The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER IS, 1865.

JOHN BROGDEN.

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Melba's Ociocesta.

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TO COBILYSPONDIENTB.
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paw, muse he at the Oad, 10. BOUVllliediell, by Two
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PIIINCNSYS.
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Yandosecd. D. Irtshor, D. Num. Payton. Mules : Mrs. D.
Spostasult sad M s/L Oliver.—And AN AMPLE APOLOGY.

ERITANNIA.
TEDIfe, JEANNIE AND FJPIS DT.ANS. Ml= S.
Woe and Miss E. ilaca-thy —The Youthful Athlotuo—Don
Pattot.—tfol THE RESCUE OP THE ORPHANS.

HIGH WATIII AT LONDON-PRIMA.
1117• DAT IIorWAR, 60. ASTA.....Aftensoos. 76. 736
TO4OIIOI, Morn*" 76. 4662......61t416006. 811.

LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.

Ar length the great Reform of Greenwich Hos-
pital has come to pass. No longer on the summer
afternoons will the jaded victims of fashion who
have come down to enjoy the charms of whitebait
and iced champagne at the Ship and Trafalgar con-
template the jolly old pensioners smoking the pipe
of repose in the stately gardens by the Thames.
Those halls which only a few years ago were tilled
with 2,000 old men will soon be well nigh empty;
and the only tenants that remain will be 300 or
400 men too old or too infirm to be removed.
Sentimental philanthropists and soft-hearted
women will of course lament over the change
with short-sighted regret. But the more
sensible and truly charitable. who look
beneath the surface, will congratulate themselves
and the country on the achievement of so blessed
a reform. Nor would it be right to forget that
such a measure could only have been carried into
effect by the courage and public spirit which ani-
mate the FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY. Odler
men have admitted the necessity of some change.
The Duke of Sowers= is the first Minister who
has dared to carry it into practical effect.
It is scarcely necessary to contrast the condition
of an inmate of the Hospital with that of an out-

pensioner under the no; regulations. The mere
fact that more than a thousand of those who

were eligible to be admitted into Greenwich
Hospital were known to be distributed in the
various workhouses throughout the country is

proof sufficient that the old system required radical
reform. But the additional fact that every in-
_

mate of the Hospital in tolerable health has at
once availed himself of the privilege of leaving

the Hospital proves not only that the terms offered
by the Lords of the Admiralty have been fair, but
that the privilege of living in the Hospital was
greatly over-estimated. So long as a man re-
pained in the Hospital be was separated from his
wife, his family, and his friends. He was gene-
rally far away from the place of his birth
or of his adoption, and was subject to
a variety of roles and regulations which are always
more or less irksome. Nor should it be forgotten
that living in the Hospital, his wife or his family
were compelled to have a separate house for them-
selves, generally in the slums of Greenwich, or in
some more distant seaport. The consequence of
this enforced *operation it is easy to anticipate.
But now, by the sensible plan of giving the men
. two shillings a day and the out-pension which
was relinquished on entering the Hospital,
these evils are effectually remedied. The
Greenwich pensioner selects whatever place
of residence he prefers. His railway fare to his
destination is allowed On his arrival at the old
port and country village be joins his wife and
family. He is among his friends, his relations,
and his old comrades, and there he lives as he

