The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

- Railway and Other Companies. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. A meeting of debenture holders in this company was held yesterday at the Victoria Station, Pimlico, Lord Harris in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said it was necessary to apologise on one point, as the directors thought there ought to have been a larger room provided on that occa sion, but it was the largest they had available. They knew they had a large number of debenture holders, but they did not suppose so large a number would have attended. They felt some difficulty in the matter of providing a larger room elsewhere, because the Vice-Chancellor had refused to allow the expenses incurred in engaging St. James's-hall for meetings on two former occasions. They had all been made fully acquainted with the scheme pro posed by the present board of directors to renovate the affairs of the company. (Cries of "No room ; get a larger room.") He said the object of the direc tors had been to carry on the business of the com pany without interruption, as the traffic could not be stopped without great injury. The very unsatis factory state of their affairs required all their atten tion. (Several persons struggling to get into the room caused considerableinterruption. It was stated that the corridor was full of debenture-holders.) Mr. Baxter, solicitor to the company, amid some uproar, said that Mr. Forbes, the general manager, had gone to see whatplace on the premises could be made available for the adjournment of the meeting, and on the return of Mr. Forbes he announced that the only place available was a carriage shed about a quarter of a mile off, where there were no seats, and would be very much like being in the open air. Mr. HoDGSON, chairmanof the debenture-holders committee, said he would pay the expense of a suit able room for the meeting at the Grosvenor Hotel, but after some delay it was found that no room could be had. After several suggestions to go to Exeter-hall, the Crystal Palace, and Hyde Park, and objections to adjourning the meeting to some other day, it was agreed to go on as well as they could in the room provided in the station. The CHAIRMAN said he was prepared to make a few preliminary remarks, and then hear any obser vations the debenture-holders had to make. In the circular signed by the directors they were fully ac quainted with the plan proposed by the board and the pOsition of affairs. The object was to renovate and improve the position of the company. The first thing was to facilitate the traffic and prevent any stoppage in working it, to get rid of the present un satisfactory state of affairs. The propositions of the Board for the renovation of the company had had the united approval of all the directors, himself in cluded. There were many things of interest to the shareholders, as well as debenture-holders—many things of great interest, but they were not pertinent to the proceedings of that day. He hoped they would keep their attention fixed to the object they had in view, and when that was discussed there were many points the directors would be glad to confer with a committee of the debenture-holders upon. The object of the present meeting was to have a conference with the debenture-holders on the pro position placed before them for the improvement of the undertaking, and to render it as productive as possible. He should be happy to hear any remarks suggestions wish regard to the proposed Parlia mentary scheme for raising additional capital. Mr. HODGSON, the Chairman of the Debenture holders' Committee, said he regretted that the sub ject had not been previouslydiscussed in a conference with the directors, so that they might have come there prepared to deal with the matter. He thought, in the first instance, that the shareholders should have been prepared to find a certain proportion, if not the whole, of the proposed new capital. The debenture holders had no information to guide them either as to the past expenditure of the company, or as to what was proposed to be done with the new capital. An estimate of every item ought to have been laid before them. He then entered into a statement which ho had gleaned from the half-yearly reports of the com pany from February, 1865, to the half-yearly report of June, 1866, with a view to show some discre pancies which he considered were very important to the debenture-holders. He complained that the debenture-holders had had heretofore no voice in the affairs of the company, and contended that the company's Acts of Parliament had been systemati cally violated. Ile advised the debenture-holders not on any account to give their assent to the raising of the £1,500,000 proposed by the directors. Ile thought that a measure so destructive to their interests would not be sanctioned by Parliament, even if the debenture-holders were to assent to it. He then expressed an opinion, amid considerable up roar and furious