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EAST INDIA HOUSE, 13TH SAM7Airr, 1856 E THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTI , E. Thtt a Special General Court of the said Company will be held ltiy ad journment, at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th instant, at eleven o'clock in th, forenoon for the purpose of continuing the consideration of the following reposed Resolution, Which was moved at the General Court, held this day, viz.:— " That the proposed transfer of the governirg powers of the East India Company to the Crown is opposed to the rights and Privileges of the East India Company, is fraught with ' l '7' danger to the constitutional interests of England, is perilous to the safety of our Indian Empire, and cal's for the resist ance of the Corporation by all constitutional means." JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. 4ONT BLANC IS OPEN TO-NIGHT. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED (late Miss P. lIOR CON), Will re-appear in Town 25th January, 1858. 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The rates are considerably below those u sually charged. Thus at the %ge of 40 the sum of 321. 19s. 2d.. which, at the ordinary premium, Will insure 1,000/.—with the Norwich Union will insure 1,0951. 45., giving an immed'ate bonus In addition to subsequent accumulations. . . . . . . Annuities and special risks undertaken on fa;ourable terms For forms of proposal and prospectuses apply to the society';Offices, 6 , Crescent, New Bridge•street, Blackfriars, E.C., and Surrey-street, Norwich. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOC TE TT, 142, STRAND, LONDON (W.C.), 11 TA JANUARY, 1858. The HALF-YEARLY INTEREST at the rate of 5 ner Cent. per annum on the CAPITAL STOCK of this SOCIETY. to 31st Decem ber last, is now in coarse of payment to the Proprietors, on appli cation at this Office, between the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock. EDMOND S. SY %ILES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ISSUE kNCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament. for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR. VIVORSUIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. I Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. 1 F.R.S. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO TEI BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde], Esq. surnroas. Prdessor Wheatstone, «.ten_-• r Radford Youne. MEDICAL ILE/Tall GENZIIIAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTI7I.IIIr. W. B. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. AIMISTANT AC:ITU/11Y. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. ILNIIRS. Nears. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Mesas. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rovrcliffe, Bedford-row, The next Quinquennial Division of Profits Trill be declared in May, 1860. _ _ _ Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Bonus in Permanent Ptakeny olic er i Bum addition Bonus in Reduction of out in Ja e. Bum to Sum Cash. Annual Pre , Assured. mimm. As. d. 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HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet • • street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETII ,fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay. andwill be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method doei net require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication and that Mr. Howard's improvement may be within the reach of the most econo mical, he has fixed the charges at the lowest scale possible. De cayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastica tion.-42, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA.CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. 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Towhich are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope In reveali ng the hidden mysteries "of Life wit hin Life,'' and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL f.,I'MERT, Nu ). 37, BEDFO RD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, honorary 1r Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of I' Apothecaries' Hall. London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses. which have produced more misery in Youth, d etghraand,atin6 perhaps,i M Man hood, yhood, and premature decay at all stages of life , other class of disease known to modern pathologists. 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Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's gents, liol- born, London. NEW WORK ON SPERMATORREKEA. ,That published, price 25., by post, free, - es. 2d. Og AMER VIATORRIFEA, and the PROFESSIONAL FALLA CIES and POPULAR DELUSIONS which prevail in relation to its NATURE, CONSEQUENCES, and TREATMENT. BY A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. •` We never commence the perusal of works on this malady with out preparing ourselves to meet most appalling descriptions of human suil , rings. It was, therefore, a most agreeable surprise to us to find this error (as it appears to us) carefully avoided in this work, and the subj ect treated in a common sense, and truly practical manner. . . . No medical man should undertake the treatment of gpermatorrhoaa without first consulting this work."—Medical Circular, Jan, 13, 1858. London : H. Bailleire, 219, Regent-street. ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN. 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Barry Du Barry an( Co., 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., pur veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapaide ; 149, Bistiopsgato street ; and 150 and 158 93ard-street . -z-- y 2e - 'T ' r • 1 5: 14 0 . ~,\ . 4 11111111111111, 4 , • • etik • ...." -7d 4111 1 1 i: ) , 4 • ~.7etrrlk 1116-41 , - - • ; 10 4 „ 0 4A • +.44 • • .4!. 111, 6 . , • , ' 11 - 1110\ 44416 ' r ct s t (g t :' 4 1 1$' 4 : 13 lar [PRICE 40. •STAMPJCI) 5 "tr _ _.... 40:cli,F.triririeeeelyEt..ro7f,g,titois,ict;r1i)useinro(1::41:hcibso,rociishloic;risiii:.0:1i:arii.','.i7...;V::0: an:, is capabl- of indefin;te increqWe';'4 . . t... Mre '-''-':`. the laird .up in 5 .140 i 7 __(.ii ; p ( t l iel E au e ig fie. ::::::::: TO ' NOt i k ' el 0 i t of t: 1 1-'0 Yvill d':)_; nor Li ng shorElf tial xv-lairroi-i",nt fixture wars. ..W.liA more is required Imo no'.; :nor d o ls ali cus e s o ; n h ai u t t io t ul i ° l. 6 o t t i k li n cl o iB w Pe enou b g l h e of the cowry to take any tote or to submit , - to any Modification. ~i._:..J, . ' Whenever v,i 1 , 10 _ , - : , , 11 . am , sufficient snec:fici fact 4 whereb .11.7 L T.., .; .'f",c ion we are'bic.ught up by the hun . ?ar, ~1;i - ....ni ihat,ohrigia'Or,.i.nce of China is a ki,.,....1............ia it .ay. be - felt. - E vet i-a that great conglomerate of cities on the Yangtso we " know little more than that it is the commercial m periinu of central China, and that its population is variously e tin3a,ted at from five t o e ight millions souls. We know that it ixists , and that is nearly, :.11 we know: No one has lit - cu there except native Chinamen and Jesuit mis,ionaries. There are some F catteri , d notices of it iu the - Annales de la Propagation de la Foi (tom. xvii.), and flue has made mention of it in his journey from lartaly to Canton. Tie elder missionary was roused to enihn siasm by the immensity of the number of prosp,e tive couvAts. For five leagues he saw no'hinq, to make. The policy of France is altered since the days when one of the missionaries sneeringly.' de scribed it as " Protection de nos missionaires nationaux, honneur du pavilion, surete des equi pages ; mais pas un coup do canon." Baron Gros has to demand satisfaction for the life of a French subject who was most barbarously murdered by per sons in actual official authority ; satisfaction which has'been for two years constantly denied to a con tinned series of demands unbackesl by force. Ho will probably think himself entitled to demand some security against a recurrence of such outrages. So that, in the end, our requisitions upon the Chinese Government will probably not be far from identical. After what I have written upon the subject, you will not be surprised to find me rejoicing that the united Plenipotentiaries have come over to i he com mon-sense view of the way in which these demands should be made. I never could understand how it could tie more consistent with diplomatic etiquette to send our missives to the Emperor by the halals of a petty buttonless Mandarin at the mout h.of little muddy river, rather than by the hands of the man whose position is that of Secretary.for aff-drs with foreign maritime nations. Such is Yeh'e office. To use a lawyer's phrase, service upon him is as good service upon the Emperor as service upon Lord Clarendon would be service upon Queen Vic toria. The first idea was analogous to serving a demand upon Queen Victoria upon the Mayor of Gravesend. Of course Lord Elgin will not ttcat with Yeh—at least, I should hope not—unless tie speaks in the name, of his Sovereign. In hie own name he can do. nothing but surrender Canton. But we are bound to infer that an officer of State will do his duty—se-duty pointed :out - "by Imperial edicts and by treaties--rand, whatever may be our particular relationa sritli him, will _ transmit our communications to his Court. If -we are lb' treat these voluntary outlaws from national society according to the technical courtesies of the laws of nations, surely this is the more regular course. Yeh is the Emperor's agent just as Lord Clarendon is Queen Victoria's agent. The scope of Yeh's authority is to transact all business with maritime foreign nations, and to receive communications, or petitions, as the edicts call them, addressed by them to the Emperor. I have laboured this point often before in these letters, and circumstances have forced. the authOrities to take the same view at last. That by force or by capitulation we shall have possession of Canton before this year is closed I have no moral doubt. It will be time then to speculate upon ulterior proceedings. The object, however, to which those proceedings should be directed ought to be kept constantly before the public eye, and must engage the public attention. The stake is too valuable to be left unwatched. If it does happen that your house is on fire that is no reason why you should put yourself in such a fluster while you are putting it out that you let Mr. Koff run away with your strollg box and Mr. Slick elope with your ledger. I return, therefore, and. shall return, ictibus crebris,. to my unwelcome task of hammer ing for attention to English interests in China. When we have got this city of Canton, about the neck of which we are now tightening the lasso, we must use it for the purpese of preventing future wars and establishing a feeling of mutual regard between the people of the country and ourselves. There is only one way in which this can ever be effected. We must break down the door of parti tion. If the brigand bureaucracy of China will re ' main in the way, we must walk over it. But we must have free and unrestricted intercourse. Ido not propose this as an easy. point to gain.. It will require great tact and decision in our Plenipoten tiary to obtain the privilege, and great study and foresight to hedge it about with the proper seourities. You will get nothing till you show you are irre sistible, and you will then get everything you show yourself resolved to have. If Lord Elgin has tire perspicacity to see and the courage to follow this bold safe course, you people at home, and espe cially you men of commerce at home, must support him, or ho will fail. If he has not you must push him, force him, or supersede him, for ]re will de serve to fail, and must fail. This is the key of the whole position. Gain it, and, in the words of a Chinese merchant with whom I often discussed this question, " All men will be glad." He meant, and 1 mean, all men except the corrupt official , . Toe Mandarins have only lately discovered that necessity. • Yearity jagizirii* l otthart i .alss tiously brought into use, and its strain will con tinue to increase until the imposition becomes too grievous to be borne. I have hitherto said nothing upon these transit duties ou Chinese exports, but I tl ink I ought to record a f w facts on this matter, although I dare not labour the question as I did the far more vital matter of British manufactures. Let us take the great staple, tea. In former times—that is to say, until within the last few years the only tax upon tea was an impost in the shape of a land-tax ; a rent of so much per mow, or rood, paid by the cultivator. In passing by Llangchau there was a transit levy of 3 cents. per picul (133 lb.), a mere nominal registering duty. Sometimes, if the mandarin at the To. Kwan was popular or powerful, lie wa§ able to get an extra sum of two made a picul, something more than Is. a cwt., for himself ; but this was always thoroughly under stood to be a " Mandarin squeeze-pigeon," and might have been resisted if it had been worth while. N ow, however, every picul of tea passing that same Custom-house pays a duty of five taels three mace, or nearly 3d. a pound on every chest of tea—a tremendous duty when the prime value of this article is taken into consideration. The teas I now speak of are those which come down from the Bohea-hills, but those which traverse greater distances are subject to still further exactions. Formerly the only Custom-house for their duties was at Hang chin, but now every district has its little Kwan. The finer teas which come from Ningchau, or Hoopak, or Hoonan, pay from 8i to 9 taels per picul before they are embarked—nearly Gd. 