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"•- pi,' ` 0-# \ ..„,..:,. ~. ' , _ ...... . ~11.$ , _ , _ . ,-,_.`-' _,_ • :„.______.... :-. , 4 - : -. ... ,, •) ; ,~ ,\,•, ..--,,..",..._„4„ the wind and flapping of canvas. To- -3 , 7 0,-rft -: *t• gloomy, muggy, and without much w ind. Th*loofi have been perfectly qn'h-t. Our chi e f occupation has been repairing damages, repatching tents, dry ing beds and clothes. lam told that sickness is again on the increase, which, indeed, is not to be • wondered at after the weather w0,h ,,, -.' had. • , 1).:.,. 27, 8 A.m. Till about ten o'clock last night the weather was pretty quiet, but then the tempest broke forth again and raged all night. .It still continues. The rain has left off for a while, but the wind is as fierce as ever, making the strongest tent pies bend till one thinks they must break. Judging ftom appearances we have not yet done with the rain. With such weather as this there is little probability of fighting or marching. The Moors, we are assured by persons who have lived among them, have a great dislike to the rain. As for our march to Tetuan, it will hardly, I ibllGUld think, be commenced until there is a prospect of weather rather more propitious. These rains convert the new roads—which are supcificial, only fine weather paths— into swamps, or some thing very like it, most laborious to march over, and which would be speedily so cut up as to be im practicable for artillery. Nevertheless, the repot tof an early move is I ire, and I believe everybody would rejoice at its proving true, for we are heartily weary of this gusty rainy camp, and would gladly exchange it for the line of march, even though with a temporary increase of hardship. But I suspect we have still a little time to wait here. This stormy weather is unfavourable to the transport of trooops from Spain, and I doubt the army's moving until further reinforcements have come up. METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND MINERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. . 2 7, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W. Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments. Loans on real and personal security. F. FERGUSON CAMRO al, Manager. di at, ply ?,r. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. -BANK OF DEPOSIT (Established A.D., 114), No. 3, Pall-mall ARM, London, S.W.—The WARRANTS for the lIA LF YEARLY INTEREST, at the rat. of 5 per c:mt. per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to the 30th instant, will be ready for delivery on and after the 10th January, and payable daily be tween the hours of 10 and 4. THE SUN, LONDON, MON DAY EVENING, JANUARY %-4, 1860, No. 21,075. PEICE 4 1 . STAMPED, 513. "To Lala Sahib Sree Navas Gobind, the Takeel of Ma harajah Siudhia, a khillut of the value of 3,000t'. "To Resaldar Kazim Ali Khan, a khillut of the value of 2,000r.,' and confiscated lands paying an annual revenue of 200 r. a year.to the Government.. " To Thakoor Luchmun Singh, Minister of the Jyepoor State, a khillut of the value of 3,000 r. " To Nawab Fyz Alee Khan, Commander-in-Chief of the Jyepood, forces, a khillut of the value of 2,500 i. "To Pundit Sheocleen, Private Secretary to the Mahara jah of Jeypoor, a khillut of the value of 2,500 r. "To Moulavie Mohindeen Khan, magistrate of Jyepoor, a khillut of the value of 2,000 r. _ - . wished some food for public discussion. In all our colonies, and particularly in Victoria, horse-racing is pursued with great ardour ; but, unfurl unately, it is almost wholly in the hands of people who make horse breeding dealing, and racing their trade. Racing is certainly in much lower hands, both abso lutely and in relation to the average social position of the people, than it is in England or even Ire land. The intensity of our sporting propensities may be measured by this fact, that although our whole population scarcely exceeds half a million, it supports its Bell's Life in Victoria—England can do no more. Colonel Robins, who has been for some time residing here as agent for the Indian Gove:rn ment in the selecticin -of cavalry horses, thus ex pressed himself at a recent meeting of the Turf Club on the sporting morality of our turf men to the deprebsed state of the flour market. One great failure has taken place—that of a butcher for £70,.000, with "contingent liabilities," which may raise the sum to £lOO,OOO or 1:110,000. We sometimes do these things a little gigantically here. Theru have been 95 insolvencies during the month of October, but none for large sums except the above; 53 of the 95 were under £5OO, and 21 were lotween £5OO and £l,OOO. But I always come b...ck to the burden of my song. The exces sive shipments constitute the chief cause of depres sion, check the stream, and the process of restora tion will be s!ow. a st , ut als PETER 3IORRISON, 31 nagging Director. December, 16,59. • Prospectuses and forms scut free on application. P Li CATI ON S. LORD CANNING'S PROGRESS. - _ The following " notification" from the Foreign Department, dated " Governor-General's Camp, Agra, Friday, Dce. 2, 1839," has.been published : " On Tuesday, the 29th of November, his Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General held a -Mahar for the pri vate reception of the princes and chiefs of Central India and Rajpootana. "The undermentioned princes and chiefs had audiences of his Excellency :—The Maharajah Sindhia of Gwalior, the Maharajah of Jyepoor, the Maharajah of Kerowly, the Maha 'Rao Rajah of Ulwur, the Nawab of 'lonk, the Maharajah of Dholpoor, the Nawab of Jovrra, the Mahara- MR. and AIRS. 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The Mid-day Performance, at Two o'clock, is especially recommended for the visit of families. The astounding performance of 11. W. Franklin, the Aerial Vaultiimur, combined with the graceful, daring, and classical feats of the Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes. Twice daily, Morning at 2, -Evening at half-past 7. Proprietor, Mr. T. M'COLLUM. jah of thudawur, the Jageerdar of Jussoo. "Each chief was accompanied by a few of his nearest re lations and of his principal officers of State. "On arrival and departure the Maharajah Sindhia re ceived a salute of 19 guns; the Maharajah Jyepoor and "To Bhopal-Singh, an officer of the Jyopoor State, a khillut of the value of 1,.500r. . "To Sobhay Singh, another cfticer of the Jyepoor State, a klallut of the value of I,ooor. "To Captain Jewun AU, commandant of Jyepoor Artil lery, a khillut of the value of 1,200 r. _ _ _ lam sorry to announce that at one o'clock this morning a fire broke out on board the Herald of the Morning, anchored off Sandridge jetty. Her rigging had been lately fresh tarred, and she was soon a mass of flames. She will be almost wholely destroyed; but no other vessel was injured, owing to the absence of wind. ILLUSTRATED BY TENNIEL Now ready, in Svo, with numerous Illustrations, handsomely bound, 13s, GORD I A N By SHIRLEY BROOKS, Author of "Miss Vitdet and her Offers." London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. "1 o Chummun Lau Dass, an, officer of the Jyepoor State, a khillut of tho value of 500 r. EVANS'S SINGING and SUPPER ROOMS. COVENT GARDEN. TANNER'S WONDERFUL DOGS every Evening, at NINE, and ELEVEN o'Clock. K N 0 T. H E Kerowly each a salute of 17 guns; the Maha Rao Rajah of Ulwur, the Nawab of Tonk, and the 3laharajah of Dhol poor each a salute of 15 guns; and the Nawab of Jowra a salute of 13 guns. _ _ "To Thakoor Pet tap Singh, of Ludana in Jyepoor, a khilltit of the value of 1,2C0r. _ _ " To Gunga Singh, Vakeel of the Kerowly State, a khillut of the value of I,ooor. The following gold ships have sailed since my last :—The Anglesea, with 67,581 oz.; the Emu, with 10,6790 z. ; the Water Nymph, with 32,9580 z. ; the Sussex, with 17,6670 z.; the Commodore Perry, with 14,5190 z.; and the Donald Nl.Kay, with 36,9320 z., all for London except the last. lof exports to S3dney, Calcutta, and TionfAong. 