cries of " Order, order," that the secretary should be requested to retire from his pre sent fositiou. He found from a statement in the half-yearly report for June 30, 1865, that the Me tropolitan Extension debentures issued amounted to £1,646,365, while the Parliamentary powers were only £1,433,000, showing an excess of £213,000. In the succeeding half-year the amount of debentures was increased to £ 1 ,673,558, showing an excess of £240,000 ; but on the 30th June last the amount of debentures issued for the metropolitan lines was stated as £1,556,883, showing an excess over the authorised amount of £123,833. He complained that the Committee of Investigation had so far over looked this matter that they reported the excess at £6,295 only. He wished to know how it was that the company had exceeded the Parliamentary powers to the extent of £240,000, and had since reduced that excess to £123,833. Mr. HODGKINSON, M.P., the chairman of the late Committee of Inquiry, said he did not propose to reply to the observations made by the last speaker further than they reflected on the Committee of In vestigation. It was quite a mistake to suppose that the committee had overlooked that mater. The item referred to in the Metropolitan Extensions accounts not only included the amount of debentures issued, but the whole of the common fund debenture stock. The reduction in the amount of debentures issued alluded to by Mr. Hodgson was the result of the Metropolitan Extensions' proportion of the com mon fund debenture stock being added to the issue of debentures, instead of the whole common fund stock, and therefore the statement in the committee's report was correct. Mr. BILLINGS was entirely opposed to the prin ciple of overriding the existing debentures by the issue of new debentures to the amount of £1,500,000 having precedence of them. It was like a man hav ing mortgaged his house and got into difficulties asking the mortgagee to forego his prior claim to enable the man to obtain money on a second mort gage, having the precedence of the first. It was not likely that such a proposition would be assented to by the debenture-holders. Parlia ment would never sanction such a proceeding. He believed that several of the bondholders would renew their bonds for 20 years if the company could not pay them, but they must have the interest. They might raise the money by the issue of a preference stock after the debentures, but not to come in before them. Mr. PRICE, Q.C., contended that no trustee had a right to assent to such a proposition. They could not consent to take an inferior security. An act of Parliament might probably do anything, but no trustee oughttogive his assent to such a proposition. They were exertions and deeply indebted to Mr. Hodgson for his the information rih he had obtained for them. It was the to do. They wanted more informatian to guide in these matters, and the investigation of t e heb t ooks of the company. The committee and directors mode might be able to strike out some practical meeting the difficulty. He concluded b y Tn Z I , of a resolution to the effect that a committee of debenngture holders be appointed to confer with the directors, to obtain per mission from them to examine the accounts of the compan y, and report t he result to a future ' 'Pe c ti n , t 5 of debenture-holders. Mr. FEW seconded the motion. Mr. SCOTT said they should remember that the company was in Chancery and in difficulties, and if the debenture-holders objected to the proposition of the Board, they should be prepared with something practical to improve the company's position. (A Voice--" Sell the line.") It was all very well to say " Sell the line," but who was to purchase it ? There were three lawyers on the committee of de benture-holders, and they were urging them to take legal proceedings, instead of acting with the com pany to clear away difficulties. The shareholders would not provide the funds. (A Voice—" But they must.") They had a new Board, and should give them a fair trial. He believed the present meeting was held for conference, but not for the re jection or adoption of the proposition. Mr. SAMUDA thought they had to consider some practical way of getting their affairs into the most secure position. The debenture-holders must come outright, let what would happen. Mismanage ment had brought the company into an immense amount of difficulty, and to get them out of it a careful and thoughtful course should be adopted. Ile represented two trusts, and he could under stand that the debenture-holders must wait a con siderable time before getting the principal. A con ference of a certain number of debenture-holders and directors should be held for a sufficient length of time to come to some practical conclusion. He suggested that the debenture-holders might reduce the interest to 4 per cent. in cash, taking a de ferred dividend warrant for the remainder until the company became sufficiently prosperous to pay the interest in full. The motion was put and carried, there being only three dissentients. Mr. HODGSON moved a vote of thanks to the chairman for doing the best he could to preside over a most unruly meeting. The motion was seconded, and carried unani mously. PLUMBAGO FROM TICONDEROGA. -----....