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PitICES OF SHARES

gentlemen they have now added Mr. Owen Jones, at
another 5001. per annum, making, with Mr. Wyatt's 7001.,
the sum of 1,7001. per annum. Of the amount, however,
we would say but little, if it were to be wisely spent. Mr.
Jones is an able man in his department, and deserved,
what he has received, the applause of the public for his
very fine work on the Alhambra; but why he, of all men
in the profession, should be appointed to see this build-
ing carried out, unless it be to show, on Government
authority, that architects need know nothing of construc-
tion, and that building is not their province, we are
unable to divine. We shall be truly glad if we find
ourselves able to take a different view of this matter
when the report of the committee is published.
The plans are to be exhibited in the beginning of next
month at the Institution of Civil Engineers.—Builder.

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM.
COMPANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.

contribute a sum of money to the poor-box. He was
a man of great respectability, and his family were
much distressed at the situation in which he was
placed.
Mr. BROUGIITON having ascertained that the Com-
missioners were willing to leave the case entirely in
his hands, and that they had no desire to prosecute,
remarked that the respectability of the prisoner was
an aggravation of the offence; but under all the cir-
cumstances he should deal with it as one of misde-
meanour and not as a felony, and for the unlawful
possession of the bricks he inflicted a penalty of 505.,
or one month's imprisonment in the House of Cor-
rection.

ITBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY' AND FRIDAY EVENING
LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 23.

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The fine was immediately paid.
L AMB E TH.
Amongst the applicants to Mr. Elliott for some re-
lief from the funds of the poor-box was an aged and
enfeebled person, of lady-like manners, whose case
was found to be so deserving, that Mr. Elliott, who
is generally exceedingly careful in the distribution of
the funds placed at his disposal by the benevolent, at
once ordered her 51. from the poor. box.
The applicant, it appears, is the granddaughter of
John Robertson, author of " Elements of Naviga-
tion," who died in 1776, leaving a daughter totally
unprovided for. Mr. Robertson had been master of
the Naval School at Portsmouth (now the Naval Col-
lege), was subsequently appointed librarian to the
Royal Society, and died while holding that appoint-
ment. His daughter, the mother of the present ap-
plicant, had married the son of a clergyman, who
died, leaving her with a young family, without
the slightest means of providing for there, and she
was, in consequence, compelled to apply to the
friends of her late father for support and
assistance. The funds at the disposal of the Royal
Society being very limited, the managers were only
enabled to allow her 101. a year during her life ;
but a nobleman, the late Earl of Dysart, who had
been educated by her father, had generously allowed
her 501. a year, and this allowance was paid by his
successors up to 1846, when she departed this life.
On the death of her mother the pension and allow-
ance had ceased, and the applicant and her afflicted
sister had been compelled since then to work all day
and a great part of the night at bead work, and the
utmost they could earn at that employment was six
shillings or seven shillings a week; and such was
their close application to that labour, with the hope
and expectation of supporting themselves, that the
sight of both became so impaired that neither were
able to work at it present, and therefore they saw
nothing before then) but starvation or a workhouse,
and the thought of going to the latter was to them
worse if possible than death itself. An etTart had been
made by a benevolent clergyman to procure for them
a pension from the Admiralty, but this was found
impossible. He had, however, received from the
Government a grant of 301., and from the late
lamented and benevolent Queen Dowager 201., on
their behalf. These sums, notwithstanding the most
rigid economy, were not sufficient for their perma-
nent support, and, as before stated, nothing was left
for them but starvation or the inside of a workhouse.
Before making application for the grant of a small
pension from Government, the Misses Coppard had
written to several distinguished admirals and officers
of the Royal Navy, requesting their opinions of the
merit of the work written by their grandfather, John
Robertson, and the following reply is selected from
about one hundred :

LAW INTEL LIGEN CE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 29.
•
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE BURGHES.
This bankrupt, who had been in business as a book-
' seller, in Cheapside, applied for his certificate. The
case was an old one, the bankrupt having passed his
examination some years ago, and having delayed
applying for his certificate till he had made some
arrangements with certain creditors, for whom he
had been appointed trustee, and with the parish
officers of All Hallows.

