fun much annoyed that Mr. C. Lewis
should be canvassing for the office without first asking my
advice and permission on the subject." A very strong de-
sire was expressed by the meeting that the wardens should
act independently, end not let the conduct of the school full
under an influence which ruined it when it might have
taken rank with Rugby or Harrow. The gentlemen who
met on Saturday closed their proceedings with a resolution
that a general meeting of the inhabit:ints of the district be
called, with a view to securing the full benefit of this im-
portant cstablishment.—Essex Ilerald.
FRAUDS BY MONEY ORDERS.—It was mentioned
in the Espress some time since, that a series of ingenious
frauds on the public, had been committed by parties in
altering the amounts of post-office money orders. By means
of these altered orders, the parties obtained goods from
distant tradespeople, who, considering the orders as good as
cash, did not present them fur payment till after they had
parted with their goods. When they did present them
for payment the fraud was detected by the post-
Wise refusing to cash them, because the amounts on the
ceder did nut correspond with that on the advice.,. At
Brat these frauds were perpetrated in the neighbourhood of
the metropolis, but it was very shortly discovered ,that
Bang of money order forgers were abroad in the country.
h appears that last Sunday fortnight a decent looking man
arrived at Southampton by an excursion train, and took
lodgings for a week at an eating-house in that town. The
next day he obtained two money orders from the post-office
I of that town, both for very small sums. These sums excited
suspicion, and his personal appearance was noticed, and his
address obtained. At his lodgings he bad no luggage, he
professed to know no one in the town, and not the slightest
idea as to who or what he was, or where he came from,
could be ascertained. Ile was was very anxious about the
receipt of some parcels from London, but they did out come,
and about the middle of the week he told his landlady that
business called him abruptly to London. Almost name-
' diately after he left the officers of justice were after him for
f the forgery of two money orders. Hs had altered the email
amounts on the orders he had obtained at the Southampton
office to almost the largest sums fur which such orders
could be issued. He had, however, left no trace of his
whereabouts, and the police were at fault. After some
days the fellow was so incautious as to write to the South-
ampton eating-house keeper, telling her that if any goods
came for him she was to send them to a certain address ate
Canterbury. The police immediately posted off to thrra
town and dexterously captured him there. Ile was had -sop
before the magistrates on Wednesday last, as was stated can
I Thursday's London police reports, and he will be re-fexo.
I mined the day after to-morrow. He will be the Int per-
ORLEANS AND BORDEAUX. son for many years past who will be tried for (array of
The annual general meeting of the shareholders of post office money o!ders.
DRAFT. 6 FOR onscers, and. about
this company took place on Saturday, in Hertz's Great I
I 00 men will embark at Gravesend on the 2110. inst. for
Room, Paris ; Baron Paul de Riehemont in the chair. The
Bombay, and 7 officers and about 200 men will embark at
meeting having been declared duly constituted, 45,551 shares I
I Gravesend on the 23rd inst. for Madras. These drafts from
the Provisional Battalion at Chatham are under orders to
and 510 votes being represented by the shareholder present,
M. Benet proceeded to read the report. join their regiments now serving in those presidencies.
This dociment, which of great length, is divided into
four parts ; the first giving an account of the works re- NiarrAttir FORTCNB.—The United Sernee Gazette
guired for opening the section from Tours to Poitiers, and states The property of the late General Sir Willoughby
of the sittation of the other sections to Bordeaux; the Gordon, Quartermaster-General to the Forces, has been
I second showing the result of the working of the line from attested under the sum of 270,d001,"

RAILWAY COMPETITION.

(From tM Daily News.)

"i c can't go on ! It is positive folly!" exclaimed
Mr. (iI,YN to his constituents of the North Western
on Friday; referring to the competition at present
raging between his company and its ally, the Mid-
lands, and the Great Northern. " Only dunk of is.
and 4s. tkl. from Leeds to London and back again !
It must and will lead to an equitable division of the
whole territory among the ditilTent companies."
A trill,. which will not pm}', cannot, ui coar,o, go
on long. Nor is it at all desirable it should. Rail-
way travelling, to be regular and safe, must be
remunerative. You cannot expect to e carried
with any punctuality, speed, or security, fur
fares that will not pay fur greasing the car-
riage wheels. The lowest fares that will reward
the companies adequately fur their capital, and at
the same time encourage travelling and promote
trade, are, when all to the contrary is done and said,
most to the public interest. That this hot competi-
tion for the Yorkshire public has occurred during the
Exhibition is by far its happiest feature ; for it has,
of course, brought thousands to London to see the
wonders and inhale the civilising atmosphere of the
Crystal Palace, whom the rev anyuxtae dond would
otherwise have kept in their own localities. So,
though it had its accompanying disadvantages—such
as delaying ordinary trains at the mouths of
metropolitan tunnels for hours, because of the
I multitudes in advance, and as disappointment in tho
time of leaving London again for home,—no one,
except, indeed, the companies themselves, can object
to it on the present occasion. Hut public policy re-
quires its cessation, and the conclusion of such
arrangements as will prevent its recurrence. Other-

