The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

711 E FREE GRANTS OF LAND IN CANADA.

We have, for the information of persons about to emi-
grate to Canada, caused to be marked on the map issued
as a supplement to our publication of this date, the site
of the free grants of land which the Canadian Government
are now offering for settlement. They are situated to the
west of the Ottawa river, and are accessible either from
that river at " Bonne Chere Point," 50 miles above Ottawa
City, from Napanee, a station of the Grand Trunk Rail.
way, 26:miles west of Kingston, and from Belle Ville
(marked on the map B' 21 miles west of Napanee.
Three main roads are now in course of construction, at
the:cost of the Government, through these districts, and
it is on these roads that the free grants are given. The
first of these is called the " Ottawa and Opeonaga Road,"
(accessible from Bonne Chere Point, on the Ottawa).
The local Government agent for the lands on this road is
Mr. J. P. French. He resides at Mount St. Patrick,
county -of Renfrew. The second is the " Addington
Road" (accessible from Napanee). The government
agent for this district is Mr. Perry, whose residence is at
the village of Flint Mills, county of Addington. The third
is the " Hastings Road" (accessible from Belle Vile).
The Government agent here is Mr. W. P. Hayes, who
resides at Hastings, in the county of that name.
These lands are equal to any in the whole province for
farming purposes. They are capable of producing abun-
dant crops of winter wheat of excellent quality and full
weight, and also first rate crops of every other description
of farm produce such as are grown in the best and longest
cultivated districts in that part of the country. When
fully populated they will be capabie of sustaining in
comfort and happiness eight millions of people.
Water for domestic use is everywhere abundant, and
there are besides, numerous streams and falls of water,
capable of being used for manufacturing purposes.
Each grant is for 100 acres, for which application must
be:made to any of the local agents named above, who are
required by the Government to fu-niih the fullest infor-
mation to all parties applying for it. The intending
settler may be a native of any country, but he must be at
least eighteen years of age. He is required to take
possession of the land alloted to him within one month,
and to build a house (at 20 by 18 feet). He must put into
a state of cultivation at least twelve acres of his land in
the course of four years, as well as reside on the lot during
that period. The Government having made the roads,
the settlers have to keep them in repair. These several
conditions being complied with, the settler will receive
from the Government, free of all cost, the title deeds of his
property. If a family comprising several settlers, entitled
to lands, prefer to live on a single lot, the Government
accords permission to do so, provided that the condition
of bringing twelve acres of land into cultivation on each
lot within four years be complied with. Failure to per-
form the'foregoing requirements of the Government, will
will cause the immediate loss of the assigned lot of land.
Their fulfilment puts the holder in possession of a freehold
estate, over which he and his family can ever afterwards
exercise the fullest rights of property, without further
restriction or condition of any sort.
According to the ratio of progress which Canada has
made, during the last ten years, the value of land, on an
average, doubles within that period. The enhanced
value, it should be remembered, is acquired irrespective
of any improvements made by settlers. In many counties
its value has increased five told in ten years.
In the last session of the Canadian Parliament, a cern-
pany was incorporated for the construction of a railway,
which will run right through the centre of these free grants,
and a survey has just been completed by the Government,
the object of which is to ascertain by what means the
River 0 taws, can be rendered navigable, and connected
with Lake Huron, so as to enable vessels of large tonnage
to pass by that route, from the north-western water to
unite the River St: Lawrence, and thence to the Atlantic
ocean. It will thus be seen that the attention of the
Government, the Parliament, and the People of Canada
have been fixed to this important portion of the Province.
It is now necessary to state that no one should be led
into the belief that he can enter into the possession of one
of these free grants without having some capital ; this is
a mistake that should at once be corrected, if it exist in
the mind of any intending emigrant. Mr. French, the
Government crown lands agent at St. Patrick's Mount, in
his letter to the Bishop of Ottawa, dated the sth of
December, 1856, considering that an emigrant's family
will consist of five, of whom three will be young children,
enumerates allist of articles which he mast take with him.
These include provisions for one year, at a cost of
£4l 12s. 6d. currency; seed, at a cost of £4 2s. 6d.; and
other necessaries, comprising cooking utensils and the
usual requirements of a humble family (including a pig),
at a cost of •elO 7s. Id., snaking a total of 4'56 2s. cur-
rency, equal to about £45 sterling. The purchase of
provisions for a whole year in advance, might, perhaps,
be dispensed with, but it is certain that no one
with a wife and three young children should take up a
grant with a less available sum than i'3o sterling, as even
with £45, he will have to work at a lumbering establish-
ment for four months during his first winter, for which,
however, he will earn, say, '42, and he will be at no
expense except :for his clothing, as he is found at these
establishments both in provisions and washing.
Having reached his allotment, his first duty is to clear
about au acre of land, and, this done, to build his house
or " shanty.'
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The house (composed of logs of timber) can be put up
in four or five days by five men. The neighbours univer-
sally help to build it for newly arrived settlers without
charge, and the only cost of erection consists in feeding
the neighbours when so empinyed. The roof is covered
with bark, and when the spaces between the logs are filled
in with clay, and the whole whitewashed, the emigrant
has a dwelling quite as warm and comfortable as a stone
or brick house.

