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THE SOUTH AFRICAN IRRIGATION and INVESTMENT PANY ). To be incorpo r ated under CO the M Companies Limited Act, 1862,which s p e cially limits th e li a bi l i ty of each Shareholder to the amount of his Shares. Capital £ 1 ,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of 1.50 each. (Power to increase.) First issue 10,000 shares. Deposit on, application £1 per Share, and a further pay- I nent of £1 p er Share on allotment. alls not to exceed £2 Per Share, and three months' interval between each Call. It is not intended to call up more than £lO per Share. DIRECTORS. John 'Barry, Esq., Merell Ant (Barry and Nephews), Lon don and Cape Town, Director of the London and South African Bank. - James Black,L. E sq., (Black and Co.), Merchant, London, Graham's Town, and Port Elizabeth. Alex ander Croll, Esq London and Port Elizabeth Alexander Croll and Co.),Merchant, ~. 'tared Jarvi.a, Ksq , London (late Chairman of the Cora reial Bar,k, Port Elizabeth). 63313' Sharman, Esq., Merchant (Levicks and Sherman), London and Cape 'own. Joseph Mosenthal, Esq , Merchant (Mosenthal and Co.), John London, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. Paterson,Esq. (Patersor.,Ketnp, and Co.), Merchant, L "ci on, and Cap e o f G oo d o f H ope ,Di rector of the Stan- A, da rd San wart k of British South Africa. C. Ste, Esq., Merchant (Stewart and Co.), Liver pool and Port Elizabeth. The BAN/mils. Al liance - Bank of. London and Liverpool, Lothbury, London, and The Albany, Liverpool. SOLICITORS. Messrs. SOLICITORS. and Argles, Mincing-lane, London. Messrs. J. BROXERS. . and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street, London. TEMPORARY OFFICES. No. 27, Moorgate-street, London. PROSPECTUS. the South African Irrigation and Investment Company 8 established with a view to aid in the furtherance of those Public undertakings in the South Af r i can C o l on i es, includ. l ugthe C ape of Good Hope, British K a ff rar i a, and Natal, Y which their resources may be more fully developed ; the result being in the opinion of the Directors, certain to prove 4:10:it satisfactory to those who embark their capital. tbjeThe Company's operations w ill embrace three main ct s ._ lst. That of a Land and Irrigation Company. 2d. That of a Public Works (more especially a 111 8',P?..ving, and Water Company) ; and 3(1. Light- That of a Trust, Loan, and Investment Cmpany. It has seemed wise to the Directors to cotabine these ob sects in one company, Once, while all are entirely com- Patible, and can be very properly undertaken under one 4elZanagement, the heavy expenses of offices, directions, and ults for senarate companies will be thereby avoided. ti~8 143 • 011 .0.1 Afric an I rr i gation and Investment Company, to i: meeting the Want s most keenly felt at the present S'he South African Colonies, cannot fail to realise Shareholders ample returns upon the capital. As a Land and Irrigation Company it will enter Upon a attost promising field of operations. Large tracts of fertile zit along the rivers, and in the great karoos or plains of b.o e i e 2- li ntr.Y, are to be purchased at very low prices, which, eingation works, in dam tanks, or water leadinge from ers, may be converted, by no great outlay, into proper :tllB many times their original value. The Government urtle for 1860 of the value of landed estates in these vlyTies show that where by private enterprise irrigation Ke_have been constructed on farms, the enhancement of has been from five to tenfold; e.nd as such results . In.s a`io been achieved by private enterprise, yet more . satis ,""LaptY results may be looked for whete labour is more rf neised and scientific skill is brought to bear. t o re C cunPany will not only purchase lands! with a view bill tabs after the construction of irrigation works, but Q, take contracts for the construction of like works upon te jernment and private lands. It is known to be in cen tre/1:U". in next session of the Colonial Parliament to in e a bill to facilitate the construction of a series of Go- Eraii ine 'l f - tanks, and t o secure on t h e cap it a l emp l o y e d i n a t ,„ N w orks on Government land a Government guarantee least 6 per cent, per annum. Ai A ., 4 B a Public Works Company for the towns of South a, L uc a the prospect is equally inViting. There is scarcely I , 3 'wn of magnitude which is not now prepared to offer est liberal and remunerative terms to this Company, to it, 131 to it a constituted Water and Gas Company; and rE Elizabeth (now the commercial capital of all South '4B.t;ern Africa), caused a Bill to be introduced into last - r r a o ri. of the Colonial Parliament, charging the whole ts ( ,-,, e rq of the town. for £BO,OOO, to guarantee at least T,'„ Per annum on outlay for works for water supply. Vt D irectors feel that the present is a most favourable op unity fcr the establishment of a Company - f9r Public to and they confidently anticipate that they will be able -9.,,,equplete arrangements with the authorities at Port (7"4abeth to become its Lighting, Paving, and Water -"Illan business,o ensure a most favourable commence feent of , and facilitate future operations. It may tQumentioned that in towns where, by authority of local n ieipalitie s , wa t er-works have been constructed, they . aye proved sources of very large profits