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APRIL 28, 1846.

to
be elected by a Xnajority of the members of the committee
preSent at the meeting, and in case the votes of the members
of the coramittee, present, shall be equally divided, or there
shall' be no. member of.the committee elected, then some
shareholder entitled to vote to be elected by the meeting;
a.ried. every porson_present to have one vote for the election of
pl chairman and scrutineers; and every chairman shall
have a casting vote, in Addition to any other vote. which he
may be entitled to;, and if any such chairman shall refuse to
give his casting vote on, the question of dissolution or bank-
as
rup.,y e— as after mentioned, the question shall be considered
. 8: carried in the affirmative for dissolution or bankruptcy.
_ And be it enacted, -That the chairman at every such
meeting shall be bound to put to the meeting any question
proposed for. the •dissolution of the company,or as to the
mode.thereof, and the election of scrutineer, and that no
business shall be transacted at any such meeting other than
the consideration of any such question so proposed, and the
election of a chairman andscrutineers,
9.. And be.it enacted, That immediately after the election
of a chairman at such meeting, the meeting shall proceed to
elect, as scrutineers.three shareholders in the company, whose
busies it shall be to verify as after-mentioned, and take7' the
votes, of the _shareholders entitled to vote and cast up the
same, and the decision of them, or any two of them, shall be
final In all respects.. . - . .
10. And be it enacted, That in case it shall be discovered
by or, shown to the scrutineers that the chairman at any
meeting is not entitled to vote as a shareholder, it shall be
lawful for the. meeting either to elect a new chairman or to
maintain such existing chairman, but such chairman so main-
tained in offeze shall not thereby acquire the right of votingas
shareholder, or of .giving a casting vote; and in case the
votes shall be equally divided, the resolutions shall be con-
sidered as carried in the affirmative for the dissolution and
as to the bankruptcy of the. company, provided always that
all votes, acts, and deeds by the chairman not entitled to
vote, or by the meeting presided over by him, given or done
before the discovery of his not being so entitled, shall be valid
and effectual.. . .
11. And be it enacted, That any such meeting as aforesaid,
in the. event .of the. prescribed quorum after-mentioned not
being present at such meeting, then the chairman shall cause
the votes of the persons constituting the said meeting to be
taken.and recorded, and shall then adjourn the same to be
held at the same place and at a day to be declared by the
chairman, such day not being less than three days and not
more than one, week from the original day of meeting, such
day and the time of meeting in the meantime being adver-
tised twice in each of. three London daily newspapers, and in
the case of a Scotch railway, also twice in two Edinburgh
newspapers, and in the case of an Irish railway, also twice
1 in each of two Dublin daily newspapers ; and at such ad-
journed meeting the votes of such persons constituting the
same as had not voted at the original meeting shall be taken
and recorded, and the total number of votes given at the
original and adjourned meeting shall be received as if given
at one and the same meeting.
12. And be it enacted, That the hour to be fixed for hold-
ing any meeting under the provisions of this Act shall be
that of noon.
13. And be it enacted, That the only persons entitled to
be present and vote at any such meeting as shareholders (ex-
cept as to the appointment of a chairman and scrutineers)
shall be those persons who shall for the time being be in pos-
session of and produce certificates or receipts declaring parties
entitled to shares in any company, or acknowledging the
receipt of a deposit in such company, usually termed "scrip,"
or " receipts" for deposits on shares, and that notwithstand-
ing the party in possession may not be the party to whom
the same was originally granted, or that the same may not
have been legally assigned to the party in possession, and
that notwithstanding the same may be held by the holder as
a mere mortgagee, or the same may be subject to any, charge
or lien, and which parties are not by this Act called ' share-
holders."

A. And be it enacted, That every shareholder shall he en-
ded to one vote in respect of every share held by him up to
,en, and to one additional vote for every four shares beyond
the first ten shares held by him up to one hundred; and to
an additional vote for every ten shares held by him beyond
the first hundred shares; and that all shareholders producing
such scrip or receipts shall be entitled to attend meetings
and to appoint proxies according to the form contained in
the schedule hereunto annexed, or in some form to the like
effect: provided always, and be it enacted, that the fact of
any such party attending any such meeting shall not in any-
wise increase or alter his rights or liabilities.