A workman can fell and "chop " the trees on an English
acre of land into logs of from twelve to fifteen feet in
length in about eight days. A couple of days and a yoke
of oxen, together with five men, are required for piling
the logs, so that they may be all burned at once. A day
is consumed in this operation, and as soon as the land is
cooled it is fit for its first crop, without any other opera-
tion. The ashes must be carefully gathered for disposal,
as explained presently.
The first crop (assuming that the settler gets his land
early in June), on his first cleared acre, is usually pota.
toes. The wife and children can assist him in the opera.
tion of planting them, When this is done, the clearing of
the second acre begins, and should be finished in time to
plant it also with potatoes. About eight acres can be
cleared by an industrious man by the middle of October.
If be can afford to buy a potash kettle and coolers (their
value is about .411 sterling), he can, with a very little
skill, convert the 4SO bushels of ashes which his eight
acres have yielded him, into three barrels of potash, for
which he will receive about -ClB sterling. But as it is
probable that he will not be in a condition to purchase
these articles, he must sell his ashes, which will realise
him, at 3d currency per bushel, about £5.
Fz.A. town mechanic does not make a good settler in the
forest. His habits and tastes unsuit him for the life ;
in addition to which, he can bring his labour and skill to
a better market. He will always be in demand in the
towns and cities at a scale of pay about one-third more
than he received in the old country.
Clerks, and all persons accustomed only to situations
in offices, are likewise unsuited for emigration to the
rural districts.—Canadian News.

NORWICH UNION INSURANCE COMPANY —On Saturday
last a bonus was declared by the Norwich Union Life Office
upon all participating policies. The surplus distributed
was £159,711 53 7d in cash, equal to £260,627 5s 7d in
reversionary additions. It appealed that the policies in
force were 10,132; the sums assured upon all risks,
£3,592,427 133 Id ; that during the preceding five years
insurances had been effected for £1,340,543 15s, and
£1,048,112 3s 31 psi :1 in claims upon deaths—namely,
£864,977 19i 3d sums assured; and £183,134 4s bonuses
thereon.—Times City article of the 9th.

