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By Order. MARK HUISIT.
ileneral Manager's Office, Euston Station, London, Aug. 30, 1855.

11) R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
3, TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Haymarket).
IJECTER•pc, Open daily (for Gentlemen only).
Dort. —4 by Er. SEXTON at Four and, Eight o'clock, on im:
Dort.IOLOGY and interesting topics in connection with ANATOIII,
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self in English, and after.uttering thee few words withdrew
from the balcony, and the windows were then closed. The
baud, meanwhile, had been admitted into the hotel, and per-
formed several pieo2s of music that were intended as appro-
priate to the Occasion. To one, however, objection must be
resp,:etfully taken, for Nldlle. Piceolotnioi, bring herself
upon the eve of drparture, could not legitimately be re-
garded as The girl 1 Itft behind me.' The crowd remained
cheering and conversing outside the hotel fur nearly an
hour louAer. Thus terwioated the great ferment
p litical matters apart, has b.:eu visible so leng in the streets
of D o Win .
" Yesterday. at two o'clock p.m., the members of the
Italian company sailed from Kingstown in the mail
steamer for Holyhead, en route to full' engagements
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different pai is of England daring the next three weeks.
"The following words were written Inside the copy of
Moore's Melodies,' presented to Piceolomini A tribute
presented• to La Signora Piccolomini, with the assurance
that in her triumphal career site never met more sincere,
more respectful, more ardent wishes for her happiness, here
and for ever, than animate the hearts of her Unknown Irish
Friends.' Dublin, '2Bth August, 1858."

