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ALTERATION OF TIME.
(IRATE SEND STAR PACKETS.
'Ol PURTiIEit REDUCTION of FARES.
SIXPENCI: AND NINEPItINCE,
Boat and Blackwall Railway included.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Elack,,vall,
D lily ( •tundays included) at Ten, Eleven. Twelve, Three, Four,*
and half-past Six.
e Except on ktundaye.
Frain the Terrace Pier, Gravesend,
At Soren. Half-past Nine, Two,. Four, Five, and SIX.
• Except on Sundays.
Fare—Fero Cabin and Sec-aril-class Carriage, Sixpenoe; Saloon and

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The PROTEOSCOPE, au original Optical Instrninent, unli-
mited he its appliances to Nature and Art, a highly valuable addition
to LONGBOTTOM'S OPAQUI4 MICROSCOPIL The Pictorial Il-
lustration of the Passions, from Ceiling's Ode, with Vocal and lustre-
mental MllgiO, is the first subject exhibited by the PIDNIOSCOPE,
at a Quarter to Five o'clock in the Afternoon, and at a Quarter to
Ten in the Evening. Dr. RYAN'S present daily Lecture is on
POISONiii aai their ANTIDOTES, at half-past Three, and on the
Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at a Quarter to
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lITDRO-BLECTRIC MACIILQB, DIVING-BELL and DIVER,
&e.—The Mush) Is Composed and Conducted by T. WALLIS, Miss.
Doe.

CORNWALL RAILWAY,
FROM PLYMOUTH TO FALMOUTH.
Capital, 900,000/., in 18,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit, 31.

per Share.

No Shareholder to be responsible for more than the amount of
his Share. Interest to be allowed to the Shareholders, at the rate
of four per cent, per annum, on all paid up-calls from the date of
payment until the Railway is completed.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
J. T. TREFFRY, Esq., Place, Chairman,
The Right Hon. the Earl of FALMOUTH, Tregothnan.
The Right Hon. Lord ELIOT, M.P., Port Eliot.
Sir CHARLES LEMON, Bart., M.P., Carclew.
E. W. W. PENDARVES, Esq , Pendarvea.
W. TYRING HAM BRA.ED, Esq., M.P., Trevethow.
JOHN ALLEN, Esq., Liskeard.
JOHN
OD
HMNU
BATTEN,
AD TURNER,TTEN,
E. m.p., Truro.
Esq.,
Penzance.
11. R. BROAD, Esq., Falmouth.
CLEMENT CARLYON, M.D., Truro.
WILLIAM CARNE, Esq., Roshmundy.
G. C. FOX, Esq., Grove Hill.
R. B. FOX, Esq., Perranarworthal.
JOHN GWATKIN, Esq., Parc Behan.
JOHN NELSON, Esq., Doctor's Commons.
T. J. A. ROBARTES, Esq., Lanhydrock.
GEORGE SMITH, Esq., Camborne.
WILLIAM TWEEDY, Esq., Truro Vean,
W. M. TWEEDY, Esq., Alverton.
JOHN VIVIAN, Esq., Pencalenick.
With power to add to their number.
The Directors of the GREAT WESTERN, BRISTOL and EXETER,
BRISTOL and GLOUCESTER, and SOUTH DENON RAILWAY COSI-
PANIE% who will be nominated hereafter.

First-class Carriage, Nisiepenoe.
Star Office, Gravesend, Sept. 27, 1844.

Adasiselom, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

BANK OP AUSTRALASIA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1833.
London 01lice, No. 2, 110O1LGATE-STREET.
September 12, 1844.

PUBLICATIONS.

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.
The COURT of DIRECTORS hereby girl, notice that a HALF-
YEARLY DIVIDEND of Four per Cent. (being at the rate of Eight
per Cent. per annum) will be PAYABLE to the Proprietors of 0:d
Shares in this Corporation on TIIURSDAY, the 10111 day of October
next, at their Offices as above, between the hours of Ten and 'Three ;
and that a Dividend at the same rate will likewise then be paid on
the First and Second Instalments of 10 . each upon the New Shares.
The Transfer Books of the Bank, both for Old and New Shares, will
be Closed on Friday, the Mb Instant, and continue so until the Dl-
♦idend beconnli payable.
By order of the Court,
WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Secretary.

