The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-26 00:00:00

THE ALMADA SILVER MINING COX PANT (Limited). Registered under the Companies' Acts 1662 and 1567. Capital £75,000, in 7,500 Shares of £lO each (of which 4,000 Shares are agreed to te taken, inciuding the Shares to be transf rred to the Vendors in part payment, and 3,50 . 0 are offered to the public). Deposit on Application,„ . £l per Share ; Payment on Allol meat, £1 lOs. per Share. The remaining Instalments will be payable as follows : On the 20th day of May, 1869 £2 10 0 On the 20th day of August, 1869 2 10 0 On the 20th day of January, 1870 But Shareholders to be at liberty to pay op in full, and re ceive 5 per cent. interest on Calls paid in advance, in which case Share Warrants to bearer will be issued. he Vendors to the Company have agreed to forego all profit for the sale of their contract entered into with the owners in Mexico (subject to the payment of the original purchase-moneys and exploration expenses, amounting to £43,000, payable as follows—Viz., £20,000 in 2,000 fully paid-up Shares in the Company, and £23,000 by instal ments, until the Shareholders have received back their entire subscriptions in full, and 5 per cent. per annum in terest thereon, after which the profits are to be equally divided between the Shareholders and such Vendors, when fully paid-up Shares will be issued to represent tho Ven dors' moiety of the property). The Deposits will be returned unless two-thirds of the Capital, exclusive of the Vendors' Shares, be applied for and allotted. DIRECTORS. George Curnow Hockin, Esq., Director of the Anglo- Mexican Mint Company. Robert Wallen Jonee, Esq., 7, Ormonde-terrace, Regent's. park. William Julius Marshall, Esq., Auditor of the London Bank of Mexico and South America. Shairp, Esq., 25. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park. (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. The National Provincial Bank of England. BROKERS. Messrs. Irving and Slade, 1, Copthall-court, E.C. CONSULTING ENGINEER. John Petherick, Eq., F.G.S., M.E. SOLICITOR. V. A. Morgan, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, E.C. k SECRETARY. H. G. Denniss, Esq. OFFICES. 1, Winchester-building., E.C. This Company is formed for purchasing and working the celebrated Almada Mines situated in the important mining district of Alamos, in the State of Sonora, one of the richest districts for Silver in Mexico, about seventy miles from the seaport town of Ajiavampo, on the Pacific Coast. The property consists of the Mines " Compania, Mina Grande, and Providencia," all on the same lode, and 20,000 acres of grazing and arablo land, timber for fuel, a reduction-yard, and a very substantial residence and store house. This property was recommended for purchase by Mr. John Petherick, F.G.S., and Mr. J. P. Clemes, M.E., the well-known wining engineers, after personallyinspecting it, as possessing more commercial advantages than any other of the numerous mines they had carefully examined, in this and the neighbouring districts. Tho conclusions arrived at by Messrs. Petherick and Clemes have been confirmed by subsequent workings in these and the adjoining mines. The lode which exists in the bottom levels of the "Mina Grande" has been cut in the adjoining mine about 70 yards distant from the boun dary of the "Providencia" Mine, and is reported, on re liable authority, to be of the width of 40 feet, which is about the same as that of the " Mina Grande" lode. It is estimated that the annual profit from working the Providencia and Mina Grande Mines, after development, from a yield of 5,000 tons of ore, will be from 20 to 25 per cent. on the capital of the Company, and it is probable that larger returns may be realised within a reasonable period aftter the opening of the Mines. The retorted reduction of duties by the Mexican Government on Silver, since the date of the original Report, will materially im prove the estimated profits of these Mines. These estimated profits are based on the small quantity of 5,000 tons of ore per annum, from a lode 40 feet wide. But from such lode the production of 40 tons per diem, or 12,000 tons rer annum, would be only a moderate re turn, and it is therefore fair to assume that the profits may be considerably in excess of the above estimates. There is a good waggon road all the way from the foot of the Mines to the coast. The neighbourhood is populous, fertile, and very healthy. Ordinary mining labour is abundant at about two shil lings per day. Mr. Petherick's Reports, and subsequent Verifications and Letters, Form of Memorandum. and Articles of Asso ciation, and above named Original Agreements may be seen on application at the Offices of the Company. Full Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be ob tained at the offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Bankers. PER CABLE.) from Mr. Fitzhugh, New York, to Mr. Power, London, dated 28th January, 1869 : " Patchin writes, ' Tirito Tunnel will soon reach Pro videncia. Produces sixty dollar ore, enough for 30 stamps.' " MEMORANDUM....The above would be about 30 tons per day, or at the rate of 9,000 tons per annum, worth £lOB,OOO sterling. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CIIERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. hsve at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red B ull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street Loudon. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattArton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 1.6 till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS OF THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. Followed by, at 7.45, MACBETH: Mr. Dillon ; Messrs Ryder, H. Sinclair, J. Rouse, Barrett, M'lntyrc, &c.; Mrs. Howard Paul, Miss Poole, Miss M. O'Beirne. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled DA. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. gi THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND : Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &e. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c,: Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. essra. Comp ton. Kendal, Weathersby, Bnckstono, jun., itc. ; Mesdames Caroline Hill, Slott, Gwynn, etc. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YiIIIR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. /It 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining T HIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, a new Drama, in four acts, entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen, Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. Ooors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5. Box-office open OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Et, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. 4THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs fAsrke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Mihail and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF Tl, E CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland. &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. The most varied Entertainment in the metropolis.—THlS EVENING, Herr Oscar Carre will introduce his Six splendid Trick Horses—Topaze, Saladin,• edjid, Tancredi, Freischutz, and Abdallah—pronounced by the entire Press to be matchless for symmetry, breeding, and intelligence In a dition, tho incomparable Scenes in the Anna, including Engand's Champion Equestrian, Mr. A. Bradbury, Mr. A. Carre, Ur. A, Salamonsky, Dldlles. Salamonsky , Montero, A malia, Schwartz, and Krembser, "The trick h orses a re magnificent animals, every lover of horses shored make it a special duty to witness the stud."