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THE HOUSE OF LORDs AND
LORD CARLISLE.

The first civic banquet by the Lord Mayor of
York was given in the Mansion-house of that city
on Thursday evening. More than 100 gentlemen
were present, including the Earl of Carlisle, Sir P.
Fairbairn, and Mr. Westhead and Colonel Smyth,
the city members.
The usual loyal and several local toasts having
been drunk,

The LORD MAYOR gave " the House of Lords,
and the Earl of Carlisle." (Cheers.)
The Earl of CARLISLE, on rising, was greeted
with loud cheers. The noble earl said,—The last
time that I was within the civic precincts was on
the occasion of celebrating the planting in their
final resting-place of the guns that had been
captured on the ramparts of Sepastopol. (Loud
applause.) We had scarcely accomplished that
purpose when we seemed to be watching for
further echoes of cannon on the continent of
Europe, and we have heard much of hostile
preparations in the armies and arsenals of
the world, though I trust that the impending
cloud from which the storm seemed to burst has
now, for the time at least, blown over. On the oc-
casion to which I have referred no one who was pre-
sent could certainly have laid it to the, charge of the
inhabitants of York that they evinced any want of
sympathy for the military prowess of their country-
men in arms ; but, if I rightly now interpet the
public feeling, I think there would be an universal
protest against the guilt of wantonly disturbing the
peace of England. (Cheers.) And while I believe
we shall all feel that we ought to maintain due pre-
caution and adequate preparation, at the same time
I believe that we shall all wish to keep aloof as
much and as long as we can from all interference in
the bloody quarrel. (Applause.) Your lordship has
been pleased to couple my name with the House of
Lords, and I am glad to see that, whatever may be
said here and there of that august body, their fel-
low-citizens, so far as I may judge from yourselves,
do not appear disposed at least to exclude them
from the equal feast. (Applause.), Your lordship
has adverted to reflections that have been made on
members of the aristocracy not having hitherto
found themselves called upon to step forward in de-
fence of their rights and their position. The fact is,
my lord, I do not think that they are under any
apprehensiox that their death knell has yet rung.
(Cheers.) When any real alarm shall arise I ven•
ture to anticipate that they will, at all events,
endeavour. to make a good fight of it for themselves.
(Applause.) For their past services they are con-
tent to refer to the history of their country, and as
long as the constitution remains, which must perish
with them, inasmuch as they form an integral por-
tion of it, I feel every confidence that they will
apply themselves with zeal and public spirit to the
duties both of progress and conservation, for both
alike devolve on them, as they devolve upon all
men. (Hear, hear.) And when they cease to do
this I shall no longer wish for their continuance. '
`The LORD MAYOR, in proposing " the City Mem-
bers," hoped that in the coming session they
would not do anything to impair our good old
constitution, and. that if we had reform
we should have it without revolution, and have
that which they all trusted would add to the pro-
sperity and stability of the country. (Applause.)
But, however their representatives differed on
matters of general public interest, he believed they
had always acted cordially in watching over the
welfare of the city, and, above all, they were
united in opposing the principle of centralisation.
(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with loud cheers.
Mr. J. P. B. WESTHEAD, M.P., returned thanks.
He said he was reminded on this occasion how dif-
ficult was the task allotted to a member of Parlia-
ment in addressing a mixed company—gentlemen
who differ conscientiously in opinion from each
ether upon questions, of general politics. Not long
since he saw an amusing and clever leader in the
leading journal of the country on the members for
Oxford being required, year after year, to partake
of the festivity of the Ancient Druids of that city,
those members being expected to accomplish the
feat of cutting out a pound-of flesh without spilling
a single drop of blood, without giving offence in
any way. (Laughter and applause.) While he
acknowledged that in that company it was difficult
to enter generally upon politics without giving
offence to some one, yet he thought there were
points of great general interest to Englishmen in
which they would agree. He, for one, was a lover
of the constitution of the country, for, however he
might differ from his hon. colleague in any vote he
