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EAST INDIA. HOUSE, 13TH JINVAsT, 1658. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDEX COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTIctE, That !I Special General CAtrt of the sad Company will 1,2 held by ad- Journment, a t their House, in LeaclenhaP-street, on WED'SESDAY, the 20th inealit, at eleven o'clock in the. forenoon for the purpose of continning , Gte consde:ation of the following ~roposed Resolution, Which was Moved at the Geosral Court, held this day, viz.:— " That the prop - sed transfer of the governirg pcw,rs of the East India Company to the Crown is opposed to the rights and Privileges of the East India Company, is fraught with danger to the constitutional interests of England, is perilous to the safety of our Indian Empire, and calls for the resist ance of the . Corporation by all constitutional means." JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. MONT BLANC IS OPEN TO-NIGHT. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. Mr. and Mrs. GERNi AN REED (late Miss P. HORTON), will re-appear in Town 25th January, 1858. 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Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR• TUTORSHIP% ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. WM. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel Klng-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. • lIIONITAIY TO TIIII Alexander Richardson, Esq. COIRESPONDINO 611CRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.K.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. samosa. RITSIIII ORNERAL. J. Ellietion, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Lo. AsSISTANT ACTEr ART. Barker Woolkouee, Esq. BANKRILs. Mews. ('lyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Meagre. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in May, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Polley Bonus in Permanent Sum addition Bonus in Re 'uction ol taken Age Assured. to Sum Cash. knnnal Pre. out in Assured. mium. ......-. -. . - • X X s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1838 55 ' 3,600 867 17 7 42A 1 4 56 Z 8 1 841 48 .4,000 ' 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 11145 99 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 IF E r co 1,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1 1 55 ' 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 ___ The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its Investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one• hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in toms exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. 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To which are added !marl, on the wonder- , of the Mi croscope in re vea li ng t h e kidder mysteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by urinaryeaamination, the cause and effect of every variety of these Omplaints, with numerous engrav i ngs and cases. • -- By SAMUEL LA.'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the Univer sit y o f Edinburgh, H onorar y i ' Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate o' re : A pothecaries' Hall, London, .Scc., tk.c. 'I he essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, ‘ .w hieh have p ro d uce d more m i s ery in Youth, degradation in M i en "'ed. and pr emature decay at a ll s t a ges of life, than, perhaps, an y other class of disease known to modern pathologists. 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Second Edition, with Illustrations on Steel, Price Ono Shilling, Free for eighteen stamps, AN ESSAY on the PHYSIOLOGY and SPECIAL DISEASES OF WOMEN, forming a complete guide to, and with fall instructions for the removal of, the emer gencies of Youth, Womanhood, and Old Age. By Dr. HALL. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, . "The sttbjort Is treated in a clear, conc.., and praetioal manner, and should be in the hands of all females " Lancet. "Will form a valuable addition to the domestic household."—Medical Circular. " Every husband ought to present this Essay to his wife, and every mother to her daughter, containing as it does mol valuable infor mation that concerns their physical and social happiness."—Meath Journal. London: Direct from the Author, Dr. Hall, 1, Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square ; and by order of all booksellers. Sent free by Post, Price Is. 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SMITH, Secretary. r ~ . l - , .. • - t• ! - • . • ' - ~'..; '--,: ~, ~.?",,,.• ,t,..:, - „ , -. ~.. -:•.,-, 4 ---„,- -:- ~ . • vtl4 o l k ... 