wise, as Mr. GINN says, " we shall have a repetition
•of horrible accidents, and the public will become
awake to the real position of affairs."
That gentleman's remedy is •• to put the whole
sTstem upon a footing of territorial arrangement."
'I his, however, is far easier said than done. For if
the reader will only draw a line from the liumber to
Preston in the north, and front either paint run a
' parallelogram, or block of country, up to London
and Reading, he will find the whole face of that, by
no means very large, though very productive dis-
trict, reticulated with rival and competing, and
hostile lines of railway. There is the scene
of the war of the gauges ; there the Eastern
Counties mourns over the growth of the Great
Northern; there the North Western and Midlands'
competition with the Great Northern for the traffic
to lurk, Leeds. Sheffield, Wikkefield, and Bradford,
rages that and furious; there the old Grand Junc-
tion competes with the new Chester lines; there
Birmingham has at last to be served by three dis-
tinct railways; whilst Liverpool and Manchester
are, it seem,, to be distincd for ever to a monopoly of
one great and powerful trunk. To pill the whole of
this, and much more besides, upon a footing of terri-
torial arrangement, is work indeed; the gods may
achieve it, but apparently the men have not yet
arisen at railway boards who can accomplish it.
And why Because no common principles, no
comprehensive premises have been agreed on as a
starting point. The older companies have nut us yet
realized the existence, the capacities, and elements
of success of their newer rivals. On the eontihry,
they have made patch-work branches, taken subsi-
diary leases, and entered into offensive alliances,
which, in their opinion, arc part and parcel of their
natural systems ; which they require the recognition
of in their negotiations, and which, if yielded to,
would involve nut merely the ruin of the younger
incorporations. but defeat the very object fur which
parliament did ineorponde them, viz., the public ad-
vantage. It is very natural and very.proper for the
managers of the greater lines to protect and guard
in every legitimate way, the vast properties entrusted
to their care; but every way in their power is not
legitimate, and that seems to be the mistake they
have fallen into. Let us illustrate what we mean by
two examples.

" Parlament," says the North Western report,
" has sanctioned the construction of Is short line to
connect the Illackwall Railway with the extensive
warehouses of Ilaydon-square, formerly the pro-
perty of the East India Company, and this branch
will be immediately proceeded with." There, when
finished, Mr. Gi.vx contemplates ffiunding a great
and profitable carrying business ; and 110 doubt ho
will do so. Now, this is a proper and legitimate and
beneficial extension of the North Western system ;
it may injure other northern lines, but they cannot
complain of it; all they must or can do is, to follow
Mr. GLYN'S example; to compete with him in tho
heart of the City, and so to give London the fullest
advantages of competition.
But, if competition be good for London, why not
for Manchester ? Yet the North Western has, prac-
tically, a monopoly of that great city. Not, how-
ever, because it is the only line capable of carrying
or of competing for its traffic ; but because of its alli-
ance with another company, v. Rich alliance is obvi-
ously at variance with all sound public policy.
' Taking East Retffird as a point of departure, a lino
I called the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineoffishiro
may be seen on the map, running thence into Man-
chester, and, with the Great Northern, forming an-
other and a distinct railway from Manchester to
London. Now that fact ought nut neeessarily
to have produced hostility between these two lines
and the North Western. But, on the other
hand, the very strangest result that could How from
such a combination would certainly he antagonism
between the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
line and the Great Northern. Nevertheless such is
the relative position of these two eumismies; and
the cause is what we hold to be the illegitimate
manner in which the greater railway companies pro-
eted to prctect supposed interests. For it is notori-
ous that the North Western and the Mamehester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire companies have contracted
an offinisivc and defensive alliance, a fundamental.
provision of which is to keep the Great Northern
out of Manchester ; and thereby to preservo
fur the North Western a monopoly of its traffic.
Whilst further south the Midlands have never
proceeded to make the line between Bedford and
Leicester, for which they acquired powers; and so
to give Manchester the benefit of still further com-
petition, not at ruinously low, but at remunerating
moderate luxes.

' Entertaining, then, the highest respect for Mr.
'
OLvs's management generally, we must neverthe-
less think that occasionally it falls into the very
mistake of which he accuses, and, as we think, very
justly, Mr. liessati. and the Great Western. In
some directions he is too expensive; in others a little
too grasping, and a little too intolerant of that in-
terference with traffic he has been accustomed to,
because there was no other line than his to take it;
but which, there being now rival lines, is fairly as
object of competition.
It will, he says, take time to remedy these evils;
ruin and injury lr,lling, he mournfully adds, in thu
meanwhile on th,.: poor shareholders. Of course it
will, if the prow ut principles of railway policy are to
be adhered to ; if neither party, in this race of com-
petition, will g ive way until dividends they have none
to make; and , as the North Western is the most
Powerful of e Jinpanies, it can hold out longest in the
struggle. lie .t, the continuance of the present state of
th Lugo woult the chi Idishuess,i fit were not ruinously mis-
chievous ac id positive cruelty. Men's passions beeome
so excited by the contest in which they are engaged,
that every object around them is magnified, every
step the:i take regarded as one of momentous im-
portal/ff.! ; their feelings, their vanity, their amour
prop's, get all involved in the struggle, and the
dange r is that at last it degenerates into a mere per-
sona). altercation. And to this, it may be feared,
these disputes are tending. At all events, able as
Mr:. Gtra's subordinates are, such discussions ought
Wit to be rated and directed exclusively by them.
find in our judgment it would well become these
railway boards to seriously reconsider and revise
their policy; to recognise as great facts and irresis-
tible realities what ham grown up about them ; and,
; above all things, nut to place themselves between
I T., the legislature and the fulfilment of its intentions.

BEDFORD AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A
new railway to connect Bedford with the Great Northern
and Eastern districts, n miles long, is proposed, to run
from Bedford into the ()Etat Northern Railway, at Sandy ;
and at a meeting just held at Bedford, resolations were
passed to promote it.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—A meeting of the pro.
prietors in this company is to be convened, to consider the
creation of any portion of the new shares under thw S2nth
Devon Itailwiy Act of t S.il, and to determine on Utetit
amount, preferential interest and dividend.
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