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RAILWAY GAUGE—Price Sixdence.
A. LETTER to Lord John Russell on the Best
Mode of Avoiding the Evils of Mixed gauge Railways and
the Break of Gauge.
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DAVIS ON EVIDENCE IN 111 E COUNTY coma's.
Just published, in Ono Vol. 12m0., price 8:. boards.
Lk.MANUAL of the LAW of EVIDENCE on
the Trial of Actions and other Proceedings in the New County
Courts.
By JAMES EDWARD DAVIS, Esq., of the Middle Temple,
• Barrister-at-Law.
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gazine.
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TIIE LANCET.—NEW MODE OF TREATING DEAFNESS.
THE LANCET of To Morrow --(Saturday),'
August 5, will contain Mr. Yearsley's Third Paper with Cases,
on his important discovery in the treatment of Deafness, in continua-
tion of Papers which appeared in the LANCET of July 1 and 15.
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may be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen in the Kingdom.

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STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA: Prevalent and Dangerous
Errors in their Treatment.
Just published, price 55., (by post free, 65.,) Bvo., in cloth,
THE PATHOLOGY AND RATIONAL
TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, in all
their Varieties and Complications. With Practical Observations no
the Use and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment of Urethral Dis-
eases, showing that the unnecessary employment of instruments is
a frequent exciting cause of stricture, and that a want of practical
knowledge and manual dexterity in their use, when necessary, Is the
s,airce of most of the severe, long protracted, and complicated cases
of that disorder so WWI), prevalent. The whole illustrated by nu-
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A R R I A G E.
11- One half the world are desolately single, and the other
.upposing them. married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
4tter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
tomprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
end broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
;ement. Honour end Justice der:sand that health should form au item
n the compact; it alone dignities the alliance. Blighted hopes or
seglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, it
_hese surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
AEMOIRS On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is.
each (by post, in stamps, is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
refined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
ay misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
riern. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
or the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
Pogether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
tale publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
Sy post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
,)amphiets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, Mit the study of the author's
Ife, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live atter nature's laws—and to keep always
.11 the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
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nornings and evenings), 10. Argyll-plaee Regent-street; and all

TIM ARMING AND INCREASE OF

THE POLICE FORCE.

Yesterday a meeting of the metropolitan Members of
Parliament and delegates from the metropolitan parishes
was held at the Marylebono Court-house, for the pur•
pose of deciding as to the most effective course to be
adopted to resist the recent demand for an increased
police force, and also the recent proceedings of Govern-
ment in arming the police. James Nisbet, Esq., vestry
M.P., Sir De
churchwarden of Morylebone, was, at one o'clock,
called to the chair. Amongst those present were Lord
rDiauedyleyESvatunasr, Be.. IlLaulls,hiß4tort.n,
my.,
Mr. B.
Osborne, M.P., Mr. J. Williams, M.P„ Mr. Wyld,
M.P., &e.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS (late M.P. for Coventry) moved
the first resolution, deprecating the contemplated in-
crease of the police force as uncalled for and productive
of expense, which would be most unjust and oppressive
in its effects, particularly upon the parishes in Middle-
sex. in the course of his observations he accused the
metropolitan Members in general of being partisans of
the Government.
Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir De Lacy Evans, and Lord
Dudley Stuart repelled the charge of their being par-
tisans of the Government.
The resolution was adopted, as were also resolutions
condemning the arming of the police as unconstitutional,
and appointing a deputation to wait upon Lord John
Russell (not upon the Home Secretary, in consequence
of his alleged breach of faith with the Middlesex pa-
rishes), to protest against the measures above referred
to, and the meeting broke up.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—We have Cape of
Good Hope papers of the Ist of June. The. files con-
tain the speech of Sir Harry Smith at the opening of
the session of the Council, together with a detailed state-
ment of the estimates of the income and expenditure of
the colony. The best proof that can be given of the
state of things is the fact, that the revenue fur the past
year exhibits a surplus of 56,0001., which will enable the
executive to carry out Some important internal improve-.
i
welds, and apply 16,000/. for immigration purposes. The
estimate is that this sum will be sufficient to carry out
1,600 people by eight vessels,
and the plan is that they
shall arrive in the
colony in success
Yesterday
at the distance
issued at
tthteh the
aiis GeneralofthPe ost-
evening office,o
of the
of six weeks from each other.
MAIL FOR BRAZIL, &c. Yesterday notice was
eM4athrtionf hst-iee-
Gra
that from August to January inclusive, the
packets con-
monnthd,
for Madeira, Brazil, and Bueuos Ayres, would touch a;
Bahia and Pernambuco, on the outward voyage to Rio
Janeiro. The Express will sail from Falmouth with the
mails for the above on the arrival of this night's post
from London; next mails due by the Petrel. 24th inst
A novel case was afforded, between flesh and
steam, on our railway on Monday evening last. Two
fine horses, belonging to Mr. Dunk, of Chilham, having
strayed on the line, started off at a rapid pace on the ap-
proach of the evening up-passsenger train. The noise
of the steam and whistle only accelerated their speed,
but, to prevent running over them, it was necessary to
check the pressure of the locomotive, and in this way a
chase was kept up till the Nye station was reached,
when the horses were turned off unharmed, excepting
that one appeared quite exhausted.—Kentish Observer.
At the meeting of the dissentient shareholders of
the Leeds and Bradford Railway Company, held at the
London Tort ro on Wednesday, resolutions were adopted
for vigorously opposing the conduct of the directors in
not finishing the F.)rtion of the liue between Skipton and
Colue.

