The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-26 00:00:00

MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
at Maryport on Wednesday—Mr. G. W. Hartley
presided.
An abstract of the report has appeared in The
Sun.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report and
accounts be adopted, congratulated the shareholders
upon the state of the company. Nearly all the
items of receipt showed an increase, and more
especially the coke and iron ore. Oa the other
hand, the maintenance of way expenditure had cost
considerably more than last half-year; but, as it,
had been stated on a former occasion, the maintc,-
nance of way recount would not compare favorLr-
ably with former periods, on account of the rel ay.
ing of the line. At present nothing was charg-ted
to contingency account, the maintenance of thew ay
being all paid out of revenue. The Bolton and 1717 ig-
, ten branches lv been let to Mr Nelson, of Carlisle;
the directors had gone over the line cn Mon day,
and he seemed to be pushing on very rapidly..
Br. COWAN seconded the motion. Ha said the
accounts were most satisfactory; and although the
working expenses had been large, the directors D.ad
done well not to be too anxious to get a large
dividend. With 10 per cent. he was complelzely
satisfied. He regreted the Board had not opposed
the lines to cross the Solway, which he thought
would impede the development of their traffic ; but
expressed himself strongly in favour of the pro-
jected branch from Bullgill to Brigham, which
would take them into the very heart of the iron
ore district, in conjunction with another lino now
in contemplation. There should be the closest union
among the West Cumberland railways,—a union
cemented by amalgamation or leasing. It would
put them in a strong position with regard to other
companies. It was most desirable they should all
be united, and, if possible, upon nearly—he should
say entirely—equal terms. Wherever such unions
had been effected they had gone on prosperously.
The report was adopted, and a dividend of 10 per
cent. per annum was declared.
The retiring directors and auditors were re.
elected.

Dr. COWAN moved a resolution approving the
projected branch from Ballgill to Brigham, and
authorising the directors to take the necessary pre4
liminary steps and apply for an Act.

The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
,o the chairman, the directors, and the secretary.

" SENDING OUT" FOR DRINK.—The question of
the legality of keepers of refreshment houses, not
licensed to deal in exciseable liquors, sending out for the
same to neighbouring public-houses, on being paid for theta
beforehand by their customers, was once more raised in an
excise prosecution heard on Tuesday at the Manchester
police-court, before Mr Robinson Fowler, the stipendiary
magistrate.—Margaret Cooper, the keeper of a refreshment-
house in Windmill. street, was summond for selling excise-
able liquors without a licence. Mr. R. B. B. Cobbett, who
appeared in support of the information, said that if the
decision already given in a similar case governed all such
cases, it would appear that there was a defect in the law,
which would have to be amended, or matters must con-
tinue in this trade in a state which hitherto had been
thought unadvisable, So far as the refreshment houses
were concerned, the practical effect of the decision given the
other day appeared to the excise to be this—A person keep-
ing a refreshment house, and not being licensed to sell
these articles, might nevertheless, unlawfully and practi-
cally, with impunity sell them, provided that person took
care to be paid for them beforehand. Mr Thomas Atkins
and Mr A. Cartwright, excise officers, proved that they
wont to the defendant's house about 20 minutes past 12 on
Saturday night, June 11, and ordered beer and wine. The
money was asked for and paid, the servant left the room,
and in about four minutes returned with the articles ordered,
which were consumed. The things were ordered at 25 minutes
past twelve, and supplied at 29 minutes past. They after-
wards returned, and, after knocking at the door, were
admitted. They asked for whisky, which was not supplied.
They had four men watching the house outside—two in
front and two at the back. Mr Fowler dismissed the sum-
mons without calling on Mr Robinson, who appeared for
the defence, to open his case. The magistrate said he was
most anxious to get a decision from a higher tribunal. He
had dismissed these informations on the circumstances of
each particular case; and in this there was abundant evi-
dence to show that the drinks were sent for. Notice of
appeal to the sessions being given on behalf of the excise
Mr Robinson tendered throe witnesses in order to en:
title the do'cndant to call them on the hearing of the appeal.—Mr Cohbett declined to eross-examino th-m remarking that a cross-examination must arise out' 1-m,
an an examination in chief, without which it would be impos-
sible for the excise to know what a witnes,) could prove at
the sessions. The witnesses leaving been tendered, Mr.
Cobbett tendered as many excise officers in addition to those
who had teen examined. Mr Robinson objected that Mr
Cobbett bud closed his ease, and that it was not intended
that the informants should tender witnesses whom they had
not examined. Mr Fowler—Then no harm can be done,
for the recorder will not allow them to be sworn at the ses-
sions, and T am anxious to raise every question that is in-
volved. The excise officers were then tendered as witnesses,
and the dismissal of the summonses in this and ono or two
previous cases of a similar kind will be appealed against at
the sessions.

