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STAMPED sd.

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Buckwheat
Butter ...
Value cf farming

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125,1:;0
2'1,677 „
2,9n1,591 lbs

for the half-year ending Dec. 31 to €234,621, and
the expenditure to £99,403, leaving £135,218.

implements
Value of live

15,981 dulis.

1,044,009 dolls,

3IEDITERRANEAN EX'PENSION TELEGRA.PII
(LIMITED).

F.Wck ... 19,403,662 „
Acres of ploughed

40,215,079 „

land

1,900

433,276

The general meeting of this comnpany was held
yesterday at the London Tavern— Sir J. Carmichael
iu the chair.

This comparison might be extended ; but it is
sufficiently diffuse and varied to show that, with an
area of 83,000 square miles, and a population of
173,855 souls, there must be ample scope and verge
enough for the industry and capital of hundreds of
thousands, it may be said of millions, more immi-
grants. That they would find markets for their
productions cannot be doubted, for they must com-
mand the seaboard just as much as Illinois, 'Wis-
consin, Indiana, or Missouri. Our only appre-
hension is that unless the subject be energetically
dealt with in time, the increase of population may
exceed the means of transport. We would, there-
fore, counsel immediate attention to this subject on
the part of the State and the railway authorities.

The CHAIRMAN said he thought the proposed divi-
dend of 3 per cent. highly satisfactory, considering
the interruption which had taken place in the
Malta and Alexandria line, and the stagnation of
trade and commerce during the past Season. Ile be-
lieved there was a prospect of the Malta and Alex-
andria Company laying a new and strong cable, by
which means the interruption in the trafilic in future
would be prevented. .In'addition to the payment of
dividend, the money borrowed from the reserve fund
had been returned. The accounts between the com-
pany and the Italian . Government were in arrear ;
but he hoped thesewouldbe settled, especially as the
French Government had settled with the Italian Go-
vernment up to June, 1866, so that there were hopes
of the money being shortly received. At all events
he hoped the money would be paid by the Italian Go-
vernment within two months. With regarato the dif-
ference which the company had had with. the Italian
Government tespecting,the payment of the company
in paper currency instead of in specie it had been
settled. He then moved the adoption of the report,
and that a dividend-of •8 per cent. per annum be
paid to the holders of preferential shares, and one of
3 per cent. to the holders of original shares.

Rich and fertile as the soil of Minnesota must be
to promise, as it does, an indefinite expansion of
these great results, they are only a part of the vast
endowments she has received from nature. Her
prairie grasses are as well adapted for the grazing as
her corn and other grains are for the fattening of
cattle as those of Illinois or lowa. It is not, there-
fore, unlikely that Minnesota will compete before
long with the enterprising breeders of those States,
though at present there are no places to be com-
pared with Springfield or Chicago, or any such
trade as the " packing" trade. A nucleus, how-
ever, will be laid in the codree of a few years.
There is a Spanish proverb " Where the foot of
the sheep touches the land is turned into gold."
Well, from the northern boundary of lowa, itself
a sheep-breeding State, up to St. Paul, the country
is perfectly adapted to sheep husbandry. The
growth of wool may be made almost next to that
of wheat.

The motion was adopted, and a vote of thanks to
the chairman closed the proceedings.

Then, if the surface of the land furnishes these
instruments for the creation and diffusion of wealth,
the geology of Minnesota, though we know little of
it from official investigation, promises equal attrac-
tions to enterprise, though they may have for a
tine to give place to more immediate occupations.
The north-western parts of the State, if less fertile
than the south, contain highly valuable deposits of
copper ore, some of which are being worked.
There are extensive dep-sits of lead ore in the same
district. Iron is also found over a large extent of
country, and contiguous to it are coal and limestone
—a combination the advantage of which need not
be told in England. The building stones are
numerous ; they include granite and marble ; and
there is a district containing a decomposed felspa-
thic granite available for making the finest porce-
lain. A slate rock is found, said to have all the
properties of fine grain and clear split that dis-
tinguish the best quarries of Wales. There are
also salt springs, from which the Indians, with the
rudest appliances, make a bushel of salt out of
twenty-four gallons of brine. The geological,
like the agricultural, advantages of Minnesota
might be further detailed ; but enough has, per-
haps, been said to prove that the State is one of
the homes which the West offers to the poor man.

