The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

ROYAL 311171311 BANZ

A nierting of shareholders of the Royal_ British
house, for the purport
receiving
Bask wse held yesterday evening at the Oulldholiseni Coffee-
of a report dem the gnses
as to the number of abandsolders wholed subscribed le the
completion Mace the lest meeting.
On the motion of Mr. OILLOT, Mr. WILD, of Charing-
arms, one of the trade aesiguess, took the chair.
Mr. RADOM° reed the following statement:
" The total number of shams held by persons who are
sllwri to be liable as members of the cempiairim
1,000 of which formed the original issue, 2,000
and third issue, made under the Brinkmanl chaster, aid
time are also 129 shares subscribed for towards • berth
isse of 1,000 sharaibil.the subsaibers for these shams sot
only deny their , but claimrespect to be creditors pier the
emsents deposited by of suching Ths
4000 Mena shares are held by 123 who me alio
the hoiden, in addition, of 767 shams, part of the mooed and
thief issues. The remaiaiug 1,243 shams (making up the
2,000 shares issued wader then oupplemeatal chewier) an Mint
by 168 person, who are not, asidher have they at any lime
Mee, the holders of original in end they timed= claim
te be in the same position am Mr. Birdmen who, ender the
Amnion of the Vice.Chaseellor Ilindenley, is not liable m a
eralribetory, whatever may be kM liability to creak's. It
may not be oat of place here to state that Mr. Bankroll is
KM willing to contribute the sum offered by him se • com-
promise previous to that doilies. The total nemberof pans
who bald shares at the lime the bank stopped payment was
261, but of them 17 prams Warm 296 have since bosom
either beskrapt or insolvent; and there ire 13 other pram
boklas 80 shares, who havieg tessera sa stir mew le
purchasing these shares do not to be 4 • position to
conteilags. The circular of the as game. was duly dirwardel
to the lest known eddies's' of the sharehokters, sr to their
solicitors, together with • form, which they ware directed to
lit up and Mem, sad the kallowing is the rank :—lace 119
=eawho hold the remaissing 617 sheen, no office Imo
rsesived. The total amount offered towards the fond
roguing ke the compromise Leta to
is 86,8904.28.4 d. ;
but Maws& as the pantie deka to set off 8,800/. le. 4d. for
ersoomes paid by them towards the deposit fend, 2,0001. paid
by the. to the official emigres, 6,6474 14e. 7d. for amounts
paid by them to the official manager, 7,0011. 17e 2d. for
sesonnis obtained from them by creditors, 10,0046.12 x. 44.
for the balances due to them as customers of the brak. the
sum molly available for the commons will be shout 66,0004
The list ccateining the names of thoseshandsoldere hem whom
no offers have been received his been gone through very
ces=i with a view of amerhdnlng what briber ma may
be and I have had the assistaaos of emend 1111110.
holders (who have made inquiries es to the mem of the
purges, in estimating an most, which may reams* be
evaded hum sack. An sesomment has been meads in 86
cams, 927 'bane, and there are good grenade to believe that
the strisetrke rum to be obtained from them will not be km
than . Three lams together would eat i* the com-
position. ' (Hear, hear.)
A propositton was =de and acceded to, that Mr. Harding,
accompanied by Meese. °Blot end Mitchell, should retire to
mothr roam to reeve proposals.

