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am Goat =ger, to •ley to be ilip Salt rk, Esq., (sign. Tilliam de [ajor. to accept it. Henry nder Jan. tc court, d 12, at the , Jan. 27 ict Court. ►n. 31 and and Feb. Feb. 28, xon, steel ►rch 3, at Lanark- sacks. r. N. , a slow de. e full rated shade more ling supply', iir demand. ..24s to 280 ..488 to Ns ..-1 to ..--4 store cattle, ish. A fair a numerous she stock r 0 d ; Irish, 31 veight who, Z per atone. in the per• old. 1 ; fat pork, IST. despatekei ing raalls.__ Nutt Mail due. I Feb. 9 Feb. 3 Jai.l9 Jan. 1$ IFeb. 1 ljan. 18 an, 28 Jan. 1$ !Jim. 16, Jai. 0 I:7lan. 26 as. if Feb. 5 lovezdue Ilan. 1$ au. 10 idan. 9 Feb.i 10 !Jan. 16 traordinarf 's delicione ion (dysper I liver cow. r the follow. 5. " Throe y neck and ay life very rry's health. Ross, Skit. indigestion, Barry's ex. .thol-street, S.—Gentle he u.matism• made me Indies had ha Barry's Chapman. 125.; 1211 e., Apt of post. t, London• Alibis, 60, 50, Oxford. iehopsgate• it Dublin. and Co. ; Sharp and at South- it Cumber* aester, of 6 luvre, Boil' daughter. Duse, Nor- Esq., of a Lrs. Edwd. at Christ -, R.N., to Nicholson, 7, Castle- Advocate, to William it Arbuth• yro, M.D., Lto, "Upper- A the 43d t Gilkei, of 76.. place, Geo. Tales, aged , the Rev. , E.R., co. actor of St• YOUNU r e, No. 112, county °I it Perth. o this day have been of barley, 11,345 qrs s of flour. of wheat, dian corn, has been ier. This attendance consump on: of last and barrel were 6d to nchanged ; f business ther lowa dance, and last week. oderate to ich a small ,arley, also, ather easier ged. 011 to 17s 6d Od to 19s 61 Od to 17s 6d Od to 19s 6d 6d to 20s Od Od to 484 Od Od to 35s Od Od to 42s 01 Od to 23s Od is 10d per lout muoh to fine dry bored. TWENTY-SECOND REPORT of the Directors of the COMMERCIAL BANK of LONDON, for the Half-year ending 31st December, 1859. At a Half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders, held at the Banking-house, Lothbury, on Tuesday, the 17th January, 1860, present the Directors and forty-seven Pro prietors, The advertisement calling the Meeting was read, and after. wards the following REPORT. The Directors have new to lay before the Shareholders of the Bank the Balance-sheet for the Half-year ending 31st De cember, 1859, exhibiting a net profit (including £1,014 10s. 10d., brought forward frem last half-year) of £11,243 9s. 2d., after paying all expenses of management, and making provi sion for bad and doubtful debts. This enables the Directors to recommend a Dividend for the Half-year, at the rate of .£7 per cent. per annum, payable on and after the 28th instant. The Dividend will absorb £10,500, and after allowing £3,459 4s. Ild. for rebate on current bills not yet due, a balance of £1,285 4s. 3d., will remain to be carried forward to the next half-yearly account. Edward Stillingfleet Cayley, Esq., M.P.. having resigned his seat in the direetion, - james Clay, Esq., 31. P., who is a duly qualified proprietor, offers himself as a candidate for the Vacant seat, pursuant to notice. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON. BALANCE SHEET TO 31sT DECEMBER, 1859. Da. Capital Subscribed £1,500,003 Capital paid up £2O each on 15,000 shares .... £300,000 0 0 Guarantee fund 75,003 0 0 Balances due to the customers of the bank Bat ance of undivided:profit, 30th June, 1859 Net profltfor the half-year end ing 31st December, 1859, alter paying income-tax and de ducting all charges and ex penses, and makinr, provision for bad wad doubtful debts Balance carried down 'X1,014 10 10 15,243 9 2 £1,368,557 17 4 CR. Cash in the Bank, and at call at the Bank of England, Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and Government Securities Bills discounted, loans on stock, and other se curities 1,166,152 1 6 Strong-room, fittings, and furniture (pre mises held on lease) 3,000 0 0 £1,316,55717 4 Dividend at the rate of V per cent. per an num, for the half-year ending 31st Decem ber, 1859 Rebate of interest on current bills carried to profit and loss new account 3,458 4 11 Balance carried to next half-year 1,285 4 3 £15,243 9 2 Balance brought down The Report and Balance-sheet having been read, 1. It was Resolved, —That the Report and Balance-sheet Just read, be approved, printed, and circulated amongst the Proprietors. The Chairman, Mark Hunter, Esq., on the part of the Di rectors, decl are d a Dividend on the Patd-up Capital of the Company at the rate of £7 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, free from income-tax, payable on and after Satur day, the 28th inst. 2. Resolved,—That James Clay, Esq., M.P., be elected a Director of this Bank, in the room of Edward Stillingtleet Cayley, Esq., M.P., resigned. 3. Resolved,—That the thanks of this meeting be presented to 'the Chairman and Directors, for their attention to the Affairs of the Bank during the past year. 6. Resolved,—That the best thanks of the Shareholders be given to tne Manager,alr. Cutbill. MARK HINTER, Chairman. nOMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON.—The L./ Directors hereby give notice that a DIVIDEND on the , ID-UP CAPITAL of the Company, at the rate of £7 per t. per annunt, for the Half-year ending2lst December, N. free from income-tax, will be PAYABLE at the Bank i4 in 'House, in Lothbury, on and after SATURDAY, the 28th glt.—By order of the Board. Ated 17th Jan., 1860. A. R. CUTBILL, Manager. NTICE OF DIVIDEND. -BANK OF )EPOSIT (Established A.D., 1244), No. 3, Pall-mall 1-7, , , , md0n, S.W.—The WARRANTS for the HALF -""-4.,Y INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, d ' "et , ' t Accounts, to the 31st December are ready for ellyer2and payable daily between the hours of 10 and 4. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Jinary, 1860. .._ . :artieqesirous of Inyeting Money are requested to ex *mine thplan of the BANK OF DEPOSIT. Proc , ectuses and forms sent free on application. BURR VS AND CO., Wholesale Wine Mer chants, LIVERPOOL. toms Lime-street. (Ices 54, Duke-street. PrOPrhors beg most resptfully to call the attention 6- 'ne trade, ntlemen, clero . y, &c., and the public in general, ee their extensve stock of Choice Wines, of rare vintages. P ll ultitowe ant Co. are not disposed to comment upon the arity of their rises, which is daily most laudably acknow aFed Ur the p blie and eminent medical men of all cotm th",. al the incr_asing ratronage of the highest families in , ind is a suflcient guarantee. wlueY b e i n g t particular attention to p erso ns ure Tonic nes, ao valuable to Invalids and of weak at oraaoho, v it t laraple ease, containing three full-sized wine bottles, I be forwardedto any address on receipt of P. 0.0. for 6s. e€ l „ Sr a dozen for Ms. It is a well-known fact that Impure and adulterated wines 4:re me greatest foes to health, producing acidity in the ach and debilitating. the d'gestive organs, while pure T aes wilt accelerate the digestive powers, i nv ig or ating, r engthening,and bracing theneryour system. Their Tonic Wine is admitted to be most essential to in hinds, both old and young, and should never be absent from the homes of the weak and sick'y. Its properties are duly IShnowledged and appreciated V the leading men of the faculty ' both at home and abroad . To prevent imposition each bottle is sealed with the name et the firm. All orders to be made payable be HENRY' BURROWS. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every person having an interest in domestic or farm animals 'amid obtain a supply of this celebrated and economical food, which will prove invaluable during the approaching teason. For keeping horses in good condition it is unequal- Pigs fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their fr Lah increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find q.a t t, advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua il :: nuik during ibe .00. locucatell Dy Teel Pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by txCitonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri itZta, forwarded on application. In casks containing '"ilw — ..!ialeasures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any waZabiz,Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders 4.jr „_(0 Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-street, London. qit e ,.'"rhe public are cautioned against being imposed upon 'Mess Imitations. Jd St P ublished, in 1 Yol., fiyo. with numerous Anatomical P lates, post free, on receipt of six penny stamps, V I TA VITALIS. A NEW MEDICAL WORK liPt ba on the NATURE, TREATMENT and CURE of knsp i dATORRII(EA, and other URINO - GENITAL aYs , p — t,U:S, and consequent exhaustioi of the NERVOUS 'RI. caused by the errors of Man in youth and EIA - tr, GTH, tedr2ducing a minatintcy inegenera of debility of then MENTAL an enerative or- PHYSICAL . 1 , Air,,l L nci INCAPACITY FOR MARRIED LIFE, chewing ew Diseases so often appear incurable when in reality te t Qall b. effectually removed by the most s im ple m eans, /c otton o! with the Author ' s remedies for &c., &c. (registered under the New atir ee i a a-cO. Address, Medicus, 19, Berners-street, Oxford xoji, -London. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lime, Pater- Ler-row and all Booksellers in Town and Country. NO MORE MEDICINE. IP BARRY'S HEALTH RESTORING FOOD, It:the REVALENTA ARABICA. fin—Wed it to be a- 5 01 y adapt ed to restore a h ealth on y action the stomach, W el % and bowels, and thereby to remote dyspepsia (Indiges -17:11), habitual constipation, flatulency, diarrhcea, dysentery, noises in biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, vwses in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, palpitation, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidit • , L al Pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, despondency, 'n l P l s spasms, nausea and sickness, sinking,fits, cough, nus, bronchites, consumon, also chtldren's com. tlaints, restoring, at about penny per meal, perfect diges rn, strong* nerves. sound limo's. refreshing sleep, and func tional regularity, without medicine. i n convenience or expense , the most disordered or enfeebled. Dr. Andrew Ure, 3I D., wit.S., Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Bright, Dr. Campbell , •L'r. Wurzer. e DR ( the oing P ) LlvrerGBTON' F s rom EXPLOR M AT rn IONS IN st VIE INTERIOR or hh CAL—The indef a ti ga bl e researc h es o f Dr. Livingston axe s uddenly made us acequaint e d w ith one of the happiest like 1 310 in the wor ld , o f w h ose very ex i s t eno e little ...hitherto known in civilised Europe generally. — The provin ce e l i r t V n ,oe of Angola, Dr. Livingston writes in the " Jour tatty a d 1 - 3 `°Yal Geocrraphieal Society," possesses gr eat fer n eauty, and eOntradietion'inref COmmercially a its capabilities,lofi a gricultu rally and Africa. Thea very high order ; indeed, I do not fear asserting it to be the richest in Western among this favouear:deelentifle traveller, who spent 18 years studying their phy a igr o Ple, has had ample opportunity of g neithral are most curious, The? and moral condition, and his details felicity, requirin g ear indeed to enjoy an Elysian Livingston found their p hysic nor the physician, for Dr. Ara bica staff of life to be the Revalenta Ara a Food, which keeps them perfectly free from disease, "con sumption, scrofula, cancer, &c., being scarcely heard of, and the small-p ox and measles have not known for twenty Years.' In England also the Revalenta Arabica has produced !wonderful improvement in the health of the people, remov 14' cough, consumption, asthma, debility, indigestion (dys- Pepsia), constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, and restoring the faculty of digestion, and nervous and mus cular energy to the mo s t en f ee b led, as proved by testimon i als fro m th e many thousand well known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, lifter all other means of cure had been tried in vain for many Years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. We extract few ex p ressi ons of gratitude from invalids thus cured. her No. 71, of Dyspepsia, from the Right Honourable 1.7 e Lord Stuart de Decies : " I have derived considerable 7,enefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Stuart de g e eles."—Cure No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony era yspepsia, nervonsuess, asthma, cough, constipation, Latulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, e been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria °II Y, Worthen Ling, near Dies. Norfolk."—Cure No. 42,0i7: teld.Marshal the Duke of Pluskow, of a gastric inflamma p"n of the stoalach.—Ciire No. 51,614 : Baron de Polentz, „refeet of Langenau, of many years' horrible sufferings of nerves and an obstinate constipation. Cure No. ' 721 General Baron de Zuluskowsky, of many ears' fearful disorders of the digestive functions.--Cure Waltham9. 47,121 : H i ss El i za b et h J aco b s, o f N az i ng V i carage, Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nervousness, C cli gestioa, gatherings, low sprits, and nervous fancies.— tire N o 48,314: Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Li- VrPool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of ,77rvone irritability.—Cure No. 18,216 Dr,*Andrew tire, of bn'tlnation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability.—Cure No. 34,210: t Shorland fi e dropsy and debility.—Cure No. 34,212 : Cap ea,,T, Allan, pileptic lits.—Cure 42,114 ; Major Edie, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength. " 6 No. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramp, spasms, 4 Te daily vomitings.—Cure No. 26,418 : Dr. Harvey, of c o t': h ( ca and debility.—Cure No. 39,418: Dr. Wurtzer, of 14 —n inPtion.—Cure No. 32,880: William Hunt, Es q., Bar u ter, of paralysis.—Cure —Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, le ' : be r'neercha, of Frimley, Surrey, 30 years' diseased spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. (tar! N . o. 51.816 : Mrs. Holze, aged - a I.o,7,Leaurse.l dyspepsia to K eg tion), debility,irritability enlented her for 70 years.—Cure No. 48,914 : Mr. Samuel Vstoe, Leicester of two years' diarrlicea.—Cure. No. 52,412 : v Dowag e r Cou ntess of Castlestuart, of many years' ner- Aurs irritability, bil e an d i n di ges ti on , C ur e N o . 54,812 : Miss ealP i nla Zeguees, cured of consumption, after her medi eureadvisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery.— ' stie„,,No• Twenty-five years' nervousness, eon set,7"oll, indigestion, and debility, from which I have 14 0 , -r ed great misery, and which no medicine could re gal, c ,or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Pi e r ( s Food in a very short time. W. B. R , eeves, 181, here:etreet, London."—No. 4,208 : " Eight years dyspepsia, whausness, d-bility, with cramps, spa sms, and nausea, for sa.,g l : ll y servant had consulted the advice of many, have been be h',," 411 Y cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. shall axeto answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Maven, exe&nelon Rectory, Norfolk." No. 37,8:16: " Three years' and " I Y O nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, Foorh uts general d e bilit y which rendered my life very miserable, en radically r emoved by Du Barry's health-restoring ?siCure Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen." - ,,Ae 0 . 