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Saturday the Retribution will be taken in, to have an
additional piece of false keel abaft, and also a piece
put on her sternpost to throw her rudder further aft.
We have not heard that her masts are to be moved—
they certainly look misplaced.
SHARPSHOOTER.—The Brazilian slaver Polkr, cap-
tured by the screw-tchooaer Sharpshooter, Lieu-
tenant Commander Bailey, off Port Machie, on the
coast of Brazil, June 23, arrived at St. Helena, Aug.
28, in charge of Mr. Milne' master's-as.!.istant.
Sprightly, steam. tender, Mater Commander Allen,
arrived at Portsmouth from Devonport yesterday
morning, bringing up a few sup:rnumeraries.
Wasp, 14, screw. sloop, Commander Crczic r, arrived
at Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon, and saluted the
flag of the Commander•in-Chief. She went up
through the Needles;' consequently, it is supposed
that in the very thick foggy weather that we have had
she overshot her port. . She will probably proceed to
Plymouth to-day. A number of persons have been
awaiting her arrival at Portsmouth.
WATERWITCH.—The Brazilian brig' Anna, de-
tained by the Waterwitcb, 8, Commander Quin, on
the 14th of August, off Logito, having' slave equip-
ments, arrived at St. Helena, August 24, for adjudi-
cation. She was in charge of Lieutenant Grylls.
PORTSMOUTH, -WEDNESDAY.--The Helena 81omin,
a screw steamer, 800 tons and 180-horse power,
started by a Hamburgh" firm to run regularly be-
tween Southampton and New York, passed Spithead
san her way to Southampton yesterday afternoon at 3
Pwrif. She left Hannburgb it 2 P.M. on Saturday, and
thus accomplished her journey so far, against strong
adverse winds a greater part:ar
her way, in 60 hours,
which augurs well for her passage across the At-
lantic. She is an iron vessel; built at Hull, has ex-
cellenta ccommodations, and is commanded by Cap-
tain P. N. Paulsen. She arrived at Southampton at
5 P.M., and embarked passengers to-day.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, sailed
this evening for the eastward.
PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30.—A frigate re-
ported to be her Majesty's frigate Cambrian, 40,
Commodore James H. Plumridge, from the East
Indies, entered the Sound this morning, and saluted
the Port Admiral.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE FRENCH FLEET IN TORBAY.
TORQUAY, OCT. 29.—Since writing this morning
the steam-frigate got under weigh, and, it is sup-
posed, went to Dartmouth, as she returned again at
three o'clock P.M. She is a very fine vessel, and
steams very fast.
The fleet got under weigh as soon as the steamer
was in sight this afteenoon, and were all standing to
the westward under single reefed topsail; topgallant
sails, jib, spanker, &c., at four o'clock, P.m. At five
P.M. they were not in sight.
The whole of the fleet got under weigh in a most
slovenly manner, and not at all like ships-of-war,
much less like ships-of-the-line.
I sailed round the Friedland and Vainly, the two
flag-ships. They are two beautiful vessels, and in
very nice order about the hull, but not particularly so
about the masts and rigging. In the latter there is a
great want of neatness, and things do not look so
snug as about our ships-of-the-line. The &French
Admiral very kindly allowed all who applierpermis-
sion to go on board, and numbers availed themselves
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An officer from one of the ships landed here, and
proceeded immediately by train to London.
(ANOTHER ACCOUNT.)
The French fleet, under the command of Vice-Ad-
miral Deschenes, consisting, of the Friedland, 120,
flag-ship of the Vice• Admiral ; Valmy, 112, Rear-
Admiral Dubourdiiu ; Henri IV., 100, Captain De
G-ueydon ; Jemmappes, 100, Captain De Vareza ; In-
flexible, 90, Captain De Mouleon ; Jena, 90, Captain
Larrien ; and the Caton (steam-sloop), Captain Gues-
nel, which left Cherbourg on the morning of the 26th,
for Brest, and anchored in Torbay on Monday after-
noon, left at 430 r. on Tuesday, the wind being
northerly and fine. It appears they have been de-
tained at Cherbourg by the weather, and we are in-
formed, when ordered to sea, hesitated to take the
eastern passage, on account, as they allege, of shoal
water.

Thirty first-class boys are gone on board the Port
land for general service in ships on the South AIM
rican station.

APPOINTMENTS.

