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in bundles, and Id. to id. in warps and cops. Spinners
have effected only an inconsiderable amount of sales;
they have, however, in various instances, declined offers
of very fair extent, from Continental and India merchants,
because of a difference not exceeding id. per lb. As
might be expected, great irregularity is found in the
quotations for yarns and goods. It becomes more evi-
dent that the production of printing cloths, long cloths,
T cloths, and domestics is in the course of diminution.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.-ThQ Flannel market has been
dull, and a limited amount of business has been trans-
acted to-day, at prices much the same, as th,ise of the
preceding week. Wool has undergone no change in
price, but the dealers complain of having very little
to do.

MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The demand for manu-
factured goods has not undergone any improvement
since our last; the recent reductions in the prices of
raw and thrown silks having produced a decidedly
prejudicial effect with buyers. In thrown transac-
tions are somewhat rare, notwithstanding that prices
have been somewhat reduced to a standard compatible
with those of the raw material. This may probably be
attributed in part to the approach of the new silk crop
on the continent, which, as it may prove favourable or
otherwise, will undoubtedly exercise a great degree of
influence for the time being.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—To-day we have had an
average market; a fair business has been done in the
hall, though not so much as Is expected generally at this
time of the year. Mixtures and black doeskins have been
most in request in the plain woollen market. The fancy
trade continues pretty brisk, and a fair business has
been done in the vesting branch to order, for the home
summer trade. Some of the export warehouses are
pretty brisk with American orders, but generally the
warehouses have not been very busy during the week.
Yarns have been in rather better demand. Not mush
has been done in the wool market to-day, and the ap-
proaching May sales, which are fixed for the 15th, will
have some effect upon the trade at present.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The worsted trade is still in
a languid condition, and presents no aspect of improve-
ment since our last report. The transactions in yara are
rather more numerous; and prices are firm, though they
cannot be quoted higher. More wool has been changing
bands; and the quotations, though not ad►ancing, ex-
hibit greater firmness.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There is no change to notice in
the woollen trade since last week. The markets have
been quiet, but a fair business continues to be done to
order, and there is no alteration to notice in prices.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD
RAILWAY.
(From Herapath's Railway Journal)
We bad an opportunity of inspecting the line of rail-
way from and including Bangor to Holyhead during
the past week. Various subjects of interest presented
themselves for our observation, and at all events it must
be said that the new Chairman is making every effort to
redeem the promise he made to the shareholders at
their meeting on the 18th of last month.
The spot selected at Bangor for the erection of the
great hotel there mid-way between the " Menai" and the
Britannia" bridges. A large " spoil bank" run out
during the construction of the railway forms the actual
site, and upon it is to be raised a building that will con-
tain the enormous number of 300 beds in the first instance,
with suitable public breakfast, dining, and drawing-
rooms, and a proper proportion of sitting rooms for the
use of such families as prefer taking their meals in
private. One façade of the hotel, of which there will be
three, will look towards the Straits and the Menai-
bridge, another in a slanting direction towards the Bri-
tannia-bridge, and the third directly towards this bridge
and the Marquis of Anglesea's magnificent place " Plas-
newydd" on the Anglesea or opposite side of the water.
Mr. Reed, of Liverpool, is the architect, and everything
is so planned that if the public require increased accom-
modation 200 more bedrooms can be added by the con-
struction of two wings, one at the east end and the other
at the west end of the building. It would occupy too
much space to particularise the internal arrangements of
this vast structure. We shall therefore only say that
whilst they are based on the plan of the "Three Kings"
at Basle, the " Giant" at Coblenta, and the " Lamb" at
Vienna, the difference in the tastes and habits of Eng-
lishmen from continentalists has been fully considered
and duly provided for. It is intended that it shall be
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plished by the powers that now preside over this railway.
The company is, fortunately for itself, the possessor of
the whole of the land between the railway and the high
road to the Straits—a distance of nearly half a mile.
There is room on this land for a small town to spring
up. It all slopes towards the water, so that crescents
and terraces can be erected throughout its entire length,
and every house would have a fine view of the bridges
and the Straits. We were informed that important
negotiations on the subject of building are in progress,
and almost brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
During the construction of the railway and of the
Britannia•bridge, Captain Moorsom, the then resident
director, occupied a house on the left or mountain side of
'the railway, to which are attached 30 acres of land, also
the property of the company. As this land is on a still
higher elevation than the ground we have just de-
scribed, it is intended to sell it in plots of from one
to two acres for the erection of first-class detached
villas—and a more charming spot could not be
selected for such description of buildings. Its height
affords a commanding prospect to wards the Straits in
every direction, and immediately at the back of this
land are some f the most picturesque walks that can be
conceived or depicted.
As the present Bangor station is about a mile and a
half from the New Hotel, a new station to be called the
Junction Station, will be erected. This will accommo-
date not only thei residents at the hotel, but will be
equally convenient for the inhabitants of the villas and
terraces to be built on the other portions of the Com-
pany's property. The Carnarvon branch (progressing
rapidly) will join the main line just opposite the hotel.
Proceeding towards the Tubular Bridge we learned
the arrangements for its inspection. The public will be
taken through the tubes, under the control of company's
servants, until a quarter of an hour before each tra in is
due. They will not be allowed indiscriminately to
walk across the outside of the tubes. The privilege is
only to be obtained under special authority, but about
twenty feet on each " land tube" is to be securely
fenced off, and the public admitted thereon. This will
enable them to see the structure just as effectively as if
they were permitted to walk across.
At Holyhead we have an example of what well-di-
rected energy will effect. The existing passenger sta-
tion of the railway is situated nearly a mile and a half
from the pier at which passengers embark for and dis-
embark from Kingstown. They themselves and their
luggage, as well as the mails and all par-
cels, have to be brought in omnibuses and
other vehicles from one point to another. The
harbour and pier branch at present in course of erection
will remedy this defect. Although its construction in-
volves a cutting a third of a mile long, and from ten
to fifteen feet deep, the demolition of eight or ten
houses, the filling up and levelling of suffi-
cient space for the erection of the new station, and
of the very complete refreshment rooms at-
tached to it, the laying down through the
harbour of a timber viaduct, half-a-mile• long, which is
then continued on as a tramway at one side of the road to
the packet pier, another half a mile in extent, yet this
harbour branch was only commenced four weeks ago, and
it is to be ready for use by the 15th of May. From and
after that date, the passengers landing from the steam-
packets will walk some thirty steps to the railway ear.
riages; their luggage, the mails, and parcels will be at
once loaded, when the train will be drawn along the
tramway and viaduct by horses to the station. At the
refreshment rooms there the passengers will find all
that they require to soothe the inward or outward man,
after the fatigues and the heart-readings of the voyage.
The lavatories will be provided with ample supplies of
hot water and every other requisite for making a com-
fortable toilet; whilst the refreshment departments are
to be presided over by one, who, in her way, is as
great as the redoubted Soyer—the famous Mrs. Rib-
bert. We are surprised to learn that she deserts the
great cradle of her fame—Wolverton—for the classic
retirement of Holyhead harbour. Nevertheless, such is
the fact; and we will only make one aspiration on this
change, which is, that her smiles may bo as sweet, her
handmaids as charming, and her pork pies as excellent
as the trumpet of fame has proclaimed all three to have
hitherto been.

