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THE SOUTIn_AFRICAN IRREGATiON and INVES i !TENT COMPANY (Limited). To b e i ncorporated under the Companies Act, 1862,which specially limits the liabilit of e holder to the a mount of hi s Sh ares, y each Shar _. Ca pital £1,000 , 00 0, in 90,000 Shares of £5O each. (Power to increase.) First issue 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £1 per Share, and a further pay )zent ot £1 per Share on allotment. dans not to exceed £2 Per Share, and three on interval between each Call. It ia not intended to call up more than £lO per Share. 4.0444 Barry, tsq., DIRECTORS. Merchant (Barry and Nephews), Lon -on and Cape Town, Director of the London and South ~ Afriean Bank V az e ,„ T • '" Black, Esq (Black and Co.), Merchant, London, A 1 l araha m ' s Town,' and Port Eli za b e th. ex a n Londo e r C ro ll , Es Elizabeth n and Port lExander Croll and Co.),Merchant, Alfred Jarvis, E sq., L ondon (late Chairman of the Com lniercial Bank, Port Elizabeth). cntry Sherman, Esq., Merchant (Levicks and Sherman), Joseph L ondon and Cape Town. a oritht i °, Merchant (Mosenthal and Co.), kondo,sPeuortilt P E I "P liZ " ab Sg el, and Cape Town. '4l Paterson,Esq (Patersor.,Kemp, and Co.), Merchant, and Cape of Good of Hope,Director of the Stan -1,,, -. 1.d tialik of British South Africa. C, Stewart, Esq., Merchant (Stewart and Co.), Li ver - T he An a i n ali d Port eeElizabeth. BANKERS. Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury, London, and The Albany, Liverpool. SOLICITORS. keSS IVlrse.stars. Fl ux and Argles, Mincing-lane, London. BROKERS. J. and J. Whiteb.ead, 8, Moorgate-street, London. TEMI=ORARy OFFICES. No. 27, lioorgate-street, London. The PROSPECTUS. $ 8 S outh African Irrigation and Investment Company established with a view to aid in the furtherance of those baP.bl4? uo. dertakings in the South African Colonies, includ• b:,,Te, Cape of Good Hope, British Kaffraria, and Natal, ' - "lob their resources .. may be more fully developed ; the ter!, being in the opinion of the Directors, certain to prove 111'81, satisfactory to those who embark their capital. tbiTechts.....e Company's operations will embrace three main Ist, That of a Land and Irrigation Company. 1322 d. That of a Public Works (more especially a Light g', Paving, and Water Company) ; and ad. That of a Trust, Loan, and Investment Company. It has seemed wise to the Directors to combine these ob- Jects in one company, since, while all are entirely com fcpatible, and can be very properly undertaken under one _lanagement the heavy expenses of offices, directions, and 'etYants for separate companies will be thereby avoided. T he South African Irrigation and Investment Company, Zade meeting the wants most keenly felt at the present Zit" by the South African Colonies, cannot fail to realise _ e t t,ilrnedholders ample returns upon the capital. tai . 1 t promisinagnd Irrigation Company it will enter upon a field of operations. Large tracts of fertile Z. l al °cg the rivers, and in the great karoos or plains of by -c°ll ntr are to be purchased at very low prices, which, lv irrigation , ti es ei luay be converted, by no great outlay, into proper to..._ teeny times their original value. The Government Z__orns for 1860 of the value of landed estates in these olories show that where by private enterprise irrigation Val li have been constructed on farms, the enhancement of Mel,__ie has been from five to tenfold; and as such results ,7Lotbeen achieved by private enterprise, yet more satis tny results may be looked for where labour is more eis,_cl and scientific skill is brought to bear. to r e - sale will not only purchase lands with a view 1 ,4 tasiacle after the construction of irrigation works, but (love contracts a co ntracts for the construction of like works upon trociteluPl'atroenutinand private lands. It is known to be in co.n next session of the Colonial Parliament to in per,„tice a bill to facilitate the construction of a series of G?- aucenent tanks, and to secure on the capital employed in ef a u, yforks on Government land a Government guarantee Atileast 6 per cent. per annum. Afri 4 P ublic Works Company for the towns of South a t e , im ea rho prospect is equally inviting. There is scarcely 410,t liberals°f agnite remunerative is not now prepared to offer co and terms to this Company, to P e m e to it a constituted Water and Gas Company; , and ort El i haste Zabeth (now the commercial capital M all South "liesa'nar4 Af rica), caused a Bill to be introduced into last lar e l- -, of the c olonial Parliament, charging the whole at Xs_ 3 66,, rl Y of the town for £BO,OOO, to guarantee at least The 'Per annum on outlay for works for water supply. '4O Directors feel that the present is a most favourable op to for the establishment of a Company for Public to a,, ricB iand they confidently anticipate that th 9: I:'"ro i. Plet e w ill be_able t arrangements with the authorities at Port 00 12 4 1 ,7-m to become its Lighting, Paving, and Water xae h r a rlY, so as to ensure a most favourable commence be -' of business, and facilitate future operations. It may Ctnajl., Mentioned that in towns where, by authority of local eipalities, water-works have been constructed, they eave proved sources of very large profits on the capital n ested, e sted, and the o n l y G as Company in operation in ~ Africa pays annua l dividends varying from 15 to 20 Per Cent 1 . 1 1-9 a Tru s t C ompany a very considerable and profitable vastnessan can be done. It w il l b e in position to offer very ataple security to constituents, and the following statement Of selling prices of Shares in existing Trust Companies will show what may be done under this head : . Name of Paid up.SellingPrice £ s. d. --- T771: 100 0 0 350 0 0 187 10 0 375 0 0 200 0 0 252 0 0 . 1 110 0 310 0 Board of Executor s Association for Administering p.Estate s e ueral Est a t e , & c . "rt Elizabeth Guardian and et ttisf. 