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At the conclusion of the trial the Resistance again an-
chored at Spithead to await further orders. It is reported
she is to accompany the Edgar, Warrior, and Black Prince
to Lisbon, in honour of the coming marriage of the King
of Portugal to the Princess Pin of Italy.

A JH.REATENING LETTER.

We lately noticed the performances of an orato-
rical boiler-maker, who, with much more zeal than
sense, employs his Sundays in violently denouncing
the Pope to a motley audience who crowd about
him at the place where he has pitched his stand on
the Green. We have not heard that the extrava-
gant tirades of this misguided and headstrong
zealot have been productive of any effect in the
way of either silencing or convincing those to
whom he is opposed, but they haN a succeeded in in-
flaming the angry passions of gainsayers. It has
already been reported that they had gone so far
towards provoking a breach of the peace as to call
for the • intervention of the authorities. We now
learn that, as if dissatisfied with the slackness of
the powers that be, measures have been taken by
private persons to scare the poor man into quiet-
ness. A threatening notice has been sent him,
drawn up after the approved model of those san-
guinary missives by which an obnoxious landlord
in Tipperary is apt to be surprised upon occasion.
The following is a literal copy of this atrocious
production :

TUE SCINDE INDUS STEAM ELO7ILLA,
PUIVJAUB AND DELHI _RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

The thirteenth ordinary general meeting of this
company was held yesterday at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate=street, over which Mr. P. Andrew, E::-q.,
chairman of the board of directors, presided.
The advertisernent calling the shar4.thelacrs toge-
ther having ben read,
The CHAIRMAN said that on the last occasion of
their meeting he had to state to them the numerous
Were surrounded, but now
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trhihncY India amounted to £6oo,oooat they had almost entirely
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paid up, so that it would not be necessary to issue
any more new shares, or make any further calls on
the proprietors. As to the Scinde Railway it had
now been open little more than a year, and yet it had
nearly doubled its receipts, which amounted in the
aggregate to as much as the East Indian line, the
Great Indian Peninsula, or any of the leading lines
of India. (Hear, hear.) The result of its working
was not only most creditable to the officers of the
company, but was in the end sure to yield a profitable
return to the shareholders of the company. (Hear.)
The letter of Sir H.Pottinger on the scheme, and the
advantages which must be conferred on India by the
harbour of Kurrachee, had been already pointed
out; and the late Sir Charles Napier, conqueror of
Scinde, added his willing testimony to the vast im-
portance of such a line of communication. To these
opinions was added that of the present Governor of
Bombay, Sir Bartle Frere, and they would see that
in the course of the last eight months they had nearly
doubled the amount of their traffic, and were still
steadily and surely increasing it. In the present cir-
cumstances there was one object most interesting not
only to the company but to the Government and the
people of this country, and that was the supply of
cotton. By a report which he had seen from, the
Governor of the Punjaub, forty-four millions of
pounds of cotton were produced in that locality
within the last year, and yet, owing to a want of
communication, only eight thousand pounds' worth
reached England. But that state of things was
greatly improved, for he found that from Scinde
alone cotton to the value of £112,000 had been sent
to this country from Scinde alone, and he knew that
cotton grown in the neighbourhood of Kotree was
equal to any ever sent from America. (Hear, hear.)
All they wanted to extend trade was agency, and
not only would the line be benefited by the transit
of cotton, but indigo, silk, flax, and even tea and
sugar, would increase the profits of the railway.
There would also be in course of time a regular ex-
port of salt and saltpetre; so that all the principal
articles produced in great quantities in Scinde,
would find their way to England in the shortest
time possible. He eulogised the services and abili-
ties of their resident chief engineer, Mr. John Brun-
ton, who was present on the occasion, and would
give every explanation which the shareholders
might require, either with respect to the line itself,
or the Indus steam flotilla, with which it was con-
nected. So great were the improvements lately
effected, that they had now a bi-monthly communi-
cation between Karrachee and the Punjaub; and
the steamer Stanley, though not so speedy in her
sailing as they should wish, yet yielded the com-
pany very excellent profits in her trips from Mortree
to Moultan. There were many advantages which
this railway conferred on the particular portion of
India through which it traversed, but he did not
intend to detain the meeting by entering into de-
tail, and should therefore conclude by moving the
adoption of the report.
Sir T. HERBERT MADDOCK, Deputy-Chairman,
seconded the motion.

“Glasgow, Sept. 21, 1862.

