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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EV ENING-, SEPTEMBER 25 1849.

72d Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Daniel John
Doherty to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Honiblow, ap-
pointed to the Staff, Sept. 25.
77th Foot—Lieutenant John Nicholson, from the 3d
West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Moetyn,
who exchanges, Sept. 25.
91st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Francis Reid, M.D.,
from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Power, deceased,
Sept. 25.
92d Foot—Thomas Archibald Mackinnon, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Campbell, promoted,
Sept. 25.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Robert Mos-
tyn, from 77th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Nicholson,
who exchanges. Sept. 25.
HOSPITAL STAM—Assistant- Surgeon Luke Barron,
M.D., from Ist Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of Second
Class, vice Hardy, deceased; Assistant-Surgeon George
Horniblow.:M.D., from 72d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon
to the Forces, vice Reid, promoted in the 91st Foot,
Sept. 25.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
2d Regiment of West York Militia—Cottswold Bur-
don, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bruce, retired, July 16.

Cher tsey
Chobham
Dorking
Epsom ...

Farnham
Godalming
Guildford

Home melted is quoted at 36s 6d to 37s nett cash.
Other sorts of Tallow are further depressed in value by
reasun of large supplies. The parcels offered at auction
were only in part disposed of, and amounted to 220
casks of New South Wales, which went at 33s to 37s
for
_low to fine quality,; 1,300 pkgs South American
33s to 36s 6d per cwt. For public competition on
Friday 1,400 casks, &c. of Tallow are declared. Rough
Fat is quoted at 2s lid per stone.
OlLS.—To•day at auction 25 tuns of Sperm Oil went
at 791 ss: to $Ol 10s, Headmatter 841; 120 tuns Seal;
pale 361. 10s, straw and tinged 341 to 351 ss, brown
31155; 100 tuna Whale,:Southern 331, and Newfoundland
2615 s to 31/.

WEST SURREY ELECTION.
(THIS DAY.)
GUILDFORD, THREE O'CLOCK.
The polling was carried on through the day with
scarcely any excitement. The last statement by Mr.
Evelyn's committee was, at one o'clock, as follows:
Evelyn. Edgill.
... 171 198
... 114 112
... 1C 1 35
... 150 103
... 93 138
... 95 101
... 275 173

1,030

860

Majority for Evelyn ..

... 170

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
BOROUGH, SEPT. 24.—We have a good supply of
the new growth of hops at market ; as yet they meet
with a steady sale at the undermentioned currency:—
New Kent Pockets .. £6 6s. to £8 Bs.
Ditto Goldings ........ . 9 Os. to 10 10s.
Ditto low and mouldy, unsaleable.
Ditto Sussex Pockets .. 5 12s. to 7 7s.
The picking is drawing to a close. Generally they
come down half short of what they were laid at at
the commencement. The duty is lowering ; the pre-
sentm AesitbismTaotieinis.—frTomheBpoi3Ocrin/g. to 85,0001.
thBs,OisoOL
neighbourhood
is nearly closed, and we have now an opportunity of
ascertaining what the yield of the crop is likely to be.
In nineteen cases out of twenty, the hops have come
down short of expectation, varying from one-fourth to
one-third short, and in some instances they have come
down even half short. It is the general opinion here
that the duty must come down considerably. To pay
two-fifths of last year's duty (that is, about 84,0001)
there must be two-fifths of last year's crop some-
where. It certainly is not to be found in Kent. The
Sussex planters are told that Kent will produce this,
whilst the Kent men fear that it will be found in
Sussex. Our accounts from all quarters agree that
where there are hops they have fallen short. Many
grounds, which last year produced heavily, now pro-
duce none; few produce equal to last year's growth;
and scarcely any are to be heard of which exceeds it.
It must be recollected that the estimate which has thus
failed to be realised, is not founded upon what the
grounds produced last year, but on appearances of the
grounds before picking.S
YALDING AND HUNTON.—This week will finish
picking. Some fine samples will be obtained, but
will come far short in quantity of what was at first
anticipated.
EAST MALLING......MOSt of the planters have done
picking, and all will finish in a few days. What was
anticipated last week is fully realised, for in many
grounds they come down half, and in all quite one-
third short of the number of bushels that reasonable
persons expected. The hops are good in colour and
quality.
BRENCHLEY.—Picking is now nearly brought to a
close, and it is quite certain we shall not realise 4 cwt.
per acre, on an average. The quality is good.
HORSMONDEN.— Our hops come very short of ex-
pectation, but some amend is made in quality, which
is unusually fine. Our parish will produce many
splendid samples.
(Faom A CORRESPONDENT )—" Wolf" has been
cried sometimes in this parish, but there is no mistake
this year, as the hops are all picked to about seven
acres, averaging only a trifle over two-thirds what
they were set at. Planters who have really fine
choice samples, of any country, if they have nerve,
will be sure to obtain good prices, there not being
more than one-fourth of supply equal to the demand
for that class of hops.
GOUDHURST.—Our hops throughout the parish will
come one-third short of expectation previous to their
picking, and in point of quality they will be superior
to any for several years past. The colour, almost
without exception, is splendid.
IGHTHAINI AND SEAL. Several planters have
finished picking, but the general complaint is that
they come very short, and some nearly half less than
they were set at previous to picking.
URANDROOK.—The hops come down much short
of expectation, with the exception of a few favourites,
which have even exceeded their estimate. There
seems to be a strong impression that the duty will
be under 80,000/. So much difference of opinion,
however, prevails that while some are against 70,0001,
others are in favour of nearly 100,000/. ! The state
of the hops seems to dery all calculation as regards
the duty.
ORPINGTON.—Joseph Jackson, Esq., has finished
hop picking, his being the only ground in the parish
which has been picked. The quantity is 16a. Jr. 15p.
off twenty acres, being a little over 911bs. per acre.
A few days before the commencement of picking,
they were laid by experienced gentlemen at from
two to three tons.