might hereafter give, it was not because he yielded
to him in reverence and admiration and attachment
to the British constitution. He believed there was
not a country in the world that was better go-
verned than the country, in which we live. (Ap-
plause.) Reference had been made elsewhere to
the constitution, and oxe gifted with great powers
of eloquence seemed somewhat to disparage it,
and to say—Who has seen the British constitution ?
An answer to this question had been given by a
member of the House of Commons, who was one of
the most advanced of the Liberal party, and he
said to his constituents that they had not seen it,
but who did not feel the benefits of the British con-
stitution—(applause)—who did not live in the,
midst of freedom, and who was there that did not
move about where he listed through the length and
breadth of the land ? (Applause.) Mr. Westhead
also referred to the freedom of speech that is allowed
in this country, so long as it offends not against the
laws of Christian charity,, and one speaks no ill of
his neighbour. Were not these great blessings,
and where else to the same extent did they exist in
the wide world besides this blessed land ?
(Applause.) He should never be found wilfully
and intentionally doing anything which would in
the slightest degree impair our noble constitution.
(Renewed applause.) He had no sympathy with
those who take a pride and pleasure in disparaging
what is noble in this land. (Hear, hear.) He had
little sympathy with the man who would look on
the glorious sun, and look only on its spots.
(Applause.) There might be, and were in all
things human, defects in certain parts of our con-
stitution, but were we not, from year to year, en-
deavouring to regulate and accommodate our laws
and our institutions to the wants of the present
time ? (Applause.) Speaking of those who sit in
the high places of the earth, Mr. Westhead said,
did they not see in the noble earl (Carlisle) on his
left an example of one who, born in the high places
of the earth, had filled up a. well his allotted space
as if they had traced the channel of his life in some
lower and inferior current ? (Applause.) He knew
not how or in what way one so born and so edu-
cated could have more worthily filled the objects of
his destiny than had the noble lord. (Applause.)
The hon. member then spoke of Lord Chief Justice
Cainpbell-:--the son of a Scotch minister at Cupar—
as being worthy to take his place with the highest
of the land. He next referred to the great name
obtained by Lord Clyde in India, he being a man
of obscure origin, and then to Lord Canning, re-
marking that he need not go further to show that
at least in the. British peerage, whether they looked
to the distant past or to the important present,
there were men found there worthy to represent
the interest and to care for the fortunes of his
country. (Applause.) He did not sympathise
for a moment with those who would set class
against class. If they looked [through the length
and breadth of the world, where was it that Eng-
lishmen had not been, and where had they not dis-
tinguished themselves? There was Havelock,
Outram, and 'Wilson. all commoners, who came out
gloriously in the hour of trial. And there was a
man raised from the operative class, traversing,
with noble and glorious purpose, the interior of the
vast continent of Africa—Dr. Livingstone ; and if
he took them into the regions of science or mecha-
nical or practical art, how many such men would
they meet with—Watts, Arkwright, and Stephen-
son, and men of that stamp. Go where he would,
and look where he might, he found in the various
classes of his countrymen much to admire and com-
paratively little to condemn. (Applause.) They
knew well that none set a more correct estimate
upon the value of aristocratic position than the
noble earl near him, and they knew that whatever
distinction might be conferred on man, he will agree
with the sentiment of a writer who declares that
aristocracy of character is the true heraldry of
man. (Applause.) He (Mr. Westhead) trusted that
whatever changes might betide, or whatever might
be the events of the coming session of Parliament,
the result would be not to impair, not to destroy
the British constitution, but to widen its founda-
tions, to strengthen it in all its parts, that it might
be handed down to distant posterity, and prove to
them, what it had hitherto proved to us, one of the
safest Governments which human skill and in-
genuity and wisdom, under the guidance of Provi-
dence, had ever contrived for the benefit of man.
(Loud applause.) •
Col. SMYTH, M.P., also responded, and declared
himself opposed to interfering with foreign quarrels.

