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that ground that their Bill of last session was thrown
out by Parliament.l---(Heal, hear.) 'Nevertheless, they
bad always been desirous to come to. an amicable under-
standing with the Blackwell Cm npany, for they be-
lieved if a fair " give and take" agreement
were entered into, they might have the advan-
tage of the Fenchurch-street St ation.—Hear, hear.)
The Bill promoted by the Eastern Union Company had
been read a second time, and if t h.sy went to a Commit-
tee with it, the Eastern Cou n ties Company would
probably have to fight those genelemen, who might
hereafter be their allies, and perhaps at great ex-
pense and trouble. He sincerely hoped this might
be avoided.—(Hear, hear.) The last Bill on the list
was the Shepreth Junction, which teas simply a renewal
of the Bill which came before Parl lament last session.
He now came to a part of the report which was highly
important—that was the question ot7 the dividend. The
balance to the credit of revenue wt is very small indeed,
and he had explained the reasons why it was so; bat
the sum, small as it was, had been, fairly and honestly
earned.—(Cheers.) Every shilling fairly chargeable to
revenue had been so charged.—('Hear, hear.) If be
were determined on one thing more than another,
it was to set his face against anything in the shape of
fictitious dividends or cooked ac counts.—(Hear, and
cheers.) The directors had r ecommended, in the
strongest terms, that no dividend sh ould be declared this
half year.—(Cries of "Oh," and " Le t's have a dividend.")
But it was for the proprietors to, say whether there
should or should not be a divider d; the question was
one which laid entirely in their ha; ids, and they had a
right to determine it as they liked. The amount standing
at the credit of the company for the last half-year was
24,6361, and if a dividend of Is. per share, it would
amount to 17,0001., thus leaving a balance in hand of
7,0001. or 8,0001. Then it should: be recollected they
might have to encounter Parliamentary contests, and to
preserve the credit of the company. He might remark
that the directors had to bear a g,sreat deal of odium,
which properly belonged to their rxredece:sors in office.
—(Hear, hear.) After alluding to these discou-
raging circumstances, he would refer to those of
a more satisfactory nature.—(He ar, hear.) The di-
rectors had found that, during ttee past year, a great
saving might be effected by substit ating iron instead of
wood sleepers, and especially at the present time, as
iron was almost as cheap as wood. 'Though their money
and receipts had been considerably diminished, owing to
the circumstances he had detailed, he was, however, happy
to say that the aggregate amount of traffic had not
suffered at all, and that there had bean little or no re-
duction in the number of passengers or the
quantity of goods conveyed_ The Chairman
tnen observed that the desires of the directors
was to act uprightly, honestly, and with the strictest in-
tegrity, and nor to conceal anytbii ig whatever from the
proprietors, and concluded by moving the adoption or
the report and the accounts append so.
The meeting had not concluded e..hen oar report left.

TATTERSALL'S__,TRIS EVENING
SIX O'CLOCK.
CHESTER CUP..
15 to I agst Rhesus
25 to 1 agst Wallflower—taken
40 to 1 agst Woolwich— taken
50 to 1 agst Beehunter--taken
50 to 1 agst Nancy--taken
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
10 to 9 agst Grecian
DERBY..
6 to 1 offered en the field
12 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph colt
20 to 1 agst Constellation
25 to 1 agst Ilarlboxot.gh Buck
40 to 1 agst Ariosto— taken

INISTERIA:L CRISIS.
:THE SPIRIT OF VIZ I.).ARISIAN PRESS.

JOURNAL DES DEBAIIS.—It is again Lord John
Russell who is charged to form a Ministry. We should,
in fact, havo been much surprie ed if he had renounced
the task so soon. It would appeer that the sudden re-
solution which he came to the other day was caw ed by
personal considerations. lie took it without consulting
his colleagues; several of them, Lc rd Lansdowne, Lord
Minto, and Lord Carlisle, were in the country, and
not at all imagining that their portfolios were being
so lightly disposed of, and those who were present
did nor, it is said, show themselves very well disposed to
share in the isolated susceptibility of their illustrious
chief. But Lord John Russell wea pitiless, he would
absolutely quit—to be able to return, and in the hope of
leaving on the road some of thee most embarrassing
of his colleagues. No ono can dispute the skilful
tactics and Parliamentary c xperience of Lord John
Russiill; he has on this occasion given proofs of
these qualities in throwing the whole Cabinet into
the wat•,r in order to save himself by swim-
ming. It is in consequence of this process of elimi-
nation that we again find Lord John Russell at the heed
of the Cabinet; for how long Ai time, God only knows.
The explanations given at the last sitting of the Eng-
lish Parliament are far irem being a solution.
Lord Stanley, as we have already said, had :been
sent for by her Majesty, and rep] ied that he was not
at present prepared to form a Ministry, that is to
say, that he did not think he c iuld do it without a
dissolution and new elections. Thus, we repeat, no
party is ready at this moment for fresh elections; no one
has made arrangements, and all would make sacrifices in
order to adjourn the crisis: The question now, therefore,
is to compose a Ministry which may go through the year
and until the autumn, at the fall of the leaf; a Ministry
consented to provisionally by all parties, and which will
give them time to reconnoitre their position, and make
their arrangement% This is the work which is now
being done. According to the accounts we receive from
London, if Lord Clarendon and Sir James Graham con-
sent to form a Ministry, they will be secure of the co-
operation of two parties, that of Lord John Russell and
that of Lord Stanley. It is on them that it is relied in
order to effect a momentary compromise. Although
Lord John Russell remains officially charged with
affairs, his Ministry is dead—very dead. If he is to be
a Minister, he will not be the Premier. The Government
will belong either to Sir James Graham with the present
House of Commons, or to Lord Stanley with fresh
elections.