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There are great expectations of the development
of an extensive coal trade with Ireland, and
ample provision for conducting it is provided in the
harbour. If the Holyhead directors can compete
successfully with the W hitehaven coals now brought to
Ireland, it will be a famous affair for their company, for
the best house coals come from the neighbourhood cf
Chester, and will have to be conveyed the whole extent
of the line. We are inclined to think that the gallant
manager of the London and North-Western Railway is
not far from the mark when be says that there is no
more profitable trade than coals at 4d. per ton per mile,
exclusive of waggons for long runs, and with loads of
from 180 to 200 tons. If the Holyhead Company intend
to have a large coal traffic they must not look for a
higher rate. As the harbour to be selected for the
American packets to start from and to arrive at is now
a question of interest with the public, a few words upon
that at Holyhead will not be out of place. The great
1 breakwater, first running north and south, and th( n
running east and west, is just one-third finished, that is,
it now extends 1,800 f..et into the sea, and 3,600 feet
have yet to be constructed. It proceeds at the rate of
about 43 feet a week, and, taking all contingencies into
consideration, Mr. ltendell, the engineer, considers it will
be finished i❑ two years. The greatest depth of this
breakwater will be 43 feet, its average depth is 35 feet.
It will be 65 feet wide at the level of high water, and 35
feet at its upper surface, which will ha 15 feet above high
water level—spring tides. When the whole harbour is
completed, it will comprise within it 300 acres of holding
ground, with six fathoms tlepth of water at the lowest
spring tides.

