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afterwards that he was sheik of One et:Art-boa --',"l"4/
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(Jenaher) which were plundering us. "nattlieta------
the other tribe was Beni-hoo-ali. In th
of the day they quarrelled, and ranging &t at maffl
each side of the poop were going to fight, but they
thought better of it and made friends.
On Saturday, May 15, anchored at Soor, and were
visited by Syed bin Abdullah, Sheikh of Soar, and
liamood bin Ali, the Resident, sent here from the
Court of the Imaum. They condoled with me on my
misfortunes, and requested me to tell them in what
way they could assist roe. With many thanks for
their kindness, I begged of them to go down to the
wreck and endeavour to stop the plundering, which
they promised to do, and then took leave, assuring
me that they would leave Soor immediately after the
afternoon prayers. Left Soor in the evening, and
anchored at Kelhat next day, as we were in want of
water. On Wednesday, May 19, we all arrived
safely at Muscat, and were received with great
kindness and hospitality. I shall ever remember with
feelings of deepest gratitude the greet kindness and
attention shown to me by hii Higbness ed
Ssed, the 'maim, and also by Mejor Hamer;on, the
Ucitieh Consul. This gentleman infested on myself
and officers making hiS house our home nnd did all
in his power to Make ti,l forget our troubles.---1115
ilierbeess, immediately on hearing of our ,arrival, sent
hisV,zier not ones, but many times, in the course of
the afternoon to inquire after our health, and to know
what assistance we required. With many thanks to
hi 3 Highness for his condescension and generosity, I
a,ked for one of his men of war to proceed down to
the wreck. Orders were sent to prepare the Artimise
for tea. Our crew were all sent on board her, and
our passengers on board the Fain Allum with pro-
visions and money. The next morning I called on
his Highness to thank him for his good-
ness. He received me in a most fatherly
manner, and said that be hoped I bowed
with resignation to the will of the Almighty,
who was afflicting me for his own good purposes. He
told me that he had placed the sloop-of-war Artimise
entirely at my disposal, every one on board being
under my orders, and that he had written to the
Sheik of Soor to supply
me with any number of
boats that I required. He also sent a guard of
twenty-five sepoys to protect us when at the wreck.
After again thanking him, I took leave, and returned
to the consulate, and found that his Highness bad
sent a bolt of black broad cloth and twelve pieces of
fine shirting, to make clothes for my officers and my-
self. The Artimise was lying with topmasts down
at 4 in the morning, and by 8 P.M. that night was
all a taunto, sails bent, water, &c., on board, and at 9
was untnoored, hauled outside, and reported ready."
.Bengal Hurltaru, June 2.2..