'per pound. The rich green tea districts, the produce of which is attracted to the great emporium of Woochang, pay a transit duty of 6 taels 8 mace, instead of the old exaction of two mace. Part of the recent increase of the tea trade at Foochow is occasioned by the circumstance that the teas from that port pay two taels less than those which are obliged to pass by Hangchau; but this can be altere d at any moment by the caprice of the local MandaTrhinis, or by a motion of the vermillion pencil power of reported that it been discovered. It is currently taxing the barbarians has only recently end of the last war. It will IsVilaysefirrpstaidbroouutghatt tinheto ac tion to refund the sycee be of no use that English Chancellors of the Ex chequer reduce the tea duties at one terminus of the voyage if Chinese Chancellors of the Exchequer can raise the duties at the other terminus. Of course there will be no lack of Solon geese in England to make the recondite discovery that the Chinese have a right to levy what export duties they please on their own produce. In strict Christian ethics this is as undoubtedly the fact as that we ought to gives a roan our cloak if he steals our coat. But in this bad practical world those high Christian ethics are eminences which we look up to but never climb to. Tea is an English necessity and a Chinese monopoly. If John Chinaman insisted upon heavily taxing John Bull's tea, sooner or later, upon one pretence or another pretence, there will be ill bloedtoafinxd spilt blood. The only way to prevent this is to placesexp o r t w hdeurtey the e y t e a t r i e s a g t up the to l e t g h m e l of Woochang and if we could buy in the markets t a duty of five it of the grower. If the Yangtse were open, and . Rangyan, we should get ourfleas yrOwanndando pay for this tea "squeeze." Moreover, we should mace a picul, or one thirty-fifth er a t of the present the rebels one Chinaman at Yangtse was closed by hl 30 000 with our woollens and our shirting,. Before . the not take one piece Hangyan used to take mont y , pieces of English shirting s ; he now doe in a twelvemonth. This is not all. The exactions of the M an d ar i ns extend to the means of transit. The cargo boats are pressed for " military services," and a bribe is necessary to set them free. A hundred other ex tortion traps beset this produce on its way to the coast. Nothing but the presence of the European l e le s r s taxation that we o f purc haser upon the spot c an b e o f t h e l east ava il t o prevent yo ue atelaintoiittalstea.aoruerhurn ourishing for bayonets and fitting the fusees into our 10r-inch along the shores but the. clorcly packed habitations of inpi. For a still longer space the ,river, More than a league in br(adtli, was el owded with beauti-7, ful and fantastic vessels passing and repassing by day and by night. Nearer to `harp, where these veesels became fixed habitati - rais, tie entered at nght a weter way defincd on enClf . :side by floating' shops; and for four hours hejourneyed through alabyrinth of lit streets, all testing on the surface of the river. In the morning -he rertehe 1 the shore, but only to fild that WO chang diffeiS from ether Chinese cities - only in its marvellous magnitude. From -a, - disiance he saw pagodas and yarnuns and highly ;cultivated eliviroos ; she.. he approached he saw the usual det.ids of en aggregate of Chinese habitations, banks.worn away by inun-lations, workshops half _ undermined by the stream, houses built uponpiles; no order, no breadth of tborotighfares, but narrow all cys, along which men and cattle teed hogs prts, , ed in sure lor jostling crow,lS. Ile reebrds:bii-Sonsa , tiOns of the suffocating . odunrs from the open Manure buckets, just' as I have: experienced at Shanghai, Sh4uhing,. ;or : _ll-ingp,),, seewed. i whole Grostiou o .quariklita ; all buying and selling and barteringaistithiifferbig, a I3abel of trade, a struggling world of dealers and brokers. 'This is the one great type of a thousand cities which differ only in dimensions. Row can we tell from which it may be safe to be excluded, or how far a single excepti'm may neutralise the benefit of all we gain and enable the cunning savages to hold us iu check and keep us in the wrong ? The capacity of China is as unmeasured as it; internal geography is unknown. No demand has yet been made upon it which has not been amply angwered. Give us leave to go and talk to the . people, and there is nothing we want which they cannot sell us. At Swatow you will be able to buy for a dollar and a half per picul sugar which now costs you at the Manillas 3 dols. ; at Formosa you can. obtain the same important commodity at the same price, and rice and indigo in any quantity. Coals can be loaded at that island for 3 dols. a ton, and the carrying trade is upon a scale which no one can appreciate who has not seen the enormous fleets of junks which now conduct it under the terrible risks of shipwreck and piracy. The facts I have above stated respecting the tran sit levies have not been gathered from books or ex ) traced from returns—the figures are now for the first time put in writing. They have been caught _ from the lips of those who hare suffered these ex actions and paid these duties with constant bwt dis contented habitude. I may be wrong in some matter cf place or district, for the obscure jargon in which .. we talked made geography difficult ; but a China man has capital English for figures and amounts of money. About the sums of these transit duties I have no doubt, and the precise. track or citywherein they are levied is of no importance. Let me add Ithat these men are so harassed by demands o f be ! nevolouce towards the expenses of the civil war, or by - blackmail levied by the rebels, that the oldest merchants are " shutting their books" as thuy ex- .' j . press it. They look upon the presence . and influence of the English as the only hope which commerce hat in China. Many a tale could I tell upon this subject ; but it is one dangerous to handle in much detail. The Court of Pekin has sharp eyes and a long arm. SHIPS OF WAR ON VIE CLIINA STATION. AT HONGKONG. British—Too Algerine, gunboat, 3 guns, Lieutenant Forbec, commander ; the Bittern; sloop, 12, Lieutenant Goodenough ; the BustarJ, gunboat, 2, Lieut. lisllowes, the Clown, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant W. Lee ; the Coromandel, steamer, 3, Lieutenant Douglas; the Dore, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant Bullock ; the Drake, gunboat, 3, Furious, ste a mer, to; C.Ptaux vat:Anne ,--tah 4 .1../„..enj., - gunboat, 2, Lieut. Pauli; the Hercules, hospital, 10, Dr. G. Burn ; the Janus, gunimat, 2, Lieut. W. H. Jones ; the Kestrel, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant W. H. Rason ; the Minden, store ship, 4, Elles, master; the Opossum, gun beat, 2, Lieut. Campbell, commander ; the Star ling, gunboat, 2, A. J. Villiers ; the Surprise, despatch steamer, 4, S. G. Crseswell ; Sybille, ship, 44, Comma cl,re Elliot ; the Tribune, steamer, 31, Captain Edgell ; Volcano, steamer, 3, Hockley. American.—The Levant, sloop, 18, Commander ;1 Smith ; the Minnesota, steamer, 50, Capt. Dupont ; the San Jacinto, steamer, 15, Commodore Armstrong, Capt. Bell. French.—The Meuithe, steamer, 12, Commander M. deehen Chenez. Dutch.—The Meduca, steamer, 18, Capt. Fabius. ' Svanish.—The Don J. Juan, steamer, 6 , Brionnes. - . Ai Mkcao. Portuguese.