The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

TIHE SUN, LONDON, TrE!SDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1853.

THE CORN TRADE.

The corn trade throughout the kingdom last
week experienced an unusual excitement. The
favourable state of the weather at the beginning of
harvest operations induced a belief that the crops,
although deficient, would be gather ,d in good con-
dition, and a considerable fall in the price of wheat
was the consequence. A change however occurred
in the weather, and alarming accounts of the want
of grain in Italy, France, and other places, added
to the ascertained indifferent yield of our own
growth, caused the market quickly to recover itself,
and prices last week ran up to an unprecedented
extent, in some instances wheat fetching Bs. per
quarter improvement in one week, and holders be-
ing careless of selling, unless at a far greater ad-
vance. At all the provincial markets—Liverpool,
Gloucester, Nottingham, Worcester, and others—
considerable excitement pervaded the trade, and
at most of them a large business was done in wheat
at an improvement of 3s. to 4s. on the previous
market rates, and Flour at ls. to 2s. per barrel.
At the markets nearer London, such as Colchester,
Ipswich, and Woodbridge, wide prices were asked,
which stopped business to a considerable extent.
The transactions in floating grain during the week
vere to a large extent, and very high rates were
.xtid. All descriptions of spring corn met an ac-
tive demand, which was only controlled by the
nigh prices demanded. The supplies into the
various country markets appear to have been
moderate, and the yield and quality of the new
Wheat is worse spoken of. The supply of home
grown Wheats fresh up to Mark-lane this
morning was moderate, a small proportion
only of which was new. The trade opened
with excitement, but with no great willingness on
.he part of the millers to accede to the prices
tsked. English Wheat is about 4s. to ss. higher
than on this day week, and foreign is ls. to 2s.
higher for all descriptions. Oats are about 6d.
higher. New Peas are 2s. dearer. We regret to
hear, by the letters received to-day, that in some
districts of England the wheat has been attacked
rather extensively by a disease, the effect of which
is to destroy the whole of the grain, and render it,
according to chemical analysis, to which it has been
subjected, positively poisonous. This disease has
hitherto been confined to some few districts, and
its appearance has been but seldom. As every-
thing relative to the probable yield of the present
harvest is now of particular interest, the following
abstract of returns on this subject will be
useful
THE WHEAT CROP IN ENGLAND AND
SCOTLAND.

MORAY.— Near Forres wheat is far under an average.
FORFARSHIRE.—Near Montrose wheat is under an
average. In the Brechin district it is a poor crop ;at
least one-fourth under an average. The temperature of
the past fortnight has been high, being a godsend to
the late wheats, of which there is abundance. Near
krbroath wheat and barley are now above an average.
FIFESHIRE.—In the south of the county wheat is
under an average. General harvest about Ist Sep-
tember.
MID-LOTHIAN.—Near Ratho the wheat crop is re-
ported as average.
DIIMBARTON.—Wheat good, but little straw.
LANARKSHIRE.—Near Hamilton wheat is reported as
being under average.
AYRSHIRE.—Near Ayr it has improved since last re-
port, though still late.
SELKIRKSHIRE.—Near Galashiels it is but little grown
but is under average.

BERWICKSHIRE, GREENLAW.—Wheat not an average.
DUMFRIESSHIRE, VALE OF ANNAN.—Wheat same as
last report, under average, and of less extent than
usual.

WIGTON.—Near Stranraer wheats are improved since
last report, and, with the fine weather, the quality is
likely to be good.

