The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

TIRE SUN, LONDON, THUR SDAY EVEN.INI3-; AUGU'S'T 6, 1846.

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD
JUNCTION RAILWAY,
(Including the Extensions and Quarter Shares);
SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION- RAILWAY,
. .

(including the Extension Shares) ;
AND GRIMSBY DOCK COMPANY.
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS.

The Directors have the gratification to acquaint the Proprietors,
that they have been successful in all their Parliamentary proceedings,
both as regards the Sheffield and Lincolnshire and the Grimsby and
Sheffield Lines, and the amalgamation of the whole with the Sheffield
and Manchester Railway Company.
In addition to the line from Gainsborough to Great Grimsby, and
the intended Docks at Grimsby, both sanctioned by Acts of the Last
session, they have this year secured the lines from Sheffield to the
Midland Railway, to Gainsborough, and to Lincoln ; also front Gains-
borough to Newark, and from New Holland en the south bank of
the Humtler to Lincoln, with the right of constructing piers, and
making an improved communication from New Holland across the
River Humber to Hull,
The Acts for all these lines and works, including the amal-
gamation, have already received, or now only wait, the royal assent.
By the terms of the amalgamation, the proprietors in the Sheffield
and Manchester Company will, until six months after the opening of
the Sheffield and Lincolnshire and Grimsby and Sheffield lines, re-
ceive the profits realised on their own line ; and the proprietors in
the other above-named amalgamating lines and works, will, during
such time, receive interest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum on
the amount of calls actually paid up on their respective shares. When
the Sheffield and Lincolnshire and Grimsby and Sheffield
lines have been opened six months, thenceforth the shares of all
the amalgamating companies will partake of the same rateable di-
vidend in proportion to the amount of their respective shares.
The first payment of interest on calls is intended to be made in
January next.

By order of the Directors,
J. H. HUMFREY, Secretary,
Railway Office, Sheffield, July 24, 1846.

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
CALL on the 201. SHARES, and on the 121. 10s. SHARES (lately
called the " EXTENSION " and "QUARTER" SHARES.
The Directors of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Rail-
way Company having resolved, by virtue of their Act of Incorpora-
tion, to make a Call of Eighteen Shillings on the 201. Shares, and a
Call of Ten Shillings on the 121. 10s. shares of this Company, the
Shareholders are required to pay into one of the undermentioned
banks, on or before THURSDAY, the 10th day of September next, the
sum of Eighteen Shillings on each share of Twenty rounds, and of
Ten Shillings on each share of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings, now
registered in their names. The bankers are instructed to charge in-
terest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum on all sums tendered
after the 10th of September, up to the day of payment. The half-
yearly dividends of five per cent. per annum will only be payable to
those shareholders who shall have paid the calls due.
By the 16th clause of Bth Viet. cap. 16, commonly called " The
Companies Clauses Act," it is enacted that " No shareholder shall
be entitled to transfer any share after any call shall have been made
in respect thereof until he shall have paid such call, nor until he
shall have paid all calls due for the time being, on every share held
by him."
The Company's hankers are—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., at
Lincoln, Gainsborough, Caistor, Brigg, Market Rasen, and Grimsby ;
or their agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, in London, to
whom the calls may be remitted (accompanied by the call circular,
which will be sent to the address of each shareholder), through any
of their agents in the country, or through the Sheffield Banking Com-
pany, in Sheffield.
Dated at the Company's office, in Sheffield, the 24th day of July,
1846. By order of the Directors,
J. 11. HUMFREY, Secretary.
N.B. Circulars will be posted to the address of each registered
shareholder in due time to enable them to pay the above calls ; and
it is requested that the said circulars may in all cases be forwarded
with the amount due to the Company's bankers. The neglect of this
notice is liable to cause delays and inconvenience ix the advices, and
to prevent the individuals from being properly credited hi the Com-
pany's books. The sealed certificates of the 201. and 121. 10s. shares
will be ready for issue in the early part of September, of which
notice will be given.

ARMAGH, COLERAINE, and PORTRUSH
RAILWAY COMPANY.—AR MAGII, COLERAINE, and
POLITRUSH RAILWAY EXTENSION COMPANY.
The holders of Scrip in either of these Companies are requested to
forward to the Secretary, on or before the 10xn INST., the number of
shares represented by the scrip which they respectively hold, and also
the numbers designated on each certificate of such scrip.
By order, WILLIAM GALT, Sec.
14, Ironmonger-lane, Aug. 1,1846.

