Star.
London, England, 1826-08-04 00:00:00

IRON AND COAL ARIGNA COMPANY.

Yesterday the Half-yearly General M‘eting of the
Propriet vs of this Company took place at the London
Tavern.—Jaaraa BROODIN, Bsq. M.P. in the Chair.
Several of the Directors who bad been turned out of
the Direction, and their friends, were ranged along the
benches, and animosity began to shew itself at the very
commencement of the proceedings.
The Report, after a reference to some of the former
transactions, stated that the C 'mmittee had, since it ob-
tained the complete sanction of the Proprietors, pursued
the investigation entrusted to its charge, with great seal
and application, and that Joseph Clarke, Henry Clarke,
John Dunstan, Timothy Francis Power, and A. A.
Surtees, having been by the unanimous votes of the Pro-
prietors present, removed from their office as Directors,
it became requisite to fill up these vacancies, as well as
those which had occurred from other causes. (The
names of the candidates were then read). The report
stated, that the works in Ireland had boea reduced to a
comparatively trifling amount, and that they would not
exceed 501. a week for the future, until the funds requi•
site for better regulated operations be raised and ap-
plied under a Board of Directors. As to the financial
affairs, there bring no auJitors at present, no statement
certified in the prop .r form could be laid before the
meeting. The funds of the Company consisted, how-
ever, it appeared, of a sum of about 11.0341. three per
cent. consols, together with the last dividend thereon.
Applications had been made to the original trustees to
tr.nsfer the stock to the Gentlemen now moving as
Directors, but the transfer having been refused, le?,ali
notice had been served upon the Bank of England, in
order to prevent the possibility of a misapplication of it,
pending the arrangements making to procure the transfer
to trustees appointed under Cie new direction.
The Report baying been read,
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It was insisted, upon the part of the Ex-Directors,
that the Report was not worth a farthing, as the names
of three Directors were not attached.

Mr. BROGDIEN, in order to settle the matter, took a
pen and signed the Report; and Mr. Motion and•
Captain Cater, who bad been appointed temporaiy
Directors by the Committee, followed his example.
Mr. DENMAN,.when Mr. BROODEN put the question,
whether the Report should be received. ro.e to protest
against proceeding to the election of Directors upon a
Report got up under such circumstances. He said, the
contrast between the present state of the Company, and
its condition nos* the former Directors; was moss la-
mentable. When the Ex-Directors were first arraigned,
they ,offered to take all the shares at par; and they were
now not worth one shilling a :hate.
Mr. ComEaroao said, the shares had suffered a de-
preciation under the former Ditection of the most inju-
rious nature. It must be, manifest to every one that the
bad effects could only be obviated by persevecing, in a
course of quite a different kind.
Mr. JOSEPH CLARE said, his property inthe Corn•
pany, which was, when he was in the Direction, worth
upwards 5,0001. was reduced to the value of 25)1. by
the conduct of the Gentlemen who now took it upon
themselves to act as Ditectors.

Here arose a scene of confusion and noise, several
persons addressed the Chairman, who was plumply
accused of partiality.
Mr. WILLIAM CLARK said, that of this he was sure,
the property of the Shareholders, bo far from being de.
preciated by the efforts of the Committee, would not
now be worth ten farthings, if the former Directors hAct
been permitted to remain in power.
Mere some emrsursation took place in different parts of the room.
The lie was repeatedly given, and parties strutted up to each other
as if they meditated some very terrible breaches of the peace.]
Dancneit—This Is really horrible, Oentlemen.
SWasinionDzia—lt is your business, Mr. Chairman, to put a stop
to it. Why don't you do so?
Mr. Baotou—The langukge is so different from that which
have ever been in the habit of bearing—and I have been connected
with several Joint Stock Companies—that I do not know how to act.
An adjournment was moved and withdrawn, after a great deal
of angry discussion, in the midst of which Mr. Bowmen said. he
really believed that be should be obliged to call its the assistance
of the Police.

A tremendous contusion now arose; and, after the Chairman
threatening to call in the Police, the Report was received and new.
Directon chosen.