on the Incapital shed, and th e only Gas Company in operation in ten Per cent. Africa pays annual dividends varying from 15 to 20 As a Trust Company a very considerable and profitable business can be done. It will be in position to offer very ample security to constituents, and the following statement of selling prices of Shares in e show what may b e done listing Trust Companies will under this head : Paid up. SellingPrice £ a. d. a. d. ILO 0 0 360 0 0 187 10 0 375 0 0 200 0 0 252 0 0 1 10 0 3 10 0 Board of Executor s AsPociation for Administering Estates Cleneral Estate, &c. P OZt Elizabeth Guardian and artist As- • "'a Loan an d I nvestment C ompany i t cannot fail to show r"afactory results. Money may be invested to almost any ittent in first o r p re f erence mortgages, of the amplest secu • on 102 landed property in the South African Colonies, at v i a lling from 6 to 12 per cent. per annum, thus yield profit over the cost of money in England ; and )3,,_ wool be the object of the Directors to raise money on IP:l u ntures of the Company or otherwise, to be specially ed to loans on such first mortgages, it becomes matter Naas". c alculation that the profits to be made by the Corn -14 . 7 this department of its business will be highly re arterative Aarr at ro ftee _ gernents are in progress for the immediate com- N itta 'cent of the business of the Company in all its de .. - toutieents, and th e Directors will give their especial at ta gers r k . to t he selectio n of efficient and well-qualified ma. Pow ergthe will be taken in the Articles of Association for ties'ao::orporation with this Company of existing Compa. 4401 this object in S out h Af r i ca . infi g s Cc Mpany is established at the urgent request of ential colonists, wh o are prepared to invest in the Coni ferauot aY to considerable extent, 2,000 shares will be reserved in South Africa. PreZ l ?, Provision has been made by the Directors for . the t PayittpaarY expenses as will secure the Company spins and ti 7 all y sum whatever in the nature of promotion niney, the p,B Articles of Association will contain a clause giving of tit'n'pholders the power to fix, year by year, the amount turectow remuneration. bratacbaead office of the C om p an y w ill b e i n L on d o n, but 1 4400 offi ces and l oca l comm i ttees, under the contro l of the Solith e 13 A fri °ard will be established in the chief towns of 4 PPIi ea ' eime, e ation for Shares to be made in the following form, • to the Brokers or to the Secretary of the Company. theTo OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Directors of the South African Irrigation and In. vestment Company (Limited). 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" 'am SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1862. PUBLICATIONS. MISS BREMER'S NEW' WORIt. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., IREECE AND 'FUR GREEKS ; being the Narrative of a 'linter Residence and Summer travel in Greece and its Islands. By FREDRICKA BREMER. Ti - anedated by MARY LlowiTr. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great btatlborOttgh-street. Second Edition s NoW Ready, Cbtnplete in 3 vols., 31sIed., T , ES MISERABLES. By VICTOR Hugo. Authorised English Translation. '/L'a " We can conscientiously recommend Mr. Wraxall's trans lation of this celebrated novel to the Üblic as a perfectly faithful version, retaining all the spirit and point of the original. In its present form 'Les Miserables' stands a very fair chance of having as wide a sale as the French edition." —.Examiner. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. F RAsyms MAGAZ] 28. FOR DECEMBER, CONT. The Readion in Naples. A First Friendship. A Tale. Chapters XVI. and XIX. December's Jewels. By As tley H. Baldwin. Present . Position of the Essays on Political Economy. —Being a Sequel to Papers which appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine." By John Ruskin. To Work Again. By A. K. H. B. Adrian.—A Tale. Chapters XVIII. to XX. Female Charity— Lay and Mohastic. By Frances Power Cobbe. " Sippurim." Church of England. Lawrence Bloomfield in Ire land. Part IL—Neighbour.. ing Landlords. Laurel and Cypress. A Chapter in the. History Of Australian Exploration. Atitumn Days. By Shirley. London: Parker, Son, ani Bourn, Wog Strand, W.C. POLAND. ( lin the .E'dinburgA 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 11. would be very glad if there were no Mikhailoffs to send to Siberia. lie would be delighted, too, if the Poles would ac cept their position as political slaves, and not tempt him to take severe measures of repression against them. He is by nature kindly disposed, but he is 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 Britain.da y iw afte r , in o allda days the ro principalo more, e,and Count Zamoyski o f Great 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 regards Count Andrew Zamoyski personall? (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 Europe, though it was certain that he would never again have an opportunity of seeing his wife alive. For thirty years the Count bad kept quite aloof from the Russian Government and had occupied himself exclusively with the de. velopment of the agricultural and industrial re sources Misled by th e seeming candour Grand Duke, he, in an unhappy m n tf became h impressed with the ide a th at the moe o