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C - The ege of Chivalry is gone, and that of Economists and
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property, but labour must preceed enjoyment, the journey
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They have an immense wholesale department, where capitalists
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ifivtat i
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APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
LEA and PEI RINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops
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The daily use of this aromatic and i)( clous Sauce is the best safe-
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N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of LEA
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THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT
STANDON-BRIDGE.
After an adjournment of a montb, the coroner and
jury empanelled to investigate the circumstances at-
tendant upon the accident which occurred near this
place on the sth ultimo, re-assembled yesterday at
the National School-room of the village of Craubery,
for the purpose of further pursuing the inquiry.
The chain of evidence was taken up with the testi-
mony of Price, the fireman, who, it may be remem-
bered, was compelled to withdraw abruptly on the
previous occasion by failure of strength. In addition
to his former evidence be deposedas.. follows :—He
saw the Velocipede engine just stopped:- at the points.
We were then hardly so much as half a mile from
her. The deceased shut off his steam and reversed
his engine as soon as he got through the bridge.
We were then going at full 40 miles an hour. The
brake of the tender was applied, and the deceased blew
his whistle to warn the guards to do the same. We
ran some distance before the speed of the train was
rails from previous rains which bad fallen. The
road from the bridge to the Standon coal-yard
checked on account of the dampness of the
points is down an incline of 1
in 330 I believe.
The deceased did not speak to me after we came under
the bridge. We continued running with the steam
turned off and the engine reversed until the collision
took place. The edge of the tender to the Velocipede
engine was clear of the up rails all but half a yard.
The engine itself was across the rails. I think we
struck her about the foot-plate. Before the accident
we saw two lots of plate-layers on the line. The lot
near Hetton-bridge gave us the red flag. This was
full three-quarters of a mile before we came in sight
of the pilot engine. The deceased took no notice of
this signal, and did not reverse the engine until he
saw the pilot before him at the coal-yard points. I
am sure the deceased saw this signal. I remarked to
him when I saw it that the driver of the pilot was
probably going to cross at the coal-yard. He replied,
" Not he," and ran on at the same speed. I had put
the brake on when I saw the plate-layers' red flag.
The deceased told me to take it off, but I did not do
so, and he put on more steam. He might have
brought the train to a standstill, but he was an ob-
stinate man. He would sometimes go a whole trip
without speaking a word to me. At another time he
d be l, and w ould appear as if he could
dwoo
hardlywould very
c enoughiv i
for me.
By the Coeorizet—l have known him during five
years in the service of the company, and during that
time I never knew any charge brought against the
deceased for careless or reckless driving.
John Grace called, said he was an engine driver in
the service of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, and had been in the same employ during fifteen
years. He had been driver of a bank engine five
years, and had had charge of the Velocipede about
six months. Witness knew the deceased, Thomas
Reynolds, and was on very good terms with him. He
saw him at Crewe on the day the collision occurred.
There was a distinct understanding that witness was
to cross at Whitmore. Within a few yards of the
spot where they always hooked off, the deceased blew
his whistle once, and made the usual sign with his
hands for witness to hook off and cross. Witness re-
plied by holding up one hand, which is understood
among the drivers to mean " come carefully," and
then detaching his engine, proceeded on towards
Whitmore. It was always usual to cross at Whit-
more when they got well up the bank, but if they did
not get on so well the bank engine ran on to Stafford.
Witness had never crossed at any other station than
Whitmore or Stafford with an express train before the
day on which the accident occurred.
CORONER—Why, then, did you cross on this occa-
sion at the Standon coal-yard ? Witness—After I
had detached the engine I ran as fast as I could—it
might be 60 miles an hour. Reynolds was coming
at 40 miles an hour or better. I looked round seve-
ral times, and fancied he was not slackening speed, as
he ought to have done. I blew my whistle three or
four times before entering the Whitmore station and
again when I got to the station, to alarm the police-
man. When I got to the proper point for crossing, I
saw the steam of the express engine approaching the
station about .150 yards in our rear. I continued
standing on the right-hand aide of the engine, and I
believe I ran forward at from 80to 90 miles an hour,
i
as far as the Standon coal-wharf, which 1
is about 3
or 4 miles from Whitmore. I saw two parties of
plate-layers along the line. To the first party I gave
very violent signals to stop the express, lest there
might be anything to prevent our crossing at the
by sight—go towards his red flag as "
coal-yard, and I saw one of them—a ma,,
n I know
it up. I shut off the steam near to
.pick
and came to a stand just over the points. I then
Turn
the
said to my mate, "Now, Jack, look sharp.
over the points as soon as you can." I reversed
.t e
lever, and the engine returned directly. On looking
back I saw the express coming very rapidly it_
I continued
should say from 45 to 50 miles an hour.
flatton-bridge,
looking towards the express. I Saw the
standing upright on the left hand side of the engine,
had not
and the fireman at his brake. The deceased
looking.
reversed his engine at this time but stood up
the engine
at me and lat him. I believe be now saw
• and the
slipping, and he then reversed his engine,
The fireman
same moment dropped out of my i deceased
continued at his brake. I saw ettehtc.
saw the face
express engine pass our foot plate, and I a
ore. The
of the fireman ; but I recollect nothing more.
same
engine was knocked out of my hand at the
ine. I
mo-
ment, and I fell backwards on to the down line.
cannot say how long I remained where I fell.
of the
William Lloyd, a platelayer in the service
chimney of the
company, corroborated the evidence of thel lasttsi wnailt,-,,
ness as to having received a very "14° el! e g
from the driver and fireman of the pilot engin..
he put
said when he saw Grace come into the station Thomas Tyson, one of the pointsmen at W
ss as usual
on the down signal to put the pilot acro
h points
up to t e
When Grace had brought his engine
• back. On
witness saw him and the fireman 'oolong
p s train
looking back himself witness saw the
ex"
andres called
hitmore,
coming towards the station very rapidly,
y must go a-
out to the driver of the pilot,
his
you." At the same moment
head as quick as possible—the' jexepekres;°uis
witness observedshow
fellow-pointsman at the north end of
the
stationhis red flag. Witness did the same, and . then
off his steam.
ob-
served the driver of the express,.
,leiitness gave the
After seeing the pilot close upon
64 well en' and changed his
express his hand to come gently on,ut
p his hand, with
red for a green flag. The
the fingers extended, to his
by that ? Witness
CORONER—What did he mean
of defiance."
"
sort.
—I cannot say. I took it as a .
it might have been
He was smiling at the time, and
only nonsense.
examined, the Coroner
A few other witnesses were
i'r returned the following
summed up, and the jury of -• Thomas verdict:—" We find that the deceased..
dnroisvee,r- towards witness.
Rey-
nolds met his death from the 0
drandthe •
iving
express train which he was This collision was
give driven by John Grace. collision between the
nezlected to slacken
re, and to his
owing to the deceased's hatvoipg --.-
c hT
hwaset wshown
o
his speed before coming
him between Whitmore and Standon.
Paying no attention to the
' to be attributed to John
not think that any blame Is of the case. That
Grace, under all the .circumstances company the we would suggest to the railway
regulation the
pro-
priety of reducing to a printed.iver
of an assisted existingunderstanding between the Cif
n ins who as ' t li.
gine and the driver of a pilot e .
gn
no case elesial ;
should the
and we are also of opinion thati
red"Wfihaigtrawohi
nailed from that place
more unless he has been sig .
him was safely out
that the engine which had assisted
of the way."
driver of the train assisted be allowed_ to pass Whit-
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SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the proprietors
in this company was held yesterday, at the Bridge
House Hotel, James MacGregor, M.P., the chairman
of the board of directors, presiding.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Herbert) having read the
advertisement convening the meeting, the seal of the
company was affixed to the register of shareholders.
The report of the directore, which appeared in The