THE HUNGARIAN CROWN.
The Hungarian crown, it is generally believed,
Kossuth has taken with him in his flight; if so, it has
for a second time crossed the frontiers of Turkey.
The past history of this crown is a curious one, and
as full of vicissitudes as the lives of some of those
who have worn it. The Magyars attach a supersti-
tious value to the relic of their ancient monarchy;
there is a legend that it was wrought by the hands
of angels for St. Stephan, who was crowned in it in
1001 ; history, with a more limited faith, records that
it was sent as a present to Stephan by Pope Sylvester
the Second. In 1072 Duke Geisa received from the
GreEk Emperor a golden circlet or royal band for his
brow ; when he was afterwards made King of Hun-
gary, he joined this circlet to the diadem, so that the
crown is really composed of two kingly emblems
united. When the race of the Arpads became
extinct, in 1801, there was a double election to the
vacant throne ; one party chose Robert of Anjou and
Naples, the other Wenzel, the younger, of Bohemia.
The cause of the latter did not prosper, and his affairs
were takirg an unfortunate turn, when his father,
Wen King of Bohemia, marched en army to Ofen,
andzi'
carried off his son and the crown with him to
Prague. The Hungarians then definitively elected
Otto of Bavaria, and old Wenzel, for reasons not stated,
gave up the crown to him. Otto, to take posses-
sion of his kingdom, had to ride incognito through
Austria, carrying the crown as a " property" with
hi" t was packed in a little cask, and hung at the
saddle-bow of a German Graf, who discovered one
morning at daybreak that he had lost his precious
charge during the night. The party had then arrived
at Fischerment, below Vienna, where they were
about to cross the Donau; they retraced their steps;
and, by great good luck, found cask and crown again.
In 1307, Otto went to Siebenburgen, on a visit to
the Waywode Ladislas, intending to win him over to
his party. He must have failed signally in his at-
tempt, for the old Waywode seized the crown, and
made the king a prisoner. After some time, he saw
fit to let Otto go, but kept firm possession of the
diadem for three years. In 1310, on threats of war
and extermination, he gave it up. For more than a
century after this its history is a blank; but in 1439,
on the death of the Emperor Albrecht IV., there
was again a double election, the two rivals being
'Wladislaw, of Poland, and Ladislas, the infant son of
Albrecht. ,The,Empress resolved to have the child
crowned, and for that purpose the crown was stolen
from the Castle of Wissegrad, by one of her maids of
honour, who undertook the task, and succeeded. In
1441 the Empress made a less dignified use of it—
she pledged it to the Emperor Frederick IV. for 2,000
gulden. It was redeemed by Mathias Corvinus, and
taken back to Wissegrad ; from hence, after the battle
of Mohac, it was again stolen, and again by a woman,
in order to crown John Zapolya. Zapolya gave it in
charge to Preny, who delivered it up to Ferdinand I.;
he was crowned with it in 1527,_and then it fell into
the hands of the Turks. As Solyman returned from
the siege of Vienna, he publicly exhibited the crown
to his army in Ofen, but told his soldiers that it was
that of the renowned Persian ruler Nushiryan : he
then sent it back to his protege Zapolya, on whose
death it was again given up by his widow to the
Emperor Ferdinand. Rudolph 11. sent the crown to
Prague; Mathias IL brought it back to Presburg,
where, in 1619, it was seized by Bethlem Gabor; on
the conclusion of the peace of Nikolsburger, Le gave
it up to Ferdinand 11. The Emperor Joseph had it
brought to Vienna ; Leopold sent it again to Hungary,
where it remained till the taking of Pesth by Win-
dischgratz, when it was removed by Kossuth, and has
ever since been kept at the seat of the Hungarian
Government; that being broken up and dispersed,
the crown has resumed its wanderings. As to what
has become of it there are many rumours; it is said
to be buried in a secret place. According to others
Kossuth has it in his personal possession, and by this
time the diadem, that was the gift of a Pope to a saint,
has been stripped of its jewels to go as bribes to the
Mahommedan, and the gold has terminated an almost
sacred existence of eight centuries as ignominiously
as a mere piece of stolen plate in the melting pot of a
Jew !—Advertiser.