•
RAILWAY INTXLLIGENCE.
I LIVERPOOL, • MANCHESTER, AND NEW-
. CASTLE-UPON' TYNE.
An adjourned meeting of the ihareholders of the above
company wits held yesterday, at the London Tavern.
Mr. T. R. W. Ffrance was in the chair.
The advertisement by which the meeting had been
convened• having been read,
The.CtiiiamaN said it would be recollected that when
he addressed the shar.- holders on the 20th of July les!
he reported that the Bill fur the dissolution of .the com-
pany had been reed a second time in the Lords, notwith-
standing, the opp...isition of the Marquis of Londonderry;
that thsy expected to go immediately into Committee.
and th{it as they were opposed by only seven or eight
landowners he trusted the Bill would be allowed to pays
His .recommendation on that occasion was that the
meeting should be adjourned to a future day, in ca.e
there sheuld. arise any question which it might be
necessary to submit to • the consideration 01 Ihk"
proprietors. That recommendation was adopted.
The Committee of the L.irds rat in evidence on the
Bill on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of July, and after a pa-
tientinvestigation they came to a resolution that it was
net expedient to proceed lurtiier with the Bill, and it
was, therefore, last, much to the surprise of those who
prothoted it. It now became the duty of the directors to
consider what was best to be done. He had not had, till
the previous daY, an opportunity of holding a board
meeting. Of that opportunity ho availed himself. The
board met, and they resolved that, under the circum-
stances in which the company was placed, it was incum-
bent on them to husband the resources of the undertaking
by the strictest economy, and with that view they ap-
pointed a committee to consider and report how such a
measure coult
gentlemen consti-
tuting that - 'iv- > were himself Mr. Burchell, and
Mr. Giblist erOisisend in their report as early
,a.p.possibte, in skt
n't-Aight be placed in the hands
those appoint.. iiiirair.ark:tblvtudf-yeikrly report. He
hoped that, under the circumstances, the proprietors
would indulge the directors with time to consider the po-
sition of the company.

• .
Mr. PARSON suggested that, as the large mass of the
shareholders resided in London, the half-yearly meeting
should be held there, and not, as had hitherto been the
case, in Manchester.

The CHAIRMAN said the suggestion should be taken
into consideration by the coniinittee who had to draw up
the report.