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sailed, 12th, .to Queenstown; Richard Thornton, I Itb,
from Batavia, and sailed 12th to London; Phillip Laing,
12th, from Calcutta, and sailed to London; Jorge Cor-
neliF, from Batavia, and sailed to London ; 'Chaucer,
from Mauritius, and sailed to the Clyde; the Duke, from
Calcutta to Liverpool ; Anna Polowna, from Batavia,
and sailed 12th, to Amsterdam; Lady Kennaway, from
Madras and Pondicherry, and sailed 12th to London ;
Weltevredeni from Batavia, and sailed 13th to Rotter
dam ; La Perouse, from Sumatra to Nantes ; Duke of
York, from Calcutta, and sailed 13th to Livarpol; Sa-
lacia, lath, from Calcutta; Beethoven, from Madras.
ARRIVALS IN TABLE BAY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—
The Sir Thomss Gresham. Aug. 20, front London ;
Duilius, 23d, from Bong-Kong, and sailed 24th to
Liverpool; Birkby, 25th, from Moulmein.
ARRIVALS IN ALCOA. BAY.—The Edgar, Aug. 16,
from London ; 'Plurnstead, from Table Bay ; Chamois,
18th, from London; Prince of Wales, from Launceston;
Alice Maud, from London.
ARRIVAL IN SIMON'S BAY.—The Edcuonatone, from
Bombay.

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CHEAP GAS.
Yesterday the second half-yearly meeting of the
shareholders in the Great Central Gas Consumers'
Company was held at the London Tavern. Upwards
of 400 shareholders were present.
Mr. T. DAKIN, the chairman, expressed his regret
that he bad been unavoidably absent from the extra-
ordinary general meeting held a'short time since.
That meeting had been held at the instance of the di-
rectors to obtain authority to borrow money upon
mortgage, if it should become necessary. The meet-
ing had manifested their confidence in the discretion
of the directors by unanimously conferring upon
them the powers they asked.—(Hear, bear.) They
had made an appeal to their shareholders, which had
been met by a prompt response, and they had ab•
stained from exercising their borrowing power.—
(Cheers.) He was happy to say the report the di-
rectors would present was of the most satisfactory
description.—(Hear.) The company had been stig-
matized as a paper company., and it had been boldly
prophesied by their enemies that a foot of gas would
never be supplied, and that a single pipe never won!
be laid.—(Laughter.) These false prophets hid
failed in their predictions, and the fond hopes of the
gas monopolists had been destroyed by the tri
umphant success of the new company.—(Loud
cheers.) The present history and the future pros-
pects of the company might be read by their opponents
in the magnitude of the works at Bow, in the enor-
mous quantity of mains and pipes laid throughout the
city, in the number of gas consumers who had already
received, and the number who were waiting to take
the gas as soon as they could be accommodated.—
(Cheers.) The introduction of gas, as the means of
furnishing artificial light for domestic and trade con-
sumption, was undoubtedly one of the most impor-
tant elements in human progress; but it had its dis-
advantages. When manufactured in densely-populous
neighbourhoods by the old and imperfect methods of
manufacture, it loaded the atmosphere with noxious
vapours and scattered disease amongst the surround-
ing inhabitants.—(Cheers.) Public attention had
been recently directed to the sanitary improvement
of the city; and it was absurd to suppose that the
vigilance of the Legislature, which interdicted petty
nuisances in crowded parts of the metropolis, would
long tolerate in the heart of the city the exist-
ence of a gigantic gas factory, which was ex-
pressly classed by the Building Act amongst
the noxious and dangerous trades. The new com-
pany's works, amongst the chemical factories at Bow-
common, were free from those objections. The Com-
missioners of Sewers,who, with their officer of health,
were laudably employed in removing from the city all
nuisances prejudicial to the public health, must hail
with satisfaction, upon sanitary grounds, apart from
economical considerations, the new company, which
had already supplied to the citizens a large amount of
gas manufactured at Bow-common in substitution for
that which would otherwise have been produced in
the most crowded part of the most crowded city in the
world.—(Cheers.)
Here the SECRETARY ad the report, which, after
an allusion to the oppoaMon encountered by the com-
pany, stated that tleidiLectors would not enter into
the particulars of the eliffi`tultieewith which they had
to contend, as negotiations or alettlement were going
on at the suggestion of the Lordlikanceller. A sum
of 8,5001. had been received on the last call and upon
calls in arrear, and the directors confidently hoped ig
would not be necessary to borrow money upon mort
gage.