15. And be it enacted, that the appointment of any such
proxy shall be signed by the party appointing the same be-
fore a Master or Master Extraordinary of the Court of
Chancery in England or Ireland, or a justice of the peace in
England or Ireland, or before a sheriff or sheriff depute or
justice of the peace in Scotland, or before the registrar of
joint-stock companies or his deputy; and that on signing the
same the scrip or receipt in respect of which the proxy is in-
tended to be appointed shall be produced to the Master,
justice, sheriffor sheriff depute, registrar or deputy registrar;
and the numbers of shares and the name of the party enti-
tled shall be verified, with the numbers and name stated in
the appointment of proxy, before such Master, sheriff, sheriff
depute or justice, registrar or deputy registrar; and that no
such appointment of proxy shall be subject to stamp duty.
16. And be it enacted, That to constitute a meeting under
the provisions of this Act for the purpose of deciding on a dis-
solution, and the mode thereof, persons representing at least
one-third part of the shares in the undertaking actually
issued must be present and vote; and that, for the purpose
of effecting a dissolution, and the mode thereof, there must be
at least three-fifths of the votes of persons present, and voting
either as shareholders or proxies, in favour of the motion for
dissolution, and the mode thereof.
17. And be it enacted, That the chairman at every such
meeting shall sign a minute of the proceedings, and that every
minute so signed shall be advertised within the shortest pos-
sible time in the same papers in which notice of the meeting
is herein-lefure required to be given; and a copy of the.
London Gazette containing the advertisement of such meet-
ing shall be evidence of the meeting having been duly called
and held, and of the resolutions recorded having been duly
passed by the majorities therein mentioned; and that any
person who shall insert or cause to be inserted in the London
Gazette any advertisement under the present clause, knowing
the same to be false, in any material particular, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanour.
18. And be it enacted, That as regards all projected rail- ,
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ways as aforesaid any portion of the intended line of which
is situate in England or Wales, the meeting aforesaid may be
held, as shall be specified in the notice calling the same,
either in the cities of London or Westminster, or at the
registered place of business of the company ; or as regards
any rail Ways any portion of the intended line of which is
situate in the counties of Lancaster or Chester, such meeting
may be held at Manchester or Liverpool ; or as regards any
railways any porticn of the intended line of which is situate
in the county of York, such meetings may be held at York
or Leeds ; that as regards railways situate in Ireland, the
meetings may be held either in London or Dublin, or at the
registered places of business, as shall be specified in the no-
tice ; and that as regards railways situate in Scotland, the
meetings may be held either in London or Edinburgh, or at
the registered places of business, as shall be specified in the
notice.

19. And be it enacted, That no parties shall be entitled to
vote, except in respect of scrip certificates or shares actually
issued or given before the 31st day of March, 1846, and that
the shares or certificates actually issued or given, shall, for
the purposes of this Act, be taken to constitute the whole
number of shares in the undertaking*, although the contract
may have provided that the undertaking shall consist
of a greater number ; and that for the purpose of as-
certaining the number of shares or certificates actually
issued the committee of any projected railway company
shall, within twelve days after the passing of this Act, be
bound to send in unto the registrar of Joint-stock companies
a return in writing under the hand of any member of such
committee specifying the number of shares or certificates
actually issued or given as aforesaid, the amount of each
share, and of the deposit paid or to be paid thereon ; and
that in case such return shall not be so sent in within the
aforesaid period, or shall be found to be incorrect, every
member of the committee shall forfeit the sum of pounds,
to be recovered in like manner as any penalty under the
Act, intituled "An Act for the Registration, Incorporation,
and Regulation of Joint-StoCk Companies," is recoverable.
20. Aud be it enacted, That the registrar of joint-stock
companies shall, within six days from the passing of this
Act, send to the registered place of business of every such
company a notice in writing under his hand requiring such
return to be made ; but the omission to send any such notice
by the registrar shall not exempt the committee of any such
company from the penalties aforesaid ; and every person
shall be at liberty to inspect any return made to the registrar
under this Act on payment of a fee of one shilling for every
such inspection, and also to require a copy or extract of any
such return to be certified by the said registrar on payment
of a fee of sixpence for every folio of such copy or extract ;
and that in all courts of law and equity and elsewhere, such
copy or extract so certified shall be received in evidence.

And be it enacted, That in addition to the question of
dissolution, it shall be imperative on the meeting to decide
whether such dissolution shall or shall not be taken to be an
act of bankruptcy for the purpose of having the affairs of
the company wound up under the provisions of the Act after-
mentioned.
22. And be it enacted, That in case the meeting shall re-
solve that the dissolution shall not be so wound up, then (sub-
ject to the power herein-after given to the committee and
to creditors of the company to petition for a fiat) the affairs
of the said company shall be wound up according to the or-
dinary rules applicable to the dissolution of partnership un-
dertakings.
23. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the resolu-
tion to dissolve the company, or the actual dissolution thereof,
shall not alter or affect the rights of creditors or other per-
sons not being shareholders in the company, nor any engage-
ments whatsoever which the committee may have lawfully
entered into, and shall not affect any suits pending before
the passing of this Act ; but that the company shall not be
bound to perform any engagement which cannot be per-
formed by reason of the dissolution.
24. And be it enacted, That where any meeting called to
consider the question of dissolution shall have determined
the question of the dissolution of the company in the nega-
tive, no new meeting shall be called to consider the question
of dissolution, or any matter relating thereto, until the lapse
of six months from the day in which the question was last
resolved in the negative.
25. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the majo-
rity of the committee of any company, at any time after the
dissolution thereof shall have been resolved, or for any cre-
ditor of such company to such amount as is now by law re-
quisite to support a fiat iu bankruptcy, or of any shareholder
as before defined holding at least shares, within
months after the dissolution thereof shall have
been resolved, to petition that a fiat in bankruptcy may issue
against such company.
26. And be it enacted, That upon the production of a copy
of the London Gazette containing the resolution of any such
meeting as aforesaid, whereby it shall be resolved that the
dissolution of the company shall be an act of bankruptcy, or
upon the petition of the majority of the committee or share-.
holders, or of any creditor under the last preceding clause, a
fiat in bankruptcy shall issue against such company by the
registered name or style of such company; and the company
shall thereupon be deemed to be within the provisions of an
Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act fer facilitating
their
winding up of Joint-stock Companies* unable
to meet
in bank-
pecuniary engagements," in all respects
.as if
ruptcy had issued against it under the saidAc a
t.
27. And be it enacted, That the following words
to them
ande
ex-
pressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned
respectively, so far as such meanings are not excluded by the
context or subject-matter; (videlicet)
The word "month" shall mean calendearramonns.
month.
The word "person" shall include corptieumber
and
masculine
And words denoting the singular

gender respectively stall be held to apply also to a plurality
of persons and things or to females respectively.
28. And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended,
altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session
of Parliament.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.

FORM OF PROXY.

I, A. 8., of holder of shares, numbered
respectively in the projected railway company, do
hereby appoint C. D., of ,tobe my proxy upon
any matter relating to the dissolution c,f the said company,
to vote, dissent, and act as he shall think proper.
Witness my hand, the day of .

PORTUGAL.
We have received accounts from Lisbon of the 21st
instant.
Agrarian disturbances had broken out in the province of
Minho. The constitution was suspended on the 20th inst.
for a term of twenty days, the press suppressed, military
tribunals created for the trial of all offences against the
State, and summary proceedings were to be instituted after
tlie fashion of those in Spain—those condemned to be pas-
sados par as arnzas, though not merely on identification, as
by the orders of Narvaez. It is not very complimentary to
Sir Robert Peel to find his Irish Coercion Bill quoted by the
Portuguese Minister for an example in his country, and a
justification of his atrocious measure.
-The following are extracts from our correspondent's
letter :--
" This country was placed under martial law yesterday,
the 20th inst. The present Government has been four years
in office, and in that brief period the constitution has been
suspended three times. The province of Minho has been
the scene of agrarian outrages for the last twelve days,
arising from the attempt to put in force the new system of
taxation by repartition, and to levy imposts in the agri-
cultural districts, under the new bill of health, particu-
larly burdensome and oppressive. One of the first tumults
was caused by a refusal of the local authorities to suffer the
burial of a poor peasant to take place without obtaining a
certificate from a medical officer, who is empowered by this
oppressive law to exact a sum for his signature little short of
ten shillings sterling. The friends of the deceased in vain
pleaded their inability to pay the sum in question. The
rites of burial were refused; the women of the district rose
en masse; the troops were marched against them ; resistance
was offered, and it is stated that several women and children
were shot by the valiant soldiery, but not before some of
the latter were routed by these exasperated women. The
peasants of the districts of Guimares, Porado, and Penella,
the Diario of the 17th states, revolted on the 14th
instant, entered Braga, attacked the barracks of the
eight regiments in a most daring manner, and were
repelled with a loss of many wounded and a sufficient num-
ber of dead--muitos feredos e bastantes mortos.' The Go-
vernment organs have abstained from giving any detailed
accounts of the further tumults and their results, but it is
acknowledged that two other desperate attacks were made
on the quarters of this regiment, that scattered detachments
in adjoining districts have been assailed, and in one or two
instances repulsed by the armed peasants, in some places in
bodies of upwards of two thousand men—that the houses and
offices of the local authorities, whose duties are connected
with the carrying into operation of the new system of taxa-
tion have been broken open, the schedules of those taxes
destroyed, and that the cries of the insurgents were Vivas'
for the Queen and for religion, and Morras ' for the Mi-
nistry.
