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COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, OCT. 30.
The Queen and Prince took their accustomed early
walk this morning in 0-borne Park.
The younger members of the Royal Family walked
and rode as usual.

Sir Robert Stamford had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Rev.
Mr. Munroe had also an interview with his Lordship
yesterday.

- The Oxford University Commission met yesterday
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downibg-street. The Commissioners pre-
sent were—The Bishop of _Norwich, the Dean of'
Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. Liddell,
the Rev. G. H. Johnson.

A deputa!ion consisting of Mr. Crawshay Bailey
(chairman), Mr. Gordon Thomson, Mr. C. Conway
(director), Mr. W. Jenkins (director), and Mr.
Wells (secretary), on behalf of the Monmouth Rail-
way And Canal Company ; and Mr. W. J. Carlisle,
Mr. E. Barber, on behalf of Sir Charles Morgan,
Bart. Mr. James Brown (Newport), had an inter-
view with the Commissioners of Riilways, yesterday,
at their office in the Board of Trade.

Dispatches from the Governors of the Cape of Goof
Hope and the Mauritius were received yesterday ai
the Colonial office.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Mr. Macready made his second appearance last
night. Upon this occasion Hamlet was performed,
the last time but one, it is stated, that it will ever be
played with Mr. Macready as the representative of
the reflective and sententious hero. This part is one
of those that he has most frequently sustained, and
few performances are better known or better es-
teemed. As on Monday night, Mr. Macready exhi-
bited no depreciation either of intellectual sugges-
tiveness or physical power, and he was applauded to
the utmost by an audience of the highest respecta-
bility. The Laertes of Mr. Davenport, the Gertrude
of Mrs. Warner, and the Ophelia of Miss P. Horton
were embodiments of great merit, and the tragedy,
taken as a whole, was very satisfactorily represented.
The calls before the curtain extended to Mr.
Macready and Mrs. Warner, and the enthusiasm was
not less loud than hearty.

BRIGHTON THEATRE.
Miss Jane Bennett and Miss A. Kemble made
their debld on Tuesday last, in the play of The
Hunchback. We were delighted with the Julia of the
former young lady. It was a complete and refined
conception of the character. From her quiet, unas-
suming manner in the opening scene, we were little
prepared for the powers she afterwards displayed. In
the interview with the Secretary, the struggle be-
tween pride and love was delicately, but most power-
fully portrayed. It was worthy of any actress now
on the stage. Indeed, throughout the play, she was
as perfect a representative of the character as any we
have seen. Miss Bennett has a very pleasing and
expressive face, a voice of much sweetness, and a
most lady-like and graceful manner. Mr. Belcour
is fortunate in securing so valuable an addition to his
company, and we shall look forward with pleasure to
the opportunity of seeing this talented young actress
in the whole round of her characters. She is the
daughter of Mr. G. Bennett, a gentleman distin-
guished as a most finished actor, also as an author of
great power and originality ; in his latter capacity he
has proved himself second to none of the present day
by his admirable play of Retribution, which was pro-
duced last season at Sadler's Wells Theatre, since
which time it has been played in all the principal
theatres in England and America, with the most
perfect success. We may here mention that it is
stated in the New -York papers that Mr. James Wal-
lack, jun. (who has returned to this country to
fulfil an engagement at the Haymarket Theatre),
created quite a furore in Blackbourn, a part played
with most powerful effect by Mr. Phelps when
Retribution was produced under his own manage-
ment. Miss A. Kemble was an efficient and animated
Helen. In the scene with Modus, where she rails
against " Ovid's art of love," she was loudly and
deservedly applaude 1; she displayed great spirit, but
never descended to coarseness. The other characters 1
were well sustained, and the play went off most
triumphantly.

NEW MUSIC.