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There was no opposition, and his Honour granted
ce the certificate without classification (the bankruptcy
bring under the old law), but with the condition that
the certificate should nut operate as a discharge from
the claims above noticed.
J. Sydenham, printer of Poole, obtained an imme-
diate certificate of the third class. It was stated that
the Poole and Dorset Herald, with which the bank-
rupt had been connected, had produced no profit, but
a loss. His debts are 2,6601.; estimated assets, 7601.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
George Hackett, a desperate young fellow, who a
short time ago contrived to escape from the " Lock-
;34 up" at Marlborough-street Police-court, together
.a with a confederate, although the lock to the door was
'% Chubb's patent, was brought before Alderman Hum-
% phery, upon the charge of having made a murderous
le assault upon Storey, one of the most active officers of
the City police.
• The prisoner had been looked for in vain since his
Os. flight from Merlborough•street, to which court he
_ had been sent from the sliansionehouse some weeks
since, to undergo examination on a charge of bur-
glary in a house in New Bond-street. Storey, how-
ever, learned that he intended to go to Epsom races
on the Derby-day, and accordingly was on the look-
out, and chose London-bridge as his station. Between
ten and eleven o'clock he caught a sight of Hackett's
woman, who was seated, dressed out in ribbons and
silks, in a cart. Next to her sat a man, whom he
knew to be a companion of Hackett's, and judging
that the prisoner could not be far off, he kept his eye
upon the vehicle as it passed over towards Surrey,
. and he soon saw a head pop up from inside, which he
knew to be the one he wanted, and immediately ran
over to perform his hazardous duty. Hackett jumped
out of the cart on finding that ho was discovered and
endeavoured to get away. Storey grappled him and
.3' they fell down together. ll•ackett immediately began
• to use a life preserver upon the head of the officer,
vho had no weapon, and was prostrated on the pave-
- ment after the infliction of several desperate blows.
Bleeding profusely the officer contrived to get upon
ice his legs, and pursued Hackett, who ran towards
Thames-street, and was stopped by a man at whom
as he was passing he aimed a deadly blow with the
instrument he had already used with such effect. In
Thames-street, Heckett's woman came to the rescue,
and violently kicked the officer, who however ob-
tained by that time such assistance as enabled him
to secure both his assailants.
Several witnesses testified as to the facts of the
feregoing statement.
Storey, who appeared with a plastered and bounds
up head, said he had apprehended Hackett in April
for a violent assault upon Trew, a brother officer, and
it was after that event the extraordinary escape had
been made from the place of security at Marlborough-
street court.
Hackett, whose self-possession was very remark-
able, said be never had touched the officer with a life-
preserver. He admitted that he had endeavoured to
get away, and surely he was not to be blamed for
wishing to get out of such company, but the wound
on the man's head had been caused by a fall against
the kerbstone of London-bridge. " If," said the
prisoner, " I had hit him with the life-preserver, I'd
have knocked his skull in, and no mistake; so your
Worship must see that he is wrong there."
Alderman Husirnene—How do you know it
would have knocked his skull in ? Have you ever
i; knocked a skull in ? Hackett—No, but I know a
life-preserver would do it easy. I should like to
have his head examined. You have only his word
for it.
Alderman HUMPHERY—SeveraI persons swear that
they saw you strike him frequently with the in-
strument.
A gentleman here stated that he was surprised to
_ see the officer able to follow the prisoner after having
received such murderous blows. He also said that
A. the conflict took place in the middle of the pavement,
and not near the kerbstone or any projection by which
such desperate injury could have been inflicted in the
struggle.
Mr. May, a surgeon, who examined the head of
the officer, said the wound was more likely to have
1•% been inflicted by blows from an instrument like that
,
produced, than to have been caused by a fall upon the
pavement.
The prisoner cross-examined the surgeon with the
view of getting from him an admission thet the wound
might have been caused by a fall against a jagged
, stone, but he failed in his object.
Hedington, the officer, produced the life-preserver,
the large end of which had been broken off in the
struggle. He said—At the station-house this morn-
ing the prisoner called to me, and said if I would
" square it with Storey, he would give me a " finnif "
(a 51. note). I said I could do nothing of the kind.
When we were in the cab, coming here, he said,
'ce• "I wish I had struck him with my fist instead of the
neddy' (the life-preserver)," and he asked me if I
thought he would get " hookied" (transported) for it.
) He repeated that three times, and he said if I would try
Le. and get his old woman turned up, he would give me
a " quid" (a sovereign). He also asked me to send him
)134 a solicitor.
58 The prisoner—l merely said, would they charge
my wife, and I said if he would get me a solicitor
I would pay him—that's all. I have been working
I'3/4 hard these nine months ; my wife and I were going
to Epsom races—but I can't go anywhere now with-
, out being followed and apprehended. I never struck
this man, but he was accidentally hurt by the fall.
)% Sarah Walsh, the female who tried to rescue the
prisoner, :was then placed at the bar. She was
3 dressed in a black silk gown and a gaudy shawl, and
sshe said, in answer to Alderman Humphery, that
)'4 Hackett's name was John Smith, and that he and she
were, at the time the officer attacked them, going to
buy goods over the water, and not going to Epsom
races at all.
Alderman HUMPHERY—I shall commit Hackett for
this desperate attack upon the officer, and order the
City Solicitor to prosecute. Storey has, by his reso-
lute conduct, prevented the plunder which was, no
doubt, intended to be committed at Epsom, and per-
haps he has prevented murder too. The woman was
dressed up as a decoy to be be used at the races.
MARYLEBONE.
Mr. William Hernshall, a person of considerable
property, residing in Fitzroy-place, Kentish-town,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, on the
charge of having stolen two bricks, the property of
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sitting on Tuesday.
Mr. Woolf now attended for the ' prisoner, many of
whose friends accompanied him to the court, and who
seemed much interested in the matter.
Police-constable Ransby, 61 S, gave the following
evidence :—At half-past seven o'clock on Sunday
morning, as he was on duty in Calker's-lane, Kentish-
town, he saw the prisoner come towards a bridge,
and suspecting that he was the party who had taken
bricks away before from a wall there, witness hid
himself, and kept watch. He (witness), who had only
just marked some of the bricks, had not been long in
his hiding-place when he observed the prisoner come
up to the wall, and with a chisel remove two bricks,
which he put into his silk pocket-handkerchief, and
then.walked away in the direction of his own house,
situate about 200 yards from the spot. Witness went
after him, and on stopping him charged him with
having in his possession two bricks belonging to the
Commissioners of Sewers, at the same time telling
him that he must consider himself in custody for the
robbery. Witness opened the handkerchief, and found
therein the bricks with his mark upon them, as also
the initials of the maker's name, "G. B." Witness
asked him to give up a chisel which he had, and
he did so, and be was then conveyed to the station-
house, where the charge of felony was preferred, and
he was then locked up. Witness
further stated that
he found other bricks laid down so as to form a path
at the rear of the prisoner's dwelling; some of them
had the initials before referred to up on them, and in
all probability had been removed from the wall from
which the two (produced) had been stolen. Suspicion
of the robbery was entertained
against some poor
persons, but there was now every reason to believe
that they were entirely innocent. The wall was
much damaged.
Mr. Woolf said that his client felt acutely the in-
discretion of v.hich he had been guilty, and was wil-
ling to make any reparation in his power for the
wrong he had done; he would put the wall into pro-
per order, and in addition thereto would be happy to