NORTH OF ENGLAND.--From the north we have in-
formation that the wheat crop has improved somewhat
during the fine weather, and that while in Northumber-
land it must be considered under average, there are
localities where it is " very good."
YORKSHIRE.—The wheat crop is reported as light,
but healthy ; very thin, small ears, and only half a crop,
a somewhat earlier harvest than was expected. Near
Leyburn ; average crop, and sample bold and good.
Near Richmond ; on the whole under average, much of
it spring sown, and will be late ripe.
LANCASHIRE.—Thin and irregular ; various.
DERBYSHIRE.—Good, but below average.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Wheat, with fine weather, will
be of good quality, but from the light crop, and one-
fourth less sown than usual, must be from one-fourth to
one-third less than an average yield. One-fourth under
average, and bad in quality. Near Clifton, it is reported
to be average and of fair quality.
LINCOLNSHIRE.—Near Peterborough wheat is re-
ported to be very good ; partially blighted. Harvest now
general ; some wheat in stack. There is still a good
deal of backward wheat that ripens very slowly. Near
Long Sutton, straw is under average ; grain average,
and very little mildew. Near Grimsby, wheats are cut-
ting up rather better than was expected ; not so heavy
as the last two years, but still nearly an average.
SHROPSHIRE.—Grain has ripened of late very fast.
Harvest has commenced and will soon be general.
What wheat has been cut comes off light. Near Bridge-
water, very deficient ; one-third below average. Near
Ludlow, much under average. At Little Wenlock,
about half a crop.
STAFFORDSHIRE.--One-third under average.
HEREFORDSHIRE.—Near Ross wheat is a fair average
crop; not so much blighted as was at first apprehended

—being cut unusually green.
WORCESTERSHIRE.— Near Upon-on-Severn I have a
less favourable opinion of many of the best and early
planted wheats than I had, and am convinced wheat is
full one-third short of average.
WARWICKSHIRE--.Wheat one-third below average ;
ripens very slowly ; complaints of blight ; very defi-
cient ; much under average.
NORTHAMPTON.—No cause to alter the report on
August 6. The crops of corn have ripened kindly, and
the cutting of the corn is rapidly proceeding.
HUNTINGDON.--Wheat, short breadth ; deficient plant,
improved quality.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.—Near Chatteris the wheat crop is
generally good, but not without a little blight and mil-
dew. Mr. Ruston's report of the period of harvest
should have been printed 15th August, not end.
SUFFOLK.—Near Woodbridge, on stiff soils, clay, or
marsh. wheat is one-fourth deficient ; on loamy good al-
luvial soils it is 10 per cent, deficient ; and on sandy and
light soils 20 per cent. below the average.
ESSEX.—Wheat not an average. The threshing of
new wheat falls very far short of the estimated yield. So
inferior is the wheat on the heavy lands that great num-
bers of labourers who visit the hundreds of Essex at this
period have suffered privation from non-employment.
Under average, late and blighted ; best on light soils.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—Wheat one-third under average.
Winter wheats unquestionably attacked with red mag-
got ; spring sown appears healthy, but backward.
OXFORDSHIRE.—Near Reading, wheat blighted, and
not an average crop.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Near Cirencester, wheat very
much improved. Near Bristol, barely an average crop,
much is very thin on the ground ; cutting has com-
menced. Near Gloucester, wheat is improved since
last report.
MONMOUTH.—Wheat is partially blighted ; two-thirds
of crops ; the spring-sown best. Near Abergavenny,
crops have not in any way deteriorated since last re-
port. Near Uske, much improved with the fine wea-
ther, but does not promise an average yield, and there
is nearly one-fourth less land under wheat this year.
SOMERSET.—Much improved, but below average.
Acreage of wheat unusually small, from the wet autumn.
Early wheat deficient in the ear.
BERKSHIRE, NEWBURY TO EAST RISLEY.—Wheat is
under an average, but a good sample ; the seed time
extended over five months, and the harvest will extend
over six weeks. Crops various ; good quality, but
F,liort in quantity.

SURREY.--The wheat crop is generally good about
Godalming.
KENT.—Near St. Peter's, one-fifth under average.
Near Dover, four bushels per acre under average.
Near Wingham it is reported au not half an average

crop.
SIISSRX.—Near Chichester the wheat is better than
was anticipated, but still under average.
HAMPSHIRE.—As last report. Wheat cuts a very
thin crop, worse than was anticipated ; quantity defi-
cient, quality good.
DORSETSHIRE.—Wheat thin and blighted, very little
cut. Near Dorchester, under average, and a little
blighted.
DEVONSHIRE.—At Tavistock, a fair crop, but injured
by rust ; somewhat improved by the late fine weather,
still under an average crop. Dartmoor, decidedly de-
ficient. Totnes, under average and much blighted.
Kingsbridge, wheat crop far below an average. Credi-
ton : The early sown is a fair crop, the breadth very
small ; the late sown very much blighted, and the
general crop very far below an average.
CORNWALL.—Near Holston, wheat crops are thin,
and certainly under the average. Owing to the heavy
autumnal rains a great quantity of land could not be
put into wheat at all, and many acres were sown near
the coast, with spring wheat, which promises better
than the autumnal; but, on the whole, it is thought it
will be a slight yield. Near Truro. below average.