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THERMOMETER, Lowest, 63; Highest. 76 ; Noon, 79.
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are sacrificed every year, that the inhabitants of
our towns are proverbially of more debilitated
constitutions than the dwellers in the country, that
contag;ous disorders sometimes ravage the land and
decimate the population ; that 67,000 of our fellow-
countrymen were every year swept from creation by
endemic and epidemic diseases. To say that this is not
a matter requiring the resolute and speedy interposition
of Government would be folly and cruelty to the
last degree. All the washhouses and public baths,
and Sewerage Acts, and copious supplies of
water, and ventilation, and domestic drainings
in the world, can never ensure the natural
health of, or ward off unnatural maladies from,
a people living in an artificial state of society unless
the vestiges of mortality—in plainer words,
the rotting corpses of our fellow creatures—be re-
moved from the vicinity of their living and breathing
companions. And morally such a change would be
beneficial. There is something more consonant with
the divine, and tender, wad moving thoughts upon
death, such as are evoked by Christianity—there is
something, we say, more consonant with those so-
lemn and beautiful thoughts in the green grass, and
the cowslips, and the night sky of a country
churchyard, than in the mouldering planks, the
greasy clay, and rusty bars of a city church-
yard. The tranquillity of the one is as
appropriate as the din around the other is detestable
and distracting. Rejoiced, as we should have been,
to see Mr. MACKINNON'S motion for the second reading
of the Public Cemeteries' Bill acquiesced in, we shall,
nevertheless, await in patience and hope the re-intro-
duction of the matter by the Government, under Lord
JoHN RUSSELL. Our patience in this particular will
be the more sincere as we continue sanguine that the
subject will receive the revision as well as the patro-
nage of the Administration.

We have perused the report of what passed at the
meeting, held in Conciliation Hall on Monday last,
with feelings of unmixed satisfaction. The antici-
pated presence of Mr. O'CONNELL imparted a peculiar
interest to the proceedings, as it was known he had
left London for the express purpose of justifying his
conduct in the face of his enemies, and of offering
his counsel to the Association as to the course to be
pursued in consequence of the secession from its body
of Mr. S. O'BRIEN and his turbulent clique. Mr.
O'CONNELL has triumphed in every way. He found
ready to his hand, as soon as he set his foot upon his
native shDre, letters addressed to him by distinguished
men of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, admirably
calculated, to strengthen his unflinching determi-
nation, by moral means alone, to succeed in re-
dressing the political ills of Ireland. The letter of
Dr. HIGGINS was at once seasonable and severe, but
not more severe than just. We cannot resist tran-
scribing the following extract :
"We have witnessed with sorrow the disgraceful scenes
that have lately taken place in Conciliation Hall, and have
felt the deepest indignation and disgust at the shallow
sophistry and flippant impertinence exhibited by the few
young men who so childishly style themselves Young Ire-
land. Do these persons already forget that all their import-
ance, if any they possess, is owing to your superhuman and
unbounded influence? Or do they imagine the whole country
will ever start up at their wild bidding; throw moral force
and O'Connell to the winds ; trample upon God's holy com-
mandments; violate their sworn allegiance to their gracious
Sovereign ; and, under the magic spell of puritanical rank
and Jacobin impiety, sally forth from their peaceable fire-
sides to be butchered in an unequal and fruitless contest?
Assuredly, if such be the expectations of the Young England
party, they must look on their fellow-countrymen as the
reriest idiots upon the face of the earth, whilst, at the same
time, they draw down upon themselves the scorn and laugliter
of every true repealer in Ireland."

The confidence of the Romish priesthood is, if
possible, increased in Mr. O'CONNELL by the
divergent tactics of the " physical force" party. The
unbounded influence which they exercise over their
respective and multitudinous flocks is beyond dis-
pute. The detestable doctrines broached by Young
Ireland compel every well-conditioned man to stand
aloof from them. Numerically, mentally, and
morally, then, these factious demagogues, and gun-
powder tyros, have happily placed themselves hors de
combat.

The split is irremediable. We predicted as
much last week, and we rejoice that our vaticination
has been justified. The Liberator boldly denounced
every seceder as a traitor, Mr. S. O'BRIEN excepted.
To him only did he leave open the door of repentance.
We know not what may be the future political career
of Mr. S. O'BRIEN. It would be difficult to foretel
it of the possessor of so vapouring a temperament.
Our hope is that Mr. O'CONNELL may live long to
guide his country to a safe redemption from the
oppression under which she has suffered. But, should
we be disappointed in this, we are persuaded that,
after what has occurred, his sagacity is too keen to
permit him to recommend the Member for
Limerick as a proper person to fill his
place. It is evident from the following sentence
in the letter already alluded to, from the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Ardagh, that a great moral respon-
sibility would attach to any such recommendation :
" I feel thoroughly convinced, if it were the will of
PROVIDENCE to warn you to-morrow of your near
dissolution, the Irish nation would unanimously adopt,
as their political guide, that man alone whom you
would bequeath to them as worthy of their con-
fidence."