1,906: Thirteen years' cough, indigestion. and gene- Pooi ebi ll l Y, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent R.. Canister s lib. 2s. od., 21b, 4s. fld., 1211 s. 225., 241 b. 40s. ire.rrefined quality : 51b. 225., 101 b. 335. The 10Ib., 1.1 b., and 11 1 .`" canisters carriage free on receipt of Post-offlee Order, by tia r :;Y 1111 Barry and Co. 7'7, ilierent-street, London ; Fort at _3lason, and Co., 18 - 2 , Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch ail:feet ; also at 63 end 150 Oxford-street, 330, Strand, 4, Cheap ' 4440 1 gild through all grocers and chemists. No. 21,083. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Illustrations, 215., PICTURES OF SPORTING LIFE AND CHARACTER. 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LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary Member of the London H osp it a l M e di cal Society,M.D. of the University of Erlangen, &c., ma y b e CONSULTED sat all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and the Soeret In firmities of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and front Six till Eight, at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La'nert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engraving's and Cases, a New Edition or his Work, entitled SELF-PRESERVATION, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope, by Mann, 39 Cernhill, London, or by the Author, to any address, for Eight stamps. CONTENTS. SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION IL—Puberty- Manhood -The Morale of Genera ive Physiology—True and False Morality. SECTION lll.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—kelvan tages of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring. SECTION IV.—Spermatorrhma and Impotence—The cause. of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties- Import mite of Moral Discipline I 'SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles of Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practice ~T ~~ ~ -7 1.3":4114 - /rut 44, 1 4 0 - t h " ,, V\ rnrs47, tt • rft , ) 'l l ll lg AS I •-• I I,: l "4 l ted 464t54 - 1.) 111 K. '44 41111 1 " ths, 4 4 Lr , ° i t? , a, , THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1860, applied, though they might not produce such splen did results, they would issue in great and consi derable advantage to themselves and to society. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Whilst on this sub ject he alluded to the death of Robert Stephenson and of Brunel; of Hallam and Macaulay; of Pres cott and Washington Irving; and lastly to the death of Dr. Erskine, late dean of Ripon, who had done so much to promote the education of the people in mechanics' institutes. (Applause.) He urged the necessity of studying political economy, in order to become aware of the action of social laws on society, and said that if the laws which governed the re!ations of capital and labour, as inevitably as those which governed the physical world, had bean as generally diffused and attended to, they would never have heard of the building strike with all its attendant miseries and heartburnings. A leader of that strike had said that if political economy was against them so much the worse for political economy. He might as well have said, on going into a district infected with fever, that if the fever seized him so much the worse for the fever. Political economy id not profess to discover any thing, but certainly to point out the laws which governed capital and labour—the relation between the employer and the employed. The better, there fore, they understood political economy, the better it would be for the country. Arising out of this subject were all those philanthropic questions for ameliorating the condition of the people, and amongst these he might mention the reformatory system as one in which he was more particularly interested. That system had originated in the con viction that it was wrong to treat the offences of a child in the same manner as those of an adult, and the consequent adoption of a mode of dealing with such offenders more in accordance with justice and sound political economy. The result, he believed, would be to strike at the root of a great portion of crime, and he hoped that these children, instead of passing from one offence to another until they reached the gallows, would be restored to society, and all the evils and cost of their crime avoided. (Applause.) He congratulated them on the general diminution of crime in the country, and on the national prosperity and the well-being of all classes, and continued by alluding to the mili tary spirit which had developed itself during the past year. Though that spirit had only been manifested during the last few months, it had long been preparing. In his opinion the English people had long watched the course of events on the Continent, and become satisfied that with the invention of steam they were not so secure as for merly in their little island home. At the same time the military spirit of the Continent al ways made it possible for some mad enterprise to be undertaken whenever England was thought to be insecure and undefended. Let it, however, be onto understood all over Europe that the military spirit of England was not extinct, that their youth were being trained to the use of arms, that they would submit to no foreign interference, but would defend their shores to the utmost, and they would hear little of threats of foreign invasion. (Hear, hear.) It was a truly pacific policy, for whilst valuable as a means of de fence, it could not be used for purposes of aggres sion. (Hear, hear.) He :was glad to see this apart from any notion of invasion, because th e id ea o f two civilised nations coming into collision with each other was so horrible that he hardly could contem plate it for a moment. (Hear, hear.) He concluded with a prayer that Providence would long forbid such a calamity. (Applause.) 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The disclo sures which had recently taken place in the investi gations at Gloucesterand Wakefield were an index of the state of those constituencies, th, disclosures sur prising even those who were familiarly acquainted with electoral tactics ; and when a House of Commons was returned like that, it was not surprising that charge; should be made against it, more especially upon looking at the large subsidies given to secure a majrority upon a critical division. (Hear.) There were other questions to be brought before the house deserving of attentive consideration, and among them was the Chinese war. That war had been terminated, and a treaty entered into between the Chinese authorities and Lord Elgin, which was deemed satisfactory ; but in attempting to compel tne signing of it a fresh outbreak took place. 