A TRAVELLER OF THE OLD SCHOOL.—A laughable
incident, it is reported, took place at the Weymouth railway
station a few days ago. An old lady, probably not having
seen a locomotive before,- took her seat in one of the
carriages at Dorchester, to come to Weymouth She was
no doubt delighted at the trip and easy riding. On the
train arriving at the terminus the door was opened by one
of the officials, who required her to step out, but the reply
was, "No, I shall not get out, you cheats. I have hardly
seated myself yet; I have paid my fare to go to Weymouth,
and there I will go." "My good woman," was the reply.
" you are now there ; come out and convince yourself."
After a great deal of remonstrance and persuasion, she very
reluctantly relinquished her seat, and stepped on the
platform, and, looking round with astonishment, exclaimed
with great earnestness, " Is this the town of Weymouth ?
Well, sure, this is the devil's own work, and I'll have no
more of ye." So saying, the old lady hastily took her
departure. Sherbourne Journal.
COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR WIGAN.—On Saturday last,
an accident, resulting in the instantaneous death of two
men, named John Hodgkinson, aged 42 years, and Robert
Milnes, 24, occurred in the Lindsay coalmine, at Whalley.
The deceased were employed in repairing the air pipes,
ne it to the top of the shaft of the pit in question, which
he'ongs to the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, when, after
they had been so engaged a short time, the rope by which
the cage in which they were standing was suspended, broke,
and the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a
distance of about sixty yards. In the fall the deceased first
alighted upoa the scaffolding erected at the bottom
of the pit, above what is called the "dib hole" (a
kind of tank for the reception of all the water that usually
flows through a coa'mine, whence it is puttiped out of the
pits at intervals), the temporary covering of which was
broken by the shaft. and the men immersed In the tank,
which was five feet veep in water. Besides the injuries
which the decease l mutt have received in the fall, and the
concussion with the "dib hole" covering, almost the whole
of the rope, which would be several hundred pounds
wci,ght, and which broke near the verticles, fell upon them,
and must have killed them instantaneously. Assistance was
procured immediately after the accident happened, but
upwards of an hour transpired before the dead bodies were
found and removed from the pit to their own homes.

OPPRESSED CONDITION OF THE DRESS-
MAKERS AND MILLINERS.

