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The proles t hen ii,l , of the author, combined with h isextensive • 18 Tie k c, repinedical referee in the treatment . of nervous de- Mit4ll),liiar e l3 % a ccollnts for the immense . eireulationwliih 11 11 .4-1 0)1 Y - written metlfeal treatise has obtained.'' Iliti P. p , t!°es, March .t .. igso /11 1,. 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" Never has the truth of that noble aphorism, One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,' been more forcibly verified than in this very charming story."—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. GUILDHALL, Dec. 9, 1862.—OFFICE of CITY SOLICITOR.—It having been settled that a COURT of COMMON COUNCIL should be holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall on Tit URSDAY, the 18th inst., for the ELECTION of CI ry SOLICITOR, notice is hereby given that the name and address of each candidate must be left at the Town Clerk's office not later than Four o'clo k on Saturday, the 13th inst., in or,i er that the same may be duly inserted in the summons convening the Court The names on such summons will be arranged alphabetically. WOODTHORPE. R 0 YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Moat Gracious Majesty the Queen. 1 RESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The CoMmittee of Management have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 -on various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of Engand, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have ' cen instrumental in rescuing toe Crews of the follow ing Vessels:— Barque Vermont, of Halifax. U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. g Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. 7 Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. .. 5 Schooner Prospect, of Berwick Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields . .. 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow 9 Smack John Buhl, of Yarmouth .. 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11 A Barge of Teignmouth .. 2 Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby Coble Honour, of Cullercoats Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. • . .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. • • 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. 5 Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. .. 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth .. • . • . .. 8 Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. 1 Sloop Hope, of Dublin • Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth •• 5 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) •• • • • • • • 4 Brig* Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) .. • • • • • • • • 6 Smack Menton Lass, of Aberystwyth (sated yes and crew) .. .. 3 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Schooner h InF Schoonerr a s . 1 t Schoonerri cA n y m g r e -b t rh.w3D o aTu f Fishing-boa t s isr Margaret 0 0 aaowf t rmie W B:Bonei h arr i :ot Morecambeuef pa m r tst Prestonma d 0 o •• •• •• • • • o •• • • • Smack Gipsy, of Newry s ß c ri h g oo N n e e w r a e m r, , 0 0 f f Wh uv i e te r h poo av l en . . • • Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields •• . Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood Barque Guyana, of Glasgow Brig Roman EMpress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirid , one, of Galaxide Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast • • • • .. Schooner Hortensia, 01 Hanover • • • • Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven Brigs o Brigho Pioneer, S n t -- Schooner Michel, rp I ► o tsw f : M i nar Alice,k i r ,d a ,n n ; to s i nonn . • • • f Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. Barque Druid, of Sunderland •• •• •. Bnona of Red Bay Ipswich -- Schooner Elizabeth Minerva, of • Newb • rirgh :. 4 6 Brig Sisters, of vt hitby Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields 10 Brig Trial, of Poole 7 Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) . •• •• •• •• Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. Barge Peace, of London •• •• •• •• Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. • • Pilot critter Whim, of Lowestoft .. . • • • Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen . .• Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast _ • • • • • • Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. . Schooner Rook, of Liverpool Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. • • • • Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .• Brig Content, of Sunderland Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda • • • • Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. Sloop William, of Liverpool .. Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth Portuguese Barque Cruz V. Ship Annie Hooper. of Baltimore,U.S... Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. 5 .. 4 .. 4 .. 8 .. 5 .. 3 .. 8 .. 4 .. 10 .. 2 .. 8 • • 6 - 5 .. 4 .. 1 .. 6 .. 5 .. 3 .. 5 .. 6 .. 4 .. 5 .. 5 .. 3 ..134 .. 2 .. 5 .. 3 .. 14 .. 18 .. 4 Total For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £2,458 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has also granted re wards amounting to £572 for saving 502 .hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak ng a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years and a half. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, pnd other means, since its formation, is 12,690• for which services 82 Gold Medals , 711 S il ve r Me d als, and £18,01.0 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-cars cages, and Boat-houses. The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at , he present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions he Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man ; gement, tor the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough Mciency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. - The Committee grateful►y acknowledge the following Con tributions : £ s. d Her Majesty the Queen annual 50 0 0 A Lady at eith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. annual 1 1 0 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. don. 25 0 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers annual 10 0 0 Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 3 0 0 Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0 Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0 Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of Salford.. 