SONGS OF A STUDENT By Edward Francis
Fitzwilliam The Poetry selected from the works
of Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Bulwer
Lytton, 6-c 6-c.
The list of subscribers to this elegant volume,
amounting to nearly a hundred in number, and in-
cluding among them some dozen or more of the most
distinguished titles in our British aristocracy, bestows
on the whole a larger amount of commendation on
the m-rits of the work than the unknown critic could
dream of effecting, even though applying to it all the
eulogistic expret,sions a just admiration would suggest.
Admitting this, we feel our province in the present
case to he that of simple mention, rather than of cri-
ticism. The name of Fitzwilliam, moreover, is al-
ready too popular with the dramatic and musical
world to require a noisy introduction. Suffice it to
be said that Mr. Fitz williain is the son of the fasci-
nating actress who has for so many years attracted a
London audience, and brother to Miss Kathleen
Fitzwilliam, the accomplished pupil of one of our
choicest English composers. The book opens with
" The Ocean Pearl," the poetry translated from
the Persian of Hafiz. The story of the pearl
is a grace ful conceit : a rain drop falls from
a cloud into the sea, and, overcome with
shame at her comparative insignificance, exclaims
" Sure it were better that I die in this immensity !"
A "shell," however, receives and welcomes it, and
nourished there the " drop" becomes " a pearl for
royal eyes." Fanciful as the idea is, Mr. Fitzwilliam
has proved no less happily Fanciful in his arrangement.
There is no set melody to the song, but an appro-
priate alternation of the sotto" and "fuoco." scherzo,
"If while my Passion I impart," Coleridge's celebrated
words (so full of love's enthusiasm), in the hands of the
"
composer, are made more than ever famous. The
melody is conceived in all advisable fervour and
gusto, and hence we hare a love ditty worthy of the
days of Rizzio. The song is short, but, like a bon
bon, is the sweeter for being condensed. "The
Virgin's Cradle Hymn " forms an agreeable contrast
to the preceding airs. The Latin. words, " Dormi
Jesu I Mater ride!," &0., are purely devotional, and,
to our thinking, infinitely better adapted for music
than the translation, even though that translation ba
the work of Coleridge. There is a poverty of tone in
the latter that has fairly surprised us. Mr. Fitzwil-
liam has, in this little rnorceau (for it consists of only
one verse), presented us with a no unworthy compa-
nion to that lovely chaunt, the "Sicilian Mariner's
Hymn." " Oh,:Love me Less, or Love me More :" there
is, perhaps, a more decided air in this song than in any
the book contains. The soave accompaniment to a pe-
tition so expressive of tenderness and passion is
effectively selected. It has more simplicity of design
in it than most of the others, and for this, as well as
for the reason given above, it is likely to become
more generally popular. " Come over the Wave
with Me" is all grace and delicacy. The embellish-
ments are original, and wonderfully characteristic.
They seem to sparkle with the " spray," and the
"treasures of ocean," which form the burden of the song.
" True Love," words by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., is a
charming ballad ; each verse concluding with the
lines with which the song opens :
" The wide world, the wide world,
Is all I have before me—
But though my sky is overcast,
Hope's light is shining o'er me."

There are many others also of equal merit, but too
numerous for notice. The concluding song, " Cham-
pagne," composed and arranged with unquestionable
zest, is the beau ideal of the strain that should echo
over the luxuries of the banquet, and from the lips
of the bon vivant.

The People's Anthens—"God Save the People 1' The
Poetry by Ebenezer Elliott, the Music by Wm.
Thorold Wood.
it is long since we beard a more striking, effective,
or inspiring anthem than the above. The noble
words with which it opens—
" When wilt thou save the people ?
Oh, God of mercy, when?
Not kings and lords, but nations,
Not thrones and crowns, but men!
Are given in chorus con gravita, and are solemnly
religious in expression. The key throughout is that
of B major, the time "simple common. ' " When
wilt thou save the people" should become, as it is
called, a national anthem.

Gather ye Rose Buds while ye Itfay. The Poetry by
.Herrick, the ifusic by W. Thorold Wood.
The air of this delightful madrigal is as felicitously
melodious as the title. It is one to hear and love the
better at each repetition.

The Sisters. Two Waltzes. By W. Thornld Wood.
We give the preference to the first of these waltzes
(the " Caroline") ; perhaps because it is less compli-
cated than its companion, or because the " Camilla"
is, so to speak, less faithful to the motivo. They are,
however, both genuinely original, and contrast well
together. We may say of the one we like it for its
quaint steadfastness of character, and of the other we
cannot help liking it int,pite of its capriciousness.

The Drawing-Room Quadrilles, as Duets for Two
Performers. by William Thorold Wood; and the
Free-Trade Quadrille, by the same Composer.
We cordially recommend these novelties to the
musical public. The time is well marked, the airs
are well sustained, lively, and adapted to the dance ;
while they are, at the same time, neither too difficult
for the young, nor too simple for the proficient. The
one will find no graver obstacle than an occasional
double flit or sharp, while to the other they present
scope for the display of touch, execution, and finish.
Of the "Free-Trade Polka," we have only to announce
that this polka is dedicated to Richard Cobden, Esq.,
M.P., to secure for it a certain sphere of popularity.

Yalse, "La Nuit."
.ByCharles Taylor, of her Ma-

jesty's Theatre.
We know of few among the modern waltzes, since
the best efforts of Johann Strauss, that would bear
comparison with this brilliant composition. It is de-
cided in its character, arranged chiefly in octaves,
and is, to our thinking, irresistibly inspiring. And
this is saying not a little, considering we utter it not
in the days of the stately Pavane, when novelty was
at a premium, but in the good old year 1850, when,
from the aristocratic atmosphere of " Almack's," to
the democratic air of "Cremorne," sweet airs are float-
ing past, new and sufficiently varied to elicit the
praise of individual listeners, be their taste what
it may.

Descriptive Series. Nos. 1., 11., and lll.—The
Voices of the Bells. Composed by J. F. Dug-
gan. The Mountain Rill. Written by R. Kemp
Philp. Composed by J. H. Duggan ;
Nightingale. Words by J. F. and the
Baxter Langley. The
Music by G. A Macfarren.
This original series is an admirable design to illus-
trate certain subjects of corresponding sounds. The
three above named are happily successful. " The
Nightingale," in particular, is most skilfully descrip-
tive. It is like the realisation of a dream—a fancy,
made palpable.

