The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-05 00:00:00

EAST LANCASUIRE.

The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of this company
was held on Wednesday at the company's station at
Bury. Mr. Thomas Dugdale, deputy chairman, 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 principal points, was taken as read:—
" The directors have not undertaken any new works
during the past-half year. They are now in communi-
catton 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 half-year, used every exertion to obtain
payment of calls in arrear, and are enabled to state
that the total amount of arrears has been reduced to
12,0001., of which sum it is expected that at least one-
half will be recovered. At the extraordinary meeting
held on the 20th March last, the company
determined to raise an additional capital of
304.0004, by the creation of Preference Fifth
Shares.' These shares were created under the
15th section of 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. for 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 the 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-
tinity 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-year is 34,6801. -17 s. Bd., which
leaves the sum of 11,872/. lls. sd. applicable to divi-
dend uposa 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
now disappearing. The working stock is in good con-
dition, and the public confidence in the punctuality and
efficiency of the line is becoming gradually restored.
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 arrangement 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 8,0001. per annum;
and it will also place the company in a thorougly 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 498,003/, the expenditure during the half-
year ending June 30, 1850, having been 172,4891. The
statement of traffic receipts and expenditure shows a
balance in favour of the company of 34,6801,, the re-
e,eipts 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 6 per cent. dividend the manager's salary will be
1,0001. per andum, where it is to remain. The directors
stated iu 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.

Tne 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. Dugiale said the directors were all con-
scious of having done their duty; and contrary to their
nsual cestom, they had put, some days ago, into the
hands of the shareholders the accounts and the reports,
which exhibited a plain, unmistakable, and comprehen-
sive 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
163,5001.; and even with the present traffic it would pay
5 per cent. upon the outlay. He was happy to be able
to state that a train had passed over the Ribble on the
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.—(llear,
hear.) To show the effect of the present low rates,
he 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 211
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 171- per cent. more; with the charges made
when the line was opened, 59i per cent. more; or with
the rates charged by the canal company before the lino
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
bees 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 difficulties. If the board
had been unanimous in its policy, if it had had any policy
at all, ho should never have deserted his post. llis opi-
nion was, some time ago, that the control of this district
should have been permanently handed over to some other
company. :Of their present system of patching up traffic
ho could not approve; nor, seeing in how many cases the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company had broken faith
with them, would he ogl, e to their entering into any ar-
rangements with that company, except they were made
under an Act of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) Had they
continued in competition up to last autumn, the line
would, he believed, have got into possession of some
ether company, which he thought it ought to do as
speedily as possible.
Mr. BLACKLOCR defended the Lancashire and York-
shire Company from the attack which Mr. Grundy had
made upon them.
Mr. THOMAS WRIGLEY (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 nsed 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-
tams, Laws and Iluish---(Hear, hear)—and he could not
helieve that any arrangement made with these two gen-
tlemen could result advantageously to the East Lanca-
shire Company. As to the Sunday travelling, he denied
the right of the directors to settle that question, which
ought to the determined by the general body of share-
holders. He concluded by moving that the report be not
adopted, the board as at present coastituted not having
, the confidence of the shareholders.

Mr. E. Rossorr 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 —(Llear, hutif.) Money to the
amount of a quarter of a million 11,4 been invested in
this line upon the representations be had always made
of the capabilities of the district, and if the arrange-
ments with the canal company were adopted, thu local
traffic would be developed to an extent of which it ap-
peared few, even of the proprietors in the line, had any
coneeption. _