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CHEAP COALS in the COMING WINTER.
Everything at the present moment indicates great
cheapness of coals in the ensuing winter. Nowhere
in the world has fuel been at all times so dear as in
London ; and but for the numerous gifts of coals
constantly dispensed during the winter months by
charitable societies and benevolent individuals in the
metropolis, the sufferings of the poor from the want
of this article alone would not unfrequently of neces-
sity be attended with fatal results. For the last
three years coals in London have been selling on
raentaaivieedragteo,
tahtethpeoroarteaotftfhreompric9e2so.f tforom9ssl.sp.er ton,
2d. to
Is. ad. per cwt.
cheap years, as
nnmApnarded
aetreel y
selling preceding,
h ytheseh have been considered
retail
isn'it
thethe two or three years
2s. per inL winter of 1847-8,
icmorlsedasi
known
hnd
ieven higher
rate as Is. 10d. tocwt
,ondon at so high a
prices than this have been kno.
ee 0
ul
soloyks i
tt
uo a t otherwewhii within
with
towns
respect
a very
recent period. WNll,fienntawg
the empire, more ad
to the facility of obtaining coals at a low price, we
cannot but be of opinion, that even although the Lon-
don workman earns several shillings more weekly
than the provincial one, the latter, if resident in a
quarter where coals are to be had direct from the pit,
is always nearly equal in the winter months, -in point
of actual money in pocket, to his London fellow-
workman ; and this from the saving alone effected in
the price of coals. A London workman, with a wife
and family, must necessarily have always one fire
burning at home, while he himself is out at work ;
and to keep up this fire he must consume at least 2
cwt. of coals per week, which will cost him, on the
cheap average, about 2s. 6d., or Is. 3d. per cwt. Now,
the workman in the coal quarters of the kingdom—at
Newcastle, Glasgow, and other places—pays about
3d. for what the London one pays is. 3d. Thus, if
the London workman earns, say 20s. per week, and
the provincial one ISs,, the latter is as well off as the
former.. The price of coals in London is
even more severely felt by persons in
lodgits, than by any other makisers of the
community. The ordinary lodgingstduse charge
for a week's burning is 3s. 61, the lodger being
stinted generally to about 1 cwt. ;in the higher class
of lodging-houic, again, the usual charge is about
ss. per week for the sLine amount of coals consumed.
A reduction in the enormous existing price of coals
must undoubtedly, from these facts, be a great boon
not only to the poor strictly so called, but also to the
class above them.
The anticipated cheapness in the ensuing winter
arises from the circumstance of the rivalry now be-
ginning to be carried out by the steam-vessels on the
Thames and the railways. Till a very recent period,
no coals were brought from Newcastle to London,
except in the ordinary old-fashioned coal vessels, such
as have been trading from time immemorial, as it
were, between the great coal port of the north and
the harbour of the metropolis. The enormous rate of
freight charged by these vessels, so long as there was
no competition, had, of itself, the effect of keeping coals
at a very high prices when unloaded at London ;
while, in addition, the circumstance of the whole coal
traffic being in the hands of a comparatively few
great brokers, or merchants, the opportunity of mo-
nopoly which they enjoyed induced them to combine
together for the purpose of keeping this necessary of
life at an extravagantly high rate of cost to the inter-
mediate dealer, and of necessity also to the consumer.
The influence of railways, however, has made itself evi-
dent in beginning to effect a change. Recently a com-
pany was formed for the sold purpose of conveying coals
from the coal districts to London, and the cost of
freight is so much below that charged by the anti-
quated coal-vessels, that a great difference in the
price of coals would Soon become evident to the con-
sumer, were the operations or business of the com-
pany as yet of so extended a nature as sensibly to
affect the competition of the vessels. But an
by a
effect will, without doubt, be immediate) produced
is
sprung up in
new competition in the carrying trade having
another quarter. A steamsvessel com-
pany"
an antagonist to the Railway Coal veying
about to commence operations immediate.lh
Company; and as their freihts are
those charged bythe the advantage is sure
railway, e consumers.
eon lower. than
to be gained to a great degree by th .
n days of
The days of monopoly in
of life, are hap-
monopoly in most other necessariestrs, Men of science,
pily nearly over -in this co
suunbiee.t, assure us, also,
who have inquired into thest
Britain are yet incal-
that the coal-fields of
tGnste coals, like
.t e
and that no panic need
culable in point of s'ireen countless generations yet
be experienced by
to the failure of our native coal
unborn, with respect
mines.
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RA AIL vrAY INTELLIGENCE.
-"--GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
A few days sinceivve gavet a short analysis of the past
f‘,T,sl,griep'e;ty, showing that tslilicleollictione,arigi4dortt.
paid.up share capital
_had. increased 9,350c2a, , thee
:917tlailreet103,0 had increased 4,13 i ,54 31., the gross traffic had.
in-
creased 193,8211., and the net balance hadthdecreasedw77
o,2sote9rl.ri
paid
-up
pro-
ductive capital, gross receipts, and net balances in 1846
and IS52:

Ilalf-year end- Ralf-year end-
inz June, 1846. ing June, 1852.
Paid-up share capital.-- £4,679,695 £8,075,935
Debenture ditto
Productive ditto
Gross receipts 449,665 456,009
Net balances
In this statement we have assumed that the Great
Western Company neither gained nor lost by the Bristol
and Exeter lease; and we have deducted from the pro-
ductive capital for the past half-year 400,0001. (a very
liberal allowance) for the rolling stock not worked upon
the Great Western line further. The 13,400,0001. pro-
, ductive capital includes the capital expended upon lines
abandoned or not completed, and upon unfinished
por-
tions of the Oxford and Rugby, and Wilts, Weymoutn
and Somerset lines, as well as upon the unfinished works
at the Paddington terminus—in other words, t
ido not at
about 2,000,0001. from which the company_
benture in-
present derive any income. In 1846 the9B
0/.; last half-
Sear charged against revenue was 71
against revenue was
year the debenture interest charged includes
-a
93,1601., in addition to which revenue
with 39,476/. for interest ou the fixed foursnwa also charged
-half per
cent. stock.—Morning Herald.

IMMENSE 't 5a
NEW IRON STEAMER—We under
that Messrs. Burns have contracted with Messrs.
Willial
She is
Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton to build an
immense iron
steamer for the Cunard line of Royal mail packets.
to be upwards of 3,000 tons burden, and will ,
eore than
50 feet longer than the Great Britain.
From u
may judge that her lines will be very fiTle i the mode I, we
material of which she is to be built will indeed, which the
engines are to be by Napier, and are to also facilitate. The
horse-power, although capable of being be equal to 1,000
higher force. From the great length worked to a much
it will not be too much to say that thi and other proportions,
pass in speed any other vessel on th 'iri?n ship will fat • sus-
the world what the Clyde can e station, and will show
transaction, which will involveproduce. In addition to this
the Messrs. Burns are about a cost of upwards of 100,0001.,
steamers, to be called the to build two very large screw
Andes and Alps, the ni Jura and lEtna, as consorts to the
ost forward of which is to be launeied
on Tuesday. These are in addition to the Baalbec and tie-
litta, now fast pr
ogressing towards completion, for their
Constantinople rul e.-..-North *British Daily Mail.