" Senhor Jose Bernardo Cabral, the Minister of Justice,
left his portfolio yesterday for the seat of war,' viol Oporto,
accompanied by the 16th Regiment
" The accounts from Minho this day are, that the move-
ment is extending to Trans os Montes, and that a detachment
of soldiers, proceeding from Chaves to the chief scene of dig-
turbance, had been obliged to retrace their steps. The Pro-
bability is, however, that order will be restored, but at a
very dear cost to the interests of the country and of the
Throne.
"Five per Cent. Inscriptions, 661,E 67 ; Four per Cent.
ditto, 57 58; Apolices Old Five per Cent., 68 69; Ditto Four
per Cent., 5814 58%; Bank Shares, Lisbon, 768 milrees:
Union Ditto, 112 rnilrees ; Confian9a, 971,4-10 per cent
Exchange on London, 90 days, 541,."—C7ironick.

Loup LINCOLN AT FALKIRK.—Lord Lincoln is, it
appears, to be oposed; Mr. Wilson, a Liberal free-trader has
started as a canpdidate, and published an address to the con-
stituency. The election takes place on Wednesday, and the
contest will be a severe one.
A novel display of Italian Sculpture, recently arrived
in this country, is announced for public sale at Robins's
Auction Rooms, in Covent-garden, on Thursday next. The
exquisite talent of the modern sculpture is sufficiently shown
by the beautiful figures, copied from the most renowned
models in the galleries of Florence and Rome, whilst the
splendid marble tazzas, vases, and fonts, sculptured in the
rarest marbles of Italy, cannot fail to please the most
fr stidious connoisseur.
MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY. —On Saturday
Mr. Chadwick, the Chairman of the Madrid and Valencia
Railway, and the Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P., accompa-
nied by Mr. Kirkham Fowell, the Secretary of the Company,
had the honour of an interview with his Excellency the
Duke de Sotomayor, the Spanish Ambassador. His Excel-
lency condescended to discuss the present position of the
Company, and expressed the great interest which his Go-
vernment felt in this undertaking, and the disposition to
render effectual assistance to the promoters in any plan
ymitieh-tfitirrifight Sagged for the completion of the project.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—,SPLENDID ARRANGEMENT OF
LoolCiNo-GLASS, producing the effect of a long arcade, and of
bewildering as to cause a doubt whether you are in London or
in old Rome.
"Arch follows arch, and pile succeeds to pile."
This unique apartment is devoted to cutting and arranging the
hair in, and with another having a beautiful view of Naples, are
on the ground-floor. In calling attention to their establish-
ment, Ross and Sons beg to notice the advantages of their
system—viz., they never take apprentices nor young men from
the country, nor object to customers asking for the same man
to wait upon them ; every person has clean brushes, they never
being used twice, without being washed ; and parties are not
pressed to buy things they do not want. Address, Ross and
Sons, 119 and 120, Rshopsgate-street.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A BAD LEG AT
HOSNCASYLB, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTKENT.—A few days
since Mr. John Simpson, a highly respectable bookseller in that town,
states that a gentleman of his acquaintance had been suffering for
many years from.one of the worst description of bad legs, frequently
enduring the most excruciating pain. He had been under the care
of several medical men, without obtaining the least benefit. This
gentleman, however, has just been cured by these invaluable medi-
cines, after every other treatment failed. The Ointment will cure
lidilblains and chapped hands in a few hours. Sold by all druggists,
can at Professor Holloway's, 244, Strand, London.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGHT AND HEARING. 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—Newly-invented Spectacles, Tele-
scopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Patronised by Generals
Sir Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Sir John Reatings, Maiston,
Frederick Goodfellow, Clayton, Grosvenor Morrison, Dyott Robert.
son, Mackenzie, Galway, Biggs, Woolf, Murray, Walker, Fox,
Price, Lindsay, and Thackray ; Major Generals Sir H. Elphinstone,
Sir John Ross, Sir James Cockburn, Achinty, P. Fyers, D. Macleod,
Bouverie, Sir J. Macdonall, Sir It. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, and Sir
Wm. Eustance: Admirals Lord John Hay, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir
George Munday, Sir George Martin, Sir James H. Whitsbed, Sir D.
