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London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

LON DON, SAI URDAY EVENING, JUL 1' 18, 1857.

r3m the London Gazette or Last Night.

At the Court at Buckingham Pabice, the 16th day of
July, 1,57, present, the Queen'e•Most Excellent Majesty in
Council—Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint
John Henry Philips, Esq., M.P., to be her Majesty's Lieu-
tenant of the town and county of the. town of Haverford-
west, he this d•iy took the oaths appointed to be taken
thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supre-
macy.

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COMMISSIONS SIGNED By LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Ist Devon Regiment of .Militia-L-Ricbard Anson Brine to
be Ensign.
Devon Militia Artillery—Andrew Frederick Dunster-
vile to be Second Lieutenant.
Prince of Wales' Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia--
Assistant-Surgeon William Frederick Lewis Gompertz to
be Surgeon, vice Bell, resigned.-

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 16.
Tice following promotions, dated the 9th inst., conse-
quent on the death, on the Bth inst. of Admiral of the
White Sir Robert Howe Bromley, Bart., have taken
plac?

Admiral of the Blue John Sykes to be Admiral of the
White:
Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Granville Leveson, Earl
of Carysfort, on the Reserved Half-pay List, to the Ad-
miral on the same list.
Vice-Admiral of the Red the Right Hon. George, Earl
of Cadogan, C. 8., to b 3 Ailtniral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White Sir C. Napier, 5.C.8., to
be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir G. Rose Sartorius to be
Vice-Admiral cf the White.
Rear-Admirals on the Reserved Half-ray List
Grace A lg(rn m Duke of
Northumli rlaud, Ic G.,
John Carter,
Henry Meynell,
to be Vice-Admirals on the same list.
Tsar-Admiral of the Red Arthur Faashawe, C.D., to be
Vice-Admiral of the Blue.

Rear-Admiral of the White Sir George Robert Lambert,
K.C.B , to be Rear Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Charles Ramsay Drinkwater
Bethune, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain William Har_Toed, •
Captain Sir Thomits Raikes Triage Thompson, Bart., to
be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved Half-pay Liat.
Captain Robert Smart, &H., t; be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.

Captain William Robertson, on the Retired List, has
also been promoted to be a Retired Rear-Admir ,1 on the
terms proposed in the Lonelon Gazette of Ist September,
1819, without increase of pay.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, July 16, 1857.
Notice is hereby given, to all parties interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended dis-
tribution of proceeds arising from the slave brigantine,
name unknown, supposed to be the Chatsworth, captured
on the let Jan., 1853, by her Majesty ship Hecate.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may bo examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said
Court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attor-
ney, prize orders, a3signments, or other instruments, by
virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the
share belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little
delay as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by
the usual documents, to the Prize Br mch of the Depart-
ment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi-
ralty, Somerset-house."
Due notice will be given, by futura advertisemen►.s in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the commence-
ment of distribution; and at the Fame time, the amount
of an individual's share in the respective classes will be
announced.

RAILWAY IN TELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.

The idirectors of this company have issued a re-
port to' the shareholdera on the subject of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company's
breach of their agreement. It .statps that in 1854,
when the Sheffield Company were in great peen,
niary difficulties, their directors induced the Lon-
don and North-Western Company to enter-into a
•general traffic agreement with thein, delerininable
only upon seven years' notice ; that the known and
intended pecuniary operation of that agreement
was very decidedly in favour of the Sheffield com-
pany for the earlier years ; and that agreemeent
has been acted upon until now, the Sheffield Com-
pany receiving under.it large amounts half-yearly
in aid of their dividends ; and that when the ex-
pected. change in the pecuniary operation of the
agreement appeared tobe at band, the Sheffield Com-
pany have declared it altogether and at once at an
• end, without any previous notice, and without
appealing to the arbittatien provided- for by it.
The report alsO states that the alleged grievances
and pretended negotiatiees on account of which
the Sheffield directors say they adopted this co.tu-se,
and the utter absence of foundation for any such
allegations, will appear in the correspondence;
minutes, and resolutions of the board, which are
appended to the report. That 'it will further be.
seen by. these documenta that the Sheffield
Company have not ventured to avail themselves
of their power to have their charges and pretended
grievances referred to either of the impartial arbi-
trators to whom they were bound to leave all dis-
putes which might arise betweenthe cfanpanies as to
the letter or spirit of the agreement. The London
and North-Western directors indignantly deny all
the charges against them, declaring that they have
from first to last most fully and honourably, and
in a liberal spirit, performed the agreement on
their part. The report concludei with the follow-
ing observations :—" There is not the slightest pre-
tence for• 'saying that any sum of money ever was
due to the Sheffield Company under the agreement,
beyond that actually paid to them. The oh trges
now brought against the London and North-Wes-
tern Company of illiberal conduct in withelding
traffic and in deducting 50 per cent. on the
deficiency are contradicted by the repea,fed pub-
lic declarations of Mr. Chapman, or the Shef-
field Company as evidenced by extrac's from
the reports of the Sheffield board and, the
proceedings at the general m-etings of their pro-
prietors. But if either in this respect or in any
other, they rea'ly believed that the agreement had
at all been infringed, they were bound to avail
themselves of their undoubted right of arbitration
under it. The conduct of the Sheffield directors and
the entanglement and competi.ion which must, for
a time at least, follow, cannot but be matter of re-
gret to your directors, in common with all interested
in railway property. Your directors, however, con-
fidently believe that, by a temperate but firm main-
tenance of your just right they will be enabled to
protect the traffic of this company against any seri
ous injury from those causes ; and the directors
rely upon the cordial and united support of the
proprietors in such measures as may be necessary
under the circumstances in which they are so uu-
exp-.,ctecily placed."