—Standard. "Many persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti's singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per flrmances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0, BROWN AND THE .BRAHMI S Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GEORGE'S HALL, Resent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in tbo annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company- made such a decided nit. Every song was encored, on the first night of performance. 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At a quarter to 8, MARIE A`•TOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. T. G. Shore, Mr. Dominick Murray; Mdlle. Beatrice. Conclud ing with A CUP OF Tr A: 31dEe.Beatrice. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. TIM EVENTNG, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMIL..RWELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 15 to 8. THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling, G. Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Tlenrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanborotigh. THIS EvENtso. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Baton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, Tames, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall. Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. TITTS EVENING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Mes:a's. J. L. Toole, L. Brough H. Irving. S. Emery, Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tuts EItFNING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAID. Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. After which, FETTER ED: Messrs. Cowper, eville, Parselle, Drew, Brunton, W. Arthur, Bartleman. and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Josephs. To conclude with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, George Honey. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, SLASHER &CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan, G. Vincent, fie. ; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan, H. Ne•ille, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson; Mesdames Furtado, Schavey, N. Harris, and St. Henry. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss IL Oliver. TH7B EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. PIII/siCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. tinder the Management of M iss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WLNNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tan EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, &c. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GIcAND DUTCH—S. CBBISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and t'aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE THREE BALLET 4 . Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-offlce open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-path, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, le.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 641. 479 . 7. .14g "de: Jr_ OP LONDM, FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 1869. The speeches delivered at the banquet g iven by the Associated Chambers of Co mm erce to Mr. BRIGIIT will be read with considerable interest. There are many important commercial measures which not only concern our manufacturers and traders, but which affect more or less powerfully the general public. A meeting which should elicit the views of two states men like Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE and Mr. BRIGHT upon such questions could not therefore fail to excite a lively interest. The value of these Chambers is becoming more and more widely recognised, and although there is undoubtedly scope for improvement in their constitution, and there may be some ground for Mr. BRIGHT'S remark that they are too apt to confine themselves to the discussion of secondary subjects, yet they have done good service in our generation, and played no unimportant part in the legislative reforms of the last twenty years. So fully has their beneficial influence been recognised, that efforts are now being made to form agricultural boards of the same character, with the view of supporting sound principles, dissemi nating useful knowledge, and, generally speaking, for warding the agricultural interests of the country. The representation of different opinions, the free and un biassed discussion of public questions by those quali fied to form an opinion, arethe fundamental principles on which the whole of our legislation is based, and these Chambers of Commerce have been not inap propriately called commercial Parliaments. Mr. BRIGHT, the other evening, expressed a wish that we could give them what has been given to another Par liament—a more extended suffrage and a wider repre sentation, so as to make them more really represen tives of commerce, and their voice more potent in the offices of Ministers and the Chambers of the Legis _ Mr. BRIGHT'S suggestion towards the attainment of so desirable an end was not un worthy of the serious attention of the asso ciated Chambers. He remarked that if the great annual meetings, instead of being held in the metro polis at the opening of the Parliamentary Session, were held in one of the great commercial towns during the 'recess, their proceedings attract a larder r d shhareme cfore fully reported, and would the this v in n the annual attention. We have instances annual meetings of the associationsfor o advance ment meut of science and the development of soc ial know ledge. The speeches are read with interest, the sub jects of the sections discussed, the arguments weighed, the new schemes examined, because men have no lature. more pressing and .exeitiag objects to engross their thoughts and divert their attention. If the autumnal meetings of these societies were to be transferred to London in the spring, we apprehend that much of the eloquence of the addresses would pass unnoticed, and the wonderful plans by which all social inequalities :.:.re to be forthwith adjusted would cv;:n rake a strdle. Mr. BRIGHT made another suggestion which the Chambers would dc, well to notice. lle observed THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1869 that the Chambers often consumed much of their time in the discussion of questions which were after all of secondary importance, while greater matters were left untouched as above or beyond their pro vince. It had been objected, said the member for Birmingham, that great questions belonged to the Legislature only, but he would ask what Parliament would be without the public opinion, which not only instructed it but pressed it forward ? Parliament, indeed, is only the reflection of the public opinion of the country. Its members are chosen to re present the collective wisdom and en lightenment of the people, and it seldom happens that its place in the path of progress is far in advance of an enlightened public conviction. Mr • BRIGHT, in referring to the two greatest questions settled in our time—Free-Trade and Parliamentary Reform—pointed out the important part played by the pressure from without upon Parliament. With regard to the repeal of the Corn Laws, indeed, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce took a prominent position. In 1839-40 the Manchester Chamber, after , three day's anxious deliberation, passed resolutions condemning the law which prohibited the importation of corn. " When I went to the House of Commons, 25 years ago," said Mr. BRIGHT, " there were not a hundred men in it who could have been induced by any argument, though one had risen from the dead, to rote for the repeal of the Corn Laws. Within a very short period you could have had but a very small vote in the House of Commons in favour of such an extension of the franchise and of political power as we now have. Therefore, unless there be an out side influence that can fill the sails, unless there be something that can at the same time instruct Par liament, why Parliament is no better than a ship without a rudder and without canvas, waterlogged, floating helpless, no better than a wreck on what I may call the ocean of time." The late discussion on the local burdens in the Commons gave Mr. BRIGHT another theme, an&he declared the pauperism of the country to be the great problem which sooner or later must be solved. Why, he asked, should not such a question as this come under the notice of the Chambers of Commerce, whose members were the great employers of labour, and who, coming constantly into contact with the labouring classes, knew and understood the evils which existed in their midst ? The scheme of an ocean postage, we are glad to find, received cordial encouragement from the new President of the Board of Trade, and he spoke ad visedly when be expressed his conviction that such a reduction would eventually be not only possible, but profitable. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, in the course of his brief but sensible address, humorously advised Mr. CHAMBERS to make the new President's life a burden to him until he had succeeded in impressing upon his colleagues what the country wanted, and the Attorney-General repeated the amiable advice with respect to the Bankruptcy Bill. From what the learned gentleman said on the sub ject we may hope that he is prepared to deal with it in a vigorous and efficient manner, and the willingness which he expressed to receive any suggestions from commercial men showed that he fully appreciated the practical difficulties of the question. Chambers of Commerce may not, indeed, be the proper arena in which to define the actual course of national legislation on such matters, but they can do good preliminary service by sifting the evidence and collecting the arguments on both sides, by pressing on the notice of the Legislature those questions which belong to no party, and which are, therefore, very likely to be thrust aside in the heat of political strife, and by representing with accuracy and impartiality the sound and practical convictions of a large and influential section of the community. THE enterprising Frenchman who undertook the stupendous' work of joining the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and thus completing a short highway of water to India, has in one most important par ticular completely triumphed over his many adver saries. When M. DE LESSEPS opened the Suez Canal project, few authorities hesitated to pronounce it impracticable. Minor objections were all included in the sweeping verdict that the canal could never be made at all. But not only is the greater part of the work an accomplished fact, but there is now no reasonable doubt respecting the completion of the remainder. The popular decision and the opi nions of many eminent engineers have proved erroneous. All who have seen the works in their present condition, amongst whom is Lord NAPIER of MAGDALA 7 agree that at least the canal can be made. And this decision applies not only to the construction, but also to the preservation of , the work, which is by far the greater difficulty. The excavation has gone on so far, that the means by which great natural difficulties have been overcome will beyond question apply to the rest of the way. The canal is a plain cutting, broken in various places by " passing stations," and is altogether an under taking of a simple character, the work having the additional advantage of being in a very light soil. But the water-way is no less than ninety-nine miles long, the climate of the country very unfavourable, fresh water extremely scarce, and the situation remote from the " base " of operations—France. These obstacles were so serious as to lead to the general scouting of the project when it was first announced. More than two-thirds of the work was, however, completed by the middle of last December, and though a heavy laboury etremains, past experience leads to the hope that the undertaking will be finished during the present year. The maintenance of the canal is a much more serious consideration. Many centuries ago a similar work was choked up by the sands of the desert. But though time has not altered the wilderness, it has enabled man to cope with it on very different terms. There is a danger that the sand may drift into the canal to such an extent as to render it useless, but this danger is only formidable at two points on the way. These the company intend to protect by planting trees, and it is further hoped that the fresh water of the canal may form oases in these unsheltered spots. In spite of these precautions a large quantity of sand will find its way into the water, and for this there is only the remedy of incessant dredging. A similar danger is to. be apprehended at Port Said, where the canal begins. Here the matter in the wrontheNgilpe,lacwe h i i s ch n , ot saitisndt,hboluigt thought, a t, e m ll a t y ivi p al en d e e tr p a o t s e its th o e f two breakwaters forming the harbour. This also is a serious danger, against which the company has two remedies—either to let the Nile deposit come through the breakwaters as it does now, and dredge it out, or make the breakwaters solid, and thus let the deposit accumulate on the outside. It may be explained that the harbour at the entrance to the canal is artificial in every respect. It is formed of two artificial breakwaters, and these are constructed of artificial stone----that is, hardened cement. These are the gravest difficulties in the way of preserving the canal as a practicable roadway. But they do not exhaust the list. The soil in which the excavations are made is so light that the action of the water will tend to wear the sides away. To remedy this a facing of stone will be required. Though it would be unwise to underrate the diffi culties to be encountered, yet a fair consideration of the evidence leads to the conclusion that M. DE LES SEPS was right. A canal which will connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and will secure a short journey wholly by water to India, is a practi cable undertaking, and this for the public is the most important consideration. Whether the enterprise will prove remunerative to the shareholders is quite a different question. It is obvious that the canal will be a commercial advantage whic. cannot be overlooked. It will vastly improve the Suez route for passengers, to whom the journey across Egypt has always been a severe trial. But its commercial--- superiority -over the antiquated voyage round the Cape will be the great source of profit to the company, if it is to derive any. Other things being equal, the saving of thousands of miles must ensure the canal a large traffic. But the debtor side of the account is heavy. The canal has cost more than was at first reckoned on, though the works are upon a less stupendous scale ; and the expense of mainte nance will be great. The obstacles just enumerated can doubtless be overcome, but each of them will deprive the company of some of its returns. The dredging to keep out the sand, the dredging at• Port Said, the stone facing to the banks, not to speak of other precautions, will each involve more or less expense. Then, as to the traffic itself there are various militating circumstances. The canal will admit only one vessel at a time, and though " passing stations " are provided, yet the necessary want of space must to some extent impede the free use of the work. The tolls will unavoidably be very high —no less than twenty pounds per ton. As the entire average freight of goods round the Cape is fifty pounds a ton, it