Dueled tack eheeneer"-
A SMAIIIIHOLDIM demanded whet the case= wen
frothy the realisation of Mr. Humphry Brown's semailies
Mr. Hviernar Hamra rose, sod delivered • tether rem-
Mktg address, which was Mimed to with miniket signs el
Iseparisece. He wee uaderstood to tandems the scheme of
composition m impracticable He propound to get a subearip-
don of 180,0001. from the sMashol • but whet were they
to do with those who relined to give scything?
Question.") With respect to the mine of his own
his ships had already gam thew* the
heads ef eight lava; and eliipbroires, and it would
be • wonder if come oat of smolt aa ordeal
with even a " keine' left. A laugh.) Ths emealor;
was proceeding, but was hatrespied by el of " Q
and " Quite enough of Mr. Brown.") He would =Md
that if the assignees we,. to oiler to withdraw the Intended
proosention ha should &Mae the osal.
Mr. HARDING (who had rMurne stated that during his
abort ahem* he had received new proposals to the amount
of 11,7001. (Chews.) Mr. Stapleton bad proposed to give
4,0001., bales the only director who bad offeredany contri-
bution. (Heari hear.) lie understood that former share•
holders would give AWOL, so that altogether the sum now
mitecribed was 107,7001. (Loud cheers.) He thought he
might add that the reossisdar would meet probably be ob-
tained. (Chem.)
A SHAREHOLDER mo;gmbed that the sitheeribars should
be allowed to pay is as they came up, and realm their MUNI
at once. Their going then antraget their litytkom wadi
have a marvellous effect in easling up others. fflear.)
The CHAIRMAN said that the aesigame would inveetigate
the act, and would in the shortest possibbi time meet the
sbusteoldees again, prepared to give evilly man who paid his
Medal ege. (Load ohms.)
Mr. Lewis said that the coon alreedy obtained,
to Mr. Headieg's statement, would pay 4. In ti:ecc°=r.
Whet were the assignees going to do with that P Would sot
the creditors expect a dividend ? What emus could the
osignese offer to the creditors if they did sot close with the
present proposal
MR. LINK LATHS defended the assignees, and mid that
2T 0001. of the estimate wee conducted on the whole 180,000 J.
subsaibed. They had setnally only MOO=
me-third of the whole sad meld not meet the
with that am. _ . .

Mr. IlLaiwski. recefitulated the cireamstannes that bad
led to the present meeting, and said that the proved had
muse from the sharsholdas, and that they must carry it out
On the motion of Mr. OEOOI, Mr. Harding was directed
to communicate with the shareholders who ware still Minding
out, stating the promising position of the arrangausent, and
urging them to come forward; and Mews. Taylor, Ofllot,
and Mitchell (shareholders) were, on the motion of Mr. Low-
rance, nominated to co-operate with him.
The proceedings were then adjourned to that day three
weeks, same hour and place, the chairman expreedng hie
hope that by that time the megrims would be able to Mir
every man his release.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the procesi-
inp terminated.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 1857.—The following is
a list of the candidates who have weed the recent second ex-
amination for the degree of beas, of medicine First din-
lion—Francis Edmund Amnia, King's College; Erma
Thomas Hood, 8.A., Queen's College Birmingham ; Uriah
Perrin Brairia, 8.A., Guy'. Hospital; Thomas Buzzard,
Hinds College ; Arthur John Cribb, Middlesex Hospital ;
John Lanpriere De In Garde, St. Bartholomew's Hospital;
fit, John Edwards, University College; James Farms,
University College ; William Tilbury Fox, University Col-
lege; Samuel thlea, 8.A., Gay's Hospital; William Price
Jones, University College; Jan Zechariah Lama Uni-
versity College; George William Law=ent's College;
Alfred Meadows, King's College; F con, Guy's
Hospital; William Mr. Ord, St. Thomas's Hospital ; John
Liana Pecan, Hing's Collage; Walter Bennett Ram-
botham, University Colima; Michael Thomas Sadler, 8.A.,
St. Bartholomew's Hospital; William Turner, St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital; Thomas James Welker, University of
Edinburgh ; Antony Whitford, King's College; Frederick
William Wilson, Westminster Hospital. Second divines—
Henry Carniey, Hull end East Riding ; Michael Catena,*
University College ; Charles James Devonshire,King's College; Henry Many Thaddeus King, King's
College; Amman. Prat, Hinds Collage ; Henry Montague
Demean Smith, University College; John Way, King's
College.
FATAL FALL DomteSTAlne—A fatal cioetarenee
took place on Tuesday morning, at Lady Sophia Hoeu-e's, in
Queen-square, Westminster. In the absentia of the family,
the butler, Edward Merry, Invited his brother, John Mary,
coachman to Mr. May, of 00, Chester-s9uare, Pimlico, to
spend the evening with him, together with some friends.
Between two and three o'clock in the meaning the party
broke up, and were separating for their respective homes,
when John Merry fell head foremost over the woad floor
banisters, and down a well staircase into this hall below. The
unfortunate man was taken to Westminster Hospital, when
it was found he had received a dreadful scalp wound, with
coactunion on the brain. The OW wit hopekee, and, after
great walkatag, he expired the rum efternoon.
PANIC AND EXCITUIRNE IN Tsmnesorx—On
Thursday last, the fair day in Timbers, • good deal of ex-
citement wee calmed exiting out of the following 4:imm-
inence A threatening letter had been received by the
head of en Orange Lodge, and as well as I can gather it
called upon the master of the lodge to meet this anonymous
t with either 1,000 or 2,000 Orangemen on
the of the sth instant in conflict. The letter was
through the poet-Mike, came to the ears of the
etestatelesp, and by them was Manumitted to the authori-
ties. Mother doonment of like impart was also received
by resew in a different direction of the country,
hes been consequently kept in a state
of disquiet end slum, and the peaceable inhabitants
were obliged to @apply themselves with ems and am-
munition, and are, and have been for some time, in nightly
expectance of en attack. Such being the &egoists& mists of
the serrownding neighbourhood, a crisis was coefiriently ex-
pected on the evening of the sth. About twilight the sound
of a drew was heard to echo from the entrance to the town.
In en ineent every one ran in the direction of the town.
The drumesdng party were met by a body of the pollee, under
leselecestsbis Scott, of Portadown who it le tote presumed
warmed thee of the Impropriety of their proceedings. How-
ever they bast the drum down and up the town, end a great
crowd followed them ; they ultimately departed the way they
cams in, without may further disturbanoo. The tows was
then allowed to remain in a state of treaqtalllty never before
experienced on the fair night of Tandrages.—lktfart