A FRENCH CENTENAWIAN.—The Constitutionnel
records the demise of an old lady named Moulinet, in
the commune of L'Hotellerie, in Normandy, at the ad-
vanced age of 102 years. At ;the age of 72—i. e., 30
years ago—the old woman sank her pro; erty in an an-
nuity, and the seller of the annuity flattered himself that
he ,had made a capital bargain, whereas he has paid
about four times the value of the property. Widow
Moulinet, like almost all centenarians, preserved her
faculties almost up to the hour of her death. A short
time since she kept fowls ; one of the hens laid its eggs
in the garret, which
,was reached by means of a ladder.
She told her daughter to ascend and fetch some eggs,
but the " girl" (herself some 75 years of age) was afraid
of falling, and came down again. " Come away 1" ex-
claimed the mother of 100 years old ; "you are fit for
nothing." On which she actually clambered up the
ladder herself, and descended with an apronfull of eggs.
" Really," she said, " the young people of the present
day are not worth a rush."
TILE AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO CUBA.—EI He-
ra/do ('he official organ of the Spanish Government)
says:—" The President of the United States, General
Taylor, has just published a proclamation wherein he
warns the citizens of the Union not to compromise
themselves by taking part in an expedition which is beign
organised in that country for the invasion of the island of
Cuba. The document to which we allude may serve as a
piece of salutary advice to the zealous Spanish autho-
rities on the other side of the Atlantic, in order that they
may be prepared to receive the invaders aid administer
to them the severe chastisement which they deserve;
as the Honourable President says, there is no doubt that
the expedition is directed against Cuba, and not against
Mexico, as at first believed. This is in accordance with
our own advices, which some time ago informed us of the
plots that were being hatched abroad by certain spurious
sons of our possessions, expelled thence for their vices,
their anarchical tendencies, and from a regard for the
tranquillity of the peaceful, loyal, and laborious inhabi-
tants of the mother country, under whose parental laws
they enjoy so much happiness and prosperity. We do not
hesitate a moment to affirm that if the anthers of the expe-
dition, which is said to be composed of some 400 men, the
very dregs of the populace of the United States, succeed
in effecting a landing in Cuba, they will dearly pay for
their temerity. Our valiant sold era will give a ver
, and it is probable that not a those who y
who tread the soil of the island
to re-embark. But although we are
goodwsiniwill
l e
ba
individual
doaiuiviniodt:oeafl tohf e
quite easy and confident of the issue, we cannot but feel
astonished at the benevolent calmness with which the
first magistrate of the United States confines himself to
warning his fellow-citizens not to take part in the enter-
prise—an immoral enterprise, destined to carry brute
force and anarchy into the territories of a friendly nation
and an ally. We believe that he might have operated
more efficiently had he availed himself of the police and
the armed force of the state for dissolving the expedition
at once. Perhaps the laws of his country do not allow
of this course. In this case we will only observe that
we are no admirers of that cherished unlimited liberty
which, in order to propitiate all, consents to the public
organisation of robbery, piracy, and assassination. We
believe that the President of the United States would
not have spoken in such mild terms if, instead of dealing
with a conspiracy against the rights of Spain, he had
been called upon to deal with some society formed in
Jamaica for fomenting the insurrection of the negroes of
Louisiana and Carolina, or of the Indians of Florida, and
for laying the basis of? an interminable civil war in the
heart of the United States."
SUICIDE IN FARRINGDON STREET. —Yesterday
afternoon, shortly before two o'clock, a person named
'ram
street,es P o wceol im, 1 fmoiirtm(derlsyuieseidce. retaryputroingEspliaernday
Espartero, but
latterly latterly acting as waiter at the Druid's Hall, Farring-
donseemed extremely dejected, so much so that his wite
deemed it prudent to ask Mr. Taylor, hatter, who oc-
cupies the shop under the Hall, to go up stairs and
speak to him. Mr. Taylor did as requested, when, on
entering the front room, he found him looking out of
the window. Having inquired what was the matter
with him, the unfortunate man turned round and looked
him full in the face. Mr. Taylor laid his hand on:his
shoulder, when all of a sudden he heard the report of a
pistol, and in an instant Powell reeled round three times
and fell to the ground a corpse. Medical aid was in-
stantly sent for, and Mr. Bullin promptly attended. He
found that the deceased had shot himself through the
heart. The deceased, when he went out in the morn-
ing, pledged his coat at a pawnbroker's, and with the
money advanced on it bought the pistol. At one time
he was in very affluent circumstances, but was then
about to leave his situation. About six weeks since he
lost the sight of one of his eyes in drawing a cork from
a bottle of ginger beer.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN HYDE-PARK. half-
past five o'clock on Sunday morning, a lad, while pass-
ing through fly de-park, discovered a man's hat on the
south bank of the Serpentine, near to one of the Seats
directly opposite to the receiving-house of the Royal
Humane Society, on the north bank, to which place the
lad immediately proceeded and gave information of the
circumstance. The officers of the society with the
greatest promptitude instantly manned one of the boats
and rowed across to the spot, where, on throwing in the
drag close to the shore, the body of a man was got up,
placed in the boat, and conveyed to the receiving-
house and put in a hot bath, but life was found to be
quite extinct. Oa an examination being made of the
body the deceased was found to be about fifty years of
age, and that his face was covered with bruises, there
being also a large wound over the left eye, from which
fresh blood was still flowing. The deceased was dressed
in a dark dress-coat, silk waistcoat, and dark buckskin
Mousers with a check on the cloth, white cotton stock-
ings, and low shoes, nearly new. On both legs, from
the feet up to nearly the knees, were large scars, cover-
ing nearly the front of his legs. On his person were
found a pair of silver spectacles, a pair of wire spectacles,
a penknife, a half-crown and a sxipence in silver, and
threepence halfpenny in copper, but nothing whatever
to lead to his identity. The body was subsequently
removed to the dead-house of St. Margaret's, Westmin-
ster, at Knightsbridge, where it awaits a coroner's in-
quest. Up to a late hour yesterday the body had not
been identified.
GRANGEMOUTH; SEPT. 22.—Arrd. Cove, Quebec.
LEITH.--Arrd, Ann,
wick. Elliot, St. John's, New Bruns-