4 ' B Loan and Investment Company it cannot fail to show kiactory results. Money may be invested to almost any t.,, te , ll ,, t _iii, first or preference . mortgages, of the amplest mu ta-fe' a u'n landed property in the South African Colonies,. at tag varying. from 6to 12 per cent, per annum, thus yield its it tt m , l !;, r g,e Profit over the cost of money in England ; and Deb eit !' ne the object of the Directors to raisemoneypn applied to of the Company or otherwise, to be specially of l'," fte e ct to of on such first mortgages, it becomes matter . s • tat t y. LnVeulation that the profits to be made by the Come rainle-1 Ws department of its business will be highly r A rative. taniell'ilerleitients'aiein progress f" i'ho 11'11'1'1 71 its de iirttroneratetut of the business of the Company . in a . w c°l" , ; and the Directors will give their espec e ia_ l m a a t : %ti gers ,0 the selection of efficient and well-qualifi d tile Cnra will be taken in the Articles of Association . fo a r . Neil oporation with this Company of existing Comp Ali ipte object in South Africa. 1nfi n ,, 141 , 8 Comp any request of is established at the urgent ent_ lian;t1:1:tal colonists, who are prepared to invest . in the C for i' oi a considerable extent, 2,000 shares will be reserved ileVilient in South Africa. Aren t : l i ' Provision has been made by the Directors for . t n h a e t jain,,lntr3' expenses as will secure the Company a g ainst ,1, the a A q auto whatever in the nature of promotion money,. t_irth%h.lz:...hretiictileerseotfhAe spseowcieartitoenfixw,ilyl year r ntain a clause giving /le rrentors, ad r emuneration. by year, the amount t r atch L a s' office of the Company will be in London, but ...oildn-,°.h.uces and local committees, under the control of the 60 titC . -noard, Will be established in the chief towns of 4 Ari ca. ait htit eathtiennfor Brokers to be made in the following form, Pom,, or to the Secretary of the Company. Toth - "`v-i OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES. e Directors of the South African Irrigation and In. til -e,alb:illl 1 qtati vestment Company (Limited). --Raving paid to your s l e ab 0,,,, Bankers the a s a u r m ee i o n f by number' - otapany, I hereby request that you will allot me of A; tn.ber 'I nt and I agree (according to the form prescribed le e , e u Artici ' es of Association), to accept such shares, You may allot me, and to execute the Articles !0 kay baociation when required ; and I request that my I° alle e tt e l a te e . d on the Regi s t er of Shareholders for the Shares Name in full Residence Profession of Business Date Ir; .„ ......._________ PATivo l' - - -ia IN THE HEAD, DIMNESS OF t S crn-r,, )15'ri l f. -- '', Sickness Oppression of the Chest, Lowness —11(14„.,8, A pprehensionof Imaginary Daneer, Fear of Oth ei , "' Death, Disinclination for Active Employment, and. 1130.,,,„1Ytnptoms at all times troublesome, may be quickly re '' bY th lAtedi e use of Parr's Life Pills. 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By Shirley. - - London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand, W.C. POLAND. (Front the Edinburgh Courant.) The Emperor Alexander, surnamed by his sub jects " the well-intentioned," most certainly de serves that epithet. He wishes to give land and liberty to the Russian serfs without diminishing the revenues of the Russian proprietors, and to make Poland happy and contented without conceding the least political freedom to the Poles. His intentions are good enough, only it is impossible to carry them out. In a few months the peasants will find that they have not enough land, the proprietors that too much land has been taken from them; while the Poles will still complain as they do now, that under a sovereign who has raised their hopes they are as unfairly treated as they were by Nicholas, from whom they knew they had nothing to expect but insult and persecution. Nicholas was to be moved by no suffering. It mattered not to him that the Russian proprietors had serfs, so long as they al lowed themselves to be governed like slaves. As for the Poles, he told them in so many words, four years after the suppression of the insurrection of 1830-31, that they might remain quiet if they pleased, but that upon the slightest movement in Warsaw, Marshal Paskievitch had orders to retire to the citadel and bombard it. "I will reduce the city to ashes," said the paternal Monarch," and you certainly will not catch me building it up again." No such speech as this could have escaped the lips of Alexander 11., no such thoughts have been harboured by him. He is certainly not a man of cruel or even severe disposition. He had reigned eight years before he sent a single person to Siberia for a political offence. The first " political martyr," as the Russian communists say, of the present reign —the first political felon, as we prefer to call a man who seeks to excite millions of ignorant peasants to rapine and murder—was a certain Mr. Mikhailoff, convicted last year of printing and circulating an absurb, immoral, and bloodthirsty sheet, and whose sentence as pronounced by the Senate was com muted by the Emperor from 12 years to 6 years' exile. It is said to have pained his Majesty very much to send this foolish and bad man to Siberia, and when a number of suspiciously benevolent per sons took upon themselves to raise a subscription for the banished demagogue and Communist (who, of course, had no money), the Emperor Alexander took all the sting out of this indirect attack made upon himself by desiring the Governor-General of St. Petersburg to give Mikhailoff 1,000 roubles out of the imperial funds. Alexander IL would be very glad if there were no Mikhailoffs to send to Siberia. He would be delighted, too, if the Poles would ac cept their position as political slaves, and not tempt him to talce,seveire measures of repression against them. Re u' " j hi.' ha isa un decided, wanting in energy, and frequently unjust, simply because he has inherited an unjust policy, and has not strength of mind to change it. The good and bad qualities of the Emperor Alexander have lately been shown in a remarkable manner in connection with Polish affairs. He has ordered Count Andrew Zamoyski to travel in the West of Europe, when Nicholas—though the Count cannot be charged with any kind of offence—would doubtless have sent him to Siberia; and, on the other hand, he has rejected a conditional offer of support made to him by 300 of the principal men in Poland, which, if accepted, might have terminated the now seemingly interminable feud between Rus sians and Poles. The conditions stipulated for by the Poles were not immoderate; and they were quite in accordance with the spirit of the treaty of Vienna, which requires Russia, as well as Austria and Prussia, to grant " representative and national institutions" to all her Polish subjects. The