At the same time he thought-the country craght to
be prepared for every emergency, and that our
shores, as well as British interests all over the
world, ought to be well protected.- Reforms were
very loudly talked of, but in his opinion. one of the
most needful reforms was in the army and. navy.
Among the toasts which suecteded .re those of
" The Lord Mayor," " The Dean a*. Chapter,"
" The High Sheriff of Yorkshire," and " Sir P.
Fairbairn."

THE ITALIAN QUESTIOIV.

(From the pally News.)

,
Now, if even, are the time and opportunity for
the British Government and British diplomacy to
exert themselves usefully in lessening the risk and
danger of war in Europe from the state of Italy.
Austria is at last thoroughly convinced that her
domination in Italy can only be maintaind by an
immense force of arms and at enormous expendi-
ture, the first necessities of which we F,ee in the
augmentation to her Italian army of 3'J,000 men,
and in an attempt about to be made to raise a loan
of' £5,000,000 in England. On the other side,
France, checked a little in her designs on behalf of
Italy, nevertheless steadily prepitres for the future
by a close alliance with Piedmont, which gives her
almost as ready means of throwing troops into Italy
as Austria possesses, by unostentatiously but seri-
ously collecting all the 2nateriel for a campaign,
and by sending General Niel, thii ablest strategist
in her service; to Turin, in the siiite of Prince
Napoleon, there to. study and re - rt on the whole
military position of Italy. Me While there is a
f
pause in which calmly to conside the prospects of
the future, a pause which afford on opening for
the British Government to pla a magnanimous
and disinterested part in the ser ce of :permanent
and assured tranquillity.
Hitherto the attitude of our Ca inet towards the
French Government, when the It lian question has
presented itself, has been that of .eserve, coldness,
and mystery. Lord Derby and h colleagues have
simply deprecated war, withou exhibiting any
views, policy, or inclinations of t it own. During
a great crisis in the affairs of Eur pc they have left.
the most powerful Ally of Engl •nd in a state of
ignOrance as to their wishes and ympathies ; ' and
while avoiding any frank explan ion as to Italy,
they have, we understand, produced the impression
on the French Government that tl4 English Cabinet
has largely influenced the com nications which
have passed bstween France and ussia.
The net result of those comm ications is, we
believe, in brief this :—Prussi signifies that
if
whilst she would be prepared act in a spirit
of strict neutrality should war on any assign-
able cause of a 3rave character arise between
France and Austria, the Government of the Prince