"William tomson—Sur i hereby inform you that if you
do not stop praching aginst our Holy Church that you will
be stabed to deth some night soone for 12 of us have drawen
cuts and sore to kill you and i drow the short cut and must
kill you or be killt myself now you must hold your bad tung
or it will be done so help me God and our holy virgin your
a bad man wurs than gait or M'coll and as bad a man as
henry the 8 or bloody queen .bess your the greatest liar in
Glasgow, and that is a bigg word, for you never tell the
truth, your a thiff for you stoll the dead mans watch your
a hipocrate for you have no religion Your a heretick to and
will go to hell soon. Now i dont want to kill if you will
hold your bad tung so if you want to live and be a father to
your childer you will prech no more on Sundays but stay
at home and mind your boiler making if not i will stab you
so help me Christ and our holy religion—Your enemy
D 0 N." This epistle, which came through the Post
Office, is written in a schoolboyish but obviously not a
feigned hand, and is garnished at the bottom with a brace
of illustrations—the one a drawn knife, marked cold steel;
the other a coffin, with a skull and cross bones, and the in-
scription " William tomson, died 1862." Of course, it may
be a wicked hoax ; but it looks " awfully real."—North
British Daily Mail.

Mr. BRUNTON, chief engineer of the company,
explained the manner in which the lines were con-
structed, and assured the proprietors that the in-
crease of the traffic since their opening was really
astonishing, and he had no doubt that before very
long the line would have to be doubled. It was
wonderful to see the enthusiasm with which the
natives hailed the opening of this line. (Hear.)
The report was then put, and carried unanimously.
Colonel HILL complained that the original esti-
mate for the line was £soo,ooo,:whereas it amounted
to £700,000, and the original capital extended to
£1,500,000. In the report dated Dec., 1861, it was
held out that the traffic would be greatly increased,
but it since appeared, by a petition to the Indian
Government, that goods conveyed by railway were
so much injured by theft and carelessness that the
traffic was greatly damaged. He wished to have
some explanations on this subject, especially as the
traffic had greatly increased, and these irregulari-
ties, if not checked, trust deteriorate their property.
(Hear, hear.) Altogether, he though the proprietors
ought to be furnished with a more detailed account
of the receipts and expenditure of the company,
especially of the latter ; and he wished also to know
whether, if the line did not pay, the deficiency
would have to be made up out of the guarantee fund
of 5 per cent. payable by the Government_
The CHAIRMAN reminded the gallant officer that
the estimates originally proposed were made by
Lieut. Chapman on behalf of the Government, and
the company were not responsible for the errors
which had been committed by him. If they were
misled it was from official data, and not by any one
connected with the company. Their officers had
always shown a great anxiety to do the best they
could, and certainly in their management the result
had proved they were entirely correct. The railway
did pay its working expenses, so that the 5 per cent.
would not be touched at all, and “n account had
been already opened with the Government on the
subject with the best results to the proprietors.
With respect.to charges made in the alleged petition
of the natives alluded to by the gallant officer, they
were entirely unfounded, because so great was the
traffic that people had to be kept out of the trains,
in many instances absolutely by force, so great was
the anxiety to travel by the trains.
mr. BRUNTON explained with regard to the
works that they suffered -very little by the mon-
soons, and in no case had the masonry employed in
the construction of the line been at all injured.
The present year was the wettest that had occurred
since Scinde became a British province ; but in
no case had any water interfered with their traffic
or destroyed a single bridge on the line.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed to convert or con-

solidate Delhi railway shares upon which the full
amount of £2O had been already paid, into Delhi
Railway Capital Stock, and to authorise the direc-
tors to pursue a similar course in future.
Colonel HILL having made an explanation with
regard to his former observations, and expressed his
utmost confidence in the chairman and directors,
the resolution was put and unanimously adopted.
Thanks were then returned to the chairman and
directors, and the proceedings closed.

AMERICAN DISTINCTIONS.—The Yankees are a
wonderful people. They have the fastest trotting horses
and the lightest waggons, the largest hotels and the tallest
drinks, the cheapest and most scurrilous newspapers, the
most disgraceful bankruptcies, the most corrupt political
jobbing, and, to crown all, the biggest civil war in the
world. They go the whole hog in everything, and think as
little of spending two millions of dollars a day as they pro-
bably would of paying them when they come to be due, re-
pudiation being a favourite method of paying old dolts
when they aro found troublesome and pressing, Even the
English language has been remodelled on the other side of
the Atlantic, and the style of Bennet and Barnum is a de-
cided improvement on that of Swift and Addison. We owe
some of our finest words to the taste and ingenuity of our
Yankee cousins—such as locomote, location, caucus, bur,
kum, stampede, sockdologer, and last, but not least, eke_
daddle— a delicious word, 0° fresh' so expressive, so eupho_
nions, and so admirably fitted to describe the recent strategic
movements of the Federal army. They advanctd from
Washington to Richmond, and they have now kliedaddled
from iiiottmond back to Walgungto
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