Sun of yesterday, was taken es read.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemer,—
The report which the directors have had the honour
to place in your hands contains a short history of the
South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet Com-
pany since its formation, and I must beg you to bear
with me whilst I recapitulate a summary of that
history. The original cost of the eight steam-ships
belonging to the company has been shown to be
114.5931. 6;. 61., the share capital of the company,
111,220/., and the capital paid up 109,3981. It
follows that of the original cost of the steam-ships
5,1901. 6s. 6d. has been paid out of the profits, and
besides this a sum of 42,4171. ss. 11d, has been
laid out during the last eight years upon these
ships, also out of the profits, in repairs and in ins-
provements. I wish that there should be no mis-
take as to our distinct expression on the subject of
improvements to the steam-ships, for these have
combined much more than can be included under the
head of repairs. They have included the supplying
three of the steam-ships with iron instead of wooden
kelsons, and with wrought iron instead of cast iron
entablatures, and also improved cast iron entabla-
tures in four of the ships, and in material and expen-
sive improvements both of the machinery and boilers.
The boilers of these vessels originally had all iron
tubes, and there are now remaining only three to
which boilers with brass tubes have not been supplied.
Six of the steam-ships have been adapted for carry-
ing goods, and it is right to mention that the speed of
the vessels has not been lessened in consequence of
carrying cargo. The gross earnings of the company
from its establishment to the 31st July last, have been
229,4981. 14s. 6d. ; of this sum 211,5891. 2s. sd. has
been derived from the traffic and interest, and
17,902/. 12s. ld. in direct contributions from the
South-Eastern Railway, the Northern of France
Railway, and the Boulogne and Amiens Railway,
in order to maintain for their interest a regular
service not remunerative in itself to the Steam-
Packet Company. During the seven years that have
passed, if you are pleased to adopt our report, and to
divide at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the lest
half-.year, as we have suggested to you, a sum of
' 43,530/. 9s. 10d. will have been distributed amongst us
as dividend, and paid in income-tax thereon,
144,2071 12s. 3d. represents the gross expenses, and
41,7001. 12s. sd. the reserve made ; and the result of
our affairs, as pointed out in the report is, that we
hold the steam, ships, that we are out of debt, and
that we have surplus property on hand amounting to
22,9891. 3s. 4d. The directors have purchased, under
the authority contained in the deed of settlement, on
account of the reserve fund, 20,0001. of the 44 per
cent. guaranteed stock of the South-Eastern Railway
Company, No credit appears in the accounts of the
last half-year for interest on this investment, the half-
yearly dividend received thereon having been paid
after the closing of the half-year. The sum of 436/.
17s. 65. was received on this account on the 14th of
August, and will appear as an addition to the reserve
fund, in accordance with the terms of the deed of
settlement in the next half-yearly accounts. The
value of this investment is now 2,000/. greater than
lit was when made. Gentlemen, I will not occupy
your time with any minute analysis of the expenses
of conducting the service, because it will be obvious
management has been made
to you that our
subservient in every way to the views and
great interests of the South-Eastern Railway.
We were called into existence only because the
I South-Eastern Railway Company could not legally
perform those functions which have devolved upon
us, passages between the south-
and, in making the
eastern ports and those of the Continent, at an ave-
rage speed of fifteen miles per hour, it is necessary,
to maintain our boats in a state of the highest effi•
ciency, and to look rather to the result of that
efficiency, upon the perfection and success attending
the system of communication with which we are
identified, than the economy arrived at on each voyage.
I ough to mention, gentleman, that a diminution of
working expenses could be brought about to an ex-
tent of not less than one-third, if, instead of working
our steam-ships at the rate of fifteen miles an hour,
we were to reduce that speed to twelve miles an hour,
but it is the object and inters-ion of the South-
Eastern Railway that the passage between Folkestone
and Boulogne, and Dover and Calais, which is in
fact the prolongation of the South-Eastern Railway
to the French ports, should be accomplished with
punctuality and with the greatest speed which is con-
sistent with safety. The average time in which the
passages of the steam-ships have been made during
the last half-year between Folkestone and Boulogne,
and Dover and Calais, has been one hour fifty-seven
minutes. The invitation from the South-Eastern
Railway, on which we became proprietors in this
company, assured us that we should receive a
net return of five per cent. per annum on the paid-
up capital of this company; and it was also stated that
the dividends should be always five per cent. per an-
num, with the contingency of any increase that
might happen, that increase being subject to the dis-
cretion of the governing boards, the directors of the
two companies being the same. These were the in-
ducements held out to us. You will observe, gentle-
men, that the actual rate of dividend which we have
received from first to last has averaged 51. 17s. ld.
per cent. per annum ; and you will observe too (and
we beg to call your particular attention to the fact),
that more than a third of that dividend has been
made up by contributions from the railway com-
panies whose interest we have been subsevient to
Gentlemen, as trustees for the two companies, we
have endeavoured to act in a manner becoming the
confidence that has been reposed in us by both pro-
prietaries, and that confidence could not have been
better evidenced than by the adoption on every occa-
sion by the South-Eastern Railway Company of our
recommendations of the support which you have pe-
riodically required from them, as well as by your own
assent to those recommendations. The situation of
this company is certainly an anomalous one.
We have not the means, under our deed
of settlement, of turning our property to any account
which might appear at the moment to be
most advantageous. We are restricted exclusively
to carrying on the communication from the South-
Eastern to the continental ports, and yet we have no
other than a moral guarantee for securing to us a
fixed return for our services. The circular which in-
vited us to become proprietors, and on which we ad-
vanced our capital prior to any deed of settlement
being prepared by us or exhibited to you, is proof
enough that the proprietors of the South-Eastern
Railway would have entered into a legal guarantee
if such could have been given. There is no legal
method of putting the relations of the two companies
on a permanent basis, except by an application to
Parliament. The directors do not intend to submit
to you to-day any terms to be proposed between the
two companies. The time has, however, come at
which it is the duty of the directors, as your trustees,
to call your attention to the circumstances in which
the two companies are placed. It has been clear
from the first that there might at any time arise a
conflict of interests, however advantageous to the rail-
way company the services of this company might be.
Taking all circumstances into consideration, we
recommend that you appoint a committee of pro-
prietors, as has been done by the railway company,
to be associated with us in an endeavour to arrange
proposals likely to meet with general approbation,
to place our relations with the South-Eastern
Company upon a solid and permanent basis,
to be sanctioned by the authority of an Act of
Parliament, when confirmed by you and the rail-
way company at a subsequent meeting. It would be
improper to conclude my address without expressing
the sense of satisfaction which the directors entertain
with the universal good conduct of the officers con-
nected with the service, and referring also to the
approbation with which the service is regarded by the
public. Gentlemen, I have the honour to move that
the report of the directors, as now presented to this
meeting, be approved and adopted.
Mr. RENSHAW seconded the motion.
Mr. HAMILTON rose to move an amendment. He
objected to the appropriation of the revenue of the
company to the remuneration of the directors. If
they had already voted a certain sum for that purpose
they had the power of altering that arrangement, and
it appeared unreasonable,
so amply paid as too
rectors were for the services rendered by. them to tdhie-
railway company, which the steam-peewit company
puny
was especially constituted to benefit, that they
sh
ana
take a further remuneration from the latter cmoni
onn
ays-
The Chairman had described the packetiwcoa
y,PbuYt he
in the nature of an extension to theets a
would ask whether any one ever heard of
tractor
? Hedired,
seeking extra salary for an extension
therefore, that the directors would decline to receive
the amount, and would permit the sum to be applied
to a reserve fund or to supply any deficit which might
arise under the proposed arrangement upon the ori-
ginal capital of 100,000/. Ile concluded le _by movie
that so much of the revenue of the company as wasp