Poles would gain immensely, no doubt, by the change proposed ; but all that Russia would lose would be the barbarous satisfaction—if satisfaction it can be —of persecuting an ancient enemy who now wishes to become a friend, and as a proof of sincerity, is quite willing to remain unarmed. It is not a hopeful sign that, for allowing the address of the Polish nobility to be signed at his house (it was never presented at all) Count Za moyski was ordered to be arrested and sent to St. Petersburg, and thence dismissed to the west of Europe with an injunction not to re-enter Poland until further notice. To understand fully the in justice of this punishment, it must be known that the Grand Duke had previously asked Count Zamoyski personally to tell him why he and all the principal men of the kingdom refused their support to the Government. The Count having replied that a few reforms based on no recog nised principle would not suffice to gain the con fidence of the Poles, but that if the Emperor would unite all his Polish provinces into one constitutional kingdom they would give him every aid, his Imperial Highness inquired whether this was the feeling of the Poles in general. The Count answered that he naturally spoke for himself alone; and he appears to have understood the Grand Duke's question as an invitation to obtain an expression of opinion from the Polish nobility as a body. It was the common talk of Warsaw that day that the Polish nobility had been invited to pre sent an address to the Lieutenant of the Kingdom; and the news was transmitted by telegraph and appeared the day after in all the principal journals of Great Britain. Two days more, and Count Zamoyski was on his way to St. Petersburg under escort. Count Zamoyski, if he has done no other good for his country by this his latest endeavour, has at least explained to every one under what circumstances the moderate and influential party in Poland will abstain from taking part in the Government of their country, and under what circumstances they will assist it by every means in their power. As regard s C ount Andrew Zamoyski personally (who, by the way, has not only a Scotch Christian name, but has also received a Scotch education, having, as a young man, attended lectures for three years at the University of Edinburgh), we may now mention that the Countess Zamoyski was ill beyond all hope of recovery when her husband was sent into exile, and that no attention was paid to his entrea ties to be allowed to pass through Warsaw on his way to the West of Eguraoinpeh, atvheouagnh 0 it p p w o r a t s u n c t r y t a i o n f ears the Co un t g en ui ld te n a e l v o e o r f fom the R uss i an Government a r would wife alive. For thi r t y y s t h h eae a di t nkg h e e ph and had occupied himself exclusively with the de• velopment of the agricultural and industrial re sources of the kingdom. Misled by the seeming candour of the Grand Duke, he, in an unhappy moment, b e came impressed with the idea th a t tilt, time had at length arrived for him to come forward with a formal request and a formal promise on behalf of hi s un h appy country. I t i s a sad thing that he should now have to repent that for an hour he reposed confidence in the representative of the Russian Crown. It is only DOW that the full effect of the unwise, unjust, and cruel punishment inflicted on Count Zamoyski will be felt, and felt it will be throughout the length and breadth of Poland. It is remarkable how, in the absence of a represen tative system and of all public life, the head of the Zamoyski family has become recognised everywhere as the chosen spokesman of his country. There is no system of suffrage under which this choice would not be confirmed, and we may be sure that the in jury which he has received at the hands of the Rus sian Emperor will be resented wherever the Polish language is spoken. THE HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar- General's Report.) The return that was published last week showed a great increase of the mortality; the present return discloses a further and very considerable increase. In the last week of October the deaths in London were 1184 ; in the first two weeks of the present month they rose successively to 1307 and :429 ; in the week that ended last Saturday they were 1559. In those four weeks the mean temperature of the air was 46 . 8 deg., 44.9 deg., 37.3 deg,, and 38 . 3 deg. In the corresponding week of 1858 the deaths rose to 1802 subsequently to and duiing a very cold period. The average ntimberef - deeitheiriitio oorie - apcma. - - - ing weeks of 10 years (1852-61) becomes, after cor- rection for increase of population, 1436 ; and the deaths in last week were, therefore, 123 in excess of the number that would have been returned if the average rate of mortality had ruled. The deaths from pulmonary diseases, exclusive of phthisis, in the last four weeks Were, respectively, 183, 197, 283, and 350. Those from phthigis in the same times were 119, 152, 166,and 177. Those from whooping-cough and scarlatina, which was returned in 106, also exhibit an increased mortality. Pneumonia was not quite so fatal last week as it was in that which preceded it; but the deaths by bronchitis rose from 130 to 186. Measles was recorded in 7 cases in the district of St. Saviour, Southwark, in 8 in B ermon d sey. Scar latina was fatal in 5 casesin the Kensington Town subdistrict. A man, aged 72 years, died at 8, Prim rose-street, Bishopsgate. A coroner's jury considered that the cause of death was probably want of suffi cient nourishment. Last week the births of I,oooboys and 885 girls, in all 1,885 children, were regisered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1838. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30029 in. The mean daily reading Was above 30 in. on the first five days. The reading rose to 30.25 in. on Monday, and it fall to 2916 in, on Saturday. The me& temperature of the air in the week was 38.3 deg., which is 4 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisherj. The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week. The highest day temperature was 47.3 deg. on Tuesday ; the lowest night temperature was 30.6 deg. on Saturday. On Thursday also, the thermometer fell b e l ow th e freez ing point of water. The range of temp era t ure i n th e week was 16.7 deg. The mean daily range was 10.3 deg. On Wednesday the range was only 3,9 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 3.