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R T-LT NION MONTIIL Y. JOURNAL.
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PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
Ineorporated by Royal Charter, anno 1840.
NOTICE TO SCRIP HOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's Government having
officially communicated to this Company, that they are prepared
to enter into a Contract with the Company for the conveyance of the
Mails to Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon, aid China, Holders of Scrip issued
pursuant to this Company's Circular of the 20th of February, 1544,
are therefore required to PAY, on or loefore the let of OCTOBER,
1844, the SUM of 21. 10s. each, to the credit of this Company, with
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., London; or Messrs. Richard
Williams and Co., Dublin. On the production al this office of the
Original Scrip, with a receipt for such payment, a eorresponcling
number of Shares or 50!. each, on which 5/. per Share will then have
been paid, will be duly registered in the name of the holder in the
books of the Company, and a certificate thereofgranted.
(By order) JAMBS ALLAN, Secretary.
51, St. Mary-axe, London.

SNOINEEI.
Captain W. S. Iloorsorn, C. IL

SANICIRRO.
Messrs. Tweedy, Williams, and Co., Truro and Falmouth.
"Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and L.,,,d0n,
Messrs. Praed, Fane, and Co., London.

SOLICITORS.
Ares,srs. Smith and Roberts, Truro.
SECRETARY (pro tern).
P. P. Smith, Esq., Truro.

lOLLMANN'S RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE
X. and CARRIA "..4 IMPROVEMENT COMPANY,
Established pursuant to Act of Parliament of 3d Vic., cap. 9•
Capital 10,0001., in 500 Shares of 901. each.
Deposit 9. 1 . per Share.
DIRECTORS.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford, F.R.S.,
F. Marcus Beresford, Esq.
Captain E. Blanckley, R.N.
Thomas Davidson, Esq.
William Kuper, Esq.
Captain M. Montague, R.N.
Samuel H. Powell, Esq.
Captain F. Bayly Wardroper, H.C.S.
Walter White, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL—H. A. Merewether, Esq.
Soucrroa.—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square.

The object of this undertaking Is to connect the port of Fal-
mouth with the Naval Station at Plymouth, and by the South
Devon and Bristol and Exeter Railways, with Bristol, where the
great lines of railway communication with the Metropolis, and the
North of England new meet, and thus to bring Falmouth, the most
Westernly Port in the Channel, within eleven hours of London,
and fourteen hours of Liverpool and Manchester.
The works of the South Devon Railway from Exeter to Ply,
mouth, being now In rapid progress, with a view to completion in
two years, the time has arrived when it becomes essential to bring
forward the plan for a western extension in conjunction with the
Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, Bristol and Gloucester, and
South Devon ltailway Companies.
The Provisional Committee having laid the plans and estimates
of construction, and the traffic case in detail, before the Directors
of these Companies, they have agreed to unite in contributing
350,0001. to the capital of this Railway.
The Associated Companies having thus identified themselves
with this undertaking, the Cornwall Railway Company will have
the advantage, in its operations, of the advice and assistance of
Members of their Boards, and the works will be carried on with
the approbation, and under the supervision, of the experienced and
talented officers of these Companies.
A large proportion of the leading landed Proprietors in the
County, have given assurances of support in Land and Money—a
considerable local connexion has been formed, and a large number
of Shares have been taken up, and no opposition or difficulty is
anticipated in obtaining the Act.
The necessary steps have therefore been taken to bring a Bill
before Parliament in the next Session for constructing the Corn.
wall Railway.
From the surveys that have been made by Captain Moorsom,
C.E., it appears that the line would pass through Torpoint, within
three quarters of a mile of St. Germans, touching Liskeard, near
to Bodmin and Lostwithiel, through Par, and St. Austell, by St.
Stephens and Tresillian to Truro. Front Truro the course of the
line would be towards Bissoe and Pollean Cross, to connect with
the great Mining and Western districts of the County, and from
thence by Ponsnooth and Penryn to Falmouth.
The proposed line will pass through the richest and most
densely peopled Mining, Commercial, and Agricultural districts of
Cornwall. In the principal parts of these districts, the habits of
the people are peculiarly locomotive. A large and constant
passenger traffic already exists of a description which would be
immensely increased by the facilities of Railway communication.
The line will be connected on the north with the Wadebridge
and Bodmin Railway, the Newquay Railway, and the Caradon
Railway, and on the south the Par and Pentewan Railways, and
the Looe and Liskeard Canal, from each of which a considerable
amount of valuable traffic will be brought upon the Cornwall Rail.
way, and the communication with the ports on the north and south
coast greatly facilitated.
The Eastern mining districts of Cornwall and Devon, around
Callingtone Tavisteck, and Liskeard, are much connected with the
central and western Mines of St. Anstell, Tywardreath, Gwen.
nap, Itedruth, Camborne, and Penzance, and between these popu.
lons and important districts a constant and increasing intercourse
exists.

