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London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

AUGUST 3 1852

RACING FIXT

AUG

Brighton 4
Baru,t Iftlir ....... , 4
Edg,,,,?.:(3 .... 5 5
p:....iding
Bright:Aa Club. 6
Butigay
Kint.iol
\\743.verlittrnpton 9
Great Yarmouth lO
GlAtceater(Frogea,tl2)lo
11»Z::1 Grove
Touhridge
Reading

RES FOR 1652.

UST.

'LIBEL.
Weaton Zoyland and
Bridgewater ...... 10
Reddit&' 'o
Eglinton
d
Leicester 22
Liverpool H. (Eioylake) 22
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket F. O.
Chesterfield
Western Meeting
BER.
Newmarket S. 0
Perth
Holy well Hunt
Richmond
Newmarket Houghton 25
111BEB.
Cowbridge Runt lO

Morpeth .......... SEPTIE
Canterbury 2
Marlborough
Cheadlo
Warwick 7
.Wintehawcu .
Weymouth s
Rochester and Chatham 8
Airdrie
Doncaster...... •- l4 I
OCTO.
Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club. 6
Yorkshire Union Hunt 6
Wrexham

NOVE:
Worcester Autumn ••• 2
Epsom
IRISH RA.CI

AUG

Down Royal Corp 3
Phcenis: Park lO
Roscommon

Coventry .................. 12
Lynn .................. 12
......... 16
Plymouth, Darooport,
and Corawal ......... 17
York ... 18
113
Egham
Derby
Stourtridge 3O
Eccles ••••
31
Lincoln

SEPTI

.... 11

i 3 TO COME.
;LIST.
I Tuam
13411inrobo
31

Limerick
Curragh
Johnstown 2l

Cashel
Kilkenny 2B

Carragh ...
Down lioyar.Corp 2O

IBER.
20
Calow

WESTERN OF FRANCE RAILWAY.
A general meeting of the shareholders of this
company was held at Paris on July 2g, in one of the
rooms connected with the terminus at the Barriere
du Maine, M. Rivel, the president,
Near him were seated the f Ilw in h
g directorste chair.
Near :—the
Duke de Noailles, M. de l'Eohathire.
sp6., nI. Jervais, M. Ju-
belin, Blount, and M. Si • mons •
, also, M. Tnibau-
deau, the counsel of the company. AI ' Benoist dA zy
and Mr. Reed were appointed to the
a office of scruta-
tors ; and the meeting h^v•
constituted, M. Coutin, been declared duly
read the report. , the secretary, proceeded to
This document consists of t
the construction of the transverse
parts, one relating to
e branch lino from
Mezidon to Le Mans, to connect ersthe Caen line with the.
Western; and the other giving
esatenraceinnt of the results
line for the five
months,_ comprised between January
30. On the first point, the
ey 28 and Juno
a sketch of the various projects reportrhi gives
been proposed for the execution of the line in gel) hadi
and the reasons which had determined the Board to
ject all the offers made to it to act with others, and to
claim for the Western Company the exclusive right to
the proposed rdilway, so as to enable the Caen and Crier-
bourg line to give Lull satisfaction to the Rants of the
populations of Normandy and Brittany, from being
placed in favourable communication Rith the Western
line. It shows how the pretensions of toe St. Germain
Company to the proposed junction line were set aside,
and hew the claims cf the Western Company were fully
admitted by the Council cf State and the Legislative
Body. The whole length of the branch line, it states,
will be about 125 kiloni. (78i English miles), the con-
strue Lion presenting no particular difficulty, no tunnel
being required, and the line passing through a country
abounding in wood, iron, stone, and all the materials of
construction. The expense, as calculaied by the Minister of
Public Worhs, will be 34 LLtlllcus, or 272,000 f. per kilom.
But looking at tho facilities which the Government is at
,present disposed to afford for the new lines to be con-
structeC, the Board conceives that a great reduction racy
be effected in that sum, the engineers of the company
being of opinion that 200,000 f. per kiloin. will be per-
fectly adequate. But even in allowing a wine margin
for any unexpected circumstance, the expense cannot,
the report declares, be more than 230.000 f. per kilom.,
which will give a maximum of 30,000,000 for the total
coast. As a subvention of 14,000,000 has been granted
to the company by the state, the sum which the com-
pany will have hereafter to provide will be at the utmost
20,000,000, one-half of which will be issued in shares,
and the other half in debentures. The report then
touches on the probable produce of the transverse line,
and votes the opinion of Baron de Conde,
us expressed in the official report which he sent
in to the Government on the subject, from which
it was to be inferred that the line would give at least
IB,ooof. of gross receipts, or 9,000 f. of nett revenue per
kilom., being as high a return for the capital expended,
as is seen on the generality of the great lines in France.
The report, after stating that there wag no necessity for
raising the capital in question at present, as the corn-
, parry had sufficient funds in hand far the first expenses,
proposes to the meeting to sanction the execution of the
, lino in question by the Western Company. The report
then cornea to the second point—namely, the result of
the working of the Western line from tho 28th January
to 30th June. The receipts during that period
amounted to ... ... 1,525,610 f. 40.
And the: charges and expenses to 956,256 f. 120.