" Admiralty, Sept, 5, 1848.
" Madam,-1- greatly regret to find, from your letter,
that you arc suffering under snots privations, which in-
deed is just and gratoful country ought not to permit to
be the case of a granddaughter of the celebrated John
Robertson, fir no coin in England ever diri so much for
the improvement of her seamen. His book was the first
work that placed practices' navigation on the basis of
science; it taught the sailor to understand the empirical
processes he was employing, and it has remained to this
day the text book from which all succeeding treatises
have more or less borrowed their materials.
" I wish I could do anything that would sooth the re-
maining years of your own and your sister's life, but
really nothing is in my power beyond the free permis-
sion to use this note in any manner you please, and the
hearty sympathy of—Yours, very truly,
" Miss A. M Coppard." " F. BEAUFORT.
Similar testimonials were received from Admirals
Sir E. Codring ton, Sir C. Malcolm, Sir T. B. Mar-
tin, Sir C. Vitus, Captain W. H. Smyth, and other
distinguished officers, and all expressed the deepest
sympathy with the distressing situation of the grand-
daughters of so distinguished a man, and one who, by
hi: writing, had conferred such benefits on the naval
profession.
The poor lady, on receiving the 5/. ordered to be
given to her by the magistrate, expressed her deepest
gratitude ; but liberal as the sum was, it will fall
far short of affording her and her afflicted sister a per-
manent means of subsistence.
7'HAMES.