tubers sound. Edgeworthstown ; We never had a bet-
ter prospect of crops in this county, and, I may add, we
have no disease in the potato crop.
DUBLIN.—There is no appearance of disease among
the potatoes ; the crop i a abundant, and of the best
quality.
CLARE.—Near Killaloe the potatoes are excellent, and
no blight is seen except on leaf.
GALWAY.—Potatoes good ; a little diseased.
KING'S COUNTY.—Dr. Bewley, of Clare, informs us
that the leaves of the potatoes are partially blighted, but
the tubers are uninjured.
LIMERICK.—The potatoes at present are very fine, but
in some you can see traces of disease.
WICKLOW.—BIight has appeared, but in mild form,
the tubers in most cases being uninjured.
BRAY.—The potatoes were never better; no:indication
of disease.
CARLOW.—The disease has appeared in some gardens,
but in general the tubers are sound and abundant.
TIPPERARY, CAlUR.—Potatoes very generally diseased
in leaves, haulm, and tubers, but still growing.
WEXFORD.—Potatoes growing very well; although
the tops are diseased, they have done exceedingly well
since last circular.

KERRY, KENMARE.—Leaves of the potatoes blighted ;
tubers sound ; best since 1845.
CORK.—Potatoes a bulky crop; stalks generally black,
but few of the roots as yet.
The Gardeners' Chronicle of Saturday observes,
with reference to the above returns, that—
" The wheat crop in England, though somewhat im-
proved since the Ist August, is undoubtedly much under
the average of the past few years. The potato crop in
Ireland seems to be a bulky crop, and though increasingly
affected by disease, bids fair to yield a large produce of
healthy tubers. As regards the other crops, the returns
received indicate, as those of three weeks ago did, that,
excepting the northern counties of Scotland, the oat and
barley crops promise a full average yield, which, taking
into account their unusual extent, of course corresponds
to an unusually large produce."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—A VEGETARIAN.—John Jas. Daw,
the eccentric-looking young man, who described himself
as a convert to the Jewish persuasion, and a strict fol-
lower of the doctrine preached by our Saviour, was
brought up before Alderman Lawrence, having been re-
manded for the purpose of having the prison surgeon's
opinion as to the state of his mind.
The certificate from the assistant-surgeon of the prison
of Newgate was handed in. That gentleman said he
could not " detect anything in his manner to make him
form the opinion that he is insane. His appearance is
peculiar, and his habits singular, being a vegetarian ;
beyond that he is rational, and gives plain and proper
answers to any questions put to him."
Alderman Lawrence said the prisoner had already
been discharged from the alleged offence of illegal pawn-
ing, and there was no charge against him to detain him.
The prisoner, who during his detention informed those
about him that he had tasted nothing but apples and
figs and pure water for the last two or three years,
and gained great strength in consequence, was then dis-
charged.

CLERKENWELL. A BRUTAL FATHER.—George
Pearce, a tall, powerful man, was charged, at the in-
stance of the parish authorities of St. Luke's, with
having exercised excessive cruelty towards George, aged
11, and Sophia Pearce, aged 5 years, his son and
daughter. The children presented a most horrid ap-
pearance, especially the boy, who was one mass of cuts
and bruises.

It appeared that the prisoner is a labouring man, re-
siding at No. 1, Gee-street, St. Luke's. For a length
of time past the lodgers in the house and the neighbour-
hood were annoyed by the cries and screams of the
children, which left no doubt that they were most
cruelly ill-treated, and induced them to give informa-
tion to Inspector Brennan, who, on proceeding to the
house, found the children in a filthy wretched apart-
ment, in great pain, and naked, the clothes being locked
up in a cupboard, where the eldest child was occasion-
ally confined. The children were taken to the work-
house.

George Pearce, the son, said that his father was in
the habit of beating him with a thick strap or belt, with
a buckle at the end of it, and also with a carman's whip,
both of which were produced. He was in the habit of
strapping him on his naked flesh whilst he held his head
between his knees, in order to prevent him calling out
or making an alarm. The last time he beat him was on
Thursday, the 25th inst., with the strap while he was
naked.