went with the East Kent Company in order to avert future
competition, if possible, but without effect." He (Mr.
Hilton) thought that arrangement was at an end, and was
not to he mentioned; but after the statement by the
South- Emtera directors, he was bound to say that the offer
made was one that could not be accepted, for it would have
prevented the making of one inch of the line towards Can-
terlauy or Myer. It -Nei not fair to publish that which was
!calla not he fact. The idler was not a bond fide offer
which could he accepted, tool the South-Eastern must have
been aware that it was nut. Time. hon. director went
through the remaining paragraph', arid concluded hr
seconding the adoption of the report.
Mr. Rasa' complained that the report was not sufficiently
explicit as to the completion of the line to Dover. He had
no doubt that the difficulties with which the directors had had
to contend bad been very great, but if the completion of the
line to Dover was to be indefinitely postponed, or antil
all other objects had been attained, he could not help
thinking that the directors were pursuing a course by which
they would fail to accomplish the hopes of the proprietors.
The hon. proprietor remarked at some length on the import-
ance of opening, up the Dover traffic ; he pointed to the posi-
tion of Dover in a military and national point of view, and
the attraction of the neighbourhood as offering inducements
to tourists, and called upon the directors to give some
assurance that they intended to proceed with the formation
of the line to Dover with all possible speed.
Mr. HILTON assured the honourable proprietor that the
directors never thought of shelving the Dover line, for the
best of all reasons, that they could not shelve it. (Cheers.) The
line to Dover must be finished at the same time as timeline to
St. Mary's Cray, for without the Dover line the line to St.
Mary's Cray would never be made to pay. £300,000 was the
outlay on the line to St. Mary's Cray. He hoped that state-
ment would satisfy the hon. proprietors as to the intention
of the directors to proceed with the Dover portion of their
scheme, with all despatch. It was, however, thought that
the upper line was of more pressing importance. and there-
fore the directors devoted their energies to that subject in
the first instance. Having done that, the Dover line must
follow. He might be allowed to add that if the Dover
people would take a few thousand shares it would mate-
rially promote the object.
Mr. HARTRIDGE was of opinion that if the line from Can-
terbury to Dover were made,the East Kent Company would
have to go halves in a loss with the present existing Dover
Company. He could not conceive it possible that any profit
could arise to this company by the making of the line to Dover.
They would never divert the local traffic ; they would only
get people from London on to their line, and that would never
occur unless an arrangement were effected with the South-
Eastern for the maintainance of the rate of fares. There was
no inducement to go to Dover; the Dover people had not con-
tributed the capital, and he thought the directors had done
wisely to leave Dover out of their consideration for the
present. Then, with regard to the other matters which had
engaged the attention of the meeting, he was surprised
to hear nothing at all said about the main line.
In the report there was an important passage which
stated that the traffic returns between Strood and Faversham
were very satisfactory; and although the line had been work-
ing but a few months the receipts were considerably larger
per mile than on many other lines of railway, which was the
more satisfactory when it was considered that the line, not
being at present open beyond Faversham, was dependent for
its revenue entirely on the local traffic of the district. He
had subscribed his capital to make that line, because he con-
ceived that the local traffic would be sufficient to support it.
What bad they been doing with their line and their motley ?
What had the directors been doing with their energies ? He
found in the accounts £lO,OOO debited for which they had
no consideration; was it for making the main line which
protnised so well? *No. It was for making that which,
alter all, they were obliged to depute t others—on what
terms tuis report did not say. The tome and money of
the company bad been expended in everything and any-
thing but the main line. As to the contract with Messrs.
Feto, Betts, and Crampton, the directors had not given
any details. It was stated that the whole of the capital
required for the line had been satisfactorily placed. By
whom? Under what circumstances ? lie did not know
that the shareholders had given any authority for placing
the capital satisfactorily. The report communicated nothing,
the chairman's speech communicated nothing, and the
gentleman acting for the deputy chairman had communi-
cated nothing. Supposing the additional capital for the
extension should be lost, upon whom would fall the burden
of the loss? In passing these reports the shareholders were
scarcely aware bow they bound themselves, and what powers
they placed in the holds of the directors. The chairman
bad told them that their Parliamentary contests were over,
whereas in the report the shareholders
to were asked t
to i
ifnves net
the directors with authority to apply Parliamen,
cessary, in the ensuing session for such power t as would
enable them to develop the traffic on the line, and to secure
proper accommodation for the public. What did that mean?
And the directors had made. up their minds to apply.
The CitAIRMAN—That does not follow. You are not
much of a diplomatist, or you would see the meaning of it.
Mr. HARTRIDGE—At all events we are not out of the
fangs of Parliament yet. The hon. proprietor remarked on
the expensive character of the contest in which they had
been engaged, and expressed his disapprobation of such an
outlay as appeared by the capital account to be referable to
Parliamentary proceedings.
Mr. STARLING spoke strongly in support of the policy
pursued by the directors in devoting their attention to the
Western Extension, for until they had become independent
of the South-Eastern Company the property of the East
Kent would never be what it might and ought to become.
Compared with the Western Extension, the Dover line
was of very small importance, although no doubt it was
desiratd.e that the whole scheme should be ultimately car-
ried
out.
The CHAIRMAN said if he had not known Mr. Hartridge
by name he should have imagined that gentleman to have
been the chairman of the South-Eastern Company.
Mr. 11°1.Rn-1-D(tl2e secretary), at the request of the Chair-
man, then proceeded to reply to the questions put by Mr.
Hartridge. Ile was surmised, he said, to hear the lion.
proprietor express himself in time manner in which he had
done with regard to the affairs of tke East Kent Railway
Company, because they did bear so remarkable a similarity
to certain remarks which were made to the committee of the
House of Commons by the solicitor of the South-Eastern
Company, and by the witnesses of that company throughout.
(Cheers.) They were told that by the Western Extension
they were going to ruin themselves, and yet the South-
Eastern had expended thousands of pounds to prevent the
East Kent obtaining their act. The directors knew three
years ago, by the expenses of their line from Strood to Can-
terbury, that it could never be economically worked so long
as they depended upon the South-Eastern. Last session the
South-Eastern brought witnesses to prove that the clauses
in the East Kent act were sufficient to work the traffic effi-
ciently, but no sooner was this bill obtained titan the South-
Eastern afibrded conclusive evidence of the fact that if the
act bad not been procured the East Kent property would have
been totally ruined. That such was the truth they had learned
by bitter experience. (Cheers.) Mr. Starling might rest satis-
fied that every exertion would be used to complete the line as
speedily as possible, and his friend, Mr. Rees, might also be
assured that the formation of the line they were about to
commence would be the strongest possible rid towards the
completion of the line to Dover. The proprietors, who had
furnished a large portion of the money for the former
object, would be interested in, and would lend their as•
sistance towards, the accomplishment of the latter.
(Cheers.) As to the Dover traffic it had been put for-
ward that the continental business was not sufficient
for two companies, and that the South-Eastern Com-
pany could not lower their fares. He believed that that
traffic had never properly been developed. The South-Eastern
obtained a certain revenue from it by charging high fares,
and they would not run the risk of attempting fairly to
develop it for the benefit of the public at large. lie believed
it to be of the greatest public importance that the continental
traffic should he completely developed by the Dover route.
(Loud cheers.) When the East Kent line should be made,
not only would there be enough for both companies, but if
proper arrangements were come to the South-Eastern would
be in a far better position with reference to their continen-
tal traffic than that which they at present occupied. (Loud
cheers.) When they considered the numbers of persons who
went by Dieppe and by way of Havre, that they would
only take those routes, notwithstanding the high rates
and the circuity of the route ; and when it was remembered
that fairly to develop traffic the route must be direct and
the fares low, they might readily conceive what an impetus
would be given to the continental traffic by the completion
of the East Kent line to Dover. Their property, when
complete, would be one of the best in England. (Cheers.)
Anybody who looked at the little map forwarded with
time report, and marked the places which the line
touched, remembering the large traffic to those places,
and that the East Kent was the shortest route to them,
could not fail to see that, when completed, it would be im-
possible for time South-Eastern to compete with them.
(Cheers.) The East Kent had no heavy burdens iu the form
of unpaying lines to weigh them down—they possessed a
magnificent traffic, they topped that traffic at every paint,
and the South-Eastern would be compelled to make such
arrangements as would conduce to the advantage of the East
Kent, or they would he utterly ruined. Such was the pros-
pect before them. The South-Eastern were pursuing a policy
ruinous to themselves. Because they were fearful of the con-
sequences of their having refused, like far-seeing men, to
enter into fair and proper arrangements, or to behave in such
a manner as would have enabled the East Kent to study
the interests of time public, they were now endeavouring
to crush the East Kent by every means in their power, fair
arid unfair. But they would not succeed. (Loud applause.)
The directors were determined to carry out the work before
them, and their efforts had been and would continue to be
such that success must attend them. (Cheers.) In reply
to Mr. Hartridge, as to the placing of the capital, that
gentleman ought to be satisfied with the statement of the
directors that the capital was well placed.
Mr. HARTRIDGE.—The adoption of that report binds the
proprietors without their knowing exactly for what. You
have not answered my question as to who will bear it, if
there should be a loss on making the extension.
The SECRETARY—I do not see how there can he a loss.
Mr. limmtannE—Supposing anything should prevent
the contractors from making it, it will fall on the company
to make it.
The SECRETARY—It would not be comleted, It would
p
fall on the new shareholders, of course.
alr.:Mscrisus had the misfortune to differ from Mr.
Hartedge
that the
of his points, hut he aereed with that
Hurled
an that the main line was the most valuable portion