-.- In the prefatory remarks, it would be observed, the credit of the discovery of the non-metallic nature of Plumbago is awarded to the indefatigable and accurate philosopher Boyle, and this in opposition to the opinion of those who, we are informed, being " best acquainted with it, style it a black pinguid shining earth, which they suppose impregnated with antimony and lead." That it should be regarded as a species of the latter metal, and thus acquire the popular cogno men of " black-lead" or " plumbago, " from Plumbum, need excite no surprise in the minds of those who regard only the exterior pro perties of the two minerals.* Both are solid, have an unctuous feel, and an opaque, lustrous, and metallic appearance, and each leaves a dark streak upon white paper ; but here the physical analogy ceases. . . vv Strange as it may appear, plumbago, in its che mical composition, approaches more nearly to the diamond than to any other known substance. In fact, the most abundantly diffused, and hence cheapest, variety of plumbago possesses, within a very small per-tentage, a composition identical with diamond, and yet how widely different in physical appearance, pecuniary value, and social influence! Of the diamond it may be said that for the pos session of even a few grains, thrones have tottered to their bases, and the most ancient dynasties been scattered to the winds ; its brilliancy and pellucid ness have rendered it an object of almost idolatrous regard in all ages ; the chief attraction amongst the gorgeous and glittering regalia of the monarch, the decorative orders of the warrior, and the well-merited insignia of the senator. It is also the highly-esteemed jewel upon the brow, the bosom, or the wrist of the fair and beautiful, where, fre quently its lustre is dimmed and its presence ren dered meretricious by the inherent grace and irre sistible charms of its possessor. As an article of merchandise the diamond has, from time immemo rial. exacted a price fabulously high, and equalled only by the estimate formerly attached to a "king's ransom." Of the varieties of carbon, the diamond ranks the purest, the onyx-stone (according to Buffon) next, and plumbago the third ; other varieties, as anthra cite and charcoal, follow in order. The diamond is regarded as pure carbon. The onyx-stone contains, according to the same author, a small quantity of oxygen and earthy substance, whilst plumbago con sists of carbon with from 5 to about 40 per cent. of impurities, not chemically, but mechanically, com bined. Ix the following analyses are presented the com position of some varieties of the plumbago hitherto furnished to the European markets, wherein it will be noticed that the rarest and most valuable sort, the " pencil-lead," contains the largest proportion of foreign admixture. The first table is arranged locally, according tO Buffon, No. 1 being the massive plumbago or pen cil-lead from Borrowdale ; Nos. 2 and 3 the foliated and granular respectively, from Himalaya, and Ceylon : No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. Carbon Iron 7.9 5.() 0.0 Limo and Alumina 36.0 8.4 6.0 Water 2.7 0.0 0.0 Silica 100.0 100.0 100.0 The subsequent analyses are exclusively those of quality by various experts, and represent six various samples of the granular and foliated plumbago : Sehul. Der thollet. Vanquelin. Carbon Iron lO.O 9.0 ... 8.0 Oxygen Saussure. Vanauxem. Prinsep. Carbon Iron 4.0 oxido 1.4 ... Oxygen Whilst again, of the pencil " lead," or massive plumbago, from the celebrated mines of Borrowdale, Buffon remarks,—" Le meilleure plombagine (plumbago) connue est it de Keswick, dans le duche de Cumberland, en Angleterre : elle s'y nomme Kellow. Scheele a retire de la plombagine. Carbon, 90 ; Oxyd fer 10. Il y a des plombagine moins pure, qui contiennent plus de fer, et dif - ferentes terres; c'est pourquoi,on ne peut s'en servir comme crayon." Until very recently the existence of pencil lead has been supposed to be limited entirely to Cum berland. Thanks to the scientific knowledge of American mineralogists, and to the mechanical skill of our Trasatlantic brethren, Columbia has been induced to yield an insight into her embowelled wealth, and, in answer to the Shibboleth of know ledge and industry, England will no longer be able to boast of the exclusive supply of pencil-lead, or the proprietors of the Borrowdale mine restrict the sale to an arbitrary issue. In these days of free trade the following mode adopted to enhance the value of pencil-lead will appear incredible, yet it is indisputable. Perio dically, never more frequently than once a year, the m i n e is opened, and a sufficient quantity of plumbago extracted to supply the market during the year or period determined upon. It