Gold, Ross, Alexander, Curzons, Tompkinson, Hollis, and Price;
Vice-Admiral Sir F. Austen ; Rear-Admirals Brown and Ribouleau,
&c. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, have invented Spec-
tacle Lenses upon a new construction. Immediately they are placed
before imperfect vision, that mist and dullness which appear before
the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes clear and distinct,
so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant,
and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Also,
Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, Invisible and all
kinds of Acoustic Instruments, for relief of most extreme deafness.
Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, are not in any way
connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neigh-
bourhood. To prevent inistaKes be cautious, and Observe—Only to
be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
FIRST SPRING MEETING AT NEWMARKET AND
CREsTsit RACES.—Bell's Life in London, of Sunday next, May 3.
Full report of the First Spring Meeting, 2,000 Guineas Stakes, 1,000
Guineas Stakes, and every event of the week—The Chester Cup and
other important races—Foregatherings by Pegasus—Horses arrived,
and latest speculations—Angling —Piscatorial sermon on Fly-fishing,
by Ephemera—Chess Problems and Games—Cricket opening arrange-
ments at Lord's—Aquatics—Pedestrlanism, and every class ofßritish
Sports, and the usual summary of Foreign, Domestic, and Political
News. Price of Bell's Life (40 folio columns), 6d. Bell's Life is re •
gularly published in time for all the Saturday afternoon railways.
THE NERVES OF THE EAR.—Mr. Curtis, a few days
since, gave a clinical lecture on this subject at the Royal Dispensary
for the Diseases of the Ear. The lecturer stated that within the last
thirty years more had been effected for the cure of diseases
ear than had been done during the last 500 years, and mentioned
er_
course of the
beyond the reach of medical art. lie traced the
fact that now many cases are admitted of relief which were torn] ty
of
thethe
acoustic nerves from their origin n t theabnasd edoisftrtihbeuthioran, inautodtlelexif
termination, showing their ramifications
rpubblibnieng stimulatingahotiiesenenr.viesme,N,Leroenetirhe.neiape effected and
filede Seek and spine.athess relieved by
These applications he consiiers of great use in cases of infant deaf
And dumb (dumbness being the sure concomitant of deafness in in •
fancy), and says they should always be tried where no structural
defect arises.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 31, 1846.—War 1--Arm !
Arm !—lt is, it is the Cannon's Opening,Barry
and S
War—Followt G. e o George—Call 11
Charge—Cry, down with England,i,
—Cpar thure
Ron, " War is inevitable!" General Cass has been making us an-
other war speech. For upwards of two hours he poured forth a
stream of facts, figures, tropes,
similes, metaphors, illustrations,
quotations, authorities, incidents, poetry, rhetoric, argumen
such a miscellaneous, homogeneous stream Of beautiful images, and
horrid phantoms, and dazzling bubbles, as we have not heard
for
more marlY along day. It was a beautiful speech —it
was —it was powerful speech a patriotic speech —a
great speech. He bound the grim visage of war in evergreens, and
put such a display of shining drapery around the old heathen, that
he really looked like a passable sort of imposter. The General pre-
sented him with the strongest credentials ; but it was clear the Sena-
tors around had no desire to cultivate the acquaintance of the
stranger. But old Mars was there, the god of war, and a sensible
aroma of gunpowder pervaded the atmosphere in his presence. He
kept towering aloft in height, and expanding in his proportions, as
the Senator continued to speak ; so that, at the conclusion, the shoul-
ders of the war god were against the sky-light, and his head outside,
overlooking the country around.—New York Herald.
FIRE IN HOUNDSDIVH.—Last night, shortly before
ten o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Cantor,
an India-rubber and sponge merchant. The flames, when first dis-
covered, were raging in the basement, amongst a quantity of India-
rubber and feathers. The inmates attempted, but in vain, to subdue the fire ; for owing to the dense smoke that ascended the stairs, they
were unable to get down to the room in which the flames were
burning. Information having been sent to the engine stations, nu-
merous engines shortly arrived, and a supply of water being ob-
tained, the fire was confined to that portion of the building In which
it originated. The origin of the fire could not be learned.
RUNNING MATCH FOR £2o.—Yesterday the foot race
between Mitchell, the London Lurcher, and Jones, the Marylebone
Pet, came off near the King's Arms, Acton Bottom. The distance
was 150 yards, and the stakes 101. aside. At the start the Pet took
the lead at a clipping pace ;
his opponent made a struggle andthe, came
up, and after strenuous efforts for the goal, Jones ran in
_yr.
THE FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF ERROLL.— Tinner.
he re-
mains of this lamented nobleman were removed from Portman-
squareWimble-
yesterday morning at eight o'clock, for interment at .