Leaving a nett profit Of ••• --- .560,353 f. 92c.
or seine thing more than llf. per share. The report,
howevrai., does not propoie to distribute at present as
dividersd the whole of that sum, its reasons being as-
signed 'in the following words:—`put after having thus
stated in figures the nett produce accruing from this part
of the 'vforking, we consider itonths
pour duty to re
llmsee our
ark to
yon tbitt the second six m he year wi
charges increased in a notable proportion. That aug-
ment4ailon will result, Ist, from our working at our own
risk avii peril fi•cm the Ist of July thethe elevates (Rigthe ht
Bank) line; tad whatever may beion of
produce from that line, we caunot hope that it will cover
us completely for. the charps attendant on our pur-
2d, from the interest and
chasini: , thst nilway•
sinking; fund cr the bonds created for the
profit of, the St. Germain Company, to
ion pa
the
y the
sum od 4,300,000 f. for the construct of
station. in the Rue St..lo.zare, and for the junction-line
of Vieeflay; and 3d, from the call which it will be ne-
cessary to make on October 1, and which, looking to the
prepared for these provisions, it
wants anentioned above, cannot be less than 75f. per
share. In order to be
the share CA t 312,500 f., being
appeers to as prudent to restrict the sam to be at pre-
sent divided amongst
y p id up of
a payerKnt on account for the first five mo
atluthsa equiva-
lent to' 10 per cent. on the cipital alre
7,500,000 f. The remaining 247,853 F. 92c. will be car-
ried t:. the credit of the second six months 'of the year.
realised. The
We cerseqnently propose to you to authorise the distti-
butiou. of a sum •of 6f. 25e. per share on account, pay-
able en and afwr the lath of August. The report then
enters ,ir4ton comparison of the rceeipts during the cor-
respon*ling six months of the present year end of 1851,
and shows that the difference. in favour of the former is
not leas than 2Q4,731f. From the information given
--1
hn
at into
been
between T.: a Loupe' and Le Mane, that
opma rptaonfaynttdho
chairswe .alri
des
will probably be delivered up to the
the end of next year. The board has enteredde
promptly
trea-
ties oa •Veryadvantageous terms for the rails and
suppose that in the
which will bc required, and every measure
T from
taken to ensure the'opecing of that section
as pea Oible after the works shall have b
the co.elpany. There was reason toetrpp
"11 given up to
pa is to Le
course of the years 1853 and 1854
eAblo No the construction of the line the capital appli-
Mans would have to be
held with. ' oun
by eat daining that the importanc he report concludes
sfoi ern
tohfo. I:ph
roe transverse smv etfestei lino
bm.ad eof having the conces-
would ace t
time aftcr that of May,- r'ing
in so short a
The report being eeurtifirl A
quired whether----eu, the Chairman in.
any shareholder
servathens to the
meetio
a wish to. that effect, g. .No one having expressed
chair, " approvin . a e.sol'ution was put from the
the Bo; rd with oftthe convention entered into by
by the Western theCompanyGovernment of the branch line from
The, d* •ci
4 tvi c. aof
Mans: It was carried unanimon- y.-
-°- 6f. 250. r share, as so mu"
on accfount on thewhole •Pe
of the year, was
also e
ty r . dividend
o 2 oved of unanimously.
eterminated,the meet-
Th, proceedings having then .
ing stiEarated. -1 .: .. , ,

