The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-20 00:00:00

SEPTEMB TO
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LONDON, SATURDAY
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ER 20 1851.
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TO DRAPERS, SHOPKEEPERS,. & Others.
TO EE LET,

And may be. Entered upon at Michaelmas next,
A commodious SHOP, with Two large Windows In Front, and an
Entrance Door in the Centre; together with an excellent Dweling-
house, comprising Show,rooms up stairs, Sitting rooms, Kitchens,
Bed-rooms, Attic, Private Yard, a plentiful supply of Hard and Soft
Water, and every other necessary convenience for a family. The
Shop has been newly fitted up. and is eligibly situated, immediately
fronting the most public part of the Marker-place, in the improving
and populous Town of Loughborough, in Leicestershire, where an
extensive trade has been carried on for a considerable member of
years.
To view the premises, and for further particulars, apply to the
Proprietor, Mr. Thomas Bryan, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Market-
place, Loughborough.

Immediately, in 2 vols. post Bvo.,
W
AD Y A VICE.
A NOVEL.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

DISCOVERIES - in the ARCTIC REGIONS.
The ADMIRALTY OUTLINE of CAP I' AIN PENNY'S
DIBCOVERIES, and the Tract; Chart of Captain Austin's Explora-
tions in search of Bir John Franklin, are Engraved in TrIE IL-
LUSTRATED LONDON NEWS for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
20, 1831.
Three Sheets, price One Shilling.
Otliee, 198, Strand.

MR. VERBAL ON THE SPINE AND PARALYSIS.
Cloth, price Six Shillin..ts.
HE SPINE, its CURVATURES, and ether
DISEASES, their Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. To which
are added, Remarks upon PARALYSIS, with numerous cases in il-
lustration. By gIIARLES VERBAL, MJI.C.S., Surgeon to the
Hospital for the Cure of Distortions, Portland-road, London, and the
Sea Bathing Infirmary at East Bourne.
Shortly will appear, by the time author, Practical Observations on
DISTORTIONS of the CHEST and LIMBS, illustrated by a Series
of Case 4.. •
London : John Churchill; Princes-street, Soho.

THE GREATEST WONDER IN LONDON IS
ATTY'S GIi,AND NATIONAL
HIPPODROME, Kensington.

OPEN DAILY.

In consequence' of the Evenings drawing in, the Doors will be
opened at Half past Four, and the performance commence at Five
o'clock.
Immense success of Franconi and his celebrated trained horses.
The proprietor, determined to keep pace with its rival, the Great
Exhibition, has decided uprin continuing the Hippodrome open until
the close of the Crystal Palace, and begs to intimate to his patrons
and the public that as he opened on' the came day as the Palace of
Industry, and as his career of success is without parallel, that he
would impress upon the minds of his friends the necessity of an early
visit, as it will positively close on the 11th of October. This Evening
and during the week, the performances will assume the most novel
and unique caste.
Doors open at Half-pe.st Four, commence precisely at Five.
Private Boxes
Admission to the Reserved Seats - 3e. Od.
First-class do. - - /a. Oa.
Second do.
Third do.

fl REMORN E.—Achnimion7 One Shilling
'kJ Children, Half-price.
A new Italian Ballet Pantomime, entitled Harlequin and the Four
Elements ; or, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, with entirenew scenery,
appointments, &e., of the most magnificent descriptem, arranged by
the Mullin Family.
Engagement of the celebrated Italian Rope Dancer and Aseention-
ist, Signora Pauline Violantc ; also Herr Ilenric, the celebrated Pos-
ture Master and Equilibrist, assisted by the renowned German Buffo
Herr Jung, will appear every evening.
THIS DAY—lllumination Gala, with brilliant Fetes.
Bosisio, the celebrated composer of dancing music, con-
ducts the great Cremorne Band, and will execute all the
music which he composed and conducted at her Majesty's
Ball at Buckingham Palace. Exhaustless entertainments daily, in-
cluding the Bosjestnans or Bush People, Dculin's Ballet the Star of
Beauty, the Ethiopian Serenaders, the double-sighted Youth,
Cantello's Egg-hatching, the Bowling Saloon, &c. Doors open at
half-past Two, admission Is., Children half-price. The Hotel affords
every accommodation for private and public dinner and supper par-
ties. Steam-boats and omnibuses nightly after the entertainments,
the transit being Superintended by Directors. Fare, 4d. by Boat,
and 6d. by Omnibus.
Oa Sunday the Gardens aro open in the afternoon for refreshment,
admission by refreshment card (id. Table d'Hote at Four and Six
o'clock, 2s. 6d.

