The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-01 00:00:00

The following address has been recently pre-
sented to his Excellency the Swedish Ambusador
at the Court of St. James's, at his residence in
Grosvenor-place:

RELIOIOUB LIBJ&?T IN BW3DIIf.

TO HIS PM

COUNT PLATEN, 9 MEDII3II Ald b AS-

IL&DOIL, LONDON.
We, the undarsignsd yeabletente of Greet Britain, into-
rented in the shin of Swope, disks to express to
your neeellesey our wad &ee for the religions welfare
of the Wag and royal family of Sweden and of our pro-
Wiest_ brethren of the Swedish nation.

We know well the conflict whkh you had to sustain in
former days with the power of the Court of Rome. We
can understand the hereditary holing of horror with which
Sweden regards the hierarchy from which, by God's mercy,
she naoceeded in the sistemsth century in liberatbsg her-
self. We can sympathise with the countrymen of the noble
Gamma hdolphas in all their recollections connected with
the battle of ballast.

But your excellency will pardon us if we eapean our
deep regret at the severe mem= lately adopted towards
six females converted from protenentiste to romaniara. It
appears from the formal documents that, after a long im-
pnr judicial prosecution, el: women, of whom five are
married, born in Sweden, and brought up in the I
cal Lutheran WON were oondanned, on the 19th ;f1a147,
1858, by the Royal Court of Stockholm, presided over by
Count Brio Spans, to be 'ailed from the kingdom, and to be
deprived in future of every inheritance therein and of all
civil rights in oonsequemos of having embraced the Roman
Catholic •
We used not impress upon your excellency that pro-
testantlem will never succeed by treading in the footsteps
. One chief secret of our moral power lies in
y carrying out our own principles, one of the moat
prominent of which is the right and liberty of private judg-
ment. It is incumbent on protestant/ to concede, even to
their 'strongest opponent., the same freedom of conscience
which they demand for themselves.
Nor can we disguise from ourselves that depriving Roman
catholic. of their liberty to protestant countries tends to
strengthen the restriction of protestant rights in Roman
oatholio countries. At the present moment, perhaps, if there
is any christian object to be desired in Europe it re that the
trammels of religious freedom should be removed from pro-
tenants in France. How reedy and unfortunate an answer
to the demands of French protestant! on their own govern-
ment does the persecution of Roman catholic. in Sweden
afford.