100 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. don. 15 15 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.F. anneal 5 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0 Trench, Lady Helena .. .. don. 30 0 0 Donations and Annual Suhscriptions will be thankfully re -eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co. ' 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts a nd Co., 59, Strand ; NTessrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. Jame3's-street, London ; by al the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lon don, W.C. OS TEO EID 01s1;. What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 560.-- GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEEM and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, springs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION. Purest materials only, at half the usual cost. 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In c ases .)f threatened injury to o r suspension of faculties whose sound ness and vigour form Au h a prominentronstituent in human happiness, sufferers may have their fears removed, the mis chief, however severe an d inveterate, eradicated, and their warmsdst hopes of restorati on to life's prerogatives fully re 1)r. L fi'MERT, M.D., has been engaged for 20 yearsin the treatment of these disorders, and his treatise on "Self-Pre servation " describes how all the attributes of Manhood are lost or suspended, and how they can be restored and main tained in health and vigour to an advanced period of life. Price Is , post free in a sealed envelope 20 stamps, by Mann, 119, Cornhill ; or from the Author, who may be 'consulted I daily, from 11 till 2 and 6 till 8, at his L residence do , 87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, London. . TRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA Y E v EN [INI 0, DECEMBER 12, 1862 FINANCES OF INDIA. (From the Times Correspondent.) In Bengal, with its Government settled for a century, and its fixed assessment of the land tax, we expect only pro gress, if we except the transition evils ot the indigo districts still seething under a tenant-right struggle. Looking, first of all, at the revenue, and remembering that the population is at least 40,000,000, the total receipts were £14,132,350, and the disbursements £4,903,410. If we deduct the ma nufacturing charges for the two monopoly articles-salt and opium -the absolute administrative expenditure will be under three millions sterling. Thus Bengal contri butes nearly nine and a quarter millions sterling of a surplus to the imperial expenditure on the army. Of the income more than a third is derived from land, the revenue of which has increased from £3,758,970 two years ago to £4,130,700. Excise duties give £567,890. Customs yield £2,732,322, The consumption of salt has increased 64 per cent. in the last 20 years, leaving now about 320,000 tons a year. In that period the "price has never fluctuated till lately, but wages have doubled, so that salt is now cheaper than ever it was, and, if necessary, the rate of duty--6s. on 801 b-might be raised. Opium, which yielded a revenue of £2,206,120 in 1845, andX3,317,605 in 1860, this year gives £2,468,42 9 , on account of the increased price paid to the grower. Stamps on litigation and trade promise to be the most fruitful of all recently increased taxes, giving £552,753 in Bengal, and £98,776 additienal in Calcutta. But perhaps the best test of taxable wealth is the ineema Calcutta alone is assessed at is 194,010 annually, while Bengal is assessed at £449,889. I have said that the absolute administrative expenditure of Bengal proper is only three millions sterling. Hence the miserable sums spent on education, justice, and public works, the three most important objects of our Government. As to the first only £BO,OOO was spent out of more than £14,000,000, or 0'556 per cent. distributed over 40,000,000; the State thus pays less than Id. a-head, instead of 9d., as in England. Under Government inspection there were only 879 schools, with 52,895 scholars. Of these only 244 schools, and 19,396 scholars, were under the State directly. While England was 1 in 7 or 8 at school, in the most civilised of Indian provinces there was one school to a population of 45,506, and one scholar to 756, while each scholar cost 3Js. a-head, paid by the State. A more liberal extension of the grant-in-aid system, as contemplated by tSir C. Wood's ad mirable despatch of 1854, would show different results for the same money, but private effort is almost discouraged. There was spent on law and justice £532,360, and on police £397,400. The lowest class of judges are so miserably paid that their decisions cannot be trusted, and hence a system of appeals in criminal cases as well as civil cases, which is ruinous to litigants and overwhelms the files of the courts with arrears often three years old. In the one month of March last 92,172 cases were pending on the first day in the civil courts, 13,480 were instituted, and 78,412 were still left pending on the last day. The number of persons tried for criminal offences was 122,619, and of these 81,553 were Punished, 47 were sentenced to death, 194 to transportation, 4,147 to imprisonment from six months to life, 11,372 to im prisonment for less than six months, 1,371 flogged, and 51,969 fined. The amount spent on public works from im perial funds was £533,600, and to works of internal improve ment from local funds was 193,980. The sum of £144,500 was devoted to salaries and departments. The population of Madras is 22,500,000 and the area 132,090 square miles, or hardly one-third less than Bengal, which has 185,926 miles. Here we have the ryotwarry system of assessment, in which every villager or peasant pays direct to Government, and this has ever been a mill stone round the neck of Madras, keeping down its popula tion, revenue, and trade, and virtually placing its adminis tration, so far as the peasantry come into contact with it, in the hands of natives who used to torture and oppress. But a persistent lightening ot the assessment has of late brought land into cultivation, so that the land tax has in creased half a million since 1857. The total revenue last year was £6,083,883. Of this 68 per cent. was from land, or double the per-tentage in Bengal; 5f from Excise duties, 14 1-sth from salt, 31 from Customs, nearly 5 from stamps, and 23 from income-tax. The value of the trade is only a third of that of Calcutta, and a fourth of that of Bombay. The city of Madras is assessed for income tax at only £281,901-a third the amount in Calcutta. Of the whole li revenue 10 per cent. was spent on public works-a much larger sum than is allowed to Bengal, though it has double the population; 31 per cent., or £251,121 was devoted to salaries and departments. But Madras seems to have done more for education in the way of numbers, £54,286, having 733 schools with 29,194 pupils, of whom one-half