CONSTITUTIONNEL.—It has heels decided that
Lord John Russell is to endeavour t D compose a Cabinet,
in which several friends of Sir Jan tea Graham should
enter, Lord Aberdeen having ref used to occupy any
functions. In this arrangement it would be the Grey
family which would be sacrificed to make room for
the Peelite element. Sir Charles Wood is to to
replaced as Chancellor of the Exzhequer by Sir James
Graham, and Sir John Cam Hobhouse by the Duke of
Newcastle. These two changes are certain, for it is
already known that Sir John Hobhouse is, by way of re-
compense, to be raised to the peerag e with the title of
Baron Broughton de Gyfford. It is likewise almost
certain that Earl Grey, Minister of the Colonies,
will be replaced by Mr. Sidney Herbert, the
patron of emigration ; but •it ix not yet known
whether Sir George Grey or Mr. Labouchere will make
room for Mr. Cardwell, whom Lord John Russell is
anxious to introduce into the Cabinet, on account of
his oratorical talent and financial knowledge. People
incline to think that it will he Mr. Labouchere who
will be sacrificed. There will then be in all four
places, two of them of the first rank, given to Peel-
ites. The difficulty is to come to an understanding on
the programme of the Ministry of fusion. Sir James
Graham exacts the presentation- of a new budget,
and this, it is said, will be accorded. In the second
p'ace, it is said, ho requires the complete abandonment
of the measure presented against the Catholic bishoprics.
It appears that Lcrd John Russell, by way of conces-
sion, offers to restrict his Bill to England, leaving Ire-
land untouched by it. Several other points are pending,
but they are of secondary importance. Such is at pre•
sent the situation.

DEATH OF MR. SAKE DEER MAHOMED.
Our local obituary thisweek includes tlienatne.of Sake Deen
Mahomed, who expired on Monday fast, at the patriarchal
age of 101 years. Had he lived till May, he would have been
101 Mr. Mahomed was quite a character, and contributed
not a little to the fame and prosperity of Brighton. He was
by birth an Asiatic, and in his youth served in the army of
his native princes. With bis reasons for quitting a military
life we are not acquainted; nor can we say what motives in-
duced him to bend his steps towards England; but we be-
lieve we are correct in stating that he was the first who in-
troduced the Indian medicated vapour and shampooing baths
into this country. By their agency he performed numerous
remarkable cures, which gave him a world-wide fame, and
brought patients from far and wide to put, themselves
under his Medical treatment. Mr. Mabomed was a very
kind-hearted man, most benevolently disposed, and ever
ready to assist the poor, as well by contributions from his
purse, as by extending to them gratuitously all the treatment
of his medical art and resources. That a man so disposed
and little conversant with " business," should, as age grew en
him, have encountered reverses, is not calculated to excite
surprise; but it may be a satisfaction to all who knew
this philanthropist in the brilliant phases of his career, to
learn that his declining years were rendered comfortable and
cheerful by the untiring attention and care of a worthy and
dutiful 3011.—Brighton Guardian.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Sake Deen Mahonied was born in the year 1749, at Patna,
the capital of Bahaz, in Hindoostan. Blessed with a won-
derful constitution, he enjoyed uninterrupted good health
and retained possession of his faculties to the last. He died
at Brighton on the 24th February, 1851, aged 102. In
early life he held a commission in a Native Regiment
of the Honourable East India Company's Service, and
served tinder General Popham at the storming of the Fort of
Gwaliar, in 1780 ; was also present at the battle of Ram-
maggar, and five or six other engagements in the same year,
In 1784 he came to England, and with an introduction from
the Governor-General (Warren Hastings) to William
Pitt. Shortly after he was reduced to penury
by • the failure of a banking firm at Calcutta.
In this extremity he first introduced the vapour
and shampooing baths into this country as a curative
measure in disease and as a preservator of health. Most be-
neficial results have attended this system, now carried on by
his son in Ryder-street, St. James's, and at Brighton. lie
had the honour of being introduced to George the Third and
Fourth, William the Fourth, and the principal aristocracy
of this country.

PROTECTIONIST MEETlNG.—Yesterday a meeting
of the members of the Waltham Agricultural Society was
held in the Agricultural llall, Waltham-on-the-Wolds, to
take into considerition the depressed state of agriculture.
Upwards of 300 persons were present. The chair was taken
by W. F. N. Norton, Esq., of Elton Manor, and the meeting
was addressed by Mr. G. F. Young, the Marquis of Granby,
Lord J. Manners, &c., &c., in advocacy of protection to the
agriculturists. Lord John Manners urged the farmers to
give Lord Stanley their entire confidence. If they did that
he would succeed; if they did not he would fail. A petition
to both Houses of Parliament, founded on the third and fourth
resolutions, was adopted.

ME. RUTHERFURD, M.P.—We are happy to state
that the health of this Right Hon. Gentleman is now steadily
improving.—Edinburgh courant.