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better. This was a fitting place for him to remark
that there (pointing to Mr. Roebuck) was the first
man who suggested to him that the packet station ,
would never be right till the company's offices
were on the quays of Galway ; and he had a letter
from J. 0. Lever to the same effect, besides several
from Sir H. Fleetwood, who observed that a man
should not live in London havin!iis shop in Galway.
(Applause.) These were all Englishmen. He now
felt he was justified in declaring that the worst
feature in the company was an Irishman—he would
not mention his name, but they could read over the
list of directors and would readily find him out.
He hoped when next the shareholders would elect
their representatives at the board they would, re-
gardless of creed or country, select honest men,and
when they were found such they should respect
them as they did Mr. Roebuck. (Great cheers.)
He was delighted to perceive by the present demon-
stration their appreciation of public and trustworthy
men. It showed that they were not led astray by
the slanders of interested parties. (Cries of "No,"
and applause.) Father Daly then returned thanks
for the expression of feeling they had manifested.
Mr. LEVER also thanked Father Daly and the
meeting, and begged to be excused any lengthened
remarks till he should have the pleasure of address-
ing them in a few days on another occasion. (Loud
and enthusiastic cheering.)
Mr. O'GRADY begged leave to have the honour
of saying a few words. (Hear, hear.) He had
only to mention that the body whom he repre-
sented, the journeymen tailors, had just added to
their list of freemen fourteen of the trade—new
supports for Mr. Lever—and they would do every-
thing in their power to secure at the next election
his unopposed return. (Great applause.)
, Father DALY remarked that this was the most
effectual proof that the people of Galway were not
deceived in their estimation of Mr. Lever.
l The meeting then separated, cheering loudly for
l Father Daly, Lever, and Roebuck.

.RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH EASTERN.

The report of the directors to be presented at the
half-yearly meeting on Thursday next states that
the revenue of the company for the half-year
ending the 31st of July last exhibits an increase of
38,5311 15s 2d ; the gross receipts for that period
having been 463,450/ 14s 2d, as compared with
524,918/ 19s in the corresponding six months of
1859. The statement of expenditure on revenue
account shows that the ordinary expenses during
the half-year amounted to 213,024/ 17s 5d ; the
rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty to 33,642/ ,
2s 3d ; and the working of the steam-packet service
to 16,020/ 19s 11d. After providing for the fixed
charges in respect of rents, interest, annuities, pre-
ference dividends, &c., there remains a net balance
of 175,827/ lls available for dividend on the or-
dinary consolidated stock of the company. A
dividend of 14s per 30/ stock, or at the rate of 4/
13s 4d per cent. per annum, will atriorb a sum of
173,453/, leaving a balance to be carried forward
of 2,3741 lls, and this rate of dividend the
directors recommend to be paid on Thurs-
day, the 6th day of September next.
The receipts and expenditure for the half-
year, and their results as compared with
the corresponding period of 1859, are as follows :-
Receipts-Passenger traffic, including mails, par-
cels, &c., 403,012/ 8s 10d; increase, 22,921/ 5s 3d.
Merchandise traffic, including minerals and cattle,
125,596/ 5s sd; increase, 15,384/ 12s 3d. Steam.
boats, 24,006/ 8s 3d; increase, 1,074/ 6s 10d.
Rents, &c., 10,8351 lls 8d; decrease, 812/ 9s 2d.
Gross receipts 563,450/ 14s 2d ; increase, 38,531/
15s 2d. Working expenses and other deductions
(see expenditure), 270,785/ 12s 9d; increase,
19,9841175. Net receipts for the half-year, 292,665/
is sd; increase, 18,546/ 18s 2d. Expenditure-
On locomotive power, 57,487/ 12s; increase, 2,9781
7s 10d; on carriage and waggon repairs, 19,805/
14s lld ; decrease, 398/ 15s 9d; on way and works,
51,130/ 16s 3d ; increase, 12,727/ is ; on steamboats,
16,020/ 19s lld ; increase, 1,661/ 8s 2d; on pas-
senger and merchandise expenses, 66,959/ 8s sd;
increase, 3,416/ 6s 7d. On general charges (in-
cluding Parliamentary), 20,204/ lis 4d ; increase,
642/ 3s 2d. On compensation, &c., 5,524/ 7s 8d ;
decrease, 1,6681 Os 3d. On Government duty,
17,7301 13s 8d; increase, 992/ is 2d. On rates,
taxes, and tolls, 19,911/ 8s 7d; decrease, 365/ 14s
11d. Total-270,785/ 12s 9d ; net increase, 19,984/
17s. There has been an increase in all descriptions
of passenger traffic during the half-year. The in-
crease in the passengers has been 418,990, and in
the receipts 24,862/, showing that the prosperous
state of the undertaking continues to be mainly
attributable to the development of the local traffic
for short distances. At the same time the receipts
for through continental passenger traffic have been
fully maintained, the company's steam packets hav-
ing performed the services from port to port with
their accustomed regularity. There has also been
an increase in the receipts for parcels and
for mails, the former being partly attri-
butable to the increased intercourse between
France and England arising from the commer-
cial treaty recently established; and the latter to the
accelerated service of mail trains required by the
Post-office. The directors quote a passage from the
last report of the Postmaster-General, as to the
efficient manner in which this service is performed.
There are now four two-hour mail trains, two each
way, running between London and Dover daily,
excepting Sundays ; and the service continues to
be satisfactorily performed. The only considerable
item of decrease in the receipts for the half-year
has been in the amount received for the convey-
ance of bullion between England and the continent,
this description of traffic being of an exceptional
character, and entirely governed by the state of the
money market. The merchandise, coal, and cattle
traffic of the railway continues to make satisfactory
progress as compared with the corresponding
periods of the two previous years. The principal
increase has been in general or local merchandise
'traffic; but there has also been an increase in the
continental merchandise, which the directors trust

