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London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

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SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
• (THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of this company was held
at the offices of the Great Western Railway, Paddington
station, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
drafts of the undermentioned Bills, applied for in the

present session, viz. :
A Bill for making certain new lines of railway in con-
nexion with the South 'Wales Railway, and certain alter-
ations in the line of the said railway, and for other pur-
poses ; and also certain propositions proposed to be in-
serted in such Bill enabling the South Wales Railway
Company to subscribe towards the undertakings of the
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin, and the
Cork and Waterford Railway Companies ;
A Bill for making a railway from Abcrcrave Farm, in
the parish of Ystradgunlais, in the county of Brecon,
to Swansea, in the county of Glamorgan, with branches,
to be called the Swansea Valley Railway;
A Bill for enabling the Vale of Neath Railway to

construct certain new lines of railway in connexion with
the Vale of Neath Railway, and for other purposes ;
A Bill t 3 enable the Llynvi Valley Railway Company
to make an extension of their railway to Newcastle, in
the county of Glamorgan, and to amend the Act re-
lating to their said railway, to be called the " Llynvi
Valley Railway Extension ;"
A Bill to authorise the Gloucester and Dean Forest
Railway Company to construct a dock or basin at Glou-
cester, in connexion with the said railway;
A Bill to authorise certain alterations in the line of
the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Rail-
way, and to amend the Act relating thereto, and also
certain provisions proposed to be inserted in the said
last-mentioned Bill, enabling the South Wales Railway
Company to subscribe to the undertaking of the Water-
ford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Company.
CHARLES RUSSELL, Esq., took the chair, and, after
the usual preliminaries, said be supposed the small at-
tendance must be accounted for by the Easter holidays.
The directors did not usually like to make their state-
ment to a thin meeting ; but, indeed, that had been done
so fully at the last half-yearly meeting both in their
report, which was then presented, and the comments
which accompanied it, that nothing more remained for
them to say than that various new projects which the
company meant to apply for to Parliament this session
would be presented to them for their approval. That
was the object of their meeting, which had been
specially called in obedience to Lord Wharn-
cliffe's resolutions, and the standing orders
of the House of Lords. The directors had hoped to
have made some progress with these Bills; but, in con-
sequence of some financial returns baying had to be
made up, the Railway Committees had been postponed,
and they were yet before the House of Commons. he
object of the Bills which would be laid before them for
their formal approval that day was fully explained at
tho last general meeting, when it received the sanction
of the assembled shareholders. The first Bill, which
was to effect certain alterations and deviations in :the
South Wales line, proposed to take powers for a variation
to the east of Newport, in order to avoid the churchyard.
there, which the railway ran close to, if it did not cross
it ; and variations near the towns of Cardiff and Car-
marthen, the effect of the latter being to bring the line
through the town of Bridge-end. These variations
would increase the traffic and the accommodation of the

line, while they would diminish Tl;;;;;C;;tierthar;
increase it. Another provision of the Bill was a branch
which would bring the lino down to the neighbourhood
of the Breton ferry ; and a third proposed an exten-
sion which would effect a better entrance to the
river Severn, and sanctioned for that purpose
the purchase of the Forest of Dean Railway. The Bill also
sanctioned the arrangement which must be very agree-
able to the proprietors, and was announced at last half-
.

yearly meeting, to advance by agreement with the Great
Western Company, the interest from four to five per
cent. The Bill further was framed to enable the South
Wales Company to give their assistance to certain Irish
lines. It was thought to be for the interest of the com-
pany to keep the Bills obtained for these Irish lines alive,
and as the companies had determined to proceed with them
but to proceed very slowly, the directors thought it their
duty to subscribe for a certain number of shares, with
the intention, as soon as they had given effect to their
Bills, to divest themselves of them.
A SIIAREHOLDER interposing—But how were they
purchased. At what price? There must be a loss.
The CHAIRMAN said they of course took the shares at
par; and that was at a time when the market was in a
different condition.

A SHAREHOLDER—I object to this; it brings on the
company only the risk of loss and no profit. Why does
not the Great Western Company take up these projects?
What interest has the South Wales in them?