BARNUM'S fat woman, Jane Pishon, formerly
emhibited as miss Jane Campbell, died at Brookfield, Con-
necticut, the other day. Her exhibition weight was 6SOlb.
Ten men were required to get her into her coon, which
was so wide that the door of the house had to be enlarged
for its removal.

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EVENINGLLOaNtihtCONCERTS
lEGY AL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN.
Selection from Rossnrs, STA BAT MATER.
Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs, Madame F. Huddart ; Mr.
Levy, mr. Carrodus, Mr. Patey, Mr. G. Per:en, and Ad Ben
BAND OF ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS.
The second part of the Concert will be Miscellaneous.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Promenade. Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One
Shill,ng ; Dress Circle, 2s. Cd. ; Private Boxes, £1 Is. and
jos. ed. _ _

The Box Office Is open from 10 till 5.
To-morrow (Saturday), a Grand VOLUNTEER NIGHT.
First time this season or the Selection from " Faust," by the
Orchestra of One Hundred Performers, assisted by the Band
of the told3trearn Guards.
On Thursday next, the Second Merrielssohn Night.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lessee and Manarger, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK-. Daddy
V Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray.
Atter which, THE STREET 3 OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson. H.
Forre- ter. H. Melton ; Mrs. Henry Maiston, Miss Emma
Barnett, and 31Iss F .nny Gwynne.

W TH EA. ritE-ROYAL, ADELP/11.—
::I.ite Pronriator and Ilanavr. A:. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MAID. Messrs. J. L.
roole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, and Mr,. Alfred Mellon.
After which, :MASKS AND FACES. Messrs. B. Webster,
Bedford, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart; Mrs. Stirling,
13:11. Billington. and Miss H. Simms.
To conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT- Messrs.
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, K. Phillika, and Miss Woolgar.
Commence at 7.

OUNTR Y and SEASIDE DRESSES.
' J Messrs. JA Recent-street,, of Reent-street, have now in stock a
:Iriety of WASHING SILK DUE-ISBS, suitatle for the
country and seaside, and at the c.earing,-out pace of only
£1 Us. 6d. the dress.

247, 249, and 251, Regent-street.

BLACK SILKS.—T
be price of Silks in the raw
material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon
reach a far greater per-cenfaare. Messrs. JAY, therefore,
invite their numerous Patrons to take advantage of the stock
which they can now dispoa.e. of on favour-
they have on hand.
able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b, more
costly as the price of silkfiuctuutes to a higher average
JAY'S,
217, 219, ant 251, Regent-street.