Dark, Deep, and Cold. Poetry by E benezer Elliott.
The Music by W. Thorold Wood. A Tribute to
the Memory of the People's Poet.
This is a grave conceit, both in the metrical and
musical composition. The words have a dismal me-
lody in them, savouring more of pagan
despondency
thaofaCnristiaa's hopefulness, and the chief merit
arrangement
in its artistic adaptation. In dealing, with such a
theme the c to which they are now affixed lies
of the
composer was necessarily driven to the se-
lection of such sounds as would best convey the idea
of all that is most dreary and dirge-like'and assuredly
in this his success is unquestionable.

Marche pour le Piano. By s. TV. Daley.
affectiveeculiar asly Attractive
g
marches generally
the species of
erally are. There
is sTohmisetihs as
something p
time and movement appropriated to the march. But
in the present one we have on unusual merit, viz.,
that of variety, there being in it more change and
infinitely more freedom of execution than we usually
find in this branch of composition.

" Chill

ioNfSGrelnCeTraOlitpoOs:
in consequence of the
DISAPPEARANCE OF AN
tabsencebroughoouf throughout NjvohsoelpehofH)a,errsitse,rda
LErrza-cARmERS..-- Considerable alarm was occasioned
letter carriers, from his duty at the Post-office, which he
has
not attended for the last few days. From in!luiries made at
the establishment, it appears that Mr. Harris tended the
morning duty at the General Post-office in St. martin,s_ie.
Grand on Saturday last, leaving the office shortly after nine
4.
s S
inspectori s i'Ar4 r-
o'clock. When he left the establishment he left behind him
his great coat, which he bad brought with him that morning,
and also a cheque for the payment of the men employed in what
is officially termed the" extra duty." Since that period he has
not been at business, nor has he, so far as can be learned,
been heard of. He is short in stature, between thirty and
forty years of age, of slight make, and intellectual features. He
was much respected by all parties in the service, and no
reason can be assigned wby be has absented himself from
the office, where he has held a variety of situations for the
last ten years.

the well-known and influential
to liet.la
, - ---
regret
Dr Dt
iEtaNt
ADir.F.AßTonothobFy, M. .BOOTHBY.—Vve
director of the London and North-Western Railway, the
Great Southern and Western of Ireland, and ;
various Other
companies, died suddenly on Tuesday morning- The deceased
gentleman went to bed in perfect health on the
previous
night, but on rising in the morning at a very early hour, Lad
scare,lv put his foot on the floor than he fell back on the bed
acd instantly expired. It is supposed that the deceased must
have died from disease of the heart. Mr. 11 'hi,
)0,--..Y enjoyed
the fullest confidence of the shareholders of the London and
North-Western Company', and the railway world generally.
DIOCESE OF LONDON.--The Bishop of London has
licensed the following gentlemen to appointments within his
diocese : - The Rev. J. J. Scott, 111. A., to the Curacy of St.
Church, Knightsbridge; the Rev. Capel Molineux, M.A.
to the Chaplaincy of this New Lock Hospital ; the Rev.,
Wm. Duncan Long, B.A , Incumbent of St. Bartholomew's
Church, Birmingham, to the Incumbency of Trinity Church,
Woolwich ; the Rev. E. Stokes, M.A., Student and Tutor 0t
Christ's Church, Oxford, to be one of the Preachers at her
Maie3tY'd Chapel Royal, Whitehall.

CLAIRVOYANCE.
EARL STANHOPE'S TESTIMONY.
(From the Zoist.)

"I never said it was possible. I only said it was true."
• M. G. LEWIS.
"Levrai n'est past toujours vraisemblable."— FONTENILLE.
Lord Stanhope having, in the first instance, sealed up
two papers at my lodgings, during my absence from the
room, delivered them to me on my return to it, inform-
ing me that one contained something written by a
friend of his, the other something written by himself.
I gave them that evening, while in my box at the opera,
to two ladies of my party, who had often been placed
by me in a state of waking clairvoyance, and bad read
in nut-shells and boxes, but never in sealed packets.
One of them, after I had made passes over the paper,
said that the words (which she wrote in pencil), "Be-
lieve not every spirit, but try* whether it be good," were
written on it; and that alter the last word of the sen-
tence, there was one which she could not make out—
that it did not appear to belong to the sentence—that it
began with a capital letter like a 1). The other lady
informed me that she could make out the following
words only, but that there were others which she could
not. "If you t this t much good." She thought that
the word betw. en "you" and "this" was "read," but
not feeling sure she would not write it.
On the 4th, the Earl brought with him into my car-
riage two packets of motto nuts sealed up, informing
me that he had purchased them in different shops, one
in Bruton-street, the other in the Strand, and that they
had not been touched by any person but himself since
they ware purchased. He took from one of the packets
a nut, which, at my request, he marked with a file, and
gave it to a lady, who stated the words of the motto.
His Lordship opened it and found the words were as
stated. The same was done with three more nuts and
with the like success. No passes Isere made over my
face or over the nuts.
We called on two more ladies, and found them in
company with their mother and two military officers.
The lady who bad read in the carriage read three more
while iu the house, without passes being made. One of
the other ladies, three; the other, two. They required
passes to be made over my face, as well as over the nuts,
and all the nuts were previously marked, and afterwards
opened, by Lord Stanhope. One of them was read
while in his band. One lady told us, before the nut was
opened, that it contained one perfect motto, excepting
tnat part of the word " think" was wanting, and on the
same paper one line and three words of a second line
belonging to a second motto. All this proved correct
The following were read in the carriage:—
" The sight of my fair, makes joyful my heart,
'Tis only when absent that II feel any smart."
"Aim to acquire talents, for they will last
When thy present charms shall all be past."
" Bless the hour, name the day,
Haste to church without delay."
" Your faults are odious in my sight,
And ne'er can give my heart delight."
The following in the house, taken from the second
sealed packet by Earl Stanhope:—
" Is there on earth a joy so great,
Blest with a fond and faithful mate?"
" A person with a wooden leg,
Will come your favour soon to beg."
" In search of joy some cross the sea,
I'm only happy when near thee."
" Of all the pains the greatest pain
Is to love and love in vain."
" Think not too much of form or grace,
The mind's more noble than the face."
" Let the hours be swiftly fleeting,
Till they bring ."
" Love, they say, on sweets reposes,
And took your lips for his bed of roses."
" Life is a bark o'er which dark fates oft hover,
As a pilot sure let us take our lover."
" Where there is no sincerity,
There cannot be infidelity."
_

