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rx ' wp PEllB °- I NS SEEKING LANDED ft RI, ToWN AND COUNTRY RE 3IDENCES. p,,,.,.;,0L1) AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS. AND 1,u11.11 CIES G N,N ERALLY— nE GruTra, at the principal Railway Bookstalls Isr(Milout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Office?, RChancery-lane, London Messrs. E. and H. Lumley s of latil PRO?ER'ry ItEGISTER,"' containing' a varied selection th e n aci and house properties now in the market, from e Cott — "lans mansion, with its manorial domain, to the age with its few acres. brace P iPaoPEwrir.s wishing to Sell or Let can em -10,02, the oppoi Linity that the medium of this Register t, 3 0 8, bY ending the articulars of their properties to the ate offt B cha P rion .ry lane, London, as the Messrs. I!;i'luellicY can in n t7 iost cases introduce Immediate customers rtehthe Property is of an eligible Ohara ter, thereby avoid le'llie,„:4lBadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon- TIIERE is Chase i NO CRARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur -1," =hen intr through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, n only beyal moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. NITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and the kiFLOCIRCLOTIL CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in tom ft n g cl em, regardless of amount or distance. First•class tr.'" second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to froi,"/, , p i en and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select Sve.t. _nlaYed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. ,„,FEicle vvarranted. NiTnadIGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR- Co "' are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and ef.i.re publishing an entirely New Edition of their un irmlued SOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo Leaste-litlie engraving's of every description of Furniture and po ßt.tr 8 , with prices attached. A copy sent path and Com ee 00 application. This costly work also cent s I,4:ate estimates for furnishing on the following revised A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0 An Eight -roomed ditto A.Ten-roomed ditto ........ 259 16 6 A T welve -roomed ditto c'/". eherwith a Price List of purified Bedding, aid a mass ru.DacT4:b2!ipti.trfnationto all requiring househ 31d furni e t r u g r y e, ratm e eFitlig. References kindly permitted to a Ci m _- chick_ gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, South Pton, pf,,„'leater, R —ur k Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, 'CifOford, righton, Gainsborottgh, Margate. !Udder ilitlebz,, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dor;c i im, regh a n 'a. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborouzh, S t . D trlt k and above 500 other places in all part s . of Great brid ET on. S.E. and co.. General House Furnishers. Deptford- Lond R E LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. OM • Established 1836. eeS-1, • Dale-street, Liverpool ; 2( and 21. Poultry, 7, Cornhill, and 56, Charing-er ss, London. rite Premiums £580,000 REVENUE 1N 186.3. fife Premiums Interest on In ves t ments 160 , , 000 A gencies X9 ') o,ooo Insurances are established for effecting bo h Fire and Life Parts aollf°telise rcc)l facilitating* the payment of Premiums in all by Id Pir • r • the Oth Polic of ies talli F.nfr due at Christmas should be renewed L Januar • SWINTON ItOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATM' S, Resident t-ecrelary. 2 4ntl arY, 1885 • 1 111 E ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1857. EIGHTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING. Olt „ ij t iCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the EIGHTH the ANNUAL MEN:TING of the , hareholders in 1,4 Atlantic Telegraph Company will be held at the London 7110'41, R ishopscrate-street Within the City of London, on co eio ,t,_SDAY, the Ninth day of February. 1863, at Oue ag e " P.m., for the purpose of receiving from the Directors ord i Port and Balance-shee , , and for the transaction of the Dated the busine s of the Company. uaten the 23d January, 865. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Chairman. GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary. No. 12, St. Helen's-pl ce. Bishopsgate-street Within, Londo-, E.C. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in conformity with the terms on which the First Mortgage Bonds of the Penn llivania Section of this R a il wa y were issued, the following ONDS, viz.:— 8013 ondsof1,00/Dollars each. 33 35 88 169 170 173 192 230 236 25 1 266 278 821 391 424 448 li! 9 500 507 575 598 810 661 677 L'l7 7 0 9 713 724 792 793 7M 8 3 1'0.! 857 877 890 96 9 1022 1026 1029 is,T 106 8 1 0 94 1105 1110 1117 1137 1139 1,1! 1171 1191 1223 1230 1263 1308 1399 11 1 1342 1418 1499 1509 1513 1519 152/ w; 1545 1550 1703 1706 1713 1745 1751 '' 1818 1819 1:.:2 1888 1926 1946 1957 2035 24 Ronde of 500 Dollars each. 219 2010 2150 21 2 , 15 35 ' 2245 264 4.,1 2290 2302 23 56 22 8 2346 235 2 1 2387 2416 2178 2522 2525 2527 253) 2562 2581 2 417 8 0 Bonds per 100 D o ll ars eac h. 289810 2636 2673 2686 2688 2731 2773 2 951) 8 2811 2821 2830 2838 2 8 19 2870 a 3124 NI 2962 3007 3 . i32 3051 31. 80 3 k- 8309 13 34 3163 3164 3217 3297 3307 3 8 1457 3. ” 7 .1,1? 3385 31(3 31 1 6 3411 3415 "... 3 809 ',.v. 3503 85/6 3614 3689 1.96 f ) 7 , s ' s t ago 3867 3873 8871 8921 3"3 4105 410 3 3978 4009 4010 4033 4043 4078 ~..... ~,,, 4140 4175 42,52 4310 4315 4354 :513 '4f . , 4404 4415 4446 4496 4516 4517 No e Li lts day D , RA WN by the undersigned Notary. il oail ie t ii ALSO GIVEN, that such of the aforesaid I:res " hav e been issued in London will be paid off at par 04 an ,, eittation thereof at the Company's office in London, and after the Ist day of April next, in addition to the c eloe du e 0 11 that day, after which all interest will Lend ° , .........________, ' T au. 1 9, 1 865. W. GRAIN, Notts* , Public. T RE SERIAL M- Ca, ASSOIATII Capital subscribed, £;C , 00 Paid up, puma , CRAIRMAN —JOHN ;,,ellPhon Hall'. Esq. 1 il • Co'Man, Esq. p.. r. Alderman Dakin. !es Dickson, Esq. ,i' • Iladow, Esq. ‘,..0. Hanson ' , Esq. g.,1. 'Tarr ord, Esq. c lioiroyd Esq n' 4• Ilortv•re,'Esq,• ~apt. J, Gilbert Jithnston. , MANAGERS. 11411 7 J. Ba rker, Esq ., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. SOL ICITORS. Messrsessrs. . A shurst, Morri s, an d Co. MEdwards and Co. ------ film PIRST REPORT OP THE DIRECTO RS, in ./!iittei to the Ordinary General Meeting of Proprietors, - JOHN etiT.?, London Tavern, on Monday, Jan. 23, 1865 l'rllA%l, Esq., in the Chair. ti,,,rsn the statement ot accounts which the Directors w have . hrili._"le pleasure of submitting to the shareholders, IL j„....ag the operations of the united companies thefromm _lll' 14.1.e.1_0. tthe 3lst December last, it wil be seen that after'LV interest 04 cut of ahe current expenses, allow ng for rebate of for kii ve'lul..nd lo?tts not due, and m , king ample provision . ittlio yntingenctes, there r emains a balance of net profit Thy t ang t,,,, 499,27 tts. oine Directors recommend this sum to be appropriated as - "owe :- 1)1,1 end (free of income tax) of 10s. per share.. £50,000 0 0 Ajleetne tax .. 