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STAMPED 5d NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF JOHN HALIFAX. Now ready at all the Libraries. in 1 vol., CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE. By the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENE LEMAN," 4:e. Hurst and Blatkett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. IVANTED, a HEAD NURSE (Catholic), accustomed to take a Child from the Month. Apply to A. 8., 4, Upper Portland-place. The Lord-Advocate on English Law and Feeling. CRYSTAL PAL kCE.-TO-MORROW.- k) LUXURIOUSLY WARM and [la.—Lighted at Dusk—See the new Pictures in Special Gallery. . 51i5 i4 11 • ; p4° SECRETARY (pro tern.) J. D. O'Brien, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 17 and 18, Cornhill. rer er )Sr i 1, 6. 15 0 11 # 2 1 # 21 0 1 0 . 01 1°19 fro. * cre e° )1464, E. 44 &OA htlIJ cbc, ol , :00 KJ" 30110041 for cl° ', G O' IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the FIRST ORDI NARY. GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this Association will be held at the London Tavern, Bishops gate -I.3itreet, in th e City of London, nn tN DA. Y, the 23d day of anu arY, 1865, at T we l ve o ' c l oc k a t noon preci s ely, for the Purpose tf receiving the Report of the Directors and tate tient of Accounts, of declaring a Dividend, and for general Purposes. ° _ At thii Meeting the Election of Two Auditors for the en lung Year will take place. By or d er of the Board, Crosb W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary. y House, 95, Bishopsgate-street, Jan. 10, 1865. TUE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of NGLAN (Limited) are prepared to RECEIVE rt,ItoCRIPTIONS for the Capital o f the CITY of MILAN uirRoVEM &NTS COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under "The Companies Act 18'2. • Cone salon, dated 28th Juiy, 1854, granted by the sfuni rtY of Milan, confers the grant of the fee simple of It, out seven- acres of land in the heart of the city, hamedi ?,el3' surrounding the Cathedral, for the purpose of rebuild dll t a he Piazza d 1 Durno, and connecting it with the Piazza e Gila. ,„ Share Capital £600,0'0, in 20,'01 shares of £3O each. share. The it is not proposed to call u more the £2O per ;""e• The calls to be at intervals of not less than three —TM's, and no call to exceed Li per share. Further re -1 lrements are intended to be met by the issue of Debon ...uresi or by the sale or leasing of he buildings as recon ,,ruet, d. I'r "islon is made in the estimates for the payment of in terest at the rate of £7 per cen'. per annum, on the 15th Ja .llarY and 15th July, pending the sale or lease of the recon tq ru cted buildings; the first halt-year's interest will be paid Deposit no) ti per Share on application, and £4 further on 11,0traent.• TUSTEES. The Earl of Virarwiek, 'R 1 he Earl Somers, and Edward Warner, Esq.. M.P. The la. DIRECTORS Credit -.might Hon. James Stuart Wortley, Governor of the Poncier and Mobtlier of Eng and. .., sir James P. Lacaita, K.C.M.G., Member of the Italian rarliament, Director of the Anglo-Italian Bank. ~., J . antes Fletcher, Esq. (Messrs. Alexander Fletcher and Co• A London, Director of the Alliance Marine Insurance mPany a d Provinci,slßank of Ireland. I, London. C 0.),„... Prederick J. B Izl lbert Esq (Messrs. Lane, Hankey, and Geo l . , • 1 Esq. (Messrs. Seymour and Co. l, 33, than r ° ,llo, ton-street London, Director of the Anglo-Ans- Ba n ,. , 4 ' bigby Wyatt, Esq , late vice-President of the Institute Of BrittBll Architects. ARCHITECT a. elAmn Si . Giuseppe Mengoni, Consulting Architect to the City an SOLICITORS. st Ream Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Co., Parliament- BANKERS. essrs. Rebarts, Lubbock, and Co., dan l5, Lombard-street, The Angio-Itallan Bank, Milan, Biorani Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, 8, Angel-court. Throg- In orton-stre e t tlessrs. Hieinns and Harrison, 21, Threadneedle,treet, The right acquired by the City of Milan Improvements Company r LimiterL to the possession of the actual fee-simple of about seven acres of land in the commercial centre of one of the principal cities of Europe, pre-eminently distinguishes this from all other undertakings hitherto carried out upon the Continent by means of British capital. Under the Italian Law of Expropriation affecting pro perty required for works of public utility, these seven acres, With the buildings upon them, of which the omp .ny will become absolutely possessed, were purchased by the Muni cipality at an av erage pries of 751 lire or trailers (.£3o) per aquare metre, or a total sum of LE48,335. The prire to be paid by the Concession Tres is fixed by the Concession at £311 ,214, or 300 lire (£l2) per square metre for 24,140 square Metres, ana 150 lire (£6l per square metre for 3,591 square Metres, leav'ng a difference of .t,53 - ,COO in their favour This !too of .ess7,oi 0 will result as a positive pro fi t to the Company less th va,,,,--e purchase-money for the Concession, viz., £55,000 in 14 -- t o, and £75,(00 in paid-up Shares. The actual difference I , -avour of the Company will consequently be £407,C0n pins the Present value of the property beyond the price paid by sep municipality M,...a1r. Charles Sta . rry, the eminent architect, of London, who epecially deputed to examine the plans, estimates, &c., i„ le sPOt values this area , n the accompanying r p per squarelire) metre, or a total of above Z e t,t o irs,ooo titer% 1,,, g'. tn-,,ee Concession 'res have already provided £90,000 f or h - J ' , lent of caution a money to the ; unicipality, and for t he mint hasthe riarsnta section of the land (which has been registered em m 71 of the Company's Trustees )' &c. An th e Pe en entered into between them andthe a Company that 41 , 4 ...reu5e - money for the Concession shall include prell t il be of every kind. .. will be seen from the accompanting' ie r , t , .. 