nut.
=POOL, WEDNESDAT.—The United States
Mail atessa-ehip Atlantic, Captain 0. Minden, we this
afternoon for Now York with this United States mails, a
brie number of passengers, but small cargo. The anew
iblar"hiP AhWoM Captain fisti=sail tomb/hes
this for Portland, HAW, sad X

, snores OP LANBZ7Z-111. ROUPILL AND

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Last arming a densely crowded meeting of.the
°Woes of Lambeth was hold In the large ball-room at the
Horne Taws, Komingtan, to receive from W. Rouge%
Beilljt.:. for the borough, in account of Dia stewardship.
those present were Messrs. P. Doulton, J.
Thweites (Chairman of the Metropolitan Board), T. Webber,
Me._ . . . _

Kr. T.Winum was unanizeonaly called to the chair, sad,
after a few remarks, introduced
Mr. W. Roorati., who, on coming forward, was loudly
obeyed. He stated ea this was the first public meeting since
his election he begged to tender his thanks for his return
the 9,318 who voted for him, u well se to aB who
aided such return. It had teen said that • meta-
-1 polite!' member most be a talking, member but he
went to parliament more with a view to a
naefid member. (Hear, bear.) He bad, however, been much
retarded in his efforts by the petition presented against hie
return, for he had found it necessary to contest it step by
step, not for himself weedy, but because the honour of the
borough was at stake. (Her, hear.) He had been diesels.
fled that no measure of ?dens was brought tonna, and
also buena. Mr. Betioday's motion for the ballot heti been
ausaceessful, sad also that Lord John Russell had defined
himself stroascappord to that memene. He then eluded
MLocke s melba on the subject, sod also to the
of poor-rates, and he (Kr. Romped)
jeci2leicsedmarthellboth.vaa iirbz.....-.:lieth.:l,,hll:kwil.terik ob.
ma's reisenre. (Hear, )He also objected to it uPcp:
morel mole; for is did not wish the manfae tt
to be held so hen ea an the Condemn. (Mere.)
He rid the Bill. (A Woke—. Hear,
hear.' He that Hear, hese was from a govern-
ment ( sad binghtei.) Thee threaten= wee,
were they to have the Reform Bill, the ballot P—(yea, yee)—
equalindsa of eleciond distriels—(hear hear)—and • abort-
ening of thedtustion of parliaments, because short reckon-
ings make hag friends. (Hear, hear.) He objected to large
liniteries big under the control of a joint-stock company—
the Hudson's Bay Company, which was no benefit to this
country. He then, =Met loud cheering, adverted to the
favoureble news noshed from India with regard to Delhi,
Lucknow, &c. He regretted, however, to have to state the
lens of two brave enme—Generals Neill and Nicholson. He