Wimble-
don, attended by the present Earl of Erroll as chief mourner •-
widowed Countess and her three daughters, Viscountess Cam
Lady Agnes Duff, and Lady Alice Hay ; also by his sister, Lady _ ,
s
Bella Wemyss, Lady Mary Fox, the brothers and brothers-in-10v

Earl Munster, and other near relatives. The solemn ceremony Was
performed by the brother-in-law of the deceased, the Rev. C. Wode-
house. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the other branches of the Royal
Family, graciously offered their carriages to follow in the Procession'
and also many noblemen and friends of the deceased, which wag re-
spectfully declined, in consequence of his late Lordship's express
wish and direction that his funeral should be strictly private. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert have been unremitting in their Inquiries,
both during the illness and since the death of the Noble Earl, and
her Majesty the Queen Dowager honoured the Countess of
Erroll with a visit of condolence in Portman-square on Wednesday,
the 22d. This amiable and respected nobleman manifested during
his long and severe illness the utmost Christian faith, end tn t the
approach of death with a columess that evinced great moral courage,
and a perfect resignation to the will of Providence.
FRENCH GREEN PEAS.—Much cariosity was excited
In Covent-garden market yesterday by the appearance of typopecks
of French greed peas fer gale, and for which the vend... d
21. 10g, en:Landed

REFUGEES IN FRANCE.—It appears that there are at
this time, in France, 4,525 refugees receiving relief, 428 Spaniards,
323 Italians, 3,700 Poles, and four persons who do not come within
either of these categories. The number of refugees who do not re-
ceive any relief is 7,778, viz., 6,424 Spaniards, 269 Poles, 209 Jta.
liens, and 179 Germans. Of the aggregate total of 12,203 refugees,
only nine have been sent out of France, most of them from causes
unconnected with politics.
HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE OVER THE TYNE.—The first
pile of the coffer dam to be used in the erection of the high level
bridge over the river Tyne at Newcestle was driven into the bed of
the river on Friday last in the presence of Mr. Robert Stephenson,
the engineer of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company. A
splendid drawing of the projected bridge, from the design of Mr. Ste-
phenson, has been executed by Mr. Carmichael, and has attracted
much attention in Newcastle, where it was exhibited in the Guildhall
during several days last week. ,
' HER MAJESTY'S SHIP GLADIATOR.—On Saturday
morning this new steam-frigate, built by the Surveyor of the Navy,
left her moorings off Woolwich and proceeded round the Nore Lights,
to test
_her engines and try her speed ; her gallant commander,
Captain Robb, having invited on board a select number of ladies and
gentlemen to enjoy the excursion. As a model of naval archi-
tecture, it must be admitted the Gladiator displays great
fertility of genius and immense priudical skill on the part of
Sir William Symonds. Indeed, for nicety of adjustment in all
those details upon which at once beuty ad pwer deped.
we believe few rivals to this admirable vessel willo be founds in
her Majesty's navy ; while the machinery is so perfect, its
movements so smooth and noiseless, that even when tee revolutions
were 19 per minute, one scarcely knew the ship was under way, but
for the rapid progress she made through the waters. The Gladiator
is 1,190 tons, and is fitted with engines by Messrs. Miller and Raven-
hill, of 430 horse-power, and carries a complement of 175 men. She
stows 380 tons of coil, 63 tons of water, and had on board during the
above trip four mouths' provisions of every kind (with room for an-
other month's), four mouth's slop clothing, twelve months'
stores, besides sixteen tanks and a quantity of other
stores for conveyance to Portsmouth Dockyard. The arms-
ment is as follows :—Bow pivot gun, I 56-pounder of 87
cwt. ; forward beam guns, 2 68-pounders of 65 cwt. ; aft beam guns,
• 2 84-pounders (10 inch), 85 cwt. ; quarter deck, 2 32-pound car-
ronades, 17 cwt. ; stern pivot gun, 1 56-pounder, 87 cwt. ; for
paddle-box boats, 2 24-pound carronades, 13 cwt. ; pinnace, 1
12-pound carronade 6 cwt.; brass field piece, 1 6-pound gun, 5 cwt.