Mr. O'CONNELL broadly declared that the present
Government should hare his strenuous support. "He
was convinced that so much good to the country way
never tendered by a Government, and so much pru-
dence and discretion were never so necessary on the part
of the people." Probably no man out of the Cabinet
knows better than Mr. O'CONNELL the outline
of the ameliorating measures for Ireland intended tc
be introduced next session by the Government; and
certainly few men could compete with him in capa-
city for judging of their salutary efficacy. More-
over, no one is more fully aware than the Irish leader
of the folly of harassing a well-intentioned Adminis-
tration by any untoward demonstration of violent
conduct in Conciliation Hall : his present moderating
policy is, therefore, equally a proof of his wisdom.
and true patriotism. The imbecility of the rebellion'
seceders, in having arraigned those repealers whc,
have accepted office, was felicitiously ex-
posed ; for either they were sincere or insincere, when
they upbraided Lord EBRINGTON for considering a
repealer disqualified from holding office. If sincere,
they should have praised the Government for remov-
ing the ban of exclusion, and have congratulated the
present recipients of office. But, as they have not
done this, but have, on the contrary, denounced them,
they have, independently of the impolicy of their
views, furnished indelible proofs of their former insin-
cerity. 'We have them here inextricably seated be-
tween the horns of a dilemma.

Conducted in the way in which the Association now
is, ruled over by such a master spirit as O'CoNNELL's,
fenced round with the most solemn declarations, that
by the action of the pure and unalloyed principles of
moral force only shall its energies be devoted to the
regeneration of Ireland, we see no reason to regret
its existence, because we are satisfied that, simultane-
ously with the realisation of equal rights to those
enjoyed by Great Britain, the Association will be
either voluntarily dissolved, or crumble iLto insignifi-
cance.

" You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house : you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live."

Conciliation Hall serves the purpose of a political venti-
lator, and acts wholesomely enough for the time. With
a stinted franchise, and but a spare number of repre-
sentatives, it is not unnatural that an ardent, discon-
tented, and suffering people, should sympathise with an
Association which offers a safe outlet to their feelings,
and authoritatively sets forth the wrongs by which
they are oppressed. The phantom of repeal
troubles not our brains. O'CONNELL has frequently
alleged that without the co-operation of the Protestants
repeal is hopeless, and for their support he will look
in vain. If Ireland were as righteously governed as
England and Scotland, repeal would never be de-
manded. Scotland might then just as well agitate
for a severance of her union, as Ireland. Neither
would the absurdity stop short of kingdoms, for
uannidte d, might, numerous
as
farcounty,
us a obi-, t
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ar-
gument gor
oris
nj
dues
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nas d e reasonably o nt yi startn
fine, for a
awe
relapsed into another Heptarchy. It is not pre-
tended, that, were equal rights conceded th-to
Ireland, there would still remain in that,e,gr.4rtr'gr
political peculiarities, establishing the necessity
for a separate legislature. The latthr pri-
vilege has only been earnestly sought for, from the
partial belief that England never would place Ire-
landmoreseveral,
extensive
ofthem
upon the same footin gwith herself in all other

respectF. Our past rule may have done much to
strengthen this belief, but we rejoice to think
we have reached a period when a beneficent
Spirit will influence our national councils, and prosper
and direct all their consultations, to the safety,
honour, and welfare of that afflicted country.

The report of the Royal Academy of Medicine of
Paris on the questions referred to them by the French
Government, with a view to their giving an opinion
on the quarantine laws, is a document of the greatest
importance, and from which we may eventually hope
for the most valuable results, in the relaxation,
and, perhaps, ultimate abolition of the odious
system, by which the most injurious effect:,
have been produced—by Ns hich science has been
impeded, travelling obstructed, and commerce,
navigation, and manufactures seriously restricted.
The report of these learned gentlemen, which
is in every way worthy of their high reputa-
tions, objects in the strongest manner to the
system now in use by the authorities of Mar-
seilles, where the quarantine regulations are most
frequently used, and which it justly designates as
having been adopted under the influence of exagge-
rated fear and a total ignorance of the limits
of danger, and as stamped in several
points with a character of barbarism which
demands an early reform. The: Commission pro-
poses a line of conduct entirely opposed to the mea-
sures now taken. It is suggested they should be re-
placed by means simple and easy of execution, and
which have already received the sanction of expe-
rience.