3ALCOMBE, SEPT. 22.—The Clio, Bundle, in procaed-
ing to Nevvp
Gazewood, ort, missed stays and went ashore below
'shore she remains is a dangerous position;
crew saved.

PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM
PANIES' STOCK.

From the Official List.
PUBLISHED EVERY TIJESDAT AND FIiTILLY EVENING,
LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.

JOINT-STOCZ Z 1 11191L13.

Name of Company.

Australasia ..........
Britsh N orth American
Commercial of London
Colonial.. .
Gloucestershire ......
lonian ..............
Londe and Westminstr
London Joint-Stock ...
Provincial of Ireland ..
Ditto, New.........
National of Ireland ..
Nat. I'rovnclal of Eug.
Ditto, New.
South Australia ......
Union of Australia • ...
Union of L0nd0n.....
Union of Madrid .....

Dividend
per
Annum.

31. per cent.
5L per cent.
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
151 per cent.
Gl. per cent.
6/. per cent.

Amount
of
Share.

Paid. I Fri

$S i. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
100 0 0

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
8/. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
51, per cent.
61. per cont.
61. per cent
61. per cent.

:50 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
SO 0 0
too 0 0
20 0 0

25 0 0

25 0 0 -
20 0 0 2
13 0 0 -
10 0 0 -
25 0 0 4i
10 0 0 -
22 10 0 -
35 0 0 -
10 0 0 -
22 10 0 -
25 0 0 -
210 0 -
10 0 0 1(
40 0 0 -

50 0 0
40 0 0

Paid. I Pr!'

4 I. d.
50 0 0 7,
11 0 0 1'
50 0
86 8
50 0
10 0 0 1!
10 0 0 6(
50 0
50 0
2 12 6
All paid. 11
40 0
30 0

35 10 0 41
50 0 0 22,
10 0 0 11
13 1 3,
2 10 0
10 0 0 -
2 0 0
12 10 0 li
12 10 0 li
15 0 0 1
2 0 0
2 10 0 -
50 0 -
2 0 0 21

1 0 0i -L
10 0 0 2
0 10 0

9 0 0
40 0 4

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- - -
£ a. d. I A s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 204
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow rank
Clydesdale Bank •••• • 6% percent. 20 0 0' 10 0 0 12X
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 ,100 0 0 165
Eastern Bank .• •• •• • • 61. per cent. 25 to 0 10 0 C 91. 7s
Edinb..k Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 5%
Exehangeßnk of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 21%
fsle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 60 0 0 10 0 0 ' 14%
North of Scotland Bank 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.0 s
North British Bank •• - - - -
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 128%
Onion Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84
Western Bank.. ••• • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73%
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7341. pr cent. 12 10 0 20 e 2
B. A ccord. Life aud Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 41. per cent. 10 0 0 1' 0 0 9s 6d
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0.0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life.. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 7s
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 la%
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 198.0 d.
Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. percent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Britishlire
West andlncur
of. L
Scot 1 Life
5653411.
ipp.eperrr
cent. 10
221010000
0000
000000
2100101
11051000
000000 I 2101E2:3. 26d:
s 611:
per
cent.
11000
00
00 110
00
00
1-1.
6s
41. percent. 10 0 0 010 0 3s. 6d.
North
hiAasn.
nshCastlonC•ief.
Lot
and
nfnecde Scotland
.tGinu.d..
-
Scot. Dias. and G tn. Life -
Scottish Union Insracs. 6UI. pr cent. 20 00
Standard Life ...... •. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9U
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 '145.04 ,