.1 On Monday night, a very large and influential meeting
was held in the great room of Exeter Hall, for the purpose
of taking measures for the amelioration of the dressmakers
and milliners. J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., presided, and
opened the proceedings by stating that the object of the
meeting was to give assistance to those in distress in the
great millinery and dressmaking establishments in
London. (Hear, hear.) He believed that the interests
of humanity could always be considered with the interests
of trade, and when they had been properly applied,
humanity had been benefitted, and trade had not suffered.
He therefore called upon them in the interests of humanity
to rescue those young females who were taken at a delicate
period of life—say at twelve years old—and put into close
rooms, where they had to work for 16, 18, or 20 hours a
day,tand the result was, the fevered pulse, the languid
eye, and :at last some merciful diseases attacked, and
the grave closed upon them in early life. (Loud cries
of "shame !") The speaker then appealed to the
female portion of the meeting to assist the society in
preventing this evil, and requesting them not to employ
any establishment where those evils took place. The
Bishop of London moved the following resolution:—
" That in the opinion of this meeting, the labour exacted
from assistants in dressmakers' and milliners' establish.
wants, wherever it extends to fourteen, sixteen or eighteen
hours per day, is inconsistent with the health of the
workers, and opposed to the principles of humanity."
Ho said he was glad that the resolution which had been
put into his hands was a self-evident proposition. It did
not require medical men to tell them that late hours were
injurious to the constitution, neither did it need divines to
tell them that snch practices were opposed to morals and
humanity. They (the society) were the best friends to the
persons who employed those girls, in pointing out to them
the heavy responsibily they incurred if anything happened
to the body, and what was worse, the sacrifice of the souls
of those poor girls (Hear.) They did not wish in any way
to interfere with any system of carrying on a trade, but
they del think it was their duty to point out the risk and
responsibility to be visited on the employers. They had
not come there to denounce, but to argue the matter.
(Hear.) The fact was, the employer was placed in a very
difficult position ; there were hundreds of young females
anxious to be employed, and there were hundreds of per-
sons who insisted upon having their dresses home by a
certain hour, and the consequence was the necessary late
hours, which, were it not for the want of consideration,
might have been avoided. (Hear.) If men and women,
when they were giving their orders, were to act with
a little more thoughtfulness, the evil would be remedied.
He thought, when they pointed out to employers
how they could do as much work and earn as much
money if they abridged the hours of labour, they
had cut the ground of opposition from under them, and
their objections entirely failed. He then alluded to the day
workers in those houses, where the girls did not sleep in
the establishments. They were paid 7s per week, and
the consequence was that they were put in the way of
great temptation. (Hear, hear.). He hoped that all pre-
sent would go to their homes that evening and consider
how they could do something to remedy the evils of which
he had spoken (Hear, hear.) The Rev. Dr. Archer
seconded the resolution. He said he believed the whole
of the system was doomed, and he had no doubt but that
in a few years he should have to pronounce its funeral
knell. The appearance of the gentlemen on the platform
proved it. (Hear.) It was not a sectarian movement :
they had persons of all denominations present ; and as a
parting word to those who could assist he would say, " Do
unto others as you would have they should do unto yon."
The Lord Bishop of Llandaff supported the resolution. He
remarked the, when he heard that a large number of young
females were employed for upwards of eighteen hours
a day for 2s, he felt it was his duty to attend the meeting,
in order that, by his presence, even if he did not utter a
word, he might protest against the system. If the ladies
of England took up the subject, the evils would soon be at
an end. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put from
the chair, and carried unanimously. The Earl of Shaftes-
bury proposed the following resolution :—" That the
system of protracted labour referred to in the foregoing
resolution, and which is carried on in many of the dress-
makers' and milliners' establishments throughout the
country, presents a painful contrast with the amelioration
effected by the reduction of the hours of labour in
factories, warehouses, and shops, and this meeting
would earnestly call on all classes to unite in applying
a prompt • remedy to so great an evil." He said
he entirely agreed with all the previous speakers in
their remarks, and that if he had only consulted his own
feelings, he should have been content with merely moving
the resolution, but under the circumstances he felt bound
to say a few words. There could be no doubt that the
system of things prevailing in the departments of business
which was brought before them that night was fraught
with the worst results, not only to the body, but, like_
wise, to the soul of all so employed. The position of
those young women brought on premature disease, they
lost their sight, and in fact were early taken to the grave;
but before that merciful grave closed over them they
suffered the greatest hardships, When there was a
court mourning thoss young women were fearfully
treated. Sometimes- they were kept working whole
nights together in embroidering flowers on black grounds,
to satisfy the frivolous and contemptible vanity of some
of the customers, by which means the poor creatures
frequently lost their sight. He considered the condition
of these young women little better than the slaves in the
Southern States of America. (Hear, hear.) Dr, Lanca-
ster seconded the resolution, and in doing so, advocated
the employment of females as clerks, and in drapers'
shops, where men were now employed. The resolution
was then put and carried unanimously. The Rev. W.
McCall moved—" That this meeting would, therefore,
appeal to the women of England to bear in mind that the
remedy is in their own hands, if they will support and
encourage those establishments in which the business and
domestic arrangements are consistent with the welfare and
comfort of the young persons employed; and the meeting
further recommend that a registry of such establishments
should be kept for public inspection at the offices of the
Dressmakers' Association, 13, Clifford-street, Bond-street.
The rev. gentleman pointed out, in a very eloquent
manner, the evils of the present system both morally and
religiously, and implored all those who had the means of
mitigating the evils to do so. Mr. Lilwall seconded the
motion, and in the course of his speech showed the great
good which had been accomplished by the Early Closing
Association, and stated that he felt assured that similar
results would be accomplished by this society. The
meeting, after thanks to the Chairman, then separated.