charged with the salary of the directors and secretary
of 'the company be added to the revenue.
The amendment not being seconded fell to the
ground.
Mr. WRIGHT said that the directors had worked a
long; time for nothing, and the proprietors afterwards
very properly voted them, by a unanimous resolution,
the allow,ince which they now received for their f,er-
vicies. He considered their dividend very low com-
pared with those of other steam companies, and he did
not think that they should be bound hand and foot to
the South-Eastern Railway Company. At the same
tie, when they came to negotiate terms with the
rail.way company, they bad their boats—on which a
great deal of money had been spent out of revenue,
and. which were now, no doubt, worth as much as
the y ever were—to offer to that company ; and, more-
(W€ they also bad the moral guarantee of the South •
Ea.tern Railway Company in their favour; and what
W 4,9, it but that great bornpany's strict fidelity to its
eng7igetnents which enabled it to borrow money in
the :market at three per cent.?
Lord TORRINGTON said that, as a shareholder, he
felt bi2laly satisfied with the report of the directors,
and, with their management of the company's affairs.
He thought their property was decidedly a very valu-
able one, and at the first blush he had felt that it
would be much better for them to remain as they
were ; but, looking to the differences which might
arise
to prove
at any future period, the result might be such as
unsatisfactory to both parties, and, therefore,
if five gentlemen from that company were associated
with the directors to negotiate with the South-
Eastern Railway Company he believed that they
would possess a guarantee that their property and in-
terests would be fairly protected.
Mr. POLLARD considered
pnr
oafil
tl theThreiisrk
that the Steam-Packet
Company had had to ru
a small portion of thebutr
sa-
crificed for the railway, or the
cent... instead of 5. They wereynot might receive.. whichl?
aninterests dreceived
werelo
position
any company ought to occupy, becauseir' a
not have the independent management
they could
their own
busimess. He considered, tberefore,entof
fully entitled to liberal terms from the that they were
Railway Company. South-Eastern
the CHAIRMAN, in reply, said that the m •
towehed upon in the discussion was, the moralain point
tee which they possessed in their relation to the South-
Eastern Eastern Railway Company ; on that head he entirely
agreed with the remarks of the Noble Lord, of Mr.
Wright, and also of the gentleman who had just sat
down. He believed that in the relations of life they
could have no hold better than a moral guarantee. It
was true the South-Eastern Railway Company bad a
large interest in that company, and if the railway
coircpany could have had the necessary legal powers, no
doubt they never would have had another company to
serve them, but would have subscribed their 114,0001.
and had their own beats managed by their own
agents. But, that being impossible, the Steam-
packet Company was formed to subserve the inte-
rests of the railway, and the lure the railway com-
pany held out to the steam-packet proprietors was
this five per cent. This was not only stated in the
South-Eastern Railway Company's circular, but Mr.
Parry Richards, the then chairman of the Souta-
Eastern Railway Company, also stated that they
should receive five per cent, with such further addi-
tions as could be made, subject to the discretion of
the governing body. It was on the faith of that cir-
culex and that verbal assurance that the money was
brought forward ; and he had not the slightest doubt
that,, with the assistance of a committee of five share-
holders, the directors could confer with a similar body
on the side of the railway company, and agree to such
an adjustment of interests as would be equally satis-
factory to both companies. The South-Eastern Rail-
way had embarked ten millions on their lines, and
there was 111,0001. invested in that company. It
was true that company had not the management of its
own affairs, because the agreement was that the boats
should run between the south-eastern ports and the
Continent, and that if any proprietor held 500 shares
in that company he should only have one vote, but if
he had 500 shares in the railway he should have 500
votes. Certainly, therefore, the deed bound that
company hand and foot as a useful instrument in the
hands of the railway; and therefore be hoped, now
that there were among them those who were fully
conversant with all the details connected with the ori•
ginal history of the company, that they would be able
to come to some arrangement that would place its
relations with the South-Eastern Railway on a just,
secure, and permanent footing. He believed that
their affairs might become even more prosperous than
they were now. They had applied for tkeyost-office
servioa, • the Government harrecomintraded