were Hind ()es, and only 923 Mahommedaps, while 4,132 were girls. The sum of £334,444 was spent on police, and £211,778 on law and justice. For this Madras disposed of only 185.651 civil cases, and 234,339 persons tried, acquit ted 47 per cent. When we turn to what have been hitherto called non regulation provinces, we find in them a struggle to meet their expenses, as was to be expected. As a rule, they are the most recently annexed provinces, and demand a large military force, while our good government has not yet had time to develope their wealth. No one expects the Punjab to pay any more than Malta, since it guards our most dangerous and extensive frontier down which each successive conqueror has poured. Thus the revenue of the Punjab is £3,047,083, and after civil disbursements there is a surplus of £1,400,318. But this is less than the military expenditure by nearly a million. If we charge the Punjab, like all other provinces, with only its internal garrison, which amounts to £828,242, there will be an excess of re venue available for Imperial purposes to the extent of £637,718. This, however, is a mere matter of account, for, wherever else our Eastern Empire may be weak with im punity, it must be strong in the Punjab. More than a half of the whole revenue, or £1,822,065, is derived from land, £62,374 from excise, £98,477 from income-tax, £72,592 from frontier customs, £613,263 from salt, and •£95,627 from stamps. Of the whole, £556,640 is devoted to public works, £63,349 to salaries, £177,797 to law and justice, £336,522 to police, and £21,908 for Imperial funds to education. In the Punjab there are 1,982 schools, with 52,840 scholars, each costing the State £4 a -head in the normal schools to £2 4s. in the district and sd. in the commune schools. Under justice, 96,451 civil suits were disposed of out of 99,365 on the file, involving nearly half a million of money. The average value of each suit was £5; the average cost, 7s. 6d.; and the average time occupied in each case 19 days. It is proposed to introduce family councils into the Punjab, domestic disputes being so common. The honorary civil judges, who are natives, disposed of 2,085 suits in 13 days each, to the satisfaction of Government. There were brought to trial 41,263 criminal cases, of which 296 were pending at the close of the year. There were 45 capital sentences. There was one crime to every 274 persons. The population is about 15,000,000, with an area of 100,406 square miles, omitting the native States, which have a similar area and half the population, The Punjab report is full of interesting information on Central Asia and its trade, and records no little progress in the opening up of roads, extension of railways, increase of trade, development of new staples, and general prosperity. i s n t a o n c d o n ß t u a d c t d h f i o s e t faith. s s e c o o f ra r Aaecr racan, Pegu, and e Tenasserim, extending along the east coast of the Bay of the first Turning r s t We t im tehaveto British thetr with t isthh t e h ß r l e an e r dm p o r a- o hC v h n iwn c e e e Bengal for 900 miles, and having a total area of 90,000 square miles. The King of Burmah is thus hemme in on one side, and on the other the French are making advances from Saigon. We have no proper boundary, and our fron tier is ever desolated by robbers, so that the time when all Burmah will be English is probably not far distant. The land is a glorious one for rice and timber, cutch and petro leum, all of which are exported from its three harbours of Akyab, Rangoon, and Moulmein to theyalue of £6,000,000 sterling annually. Yet this fine country has a population of not quite 2,000,000 only, and its cultivated area is only 1,608,108 acres. Notwithstanding, so successful has been our government that we raise a million sterling of revenue, and although the people are more heavily taxed than any other of our subjects they are too prosperous to feel it. The land yields £265,671, and so abundant is fine soil that the people will not take leases, but move from place to place,en riched by the virgin wealth of the land. Here alone, too, have we a capitation tax, which is very popular, yielding £173,304 a year. Customs give £206,508; excise, which is doing much evil, £79,012: fisheries, £50,657; and mis cellaneous taxes, £187,614, Next to the Punjab, British Burmah is the most progressive of our recent acquisitions ; Oude follows, thenScinde, and the second finest cotton-field in India, the Central Provinces, has only this year begun to smile, under good government, after eight years of neg lect. For its population British Burmah has more Eng lish settlers on the coast than any other part of India out of the Presidency towns. The Chinese, too, are settling in large numbers, the Shans pour in over the frontiers, the Burmese flee from oppression, and thus the country is in creasing in resources. The result of Col. Phayre's mission to the King of Ava,to obtain a commercial treaty,is eagerly looked for. Last y ear 33 , 73 1 civil suits were disposed of, and 784 left pendi ng; 14 , 7 39 crimes were committed. Education is entirely in the hands of missionaries, assisted by grants in aid, and is chiefly confined to the rude Karens thousands of whom, as in th e S outh Seas, have become ' eivilieed, and raise funds to send Christian preachers to yet heathen tribes. As a rule the B urmese are much better e ducated than any other people i n A s i a, being taught in the Buddhist monasteries. The military establishments have of late been so much reduced that British Burniah may be said to be self-supporting. There is not much that the most captious critic could find fault with in the administration, the history of which is recorded in these reports. The sole blot is the peculiar character of the Excise establishment, w hi ch sacri fices morality to revenue, while crime is increased and more i s spent on gaols, courts, and police than is thus gained. Even the opium monopoly would be divested of much that the most eager philanthopists find fault with if it ceased in Northern India, and the cultivation were, as in Malwa, left to the public, under strict Excise laws. Now that the Em pire has attained, except in Burmab, its natural limits and is at peace, with railways spreading on all sides, what is needed is that more money be spent on internal adminis tration. Still the perusal of these reports leaves on our mind a conviction, the truth of which we see every day around us, that never, even in all her colonies, has England done so mighty a work or shown so much noble disinterest edness and wisdom as she has done and is doing in India. Everywhere there seems to be contentment and rapid pro gress. The rise of prices has been even more wonderful in India than