1 bee n made by the t o so large a contribution would not laveeeeort by Mr Barry to establish a lottery s ancta rt but for the fact years .nipy ob ained the ler the of the State, four since. express profits th - 1) n the raising, m hout purpose of buying up this property from the ereof. the result of which has ee _ har s „ anY cost to the city, of the whole of the necessary rote the ons equently the Municipality are enabled to d - rawentire purthase.mo,ey paid to the Comoany to fille; the new streets and widening the old, and ntitle. th ned is, ~e facade s of the Company's building; as men th. ,ti rue conceesion. may h:7 41 ,8 of the Concession which the Company purchases irL•' 11 elly +Ailed as follows : irrahii tr_a_nsfer of the Company in perpetuity, and free land eatzAernibrance, of 27,734 square metres ot freehold ItTiefoal ld a l aigs tar ? ' d constituting rout seven English acres, with the houses and ng thereon, now I. t and occupte .. ,._ _, Merit (te nse , centre of commerce in the city ot swan and its Tlie ri g ht o Plllated area. apecift ede e ‘.,,. 4,flp) V eaCeeBBlVe lots viz. 8,000 square metres ( im. erediateb,l'i,l'e nietres already purchasing this land at the pric i e n s a,a ab d o in v g e and th e J , i 6 120 ' ieee.. - tere a i r ,' ;„ beuare metres by t e teuaber, paid for and transferred) ~ -- "g 3,311 sq uare metres by the 29th Sep ptem , 8 15, 3 . Th e Veal et . si ...an are,- are to erect, in accordance with d t d h w e e m lu u n n g i: ous e, a;ldouse, counting-houses, shops, an _ Cete rMine such other buildings as the Company maY p ow‘ ,• seith h e '''. to the Company of selling, letting. or dealing SonU it. freehold land and the buildings reconstructed to belon Te rents of the existhrs buildings upon the ceded land sev eral . absolu. ely to the Company from the date of the keugoneiglitnents. These rentals are reported by Signor a lmoint at £ ; 7,2,300eera tpeerth%m san architect of great reputation in Italy, specially Municipality of Milan, and by Mr. C. Barry, hung materiais arising from the demolition of the old net ngs (valued at 1,000,000 lire, or £40,000) to belong, with be,allY payment, to the cempany ! Ail costs of extra ornament of the proposed buildings to , ac by the Municipality. but all such ornament to be the eerta a 8. nen, pro; erty of the company. all The Municipality to pay the . ompany. at a fixed tariff, 7 ,, :'. , l l elises of paving, drainage, and construction of sewers. his tar ff will be a source of erofit to the Company. 9. 'the Municipality binds 'tsell togive absolute possession of the property concedrd, with .ut any other charge to the Company than the usual Governt , tent dues u , oa transfer. 10. The Company t , have the prefer. net in executing any future municipal improvements in Milan The wealth and importance of Milan as the commercial centre of Northern Italy, and which will be increased by the removal of the capital from Turin, render the prospects of this Company exceptionally favourable. The quarter of the city to be rebuilt is, as stated by Mr. Barry, as much tie centre of commerca in Milan as Cheapside and Cornhill are that of Teondon. The improvement of this business portion of the town has long been imperatively called for. Frcm these facts, coupled with the progressive increase of rentals, the demand from occupants about to be displaced and others, for business premises, offices, houses, clubs, odes, and other buildings on the sites which the Company, will possess, the Directtrs are satisfied that highly lucrative returns will attend the proiected operations. The Company will forthwith proceed to the erection of the buildings. subsequently selling the same or granting leave at premiums, reserving the ground rents in perp tuity, or capita icing them as hereafter may be determined. The de molition of the old buildings on the first section of the land ceded to the , o epany is already in progress. A.pplications have been received tor leasing and purchasing some of the buildings as s' on as reconstructed, on terms in excess of the estimates submitted to the Directors. These estteratee, calculated by Signor Mengoni and Mr. Barry only upon the basis of the present rents, show a return of £ C 6,000 per annum from the reconstructed but dings. Owing to the probability that a large proportion of the Capital for this undertaking will be derived from the sale of the new buildings, it is difficult to arrive at any precise cal culation of the large profits likely to accrue to the Company ; b ut taking £lOO , O 0 a year merely from rental as a basis, and assuming the capital to be raised, as proposed, in shares and d ebentures, the ultimate dividend le fairly e s ti mated at 15 per cent, andothe share capital may thi ' from freehold rents. A considerable increase on this return may be looked for from the gradual sale of the Company's property and other sources. The concession, pl ane, reports, and articles of association can be inspected et the Offices of Messrs Bircham, Dalrymple, brake, and Co., 46, Psrliament-street, westminster. Applications for Shares are to be made in the annexed form, and left w th the Bankers of the Company, uon- ?tient of' the deposit of £ I per Share. If no allot me n t ismade to the applicant the deposit will b e immediately returned w ithout deduction and if a less num b er of shares be a lotted than is applied for, the deposit paid w.ll so far as necessary be credited towards the payment due on allotment. Arrangements have been mad with the Company for a re servation et Five Thousand Shea cants who are Shareholders of' 'AI 3 for allotment to sppli biller ot England (Limited' Credit Ponder and Mo th consequence of inquiries which have already been made, 7 , p p n t ti n t h e for the Directors have decided also to receive Allotments of Shares fully paid up not execs ding in the ag gregate one-fourth part of the CapitaL S uch Urea to bear ante' eat from the date of eayment. Prospectuses and Forms of Application ran be obtalnei at the O ffi ce of the Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England (Limited), 17 and 18, Cornhill; also of the Bankers, et the Brokers. and of the Secretary of the Company. January, 1865. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) o. To N the Directors of the City of Milan Improvements Company Gentlemen, (Limited). navine paid to youi Bankers, Messrs. 'Hoboes, Lubbock, and Co., th e sum ot , being a deposit of LI Per Share on Shares in the above Company. I hereby request that you will allot me that number; and I agree to ac(ept such Shares, or any 'ess number you may allot to me on the terms ot th e Pr nipectus ; and I agre e to p a y th e &Milt on allotments, and to sign the Artiles of Association Pt Inserthe Company, wh en r quired ; and I authorise you to of sh t r m ea allotted to m y name on t Reoister ot Member s f or th e num b er I hee. Usual Slrnaturc Name in fu 1 Itegidenee Profession Date Or 11" FULLY PAID-UP SHARES are required, on the r MentionPd Form : Pop,. OP APPLICATION FOR FULLY PAID-Up SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) No. To the Directors of the City of Milan Improvements Company Limited). Gentlemen,— Baying paid to your Bankers, Messr s. Robarfs, Lubbocir, and co , th e sum of £ , being a deposit o f £ 1 Per Share o than you ill Shares in the ab ove Company, I h. reby reque s t W me that number of Fully Paid-up Shares ; and I agree to accept such 811 irs, or aess umber You may allot to me on the terms of the Prospectus; ard I t o gree to pay th e amount of such Shares on allotment, and sign the Articles of Association of the Company When required ; and I authorise you to in,ert my name on th e register of m em b ers for the number of shares allotted to me. Usual signature Name in full . ........ ...... ... • ... .......... Residence ............ Profession .................... ........ Dato .......................... PR IZ E ME D A L.-INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &o, dm, To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) 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Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, ityde, Plymouth, Wells. Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington,l3roydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Brita COBBETT and CO.. General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London. Mr. Layard, M.?., on the History of Art. At a meeting of th e Lambeth Society Qf Arts yes terday evening, Mr. L a yard, M.P., delivered a most interesting and comprehensive address on this sub ject. After a few preliminary observations as to the true meaning of the phrase " Fine Arts," which in the case of nations of any refinement of civilisation he denied to be the property of any particular class of the people, instanced the Greeks, who were so thoroughly permeated with a feeling of art that everything they constructed, even to the most ordi nary implements, were beautiful. True art he defined to consist in a perfect appreciation and combination of form and colour. Some nations had one, some the other ; but without a combination of the two no nation had ever been great in art. The Mexicans, the Peruvians, and other South American nations, the Chinese, and the Japanese had a fine appreciation of colour, but none of form. The Assyrians and the Egyptians had the earliest appreciation of both forms of art ; whatever they did contained the elements of beauty, and everything we possessed now might be said to be a development of one or other form of art. Almost at the commencement of his address Mr. Layard laid down the canon that the arts of a nation depended on the character of a people, and represented its characteristics and peculiar circum stances, and his first illustration was drawn from the dissimilarity of Assyrian and Egyptian art. Egyptian art, in its massive invariable character, corresponded to the character of an exclusive, un changing caste people, possessing unlimited com mand of stone materials ; while, on the other hand, Assyrian art represented a conquering, ambitious people, given to assimilating the characteristics of the different peoples with whom they came in con tact. From these two peoples the Greeks collected the chief features of their arts, and developed out those beautiful forms which were still the admira tion of the world. To illustrate this idea Mr. Layard referred to numerous drawings on the wall from the remains of Thebes, Nineveh, Selinus, /Egina, Pxstum, and Athens, tracing the form and development of each great architectural idea in its structural and ornamental details. The great spe cimens of Doric ait were all clearly drawn from Egyptian models, and recent discoveries in Assyria had furnished a remarkable fulfilment of Niebuhr's prophecy, that lonia art would be found, some day or other, to have an Asiatic origin. Persia adopted almost entirely the art of the country which it con quered, and the specimens at Persepolis and in the cities of Asia Minor showed the most manifest traces of Assyrian origin. With regard to other nations of antiquity, neither the Jews nor the Phoenicians ap peared to have any ideas of art of their own. The Jewish ideas of art appepritd to be entirely Assyrian ; so that the description of the building of the Temple in the Book of Kings and in " Josephus" appeared to correspond almost entirely with the description of an Assyrian building. The decay of art in Greece was contemporaneous with the decay of Greek free dom, as was the case in every other country in which art had flourished. Passing to Italy, Mr. Layard pointed out that Etruscan and Roman art was merely a reproduction of _Greek art, and that archi tecture was the Chief art by which the Romans were distinguished. Nothing gave a