ADELAIDE GALLERY CASINO, Lowther
tvxcade, Strand.—The above ROOMS are OPEN EVERY
by Nu,„`G. The celebrated band of the Argyll Rooms will play,
aiF ..,t.icular desire, selections from Il Trovatore, La Traviata,
to;neitt.lgoletto. Conductor, Mons. A. LAMOTTE. Principal
ope Bouleourt. Leader, Mr. Charles Hall. Doors
aat half-past 8, commence at 9. Admission, Is.

ALAMBR A PALACE, Leicester-square.
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Bowes and Cushing. Entire Change of Performance..
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, Celebrated CIRCUS COIIPANY. Extraordinary and
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28 rrivate boxes V • stalls, Ss.; reserved seats, Ss.; boxes,
ls.
; gallery Ga Box' -office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
l'eg for booking:pla.ces. Children under 9 years of age, half-price.

.IVICAL• GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
horn ii4rector, Mr. R. Duffell. Open, wet or dry, EVERY EVENING,
iit,„"day till Friday at 7 o'clock. Ou Saturdays at Sthe
ettin-t," Band at 4. A inaypole dance on the ballet stage, and
gYdanees on the leviathan platform, by Chapino's troupe,
Lillicl
clri; -rdn the usual performances commence. Admission, is.;
a' Open on Sundays for promenade; refreshment ticket,
It each.tl„s Vocal and Instrumental Concert by unrivalled corps.
tire)y. thrqua Imperial, this evening, and during the wcek. an en-
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Cr,,,n_.elgn artistes, under the direction of her Majesty's Clown, 11.
lian"`,.."e• Illuminations and Firework displays of unequalled bi- 1-
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11,°YAL .GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
mr. JAMES OBINSON, the GREAT AMERICAN BARE
delit'.3lDEß, having recovered from the effects of his recent acci-
'llaPPear Every Evening during the Week.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
koNi.4"-,„ W. B. DONA.LDSON, the Celebrated ETIIIOPI
oft trcm the Broadway Theatre. New York (author. of I'm
Every and other popular Negro melodies), will appear
Livening during the Week.