. ,
BANKBRB.—Alebsrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 43, Charing-cress.
SIICBETART.—A. W. Barnes, Esq., F.G.S.
_

OFNICI.B.—Aibion Chambers, Adam-street, Adelphi.

The object of this Company is to bring into general notice and
operation the improved system of Locomotion, invented and
patented by MI 9. A. Kollman, which offers the following ad.
vantages:—
SECURITY FROM OVERTURNING.
ECUP.ITY FROM RUNNING OFF THE RAILS.
ERFECT FACILITY OF PA SSING ON CURVES AT ANY

PRACTICABLE SPEED.
GREATER FLEXIBILITY, TO ACCOM %lODATE THE
CARRIAGES TO THN INEQUALITIES OF THN
ROADWAY.
OWER OF ASCENDING AND DESCENDING GRA-
DIENTS HITHERTO HELD TO DE IMPRACTICABLE.
DIMINUTION OF DEAD WEIGHT AND FRICTION.
SAVING OF EXPENSE IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND
WEAR AND TEAR OF THE LINE, CARRIAGES,
AND ENGINES.
Prospectuses, with full details, together with forces of applica.
tion for Shares, and terms for granting Licenses, may be hall at
the Company's offices, Albion Chambers, Adara-street, Adolphi ;
of Mr. George Smith, Solicitor to the Company, ‘24, Golden-
nare.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORINTHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Bmpowered by Act of Psuilameat.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady saccess and increasing prosperity of the Society kas
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation., to declare a
second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts Lave/tad ea each
Policy effected OR the Profit scale.
YSAMPLBS.

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51 ri 11

FRASER'S MAGAZINE for OCTOBER,
Price 2s. 6d., contains :-
1. An Election to the Long Parliament.
2. The State Murder. A Tale.
3. Some Account of a Poet's Friend. In a Letter to Oliver Yorke,
Esq.
4. Bull and Nongtongpaw. By Anglomano.
5. Classics of the Table.—Sweetmeats, Beer, Cider, Perry, Liqueurs.
and Wiues.
6. On Matters Musical and of the Italian Opera. By Morgan Rattler.
7. Greece under the Romans.
8. Little Travels and /toad-side Sketches, By Titmarsh. No. 11.
Ghent—Bruges.
9. Apology fer Art-Unions.
10. Courses of English Reading.
11. Tho General Policy of the Cabinet.
12. The Lords are the Liberators.
G. W. Niekisson, 215, Regent-street, Loudon.

