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London, England, 1858-06-22 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1858.

EAST INDIA HOUSE. frrn MAY, lBiB.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS pf the' EAST
INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a
QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Coinpany will be
held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,the 233
June next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
J. D. DICKINSOIsT, Secretary.

• EAST INDIA HOUSE, Trn JUNE, MEL
111 HE COURT OF DIRECTORS of tbe EAST
INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the
QUARTERLY GENE:4AL COURT of the said Company aaponted
to be held at their house in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,
the 23d instant, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, is made
SPECIAL, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors of
East India Stock, for their approbation, unanimous Resolutions of
the Court of Directors, of this date, granting annuities to General
Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B. , of 2,0001., and to Major-General Sir
James Ontram, G.C.8., of 1 0001. upon the grounds therein stated.
The Reports required by the By-law, cap. ix., see. 3 together with
the docu rents on which the said reso'utions have been formed, are
open for the inspection of the Proprietors, at this house.
J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

EAST INDIA 'HOUSE, 21sT JUNE, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do Hereby Give Notice, That the
Quarterly General Court of the said Company, appointed to be held
at their house, in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday next, the 23rd
instant. at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, is made further Special,
for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors, A Bill (No. 0) en-
titled. A Bill for the better Government of India.
J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

•
WEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY (Limited).—DAY-PA3-
SAGES to GUERNSEY and JERSEY.—The CYGNUS or AQt7ILA
every. TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATLTRDAY, at 8.0 a.m.,
from WEYMOUTH HARBOUd; and on MONDAY, WEDNES-
DAY, and FRIDAY, at 6.30 a.m., from JERSEY (calling at
Guernsey); with Goods and Passengers.

, .
FARES.
From Paddington, Id 21s.
From Weymouth „ 185. „ • • • • 12s.
Steward's fees , 25. „ ...• Is.
Through booking from all the principal stations on the Great
Western Railway.
JOSEPII MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary.
20th May, 1858.

TO THE BONA-FIDE HOLDERS of PORT
PHILLIP SHARES. Mr. C. RICH kRDSON'S recent
Letter to the Board of Trade, with further reference to Mr. John
Derton Powles and Mr. K. W. Schneider, M.P. (the Pert Phillip
Company's registered promoters), will be ready for distribution on
the day of Meeting, the 28th inst.
Mr. RICHARDSON intends to move an AMENDMENT to the Reso-
lution to be then proposed.
15, Charles-street, St. James's, 21st June, 1858.

Shareholders are advised not to give the Board Proxies, but
to attend.

COALMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for ORPHAN and NECFSSIT3US CHILDREN, PINNER.

Patron, His Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT.

NOTICE 3S HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL HALF-
YEARLY COURT of the Governors of this Institution will be held
on MONDAY, the 28th inst., at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, to commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, when the motion
of Mr. Hatch and Mr. Rumsey will be brought forward and con-
sidered, and a general revision of the rules will be proposed by Mr.
Jones. Copies of the motions, and of the modifications and altera-
tions in the rules may be seen at the offices of the institution. An
Election of 12 Childrefr(eight .boys and `our girls) will take place,
and all such other quevtions and matters as may be lawfully brought
before the Court will be discussed.
ALFRED LENCH SAUL, Secretary.
81, Cheapside, June 19, 1851.

said Company in Great Britain, and all the territorial
debt and all other debts of the said Company, and all
sums of money, costs, charges, and expenses, which if
this act had not been passed would, after the time ap-
pointed for the commencement thereof have been payable
by the said Company out of the revenues of India, in re-
spect or by treason of any treaties, covenants, contracts,
grants, or liabilities then existing, and all expenses, debts,
and liabilities which after the commencement of this act,
shall be lawfully contracted and incurred on account of the
Government of India; and all payments under this act
shall be charged and chargeable upon the revenues of India
alone, as the same would have been if this act had not been
passed; and such expenses, debts, liabilities, and payments
as last aforesaid had been expenses, debts, and liabilities
lawfully contracted and incurred by the said Company, and
such revenues shall net be applied to any other purpose
whatsoever ; and all other moneys vested in or arising or
accruing from property or rights vested in her Majesty
under this act, or to be received or disposed of by the
council under this act, shall be applied in aid of such
revenues.

