The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. An Admiralty order received at Chatham dock yard directs the officials at that establishment to re port as to the possibility of their building three new vessels in addition to the ironclad turret and other ships now in progress at that dockyard. The new vessels proposed to be laid down include a new de scription of covered deck corvette of 1,459 tons burden and 400 horse power, a twin-screw gun vessel, for mounting a couple of heavy guns, and of about 700 tons burden, with engines of 160 horse power, together with one or more composite gun boats, with wooden hulls and iron frames, of about 500 tons burden, 155 ft. in length, and fitted with engines of about 120 horse power. The report of the officials made to the Admiralty states that the proposed new vessels can be at once laid down and counnenced on the several vacant slips at Chatham dockyard, and that their construction can be pushed forward during the approaching year, without in terfering with the building of the Monarch, Her cules, and Blanche, now in progress. There are four building slips at Chatham dockyard at present quite empty, two of which have been converted into store places for the reception of the large quantities of ph te, angle, and T - iro n almost dail y arriving at the establishment from the several contractors. The dockyard and naval establishment clerks •at Woolwich and others of her Majesty's naval sta tions have resolved themselves into committees, for the purpose of memorialising the Board of Admi ralty to be pleased to introduce a fairer and more encouragingsystem of promotion to the upper grades of their departments than that generally practised hitherto. They complain that in the case of any vacancy occurring in the storekeeper's or other supe rior officer's berth it has been frequently filled up from Whitehall or Somerset-house to the detri ment of the officers of the respective yards well ac quainted with the duties, and whose emoluments are, moreover, inferior to those officers who are pro moted with injustice over their beads. Their lord ships have signified their intention of taking the subject into consideration. The whole of the branches in Woolwich arsenal were closed on Saturday, and business of every kind will be suspended until Thursday morning, with the exception of the engineer department, which has commenced a course of repairs required to a large portion of the machinery. The Commis sioners of Police have likewise ordered a proportion of the inspectors and constables on those days when the men will be absent from the general work to be granted alternate holidays. The cessation of work in Woolwich dockyard will terminate to-day. In consequence of some anonymous communication re lative to a Fenian outbreak threatened during the holidays, the police of the yard are ordered to re main strictly on the alert, night and day, without absenting themselves on Sundays, as permitted by the Commissioners' regulations, two-thirds of their body at a time in relief. Her Majesty's iron screw steamship Northumber land, 26, armour plated, 6,621 tons and 1,350 horse power, having been hauled out of the Victoria docks by the steamtugs Monkey and Bustler, [of Wool wich dockyard, and the Locust and Adder, of Sheer ness, yesterday went down the river to be moored for the night at Greenhithe in preparation for pro ceeding by the early tide to Sheerness to be pre pared for sea, and will ultimately go down to Devon port to join the Channel squadron. Capt. Robilliard, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Woolwich division, has been ordered to proceed on the 31st inst. to Derby to relieve Capt. Short on recruiting service, recalled at his own request. Capt. Graham left Woolwich yesterday to join her Ma jesty's ship Lion to take the command of the com pany of Royal Marines, vice Capt. Usher, super seded by court-martial verdict. Assistant-Com missary-General Swain is under orders to leave Woolwich on the 10th of Jan., his term of three years having expired. He will then proceed to St. Helena in charge, and relieve Commissary-General Uniacke, who is ordered to China. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 24. The ceremony of distributing the Crimean prizes among the boys of the Royal Hibernian Military School took place in the Park on Saturday afternoon. The prizes are given from a fund which was a surplus of £l,OOO that remained after the Crimean banquet of 1856. The day being very fine there was a numerous attendance of visitors. The Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorn ar rived in an open carriage drawn by six horses shortly after 2 o'clock, They were accompanied by Lord Strathnairn, the Ladies Georgiana, Albertha and Maud Hamilton, and Lords Frederick and Earnest Hamilton, Major Hayes, Major Burne, and attended by Captain Stewart, A. D. C. in waiting, and escorted by a troop of tho 9th Lancers. Col. Wynyard, commandant, read the report, from which it appears that there are seven prizes, value £3O, and 45 boys competed for them this year. There are 918 of all ranks. now serving in the army who were educated at this school, 53 more than in any former year. Of this total there are eight commis sioned officers, 15 enlisted schoolmaster; seven bandmasters, 153 non-commissioned offi cers of dif ferent grades ; the remainder being musicians, gun ners, sappers, privates, and boys, with characters extremely satisfactory generally. The Lord-Lieutenant delivered the following ad dress : _ _ " Lord Strathnairn, Colonel Wynyard, Ladies and Gentlemen,—lt gives me great pleasure to be present here on this interesting annual occasion of distributing the well deserved prizes earned by the pupils of this institution. I hardly know which presents a scene of the greatest interest, whether the healthy, happy boys full of life and hope in what their future career may bring forth, or whe ther those who, having lef t this hcenebf their youth, have returned in the vigour of manhood with the well-earned honours and distinctions of military service to take their part in this day's proceedings, or the much respected head and staff of this insti tution in their paternal care and interest in their numerous family here. I know well the priie and the pleasure they feel in the well-being and the good conduct of my young friends here, and I have had personally opportunities of in specting the admirable arrangements and regu lations which have been initiated under their care ; but to my young friends here, who are es pecially the heroes of the day, I would wish 'to ad dress a few words such as suggest themselves at the sight of so many who are the sons of soldiers, and who are, many of them, training for a soldier's life, and who are surrounded by many of the best tro phies of our army's glory, and by the presence of so many examples of what a soldier ought to be. The lessons you have learnt here are those which will bring comfort and success in your future career in a soldier's life. The habits of order and discipline, of perseverance and obedience to superiors, are those which lay the foundation of all military success. Without them talents and bravery are of little use ; but it is the conjunction of the latter with the for mer which makes the successful soldier. The great Duke of Wellington is reported to have said that the foundation of his winning the battle of Waterloo was laid in the play fields of Eton school. What he meant was, not that cricket and football are essen tial to the soldier, but that the habit of obedience to superiors, of courage and perseverance in not being discouraged, which he learnt there, laid the founda tion of that self-reliance and determination which, joined to his extraordinary talents, made him the first general of our age. I h ope you will all endea vour to follow that example, and that whatever you do you will endeavour to do it to y he at hest timeso think f your power. It is possible t hat you may the prescribed routine wearisome ; you ma y find the regulations of which you do not at the moment see the value irksome, but you will find that by acting in all such cases in obedience to the authorities over you you are doing the true and regular work of the soldier, and advancing as far as in each of you lies the militaryreputation of your country as much as in the more showy and daring exploits of the battle field. 