pleases, and does as he pleases. It is true that he
will not be able to hobnob with other old men
who have served in her MAJESTY'S fleet, but
whom he may never have seen before till he
met them at Greenwich, or whom be may hate
with the hatred proverbially engendered in alms-
houses. But he enjoys true liberty, and may
even, if he be so eccentric, set up his abode next
door to his bitterest enemy.
As we have already said, the alacrity with which
the pensioners have availed themsolvesof the option
of leaving the Hospital furnishes conclusive proof
of the feelings of the old seamen. But this fact
opens a curious and important question. The
savi::g to the funds of the Hospital by paying the
pemlons instead of keeping the men at Greenwich
will be many thousands a year ; at the same time
the boon to the men will, in their opinion, be
considerable. Thus the inducement to enter
the Navy will be increased, whilst the ex-
pense of furnishing it will bo diminished.
Surely the same principle must hold good in
similar cases, and there is therefore no reason why
Chelsea Hospital should not undergo a similar
reform. But, further, throughout the country
there are thousands of almshouses in which old
and decayed men and women are lodged, and some-
times clothed and fed. There is scarcely is town
in England where such institutions do not abound.
In London and many of the cathedral towns the
number of almshouses is larger than can be used.
But the same objections are felt by these people
to these almshouses as are felt by the old seamen
to Greenwich Hospital. They do not like being
herded together and compelled to live apart from
their families, or, even with the families, but next
door to those to whom they have no special tie.
Where the charity consists simply in being per-
mitted to occupy rooms in an empty house, as in
the case of those old ladies who have the privilege
of living at Kensington Palace or Hampton Court,
there is no means of commuting the privilege of
residence into a money equivalent. Lot where
the premises can be sold advantageously, or where,
in addition to the building, there is a large
revenue, it is difficult to understand why
the government precedent should not be
followed. The thirty per cent. of the
gross revenue which now finds its way
into the pockets of the solicitor and the
architect would be saved. The real objects of the
charity might be increased in number, and the
mode of bestowing the charity would passes
superior attractions. Many an old lady would
prefer a few shillings a week to the privilege of
living in a row of picturesque old houses, away
from her friends and the *cense of bar youth. No
doubt the Charity Commissioners could furnish
many admirable illustrations of the principle for
which we are contending. And it is to be hoped

that since Mr. GLAUBTON3 km roused them into
something like activity, they will not neglect so
fruitful a subject of refoon.
There is one other matter connected with
Greenwich Hospital which ought not to be over-
looked. Under the new system the Hospital will,
in fact, be reserved for the very old, the infirm,
and the sick. At present these will not exceed
000, so that there will be vacant space for more
than 2,000 men. Surely some use ought to be
made of this vacant space ; and what
better use can be made of it than for sick seamen
of the merchant service 1 It is well known that
thedissaeseto whichseamen who have servedabroad,
especially in hot climates, are liable, are of a pecu-
liar and instructing character. Is there any reason
why Greenwich Hospital, with its ample cham-
bers, should not be made available for such CMOs 'I
Those medical men who serve on board the fleet
and in merchant vessels might here find a splendid
field of experience and instruction. Greenwich
Hospital might be transformed into a great me-
dical school ; and, indeed, unless there are insu-
perable objections to the proposal, we have con-
fidence enough in the Duke of SOMERSET to believe
that so favourable an opportunity will not be
neglected.

Clu Coun.

BALMORAL. Sin. 26.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Wass, Princess Louis of Haw, and Prince's Louise, drove
to the Lynn of /avid', and returned by Mar Lodge to
the Castle.
PAWNS Helens wont out driving with Princess Hilda of
Anhalt, Baroness do Schenck, sad the Hoc Hrs. William
Grey. ---

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council met yesterday in the Connoll-ehamber,
Whitehall. Present, the Duke of lionterset and the Earl
of Clarendon. Mr. Helps, the clerk of the council, attended.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-061os
from the Governor of Malta.

ACCOUCHEMERT OF THE COUNTESS DE PARIS.
( THIS DAY)

Her Royal Highness the Countess de Paris was
safely delivered of a princess at 9 militias pest 7 o'clock
this meriting, at York House, Twickenham.
The event took place in the preemies of their Royal High-
'sasses the Cant de Paris, the Duke and Duchess de,
Chartres, the Duke d'Alencon, the Prince and Princess de
Joinville, the Duke and Duchess d'Anmale, the Prince de
Conde, the Duke and Duchess de Montrealer, and the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting on their royal highnewsos.
Dr. Priestley, Dr. Gnenenn de Mussy, and Dr. Serrano
(medical attendant on his Royal Highness the Duke de
Moatpensier), were the physicians in attendance.
Her royal highness and the infant princess fire doing
well.
The names selected for the royal infant (who, we be-
lieve, will be christened to-day) are Marie Amalie Louise
Reline.

THE COUET AT BALMORAL..—VISIT OF HER MA-
JESTY TO TUE FALLS OF QUOICH.--On Monday her Majesty
nod party drove to the Falls of geoid; where guides and
ponies were in 'meting to convey the royal party to the
meat of the hill overlooking the winding vale of the
Quni&h. A picnic was held hereamoog the heather, sod in
a spot from which a very doe view of the varied scenery
could be obtained. The Queen returned to Balmoral rid
Braemar about 7 o'clock in the evening. The weather was
remarkably pleasant during the day. Their Loyal High.
new the Princes. Hama and the Princess Beatrice drove
rid Braemar to Loch Callatsr outlands, evening.—Dundee

deircrtiser.
We understand that Earl Dalhousie awl Lady

.• _
Christian Maule have repaired an invitation from I.er
Majesty the Queen to vidt Balmoral Castle and spend a
co.tple of nights at the royal residence. The invitation has,
we believe, been accipted, and it is expected that, should
weather permit, Lord Dalhousie sad Lady Christian Maul.
will leave !overcoat' Lodge on Thursday, sad travel by
ponies across the Glen to Balmoral and return oa Saturday.
—Dundee Adrcrtiser.
' •

