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that 4ay. He Should be very glad that the differences
;wild be settled by the proprietors, but, not thinking
that possible at a meeting of the present sort, he hoped
that with the expression of opinion heard from the pro-
rietors that day the details would be lefria the hands of
directors.—(Hear, hear.)
- The report was then adopted.
The CHAIRMAN moved that a dividend of 31. for every
loot. stock, and so on, in proportion, be declared, the
same to be payable on the 25th inst.—Agreed to.
Mr. Glyn ,was then unanimously re-elected chairman.
Mr. Thomas Smith, Mr. William Rotheram, and Mr.
Robert Benson, were re-elected, and Mr. 'Robert Gill
(chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company)
and Mr. Richard Creed were elected directors.
The Coventry and Nuneaton shares were then eon-
vetted into the stock of the company; and after the
ustial vote of thanks to the Chairman, thcineeting sepa-
rated. The proceedings lasted two hours and a half.

[PRICE SD.

TILE COAST OF AFRICA.
PORTSMO_UTH, SUNDAY EVENING.--The Sampson
ate.am -fr4ias te, 6, Captain Lewis T. Jones, arrived at
s
paliewl this evening from the coast of Africa station.
Stift left ,Lago's on the 6th of January, touched at
Badagry the same day,
w h en the 7th, Quitah on
the AcornBtn, cera on the 9th, Ca Coast Castle on the
'loth, Sierra Leone on the 24th Teneeffe on the 4th
Madiera on'the 6th, Lisbon on the 11th, and left
Lisboa on the lath. she has been just a year absent
from England, and, with the e
ashore and requiring docking toz repair exception;
her ' of
hazing
been
of
keel, she is
in admirable and highly
eredition. She has
been most actively employed on t
coast of Africa,
having gone over upwards of 22,000
miles,
which were with sail and steam combined 5,000 of
6,000 with
st-am alone, and 11,000 under sail only. She has taken
two. prizes, and has been remarkably healthy,
a case of fever having appeared. She
saiisanisc arcely
steams
well, and is a good wholesome man- lf-wae • She re-
ports that, the majority of _ the wouaded at Lagos
were fast- recovering on board the Penelope at the time
she left, but some few severe and dangerous eases still
caused anxiety. The Harlequin, 12, was off Lagos,
watching the formation of King Aketoi's new Govern-
ment. The Niger, 6, screw-sloop, Commander Heath,
was off Badagry. The Philomel, 10, Commander T. G.
Forbes, was attending the conference at Abomey, for
the suppression of the slave traffic. The Volcano steam-
sloop was off Quitah. The blockade ja still inforce, dint
vessels with cargoes engaged are allowed till the Ist of
March. Commander T. G. Forbes was at Abbeokuta
engaged in organizing the forces of the town for de-
fence, and developing the resources of the country.
Abbeokuta is expected to become a very important place
now that its seaport, Lagos, is open for legal commerce.
Lagos is the key of the country, healthy and well
situated for trade; the bar may be passed in a good
sailing vessel four days out of seven, and has 10 feet
on it at high. water.
Commander Lavie, of the Alecto steam-vessel, has
come home invalided in the Sampson, which brought a
mail from Lisbon and a dispatch from the British
Minister at that Court for Lord Granville, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The
reading of the promotions for the affair of Lagos in the
papers sent off to the Sampson did not create much
satisfaction on board. It seems some of the officers
who were most prominently engaged have not been
rewarded.