The CHAIRMAN said the interest was very evident.
The South Wales were guaranteed by the Great West-
ern five per cent. and half the surplus profits. Now the
Irish schemes might just be those which would create
the surplus profit. Where, then, was the risk of loss?
ASIIAREHOLDER—We are guaranteed only to a certain
amount, I believe 4,000,0001. ; is there not risk beyond
that ?
The CHAIRMAN said the Great Western were, no
doubt, confined to that amount in connexion with the
South Wales project itself, but in relation to others, they
guaranteed 5 per cent. on every extra advance so made.
There could not, therefore, be any risk.
A good deal of conversation followed, in which some
two gentlemen objected to the subscription to the Irish
schemes, on account of the difficulties existing at present
in the money market.
The CHAIRMAN informed them that the arrangement
had been already entered into with these railways,
under the sanction of the proprietors. He said he
had alieady spoken of the Bill which concerned
the South Wales line ; the next Bill was for the Swan-
sea Valley line. Some time since a company was con-
stituted called the Swansea Valley Company, who made
a short railway in the neighbourhood of Swansea; ano-
ther company was formed who extended that line up the
Vale, and connected it with all the works. Last year
when this company was threatened with the Welsh Mid-
land Bill, some doubt existed whether that project would
not pass through in connexion with the great works of
the neighbourhood. This company, therefore, had
thought proper to purchase the Swansea Valley line, for
which 70,0001. had been already advanced, and which,
when all the works were completed, would cost in all
about 220,000/4 but that had already been before the
proprietors and received their sanction, nor would it have
been again submitted to them except in obedience to the
standing orders of the House of Lords. Surely
it must appear to them a worthy object to connect all
the works and the mineral resources of the valley with
their main line. Why, they were only looking to their
own interests when they sought to augment the feeders
of their general traffic. The next Bill was for the Vale
of Neath Railway. The directors, considering the pro-
priety of associating that scheme with the main system,
had been in negotiation with the Vale of Neath Com•
pany, and though they had not purchased, they had taken
an interest in it to the amount of 125,000/. The Bill

therefore which they were to apply for was to render
the Vale of Neath Railway more effective.
The next Bill which they had to present to them the
was the Gloucester end Forest of Dean Railway, and
the last was for the two Irish Bills, which they hoped
at some future time would be most beneficial to them.
It would not be prudent to regard a temporary difficulty
when there was so much prospective good.
The SECRETARY then read the Bills.

Mr. SAMPSON said ho was quite satisfied with the
promise of the chairman, that the Great Western Rail-
way Company should guarantee them all the capital ne-
cessary.

Resolutions adopting the Bills were then read, and
unanimously carried.
The meeting then resolved itself into a special and
extraordinary meeting, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the propriety of purchasig the Gloucester
and Forest of Dean Railway.
The following resolution was accordingly put and
unanimously agreed to :
"That the directors of the South Wales Railway Com-
pany be, and they are hereby authorised to purchase andt
take a transfer from the Gloucester and Dean Forest
Railway Company of such portion of the undertaking
authorised by the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway
Act, 1846, as consists of the railway extending from or
near from the Grenge, otherwise Grenge-court, in the
parish of Westbury-upon-Severn, in the county of Glou-
cester, to or near Ilagloa Farm, in the parish of Aure, in
the same county, and all the rights, powers and privi-
leges, conferred by the said Act on the said last-men-
tioned company in respect theteto, on such terms and
conditions as to them may seem expedient, and also to
execute all necessary and proper deeds, and to do all ne-
cessary and proper acts for effecting such sale and
transfer."
The meeting then adjourned.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND
SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A general meeting of the shareholders of this com-
pany was held to day at one o'clock at the London-
bridge terminus, for the purpose of giving the sanction
required by the late Act to the several Bills now before
Parliament. C. P. Grenfell, Esq., in the chair.
The Bills were as follow:
A Bill to enable the London, Brighton, and
al Southsta.
Coast Railway Company, to enlarge their Terminal
tion at London-bridge, and to divide such station
perma-
nently from that of the South-Eastern Railway_ Companyt_e,Lon.
A Bill for Enlarging the present Stationo 'of h
i the don, Brightou, and South Conasdt,
and Greenwich Railway
South-
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Eastern Railway
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dation of the traffic of such two railway companies.
A Bill to enable the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway Company to make a railway between
London, Maidstone, Canterbury, and Tunbridge, Ni ith
branches.
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tions in the levels of their Railway, and in the Croydon
and Epsom Railway.
A Bill to Unite and Consolidate the Direct London
and Portsmouth Railway Company with the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company ; and
A Bill for authorising the Sale of part of the Brighton
and Chichester (Portsmouth Extension) Railway to the
London and South-Western and the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway Companies, and the use by the
last mentioned Company of part (Wandsworth to Lon-
don) of the London and South-Western Railway.