" XXXIX. Such part of the revenues of India as shall
be from time to time remitted to Great Britain, and all
moneys of the said Company in their treasury or un•ier the
care of their cashier, and all other moneys in Great Britain
of the said Company, or which would have been received
by them in. Great Britain if this act had not been passed,
and all moneys arising or accruing in Great Britain from
any property or rights vested in her Majesty by this act,
or fr3m the sale or disposition thereof, shall be paid to the
council, to be by them applied for the purperes of this act;
and all moneys to be paid to the council, except as herein-
after otherwise yrovided, shall be paid into the Bank of
England, to the credit of an account to be opened by the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be en-
titled, "The Account of the Connell of India."

Clauses 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 43 relate to the
transfer of stock, the dispwal of Exchequer-bills,
and the power of borrowinemonty.

"XLVI. All pro Visions now in force in anywise relating
to the offence of forging or altering, or offering, uttering,
disposing of, or putting off, knowing the same to be forged
or altered, any East India Bond, with intent to defraud,
shall extend and be applicable to, and in respect of any
bond, debenture, or security issued by the Council of India
under the authority of this act."
By clause 47 the pi eseut system of issuing war-
rants for payments is to ba. continued.
" XLVIII. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by war-
rant under her Royal sign manual, countersigned by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to appoint from time to timo
a fit person to be auditor of the accounts of the Council,
and to authorise such auditor to appoint, and remove from
time to time such assistants as may he specified' in such
warrant." .

By clause 49 the Council accounts are to be
annually hid before Parliament.
By clause 50 commi,sioners may proceed to
India to inquire into the finances and accounts.
" LI. The military and naval forces of the East India
Company shall be deemed to be the Indian military and
naval forces of her Majesty, and shall be under the same
obligation to serve her Majesty as they would have been
under to _serve the said Company, and shall be liable to
serve within the same territorial limits only, for the same
terms only, and be entitled to the like pay, pensions, allow--
ances,.and privileges, and the like advantages as regards
promotion and otherwise, as if they had continued in the
service of the said Company : such forces, and all persons
hereafter enlisting in or entering the same, shall continue
and be subject to all Acts of Parliament, laws of the Go-
vernor-General of India in Council, and Articles of War,
and all other laws, regulations, and provisions relating to
the East India Company's military and naval forces re-
spectively, as if her Majesty's Indian military and naval
forces respectively had throughout such Acts, laws, articles,
regulations, and provisions been mentioned or referred to,
instead of such forces of the said company ; and the pay and
'expenses of and incident to her Majesty's Indian military
and naval forces shall be defrayed out of the revenues of
India."

Clause 52 makes provision for persons hereafter
enter;ng her Majesty's Indian forces.
Clause 53 provides that servants of the Com-
pany are to be deemed servants of her Majesty.
By clause 54 all orders of the Court of Directors
or Board of Control are to remain in force.
" LV. All functions and powers of Courts of Proprietors
and Courts of Directors of the said Company in relation
to the government of India, and all appointments of sueh
of the Directors of. the said Company as have been ap-
pointed by her Majesty, shall cease, and the yearly sums
payable to the chairman, deputy-chairman, and other
Directors of the said Company, shall cease to be payable,
and all powers vested in her Majesty of appointing Direc-
tors of the said Company shall cease and determine.
"LVI. The appointments and powers of appointment
of Commissioners for the Affairs of India shall cease and
determine."

Clauses 57, 58, 59, GO, 61, 62, 63, and 64 refer
to existing contracts and pending suits, and con-
tinue certain rights of the Company.
" LXV. Save as herein otherwise provided, this Act
shall commence and take effect on the expiration of 30
days after the day of the passing thereof.
"LXVI. This Act shall be proclaimed in the several
Presidencies and Governments of India as soon as conve-
niently may be after such Act has been received by the
Governor-General of India ; and until such proclamation
be made all acts, matters, and things done, ordered, di-
rected, or authorised in Ind:a in the name of the East
India Company, or otherwise in relation to the Govern-
ment of India, shall be as valid and effectual as if this Act
had not been passed."

