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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1858:

MENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY
(Limited). Under subvention from the East India Company.
In reply to inquiries the Directors beg to intimate that he NEW
ISSUE of SIT ARES is RESTRICTED to the existing shareho'ders.
The 3,000 shares (of 101. each) of the first issue which are alone open
to applications from the public, will be allotted March 10, and these
shares will carry all the benefits of the original allotments. Pros-
pectuses, forms of application, and copies of the last report of the
directors, may be obtained at th a Company's effices, 9 Minter-Street,
E.C.—By order of the Board.

JOHN MITTHEWSON, Secy.

TONNAGE WANTED for KURRACHEE.
WANTED, TWO fast clipper SHIPS, to convey machinery
and stores from L verpool to Kurrachee.—For further particulars
apply to the oriental Inland Ste im Company, 9, Biditer-street, E.C.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-TRAINS
FOR MARCH.—Sereral important alterations of trains will
be made, commencing on the I,t March, particulars of which may
be procured on and after the 26th instant, at any of the Company's
stations or offices.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
$ CHANNEL ISLANDS.—Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey,
via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling
passengers to break the journey at Chippenham, Dorchester, or
Weymouth.

Fares, nail and Boat: —3ls. and 21s.
Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Cora.
pang's Offices.

WORCESTER and HEREFORD RAILWAY
TENTII ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Tenth Ordinary
General meeting of Shareholders of this Company will be held at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on
FRIDAY, the 2Gth day of February, instant, at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon preci,ely, for the purpose of transacting the ordinary busi-
ness of the Company, and for the election of four Directors and one
Auditor in place of those retiring by rotation.
Tile Transfer Books of the Company will be closed on and from
the 17th day of February till after the meeting.

W. P. PRICE, Chairman.
THOMAS PRITCHARD, Secretor,
•
26, Spring-gardens, London, 4th February, 1858.

EIGFIT PER CENT. OBLIGATIONS.
Interest payable half-yearly, in London, Paris, Frankfort, and
Hamburg.
THE GALVESTON, HOUSTON, and HEN-
DERSON RAILWAY COMPANY is now prepared to re-
ceive applications for 5,000 Obligations of 201. each, redeemable in
nine years, with a Premium ofll each.
The annual Drawings to commence on Ist March, 1860.
The Obligations are secured on the Revenues of the Railway, and
on the Free Grant of Land, which is at the rate of 10,240 acres for
every mile of Railway constructed.
The Interest, at the rats of 8 per cent. per annum, is payable in
London on the let January and the Ist July on presentation of the
Coupons at the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury.
Subscribers for Obligations are entitled to ono Free Shara for every
Obligation subscribed.
Full parti,uhrs may be obtained on application at the AgeneY of
the Company, 4, Skinner's-place, Size-lane, City, or of Messrs. Price
& Brown, 4, Change-alley, City.

TEN POUNDS REWARD LOST, on
MONDAY, 15th FEBRUARY instant, about half--past 7
in the evening, A LE TERr (supposed to have been dropped between
b'enchurch•street and At. Martin's-le-Grand) encl.sing Two Bills of
Exchange for 4041.55. Oil., and 4551.
The Bills are not endorsed, and are of no u=e to any one but the
owner. The above reward will be paid for their recovery within
Fourteen days from this date. Information to be given to Messrs.
R. and S. Milieus, solicitors, 7, Poultry.
London, 18th February, 1858.

CURE OF A FOURTEEN YEARS' ASTHMATIC COUGH BY
DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIO WAFERS.-
" I, Thomas Carter, Egremont, Cheshire, had an asthmatc
cough for fourteen years ; nothing ever gave me relief uutil I com-
menced taking Dr. Locock's Pulmonie Wafers, three boxes of which
have errtirety cured me. (Signed) Thomas Carter, Witness, lift.
Geo. Howell, chemist, Da'e-street, Liverpool." They have a most
pleasant taste. Price Is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., and I Is. per box. Sold by
all chemists.