1 have spoken hitherto of the peaceful side of your profession, and although as a civilian I cannot hope or even wish that your future career as young soldiers will be confined to peaceful objects, yet I may be permitted to hope that increasing civilisation will lessen the number of wars, as example has shown it has already shortened their duration. But I am sure of this, that, whatever your military life may be, and in whatever circum stances you may be placed, the mild and genial rule which you have learnt to respect here, and the recollection of those peaceful contests of merit and the prizes which you have earned from pre-eminence over your fellows will mark as bright spots in your memory, strongly to guide you in your future career, as better men, better soldiers, and, above all, better Christians." (Applause.) The boys then sang several songs, one of them entitled "No weight of years," being composed for the occasion, the words by Mr. W. G. Young, and the music by Mr. James Hill, with a trumpet and drum accompaniment. Having finally sung the National Anthem, three cheers were given by the boys for her Majesty the Queen, her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales, their distinguished visitors, &C. ; after which his Excellency and the Viceregal party took their departure. A person named James Byrne, formerly inspector of nuisances and a collector in the town of Carlow, has been arrested on a charge of Fenianism, and it is said documents of an important nature have been found on his person. In Meath, Thomas Masterton, who kept a boot and shoe warehouse, was arrested for the same cause and lodged in the county gaol at Trim. His house was searched, but nothing to criminate him was found. There are great rejoicings at Enniskillen on ac count of the coming of age of Viscount Cole, son of the Earl of Enniskillen. The town was illuminated on Friday night, and bonfires blazed on the sur rounding hills. There were similar rejoicings lately at Ballinasloe on the marriage of Viscount Dunlo, son of the Earl of Clancarty. It is all the same in the North and in the South of Ireland, the representatives of the old aristocratic houses, without distinction of creed or party, if they dwell in the country, and are just and kind as landlords, are almost idolised by their tenants and by the peasantry in general. Where discontent exists it is almost invariably the case that the landlord and his family are personally unknown, living out of the country, or not caring about the people ; some of them, perhaps, disgusted that certain social reforms which they dictated arbitrarily, without respect for old customs or prejudices, were not promptly carried out. EVENING. The police made a seizure of arms and a large quantity of ammunition to-day, at No. 2, West road, North Lotts. There were found rifles, ammunition, a large quantity of lead, bullets, and bullet-mould; ball cartridges, &c. No arrests were made. At Capel-street ',Police -office this day, Lord Langford, of Summer-hill, county of Meath, was brought before the magistrate charged with having in his possession, at the Broadstone Railway station, a double-barrelled gun and a quantity of ammunition, he being unlicensed to carry same in the Dublin district. His lordship was admitted to bail, but the gun was detained for the present. He had just arrived by train. 352 persons were brought up at the police-offices this morning for drunkenness and disorderly con duct. Mr. John M'Clintock, of Drumear, has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Louth. EARL GROSVENOR AND THE CHESHIRE VOLUNTEERS. The members of the Ist Cheshire Engineer Volunteers who had won prizes during the year received them, on Saturday, from Lady Constance Grosvenor, at Birkenhead. Earl Grosvenor ad dressed the volunteers on the occasion, and, when he came forward, was received with loud applause. He remarked that he came there with the greatest pleasure, because he felt that the whole county of Chester owed a deep debt of gratitude to the gentlemen of that neighbourhood for the manner in which they had come forward and started and supported the volunteer movement. He alluded especially to the part taken by Lieu tenant-Colonel King, and by their excellent mem ber Mr. Laird. (Applause.) The County Rifle Association might be said to have been originated in Birkenhead. It was well managed in the first in stance, and owing to the exertions of the gentlemen he had named, and of others who had supported them, it had become one of the most prosperous in the whole country. It had been successful in all its meetings, and owing to that fact, no doubt, and its good management, it had been supported by the whole of the people in the county of Chester ; and he was very glad to have that opportunity of paying his humble tribute to those gentlemen who had con ducted that association, and carried it out so well as Colonel King and those gentlemen who acted with him had. (Applause.) He mentioned this, because he felt that a great deal of the success of the volun teer movement in that county depended upon the success of the association, because they knew that unless the shooting was kept up, unless prizes were given, not only for attendance at drill, but for good shooting also, there would be great difficulty in keeping up the volunteer movement to that state of efficiency which they all hoped it would retain for many years to come. (Applause.) It was no doubt the fact that, owing to the nature of the arms, the volunteers 50 years ago could not hit a haystack 60 yards off, and consequently the movement died out. by H Siraviia Sidney greadan extract from a letter written to him Cotton, the reviewing officer at Ches ter in August last, in which that veteran officer ex pressed great satisfaction at the manner in which the volunteers acquitted themselves on the occasion, and urged the necessity of constant drill on the part of the various corps, the noble earl said he thought that letter would b e t . f ss act ory to those present, and to Mr. Laird and Colonel King, who always attended the reviews. They knew that volunteers could not be quite as efficient as the regular force, but in time of invasion they would be re a dy for any practical purpose. As to the num ber of effi c ients in the the egineer Corps, he only same of the c or p s wished he could say h with which he was connected in London. But, however this was, he believed the Ist Cheshire to be the only corps in the country where there were no non-efficients. With regard to the question of money he did not know what the views of the pre sent Government were, but he believed if any pres sure had been put upon the Secretary of War in the late Government, he was quite ready to consider the question of an augmentation of the grant. He thought if the volunteers throughout the country believed they ought to have an increase in the capi tation grant, there could be no objection to it if re presentations were made to the Government. At the present time there were two great questions be fore the country—defence and reform. He was not going to enter into either of those topics; certainly not the latter one. (A laugh.) He thought it only reasonable that the volunteers should be exempt from the ballot for the militia. With regard to reform, he was not going to enter into that then, but he did not know why volunteers should not have votes. (Hear, hear.) Being a volunteer