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

A garrison order was yesterday issued at Woolwich by
direction of Major-General Sir W. Fenwick William?,
K.C.8., Commandant, announcing his int3ntiou to hold
a general review of the whole of the troops in garrison to-
morrow, on the common, the line to be formed a half-past
two p.m.

Yesterday, Major-General Sir J. F. Love, K.C.8., K.H.,
the Inspector-General of Infantry, revievyed the 3d Bat-
talion of Infantry, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
C. E. FArtlough, at Chatham. The battalion executed a
variety of military manoeuvres with great precision, the
General being very much pleased with their steadiness.
The academical past of the studies at the Royel Military
Academy at Woolwich closed on Tuesday evening, the
15th inst., and the remainder of the term has been occu-
pied in instructing the gentlemen cadets in time more prac-
tical part of artillery drills and exercises. The mortar
practice on Woolwich-common, under Brevet-Major Fitz-
hugh, R. A., attached to the practical class, was consi-
dered very fair, many of the shells having fallen within
the radius. The field battery manoeuvres with ammuni-
tion, parking guns, the mode of picketing horses, encamp-
ing, guard-mounting, relieving sentries, drawing rations,
bivouacking, &c., under the directions of Lieut. Hanwell,
cutlet officer, were very interesting, and well executed by
tke gentleman cadets.

The- Governor's final inspoctionyesterday, previous to the
breaking up of the Cadet Company for the summer vaca-
tion, wont off exceedingly well. At the conclusion of the
inspection the company was complimented by the Gover-
nor, Colonel Wilford, R. A , who afterwards directed them
to be marched into the hall to witness the delivery of
prizes awar.led to many of the cadets for proficiency in the
several branches of studies during the past term. The
prices were adjudged as follow :
Practical Class.- A regulation sword Mr. Beaumont
Pratical Artillery. —" Aide Mernoirc"
Surveying.— Au aneroid baromet: r, with
Vernier" Mr, Lines
Field Works.—" Douglas on Military
Bridges"

Ist Mathematics. —A prismati: compass... Mr. Armstrong
2d Ditto.—A double telescope Mr. Morgan
Ist Fortification —A prismatic compass
History and Geography.._. Napier's Mr. Woodward
Peninsular War"
Ist Fortificatiou--A prismatic compass... Mr. Anderson.
2d Ditto.—" Jones's Sieges in Spain and Mr.. R. Robertson
Portugal"
Descriptive Geometry.—Double telescope Mr. Butt.
French.—La Harpc—" Cuurs de Litte- t Mr. C. Bowen
raturo"
German—Schmidt's "Litterature" Mr. Pole
Plain Drawing. - A dou'de telescope .. Mr. Oliver
Ist Drawing Prize.—" Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds's Notes and Discourses," by Mr. Halket
Bernet,
2il Ditto.—" Burnet on the Education
of the Eye ;" "Burnet on Light and Mr. Farquhar
Shade"
The vacation of the Theoretical Class commences on the
23d inst., and terminates on the 18th of August. The
Practical Class will be resumed on the 4th of August.
Yesterday some further alterations wore made by the
Hon. East India Company in the list of those vessels which
have been taken op for the conveyance of reinforcements
to India. The Clarence will embark her troops at Graves-
end, and the Bucephalus et Portsmouth, for Madras, on
June 21; the lielitiesdalo,
John Donean, Merchantman,
Alnwick Castle, Blenheim, and Tyburnia will each embark
reinforcements at Gravesend, for Calcutta, on June 26 ;
the Victor Emmanuel will embark troopsat
for Calcutte, on June 2G; Portsmouth,
the Earl Balcarras will receive
her complement of troops at Cork, and the Clifton Belle
at Gravesend, for Bombay, on June 29; the Eastern
Monarch will embark reinforcements at Gravesend, fur
Kurrachee, on the 30th inst.
' The American merchant ship Onward disembarked on
Saturday afternoon about 30 military invalids, which she
had brought from the Cape of Good Hope.
A sad accident occurred at Kinsale to Capt. M`Donabl,
Bth King's Regiment, on the afternoon of June 19. The
tido was out, and he tumbled along the pathway over the
cliff on to the rooks between Cove and Kinsale. He was
in uniform at the time, and was accompanied by other
officers. It is supposed his sword caught in his legs.
On inquiry to-day at the barracks he was reported to be
better, but his head is supposed to have been seriously in-
jured.
General Peel, the Secretary of State for War, has ap-
proved of the supply of the second edition of " Memorials
of the Brave," or Resting Places of our Fallen Heroes in
the Crimea and Scutari, by Captains the Hon. T. Col-
borne, 60th Royal Rifles, late 77th, and Frederic Brine,
R.E., to the principal military libraries both at home and
abroad.
At the examination bold at the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth, on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th inst., the
following lieutenants of the Royal Marines, studying at
the college, were found qualified for the Royal Marine Ar-
tillery—Second-Lieut.. W. D. Welch, D. G. Pitcher, C.
B. Smith, C. J. Kinsman, and Wm. Stewart.
The following Royal Marine Cadets passed at the same
time for commissions in the Royal Marine corps :—Messrs.
F. H. Ogle, F. E. Begbie, G. H. T. Colwell, J. S. Derrie
man, E. E. Hill, W. A. Bamber, H. Everitt, H. E. Sturt,
W. H. V. Tom, and N. C. Harvey.
The following Naval Cadets passed out of the train-
ing-sbip Illustrious, Captain R. Harris, into the Beet on
Saturday were : —Mews. Le Cocq, Jones, Grenfell,
Mathias, Jerningharn, Little, Justice, Bradford, Brad-
shaw, Kilgour, Blake, Hicks, Bolitho, Dashwood, Wick-
ham, and Garnault.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH
INDIA.