MANCHESTER, SHEETIELD, AND LIN-

COLNS HIRE.

The half-yearly report of the directors of this
company has just lacen issued. It states that the
accounts of the half-year show a total revenue of
291,0811. earned, in connexion with the railways
and elnals, a total expenditure of 141,7341., and a
balance of net profits of 149,3451., wldch, with the
balance of 4,5001. from the previous half-year, gives
a total sum of 153,8471. available for interest and
dividend. The debenture and other interest
charges against the half-year amount to 63,5101.,
the canal annuities to 13,7341., the dividend on de-
benture stock to 2501., on the preference shares to
23,6151., on the 3f per cent. stock to 5,9581., and
on the 6 per cent. preference stock to 26,1601.,
Making a total preference charge of 133,2991., and
leaving 20,5471. availaVe for dividend on the ordi-
nary stock of the company. The directors recom-
mend a dividend of 10s. per 1001. on the ordinary
stock, or at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum,
leaving a balance of 1,046/. The receipts for passen-
ger tratlic show an increase of 4,6151 over those of
the corresponding half of last, sear. ,The increase
in the goods traffic amounted to 16,5131., and in
the mineral traffic to 3,983/. There has been a de-
crease of 4981. in the receipts for parcels, &e., and
of 981. in live stock. The receipts for dues, wharf-
age, km., at Grimsby Docks amounted to 2,618/ ,
against 2,1581. in the first half of 1856, showing an
increase of 4601. •
Under the agreement with the Great Northern
traffic between Manchester and places west of Man-
chester will be worked continuously to and from
London on and after the Ist of August next. The
net profit of the year ending the 30th of June,
1853, was 175,084/. ; and that of the year just
ended, 300,6451., showing an increase of 125,5611.
in the course of four years. The total expendi-
ture on capital account amounts to 8,841,0161,

TRA.FFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-July

HOUSE OF LORDS.
THE SHREWSBURY PEERAGE.

The documentary evidence in this case was con
tinned.

Lord Belhaven* was the only viva.'voce witness,
and his evidence went to show that he was told by
the family of John, sixtenith earl, that Earl Ber-
tram, the last earl, would keep out the protestant
branch of the family. •
The fiiriher proceedings were then adjourned to
Monday week. .

EQUITY COURTS.
(Before Viee-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.)
HOLMES V. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

This suit was instituted by Messrs. Smith and
Co., news agentr, and the object of it was to obtain
certain declarations and relief, by way of injunc-
tion, restraining the defendants from removing the
book-stalls occupied by the plaintiffs at the various
stations of the Eastern Counties Railway. In
February, 1856, plaintiffs entered into an agree-
rifent with the defendants, whereby they we; e to
ha-Ve the exclusive right of selling newspapers, pe-
riodicals; pamphlets, • and other publications, they
paying to the company arent of 1,5001. a year for the
first five_ years,. and 2,000/. a year -for the ensuing
five years, the parcels of the plaintiffs being con-
veyed free of charge. The plaict'ffscomplained that
their book-stall at the Bishopsgate station had been
removed, so as not to be accessible to the passen-
gers waiting for the departing trains, which it was
when tile agreement was made, and they likewise
complained of being obatTueted in putting up a
book-stall at Bishop Stortford. number of affida-
vits were read, and it appeared that the plaintiffs
had complained that the company charged the
news agents who lived at the towns on the line too
small a sum for the carriage of their parcels, and
had requested them to charge a higher sum in order
that the plaintiffs might be protected against those
country news agents who entered into competition
with them, though they were not allowed to sell
newspapers inside the stations, and the company
bad complied with that request. The defendants,
in their turn, complained that the plaintiffs had
abused their right of sending parcels free by in-
closing in them books which were not intended to

he sold to passengers by the railway, but had been
ordered by biolisellt rs and otters living on the line.
The Vice-Chaneellir held that the plaintiffs were
not entitled ,to enclose in their plr.rels anything.
but books and newspapers intended to be sold by
them on the railway, and he granted an injunction
to rastiain the defendants from removing the book-
stall at Bishopsgate, or any other. station, from their
position at the time of the agreement was entered
into.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Murphy.)
IN RE EDWARD RAWSON CLARK.

In this case an application was made to issue
execution on the warrant of attorney executed at
the time of the discharge, in 1831, on the ground
that Mr. Clark (who was connected with the turf)
possessed c)nsiderable property, and was of
ability" t) lay his debts.
Mr. Red showed cause, and Mr. Sargood moved
to make the rule absolute.

An application was made by Mr. Reed for a proof
of debts. Some creditors had been paid, and a
release had been executed by others. • Mr. Clark
was ready to pay into court any sum that might be
fonnd due.

Mr. Sargooi said the debts in the schedule were

1411., and should be paid into court. 'Mr. Clark,

in an affidavit in this court i❑ the case of Mr.
Howard, said he was worth 12,0001. over 11;s debts,
and on examination said 90,0001. was the amount
Of his property.
Mr. Commissioner Miirphy made the rule abso-
into, being of opinion that Mr. Clark was of
"ability" to pay, as set forth by the act.
Mr. Reed asked for a week's time, as Mr. Clark
was out of town.

The learned Commissioner slw no reason to grant
any delay. Mr. Clark was no doubt at the Liver-
po4)l races, and the telegraph would reach him.
The rule to enforce the warrant of attorney was
ina'de absolute.