Lit that if the attention of the people of England
bad been more early called to the question, the greet
calamity would hors been avoided. (Hear, bear.)
To show the ignorance and indifference to such teatime, he
would state that ha once went to the house under the ice-
Mkathat he should Ind some interest in a debate on
which hod been annoanced, but was told at the doors
not to go in, en thay we 'deg to have a "count ash"
(" Hem, bar," and Vmehnie.) He hoped that now the day
of retribalka yea memeralting no ra-tayshae or weal of
ocefidance would prevent martial law being prcelainted and
carried out all load be same (Hear, hoar.) Let a
tax bey on ail India to deny the expenses of the war
laMesJ of taxies the people of Ragland. (Chests.) That
giant monopoly the Rest India Company meet be swept
away. (Ramered abaseing.) There must be no budding to
Hided= re ether forma of religion. The rule in India must
be ebouseeedied by rime Gramm and consistency. He must
madman Laid Canning for not hanging the mutineers, bat
Hiirtthe preen feted. (" Hear, bear' and "shame I ")
' air end on erticie ham a Calcutta newspaper which
bad boast saapended in cceasquenoe of that article, with
whit& all agreed, /or no doubt the intereeta of India been
in a great degree sacrificed by a timid policy. He would
sending out commission of bold and honest mm,
mist
en Colonel Tulloch and Sir John billeill—(hear,
bar)—for they emoseded in exposing the defects of oar
smithery system. He concluded by thanking them for their
attention, and, intimating his readiness to =ma any gum-
drys, sat down amidst enthusiastic cheering.

lieriewer to questions,
Xr. 'Unsaid. maid he objected to the Divorce Bill upon
easy ground, sod would remind every man that when he
wait home he would have to fats his wife, and be would say,
ask her. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) With regard to
reform, he was prepared to go much further than the govern-
ment would go. He was in favour of household sad adult
mange, and if the government would not go so far as be, be
would move an amendment, hike could do any good. (" Hew,
hear," and laughter.) With regard to Loni R. Grosvenor's
measure for throwing the expellees of elections upon the
public, he was somewhat interested, for he had found that it
oast nearly as much to defend a teat as to gain one (and he
had not reasived a dulling from those who had opposed his
seat). Well, if the public liked to re-imburse him be could
only say he would pocket the affront. (" liar, hear," and
bir.II.NIGHT asked what was Mr. Roupelrs opinion aa to
the repeal slum Bank Charter Act, which he introduced by
alluding to the present comma:tat crisis; and also as to die
operations of the Metropolitan Board with regard to the pro-
Famed expenditure 46,600,0001.
Mr. Roursia. said the Bank Charter Act was a proteetkm
for the poor man. It bad been the saving of the country.
He would attain/y, with respect to the main drabi
scheme, watch the measures of that board. He vronidT
glad to sin it effected, but not too hastily, but they bad a
right to consider drat where the money was to come from.
Kr„Gliaor moved a resolution approving the explanations
did?. Houpall, and expressive of saitetion at that gentle-
mtery career. In a long and humorous
=sad amidst muds laughter, ho condemned the
of the Howe of Commons, and pointed out the
nacemity for reform, declaring himself in favour of universal
=; but if they could not get that, he would urge two
points, the ballot and ebortening the duration of
parliament.
Mr. GODDLRD seconded the motion, which was carried
amidst tremendous applause.
Mr. Roes nit, in a brief but eloquent speech, returned
thanks.
Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, the pro-
ceedings dosing with thanks to the chairman, and three
hearty cheers for Mr. Hearth