1 .., gPe . • - - ~...,.., ~,..: "4 .,_0 • ,_, L_,A,..._ „..el - --,, ~ • . ~ . __. ..,... _,, iii*. - a , ~ ,,,,4• . - .7 : -.t. ) 1 ....,,..i.• - .1,7: - "H ~..... .„ ~.„, 4. ....„ ..„,n.e., • . -1' a , _ ,-,,,, , : .. ~ , s ..:Ni =1 '' - 4,"- , - , •in t -....... • -ai . 0 .. ..r.._, , 14,,.._ ,' 56 P,„... 1 - , ..,...,;,, E'- wl74- -f i r' - • -- 4 - ii ,. 'l `- - L_ - ,S- a , k. "k , 4.. ~-,-', -, -- - ,4111 - "- - -, 'r-' ~--.; • ...! , • it, i-- • , .4 , -' It. - , : 7- . _-..4.A.:•-Au, ~ 4, 4 1.,•• -'O7 -•- „,..,:.--,1 T„ ; -;7, 4-- 4: :;- ^' F---•,ifira.... :. - .1,= • 7 , - . "ti^ •-• ye.' , . - 0,,,,,,t417/..•,, ,, ar .kl'3 , . ' "" .r:' , A ‘ 4 V.' -.A i 4l' ' 4 'l' [PRIOR 4D.' "Siim Pip' to make. The policy of France is altered since the days. When one of the -missionaries sneeringly 41e -scribed it as '.' Protection de nos missomaires natiortaux, honneur du pavilion, surete des equi pages ; main pas tin coup de canon." Baron Gros 1145 to demand 'satisfaction for the life of la French 'inflect who was most barbarously murdered by per-, sons iu actual official, auttiorify ; satisfaction which has been for two Yeats Constantly denied to a con= tinned series of demands tinbacked by force. Ho will probably think himself' entitled, demand some security against a recurrence of such outrages. So that, in the end, our requisitions upon the Chinese Government will probably not be farfrom identical. After what I have written upon the subject, you will not be surprised to find rue rejoicieg 'that the united Plenipotentiaries have come 'Over to the com mon-sense view of the way in which these demands - should be made. I never could under Stand how it could be more consistent with diploniatic etiquette to send our-missives:to the Emperor by the hands Of a petty buttonless:Mandarin at the mouth of a ljttle muddy river, rather than by tlie hands of the man whose position is that of Secretary for aff4irs with foreign maritime nations.: Secla is Yet-4'A office. To use a lawyer's phrase, service upon him is Lzg good service upon the . Emperor as set vice itt , o.l Lord Clarendon would be service upon Queen Vic toria. The 'first idea. was analogouso to serving a demand_ upon Queen Victoria upon ) the Mayor of. Gravesend. Of course Lord Elgin will not treat , with Yeh—at least, - I should hope snot—nialosa -ho speaks in the. name. of his Sovereign.. In his -own name he can do nothitio but su?tender Cant oil. But we are bound to InferAhat an . offic.3r of State will do his duty—a duty pointed out by4toperial edicts and by treaties—and, whatever tray be our : particular relations with him, will transmit our communications tb his Court. If we are to treat these voluntary outlaws from national society according to the technical courtesies of the, laws of nations, surely this is the more regular course. Tell 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,' asthe edicts call them, addressed by them to the Emperor. I have laboured this point often before in these letters, and circurnstauces 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.l have no moral doubt. It will be time then to speculate upon ulteriOr proceedings. The object, howeier, to villa those proceedinas 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 strong box and Mr. Slick elope with your ledger. I return, therefore, and shall return, ietibus crebris, to my unwelcome task of hammer ing for attention to English interests iu 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 will the proper secu cities. You will get nothing till you show you are irre sistible, and you will then got everything you show yourielf resolved to have. If Lord Elgin has the perspicacity to see and the courage to follow this bold safe course you people at hutue, and espe cially you men of commerce at home, mist support him, or he will fail. If he has not you must push him, focce him, or supersede him, for ke will de serve to fail, and must fail. This is the key of the whole position. Gain it, and, in the woids of a Chiriese merchant with whom I 'often discussed this question, " All men will be glad." He meant, and 1 mean, all men except the corrupt official.. The Mandarins have only lately discovered that they have it in their power to tax the barbariai s by levying transit imposts upon articles of barbarian necessity. Year by year this power is being cau 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 on Chinese exports, but I t 1 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 manufactrea. 