in other countries during the last ten years, and the silver which every mail pours into Bombay for cotton threatens to make it serious. If we except Madras, where the Governor is said to do nothing, and which is generally looked on as the " Sleepy Hollow" of India, sel dom have our provinces been governed at one time by men so able and popular. Lord Elgin has still his reputa tion to make, and till he has seen India with his own eyes he cannot be expected to declare himself. But in British Burmah, of which Colonel Phayre is Chief Com • naissioner ; in Assam, of which Major Naughton, an old Cabul hero, is Commissioner; in Bengal, of which Mr. Beadon is Lieutenant-Governor ; in Oude, of which Mr. Yule is Chief Commissioner; in the North-Western Pro vinces, the Lieutenant-Governorship of which Mr. Edmon stone will resign next March ; in the Punjab, where Sir R. Montgomery has yet 18 months' tenure of office, in Bom bay, where Sir B. Frere is most popular; and in the Cen tr.a rrovinces. where Mr. R. Temple is trying to bring order out of chaos; in all tries., aria they consiaut, u± whole of India, except the south, a work is going on with an earnestness and a success which we can only pray no internal commotion nor external war may arrest or mar. Two days ago, the fourth anniversary of her Majesty's proclamation on the death of the East India Company, the new rupee was issued and the word "Company" for ever obliterated. The following statement of the tax receipts for the quarter ending July last shows the immense increase from stamps : Income-tax Stamp Stamp receipts collections. collections. in 1858-59. Rupees. Rupees. Rupees. Government of India 3,13,816 .. 20,732 Bengal . . 21,27,692 .. 1 4 ,89,325 7,06,180 N.- Westn. Provinces 13,01,759 . • 5,62,356 .. 2,10,566 Punjab Central Provinces Madras .. 1,86879 Deccan (estimated) 4,800 .. 1 5,000 .. , Bombay Total THE WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Nov. 28. Gen. Burnside has not had a long lease of popu larity. He has scarcely had time to recognise the fact that he was really in command of the Army of the Potomac when he has discovered that this great position has great drawbacks, and the inevitable discount of power and glory in this republic is not only detraction, malice, hatred, envy, slander, but, worse than all, the popular expectation of the im possible. The impatience of the Government is so great, and the violence of th) Exterminators, Abo- litionists, and Ultra-Republicans so frantic that his delay before Frederickburg has loosened the tongues and invigorated the pens of a host of unfriendly critics, some of whom accuse him of pant of capa city and some of want of heart in the cause. " How is it," inquires one, " that we never begin to make war in earnest ? In Heaven's name what are we about ? If this is Burnside's first performance we shall soon be hoping for his last. Why did he not shell the town unless the Confederates desisted from their works? It would almost seem as if the cause of the Union deprives every military leader of his brains." The impatient critic forgets, what Burn side is likely to remember, both as a gentleman and a soldier, that civil war is a war against brothers, that to shell a town while the women, the children, the sick, the impotent, and the aged are in it is con trary to decency, humanity, and civilisation, and that, as the sole object of the pret,ent hostilities is the restoration of the Union, it would have been alike bad in policy and in generalship to have shelled avd set fire to a wooden city like Frederick m y . A unaccompanied ll the op p b o y .. of opinion th a t it his place to march only tgdefeat needed i tree another s ne v efge e m:d n nee g der e ra a att n oel iba e ner , on to Richmond and capture it, after a battle more or less bloody. Some of them, pet haps, have sense to see by this time that the achievement is not so easy as they imagined; that the President will not be able to congratulate the country upon it in his message to Congress next week; and that, if Burnside do not go into winter quarters at Acquia Creek or Fredericksburg, a much worse fate may befall him. It appears from the letters which appear in the New York Times, Tribune, and World that the Army of the Potomac is not in the best of spirits. The roads are knee deep in mud and slush. The rations are in arrear, and the pontoon boats, that were to have arrived on the banks of the Rappa hannock simultaneously with General Burnside, have been despatched from Washington overland, 65 miles through villanous roads, when they might have been floated down the Potomac to Acquia Creek, only eight miles distant. This has been one of the chief causes of the delay in crossing the Rap pahannock, —a delay which the Confederates have turned to the best account in fortifying their posi tion and sending for and receiving reinforcements. " The delay," says the Tribune, "may cost us thousands of lives, and Prolong the campaign for several weeks." The crossing of the Rappahannock at this point will be so formidable a task that Ge neral Burnside will probably order a flank move ment above or below the city, while he attempts to keep the main body of the Confederates in play at the front. However that may b e , G eneral Burnside's present position inspires so much anxiety that the President, according te the to General's hi s wont, has head betaken quarters. himself what is the matter. sonally Superstitious people say that on every previous occasion when the President has visited a General in his camp a mishap to the army has followed ; and hence they now indulge in auguries of evil. People who are not superstitious have similar misgivings of future calamity, which they justify on the more rational ground that the President is not only the nominal, but aspires to be the real Commander-in-Chief ; and in that capacity interferes with and alters arrangements which he does not comprehend. On this occasion, however, Mr. Lincoln will, doubtless, have been made to under stand by General Burnside that it is the War Depart ment at Washington, and not the General or his army, which renders victory difficult, or impossible ; and that tile army of the Potomac has been stopped at the Rappahannock, for the want of supplies, am munition, and means of transport. Why the Presi dent, in spite of a strongly pronounced public opinion, persists in retaining Mr. Stanton in office is one of the most curious problems of the day ; for not only has the Minister brought a mountain of odium on his own head, and on that of his master, by h's insolence of demeanour and his arbitrary arrests of unoffending citizens, but he has flagrantly mismanaged the department in every branch and detail. His intrigues for the Presidency, which he