The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

SOUTH DEVON.

The report (of which the following► is an abstract)
has been circulated amongit the proprietors previous
to the half-yearly meeting to be held on Tuesday

next :
" The half-yearly accounts show an aggregate amount
of passengers and goods traffic exceeding that of the
corresponding half of last year. The increase in the
goods traffic has been greater than at any previous time.
The fish traffic
.along, consequent upon an unfavourable
season, has yielded much less than in former years. The
total receipts have been 46,4371. 2s. 5d.; the expendi-
ture amounts to 25,1691.
10s. 4d.; and the net balance i 21,267/. 12a. Id.; showing an increase of nearly 15 per
cent. in favour of this half-year. The disposable ba-
lance amounts to 8,9541. is. 5c1., and after reserving
2,972/. 16s. 21 as the fixed dividend due on half shares,
and of 1661. 12s. 6d. as the dividend upon the new shares,
dividend of 4s, per share on the 50/. shares, which the
directors recommend, would leave a surplus of 1,824/.
13s. 9d. The directors have received applications for
the debenture stock, of which they have accepted suffi-
cient to provide for the debentures due on the 15th
July last, and to admit of prospective arrangements
for meeting those a?yable January July
of next year. Availing themselves of the state
of the money market, they have declined deben-
tures at any higher interest than 3i par cent. The
works of the Plymouth Great Western Docks have
been resumed, and are advancing. The original subscrip-
tion of this company to the Cornwall Railway amounted
to 150,0001., and 22,500/. were paid upon calls, leaving a
further liability of 127,5001. To lessen this the direc-
tors concurred in an application to reduce the capital of
the Cornwall Railway Company, and abandon certain
portions of the undertaking; and they have since agreed
to a relinquishment of part of the company's subscrip-
tion. They have taken. measures for disposing' of a
portion of the remaining shares, and these arrangements
will have reduced the liability from 127,5001. to 44,062/.
103.; of which the sum of 3,375/. is debited in thetr
account. The company will thus hold 2,620 shares of
20/. each, instead of 6.000 of 251. Resolutions will be
submitted to the meeting to confirm these arrangements
for limiting the liability of the company, and to enable
the directors to provide for further calls as they occur,
by raising money on the security of the shares, under
the special powers to that effect contained in the Corn-
wall Railway Act. The directors have concurred in the
arrangements fur proceeding with the Cornwall Railway.
The revival of the scheme for making a railway from
Tavistock in connexion with the South Devon Railway,
has engaged the attention of the directors. The pro-
visional committee of the South Devon and Tavistock
Railway Company have proposed to raise the required
capital, and, to maintain the connexion with this com-
pany, to lease the lino in perpetuity. The directors
have agreed. subject to the approval of the shareholders,
to take the lease at 5,0001. per annum, and two-thirds
of the surplus profits for the first two years, and at
6,0001, and a like proportion of profits, afterwards in
perpetuity."

LEEDS AND BRADFORD.
years ago passed under
the Tchoi control
its final half-yearly meeting. The shareholders as-
sembledwhich some
on Friday, Mr. J. Waddingham in the chair,
for the last time. The report, and the dividend of
2/. lOs. per share, less income-tax, payable on the
24th August, were unanimously agreed to. Mr.
Ripley was appointed auditor. We give a summary
of the report :
" In pursuance of the Act passed last year, authorizing
the Midland Company to acquire this company's estate
and interest in thn Leeds and Bradford Railway, the
Midland Company have given notice that they ‘vill pay
the 1,800,0001. commutation-money on 4th October next.
lou the 4th October, this company will be
The Miland Company have created 18,000 shares of
1004 each, called 'Midland Bradford Shares,' bearing a
dividend of 4/. lOs. per share per annum for the first five
years, and 41. per share afterwards. They have offered
to each proprietor in this company, in exchange for his
Leeds and Bradford shares, an equivalent number of
Midland Bradford shares. On payment of the commu-
tation-moseypractically dissolved, and 'their mostgage debt and other
liabilities will become the debts of the Midland company."
The usual vote of thanks was given to the chair-
man, and the meeting broke up.

