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the Secretary of State for War had requested him 1
to retain his pc* until the close of the present sea-
sion of Parliament, when anew arrangement would
be finally made. It is supposed that the long-con-
templated intention of re-appointing a Director-
General of Artillery, which has been strongly re•
commended by the Military Organization Com-
mittee, will be acted upon, and that Col. Tulloh,
the present Inspector-General, will receive the ap-
pointment, uniting under one head the Director-
Generalship of Artillery and the manufacturing
branches of the Arsenal throughout. In addition
to the above announcement it is stated that the
superintendence of the royal gun factories will be
assumed in chief by Mr. John Anderson, the present
resident or assistant superintendent, who has car-
ried out with perfect success the absolute direction
of the department, with an occasional visit only of
Sir W. Armstrong, since its foundation under the
new system.

THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

In accordance with arrangements stipulated be-
tween the commanding officers of the corps and
Viscount Sydney, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, a
strong body of the Royal Arsenal Volunteers at
Woolwich mustered on Saturday at 3 o'clock for
the purpose of a general inspection by his loidship.
At half-past 4 o'clock Lord and Lady Sydney ar-
rived at the Arsenal, and the inspection commenced
shortly after. The men were drawn up in line to
the number of about 1,500 of all ranks, and ex-
tended the entire length of the avenue from the
paper factory to the archway at theentrance of the
Royal gun factories. The Artillery Brigade was
commanded by Captain Ellis, in the absence of
Colonel Fullom on leave, and the battalions of
Rifles were in command of Colonel Parkyn and
Colonel Anderson. His Lordship, accompanied by
Colonel Tulloh, Brigadier of the corps, Colonel
Morris, Colonel Luard, and Major Oram, rode up
to the front of the column, upon which the men fell
into open order and presented arms. The three
bands united thereupon and struck up the national
air. His lordship and Staff then rode down the
front of the line, and went through the inspection,
carefully examining the appearance and bearing of
each man; and, having assembled the commanding
officers, he desired them to make known the satis-
faction which he had derived from the inspection of
the corps, established for the protection of the
Royal Arsenal, and to assure them he was confident
that the trust which her Majesty had so willingly
confided to them would never be misapplied or dis-
graced by one among them. He could, he said,
but admire and extol their ready and persevering
loyalty, even under the adverse state of the wea-
ther, when so many were assembled, which was a
good guarantee for their honesty of purpose. The
corps then marched past and ?proceeded up Wel-
lington-street, along the front of the Artillery bar-
racks, and returned by the Old Charlton-road,
when they again assembled in the Arsenal and
were dismissed.
A Volunteer review took place on Thursday in
Oakley Park, Suffolk, the seat of Sir E. C. Kerri-
son, M.P. The Volunteers present comprised the
companies formed at Eye, Stradbroke, and Botes-
dale, which are upwards of 160 strong. A variety
of manoeuvres were creditably executed, and the
Volunteers were afterwards entertained at dinner
by Sir Edward Kerrison, M.P., and Lord Henni-
ker, M.P.
The Bristol and Glocestershire Artillery and the
City of Bristol Rifle Volunteer Corps were to have
'been inspected on Saturday by Col. M'Murdo, C. 8.,
Inspector-General of Volunteers. Great prepara-
tions had been made for the event. The Duke of
Beaufort despatched the Stapleton and Dodding-
ton troops of the Royal Glocestershire Hussars to
keep the ground. The ladies of Clifton and the
vicinity had subscribed for some handsome silver
bugles, which3were to have been presented to the
two corps by the Mayoress (Mrs. Bates) and Mrs.
General Whish. The weather, however, proved so
unpropitious that the inspection was abandoned.
The Nottingham Robin Hood Rifle Corps has
advanced to a very efficient state with respect to drill.
The ladies of Nottingham have commenced a sub-
scription for the purpose of presenting the nine
companies of the corps with a silver bugle each,
with banneret and colours ; also with a horse for
the use of the adjutant. The amount of the funds
raised now exceeds £l3O, but no specific date has
yet been named for the presentation to take place.
In a short time the Peterborough Rifle Corps will
be presented with a silver bugle. The ceremony of
the presentation is to be performed by Lady Ver-
non and the Hon. Mrs. C. W. Fitzwilliam. A butt
is being erected for rifle practice at the expense of
the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam (captain of the corps)
on the Caistor-fields, in the neighbourhood of Pe-
terborough.
The Holbeach Volunteer Corps assembled for ball
practice a few days ago, when the result was most
satisfactory, the number of points obtained by the
three successful competitors being 80, 19, and 18.
The average number of each member was 15-1. There
were also present detachments of the Boston, 11th
Glocestershire, Cirencester, and Westminster Rifle
Corps on the ground.
Tha great Rifle Volunteer review, to take place
at Glocester on the 18th of September, is likely to
be remarkable as a military display. Already about
40 corps have intimated their intention of attend-
ing, and to this number an addition of 40 more' is
expected. They will come chiefly from the county
of Glocester and surrounding counties. The Go-
vernment has appointed Colonel Dick, Assistant-
Inspector of Volunteers, to superintend the details,
and excursion trains on tke Great Western, Mid-
land, South Wales, and Hereford, Ross, and Glo-
cester Railways will be run. The Glocestershire
Hussars will attend the review. The Duke of Beau-
fort has intimated his intention of " franking" the
Badminton troop to and from Glocester .on the
occasion.
The Worcestershire Volunteers, which consist of
18 companies, hove been constituted two battalions
—No. 1, consisting of 10 companies, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Knight, M.P. ; and No.
2, consisting of eight companies, commanded by
Lieutenant• Colonel Scobell. On Saturday a meet-
ing of captains was held at Worcester to take steps
for acquiring some proficiency in battalion drill,
preparatory to the review at Glocester, at which
the two battalions will attend. The Stourport com-
pany have commenced rifle practice at targets
placed on Hartlebury-common. The other Wor-
cestershire corps continue steadily their regular
drills.