—The Amazoua, lorcha, 6, Capt. Escar• nicha ; the Mondego, brig, 20, Commodore Tavares. American.—The Portsmouth, sloop, 16, Commander Foote. Russian.—The America, steamer, 6, Conunanler Tschihatschoff. THE BROTHERS. French.-The Audacieu e steamer, 50, Capt. Coville ; the Avalanche, gunboat, 6, Commander Lalond ; the Dragonne, gunboat, 6, Commander Bang ; Fus6e, gun boat, 6, Carpigna ; the Marseau, steamer, 6, Captain Lamotte ; the Mitraille, gunboat, 6, Commander P. E. Beranger ; the Nemesis, frigate, 50, Rear Admiral R. de Genouilly and Capt. Renaud; the Phl6geton, steamer, 8, Capt. Laveque • the Primanguet, steamer, 8 , Com mander Veignaud. IN CANTON RIVER. British.-The Acorn. sloop, 12, Commander Hood ; the Action, surveying-sloop, 26, Commander Bate ; the Banterer, gunboat, 3, Lieut. Pim ; the Calcutta, ship, 80, Rear Admiral Seymour and Capt. Hall ; the Cruiser, steamer, 17, Commander C. Fellowes ; the Elk, sloop, 12 , Commander.T.F. C. Hamilton ; the Esk, steamer, 21, Capt. Sir R. M'Clure ; the Forester, gun boat, 2, Lieut. Inner ; the Higiallyer, steamer, 21, Capt. Sbadwell ; the Helper, steamer, 2, Commander Hill ; the Hornet, steamer, 17, Commander Dowell ; the Inflexible, steamer, 6, Commander Brooker ; the Lee, gunboat, 3, Lieutenant Graham ; the Leven, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant Hudson ; the Nankin ship, 50, Coffman der Hon. K. Stewart ; th'e Niger, steamer, 14, Commander Cochrane ; the Plover, gunboat, 2, Lieut. Wynniatt ; the Racehorse, sloop, 14, Captain Wylmehnrst ; the Sampson, steamer, 6, Captain G. S. Hand ; the Slaney, gunboat, 3, Lieutenant Hoskin ; the Staunch, gunboat, 2, Commander L. Wiedman ; the Watchful, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant J. A. Whitabed; the Woodcock, gunboat, .1, Lieutenant E. J. Pollard. AT AMOY. British.-The Comus, ship, 14, Commander R Jenkins. AT Fooomow. British.—The Camilla, sloop, 16, Commander Colvile, AT NINGPO• British.—The Nimrod, steamer, 4, Commander R. Dew. So again of silk. Formerly there was no export duty upon s ilk. N ow th ere i s an ex p o rt duty of $lO a bale, whi c h th e y t a lk o f ra ising to and there is also au additional transit duty of $7 2 mace, or 2/. 10s., upon each bale. Now that our silk imports aro thought likely to range between 100,000 and 150,000 bales per an num, this is also a subject not without interest to us at home. I must, however, in fairness remark `that the competition of the silk of ot her countries renders it less probable that these silk exactions all fall upon the exporter. Be it remembered, then, that since the outbreak of the rebellion in China , the Chinese Mandarin s have levied a tax of full 2,000,000 1 . a-year upon the people of England--that this tax consists almost LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1858. PARLIAM.ENTA.RY REFORM.. MEETING IN LONDON. Last night a meeting was held in the large room of the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of promoting the reform of Parliament. The meeting was numerously attended. Mr. Ingram, M.P., was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, amongst other introduotory remarks, said the last 15 years must have convinced all men that the working classes could do nothing without the co operation of the middle classes, and it was equally appa rent that the middle classes were powerless without the co-operation of the working classes, A reform manifesto had lately been issued, and they all knew what it con tained. The 101. county franchise was abandoned, but a 51. franchise was proposed in its place. That would make matters only worse, for sheep might as well possess the franchise as the tenantry in the country under the present system. He had himself seen the tenantry driven like sheep to the hustings. Another kind of re form had been proposed, namely an educational franchise. Well, he thought there were quite enough, and perhaps too runny lawyers in the House of Commons. And the clergy were surely ample represented in the House of Lords. (Hear, hear.) It was also proposed that the country should be divided into electoral districts. He hoped be people would not listen to any such proposal, the effect of which would be to give a preponderance to the metropolis and other large towns. He did not think the other parts of the country would be satisfied to sec Loadon with 70 representatives in the House of-Com mons. Mr,- PASSMORE EDWARDS said that what all real re form?re should combine upon, war a manhood suffrage, coupled with the conditions of residence and freedom from crime. He did not think that a pauper, who must of course be exposed to the influence of others, ought to possess a vote. It Lord Palmerston gave them a real Reform Bill they would accept it, but if be presented them with a sham they would reject it. (Cheers.) He could not forget the antecedents of Lord Palmerston, or that he was always opposed to reform. (Hear.) It was on record that Lord Palmerston said to Sir J. Walmsley, who was an honest reformer—(cheers)—that if the work ing classes got the franchise it would degrade the fran chise. (Groans.) They were aware that an India Reform Bill was to be proposed by the government. He warned them that if the India Bill was passed before a reform of parliament it would be much more difficult to get that reform afterwards. (Cheers.) He moved the first re solution :—" That this meeting, finding that several reform proposals have been from time to time issued, embodying vote by ballot, greater equalisation of co^- stituencies, triennial parliaments, and abolition of the property qualification, hereby records its solemn con viction, while fully endorsing those points, that no Reform Bill will be complete or satisfactory which does not include as its leading feature the principle of man hood suffrage."... Mr. ERN - EST JONES seconded the resolution. He said that heretofore the middle classes had been pulling one way and the working classes pulling another way. He hoped the hour had arrived when both classes were to pull together. If there was to be a union it must be on the ground of manhood suffrage and on nothing less. The programme of the gentlemen who met at the Guild hall Coffeehouse did not approach near enough to that principle. He meant the suffrage for every adult unstained by crime and accompanied with a residential clanBe, and he saw no reason why a pauper should not have a vote. (Hear.) Mr. CONINGHAM, M.P., said that, whilst he agreed to the general principle of the resolution, he would not pre clude himself from accepting a large and liberal measure of reform for the sake of some distant good. (Hear.) He could point to many measures of home and colonial policy to show that the government did not represent the principles of the people ; and a most remarkable cir cumstance had recently occurred which showed to what straits Lord Palmerston wa■ reduced in recruiting for followers. Towards the fag end of last session a liberal member of parliament declared that what had occurred in the previous session of Parliament would not be per mitted