The completion of the Railway from Penzance, which passing
through the great western mining districts, will join the proposed
line of the Cornwall Railway ...awe. Trutau and Palwouth, and for
which a Bill is to be brought before Parliament next Session, will
bring a great accession of traffic from those districts.
The Cornwall Railway will not only be in itself Important and
of great local advantage, but will in fact be the terminus of a
metropolitan trunk line, and also the terminus of a line from the
great manufacturing districts of the North, so that the carriage
which leaves London in the Evening, will be at Falmouth in the
Morning, after eleven hours' Journey, and the Passengers from
Maochester or Liverpool, may arrive at Falmouth In fourteen hours.
It will also be the westernly link of the great chain of coast lines
now formed, or in progress, from Dover on the east, to Penzance
in the west, and will thus eventually receive the traffic of these
sources, flowing to and from our western possessions.
The well-known advantages and capabilitiee of the Port of Fat.
mouth and the opinions unequivocally expressed by the Commis-
sioners appointed by Government in 1840, to inquire into the com-
parative merits of the Porta then suggested by the Mail Packet
Station, " That if a Railroad existed to the South-West Land's.
end, and a harbour were constructed in that neighbourhood, where
the mails might with facility be put on board and landed, they
would unhesitatingly recommend that harbour to the adoption of
Government," make it evident that the construction of the pro.
posed Railway would render Falmouth the best Port in the kingdom
for the embarkation and landing of the Mails for the West Indies,
the Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and all our transatlantic pos.
sessions.—That this Port will be largely used by passengers pro.
seeding by these Packets, and also by passengers arriving from and
departing for our Foreign Possessions in sailing vessels, is evident
from the anxiety always felt by those who have endured a long sea
voyage to reach the shore, and from the desire which most persona
feel to avoid the delays and danger of the Channel navigation.
The reasons which now induce outward.bound Indiarnen to call at
Cowes or Portsmouth to embark their passengers, will apply with
greater force to a more Western Port, when a Railroad shall bring
that Port within eleven hours of the Metropolis.
The largely increasing number of vessels, which even under the
present mode of travelling, call, whether for passengers or orders,
at Falmouth, shows that expectations of traffic to a large extent,
may be well founded on these grounds; but in the calculations
now submitted, the Committee have confined themselves to the
usual increase upon the existing trade, which is alone sufficient
to show that this undertaking will prove a highly advantageous
investment.
The estimated expense of the line, including the cost of land,
preliminary and Parliamentary expenses, stations, and working
stock, does'. not exceed the sum of 900,0001. which Is to be
raised by 18,000 shares of 601. each.
The accompanying estimate of Traffic, deduced from very care-
ful observation made at twenty-three different stations on the
roads, shows the following result, via :
From Passengers by coaches and other public
conveyances X 56,576
Post chaises, private carriages,
PaoeCarrall,egiSs goods,
i ns,dlot
c 13,930
&c.rl 9,04 d
Fish, and attle,
Vege-
tables
By conveyance of the Mails ..........

A s. d. s. d.
1837 170 9 3
74 Z 4 1838 144 2 2
1830 116 18 0

X a. d.
12 3 9
9 16 4
1 7 11 9

X .. da
346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4 5

40 1000

The division of profits is anaaal, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.
This institution offers rainy important and substantial advan-
tages witk respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, ea all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences; or necessity. Assurances
fbr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
P. FiIitGUSON CAD/201TX. Sec.

AFIIPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in
Londen, and country tewas, by the LAST INDIA TEA COMPA.NY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.
Offices, N.. 5, Great lit. Helen's-churchyard, tishepsgato-street.
They are packed in showy loaden canisters, from one ounce to a
pound, with this price and weight marked on sack packet, and but
lttls trouble Is occasioned by the sale. The license is only l ls. per
annum, and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
siderable incomes by the agency without en* shilling let or loss.
Application to be msdo (if by letter post-paid) as above.

Price Half-it-Crown

A. INSWORTH'S MAGAZINE.
The OCTOBER Number eontains :
REVELATIONS OF LONDON.
By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
Prologue, 1599.
The Elixir of long life.
Book the First.—Chap. I. The Ruined House in the Vauxhall-road.
With two Illustrations on Steel, by "Phiz."
The Rebels : a tale of Emmett's Days. Part I. The Cousins. By
Mrs. White.