is then closed up, and the product is carried in small fragments of about three and four inches long to London, where it is exposed to sale at the black-lead market, held at a public house in Essex-street, Strand, on the first Monday of every month. The buyers, who amount to seven or eight, examine each piece with a sharp instru ment to ascertain its hardness—those that are too soft being rejected. The individual who has the first choice pays 60s. per pound, the other 50s. But as there is no addition made to the first quantity in the market during the course of the year, the residual portions are examined over and over again until they are exhausted. The annual amount realised has been known to reach as high as £lOO,OOO. Exigen cies have frequently arisen where the exactions of demand have far surpassed the means of natural supply. In no one instance has this position been more forcibly exhibited than in the case under con sideration. For years, as we have seen, the work ings at Borrowdale have been on the verge of cessa tion, and a well-grounded conviction exists that speedy exhaustion of pencil-lead from this far and long-famed source is inevitable. In the interim the consumption of pencils becomes daily on t ho increase. With the rapid diffusion of a popular taste for the fine arts, and an almost miraculous extension of pro fessional, mechanical, and commerci a l enterprise— all imperatively involving a perpetual recurrence to the aid of the pencil—the principal material em ployed in its fabrication is inevitably becoming a "thing of the past" in the locality in which the * How much more euphonious and correct the strictly mineralogical term " Graphite" from the Greek radix Grapho, I write ! civilised world has for ceuturief 4 looked exclusively for its contribution. It cannot be denied that the aid of all-powerful sciencz,, as is invariably the case in such dilemmas, has been evoked, and to :a certain extent success fully, to furnish an artificia, l substitute. But cost of production, an item of consideration in all questions of supply and demand, has erected an insuperable barrier against the practical introduction of the fictitious article. At the identical moment when the portals of the Old World were closed against further production, those of the New World were thrown wide open, and displayed in the full vigour of freshness and beauty an amount of this indispensable mineral that may be considered inexhaustible. Instead of the pa tient industry which was rewarded by the discovery of a chance lump or nodule amidst the vast heap of accumulated gangue or matrix, the simple act now involved appears to be the separation of the minor proportion of earthy adhesions from the greater mass of plumbago. Even at the surface, over an acreage reckoned by thousands, Ticonderoga exhi bits ft capability of supply equal to the requirements of civilisation for centuries, and, obeying the almost universal law in that respect, deeper explorations must result in the development of the mineral of much richer and more prizeable quality than has yet been brought to light. The tocsin of peaceful competition has been sounded, comparison of quality boldly challenged against all comers, and though, up to this moment, the employment of the Ticonderoga Plumbago in the fabrication of pencils has been limited to the United States, the quantity consumed there both for home use and for exportation is very consider able, and will shortly produce an unmistakeable effect upon the English monopoly, and create a desire for a pecuniary interest in the American property. One of the earliest inducements to attempt an imitation of plumbago arose, as many of the most important discoveries of all ages have done, from accident. After Captain Roe had invented the diving-bell he joined Sir Archibald Grant, a great speculator of that day in coal mines and other matters, in an attempt to weigh the Florida, one of the Spanish Armada which had been foundered off the coast of Mull, near the entrance of Tobermory harbour. This attempt, which took place in 1740, was unsuccessful, as far as related to the ship, but some guns, both of brass and iron, were brought up. The former, whether they belonged to the Spanish vessel or not, had the mark of an English founder, "R. and J. Phillips, 1584," with a crown and "E. R." on them. The iron guns were deeply corroded with plumbago, and, on scraping them, it is said, they were found so hot that they could not be touched, and they did not become cool till they had been two or three hours exposed to the air. The astonishment of the Highlanders on finding guns still hot, after having been more than a cen tury under water, may be easily imagined ; and it is not surprising that this story was not believed, and that, not being believed, it was forgotten. In obedience to a law explicable only on chemical principles, we find that in preparing plumbago artifically, lead maybe substituted for iron as a con stituent. It has been further proved