We trust your excellency will pardon us the expression
of thew opinions. We have abetained from getting up a
widely signed memorial addressed to the King of Sweden,
becalm we thought it was better and more respectful for a
few representatives of protestant societies to Wrens them-
selves to your excellency.
We hope that we shell have your exoellaaers sympathy
in our object and that you will kindly represent to your
government the interest we take in It. We are acre that
=well more tend, order God, to bind the herb of
and Swedes together than our powering and
meshing in common the great principles of civil and reli-
gion' liberty.
John Cheetharo, M.P.; George Medfield, M.P. • Adam
Birk, M.P. ; Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., chairman; of the
Evangelical Alliance; Rev. P. Latrobe, Rev. R. H. Her-
"AA end John Finch, members of the Committee of Coun-
cil of the Evangelical Alliance; Rev. J. P. Dobson and
Rev. Hamann Schmettau, secretaries of the Evangelical
Alliance; James Lord, secretary of the Protestant
Association; Rev. Henry Ward, M.A.• G. H. Da-
vies, secretary of the Religious Tract 'Society ; Rev.
Mr. Gantt, M.A., member of the Committee of the
Religious Tract Society ; Rev. George Smith and Maurice
Schulhof, M.D., mamba' of the Committee of the Evan-
gelical Continental Society.
The following noblemen and gentlemen have since ex-
premed their concurrence In the object : —The Archbishop
of Canterbury, Archbishop of Dublin. Bishop of London.
Bishop of Down and Connor, Bishop of Carlisle, Bishop of
Ripon, Bishop of Jerusalem, Bishop of Yeti,_Bishr of
Two Bishop of Cashel, Lord John Raanall, ; Lord
Cran4ortylan/late Lord High Chancellor of England) ; Lord
Breghare formerly Lord High Chancellor of England);
Lord L hurt (formerly Lord High Chancellor of
tja); Earl of Carlisle (late Lord-Lientement of Ire-
indEarl of Shaftesbury, Earl of Wicklow, Rid of Cavan,
Hari of Dude, Earl of -Edingham, Earl of Gainaborough,
Earl of Minters, Earl of Rosary, Earl of Morley, Lord
aLord Ebury, Lord Midletoo, Lord Berner, Lord
si al ilrytTliainioadaisy, Sir Richard Betbelli.M.P. (
for BialAt-
-I°BriesYl=s, Req., tae rr. for GuilGaoral dfoi—ri (chairmanBelfast;
the India Csy) ;J. Walter, Ithq., M.P. for Not-
; Laid , M.P. for Hull ; Sir Andrew Agnew,
Bark, M.P. ; Zd Ball, Lthq., Cambridgeshire •
W. Baxter, Esq., M.P., Montroes • Sir Brook Bridges,
Beth_ , M.P., Rent; J. I. Briars, M.P., Surrey;
Charles Buxton, Req., Y.P., Newport ; Right Hon. W. F.
FL=M.P., Hertford ; Frank Crossley, Esq., M.P.,
• Charlie Cowan,Fir., M.P., Edinburgh ; Sir James
Duke. Bart, M.P., loadaa ;A. M. Dual M.P., Oresnock;
Si James East, Bert, M.P. W ; Viscount
Ebrington, M.P., Mantra*" ; T. W. B Esq., M.P.,
South Derbyshire; S. K. O. Er. M.P.,
Edward Grogan, Esq., XX., Dublin; B. Gordon,
Y.P., Norfolk; Rorie Hathary, Fr., M.P., Middlesex ;
T. A. Hardcastle, Er., M.P., Bury St. Edmunds ; Thomson
H' glory, Br., M.P., Peterberoogh,• T. B. Horde'', Er.,
M.P., Liverpool; James Kershaw, Er., M.P., Stockport ;
Boa. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Perth; George Macaulay,
Ideq., M.P., County Arzlin ; B. Minicktoa Mirth
; C. A. Moody, Esq , M.P., West Somer-
• John Owen, Req., Pembroke; J. P.
Pinmptie, Esq., late M.P., Real • Z. G. &Mabry Req.,
• Chester; J. A. Smith, M.P., Chichester;
Ritherd Spocestarvßr., M.P., oith Warwickshire ;
C. Timers; ~ M.P., Holston ; Sir Harry
Vinery Beth M. . Buckingham • J. P B. Wein-
heed, ; wrig)3tios, Req.,
• Northellerton ; James Wyld, Er., MX., Bodeen;
Sr Harry H. Goodricke, Beth; Sir Matthew- Blabron,
Bert ; Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart.; Si, Henry Martin,
Bart.; Sir A. D. CaWl Brooke, Bart.; Sir John Resur-
vey, Bert.; Sir John D'Oyfy Bart.; Lord Benholnis,
Scottish Judge of Session ; Kr. Justice Crampton, Dubin ;
General Sir Pollock, General Alexander, General
M'lanes, Edward Batas, Req., Lode; Professor Balfosi,
Professor of Botany, Edinburgh; Hugh Barclay, Er.,
Sigrid-Substitute for Partied's; R. C. L. fie,
Req., London, Treasurer of the Enmeshes' Al-
Bence; Thomas Farmer, Esq., Arthington Hall;
Taylor, Fas. • Join Trothr, Esq., Diviner-
=
CI
Deem of thelide,'Dess of Canterbury, Rev. A Wal-
the Pierian Legation and Lutheran
MiaistlerV, l*
W. Ups; D.D., Chopin* to the Revel
el
Chapel, St Jeans's, London ; Rev. Dr. Staltholf,
Minister of the Wrenn Moth, Savoy, London • Rev.
C. W. Meyer, Minister of the German Lather C
Camberwell, Surrey; Rev. Thelon Miniserrit
the Garman Protester Church, L0nd0m„,....8.nr. 100 p&
Angus, D.D., President of the Begin,
park • Rev. Hugh Allen, Incumbent of St.7lMs,Rlrh.fite-
ohari ; Rev. Dr. Alexander, Edinburgh; Dr. John
Brown, sr., Prothror of Divinity in the United
Presbyterian Minsk Edinburgh; Rev. Edward Henry
Bitherstelle, Incumbent of Christ Church ; Rem
R. G. Barr now of Fulham ; Rev. R. Barren,
Chelsea (Petbsiediev of St. Paul's) ; Rev. W. M. Bawl
'cllV=an Minister; Rev. Dr. Caodlish. Free St. George's
Edinburgh; Rev. Dr. Cooke, Professor of Pres r-
loci= Amenably's Colleand Der of Residences, Queen's
College, Belfast; Bw. W. Weldon Chirpier, Canon of
St. Paul's; Rev. ileimiCumming, D.D.,F.R.5.8., National
Scottish Church, London • Rev. G. F. Driffield, Rector of
Bow; Rev. Dr. Mgr; Prothro of Divinity, Belfast;
Rev. W. R. Frammenti', Rorer of Cleydon, Bucks
Hon. and Rev. Orlando W. Forester; Rev. Chair
Joseph Goodhert, Warr of Park Chapel, Chelsea
Rev. Carr John Glyn, Rector of Witchompton
Bev. Thomas Guthrie, D.D.Writer of Free St. Joint's,
Edinburgh ; Rev. Newmen Hall, Surrey Chapel ; Rev. Dr.
Hamilton, Minister of the Scotch Church, Regenerequare;.
E. Jots Armen Jars, Btreefegliam ; Rev. J. Jordan,
Vicar of Eutaw, Oxoci.R:e. Witham Leaden,Minister
ef Diener Chard es-park ; Rev. Dr. Lelfcbilk
Loathe; Rev. Dr.' M` die (Hon. Canna of Chester).
Liverpool ; Rev. Norman 11.1/4 D.D., Glkarrow, one at
her Mersey's Chapla fa red • Rev. Dr. Marsh,.
Beckenham. Canon of Worsen; Has sad Bev. Barr*
W. Noel; Rev. Dr. Raffles, Liverpool; Rev. Dr. Stems,.
Hr. Secretary of the Svimpliest Misses ; Rev. Dr.'
Tidier, Secretary of the Lowing Misery Society.