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 Hangchau there was a transit levy of 3 cents. per picul (133 lb.), a mere nominal registering duty. Sometimes, if the mandarin at the Ta Kwan Nyas popular or powerful, he was able to get an extra sum of two made a picul, something more than ls. 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 chau, but now every district has its little Kwan. The finer teas which come from Ningchau, or Hoopak, or Hoonan, pay from fii to 9 taels per picul before they are embarked—nearly 6d. per pound. The rich green tea districts, the produce of which• is attracted to the great emporium of Woochan„a, pay a transit duty of 6 tnei. 5 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 altered at any moment by the caprice of the local Mandarin, or by a motion of the ver million pencil. This power of taxing the barbarians has only recently been discovered. It is curr entl y re p orted that it was first brought into action to refund the sycee silver paid out at-toe end of the last war. It will 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 , striat Christian ethics this is as undoubtedly the fact as that we ought to gives a man 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 blood and spilt blood. The only way to prevent this is to lix the legal export duty by treaty, and to b go up - to the places where the tea is grown and u n y . it of the grower. If the Yangtse were open, d if li a w ng e y e a o n u , ld we bu sb y o i n n l d th g e a markets asoaftWaodonchtyanngf anda "squeeze." Moreover, we should pay orthis .ea mace a picul, or one thirty-fifth part of the prese c iat with our woollens and our ahirtings. Before the Yangtse was closed by the rebels one Chinaman at Hangyan used to take monthly 30,000 pieces of English shirtings ; he now does not take one pie ce iu a twelvemonth. This is not all. The exactions of the.Mandarianss ex tend to the means of tran l sit. hundred The and cargo a other boats o bribe is are pressed for " military services," nece ssary to set them free, ex tortion traps beset this produce on its way to the coast. Nothing but the presence of the European purchaser upon the spot can be of the least avail to prevent a limitless taxation of our tea. It is for yon, ye teatotallers ' that bayonets and fitting the we are burnishing our shells. 1g fumes into our 10-inch So again of silk. Formerly there was no export duty upon silk. Now there is an export duty of $lO a bale, they which talk of raising to sl2i, and there is also an additional transit duty of $72 mace s or 2/. lOs ~ upon each bale. Now that our silk imports are 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 other countries renders it less probable that these silk exactions all fall upon the exporter. Be it remembered, then, that since the outbrea k of the rebellion in Chith , a. thr Chinese Mandarins have levied WIWI 000,0001. a-year upon the people of England—that this tax consists almost 1 - c , e-- - ---- -- -z_.--,7, 1 L -,' / HA __ ..- . --- -______- • - , 44 Ii 7isntirw.#of;locil iinktihoriieireitlitib :iiiCA . ~- : ‘. l .: ,-; ,4 c 4 kii i cattable of indefiaitelliariAitYa 'i• Rs-' , .c7" --- ,: . 7,t.,/,2_ , The Eqkligh peOpl6 shoul d 'Wadi a stOakitiNiviet ' -5 . ./ ' - "lrs..;e• 4 raiHt -0.:r0u,. 1 Clhinr.," Atiil - :9ltortV. 13711 s tit(/' kiwi up in tUnijilizires - TATTins_ - )niatff Piet pt ,tuts wilt do : wit.iiir.,.. 41:!4i . ' - fif; I flikii - tv:ii r-f3'., - L t f;I to , I . disc4 z 4 4o tililLfg t - IW - flnit and 'theist iirdhft of all ConditienSTf -pega dOThiut kii . ow i etkoWL • of the country to take any substitute 'Or 'ft; — to any modification. Whenever we 'strivee to obtain sufficient Ypeeffia facts whereby to map - a line of ae•i on were brought up by the humiliahumiliatingcimvi ctionthat ourignoriiime a a t n i d tis thatthesommercial its poprilAtionds m- - p of China is a -darkness that M a y b e f e lt . - Efen of tbatgreat conglomerate of cities on the Yanotse w e konioiwomlitotif central e variously - e4irnated at froth:five to eielt m ini ons -of sou - 1. We know that it exists , and that is-if:ea-143; rnr. titanC i i n that ell we know. No'Crie has been theta except ilath . re Ciliriaßeu-,,and.