1 250 0 ...ward t........ ... 47,967• 9 0 Balance carried forward to nex t . halt-year .. ERCANTILE CREDIT ON (Limited). 1, in 100,000 shares of .C5O each X500,0(0. :Tons. CrIAPMAN, Esq. Charles Kelson, Esq. G. G.:Macpherson, Esq. W. Scholefield, Esq., Sir S. D. Scott, Bart. H. D. Seymour, Esq., M.P. Joseph Thornton, Esq. F. G. tt estmorland, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq, M. Zarift, Esq. X 99.217 9 0 , to „ The accounts will in future be ad p half-Yearly' ViZ 40th June and 31st December rn e 11 tors In ace ,rdance "withe article% of as °elation, the Dire° as appointed C. . 11. Allen, and jthn young, Esq" ~ " auditors until the First Ordinary Meeting. of Proprietors, Whom the election ofaudicors will then devolve. , Mr. Allen and Arr. Young are eligible for re-election. The Dividend will be f'ayable on and after the 30th inst. By Order. NV. C. WINTERBOTTO3I, Secretary. 16, 1E65. TRE lIIPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSO CIATION (Limited). llALklict-antZT TO TRE 3 181 , DAY OF DECEMBER, 1864. Dr. To cam t ,,, CAPITAL AND LIABILITTES. 100 'OOO4l, Buar ea of X6O each, £5 per share paid 121) ....................... £500,006 0 0 To liabilities —......—......... 24 bills payable .. .. . . ... . . . £ 53 2.423 11 4 4 credits granted by 'bankers nand o thers 3 25,000 0 0 s'neoitsol. .... and current mac-. 1 , 2 51.276 4 On bil ................... 9 , 238 10 6 811,_,rls and guarantees ...... 1,2 , 0,4 8 4 ~ - 1 Y creditors ..tees Rebate t i o'2 ---3,50Q,192 14 10 To - 0 interest on bills not due .......... 11,593 13 7 „Profit and 101313 .1..4'104e, being net profit as per statement.. 99,217 0 0 b Cr. i iY c,Bl l ASSETS. 1111; r t in hand, and at call ...... 1;4 0 1, ,,Y I n %ecurities: and current accounts .. .. 7...994,481 75,356 1 6 oftce in.i`aler,ta and interest accrued thereon 606,111 13 0 tilitu4 e, fittings, &a ................ 734 2 6 ___________. £4,119,003 17 6 Pitop rt . AND LOSS A £1,119,003 17 5 ACCOUNT FROM THE I ST JUNE TO 31 ST D ECEMBER, 1864. r t , br. rrent ,0 e n e/rtlll4e; (including salaries, allow %lee to directors' remuneration, 1,,, ,_tit, advertisinAw costs, azo.) . £17,243 510 TO, _ ualance, being net profit carriel down.... 99,217 9 0 To dividend of 10s. per share on T shares ................ £50 , 0 00 0 0 -120 income tax on above ...... 1,250 0 0 £ 11 0,460 14 10 To balance carried to profit and toes new account .------ 51,250 0 0 47 ,967 g 0 pCr,sB prmils as p er 1 e d ger..£128,054 8 5 ileduet Rebate of interest on Ile t due, at 6 per cent. per 444u/nno 11,593 13 7 ....................... £110,466 14 10 X 99,217 9 0 -_ Albalance, being net profit ght down th e ,t nav e compared the. above statements with the books of eett,f agociation, and examined the se,urities, and hereby 3' to their correctness " C. J. A. ALLEN, JN O. YOUNG, Auditors, itt. on don, Ja n. 16, 1865. Was moved by the Chairman. seconded by Mr. Alderman Lakin. and carried unanimously, d and aPlat tile r ep accounts now read be receive ;-oltted. ort and accoun It Was moved by the Chairman, semnded by Mr Alderman Ddkin, and carried unanimously. eah...,lt ad, and that id of 10s. p er share, free of income-tax,be_de j ~ the same be p aya b le on and after t h e 30th tt ~. "as moved by ttr, Thos. Bevan, seconded by Mr. Field, Thu e and ca ried unanimously, ar e h ,_. Of 11. Allen, Esq., and John Young, Esq., be, and that jeOY, elected the auditors for the current year, tip..,,, Jell. remuneration be 100 guineas per annum each -,.tvei It re- Was Moved by Mr. Jackson, M P., seconded by Ur. Joyce, That the and carried unanimously, ah, v , s . re e thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairm an c o ' „-'l_ thanks for their able and efficient management of h It l'Pa c o v ed ii rs during the past half-year. ulwas by Mr. Field, seconded by the Chairman, and V.,that the best taankt:dollnlrtleirnmoeuelrrig be given to the s_agers for the satisfactory manner in which they have .umoted the interests of the Company. JOHN CHAMAN, Chairman. (Extracted from the minutes.) amluary 23, 2806. W. C. paNTEUBoTTON, Secretary. ~,~~ gee l a st ` s 'lec l 4 lio l o ll , elY veiJ d 0 11 to 4 1 / 5; Ba r 50 r 29s P e o e. s to ,er paP 01 )1v sa le ' 16 1/ .36 6 • — .3 9 •-• ..3q 0 1 0 , ..-9 ric ° -celes ,nd !' t tru 11 ' s'l • " 3 all 00 5. 0 , • '350 • o a fi g tj o g 1101 e, o z eP l o .10W' eeilers' czt. ej 19, ou "' ....... 1 1 ll .. e ... 1 9 v'" 1 6 1 6 101 l :ou ." n...•'' ...... " lv ...... hiteS aitte e 0 1 1 a nii°' 3% , 0 0 w isu •ce, 3? vs, ; PlOO e 7 4 'lo i P glu er. root Str eet' so ,01010 Yoh CY 7 i e, reY 10 ° 11' l itkO e ,l6 lls gtrti; 11, 44 0 . vo bel 4 po' o ,el F roiise , Jobs AN .00 1 11 ; ffice. o d , A co No. 22,649. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1865. NEW NOVEL BY THE REV. J. C. M. BELLEW REMEMBER, ! WE WAIT SUPPER FOR YOU, after the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail good reason to fear a terrible retribution. It should b e known in • England that it is impossible for a married man to live in Bombay on a thousand a year ; that Englishmen are separating themselires from their wives and families for years, because they cannot afford to keep them in Bombay; that there are many subaltern; and e7en cap tains of her Majesty's army, who live like poor curate; in a country where so to live is death, who, in sober truth, cannot afford to have butcher's meat on their tables more frequently than once a week. If it took ten years for prices to double in Calcutta, in Bombay they have quadrupled in four years. The non-producing poorer classes cannot get grain. Last year (18634) a new trade sprang up between Calcutta and Bombay, the latter taking nearly a million sterling's worth of grain from Bengal. Yet the Bombay Commissioner of Customs states the alarming fact that while "the importations of grain into Bombay have been 32 per cent. in quantity below the importations of the pre ceding year, they have exceeded the latter in value by 200 per cent. Everywhere along the north-eastern division of the Great India Peninsula Railway I have seen grain wait ing for transit to Bombay, but the single line of rail is as unequal to the traffic hereas it is in the case of cotton on the south-eastern branch. And even if this grain were sent it would be as a drop in the ocean, while its despatch causes famine prices in the interior. It is the official class, how ever, which