Mr. COURTENAT moved that the report to be submitted
to the half-yearly meeting should, together with the evi-
dence taken before the Committee 01 the Lords, be
printed and circulated amongst the shareholders ten days
prior to the holding of such meeting.
Mr. J. T. ATKINSON supported the motion, on the
ground that the printing and circulation of the evidence
on which the dissolution Bill was thrown out was abso-
lutely necessary to enable the shareholders to come to a
sound conclusion on the question to be submitted to
them at the half-yearly meeting, viz., whether the pro-
ject should or should not be abandoned.
Mr. PARSON had not the slightest objection to the
printing and circulation of the evidence, but he thought
it would not give the information required. His own
opinion was, that the matter should be left in the hands
of the directors. He should, therefore, move as an
amendment that the question of printing an abstract or
the whole of the evidence be left to the discretion of the
board.
Mr. BURTON seconded the amendment.

Mr. BURCIIELL (of the firm of Burchell, Kilgour, and
Parson) referred to some insinuations that had been
thrown against him both in Committee and in one of
the railway journals, from which an inference might be
drawn that he had, in his connexion with the company,
been mixed up in share-jobbing. lie begged to say that,
with a trifling exception, he now held all the shares he
had ever purchased in the company. He held 1,100
shares, all of which had been purchased by him at par,
or at a premium, and for those shares he had paid
3,000/., while the probability was he should never get
3,000 pence for them.
Mr. Parson's amendment was then put and carried by
14 to 5.

Mr. ATKINSON wished to know from the chairman
who would have to pay the expenses of the Dissolution
Bill. At the meeting held on the 9th of February, 1848,
the question was asked by Mr. Marriott, and the solicitor
for the Bill answered that the shareholders would not be
held responsible for such expenses.

Mr. PARSUN objected to the chairman answering the
question put by Mr. Atkinson, who, he thought, ap-
peared rather as an "advocate" than as a shareholder.
(Mr. Atkinson, we believe, was counsel against the Dis-
solution Bill.)
The CHAIRMAN reminded Mr. Atkinson, 4t at an
adjourned extraordinary general meeting of the share.
holders, held on the 7th of June, the Dissolution BA' was
unanimously approved of.
Mr. ATKINSON thought the chairman would find that
an adjourned extraordinary general tieeting could not
'entertain any such motion.—(Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN reminded Mr. Atkinson, that the
holders of 42,000 out of the 50,000 shares of the com-
pany, voted for the Dissolution Bill.
Mr. PARSON moved that the meeting adjourn sine die.
The motion was carried, and a vote of thanks having
been given to the chairman, the meeting broke up.

OLDHAM ALLIANCE.
OLDHAM, THURSDAY.—This morning, at twelve
o'clock, the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
this company was held at the Town Hall. Mr. E. A.
Wright presided. The report was adopted; three of the
directors and the auditor were re-appointed; and after
a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting terminated.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Auo, 3.
STOCK ExcnAtion.—Tfie sales sire—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 14%—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101. Preference,
16s. 3d. p.—London and North-IVestern, 126—Ditto, New
Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), 2 p.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. Quarters, No. 2, 144
—Ditto, Preference, 101/8 Midland Stock, 103—Ditto, New
Blliarins;eilsi,gGh t/ac3 Birmingham,
—5l. N o7rs. th
9d.S taffsorhdasrhei:e,(3Ad)i, 51A
s.—Shrewsburyouatnhd.
caEassttlee,rnanad BnderDwioveekr,No.,
(Extension,
N. E. Purchase), 143 p.
MANCHESTER, AUG. 3.
STOCK EXCHANOR.—The sales are—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 2, 15—DittoP.—;
Thirds,No. 2),3 diiGD k—York, New-
castle,
(Grimsby),
501. Shares, 21% dis.—Ditto, ditto, 20/. Shares, 844
Ditto, ditto, 12!. 10s. Shares, 5 dis.—Ditto (Grimsby
Dock), 11 dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 10 dis.
itmtos
b( G).
,
North Staffordshire, 2 15.16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
243/ —Ditto, No. 4, 274 dis.
NEWCASTLE:-UPON-TYNE, Aix). 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Car-
lisle, 108—Ditto, Scrip (red), 4 p.

