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London, England, 1858-01-15 00:00:00

and will involve a further charge to capital of 2,500/.
Considering the deep interest which the allied corn.
panics (Great Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire) whose lines amount to 4561 miles
together, have in uninterrupted access to Liverpool
for interchange of traffic, and bearing in mind this
obstructions which have been put in the way of the
traffic of these companies, the directors of the Great
Northern, and in cc-operation with those of the St.
Helen's Company, have agreed, subject to the sane.
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pany's relations with surrounding and independent
companies, except the London and North-
Western, continue of the most friendly and satin.
factory character ; and the directors hope that,
as time goes on, the competition begun by the
London and North-Western Company, leading
to reduction of rates, in which the directors of this
company have endeavoured merely to follow, and
not to set the example or to lead, will cease, and
that by the exercise of mutual forbearance and
mutual concession further damage to the general
interests of railway property will be avoided. Not.
withstanding the small amount of dividend pro-
posed to be declared this half-year, arising —0)31 ox.
ceptional causes, it will be 'satisfactory to remind
the proprietors that the net profit of the year end-
ing the 30th of June, 1853, was 175,0841., while
that of the year just ended is 305,8311., showing an
increase of 130, 7471. The capital account shows
that 8,923, 912/.l3had been received, and 8,883,3061.
expended, leaving a balance of 40,1061. The re-
venue account for the half-year ending Dec. 31
shows that 310,719/. had been received, including
34,0941. for the canals, 5,5661. rents, 8,1721. re•
ceipts from the South Junction line. The expendi-
ture in working the railway amounted to 131,4311.,
or 49.99 per cent., and the canals to 22,8021., or
66.87 per cent., making together 154,2331., and
leaving a net profit, as above, on the working of
156,485/.

LIEUTENAAT-COLOATEL SIR H. RA WLINSON,
K.C.8., ON THE GOVERNMENT OP INDIA,

REPRESENTATION OF REIGATE.
Among the numerous candidates for the represents-
tion of the borough of Reigate, vacant by the death of
Mr. W. Hackblock, are Sir H. Rawlinson, the Hon. J.
W. Monson, Mr. Wilkinson (the late member for Lam•
beth). and Mr. Doulton (Doulton and Watts, Lambeth).
On Wednesday evening Sir Henry Rawlinson addressed
the electors at the Reigate Town-hall; and, after dis•

cussing the various topics incidental to the address of a
liberal candidate referred to tho all-absorbing subject of

India.