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Milnes, M.P. for the bo rough, addressed the large audience. The hon. gentleman said he desired to express the pleasure which it afforded him to witness the increasing in terest manifested in these institutions. It was natural that this should be the case. The farmer when he put his seed into the ground expected to reap the fruit; and those connected with these institutions naturally expected that year after year would produce an increased interest in their wel fare, and that the young, growing up in life, would remember that they had derived advantages from them, and would induce others of the same age also to take advantage of them. (Hear, hear.) He did not know whether it was by accident or not, but it seemed to be the fact, that these meetings were held at the end of the old year or the beginning of the new, and he thought it was well that it was so, for there was no time in which thoughtful men could better meet together to take stock of the past and hope for the future. In truth, education, such as institutions of this kind professed to give, was really nothing more than year after year teaching them by tke dictates of experience, showing them that however much they might advance in years they might not always advance in wisdom ; and at the same time showing them that they really had as much to learn as the youngest child amongst them. (Applause.) The mayor and the vicar had alluded to the advantages of these institutions to all classes, and he might add that amongst the studies which were laid open to the members of them there was hardly one which did not receive some illustration from passing events. (Hear, hear.) It was important, no doubt, to study history, and, above all things, valuable to study and understand the history of their. own country, and especially the history of what was going on in their own day —of the events in which they themselves took part. (Hear, hear.) Somebody had said that if every man wrote a diary—no matter how unimpor tanttis sphere of duty and insignificant his acts, yet there would be a great interest at the end of the year in what he had recorded. How much greater, then, must be the importance and value of the events of 1 the stirring times in which they lived. (Hear, hear.) He did not know that he could do better that evening than direct their attention to the events which had occurred during the last 12 months of their existence. (Hear.) Perhaps the most eventful point of the year, constituting , as it were the turning point of the time, was the history of the rise and progress of the military and warlike spirit in Europe. They would remember that in the year when they visited the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, many of them in dulged in the belief that wars between civilised na tions were almost, if not altogether, at an end, and that they were to meet in a common jubilee of in dustry and amusement, but the dream had been dis pelled, and events had occurred which showed not only that their ambitions were the same, but that the difficulties and confusions of mankind were the same ; which showed also that in these times brute force could not be said to be more extinct than it was 100, they might even say than it was 1,000 years ago. The great event of the year had been the incursion in Italy by the French army, and the political consequences which had resulted from it. He was not going into disputed politics, but it would be remembered that when he spoke on this subject at the last election he found a gene ral accordance with his own views, namely, that while England hail a right to remain entirely apart from that contest, the sympathies of the country were on the side of the liberty and independence of the Italian people. (Applause.) And it was in teresting to see that how, without spending is. or risking a single drop of blood, the moral action of the English people, and their desire and hope had, whilst apparently doing nothing, maintained the power of this country abroad ; and the belief of the Italian people was that England was the best friend they had in the world. (Hear, hear.) He was one of the few persons who considered the peace of Villafranca much more for Europe and for Italy than was supposed. In the first place, he saw that the enormous bloodshed which had been going on was stayed,and next that the large district of Lombardy was taken away from a foreign nation and restored to a free and national government. These were great advantages, and he did not join in the outcry against the peace because everything was not gained that was hoped for and expected. That was the language he held in the House of Commons, and the events which had occurred had strengthened his conviction that he was right. Every month, every week, almost every day, deve loped and extended the prospects if Italian liberty and independence, and within the last few weeks there was every reason to believe that all that was attempted by that expedition was being realised without further bloodshed, and without further re course to arms. (Applause.) On the other side of the water, in the United States, there had also been a political difficulty, with respect to which he was happy to say the American Government had acted with great prudence, great good sense, and great confidence in the good intentions of England. (Hear, hear.) He was always glad when he could speak well of what he could not help calling his fellow-countrymen on the other side of the Atlantic. He might say, however, that in the progress of that great country it is more and more painful, though useful, to see how that unsocial and unchristian in stitution of slavery carried with it inevitable evils, confusion, and complication (hear, hear) —and however great the progress of that nation in other matters, yet the recurrence of such events as the outbreak at Harper's Ferry, against which there was no security, was a solemn warning to all man kind, that however great the progress of the nation, without social liberty, the permanent pros perity of a people could not be secured. (Ap plause.) Another subject of study demanding their attention was that of geography, which had been rendered necessary by the varied news from all parts of the globe, with which their newspapers now abounded. (Hear, hear.) In connection with this subject, he alluded to the important dis coveries of Livingstone and Burton, in open ing out a portion of Africa which had hitherto been supposed to be an uninhabited desert, and to the expedition of Captain M'Clintock in search of Sir John Franklin, which had resulted in the dis covery of the fate of that gallant explorer, and of the brave men who accompanied him. Another sub ject of study incidentally connected with laiptory was that of biography, affording them as it did a review of the lives of the great men whose career had closed on earth, but whose example was still before them. The extent to which biographies were read showed how anxious they were to know the circumstances under which others had lived. Englishmen were especially interested in the lives of those who had risen in life and who had been born in the lower classes of society. He remem bered once being in the society of a nobleman who who had risen to the highest judicial rank entirely by his own exertions, and who said, " I can con owe nothing happier than the life of a man who was born in the lowest condition of society compa tible with good education, and who through life has gradually risen to the highest position.' Such a man was George Stephenson, whose life every one ought to read. From that life they would see the advantage of a strong will acting in combina tion with good moral intentions and a high order of intellect. He admitted that such a high order of intellect could not be the gift of many, but there were many who had the same power of self-con trol, of resisting temptation,._ and of fixing their minds upon one subject, and if those powers were MR. CONING YAM .AND HIS CO2ITSTITU.ENTS. (From the Brighton Examiner.) The large upper room at the Town-hall was densely crowded on Monday evening to hear an address from our respected and Liberal member, Mr. Coningham, previously to the reassembling of Parliament for the ensuing session, in accordance with his promise to do so at the end of each session. The chair was occupied by Mr. M. Ricardo. Mr. CONINGIIAM was loudly cheered- on rising, and after thanking the meeting for accepting his invitation in such force, said the last time he had the pleasure of addressing them was on the occa sion of the elections. The Tory party deemed it necessary to make an appeal to the country against a verdict of the House of Commons, and Brighton, amongst a majority of the constituencies of this great kingdom, ratified that verdict. (Cheers.) The ques tion upon which that party were defeated was ostensibly a domestic one—the question of the Reform Bill, but a greater and a still more impor tant one lay behind it—it was the question of the foreign policy of the country. (Hear, hoar.) The policy of the Derby Government was essentially an Austrian one, not a Liberal one ; but one opposed to the opinions of the population of this mighty empire ; and if the people—he used the word in its broad sense—had not come forward, and de cided in the emphatic manner they did to put a check upon the game which the Tories were playing, England would have been within six months engaged in a war with Francs, a war which would have been fraught with dis astrous consequences to th e w h o l e civilised world. (Applause.) He had on many occasions most strongly expressed his conviction—and he repeated it—that the true peace policy is to keep in close alliance with that great nation, whose true interests were identified with our own. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was, th en , upon this question of foreign policy that the v o t e of "no confidence" was given in the House of Commons. Before the division took place a meeting was called by the Whig party; it was of the utmost importance that the whole of the Liberal party should be united on the vote about to be given, for a dozen votes would have turned the scale; and, therefore, it was most important that all should be consulted. The prin cipal movers were Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, who entered into a f u ll ex pl an ation of this foreign and domestic policy, and they pledged themselves, moreover, that the claims of the three parties into which the Liberals were divided should be represented in the Government which should be formed ; the Pealites and Radicals, or the more ad vanced portion of the Liberal party—and the Whigs were to be conside re d, an d h a ve their claims recognised in the formation, or rather, re-canstrue tion of the Administratio n ; an d h ow that promise was fulfilled every one present was well acquainted with. The Whigs, who seemed to think that place was their birthright, took the lion's share ; the Peelites, who, as a wag described them, were al ways putting themselves up t o auc tion and buying themselves in — (laughter) —were also fully , recog nised; but when the Radical or more Liberal party were to be consid ere d—th oug h th e y num bered four times as many as the others—Mr. Sib son was offered a place which was accepted, and Mr. Cobden was offered one ; but, as was antici pated, it was refused. (Hear.) Therefore, in the construction of the Government, differing but a very little from the old coalition one, justice was not done to the Liberal party. (Hear.) But it was not " place" which was wanted ; the possession of " place" was the possession of " power," and to this the Liberal party laid considerable claims ; and when vacancies took place, they should be filled from the Liberal party, and not be mere ministerial seats for family benefit. (Cheers.) S 3 much for the" party" question. The elections were a great triumph for the popular party of the country, in spite of. the influence of the Tories, the Court, and the Coburgs ; and the Liberals gained the day, and obtained a majority on their side of the House of Commons. The most important questions were then at stake; the movements of the French Emperor were assuming a very formidable appearance ; the expectations of the Italians had been aroused and excited ; he had been looked upon as the emanci pator of Italy ; and by a kind of electric influence, the whole of the Liberal party in Italy and Hun gary were aroused from their long slumber into action, and although the campaign was prematurely ended, there was sufficient feeling in the Hun garian nation and Scandinavian troops of Aus tria to show that the Austrian empire was very seriously compromised. It was unnecessary to recount the history of the campaigns which took place in the Peninsula, and he passed on to the more important question of the peace of Villa franca. It was true Napoleon appeared to give way to the Austrian, but it was clear that he had formed a resolution not to coerce the States of the Italian Peninsula, where the people had most unmistakeably declared themselves in favour of Piedmont, and for the formation of the northern States of Italy into a united kingdom ; and though it was impossible then to accede to that request, ultimately their wishes must be fulfilled. (Ap plause.) It was impossible for the Pope and the Kaiser to co erce th ose St a t es . A strugg l e was likely to be made by the Papal Government to still maintain its temporal power, but the existence of it was incompatible with the peace of Europe ; and he looked forward to no distant time to see the complete emancipation of the whole Italian Penin sula. (Applause.) Turning from our foreign policy to our dome stic . policy, Mr. Coningliam said it ap peared to him that we were approaching a session which was likely to be fraught with most impor tant results to the community. Though no mita upon mere littoral arrangements, but look more to substantial advantages to be obtained by the open ing of the Yang -tse•kiang, and the obtaining pos session of the Grand Canal, by which the revenues of the country would be at our disposal. Turning to our Indian possessions, we may view them with satisfaction—the mutiny had been successfully terminated by Lord Clyde's active exertions, by , which large 'forces would be at our disposol for hos tilities in China. Reverting to our domestic policy, the hon. member proceeded to say there was one question closely connected with representati on , and that was the system of taxation. H e confessed he had perused with great interest the scheme of Mr. Bright--(hear, hear)—but he did not agree in all the points ; still he thought the o u t cr y ma d e aga i ns t that gentleman most unwarrantable. (Cheers.) He believed Mr. Bright had given expression in many of his speeches to sentiments held by a very considerable portion of the population •, but with his financial scheme he (Mr. Coningham) was in doubt, for he did not think a tax upon fixed capital would be beneficial. (Hear, hear.) The duty on tea, coffee, sugar, &c., could only be re duced by retrenchment, and he hoped to see that; and also hoped to see that Mr. Gladstone would be able to bring forward a measure to abolish a most obnoxious tax—the paper duty. (Cheers.) It had been designated, and truly so, "a tax upon know ledge," and he believed th a t half the misery in the world was occasioned by ignorance—(hear, hear) — therefore every means to dispel that ignorance should be used, and a repeal of the paper duties would bring a newspaper to every man's door. (Hear, hear.) There was one more point in the catalogue of Liberal policy to which he should re fer—that was the ballot. The history of that ques tion was a very strange one. Sometimes the ques tion appeared to be gaining ground, then it receded, then it recovered its position, and again died away as if there was a want of sincerity in the demand for it. He was not aware that Government were prepared to take action upon it, and he thought it must remain an open question, for even the Liberal party themselves were divided in opinion respecting it. He had ever bee' a strong advocate for the French alliance, but that opinion was not shared by many people of this country; many distrusted, and not without considerable ' , rounds, the friendship of the Emperor of the Fren c h ; but this final step which he had taken was calculated to promote good feel ing between the two countries. (Cheers.) If free trade be opened between France and England they will take our