Regent would look not with indifference but with
great anxiety on any unprovoked attack on Austria
by France. This is of course a very natural position '
for a Power situated as Prussia is towards France
to assume ; and it is, we may be sure, a chief cause
of the hesitation which Europe has just witnessed
in the conduct of France. Nevertheless, as its
tendency is to throw the weight of Protestant
Germany into the scale against Italy, it is calcu-
lated, while avoiding and averting present danger,
to aggravate and embarrass hereafter a settlement
of the Italian question on the only bases that will
satisfy the necessities of the case, and also to en-
courage
Austria to resist those alterations and
ameliorations which the large interests of Europe
require. Inasmuch, too, as this policy of Prussia
is to a large extent ascribed to theXnglish Cabinet,
it cannot conciliate and confirm thealliance between
France and England, which has hitherto been the
pride of both countries.
Of course we shall be told that the policy of our
Government has been guided by a desire of lessen-
ing the chances of immediate war ; and in this
respect it may be very defensible, The thing has
been done, and the result is seen innd felt, and we
arc not going to open up a discussion as to whether
a bolder and franker course wouloi not have been a
wiser one. But since such a poli settles nothing
and tends to separate England f mil France on a
subject that must increase in gra ity and import-
ance, it can only be a temporar one. And the
question, therefore, still remains,; vhat permanent
course England ought to pursue—lliether she ought
to abandon, or, pyofess to abandoAll intere-it .in.-
i
the improvement of Italy, and lea 'e the differences
which have manifested themselveo.between France
and Austria to grow, and so remit 'the duration of
peace to causes and influences which she does not
affect or pretend to deal with for whether she
would act more wisely in attempting to utilise the
interval of silent preparation on either side through
which we are now passing ?
That, left entirely to itself, it will prove to be a
mere suspension of hostile intentions, we may be
perfectly assured. If we wanted any evidence of
that, it is to be found in the famiiy connection now
forming between the Courts of France and Pied-
mont—a connection on which, it is no secret, the
Czar of Russia has warmly congratulated his rela-
tion (through the house of Wurtemberg), Prince
Napoleon. That personage is a man of advanced
opinions and strong will ; the interest he had al-
ready taken in the fate of Italy will, of course, be
largely increased by his marriage with the Princess
Clotilde of Savoy ; and the most casual observer of
1 French politics cannot of late have failed to remark
that the influence of Prince Napoleon over the Em-
peror of the French (which is that of firm views
over a wavering disposition) is powerfully increas-
ing. No doubt there are counter-influences at work
in. the Empress Eugenie, the Bourse, and the Priests,
who all deprecate active interference in Italy at
present. But Prince Napoleon and the French
Army, on the one side, have powerful odds in their
favour against the more pacific inclinations of the
other party, even overlooking altogether the per-
sonal danger to Louis Napoleon from Italian dis-
appointment
Blaming, as we must the Emperor of the French
for his recent capricious manifestations, which have
given so terrible a shock to public confidence, it is
quite certain that they indicate an interest in Italy
which will not be abandoned. At present that inte-
rest may, we are disposed to believe, and not on
light grounds, be regulated to the advantage of
Europe, if England will only play a worthy part,
and endeavour to form in conjunction with France
some scheme for the amelioration of Italy. We are
assured that there is a very strong desire on the part
of Louis Napoleon personally to come to some
understanding (and not in any violent sense) with
England on fitting representations to be submitted
to the Emperor of Austria, as to what the perma-
nent interests of Europe require in Italy. And we
refer thus publicly to this disposition of the Em-
peror, that the full weight of responsibility as to
the future may be thrown where it really rests—
, on the Government of England.
It will, no doubt, be replied that no representations
having for their object the withdrawal of Italy from
the domination of Austria have in them the element

of success. But it is by no means certaiNthat an
Italian kingdom to be formed in favour of the Arch-
_ .

duke Maxim ilian, out of the easterly portion of the
present possessions of Austria in Italy, would not
afford a solution of this question, which would be
acceptable to the moderate party in Italy, and to
the House of Hapsburg., which can now only hope
to retain Lombardy at sacrifices which she cannot
afford to make. Of course such a kingdom would
have to bo maintained without Austrian troops in
Italy, and the safety of the Government must re-
pose on a national army.
It is not possible to deny that in its recent diffi-
culties and embarrassments the Government of
Vienna has exhibited some temper and prudence.
Its language to France has been prudent, courteous,
and even complaisant. Nor is that all. Its policy
on questions unconnected with Italy has to a large
extent been unusually conciliatory and yielding. It
has given way before French objections to the ex•
treme course it threatened to pursue in Servia ; and
it indicates a disposition to adopt the views of the
English and French Governments, as to the freedom
of navigation of the Danube, which previously it
stoutly resisted. These may, indeed, only be tem-
porary concessions made by Austria to avoid a
rupture with France. But even if they are to be
only so regarded, they encourage at least a hope
that Austria would yield something substantial to
the cause of Italian happiness and European tran-
quillity, if France and England could, in the spirit
of their former amity and cordiality, agree on re-
presentations to be made to Austria of a wise and
prudent kind.