COALS.—The lALLESHALL COMPANY'S
COALS.
Direct from their own Collieries.
Marquis'.......23s. per ton. I Double ..20s. per ton.
Top ............ 225. „ Deep „
Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De-
pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf,
Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N.
Best Coke
Terms cash.
JOHN SCOTT, Sole !,gent.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 18641

It is some satisfaction to find that Prussia will
not succesd in her dire attempts to despoil Den-
mark without getting into trouble herself. It has
been said that the altars of NEMESIS are beneath
every outraged roof, and it is but fitting retribution
that some disapppointment should fall upon the
arrogant and aggressive Power that has ruthlessly
plunged an uneffin4ing, country into misery. The
ainouncement that Wurtemberg intends to propose
that this minor German States, with Bavaria at their
head, should form a third Power ia the German
Confederation—the other two being Austria and

be certain to carry consternation to
the Court and Cabinet of Berlin. It is well known
that for a long time it has boon the dearest desire of
Prussian policy to be at the head of the Germanic
Canfederation, and to supersede Austria in that
high positron. Fur this purpose strenuous efforts
have been made, and deep designs concocted, bat to
little avail, 39 things promise ev.mtually to turn out.
Last year the Emperor of AUSTrdA stole a march
upon his brother King, and, by his apparent

zaal in tte cause of progress, he contrived

to make a great impression upon the people,
and influence those whom he wished eventually to
govern dirmtly or indirectly as the case might be.
The idea of this triumph was a bitter mortification
to Prussia and her rulers, and doubtless in some de-

gree this disquietude was the orig!nal cause of thp
Danish war. King WILLIAM was determined that
at any cost his people shourl be diverted from their
ill omened notions of reform, and his venturesome
attempt has certainly hitherto been crowned with
signal success. It remains to be seen what the
sequel will be to this fitful presage in the history
of States ; and in all probability it may be said,
when we survey the consequences of the rash acts
committed that Le jet; ne vaut pas la chaudelle.
Here, for instance, in this Wnrtemberg proposition
we may trace a very significant feature of the times.
Coming events cast their shadows before ;" and,

dimly foreshadowed in the shadowy outline of this
proposition, it is really no exaggeration to trace the
.fiaal discomfiture of the hopes and disappointment
of the ambition of the haughty and tyrannical

kingdom. Pride goes before a fall, and if that
sin by which the angels fell deserves to
bring dawn on its possessor a heavy retribution,
surely cruelty, rapacity, and cunning:of no common
older deserve a signal punishment. It will be po-
itical justice, if not poetical, that witnessss some
stoppage put to the encroachments of Prussian
greed, and some check interposed on the career of
wanton covetousness and unwarrantable spoliation.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further has been
"said often and again since the world began to those
assuming mortals and pretentious nations that
dared to expect everything to give way. " See atl

things for my use" is considered a satire on 5?,138h

expectations, but the Prussians of the present day
are evsn worse, they appear to think that all things
are for their abuse, and that they may ride rough
shod over the feelings and prejudices of indivi-
duals and trample down the rights and liberties
of nations under the iron heel of conquest. Such

a course can never be pursued long with impunity,
especially on an extended scale, with the eyes of the
world upon the perpetrators of evil. The spoliation of
Denmark will long be remembered by al, who have
been lookers-on at the life and death struggle which
that brave people made with so little success. It is
to be trusted that, as well as the regret, there may
also appear many tokens of loss and discomfiture on
the side of the German Powers, and especially or,
the part of Prussia. This intelligence concerning
Wurtemberg is as the key=note sounded which will
hereafter merge into a tumult of discordance and
strife. It is a serious stoppage to the plane of
Prassia that the minor States should thus become
quite distinct from her authority. So vast and
various are the changes new taking place in Ger-
many that it is not probable if a settlement of some
sort ba made now which alienates the influence
of Prussia from the mane( Principalities,
that eventually events win
restore the chance
that is now being lost. The presentiment of this
.
-unpleasant fact make the Berlin Government
very savage, end, if possible increase
their present
ungenial aspect. ECQTT has wail said—
" Oh, what a tangled w b we weave
When first we practise to deceive

and it is most probable that the allied Powers
will prove the truth of this adage to their cost
The whole scheme of this Schleswig Holstein affair
has been tr perfect "dodge" from the beginning,
and as it has proceeded in iniquity, and the con•
spirators ha 7e ammaskl:d themselves, the world has
stood aghast at Vat) enormity of tha demand. and