in preference to all other payments of dividend oat of those
profits."
" That the proportion of the gross receipts of the Western
Extension to be deducted for expenses of wcrking and ma-
nagement, within the meaning of the East Kent Railway
(Western Extension) Act, 1858, shall be such amount per
cent. in each year as the hoard of directors shall, by any re-
solution to be made and passed before the gine at which the
said Western Extension, ur any pat t thereof, shall be opened
fur puldie traffic, determine and deeine.:,
T M
he CHAIR MAN then finally pre posed the adoption of
the following resolutions :
" 1. Resolved,—That in pursuance of the powers and
provisions cf the Est Kent Railway (Extension to Dover)
Amendment Act, 18.58, the 11,164 shares numbered 36,387
to 48,000, created under the powers and provisions of the
East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) Act, 1855, but
not issued, shall he and are hereby cancelled.
"2. Resolved,—That the forfeiture of the 1,392 shares,num-
bered 26,409 to 08,000, created and issued under the powers
and provisions of t!..e East Kent Railway Act, 1853, and of
the 2,250 shares numbered 30936 to 31,935, and 35,647 to
31,896, and :16,222 to 37,571, and 28,316 to 28,815, and
35,057 to 35,300, created and issued under the pcwers and
provisions of the East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover)
Act, 1855, and all which shares have been forfeited for the
non-payment of calls thereon, shall be and is hereby con-
firmed; and that in pursuance of the powers and provisions
of the East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) Amendment i
Act, 1858, and the registered holders having given their
consent in writing thereto, the shares so forfeited, instead of
being sold, shall be and they are hereby cancelled.
"3. Resolved,—That in pursuanceof the powers and pro-
visions of the East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover)
Amendment Act, 1838, there shall be created and issued in
lieu of the unissued and forfeited shares so cancelled, 30,012
half shares of El 2 10s. each (being two half shares in sub-
stitution for each cancelled share), and that 15,006 of the
said half shares shall be created and issued as preferred
half shares,' and the remaining 15,006 as 'deferred half
shares' within the meaning of the act.
" 4. Resolved,—That the board of directors ma:)from time
to time determine the times at which, and the persons to
whom, such shares shall respectively be issued, and may
determine and fix the amounts and times of payment of the
calls thereon.
" 5. Resolved,—That in pursuance of the powers and pro-
visions of the East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover)
Amendment Act, 1858, "the board of directors shall be, and
are hereby authorised' and empowered to give to the holders
for the time being of the shares of L 25 each, in the capital
bf the company, the option of having such shares, or any of
them, divided into preferred half-shares' and deferred
half-shares,' within the meaning of the said act, and to fix
the period within which such option may be exercised.
, • 6. Resolved,—That the rate at which interest or divi-
dend shall be so apportioned a7d paid upon such preferred
/half-shares (as well those newly issued as those created by
division of shares already issued) under the provisions of the.
East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) Amendment Act,'
1858, shall be £6 per cent. per annum upon the amount for.
.the time being paid up on such preferred halt-shares re-

spectively.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors was then
adopted, and the proccediogs terminated.

