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Southampton, w eas eter, n —urY, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde , dells tiord, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidde r- OP Aib rellington. Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorklbg, an s. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, I;l,t,"arii, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great brc radon IT and co., General House Furnishers. Doti ord- S.E. 'E LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. 021 Established 1836. Offices_ Dale-street, Liverpool ;20 and 21, Poultry, 7 , Cornhill , and 56, Charing-cross, London. Pi REVTINUF 1N„,1863. File Premium X583,030 Life ' 6 InterestlnvestmentsPrernoniurns 160,0C° £950,000 I nslir: cies are estiblished for effecting bo h Fire anti Life of th e Part s "cos, and facilitating the payment of Premiums in all orld. b;th:9;7llloefie!afalling due at Christmas should be renewed d ry. SWINTON ROULT, Secretary to the Company. "nar JORN ATRI'‘ S, Resident Secretary. Y, 1865 • I _______ iE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 1 ,, I ncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1857. ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING. Olt6gCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the EIGHTH tAeA A V 4 - 11 Y ANNUAL ME ETING o the ,h arf h o ld ers i n 'P aver 'antic Telegraph Company will be held at the London o Fli shopsgate-street Within the City of London, on the Ninth day of February, 1863, at One a IW - s P.M., for the of receiving from the Directors Ordf-P? rt and Balance-shee , . and for the transaction of the rY busine-s of the Company. 4, ed. the 23d January. 865. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Chairman. GEORGE SAW/A.ICD, Secretary. IVO. 12, St . Helen 's-pl , ce, Bishopsgate-street Within, Londor, ATLANTIC and GREAT W ESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in conformity with the terms on which the First Mortgage Bonds of the Penn tlvania Section of thi s R a il way were issued, the following ONDS, viz. : E 0 Bonds of 1,003 Dollars each. 192 169 170 173 230 21 ,g. 254 5 266 078 821 391 424 448 ''' lo 520 507 575 598 610 664 677 697 709 713 724 792 793 ,84s 857 877 Bgo 969 1022 1026 7 1029 1139 497 1068 1094 1105 1110 11 1 7 1137 13,:v 1 112 1171 1191 1223 1230 1263 lg , 1 : 1621 it? 1342 1418 1499 1509 1513 1745 175( 7 ,'; 1145 1550 1703 1706 1713 1957 1- • . 1818 3819 1882 1886 1916 1946 003 24 Ponds of 500 D o ll ars each. 2 li29 22 5 2010 ' l5O 2156 2)15 2225 1 99 2302 21 8 2346 23 ) 1 2387 2245 2264 2178 2522 2416 2525 2527 2531 2562 2581 817 80 Bonds per 100 Dollars each. 2782 28,8 2636 2673 26.36 2688 2.,__3.1 g7O 2950 2,61 28ti 2821 :4330 2838 2814,4 3118 3124 3 11 ., 2962 100 7 3. 32 3051 1,,,_. 3308 8309 3134 3163 3164 3217 3297 347 1 1 2415 : 1 457 2477 .3357 3388 3813 31'16 ~(, 3698 3774 380 2105 3503 3596 36.,14, 8 " 1 1 3943 3965 a9tl7 48 ti 3867 3873 1 1 8 i v • L A 3 4078 4105 1196 3°78 4009 4010 4033 •;,.. 4314 4366 0.82 4140 4175 4252 4517 4549 Were 3. 4495 4446 4196 4516 -.. t uts day DRAWN by the undersigned Notary. zio-r ic ,, 13 0nd -- Is ALSO GIVEN, that such of the off t es p a a id r 0 ,4 as have been issued in London will be paid in London, ,s: Dresentation there A' at the Company's office -7 Z'1:t111 after the Ist da f April next, Ceagt" °t ie on that day, after which all interest _ In addition o the 7' W. GRAIN, Nota.y Public. Lon4 °73, a mt. 19, 1865. Y E IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT SUbe eribed, £5 AS SOCIATIoN (Limited). ‘-'414"41 ,000,C00, in 100,C00 shares of £5O each Paid up, £500,00. DIRECTORS. eno eltAlustAN —JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., , I:t!aoti 13alli, Esq. Charles Belson, Erick Itr'.Atioleillan, E.g. G. G.,Macpherson, Esq. ,l'arn'e derroan Dalin. ..s Dickson, Esq ,4*P. /111dow, E sq. • W sir . S S . ch D o . le s fi co ld t: ,?Datition, Esq. E Ba 6q rt " . 3l.P. H. D. Seymour, ESQ., M.P. Joseph Thornton, Esq. G. it,,l,* llarford Esq . F. G. %% eBtmorland, Esq. J. ci, itoiroyd:lN . Alfred Wilson, Esq, ,/,`'ri Ikinere, E. M. Zariff, Esq. • • Gilbert Johnston. It en ,_ MAN AGERS. 