The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-28 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 28, 1849.

King, and told the prisoner to call again, and if he found
his story correct he would give him something more.
Having found out that the prisoner was an impostor, he
employed the police, and under their advice he put some
money in a packet, and sent it to the prisoner by a mes-
senger who came with a letter to him.
James Ernblin said he was employed by the prisoner
to take a letter to Lord All3oll'll chambers. He returned
with a packet, but the prisoner, who suspected some-
thing, would not receive it, and pretended to have no
knowledge of witness.
The prisoner was ordered to stand committed for
three months, but to be brought up again in a week.

LITERATURE.

TWICE-TOLD TALES. By Nathaniel ilaw-

thorne.

A " twice-told tale "isgenerally considered a
tedious affair, but there is no rule without an ex-
ception. Mr. Hawthorne's tales are worth twice
telling ; they have already many of them appeared in
the Metropolitan Magazine, and are now collected
in one small volume. These tales, or rather tales
and meditations, are of a peculiar character : there
is something quaint and singular in the conception of
nearly all of them, but that very singularity adds to
their effect. The moral of the whole is excellent,
almost every page of the little volume contains some
admirable advice curiously set forth, or some beautiful
thought forcibly expressed. The peculiarity of the
writer's manner has at times a thrilling and
powerful effect. In one of the more reflective
pieces, " The Haunted Mind, " we find the
following reflections upon the peaceful hour of
thoughtfulness enjoyed by one who awakes in
the early morning, long before the hour of rising,
refreshed by his recent sleep. " Yesterday has al-
ready vanished among the shadows of the past; to-
morrow has not yet emerged from the future. You
have found an intermediate space, where the business
of life does not intrude, where the passing moment
lingers and becomes truly the present ; a spot where
Father Time, when he thinks nobody is watching
him, sits down by the way-side to take breath." Yet
the meditations of this wakeful hour are not always
happy ones :
" In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a
dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry
above may cause us to forget their existence, and the
buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But some-
times, and oftentimes at midnight, those dark receptacles
are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the
mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength;
when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness
to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling
them; then pray that your griefs may slumber, and the
brotherhood of remorse not break their chain. It is too
late! A funeral train comes gliding by your bed, in
which Passion and Feeling assume bodily shape, and
things of the mind become dim spectres to the eye.
There is your earliest Sorrow, a pale young mourner,
wearing a sister's likeness to first love, sadly beautiful,
with a hallowed sweetness in her melancholy features,
and grace in the flow of her sable robe. Next appears
a shade of ruined loveliness, with dust among her
golden hair, and her bright garments all faded and de-
faced, stealing from your glance with drooping head, as
fearful of reproach; she was your fondest Elope, but a
delusive one; so call her Disappointment now. A
sterner form succeeds, with a brow of wrinkles, a look
and gesture of iron authority; there is no name for him
unless it be Fatality, an emblem of the evil influence
that rules your fortunes; a demon to whom you sub-
jected yourself by some error at the outset of life, and
were bound his slave for ever, by once obeying him.
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness,
the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye,
the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your
heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly,
at which you would blush even in the remotest cavern
of the earth? Then recognise your Shame."
Among the more amusing of these tales is " Mr.
Higginbotham's catastrophe," which we recently no-
ticed when it appeared in the Metropolitan. This
tale, marked as it is with some of its author's startling
peculiarities, is, of its kind, one of the most curious
compounds of tne interesting and the ridiculous that
we have ever met with.

THE GEM OF THE ASTRAL SCIENCES ;
or, Mathematics of Celestial Philosophy. By
Thomas Oxley, C.E.
This interesting volumes contains all the mathe-
matical and astronomical information comprised in
Mr. Oxley's well-known " Trt atise on the Celestial
Planispheres," together with much valuable original
matter, and numerous illustrative diagrams. The
talented and learned author abstains in the present
edition from any consideration of the judicial depart-
ment of Astronomical Genethlialogy, and applies
`'..imself exclusively to the treatment of those scientific
Palculations which have never been so clearly and
4ceurately developed by any other writer on the sub-
ject. his method, now for the first time propounded,
of performing these calculations for all places in the
southern hemisphere is eminently beautiful. But it
is needless to enter into a detail of the manifold ex-
cellencies of the work, as no student of Urania can
possibly dispense with its possession.

THE LAW MAGAZINE and QUARTERLY
REVIEW of JURISPRUDENCE.