Mr. George Hobson, a bookseller, residing near
the George, in the Commercial-road, appeared before
Mr. Norton, who sat for Mr. Yardley, charged with
assaulting Mr. Edward Smith, a mathematical instru-
ment maker, residing in the same vicinity.
Mr. Pelham appeared for the defence.
The complainant stated that about eighteen months
since the wife of a Captain Garrett, a woman well
known to the police, resided at his house, and owing
to some previous indiscretions, her husband, on going
to sea, requested witness to look sharply after her.
After her husband left she came home in liquor, ac-
companied by Mr. Hobson, who went with her into
her bedroom. Witness's wife felt it her duty to ap-
prize Mrs. Hobson of the fact, and that lady came to
the house, but nothing arose. Since that time he had
been repeatedly threatened by the defendant; and last
Saturday, whilst on board the Jane Morris, Mr.
Hobson struck him three severe blows on the head.
Mr. Pelham, for the defence, said that there was
not the slightest foundation for imputing anything
criminal to his client with respect to Mrs. Garrett,
who is now a widow, and whose late husband was
Mr. Hobson's particular friend. She had taken a
little drop too much on parting with her husband, and
it was at his particular request that Mr. Hobson saw
her home, being accompanied at the time by her sis-
ter, a married woman. Mrs. Hobson, one of the par-
ties most interested in the matter, was then in the
court, and did not believe a single word of the slander
which Smith had circulated against her husband, and
which would be made the subject of inquiry in an-
other place.

Here Mrs. Hobson stepped forward, and said she
had the utmost reliance on her husband's conjugal
fidelity.
Mr. Pelham—Smith, not satisfied with insulting
my client, sets his children to the same work as they
pass the door. He admitted that on the occasion al-
luded to Mr. Hobson did strike Smith a back-handed
blow, having been grossly provoked by his sneering
gestures.
Mr. NORTON said it was indiscreet in the defendant
to conduct a drunken woman to her bedroom, but as
his w:fe did not think anything improper occurred
he was so far fortunate. It was certainly very pro-
voking to bf. taunted for an offence of which he felt
innocent. Tne defendant must enter into his own
security to keep the peace for six months, and the
complainant would do well to govern his tong ue, and
show his children a better example.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1850.

Samson, William Scott, L. M. Simson, Henry Tu-
dor, S. J. Waley, William White, William Arthur
Wilkinson, Charles Wood."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