ought to be a good qualification for a vote. (Applause.) He was not going to say anything more about that, but perhaps the country would hear a great deal more about it before the question was settled. He knew that some years ago it was proposed that every soldier and militiaman should have a vote ; but that fell to the ground, and not without some reason. He cordially wished them success in the very pa triotic duty in which they were engaged. The English public had on all occasions given every en couragement to the force, and he only hoped that that encouragement would be continued 'by the public who were not volunteers. He thought there was a from a given. copper guarantee for that in the p r i ze s w hi c h were presente d on such occasions a s th e presen t , w h en everyt hi ng, kettle to a meersc h aum p i pe an d b oots, was Lle again wished them every success, and "A merry Christmas and happy New Y ear ." (Loud applause.) The distribution of prize 3 was then proceeded with, the various articles being handed to the win ners by Lady Constance Grosvenor. THE SUN, LONLON, TUESOAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1866. Kir ,cellan News. NArKL NEWS FROM NORTH AMERICA.— A private letter :from Halifax states :—" The Duncan, flag ship of Admiral Sir James Hope, is alongside the dockya rd, and will remain there all the winter until she sail's for Bermuda in February, on her way to England. The Wolverine came alongside also, and was preparing to house in for the winter when she suddenly received orders to sail next morning, her destination being unknown. Her captain received sealed orders, to be opened in a given latitude. I hear that she went south, and some parcels intended for her were sent to Port Royal, Jamaica. The Niger was ordered south, but as the Wolverine was sent away so unexpectedly she (Niger) is to remain at Halifax for the winter, with the Cordelia and Duncan." The New York Tribune gives " The Case in a Nut-shell." The Cincinnati Gazette has a corre spondent travelling in Arkansas, who writes that— " Arkansas is not a desirable State at present ; but 25 years of freedom will put a new face on the country, and investments of capital may now be made here to fine advantage. Great numbers of the old planters must sell, and others, disgusted with freedom, are determined to get away. Planta tions of 500 to 5,000 acres are offered at low figures. One man below Pine Bluff, late a private soldier in the 15th Illinois Infantry, has made a handsome fortune since the close of the war. He came South without a dollar, and now owns 1,100 acres of the finest Arkansas River bottom. He has produced this year over 1,000 bales of cotton. He says he has not found the slightest difficulty in procuring all the labour he has needed. He has paid the freed men good wages, rewarded the first-class hands with extra pay, paid promptly, and fed well. He says that many planters are obliged to send every year to distant places for hands, because they oppress and defraud their labourers, who cannot, of course, be induced to remain with them the second year." We venture to say that there are a hundred thousand experiences that corroborate this planter's,. and not one that contradicts it. Good wages, good treat ment, good supervision, will secure labour in abun dance, white or black ; while those who grind the faces of the poor will always find them unservice able. Just now labour is more plentiful than em ployment; and whoever can and will pay for work can get it, North or South, black or white. During the late war West Virginia contributed 15,376 native born and 1,692 foreign soldiers to the National Army. The papers of Northern Texas speak of the emigrant trains constantly passing through the country toward the interior of Texas. They are said to be mostly Mississippians. Fort Rawlings, just below Vicksburgh, is to be demolished, by order of Gen. Grant. It took 2,000 men 60 days to erect the works. On the recent rise in the Ohio river, 78 barges and 47 boats, carrying 1,830,000 tons of coal, passed down to Cincinnati. The report of Adjutant-General Cowan, of Ohio, shows that the State has furnished 310,000 troops, of all arms and terms of service, during the war, being 6,000 in excess of all calls, and that number to her credit on the next war. The Vermont Legislature has passed a bill, dis franchising utterly all deserters from the United States army or navy during the war, or all who voluntarily entered the rebel service. The bill passed by a large majority. Professor Marsh of Yale College pronounces the fossils recently found at Cohoes, N.Y., the bones of a female mastodon, of full growth, though compa ratively young, and says that the animal must have existed over 10,000 years ago. The office of the National Express, in Wheeling, has been sold out for the benefit of the creditors. The company has become totally insolvent. It was a Southern concern, and its fate is typical of Southern business in general. A new island is forming in the Missouri River opposite St. Joseph, and two citizens have built a shanty on it in order to secure the first claim to entry when the Government places it in the market. TILE GIIOIVTII OF NEW YORK.—At a meeting of the New York Historical Society, the Rev. Dr. Osgood of that city read a very interesting paper showing the growth of the city since the beginning of the present century. Some of the more interesting items are as follows : In 1801 the city contained about the same popu lation as • Providence, R. 1., and extended up as far as Anthony-street. Taxes were then about one-half of one per cent. on the valuation of the property of the city. A genteel house could be rented for $2OO per year, and a genteel family could live on $750 per annum, when it now took them $6,000 to $lO,OOO. The chief characteristic of New York then, as now, was its business enterprise. In literature it was behind Philadelphia and Boston, or even Charleston, South Carolina. But it was busi ness that gave the city its empire and draws litera ture in it. train. New York owed to Robert Ful ton and De Witt Clinton more of its imperial posi tion than to men of science or letters. Who could estimate what the steam-engine had done for civili sation and for the organisation of liberty on this continent ? Old New York culminated in 1825 by the completion of the Erie Canal. It now became the mother of the nation—the national city. In a quarter of a century more it became cosmopolitan, European, and one of the principal cities of the world. In 1801 the taxation amounted to $17,000 ; now it amounts to $17,000,000. The city has now 50,000 dwellings. Her manufactured products amounted in 1865 to $159,000,000, or nearly one eleventh of the entire manufactures of the country. Her receipts from customs last year were over $100,000,000. These facts show the imperial wealth and power of New York. With the usual rate of increase her population in 1900 will reach 4,000,000 souls. The speaker gave some statistics gathered from the unpublished census of 1865, from which it appears that there are in the city two and a half regiments of boilermakers, four regiments of but chers, one and a half regiments of brokers, three regiments of shoemakers, four and a half regiments of eartmen, seventeen and a half regiments of clerks, half a regiment of clergymen, nine and a half regi ments of dressmakers, one regiment of engineers, three and a half regiments of laundresses, one and ,a half regiments of lawyers, one regiment of grocers, six regiments of merchants, three regiments of me chanics, one regiment of musicians, one and a half regiments of physicians, 33 regiments of servants, 10 regiments of tailors, one regiment of ship car penters, &c., and 100,000 school children. IMPORTANT DECISION CONCERNING INCOMES.— AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT FOR FARMERS.