The Duke and Duchesa of Welliugton are stayiug
at Strathikidneys, Hempshire.
The Duko and Duchess of Buccleuch aro enter-
sainiag seaceseslon of visitsis at Drumlaarig Castle, Dum-
hireshins . . . .

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The Marquis of Kildare arrived in town yester-
day from his seat in county Kildare, Ireland.
The Marquis of Hartington will leave Holkar
Ball in a day or two for Dunrobia Castle, one visit to the
Duke sod Duchess of Sutherland.
The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., will
leave town on Saturday, in order to relieve the Right Hon.
Sir Charles Wood in attendance on her Majesty at Bal-
moral.
Mr. Hastings Russell, M.P., and Lady Eliza-
beth Russell will entertaie a gmeceosioo of guests at Woburn
Abbey for the neat fortnight.
His Excellency Baron Bentiock, the Minister
for the Netherlands, has removed from Lowndes-square to
26, Eaton-square, which for the future will be the seat of
the Netherlands Legation at the British Court.
On Tuesday last, at early dawn, the neigh-
beerbood of the domain at llolkar was astir on the
occasion of the wedding of Lady Louisa Caroline
_ .

Cavendish, onl► daughter of the Doke of Devonshire,
KC., with Captain tho Hon. Fraocis Ezorton,
wxand son of Francis firs: Fell of Elleemere. The mar-
riage ketivities were not confined to the immediate mem-
bers of the family, as the tenantry and Door participated
in the rejoicings. The quiet village of Cartmel presented
a gala appearance, and in fact it was a thorough holida►
with all the inhaLitaats. . .

A Brighton correspondent says :—" This town is
filling fast, and it is expected that the season will be the
fullest and gayest that has been known for many years.
People are flocking here inconsequence of the cholera on the
oontinent."
The nineteenth annual conference of the British
Organisation of the Evangelical Alliance is now being held
at Hull. The proceedings were begun by • private council
meeting on Tuesday. In the evening • toirte was held in
the public rooms, at which te• and coffee were served. This
was followed by a public meeting, at which the Mayor of
Hull (H. J. Atkisson, Esq.), presided.
The O'Connell monument, in Clare, is to be
inaugurated on the 3rd of October, with great ceremony.
The trades, with their banners, are to head • procession ;
then will follow the Roman catholic bishops and clergy,
the Town Commissioners of Ennis, and " the people." Sir
Colman O'Loghlen, Bart., !d. P., is to deliver the inaugural
address, when the statue " will be banded over to the care
and custody of the Roman catholic Bishop of Killalee and
his successors, in trust for the priests and the people of
Clare." The oratory will doubtless turn upon the different
mesas by which O'Connell aimed at achieving the inde-
pendence of Irelsnd, and these adopted by the Feeians,
T'ue total of our exportations to the colonies and
foreign nations during the first half of the present year
shows a falling off of about 19 per cent., bat thie is almost
entirely consequent on the reduction in the prise of cot-
ton, which has caused India to figure for only 9,489,188 L,
against 20,5413,510/. in the first half of last year, and Egypt
for only 6,964.9474, against 11,010,911/.; while China and
Brazil, also from that CAW, exhibit a propoi tionate diminu-
tion. The mast remarkable feature in the list consists in
the plies occupied by the United Stake, which tow, in-
stead of standing at the head of the foreign costribetors to
oar wants, show • total only • little more than a third of
that of France, about half that of Egypt., and less then
those respectively of Germany, Chins, and Holland.
It is reported at Plymouth that the screw steam
frigates Liverpool, Octavia, and Arethesa are waiting the
arrival of the steam frigate Constance, when they will
proceed I. company to Madeira for an experimental erodes-
They win afterwards be seat to their several stations, viz.,
the Methuen, to the Mediterranean ; the Octavia, to the
East Indies; theConetanoe, to the West Indies; and the
Liverpool. to join the Channel squadron.
Mr. Drummond, of Cadlands, in Hampshire, is
destroying and sending away large portions of the game that
bas bees preserved on,bM agate.