TRAIOATIANTIv ComartuttcATlON.—We are ,ablo
to asaaaaa (says the DuiNE "wait, Mal) Matastbarby,
W usea even by lfr. Hamilton, tho &mew, or tha
Unary, to the Bawd at Macs, to matt all port charges
oa the gam vessels pi
by Mr. Lever, to ply betwesab
Now York sod Galway. This is s satisfactory proof that.
the goversieset will de all in thstr power to advance Irish. '
sad, we will add, baptist Womb in connexion with Mr. r
sabseprbs.
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dsmiciass cleared 9,0001. last year, sad Yet they we too lows f
or too mem to pay a futhtag of nat. Oar A
would be waled, ware skid, Hod a geode=
MOM ON Ws evasion. They ma to very good *Mom.
but they evidatioa:_aold Battbemsel yes wry
tailliaatly as far what eta yea thereat'', my ht.
favour ad the
_4nitoratleawa who are 'away begging
theirpooh= P
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rssehod Idsroodso obi dosek el • slid, vented John '
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see" Ilsomdl. • pemplbr, ilie• bed boo prescribed for the'
re. by
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to the child, who Mei Is of kw • two, ha spite of the aatl-
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL IiDMON of the "WRNS,"
containing the results of the day'e Reese, is pub-
balled every evening daring the Sporting Season, at
six o'clock.