04. D 7d o Od ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Grand CASINO, open every Evening*, with the celebrated ..and. Established 10 years. Conducted by 3ions. Lamotte ; Principal cornet-a-piston, M. Bonleourt. Doors open at b all- Asat 8, commence at 0. Close a feiv minutes before 12. Ad salmon, I TIIE EDINBURGH. REVIEW, No. CCXXV. Will be published on SATURDAY NEX P. "To Thakoor Lukhdur Singh, of Ulwur, a khillut of the value of 3,000 r. __ _ " To Nawab Khan Jehan Khan, a relative of the Nawab of Jowrah, for his services at tho siege of Delhi, a khillut of the value of 1,500 rupees. _ . I to not 58. Z 5,285 3,434 260 427 35,198 1,421 13,234 12,786 916 1,005 33,455 2,763 1,473 1,942 2,022 1,346 5,985 '420 29,412 2,321 7,551 ,082 534 ',138 990 1,385 3,940 7,441 4,171 1,230 5,185 A,694 • 159 614 200 340 550 1,090 10,145 Feb. 1 )vordn6 lan. 12 werdue Dec. -- )verdne lan. 12 Tan. 10 Jaa. 4 Fan. 5 fan. 11 )verdue Tan. 4 lan. la Tan. 11 Tan. 10 Tan. 16 agham, fe of G. Lodge, field, of he wife g, Mal mac B. y Mary eorge's, nitland, Lough -7 Digby Nor fourth wifo of Lry, th© y, aged F Piston on-Sea, capside, ?,d 50. , IV .C . , ~•s•vow•mil YUNO, Jo. 112, anty of T" NATION/kr, ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Thi n pßiErli nolborn (formerly CASINO . 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SYLLABUS.—happy and Unhappy Iligions, and their causes—Youthful Vices and Indiscretions, and their results —Disqualifications for Marriame, and their sure—the Physiology of Reproduct'on—Self-intlicted Miseries 11 . - -Sterility and its causes —Ho w t o secure M oral and Phys i ca l 9piness. 18.—Dr. Kahn's Treatise on the above subjects, entitled !`The Philosophy of s.farriage," wit post-free on receipt of twelve stamps, direct from the Author, 17, Harley-street, Cav endish-square. W. CONTRACT FOR CURLED HAIR FOR SEAMEN'S BEDS. ---- Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-house, 4th January, 1860. TAI COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the oPPicE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED K Ii rNGDO3, I of ORE A.T BRITAIN 'and IRELAND, DO t -EREBY GIVE - NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, ,he 19th instant at Half past One o'clock, they will oe ready to re at Victualling S CONTRACT a with such Persons as may be willing to , Cum, vr tores at Deptford or at and delivering into her Majesty a ----" HAIR FOR BEDS 150,000 lbs. One half th of ea M o to be delivered in three months, and _ e remainder in months afterwards, or earlier if pre ferred by the party tendering Their Lordships reserve to . themselves the power, when the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any. form No ptreovideredwifloirbe:•eceived unless made on the printed application at the said p o u fn ro ce ose o , r an to d w th h e ic o l i i n in ce a r y e b o e nal ob ic ta t i li n g ed t o u n e Packet Service at Liverpool,' or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. Tenders will be admitted for any portion of the hair. A sample of the hair may be seen at the said office between the ho urs of ten and two, Particular attention is called to the recent modification of the conditions of the contract, which may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after Half-pait One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it w il l not be required that the party ten dering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as theresult of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the hemt of the Admiralty, and bear in the le ft -hand corner ords " Ten der for " and must also be deli v er e d a t Somerset , house. BURROWS AND CO Wholesale Wine Mer chants, LIVERPOOL. Stores Lime-street. Offices 54, Duke-street. The Proprietors beg most resp^ctfully to call the attention of the trade, noblemen, clergy, &c.. and the public in general, to their extensive stock of Choice Wines, of rare vintages. BURROWS and Co. are not disposed to comment upon the purity et their wines, which is daily most laudably acknow ledged loy the public and eminent medical men of all coun tries, as the increasing r atronage of the highest families in the tend is a sufficient guarantee. sines, be, to call pa r ti cu l ar attention to their pure Tonic Inlie ett• s, as being so valuable to Invalids and persons of weak Stomachs. w i A I I %: - 1 tor s• Sae , to all Cd., or a dozen for 24 containtrpr three full-sized wine bottles, Y address on receipt of P. 0.0. for 6s. It is a well-k 8. eanni: debil't are the ,-, "°v(n . f act that • t .reatest f oe , t impure and adulterated . win wines o health, producing acidity in the l s i t s tengt . wil 1 I a 1 i ating the d c'estive organs, frcee crate the digestive powers, invigorating, while pure Vaklids beosthorotia Thei r ToniNid bracing the nervous system. 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LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary of the U n i versity of Erlann'ell, Member of the L om i on h osp it a l M e di ca l S oc i e ty, M.D. tim, may he con all c ases of Debility, Nervousness, and the Socret In amities of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence, 37, BEDFORD -SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La i Mert has Just published, price Sixpence, with nu raerons En g r avings and Cases, a New Edition o f hi s Work, entitled C. SELFPRESERVATION, c Neill be sent tree, - In a sealed envelope. by ITann, 39 i htiet London or by the Author, to any address, for amps. S rf't•to CONTENTS. SerT t l.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. tl P 4; — Puberty • Manhood -The Morale of Genera ,See.t,'„%,"'„loeY, —True and False Morality. tl, elu tio i t;; ; l24L - -- .. -Marriage in its Moral,. Social, and Physical vs 01 v Lxpectancies and Disapointm'ents—Aidroan „,,„te'rte contrasts in securing Healthy Offsnr vi t ,teril' i„ . ', -- SPerniatorrhree and Impotence—The causes oEe•te n it 4 i r " "oth Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. niefou g - ' • - The Vices of Schoo's—Effects of certain per al nee of litabits Co the mental and general faculties-- Import stem) oral Discipline bllity N V T.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De veric,„ "'Potence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of erre-,-,,"1 hazardous Specifics —The Author's Principles of T." `","ent ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from 11 , Y Years' successful practice. btj r ,, HARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA ' T EOCOLATE• POWDER Contains the greatest deli of easily assimilated nourishment for strengthening Chest t e Persons, children, and infants with weak stomachs, brealif "r nerves, and, at 3-pence per meal, affords a delicious Chiclunch, or supper. It is the dietetic homeepa- I) "re Paration, and maybe eaten either alone or mixed with Inf ants Revalenta A rabica Food. A dmirably adapted to r.s(:ar Infants with. 