- -
WOOLWICH', OCT. 30.—Lieutenant the lion. Oliver
W. M. Lambert (1844), to the Ocean, 80, flag-ship
at Sheerness.
Master James Saunders (1848), recently com-
mander of the Nortia Star when sent to the Arctic
regions, to he Master-Attendant at Malta yard, vice
James Napier, superannuated.
Midshipman the Hon. IL W. Chetwynd, to the
Victory flag. ship at Portsmouth.
Mr. William Drake, to be foreman at Chatham
dockyard.

t is rather a novelty to see a French fleet at anchor
on the English coast, and Commander Storey, the In-
specting Commander of the Coast Guard at Torquay,
it would appear, deemed it his duty to visit
the 'Admiral's ship to discover the reason of
their visit. He was informed that stress of weather
obliged them to seek shelter under Berry Head; but
the wind being at the time due north, and the weather
moderate, the Gallant Commander was determined to
watch their movements and to report them.
The ships are stated to look in good order and
clean, and handled their canvas tolerably quick on
coining to an anchor.
Spithead or Ply rnouth Sound may, on the next
occasion, afford them fine- weather shelter, and give
them an opportunity of seeing what is going on there.
Had they visited the former place they would have
seen in the harbour, ready for sea, three line-of-battle
ships, two of them screws • Vengeance, 84 ; Blen-
heim, G 0; and Hogue, 60; the two former with ad-
vanced complements, which in the course of half an
hour might be fitted up; and a steam•frigate, Retri-
bution, 22 ; and a steam-shop, Hecate, 6 ; besides a
powerful reserve of steamers.
Had th-y visited Plymouth they would have found
there two line-of-battle ships, a 50-gun frigate, and a
sloop, all in the Sound—namely, the Albion, 9U,
three-fourths manned ; the Bellerophon, 78, fully
maned ; and the Portland, 50, fully manned, with a
good steam reserve in the harbour.
It is as well to mention cur strength at the two
ports to guard against mistakes or misrepresentations.
The French 90 -gun ship Inflexible, it is said, will
he put out of commission at Brest, and her officers
and crew turned over to an 120-gun ship just launched
—the Bayard.
The Turkish frigate Mirat Zafir, Captain Mehemet
Bey, saluted the Governor yesterday morning, at ten
o'clock, with 21 guns, to which the platform battery
replied, and the flag of Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen
Capel with 17 guns, to which the Victory replied with
a like number. Captain Mehemet Bey, with Captain
Bey of the Suray Bahri, brig, with another officer,
with Lewis Vandenbourg, Rt, and Mr. Beattie, the
Turkish consul at Portsmouth, landed at noon, and
paid their respects to Admiral Capel and the Lieu-
tenant-Governor, Lord F. Fitzclarence. These
ships have been 21 days from Gibralter, and it is sup-
posed they will remain all the winter in England,
either at Portsmouth or Plymouth. The frigate
mounts 50 guns, nearly all brass, and has a comple-
ment of 363 men ; she looks small and clumsy. The
brig is a finer-looking vessel ; she has 20 brass guns,
and a complement of about 140 men. It was expected
that Captain Slade, R.N., would be in one of these
vessels, but it appears that. Captain Mehemet Bey did
not even know such a person.
The Admiralty have ordered bilge ways to be lent
from the Woolwich dockyard to Mare and Co., of
Blackwall, who are building for the navy the High-
flyer stean-frigate.

Mr. George L. Cole, to be measurer at Woolwich
dockyard.

REVIEW OF No. 10,
" The one be ore us certainly deserves the attention of the public.
Its articles, whether original or extracted, exhibit more than the
average amount of judgment, with considerable editorial skill."—
Court Journal.

W. and T. Piper, Paternoster-row ; Itaseldon, Wigmore-street.

lIERR LABlTZKY.—Theadmirers of this won-
derful composer of Dance Music may now hear his lovely
Waltzes, Polkas, and Galops every evening, conducted by the com-
poser himself, at the unrivalled National Concerts, by the liberal di-
rectors of which he has been invited as the most accomplished di-
rector of Dance Music in Europe. His Berlin, Herbal-blumen, End
Tony Waltzes, his Californian Galop and Charlolten Polka, and all
his music may be had at Herr Labitzky's publishers, the Messrs. R.
Cocks and Co , New Burlington-street.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
A week's later dates from Malta (Oct. 22) gives
us a few additional movements of our men of war.
Frolic, Hi, brig, Commander Vansittart, arrived
from a cruise in search of pirates on Saturday, and
left on the following day, to relieve the Racer, 12,
Commander Beddoes, at Corfu.
Volage, surveying vessel, Captain Graves, from
Sula Bay, and Research tender, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Lord J. Brown, arrived on the 18th, and
having taken pratique on Saturday, the Volage sailed
for England on Monday night, and another of her
tenders, the Auxiliary cutter from Athens, also ar-
rived on Friday last. She and the Research are laid
up in ordinary, and orders have been given to dis-
mantle them.