ON this day the Court of Directors of the Rest
India Company holds its last solemn assembly. To-
morrow, before the shops and the counting-hoeses
of our great metropolis shall have received their
aseustomed inmate., the greatest corporate body
the world has ever men will have shrivelled into an
association of receivers of diridends. The great
holm in Leadenhall-street will stand as it has stood
for long years, and well-nigh the same business
will be dons; by well-nigh the same per-
sons ; but the government of the But India
Company will have passed into a tradition.
Thousands and tens of thousands, including
many of the greatest and wiwist of the land, intent
upon pleases'', at this pleasure-seeking period of the
year, will, in all human probability, not eve the
great *hangs a thought. Perhaps a stray member
of Parliament, striding across some lucky ternip-fleld,
may pass off an irreverent jest at the expense of thei
bagged Company, and straightway forget what
manner of day it ie. But the first and second days
of Sopteinher, 1868, which witness the exam:4km of
the old and the inauguration of the new mesa of
Indian government, constitute an epoch in oar na-
tional history—nay, in the world's history, daeond
in importance to few in the universal annals of
mankind.

On this day the East India Company, which hitherto,
through varied changes and gradations, has directed
the relations of Chest Britain with the vast anti.
rent of India, issues its last instructions to its tor-
rants in the East. On this day the last despatches
written by the authoritative " We," to our Governor-
General, or Governors, in Council, will be signed by
their " affectioame friends." To-morrow the vomit
of her Nlateart's Secretary of State will be
supreme in the official coneepoodence of the
lodate Bureau. It may or way not be for the good,
of India—it may or may not be for the good of Bug-
land—that the Government of the East India Com-
pany should on this day cease to exist ; but we ma-
fees that we do not envy the feelings of the man
who can contemplate without seastioo this great and
pregnant political dear. The officiate el Use
Company may have beset great; its ahortoominp
may have been still greater ; its government may
have been an anomaly—its very existence • sere;
but the verdict of History upon the Company will
be that whiek Parliament,after a long and memorable
debate, passed upon the conduct of the greatest of the
Company's servants—that it "did at the same time
" render great and meritorious servises to this omen-
" try." No argument, no declamation, no legisla-
tive enactment, con vitiate the great troth which
Ends outward expressioo in the Map of India. Tke
Company has given to the Crown two hundred mil-
lima of subjects. The cescpseste may bars been
fairly or foully made; the country may have been
wisely or unwisely governed ; but the Anglo-Indian
Empire is a great fact, patent to the whole world;
and if, after two more centuries of British connexion
with the East, it is still permitted to Englishmen to
exalt in the same great fact, there will be abundant
cause for national gratitude and national wonder.
For when we consider the immense difficulties
which beset the Government of each a country es
India, our astonishment is not that, after a century
of empire, we should have been compelled to fns
the formidable danger of a great military revolt, but
that we should and ourselves still masters of the
eountry. It may not be to the wisdom of the Com-
pany, or to.the energy of its servants, that we owe
the continuance of our rule over such • diversity of
races ; bat it is hard to say how much of our
national soccer is to be attributed to the accidents
of the Company, and, indeed, to some of the very
constitutional defects which it has recently been
the fashion to deplore, and which we are
now attempting to remedy. The Government
of the East India Company has been cha-
racterised, and not untruly, as a gigantic anomaly.
If it had been lees anomalous it would have been lees
eaccessful. It was an anomaly, because it owed
teething to the favour of sovereigns and was not
stirred by the breath of party. It was so anomaly,
because, bola of circumstances, grafted upon the
remains of a mercantile Corporatism it was indepem
dent of oar Parliamentary influences, and, representing
the very sinews of the middle classes, was never
tainted or enfeebled by the poison of aristocratic
jobbery. Hut the exceptional circumstances, whieh
placed it out of the category of regular "respon-
sible governmests," were the very sources of its
stabi,:ry —the well-spring of its 'rut success.
People might talk disdainfally of a number of
holder, of India Stock, includiag sonic mores of
ancient ladies, ivakiog choice of some Loudon banker
of some retired Indian solmel, to occupy a room in