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Lord StiTt de Decu . .s .n. cle,,,get-ire' dyspepsia. Care No, 49,5-12. " ;fly years_ , e "_'.lll - agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, 6totnno clni tipation flat ulencv, Ki)3"lB' sickness the colic 'tn.:A vomiting, have een removed by Du llarry's shall th e if,",.." 11 ," Maria JON'. Cure No. 53,816. Field Mar vousne: --Ik e of Plusknw - of dyspepsia, constipation, ner and' in: ( 1' 1(1 liver coUiplaints which feel-resisted all baths. J acobs, of tr eatment. Cure No: 47,121. Miss Elizabeth ;p;pits' and Creme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low e, ofi ne nervous fancies. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew its, ,Vinstipation, dyspepsia. end nervous irri . tability ; 34,21 2. ' - ei. • Slinrland. of dropsy and debility. CI; rt i No. 24 , r.ii1ctri .,41-,tain Allan, or epileptic fits. Cure No. 36 . 415 - Rev, fa,ster, of cramps, isparens and daily vomitinge. Cure No. Ar np i' 7 Yr. Hervey, of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 29,ii2e. Dr. tnereh'rifonsumption. Cure No. 4f1,270. Mr. James Rolo7fs, of b ., t, rituley, Seirrey, of go years' diseased 'utees,p.tt . ing fiver fleet egienent, partial deafness. Cure N 0.4,238. sears' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramy. s e, h 7, 1 3, 11 and nausea, have been effectually cured by P : ari y Pood. Bev. John . 1%. Flavell, Itullington mltorie Cure No. 3,906, of thirteen years' cough, irad stion ge, and general debility. James Porter, .Sthol-street, :•erth. Sold in 'canisters, 11b. 2a. Oil.; 21h. 4s. ; 121 b. 225; 111 per ref ined quality, Ilb . 225. ; 101 b. :138. The 101 b. and 121 b. Orclii,ertes are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office Bar rY Du Barry and Co. 77, Regent-street, London ortnu m r to her : , lajenty, 182, . n Co ., p ur veyors est,;;te:isayi: also at. co, 11 r.ieeeltureli-street ; 330, Strand ; 4, ..eatesiee ;49 and el - t -t • >t • 105 and 63, Oxford pPet; 'Tottenham-s; 'c a t lsit in Liverpool, at rjnui,er,,Ca„.ltel,eil-:IfelliI:tels, Reinhardt and. Co. :Dublin, Ediztburch, Raimea and Ca Atambestet, Sharp Zatid Scott ; 4,376 193 1,830 2,518 3,395 1,598 2,522 1,480_ 1,700 19,379 5,985 2,435 7,245 3,601 1,491 - 363 1,207 210 1,09 '5OO 2,760 .189 443 266 801 25,072 223 1,320 1,503 3,013 2,648 1,552 7,611 3,F311 7,916 43,704 461 40,043 15,2 n - '779 31,012 patcheti nails. Next Mail due. Tan. 10 ran. 4 Tan.l9 Jan. 4 CONTENTS. T. Mortality in Trades and Professions TI. Rawbuson's Herodotus 111. Rogers on the Coal-fie!ds of America and Britain IV. Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan V. Sir A. Alison's History of Europe VT. Acclimatisation o' Animals , - VII. Progre§a of Legal Reform VIII. Souvenirs and Correspondence of Mme. Recamier IX. British Taxation X. Lord Macaulay. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. T ILE C 0 RNHILL Al AGA Z1N1 4 .. Edited by W. M. TILACKE RAY. No. 1 (for JANUARY, MO) is now read all Booksellers and all Railway Stations, Price ()N2 SuittlNG, with Two Illus • trations and Map. • CONTENTS, IL Framley Parsonage—Chap. I. Omnes omnia bona di cere- Chap. 2. The Pram • ley Set, and the Chaldi cotes Set. Chap.M. Chal die,otes. 2. The Chinese and the "Outer Barbarians." • 3. Lovel, the WidoNYer—Chap. I The Bachelor of Beak ' Street. 4. Studies in Animal Life. London : Smith, Elder, 5. Father front's Inaufzura ' tive Ode to the Author of " Vanity Fair." 6. Our Volunteers. . 7. A Man of Letters of the Last Generation. 8. The Search for • Sir J. . Franklin(trom the Private Journal of au Officer of the " Fox.") • 9. The First MorninzoflB,o. 10. Roundabout Papers—No. 1. On a Lazy 'did Boy. % and Co., 65, Cornhill. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., SPEItMATO.RRIICEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, - And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan 4 lnlirmary ibr the 0 N Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. 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Grant sth Lancers, have been appointed Aides-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir James Trope Grant, K.C.13., Commander-in-Chief of the China Expedition.-4).»T an4.l\rary Gazette. • "On Wednesday, the 30th of November, the abovemen tioned princes and chiefs, with their attendants, the prin cipal native residents of the Agra division of the North- West'Provinces, and the civil and military officers of Agra and the adjoining districts, were received by. the Viceroy and Governor-General in open Durbar. "When all were assembled the Viceroy and Governor- General, accompanied by his Excellency the Commander in -Chief, entered, and took his seat. under a Royal salute. "The Maharajah Sindhia of Gwalior sat on the right hand• of Km Viceroy and Governor-General, and the Maharajah of Jyepoor on his Excellency's left hand. " Suitable khilluts were bestowed on all the native piinces, chiefs, and gentlemen present, and the following rewards wore given for loyalty to the British Government and good services during the rebellion : _ "To tho Maharajah - Sindhia increase of territory and exemption from .some of the obligations Imposed on the Gwalior State by the treaty of 1844. " In conferring these rewards upon the Maharajah, the Viceroy and Governor-General addressed his Highness in the following words : " ' Maharajah of Gwalior,-It is with no ordinary plea sure that I receive your highness in this assembly, in the presence of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and of many high officers of the Civil Service, and other English gentlemen, and before many loyal native subjects of the Queen. I 'am glad to receive your Highness at Agra. It was front Agra that, a few days after the outbreak of rebel lion, I received the news of your prompt and loyal tender to the Lieutenant-Governer, the lamented Mr. Colvin, of the services of the most trustworthy of your own personal guard. It was from Agra that, 12 months later, when the brunt of rebellion had fallen at last upon Gwalior, a great part of that army marched which under Sir H. Rose drove back your enemies and resented you within 20 days in the palace of your capital. These were the opening and closing scenes of the rebellion in the neighbourhood of this city. During the intervening year and since that time you have earnestly supported the British Government with your wkole strength, and in everything' have shown yourself mindful of the ties which bind you to it. As the .head of that Government, I thank you heartily. I now make known to,yonr Highness that in remembrance of the ser vices which you have rendered, and to increase your autho rity and dignity, laud to the annual value of three lace will be added to your territory ; that the limitation now imposed upon the number of your infantry troops will be enlarged ; that the arrears dno from your Government on account of the assigned districts are remitted, and that henceforward no payment will be 'claimed from your Government when the proceeds of those districts fall short of the sums