FORTH AND CLYDE. NAVIGATION.---The report by
the Governor and Council to the company of proprietors of
the Forth and Clyde Navigation, recommends the continu-
ance of a dividend at the rate of 51/4 per cent. per annum,
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GREAT NORTHERN OF FRANCE
RAILWAY.
The annual general meeting of the shareholders of
this company took place on the 28th inst. in one of the
great rooms belonging to the Paris terminus, Baron
James de Rothschild, the president, in the chair. Near
him wero seated the following director,:—The Duke do
Galliera, the Marquis Dalon, Baron N. de Rothschild,
M. Deletreque, M. E. Pereir-, M. editlard, at,
flottingeur, Pepin-Lehalleur, M. Lebobe, M. Dasskr,
M. de l'Aigle, M. do St. Didier, M. Jolly de Bamineville,
and M. J. Mallet. M. 'inde read the report of the
Committee appointed
document
declared,
rcet, and M. E. Pereira read the report of the Board of
Directors:—
s
" This document commences by stating that the share-
holders assemble on this occasion for the first time since
the entire termination of the works of the railway. The
last section of the line—that of St. Quentin—was opened
to the public on May 23, 1850; all the stations are
terminated; two lines of way are laid down in every
part of the undertaking; and as all these works have
bean executed with the capital hitherto paid up, the
capital will not exceed 400 f. per share. The general
account of the expenses will remain at 203 millions, of
which 160 millions proceed from the money paid up by
the shareholders; 40 millions represent the sums to be
reimbursed to the State by annual payments; and the re-
maining three millions will be supplied from the reserve
prescribed by the statutes. The debt to the State, which,
when the revolution of February broke out, amounted to
54,711,667 E, was on 31st last December only 31,312,229 f.
All the payments to the Treasury were effected by
anticipation; the ten millions reimbursable in the
course of 1850, and the last date for which was Nov. 15,
were paid on an average on March 24; the four millions
due in 1851, up to the present time, were also paid be-
forehand, one half from „May 10 to July 1 of last
year, and the other from February 4 to March 5
of the present year. Tip debt owing to the State is con-
sequently reduced to 27,312,229 E, interest included. The
Board has paid since 1848,29,000,0001., and has in addition
in hand 6,877,9161'. in Treasury bonds, taken in Decem-
ber last at 4 per cent. interest. As the whole sum re-
Quentin amounted to 11,819,026 E; and as a sum of
mainilnignetoanbde
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prin-
cipa14,535,468 f was paid in 1850, there remains still to be paid
on Dec. 31, 1850, a sum of 7,283,557 f. The money ex-
pended in 1850 related principally to the completion of
the St. Quentin line; the definitive construction of the
stations of Calais, St. Omer, and Douai; the enlarge-
ment, as foreseen, of a number of stations and goods'
yards; and, finally, the construction of stock. The commu-
nication of the line with the docks at Dunkirk has been
carried considerably further down the quay, and now per-
mits goods to be transferred at once from the waggons of
the railway to the vessels ready to receive them. This
produces a considerable saving, and facilitates the deve-
lopment of the relations with England, particularly in
the exportation of flour, which is every day increasing.
The whole sum expended during the year 1850 amounted
to 16,535,466 f. 83c. The report then proceeds to give
an account of the working for the past year, and states
that the results have been most favourable, as appears
from the following table:—
_ _

1848. 1849. 1850.
Passengers 7,771,425f. 9,462,402 f. 12,044,485 f.
Goods by quick
trains
Goods by slow
trains

15,474,214 f. 19,326,4781.. 23,694,893 f.