TUE ROYAL COMMISSION.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 29.—The Vice-Chancellor has
informed the members of the Senate that he bas sub-
mitted to his Royal Highness the Chancellor the two
addresses of resident members of the Senate pre-
sented to him, and also the following representation
(for which he alone is responsible) :
" TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G.,
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
" Christ's College, Cambridge, May 14, 1850.
" The Vice-Chancellor has communicated to the
heads of colleges Lord John Russell's explanation of
the views of her Majesty's confidential servants, in
advising that a Royal Commission should be appointed
to inquire ieto the state and revenues of the Uni-
versities of Oxford and Cambridge; into the provi-
sions of the statutes by which the said Universities
and their several colleges are governed; and to re-
port their opinions whether any measures can be
adopted by the Crown or by Parliament, by which
the interests of religion and sound learning may he
promoted in the conduct of education in the said Uni-
versities.'
" The Vice-Chancellor feels much pain in stating
that this communication, so far from dispelling, has
confined and increased the objections and apprehen-
sions which the heads of colleges entertained, in con-
junction with himself, at Lord John Russell's an-
nouncement ; and in expressing his conviction that,
if made known to the Senate at large, it would pro-
duce a similar effect upon them.
"The address of the resident members of the Senate
to the Vice• Chancellor, which has been submitted to
your Royal Highness, so clearly and satisfactorily
meets nearly every point of his Lordship's letter, that
it seems unnecessary to trouble your Royal Highness
with any additional statement. The Vice- Chancellor
will, however, venture to make a few brief observations.
"It is stated that the object of the proposed Corn-
miassion is not to interfere with the additions recently
made to the studies of the University by an authority
ab extra, but to bring the aid of the Crown, and, if
necessary, of Parliament, to assist in their completion.'
" To this it may be respectfully submitted that the
changes are already made, and require nothing but
time to test them, whether or not they are beneficial,
and whether or not they may be usefully extended.
If, as is confidently hoped, the verdict of experience
be in their favour, the University now has within
itself the power, and (the Vice-Chancellor believes)
the will, to complete and extend the good work.
" It is impossible to say beforehand how these ad-
ditional branches of study will affect the distribution
of honours and rewards in the several colleges. This,
too, can only be shown by time and experience.
How far those who attain honours in the new triposes
may be deemed worthy to share in the rewards
hitherto mainly given to proficients in mathema-
tical science and classical literature will be seen
after a few examinations have been held. Ir
deemed worthy, the colleges possess ample 'power
to reward them. Lord John Russell seems to he
undsr the impression that, in each college, some
particular branches of study are prescribed to
candidates for fellowships and scholarships, and that
the electors are restricted to rewarding proficients in
those branches only. But, with respect to the col-
leges is Cambridge, at least, this is not so. There is
no difficulty created, so fir as the Vice Chancellor is
aware, by the statutes of any college in this Univer-
sity, to the recognition of any sound and useful
learning as a qualification for advancement to situa-
tions of honour and trust within it.
" His Lordship states that, In many cases, the
advantages and emoluments in the separate colleges
are limited, by the wills of founders, either to the
natives of some particular county or district, or to
the scholars educated in some particular school, or in
some instances, to the descendants of the founder and
his family. Such restrictions cannot fail to be inju-
rious, and to be injurious in proportion as the field of
choice is narrowed by the particular condition an-
nexed to the advantages of the college.'
"The absolute restriction to the descendants of a
founder and his family of any emoluments is very rare
in this University, if it exists at all.
" In the opinions of the heads of colleges, to disre-
gard and set aside entirely the wishes of a founder in
the disposal of his bounty, and to open unreservedly
to all candidates what was given by him, and accepted
by a college, as an advantage to a particular county,
district, or school, would be an interference with the
rights of property both dangerous and unprecedented.
" If the proposed plan be persevered in, the Vice-
Chancellor can only regard with the deepest anxiety
and sorrow the future prospect of the University.
The issuing of a Royal Commission, especially after
having been so earnestly deprecated by so large a
number of resident members of the Senate, will be
taken to imply that, in the opinion of her Majesty's Mi-
nisters, the governing body of the University are unfit
for their position, and that, although possessing the
power to adapt the institutions over which they pre-
side to the requirements of the age, they want the
will or the capacity to do so. Regarded in. this point
of view, the Vice-Chancellor fears that it will be felt
as an affront and an indignity, and as such wilt be
resented. A painful struggle will in all probability
ensue, which, whatever may be its termination, will
destroy the penes, and impair the usefulness of the
collegiate bodies, and of the University at large, for
many years to come, and will inevitably create in the
minds of a large body of educated men a permanent
feeling of distrust in the wisdom and generosity of
the Government of the country, and a spirit of re-
sistance to its authority and influence.
" The Vice-Chancellor begs to be forgiven for ex-
pressing himself thus frankly, and for adding his
earnest hope that, after all these difficulties and objec-
tions have been stated, her Majesty's Ministers may
be induced to re•consider their determination."

