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NO MORE MEDICINE: Price 2,1., free by post, a popular treatise, sixty-four P ages , ME NATURAL REGENERATION of the DIGESTIVE 'ORGANS, practically illustrating the effectual Cure, without Medicine, of Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatulency' Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, bilous Headaches, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debi ity, Cough, Asthma, Cunsumption;Despondency, Spleen, &c., without Pills, Purgatives, or Medicine of any kind, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means ; adapted to the general London: Barry Du Barry & Co. 77, itegent-street THE LATE LORD MACAULAY. No death which we could chronicle will be more deeply or more widely lamented than that of Lord Macaulay. His loss is not simply that of a great man. It is the loss of a great man who accumu lated immense stores of information that perish with him. As on the funeral pile of. some Oriental potentate the wealth of a province is heaped up to be burned, we see passing with the historian into the darkness of the grave not onljr a majestic mind which sooner •or later must have g one from among us, but also the vast acqui sitions of this mind, which we fancy might have remained to us for ever. Macaulay's wealth of information, was almost incredible, and' in t all his writings, 1 in his speeches, in his con versations, he poured it forth so lavishly, and yet so carefully, that reader and hearer scarcely knew which to admire most—the extent of his know lege, or the felicity with which he brought to bear upon the matter in hand. He had a more intimate acquaintance with English- history than any -man living, or perhaps any man who ever lived. His ac quaintance with it was not a barren knowledge, but had fructified into political wisdom ; and no pen could surpass his in thedescription of what he.knew and thought and felt. The death of such a man is more than a common loss—is more than the loss of a man equally great in other departments of litera ture. The material which he handles gives to the work of the historian a value which the work of no other artist enjoys. A great novelist or a great poet may be compared to a worker in colours, which have no value except in the arrangement given to them by the artist. A great historian, on the other hand, is a worker in gold and silver and precious stones, which have a value independent of the work • manship bestowed on them. It requires a great mind to elicit the facts, but the facts have a value in themselves, and if they are not transmitted by the historian who is in possession of them the loss which we sustain is not comparable to that of an additional poem or a new novel from the poet or novelist too soon struck down. Macaulay is cut off in his 60th year, and in the midst of his work. Who is to finish what he has begun ? Who is to make good wherein he has.failed? The deep regret for such a loss will be universally felt wherever the English language is spoken will bo mingled with surprise at its suddenness. Only on Monday last Lord Macaulay had entertained his family at a Christmas party. It is true that for some years he had suffered from an affection of the heart, and three weeks ago he had a return of threatening symptoms. But he appeared to rally again ; the symptoms, although serious, were not alarming ; and at the Christmas party on Monday last he was only so far unlike himself as to be rather silent. If Sidney Smith had been there, he would not have had to complain, as he once did, that he longed for some " brilliant flashes of silence ;" and yet, in spite of Lord Maca.ulay's quietness, his friends in parting with him that night little thought that in less than eight-and-forty hours he would be no mere,for this world. On Wednesday evening, about 8 o'clock, he died in a fainting fit, without' the least pain. Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on the 25tli of October, 1800, at Rothley Temple, in Lei 'estershire. He was the son of Zachary Macaulay, Irho has a monument in Westminster Abbey, and Nllin was well known as a prominent member of the s,"-called "Clapham Sect," as well as of the philan tltopists who exerted themselves for the abolition , 01 the slave trade and of slavery. The family be 'ON?ed to the Highlands of Scotland, where Zachary „AL, 6 eaulay's father and uncle were ministers of the 11 -isk. Dr. Johnson, in his "T our to the Hebrides," mentions both the Rev. John and th e Rev Kenneth Ma caulay in a kindly way, and the Presbyterian °rtgla of the family is worth noticing, as its effects may lie traced quite distinctly in the writings of the historian. Especially in his essays—that is to say, his earlier writings—there must be observed a curi ous familiarity, not simply with scriptural phrase ology, which might have been derived from any ire g education, but with the pet phrases and for mulasi°lilwhich are current among the Presbyterian and Aetaphysical divines. Although Macaulay scarcely be called a Scotchman, his religious allusion s coudl , are as distinctively Scotch as those of Sir Walter Scott himself. His father, Zachary, seems to have been a sturdy Calvinist. He was a West Indum..rehant, who had early in life been sent to Jamaica, and who was so horrified with what he saw tnete of slavery that he for some years pitched his Leone, tent amid all the unhealthiness of Sierra wth the hope of doing good to the negroes. It was 'alder the influence of such a character and of la, associates, who at that time were held up to pubi c scorn as "the Clapham Sect," that MacAulay was brought up. His education be gan ; he was then placed under tho care P reston, at Shelford, in Cambridgeshire ; Lord aogfna oda amt finally hope le entered at Trinity College,Cambridgo, is career at the university was very In his first year he gained the medal for a poem on " Pompeii ; " in 1 his second ina i Chancellor's siBl 11 g 8 het. Year he carried off the same prize for a poem on g'ining," both of which have been pub lished imm Ediately afterwards he gained the Scholarship; in 1822 he took his Bachelor's edl ; Craves or's det rec, and though he did not compete for honours, twi n _ g to his dislike of mathematics, he was elected s 1. Fellow of his college. Macaulay, moreover, great figure in the Union Debat ing Society, d h e a w h ere he spelt a good deal of his time. He was to stn, for the bar, and it was evident b 's , an orator. 