The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

Liberal Demonstration at Guildford. GUILDFORD, Friday. A banquet to celebrate the return to Parliament of nine Liberal members for Surrey was held this evening, in the County and Borough Hall, Guild ford ; Colonel Challoner, who some years ago un successfully contested the representation of the county, presided, and was supported by Mr. Layard, M.P., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs ; the Hon. J. P. Locke King, M.P., Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., Mr. J. I. Briscoe, M.P., Mr. Guildford Onslow, M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Mr. G. Leve son Gower, M.P., Sir E. Colebrooke, M.P., the Hon. Capt. Egerton, the Hon. G. B. Wriottesley, Mr. R. D. Mangles, Captain Mangles, and a large number of local celebrities. The customary loyal and patriotic toasts having been drunk, _ _ _ The CHAIRMAN proposed "The Health of her Majesty's Ministers," coupling 'with the toast the name of Mr. Layard. Mr. LAYARD, in responding, said—Although I am not unaccustomed to the task of addressing public meetings, yet upon this occasion I must appeal to your kindness and consideration, inasmuch as I am labouring under a double sense of honour. In the first place,',l have been introduced to you as one of the Liberal members returned by the county, andin the second place has been connected with the toast of her Majesty's Government. I am one of those who have never committed their principles to their place, nor their place to their principles. (Cheers.) I have entire confidence in the Government of which Lord Russell is the head, and I feel that this county and the country have also entire confidence in that Government. This county, one of the most in- 1 fluential and important in Great Britain, has re turned no less than nine members to Parliament who are pledged supporters of a Liberal Adminis tration. (Loud cheers.) We must not forget the cir cumstances under which the present Parliament was elected. It was elected when there was a man at the head of the Ministry who, from the personal love borne to him by almost every class and section of the people, occupied a peculiar position in the hearts of all. So deep was the affection experienced towards him that before him the rude voice of political warfare was almost quelled. He has now passed away, but his memory still lives among us. If it were not a paradox, I would say that the reputation of Lord Palmerston is not yet established in this country as largely as it will be hereafter, and that out of the country it will even be established more extensively than in it. (Hear, hear.) At the present moment the Govern ment of her Majesty is a Liberal Government, but it must not be forgotten that it was Lord Palmers ton who developed, after it had been inaugurated by Mr. Canning, that great foreign policy which is based not on its alliances with popular liberty, but upon popular liberty itself. (Cheers.) And not only was Lord Palmerston a great statesman, but, having had much personal intercourse with him, I am able to say that his kindness towards those with whom he was brought into contact was remarkable. Few of you know how great this man's qualities were—how kind, how conciliatory, and how encou raging he was to all who strove to rise under his patronage. (Cheers.) I never failed to find in him the most constant of friends, and I may add that his memory was prodigious. Some years ago, speaking in the House of Commons upon a subject which deeply interested him, namely, the slave trade, he mentioned that a slave in Brazil, who de sired to obtained his freedom, had twelve processes to go through before he could obtain it. When he sat down he turned to me and said, " I think you will find all that in an extract from a newspaper sent home twelve years ago from Brazil." (Cheers.) Lord Palmerston always took a deep interest in the abolition of the slave trade, and I am happy to say that he lived to see almost the entire extinction of it. Last year only one cargo escaped from the coast of Africa, and the ship which bore it was captured before it reached Cuba. (Cheers.) Lord Russell has now suc ceeded Lord Palmerston. I believe himto be a man of truly Liberal opinions. Many men are Liberals by im pulse, by fitsand starts, by hot and cold winds; but I believe that the Liberalism of Lord Russell is founded upon the strongest convictions. (Cheers.) In every thing, even to the most minute details, Lord Russell is guided by a love for the liberty of his country. (Cheers.) Of course you cannot expect me here to " divulge any secrets of the Government. I will not do so for one good reason, namely, that I am not acquainted with them. (Laughter and cheers.) At the same time I am certain that whatever he does Lord Russell will do in a liberal spirit ; and every one is convinced that the time has come when that classof our citizensvao have most raised themselves during this century—the working class—should have a due share in the suffrage. (Loud cheers.) With regard to our foreign policy, you know what Lord Russell's policy has been already, and as head of the Government you must know that it will continue to be founded upon Liberal opinions. As to the foreign policy of a Liberal Government, I will merely mention that during their tenure of office the Liberals have concluded commercial treaties with France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, and last, though not least, with Austria. We have actually seen Austria falling in with our system of free trade. (Cheers.) As regards the administration of my own department, we have endeavoured, I think success fully, to conduct it upon a more satisfactory prin ciple than existed formerly. Young men do not now undertake diplomacy as a mere idle amusement, but they are thoroughly educated for the service. I have seen the reports of our secretaries of legation and attache's, and I know that a great light has been thrown by them upon the condition of our trade, and that they have received most favourable notice from the press. Last summer, when the exhibition at Moscow of the arts and products of the country took place, and a deputation, headed by Mr. Sam son Lloyd, proposed to go to Moscow to examine the manufactures of Russia, and to hold intercourse with the manufacturers there, her Majesty's Govern ment entered warmly into the scheme, and sent Mr. Mitchell to accompany them. Mr. Mitchell's report will soon be laid before Parliament, and I hope it will give you a good impression of the way in which a junior member of the diplomatic corps can discharge his duties. You will see from his report how universally the principles of free trade are getting hold of all mankind. I know that re citing statistics is a disagreeable thing, especially in the presence of ladies, who are not supposed to know anything about figures ; but I only wish to mention two facts. -In 1842 our exports and im ports amounted in value to £179,000,C00 ; last year they amounted to £496,000,000. In the meantime the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been able to reduce taxation by 16i millions, and the revenue, instead of being impaired, has increased by nearly £500,000 pe r annum. (Loud cheers.) These figures, I think, say more than any eloquence of mine could for the manner in which the public affairs of the country have been conducted, and I trust there is no Liberal in the country who wishes to see a diffe rent policy inaugurated. (Cheers.) As regards our foreign alliances, they are in the most satisfactory position. With France, i n particular, we are on the best of terms, and if any country can be termed our natural ally, it is that great country on the other side of the Channel. I h ope the time is far distant to war di s t a nt when this country will ha ve to and Fr ance re - I believe that so long as En gland main 