•
'• ROBIN'S LIST WEEK BUT ONE,
M. ROBIN being compelled to close his first and so successful sea-
son on account of previous provincial engagements.
Ito B I N'S SOIREES FANTASTIQUES.
322 d Appearances.of M. and Madame ROBIN.
Unprecedented and triumphant success, nightly before delighted
and overflowing audiences, at his elegant Salle, 232, Piccadilly,
opposite the Haymarket.
At Eight o'clock, every Evening, Mons. and Madame ROBIN
will repeat, by unanimous desire, their inimitable SOIREES
PARISIENNES and FANTASTIQUES, with an entirely New
Programme, which contains all the delusions performed by com-
mand before her most Gracious Majesty the Queen on the Throne,
at Windsor Castle on the 25th of April.
Every WEDNESDAY, at Half-past Two o'clock, a MORNING
PERFOR3I.A.NCE. _

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Sept 19.

ADMIRALTY, SEi'T. 4, 1851.
Carps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant John Wil-
liam Alexander Kennedy to be Adjutant, vice Wearing,
promoted.
BANKRUPTS.

EdWard Upton Spashett, mast and block maker,
Barking, Essex, to surrender Oct. 2, at twelve, and Oct.
30. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John,,on,
official assignee, Baeinghall street; Baddeley, Seamln-
street, Goodrnan'a-fields.
And row Clark, plumber, Bear-gardens, Southwark,
02t. 8 and Nov. 4, at one, at the o.3urt of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assignee, Sambrookcourt, Basinghall-
strect ; Linklaters, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house.
John Collins, provision dealer, Clitheroe, Lancashire,
Oct. 1 and Nov. 11, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Black-
burst and Son, Preston.
Josiah Westley, bookbinder, Playhouse-yard, City,
October 8, at eleven, and Nor. 4, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, offi'iial assignee, Abchurch-lane,
Lombard-street; Linklaters, Charlotte-row, Mansion-
house.
William Coleman, chemist, Coventry, Sept. 30 and
Oct. 21, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. WEitinor;i, official assignee, Birmingham; Dewes
and Son, Coventry ; Mottoram, Knight, and Emmet,
Birmingham.
William Herring and Abraham Simmons, hatters,
Bristol, Oct. 1, at tvrclve, and Oct. 29, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol;
Seaman, St. Pancras-lane; Britten and Sons, Bristol.

DIVIDENDS.
At ihn Cuurt, 114,singhall-street.

C. May and W, L. Metcalfe, -Great Yarmouth, soap
manufacturers, Oct. 14, at halt-past one—W. Jackson,
Orchard-street, Portman-siatare, painter, Oat. 15, at
twelve.

In the Country.
J. Protheroe, jun., Bristol, iron merchant, Oct. 15, at
eleven, at the Court,. Bristol.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basingball-street.
11. M. Arlisa and Elijah Tucker, Frith-street, Soho-
square, printers. Oct. 15, at eleven—C. Solter and R. M.
Evans, Upc.or King-street, Bloomsbury, and Cornbill,
tailors, Oct. 14, at eleven—T. Fitch, Chester-place, KPn-
nington, commission agent, Oct. 14, at one—J. W. Creed,
Chadwell St. Mary, Essex, int:keener, Oct. 14, at hall-
past eleven—B. J. Banton, White Hot:to-street, Stepuey,
corn merchant, Oct. 14, at two—E. Bliss, Barbican,
brushineker, Oat. 16, at eleven.
In the Country.
_ . _ _ .

T. Wilson, Liverpool, corn merchant, Oct. 10, at
eleven, at the Court, Livorpool—J. Owen, Wslshpool,
Montgomery, flannel manufacturer, Oct. 13, at eleven, at
the Court, Liverpool—W. Blird, Liverpool, paper-
banger, Oct. 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—S.
Cherry, Liverpool, broker, Oct. 13, et eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—C. P. Ilenville, Chidcock, Dorset-
shire, miller, Oct. 16, at one, at the Court, Exeter—H.
Coates, Bir:oingham, draper, Oct. 11, at half-past ten, at
the Court, Birmingham—J. Percival, Market Deeping,
Lincolnshiro, innkeeper, Oct. 10, at tm, at the Court,
Nottingham—E. G. Cuff. Leicester, hotel keeper, Oct.
10, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham.
CE RTI PIC ATES GR ANTED.