The Gipsies' Tragedy : a tale of Welsh Hamlet History. Part 11.
Retribution. By Joseph Downes.
The Settlers in Canada.
The Rat-tat : a Story of the Gentilitias. By Laman Blanchard.
Modern Danli,h Drama : Comedies of Holberg—" Jeppe Vem
Berge," &c. By Thomas Roscoe.
A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla. By Leigh Hunt.
THE BRITISH ARCILEOLOGISTS AT CANTERBURY.
The Spring at Templin ; a Legend of Potsdam. By John Oxenford.
The Collected Works of G. P. R. James.
A Leaf from my Theatrical Recollections. By Drinkwater Meadows.
A Few Passages en Dreams, Nightuoises, and Phantoms. Part
111. By Charles Oilier.
The Husband Malgre Lni ; er, The West India Adventure of a
Text= Naval Officer. By Percy B. St. John.
" WINTER WANDERINGS."
BY W. FRANCIS AINSWORTH,
Ain-tab—Story of a Sword—A nocturnal ride—Kilts, andent Cl-
liza—Panthers of Amanus—Hostile reception from the Turkomans—
Ruins of Issue—City of.Mopsos, the soothsayer—ileian plain—Re-
verses of Bellerophon—City of Adana.
London : John Mortimer, Publisher, Adelaide-street.

FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW,
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Should Females be initiated or not ?—Masonic Anecdotes—n(lns'
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—lnitiation of Parsecs and Mahontedans, &c.
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£93,964
Fatimated annual cost of working, 40 per cent. 37,584

Nett revenue X 56.330

This calculation, which shows a return of upwards of six per
cent, on ow i.:apitai, is mule upon principles anowed in proof
before Parliamentary Committees, but does not include the
carriage of any of the mineral produce of the County, or of
mining materials, or of manures other than sand; nor is any
credit taken for the large revenue which may be anticipated from
the probable return of the Packet Establishment, and from the
certain increase of passengers who will embark and disembark
at Falmouth when they can avail themselves of the benefit of
Railway communication.
Cornwall possesses within itself great facilities for the eon.
struction and maintenance of Railways.
Its numerous Foundries from which Engines and other Ma-
ehinery aro forwarded to all parts of the World, the able Engt.
ricers who are brought up within it, and the skill and enterprise
of its labouring population, will all conduce to the cheap and good
construction of the line and works.

The Committee cannot but express their fulled confidence, that
the dense population of this County, and its locomotive habits, its
rich mid important mineral produce, the South-Western position,
unrivalled safety and capabilities of its harbours, not exceeded by
any Ports in the Kingdom, its genial climate, possessing mildness
and uniformity not surpassed by the South of France, which has
long rendered it the resort of invalids, the early productions of
Its soil, and the anticipated restoration to Falmouth of the Packet
Establishment, will all contribute to produce a satisfactory re tura
on the capital Invested, and secure to Cornwall that pre-emi-
nence It has always till now enjoyed as the high road to the
Indian, Peninsular, and transatlantic portions of the World.
the Act to allow interest at
on the deposit, and on subse-
quent
the T
r 1 iaet
fourl
fpowerro mper
th
cewe
time
rtoafket by l
annum
payment into the 'Tankers' hands,
until the Railroad may be opened for traffic ; and no Subscriber
will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit of 31.
per Share until the Act be obtained, and then net beyond the
amount of his subscription.
A deposit of 5/. per Share will be payable at the Bankers on the
allotment of the Shares, and the Subscribers' agreement and Par.
liamentary contract, must be signed on or before the 31st day of
December next.

Applications for Shares In this Company addressed to the Soli-
citors, or to Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, Old Broad.street,
London, from either of whom Prospectuses may be obtained, will
be received and registered until the 25th day of October next,
when the Committee will proceed to allot them to unexceptionable
parties in the order in which the applications may have been made;
it being understood that in all cases references will be required.

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A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the
City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the
county of Middlesex, was held yesterday at the office,
Greek-street, Soho-square, T. L. Donaldson, Esq., in
he Chair.