that of all the varieties thus manufactured that is the best which contains lead. The writer is not aware, however, that in the natural production there has ever oc curred an instance of the substitution of lead for iron, yet of traces of plumbago in lead-bearing districts there is abundance of evidence. Relative to the geological character of the localities which afford plumbago, it may be added that it is found usually in primary or transition and schistose' rocks. In this respect it appears to fol low the arrangements which regulate the existence of most other minerals. At Borrowdale the pencil lead occurs chiefly in nests in partially decomposed trap rock. The inferior sorts are found at Gles thrathfarar, near Inverness, in gneiss, where they crop out in seams or veins from twelve or eighteen inches in thickness, At Arendal, in Norway, it occurs in quartz. In Ayrshire it is yielded in coal beds, and the writer has picked up isolated pieces in the Alps in the Department d'lsere, where it is associated with anthracite amongst the granitic ranges. In most cases, as though to stimulate the patience and energy of the explorer, the usual result of continuous labour is apparent, the veins con verge into one, enlarge and improve in quantity and quality as they penetrate deeper. At the Ticonderoga mines, where plumbago has been discovered in such profuse abundance, it is found in felspar and mica -slate, and in a wall-rock of bastard granite, a combination acknowledged by practical geologists to be the most favourable for richness of ore and perpetuity in working. In some localities of the mountain the incasing-rock ap proaches a variety of senite. A recent visitor, Professor Vincent, thus describes the mine—." It is situated about two miles west of Ticonderoga, three miles from Lake George. The outcroppings on the north side of the mountain show the extraordinary number of more than 100 true veins. Between 20 and 30 of these veins have been opened to various depths, ranging from 10 to 350 yards. One lode at a depth of 350 yards is consi dered to yield, on an average, from 1,200 to 1,600 pounds per fathom. All the lodes have afforded plumbago of a very superior character. Both the quantity and quality of yield gradually improve as the workings gain iu depth. The entire side of the mountain is literally dotted with outcroppings, pre senting to the geologist a rare and most interesting phenomenon, inasmuch as between all the main lodes intermediate small veins or ' feeders' occur." The writer then proceeds to describe that portion of the property which yields the pencil lead. " The mineral itself," he remarks, " is of a rare and supe rior description, and is pronounced superior for lead pencils to any yet exhibited, the Siberian and Cum berland varieties alone excepted, but possessing thi s advantage over those two celebrated sorts, that it can be produced for market at an exceedingly low price." "In conclusion," Mr. Vincent observes, " that, in view of the constantly increasing demand for plumbago for crucibles, stove polish, foundry and powder facings, stereotyping, lead pencils, paint, lubricating, &c., the cheapness with which it can be mined, prepared, and delivered in the great markets of Europe and America, and the limited number of plumbago mines in the world worth working, this property—capable of supplying, when properly developed, the entire commercial demand, large as it is—can scarce fail to reward its owners beyond that of most of the best iron, coal, or other mines of the world." This encouraging report is fully borne out by that of a practical Cornish miner who has made a professional inspection of the sett. Amongst the principal consumers of the mineral, the crucible makers, the Ticonderoga plumbago has ob tained a remarkable celebrity. The superintendent of the New York Crucible Works reports, "An important consideration is that the Ticonderoga plumbago can al ways b e o bt a i ne d o f an un if orm quality, ther e b y assuring an uniform crucible, that d upon t to theo run qu a a li t e y e r o t f ai n the n steel, t i ee number u o s f i m ie a a y ta b w e injuryi d- th e o P u en t de the iva n e a u s f e a c w t t r b e b a o n C u n e y i f l o o r u m p i s u t n and, s B u c e not givi t b ig ei t n h g e h sides the foregoing advantages of the Ticonderoga plumbago over the Ceylon, I can mak e po t s f or t h e manufacture of steel that will stand as many heats as the best Ceylon plumbago with 30 to 33 per cent. less weight." We have had occasion to enumerate tho various purposes to which the use of plumbago has been confined, its limited employment being doubtless the result of the high price it has hitherto com manded. It remains to be seen whether a reduc tion in cost, such as must inevitably result from the introduction of the American produce into England, may not materially extend the consumption, by gain ing for it an employment in other operations. Amongst other probable uses may be suggested extensive