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Cows, Bullocks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. It causes no
extra expense, as it contains far more and better nourish-
ment than its cost of ld. per feed supplies in corn or
hay; hence ensures an actual saving. In a short time it
improves the appearance and value of horses and cattle by
20 to 30 per cent. Rarey and Co., solo importers, 77, Pic-
cadilly, Quadrant, London. Packed in tins •f about 42
feeds, 6s. ; of about 90 feeds, lls. ; in casks of about 450
feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feeds, £5, being about lid. per
feed. Goods forwarded on receipt of Post-office Orders.
Important Caution—Beware of spurious imitations offered
by the ignorant and unscrupulous. All imitators will be
proceeded agaimit,

Yesterday evening the first of a series of metro-
politan meetings of members of the ntbdical pro-
fession was held in the vestry hall of St. Pancras,
for the purpose of securing an efficient system of
registration under the act of the last session of Par-
liament, by which the new medical council, of which
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., is president, was con-
stituted.
Dr. TUNNELEY, who was called to the chair, said
the meeting had been called by a large number of
medical practitioners who formed the London Me-
dical Itegistration Association, the chief object of
which was to furnish to the council constituted
under the recent act of Parliament, matter of a
legal nature hi. reference to the qualifications of
medical men who sought the confidence of the
public. It was not necessary that the person who
became acquainted with the information needful

to be laid before the registrar of council should be-
come responsible for it, inasmuch as all he had to
do was to lay it before the secretary of the associa-
tion, who would investigate the facts and lay them
before the committee.

Dr. LADD read a report, which stated that Dr.
George Webster had been elected president ; that
Dr. Brady, M.P., Mr. Propert, Mr. Ferguson, and
other members of the profession, had consented to
act as vice-presidents ; and that Mr. George Smith
Brent, the deputy-coroner for Middlesex, would act
as secretary. A vigilance committee had been ap-
pointed for the purpose of detecting persons who
illegally acted as medical practitioners, and watch-
ing the operation of the New Medical Act. It was
provided that any member of the society who prac-
tised anything but orthodox medicine should be
called before this vigilance committee, and the result
reported to the general committee. It was believed
that the present system of registration adopted by
the new council was loose and inefficient, and did
not provide a proper security against the intrusion
of improper persons into general practice. To pre-
vent illegal practice the committee recommended
that the claim of any person to be registered should
be attested by a credible witness. A representa-
tion to that effect had also been made to Sir Benjamin
Brodie, the president of the council. Dr. Hawkins
had been informed by the committee of 50 unqua-
lified persons who were at present in practice, a fact
which it was hoped would be appreciated by the
profession at large. It was hoped, moreover, that
this information would lead to proceedings being
adopted against prescribing chemists and other un-
qualified practitioners.
The report having been received,
Mr. RAWLING s moved a resolution which affirmed
that the meeting, having heard of the progress
made by the association, thoroughly acquiesced in
its principles, and recommended it to the considera-
tion of the medical profession, not, only for its own
sake, but for the interests of the public.
Mr. NASH seconded the motion, which was sup-
ported by Mr. ADAMS, and carried unanimously.
Dr. ROUTH moved the following resolution :
"That in the opinion of this meeting it is highly
desirable to augment the numbers and influence of
the members of the London Medical Registration
Association, so as to enable it to Effectually carry
out its objects, and to give weight to its proceed-
ings with the medical council, and this meeting
pledges itself to use every exertion to secure that
end. • The speaker said he had no doubt that the
number of fraudulent persons cheating the profes-
sion and doing injury tolhe public was upwards of
a thousand. He believed that few persons knew
of the number of black sheep by whom they were
medically defrauded.
Dr. HILLIER seconded the resolution, which was
adopted.
A large number of medical practitioners resident
in the neighbourhood were enrolled members of the
association, and a vote of thanks to the chairman
closed the proceedings.