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 large majority.
Resolutions declaring a dividend at the rate of 1 per
cent. were carried; and it' was also resolved that the
recently created preference fifths should he offered to
the shareholders at par—if not taken up, the remaiader
to be disposed of to the preference shareholders at !Os.
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 DAY..
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 Charge d'Affaires of Austria,
will promote its object, and hasten the cessation of an
unjust and unnatural war. No time should, therefore,
be lost in bringing this distinct announcement of the
principles recognized by the Conference to the know-
ledge of those who commenced this insurrection, and are
still instigating these hostilities. We have no doubt
that the German Governments ate, 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
unoffending neighbour and confederate, the wisest states-
men of Germany have long since discovered thnt 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 thia 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 ibis
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 snore effect to Ger-
many. There they have succeeded it deluding a large por-
tion of thepeople into a betel' -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 ell hazer& into a perfect conflsgra-
lion. They have yet to learn that a popular war-cry is
as foolish 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 as entire
nation, reluctant but unanimous, to the field. It is su-
perfluous 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
nature or character of tne 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
pledge d 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 little in flagrant war, and the repetition of such
sanguinary battles as that of Idstedt will be now more
than ever an opprobrium to Europe. If the Holsteiners
and Germans are fighting for the acquisition of Schles-
wig, they are fighting fur 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-
ary 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 are 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 ou 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 these 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 on 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 Vrritories of Schiele
wig and Holstein, without, however, in the case of the
latter duchy, weakening its relations with the German
Confederacy. This, of course, implies an approval—
we, have even heard that such an approval is distinctly
expressed of the projected measures by which
the King of Denmark has proposed to regulate the royal
succession. Whether the representatives of Austria 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. 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 a
busy and mischievous faction that England was iso-
lated from the other states of Europe. M. Drouyn
de Lhuye, it was said, had left the Court of St. James's
to return no more. Baron Bruunow 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 afExed 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 in 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 sup Port 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
i
among the nations of the earth. The ink s not dry in
which the miserable predictions referred to were written
when Russia and France are united with Great Britain
in a public act which demonstrates a cordial good under-

. on Saturday night Mr. Williams attended two meet-
' ings of the electoral body, one held at Wilcock's Assem-
bly Rooms, Newington-causeway, and the other the
school-room, Great Suffolk•street, in the Borough. At
both the lion. Gentleman was received with the same
enthusiassm which hag characterised his progress
throughout the canvass, and resolutions in his favour
wero, as before, unanimously adopted.
A public meeting took place at the Swan Tavern,
Stockwell, and was attended by Admiral Napier, who
during the day had paraded the various districts in an
open barouche, drawn by four cream•coloured horses,
and attended by a gay cortege. the spontaneous aid and
contribution of Mr. Batty, the lessee of Astley'a Am-
phitheatre.
After Sir Charles Napier had addressed the meeting
to the same effect us his speech at the Borns Tavern,
K-nnington. on Friday night (end reported in The Sim
of Saturday last), Mr. KNIGHT moved, and Mr. T.
THORNLEY seconded a resolution, " That the meeting
considered him, Admiral Napier, a proper person to re-
present the borough of Lambeth in Parliament."—((,oud
cheers, interrupted by disapprobation.)
Mr. T. B. BARKER moved as an amendment, " That
William Williams is the most fit and prover person
to represent the borough of Lambeth."—(Cheers and
uproar.) .
•
The amendment was seconded by Mr. WILSON, and a
scene of no ordinary tumult and uproar ensue d. Several
of the adherents of Mr. Williams presented themselves to
address the meeting, but in vain, amid the storm of hisses
and counter-cheers, were their efforts to obtain a hearing.
At length the Chairman put the amendment and resolu-
tion, when the former was declared to be lest, and the
latter carried.

RAILWA think., intRKETS.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 3.
STOCK EXCIIANG/s.—There has been a firm market to-day.
The leading stocks and shares show a decided improvement,
and, with a very fair business done, the market closed very
fimly indeed, with every appearance of a further improve-
ment.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have little change to notice in
the share market. A small business has been done, but
rates generally were firm at last quotations. The only trans-
actions reported were -London and North-Western, buyers,
!11 ; sellers, 11114—Midland, buyers, 331,i ; sellers, 3414
North Staffordshire, buyers, 41A ; sellers, 4 ds. —South Staf-
fordshire, buyers, 4%; sellers, 4 dis.—Shropshire Union,
44 sellers, 3% dis.