greater idea of their power than the magnificent public buildings which they had erected in their colonial cities, and which far exceeded anything this country had ever pro duced. Passing from the fall of the Roman Empire over the dark ages, Mr. Layard took a rapid survey of the state of the arts among the Arab and Teuton nations up to the time of the Renaissance, when the Italians took Gothic art in hand and moulded it to their requirements, still insisting on his two main theses—that this development of art was contemporaneous with the rise of political freedom among the people, and that the art itself was traceable in its main features to Greek, and beyond that to Assyrian and Egyptian models. The first great classic architect of modern Italy was Ni cholas Pisano, the first great Christian artist was Giotto, and the basis of Italian art might almost be said to be the Church of Assisi,' the walls of which Giotto was called upon to ornament with passages from the life of St. Francis. (Cheers.) The per fection of Christian art was attained almost by Ghirlandajo, though it could hardly be said ever to have been brought to perfection, owing to the decay of freedom which followed the German and French inroads, and the rise of a false classical taste. This falling off was shown in the works of Raffaelle, whose later manner was inferior to his earlier. Even the great Michael Angelo Could not resist the change. Venice, whi c h preserved her freedom longest, also preserved the traditions of true art the longest, but the last stroke given to art in Italy was tained specimens of everything that was false in by the Jesuits. The churches built b y them con art. The eclectic school of which Domenichino and three Caraccis were the chief glories had lost much of the repute which they had once enjoyed, since it had been perceived that they were based upon no national feeling, and .that they were merely speci mens of false art. Of modern schools, Mr. Layard touched chiefly on the English ; and, after criticis- ing severely our shortcomings in architecture as evinced in the National Gallery, the British Mu seum, and the House of Commons, and in sculp ture as shown by our 'public statues, he proceeded to point out, in illustration of his idea, that the art of a people corresponds to its characteristics, that the English pictures most valued abroad were our Wilkies, Hogarths, Faeds, and Friths, who re presented domestic scenes ; and our landscape paint ers, Turners, Stanfields, and Calcotts. Mr. Layard expressed his dissent from the extreme praise which has been lavished on Mr. Herbert's fresco, and, while allowing it to be a great work, lamented the pervading lack of idealism in it. Moses and Aaron were simply common Bedouin Arabs, who might be met about in the East every day. In conclusion, Mr. Layard drew a hopeful picture of the future which English art and art schools had before them in applying the principles of form and colour to the new materials of iron and glass which had been brought into use, and to the structures, such as the railway stations, the great warehouses, and the Crystal Palace, which the wants of modern civilisa tion and commerce were calling up on every side. BLOUNT TEMPEST. By the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew. Second Edition Revised. 3 vols.—" Popular preachers," says the Globe, "have in them many of the qualifications required for the making of a popular novelist; and no one can be surprised that Mr. Bellew should be the author of a novel which will win him increase of reputa tion with his present admirers, and multiply them greatly. ' Blount Tempest' is decidedly a clever novel. Tho book is not a thin flimsy narrative. The three volumes are full of adventures, conversations, historical and topographical information—all helping to carry on a d ou bl e pl o tt e d s t or y which is lively and sentimental. The story is varied and never tedious. It will be a great success." MISSING VESSEL. —The steamer Cronstadt, from Cronstadt for Copenhagen and Leith, sailed from Revel on the 24th of November, and hae not eince been heard of. The Lord-Advocate, M.P., delivered an address to. the Scottish Trade Protection Society, on the Bankrupt Law, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday even ing. There was a large attendance in Queen-street Hall, and the chairman of the society (Bailie Moss man) introduced the business of the evening. The LORD-ADVOCATE stated that the subject of his lecture would be the English Law of Bankruptcy, as to which he intended to offer information rather than criticism. He premised his observations by some remarks on the state of national feeling be tween England and Scotland. He said—ln the dis cussion of international merits or demerits, of course, there are predilections and prejudices on either side. We see through the coloured glasses of our national tendencies, and judge our neighbour, even although it be unconsciously, by the standards which our habits And associations have raised among us. We are jealous of English innovations- 7 -they are not less jealous of those that come from our sid e of the Tweed. Which is the more unreasonable or the more provincial in this respect it is not necessary to de cide. That the Scotsman is tenacious of that which pertains to his nationality I have no occasion to deny; that he is proud of his country's history, proud of her public spirit, and of the place which her sons have taken in the world, probably none of us are ashamed to confess ; but now and then an exagge ration of his spirit breaks out in unreasoning fear and loud outcry at the apprehension of the invasion of English institutions. It is the will and not the arm of the. Southron that is now the subject of alarm—not the blue bonnets, but the white wigs Against whom the Border is to be defended—an incursion of hostile and hungry lawyers on the sacred domain of the