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N°. 18,054.] LONDON, MONDAY N G S '4. AUGUST 5, 1850.

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Parma- Sum the
~.°4,,J Annual Policy Bonus in wit Be- A B.curP 3
to., I,' Pre- taken addltioa Bonus in duction of may bor-
-2.9 mina'. out in to Sum Cask. Annual row oa
ll' 1 I Assured.— Premium. Policy.
—l -- -----
I Xa.4.£ad.Xa. d. X a. d.
1837 292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1 642 15 6
1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 71593 6 8
1839 211 18 6 113 17 7 17 18 81543 17 9
X A s.d. 1840 193 12 693 16 8 14 0 10,494 810
60 1000 74 3 4 1841 'lB9 12 689 610 13 8 111445 0 0
I. 1842 ,162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3 395 11 1
1843 ,115 10 10 55 10 10 8 110,346 2 3
1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 5 111296 13 4
. 1845 66 15 04410 0 410 1'247 4 5

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ecured on al
0, by an II
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Annuity.

X s. d
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30 26 15 1f
40 113 19 9,

11. PREMIUMS
To secure
on attain- Annuity.£lo II 0
ing the age Cash .. 82 10 0
of 65, the Policy.. 97 8 6
option of

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v Payable Payable p
Payable
Annu- I la one for Die-
m t ally. sum. Iparity.
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6. d..£ s.

20 0 10 11 10 o 10 o 0 0
30 019 616 7 1 7 3 11
40 1 17 327 311 19 410

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EXPOSITION.
nits Exhibition of British Art and Manufacture was visited by his
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and by all the leading members of the Nobility and Gentry, and ex-
c ted great admirathat from the urogress in Meta's, Statuary, Porce-
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many additions, have been transferred-to spacious premises purposely
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within fourteen years; and that every holder of a mort-
gage or bond now due, or to become due on or before
January 1, 1851, be offered payment of it in the propor-
tion of one-half its amount by " debenture shares," and
one-half in a new mortgage.
Mr. CAYLEr seconded the motion.
In reply to questions from Mr. BROWN, it was stated
that every shilling of the money raised on those shares
would be paid into the Bank of,England and be appro-
priated exclusively to the payment of the bondholders.
The amount raised by the issue of the 10 per cent. pre-
ference shares was 50,000/., but it was intended to re-
deem them as soon as possible. This money was raised
in compliance with the request of a meeting of the
shareholders against the judgment of the directors, and
it was urged at the time by the former, that borrowing
money at 10 per cent. for a short period would be less
injurious to the company than borrowing the same sum
at 6 per cent. far a long period.
The reselutions were unanimously carried.
Mr. CATLRY said, they were in hopes of obtaining
the money they required at a reasonable rate of interest
in consequence of the state of the money market and
of the incresso of traffic on the line. _ . .

The, proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to
the chairman and directors.

