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HEATHER'S TRUST.—Under the Manage-
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holden on the 3d of December next, this Company will distribute to
six poor Widow of Decayed Housekeepers, the amount divisible
miller the above. Trust, being about 8/. to each.
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Printed foram of application may be obtained at the Company's
Temporary Offices, Barbers' Hall, Monkwell-street, Cripplegate,
London. The applicant must state therein such particulars relative
to her condition and circumstances as may be proper to be considered
in deciding on her claim, and name references from whom informa-
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The applimition, accompanied by certificate of marriage, and a
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be left at the Company's Offices previous to the 23d November instant,
addressed to

ROBERT SECKWITII TOWSE, Clerk.
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OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
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The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no
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Week ending 7th Sept.— 1,841
Ditto 14th Sept.— .. ••. • • • 1,A95
Ditto 21st Sept 1,784
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29th and 30'1 5ept.......

Total in Sept.
f which 3,1146 were stew cases, the remainder (still under treat.
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The direction of the trunk line of railway connecting
Western India with Calcutta has been definitively settled.
It commences at Bombay, and, after passing the ghauts, pro-
ceeds along the Valley of the Nerbudda to Jubbulpore,
where it will be met by a branch from the East Indian
Railway, issuing from the main line at or near Mirzapore.
Bombay will also be connected by rail with Madras, and thus
the iron districts of the Nerbudda will have the advantage of
railway communication with all parts of India, and easy ac-
cess will be obtained for their produce to every market in the
country,