ItAILIVA.Y INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST

RAILWAY.
The following is an abstract of the report of the

directors, to be submitted to the meeting of pro-
prietors on Thursdaynext:-- • . _ _

" The accounts foithe half year, ending 31st Dec.
last sholi;1 that the amount 'cif capital raised to the
31st Dec., 1858, is £1,169,020, consisting of—Mort-
gage debt, £1,781,485 ; debenture stock, £294,700;
preference capital, £1,474,281 ; consolidated stock,
£4,618,554. Total : £8,169,020. The total amount

of capital expended during the past half year is
£297,581, of which £109,195 is for plant for work-

ing the West-end line ; plant, stations, &c., on the
Lewes and Uckfield line ; the commutation of

£4,000 per annum, being one moiety of the fixed
annual .toll of £B,OOO, payable to the West-end of
London and Crystal Palace Railway Company, as
explained in the last report ; and certain of the ad-
ditional works contemplated by the company's
capital bill of last session. A further sum of
£188,386 has been expended on new works in pro-
gress, as shown in the capital account. It is satis-
factory to the directors to be able to announce that
a still further amount of the Pour per Cent. Deben-
ture Stock has been taken up during the past half
year, the total amount issued at this date being
£306,500. The demands made upon the directors
for this stock have hitherto kept pace with their
issuing powers, so that it has not been necessary to
make any public announcement of their being pre-
pared to dispose of allotments. They to this op-
portunity, therefore, of reminding the shareholders
that any amount of this stock which may be required
to replace mortgage bonds falling due can be ob-
tained by them or by their friends who desire a
first class security.

" The gross revenue for the half year has been
£447,423, showing an increase of £16,062 over the
corresponding half year of 1857, and making the
revenue of the year 1858 amount to £791,993, or
£11,406 in excess of the previous year. Of this
increase of £16,062, £10,356 arises in the coaching
traffic, £1,071 in the goods traffic, and the remainder
is chiefly the per tentage on the traffic of the West-
end and Crystal Palace line, retained by this com-
pany as the allowance for working the local traffic
on that branch. The recovery from the commercial
crisis of 1857, together with the general improve-
ment in trade, has caused the traffic , to resume its
onward course; it has also been assisted by the
opening of the Pimlico terminus for the traffie of
the South Coast, and the directors' experience of
the advantages already derived from the facility
thus afforded to the piblic confirms their expecta-
tions of the still greater results which will attend
the completion of the Victoria Station and Pimlico
Railway. These works are being rapidly pro-
ceeded with ; the most important is the bridge
crossing the Thames, which is being carried on with
great spirit, and the contractor has sanguine ex-
pectations that the whole will be completed before
the time fixed, namely, the Ist of June, 1860. The
working expenses of the past half-year are in excess
of those of the corresponding half-year of 1857 ;
this is accounted for by the cost of -working the
main line trains over the West-end line, and also by
that of working the local traffic on that line, ap-
pearing for the first time among the expenses. The
proprietors will find at the credit of the revenue
account the sum paid by the West-end company
for this latter service, which, until the line was
opened throughout, had been applied to meet the
expenditure. A considerable cost has also been
incurred in substantial repairs to the engine and
carriage stock, which, perhaps, might be fairly
considered as coming under the head of renewals ;
on which account, however, the proper amount
has been expended, six engines having been re-
placed or rebuilt at the cost of revenue during 1858.
A sum of £2,408 has been expended in completing
and improving the ballasting of that part of the
Hastings line which was re-laid in the spring of
1858, and the cost has been placed to the debit of
the. Permanent Way Improvement Account. The
increased traffic left a larpr available balance, the
directors have placed to the credit of that account
the sum of £lO,OOO, instead of the £4,000 ordinarily
so applied : the revenue of 1858 will thus have contri-
buted £13,000 towards its extinction, a result which
cannot fail to be satisfactory to the proprietors.
In order to satisfy the urgent wishes of the prin-
cipal landowners in the district traversed by the
Shoreham, Henfield, and Horsham line, the direc-
tors have agreed to apply to Parliament for powers
to make a deviation in the northern portion of that
branch, which however will not increase the origi-
nally estimated cost. As regards the southern
portion, the directors may state that the plans for
carrying the line over the river Adur have now
received the approval of the Admiralty, and the
approach of the favourable season will enable the
works to be commenced and rapidly proceeded
with. The directors have taken the necessary steps
for the promotion in Parliament of a bill to sanction
this deviation, and they have availed themselves of
that opportunity to apply for powers enabling the
company to conclude the arrangements already
sanctioned by the shareholders for the lease and
purchase of Mid Sussex and the Lewes ttnd Uck-
, field Railways—to widen the Montpelier-road
bridge, so as to give better access to, and improve