. - -
The previous high character of this periodical, and
its undoubted position as one of the first of the legal
publications of this country, is creditably and fully
sustained in the number for this month. The articles
are written with vigour and perspicuity, and the
selection of the subjects discussed is peculiarly happy,
most of them being topics at present occupying a
considerable share of public attention. The number
opens with a well-written article on the Reform of
Poor-law Litigation ; and among other papers of in-
terest, contains one on West India Judicial Reform,
in which that subject is discussed in a judicious and
temperate manner. The views of the writer are
sound and comprehensive, and the plan which
he proposes for the reform of the present
corrupt and inadequate judicial establishment
in those colonies, seems well calculated to re-
medy the evils complained of. We trust that
this subject will meet with that consideration, at the
Colonial-office, which its importance so fully merits.
An excellent article on that intolerable nuisance—
the Palace Court, of Jacob Omnium notoriety—in
which we have a history of the origin, rise, and pro-
gress of that " wen erable hinstitute," concludes the
number, which is not only a valuable one to the legal
world, but highly interesting to the public generally,
from the number and variety of the articles, as well as
the terse and perspicuous style in which they are
written.

SCHOOL BOOKS.
NOTES ON lIERODOTUS, Original and Se-
lected from the Best Commentators. By Dawson
W. Turner, M.A.
For students of Herodotus this work will be a great
acquisition. It is a compilation from the notes of the
best commentators, Baeher, Schweigheetiser, Heeren,
Wesseling, and others. The notes selected are, says
Mr. Turner, those most likely to be really useful to
students in the universities, and to the higher classes
in schools. They are for the most part particular
descriptions of the places, persons, and things referred
to by the historian, with occasional elucidations of
difficulties in the Greek text. These notes are so
numerous as to fill a quarto volume of four or five
hundred pages.

XENOPHON'S ANABASIS: Books I. and IL,
with a Copious Vocabulary, for the Use of Schools.
By J. Fergusson, 111. D., Rector of the West-end
Academy, Aberdeen.
An invaluable book for scholars and schoolmasters
in general. The editor has desired, he tells us, to
offer a Greek book for beginners, consisting of a con-
tinuous narrative, [with a copious vocabulary, and a
translation of the more difficult phrases. The
vocabularyand translations are excellent in their way ;
but, to our thinking, the best recommendation of this
volume is its excellent typography. Free from any
of those contractions so appalling to beginners, the
beautiful characters of the Greek alphabet appear
hers to full advantage, and so far from being per-
plexing to the learner appear almost as plain as
English.

L'ECHO DE PARIS. By M. Lepage. Fifteenth

Edition,

A work which has reached its fifteenth edition
hardly requires commendation. The admirable
vocabulary of M. Lepage has been fully tested, and
its merits generally recognised. Then conversations
ars not arbitrary phrases, but dialogues of every-
day occurrence—the echo of the nurseries and
drawing-rooms of Paris. They are so arranged as
to form little stories, and are, therefore, likely to
please while they instruct the juvenile learner.

READY GUIDE TO FRENCH COMPO-

SITION. By .211. Lepage.
These exercises are arranged on an unusual plan,
which, besides teaching the writer French, is likely
to do him a yet greater service by promoting the use
of his thinking powers. For example, instead of
teaching a rule by rote, and then showing the child the
example, the example is shown first, and the child finds
the rule from it forhimself. Thus, instead of saying the
article le is used before masculine nouns, and la be-
fore feminine nouns singular, and les before plural of
both genders, a number of phrases are read, such as
le pere, la mere, les eVans, &c., and then the child, on
being questioned, learns from ithese examples, by his

[PRICE .SD.

own observation, what is the rule for the application
of the articles. In more complicated rules this plan
will be found very efficacious. Generally speaking,
French scholars can repeat the grammar rules by
heart, but if they sit down to write a French letter
they are marvellously at a loss how to apply them.

THE CRITICAL FRENCH PRONOUNC-
ING VOCABULARY. By Marin de la Voye.
'rThe writer's object in composing this critical
pronouncing vocabulary was," he tells us, " that of
placing within the reach of beginners a small and ac-
cessible volume, within which they could instantly
find the pronunciation of any French letter, syllable,
or word, in whatever oral situatiou it might appear.
Being somewhat similar to Walker's Pronouncing
Dictionary, the plan is more familiar to the generality.
of English students. French lessons have been col-
lected at the end of the book for the purpose of serv-
ing as graduated exercises in pronunciation." To
those who are studying the French language without
a foreign teacher, this little book will prove a most
useful companion to the dictionary and vocabulary.
The letter a as pronounced in the English
,words
bar, bat, and bard, a as in her, bed and there, i in pin, o
in no, shot, more, and note, and u in gude, are the
examples which serve very efficiently to regulate the
pronunciation of the French words.