will be for shipowners to consider whether they will gain suffi cient upon the remaining thirty, and in respect of time, to compensate them for the dangers of the Red Sea, the navigation of which is very difficult. This is a question which trial alone can answer. It is certain that the company will gain much local traffic—that is, between ports on shores of the two connected seas ; and if vessels be specially built for the Indian trade, vid the Red Sea, the com pany may derive a good revenue. More than this cannot be said at present'. The canal may be a benefit to the company ; it will assuredly be a benefit to the world. LITERATURE. Mr. Hotten's Publications. Very recently there have been issued from the establishment of Mr. John Camden Hotten, of Piccadilly, several works mostly of a humorous character—some old favourites reprinted, others new provocatives to laughter hardly less welcome of their kind—the majority of these books having been run into rhyme, each of the volumes in turn being admirably well got up, and all of them drolly, some of them profusely, illustrated. Puck on Pegasus—by H. Cholmondeley Pennell, is ono of the intermediate volumes, neither very old, nor yet very new, neither of yesterday nor of fifty years ago. It is a work now in its fifth edition. Unlike both " Bon Gualtier" and " The Rejected Addresses"—the former of which famous books of fun was written by two " hands," William Aytoun and Theodore Martin, the latter by two " hands" also, to wit James Smith and Horace Smith (arcades ambo)—" Puck and Pegasus", like the itinerant musician's violincello, is made all out of one head—its author's—namely, Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell's. If the letterpress, however, has been thus run-off in sparkling, flowing lines, currente calamo, lines of riant comicality, the solitary author of the book has had the aid of a whole throng of admirable caricaturists. The one exhilirating pen has been assisted by half-a-donn delightful pencils. Cruikshank, the Prince of Caricaturists, the veritable, inimitable, inexhaustible, indefatigable George Cruikshank—who, as a stripling, made our grand-parents nearly die with laughing over his fantastic whimsicalities, who carried on the joke as a young man to the dear delight of our fathers and mothers, and who, in regard to our selves, has done whatever he liked, for about as long as we can well remember, with our own sense of the ridiculous—Cruikshank himself, George Cruikshank contributes the frontispiece to Pennell's " Puck on Pegasus !" Puck on a rocking horse in full canter—the horse of the genuine breed with large circular spots on it like wafers--the rocker rampant ! Why that of itself—that one picture, with its swarm of little figures scattered hither and thither all about it—is worth the price of the whole volume. Bat, besides Cruikshank's frontispiece —there are other wonderfully grotesque embellishments squandered through the book. Yes--and what others ! There is oar ever regretable John . Leech—with (Longfellow must forgive both author and artist) his preposterous Song of In-the-Water." There is Phiz's, that is llablot Brown's, almost as prep ysterou3 " Fight for the Championship." There is John Millais' (actually a live Royal ACA demiciau's) hurry-skurry - binning of "Fire." There is Richard Doyle's most ludicrous " Tail Piece." There is Julian Porch's visible Guffaw in derision of the late Admiral Sir . Charles Napier's braggadociose entrance into the Baltic—" Heard ye the Din of Battle Bray ?" And, last and beet of all, there is John Tenniel's outrageously laughter-moving kit chen-interior delineative of an incident in " Lord Jollygreen's Courtship." Altogether it is a won derful book a book that might give a stitch in the side, with laughing, even to a curmudgeon. While saying this of it, we would add, in parting, that all who may wish to read Mr. Pennell at his best should, on first opening this volume of " Puck on Pegasus," turn at once, just to begin with, to his celebration, in breathless rhythm, of his "Night—Mail—to the North!" Carols of Cockaigne —by Henry S. Leigh—a volume of right comical verse, daintily illustrated by the graceful pencil of Alfred Concanen—is really worthy *of lying on the same table with the last-mentioned book, or with their congenial pre decessors already referred to, the immortal " Re jected Addresses" and the " Ballad s o f B ou G ua lti er ." Does anyone doubt this—imagining that we rate Mr. Leigh's drollery too highly—let him turn to "The Sword of Damocles The Man behind my Chair !" Let him listen to the " Nightingale" of Cockaigne. Let him coon this true-born Englishman's cele bration of " The Weather." Let him peruse his lamentations over the miseries of an " Evening Dress"—a gentleman's ! .Let him meditate on that apostrophe "To a Timid Leech—Drink Pretty creature, Drink !" Above all let him read gravely —if he can—the ever memorable ballad about " The Twins," in which are sung the sorrows born from the perpetual loss of their identity. Doctor Syntax's Three ours—by William Combo, illustrated with seventy-nine or eighty coloured pictures from the designs of T. Rowlandson— is an old, old, old friend redivivus. The book is interesting in itself, as a piece of old-fashioned fun on the part of the rhym ing humorist, and on the part of his coarse but merry-hearted illustrator. It is especially in teresting, but, more than that, it is really valuable, and worthy of preservation, by reason of an excel lent piece of biography penned by the Editor of the work (in our English sense of that term, and in that of our Gallic neighbours also, for he is also the publisher of it) Mr. John Camden Rotten—who describes, in a Memoir of thirty-five pages, very effectively indeed, the singular life, adventures, and vicis-itudes of the once famous Author of " Doctor Syntax"—William Combe, who died at the age of Eighty-Two (in 1823) in the rules of the Bench, at 12, Lambeth-road, Surrey, having been born at Bristol in 1741, having worked as a literary hack for many years in the employment of R. Ackermann of the Strand (now Rimmel's), and who was, in the early part of his life, after completing his education at Eton and at Oxford, one of the most elegant, accomplished, and extravagant swells of his time. If only for that biography, the book is worth buying, reading, and preserving after wards on our more frequented bookshelves. A Handbook of Heraldry—beautifully printed, lavishly embellished, and appropriately bound with external blazonry—is another of Mr. Ilotten's recent and not least welcome publications. A comprehensive announcement of all his later publications, finning over with fun, frolic, and humorous conceits of the most extravagant kind, is worth mentioning at the close of this notice, as de serving tiny one's perusal who is capable of appre ciating a harmless and thoroughly enjoyable skit upon the puffs satirized years ago, but not one a hit better (we had almost said " not one wit better") years ago by Sheridan in " The Critic." Whoever compiled it is an unmistakeable wag. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, February 25. The Public says that the French Government has at length sent a communication to Brussels relative to the much-debated railway bill. In this letter the Cabinet of the Tuileries asks to be informed as to what extent the Belgian Government intends to put the new law into force— how far it proposes to avail itself of the power of refusing a concession to a foreign railway company, what influence will it have on the commercial relations between France and Belgium:? It is hard to believe that such a letter has been sent, but if it has, it must be pronounced about the most impertinent deed ever perpetrated at the Tuileries. The idea of one Government asking another how far it intended to use a privilege which had just been entrusted to it, is simply preposterous. What was the use of the Belgian Government asking for this power ? If it is to test the French Cabinet, how far will it make use of it? The debate on the City of Paris Finance was continued yesterday. M. Forcade de la Roquette, Minister of the Interior, took up the question. He occupied a long time in defending the enterprise of knocking Paris down to build it up again ; indeed, he occupied so long that there was but half-an-hour left for M. Ernest Picard to speak in. The half-hour was sufficient to utterly demolish M. Foreade de la Roquette. M. Thiers's speech is the one topic of the day. All are agreed that it is his finest performance since 1863. His success in this case is greatly enhanced by the fact that he had public sympathy on his side. His great speeches on Free Trade and the Roman Question were against the sentiments of the majority. But this time he had the public with him. Everybody knows that the finances of the city of Paris are in a deplorable condition, and pro ductive of much oppression; but few understood the com plication which M. Thiers took upon himself to explain, and succeeded perfectly. Daoud Pasha, Turkish Minister of Public Works, is travelling on a mission. He has been at Vienna seven weeks, and two or three days ago he arrived in Paris. This wandering diplomatist is charged with negotiations relative to a most gigantic enterprise—the construction of the Turkish railway system. The project was first of all conceived by the well-known Belgian banking house, Langrand-Dumonceau, which had, in fact, obtained the firman of concession ; but that establishment not having been able in ,time to fulfil its engagements, which consisted more particularly in procuring a subscribed capital of 18 millions sterling, the Porte thought that it would be more likely to secure success by giving the undertaking an international character, in appealing to German, French, English, and Turkish capital. The greater part of the required sum will, however, be raised in Vienna, where capital is very abundant at present. Two companies, together with the Rothschild and other houses, have formed a consortium to be united to the Ottoman Bank and the General Society of Constantinople, and to the principal financial establish ments of London and Paris. Sixty-two per cent of the capital is to be raised in Vienna, and 38 per cent in Paris and London. Under the wing of this great combination is to be started one of the most gigantic enterprises of this generation. The success of the project will be of infinite benefit to all the subjects of the Porte, Christian or Mus aulman, and every wellwisher to the cause of progress must heartily desire its realisation. Another old servant of the Second Empire is in extremis to-day. M. Troplong, the President of the Senate, is very dangerously ill, and has had the last sacrament adminis tered by the Archbishop of Paris. After the first attack there was a slight amelioration, but this was followed by an unexpected catastrope— cerebral congestion, accom panied 'by other alarming symptoms. It is thought that there is no hope of recovery. All the rivers of France have greatly risen during the last day or two, owing, it is supposed, to the sudden visita tion of cold weather followed by an equally sudden rise of the thermometer. The snow which had accumulated during the last few days has wholly disappeared, but no case of inundation is announced. The reports from the country are, in the main, very satisfactory. Vegetation proceeds rather slowly so far as the grass crops are concerned, but rather too rapidly in the case of the fruit-trees. How ever, the recent changes of temperature have done no harm, and so far everything promises remarkably well. We shall now, perhaps, hear no more of the wretched bon bon poisoning case—the affair which was to have developed into a mountain of scandal, but subsided into a molehill of obscure trickery. The soi-disant Count Siemiaskowski has been removed from the Mazas prison and locked up at the Prefecture of Police, at the disposal of the authorities. The day before yesterday be received intimation of his expulsion from the French territory, and, accordingly, was removed by two agents, who were to conduct him to the frontier. May he seek a more congenial clime, and return no more. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS PAY. f ____. METEOROLOGICAL RETORTS. Extreme Sea Friday ( ! F. Feb. 26 , , B. T. 0 W. I 1 to F. D. WR . t o 12 9 Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields Scarborough 29 90r. 41 37 N.W. 4 8 S.W. o.cb o'o2 3 Yarmouth 29'95r. 43 41 W.N.W. 3 6 S.S.W. 'o.m 3 Helder Cux haven _ Skudesns _ Ardrossan Greencastle 30'01r. 42 40 W. 2 9 N . W . r.ho'ol4 Holyhead Liverpool VsUen Ma 3o'29r. 49 48 N. 1 7 S.W. r.f.o o'o3 5 Cape Clear — _ Roch isPt 3B'2lr. 48 46 W. 1 6 N.W. c.b.10707 Penzance 30'22r. 51 50 W.N.W. 4 8 S.W. r.c. 0'27 3 Plymouth Weymouth 3019 r. 49 45 N.W. 1 1 S.W. r.c.015 2 Portsmouth 3014 r. 48 46 N.W. 2 6 W.S.W. 0.c.0'03 5 London C'peGrisNez 30'03r. 48 46 N.W. 7 8 W.N.W. r.0.;0'03 4 Brest L'Orient 3o'3or. 50 50 W.N.W. 5 5 S.W. 7.0.0'04 3 Roche fort 3o'3ls. 52 50 N.W. 5 4 N.W. c. Biarritz Corunna — Brussels Paris Strasbourg — Lyons Toulon Heart's Con tent (9 a.m. local time) =PLANATION Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, rising ; f, falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f. - fog ; I. lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o.—overcut, dull r.-- rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Bain-fall, snow or hall melted' during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. _ _ Pressure, after decreasing rapidly yesterday in the north-east till the afternoon, has again recovered, and readings are almost every where higher than they were yesterday morning. The rise has amounted to nearly half an inch in the north, but is much less to the southward. The reading at Nairn is 0.67 in. lower than that at Brest. Temperature has increased somewhat in the south, and at those stations where the decrease was greatest yesterday a recovery has occurred. A hard S.W, gale blew yesterday at all stations except those in the S. and S.E., the wind subsequently veering to N.W., and blowing hard. The gale continues at Ardrossan to-day. Strong S.W. winds were prevalent elsewhere, but have veered, and are now generally N.W. moderate. Rata has again been general, but not heavy, and hail is reported from Greencastle. The sky this morning is more clear, and the air drier. A high sea continues at Ardrossan, THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT MANCHESTER. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson met the members of the Manchester Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce in the Mayor's parlour, Town Hall, on Thursday. The Mayor (Mr. Grave) briefly expressed the pleasure experienced by the citizens of Manch ester in receiving a visit from the distinguished representative of the United ' States, after which Mr. Heron, the town clerk, and Mr. Browning, the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, read addresses from the above-mentioned bodies to Mr. Johnson. Mr. Abbott, United States Consul at Sheffield, read the written replies of the American Minister to the two addresses. In the course of Mr. Johnson's speech, referring to the Alabama Con vention, he said it was possible that what has been already done towards the settlement may not meet with entire favour in that part of his Government to which the ratification is, by the Constitution, to be submitted. On Monday last he telegraphed to his Government to know whether the committee had acted, and if it had, what it had done. The answer waT, that, although it was rumoured that a majority of the committee were opposed to the particular Convention, they had not made a report to the Senate. That committee (he said) con sists of seven, whilst the body itself is made up of two senators from each one of our States. The Constitution requires a treaty to be ratified by two-thirds; so that it by no means follows that if the committee bad with actual unanimity reported, or should report, against the confir mation of the Convention, the report would receive the sanction of the body. But, however that may be, one thing I am satisfied you may esteem as settled beyond all doubt—that nothing growing out of the circumstances in tended to be embraced, and the difficulties intended to be settled by that Convention, can bring us into serious conflict. Two or three of the subjects of dispute between England and America (he went on to say) might be considered as actually settled : one of them, the question whether native allegiance was perpetual, and the other that of the true boundary between the possessions of this country and those of America in the north-west. He hoped the day would soon come when, listening to the spirit of a more enlightened civilisation, and, above all, when looking to the interests of all peoples, to the happiness and security of individual men upon the ocean, it will be adopted as one of the laws of nations that private property upon the ocean during war shall never be subject to capture. A banquet took place in the evening at the Town Hall, at which Mr. Reverdy Johnson, alluding to the Convention, ,said the Christian and humane men of the United States felt as the English felt, and had sanctioned what he had done. With regard to the sentiments of the President, General Grant, he quoted the General's letter to the Chicago Convention, in which he said we want peace and universal prosperity, which is its sequence. It was said zhe President was opposed to the Alabama Convention, and desired war with us. It was a base and unfounded calumny. He (Mr. Johnson) observed that the liberation of some of the Fenian prisoners, who were naturalised americans, would have a good effect upon his countrymen. ;peaking of the future prospects of commerce, he said we .hould have plenty of cotton. EXECUTION OF W.HELAN. 'lie execution of Whelan, the murderer of D'Arcy 11I`Gee, took place at Ottawa, Canada, on . the 11th inst. At eleven o'clock Whelan was pinioned, and, accompanied by the sheriff and three priests, led froni the prison, looking very pale and excited ; but he moved along with a firm step and mounted the stair. way to the scaffold, responding as he walked distinctly to the prayers of the priests. After the "Paternoster" had been repeated he said, " I beg pardon for any offence I may have committed. I forgive all parties who have injured me, I ask forgiveness from any one I mai have injured. God save Ireland, and God save my soul 1" In a few moments the drop fell, and Whelan hung by the neck for four minutes, suffering intensely, andt then breathed no more. It is rumoured that Whelan left a written paper in the custody of the sheriff, the purport of which has not yet been made public. It was believed at Ottawa on the following morning that an organisation had been formed for the purpose of rescuing Whelan's body. Active preparations were made to meet any out. break. It was rumoured that several seizures of arms had been made on that day. A handsome new Independent church, which has been erected at Halifax, near the residence of Sir F. Crossley, was on Thursday opened by the Rev. Newman Hall. The cost of the edifice has been £lO,OOO, and £8,225 has been already subscribed. The foundation-stone was laid in 186' by Sir P. Crossley. Mr. Whalley has given notice that on Tuesday, the IGth of March, he will move "that it is expedient to in clude in the financial arrangements of the Government for the ensuing year the unconditional repeal of the income tax ( n trade profits and personal property of all kinds; and that any deficiency be raised by an increased tax on land and fixed property." Captain J. Petrie, of Park-street, Windsor, has issued an address to the electors of the "City of Cashel." Ile declares himself in favour of "religious freedom," mat e . dal improvement of the position of the tenant, immediate attention to the education question ; and he promises to xert himself to procure—what, ho says, is of vastly greater importance to the borough than telegraphic—. railway communication to the old historic .`city t 44 th‘ij Kings." CONVOCATION. Canterbury Convocation re-assembled on Thursday at Westminster. In the Upper House, in which the Arch bishop of Canterbury presided, the Bishop of Peter borough presented a petition from the London Free and Open Church Association, representing that by the law of the Church and of the land all classes of the people were equally entitled to the use of the means of grace provided under the parochial system ; that it is the fundamental principle of the parochial system that the " body of every parish church belongs of com mon right to all the parishioners alike ;" that this departure from the fundamental principle of the parochial system has been detrimental to the cause of religion, and a fruitful source of irreligion and of lissent. The petitioners further represented that church. wardens ought to appropriate seats in parish churches among all parishioners equally ; and, in cases in which Parish churches will not accommodate all the parishioners, there ought not to be any appropriation.—The Prolocutor brought from the Lower House the address to the 'Queen which the archbishop and bishops had agreed to, and sent down for consideration. He said the Lower House had made additions, to which their lordships' assent was asked, relating to the:lrish Church.—The bishop of Oxford said the first amendment was most objectionable. It was not at all within the province of Convocation to deal in the way proposed with measures which were coming forward in the House of Commons. To pray her Majesty not to agree to anything that Parliament might determine was entirely beyond the scope of their body. He thought, indeed, the prayer was unconstitutional and unfitting. While he considered that the address which had been sent down from their lordships contained all that was right and neces sary on the subject, he did not object to the addition of a few words which would make the address run thus:— " We look forward with deep anxiety to the measures which may be proposed to Parliament respecting the Church now by law established in Ireland, and we trust that the interests of true religion and the just claims of that ancient and reformed communion may not be lost sight of amidst the conflicts of political parties." After a brief discussion this was agreed to, and both the amendments of the Lower House were rejected, as were also some others in reference to the increase of the Epis copate and the better representation of the clergy. In the Lower House the question of discipline has occu pied some time. Mr. Joyce moved a series of r eso l ut i ons to the effect that " clergy discipline should be had by canon, and only enforced by statute when necessary ; that steps should be taken to expedite and cheapen proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts; that the system of appeals from the ecclesiastical courts to the Crown should be amended ; and that the Upper Home should be requested to appoint a committee to investigate and report further to the Upper House." Archdeacon Denison seconded the motion, and said the new bill consisted of 130 clauses, besides a great deal of preliminary matter, and from what he had seen of it he was convinced that attention shouldat once begiven to the subject.