S. M.tnning, Union-place, New-road, stationer, certi-
ficate of the second class—G. T. Minor, Mount-street,
Lambeth, linondrapyr, certificate of tho second class—
C. Bond, Tiverton and Bath, Somersetshire, tanner, cer-
tificate of the fir.t class—W. Glacier, Bristol, grocer,
certificate of the second class, after the expiration of
twelve months, from Sept. 16—J. Clark, Exeter, builder,
certificate of the second class—J. Monkman, Oldham,
Lancashire, cotton-spinner, certificate of the first class
J. Hoyle and T. Hoyle, Salford, Lancashire, cotton-
manufacturers, certificates of the first class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Bullock and J. Ryle, Primrose-street, Bishopsgate,
iron trace manufacturers—G. Rolls and J. Hoare, Swan-
sea, brewers—J. Osborne and W. Strudwick, Minories,
ship and house-joiners—W. Cowen, R. Mardian, and
J. Ridley, contractors for the formation of the Alston
&mach of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Rail-
way—R. Booth and A. Booth, Budge-row, brokers and
and auctioneors—R. Sncyd and F. Stanier, Silverdale,
Staffordshire, coal and iron-masters—J. Vint and J.
Rymer, New Stourbridge, Durham, brown paper makers
—G. A. Cator and J. Nelson, Selby, Yorkshire, flax-
scutchers—A. Paterson and R. Berrie, Leeds, flax two-
spinners and manufacturers—J. Slater and B. Gill, Leeds,
stone-merchants and masons—R. Glass and A. M‘Pher-
son, Liverpool, sail-makers and ship-chandlers—T. Pea-
cock, J. Peacock,' arid C. Gamble, Darby, hatters—
W. Pickanco and E. F. Ramp, Liverpool, sail-makers and
ship-chandlers—S. Jackson, S. Wild, J. Lord, G. Jack-
son, and T. Davis (so far as regards T. Davies), Wins-
ford, Cheshire, and Manchester, salt-manufacturers—E.
Cherry and R. Spencer, Manchester, hosiers and glovers
—Ann ,Bennett and J. D. Bennett, Rotherhitbe, rope-
makers—W. Moon, C. Hopley, and J. M'ltinnell (so far
as regards C. Hopley), Rio de Janeiro—C. M. Manley
and R. Bayley, Forikes-buildings, Great Tower-street,
ship and insurance agents—J. Entwisle, jun., and R.
Entwisle, Manchester, land and building agents—J.
Kepying and R. E. Cheesman, Brighton and Rotting-
dean, Sussex, brewers—R. K. Taylor and J. B. Cowland,
St. Martin's-lane, tailors.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Charles Paikesotierwise Henry Parkes, St. Asapb,

Fliutshiro, painter.
Christophar Lscy, Gloucester.
Samuel Locke, Middleton, Lancashire, omnibus pro-

prietor.
John Adams Morgan, Kidderminster, market gardener.
Edward Palmer, Barngreen, Southampton, dairyman.
Richard Downs, Wolverhampton, labourer.
Charles Harper, Wednesheld-heath, Staffordshire.
George Osborne, Southern, Warwickshire, upholsterer.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. M'Clymont, Glasgow, tea-merchant, to meet Sept.
24 and Oct. 15, at eleven, within the George Hotel,
Glasgow.
J. Laing and A. Laing, Dundee, merchants, to meet
Sept. 24, and Oct. 15, at twelve, within the Royal Hotel,
Dundee.
J. Cleland, Glasgow, to meet Sept. 30, and Oct. 14,
at one, within the George Hotel, Glasgow.
A. Dixon, Paisley, ironfounder, to meet Sept. 25, and
Oct. 16, at one, within the Sarann's Head Inn, Paisley.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sager, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending Sept. 16,
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain:—
From the British possessions in America 235. 110. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... 21s. 8*(1. „
From the East Indies ... 28s. Bd. „

Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 245. 2hol.
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, Sept. 19.