Leadenliall.stree, to dispense writosehipe and oadet-
skips, and to govern millions of people in • reesete

grand service as a cape-goat. Tha Compaq was
vilified--rightly or wrongly-snd there was, gene-
rally, an end of the matter. It was said to be slow,
obstructive—clinging with inordinate tenacity to
certain tratietioury theorise, for the mast part of an
unpopular kind. Parliament had no taste for inter-

ferenoe in its affairs, and the aristocracy had ao
desire to eater the service of a govern
mrnt of tea-dealers. And so, from year
to year—nay from century to osntury--the East
India Company steered right on, undisturbed by
popular clamours, swayed to and fro by no gusts of
party. And the Empire of the East India Company
grew and grew, in defiance of mai constitutional
maxims and theories of government, whilst Perlis,
meet, in a more regular way of business, was cutting
asunder the bonds which united the country to its
other great dependency in the Western World.
Anomalous, informal, as was the Company's Govern•
meat, it was suited to the circurnstanoes out of which
it grew, and because it had little of human, znechan-
Ism about it, it was a great, though irregular,
emcees.

Whilst the absence of Parliamentary interference
has thus enabled the Company to commit to the
direct rule of the Sovssztom an Empire of two
hundred millions of Asiatics, it is to its freedom
from Asiatic influence that it owes the great privi-
lege of transferring to the service of her MAJESTY
such a body of civil and military officers as the world
he. never seen before. A Government cannot be
hese, cannot be feeble, cannot be wanting in wisdom,
that has reared two such services as the Civil
and Military services of the East India Com-
pany. To those servants the Company has
always been just—has always been generous. In
those services lowly merit has never been neglected.
The best men have risen to the highest place. They
may have come from obscure farm-houses or dingy
places of business ; they may have been roughly
nurtured and rudely schooled ; they may have
landed in the country without sixpences in their
pockets or a single letter of recommendation in their
trunks; but if they have had the right stuff in
them they have made their way to eminence, and
distanced men of the highest connexiona and the
most flattering antecedents. The great Jagger-
plinth of " Dowb " has never been dragged over the
Indian servioes ; and therefore have they ever been
the nurseries of heroes. To-morrow morning the
East India Company will be without a servant;
hot nothing can deprive it of the honour of having
reared these heroic men. Let her MAJESTY appre-
ciate the gift—let her take the vast country and the
teemieg millions of people under her direct rule t
but let her not forget the great Corporation how
which she has received them, or the lessons to be
learnt from its success.

Tax half-yearly Report and Financial Statement,
recently issued by the Eastern Counties Railway
Company, harmonise with the hopes already in-
spired by the present management. The accounts
of other railway undertakings teem with financial
illusions and irregularities ; the capital outlay is
incessantly and vastly swelled upon all sorts of pre-
texts ; and revenue is thus enabled to shirk many a
burden properly chargeable to it. la the Eaateru
Counties Company a different rystem has been loan-
guested, and has already achieved a degree of mo-
ons which cannot tail to stimulate public oonfideoce.
During the last Mx months the Eastern Counties,
like all other Railways, has been prejudiced by the
depression of trade. The traffic on its hoes has
experienced a decrease of 8,6201. I but there is this
favourable feature, that the Directors have at the
same time reduced the expenditure by 4,4581.
Taking also into account, however, the diminution
of trier on the East Anglian Company's lines, the
total decrees of revenue is 9,151 M. ; and it is prin-
cipally owing to this fact that the dividend
on Eastern Counties Railway stock is 2s. 64.
per cent. less than for the corresponding period
at last year. In face of the serious reduction
In the dividend' declared by most of the other great
Railwayeerepanies, the Reefers' Counties proprietors
have every reason to be satisfied with the result of
their operations during a period of exceptional diffi-
culty, the more especially as they have also sustained
detriment from the railway war now raging.
In their method of dealing with the Capital Ars-
count the Eastern Counties Board are honourably
distinguished. During the whole year 1&57, the
total net amount added to capital was only
4,2641.—a fact unfortunately without parallel in
railway accounts. Daring the last half-year the
sum added u only 6,3161. ; " and of this,"
the Report observes, " 2,8781. 2e. 4d. was authorised
0 in the Report made the 314 December, 1837, foe
" new works at Brick-Lane, and shops at Bishops-
" gate-Station; by that outlay • considerable yearly
" rental will be obtained." The Directcws most cor
reedy remark :—" The stability of railway property
" is affected by the manner in whit& the capital of
Company to dealt with. If additions be made to
• it. except for purposes of increasing the revenue,
," future years have to bear a burden in the charge
"of increased interest, which must diminish the
'" seat applicable for dividend." At the same
dm*, they obeerve that " there are occasions
" when Directors should not hesitate to make
oan addition to capital, if for objects which pr-
•' take of the nature of first cost, and for the purpose
"of carrying on a new undertaking." They then
proceed to point out that hitherto the traffic of the
new Woodford and Loughton Line has been worked
by same the general plant of the company, and
that the time has arrived when, for the amommod•-
dem et this new traffic, six engines and sixty new
carriages may legitimately be provided out of capi-
tal. Now, we confess that, as a matter of policy,
we would rather ere the Capital Account of a rail-
way closed altogether, principally because the power
of making additi•ws is ever of en to abuse, and because
there is no other Railway Board in the kingdom
equally vigilant in this respect. We are aniseed,
too, that sharebeidera wield Bed it to their interest