again —viz., that a cabinet minister should be allowed to leave the House of Lords when the vote on the question of Jewish disabilities was about to be taken. The treasury bench appeared as usual to be asleep with its legs on the table when that declaration was made. But it was afterwards announced that the Lord Privy Seal was about to retire, and that a substitute was to be found for him. He thought it an insult to the country to appoint to that office one against whom a grave and serious accusation had been brought, who never con descended to give a public explanation of his conduct, and who was told in the columns of the Times newspaper that till he gave such an explanation he had better not tpgMj eeatin,_thu--logsp_ of __Peers. That appoint the Prime Minister of the country. But it was presuming upon the apathy of the public that made him venture to perpetrate such an act without the risk of being called to an accoun t. He (Mr. Coninghain), as a member of the House of Commons, looked upon that appointment as a downright insult; and in saying so, he firmly believed he represented and expressed the opinions of all that was honest and truthful in the United Kingdom. (Cheers.) Mr. DICKEY then moved, and Mr. RADFORD seconded, the following amendment:—" That no measure short of equal political and social rights will content us, to ob tain which we suggest manhood suffrage, to include the annual election of members of Parliament, magistrates, and public servants, who are to be paid for their services —a majority to be the only requirement for election, and the number of electors in each district to be equalised nearly as possible, and qualified after one month's resi dence for registration. That without manhood suffrage we reject the ballot as a dangerous (because secret) in strument in the hands of the prosperous governing classes; and, we demand that any person trying to control an elector be punished by heavy fine aid imprisonment with bard labour. While in order to test the trading and middling classes, with whom we wish to co-ope rate, we demand that in the City of London and its boroughs the unrepresented people shall be permitted to elect, by show of hands, one-half of the members of the first election." Mr. TOWNSEND, M.P., said though be had the highest confidence in the noble lord at the head of the Govern ment—(oh, ob)—he had no confidence that the noble lord would give them a real reform without a pressure from without. (Hear.) He had signed the manifesto referred to, but he himself went somewhat further. He thought the people were entitled to have—if not a man hood suffrage—at least something very near it, the protection of the ballot, equal electoral districts,with and biennial Parliaments. The CHAIRMAN having read the amendment for the purpose of putting it to the meeting, Mr. B. O'Brien presented himself to the meeting amidst loud cheers from one part of the meeting, and loud cries of " Down, down," " He's a traitor," from others. After much uproar and confusion, The CHAIRMAN put it to the meeting whether they would hear Mr. O'Brien The meeting decided by a show of bands that they were not disposed to listen to him. This decision gave rise to renewed uproar, in the midst of which, The CHAIRMAN put the amendment,lwhich he declared to be lost. He then put the original resolution, which he declared to be carried, but the confusion was so great in all parts of the meeting, and particularly on the plat form, that a second resolution, which formed part of the evening's programme, was not put, and the meeting came to rather an abrupt termination. MEETING AT WOOLWICH. Last evening a crowded public meeting of the inhab taut. of Woolwich, Plumstead, and Charlton, was held at the Town-hall, Woolwich, in accordance with hand bills convening a meeting to adopt measures for obtaining the enfranchisement of Woolwich as a separate Parlia mentary borough. The chair was taken by J. R. Jolly, Esq., a gentleman of great local influence, who strongly advocated the separation of Woolwich from Greenwich, on account of its importance in point of population, &c. Mr. W. NOKES, solicitor, moved a resolution for the adoption of a memorial to the premier, requesting him to carry out such a plan, in the details of the expected Reform Bill. Mr. E. MURRAY, an extensive contractor, seconded the motion. The Rev. T. TIIPFIELD, in a long address, pointed out that it was not for the interests of the people to divide existing constituencies, but to add to the number of electors. If four members were given to Greenwich and Woolwich, as proposed, how many members ought to be given to Marylebone or the Tower Hamlets / They must not look at the question locally but nationally. He moved as an amendment, that a memorial be presented in favour of the introduction, as a part of the new Re form Bili, of a large extension of the franchise, the vote by ballot, an adjustment of electoral districts, so as to give a majority of members to a majority of electors, triennial parliaments, and the abolition of the property qualification for members of Parliament. (Loud cheers.) Mr. FORDHAM seconded the motion, and expressed an opinion, which was warmly received, that to create a parliamentary borough from the district of Woolwich would be simply handing over such a borough to the will and pleasure of the existing Government. The CHAIRMAN declined to put the amendment except as a substantive motion, and the resolution for sending a memorial to the premier for the enfranchisement of Woolwich as a borough was then put, when ten hands were held up in its favour, and many hundreds against, amidst loud cheers. The amendment was then carried unanimously as a substantive motion ; and, after three cheers for the chairman, and the ballot, &c., the meeting separated. MEETING AT NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. On Monday evening the Lecture-hall in Nelson-street, Newcastle•on-Tyne, was densely crowded by a very large audience, mostly composed of working men, met to adopt measures for a radical reform in the parliamentary representation. Mr. Gilmour, a master joiner, occupied the chair. The speakers were Mr. Joseph Cowen, jun., of Stella House, Messrs. T. Gregeon, T. ' Thompsor, R. B. Read, and R. Warden. The speakers urged upon the meeting to avoid all bickering an 1 fault finding, and to concentrate their energies upon the one question—mauhood suffrage, They argued that all classes —the agricultural, the manufacturing, tae moneyed classes—the law and the army were reprfented ; but the working classes were not. They affirlted that the taxes were unequally collec'ed, and as unqually distri buted—taxes which, if fairly distributed, would tho roughly advance and elevate the conditionof the p eo p le and take comfort and education into every in ial's dwelling ing classes in the country. They maintained that the wak disproportionatelywere disproportionately tax.ld to the m ashers of the privileged classes—the peer being taxed 4 ler cent. u p on his expenditure, the working man 25 pkr cent. Mr. Cowen said