A letter from Paris states, that all the Allied Powers
hive sanctioned the new Portuguese Charter, and have
also notified to the Spanish Government not to interfere,
in the affairs of Portugal.
We have received Jamaica papers to the 22d of June.
They are entirely barren of political intelligence. The
House of Assembly in Jamaica was dissolved by pro-
clamation on Monday, the 12th of June, and the elec-
tions were to take place in Joly.
Tuesday morning, as the Rev. Mr. Commelline, of
Hempstead, near Gloucester, was on his return from the
latter place to his residence, on horseback, he fell down
near his own gate, and instantly expired.
The fortifications of Bhurtpore have been demolished;
the principal bastions and parts of several curtains were
blown up on the 6th of February, and it is left to the
rains to complete the ruin. The Futty Bourge, or
bastion of victory," built as the Bhurtporeans vaunted,
with the bones and blond of Entlishmen who fell in the
assault under Lord Lake, is now laid low, and among
the destroyers were some of those 44 white men permitted
to Ay from her eternal walls," who, after a period of
twenty years returned to the assault, to
.witness her'
towers and battlements crumbling to dust.
EXECUTION AT CHELMS7OII9..-.ThE youth, Smith,
condemned at the last Assizes at Chelmsford, to suffer
on Friday last, excited but little curiosity in his dying
moments. His father is an industrious labourer, re-
siding at Winston, in Suffolk, where he has worked
upon one farm between thirty sad forty years. •The
youth showed no vicious habits until within a short
period, after he had been enticed away and enlisted.
tis appearance and in age, being only seventeen, he was
but a boy, and little better than an idiot.

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There was astathel nomotonateeeting of. operfitiVes
in tote Pheania.Poselt:yosterder. •Tero of the Magistraies
if Usher's Qsayovith a detachmentof horse police, at-
tended, and no disturbance occurred. Resolutions were
passed that they would ooly take their wages in British
currency. They were the Union of Trades that met.
This morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a
member of men visited the manufittories of Messrs.
Clements, Hill, and Hodgens, at Ringsend, and forced
the workmen from each to join their party. They then
proceeded towards Sandymount, and obliged the work-
men to leave Mr. Haig's distillery, without doing any
further damage.
It is truly melancholy to contemplate the state of po.
verty the manufacturing classes are now reduced to;
they, who a few weeks back were in apparent comfort,
are now absolutely starving. In every Warn a fund has
been subscribed for their relief, but no where have we
known greater exertilns made than in Drogheda. The
Committee of Management have offered for tour months
employment to SOO weavers on an average, with their
families, making the number relieved 1,500 at lea,t ;
this they were enabled principally to effect by the
weekly subscriptions, in which a partial falling off, we
regret to say, has taken place ; either the Gentlemen
Are tired of collecting or the inhabitants of paying.
Tne Committee met three times this week, and at each
meeting new applicants were admitted. As the funds
are all nearly exhausted, the works must be discontinued
if the sireekly collections are given up.
NAVAL IN I'ELLIGENCE.
The'