The engines worked admirably, there being no occasion, in the
course of the trip, to stop for "hot bearings," as usually is the case
with now. machinery. The rate of speed by the patent log, was 10%
knots, and by the common log, 11 knots two-tenths per
hour. The Gladiator Is well rigged, beautifully clean, and
in' excellent order, which is the more creditable to
her officers as she is still 40 short of her complement
and wants petty officers and able seamen. Captain Robb had pro-
vided an excellent dinner and elegant dessert, with abundance of
champagne, claret, madeira, and other wines, of which his friends
partook. After the usual routine toasts, the health of " Captain
Robb. and success to her Majesty's steamer Gladiator," proposed by
Dr. M`Crea, was drunk with all the honours, and followed by the
health of "the Surveyor of the Navy," proposed by Mr. Milner,
" Mr. Ravenhill, the engineer," &c. On reaching Greenhithe the
Gladiator anchored, and the party of ladies and gentlemen, who
were delighted with the trip and the kind attentions of Captain Robb
and the other officers of his ship, left in one of the Gravesend
steameis for London, the band playing "Rule Britannia."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.— An accident, which has terminated fatally, occurred on Satur-
day morning to a workman on the line at Bull's-bridge, between the
West Drayton and Southall stations, the poor man having been
knocked down by the buffer of the engine attached to the seven
o'clock train from Bristol to Paddington. It appears that the unfor-
tunate man had charge of two horses, which were at work on some
repairs going forward on the railway, and which were in the act of
crossing the line at the time the whistle of the engine sounded to
announce the approach of the train. The man had just time to get
the animals off the up line on to the dosin line of rails before the
train came up;, but neglected from a sudden fear, which it is sup-
posed overcame him at the moment, to pass 'clear over the up line
himself. The train was stopped as soon as possible after the accident.
and returned to the scene of the calamity, when it was discovered
that the poor man must have been killed almost instantaneously.
The deceased, whose name could not be ascertained at the time, was
known amongst his fellow-labourers by the nick-name of" Monkey."
BEETHOVEN QUARTET b OCIETY.—The fourth 'fleet-
ing of this Society was held last night at the Harley-street Rooms,
and, as upon former occasions, the attendance of distinguished
amateurs and of the leading members of the musical profession, was
far from inconsiderable. The quartets performed, in compliance
with the chronological plan laid down last year, consisted of —No. 2,
in G major, op. 18 ; No. 6, in B flat major, op. 18; No. 11, in F
minor, op. 95 ; and No. 17, op. 135. The executants were—Sivori,
Sainton, Hill, and Rousselet ; and these fine artists played with that
exquisite finish and ensemble for which they are so celebrated, and
which it would be utterly impossible to exceed.
ART UNlONS.—Yesterday evening a meeting of
artists was held at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, for the
purpose of supporting the Bill introduced by Mr. Wyse, for the lega-
lisation of art-unions. The chair was taken by Sir W. C. Ross, sup-
ported by many artists of professional distinction. Some resolutions
were unanimously adopted, expressing the opinion of the meeting
strongly in favour of the principles on which art-unions are based,
and their influence in fostering a taste for the fine arts among the
t silk of the people. A petition, founded on the resolutions, and im-
ploring the Legislature to pass the Bill, was adopted. The meeting
was very numerouslyattended.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF FOUR
PERSONS.-011 Sunday afternoon, about five, a waterman's boat,
containing two gentlemen, a lady, and a child, was observed coming
up the Medway from Upnor towards Chatham, having a sprit sail
up, with a fair wind blowing from the north. A suddent gust caused
the boat to jibe, and as the sheet was made fast, the boat upset, and
immersed the whole of the party into the river. The accident was
witnessed by the quartermaster and others on board the Poictiers,
and boats were instantly maimed; four from the Poictiers, one from
the Hussar hulk, and one from her .11 ajesty's ship Warspite ; and
they succeeded Li rescuing the whole. They were taken on board
the Poicticrs, when every attention was given to them by placing
them in hot beds, and the medical officers were indefatigable in ap-
plying everything requisite. The names of the parties are Mr. James
Harvey, No. IG, King William-street, City, lamp and lamp-glass
manufacturer, his wile, chill, and foreman. The latter having ar-
rived the same morning from London, with a message for his master,
who has been in lodgings with his family at Upnor for the last week,
and was taking the foreman to Chatham to proceed by railway to
London.
CAUTION TO CHARITABLE SOCIETIES.—Sunday was
Chapels for their Missionary Society, and at one of L
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as
the day appointed for the collection in London at all the Baptist
in the evening the abominable trick was played of obtaining 9_
half-
sovereigns being afterwards discovered to be
of' two Orders in
change for a half-sovereign at each of the doors, both the ban
SUGAR DlTTlES.—Yesterday copies
issued.