A DAY WITII NINA SAHIB.—Here, sat the ma-
harajah on • Turkey carpet, and reclining slightly on •
huge bolster. In front of him were hie hookah, a sword, sad
several nosegay.. His highness rose, came forward, took my
head, led me to the carpet, end begged of me to be seated on
a canabottomed arm-chair, which had evidently been placed
reedy for my emporia ease and occupation. . . . A hookah is
called for by the rajah; and then at Inset a down voices re-
peat the order: " Hookah !so Sehib keweets" (bring ahooksh
for the Sahib). Presently the hookah is brought in. It is
rather a grand affdr, but old, and has evidently belonged to
some Eurocrat of extravagant habits... While I am pulling
away at the hookah, the musahibs, or favourites of the rajah,
fetter me In very audible whispers. " How well he smokes!"
" What • fine towhead he has l" " And hie eyes I how
they sparkle!" "No wonder he is PO clever ! . "He will
be governor-general some day," " thuds-kerbs! " (God
will have it so). . , . Native Rajah (in a loud voice),
Moonstwo!" Monahan (who is close at hand). " Mahe-
raj, Protector of the Poor." Native Rajah. " Bring the
petition that I have laid before the Oovernor-General."
The Moorhen produces the petition, and at the instance of
the Raj* nada, or rather longs it aloud. The Rajah
listens with Omura to its recital of his own wrong., end I
Sfied to be estounded that so much injustice can possibly
exist. During my rambles in India, I have been the 'wet
of name worse of rajahs, gnat and small ; and I never
knew one who had not • grievance. He had either been
the
aguigovne:rtument, or
hfm.hlity ju
the te,o virhoee
the
government, it was a sheer love of oppression that
led to the evil of which he complained; in the matter of the
ledge, that funotionary had been bribed by the other party.
It wee with great difficulty that I kept my eyes open-while
the petition—a very long one—was read aloud. Shortly
after it was debated, I craved permission to retire, and was
conducted by a bearer to the sleeping-room. . . . The
Maharajah invited me to accompany him to Cawupore. I
acquiesced, and the carriage was ordered. The carriage
English built—a very handsome landau—end the
were English horses; but the harness I It was country.
made, of the very commonest kind, and worn out; for one
of the tram was apiece of rope. The coachman was filthy
in his dress, and the whip that he carried in his hand was
as old broken buggy-whip, which acme European gentle-
men mast have thrown away. On the box, on either ride
of the mach..., sat a warlike retainer, armed with a sword
and • dagger. In the ramble were two other te-
tanus armed in the same manner. Besides the
Rajah and myself there were three other. (natives and re-
lams of the Rajah) in the vehicle. On the road the RAJA
talked incessantly, and =moot other things that he told ins
wasthie—in reference to the =doe that I bestowed on
kis equipege Not tour ago I had a carriage and horses
very superior to these. They cost me twenty-See thousand
rvpw ; but I bad to burn the carriage and kill the home."
" Why so r. "The child of osrtain sahib in Cawnpore
wee very rick, and the sal and the memsahib were
bringing the child to Bbitoor for a change of sir.
I seat my big carriage for them. On the road
the child died; sad, of course, as a dead body had
been la the carriage, sad as the horses had drawn that
deed body in that carriage, I could never use them again."
Tbe near must wedernand that • native of any rank
comiders it a disgrace to sell property. " But could you not
have given the home to same- friend—a Christian or • Mua-
mhos& t" No; .' had I do= so, it might have come to the
knowledge of the Sahib, and his feelings would have been
hart at having madonna ma each a Ines ." Buck wee the
Malmnialt commonly known as Nene Sahib. He appeared
to be am • soon of ability, nor a tool. He was selfish, but
what native is not ? He seemed to be far from a bigot in
matters of religion ; and, although he was oompalled to be so
very maikalar about the destruction of his carriage sad
borer, I am quite satisfied that he drank brandy, and that
he smoked hemp in the chillum of hie hookah.—Ditkimes
Herseheid Merle.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOII 12.

Tag story of the relief of Lucknow will form one of
the brightest pages in the annals of British heroism.
HAVZLOCX had to fight his way from the frontier of
Oude, with only 2,300 men, through a country in which
every man was in arms against him, and every town,
village, and hou.-e had been converted into a fort-
ress. There was but one practicable road along
which he could advance ; on either side of it there
was nothing but a succession of quagmires. The
bridges over the intervening riven—swollen at this
season to their utmost magnitude—had been blown
up; and on the further banks were entrenched dis-
ciplined regimt nts, far outnumbering his small
band of Englishmen, with an ample ripply of
heavy artillery in position. These means of
obstruction—natural and artificial—must have
been turned to account with a will ; far the reliev-
ing party took six days to advance the fifty-
three miles of di,tancs from the beak of the Gasps
opposite C.awnpore to Lackeow. The enduring
valour of the besieged is equally admirable with
that displayed by their liberators. Through three
weary months they bad resolutely repelled assaults
from overwlselnaug odds, in improvised entrench-
ments, with very inadequate supplies of everything
that was necessary for defence and the support of
existence. Yet, borne up by their own high hearts, '1
and by their faith in the anxiety of their country-
men for their n!ief, no feeble wailing was heard,
though the women and children outnumbered
the fighting men ; while the counter-attacks