following has been posted at Lloyd's:
"SWEDISH DIVING COMPANY.
" The Committee are iuformed, that application bas been made
for the renewal of the Charter of this Company for twenty.bve
years, from the 31st of December, 1827; and that the President
and Directors are endeavourlog to procure certificates from Ship-
owners and Undawriters in Sweden and foreign countries,that they
have no complaint to make against the conduct and charges of the
Company, and that they wish fee a cambiums of it. The Com-
mittee, therefore, request that such parties as have exorbitant
claims to settle with the Company, and particularly since tbe be-
ginning of 1525, when it is understood British shipping was placed
on the same footing u livredish,vrith regalia to the Divine Company,
will be pleased to favour them with the particulars at the earliest
convenience. .(Signed) "JOHN BENNETT.
" Lloyd's, August 3, lass."
The David Shaw, from St. John's (N. B.) to Liverpool, was fallen
in with, at sea, on the 3d ult. 'waterlogged and abandoned.
The Morning Star, PUCNANs and Britannia, from Louden,
hurt arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. •
The brig Ellin, front the Isle of France and St. Helena, was
spoken with in lat. 35. long. H. by the Sir E. Paget, arrived at
Piroustith. '
&morn, AUGUST R.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Nancy.
Jonas, from Cork.
PLIIICIUTK, Avantl.-Wind R.,..Arrived the Sir E. Paget,
from Bengal. OF the pore, the Neptune. Parox, from
Rio de Janeiro, in H dpys; Resolution, Witsta, from Antigua;
Maria, Le.sonna. from Ulioce ; and Eurydice. Tmm s. front
Bionsaborg. Sailed the Waterloo, Waimea, for Lima; and his
IMajesty's ship Java, for the East lodies.
Sines nr ligaman-41ritanaif. Windsor Caatje, Forte, Peters%
Trinculo, Chainelion, Cynthia; sad DOlphin and Badger revenues.
At ens lataxs—Badger, Bramble, and Maley.
Ix lux Somas.—Casimuw
' Pownssoosw, Align* 11.—Wind S.E.—No arrivals. Sailed his
air's ship Hagman. for Lpodoo, with specie, from Cork;
Rea yes, and Wyndham,•Exurros, for do.
' /Mt; Avant: E .:-P‘seed by for London, the Per..
severance. —, frost the vreetwardpand the steam vessel COM*
merce di Vivre.
Onavamm, Ammer 2.—Ardind the Latonk 'mart% from
Tenerife; Harriet, Sass, from ; Argus. Pau, and Snares-
brooks FUR; from Ifenshdrslajdiak filinexerwass,from.Gettew.
burgh; Alexander, liraddc, Wawa, and Array Burt, from
Norway; Belfast, Roarrata, Orraparwteniala Wevivis.
and X L, Cue, from St; P.s*Wrla; Nam Paler F
Powys; and Victory, Racy, from 'Harlingen; Victory, Gotta,
front Riga; and Liebe, EIAORI4 Item Denmark.
' Ltvcaroot., Amon I.—Wind IL—Arrived the Isaac Hicks,
• (tom Charleston ; and Horatio, Smut, from Quebec.
The Duke of =Out., accompanied by Mr. iliDAhl;
left Endsleigh Cottage, on Friday last. for Woburn Abbey.
We understand that the Earl of BaLIAsT has chat.
lensed Mr. Watt., to spit the Harriet against the Arrow, for either
three or five bundnrd guineas a side. It is expected to be a match.
Wednesday, the Sir Edward Paget, private East In.
dia ship, Captain Ga,sitv, put into Plymouth from Cal.
cults. By this vessel we have received Calcutta papers
to the 4th February, but as more recant accounts have
been published from the seat of war, they of eciurse
contain no news:
The Decree of the Representatives of the Republic
of Colombia, noticed in yesterday's STAR, recognises the
various loans negotiated both internally and with
foreign nations, together with the interest payable on
them ; and applies for the payment of the dividend, and
gradual liquidation of the foreign debt, the whole of the
duties on tobacco*, the eighth part of the produce of the
Customs, the whole of the public lands which shall be
sold or let belonging to the Republic—all the mines of
any description that are national property, and also the
redemption of Ecclesiastical Livings. The decree also
fires the interest on certain debts therein mentioned,'
owing' by. tie Government to persons resident in Co.
I,imbia, which had formerly no certain rate, and pre.
motgates regulations for the collection of the Revenue
of the country. For the payment of tile Home Debt, it
assigns, among other object', the tenth part of all Ma-
nicipal Duties, and the ninth part of all Tithes. A
Commission of Inspection for public credit has been
qppointed. The whole Foreign Debt was about
6,750,000; bearing an interest of 6 per cent. and the
HonsirDebt about 1,700,000, at 5 per cent.
The Falcon yacht, Lord YARIBOROUGIR, is manned by
64 choice hands, who are governed in every respect as
oa board a man of war, The honest tars were so well
convinced of the impossibility of being properly ma.
naged without the due course of the cat-o -nine tau.
'that they voluntarily consented to its lawful applicatioa
on board, and ere the Falcon left Plymouth Sound last
week, " all hands" cordially signed a paper, setting
forth the usefulness of a sound flogging in cases of
extremity, and their perfect willingness to undergo the
experiment whenever deemed necessary to the preserva-
tion of good order.
JOURNXTUIN SHORMAKERa.—A general Meeting of
the western division of Journeymen Shoemakers was
held on Monday afternoon, at the Eyre's Arms Tavern,St.
John's Wood, Mary-la-bonne, to take intoconsideration
" the illegal proceedings of their employers, and other
business of great importance." This important business,
as might be expected, was a proposition to tarty " a
strike" into effect against twenty-two masters, who bad
committed some grievous offence against the Meeting-
ers; twenty or thirty of them addressed the Chair at
once, and waxed exceedingly warm, because the twenty.
two were net increased to ninety-two; it being finally'
resolved that the strike shiiuld be against the twenty.
two masters, and a committee of five persons was.lt
pointed to conduct the Easiness of the strike.
Meeting then, after several hours of irregular and noisy
discussion, separate '.
In Ito Irish Paper of la t week, the following charac-
teristic erratum occurs Fur Mts. Ftsreaxaaui, Esq. read Mr.
Fnaosaata, Esq."