the Brighton terminus—and to construct the short
spur line at Norwood, in accordance with the or/
rangements made with the Mid Kent Company, as
• reported last half-year. The constant and heavy
• expense incurred in maintaining the timber viaduct
which carries the Horsham line across the Ilfield
Mill-pond, renders it desirable to replace it with a
solid embankment, and clauses for the purpose are
also inserted in the bill. The proprietors will re-
collect that in the year 1856 powers were obtained
by a new company to extend this company's Epsom
line to Leatherhead. This line will shortly be
ready for opening ; and the directors have entered
into an arrangement to lease it with powers
to purchase, at- any time within three years, for
£40,000 of this company's five per cent. stock.
The necessary steps have been taken to obtain
Parliamentary sanction confirming this arrange-
ment, and also for a further extension of the line
to Dorking. Various schemes appear likely to
be brought under the consideration of Parlia-
ment in the approaching session, which will re-
ceive the careful attention of the directors. Several of
the metropolitan railway companies appear to ap!
prove highly of the site selected for the Victoria
Terminus, and numerous schemes have been set on
foot with a view to connect them with it. Among
other projects of the present year, the directors have
to notice two lines, promoted by independent
parties, in continuation of the Mid-Sussex Railway,
one extending from Petworth to Midhurst, and the
other from Pulborough to Arundel and Littichamp-
ton. A line has also been promoted from the West-
end of London and Crystal Palace Railway at Bal-
ham, to join this company's railway at the new
Norwood station ; it demands the support of the
directors, because, if properly carried out, it will
be the means of providing an improved ac2ess to
the West-end, and will enable the constantly in-
creasing local traffic of the attractive district tra-
versed by the West-end of London and Crystal
Palace line to be more efficiently worked by being
separated from the main line trains. The directors
regret to inform the proprietors that differences
have arisen with the London and South-Western
Railway Company, in consequence of that company
not only having agreed in contravention of treaties
and without the knowledge of this company, to
take a lease of the Portsmouth Railway, but having
subsequently refused to admit this company as
joint parties to the arrangement. The directors
have exerted their best powers, and offered liberal
concessions, with a view to prevent a rupture ; and
in the present state of the question, they trust that
the proprietors will leave the matter in their hands.
It may, however, be stated that on the 28th Dec.,
the South-Western Company took violent posses-
sion of this company's line at Havant, obstructed
the passage of all the trains for about six hours,
and forcibly attempted to carry the traffic of the
Portsmouth Railway over this company's line be-
tween Havant and Hilsea Redoubt, before the terms
and conditions of such user had been settled by the
arbitrator, as required by the Portsmouth Railway
Amendment Act, 1858, and notwithstanding pre-
vious notice from this company that, in the absence
of those arrangements, such user could not be per-
mitted. This course enforcedthe necessity of obtain-
in g protection from the Court of Chancery. The award
is now published, but the question of the right of
the South-Western Company to carry the traffic of
the Portsmouth Railway into the joint station at
Portsmouth is still undecided. The proprietors may,
however; rest assured that the directors are most
reluctant to enter upon a contest, and that, in any
step which it may become necessary to take, the
interests of this eompany will be consulted and pro-
tected. The net amount at the credit of the revenue
account, after providing for all preferential charges,
is £164,831, out of which the directors recommend
the payment of a dividend of 3,1 per cent. for the
half-year, amounting to £161,649, leaving a balance
to the credit of the current half-year of £3,182, and
making the dividend for the year 1858 amount to
6 per cent. Three of the directors, namely, Leo
Schuster, Chas. Lushington, and John Nix, Esqs.,
go out of office by rotation, and being eligible for
re-election, offer themselves accordingly. One of
the auditors, Jas. Reeves, Esq., retires by rotation,
and being eligible for re-election will offer himself
accordingly."