EAST LANCASHIRE.
The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of this company
was held on' Wednesday at the company's station at
Bury. -Mr. Thomas Dugdale, 'deputynhairman, pre-
sided; and there was an.unusually large attendance of
proprietors. ,•
The company's seal was affixed to the registry of
proprietors, and the report. of which the following are
the' prineipaPpoints, was taken as
" The directors have not undertaken any new works
during the past-half year. They are now in communi-
cation with the Lancashire and Yorkshire board re-
specting the abandonment of•the Dock Branch at Liver-
pool; .and, if this measure be decided upon, the land will
be re-sold, and your portion of the proceeds applied in
reduction' of the capital account. The directors have,
during the past halt-year. used every exertion to obtain
payment, of calls in arrest, and are enabled ,to state
that the •total amount of arrears has been reduced to
12,000/.. of.which sum it ,is expected that at leist one-
half will be recovered." At the extraordinary meeling
held on the 20th March last, the company
determined to raise. an additional capital of
304,0001., by: the creation of ' Preference Fifth
Shares.' These shares were created under the
15th section df the East Lancashire Railway Act, 1849,
which in express terms authorises the company to issue
the shares upon such conditions, and with such prefer-
ence of dividend, not exceeding ten per cent., as the pro-
prietors might determine; and, pursuant to this provi-
sion, a dividend of six per cent, fur the first five years,
and five per cent. in perpetuity, was secured to the
shares, the company having the option of redeeming
them at par in June,-1855. The shares were offered to
the shareholders, in accordance with the ' resolution of
that meeting; but either from the very heavy call made
upon them, or the terms not being sufficiently favourable,
the stock has not been generally taken up; 48,069 of
these shares now remain on hand. This circumstance
has rendered it necessary that some other mode should
be adopted for tho purpose of disposing of such of the
preference fifth shares as are still unappropriated; and
the directors have thought it expedient and only just to
the proprietors that, before offering them to the public
on modified terms,' the proprietors should have an oppor-
tanity of taking them; and, accordingly, the directors
will have to submit a resolution for the approbation of
the shareholders at the meeting on this subject. This
resolution will be so framed as to preserve the strictly
legal character of the stock. Referring to the
revenue accounts the proprietors will observe that
the profit for the half-rear is 34,680/. 17s. Bd., which
leaves the sum of 11;8721. lls. 54. applicable to divi-
dend upon the ordinary share capital of the company,
after paying interest on loans and all preference charges.
Among the causes which have been in operation to im-
pede the natural and progressive increase of the traffic
of the railway, the unfortunate occurrence of the previ-
ous half-year must be mentioned, as having so impaired
the efficiency of the company's working stock as to pro-
duce numerous delays and great irregularities in the
conduct of both the goods and passenger traffic. The
influence of these causes on the traffic of the railway is
pow disappearing. The working stock is in good con-
dition, and the public confidence in the punctuality and
efficiency of the line is becoming gradually restore&
During the past half-year the receipts of the company
have been diminished by a severe competition with the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company. A negotiation
has, however, been recently opened, which may probably
lead to some arrangetnent for putting an end to this
competition. The arrangement, if made, is expected
to be concurred in by the London and North-Western
and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Companies; and by
removing competition from the district will largely
increase the traffic receipts, as it will enable the com-
pany to advance the rates, and at the same time
materially reduce the working expenses. The company
may calculate upon the early opening of the Preston
Extension Line, and the completion of the railway at
Preston. The opening of this portion of the railway is
of great importance, as it will at once relieve the com-
pany from the payment out of revenue of the toll to the
lessees of the North Union Railway, and the cost in-
curred• in -carting goods between Bamber-bridge and
Preston, amounting together to about 8.000[.. per annum;
and it will also place the company in a thorongly inde-
pendent and satisfactory position in that important
town."

The amount still to be expended of the estimate for
completing the railway submitted to the last general
meeting is 498,005/, the expenditure during the half-
year ending June 30, 1850, having been 172,489/. The
statement of traffic receipts and expenditure shows a
balance in favour of the company of 34.6801., the re-
ceipts having been 77.1671., and the expenditure 42,4871
The directors have unanimously elected Mr. C. W.
Eborall to the office of general manager, at a salary of
4001. per annum, subject to increase, according to the
amount of dividend paid by the company. When pay-
ing 8 per cent. dividend the manager's salary will be
1,0001. per andum, where it is to remain. The directors
stated in a note, that several matters of importance af-
fecting the general interests of the company would no
doubt be discussed at the meeting; but they had re-
solved to trust to the proprietors assembled for support,
rather than put the company to the expense of proxies,
and they urged upon the proprietors the importance of
personal attendance.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting. Having
expressed his regret that the late chairman, John
Grundy, Esq., should have felt it necessary to retire
from office. Mr. Dug isle said the directors were all con•
scions of having done their duty; and contrary to their
nsual custom, they had put, some days ago, into the
hands of the shareholders the accounts and the reports,
which exhibited a plain, unmistakable, and comprehen-
over
sire view of the condition of the company. The results
of the opening of the branch into Preston would be very
beneficial. The total outlay upon those works would be
thehaodutlay. He
passedwas
the
Ribble to be
onable
the
163,5001.; and even with the present traffic it would pay
5t
opsetrs t cent.
that a upontrain
previous day, and it would be open for Government
inspection on the 18th of next month. But he was of
opinion that they must look as much to increased rates
as to increased traffic for a good dividend.—(Hear,
hear.) To' show the effect of the present low rates,
ho might say that for the last half-year the traffic be-
tween four stations on the Liverpool line and four
stations on the East Lancashire Railway had been 21i-
per cent. more than during the last half-year of 1849,
while the increased receipts had only been 3i per cent.
greater than in that half-year. Had , the charges
made in 1849 been in existence, the receipts would
have been 17+ per cent. more; with the charges made
when the line was opened, 59} per cent. more; or with
the rates charged by the canal company before the line
was opened, 106 per cent. more.—(Hear, hear.) The
chairman,' after expressing an opinion that the passing
of Ricardo's Bill' would benefit the interests of the line,
moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. BROWN seconded the motion.