'united not only a great war is i mpo a,s;ble, but that the happiness of the human race will be pro moted and civilisation advanced. At the present moment England and France are uniting to prevent a war breaking out on the southern coast of Ameri ca, and I trust their efforts will end in bringing the unhappy quarrel which has sprung up between Spain and Chili to a peaceful issue. (Cheers.) The policy which I have described has been the policy of a Liberal Government. It has been carried out in spite of the strongest opposition. Many of our greatest measures —a cheap Press, free trade, and every great measure which has tended to promote the liberty of the country and the happiness of the. people—have been carried by very small majorities against the determined opposition of the other side. (Loud cheers.) Hopin g that you will always bear that great fact in min d, I beg to thank you for the patience and kindness with which you have heard me. The CHAIRMAN briefly proposed " The Eealth of the Liberal Member for West Surrey." Mr. BRISCOE returned thanks. Sir T. E. CoLEBROOKE, M.P., proposed " The Members for East Surrey." Mr. LOCKE KING, M.P., thanked the company for the warm manner in which they had received his name, and the proposer of the toast for the kind way in which he had given it. He was exceedingly glad to meet then; there that evening, because he could not help calling this a splendid demonstration of the Liberal strength in Surrey. (Hear, hear.) He hoped that he also observed in it a determina ' tion to do still more in the future—(applause)—not only to pursue the course which they had in times 1 past, but to go a step further in those which were to come. He was glad to be there in what he was i. proud to call the capital of his native county. (Hear, hear.) His family had been attached to it for many generations, and had uniformly belonged to what they called the Liberal party. It might be in the recollection of some of the oldest Liberals present that it was a Surrey man who stood up by himself and from the very first condemned what he called the iniquity of the corn laws. (Applause.) He attacked it year after year, week after week, and exposed the injustice of those laws. He was a neighbour of theirs, and so was his father. (Ap plause.) He felt that they were there for many 1 reasons. Amongst others that they wished to show a compliment to the great body of liberal electors who had done so much for the honour of this country. They wished to encourage those of their representatives who had been in Parliament before to pursue thd same course as that in which they won their esteem, and also that they should do some thing more in the future. (Hear, hear.) He was proud to say that the county of Surrey stood in a very proud position amongst the Liberal party, for out of eleven members which were sent to the House of Commons the Liberals returned nine. (Hear.) What precious gems the Tories mustthink the other two were. (Laughter.) These two must want an enormous deal of nursing, they (the Tory party) must take care not to expose them too much to the blasts of ill winds, they must keep these precious relics of antiquity well wrapped up in cotton in some box, which he hoped some day they (the Liberals) would be able to break into, and scatter these precious relics to the wind. (Hear, hear.) He felt that he had a right to claim all praise for the eastern division of Surrey. That part of the county, including the boroughs, had a population of upwards of 700,000. East Surrey had only seven representatiies, and all those seven were Liberals. (Applause.) Not a single Tory dare show himself, and yet every temptation had been given to them to do so. He thought that Western Surrey ought to take a lesson from it. They had one member for about 25,000 of the population, while the eastern division had only one for every 100,000 of the population. In the western part they had two Liberals and two Tories. West Surrey ought not to remain in this anomalous state. With respect to those two questions—finance and reform—he would say that their present favourable state of taxation was in a great measure owing to that great man the present Chancellor of the Ex chequer. He had somehow or other made taxation fall so lightly upon them that they were more con tented now in paying something like £70,000,000 annually than they were when they paid £50,000,000. (Yes, and No.) He belonged to that wonderful class of Chancellors of the Exchequer who did not dread a surplus. Ile remembered quite well in for mer times that what a Chancellor of the Exchequer dreaded more than anything else was to have a sur plus. Their present Chancellor of the Exchequer had remitted taxation with the surplus which he had at his disposal. (Hear, hear.) Reform just now was a very dull topic. (No, no.) Many years ago he was what was called a mischievous person, and proposed a simple measure of enfranchisement in counties. (Hear, hear.) This topic had been taken up in four Reform bills. Lord Derby adopted it in towns, but their fingers were too dirty and unhal lowed to touch this question. When the last Re form Bill was introduced Lord Palmerston was at the head of affairs. The greatest praise was due to him for his foreign policy. He (the hon. gentle man) quite agreed with his hon. friend Mr. Layard, that he upheld the peace of Europe. But as a Foreign Minister he changed his views, for at one time he was a warlike Minister, and he became a Minister Of peace. On the subject of reform he never agreed with Lord Palmerston. He might say that he completely mesmerised the House of Commons on this question. From that sleep they had not yet recovered, and he believed that they would find the great bulk of the House of Commons were farther off from reform—from passing any great measure of reform—than they were ten years ago. Practically there were three necessary points in reform. First, the disfranchisement of boroughs; second, the re distribution and enfranchisement of towns ; the en franchisement of the country ; and, lastly, exten sion in the boroughs. He did not see, looking at it practically, that it was possible to disfranchise boroughs, because a great many of them belonged to the Liberals. (near.) They would go dead against any measure of reform which touched them. But where reform was most needed—and that was his hobby—was in the counties—(applause)—for in the counties they had a vast number of people who lived in houses between £5O and £lO. ',Hear, hear.) That was where they wanted reform. Ile bad the greatest confidence in Earl Russell. He believed that he would pass the largest measure of reform ! that he possibly could ; but still he was afraid it would come far shoFt of that which real reformers required. He hoped and trusted that the bill would be one which would be worthy of the intelligence and education of the people of this country. (Cheers.) Mr. BUXTON also addressed the meeting. Mr. LONG proposed " The health of Mr. Onslow, the Liberal Member for Guildford," which was re ceived with cheers. He expressed great satisfaction at the conduct of the borough which returned him, placing him at the head of the poll. (Cheers and musical honours.) Mr. ONsLow returned thanks. Mr. GASSIOT then proposed " The Members for Southwark," which was received with cheers. Mr. LOCKE responded. Capt. MANGLES next proposed "The health of Mr. T. Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth," which was also very cordially received. Mr. HUGHES, who, on rising, was greeted with cheers, said that he found himself in a difficult posi tion, because he was called on to answer for a great mystery. His hon. friend had been called on to answer for the mystery of the new reform bill, on which he judiciously said nothing; and he (Mr. Hughes) had been called on to answer for the great mystery of the casual ward in Lambeth, which, however, he avowed that he could not enlighten them oil. At the same time an extraordinary pro duction had brought before them in a very striking and forcible manner the existence of a very dan gerous class, who were, after all, the representatives of classes quite as dangerous who were to be found in the purlieus of Pall-mall, and the most fashion able quarters. There were, in fact, dangerous classes at both ends of society, and he contended that a reform bill would be quite as likely to benefit one as the other class. There were men who said that this country was going on so well that there was no need of reform. But he said that though he was proud of being an Englishman, there was no department of life in this country, visible or in visible, moral or physical, which did not need re form. (Cheers.) Look at the question of educa tion. We talked of being the best educated nation in the world, when there was not a man or woman in Prussia, Germany, or America, except those whom we had sent there, who could not read and write. Look a the state of London ; whether they knew it or not he did not know, but every other day a man, woman, or child, died of starvation. The recent clearances which had been made by the rail ways showed that people were in the habit of living together like herrings in a barrel. He pointed out the need of reform in that portion of the law which related to the providing new dwellings for the population so displaced, and contended that the poor people who were so turned out ought be cona- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV E.N)ING-, FEBRUARY ;;, pensated. Under a proper system of reform such anomalies would be done away with. lie was quite sure that a Government which contained so many eminent members of the Liberal party as did the present Government would not introdu - ce a sham reform bill. (Loud cheers.) Some other local toasts were then given, and the proceedings did not terminate till a late hour. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH-EASTERN. It appears that the dividend for the past half year, ending the 31st of December, on the Berwick Stock, is to be at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum ; on the York Stock, at the rate of 64 per cent. per annum ; on the Leeds Stock at the rate of 41per cent. per annum ; on the Carlisle Stock at the rate of 81 per cent. per annum; and on the Darling ton Stock, at the rate of 91 per cent. per annum. mittee recommended that the matter of unautho rised expenditure should not be overlooked when the half-year's accounts were submitted to the ap proval of the shareholders, so that if directors insisted on prosecuting schemes disapproved by the share holders, they must be prepared for the personal re sponsibilities they would thus incur. In conclusion, the report stated that the 14 directors of the Cale donian Company held £38,352 of ordinary stock ; the 15 directors of the North British Company, £52,100 ordinary stock ; and the 10 directors of the Glasgow and South-Western held £76,560 of the ordinary stock of their respective companies, making together £167,011 of the whole ordinary capital of the three companies, which, irrespective of preference and debenture stock, was upwards of £10,000,000. Mr. J. WHITE went fully into the whole question and concluded by moving a resolution adopting the report of the committee, and expressing an opinion that the bills still proposed to be promoted by the companies should be withdrawn, excepting so far as they could be promoted by mutual arrangement. Mr. BANNATYNE seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Two other resolutions were also unanimously passed requesting shareholders to refrain from grant ing proxies in favour of directors to carry out the contested schemes ; and reappointing the committee of shareholders, with power to add to their number, for the purpose of carrying out the views expressed in the resolutions, the shareholders present agreeing to defray any charges that might be incurred by the committee. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. DONCASTER AND WAKEFIELD. This line was opened on Thursday for public traffic. It forms a branchfrom the West Riding and Grimsby line, and will shorten the route from the West Riding to London several miles. No definite time has been named for the opening of the West Riding and Grimsby line, which will be worked jointly by the Great Northern and the Manchester and Sheffield Companies. Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John Street, Adelphi, 'l. Baring, M.P., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also present, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., Lord Henry Chol mondeley, Admiral Gordon, Sir Edward I'errott, Bart., Admiral M‘Hardy, W. H. Harton, Esq., Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., George Lyall, Esq., Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the institution, and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secre tary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, the expense, amounting to £2O 195., was ordered to be paid on the service of the China life boat of the institution, stationed at Teignmouth, in rescuing the crew of eight men of the ship Jessie, of London, and three of the crew of the brig Che shire Witch, of London, during the late fearful gales in Torbay. The committee decided to establish at Brixham, Devon, forthwith, a lifeboat station, the city of Exeter liberally contributing to the cost of the same. The expenses, amounting to £l2, were also or dered to be paid on the service of the Whitburn lifeboat in saving one of the crew of the bark Vic torine, of Ostend. The lifeboat and her crew on the occasion had a very narrow escape of being de stroyed by being thrown on some precipitous rocks close by the wreck. Rewards amounting to £32 6s. were also voted to the crews of St. Ives and Penzance lifeboats for saving the crew of nine men of the screw collier Bessie, of "'vie. The silver medal of the institution was voted to T. Carbis, the coxswain of the Penzance lifeboat, in acknowledgment of his general brave services in assisting in the lifeboat, and by other means to save life from shipwrecks. Altogether it is supposed he had assisted at the saving of nearly 45 lives. Rewards amounting to £Bl were also granted to the crews of the institution's lifeboats stationed at Yarmouth and Chester, for their valuable services during the past month, in rescuing the crews, con sisting of 22 men, of the brig Thoughtful, of Sun derland, the schooner George, of Goole, and the brig Tartar, of Sunderland. A reward of £23 10s. was likewise granted to the crew of the Lowestoft lifeboat for saving, in con- junction with the steam-tug Rainbow, seven out of 12 of the crew of the brig Osep, of Fiume. The committee also voted their thanks to the master of the steam-tug, and £5 to his crew, for their very laudable exertions in conjunction with the lifeboat on the occasion. Rewards amounting to £3O were also voted for different gallant services by the following lifeboats of the institution during the late fearful gales—The Peterhead lifeboat rescued the crew of three men of the schooner Black Agnes, of South Shields. The Palling lifeboat saved three men from the schooner Laurel, of Goole ; and put off to the assistance of the schooner Julia, C. M'Clean, of Sunderland; and the Kingsgate lifeboat saved seven men from the brigantine Fre Mad, of Bergen. It was also reported that the Ramsgate lifeboat of the institution had, in conjunction with the har bour steam-tug Aid, rescued the crew of six men, of the schooner Zephyr, of Banff. Rewards amounting to £l5O were also granted to the crews of the lifeboats of the institution sta tioned at Penarth, Newquay (Cardigan), Sunder land, Rhoscolyn, Marghte, Pakefield, Winchelsea, Bacton, Walmer, Rhyl, North Deal, Pembrey, Southwold, Cromer, and Skerries, for