The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-29 00:00:00

4 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. —Tit u 1010 A Y, Nor. 2S. 1r the Booms of Loans yesterday the Earl of DsivoN, in moving for papers, intimated that next session it might be necessary to apply to parliament for increased powers to the Poor-law Board, with the view of enabling the board more promptly to discover abuses and apply a remedy. The Archbishop of YORK thought that the failure of the system was in some measure attributable to the fact that our workhouses are hospitals without bei ng conducted upon the known principles of hos pital management. _ _ The Barr of CARNARVON believed the system was full of defects, and that parliament would willingly consent to enlarge the powers of the Poor-law Board. Lord Hor,:irros urged that in any new legisla tion the interests of the ratepayers should not Le lost sight of. The house adjourned at a quarter past six o'clock until Monday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY, Nov. 28. lv the Horst: of Cosmos:4 Loral STANLEY stated, in reply to Mr. Headlam, that further cor respondence had taken place on the subject of the ship Mermaid, and that the Spanish government ; acting on his suggestion, had referred the matter to arbitration. His lordship further stated, in re ply to Colonel llarttelut, that no treaty of com merce has been lately concluded with Portugal by which the wines of that country are to be ad mitted at a reduced duty. There had been nego tiations on the subject, but no agreement had as yet been come to. Mr. HUNT, in reply to a question by Mr. Gra ham as to the arrangements fur carrying the Ame rican mails after the termination of the present contract on the 28th December, stated that the government had entered into a contract with Messrs. Cunard and Co. for conveying the mails for one year longer for a fixed sum. In reply to Mr. Goacnes, the ArroassY-Ga -3161•AL announced that it is the intention of the government, after the recess, to introduce a mea sure for the amendment of the law of bankruptcy. The house having resolved into committee of ways and means, kr. HUNT, in the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer from indisposition stated the mode in which the government proposed to raise the 2,000,000/. which had been voted towards the Abyssinian war. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his financial statement on the 4th of April, esti mated the surplus at 246,0001. Some alterations were made by which the surplus was reduced to 206,0001. Deducting that sum from the 2,000,0001. which had been voted, about 1,800,0001. would have to be provided for. They proposed to impose an additional income tax of a penny in the pound for the present financial year. This would yield something under 1,500,0001. It was not expected,however, that more thanB4o,ooo/. could be collected in the course of the financial year, leaving 660,0001. to be collected afterwards. The sum of 960,0001. would have to be advanced from other sources, and they proposed to take this aunt from the balance in the Exchequer, which would leave that balance on the 31st March, 1868, at 5,6:14,0001. Some persons thought that the whole of the expenditure of the war should not be thrown on the payers of income tax. Their objection would be met in some measure by voting a portion of the expense front the balances in the Exchequer, by which they were practically applying, so far, the general taxes of the country to the expense of the war. Mr. GLaterroNs remarked that it would have been objectionable to have raised a loan, and still more objectionable to have postponed the matter , mu the next financial year. The proposal he thought, on the whole, was a judicious one under the circumstances. It was inconvenient to reduce the balance in the exchequer when they had a fall ing revenue. Drawing from the balance was almost equivalent to increasing the debt ; but they had during the year reduced the debt to a nearly equal amount, so that on the whole operations of the year they would not increase the debt. Sir G. Bowysa thought it most objectionable to increase the income tax. Mr. Luso aixepted the proposal, and should not have objected to the income tax being increased by twopence in the pound. Mr. WHITE entered his earnest protest against an increase of taxation. The country did not want more taxation, but more economy. They were expending eighteen millions more now than they were expending in 1850. Mr. HANKEY observed that the cost of the war was estimated at four millions, whereas they were only providing for two. He objected to reducing the balances in the exchequer to a low figure. Lord STANLEY, in reply, said they had as yet only expended two millions. The four millions would be wanted only in case the war lasted a cer tain time, but they did not know that it woull. Mr. D. GRIFFITH did not think the country would be afraid of facing the expenditure. The resolution was then agreed to. Sir S. NORTHCOTR then moved a resolution that the ordinary pay of the troops taken from India employed in the Abyssinian expedition, and the ordinary charges of any vessels belonging to the government of India employed in the expedition, be paid out of the revenues of India, but that the ewense of replacing the troops or vessels shall be borne by the imperial government. He referred to the act of 1858 for settling the government of India, which provides that the military force of India shall not, except in order to repel in vasion, or to meet some sudden emergency, be employed out of India without the consent of parliament. Government had been c with violating that act, but he believed thlt i lly had acted in conformity with it, and if they had vio lated it they had only followed the example of their predecessors. It was the first principle of international law that envoys should be safe, and if it were of importance to England that her envoys should be safe it was still more important to her Majesty as Empress of India that her envoys should be safe. He admitted that India had no material interest in the Abyssinian expedition, nor, in fact, bad England, but if it were not for considerations connected with India, he doubted whether govern ment would have deemed it necessary to have sent the expedition, or to send it so soon. The charge which would be thrown on India by this resolution would be about 300,0001., or 1.2 per cent. of the entire coat of the expedition. The arrangement, he contended, was just, because India would lose nothing whatever, inasmuch as if there had been no expedition the troops would have remained at the charge of the revenues of India. There were several precedents for this course. There was the Persian expedition in 1850, when India bore the expense of the whole of the ordinary pay and half the extraordinary expense. In the second Chins war, the imperial government defrayed the ordinary pay and the extraordinary expenses, but that was not a parallel case, as the troops were sent to remain in the country a consi derable time. In the third China war, the imperial government paid the ordinary pay from the time of embarkation, but a charge of 189,0001. for vessels, was not allowed and had not been paid. Another consideration was that lip to the time of the third China war, India maintained a wavy of herown, but sumo that time the police of the seas had been kept up at the expense of England. Mr. Fawcarr could not see why India should be asked to lend troops in order to release English prisoners. Why should India suffer in consequence of a wrong done to us in Abyssinia any more than from a wrong done to us by a European monarch He considered the policy proposed was most un just, and he should divide the house against it. Sir H. RAWLINSON supported the resolution. He had always spoken against the permanent occu pation of the country. We could not afford to hold it, but if our troops had to follow the King into the interior a provisional occupation might be sea s az7. Mr. GrArisroxe denied that the government of Lord Palmerston, in