suffers most. I have spoken of military officer; but the political danger from the poverty of civilians is greater, for their reduced status brings them into contempt with the. natives who once looked up to them with awe. It induces the younger and abler to leave the service for merchandise, and it tempts those who remain to dabble un worthily in the share-market. Would you believe it, that several of the leading rich natives of Bombay lately, in the simplicity -of their hearts, proposed (indirectly) to Government, not only to memorialise the Governor- General on the subject, but to help to abate the evil out of their *own pockets ? Hence the cry now to keep the income -tax,-- - which sir C. Trevelyan is deter mined to abolish, substituting local imposts that will fall mainly on the poor. The best men are tempted away from official employment till the uncovenanted ser vice is deserted. N It is the ablest and youngest who go ; but even those Whose pensions would otherwise keep them are induced to leave, One doctor lately declined a tempt ing offer on this ground. " What is the value of your pen sion capitalised ?" he *as asked. On naming the sum it was given to him ten times over by the simple addition of a cipher, and he ceased to be a Government servant. On his own responsibility Sir B. Frere added to the salaries of the menial servants of the - State an increase proportionate to the price of grain, on the same principle which is adopted with our Sepoys. But he has hitherto failed to induce the supreme Government to sanction an increase to the higher branches of the service, for it would amount to more than half a million sterling in Bombay alone. Nor can we won der at this refusal, for any increase must be general all over India, and we can only hope Sir C. Trevelyan will sacrifice vanity to justice, and give at least some relief, otherwise administration in India will come to a dead lock. What with the rise of prices, and the unnecessary irritation caused by the mode of carrying out the military and medi cal amalgamations, the discontent of all classes of officials in India has reached a dangerous height, and the effect of a knowledge of this on the natives is deplorable. The other evil result of this sudden wealth is unhealthy speculation. I enclose a Bombay share list, and would es pecially direct your attention to the thirty banks, land re clamation, and financial companies, the fruit of the past year chiefly. Every day a new company enters the mar ket, and there is a rush for shares, with endless heart burnings and counter accusations. Hardly one of these companies has paid a dividend, yet the shares sell at premiums which the maddest speculator never dreamt of, and which can never make a return to the victims who will be caught in the reaction that is impending. The best, and to my mind almost the only hopeful, scheme is the Elphinstone Land and Press Company, established long before the present mania by Messrs. Nicol and Co. Its object is to reclaim 1,200,000 square yards of fore-shore at the busiest part of the harbour, and on the ground, after giving a large part to Government to accomo date the railway, to build presses, wharves, docks, and warehouses, like those of Liverpool. To reclaim each square yard costs from 16s. to 20s. ; but each yard already reclaimed lots on an annual lease at from 10s. to 14s. Hence a dividend of 7 per cent. or even £14,800, the fabulous premium to which each £l,OOO share has risen. Need we wonder that a scheme which proves such a mine of wealth has imitators both bad and good ? The slightest knowledge of arithmetic would prove, if men were not corrupted by the hope of sudden gain, that most of the other companies shares, at their pfesent premium, will involve a terrible loss ; but at present men in Bombay do not think of such con temptible things as dividends. They buy shares cheap to sell them dear; they too often lend their good names to plans which aro hollow, and make use of their knowledge to get out of the showy edifice they have erected before it falls and engulfs others in its ruin. The demand for ground in Bombay is so great, and the fact that it will soon be the railway focus of India is so favourable to it, that most of these land reclamation schemes would be blessings to the island if they were conducted in a healthy and honourable market. As it is, I have seen no sadder sight than the al fresco Bombay share market under a tropical sun. It is far worse than the London betting circles, watched by policemen, "behind the brewery," and elsewhere. Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., Revised, SECOND EDITION of BLOUNT TEMPEST. By the Rev. J. C. M. BELLEW. " This book is well written. The story is interesting and full of incident."—Athenaeum. K.'"-AHAN' S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, "A remarkably clever novel, thoroughly original, and in dependent of any fashion, school, or class. No nobler lesson was ever taught than in the pages of this beautiful story."— Post. It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Rouses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 8, GREET WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, rink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky.": ORSHAM, DORKING-, AND LEATHER JILL • READ RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next ORDI— NARY HALF-YEARLY GANERAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the London, Brighton, and South- Coast Railway Company's Station, London-bridge, on FRIDAY, the 10th day of February, 1865, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, to receive a Report f rom the Directors, and for the general purposes of the undertaking. The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED on the 3d day of February, 186, and will remain so until after the Meeting. W. R. SEYMOUR VESEY FITZ GERALD, Chairman. GEORGE W. BROWN, Secretary. Company's Offices, 23, Great George-street, Westminster, 24th January, 1865. GE 0 L OGY.—KING'S COLLEGE, London.— PROFESSOR TENNANT, F.G.S., wi:l commence a COURSE of WEDNESDAY EVENING, LECTU.h.ES on GEOLOGY, from Eight to Nine; fee, £1 Is. First Lecture, Jan. 25th. A more extended Course on Wednesday and Fri day Mornings. from Nine to Ten. First Lecture, Jan. 27th; This Course will be continued to May. R. W. JELF, Principal. CRYSTAL. PALACE.-SUMMER in WINTER.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY.— ARRANGEMENTS TO-MORROW :- 01 ehestral Band Wizard's World of Magic 2.30 Rope-Tying Trick • Great Organ The thousand and one other attractions of the Palace in clude : —The New Picture Gallery The Fine Arts Courts, in variety and beauty unequalled in the world—The decorations of the Palace, with the 'direst Christmas Tree Shakspere House—Montanari Models—Swings, Roundabouts, Invigo rat rs, and other popular Amusements—Galleries of Models and Ships—Armour Plates and Armstrong 40-pounder lent by official authority—The extraordinary Chimpanzee-1 he unique Aquariums. All these things render the Crystal Palace the one place for holiday enjoyment. Admission, :One Shilling. Children under 12, Sixpence. Opeu for Admission from Ten till Six o'clock, Lighted up till half-past Six, ~ ~~~~~ , . . ...k • ~. '''' '114 . -4 ' ' -:,‘_. ,_-, • _ . -...