putting off and rendering assistance to vessels in distress, or for assembling during the late gales in readiness for service in the lifeboats. It is gratifying to know that during the recent fearful gales not a single life had been lost from the lifeboats belonging to the institution, whenever they were called out to rescue shipwrecked sailors. The silver medal of the institution and £2 were voted to Evan Hughes, and £lO to his boat's crew of five men for putting off in Hughes's fishing boat, and saving at considerable risk of life the crew of the ship Palimerus, of Liverpool, which was wrecked off Cymyran, on the Anglesey coast, on the 4th ult. Various other rewards were also granted to the crews of fishing and other boats, for saving lives from different wrecks on the coast during the late gales. The thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum were presented to Mr. R. F. Aldrich, chief officer of the coastguard, at Margate, in acknowledgment of his valuable services in putting off in the lifeboat of the society. During the past month the institution had sent new lifeboats to Hauxley, Newbiggin, Kingsdown, Courtown, and Worthing. It was reported that Messrs. Forrestt and Son, the builders of the institution, had a new lifeboat ready to send to Bombay, to the order of the Har bour and Pilotage Board of that town. The contributions of the readers of the " Quiver" magazine, to the lifeboat fund, amounted to about £1,400, being sufficient to defray the cost of three lifeboats. The committee decided to place an additional life boat at Southwold, Suffolk, and to form new lifeboat stations at Hasborough, Norfolk, and Cork harbour. Large payments amounting to upwards of £3,000 were ordered to be made on various lifeboat estab lishments. Reports were read from the inspector and the as sistant inspector of lifeboats to the institution on their recent visits to various parts of the coasts. The secretary of the institution had also attended a large public meeting at Gloucester, convened by the Mayor, to aid the funds of the National Lifeboat Institution, when it was decided to raise the cost of a lifeboat, to be called the Gloucester. It was also stated that the cost of lifeboats was being raised in the Sunday schools of London, Man chester, and Salford, Sir R. Palmer and Vice-Chan cellor Sir P. Wood taking considerable interest in the fund collecting in the London Sunday schools. The proceedings then closed. WIMBLEDON AND CROYDON. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at the London and Brighton station, London-bridge, and a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum was declared for the past half-year. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The directors state in their report that there had been an increase in the passenger traffic, though not to the extent which might have been expected, con sidering the growing population and the activity in the trade of the district. The derangement of the general trade of the district had continued for the greater part of the last six months. The passenger traffic was affected by the impoverishment of the working classes, and the goods traffic by the dimi nished production. The great dryness of the sea son, and the consequent deficiency of water, had been prejudicial to the canal traffic. The works on the Silverdale and Market Drayton line, and the Macclesfield, Bollington, and Marple line had been let on satisfactory terms by public tender. The increase in the working expenses over former years was mainly attributable to the repairs and altera tions in the locomotive department, found necessary for the efficient working of the traffic. Notwith standing every effort on the part oZ the directors and officers to obtain the delivery of the engines and boilers contracted to be supplied in June last, they were still in the maker's hands. Consequently, the old plant was being worked at great loss, and the anticipated reduction in the expenses of the loco motive department prevented. The directors recommend a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 41 per cent : per annum, carrying forward a balance of £1,776. The dividend for the corre sponding half of 1864 was at the rate of 4} per cent. per annum. METROPOLITAN AND ST. JOHN'S-WOOD. The report of the directors states that great pro gress had been made with the works since the gene ral meeting in August last. Nearly the whole of the requisite land had been acquired, and the directors had every reason to hope that the line would be opened for traffic in the course of the ensuing autumn. The time was now approaching when it would be necessary to raise the capital for the extension of the line to Hampstead, under the powers of the act ob tained last session. A resolution to empower the directors to raise £lOO,OOO on mortgage or deben ture bonds would be submitted to the meeting. The directors had thought it advisable to primote a bill in the present session of Parliament for powers to construct an extension of the 'Hampstead branch to Highgate and the Alexandra Park, and an extension of the main line to Hendon and Edgware, with a branch to Finchley. Those lines, passing through a fine residential district, at present destitute of ade quate railway accommodation, and placing the St. John's-wood system in connexion with the Watford and Edgware Junction, the Midland ; the Edgware, Highgate, and London, and the London and North- Western Railways, could scarcely fail to be highly remunerative in themselves, and would pour a very large traffic over the existing line. The bill also con tained powers to widen the authorised line, for which the necessary land had been acquired. The report of Mr. J. Fowler and Mr. T. M. John son, the engineers, states that the works of the rail way on each side of the Regent's Canal, adjoining the St. John's-wood Station and extending south ward as far as the South Bank, were completed for a double line. From the St. John's-wood Station northward the line was completed to near the Circus road, a distance of 400 yards, and again for a distance of 350 yards near the Swis- cottage. Both those lengths were for a single line. The capital account showed that £150,339 had been expended, leaving a balance of £2,863. HAMMERSMITH AND CITY. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at the Paddington Station ; Mr. Foakes in the chair.. The report stated that the directors recommended that a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum be declared for the half-year on, the original stock, and on the 5 per cent. preference stock of the com pany. The Great Western Railway Company had introduced a clause in the company's Bill now be fore Parliament to dissolve this company, and should the Bill pass the Hammersmith and City Company would cease to have a separate corporation, and the dividends would henceforward be paid direct by the purchasing companies, without the intervention of the present Board. The directors hoped that the formal transfer of the company would be effected before the next half-yearly meeting, iu which case the services of the auditors would no longer be re quired. The report of the directors was adopted, the re tiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. CALEDONIAN, NORTH BRITISH, AND GLASGOW SOUTH-WESTERN. A meeting of shareholders in these companies was held on Wednesday, at. Glasgow, to receive a report from the committee of shareholders appointed on the 21st of December last, to confer with the directors ; Mr. J. Ilozier in the chair. M`lienzie read the report, which stated that conferences between the committee and directors of each of the above companies had taken place. The committee urged, in a friendly spirit, the views of the shareholders respecting the numerous bills pro moted in Parliament by the three companies. The committee had no desire to benefit one company at the