'Y J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. SOLI CITORS. Messrs Ashurst, Mo rr i s, and Co. Messrs.. Edwards and Co. : 1 , 114 114 t:11IS-r REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, -1 " the i to the Ordinary General Meeting of Proprietors, nowCßAili.ondon Tavern, on Monday Jan. 23, 1865—JOHN tow101•014N• Esq., in the Chair. ' ~ e statement of accounts which the Directors have pleasure ot submitting to the shareholders, co/11- ,164 e Ate operations of the united companies from the Ist (oiiibe,niolhtsfat:thneed3cluisortarnDeicember last, it wil' b that after pay!' tnoeneuneses,clillow• ng formre i blt of ig ipt i eTt_ Ittnoti`ngeoctes, there ;eamnainms 1,11,_ _rig . 499,2 7 98. .a k 1 a b g al t a ni nge e 1 011 ' " ' re ctors i f f ro n v et to pro T t r 11ows ,____ recommend this sum to be appropriated as 4 1 ..." end (free of Income tax) of 10s. per share. .£50,000 0 0 0 0 Baruce carried ************** i; * ilext half- ***** • 0 • • 1,250 year • 47,967 9 9 0 £99,217 to The accounts will in future be made up half . £99,217 viz., 30h June and 31at Deetaber. In acc ,rdance with the articlea of association, the Directors appointed C. J• 11. Alen, Req., and Juhn Yonng, Esq. ' as auditors unt.l the First and Meeting of Proprietors, on Whom the election ofaudirors will then devolve. Mr. Alien arid lift Young' are an for re-election. The Dividend Will be rayable on and after the 30th inst By Order W. C. WISTERBOTTOM SeeretarY• Jan• 16, 1665. THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSO t ._ CIATION (Limited). ',I...A.NCE-811EZT TO AL E 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1864. Dr -o caMtal...... CAPITAL AND LIABILITIES. I , l o ° l l l ° :p ° l 7.4 pe l s r . e . s . !. £ 5O each, £5 per share paid. .... £500,000 0 0 p‘!l beills p ayable .. ......... _." £832,..123 .. 4 un redits granted by bankers 01 1 P,, 4 others .............. 325,000 0 0 ?ilii:bduilnlliylPts:ett:n.eitd•diß' g'.;o7Bo.llc..uterer. 4e.11.:t.......a...e::: 11:229661'"2224786 1084 468 ,508,192 14 10 'tchats 01 Interest on bills not d'Ti7:73 11,593 13 7 0 Profit and loss Liu.„ oe, being, net profit as per statement.. 99,217 9 0 4 4,119,003 17 5 fl Cr 1 ca-.:h . ASSETS. II b ''' 4' bank i h dat call .... ..£ 142,32 18 0 v 111"" • "8* n "d ' an 4 481 2 5 i l , t Y loan ech'i.o..,hie .. ................... 99 , i'r 1111'4'0%,"7:tie3,*a.nd current accounts —.2,475,356 1 6 --Y office tin,.--,',' and Interest accrued thereon 506,111 13 0 -"dite, fittings, &c................. 734 2 6 , P ROFIT £1,119,003 17 5 AN D LOSS ACCOUNT PEON THE IST JUNE TO 31ST B r DxCEIWBER, 1864. To' C ur r en t ur expenses (Includinz,salaries, allow rkilri (i rnapaie:%wdieroecttosrleTnuneration, £17,243 5 10 Toebaltileven,rbeinTnet profit i coots , ....... . :::: 99,217 9 0 -____. 4110,160 14 10 -___--------.. T 0 dividend of 10s. per share on £s2,rno o n 4. 1 ° 0 ,000 shares 1,,,5) 0 0 .0 Jawing tax on above ..... - -----. TO balance carried to profit and 5 1,2:19 0 0 lo ss new ac count 47,9r,7 9 0 ---________--- 499,217 9 0 1, Cr, ~._______...... -Y,Rvoss profits as per ledger £128,054 8 0 '-'educt Rebate of interest on. bills as not due, at 6 per cent per 1. . n , 13 7 Attin ............. . £ 1 1 0,463 14 10 111 ' b i 409,217 9 0 h Lance, being net profit rouglit down ... .. . ..... ce4oBth•VeC'e have compared the above statements i w ti i e t s h t a h n e a boo he k re s b o y f oclation, and examined the se.ur , ' Y to their correctness. C. J. IT, ALLEN,I Auditors. toti A /t -00 , Jan. 16, 1865 . J.N O. YOUNG, i Was moved by the Chairman. seconded by Mr. Alderman bakin and carried unanimously, ItZliptetthe report arid accounts now read be received and lt w a ' Moved by the Chairman, seconded by Mr Alderman Th. t D..kin and carried unanimously, elm. -.- a dividend of 108. per there, free of income-tax, be de 10,ted and that the same be payable on and after the 30th It Was moved by Mr, Thos. Bevan, seconded by Mr. Field, are e . J . , R Allen, cailriedaunnirjigonu., Young. Esq., be, and th a t rehr, plreted 111;e saquditors for the current year, and a g pe itettiveeir remuneration be 100 guineas per anuttin each re- It w as Y . ' as moved by Mn, Jackson. M.P., seconded by 51r. Joyce, h'that The au and carried unanimously, ' 4 IA - -la nk° 0 t this meeting. be given to the Chairman c 0,,,,, reatorm fort heir able p a st c managemen t of the It k'auY's affairs during the half-year. was moved by Mr. Field, seconded by the Chairman, and carried unanimously, ) 4 1' 4 0 the best thanks of the meeting be given to the pro "A'ers for the satisfactory manner in which they have 1110ted the interests of the Company. JOHN CHAPMAN, Chairman. (Extracted from the minutes.) a "417 23,1885, W. C. WINTEEBO T TOM, Seo te t ar. 