THE WEST INDIES.
Diligence, naval transport, Master-Commander
Mitchell, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning,
from Bermuda, laden with old iron, copper, and some
other old stores. She left that island on the 2d inst.
Scorpion, 6, surveying vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander G. B. Laurence, was the only man of war
there.

The Commander•in-Chief, Vice-Admiral the Earl
of Dundonald, was expected at Bermuda from Hali-
fax, in the Wellesley, 72, Captain Goldsmith, about
the 15th inst.

Albion, 90, Captain Hope Johnstone, is fast filling
up her increased advanced complement. She entered
50 blue jackets one day this week, and as soon as the
order is issued for completing her crew to 820, she
will not be long getting them.
Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, was
off Madeira from Portsmouth with artillery fur Bar-
badoes, &c,, on the sth inst. She had a terrible blow-
ing time of it getting out of the Channel.
Banshee, late Holyhead steam-packet, Master-
Commander Smethett, has been ordered to be paid
off at Woolwich—those of her crew who reside
t Holyhead and Kingstown being sent thither by
railway.

Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baines, C. 8., was in-
spected and exercised on Tuesday afternoon, in Ply-
mouth Sound, by the Port Admiral, Sir W. H.
Gage, G.C.H., and was ordered to be towed into
Barnpool yesterday to be paid off all standing, with-
out any of her stores being removed. It is pro-
bable, however, that she will not be paid off this week,
and she may have another cruise before she discharges
her crew.

The Diligence bas brought home Mr. Wearn, boat.
swain, promoted from the Scorpion, about three inva..
tided convicts, and four military prisoners (privates).
She leaks a little, and will probably go into harbour.
The convicts are to be landed immediately. She ex-
changed longitudes with a French man-of-war steamer
on the 4th.

Caradoc, late Holyhead steam-packet, went out of
Portsmouth harbour to try her speed at the measured
mile in Stokes' Bay, but the weather was occasionally
so thick that the marks could not be seen. She did
not return into harbour till late. We understand that
a trial between the Banshee and the Caradoc was offi-
cially ordered, but by some influence it was counter-
manded. One of. Mr. Seaward's partners was down
at Portsmouth yesterday, to see the working of the
Caradoc's engines. It is too bad that certain influ-