On the first Bill being put to the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN stated that its only object was to in-
crease the opportunity for traffic now passing upon the
line, the cost of which is calculated at 180,000 Z

The Bill was then passed unanimously.
The next Bill was fur enlarging and permationtly•
separating the station from that of the South-Eta stern
company. The cost is estimated at 475,0001, and the
Chairman explained, that in addition to the p ortion
which the company possesses, it was requisite to, take
other accommodation.

In answer to a Shareholder, the CHAIRMAN Mated
that the Dover Company 'would still hold ample aocom-
modation for themselves, and this Bill was proposed to
be able to meet any requirements that might occur in
the event of no arrangement being come to with the
South-Eastern Company. He, quite as much as any
shareholder, was opposed to this large outlay of m oney
until it was absolutely necessary, and he was happ y to
say that Mr. Cubitt and Mr. Stephenson, the engineer
of the Dover :hue, were now in communication for the
improvement of the principal station at London-bt7;idge,
with a view to the greater accommodation of both. corn
panics, should the extensive amalgamation whic h has
been proposed not take place.
To Mr. FLOOD a director replied that it was quit ae Mr.
Cubitt's impression, that even should the two coin' tiniest
be amalgamated, it would still be advisable to carry on
the business in separate stations.
Mr. BROWN expressed his determination to oppot ;e it,
both as a South-Eastern and a Brighton proprietor.
To an inquiry as to the cause of the great amout .t of

the estimate,
The CHAIRMAN replied that it was the value of. the
property to be taken for the purpose. A friend ori his
in Liverpool was absolutely selling his land by the inch.
To further inquiry, ➢lr. WILKINSON explained that
the station at London bridge was built conjointly by
the South-Eastern, the Croydon, and the Brighton
panics, each of whom had the right to go to any prat of
the station they pleased. The two latter of these om-
panics were now incorporated, so that two-thirds of the
ground was absolutely the property of the Brig' kton
Company, and this Bill was to obtain a right to divide
the ground in the event of the South Eastern Comp any
not coming to any accommodation.
The Bill was then passed with Mr. Brown only- dis-
senting.
The third' and fourth Bills were merely alternative
Bills, to obtain powers to make a station, not only for
themselves, but for the South-Eastern also. The second
of these two Bills calculated an outlay of 770,0004 but
that comprised all the objects of the three previous Ellis,
and it was not at all contemplated that there would be
any necessity for spending the whole of the money. :The
Bill was then passed with Mr. Brown again only diss en-
tient.

On putting the Bill for the line to Maidstone, Cai tter-
bury, and Tunbridge, with branches, Mr. Brown al ;sin
opposed; and irr reply to the observations of another
proprietor, stating that he conceived that as a mane of
self-defence this Bill ought to be adopted, the Cba►ir-
man said that he must altogether protest against its
being supposed that this was a measure of defence, for
ho believed that the line was a very good one, and such
as the shareholders ought to make from a proper regard
to their own interest.
Tho Bill was then passed, with three or four dis-
sentients.

On the Bill for the amalgamation of the Portsmouth
Atmospheric Company being put,
Mr. COVEN inquired what the terms were
on which this amalgamation was to take place;
for he believed that out of the 7,000 proprietors
there were very few who really understood what the
terms were. He wished also to know whether the
Reading, Dorking, and Reigate Company would use the
Brighton lino from Goinhall to Dorking, for he under-
stood that they intended not to do so ?
Mr. WILKINSON stated that according to the Act of
the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company they wero
compelled to use the line of the Brighton Company,
though it was true that they had now a Bill in Parlia-
ment to repeal the clause which compelled them to do
so. With respect to the Portsmouth Company, he might
say that it was agreed that the South-Western Company
should provide a portion of the funds for waking the line
and were to share in the proceeds.