that last year landed propert` paid 17 mil lions for taxes • trade and commerce 62 milking sterling. ' He maintained that the quiet orderly peoile of England paid 255. a year more than the Excitable population of France, and 5 times more than the met of their own race, the Anglo-Saxons in the West of the Atlantic. The following resolution was adopted a " That in the opinion of this meeting, he present re stricted franchise deprives a large number of our fellow countrymen of their just electoral rights entails on the nation bad legislation, financial extravgance, and an irresponsible foreign policy ;and demands Iradical reform in the representation of ti;• people in Paliament, bated on manhood suffrage, protected and sustaned by vote by ballot, and the abolition of the present report) , qualifi cation for members of the House of Comuone." A petition to Parliament founded on thisresolution was unanimously agreed to. The petition to le presented by Mr. Headlam. The proceedings were ordarly, and upon the whole, the speakers were temperate ii: their observa tions. The chief speaker was Mr. J. Coven, a member of a leading manufactering firm on the Tyne, who ap peared to carry with him the sympathies of-the audience. He went through the national expenditure, and con trasted it with the cost of governing the American fede rat'on, to show that government was maintained for the benefit of the privileged classes ; the correction to which was a tull representation of the peUple.—Maneltester Guardian. BIRMINGHAM REFORMERS' UNION. A meeting of the supporters of the new reform move ment was held at Birmingham, iu the Public-office, on Tuesday evening. Mr. George Edmonds, the Clerk of the Peace, presided. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, traced his own career in connexion with parliamentary reform, and said he did not repent one atom of the part he had borne throughout. He observed that the Reform Bill of 1831 had inserted the thin end of the wedge, and if they exerted themselves now they would most assuredly succeed in driving the wedge home. Re bad always been an advocate for the widest possible extension of the suffrage, but at the same time he counselled them, if they could not at once get a'l they were desirous of obtaining to accept with thankfulness such concession as might be made to them. He considered the present was a parti- cularly favourable time for a reform agitation, and what he advised was, that their efforts ehould be combined, and that they should. be as unanimous as possible in the demand they made, in order that the government might be compelled to introduce as liberal a measure as they could possibly expect from them. Whilst he thought the dignity of a man entitled him to a vote, and much as he should like to see it conferred upon every one of them, he thought that an equitable distribution of the electoral districts was far more important. (Hear.) Mr. J. S. WRISHT thought the time had now come when, if they were all united, they might obtain a very wide extension of the suffrage. It all depended upon the demand which the people were preparei to make, and it only required earnestness and determination to obtain all they desired. (Cheers.) There were 25,000 working men in Birmingham who were entitled to a vote, but who were deprived of it under the existing state of things. Many of those were as well able to exer• oise the franchise as he was. After some remarks upon the laxity of the present representative system, and the evils that followed, not the least of them being the great patronage improperly exercised by the Government, Mr. Wright said they could not hope for improvement in this respect until they obtained a wide extension of the suffrage ; and if they succeeded as far as he trusted they might, and as they might if they would only exert them selves, they should some day wonder how such a state ' of corruption had been endured. (Hear.) Let them not be led away by the Syren voico of Lord Palmerston. '(A laugh.) Let them not depend upon an Educational Franchise Bill, or any specious promise of the kind ; but keep their eyes and ears open and be cautions. Every man must enrol himself in the new Reformers' Union. Each one of them must give time and money in due proportion. Let them deny themselves a couple of pints of ale a week in support of the cause ; and if they did not choose to do this, they did not deserve an exten sion of the Ruff! age. He therefore moved, " That this meeting, having heard the bags upon which the Refor mers' Union is established, pledge themselves to give it their earnest support." (Cheers,) 111, WALKER seconded the proposition. occasion to express his owlet Inas cud met, basis of the union would extend the franchise as far as any of-them could wish to see it. The CHAIRMAN said he thought his friend Mr. Hoppe was mistaken as to the meaning of the first clause of the franchisehe n d explained e v t e h r a y t o t c h c e u r p e a r l poor, whether the rate was paid directly, or , b y means object pros e o d f i n t ° h w e a m s e t o o e f x r t e e f n o d r na t in part or whole of premises rated to the relief of the of the compounding clauses, through the landlord. Mr. RADFORD condemned the injustice of the rate paying clauses, and advocated the redistribution of electoral districts. Though as warm and thorough a chartist, he said, as ever, he was disposed to go heartily with the present movement, and he hoped all his fellow working men would take the same view. (Cheers.) Councillor J. TAYLOR, in an able address, contended that under the first clause of the scheme, any working man who occupied as lodger any part of premises rated to the relief of the poor—and what premises were not ? —would be entitled to a vote. He bad been confirmed in this interpretati on o f t h e c l ause by a member of th e executive in Londo n . w h o h a d b een v i s iting bim ; and if this definition were correct, was t h ere an y member of the chartist body w h o wou l d not suppor t it. (Cheers.) Mr. Taylor m a i n t a i ne d , w i th muc h s pirit, that if this proposition wo u ld en f ranc hi se f rom 23,000 to 2 5 , 000 o f their fellow - townsmen, they shoutd throw aside all old differences, and give a " long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether," to convert it into law. (Cheers.) He ridiculed the idea that the Premier would introduce any bill that could commend itself to their acceptance. Mr. Taylor closed his remarks by appealing to the working men of all shades of opinion to unite in a common effort to obtain an object which would p romote the benefit, liberty, and happiness of all. (Ch eers.) Mr. BEDD "rs, who followed, hoped that every one present would give a tangible proof of its adherence to the principles on which they appeared to be so unani mous, by taking tickets of membership, which had been provided for the purpose. The resolution was then put from the chair, and was carried by a loud shout of " Aye." There were only 3 or 4 dissentients. Mr. WRIGHT afterwards intimated that another meet ing