Old Bond-street, Aug. 6, 1850. W. BUCKLEY.
The above statement is perfectly correct. I must
observe, that neither my friend nor myself was at the
Opera when the above-mentioned papers were read.

-
STANHOPE.
• The words " the spirit" were inserted here in the original
paper, of which the last words were a christian and surname;
the first letter of the name was P, but so written as to re-
semble D.— Stanhope.
f The word "read" was here inserted in the original paper.
Stanhope.
The words " you will do" were here inserted in the
original paper. Stanhope.
II Before this was opened, she said the figure 1 was in place
of the word.—W. B.

ARCHBISHOPRIC OF WESTMINSTER.
Archdeacon Hale has addressed the following letter
o the clergy of the Archdeaconry of London :
" Reverend Brethren,—The illness which during
,he preceding week rendered me wholly unable to
make a reply to a requisition which was forwarded to
me to call a meeting of the clergy of the Archdea-
conry of London, necessarily prevents my attendance
at the meeting of the Fellows of Sion College, which
has been convened for Thursday next. lam thankful
to be now sufficiently recovered to take this means of
expressing my cordial approval of the general object
of the proposed meeting, as well as my regret that I
am precluded from taking part in its proceedings.
These are indeed times in which every one who values
the Protestant faith is bound to stand up in its de-
fence, and no longer to conceal his alarm at the
dangers which environ our Church and country from
the establishment of the Papal jurisdiction in this king-
dom, and the announcement by a Papal bull that England
is become an Archiepiscopal province of the see of Rothe.
Great as were the usurpations of the Popes of Rome
upon the rights and liberties of England in the times
prior to the Reformation, it may be doubted whether
any act of the Popes ever surpassed in violence that
of which the present Pope has been guilty in annihi-
lating two most ancient provinces of the Western
Church, those of Canterbury and York, forming them ,
into a single province under Dr. Nicholas Wiseman,
and substituting the Jus Commune of Papal Rome for
the constitutions and canons of the Anglican Church,
however rncient their date. It can hardly be sup-
posed that our statesmen will tamely submit to this
invasion of our Church and country by a foreign
Prince and Prelate, or that they will violate that so-
lemn pledge, by which every one who takes the Oath
of Supremacy is bound to resist such an attack upon
the Queen's authority, as the supreme governor over
all persons and in all causes ecclesiastical as well as
temporal within her dominions. Much less can we
imagine that any will have the hardihood to renew
the doctrine of a dispensing power, or to assert
that the Sovereign can dispense wi▪
th her owe
supreme authority—can allow a foreign Prelate
to exercise jurisdiction in England according to the
common law of Rome, and permit the i▪
nternal state
and condition of every county in her Majesty's
dominions to be continually subject to the cog-
nizance of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide
at Rome. If, however, these evils are to be
averted, it must be, under God's blessing,
by a combination scarcely less powerful and united
than that which in 1688 prevented James 11. from
carrying into effect his wishes for the conversion of
England to Popery. It is not by mere protests or
remonstrances that the Papal power can be expelled ;
but by the authority of the law, by the exertion of
in ,
honest zeal defence of the Protestant religion, such
as actuated the statesmen of former times, and by
faithful adherence to those principles of the Eng-
lish Constitution for the defence of which
the House of Brunswick now sits upon the
throne of this realm. That our Bishops, and
specially our Reverend Diocesan will, both in and out of
Parliament, do their duty in endeavouring to deliver
our Protestant country from papal aggression we can-
not doubt. Our Church is assailed by her ancient
and implacable enemy from without, she has been
basely deserted by many of her sons, but our Bishops
well know that the Protestant faith is dear as ever to
the people of England, and that the voice of the coun-
try will be with them in every resistance which they
shall offer to the establishment of the Pope's jurisdic-
tion in England, and to the recognition, either secret
or avowed, of any of the emissaries of the Church and
Court of Rome who may be sent to this country by
virtue of the recent bull for the establishment of a
Papal hierarchy 'in this flourishing kingdom of
England.'
" I remain, Rev. Brethren, your faithful servant,
"W. H. HALE, Archdeacon of London.
,rterhouse, Oct. 29, 18.50."