Mr. JOHN GRUNDY, the late chairman .of the board,
having expressed a conviction against the propriety of
appropriating money for dividend which should have
been applied to the traffic account, alluded at some
length to his retirement from the chair. He said (as he
had stated in a letter to the board) that he retired be-
cause of the renewal of arrangements with other com-
panies, and the refusal of the board to carry out a finan-
cial scheme which he had previously proposed for the
extrication of the line from its diffi-...ulties. If the board
had been unanimous in its policy, if it had had any policy
at all, he should never have deserted his post. His opi-
nion was, some time .ago, that the control of this district
should have been permanently handed over to some other
conipanY. ,Of their present system of patching up traffic
he could not approve; nor, seeing in how many cases the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company had broken faith
rwainthgetmheenmt,s wwoiuthld
under an Act of Pailiiiment.--(Hear, hear.) Had they
.thheatagreoegneptoantyh.eeirxceenptetrtinhgeyinwtoeraenmy
aadre-
continued in tompetititm -tip to last autumn, the line
would, he believed, have got into possession of some
cther company, which he thought it ought to do as
speedily as possible.
Mr. BLACKLOCK defended the Lancashire and York-
shire Company from the attack which Mt. Grundy had
made upon them.
Mr. THOMAS WItIGLEY (who has lately resigned his
seat at the board) said he was not surprised that the
shareholders in this line should frequently complain. It
had now been in existence for six years and a half, dur-
ing which time the property had been gradually but
steadily declining, till they had at length come to a one
per cent. dividend. At present the East Lancashire was
the worst-managed lino in the kingdom, and if there
were fewer complaints than there used to be of the
management, it was only because people were tired of
complaining. Their arrangements with other companies
appeared to show an abject submission to the two cap-
tains, Laws and Huish—(Hear, hear)—and he could not
believe that any arrangement made with these two gen-
tlemen could result advantageously to the East Lanca-
shire Company. As to the Sunday travelling, be denied
the right of the directors to settle that question, which
ought to the determined by the general body of share-
holders. Re concluded by moving that the report be not
adopted, the board as at present constituted not having
the (Widen°, of the eherehelders•

Mr. E. R`SSON seconded the amendment.
Mr: PENRICE, R.E., said the present condition of the
line was in a very great measure owing to the traffic
having been carried by a number of competing com-
panies, which led to the reduction of rates. The low
rates had brought the canal company to an arrange-
ment, which (he spoke advisedly) would raise
the company's receipts 200 per cent. along the entire
distance of the canal—(Bear, hear.) Money to the
amount of a quarter of a million had been invested in
this line upon the representations he had always made
of the capabilities of the district, and if the arrange.
ments with the canal company were adopted, the local
traffic would be developed to an extent of which it ap-
peared few, even of the proprietors in the line, had any
conception.