CALDER'S ARITHMETIC.
The title-page describes this little book as " a
familiar explanation of the higher parts of arithmetic
comprising fractions, decimals, practice, proportion,
and its application, Sic., with an appendix designed as
an introduction to algebra, by the Rev.F.Calder,B.A.,
Head Master of the Grammar School, Chesterfield. Mr.
Calder thus explains the object of his work, which ex-
planation will be better than any comment we can
give :

" My object in printing this work is to supply a want
which I, as a teacher, have experienced, of a school-book
which would explain the more difficult parts of arith-
metic in a manner sufficiently familiar for the compre-
hension of youth, and yet sufficiently accurate and at-
tentive to principles to be worthy of being considered
an explanation.

" It is well known to teachers that pupils, in going
through all the operations of Fractions, are generally
taught to perform the mechanical process which the rule
tells them will bring out the desired answer ; but not a
particle of demonstration is given by which that pro-
cess is shown to be correct. Consequently, boys make
the grossest mistakes whenever th• smallest knowledge
of the principles of Fractions is required ; and when
any who have so learned arithmetic advance to algebra,
they.find all the operations required in the treatment of
Fractions perfectly new to them ; whereas I think that
it it will be found, that if young people of both sexes
are taught according to the rational method laid down
in this book, such learners will not only obtain a portion
of that mental training which is derived from mathe-
matical study, but will, if they pursue that study, find
the path thereto smoothed to a very considerable extent.
" I have no doubt that some readers, who may be well
acquainted with the subjects here treated of, will say
that this book is too diffuse in its explanation ; but I
think that this complaint will not come from those for
whose use it is mainly designed, viz., youth, and teachers
of youth ; nor from those who, later in life, may think
it worth their while to try and learn the meaning of
those rules and operations which they never compre-
hended while at school. If such persons can, without
any assistance, understand what is here contained, I
shall feel well satisfied with the success of my attempt."
One of the chief advantages of the study of figures is
the exercise which it gives to the mental faculties.
Mr. Calder, by enabling his scholars thoroughly to
understand what they learn, will greatly contribute to
this desirable object—the improvement of their think-
ing capacities.

CURIOSITIES OF THE LONDON DIRECTORT.--The
Directory points out a division of labour in, or belonging
to, the hat-trade that few persons dream of : it records
hat-band makers, hat-block makers, hat• box makers, hat-
case makers, hat dyers, hat-lining and leather cutters,
hat-shag makers, hat-tip makers, hat-varnish makers,
hat-bowstring makers, hatters' furriers, and hatters'
trimming makers. Those who have a taste for such de-
tails, would also be amused by turning to the pages
which set down the ten distinct varieties of handicrafts-
men which seem indispensable to the making of a piano-
forte, and to the twenty•nine necessary to make the works
of a watch and to put it together. As instances of the
extremely minute division of labour, we may add that
there are tea-pot handle makers and ear-ring joint ma-
kers. And here, as we have mentioned one of what
may be called the curiosities of the London Directory,
we may as well digress to mark a few more. Scarcely a
year passes but the trade classification will notify a new
trade, originating in the introduction of some novel ar-
ticle of commerce or in some improvement in science or
the useful arts. . Of such trades we find in the Directory
for 1849 that there are 15 dealers in gutta percha, who
owe their livelihood to the recent discoveries of Sir J.
Brooke, the Rsjah of Sarawak. The railway mania has
placed upon the record 11 "average staters and adjus-
ters," and 3 railway statists. The tide of emigration
has, it seems, so strongly set in of late, that it occasion-
ally sweeps away to the antipodes entire habitations.
Hence we find that there are two firms solely employed
in building portable houses for exportation."--/Votice
of the Post-office Directory in the Daily News.
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASTLllM.—Yes-
terday morning a general meeting of the subscribers to
this institution was held at the London Tavern; Alder-
man Finnic in the chair. The annual report stated that
the subscriptions of masters, pilots, &c., had of late fallen
off to some extent, but that the funds had received a
great addition by the bequest of the late R. Lowrey,
Esq., amounting in all to more than 3,0001. The report
also acknowledged donations of various amounts from
different individuals. The report having been received,
the meeting proceeded to the election of six boys and
four girls from a list of thirty-two candidates, being an
addition of ten to the 100 orphans already in the asylum.
The meeting separated after a Tote of thanks to the
chairman.