may exhibit a still further improvement in future
years under the operation of the commercial treaty.
There has been an increase of 2,5791 12s ld in the
charge for locomotive power and maintenance of
rolling stock, arising principally from the addi-
tional number of miles (169,308) run during the
half-year, in order to give proper accommodation to
the above increase of traffic. The rolling stock has
meanwhile been fully maintained ; the older car-
riages have been gradually replaced by vehicles of
a better description, and the whole passenger-car•
rying stock of the company has been considerably
improved in character during the last few years.
There has been an increase of 12,7271 is in the
charge against revenue for repairs and renewal of
the road and works. Twenty-one miles of single
line have been relaid with new materials ; extensive
repairs have been carried out at various stations ;
timber structures have been re-built where necessary
with permanent materials, and the condition of the
way and works has thus been materially improved.
The outlay on capital account during the half-year
has been 115,9321., less 7,4361., the amount realised
by the sale of surplus lands. The principal items
of expenditure have been on account of the new hop
and grain warehouses in course of erection at the
Bricklayers' Arms, additions to Canterbury Station,
new carriages and waggons (39,035119 s 9d), and
calls paid on account of the Charing cross Railway,
(60,0001). The expenditure on these several ac-
counts has already received the sanction of the pro-
prietors. To provide for the proper accommodation
of the increasing traffic the directors have to re-
quest the sanction of the proprietors to the follow-
ing further expenditure on capital account :—Ad-
ditions to Merstham, Higham, Dorking, Woking-
ham, St. Leonards, Hy the, and other stations,
.5,0001; additions to Dartford station, 1,5621; ap-
proaches to Strood station, 1,4461; goods shed at
North Camp, Aldershot, &c., 2,0001; Wellington
College station, 1,5001; Reading station, 3,0001;
new sidings for carriages at Bricklayers' Arms sta-
tion, 2,000/; tools for locomotive workshops at
Ashford, 9151; 50 coal waggons for locomotive de-
partment, 4,0001; 15 brake vans, 2,4001. The di-
rectors have had under their further consideration
the subject of the extension to Charing•cross, the
early construction of which as a line valuable for
local purposes, as well as for the completion of a
through route between the South Eastern districts
and the North and West of England, is alike called
for by the requirements of the public and necessary
for protecting the interests of the company. With
regard to the working agreement with the Charing-
cross company, the directors have thought it right
to take no further steps until the determination of
Parliament with regard to schemes promoted by
other companies should be ascertained. The sanc-
tioning of the extension of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway to Farringdon-street appears
to the directors to render it necessary that some
further support should be given by this company to
the Charing-cross Company, with a view of
enabling that company to complete their railway
and terminus at the earliest possible period. Ap-
plications have been received from the Charing•
cross hoard with reference to the capital of the
undertaking remaining unsubscribed, and the op-
portunity thus occurs of increasing this company's
interest in that concern. Under these circum-
stances, the directors recommend that they be
authorised to subscribe a further sum towards the
construction of the Charing-cross Railway, applying
to Parliament, if necessary, for the requisite powers
to give effect to such subscription; and that, in the
meantime, they be empowered to adopt all such
steps as may be expedient to carry forward the
works to completion at the earliest practicable
period. The directors have had under their consi-