expense of the others, and they hoped that the directors of the different companies would see the necessity of forthwith meeting each other in a conciliatory spirit, and endeavour by mutual concession to give effect to the resolutions of the shareholders, the object of which was to prevent the contests in Parliament and save the enormous expenditure of capital which the continued promo tion of the schemes of those three companies would involve. Several interviews had since taken place between the boards of the different companies, and the result had been to induce the withdrawal to a certain extent of the several schemes. The com mittee believed that the result of their exertions was that the Caledonian board, who had lodged 11 bills, requiring a sharesapital of £4,995,000,had proposed to withdraw eight bills, and to reduce the new capi tal required to £770,000, provided the other com panies would do likewise. The North British board proposed out of 12 bills, requiring £4,358,584 share capital, to withdraw eight and part of two other bills,reducing the required new capital to £2,478,584. The Glasgow and South-Western board likewise proposed, out of four bills requiring £1,877,000 shßre capital, to withdraw two bills entirely, and portions of two other bills, so as to reduce the amount of new share capital required to £197,000. Thus it would seem that while the proposed addi tion to capital had been much diminished, the large sum of £3,445,584 would still be required for the schemes remaining to be promoted by the three companies. The committee, while they felt that a reduction in the estimated expenditure on new schemes of £7,785,000, if honestly carried out, was matter of congratulation as well for directors as for shareholders, were still impressed with the import ance of urging further compliance with the resolu tions come to by the shareholders on the 21st December last, that all the bills of the session re quiring additional capital on new works should be abandoned at least for a year, and that as far as practicable the progress of works authorised in last session should for a time be suspended. The coin- RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday Mr. Smith sat in Room D of the House of Lords, and declared the standing orders to have been complied with in the cases of the Sandown and Newport (Isle of Wight) ; Edgware, Highgate, and London ; HarbDrne and Bedford and Northampton. The consideration of the East and West Junction (South Extension) petition was adjourned until the 7th inst. The West Bromwich and Walsall line was to stand over until Monday. The Rhymney, and the Bridport, Lyme, and South Coast were ad journed until Thursday next. Mr. Frere held his court in No. 16 Committee-room, and having ad journed, the London, Chatham, and Dover (various powers) Bill until Wednesday next, declared that the following bills had complied with the standing orders :—The Ogmore Valley (new works, No. 2), Hounslow, and Metropolitan, Buckley (additional powers), Wandsworth Canals, North Wales, and Birkenhead and Liverpool. The standing orders were not complied with in the case of the London and Worthing Direct. The Great Western (further powers) Bill was further adjourned, as was also that of the Solway Junction (branches). The conside ration of the Croydon Direct, and the Brixton, Clapham, and Balham Extension was postponed until Thursday next. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Field-Marshal Commanding -in-Chief's levee, announced for to-day, is unavoidably postponed till Wednesday, the 7th inst. ; but, as there may possibly be officers who have come some distance for the pur pose of seeing his Royal Highness, to whom it might be inconvenient to remain in London till the last named day, the Military Secretary will be happy to receive them and communicate their requests to the Duke of Cambridge. A circular memorandum has been received at Woolwich from the War Department, abolishing the post of Inspector of Ordnance, recently held by Lieut.-Col. Freeth, who has been appointed Assist.- Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories. The latter appointment has been held since the Crimean war by Mr. Anderson, C.E., on Sir William Arm strong accepting the nominal superintendence. Mr. Anderson is now appointed to the post of Superin tendent of the War Department Machinery, and, according to the terms of the memorandum, he "is to be granted the same salary of £1,200 per annum, in recognition of his important services in the Royal gun factories." This arrangement has been car ried out in fulfilment of the War Department regu lations, directing that the principal offices of the Royal Arsenal shall be filled by officers of the Royal Artillery, which were departed from only on the appointment of Sir William Armstrong to the Royal gun factories. _ The colonelcy of the 99th (Lanarkshire) Infantry has become vacant by the death of Major-General John Napper Jackson, whose death was announced yesterday as having occurred at St. Helier, Jersey, July 1, 1805, and a s e g r e v d e d 72 in. . t h H e enterede peninsni a the armyfli 1810 to the end of the war in 1814. He obtained the colonelcy of the 3d West India Regiment August 13, 1862, and of the 99th Foot June 30, 1863. He had received the war medal and ten clasps for his services. Yesterday morning the 2d Battalion of the GOth Rifles passed through Liverpool, en route from Dover to Dublin. They numbered 19 officers, two officers' wives, 743 rank and file, 85 women, and 121 chil dren. They embarked on the City of Dublin Com pany's steamers Windsor and Trafalgar. They will No other mo v ements resent reported at the t b i e n, q on u g al i te L r i e v d er i i n )o D ol ub ar li e n a ci t ty p . Admiralty agent's in that town. Her Majesty's turret-ship Prince Albert, built at Blackwall by Mr. Samuda, and completed at Wool wich, was yesterday hauled out of the fitting basin, and, under her own steam, went down to No. 3 dock for the purpose of being examined as to the state of her exterior hull, preparatory to her de parture for Plymouth. Her auxiliary and donkey engines, intended for the interior purposes of the ship, were tested and worked satisfactorily. The engines, by Messrs. Humphrya and Tennant, are on the most improved modern principles. Capt. de Casembroot, naval aide-de-camp to the King of the Netherlands, and who lately commanded his - Majesty's ship Cycloop when she conveyed the Queen of the Netherlands to England,visited Wool wich dockyard on Wednesday last, and, after pay ing his respects to the Commodore Superintendent, inspected the Prince Albert turret-ship, over which he was shown by her captain. He expressed himself highly gratified with the several arrangements on board. Mr. William Eaines, chief engineer in the Royal Navy, and formerly serving on the Victoria, 102, Capt. J. J. Goodenough, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir R. Smart, K.C.8., Km., commanding the Me diterranean squadron, has been appointed assistant chief-engineer at Chatham dockyard, the appoint ment having been rendered necessary from the great increase in the engineering department at that establishment since it has become the principal dock yard for the construction of iron and armour-plated ships. Mr. Eames is appointed nominally to the Wellesley, 72, guardship at the port, but his duties are entirely connected with the dockyard. The Lords of the Ad m i ra l t y have selected Mr. T. Thornton, principal mas t er - s hip might at Chatham, to assist in the preparation of the plans, &c., con nected with the formation of the additional new docks and basins proposed to be carried out at Malta. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty William B. Goldsmith, master, to the Simoom ; Walter Lawrance, staff surgeon, to the Frederick William ; Charles Sproull, surgeon, to the Simoom ; and Dr. Edward L. Moss, assist.