CHESTER. AND HOLYHEAD.
The statement of the accounts of this company for
the half-year ending 30th June last have been issued.
The authorised capital, it appears, is 4,339,332/. ;
3,255,0001. to be raised by shares, and 1,084,332/.
upon debentures. The receipts upon the capital ac-
count are as follows :-Upon Si. shares, 2,068,4371.
103.; upon 15/. preference shares, 629,980/. ; upon
9/. 123. 6d. preference shares, 146,101/. ; upon 2/.
12s. 6d. preference shares, 50,9851. 17s. 6d. By
loans, 1,084,3321.; calls overpaid, 500 Z.; advances
and surplus lands, &c., 188,000/., making the total
capital raised, up to the 30th June last, 4,168,336/.
7s. 63., upon which there is a balance remaining over
the expenditure, which. is 4,144,9801. ss. 7d., of
23,3561. ls. 11d. The revenue accounts show the re-
ceipts of the last half-year to have been by traffic,
50,8961. 163. 43. ; by mails' 14,9851. 103. 9d.; by
tolls and rents, 1,4341. 83. 41-making the total re-
ceipts by the railway, 67,3161, 155.53., leaving a
balance of 27,897/. 143. 8,1. in favour of the railways
over the expenditure, which amounted to 39,419/.
04. 91. The receipts from the steam-boats were
6,812/. 103. 3d., and the expenditure 6,833/. 133. 83.,
leaving a balance against the steam-boats, of 211.
3.. 51. Interest on debentures to 10th July, 1852,
25,8281. 9s. 11d.; balance carried forward, 2,048/
ls. 4d. ; balance of traffic and revenue account to 31st
December, 1851, 24,537/., less half-year's dividend of
83. 31. per share on proerence, &C., amounting to
18,633/. 83. 7d., which leaves 5,803/. 16s. 7d. ; ba-
lance of revenues account, 2,0481. ls. 4.1., making the
amount available for dividend on preference shares,
7,954/. 17s. 11d.

BRITISH ARCH.XLOGICAL ASSO.
CIA.TION.

In consequence of the decease of the Duke of Hamil-
ton, the father-in-law to the Duke of Newcastle, this
melancholy event (precludvil the noble President of the
Archeological Association from continuing his attend-
ance at the congress. The Noble Duke left Newark for
Clumber House soon after the news was received, and his
place in connexion with the business of the society will
be supplied by Mr. Heywood, M.P., who was formerly
president.
At ten o'clock on Thu rsday morning the members of
the association, accompanied by Mr. Heywood, M.P.,
left Newark by special train for Lincoln' where they
were afforded an opportunity of viewing the numerous
antiquarian remains for which the city of Lincoln is re-
markable.
On leaving the castle, which was one of the strong-
holds founded by Willia ea the Conqueror, the visitors
divided—Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Oliveira, SI.P., and
a number of the party proceeding to the residence of
the Archdeacon, who fled kindly provided luncheon;
while the remainder, at the invitation of the Mayor, re-
paired to the Town-hall, where they were entertained
with great hospitality by his worship and the corpora-
tion. At six o'clock the party returned to Newark by
special train.
In the evening a meeting of the members of the asso-
ciation was held at the Town-hail, Mr. Heywood pre-
siding, when papers "0 a the siege pieces struck at
Newark," and "On O.) churches of Nottinghamshire
and Lincolnshire," wore read by Mr. W. D. Haggard,
F.S.A., and by Mr. C. Wicln:s. Mr. Heywood also
read a paper prepared by the Rev. J. F. Dimock, giving
a history of the coilegictee church of Southwell.
Oc Friday Morning the members of the society visited
the old church of Newark, which is dedicated to St.
Mary Magdalen, and is considered one of the finest
parish churches in the ki:agdom.
The castle, the outer 'walls of which are in very per-
fect condition, was next visited.