_ .
RAILWAY INWELLIGENCE.
OPENING OF TILE SOUT[ VIiALES AND DEAN

FOREST 'RAILWAYS.
CuErsTow, FRIIiAT nViiINC4`--TO day the long.
promised connecting link of _the Siuth Wales and
Gloucester arid Dean Forest Railways, between Glou-
cester and Chepstow, has been formally opened with
the customary rejoicing and celebration. The pro-
ceedings of the day to commemorate the event con-
sisted of public demonstrations at Gloucester—the
dispatch of a special train, with the directors of the
South Wales, Great Western, and Gloucester and
Dean Forest Railways, from Gloucester to Chepstow
—a dinner at Chepstow—and the return of the special
train to Gloucester at night. The importance of the '
completion of this piece of railway between Gloucester
and Chepstow cannot be over-estimated, as by this
connecting link thechain of railway communication is.
perfected from the far north and east to what may be
pronounced the capital of the principality, the town
and seaport of Swansea. Not the least important
feature in the event is the opening of a direct over-
land route from Swansea to Liverpool; and as the
electric telegraph is to be laid down along
the South Wales line, when completed in
its entirety, an instantaneous communication
will then be established betiveen these two im-
portant and far distant ports. :At present the
telegraph is brought down from Liierpool as love as
Gloucester, which latter city is distant from Swansea
a hundred miles. Another important consummation
is the establishment of a direct railway communica-
tion from South Wales to the metropolis, thus open-
ing the mineral markets of South Wales to London,
_and bringing theui into competition with those of the
north. It is Mated that the ,GreaesWestern Company,
who now hold and work the South Waffs line, in
connexion with their own, intend carrying coals along
the whole of their territory, at the rate of a half
penny per ton per mile; and besides this article, it is
anticipated that a great portion of the copper and iron
traffic will pass along the railway.
But besides the Great Western line, the South
Wales line is now, by the junction at Gloucester,
brought into connection with the Midland, Bristol
end 13irmingham, and Northern Railways, and the
Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester, the Shrewsbury and
Hereford, and the Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railways, now in course of construe inn
Up to this period a great deal of the South Wales
traffic going north and eastward was diverted at
Chepstow to Bristol, coaches running between Chep-
stow and Bristol, as well as between Chepstow and
Gloucester, to meet the trains. The London mail
also passed through Bristol ; but in the winter sea-
son these were often delayed by the difficulties and
dangers of the passage over the Severn at the junc-
tion of that river with the Wye, near Chepstow. As
soon as the present contract shall have expired, the
mails will be dispatched along the railway by Glou.
tester throughout. Unfortunately, however, the
communication between Gloucester and Chepstow is
still not sufficiently ' complete (notwithstanding the
formal opening of to-day) to permit of the merchan-
dize or goods traffic passing along it, in consequence
of the bridge over the Wye, at Chepstow, being
as yet barely half finished. This portion of
the work has been all along the great stumb-
ling block to the earlier completion of the
line. The railway bridge will cross the river
Wye at a point about a hundred yards below the
turnpike-road bridge, and at a great elevation above
the level of the water, so that vessels may sail beneath
it. The bridge is being constructed upon iron piers
or cylinders, which, on being sunk, are filled up;
and the great difficulty has arisen from the uncer-
tainty of the foundation of the piers. As there is no
probability of this work being completed in less than
six months, the directors of the South Wales Rail-
way Company decided upon opening the line up to a
point about a mile distant from the east bank of the
river, and conveying the passengers from that point
to the Chepstow station, on the west bank of the
river, by means of omnibuses. This causes a delay
of perhaps twenty minutes • but the saving of time by
the opening of the line so far amounts, nevertheless,
to two hours and a half, and the journey from Pad-
dington to Swansea by railway can now be done by
express train in six hours forty minutes, distance
about 210 miles. Four trains a day will run through-
out from Swansea vies Gloucester to London, to and
fro, and two on Sundays, each way. The fares are
low, and the traffic on that portion of the line between
Chepstow and Swansea, which has now been opened
just sixteen months, is steadily increasing. The best
portion of the traffic, however, and to obtain which
the line was originally projected—viz, the mineral
traffic—cannot be developed until the bridge over the
Wye is completed.
The excursion from Gloucester to Chepstow is
through a beautiful and fertile country. The first
station is at Okle-street, about five miles from Glou-
cester, and the second at Newnham, six miles further.
Here the inhabitants mustered in large numbers, and
had prepared a luncheon for the visitors. Flags,
banners, music, and cheers, also welcomed the arrival
of the special train. At Sydney, the third station,
there were similar rejoicings;
the train at East Chepstow, and on the arrival of
carriages were in waiting
to convey the visitors to the town of Chepstow itself,
where the party arrived at one o'clock, and proceeded
forthwith in parties to inspect the ruins of Chepstow
Castle and Tintern Abbey, and to view the magnifi-
cent landscape from the Wyndcliffe. A large number
of ladies were of the party.
The proceedings of the day were wound up at
Chepstow by a dinner to the directors at the Beaufort
Arms Hotel, where covers were laid for 150. Mr.
Talbot, M.P. (chairman of the South Wales Com-
pany), was to take the chair. The party had not sat
down, however, when our reporter was obliged to
leave to avail himself of the last train to London.

LONDON AND NOUTII-WESTERN RAILWAY.—It is
said that this company intend forinini; a large coal
depot dock at Liverpool.
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE.-11113 company's ex-
tension from Haltwistle to Alston, the iatter place
containing a population of about 20,000 persons en-
gaged in mineral avocations, is completed, but will
be immediately opened, in order that the works,
which are very heavy, there being forty bridges of
masonry alone in the thirteen miles may become con-
solidated.