YORK, Atm. 2.
STocK ExCHANGIL—The transactions to-day were eta
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Ex-
tension), 9A—York and North Midland, Preference, 7%.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT EDINDURGII.—n
meeting of the various sections commenced on Thursday, in
the University, the class-rooms of which were set apart for
the purpose. In the section of mathematical science, Mr. F.
Ronald made a report on the observations and experiments
at the Kew observatory, and the Rev. Baden Powell read a
paper -on luminous meteors. Reports were also read by Mr.
W. S. M. Rankine on the laws of the elasticity of solids;
by Professor G. S. Stokes, on metallic reflections; by the
Rev. Mr. Powell, on .the refractive indices of several sub-
stances, and by the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, on the magnitude,
velocity, and phenomena of Atlantic waves. In the the
I:nistry section Dr. George Wilson stated a few unpublished
particulars respecting the character and habits of the late
Dr. Black. Professor Voeliker discoursed on the per-
centage of nitrogen as an index to the nutritive value of
food. Papers were also read by Mr. Henry Taylor on the
chemical composition of the rocks of the coal formation,
and by Mr. J. P. Poule on some amalgams. Mr. J. R.
Gassiot reported on a peculiar form produced in diamonds
under the influence of the voltaic arc. Mr. H. C. Sorby also
read a paper on carbon. In the geological section reports
were made by Sir Roderick Murchison, Professor E. Forbes,
Mr. Brice, Dr. Cullen, and Mr. Omerod. In the natural
history section papers were read by Dr. Hugh Cleghhom,
Sir J. Dalgell, Professor Royal, Mr. Hancock, Dr. Embleton,
Mr. C. Babington, Dr. M'Donald. The lecturers in the
ethological section were Dr. E. Hincks, Professor Rungate,
and Mr. D. Wilson. In the mechanical section papers were
reed by Mr. Scott Russell, Mr. Stokes, Mr. Homersham Cox,
Mr. Ruthven, Mr. Macpherson, and Mr. James Nasymth.
In the statistical section a very interesting paper was read by
Mr. G. R. Porter of the Board of Trade. The sectional
meetings terminated at three in the afternoon, and in the
evening a general meeting was held, when a discourse was
delivered by Professor Bennet on the passage of blood
through the minute vessels of animals in connexion with
nuitrition.

FATAL OUTRAGE AT rATRINGTON.—An inquest,
adjourned from the previous week, was held on Satur-
day last at Welwick, about two miles from Patrington,
in the East Riding of Yorkshire, before Mr. Iveson,
coroner, on the bodies of four men, who came by their
deaths under the following circumstances:—The Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests are reclaiming from the sea
eeveral hundred acres of land upon Sunk Island, situate at
the mouth of the Humber, and have in their employ on the
island a considerable number of " navvies." Part of these
are Irishmen, and either from some provocation offered, or
to have a monopoly of labour in the district, the English
labourers resolved to drivei the others from the island. As-
sembling, therefore, on the 19th ult., they hoisted a dark-
coloured handkerchief as a signal for the attack, and bore
down upon five Irishmen, working together upon the eastern
portion of the island, assailing them violently with sticks and
stones. The poor fellows, taking flight, made for the water's
edge at a point where the ferry-boat plies to the mainland at
Welwick. The waterman happened, however, to be on the
opposite side, and the Irishmen then, rather than await their
pursuers, plunged into the water, and endeavoured to gain
the shore. Only one of them succeeded in this; the re-
maining four were drowned in sight of the other " navvies,"
who, with a brutality scarcely credible, made no effort to
save them. At low tide the bodies were ',covered, and as
already stated, an inquest (to which the reporters of the
press were not admitted) was held upon them. which was
adjourned to Saturday last, when the inquiry was again ad-
journed. The channel over which the deceased attempted
to swim was only from 15 to 20 yards wide, but at the time
of the occurrence a strong tide was flowing. The affair has
made a great sensation in the secluded district in which it
took place.

TITCHFIELD.—WO regret that it is our duty to
record the re-appearance of the potato blight. We had
hoped some two or three weeks since that no trace of the
disease would this year exhibit itself, but we are sadly dis-
appointed. We strongly urge those who have crops, imme-
diately they discover the infection, to remove the haulm, as
this will prevent communication, as well as promise safety to
the esculent. —.Hamphire Independent.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUG. 2.—The market
has a very firm appearance, and a steady business has been
done since our last report in most descriptions of raw sugar
at full prices. The refined market is dearer. Rum is inquired
for.—Bristol Mercury.