The sugar duties, were
nien 0, respe, tiol
El it is declared,
pursuant to Act of Parliament),
Siam, an
The first order has reference to sugars
of Siam shall be deemed
that from rho Ist of July next, the sugars
Connell, dated the Bth day of August and the 6th of April (presented
and taken not to be the produce of slave labour. The second order
aynext, brown Muscovado or clayed
of
tale
sugars (not being rained), the growth e dominions of the republic
states, that from the Ist of Al.
of :„,Te, Granada, shall, if imported from the dominions, or from any
British possession abroad, having been inverted into such British
possession from the same dominions, be admitted to entry for con-
sumption into the United Kingdom at the respective rates of duty
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CHOLERA.—'phis
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seems once more on its way to ravage the continent of Europe, ori-
ginating, as before, in the heart of Asia, Northern Persia being the
first quarter in which it was noticed ; it is gradually approaching the
confines of Europe. The chief cities of Persia already count by
thousands the number of their dead who have fallen victims to
Asiatic cholera. The line of route taken by it appears to be almost
due west, for it attacked in regular succession the cities of Bokhara,
Herat, Meshed, Teheran, and Ispahan, while recent accounts froth
Odessa state that two or three cases of Asiatic cholera had been ob-
served at Tiflis. Should it continue to advance at its present rate, it
may be looked for in Eastern Europe in a very short time. Indeed
it is states from Riga that it has already broken out at Orenburg and
taKasekahedbayndthtlemhtifisoeovnueral,
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will
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the progress of the cholera in due time, hatvhee cholera; been
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densely crowded towns and
propagation, the consequences in _be
ties of the Continent will be awful.—German paper. .
middle of summer, the season most favourable toviihtgs deavelopment and

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ELOPEMENT.—OXFORD, FRIDAY.—ThiS morning the
family of Lord Valentia, of Bletchington-park, was thrown into a
I state of the greatest excitement by the discovery of the elopement of
his Lordship's daughter, the Hon. Nea Ada Arthur Rose d'Amour
Annesley. The only circumstances relative to this affair known
here are these :—That a gentleman arrived at the Angel Inn yester-
day, who turns ont to be Hercules G. R. Robinson, Esq., of the 87th
Fusiliers, second son of Captain H. Robinson, R.N., of Rosewood.
county of Meath, Ireland; that he ordered a chaise and pair to go to
a village a few miles on the Banbury-road, when he met the lady
on the road without any attendant. He immediately alighted and
handed the lady in, and ordered the postboy to retrace his steps to
Oxford, and drive as fast as possible to the Great Western Railway
station, where, on their arrival, a special train was found awaiting
them. They were soon whisked away to London, and before 12
o'clock were united in the holy bands of wedlock, at St. James's
Church, Westminster. The happy couple left London immediately
after the ceremony, en route for Ireland.
THE RECENT ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE AT
MILLBANE.—On 2,londay Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, held
t George-street, eor g
accidente- s tr
thate t, Sotcocreuryr'eds Gaatt ex,
ionn.
Martin Murray,aged
rat
jarinde'son, aged 57, and 3' ag
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()aft
GtheeorgGlir,e7eßesritac3ht
48, who lost their
bees taken ipnerresfoenres,nceof toboultheEcetsi,
Littlerecen
have already been published in this paper, the ease was which
ad-
journed till Thursday next. m d
bank. After some evidence had
Bishop Cortrissiewors.—On on ay the Lord of
I. iiih an-mil of St. Giles-in-the- le
Lo d confirmed upwards of three hundred
The Alatk-lioness. , ondon
. . isted some
other Irish ladies, arc, I aid, aught , by -s-.....•
bails" in Lond9n, after the le and manner', uP " Hibernian
The fracas in the House of Comm the Waverley balls.
did not terminate there. Colonel Peel ons on Friday night
dressed an observation to him of sought Mr. Disraeli, and ad-
for Shrewsbury to send Lord G a nature that Induced the Member
explanation. Lord George George Beutinck to Colonel Peel for an
Bons, with whom his 17-as referred to the Honourable Captain
any further proceeding Lordship had so satisfactory an interview that
g was deemed wholi .
CASE OF POISONING NEAR NORWICH.—On Saturday
last, a female about 3O years of age, named Maria Smith, who hais
bees living
as cook in the family of H.J. H. norm', Esq.. of Thorpe,
110xt Norwich, son of Sir Robert John Harvey, Knight, was oonl•
witted to take her trial, on a charge of having administered poison
(cautharides), to a fellow-servant named Martha Digby, and also to
&younger girl.
VIENNA.—Eight of the principal danseuses Vienn of zc s
have returned here to their parents. Jenny Lind has just a 12 it t a
Piachek leaves for Stntgard for the re-opellillg Of the theatre t Ile
and OS RP visit 14;1011 Will limn,