trials of its effects in increasing the tena city of iron, both in the construction of auxiliaries of peaceful occupation and the stern but imperative muniments of war. It has been asserted on excel lent authority (11‘Culloch) that a certain portion of plumbago found in pig-iron adds considerably to its toughness. On one occasion, in particular, he mentions that " a cannon had been condemned for some fault in the bore, and it was found so exceed ingly tough that none of the men were able to break THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2,7, 1866. off a trunnion, as is the usual practice in these cases, when three or four blows of the sledge were com monly found sufficient for the purpose. I was par ticularly induced, therefore," says Mr. M'C ulloch, " to examine this specimen, and was surprised to find that it not only contained a most unusual pro portion of plumbago, but that it was in a disen gaged state. The plumbago was not only visible on breaking the metal, giving it the appearance of having been rubbed with powdered black-lead, but the iron was capable of leaving its trace on paper. I have neither before nor since ever met with another example of this kind. The remaining guns of this lot, which must have been made of the same metal, went on service, and some of them are pro bably still existing. I have no doubt they were the best that were received during the war, and it would have been very desirable to have discovered by what means this very uncommon specimen of gun metal had been procured, as its toughness is a matter of such importance." "It is easy," he continues, "to conjecture the presence and proportion of plumbago by the colour of the fracture, which is darkest or most grey where it is most abundant. The trials which I have made also go to prove that the greyest metal is the toughest, although I know that many ironfounders consider that gun metal may be too grey, and act on this principle in the assortment of pigs for the reverbatory." In concluding this article it will be considered not out of place to render some statistics of the de mand which obtains in this country, and in a por tion of the United States, for plumbago. These estimates cannot fail in proving both interesting and instructive. Reliable they must be, having ema nated direct, the one from the Custom House of London, the other from the United States Treasury Department. From the former it appears that the imports of plumbago into Great Britain during the past five years were : Tons. I , Tons. 1861 1862 4,079 I 1865 1863 Or, for the last two years, an average, per annum, of 5,527 tons ; this supply being, of course, irrespec tive of native production. The American return, as will be observed, is re stricted to two of the States, but these, perhaps, are the principal ones for the consumption of the article in question : Now York. Boston. - - lb. lb. tons. cwt. qrs. lb. 1863 1864 - 2,287 0 0 0 Ending June, 1863 and 1864. Now York. Boston. lb. lb. tons. cwt. qrs. lb. 1865 Ending 20th April, 1865, being a period of only ten months. These documents present a matter of great public interest, inasmuch as they exhibit, not only the rela tive quantities of plumbago consumed by the two leading commercial countries of the world, but the rapid and successful strides America is taking in her progress as the manufacturing rival of the " mother country." LAW INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 26. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, Mr. Justice Shee, and Mr. Justice Lush.) F. DOULTON, V. THE PRINTER AND PUBLISHER OF THE " DAILY TELEGRAPH."--LIBEL. Mr. Field, Q.C., moved for a rule calling upon Mr. Joseph Ellis, printer and publisher of the Daily Telegraph, to show cause why a criminal informa tion should not be filed against him for having printed and published in that journal a libellous article re flecting upon the public character and conduct of Mr. Poulton in his capacity of Member of Parliament for the borough of Lambeth. The article complained of was published in the Telegraph of Wednesday, the 21st Nov., and was bitterly and unjustly severe against Mr. Poulton. Founded on a meeting of the constituency to hear Mr. Thomas Hughes, the other representative of the borough, render an account of his stewardship, it commenced thus :—" Lambeth has at present only one representative instead of two ; but as that one is a perfectly honest and faith ful member of Parliament, the great borough must be congratulated. In the' house that Palmerston built' honest and faithful representatives are scarce enough to make many another constituency envy Lambeth for possessing Mr. Thomas Hughes, since after all one good man and true out of two is 60 per cent. of political justice ; and if such an average were general, the evil spectacle would not be presented of the existing divorce between the nation and the na tional chamber." The learned gentleman, in con tinuation, read the entire " leading article," which, while it lauded