THE UNEMPLOYED IN LONDON.—OA Monday another
meeting of the unemployed was held in Smithfield. There
were only from three to four hnndred present, who agreed
to a series of resolutions submitted by the different speakers,
establishing the "National Association of Unemployed."
A committee was also formed to collect subscriptions for the
relief of the unemployed, and after an announcement that a
meeting would be held at Shepherd's Bush on Sande), next,
the proceedings terminated.
APPREHENSION OF THE NOTORIOUS GEORGE HOLMES.—
At the Bradford Borough Court, on Monday, this notorious
person, who, from his boyhood, has bean a professional
depredator, and was for some time suspected of being the
murderer of Mrs. M'Knight, at Ilkley, last summer, again
appeared in custody. When discharged for the murder for
want of evidence, be was committed to York assizes for
assaulting and robbing a young girl on the highway, and
sentenced to two years' imprisonment. But the atmosphere
of the castle did not agree with him ; he fell iuto delicate
health; and his case being represented to Sir George Grey,
he was released after five months' incarceration. On arriv-
ing in Bradford he was charged with uttering a base half-
crown, which he stated that he had received from the
governor of York Castle. When asked cone,erni )g it, Mr.
Noble, the governor, admitted that he had given him a half
crown, along with other money, to help him home ; but
was not aware that it was counterfeit. The felon was,
therefore, once more discharged, and turned loose upon
society. He, however, again resumed his former habits of
committing depredations about the country, and along with
another person named Jesse Smith, has been apprehended
on the charge of robbing henroosts ; and it is hoped; for
the safety of the public, will be again committed, when the
case is fully gone into.
SUSPECTED MURDER.—About four o'clock on Saturday
morning, a woman of 50 years of age, named Mary Cassels,
or M'Loskey, wife of Patrick M'Loskey, a labourer, was
found dead in bed in her residence, in a house in Anchor
lane close, Shaw street. M'Leskey and his wife kept
lodgers, and as drinking and quarrelling had been going on
in the house on the preceding night, and as the deceased
had been in ordinary health up till that time, it was
suspected that she had met her death by foul means, and
the p dice were immediately apprised of the circumstance.
On proceeding to the house, the deceased woman was
found in bed with her clothes on. Shortly after six o'clock,
M'Loskey, the husband, went for and brought Dr. Henry,
who examined the holy, and found marks of violence upon
the breast and the limbs. From what con be gathered, it
appears that a man, named Dugald M'Kellar, a labourer,
belonging to Argyleshire, and a man, named John Crawford
a painter, belonging to Glasgow, and their wives, lodged
with M'Loskey. On Friday night the whole of the inmates
were drinking, and M'Kellar is said to have been abusing
his wife. M'Loskey had interfered, and he, too, was
struck by M•Kellar, when the wife of the letter interfered
on behalf of her husband, and she was also struck and
knocked down by him more than once—the last time falling
heavily upon a stool. This was before ten o'clock, at which
time the deceased was heard to cry " Murder ! I am done
for." She was then lifted into bed, and her husband
followed. M'Kellar went out for several hours, when ho
returned, and it was about 'four o clock on Saturday
morning when it was reported that the woman was dead.
The fatal affair seems to have arisen out of a drunken
brawl. The three men and two women were apprehended
until the result of a precognition which was going on, on
Saturday, by Mr. Blair, the Procurator Fiscal, and of a
post mortem examination of the body which took place
yesterday, has been ascertained. We since learn that the
husband of deceased was set at liberty on Saturday night.
—Greenock Correspondent of Glasgow Diily Mail.

UNITARIAN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

(From the Inquirer.)