- surgeon, to the Sin:Loom. There have been received by the Adjutant- General, at Washington, about eight hundred applications for a share in the rewards offered for the ,capture of the assassination conspirators. The rewards now ready for distribution amount to about $300,000. Arrangements are being made by the claimants to get possession of the rewards offered in the Several States, amounting to over a million of dollars, as soon as it is announced by the Government who aro entitled to a share of the money, Land for the Freedmen. The Chicago Tribune characterises Senator Trum bull's Bill for enlarging the powers of the Freed men's Bureau as the most important and statesman like of any of the measures yet brought forward for advancing the interests and protecting the liberties of the coloured people of the Southern States. In Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, and wherever their Legislatures have met, they have said in effect, " The negro shall not be a landholder nor a householder. If he were he would be inde pendent, like ourselves, and we could not hire his labour upon our own terms. Therefore he shall neither own nor lease land," &c. Even where no laws have been passed public sentiment forbids a white man to sell or lease land to a negro. These enactments and prejudices are merely a new appli cation of the old doctrine " Cursed be Canaan, a servant shall he be among his brethren." Through out the war all friends of emancipation and the Union foresaw the necessity that the great land monopoly of the South should, with the labour monopoly, be broken down, so that all poor men, whether white or black, should have the opportunity to provide themselves with homes, without which they would for ever remain a vagabond and " shift less" race, the perpetual prey of the land-owning and labour-hiring class. The feature of this bill which gives it greatest value is its provision autho rising commissioners for the Freedmen to procure, in the name of the United States, by grant or pur chase, such lands as may be required for refugees and Freedmen. As presented, the operation of the bill is limited to such freedmen as are " dependent upon the Government for support." Our Chicago contemporary hopes that clause will be stricken out, so as to open a channel whereby all freedmen may become landowners, if they desire, without first becoming paupers. Let Congress make an appro priation under this act, and so break down the Southern land monopoly by selling good arable lands to the freedmen for a fair valuation. Let the act be stripped of all useless limitations and its scone made as wide as possible, to the end that no indus trious coloured man in the South shall be legislated into a pauper without the right to have a home while living, or a grave when dead. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.---The designer fallen into the pit he digged for others, " the engineer hoist with his own petard," the eagle slain by an arrow tipped with one of its own feathers, are familiar instances of a poetical justice not so common in actual life as it is in books, but, when seen, always recognised with satisfaction. Spain is just now in the unhappy position of a man who, thinking to injure others, has forged weapons for his own destruction, and gods and men must view the spectacle with calmness, if not with appro bation. At the Congress of Paris the great Powers assembled together agreed that among themselves privateering was and s}ould be thenceforth abo lished, and they invite other nations to give in their adherence to the declaration. One by one they testified their acceptance of this last convention of international law, until at last Spain was left alone among European Powers in refusing its concur rence. The practice which was voluntarily aban doned by the allies in the Russian war, and which seemed to other nations too barbarous to be main tained in the nineteenth century, was tenaciously insisted upon by the Spanish Government. Others might foolishly give up such a useful weapon of warfare, but Castilian honour refused to be bound by their opinion, and Spain clung to privateering the more vigorously the greater the authority grew in favour of its abolition. And now Spain seems doomed to suffer from the maintenance of the prac tice it held so dear. The weapon kept for its use has turned to its destruction. Chili was one of the first of American republics to assent to the abolition of privateering, but the abolition was restricted to wars between Powers which had accepted the declaration of Paris. Spain refused, and against Spain, therefore, privateering is still lawful. The Chilian Government has accordingly, in a perfectly, legal way, issued instructions under which a fleet of privateers will issue to prey upon Spanish com merce. From every point of the compass vessels may be expected to appear bearing Chilian letters of marque, and the probability seems to be that Spanish merchantmen will at no distant period be absolutely swept from the seas. We only hope that the success of the Chilians hitherto, and the bright prospects before them, will not induce the nation to turn a deaf ear to overtures of peace. The capture of the Covadonga excited them to the highest en thusiasm, and, if the reported capture of another Spanish vessel of war in Chilian waters prove cor rect, it is probable that by this time their exultation is unbounded. The latest a,dvices from San Fran cisco tell us, moreover, what in itself is highly pro bable, that the blockade of the Chili= ports was to be forthwith raised, in order that the Spanish fleet might prevent Peru from making common cause with the neighbouring Republic. The Chilians have hitherto had it all their own way in their con test with Spain. The arbitrary and unjust treat ment to which they were subjected at the outset secured for them the sympathy of Europe and Ame rica, and by their gallantry they have obtained a considerable advantage in the single naval encoun ter which has since taen place. There can be no doubt which of the two combatants has the better prospects in a war of privateering. When hostili ties are carried on by ships commissioned with let ters of marque, Providence is on the side of the longest purses, and we have on the one hand Chili wealthy and in good credit, and on the other Spain bankrupt at home, and dishonoured abroad. A very short time will enable the Chilian Government to commission such a fleet of privateers that Spanish commerce will be impossible, and the very vessels of war of the enemy will be in danger of being captured singly, like the Covadonga. Nor can neutxal nations object to such action on the part of Chili. The instructions which the Chili= Government has published for the guidance of its privateers are scrupulously careful of neutral inte rests. The privateers are forbidden from com mitting any act of hostility in neutral waters. They are forbidden from capturing neutral goods found in the enemy's ships, contraband of war alone excepted. They are also forbidden from capturing enemy's goods, with the same exception, if found in neutral bottoms ; and the articles which are to be deemed contraband of war are carefully enumerated. The manner of exercising the right of visitation is rigidly explained, and the privateers of the Republic are reminded that in order that their prizes may be valid and legal they may be declared such by a proper authority. In short, the instructions issued by the Chilian Minister of Marine, and since widely circulated in the United States, recognise the ex treme right of neutrals, and it is quite evident that their publication forebodes a new and more active phase of the war. Let neutral Governments be as careful of their neutrality as they can, and as we have no doubt they will be, they will find it difficult to prevent privateers from issuing from their