reference to the China war in 1859, hail violated the act of 1858, for the act said the troops might be employed in a sudden emer gency, and that was a sudden emergency. The IP' THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1867. nearest precedent was that of the Persian war. The adoption of the resolution would not make India a shilling poorer. What it u.,uld do would be to withdraw from India a portion of her avail able force. There was in India a necessary margin of disposable force which, if not wanted for India, might be sent elsewhere with a solemn pledge to India that if wanted in India they must return thither. If a committee were appointed to inquire into the distribution of the charge of the army and navy between England and India, his impression was that more would have to be charged to India and less to England. Mr. LANG: thought the proposal a perfectly fair one. Mr. OSBORNE supported the resolution in the ' interest of the English taxpayer. He said : I shall not stand long between the house and the noble lord, whom nobody will hear with greater pleasure than myself on a subject in respect to which he is peculiarly fitted from his information to speak. (Hear, hear.) Bat I think it impossible, sitting in the vicinity of the right hon. gentleman below me (Mr. Laing), who I think repre sents the Aulic Council, but scarcely the British tax peyer—(laughter)-to remain altogether silent. I lis tened with great interest to the speech of the Secre tary of State for India. It was a large speech, great—almost too great—in its proportions—(a laugh)— bonne if it proved anything it proved too much. It went to this, that England is over-taxed, that we have to pay more than our just proportion, while India, instead of being only called upon to pay 300,0001., ought to pay half the cost of the expedition at least. According to the showing of the right hon. baronet and of the right hon. member for South Lancashire, it is the British, not the Indian taxpayer who has cause to complain. Now this requires to be narrowly looked into. The right hon. gen tleman the Secretary for India states that since the Chinese war we have taken the whole charge of the Indian nary off their hands. Well, then, I say if that be the ease we are legislating directly against the British tax payer and in favour of the Indian portion of our fellow countrymen. But, said the right hon. gentleman the member for Wick, it may be the design of Providence. He wound up his extraordinary speech by an appeal to Provi dence. (A laugh.) And the idea he has of Provident* seems to be that this country is to be charged by Providence a sum of 3,000,0001. of money in order to keep the Bombay army in wind. (Much laughter.) The great financial reformer the representative of the British taxpayer, tells the House of Cemnsees that it is necessary to give the young blood of India seep, and to keep the Bombay army in wind. (Renewed laughter.) I say that if this house is to be per suaded into voting money for the purpose, of maintain , ing Indian prestige and to keep the Bombay army in wind, we are abrogating our duty members of parliament and guardians of the public purse. (Hear, hear.) I can now , understand all that was said by the right hon. baronet ' the Secretary of State when he spoke of the enthusiasm of the Bombay officers. It appears to me that this war has been got up by • olivine of officers at Bombay—(oh, oh)--&stractcd by ennui and anxious for active service. Sir, I think this debate has been allowed to go by the board with too much ease. The Blue-book gives as little or no information. The right honourable baronet has acknowledged with churning frankness that he has laid nothing but • cart load of rubbish before as. I do not advise my honourable friend the member for Cambridge—(" Brighton")—the member for Brighton and Pretence of Cambridge to go to a division. The sum is a small one, 300,000/., but the principle is a great one. lam not prep ared to say that India ought not tocontribute her share to this expenditure. Therefore, in the face of these declarations, I shall not be able as I intended to give my sup po rt to the hon. member for Brighton, and I shall advise him next session to move for a committee on this subject. (A laugh.) I think the right hon. gentleman the member for South laneanshire was rather unfortunate in one allusion which he made. If I understood him rightly he said that the real parallel to this expedition was the parallel of the Persian war of 1857. Did I understand the right hon gentleman to say that? Mr. GLADSTONE—I said nearer than any other. Mr. OSBORNE—WiII be on the parallel! What happened in the Persian war? Wh77 sir, in the Persian war of 1857 the member for Sheffield came down to this house in the month of July and moved a direct vote of censure upon her Majesty's government for having gone to war without the consent of parliament. (Hear.) And what happened on that occasion ? The strongest speech made on that occasion was made by my right hon. friend the member for South lencashire, who mane one of a minority of 38 condemning government for going to war without the consent of parliament. (Hear, hear.) I do not say that I go so far sa my right hon. friend on this occasion. (Laughter.) I think that both aides of the house may say with rented to this miserable affair of Abyssinia, " Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong." (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) But having said that I hope they will keep a strict watch upon the money which I fear is already being wasted. (Hear, hear.) Monstrous waste, I fear, has occurred in the purchase of three males —)" hear, hear," and laughter)—and monstrous waste, I fear, by looking at this Blue book, is occurring elsewhere. This I do say,that I hope the House of Commons will set its face absolutely going fiLtrm:reeely. the ng th rer n s b t y ou of %re i t ;Ind. (Laughter and cheers.) Lord CRANBORNE protested against the motives which had been assigned forthis war. It was wicked to go to war to produce an effect on the imagination of certain persons. He believed the nation generally consented to gointo this war for one very clear and distinct object. An envoy was employed on England's behalf to go on a service of danger ; in that service of danger he had been imprisoned and matreated, and by every principle of honour it was England's duty to see him safe through it. (Hear.) When there was a principle of honour in question, when a man of honour representing an honourable nation who desired to carry the principles in which we believed into effect, was detained a prisoner in Abyssinia, it was de grading to be perpetually parading before the face of Europe all these wretched considerations about the effect we should have upon the minds of populations in this or that part of the East, or the way in which we should maintain that mysterious something which some people were pleased to call prestige. (Hear, hear.) He confessed he heard no part of his bon. friend's speech with more pleasure than that in which he made an attack upon that time-honoured word, and he wished by com mon consent they could banish from the parlia mentary vocabulary that word which bad so unfortunate en etymological connection with deceit. (Hear, hear.) But when we said there was • great Indian interest in this war, even on that low ground of the impression it produced on other people, let us, in justice to the populations of India, remember that the main effect that would have taken place if we had not rescued these captives would have been to endanger in barbarous courts and half civilised countries the lives of English travellers and am bassadors. (Cheers.) That no doubt would be • very frightful evil, which no one would wish to underrate, but let them not call it • strictly Indian interest. (Hear, hear.) It was as much an imperial interest as anything they could name. (lieu, hear.) At all events, the superficial injustice of the course they were now proposing to pursue lay in this that when we employed English troops upon an