I - The Bill was then passed.
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Mr. WILKINSON seconded the motion for the ap-
proval of the Bill.
It was carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said be had now to move a resolution,
which did not appear in the Advertisement. It had
referrence to the establishment of a Steam-packet Com-
pany. The directors, upon their own responsibility,
had ordered a number of efficient steam-vessels for the
Brighton Station Company, and the resolution he had
now to move was, to authorise the company to take
powers in their Act to advance 100,0001. for carrying
out the object he had mentioned.
The motion was unanimously agreed to. Tr%
A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and di-
rectors, and the meeting terminated.

NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

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ORTHERN COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—It is said that the Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle Company are trying to negotiate with' this
company for its purchase, so that they may be
enabled to connect themselves independently with the
east coast of England, which to the Glasgow, Dum-
fries, and Carlisle Company would doubtless prove a
most valuable acquisition.
SUNDERLAND DOCILS.—PARTIAL DESTRUCTION Or
THE GROYNES.—A very serious accident has befallen
the gro3 nes which are to form the breakwater to the
immense sea wall for the extensive docks at Sunderland.
Three groynes, about 100 yards in length, and of solid
masonry, have just been completed, and were found to
answer the purpose most admirably for which they were
designed. The successful completion of the work, after
an arduous struggle through the winter, was a subject
of much congratulation ; but the work has been hardly
finished before the unruly waves of the ocean have
broken through the middle of the north and south
groynes, leaving the centre one uninjured. The extent
of masonry swept away in each of these two groynes is
about 25 yards, and the heavy blocks of stone, bound
together with iron clasps, and cemented in the usual
way, calculated to resist the greatest violence of the sea,
was on Friday night last, swept away during a tremen.
dcus gale and heavy sea from the north-east. It was
expected that the succeeding tide would have completed
the total demolition of the two groynes, but, fortunately,
the gale abated, and the sea subsided in violence, so that
no further damage has yet been done. This untoward
circumstance has created a great sensation in the town,
and given rise to fears that the final completion of the
docks will be attended with great danger and expense,
but as yet no official account of the accident has been
given, and it is impossible to say whether the masonry
has been insufficiently put together, or it is one of those
casualtias which the greatest care cannot always pre-
vent. The expense of repairing the breaches will be
very considerable, but it will not fall upon the eon-
traotors.

Tun FRENCH AMBASSADOR.—We learn that the
statement of the retirement of the Count de St. Aulaire
from the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
is confirmed. his Excellency, at his own express de-
sire, retires from the fatigues of public affairs to the
enjoyment of private life. We regret it, knowing the
high estimation in which his Excellency is held in Lon-
don by all who have the honour of his acquaintance. It
will be a difficult task to replace him by a diplomatist
so eminently formed to command universal friendship -
and respect, both towards himself and the nation he
has so ably represented. We learn that Count de St.
Aulaire is expected in Paris on Monday or Tuesday
next. It does not appear that anything has yet been
decided on as to his successor, but it is thought
apro.
e
pro-
bable that it may be the Baron de Barante.—Gehgn s
Messenger.
—The
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medicinal effect of travelling by railway
HUMANs
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has lately
engaged the attention of the most eminent
sirT egra
physicians;
and it is some satisfaction to know that those who are
said proverbially to disagree are at least in this respect
unanimous. Even to the passengers of the third-class,
exposed to all the elements, railway travelling has been
pronounced the harbinger of health, and the greatest op-
ponent to disease. Dr. James Johnson, no mean autho-
rity in these matters, has written in the glowing terms
of the advantrges derived; as "if it be a dead calm
we cleave through the air as though we were running
against a brisk gale—and if the breeze be adverse, we
are sailing right in the wind's eye against a furious
hurricane. This is the way to undergo a thorough ven-
tililation—a sanatory purification from the mephitic at-
mosphere of London, impregnated with all the poisons
issuing from Pandora's box. It is in the " main-top" of
a flying train like this that we can most effectually take
prutiquc from a London lazzaretto, and disengage from
our persons and clothes those noxious vapours that
have emanated from at least ono hundred millions
of living things, besides the incalculable masses of
r dead animal and vegetable matter in the transit of de-
composition frcm a solid to a gaseous form of existence."
Rather strong language this : but the assertions are
confirmed by every-day experience. He further adds,
that the oscillatory motion of the railway carriage is not
only more salutary than the swinging. jolting, motion of
a stage-coach, but that " it bids fair to be a powerful
remedial agent in many ailments to which the metro-
politan and civic inhabitants are subject ; and that to
thousands of valetudinarians a railway ride of twenty
miles would prove a means of preserving health and
prolonging life more powerful and effectual than all the
drugs in Apothecaries' Hall."
The remains of the deceased Lord Saye and Selo
arc to be removed to day for interment
_or!ntdh4Aa family
vault at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire. L
Sele, cousin of the deceased nobleman, and Sir Cyullin andg
Eardley Smith will attend the obsequies.