for 4/. 16s. per ton. At Jubbulpore, still further east,
rich deposits e.,re fur ad ef the micaceous variety of spe-
cular iron. It is wrought priobipall7 Punnaghur, 15
miles north-east of the tomtit of Jabbulpore arid Commands
the same price in the market as the iron of Tendukeri.
In Oct., 1855, the Court of Directors desired to be in-
formed whether hi the opinion of the Bombay Government
roonMsa possessed the advantages represented by Mr.
Jacob. They were anxious that no opportunity should be
neglected for opening any field that might be presented for
the employment of private capital in developing the mine-
ral resources of India i but es it was not expected that
English capitalists would come forwerd for the purpose of
working mines in India with the scanty information hi-
therto published, they desired that the proper inquiries
might be instituted as to the capabilities of this district
for producing, manufacturing, and transporting the metal.
In March, 1856, the Bombay Government were informed
that an " iron viewei" would be sent out from England to
prosecute investigations into the mineral resources of that
presidency, and the Government were further authorised,
in the event of favourable looalities being found, to take
measures for the experimental manufacture of iron.
In the meantime Professor Oldham, having been de-
puted to the Nerbudda Valley, proceeded to the examine.-
lion of the iron-producing districts ; and having com-
pleted his investigations in the vicinities of Poonassa and
Chandghur, submitted a report on the subject to the Bom-
bay Government in April, 1856, from which the following
particulars are derived.,
Iron ore is found in this district in two forms :-Ist, as
a gravel or detritus of partially decomposed hematitic iron;
and 2dly, as a distinct bed or vein of similar ore in a solid
and undecomposed state. One of these
gravelly deposits
occurs at Chandgbur. It covers an area of a quarter of a
mile, the thickness varying from four or five feet to a mere
scattering of loose pebbles. Another of these loose depo-
sits occurs about seven miles north-east of Chandghur,
near the villages of Bomba and Nanera. A third deposit
of the same description is situate eastward of the river
Town, having a greater thickness than either of the other
two, its depth being about ten feet. The average yield of
the ore is estimated at about 55 per cent. of metal.
In addition to these, a regular vein, or seam, of rich
specular iron is worked close to the .gravelly deposit at
-Nanera; and this is stated ViTrofessor Oldham to be the
most valuable source of ore in the whole district. It varies
in thickness from two to eight and ten feet.
The seams of iron ore cut by the Nerbudda river, men-
tioned by Mr. Jacob, one of which measured 122 feet in
breadth, are described by Professor Oldham as utterly use-
less as practical sources of iron ore, in consequence of the
scanty distribution of the ore, and the hardness of the rock.
" I am convinced," he observes, " that the cost of mining
the ore would be ten times the whole value of the metal
obtained."
Professor Oldham does not agree with Mr. Jacob in the
estimate formed by the latter of the inexhaustible supply
of iron ore in the Poonassa and Cbandghur district, but is
prepared to admit " that there is a large amount of very
rich, valuable, and easily wrought ores here available."
A difference of opinion exists also between Mr. Jacob and
the superintendent of the geological survey as to the ex-
pediency of selecting Poonassa for the site of an iron manu-
factory. Poonassa being situate on the south bank of the
Nerbudda, and Chandghur being on the opposite side of
the river, the ore has to be brought for a distance of 12
miles, with a bad crossing of the river, where the me has
to be unloaded from the (Nuts, carried in baskets down to
the water, shipped in small boats, carried up a steep bank
on arrival at the other side, and reloaded in carts for con-
veyance to Poonassa. The price of the ore is consequently
Bs. per ton at Poona iSti, while at Chandghur and its vicinity
it could be supplied at from 4s. 6d. to 6s. per ton. The
fact of Poonassa being in British territory appears to Pro •
fuser Oldham to be of very trivial importance, as he could
not ascertain that there could be any material distinction
between the value of such iron works, whether situate in
British or native territory.
Professor Oldham further differs from Mr. Jacob in his
view as to the abundance of fuel in this district (which
comprises an area of 350 square miles) for the reduc-
tion of the ore. The timber, he observes, is small, and
the useful or hardwood trees form but a very small propor-
tion of the whole. Professor Oldham adds, " I have now
seen much of the densest jungle and most heavily wooded
parts'of India—in the Terai, on the north-eastern frontier,
&c., and I have never seen any place which, without the
strictest conservancy, and consequent limitation of supply,
could have supplied a couple of good blast furnaces for a
couple of years within a circle of eight to ten miles of the
place." A calculation follows, showing the recent con-
sumption of fuel in the district, in proportion to the quan-
tity of metal pi oduce i in the native furnaces in operation ;
and after making a deduction of 75 per cent, for the more
economical consumption which may be anticipated under
an improved management, the professor concludes by ob-
serving, "So far, therefore, from Mr. Jacob's statement,
that the supply would last for many years, being in accord-
ance with the facts, it would not, I area satisfied, keep a
single furnace yielding 100 tons of iron per week in blast for
many months. I would add that I feel equally satisfied
that if Mr. Jacob were writing his report in 1856 instead of
1854, this would be his statement also after the experience
of the intervening years • but the fact still remains treat
there is a large amount a iron which, were feel accessible,
could be easily economised, and it will be worth while to
consider whether this rich ore might not with profit be
convoyed to some other locality where the circumstances
are more favourable.
It is stated by Mr. Jacob that at Tendukeri and Jubbul-
pore, the inhabitants, under very favourable circumstances,
manufacture malleable iron at 4/. 16s. per ton. Professor
Oldham observes that by the wasteful native method of
smelting, the cost of outoha iron, or the first produce of
the smelting of the ore, is about V. 12s. per ton, but that
this iron when reduced to pucka or useable iron, commands
a price of 124 15s. per ton, and that these prices barely
yield a profit on the manufacture as at present carried
oat.

••••••••
The consideration of the question of the supply of coal
within the Nerbudda Valley is deferred by Professor Old-
ham until he should have had an opportunity of visiting
other localities. He mentions, however, that the discovery
of this mineral in two localities where it was hitherto un-
known to exist, has rewarded the researches of Mr. Medli-
cott, who has been engaged in the sarvey of this district.
It is obvious that the discovery of coal in sufficient quan-
tity, and fair quality, is the greatest desideratum, and this
postulate being granted, the views of Professor Oldham in
regard to the iron of the Nerbudda Valley would probably
become as sanguine as those of Mr. Jacob.