Indii duty—as for instance, in the matter of the mutiny —we made India pay every farthing of their pay from the moment they landed on the Indian shore, but when we employed Indian troops upon an imperi al duty we mid that India should pay them. (Hear, hear.) He did not mean to differ much from the conclusion of the hon. gen tleman who had just sat down that the matter was small, and that it was not worth while to call for • division upon a point of "detail." (Hear, hear.) The evil, if evil there were in the course now ta ken by the government, was in esoence an evil more from the point of view of England than of India. It was perfectly true that India would not beans penny the poorer by what we were calling upon her to do ; the only thing that would happen to her would be ' that she would be less nears. She would have a smaller garrison during the time that this expedition was going on. What, then, was the guarantee that that want of security should not pass into a real danger? The guarantee was, as he understood it, just this—that the Governor-General had received authority to raise any troops that be might think necessary, and charge them to the English ex chequer. It therefore depended entirely upon the cha racter of the Governor-General whether that measure was one of safety or of danger. He had such confidence in the stern mould in which Sir John Lawrence was made, that he did not believe he would be affected by the smiles or the frowns of any ministry, and he was quite certain that if the Governor-General of India needed the raising of more troops, he would raise them in a moment. He did not fear any danger practically as resulting from the present step, but he did fear this as a precedent. (Cheers.) He did not like the idea of India being looked upon as a kind of English barrack in oriental seas, from which we might draw without paying for them any amount of troops we might require. (Hear, hear.) It was bad for England, because it was always bad for assn etc have thatcheek upon the temptation to engage in little wars which could only be controlled by the necessity of paving for them—(hear, hear)—but it was very bail for India, because if there was a weak or a timid, or a too facile governor-gene ral of that country, at a time of any similar operation, we might have India seriously denuded of troops in order to lent imperial interests, and there would be this precedent to prevent them from cen suring any of the o ffi cers engaged in such conduct. (Hear, bear.) The precedent of the Persian war had been men tioned. and it was applicable in more respects than one. The moment the mutiny broke out, part of the troops that should have been guarding India were absent on the Persian war. (Haar, hear.) That was a warning which we ought to lay to heart. If the garrison that we kept) in India was, small Indian authorities assured us, ne cessary for maintaining that country in securityand peace, that garrison ought not to be rashly diminished. (Hear.) If it were too large, and India could for any length of time conveniently mare these troops, then;the Indian population ought not to be unnecessarily taxed. His right hon. friend told them that this was but for a short time. The right hon. gentleman was a man of sanguine mind—(a laugh)— and great prophetic powers. But when once these troops got into Abyssinia no one could say when they would get out of it (Hear, hear.) He had thought it right to make this protest in order to prevent such a step pulsing too much without notice, or he might say passing with too much of concurrence, considering the concurrence it had received from the present government and the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Gladstone). Still he concurred with the member for N ottinghsan ( kir. Osborne) in expressing the hope that the member forßrighton would not divide. He was very anxious that in this matter, whatever criticism he might pass upon the subordinate measures which the government might take, there should not seem to be any want of unanimity in the heartiness with which they sup ported the crown in the action it had taken. (Hear, hear.) They all of them—at least, the mass of them—agreedi in the thorough justice and necessity of this war, and the more heartily they supported the WWII in carrying it out, the more thoroughly would they effect its object. (Cheers.) - . • Colonel SYKES protested against the arguments of Lord Cranborne. On a division the resolution was carried by 198 to 23. The Metropolitan Streets Act Amendment Bill having gone into committee, Mr. D. HARDY said there were objections entertained by some hon. members against the alterations proposed. He had considered those objections, and with a view to meet them he would move a proviso to the clause to the effect that the space between the footpath and the car riage way should be omitted from the operation of the clause, so that it would be left open to the Metropolitan Board of Works to decide what sbould be done when these spaces should form part of the public roads. Sir G. BOWYERsaid be had undertaken the cause of the oostermoogers and not that of the shopkeepers, who having votes would be well taken care of. (Laughter.) He thought the coetermongen ought to be excluded from the act of last session, for if not their industry would be destroyed. He objected to the act because it cave to Sir R. Mayne and to Colonel Frazer in their jurisdictions un limited and arbitrary power. He knew that there wee antagonism between the coetermongers and the shop keepers, because the latter felt that the former might un dersell them, but he supported the principle of free trade in its largest sense, and if the ooetermongers could sell for lees profit than the shopkeepers it would be for the good of the public. He thought that the thoroughfares of Lon don ought to be open to all persons both for traffic and for trade, and that all persons ought to have liberty to pursue their callings. The effect of this bill would be to destroy the means of living of 50,000 people, and in doing so it would increase the poor rates and possibly throw some of the unemployed into the criminal chase.. What he proposed was to repeal the 6th clause of the act of last Darien, and to leave the remainder of the subject for future consideration., Mr. AYRTON pointed out that the proposal of the Secretary of State would leave all the open spaces in front of houses under the control of the police, who could, if they chose, place a competing tradesman in the front of every shop. He would, in fact, place the whole trading community under the control of the police. He did not see the necessity for the powers granted under the act, and In his opinion the only way of dealing satis factorily with the question was to adopt the course pre pared by the hon. member for Dundalk, and to repeal the clause. Mr. HARDY said he could not agree with the hon. member for the Tower Herniate. The sixth clause of the act of 1867 was intended to apply to cases where goods were exposed for sale opposite to shops ; hot it was found that if strictly enforced, the effect would be to interfere in juriously with a very large number of itinerant salesmen, whose business it was not intended to interfere with at all. The Metropolitan Police Act gave power to the police to interfere in cases of wilful obstruction ; but this was far from satisfactory, and it was now proposed to give a dis cretion to the police commissioners, whose object would be simply to regulate the street traflio in the manner that would be most conducive to the general convenience of the public. Mr. LOCKE thought that great inoonvenience would result from the adoption of the proposition submitted on behalf of the government, inasmuch as the effect of it would be that the commissioners of police would be called upon to point out the places where, whether they liked them or not, hawkers of goods would be compelled to take their stand. He thought that the law as it stood was more satisfactory the& it would be under the proposed alteration. After a few words from Mr. 0. BENTINCI(, Sir