ABOLITION OF NIGIITWORK.-- THE BAILERS.-
Last night a meeting of the master and journeyman
bakers was held at the Mechanics' Institution, South-
ampton-buildings, to support the Bill introduced into
Parliament by Sir Benjamin Hall and Lord Robert
Grosvenor, the latter of whom presided. The Noble
Chairman congratulated the assembly on the manifest
progress their cause had made during
the past year, and
observed, that though the Bill "for reducing the un-
limited hours of labour," &c., was lost, still be was of
opinion that before that day twelvemonth it would be the
law of the land. The secretary read a report of the
proceedings of the society since its formation, in which
it was stated that during that period 77 petitions, bear-
ing 8,362 signatures, had been presented to Parliament,
and not one against. The total receipts amounted to
2941. 15s. 5(1., the disbursements left a residue of 221.,
the average weekly expenses being 18s. 4d. The report
was adopted amid applause, and the meeting, which was
a very crowded one, after passing resolutions in accord-
ance with its object, and a vottof thanks to the Noble
Lord, dispersed.

. .
ANOTHER MODEL LODGING-HORSE.—The Society
for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes
have taken an extensive range of premises at the back
of the , London and St. Katherine's-dock Hotel, East
Smithfield, which they intend to open as one of their
model lodging-houses on Saturday next. The building
is sufficiently capacious to afford accommodation for 100
persons.
produced ereadt e
19 asr6e9eld.
HOLBORN AND FINSBURT COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
—Yesterday a meeting of the Metropolitan Commis-
sioners of Sowers was held at the office of the late Com-
missioner of Sewers for the Holborn and Finsbury divi-
sion, Hatton-garden, to make and sign a general sewer-
rate for the district. The total rental of the division,
which included the Southampton estate, Holborn, Chan-
cery-lane, Gray's Inn-lane, Leather-lane, Field-lane,
andto was
the
sixpence northern
isne wtehres,
pwoausn7d, 66w.7h7i0h 51.
7s. 6d.
THE SHRIEVALTY.—Yesterday the numbers on the
poll at three o'clock were—Finnis, 211; Goodhart, jun.,
204 ; Bewley. 5; Goodhart, sen., 3 ; Lawrence, 1. It
is necessary to put the Livery upon their guard against
the tricks of the mercenary electioneering agents who
are at work in the City. Alderman Finals and Mr.
Goodhart, the younger, have assured the Livery that if
elected they will serve the office of sheriffs. The Livery
should, therefore, lose no time in expressing their opinion
of the conduct of certain election agents, who, to serve
their own purposes, would prevent the citizens from ex-
ercising the right which they possess of choosing their
own sheriffs, by polling for Alderman Finnis and Mr.
Goodhart, jun. If the Livery abstain from voting, the
agents will at the last moment pour in sufficient votes to
turn the scale, and thus elect gentlemen who are unwil-
ling candidates. It will,
therefore, be necessary to vote
for Finnis and Goodhart, the younger, in such numbers
as to overpower the numbers who may be induced by the
promise of a small recompense each to bring in some
gentlemen who would pay the fine rather than serve.
THE CHOLERA...-....A1aj or-General Woronzow, and
Major-General Schtschitowski died of the cholera on
the 23d. Senator and Privy Counsellor Mordvvinoff is
also dead. The cholera still assumes a very serious
aspect in Moscow. It has also made its appearance in
Gallicia. •
DEPARTURE OF Tnoors.---Another division of the
46th Foot passed through London yesterday en route for
Liverpool, there to be encamped with the other divisions
of the regiment. Prince George of Cambridge is not
going to command the 17th Lancers at Kilkenny, as
stated in some of the Irish papers.