THE CORN TRADE.
(From the Mark-lane Express.)
The weather has throughout the week been very cold
and ungenial, and on several occasions sharp night-
frosts have been experienced : vegetation has, conse-
quently, been kept back, and 'from present appearances
there is not much prospect of an early season. We do
not, however, regard this as an evil, a premature luxuri-
ance being generally attended with danger. It is, of
course, at present impossible to ascertain whether the
young wheat has been injuriously affected by the
low range of temperature; but from the hardy charac-
ter of the plant, we feel little apprehension on that
hand, and the only circumstance which can be viewed as
unfavourable is the probability of the next harvest being
late, which might, in the position of the country in regard
to stocks, prove very inconvenient. The sowing of spring
oorn having reeeived but little interruption, nearly the
whole of the month of March having been highly aus-
picious for field work, most of the barley and oats have
been got in, and great progress has likewise been made
with bean and pea planting. These important labours
having been nearly brought to a close, farmers have
again directed their attention to thrashing; and it is
probable that an increase will shortly take place in the
deliveries of grain from the growers. The time has now
arrived for testing whether the stocks of wheat in the
hands of the producers be really short, for there can be
no question that if they are holders to any great extent,
they will avail themselves of the very first opportunity
of turning their wheat into cash. The inducements to
realise are the still high value ot the article and the
state of uncertainty felt as to the future ; if, there-
fore, the markets in the agricultural districts be not
plentifully supplied during the month, we shall no
longer entertain a doubt on the question of stocks,
but look upon it as the strongest possible evi-
dence that the quantity remaining in the country
is actually as small as represented. The regular course
of the trade has been more or less interrupted this week
in consequence ot several of the markets having been
held off the accustomed day (owing to Good Friday),
and the amount of business done has not been important.
The value of wheat has, as might have been expected,
felt the effect of the recent fall at Mark-lane, and prices
have tended downwards in all parts of the kingdom. At
Liverpool further arrivals of flour and Iniian corn have
come to hand from America, bat the receipts of foreign
wheat have not been large either there or elsewhere •
whilst the demand for export, though on a somewhat de-
creased scale, has nevertheless continued.

The advices from the port just named are not quite so
dull as last week, the important reduction which has
lately occurred there having attracted buyers from the
interior. In wheat a fair amount of business appears to
have been done on Tuesday, at rates 33. to 63. per 701 b.
below those current on that day se'onil,ht ; and subse-
quently a portion of that abatement was recovered,
several sales having been made on Thursday on terms
not obtainable earlier in the week. United States flour,
which was, it will ba recollected, at one period of last
week sold at Liverpool at 365., has since been in request
at 375. per barrel, and many holders have even refused
to accept the latter price. Indian corn seems also to
have met with attention at improving rates, 50s. to 525.
per 48filb. having been paid for fine, and 433. to 505. for
mixc d American.