LEEDS NORTMERN.—The works on this line be-
tween Melmsbury and Northellerton and Farm and
Stockton have been commenced, and will, when com-
pleted, materially shorten the distance from Hartle-
pool to Leeds and Manchester.
CAMBRIDGE AND NEWMARKET RAILWAY.—Great
progress is being made upon the new branch of rail-
way from this town to Newmarket, and it is fully
expected that the line will be open for traffic at the
end of the present month. The directors, we under-
stand, will make application for a new Act of Parlia-
ment in the next session to extend the line to Bury
St. Edmund's.—Camiridge Chronicle.
GREAT LexextriounG.—The managing" director
panandy'senp6ro;np7srecili;ll;;;:rrom'r(NanmowurtuorlAYrlonng.this CORI-
TILE FIRE AT TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—The injury to the rail Way viaduct is supposed to
be about 8001. Mr. Robinson's loss is stated ;to
amount to 3,000/. Ho was insured in the Sun Fire
Office for 2,500/. Unfortunately, this is the third
occasion on which he has bad his premises destroyed
by fire. The exact cause is as yet unkown—by
some it is attributable to the falling of a burning
cinder from one of
the passing locomotives in the
course of the night.
THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT NOT.,
TINGIIAM,—On Wednesday Captain Wynne, the Go-
vernment inspector, instituted an ,inquiry into the
causes and circumstances of the recent accident, and
ultimately recommended that another watchman
should be placed at the Wilford-gate. Royce, the
guard of the luggage train, has been discharged.
ACCIDENTS ON THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE.-011
Wednesday evening an accident occured on the South
Yorkshire Railway, near Mexbro'. It appears that
a passenger train, drawn by two engines, left Shef-
field for Doncaster about seven leer. On arriving
near Alexbro', where the railway forms a junction
with the Barnsley branch, danger signals were ex-
hibited by the signal man, and also by the semaphore,
but owing to the sharp curve which the line there
describes, it is not visible at a great dis-
tance. As soon, however, as the engine-driver no-
ticed the signals, he immediately slackened his speed,
and proceeded more cautiously. Oa arriving at the
point of junction, a Great Northern train from
Bernsley was crossing On to the line at the same mo-
ment. The engine had passed the point when the
Shsfileld train came up and struck the break:van. The
van was thrown off the line, as also tone of the en-
gines. Toe rails were torn up in the vicinity of the
spot, and the greatest consternation prevailed amongst
the passengers of both trains, none
of whom, how-
ever, met with any serious injury. The collision
occasioned a complete stoppage of the line, and nearly
two hours elapsed before the rails were cleared, so as
to enable the trains to proceed to their destination.
Another accident occurred the same day to the train
which is due at Barnsley from Doncaster, at eight,
r er. It appears that after some passengers had left
the train at Stairfoot Station, which is two miles
I from Barnsley, on starting, three of the last carriages
became detached from the other, and from the line
being at that place on a decline, they ran back, to

the great alarm of the screaming and terrified passen-
gers, some of whom were aware that another train was
following them. Many parties were inj sired by jumping
from the carriages, some of whom had sprained ancles,
others bruised heada and
_faces, occasioned by the
falls they had received., ole person, named William
Broadhead, who lives in New-street, Barnsley, was
so much injured by falling upon .his head that he
was for a long time insensible. The three carriages
were stopped by a rise in the line, between Wombwell
and Wath ; they were immediately followed by the
engine and other part of the train, and had got all
right again when the train that was following them
came up. They arrived in Barnsley about ten o'clock.
The carriages became detached by the breaking of one
of the coupling chains. Fortunately none of the pas-
sengers were seriously injured.
CAUSES OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—From an official
return it appears that 56 per cent. of all the railway
accidents arises from collision ; next to this comes
escape from the rails by the breaking of a wheel or
axle, and by defective rails, which make up 32 per
cent., the other cases making up but a small propor-
tion. In every 100 accidents the following is the
proportion of the causes which produce them :

Accidents from Collision - 56
It Broken wheel or axle... 18
Defective rail .. 14
1) Switches
$) Impediments lying on
the road 3
Off rails by cattle on line 3
1) Bursting-boiler

SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
- The half-yearly generirniesiting of the shareholders
was held at the Bridge-house ;Hotel, London•bridge,
yesterday; Mr. James Macgregor (chairman of the
company) in the chair. There was a very small
attenclince of proprietors. After the usual formalities,
Mr. HERBEUT Ohs secretary) read the report of
the directors, which was as follows :
" The accounts of the South-Eastern and Conti-
nental Steam- packet Company, now submitted to the
proprietor., exhibit gross earnings for the half-yer.r
ending 31st July, 1851, of 23,270/. 45., against
16,113/. 15s. 2d. in 1850. The working expensep,
repairs, and port charges have been 12,483/. lOs.,
against 9,518/. 2s. 3d., leaving a balance of 10,7851.
145., against 6,595/. 123. 11d. at credit of profit and
loss account. The number of passengers conveyed
during the above period, compared with the corre-
sponding months of 1850, are as follows :
Foißestoue Boulogne Total.
to Boulogne. to Folk3stone.
1850
1851

