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LAND AND I n ' FINANCE COMPANY (Limited). ti''!Pcrated under " The Corn 'antes Act of 1842," by which their liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of shares. 410 Capital .f.,5V,00); First Issue £250,(00. ,0% shares of £25 each. Deposit on application £: per ; 44 , re, and £ 4 on allotment, and the remainder in Calls not i'`eding £1 per share, and at intervals of not less than 4 to months. Zninium dividend of 7 per cent. for the first year, and 11 cent. for the second and third years, is guaranteed to e s hareholders to the satisfaction of the Di. ectors. Ba,„ DIRECTORS. aZ t lel Gibson Getty, Esq., 51. P. Z i e B Mack, Esq , Director of the Standard Bank of Briti s h Ce ll (Limited., London. f r ge Walter Constable, Esq., St. Michael's House, Corn- R i R .c. 4 4 1 111 Dune. Esq., Merchant, 150, Leadenhall-street, E.C., coPort Elizabeth, S.uth Africa. , Plessies, Esq., Member of the Divisional Council, Green, Esq., Civil C. mmissioner and Resident Ma erß Zitp trate of Colesberg. bard Allen Green, Esq , Member of the Divisional Colesberg. 106 v• von Maltitz, Esq., Memb er o f th e H ouse o f A ssem bl y, , l esber‹. slut .rt White, Esq , Director of the Standard B an k of B r iti s h k 4.rt * AfrWi ica (Limited!, London. " S. ndh am. Esq., 14, Connaught-place, W. These gentlemen will constitute the Local Board. AGENTS IN CAPE TOWN. Messrs. Deane, Johnson, and Co. The r v , BANKERS. he 7 Bank, Threadneedle-street, E.C. c Standard Bank of British South Africa (Limitei), 90, 111110 a -street, E.C. BROKERS. e sara.Eykyn Brothers, 22, Change-alley, E.C. kap. SOLICITORS. ", Kingsford and Dorman, 25,23, Essex-street, Strand,W.C, I tesor s , AUDITORS. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and Evans, 3, Coleman street-buildings, E.C. SECRETARY, PRO TEU. TAEames, Esq. ary Offices—St. Michael's House, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, E.C. (4,4 : ths Company is established to assist generally in develop tion,al resource, of South Africa. As a basis of their opera tert-a the Di rec t ors h ave prov i s i onally agreed to purc h ase 141, • 7„ 11, Valuab!e lands in the eastern province of the Cape '444 and in tbo Orange River Free State. A portion of Jerr e lands is under cultivation, but the greater part is re- Iv; tor grazing purposes. , I totid B , Company is therefore introduced to the public not as T 1 ,4 131 tar spe. u Wien. but as a solid basis of investment, ,Thrldends accruing upon the formation of the Company. Ltlo h „,,eolonies of South Africa are at present but slightly de ; but such as have had capital expended en them ex 144,eareer of solid prosperity, which is proved by— , .' - --The large dividends paid by the local banks. ;Ite7lld—The increase In the amount, and the character of ,volo s ,Ports. The export of wool has risen, in the Cape `hre e alone, from eight millions of pounds in 1653, to thlrty- PB 4,plulions of pounds in 1861 ; and Natal, alter havino* 4 011 , 1 0 1 4 8 11 ed an increasing export trade in sugar, is about to I, lti l ‘ton, coffee, and other articles, to her profitable surdnll - PI oductions. sincreasin , value of land, in consequence of the Pier B on of agriculture and the construction of roads, ports, 0 0. 11 ,d other works of publidartili y. , 4, 41 4 `, 1 , 41 —The completion otzai roads and telegraphs con th Di e d the principal ports with the interior, to be supple tiee., by others in the Eastern and Western Provinces of s,,"Pe or Good Hope and Natal, for wnich tenders have A - ` B ,Y been called for. .et e ,' r gnle system of land registration exists in the South , 41 4 8 '; CoTonies and the Free States, under which convey -I:l'Ld mortgages are effected with expedition, and at a Moderate expense. tat he OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY. a ro w , ?PlPany proposes to buy and lease farm lauds; to Lueqe lands ay irrigation and farming o;.eratrons as ' 3 'l in Australia and New Zealand; to stock and farm 1 , 1 4 0 „ to import both agricultural implements from "lop and pure blood o f all de s c r ip t i ons of s t oc k , f or t h e "Aoli' y e'llent of the flocks, and for sale to the farmers iu the • t lp l lll49ropany w:11, fu; ther, be open to make advances t et , fie produce of the country. consisting cf wool, skins, ,111,..,;eathers, and other stap:es. Ot,„` orepany also proposes to organise forthwith a regu'ar i 4 ,1 1' Of transport of merchandise from the ports to toe in 4iiiivas, from which soum alone d con Ade. able income toltleenTated. r „i l l',° 4l Party will take powers to negotiate loans required 1, th e tt wrrks in zuy of the South Atr:can colonies. sizeatates to be acquired by the Company have an excel ,l'D'Y of svat r; oue estate alone, co.,tuining about ''res, has 5 miles of ,rontage along the Orange diver. o,o' l ll be improved resold in smiler farms, arid in the ek e stacker! w itii , sheep. horses, horned cattle, and other pet or the estate- comprise not less than 216,000 acre'. The tki ll/tr theie, with the buildings thereon, including all pre klk!kal z 7 expenses up to the allotment of shares, has been hi,: 5 114 . 