-, ~,,,-",-. , , _. __,- ;4u. , ~.0,- , A ' S z i. *:', I a , ~ , , , -. ..... ..m ?, ~- -. „/„.-, ,‘, k ,, ,, ,.... , AM ,:, ...,..,,,,. i-th , - t.r. . ..."-",-----,_` . 1 \ A' , . ' ' **: ' iti ( - ''': +et t -1'...41.1.40•,‘ 0 . 7 ., - , —; r i :j. .: • A 0 ' t.'l 1 4 f. , -- C - '' '` . .:A:*". ( 16':46 DIES 111 1*42 -T L3I. / / P I 1.1111°" iti 14.0',.. 1 4 . 4 ,rii l' "'DROIT. f° At —i. . //WU n ...b ''''' .___/ --.." • 7 7,2 receive working pay shall not, unless under excep. tional circumstances (to be specially sanctioned), ex ceed one officer for every 100 men employed in Ll PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. ployed as auxiliary to its modern rival. The means of communication by telegraph with all the docks Shave been completed, and the special lines will soon be extended to the great railways, wharves, and warehouses, in which vast quantities of property are deposited. By the aid of the telegraph the firemen at each station can now be informed of the locality of a fire with much greater certainty than formerly. By means of fixed compasses at each observatory " cross bearings are taken from distant points," and the result sent to the central station in Watling street. The exact locality is then ascertained by observing on a map the spot at which the lines con verge. The process is " simply the reverse of that by which a ship's position is ascertained at sea," and can be easily accomplished in the three minutes oc cupied in turning out an engine. Captain Shaw also proposes to employ portable telegraphs to com municate between the locality of a fire and the nearest station, and between the' man at the branch and the man at the engine. This will do away with the construction of permanent military work. In laying down the proportion it is not intended to prescribe the rank or proportion of officers and non-commissioned officers who shall accompany the working parties for Purposes of discipline, a ques tion which is left to the direction of the general or other officer in command. The rates of working pay previously prescribed are to be continued. By her Majesty's command, the rates of personal allowance for officers of the army travelling on duty without troops have been fixed as follows :—For general officers 20s. a day, for field officers 15s. a day, and for captains and subalterns 10s. a day. The Commander-in-Chief,, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for India, has decided that, on the recommendation of the local Government of the confusion produced by " shouting" the ,orders. It is important to preserve silence at a fire, and to keep off the crowd that always flocks to the spec tacle. The City Police have lately adopted a mode of keeping the mob off by stretched wire ropes. And, as they are not now so much employed to work the engines, they are more under control, and the firemen act quietly in a space cleared and kept clear for their exertions. India, and with the sanction of his Royal Highness, exchanges may be permitted between officers of the Staff Corps under the substantive rank of field officer and properly qualified regimental officers of the same rank, without reference to the station on which the regiment of the exchanging officer may be serving. All the engines and apparatus of the establish ment are in thorough good order, but with every improvement that can be made it is doubtful if the means of extinguishing fires can be relied on - aS -a sufficient protection. Much more must be done to prevent their occurrence. Captain Shaw cautions the public against a too confident trust in what are called " fire-proof" buildings. As to risk of fire, the contents of a building are of much more impor tance than the structure itself. In a real fire proof warehouse the contents of any one com partment might be consumed without communi cating the fire through any partition, perpendicular or horizontal. Few London warehouses could stand The following depots, with their officers, are under orders to leave Colchester :—Depot 2d Battalion, Ist Regiment, Capt. White, Capt. Low, Lieut. Steuart, Lieut. Wheeler, Lieut. Thorburn, and En sign Morison will proceed to Fermoy on the 26th of January ; depot Ist Battalion, sth Regiment, Capt. Pendar, Capt. Ne w b o lt, Lieut. Bradshaw, Lieut. Knox, Ensign Bingham, and Ensign Drew, will proceed to W oo l w i c h o n t h e 31st of January to join head-quarter ; depot 2d Battalion sth Regi ment, Capt. P ocklington, Capt. Kekewich, Lieut. Richards, Lieut. Graeme, Lieut. Legge, and Ensign Carleton will proceed to Walmer on the 25th of January ; depot Ist Battalion, 6th Regiment, Capt. Mosse, Capt. Powell, Lieut. Giffarn, Lieut. Howley, Lieut. Bowers, and Ensign Lanyon, will proceed to Tilbury for embar cation to Devonport on the 28th of January to join head quarters; depot 64th Regiment, Brevet- Major Barker, Lieut. Daniels, Lieut. Brooks, Lieut. Aglen, Lieut. Foster, and Ensign Carleton, will proceed to Tilbury on the Ist of February for em barcation .to Portsmouth to join head quarters ; depot 73d Regiment, Capt. Gibaut, Capt. Pigott, Lieut. Armstrong, Lieut. Benson, Lieut. Lacon, and Ensign Parker, will proceed to Shorncliffe Camp on the 31st of January to join head quarters ; depot 88th Regiment, Capt. Hopton, Lieut. Burke, Lieut. Wooodward, Ensign Maffet, and Ensign Dalrymple, will leave for Fermoy on the 31st of January ; and depot 90th Regiment, Capt. Goodriche, Capt. Rennie, Lieut. Agnew, Lieut. Murray, and Ensign Lawrence, will proceed to Preiton on the 31st of January. this test under all conditions. The building acts are full of errors and omissions, which weaken their operation, and they can be extensively evaded. Stone staircases, it is asserted, do not deserve the confidence the law reposes in them as a security. Captain Shaw, speaking from experience, says that —" Stone is in no sense fire-proof ; on the contrary An order has been received at Chatham from Colonel Chapman, C. 8., Deputy, Adjt.