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Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky.", H ORSHAM, DORKING, AND Lp.THER HEAD RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, tint the next ORDI— NARY HALF-YEARLY G kNERAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the London, Brighton, ant South- Coast Railway Company's Station, London-bridge, on FRID AY, the 10th day of February, 1865, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, to receive a Report from the Directors, and for the general purposes of the undertaking. The Transfer Books of the Company wit. be CLOSED on the 3d day of February, 1865, 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 OLO GY.—KICNTG'S COLLEGE, London.— PROFESSOR TENNANT, F.G.S., commence a COURSE of WEDNESDAY EVENING LECTUhES on GEOLOGY, from Eight to Nine; fee, LI is. First Lecture, Jan. 25th. A more extended Course on Wednesday and Fri day Mornings. from Nine to Ten. First Lecture, Van. 27th. TAis Course will be continued to May. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. RYST AL PALACE.-SUMME . It fit C WINTER.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY.— ARRANGEMENTS TO-MORROW:— O 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 tiallery The Fine Arts Courts, in variety and beauty unequalled in the world—The decorations of the Palace, with the dreat Christmas Tree Shakspere House—Montanari Models—Swings, Roundabouts, Invigo rat re, and other popular Amusements—galleries of Models and Ships—Armour Plates and Armstrong 90-pounder lent by official authority—The extraordinary Chimpanzee— i he unique Aquariums. All these things render the Crystal Palace the one place for holiday enjoyment. Admission, :One Shilling. Children under 12, Sixpence. Ope t for Admlssion from Ten till Six o'clock, Lighted up till halt-past Six. MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, in FRE RIVAL COMPOSERS. in which the tdsters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude with MRS. ROSELEAF AT THE SEA-SIDE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening (except Saturday) at Eight ; Saturday Afternoon, at Three. - -ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent street. Unreserved seats, is„ 28. ; stalls, Ss. ; stall spring chairs, ss. OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by Macfarren. and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every TUE,DAY and T EIURSDAY, at Three. T HE 0 X F 0 It D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited!. ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera Comiquel, is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the Song : "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, br Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, and chorus ; the side-splitting " Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pint), and Chorus ; aid flaal Minuet and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and Lascelles. Also, MASANIELLO, in which Mons. LAVESSIERE, the successful new Tenore, from the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, will make his appearance.. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, SESTIL LION, and all the pro curable Talent of the day. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon don (inclui ng the whole strength of the establishment), every evenlng at half-past Nine o'clock. The usual OperaticSelutions by Kisses Russell, Barrie, Hays, Godden, &c.; Messrs. 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Report on WofaxtheangduaCuhtt ofh isiCaensclsrles.e,inl62, A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, saye:-- " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the Clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with latted Wicks, patented.. 25. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality • • • . „ 28. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. Is. sd. per lb Second quality •• • • •• ls. 3d. per lb. Third quality .. Is. id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— . Kensington (Established 1730). The Aargest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the time of the Altar. BED•ROOM CANDLES. " PRICE'S CANDLES , , which will not drop g rease when carried.' —Thin, very hard candles sold in boxes le, and 3s. etch, are recornmendei as the bes carriers. " EXTRA HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those who will not burn thin. _ _ " SHERWOOD ECONOMIO BED LIGHTS," In Packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness h a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candle ticks to fit thin candles, ls. and 2s. 6d. each; reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. TOILET SOAPS. Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains Price's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter. GLYCERINE. SHEEWOODOLE men P t ri t c e h ' a s t G i l t yc i e fs n ,, e e ' q 'm usa a tal y te b to e - Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains. capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled hot " Priez's Patent," from 6d. ties, 6d. and is. each. upwards. Impure Gly cerine has been sold In the Prices." Retail throng] Wholesale b y Pr toe 0 Patent Lond ! li any Grocer. '-, Caudle Company (Limited), don, WESTERN INDIA. (Front the Correspondent of the Times) BOMBAY, Dec. 30, 1864 I question if any city or community in the world has 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 bourne than that deluge of silver which has for the past four years flowed over Bombay with so mighty a current. The social anomalies and, I fear, also, the general demora lization were less marked in the English colony than in this Indian city, which Q. sudden, and probably temporary tide of prosperity has caused to aspire to be 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 grew in wealth, developed new wants. It is my experience that in Calcutta during the last 10 years prices have just doubled. The rise was felt most severely there by the large class with fixed incomes, because Calcutta was the 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 "slow." But in proportion to the delay of the tide of increase in reaching Bombay has been its violence, so that the western city now far exceeds Calcutta in the expense, discomforts, and even positive hardship of living. Up to 1860 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 the three years since that time official returns state the import of gold and silver into Bombay 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 themserves possessed of sums which are reckoned by millions, and speak with contempt of so petty an amount as a lad 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 Jainsetjee Jejeebhoy, his be come the millionaire of Bombay, though his ancestral for tune was not large, his capital being reckoned at 2f mil 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 Scotch houses as Messrs. Nicol and Co., and Ritchie, Stewart, and Co. These are the great merchant princes, but all the subordinate commercial houses 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, conaaratively, wealtb i and an; crcc - ^ap,ebivn of the usurer i s gone: Except that vile here ditary debt, the fruit of superstition, to set a limit to which a wise insolvent net will soon be passed in the ryots' favour, the agricultural class here, in point of comfort, put ours inEngland to shame. While an 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 Roychund, 0 a f t i lavishingn gh m a forbaronetlassnestfa nr n; instance, so e hase etheo given,n pn h linouv e auxlc believe, richesele objects.y Hindoors have for g ott en th at h er M a j es t y recogn i se d th e splendid liberaliti es o f th e l ate Jamset j ee J e j ee bh oy b y ere , a arte Premchundinthe 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 f our th o f the population of Lon don (816,000) ? Hence B om b a y, 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 its head, with all such de p artments at tached as the arsenal, one battlefield famous in histor y , a great fort will soon rear gunpowder, 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 caste-bound youth of the Mahratta country to board, as in Oxford, in one place, if not to use one hall, and where, too, it is hoped by too sanguine Born bayite who s that has t en all Viceroyhimself as sel l f ahraevseidednocnee. canN believe that Calcutta, co mmanding the G anges an d Brahma o n willPr il es b i u den d c Presidencies t va ll e ys, with undeveloped Assam and Burmah to the east, will oe a theee the ev er cease to be both the political and commercial capital of India which it has g row n to be; but it is high poora, time, for its own sake, t hat Bom bay should be cleared of its miserable hovels and bungalows ; its filthy streets and disgraceful consequences ; its scandalous hotels, and utter a b s ence 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 class with fixed incomes are daily becoming poorer ; and the rich are