- Jesuit missionaries, .There some scattered _ notices of it in the. Stiatialea;eic,irst I)749hagation, do la Foi (tow. and Hu& hie • made mention Of it in his journey Trote-_,Tartarfte Canton. The elder taiSsionary was toW;ed to siasTn by the immensity of the number of prose c tive converts. For five leagues he saw nothing: along the shores but the eloeely - panked!habitations of men. For a still longer' Space the river, more than a league:in' breadth, was crowded with beanti ful and' fenttstic vessels• passing and repa i ssing by day and by night. Nearer to shore, where - these vessels became fixed habitations, he enterod.at night a w Ater way defined on each side by floating shops; and for four liour - Aliejoutneyed through alabytinth of lit streets, all resting on ih - rgurface of,the river. In the morning liere•iichettlte , ,shore but only to find that Woachantydiffers frona other Chinese cities only in its niattellousniagnitude. From a distance he saw pagodas and yainuns -and highly . -cultivated environs ; when he approllehed7he saw the usual detAlls of an aggregate of - Chinese habitations, banks worn away by inundations; ; workshops half undermined by the stream, houses built upon piles; no oi•clei, no breadth of thoroughfares, kit - nitro*: slle3s, along which men and cattle and hogs:pressed in's tare I oraNt/ing crowds.. - Th , :itc - ords i' - 3ni&- tioils of the tuffocatirig odours frOin . -open inat4ure buckets, just as I- have experienced at &ianghai, floochau, K( shins, Shauhing, or Ningp It seemed - a whole orebtiou of mankind, all buying and selling an 4 bartering and chaffering, a BAbel of trade, a struggling world of dealers and " brokers. This is the one great type of a thousand cities _ which differ only in dimensions. How can we tell frem whiCh'it may - be safe to be excluded, or how f ar a single eieeptiOn may :neutralise' the: benefit of all we gain mid enable the cunning. savages to hold. us ;check and keep us inahe wrong ? e-capaeity-of- China is as -unmeasured as its inteirualgeography is unknown. Na demand has yet been made upon it which. has not been amply .answered. 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 afile to:buy - for 'a - dollar and a half per picul sugar which n.ovt - costs you at the Manillas 3 dole. ; at FoenaosakcA r . can obtain the same important commodity at the Sande price, and rice and indigo in any quantity. Coals can be loaded at that island for 3 deli. 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 Z have above stated respecting the -tran sit levies have not been gathered from books or ex tracted from returns—the figures are now for the first time put in writing. They have been caught - from the lips of those who have differed these ex actions and paid these duties with constant bat dis eontentedha.bitude. I may be wrongin. some matter of pla,:e or district, for the obscure jargon in. which • we talked - made geography difficult; but-a China . - man has Engliiih for figurea and inionntii of money. About the sums of these transit duties I have no doubt; and the precise track or city wherein they are levied is of no importance. Let we add that these men are so harassed by doLuands'of be nevolence towards the expensep the civil war, or by blackthail levied by tae rebels, that the oldest merchants are ci s hutting their books" as they ex press it.- Theele(* upon the presence and influence of the uoglish as the only hope which commerce' Las 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 land.' • - ----r SHIPS. OF WAR ON THE CHINA. STATION; AT HONGKONG. British—The Algerine, gunboat; 3 gun - s, Lieutenant Forbes, commander,; the Bittern, .sloop, 12, Lieutenant Goodenough ; the Bustard, gunboat,.2, Lieut. ilallowea, the Clown, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant_ Vi t _Lee,. the Coromandel, steamer, 3, Lieutenant Douglas ; the Dove, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant Bullock ; the Drake, gunboat, 3 , Lieutenant Arthur . ; the Emptror, steam yacht, 4, Lieut. Ward . ; the 'Fifm; gunboat, Lieutenant Nicholas; the Furious, steamer, 16, Captain Whom ; the Haughty, gunboat, 2, Lieut. Pauli ; the Hercules, hospital, 10, Dr. G. Burn ; the Janus, gunboat, 2, Lieut. W. H. Jones ; the Kestrel, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant W. H. Raeon ; the Minden, store ship, 4, Elks, master • the Opossum, gun bout, 2, Lieut. Campbell, comman der ; the Starling, gunboat, 2, A. J. Villiers ; the Surprise, despatch steamer, 4, S. G. Cresswell; Sybille, ship, 44, Commo dore Elliot ; the Tribune, steamer, 31, Captain Edgell ; Volcano, steamer, 3, Hockley. American.—The Levant, sloop, 18, Commander Smith ; the Minnesota, steamer, 50, Capt. Dupont ; the San Jacinto, steamer, 15, Commodore Armstrung, Capt. Bell. , Fiench.—The Menrthe, steamer, 12, Commander M. de Chenez. • Duteb.—The Medina, steamer, 18, Capt. Fabius.. Sianish.--The Don J. Juan, steamer, 6, Brionnes. AT Nti.ol.o. Portuguese:—The Amazons, lorcha, 6, Capt. Escar niche ; the Mondego, brig, 20, Commodore Tavares. American.—The Portsmouth, sloop, 16, Commander -Foote. Ruiiiin.=The America, steamer, 6, Coelm;liaier Tschihatschoff. • THE BBOTHEUE. French.