YIIMION IRON.
The existence of iron mines in the province of Kumaon
has been long known. In 1854 Lieut. Col. Drummond, of
the Bengal establishment, was deputed to this province to
carry on the investigations necessary to satisfy the British
public that sufficient inducement existed for the invest-
ment of capital in iron works in India. Col. Drummond
entered on his duties on the 18th Oct., 1854, and continued
his researches for a period of about seven months. His
inquiries appear to have been principally directed
to the Bhabur district of Kumaon, and the results may be
briefly summed up as follows :
In order to obviate the necessity of carriage through a
mountainous country it became an object of importance to
trace the existence of iron as neat the plains as possible, and
Colonel Drummond's first inquiries were consequently di-
rected to the tract of country at the foot of the hills. At
Dechowree, the most western paint of Colonel Drummond's
route, a rich iron ore was discovered, associated with clay.
Hei e the deposits are stated to be readily discoverable not
only by the large masses lying on the surface, but also
by the beds being extensively exposed by deep ravines. In
one part the solid bed of ore is exposed to a thickness of 30
feet, in another it measured 2f feet, in a third it exceeded
the depth of 50 feet. " Where a bed of such rich mate-
rial," says Mr. Sowerby, one of the civil engineers con-
nected with the East India Railway Company, " is ascer-
tained to be at least 50 feet thick, a few feet more or less
cannot be of much importance." The extent of ground
examined at Dechowree was about a mile, and the
quantity of ore at and near the surface was estimated to
yield, if smelted, 100,000 tons of pig iron.
From Dechowroo Col. Drummond pursued his course in
au easterly direction, as exhibited on the annexed map,
passing by Loha Bhurbur, Kaleedoongeo, Chowsilla, Bee-
japore, J ham, Burgote, and Burragur. The length of the
route was about 60 miles, and rich deposits of iron ore
were discovered at most of those places, varying in thick-
ness from 25 to 50 ft. At Loha Bhurbur the ore is associated
with clay, not mere clay impregnated with iron, but solid
ironstone. Huge blocks are here represented as lying ex-
posed on the surface. Several of these were measured,
and found to be upwards of 10 ft. long, six broad, and
four feet in thickness, each of which it is said, if smelted
into pig iron, would yield upwards of three tons of metal.
These blocks were not occasional, but frequent and com-
mon over the whole distance traversed, which was a mile
in length, by a width of 175 yards. It was estimated that
upwards of 60,000 tons of metal would be obtained from
the ore lying on the surface. The beds in the route pursued
by Colonel Drummond fully show that an inexhaustible
supply of workable iron ore, yielding the quality of iron
which is most useful for railway purposes, can be obtained
in an 'accessible tract, along the outer face of the lower
Himalaya ranges, close to the plains.
The existence, however, of rich iron ore in abundance is
unimportant, unless accompanied by facilities for working
the iron and transportiog it to the markets or places of
shipment. Those advantaees are not wanting in some of
the localities described 17y Colonel Drummond. It was
consequently determined that a model mining experiment
should be carried on by the Government at Dechowree,
where iron ore (better suited for smelting than the purer
one of the interior) together with fuel, limestone, fire clay,
a ready command of water, and a cheap supply of labour,
are to be found in great abundance.
A blast furnace was accordingly erected at Dechowree,
and upon the works being completed two experiments
were made to test its efficiency for the smelting:of iron ore.
These trials were made in March and April, 1856, but
owing to the want of experienced workmen the results
were not so successful as could have been desired. The
metal, however, which was taken out of the furnace when
remelted " flowed out in a very liquid state into small
pigs, which when fractured showed them to be iron of the
very best quality, known in the trade as No. 1 grey metal
pigs, first quality."
" The operations of smelting," observes Mr. Sowerby,
" require an amount of manual dexterity and practical ac-
quaintance with the subject which can only be acquired by
a long apprenticeship to the business of a furnace-keeper.
There being but one such man (Mr. Davies) on the works,
he continued to exert himself until quite exhausted, with
the aid of native labourers, by whom the work was kept
going for several hours; but from the amount of physical
exertion required and the heavy nature of the implements,
together with the fierce character of the work, to which
they were quite unaccustomed, they were unable to keep
the furnace in proper order.
Tho qualifications of natives as smelters, it is added,
" have not yet been properly tested, but from what
has been seen of them, and from their previous knowledge
and their observations and remarks during the progress of
the experiments, it is believed that they will ultimately
become very fair workmen. But in any future works un-
dertaken it would be exceedingly injudicious to depend on
them ; it would be better and more prudent to incur the
expense of bringing out a sufficient number of European
'smelters accustomed to the work, who, if well selected,
and good useful men in other departments, could, when
the natives were traiaed to take part in the work, be the
means of extending the number of furnaces, and other
works. Any shortcoming in respect of European workmen
at the outset would in the end prove to be a false economy."
The facts before enumerated sufficiently demonstrate the
existence of iron ore in great abundance in the Zlisbur