After a discussion of some four hours, which was only
'terminated by the departure of a train for Manchester
by which many of the shareholders were desirous to
proceed, a division took place, and the original motion
was carried by a lart►e majority.
Resolutions declaring a divilend at the rate of 1 per
cent. were carried; and it: was also resolved that the
recently created preference fifthti should to offered to
the shareholders at par--if not taken up, the remainder
to be disposed of to the preference shareholders at 10s.
per share discount.
Some discussion took place with respect to the low
charges of the company; and the'proceedings terminated
after a discussion of six hours.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

TIMES.—We publish elsewhere an authentic copy of
the protocols finally agreed upon and executed on Fri-
day last at the Foreign-office by the •Plenipotentiaries
of the chief Powers of Europe. The principal articles
of this declaration were already imperfectly known to the
public by the versions of the former protocol given in
the German journals ; but as some doubt has been
thrown on the intentions of the great Powers, on the
language of this document,'and on its application to the
present state of affairs in. Germany and the Duchies, we
hope that the production of the agreement itself, as de-
finitively executed by all the foreign Ministers concerned,
and in the. presence of the- Chargi d'Affaires of Austria,
will pr.'mote its. object, • and hasten the cessation of an
unjust and unnatnrsil No time should, therefore,
be lest in bringing this distinct annanneetnint of the
principles secognized .by the Conference to the know-
ledge of those who commenced this insurrection, and are
still instigating th.,se hostilities. We have no doubt
that the German Governments are, one and all of
them, heartily sick of the very name of
Schleswig-Holstein, and that although some of
them may have had the baseness to regard this
contest as a safety-valve to relieve the revolu-
tionary pressure on themselves at the expense of an
unoffendieg neighbour and confederate, the wisest states-
men of Germany have long since discovered thut this
struggle serves to keep alive all those bad passions of
the late general convulsion, which have done the rulers
and the nation incalculable injury. It cannot, therefore,
be supposed that the Governments represented by the
Conference of London are really at variance with the
Governments of Germany on this question, or that
Prussia herself can have the fatuity to adhere to a
course entirely isolated from the common policy of the
rest of Europe. The false steps heretofore taken in her
name prove, no doubt, very embarrassing to her now;
but it is not unfair that she should expiate an outrage
by an inconsistency, and the Cabinet of Berlin probably
rejoices at this very moment that the other
Powers of Europe are taking a course calculated to ac-
complish that which she herself is least able to attempt
or to avow. The contention, then, lies not between the
German States and the rest of Europe, but between the
misguided and excited public opinion of Ger-
many, which has been decoyed into its present humilia-
tions by a strange mixture of enthusiasm and intrigue,
and the public law and policy of Europe as laid down
with authority by a free conference of the great Powers.
The question is, which of these forces is to decide this
controversy, and to govern the world. If the popular
passions of the Germanic race are to give the law, they
are leading to a war as destructive in its effects as it has
been ridiculous in its causes—a war of which Germany
herself would be the theatre and the victim. For half
-
a century Europe had accustomed itself to look upon the
warlike passions of the French democracy as the greatest,
peril to the general peace. Perhaps we did injustice to
the thrift and disposition of France; for certain it is
that the Government sprung from universal suffrage has
shown no disposition to attack other countries, and the
agitators who speculated on war as a means of revolution
have failed to gain a hearing. But that class of nefarious
agitators has unhappily turned with more effect to Ger-
many. There they have succeeded in deluding a large por-
tion of the people into a belief that their honour and in-
terests as a nation are mixed up with this Danish con-
test, and if the question were now to be decided by
popular Assemblies or German democratic bodies, it
would be blown at all hazards into a perfect confligra-
lion. They have yet to learn that a popular war-cry is
as feilish as it is odious, until that solemn day comes
when the violation of some positive right, the aggres-
sion of a foreign Power, or some stain upon the public
honour which nothing else can efface, calls an entire
nation, reluctant hut unanimous, to the field. It is
su-
perfluttus to add, that it becomes the duty of the German
Governments, and of the rest of Europe, temperately but
firmly to resist these dangerous passions and illusions,
which, indeed, can scarcely be said to belong to the true
eat,ure or character of the German people, although they
have been profusely strewn among them by the destruc-
tive bands which have lately passed over that country.
Morally speaking, the Conference of London now stands
pledged to maintain the ground of legal rights
and the cause of peace against this aggressive
spirit. Practically, that object can only be se-
cured by causing the insurgent army in Schles-
wig-Holstein, now hourly recruited by German
adherents, and supplied by German contributions, to dis-
perse and lay down its arms. We give the Conference
full credit for having accomplished the first of these ob-
jects by its declaration; but that object tells for compa-
ratively litt!e in flagrant war, and the repetition of such
sanguinary battles as that of Idstedt will be now more
than over an opprobrium to Europe. If the Holsteiners
and Germans are fighting for tee acquisition of Schles-
wig, they are fighting for that which they are now dis-
tinctly told they shall never have; for though we trust
that Denmark will still scorn to owe to foreign aid what she
can do alone, there can now be no doubt that a moment-
a-y success by the opposite party would only bring about
a more total defeat of their cause by such forces as the
case might require. If the Holsteiners see fighting for the
rights of their own duchy, that is a subject perfectly open
to discussion and amicable arrangement. Of reasonable
causes of war they have literally none, and they are
playing at a game at which it is impossible for them
to win the stakes, while they are throwing away the
rights on which they might rely in negotiation by risk-
ing them in the field. For instance, Schleswig is
already de facto and de jure conquered, and if there
were any arguments for her independence before, they
are now disposed of by the battle of Idstedt. One
more such defeat, and the fate of Holstein will be en-
tirely in the hands of the Court of Copenhagen; and
while the Stadtholderate speculates on drawing Ger-
many on to interfere in its behalf, it is in reality draw-
ing the rest of Europe on to resist its pretensions.
These considerations are decisive as to the .expediency
of making peace, even in the interests of the Duchies,
if policy and public duty are to decide that question,
The guilt of prolonging the war rests, in the first in-
stance, on its authors, who have still the power of ter-
minating its horrors; but if they persist in their reckless
course, it would become the duty of all the parties to
the protocol of London to consider and to adopt the
most direct and effectual means of putting an end to
such a contest.