Inspector Brennan said the prisoner beat and kicked
his little girl, who had marks of violence on her person.
He had ascertained that when his wife was in her coffin
she was covered with marks of violence.

Some neighbours deposed that they were continually
alarmed and annoyed by the screams and cries of the
children. On remonstrating with him, the prisoner
abused them, and said he would do what he liked with
his own.

Mr. Brennan said the prisoner had ill-used another of
his children, which had to be taken into the " House of
Occupation," and he now wanted to get rid of his other
children.

The prisoner did not deny having chastised the chil-
dren. The boy would not keep to his school, and taught
his sister to tell lies.

Mr. Corrie told him that such dreadful weapons were
not proper to chastise such children with, nor was he
justified in the infliction of such excessive violence to-
wards them, whatever their conduct might be. He (Mr.
Corrie) would adjourn the case until the 16th of Septem-
ber next, when he should require his appearance before
him to answer the charge, and he and the children
would be properly watched by the officer and parish
authorities.

THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY.-Mr. David Crawcour,
of Windsor-terrace, City-road, surgeon, charged with
harbouring his son, Aaron Crawcour, whilst under the
charge of felony, &c., appeared before Mr. Corrie for
final examination, but no further evidence being offered
against him,
Mr. Corrie said that under these circumstances he
should discharge the defendant, who was then liberated,
and he left the court with his friends.

_Henry Blanchett, alias Blanchard, and William Simp-
son, charged with the gold dust robbery, both stand
committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Two
determined-looking men, named William Main, alais
Wilkinson, alias Darrant, and Samuel Bromley, both of
whom were recognised by the police as notorious bur-
glars, were placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt,
charged with a daring highway robbery.
The prosecutor, Mr. William Cecil, a retired publican,
stated that, on the afternoon of Friday last, he had oc-
casion to call upon business, in the company of his bro-
ther-in-law, at a' public-house in Hare-street, Bethnal-
green, in the parlour of which they found the prisoners
and several other men, who obtruded their conversation
upon him, and having been drinking rather freely at the
time, he was induced to treat them with liquor and other
refreshments. After remaining for a considerable time
in their company he proceeded to the bar for the pur-
pose of discharging his reckoning, and while doing so,
imprudently exhibited several sovereigns in the presence
of the prisoners and their companions. He then left the
house with his brother-in-law, but they had only gone a
short distance, and were walking arm-in-arm under one
of the Arches of the Eastern Counties Railway, when
they were suddenly overtaken by the prisoners and four
other men, who dragged them asunder with great vio-
lence, and witness at that moment received a heavy
blow on the face, which felled him to the ground and
blackened his eye as it then appeared. Witness was
unable to recover his feet from the stupifying effects of
the blow, but he was forcibly raised up by two of the
party, who held him fast whilst their confederates pro-
ceeded to rifle his pockets, from which they abstracted
his watch and money, consisting of five or six sovereigns
and a quantity of silver. After securing the booty, they
dashed him to the ground with such violence that he be-
came totally insensible, and on recovering his conscious-
ness he found that the whole of his assailants had effected
their escape.
Mr. John Evans, the prosecutor's brother-in-law, who
had also been knocked down and maltreated at the time
referred to, fully confirmed the evidence of last witness,
and positively identified the prisoners as having taken
' an active part in the robbery.
Bullen, a detective officer of the H division, who
succeeded in tracing the prisoners out, said they had
been several times in custody, and were associated with
one of the most desperate gangs in the neighbourhood of
Whitechapel.
The prisoners, who disclaimed all participation in the
robbery, were ordered to be remanded for a week.

LAMBETH.—CHARGE OF FORGERY AND FRAUD.—
Joseph Rottenstein who turns out to be a German im-
postor, and has been frequently before the Hon. G. C.
Norton on charges of forgery and fraud, was again
placed at the bar before the same magistrate for final
examination.

Litutenant-Colonel Daniel Ihasz, aide-de-camp to M.
Kossuth, was present, and Mr. NV. Pearce, barrister,
attended for the accused.