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 88, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind was in the north-east till Saturday, when it changed to north-west. The rain mei- sured was only the hun dredth part of an inch. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 43.1 deg. ; that of the lowest was 41 deg. (11 - T1 - SEWERS COMMISSION. . The Commissioners of Sewers held their weekly meeting yesterday at Guildhall—Mr. De Jersey in the chair. A report was brought up from the General Pur poses Committee, stating that they had arranged with the Carburetting Company that at the end of the present contract the commission should take the carburetting on their own account and supply them selves with the naphtha, paying a royalty to the company for the use of the invention, and that they agreed with the Great Central Gas Company to allow them to retain the use of the fittings to the public lamps, upon terms to be agreed upon between the engineers of the commission and the Great Cen tral Gas Company, and they recommended that ad vertisements be issued for the supply metres at once for the lam ps li g ht e d by the Centra Gas Company. of 1,771 Some discussion ensued 118 to the propriety of de ferring the consideration of the report, so that in the meanwhile it could be printed, but the report was ultimately agreed to. Mr. DAW, the chief clerk, read a letter addressed to him from Mr. Shepard, the secretary of the Car buretting Company, in which he stated that he was called directed by the b oar d to i nform t h e C our t o f S ewers , in refere nce to a report of Dr. Letheby on the qua lity of the na ph t h a supplied to the carburetters of o th u e sly company, t othat the e their su b j attention h as t had o the been qualitypre i and quantity ; that instructions had been • given to the persons in their employ to use the utmost vigi lance to discover by whom the naphtha in the car buretters was tampered with; but there was the utmost difficulty in catching any one in the act. One such case was, however, discovered, and came to their knowledge, and he enclosed, for the perusal of the court, a declaration of a witness who saw the contents of one of their carburetters thrown away, and the apparatus afterwards filled with water. There was still another grievance of which they had to complain. When that court contracted with the Great Central Gas Company for the supply of three feet of gas per hour instead of five, the latter had affixed burners having two small holes instead of one large one, so that they were continually liable to get choked, and so prevent a fair trial of the car buretting process. To meet this difficulty they had affixed, at their own expense, 1,771 brass caps to the burners, which attained the object in view, but the lamplighters and lampcleaners had been in the habit from time to time of removing the caps, under some pretence or other, and the company had al ready had to replace a large number of additional caps to the burners. In several instances the lamp lighters had admitted having removed them, and had stated their intention of doing so. The letter was referred to the General Purposes Committee. THE CITY SOLICITORSHIP. A report was brought up from the Improvement Committee in reference to the duties and emolu ments of Solicitor of the Commission, and the Court nominated Tuesday the 9th December for the ap pointment. SANITARY CONDITION OP THE CITY. Dr. LETHEBY, the medical officer of health, re ported on the state of 164 houses that had been inspected during the week, and he submitted a list of 38 places for sanitary i mprovements. He like wise reported that the market s and slaughter houses had been duiy inspected during the week, and that the officer had seized 3,6991 b. of meat as unfit for human food. 2,5251b5, were diseased, and the rest from animals that had di e d f rom na t ura l causes. It consisted of 19 sheep, 30 quarters beef. 1 calf, h 1 pig, and three joints o f meat. The mortalitymortalitT returns for the week were a little above the average for the season. Last week the g pe w ar:o6d9, wher eas t h e num b er f or of the l as t seven year s is t n h u e m e b o e a r c o s i ; deathson din 6 1. 22, or about one-third of the deaths,were among children of less than fire years of age , an d 16 were. Only 56 deaths were registered during the week. 711 E SMITHFIELD CLUB CA7 TL E SHOW. As the time approaches for the opening of the Christmas show the interior of the Agricultural Hall is beginning to present a very busy and animated scene, owing to the numerous arrivals of machinery and implements of husbandry. The whole of the available space of the galleries has been let and mapped out, and to show how numerous the appli cations have been it is only necessary to say that the galleries could have been let twice over. The arrangements are under the superintendence of Mr. B. T. B. Gibbs, the secretary to the Smithfield Club, and Mr. Sidney, the secretary of the Agricultural Hall Company. The pens are almost ready for the reception of the stock, which will begin to arrive on the 3d of December and following days. The removal of the show from Baker-street will, it is expected, benefit all concerned in this annual ex hibition, as, from the increased sum (Xl,OOO instead Of £7OO paid by the proprietor Of.the Baker-street premises) given by the Agricultural Hall Company, the value of the prizes has been much increased. There are 29 classes for cattle, the money prizes for which will be distributed as follows :—Devons, £220 ; Het efords, £220 ; shorthorns, £220 ; Sussex, £95 ; Norfolk or Suffolk polled breeds, £5O; long woolled, £3O ; Scotch horned, £46 ; Scotch polled, £65 ; Irish breeds, £3O ; Welsh ditto, £45 ; crossed or mixed breeds, £ll5 ;—total value, £1,155. In addition to the above money prizes, a silver medal will be given in each class to the breeders of the best animals, making a total of 29 medals. The sheep are divided into 17 classes, and the money prizes are thus allotted :—Leicester, £BO ; Cotswolds, £4O; Lincolns, £4O; Kentish or Romney Marsh or other long-woolled breeds, £3O; South Downs, £lOO ; Hampshire or Welsh Downs, £4O ; Shropshire breeds, £4O ; other short-woolled breeds, £35 ; Ox fordshire, £3O; mountain, £5O; cross breeds, £5O; making in all a total sum of £535. 