-Gen. Royal Engineers, directing Col. Harness, C. 8., Director of the Royal Engineer establishment, to augment the Bth company of Royal Engineers, which has re cently arrived at Chatham garrison from China, to its full complement by the transfer of the requisite number of non-commissioned officers and men from it yields to fire sooner than almost any other build ing material, and much more rapidly than wood." Stone is brittle, expands with heat, and splits. The employment of stone for staircases, therefore, should not be made compulsory. Capt. Shaw declares him self strongly against it. The law assumes that stone has the same qualities as brick, which it certainly does not possess. Among the modern causes of the increase of fires are the employment of steam-power, and, in dwelling-houses, the use of large, close cooking ranges generally connected with the old flues. In the construction of theatres and other places of public resort there is need of great improve ment. Theatres ought to be divided into two"' dis tinct risks," the stage being in one, and the audience m another. A party wall should be carried across the whole edifice, leaving open only the space for the curtain, which could be closed on any alarm by a revolving iron shutter, cutting off all communication between the stage and scenery and body of the house. Every door of exit should open outwards, which is not always the case at present. It will surprise the public to hear that the water companies still employ the old imperfect plug, or hydrant, prescribed by law in 1774, when no better form was known. A rough wooden tube, tapered at the end, and stuck into holes in the iron pipe, is still tolerated, though other cities have long adopted those of modern con struction. But we are not surprised at this, when it is explained that by some singular provision of the law this old " wooden plug" arrangement can be changed only by the consent of the churchwardens. The water companies have no power in this matter. In London this reads like an extreme illustration of parochial conservatism. the depot companies at head-quarters. In con sequence of most of the companies of the corps being now at their full strength, an order has also been received at Chatham directing that the recruit ing parties for the Royal Engineers are to enlist only smiths, carpenters, bricklayers, and masons for that corps. The 23d (Capt. R. G. Thorold's) company of Royal Engineers has been placed under orders to proceed from head quarters, Chatham, to the Mauritius, during the ensuing month, to relieve one of the companies there stationed. Intelligence has been received at the head-quar ters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, of the death of Lieut.-Col. Patrick Stewart, C. 8., Royal Engineers, which occurred at Constantinople on the 15th inst. The deceased officer was engaged in laying down the electric telegraph, overland, from Constantinople, through Persia and Affghanistan, to India. Only a few months ago he left Chatham in charge of a party of RoyaLEngineers, selected to be employed in that operation. Unfortunately the climate proved trying, and the duties to be per formed too laborious for his constitution, and he succumbed at the early age of 32. The paddlewheel sloop Virago, 6, 1,059 tons, 300 horse power, Commander W. G. H. Johnstone, which arrived at Plymouth on Friday from Ber muda, as stated in The Sign of yesterday, is to be paid out of commission at Sheerness. Her bulk heads and internal fittings are not to be disturbed, and her rigging, boats, and other stores are to be returned and preserved in such order as that they may again and at once be available for the same ship if required. The Virago when paid off will t ad.kxuin inc nrst instead of the third division of Naval and Military Intelligence. On Thursday morning the troops at Aldershott, under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Penne father, K.C.8., carried out a preconcerted plan of In a rrthi n g .th P sp vera l briod r esh ra roceeding bydif ferent roads converging upon Fa , and arriving in that town between 11 and 12 o'clock. The bri gades marched from their parade-grounds towards the general rendezvous about 9 o'clock in the follow ing order :—The cavalry, with the D battery, Royal Artillery attached, proceeded bythe Farnham-road, turning to the right by the road over Thicksbury hill, past Heath-house, into Crondall, and thence by the lower road to Farnham. They arrived at the Market-house at 11 15. The 3d Brigade, with F battery, Royal Artillery attached, proceeded by the same route as that ordered for the cavalry as far as the Lawday-house, and thence down into Farnham by the road, passing the Castle. They arrived at the Market-house at 11 30. The 2d Brigade proceeded through Aldershott to Tongham, and thence by the Guildford and Tongham road, turning to the left by the road over Crooksbury hill, past Waverley Abbey and Farnham Railway Station. They arrived at the Market-house at 1145. The Ist Brigade, with E battery, Royal Artillery attached, proceeded through the village of Wey bourne, crossed the Guildford-road at the Bourne, turned into Moor Park grounds, and entered the south suburbs of Farnham by the railway station. It then continued its route to Wrecclesham by the road running parallel to the railway and across the river Wey, taking the Portsmouth-road from Wrec clesham to Farnham, and entering the town by the south-west extremity at 12 o'clock. The Lieut.- General and his Staff, having taken up a position facing the market-house, the troops defiled before him in the following order :—The Cavalry Brigade passed by in sections of threes, Major-Gen. Hodge, C.B. • Col. Wardlaw and Roya l Dra g oons ; Ca p t. Ravenhill andD battery Royal Horse Artillery; Col. Darby Griffith, C. 8., and Scots Greys; Lieut.-Col. Thompson and 14th Hussars. The 3d Brigade marched past in fours, Major-Gen. Russell, C.B. ; Lieut.-Col. Gordon and 75th Regiment ; Capt. Pitt and F Battery, Royal Artillery ; Majorißates and 83d Regiment ; Major Leckie and 39th Regiment. The 2d Brigade :—Major-Gen. Bates, Col. Ingall, C. 8., and 62d Regiment ; Col. Budd, and Ist Bat talion 14th Regiment; Col. Palmer, C. 8., and 2d Battalion 60th Rifles. The Ist Brigade :—Col. Grey (85th Regiment), brigadier ; Lieut.-Col Eager and 31st Regiment ; Capt. Steward and E battery Royal Artillery ; Major Appleyard and 85th Regi ment ; Major Romer and 59th Regiment. Detach ments of the Military Train accompanied the Bri gades. The last of the division had passed the point:at a quarter-past 12, and the troops reached quarters bythe direct road to Aldershot about 1 p.r e n ci The march was rather a long on e, having en btaracking l a distance of about 12 miles ; but thevplanof pa possession of a point by the whole i t g r n o i o l : at a given time illustrated a feature ra which was regarded wi th consi e ble interest by non-military spectators• t h e st a ff and division at The following changes in Aldershot have just takbeace : —Major and Bre- Gen. Cord, unattached, to be vet-Col. the Hon. Hug a F t . headquarters, vice A ss ist.