Wood, the constable, who had the case in hand, and
by whose active exertions much of the sham character
of the prisoner has been brought to light, informed the
magistrate, that he was prepared with witnesses, whose
testimony would remove all doubt with regard to the
prisoner's assuming a name and character to which he
had not the slightest pretensions whatever. There was,
in attendance, one witness, who knew the person of
Joseph Rottenstein perfectly well, and was present
when that person received from the hands of M. Kossuth
the certificate produced, and which had been used by
the prisoner for begging purposes. He then called—
Louis Lovenski, who deposed, that he formerly be-
longed to the Commissariat department of the Hunga-
rian army under Kossuth, and knew Joseph Rotten-
stein very well. He first knew him as a private indi-
vidual in Hungary, and subsequently when in the army
of independence, in the 62nd or 72nd regiment, he
thought it was. In the month of Septembr last year
he (witness) accidentally met Rottenstein at the house
of a barber, to whose shop he went to shave, and at
that time he had but just come from Hungary, having
escaped from prison. He was at the time in a state of
great distress, and witness assisted him as well as his
means enabled him, and subsequently accompanied him
to the house of M. Kossuth, when he received from
that gentleman the certificate produced. He afterwards
accompanied Rottenstein to the residence of Lord
Dudley Stuart, when Rottenstein received from that
nobleman one sovereign towards his support.
Mr. Norton—ls that person (pointing to the pri-
soner) at all like the Rottenstein you have been speak-
ing about ?
Witness (indignantly).—Never. No more alike than
day and night.
Mr. Pearce—May there not have been other Joseph
Rottensteins besides the person you have been represent.
ing ?
Witness—Not as Hungarian exiles.
Mr. Pearce—When had you seen this Rottenstein
before the time you met him at the barber's shop ?
Witness—ln the year 1847, at Pesth.
Mr. Pearce—And you are sure he belonged to the
62nd or 72nd regiment ?
Witness—Yes, I think so.
Mr. Norton—You have stated that Rottenstein, in
your presence, received a sovereign from Lord Dudley
Stuart. Was that sovereign entered on the certificate ?
Witness —Yes, sir ; but the entry, as I now see, was
altered from one to four pounds, and this was the only
subscription entered on the certificate when I last saw
it, but there are several others now.
Mr. Pearce—Pray, Mr. Lovinski, what do you do
yourself for your living, besides taking these petitions
and letters about ?
Witness—l am a commercial traveller, and dispose of
fancy stationery.
The witness, in answer to some further questions, said
that soon after he relieved Rottenstein he saw him very
well dressed, with a watch and chain, and fine rings on.
He was a fine young man, with a military bearing, and
stood nearly, if not quite, six feet high. When he called
on M. Kossuth, Rottenstein was lame from the effects
of a wound in his leg, and had also a wound on the back
of his head.

A female, at whose house Joseph Rottenstein lodged,
deposed that there was not the slightest similarity be-
tween that person and the prisoner.
Wood, the constable, here informed the magistrate
that on Friday last he called at the New City Prison,
at Holloway, in company with Colonel Ihasz, the gen-
tleman then present, and there saw Joseph Rottenstein
undergoing twelve months' imprisonment, t.o which he
had been sentenced in April last, for stealing a watch
from a house at which he lodged in the Minories.. Co-
lonel Ihasz, on seeing him, at once recognised Mai a$