the rapacity of the invaders. Some dark mystery
has apparently been in the background thus to
enable such a desperate wrong to be wrought in
this enlightened age in the most civilised part of
the world. If it be impossible altogether to fathom
the recesses and scrutinise the causes which have
combined to produce such disastrous effects, we
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that we have been
witnesses of that disgraceful passage in history;
we have taken a retrograde step in a path when
we were bound to go forward. If hope bade the
world farewell for a season at the fall of Poland, the
rights of nations in their integrity and independence
were extinguished in a great measure by the tame
and truckling course pursued towards Prussia
during the recent contest. It is not likely that
the smal:er States of Germany will now be willing
to place themselves under the guidance, or live in
amity with a kingdom that has shown itself so
fertile in resources to dupe and cajole, and so merci-
less in its bitter revenge when its wrath has been
roused by resistance. This affair of the Duchies
may eventually be a boon on the minor States, for
it may warn them to look to themselves and not
take the word of a treacherous friend, who may be
a covert foe of the worst description. Some
people may think that the worst of the war is over,
and thus seek to put away unpleasant reflections,
but the truth is that the fatal effects have as yet
hardly begun to show themselves. It is never during
the first shock of an event, in all the excitement
or irritation that the intelligence arouses, that we
can judge of a change or feel its bitter consequences.
It is time that brings this knowledge, as well as
many other pieces of information, to our minds,
and thus the nations of Europe have still to witness
the results of this busy year in the sad and still
period of reaction. 'When the conviction steals
upon the minds of observers that a double game
has been played, then may we expect a second state
of transition to arise. Ic is idle to expect that,
with all the interests and iefluence at work, one or
two kingdoms will be allowed to usurp the progress
of emancipation and the cause of freedom which
have gradually but surely been extending their way
through the people of many lands. It is not in the
terrsrs of revolution, or the fire of popular exaspe-
ration, that the real foundations of freedom
are laid; it is rather in the still voice of
wisdom that the tidings are preached that
lead to improvement and renovation. Some
such benign influences seemed at work in the
centre States of Europe for some years past, but
unhappily a check has been interposed. It now
remains to see how long this intrusive agency will
be suffered to work its evil way, but there can be no
doubt that the day will come when Austria and Prus-
sia will find their powers of no avail in controlling
and guiding those lesser States which they were
fondly tempted to sway with no delusive rule.
The tyranny and the recklessness displayed so
manifestly in all the dealings with the Duchies,
the Danes, and all the invaded territories, and
attacked people, have been confirmation strong of
the original intention and deep-laid schemes of the
aggressors. It is to be hoped that this proposition
of Wurtemberg will be carried into dint, and thus
some barrier interposed to the insidious and en-
croaching progress of Prussia. Nothing can be
better than to forestal her at once in every possible ,
way, for there can be no doubt that unless some very
striking proofs of resistance are evidenced without
delay, the course of events will hurry along until
it will take a vast deal of time and trouble to arrest
the progress that misguided and mischievous king-
dum is making so rapidly in the wrong direction.