The report is divided into four branches : the first
refers to countries in which the plague has arisen, or
still arises, spontaneously; the second, to its epide-
mic or sporadic character, and to the manner
in which it propagates itself ; the third treats
of the transmissibility of the disease ; and the
fourth of what is the common or exceptional
time for the incubation of the plague. It then
introduces the applications therefrom to the question
of quarantine. On the first branch, after giving a
definition of what the plague is, and the general
characteristics of the several localities in which it has
arisen spontaneously at different times, they arrive at
the conclusion, that in all countries where the disease
has been observed to be'spontaneous, it may reasonably
be considered to arise from certain causes acting on
a great portion of the population. Those causes are,
living on a marshy soil, near the Mediterranean sea—
near certain rivers, the Nile, the Euphrates, or the
Danube—living in houses that are low, not well
ventilated, and where there exists a superabundant
.accumulation of inhabitants—hot and damp air—the
action of animal and vegetable substances in a state
4,f decomposition ; and, lastly, great moral and human
misery.

In Lower Egypt, where these causes are chiefly
prevalent, the disease is endemic. It is observed to
resume the sporadic form every year—that is, when it
tttacks a small number of separate individuals, and is
wanting in the character belonging to epidemic
diseases; and the epidemic, where it attacks a vast
number of persons in a given time, about once in
every ten years. After showing that this country,
now so frightfully afflicted, and from which the prin-
cipal danger of the importation of the disease is to be
'eared, was for a long space of time kept free
"rom the epidemic by good administration and the
exertions of the sanatory police of the country,
hey state their expectation that the adoption of
-he same means would be followed by the
same results. We have thus the hope afforded to
as, that by energetic measures being adopted in
Egypt, the scourge may eventually be banished from
the face of the earth. Surely such a desirable result
—a consummation so devoutly to be wished for—
would justify the different European Governments
more particularly the French and English, in remon-
strating with MEHEMET ALT, who now presides over
the destinies of that nation, who has already intro-
laced so many and such valuable reforms, and who
bas evinced the strongest anxiety for the ameliora-
tion of the condition of his people. Is it not to be
supposed that if the restrictions and expenses occa-
sioned thereby to the commercial interests of his
country, which he has proved himself so desirous of
tdvancing, were clearly pointed out, that he would
Adopt every siiggestion calculated to attain the object;
md from the extraordinary power belonging to an
Eastern Sovereign he would have the means of
loing so more readily available than in a more
imited monarchy would la) possible ? Sincerely do
Re hope that no time will be lost by our Government
in taking measures with these of other nations
for so greatly advancing the interests of humanity.
Independent of the considerations which must
`lave such weight with all philanthropists, the mere
political economist must feel most desirous of the re-
"ormation of a system the maintenance of which has
been so costly. It has been calculated that commerce
has been taxed for the support of the quarantine laws
'o the extent of from 1,000,0001. to 2,000,0001. per
annum ; but even that expense, great as it is, is
of less consequence than the vexation and
lelay attendant thereon. The report of which we
have been speaking clearly proves the utter inutility
of by far the greater portion of these regulations,
and testifies that they may be either wholly abo-
lished, or, at least, subjected to such changes as, in a
great degree, to do away with the principal grievances.
One country alone can do nothing : if England alone
should take the lead, which she has ever done, by the
removal of these commercial restrictions, and the adop-
tion of a sounder and better principle, her commerce
might possibly be subjected to a greater degree of in-
convenience by the additional stringency to which it
would be subjected by the nations whose prejudices
had not been removed, and which still cling to the
antiquated and objectionable system with obstinacy
and pertinacity. It can, therefore, only be attained
by persuasion and losing no opportunity of
calling the attention of other nations to the
oractical result of the observations of the Academy.
We trust, at least, that the attempt will be made by
our Liberal Government. They may be unable to
command success, but let them deserve it; and, should
they happily be successful, and induce the principal
nations of the earth to join with them
in the total abolition of these vexatious laws,
they will have conferred a most valuable boon
on the great mercantile and commercial interests of
their country. It is impossible for us to follow the
report through all its parts, suffice it to say, that it
states that the disease is propagated by local and
atmospheric causes, and not by contagion, and that it
is not conveyed by goods or merchandise—and that,
at a distance from countries where the pest is ende-
mic and out of the focus of infection, it never broke
out among persons that had been exposed to its
action after they had been isolated eight days.