TFIE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
• SAVINGS AND CAPITAL—As a permanent mode of
investment this society has proved most profitable, for the last Dre
years, to the working and mid.lle classes ; as members who have
paid their monthly subscriptions of eight shillings on a single share
have enjoyed the advantages of the 6 per cent. bonus, and in one
year 7 per cent., which has been divided amongst the Shareholders,
Those who have paid In advance 51. and upwards, have been paid 5
percent. per annum half-yearly, with the additional I per cent. at
the end of the financial year. The opening instalment on one share
is I2s. 61., and the subsequent payments, aro Be. per month, with
is. extra every quarter. The taking of land is quite optional ; but
If a plot be selected by a member, he can, after paying up one-eighth
of the purchase money, repay the balance at 10s. per month, for
every 521. 4s. 6d. Members incur no partn?rshlp Ihibility, and have
the privilege of withdrawing their subscriptions at any time by
giving ten days' notice Prospectuses sent free to any part of the
world. The offices, 33, Norfolk •street, Strand, W.C., are open from
10 to 5, and on Saturdays from 10 to 2 o'clock. Personal :attendance
is not required, as the investment cal be made by correspondence.
CHARLES LEWIi GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

entertain. Under the protection of this gentleman, and
encouraged by him, I commenced the work of my educa-
tion ; that portion of education which is comprised in some
knowledge of my own language and the ordinary accom-
plishments of my sex;—moral science, as I believe it is
called, has always been an enigma to, and is so to this day.
I suppose it is because I am one of those who, as Rousseau
says, are " born to bo prostitutes." Common honesty I
esayi haveit , have
not always believe in rigidly. I have always paid my debts, and,
thoughreatur
s I.
neglected
my
y charitabledu ty t o
mto y
fmyarafi el
family
.o
supported my parents while they lived, and buried them
decently when they died. I paid a celebrated lawyer
heavily for defending unsuccessfully my eldest brother,
wheeled the folly to be caught in the commission of a
robbery. I forgave him the offence against the law in the
theft, and the offence against discretion in being caught.
This cost me some effort, for I always abhorred stealing.
I apprenticed my younger brother to a good trade, and
helped him into a little businees. Drink frustrated my
efforts in his behalf. Through the influence of a very in-
fluential gentleman, a-very particular friend of mine, he
is now a well-conducted member of the police. My
sisters, whose early life was in all, respects the counterpart
of my cswn, I brought out, and started in the world. The
elder of the two it kept by a nobleman, the next by en
officer in the army, the third heti not yet to years of
discretion, and is " having her fling" before she settles
down.
Now, what if I am a prostitute, what business has so-
ciety to abuse me ? Have I received any favours at the
yof the disease to be sought in the
rottenness
not
tudths
eofe:sLouesicest ? If I ana a hideous cancer in society, are
of the carcass ? Am I not its legitimate child : no bastard,
sir? 'Why doesmy unnatural parent repudiate me, and
what has society ever done for me, that I should do any-
thing for it, and what have I ever done against society that
it should drive me into a corner and crush me to the earth?
I have neither stolen (at least not since I was a child), nor
murderedonr defrauded. I earn my money and pay my
way, and try to do good with iteotecertling to ray- Mesa of
good. Ido not get drunk, nor fight, nor create uproar in
the streets or out of them. Ido not use bad language. I
go to the opera, Igo to Almack's, I go to the theatres, I
I go to quiet, well-conducted casinos, I go to all places of
public amusement, behaving myself with as much pro-
priety as society can exact. I pay business visits to my