" it n'y a plus de Pyrenees" exclaimed the Grand
Monarque, on a memorable occasion, but the words,
instead of preceding the ultimate union of the
two countries in peace and plenty, foretold the
desolation Gf the War of Succession, and the general
disturbance of Europe. The two great countries
on either side of the mountain range has, since his
day, been at least similar in discord, in bloodshed,
and in misgovernment. For many, years, indeed,
their fates were closely entwined under the First
Empire, but still the moral as well as the physics!
Pyrenees reared themselves immovably between the
grave, vengeful Spaniard, wed the reckless, irtere
cui:al Frenchman. It remained for our own day
to see the prophecy brought to an actual fulfils
merit, through the mighty agency of that inventive
skill, that potent application, that enterprising
science which so peculiarly distinguishes our time.
The snows of the Pyrenees, indeed, are still there,
and wayfarer and wanderer may lose themselves' if
they will, among the pathless wastes, or amid their
deep crevasses; but, nevertheless, a line of com-
munication has been opened so direct, so rapid,
and so certain, that he who sees one sun set in
Paris may see the next but rise oa Madrid, and the
pleasure seeker, wiih but a few leisure days, may,
if he will, take a trip to " the airy and bright-
minded city oi the Seine," and thence to the stately
old Castilian capital, without so much delay as he
would formerly have experienced in getting from
London to Edinburgh or Glasgow. An excursion
train between Paris and Madrid ! Very certainly
the Grand Monarque never contemplated such an
illustration of his aphorism, a triumph which all the
victories of TURESNE never equalled, an achieve-
ment which all the engineering skill of VAUBAN
never devised. Our sober modern days can eclipse
the brilliancy of that heartless reign after all ;
aua if our cannon balls are less active than in his
time, our iron is put to better purpose. The great
invention of the nineteenth century will prove a
valuable auxiliary to the great invention of the
fifteenth. Ready communication will remove those
prejudices and antipathies which militate so much
against the mutual welfare of nations, and will
educate and enlarge the sympathies of one com-
munity by a glimpse of the ways and feelings of
another. It is very difficult to give a faithful
picture of the tone and spirit that animates a civi-
lised life, and the most conscientious traveller
cts it but faintly re-
fl in his pages. Englishmen have
.:
often had occasion to smile at a Frenchman's at-
tempt to represent English life and manners on the
stage, or in the feuilleton, but our continental neigh-
bours may as frequently been tempted to smile at
an English transcript of the sayings and doings of
their vivacious nation. Countries further removed
by distance, and less on a par by education, must
naturally understand each other still less. It is
easy enough to describe the life of the prairie or
the backwoods in a few brief phrases, but the subtle
influences of a European existence, whether of
States or individuals, is less easily caught.
Now, when a few hours' easy and commodie
0119 journey places the forces of one county
within reach of another, it will be more
difficult for nations to cherish those animosities and
misunderstandings which sow the seed of war. The
visit of the King of SPAIN to Paris has been a
source of fruitful speculation to the political gossips
of the French capital, but its chief importance is
undoubtedly owing to the mode of the journey.
Royal expeditions are in our day no novelty, but a
trip through the Pyrenees is certainly an achieve-
ment not to be overlooked even in this age of
wonders. The inauguration of the North of Spain
Railway, at San Sebastian, was something more
than a mere empty ceremonial, e.nd it was not
Wanting in an arator in descant upon the "idea" of
the occasion, M. ISAAC PERBIRZ, in addressing

the Xing of SPAIN, found nmp'e opportunity for
indulging in those lofty generalities which French I
speakers are fond of employing, and which in this
instance were not too large for their subject. The
rapid transit of produce, benefitting trade and
commerce, the free expansion of ideas and ready
interchange of sympathies between the two great
peoples of France and Spain, were all dwelt upon,
while the hopeful signs of union and progress which
were perceptible in the prosperous results of so
arduous an undertaking, formed part of his com-
plementary address. "If we congratulate our-
selves," said the speaker, " upon these pacific con-
qeests, it is because they powerfully second the
religious tendency of societies to unite their forces
towards a common end. On all sides the way is
opened by treaties, whose first result will be the free
exchange of the various products with which nature
has gifted each country," The material obstacles
previously by nature herself being now removed,
or rather evaded, commerce will, he thinks, have
free scope; and looking on the successful termication
of such prolonged and arduous labours, the happy
discharge of so great a responsibility, the speaker
might well be allowed to be sanguine in his antici-
pations of the future. The works of the past have
been safely brought to a conclusion, what cause,
then, had he to distrust the prospect before him.
We heartily congratulate our continental friends on
the accomplishment of their arduous design, an
trust that it may fulfil their most confident au;varies,
for the patience, the industry, and the scientific
skill which have completed so vast 87.1 undertaking,
deserve a more substantial realisa'..ion of their visions
than any which followed thq premature prophecy
of LOUIS MATORZE.