STATE OF TRADE—AIANCHESTER.—There has not
been much change in this market since last week. There
was considerable inquiry for goods suited to the Indian
market, and the rates of last week have been fully main-
tained for all such goods. The feeling generally was
good, and the impression general that a good amount of
business may be expected to be done.
Firm IN THE COLLEGE SCHOOL-ROOM AT GLOU-
CESTER.—The inhabitants of Gloucester were alarmed
shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday night last, by the
breaking out of a fire in the College school-room, which
it was feared would spread to the venerable cathedral.
The school-room is over the chapter-room of the cathe-
dral, and the chapter-room adjoins the library, which
opens into the cloisters and into a room communicating
with the treasury and with the body of the cathedral.
The fire is supposed to have originated from one of the
four stoves by which the school-room is warmed having
set fire to the floor, which was much burnt; some of the
flaming books fell through the floor, and, but for the
discovery of the fire, must have communicated the com-
bustion to the room beneath. The papers, documents,
&c., kept in the closets below were rescued, and by the
vigorous exertions of the inhabitants of the city and
those who had the direction of the engines, the flames
were subdued before any damage was done to the
cathedral

A statement haring been very generally circulated
through the press, that Lord and Lady Blantyre hare
been excommunicated by the Lord Bishop of Glasgow,
for attending a schismatical place of worship, we are re-
quested to state that there is no kind of foundation for
this report. The correspondence which has recently
passed between the Bishop and his Grace the Duke of
Argyll has been published by Messrs. Riringtons. It
may be relied on as an accurate account of the part
which the Bishop felt it his duty to take; and it will be
seen that no allusion to Lord and Lady Blantyre occurs
in any of his letters.—Post.

AWFUL OCCURRZNOR : WOMAN WORRIED BY A
Doo.—On Tuesday evening a frightful occurrence took
place in Clifford-street, a small street leading out of
Islington, in this town. A dog of the bull and
terrier species, and of enormous size, was_
kept chained up in the cellar of a house in Clifford
street. On Tuesday, however, it snapped its chain
broke through the cellar window, and ran in an infu-
riated state into the street. Mrs. Brown, the wife of a
labourer, residing in a court-house in the street, ran to
protect one of her children who had
threw her
the animal, when the dog flew at her,,
been bitten by
down, and proceeded to worry her in in the
savage manner. It bit the most
calves of the legs and then seized
d to have been sher by the chin.
Three or four men who are
wit-
nesses of the occurrence were
the dog, and brake a
afraidsal at first to interfere.
One of them at length attacked
toftecrouthide
bem most
poker over its back ; but it w
violent means had been used that
poor woman with up-
duced to relinquish its hold. ahltnotthetibilrua
oi wounds, was removed
wards of a dozen "r:l°-7-- into her house, and
in a state of insensibility ,
medical aid without delay procured. We are
sorry to say, however, that:yesterday, so great are the
injuries she has suffered, and so serious has been the
shock.she wasconsidered out o not f
to her system,
The dog, which is said to have bitten another
woman
d an ger.
and child, ran off after its attack upon Mrs.
Brown, and has not been EMI in the neighbourhood
since. It is the general opinion that the animal was not
mad, but simply infuriated by long confinement, and the
unfortunate victim has so far exhibited no symptom of
hydrophobia.—Liverpool Albion. 1

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION Comp./am—The
half-yearly meeting of this corporation was held yestef-
day, at their offices, 71, Lombardy-street; John Wilkin,
Esq., in the chair. The directors' report, and a state-
ment of the accounts for the halt-year ending 31st De-
cember last, were read to the meeting. The report bay-
ing been unanimously adopted by the proprietors, the
usual dividend and bonus were declared, when the -meet-
ing broke up, highly satisfied with tho continuing pro-
perity 9f the complus