— Judge Guiles, in the United States circuit court at Baltimore, delivered the following important deci sion in the case of Oden Bowie against G. W. Sands, t n formerly collector of i n t erna l revenue i n that c i ty : Tfacts66an and 1864, this pad case the showseeehe x that the he s plaintiff, a t t on the products of hi s f arm for in of 18the year 1865 and 1863, although said productions remained unsold ; that said products wer e so ld i n 1866, and that the assessors in 1865 included the proceeds of said sale with the income of the plaintiff for the year 1864, and the collector required him to pay the income tax on the same, which the plaintiff did under pro test ; that in estimating the plaintiff's income for the year 1864, the assessor included in said income the value of the agricultural products consumed by the plaintiff's family in said year. I am of opinion that, in the first question, the collector was wrong ; that the tax on income authorised to be levied and collected by the Act passed March 3, 1865, was only upon the products of the plaintiff's farm for the year ending on the 31st of December, 1864, and for such of those products of that year only as should be sold or used by the plaintiff during that year, and did not authorise a tax on the products of the plaintiff's farm for any previous years unsold and on hand at the close of those years, and so too in 1864. Upon the second question I think the collec tor was right. The tax imposed by the Act of 1864, as by the previous acts, was a tax on the gross receipts or gains of a man during the preced ing year, and no deductions are to be made, except those specially authorised in said act. I construe the 117 section in connection with the 116, as if it read, 'All other vegetables or other production, being the growth of produce of the estate of such !person sold, not including any part thereof unsold and on hand during the year next preceding the 31st December, until the same shall be sold,' and con strue the word ' or' as ' and,' to further the evident intention of Congress, and to fully carry into effect the provision of the 116th section. I, therefore, direct judgment to be entered for the plaintiff for the sum of $2,013, with interest from October 19, 1865, and costs." The cases of the other parties, ten or eleven in number, instituting like proceedings, were deferred until Saturday next, at which time I it is expected that the counsel on both sides will make known their intention, whether to abide the above decision, or take an appeal to the supreme court. The decision is regarded as one of much importance, and if the internal revenue bureau agrees with the court in its interpretation of the Act, and does not appeal to the supreme court, it will neces sarily require the return to a considerable number of persons of a large amount of money, which they have paid for taxes on their incomes. MUZZLE LOADERS, BREECH-LOADERS, AND RE PEATERS.--Assuming that a muzzle-loading gun can be loaded and fired in sixty seconds, fifty-nine se conds of that time are required to load. Theproblem then is how to save this lost fifty-nine seconds of time out of the sixty. Obviously by reducing the number of motions. If a muzzle-loading gun take sixty motions or the equivalent to load it, then a gun that has twelve motions can be loaded five times as fast, and will reduce the lost time to eleven seconds, or one that requires but six motions can be loaded ten times as fast, and so on. Hence it is evident to judge of the value of any gun is simply to know the number of motions required to load it. Let us illustrate this. The celebrated Prussian needle-gun requires twelve motions to load it, and can be loaded and fired five times in a minute, which reduces the time lost from fifty-nine to eleven seconds. The best American single breech-loaders are operated in six motions, and can be loaded and fired ten times in a minute, thus reducing the lost time to five seconds. The best American maga zine or repeating guns are operated in two motions, and can be loaded and fired thirty times in a minute, thus reducing the time lost in loading from fifty nine to one second. In other words a Prussian needle-gun is five times as effective as a muzzle loader, the best American single loaders are ten times as effective, and the best American repeater is thirty times as effective ; or again, a repeating arm is six times as efficient as a Prussian needle-gun and three times as efficient as the best single breech loaders. Another advantage that repeaters possess is that in an emergency, when suddenly attacked by an overwhelming force, they may be used to the extent of the charges in the magazine (fifteen, more or less) at the rate of sixty shots per minute. —New York Evening Post. The Ohio Penitentiary has now 882 convicts confined within its walls, being 150 more tban this time last year. There has been a steady increase in the number of inmates of the institution since the close of the war. AMERICAN NEGRO SOLDIERS.-It appears that the War Department have ascertained that there have been 169,624 coloured men enlisted in the United States' service. Of these 20,236 have been discharged, principally on account of physical disa bility; 31,866 died while in the service ; 14,887 de serted ; 1,514 have been killed in action, and 1,344 were reported after engagements as missing. —New York: 7imes. Freemasonry was introduced into America in 1730. The Lynchburg and Danville Railroad Company has been organised by electing Colonel W. S. Black ford chief engineer, and E. S. Hallet treasurer. The Navy Register for 1867 will show that of six hundred vessels in the navy at the close of the war there are now but 294, mounting 2,563 guns. Beds of verd antique have been discovered in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The well-known yacht Young America has been sold to a Savannah man for a pilot boat. The use of a wire tiller-rope is stated to be the principal reason why there was not a terrible loss of life in the recent burning of the steamer Von Phul, on the lower Mississippi. The usual tiller-rope would soon have been burned off, and the boat have become unmanageable. The city authorities of Boston have accepted the design of Mr. Billings for a monument to be erected in that city to the memory of the soldiers of the city who lost their lives in the war. It will be an obelisk 120 feet high, built of Concord granite, sur mounted by an appropriate figure, and placed on Flagstaff -hill. . The Catholic Bishop of Savannah recommends the foundation of schools for the education of priests for the freedmen. There are 336,616 white males of full age in Indiana. A whale, sixty feet in length, was recently washed ashore at Rockaway Beach. From the official records it appears that during the war 45,000 Federal prisoners died in the South, and 26,436 Confederate prisoners died in the North. A man having died of delirium tremens in Lewis burg, Ohio, his wife brought suit against the two persons who had sold him the liquor, and recovered damages. revenue, the tariff, &c., have hardly been touched upon as yet, though somebody has tried we believe to introduce a bill repealing the 5 per cent. tax on manu factures, and to reduce the tax on some other in terests. But it is just as well to wait for the report of the special commissioner on these subjects, Mr. David A. Wells, which will be ready about the middle of the month, and if his suggestions are fol lowed Congress will be much more likely to go right than if it should attempt to legislate for all the different interests that will besiege it. The appointment thus early, however, of a committee on the part of the House to investigate internal reve nue frauds, especially in regard to distilled spirits, cigars, and tobacco, is a move in the right direction. Several new Senators were present and took their seats on Monday, among them Messrs. Cattell and Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, the former recently elected and the latter appointed by the Gover nor, and George IL Fogg of New Hamp shire, appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Clark. Mr. Johnson of Maryland attempted to offer the credentials of the two Senators elect from Texas, but they were promptly ordered to lay on the table. General J. M. Thayer and T. W. Tipton, Senators elect from Nebraska, have arrived, bringing the new State Constitution, and the question of admitting Ne braska as a State will speedily come up. In the arrangement of the Senate committees, Messrs. Doolittle, Cowan, Dixon, and Norton have been placed at the foot of their respective committees, and Cowan is struck off from the finance committee entirely, and the place given to Cattell of New Jersey. Very naturally these gentlemen feel their degradation, but they have the comforting assur i ance that they brought it upon themselves. Three members of the house elect from Tennessee, who were not present at the last session, are on hand now, Samuel M. Arnell, James T. Campbell, and Isaac R. Hawkins. Mr. Arnell is the only Repub lican among them, and his seat is contested by Mr. Cooper.