stipulated by the treaty of Gwalior. I have already told your Ilighnessthatif, unhappily, lineal heirs should fail you, the Government will see with pleasure your adoption of a successor according to the rules and traditions of your family. Your Highness and all your Excellency's subjects may be sure that it is the earnest desire of the paramount power that the loyal and princely house of Sindhia shall be perpetuated and flou rish. 1 expect, and lam sure that I shall not bo disap pointed in the expectation, that your Highness will continue to apply all the energies of your Government, civil and mi litary, to enforcing peace and giving contentment to the country under your rule.' "To the Mahatajay of Jyepoor the Perguunah of Koto- Kassim was given. "his Excellency announced this gift to the Maharajah in the following terms : "'Maharajah of Jyepoor—The presence at this duibar of yourself, a prince sprung from the oldest and noblest fami lies of Raajpootana, and a faithful and zealous feudatory of the British Crown, is very gratifying to me. The territory of Jyepoor was less continuously harassed by the rebellion than many others, but cecasions were not wanting to you in which to show your signal loyalty. When the rebel force approached your capital, and called upon you to surrender the British officers in it, your answer was ' Come and take them.' When the Political Agent was absent on distant duties you gave a careful 'and considerate protection to his family. When opportunity offered you sent in sifety to this city of Agra, under an escort of your own, 50 Christian lives. You have done all in your power to aid the British troops by keeping open the communication through your country. In recognition of these services I desire your ac ceptance of the Pergunnah of Koto-Kassitn, as an addition to your territory. It was lately an appanage of the King of Delhi, by whose treason and rebellion against the British Power it has been forfeited. In adding it to your possessions I feel certain that I place , it for ever in loyal hands. I de sire to take this opportunity of thanking your Highness and the Jyepoor Durbar for the faithful performance of its promise, •- and of the wishes of the British Government in steadily suppressing suttee within your territory, and in allowing no abuse a the right of szuctuary by murderers and robbers.' _ _ _ _ _ "To the Maharajah of Elerowly a khillut . of the value of 20,000 rupees and remission of debts duo to the British Go- ♦ernmont, • "The Viceroy and Governor-General in conferring these rewards upon the Maharajah publicly thanked his Highness fur the steady and active loyalty lie evinced throughout the rebellion, especially in issuing a proclamation, soon after the first disturbances broke out, declaring his own intention to adhere to the cause of the British Government, and call ing upon his subjects to support him in sending troops to assist in preserving order in British territory, and after wards in rendering assistance to the Chief of Kotah at a critical juncture. "To the Maha Rao Rajah of .Ulwur a khillut of the value of 20,030 rupees. "After investiture the Viceroy and Governor-General addressed the Maha Rao Rajah in the following words : " Maha Rao Rajah,--You are welcome to this Durbar fur your father's sake. There was no better ruler and no more faithful feudatory to the Queen in Rajpootana than Bunnee Sing. In his last illness ho sent his troops to the support of the British Government, and many of them were killed in the discharge of that duty at no great distance from this city. I regret to think that ho did not live to see their death avenged. Maha Rao, you are very . youno. ° to be left alone, as the successor to the rule of an ancient State. I know that you have had bad advisors, and that you have been misled by them. But these men have been removed from you, and I now enjoin you to use the time which must elapse before you can begin to govern so as to show by your conduct that the Governor-General of India need not hesi tate to recoemise and support your authority when that time arrives. Walk in your father's footsteps, and you will be sure of that support. Guide yourself by the advice of the Governor-General's agent, Major Eden, and of the political agent, and receive the counsel which I have given to you in the friendly spirit in which it is spoken. The guns of your father's force which were lost shall be returned to the Ulwur State if possible ; if not, I will send others.' " To the Nawab of Tonk, a khillut of the value of 20,000 rupees. " On investing the Nawab, the Viceroy and Governor- General thanked his Highness for the aid he atft.rded to the British Government throughout the rebellion, and for his stout defence of the fort and town of Tonk against the rebel army under Tantia Tepee. His Excellency also as sured the Nawab, that the Pergunnah of Nimbhera, which passed during the disturbances into the hands of the Godeypore State, would shortly be restored to him. • " To the Nawa'. of Jowra, a khillut. of the value of 20,000 rupees, an increase in his saluta of 13 guns, and a remission of a part of his Highness's contribution towards the expense of tho Malwa Contingent. , _ . _ "The Viceroy and Governor-General thanked the Nawab for his steady attachment to the British Government, and for the exercise of his influence in supporting its authority in Malwa. "On investing the Maharajah of Dholpoor with his dross of honour, thO Viceroy and Governor-General thanked him for the services lie had rendered at the commencement of the rebellion in saving the lives of Christian subjects of the Queen, and for his personal loyalty to the British Govern ment on all occasions ; but his Excellency exhorted the Maharajah to enforce his orders on the officers of the Dux , bar, and not to allow Dholpoor to become an asylum for criminals accused of committing heinous crimes in British territory. "Rewards were also conferred by his Excellency on the principal Sirda's and Ministers of the native States who were most forward in carrying out the orders of their se veral chiefs for the support of the Queen's troops, and the maintenance of British authority. " To Rao Rajah Dinkur Rao Eughonath, Dcwan and First Minister of the Maharajah Siudhia, his Excellency addressed the following words : " ' Dewan Dinkur Rao,—With the concurrence of your Sovereign and Master the Maharajah of Gwalior, I take this opportunity of testifying the apprecieion by the Go vernment of India of the service which you have rendered to his Highness and to the paramount power. You will receive a confiscated estat3 in or near to the Benares divi sion free of revenue in perpetuity, and yielding a rental of 5,000 rupees a year. I believe that seldom has a ruler been served in troubled times by a more faithful, fearless, or able Minister than yourself.' "The following rewards were also given : "To Baba Mohurgurh, Commander of the Maharajah Sindhia's troops, a khillut of the value of 5,000 r., and con fiscated lands with a yearly rental of 2,000 r., free of revenue to Government in perpeuity. "To Baba Bulwant Rao, Commandant of the Maharajah Sindhia's troops, a khillut of the value of 5,000 r., and con fiscated lands with a yearly rental of 2,000 r., free of revenue to Government in perpetuity. "To Moulavie Mahommed Nasir Khan, Nazim of