Mr. Hughes, aspersed Mr. Doulton. In proceeding with his analysis he selected and com mented on several passages which he urged upon the attention of the court as libellous. Alluding further to Mr. Doulton, the writer of the article, in speaking of him as a Member of Parliament, and in defining that character, says : ' Representative' has come to mean in certain mouths a senatorial personage who, on false pretences, embezzles a seat with hy pocritical addresses, in order that he may misre present his electors on the flimsy plea of indepen dence." Those who mouth the word independence,' while they swindle the people who gave them a stage for their political knavery to strut upon, would do well to note two passages in the address delivered on Monday night at the Walworth Institute." The writer proceeded :—" The member for Lambeth, who dares not think that he may treat the thou sands of votes in the vast borough as if they were old railway tickets—who comes forward to give an account of his stewardship, to answer questions, and to await the judgment of his supporters—is not the less, but all the more, able t o s h ow th a t h e h as a mind of his own. He did not scrupple to tell such an audience over again that if the Reform League had persisted in forcing a way into the park with out waiting for the law to say whether they were right, he would himself have turned out to vindicate the law. This was a bold and honest piece of poli aiendgsa% the Lambeth shopke e pers, also, was the fearless hint wtichaiclhmiNainr.hoinl, Hughes g that when he saw the many convictions for false weights and measures in the borough, he felt his ears tingle with shame as the representative of the constituency. Dare any of the spurious ' indepen dents' of the time say such things in such aposition? Their own measures and scales are vile with too much self-interest, fradulent with too many hidden make weights, to allow it ; they have to stop at home like Mr. Doulton, because the new-fashioned honesty' of the present House of Commons passes muster there, but is found out and called a sham in less de licate assemblies." The learned gentleman sub mitted that this was a most unjust and libellous at tack on the political integrity and moral principles of Mr. Doulton. But that was not all. The libel lous article went on to say :—" Mr. Doulton did well to stop at home, and Lambeth, for the future, will do well to leave him there. He represents his potteries—not the borough—and his proper place is among them. The assembly asked, with derisive cheers and laughter, why the other member' was not by the side of Mr. Hughes ; but if it had been, the derision would have been deeper, and the laughter more ' inextinguishable ;' for what earthly right has Mr. Poulton now to speak in Lambeth as its r epresentative ? If the borough possessed a dock for political swindlers, his proper place would be easier to point out ; he would then have a good right to be heard ; but it would only be to show cause why all upright men should not pass upon him sentence of contempt and indig nation." What, he (Mr. Field), asked could be more libellous than those unwarrantable imputa tions on the character of a public man ? He bad perhaps shown enough to entitle him to a rule, but he would call attention to one more passage as additional evidence of the animus that dictated the attack. Speaking of Mr. Doulton, the writer pro ceeded—" But this new Judas of a modern Potter's field crept into the confidence of Lambeth in the days of Pahnerstonian promises and petty perfor mances, picked the pockets of the Lambeth men of their votes, embezzled a scat for the borough, and made it a sort of branch establishment for his own private opinions and ends. The one poor speech in which he explained' his conduct, explained nothing except that he had not a shred of intellect or eloquence wherewith to plaister his treason, and to the disaster of Lambeth in choosing a turncoat he added the discomfiture of having also chosen an incapable. The wisest thing the man has ever done since he filched the appen dage of M.P. has been to give up saying on e word to palliate his condition. Morally, he has gone out and hanged himself' in some Aceldama apart from the Walworth institute, for the cause he conspired against is just, innocent, and undying, and the thing for which he did it—the favour of the chief priests of Adullam—turns out a thirty-times told condemnation and curse." Nothing, he (Mr. Field) submitted, could be more unjust than this slanderous attack upon the political inte grity and worth of Mr. Doulton, who, in seeking the suffrages of the voters of the borough, did so for the public interest, and not, as imputed, for his own private gain. The writer of the article com mented most unfairly on the absence of Mr. Doul ton from the meeting, but he was only absent because he was not by those who got up and con vened the meeting invited to be present and to take a part in the proceedings. The learned gentleman having gone