of the te kingdom. time had at length arrived for him to come forward with a formal request and a formal promise on behalf of his unhappy country. It is 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 now 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 mily has become recognised everywhere no sys f as the spokesman of his country. There is not be I suffrage under which this choice would rmed, and we may be sure that the in jury w hhe has reeeived at the hands of the Rus sian mperor will be resented wherever the Pulish i language is spoken. among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis 7, pneumonia 3, bronchitis 16, mesenteric disease 3, scarlet fever 4, continued fever 2, measles 2, and diarrhoea 3; making together 19 deaths from inflammatory dis eases of the lungs, 10 from tubercular diseases, at.d 11 from diseases of the zymotic class. The most important of these deaths are inflammatory affec tions of the lungs, and these have advanced during the last three weeks from 4in the week to 19. The cause of this increase in the mortality is the cold weather. Only 56 deaths were registered during the week. 711 E SMITHFIELD CLUB CA2TLE SHOW. As the time approaches for the opening of the I 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 avvilable 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; Herefords, £220; shorthorns, £220; Sussex, £95; Norfolk or Suffolk pulled 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 7BADE. 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 businpss 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 there seems 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-oloths:of 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 psrcels 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 consequence 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), 15 12s. 6d. to £5 17s. 6d. ; merchant bars, £5 15s. to £6. The coal trade is also in rather en unsatis factory state. The present average prices are as follows :—Steath coal, f. o. b., 7s. 3d. to 7s. 9d- ; house, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d. ROCIIDALE, 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 s large bulk was bought for charities, many of which, i besides those that have sprung into . existence in connection with the distress in this.couflyeyefh the e annual distributions shortly after this time for scarlet year. There was also a good demand goods trade and dyed goods, and the Yorkshire was likewise active. .The manufacturers employed. More business was woolkeep than well last week, and prices were quite firm• [AnvEnnsminwr.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Heart's Action.—The slightest irregularity in the heart's function is felt throug hout the entire system; any obstruc tion to the regular impulse of that organ must be removed without delay, or the whole circulation becomes disordered, palpitation comes on, to be succeeded by dangerous faint.. ness. In a multitude of cases, these symptoms arise from a stomach distended by flatulency, and are cured by rub bing Holloway's Ointment over the pit of the stomach and right side, and, occasionally, likewise over the heart and chest. It speedily relieves the harassing, throbbin g pul sation. Holloway's Pills should be taken at thi sana a time, to remove any accu mulation from the 1* t ar ; canal, and to carry off any noxious matters from liver, bowels, or kidneys. PRICK .... _....4d. STAMPED ....sd. CRUISE OF THE .1.111-EL. 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 at Z iezi bar harbour (the Sultan of Zinzibar having given au thority to search suspected vessels) produced a pass from the Sultar, but his Highness decided that she had no claim to his protection, having been guilty of violating his ordinance prohibiting the slave trade and the treaty with Greet Britaie ; she was therefore adjudged in open durbar a lawful prize, and the negroes were sent to evchelles, 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; her position rendered 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, and 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. , ;a4er. wards became a total wreck. The slavei • d 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 175 tons burden. The casualties in the course of the cruise seem to have been but few. In one instance a lieutenant of the Ariel having 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 at 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 tbink it prudent to risk their men's lives by attacking I , er, 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 boats 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, and 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 Sohar, 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 26ft. in length, 13ft. in beam, and sft. in depth. She was 190 tons burden. THE GLASGOW MURDER CASE. The circumstances of the murder of MTherson in Glasgow must be fresh in the reco lection of our readers. Of course, the guilt lay be tween the woman M'Lachlan and the old man Fleming ; and when Sir George Grey felt it to be his duty to respite the convict the general impres sion was that evidence had been adduced at the private inquiry to criminate old Mr. Fleming. Th e agents for that gentleman have applied to the Home Office, compl a i n i ng o f th e imputation thus