deration the most secure method of transmitting
the half-yearly dividends to the proprietors ; and
have resolved, for the future, to issue all dividend
warrants crossed except in those cases in which the
proprietors may request the secretary, by letter, to
issue them uncrossed at their own risk; and such
practice NI ill accordingly be adopted from this date.

AN ITALIAN LAST WILL AND TESTA_MENT.

The Italian papers speak of the sensation which
has been lately produced in the law colarts of Padua
by the public reading of the last will and testament
of Vincenzo Caizavara Pinton. The announcement
of its anti-Austrian provisions called forth the un-
restrained applause of those present in the court
during the reading. The Austrian judge, Presi-
dent Heuflier, Procureur-General Hemmerle, and
Councillors Pretz and Colle, were in great wrath at
the popular demonstration, and Hemmerle could
not refrain from muttering, " Only to think that
the fellow can't be arrested !"

" TESTAMENT.

" Pianiga, 10th July, 1859.
" In the name of the omnipotent, best, and
greatest God,

" Feeling that the illness which for two years has
afflicted me is daily getting worse, and that my
end is in consequence drawing nigh : feeling that,
by God's mercy, I am still sound of mind, and
thoroughly conscious of all my actions, I hereby
make the present testamentary dispositions.
" Although I have no apprehension that my be-
loved children will ever abandon their excellent
parent—the best of mothers, and though I know
they will all share, undivided, their small fipaternal
inheritance, nevertheless, to provide for every pos-
sible eventuality, I declare that I leave, and do
hereby leave, the half of my poor property—viz.,
the disposable part—to my dear and affectionate
wife for the term of her natural life ; and that, after
her death, the said part shall be divided in equal
portions amongst my three beloved male sons, whilst
I bequeath a legacy of 200 lire to each of my be-
loved daughters.
" I declare and make known that if any-of my
sons, either directly or indirectly, shall serve under
the Austrian flag, he is to be disinherited and to
forfeit the sum which he would have received after
the death of his mother, which sum, in that event,
shall be paid over, one half to the poor of the parish
of Pianiga, the other half to the Ministry of War
of his Majesty the King of Piedmont, Victor Em-
manuel and his successors, to be distributed to the
young men of the province of Venice who shall
serve under the adored standard of the King of
Piedmont. Rather than serve Austria they ought
to be ready to die.
"In like manner, I declare any one of my sons to
have forfeited his succession in the portion afore-
said, who shall accept any office whatever under
Austria, or who shall become connected with, or
contract matrimony with, any Austrian woman.
In that case, I equally declare that the portion be-
longing to any of my sons guilty of such an offence
be disposed of in the same manner as by the pre-
ceding article.