i s pretty certain never to attain, and his jealousy of every man in civil or military life who is or threatens to become prominent enough to aspire to that high o ffice, occupy his mind too exclusively to allow him time to devote himself to those little matters of routine on which the comfort, and, it may be, the the army dt pend. safety, of A ludicrous instance of the blundering of his department is reported this morning. In one of the fits of spasmodic energy which periodicKlly afflict the Government, hut which very speedily subside, it WEIS announced from Washington, with a lend flourish of patriotic trumpets, that the army was forthwith to be weed ed of all drunken, cowardly, incompetent, and not thoroughly loyal officers ; th at a list of nearly 1,000 of them had been drawn D P, all of whom were to be summarily dismissed the service ; not after trial and conviction by courts-inertial legally ap pointed, but by the simple act of the President on the rengamendation of the Secretary of War. If this was not justice it certainly looked like vigour; ' and, as the public was in the mood to applaud n v o i g u o n u c r e , m e a n n t d e x d c e i m t e a d n de no d d n i s o p t l h e in as g b u r e e a t n t y e r w , h t e h r e e e a x n cept in the ranks of the Conservative or Demo cratic party, who are patiently storing up these things in their memory. A few days ago the first batch of between 70 and 80 names was published, all of them officers from the rank of Lieutenant to that of Colonel, who had been summarily dismissed the army and branded, without trial, with one or more of the dishonourable epithets which no true soldier can bear and live. Upon investigation it has turned out that many of these maligned heroea have been killed in battle, and that others have been honour. ably discharged on account of wounds and loss of limbs in the service. Under such circumstances it is not at all wonder ful that the army is melting away, and that the ' glory" to be gained either in its lower or upper ranks has no longer its former attractions for the imagination of youthful or mature soldiers. In deed, the question may well be asked—what is the Federal Government to do for an army if the war be protracted under such management into the year 1863 ? The " million of men" under arms—of which stump fondot. o s r p a e t a o k r i s and ng—have journalists gibleo are rrealex o is s t. 43nee, as. I endeavoured to show in a recent letter ; and, as the statement is certain to be contradicted with the usual amount of vituperation that Ame rican journalists employ whenever an Englishman's opinion is concerned, I shall endeavour to support it by such corroborative evidence as the New York press from time to time affords. The correspondent of the Tribune at General Sigel's headquarters at Fairfax Court House, in a letter dated on the 23d inst., states that he met " two Federal soldiers on the Alexandria turnpike road, and questioned them whither they were going. Their faces brightened as they i eplied, we are going home to fight no more.' . . . Numbers of the soldiers, misunderstanding the matter of patrolling, are actually desirous of being captured in order to avoid fighting, and also for the purpose of going home, as they suppose they will be allowed to do. . . . The matter of bounties also induces men to desert for the purpose of re-enlisting, to obtain a second pecuniary re ward of patriotism (?). So numerous have these different cases :become that to-day there are from 150,000 to 200,000 deserters from the armies of the Union. A large number of them are at home in the North, with and without pretext, and their friends and neighbours do not give the infor mation which should send these cowards and pol troons back to the army." This is the narra tive of a Republican journal. The World, the able organ of the triumphant Democrats, gives similar testimony. In its editorial columns of yesterday it states that " reports from all parts of the North agree in representing the draughted men as desert ing by wholesale. In a camp of 1,200 near Harris. burg, Pennsylvania, all save 400 have deserted. Out of the 8,000 draughted in Maryland not 1,500 will be available. In Ohio not more than one in ten of the draughted men is to be found in the ranks." The volunteers who enlist for the bounty money and the unwilling conscripts thus appear to be equally unreliable. Both systems have failed, and should the war be protracted from the inability of either belligerent to achieve a decisive victory, the Northern Government must either resort to a sys tematic and inexorable conscription like that of the Soath, or give up . the contest. Will the North sub mit to such a draught? That is, or speedily will be, the question for Mr. Lincoln to answer. He may, perhaps, tide over the disagreeable necessity of confronting it until spring, while the Federal gunboats are trying their chances in the swollen rivers or before the vulnerable cities of the Southern seaboard; but after that time he must meet it in one way or another, under the heavy penalties of defeat or anarchy. One of the most frightful incidents of this wretched war, and one that reflects the highest disgrace upon a Federal officer in high command, has just been brought under the notice of the Federal authorities by the Southern President. It appears that one Andrew Allsman, a Unionist in Missouri, who had rendered special services to the Federal army as a guide, was taken prisoner by the Confederate Gen. Porter during an attack on a place ca/le Palmyra, within the limits of that State. General M'Neil, the Federal officer in command, on learning the capture of so useful a person, wrote to Ge neral Porter, demanding the return of Allsman alive and unharmed, within ten days, and threaten ing, unless the demand were complied with, to hang ten Confederate prisoners who 'were then in custody. It does not clearly appear that General Porter ever received the message, or that Allsman was alive at the time, or that he is dead now ; but on the expiration of the term specified the ten hostages were publicly shot, not hung, by order of General M'Neil, whose defenders allege that two if not three of them were notoriously bad characters and one a proved murderer. The circumstances having excited the indignation of the people of Missouri, and been freely commented upon in the local papers, fell under the notice of the Confederate Executive at Richmond. Mr. Jefferson Davis took immediate action, and under date of the 17th inst. instructed General Holmes, the Confederate officer in corn eland of the Trans-Mississippian Department, to ascertain whether the facts were correctly reported, and if so to demand of the Federal Government the imme diate surrender of