-Quarter - M as c t o e i r . - E. Pocklington, ap- Major and Brevet pointed a member of the Council of Military Edu cation;A. E. Warren, 78th. Highlanders, having Capt. 7 on appointment, as Aide-de-Camp to is taking on the having joined , Major-General Russell, C. 8., strengthof thedivision ; Brevet-Majorß. C. Stewart hav i n g ceased to performthe duties of Aide-de-Camp t o Major-Gen. Russell, C. 8., is struck off the strength of the division. The Secretary of State for War has, with the con currenceof theFieldMarshalCommanding-in-Chief, decided that the proportions of subaltern officers to the Sheerness Steam Reserve ; and will be kept' in such a state of forwardness that she can speedily be brought forward for recommission when needed. The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt. A. C. Gordon, left Plymouth Sound on Sunday for the North American and West Indian station. The ships of war on the Australian station at the date of the last advices were—The Harrier, 17, Acting Commander Swan, at New Zealand ; the Miranda, 14, Captain Jenkins, at Sydney ; the Eclipse, 4, Commander Fremantle, at New Zealand ; the Curagoa, 23, Commodore Sir W. Wiseman, at New Zealand ; the Esk, 21, Captain Lucie, at Sydney ; the Falcon, 17, Com — mander Parkin, at New Zealand; and the Salamander, 4, Commander the Hon. J. Carnegie, at Sydney. DEBATES OF THE REICHSRATH. VIENNA, Jan. 20. At the sitting of the Lower House of the Reichs rath, yesterday, in a debate upon financial matters, Herr von Plener made a speech which created con siderable sensation in the House. The Minister said : "We have now come to the end of the motions. These are the resolutions at which the House has arrived, and will still pass upon motions of the committee for the control of the national debt. I have now to remark that these reso. lutions, after all, are only passed by a portion of the Reichs rath, that is to say, by one of the Houses of that assembly. It is therefore quite possible that the other House may pass a different resolution upon the same subject. Even, how ever, should both Houses agree upon one or other of the resolutions, the Government, in so far as it has not directly committed itself in one direction or the other, will take such resolutions into its serious consideration, as it has always done with any wishes, requests, and resolutions Of the House. But it cannot admit to those resolutions any further governing effect. (Sensation.) " Deputy SKENE—After so interesting and important a declaration I move the close of the sitting. previous to its but p "The close of the sitting was carried, at the hands of the Government, of Deputies de - cessation the President read the following dseireinaenddbfyor ex planationDr Giskra and 78 members The Chambera in the draft sires to call attention to the following P i as f o cannot, also on and p o a t u h r tneidasl resultshowever, refrain,w hi which have from been ex_ to which it is entitled kin adV o s m re o f f erin al g ici t a o :_ th , e , Theexceptional hou s house state e t s o f from syourinisithae jesty's Government the explanation, whichcontinuance th e e by the c ry on t s b t e itu ini ti pe o that these measures, ur 7t desire even if pressing the strong may speedily cease:' hitherto necessary, achieved exceptional therebymea This passage was the debate upon the add ress, t h ereby show agreed to even afte r the statements of the Ministers upon ing this that sub th subject eet e il l i muse did not consider those statements satis fied the rights guaranteed to it by sec. 13 of the patent of Feb. 26, 1861. Several weeks have elapsed since the re solution of the house. It was informed some time ago that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to accept the ad dress of the Lower House, and nothing has yet been done upon the part of the Government to comply with that just expression of the wish of the members. Even after the re assembly of the Reichsrath those exceptional measures, with their prejudicial effect upon the legal status and public life of that country, still continue to prevail, together with the special burden thereby entailed upon the finances of the empire, without any visible reason, after the insurrection in the kingdom of Poland is stifled, the prisons in Galicia mostly emptied by the sentences that have been passed, aftdr trade and commerce have returned into their former channels, and the conditions of normal activity have been restored to the courts and tribunals for the public safety of the country. The undersigned, therefore, beg to ask the Government-1. 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At this moment the rapid destruction of the Edinburgh Theatre, and the death of Mr. Lorimer, is producing scores of these suggestions, and hundreds are ready to point out how easily the catastrophe might have been prevented. That fire also recalls the memory of the great fire at Fenning's wharf, and the manner in which Mr. Braidwood lost his life. It is probable, therefore, that the report of the present able Supe rintendent of the London Fire-engine Establishment for the past year will attract more attention than usual, from the accident of appearing while the pub lic is under the influence of such a reminder. The mere statistics of the subject are very brief, and not satisfactory, as the number of fires during the year 1864 exceeded those of the previous year by 83, and, compared with the average of such casualties for the last 31 years, the increase is 646. The inference drawn by Capt. Shaw is that our fires increase in an undue ratio to the increase in the num ber of houses and population. Thus, in a period of 25 years, the population of London has increased at the rate of 55 per cent. and houses at 47 per cent. But the annual number of fires in the same period has more than doubled. This is not a pleasing an nouncement ; but there is a gleam of consolation in the fact that the ratio of increase seems to have reached its limit. The number of London fires used to be doubled in every period of 18 years. Since 1840 it has required 22 years to produce the same increase, " and at that point they seem for the pre sent to have taken their stand." The services of the Fire Brigade were required during the past year at 1,715 fires. Of these 101 were false alarms, 127 were " chimney alarms,"and 1,487 were " fires " within the official definition of the accident. But these are again subdivided. The cases of total destruction or serious damage were 402 —the t of term L' oBs. slightly But d these returns by n amaged ' 'appliestoto means elarger number represent the whole of the danger London passed through in 1864. There is a " usual average" of accidents which the Fire Brigade treats with in difference, though the estimated number is rather alarming to more sensitive nerves. These are the fires "of which no exact record is kept," as they were too trifling to require the attendance of the firemen. But, as some of these small fires might have been fed into large ones, we suppose we ought to congratulate ourselves on having escaped so well, as there was no less than 4,000 of them, which we are told is the " usual average." To these must be added more than 6,000 chimneys on fire, andwehave 10,000 cases of this class of accident in the year which by good luck had no consequences worth special notice. 