Letters from Rome of the 28th state that the
emeute at Cesana, in which a captain of the Swiss
Guard was killed, was merely an affair between the
guard and a body of smugglers. The PoPE, however,
has ordered the Swiss troops in garrison at Cesana
to be removed, and it is expected that one of the first
acts of the administration of Cardinal Gizzt will be
to reduce the number of Swiss in the pay of the
Pore. His HOLINESS presided over the deliberations
of the Committee of Education, consisting of sixteen
cardinals, on the 26th ult., and, it is said, proposed
the introduction of many improvements in the system
of public education.

At Berne the new constitution was adopted, on
the Ist instant, by a large majority of the inhabitants,
in public meeting assembled.

The Military Commission of Inquiry at Cracow
has completed its labours ; 1,250 prisoners were ex-
amined ; of these 200 have been delivered up to
Austria and Russia ; 220 remain in prison in Cra-
crow, to undergo a trial before the Civil Commission.
composed of two Austrian, two Russian, and two
Prussian judges, with a President, and 830 have
been set at liberty.
The Emperor NICHOLAS addressed, on the 25th of
June, the following edict to the nobles of Esthonia:—
" TO OUR BELOVED, FAITHFUL, AND DISTINGUISHED NOBLES

OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ESTHONIA.
" The nobles of Esthonia have presented to us their propo-
sitions relative to the organisation of the condition of the
peasants in this province. A committee especially appointed
for that purpose having examined these measures, which
fully answer our expectations, we bestow on them our ap-
probation, and it is with peculiar satisfaction that we ex-
press our imperial goodwill to the nobles of Esthonia for
this fresh proof of their generous efforts for the general
welfare. In the conviction that the nobles of Esthonia will
continue in the same spirit to deliberate on the final mea-

sures which this question demands, we assure them of our
imperial goodwill.

" NICHOLAS."

Madrid papers of the :10t1-1 have been received.

So great has 1-)E.,0 the desertion among the
Spanish troops stationed on the Portuguese frontier,
that General VILLA LoNGA has issued a bando, con-
demning every soldier who quits his post to enter
Portugal to be shot three hours after his arrest.

The Heraldo, which has recently been publishing
a series of articles advocating an invasion of Portugal,
and in one of which it openly and boldly defied the
powerofEngland, which would it said at once succumb if
Spain acted with proper spirit, has now, acting no doubt
upon instructions, taken upon itself the whole respon-
sibility of those articles, declaring that the opinions it
has published are not those of the Spanish Cabinet.
It appears that the propriety of an armed interfe-
rence in the affairs of Portugal has been fre-
quently discussed of late in the Spanish Cabinet,
and at length Senor IsTuRlTz, who has all along been
opposed to an armed intervention, has, it is said,
brought round the majority► of his colleagues to his
opinion, so that, notwithstanding the efforts of General
SAN; backed as those efibrts have been by Count
BRESSON, the French Ambassador, to whose inspirit:
tion it is supposed the articles in the Iferaldo are
due, there will be no invasion of Portugal after all.
According to the Chunor Pub/ico, General RON-.
CALI has been appointed Captain-General of Cuba,
and Senor CARONDELET, Captain-General of the
Philippine Islands.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The elections still continue to go in favour of the
Ministers. At the time the latest accounts left Paris
the results of 446 elections were known, giving the
Ministry a majority of 102 ; the numbers being, Minis-
terialists, 276; Opposition, 172. It is calculated that the
Ministerial majority in the new Chamber will exceed
120. Every one of the Ministers has been elected, and
M. DE SALYANDY, the Minister of Public Instruction,
has been returned for two places. Among the Depu-
ties re•elected are M. D'EICHTHAL, the hanker,
the Marquis DE MONTALEMBERT, Marshal Bu-
GLAUD, and M. DUPIN. The Legitimatists and the
Republicans are all but annihilated, as far as the
Chamber is concerned, by these elections. There
will, in fact, be only two great constitutional parties
in it—the one led by M. GUIZOT, the other by M.
TRIERS and M. ODILON BARROT. The Oppo-
sition papers endeavour to find consolation for their
misfortunes by making much of the defeat of
M. JAEQUES LEFEBVRE in the second arrondissement
of Paris. The Commerce alone honestly confesses
that the Opposition have been soundly beaten, but it
attributes the Ministerial victory to corruption.