17 silver medals will also be awarded to the breeders of the best pens of sheep. The pigs have four classes, and a sum of £l4O will be awarded in money prizes. Four sil ver medals will also be given, one to the breeder of the best pen in each class. The additional prizes consist of two silver cups, each of the value of £4O, for the best steer or ox, heifer or cow, and three sil ver cups, of the value of £2O respectively, for the three best pens among the various descriptions of sheep ; a gold medal for the best pen of pigs, and 10 silver medals and two money prizes, of £5 each, to be distributed among the extra stock. A silver medal will also be presented as usual, to the butcher who shall lay out the largest sum of money in pur chasing animals at the show. The aggregate value of the whole of the prizes will consequently this year amount to about £2,000. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Nov. 25.—Opinions are rather conflicting about the yarn-market to-day. Some of the leading agents and spinners report a con siderable business so far as they are concerned, at an advance on the rates of Friday last, while others say that they have done nothing, and that business is worse. The opinion most general, however, is that the market shows an improvement, and that prices are about ld. per lb. higher. At this ad vance,'wholly or in part, some business has been done for India, Germany, and the Mediterranean. The home trade have also been buyers, in some cases freely. At the prices ruling last Friday thcre so.ma to be a general opinion that a large business might have been done this morning for all markets. A telegram is to hand in anticipation of the mail from China, reporting yarns at an improvement. The cloth-market to-day has disappointed expectation. Up to Saturday we had a considerable improve ment as compared with this day week, and a con siderable business appears to have been done on Friday in printing cloths and shirtings at the prices previously current. This, however, led to an advance on Saturday and this morning, which has completely checked business, and manufacturers have been able to effect very few sales. Our report of Friday stated that the increased business on that day was mostly speculative, and it now appears that speculators are unwilling to follow any advance whatever. Shippers to the Levant are still doing a limited business, picking up small lots of T-clothsof good and favourite makes, and other suitable fabrics, for which they are willing to give fair prices, but the aggregate amount of transactions of this cha racter is too insignificant to exercise much influence on the general market. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report : "From Tuesday to Friday last the market con tinued exceedingly depressed, with a further de cline in prices of all descriptions of goods. On and since Friday, however, owing to the advance in the Liverpool market, we have had a comparatively active demand, and sellers are again firm at the full rates of Tuesday last." LEEDS, Nov. 25.—The cloth-halls presented a rather quiet aspect this morning, the number of buyers present, as on the last two or three market days, being below rather than above an average. The purchases were confined to small parcels of winter goods, with a few spring fabrics and ordi nary cloths. Comparatively little is doing in cot ton-warp cloths, but a moderate business in tweeds. The business at the warehouses is far from being brisk, but a few houses are doing a fair amount in the export trade. The reports as to the state of the manufacturers are upon the whole satisfactory, but the cloth-dressing branch is not so brisk as we lately had to report it. NEWPORT, Nov. 24.—The iron trade has not been quite so active for the last few days as was the case a month or six weeks since. There has been no diminution in employment, and there is every reason to believe that additional labour will soon be in re quest. In ccnsequence of the slight dullness which prevails prices are a shade lower, and the iron masters are disposed to easier terms. The following are the average quotations :--Rails (at the works), £5 12s. 6d. to £5 17s. 6d. ; merchant bars, £5 15s. to £6. The coal trade is also in rather an unsatis factory state. The present average prices are as follows :—Steam coal, f. o. b., 7s. 3d. to 7s. 9d.; house, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d. ROCHDALE, Nov. 24.—The cold weather has in creased the demand for flannels, and to-day's mar ket has in consequence been an active one. There was a good sale for all ordinary kinds, and . a large bulk was b oug ht f or c h ar i t i es , many of wh ic h, besides those th a t h ave s p ru ng into ex istence in connection with the distress in this cou nty, hav e annual distributions shortly after this t i m e or scarlet year. Ther e wa s also a good deman d f of the and dyed goods, and the Yo rkshire goods trade eep we was likewise active. The manufacturers k 00l than employed. More business was done in w last week, and prices were quite ti [AnvEwrisminNY.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— eart's Action.—The slig htest i rr egularity in the heart's function is felt throughout the entire system; any oremovedbstruc tion to the regular imp ulse of that organ must 1:)( without delay, or the whole circulation becomes disordered, palpitation comes o n, to be succeeded by dangerous - ness. In a multitude of cases, these symptoms arise from a stomach distended by flatulency, and are cured by rub bing Holloway's O in tment over the pit of the stomach a n d r i g ht side, and, occasionally, likewise over the heart an d c hest. It speedi l y relieves the harassing, throbbing per_sation. Holloway's Fills should be taken at th e ti m e, to remove any accumulation from the alim e nt ary c anal, and to carry off any nox i ou s matters from e,,,acne, liver, bowels, or kidney!. Captain Oldfield, of her Majesty's steam-sloop, who has been cruising off the West Coast of Africa, succeeded in capturing no less than 26 slave dhows within the last 12 months. Several had slaves on board—one 54, one 82, and two others 100 each. One, which was taken with a cargo of slaves on board in March last, at the very entrance of Zanzibar harbour (the Sultan of Z intibar having given au thority to search suspected vez , sels) p roduced a p ass from the Sultan, but his 1-iii.),htw.s itecifli (1 that !he had no claim to his protection, having