—Spring field Republican. imummumaimi Proceedings of Congress. In the Senate Mr. Sumner made an ineffectual at tempt the first day of the Session to pass the Bill that went through the House at the last Session, establish ing impartial suffrage in the federal district. He failed in this, but this is one of the things that will be pushed till it is carried, which will probably be very soon. Mr. Sumner has also introduced a series of resolutions asserting the right of Congress over re construction, denying the right of the lately rebel lious States to pass upon constitutional amend ments, and declaring that the interference of the President in the reconstruction business partakes of the nature of usurpation. Mr. Wade urged to take • • up the joint resolution rendering the President in eligible for a re-election, and spoke of the growing danger of giving one man a long lease of power ; but the resolution was referred to a committee with out action. The upper branch has adopted a reso lution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to money paid out in the district for advertising, and intended to show whether the President has been spending money illegally ; but has so far refused to pass the resolution calling for information about Mexican affairs. The caucus of Republican members of the House, last week Saturday night, was intensely Radical in its talk, but did not amount to anything in its action. Another caucus, Wednesday evening of this week, was more largely attended, and the course it is proposed to take marked out. A bill was resolved upon instruct ing the clerk not to place upon the roll of a new Congress the names of members from States not represented in the Congress preceding, and provid ing that no electoral votes shall be counted from those States not represented in Congress ; also another remedying the defect in the law that may prevent any State from canvassing the votes for elections for President and Vice - President ; changing the time of the first meeting of each Congress to the 4th of March, so that there will be no interregnum, with the President left to work his own sweet will ; and it was also resolved that committees should investigate the New Or leans riots ; the collection of taxes and the sale of abandoned and confiscated lands in the rebel States, and other irregular proceedings at the South. The members of Congress evidehtly feel the effects of their recent indorsement by the people, and do not intend to have any compromise with the President. There is talk enough about impeach ment, though everybody is careful to say that he does not intend to move impeachment for anything the President is known to have done as yet. Mr. Boutwell, of this State, makes the most damaging charge against the President so far that he has known for months where John H. Surratt has been and failed to arrest him. Others lay the blame upon the Secretary of War ; but as Congress is likely to order an investigation, and Surratt has really been arrested at last, we shall probably know more about the case presently than we do now. It will be seen that nearly all the action of Congress thus far relates to reconstruction and the contest with the President ; the great questions of internal Shall Women Vote ? Most men dislike the very sound of the words "women's rights," which is proof presumptive that they ought to be obliged to hear them. No parti sanship, social, political, or theological, which fret fully shrinks from full and open discussion of its own merits, can escape the suspicion of unsoundness or injustice. It is true that a great many men hate a given subject merely because they hate the trouble of thinking about it ; but their moral atti tude is not much better than that of those who con. ceive that by simply shutting their ears to argument they will be able to keep something which they have no right to withhold. The question of women's rights can never be tided over by either of these expedients any more than the question of aboli tion was. Whatever our individual opinions, it is the part of wisdom to strive rather to see the future as it will be than as we would have it to be. Emancipation was not prevented by the fact that we were able to laugh at some of its advocates because they had long hair, ate brown bread, or talked through their noses; and women's rights, whatever the phrase may cover, will hardly be materially retarded because some of the women who are brave enough to come forward and claim them have corkscrew curls, red noses, squeaky voices, or other attributes which make them to un feeling eyes appear ridiculous. The subject of women's rights will have to be taken up sooner or later in this country, and dealt with seriously, thoroughly, and justly. We cannot, if we would, escape it. Conventional thinkers, preachers, and presses will, of course, hold out against the discus sion, and will employ alternately the weapons of ridicule, neglect, and persecution to stifle and extir pate it. But this will be of little avail. The agita tion has been commenced ; it is carried on in public meetings, of which we get reports more or less ab surd, but always indicative of progress ; it is advo cated by some very thoughtful heads and by some very able pens, and it is the subject of anxious con sideration by many a fireside in thousands of little nooks and corners all over the land. We may as well make up our minds first as last that the women's rights question can neither be crushed out nor laughed down. Can it be argued down? We cannot tell ; but we may be very sure that, if put down at all, it will be by this means, and not by any other. Now, it is extremely difficult to find arguments which can not readily be disposed of as frivolous and vexatious against granting women the suffrage. Whether it be a right or a privilege, why should educated and in telligent American ladies be debarred from that which the hod-carrier who visits Biddy in her kitchen now enjoys, or which Sambo, who cleans the boots, is to have next year ? Is it because the hod-carrier and Sambo are better judges of the principles of political economy, or because their moral sense is so much nicer—so sensitively superior —that they are more likely to wield their power for the public bene fit ? These questions are manifestly absurd and un answerable. The truth is, there are a great many weighty reasons against manhood suffrage; but man hood suffrage once conceded, it is next to impossible to find valid reasons against universal suffrage. When we think of the unwashed and degraded mob, in all sections and of all colours and odours, now and here after to control the policy and destiny of this mag nificent country, and remember the millions of re fined and thoughtful wonaen who are