General M'Neil. If the General be not surrendered, he is ordered " to execute the first ten United States' officers who may be captured and fall into his hands." As it is not to be supposed that the Federal Government will accede to any such requisition, a new horror will be added to the old, and ten, innocent men will be sacrificed to the memory of Allsman, who, for all that any one knows to the contrary, may be yet alive. President Lincoln is pre-eminently a merciful man. Would it not be well in him to justify his reputation in this respect, by forbidding all his Generals to take the lives of their prisoners until he shall have had art opportunity of examining the circumstances, and executing, if it so please him, his undoubted prerogative ? And if he cannot deliver General M'Neil to the mercy of Mr. Jefferson Davis—a solution of the difficulty which is not to be thought of—might he not with great propriety dismiss or severely reprimand that officer in such terms as would prevent every other Commander from imita ting, under any amount of provocation, the savage example ? General l Butler has had anoth er acces d e fur "e ' which some of his numero us f r i en d s i n the North designate by the more agreeable titles of " whole some rigour" and "consum ma t e sap 'city " He has issued, under late of the 9th inst. an order se questrating all the property i n the district west of the Mississippi which the Federal troops have lately occupied. He alleges that th e pl an t a ti ons an d other property in that region are mainly held by disloyal persons, and has determined to confiscate every acre and every slave in it of which the real or reputed owner will not take the oath of allegiance, or cannot clear himself of the imputation of treason. The district comprises the parishes of Assumption, St. John, St. Charles, Terreboune, St. James, St, Mary, Lafayette, St. Martin, St. Landry, and Lafourche, and coven an area of 8,716 square miles. Accord ing to the annual report of 1861 it contained at that time a population of 51,236 whites and 73,379 slaves. The latter were valued at 38,040,470 dols. This is vigour, with a vengeance. But there is a vigour which accomplishes its purpose, and a vigour which fails, because, like the "vaulting ambition'' of the poet, it oversteps the mark at which it. aims. As all the vigorous acts of this remarkable tyrant have hitherto erred on the side of excess, it remains to be seen whether this " order" will not add an other drop to the overflowing cup of Southern hatred and determination, and whether the ungal lant General has not, as in previous cases, done more harm than good to the cause which he has at heart. When Louisiana was sold to the United States in PRICE 4d. STAMPED ....bd. the year 1803, under circumstances which prompted the still living Josiah Quincy to declare that the e e s w s i a o s n an o of act o a f s s r a e e v h o u l u s t e i t o t n s s i u t ffi w c i a e s n t expressly r u e s s t s i i f y y territory should be incorporated in the Union of the s tP t hu i e p re a hs la e ld by the French Government that the ceded United States, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution; and that the inhabitants should not only enjoy the rights, immunities, and advantages secured to all citizens by that document, but that they should, previously to the signing and completion of ttiecompact, "he protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, an:i the reli gion they profess." The planters of French origin, whose " ta t" are to be confi,cated by General Butler under this order, make loud complaints of the illegality of the proceeding, and call upon the French Government to protect them now as it protected them before. They ask if those rights secured to them before their adoption of the Constitution can be taken from them after wards in violation of that instrument. They answer the question in the negative, and declare that it is still competent for, and incumbent on, France to claim the integrity of the treaty of sale in the spirit as in the letter. Here is a nut for casuists to crack, and which it is thought will edify if it do not occupy the mind of his Imperial Majesty the Enipef6r of the French. ren Ye find that their prison doors were opened. ~. a s t n e d r Yd ay morning Lafayette werethe prisoners l y t oeuFrtrporisatro were told to go forth on Thanksgiving-day. No question was asked of them and oath was administered. They were not inforr.ed that they were on parole. They.were simply told to go out —and they went out. Fort Warren is without a captive. Fort Lafayette contains but a few, who will probably be liberated after consultation with Washington. Mr. W. H. Winder and M. Pierre Soule, together with a whole battalion of less prominent prisoners, are once more free, each with a grievance against the Government that will keep fresh till the Democratic party takes posses sion of power. After that time there will be wail ing and gnashing of teeth among the greater and lesser instruments of Republican despotism. The secret reason of this gratifying gaol delivery appears to be that the Federal Government was alarmed at the success of the Democrats in all the recent elec tions, and at the openly avowed determination of the Governors elect of New York and other States to try the legality of their imprisonment immedi ately they assumed office. The fundamental ques tion of State rights against Federal encroachment would thus have been brought to the arbitrament of the local judicature, and, that failing, to the decision of the Supreme Court—a decision which Mr. Lincoln has not deemed it prudent to incur. The Democratic party are jubilant. These are the first fruits of their victory, and will certainly not be the last. 211 E IVAVI. On Wednesday Vice-Admiral the Hon. S. F. W. Grey, K.C.8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and Rear-Admiral Robinson, the Surveyor of the Navy, paid an official visit to Chatham dock yard for the purpose of inspecting the progress made with the iron and iron-cased vessels under construction. On reaching the dockyard his lord ship was received by Capt. Fanshawe, the superin tendent; Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder; and the other heads of departments. After transacting some private business Admiral Grey and Admiral Robinson proceeded to inspect the works connected with the iron frigate Achilles, 50, 1,200 horse power, over which they were conducted, and the principal parts of which were minutely inspected. They also inspected the Royal Oak, 50, in the ad joining dock, where she is being rapidly prepared for sea. His lordship and Admiral Robinson spent some time in the inspection of the vessels, and, after transacting official business with Capt. Fanshawe, left the dockyard for the Admiralty early in the afternoon. Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Amphion, 36 guns, 1,474 tons, 300-horse power, Capt. Alex. C. Gordon, arrived at Sheerness from the Mediter ranean station, last from Portsmouth, on Tuesday, to be dismantled and paid off into the third-class steam reserve at that place. She underwent inspec tion the same day by Vice-Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheer ness, and staff, who mustered the ship's company and exercised them for upwards of two hours, dur ing which time the after-quarters, topgallant yards, and masts were hauled on deck, sails unbent, and topsailyards sent down. The ship's gear was in such a bad state that the maintopsailyard and maintop sails came down by the run, but, fortunately, no person was injured. At the conclusion the gallant Admiral expressed great satisfaction with the acti vity and efficiency of both officers and men. The vessel's powder was taken out on Wednesday, and she will be paid off about the 20th inst. The Amphion has been in commission about three years and a half, and was:for a time flagship of Rear-Admiral Talbot, C. 8., at Queenstown, after which she proceeded to the Mediterranean. She was cruising on the coast of Sicily during both the Garibaldian revolutions, was present at the bombardment of Palermo, and has rendered efficient service on the coast of Syria and other places. She left Malta for Gibraltar on the 2d November, and left Gibraltar on the 15th, arriving at Portland Roads on the Ist December, and Ports mouth on the 4th,bringing home 35 invalided troops. Since her last commission four captains and one commander have been appointed to her, and of the wardroom officers who went out with her only three have returned. She is very leaky. The line-of-battle screw steamer Meanee, 80, 400 horse power, Capt. Wodehouse, fitting for the Me diterranean, will be out of the hands of the dock yard authorities to-day. She is under orders to proceed from the Nore to Plymouth on Tuesday next, and on her arrival in the Sound she is to be stripped, in order to have wire lower rigging fitted. An Admiralty order has been received atChatham directing that Lumley's patent steering apparatus is not to be fitted to the Columbine, 4, 150 horse power, the vessel selected by the Admiralty to be experimented upon, until after she has made her trial trip at the Maplin Sands. edn esd a y Mr. attended kin nance - nance survey of the iron cased frigate Royal dockyard OnW for theapurp Napieroseofm g the usual 50, 1,000 horse power , and laying out s theradius • plates and sections for the Armstrong pivot guns. The Royal Oak is the most forward of the squadron o f armour plated fri g ates now under construction, and from the manner in which the work on hand is being pushed forward by several hundred workmen there is every prospect of the vessel being out of the hands of the dockyard authorities and ready to pro ceed on her trial trip at an early date in the en suing s which remain With the exception of some 50 or 60 p hieh remain to be bolt e d to the stem and stern late portions of the frigate, her armour plating the entire length of both her broadsides may be said to be complete. The workmen employed on those portions of the vessel are now engaged in finishing and trimming off the plates, so that both broadsides will present a smooth unin terrupted surface of iron, of an uniform thickness of 41 inches, the plates extending several feet below her load water line. The number of plates already fixed is about 200, the entire number required be ing rather less than 300. The contract price paid by the Admiralty for each plate delivered and finally approved at the dockyard is .£37 per ton. The plates have an uniform weight of 4 tons, making the cost of each £l4B. Taking the number required to encase the Royal Oak at 280, the total cost of the armour plates alone may be set down at upwards of £40,000, in addition to which the most powerful machinery is required to bend, shape, polish, and otherwise prepare the slabs of iron before they are fit to be bolted to the vessel's side, thus raising the -E. , - - -...: t ,, ,... - 15------ ,- - -!.q....- c . , i 7.4 % :,, _ - .%,,q, 0 ,- )._% k ~..; : t p : , „,:- : .N:k ~,, , ..I*ce.' '''.:4,. - 1:V - I,V ; A: - A7,. cost of each to nearly double its original *cell- S' With the exception of some of the minor portions of the machinery, L'le engines of the Royal Oak— the largest of the kind jet constructed for ships of this class—have already beep fixed on board by a • numerous party of workmen front the establishment ofMessrs Mandslay, Son And Field, ti':e firm engaged by the Admiralty to construct the Royal• Oak ma chinery, and provided the other parts of the vessel were complete, there is nothing to prevent her steaming out of the harbour, as far as the Nore, any day in the course of the ensuing week. COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, at 12 ~'clock, a Court of Common Council was held at Guildht:ll for the despatch of . business, the Lord Mayor pres,.:iing• Alderman Cubitt, who a tt en d e d f o r the first 1 ..10e since the close of his mayoralty, was cheered on ent‘2riag the Court. ST. THWAIAS'S HOSPITAL. Aldermen LAWRENCE presented to the Cour!' a ant moritti from a committee representing the ves tries and boards of guardians of parishes on the south Bide of the Thames, appointed for the pur pose of taking such measures es may be necessary for preventing the removal of St. Thomas's Hospi tal from the vicinity. They stated that,-- "The Charing-cross Railway Company having pur chased and obtained possession of the site of St. Thomas's Hospital, an Act has been passed (the 25th and 26th of Victoria, cap. 4) for the removal of the said hospital to another site, and that the said hospital is now temporarily situated at the Surrey-gardens, St. Mary, Newington. That the said hospital was on its original foundation de livered over by charter (the 6th and 7th of Edward VI.) to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London, and was named the House of the Poor in Southwark, to be situated in London or Southwark for poor, sick, infirm, wayfaring eo.4lifh. That in certain., memoranda, references, and :- dociunents relaling to the Royal Hospitals of the laity of London, printed in 1836, under the direction of your hen. Court, the trust is repeatedly and dis tinctly recognized "as for the poor of this city," as " for the relief and aid of the poor within the city of London and borough of Southwark," as A , an hospital belong ing to the city of London and borough of Southwark," and "that this was according to the godly intent, will, and pur pose of the founders." That in an Act (22 