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
NORTH BRITISH.
The directors' report, to be pre ented to the half-
yearly meeting to morrow, states that the passenger
traffic for the half-year as compared with the corre-
sponding period of the previous year has been-
1848.—Passengers 531,887 £29,800 13 2
1849.—Passengers 485,605 34,745 15 3i
The tonnage carried for the same period is-
-1848.--Goods & minerals, 137, 557 tons £22,491 2 3
1849.—Goods & minerals, 195,185 tons 37,957 17 7
In making this comparison, it must be borne in mind,
that the mileage has been increased from eighty miles
to 110,gailes, but that the general trade of the country
has ben very much depressed—a state of matters
which has materially affected the revenue of all rail-
way and other carrying companies. Notwithstanding
this, however, there has been a gradual increase of
the traffic on the line. The receipt from passengers
(although the numbers have fallen off) has increased
about one sixth, and the receipt from goods about
two-thirds, while the increase in mileage is three-
- eighths. After making the various deductions for
interest, working expenses, &c the free revenue
_ from the main line and Dalkeith branch is
- 15,2801. 10d., and from the Hall ick branch
.)% 1,9841.83. 6d. The former eum will yield a dividend
of 7s. 61 per share on the original and consolidated
Dalkeith shares of 251. each, and of Is. 61 per share
on the unconsolidated Dalkeith shares of 51. each, and
Ice- will leave a balance of 8801. Cs. 10d., which may
be laid aside as a fund to meet- the depreciation of
rails, &c. The directors would recommend that the
1) revenue applicable to the Hiswick branch be carried
%
- over to next half-year's account. In consequence of
- the arrear of the ordinary business of the company,
necessarily caused by the sittings of the investigation
o committee, and the books being occupied by the ac-
countant, the directors having found it impracticable
- to get the accounts and balance-sheet made out and
6 audited this half-year in time to have the details of
the sub-division put in such shape and published as
9-% they had intended. They have no reason to doubt,
o however, that their accuracy will be duly certified
Lbefore the meeting takes place, and in the future re•
i ports the details can be more fully given. In the
meanwhile they may state, that in charging the in-
-4% terest of loans against the revenue, they haveassumed
6% the outlay for the several lines at the full amount
9 mentioned in the investigation committee's report, as
2% at 31st of January, 1849, the date of the last balance.
_ From that amount they have deducted the amount of
03. share capital ; and, on the balance, which forms the
t loan capital, they have charged interest—first, at the
- rate of six per cent. on so much of the calls on the
preference stock as were due and paid prior to the
200% 31st of July; and, secondly, on the remainder at
203
44 the rate of four-and-a-half per cent., which is
the average rate presently payable on the money bor-
rowed on debenture. Although this no doubt bears
heavily upon the receipts, and consequently on the
dividend of the past half-year, particularly as regards
the half and three shares (which, however, are not
likely again to be similarly affected), yet the directors
conceive it to be the proper principle of charge, and
they have therefore adopted it. In regard to the state
of the company's affairs and its future prospects, it
seems unnecessary for the directors to do more than
refer to the report of the committee of investigation
laid before the shareholders on the 9th ult. There
were, however, various suggestions made in that
report, regarding the future management of the
company's affairs, to which the shareholders at their
tee. last meeting called upon the directors to give their
favourable consideration, and to such of them as seem
to require especial notice they will now briefly advert.
The first suggestion to which they will call attention
relates to an improvement in the form of keeping
• the books, and upon this point they may at once
state that although in general they think it some-
what hazardous to make any change upon a
system which has been found to work so accurately
as not to have produced, as stated by Mr. Cope,
any " error effecting the result of the accounts
tee. as Letween the directors and shareholders, or the pub-
- lie," in a series of transactions embracing nearly four
millions of money, yet, as they desire to meet the
wishes of the shareholders in regard to this, they have
ordered the suggestions of the committee to be acted
on as far as possible. For the reasons before given,
it has been impossible to adopt them so fully in the
present report and states of accounts as the directors
• could have wished. The next suggestions relate to
the adoption of greater economy in managing and