Under the superintendence of Captain Hornby,
R.N. (the Earl of Derby's representative), Major
Harman, the Assistant-Inspector of Volunteers, and
Captain George Molly, the arrangements for the
Knowsley review have been completed. They' are
calculated to give general satisfaction. The forth-
coming event has created so much interest in
Liverpool that for weeks past all the public vehicles
have been engaged by persons intending to be
present.

I- Lieutenant-Colene,l Gladstone and Major Tinley,
of the 2d battalion Lancashire Rifle Volunteers,
are vigorOusly exerting themselves ,to render the
Hightown Shooting-ground a model establishment.
Already they have erected 15 perfect ranges, from
300 to , 1,100 yards in length, arid they purpose
erecting 15 more. If necessary the range can be in-
creased to a mile with safety. In order to enable
Volunteers to render themselves competent to shoot
for the prizes at the county meeting in October
next, the terms for the privilege of practisino. at
Hightown have bean arranged on a very liberal 6
scale. Honorary menabis pay 1.:i2 2s. per annum ; .
honorary effective •mqruhers (that is, persons con-
nected withaoy_corps) pay £1 is. only. Members
of the 2d battalion pay 10s.• 6d. per annum. The
object is to make the ranges as generally useful as
possible. Very comfortable and healthy" arrange-
ments
have been made for the early encampment of
the 2d battalion at Hightown.

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' NORTH STAFFORtISHIRE.
The report of the directors of this company states
that the policy of the board has never'been aggres-
sive, but they have been too frequently forced into
litigation and Parliamentary contest in defence of
the interest of the proprietors. Mutual concessions,
however, and the consequent amicable arrange-
ments entered into with all opponents, have left
them free to develope the resources of the line ; and
although they have still to liquidate law expenses
already incurred, little outlay in Parliamentary or
legal controversy with other companies has this
year been requisite, nor is it anticipated that it will
be necessary in future.