of the garrison repeatedly made the as-
sailants reel backward in dismay, and afforded op.
portunity to drive into the Residency the herd• and
ether stores of provisions collected by the mutineers.
Every nerve h iv been strained to the utmost both by
ear helmeted countrymen, and by those who have
hoed lair way through hostile myriads to relieve
diem. One day—perhaps a few hours—lover, and
Mt probably the unsurpassed passive mad active
anion displayed on both sides would have proved
alarming. The mines of the assailing force had
been advanced beyond the lines of defence, sad a
short time would have sees the extemporind
bal-
warks of the Resideaey blown into the air, and
the iaferiated Sepoys, sad their yet some brutal
abstain tram the Arian, pouring over the rain
to overw►elm the defeseelsos inmates. We reed
this iienoweneent and draw a long breath of relief
at the close, as if we ourselves had just made
some hair-bre-oth wipe. But act • moment
is left us to pause on this reflection. We are
immediately hurried on by the tale which tells
bow English promptitude and resolution forthwith
sionmed the arsvemi,e, and pot the assailants on
their own defence. On the 25th of September
the Residency was catered by the succouring
force ; an t►e 2tith the eetreochasents of the
bekagsering army were stormed ; and during
the neat three days the foe was drives from
sae past after another through the narrow and
tortuous streets of Incknow. Further we know
set. At the last mamma to which our information
is brought des o the greater part of the city had
fears loathe pp...canna of our troops, and doubt-
ths rest would soon follow.

At Dalai Gement %Vases bad displayed tie suss
isdispeasable qualities of a traly peat aseassader--

the, kaowledge th st the mat briber victories are
mainly rateable as the near to ulterior operations,
rider asithiterirg readiness to tarn them to such
assouat. No sooner =a Delhi completely in his
beads than two moveable error were despatched,
emedowa the left and the other down the right
bask mf the 11111114, in possait of the fugitives. At
the dote of the latest accoants the former had
lush= the vieiaity of Allyghar, the latter of
Illatra. They bad allowed " no gram to grow at
" their smarairre heels." The party which mom=
thoiammabad =do snot =important captor. The
phantasm me area and hie principal =eta bad bees
mode primmer by it ; their worthier lives bad he..
spared, probably is otintesapture pity of their imber-
eile old age, and from a Bogeying suspicion that they
might have been mere pamive puppets in the beads
of others. Ba, n.. misjudging leniency hod pleaded
ler two eons and a grandson of the Nino, who she
became prisonms. They were shot without ear-
=my, and their bodies sent to Delhi, and there ex-
posed to public give at the Police-Aloe. The mast
overweening Prince' and Priests of India have tans
been waned that the life of the meanest British sub-
ject is se valuable in the eyes of England and its
ruler as those of the most far-dew:ended or the most
confident pretsoder to priestly sanctity; and that
no worldly elevation or conseeratrn can avail
say or who has takes, or been scenery to the
taking el, Use life daily Eaglishman.
The capture of Delhi, and the relief of the Rea-
deney Si Leeknow, are events the importance of
which =met be exaggerated. They will teach the

Natives of all India—from the momstair of Affghan-
totals to the mountains of Ettrasah, sad from the
Himalaya to the sea—that they are unable to shake
tithe yoke of the few thousand& of Englishmen
thinly scattered among their millions. These death-
blows, stayed' at the two most vital parts of the re-
' volt, hams been dealt without any 'cassia° of
strength from England, and, we may add, with little
sf assistance from the local Bnpreme Government.
All elbstaal communioation between Calcutta and

die region beyond Delhi has been cut off since the first
esallneak of the mutiny. Not a farthing, not
a maa has been obtained in the way of re-informs.
meet from Calcutta by the men who have taken
I /elhi, and are opening paths through hosts of foes
to the southward and eastward with their own saline
and bayonets. The witless promptly organised
and pushed forwards by the Oovernors of Bombay
and Madras hare not yet been able to advance
beyond the declivities of the Vindhaya. What has
been accomplished to the west of the Jumna has
been the unaided work of Ls w Rene, WILSON, the
lamented NICUOLtON, and their sagacious, and
gallant co-adjutors in the council and in the field.
The reinforcements from without, which had
reached Bengal when Lucknow was rescued, consisted
exclusively of the troops intercepted on their way to
China—and of these the smallest portion only had
been forwarded to the interior.