STAINES, WOKING, AND WOKINGIIAM.
The half-yearly and an extraordinary meeting of this
company was held at the London Tavern yesterdar—Mr.
James Garrard in the chair. The report said :—" Your
directors have the satisfaction of informing you that the
works on your portiou of the narrow gauge junction line at
Reading have been completed for opening ; and that notice
has been given to" the Board of Trade that it will be opened
for public traffic on the Ist September next. The Great
Western Railway Company have also made that portion of
the line which they were authorised to construct under the
provisions of the Reading Railways Junction Act, 1857.'
Thus the long desired continuous narrow gauge communica-
tion between the north-west of England and the south of
the Thames (via Reading) now exists, and your directors
trust that they are not too sanguine in anticipating highly
beneficial results therefrom. Your directors also are happy
to be able to state that the compettiion at low farcl for the
London and Reading traffic has at length been terminated:
An agreement has been entered into for a period of three
years, by which equal and remunerative rates are to b 2
charged by all the companies, both for passengers and
goods, the receipts being apportioned between the com-
panies on the best estimate which could be formed of
the existing traffic. Your directors have every reason to
believe that this agreement will be advantageous. With
reference to the general traffic during the past half-year,
your directors report that a steady and continuous increase
both from passengers and goods has taken place :
The total receipts for the half-year to the 30th
June last amount to £8,764 13 10
'lose for the cerresponding period of 1857
amounted to t. 7,319 16 2
Showing an increase on the half-year of 1858 £1,414 17 8
or nearly 20 per cent.—a rate of increase on which your
directors think you will look with gratification, especially
when you consider the diminution which has taken place in
the receipts, over a similar period, of almost: every railway
company in the kingdom.. After deducting interest on
debentures, working, and all other expenses, the balance to
the credit of revenue for the half-year is £Bll 25., making
a total balance to revenue of £2,750 185. 93. A portion of
this sum having however been employed on account of
capital, and the toll due to the South-Eastern for the use
of the line between Readit.g and Wokineham not haring
yet been settled, your directors recommend that the amount
should be carried on to the next half-yearly account.
" At the conclusion of the ordinary meeting an extraordi-
nary meeting will be held, for the following purposes,
viz.:—` To sanction, if thought fit, by three-fifths at least
of the votes of the shareholders of the said company present,
either personally or by proxy, at such extraordinary meet-
ing, a lease proposed to be granted to and taken by the
London and South-Western Railway Company, of so much
of the undertaking of the Staines, Wokingham, and Woking
Railway Company as has been or is being constructed.' It
is proposed to grant to the London and South-Western
Railway a lease of your Ilne, including your portion of the
Reading Junction line, for 42 years from the 25th day of
March last: the lessees to work and maintain the line, and
to pay Government duty, parish rates, and all outgoings
appertaining to the proper working and maintaining of the
line, and to pay, by way of rent to your company, 50 per
cent. of the gross receipts, guaranteeing that the amount
headed over to your company shall never be less than suffi-
cient to pay the interest (at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent.
per annum) on £140,000, the amount of your debentures
and preferential share capital as now proposed to be raised.
Your directors feel confident that this lease will be the
means of placing your property on a firm and satisfactory
footing, and they anustafunhesitatingly recommend it for
your approval. And also To authorise, if thought fit,
the directors of the Staines, Wokingham, and Woking Rail-
way Company, to cancel or accept surrenders of certain
shares in the said company upon such terms and conditions
as may be authorised by such extraordinary meeting •' and
To authorise, if thought fit, the directors of the said com-
pany to create and issue new shares in the undertaking of
the said company, and to attach, with the consent of three-
fifths at least of the votes of the shareholders present, per-
sonally or by proxy at such extraordinary meeting, to such
new shares or any shares already created but not issued,
any such preference, privileges, and restrictions as are
authorised by the "Staines, Wokingham' and Woking
Railway Act, 1858."' The works on the main line
are now so nearly completed that a tolerably accurate
idea can be formed as to the total cost of their con-
struction. The capital account is submitted to you.
You will perceive, on referring to the debtor side of the
account, that a sum has been received from calls on shares,
from debentures issued, and from sundries, of £336,334
18s. 2d., that temporary advances have been made by bank-
ers to the extent of £25,000, that there is owing to sundry
creditors £23,456 7s. 9d., and that the sum of £1,524 3s. Bd.
has been borrowed from the revenue account, these three
last sums amounting to £49,980 lle. 5d., and making a
total of moneys received and liabilities of £386,315 9s. 7d.
On the other side are the various accounts by which this
sum of £386,315 9s. 7d. is disposed of. Since these accounts
were made up, debentures to the extent of £4,775 (tempo-
rarily paid off at the close of the half-year) have been re-
issued, whereby the debenture debt of the company has been
increased by that amount, and £5,000 have been repaid to
the bankers, reducing the amount owing to them to
£20,000. To meet the present liabilities of the company,
it is proposed to accept surrenders of 2,245 shares,. and
to convert them into shares having a preference of dividend_
to the extent of £5 per cent. per annum. These °45
shares, at £2O per share, would yield a sum of £44,90,°
which, together with £490, due for arrears on calls (recove-
rable in the usual way), will meet these liabilities. In addi-
tion to the liabilities above enumerated, a sum of about
£5,000 will be required for the purposes of the Reading
junction ; it is therefore proposed that as many of the shares
authorised to be issued at the half-yearly, meeting on the 17th
August, 1857, under the powers of the Reading Railways
Junction Act, 1857, as will be required, shall also be issued
as £5 per cent. preference shares. The total amount of
preference shares for which your sanction will be asked is
therefore as follows, viz. :
On account of original capital, 2,245 shares of £2O
£44,900
each........................
On account of Reading Junction, 255 shares of £2O
each ........................................

5,100

2,500 shares. £50,000
These shares will be offered pro rata to the existing share-
holders, and the interest on them, as already explained to
you, will be guaranteed in accordance with the proposed
lease by the London and South-Western Railway Company,
under the provisions of the Staines, Wokingham and Woking
Railway Act, 1858. And also `To authorise, if thought fit,
the directors of the said company to borrow on mortgage or
bond an additional sum of money, not exceeding £13,000,
under the powers of the Reading Railways Junction Act,
1857.' Under the provisions of this act you have the power
of borrowing money to the extent of £13,000 by the
issue of debentures in addition to the debentures autho-
rised to be issued by the original Act of Incorporation
of the company. Your directors propose to take your
authority for putting in force this power should they find_ it
necessary or advisable, but not so as that the amount of de-
benture debt, together with the amount Jaid up OR the