1V hat were his chances st had a Fellowship to begin with./ he had a father vho w as no t only in good circum stances, promotion ho m o w ti a o s a t ; k "(so a leading member a frater nitypolitical influence, and has always been celeb stance t s h , a b t ut had was cone hted for the virtue which phre nologists have tensed " adhesiveness." Evangeli calsgencrallr had the merit of sticking to each other, and , even had he been a dull nag, Macaulay, ma h e au a l a v y e might I hve counted on the tenacity of his father's friends. It so happened that he gave the most brilliant pkonise in youth, and when still a o very m an achieved some extraordinary w gllicals of. that day were not re markable for learn 6 g Ko or ability, or any kind of works. The brilliancy, and they L_ f ellow graciously on the young y T o h un e g Evan man who was to - "How in the footsteps of his tie lustre of intellect to the b In 1830 Mr. Macaulty _ had made such a reputa tion for himself that father, eaut and of he became M.P. for the se tt then, as now, in the nomi nationlmo. We have, therefore to borou o gh f o of C or a d in Leaansd o account for those eight ears between 1822, when s he took his Bachelor' l ee-ree, and 1830, when he entered the House of Cotlbmons, and to show how uPwNs. For the first four of de al of hi s ti m e was spent between London and Is t h h e es fought his trs a way mbridge, - a where he had good d his Master's degree in B iB 24,n Fellowship. the bar at Lincoln's-inn in 1826. But far more ;mportant to his future h lad lie was H e called took t it prospect was the fact that h this period he began to write. He wrote poetry, Is, wrote essays, he wrote imaginary conversations, s e wrote critiques—he wrote in every form. Thesappeared as contribu tions to "Knight's Quarter) . f Magazine," of which it will readily be understood they formed the prin cipal ll a d so f attraction.tho Spanish a w n i a s s h i A n rtasdEto the Battle of the day League, ',eve that some of his republished in Ame rica,at w h e o b en ei, Macaulay was chary of publishing his periodical writings, and it eag otheralthoughucecontributions iatnridb I t uviroyn ; certainly has not ;al l . ritish Museum that w is o o o ny a by nd d o i a g ew in h g at in h to o w t a h s e the beginning. One us of ascertaining what he was when fresh froh College. He had chance, indeed, he has given ie contributions of earned such a reputation by t ) THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1859. A,ONDON.B: SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. A- 4 SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. Notice.. is Hereby Given, That a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at the Waterloo bridge Station, Lambeth, on SATURDAY, the 14th day of January, 1860, at One o'clock in the afternoon, precisely, for the purpose of considering, and, if • deemed ex pedient, of consenting to amalgamate the undertaking of the Portsmouth Railway Company with the undertaking of this Company, upon the terms and conditions of a deed proposed to be sealed by the two Companies, and which will be sub. mitted to the meeting, or on such other terms and conditions as shall be thought fit ; and also for the purpose, in the event of such amalgamation being determined upon, of creating or authorisingthe creating and issuing of an adequate amount of Annuities or Preferential Stock fOr payment or appropria tion to the registered proprietors in the Portsmouth Railway Company in consideration of such amalgamation, The Boooks of the Company for the transfer of Stock and Shares will be closed, from Monday, the 2d day ,of January, till Saturday, the 14th day of January, 1360, both days , in olusiire. —By Order. 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It is scarcely necessary to say that this famous paper on Milton was afterwards republished by Macaulay in his collected essays, and we have all, therefore, an opportunity of taking his measure as a•young man. In republishing it ho mado a few alterations, but every competent judge will endorse his own statement,—that " the criticism on Mil ton, which was written when the author was fresh from College, and which contains scarcely a para graph such as his matured judgment approves, still remains overloaded with gaudy and ungraceful ornament." As he advanced, however, he improved, as will be seen in the essay on Machiavelli, which immediately follows that on Milton, but it is sepa rated from it by an interval of 18 months. It will never be so popular as the Milton article, which is very dazzling, but it is in every way a better work, and one can see in it the Macau lay of later days—his subtlety of thought, his tole rant temper, his high view of Morality, his ideal of composition ; and we may say the same on the:arti cles on Hallam and Southey, 'which are next in order, and belong to the period before he entered Parliament. An article on " History," which he con tributed to the Edinburgh Review in May, 1828, has not been republished, an in itself perhaps it is not of much value, having very much the appear ance of a college exercise touched up. But as the production of one who afterwards became one of the greatest of historians, and who, if he has not actu ally invented a new style of history, has given us the. most perfect specimen of the new style, it is well worthy of perusal, and will, no doubt, be one day published with other works which Lord Macau lay has been perhaps too anxious to consign to obli vion. Among these will be found some political squibs which are really very good, and with regard to two of them we quote the following. from " Moore's Diary," though the date is