-The Audi Clews steamer, 50, Capt. Coville ; the Avalanche, gunboat, 6, Commander Lalond ; the Dragonne, gunboat, 6, Commander Bang; Fusde, 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 Phiegetm, steamer, 8, Capt- Leveque i • the Primanguet, steamer, 8 , Com mander Veignand. IN CANTON RITMR. British.- -The Acorn, slob!), 12, CoMmander Hood ; the Actaeon, 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 , CommanderJ.F. C. Hamilton ;theEsk, s t e amer, 21, Capt. Sir R. M'Clure ; the F ores t er , gun boat, 2, Lieut. Inner ; the Higbflyer, steamer, 21, Capt. Shadwell ; the Hesper, steamer, 2, Commander Hill; the Hornet, steamer, 17, Commander Dowell I the Inflexible, steamer, 6, Commander Brooker; the Lee, gunboat, 3, Lieutenant Grabam ; the Leven gunboat, 2, Lieutenant Hudson ; the N a nkin ship, .50 , Comman der Hon. K. Stewart; . the Niger, steamer, 14, Commander Cochrane ; the Plover, gunboat, 2, Lieut. Wynniatt ; the Racehorse, sloop, 14, Captain Wylmshurst ; 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 .1. A. Whitshed; the Woodcock, gunboat, 2, Lieutenant E. J. Pollard. AT AHOY. Britisb.-The ,Comus, _ ship, 14 , Com mander R Jenkins. AT FOOCHOW. British.--The Camilla, sloop, 16, Commander Cobras, AT NINQPO. Britisb.—The Nimrud, steamer, 6, Commander R. Dew. AT SHANGHAI. Britiab.—The Cormorant, gunboat, 4, Lieutenant Sann3arez; the Pique, ship, 36, Commander Sir F. W. Nicholson. French.—The Capricieuse, frigate, 40, Captain Col lier ; the Durance, steamer,l2, Commander Chopin. PASSENGERS FROM INDIA, CHINA, &c. 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 arrivaat:_ Southampton on Sunday nod : 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. Moucrieff, three children, and servant ; Mr. R. Hall, late purser of steamship Rajah ; Mrs. Creighton and three children ; Hon. Mrs. Hest. ings, four children, and servant. From Madras.—Mrs. Dorehill and two children, Mr. Johnstone, /dr. Dickson, and Mr. Roche. From Bombay.—Mrs. Fullerton, two children, and two servants ; Mrs. Anderson, two children, and ear. vant ; Lieutenant Harris, and Mr. J. G. Jeffs. From Galle.—Mrs. Hancock, child, and servant ; Mr. SiPans, child, and servant • Mr. Cats*. Wrona Singapore.—Mr. Waterwortia. From Hong gong.—Captain Hoogenstroaten, Mr. Janner, Mr. Ripon, Mr. Bush, Mr, Henderson, Mr. SPencely and two servants. From Alexandria.--Mr. Logan and 11 servants, Capt. D ean, Lieutenant Bailie, Mr. Malony. rom Malta.—Mr. Fletcher, Mr. S andy, d e rick Mr. ;re Haworth, Sergeant and Mrs. Burdon , Bgackwood, Mr. A. Dean, Mr..Troilope, Mr. Steph ens. Sir I. l - .....--..-.---......--........--__ -- d e rstand that the --- T. MARGARET'S Homs.—We un o4er. of the premise s at East Grin s t e ad now o ccupied by' the Sisters of the Society, has refused to renew the lease under which iris held, and which expires at Mid summer next ; the reason being that his c;;Dscience will not allow him to let a house in which the practice of confession is carried on.--SMISCX Aclrciliser. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1858. PARLIAMENTARY BETTOR NI. 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 introductory 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 10/. county franchise was abandoned, but a Si. 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 many 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 he 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 see London with 70 representatives in the House of Cozu mel:le. Mr. PASSMORI EDWARDS said that what all real re formers should combine upon was 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 he 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. Waloasley, 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 thew 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 on-- stituencies, triennial parliameets, 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. ERNEST 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 clause, and he saw no reason why a pauper shouli not have a vote. (Hear.) Mr. CONINGEIAM, 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 poict 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 was reduced in recruiting for followers: -Towards the fag end of last session a liberal ~ember 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 substiteta 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 deqiended 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 resume his seat in the House of Peers. That appoint ment was an act of daring presumption on the part of 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 account. He (Mr. Coninghatn), as