The reports of Messrs. Allason, Harrison, and
Cantwell, with the reports of the surveyors of the
Court, having been read upon the subject of venti-
lating shafts and air gratings, on which the three first
gentlemen recommended that ventilating shafts, ac-
cording to a form produced in Court, should be tried
as an experiment along the centre of the roadway in
Oxford-street ; while the surveyors' proposed Picca-
dilly or the Strand in preference, as the sewer was
more in the centre of the street, the estimated ex-
pense being for each shaft 12s. 61—a trifling sum,
the reports stated, if balanced with the immense ad-
vantage derived from an improved atmosphere in the
operations of the servants of that Court.
After some discussion, in which the Chairman,
Mr. Leslie, Mr. Allason, Mr. Willoughby, and other
Commissioners took part, it was determined to try
thirty of them in different parts of the district, to test
their usefulness.

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eghby) seemed to feel very strongly on the subject
of the report sent in by the surveyors. These ofiloars,
he must remember, did not feel themselves authorised
to make suggestions as to the propriety of introducing
a new form of sewer until an lion. Commissioner ex-
hibited some sectims, when they were ordered by the
Court to report upon the subject. They did not call
in question the stability of the present form—they
confirmed it—but they said that as there were cir•
cumstances in which the perpendicular form might
be disadvantageous, they therefore proposed that now
before the Court, as combining all the excellencies of
the old with the superiority of the new, and at the
same time be applicable under every circumstance.
It was the fashion now-a-days to have something
empirical in every scheme. There was a royal road
to knowledge now, and they had the universal
medicine ; and now it was also that they
had discovered that a curvilinear form of
sewer was the best for all purposes. He
himself would decidedly support the plan exhibited
by the surveyors, and with respect to that proposed
by Mr. Leslie, he dissented from it, because in most
cases even a rise of water in the sewers to the height
of three inches would throw it back into the houses.

After some further observations the original motion
and amendment were put from the Chair, when the
latter was carried.

The next business to consider was as to alterations
in the forms of contracts under advice of counsel ; and
substituting the following for Law N 0.103 :
" That the mode adopted under the 103 d standing
order of taking bonds from the contractors and the
sureties be abandoned, and that in future articles of
agreement under seal be entered into by the contractor
with six of the Commissioners on behalf of the whole of
the Commissioners, and that the terms of the tender be
incorporated in such articles of agreement, and that a
separate bond he taken from the contractor and his
sureties for the performance of the articles of agree-
ment."

The motion was unanimously agreed to, and the
Court adjourned.

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL
FESTIVAL.
THURSDAY.—The performances of this morning em-
braced the two first acts of the Creation, the Hymn of
Praise by Mendelssohn, and a selection from Israel in
Egypt. Two of these works are so welllknown, that
criticism among their respective excellencies has long
ceased to be necessary. They have taken their station
among those productions of genius that the world agree
to hold in admiration. The one is a display of grace.
and the other of grandeur ; for Israel in Egypt unfolds
in a higher degree than any other of his oratorios its
author's essential characteristic. Chorus succeeds to
chorus, descriptive of Egypt's successive plagues, while
Handel scarcely stoops to interrupt his majestic march
by the interposition of a song. Haydn mingles the
most graceful melodies, in all their varied forms and
combinations, with the splendour of his choruses, and
adds the rich charm of his diversified accompaniment to
the whole. He fascinates ; but Handel elevates the
hearer's mind. Mendelssohn's Lobeyesang belongs
rather to the modern than the old German school, and
even those of his predecessors, is frequently discernible.
This work has been heard in London, and the judgment
of our metropolitan critics has been pronounced upon it.
The singers this morning acquitted themselves with
their accustomed ability, and the varied attraction of
the morning drew a very numerous audience to the
Cathedral.