June, 183 t. He is relating a conversation at the breakfast table of Rogers, and says—" In the course of conversa;. tion Campbell quoted a line— . " 'Ye diners out from whom wo guard our spons,' _ . and looking over at me said significantly, You ought to know that line.' I pleaded not guilty; upon which he said, It is a poem that appeared in the Times which every one attributes to you.' But I again declared that I did not e:en remember it. Macaulay then broke silence and said, to our gene ral surprise, That is mine,' on which we all ex pressed a wish to have it recalled to our memories, and he repeated the whole of it. I then remembered having been much struck with it• at the ti m e, a n d said that there was another squib still better"on the subject of Win. Bankes's candidateship for Cambridge, which so amused when it appeared and showed such power in that style of composition that I wrote up to Barnes about it, and advised him by all means to secure that hand as an ally. That was mine also,' said Macaulay, thus dis covering to us a new power, in addition to that varied store of talent which we had already known him to possess." His talents were so great, his writings so effective, and his influence so strong that the Whigs obtained for him (this, we suppose, must have been in the Coalition Ministry) an ap pointment as Commissioner of Bankrupts, and in 1830 he entered Parliament as member for Caine. For the future Mr. Macaulay is to be as much a politician as a writer. lie made an impression in the House of Commons almost from the first. To one who was uttering some dispsragement of the young man, Mr. Shell is reported to have screeched out, "Nonsense, sir ! don't attempt to run down Macaulay: He's the cleverest man in Christendom. Didn't he make four speeches on the Reform Bill, and net £lO,OOO a-year ? Think of that, and be dumb." 'lmmense things were expected of him when he appeared in the house ; he was to be another Burke, and indeed he took a part in • the debates in favour of Reform and the Grey Ministry second only to the more spontaneous effarts of Lord. Derby, then Mr. Stanley. Croker, who had nig° a reputation as a reviewer, was frequently in these days sot up to destroy the young debater, but he failed, as, other things being equal, the man of detail must always s fail against the man of broad views and sweeping generalisations. Besides his performances on the floor of the House of Commons Mr. Maea.ulay did duty in these clays for his friends the Abolitionists, whose hearts he rejoiced in highly impassioned speeches at the Freemasons"ravern. In Parliament his style was more argumentative and sober, and he did good service to his friends. Jeffrey, writing to Lord Cockburn in 1833, observes —" Mac is a marvellous person. He made the very best speech that has been this session on India, a few nights ago, to a house of less than fifty. The Speaker, who is a severe judge, says he rather thinks it the best speech, he ever heard." Admi rable speaker as he was, however, ono may venture to doubt about Mr. Macaulay's qualifications as a debater. With all his stores of information, and all his flow of language, he could never trust himself to speak without elaborate preparation; his presence as an orator was not overpowering ; and his voice was not particularly good. His head was 'Set stiff upon-his shoulders, and his feet were planted im movable on the ground. One hand was fixed be hind him;across his back, and in this rigid attitude, with only a slight movement of his right hand, he poured forth his sentences. His speeches were what he said those of Sir James Mackintosh were—spoken essays, only that Macaulay's essays, unlike those of Sir James, were written in a highly rhetorical style. It is, perhaps, the most rhetorical prose that ever was written ; at all events, the prose that combines in the most perfect way whatever is excellent in the written with whatever is valuable in the spoken style. Macaulay certainly did wonders with it, and if he was not very formidable in extempore debate, he managed at all times to fascinate both sides of the House, and to win golden opinions from all sorts of men. With the new Parliament, which assembled after the passing of the Reform Bill, ho was returned to the House of Commons as representative of Leeds, and was appointed Secretary to the Board of Con trol; but in 1834 he resigned his seat and his secre taryship to go out to India as a member of the Su preme Council. The emolument, we believe, was the chief inducement to this step, a few years'of India in such on office being sufficient to secure a competency; but it will at once be seen that the acceptance of such a post was a frank surrender on the part of Mr. Macaulay of the highest political position. A man who felt that his life was in action, and knew that he must push his way to power, would not have thrown away some of the best years of his life in a distant dependency. He had probably discovered by this time that he was more a historian than a statesman, and that ho was happier and more useful among his books than in office and in debate. And yet, although Mr. Macaulay's acceptance of the Indian office surprised those of his friends who had marked out for him, in imagination, a brilliant political future, he had an object in visiting the East which might well fire his ambi tion. He was appointed not simply a member of the Supreme Council, but also legal adviser to it, and the special object of his mission was to prepare a new Indian code of law. He was therefore ex empted from all share in the administration of affairs ;, he had four assistants to help him in his labours, and the . penal code which was produced under his superintendence is mainly to be attri buted to him. Containing some 26 chapters divided into nearly 500 clauses, this code was published after Mr. Macaulay's return to this country in 1848, and its great ability acknowledged. To pro duke such a code was an object worthy of his ambi tin. Unfortunately, his code was rather admired than obeyed ; it was too good to be