a member of the Rouse 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 and imprisonment with hard 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, MX., said though be had the highest confidence - ,in the noble lord at the head of the Govern ment —(oh, oh) —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, with the protection of the ballot, equal electoral districts, 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 bear Mr. O'Brien ? The meeting decided by a show of hands 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. —the agricultural, the manufacturing, the moneyed classes—the law and the army were-represented ; but the working classes were not. They, affirmed that the taxes were unequally colleo ed, and as unequally distri buted—taxes which, if fairly distributed, would tho roughly advance and elevate the condition of the people and take comfort and education into every man's dwelling in the country. They maintained that the working classes wero disproportionately taxed to the members of the privileged classes—the peer being taxed 4 per cent. upon his expenditure, the working man 25 per cent. Mr. Cowen said that last year landed property paid 1 7 mil lions for taxes ; trade and commerce 62 millions sterling. Ile maintained that the qu i e t or d, r fy people of England paid 25e. a year more than the excitable population of France, and 5 times more than the men of their own race, the Anglo-Saxons in the West of the Atlantic. The following resolution was adopted : "That in the opinion of this meeting, the present re stricted franchise deprives a large number of our fellow countrymen of their just electoral rights ; entails on the nation bad legislation, financial extravagance,- and an irresponsible foreign policy ;and deinande aradical reform in the representation of the people in parliament, based on manhood suffrage, protected and sustained by vote by ballot, and the abolition of the present prepeity qualifi• cation for members of the House of Cernmone." A petition to Parliament founded on this resolution was ananimously agreed to. The petition to be presented by Mr. Ileacllatn. The proceedings were orderly, and upon the whole, the speakers were temperate in their observa tions. The chief speaker was-Mr. J. Cowen, a member of a leading manufacturing firm on the Tyne, who ap peared to carry with hint the sympathies of the audience. Ile went through the national expenditure, and con trasted it with the cost of governing the American fede rat'on, to show that government waeemaintained for the benefit of the privileged chest s ; the correction to which was a Lull representation of the people.—Manchester Guardian. CHINA. (Front a Correspondent of the biles.) HONG KONG, Nov. 28, 1857. • On the 18th the - Calcutta flagship moved from her moorings in this harbour and proceeded tovirards Canton. She is now anchored off -Tiger Island, and is occupied in throwing' hells - With marvellous pree cision into three large targets. Next day the Ave, Peninsular and Oriental steamer, departed for Calcutta, taking from us Gen. Ashburnham„ Colonels Pakenham and Wetherell, Major Macdonald, and Dr. Dempster. Major Crealoch was left here (as deputy-assistant quarter master) at the request of Gen. Straubenzee. We have now, therefore, reduced our staff to the measure of our straitened means, and can marshal our little force with some hope o permanency in our arrangements. I subjoin to this letter a list of the vessels of war, clastod according to their position in- these waters. Perhaps there may be persons. ire-Knoland who may still, feel some slight interest in a British fleet and a small Euglisla army engaged irt the siege of a vast city. Incalculable as aro the coniequenceS which will follow from the operations ahoutetti eminence here,- I have little heart for the task of detailing the pre- , pardtions. 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, accomplishment of a righteoue 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 reasonwby these operatiousshould be ostentatiou-ly ignored or needlessly interrupted. Yet some of our public men seam anxious to show the sincerity of their terror by a gratuitoug 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 nows 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 out the colony that a decisive advance was to be made on the morrow and a lodgment effected upon the large island of Honam, 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 wo 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 storaahip is close to the scene of operations, the Furious has been denuded of her useless niaindeck