In looking at the receipts of the stations it is found
that those on the frontiers have increased by far the
most—those of Quievrain are 40 per cent. higher; Dun-
kirk, 38 per cent.; Calais, 28 per cent.; and Mouseron,
71 per cent., and if a more intelligent system of
customs were established, this increase would
doubtless be even still more considerable. The ex-
penses have by no means augmented in proportion
to the increase in the receipts, as from being
7,386,534 f., they are only 8,837,865 f. in 1850. The aug-
mentation in the items of the central administration, di-
vision of working, and division of repairs, is only 141,
per cent.; and in the division of stock and workshops, the
charges of which are in more direct connexion with the
traffic, 24 per cent. And even this latter charge has
during the past year been unusually high in consequence
of the extraordinary repairs rendered necessary in the
carriages, the state of which had suffered more than or-
dinarily from the perturbation caused in the workshops
in consequence of the revolution of February. This
item during the present and ensuing years will return to
its general level, the stock now being in the most per-
fect state of repair. The receipts of the working, de-
duction made of taxes on passengers, indemnities,
money paid back, &c., amount t 0... 22,670,411 f. 46c.
And the expenses to ••• ••• 8,858,124 21

Leaving a balance of ... .. 13,816,217 f. 21c.
This balance has been expended as follows:—
Sinking fund ... ... ... 2,451,698 f. 56e.
Interest on the money due to the

State
Interest at 4 per cent. on the
sums paid by the share-
holders ... 6,400,000 f. Oc.
Deduct interest on money in- 6,086,503 48
vested and on delays in *I
paying calls 313,4961. 52c. j
Dividend for 1850 ... ... 3,200,000 0
Sum remaining over for 1850 ... 15,741 32

2,062,343 85

13,816.2871. 21c.
There was paid to the shareholders on July 1, 1850,
and Jan. 1, 1851, as interest at 4 per cent. for the year,
1850 ... ... ... ... ... 16f. per share.
The dividend will amount to

Giving for each share for 1850 ... 24
The dividend of Bf. will be paid at the same time as the
interest of the first half year of 1851, which will raise
the sum to be received on the Ist of July
next to 16f. per share. Tho report then briefly
touches on the law-suit at present pending between
the Northern Company and that of Boulogne, and
declsres that the suit is not yet terminated, but that
the Northern Company awaits the result with confi-
dence. The establishment of the electric telegraph on
the line is then alluded to, and is spoken of as highly
advantageous to the service in simplifying all the details
of the working. The plan of receiving shares in e 4
for the shareholders had been found to answer perfectly.
The Northern Company had purchased, in conjunction
with that of Strasburg, nine hectares of land situated be-
tween the Paris termini of the two lines. The two com-
panies addressed, on October 25th, 1850, to the Minister
of Public Works an application for permission to
establish a junction line between the two main
lines. The application was referred to a com-
mission, and no definitive answer has yet been
given to the demand wade; all that the Northern
and Strasburg companies wanted was a ready means of
communication between their lines, which they:were quite
willing to eff,ct at their own expense, and the cost of
which would exceed from 60,000 f. to 80,000 f. The es-
tablishment of such a line was altogether independent of
a general junction line, and would if executed save both
companies very considerable expense. In the last place
the report alludes to the improvements lately established in
the communications with England and Germany. The
traveller can now leave Paris at half-past seven in the
evening, and arrive in London at a quarter to eight the
next morning, and can go ever the whole distance from
Paris too l
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such additional rapidity was to be imparted to the ser-
vice to Germany, that the journey from Paris to Berlin
would be effected in 35 hours, and from Paris t0.C0..
logne in 17i ho Li
urs. kewise, by Calais from Berlin !,c,
London, in 40 hours, and from Cologne to London in
22fr hours.
After the reading of the report, the conclusions of the
report of the committee on the accounts of 1849 were
of, and the accounts declared to be definitively
passed.
Tho accounts presented for 1850 were then provision-
ally approved of, as was the dividend of 81. per share
propo
them
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manads
had
theseaxmaemcinoomdmtibtotesee wasof 849
appointed to ex-
amine The outgoing directors, MU. Hottinguer, Caillard,
Dastier, F. Baring, and Dalon, were re-elected unani-
mously.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer
.to. a question asked rela-
tive to the payment of the dividend, stated that any
shareholder could be at once paid the amount coming to
him, at a discount of 4 per cent., the rate of interest at
which the Treasury bonds were held by the company
being 4 per cent.—(Marks of satisfaction greeted Ulf&
announcement.)
The meeting then separated.