BETTING ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, Attavera
The principal favourites were backed to a heavy anuastit,, parti-
cularly Belzoni, Fanny, Bedlamite, &c. the former of whom con-
tinues rising. Crusader also looked up a lithe; and 'here we
taunt help observing the singular turn which- the beitingrvebout
t►is boric has taken of late; B to 1 was token after his sinning
the Prendergast'Stakes in October last, and he kept at them odds
sometime after the nominations were declared t and now, six weeks
before the time. 14 to 1 is offered with a bad field; and the horse
known to be perfectly well. To prevent accident at the ran, wd
woad recommend Lord Wharncliffe to have the Redganntlet Post
removed before the race, or order Crusader's jockey to imps the
middle of the course; this will not only preclude the chance of his
running against the post, bet also of being shoved late the ditch
when be is coding up to get his plat*.

IT. mum
800 to 110 apt Belzoni 20 to 1 asst Eynon.
6 co 1 apt &Manske 25 to 1 apt The Dears
10 to 1 apt Fanny 30 to 1 apt The Otmerai
12 to 1 agst Pirate SO to 1 apt Swim Guide
17 to 1 ag,t Crusader 1000 to 15 eget Mukha
NOTTINGHAM 'RACES, AUGUST 1.
Produce Stakes of Up. each. for three year old colts, Oat. 311 s.
Mlles 2st. Once roundand a distance.
Mr. Lacey's b. c. by Amadis .
Sir W. Wynn's hr. c. by Filho
Mr. Platers b. f. by Seagrave .
Won by a length.
Sweepstakes of !Sp. each, 13 ft. for three year old colts, Sit Sib.
' Mlles, ast. Once round and a distance. •
Mr. Lseey's b. e. by Amadis . .
Mr. Houldsworth's Sister to Miss Maltby . 2
The Two-year old Stakes of 25 go. each, 1 5 ft. About Haifa Mile.
Mr. T. Ileuldsworttes b. f. Gift . 1
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Mr. hlyttun's Harriette Wilson . 2
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Sir W. IVynn's b. f. Brenda . . 3
Lord lianclife's gr. e. Co-vitae . ~ 4
The Maiden Plate of £6O was won at three brats, by Mr.
Houldowortb's br. f. Blephanta, 3 yrs, ist. 121 b. beating lee others
ROCHESTER RACES, Almon I.—Frots: Day.
A Maiden Plate of £5O for bones of all ages, never having wen any
Plate or Stakes, carrying weight for age. Heats, Soo sub sod a
distance.
Mr. Maundrell's be. b. Syntax, S yrs . I 1
Sir A. Campbell's b. b. Young Raba's, 5 yrs . $ 5
Mr. Palmer's c. b. 3 yn
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Colonel Harris's br. f. My Anne Nan, 3 yes 4 I
Mr. Godkard's b. e. Composer, 5 yrs . . 3 3
A Sweepstakes of 30p by the Olken of the Cavalry Depot.
Mr. Burgess's ch. g. Ypsilanti, 4 yrs . 1
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Sir A. Campbell's cb. g. Dandy, aged . S
Captain White's ch. f. Miss Julia .. . bolted
Houten' Stakes of :55 each, with £55 added. Heats, tWo miles
and a distance.
Mr. Howard's bl. g. Roderick Random, 6 yes 1 I
Mr. Fowler's gr. m. Chance, aged . 5 5
Captain White's b. g. Hazard, 6 yrs . '. . din
Renewed Rockingham Stakes of 10 p each. Heats, two miles
and a distance.—Mr. A. Cockbura's ch. f. Partial, 4 yrs old, beat-
ing seven alien in a wen-contested race.