tradespeople, the most fashionable of the West-end. My
milliners, my silk-mercers, my bootmakers know, all of
them, who I am and how I live, and they solicit my pa-
tronage as earnestly and cringingly as if I were Madam,
the ]ady of the right rev. patron of the Society for the
Suppression of Vice. They find my money as good and my
pay better (for we are robbed on every hand) than that
of Madam, my Lady; and, if all the circumstances and
conditions of our lives had been reversed, would Madam,
my Lady, have done better or been better than I ?
I speak for others as well as for myself, for the very
great majority, nearly all of the real undisguised prosti-
tutes in London, spring from my class, and are made by
and under pretty much such conditions of life as I have
narrated, and particularly by untutored and unrestricted
intercourse ofthe sexes in early life. We come from the
dregs of s ,ciety, as our so-called betters term it. What
business has society to have dregs— such dregs as we ?
You railers of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, you
the pious, the moral, the respectable, as you call your-
selee s, who stand on your smooth awl pleasant side of the
great gulf you have dug and keep between yourselves and
the dregs, why don't you bridge it over, or fill it up, and
ebsorb us into your
nterpenetrated with
goodness
somen
eedm
like yourselves ? Why stand on your eminence
leavened
humaneas and
until generous
we
become process
shouting that we should b 3 ashamed of ourselves ? What
have we to be ashamed of, we who do not know what
shame is—the shame you mean ? I conduct myself pru-
dently, and defy you and your policem n too. Why
stand you there mouthing with sleek face about morality
What is morality ? Will you make us responsible for
what we never knew ? Teach us what is right and tutor
us in good before you punish ns for doing wrong. We
who are the real prostitutes, of the true natural growth of
society, and no impostors, will not be judged by "One
more Unfortunate," nor measured by any standard of
her setting up. She is a mere chance intruder in our
ranks, and has no business there. She does understand
what shame means and knows all about it, at least so it
seems, and, if she has a particle left, let her accept
" Amicus's" kind offer as soon as possible.
Like "One more Unfortunate" there are other intruders
among us —a few, very few, " victims of seduction." But
seduction is not the root of the evil—scarcely a fibre of the
root. A rigorous law should be passed and rigorously
carried out to punish seduction, but it will not perceptibly
thin the ranks of prostitution. Seduction is the common
story of numbers of well brought up, who never were se-
duced, and who are voluntary and inexcusable profligates.
Vanity and idleness send us a large body of recruits. Ser-
vant girls, who wish to ape their mistresses' finery, and
whose wages won't permit them to do so honestly —these
set up seduction as their excuse. Married women, who
have no respect for their husbands, and are not content
with their lawful earplugs, these are the worst among us,
and it is a pity they cannot be picked out and punished.
They have no principle of any kind and are a disgrace to
us. If I were a married woman I would be tine to my
husband. I speak for my class, the regular standing army
of the force.
Gentlemen of philanthropic societies anti members of the
Society for the Suppression of Vice may build reforms,
tories and open houses of refuge and Magdalen asylums,
and " Amicus" may save occasionally a " fallen sister,'
who can prevail on herself to be saved:; but we who nasar
were sisters—who never had any relationship, part,
interest, or communion with the large fasuily of this
world's virtues, moralities, and properties,—we, who
are not fallen, but were always down,—who never
had any virtue to lose,—we who are the natural
growth of things, and aro constantly ripening for the bar-
vest,—who, interspersed in our little, but swarming colo-