tal, amounted to 165,5841. From shay.:
received, _on the/ether hand, 61,356/., 'one, 65,502/.,
Laving a sum df 31,7251, still che.r.....u.ble upon income.
The report containing these particulars having been
elopted, and testimony borne to the excellence of the
it detcriM d, the distribution of prizes
and certificates of honour for the medical department
commenced. At this ceremony the Bishop of London
presided. - After a brief but appropriate address from his
Lordship, the names of the successful candidates were
announced as follow s:—
SCHOLARHIPS AND PRIZES—EASTER, 1851.
Senior Scholar—S. B. Partridge.
Second Year Scholar—A. Playne.
Junior Scholar—E. Dowson; E. W. Alexander and
W. J. Palmer, seq.
Divinity—Prizes: 4th year, E. A. H. Head; 3d year,
W. E. Masfeu; 2d year, E. J. Lock; Ist year, E. M. R.
Rendie.
Warneford Endowment-Ist prize, S. B. Partridge;
2d priz?, E. A. H. Head; extra, J. K. Spender.
Leathe's Endowment—lst prJz3, F. N. Macnamara;
2d prize, T. Macknight.
Anatomy—Priz-: F. N. Macnemara. Certificates of
Honour: H. B. Franklin, W. Langford, 2d year; G. K.
Curme, G. Sl:riteshire, It. B. Searle, Ist year.
Physiology—Priz -: F. N. Macoaniura. Certificates
of Honour: A. Playne, T. 11. Cheatle, W. Langford, J.
Drew, 2d yearSkrim,ire, G. K Carne,. Cure, W.
Pearl, It. 13. Seurle, Ist y hear.
Cilomittry—Prize: H. W. Lewer. Certificates of
Honour: W. Langford, C. J. Jackson, W. Pearl, G. K.
Curme, ti. Skrimshire.
Chemical Manipulations—Prize: F. N. Macnamara.
Certificates of Honour: H. W. Lewer, W. E. Zeasfeu.:
Materia Medica—Priz A. D. Smith. Certificates of
Honour: 11. W. Lever, J. IL Sylvester.
Surgery—Prize : A. M. Edwards. Certificates of
Honour: F. W. Headland, J. H. Sylvester.
Medicine—Prize: E. Liddon. Certificates of Honour:
W. E. Masfeu; J: H. Sylvester, F. W. Headland, W.
Hoar.
Midwifery—Prize: T. H. Cheatle. Certificates of
Honour: R. Wilkinson; J. H. Sylvester, S. P. Partridge,
G. Lawson.
Botany—Prize: A. Playne. Certificate of Honour:
R. Wilkinson.
k Forensic Medicine—Prize: E. A. H. Read. Certifie
cates of Honour: S. B. Partridge, M. L. Burrows. •
Comparative Anatomy—Prize: E. A. H. Head.
Medical Clinical (Winter)—Prize: E. Liddon. Coe.
tificate of Honour: J. H. Sylvester.
Ditto (Summer)—Prize: J. C. Dickenson.
Surgical Clinical (Winter)—Prize: A. M. Edwards.
Certificates of Honour: E. D'A. Evezard, C. Leo.
Ditto (Summer)—Prize—J. C. Dickenson. Certifi-
cate of Honour—J. B. Cockburn.
Medical Society's Prize—J.K. Spender.
The report of Professor,Guy, the dean, on the state of
'this department, was highly satisfactory. The numbers
had increased, the discipline was unrelaxed, the system
had'iebtked well: On the- subject of the tospitalt_the'_
Learned Professor spoke at length, and adducia the
moat convincing statistics to prove the inefficiency of
the present building, and the necessity of immediately
erecting one more capacious to supply its place. •He re-
ferred, also, to the distinctions won at other universities
by quoadam pupils of King's College, and whilst
praising the present generation, urged them to emulate
their predecessors' industry and worth.
Dr. Jelf, and others, next addressed the meeting, and
the prizes having been distributed, thanks were voted to •
the phairman, and the company dispersed.