that it should all be done by contract, that corn •
parry was in a very advantageous position to carry
out such a contract, from the number of boats whicn

they had at their disposal. With regard to the re-
muneration to the directors, that had been unani-
mously voted in 1851, by a meeting of proprietors ; but
the measures which the directors now recommend for
consolidation of the two companies' interests, would
most effectually put an end to that vote. The only
desire of the directors was to perform, in an honour-
able and manly way, their duty as trustees. No diffi-
culty had arisen hitherto between the two companies,
but, looking to the complicated nature of their deed
and of their relations with the South-Eastern Rail-
way Company,
they could not shut their eyes to the
fact that differences might occur at some future day ;
and hence their anxiety to close a well-considered
arrangement in time between both companies that
would preclude any eventualities of that nature.
The motion for adopting the report was then
unanimously carried, and formal resolutions were
passed, declaring a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum, in conformity with the directors' recom-
mendation, and ordering the balance in hand to be
added to the reserve fund.
A committee was next appointed, consisting of
Lord Torrington, Messrs. Edward Harding, Richard
lletley, Saunders, and Pollard, to be associated with
the directors for the purpose of negotiating the terms
of the proposed consolidation ; and thanks having
been voted to the chairman and directors, and briefly
acknowledged by Mr. MacGregor, the proceedings
terminated.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT 01V THE
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.
TAUNTON, SEPT. 16.—The adjourned inquest to in-
quire touching the death of Thomas Humberstone,
stoker, who was killed by the fatal accident which hap-
pened to the down express train on the Bristol and
Exeter Railway, on Wednesday, the Bth instant, the de-
tails of which have already appeared in The Sun, was
resumed this morning at the Bell Inn, Creech St.
Michael, by the coroner, Mr. W. Munckton. We may
observe that Captain Laffan, the Government inspector
of railways, has been sent down to assist in the investi-
gation touching the cause of the sad accident. The in-
quiry created a great deal of interest, and the jury-r
was thronged throughout the day. The chairman and tn
creTtahrey offoltlhoewienegmpiasnythweerdeepaolseoitiionnatotef hndtanone
engineer,se
Lambert Eaton, who is also since dead:—
Saunda
10
keptAst at
quarter
stoetai hour
onin2.' as'
c. a n
_....y, Sept.
" I think we were as near
be late in starting from the Bristol
nwebarereaswel
reachedthe usu usual
Bridgewater,
a taesr , deerayreedcoalleehcto,rt untilwe
time—
about fifteen minutes—in
gotiankginngotin coke. At4 the time
_
hour. It was instantaneous, andexlce
of the accident I was
warning. I cannot in any way account for the iseeide„°l
" LAMBERT EATON; ...
After some further evidence had beenhedagidonnngeo4itnttraohetillseh:se7
whole line minutely,
Captain Laffan explained that he never examis°d t
- it •as good a
state as any in the kinom. after line.
but believed to be in
Mr. Fussell said this was the first accident on d
Ile CORONER read the evidence, and the jury .e-
-ll • stoker, was
—" We find that Thomas HumbsersteotaLert
by
the en-
killed on Wednesday, the Bth of B_P
t the invert be-
gin() and tender of the Bristol _
train having run off the line tor
and Exeter down express-
The jury added—
ywoen
have
etvheej2o ChardsatiB
satisfactory
leantlinee.,e,ause of the accident
sufficient evidence before us to
" We have, however, of the line upon which the acci-
show that the owe ttaurally
lr,ybuetva
defective in respect of the
dent happened
on This
the rails are laid, particularly
This ought to be remedied."
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THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY.