Once more is the High Court of Parliament assembling
in the new Palace of Westminster. Once again, from
county town, from cathedral city, from old hall, from
manufacturing. constituency, the representatives of the
Commons of England have come together to legislate for
their nation. Who among us is an uninterested spec-
tator of this great gathering ? Who has no feeling of
anxiety for some principle at stake —no feeling
of hope for some noble cause to be speeded
on ? For ourselves we will own that we look
towards the coming session with a mingled feeling.—
There is so much still left for the true liberals to effect—
there is so much already gained that the bigoted sectarians
may destroy. Let us, then, as the mouthpiece of the
great body of our co_religionists, remind our Unitarian
members of parliament of the course, which the best
interests of their faith and their country require them
to pursue. And, first we would tell these members of
ours that they are far more powerful than they suppose.
A dozen Unitarians is but a small number in itself; but
they represent to the world the most thoughtful and the
freest of the religionists of to-day. The zealous
advocates of civil and religious liberty—the van-
guard of social progress—the supporters of every
scheme for educating the ignorant, for raising the
down trodden, for aiding the oppressed—can they be
otherwise than respected by their bitterest opponents ?
But now comes the question, whom are they to oppose,
and whom support ? is it with Liberal Churchmen or
Orthodox Dissenters that they should unite when
questions arise affecting religion or education > Occa-
sionally, as on the question of University Reform, these
two sections join in common actiou, and the Unitarians
are in sympathy with both. But, for the most part,
Churchman and Dissenter are in marked opposition, and
we must choose our side. Is education to be national or
sectarian ? Is the Church to draw support from the
State, or be sundered from it ? Is the grant to Maynooth
to be continued ? Is the " Regium Donum" to be main-
tained ? On all of these the policy of the two parties is
completely antagonistic. Which should be the policy
of the Unitarian ? Let us sketch in outline the views
of men like Lord Palmerston or Lord Stanley on the
one hand—of Messrs Hadfield and Apsley Pellatt on the
other. The Liberal Churchmen are attached to their
Church, and wish her power to continue undiminished,
for the sake of the good it does to the State. They point
to an educated gentleman in every parish in England,
ready to help the poor, to advise the troubled, to teach
the Gospel. They wish the State, in return, to enable the
parochial system to be most efficiently carried out, and
so they vindicate the necessity of the State Supporting by
its material resources the influence of the Church.
They are actuated by no petty sectarian jealousies, and
would give the best secular education to all, Churchmen
and Dissenters alike ; and. willingly grant the aid of
the Privy Council to the schools of all denomina.
tions if only the education be sound and the
, teachers diligent. In Ireland they would maintain the
College of Maynooth for the better instruction of the
Catholic priests ; and they give voice and vote for the
preservation of the " Regium Donum" to the Presby-
terian ministers of Ulster. And now, what is it that
the orthodox dissenters require ? Jealous of a rival more
successful, more highly educated, more tolerant, than
themselves, they would destroy the Church of England
in order to exalt their own narrow sects. They wish toe
deprive the church of the support and assistance of the
State, and so they raise the cry that religion is in bonds.
They profess to consider a State grant an incubus - and
State support turns in their jaundiced sight into "State'
patronage and control." They believe in no education
but what they give themselves, and prefer that the poor
children of the labourer or the mechanic should pass
through life untaught even to read or write, unless with
their first lessons be instilled a Calvinistic theology or a
homily on the sins of the Church of England. The
welfare of England is as nothing to these men as compared
with the fostering of some sectarian aversion. Better
(they think) repudiate a Royal promise, than give some
dozen poor Presbyterian ministers a fragment from a
Royal gift. Better convulse Ireland from side to side,
, than allow a few hundred pounds each year to the
teachers and guides of the great mass of the Irish
nation. Can any Unitarian hesitate as to which of
these parties deserves his confidence, or which of these
policies his reason most approves? But we are reminded
by the orthodox dissenters of our common nonconformity,
and our common subservience to a dominant church. To
this we would reply that we approve the principle of a
national church, and, as English presbyterians, have
more love for the church of England than for the Inde-
pendents or the Baptists. We would tell them that, as
Unitarians, we prefer an Armenian clergyman to a
Calvinistio preacher,—that, as christians, we have
greater respect for a tolerant and enlightened
church than for a fanaleal and ignorant sect. We
would tell them that we distrust their overtures and their
promises. It was they who deprived us of the Lady
Hewley fund, and, but for the Liberal Churchmen,
would have taken from us the old chapels of our ancestors.
It was they who openly insulted us at the Bible Society,
and secretly schemed our exclusion from the British and
foreign schools. It was they who closed the doors of the
Milton club on us, who worship as the poet worshipped
before. It is they, who make use of our influence
and our money, and having got what they cam,
treat us as the cuckoo treats the hedge sparrow,
and turn us from the very societies which we
were the first to establish. We have learnt wisdom at
length in a school of hard experience, and take the
lessons of the past as the best monitians for the future.
Between us and the Orthodox Dissenters is a grest gulf
of bitter memories, of opposed'en-inciples, of.antagonistic
aims. Only this we promise them, that should they ever
be persecuted by the Church as they have persecuted us,
we will forget all and forgive all, to vindicate the right,
and assist the weaker cause. Till then they must expect
no sympathy or support from the Unitarians of England,

AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET

COMPANY.

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in'
this company was held on Monday at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate street, for the purpose of confirming a resolu-
tion passed in April last, authorising the directors to
apply to the Crown for a supplemental charter, with a
view of enabling the company, in the event of not selling
their vessels, to make them useful in some other way
than their present charter prescribes. Mr. Henry Tootall,
Chairman of the Ward of Directors, presided. The
Secretary read the report, which stated, inter alia, that
when the supplemental charter shall have been obtained
it is the intention of the directors that the shareholders
should be called together, for the purpose of considering
and arranging the future operations of the company; it
being clearly understood that it is not the intention of th e
present Board of Direction to undertake any steps for the
continuance of the company under the increased powers of
the new charter, without the express sanction and co-opera-
tion of the shareholders, at the same time giving the share-
holders the fullest opportunity of reconstructing the board.
The following is the statement of accounts :—Liabilities :
Due to insurance for past year, £2,145; sundry creditors,
about £l,OOO. Assets : Cash in hand and in loan, £5,118 4s.
7d; amount due from Admiralty and others, £17,147 Bs.
6d. ; ditto for coals sold, 44,606 ; to these assets must be
added the value of the ships. The Chairman said, in
accordance with the resolution passed at the last meeting,
he had to move a resolution to the effect that a supplemen-
tal charter be appliei for, to enable the company to carry
on the ordinary business of a steam packet company. It
was necessary before they could apply to have the consent of
the meeting again ; at the same time, he could assure the
meeting that if they agreed to the resolution, and the supple-
mental charter were granted, nothing would be done by the
board before they called the shareholders again together. The
object of the board was, if possible, to bring to an early
termination the affairs of this most unfortunate company.
They ,had eadeavoured to sell their ships, but the prices
offered were inadequate, and as at the present time they
could not charter them, they thought it necessary to apply
for the charter. The chairman concluded by moving the
resolution. Mr. Lancaster moved, as an amendment, that
the directors do not apply for a charter, and suggested that
the vessels should forthwith be sold. After some considera-
ble discussion, pro and con, the original motion was
carried, and the meeting separated.

The Daily News regards it as almost beyond a doubt,
that the estimates will be calculated on such a scale as to
enable the Chancellor of the Exchequer to announce, on
Friday next, the contemplated abandonment of the war
nine pence.

MR. MACDOWALL, R.A.—TAE STATUE OF TURNER,
FOR ST. PAuLgs.—The execution of this statue has been
confided to a Belfast man. This is a great fact, and one we
have a right to be proud of. The sum of £l,OOO is
applicable to this purpose, and the competition was confined
to those sculptors who are members of the Royal Acai'emy,
thus securing the highest order of art. From all the
moilels sent in, that of Mr. MacDowell has been honoured
by being selected. Considering that this is a monument to
be erected to one of the greatest of British artists—that the
competitors were the first sculptors in the empire—that
the judges were themselves members of the Royal Academy
—and that our fellow-townsman has borne off the prize—
no higher testimony can be borne to his genius aad abilities,
-1-Belfast Mercury,