" I:forbid my fondly beloved daughters from
giving their hand in marriage to an Austrian.
They should prefer death rather than such a deed
—the most iniquitous and shameful of which an
Italian woman can be guilty.
" I impress upon my sons, and I impose it upon
them as a duty, to be always ready to shed their
blood for the independence of Italy—of this blessed
and unhappy Italy which I so much loved. Let
them recollect that the blood which flows in their
veins is not only their own blood, but the posses-
sion of their country. Their arms and their minds
must be exerted in behalf of their country, and
against the oppressors who keep it down beneath
an iron yoke. Accursed the Italian who is not
ready to die for the independence of his country !
I bequeath also to my children the following truths,
which they must always keep in mind, and again
impress on their own children :

Man is nothing. The omnipotent God alone is
everything. The Chris: ian religion is the sole true
and divine one. It springs from infallible and ad-
mirable principles. The true Christian alone can
pass his days, if not in happiness, at least in tran-
quillity, during his brief pilgrimage on the earth.
The life of man is an arrow, shot from a bow—so
quickly it passes away. Wealth is nothing to him
who is its owner. Unhappy the man who thinks
only of it. Wealth is equally a chimera. In order
to secure wealth and greatness, man does not shrink
from stooping to the commission of the most
execrable deeds. When he has secured wealth and
greatness, he is mere unhappy than before. To live
honestly in that state in which Providence has
placed us, to make use of the talents with which
we have been endowed, to act for our own good,
for that of our brethren, for that of our country—
such is the programme of life of every good citizen,
and such, my dear children, should be yours." &c.

CRDIE IN FRANCE.