NOTICE TO THB PUBLIC.—GENERAL POST-OPTICB,
OCT. 1850.—The United States' mail packets leaving Liver-
pool and Southampton will hereafter convey closed mails for
Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward
Island, and letters, &c., will be forwarded in such closed
mails, if specially addressed, " via New York," or " via the
United States." With respect to Canada, however, as the
ordinary mails, dispatched by the British mail packets, pass
through the United States, it will be necessary that letters
for that province, intended to be sent by the United States'
packets, should bear on the address the words " by United
States' packet," as well as " via New York," or " via the
United States." Letters for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
or Prince Edward Island, directed "via New York," or via
the United States," will be transmitted by the first packet,
whether British orUnited States, which is dispatched to New
York after they are posted. The postage upon letters for all
these colonies, forwarded through the United
may t, b
teda Satese, bein
Is. 2d. the half-ounce, and so on, which paid
advance, or left unpaid, at the option of the senders. News-
papers forwarded through the United States will be liable to
a postage of Id. each on delivery at their destinations.
THREE NEW vHANCEILT ACTS.— To- morrow
(Friday) the three new Chancery Acts passed in the last
session will come into force. The first, which received the
royal assent on the 15tli of July, IS entitled, "An Act to
diminish the Delay and Expense of Proceedings in the
High Court of Chancery in England." Under this Act par..
ties iuterested in propsrty can obtain the opinion of the Court
by '• concurring" in stating a special case, by which suits
will be diminished and expem-ea avoided. The second
Act has reference to the Court of Chancery of the county pa-
latine of Lancaster. It was passed on the 29th of July. The
third Act, passed on the sth of August, is "An Act to
consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Conveyance
and Transfer of Real and Personal Property vested in
Mortgagees and Trustees." 'The Lord Chancellor takes
several powers under this Act, which, with the others, will
be adopted in the ensuing Michaelmas term.
THB LIVING Or HOLDONBY.—The Queen has
presented the Rev. C. H. Hartshorne to the living of Hold-
onby, in Northamptonshire. Mr. Hartshorne is well known
in literary circles on account of his bibliographical and anti-
csarian researches.

WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICK-
LOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY.
An adjourned general meeting of the associated
shareholders of this railway company was held yes-
terday, at two o'clock, at the King's Head Tavern,
Poultry.
Mr. Ponmecum occupied the chair, and amongst
the gentlemen present we observed Colonel Sir
William Verner, M.P., Mr. William Parry Richards,
Mr. J. Dorrington, Mr. A. Hadley, Mr. Charles
Joyce, Mr. David Powell, Mr. J. A. Gallini, Mr.
Septimus West, Mr. Nash, Mr. Willan, Mr. F. A.
Lewis, solicitor, Mr. Humfrays, and several others.
Colonel Sir WILLIAM VERNER, M.P., rose to address
the meeting. He said he felt it to be unnecessary to
occupy their time for more than a few minutes, be-
cause he concluded they were all acquainted with
what had recently taken place in Dublin with respect
to this company, and the result of the meeting which
was held there in August last. In compliance with
the wishes expressed by several gentlemen connected
with this company as shareholders, and having taken
also a very prominent part in his place in Parliament
with regard to the circumstances connected with the
company and the transactions of its directors, he felt
himself called upon to attend that meeting in Dublin.
He went there, and, to his astonishment, he found the
meeting was appointed to be held in Dublin, contrary
to the rule with respect to all the meetings of the
company that had been previously held, except
ing the very first. He and his friends conld
not understand, in the first instance, why
the meeting was to take place in Dublin in pre-
ference to the company's office in the Strand, where
its meetings were usually held.—(Hear, hear.) They
very soon discovered the object, however, of holding
the meeting in Dublin, which was, if he might ex-
press himself as analrishman, to hold no meeting at
all.—(Laughter.) They then discovered that those
gentlemen, the directors, who were there as both
judges and jury, and were the people who were to
decide everything, had prepared themselves previously
to declare that the meeting was not competent to act,
inasmuch as there was not a sufficient number of
shareholders present and eligible to constitute a meet-
ing.—(Hear, hear.) The meeting, which was ap-
pointed at one o'clock, took place at half.past one,
and when two o'clock arrived the chairman intimated
that the meeting was put an end to, on the ground of
there not being a sufficient number of shareholders
present. Under these circumstances he (Sir Wm.
Verner) determined, if possible, that the directors
should hear him, and those who acted with him ; and
when the Chairman (Lord Courtown) announced that
the meeting was dissolved, he (Sir Wm. Verner) re-
quested that he would not leave the chair until be
heard what they had to say—(Hear)—and that be
(Sir Wm. Verner) in particular, having taken the
part he did in reference to this company in his place
in Parliament, wished to make some explanations to
the gentlemen who were then present. The chairman
said he could not hear him (Sir Wm. Verner) and
he would not hear him, and that he must leave the
chair.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir W. Verner) replied
that if that was his Lordship's determination they had
no other alternative but to move some other person
into the chair; and he (Sir W. Verner) immediately
moved that a gentleman present should take the chair,
on which Lord Courtown, the chairman, and some
other directors with him, immediately left the room.
Their solicitor, Mr. Kane, then took the head of the
table, and addressing him (Sir W. Verner) and his
friends, said they could not, nor should they, hold any
meeting in that room ; he further said that room was
his (Mr. Kane's), and he had paid for it, and they
had no right to hold any meeting in it. He (Sir W.
Verner) then asked Mr. Kane it' he would state to
the gentlemen then and there present by whom the
charge for the room was to be borne, and whether it
was not to be entered in the accounts of the company.
Mr. Kane replied he could answer no questions in
the absence of the- directors.—( Hear, and laughter.)
Mr. Kane continued to say they must leave the
room, that they should not hold their meeting there,
nor should they remain there; that he was very sorry
to be discourteous, but they could not remain in that
room. In this state of things he (Sir William
Verner) apprehended that the police would have had
to be called in.—(A. laugh.) Eventually, however,
he (Sir W. Verner) and his friends put a gentleman
into the chair, and they then expressed their opinions
as to the trick which had been played by the direc-
tors to prevent the shareholders holding any meeting.
There was a very able statement made by the gentle-
man who occupied the chair of the affairs of the com-
pany and its history from its commencement, which
he (Sir W. Verner) regretted did not appear in the
newspapers. Mr. Nash also addressed the meeting,
and his speech was tolerably fairly reported. Ulti•
mately it was thought the best thing they could
do was to adjourn the meeting to London. With
what had since token place the present meeting was
tolerably well acquainted, and he should not, there-
fore, detain them by relating it. He was not well
acquainted with the hour or the place of the subse •
quent meeting, and he was not, therefore, able to at-
tend it, but he bad endeavoured to make up for the
omission by appearing at this present meeting.
Mr. NASII then read the further report of the asso-
ciated shareholders and committee. After referring
to the meeting held in Dublin in August last, and the
circumstances attending it as given in the rpeech of
Sir W. Verner, the report proceeded as follows
We now proceed to cornuaunicate what has been
accomplished since our last meeting.
"We have secured (as we believe) a dissolution of
the company, and abandonment of the scheme, after we
had taken legal proceedings, &c. After the signal
failure of the last desperate effort in the House of
Lords' to defeat, or discredit, this opposition, (then
pressing closely upon the directors personally,) over-
tures were made by the directors to us to suspend pro-
ceedings in England and Ireland on both sides,' to which
we assented, having only one otdect at heart ; subse-
quently, on Ist June, we obtained a written pledge to
dissolve the company.'
" The ' actions for calls'—which were thieatened in
1848, and again in 1849 and 1850—have been stayed.
Agreements to try only three actions against the as-
sociated shareholders have been made, and farther
stayed by injunctions up to November term.
"The' further calls' threatened have also been stayed,
and ultimately the intention abandoned. An injunction
has also been obtained restraining further calls for the
present.
" The works (which were estimated to take seventy
years to finish at the rate at which they were progress-
ing) were stayed by injunction, and ultimately stopped
altogether.
"'The directors have not ventured to proceed with
their Bill' in Parliament—fur which every opposition
was prepared by us.
" The Bill as framed would have cast upon the solvent
holders a positive liability to raise among themselves
half a million at least.'
"We also watched other measures' affecting you.
Although the endeavours to obtain a Committee of In-
vestigation in the Commons were for the time de-
feated, owing to the lateness of the session, and the mis-
statements male, to which a direct contradiction was
publicly given by Mr. Nash, yet various returns' were
ordered, and documents printed by Parliament, and can
be bought for a trifling sum, illustrative of the manage-
ment of this company, preparatory to renewed ef-
forts in the next session, to which your assistance is
solicited.
An inspection of the works' confirms our previous
statements of the delusive and reckless character of the
scheme—not three.miles of line (on the sea side of Kil-
!lacy and Brayhead rocks—round and through desolate
rocks and precipices—overhangiug the sea on one side,
with mountains on the other) have been above half cut
and finished. The boasted gift of land' (part of said
rock) has cost us about four and a half miles of solid
wall five feet high—a rcadway fifteen feet wide, with
another solid protecting wall, averaging five feet depth
for three miles—all round the rock—overhanging the
sea—above the proposed line of railway.
" The present state of Ireland—the past reckless ma-
nagement—the worthless nature of the scheme itsch,
have rendered the earliest abandonment of the scheme
the best course—the directors have at length yielded to
this great object of our labours.
We find that, notwithstrnding their continuous
and recent boast of the profitable nature of their
scheme,' directors, solicitors, secretary (who held
five shares), architect, and other officials, and their
friends, have since transferred their shares to poor
persons, and gone off the register of a company which
they boasted so late as the last meeting would pay six
per cent.
" We have satisfaction in communicating this success
of labours commenced and pursued—for nearly three
years—under heavy blows, great discouragements,'
and circumstances unequalled—with bitter per-
sonal opposition from directors—defections and supine-
ness of shareholders—great expenses, and contests un-
parallelled in railway history, and of which the
shareholders have as yet hut little idea.
" Better and more speedy results might have at.
tended this perseverance, with an ordinary consti-
tuency; but by an early and economical • winding up'
(after settling some preliminaries), the loss to the share-
holders will be trifling compared with what it would
have been if the delusions disseminated by every halt-
yearly report had continued to mislead the share-
holders, and to make them the laughing-stock' of
Ireland.
In effect one gruel object for the shareholders has
been accomplith A, tamely, a stoppage t f expenditure,
an abandornenr, of the project. end if we were to close
here our labours would not have been unproductive; but
it is necessary to breve the cordial co-operation of the
shareholders with this association to ensure a prepi-r ter-
mination, with that spirit of fair play and tib,ence of
personal feellug which we have ever desired.
" It is clear that but for the efforts made during the
last three years shareholders would have confided in the
illusory reports of their directors, calls would have been
made and paid, or enforced, and the whole 20/. per share
would by this time have been called up and become not
worth 20s. when the real position of affairs was ascer-
tained.
passing
that" i te could oalso
h ew achniw
watched,
It
and
bi
it guwadovouen Abandonment
much
assistance to
Bill, In the
irhes7,
applied to this company. That Bill was opposed y the
Great Western direct ion and a director of this company.