X 80,599,13 10

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC4XkSTITUTION.*
_
We have rarely attended scientific lectures where the
audience has been more attentive or more interested
than with those which the able Professor of Chemistry,
Mr. J. H. Pepper, is now delivering here on the Allo-
tropic Conditions of Oxygen, called Ozone. Most
habitues of lectures would imagine that there was no-
thing new to be learned respecting oxygen, the universal
favourite, the promoter of nearly all the fizzes, bangs,
and stinks of the laboratory; but science is ever unfold-
ing novelties, and oxygen, under the name of ozone
(from the Greek signifying to smell), is certainly wor-
thy of the most elaborate investigation. Its formation
was shown in three ways:-Ist, by treating air with
phosphorus half covered with water; 2d, from the oxy-
gen derived from the voltaic decomposition of water;
3d, by electrifying air as in the electrical aura. Eaeis
of these processes eliminated ozone, proved by the
action of the iodide of potassium and starch test, and
also by its powerful bleaching agency, and from indigo.
The destruction of ozone by a red heat was also demon-
strated in a very beautiful experiment, devised by Fara-
day, and the 'craned lecturer concluded this discourse
by explaining that the chief interest of the study of
ozone was in consequence of its being, no doubt, em-
ployed in the grand processes of nature. This carious
agora would seem to be connected with the healthiness
of the atmosphere, as during the prevalence of cholera
no ozone could be perceived in the air, whilst afterwards
an exccss of this agent appeared to promote epidemics,
such as influenza, &c. An excess or deficiency of ozone
were therefore both:to be deprecated, the precise balance
only being conducive to health. Oz ale was a disin-
fectant, and destroyed noxious and putrescent exhala-
tions. In town it was absorbed and could not be appre-
ciated, whilst in the country it existed in the atmo-
sphere, producing no doubt that difference which every
one understood so far as health was concerned, but
which analysis iu all its delicacy could not establish.
We shall hope to give Mr. Pepper's very excellent lec-
ture on Amorphous Phosphorus in another report.

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off.
Raby bdo, Thurs. Witton, bridge; Sit. Afantield-11.
Cleveland b yluira. Dansdale-bridge-,rlpi.
Worthing harts., Tues. Chantry-post; Fri. Steep-down

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
The Sinning ton :tvcitiq,`wilt,meet-ortakpiosi. at Wail .1
Fri. llovingham-10.
Bedale 1145., Thura. Haeldall; Sat. trelby

-11. -
IVIK-Ti-eliii-srffi hds., Tues. Carew Arms; Fri. Lang-
on -hall-10f.
Lord Lonsdsle's harrs., Fri. Puttenham-12.
Herefordshire' hds., Tues. Hall-eourt; Fri. Aconbury
riory-14.
Southdown lids., Fri. Alfriston-10f.
ILord Redvsdale's hds,, Thurs. Ey ford; Sat. Barford
10f.
South Oxfordshire Hs., Tues. Stadhampton-gate; Fri.
Forest-hill-10f.
r Mr. Drake's Ms., Tues. Fringford-bridge; Thurs.
irkuggersh2ll-village; Sat. Trafford-bridge-4o .
Old Berkshire lids., Tues. Bablock-hythe ; Fri. Step-
firrn-10f.
.V. W. a has., Tees. Red Lodge; Thurs. Driffield-
village; Sat. Felrford-park-10f,
York and 'Ainsty hds., Tues. Skelton; Thurs. Ribston-
lall; Sat, Naburn-104.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Toes. Chorlton Hull; Thurs.
Baschurch-station; Fri. OtelThey-park-10f,
Surrey Union hde., urs. Chantry-dowws; Sat.
Norburppark-10f.
North Staffordshire lids., Tues. Stoke-Beath; Fri.
1 hgestrie-10f.
Somerset and Wilts hds., Fri. Leighton turnpike-gate
--riyhtchiey
bds., Tues. Lilbourne; Fri. Dallington;
Sat. Staverton-101.
Tues. Diddlesden.park;
Lord Southampton's hds.,
Fri. Foxley; Set. Hauslope-Park-11.
Mr. Lort Phillips's lids., Thurs. Woodstock-10.
Oakley lids., Thurs. Cranfield ; Sat. Milton-101
Ur. Morgan's hds., Thurs. Southwood, Buckland
Abbey-10f.

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