A man ten days ago walked into the office of a
commissary of police, and said, " My name is Calon-
dot, and I have come to be arrested." " What for ?"
Bcoau,3o I hart stolen a watch." "Aro you cari-
ous ? " " Perfectly—and there is the watch." He
produced one. " I stole it from a lodging-house at
Ivry." The man would not give any further ex-
planations, and was taken into custody. Three days
after he was placed at the bar of the Tribu-
nal of Correctional Police, and was asked
to give details of the robbery ; but all he
would say was, " I stole the watch from a man I
don't know, and want you to condemn me ! "
" But why do you accuse yourself ?" " Because I
heard that the gendarmes were looking for me,
and I thought right to save them trouble by giving
myself up !" The Tribunal, before giving judgment,
directed that inquiries should be made in lodging.
houses at Ivry if any watch had been stolen there,
and in the meantime ordered the man to be de-
tained in custody, On Saturday Calondot was again
placed at the bar, and a lodging-house keeper of the
village deposed that a watch had been stolen from his
house. " Are you satisfied now ?" cried the prisoner.
"And could you not believe mewithout giving
this good man the trouble of coming here !" The
Tribunal sentenced the thief to two months' impri-
sonment, at which he appeared much pleased.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police has just been
occupied three days in trying a young man named
Darien. (son of the ex-chet de division in the
Ministry of Public Worship, who was recently,
condemned to four years' imprisonment for for-
gery), on the charges of swindling, usury, and
irregular bankruptcy ; and three Englishmen, Mr.
Peter Morrison, Director of the Bank of Deposit
at London, Mr. George Mitchell, described as a
person of property, also of London, and Mr. T.
H. Whitmarsh, an assurance agent, of Paris, were
accused of complicity in the alleged swindling.
When the case was called on the latter person did
not present himself. Counsel for Mr. Morrison
and Mr. Mitchell raised the technical objection
that, even if what they were accused of could be
proved—and they alleged that it could not—it had
been done at London, and was consequently out of
the jurisdiction of the French courts; and they ac-
cordingly prayed that the charge against the
two gentlemen should not be entertained. The
tribunal, however, after hearing pleadings on the
point, decided that, until the facts of the case
were before it, it could not say whether or not it
had jurisdiction; and it directed the matter to be
gone into. On that, Mr. Morrison and Mr. Mitchell
declared that they would make default. Evidence
was then given to this effect :—M. Garelli, mana-
ger of a bank at Leghorn, having gone to
London in 1858, was recommended to establish a
branch in that city, and a member of Parliament
introduced him to Mr. Morrison, of the Deposit
Bank. After some negotiation, an arrangement
was come to between them that a branch should
be established in communication with Morrison's.
One part of the arrangement was that an ex-
change of shares between the two banks should
be effected, but for what precise purpose was not
clearly explained. The branch having been esta-
blished, Garelli handed a number of shares in his
bank to Morrison, and the latter gave him some of
the Deposit Bank. But after a while misunder-
standings arose, and Garelli wanted to be off the
arrangement. He accordingly employed Durieu,
with whom he was acquainted, to go to London to
get back his shares from Morrison in return for
those of the Deposit Bank ; that person,.however, he
alleged, betraying his interests, gave up to Morrison
the Deposit Bank shares for 75,000 f., though they
were nominally worth infinitely more, and did
not get back from that gentleman his (Garelli's)
shares. Durieu, moreover, out of that sum appro-
priated 35,000 fr. to his own use. Garelli insisted
that in this affair Morrison was in connivance with
Durieu, and as to the other two Englishmen he
alleged that they likewise had been mixed up in it.
As to the other accusations against Durieu alone, it
was stated that he had established at Paris a bank
called the" Mandatair Mobil ier," for the purpose of
making speculations on the Bourse, but had failed,
leaving a deficit of 200,000 fr. That he had by means
of pompous advertisements promising large divi-
dends on capital which might be confided to him,
obtained various sums of money from different
persons, and had riot only not given them any
dividvnds, but Lad not restored their deposits;
had ruade small advances on shares entrusted to
him, and had then sold the latter and appropriated
the proceeds; had lent money constantly at the
usurious interest of from 12 to 36 per cent., in some
cases even at 90, and once at 120, axed finally had
not kept regular accounts. The Tribunal de-
cided that the facts alleged against the three Eng-
lishmen had been done at London, and that canse-
quently it could not entertain the complaint
against them. As to Durieu it condemned him
to a year's imprisonment and 50 fr. fine, also to pay
100,000 fr, damages to Mr. Garelli.

ANOTHER ATTACK OF THE
AGAPEMOWE.

After the return of the Rev. Mr. Price and his
storming party to Bridgwater, on Tuesday night,
it was arranged that a select dozen of sturdy
men should accompany the gentleman in search
of his wife, to the three farm-houses belong-
ing to Mr. Prince, the arch-agapemonite, early
on Wednesday morning. These farm-houses
are situate at Aisholt, Chinton Trivett, and
Blackmore-lane, all within a few miles of the
principal " Abode of Love," and are occupied by
the disciples of the false prophet. Shortly be-
fore six o'clock a brougham, containing Mr. Price
and a few stanch friends, and two conveyances car•
rying his followers, left Bridgwater. The men
forming the expedition were well armed, and ar-
rived at Aisholt between seven and eight o'clock.
Immediately on alighting they entered the grounds,
and finding the window of a room opening upon
the lawn unfastened, they all walked unbidden into
the apartment. Mr. Hodder, the determined Prince-
ite, who had threatened to shoot the assailants at
the Agapemone the preceding night, quickly made
his appearance, as did also other male members of
the notorious fraternity. Mr. Price informed them
that he had come for the purpose of searching the
premises for his wife, and intended to do so either
peaceably or by force. Mr. Hodder answered that
the lady was not there, but offered to allow them
to examine the dwelling if they would, " like gen-
tlemen, and not like blackguards," delay their in-
vestigation until the ladies had dressed and left
their chambers. Mr. Price at once consented to
wait, and as the ladies came down stairs they were
shown to him. With one or two of his men he then
searched all the rooms in the house and the out-
buildings and grounds, but could find no trace of
his wife. The founder of the Agapemone, who it
was supposed had left the district, was seen at
the Aisholt farm. The ex-Agapemonite and his
followers next visited the farm-houses at Chilton
Trivett and Blackmore-lane, but did not scruti-
nise the rooms, the solemn delaration of the
people in charge of the two establishments that
Mrs. Price was not there, being accepted as the
truth. A fourth farm at Blakeshill was not jour-
neyed to, Mr. Price having reason to believe that
the object of his quest was not in that locality.
Having taken up the watchers set to keep an
eye on the Agapemone itself, the expedition
returned to Bridgwater foiled, but Snot dis-
heartened. It is believed that the lady is still in
the neighbourhood, and that she is concealed in
the house of one of tie adherents of Prince, of
whom there are many in the villages of West So-
merset.