R. PALMER observed that, aooorcling to the right hoe. gentleman the Home Secretary, the 6th clause of the act of last year was not intended to apply to costermongers and street hawkers ; and the right bon. gentleman ap peared to be taking advantage of this occasion to put the whole of that clams under the direction of the police. For his own part, in passing through such thoroughfares as Great Portland-street, which were crowded by these people, he bad been struck at once with the total absence of disorder, and at the same time with the great con venience which they seemed to be to large numbers of the poor. He should therefore support the amendment. (Cheers.) Mr. D. BROMLEY said the eostermongers were the camp followers of the poor. Indeed, but for them he hardly knew how the poor of London were to be fed at all. He considered that they had a far greater vested right than those processions which we bad latterly seen in our streets ; and he hoped the right hon. gentleman would take care they were not harshly treated. Mr. LABOUCHERE thought the advantage of repealing the 6th clause over the plan of the right hon. gentleman was obvious. It would restore the law to what it was ; and then if a householder did not object he might have a oostermonger before his door, but if he did object he might have the costerrnonger removed. (Hear, hear.) 11r. HARDY said that if the 6th clause were repealed he should withdraw the bill. It seemed to be forgotten that that clause extended to other people besides water mongers—to persons who placed goods in the struts and created a great nuisance to the public. He was not pro posing to regulate or put down the trade of the colter mongers, he merely proposed to provide that the 6th clause should not apply to it, provided that those who followed that trade complied with the rules of the police. Sir G. BOWYER remonstrated with the right hon. gen tleman on his declaration, and hoped he would reconsider it ; for what his bill proposed to do was to place a large and industrious section of the public under the absolute control of a single man. Colonel KNOX said that some regulations were abso lutely necessary, and he regretted that when something was proposed which would have the effect of relieving the streets of obstructions it should be opposed by the metro politan members. It was almost impossible to get through the crowded streets at present. They must trust the Secretary of State with these mitten. If there was a wrong it was immediately rectified. He hoped gentlemen would support the Secretary of State in carrying this clause, which was simply intended to remedy an oversight. Mr. AYRTON said that what the metropolitan mem bers wished was that crude meavures should not be adopted. The material point was this. There was • clause in the act of parliament which all admitted to be wrong, but the provision proposed by the government was not a clear one. He advocated the repeal of the clause and the bringing up of a new one. He quite concurred with the principle of the clause suggested, that a trades men should not avail himself of the privilege of loading or unloading of his goods on the foot way for the purpose of exposing his goods for sale. There was already a provision to deal with such cases. To pass • particular clause entitling costermongers to • privilege not possessed by others would be unjust. He was autent to leave the matter tinder the general police law against obstructions. The simple mode of dealing with the matter was to bring up a new clause. Mr. CANDLISH suggested to the Home Secretary simply to strike out the two last lines in the clues, which would leave the costermongers and street hawkers precisely where they were before the passing of the act of last session. The house then divided: For Sir G. Bowyer's amendment 3O Against The amendment of Mr. Hardy was then put from the chair. Mr. GOSCHEN eked whether the Home Secretary would introduce a provision requiring the regulations framed by the police authorities to be laid before parlia ment. HARDY was understood to answer in the negative. Mr. Alderman SALOMONS said a notion prevailed that costermongers would not be able to carry on their business without a license. Mr. HARDY said he had never heard of any such notion, and the friends of the coaterroongers had not objected to the clause. The amendment sou then agreed to. Claim 2 was also agreed to. Mr. Alderman LAN FENCE moved the addition of a clause repealing sections 17 and 26 in the acs of last ses sion, being the clauses which referred to hackney carriages. He complained of the weight of taxation imposed upon the proprietors of cabs, and urged that the requisition to carry lamps was an additional impost, which they were unable to bear. This was not the time to add additional taxation upon the cab proprietors when they had to compete with omnibuses the underground railway, and steamboats, none of which were so heavily taxed. Sir J. FERGUSSON said they were not just now seeking to legislate with respect to cabs. He opposed the motion, believing that there had been much exaggeration with regard to the cost of one lamp for each of these vehicles. Mr. LOCKE had been informed that inpoint of fact there was no place when the lamps could be fixed on four. wheeled cabs. The clause WRII then negatived without • division, and the bill passed through committee. Colonel TAYLOR mentioned that on the loot division the numbers returned as 63 ought to have been 73. The Sale of Reversion• Bill wa• read a second time. Bills were introduced by Mr. Stacpoole to provide for the apportionment of Grand Jury Cess between Landlord and Tenant in Ireland ; by Mr. J. A. Smith for further Regulating the Sale of Fermented and Distilled Liquors on Sunday in England and Wales ; by Mr. Gladstone for the Abolition of Compulsory Church Rates ; and by Sir C. o . Loghlen to Amend the Law relating to the Pay ment of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes falling due on Bank Holidays. The house adjourned at 20 minutes to one o'clock. lite *Waif finue. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.--Nov. 28. After Term Nisi Prim Sittings at Westaniuster.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jary.) ABMOLON STATHAM. The Lord Chief ..lusiiceTalteiOUr report left, eddreued the jury, who, after ten minutes' consideration, returned a verdict for the defendant on both points. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Nov. 28. Sittings at Nisi Prins in lliddlesex.—(Before Mr. Justice Smith and a Special Jury.) WHITBREAD r. FRANCIS. This was an action to recover damage* for an alleged libel which had been published in the Athenmunt. The only plea upon the record was " Not Guilty." Sir George Honyman, Q.C., and Mr. Crompton appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. George Denman, Q. and Mi. Gaits for the defendant. The plaintiff , ) fir. Wm . initbread, was one of the managing partners of the g reat brewery in Beech-street, and he wee also treasurer of the Finsbury Dispensary. He undertook this office in 1864, when his partner, who until then had been treasurer, became ill. In 1862. Mr. Samp son Low published a work called "A Handbook to the Charities of London ; " and in 1867 he reprinted that work and appended to it " The Book of Charities of Lon don." A series of six articles were published in the AtAencrum in 1867, in the style of a review of these work', and in one of these the follow ing passage conned :—" The Finsbury Dispensary in Woodbridge•street, Clerkenwell, is another wretched hole, dirty, squalid, and we should fear very indifferently conducted. Mr. Low mentions that the report and cub statement of this institution are not forthcoming, and an officer of a corresponding institution observed to us signifi cantly that he should like to see them. This dispensary was established in 1780, and is situated in the densest part of the dense parish of Clerkenwell, and ought to be the means of conferring immense benefits on the poor around it. There might be no limits to the usefulness of such a