jurisprudence of Scotland. (A laugh.) It was but last year that I tabled a proposal for re form in our forms of procedure in our Scottish courts ; and it struck me that as Westminster Hall and the Court of Chancery had reformed themselves 10 years ago, and very mainly by building on and improving our forms, and as experiment had resulted in a most striking and remarkable success in facilitating and shortening procedure, I could not go far wrong in following the example. But the spirit of Scottish nationality wa s awake, and the fiery cross was displayed in stantly to spread the alarm. English terminology —apart altogether from what the terms meant-- was an offence in Caledonian ears ; and for the time, believing discretion to be the better part of valour, I retreated with my English allies, and, I suppose, if I renew the attempt, must accoutre my self with weapons drawn from our. national armoury. But our neighbours south of the Tweed are quite as bad—nay, they are worse. One could understand that the poorer country should be jealous of the richer—tenacious of encroachment, standing on its dignity, suspicious of affront. That the sister who is the shorter in stature should make the most of her height, and sometimes stand on tiptoe, is natural and pardonable. (A laugh.) To what extent we indulge in it we can hardly judge, for it is difficult to judge ourselves impartially ; but whence comes, or what causes, the strange provincial sensitiveness on this subject in England—or rather, I should say, London, for it is chiefly confined to that quarter—l never could understand. Is it the memory of the raids of the Border, or the recollection of the day when the least gainly of the Stuarts, with a broad Scotch accent and a scanty Scottish retinue, arrived on horseback from the north and took up his quar ters in the palace of the Tudors, or is it the memory of Bute and Mansfield burning in the breasts of the descendants of Wilkes and Junius, which tinges the opinions of London critics with so strong a national colour? It is not antipathy, for they are kindly, and warm-hearted, and hospitable ; it is not jealousy, for they are the stronger. Neither is it contempt, for generally our countrymen command respect, and I believe deserve it ; but it is a kind of irresistible instinct which impels those who suffer under it, if they refer to the law of Scotland, or - the religion of Scotland, or the whisky of Scot land—nay, if they review a book written or nar rate an act done by a Scotsman—to couple with their criticism some dissertation on national characteristics. I wonder it does not occur to them how thoroughly provincial the habit is. A French, or German, or Italian, or American critic would not pause for a moment to consider whether the author of a work in the English language was an Englishman or a Scotchman. Distinctions and peculiarities, which seem large on the narrow field disappear entirely on the wider ; and it would be well for us in all such matters to look at ourselves in the looking-glass of Europe, and consider whe ther, after all this perpetual harping on national dis, tinctions between two such countries be not precisely on a level with the petty rivalries of a country town or the contending fashions of a cathedral close. In this view the sin is mainly other side of the Tweed. When we advert to the writings, or speeches, or ca reer of Englishmen, we sink their nationality. We deal with them as they deal with the rest of the world, in the individualising spirit which men of en larged view and liberal cultivation ought to exhibit. Sometimes, however, our liberality takes a different direction. Sometimes the Scottish lion lays all his terror by, and is seized by an unreasoning fondness for the English leopard. These fits come on at inter vals, and when they come require to be watched. It suddenly becomes fashionable to decry Scottish in stitutions, and trumpet those of England. Incense is offered at our sister's shrine, and our native mo desty descends into self-depreciation of the most ex travagant description. We then beg for favours which, if offered, we should have resented, and break forth in ecstacy about institutions we have never taken the trouble to understand. I saw the other day a letter in a London newspaper, recommending that we should adopt the English system of criminal prosecution—that is to say, to adopt the system which England alone of any civilised nation follows, to leave the prosecution of public crimes in the hands of private prosecutors, and saddle ourselves with the dead weight of grand juries and coroners' inquests, !rom which the more enlightened English jurists have ong wished to be relieved. Loud were the rejoicings when jury trials in civil cases were imported from the south. The advent of this " bulwark of British freedom" was hailed with ringing plaudits, and the day was considered a fortunate one in the legal calendar. Far be it from me to disparage the boon. Still, in some respects it cannot be denied that dis- tance lent a little enchantment to the view, as both clients and jurymen sometimes discover ; and per haps, had we known then all which we know now, one adaptation of the system would have been more careful and more skilful. One form of this national modesty exhibited itself some 10 years ago in a very acute state of development. We wanted—of all morbid cravings imaginable—the English Bankrupt Law. We loudly demanded, in the paroxyism of the disease, why the blessings of official assignees were not bestowed on us ; we went into fits abou t a court of bankruptcy, and filled the air of Parlia ment with the wailings of Glasgow commerce bereft of its place among the nations, and left an outcast in our cold northern air, uncherished by commis sioners and unprotected by registrars. Kindly English friends were good enough to fan the flame, enlighten our ignorance, and point out the way in which