Tee engineer's report stated, that the works were
nearly in a state of completion, and that the expense
would, in Mr. Croll's (the engineer) opinion, not ex-
ceed the estimate. The delay which had occurred in
getting the services and meters fixed in time to meet
the demand of the consumers throughout the city was
ascribed to delays in casting various parts of the ma-
chinery, partly from the negligence and treachery
which had been detected on the part of some of the
workmen engaged in laying the pipes, and partly by
the obstructions occasioned by the suit instituted by
the rival City gas company. Notwithstanding all
these impediments to the full development of an anti-
cipated supply, up to last night upwards of 2,800 con-
sumers, burning 15,000 lights, had been supplied with
the company's gas, which was acknowledged to be of
a superior illuminating power, and, with a few ex-
ceptions in the districts supplied by the city company,
the quantity had been ample. The report concluded
with some remarks on the undue pressure alleged to
have been used by the old city company, to which the
gas-fittings in use were adapted, so that it appeared
as if the company's gas (being placed under a mode-
rate pressure) was deficient in quantity—a defect
which would be remedied by an examination and al-
teration of the fittings.
The report was unanimously adopted.
In reply to a question from 111 r. Machin as to the
remuneration of the directors,
The CHAIRMAN said that was a question entirely
for the consideration of the shareholders. The sub-
ject had been mooted at the board. The directors
had laboured assiduously in the service of the com-
pany for two years, and, so confident were they of
the undertaking paying a dividend of ten per cent.,
charging their gas at 4s. per thousand, that they were
perfectly willing to continue their services without
any remuneration until the shareholders should realise
a dividend of ten per cent., and theyleave
it then
it to the shareholders to assess the
value of their ser-
vicels at their own estimate.—(Hear, hear.)
i‘ r. CHARLES PEARSON reminded the meeting that
although he had retired from the direction, and had
therefore no personal interest in the matter under
consideration, he had an honorary seat at the board. at
the
request of the citizens of the various wardmotes
held last December, and in that capacity he had ven-
tured to differ from the other directors in the resolu-
tion they had adopted respecting their own remune-
ration. At the meeting of the board be had been
silenced by those arguments but not convinced ; end,
as the subject had been broached by an independent
shareholder, he should venture to repeat the argu-
ments which he had in vain urged to the directors
themselves ; and he would, if necessary, take the
sense of the meeting upon his proposal, which was to
present the directors with a small—a very small—re-
muneration for their past and present services with
an increase as the interests of the company advanced.
The report that had been just read informed the meet-
ing that the directors bad, at his recommendation,
deemed it wise to adopt that course in fixing the
salaries of their clerks and officers ; and he did not
think ;it would detract from their own dignity if they
applied the same principle to themselves. Of one
thing he was quite certain—the rumuneretion of the
directors ought to be at once settled. The proposal
of the chairman was very liberal and very honour-
able, but with submission to him it was not very
business like, and their calumniators, so far from
giving them credit for their generosity, would use it
as a peg to hang an additional slander upon.—(Hear.)
Already, as he understood, some anonymous calum-
niator had imputed sinister motives to the directors,
and had represented that they divided 2,0001. a year
amongst themselves. The directors held amongst
them 30,0001. in paid-up shares of the company. It
was absurd, therefore, to suppose that they would not
be influenced by the strongest desire to secure their
own interests by promoting the general interests of
the whole body of the shareholders.—(liar.) It was
very likely that the exertions of the directors, both
collectively and individually, would be as great for the
protection of their own property without any other
remuneration as could be called into action by any
other description of stimulus. It would be, however,
wise to deal with the directors as men of business, pre-
cisely the same as if they, had no interest in the
company beyond their qualification shares.—([sear.)There was not a single individual engaged in the ac-
tual operations of the company, from the chairman to
the door-keeper, who doubted the fact of their ablity
to sell superior gas at 45., and pay a dividend of ten
per cent., provided they economised the expenditure,
and used due diligence to extend their consumption.
The public at large m ightdoubt that, some of the share-
holders might doubtit, and it might be that the confi-
dence of the directors and officers would not be realized,
and that 9,8, 7, or even 6 per cent. might nct for a
time be realised, from circumstances over n hid] they
might have no control, and which yet involved no im-
peachment of either their healthfulness or their judg-
ment. Under such circumstances ought the directors,
the servants of the company, to have no allowance to
defray the charges of coach-hire, coffee-house charges,

ences should be allowed to prevail with the Admi-
ralty to nullify their own orders. The Caradoc is
the ex-Surveyor's vessel, it will be remembered. The
Banshee is the child of his rival.
Dauntless, 24, screw•frigate, Captain Halsted,
left Queenstown, on Monday morning, at eight
o'clock, for Lisbon.
Geyser, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Tatham,
is only about half-a-doz-n blue jackets short. She
is reported to be complete at Woolwich to-morrow.
She will call at Devonport and be paid advance on
her way to the Brazils.
Hogue, 60, guard-ship, Captain Macdougal,
took out her powder and live shells at Portsmouth
yesterday morning, and is to go into harbour to-day
fur the purpose of having her leak in the run exa-
mined. It is only a trifling leak, and is occasioned
chiefly by the hydraulic power with which she is
fitted to lift her screw out of the water.-
Mariner, 12, Commander Mathison, having
been inspected in the Sound by Flog Captain Sir
Thomas Maitland, was towed into Devonport har-
bour on Tuesday to be paid off. Three invalids
and five of the crew died on the passage home from
China.

ChaAsPbEroooBl!h; GOODKoine
ditHes to OPEth.
Thee
31st
of
THE
arine
The Commander-in-Chief, Commodore Wyvill, in
August 2.
1 r
the Castor, 36, was still absent, and Dart, 3, brigan-
tine tender, and Dee, steam-vessel, cruizing in the
Mozambique.
Commander Fishbourne, of the Hermes, 6, steam-
sloop, was senior officer at Simon's Bay, the only
other ship being the depot, Seringapatam, Master-
Commander Russell. The Hermes was to take the
Governor and Lady Smith to Algoa Bay in September.
°rester, 14, Commander Hawker, was at Mauritius.
Pantaloon, 8, Commander Hyde Parker, left Simon's
Bay August 16, after a long refit, for the Mozambique,
to resume her cruising service for slavers. She put
into Algoa Bay on the 21st, and sailed again on the
24th August.