V Thomas Young M‘Christie, Esq., the revising bay.
rister appointed to revise the list of voters for the
city of London, opened his court yesterday morning
at the Guildhall for that purpose, and proceeded with
the lists of liverymen of the several companies.
The number of objections taken are rather below
the average, and are as follows :—Conservative ob-
jections to the Liverymen, 234 Liberal, 99. Con.
servative objections to the householders' lists, 552;
by Liberals, 409. There were also 417 objections
taken indiscriminately by the Radical or extreme
party.
Mr. Henry Edward Brown and Mr. Eaglefield
appeared for the Conservatives ; Mr. Sidney Smith
and Mr. Ledger for the Liberals ; and Mr. Acland
(late of the Anti-Corn-law League) for the Radical.
interest.

The lists of the Livery and househoulders having
been delivered in the revision of
the lists of the
Livery, wrsetrelipsrt ocoefedtehde Livery taken was the Ar-
w
niuurers' Company, which being called on,
Mr. Acland rose, and took an objection to the name
of Mr. George Barnstock, for an improper description
of the residence.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Brown then took a formal ob-
jtetion to the reception of the notice which had been
zerved by Mr. Achn,-1, on the ground that the docu-
ment which had passed through the Post-office, did
not bear the address of the party for whom it was in-
tended on the outside es well as in the body of the
notic,.. As the same objection would apply to all the
rest of the notices that had been issued, amounting to
upwards of 400, they had taken this objection in,
limine to their reception.
The REVISING BARRISTER declared that the law had
not been complied with, and consequently the whole
of the objections of Mr. Acland fell to the ground.
An important question was raised, which decided
many others. On an objection taken to the name of
Mr. Thomas Jones Mawe, of New Bridge-street,
solicitor, being described as of that place, instead of
Carlton Villas, his actual residence, the learned bar-
rister held the description to be sufficient, he being a
liveryman resident within seven miles of London.
The Act of Parliament did not require the exact resi-
dence at the time of the name being placed on the
register to be stated, it only applying to occupiers
and householders.

..
Mr. Acland appeared in support of the objection,
and Mr. Brown against it.
The vote was allowed.

A long discussion ensued on the question of costs,
which, on the authority of several decisions, was
refused.

FINSBURY.