im p liedl y thrown on Fleming, and requiring a fresh investi gation. To this the following answer has been returned:— essie " Whitehall, Nov. 14, 1862. " Gentlemen,—l am dire cted t of your letter of the 7th by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the re P the recent murder of Jessie investigation in reference to order that Mr. Fleming may be DI Pherson, in Glasgow, of adducing evidence to test the instant, in which you requetsocteithat he will order a renewed afforded an opportun t i s t chich may have been made at the truth of any statements inquiryth:ciandqininG in reply, that Sir George Grey i l n at s e tttu " I an' t° ! lifo u r iry to which you refer, under the very o y :: j ii , minate him. tecl circumstances of this case, in order to assist hi m i n peculiar whethersufficient doubt existed as to th e share deciding which the prisoner Jessie M'Lachlan had in the commission of the cr i m e to justify • a commutation of the capit a l sentence. , t , e c The result satisfied Sir Geo. Grey that the whole facts relating to the case had not been submitted t o th e j ury at the trial, and that sufficient doubt did exist on the point whic • h I have mentioned to justify him in recommending a 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. CLIVE. " 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. 1 1 THE lIEALTH LONDON. (From the Registrar G4eral'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 firstikwo weeks of the present month they rose successively to 1307 and 1429; in the week that ended lastiSaturday they were 1559. In those four weeks the 4ean temperature of the air was 46.8 deg., 44.9 deg.; 7.3 - deg., and 38.3 deg. In the corresponding week of 1858 the deaths rose to 1802 subsequently to and during a very cold period. The average number of deaths in the correspond 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 phthisis 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 ; bat 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 Bermondsey. Scar latina was fatal in 6 cases in the Kensington Town sub-district. 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 1,000 boys and 885-girls, in all 1,885 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 185261 the average number (corrected) was 1838. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.029 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on the first five days. The reading rose to 3025 in. on Monday, and it fall to 29.66 in, on Saturday. The mean 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 Taesday ; the lowest night temperature was 30.6 deg. on Saturday. On Thursday also, the thermometer fell below the freez ing point of water. The range of temperature in the 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 meesured 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. CITY 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 nse 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 of 1,771 metres at once for the lamps lighted by the Centra Gas Company. _ _ Some discussion ensued as 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 l in ity re e f f er t e h n e ce na t p o h a tu re a p s o u r p t pol f ie D d r iu Le t t h h e eb ea y r o b n u r t e h t e t e q rs u a o - f directed by th e b oar d to inform th e C our t o f S ewers, ously called to th e the c l o n m a p n a t i n t y y , tht that t a theirt i n st ructions attenti onh had d a d been b e e g n v p e r n e v t i 0 - the person s i n th e i r lance to disco ver by subject, both as to the quality was tamp e r edemploy to use the utmost vigi -1 utmost difficulty i n Nv ho m w i t t h h e ; n b a u p t h tthhae therein n e t w h a e s c t a h r buretterse 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 th e 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 ready had to replac large number of additional e a some pretence or other , and the company had al 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 OF THE CITY. Dr. LETHEBY, the medical officer of health, re ported on the state of 164 houses that had been the week, and he submitted a list of 38 places for r g sanitary improvements, He like wise inspected se s markets and slaughter th iv inspected during the week, reported hod been t h a a t o e ahwnoiudtehsat the officer had seized 3,69911). of meat as unfit for human food. 2 , 5 251b5. were diseased, and the rest from animals that had died from natural causes. It consisted of 19 sheep, 30 quarters beef. 1 ca lf, 1 pig, and three joints of meat. The mortality , returns for the week were a little above the average for the season. Last week the nu mber of deaths was 6 9whereas the number for o , f the last seven years is the corresponding period 61. 22, or about one - third of the deaths,were am on g children of less than flee Year* of age, an d 16 were (-- icr . 