—Dean Stanley said he could not assent to the statement that the clergy should be governed by canon and not by statute law, and he declared that such a declara tion and demand might lead to a catastrophe like that which was so much deprecated in Ireland. —Canon Selwyn moved that the first three clauses of the resolution should be left out, so as to ask simplyfor a committee. By this course, he said, the House would be taking the least diffi cu l t course: —The Archdeacon of London seconded the amendment.— Mr. Joyce having replied, the question was put to the House, when there appeared—for the motion, 36 ; against, 22. The motion was then declared t o b e carried. —Archdeacon Denison r ea d a very long petition, s i gn ed by himself and a large body of the clergy, on the doctrine of the sacraments. It set forth that the Eucharist was a sacrifice, and that the elements were in deed and truth the body and blood of Christ. The prayer of the petition was :—" Your petitioners ask that in affirming the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, exhibited in the passage above cited, they be protected by the synods of the Church of England from the imputation of unfaithfulness to the Church of England, inasmuch as they are con strained to affirm further, in the name of Christ and His gospel and His Church, that to repudiate on the part of the Church of England the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, exhibited in the passages above cited, is ipso facto to cut off the Church of England from the Church Primitive and Catholic." The Ven. Archdeacon was much interrupted during the reading of the petition, which was very long, and when he had read it partly through the interruption was such that he stopped, and, apparently deeply affected, declared that he would l eave the House and never return' . Some members said the House was not to be called upon to hear such opinions as those in the petition ; but, on the inter vention of two members of the House, who, however, did not speak in favour of the opinions and views expressed by the Archdeacon, the House was induced to allow the petition to be read to the end. After a sharp discussion, the presentation of the petition was ultimately allowed with the usual references to the Committee on Privi leges. The Convocation of York has been discussing the ques- tion of the Irish Church. The question was brought before the House on a motion of the Prolocutor, who moved " That this Convocation views with sorrow and alarm the proposed attempt to disestablish the Irish branch of the United Church of England and Ireland as seriously affecting the interests of the Church in that part of the British dominions, as a fatal encroachment upon the prerogative of the Crown, as upsetting the Constitution in Church and State, guaranteed by the international parlia mentary engagement entered into by the acts of the Union, and conferred to the members of the Church by the solemn sanction of the Coronation Oath.—An amend. meat was moved postponing the consideration of tL matter until after the introduction of the Governmel t bill, but the resolution was passed by 29 against G. THE PROSECUTION AGAINST TIIE " MONETARY TIIIEs."—A curious prosecution for libel has for some time occupied the attention of Alderman Besley at Guildhall. Mr. Scott, the proprietor of a weekly paper, the character of which is indicated by a portion of its title, Monetary Times, was charged with a libel on Mr. Clench, who, it stated, in an article referring to the Doultou case in Belgium, was a getter up of sham companies, or something of the sort. Mr. Clench instituted a criminal prosecution against Mr. Scott, but after giving his evidence before the magistrates Ali. Clench disappeared, in consequence of proceedings in another court against him. The hearing was, therefore, postponed from time to time, and on Thursday; Mc Clench being still al?sent, the summons was dismissed. 4. , ...••••••~Tome,••••=, ASSOCIATED C.FIAMBERS OF Colll3l.E.Reffi' The members of the Associated Chambers of• Commerce reassembled at the Westminster Palace Hotel Yes te r day, under th e p res id ency o f M r. S ampson 1,10 P" The first subject was the EQUALISATION OF TUE STAMP DUTIES ON INLAND 4.119 FOREIGN BILLS. This was introduced by Mr. LUPTON, of Leeds, and the following resolution was adopted without discussioa:-; " That it is desirable that the stamp duties on inland ali t : foreign bills be assimilated, and that a deputation do Pr e sent a copy of this resolution to the Commissioners of In• land Revenue." The Leeds Chamber also brought up the following resa. tution on SPOILT BILL STAMPS. " That a memorial be presented to the Commissioner° of Inland Revenue asking that in future stamp office! may be required to give new stamps to an equal value l e n d exchange for bills which have not actually been comPl et by acceptance or endorsement, if claimed within the days from their date." This was carried without (11° ‘ cussion. FOREIGN TARIFFS. ; of Mr. WHITWELL, M.P. f or K en d a l, rea d a se ries reports from various c h am b ers f urn i s h e d to a co mmitt ee of the Associat e d Ch am b ers appo i nte d at t h e l ast mee ting ~- the question of foreign tariffs. These contained a num ber of important statistics referring to the commerce of the whole world. Mr. BEHRENS, of Bradford, in moving that the rep ott4 be adopted and p r i n t e d, remar k e d t h at as f ar as t,11),, Bradford good s were concerne d , t h ey met w ith lit competition from native manufacturers in the T.Th il '`; States, but as the duties amounted to 6 0 P e i cent of their value, th e y mus t na t ura ll y exc l u d e a gre t amount of the goods intend e d f or th e grea t ma ss of the people, and permit the i n t ro d uc ti on pr i nc i pa lly of Ws e which are worn by the well to do classes. As for Austrist we had now the benefit of the most favoured 0 6 clause by virtue of th e t rea t y o f commerce w hich hs received the sanction of the Legislature, but it Was to be regretted that th e su ppl emen t ary convent i on 141 tinted by Sir Louis M a ll e t h a d no t rece i ve d t h e sanc tion° the Legislature. That convention was entered into i tl order to carry out the or i g i na l t rea t y , w hi c h prov id e d dis t no specific duty should exceed 20 per cent. value of the in v ported goods, and 15 per cent. from the year 1872. This °ll i ' vention having to be submitt e d t o th e R e i c h sra th, accor d ' ing to the existing constitution, was rejected through til influence of the Prot ec ti on i s t p ar t y . M r . B e h rens truste d that Government would not lose sight of this roatt er c i While insisting upon the terms of the treaty Engla ti , might not be able to o bt a i n th e f u ll poun d o f fl es h, butt doubt a good practical treaty would be forthcoming. Russian tariff, which had been brought out by Midicell, would not lead to an extension of the legitim ate rade with this country. It might, however, operate 0. 