But the victory has been dearly bought. Folly
one-third of the brave men who stormed Delhi were
killed or wounded in the assault ; how many were
added to this list of casualties, in the fighting of the
next six days, we have yet to learn. Upwards of
4.50 (out of 2,500) were put hers da rumba! in the
amok upon the rebel entrenchments and the city of
Lucknow ; how many more may have sunk on the
march from Cawnpore we know not. There will be
many a fluttering and anxious heart till the names
of the gallant dead are known. Of two we are
already but too certain. New., who quelled the
incipient mutiny at Benarea, who re-established
oar ascendancy at Allahabad, who organised the
advance upon Cawnpore and Lucknow, after his
brilliant and sleepless struggle of four months,
sleeps the sleep of death on the red field of
Lacknow. NICHOLSON, who turned the tide of battle
at Nujufgbur, and was foremost in the tumult upon
Delhi, his also closed his splendid career. The brief,
arduous, glorious campaign, which, in so far as
these gallant soldiers are concerned, has been
crowned by their deaths, was a worthy consumma-
tion of two honourable careers. There are many
still alive in the land of WALLACE who remember
Naltx, a bright-eyed, reckless schoolboy, and have
watched with interest his progress to distinction
through the campaigns in Hannah. There are
veterans who, whenever the name of NICHOLsON has
been mentioned, have fondly recalled the young
ensign, ever foremost in danger at Jellalabad, who
bore with buoyant spirits alike the triumph of the
successful sortie and the depression of the capitula-
tion, till a rude Affghan snatched his mother's
miniature from his neck, when the gallant boy burst
into tears. As deer as honoured, the memories of
both will long survive ; their names will continue
to be household words throughout our land as long
as a recollection survives of the death struggle for
empire of 18,5 in Ilindustau.

The Loudon General Omnibus Company have just
held their first meeting in London. We are not
going into the facts and figures presented at that
meeting, with any view of asccrtaininChow far they
affect the interests of the proprietary. Our sole
object is to make oat upon the face of the Company's
own statements to what degree the metropolitan
public has benefited, or is likely to benefit, by the
operations of the Company. With reference to this
object, the Report may be considered under three
points of view : the improvements made, or making,
in the existing omnibuses ; the degree to which the
correspondence system has been carried out; the
prospects held forth of new and improved methods
of transit.

With regard to the first point, the Company, it
appears, are in possession of no less than 600 omni-
buses Of this number, 131 hare had the roofs raised
so as to give 6 fort standing height inside; the yen-
, tilation of these vehicles has, we are assured, been
increased ; they have been thoroughly repaired and
repainted, and the roof, seats, approaches, and rails
greatly improved. Forty others are undergoing
dialler repairs. Eighty-cme entirely new carriages
art at work, and thirty-one are in course of con-
streetion. Of the 600 omnibuses, therefore,
possessed by the Company, about half are
more or lets improved, the other half re-
main absolutely as they were. With regard
to the general nature of the improvements
thus effected, we are told in the Report that
" an omnibus having a much wider track than the
" original vehicle, vii., 6 feet to 61 feet, cannot be
worked with advantage" in the London streets ;
the object, therefore, has been to construct a carriage
" which will give greater space inside without
" materially increasing the size outside." In carry-
ing out these improvements, it has been found ad-
vantageous " to fiz the side windows and introduce
" ventilation liberally in the roof, so that draughts
" and dust may be entirely avoided." So far, so
good. We are quite ready to admit that public
opinion, through the medium of the press,
has been brought to bear with some effect on the
Company. There is great room for improvement still,
yet somuhing appreciable has been done. About
half the public conveyances in the hen& of the
Company are no longer in the discreditable state in
which they once were. The salutary influence of
public comment, and of such competition as fortu-
nately still remains, has effected thus much; but it
is not very creditable to the Company to hare to
admit that they have not as yet proceeded farther.
Not one of their improved vehicles makes any ap.
preach, in point of convenience and comfort, to the
Saloon Omnibuses of the rival Company, and until
this is the case the London Association cannot be
I allowed to take credit for having done their duty by
the London public.
They have a better claim to the thanks of omnibus
travellers in the system of Correspondence, which,
however imperfect, they have yet been the first to
establish. Correspondence Offices, we are informed,
have been opened at Whitechapel, Bishopsgate-
street, Cheapside, Regent-circus, Edgware-road, and
Notting-hill Gate. "By means of these offices pas-
" stagers by 642 of the Company's omnibuses have
" the opportunity of changing to any other omnibus
" of the Company passing the offieedeor." The
number of passengers who availed themselves
of this arrangement daring the week satin
the 3rd of October was, it seems, 22,482. This
represents, unquestionably, a considerable =mat if