Yesterday Thomas Fraser Macqueen, Esq., the
barrister appointed to revise the list for this borough,
held his court for that purpose in the Lords Justices'
Court, Lincoln's Inn.
THE HousEersx.—Mr. Fish, of Dorset-street,
Bride-street, was omitted, as a defaulter for the
house-tax. The circumstances of this case were of a
most important character. Mr. Fish had been rated
for his house according to the property-tax return at
dwhp
iaa
which
have his
nhbho
ths
et
reduce
the
uou2lkcOde t
nhtehotefe beforepjp;ll
yltYh'e
261-, and when called on to pay the house-tax he re..
fused, as he intended to appeal against the rating, and
did so successfully, because it was reduced to 221.
by the Commissioners. The rate should have been
I b before
July, when it ought to haveratebuntil after
bmutiddthlee
ocforcatr7ldi.d not
could not apply for the rate for it, andsothtehaCtotmhme Commissioners
thisM mr.ollstuignigpeotrt,tawnhtthe 20th of
n nunenntil he had heard no
Learned Barrister that he should give paid.
suggested to
was
question iglee no decision on
less than 300 cases in another 1
p ace, where stronger
facts might appear.
The BARRISTER said he was disposed to d
The difficulty in this case was as to the wording s °of.
the Act, which said the rates " payable" of the sth
of January. Now, could Mr. Fish have paid the rate
on the sth of January if he had chosen ?
The Collector said—Certainly not ; for he had then
no warrant to receive it, and could not have given a
receipt.
The REVISING BARRISTER must, then, consider
what was the meaning of the word " payable."
Mr. Huggett, as amicus curia, submitted that the
definition of Dr. Johnson was, that " payable" was
" such as those who had power to pay." Here the
person had clearly no power to pay, for there was no
one to take the money.
The Collector, in answer to a question from the
Barrister, said the rate was paid immediately after
the decision of the Commissioners; but that was not
until about the 23d of July.
The Learned BARRISTER remarked that the ques-
tion was such an important and novel one that .he
should defer his decision.
The whole of the lists having been disposed of, with
this single exception, the Court adjourned to a future
day, when the decision will be given.

NATIOIVAL DRAWING SCHOOLS.
In reference to ill. niunProns-aPnlicsnons. whit*
ate made to the-Department of Practical Art to esta-
blish elementary drawing schools, the following ques-
tions have beou prepared, and are now issued
To enable the Board of Trade to consider, with
reference to claims from other places, the application
dated the day of from --, for assistance
in forming an elementary drawing school, it is neces-
sary that replies to the following inquires be returned
to the secretary of this department :-
1. What public schools for either sex already exist
in which make any charge for instruction ?
[Underline those schools where drawing of any kind
is taught.]
2. State the name of every school in the
managers of which would be willing to accept the ad-
vantage of instruction from a drawing master ap.
pointed by the Board of Trade, who should give in
that school an hour's lesson publicly, at least once
a week, to all the scholars ; for which instruction
those managers would be willing to pay to such
masters a sum of at least 51. a year.
3. Are the committee of management of the pro-
posed drawing school of opinion that they would be
able to form a class for teaching drawing to students
occupying a higher position in society than artizans,
who would pay at least one shilling a week ?
4. Are the committee of management of opinion
that they would be able to obtain subscribers, say of
ga r
students
eynet,:rt, o
the who might have the privilege
proposed school, to pay a
olfl. parnedseunptiwn
lower fee than GI a week' for the artizan class, and
a lower fee than ls. for the generalclass ?
5. Would the committee meat, after
of manag
duly encouraging the teaching of the simplest ele-
ments of drawing in the local public schools, be
willing that every 6 ears of age,
student under 1
before admittance to the proposed drawing school,
should be required to 13 ess the ability to draw the
letters A. 0 in fair - outline, oss
of the height of twelve
inches ? W. K. DivxmiLL, Sec.
Marlborough House, Pall-melt
London, July 1, 1852.

SEABORNE MAILS.
..glighlfles that the mane are sent front the General Post-pate
.37 the night—and Mby the morning—dispatch.)
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THE
drunkenness having been preferred against William Burnside,
MERCANTILE MARINE ACT.--Charges of
late mate of the Pilot, an investigation has been instituted
and conducted under the 28th section of the Mercantile Ma-
rbionaert iacat,vbily3g found him guilty of the above charge, the Board the local mariee board of Glasgow, and that
of Trade have, upon consideration of the report and evidence,
directed that his certificate of service as mate shall be sus-
pended for six months, so that he will be unable to serve all
mate for that time.

r.
A MAN-wora..—The Clamor Publico of Madrid
has the following from Corunna, dated the sth :—" There
has lust been denounced to the tribunal of this city a man-
wolf, who, upon his own confession, has been in the habit of
going into the forests and killing and eating men, women, and
children. He was captured in Castille. He has declared to
the examining magistrate that he had two accomplices be-
longing to Valencia, and that they carried on a traffic with
Portugal for the fat of their victims. This horrible monata
added, that he had killed and eaten his mother and vista.

( :331154
LONDON, 'FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 182.