raw material in exchange for their manufactured article; and that would conduce greatly to that wise policy of peace which he hoped would prove successful. And as the Emperor had shown himself thus far sincere in his desire to re- __ . .... concile the interests of the two nations, England was bound to make use of her powerful influence in behalf of those depressed countries now struggling for liberty. (Hea:, hear.) Mr. Coningham next dwelt upon the blow which Louis Napoleon had dealt the Pope, one which he trusted the Papacy would never recover, because a Government which possessed such a baneful influence and exercised it was a curse upon the people under it. (Applause.) He was making no appeal to religious fanaticism, but what he said was the conviction of his mind ; and he was convinced that the Papal Government and the principles it embodied were incompatible with liberty, and Europe would have to choose be tween Liberty and Papacy, for if the Pope and the Kaiser were successful they would bind the hands and the souls of men in a darkness which would diffuse itself throughout the whole of Europe ; and he could not believe that was the destiny of those mighty nations. (Applause.) The honourab'e member proceeded to show why France and England could not quarrel ; and after urging upon the constituencies of England to call for .a real reform bill and not take a sham one, he concluded with a few observations upon America, remarking that no nation rhich encouraged slavery could do well. They might hang that noble fellow John Brown, but they could not prevent the result of his martyrdom. (Appl Luse.) He was mistaken, and did not set to work in the right way, but he was sincere and honest in what he did, and if there were a few such men there would soon be freedom on the European continent, and even on the other aide of the Atlantic. Mr. Coningham again thanked the meeting for their attendance and attention, and resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. Lieut.-Colonel FAWCETT, after some observations, moved the following resolution :—" That this meet ing returns its thanks to Mr. W. Coningham, our excellent representative, for the bold exposition of his political views; and also expresses its cordial approbation of the general course of conduct pur sued by him in Parliament." Mr. Alderman BURROWS seconded the motion. Mr. HOMEWOOD, a railway operative, said he was rather disappointed that Mr. Coningham did not touch upon the question of taxation, and would like to hear his opinion thereon •, and also upon church rates. Mr. Coningham had said that it did not appear that the people in this country wished for the ballot, because they made no demonstration for it ; but he (Mr. Homewood) thought the people wanted it the more for that, because they were too intelligent to rabble and mob for th a t w hi c h th ey believe to be just and belonged to them. (Cheers.) Mr. CONINGIIAM rose to give a few words of ex planation to the observations of Mr. Homewood; and said, upon the question of the income tax, and its unfair pressure upon certain clauses of the com munity, he for one was as strongly opposed to it as any one could be, if the credit of the country could be maintained consistently without it. He believed that an income tax was less injurious than a direct tax upon capital. With regard to the question of retrenchment, he was not acquainted with any mem ber of the house who had expressed himself more strongly upon the question than he had ; and he was free to say that the boundless prodigality of the House of Commons it was impossible to conceive until one had sat in it for some time. (Hear.) Millions were voted away as though they were so many pence. The reason for this prodigality had been clearly pointed out by Mr. Bright on various occasions. The words which he (Mr. Coningham) had inscribed upon his banner were " Reform, Re trenchment, and Peace." With regard to the ques• tion of church rates he need only refer to the part he took with respect to the resistance of the rates in Brighton. As to the ballot, he had always voted for it, and he had also subscribed to the Ballot Society—(cheers)—and on every occasion, when he had had the opportunity, ho had always expressed a most decided opinion in its favour. (Cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried unani mously, amid loud and reiterated cheers. The meeting then separated. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—A distressing accident occurred on Monday at Treborough, near Dunster, Somer set. Mr. Henry Paul, wine and spirit merchant, of Clifton, who had been on a visit to his brother-in-law, Mr. Fuidge, of Treborough, went out shooting, and in the course of the day, having discharged one of the barrels of his gun, pro ceeded to reload it, unmindful that the other barrel was charged and the trigger at half-cock. The accident, which has frequently before occurred, happened in this instance. On the insertion of the ramrod the loaded barrel exploded, and its contents, entering the eye of the unfortunate gentle man, completely blew off the upper part of the head , and death was of course instantaneous. Mr. Paul, who held a high position among the trading community of Bristol, and was universally respected, has left a widow and a large. fAntily to deplore his untimely death. V,...‘ "'>------- ••e -.- z-------) iNEViI',PAPEIi rz , the Austrians l •- , taught to - e''` 4- 441 -s i' .., 1, a . e _ ..-.- ---- badly, trying in vain to hit fi-: il t *4 .74,V114f- , I ,_, which came nearer and neareic . -_!, 44..ir7./i.' , . ~7-2-.-:- *4 . . • . made to stop them. There \akts.4-11 - 1114 1* 4 1 i_ + see , is, t :._. __ a chance—they would form, and thdtala 411.1,-ei volley close at them would throw them back ; this --...., —.....~ at least, they had been taught to believe, but alas even this doctrine turned out untrue, for there was ' I VI.PED , b no forming from beginning to end, and thus no -----...:--- occasion left for formidable volleys. The French I) I were not such fools as to wait for voll e y s . E very one tried to avoid them, and they were upon the Austrians before the latter had tune to prepare. It was against all the rules of warfare, and showed clearly that the French, including their famous Garde Imperiale, had been schooled among the savages of Africa, and not in civilised warfare. How different for a truly military eye were those splendid lines of Austrians, when they cone on in martial array to make an offensive return ! The earth trembled under their military step; they looked like the elephants of Pyrrhus, ready to break through iron barriers ; but what could they do against those pointed missiles with which the air swarmed, and against which nothing could protect them ? They had those missiles likewise, but what was the use of them against men who had taken care to find some tree, wall, or ditch behind which they could not be reached, where they loaded their rifles and jumped out only to fire them off? Be fore the wall had approached half way it was a ruin full of chinks wider than that through which Pyramus talked to Thisbe. And yet the average height of the Austrian soldier surpasses that of the French by several inches. Now, I don't deny that a mass of - men six feet high looks more imposing than one composed of men only five feet three or four; but to reckon on imposing on active, agile enemies by these means is carrying the Chinese system of frightening by horrible pic tures rather too far. As the average height of Eng lishmen is more than that of their neighbours, so there is no necessity of picking out smaller men than the average ; but a higher standard than the average of the population shows the love of immovable ma chines, and the predilection for the