public accommodation, and implies a corresponding
reductios is the coarse of transit between the more
distant kicelities. We are inclilied to agree with
the Report la estimating this as one of the principal
advantages which the public have yet gained from
the development of the new enterprise.
But a still further improvement is projected. As
everybody knows, in some of the great continental
and American cities, in Paris and Lyons, New York
and Boston, monster omnibuses capable of carrying
from 60 to 80 peasengers each, are worked on tram-
ways. Two horses draw these vehicles with great
facility at • speed of from eight to ten miles
an hoar. In the crowded thoroughfares of the mare
central parts of London the construction of such
tramways appears to be hopelessly out of tho ques-
tion ; bat there is no reason why the plan should
not be tried on the suburban lines of road. The
Report of the London General Omnibus Company
accordingly proposes that a cam of 60,0001. should
be appropriated from the capital of the 'Company,
and devoted to the formation of such a tramway, on
• line commencing at Notting-hill Gate, and canning
thence along the Grand Junction-road, the New-
road, the City-road, and Moorgate-atreet, to the
Bank. We have nothing to do with the question
whether this outlay of capital would or would
not be a remunerative one to the shareholders.
We rather think that, in the long run,- It
would. But there can be little doubt that it
would in many ways servo the interests of the
metropolitan public. It would be a considerable
improvement to the state of our thoroughfares if
one vehicle and two horses could be made to do the
work of four vehicles and eight horses. The de-
crease iu the working expenses consequent on the
change would lead, after the first cost of effecting it
had been replaced, to a considerable reduction of
fares, and the increased amplitude of the carriage'
would of course furnish facilities for improved
accommodation. At all events, as representing
the interests of the public, we my let the experi-
ment be fairly tried. If the proprietary of the
General Omnibus Company are inclined, in these
hard times, to vote 60,0001. in trying this
scheme, they are entitled to the thanks of the public
in thus constituting themselves the pioneers of every
considerable metropolitan improvement—one which
is pretty certain to be attempted by others, if not
undertaken by the Company, and which in these
days of progressive development cannot much longer
be delayed.

The working expenses of the existing vehicles
are something enormous. The avenge earn-
ings of each of the 560 omnibuses which
are kept at work throughout the year in the
service of the Company amount to 21. 19s. 6jd.
a day, and the average cost of work-
ing tow less than 21. 13s. 51d., leaving 6s. Id. per
day as the net profit per omnibus. The gross re-
ceipts far the six months ending on the Ith of July
were 308,4121. 125., and the gross working expenses
276,906/.64.8d. The net profit to divide, after add-
ing a small balance from 1858, amounts to
31,5811. 4a. Id., which, after paying 5 per cent. on
the paid-up capital, leaves a balance in hand of about
5401. As already intimated, we have no intention of
entering into any discussion as to the prospects
held out to the shareholders on the face of this
Report, even assuming that implicit reliance is
to be placed on the strict accuracy of its statements.
Of this, however, there can be no doubt, that the
interests of the Company and of the public will, in
the long run, be found identical. Watched by the
press, urged on to fresh exertions by that wholesome
competition which will, it is to be hoped, increase
instead of diminishing, this Company may yet sub-
serve the interests of the Metropolis to a degree
which, without these conditions, it would be chi-
merical to expect.