the • Maharajah Sindhia's Adalut, a khillut of the value of 5,000 r. "To Rajah Juswunt Rao, Bahadur of Luckna, in zillah Etawah, a khillut of the value of 5,000 rupees, in addition to a jaghccr alreild-granted t ion. ." After the concluding the .Viceroy left hig seat under a Royal salute, accomirricd by his Excellency tho CoMmander-in-Chief. The Maharajahs of Gwaliur and Jyepoor having boon conducted from the tent, the assembly broke up. "On Thursday, the Ist of December, tho Viceroy and Governor-General, accompanied by tho Secretary and Under. .Secretary to tho Government of India, and by the officers of his Excellency's person's staff, paid return visits to the' severalprinces and chiefs in succession at their re spective encampments. "His Excellency was met by the chiefs themselves and by their principal Ministers, is accordance with established custom, and was received at each encampment, both on arrival and departure, with a Royal salute. "In each case the usual offerings were presented and accepted, and, - the customary ceremonies having been ob • served, his Excellency retired. " By order of his Excellency tha Viceroy and Governor- General of India, "C. I3EADON, Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General" AUSTRALIA. (Front the Correspondent of the Times.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 17. The Malta, with the September mail, was eight days after her time. She left Suez on the 28th of September, and Aden on the 4th of October (instead of the 3d). She reached Mauritius on the 17th, where it was found necessary to dock her, which detained her till the 22d. She arrived at King George's Sound on the sth, and saile I on the 7th, reach►ng Nepea►i Bay at 2.20 a.m, on Friday, the 11th, and Ilobson's Bay on Sunday, the 13th inst. The Benares will take the homeward mail tomor row morning at daylight. On the 21st of October Ministers were defeated OD an amendment to the Address, embodying a vote of "no confidence." It was moved by Mr. Nicholson, who, since Mr. Haines's departure, has been looked up to as the " coming man ;" and it was carried, after four nights' debate, by a majority of 39. It is worthy of remark, that of the four Ministries which have run their course in one week less than three years, throe have been turned out on an express vote of " No con fidence." There are some political reasoners here who contend that no Ministry should retire from office except upon a vote of " No confidence," and the practice is not unlikely to become normal with. out an express rule or resolution of Parliament. A fiummary of the four nights' personal debate would not be interesting or even intelligible to your readers ; but the broad feature was this—that the Convention men of all shades who voted against the late Ministry hurled defiance against the com ing men, declaring that they would " turn them out," and that they would consent to no supplies unless the new Ministry came up to their mark on the laud question. The result is that in their ad dresses, hustings speeches, and authorised placards, nearly all the Ministers have bid high for their seats, even to " deferred payments"—that is, pay ment by instalments, which I fear will often result in no payment at all. O❑ the 28th it was announced in both Houses that Mr. Nicholson had succeeded in forming a Cabinet, cansisting of Mr. Nicholson, Chief Secre- tars; Mr. Wood, Attorney-General; Mr. M'Cul loch, Treasurer ; Mr. J. C. King, Public Works ; Mr. Service, Crown Lands; Mr. Pyke, Customs; Mr. I3aillie, Post-office ; Me. Fellows, with a seat in the Cabinet and Executive Council, without office; and Mr. Adamson, Solicitor-General, but without a scat in the Cabinet or in Parliament. Some of these names must be unknown to even such of your readers as are connected with the colonies; indeed, some arc almost unknown in public life here. The difficulty of the Ministry will arise from the incongruous elements composing the majority which put the one Ministry out, and which rather let the new in than placed them in power. In their hustings manifestoes they have sailed so near the Convention as to alarm the Squatters, but that fac tionless Conservatism which takes its stand on property. The Ministerial plan of deferred pay. meats is this :—They do not promise to sell lots payable by instalments, withholding the Crown grant until all the arrears shall be paid; but any man who desires to have 320 acres is required to pay for 80 and to have a lease of the remainder, with a right of purchase within 10 years. This will certainly impair the land revenue probably by one half, possibly by two-thirds. There is to be a land tax, but not for the purpose of sustaining the credit of the colony at home, as it will be a mere local as sessment, locally expended. From the expressed opinions of some of the Ministers the export duty on gold also is likely to be given up, and there is to be a revision of the tariff, "by transferring the duties from articles which we do not produce to such as compete with articles which can be produced by native industry." I have, however, faith enough in the practical sagacity of the majority of the elec tors to trust that this proposed transfer of duties can not be carried to an extent to amount to protection, though it is likely to check the consumption of Bri tish goods to some extent, and so impair trade. The model of the present tariff was first adopted by the Legislature of Van Diemen's Land in 1852, and was soon afterwards established in Victoria and New South Wales. South Australia has always retained the old system of levying ad valorem duties on nearly all imported articles, the list of free goods being very limited. The articles taxed are those of large and universal consumption—namely, spirits, wines, beer, tobacco, sugar, coffee, and tea. One or two articles have since been added, as opium (since the Chinese immigration), and chicory, because it is used to adulterate coffee. Ad valorem duties were rejected as liable to fraud and evasion, and as being very costly in the collection. So far as revenue is concerned, the result has been satisfactory in all the colonies which adopted the reformed tariff. All the financial reforms in England for the last 16 years have proceeded on the same principle. When in 1839 the Customs duties yielded £22,000,000, de rived from the taxation of 1,134 articles, besides " all other articles," upwards of £21,000,000 was yielded by the duties on 16 articles. Any material departure from the principle of taxing the few articles of large an i universal consumption will cer tainly be a backward movement which will, I fear, destroy confidence in the stability of our financial system. The Legislature will meet on the 29th of November, and the Treasurer's " budget" will, no doubt, reach you by the December snail. It must necessarily embrace so muchof the land and mining legislation of the new Ministry as is calculated to afftct our finances, and as such is of higher interest to many of your readers than any mere political quest ion. The sporting world of Victoria has lately fur " He thought that for 21 years he had been on the Indian turf. . . He had been only running his horses two years ox the Victoriti tint, and at every meeting, with the excep tion, perhaps, of the Turf Club meetings, there had been 801130 Cross' or