The CHAIRMAN then said that the next subject for
their consideration were the forms and materials of
sewers; and the clerk would read to the Court that
part of Messrs. Allason, Harrison, and Cantwell's re-
port which bore upon them.
The clerk read the report, as also that of Mr. John
White, and the surveyors.
Mr. JOHN WHITE then remarked at considerable
length upon the surveyors' report, and contended
that the plans and sections exhibited by them to the
Court were his own, but greatly deteriorated. He had
carefully examined their sections where differing
from those he had laid upon the table, and he was
still of opinion that the latter were, as regarded eco-
nomy of cost and durability of construction, superior
to the forms at present in use, or those advocated by
the surveyors.
Mr. BALDWIN was sorry that the Hon. Commis-
sioner had remarked in such a strain upon the
report sent in by their surveyors. He thought those
officers ought to be perfectly independent in their
opinions, at the same time that they exhibited every
courtesy towards Hon. Commissioners.
Mr. Wuiru had thought that the report had at-
tacked his professional character, but having been now
assured that it was not so, he was perfectly satisfied.
Mr. IlawKiNs, the assistant-surveyor, having al-
luded to several portions of Mr. White's speech,
thought that that, gentleman was labouring under
a misapprehension with respect to Mr. Dowley's
and his (Mr. Hawkins's) views.
Mr. BALDWIN thought that it would be better if
that Court would refer the reports they had heard
read, and the several sections accompanying them, to
two or more eminent architects or surveyors, When
the Court, having the opinion of these professional
men to guide them, would the better be able to come
to a conclusion upon the subject.
The CHAIRMAN recommended that some Hon.
Commissioner should lay a substantive motion upon
the table.
Mr. WHITE moved that the form of sewer to be
afterwards used by that Court should be built after
the forms submitted by himself.
The motion was seconded by Mr. BALDWIN.
Mr. KENDALL proposed, and Mr. GUTCH seconded
an amendment, that the forms submitted by the sur-
veyors be those adopted.
Mr. LESLIE was opposed to both. He did not
think there was a very great difference between the
form recommended by the surveyors and that of Mr.
John White ; but he said again, he objected to both
of them, because he thought the top of the sewer was
placed where the bottom ought to be. He found, on
examination, that the egg-shaped sewer was the best
form for every purpose, and that its durability was
equal, if not superior, to any other. It was singularly
notorious that that Court had maintained the
form of upright-sided sewer with great pertinacity,
although it was generally admitted not to be nearly
so strong as the curved side. Now, one of his objec-
tions to the plan propounded by Messrs. Harrison,
Allason, and Cantwell, was that it was straight-sided.
He had been at the trouble to copy an opinion by the
celebrated Sir John Rennie upon the proper form
and construction of a sewer, and he would read it to
the Court. (The Hon. Commissioner then read the
opinion given by Sir John Rennie, that the sewer
ought to be made like a canal tunnel, the bottom an '
inverted arch, and the sides curved. He stated that
good stone was the best material for its construction,
but as its expense would exceed all reasonable bounds,
and as well burned bricks, laid in mortar, would last
for ages, he had no hesitation in saying they should
be used.) Such was that most eminent man's opinion,
but he (Mr. Leslie) supposed that all the Commis-
sioners present had looked at it, for it had been in
that office for forty years, although it had never been
acted upon. He would now offer his opinion why he
thought the plan adopted in the Holborn and Fins-
bury district still better than that of Sir J. Rennie,
or the others then before them. The egg-form ap-
peared to him like a wedge, which would slip, if he
might say so, into the earth, thereby requiring less
cutting, and of course less expense than at present.
There was another thing to which he would like to
call their attention, although perhaps at the expense
of a laugh at himself. Ile thought that something in
the form of pitch would be a capital protection for
their inverts. He thought it could be done at little
cost, and give great security. He was decidedly op-
posed to stone, on account of the expense and price
of labour. There were many miles of Holborn and
Finsbury done in this form, and evidence had been
given before the house of Commons' Commission to
show that it was most durable in construction. He
objected to put in the bricks in blocks.; he would wish
them put in, as in the tunnel, cemented in single
bricks. Ile would not detain them longer, but he
would strongly impress upon the Court, at this time,
the necessity of getting a permanent form of sewer
at as cheap a rate at possible.—(Hear, hear.) He
acknowledged that the forms proposed now were a
great improvement upon that at present in use, but
he wished the Court to try the form adopted by the
Holborn and Finsbury division.
Mr. WHITE would mention one circumstance that
had come under his own observation. He found that
many of the stones of Old London-bridge were ac-
tually coated with pitch.
Mr. WILLOUGHBY said that while there existed so
many opinions upon the proper forms of sewers, they
ought, before deciding, to be very sure that they had
got the proper form. There could be no one more
ready to remedy any evil than he was, and if the evil
were universal, he would be most happy to receive
the universal remedy for it. But here a discussion
had its first origin in the failure of the sewerage in
the Harrow-road, and some other places—an evil
which might be accounted for by the shifting of earth,
or half a dozen other causes. Engineers, practical
men, were not decided upon any one form of sewer,
for the form that might be perfectly applicable
to one locality would be quite unsuited for another.
—(Hear, hear.) The present form in use had been
found of very general application, and if peculiar cir-
cumstances, or a peculiar locality, called for another
construction of sewer, he had no objection that such
sewer should be constructed under such circum-
stances or in such locality. There were other things;
there were economy to be considered in this matter.
They had to consider what was of much higher im-
portance—a system of permanent sewerage. He
thought that economy, within reasonable limits, was
the very last consideration. But why, he would ask,
if the present form were bad, did their surveyors
permit them to remain so long in error? Why were forty
years allowed to expire ere this improved system
was brought before their notice. They had miles on
miles of sewerage of a perpendicular form, and it had
already lasted, and would, he felt sure, exist for
series of years, and that was a fact of greater conse-
quence and of greater weight than any mere theo-
retical opinion—even of Sir John Rennie or any
equally eminent man. Let them really be certain
that the form they adopted would be better before
they dispensed with what they had found to be good.
___(lrear, hear.) He thought that by acting on the
spur of the moment, the Court was acting rashly and
intemperately.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion was,
and he was borne out by many eminent men, that
the perpendicular form of sewer was less liable to
accident, and easier of construction, than the cir-
cular sides.