dispensary, or to the favour it enjoyed from the public if properly worked. But both the Finsbury institution and the public fall far below the level which inch institutions ought to reach." The inuendo in the declaration alleged that the meaning of this statement was that the poor had not received the benefit which they should have received in consequence of the improper conduct of the plaintiff as treasurer. Mr. Whitbread, the plaintiff, was called, and he stated that the object of the institution was to supply the poor with medicines and medical attendance without any pay ment, and it was chiefly supported by voluntary contribu tions. He made all payments and received all moneys, and kept proper accounts. At the end of the year he prepared a balance - sheet , which was audited, and after wards laid before the general meeting, which was attended by governors and others, and sometimes by local reporters. The reports were printed every second year and circulated. The place was not wretched, dirty, or squalid, but well conducted, and he believed that no charity did more good to the poor for its income. In crow-examination, he said that they acted upon the mple of paying their medical officers liberally, believ that course to be the best. They spent 9061. in , and only 911. in drags ; but they got their drugs very cheap, and the most expensive drugs were given when necessary. Mr. Maguire, the rector of Clerkenwell, and other neighbounrg clergymen, spoke to the admirable way in which the dispensary was conducted, and the great benefits it conferred on the poor. Mr. Denman submitted that the plaintiff had made out no case, inasmuch as there was no personal attack upon him, his name not even being mentioned. Mr. Justice Smith said that nodoribt great license should be allowed in commenting upon quasi public institutions, but the question was whether this particular article went beyond the line. He thought that there was evidence for the jury that this was an attack upon the treuurer. Mr. Denman addressed the ry for the defenee, and stated that the articles In the Atilencrem were written by Mr. Hall, a barrister of many years' standing ; his motive in doing so was a most benevo lent one, and the object he sought moat useful., He wrote after having expended great labour in making inquiries and visiting the places be described, and after having visited and made inquiries as to the institution in question, he wrote the paragraph complained of, honestly believing that the facts justified him in writing as he did. Under these circumstances he submitted to the jui7 that they would not be justified in finding that Mr. Hely wrote maliciously, and he lidded that it was never intended to convey the impression that there was any thing improper in reference to the accounts. Mr. W. Taylor Hely said that be was called to the bar in 1849, and had been largely connected with charitable institutions, especially those of London. He believed that he and his brother had raised as much as 2,000,000 f. for charitable purposes. When he engaged to write the articles it was arranged that he should write in the interests of the charities themselves, and that be should visit the places he wrote about. He visited, he believed, every dispensary in London, certainly every one he wrote about. On the 20th February be visited the Finsbury Dispensary. He got there about half-past ten, and it was then closed. When he knocked a very diminutive, dirty girl opened the door. The floor of the patients' waiting room was miserably dirty, and the walla were also dirty. The plane where the medians was dispensed was in a simi lar state. The place was not nearly large enough for the number of patients who went there. He 'eked the girl if he could see anybody connected with the institution, but could not find anybody, and was referred to Mr. Morland, the secretary, for a report. Mr. Morland was not at home, and he could not obtain a report. He then went to the Metropolitan Dispensary, in Fore-street, and in the course of conversation mentioned that he had been to the Finsbury Dispensary, and asked how he could get a report of it. The secretary said he could not tell him, and, shaking his head, added, that he should like to see is. In Mr. Low's book it was stated, in refer ence to the Finsbury Dispensary, " The report and cash statement are not published for last year, " and this same statement was made in editions published in other years. All he saw and heard as to the institution led him to the belief that it was well managed. When he wrote the ar ticle he did not know that Mr. Whitbread was connected with the institution. Crowexamined—Re now knew that the clispenatry busincee ooromenoed at 11 o'clock. iii.it;tTorliziti,lllsirn;i4 up, said that it was to be regretted that this case had to be decided by a jury, but now it became their duty to say whether, in Vasir opinion, the paragraph complained of was defamatory and li bello us in the sense imputed in the declaration. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of three hours they found for the plaintiff— damsges, 20/. would not let them. He looked the door, and walked away along the rank towards the first cab, when the prisoners followed him up, and Donovon struck him a tremendous blow on the side of the head, which felled him to the ground. While he was down he was violently samba and his hand very much injured, but how he could not tell. The polio, saved him from further illtreatinent. Fownes, the other cabman, saw Donavon follow Waldron and knock him down, and heard Underwood say, " Let him have it, Flirt, give him one of your properones." " Flirt " I was the name Donavon went by, end he was a prize fighter. Witness then interfered, and said, "Do you want to kill the man ?' when Underwood said, " Oh, I can give it to you," and struck him • blow which knocked him down on the back of his head on the pavement. He was stunned by the fall, and when he came to he found himself inside a shop opposite the cab-rank. His mouth was cut inside from the force of the kick he received in the face. _ _ The prisoners said they were drunk. Alderman Causton said it wise a brutal and unprovoked assault. They appeared to be a pair of ruffuuss, one of whom was a fighting man, who would assault everybody, and it was cowartlly in the extreme to kick a man while he was on the ground. He should send each of them to prison for two months with hard labour. The prisoners seemed utonnded at the sentence. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. The usual meeting of magistrates of the county of Middlesex was held yesterday at the Sessions.house Clerkenwell-green, for the transaction of county burliness ' . Mr. Henry Pownall, chairman of the bench, presided, and there was a very full attendance of magistrates. Mr. Nicholson, clerk of the peace, read the report of the com mittee of accounts and general purposes, which amongst . other matters alluded to the inquest that was held Lankester on the body of Elizabeth Stainsby, whosettb, it was alleged, was caused by the impure air of the Metro politan Railway. It was stated that 101. had been charged by Dr. Lankester on account of Professor Rogers, of the London University Hospital, for examine nations and attendance on three occasions at the adjourned inquests held on Elizabeth Stainsby. Now the committee, having taken the opinion of counsel some years ago, had no power to allow any such sum not named in the schedule of fees set down by act of parlia ment, and therefore they deducted from the charge, on behalf of Professor Rogers , the sum of Ti,.eaving it 3/. only, and asked the court to sanction th at disallowance. He also mentioned incidentally that Dr. Lankeeter's ac counts generally were higher when comp a red with those of Mr. Humphreys, and that the coroners' charges cost the county annually a sum of not less than 12,0001., which was I a very serious item in the county expenditure. He moved that the sum of 10/., included in Dr. Lenkester's account for the services of Professor Bogen, Professor of Toxi cology at the London