trict. Some further notice of the Bhabur forests may be
deemed desirable, inasmuch as Mr. Henwood, who was sent
out from England to explore the iron districts of Kumaon ,
has formed a low estimate of the fuel capabilities of De-
()hewn*. On this point the lieutenant-governor of the
north-west provinces remarks, that " for mining operations
on any extensive scale, supplies of fuel both within the
hills and on their borders will be found to be abundant for
a long course of years." The commissioner of Kumaon,
Mr. Batten, states that the forests of that district are bound-
less, and to all appearance inexhaustible. " I fully believe,"
he says, " that the lower hills and Bhabur, at every iron
locality discovered by Colonel Drummond, can supply suf-
ficient charcoal for the largest English furnace for a hun-
dred years to come." Capt. Ramsay, the senior assistant
commissioner of Kumaon, is of opinion that if the miners
cut fuel judiciously the forests in the vicinity of the iron
mines throughout the district would furnish a permanent
supply of fael. Mr. Strachey, the collector and magistrate
of Moradabad, and formerly senior assistant in Gurwhal,
says, " Many hundred square miles of unbroken and un-
touched forest are available for mining operations in the
Kamaon Behar. The Dochowree Mines are actually
in this forest. I believe that there is enough fuel with-
in an easily accessible distance of Dochowree to supply
the largest mining establishment for a century to come."
These statements, put forward upon the authority of the
best informed local functionaries, cannot but be regatded
as satisfactorily refuting the opposite opinions of Mr. Eon-
wood.

Dechowree possesses one great advantage over any other
locality suggested, in lying at the foot of the hills instead
of among them. The mines being situated so near to the
level of the plains, and always accessible to wheel carriages,
the transport of the produce can be easily accomplished.
There is at present a good road for nearly the whole dis-
tance from Dechowree to Moradabad (about 50 miles), at
which place the Ramgunga is navigable throughout a great
part of the year. Moreover, cheap tramways can be laid
down as soon as the works are in active operation.
An analysis of the Bhabnr clay iron ores by Dr. Macna-
mara, professor of chemistry at the Calcutta Medical Col-
lege, gives the following percentage of metal :
Dechowree selected specimen
Do. ordinary do.
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.

Assays by Mr. Piddington, Curator, Museum Economic
Geology :
Dechowree 47.60
Do.
Trial assays by Mr. Davies, the smelter, with remarks :
Dechowree
Do.

Good grey cinder, very easy to smelt.
Mr. Davies, the smelter, estimates the cost of a ton'of pig
iron manufactured according to the European method at
46 re., and the additional cost of making castings from the
pig iron, inclnding mouldings, remelting, &c., at 25 rupees,
but observes that the cost would be gradually reduced as
the works progressed.
There are other localities within the Knmaon district,
those for instance, of Ramghur and Mangle Lekh, and
those of Khetsaree and Chowghnrkha within the hills, and
some others at no great distance from the plains, where iron
ore of the best quality is found in abundance ; but with
reference to the extensive deposits of Loha Bhnrbur and
Dechowree, the necessity for looking for other beds in Ku-
maon may be regarded as a very remote contingency.
A more detailed and prolonged examination into the ex-
tent and quality of the iron formation on the oater range
of the Kumaon Hills was projected atlthe close of the rainy
season of 1855, and no time, it was stated, would be lost in
submitting the result of the inquiry. But the report has
not yet come to hand.
BENGAL.

The objects contemplated in Colonel Goodwyn's paper are
to point ont'the abundance of iron ore in India, and to sug-
gest the best means to be employed for working it. The
localities mentioned by this officer as convenient sites for
the commencement of mining operations and smelting ex-
periments are the Damoodah valley, near Raneegunge, on
the Brahminy, in Cuttack, in Assam, and near Palamow.
Several places within the jurisdiction of the Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal have been examined by the superin-
tendent of the geological survey of India. In a report
dated in 1852, Professor Oldham, adverting to the dis-
trict of " Beerbhoom," observes—" The absence of eco-
nomical fuel, combined with the scanty supply of ore, at
once determines the inapplicability of any extended series
of operations for smelting and manufacturing iron in this
district."