Sir HENRY said that having gone through the various
public questions in a brief manner, he now came to what
he considered to be the great topic of the day. (Applause )
It area such a vast and important question that he could
not undertake on that ()nation to examine it in detail.
He could not go into the question of the origin of the
in :sent mutiny, or of the means which had been taken
to suppress it. He could not discuss the present state
t,r future prospects of the country. It was a far more
serious question than any our rulers ever disposed of.
He had been fully impressed with that opinion from the
commencement, and had done everything he could to
induce others to adept that opiuion. It was evident to
him that the outbreak never was what is called a
military mutiny ; it deserved more the name of a national
movement. It must be remembered that a military
mutiny was a mutiny for military purposes; but the
sepoys had been acting for others, and hail been.
used as instruments for carrying out the designs of
those parties, the object being no doubt to drive
us from the c )untry. That was the real state of
things. It was no mutiny of a few soldiers, but
e far graver question—that of the security of our
Indian empire. Now the electors were aware that e
till was about to be brought into Parliament with a view
of providing for this Brea, difficulty which now stared u!
in the face, by transferring the government of India from
the B sat India Company to the crown. The East lediate
government was carried on, as tbey were aware, by what
was called a double government. No one could be more
sensible than himself of the evils of the double govern-
ment— (bear)—afthough be was one of the directors, buG
placed there by Government, and not by the share.
holders. He assured the meeting that if any proposed
change could bo shown to be to the advantage of India,
rot one of the directors would raise his voice against it.
(Cheers.) The object of the directors was to improve India
for the benefit of England, and if that object could be
Wetter attained by the crown, then, in God's name, let the
Crown have it. But he doubted very much if the
people of England had as yet begun to realise
the importance of the step which was about to be
proposed. lie doubted if the taxpayers of England
were aware that in taking that liability upon there
they took upon themselves the liability of 100 millions
sterling. There would be a difficulty, too, in trans.
ferring East India establishments to the Crown, because
they were on a different system. But the great danger
was from the increase it would give to the power of the
Crown—a point upon which Englishmen were ever most
Jealous. When the bill was proposed in the last century
it was proposed entirely on the consideration that it was
of the utmost danger to place an overwhelming influence
in the hands of the Crown. (Cheers.) He was quite
ready to admit that means must be devised for pre.
venting that evil, and for throwing open the pa.
tronage to the country at large ; and in that case he
would go hand-in-hand with the Government in carrying
through the measure. It had been said that it would
make no difference to the people at large whether the
Crown or the company had the patronage, because the
military services would be recruited from the ranks of
the middle classes, as they were at present. Tbat Wall
the opinion stated in an article of the limes—an articles
intended to support the Government measure, but it
omitted a most important question. The hard-working
people would no doubt be of the middle class ; but the
sugar plums would be reserved for the upper class. The
great benefit of the present system was that, after a man
entered the Indian service, he arrived gradually to the
t p ; but in the other system he might work for twenty
or twenty-five years, and then have the sugar-plum
taken from his mouth, and put into that of some
titled favourite of the Horse Guards. (Cheers.) That
was really an important consideration. As he bad
before observe:!, he was by no means an advocate for
the present system of double government. He knew all
its evils, and wished to do everything in his power to
simplify it. It was only those who had been mixed up
with the system who could thoroughly appreciate the
great evils which arose from that system, by which even
in an emergency, on the receipt of a despatch, it took
two months to get an answer to send out to India. Such
a system was destructive to everything like vigour in.
administration, but that was the system which
Pariament inaugurated in the first instance, and
which hal been kept up ever since by the
acquiescence and approval of Parliament . Their eyes
were at last opened, and he hoped they would in their
wisdom—the wisdom of Parliament being, as the meeting
was aware, omnipotent—he hoped they would devise
some means of making the government of India more
efficient without placing the power in the hands of the
Crown which would be looked upon as so dangerous te
the rights of Englishmen. (Cheers.) There were many
other points relating to India, not merely in reference
to the present mutiny and the prospect of quelling it,
but in reference to the development of the resources of
the country, upon which he would not then dilate.
He would refer, however, to the great question of
introducing Christianity into that country. It was a
point of extreme difficulty, because feeling was on one
side, and what had been hitherto supposed to be the
interest of England on the other. No Englishman
could hesitate about making Christians of the Hindoos
if poesibls ; but when it was found that a belief on their
part that such was our intention brought about the
mutiny of the army—because the pretext which was
made use of by the Mahommedans to induce them to
rise was, that the British government was endeavouring
to subvert their religion—it was evident how dangerous
it must be for the government to lay itself open to
proselytise the Hindoes. Anything that could be done
without the direct influence of government should be
done, and be had no doubt would be done, and every
one who bad a voice in the direction of affairs in England
would promote it; but he strongly condemned the
inauguration of any great measure for that object being
supported by the state. (Chs.)
The rest of Sir Henry Raw linsou's address turned
upon general topics.

DESTRUCTION OF BARON NI€HOLSON'S PICTURE.
Most of
itobNuitreodrrtehina,dpaeor; have, no doubt, become familiar
with a very clever painting, which has for some time
rlatrststyciansge
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theat features
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everyl !t ng-
known public character. Shortly after ten o'clock
this. morning a quantity of smoke was observed within
the case, and very shortly afterwards it was discovered
that the timbers in one of the flues of the house, on the,
outer wall of which the picture was fixed, had taken fire,
aml that the flames were rapidly making their way to-
wards the picture. In a very short time a crowd was
collected, and for some time no person appeared to think
of the necessity of destroying the glass to save the
picture until too late. Before the glass was removed.
the painting had received great damage, and on its
being exposed to the air the canvas caught fire, ant
ere the flames could be extinguished the picture Was
nearly wholly destroyed. Mr. Baron Nicholson valued.
Vie painting at 300 guineas.
THE LEVIATEIAN.—Yesterday, a short time before the
tido had reached its highest, three of the hydraulic
machines aft and three forward were set to work to
move the vessel nearer down the ways: She moved in
crlic!, ehoit slips with the utmost ease, the gauges of
tie few hydraulic machines in use seldom averaging
mere than 10 cwt. to the inch, and each slip taking
place at sheLt intervals and with an almost total absence
of vibration. Iu a c,imparatively short time a distance
of 13 feet aft and 3 feet 5 inches forward was acconi-
pliAed, the a't:r part showing such a tendency to elide
away on the least pressure that it was impossible to
reguate the ship's movements with the same relative
accuracy a 3 heretuf le. The tide of this day (Friday)n
will now give about 12 feet water under her fore at 1
altch—etheiatinios,untht
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till the spring now at band are past:u te pwhed as
he ends of the twat t
far down the ways, or even offe
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mo,t probably on Monday next—fibse :f
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