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SECOND DAV.
A Plate of SO p given by James Best, N4q. for Muses of al? slew
Heats, two miles and a distance.
Mr. C. Tyrwbitt Jones'a cb. f. Pattal, 4 yrs
Colonel Harris's bt f. My Aunt Nan, 3 yrs

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WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING.--Avoare 1.
Tke Worceattrehire Stakes of 20 sots. each, and 30 added.—
Two miles,
Mr. Gifford noshes Sceptre, 3 yrs . .
Mr. 0. Goee's Meliotrope, 4 yrs
It to lon the loser. Won easy.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for all ages. Two miles.
Mr. Berkeley names b. f. by Cannon Ball . a
Colonel Lygon names Rosario • . I
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A Sweepitakes of 45 stews. each, for two.yr olds. T.Y.C.
Mr. Griffith's b. f. by Spectre .. .
Mr. G.fford's b. c. by Spectre

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ALCONDURY-HILL RACES—Timbal, (14rare Day). ,
The Half4bred Stakestearded execliest Vest.
Capt. Oweaton's PUst . • . . ... 4V$l • 2
Mr. Jniian's Rachael . . . . I 0 It S
Mr. Goddard's Hetthaturd •• 11 SI 'll ilt.
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Major Howe'latioder . . .. . I 4 dr.
Mr. Metcales Jupitie . . . . d dr.
Beery beat was closely contested, and won at length by ahead.
The Beaten Hunters' Stakes was won by Mr. Ony's feecipard,
beating six others.

WELLEND RACES, Moamar.
Sweepstakes of S soy. each. Ten subscribers.
Mr. Pattaway's b. m. Jessy .
Mr. New 's b. g. Little Joe • • dr
Mr. Wright's Harlequin . 3 2
Sweepstakes of 10 sov. each.
Mr. Bell's b. g. Matchless
Mr. Huoper's b. g. Calomel
Four others started.
QUEENHITHE REGATTA.
Yesterday the inhaWtants of Queenbithe presented that useful
class, the London Waterman, with a new wherry arid other prises,
to be rowed for by sii free water:nes belonging to Queeubit►e
stairs, to be decided by three heats. About four o'clack the com-
petitors for the first beat started, vin.—John Wallinger (Blue).
William Cukomb (Green), and Edwatd Bourne (Pink) from buoys
moored rather above the stairs, with a good start, Green having
the lead, followed closely by Pink. They rowed round a boat
moored off Messrs. C.alvert's byrwhouse, op the North shore. where
Green still kePt the lead, and Pink the second, through Blathfriars
Bridge, down through the centre arch, round the abovetiansed boat,
and up to the price wherry, and came in,erat,Green ; second, Pink ;
and One last. The second heat started about live o'clook,toWl was
rowed for ►y Thomas Armenia (Orange), Benjamin Bled (Seiries),
and James Thomas (Yellow), who did the same distance. and came
in, first, Orange; second, Yellow ; and Scarlet last. At half past
seven, the two first in each preeediog heat started for the grand
heat, rowing the same distance as before; Green having the lead
followed by Orange, Yellow, and Pink, which station they kept,
except Pink, who passed Yellow; an excellent heat, and came in
first, Green, the boat ; second, Orange, 4/. third, Pink, $l. fourth,
Yellow, 2!. and the last man of the first and second heats it. each.

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