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Sanitary improvements, although long delayed,
appear to be among the number of those reforms
which possess the largest probability of their ulterior
realiz *ion—and th is simply because they appeal to
us through the commonest dictate% stilt 0. e „
u•pre.P,•vo-
tion I Never was a necessity for change more forcibly
or more pertinaciously thrust upon the Population.
Scarcely a week, hardly a day, barely even a Single
hour elapses without yielding some new and striking
evidence that in this direction is required certain
rapid and radical innovations. It is a question, in_
deed, affecting the health of the community. It is a
problem, the satisfactory, and, in some respects, the
readily attainable solution of which would materially
diminish the amount of the general mortality. If any
evidence were wanting in support of this position—it
would be sufficient to demand the attend-
ance of the Registrar-General before a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons—and the country
would soon Lam from the lips of that intelligent and
experienced official the good likely to accrue from the
alteration proposed by the advocates of sanitary im-
provement. Death would, assuredly, be deprived of
a very considerable portion of his power in the
metropolis if once those wholesome measures of pre-
a‘ltiou were enforced by the authority of the Legis-
-I"ure—supposing, for example, that there were purer
water and more decent burials, and better drainage,
and better ventilation t
Almost eve •
of ryL weekly report, in reference to the
Health
Gene London, issued from the office of the
Registrar-
11,:iii
ofconhstitutes a melancholy illustra-
tion of the
ments. Ta,:e
one of
.rse large sanitary improve-
°l he very latest of these reports
in proof, and bnz in mind
While glancing down the
list of particulars that the dreadfult scourge of the
Asiatic cholera has againa ). Pnred in the eastern
states of the European Continent. Remembering
this circumstance, and preserving in
recollection the
state-
ment fact of the very fearful ravages caused by
the the
epi-
demic in Warsaw, we cannot but observees with the Registrar-General
made by
culiar feelings, amounting in intensity almost to thp se
of consternation. Turning to this official report,
therefore, of the mortality in the metropolis, We find
in the single division referred to, that within seven
days there were eight deaths by " cholera" and fifty.
three by " scarlatina." The cholera, it is true, was
not the virulent disease known Lis the Asiatic, but that
lesser, though still of:en fatal, attack of
a similar kind which has unhappily in a great
measure been gradually rendered indigenous.
Whether termed the English Cholera or the Summer
Cholera—the disease •
la question proved itself in the
week to which we - here - .
a-e eloae-
g allusion, in all
respects sufficiently formidable. It carried off one
person in three days et Peeding,,
oe, another in five
days at Chelsea, anetle'r in a e
week at Belgravia,
another in a week at St. Gi/es'
8. another in twenty-
four-hours at Whitecross-street
I another in twelve J

THE SUN,

hours at Bethnal-green, another in four days at
Bromley, and another by the " cholera infantum" at
Kensington. Those were the eight cases within
seven days, and in the catalogue it will be perceived
that we have particularly italicised two of the
localities because we could not but be struck
with their juxta-position in the Registrar-General's
Report as in the highest degree significant. It is
another evidence, if any additional one be required,
that the cholera finds equally ready access into St.
Giles and into Belgravia.

In the same Report, from which we have already
quoted, the Registrar-General mentions a variety of
details in regard to the mortality in the capital,
showing the urgent demand of sanitary improve-
ments. Besides the eight cases of English or
Summer Cholera before enumerated, we find the
record within the same week of upwards of a hundred
deaths by diarrhoea—sixteen adults and eighty-nine
children ! Referring to three out of the fifty-three
deaths by scarlatina already specified, the Registrar-
General remarks that these three deaths occurred in
one house at Hoxton, and adds, " In that house there
are frequently very offensive smells, arising from im-
perfect drainage, and having a tendency to produce in-
fectious disease. The above cases were in a state of
collapse when the medical attendant was first called
in. The fatal results might' have been prevented by
ss and seasonable
onemedical
proper attention to cleanliness
aid." At Walbam-green, again, where
fatal cases of diarrhoea had occurred, it is stated that
the houses in the locality‘‘arenacsreowis oeededtnopeeixdceshsy;
each room in nearly every
a family of from four to six or seven individuals.
There is no drainage, and the smells are
very
yThe prevalent
medical
most offensive. Diarrhoea is
there now"—the local registrar adding,"
officer of the Wallsam- green district informs me that
the whole of his district is suffering severely from
diarrhoea and a low sort of fever, which he attributes
to preventible causes, such as the overcrowding of cot-
tages, want of ventilation, and deficiency of sanitary
arrangements:' Unfortunately the same ghastly
tokens of the want of these neglected improvements
are discoverable in almost every lane, and nearly every
garret in the metropolis. Testimony of this, we re-
peat, i 3 contained, week after week, in the important
and impressive returns of the Registrar-General.
Hitherto
we have looked, but, alas ! in vain, to the
Legislature for the desired improvements. Now that
a Cabinet has been formed that stands in need of ex-
tending its popularity by patriotic efforts in the way
of innovation, perhaps we may count somewhat more
confidently upon receiving the boon of a new and
adequate sanitary organization from the hands of her
ZYLIJESTI'S Government.