N.."-
LONDON AND
understand,NOßTH•WESTEg
getting their
out
~
of interest that North-Western are, we rata The London and
borrowed capital at such
bered that on a former
enlar.rd. It will be
ioicexoatsliniollf-tyheeafirntabnecifau
mr„agement of the secretary,
irn a f°errnclei
Inv
idend will be materially
In uc 12 eulogised by Mr. Glyn,
considerable savings in
Mr. Sewart• was very 'rhe company were indebted to
who effecting
that gentleman i
i alit
. s Railway Journal.
interest.—LerparDßlFFlELD.—The capital account of
mittsoll A:shows,that 242,0271. had been received
Trentionedftonra
' this 0"ml:A up to the 30th June last, including
_nd evnen
the bankers and 211. to the
r tosecretary.
'i,1321 due
BON AND Runnti.—A' scheme has been for
1.0'4- i
some timea aoa for establishing a line of railway
;°r01,,, Ituabon to Ruthin. Mr. Penson a short period
;go made a survey of this line, which was approved
of; and it is now considered that the projectors have
every . prospect of success. Sir W. Wynn, Mr. R. M.
niddvilph, ALP., Mr. Townshend Mainwaring, Mr.
West, M.P., and other large landed proprietors, have
promised their support to the measure. If carried out,
it is believed that the line will prove of the utmost
advantage, to Ruthin and its neighbourhood. The
greatest facilities will be afforded to the farmers and
landowners, for sending their crops and stock to the
more lucrative English markets. The local traffic in
coal will also be much increased, and the Vale of
Clwyd 'will alto be thrown open to the tourist. The
line then would be carried on to the Chester and
Holyhead Railway, running into it at Rbvl.

KEEPER OF THE CROWN JEwELs.--Lieut.-Colonel
Charles Wyndham, formerly of the Scots Grsys, has been
appointed Keeper of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of L u
don, vice Mr. E. Swift, who retires on full pay, the same to
take effect from the lat of August. •