Increase... 2 515
Dover to Calais. Calais to Dover. ' Total.
1850
1851

Increase... 6,633
Showing a total increase of 18,515 passengers during
the last half-year. The merchandise traffic has pro-
duced 1,1611. 4s. dd. in 1851, against 8091. 12s. 3d.
in 1850, au increase of 3511. 12s. 31, which is satis-
factory. On the Ist of May a special daily service
was commenced between London and Paris by tidal
trains, working in correspondence with the company's
steam-ships. The public convenience was so much
promoted by this service, and it met with such general
approbation, that on the Ist August the service was
extended to a departure every tide from Folkestone
and Dover, and Boulogne and Calais. The service of
the company during the last six months has been per-
formed without a single interruption, and 26,937
miles have been navigated with safety. The directors
recommend the proprietors to declare a dividend of
ss. per share, being at the rate of 5 per cent. per an-
num, free of income-tax, and to carry the balance
remaining to the credit of the reserve fund."
The CHAIRMAN having also read the balance-sheet,
showing the results brought forward in the report,
next proceeded to read the following report of the
auditors, Messrs. Edward Harding and Edward
Wright :
" We beg to report our having completed our audit
of the accounts of the company for the last half-year
ending 31st July last, and have certified the same as
correctly corresponding with the vouchers produced.
The increased amount observable under the head of
repairs,' as compared with the preceding half.yeare,
arises from the item of wages to the engine-room
crews of any of the fleet temporarily out of commission
having been carried in the accounts before you to
repairs,' instead of, as in former seasons, to wages,'
which is consequently pro tanto reduced. The men
so transferred from sea-going to shore service are
constantly employed on the repairs of the machinery,
&c., and the change in the mode of account has been
adopted with the view of more accurately defining
the working expenses. It is satisfactory to us to be
enabled to mention that the service between the diffe-
rent ports has been carried on during the half-year
with uninterrupted punctuality. This fact may tend
to assure the proprietors of the efficiency of their
fleet."

The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting. He
said—Gentlemen, I shall not trouble you with any
lengthened statement in addition to the report of the
directors, which I have just read to you. The ac-
counts, which have been verified by the auditors, are
the most satisfactory which we have yet been able to
present to you. You are now the owners of eight
steam-ships, in the most efficient state, and you have
a sum of 3,935/. 153.5 d. of capital on hand, and you
will have a. further amount at the credit of profit and
loss of 7,9231 23., after payment of the dividend.—
(Cheers.) You must not forget that, however satis-
factory your earnings mayihave been, your property
Is uninsured. You are, in feet, your own under-
writers, and that it is from your profits alone that the
reproduction of your steam-ships can be effected, so
as to make your property enduring.—(Rear, hear.)
True it is that you are the best friends and allies of
the South-Eastern Railway, and that without you
their best traffic could not be developed or secured.--t
(Rear, hear.) Your ships, placed entirely at
the disposal of the South-Eastern Railway
Company, have enabled that company, by
the rapidity and punctuality of their service, to main-
tain successful competition against opposition at low
and unremuneratiug prices by inferior routes. The
public prints have teemed with the complaints of pas-
sengers who have suffered from the inconveniences
arising from the want of accommodation in the long
sea voyages by other routes, and the miseries to which
they have been subjected. It is most gratifying to
state that your service hag been performed with un-
feilieg punctuality; and in the arrangement of the
trains and your steam-ships to perform the special
service from Paris to London in eleven hours, the
only imperfection has been occasioned by delays at
and connected with the Custom-house. The fault,
however, lies not with the officers but with the sys-
teni. The rooms appropriated to the examination of
the luggage of passengers both at Folkestone and
Dover are much too small. At Dover that incon-
-eanieneo is about to be remedied by the use of a new
room just completed, in immediate contiguity to the
station. We have also entered into arrangements
with the Treasury, by which we shall be enabled to
bring the passengers' baggage from the boats in bulk
direct to London, where it will be examined in a large
and convenient room now preparing, at our London
station, whereby our passengers will be saved the
annoyance of having to loiter about Dover, or Folke-
stone, as they now are for a considerable time—
many of them being fearful of going to the hotels lest
they should be heavily mulcted for a short sojourn. I
believe that these arrangements, coupled with others
we hope to enter into with the Great Northern of
France and Boulogne and Amiens Railways (now
united)—a large shareholder in the latter of which,
and a gentleman of great influence in Boulogne (Mr.
Adam), I have great pleasure in now seeing in the
room—will conduce much to the comfort and conve•
uience of our passengers, and even increase the popu-
larity which our route at present enjoys.—(Cheers.)
The approbation which the eleven hours' route has
elicited on all bands is to us very gratifying, and
should any shareholder not have seen it I would refer
him to an excellent account of that route by a gentle-
man distinguished as much for the goodness of his
heart and the kindliness of his feeling as for his lite-
rary talent—Mr. C. Dickens—which appear in the
number of Household Words for August 30. Your
funds will now allow of the purchase of one or two
screw ships, with more capacity for merchandise than
our present fleet, and this outlay will be beneficial to
ourselves, and we believe also we shall be able to
effect it under mutually advantageous arrangements
with the Northern Railway of France and the South-
Eastern Railway Company. The dividend of .5 per
cent., which we propose to you to declare, is earned,
and will be pail under the circumstance of your being
your own insurers; but we never lose sight of the
moral obligation which the South-Eastern Railway
Company is under to this company to maintain for it
a uniform dividend on its capital of 5 per. cent. per
annum.—(Cheers.) In conclusion, gentlemen, I beg
to move that the report of the directors, as now read
to the meeting, be received and adopted, and that the
same be printed and circulated amongst the pro-
priotora.
Mr. RENSUAW, thi: deputy chairman, seconded the
motion, which was carried unanimously.