guns, and, powerful still in her upper deck armament, - has been fitted to convey' Lord Elgin and his suite ' to a ,point whence heean.cownence his " negotia, tions ; ' the French are ready, for I am told that 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 into 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 due 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 Imperador and Im peratrix, for there is something better and more grateful to one's mind in this world than to be always carping. Mereover, the magnificent achieve ment of sending those 16 little gunboats across the globe without a single accident and with the oc curence of duly 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 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 Putiatiu ' • and Lord Elgin has just gone in a gunboat to hold 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 iu 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. Count Putiatin's appearance has, I apprehend, no purport beyond that of paying eis respects to Lord Elgin. His account of his treatment at the Peiho differs entirelyfrom that given by the Chinese. He makes no secret of saying that he is dissatisfied with the reception accorded to him by the i autho rities at the port of Pekin. Prob abl y the fact s, as I conjectured at the time, that the Chinese re port was dictated by Chinese policy; but it may be just possible that the Count's unreserved expres sions of discontent may not be qui te so frank ina they may appear. However , h e is here only his little steamer, and can have no immediate part in the measures about to be taken. It happens quite naturally that all men are ex hausting themselves in speculations as to what t b h e. e terms of Lord Elgin's demand upon h will You will probably become acquainted y with e this do cument long before we shall, but I feel very little interest about the matter. We all know what the general 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. Ho also has this demand MEETING AT WOOLWICH. Last evening a crowded public meeting of the inhabi tants of Woolwich, Plumstead, and Charlton, was held at the Town-hall, Woolwich, in accordance with hand bills convening a rnentinz 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. NOVO, solicitor, moved a resolution for the adoptio❑ 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. Rev. was not T . Tf for . t F h I e E L i D n , t e i r n e s a t a o o n f g t a n d e d r p e e s o s p , I p e o to n o t e d v o i d u e t that Th i e t existing constituencies, but to add to the number of electors. If four members were given to Greenwich and Woolwich, as proposed, bow 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 Bill, of a large extension of the franchise, the vote by ballot, an adjustment of electoral districts, mo 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.) Air. FOEDHAM 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. Gregson, T. Thompsor, R. B. Read, and R. Warden. The speakers urged upon the meeting to avoid all bickering an I fault finding, and to concentrate their energies upon the one question—manhood suffrage. They argued that all classes BIRMINGHAM REFORMERS' UNION. A meeting of the supporters of the new reform move ment was held at Birmingham, in 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 be had borne throughout. He observed that the Reform Bill of 1832 had inserted the thin end of the wedge, and if they exerted themselves now they would most assuredly succeed in driving the wedge home. He had always been a❑ advocate for the widest possible extension of the suffrage, but at the same time he counselled them, if they could not at once get al 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 should 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. WRIGNT thousht 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 prepared to make, 1 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 cise 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 end tired. (Hear.) Let them not be led away by the Syron voioe of Lord Palmerston. (A laugh.) Let them not depend upon an Educational Franchise Bill, or auy specious promise of the kind ; but keep their eyes and ears open and be cautious. 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 it they did not choose to do this, they diet not deserve an exten- ai mere 'Union is established, pledge tleemsizAses to give it meeting, lof the u having s if g i a he e a; d lie the basis therefore upon in o w v h e i d ch ' t ‘ e h a R t Ref this or their earnest support." (Cheers.) Mr. WALKER seconded the proposition. Mr. J. P. HOPPS supported ile and in doing so took occasion to express his belief , OM - the first clause of the basis of the union would extend the franchise as far as any of them could wish to see it. wa T e h m e ie C te r e s t e t ! de meaninghe of h the i s f ri firsten d e l it e l e r e . 