working the line, and in the construction of such
works as are yet unfinished. The committee haee
done the directors the justice to state that the sub-
ject of economy in management was very fully con-
sidered and reported upon by them long before any
investigation was thought of. It may, therefore, be
enough at present to say that the views which the
directors entertained coincided in a great measure
with those of the committee, and that both before
and since the date of the committee's report they have
been acted upon to a very considerable extent. They
will continue to be so whenever an opportunity occurs.
As regards economy in construction of works, the
directors may mention that, by curtailing plans,
&c., they have very materially reduced the ex-
pense of such stations as have been re-
cently contracted fur. They will follow the
same course in regard to the remaining stations.
The ti,ird suggestion to be adverted to relates to
• the running of additional trains to Portobello dur-
ing the summer months. Upon this point the di-
rectors venture to differ from the committee. There
are already 19 trains daily to Portobello, and 21
from it. These appear to them to beample as to
number for the accommodation of the traffic.,he-
ther a new arrangement may not be advisable is
matter for fair inquiry, and due attention will be
given to it. The fourth suggestion to which the
attention of the directors was called refers to the
introduction of new members into the direction, and
the appointment of two auditors in place of one, as
at present. These points will be fully considered at
next half-yearly meeting, when according to the
company's Act of Parliament, any changes which
may be determined upon fall to be made. In the
meantime the directors may say that while they
doubt the expediency ' of appointing gentlemen
from a distance to attend to the current business
of the company, they will not object to any
change by which the efficiency of the direction
' may be increased, and the true interests of the
, company promoted. The question of a depre-
''' ciation fund is referred to in the report of the
34 committee, and is one of considerable difficulty.
The directors do not think that any such fund is
7s required in regard to the rolling stock, inasmuch as,
i% from the great advantages afforded by the company's
34 works at St. Margaret's, that stock has hitherto been,
,1 and may continue to be, kept up in an efficient state
os by the ordinary annual replacements and repairs
made upon it. But they concur in opinion with the
i3a
I committee that a moderate sum ought to be set apart
yearly for replacing the rails, chairs, sleepers, and
other fixed stock, which cannot be kept up in the
65 same way as the rolling stock. The only other
suggestion in the committee's report to which the
re directors will advert is the recommendation that the
S resolution to continue the payment of interest on the
' quarter shares, passed at the meeting on the Bth of
March last, should be rescinded. The directors
6z would be well pleased if this recommendation could
I be carried out with justice to all parties, because the
continuing to pay that interest is throwing an
. additional burden upon the capital account.
• They doubt, however, if it would be either
23 expedient or fair altogether to rescind the
' resolution which was so recently come to, and they
are rather disposed to recommend that the inte-
rest be paid down to the 31st January, 1850, being
the date when the next half-yearly balance will
be struck, and about which time, or very soon after-
wards, the Kelso branch will be completed. The
quarters will then take dividend along with the other
stocks. This arrangement would carry out the spirit
of the resolution of the Bth of March, and would, it is
thought, do substantial justice to all parties. It is,
however, for the shareholders to decide, and the di
rectors have given special notice to enable them to do
so at this meeting. In February and September,
1847, the directors were empowered, in order to meet
ceatain over• issues of shares, to capitalise part of the
money authorised to be borrowed under the Acts for
the quarter and third shares, and to issue shares to
that amount. A considerable portion of this has not
been issued, and the directors would recommend the
shareholders to authorise them to borrow the amount
of this unissued stock, or of so much of it as shall not
, be issued, on debenture. A resolution to that effect
will be submitted to the meeting.
The capital account showed that 4,026,806/. had
been received, and 3,753,5241. expended.
The revenue account for the half-year showed the
total receipts to have been 75,9601. 4s. 7d., and the
working expenditure 39,3861. 15s. 3d.; interest on
loans 18,8671. 14s. 7d. ; making the total disburse-
ments 58,2541. 9s. 10d., and leaving
a profit oi
`7,7051. 14s. 9d.