exploded Pata gonian system. How far this prejudice exists still, in spite of the dictates of common sense, appears best from the Marines, who, intended as a kind of naval infantry doomed to live on board ship and do all manner of sailors' work, surpass in height every infantry regiment with the exception, per haps, of the Foot Guards. It is true many tall men may be made into as active soldiers as smaller men, but tall men are not chosen in the British army for their activity, but for their height alone.. The result of all this is that the ideas now preva lent in recruiting about the physical qualifications of the soldier must be as much changed as the rest of the recruiting system. The test ought not to be a certain height, but the general conformation of the body to make a hardy, active, strong soldier. This test, more adapted to the present circumstances, will likewise bring in an additional number of re cruits, who are now excluded because they have not the required height. The foolish idolatry of silmust be given up, no t only for infant r y, b u t for ev ery other arm where it exists not less. If the old musket was sufficient to give the pre-eminence to infantry above all other arm of the service, the rifle is calculated to increase this even more, and oblige the cavalry and artillery to follow the direction given by the improvement in the infantry. The old dispute about light and heavy infantry is practically solved by the introduction of the rifle, which admits of no other but the first species, in opposition to the former system, which relied chiefly if not exclusively on heavy infantry. This change must be followed by a corresponding one in artillery and cavalry, else the latter become useless. The old field-gun, heavy and of short and inaccurate range, is utterly powerless against well drilled riflemen. No battery, however well h andled, would be a match for a company. The efforts of the boased Austrian artillery during the late war wore positively ridiculous ; they seemed to carry it with them to afford trophies for the French. That re spectable old yellow war engine, incapable of get ting over a ditch or woll 'lag in heavy ground, compelled even the Austriuns to hasten to adopt the light rifled gun which their adversaries had brought into the field. The success of Armstrong's gun, the necessary consequence of the introduction of the rifle, has decided the question in England, and now it re mains only to recognise the principle which it car ries with it. It abolishes heavy artillery, and it is necessary to do away with heavy artillerymen. The artillery had a plausible pretext not to remain behind the other arms of the service in size, although, even with the old description of gun, it is as diffi cult to see how far size in the horse artillery in fluenced the quickness and precision of firing as it is to calculate how far the " Busby" promoted this object. " Agility, and not weight," whistles the Enfield rifle ; and "agility and not weight," booms the Armstrong gun. Whatever the proverb Bart, in this race the palm is not for the tortoise. With infantry and artillery light, active, and deadly from a great distance, heavy cavalry is a self evident absurdity. If the4elative superiority of weight and speed is upset AT the other arm of the service, in the cavalry it is . ten times more so. So elear has this been made by the last war, that among the changes to be introduced in the Austriaa army the abolition of the cuirassiers is reported to be one of the first. Even when soldiers were armed with flint-locks authorities differed about the break ing of infantry lines or squares, although every one agreed that it was the fire, and not the bayonet, which made this experiment difficult. How much more is this the case now needs no demonstration. If the cavalry was ineffective in the late war, it must not be inferred that cavalry will be hencegrth use less, or that there was no opportunity for using it in the plains of Lombardy. The Campo di Medole is as magnificent ground for cavalry evolutions as any that could be wished for, but neither of the two armies had as yet understood how to adapt the movements of cavalry to those of riflemen and rifled guns, and thus to give to cavalry an importance such as perhaps it never had. Hence the numerous attempts at cavalry engagements resulted in a desultory skirmishing, and more than one observer carried away the idea that the sooner the use of cavalry is confined to patrolling the better it will be. But, even if they had not reckoned on the changed circumstances, both parties instinctively divined the inutility of their heavy cavalry, which was left altogether in the background, while, even according to the articles of belief of the old school, the only use of heavy cavalry is in a pitched battle, and any other duty spoiled it. The rifle places heavy cavalry in the same position as the English bow did the knights in full armour. . ak Cavalry, eef iii infantry oier to an be d effective , the wake artillery—sacrificemustfolwloewighint to speed and agility. Whether with men as nearly as possible six t f h ee is t hcia.gnhble leave If I have made myself clea rl y. to the common sense of a nation of horsemen. understood it will be seen that it is not so mtuhcaht aga inst these remarkssi ze a s such ar are under any circumstances made, but against the hobby of sacrificing all other considerations to the six-feet idolatry. Every one must see that activity and agility being aimed at n ow, as i m mobility was forme r l y , h e i ght alone is no longer a test for the physical qualifications of the soldier, and the sooner this test is done away with the sooner another link is broken which binds British military organisation to exploded notions. It will be the first step to overthrow the acquired taste for what is called smartness, a kind of clock work movement which is supposed to insure the efficiency of the soldier, and which must follow flogging before the British soldier will be what he so easily might become, superior to any other in `,he world. - -----, PRICE 4 D • STAMPED, SD. RETURN OF COUNT C4VOUR 10 PO TY ER. out the _Daily Nom) We receive from Turin the important intelli gence of the resignation of the Ministry of General Della Marmora, and the return of Count Cavour to power. The fallen Ministry was not wanting in patriotism. It accepted office at a time of great and general discouragement ; and throughout its course it has had to contend with unusual difficulties. Its caution and patience were most useful in the dark days which succeeded the Peace of Villafranca. But it outlived the circumstances which gavo value to these qualities. Its caution became pusillanimity, and its patience often looked like servility. It has not only been unequal to the task of leading Italy, but in tho general recovery of national spirit it per mitted itself to be left behind. Under its adminis tration Piedmont was rapidly losing its influence in the Peninsula, while its unconstitutional activity at home, manifested in the unnecessary multiplica tion of laws which ought to have been reserved for the deliberations of the Chamber of Deputies, dis satisfied the Sardinian people. The growing dis content of the nation has found abundant expres sion in the English press, so that this morning's intelligence from Turin can take no one by sur prise. But in the eyes of Italy perhaps the greatest fault of General Della Marmora and of Signor Rat tazzi was that they occupied a place which by every title belonged to Count Cavour. NO other states man is competent to direct the affairs of Piedmont in the present crisis. Great difficulties have yet to be overcome—difficulties which only a man able to oommand the full confidence of the Italiannation can