CORNWALL.
The directors' report states that although the
proceeds of the half-year have not fully come up to
what might have been expected, the resources of
the county are being steadily' developed; large
quantities of potatoes and other vegetables, and fish,
hiwe passed over the line, and the advantages which
have been supplied by this improved mode of tran-
sit have been so appreciated in the London markets,
and have afforded such facilities to producers in the
west of Cornwall, that a continued aid considerable
increase of traffic from these sources may be reason-
ably expected when better appliances have been
secured for the purpose. The receipts on account of
revenue have been £29,144, and the working ex-
penses £17,328, leaving a surplus of £11,815, but as
the amount of interest falling due in the half-year
on debentures, guaranteed shares, and on money re-
ceived on loan from the associated companies, and
payable:exactly at the end of the half-year, amounted
to £22,287, the financial result of the working of the
line, from its opening to the 30th June last, is a debt
on the revenue account of £6,433. Several circum-
stances, partly arising from the imperfect completion
of the line as a whole, and others of a temporary and
accidental character, have contributed to this result.
Until the beginning of this half-year little was done
in the way of goods' traffic ; and the appliances for
this branch of the business, notwithstanding every
exertion was used to provide them, were not in a
state of tolerable efficiency until the end of February,
and even these additions and improvements were
required; but none of them have been in use long
enough to have had any effect on the accounts of the
current half-year. One of the most serious obstacles
to the proper development of the traffic from the
west of Cornwall, aid particularly in the carriage
of fish and vegetables, has resulted from the con-
tinuance of the narrow gauge on the West Corn-
wall line. The directors therefore, have been under
the necessity of pressing on the West Cornwall Com-
pany the expediency of taking measures to terminate
at the earliest possible mornent an exceptional sys-
tem, which the directors believe to be equally pre-
judicial to the public in general. The directors
continue to look, as they have ever done, to the ex-
tension of the line to Falmouth as the natural and
legitimate means of completely developing the re-
sources of the undertaking. They have now brought
the whole question before the associated companies
in a manner which they hope will lead to a decision,
and they have observed with much pleasure the
progress which is being made in the construction
of the docks at Falmouth. The revenue account
showed that £1,512,087 had been received, and
£1,517,836 expended, leaving a balance against the
company of £5,749.

DUBLIN, WICKLOW, AND WEXFORD.
The report of the directors states that, notwith-
standing the long winter and the continuance of in-
clement weather during the spring and summer
months of the past half year, there had been
an increase of the traffic receipts. The increase
of traffic receipts on the Wicklow line
amounted to £991, and on the Kingstown line
to £174, making together £1,165, as com-
pared with the corresponding half of 1859.
On the whole year, ended the 30th of June,
1860, as compared with the-corresponding. previous
12 months, there had been an increase of traffic re-
ceipts of £5,127, viz., £3,519 on the Wicklow line
(on which the traffic amounted to £38,905 as against
£35,386), and of £1,608 on the Kingstown line, on
which the traffic receipts were £61,832, against
£60,!24. The total receipts on both lines for-the
half-year ending 30th June last amounted to £46,174
including £28,222 on the Kingstown line, and
£18,620 expended, inclnding £9,698 on the Kings-
town line, leaving a balance of £27,554. Out of
this sum was paid to the Kingstown Company and
its officers £18,593, leaving as the net profit for the
half-year £8,961. The interest, rent, rates, and
taxes absorbed £8,668, leaving £293. To this sum
was added the balance brought from the preceding
account of £6,382, making a not sum of £6,5:5 to
the credit of revenue. The gross revenue of the
Kingstown line for the year just closed having ex-
ceeded £55,000, the Kingstown Company had be-
come entitled, under the lease, to the contingent
rent of 30 per cent of such excess, in additidn to the
fixed rent and the compensation rent for diversion
of traffic under the agreement of Oct. 1, 1859. The
payments of these three rents amounted to £17,914.
The bill promoted in Parliament by the two com-
panies, for giving validity to the agreement of Oct.
1859, received the royal assent on the 25th May
;girt. Out of the balance of £6,575 the dividend for
the half-year on the 6 per cent. preference shares
was payable. The final call on those shares having
been made, they had now been fully made up ; and
the dividend for the half-year ended 30th June last
amounted to about £5,989, leaving the surplus
(£586) to be carried forward to next account. The
arrangements of this company for its'part of the
improved postal and passenger communication with
Eaglandthas been completed.. The works on the
first section of the Gorey Extension line were
in active progress, and the remainder of the exter-
sion down to Enniscorthy had been laid out, and
the working plans were near completion. The act
for the extension from Gorey to Enniscorthy
was passed on the 15th of May, and the shares by
means of which the capital for Gorey and Ennis-
corthy extension was to be raised were in course of
issue. It had been found expedient to continue the
doubling of the line from Dundrum to Bray, with
a view to the more convenient working of the in-
creased traffic on the Bray line; and a new station
had been established at Miltown, on that line. The
capital account of the Dublin, Wicklow, and Water-
ford Company showed that £1,019,168 had been
received, and £985,169 expended, leaving a balance
of £33,999.