nies throughout the kingdom at large, hold the source of
supply and keep it fruitful,--what do they propose to do
with us ? Cannot society devise some plan to reach us ?
"One more Unfortunate" proposes a "skimming" pro-
cess. But what of the great bubbling cauldron ? Remove
from the streets a score or two of " foreign women," and
" double as many English," and you diminish the compe-
tition of those that remain ; the quiet, clever, cunning
cajolers described by " One snore Unfortunate." You hide
a prurient pimple of the " great sin" with a patch of that
plaster known as the "observance of propriety," and no-
thing more. You " miss" the evil, but it is existent still.
After all it is something to save the eye from offence, to
remove them; and not only a score or two, but something
like 200 foreign women, whose open and disgusting inde-
cencies and practices have contributed more than anything
else to bring on our heals the present storm of indignation.
It is rare that English women, even prostitutes, give cause
of gross public offence. Cannot they be packed off to their
own countries, with their base, filthy, and filthy-looking
men, whom they maintain, and clothe, and feed, to super-
intend their fortunes, and who are a still greater disgrace
to London than these women are ?
Hurling big figures at us, it is said that there are 80,000
of us in London alone—which
and of this 80,000, poor hard-working alone—which is a monstrous falsehood- -
are numbered in by thousands and called indiscriminately
irls,
prostitutes : writing, preaching, speechifying, that they
have lost their virtue too,
sewing women,
It is a cruel calumny to call them in mass prostitutes;
and, as for their virtue, they lose it as one loses his watch
who is robbed by the highway thief. Their virtue is the
watch, and society is the thief. These poor women toiling
on starvation wages, while
Penury, misery, and famine
clutch them by the throat and say, " Render up your body
or die."
Admire this magnificent shop in this fashionable street ;
its front, fittings, and decorations cost not less than a
thousand pounds. The respectable master of the establish-
ment keeps his carriage, and lives in his country-house.
He has daughters too ; patronesses are fine ladies, the
choicest impersonations of society. Do they think, as
they admire the taste and elegance of that tradesman's
show, of the poor creatures who wrought it, sad of what
they were paid for it? Do they reflect on the weary toiling
fingers, on the eyes dim with watching,
on the bowels
yearning with hunger, on the bended frames, on the
broken constitutions, on poor human nature driven to its
coldest corner and reduced to its narrowest means in the
production of these luxuries and adornments ? This is an
old story ! Would it not be truer and more charitable to
call these poor
than"victims prostitute—to soften by some Chris-
tian expression, if you cannot better the un-Christian sys-
tem, the opprobrium of a fate to which society has itself
driven them by the direst straits? What business has so-
ciety to point its finger in scorn, and to raise its voice in
reprobation of them ? Are they not its children, born of
itsid ceold indifference, of its callous selfishness, of its cruel
pr ?
Sir. I have trespassed on your patience beyond limit,
and yet much remains to be said, which I leave for further
communication if you think proper to insert this. The
difficulty of dealing with the evil is not so great as society
considers it. Setting aside " the sin," we are not so bad
as we are thought to be. The difficulty is for society to set
itself, with the necessary earnestness, self-humiliation, and
self-denial to the work. But of this hereafter. To deprive
us of proper and harmless amusements—to eubject us in
mass to the pressure of force, of force wielded for the most
part, by ignorant, and often by brutal men---is only to
ersecution to add the cruelty of active p the cruelty of the
passive indifference which made us what eye are.