The evening's concert comprised more pieces of ac-
knowledged and sterling excellence than either of the
preceding ones. It commenced with the Sinfonia Pas-
torale of Beethoven, which probably was thought by
many of its auditors somewhat long ; at least so it ap-
peared. But we ought not to marvel that a country au-
dience fail to discern and appreciate the design and the
beauties of a composition which even the Philharmonic
band discovered and displayed only after repeated trials.
Madame Caradori Allan sang, and Williams accom-
panied, Parto, ma to bee mio admirably ; and Manvers
displayed power, execution, and good taste in II mio tesoro.
11 pretty duet by Gabussi exhibited the neat execution
and happy combination of voices which the Misses
Williams have attained. Miss Barrett's " Should he
upbraid" was very successful, perhaps not the less so
that she is a native of Gloucester.

The concert (the last of the present festival) concluded
with " God save the Queen." The room was well at-
tended, and it is hoped that the present meeting will
prove sufficiently successful to insure its continuance at
the usual interval.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESTONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
SEPT. 19. Arid, schooner, Almon Hill, Esq., from
Havre.

21. Naiad, schooner, John Quantock, Esq., from Wey-
mouth ; Nautilus, yawl, R. S. Wardle, Esq., ditto.
22. Noran, cutter, Sir 11. B. Hoghton, Esq., from Rot-
terdam.
23. Talisman, cutter, Robert Meicklam, Esq., from
the west of Scotland.
25. Nymph, cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., from
Havre.

Mr. BALDWIN said that any ono at all acquainted
with mathematics must be aware that lateral pressure
could be best resisted by a circular-formed sewer.
He thought it was no reason why they should not
make an experiment of any proposed form because a
system had existed for forty or fifty years, and had
been found to do well, simply because no better had
been attempted. If the Court allowed him, he would
throw out a suggestion that wood, hardened uvail
Payne's principle, might be tried instead of brick or
stone for the bottoms of sewers. He had tried it on
some property of his in Ireland, and found it to
answer all purposes of drainage better than bricks.
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