true ; mankind lasas not fit for it; it would not work. The variety Of races and customs to which it was applied has prevented oven the attempt to put it in practice. One of its enactments, indeed, was so odious to the English inhabitants that they gave it the appella tion of the " Black Act." It abolished the right of appealing from the local courts to_ the Supreme Court at the Presidency. This right had. hitherto been exclusively enjoyed by Europeans, and now it was proposed to put them on the same footing with natives, giving to both a certain right of appeal, but appeal only to the highest provincial courts. It was practically the same measure which roused the inhabitants of Calcutta to indignant remon strance immediately before the outbreak of the mutiny, and which, being put forward at such a time, showed the confidence of our Indian officials in the justice of the Hindoo population. One benes fit our author derived from his Indian experience; he was able to write of Indian affairs with a full ness of knowledge and a vividness of apprehension which are unsurpassed in his treatment of any other subject. His essays on Clive and Warren Hastings are, onthe whole, the best he has written. Nothing can be more masterly than his views, nothing more picturesque than his narration, nothing more just than' his admiration of the men, com bined with condemnation of their acts. The essays will always be the most popular of his works, and we may read them a dozen times without ever tir ing of them. The English is his best—his most finished style, and we must give him the praise of having in his style added to the clearness of the English language. He has taught us to avoid in volved sentences; he has given us the most brilliant examples of directness; and by a chary use of pro nouns, especially the personal pronouns, he has given at once lucidity an d emp h as i s to all he has to say. Mr. Macaulay, we have said, returned to this country in 1838. His subsequent history is too well known to need much remark. He was elected member for Edinburgh in 1839, and became Secre tary at War in the same year. Mr. Macaula y did not long remain in office, for th e Whigs were soon ousted by . Sir :Robert Peel. In opposition Mr. Macaulay's voice was not often heard, but on one occasion he expressed himself in such a manner as to give mortal offence to his constituents and power fully to influexce his future career. On. the subject of the Maynooth endowment he spoke in favour of the grant to the Roman Catholics, and ventured to make allusion to " the bray of Exeter-hall." His constituency resented the expression, and refused to re-elect him in 1847. In 1852 they repented of their doings and spontaneously reelected without asking him to issue an address, to attend a meeting, or to bear one farthing of the expense..lt was a worthy repai lotion, and the historian sat for a short time in Parliament, although an at tack of heart complaint compelled him to avoid the excitement of public speaking. After a few sessions, he retired from the House of Commons, and only about two years ago he was raised to the peerage. Lord Macaulay's rejection at Edinburgh probably hastened the undertaking of what was his chief am bition,---at true History of England. He produced two volumes of this history in 1848, two more made their appearance in 1855, and the public were in expectation of a further instalment, to be issued very shortly, when now they hear of the historian's decease. The excitement which the first two volumes created, appearing as they did in all the hubbub of the French Revolution, presenting to ns a picture in remarkable contrast to that of the Parisian rabble,, and 'calming down our own populace with the story of a nobler revolution, must be vividly in the recollection of our readers. Of the value of that history we have spoken so re cently (the Times, January 11, 1850) that we need not now trouble them with a detailed criticism. Despite of any amount of criticism, the work is a very great work, and just as Hume is read not withstanding our censures, Macaulay will be read, whatever his deviations from strict accuracy. The only fact about this splendid monument of human labour to which it is necessary to call attention is, that the author in commencing his work proposed to carry it down to a period "'within the memory of persons still living," and that he has .not been permitted to fulfil his task. He frequently turned his attention to other works, as witness his admir able biography of the 'younger Pitt in a recent volume ofthe .Enclyclopedia : and the work had so grown on his hands that probably he himself long since gave up the hope of being able to bring down his narration to regent times. As it is, it is a mag nificent fragthent, which, even if 'the author had produced but a singl e voithoe, would have been o enorriious value as a Specimen of the high ideal at which he aimed.--:-Titnes. THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANE. A general meeting of the proprietors and contri butories was held on Thursday, at the Banking house, Liverpool, for the purpose of considering an account made up by the liquidators, showing the state of the company's affairs, and the progress made in winding up the same down to the expira tion of the second year after the passing of the re solution for winding up the affairs of the company, and a report stating the reasons why the winding up had not been completed. Mr. BRAM LE k-MooitE said hewas much surprised that after the lapse of a year the liquidators had not given the shareholders any more information, though they had had ample time and leisure for examininf , the books and searching into matters connected with the management of the bank. To the chairman the shareholders more especially looked that their interests should be attended to. Since laSt year ho (Mr. Moore) had obtained certain information at great cost, which he maintained the liquidators might and ought to have given the shiripholders - gratuitously. (Hear ' bear) Of this infaikmatior he would give a