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take us away without any oppAttDir,,
afterwards that he was sheik of one
(Jenaber) which were plundering us. \lpitablirbt='' •
the Other tribe was Beni-bco-ait. In th
of the day they quarrelled, and ranging theensAi on
each side of tt.o MIMS were going to fight, but they
Tr
thought bettVx ?J.-Ira:and made friends.
Oa Saturuktri:May 15, anchored rat Soor, and were
visited by Syed bin Abdullah, Sheikh of Soor, 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 there in what

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.ay they could assist me. With many thanks for
heir kindness, I begged of them to go down to the
wreck and endeavour to atop 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 Kalhat 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 great kindness and
attention shown to me by his Highness Syed
Syed, the Imaum, and also by Major Hamerton, the
British Consul. This gentleman insisted on myself
and officers making his house our home, and did all
in his power to make us forget our troubles_ His
Highness, immediately on hearing of our arrival, sent
his Vizier not once, 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
his Highness for his condescension and generosity, I
asked for one of his men of war to proceed down to
the wreck. Orders were sent to prepare the Artimise
for sea. Our crew were all sent on board her, and
the Faize Allum with pro-
our passengers on board
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 he 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 had
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 4in the morning, and by 8 P.M. that night was
all a taunto, sails bent, water, &c., on board, and at 9
reported ready.'
-Bengal ll
was unmooreudr,kaharuul, juedonue 2tsid2.e, and

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
an average, at the rate of from 225. to 255. per ton,
retailed to the poor
at
per coot.
cheap years,And these
price of from ls. 2cl. to
ls. cd.
as compared have been considered
b v retail ariith the two or three years
immediately preceding.
coals were sellinginthe London winter
to of
01h8i4g7h- 811
rate as Is. 10d. to 2s, p
prices than this have been cwt.,i,own
situated within a very
recent period. When we loonkt
to
lat e otherid with towns
respect
the empire, more advantageously
to the facility of obtaining coals
cannot but be of opinion, that even althoilgwhptrhicrl4 we
Lon-
don workman earns several shillings more weekly'on-
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 be must consume at least 2
cwt. of coals per week, which will cost him, on the
cheap average, about 2s. 61, or ls. 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 ls. 3d. Thus, if
the London workman earns, say 20s. per week, and
the provincial one 18s., the latter is as well off as the
former. The price of coals in London is
even more severely felt by persons in
lodgings, than by any other members of the
community. The ordinary lodging-house charge
for a week's burning is 3s. 6d., tee lodger being
stinted generally to about 1 cwt.; in the higher class
of lodging houses, again, the usual charge is about
ss. per week for the same 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 railwny s' however, has made itself evi-
dent in beginning to effect a chance. Recently a com-
pany was formed for the tole purpose of conveying coals
frroeimghttheiscosaol todmisutreihctbselw a London, and the cost of
f
that charged by the anti-
quated coal-vessels, that a great difference in the
price of coal 3 would soon become evident to the con-
sumer, were the operations or business of the corn-
PanY as yet of so extended a nature as sensibly to
affect the competition of the coal. vessels. Bat al!
effect will, without dou
t, be immediately havingodu
oe
sprung up in another d
by a new competition inn the
carrying trade
quarter. A steam-vessel com-
pany is about to commence operations immediatelh
us an antagonist to the Railway Coal Conveying
Uompany ;
those charged by the railway, the advantage is sure
to be and as their freights are even lower than
The like the days cf
t onopoly in cos 5,
of life, are hap-
s'aayins edc tom:i-a great
.degree by the consumers.
monopoly in most other necessaries
ofusials,
PUY nearly over in this countre%
Maure
who have inquired into the subLect.,
that the coal-fields of Great Brn ere yet. tincaol-,
and, that no panic need
culable in point of extent,
count.ess generations coal
unborn, experienced by
etvoe'ltee failure of our native coal
unborn, with respect
mines.

WINTELLIGENCE.
ESTERN RAILWAY. RAILWAY
the
BAinA'rce we gave
. a short cnslysis of the past
A few financial condition of the London and North-
roperty, showing that
. since June, 1846, the
!idecevuerprne:Phare capital had increased 9,302,5711.,
roan, bad increased 4,137,5731, the gross traffic had in-
'ore„ed 193,8211., mil the not balance had decreased
77,2091. The following statement shows the Great
Western paid-up share capitsl, debenture capital, r
&leave capita', gross receipts, and net balances in 1846
and 1852:

Half-year end- Half-year end-
ing June, 1846. ing June, 1852.
Paid-up share capital...— £4,679,695 £8,075,935
4,396,480 5,895,252
7,825,386 13,400,000
Productivepebentu re dittodi t
to
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 per'
tions of the Oxford and Rugby, and Wilts, Iveymou
and Somerset lines, as well as upon the unfinished worksu.e_
at the Paddington terminus—in other words, it includes
about about 2,000,000/, from which the company
pteswnt derive auy income. In 1846 the doleb,edlnaotsutrheaiinf.-
terest charged against revenue was 71,98.
revenue. was
year the debenture interest charged again:.
93,1601., in addition to which revennconwr_
f and-a-half per
1 with 32,4761. for inter,st on the fixed
1 taut. stoek.—Merning Herald.
_____ also charged

IMMENSE NEW IRON STEAMER. —We understand
More than
that Messrs. Burns have contracted with Messrs. William
and will hteh
Denny" and Brothers of Dumbarton to build an immense
steamer for the Cunard line of Royal mail packets She ironi s
are to also
facilitate. which the
to ha upwards of 3,000 tens bu den,
13, The
50 feet longer than the Great Britain. From
may judge that her lines will be very fine indeed,e model, we
material of which she is to be built will
engines are to be by Napier, and
horse-power, although capable of being'
other proportions,
this ironn ship will far sur-
equal to 1,000
higher force. From the great length sad other to a much
are ei l la
ibnovuntl st. to it will not be too much to say that
abutliledO.
qation, and will show
pro the
pans in speed any ether vessel
the world what the Clyde can pd .'
twlon
large screw
oust of upwards of 100,000/.,
steamers, to be called the Jur
tthraenusaesctsiorsn.,
.Bwahrincsh
Andes and Alps, the most forward nd .zEtna, as consorts to the
Me-
on Tuesday. These are in
iitta now fast
Cone'tantipople hue, progressing towards completion, for their
""'"lortli British Pail" Jfail.