hope successfully to take in hand. Should no untoward event hinder the formation of a Cavour Ministry, we shall see Sardinian policy putting on its old vigour and directness, to the immense ad vantage of Italy, and of every European State. (Rom the Tines.) On every side we find proofs that the reactionary policy which had been pursued by France and im posed on Sardinia since the agreement of Villafranca is giving place to one bolder and more liberal. We are able to announce to-day that the Ministry of M. Ratazzi has resigned, and that the King has charged Count Cavour with the formatiz,n of a new Cabinet. This event will fill the friends of Italy with courage, for it indicates that the pressure has been taken off Sardinia—that the King is now able to take a truly national course. The statesman who guided the councils of Victor Emmanuel dur ing the long and dark period which preceded the late war, and who re ti re d i n i n di gnat i on an d de spair when Austria, defeated in two great battles, had yet managed to obtain th e con fi rma ti on o f h er dominion i n Italy, is now restored to. the place which no one but himself can worthily fill. Count Cavour returns to power at a moment when France and England are united to recognize the Central Italian State, and when the Pope shows that he has lost all hope of cajoling the French ruler by the manner in which he inveighs against his almost acknowledged acts. It is but fair to presume that this important step has not been taken without due consideration, and that it has the acquiescence of the French Government. What opinion must we, then, form of the consequences of this change ? It is evi dent that it is the signal for a more decided action on the part of Victor Emmanuel, and the direc tion of this action can scarcely be doubted. Sar dinia must be destined to have a more immediate influence in Central Italy than has yet been allowed her. Count Cavour would hardly have taken office on any other terms. He abandoned power because his cherished hopes of Italian independence under the leadership of his country had been crushed for the time, and he can hardly take once more the reins of government without some assurance that Piedmontese policy shall again be recognised as that most fitting for Italy. Whether his appoint ment be the result of a direct understanding that Victor Emmanuel shall finally accept the sove reignty of Central Italy remains to be seen. We think that this would be the best solution of the question ; for, though there are, no doubt, jealou sies between Italian provinces, they aro certainly not greater than those which existed between the three kingdoms of these islands for long after their union ; and the firm, temperate rule of a Constitu tional Sovereign, avoiding all undue centralisation, would in the end satisfy both Turin and Milan, Florence and Bologna: These events, however, are as yet part of the future ; we must be content with congratulating ourselves that an important advance has been made, and that the independence of Italy may now be considered as secure. IffILIT4RY ORGANIZATION. ,FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT LATE WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY.) • We laugh at the ingenious devices by which the agents of Frederick William I. of Prussia kid napped giants all over Europe for the Grenadiers of Potsdam. and we laugh still more at the expedients adopted by this monarch for propagating forcibly this race of giants, and thus ensuring the continua tion of this wonderful corps d'elite. We pity the poor benighted king, and yet, strange to say, we try to ape him as far as our means allow. It is still the pride of the British army to have an aver age height of several inches above any other army, and any reduction of the standard height is re garded by all true believers as a symptom of de generation. Many a strong, active young man is rejected because nature has made him a little shorter, although perhaps more capable of enduring fatigue. Every commander of a regiment thinks it a point of honour to excel all his colleagues in this respect; infantry, cavalry, and artillery vie with each other to surpass the rival arm. That more than a century ago a narrow-minded, obstinate despot should think of becoming great by this Patagonian system is not only not surpris ing, but shows, on the contrary, that in spite of all exaggeration he understood and followed the spirit of his age, and laid down the foundation for the superiority which the Prussian army acquired under his son ; but that this worship of the great, or rather the tall, should be so blindly adhered to by a nation in most things so far ahead of others as the British is, and in the second half of the 19th century —the age of rifles and rifled guns, is an anachro nism which will give considerable material for mer riment when it shall be related by the Carlyles of the 20th century. The more perfect arms of projection become, the smaller are the chances of weight against speed and agility. With clumsy flint locks, almost harmless beyond 50 yards, and with unwieldy cannon not much more effective, bullets and balls played the same part as the short javelin of the Romans did ; they were a kind of preparation for the real work which was done by the bayonet. It showed, there fore, a groat deal of sense to try and get Patago nians for soldiers, and make them into an iron spiked wall, by which to bear down the adversary. With rifles deadly at 800 and more yards, ie the hands of men almost sure of their aim ; with rifled guns, ranging to several thousand yards, and al most unerring, the relative position of the bayonet and the missiles must be reversed. The real work is done by the last, and not by the first, which be• comes at most an auxiliary means to complete de feat. With the reversal of this relative position, that of weight and speed is likewise upset, so that, as formerly the organisatioa relied chiefly, if not ex clusively, on the first, it must now do everything to increase the last. The desultory firing which played such a conspi cnous part in old battles becomes every day more impossible. No two lines of infantry could now fire at each other for honrs as they did in olden times. The late Italian war, in which for the first time the improvements in the arms of projection came to a trial on a grand scale, can leave no doubt about this. All the fights, from beginning to end, consisted of a succession of attacks on both sides, in which the advantage remained to him who had the superiority in firing and the greater agility. It was curious to watch the difference in this respect between the two armies—the French, opening out in shockingly loose order, rushing and cr in creeping turn, spying out, taking advantage of every little obstacle which came in their way, and going out of their way to reach it, and all the - while firing and loading as fast as they could, diminishing thus the chances of the fire of the Austrian line, protecting themselves, and causing considerable havoc among the enemy, and getting closer and closer upon him; THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OP M. MASSEY O'GRADY.—The Cork Examiner states that • letter has been received in that city from a, lady in the county of Limerick, the wife of a stipendiary magistrate, stating that the body of Mr. Massey O'Grady, /shoes name a i stood second on the list of sheriffs nominated . r the county Limerick for the present year, and whose m sterious die. f appearanc e some short time since was ann anced in the public journals, had been found buried, and lat no doubt exists that the unfortunate gentleman had bten Innrdered• The letter adds that four persons had been tuweeted:on ens picion. Bfd I Od sid 10Id lid 1014 qrs.