At the leading towns in Yorkshire stocks of wheat
are unusually small ; and the supplies haviug barely
kept pace with the demard (tardy as has been the latter),
sellers have declined submitting to a greater reduction
than ls. to 2s. per quarter. The business done at Hull
and Leeds on Tuesday was, however, very circumscribed.
At Wakefield, on Thursday, the operations were also
on a restricted scale, and the few sales of wheat effected
were at prices ls. to 23. per quarter below those current
the preceding week.
The accounts from Bristol, Birmingham, Gloucester,
and other towns in the vicinity of these places, are of a
zimilar character to the reports shove referred to; but
whilst there has been no speculation, and the buyers for
consumption have confined their purchases to as narrow
linats as has been permitted by their preening wants,
there has, on the other hand, in most cases bean a degree
of firmness on the part of holders, which has prevented
prices giving way more than 2s. per quarter.
In the north the weather has been even more severe
than with us, and the letters from Scotland speak of
rather sharp frosts ; this, however, had produced no in-
fluence on the cern markets, and quotations of wheat,
as will as prices of spring corn, were lower at Edin-
burgh and Glasgow on Wednesday than on that day
week.

From Ire and we learn that Indian corn, which has
become the staple article of consumption with the poorer
classes of that country, had been freely offered at about
503. per quarter at several of the principal ports, and that
a corresponding abatement had occurred in the interior.
This great fall has tended to alleviate the distress; and
as further supplies of this useltd article of food are likely
to be sent from Liverpool and other English ports to the
sister isle, besides what may still be on passage from
America, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean, prices
of Indian corn will probably remain at about their pre-
sent level.

The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have
been moderate ; and the show of samples at Mark-lane
on Wednesday by land carriage from Essex, Kent, and
Suffolk was small. The greater portion of the wheat
exhibited consisted of white, and as the French buyers
'have all along directed their attention more to rest, there
was not much done for export ; the town millers
were, however, pretty free purchasers at Monday's
decline, and a fair clearance was made. Good qua-
lities of foreign red wheat were inquired for on French
account, but the high pretensions of holders pre-
vented extensive transactions. We stated last Monday
that sellers of foreign had refused on that occasion to
submit to a reduction corresponding to the decline on
English, and on Wednesday they showed less inclination
to concede than previously, or bargains to some extent
might have been concluded. The arrivals from abroad
have during the week ending this (Saturday) evening
consisted of 10,719 quarters, whilst the exports have,
according to the bills of entry, amounted to 6.11.1 quar-
ters.

English flour was on Wednesday to the full as difficult
of disposal as earlier in the week; and, in the absence of
business of importance, quotations remained nominally
unaltered. United States flour met with a moderate
share of attention, the relatively low value of the article
as compared with that of wheat having at length brought
forward a few buyers. Good brands of Western Canal,
which had previously been freely offered at 365., were
not obtainable below 375. per barrel ; and unless the
supplies should be very large, a further improvement is
not improbable.
The barley trade was wretchedly dull ; the seed de-
mand appears to be nearly over, and the principal =a-
sters having left off work, the finer sorts were almost as
difficult to place on Wednesday as the ordinary kinds.
The quantity of English on sale being, however, small,
Monday's currency was about supported for the best,
but secondary sorts and foreign barley might easily have
been bought at a reduction of Is. per quarter.
Malt was totally neglected, and to have succeeded in
effecting sales ts. to 2s. per quarter less must have been
taken.

The arrivals of oats coastwise and from Ireland were
scanty; having, however, a good supply from abroad, the
display of samples was rather large. The quality of the
foreign oats of last year is much inferior to the usual
growth, which circumstance has unquestionably assisted
to produce the existing depression in the market.
Some of the Dutch feed do not weigh more than 28ib.
to 301 b. per bushel, and the sales having been pressed
from on board ship to avoid incurring landinr expenses,
the dealers have had it all their own way. R 'ally good
corn was not cheaper on Wednesday than in the com-
mencement of the week, but to place the inferior sorts
less money had to be taken.

The qusntity of beans exhibited proved more than
equal to the demand, and the turn was again in favour
of the buyer.