POST.—From certain indications which, during the
last three days, have become perceptible to those who
are closely observant of diplomatic movements, we
are induced to believe that within that period a con-
ference was held at the Foreign office oa the affairs of
Denmark which cannot fail to produce the most benefi •
cial results. We understand that the decision arrived at
by the. Plenipotentiaries is declaratory, and that it pro-
nounces in favour of the maintenance, under the sove-
reignty of the Danish Crown of the t-rritories of Schles-
wiga and
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Holstein, without, however, in the case of the
latter duchy, weakening its relations with the German
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succession. Whether the representatives of At:stria and
Prussia have yet attached their signatures to the im-
portant document in question, we have not been informed,
but we believe there is no doubt that it has been signed
by her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
and by the Ministers of Russia, France, Denmark, and
Sweden
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Sweden. The three greatest Powers of Europe have,
thus, agreed on a course of policy, the moral effect of
which is to secure the integrity of the Danish dominions,
and to combine the preservation of peace with the ad •
vancement and security of commerce. Not many
weeks ago we .Were told by the organs of
busy and .mischievous faction that England was iso-
lated from the other states of Europe. M. Drouyn
do Lhuyv, it was said, bad left the Court of St. James's
to return no more. Baron Brunnow sometimes had
gone—sometimes was only going—but most certainly
could not remain. The influence of England was
shivered like the porcelain of M. Pacifico, and the name
of Palmerston had been affixed for the last time to
any convention of European importance. Such
prophecies were not confined to that versatile and de-
graded portion of the press which is ever ready to back
the current falsehood of the day; but, as our readers
well know, there were men whose character and position
entitled us to expect from them better things who conde-
scended to aid iu the most discreditable movement which
has disgraced the annals of modern policy. Alone in what
is called the Conservative press, we persevered in the
consistent and independent support of the cause of truth
and justice, and, from day to day, we exposed the base
fabrications and dishonest purposes of the enemies of
our country. We foretold the issue which is now patent
to the world. Lord Palmerston has vindicated the
honour of England and maintained her high place
among the nations of the earth. The ink is not dry in
which the miserable predictions referred to were written
when Russia and France are united with Great Britain
in a publicitot which demonitrates a cordial good tinder,