other. (Here the gallant gentleman used a strong expletive.) He would find out where the ' crosses' were if he remained in the colony. No honest man got a chance, and ho himself had been told numbers of times Don't do it, Robins, for you'll never win.' He challenged no one, but ho would never run a race again, for he knew very well he would never be allowed to win. (A. laugh.) Whether it was the jockeys or the owner, who did these things he did not know, but'this he knew, hr could never iin." The Prince of Wales's majority was ceh bratcd here on the 9th of November with great fervour. A general holiday was proclaimed, and Melbourne adjourned, to the country—a very semible way of honouring any national event. The railways all established excursion trains, and the Governor gave a sort of fete champelre, called a " lawn party," in the beautiful grounds of Toorak, where some 1,500 people were amused and regaled. In the neighbour hood of Melbourne are many beautiful wooded spots suitable for pie•nie purposes. These were all occu pied. The pretty river Yarra was crDwded with boats, and the whole, or nearly the whole, popula tion gave themselves up to enjoyment. The weather, which had of lato been - unusually cold, brightened up on the day in question, and was genial, but not too warm. Altogether, it was a day of rational enjoyment. 'Though it cannot be said that there is any evi dence of an impending commercial crisis, it is im possible for even a superficial observer to fail in noting a singular uneasiness in the public mind as to the commercial condition of the country. In the first place, the supply as well as the export of gold has been failing off since 1856, notwithstanding the increasing development of our quartz reefs and the application of capital, including machinery, to every branch of gold mining. In 1856 the quantity ex ported was 3,003,811 oz ; in 1857 it, fell to 2,779,655 oz.; 1831 witnessed a further decrease to 2 ; 516,976 oz. ; and this year it, bids fair (or foul, we ought to say) to be 200,000 oz. or 300,000 oz. short of last year. Up to last Friday the quantity brought dow❑ by escort was 1,888,094 oz., against 2,046,351 ca. last year. The quantity shipped this year is 2,020,589 oz , against 2,198,730 oz. in 1858. Now, the Eng lish aspect of the case is that we ha: c not the means of paying for the same quantity of imported goods that we had in former years ; and yet imports con tinue to pour in. Our own aspect of the case is more consolatory. We are now producing many consum able articles which we used to import, and we be lieve that our industry, employed in the production of such articles, is better remunerated than it would be in milling for gold. But it is the undoubted de crease in our purchasing power which the English merchant should look to, and that this has not been sufficiently attended to will appear from the fact that our imports continue to increase upon our ex ports beyond the portion represented by railway stock and plant, which is met by our export of de bentures. Last year our exports and imports nearly balanced; this year the imports are nearly £1,500,000 in excess of the exports, according to the valuation at the Custom-house; but. undoubtedly 5 portion of this import is for railway stock, not to be remitted for except by the export of securities, and a portion is brought in by way of capital to be permanently invested in the country. I our unable to make any correction for which I could claim ac curacy. 1 may be able to estimate it at the end of the year. At present I refer to it as an explanation of the apparent anomaly, that in the face of this large excess of imports exchange is not at a large prcm:um, and there is consequently no inducement to export specie. Up to the 14th inst. the value of imports was £12,721,708, while that of exports was £11,223,439, the excess of the former being £1,498,269. Our ex ports this year are within £75,000 of the value of exports up to the same time last year, so that the large difference is owing almost entirely to the in crease of imports, the value of which last year was only £11,221,380. I have never ceased to present these accounts in such a way as to operate as a warning to the English consignee, and I now write in the hope of checking positive disaster. I am con vinced that any depressisn of trade arising from the excessive supply of imported goods is not charge able to any great extent against our own merchants and tradcts, but is almost wholly attributable to the speculative exporter from the English shipping ports, especially London and Liverpool. The supply of most kinds of goods being large enough to keep the markets depressed under any circumstances, the evil is further aggravated by the condition of the money market. The banks have become cautious—l will not use so strong a word as " alarmed"—by their own published returns. Of course each bank knows the stato of its own affairs without the aid of such returns ; but it is these periodicals statements which make each bank acquainted with the condition of the whole. The " debts due to the banks"—in other words, their discounts—are larger this year than they have yet been. This time last year they were under eight millions (X 7,999,243); this year they exceed nine millions (X 9,388,594.) The banks have conse quently checked their discounts of late. This will limit remittances, and so damp the disposition of the English merchants to consign to this country. This is the natural process of restoration. One conse quence of this policy of the banks has been to cause a down ward tendency in the prices of securities. Bank shares, insurance companies', railway and mining companies' shares have all suffered depression. There are now between 40 and 50 mining com panies in the market. The payment of their deposits and instalments has created a great de mand for money, and may in part account for the increase of discounts by the banks. It is only a few of these mining companies that are in working condition ; most of them are waiting for machinery, and some have sent to England for their engines, not being able to get supplies here. Some persons feel alarm at the decrease of specie in the hands of the banks in proportion to their notes in circulation and deposits. Their circula tion is £1,998,005 ; their specie, £1,815,818. As the deposits exceed £6,000,000, there can be no doubt that if everybody drew out his balance and every holder of a note demanded cash for it the banks must stop. But who ever heard of a. run going to that extent To meet a liablility of £8,000,000 they have, in round numbers, £2,000,000, and past experience teaches us that this is a fair proportion. While their liabilities to the public amount to only £8,500,000, their absets .ree £12,500,000—a proportion which imparts crttfi. dence enough to prevent anythiog like a run. Another cause of partial gloom is the recent E. i.nd present state of the flour market. Speculative p chasers forced the market up till the price touch ed £34 per ton. It was said that some of the m sore sanguine held for £45, but a rapidly rising mar Ic'et stimulated importation. Then came reaction, a' the prices came down to £lB to £l9. S3lllO of the pipers still quote £22, but the real market pric e is £l9. In consequence of this we had ruraoui s of failure, but as yet there have been none attr ibv table SPAIN AND MORO! CO. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) CA NIP IN FRONT OF CEUTA, I)Ec. 26. Christmas Eve, !oche Buena, is a great festiial n Spain, and is kept much as Christmas Day is with us in England. Here the usual custom was not departed from. A double ration of wine ant a amall gratuity sufficed to put the Spanish soldier in great good humour, and there was much sound of mirth and jollity in camp during the evening. Whether or not these sounds reached the ears of the Moors, or whether the renegades dc cPived them, and told them that on the following morning the Spaniards would be sleeping off a debauch, and less able than usual to defend themselves, I cannot say, but soon after 7 on Christmas morning our friends of the dark countenance and dirty white garments showed upon our extreme left, descending upon the beach, making use of our new r )ads, and apparently aiming at enveloping Ros de Olano's camp. At the same time they advanced towards his right, their line assuming their favourite crescent form, and came up to a very moderate distance from the Alphonzo redot:ht (on the left of all), so called after the Prince of Asturias. There ensued a very smart Little fight, in which the enemy received a sharp lesson. I perceive, by papers which might be sup posed_ better informed, that the Moors have been giving out fantastical histories of their victories over the Spaniards, of their having taken redoubts, which they might have held had they thought it worth . - while, and in which they would have captured guns if the Christians had not been so prudent as to remove them beforehand. These are mere fables, and it requires but one visit to our lint, of redoubts and a very short acquaintance with the Moorish style of manceuvring to feel certain that they are so. But the agents of the Emperor of Morocco will hardly have the audacity to represent the affair of the 25th of December as a victory. The enemy was vigorously received and promptly checked. From the redoubts the artillery made good practice and punished him severely. On the left the infantry were chiefly en gaged. The Moors had advanced in a reckless, im prudent manner, apparently thinking only of out flanking the Spanish position, and not considering that they might themselves be cut off, or at least brought within bayonet reach: The consequencd was that they suffered not a little, and had to retire with such precipitation that they left upwards of 40 dead bodies behind them, contra. y to their usual custom. When the Spaniards advanced without tiring, to charge them with the bayonet, they did not ~ , tand for an instant. In this manner a com pany of the Regiment of Zamora drove a lot of them out of a position they had occupied, the Moors being in such haste to decamp, and having such very long legs, that only two or three were caught. It seems nearly impossible to make them prisoners. In one encounter (most of these little actions are made up of a number of small fights between a few companies of Spaniards, and detached bodies of the Moors, who seem to have no idea of attacking in battalion or otherwise than irregularly), in which a number of Moors were killed, one of them was surrounded by four Cazadores, who came down upon him with fixed bayonets, shouting and signing to him not to fire, and that they would give him quar ter. The Moor took no heed of their overtures, levelled his long gun, and shot one of them, where upon ho was, of course, put to death by the others. The enemy had been driven back and seemed dis couraged, but still showed in considerable force at some distance in front of our lines, when a battery of long rifled 4-pounders opened upon them from the Alphonso redoubt. There was a wood which they evidently thought out of range, and in which a large number of them had assembled and remained spectators of the little skirmishing that was still going on. The first shot pitched beyond them, and produced an instant commotion and a tendency to move to the rear, and two or three more, which just got their range, sent them rapidly to the right about. The slopes and hills in their rear were dotted with them, making off in all htste and looking, in the dis- tance and in their whitey-brown baicks, like so many frightened. sheep. Before 2 o'clock they had all disappeared, and no more shots were heard. The Spanish loss was six killed aid 31 wounded. some compauics went out to see if they could find any wounded Moors, but discovered none but dead. The bodies of a number who had been killed in the ravines near the sea were burnt Lere. The general opinion in camp is that the Moors aro getting cowed at finding themselves invariably repulsed with heavy loss and without gaining an inch of ground. They had been ac customed to harass Ceuta and to skirmish with the handful of men which the garrison could send out against them, until they came to form a most con temptuous idea of the value of ;Spanish soldiers. Against the force now opposed to them they find they can do nothing, and the artillery, especially, seems to be an arm of great terror to them. Mean while the Spanish recruits are getting practice, and are learning to think little of the enemy who had been represented to them as formidable, and whose appearance to young soldiers must unquestionably be so. The Moors are generally tall powerful men, of ferocious aspect and great agility, and their mode of coming on, like so many howling savages, is not calculated to encourage and give confidence to lads who for the first time find themselves in action. Most of those whose dead bodies we have seen were men of mature age, seemingly 40 years old, or even more, although, perhaps, we take them to be older than they aro. They are horribly dirty, and few of them have anything on but their haick. Among the things brought in yesterday, besides arms, were some leathern pouches, with a strap to sling over one shoulder, the pouch falling under the opposite arm. In these they keep their powder loose. Load ing must be a long process with them, and if all their guns are of the same kind as those I have seen, with flint locks of an antiquity of construc tion that entitles them to a place in a museum of old arms, they must speecily become unserviceable in wet weather. We had some squalls of rain during the skirmish yesterday, and at nightfall these were changed for a driving torrent, while a violent gale sent against the tents with such force that they were speedily wet through. It was a very " dirty" night indeed ; there was scarcely a tent in camp through which the water did not make its way in greater or less quantities. In short, it was a repetition of the pre vious Sunday, the 18th, and rather worse than bet ter. Even for those who were so lucky as to have a dry couch (and those were very few) it was scarcely possible to sleep, owing to :the roaring of Major-Gcn. Echague, who commands the Ist corps, which was the first to land in Afri . , !q. pn& who was wounded in the sharp action of Nov. 25th, before the remainder of the army came oves, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-genefal. The Spanish Caccia .211ilitar states the number of men who have volunteered from various regiments to join the arm fft Africa to be upwards of 6,000. The rain has tecoannencecl as heavily as before, and there is every appearance of its lasting all clay, - - THE BLACK DOCTOR. M. Vries, who has attained a certain degree of notoriety under the above name, appeared yesterday before the Tribunal of Correctional Police to at.