absolutely with out voice in the matter, it is idle to assume that our system is what it should be or what it might be. We claim to be in some sort the organ of the unrepre sented classes, and, so far as any efforts of ours can cause this much ridiculed and most important topic to be gravely investigated and considered, we are well disposed to give them. The arguments of the lamented Mrs. John Stuart Mill, who was scarcely less gifted than is her illustrious husband, and which may be found in the collection of his miscellaneous writings, deserve, in this connection, to receive pro found attention. It may well happen, after all said and done, that the best corrective for the evils of ultra-extensive suffrage may be found in the admis sion of an element which has other good reasons to recommend it. The objections so often urged respect ing dangers to domestic tranquillity and the unfe minine surroundings of the polling-booth, which would militate against obvious advantages, are in a considerable degree superficial, and, probably quite surmountable; and the plea of unfitness may surely be met by the consideration, that it would scarcely be possible to find so many women intellec tually or morally disqualified as there are now men in the country who cast votes without challenge. If the best form of human government is adjudged to be that which nearest approaches the type of the divine, the feminine complement can assuredly be shown to be essential to its unity and perfection. The justice of the ideal man. tempered by the mercy of the ideal woman must compose something higher than either constituent without the other can be hoped to attain. We cannot justly affirm that cruelty, passion, dishonesty, or any of the worst products of either the tyrant spirit or• the mob spirit are more likely to exist in the tender sex than the other. Fe male sovereigns have notoriously been above the aver age, both in wisdom and clemency, and why women should collectively be worse than they are indivi dually it is noteasytopercelve. A nation which tole rates polygamy is in no fair position to refuse to at least listen to arguments in. behalf of female suffrage. Whatever evils might a'eis e from its concession, we have no fear that senchng from among their own sex representatives who. should be prototypes of the blacklegs and pugilists. sent by the other would be among the number. Even a Congress half com posed of women, visionary and absurd as such a thing may at first sk flit appear, would not, to our thinking, be either less upright or less dignified than those to which we have unhappily been accus tomed. We have riot managed so remarkably well as to justify our re fusal to give the friends of female suffrage a respect r Aill hearing. Let them have a fair field, then, and- their countrymen are so ungal lant as to insist won it—no favour. We cannot afford to forget all our late experience, and stranger things have happened than would be the spectacle five years hellets of the whilom bitterest foes of feminine enfrani chisement coquetting for an alliance with the female vote.—The Round Table. The course of ez change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight :about 1091 per cent. At this rate there is no profit On theiihrpOrtatlo4 of gold 40011 tllO United, States SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—If there be one English institution which Englishmen regard with a greater traditional pride than another, it is our judicial system. The House of Commonsitself has its detractors; local statesman ship ceases to inspire the same confidenp as it once did ; nor are there wanting indications of a grow ing desire for State interference, in more than one quarter, to the prejudice of individual liberty. The administration of justice is almost the only function of Government which has not been sub jected of late to this sacrilegious criticism, and upon which national self-complacency may still be indulged without reserve. With most of our countrymen who have never gone to law, it is a fixed idea that our legal machinery, with all its de fects, works as well as any legal machinery can be expected to do. The expense, the delays, and the glorious uncertainty of law have passed into a pro verb—but very few people have been audacious enough to surmise that such evils are due in a very great degree, to causes within our own control, and that we have probably more is learn from our neighbours on this subject than on any other. The consequence is that the law reforms, of all kinds, excite less interest in the popular branch of the Le gislature than measures of infinitely less import ance, and that grievances incident to litigation are tolerated by the public with a patience otherwise inexplicable. Perhaps the most conspicuous, and certainly the most remediable, of these grievances is the difficulty of getting the simplest cause tried. within a definite or reasonable time. There was, at least, some excuse for the duration of Chancery suits in the good old days of Lord Eldon, for the questions involved in these suits are often most complicated, the parties concerned in them are very numerous, and the steps to be taken for the protec tion of various interests are of such a nature as to require many successive applications to the Court. In ordinary actions at law there are no difficulties of this kind. All the pleadings have been pre viously conducted on paper; the matter in dispute has been thus reduced to one or two plain issues of fact ; the counsel on either side have been engaged, and the witnesses summoned for a given day ; there are no other parties to be consulted ; and the case might be decided in a very few hours, to the relief of both the litigants ; yet, in very many instances, it is adjourned to the next assizes or sittings, unless this grievous hardship be anticipated by a mutual arrangement or an all but compulsory reference to arbitration. In any of these events, the money spent in counsel's fees and the payment of witnesses is absolutely thrown away, while in the event of an adjournment or an arbitration the and happy suitor is taxed over again in order to obtain the redress which is his lawful right, but which the Court has virtually denied him. A short paragraph which appeared in our Law Report yesterday will show that we have not exaggerated the magnitude of this injustice. It there appears that out of 153 special jury causes and 143 common jury causes entered for trial at the last Guildhall sittings but 50 in all were tried, 75 having been withdrawn, 53 having been made remanets by the parties, and nearly 100 having been " left untried." In other words, little more than one-sixth of the business set down on the cause list was actually transacted, while no less than one-third was postponed for want of time. Of the remaining half, the 53 re manets evidently belong, for the most part, to the same category, since it rarely happens that a cause stands over on the application of the parties, except where there is little chance of its being fairly tried. Even the 75 cases withdrawn do not all represent voluntary settlements by amicable mediation, for, as our reporter truly observes, such arrangements are often forced upon unwilling suitors " by sheer despair of ever coming on in order for trial." Yet two judges have been working assiduously early and late to despatch their hopeless task, and " even those who have been holding winter assizes have been pressed into the service of the public at the Guild hall sittings the moment they have returned from the country." When we consider the amount of incon venience and pecuniary loss entailed on the mercan tile community by such a result as this we can only marvel at their long-suffering. It is not merely that all the expense and anxiety of litigation is incurred twice over when the trial of an action is adjourned, but that in the meantime engagements of the greatest