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THE CAMPAIGN IN MAL WA.

(From. the Bombay Government Gazette.)
(No. 47 of 1858.)

The Right Hon. the Governor in Council has very
great satisfaction in publishing, for the information of
the army, the following report made to his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief by Brigadier Stuart, commanding
the Malwa Field Forte (now let Brigade Nerbudda Field
Force), of his successful operations againet the insurgents
assembled near Mundisore, during four days, from the
21st to the 24th November last.
(No. 201 of 1857.)
From Brigadier Stuart, Commanding Malwe Field
Force, to the Adjutant-General of the Army, Bombay.
Sir,—With reference to my telegrams of the 25th and
26th inst., I have now the honour to for ward the reports
and to communicate, for the informatien of his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief, full particulars of the successful
operations in which the Malwa Field Force and the field
force Hyderabad Contingent, under commasd of Major
Orr, were engaged on the 21st, 22d, 23d, and 24th inst.,
against the rebel enemy in the vicinity of Mundisore.
2. On the morning of the 21st November this force,
accompanied by the field force Hyderabad Contingent
which, as I have already reported, is co-operating with
me—under command of Major Orr, arrived within three
miles and a-half of Mundisore about 9 a.m., and, as I
had no good information as to the roads or the country
in the immediate vicinity of the town, neither as to the
fords of the river Sowna, which it was necessary to
cross before reaching the town, I determined upon en-
camping until a good reconnaissance bad been effecned.
The rebel army at Mundisore, hearing of our approach,
had-pnetent-piekeerverrtirely covering the country over
which we were advancing, and, observing our pickets
thrown out, they mustered in some force outside the
walls of the to wn,.and appeared inclined to attack.
I, however, contented myself with reinforcing the
pickets, and leaving the whole charge of the
front to Makr Robertsor, 25th Regiment of Native
Infantry. The field-officer of the day returned to camp
about 3 o'clock p.m. I received intimation from him
that the enemy were advancing in force, and threatening
both our flanks and centre at the same time. I accord-
ingly moved out to meet them ; they advanced steadily
with banners filing, and appeared in great numbers.
On approaching our right front, however, they were most
gallantly charged by Lieut. Dew, her Majesty's 14th
Light Dragoons, who, with some of his men, occupied
that ground as a picket, Captain Orr, commanding 3d
Regiment Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent, supported.
Lieut. Dew, and the enemy were driven back with great
loss ; and before our guns, which had quickly moved
up, could open upon them, the attack on our centre was
repuled by a few rounds of our artillery, while that on
the left was euceesafully met by the field force under
Major Orr. The enemy having been thus driven hack
at all points were pursued for some dietanoc—in fact,
until they nearly reached the walls of the town—and
nething further occurred that day.
3. Having received intelligence from the Governor-
General's agent that the portion of the r•bel army before
Neemuch, amounting to about 5,000, would probably
raise the siege of that place, and endeavour to effect a
junction with their head-quarters at Mundisore, I de-
termined to frustrate this by intercepting them. Ac-
cordingly, early on the morning of the 22d inst. I moved
forward my force in order of battle. Our advance was
unopposed, and on my left flank reaching the village of
Kuljepore I made a flank movement to the left, as
previously determined on, leaving the advance guard
to cover it, and to reinforce the rear guard, as we
crossed the Bekri ford of the river Sowna,
about 1,400 yards to the south-west of the town of Mun-
disore. Thus secured, the movement was safely effected,
epposed only by a slight and ineffective fire from a gun
on one of the south-west bastions of the town. I then
encamped, facing the west of the town. by flanks well
protected by the two branches of the river, and my line
running at right angles to the right of Sir Thos. Hidlop's
camp in 1817. Just previous to the camp being marked
out it was reported that cavalry were sent on the left,
and Major Orr, taking the let Cavalry, Hyderabad Con-
tingent, under Capt. Abbott, and 4th Cavalry Hydera-
bad Contingent, under Capt. Murray, saw about 300
horse, supposed to be under Heera Sing, endeavouring
to draw them off in a north-westerly direction, but keep-
ing at too great a distance to allow of being attacked.
Reinforcements of cavalry were sent for, and while the
left wing, her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, under
Capt. Gall, and the 3d Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent,
under Lieut. Clerk, were moving up, intelligence was
brought to Major Orr that Heera Sing'e baggage had
just left the village of Goraria, on the Neernuch-road.
The object of Heera Sing's party to draw our cavalry
away from his baggage thus being apparent, her Majes-
ty's 14th Light Dragoons, the let Cavalry Hyderabad
Contingent, and the 4th Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent,
galloped off in pursuit, the 31 Cavalry Hyderabad . Con-
tingent remaining as a reserve. They caught up the
enemy about two miles south of Peeplia, and after cut-
ting up' about 200 of them halted at a nnllah a mile to
the south of that village. On perceiving it strongly
occupied by the enemy's infantry, who showed many
standards, they then returned to camp.
4. Feeling assured that the infantry seen in Peeplia