Ileac!rations were also adopted declaring a dividend.
of ss. per share, free of income-tax, and payable on
the 4th of `October next ; and placing the balance
in, band which will remain after payment of the
dividend, namely, 7,923/. 25., to the credit of the re-
se.rve fund.

In reply to a question from a PROPRIETOR,
The CMAIRMAN said that an arrangement had ex-
isted by which the Boulogne and Amiens Company
had contributed towards the cost of maintaining a
night service by their packets, and the Great Northern
or France towards a day service between the two
countries. The arrangement with the Boulogne and
Amiens Company had expired and had not been re-
nerwed, that company being about to amalgamate with
the Great Northern of France Company; and the ar-
rangement with the latter of these two companies had
alio expired ; but the directors of the South-Eastern
and Continental Packet Company had not pressed for
its renewal. He (the chairman) believed that they
were now in a position to do without assistance from
any company ; bat the directors would not lose sight
of the moral obligation which rested upon the South-
Eastern Railway Company, to secure them a uniform
dividend; and they certainly would not put the two
ne w screw steamers on the service without effecting
proper arrangements with the South-Eastern and .the
G-:reat Northern of France Railway Companies.
On the motion of Mr. ADAM, a cordial vote of
thanks to the chairman and directors was unanimously
paased, and the proceedings terminated.

THE GREAT • EXHIBITION.
The receipts yesterday amounted to 2,227/. 2.2 a, the
number of visitors according to the police reports
being 21,488. Hereafter, when the statistics of the
Eashibitinn.rire polleeted in a compact form, it cannot
thecr o op_
doubted that most curious striking conclusions will
be drawn from them. It is impossible that a spec-
tacle so unprecedented in every respect should not
wEhixchhib a .i Exhibition
half-crown
w
fu.Ynish to the ingenious mind most valuable results;
brat in the meantime, and looking at them from day to
day, it does appear sufficiently strange that with.
ipattluirneieties of quiet
weeks ofthecloseof the
observation
admission fee affords should still be so much less
coveted than while the charge was kept up at Ss.
drring the week. In the whole history of popular die-
plays there has been nothing that has ever occurred
more illustrative of the struggle between cheapness
and public curiosity than the diurnal returns to the
exchequer of the Royal Commission. Who, for in-
stance, would believe that in a country so rich as curs
the 58,600 shifting visitors on Wednesday would have
fallen to 21,483 half-crown visitors yesterday, and that
the Exhibition nturos should exhibit so extraordinary
a fluctuation in numbers and so remarkably even an
amount of gross receipts ? If thep is any exception
to he taken to the management of the Crystal Palace
it is certainly that, with every temptation to become
more and more popular by a reduction of prices, it
has always had a strong leaning towards respectabi-
lity, or we should rather say selectness. Perhaps
that tendency has led to other and ulterior influences
likely to be strongly developed by the awards of the
jurors.