importance may be kept in abeyance, and undertakings of urgent necessity may be reduced to a standstill. Let us suppose, for example, that an action is brought against A for £20,000 or £30,000, held by him as agent of B, and claimed by C. So long as it remains to be determined whether the sum in question is really due to C (the plaintiff), A (the defendant) is not only placed in a hostile relation to him, but must decline, in self-defence, to make any further payments on account of his principal or cor respondent B. It is easy to imagine circumstances under which almost any present sacrifice would be preferable to indefinite suspense, and in Which a firm might wisely submit to be wronged once for all, rather than be righted by so lingering a process. Now, the question is why all this injury should be inflicted on merchants and other classes, both in London and the country, if it could be prevented by so obvious an expedient as au increase in the number of the Judges. No one ventures to allege that more work can possibly be done by the indivi dual members of the present Bench. There are no public servants of equal rank, except a very few Cabinet Ministers, whose labours can be compared to theirs, and there are few men so advanced in life who would be capable of the sustained efforts day after day which are imperatively required of them. Others who fill high offices can often choose their own times for exertion, can delegate some things to deputies, and can slur over things without being called to account. A Judge lives wholly in public ; from morning to night his every word and act is exposed to the watchful scrutiny of an acute pro fession and the ordinary routine of his duties is such as to keep his faculties at their utmost stretch. The mode in which these duties are discharged is, upon the whole, admirable, and fully deserves the respect which is sometimes transferred, with less justice, from the persons to the system. It is no fault of our Judges that prompt justice is not and cannot be administered in our superior Civil Courts ; it is the fault of the Government and the Legislature. We have not increased our judicial staff in propor tion, or in anything like proportion, to the in crease of population, wealth, and litigation. If 12 judges were not too many some time ago, 15 are too few now, unless, indeed, some radical change be made in procedure and practice. It has often been urged that if the most difficult Chancery suits can be decided to the satisfaction of the bar and the public by a single Vice-Chancellor, many of the points which come before a Court of Common Law in bane might be determined by a single judge. How far this could be done, and how much power might be thus economised, is a consideration for the judges themselves and for those who practise before them. For our own part, we greatly doubt whether any advantage gained in this manner will more than compensate for the additional business which addi tional facilities for disposing of business seldom fail to create. If this be so, we shall still need more judges, and although objections to this proposal are said to be entertained, we have never seen or heard them specified, and have yet to learn their nature. POST.—Over the hush of suspended business, over the strifes of men and nations, over the discords of human passions and the pangs of human suffering, over all that is fleeting, frail, and temporal, rings out once more the happy message of the Christmas bells. For a brief day the voice of things unseen and eternal calls the thoughts of men to the higher powers and privileges of their nature, and reminds them that there is an immortal as well as a mortal side to the destiny of mankind. If sometimes clouds of sorrow hang thick and dark over the world, and compel us to own that the dispensation under which we live is a mystery, there are other times when the balance is rectified by the precious insight into the future prospects of our race given by the historical facts which have gone before. In these we trace the spiritual laws which guide our being, and read—dimly indeed, but not uncertainly—the principle of the Divine dealings with men. Christ mas day is one of these. The consent of Christen dom has made it a day of joy, as being the birthday of Christianity. All that is distinctive in the Christian system starts from this day. The initial point of that Faith which all the Churches, Eastern or Western, have held for nearly twenty centuries is built upon the Incarnation of the Son of God. Get rid of that central fact, and the doc trines circling round it, and Christianity is at an end. Then either the Jewish dispensation is yet in force, or we are referred back to the systems of the ancient philosophers. If neither of these content us we are cast loose upon an unlimited ocean of speculation, and left, each one for himself, to make what conclusions we can ont of the mysteries and problems that lie around us. Certainly if Chris tianity be not true no other system yet known is, and the world has yet to discover who and what we are, whence we came, why we live at all, why we die, and what—if anything —comes after death. In fact, the difficulties of rejecting Christianity are so great that even those least disposed to accept it as a practical rule of life are fain to admit its facts and submit to its consequences, rather than encoun ter the far greater difficulties which must attend any attempt to construct a moral system out of the results of imperfectly known sciences. Ethnology, anthropology, biology, metaphysics, contribute their share towards unravelling the tangled web in which the human condition is involved, but they do nothing to help us towards making the best of the three score years and ten within which we have not only to discover and accept, but also to cultivate, utilise, and enjoy the true conditions of life. That any of these sciences when 'they come to be thoroughly known—as doubtless in future years they will be—will oppose themselves in any powerful way to the great facts and doctrines of Christianity, we do nut believe. Beyond question the time will come when the facts of revealed religion will be found to square exactly with the facts of ascertained science, and when the ethics of the Gospel will be accepted with gratitude by the most accomplishol of inticp,udent inquirers and moralists. But that time has not yet come. Meanwhile there is a conflict as to what is truth, arising not so muc'a out of a desire to find diffi culties in Christianity, as out of a reluctance not to face apparent difficulties presented by the progress of science. In such a conflict there will always be some enthusiasts who, overflowing with zeal but short of patience, will take one side or the other with an energy that shows no mercy and pardons no hesitation. But the greater and deeper men can afford to wait. They see the case to be this :—On the one hand is the revealed system of Christianity complete, admitting no discoveries, no developments, but perfectly independent of human wisdom, re vealed ab extra, and concluded once and for all. On the other hand, a number of sciences, each of great importance and utility, but thoroughly inductive, and purely dependent for their discovery, elucida tion, and completeness upon the achievements of the mind of man, at present only in progress, and wholly unfinished either as regards their facts or theories. No wonder, then, that wise men prefer to accept the fully revealed Christianity in preference to the conclusions of sciences yet imperfectly known, and theories necessarily crude and narrow. On the whole, we may be thankful for the heritage be queathed us by the past, and for the great fact whereof this glad day is the commemoration. Year by year, since the day when New Testament history begins, Christians have celebrated Christmas. The celebration has wound itself round their hearts, worked itself