been g uilt y of vi o l a ti ng hi s ordinance prohibiting the sla ve trade and the treaty with Greet Britaili ; she was therefore adjudged in open durbar a lawful prize, and the negroes were sent to it•eychelles, and the crew distributed among vessels bound out of the Sultan's dominions. In the following month the Ariel chased a dhow, which made for the land near Brava, and the crew escaped, and left the vessel drifting into the surf with nearly 100 slaves on board ; h er p os i t i on ren d ere d it impossible to remove them, and the boats of the Ariel were in the most imminent peril, that com manded by Captain Oldfield being swamped, aud the crew with difficulty saved, while the shore was lined with armed men, who with muskets and spears attacked the boats and such of the slaves as at tempted to make for them. The dhow soon afte wards became a total wreck. The slaves escaped to the shore, where they were seized by the armed men, apparently Somali Arabs, and the dhow being deserted her destruction was completed by shelling her. _ She appeared to be from 160 to 176 tons burden. The casualties in The course of the cruise", seem to have been but few. In one instance a lieutenant of the Ariel haring seized a dhow, from which the crew had just escaped by swimming to shore, placed a prize crew and native pilot on board, and proceeded to sea with the dhow in company; but when within 30 miles of Zanzibar the dhow without any assignable cause, unless treacherously scuttled by the native pilot, sank, with the loss of two of the prize crew and the pilot himself. In another instance a sub-lieutenant seized a dhow tit anchor in port Chak chak with a crew of 15 Arabs and six slaves, and it being necessary to follow ano ther vessel the dhow was left in charge of a single seaman, the only hand that could be spared; un fortunately, on returning, the dhow was found de serted by the crew, who had carried away the slaves,and our seamen was found mortally wounded. An encounter took place in Mombas harbour, in April, Lieuts. Clark and Fellowes cruising in the Ariel's cutter and pinnace, with a tender in charge, having put in for water, leaving the tender outside. Observing a large dhow at anchor in the harbour, they went alongside, and asked for water, which was refused. By another dhow, of Buddeen build, water was again refused. They boarded the latter dhow, and observed that she was a slave and had evidently recently landed a cargo of slaves. The two lieutenants landed and informed the Governor of Mombas of the fact of the Buddeen dhow having a slaver, whereupon the Governor accorded them his permission to seize her. Accordingly, about four p.m., they proceeded in their boats to seize her, when they found that since their first visit she had been run ashore. A heavy fire was opened on the boats, both from the dhow and from the shore. The officers, however, succeeded in boarding the dhow, but were not able to get her off in consequence of the tide falling fast. While on board they had an opportunity of seeing that she had a slave deck and other slave fittings. They then returned to their boats, and were pulling back, when, without cause or provocation, the large dhow before mentioned opened a heavy fire upon the boats, and wounded Lieutenant Fellowes and two of his men. As the dhow was obviously strongly manned and armed, the officers did not think it prudent to risk their men's lives by attacking her, more especially as she received a strong reinforcement from the shore. They, therefore, stood out to rejoin the tender, on board which was a 12-pounder. That gun was transferred to the pinnace, and at half-past two on the following morning, when the tide had risen sufficiently to float the slaver, the (mate* again made for the harbour. On entering it they found that the slaver had been moved up the river into a posi tion so close to the town that she could not be attacked without injury to private dwellings, and probably imperilling the Protestant mission station. The officers then made for the dhow which had fired upon them on the previous evening, in order to take possession of her as a pirate, when she again opened a heavy fire on the boats, which was replied to with the 12-pounder. After 10 minutes' engagement some of the pirate crew were seen to leap overboard, and others, including the wounded, to escape in their boat. On boarding her the officers found her deck stained with blood, but none of the crew dead or alive. Some swords and muskets were found lying about, the rest of her armament having ap parently been carried off in the boat by the crew. The dhow had neither papers nor colours, Aiid appeared by her build to belong. to some of the Persian Gulf piratical hordes. The boats towed out the dhow, but at the entrance of the harbour she struck upon a sunken reef, and was set on fire and abandoned, the boats having lost their anchors in trying to get her off. From information subsequently obtained there is reason to believe that the dhow was the Futhel Hhaire, of Sober, in the Persian Gulf, and that she had five of her crew mortally wounded in the engagement with the Ariel's boats. She measured 89ft. in length, 17ft. in beam, 12ft. in depth of hold, and had a poop measuring 25ft. in length, 13ft. in beam, and Mt. in depth. She was 190 tons burden. THE GLASGOW 111URDE1? CASE. The circumstanc es of the murder of Jessie M'Pherso n i n Gl asgow mus t b e f r esh in the recol lection of our readers. Of course, the guilt le y be tween the woman M'Lachlan and the o ld m an Fleming ; and when Sir George Grey f elt it to be his duty to respite the convict the genera l impres sion wa s th a t ev id ence h a d been adduced at the private inqui r y t o cr i m i na t e old Mr. Fleming . Th e agents for that gentleman have applied to the Home Office, complaini ng thrown on Fleming, and requiring a fresh investi gation. To this the following answer has been returned : of the imputation thus impliedly 4' liVhitehall, Nov. 14, 1862. of your letter of the 7th " Gentlemen,—l am directed Grey to acknowledge the receipt e by Secretary Sir George will order a renewed instant, in which you request that . 