_-CIAL NEWS:
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, including 2,000 for export and ort
speculation, at full prices. The market was steady, but
not active.—Railway Shares were in but limited demand.
The letters and papers by the West India mail have
been delivered since our yesterday's report, srrd are still
of an unfavourable character, although in some respects
a shade better than the last.
The accounts received from Paris have excited much
attention. A fall in the French funds of 1 per cent.,
even after such a continuous rise, is something to agi-
tate the speculators, and accordingly there is feeling of
apprehension and excitement. Many disbelieve the
statements about Transylvania, the march of the
Russian troops to the frontier, &c., but there are
many elements to excite distrust, and Atutria,
Italy, and Denmark are naturally looked to
with solicitude. The caution exhibited by the Bank of
England in not reducing the minimum rate of discount
may, should these political complications continue, be
maintained yet for a time, and the public who have been
selling stock, are for the present on the right side, • al-
though we must make some allowance for exaggeration.
In a publication by Mr. John Wade, entitled " Unre-
formed Abuses in Church and State," there are some
remarks of special interest to capitalists, and men of
business. We will not affirm that we concur in all of
them, because we know how much easier it is to find
fault than to remedy abuses; but that there is an urgent
necessity for some change no one can gainsay. As Mr.
Wade remarks of the French war:—.
" After the enormous loans raised towards the ter-
mination of hostilities, the annual interest arose to
nearly thirty-one millions, exclusive of an enormous
unfunded debt. At present the annual charge, as be-
fore mentioned, is a little below twenty-eight millions,
Now this reduction of about three millions per annum,
has not been the result of economy or political
wisdom in the Government, but of this natural
progress of the country in wealth and indus-
try. The people have done it all, not their
rulers. Commercial enterprise and unparalleled labour
have greatly augmented internal riches, of which the
results have frequently been much abundance of money,
and consequent low rate of interest. Under these favour-
able conditions the Navy Fives and the Four per Cent.
Stock rose above par, affording opportunities for tender-
ing to the holders either the payment of the principal of
their annuities or the acceptance of a lower rate of in•
terest.

" Additional savings in the annual charge of the debt
have been effected by the falling in of terminal ennui•
tics and the lowering of the interest of Exchequer-bills.
It .s probable that the process of the conversion of stocks
from a higher to a lower denomination would have con-
tinued had it not been interrupted by the ab-
sorption of capital in railways. In 1843 the
average price of Three per Cent.
_Consols
was 9.5; in 1844, it was 9S; and, in 1845, it had risen
to 99. But the inordinate spirit of speculation in rail-
ways having then set in, opened an entirely new channel
for the employment of the accumulated wealth of the
country, and diverted it from investment in the national
securities. Without this diversion of capital, it is likely
the Three per Cent. Consols would hare risen perma-
nently above par, thereby affording an opportunity to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tender to the holders
the usual alternatives of the payment of their principal,
or the acceptance of less interest.
The English Funds have been extremely heavy on
account of the French news, and Money Stock is rather
plentiful. Consols realise 924 to 9 for Transfer, and
for Account 92} to 92. Bank Stock is 194 to 195 i;
Exchequer-bills are 40s. to 45a. premium.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 16j to
17 ; Portuguese Four per Cents. are 25} ; Mexican,
26 !. Venezuela, 27; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 494 to 504.
Shares are affected by the heaviness of Consols.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONIC. O'OLOCIE
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anne..
New 314 per Cent. Arms. 931,4 AI% 923 93
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 9
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001
South Sea Stock 100

Consols for Acoount
Exchequer Bills. 2d.
March. June.
1,0001.
500/.
Small — 45 p
Ditto Advertised, 20... 38 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 6%p
Equador Bonds 3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent. . —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 13onels, 1846, 5 per Cent 284%
Ditto for the Account 26th
Ditto Small
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
Ditto for the Account .... 174
Ditto Passive Bonds 3:i
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 29
Venezuela Bonds

Do. Deferred ...... 8
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent slf. 50c.
Exchange
Dutch 2141 per Cent.,l2 Guild
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates
ES s Dom. IN RAILWAY SUARESi AT ONLY O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pas Muss.

Aberdeen
Ditto, Preference 214 2
Caledonian

Ditto. New 101. Preference 10
East Anglia, 25/. L. & E., _

aid L. & 1i
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2/i to
Eastern Counties
Eiastern Union, Class A (late
E. U. Shares) ......... 25
Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 . l9 ... ta,
'.est Lancashire
Great Nertkern ... 19
Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12%
Do. 1,4 B 6 per Cent. ...... 7% 6% to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 45
ireat Western 100
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Do. New 171
Lancashire and Yorkshire

Ditto Fifths
Ditto Thirds
London It Blackwall ......131. ss. 8d blii% x.d. to
Do. Extension ...... 221/1...... 14% mi. to
Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 35%%... to
Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5
London do North Western.. ..100 137 x.d.... to 138%
DI. Now
Do. Fifths 2 ..... 91,,( x.d. to
London and S. Western...— 5O .. ... 39 x.d. to 39
Midland.-- • .............

Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 25
Midland, Consol. 13ristel and
Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 1257 ...... to
Norfolk
Ditto. Extension
North British .. .. ......... .. 25

Dittoka- If Shares.-- ..... 121 7114 to
' North Staffordshire.....
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Shrewsbury and Birmingham_ 10 -
Ditto. ditto, Class R. 6
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. hiill.) -
Ditto. Oswestry 1811...... 15 -
Shropshire:Union 5 •.... 234 • ..... to
South Staffordshire 7ll 4A..... to
South Eastern
Ditto, Scrip No. 4..
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster
and Goole
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 1 ... syiu, t
York and North Midland .. 50 ...... 51% ex.d to im
Ditto East and NY sat Riding
Extension •.....25
FOREIGN RAILWAYS,
Anglo Italian (late Italian
and Austrian
Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ... 9%%... to
Central of Franco (Orleans
and Vierzon) ••••
Luxembourg
Ditto
Namur and Liege 2O
...... C 4 ..... • to
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux ...
......
9334%%11.* rt: .3-lei
Paris and Orleans...
2200
............ 23414 u
................
tato 2,0_
Paris and Rouen
Paris & Strasbourg ••—• ••••• 9 •••••• 1314 •••
Sambre to 12%
Rouen and Hare 20 ••••••
514%... to --
Sambre and..h31.5.e...0u5.:...u.e....1...i•5—r•2; . •1•029•3••Fi• 22
........... 24.1% to ....
Tours & Nantes ... ••• -:2_.-- '1
2 •tar • ••
.Amsterdarn •• Leghorn . .. 22 so
•Ditty, at Big t Ge . •.. o. 60
Rotterdam • : 25 70 M
....
ay
Ora 1::
.A.......
.N.:
.... ...G. .... .E.:
.•:
•.......
AntwerP•••••"' 'VII, 13 11N Venice............
thumbursh •• •• . Naples .• •• .... •• • •
sfAlvaricignste.taiallEmY.lBo.l.i:h.t::....
•• 25
i 25 5( :
)(5)
Lisbon.....
ir al
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bs se run
.s.°: .. P.. 'I:
r..°.. !. ... ... .... .... .:. .... .." ..: 111
sal
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MUER &HALING IN Nsw FoitHST.—Three of
the principal keepers in the New Forest have been dis-
missed from their situations in consequence of the
timber stealing which has recently been brought to light
Colonel Thornhill's situation is not yet filled up. The
Government have received nearly 300 applications for it.
SOUTH FORELAND.—SnirroG SIGNAL.—We lately
announced that preparations were making. under the
Trinity Corporation, for the erection of Well's Patent
Railway and Shipping Signal, at the South Foreland
Light-houses, as a warning to vessels to stand from the
shore in dense foggy weather, when the lights are in-
visible. The machine is portable, and consists of •
cylinder fitted with piston rod, fly and cog-wheels, end
handle for raising the piston, by which air is instantly
generated and expelled, the sound being given off by the
turning of the handle. Last week the signal was tried
at the Foreland in another position, to ascertain tb• best
fi
spot to place it before it was finally e
d.
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miles
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the shore, that being considered
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aboutos nu sound itehnet whistle, and,
on gitvoen work, the sound was dis-
tinctly the sound to be heard. The party went on board tie
light-ship, the signal was
on the apparatus being set
tinctly heard, and elicited a bump 0t an me rpm ski
judge/,...Canterbury JountaL

IRECT LONDON AND PORTS-

MOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY.
The usual half-yearly meeting of the above company
was held yesterday, at the London Tavern (Mr. W.
A. Wilkinson i❑ the chair), when the following concise
report was submitted to the shareholders :
.

"Since the last meeting of the proprietors, the atten-
tion of the directors has been constantly applied to the
subject of the arrangement contemplated in the leading
paragraph of their report made to that meeting,
whereby the funds expended on this undertaking might
be rendered effectual, to some extent, for the pur-
poses for which they were advanced, but they regret that
they are still unable to announce anything definite.
It will be seen by the annexed account that up to the
31st December last, the call of 11. 10s. had been paid on
13,929 shares, and since that period it has been paid on
the further number of 1,455 shares, making in the whole
15,384 shares upon which this last call has been paid.
Two of your directors Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., aed
John Meeson Parsons, Esq., having since the last meet-
ing of the proprietors resigned, their places have been
sapplied by Robert Walter Carden, Esq. and Samuel
Laing, Esq.
The statement of accounts represented the total re-
ceipts to
,amount to 132,5591. 6s. 3d., of which 7,3041.
Is. 2d. was received last half year, while the expenditure
war. put down at 104,974/. 4s. 2d., of which 12,2141. 16s.
9d, was incurred during the past half-year, leaving a
balance of 27,585/. 2s. ld. in hand.