SHIP NE WS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Meme, ct. 24.
Sir,—The entrance to the harbour has
beenlO carefully
examined by the authorities, and a splendid broad chan-
nel
narrow with 155- feet water found, and in a straight line a
channel of nearly 17 feet.
(Signed) J. MASON Lloyd's Agent.
Captain G. A. Halstead, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.

OfrloommoNcoe,wfryoomrk;
LivEpoOL, OCT. 30.—Arrived, the Marine, from the
from Montreal; Levant, from Halifax; Colonist, from
Quebec; John Matthie, from Calcutta; Couranto, from
Palermo; Robert Preston, from Cadiz; Egidius, from
Ostend; Adams, from New Orleans; Alliance, from
ditto;Gulf oEnterprise,t.
Calcutta (sailed from St. Helena on
i\iexico ;
the 10th of Septem-
ber,Elia in company with the Cressida, for this port); Ella,
from Honduras; Amelia, from Charleston;
Wert
tßruns-
from New York; Eudocia, from St. John's, New Ali,
wick; Sir C. Napier, from Quebec; and Mehemet
teamer,
from Alexandria, E. Sailed—The Atlantic, s
New
Earl Orolefaln)se;vol:,°fraoimx'
Gyltl-
for New York; Corsair, for Monte Video;
Niels Ayres;
ing, for Messina; Timaranda, for Buenos
Ban Irinity Yacht, for Valencia; Socrates, for
for the Cape
Fran-
cisco; Marmion, for Rio Janeiro; Ottowa,
of Good Hope; Rhondda, for Buenos Ayres,
. chor, for
Dorothea, for Amsterdam; and Haabets
Anchor,
St.
Christiania. ON the port—The Samson
Princess
John's, New Brunswick; Virginia, Yeoman, and
Alice. The brig Heave, with railway iron for this port,
is ashore on the Horse Bank; crew saved.
GRAVESEND, OCT. 29.—Arrived 28. The Ranger (s.)
from Amsterdam; Countess of Cawdor from Stettin.
29. Lady Elizabeth from Dania; Liffeyfrom ditto;
Giraffe (s.) from Tonning ; Juno frolm.
Odense;Sisters from
from ditto; Fortuna from Assenst Throe
Corsoer; Providentia from Svendborg, Mauritius from
W
ditto; Sophia Catherine from ditto
from
Frederickstadt; Petra Dorothea
from
Sarpsborg; wil_
zabeth from Stettin
;
helmine Charlotte from Rostock; E
Olive Branch from ditto; Conqueror from Wolgast;
Kinloss from ditto; Scofra (?)
.- - from Riga; Leveret from
01 ditto; John from
St. Petersburgh; Eliza Caroline fro
ditto; Eliza Kirkbride from ditto; Brenda from ditto;
Apollo from Sands-
wall; from ditto; Star from ditto;
wall; Jacob from Bjorneborg; ocar from Droback.
30. Bosphorus (s.) from Constantinople. Sailed 29.
Himalaya for Adelaide, South Australia; Margaret for
Leith.

Retribution, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Warden,
will go into the new steam-basin at Portsmouth to-
morrow; and if the Odin, steam-frigate, that now oc-
cupies the basin dock, be ready to come out on

Sept. 27, 47 N., 30 W.
47,
Aristides, Bremen
Sir WITH.
,
Sir R. Parry (whaler), Oct. 20, Ist. I
long. 10.
Charles Cooper, Liverpool to New York, Oct. 2, lat. 44,
long. 48.
Princess, Liverpool to New York, 20th, lat. 49, long. 17.t0
John Melhuish, Liverpool Calcutta, Sept. 29, 16 N
27 W. .1
Advice, Liverpool to Rio Janeiro, 30th, 17 N., 28 W.
Cassida, Calcutta to Liverpool, Oct. 16, 40 N., 30 W.
Palmerston, steering S.W., 27th, 48 N., 10 W,
Merchant Packet (schooner), of Rye, from Labrador,
Oct. 5, 37 N., 12 W.
Calla (schooner), of Dartmouth, outward bound, Oct. 4,
36 N., 12 W.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
ARRIVALS.—The Penis, from Ceylon, in the Downs,
sailed from Colombo July 4th, Mauritius, July 23d,
Cape, Aug. 23d, St. Helene, Sept. 8:11; Soubanda, from
Bengal, in the Downs, sailed June 19th, St, Helena,
Sept. sth; Eleanor, from Mauritius, off Faltuouth, sailed
Aug. Sth; Acadia, f rem Ceylon, off Dover, sailed from
Colombo May 18th, Cape, Aug. sth; Belle Vue, from
Ceylon, off Dover, sailed from Colombo June 30th, St.
Helena, Sept. 6; Alliance, from Bengal, off Liverpool,
sailed June 21st, St. Helens, Sept. 9th; Couranto, from
Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed June 3d, Mauritius, July
25th; John Matthie, from Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed
June 18th. _ _