sketch merely. Up to 1841 the, business of the bask was conducted upon the sound principle that whenever a debt became bad or doubtful it was written Off, and . so remaiiud until dividends were brought to its credit by parties owing the bank money. '1 his system, in conseque nce o f th e b an k gett i ng into debts which they were probably afraid to lay before the shareholders, was given up, and a bad and doubtful debt account opened, which went on to 1846, when a heavy failure occurred. Up to that time the reports and state ments issued by the directors were duly signed in accordance with the deed of settlement, but from 1848 and 1849 to the close of the bank, there was not a single statement so signed. This was a grave and serious matter, and its truth could be perfectly established by a reference to documents in his (the speaker's) possession. Next with regard to the management—no minutes were kept until 1849, and then the minutes entered were meagre and miserable in the extreme. (Cheers.) Having given a summary of the dates of these minutes, and ob served that comment upon them was unnecessary, Mr. Moore said that no security-book was kept till 1856-57. They had been told that the directors were ignorant of what was going on in the bank, but he found that there were discussions and reso lutions of secrecy signed on more than one occasion. On June 30, 1846, it was decided that, " in order to prevent a public discussion arising out of the pre sent state of the bank, which under other circum stances would be inevitable, and in order to make way for other arrangements; Mr. Rotherham be re quested to retire from the direction." Now, if the proprietors were informed at this early period of the state of affairs, would they have allowed mat ters to reach the culminating point of losing all their capital, and having calls to pay besides ? No man of common sense would have done so. So far from giving anv information, however, to the share holders, a resolution was passed actually to burke all information. There was then a minute that all advances should be limited to £20,000, but this was found so inconvenient that it was resci n d e d i n _ _ 1853. Why ? Because it had been transgressed to an enormous extent. On November 20, 1856, there was a minute, " That no open accounts should exceed £lO,OOO, except the following," and then followed a list of gentlemen, comprising soae hundreds of thousands of pounds, every one of whom had failed. (Cries of " Name, name.") Mr. Moore did not think it necessary to name them at present, though if it were desirable afterwards he would do so. Having noticed the fact that the original founders of the bank, widely awake to the course which was being pursued, left it in 1846, Mr. Moore complained that accounts were carried forward year after year as good, when the direc tors must have been aware that they were utterly worthless. The account of Stockdale, who failed in 1846, was not written off-until 1856. (Distippro bation.) Next citing a few instances of the "good management" as to securities, Mr. Moore stated that the first was an advance of £28,078 to a brewer, the security being a lease which was worse than worthless. Next, 434,600 to a person never worthy of credit for a tithe of the amount ; next, £34.598, no security ; next, £33,000, security £6,800, but net worth anything of the kind ; next, £44,247, inte rest on this account being charged to the end of 1854 ; when, to mend matters, the directors paid up other debts belonging to this individual, in order to get the management into their own hands •, next, £29,174, security utterly worthless ; next, £44,859 to a surgeon whose gallipots were quite as good a security as that offered. (Laughter.) Next, £47,183, upon the deeds of ironworks not worth half the money. Tho Doherty and De Wolff accounts he passed over as too well known already. Next was a mortgage on land, 17,609 yards, at £3 and £4 per pard. In 1854 this was debited in the accounts £13,000, but it had since gone on increasing by the accumulation of interest until it had now reached £17,000. Having enumerated other accounts in which the value of the securities bore a similar proportion to the advances, Mr. Moore men tioned that th e case of Eccles stood in the accounts at £316,654, and that the balances of another firm—three firms under one head—amounted, in 1854, to £214,341; in 1855, to £221,722 ; in 1856, to £311,912 ; in 1857, to £324,319 ; the balance, when the bank closed, being £317,160. Now, he (Mr. Moore) could show that the directors knew the position of these accounts as early as 1854, and, notwithstanding this, they kept increasing the accounts in one case to the extent of £86,000, after they had received a warning from one of the parties as to his dangerous position. Mr. Moore here read passages from various letters of creditors and customers to the bank in support of his statements. He next alluded to the " bad and ruinous" system of re-discounting. It commenced in 1863. And why ? Because the bank was in straits and wanted money. It went on increasing PRICE 4P. STAMPED, SD. from year to year, and in 1856 the re-discounting amounted to ~ /;14,224,533 ; iu 18 i 7, to £15,216,999 ; and from June, 1857, to the 27th Oct. it amounted to £3,755,262. Commentary upon this was unne cessary—(cheers)—and he put it to the meeting whether ignorance could have prevailed within the building of the rotten state of the bank so far back as 1853 and 1854 ? (Hear.) Mr. Moore' then' en tered into a detail of the shareholders who were debtors to the bank, and said that there had been displayed a systematic violation of the deed of set tle/neut. Nothing, in fact, could have been worse than the management of the bank's affairs, and no other result than the disastrous one which had oc curred 'could have been reasonably anticipated. On the occasion of the last meeting some indignation had been manifested, *hen he (Mr. Moore) used the phrase, "Delinquent directors," but he asked, whether what had taken place did not justify the expression ?