The Moniteur announces that the moment the
Minister of Justice was informed of the false and
alarming rumours which were circulated at Rouen
and Paris on the 2d, he gave orders to the Attor-
neys-General of those two cities to institute a
judicial inquiry to ascertain the origin of those
rumours.

The 3loniteur Algerien of the 30th states that ADD•
EL-FADER, accompanied by Bou MAZA, and a smal
number of followers, who were in a state of grea
distress, has taken refuge in Morocco.

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The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 83f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 122 f. 15c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,272 f. 50e.; Rouen, 9751. ;
Havre, 692 E 50c.; Great Northern, 701 f. 25c.;
Avignon, 877 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 615 E; Bordeaux, 553 f. 75c.;
Dieppe, 390 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 485 E ; Tours and
Nantes, 497 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 510 f. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4861.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1251—Dutch Rhenish, 61A —East Indian,
I—Grf at Indian Peninsular, —Great Western Bengal, re—Louvain
la Sambre, Iq—Luxembourg, 2 ex d.—Northern of France Con-
stituted, 12% —Orleans and Vietzon, 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8
—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—Sambre and Meuse, 4 —West
Flanders, 334.
RAILWAY

COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Room C,

HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY AND CANAL (01.33.11A/VI

nnaNcs).
OLDHAM, MANCE ESTER, LIVERPOOL,

AND BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION.

The Committee on these Bills, consisting of the Earl of Radnor
(chairman), the Earl of Wicklow, Lord Lyttelton, ,Lord Montfort,
and Lord Strangford, met to-day at eleven o'clock.

HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER
RAIL WAY AND CANAL (OLDHAM
mcnalvca).
This Bill was opposed by several petitioners, and, amongst the rest,
by the Manchester and Leeds Company.
Mr. Sergeant WKANGIIAM, who opened the case for the promoters,
said that the Bill in suppoi t of which he appeared was for obtain.
ing a railway which branched off from the Huddersfield
and Manchester line, which Bill had been sanctioned last
session. The line proposed to be constructed would branch
off at a point on the Manchester and Huddersfield
line near Lidgate, and then proposed to proceed to Oldham. The
length of the proposed line was between three and four miles. The
object was to afford a shorter route between the eastern and
western parts of Yorkshire. The town of Oldham was important,
and the chief manufactures were the spinning and the weaving of cot-
ton, and the making of machinery. The neighbourhood was rich in
minerals and there was a large coal trade carried on in the neigh-
bourhood. The preamble or this Bill had been proved before the
other House without'any evidence being heard, the Committee, from
their local knowledge, being satisfied of its importance. There was
no injury inflicted by the railway which could not come wider the
head of compensation.
The Learned Counsel then called evidence.

BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general meetingof this Company was held
in the Board Room, at the terminus, London-bridge, to-day,
at eleven o'clock.

The Hon. Capt. Ilursinm, R.N., having taken the chair,
called on the Secretary to read the notice of meeting. After
the seal of the Company had been attached to the registered
list of the shareholders,
The Cx.littmAN said it would not be necessary for him to
detain the meeting with any lengthened statement. They
were aware of the circumstances under which they met, that
it was merely in compliance with the Act of Parliament.
They were aware also that the Brighton and Chichester line
had been completed, and was opened to the public,
and that the traffic on it was satisfactory. He said the
Portsmouth extension was in progress, and the Eastern
portion •. was considerably advanced, and he might say with
confidence that by tha end of the year, or early next season,
it would be entirely completed, and that as soon as it was
completed the transfer of the line would be made to the
Brighton Company.
A statement of the accounts, up to the 30th of June was
then laid upon the table, making the whole expenditure
amount to 93,813/. 18s. 6d.

Mr. COOPER moved that the report and accounts be re,
ceived and entered on the minutes.

Mr. HILL seconded the motion, which was carried nein. con.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was passed, and the
meeting adjourned.

'LONDON JOINT-STOCK AND
COUNTY BANK.—(TIIIS DAY.)
The usual half-yearly meeting of this Company took place
this day, at the London Tavern. The chair was taken by
Afr.
The SUMMARY read the report, which stated that the
affairs of the Company were in the most flourishing and
satisfactory condition.
The CHAIRMAN announced a dividend of 6 per cent.
This announcement was received with great approbation ;
and after a vote of thanks had been passed to the Chair-
man, the meeting separated.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—His Roya
Highness the Duke of Cambridge and suite visited these
gardens yesterday evening, to witness the eruption of Ve-
suvius. His Ito.) al Highness passed most flattering enco-
miums upon Mr. Tyler, on the success of the spectacle, and
also in a most feeling and condescending manner congratu-
lated him on the little amount of damage done to the gar-
dens by the late storm.
FIRST PERFORMANCE OF BALFE'S OPERA, " THE
BOHEMIAN Givi,," AT VlENNA.—Balfe's opera of The Bohe-
mian Girl was produced at Vienna, on the 24th of July; the
overture and six pieces of music, were rapturously encored;
and as the public of Vienna are not so much inclined to
encore as in England, this must be considered an extraor-
dinary success. Balfe may now be considered the most
popular composer in Vienna, as, independently of his
success, his opera, The Castle of Aymon, is nightly per-
formed at two theatres.