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
(From the Report of the Registrar-Ganeral.)
In the week ending last Saturday the deaths regis-
tered in the metropolitan districts were 866, a num-
ber which, it is satisfactory to find, is still below the
average corrected for increase of population, though
it almost exactly coincides with the average if taken
without such correction. During the corresponding
weeks of ten previous years, 1840.9, the deaths rose
by nearly constant progression from 795 in the first
year to 979 in 1848 ; the average, with an addition for
present population is 944, compared with which, the
number returned last week shows a decrease of 78.
The deaths included in the zymotic or epidemic class
amount in the present return, to 156 ; the corrected
average is 196. Of special epidemics, small-pox was
fatal to six children and two adults; scarlatina to 13;
both diseases, but particularly the latter, showing a
less mortality than usual. Measles destroyed 23
children, and a man of 3,5
years, who, according to
medical certificate, died of "measles (7 days) typhus
(5 days);" hooping cough 35 children ; these diseases
at present do not vary much from the average. 11
persons died of diarrhea. In the notes appended it
appears that in a house in Chandos-street, visited by
Mr. Leonard, the refuse of fish is kept till the smell is
intolerable, and the air is so vitiated that some of the
inmates have diarrhoaa, and have suffered during the
last two months from the complaint. Thirty-two
persons died of typhus, which is still less than the
average, but exhibits a slight tendency to increase.
A young boy died of intermittent fever. Twelve
women died of child-bearing, to six of whom death is
ascribed to puerperal fever. Diseases of the respira-
tory organs, exclusive of consumption, numbered in
the last week 138, being more than have occurred
usually at this season of the year—the average is 112.
Consumption carried off 125 persons; it fluctuated in
the corresponding weeks of 1840-9, between 103
deaths and 163. In the case of a lime-porter, who
died at the age of 50, this disease was produced by the
irritation of lime-dust to which he was exposed in
his occupation. Tho deaths of two women are re-
' corded as the direct result of intemperance; and be-
sides these a blacksmith hanged himself, in a state of
unsound mind caused by intemperance; and a clerk,
aged 24 years, drowned himself "in temporary in-
sanity brought on by excessive drinking." The
classification of deaths in public institutions, shows
that 66 deaths were registered as having occurred in
workhouses; 50 in hospitals; 6 in lunatic asylums;
and 4 in the Royal Hospital, Greenwich.

THE IRON TRADE.
Another fortnight has passed without any percep-
ble improvement in this trade. During the early
part of it some expectation seemed to prevail that the
blowing out of more than forty of the Scotch blast
furnaces, together with the determined stand so long
maintained by the colliers and workmen, would soon
reduce the make in that country below the consump-
tion, and that consequently higher prices might be
anticipated there. In Staffordshire also several fur-
naces had been put out of blast, and the stocks of pig-
iron not being in the hands of needy sellers, it was
thought that any improvement in Scotch pigs would
have influenced the quotations here; hence, consider-
able inquiry began to be made by purchasing firms
for the better qualities, but unfortunately the demand
for manufactured iron by no means participated in the
improvement, but rather continued to decline. In
nail-rods of course nothing has been doing; in hoops
and sheets hut little; while orders for merchant
iron in general are unusually flAt, and several
makers have intimated their willingness to accept
lower figures. All prospect of activity has therefore
again subsided. Some considerable works have been
put to stand for want of orders; among them is men.
tioned the extensive portion of those belonging to the
l3riti-h Iron Company at Brierley-bill ; and it is
reported that notices have been given for reductions
wa-ges, ho'h to puldkr, arid -TAP-
masters in the district. Employment has also become
more scarce on account of the proceedings lately

carried on for putting down the system of tommy-
shops. The quantity of iron made is much in excess
of the daily consumption. The foreign markets
appear to be glutted with forced and almost unsale-
able supplies, and prices are resorted to something
under the actual cost, in order to compete with
the tempting offers made by our more fortu-
nately circumstanced neighbours. But the continu-
ance of business upon such terms can only be a
question of time, and finless some unforeseen source
of demand should spring up, the whole make, not
only of this, but of each producing district
throughout the kingdom, must be further curtailed,
and that within a short period. From the best inf'or•
mation we can obtain, it appears that a reduction of 5
per cent. on the general rates of wages had been sub-
mitted to by the workmen engaged in the manufac-
ture of iron throughout the principality, and that the
price of Welsh iron, free on board at the ports, is now
4/. 10s.; but that, even at these figures, buyers are
scarcely to be found. In Scotland pig-iron is agai❑
dull of sale, and the exports of the first four months of
the present year fall short of those in the same period
of 1849 by nearly 37,000 tons. The prices now
quoted vary from 425. 6d. to 455. per ton. The
number of furnaces there stated to be in blast on the
lit of January last was 112, of which 4:5 are now
standing on account of the colliers' strike, and the
produce of many others is reduced, so that the total
quantity made is supposed to be less by about 6,000
tons weekly—a contraction which must have a bene-
neficial result on the market, at least in reducing the
enormous stocks on hand with which the present year
was commenced.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE
TAW VALE.