—(hear)—and in support of this view, he quoted the expressions used and comments made by the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Justice Hill, in the case of " Scott v. Dixon." 'ln conclusion, Mr. Moore regretted that he should have had the necessity laid upon him to wake these remarks. The CHAIRMAN stated that by being consenting parties to the examination of the books, &c., under the authority of the Master of the Rolls, they had in fact given all the information which they could. They did not think it their duty as liquidators to take proceedings against the directors. Mr. DIXON thought he had been hardly used in having well-known facts raked up against him. The deficiency was only £58,000 on a million at the time he agreed to the report alluded to, and the outside directors did. not know till the bank stopped ; all the facts which have since come to light, and the faults ascribed to him were due to the Liverpool syste m of bank management, parti cularly as to privacy of the accounts of customers. He never thought that the report he signed would deceive the public, or he would not have signed it. He also domed that personal. connections influenced the directors in their business Afith the customers of the bank. In answer to Mr. 'ROGERS, The CHAIRMAN said that the liquidators hoped to pay off £50;000 of the loan early next year. After some further discussion, the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. SIR JOSEPIi -P4XTON ON RIFLE CO "P". A meeting of considerable interest took place in the Boys' School-iooni, Matlock, on Tuesday, to take into consideration the necessity of forming a Rifle Corps for Matlock, Matlack Bath,' Cromford, Bonsall, Tansley, and Darley. Sir Joseph Paxton in the chair. The CHAIRMAN first read the published bill call ing the meeting, and stated his reasons for taking the chair on that occasion. He then remarked ' upon the present excited feeling of 'the. '"country which had originated the rifle movement; • and stated that 'there was' no' adequate cause -for alarm as far as retarded the French people. He knew them *ell, being often in France, and he must say no . feeling of hostility on the part of the French people or Government existed, as far as he could .discover ; but, on the contrary, a desire 'to - maintain friendly relations, with us. Ten .years ago (1848-9) we, had witnessed very extraordinary revolutions. on the continent of Europe, which had induced all the • States to increase their armies to a war .footing, so that not less than, two millionsa - of men were in arms, belong ing to the four great powers of the continent, France, Austria, Russia, and Prdssia ; and, on look in„ at the present uncertain state of the continent, no man could answer for the consequences that might occur, even in a month, with this high state of preparedness for war, and the yet unsettled state of mlitical affairs in Italy and elsewhere. Con sidering what the first Napoleon did, and the vast armies he speedily raised and made such effective use of, and looking, too ; at the facility with which this Napoleon, the present Emperor, moved 200,000 men into Italy, fought and gained five battles With wonderful rapidity and precision, we ought to be ready Tor any eventualities that may happen on the continent, which may involve ourselves in dif ficulties; and, looking also at the defenceless state of out masts, and the extraordinary change effected by'steam power, it sax necessary that a great effort should be made to place us in a position to main tain our superiority both by land and sea, and be ready to repel any hostility that might be attempted on our shores. He rejoiced in the present move ment to form rifle corps, and should aid it all in his power ; for, considering the small number of ov.r regular army, such efforts were absolutely needful to strengthen our position, and he hoped our rifle corps would become as expert as riflemen as our ancestors were in the use of the bow. He stated that, if the French ruler had any aggressive inten tions against this country, he could organise a flotilla in every harbour opposite our coasts ; and giving an order, sayat 8 o ' c l oc k i n th e even i ng, to each division of the force, directing each to meet•on our coasts at especial period, a considerable force might thus be landed without the possibility of our helping it. Our fleet might be quite useless on the occasion from not being privy to such a movement. He thought the present movement a good one, but he considered we ought, at the same timeto increase our effective force. He should recommend a permanent Militia Corps, and for this purpose it may be necessary to resort to the ballot again. Here he referred to the plictice pursued in Switzerland, where all the youth are trained to the use of the rifle, and conse quently these young men, when called into the field, prove the best soldier,s in Europe. He then briefly reviewed our gigantic commercial relations throughout the world, which would be injured to a fearful extent by war. A want of security would be instantly generated, and the premiums on in surance would be vastly increased. The first resolution was proposed by Mr. RAD FORD, of Tansley Wood, and seconded by Mr. ALDAM, of Rock House, Matlock—" That efforts should be made to form a rifle corps, to consist of a company or companies embracing Matlock and the surrounding district." Carried unanimously. The second resolution was proposed by Mr. BLACKWALL, and seconded by Mr. CAMPBELL:— V That a committee o f p ersons res idi ng i n Matlock, Bath, Cromford, Bonsall, Dorley, Tansley, and the neighbourhood be formed for carrying the foregoing resolution into effect." The third resolution was proposed by Mr. CHAD WICK, and seconded by Mr. WALKER:—"That those persons who are not eligible to enrol themselves on the committee be invited to assist the corps by doaations." The fourth resolution was proposed by Mr. BROOKER, and seconded by Mr. ADAM—" That two secretaries be appointed;" when Mr. Thomas New bold and Mr. Chadwick were unanimously elected as honorary secretaries. The