Tho members of the as;eciation then proceeded to
Southwell to view the co!'iegiatt4 church.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.--WOOLWICII, ATIGUST
Captain Fitzgerald's company, sth battalion,
to proceed to Gibraltar, to relieve Captain Philpott s
isoa
pany, 9th battalion, at that station since SePten;iboepr' under
under, 2'orelcie_rf
and Captain Goodenough' s company, 4th ba!_t•ai_jam' iiten's
orders to proceed to Malta, to relieve CaPtal" nary, 1847,
company, Sth battalion, at that station the other
with large detachments of the corps t 7'
Gibraltar and Malta
companies, whose periods of service
at
aard mounting pa-
shoicellJaunp
have not yet expried, assembled on the gbing order, and at 3
rade on Friday afternoon m heavy nuunT E. c, Whinyates,
o'clock P.M. were inspected bY o°lv, who was accom-
C.8.K.H., commandant of the g r
Arnderson, Brigade-Major
panied by Lieutenant-Colonel
Bingham, g officers of the 4th and sq),
and the command
il3andant made a minute inspec-
battalions. The gallant corn
wintments, and they appeared a
inspec-
tion of the men and their apP
,-;age of the companies and
de-
fine body of men. T
tachments were put on boar
day, and they will
. morning for a passage
-he baT the Resistance troop-ship to-
embar : is.
to 1, at the dockyard en M d
thbraitar and Malta. on ay

NAVAL 1N TELLIGENCE.
NEW STEAM-YARD AT KEYHAM.—Orders have been
received at Devonport Dockyard to supply Weeks for
the entrance lock at the new steam-yard at Keyhm,in
order to be ready to receive shippiu:.! that may require
repair. On Thursdsy the works were visited by Sir
James Graham, accompanied by Commodore Seymour,
who was particularly minute in his inquiries into every
circumstance connected with the works. The Right
Hon. Blronet also visited the dockyard.
The storekeeper of Devonport Dockyard, Mr. Bal.
dock, has rallied again these list few days, and is now a

st o
Mediterraneanh ave
little better.
eft 61
station.bratar
Admiral Doodah's fleet, which has been cruising for so
clonngthac
d, to Vourla, and will remain there for
The fiee, proceeds
a short time. It then cruises to Athens, the lonian
Islands, &c,, and will return to lqiita about the first
be h,ourly expected
vceek in November.
at Spithead from Gibraltar, having
Rear-Admiral Dundas.
-Commander Dol-
ling, apprentices' brig,Lien..
front
tlirthe ofoffrCthaeperoduenclGoafttlh‘le.
morning,,
ling", arrived at Devonport yesterday
• 0, boys for the
The screw-frigate squadron
,minagyparteo
company
with
Dartmouth, where she had been entering_
Royal Navy. She sailed again in
.the evening for Fal-
mouth on the same service.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—On Thursday last the I)rillee
of Wales presented Mr. Bullmare, the boatswain of her
Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, with a gold call
and chain, as a itestimonial of his Royal Highness's
respect for his character and office.
The Barracouta, 6, steam-frigate, Captain the Hon.
S. T. Carnegie, was suddenly oiapatched to Madeira on
Friday night, disturbances (it is reported) having
broken out there likely to impede British intercourse
and commerce.
The Retribution steam-frigate, 28, Captain the Hon.
J. R. Drummond, left Spithead for Lisbon to-clay, with
dispatches for the British Minister and Rear-Admiral
Corry. whose squadron she will find there. The Right
Hon. H. T. L. Corry took passage in her.
Lieutenant Mason, of the flag-ship Victory, pro-
ceeded to Ryde this afternoon, in the Fire Queen steam-
yacht, which towed the Port-Admiral's barge, to em-
bark her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Cathe-
rine of Russia and suite, and bring them to this port.
Her Highness was saluted by the Royal Victoria Yacht
Club on embarking, and by the Blenheim, 60, at Spit-
head, and also by the Victory on arriving in harbour.
The Commander in-Chief and staff received the illus-
trious Duchess on landing, and she left for London by
the 5 o'clock train.