University Hospital, at the inquest held on the body of Elizabeth Stainsby, be not allowed. The motion was put and unanimously agreed to. Mr. Nicholson read the report from the committee ap pointed by the court on the 15th of August to consider the question of resuming the transportation of criminals. The committee report that it is most desirable that in all cases of criminals convicted of daring crimes accompanied by violence they should suffer a portion of the penal servi tude sentence here, and then if not disqualified should be transported to Western Australia, or some other suitable place, for the remainder of their terms ; that transporta tion for long periods is most advisable is all cases of cri minals convicted at quarter sessions or assizes of felo nious offences who have been previously convicted two or more times ; that in all cases of criminals sentenced for brutal violence, the di of their duty, their particular:L a i: l :women and children and constables acting sen tencein should be accompanied one or more floggings that the system of tickets of leave be wholly abandoned ; that Western Australia is able and desirous to receive from 1,000 to 1,500 convicts annually, where convict labour can be made productive, and where there is oppor tunity afforded the convict of reform in character which in the mother country is not the ease. The report will be taken into consideration on the next county day. On the motion of Mr. Glossop the sum of 1,5001. was autho rised to be expended in providing at Faiths= workshops and stores for the instruction of boys as tailors, shoe makers, carpenters, smiths, painters, and drummers. The other buainesa was d is pos ed of and the court adjourned. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.—A Court of Com mon Council was held yesterday, as which the Lord Mayor (Alderman Allen i presided. Upon the motion of Deputy Tegg, the court unanimously agreed to a vote of 2501. in aid of the Mansion-house Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the late terrible hurricane in the West Indies. Mr. T. Rudkin, the chairman of the markets com mittee, brought up • report baying reference to the com munications that had taken place between that committee and the Lords of Privy Council upon the subject of the bill proposed to be brought in by the government for the erection of a new market in the metropolis to be specially devoted to the slaughtering of foreign cattle. He believed that the government had not yet fully made up their minds as to what oourse they intended to pursue in the matter, and therefore he proposed that the committee should be empowered to continue their conference' with the government upon the subject, and, if necessary, to °o verate with them. This suggestion led to some discus sion, but it was ultimately acted upon. Mr. R. Dresser Rogers presented a petition from delegates rep esenting several parishes in the metropolis relative to the supply of gas, which after some discussion was referred to the gene ral gas committee to oon alder and report. Mr. J. Richardson then brought forward a motion, of which he had given no tice, to the e ff ect that • letter written by Mr. Beal, the secretary of the Municipal Reform Association, to the editors of the different London newspaper', stating that the corporation of London were not opposed to the bills introduced by Mr. J. B. Mill into the House of Commons ducendthwatmisupbpterett,tbhuent them, con tain ed thlco . n t = ;n t u bey th w a e t r w e !are contrary to the fact, and that the corporation of London had never given any authority for such statements being made. This motion gave rise to a long and angry discus sion, but it wee in eubsteace adopted end the court ad journed. MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY.—The seventeenth ordinary general meeting of shareholders of this company was held yesterday at the offices Queen street-place ; Mr. Jas. Thompson in the chair. The report of the directors, which bas been published, was taken as read. In moving its adoption, the Chairman said that the whole attention of the boa rd had since the Let meet ing been devoted to construction, in which some progress had been made, although delay had been occasioned by the requirement of the government to remeasure the whole of the works. That remeaauremeut had been now com pleted, and no further delay would arise from this cause. The necessity of reorganising the engineering staff bad likewise impeded but in • short time all the rs o ffi ce engaged won d be in India, andevery effort would be made to press forward the work,. He then described in detail the progress of the canal and of the irrigation works generally, as explained in the report, adding that the en gineer was of opinion that within another year water would be brought into the Koondaie valley, and Iprovisions made for irrigating the whole of that extensive district. The board had determined upon reducing the size of the locks on the canal to save expense and time, but the proposed change had not yet been sanctioned by the government, whose consulting engineer had doubts whether the smaller looks would be sufficient for the great traffic he expected would ultimately come upon the canal. The services of Mr. Brunton had been secured with the view of constructing a telegraph along the canal, and that gentleman, who had constructed allgthe telegraphs for the Madras government, was now on his way to India. He next referred to the recommendations of the government engineer, the collector of Bellary, and other government officials, that the company 'should construct the Upper and I Lower Bellary sections from Wallourupoor to Kar -1 moot ' ISO miles, upon the usual terms of guri. rantee, and read the estimate of the Madras Board of Revenue that this portion of the project would pay 10 per cent. The decision of the government had not yet been received, but it might be soon expected. At pre sent only one-fourteenth of the district was under soil cul tivation, the other thirteen-fourteenths being entirely dependent upon the rainfall, and consequently much less valuable, both in the returns to the ryot, and the rent paid to the landowner. The railways having shown that all such works were profitable, there was now less objection to the extension of guarantee' than formerly, and as it would be inconvenient that in the present heavily bur- dened state of Indian finance they should be carried out by the government, there was every reason to suppose that the decision of the government would be favourable. The Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., seconded the motion, which, after a few words from Mr. Jones , was carried. The directors and auditor retiring by rotation were re-elected, and the usual compliment to the chairman and directors concluded the business. MONT CSNIB RAILWAY COMPANY (LIMITED). An extraordinary general meeting of this company was held on the 26th inst. at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Westminster; his Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.G., in the chair. Mr. Walter J. Cutbill, the secretary, bay ing read the notice convening the meeting, then read the report, which stated that the object of the meeting was for the purpose of increasinc the bond capital of the 'com pany to 202,6001., and of raising the rate of interest there on from 7to 10 per cent. per annum. It also stated that the line is now completed with the exception of the St. Miehel's station, but the service could not be commenced at once, owing to some of the engines not having been sufficiently tested, and part of the materials of which they were constructed having proved of inferior quality. The company ware therefore unable to open the line at present, but expected to do so very shortly. The report having been adopted, the chairman proposed resolutions forcarry ins out the object of the meeting, which were carried unanimously. CuVeisL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY. THUMIDAY, Noe. 28.—Adminnaan on payment, 540 ; ditto by awes tickets. 