bankers appointed were Messrs. Arkwright, and Wirksworth. The amount of cash subscribed before and at the meeting was stated to be £136 55., which will be shortly published. The men already enrolled are 40 in number, but it is proposed to raise the force to a corps of 60 or 65 men, with one captain, one lieutenant, and one ensign. Sir lOSEPIT PAXTON stated he should be surpriiod if ho did not succeed in raising the corps to its full extent, and ordered his name to be put down for 10 guineas. Other gentlemen also subscribed. MR. DARBY GRIFFITH, M.P., ON RIFLE CORPS. —Mr. Darby Griffith, M.P., has addressed the following letter to a local paper :—" There is a point of a strictly practical character, upon which it appears to me that some uncertainty of appre hension prevails on this subject. It may be well to reduce the entran ce - mone y, as a minimum, to as low an amount as possible, in • order to open the door widely to the admission of large classes of the community. But what I would ask is this—ls it thereby intended that comparatively opulent tmh mem bers of a corps should refrain from providing th e cost of their own uniform, and should, in fact , avail themselves of the opportunity of obtaining their outfit at the minimum established, it may be presumed, for the benefit of the least opulent members ? lam not completely aware, and am in fact desirous of eliciting, what is the exact impression of the efficient members upon this point; but from what has reached nee personally I apprehend that the honorary or subscribing mem bers are not under the expectation that the sub scriptions are to be devoted to the outfit of those members who are probably as opulent as many of the subscribers themselves. Believing that in an association of this kind it is essential that no lurk ing misapprehension be allowed to remain unex plained, I trust I shall require no apology for sub mitting this subject to the publicity which usually elicits the most definitive elucidation of public opinion.—l am, &c., C. DARBY GRIFFITH.— Devises, Dec, 27." A N , L RAILWAY TER:III)677Si FARRISGDON-STRE • afternoon a meeting isf ..„-rs'and ratepayers of the Ward of'Farringtfort-=---- Without, convened by Sir James Duke, thbaddeil. S man, in compliance with a requisition numerously and respectably signed, Nvas held at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, to take into consideration the proposed scheme of the London, Chatham, and Dover , Railway, Company; for an extension liue connecting the different railways on the south side of the Thames, with a central terminus in Farrin.- don-street, and with a further extension to the Victoria-street terminus of the intended Metropeli tan,Railway. The meeting was very well attended. Sir JAMES DUKE, the alderman, who presided, having stated the business, and Mr. PONTIFE X, the ward clerk, having read the requisition, Mr. HOLROYD, secretary to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, described the situa tion of the project. The company's lines, partly their own line under construction and partly the portions of which they had obtained tl - .e use by agreement with other companies, would extend from the proposed West-end terminus near Buck ingham Palace, by the West-end and Crystal Pa lace, throughßeckenharn, Bromley, and the Crays, by Strood, Rochester, and Chatham, then by Can terbury to Dover, with branches to Sheerness, to Margate and Ramsgate, and to Sevenoaks, the last probably to be extended to Maidstone. For 'ao .much important traffic they would require a City - terminus. The Brighton line was already so crowded that this company could not use the terminus at London-bridge ; they must have an independent one. The passing of the Metropolitan Railway Bill last session had suggested to them the construction of a City terminus, to communicate with the Metropolitan Railway, co as to form-a link of connexion for all the lines both north and south of the Thames.. It was, therefore, proposed to carry the line from Beckenham by the Crystal Palace, Dulwich,-Herne-hill, Camberwell and Brix ton, Walworth, and Newington, crossing the river at Blackfriars-bridge, going up at the back of the houses on the east side of Bridge-street, and across Ludgate-hill to the terminus 'on the site of the old Fleet Prison in Farringdon-street, with it branch to the Metropolitan Railway terminus above, and another branch to the proposed market in Smith field. A branch from Brixton would go to the West End, making a junction with' ,the South Western Railway, at IVandswOrth. Deputy °BEARD said that, looking at the -deso late state in which that wardhad hien kept for so many years, he thoughtlhis improvement would-do a great deal of good. He moved the following re solution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting, the proposed construction of a central station in Farringdon-street, and its junction with the ter minus of the, Metropolitan Railway in Victoria street, will be of the greatest possible importance, and highly beneficial to the City of London, and ,especially to the two wards of Fareingdon." -Dr.- Ross seconded the motion; observing that the line would usefully occupy. 