0 H e f o pt the proposed scheme of reform, and explained that the real object of it was to extend the franchise to every occupier In"asANto in part or whole of premises rated to the relief of the poor, whether the rate was paid directly, or, by means 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 por—and what premises were not I —would be entitled to a vote. He had been confirmed in this interp re t at i on of the clause by a mem b e r of the executive in Lond on . w h o had been vis i t i ng him ; and if this definitio n were correct, was there any mem b e r of the chartist body w h o would not support it. (Cheers.) Mr. Taylor maintained, with much spirit, that if this proposition wou ld enfranchise from 23,000 to 25,000 of their fello w -t ownsmen, they ehoutd throw as id e a ll old differences, and g i ve a "long pull, and a strong p ull, and a pull alto ge th er, " to convert it into law . (Cuero.) He ridicul e d th e i dea that the Premier wou ld i n t r oduce any bill th a t cou l d commend itself to their acce ptance. Mr. Taylo r c l osed his remarks by appea li ng t o the working men of all shades of opinion to unite in a common effort t o o b tain an object which wou ld promote the benefit, lib erty, and happiness of all. (Ch eers .) Mr. BEDD OWS, who followed, hoed that every one present would g i ve a tangible proof of i ts a dh er ence to the principl es on which they unani mous, by taking tickets of membership, which had been provided for the purpose. ing would be held next week, The resolution was then put from the chair, and was carried by a loud shout ~ " •There were only 3 of Aye. or 4 dissentients. Mr. WRIGHT RIGHT afterwards intimated that another meet would be appeareda that t stepsto b e so 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. TRE POST OFFICE. the The Australian yesterday morning are ma.---ils which reached London received since thethe first which have been commencement of the new sys tem of preparing the improvement ails. while th e o vi the letters and newspapers obvious from the fact that wa thorn on board the packets ; and were placed in the hands for the metropolis for delivery withi n. a f of the letter-carriers af the m minu th te e s c a o f u t u e country, r ythe, already assorted, were forward s e e d f should be adopted with theothe r the new system by the early morning trains. It is very desirabl e those from India especially; b packet mails, and this cannot be done, unless on letters is made compulsory, st a stampsel e ea aresil y so to universally s ur r ut We understand that prepayment of postag© ch i g ell in v : t o: b it: a : l. a: Bcorrirtiessh raounnuireeddey;enar,notwdhawAltaihst the West Indies an postage ob regard to the packet mails from retard and Brazil, which consist pondence, facilities might be went of postage on letters by ' n for the prepay in Constantinople) post-offices (similar to the office r at those parts of the different epublics of North and South America and the pa packets call. Unpaid foreign West India Islands at which the mail letters in all parts of the globe the delivery ofth ec lengthorrespo o n f d t e i !g e e , occupied alter an in arrival of mails, from taxingii with and col lecting the postage. Thus th e the 4th ultimo, attributing the delayombay Times of complains that ten hours usually to this cause, the arrival of English mails anydelapse between the receipt of letters, and we believe that the d e l although in a less deg ree, in the Generalayswhich occur, Post-office, arise from the sam e source. From the annual in crease in the Post-office revenue the public are led to expect continual improvements i system, but there se ems to b e a fatal n our postal hesitation on the part of Mr. Rowland Hill, or his subordinates, to effect any change attende d with . additional ex penditure. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNK" LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTEIta RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Jan. 9, 1853 21.8,135 19 11 Corresponding week la st y ear Increase in 1858 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending J an . 9, 1858.. ................... £10,831 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 LUXEMBOURG BAILWAY.—Traffio return for the week ending Jan. 3, 1858...... £7B7 17 3 Corresponding week last year 635 17 3 I