It is matter for surprise and regret that other
Chambers of Commerce have not followed the ex-
ample set them by that of Belfast—of actively taking
measures for the reduction of the foreig❑ wine duties.
The countries—France, Germany, Spain, and Por-
tugal— from which we principally import wine, un-
fortunately and unwisely maintain tariffs hostile to
the produce of British industry and skill. We fear
that, while they do this, our Government will not feel
called upon to reduce the duty on wine. It is now
five shillings and sixpence a gallon, and a duty of
one shilling, with the increased consumption which
would certainly follow, would speedily make the re-
duction no loss to the Treasury.
In the course of last Session the House of Com-
mons appointed a Committee to inquire into, and to
take evidence upon this question. The result of the
inquiry is embodied in the following :—First : The
high duty now imposed encourages adulteration, by
which the revenue suffers. The public pay dearly
for an impure article, and the general health is im-
paired by the use of deleterious compositions sold for
wines. Second: A low duty would prevent those
evils ; the revenue ( judging by analogy from all former
experience) would speedily recover itself, and in-
crease. Third : A diminution in the consump-
tion of spirits would ensue, and a conse-
quent improvement in the moral condition of the
working classes, who would thus enjoy, at a cheap
rate, sound and wholesome beverages. Fourth : A
large export of British manufactured goods would
take place to the wine growing countries, it being a
sine qua non in granting the reduction of the duty
upon foreign wines that the countries so favoured
should at the same time admit British manufactured
goods at a corresponding low duty. This .sine qua
non, by the way, involves the whole question of
reciprocity.

It is unjust that, the rate of duty being the same
upon good as upon inferior wines, the rich man, who
can afford the first cost of seven francs for a bottle of
. the best wine, has to pay no more duty upon it than is
payable upon a bottle of drinkable vin ordinaire, the
cost price of which is sixteen sous, and which ought
to be sold in this country at about fifteen-pence. The
large and uniform duty has the effect now of making
adulteration almost inevitable ; and it is a curious
fact that whereas the vendors of other taxed
articles are generally anxious for the reduction of
duties, en the natural expectation of i7creased profits
from larger calls, the wine trade neither ask nor
want a reduction of the duties on wine—for more is
made by the present mixings, and adulterations, and
"adapting the wine to the English palate," than they
could expect to make in the regular course of business
without " these means and appliances to boot."

If foreigners expect that we shall reduce these
duties, without their admitting British manufactures at
corresponding low rates, they cherish a vain expecta-
don. Mr. DISRAELI has authoritatively announced
that be will consent to no such thing. If foreigners
want to multiply their wine exports by ten or twelve,
they must commence by making their tariffs friendly
to us. Of all the wine producing countries, Portugal
alone has an idea of entering into a liberal system of
commercial policy. It is stated that several impor-
tant modifications of her tariff are proposed, one
of which would reduce the export-duty on
port wine from 603. per pipe to 65., which
would speedily lead to the total abolition of that
duty. But more than this must be done. The
"protective" duties, in Portugal, against British
manufactures and produce, range at from 50 to 100
per cent. Contraband trade is the inevitable result,
to the great loss of the Portuguese revenue. We
recommend Portugal to be " up and stirring" in this
matter of reduced taxation on imports to and exports
from Great Britain. Port wine, however " tawny,"
is by no means
so popular in this country as it was,
where it is
in course of being fraudulently supplanted
by French Wines.
It may become the policy of
France--
avowedly anxious to conciliate and stand
well with England—
o adopt a liberal system of com-
mercial policy, which would allow a fair exchange of
French wines for,British
manufactures and produce.
The
"English palate," too,
full flavour of the brandied port-wine which we
receive from Portugal. Ina few
years,
the purer
wines of France will have been substituted for " the
3LIEL'S
description), which has so lintoxicating dark fluid" (immortalized by BRUM
significant de ong been sup-
plied to us by Portugal.

w
haso beenhas accused,set in
Is o tried,
very
and con_
demlnnterdam. Intramural burial
coapl
inin
against it, that even the L
its onslaught against proved Legislature,
abuses, laturealways slow in
a,
nd alays tardy
in measures of reform, has solemnly denounced it by
Statute. The health of the living does indeed require,
and even demand, that future interments shall take
place out of town. With the unhappy probability of
a visitation, next year, from the Cholera—which has
been among us, like a devastating plague, twice dur-
ing the last twenty years—it especially behoves the
public to see that proper and efficient means of
extramural burial be supplied ; and we are happy
to find that great desideratum judiciously pro-
vided. The London Necropolis and National Mauso-
leum Association have purchased 2,000 acres at
Woking Common, in Surrey, about six-and-twenty
lmiles from town, and accessible, by the South-
estern Railway, in five-and•twenty minutes from
London. Of this, one thousand acres will imme-
diately be set apart for the reception of the mortality
of the metropolis,
On Tue
sderagynumerous company, chiefly consist-
ingpresEmtitives of metropolitan prisbes,
of the re "
ge,.;her With ealyto-
itinstpl:eec it ntvhi
et a
site
ii
teen
of o f
thtihseparobpoovsee-
men of various persuasions, went to
(liVaotikc,inn,gt,oo
dnaNnaeecdroApossl°is..
An idea which had got abroad that
the
low awampy
ground opposite the Woking station was the site of
the intended burial-ground, was speedily removed,