ports in the service of one or the other belligerent, and it may be feared that the war itself will only stop from the exhaustion of the combatants. The present is just the situation in which a more active mediation than has hitherto been attempted should be pressed both upon Spain and Chili. It is true that Spain has accepted the good offices of the Western Powers, ' and it is to be hoped that Chili may show a similar willingness to listen to suggestions of peace ;, but good offices mean nothing more than a power of ad vising each belligerent, and the privilege of acting as a voluntary mediator between them. There is reason to think that more than this might be ac cepted, and there is, at all events, reason why more should be attempted. The chronic embarrassment of Spanish finances has at length reached such a condition that some vigorous measures must be adopted merely to keep up the machinery of the Government, and it is impossible to do anything effectual if peace be not first secured. The death of Admiral Parejahas been a severe blow to the Spanish cause in the Pacific, and there is not wanting evi dence that Marsha). O'Donnell would willingly , retire from a dangerous, if not an untenable, po sition. The more moderate organs of the Govern ment are instructed to palliate the loss of the Covadonga, and the people are represented as hav ing recovered from the violent ebullition of feeling which the news of her capture first excited. Add the probable mischief of a privateering war, the alarm already manifested by the Catalan Deputies, the present danger shown by the fact that the Cuban mail packet has been sent under the escort of an armed frigate, and the inference is irresistible that on the part of Spain everything points to the possi bility of an acceptance of arbitration and the re establishment of peace. There ought to be no reason why Chili should be less compliant. Chili may at any time suspend hostilities with honour. The material loss of the Republic has been trifling, and her moral gain has been enormous. The in jurious demands at first made upon her were re pelled with dignity, and the more recent active hostilities have been met with spirit. Although taken at a disadvantage, the Republic has not been unsuccessful in defence, and the sympathy of free opinion throughout the world has been freely given to the victim of wanton aggression. If Chili prove as easily appeased now as she was easily aroused at a threat of danger, the moderation and temper of the nation will havf earned for her a position which her previous prosperity never ac quired. What has already happened gives some warrant for believing this to be possible; and it is the duty of all neutral nations, when such a favourable opportunity is offered for their action, to intervene and assist a conclusion which is probably desired in secret by each belligerent. THE 44 ANGLO-A3IERtAN TDIES" ON A GOLDEN FIELD FOR INVESTMENT.—EngIishmen are greatly exercised at the colossal proportions of the United States debt. Some are wont to point at it as an element of weakness, and confidently predict eventual repudiation ; while others do not go so far as .to call in question America's *good faith, but confine their doubts to antici pating trouble in the collection of the Federal taxes. According to the former class—which, if not the more numerous, certainly possesses the greater influence—everything connected with the United States rests upon an insecure foundation ; and Englishmen are almost daily warned by its organs and representatives to avoid American securities, and to be more cautious than ever in commercial transactions with citizens of the Republic. These misgivings were but seldom heard prior to the re bellion ; and it is only fair to credit their existence to the newly-created debt and consequent increase in taxation, combined with the temporary cessation of the Southern cotton supply. Unworthy motives we certainly do not wish to impute, for a man would scarcely be worth, reasoning with who dared assert that American misfortune would at all conduce to English prosperity. These critics and censors do not evince any remarkable acquaintance with the history of their own country in thus attempting to prejudice the United States on the score of the national liabilities. England's debt is larger than America's, but it is less than it was twenty years ago. Again, England's annual taxation is consi derably greater in gross amount than in 1846 • but if we take the value of property in the United Kingdom at the present time and compare it with the official returns at the above-mentioned period, we discover that the rate of taxation, per head, is much more easily borne in 1866 than in 1846, or intermediate years. Two causes have conduced to this result ; namely, increase of population, and enormous development of trade and resources ; and if these influences have proved so beneficial to Great Britain, surely they will produce a still greater effect in a country whose resources are as yet but little developed, and the .population of which increases at a far higher ratio than has hitherto been known in the history of mankind. In past years the main staple of the United States, so far as European nations were concerned, was cotton ; and the South possessed every advantage in r•-' tidal streams and numerous harbours for bringing that staple to market. But the Southern States are far from possessing equal advantages in an agricultural point of view with the North- Western States ; and the products of the latter section are, to say the least, quite as much required in Europe as the Southern staple. Since the repeal of the Corn-laws in this country, Great Britain has not merely looked to foreign nations for a consi derable proportion of her cereals, but she has like wise acted as purveyor, or factor, in grain to other peoples. A few years ago Russia was th e chief source of supply to Great Britain, whether for home consumption or for exportation ; but the United_ States eventually took precedence of her, and would have retained that position but for the late rebellion. N , o country can possibly compete with the United States in production of the necessaries of life — grain and provisions ; for the Republic possesses greater area and a better climate ; all things taken into consideration, it is nearer the English markets , and Englishmen assuredly will not gainsay (nOl ll that the Union is re-established on surerfounda tions than heretofore) that American institutions and laws guarantee a greater commercial security than those of Russia or any other nation in Conti . nental Europe. America possesses, in fine, a ll that will enable her to become the granary of the world , and yet she is not sending at the present time more than from two to three p er cent. of her produce to foreign markets, and scarcely one per cent. of it to England. Let us instance the State of Illinois as a sample of the agricultural capabilities of the North . - West. The present population of Illinois IS, In . round numbers, 2,250,000 ; and although its caps" city for production is not yet one quarter develope. the inhabitants of New York city, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh could not consume its PhiladelPin a t of excess of produce in grain, cattle, and hog s. 1111 : nois can abundantly feed fifteen millions of people yet Illinois is only a small area in the Mississi2Pl Valley, and will probably be surpassed in produc tiveness by the State of lowa within the next ten years. We need not, m however, t a lk of what ma y be, while an irrefragable argument can be .based_ upon that which already exists. The population of the agricultural section of the Union is sp arse, ex ceedingly sparse, and the means of getting produce to market are very limited; yet the supp l y °f the necessaries of life so greatly exceeds the consump tion that Western