- swer the charges of illegally practising medicine and pharmacy, and of swindling. The accused. stated his age to be 65, his profession that of a phy sician, and his birthplace Surinam. In reply to questions of the President, he stated that it was in 1834 that he had left his country, and that he had . . visited Holland, America, and England, to intro duce foreign medicines. It was true that in Eng land he had endeavoured to set up a new religion, had preached against the idolatry of Rome, and had proclaimed that he feared neither the poignards of the Jesuits nor the thunders of the Vatican ; but that affair was now ended, and he occupied himself no more with it. At Lon lon, his system of medi cine had not succeeded, because there, as at Paris, he had been unr, irk treated. He lost an "enor mous sum" at Lon . don. "You came to Paris in 1853," said the Presi,:ent. " What did you come for ?" "To int reduce foreign medicine, and to propose means of replacing steam in loco motivea." " You are, then, a universal genius ?" "Erery .physician is a chymist," "You are a phy sician, chemist, and religious reformer; hare you not also discovered perpetual iru ?" " Per petual motion does not exist, Sir." " I know that very well, but you gave out that you had dis covered it. In fact, you represent yourself as a wonderful genius in all things." The accused then went. on to say that he had been put into the Debtors' P: ison in the Rue de Cliche for non-pay ment of 500 francs, and that be had lived there in comfortable style. Ina prospectus he had convoked all tire architects of all nations to send in plans for a temple of Solomon, to be erected in the Champs Elysces, and had promised ft prize of 2,500 f. for the best. One plan had been sent to him, and he had suspended it in his dining room ; but it was not a good one, and he had not paid'the money. " You did all that," said the President, " in order to attract public attention ; and to obtain that object all means appeared good to you. Thus you took the name of the Black Doctor, though you are not what may be called black; and you wrote to the President of the Academy of Medicine a letter, in which you undertook to cure persons afflicted with cancer, dysentry, and dropsy. Pray, who made you a physician ?" "I, myself, sir," answered the accused. "But you represented that you were a physician of the university of Leyden ?" " Ilippocra.tes had no diploma; and if the Lord himself were to ret urn to earth to cure men. the Faculty of Medicine would prosecute him!" "When you had obtained a certain degree of notoriety, did you not obtain permission to exercise your system of curing cancer in the Hopital St. Louis ?" "Yes ; but when Dr. Bazin, of that hospital, saw that I was likely to succeed, he xouid not let me continue." " We now arrive at an eventful period of your career. In 1858 you pretended that you cured M. Sax of cancer ?" "I believe that I did cure him." "In oonsequence of the notoriety which you gained medical men deemed it right to ascertain whether or not you really had the means of curing cancer, and Dr. Velpeau introduced you to the Hopital de la Charite ?" "Yes ; and if I had been allowed to continue my system I should have ef fected cures." " Sce'enteen persons afflicted with cancer were there placed in your hands, and 'on undertook to cure them in six months; but at the end of two months seven were dead ? ' "loot one!" " Dr. Velpeau and Dr. Fauvel affirm the contrary . . The former analysed 'your remedies, and found in. thtm nothing peculiar—nothing that is not to be obtained everywhere. But as to your patients— they are at this moment all dead, except two, and those two are dying !" "At the end of two months none were dead, and since then it is not I who have attended them !" "On the demand of Dr. Velpeau you were excluded from the hospital, and you then caused puffs on your skill to be inserted in the newspapers, and had your portrait published. Did not this publicity bring you in money ?" " Your bad faith is evident," said the public prose cutor, "as a year ago the law authorities warned you that you could not practise without a diploma, but you took no notice." "You always told the people who eo.isulted you," said tLe President, " that you were certain to effect a cure ?" " The promise of a cure gives moral force to the patient." "You always stipulated on being paid before you commenced operations, and you did not always ad here to the bargains you made. Thus, a Spanish lady came from her own country to consult you, and you undertook to cure her for 10,000 f., of which 3,000 f. were paid in advance. But after you had got this latter sum you learnt that the lady was rich, and you wrote to insist on having 40,000 f. with 10,00011 down. She complied with your re quest, but she died!" "I demanded payment from my patients according to their means." [The President here mentioned several cases where the patients died after the pretended cures of Dr. Vries.) Witnesses were then called. Several de posed that Vries had professed to be able to cure members of their families offected with cancer, but that he had failed, in some cases the patients dying. M. Redot said that after the accused had treated his wife for some time, he (Redot) had asked him whether he thought he could effect a cure. " Cer tainly !" said Vries, and yet at that very moment the poor lady was dead ! His (M. Redot's) . servant was so exasperated at the man's presumptpn that she had called him an ass aid a thief. In his case, how ever, defendant had restored the money which had been paid. M. Sax was then called, and his pre sence excited much interest. lie said that he had been afflicted with such a terrible cancer in the lip that Dr. Iticord had not only told him that an operation was necessary, but that it would most likely end fatally, and had accordingly advised him to put his worldly affairs in order. Nevertheless, in eight days Vries had perfectly cured him, and what was more, had taken 2,000 f. in s t ea d o f 3,000 f., which had been promised. Several other witnesses were then called, and amon g th em was D r . F auve l, who described what took pl ace i n th e Ho p it a l d e la Charite, and who declared that the defendant did not even know what a cancer was ; also, the direc torof the School o f Ph armac y a nd some apothe caries, who deposed that the substances which the accused had pretendedwere remedies from unknown plants, and to which he had given fantastic names, were simply alum, sulphate of potass, opium, B.x. The evidence for the prosecution having been closed, numerous witnesses were called on behalf of the accused, and they declared that he had cured them of core , e laints more or less grave; one of them, a workwoman, who had been in the Hopital de la Charite, even said that he had cured her of cancer. At this stage of the proceedings the further hearing of the case was adjourned for a week:—Cia/ignani's Messenger. An extensive failure has taken place at Melbourne, that of a provision contractor named Graham, for £BO,OOO. 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