farmed the advance guard of the enemy, I moved at 8
o'clock a.m, oa the 23d inst, by my left, and crossed the
northern branch of the river Serena. I then halted my
column and collected all my baggageon the reveres flank
then moving on to my proposed camp on the Neemuch
and Mundisore read, ready to oppose the enemy either
from one or the other direction. On coming en to the
ground the enemy appeared in great force to the north,
baggage to be collected on a strong mound, I sti lonely
reinforced my rear guard and proceeded to meet them
After a short advance I formed line to my front, facing
northwards, and found the enemy occupying a very
strong position with their right in and beyond the vil-
lage of Gorsria, their right centre covered by a date
nullala and lines of date trees, their battery of six guns
cn rising ground, with a large mud hut protecting their
gunners, and their left stretched along the ridge running
east from the village. My line advanced, covered by
skirmishers ; the enemy's infantry, with banners flying
(many of them green), moved down to meet us through
the intermediate fields of high jowarree, and their guns
opened fire. I immediately halted my line and replied
to the fire with Cept. liungerford's and Woolcombe's
batteries, at a range of about 900 yards. After a few
rounds I again advanced the line, and permitted Capt.
Hungerford to move his half-battery io a position on our
right front, from which he could enfilade the enemy.
After an advance of about 300 yards our line was again
halt ed, and firing resumed, that from both batteries being
very effective. A most gallant charge was then made on
the enemy's guns by the escort of her Majesty's 14th
Light Dragoons, attached to Capt. Hungerford, under
Lieut. Martin, who found, however, that the position
was still very strongly held by the enemy's infantry, and
was compelled to retire, he himself being very severely
wounded. Copt. Hungerford's half-battery was again
advanced to within 100 yards, and after a round or two
of grape the guns were at once again charged and cap-
tured, the enemy flying in great numbers into the village
to their right. The 3d Regiment Cavalry Hyderabad
Contingent, under Captain S. Orr, was just at this mo-
ment rapidly advancing by our right front, and having
been wheeled to the left, it swept down upon them in
their retreat and killed great numbers. Our line then
changed front about the eighth of a circle, right thrown
forward, and moved steadily on the village, which
evidently held great numbers of the enemy ; their
skirmishers disputed our advance, but were soon driven
back. Having halted within about 300 yards of
the village, our artillery opened upon it with shot and
shell, after which I directed the infantry to advance and
carry it. The men of the 86th and 25th Regiments
dashed forward in the most gallant manner, and having
entered the village, commenced to drive all before them.
They soon met, however, with very warm opposition,
the enemy having taken possession in great force of
many houses, from which a most harassing fire was
kept up on our men. Under these circumstances, and
as, moreover, I could get no satisfactory accounts of
what was passing in my rear, which I knew from the
firing I heard, as also from the pressing applications I
had received for reinforcement, had been warmly engage 3,
I recalled the infantry and posted strong pickets all
round the village, and moved the remainder of the men
a short distance off to where the baggage had been passed
up from the rear. I then learnt that during the after-
noon, when we were hotly engaged in the front, a strong
body of the enemy from Mundisore attacked our rear,
and endeavoured to carry off the siege train, baggage,
die. ; they were, however, most gallantly repulsed on
every occasion. In one of these attacks I regret to say
that Lieutenant Redmayne, her Majesty's 14th Light
Dragoons, was killed while most bravely leading his
men against the enemy. Notwithstanding the many
attempts made by the enemy to press upon and harass
our rear, it gives me great satisfaction to be able to state
that not a particle of baggage was lost, nor a follower
injured. On this occasion Lieutenant Leitb, command•
ing a squadron 14th Light Dragoons, appears to have
done good vervice ; as also Lieutenant Fenwick, 25th
Regiment of Native Infantry, in charge of the baggage.
Gunner Maitland, of the Bengal Artillery, and Gunner
Thomson, of the Bombay Artillery, also distinguished
tberneelves by assisting to work the heavy guns most
effectively against the enemy.
5. On the 24th inst., I arranged with Captain
Hungerford, commandant of Artillery, that the village
of Goraria, in which the rebels had taken refuge,
should be well shelled and a
it about noon,
again assaulted by the
infantry. Accordingly I moved p_
and found that the enemy were :tsuait had left left them the
few bad
precedingnearlyexcepting
e
at-
tempted to evening,escapeof whom were !tired
Alter a heavy fire of three hours duration the detach-
ment of Q. 14.'s 86th, under command of Major Keane,
and the 25th Native Infantry, under Major Robertson,
again stormed the village and carried it, killing great
numbers of the enemy, they themselves also suffering
severely. At sunset I withdrew the troops, inter ding
to move against the fort of Mundisore the text day.
Early, however, on the morning of the 25th inst., intel-
Fgenee reached me that the enemy had during the eight
completely evacuated Mundisore, and wer• battered in
flight throughout the country in vari, us dir Aar no,
having lost, it is computed, about 1,500 of tl sir number
during our operations against them. I accordingly re-
moved my camp to Mundisore, and am now engaged in