9 reduction of the profits gained by the smuggler, but nv tli 10 little more. Mr. SOMERSET BEAUMONT, M.P., (Wakefield) was so/ to have to ad m it th a t th e A ustr i an P arl i ament ( t hat the German portion of it) was more protective at the present time than it had ever been before, but the Por ti l that was Hungari an was extremely liberal. It ra ils. ; however, be remember e d th a t th e H ungar i an Par li a men t had not yet been in a position, owing to the elections on, to consider the position of the tariff. Mr. WRIGHT (Macclesfield) said all that the silk trad e° asked was reciprocity, or in other words justice. Mr. BROCKLEHURST (Macclesfield) would earnestly 111. g e 1 1 upon the commercial co mmun ity t o k eep a close Watch upon the action taken upon tariffs in other countries. Mr. FIELD (Birmi ng h am ) re f erre d t o some tPw a opinions expressed in the reports from individual cl am ; bers. Some of these opinions might be looked upon at disloyal to the principles of f ree t ra d e . I t wou ld n' do, therefore, that they s h ou ld go f ort h i n Prt t , as the sentiments of the present meeting. moved an amendment to the effect that an addition should be made to the effect that the Associated Charol le ; should not he h e ld res p ons ibl e f or suc h sent i ments as th o s e he had referred to. Mr. BAINES, M.P. (Leeds) urged that this coun trl should at all times m a i n t a i n th e pr i nc i ple of abso l u te fre e trade. Mr. STEVENS (Plymouth) was afraid that the clu esti ,l Defore the chambe r was i n d anger o f b ecom i ng a po lio one. He remind e d th e mem b ers t h at t h e reports furnio by the several c h am b ers were as k e d f or and supplied ", confidence. The discussion was kept up for a considerable time, 1 / 1 1 ! eventually, on the assuran ce o f M r . Whit we ll th a t in t/1 6 report of the committ ee em b o d y i ng th e reports front tP various chambers th ere was no thi ng i n i m i ca l to the Pr".:,,‘ ciples of free trade, the amendment was withdrawn. TREATY OP COMMERCE WITH SPAIN AND PORTUGAL' Colonel ACKROYD M.P., moved and Mr. Monnis ( 0i :, 114 fax) sec on d e d th e f ollowing resolution :—" That a deP n c l tion be appoi n t e d t o wa i t on the President of the 13c6,, of Trade an d th e S ecretary of State for Flreign Aff°'4'4" ; to urge th e negot i at i on of a treaty of acommee '- with Spain an d P or t uga l , whereby British goo d s be int ro d uce d i nto those countries, at rates not exacti those imposed on goods of French and German man nj- D : tore ; and, if necessary for the accomplishment of thla ° I ject, th a t an a dj ustment be made of the present scale o„, duties on the importation of wine from those countries' as to admit Spanish and Portuguese wines at the 814° rate as French wines." Mr. ALHEUSEN (Newcastle) complained that the cellor of the Exchequer refused to treat with SPain Portugal. Mr. KING (Plymouth) cordially supported the re s° , l h ir e tion moved by Colonel Ackroyd. He hoped that 7 of deputation would take care to point out that the shiPP l w of this count r y was p l ace d at a di sadvantage by no t b ei able to carry goods to the ports of Spain and Portuga b . c h Mr. RICHARD S (E xe t er ) supporte d the resolution, will was carried unanimously. gr a On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by MAxsTED (Hull), and supported by Mr. ALIO' o f ;Newcastle), and other delegates, a very hearty votego thanks was accorded to Sir Andrew Buchanan and o t Consul Michell for th e i r grea t exert i ons i n promo ting " treaty with the Russian Government. Mr. MICHELL, in returning thanks for his chief $ 0 himself, gave it as hi s b e li e f th a t i n a few year s tra with Russia would be as free as with any other countrY . ,,' A resolution appoi n ti ng a su b- comm i ttee on f ore ign '- colonial tariffs was unanimously adopted. UNITED STATES TARIFF. This subject was introduced by Colonel Aagl M.P. (Halifax) w h o p o i n t e d out how in3l2_,°,k rtii e d it was to endeavour t o p ersua d e th e peop l e o f t h e States of the advantages which would accrue to them if D . would do with the m anu f ac t urers o f t h e States what P-g, land did years a go w ith the agr i culturists. He pr oPe° " That a deputation should wait upon the r res • dent of the Board of Trade, to obtain, if, Bible, a reduction of the present prohibition of and the negoti a ti on o f a free trade policy on the For" ai the United St a t es o f America, and that a friendly aPPed should be m a d e t o th e N at i onal Board of Trade an d °th ia free trade chambers in America on the same subject. . 00 Lord FREDE RICK C AVENDISH, M . P ., wa s of 01 3 i n b l ii - e that the best w a y t o see k to influence the people °E ; United States wo u ld b e th roug h our li terature, which ..;t read there almost as extensively as in this country'. would be unwise to press general action in this En at „, t a e c t i The resolution was carried with an alteration to the elL' o - f that the deputation to the President of the Be 3r i c l Trade should confine itself to discussing the i n ciden''' , ;' the United States tariff, and its bearings upon the tr`r of this country. Veil rINANcIAL BOARDS.—At a mee ti ng o f the ." *- % - i ; dlesex magistrates, held on Thu rs d a • the bill for eS 'l Wishing county fi nanc i al b oards was ' discussed. I t ss :,v' considered th a t th e county funds were at prese nt s"`"" economically dispensed by the magistrates, and that fin ail . n ; cial boards were unnecessary. A resolution, stimitwrilue ble to a special me e ti ng f or [ t h e 18th of March, to en 3 be bench to take into consideration any bill which rrig " t he brought before Parliament affecting the rates 0f county, was agreed to. PERMISSIVE PROHIBITORY LIQUOR BILL. The tes t of a bill prepared by Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Mr. BazleY' tiny Mr. Dalway, the object of which is to enable o wners ° l ot occupiers of prop er ty i n certa i n d i str i cts t o Pr t h f rs „ e the common s a l e o f i n t ox i cat i ng l i quors, h as in't " published. The bill prop oses t o g i ve the right " - ,,b certain number of rat e p a y ers i n any mun i c ipal her ° % (. l or parish to require the may v or in the one ca se, te s overseers of the poor i n th e other, to take th e - fi to of the whole body as t o th e propr i ety o f b r ingiog 1 - be s operation the provisions o f thi s measure ; an d Pre s ' c L e ry the manner in whi c h th e vo t es are t o b e t a ken. - L' ,te person rated to the relief of the p oor an d en titled to . 6 - j at the election of guardians is to b e cons id e red 6 0 31 ' re to vote on the issue thus raised. T wo -thi r d s of the 3 ." g t he gate number of votes recorded will b e neces sary f' 9l. g adoption of the Act. In the ev en t o f t h e me asure bee n ot rejected, twelve months must intervene before the Pr ° P,: is t can be made a second time ; b u t if i t b e a d o pted, 3t three years must elapse before the ratepayers have Pf Art. to reconsider their d ec i s i on, or to give effect t o it byive other vote. The ad o pti on o f the measure wou ld if iv- ite the total suppression of the liquor traffic within the lie3ol prescribed after the expiration of the existing lieel lses : e sch course penalties ar e p rov id ed to meet the case o f anY , of the prohibitory law and for the ,fabrica4on of vQtl43 PAPVM 1 / 1 0 risen ; day. j Great shire, a Unite Twentie and the ris en llnaltere ADO 221. to : 4} to 41 is uneha A get Bank of entered solution at Far Which te] and th e bu s i nes.s th e Citu( th e prese The Ai Inent of creditors e °ropaol The (le nd at Th e „ C °lnparli quired in and th e £ 1 ,600, Tow, " see DO Forks w i £16,000 , Vice.( larch f c of the M At the C opier declared, : ( 7e : ::sosl A i a . o in osl t oeol e i t t tics3 ; o d he l l taking v b- p v : c a li n i nn a d tg o Y t vendors Coin pan l33, received wit h five MOO B h th e a Purl felly pair the vend chase is P • ere, Perty, an tagee. °r dept the oi 'Q:rr"a el ottz .. . •. .., 1 1, Tots i it e n : 1, 41° C a -411 ion 4 ecre e4 l' r eQedi n • la laJoit °f tS h an eta d area t pear turn ° n kote l Itait„;n C 4 , 6° ( i'reu.ll3 3 k bitt o e :,lt 1 p - I,6w et a C i eet mew 2 , pa] D o Pe 4441 4 P ' bo. f or ( eh_ Red Lo qua 13° • mik • 0 , ID ° • acc e a de 4 ter fOslO i;tblA.] toe] D ° ° , °Pet D o. 4 b°. e:' 0. 5 1 1) 0 , 4 pif o Da 5 t te] o ' 13, Do. .0„, At r geuti ()] 4, ,:;;ze t 13 r , o z o lh az 0 0 : 4 1 P 1)o, 0 . 1) 0. 5 .etto, CO