into their habits, and associated itself with their best affections. Of late years, since the revival of the Church Arts, it has become identified with much of sentiment and beauty, besides devo tion. To decorate our churches with expressive sym bols, to beautify the services with all the appliances of music, to blend nature and art in one expression of adoration and gratitude, are now amongst the accepted modes of observing Christmas. Every such act is a witness for the truth in these days of trial and conflict, and a protest against the schools of Strauss and Renan. May the time never come when the growth of infidelity shall have deprived weary sinking hamau nature of one of its greatest helps and consolations—that, namely, of knowing that the Son of God was manifest in the flesh, and, being manifested, and becoming one with us, has enhanced the dignity of human nature by identifying it with his own , an d a tt ac hi ng to it privileges and powers which, if well used, must help on the best hopes of our race in this life and the next. Almost every year has had its own controversy, and Christmas has generally found some ecclesiastical suit pending iu the court of final appeal. This year is no exception. In other years it has been some phase of Rationalism, like that of the " Essays and Reviews," or Colenso ; this time it is Ritualism. While all through the Church the facts and doc trines of the day are universally admitted and celebrated, the mode of celebration will be enor mously varied. In some, the appointed service will be sung within walls resplendent with elabo rate and costly decoration, by priests in vest ments of ancient pattern and gorgeous colour, amidst clouds of perfumed incense, and with pros trations and genuflexions of studied precision. In others, the decorations will be less elaborate, the vestments no other than are ordinarily worn by officiating clergy, and there will be no prostrations and no incense. In some, the broad line of demar cation between the Roman and the Anglican cere monial will almost disappear ; in others, it will be traced as clearly as it could have been in the days of Elizabeth ; while a few still rejoice in the bold sterility of the Georgian era. Out of this varying standard of ceremonial within the Church of Eng land a great controversy has arisen,and is still run ning high. Our counsel is to let it have full run. Like other controversies, it will expend itself in due time, and reason, law, and common sense will bring all prudent people safely through it. At all events, let there be a truce to-day. In terra pax is the motto of Christians. Let us all heed it ; let it hush the jar of family discord, still the voice of a nger, quiet the spirit of the discontented, revive the hope of the desponding, and bring comfort to all sorts and conditions of men. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCIIESTER—DEc. 22. A very short supply of wheat at market, which sold at is per qr advance. Barley in better demand, and brought is more money. Other grain was quiet, with no material change in value. Wheat, white f2s 70s Beans, Mazagan......3Bs 405 red 605 66s Middle and small ._443 484 Barley . l2s 565 Peas, white 385 125 Oats ....... ..... ...—s s grey • ••365 125 CHELMSFORD-Dm. 21. At the market to-day wheat was in short supply, and the trade was active, prices rising is on former terms. Barley receded is por quarter, except best sorts. Beans and peas is cheaper. Oats dull. Wheat, old white....s2s Ms Peas, Partridge 41s 43s new 5 a 67s White "328 368 old red 50s 59s Riling a —6 • new. s)s 588 bun 38 8 40s Barley.... 26s 338 ditlo, new....—s — 0 Chevalier —s —s Beans, Tick, 01d......40s 4 55 tirind.ng ess 30s new....38s 4 25 Malt 58s tOs Harrow I. iCkS.42S 4 Chevalier 6us 82i Oats 2ls 27s neW7::io; 948 31azagan •as 43d GRANTHAM-DEC. 22. Old white wheat, 58s to 61s; old red, 54s to 58s; new white, 54s to 58s ; new red, 49s to Ms per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 38s to 455 per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 34s per, 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new , 25 a t o 30 s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; new, 39s to 46s per 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. NORTHAMPTON-DEC. 22. New white wheat, 56s to 60s; new red, 50s to 56s ; old white, 58s to 625; old red, 56s to 59s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 42s to Ms per qr. ; grinding, 29s to 36s per 3 0 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s ; new, 23s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 458 per 38 stone. Peas. 38s to 42s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—DEC. 21. The attendance at the corn market to-day was mode rate, and there was still little business doing, prices tend ing downwards. White wheat 52s Od to 60s 0d) Red wheat 48s Od to 55s Odi- 621 b ifl b u shel. Potato oats 24s Od to 26s Od t A — —V bushel. 23s 6d to 25s Od "' um Bere 31s Od to 32s 6d t , ' 3 lb ? bushel. Barley 32s Od to 33 s Od) Oatmeal 20s 6cl to 21s 6d 11 boll of 28 0 ib• Common oats Flour, fine 43s Od to 50s 6d sack of 260th• KIRKCALDY—DEC. 22. Fair supplies of barley, and oats, small of wheat. Al l kinds sold at about late rates. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...—. 55s Od ' 33s 22s Oct t!econd.... 57s Od I 37s Od 25s Od Third . t9s Od 3os Od 29s Od COAL MARKET. _ • Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d' Lambert's W.Hartley 17 3 Original Hartlepool... 21 g North Pelton Gas 14 3 S ou th H ar tl epoo l -19 114,, •• apool 0 9 Walls End Gosforth 17 9 E as t H ar tl epoo l Co- tl,Tanfie:a l3 0 KARR) Pitting - ton l7 0 Thoruley Ships at market, 68—sold, 46. In addressing his constituents atlNewcastle-upon - Tyne on Friday night, Mr. Headlam, M.P., spoke on re form. He said that he believed there had never existed in ea age or country a constitution better adapted to the Govern" ment and the wants of an enlightened people than the Eng" lish one. With respect to the future, he had far too muc h respect for those whom reform was intended to benefit to throw any obstacle in the way of a measure brought for- ward by Lord Derby's Government. He would give t he franchise to every ratepayer, on the principle that the voter should have a substantial interest in the town wherein ho lived. Births. BRANDON —On the 24th inst., at 4, Vicarage-terrace, Lewis' ham, the wife of Jonathan Brandon, Esq., of a son. a HAMMOND—On the 23d inst., Mrs. E. It. Hammond, Of Milner-street, 3/Inner-square, Islington, of a son. HARRISON—On the 23d inst., at Stottrport, the wife of 0' Harrison, Esq., of a daughter. JAMES—On the 2th ult., at Augur, Central India, the Rife of Major C. James, Central India Horse, of a daughter' Marriages. eet PARDON—WIDsoN—On the 22d inst., a t Oran ge-str t Chapel, Win. Pardon, of St. Martin's-l e -G ran d, ° Hephzibah, youngest daughter of the late R. Wilson. , cl WILSON—RANDALL-0 n the 22d inst., at St. Andrew,: Church, Southampton, Hugh C. Wilson, M.A., Chris.!,: College, Finchley, to Juli a , y ounges t d aug ht e r of B. Randall Esq., of Southampton. Deaths. BE ECIIKM —On the 23,1 inst., T. G. Beecham, of Lough borough-park, Brixton, aged 35. DUKE—On the 22d inst., at Gomshall Lodge, Surrey, Duke, Esq., of Nowpark, county Sligo, aged 69. EDDELS—On the 22d inst., at Epsom, Mr. Wm. Eddels, la" of 7, Piccadilly. HAMILTON—On the 22d inst., at Lagarie, Row, Dan iti3r. tonshire, John G. Hamilton, Esq., of Lagarie. St' MORGAN—On the 24th inst., at 1, Melbourne-placet Johu's-wood-road, Thomas Morgan, Esq., aged 88. D. PERRY—At 20, Cumberland-terrace, Bayswater' Georg° Perry, Esq., second son of the late Dr. Robert Perry' Glasgow. London : Printed and Pubiiched by WIL LIAR AND - of No. 112, Strand, I'i inter at Tan SUN ()Moe, N O ; ir . o i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tb.' 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