01 1 a computation of from 2s. 6d. to 12s. Od. per acre 1 114 1)ai d tu th locat ; 45,0 J of the tu chase mone will taip l deLe e nture li s, y and 3 the o remainder (X 90,000) in y cash ttAN, i e t as extendinz over a pert, d o f 1 8 mon th s . ,Zr eq i i ir allta dividend of 7 p , r cent. for the first year. and 10 io or • for the second and third years, is guaranteed by the tollon 11 P he paid-up capital. The Local Board is of Nat a much larger dividend may be expected alter geeellee"d car. ,peo-operation of five gentlemen, of high standing in the Province Colony tithe whom this und rtiking was sag- Vho' Its been se'ure I , y will form the Local Board. 41N4 li areholders' w ill 'incur no liability beyond the amount t i) . e ti e s allotted to th m. Applicaloni for shares must be 1 1 ,1),. y rI t ort the annexed form Each appliesint will be required I t i;lab ei . be tankers of the Company £1 per share upon the et shares applied for, and upon aßotment to make a I )4 4 ati ) j)aYrnent of £ per share on she shares allotted to him. Ihret lir event of no allotment being made he deposits will 14 , 11 ar aed in f ull. 'Shout d a less nuinber of shares be allotted kkart s e v aPPlied for, the depos:ls will be made avail:We ;th e de payment on a lotmen:, and the balance, if any, to the ap licant. o i Y?,ctuse s and Forms of Application for Shares may be or Brokers ; of the Se:retary, at the Temporary ti ,9t. Michael's House, Cornhill E'.C. ; and at the Offices Aaeternati ;nal Contract Company, ' 85, Cannon-street ih t g 11 1 ,%,„: The Articles of Asrociatloa and the Agreement T e , endor may be inspected at the Solicitors', and at ary Offices of the Comp n 7 Tn r , --"' SOUTH AFRICAN LAND AND FINANCE COMP aNY (Limited). l'°ll al OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. l'otls°' (To be ret a i ne d by th e B an k ers .) 1e Directors of the South African Land and Finance k e lltip,,,, Company (Limited). the — tten, —Having p a id t o yosr Bankers the sum of V kb,,,_ 9 being a deposit of £1 per share on shares in 04 41 4.. v e Company, I hereby reques s t uc t_ha s t_yo r i e r s 7ill allot me kl,kbelhibcr, and I agree to accept such n oa a y or any less t t ;ott 4 L3Pott may allot me;_ and I agree the deposit on 14: 1 04, and i, to sign the Articles of Association of the required, and I authorise you to insert r y k q e r/ c i l l the Register of Members for the number of shares to me. 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SARAWA. (From the Weekly I?egieter of March 11, 1863.) Sir,—l am very glad—and I say it without the least affectation—that Sir John Scott Lillie replied to my letter about Saldanha, published in your Catholic paper this day last week. It does honour to the feelings of the gallant General to come for ward in defence of his old comrade in the glorious struggle of the Peninsular war, in which both the gallant soldiers did their duty with great credit and high distinction ; but whether his letter will do much good to the Duke or to the cause which Sir J. S. Lillie seems to have yet go much at heart, that is another question, of which your readers will be more competent judges than I am. I will at once proceed seriatim to examine and answer the several clauses of the General's letter in the same order as they there appear. He says—" That I blame the Duke for having ,aken an active part in the restoration of constitu _ tional monarchy in his own country, under its legiti mate Queen Donna Maria, when the throne of that kingdom had been usurped by Don Miguel, whose despotic sway and. the cruelties he practised to all op posed to him, created such general dissatisfaction throughout Euiope as to cause a universal feeling amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty, and of constitutional freedom for his overthrow." The points or expressions I took the liberty of italicising are those I will begin by adverting upon. Then, first,— " the restoration of constitutional monarchy" in Portugal. Old Johnson, who knew c so oi m is e titu li ti t o t i l ia e n ( f i n t t h h e e sole En g lis se h use language, applicable dteofionures case) that which is "consistent with the civil constitution ; legal." I shall feel extremely obliged to Sir John if he kindly shows me the legality of which he so triumphantly speaks, of that " constitutional monarchy" of his in my country. I absolutely deny such legality ; the onus probandi is his ; let him bring forth the proofs of his assertions, and he will then see whether I have some thing substantial to say against them. And if he does not prove what he advances, we shall know what to think of his words. Now, for the 66 legitimate Queen Dona Maria." I just as peremptorily deny and reject any "legitimate" _ _ . . _ _ (lawful) right in Dona Maria to the Throne of Por tugal, my country. Unfortunately, Ido not find in Johnson the