1,278. Total visitors, 1,818. JIRALTH lIIIITORAD BY DU BASALT'S FOOD TO THE ' &IMAM. WM. lunge, and hirer k old and young, curimt a rls : indlgeetion),oonstipation, Mantua', acidity, he ineuralgia, kriteria, palpitation, sleeplessness, debility, wasting, cough, asthma, firer; consumption, low spirits. 80,000 annual cures which had resisted all medicines, including that of his Holiness the Pope—Tins, at Is. ltd.: lib , Oa ad.: 1 1 1 Th.. 3Db., 40a—Da Barry and Co., 77, Regent-quadrant, London also at 61, Oracechureh-street : e, Cheapslde : 63 mud 130, Word. sten.t ; and alpacas and chendsta—tAdvertisement.] MARKETS. TALLOW.—Taciumar Mvatinto.—The market wax qu w. iet to-der. »pot, 42a ed. January to March, 43a.: March. litt.; April to Joao, 4.1 a : December. Ma ed. to 4M 3d. LACE AND HOSlZlLY.—.surrinonan, Noy. YE—We ar e glad at last to be able to MIDOWICO a break In the monotony which hat characterised our reports on the lace trade during the last mouth or two. There is a very alight amendment is the home departments. Several American and German buyers have been placing orders a little more freely, especially f or fancy articles. A better Inquiry for plain and cotton goods h i shortly expected. Prices ar e about the same with a tendency of greater autumn All breaches of the hosiery trade are flat and little if any Improvement either for home use or for ship. ping is expected before Christmas. Yarns have lidded a little in price with a fiat demand.—" Nottingham Journal." COTTON.—Larntrooa, huv. ft.—Market still very irre gular. Estimated sales to-day 10.000 bales, including 2,000 speculation and export. 3,000 American, 6d. to 103 ; mo 71d. to 8/d. ; 100 Nersaham. BjilL2tlo liatelo and Bahia, 7 to 7141. ; 160 &o. 7 1 41 - 400 eld. to 14d.: 6.450 Surat, 4d. to 7141. Itadras,..= 6}d.: Bengal, Sdntle, &a 4141. to bid. Fair Moller* aeg, fair Oomrawuttee, Id. ; fair Amick tild. ; lair Bengal, 4 4 4 . ; fair Egyptian. 9d.: fair Parnam, nd.; middling Bowels, 11d. ; middling Orleans. 744. WOOL AND WOESTED.—Iia&DruItD, Nov. 413.—There Is no appreciable change for the better la the wool market today, dome staplen report that they have sold a few lots of the most choice sorts of wool, and have bees able to get their own prim; but these are quite exceptional transactions. The ammepue quantity of woof changing hands is very small. A good sign la that prig es are rather more steady. There is no Improvement in worsted yarn, either for home or the continent. Continental manufacturers, la the absence of a demand for America, are quite as lnactive as the maaufacturers here, U not more so, and the result Is an absence of demand for worsted yarns. Pries are not Innen changed, although there are many spinners who would be glad to make a concession to meet the buyer. There ie the same dulness in pieces. There is no visible improvement la any department of the trade. The business done in the born trade la very small. Merchants are picking up lots from stock. as they are generally able to do erttbunt giving orders. Few orders are placed by the German merchants. Business in goods is especially fiat. Such budgies' ea Is done Is mostly in fancy goods. torn French buyers have been In the market, but they have not operated to any large extent. Prices are without change. CORN.—Bram !Notch. Nov. 38.—At this dare market there eras a short supply of wheat from the tanners, bat to make sales Is. per quarter less had to be taken, foe both Inglis!' end foreign. Barley Is. per quarter cheaper. Oats, beans, and peas held for tot mar prier. Diving, NOV. 28.—We had a very poor trade for wheat to day, and a good deal left on hind at the close of business. We cannot, however, quote prima lower, last week's rates being ob tained in nearly every case, and for really prime samples of. more money was given. The supply of barley was large, but the greater part was of inferior quality, and for low class samples there was scanely any demand. In fact, the trade altogether was very dull, and, except for the beat aorta, there was a raise. non of from is. to io a quarter. In other articles then was little or no change. Best white wheat, 36a to 30s di.; best red ditto, 355. to 36e,; new ditto, 36u to 36a dd.: barley, eta to 441. 6d.; berm, Yrs. to 275.; oats, 25a. to 27a.; pew, 21a. to 265.; vetches, 24a to 2R: rye, 19s. to 215.; line Boar, Mi. to 00a.; beet seconds,6oa to 625. ANCEIMITIII. Nov. 28.—Our market this morning WM rather 'tenderly attended. English wheat met a slow sus.~ at a reduction of Ia per quarter, and foreign 3d. per cents/ Far flour there was no Inquiry, and we quote prkes ed. to la par rick lower. In oats or oatmeal there was no material ch Egyptian beans declined Is. per quarter, while other sorts a ZA steady. Indian corn was the turn cheaper. - - Nzwatut, Nov. n.—Wheat came tolerably to market, and with a quiet demand late rates were scarcely realised. Barley was sparingly represented and late currencies were readily ob tained. Of outs the &ably was fair—prices aa before. Not many beans on o ff er, full prices were made. Peas at late rates. NEWBraT, Nur. 28.—We had a large quantity of wheat this day, but few sales effected, at a reduction of la. to 3a upon last week's rate*. Barley In good supply, but little buotaess dose at is. leis money. Oats Is. lower. Betas sad peas unchanged In value. lintuannott, Nov. 27—As compared with last week, wheat was 45. down on top, and 7d. down on average. Beriey was ett down on top, and ltd. down on average. Oats were 6d. up on top, and Is. ad. down on average. Beans were ad. down on top, and b. 7d. down on average. Wheat, Ha to 811. ; barley, Us. to gla.6d. ; oats, Ma. to Ns. ; beans, Ma. to Ha CATTLL—BIRMTIO9•II, NOV. 28.—We received • good supply of all ►lnds of stock oa offer this day ; the geseral de mand hely. Beef. UK to 7d per lb.: mutton, sdd. to 7d.: veal, ed. to 7td. per lb. • bacon pigs, as. to as. ad. per stogie ; porket, ad. fo Ps. BRISTOL, NOT. tB.—We bad a very large supply of beef at our market to-day, Including, however, a very moderate show of Irish cattle, numbering scarcely 100. There was a good demand for anything of a superior quality, bat indifferent descriptions hung on hand. Best samples realised from torn. to 06s. per cwt., and In a few instances a trifle more money ; and secondary de scriptions ranged from kit to em, per cwt. There wu a very full supply of sheep with a brisk active trade. Despite the active trade, however, low prices stillprevalled, and beet wethers sold at from dd. to aid. per lb., while ewes and indifferent samples changed hands at from bid. per lb. The supply of store cattle was rather short, the consignments from Ireland number ing only about 700. Trade remains very quiet, but most of the things on offer changed hands before the market closed. The supply of pigs was rather short, and the trade In consequence was a trifle more brisk. fkareely anything doing in hones. NOTTINONAN, Nov. 17.—we had a short supply of besets and sheep, and prices tot both were in advance of those of last week, best quality of the former selling from in. to as. ed. end second quality from h. to 80. par stone. illr e , the show of which was equal to the demand, realised . to 7d. per lb.: best quality and inferior sorts from tad. to led. Peal sold at 70. lb. lip were again plentifiti, potions making from Os. to da. St and bacon pigs from as. 9d. to Oa 3d. Stock at martet haute, 310 ; sheep, 736: iikP. 14. . . . _ _ laminimon, Nov. 27.—The number of cattle this morning was 297, bang 47 lees than on this day se'nnight. The demand was good, and last week's prices were maintained. Top price, Is. ; current, 84. 6d. to Is. 9d. ; middllbg and Inferior, Ti to 8a per atone. The number of sheep was 6,031, being 957 lees than last week. Th e demand being good, the sales effected were at price shout equal to t h ose obtained last market. Hest mutton. 6+d. to 7d. ; ewes, sd. to 6d. per lb. Fed pigs brought 5a to 6s. per stone ; sir to eight weeks old ditto, 6.. Od. to 10e. • head. THE POLICE COURTS. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. 