farmers are burning wheat in their houses and maize on their locomotives, as the cheapest obtainable fuel, while thousands of men, .women, and children in Europe are absolutely.starhvo in The The question of transportation—of bringing t i ._ immense produce of the great Mississippi Valley the markets of the world,—is the question of tne day in the Western States. All issues give prisedrece dente to it; and we are not, therefore, surp... that the farmers of Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, h er. n . esota, and the North-Western States are gather in themselves together to protest against the Pre sent enormous charges for freights, and discussing the possibility of opening up additional lines communication with the seaboard. Such. facts a t : the following .. speak for themselves :—ln many Pt) of Illinois, corn is selling at ten cents (five Pe — '.. per bushel, whilst, through want of sufficient trans portation,. it commands four times that amoun t Chicago, the principal city of the State. Ag ain ' costs at the present time two dollars and filteu cents per 1001bs. to get a bale, or case, of merellani; disc from Chicago to New York city ; and it t he obvious that such an exorbitant tax upon 1 farmer must necessarily paralyze agrioultur4; industry throughout a region which is lar t f ie enough and fertile enough to supply a whole of Europe with food. Western men es unanimously protesting against the present ch arg e r for transportation demanded by railway an d n" an companies, but the corporations in question have is obvious answer to these complaints. The cou.ntryol too . extensive and prolific for the existing lines inter-communication; and were the roads, railways' and canals trebled in number, it is doubtful whetnai they would be sufficient to carry off the set tl e excess of produce in the North-West. Na r tu + r h; however, has placed the magnificent Valley 0 ' Mississippi . within close proximity to the Atlant,in and railroads can never entirely supersede Way natural and inexpensive highway of commer ce- : water.. Not even the region of the Amazon can coin' pare with the Western States of the American Union in facilities for getting produce to market. e coin' bined glories of the Amazon and Mississippi riv% with all the mighty streams which pour their fl,°;,t into those capacious channels, pale before ti",. wondrous chain of lakes which cleaves the Nor,th's ern Continent from its centre almost to , s very ocean. Almost I Man can finish Naturebe unfinished work, and will. The farmers of, the Western States are now preparing to join S hip Erie to the St. Lawrence by digging an ocea n - canal round the Falls of Niagara ; and thus, eref long, ships of heavy tonnage will reach the ports Europe Europe from Chicago and the uttermost limits 01 the Lake Superior. Where can Englishmen such a field for-the investment of capital as t.','" exuberantly fertile region between the Allegban ic : and Rocky Mountains ? Millions of virgin a creP are there inviting husbandmen ; rivers wait t o joined be to lakes, lakes to the ocean. The opening-11P the netting together of these natural lines of con' munication with the outer world means wealth to .Americans, the certainty of acquitting their obligal tons, and the early obliteration of their nailoa n debt. But to Englishmen and Europeans it mean,: ing millions, and an ever enlarging . more—it .. means all sufficient food for their ep the manufactures they can possibly produce. T o Eternal Father has given this fruitful land _ Americans in trust for all his children. In Euro pee, .men, women,. and children are starving ; yeti" the is . corn in Egypt!" - Merchants ! capitalists Eve lishmen ! will you not go and fetch it ? market for ahlei COUNTRY MABEE TS. LIVERPOOL.--FuIDAY. buy ers To-day's inaAzet was not numerously attended by re .. of any class, and for wheat there was a very indifferell, to quest at ld and 2d per cental decline. Flour dull at "j ats is Gd cheaper. Indian corn nearly Gd per qr. lower. dull and easier. Oatmeal declined Gd per load. DERBY—FRIDAY. r 3 6 New white wheat, 49s to 55s ; old red, 49s to 523Z iog , stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 42s perjy. ; 280 to 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 265; Ord, t o DO 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 525; new, 453 per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. orts" The wheat trade is dull, partly owing to the inlr n c i to tions of French flour competing with our millers , Ow, effect sales a little concession had to be made. Fine -- ----- le ls dearer. 41 - a; Averages, January 29—Wheat, 2,502 qr s, 4 813 barley, 1,030 at 38s 9kl; oats, --, at --s Od. S T AMF ORD.—FRIDAY. t 105 At our corn market to-day the supply of w- ea Fine about as usual, but many samples out of condition• a dry qualities maint a i ne d l ast week ' s rates, d a mp lots Pirt l e slow sale. Barley in moderate supply at late rate s ' old show of other kinds of grain was by no means plentifu stone. N ew Bwahrilteenwhea malting,t 49 49s to the demand firm at late rates. 5 t0 25 3 per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 25s to 27s per Beans, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. Bs re ; dgcr1i0n.,d4h25:,t0284582705etr03:26: .—FRIDAY. e t tO ° We had an average suppIy LINCOLN of wheat a t our mar l c dear . 0 ° day. Fine sorts remain e d firm, but damp hardly' It Good barley scarce and commanded high Prices' o . a f ts e 1 late rates. Beans unaltered ; peas not much sought tr. r 56 New white wheat, 51s to 56s ; new red, 43s to 470. P d 3 i ,, stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 42s per qr ; grill ~ os to 31s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, 20 to 325. Bemi s ' 51s per 38 stone. 4 BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. {emu °: The market is in a very dull state, and but have been made, at prices rather in favour of t he W Refined is dull, and 6d cheaper. Upwards of seventy-seven millions in g old W so received for customs during the last six months of 18 in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Boltiraor hs. io Of BAXTER.— On the 2d inst ßirt ~ at Bromley, Kent, the Iv" Mr. Wm. W. Baxter, of a daughter , r eet, -EARLE.—On the Ist inst , at 28, Upper S Mrs. Charles Wm. Earle, of a so. a U Ca t ' FORD.— On the 30th ult., at Cheltenham. the wife -f , St. Clair Ford, of a daughter. 4 . 1 , A . 0 01 TYSSEN.—On the 30th ult., at Clanville Lodge, v- - W Capt. Tyssen, R.N., of a daughter. eyrnour-s Marriages. TACO' BERNEY —BLOXAM.—On the 31st ult. a t T w ycross , "—Dor tershire, Henry H. Berney, E s q., nly son of Birig.rfoll‘t ney, Bart., of Barton Bendish, in the coun t y of A 1310 01131 to Jane Dorothy, eld es t daughter of the Rev . 4 M.A., incumbent of Twycross. n, PEEL—WILLIAMS.—On the Ist inst., at Bodelsq, - ., n. za refi mund Peel, Esq., of Brynypys, to Henrietta Jx.'"' eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Williams. Deaths. <final' BALLARD.—On the 28th ult.at his sidence 1 2 , N— re place, Albion-road, Stoke • aged • Newington, X, Box.—On the Ist • tat Abingdon, B kS, 3° llll 13° ins t~ Esq., aged 68. c botOr, CHESTER.—On the 31st ult in London , Capt• j• , late of the ship L . ochnagar, aged 48. A f a jor -- JACKSON.— On the 25th ult., at St. Ilellier, Jersen aged 72. Gen. John N. Jackson, Colonel of the 99th Foo, ag e id , LEWIS.—On the 31st ult., at 19, Sussex Lodge, Bill 6e road, Stockwell, Mrs. S. -vvindSori Wit - ENCH.—On the 29th ult., at The Priory, Old " - Henry Wrench, Esq. ----....---"----- Id. Ball ard, Esq, vs London: Printed and Published by WIL LIAM N9Ol, of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Tr's SUN °IDOL 14 .1 1 02 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Sav o y . in the toe"— MiudleieL7saturday, February 3, 1860. 1 ,411 , 111. POs t o to is . V Thi ren th, It(