They also opposed suggestions and provisions whioh
would have facilitated its operation.
_ _

" Proceedings were taken in the spring of 1850 against
the directors to obtain a proper investigation of the
affairs of this company and to fix them personally with
certain liabilities. Overtures were made and under-
takings entered into to give a wind-up and dissolution of

this company, as before observed. Afterwards, the so:
licitors of the company, by letters of Juue and July last,
prepared us for a ' requisition' from the shareholders to
wind up and dissolve this company, upon which they
avowed their readiness to act.

" Bat it has been found that no facilities for the re-
quisition has been afforded by the directors. Access to
the Register of the Shareholders' has been refused,
the shareholders' address book has been imperfectly
kept, the poor persons holding directors', solicitors', and
secretary's shares have not been permitted to sign it, and
other persons were dissuaded from doing so.
" The directors, in a report,' refer to their inten-
tion to wind up, and to obtain a special Act for that
purpose, finding that the Railway Abandoment Act dis-
appointed their expectations in that respect.' This
means a wind up in their own way, and an audit of their
own accounts by themselves, and may be charactosised
as a delusion, and a means of prolonging their exist-
ence, the expense of the company, and the liability of
the shareholdere.
" It has been ascertained that the Kingstown Company,
will not interpose, as a bar to the wind up of this com-
pany, any contract with them, but that they will seik
for compensation for the breach of some contract. The
obstacle is thus shown to be an imaginary one, and this
company can be amicably wound up at a cost t f lees than
501., under the Abandonment Act, instead of a special
Act, which would cost 5,0001., and might not be granted.
"In an inti,rview with the Solicitor-General he pro-
mised an amendment of the Abandonment Act next
session, if it were found not to woik7

" The ' printed' accounts for the last half-year
(audited by Mr. Codd, who has transferred his shares to
a window-cleaner!—(Laughter)--and by Mr. Slade, the
company's counsel) offered no real information on the
state of affairs.

" An inspection of the books of the company has been
had, and the directors have been compelled to exhibit a
balance sheet,' and a statement of debts, liabilities, and
assets of the company,' under the statute.

- -
" It appears thereby that the directors had only ' cash
in hand (in June) of 2,1441.,' but according to the
answers of the directors in Chancery it was only 600/.
in September. That the debts due by the company,'
as admitted by the directors, are—
For land purchases, assumed at
For works expenses, engineering expenses, law
costs, office expenses, &c., assumed at ll,OOO

Interest due to shareholders
Calls paid in advance

27,500
579
210

£28,289
But it is believed that these items do not include com-
pensation to the Kingstown Company, to contractors, to
landowners, &c., for loss of the line, inasmuch as in their
answers in Chancery the directors state that there will
be other claims, amounting to, it is supposed, 75,000/.1
" To meet this debt of 28,2891. the directors state the
credits and property' to be—
' Land, cost' (including, we assume, the lands
for which 16,5001. is to be paid, and 10,5001.
has been already paid.. £27,021
Works, in course of construction, cost' (in-
cluding Kelliney, tunnel contract,' on
Kingstown side of Bray, 19,1661., and Bray
Head, the other or Wicklow aide of Bray,
29,8801.)
Balance cash in hand...
Office furniture, &c.
0000 •••• 150