VAUXHALL-GARDENS.—Thefae. of St. George, which
was celebrated here last evening, was attmded by more than
the usual number of visitors. The weather was propitious,
and though up till a late hour in the day the clouds were
lowering, the night cleared up, and patronised the patron
saint. The attractions of the evening were increased by the
ascent of the coronation balloon, which took place at ten
o'clock, in the presence of several thousand spectators, from
the firework-ground. It took a direction towards Richmond,
a light wind blowing at that moment from the east. When
at a tolerably lofty elevation, Mr. Green, who was alone in
the car, discharged the fireworks, suspended at a consider-
able distance beneath him. The effect of this pyrotechnic
disk lay was splendid beyond what is usually exhibited. The
remainder of the entertainments, consisting of equestrian
fireworks, performances,
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qui vice for many hours, nor was it till long past midnight
that the gay throng thought of going home, and left the
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gardens to peace and quietude.
THE LORD MAYOR'S VISIT TO OXFORD.—OXFORD,
WEDNESDAY EVENIN43.—The Lord Mayor reached Oxford by
11 o'clock
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was very active.
The sales were 6,000 to 7,000 bales, including 800 American
and 200 Brazilian on speculation and for export.-Shares
were steady, but not so buoyant.
The intellig,lice by the West India mail notices a conti-
nued improvement in the weather, which was favourable Mr
the planters in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Demerara, &c. The Coolies
in the latter colony seemed inclined to turn to handicraft
and trading pursuits, but in any way we think they must
certainly be valuable to the colony. The fine weather comes
too late to do more than improve the prospect for next year's
crop. This season's will be lamentably deficient. There was
a scarcity of shipping at Barbadoes.
The public securities have been rather dull, and the slight
decline in prices which occurred yesterday afternoon has not
been recovered. Consols for present transfer have realised
9534 to 95X3, and for time 96 to 1. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been also lower, viz., 977 g/ to 93.
Bank Stock is firm, and has been as high as 209%. Exche-
quer-bills have realised Bs. to 12s. premium.
Speculation in the Foreign Market has been exceedingly'
dull. Spanish Bonds have been tolerably firm. The Pas-
sive are quoted 6. Mexican Bonds are lower again, viz.,
211/2 to 25 Chilian Bonds are at par; and Brazilian at
90. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked
98 to z ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59i-to GO.
Shares are not quite so buoyant, and the recent decided
advances induces sales while it checks investments.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PR ICES
Bank Stock 209% 208% 2081/2
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96%14 961.4
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95% ;74, 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Antis. 97% 98 ! 8
New Five per Cent. Annuities .. .. 125 125
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 10% 10 1,16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10 1-16 10 1-46
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 23 23
Ditto, under 1,000/. 23 18 18
South Sea Stock .. -
Ditto. Old Annuities .. .. 95 % 95%
Consols for Account • • • • .. • • • • 96% 96
Exchequer Bills. I%d. ftfid.
1,01301... .... 12 8 - pm. 11
5001. - 12 8 - - pm.
Ditto, Small • - .... 12 8- - pm. 8
ONE CLOSTS?
FOREIGN FUNDS, PUB; Es:
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 90 90
Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . .. 160 100
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. -
Ditto, for the Account .. .• 24% 25% 24%
Portuguese Four per Cent .• - 42
Ditto, for the Account .. • - 41
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. -
Ditto, Small ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. -
Ditto, for the Account ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 6
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 98% 97%
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% %60 60
Ditto, 4 per Cent Certificates .. 94% 94 94
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 15 .... 104 ••••• • • • • • 9%
Amber., Notting., Boston), and
Eastern Junction .. .... 2% %%14 .... 214
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. - .••• • • .. -
Ditto, New (issed at 71/2 dis.).. 17% ... 3214 324
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 71,4 %• • .... • • 714
Buckinghamshire 425. .... par to dis. % dis.
Caledonian - .. 20 .... 16 16 15%
Ditto, half Shares .. - • • .1%