In despatches dated in 1855 the Court of Directors ob-
served—" The result of the examination of the B,ajmahal,
and also of the Cossyah Hills, by Professor Oldham and
the other officers of the geological survey, is on the whole
unfavourable as regards the existence of iron in quantities
available for any extensive demand."
With respect to the Damooda Valley, Professor Oldham,
in his report before mentioned, arrives at the conclusion,
" that, under existing conditions, the manufacture of
iron, on any efficient scale, and on the European system,
cannot be undertaken in this district with a certain prospect
of such a return as would justify the great outlay required.
The conditions are believed to have varied considerably
since 1852, as Bnglish bar iron was dim selling at Calcutta
at from 61. to Si. per ton. But Mr. Henwood, who at a
later period (1854) was deputed by the Government of In-
dia to inspect the Burdwan coal fields, with the view to the
discovery of iron ore, gives no favourable report of the
existence of the metal in any abundance in the vicinity of
Raneegunge. "Four of the localities," he says, "which we
have examined, are, in our opinion, too poor in iron to offer
any inducement to the smelter." " Others," he adds, " are
not rich enough to be profitably wrought. As our search
'for iron has been so unsuccessful it appeared superfluous to
make inquiries respecting facilities for transit." It is
stated by Mr. Henwood that in the vicinity of Ranee-
gunge the Bengal Coal Company have already possession of
the field, and have commenced the experiment of smelting
iron.

MADRAS.

In December, 1850, the court addressed a despatch to the
government of Madras, calling attention to the subject of
iron works within that presidency.
The Madras government observed, in reply, that the va-
rious reports for 17 years on the affairs of the Porto Novo
Iron Company would have put the court in possession of
the means and operations of that company, which were
then manufacturing superior ones at Beypoor. It was
added that additional capital alone was wanting to deve-
lope the resources of the presidency as regards iron, the loca-
tions of which were stated to have been sufficiently shown
in the correspondence which had taken place relating to the
collection of specimens for the Great Exhibition.
Subsequently an arrangement was concluded with the
Indian Iron Company, the leading feature of which was
the grant of fresh leases for 30 years to a new company of
the districts held on lease by the old iron company, such
leases to contain provisions for securing the due working of
the iron ores on an enlarged scale.
In 1855 some purchases of iron were made by the go-
vernment from the new company at the price of 130 rupees
per ton.
BOMBAY.

In 1850 the court directed the institution of inquiries
with regard to the capabilities of Western India as regards
the production of iron. i
The reports received n reply show that iron ore exists
in many parts of the presidency of B3mbay, and that in
those districts iron is manufactured to a small extent by
the natives for their own use. In consequence, however,
of the general scarcity of fuel, and the wasteful manner
in which the process of smelting is conducted, the iron
imported from England seems to have the advantage both
as regards quality and price. With reference to the
iron of Belgauw, Professor Oldham observes : " The
absence of economical fuel, and the scattered mode
of occurrence of the ores, appear to be abundantly suffi-
cient to preclude the profitable extraction of the metal."
Statistical Office, East India House, Oct. 3, 184.

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY.

The only remaining meetings of importance are those
at Liverpool and Shrensbury, and they do not present
any event of sufficient importance to induce many specn•
lators to commence "a book."

During the early part of the afternoon undivided atten-
tion was directed to the winding-up of the Newmarket
accounts, and, all things considered, the settling passed
over most satisfactorily.
The " Ring" had a severe hit at Newmarket, backers
of horses having been most fortunate. Still, a large
bulk of the money goes into comparatively few hands.

The following quutations were, with the exception o
those on the Derby, merely nominal :

WORCESTER FLYING HANDIIAP.
sto 1 agst New Brighton
sto 1 agst Ella
sto 1 agst Madame Clicquot
50 even between Ella and Madame Clicquot (taken)
STEEPLECHASE.
5 to 2 offered on the field
LIVERPOOL AUTUMN HANDIVAP.
sto 1 agst Malacca
6to 1 agst December
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst M.D.
30 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelagh
1000 to 30 agst Colonist
40 to 1 agst Glenmasson
50 to 1 agst Arsenal
sworn) CLASS NURSERY STAKES,
It is stated that the horse Mongrel, that came in first,
was incorrectly described as half-bred. He is by The
Cure, out of a Sister to Lady Superior, and it is said
that his dam was always considered thorough•brcd. We
believe, however, that no formal objection has yet been
made against him. All bets were paid on the race.