word legitimate in the sense it is here used by the General, meaning lawful (as if he means that Dona Maria is the " lawfully begotten" daughter of Don Pedro, I knock under at once on this point.) Yes, I totally deny to Dona Maria any right to the Portuguese Throne, if not before, most certainly from the 24th day of August, 1825, the date of the treaty, and acknowledgment by Portugal and King John VI., of the Brazilian Independence. When the General brings forth his proofs, we shall see whether I can discover some little flaw in them ; and if he wishes at once to refute my arguments, I will refer him to the article in which I stated them with sufficient fullness, in your own paper of the 16th of January (I think it is the date), last year. Until he refutes my arguments there, he must allow me to beseech him not to speak lightly of what he has not studied, or does not know. After what I have just said, anybody who knows the name of logic will at once judge of the delicacy and fairness of calling Don Miguel something very much akin to a robber or thief, and me, consequently, his accomplice and abettor. without being able to prove the charges. I am ready to hear his arguments, and beforehand promise him to submit to their cogency, if they have any. Now, in the " despotic sway," " the cruelties practised" (by Don Miguel), the " universal feeling amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty and of constitutional freedom for his overthrow," there is only an appeal to the quackish delusions and sophistic cant with which Freemasons and shallow Liberals have heen trying to delude and upset society ever since the first French Revolution. The Encyclical of the Holy Father is the fit commentary on_ all this. I do not wish, however, or 'want, to shun any point or charge, and am always ready to answer all ; but I have regard to your space ; I therefore will only say, for the present, in reference to the " despotic sway," first that such sway was rot despotic, nor did I ever admit that it was, or would ever have submitted to despotic power, which was not at all the power of the Portuguese Kings, according to the real and true constitution of the country, which the Portuguese Legitimists, or the immense majority of the people, maintained, wished, and wish restored to this day. If Sir John con tradicts this, I am ready to answer him, and to bring forth my proofs. Secondly, I deny also those " cruelties practised by hint," and assert that they were for the most part invented by the Portuguese refugees, who, after having been expelled from the country by the resistance and energy of the people, came to England and set about manufacturing all sorts of calumnious falsehoods--even the most improbable and absurd—against the 'King and the great majority and best part of the nation which wished and supported him. These are general assertions Sir John will perhaps say : Well, here I am, ready to substantiate them, and will gladly do so, if you promise to afferd me space for it. I leave the gallant General the benefit of the clap trap about the " general dissatisfaction throughout Europe, the universal feeling amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty, and of constitutional freedom," &c. This reminds me of the actor who said he had always at his disposal a remedy against the slacking applause in the pit : he had only to bring forth, no matter how, the bubble, " Not the smallest feather shall be plucked out from the wing of liberty !" But let me . ask—what has all that to do with, or how does it in any way atone for, the robbery of the Church in Portugal, with its heart rending consequences, the principal charge I bring against Sir John's favourite Duke and his friends ? Sir John makes a great merit to Saldanha (and of course to himself) for participating in a feeling created abroad (out of Portugal, he means) by falsehood and calumny, and for wishing to cram down the throats of the Portuguese people against their will his famous nostrum of " civil and religious liberty and constitutional freedom." The gallant General who, I think, is no stranger to some know ledge of the principles of law, cannot be ignorant of the maxim, Invito non datur beneficium. He must have heard something of a hero celebrated by Cer vantes, one of whose first exploits was to rescue a farmer's lad from a righteous flogging his master was administering him for some misdeed ; a rescue which produced to the boy a second and more severe thrashing. Sir John, I suppose, knows also what sort of thanks the hero of La Mancha afterwards got from the lad, when called to to the merits and ser vices of knight-errantry. Well, I can assure the General (and I offer to have the thing tested by honest universal suffrage), that nine out of every ten Por tuguese would express to Sir John, and his friend, to Lord Palmerston and his quadruple alliances, thanks of the same kind as those of the farmer's boy, for the precious " civil and religious liberty, and Constitutional freedom," which " Liberal" quackery has inflicted upon us. I feel almost sure, the Saldanha himself—who has several very good points about him—would admit the truth of what I have just said, if the question was seriously put to him. I can excuse foreigners, who were deceived by the lying inventions of the Portuguese refugees, and the lying correspondents in Portugal of most of the English papers ; but there was little excuse for Saldanha, who had his friends and relations in Lisbon (even his brother Francis, now Count d'Azin haga, then a great Miguelite, till 1839, and the King's agent at Turin), from whom he could know the real truth. How Sir John finds that the fact of a Government who robbed the Church, reducing to beggary and starvation her most respectable ministers—a Govern- ment which has done all which the Holy Father most reprobates (vide e ncyclical and Syllabus)—having: appointed their Ambassador to Rome just the man who chiefly contributed to the ascendancy and pre servation of that Government—that this should be a forcible reason more for the readers of the Weekly Register holding such Ambassador in higher estima tion—is above my comprehension. The General is mistaken in thinking that I know he had been appointed to command a division of the rebels against us, &c. I never knew it. The fact of the bill about his dfference with the public house-keeper in the Strand is all that I knew, for he must remember how unwarrantably I was incom moded on that account. I shall not tire the readers with this story, but have no objection to explaining it fully. The General still persists in calling me a "partisan of the usurper," he will see that this makes it more incumbent upon him to prove that the King had no right to his crown. He further says, I have " favoured him with va rious marks of my hostility," &c. That is possible, as I could not much like those who, having no busi ness with the internal political affairs of my coun- try, did all they could against us ; but I give him my word of honour that I do not remember where or when I ever showed that hostility to him personally. Of late Sir John cannot have forgotten how we have been very friendly, and so I am still towards him), when he was most zealously trying, in combination with me and others (the late General Gomez, for instance), to find means and support for the . _ _ _ triumph of Don Carlos (Count de ifontemolin) in Spain. Now Don Carlos's principles and interests were brotherly enough with those of my King, his uncle. The General wrongs the Duke of Wellington and Lord Beresford, in accusing them of " advo cating despotic rule in Portugal ;" and with them he wrongs Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Fitzroy Somerset (since Lord Raglan) Sir George Murray, Sir Henry Hardinge (lately Lord Har- dinge), and several more of such small fry, who sided in the Portuguese question with Wellington and Beresford, and unfortunately differed from Sir John Scott Lillie in this and other respects. He wrongs them, I say, because instead of " advocating despotic rule" in Portugal, they advocated the real Portuguese constitutional Government. Lord Aberdeen and the Duke did not listen to us with favour, or began actually to prepare for reversing the unjust policy of Canning in regard to us, until they saw laid before them the authentic documents and proofs incontestable of the perfect legality of the lawful Cortes of 1828—the real national Par- liament, who declared the legal right of the King to the Portuguese throne. I know this too well, as I had in my quality of Secretary-to the Portuguese Mission, to translate into French the above-said documents, and the parallel ones of the great Cortes or Parliament of 1641, in order to show the Government here the perfect constitutional legality of our late proceedings in Portugal. And it was only after Lord Aberdeen had scrupulously examined all, that he at last admitted our being in the right. It was since then also that, being pressed, on the strength of his admission, by Viscount d'Assecca, my Minister, to recog nise formally the right of the King, he used to reply :—" Bien fait ott mal fait, 111. le Vicomte, c'est fait : nous avons reconnu le Gouverne ment actuel en Portugal, et vous ne devez pas attendre que le Gouvernement d'une grande nation comme la Grande Bretagne puisse si facile ment rebrousser chemin." Such was his reply, and then the British Cabinet pressed our Government for an amnesty to the refugees; the want of the ready grant ing of which was the greatest fault of our Government, and what prevented the Wellington Cabinet from acknow ledging the King before their fall in 1830. I hope this sort of digression will be forgiven, as the facts there mentioned gyre not without interest, and they do justice as well as ionour to such statesmen departed as England would ho very glad to get back, in exchange even for Lord Russell and Mr. Layard. • Since they left power, what the Duke of *Wellington, and Peel, &c., contended for in opposition