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Gra l i o s r -inn Li% Vice-Patron —His Royal Highness the Prince of WALELK: (-", President —His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, 1 w I de- This Rospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to ietshtaobut the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. s whol y 0. pendent for support ou voluntary contributions and 1, gacie adldtitiaoffnortl: this la r ge number of in-patients, attendance of the destitute sick h average a number o f 3,000 and 4,000 k wee ly. • as for a con iderable period averaged between Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Has and, in terman, Esq., Nicholas -lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. - Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. and rescott, Grote, and Co ' . ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay Co Nisbet W Mama, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gut , Co and Co.; and Co. Berners-street ;I. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. sTANFoR,D ? , 51ITH, Secretary. T HE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes t o a dd anot h er home to the 12 n ow in operation. Last year no fewer females veoeir3e,oreBj7ectehdoihraovme han 455 poor , friendless, young want of FUNDS and room, making a total been sent away in fire years. Here are brief detail s of a few of the most recent cases : F. r., aged 14, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. her mother. M. A. Fag.,eadgeld7,ll3ailleirtealtehs:,rbdoetandi?dareesnerttseddebayd. aged 15, fallen, mother dead. A. B and 16, fallen, both parents dead. •, ,•, C SA. .. D B B . : , : aged 15, fallen, mother dead, H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her pare n t s, M. H' ' aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, father dead . E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, i f a a i t i l e e n n : both parents father dead. A. G•, aged 18, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A'. W., aged 17. fillen, lioth parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for oung girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to is, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Q ueen . s t ree t, Cl l eapsiile; or by Mess rs Barclay and Ca. I.9mDard-otreet. not! WESTERN INDIA. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) BOMB" ' Dec. 30; 1864. I question if any city or community in'the worldhas ever presented so extraordinary an aspect as Bombay during the commercial and social revolution through which it is now passing. The suddenly discovered gold did far less for Mel bourn,:thay that deluge of silver which has for the past four years flowed over Bombay with so mighty a current. The social anomalies mad, I fear, also, the general demora lization were less marked in the English colony than in this Indian city, which a sudden, and probably temporary tide of prosperity has caused to aspire to ba the Liverpool of the East. The rise of prices which during the past 15 years has taken place all over the world has been especially marked in India. No country with a similar trade and revenue had so contracted a currency, but the effect on prices was not felt till the influx of English settlers which followed the mutiny. There was no corresponding increase in the necessaries of" life consumed by Englishmen in India, while the natives themselves, as they grow in wealth, developed new wants. It is my experie3ce that in Calcutta during the last 10 years prices hare mst doubled. The rise was felt most severely there by the large class with. fixed incomes, because Calcutta was -he base of the mutiny cam paigns. In the single matter of house rents it was met partly by an extension of the American system of living in clubs and boarding-houses, and partly by the erection of some new squares and streets of European houses. Not till the outbreak of the American war was the rise felt in all its intensity in Bombay. The community there was limited and had been very c , slow." But in proportion to the delay of the tide of increase ui reaching Bombay has been its violence, so that the western city now far exceeds Calcutta in the expense, difomforts, and even positive hardship of living. Up to Ig6o the sum- paid by Europe for the whole cotton export of India . was not above seven millions sterling annually. In 1860-61 the import of bullion into Bombay alone, chiefly in payment for cotton, was only six and a half millions. But in 4he three yearl's/fiC4hat time official returns state the import of gold an. CMYerht4sl2tombay alone at upwords of 40 millions sterling, and if we add the imports of the year just closed we have a sum of not less than 60 millions sterling poured in hard cash into one city. If we take all India, we find that Europe now pays her nearly 40 millions sterling a year, of which more than one-half is in bullion, for cotton, which five years ago sold at not more than seven or eight. What is the result of this in the city of Bombay ? In Calcutta the trade is almost entirely in the hands of Europeans, and the Bengalees play but a subordinate part. Hence there is a wider social gap and less friendly inter course between the two classes. But in Bombay, owing chiefly to the presence of tasteless race like the Parsees and to the physical advantages of the island, the lion's share of the trade is in the hands of natives, and they associate with English gentlemen on terms of more pleasing equality than is the case with their more refined but less wealthy countrymen in Bengal. Hence many Parsee and Hindoo, and a smaller number of English (or rather Scotch) mer chants find themselves possessed of sums which are reckoned by millions, and speak with contempt of so petty an amount as 'a lac Of rupees, or £lO,OOO. Hindoos and Parsees, who were a year or two ago petty brokers or miserable shop keepers, are now millionaires. The most remarkable in stance of this is a. Hindoo named Premchund Roychund, lately a subordinate clerk in an English house on £3O a year. By daring speculation he has amassed about two millions sterling. Again, Rustonjee, the second and ablest son of the first baronet, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, has be come the millionaire of Bombay, though his ancestral for being reckoned at 2/ mil tune was not large, his capital lions sterling, and if the present price of cotton continue for two years there is every likelihood of this sum being doubled. These are only two out of 20 whom I might name. The same is true on a smaller scale, because the partners are