The 26th half-yearly ordinary meeting of the pro-
prietors of this company was held yesterday, pur-
suant to notice, at the Great Western Hotel, Pad-
dington, Mr. C. R. M. Talbot being in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, expressed his regret that although the gross
receipts of the company for the last year had been
358,0001., yet that out of that sum only 82,000/.
found its way into the pockets of the shareholders.
There were however, several causes which during
the last half-year had con ti ibuted to affect in a
peculiar manner the general traffic of the company.
The first of those causes to which he should allude
was the unfortunate " strike" which had ta!ien
place among t"e colliers in Glamorganskire, and
which had led to a serious filling off in the mineral
traffic over the line. The next cause was to be found
in the expense attendant upon relaying the line ie
the neighbourhood of Swansea at a cost of 20,0001.,
of which sum 5,0001. had been apportioned upon
the last half-year, thereby causing a considerable
decrease in the dividends for that period. He might
also observe that the unfortunate accident
which had occurred near Pyle station on the 14th
of October last, and which had resulted in the
loss of several lives, had led to the necessity for
compensation upon the part of the company being
made to no less than 60 persons at au expense of
6,000/. A great many suggestions had been made
to the directors, with a view of providing a remedy
against the recurrence of such accidents for the
future, and they had come to the conclusion that,
as it was proved those accidents were to be attri-
buted to the risk which was run through mistakes
made in sending telegraphic messages, regulations
should be made which would take all responsibility
off the telegraph, and that written messages should
be despatched and written answers received before
any train set out on a wrong line. Having said thus
with regard to the dark side of the picture, he
should advert to the brighter aspect which the
other side presented, and say a few words upon
the future prospects of the company. The directors
were in expectation of receiving vary shortly the
award of Capt. Galton, who had been nominated as
umpire, to determine el amount to be allowed to
the Great Western Railway Company for the sup-
ply of rolling stock, and they hoped that they
would be enabled thenceforward to work the line at
a reduced expense, while they at the same time did
not hold out the prospect that any very large sav-
ing could be effected. He had upon many previous
occasions alluded to the apparent difference of the
cost of locomotion on the South Wales as compared
with other lines. He had, indeed, consulted seine
of the greatest locomotive authorities upon the
subject, but without being able to receive any
satisfactory answer to his inquirides ;b
norsomuch
could
he explain why the expense should
greater in the case of the South Wales than in that
of the South-Western Railway. All improvement
might, however, be effected in that respect, and
the subject was one which ought, in his opinion, to
enter into the calculations of Capt. Galton or any
other arbitrator. Another
in working the affairs oft hsource e
company of improvement
would be the
holding of the meetings, if not of the Board, at all
events of the traffic committees, in Wales. (Hear.)
The company had, it was true, no other railway to
compete with their line, but they must bear in
mind that so long as the sea was open as a highway
to the trader and that he could transport his goods
in vessels at a somewhat smaller cost than by rail-
way he would continue to do so. Let the slightest
advantage, however, in the scale of expense be on
the side of the railway, and he would at once make
use of it, and having used would not fail for the fu-
ture to avail himself of the advantages which it af-
forded. He (the chairman) might mention that the
traffic of the company, in what was called in Wales
thesteana-coal trade, was very trifling in amount,
and he sh uld put it to the meeting whether it wes
not a question worthy of serious consideration whe-
ther traffic committees could not be appointed to
meet in Wales for the purpose of organising
a trade in that quarter ? There was also another
subject which was well entitled to the attention of
the company; he alluded to the traffic with Ireland.
Large quantities of goods were every day being sent
over here from that country, and under these cir-
cumstances he saw no reason why a daily pa, ket
service between Milford and Waterford should not
pay well. The only difficulty which stood in the
way of such a service was that of procuring
t co
specu-
lators to establish a sufficient number of st e