An extraordinary general meeting of the proprie-
tors of this company was held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, yesterday; Mr. John Sharland in
the chair. The attendance of shareholders was thin.
The meeting was convened pursuant to a resolution
paved at the special meeting, held on the 28th of
February last, and whi h was as follows :
" That the report bo received, and that it be printed
anti circulated amongst the proprietors, and that the di-
rectors be authorised to cause the necessary surveys to
be made or the deviation suggested by the report, and
also to obtain tenders tor the execution of the works upon
the basis contemplated thereby, and so soon as they have
ob•a:.ned the information necessary for that purpose they
do summon witin three mouths from the present date an
extraordinary general meeting of the proprie;ore, to take
such report into further consideration."
The advertisement convening the meeting having
been read, the secretary submitted the following re-
port of the directors :
"In accordance with the report of the committee of
shareholders, and the resolution of the extraordinary
general meeting of the 28th of February, 1850, your di.
rectors appoiatel two of their body to proceed with an
active canvass of the landowners, occupiers, and others
in the locality of tho line, for making up an amount of
not less than 50,0001., by sub3crip:iuns for shares, agree-
ably to the report of the committee of shareholders; and
although tour directors cannot report entire success, still
the progress snide, and the information gained, enable
them to say that they have no doubt of ultimate success
in that respect. Your directors also ordered Mr. Neale
to survey the line as for application to Parliament for
the deviations required ; and also to prepare the neces-
sary sections and drawings, with estimates and specifi-
catons. for submitting the works of the twenty-six miles
from Umberleigh-bridge to Crediton, to contractors.
These are not yet completed, kit are engaged to be so
within one month ; and tenders for conditional contracts
will he thereupon immediately advertised. Your direc-
tors aro prepared to state, that so much is already
known in respect to the surevys, Bte., that all
the anticipated advantages and saving in cost of
construction of that pot tion of the line will be fully re-
alised. Your directors regret that it was deemed neces-
sary t) confine them, by the said resolution of the 28th
of February, to three months for completing ail the
ohjects contemplated. They then urged the period for
their report to be left to them, and if it had beeu so, one
extraordinary general meeting might have sufficed.
They are, its consequence, under the necessity of asking
the shareholders to adjourn the further consideration of
the same to the next half-yearly tneet'ng in August, to
be made special for the purpose of receiving such report
and acting thereupon. Your directors will now submit
for your conCrmation the forfeiture of 870 shares, upon
which the calls have not been paid, in conformity with
the Acts relating thereto."
The CHAIRMAN said, that presuming the adjourn-
ment would take place as recommended by the report,
the order of business would he to proceed with the
forfeiture of the shares.
Alderman CARDEN wished first to know by whom
the shares to be forfeited were held ?
The CHAIRMAN refused to give the names, as such
a proceeding was altogether unusual.
Alderman CARDEN proceeded to complain that in-
structions had been given by the directors to the
former solicitor of the company, to sue all those
defaulters, except certain parties who were the nomi-
nees or the transferees of the directors' shares.
The CHAIRMAN denied the accuracy of these asser-
tions, and called the worthy alderman to order for
travelling out of the special business for which the
meeting was summoned.
Alderm an CARDEN, notwithstanding this rebuke,
continued his animadversions, averring that it was all
very well for the directors to make over the shares to
their own nominees, and then make calls which only
the bonfi fide shareholders had to pay. It was well
known to the committee of shareholders that the
present chairman bad transferred a large number of
his shares to other parties, on the very eve of a new
call being made.
The CHAIRMAN again interposed, to deny these
assertions. The parties to whom his shares bad
been transferred had all paid up their calls. None of
the present directors had transferred any of their
shares.
After some further altercation,
Mr. TirE (a director) rose to prevent any further
angry discussion, and called upon Alderman Carden
to discriminate between the conduct of the present
board and that of their predecessors. The calls
were absolutely necessary to enable the company to
pay its just debts, and there could be no doubt that
the most prudent course was to forfeit the shares in
arrears.