honourable men in the English sense, of such Scirtch houses as Messrs. Nicol and Co., and Ritchie, Stewart, and Co. These are the great merchant princes, but all the subordinate commercial hopses and traders have their share. Nor is the wealth confined to the merchant who acts as middleman between the peasant grower of cotton and the Liverpool buyer. Next to those of Madras the ryots of the Bombay Presidency were the most miserable in India, burdened with a weight of hereditary debt to which each generation added, and the veriest bond slaves of the native usurer, who bought their crops at his own price. Now, the mass of the peasants are rolling, comparatively, in wealth, and the occupation of the usurer is gone. Except that vile here ditary debt, the fruit of superstition, to set a limit to which a wise insolvent act will soon be passed in the ryots' favour, the agricultural class here, in point of comfort, put ours inEngland to shame. While all are, according to their ideas, comfortably clothed, housed, and fed to the full, the majority indulge in the most whimsical tastes, one priding himself on his fine breed of bullocks, for which he has paid five times the old price, another rejoicing in his riding horse, and a third—this is really the case—having no better means of displaying his wealth than by making the tires of his cart wheels of the silver England finds such difficulty in sending to us. So far has this gone that in a festive, idolatrous procession lately, a worthy farmer—he can no longer be called a peasant—thought he could not better show his wealth than by carrying enormous bags of ru pees at the end of poles. In this Presidency, once so waste, and yielding comparatively so little to the revenue, there is not now an acre of culturable soil unemployed. - Even in Kandeish, the only country which has not recovered from the blighting effects of Mahratta devastations, I have just witnessed the spectacle in an obscure village of a crowd of peasants squatting around two agents from Bombay, one with 40,000 rupees and the other with 30,000, paying for the growing crop at enormously high rates. What has been the effect of this wealth ? How have the educated classes used it ? Neither the Parsees nor Hindoors have forgotten that her Majesty recognised the splendid liberalities of the late Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy by cre ating him a baronet ; so the nouveaux riches are in the habit of lavishing lacs of rupees on public objects. Premchund Roychund, for instance, has given, I believe, at least a tithe of his two millions in donations to the University, the Cyclone fund, and several Hindoo charities. Indeed, if we do not inquire into motives so narrowly, we cannot with hold the tribute of our admiration from such princely gene rosity as that of which Bombay has been and is still the scene. It is well—and on this principle Governor Sir Bartle Frere most wisely acts in his laudations of the givers —that wealth so suddenly and almost without effort ac- quired should pay its quota for the good of the public. Is it not calculated that the combined wealth of all the rich men of Bombay is little under 80 millions sterling, and that in an island with only a fourth of the population of Lon don (816,000) ? Hence Bombay, which as a city is little Better than Madras, being contemptible when compared with Calcutta, bids fair to be changed into a great commer cial capital, into a real Liverpool. Never were English merchants so public-spirited in reclaiming land, building docks, wharves, piers, warehouses, and sawmills, and in furnishing all the appliances of a great port ; never were Asiatic millionaires so lavish. Sir Bartle Frere is quite equal to the occasion ; he is the Louis Napoleon and M. Haussman of Bombay and Poonah in one. So great is the demand for ground in the business part of the city—land selling at from £3O to £5O a square foot, as if the Chatham and Dover Railway were the purchasers—that Sir Bartle Frere has demolished the useless ramparts of the old fort. As Bombay has not a public edifice worthy the name, ex cept the Town-hall, he is about to commence on some of the sites• thus gained a series of great public offices, with new streets, hotels, a university, hospital, and a great palace of justice, the whole of which will cost some two millions sterling, and occupy from seven to ten years in building ; and this will not cost the Imperial Treasury a penny, for the sale of public lands in the island will realise a much larger sum. So at Poonah. That the old capital of the Mahrattas, 120 miles off, will never grow to be the capital ;of India, in spite of Mr. Grant Duff's threatened annual motion on the subject, the first glance at its barren expanse and some experience of its heat even in December convinced me. But it is intended to 'be the great military capital of the Deccan and the Western Presidency. On the site of the old Kirkee village, which overlooks more than one battlefield famous in history, a great fort will soon rear its head, with all such departments attached as the arsenal, g unpowder, and gun carriage factories. Below lies the artillery cantonment of Kirkee, with the Governor of Bom bay's new palace rising beyond. Four miles to the south is the Poonah camp, and between cantonments and camp is a high piece of ground where the Deccan College is being built, to tempt the cast-bound in yt e u n t e h pl o a f ee, th li e u M et ah te ra us tta e a san res guj ide n n e ce ß . ° N m o - Ithaonstbd°twhaerhdverasieee, trojenoy, will b h u o i p l e d d h b ims y t e o li o one who has seen all the Presidencies as I have done can believe that Calcutta, commanding the Ganges and Brahma bo countryna y e h t e a s l pootra valleys, with undeveloped Assam and Burmah to the east, will ever cease to be both the political and commercial capital of India which it has grown to be ; but it is high time, for its own sake, that Bombay should be cleared of its miserable hovels and bungalows ; its filthy streets and di s graceful consequences ; its scandalous hotels, and utter absence of the comforts of civilisation, and made worthy of its rising trade and enormous wealth. This Sir Bartle Frere is doing with all his might and with much wisdom. Ten years hence it will be impossible to recognise the place. I am in duty bound to allude to the dark side of the social and commercial revolution which is going on with such rapid strides in Bombay. There are two results— while the rich are becoming richer the poor and the becoming fast demora class with fixe d incomes are daily becoming osculation, so th a t there is p li o z o eci rer ;.byanuud hetletivrich are This day is published, TONY BUTLER. In Three Volumes, Post Octavo, price £l ils. 6d. Originally published in " Blackwood's Magazine." William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.