The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

The prospects of the company were very satisfac-
tory, and the directors expected a great increase of
business from the new access to -the Victoria station.
The reconstruction of the lift was in progress, and
guard against acci-
pdreencatsuintiofnsuturasef, aarnadsmp:ksseibthleemtos
impossible, had been
adopted.

Mr. RiCILUIDS seconded th amotion, which was
adopted.

and in the report was de-
clared,'fie dividend recommen
:auks to the chairman closed
and a vote of tb
the proceedings.

CLIFr.CON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
The report of the' directors states that the receipts
ftom the opening of the bridge on the Bth of De-
cember to the 30th of June last were £2,088, but
of this amount there remained a disposable balance
of .11,174. The directors proposed to retain £250
as a contingency fund, and recommended
that a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum
be declared for the period during which the bridge
had been opened. This would absorb £909, and
leave £l4. All present claims on the capital account
had been discharged, but for the works now in pro-
gress liabilities to a limited extent were being in-
curred.

MERSEY STEEL AND IRON WORKS.
The first ordinary meeting of this company was
held at Liverpool yesterday ; Mr. J. P. Horsfall,
M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the gross
profits of the year amounted to £24,362, and after
paying all expenses the directors recommended a
dividend of 6 per cent. per annum, free of income-
tax, on the paid-up capital, leaving a balance of
£2,945 after writing off all the preliminary expenses,
to be carried to a reserve fund. The report was
unanimously adopted, and the retiring directors
were re-elected.

trate he had sent Inspector Walker to meet the cattle
trains at Aylesbury station on Monday evening to
examine the animals, but, for once, no cattle had
been bought at the London market by Aylesbury
dealers. He, as one of the justices, would be happy
to hear any representation from the farmers, and to
do all he could to abate the danger which all felt to
be so imminent.

Mr. DENCHFIELD though the Government wanted
stirring up, and said he was in possession of facts
which showed the necessity of the most stringent
steps being taken by the magistrates to prevent the
importation of London beasts into the country.
Mr. SENIOR said that in Ireland the authorities
could prevent English cattle from landing there, and
he urged that a similar course should be adopted
here as to cattle both from foreign countries and
from London.

Mr. H. LEPPER did not think a quarantine would
work with efficient effect.

Mr. G. A. LEPPER said that the authorities at Hol-
stein would not admit English stock, and a gentleman
with whom he was acquainted received a telegraphic
message stating that the beasts which he wished to
ship thither would not be allowed to land, so bad a
reputation had they acquired. He still held to his
view, nevertheless, of the foreign origin of the disease
now devastating the herds in this country.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

SOMERSET.

The cattle disease has made its appearance in some
of the dairy farms in the neighbourhood of Shepton
Mallet, especially in the village of Dilcheat, and a
meeting has been convened for Friday, for the pur-
pose of forming a Mutual cattle Assurance Asso-
ciation.

BRISTOL.

A meeting is to be held to-day in this city, under
the presidency of Sir W. Miles, to take into conside-
ration the means of preventing the cattle plague,
which is now raging in many parts of England.

CUMBERLAND.

The announcement that the cattle plague has
' broken out in the county of Cumberland has created
the greatest anxiety. The place where the outbreak
was alleged to have taken place is Whin Close, a
small farm in the Abbey Holme, on the shores of
the Solway Frith, and its close proximity to marshes
where thousands of cattle are turned out to graze at
this season increases the fears of the cattle-owners in
the neighbourhood, who have manifested much alarm
lest the infection should be communicated to their
stock. There is, however, some reason to hope that
the case is not so bad as at first represented by the
people of the district. There is no doubt four cattle
have died under suspicious circumstances. Mr. Adw.
Graham, the farmer to whom they belonged, gives
the following narrative :—The four cows he has lost
were all he had on his farm ; one of them, a Gallo-
way, was bought at Wigton ; another, a short-horn,
was purchased at Cockermouth ; while the other two
wereAyrshires bought at Carlisle. It was one of the
latter, purchased at the end of May,that first showed
symptoms of disease, about a month afterwards. A
veterinary snrgeon was called in, who treated it for
pleuro-pneumonia, and at his suggestion it was sepa-
rated from the others. The animal became worse. Its
yield of milk ceased, it began to cough, shivered to-
wards the last, swelled and died, after an illness of
ten days. About a fortnight afterwards the other
three cows were almost simultaneously attacked.
Their symptoms were similar ; one of them died after
an illness of four days, and the others lingered about
ten days, having been kept alive so long, Mr. Graham
avers, by his care in giving them nourishing
" mashes." He is strongly of opinion that his cattle
did not die of pleuro-pneumonia, with the symp-
toms of which he is familiar, and his brother and
neighbours are of the same opinion. Two prominent
symptoms of the new disease were wanting. There
was no mucous discharge from the nostrils, and no
foetid breath. Mr. Graham is greatly impressed with
the virulent nature of the malady, and declares that
not one cow in a hundred attacked with it could
possibly survive. His neighbours are alarmed, and
neither he nor any of his household is allowed to
enter any neighbour's byres.

THE UNITED STATES.

o --

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1865.

the same. They tell the North that without their
money reorganisation is only a word. The rail-
roads are all destroyed, and even where there are
crops they cannot be got to the markets. A letter
from Texas puts the case very strongly. " The
Southern people," it says, " are broken down in
fortune, and they have not enough capital to make
roads and build up afresh their trade, system of
themselves. It can only be done through the me-
dium of foreign or Northern capital." As far as I
am able to judge Northern capitalists are not run-
willing to give the required aid, but they fairly ask
for some security that their money will not be utterly
thrown away. They want to be assured that the
South has distinctly and finally abandoned its designs
against the Republic. When, therefore, the self-
called " friends" of the South deny that it is con-
quered, and bid it strive to entangle the Government
in fresh difficulties by opposition in the Council
Chamber, they inflict the greatest injury upon it
which can possibly befall it. They keep it in a state
of poverty and destitution, and add to its present
miseries by shutting out the hope of future relief.
There are still Southern advocates who appeal to the
ignorance and passions of the seceded States by tell-
ing them that they have only to go through the form
of yielding, and disguise their hostility to the Go-
vernment, in order to be sure of success at last.
Such representations are worse than foolish—they
are wicked to the last degree, and seem to be inspired
by intense malignity towards the people they are
avowedly intended to benefit. No Northern man
will take his money into a State which scarcely takes
the pains to conceal its disloyalty. The South must
remain in the dust while its false friends persist in
affirming that it is in a state of incipient rebellion.
How low those Southern States have fallen is
constantly being illustrated by information of un-
doubted authenticity. Thus, the Governor of Ala-
bama has lately issued an address to the inhabitants,
in which he draws a lamentable picture of the State.
He looks back to 1860 when Alabama had a popu-
lation of 964,201 souls, of whom over 500,000 were
whites. It had nearly 6,500,000 acres of land under
cultivation, and 750 miles of railroad. " The value
of our real estate and personal property, exclusive
of the value of negroes, was V 95,277,078." The
contrast now is one of the saddest kind. Of her
young men Alabama sent into the field 122,000, of
whom 35,000 never returned. The lands' are laid
waste, the wealth is exhausted, and, in the words of
Governor Parsons, " our towns and cities, our rail-
roads and bridges, our schools and colleges, many
of our private dwellings and public edifices, are in
ruins. Silence and desolation reign where once stood
the comfortable home which resounded with the

joyous laugh of childhood and innocence." This is
a gloomy sketch, but every touch of it is true to the
life. The lives that have, been squandered cannot
be recalled, but the face of the country may soon be
entirely changed if the enterprise of the North is not
checked.