Rear-Admiral Arthur Fanshawe is namedasthesuc-
cessor of Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., as Superinten-
dent of this dockyard.
The Tiger, 16, Captain Giffsrd, left Spithead yester-
day afternoon for the Mediterranean, taking supernume-
raries for Rear-Admiral Dundas's squadron.
The Sampson, 6, steam frigate, Captain L. T. Jones,
icnomrepaldetienttsdcs for
rinay service.
gnandretureed to Spithead yesterday,
The Margaret Evans, line-of-packet ship, arrived at
Spithead this morning to embark passengers for New
York, and sailed at 5 o'clock.
Letters from China, delivered yesterday, state that
Rear-Admiral Austen and family left his flag-ship
Hastings, 72, at Trincomalee, on the 3d of July, not
intending to return to her, but to rejoin General Godwin
in Barrea.h and proceed with him to Ava. Flag-Captain
Austen and Commander Rice will return to England in
the Hastings. The former has received a reprimand
from the Admiralty on account of the severity of his
punishments during the Christmas quarter, their Lord-
ships' attention having been among otbtr matters chiefly
called to the circumstance of four men having received
"four dozen" each, and then been turned out of the
servic4 on the same day. The Hastings was very sickly
at Trincomalee, having between 80 and 90 on the doc-
tor's list. The Sphynx, 6, steam-sloop, Commander
Shadwell, on being docked at Calcutta to ascertain the
injury sustained by her striding a sunken rock in the
China Seas, was found to have a narrow escape of foun-
dering; her forefoot was shivered to pieces, and about 60
feet of the main keel knocked away. It was expected
she would be ready for service again in a month from the
2d of July.
ROBBERY OF NAVAL SLOPS ON BOARD THE SIMOOM.—

A.; two marines belonging to this ship; and three women
were leaving the dockyard, having been on board the
Simoom screw troop-ship, Captain Kingeombo, lying in
the steam basin, the women were observed to be ex-