" These are miracles which man,
Cag'd in the bounds of Europe's pigmy span,
Can scarcely dream of—which his eye must!

To know how wonderful this world Can be."

If the railway company prosecute their under-
taking with a vigour worthy of the issues that are
before them, Minnesota will outstrip, as it has al-
ready done in some respects, most of its western
neighbours. The means of internal and external
communication must be enlarged to overtake the
prodigality of nature, and to render her bounties
more accessible to countries less richly. endowed.
We shall be gratified if what we have said now,
and upon a previous occasion, be the means of at-
tracting attention to a favourable opportunity for
the inves'ment of a moderate amount of European
capital.

The Mansion-House Metropolitan Distress

Fund.

The committee of bankers and merchants of the
city of London who have undertaken the manage-
ment of the above fund held a meeting yesterday at
the Mansion-house, under the presidency of the
Lord Mayor.
Mr. BALL, the cashier, read a statement of the
condition of the fund, from which it appeared that
the amount received at the Mansion-house up to
yesterday amounted to £BOl 3s. 11d., and that
grants had been made to different districts in the
metropolis out of that sum amounting to £6,655,
leaving a balance of £1,369 3s. 11d. To this
sum, however, had to be added the sum of
£3,818 7s. 6d. in the hands of the different
bankers, which left a disposable balance to the
credit of the committee of £5,187 I.ls. sd. The
total amount received from the public in aid of the
object of the committee was £11,842 lls. 5d., but
the public appear to be relaxing in their liberality,
evidently considering that to a great extent, by the
alteration in the weather and other causes, the press-
ing necessity has passed away, and that things ought
to be left to resume their ordinary course, and this
. would also appear to be the feeling of a good many
members of the committee.

Yesterday deputations attended from se..-en dis-
tricts of the metropolis only to apply for assistance
from the fund. These were Whitechapel, Canning
Town, St. George's-in-the-East, St. Dunstan's,
Stepney, St. Peter's, Stepney, Lambeth, and Shore-
ditch. ,

A grant was made to the Whitechapel Relief
Committee, in whose district it appeared a large
amount of exceptional distress existed, of £2OO.
To Canning Town a grant was made of £5O; to
St. George's-in-the-East, where there is also a large
amount of distress, a grant was made of £3OO ; and
to St. Dunstan's, Stepney, £5O.
In the case of the application from Lambeth, a
gentleman connected with the extensive establish-
ment of Messrs. Maudslay, Field, and Co. attended
with the deputation for the purpose of giving the
committee any information they might require. This
gentleman stated that at the present time there
were more than a thousand men who were usually
employed by the firm out of employment, and in-
stead of there being 1,500 men or thereabouts en-
gaged in their establishments, there were not more
than about 400. This state of things had been gra-
dually developing itself during the last 12 months
tid ed
families, t o receive
being
thrownwages, and the fact of so many men who had been accus-
tomed
and most
of whomhad
had
out
of employment,
caused a great deal of exceptional distress.
In answer to a question put by a member of the
committee, the gentleman stated that the slwlness
of work was not believed in any way to arise from
foreign competition, but from the Government, for
whom the firm of Messrs. Maudslay was princi-
pally engaged, having stopped certain works they
were in the habit of having done, for the present,
and that there was no strike or operation of that
sort that had anything to do with the existing
condition of affairs. The Messrs. Maudslay had, it
appeared, contributed a large sum towards a local
fund that was being raised for the purpose of alle-
viating the distress at present existing.
The committee, after a short deliberation, made a
grant of 1200 to the applicants, this being the
second of the same amount.
The committee shortly afterwards adjourned
until Monday.

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