7) P - ,- - . )- .:41 Bt7SES CONNECTED WIT r- 4::: ' _ i 1/• ') .. . _ NISTIM.7ION OF 11:11 7- - ' '"' l4 4Tr ri -•- . S TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—The great assistance you have rendered by promo ting amendment of the law, induces me to solicit insertion of the following : I consider the public much indebted to the Lord Chancel lor for the acts to register titles and abolition of the atro cious vesting order system in " The Court for Relief of In solvent Debtors," which was too often used for the punish ment and plunder of solvent debtors, and the victims denied the right of appeal to the superior caurts, except by writs of audito querela, -which by neglect of judicial duty have be come difficult to use, and the demurrer system rains in ac tive operation to defraud men and families of their property. The demurrer. practice extends to the most flimsy pre tences; for example, in the preparation of a narrative of facts in a bill or complaint, the plaintiff may desire to insert several pages of explanations, or to insert copies of docu• nar. , ,nts which he considers important to &Ippon his claims; the cost of printing 10 pages extra in a bill olcomplaint will be only 605., and in some eases £5O is given as a fee to counsel by a wealthy dttlendaut to suppress the bill for what the court pleases to consider demurraele matter, bdt at the sane time allowing couu,el to state whatever he piews,:,s, true or false, without beiug sworn. In building transactions ill results have been of common occurrence, on account of the high tato of interest, large margin of value, opportunities for disputing every advance as the works proceed, and preventing the creation o; 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 shilling of consi deration and obliging the mortgagor to exhaust his means and credit in improving the security. It appears incredible that such a heartless system should exist in a great com mercial country where impartial justice is supposed to b e administered, yet such is the fact, and to an enormous ex tent. The course of practice is to select the most valuable building estate,whieh the apparent respectability and means of the mortgagee will enable them them to obtain, promis ing the owner every assistance he may desire to create in come by the erection of houses and to make the required ad vances as w=orks proceed under the direction of an architect acting for the mortgagee, bat M the same time inserting a much smaller amount in the mot gage deed than the value of the works planned by the archiixt. This enables the mortgagee to find pretence for disputing . on every advance when required. Agreements are comparatiYely 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 wh en h e con sent s to this inconvenient a e i t n window is twillprogress mount be h c eth lo ie s s e r d sourof a ean g toa and co t oe the e mode wic hu o i m f benenettyor ld u t t the m hi e ra m d e o t 3n w b rc y d 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, ti 29 debts for works and materials therefore remain unpaid, notsc_ithstanding their value has been added to the security. The houses of course remain unproductive, because they are untinNled, interest in the meantime accumulating, and professional costs and other charges increasing, and the mortgagee and hie' 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, bad commit ted burglaries and been sentenced to seven years' transpor t 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 a general modification of the laws by competent members of the legislature. Honest administration of the laws and protection to native industry are the great secrets of success in all Governments, and it must be a source of anxiety and regret with all honourable men to be obliged to witness the abuses com mitted with administration of the law, and the want of pro tection for the working classes of the United Kingdom.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, OBSERVER. A BRAVE MAN. A public meeting was held a few days ago at Caufpbel town, Kantyre, to present a beautiful silver medal, which had been voted by the National Lifeboat Institution to Jas. ISPMillan, 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 giverOirth. 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 whore 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 hero 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 strongrsirou surgen dl with a my father's property and m i n e, was known as a strong and a brave man. He never lifted his arm in his own cause; but many a time he has raised it with effect for the help of others, and especially for the weak. In words which I feel justified in using, I m a y say— ' Although his arm was s t rong to smite , 'Twas also strong to save. ' You, James, his son, have inherited from him this disposi tion to succour the weak a nd hel p less, and to risk y o ur o wn life for the preserva tion of others. This is not the first time you have done so. Y ou saw this man clinging feebly to a rock, and, having l o st his hold o f it, he was eerta w in hi to lo h ohtaveer beena n younger men off were b y and let standingriC s tU ao prruni a e to arm meet and noble it returning g ; and you rushed ) t i no waves, by you, y as He f avours the brave, braveinto orr a ou vur courage, the foaming ahtaiGodn shad eto: g land . you address hi m as I now do you ; and it must be no small satisfaction to you that he whom you amearQtessfethe w t I a i t n h t t e h t e h o e o v n e o s v s e a l o i f n L w o which n , F w o a r d f e y r c l e o g gsailed and a s rescued from death was lik ewise a brave man, Half-way n 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.lll‘Millan returned thanks for the gifts he 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." 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