'Vile following letter • has been addressed to a
contemporary - •
Sir,—The subject of telegraphic communication with
India has been so much before the public lately, and so
many different views and opinions have been expressed
upon it by persons professieg to be well acquainted with
all the circumstances of the case, that I consider myself
called upon to make, through the medium of your journal,
a simple statement of facts, in the hope that it may place
this important subject before the public in its true light.
In a letter addressed by nie to one of yOur contempora-
ries, which was published about three months aeo, I stated
that I had been commissioned, by the Turkish Gevernmet t
to purchase the necessary telegraph material for the con-
struction of a line, of telegraph from Constantinople
through Sivas, Diarbekir, Mosul, and Bagdad to Bussorah,
at the head of the Persian Gulf ; that the line was to
consist of two wires ; tha- the Turkish Government had
been induced to enter upon this undertaking iu the bore
that the British Government would sanction the lasing
down of a cable between Kurrachee and Bussorah, in con-
nection with the Turkish line, thus establishing au units-
, terrupted line of telegraph between; Europe and ledia ;
and that I,was engaged iu for Warding to the East, in pur-
suance of my instructions, all the stores required for that'
pnfpose.
Since that time I despatched all the telegraphic mate-
rial, consisting of the very best-telegraphic sire, menu.'
festered by Messrs. Johnson, of' Manchester ; Siemen's'
inetiiineents ;. the newest and most approved insulaters,j
such; scare 'used for our Indian telegraphs ; a cemplete"
assortment of telegraph tools, &c., all inspected and
proved by one of our eminent engineers employed by me:l
for that 'purpose, in three equal proportions—the first toll
Bussorah, the second to Trebizonde, in the Black Sea,'
from thence to be transported to Sivas, see the projected
line ; and the third to Constantinople. The third and last
shipment left London sir weeks ago. It is the intention'
of the Sublime Porte to begin operations at three different
points—viz., Constantinople, Sivas, and Bagdad ; by
'which means the completion of the line will be much ex=
pedited. Lieut.-Colonel Biddulph, R.A., a very distill:
guished officer, and who acquired great experience in tele-'
graph matters while in chargeof the telegraph department,
in the East during the Crimean war, has been engaged by\
the Ottoman Government, with the consent of her' d
Majesty's. Government, as chief executive officer for the
construction of the most important section of the line ; and
he left on the let of May last for Constantinople, to take
the instructions of the director-general of telegraphs, with
the view of beginning operations without delay. The Turkish
Government have also made arrangements for the engage=
ment of the other officers and operatives required for this
service. Omar Peelle,- the Governor of Bagdad, has been
instructed to afford every assistance and protection to the
officers entrusted with the construction of the line ; and
as he has a large military force under his command, that
assistance and protection cannot but be most effective.
Under such favourable auspices it will be evident to the
public that they may look forward at an early date to the
completion of this important hue, which will only require
one more link (a cable from Bussorah down the Persian
Gulf to Kurrachee, the execution of which rests with her
Majesty's Government) to establish complete telegraph*
communication with India.
.;
In placing these remarks before the public, I abstain
from entering into any discussion on the comparative
merits of the Red Sea telegraph, or the one through Asia-
tic Turkey, this being out of my province, and having no
personal interest in the matter beyond a wish that the in-
tentions of the Turkish Government should be correctly
represented : but there is one point with reference to which
some persons have been raising doubts, and on which
must dwell for a moment—this is the protection of the line
through Asiatic Turkey. With all due deference to theist
persons professing to know that country thoroughly, I must
insist that the Turkish Government meet be the bestj edges
on that point. In deciding on the construction of the li9e
from Constantinople to Bussoreh they did not anticipate
any difficnity whatever on the score of protection ; the
whale line ,from Constantinople to Bagdad, a distance
1500 miles, will be laid across a peaceable and populously
inhabited country, and will not even require an ordinary
military surveillance. The section from Bagdad to Bus-
sorah, 200 miles, will not offer any greater difficulty.
Many correspondents in the Times, in complete ignorance
of the course adopted by the Turkish Government, repre-
sent the lino about to be established as passing through
Aleppo and the desert, which is erroneous, as I have ex-
plained above.
In conclusion, I have only to say that it is not likely that
the Turkish Government would have undertaken this line
at a heavy outlay without carefully considering whether
they could maintain it in working order. They confidently
look forward to the completion of the whole line, and'the
opening, at no distant pe'iod, of telegraphic communica-
tion between Europe and the Persian Gulf. This will be
the best proof of the groundlessness of the objections
raised by the opponents of this great undertaking. --I am,
sir, your obedient servant,
JOAN STANIFORTH.
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, June, 1838.