our grievances might be redressed. .Little pamphlets were written, little speeches were spoken, and a bill was prepared which was to heal the afflicted spirit of Scotland and cure its bankrupt woes. And indeed, so fierce had been the access of the fever that the patient had almost been forced to accept on his recovery what he had raved for in his delirium. It was the big bill w h ic h cured him. The reality looked so little like the bright moon he had cried for that it startled and sobered him, and a year or two afterwards, when his senses had entirely returned, we passed an act on bankrptcy, which, has been well and though by no means perfect, successfully administered, and under it, I believe, we have at last arrived at a system which approaches, if it does not reach, the most economical, rapid, and satisfactory way of distributing the estates of a bankrupt. The main distinction in principal which now exists between the system in force in England and our own consists in one working mainly of courts and officials, and the other work ing by the creditors themselves--a distinction, however, which is of recent growth, .for I believe that prior to 1830, the creditors had much more to do with the. administration than they have now. The tendency of all the English legislation from 1830 to 1861 has been in the direction of giving more power to the Court and less to the creditors, while in Scotland the tendency has lain entirely in the opposite direction. The bill of Lord Westbury did not cause, but, on the other hand, did not cure, many of the evils complained of in the English system.wasa member, But a Parliamentaryliasp pulled dto pieces the toy which committee, of whi c h I decoyed the commercial mind of Scotland in 1853. His Lordship proceeded to analyse minutely the evi dence taken by the Select Committee, pointing out that of the 646,0001. of assets paid to official as signees in 1863, only 489,0001. had been paid out as dividends, leaving a balance of expenses of 157,0001., in addition to the proper expenses of the court— namely, 126,0001., making the total cost of the system 283,0001. He also quoted evidence to show that in two-thirds of the bankrupt estates there was no dividend, and that in 56 cases reported in the Birmingham district the liabilities were 90,000/., the assets were 30,000/., the amount after paying pre ferable claims was 14,0001., and the sum divided 6,000/. The evidence was cited of one merchant who called the Bankruptcy Court a sink of iniquity, and of another who said that the threat of a small dividend often induced creditors to accept a much less favourable settlement than they would get if the estates were more easily realised. The absence of any real audit of the assignees' accounts, the influ ences exerted by the lower office-bearers upon the higher, the powers usurped and fees exacted by the messenger, ushers, and broker were severally ad verted to, his lordship remarking that it was im possible to see that there was the slightest check upon these officials. He proceeded to say :—I think the bankruptcy law ought to proceed upon ordinarytrade principles. If a man cannot pay his debts the object is to get payment of what he can pay as quickly and as cheaply as possible. My opinion is there should be no other object whatever in bankruptcy law but to do that. The question is, how can you make him pay his debts with as little expense to his creditors as possible and with as great a return to them as can be had. I rather expect a great deal of mis chief has arisen from supposing that there should be combined with bankruptcy law a kind of penal code to be worked at the expense of the creditors. I perfectly agree that nothing is more dangerous to a community, nor should be more closely watched, than a fraudulent bankruptcy. It is a thing to which there is great temptation, and in which there is great danger, but what I demur to is that the public morality is to be protected at the expense of the cre ditors, who have 'already lost enough. • There is no good reason why creditors should be at the expense of punishing debtors in bankruptcy any more than under other circumstances. In England there is no Public prosecutor, and fraud in bankruptcy as well as fraud in anything else must be punished by pri vate individuals prosecuting. But in Scotland it is different. In the second place, I say that the essence of bankruptcy administered is despatch. A dividend of ss. to-morrow, in nine cases out of ten, is worth more than a dividend of 10s. two years hence to the ' creditors ; and it is very likely that at the end of of the two years, instead of being 108., it will only be 2s. 6d. (Laughter.) Despatch means economy. Lawyers' bills have a wonderful aptitude to grow j with time. (Laughter and applause.) And while legal authorities are dreaming over the law of the case, and trying to do exact justice, the unfortunate creditor is fairly starved out of his claims. Time is too short for that, especially commercial time, and to do the business of bankruptcy well it is essential to do it quickly, and I should say that in the great majority of cases to do it quickly is to do it well. (Applause.) All that you have to provide for is, to see that the creditors are to have the management of the estate in their own hands. I would only say now, in conclusion, that, while free trade flourishes in other respects, we may have, in this matter, free trade in law reform—and import and export what we please. We have long since found it more profitable to buy English cattle than to steal them— (laughter)—and so, perhaps, we may come to be of one mind on both sidesof the Tweed, that a fair interchange of good institutions and wise laws is better than wrangling about their merits. If we think we can with advantage communicate to Eng land our system of registers and of bankruptcy, there will be no difficulty in squaring the account, and even if ultimately a balance should be due on either side, that which is due from benefit received is easily paid with goodwill. (Loud applause.) Mr. J. Marshall, seconded by Lord Deas, moved a cordial vote of thanks to the Itord Advocate for his address. Naval and Military Intelligence. AP. -- - - Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Secretary of State for War, who was accompanied by Gen. Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., Principal Director of Works; and Inspector-General of Royal Engineers ; Lieut.- Col. W. F. D. Jervois, C. 8., Deputy-Director of Works ; Capt. J. C. Caffin, C. 8., Director of Stores and Naval Director-General of Artillery, with other officials, was occupied until late on Wednesday evening in making an inspection of the new works completed and in progress at Chatham connected with the War Department, including the fortifica tions, barrack buildings, hospitals, Magazines, and other buildings at the military station, preparatory to the framing of the new Estimates for the ap proaching Session of Parliament. His lordship, who was met at the railway station and accompanied on his tour of inspection by the principal officials of the garrison, directed his attention chiefly to the subject of the barrack accommodation at Chatham. The several barracks now in the occupation of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and the troops of the Line were all inspected, in order to enable a correct estimate to be formed of their present con dition and requirements. In the course of his tour of inspection the principal portion of the fortifica tions and magazines were visited, but in neither of those departments will a large outlay be required during the ensuing year. It was expected that a visit would be paid to the extensive powder maga zines and War Department stores at Upnor Casty ; but as the whole question of the removal. or non removal of the gunpowder stores fromthtehee mity to Chatham is just now under Sir J e lin Bur goyne of a committee, of which Gen. s g a o ry yn t e o is ins th p e ee p t re h si e dent, the recommenda oirnsPid7r7.-- establishment recommenda tion of the committee. The large_ was inspected, Castleit waspdun otconsidered neces sary the latter f a o s rm was erl a y is u c se t d he as Fo a rt ga P hospital for the whole of the being now the military rri is tt on es h ta o b sp lishm ita i being requ i re d for q troops quartered at CuaxlaattehresaommieprthleteethdfeonrmteraoerropiostphTiathamel block of buildings recently th tl e ie ln r a o rr o i n e l d s aiisi t e en v d is ed ite f d o , r t q h i e la w rt i c i r o s le fo o r f b arra cks, w a e n re d i occupation. Owing to the latenes s of the hour at which the inspection termi nated, the extensive stores and establishments at the Ordnance and Gun-wharfs could not be visited. Mr. E. J. Reed, chief constructor of the Royal Navy, who is still suffering from the effects of his late severe indisposition, yesterday visited -the de partment of Woolwich Dockyard. 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Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or to stamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 248, High Ilolborn, London. necessity of employing all possible speed, in order that the Favourite may be undocked and made place for the Pallas, after her launch in March last. An Admiralty order was yesterday received at Woolwich, directing the paddle yacht Black Eagle, Staff Commander Whillier (as more suitable for the purpose than the Vivid), to be got ready for the service of Prince Arthur for a cruise in the Medi terranean, to sail from Woolwich, where the Prince will embark on the 15th of March. Preparations are ordered to be commenced forthwith for the con struction of an elevated cabin, for which the dimen sions of the Black Eagle's quarter deck are highly appropriate. The cost of the entire work has been estimated at about 5001. The decision of the Admiralty in the case of Mr. Hatch, the foreman of riggers at Chatham dock yard, who was suspended from that establishment for having, as was alleged, been in a state of intoxi cation on the occasion of the docking of Ir,T .Ira jesty's Cadmus, 21, Captain A. C. Gordon, was announced at the dockyard yesterday. 'Their lordships direct the removal of Mr. Hatch from his present office. He is ordered to mt j h o ase in twe t da h r e ra l at V nct e h ll oa es fath l ee e am y rs , 7 w 2 a: , : f hh o t r eh s epo erv rt i . ce with the ordinary, and he is no longer to be employed in the civil de- N part aTvah m le e ßv n e t esr o enr f vo th ne: e ans n o a d, v agail y f . teinrw Th ga e frd ap risg po ast i ein n ,t tment of foreman of riggers at Chatham dockyard, thus rendered vacant, has been conferred on Mr. Wallace, one of at Chatham harbour for the first to the Castor , 22, is r 0 u divisionround ordered to lovf to o ot 1 19 1 l e e . masts and gear belong ingr„ now attached to the Royal wick where she will complete her fitments. The ernvoew s I c vdfi r me e w ypec m a t p ta le c the tomorrow,det or r t e h n e i nti readines s e ha e e a m e f com pletion, steamf or steam reserve, will be out of the hands of the handing over to the officials of the reserve. There reserve ship wrighta e r s e and at the disposal of the* Admiralty for commission, the whole being rigged and equipped— viz., the Bristol, 39, 3,027 tons, 600-horse power, screw frigate ; the Terrible, 21, 1,850 tons, 800-horse power, the largest paddle-wheel steamer in the ser ahvrgt ue arems sneenle completed, vessel Torch, 50 , 80-horse, fitting ser vice, which has recently been almost rebuilt ; the Scout, 21, 1,462 tons, 400-horse power, screw cor vette, which has also undergone a most extensive repair ; the Torch, 5, 428 tons, 80-horse power ; and lastly, the ironclad frigate Valiant, 24, 4,063 tons, 800-horse power. In addition to the vessels above enumerated, the paddle-wheel steamer Basi lisk, 6, 1,031 tons, 400-horse power, is being brought forward with all expedition for the first class `,.steam reserve. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :--Capt. A. L. Mansell, to the Hydra ; Commander G: R. Wilkinson, to the Firefly; Lieut. Thomas V. Williams, to the Excellent; William G. Atkinson, master, to the Cumberland, for the Basilisk; George A. Browning, additional, to the Sutlej, for surveying services, promoted to master ; Edward B. Brooks, midshipman, to the Cadmus ; F. H. Richardson, assist.-surg., to Jamaica Hospi tal ; J. W. Ashford, assist.-surg., to the Donegal ; E. W. Doyle, acting assist.-surg., to the Princess Royal; C. J. Devonshire, assist.-surg., to the Pen guin ; R. H. Lavers, assist.-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; J. Hindley, assist.-engineer, the Dauntless ; C. F. H. Burt, assist.-engineer, to the Wasp ; R. W. Allison and W. N. Sennet, assist.-engineers, to the Princess Royal ; C. Wig gins, assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernu merary; and. R. S. S. Ross, assist.-clerk, to the Dauntless. Horrible Scenes in China, ♦ The following is an extract from a Shanghai letter of November 22, published in the Times : Interesting depositions have been made by two English subjects who were detained by the rebels at Iloochow, and have only just effected their escape, which throw some light on the internal arrange ments of their cities. The executive arrangements and state of Hoochow are thus described by Mark Conry :—" I saw the Tow-wang decapitate 150 of his soldiers one morning. Ido not know what their crime was. A man was punished by death for smoking. Whenever I went into the city I saw heads and trunks lying about. Dead bodies were not buried, but were allowed to re main in the streets. The city was in a most wretched state. There was no trade of any sort going on ; provision shops were allowed to be open, but no others. There used to be executions every day, sometimes 20 at a time, but never less than four." These are the people whom we were to have upheld in preference to the Imperialists; bad as the latter may be, corrupt as are •their officials, and effete as is their Government, their regime is better than that here described. The second man who has returned, named Patrick Nellis, went up in one of the small steamers which run into the interior to purchase silk. On arriving at their destination they found that the place had been occupied by the rebels a few days previously, and Nellis, with the crew, was made prisoner. He was taken to Hoochow, asked by the Tow-wang whether he understood rifles, and, on his replying in the affirmative, was requested to remain. The question was superfluous, as he had no alternative ; but it was a matter of form, and the form having been gone through, the chain was taken from his neck and the fear of immediate death removed. Some time after he had been in Hoochow the Kan-wang arrived from Nankin, and it oozed out the city had fallen. The siege of Hoochow followed, and Nellis describes various successful operations against the Imperialists ; until at length starvation compelled the garrison to evacuate it. Several of the little band of foreigners had been shot and died of sick ness, but such as remained were compelled to accompany the retreat, which will be 'best de scribed in Nellis's own words :—" Men were patrol ling the streets to cut down any who might attempt to escape. That evening we saw fearful sights. The rebels were embarking their wounded, and could not take all. The poor woman crowded down to the boats, and were cut at and driven back. We left the city, which was empty, at three a.m., and soon saw it in a blaze. It rained, however, heavily- We pushed on, and passing through the lake, came_ to the entrance to a creek. Here the most fearful confusion ensued. All the boats were s hi cul n g g • e neat and jamming each other, the rebels mar c hing c the bank. Here we passed the nig d we could not day the confusion still continued, linalono• 'aartny) here left for advance. Six men (CowreY's tt r: ing firewood, but the ostensible never came back. done with ith e man. The latter an interpreter, anda wounded man. The latter was our great troubl• and be _ was him, death i to could not carry him. Pur l P° Vit e l :v o o m f un e n g od r e ded e lin mai g ne f d ur t t w h o er Gr c e o e u k l s d . was our great 7 • I to shoot him, and d lu o in ffered an ms d told him I could do leave of I said I could not do it, but he could He begged ask (his t w o countrymen. no more, They refused, and we left hiln in the boat. The rebels were now in con fusion, running everywhere, and the Imperialists and money. close at hand. We landed and took to the hills, and, after wandering about two or three days, got a boat, and with some difficulty got down to Shang hai." The picture of wang's administration given by Cowroy only con firms the accounts which have already frequently been made public of the horrors of the Taeping oc- cupation—accounts which receive their confirmation in the desolation and ruin which everywhere mark the footsteps of their retreating armies. THE AMPIIION (s.). —The Amphion steamer has been stranded on Sherringham beach, and is ex pected to become a total wreck. The ill-fated vessel at the time of the disaster was on a voyage from Sunderland to London, and ran ashore at Sherringham during the pre valence of thick weather. All efforts to float her have proved fruitless ; indeed the gale of Friday and Saturday drove the vessel higher up the beach. The Amphion is a vessel of 1,600 tons burthen, and was originally an English frigate, having formed part of Sir Charles Napier's blockad ing squadron in the Baltic during the Russian war.. 8116 was purchased from the Government by Messrs. Wilson, of Sunderland, her present owners, and is insured for £17,000.