The Bourse was a good deal agitated, and the
tendency of prices was downwards. Itente fell 120.
for cash, and no. for account, closing at 138 fr. 1106.
and Mfr. 250. Mexican fell 1, and Ooniptoir
d'Zscompte, which lately rose so much on the
strength of the Mexican Bank, experienced a reac-
tion of 20fr. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c.

THE CHOLERA AT ALEPPO.

ALEPPO, sin. 5.

I write in the midst of general terror and con-
fusion unciegst the population of this city. The cholera,
which, as I Informed von, was brought hither on the 14th
of August by the Persian caravan, and which at the outset
caused four or five deaths daily, has now take* a most
deadly tarn. For some time past the deaths averaged 40 or
60 a day, and now they have reached 250, a number
almost incredible in such a place a. Aleppo.
The panic which prevails surpasses all power of
description. All the Europeans have either fled or have
shut themselves; up in their houses in the strictest
seclusion. The Kinsale have been the very first to eat
the bail example. The Austrian, British, Spanish, and
Danish consuls, as well u the regent of the coosalatet of
Italy—this last a native—have left the place, and closed
their chanceries, while the others have retired into the
MINIM of their dwellings, and refuse to see anyone, on
whatever pretence. This hid naturally produced the worst
possible effect on the public mind, and the terror his
infected the Musinelnien part of the population, many of
the notables of which, altogether contrary to their former
habitudes, have either takes flight, or have shut themselves
up is their dwellings. The only consul who remain' at his
post, and to some extent persists ill the discharge of his
duties, is the French. This functionary exerts himself for
the relief of the distressed, and has been the means of giving
assistance to several persona attacked by the epidemic,
who would otherwise have perished ; but he is alone
unassisted even by his own countrymen, who, like the rest,
have all run away, or shut themselves up, deaf to all re-
monstrances. The governor, Surer' Puha, has placed
himself in strict quarantine in his country house, and ease
mow ; his example has been followed by the employes;
the conk is deserted, and the bull has left the town. The
only persona who have done their duty ender the calamity
are, as I have said, the French consul, hf. Antoine Moli-
nari, who deserves all credit for his devotion in the cause
of the poorer victims, and Dr. Smania of Venice. Upon
their invitation, the bishops of the different Christian com-
munities were summoned for the purpose of establishing
ambulances in swims quarters of the town, bat nothing
was done, the bishops contesting themselves by declaring
that if the consul had any money to give them they would
undertake its distribution amongst the most neoessitous of
their own communion.—Lerant Herald

AN AMERICAN VIEW OF THE FENIANS.