THE PAPER DUTY.

(From the Times.)

We have to thank Mr. Milner Gibson for a field-day of
extraordinary interest and success in behalf of the still
heavily taxed press. Its representatives mustered strong
last night, and u.ged their cause with au eloquence and a
force, with a mass of details and a cogency of reasoning,
which cannot fail of an early effect. It might not be con-
venient to compel a Chancellor of the xcheester to bring
out a new budget on Midsummer-day, and we take it as a
matter of course that Mr. Milner Gibson, in deference to
the wishes of all sides, was content with the first half of
his resolution, declaring the iuipolicy of the Paper Duty
lis a permanent source of revenue. That is all we need
deal with at present., and on this point we have no choice
but to thank Mr. Gibson, Mr. Ingram, Mr. Aytton, Mr.
Bright, and others for their assistance towards reducing a
duty the chief pressure of which happens to fall on our-
selves. Mr. Gibson, indeed, observed that some time since
this journal paid 16,000/. or 17,000/. a year paper duty,
and that'probably it now paid a great deal more. We do
pay a good deal more. Our last week's consumption of
paper was 1,330 reams, which, at 811 b. the ream, gives
73.13. duty, or upwards of 38,0001. a year. This is a very
large contribution to the State from one manufacturer for
one article of universal necessity. Hundreds are employed
its the production of this journal, chiefly in those hours
which more favoured mortals give to sleep, in the heart of
this dense city and near that now famous river the Thames.
Others are distributed all over the world foraging for in-
formation, some braving pestilential climates, others
sharing, only too gallantly, the dangers of a tropical cam-
paign ; others unraveiling factions, end penetrating the
secrets of courts. Before the labour of these persons can
be presented to the public it is charged with a heavy duty
for the very material through which it is conveyed. Per-
haps the hardship is more conspicuous in regard to such
common and useful information as all can appreciate.
The ordinary Englishman in these days wishes to know
the proceedings of Parliament, of our courts of justice and
police, and of our public societies. Ho looks eagerly
for .news of the war still smouldering, in the East,
and would be sorry to be surprised by a now one else-
where. He expects to know the prices of the funds and
the state of the markets, and he does not wish to be
ignorant of extraordinary events; ho is anxious to be in-
formed of discoveries, inventions, and great works in pro-
gress. Before ho can see any of these described in letter-
press, or in engravings, in over so simple and homely
a way, the tax-gatherer interposes with the demand
of a toll for the very paper on which these things are re-
corded. Cotton and other raw materials for clothing come
free into this country ; they are manufactured into the
costliest as into the cheapest dresses, and pass from the
loom to the dressmaker, cud thence to the fair forms of
the wearers free of duty. When that dress has become
worn, faded, and torn; when it will no longer hold to-
gether, hit, after descending through a succession of
hands, has done its work., and is good for nothiug else, it
becomes rags ; with much labour and ingenuity it is made
into paper; it is imprinted no longer with roses and
sprigs, with pinks and lilacs; but with the speeches of
Messrs. Disraeli, Milner Gibson, and Bright. Before,
however, it can return to the public in that form it has