SUNDERLAND NEW DOCK.—On Friday, the 26th
ult., the first vessel with a cargo to discharge entered the
new dock at Sunderland. She is a brig named the Brenda,
A 1, 307 tons burden, Wood master, and has just arrived
with a cargo of splendid timber and deals. —Sunderland
Herald.

MR. HOWITT'S ISIEW WORK, " THE YEAR BOOK
OF THE COUNTRY ; or, the Field, the Forest, and the
Fire-side." 1 vol., with Illustrations.—The world is
always happy to hear from Mr. llowitt concern-
ing " the seasons and their signs"—the garden, the
woodland, and their ever-changing shows of beauty
—and the characters and humours which animate
rural life. He treats of these topics with that affluence
of poetical imagination and experience which there is
no counterfeiting—with that thorough love which, coming
f. om the heart of the writer, goes direct to the heart of the
reader. The present volume is as fresh in spirit and as rich
in matter as it it were the first of its family. The illustra-
tions by Mr. Foster are excellent. The book is at once wel-
come to read, and goodly to see. It is richly, poetically,
picturesquely various. We cannot doubt its having a wel-
come as wide as its range of contents, and as cordial as the
love of man, and of nature, which every line of it breathes.—
Athovunt.

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which will enable them to use it afterwards themselves
without the chance of failure. They think it necessary to
add that, by attending strictly to the instructions given with
the dye, numerous parties have succeeded equally well with-
out coming to them. Address, Ross and Sons, 119 and 120,
Bishopsgate-street London

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Another Bad Leg cured by
Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract a of letter from Mr.

James Townley, of No. 1, Catherine-street, Poplar New Town,
dated July 22, 1850. "To Professor Holloway.—Sir,—A
sense of gratitude, as well as a wish to benefit the &Siete& in-
duces me to publicly acknowledge the excellent cure your Pills
and Ointment have effected of my bad leg with two wounds in
it, from which I had suffered upwards of three years, and
which it was found impossible to heal until I fortunately tried
your medicines, which soon gave me relief, and aim I have as
sound a leg as any man can desire.—Sold by all Druggists ant
at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

LIABILITY OF CONTRIBUTORIES UNDER THE WIND..
LNG•UP ACT AND THE INSOLVENT Couma.---The important
question of the liability of contributories for calls under the

joint Stock Companies Winding-up Act, petitioning for
their discharge under the Insolvent :Debtors Act, came on
last week before Mr. Sergeant Dowling in the County
Court of Yorkshire. Five Insolvents, named Purchon, Bul-
lock, Kerr, Midgley, and Wild. came up to be heard on their
petition for discharge. The opposition was instituted by
Mr. Goodchap, the official manager, at the direction of the
Master in Chancery Kindersley, who had placed the five
petitioners on the list of contributories as promoters of an
undertaking called the Wesleyan Newspaper Association, the
liabilities in connexion with whith amount to some 7,000/.
A further call of 41. per share had been made, and for non-
payment the insolvents were committed to York Castle for
contempt of court. It was contended by counsel for tbe, offi-
cial manager that. by the 88th section of the Joint-Mock
Stock Companies Whiding-up Act, the insolvents could not
.be discharged, that section being a portion of an Act pissed
subsequently to the general Insolvent Debtors Act, and con-
sequently superseded the latter; in reply to which, on the
part of ,the petitioners, it was urg,d that there was nothing
in the 88th section of the Winding-up
.Act to control the
working or militate against the .55th section cf the Insolvent
Debtors Act. His Honour acquiesced in this latter view
and the insolvents were discharged.
VISIT Or PARISIAN EXCURSIONISTS.--Yesterday
a monster train, conveying no less than 1,400 Parisians, en
an excursion to the metropolis, arrived at the London-Airidge
terminus of the South-Eastern Railway. Every cab and
means of conveyance in the Station and vicinity proved in-
adequate, and a number of omnibuses were engaged to carry
them to their destination in Leicester-square. The, lengthy
cavalcade, and the unusual appearance of the excursionists,
the majority being of the working class, en Neese, and' wear-
ing beards, attracted much curiosity. The hotels and lodg-
ing-houses had not sufficient accommodation, and numbers
h. remain
to be quartered in the Strand and vicinity. They remai
ua the metropolis till Tuesday.