was, leanest neutra dit towards Portugal—the now fashionable non-interraz tion ; truth, in fact, and justice and fairness, ,and liberty to the Portuguese nation to have its own actual, lawful, and really constitutional government, and to reform it legally and constitutionally, by its own true Parliament, as Eng land was doing just, then. Now, in the second part of the General's letter, there is such a medley of facts and accusations jumbled together, and very little relevant to the exculpating Saldanha from the principal and substantial charges in my last lttec, that . to answer all specifically and fully would take much more space than you would accord to me. I, therefore, will not venture on such work now, however much I wished it ; but let our friend the General distinctly understand that I am willing, and with pleasure, to reply fully to every item he brings forth, if he, or rather you, guarantee me the necessary space for the work. At present, not to extend this letter beyond all reasonable bounds, I shall confine my self to-Ist, repelling the insinuation of my having any personal indisposition against Saldanha, except on public grounds ; 2d, to simply denying imputations that I know not to be true ; 3d, to pointing out incorrect statements ; 4th, to show how the General does not exonerate his Duke from any of the real and serious charges contained in my letter to which he replies, against the same Duke. Then: Ist, Saldanha never injured me in my private capacity ; I never saw him even but once at Epsom races some 20 years ago (and his likeness stuck at a shop in Regent-street) ; never spoke to him or he to me ; always regarded him as a sort of bon-enfant, pliable like wax ; so that, even now, in spite of my most decided political hostility, I cannot hate him. This is the real truth ; therefore, to his person apart from political considerations, I have no sort of aversion whatever. 2d. It would be difficult to me, or to anybody, to defend the King " against a variety of crimes and misdemeanours with which he was charged, cotnmencingwith that step he took during the lifetime of his father, King John, to pave his way to the absolute power he contemplated." Which step does the General mean ? How can I know which is the particular step amongst "a variety" (wholly undefined) " of crimes and misdemeanours?" I shall, however, assume that he wishes to speak of the well -meant but imprudent and ill-advised affair of April 30, 1821. In this point, the General addresses himself to one who, without having had any part in the same affair, happens to know all about it most competently from that very time ; and, by the strength of this knowledge, I can tell the General that the Prince had no more intention or wish of dethroning his Royal father, or paving the.way to absolute power, 4-c., than I have just now a mind to go and jump down from the top of the Monument in Fish-street Hill. Of course, I cannot enter hero into a discussion and demonstration of my denial. Nor will I enter either upon the case of the murder of the Marquis do Loul6, that noble patriot, who had been condemned to death in Lisbon for being a traitor to his country, in the service of Napoleon 1., whilst Sir John and Saldanha were bravely fighting for the independence of Portugal and the Peninsula—and who was generously pardoned by the king and nation in 1817, or thereabouts. But this I will say, that I was in Lisbon at the time, and tried by means in my power (and I had many) to learn , and could never get even a tolerable guess about who mi g ht have been the murderer of the Marquis. The General, therefore, who seems to know all about it, ought to inform us of the real facts, rather than ask the information from me. And to what I can also testify without hesitation is, that, d:szspplov:ng, as every _•cnsib:a person tr.d, and con demning the manner in which the palace had been cleared of the Marquis, there was not one person in a hundred in Lisbon and throughout Portugal, who was not glad to learn that Louie was no more by the side of the old King. These are facts to which I can speak without hesitation, from my own perfect knowledge and observation, and on which I could expatiate, and state many important circum stances, had I not regard to the limited columns of the Weekly Register. - 3d. As to the accuracy of the facts and imputations charged by the General, apropos de bottes, on my calumni ated and lawful King, I should like also to have room in the paper for properly and fully analysing all, the jumble:—" Is it not true that Don Miguel, on subsequently assuming the reins of Government, did not, without judge or jury, in carcerate in the dungeons of Fort St. Julian and other prisoners, all the noblemen and others of note, who were op-- posed .to his system of Government, where they remained, suffering the greatest privations for several years, until the reins of Government were wrested from his hands, and the constitution restored by universal acclamation, when it was found that