(From the New York Times, Sept. 15.)
By the news from Europe this morning, it will be
seen the British government are becoming so alarmed at the
progress of Fenian's= in Ireland that they have determined
to increase the military force stationed in that portion of
the United Kingdom.
It can hardly be any business of ours to reflect upon
the disposition that may be made of the British missy on
the home stations. But it is noteworthy that a so-called
political organiaatioa, the strength and character of
which is sufficiently well known here to excite only good-
hameured jest, is =pitied on the other aide of the
Atlantic into a formidable league, demanding immediate
suppression by military force. In the city of New York
alone we could probably turn out more "Fenian," than
could be mustered in the whole of Ireland. And yet, were
the purposes of the order as hostile to our government as
they are ostensibly to that of Great Britain, we should
hardly think of any measure of repression that might not,
with the utmost safety, be left in the hands of the metro-
pelisse police.
The trouble with the Queen's government, we suspect, is
that they are not altogether satisfied that they are in the
right. Let them declare absolute religions freedom in the
sister island—let them abolish the scandal of a pampered
state church, which is not the church of one-twelfth part
of the population of Inked—let them trust the yeomanry
of Ireland as they trust those of England and SpotLynd
when volunteers have to be raised—and let them give the
Irish people a fairer and taller representation in parlia-
ment. kinviag done this the British government could
afford to reduce the contingent* in the Irish garrisons at
pleasure, and whistle at the universal Fenian brotherhood
in both hemispheres.
It strikes us forcibly as looker. on that this increase of
the British forces in Ireland gives to the Fenian order a
prestige which its most sanguine leaders in this country
never dreamed of its aoquiriot in the present century. We
may be mistaken as to the sincerity of the more ignorant
members of the society. But that those of them who have
any intelligence soberly believe that they can take
even one practical step towards securing the inde-
pendence of Ireland we utterly discredit. The
leaders of the association are perfectly well aware
that a crusade for the " liberation" of Ireland would en-
counter the fiercest, the most desperate, and the
most effective opposition from the Irish people themselves.
The entire hierarchy—without a single exception—an the
avowed enemies of the order. The lower orders of the
clergy, almost to a mast denounce its declared purposes,
nod have placed their ban upon its membership. The land.
lords of the muntry, with few exceptions, are, from self-
interest, the determined foes of revolutionary uprisings.
And the great middle class—the well-0410 farmers, the
merchants, and master mechanics, content themselves with
a steady, patient, and persevering advocacy of coostitntional
reform. To suppose that a few partially organised betas
of ignorant peseantry, prompted as these may be by non-
resident propagandist+, are to rise up against the
wishes and interests of the sober, industrious, and educated
majority in Ireland, and are to rise up with even the re.
motest chance of disturbing the existing government, is
siniply preposterous. The beet section of the Irish people—
without distinction of faith—might he safely left today to
dispose of Fenianinn in Ireland, were there never a British
soldier in the Wand. No Irishman of ordinary iotelligence
or of ordinary honesty doubts this. But true-hearted
Irishmsn loop to see the day when the British government
will find it to be its owe interest to terminate that vicious
system of elms legislation and sectarian favouritism
under which the country has groaned for centuries,
and against which the noblest and the beat of Ireland's
eons—both protestant and catholic—have contended, at
the risk of fortune, of political advancement, of court
patronage, and of all that intelligent and high-minded
men might, under other circumatancer, honestly covet. It
h the solemn protests of such patriots as these that the
British government have to fear to-day—much more than
the bravado and nonsense of then Pbmnicisio madcap,.
The wrongs of Ireland are solemn realities which must
some day be atoned for ; the fanfaronade of her liberating
leagues simply furnish a subject for sport.

A letter from Paris says :—" This is to be a I
prodigious year for truffles. A few hive already been
brought to market, mach sooner than is usually the GOO ; I
but the harvest has not vet begun, and the precious sub-
terranean mushroom is still acquiring mire and fragrance in
the ground. Not only will the crop be unusually large, !
but the quality will be something very remarkable. The
hot sun which came sitar tome rains in August has bean
highly favourable to the perfume of those black diamonds ;
of gastronomy. A century ago the whole of the truffles an-
nually gathered in France did not amount to the value of •
million francs ; they are stud now to produce more than 30
millions. Truffles are found in almost every put of France, 1
and in many depsrtmenta their collection and sale is a
great resource to the poor in winter. Hitherto it has not ;
been generally allowed to oollect truffles in the forest' of
the state, but that prohibition is expected is be shortly re-
moved. Abundant truffles and a wonderful vintage will
make of 1363 a red-letter year in the gourmet's calendar."
The fair of Nijni Novgorod, which is now over,
seems to have been well attended ; all the hotels were full.
lied lodgings were very dear. At first business was ex-
tremely doll. buyers and sellers seemed in no hurry to
arrive, sad the ebonies of the Bokharian merchants was •
source of greet disappointment to many manufactarers,
who supply the Bokharian market ; for the wants of the
Bokharians are peculiar ; teapots, cup., gleam% knives and
a misty of other artieles are reads esprewly for this people
after • fashion which nits no other market. The appre-
hension, therefore, that they would be prevented from at-
tending cart • gloom over the fair at the beginning. But
when they at length arrived with plenty of gold and silver,
according to their custom, things took a MOM feveurable
tut.