the person who was described in and received the certi
ficate from M. Kossuth, in September last.
Colonel Ihasz was here sworn, and fully corroborated
the constable's statement.
Mr. Pearce here said, that the evidence, coming from
such unexceptionable authority, was so conclusive and
convincing that he could not think of taking up the
further !time of the court in contending against it,
and should not therefore make any further observation.
Mr. Norton remarked, that it must be quite apparent
to any one who had heard the evidence adduced on that
day, that the prisoner, instead of being the brave soldier
whom he personated, was but a low contemptible knave.
It was impossible to conceive infamy of a more haze or
contemptible character than that of which the wretched
prisoner had been guilty. In the first place, he had pos-
sessed himself, by the most dishonourable and dishonest
means—in fact, he had stolen it—of the discharge of
his countryman Becker ; and in order that he might
continue to keep this paper for begging purposes,
had maliciously committed an act of forgery, with
the view of entrapping him, Becker, into a criminal
offence, and thereby get him out of the way. In the
next place, he had by equally dishonest means possessed
himself of the certificates granted to a brave man, who,
whatever his faults might have been was a brave Hungarian
soldier, for begging purposes, and with the view of im-
posing on the benevolent ; and conduct like this could
not be too stronly deprecated. When he (Mr. Norton)
had first seen the prisoner, his impression was that he
was not the gallant Hungarian soldier he represented
himself to be, but, on the contrary, that he was some
paltry German tailor, and this impression he believed to
be the correct one. There was one good, however,
which he, Mr. Norton, hoped would result to the pub-
lic from the present inquiry, and it was this, that it will
show that there are a class of foreigners like the prisoner,
not only living well, but revelling in dissipation at its
expense, and he sincerely hoped it would have the very
desirable effect of putting the benevolent upon their
guard, and induce them to make the necessary inquiries
into the characters of the applicants for their bounty
and the objects upon which they bestow them. In con-
, elusion, the magistrate, addressing the prisoner, ob-
served that there was a clear charge of forgery esta-
blished against him in uttering a pawnbroker's duplicate,
and on this charge lie should send him before a jury had
it not been that an important and necessary witness was
at present in France, and in his absence a conviction
would be doubtful. There were two other charges
against the prisoner of obtaining money under false pre-
tences, but on those there was only one in which he,
Mr. Norton, had jurisdiction, and that was for obtain-
ing from the Duke of Cambridge a sovereign by means
of fraud. For this offence he should send hun to the
House of Correction for the longest period the law en-
abled him, namely, three months. And he should re-
commend the officer in the case, as soon as the three
months were up, to take prisoner before the Lord
Mayor, and charge him with receiving money from the
American Consul, in the City, by fraud. In the mean-
time, lie (Mr. Norton) would see if he could not get toe
case of forgery in a form to be sent before a jury, for he
could not conceive a worse offence than that of which the
prisoner had been guilty.
Mr. Pearce assured the court that the pertinacity
with which the prisoner had urged his perfect title to
the name and rank he assumed, was such as to whully
mislead him and the gentleman by whom he was in-
structed.

Mr. Norton remarked that the accused had exhibited
more impudence than he ever recollected to have seen
displayed, and it was almost a pity that Mr. Pearce
should have wasted so much talent on him.

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The prisoner was then removed from the bar to the
strong-room, where he was soon visited by a common
prostitute, with whom he lived up to the time of his
apprehension.

WEST-END OF LONDON AND CRYSTAL

PALACE.

The first half-yearly general meeting of the share-
holders in this company was held yesterday at the com-
pany's offices, 3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; Mr.
Thomas, deputy chairman, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said they had obtained their act of
Parliament for which they were mainly indebted to the
exertions of their excellent chairman, Mr. Geach. The
report of the directors was as follows :
"The West-end of London and Crystal Palace Rail-
way commences on the Surrey side of the new bridge
now constructing across the Thames, between Battersea
and Pimlico, and, passing under the South-Western
Railway, runs along the south side of the latter up to
Wandsworth-common, where it forms a junction with
the Southampton main line, and crossing the common,
traverses the districts of Balham, Tooting, Streatham,
and Norwood, entering the grounds of the Crystal Pa-
lace by a tunnel, where a joint station will receive the
traffic carried on this and the Brighton Crystal Branch.
Passing thence, the line runs down to the Brighton
Railway, effecting a junction with it at the Norwood
station. Forming thus, as it does, the West-end feeder
to the Crystal Palace, the West-end branch and termi-
nus to the Brighton and South-Eastern lines, the only
link between the two great southern systems and the
channel by which any western communication between
the railways north and south of the Thames (certain to
be one day made), must pass, this railway cannot fail
to become one of the most remunerative and valuable
lines, not only in the neighbourhood of the metropolis,
but in the whole of England. As regards its position
with the great companies on either side, the bill was
bill was obtained so late in the session that there has
not been time to enter into any definite arrangements.
The directors may, however, state that the Brighton
Company are fully sensible of the advantages of the
West•end terminu,, afforded them by this line, and there
is every prospect of a most beneficial arrangement with
them, and they hope with the South-Eastern also.
With the South-Western this company are not upon
absolute terms of hostility, ; but the directors feel
after the opposition made to the bill in Parliament by
that company, that the first overtures should not be
made by them. A very short time will, therefore,
suffice to place this line in a position of the utmost ad-
vantage to themselves and beneficial to other com-
panies."