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In anion; no to act capon this principle, for, even
If it led to a little sacrifice or revenue, the closing of
the Capital Accorrit would further increase the confi-
dence of the !moneyed public, and redound to tho

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY

honesty
and sound principles. Apart from a very trifling
expenditure, referring to a portion of the udder
taking of recent construction, the Cspital Amount
has been virtually elosed—i. a., no edditioo has boss
made to it—during the last two years. Sow
people have been known to declare sweep-.
ingly that there is not a single Railway
Company of magnitude to the kingdom which
could maintain even a moderate rats of dividend
were the power of making illegitimate additions to
capital taken away. The Directors of the Rutera
Counties have the satisfaction of conclusively
proving the osntrary,and the shareholders the main-
faction of knowing tbit, whilst the dividends of
certain other Companies are partly derived from
earnings and partly from a .disguised misapplication
of capital, theirs, although it may be sosallse than
they could wish, represents nothing but fair
and honest profits. A railway dividend can
only be strained at the rust of capital, or
through starving, i. e., neglecting to maintain in
proper order, the permanent way, plant, and works.
The Eastern Counties Company's dividend is cer-
tainly not obnoxious to reproach on the former some.
As regards the latter, we find that the expenditure
on maintenance and renewal of the way and works
daring the last half-year has been no lees than
62,7301., charged entirely to revenue, against 61,9271.
fr the same period of last year ; 48,4131. in 1856,
119,9621. in 1865 ; and 29,6891. in 1864. There has
eiseciy been no " starring " in this department; and
we bets the explicit declaration of the Board, con-
ihneed by the Reports of the proper officers, that
emery other claim chargeable to revenue has bees
rigidly exacted from it.

The chief obstacles to the improvement of this
undertaking, considered ea a property, rest evidently
with the large expenditure on the permanent way
which former neglect has rendered necessary, and
with the company's debt to the " Deferred Perms-
" cent Way Renewal Aeocuot." It is unnecessary
to recapitulate the history of this " Amount," which
forms a legacy from the WADDINGTON review. The
Directors deserve credit for *wieldy adhering to the
understanding that a sum of 8,0001 shall be pro-
vided every half-year from Revenue until the
whole debt la paid eft The total amount
now outstanding is 70,6651., and almost exactly
equals the sum distributed as dividend on the coli-
nary stock for the last half-year. But for this
terminable annuity with which the company are
saddled, the dividend would be larger by per cent.
per annum. There is room to believe that at no
distant date the expenditure required from revenue
for maintenance and renewal will press lees heavily
upon the shareholders.