becoming fast demora lized unhealthy speculation, SO that there is good reason to fear a terrible retribution. It should be known , in England that it is impossible for a married man to live in Bombay on a thousand a year ; that Englishmen are separating themselves from their wives and families for years, because they cannot afford to keep them in Bombay ; that there aro many subalterns, and even cap tains of her Majesty's army, who live like poor curates, 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 (1863-4) 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 officers, 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. Tile best men- are tempted away from official employment till the uncovenanted ser vice is deserted. 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 was 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 lets 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 la o Pa - LA sAtadzie gain. that-irkeNt /if the pa., eornpanies shares, at their present 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 are hollow, and make use of their knowledge to get out of tho 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 brewers,„!! and elsewhere. Metropolitan Fires. The official report of the fires that have occurred in London in the year 1864 has just been published. Such a document must always be interesting, and would be useful, were the warningsit conveys better heeded ; but, except for a short period after every great conflagration, the ever present peril amid which we live in this vast city is generally forgotten, and the precautions suggested by experience and even by common sense are neglected. 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 term " slightly damaged " applies to the larger number of 1,085. But these returns by no means 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, and wehave 10,000 cases of this class of accident in the year which by good luck had no consequences worth special notice. Taking the year through, the services of the establishment are called for once every five hours. The organisation of the Fire Brigade has been much improved within the last few years. The steam-engine has incontestably proved its supe riority over the hard-worked machine. Capt. Shaw states that it is no longer advisable to maintain horses to draw the old engines, which might as well be drawn, as they must be worked, by hand. The horse-power should be applied to the transport of light steam machines, and the hand-engine em ployed as auxiliary to its modern rival. The means of communication by telegraph with all the docks have been completed, and the special lines will soon be extended to the great railways, wharves, and warehouses, in which vastquantities 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 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. All the eligines 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 preirent 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 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 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 in 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 Niv as known. A rough wooden tube, tapered at the end, and stuck into holes in the iron pipe, is still tolerated, though other ei#ida Lace lotig 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. Naval and Military Intelligence. 4.- 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 route marching,the several brigades proceeding bydif - ferent roads converging upon Farnham, 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 Bricksbury 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 Royal Dragoons ; Capt. 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 ; Majorkßates 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 The last of the division had point:at a quarter-past 12, and the troo b pa ps u ss t rea e i d p ch .m ed . quarters bythe direct road to Aldershoti a embraced The march was rather a long one,thhaev plan p of tra ced possession distance of about 12 miles ; embraced c ampaigning possession of a point by the whole ainVailable troops at a given time illustrated a which was regarded with considerable interest by non-military spectators. the Staff and division at Aldershot have just taThe following changesk in en place : —Major and Bre vet-Col. the Hon.igh Clifford, unattached, to be I ls t u er- Gen. at headquarters, vi ce Assist and .