tremely bulky, and to have very large bustles. By the
vigilance of the Dockyard police they were stopped and
examined at the gate, when the bustles were found to be
slop jackets, slue in bsgs were foiled others—in ail about
12/. worth of slops were fund ore their ee..sons. The
whole Eve were examined and committed for trial at the
next ssssion. Tee slops had been received on board the
Sirnoom, and the two marines had at different times been
placed sentries over the slop-room, from which place
about 33 jackets had been stolen. :The Dockyard police,
also, last week stopped a seaman with 201 b. of smuggled
tobacco at the yard gate. He is also committed for trial
for smuggling.
PLYMOUTH, AUG, 22.—Her Majesty's steam block-
ship Edinburgh, 56, Captain Hewlett, arrived yesterday
from Plymouth.
Her Majesty's frigate Trincomalee, 24, Captain Wel-
lace Houston, having been paid wages in advance by
Commodore M. Seymour, sailed yesterday morning for
the Pacific.
Her Majesty's steam-ship Magicienne, 16, Captain
W. Ramsey, arrived on Friday from Portsmouth, took
out her powder, and came into harbour the same day.
On Saturday she was warped to the coal depot to take
coals on board.
The crew of her Majesty's steam-ship Hogue, 60,
Captain M`Dougell, was on Friday mustered and in-
spected by Admiral Sir John A. OmmaneY. On Satur-
day she steamed into Hamosze, where she will be paid
off and recommissioned.
The Rochester lighter sailed on Friday with stores for
Portsmouth.
The Chatham hulk, which has been stationed several
years in the Sound for the use of the workmen employed
on the Breakwater, was towed into the harbour on
Thursday, and taken into deck on Friday to have her
defects made good.
A machine for planing, moulding, and cutting circular
work is ordered to be fitted in this dockyard.
esty's brig Bittern,
SHEERNESS, AUG. 22.—Eior
12, was put in commission yesterday by the Hon. George
Douglas (1851).
Her Alai esly's iron screw steam troop-ship Me acre
Commander John Johnson,
will b® ready to receive her
stores in the early part of next week.
Her Majesty's screw steam-sloop Miranda, 14, built
by Fineham, arrived here yesterday morning from the
Clyde, in charge of Mr. Pope, assistaet-maeter attendant
of this dockyard. She is to be stationed here as one of
the first division of the advanced steam squadron of
reserve.
The crews of the ships in commission were mustered
on Friday by Commander Henry Pryce, of her Majes-
ty's ship Monarch, Captain the Ron. Montagu Stopforel
senior officer of the port, being engaged with the testing
of anchors in the Medway.
Her Majesty's ship lisngaroo, 12, is to be launched
at Chatham about the middle of September.
Her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, will be shortly docked
at Chatham, to have her defects, which are reported to
be large, made good.
Captain-Superintendent Richards is away from omLaCha-
tham-dockyard on duty at the Admiralty. m
Acting-Superintendent during his absence.
The circular relative to peymasters of the Royal
Navy, which was recently promulgated, has been re-
vised in some of its demos, the substance of which is as
follows:
" Captains and commending officers of her Majesty's
ships and vessels are to be careful to
paymaster such clerical aid as appropriate to the
may
due performance of tht duties devolving be necessary for the
the larger ships, on him, and ins
the where the number cf clerks and clerks'
assistants admit of it,
these officers are to be the service of one or mot© of
PAY7easter.
" Flag officers and commodores may select clerks
(provided they are alreadiu the
service ae sub-
ject
to the approval of Admiralty.they
Captains, ctseee.
pointmeet, may also select one clerk, under the li--
conditions. such)'
Clerks, before being promoted to the rasof
the
periods
passed
clerk, must serve in the capacities, and fri'leavei to un-
stated to the Queen's regulations,
denies more rigid examination,theue
gind ws present, ern-
e ;aymasters' em-
bracing the mode of keeping ships anti, courts-martial,
counts, the duty of judgeeedv?ner and Admiralty in-
knowledge of Queen's regalfat:,noins, weights, and mea-
ntructions; also the value nea,_.:nn exchanges?,
sures, and the method of ca51,1115;371.
of the Chatham division,
anrl"v
Captain William
de:f forty years in the service, rue-
who has been upwar
neatiod in the full pay retired bat by,
needs to the vacaneay
Thomas Hicks Cater. First Lieu-
the decease of teal)
n tetrtnester John Huskisson, of the same
tenant and seaar- retired on lull
division,wtodeotnes captain, vice Gordon,
Lieutenant H. F. Cooper, of the Woolwich
PaY;, at present serving on board the London, 90,
R. Mundy, is advanced to the rank of First
Captain LX-•
ant,
C vice Huskisson, promoted.
Liceuerpetnain C. A. Parker, of the Chatham division, has
obtained a further leave of absence for fourteen days, and
Captain names, three months leave from the 21st inst.
A subaltern of the same division is ordered to embark in
her Majesty's store-ship Tyae, for a passage to the
Island of Ascensio2.
Colonel-Commandant Pilcher, and the officers of the
Royal Marines at Chatham, entertained at their mess,
tbe 13th inet., the Lieutenant-Colonel aud offieeesoitchne
With Regiment.
WOOLWICH, AUG. 21.—The Greenock, 10, iron screw
steam-frigate, fisted with engines of 556-'lO-
has been sold by Government to the Australian '2l73power,
Screw Shipping Company, for the purpose of beinSgteesmsa-
ployed in communicatiog between Great Britain and the
Australian colonies, now rising into
since the discovery of gold fields that quarter of the
world. The chief engineer, who ,11
Pe
nintended the fit-
tings of the engines, has been Off, red 181. per month by
the company if he wilt enter their service,k and still con-
tinue chief engineer of the Greenock.
The Trident, Lieutenant-Commander Robert P.
Harvey, was taken back into the basin to-day, to have

The Wasp, Commander Lord J hd lay, has
been
taken into the basin to have a new fLemast,t the present
one having started, and one of her cylinders, which-is
defective, made good.
The Resistance troop-ship, Master-Commander Manse!.
Bradshaw, was taken down the
tl
riveru from Deptford to
Woolwich on Fridsyaft?itir4tooner,a aws tii-
the baggage of Captain
talion, Royal Artillery, under ordera for Gibraltar, companybr y a
1, embarked
at nth ba an t-
d
'9. company, 411 a battalion 'tinder
Captain Goodenough
orders for Malta, with large detachments of artillery to
fill up the two other companies at AlLalta and others at
Gibraltar. The companks and detachments will em-
bark on Monday morning, Angina 23, and leave Wool-
wich the same day for their destin,ti„s.
The Triton mail steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander
Lloyd, on the Mediterranean station, has made her first
trip with the mail, and returned to Malta. She l4t
Malta on July 29, and called at the islands of Agrostolia,
Zante, and Patras, and arrived at Corfu on I* ugust 1,
and leit en the sth for Malta, where she arrived on the
Bth, and way unde: orders to leave again on the 12ih
with the mail for Ahxzndris.
The Modeste,lB,Coinmander Lord William Corapt on
was at Corfu; aud on the 4th of August the first lieute-
nant and one of the mates, with nine men belonging to
this vessel, vent on shore at Corfu, and played a grand
cricket match with eleven (Boers of the 92d Highland
Regiment, stationed there. The officers of the 92d
Wtgiment went in first and obtained 56 runs. The first
trarisanate,tiove asmaitoel,lyaritdarn:ne et' the l'fledesto
147 runs at their first inningsgpenTeriaaellVoffiarcei;;;uodf Gtbhte3i9.2"dl
made 96,runs at their second innings, and as it was
getting dark when they were out, the officers and men
of the Modeste did not go in again, the (Becks of the
92d having given in, allowing that the match Was in
favour of the naval parties.