11 the recent murder of Jessie investigation in reference to ?rotor that Mr. Fleming may be M‘Pherson, in Glasgow, eh may have been made at the afforded an o truth of any statementstate him. pportunity:iiiif adducing evidence to test the late inquiry tenu—g inform ° you, in reply, that Sir George Grey 64 I am to instituted the inf° • to which you refer, under the very „,„„, ill a qurY ces of this case, in order to assist him in deciding peculiar sufficient doubt existed as to the share whether su w wh i c h the prisoner Jessie M‘Lachlan had in the commi ss i on f h neo. Grey ofcommutation that th capitaltheewhole f senten a c e e t ' s relating ‘ Th e to e the u Sir at been submitt e d to the jury at th trial, an d that sufficient doubt did ex i s t on t h e point wheic-h I have me ntioned to ju s tif y hi m i n recommending a tcerr crime t olt justify ease ha a satisfiedd on commutation of the sentence to penal servitude for life. "But the result of the inquiry was far from removing all uncertainty, nor could it be justly held to fix a share of the guilt on any other person, especially when such person was not represented at the inquiry. " With reference to your present request, it is not in Sir G. Grey's power to direct a judicial inquiry to be held into the guilt or innocence of any person not charged with any offence, especially when, as in the present case—according to what he is informed is the law in Scotland—the person on whose behalf you make the request having been exa mined as a witness in a criminal trial cannot afterwards be subjected to a criminal prosecution in respect of the matter of such trial.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) "G. OLIVE. " Messrs. Smith and Wright, 99, St. Vincent street, Glasgow." _ _ . _ The agents complained that this communication was unsatisfactory, and renewed their demand for a fresh inquiry ; but the Home Secretary abides by his decision. te 13 : 1 ;: f theb iiosystemm law,uei much , R cts t o t00....i often ecdno courts, except teifxooncre tophft et bhpyeu nw a t ri writs :ht.'s g" win,: tin x. g SlR,—The coBi amendment der appeal to the stipe of the following :--:: , indebted TeCo t u o r t t he fo L r o n rd el C ie h f a o n f ee ln li Chancel lor fat' 1 bc. a c t o i h o lev u e s n rightvt e Debtors,s vest in i f ment and plunder of solves. r- debtors, and the victims denied f judicial duty have be ef audito querela, which by neglect 4.0.: vstem rains in ac come difficult to use, and the demurrer k... tive operation to defraud men and families ell their property. The demurrer - practice extends to the incrat ... flimsy pre tences ; for example, in the p r epa r ation of a nam,tive of facts in a bill of complaint, the plaintiff may desire to iu. s ert several pages of explanations, or to insert copies of dom.• monts which he considers important to support his claims; the cost or printing 10 pages extra in a bill ofcomplaint will be only 608., and in some eases VO is given as a fee ti counsel by a wealthy detendaut to suppres4 the bill fur what the e•dirt pleases to consider dernurrable matter, but at the same time allowing counsel to state whatever he pleases, true or false, without• being sworn. Iri building transactions ill results have been of common occurrence, on account of the high rate of interest, large margin of value, opportunities for disputing every advance as the works proceed, and preventing the creation of income by withholding the advances required for finishing; and be cause mortgages in building transactions are usually exe cuted upon arrangements to advance as works proceed ; in fact it is obtaining a mortgage without a b., haling of consi deration and obliging the mortgagor to exhau: t his means and credit in improving the security. It appears b2crodible that such a heartless system should exist in a great .coni mercial country where impartial justice is supposed tct be administered, yet such is the fact, and to an enormous eic, tent. The course of practice is to select the most valuable building estate,which the apparent respectability and meat § of the mortgagee will enable them them to obtain, promis ing the owns - - 0. ,-. .•.ri,'.. he may desire to create in i.d to make the required ad ie direction of an architect ;:ailirafutchhge smaller works s h ep amountl a m n o n rtg a a gi ey the , t u uh t h e a r chitect. sameaotraeged ee insertingnentah enabl es e v s avalue a ee why to find pretence for disputing on every a d v an c e Whin required. Agreements are comparatively carried out thus :—lf an agreement be made for a mortgagor to enter at A door, he is refused admittance there, and required to enter by the window, and when he cisnsente to this inconvenient mode of entry, the window will be closed against him and he will be told that he must mount the roof and come down the chimney, but in his progress he is sure to be met by some dark agent who will insist on his return, to adopt the impracticable mode of entry—through the keyhole. The mortgagor is thus led into liabilities, and when the houses are roofed the mortgagee will, as soon after as possible, re fuse further advances, the debts for works and materials therefore remain unpaid, notwithstanding their value has been added to the security. The houses of course remain unproductive, because they are unfinished, interest in the meantime accumulating, and professional costs and other charges increasing, and the mortgagee and his adviser then commence complaints about not being able to obtain pay ment of interest and return of the money advanced, which they have taken care the mortgagor shall not have the means of paying; the only means contemplated for repay ment having been by letting or selling the houses origin ally arranged to be finished, by advances to be made by the mortgagee. It is a matter of astonishment that our legislators permit such abuses in the administration of the laws, when the fall of the Roman Empire and the Revolution of France in 1793 were the result of similar abuses connected with liti gation and imprisonment. And with such facts and exam ples in history it appears still more incredible that English men have allowed their fellow-creatures to be incarcerated 40 years or 40 hours unless guilty of a crime. If the victims of 10, 20, and 40 years incarceration, had commit ted burglaries and been sentenced to seven years' transpor tation for each, the expiration of the time or tickets of leave would have procured their release, and if without sentence and subjected to the course followed in criminal prisons, the ordinary gaol delivery would have set them free at the ex piration of a few weeks. And it will be difficult to