the greater part of the unfortunate prisoners at Fort St. Julian had perished under the cruel treatment of its Governor Tolles Jordao, who was for to pieces by the inhabitants of Lisbon and thrown into the Tagus (a retribution so far for the Murder of the Marquis de Louie ?)" murdered at Salvaterra nine years before, without the fact of the murder having any connection with all the just transcribed miscellaneous statements, in which there aro some very small grains of truth, diluted in a vast quantity of the con trary ingredient. It would require a good volume to fully show the in correctness of all the charges so loosely tripped together by our General in the above quotation. I would have im- mensgy to say and to refute on the whole, but especially on what is contained in the italicized word. ; but I will here limit myself to the following short remarks :—" The con stitution restored by universal acclamation," is a falsehood ; the "universal acclamation" was, I suppose, by the people —the nation. And will Sir John tell us who then support& the King for five years against the obstinate efforts of his enemies, aided from this country and from France, &c., with all sorts of support in men, money, arms, diplomacy, public press, &c.? Why, if the people of Portugal were so ready to receive with open arms and "universal acclama- tion" the precious constitution, was it necessary to concoct the infamous Quadruple Alliance, and to send the armies of Saarsliel and Rodil into Portugal against us? I suppose it was to rescue the nation from the nation ! The General himself cannot avoid here to admit that he has been writing non sense. All he so glibly says about tho incarceration of the "noblemen and others of note" is full of exaggeration; there is some little truth in" it, but much more of the gravest falsehood prevailing in the barefaced inventions wherewith the "Liberal" Portuguese refugees and their compeers plentifully supplied for years the English press, which, with very scanty but honourable exceptions, would in those times admit nothing else in regard to us. Let the reader judge c,f the general accuracy by this assertion :—" Telles forddo, who was torn to pieces by the people of Lisbon and thrown into the Tagus." The fact being that General Telles Jordilo, who had been, in the Peninsular War, a soldier as brave and distinguished as Sir J. S. Lillie and &Manila, was most barbarously murdered, NOT by the people of Lisbon, not in Lisbon itself even, but at Cassilhas on other side of the Tagus, by the soldiers of Villa Flor (afterwards Duke of Terceira) when he had been taken prisoner. Such are the real soldierly and " Liberal " proceedings of Sir John's esteemed friends, whom he so readily takes up the cudgels to defend. The General is not ignorant, I see, of the importance there is in a name. To buy for a trifle or nominal price, a convent rascally and rapaciously taken by Sir John's friends from its original owners, might not be thought a very honourable thing, nor the charge thereof be without some little weight. But call the result of the plunder "national property," and the buying of it from the robbers for a trifle becomes a trifling circumstance, and the mention of the transaction a "frivolous charge." Has Sir John, like General Butler in America, had, before he turned soldier, any ex perience in special pleading ? I make no charge against Mr. Smith ; but I cannot but find it extraordinary —and for a Portuguese and a Catholic, let me say, shocking —to see a young man, a Protestant besides, without any profession that I know of, and without any services to my country, issue from Milton-street, Dorset-square, simply as an appen dage to Saldanha, and then seeing him so me ti me a ft er i n possession of one of the homes of our expelled and plun dered religious communities ! 4th. Let me now ask the readers of the Weekly Register, whether Sir John Scott Lillie has, in his letter, exonerated Saldanha from any of the serious charges in my former letter. I charge him with :- Ist. Giving most sumptuous parties at the expense of a nation, whose revenue is hardly half sufficient for the ex penses of the State and interest of its debt. 2d. Being one of the 'principal instruments in putting my country under the power of the present Freemasonic Government, who plundered Convents, Monasteries, Cathe drals, Churches, Confraternities (and are just now prepar ing to plunder, in the same way the Hospitals, the Orphan ages, the Charitable Brotherhood; &c.) 3d. Opening the doors of the Kingdom to the Protestant Propaganda (who with this hope highly favoured the Por tuguese Revolution), and to infidelity, demoralisation, and ruin, by aiding so efficaciously the Freethasons and Revo lutionists in their war against the lawful King and Consti tution, against the real Portuguese nation. 