Some time ago we drew attention to the fact that
in an obscure corner of the Exhibition, close to the
agricultural implements, was placed a collection of
the staple manufactures of Manchester, and that few
visitors noticed that display, possessing no theatrical
properties, but full of a rnateriarof industrial signifi-
cance. It seems to us that the great event of 1851
will hereafter be found blemished by a grand over-
sight, of which this is a partial illustration. Attracted
by the novelty and splendid success of the occasion,
we have certainly yielded more admiration to the
grand and the beautiful than to the uostentatious,
the practical, and the useful. The captivating
luxuries which are adapted to the few have entered
more largely into our imaginations and our hearts
than those objects which are adapted to supply the'
homely comforts and the unpretending wants
of the many. We have thought more of gold
and silver work—of silks, satins, and velvets—of rich
brocades, sp.:endid carpets, glowing tapestry, and all
that tends to embellish and adorn life, than of the vast
and still uuexplored fields which the necessities of the
humbler classes all over the world are constantly
opening up to us. France has thus been enabled to
run quietly away with 56 out of about 160 of our
great medals, while to the department of American
" notions" we owe the most confessed and the most
important contribution to our industrial system.
There cannot be a question that the results of the
Exhibition bare demonstrated in the clearest manner
our backwardness in the higher and more artistic
branches of manufactures, but our chief lessons iu this
respect come, not from Europe, bat from Asia, and
especially from our own Indian possessions. We can
afferd to be pupils there; and even if France points
out to us the way to excellence, we ought to be
grateful. There are, however, matters that touch us
more nearly than even the true principles of colour
and form, and of these the more prominent are such
as affect our position as caterers for the demand of
the million, as manufacturers of cheap and useful
commodities adapted to the wants of the masses
all over the world. The Great Exhibition has
hitherto had a less favourable leaning in this
direction than perhaps was desirable, and we regret
to say that what transpires of the awards of the juries
tends to a similar impression. As already stated,
there will be about 160 great or council medals
awarded. The prize medals will be from 3,000 to
4,000 in number. Then there will be a medal to each
juror, another to each exhibitor, and about 2,000 for
services rendered ; so that altogether there will be an
unprecedented issue of bronze decorations, amounting
to about 21,000 or 22,000.

With the close to the Exhibition approaching
the proper disposal of the surplus becomes a subject
of increasing interest. The Local Committee of
Bolton have been considering the matter, and have
adopted, after due deliberation, the following reso-
lutions :

At a electing of the Local Committee for Bolton,
held in the. Megietrates' Room, Borough Court, on the
17th of September, 1851, Mr. i.Zebert Ileywood, J.P., in
the chair, the following resolutions were unaeimoesiy
agreed to:
1. Thet her Majesty's Commissioners be urgenely
and respectfully requested to expreis and record the
warm feelings of gratitude and admiration universally
entertained towards his Royal Highness Prince Albert
by the erection of a column and statue of the Prince as
President of the Royal Commissioners, in bronn cr
other metal, and in civil eoetuine, with a cuitehle in-
scription, either in the centre of the space now occu-
pied by the Crystal Palace, or in some other appropriate
situation.
0. That the Royal Commissioners and the Execu-
tive Committee be respectfully requested, in the event of
the removal of the Crystal Palace (which this committee
would greatly regret), to purchase so much of its mate-
rials as may be required for the erection of a building
in one or other of the new parks for the people, or some
other convenient situation, adapted to receive all the
specimens, models, drawings, engravings, printed books,
ruanuseripts, and ether documents relative to the Exhibi-
tion, which it may be thought desirable to preserve for
the use cif the nation. That admission to the s9ed build-
ing. should, under suitable regulations, be free to the
public; and that so much of the surplus funds derived
from the Great Exhibition of the present year as may
be requisite for the necessary expenses of keeping the
said building in repair, and for moderate salaries to the
necessary officers, should be invested for that purpose.
"3. That her Majesty's Commissioners for the
Great Industrial Exhibition be respectfully requested
to solicit from the Lords Commissioners of the Woods
and Forests permission to mark the site and di-
mension, of the Crystal Palace, by placing at
each corner a monolithic block of granite or other
stone, with appropriate inscriptions deeply incised,
recording the date of the opening and closing of the
Exhibition, the year of our Lord and of the reign of
Queen Victoria, its purpose and success, tho names of
the President and members of the Royal Commission, of
the Executive Committee and principal officers, the de-
signer of and contractors for the building, the number
of visitors and the amount received for admission, with
such other facts as may be considered of interest to
future generations; and that it he farther suggested that
the said monolithic blocks might be made ornamental as
the bases emblematic of the four great divisions of the
Exhibition, or of the four continents which have contri-
buted to it.'" _

This document comes before the Commission and
the public in a legitimate form. The local bodies,
who have contributed so much to the success of the
Exhibition, can best and most authoritatively express
their opinions with regard to the surplus, and it is
quite certain that no plan will be attempted except
such a one as meets with general concurrence, and is
taken up by the industrial classes themselves. In
the meantime we recommend the memorial from Bol-
ton as worthy of serious consideration. It seems to
have fewer objectionable points about it than any-
thing of the kind that bas emanated from the pro-
vinces.--/rorning Paper.
The Ist of May promised many experiments at
the Great Exhibition. Perhaps not the least extra-
ordinary was to be the collecting, day after day,
50,000 or 60,000 persons, and putting them under
one huge glass cover without the fear of suffocation,
to " live, move, and have their being" in comfort for
several hours together.
" Fortuna favours valiant men," and thus the exe-
cutive had the thermometer all their own way
throughout the month of May cud for half the month
of June. Severe weather had very kindly set i❑ on
the 25th of April, from which day the mean tempe-