Another visit to the chief " Abode of Love" was
planned for Wednesday night, but did not take
place. The Princeites are in great trepidation, and
have applied to the county police for aid against
any future trespass upon their estates. The
civility with which they received the well-armed
invaders at the three farms on Wednesday shows
that the experience gained by Tuesday night's in-
vasion has induced them to abstain from actively
opposing the onslaughts of their assailants.

THE MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S PARK,
EDINBURGH.

Although the police authorities are actively en-
gaged investigating into the circumstances -attend-
ing the untimely death of the unfortunate girl
Slater, nothing of a tangible and conclusive nature
has as yet transpired to assist them in tracing home
the actual guilt or complicity of the affair to any
one. The evidence affecting the prisoner Tanner
is, we believe, of a merely circumstantial character ;
while the strongest evidence against the two men,
who are still missing from the regiment of Light
Dragoons at Piershill, is furnished by the suspicious
circumstance of their flight. The task which the
criminal officers have to accomplish in the case is
necessarily a very difficult one, from the lateness of
the hour at which the murder was committed, the
difficulty, it might almost be said the impossibility,
of identifying the actual perpetrator of the deed,
and singling him out among so many men, all about
the same size and stature, and wearing the same
uniform, and the utter absence as yet of any eye-
witness to the murder. A numerous variety of ru-
mours concerning the case have been widely circu-
lated about town—such as, that when the two men,
Tanner and Quin, were apprehended, the other two
soldiers made their escape in civilians' clothes from
a house in Campbell's-close ; and the criminal offi-
cers have been busily employed in testing the ac-
curacy of these stories—in every case, as was to be
expected, finding that they were destitute of
foundation. We learn also that a number of
persons went to the Police-office on the pretence
of having something to tell ' regarding the
matter —as to their havinig seen the girl at
certain places on the night in question, and so on—
merely to gratify their morbid curiosity to have a
sight of the dead body; but their evidence was
found to be worthless. These circumstances, of
course, must have thrown some impediments in the
way of the officers prosecuting a proper line of in-
quiry. An instance of this morbid appetite for the
least item of information about the case, no matter
how apocryphal, is afforded by the fact of so many
people clustering about the County Buildings during
the precognition of the witnesses, and congregating
in the Queen's-park, in the vicinity of the spot
where the murder is supposed to have been com-
mitted. The tree at the foot of which the corpse
was found has been stripped of its bark in various
places, apparently by persons actuated by the same
motives as the people in Glasgow, who chipped off
bits of the window-sill of the house in which Made-
line Smith resided. About a dozen witnesses, both
military and civilian, were examined by the Procu-
rator-Fiscal yesterday ; but we understand that no
new fact of importance was elicited. The two sol-
diers are still absent from their regiment, and in-
quiries are being made after them. The post-
mortem examination of the body of the deceased
girl was commenced yesterday by Drs. Reillar and
Smith, but has not yet been brought to a conclusion.
Several parties have still to see the body, and there
are various points upon which medical examination
has yet to be made.—Caledonian Mercury.