SPI rt T of t:.a PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—A Boston beauty once difieed the at-
tentions of a Pennsylvanian admirer as " Sorter
honest courtship and sorter not; but a darned deal
more sorter not than sorter." Siellsrly Lord John
Maneers, towards the close of the se lion, described
the slate of the n::ve Victoria-street sewer as " partly
satisfactory and partly unsseisfeetory ;" eor do we
doubt but that the inhabitants of that neighbourhood
could finish off the ccmperisen. Finally, Major
Dawson, on the same i.,uhject, has delivered himself
of an address which is decidedly both agreeable and
disagreeable, and ir, is to this composite oration that
sr.comidpikeelleidn
jaw:nceetarnnfefariji yi teel tts do
utros erlevfee
anecdote. If Io fr
remarks sew hadwe
sh
oguriadvhel y
have
e scaredannounced
u away
otyh eesvue
rby-
gteoniotthirsoawdvoeffrtiwseirtsb,
reader. The very name of the " Metropolitan Com-
mission of Sewers" ascends to the nostrils like the
effluvium of an " untrapped galley-hole." It is sug-
gestive of nothing but juggling, jebbery, cabal, hope-
less abortions, and interminable delays, and with the
inthuet
the drains
shade, zioboudyndwer ould
willinglyherm e
concern his
feet. Yet it is to this topic that we must perforce
return, and we do earnestly bespeak the reader's
consideration, for we have that to say which is very
greatly to the point. There have been three " Me-
tropolitan Commissions of Sewers." With more or
less discredit, these sanitary councils have been suc-
cessively extinguished, and on their ruins there has
now risen a fourth. On Saturday afternoon this new
Commission was formally opened, and the opportunity
was seizad with great propriety by Major Dawson'
one of the Commissioners, to explain at length what
had hitherto not been done, and why not; as well as
to announce what was likely or unlikely to remain
undone still. It has heretofore been a peculiar feature
of these proceedings that whereas the business of the
commission made no perceptible progress, the public
has been kept wholly in the dark respecting the
causes of delay and the chances of improvement.
These obscurities Major Dawson has betaken him-
self to remove, and in an address which, we may
observe in passing, seemed to enlighten his own col-
leagues quite us much as the general audience, he
gave a perspicuous and intelligible statement of the
whole affair. In this part of his exposition we are
hound to say that the speaker left little to be desired.
He acknowledged that the true object of the Commis-
sion was not the mere " cleansing and repairing
sewers, laying down a few hundred feet of pipe, and
sitting to hear appeals against rates," but the prepa-
ration and execution of " a system of general drain-
age fer this great metropolis ;" remarking, with
objustice, that in any other case there would
havouviebseen no necessity for the appointment of such
eminent and distinguished men to the office. He ad-
mitted, with unexceptionable candour, that as re-
garded this distinct and special object of three succes-
sive Commissions, the public. were " very nearly in
the same state end position as when we entered office
in January, 1849 ;" that " the river Thames was as
impure now as it was then ;" and that, with small
exceptions, " not even the surface of the ground
had been broken for the introduction of any
.main
sewer," Ile confessed that the first Commission
" did little or nothing towards the accomplishment of
the main drainage, owing to a spirit of rivalry be-
tween two of its chief officers, each of whom had a
c?lionsuredidstbcihcoaurndlee nld_
tois:shpio:ntd,osafhftoetrhrteetaeovtthisteihrna.;
critical peint, and that
aptiseoyjsoetcve,mnee
firs* step of the third.
Commission was somewhat retrograde." All this
Llt:jor Dawson did in
plain terms straightforwardly
avow; and such, speaking hy Comparison,
agreeable part of his commuitli c
. parison, is the
Commissioners of Sewers eppreei-an "3. To find the
their duties so
correctly, acknowledging their s!loblrtgc o
didlv, and publishing to the world so plomiinnes so can.
tus of their intentions for the future, is an eapt rr
smP ee -
pleasant surprise. In his exculpation of his predeces-
sors in office the Major is, perhaps, a little precipitate.
We could remind him, if we pleated, that the oblige_
wetebfor himself and his colleagues he now con-
teases, were for many months together not only
eluded but audaciously denied, and he will surely see
upon reflexion, that a Commission, in which the " two
chief officers" sacrificed the public interests to private
cabals, must really have been open to some merited
censure. However, we are content to let all this
pass—to consider that the necessity of a great system
was always recognised, and the impropriety of turning
the Thames into a sewer always admitted. If the
Commissioners will go honestly to work at last, we
will say nothing about arrears of duty, but will give
them all assistance in grappling with the realities
before them. These realities Major Dawson has
clearly delineated, and to this disagreeable department
of the subject we must invite the reader's attention for
a few moments more. Work cannot be done without
money, and the money of the Commissioners is pro-
vided by rate. At present they possess 3,3511. 193.
4,1. actually in hand, and from arrears of rates uncol-
lected they are in expectation of 36,0991. 17s. 43.
more, leaving a total of less than 40,0001. The rating
powers of the Commis ion extended originally to ls.
in the pound, a limit which was reduced to 3d.
some time ago, but increased again very recently
to 63. Under these powers, when exercised over
the whole metropolitan area, they calculate on
levying 181,230/. But, on the other side, they
are in debt 58,9911. ; the ordinary expenditure of
the Commission is computed at 48,4661., and they,
Nava a prospect of requiring at least 244,0001. for ex-
traordinary works not directly relating to the main
drainage system, but " of urgent necessity, the whole
of which have been repeatedly presented to the Court,
estimated, prepared, and ordered to be carried into
execution." For two years, therefore, at the least,
we are to conclude that the whole prospective funds
of the Commission will he consumed in works exclu-
dee of the great system of main drainage, and Major
Dawson openly informs us that this long•desired
scheme, though row actually devised and approved,
cannot possibly he carried into effect. Its estimated
cost is 1,080,000/, whereas the Commissioners for
the next two years will not have half-a-crown at their
disposal
for any such purpose. We
pose. aye no means of
checking the particular figures
budget is correctly expounded, it is perfectly clear
that the metropelit public - - ,an must eitner consent to
Ea larger temporary rate or go without purification
altogether. Tho points open
to inquiry are the
" ordinary expenses" of the
Commission, and the
exigency of the " extraordinary
works" which,
though not part of the " great system," threaten one
fourth cif its whole cost. As to the estimate of the
main work iteelf, we should hardly think, speaking
by probabilities, that a million was an extravagant
demand. We might certainly, if we were inclined
to be, captiout!, observe that the difficulties now ex-
plained at the eleventh hour must have been obvious
to every member of every Commission rhontbsand
months ago, and that a circumstance
which
h atr all e nders
is
nugatory the appointment of any Commission
not propounded with a very good Brace
councils. Waving at the solemn
inauguration of the fourth of these at once to the
this coreideration, however, and coming
,
dmit that Major Dawhon, la
point, we must a
has fairly made out his
mates are unimpeachable,
case. It is hard to forget that these Commissions,
doing nothing, have never been
though invariably doing
-"I. excuse for leaving everything
without anel Nevertheless
there are plain facts now be-
foreundone.
Works demanding a million sterling cannot
us.
possibly be executed by a Commission whose current
liabilities for the next two years must average
160 0001. a year. and whose gross available income
,
900 0001. We have fair complaint
will be under
R those who so long made a mystery of their
hist
ascido ; but if it is now duly stated, the responsi-
? future will rest with ourselves.
baits,