NEW AUSTRALIAN STEAM-PACKET
CLEOPATRA
On Saturday a fine new iron screw-steamer, named
the Cleopatra, now lying in the East India Docks
and intended to ran between England and the
Australian
open
t
colone withthe inspection
passengers and goods, was
thrown
of a party of the
friends of the owners and others, previous to starting
on her first voyage. Several circumstances con-
spired to render the event an interesting one. Steam
navigation between the mother country and her
rising antipodean offspring is now only in i&3 earliest
infancy; but it bids fair to undergo a rapid develop-
ment—a result which will doubtless be greatly ac-
celerated by the wondrous gold discoveries in that
distant El Dorado. A walk round the capacious
docks of the port of London, where so many noble
ships are now to be seen, under charter for Australia,
with human freights, will attest more forcibly per'
haps than any other evidence'c
the prodigious and un-
precedented extent to whichthe •
emigration spirit
has permeated the
masses of our country-
men. But this daily increasing tide is wafted
from our shore almost
a exclusively by means of sailing
vessels, in whichtedious,f cry, and, at the best,
very irksome and •
four months, has to be
encounteredul voyage, lasting more than
This evil, however, is notli
k by the emigrant
to remain long with,
out a remedy. Invention wally
enterprise,
of human amelioration, are about t twin agents
add to their con-
quest by abridging the largour and
miseriesbn of this
protracted transit. Steamers have
new
to perform the Australian passage within two
started
at rates which already place the advantages months,f st
conveyance within the reach of many classes of :mar
grants, and which, by the aid of competition, will soon
render those edvantagee accessible to the poorest,
to
whom it is so desirable to see them extended. Among
the foremost in initiating this excellent movement are
the Messrs. M'Kean, Iti‘Clarty, and Co., of Liver-
pool, the spirited owners of the Cleopatra—a private
firm, and not an incorporated joint-stock company,
with all the appliances and machinery of a board of
directors and a general body of propritetors. Their
noble vessel, the Cleopatra, which was originally de-
signed for the Liverpool and Brazil trade, was built
in the Clyde, by Alexander Denny and Brother, of
Dumbarton. Her engines were manufactured by
Tullcch and Denny, also of Dumbarton. Her bur-
den is 1,500 tons, and her engines are 300-horse
power. Her extreme length on spar-deck from
tafrail to main stem,is 235 ft. 4 in.; breadth of beam,
32 ft. 6 in.; and depth of hold, 27 ft. Her engines
are of a different construction from those 4 the
Great Britain, having the lever hiultiplting power,
while the Great Britain's ere on the eteillating princi-
ple. She is ship-rigged (full frig fte). S:e contains
accommodation for 130 first, 120 second, and 60
third cabin passengers, and everything is provided in
the vessel for the first two classes, who have only to
step on board with a portmanteau and they are per-
fectly equipped for the passage. The third eloss of
emigrants are only required to furnish their own
beds and bedding. The rates for each class
are :—First cabin, varyime from 801. to 651.; second,
40/. ; and third, 251. The saloon is roomy, light,
and well-ventilated, and fitted up with much
elegance and taste, the panels being ornamented with
pictorial subjects from Shakspere's dramas, brilliantly
executed on glass. The vessel is fitted with six
water-tight compartments ; and an artificial refrige-
rator, with the newest improvements, is being pro-
vided, capable of condensing one thousand gallons of
salt water per diem, and rendering it perfectly fresh.
There is also constructed below the water-line in the
fore peak a large safe encircled with ice and salt-
petre, calculated to preserve fresh meats for three
weeks or a month. In fact notirmg has been wanting
in the entire arrangements of the ship to secure the
comfort and safety of the passengers. With re-
gard to her speed it is estimated that with any=
thing like a favourable breeze she will make be-
tween
12i and 13 knots an hour. In
her run
from the Clyde on trial as far
as the Spit Buoy,
off Margate Sand, she averaged 10 1-3 d knots
without sails, fair steaming.
The total value of the
vessel is upwards of 40,0001. Her cargo of goods
amounts to 600 tons,and
she also carries 600 tons of
coal. She is commanded by Captain. H. R. Cum-
ming, formerly of the Genevad and Livorno, Medi-
terranean screw-steamers carries an experiencedbr
surgeon. She leaves London'an
on the Ist of September,
and Plymouth on the sith, her destination being r
Phillip and Sydney • is the
, and expected to make
passage in sixty days.
When the company had completed their inspection
of the vessel, which elicited universal admiration, they
sat down to an excellent luncheon in toe saloon, and
and sf •
Ler drinking a variety of approen
zee toasts,
they retired, wishing bon voyage to the Cleopatra and
prosperity to enterprising owners.