These various details indicate, on the part of the
Managers of the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany, a degree of financial oonicientionsnem which
we vainly look for elsewhere. Compare the
jealousy shown by the Jinni, as regards additions
to capital, with the megailiceat but ruinous reck-
lessness of other Companies. The Chairman was
justifltwi in Inminiiner dub •ttawbolAwra at the meant
' meeting that, whilst the Eastern Counties Company
' have added 5,3171. to their capital for the last half
year, the London and North Western bays added
the enormous sum of 454,1861. (besides transferring
to capital a further sum of 258,6851., being the
amount of the Company's debt to the "Renewal and
0 Improvement of Road Account 1; the London and
South Western have added 225,1681. ; the Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 83,8641. ; the Great Northern, 61,7891. ;
the Brighton, 34,7201.; with further heavy additions
in prospect ; and the Memehrater end Sheffield,
34,9441. The Miters oesteties Company tarnish
in this respect a bright example to the railway
world, and deserve, as a matter of simple justice, to
have the facts pointed out. With an almost sta-
tionary capital account, with no prospective liabili-
ties of importance, lasi with a steady or growing
revenue, this company's debentare debt is placed in
a position of peculiar security.

We can stag* with =Wanes that NO halligiell
respecting the diplomat's is the meth
of China km yet mates‘ tia maw

Irk (Court.

RETURN OF THE QUEEN FROM THE

CONTINENT.
OSBORNE, AVOCIIT 31.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort arrived at
(Mores at halt-past foar o'clock this afternoon, from
the Continent.

PORTSMOUTH, Tuasn►v.
Ha Modesty and the Priam Consort sad Royal
YamHy enivedall the Dockyard, Portsmouth, this afternoon
by rail, sit nests to Osborn.. Her Majesty moberked as
hood the Ella Ms= yacht, Meter Cononestier Aland
Belliehm, et ten selatttee pest 3 o'dock is the afternoon from
the Lag's Blebs. Admiral Sir Oeo. P. Seymour, Item
Adadrel Km O. Orey, Malor•Ooeral Scarlett sea staff,
the minims of the ships in port, end a guard of leaser
tree the 4th way was at the King's Stain in renames to
receive hoe We* when she arrived. On the Elfin having
the Whew with tits Hoye/ Standerd, it via saluted by the
Velem, garrison, mad the squadron at Spithred, which con-
sisted due Victor Emmanuel, Reeyelne, Dtedwo, and three
Itemise corvettes.

WOOLWICH, Avower 11.
The Baaahee Admiralty steam vessel strived in
barbeer at three o'clock thin afternoon, banes WI Anvils.
ea Monday might, with the royal nanros, wine seamed
leer lffejeety sad saltation the Continent. Tin Ilassahes bed
oa bond a large quakily of lam" white wee torweeded to
Lomb= this seams, ears the sharp et oat of the Queues
seessagen. The Prtaesse AUG* elnarnesei wesonisred to
have Woolwich at bar **stock this nanda& sod pearl he
Chaveseed, ae a oasaintaltatioa bed bees reesini to the ant
the! has Majesty eroaid proceed direst from the Confuse to
Graveand, mad disinherit st the Royal Terme Pier. livery
ansaseniat had bra made dor this wpm*, sad She when
of the crew were ea beast the vend ta he la minas ler de-
part," nem, Iliaffill eon& net night, the Ceaneedare
fillfelkindoli nedved a latestaphle mem" seat* that
the royal rata would praised boat th• Costliest through
the Channel to 0.11011111. The coder br tie deporting of the
Maar Alice was, thenfore, onateranaded.

Wannzus, Amon 30.—Tb• Queen bee been
Owed to &set Were patent to be peeled Oder the Greet
Sea, greatteit the dignity of a Knight of the I:Talts4 /tar
deat of Gnat Bekaa sad Inked oats Freida lisibra,
peg.. Mee s depilate la the Ith Regiment of M. LIB
Cevetry.—Oes.tte.

Prises Louis Ludes Boattparte left the Union
Rotel, lalwases, as Saturday arerataa.
It is now stated that the Bishop of Ox ford has
ladaeseed to Mr. Greeley, that an inquiry will take pier
lottathe Bayne Hal otairellosal ore. " The faquiry le to
be Itaited to the elopie.qesetion es to whether the it
name mode revoods. Mr. Ciresiey's curate, in coenction
whit the MIMI 041110 MOM has so ohms of late apposed is
die palate joss* Is at be sot ilelliC4."

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