The report having been adopted, the retiring directors
were re elected, and the meeting terminated, with the
customary vote of thanks to the Chairman.

NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND

HEREFORD RAILWAY.
The fifth ordinary meeting :of the above company was
held yesterday at the London Tavern; Captain Fitz-
maurice in the chair.

The report stated that since the last ordinary meeting
of shareholders, the Commissioners of Railways had
granted their certificate for an extension of the period for
compulsory purchase of lands, on the main line, to
August, 1851, and'for completion of that line to August,
1855. And the company's powers for purchase of lands
on the Taff Vale extension, had been extended to 1852,
and for completing that line to 1856. On receipt
of this certificate, the directors made another
application to the proprietors of the Llanvi-
hangel, Grosmont, and Hereford tram roads, with a view
to a further modification of terms for completion of the
purchases of these roads respectively; and they have the
satisfaction to announce, that a provisional arrangement
had bean unanimously agreed to by the shareholders of
the three companies, whereby the period of completing
the purchase of these tram roads, and paying the balance
of the purchase moneys, would be postponed) By
his arrangement, it would be opitional for the New
port, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway Company,
either to complete or to be relieved from the purchase
of these. roads. In the event of their not completing the
purchase, the money already paid would become for-
feited; while, on the other hand, the balance still due on
the purchase money of these tram roads, amounting to
28,730/., would no longer be a liability on the share-
holders. In the meanwhile the revenue of the tram
roads would, it is expected, prove sufficient both for
payments of interest on the amount of unpaid purchase-
xmoney due to the Tram-road Companies, at the rate of
five per cent. per annum, and for defraying the office
exwenses during the period of suspension.
The balance-sheet represented the receipts to amount
to 97,016/. 165., and the expenditure to 94,0991. 2s. 6d.,
leaving 2,9171. 14s. 4d. in hand.
The report was unanimously adopted, after which the
shareholders resolved themselves into a special meeting,
and agreed to a resolution confirming the agreement re-
ferred to in the report.

Thanks were then voted the Chairman, and the mee
ing terminated.

VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY.
The sixth half-yearly meeting of this company was
convened for yesterday at the Great Western Offices,
but there was not a sufficient number of shareholders
present to constitute a meeting, and Viscount Villiers,
M.P., the chairman, adjourned the meeting sine die.
The following is the substance of the directors' report:
During the past, half-year two fresh contracts, which
would complete the communication between Neath and
Hirwain had been let to responsible contractors, who
had been put in possession of land to commence their
work. The works on the other portion of the line
had been proceeded with satisfactorily. The proprietors
would see by the statement of accounts that the sum un-
paid upon the call due on the 12th April, 1847, amounted,
on the 31st Deember, to 11,696/. The directors had hesi-
tated, 'during the late severe pressure, to enforce by
legal means the payment of these calls; but they were
now prepared to take immediate steps for their recovery,
in every case in which there was a reasonable prospect
of success. The directors would use every effort to com-
plete the lower portion, of the line, in order that it
might be opened simultaneously with the South
Wales Railway. The traffic on this section would con-
tribute to the deduction of the amount of interest which
would otherwise be chargeable against the capital of the
company, and would also afford satisfactory evidence of
the value of the undertaking, and tend to confirm the
opinion which the directors had always entertained of
its ultimate success. The balance-sheet represented
the receipts to amount to 109,2441., of which 1,240/.
was for the past half-year, and the expenditure to
71,2631. 9s. 10d., of which 25,5961. was for the past half.
year, leaving 37,9301. 9s. 10(1, in hand.

TAW-VALE RAILWAY and DOCK.
The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the London Tavern; Mr. E. Cooper
in the chair.

The report stated that as the Legislature had
refused to sanction the lease of the line to the South
Western Company, the agreement for the lease had been
annulled. The Board of Trade would not suffer the gauge
to be changed from the broad to the narrow; and as the
cost of constructing the line upon the broad gauge would
cost 70,0004 more, than if it were made on the narrow,
the directors proposed to stop the works. From the
statement of the accounts it appeared that the expendi-
ture had exceeded the receipts by 9521. 135., the former
being 143,7911. 9s. 7d., while the latter only amounted to
142,8381. 16e. 7d.

The report was adopted, and the meeting closed with
a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

-LLYNVI VALLEY RAILWAY.