would be held next week, and that steps would be taken to call an aggregate meeting at the Town-hall prior to the meeting of parliament, at which both the borough members would be invited to attend. CHINA. (Front et Correspondent of the nnes.) HONG KONG, Nov. 28, 1857. On the 18th the Calcutta flagship moved from her moorings in this harbour and proceeded towards Canton. She is now anchored off Tiger Island, and is occupied in throwing shells with marvellous pre cision into three large targets. Next day the Ava, Peninsular and Oriental steamer, departed for Calcutta, taking from us Gen. Ashburnham, Colonels Pakenharn and Wetherall, Major Macdonald, and . Dr. Dempster. Major Crealoch was left here (as deputy-assistant quarter master) at the request of Gen. Stranbenzee. We have now, therefore, reduced our staff to the measure of our straitened means, and can marshal our little force with some hope of permanency in our arrangements. I subjoin to this letter a list of the vessels of war, classed according to their position in those waters. Perhaps there may be persons in England who may still feel some slight interest in a British fleet and a small English army engaged in the siege of a vast city. Incalculable as are the consequences which will foliow from the operations about to commence here, I have little heart for the task of detailing the pre parations. I feel that I should be listened to like a child prattling its nonsense out of season. You are absorbed in the contemplation of the fall of Delhi. Upon the morrow of the acc mnplishmeut of a righteous national revenge, and in the presence of those. bitter memories of butcheries and foul defilements which sear so many English hearts to speak of, China will seem to many almost an imper tinence. The tone of the letters received by the mail which arrived here four days ago gives little hope that you will give one thought to us, and offers little en• couragement to the men who are engaged in the service of their country in this deadly climate. We are not jealous of the absorbing sympathy which follows our army in India—no honours can be too high for them, no gratitude too warm—nor do we fall one line below you in the rage excited by the horrors enacted there. Unquestionably, most un questionably, the operations in China are of infinitely inferior interest and importance to those in the Bengal Presidency ; but that is no good reason why these operationsshould be ostentation ly ignored or' needlessly interrupted. Yet some of our public men seam anxious to show the sincerity of their terror by a gratuitous sacrifice of our prestige and interest in this neighbourhood. Sir Charle's Napier's voice is only a little louder than that of others when he raises the cry of " Sauve qui pent," gallantly leading a Bacchanalian party at Bury in a career of tumultuous panic, and shouting " We must give up China altogether." Why must we give up China altogether, Sir Charles ? Having heard of what happened in Borneo, do you think there are no Nana Sahibs in China, and that no Delhis, or Cawnpores, or Luck news are possible there ? Or do you imagine that the fleet which you regret cannot get up to Delhi is so useless that it cannot make impression upon Canton? Fortunately our fleet has other leaders and our councils other heads. Ido deprecate this fluttering, noisy, witless fright. Wherever the sol diers and sailors of England are serving they have a claim to some share of the attention of their country. But to my chronicle. Three days ago there was an impressiOn through 7 out the colony that a decisive advance was to be made on the morrow and a lodgment effected upon the large island of Houam, immediately opposite the factories. Either this intention was never en tertained. or it was reconsidered, for the day passed over, and every one .is again asking, " What are we waiting for ?" All things are in a state of pre paration. The four mortars destined for the spe cial benefit of Gough's Fort are gone up, the ships are all clustered up and down within three hours' steaming of the city walls, the Marines are all housed in their barracks at Wantung; ready to be embarked at a moment's notice, the storeship is close to the scene of operations, the Furious has been denuded of her useless maindeck guns, and, powerful still in her upper deck armament, has 1..„..... .e4.i....1 4-rs niwiTicket Lnra F]oin and his suite tions ;" the French are ready, for 1. am m to Lthll4 the co-operation of the Capricieuse is not made a sine qua non ; our 600 engineers, artillerymen, and men of the 59th can be embarked and carried up in 24 hours. Moreover it is whispered that the proclamations to the citizens, are all printed off, and it is loudly asserted by gentlemen whose means of correct information upon such a subject are, I confess, not obvious that Lord Elgin has his ulti matum in his pocket, carefully translated iuto choice Mandarin Chinese. Why, then, does he not go up and send in his summons, and open the ball ? To people who are not intolerant of plain reasons for plain facts the answer seems easy. We are waiting for the Adelaide and the Assistance. The first vessel started with the Imperador and Impe ratrix (arrived three weeks since), the second was despatched, or was promised to be despatched, from Calcutta in time to be clue at this moment. these two ships have nearly 1,000 marines and infantry troops on board, they are expected from hour to hour, and such *an increase to our little force is not to be lightly esteemed. The Adelaide has not been reported here since she left England. Her antecedents are not encouraging ; but surely she cannot now delay many days. I was glad of an opportunity to congratulate our Admiralty upon the splendid voyages of the Imperad.or and Im peratrix, for there is something better and more grateful to one's mind in this world than to be always carping. Moreover, the magnificent achieve ment of sending those 16 little gunboats across the globe without a single accident and with the oc curence of only a single death on board is a triumph of which any governing department may be proud. Let me add that the power of impromptu choice of 16 young men whose zeal would send them into 1 those uncomfortable crafts, and whose seamanship would carry them through so perilous a voyage, is a shining fact, most honourable to the whole service. But still, when we find this lagging log, this Adelaide, married to those swift ships that have been so long in port, the exclamation will force itself, " How on earth could there be so little discretion ?" However, we are waiting for the Adelaide and the Assistance. Meanwhile, Lord Elgin has taken possession of General Ashburnham's vacated quar ters—Headquarters'-house ; the French Plenipo tentiary is at Macao, and so is the Russian Pleni potentiary, Count Putiatin ; and Lord Elgin has just gone in a gunboat to hod sweet converse with his diplomatic compeers. Meanwhile, Mr. Com missioner Reed, careful not to involve himself in entangling alliances, remains in sulky soli tude on board his monster frigate