79,698
Arrears on calls and instalment

if 164,587
Cost and expenses, Parliamentary, &o.
" The share capital received is only to the 30th of
' June, 148,3801.
" Assuming the directors' own accounts and figures,
' it thus appears that the existing debts (if legally charge-
able against the shareholders) are 28,2891., whilst there
is 79,6981. assets, besides the 84,8891. arrears of calls.
However no shareholder can or will object to contribute
an equitable proportion to the fair liabilities of the com-
pany upon a wind-up and dissolution, which would
legally exonerate him from further liability.
" These accounts further show that the secretary's
salary, reduced in deference to the opposition, to 6001. a
year, the directors' allowance of 1,0001. a year, the rent
of attics in the Strand at 500/. a year—(A laugh)—are
still chargeable upon the shareholders.
" In their answers in Chancery, Lord Courtown and
Sir Thomas Esmonde have ventured to say, that they
would not attend the celebrated February, 1849, meeting
for fear of violence from th• shareholders; that they
never heard of any resolutions of censure' by the
shareholders; that they haveno information, knowledge.
or belief as to the buying up of shares, and hiring of
shareholders, by ' Carden and Whitehead,' or by Kane
or Symes, the company's solicitors—nor of their
letters or indemnities to shareholders: whereas such
letters have been read to them publicly, and the resolu-
tions of censure also sent to them.
" In conclusion; if our endeavours were to stop here,
we might fairly congratulate the shareholders on the re-
sult of three years' arduous struggles against strong and
powerful interests unfairly pressed against this opposi-
tion, which was seeking to eff. et a legitimate, and now
conceded object, and having only one desire, namely,
the protection of the shareholders against delusions and
iniquities of an era; aordie.ary nature. It remains now
to c.,rry out those results by an economical course of
winding up the company,
(By older) "CHAS DE LACY NAM.
‘. 52, Parliament-street. " Acting Hon. Secretary."
In reply to a question put by Sir WILLIAM Ireasixn,
Mr. Nasu said there wasan injunction stopping all
proceedings for the present, which would come on for
discussion next week. He then moved that the report
as read he adopted.

Mr. J. A. GALLINI seconded the motion.
Mr. RICHARDS suggested the omission from the re.,
port of certain passages and terms which the directors
might construe as offensive to themselves, and which
it was desirous to avoid, inasmuch as the meeting
hoped before long to be in friendly communication
with the directors. He alluded to the paragraphs in
the reports referring to the opposition of the Great
Western direction and of Mr. llayter, late a director
of this company, and to indictments which counsel
had advised against the directors for maladministra-
tion and for statements in their answers in Chancery.
The rest of the meeting seemed unanimously to
coincide with the suggestion of Mr. Richards ; the
objectionable passages were then struck out, and the
report so amended was agreed to unanimously.
Mr. WILLAN asked what was the form of the
present bill in Chancery ?
Mr. NAsn replied that it was a bill for an account.

On the motion of Mr. NAM, seconded by Mr.
FRED. AUGUSTUS LEWIS, Solicitor, it was then Una-
nimously resolved—" That this meeting disapproves
and rejects the directors' report and accounts sub-
mitted to the meeting on the 31st August, 1850,
and authorise the acting shareholders to investigate,
and take such proceedings to investigate the same,
and to continue the existing proceedings, as they
think fit."

Mr. RICHARDS moved that the services of Mr.
Muggeridge, as secretary, were no longer necessary,
and that his services and salary be forthwith discon-
tinued.
Mr. HADLEY seconded the motion, which was
carried nernine contradiccnte.

On the motion of Mr. Nash, seconded by Mr.
Powell, it was also unanimously resolved, that the as-
sociated shareholders be authorised to communicate
with the Railway Commissioners and the Attorney-
General, as to the Railway Abandonment Act and
the position of the company.
Sir William Verner moved and Mr. Richards
seconded a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which that
gentleman briefly acknowledged.
Mr. RICHARDS, in moving the thanks of the meet-
ing to Sir William Verner, paid a well-merited com-
pliment to the Hon. Baronet, for the great exertions
he had made, both in and out of Parliament, to sea
justice done to the shareholders of this company.
The CHAIRMAN seconded the motion, and adverted
to the great inconvenience to which Sir William
Verner had put himself in order to attend the meeting
in Dublin.

Mr. NASH also bore his testimony to the exertions
of the Hon. Baronet.

The motion was carried unanimously.
Sir WILLIAM VERNER said he was happy to find
that his humble exertions had met with their ap-
probation. He very seldom took any part in meet-
ings of that kind; he had frequently attended them,
but he abstained from taking any part in them.
Having, however, attended on two or three occasions
the meetings of this company, and having found the
conduct of the directors, in his epinion, highly objec-
tionable, as well as the propositions made on the part
of the shareholders who were connected with the
directors, he really felt that he could not bold back
any longer from taking part in the proceedings, and
he was very happy to find that the humble part he had
taken had been approved of by the shareholders.
On the motion of Mr. Nash, seconded by Mr.
Willa'', the meeting was then adjourned to one
o'clock on Wednesday, the 11th December next, to be
holden in the same place.

PUBLIC BATHS AND WASIMOUSES.—The Wor-
shipful Company of Merchant Tailors, at a court held on the
24th instant, ordered that fifty guineas should be granted in
aid of the funds of the committee for promoting the estab-
lishment of baths and waslihouses for the labouring chases.
The extensive benefits which have been conferred upon the
public since the appointment of the committee in October,
1844, have as
yet only begun to be understood, and are
likely before long
to be incalculably developed. The com-
mittee have established the fact that warm and cold baths,
and the means of washing and drying linen, can-be profit-
ably provided for the working classes, at prices so low, and
with convenience so great, as to place these necessary means
of health within the reach of all but absolute paupers ; and
they are still actively engaged in promulgating throughout
the kingdom and in other parts
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their experience, with information showing the benefits
which may be afforded by these institutions. The expenses
are,consequent
consiconsiderable,
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,t hiins importantaddition
committee in erecting the model efitablisbment in white.
chapel.