Ditto, Extension .. 2% - .. l%
Chester and Holyhead .. 27% - 27%
Direct Manchester (Remington's) %
Direct Northern .. . • 2y.... 2
Eastern Counties .. 14!. 165..... 24%
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 8 91% 8% p..
Ditto, York Extension .. 108..... 2%%s ........
Eastern Union .. .. 30 .... 43% .
Do. Ipswich & Bury St.Edmuuds 9 83‘i . .
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 ...•
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% 1814 _ • 181,4
Edinburgh and Northern .. 10 .... 1114 1 114
Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. .... 1/2 di,- % dis.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% 1% %.....„
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 25 .... 30% .. 3014
Great North of England . ..100 .... - ••• • .. -
Ditto, New . .. 15 .... 51 50%
Great Western .. 85 -.........-
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 .... 23% ........ • . 23%
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 45 .... 65 _ •65
Leeds and Bradford! .. • - .. 26 .... 71 ..... 71
Leeds and Carlisle .. • . 2% -
Leicester and Bedford .. . 225. % di5....... % dis.
Liverp., Stanch., & Newc. Junct. .... 2%14 ........ 214
London an Birmingham . ..100 234
Ditto, Thirds .. .. 32 .... 73% 73%
Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... - -
Ditto, Fifths 2 .... 26% .. ........
London and Brighton .. .. 50 .. . 6614 _
London and Croydon .. • . 13/. 15s 9d... - • ...
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... - • • •• • . •
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 9 ........ • .
London, Hounslow, and Western.. 2 .. 34 .. •• ..
London and South-Western -41/. Gs. 10d... - • • • •
Ditto, New .. . • .. • • 17% .... 27%..........
London and York .. .... • • ...
Lynn and Ely
a. 15 .... 15% ..........
Lynn and Dereham .. 15 .... 13% 14 13%
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 - . .
Ditto Extension .. .• 425. .... 43y p.... • . 3% p
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 88
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 5 .... 16% •••••••• • • 16%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .. • • 11% • • ...... • • 11%
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • • 1 %14 p...... p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... % .....
Midland .. ..100 .... 146 .......... 146
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... 43% 44% .... 44%
Ditto, New . 1 .... 12!834 12 .... 12
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15 •• • • 2914 3/4 28% • • 28%
Ditto, Tenths .. .. • • • • 2 .... 2% • • • • •
Ditto, Extension .. • • • 2 .... - ......
Nortn British.. .. • . 25 .... 40 39% % •• • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 8% .... 15 14% ......
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 11% .... 3A %
North Kent and Direct Dover .• 2yt 1% •- . ..• • .
North Staffordshire .. 425..... 416 IA p
Oxford,Worcest., & Wolverhinptn. 12% .... 9 ••••• • • • ••
Portsmouth Direct .. • . 334 •• •• 5%%
Preston and Wyre .. • • • • 2a 37 y,l
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 425. • • • • di
Scottish Central .. . .•
Ditto New . .. • • •• • • 2% •• •• - ••"•' " • • 814
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .... !i; • ....... 3
Shropshire Union 428..... %
South Midland .. 425....• P. ••••• • • • • p
South Eastern and Dover .. • . 33% -
Do., New (do. 33/. 68.83.) No. 2. 10 .... -
Do., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 21% .. .......
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% .... 3%. ........
South Wales . • .. .. 5
Warwickshire and London .. 425. -
Welsh Midland .. .... 1 ..........
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 10 .... - ..........
West Riding Union • • .. 426...., 314% p..
York and Carlisle .. .... . .......
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... -
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 50 ..........
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 49 ..........
Ditto. Extension .. .. 20 .... 3914 ..........
Do. .E • and W. Riding Exten.- 1 •• • • 1414
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian .. .• .. 4 .... 2% .. ........
Boulogne and Amiens .. 14 .... 12%.. •
Bord., Toni., & Cette Mackenzie) 2 I%
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 1% .••• • • •
Dutch Rhenish 6 ... •••- • • •
East Indian .. . ss. .. • • I 76 •••• • • • •
Louvain ala Sambre .. .• • • 5 •• • • 1%
Northern of France Constituted.: 5 •• .. - .. •••• • • • •
Nanatu and Liege .. • •
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 83811
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 51F 34
Rouen and Havre . .. 20 .... 276 .. •• ..
Sambre and Meuse ..
West Flanders . 6 .. • . 3% -7•1 ••• • • •
MINES.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.