White peas, suitable for seed, brought 60s. to 635. per
quarter,
being fully their previous value ; but gray and
maple peas were rather easier to buy.
The continued du'l accounts from Ireland relative to
Indian corn, caused that article to be pressed on the
market, and it has become difficult to give correct
quotations.
The decline which occurred in the value of wheat
about the middle of the month of March here, in France,
and in Belgium, was, in the first instance, caused by the
fine weather which was experienced in all those coun-
tries about that time ; and though the fall which has
since taken place in the temperature renders an early
harvest, to say the least, improbable, still prices have
continued to tend downwards as well abroad as at home.
The most recent advice% from Dantzic (28th of March)
state that the dull accounts from this side had caused
prices of wheat to recede 3s. per quarter from the ex-
treme point, and even at that abatement there had, it
appears, been little disposition to buy. Fine high-mixed
parcels were then held at 679. to 695. per quarter, and
other sorts at corresponding terms. The ice had mostly
disappeared, and a few vessels had arrived out in search
of cargoes. The Vistula was still partly frozen, and
would not, it was thought, be open much before the
first week in April.
At Stettin, on the 29th of March, the navigation was
entirely free from ice; still business was then, and had
for some days previously been, very dull. Holders of
wheat had, nevertheless, remained very firm, and for
red, weighing only 591bs. per bushel, 60s. to 675. per
quarter, free on board, had been demanded. Barley had
net a moderate degree of attention, for local eonsump•
tion, at a price equal to 38s. per
By the accounts quarter, free on board.
from Rostock and the neighbouring
places, it appears that, though stocks of wheat were
genegenerally short, and thepridceleisvehriaeAs,from the growers had
a large, the
noefvtehrethdeulellss,Enragltihsehr,
tended downwards, in consequence
French, and Dutch accounts.
At Hamburgh, on Tuesday, there was, ho, butwev to effecther. a
in
some inquiry for wheat on French account
those
hled
sales it was necesspry to accept lower termsthan
current the preceding week, and 70i. per
quarter
become the current value fur good 6olb. red.
In the Dutch markets prices of lo,th wheat and rye
appear to have undergone a considerable fall. At A;a-
sterdam, OR the 29th of March, Polish Odessa wheat
WAS quoted 785., and Norder 80s. lOd. per quarter; these
rates, though high, were from 4s. to 6s. per quarter
below the quotations of that day week. Oats were very
scarce there, and not cheaper, feed being then still held
at equal to 385., and thick at 395. to 40s. per quarter.
The advicee from the southern and south-eastern parts
of Etirepe are generally of a firm character, and the
vallitroritalatit'atiStik rather to have risen than fallen
arrOZepr the Mediterranean.
111,Ittters,/1012ratr'Z • 5, of the 27th of March, inform
notwitistan-,1.;4 he enormous arrivals of wheat
:.114111-ukerlatia •re during the winter months,
,17 for had been so extensive as
, hand. The small quantity
e„ , tly, been held with much tirm-
ss; quiry had rather fallen oil, and
sevehlvesiNs drip -laden had again entered the port,
prices of wheat ha not receded.
At Leghorn, on the 26th ult., the article was also held

at full terms, with more inclination to buy than to sell.
From Malta our letters are of the 24th of March ; in
consequence of the very reduced state of the stock of
wheat at that place, barley had been extensively used for
home consumption as a substitute, and Indian corn had
been in so much request as to drive up the price to 555.
Bd. fur fuiure delivery, whilst for parcels on the spot
still higher rates had been asked.

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TIE ROYAL HOSPITA
On Monday the Lord Mayor received the following
e. of the first spital sermon at Christ Cur •
report at Christ's Hospital, upon the occasiohnocfht.h—e
preAachintrue' report of the number of children and other
maintaineduinn 3
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CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
year last past.
Children put forth apprentices and discharged from
Christ's hospital the year last past 194, some whereof
being instructed in mathematics and navigation were
placed forth apprentices to commanders of ships out of
the mathematical school founded by his late Majesty
King Charles IL ; children buried the year last past, 11;
children now under the care and charge of the hospital
in London and at Hertford, 1,410; to be admitted on
presentations granted to this time, 248; total, 1,658.
The names of all which, as also when and where they
were admitted, will appear in the said hospital books.
The support of this hospital materially depends upon
benefactions and bequests. As that part cf its income
which is permanent is far short of maintaining the usual
number of children whose education qualifies them for
the Church, for naval service, and for every station in
life, according to their abilities ; and as the principles of
religion, as well as the due order of civil society, are
points to which their attention is constantly directed, it
is hoped that all charitable persons will readily contri-
bute to an institution which is not only of local but of
national good.