4th. Hating several times been all-powerful, absolute Dictator, in Portugal ; having made several revolutions, in which ho was the master of everything ; and still, never having availed himself of such power, means, and autho rity, to hinder the plunder of the Church, to prevent the abolishing of the Religious Orders and. Institutions, or ad vocate even some partial re-establishment of them, after their scandalous, Vandalic, and impious abolition. Are these charges true or not? Has Sir J. S. Lillie exonerated Saldanha of them ? A. R. SARAIVA. 21, Nottingham-street, Marylebone W., February, 27, 180. DISAPPEARANCE OF A MOUNTAIN.—The Giornale di Sicilia of Palermo states that, ts few days ago, a solitary mountain near Hotta St. Anastasia, in the district of Sieli, suddenly sunk down to the level of the plain, leaving no trace behind except a few trees which stood on its top, and are still partly visible. This strange phenomenon is attri buted to the volcanic aetiOn of Mount Etna, though the dis tance is considerable. If the blunder of a gcrier al is a crime, Ge nera l Hardee was guilty of worse than a blunder when he left cotton in Savannah belonging to neutral owners to come into possession of an enemy who has no respect for neutral rights, On January 12 we had to record the fall of Savannah, and at that time the price of cotton at Liverpool was about 25d. per pound. The present price of cotton is about 16d. per pound. This unparalleled depreciation of value is due mainly, if not entirely, to the report that the Federals obtained possession of about 30,000 bales of cotton at Savannah. We deem it our duty to point out how utterly unfounded is the panic that now prevails at Liverpool, and to do what we can to prevent a serious and widespread commercial dis aster. No doubt the stock of cotton in Liverpool is larger than was anticipated, but any one ac quainted with the trade wit admit that the dif ference between the estimated and the actual stock will not account for a fall of ld., or at the very ut most of in the pound. How then can we ex plain a fall of 9d. per pound ? The reports received from India and from the Mediterranean do not war rant the supposition that the receipts of cotton from I those places will be in excess of the receipts of the past year, and we are not aware that any one pre tends that the prospect of an increase of Indian and Egyptian cotton has had anything to do with the pre sent ruinous depreciation. Can the recent successes of the Federals have anything to do with the panic in the cotton mar ket ? No doubt, the fact that Wilmington is closed and Charleston and Savannah arc in the hands of the enemy, puts an end, at least for a time, to any considerable blockade-running. But surely this fact should enhance, rather than depreciate, the value of cotton in Liverpool. The trade knows af3 well as we d4-that-large-supplies of American cot ton have come to hand. For example, from the first week in February until the current week we have an nounced the arrival of upwards of 30,000 bales of American cotton. It will be conceded that had it not been for these large importations of cotton from the Southern States those holders who calculated on higher prices would not have been disappointed. Now the termination or suppression of blockade running puts an end to this source of supply, and therefore the blow struck at blockade running can not lower the price of the article, since it will make it scarcer. But we may be told that the Federals have posses sion of cotton districts, and therefore cotton will come out without any difficulty. From what took place at Charleston, where a large stock of cotton was given to the torch, we may be sure that no Con federate general will repeat the blunder of General Hardee. But, in truth, no Confederate general will have the opportunity of so blundering. Supposing, which is not the case, that the possession of the sea coast towns enabled the Federals to sweep the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, of all the cotton stored in them, the amount of plunder would be small. North Carolina is not a cotton growing country. Except the sea islands, which have long been in the possession of the Federals, the staple of South Carolina is rice. The cotton in the part of Georgia occupied by the Federals was stored in Savannah. But ; further, it must be remembered that Charleston, Savannah, and Wilmington were the most convenient ports for blockage running, and consequently a large supply of cotton—nearly 500,000 bales since the commmencement of the war —has been obtained at these ports. The stocks at these places were reduced to a very low ebb, for a reason sufficiently apparent to those who are quainted with the military situation and its exigen cies. The lines of railroad were so engrossed for military purposes, and it became so costly to trans port cotton from Alabama, and from the cotton States east of Alabama, to the Atlantic seaports, that it was only sent forward in small quantities. Captains of blockade runners can testify that of late they have had to wait in port day after day for their return cargoes of cotton. Where is then the stock of cotton in the States