METROCOMPANYPOLITAN DISrEICT RAILWAY
.—(THIS DAY.)
This day the Mond ordinary half-yearly general
meeting woe hid at the °Moos of the company, is Vic-
kwia-street the Earl of Devoe in the chair.
The following is the report of the directors :
" In accombuses with the preepeehaa, they have pro-
carded in the first instance with the construction
of the line between Kensington and Cannon-attest.
A contract has been mend into with Kamm Sir
Morton Pato, Betts, Kelk, sad Waring Broths's.
for the coestruotion of thee' works for the sum of
1,710,0001., the contractors engaging to work the seatices
of the line as they ars completed until the whole length is
rimmed to the public', taking the profits of each working, sod
pans( interest epos capital during contractioe.
aequthitiou of merely for the been been carefully
proceeded with, aod the works hav commenced at
mescal poista, and will be premed forward with
vigour. As it is of the utmost importance to
complete the itonnexioa with the ezistiog metropolitan
railway as rapidly as possible steps have been token with
a view to enable the directors to pleased with the remain-
Log portion of the undertakiog between °sawn-Meet, sad
Tuoitythquare. The Wilier's Waren gumeateed by the
contractors wan paid by them on the 13th September Lad.
The engineer's report states that the stains at High-street,
'Kensington is in active progress, and a considerable portion
of the excavation and brickwork has been executed. A
onnzationment has been made near Vislorth4theet, Mist-
minter, upon prepsny acquired from Messrs Elliot.
Wstney, said CO.. and the trustees of Emanuel Hos-
pital, and various preliminary WHIRR of drainage,
Re., are in progress along the line. The brick.
work required for priming the railway trader the
London, Chatham, bed Dover Railway viaduct at Black.
friars is very nearly completed, and the wrought lees
I girders are in place. It was originally contemplated that a
very early commencement of the works might be made
between Westminster station and Cannon-street; bat the
progress made by the Metropolitan Board of Works with
the Thames Embankment, sad the clearance of property
for the new street between Blacdrhiars and Genoa-street,
bee not hitherto bees such as to permit this to be done.
Wears badly engaged with the detailed drawings and
preparations far the works of the railway between
Cbnw-
street and Trinityecuam, so as to secure the completion of
that pert of the work simultaneously with the Metropolitan
Easter Extension from Finsbury-arms to the came
tit,
by which means the' Inner Oink' becomes rem
The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report be adopted,
expressed a hope that it would be accepted as estiiectsry
proof of the progress made with the works. The direeton
had paid attention to Wee main palate—the raising el the
capital, the letting of the contracts. and the aoq of
the property. It had been decided that they should
proceed with the lies between Osamu-street and Kea-
singtoe station, and that contract bad been let to
gentlemen whose names were a guarantee for their
respectability, on term which the engineer considered
favourable to the company. The report of the engines
stated the wblrh bad been made with the works,
and the directors, through their surveyors were making
great propels in the acquisition of the property. Pawing
through the various paragraphs in the report he adverted to
the importance of proceeding with the extension from Cm-
non.steest to join the Metropolitan Extension at Trinity-
aquae°, so as to complete the inner circle of the
Metropolitan railways, and stated that, impressed with
the importance of completing that portion of the
line as early as possible, they had bestowed their
attention to the beet means of raising the necessity capital
for the works ; they had coesequeetly made arrangements
by which the contractors are to subscribe for the remain-
tog capital, reserving one-third for the existing shareholders
in proportion to their holdings, the contractors, however,
undang to 'crept take off this third which the
shareholders might oot He concluded by moving
the adoption of the report.
The motion having been seconded by Mr. A. CLUE=
SHERIFF, M. P.,
A SHAREHOLDER inquired whether, if the contractors
should be unable to place the shares which they were to
take at par, the company were to be liable for the
difference.
The CHAIRMAN—No.
In reply to mother question be added that no definite
contract had been made for the vetoed section of the
Another SBAREMOLDEI took exception to the item for
preliminary and parliamentary expenses, which he thought
uneeossaanly large.
The CHAIRMAN replied that 16,0001. out of the 47,0004.
charged for preliminary and parliamentary expenses was a
rem paid to the Metropolitan Grand Union Company, who
bad promoted • oompetiog line, a portion of which this
company took up. and who in consideration of this payment
had withdrawn their opposition.
After some further conversation the motion was carried
unanimously.
A vote of (hulks to the chairman and the directors con-
cluded the banner.