-Quarter-3Brevet-Col. E. F. Pocklingt on, ap pointed a mem Majorber of the Council of Milita r y Ed u- Varren, 78th Hi g hl anders, cat i on; Capt. A. E. having joined, on appointment, as Aide-d e -C amp to Major-General Russell, C. 8., is taking on the s trength of the division ; Brevet-Maj or R . C . Stewart hav i ng ceased to perform the duties of Aide-de-Camp to Major-Gen. Russell, C. 8., is struck off the strength of the division. The Secretary of State for War has, with the con currence of the FieldMarshalCommanding-in-Chief, decided that the proportions of subaltern officers to IN E WSPAPE.R letrhnieeeoecenldaaiylle? iooennnconstruction circumstances o o r ffi ki e n e g r i pay r y ( shallt:v -----,- —V.) , ,. $.O, - ›..: ' t. - ilell :.,?..,,.L . • ‘,.. ~ , .;. .r . ..., k - trudowetnio t n he o p f ro P p e Ol. i ell1"- -, )4 #t ry 4 i . • - - --...z&-. prescribe the rank or proportion of ~,, - mg" )t - le offiee n rs ued an to d non-commissioned officers who shall accompany the working purposes o f di sc i pl i ne, a ques tion whichpaisrtlieli fotthr the dire c ti on of the general or h erofficer in command. Th e rates of working ot 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 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. 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 ; d epot Ist Battalion, sth Regiment, Capt. Pendar, C apt. N ewbolt, Lieut. Bradshaw, Lieut. Knox, E ns i gn Bingham, and Ensign Drew, will proceed to Woolwich on the 31st of January to join head -quarters; depot 2d Battalion sth Regi ment, Capt. Pocklington, Capt. Kekewich, Lieut. Richards, Lieut. Graeme, Lieut. Legge, and Ensign Carleton will proceed to Warner 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 Preston on the 31st of January. 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 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 Royal Engineers, selected to be employed in that operation. Unfortimately 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 Sun 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 be placed in the first instead of the third division of 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, Commander 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 th e o th er H ouse may pass a different resolution upon the same subject. Even, how ever, should both Houses agree upon one or other of they 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 itha: xhphe eel The nfphoatollit joutifto expectsa I) a whichte ei is have entitled e r t bh l i been e a sa always done with any wishes, requests, and resolutions f the House. But it cannot admit to those resolutions any further governing effect. (Sensation.) " Deputy SKENF,--After so interesting and important S. declaration I move the close of the sittingi d e mand for ex cessation the President read the following t, signed by Dr. ic The close of the sitting was carried,.bu previous to its planation at the hands of the Govenrna sage affairs rs the i n draftthe m m ber of Deputies de - Giskra, and 78 members :---‘ The C . a sir ddr es .e to ss c re a f ll er a r t i t n e g nt t i o on th t ,s o ,ei t have rendered by the constitution, o j kin est g y d 's oraof GovernmentGalicia rh f e the grounds which tiaosnaasnodo fparttheialresucoltsntinwuhat however, ,refrain, from may speedily cease." ex pressing the strong desire that these measures, even if aenxcehiceeeepsvgateiodryntahtlhemreeeiliPu. imposition cannot, o to n e e v ee e s r after the statements of thTehMisinTsstsearsgeuwpoans agreedhithert it hc. 13of statements thesee the patent satis fied s of this subject in the debate upon the a dd ress, thereby show ing that the house did not guaranteednte weeksedto considerbyhave see thoseelapsed F fie e d b. th 26 e ri ,l g B h 6 t l s . Several re solution of the ho use. It was informed some time ago that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to dress of th e L ower 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 tho insurrection in the kingdom of Poland is stifled, the prisons in Galicia mostly emptied by the sentences that have been passed, after 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. When does the Government of the Em peror, in conformity with sec. 13 of the imperial patent of Feb. 26, 1861, intend to lay before the assembled Reichs rath the reasons and results of the state of siege ordered in Galicia ? 2. What are the reasons for which the Emperor's Government still continues to impose the state of s iege in Galicia, and the exceptional measures connected there. with ?"