the Minne sota, doing penance probably for his countrymen's wickedness in knocking down that Chinese fort. It is rather fortunate, perhaps, that the in tentions of the Minnesota, are so placable, and that, though she has such large teeth, she has made a compact with herself not to bite ; for the only place in the China seas that she could possibly bombard would be this city of Victoria. Great power which the possessor wills not to exercise is imposing, but great power which the possessor cannot exercise savours rather of the ridiculous, and I am afraid the Minnesota in the China seas is suggestive of the latter sentiment. It is a pity that Mr. Reed has not more appropriate vessels and a more chivalrous part to play ; for the few who have been brought into contact with him here speak of him as an able and a courteous gentleman. °mint Putiatin's appearance has, I apprehend, no purport beyond that of paying his respects to Lord Elgin. His account of his treatment at the Peiho differs entirelyfrom that given by the Chinese. He makes no secret of sa y in g that he is dissatis6e d with the reception accorded to him by the autho rities at the port of Peki n . Probably the _fact is, as I conjectured at the time, that the it may ( b e re port was dictated by Chinese policy; but nr expreass just possible that the Count's unreserved rank s ions of discontent may not be quite so . they may appear. However, he is here only in part his little steamer, and can have no immediate in the measures about to be taken. It happens quite naturally that all menwhaarte tex hausting themselves i n speculatio ys to h will be. t e rms of Lord Elgin' ns a s demand up You will probably become acquainted wi th very vtyhilsitdtole cument long before we shall, but feel i n t er est about the matter. We all know what the g eneral character of the paper must be just as well as Lord Elgin can. It must demand compensation for all damage done. It must demand a revision of the broken treaties. It must demand immediate entrance into the city, and it must demand either the surrender of the city or of the forts that com mand it, as a material guarantee, until the com pensation is paid and the treaty settled. Less than this would be ridiculous. Whatever this demand may be, it has necessarily been communicated to, and concerted with, the French Plenipotentiary. He also has this demand TIIE POST OFFICE• The Australian within yesterday morning tern of preparino,alai7-12 which reached London are the first which have been received since the commencement the improvement mnieneement of the new sys tem thee them on board the packets ; and was obvious from the fact that were placed in t the letters and compulsory. newspapersthe hands for the metropolis especially; assorted, were forwarde e d for delivery of the mails, while theows minutes after the arrival for r of the letter-carriers the country, already trains. It is very adefs::: theoytthheart packet theea riny new mails, ils o ys r ,sntai system a g a should be r b o e m a l d i o id p i t a e d es this cannot be done, unless; prepayment of postage but we understand that on letters is made comp an obstacle easily to b e Jr' However, that is punted, now that postage stamps are so universally used ; and with regard to the packet mails from the West Indies and Brazil, which consist chiefly of unpaid corres pondence, facili ties mi g ht b e n for the prepay ment of postage o n le t te rs post-offices (similar to the Office in Constantinople) at those parts of the differ ent and South Ame rica and the republics of North foreign West India Islands at which the m a il arts of the gl gtekets call. Unpaid l e tters in all p e retard the delivery of correspondence, alter an arrivalt of mails, from the length of tim e occu p ied in col lecting the postage. T hus theax with and ing Bombay Times of the 4th ultimo, attributing the delay to this cause, complains that t en hours usually elapse between the arrival of En g lish mail s letters, and we b elieve that th e delays which occur, and the receipt of although in a les s degree, in the General Post-office, arise from the s ame source. F rom in crease in the Poet office revenue Ta the annual the public are led to expect conti nual improvements in our postal l s y s tem, but there seems to be afatal hesitation on the part of Mr. Rowland Hill, o r his subordinates, to effect any change attended with additional ex penditure. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN. LONDON AND SOITTH.EASTERA RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the wee k ending Jan. 9, 1853 £18,135 19 11 Corresponding week last year Increase in 1858 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 1858.. 210,831 0 0 Corresponding week last year 9,877 0 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1858 23,608 0 0 Total of the half -year to this date, 1857 21,422 0 0 GREAT LUXEMBO 1858AILWAY,—Traffio return for the 2787 17 3 lowoerrekesepnoduindiug Jgaisiv.oo33 k , l4otyear 635 17 AT SHANGHAI. British. —The Cormorant, gunboat, 4, Lieutenant Saumarez ; the Pique, ship, 36, Commander Sir F. W. Nicholson. French.—The Capricieuse, frigate, 40, Captain Col lier ; the Durance, steamer, 12, Commander Choyin. PASS PSGERS FROM INDIA, CHINA, dc. The following is a list of the passengers now on their way to England par Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, Captain Soy, which sailed from Malta at 3 p.m. on the Bth inst. with the heavy portion of the India and China mails, and it is expected to arrive at Southampton on Sunday next : From Calcutta.—Mr. J. Mackenzie, Mrs. Lindsay, infant, and servant ; Miss Morris, Mrs. Ross, Rev. H. Purton, Mr. J. Hunt, Mr. B. Benett, Captain Western, Miss Mackenzie, Mrs. Moncrieff, three children, and servant ; Mr. R. Hall, late purser of steamship Rajah ; Mrs. Creighton and three children ; Hon. Mrs. 'last. ings, four children, and servant. From Madras.—Mrs. Dorehill and two children, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Dickson, and Mr. Roche. From Bombay.—Mrs. Fullerton, two children, and two servants ; Mrs. Anderson, two children, and ser vant ; Lieutenant Harris, and Mr. J. G. Jeffs. . From Galle.—Mrs. Hancock, child, and servant ; Mr. Sivans, child, and servant ; Mr. Cutajas. From Singapore.—Mr. Waterwortk. Fr.)na Hong Kong.—Captain Hoogenstroaten, Mr. Jenner, Mr. Ripon, Mr. Bush, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Spencely and taco servants. From Alexandria.—Mr. Logan and 11 servants, Capt. Duncan, Lieutenant Ballie, Mr. Malony. From Malta. — Mr. F letcher, Mr. Sandy, Mr. Haworth, Sergeant and Mrs. Burdon, Sir Frederregt Bl a ckwood, Mr. A. Dean, Mr. Trollope , Mr. Stephen ST. MARGARET'S ii-G-Isi—E-7--W-e-----tinderstand that the Owner of the premises at East Grinsteed VOW occupied by the Sisters of the Society, has refused to renew the lease under which it is held, and which expires at Mid summer next ; the reason being that bis conscience will not allow bins to let • house in which, the practice a confession is carried on. — confession Advertider.