The engineer's report stated that the Hawick
branch had been opened as far as St. Boswell's, 40i
miles from Edinburgh. The distance between St.
Boswell's and Hawick (about 12 miles) will be
opened the beginning of next month. The Kelso
branch is expected to be ready for opening about the
same time. The Dunse branch (84 miles) Was
opened in August last. The North Berwick branch
is expected to be ready for opening in January next,
and the Tranent branch will be completed next month.

THE THREATENED STRIKE OF ENGINE•DRIVERS
ON THE YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAIL-
WAY.—The threatened strike of the engine-drivers
which was pro-
po
hlianse,terminated in an
and
posed
dfi rteomt ea nk
eo
place
this
yd, has
amicable understanding, and the men have withdrawn
their notices to quit. The directors, with the Lord
Mayor of York, had an interview with a large body of
them, and stated, that desirous as they were for the.
continuance of a good understanding, they could mot,

The family of the Rev. Henry Jennings, of Watton
Abbey, near Driffield, have been plunged into affliction
by the following melancholy event:—About noon on the)
13th instant, Mr. William H. Jennings, Mr. Jenning's
youngest son, was out in the fields amusing himself with
a gun. Finding some cattle had strayed in the fields, he
attempted to put them right, and in endeavouring to do
so he struck one of the beasts with the butt- end of the
gun whilst holding the barrel in his hands. The con-
cussion produced by the blow is supposed to have caused
the gun to discharge, and lodged the contents in his
body. On the following day part of the charge was ex-
tracted, but the unfortunate young man sunk under the
severe injury sustained, aad expired on Saturday morn-
ing. The deceased was 17 years of age, and a fine
athletic young man.— Yorkshire Gazette.
Diocese OF OxFonn.--The Bishop of Oxford has
ordered that a day of prayer and humiliation shall take
tpvill
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on the occasion.
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On the fOth inst., the lady oBIRTHS.f
Edmond L. Crewe, Esq , of
Repton-park, Derbyshire, of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. David Powell, of a
daughter.
At Chelsea, on the 21st inst., the lady of George P. Neave,
Esq,, of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Campden-grove, Kensington, the wife
of R. G. Erlam, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., at Wickham, Hants, the lady of Captain
W. W. Powell, of a son.
On the 21,t inst., at the Parsonage, Horsforth, Yorkshire,
the lady of the Rev. W. H. B. Stocker, of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., at. Ireton-house, St. John's-wood the
lady of Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda, Esq., of a son.,