meet with one case of a debtor whose confinement in prison could have conferred any fair and honourable benefit on his cre ditors. It is not commercial men or fair traders that fill our prisons, or find employment for sheriffs' officers. It is usurous bill discounters and unfair money lenders. These are the classes for whose almost exclusive benefit we have maintained debtors' prisons at so heavy an expense to the country. To effect general reform in administration of the law, the following acts, it appears to me, among others, are re quired : An Act for entire abolition of imprisonment for debt or contempt for non-payment of costs, without being first tried and found guilty of fraud by a jury. An Act for the appointment of a Minister of Justice and. Public Prosecutors, but not to interfere with the grand jury system. An act to abolish the use of demurrers and establish trial by jury on every question of right to be decided in Equity. An act to compel barristers to be sworn in every case to make full and correct statements (to the best of their know ledge and belief). The above acts will not prevent .1. general modification of the laws by competent members of the legislature. li istrati s o e n cr o e f ts th o e f l aws success and in nto native industry ° 5t administration great Governm ents, uearethie and it must be a soured pf anxiety and regret with all honourable men to be obliged to witness the abuses com mitted with administration of the lave, and the want of pro tection for the working classes of the United Kingdom.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, OBSEIZVER. A BRAVE MAN. A. public meeting was held a few days ago at Campbel town, Kantyre, to present a beautiful silver medal, which had been voted by the National Lifeboat Institution to Jas. ISl`Millan, a mechanic, upwards of 70 years of age, in testi mony of his general services in saving life from wrecks, and particularly for his gallant exertions in rushing into the surf and rescuing, at the imminent peril of his life, William. Fordyce, belonging to the ship Genova, of London, which was wrecked during a heavy gale of wind in Glenmanuilt Bay, Kantyre, N. 8., on the 13th Oct. last. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. L. Stewart, who was supported by some of the principal residents of the district. The chairman said that the National Lifeboat Institution, which they re presented on that occasion, did more than any other society in fostering the courage and daring of our coast population in saving life from shipwreck. It was one of the noblest societies to which England had givenibirth. Its object was the saving of human life from the fury of the devouring waves. "Few of us," continued Mr. Stewart, are acquainted with the horrors of that situation where man, in his weak ness, is left to contend with the elements in their fury. May it never be the lot of any of us to know them. Yet it is to be hoped that all of us will be ever ready, as you were, to risk even our lives to help shipwrecked mariners, and rescue them from a watery grave. I have much pleasure in coming here to-day, as president of this branch of the National Lifeboat Institution ; but the pleasure is much increased by the fact that your father, who lived upon my father's property and mine, was known as a strong and a brave man. He never lifted his arm in his own cause; but many a time ho has raised it with effect for the help of others, and especially for the weak. In words tt w oi m h a i e e r which co Iku have feel vd e, justified dhoanveinsgo i . n :oowua s:etdohua s bs using,stand in g thaaff l yownl oemadu th i s a frno y afgsvi l otmr:uooa unr i hsane Although his arm was strong to smite, 'Twas also strong to save.' Lion You Y ou to James, uccor h t i h s e son, weak h a v a and h in herited helpless, s , fr a o n m d hi to m e ri li s n thi k g y i s n o d g u i r s fe P o e ° 7 B :: life for the preservation of others. This i s tdawh,r n ea smoy brave, aeru t ane hrvarteeuasfinhyresot nobledotu have been swept off by the returning surge ; and while gh an ee, d fGo y aom o d u i n hn g gel e pw r ina m vg e e n ys brave cionothtuoer rat brought man,h i m andsate t to addressland. himl i s a a s pleasurenow d 0 00 meet you; v,rimtdh ita o must be no small satisfaction to you that he whom you rescued from death was likewise a brave man, Half-way across the Atlantic the vessel in which Fordyce sailed as mate fell in with the Genova of London, waterlogged, and deserted by the captain and crew. With four other men Fordyce volunteered to take charge of the Genova and bring her into port. They encountered severe weather, lost their sails and tackling; and yet, notwithstanding all the difficulties he had to contend with, he all but ac complished his purpose. By this brave act of yours you have added to the value of your own life. A life thus pre served will, I doubt not, be guided by the same principles of self-sacrifice and courage which have animated yours. James, to you who must feel how great a thing it was to save a brother's life from the dangers and horrors of that night, I need say nothing more. Take this parchment, on which the National Lifeboat Institution has recorded its high appreciation of your acts. Mr. Watson, Lloyd's agent, will attach the medal to your breast ; and long after your Eons shall have returned from laying you in the grave, your medal will remind them of what you were, and stimulate them and their sons to acts of mercy, courage, and daring." Mr.M.'Millan returned thanks for the gifts ho had received and the honours that had been done him, and said,— " Although I am now getting an old man, yet if another wreck should occur, I hope I may still have strength to be of some use to my fellow-creatures." The medal, which was handed round among those present, was very much admired, the portrait of her Majesty beingmostperf per f ect on it ; and they all expressed their sens e of .the handsome ma n _ nerinwhich h a d recognised Mr. M'M illan's exertions. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves a s i n th e usual kinds. Hor n iman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always good aliks. sold in packets by 2,280 agents. iest ' VO ,at r ible orh , n ea i to dal, the ►r I tir 3 6 . o. o ‘ 4 0 424 10 14 eel i i . Do 1 01" risil l ' roer 2. ' 21* 221. . r. 26' li fe 00f fife doo r, lr ebt iO Oll9 t O ld betl i biT , ,0., ,IN, 11% 01