ARRIVALS AT ST.lwin s
and sailed
SatPot*G7
from Zanzibar, and sailed to Hamburgh; Home, Bth,
ftorom
rivtehrepCoolpiel,rCarnecsess wido,i9tnthey,
, from Calcutta,
HELENA.-The
from
SumatraA
raltar ; Gerardus Jacobus, from Batavia, and sailed, 10th,
to Amsterdam; Fleetwood, 10th, from Singapore, and

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and those inevitable petty charges to which men were
subjected, who once, twice, and sometimes thrice in a
week quitted their business or their domestic hearths
to transact the business of a trading company ?
(Hear, hear.) It would not be creditable to the
shareholders of a great and powerful company, as the
New Company had already become, to permit the
directors to place them under such an obligation.--
(Hear, hear.) lie would propose a vote which,
while it would enable the directors to defray the
petty cash expenses to which he had referred, would
obviously be an adequate recompense for their labours.
He proposed 500/. a Sear from the commence-
ment until they should, at the price of 4s. per thou-
sand, pay the dividend of ten per cent. out of the pro-
fits ; after which he would propose an allowance of
1,0001. per annum, with a further addition of 5001.
per annum upon their paying a ten per cent. divi-
dend, atter reducing the charge to 3s. 4d. per thou-
sand, which he was confident would be effected within
two years from that day.—(Great cheering.),
Mr. PEARSON having proposed a resolution to that
effect,
Mr. MACHIN felt the liberality of the conduct of
the directors in proposing to suspend the receipt of
any recompense for their services until the dividend of
10 per cent. should be realised. He, however, had
been convinced by the reasoning of Mr. Pearson that
some pecuniary acknowledgment should at once be
awarded them for their valuable exertions.—(Hear,
hear.) Whether the sum proposed by Mr. Pearson
for that purpose was an adequate remuneration might
be doubted. He should second the motion if it would
be acceptable to the directors.--(Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said that the directors having stated
their confidence in the speedy realisation of a ten per
cent. dividend, and their readiness to suspend all re-
muneration until that event, they would leave that
matter where the deed of incorporation left it—with
the shareholders.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G. Virtue was appointed one of the auditors,
and, other business having been transacted, the mee
ing adjourned.
d

ERIC AN PACKET STATION
IN IRELAND.
An interesting report on the south-western har-
bours of Ireland, and their respective capabilities for
a transatlantic packet-station, has lately been pre-
sented to the Cork and Bandon Railway Company by
Mr. Nixon, their engineer. The harbours examined
were four, namely, Berehaven, Bantry, Crookhaven,
and Dunmanus, and they all present advantages of
an important kind. Berehaven is at the entrance of
Bantry Bay, forty miles in longitude west of Galway,
and from its large area, and the great facilities which
the surrounding coast affords for making its defences,
it is pointed out as a most commanding position both
for a naval and a Transatlantic packet-station. Bantry
harbour is situated twenty miles up the bay above
Berehaven, to which, however, it is inferior both in
respect to extent as well as to ingress and egress
with adverse winds. Crookbaven is situated on the
most southern promontory of Ireland, and its longi•
tude is 30 miles west of Galway. It is small, as com-
pared with Berehaven or Bantry, but it is particularly
safe and easy of access in all winds, while its eligibi-
lity as a packet station is shown by the tact that it is
more frequented by Transatlantic traders than any
other harbour on the southern coast of Ireland. It
lies in a direct course between the coast of America
and that of England ; the neighbouring coast is well
lighted from the Fastnet Rock and Rock Island, and
it is said to be generally free from those fogs which
so frequently occur on the western shores of the
island. The fourth harbour, that of Dunmanus, is
but little, known. It is situated on the eastern side of
Dunmanus Bay, and is exceedingly small, and rarely
frequented. Its position, however, is very fthourable•
for a railway communication with Bandon. Each of
these harbours, from their southern position,, would
present the advantage of being suitable as a port of
call, so that steamers might leave London or Liver•
pool with a much ttnaller supply of coals than
under present circumstances. At Berehaven
and Crookhaven this would especially be the
case. With regard to the means of connecting all or
any of the various points thus described with the pre-
sent railway communication between Dublin and
Bandon, Mr. Nixon recommends the construction of
a line from Bandon to Bantry, with single rails, which
should branch off in two routes as it approaches the
latter town, the one to Berehm en and the other to
Dunmanus and Crookhaven. From Bandon to Dere-
haven would be 641 miles, and the cost is estimated at
642,7501. From Bandon to Crookhaven would be 50
miles, at a cost of 395,0001. Supposing, however,
the entire plan carried out, 30 miles of thA road
(namely, from Bandon to within five miles of Bantry,
casting 225,0001.) would be common to both routes.
Mr. Nixon concludes his report as follows :—" In con-
clusion, I have to offer a few remarks on the great na-
tional benefits which would arise by the construction of
railways in those localities through which the pro-
jected lines would pass. I need scarcely remark that
the employment of the labouring poor is the only
means of reducing the rates which in the western and
populous districts of the county (Cork) is a matter of
the greatest importance to the ratepayers. And the
general employment created, as well by the construc-
tion as the maintenance of lines of railway, would so
reduce the pressure on the labour market, that all
classes would unquestionably be greatly benefited by
the carrying out of large undertakings of the kind.
No better proof of this need be given than the fact
that during the construction of the Cork and Bandon
Railway several electoral divisions in its vicinity had
their poor so generally employed that no rate was
made in those districts during the time the works
were going on, and the increased traffic caused by the
completion of such works must lead. to permanent
advantages, both to the agricultural and commercial
classes of the district,which cannot be over estimated."
—Times.

EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—The prosperous state of the country, and the
want of subjects of interest to occupy public atten-
tion, seem to make the present a fitting time to
bring forward any plan by which a retrograde social
movement may be prevented, and the circumstances
of our labouring classes permanently improved. Emi-
gration is so universally admitted to be the simplest
and easiest means to this end, that I need not occupy
your paper with arguments to prove it. Emigration
ha., however, in some sort fallen into descredit, be-
cause it has been presented to us in two phases only,
either as the indiscriminate shovelling of paupers out
of this country into another, or as an elaborate and
expensive process, which cannot be carried out except
under peculiar conditions, the success of which is by
many esteemed problematical, and which can never
be adopted on a larger scale.
I have for many years past been endeavouring to
arrange some system which shall occupy a middle
position, make the labourer a landholder, and yet not
leave the capitalist without labour; be inexpensive
enough in its details to admit of universal adoption,
yet afford opportunity for the investment of large
capital ; give to the emigrant ultimately the freedom
of mind and independence resulting from the know-

ledge that what he possesses The has bought
and paid for, and return proper interest on
the capital required—a system which should
be at once social and remunerative, which
should offer as much inducement to the
small capitalist as the labourer, not only
from the cheapness of land and prospect of success in
the mere business of life, but because it would afford
religious and mental instruction and medical aid,
without which the voice of the world has most justly
decided that emigration is a serious, if not an unmiti-
gated, evil to the emigrant, whatever relief his ab-
sence may prove to those whom he has left behind.
The expense of the voyage to Australia or New
Zealand, and the price and character of the land in
those countries, unfit them for any such purpose. Our
North American colonies are, therefore, those only to
which we can look with hope. Lately " annexation"
has, if I mistake not, been a bugbear to many ; it
may be doubted if even her Majesty's Government
did not share the panic ; and, indeed, annexation will
take place in ore sense, though not as they supposed.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have, it appears,
determined to connect themselves commercially to
Maine and Mastachussetts, by accepting the proposal
made by those states to continue the line of railway
from Portland to Halifax, and make that port the
Atlantic terminus, at least for passengers and mails.
That in some way Halifax would arrive at this pre-
eminence was geographically certain, though our
rulers appear never to have recognised it. It was less
to be expected that the Yankees would have done so.
They are, however, wise in their generation; let us
profit by their wisdom.
The additional value thus conferred on the province
of New Brunswick, together with the wise decision
of its Government with respect to the sale of waste
lands, may induce others to think, as I have long
done, from intimate personal knowledge of the cha-
racter and resources of that colony (in which, how-
ever, I have no other interest whatever than arises
from this knowledge), that it presents advantages for
emigration afforded by no other, and is specially
adapted for the abode of Englishmen. The accounts
given in the dispatches of Sir Edmund Head to Lord
Grey, with those of Dr. Gesner and others, may
satisfy any one that, notwithstanding the rigour of
the winter—which has, however, been greatly exag-