WATERFORD AND LIMERICK.
The directors of this company state in their report
that the receipts for the past half-year amounted
to £32,278, against £31,908, showing an increase
over the corresponding half of last year of £370.
After payment of the working expenses of the line,
the interest on loans, and dividend on preference
shares, there remained a balance available for divi-
dend on the original shares of £3,561. The direc-
tors therefore recommended that a dividend of Ss.
per share (being at the rate of 1 per cent. per an-
num) be paid on the original £5O shares, and on the
quarter shares in the like proportion, free of income
tax ; and that the balance, £1,061, be carried to
credit of the current half-year. The increase on
the traffic had been less than on some former occa-
sions, caused by the general failure of the root
crops, which affected the traffic in live stock, pre-
venting the increised development which had for •

The revenue account for the half-year ending the,
30th of June showed that £43,531 had been re-
ceived for passengers, &c., against £40,965 for the
corresponding half of 1859, showing an increase of
£2,566. The receipts for goods and minerals
amounted to £98,427, against £85,765, showing an
increase of £12,662. The receipts for the canal
amounted to £69,863, against £67,233 at the cor-
responding period of last year ; and the expendi-
ture to £27,116, against £26,533, showing an in-
crease of £583. The net profit of the canals
amounted to £42,747, against £40,700 in the cor-
responding half of 1859, showing an increase of
£2,047. The quantity of materials, such as rails,
chairs, fish-plates, &c., required in the half-year
for the maintenance and renewal of permanent way
has been considerably in excess of any former
similar period; but the directors see no reason to
depart from their uniform course of charging the
whole to revenue, rather than to adopt the practice,
now very generally pursued by other railway com-
panies, of carrying any part of it to a suspense ac-
count, to be redeemed in fixed yearly amounts from
future revenue. The rates received on the Bid-
dulph line for 32,677 tons of minerals and goods
amounted to £3,836. But this must not be taken as
any criterion of the value of this extension of the
North Staffordshire mineral trade. No passengers
have as yet been carried over it. The directors, after
making provision for bad and doubtful debts, lay-
ing aside a reserve of £3,000, and paying every
expense chargeable to revenue, are enabled to re-
commend to their shareholders a dividend at the
rate of 4 per cent, per annum, which will leave a
balance of £1,040 for next account. The articles of
agreement between the London and North-Western
and the North Staffordshire Companies have re-
ceived the sanction of the London and North-West.
ern proprietors, convened at a special meeting. The
capital account showed that the total amount autho-
rised was £5,820,000, of which £436,033 remained
uncalled. The total expenditure on account of the
canal was £1,170,000, and on the railway £4,191,179
—together£ 5,361,179. The balance in han dam ounted
to £22,717. The canal revenue for the half-year
ending the 30th June amounted to £69,863, and the
expenditure. to £27,116, leaving a balance of £42,746.
The railway revenue amounted to £156,283, in-
cluding £12,476 from the London and North-West-
,ern, and the expenses to £77,900, tolls to Midland
£3,884, leaving a balance of £74,499.