George 111., c. 77) the Lord Mayor and aldermen, together with 12 other gentlemen, elected by and from your hon. Council, were for the time being and for ever after appointed Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital, and that, in fact, 38 of the governors of the said hospital, about one-sixth of the whole body, are members of your hon. Court, and are so because the said hospital is a Royal Hospital, founded by and at the cost of the citizens of London. That there is great reason to fear that the said hospital may be removed entirely out of Lon don ; and that at a small meeting of the governors lately held, it was resolved to secure a space of ground so large that it cannot be obtained within a reasonable distance of London or Southwark. That the medical staff of the said hospital have twice publicly advised and protested against the removal of the said hospital away from the population accustomed to use it ; and that, although, in their opinion, it would not be now objectionable, but, on the contrary, beneficial to remove the hospital to another and more open space not far off and equally central for the population, yet that it would be highly objectionable and would, indeed, subvert the intentions of the founders if the said hospital would be removed to a distance ; and that such is also the opinion of your memorialists. That in 1631 the Lord Mayor counted 16,880 persons in Southwark, and that now Southwark and the neighbouring parishes, all of which are obliged to avail themselves largely of the aid of this hospital, contain more than half a million per sons, the great majority of whom are poor hardworking people. Your memorialists feel that to remove a great charity from the neighbourhood of the poor it has for three cen turies aided, 'and which expends among the poor £30,000 annually—soon to become, by the falling in of leases, pro bably as much as £50,000 annually—would be a great grie vance, and, indeed, considering the rights and usages of centuries past, a great wrong also. Your memorialists there fore earnestly and respectfully pray that your honourable Court will use all your influence, so that the new St. Thomas's Hoipital may in its new situation be not less cen tral and not less convenient to the poor than the site occu pied by the former hospital. On behalf of the said commit tee, which is constituted as follows :—Far the vestry of St. George the Martyr, Mr. Wm. Rendle; for the guardians of ditto, Mr. Thos. Park ; for tho vestry of Bermondsey, Mr.. Wm. Darnell; for the guardians of ditto, Mr. John Harris; for the vestry of Newington, Mr. H. R. Silvester ; for the guardians of ditto, Mr. B. Evans ; for the vestry of Cam- berwell, Mr. Denny; for the guardians of ditto, Mr. G. S. Freeman ; for the vestry of Lambeth, Mr. J. W. Stratton ; for the guardians of ditto, Mr. 'M. Goddard ; for the vestry of Rotherhithe, Mr. J. W. Barrett; for the guardians of ditto, Mr. E. G. Dannell ; for the vestry of St. Saviour's, Mr. J. E. Newsom. " WM. RENDLE, Chairman." Alderman LAWRE.NCE earnestly recommended the subject to the consideration of the Court. There was, he said, no doubt that the hospital was originally established for the benefit of the poor of the city of London and Southwark. The petitioners only asked that the new building should be at a convenient distance and easily acces sible. He reminded the Court that the tendency of improved means of locomotion had been to leave the great majority of the poor in the old centres of population ; the rich were gradually moving away, and the people who remained were becoming poorer and poorer. (Hear, hear.) The inhabitants of the southern parishes regarded with great alarm the prospect of this valuable institution being removed to a distance. It was absolutely necessary that such an institution should be located in a district where the population was most dense and was likely to remain so from local causes, where injuries to life and limb were of most frequent occurrence, and where it could be conveniently accessible to people • desirous of comforting their poor afflicted relations. (Hear, hear.) To show the extent to which the:dis trict of Southwark was inhabited by poor people, he said the poor-rate in the parish of St. George the Martyr was 4s. ld. in the pound; in Christ church, 3s. 10d. ; in St. Saviour and Liberty of the Clink, 3s. 11d. ; and in St. Olave, 3s. 2d. Me might add, in comparison with Lancashire and Cheshire, that that was the normal state of things in the Borough. There was much in the argument that such an institution should be in an open neighbourhood, surrounded with green fields, but nothing in comparison with other con siderations. The true policy, as it appeared to him, was that the hospital should be brought to the people, and not the people to the hospital. (Cheers.) The inhabitants of Lon don would suffer a grievous wrong if the institution were removed to an inconvenient distance ; and it would be an unpardonable supineness in them, the Common Council, who had an over-ruling power in the matter, to lend themselves to such a course. Later in the day Mr. Deputy ELLIOTT, pursuant to notice, brought forward a motion on the subject. He urged the Court, which had so powerful a voice in the matter, to express an opinion upon it, with out delay. The uniformity of opinion an this ques tion among professional bodies, and among the pub lic at large, was so marked that, if the Court would sa y Aye" to the resolution he was about to move, the result would be to settle the matter once for all, and the small, well cemented, powerful inner body which had hitherto governed the hospital would yield to public opinion, and never again dare to ask the governors to assent to a proposition to buy 30 acres of land, on which to erect a new hospital, some six or eight miles from the metropolis. He moved that—" Whereas St. Thomas's Hospital was originally founded at the cost of the Mayor, com monalty, and citizens of the city of L on d on , i n w h ose ma na gement it was invested by royal charter, and did so continue for two centuries ; and whereas, by a subsequent Act of Parliament, the Corporation is still required to take part in the government of the hospital, by appointing 38 members of its own body to act as governors on its behalf, this Court deems it needful at the present time to declare its opinion that having regard to the local duties for which the great charity of St. Thomas's Hospital was originally founded, chartered, and endowed, and which have been fulfilled for three centuries, the new hospital ought, as far as circumstances permit, to be built in a situation no less central than that which the ter mer hospital occupied." (Cheers.) 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