IRE LAAD•rs by the Belfast
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.--It „Ir.Pe ir. S. Crawford is
Whig of this morning that .1)
~,t in no fewer than five-
about to be made the defee.,
at
the suit of as many
and-twenty actions for IDibotwn
whom the late long-
landed proprietors
in Rochdale assailed in a recent
winded Member for Rochdale
in that county. For the
letter respecting
ti:eho like details we give the whole
benefit of thesee whig.:_.
extract from this cRAwFORD AND THE COUNTY DOWN
.. ME. SuAle understand that proceedings h,vo
LANDLORDS by the landlords of the county Down to
been taken- n'for
_o action libel against Mr. Crawford for on--
bring 5 their conduct, which appeared in his
min C •••• ecting the Down election. In saying
we make a mistake—we rbould
'so action said 25 separate and distinct ectione, 11,
at"' large best for one u
rlibel,'
ueaided nr.n to meet. Lut the
Pr e,:,t;'„:::t: letterrsiEn h end t defendantsforn6
digeet3l
stated that step 3
the have been taken to secure the services
0f ablest Irish counsel on his behalf; and it is con-
fidently believed that such an exposé will be mede on
the trial (should a trial ever come off) as will astonish
her itlajesty's liege subjects. It t,eeurs to us that
the alleged complainanas have made a naiittike in'
this matter, and did we possess the privilege or peering
friendly counsel into their ears, wet should certainly ad-
vise them nut to pursue the course which they have
adopted. However, if the case should come into a
court of justice, it will interest the public very much.
and will develop an amount of evidence that will be of
vast importance to our legislators when they come to
consider the question of the ballot."
FIRE IN BELPA'T.—This morning the starch ma-
'refectory of M. J. Gardner, in Belfast, was cern-
pletely destroyed by an necidental fire.
Fiar, IN DUBLIN.--Tie house of a merchant-
tailor, opposite the Mansion-house, in Dawson-street,
was hurned to the ground this evening.
By COM-
' DEATH OF THOMAS KAVANAGH,
raunicAtions rEceivA at Borris House,Eis.tql
Cerlow, on Tuesday, we learn the deTis.ewetnty.
four,
K ,\,ene;,,gle, E.,1, at the early age _of t .t---oh e.
ThewsCotrn '
while on his passage from the for acme time
Australia, where be intended to remainlsetof Sumatra to
for the benefit of his health.