TRH NEW " PASSENGERS ACT "—An important
Act was
passed in the late cession " to amend and consoli-
date the laws relating to the carriage of passengers by sea.' '
There are 91 clauses in the Act, and several schedules, con-
order
extend
taming forms to carry the Act into execution. On the Ist
October the Act is to come into operation, when the "Pas-
sengers Act 1849" is to be repealed, except as to the exist-
ti nil ge l6i
tahb iol i tcitecsb,
earn, dlBe4x9c e. ptT
The Act is t
to an
in
Ctoou elivceil;ydaptased-
eenger ship proceeding on any voyage from the United
Kingdom to any place out of Europe, and not being within
the Mediterranean Sea, and on every colonial voyage as
',teed. It is not to extend to her Majesty's ships- of war,
&c. The Commissioners of Emigration are to carry the
Act into execution. There are various provisions as to the
accommodation and diet to be afforded to passengers. No
passenger is to be landed without his previous consent at
any port or plaee other than the port at which he may have
contracted to land. Her Majesty may, by orders in Council,
prescribe rules for the preservation of order, &c., in yesseis
bound to the colonies. Only a certain number of pat?:
gers is to be allowed, according to the size of the shles•
cc
forms in the schedule explain the manner in which the
is to be carried into force.
iir • the person
CHILD MURDER,---Christopher auaisey, ~ i
.
verdict of
against whom the jury returned ave ogb, coroner
Mr. Wasbr'v
murder" in the inquest held before •
found in I. adley-park
for Berke, on ;the ,body of the child tour
001.
Much praise
fishpond, has just been captured at L P
ivees, for the manner in
is due to the police officer, Mr. J..
Jeffers in wbich he displayed
which he acted, and the ingenuity , t e
h prisoner was con-
in effecting the, capture, for it apPaer
d corresponded with his
cealed in lodgings, at Lively°
-t• °slater, and that a Post-office
friends under the name o oim
b in that mune, from Moreton-
order having been sent t
a sent his landlord for the money,
in-ihe-Marsh, the prtrereaclinesa to detain the person who
when an officer Wash' be did, and thereby discovered the
applied for it, which he and eventually secured him. It
. ner's whereaeo d upon him that it was his inten-
pro()
ers faun
appeared by lettf
the
country the first opportunity dressed
tion to get outfre. part of his dress was got ready, sod
in womee'B,B, rt; fine large bustle, curls, &c., and his whip-
among it a cloy shaved off. He is now safely lodged in
kers were
eit his trial at the next Lent Assizes at Read_in,t
gaol, to awe
, woman, who was the prisoner's
swaLviv,
The n.ti,rll,lo the child, w hich, though born alive, she nevererasiz
es,
gave
triedb!"' on the same charge at themstent mourn i
M Sergeant was
r•
acquitted, the counsel for the prosecution against her, as
but 0
Allen) having declined to offer any evidence.
0.
crime.
he shockiti.
tdaisay was the real perpetrator of t .
ty, that Mr.
.1 authority, We ere inf.ortned, on good a the decease of Mr.
Cardwell will be nominated for Oldham,c
rep
resentation
of
Duncuft having created a VaCLECY to la
that town.--Liverpool Albion.