'those extensive pieces of ground which had been vacant for .so many years, and that it would remove a mass of houses inhabited by a low, poor population. • Mr. - ROUGH had no doubt it would benefit the City -at large, -but he objected to a bridge over Ludgate-hill, as destroying that ancient thorough fare, and spoiling the only view we had of St. Paul's Ca,tl.edral. : The property in Bridge-street would also be damaged. Ho moved °Alban amendment, "That this 'meeting, while full recognising the importance of a terminus in the City, considei-s that the plan of passing that most important thoroughfare, Ludgate bill, by a bridge, is highly prejudicial to the interests of this ward." Mr. TBELOAR seconded the amendment, , saying that the proposed scheme, so far as it concerned. Ludgate-hill, was absurd and monstrous. Mr. Ilosatoro gave some explanations, and re marked that both the gentlemen who new objected were owners of houses in Ludgate-hill that would be swept away by the line. In every case where injury of any sort was done liberal compensation would be given. Mr. LLOYD, as an occupier of very extensive premises filled with valuable machinery, did - not want to have to remove, and could not consent 'to this scheme. After some discussion,.in which Mr. LaWley, Gilbertson, Mr. Herapath, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Butterworth took part, some further explanatiops having also been given by Mr. Vivra, the com pany's surveyor. The amendment was put to the vote, and seven or eight hands were .shown for it ; the original motion was then carried by a very large majority, A second resolution, for at petition to Parliament in favour of the . scheme, and .one requesting the Lord Mayor . and corporation to support it, were carried on the motion of Mr. Rawley, seconded by Mr. J. Carrell; Mr. Anderton and Mr. Butler also speaking in support of the project. The proceedings terminated with a vote of, thanks &The alderman; A YANKEE ROBS ON. (Front the Detective.) The fate of Robson, Redpath, and others of the class of dashing thieves, has not deterred yet an other from following their mad example. We have before us the case of a clerk in a New York bank, who evidently shaped his career on the most ap proved models of what are mildly teamed "defaul ters." This aspirant for a felon's doom " appro priated" (stole) about twelve thousand pounds from the bank, and his mode of operating is so ingenious that it deserves publicity ; in order to put bank directors and others, to whom the management is intrusted, on their guard. The " defaulter" represented to his father that he was agent of A. B. Dean and Co., of New Jersey, and pretended to collect bills receivable in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. These bills, it is sup posed, he would enter on the bank books to the credit of his father, and when they were supposed to be matured, receive his father's cheques on the bank for the proceeds. To prevent any discre pancy from occurring, it is supposed he made fictitious accounts current with the banks in the neighbouring cities, which, i n hi s capac it y as clerk, ensbled him to forward substitute accounts for those furnished by the general book-keeper. He would sometimes leave actual bills receivable unchanged for a few days, sufficient to cover the deficiency, which would otherwise have been shown. How he spent the money.—Of course the money so obtained was not required or employed for auy good purpose. The young gentleman had aristo cratic tastes, and must needs gratify them, even at the expense of his character, prospects, and honesty. He kept a mistress in magnificent style, and sported fine horses and equipages. Beginning with small embezzlements, he may have gradually be come emboldened, and plunged into frauds by wholesale. He rented a house at £2oo' a-year, and fitted it 'up in the most gorgeous style, for the ac commodation of his inamorata and her—mother ! at a cost of £1 , 500 or more. The most fashionable . . jewellers were visited to obtain the choicest jewels for the adornment of this lady's person ; and it is alleged that he was often seen driving out with the partner of his guilt, outshining all by the splendour of his turn-out. It is also said that he kept four splendid horses, which cost £1,500, with several carriages and harness, Sze., to match. To divert suspicion from himself, a friend pretended to be the sole proprietor of these luxuries; but the defaulter was the owner de facto, or at least the partner. He also silenced all suspicion whenever it was hinted that he was spending more money than his salary would warrant, by giving out that he was receiving a handsome remuneration for his New Jersey agency, and that he also realised a consider able sum by employing his leisure hours as a book keeper. It is also said that he dabbled in lotteries. He admitted to the officer who arrested him that in one day he expended £2OO in lottery tickets, and that for two entire weeks he appropriated no less than £5O a-day to the same purpose. He says he was an extensive loser, having drawn but one prize of £6OO. As an illustration of his extravagance, a few weeks ago he had £2,000 in cash, but at the time of his arrest not a penny remained, nor could he toll how he had made away with it. The president of the bank having lodged a com plaint against him, he was arrested after the bank closed, as he was leaving: He was taken before the board of directors, and seeing it was idle to deny his guilt, immediately made a confession. The officer accompanied him to the residence of his mistress, where about £1,400 worth of jewellery was promptly surrendered by the lady to the officer at the request of her degraded p aramour. These valuables consisted of a diamond cross, which cost £200; a pair of gold b race l ets, worth £180; fi ve splendid diamond rings, two pair of diamond ear rings, a gold watch, and other articles of smaller value. This, and many other similar cases, teaches the necessity for employers to make themselves ac quainted with the private habits of those in their employ holding offices of trust. Most of the cases of embezzlement, defalcation, and forgery arise from a laxity of supervision on the part of those whose duty it is to supervise the management of banking and other institutions. Most defaulters are men who have plunged into dissipation of some kind, and the signs of it are generally sufficiently evident to enable the cautious and prudent em ployer to detect them if he will but use his eyes. The exercise of these powers of observation is not suspicion, but foresight and caution. ice. cite 438 %Id lull. 'per, and .u,nd ;15 t.h A high „(5 tone• cliel cxt fail ,Ite. I. 1 0 1. 1 1.11 yrclua 1. grdue c. a. N. -.!rdtie a. 4 [srdue erdue 1.6 U. 10 11. 1 ____..... m ist) prin t 11b, no° ' eo. , o .aa alai- righ - Ise do i'orth re Of rrir , " mall, Lrg ll9 r of :din - Low' 30' Ist oriel u .th• Ito- '',Sql soli, urY , dry, 112, r ®f .