been visited and weighed by the officers of the Treasury,
and compelled to pay a heavy tax.
Perhaps the worst features of the tax were not made so
much of last night as they deserved. A State might
choose, in the plenitude of its wisdom, to regard the press
as a sort of rival, and therefore 'tax it, or do anything else
so it that it pleased. It might choose to feel that litera-
ture in all forms was an exception to all rules, and that it
did not come under the same laws as bread, meat, or
clothing. So it might take a positive satisfaction in com-
ing between the purveyor of news and the public, and in
demendrng toll for all knowledge, all contributions to the
stock of memory for assistance to the understanding
But you cannot buy the commonest things for your
library, your drawing-room, your kitchen, or your dress,
without paying duty, not perhaps on the article, but on
the paper in which it is wrapped. The paper that holds
together the poor man's pound of sugar or coffee pays
duty ; so also the piece that encloses your wife's purchase
from the draper, or your child's from the toyshop, your
daughter's roll of music, or your son's coat from the tailor.
Packing paper is a very heavy item i s mile houses,
and it all pays duty, the pressure of the duty being
the heaviest on the roughest kind of paper. Fo-
reign goods are often packed in a thick, coarse,
pulpy paper, which answers the purpose of padding, and
saves the trouble and expense of careful stowage and pack-
ing. We con use no such paper in England, because it
would pay as much duty per pound as the finest tissue
paper ; and the packing of a fender or a rockieg-horse
would cost as much per ounce and pound as the silver
paper enclosing a watch or a diamond ring. Of course,
we have little inducement to attempt cheap paper. People
have spent large sums in making paper from straw and
other cheap materials, and, there is no doubt it would
be available for many uses; but the duty levels all dis-
tinctions, and makes the cheapest wrapping or wadding
pay as much to the State as the finest Bath post, wove
cream, or that delightful paper on which Ministers of
State and other public functionaries hold their high con-
verse. As was pointed out last night, the hardship is
aggravated rather than mitigated by a number of capri-
cious and whimsical exemptions, which or ly prove that if
any body or class be strong enough to make itself formid-
able to the Minister it will get a special exemption at the
cost of saddling the duty still inure permanently ou the
general taxpayer.
There is no manufacture which is more open to the dis-
play of ingenuity and taste. At the beginning of tlee
present century every sheet of paper was made by the hand
slowly and laboriously. No amount of skill could prevent
great inequality between one sheet and another; or
between one end of a sheet and another • and a large pro-
portion of paper made from the best materials was
spoilt and condemned to inferior uses through some
small accident in the making. Now it ie possible to make
a sheet of paper a mile long of a perfectly uniform compo-
sition, thickness, and weight, and without a single flaw.
No doubt, machinery could be applied to the manufacture
with as great a variety and delicacy of results as in the
cotton, woollen, and silk manufacture. It is only a ques-
tion of exp( ritnent. The hundreds of mills which have
been stopped, partly by the progress of steam power, and
partly also by the pressure of the tax and the vexatious re-
gulations of the Excise, might bo reopened for the room-