THE COMMERCIAL TABLE AGALN.—A large and
influential meeting of oonantereial travellers was held of
Tuesday evening, at the Norfolk Hotel, Newcastle-ow
Tyne, to sacettain their opinion as to the desirability of
forming a society for the abolition of the present compul-
sory custom of wins drinking at commercial dinner table.
After a spirited discussion, it was proposed and nnasi-
mously resolved that an association be formed, to be
called the " Commercial Travellers' Union,* for the
attainment of the 'boy I object. The next resolution
was as follows :—" That this meeting, feeling the injustice
of the present compulsory custom of wine drinking at com-
mercial dinner tables, hereby resolves to nee its influence to
abolish the usage," After the reading of this resolution,
an interesting end animated discussion gook place, the
numerous speakers expressing themselves warmly is favour
of a society whose object would so nearly affect their in-
terests as a commercial body. The resolution was then
carried unanimously. A committee was subsequently
formed to carry out the object of the meeting. The whole
proceedings were characterised by the greatest eakhusissin,
and if in other towns the matter be taken up with like
spirit, it is confidently believed the movement will be
crowned with looms.
Biaaarrz.—We read in the Sport :—" Biarritz is
extremely animated. The period of official Ntes and re-
minions having peered, the court freely indulges in all the
pleasures of the villegiaturs. A small portion of the beau
monde of Paris ia amiembled at this elegant smakle resort.
There are many pleasant meetings and agreeable walks, re-
ceptions at the Villa Engeeie, social evesiag and morning
parties, dinners, and assemblies at the Casino. The Empress
as well as the Emperor are beaming with health. His
Majesty is very gay, in excellent humour, and appears
greatly to enjoy his stay at Biarritz. The Empress is most
amiable and affable. In the morning she bathes in the Old
Port, after first balling a kind of little court, surrounded
by her ladies of honour. Is this circle may be men persons
of the diplomatic corps and of the fashionable world and
foreigners of distinction, towards whom her Majesty is inex.
preuibly gracious. She freely enters into conversation,
compliments the ladies, deigns to notice the toilets
which please her fancy, and by a few kind weeds makes
many a one happy in the eager groups around her. The
other day, among the persona present at one of these open-
air lerhis, were the Grand Duchess of Made, the Grand
Duke of kleck:anbarg, Dan Bezique, brother go the Bing
of Spain, the Princess Labanoff, the Russian Ambassador,
Mme. Girardin, the Marchioness de clarinettist°, ht."
Within the last few days the Austrian govern-
ment, it is said, has addressed a despatch to the cabinets of
the great powers, in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs
declares, in very emphatic language, that the late mai.
festo or rcscript does not mean a political retrograde more-
moat. On the contrary foreign cabinets are to understand

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that his Apostolic Majesty Francis Joseph has decided on
maintaining a repreentative form of government for the
whole empire, after oath of the states have made known
their wants through the medium of the diets, which shall
be worked by an executive desirous of promoting liberal
measures, and of respooding to the wants of the people.
The Levant Herold of the 10th says :—" The
Porte has, we loath, at length.grauted the promoters of the
Sucdis acid Aleppo Bailway the concession sought for on I
the increased capital estimate for the undertaking. This I
line, as our readers ern aware, forms the first section of Gen.
Chesney's Euphrates Valley scheme."
THE CIRcASSIANS IN Toigur.—A letter from
Dardanelles, dated the 16th says :—" The quiet Mlle port
of Eoos, which, though situated on the south court of
meths, forms part of this Pachthe, and is noted for its
perilous harbour and malaria fevers, is just now the scene of
a disturbance somewhat perpletieg to the authorities. It ,
would appear that the Circassian settlers in that place, !
! numbering about 500, nomindfol probably that beggars
cane= claim the right of ehoiae, thought proper to arrogate
to themselves the latter privilege, and having refused the !
ground alloted them by the government, took forcible pee-
session of some woodlands which bad opecielly struck
their fancy and which would have bear remarkably
imitable bad they not belonged to some one
she. This technical difficulty, however, the practical
habits of the Circassiaes led them to overlook or to
ignore, so they intresehed themselves on the coveted
locality whence they obdurately refused to budge. The
' Turks, solos:ad by that breed conception of hospitality
which the Horan inculcates, were unwilling to do mon
then remonstrate, and, dreading a serious complicatioe,
referred the matter to bra-quarters. Oar
Ertl%ed without delay to the scene of the dr.ffilenl7,
moral indueste
of sot so far prevailed aphid
the ionbardisath spirit of the emigrant 11101111tailbedn.
He has, however, suoseedul is preventing a oollision between
the lawful proprietors and the warp= pending the arrival
of a reinforcememt of troops, which is now on tee way from
Constriatiuople. This is no? iusfortuestedb the only in-
. thence whim the Quixotic =int in which Turkey reeeived
so many thouraed destitute refuges" has boon rewarded by
' turbulent issaordiaatlos on the part of the recipients of
. the ballad bounty."