of which the Federals have obtained possession of the seaports ? Therefore the recent Federal successes must suspend, may entirely cut off, but cannot in any way add to our stock of cotton. It is impossible to conceive a more unfounded panic than that which now dominates in Liverpool. It began with the announcement that the Federals _ . had at Savannah some 30,000 bales of cotton be longing to neutral owners, and. which, by the way, would have come to hand through the agency of blockade running but for the change in the military situation. The panic has been heightened because the Federals, ignoring neutral rights, have appro ... priated the cotton, and being pressed for gold imve shipped a portion of it to Europe. Assuming that the capture of Savannah liberated 30,000 bales of cotton, which would otherwise have been shut up till the termination of the war, can anything be more ridiculous than the notion that such an event should cause a fall in price of 9d. in the pound ? When we consider the whole position—that the Fe- deral successes have stopped blockade- running, which was the source of our large American supply, and that in the states in which the Federal armies are located there are no stocks of cotton—there is reason, so far as the occurrences in America are concerned, for an advance and not a downfall in price. The panic will not be of long duration. Buyers will be eager to avail themselves of such unwar ranted cheapness, and it is hard to conceive that holders will permit an absurd panic to involve them in ruinous losses. The facts we have stated are no torious, and the conclusion is indisputable. We trust that our observations may assist in restoring the market to a sound and reasonable condition, and if so, it will have been our privilege to have rendered a most important service to the commercial commu nity.—lndex. 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On the arrival by the boat-train of the South-Eastern Railway, the deputa tion, consisting of Viscount Ranelagh, Lords Elcho, Truro, and Lieut.-Cols. \Verde, Buxton, and Cochrane, were re ceived by Sir Luke Smithett, the deputy mayor, the local committee for the reception of the Volunteers, and a number of military and Volunteer officers, who entertained their lordships at breakfast at the Lord 'Warden Hotel. Lord Ranelagh first inspected the shed accommodation in the town, which was pronounced ample for all requirements. The railway stations next underwent inspection, and the only fault found in respect to them was that snore room for brigading outside the stations on the arrival of the Volun teers was d es i ra ble. Afterthis, Lord Elcho an d t h e others proceeded in carriages to the Round Down. midwaybetween Dover and Folkestone, the proposed scene of the review, Lord Ranelagh walking thither to see the time the march would occupy, and he made the journey in a little over an hour. The review ground was described as three miles long and two miles broad. The advantages of the different po sitions were then pointed out. Mr. S. Finnis drew their lordships' attention to Hougham, which used to be the fa- Tourite place of the late Duke of Wellington to manoeuvre his troops. The conmiittae seemed highly pleased with the ground, notwithstanding they saw it in its most unfavour able state on account of the bad weather of the preceding night. After carefully inspecting the ground and the neigh bourhood around, their lordships proceeded to Folkestone, and inspected the railway station. LADVERTISEMENT.I-Holloway's Ointment and Pills.- Scurvy, Skin Diseases.-These unsightly complaints are the source of much annoyance to thousands. While fret ting the mind they irritate the nerves, and produce a con tinuous slow fever, disordered stomachs and restless nights. For this state Holloway's Ointment and Pills are an im mediate and certain remedy. 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THE COURT o f DIRECTO RS of the GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENG LAND GIVE NOTICE, That a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on THUItSDAY, the ;6th instant, at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of a Dividend ; also that another General Court will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 4:h April next, from Ten o'clock in the forenoon until Four in the , fternoon, for the Election of a Governor and Deputy-Governor for the year ensuing (which will be de clared that eve .ing); and the same Court will I e continued by adjournment, and held at the same place, and durinic the same hours, on Wednesday, the sth April next, for the Election of Twenty-four Directors (which wilt also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter), and the election cf the Twenty-Pour Directors will be declared as soon As the scrutiny is over. Printed lists of the proprietor , having votes wfl be ready to be delivered at the Bank on Monday, 20th March. HAMMOND CHUBB, Secretary. N.B. 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