77Lootas De Castro, a merchant, carrying on business in Gracechurch-street, appeared to answer a summon, which charged him with assaulting William Borden, re siding at 50, Addison-road North. Mr. Wontner, jon. , prosecuted; and Mr. Sleigh, har , Aster conducted thedefenoe. . . Thi complainant was a clerk in the employment of Messrs. De Castro, and on the 20th November a dispute took place with regard to • mistake in a document of some importance written by the complainant. The defendant accused him of making the mistake, but the complainant replied that it was an lynx as the part of Mr. John De Castro, who dictated the document. Mr. De Castro said he would rather believe his bro ther than Lim (complainant). On this complainant ob served that he was not in the habit of telling lies, and thereupon the defendant told him to leave the office. and called him a vagabond. Complainant said, " You are a most insulting person." Defendant then struck him a violent blow on the nose, causing it to bleed. Com plainant struck beak, and Mr. De Castro next took up • poker, obliging the complainant to defend himseU with • ruler. At this point the complainant endeavoured to leave the office, when the defendant took up • pewter inkstand which he aimed at his opponent's head ; but, instead of doing so, it struck against the wall. A stand-up fight next appeared to have taken place, but the melee was op portunely brought to • close by the arrival of a gentleman OD business._ The oomplaiaant•e evidence was corroborated in every particular by Mr. Gray, a fellow-clerk. In croes-examination it was elicited that the complainant had been in the eervice of Meson. De Castro for two and a half years, and that in the beginning of this month the defendant advanced him his salary up to the end of De cember, on his representing that he was in pecuniary difficulties. At this stage Mr. Sleigh applied for a postponement of the case, in order that Mr. De Castro might take out a moss summons against the complainant, but Sir Robert Carden refused to accede to the application, and remarked that the defendant had been clearly convicted of a violent assault, the complainant's evidence having been substan tiated in every reapect by another clerk, who, it would reasonably have been supposed, would have riven evidence in his master's favour rather than against him if be could have done so. He had no doubt that Mr. 1). Castro lost his temper in the filet instance, and conducted himself in a very improper manner. The assault, as he had said, was clearly proved, and he should therefore inflict a penalty of 3/. and costa. _ The fine was paid. GUILDHALL Terence Donates, who gave big address 36, Greenhill. rents, Smithfield-bars, end John Underwood, who lived at 19, Bridgewater-place, Barbican, were placed at the bar, before AAllddermen Causton, charged with violently essaalt big two cabmen. John Bennett, 294, said the previous night, about nine o'clock, Donavon was drunk, and Underwood was with him, in Farringdon-street. He heard an alteration on the cab-rank, and heard Waldron, a cabman, say to the prisoners, "Go away, you are drunk ; I want to have nothing to do with you." He then saw Donavon strike Waldron, and Underwood strike Fownes, another cabman, knocking him down, and while on the ground kicking him in the face. He took Donavon into castody, but Under wood escaped, and he captured him afterwards. A. F. Waldron said the two prisoners came to his cab, and wanted to get into it, but as they were drunk be TRAFFIC RETURNS. Miles Par Mer- USA 111111•11. ova wagers. ehandlae. ISM. ISM. Week eliding August SI. t 6 Ift • Greet Soutbere et India .. 144 WI 403 964 1,079 Week esding Nov. L Northern of esnada pitt. ? Nov. 9 — 9.5 1,9/0 2,256 LkS Week emlins Nov. 10. Ottoman 90i .116 6 9 1,229 Smyrna and Curl* sts 1.130 ail 1.503 Week ending Nov. 22. Dublin and Meath SS 166 145 311 273 Week ending Nov. U. Brecon and Merthyr 72 434 1.66 1,400 1.322 North Eastern 1215 17,457 50,747 70 44 70 212 Week ending Nov. U. Beltaatand County Down 430 247 727 713 Bristol and Exeter l u 3,0e7 3,106 6,172 6,025 North Britiat - - - AronitALTY, Nov. 28.—Areourntrans.—Lien tenant Henry Studdy to the Asia, as Sag lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Welles ley ; Chief Engineer William Pitt to the Jumna ; Assistant-Surgeon Edward J. Butler, addi tional, to the Wellealey,for service in Chatham Dockyard ; Assistant-Paymaster William A. Brown to the Victory, as supernumerary.; Clerk Henry C. W. Gibson to the Vic tory. as secretary's clerk ; and naval cadet, nominated, William G. White. _ . SHIPPING DISASTERS. The Polonaise, from Shanghai to London, with • cargo of tea, was caught by the typhoon, and driven into the harbour at Hong Kong, where she is discharging her cargo, ore-third of it being damaged by the salt water, of which there is gni feet in the hold. The ss. Oneota, from Charleston to New York, foundered, en the 12th of November, off Cape Lookout, during • heavy gale from the N.E. MLSSING Buirs.—The Heroes of Alma, which sailed from Hong Kong for Japan on the 10th May, and the Ocean Queen, which left Trinidad fur tondos on the 19th of July, have not since been heard of. The Japanese, from Rangoon for Liverpool, left the former port on the 27th of April, and was spoken on the 6th of May in I.d. 10 N. and long. 93 E. Since then she has not been heard of. _ _ - • [ Advertisement. ]—HoLLowAY's Paus.—Some• where or other disease is ever rife, and everywhere its gurus/ op ponent. this purifying medicine. to to be found. When SPI.P. toms of sickness tint set In they may be easily subdued by this grand remedy, which gives great and prompt relief to every ole pressed organ or disordered function. These pills regulate and strengthen digestion more reality, efficiently, and with mom certainty than soy other combination of drags, be It ever se scieutilimlly prescribed. Nothing can exceed the ability of HA loway's medicine to secure natural functional action : when+) thousands of lifelong maladies have be •n prevented at very trilling expense and no cost to the constltutioa. An acquisition priceless should ne at hand In every household. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. CLAREMONT.—Norernber 20, at Id illbrook.houee, Hampstead. road, the wife of C. C. Claremont. M. R. C.F., of a daughter. ELAN K EY.—November 2b, at Hertford !trout, slayfair, the wile of S. A. Markey, Esq., of a daughter KlNG.—November 20, at Myddeltonaquare, Clerkeuwell, H. King, of a son. LA NllllGRE—November 27, at Eldon-road, Hampstead, the wife of R. I'. langenore, Esq., of a sou. IiII.:IIOL3ON.—N °cumber 26, at Sumet.square, llyde.park, tic wife of W. Nicholson, Esq.. M. P., of o r, n. W IGGIN.—Nos ember 26, at Metchley Grange, Harborne, Mrs. H. Arisen, of a son. MARRIAGES. BENNUIT—KING.—November tt. at St. James's Paddington. by the Bev. W. Leiria, T. J. Bennett, 11. D., of Wilton, Wilts. to Elisabeth Grace. nlict of T. King, 144. CIGMS—SEAGRAVL—Noventber Si, at the pariah chursh. Great Cornard,Sadolk, by the Bev. J. D. Sparrow, Frolencir G., sun of Mr. P. K. tons. Sudbury, to Lonna, ssvoml youngest daughterof Yr. J. Seagram, of Cornard and Sudbury. No cards. ELW ES—GlBBON.—November 26. at St. George's, BUOTer - square, by the Bev. C. Causton, C. W. Wires, Edo., M.D.. Of the late J. 11 Elves, Eso., of Boaungton, Haute, to Lou'), daughter of E. B. Gibbon. Esq. DEATHS. ELDERTON.—November 26, Catherine Dorothea, the wife ef Major A. Elderton. ETLI NOEL—November 27, at Goweratreet, Florence Aug*" the wife of K Falinger, Esq. JAWlLS.—November Sb, at Camberwell NOW.TOB4, Dinah Gas* net Jacobs, relict of the late L. Jacobs, aged fa. SliAlLP.—November 25, Mr. G. Sharp, of If altby-strect, For inondaey, aged SA. WARD —November 26, at Markham-vinare, CheLsea, La.rer Chambers, son of Dr. M. Ward. aged 23. WATERS.—Nevesaber 28, as Ls Grove, Salisbury, B. Waurs Bog, ge•d TM - lrltaW Yd Publishitil by WriMani ICltin lint" of lto I.4nbarillatrant. in tbo t.Ytj of London, hinter, nt engin.. In i.fflin.irdotront. In the Precinct of Whitebtarn. - Ituony. NOTIXDILA 29.1867.