The expense of repairing and keeping up the build-
ings of this hospital (many of which are very ancient,
and originally formed part of the Old Grey Friars
Monastery) having been found to be extremely burden-
some, a fund was established in 1802, by subscription
of the governors and other friends of the hospital,
with a view to the gradual and complete rebuilding
of the whole fabric, and a great part has accord-
ingly been restored in a most commodious and substan-
tial form, notwithstanding the number of children
upon the establishment during the progress of the works.
Much, however, yet remains to be done, and the Gover-
nors regret to state the fund originally subscribed has
been completely exhausted, and a very considerable sum
expended from the general funds of the charity ; but
they are willing to hope that the generosity of the public
will affird the means of completing this great work, and
prevent the necessity of encroaching further upon the
permanent income of the hospital, and thereby diminish-
ing the scope of its usefulness.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.

Patients admitted, cured, and dischv.rged, during the
last year, 5,831 in-patients ; 19,758 outpatients ; 31,536
casuity patients, most of whom were poor, sick, and
lame persons, and many of them being destitute of all
relief have been supplied with money, clothes, and
other necessaries, to enable them to return to their seve-
ral habitations ; amounting together to 57,125 ; died,
383 ; remaining under cure—in-patients, 493 ; out-
patients, 2,798.

- This being the most ancient hospital in the city and '
suburbs of London, and having escaped the great fire in
the year 1666, the building, by length of tine, became so
very ruinous that in the year 1829 great part thereof
was necessarily taken down. A subscription was then
entered into by many of the wealthy governors and other
charitable persons, for defraying the expenses of rebuild-
ing the hospital, which was progressively effected, The
funds for this purpose having been exhausted, and
the building still being inadequate for the purposes
of the charity, it was found necessary to make
a considerable addition thereto ; and the Governors
have removed within the last six years valuable pro-
perty on the north side of the principal entrance in
6mithEehl, and have erected on the site thereof a
spacious surgery, which is open at all hours of the day
and night fur persons requiring medical and surgical
assistance, with additional wards, and an operating
theatre adjoining, whereby a very large sum has been
expended, and the fulfilment of the intentions of the
benevolent founder, to afford immediate relief to the
multitude of poor diseased or injured applicants, has
been effectually promoted.
All fees on the admission of patients have been
abolished ; the sisters and nurses placed in situations of
comfort better adapted to the nature of their duties ;
and the accommodation for the in-patients so extended
as to admit 560, while their diet and general com-
forts have been very materially , improved. The
accomplishment of these objects, so essential to
the welfare of the patients, has occasioned a very
heavy increase of annual expenditure. Tee Governors,
therefore, earnestly represent the strong claims of this an-
cient institution to the public, hoping that by their con-
tinued support and encouragement they may be enabled
to render relief to the annually increasing necessities of
the poor, and the urgent cells upon this charity.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL •
There have been cured and discharged from St.
Thomas's Hospital, in Southwark, the last year, of sick,
wounded, maimed, and diseased persons, 3,692 in.
patients, and 26,928 _ medical and surgical out-
patients, including casualties, some of whom have
been relieved with money and necessaries at their depar-
ture, to accommodate and support them in their
journeys to their several habitations; total, 30,620.
Died, after much change in their sickness, 249. Re-
maining under cure, in-patients, 428; ont-patients,
1,504. So that there has been, during the last year, of
poor miserable objects under the care of the said hos-
pital, and destitute of proper care, in all 32,801.
The Governors think it their duty to state that on the
rebuilding of London-bridge and the formation of its
new approaches, they made, at a considerable expendi-
ture of capital, large purchases of ground and buildings
adjacent to the hospital, and rebuilt two new wings,
affording accommodation for about 160 patients, and, at
the same time, secured such ventilation and accommoda-
tion as were deemed necessary for the health and com-
fort of the patients, &c.
BRIDE WELL HOSPITAL
Received into this hospital during the last year, under
Commitments by the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen of
this City, as criminals or disorderly persons, who have
been kept to hard labour, er to receive correction, 1,222;
apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for confinement,
32; received into the hospital during the same period
sundry poor persons who had been found wandering
abroad and begging in the city of London, 168.
THE HOUSE OF OCCUPATION OF BRIDEWELL