The honourable gentleman went on to say that an
agreement had been entered into by the directors of
this company and those of the Crystal Palace Company,
subject to the approval of the proprietors, by which it
is provided that the Crystal Palace Company shall fix
the rate at which tickets shall be issued, including ad-
mission to the palace and transport by the railway, the
proceeds of which shall be divided in the proportion of
four-sevenths to the Crystal Palace Company, and three-
sevenths to the railway company ; and as the railway
company are about to expend a large capital, on the
faith of the traffic which will be brought to the palace,
it is further stipulated—as a security to them against
the risk of the Crystal Palace Company fixing rates so
extremely low as to leave them without any adequate
remuneration—that the proportion assigned to the rail-
way company under this division shall not be less than
Bd. for each passenger to and from the palace.
The financial statement to the 29th of August showed
that the receipts had amounted to 35,9311. 13s. 4d., in-
cluding the first instalment of 11. per share ; and the
expenses—of law, parliamentary, engineering, and other
charges—to 4,2081. 6s. ; leaving an unexpended balance
of 31,7231. 12s. 10d, The outstanding debts of the
company amounted to 4,1891. 135., and the preliminary
expenses to 8,2201.

The meeting having expressed approval of the chair-
man's statement, the following gentlemen were elected
directors of the company : Mr. Geach, M.P., Mr.
W. H. Thomas, Mr. B. Drew, Mr. F. Fuller, Sir
Joseph Paxton, Mr. C. J. Rich, Mr. R. Till, Mr. J.
Treadwell, Major Tyndale, and Mr. C. J. Webb.
The salary of the secretary was then fixed at 3001. a
year, and the business terminated with a vote of thanks
to the chairman.

STORM IN THE PERSIAN GULP.-DESTRUO-

TION OF SHIRR Z.

A Calcutta paper publishes the following interesting
news from the Persian Gulf. It was brought by the
brig Euphrates :
On the 4th May, about an hour and a half before
sunrise, the city of Shiraz was destroyed by an earth-
quake, 10,000 people killed. At the same time it was
felt slightly at Bushire. The Euphrates, working up
the Gulf at this time, experienced for the five days fol-
lowing very unsettled weather, the sky every night pre-
senting a wild and gloomy appearance, with sudden
squalls and vivid lightning, unusual at that time of year.
_. .

"The Euphrates left the Gulf on the Ist of July ; the
month of June had been hotter than the oldest inhabi-
tant had ever experienced; much fever prevailed. News
had just reached Bushire that the cholera was raging in
Teheran and the upper provinces of Persia, and the na-
tives apprehended a trying season in the dismal regions
of the Persian Gulf.

"Bushire has been newly fortified, and a large force
was on its way to garrison the town.
"The expedition meditated against the dominions of
the Imaum of Muscat, by the Great Wahabee chief, had
been abandoned through the influence of Sheikh Janoon
of Abothubhee. The governor of Muscat has paid a
tribute of 80,000 dole. to the Wahabee chief.
" On May 1, the Euphrates, when abuut half way up
the Gulf, fell in with the schooner Apprentice, of Lon-
don; bound to Bussora ; out seven months and five
days. From death and sickness there was but one sea-
man to work the vessel. The Euphrates lent them an
officer and a party of men to take her to Bushire.
" In the beginning of June the Hon. Company's bri-
gantine Tigris seized a bungolow belonging to Bahreyn,
from the Red Sea, with a Georgian slave, sent as a pre-
sent to the brother of the Sheikh of Bahreyn. She was
provided with a pass from Captain Haines, political
agent at Aden. The man in charge of the female pur-
chased two slaves with her money of Makulla, and on
I hat account the boat was seized.
" The Sheikh of Lingo had seized thirty-six slaves ;
twenty-one of these have been brought down in the
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shire Merchant arrived from Bushire, which port she
left on the 29th June.
" She brought intelligence that the Jangistooneys
forced their way into Bushire, with the view of liberating
their chieftain, Baukur Khan, who bad for some time
been imprisoned there. The Surbaz, however, forced
them to retreat without having accomplished their
object.
" The weather was intensely hot in Muscat. The
Euphrates left Muscat on the 10th July."

MID-WESTERN RAILWAY.—This company, whose
bill was thrown out during the session, are returning
30s. per share to the shareholders out of the original
21. deposit.