The annual half-yearly meeting of the above com-
pany was held yesterday afternoon at the Great Western
Offices in the Strand; Mr. Matthews in the chair.
The report stated that traffic on the line had been
greatly reduced during the past half year, owing to the
stoppage of some iron works in the district, and the di-
rectors were, therefore, only able to pay a
dividend of 31. per cent. The old proprie-
tors, however, claimed the full Si. guaranteed,
but that question stood in abeyance for the present,
and the dividend would be paid to them pro rata with the
other shareholders. From the statement of the accounts
it appeared that the revenue of the past half-year
amounted to 3,2441. ss. 3d., and the expenditure to
2,2281. 3s. 2d., leaving 1,0161. 2s. id. in band, which,
added to the previous surplus, made 1,339/. 18s. Bd.
The report was adopted after some discussion, and the
dividend having been declared, thanks were voted to the
Chairman, and the meeting terminated.

THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCK
COMPANY.

The half yearly general meeting of the proprietors of
this company was holden at the office of the company,
19, Bishopsgate-street Within, yesterday, at one o'clock,
for tliu declaration otr a dividend and other business, and
for the election of four directors, who went out by rota-
tion. Colonel Barlow, the chairman of the company,
presided.
llr. SAINTSRUAY, the secretary, having read the ad-
vertisement calling the meeting, and the resolutions of the
preceding half-yearly meeting, proceeded to read the
report, which stated that, notwithstanding the depression
of trade and commercial enterprise, in consequence of
the state of the Continent during the past year, the busi-
ness of the company is still progressive. The earnings
for the year ending 31st December, 1848, have been
9,534/. Bs. 7d.; thine for the year ending 31st Decem-
ber, 1847, were 17,3331- 14s. 7d.; being an increase of
2,2001. 14s. in• the earnings of the year 1848, as coin-
pared
with the earnings of the year 1847. The
accounts- exhibit . a .balance ou the revenue account,
.payment of expenses, of 3,203/. ls.; aid
the directors: are, consequently, enabled to recom-
mend ;st. dividend, clear of Income-tax, of 11. per cent. for
tE4 hAt.•year (ten shillings per "
s ) hare " bet„
At the'g at the
rate o'o''2l pefiz 11cent. annum.P'rl
John Hopton presentporbes, misi•e("
t..
ingrfour directors, 5-lye Jc,
rd,
and James Rigmaiden,
Count Eyre, Admiral
on
aIIV
by rotation, but are eh-
Esq., go out .of
gible for re-election ; and their colleagues beg to
recommend them for re election accordingly. The
capital account, up to the 31st of December last,
showed that the receipts amounted to 20,4051., and that
the expenditure was 4,1321. 12s. sd. A • balance of
24,4871. 18s. Id. remained in hand. of
The debit side
the cash account exhibited the sum of 50,8121 13s. ld.,
•
and the eredit side 32,614/. 17s. 11d.,. leaving a balance
of 18,1971. 15s. 2d. The receipts in the revenue account
were 10,182/. 18s., and the expenditure was 6,9901. 45.,
19.4ving a balance of 3,1921. 14s.
The CHAIRMAN then said it would be his duty to pro-
pose that the report whiCh had been read should be
printed and circulated among the members; but before
be put the resolution he would address a few words only
to the meeting, reserving any information which they
bight require to have elicited until he was called
lipOn 'to answer any question Which was put to him
by any one present. There was one circumstance which
he would mention to them. An arrangement had been
adopted by the directors, which had been recommendediy
tieliertif influential and experienced proprietors, for the
' employment for one year of a commercial agent. It had
been recommended to them, that very material benefit
' would result to the interest of their undertaking by
employing a gentleman who was acquainted with all
branches of trade, and whose extensive connexions, his
activity, and habits of bias-
mess were such as to ren-
der it likely that the Company • • would derive very
consi-
derable benefitTrnm his services.
MADDER asked what the salary -
of the proposed
agent would be?
• The CHAIRMAN replied, for the year, 500/.
• Mr. MADDER thought the company Could not afford it.
The CHAIRMAN thought that the-increased trade that
would be likely to ieerne td the company *Milne sum
the a 'eut's salary. They had
-cient to justifyg maturely
-
considered, the matter, and were of opinion that the
.sex iee,s'•of such a person would be of the most' signal
-v
:aaiittage to*the company.
• .-lifit..atisnliEri and Mr. HEATIIiIELD put several clues- •
"tiouti to' the Chairaian respecting the management of the
}l's4 Wail* and their future intentions and opera-
:do whin. the Chairman having answered to the Wis.

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