ihaas::::f lightning
l—itin°o ear
---_
TEURIFIC TIIIINDEIt SToRM AT EXETER;
ll°eld Double Thursday afternoon one onfdrritltheheeeampreloiasetlrs tremendouspart
panied by bail,
storms which the inhabitants of Exeter
aeration visited the city: 0f....:•en for a ge-
neration
; but about half-pai,t fl,ur o'clock the St
thunder most ter-
the day was
storm commenced
withfell, agurdeasto violence.oi eldeluged
d ;I'hoerr
streets.ents o f rain,T ii
eafecom
were exceedingly vivid,
de Loch, on
the banks of the Exeter Canal, was
rifle. During 'the storm. a house, ea
Some persons who were standing in- struck by the liglaning.
of the house were struck by the the passage, at the back
them, a gentleman named Burnham,electric fluid. and one of
the
was struck on the head sad was killed on the spot.
men standing near the deceas d died instantly. Two young
limbs, especially the lower e were struck down, and their
persous were standing at extremities, are paralyzed. Two
eata?trophe occurred the door of the pascage where the
-- and it • '
ning passed over them, l is a singular fact that the light-
struck the group leaving them perfectly unhurt, and
within the
passage. The storm lasted three
hours, and has been
succeeded by tine weather

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Slate of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morals-Lg.—The stations
an- arranged in order of latitude.
lifutriveAß—wind W., calm—partially cloudy.
Ptirafotrrif—Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
ElesTfivas—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
ae W., gentle breeze—foggy.
FouryszoNE--Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
'rultairmas—Wind N., strong breeze—overcast.
GREEN V./ICH—Wind N., gentle breeze— overcast.
moos-Wind N.W., gentle breeze--overcast.
Sw)Dmci—wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
Latowrow—Wind N.W., calm—overcast.
CoLcwr-Tritn--Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
C Ind N., gentle breeze—cloudy.
Y.awdoura—Wind N.E., strong breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the Wind and weather on Friday morning at nine
o'clock :

- -
DATEEICS—Wind W. gentle b
cloudy.
CABLOW--Wind N.W:
artially cloudy.
, gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
e—rain.
Poorx--Wind N. W. gentle breeze 7
LICIGHTON—Wind N:E., gentle breee—
LweatsinKr.--Wind W., calm—
Prinially clear.
winis-r—Wind N., gentle breezr.
DeIIILLSOTOI4--,Wind w., gentle breejgY,:.......i,
, gentle breeze _cloudless. cloudy.
BsArrocK—Wind S.
____

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(5mk41,444).4
LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1852.

Ministerial and diplomatic changes of a SOMmOWnoment
tit
remarkable character appear to be at this
simultaneously contemplated in regard to the French,
the British, and the American Governments. It is
Impossible not to watch the progress of events just
lave taking place in the three capitals, in Paris, in
cion, and in Washington, without feelings of pe-
culiarsolicitude—calculated as those events are so
materially vet. J to change the aspect of affairs in re-
ference to the relations
of the three countries
with each
spectivelY to°th", and in reference also ' re-
administration. question of their, internal
tlP:reci,ely at the period when the
Presidency of t,
c..e,zUnitc.d States is about to be
awarded by the
to one or other
olft12:-.1ala of the Transatlantic Republic
five several candidates for the
chair of the chief magistrate of
the American Demo-
cracy, there seem% to beat l every likelihood of an
extraordinary changetion of the Governmentateawst in the organiza-
tervie w which has recently aq'tiZt3rl• An in •
toaE
that capita,' between President place
and
in
protb ability of
esrminated
SeCretaryWEBSTER is described as
havingimA
so unsatisfactorily that there is every
Mr. WEBSTER'S immediate withdrawal from
post in the Cabinet. Meanwhile, almost i nambis
e
diately after the resignation tendered by Dar...rinnor;
LAw/tENCE, as American Minister to the Court of St.
James's, the flon• JOSEPH INGERSOL seems to have
been suddenly nominated to his post as ambassador
to the English Government. So much in regard to the
movements which have lately taken place, or are ill
general expectation, at Washington. Now for those
generally spoken of, at this juncture, as not altogether
out of the
question in Paris and in London.
Scarcely has M. CASABLANCA vacated his position at
the head of LOUIS NAPOLEON'S Cabinet,
s.ourra DE L'il scarcely has
M. D
ni's been inducted once more to
the offices of 'the I' •
nteign ,Minister, when a states-
man no less important than M. tHIEES re-
turns to the French metropolis by the gracious
pernais,,ion of the Pic PRESIDENT. About the
same time rumours that have remained some few
weeks dormant are revived to the effect that Lord
COWLEY will be nominated .i,nglisb: ambassador at
Constantinople, in the room of Lord STEATEOBD DE