The meeting then adopted the suggestion, and the
870 shares mentioned in the report were accordingly
agreed to be forfeited.
Mr. TITS then moved, and Mr. WOOLMER (an-
other director), seconded the following resolution :
" That the report of the directors now read be re-
ceived, and that the further consideration of the
report of the committee of shareholders, presented
to the special meeting on the 28th of February last,
be adjourned to the next half-yearly general meet-
ing in August, to be made special for the purpose
of receiving and acting upon such report as may then
be made.
A long discussion then ensued with respect to
the present constitution of the hoard of directors, it
being contended by Mr. Davey, Mr. Josiah Wil-
kins, and others, that one-half of the board being
composed of South-Western directors, a feeling ad-
verse to the success of the undertaking was enter-
tained among the land-owners of North Devon, who
viewed with distrust the narrow-gauge policy of the
South-Western Railway Company, and were jealous
of an undue influence in favour of that policy being
exercised in the Taw Vale direction. The chairman
and several other directors stated, on the other hand,
that the company was pledged to carry out the line
upon the broad-gauge principle ; that the whole body
of the directors were in favour of that principle ; that
even the interest of the South-Western Company in
the Taw Vale line was contingent upon the line
being constructed on the broad-gauge principle ; and
that not only was the feeling of hostility among the
landowners of the district unfounded, but that the
result of the'recent canvass of the district showed the '
project to be one that was viewed with favour rather
than with aversion by the landed proprietary.
The resolution was ultimately agreed to nem. con. ;
and after passing a unanimous vote of thanks to the
chairman and directors, the meeting broke up.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.—A meeeting of the shareholders in this

company was held in—the Exchange-rooms, Man-
chester, yesterday, at one o'clock. Charles Turner,
El.. of Liverpool, presided. The meeting had been
adjourned from the 24th of February, for the purpose
of receiving the report of a committee of investi

gatton, appointed at the last general meeting of the
company. The Chairman stated that the labours of
the committee had been so great that they had been
unable to complete the report, and it was, therefore,
desirable that the meeting should be further adjourned
to the 24th" of June, at one P.M. Mr. Simpson se-
conded this resolution, which was carried.
NORTU BetTria RAILWAY.—The North British
Railway branch from Newton to Wallacenick, about
a mile or two from Kelso, is nearly completed, and is
expected to be traversed by an engine on the Ist of
June; but the junction with the Berwick and Kelso
line will not be effected before August.—Edinburgh
Advertiser.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 29.
STOCK Exctutiort.—The market was firm to-day, and
a good busines was done in Great Western and Bristol and
Exeter, but without alteration in prices. Midland were also
in request,

LivEßroord, MAY 23.
STOCK ExCHANGE.—The share market, was firm today

at the quotations. The ti;nsaetionsv;ere-as follow:—London
and North-Western, New Quarters, dis.—Ditto, Quarters
(C), I le. 3d. p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consul. Fifths,
9/. 13s. 9d. dis.—Midland, 3514 —Ditto, Halves, 263 A dis.—
South-Eastern and Dover, 104—Ditto (No. 4), Registered,
4"7B.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E.
,Purchase),
6 per cent. till 1850, 6% dis.—Dutch Rhenish, 6 dis.
MANCHESTER, TiIAY 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tbe amount of business done to-day
was limited, hut prices were very firm. The transactions were
as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 38—Ditto Fifths, 9q/i
dis.—Ditto ( West. Ridin:: die.—East, Lanca-
sl,H. 7 1!-1•;
10 1-16 di3--South-Eastan and Dover, Consolidated Stock,
11-16..-Diancester, tiheflield, and Lincollubire 14,/