through the article, concluded by hop ing that the Court would grant the rule. The Lord Chief Justice was of opinion that the Court ought not to grant a rule. The article was no doubt a strong, a severe one ; but it was in the nature of a political commentary upon Mr. Doul ton's political conduct, and was not regarded by the Court as reflecting upon that gentleman's private character and integrity. Public commentaries, however painful they might prove, all public men were liable to, and even they (the judges) were not exempt from them. The rule must therefore be refused. The other learned judges concurred. Rule refused accordingly. SPIRIT OF TUB PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SPECTATOR" ON ARTEiIUS WARD IN LON DON. Artemus Ward is, as a true humorist should be, even better than his books. 'What his personal influence adds to the humour of his stories is not of course always easy to analyse, but mainly, we think this—the impression which he contrives to produce that his confusions of thought and speech are all inevitable on his own part, that his mind drifts on helplessly from one of these grotesque ideas or expressions to the next, as the creature or victim of some overruling power, which chooses his thought and language for him, so that he is not even a party to the transaction, though he has an earnest and rather melancholy interest in the result. When he first comes on to the platform, with his long, hollow-checked face, and his bright, sad, in terrogative eyes, we should expect from him, if we knew nothing about the matter, almost anything rather than cause for laughter. He might be, were he not a little too quiet and polished in manner, an eager philanthropist or religious preacher, who had one sole passion let t burning in his brain—to convince the rest of the world of the duty of joining in some great crusade. Yet he has the face of a humourist, nevertheless, the light in the eyes, the twitch about the mouth which show, as soon as we know what he really is, that the most opposite currents of associa tion constantly cross each other and pull simultane ously at the most widely separatedchordsof his mind. He never smiles, but looks, on the contrary, pleading and entreating, as if he were above all things so licitous to get his thoughts really disentangled this time, when he is approaching one of his odd comparisons. When he first appears, for in stance he says, with the greatest simplicity and a pathetic kind f earnestness, that he does not him self think at all highly of his entertainment or ex pect much from it, that he only hopes to obtain from it a small sum of money sufficient to take him to New Zealand, for, he adds, "if I could only go to New Zealand, I should feel that I had not wholly lived in vain ;" and then, as the audience laugh at this very new recipe for avoiding a completely vain life, he adds, with eagerness and a child-like sort of effusion to his audience, " I don't want to live wholly in vain," at which, of course, the laughter deepens into a hearty roar. That is the type of the whole character of his humour. He gets hold of two inconsistent and absurdly abitrary ideas, connects them with a sort of simple fervour in his mind, and presses them on his hearers with an air of plaintive good faith that is quite irresistible. So, a few sentences afterwards, when he men tions that he would not allow a bust of himself to be taken because he could not bear the idea of the people carrying him about everywhere, mak ing him common, and hugging him in plaster of Paris, and his audience (rather prematurely) laugh, he assumes the laugh to be sceptical, and says with a sharp, half-snappish air of innocent, argumentative irritation, " Yes, they would,"—a n d then those who saw nothing humorous before are fully carried away now, and join in the universal chorus. All his best points are made by producing this impression—that his mind is floating inevitably along a natural current of ideas where his audience see the most absurd combinations. In one of his Punch Papers, Artemus Ward's best point was re marking quite simply that the Tower a " sweet boon," but the humour of this criticism would have been immensely enhanced by his manner. He would have said it with such accidental pathos, as if the 1 words were the only possible ones that could have risen to his lips to describe the Tower, that the humour, real enough in the printed letter, would have convulsed his audience. All he says seems to be thought aloud, as if it were just bubbling up new within him. And when he hits on a deep thought, and says, for instance, with a sort of hesitating, perplexed candour, as though he were getting a little beyond his own depth and his audience's too —" Time passed on. You may have noticed that it usually does, that that is a sort of way Time has about it, it generally passes on," a joke of no abso lute merit takes a very great humour from his hesi tating anxious way of appearing to show the analysis of his own embarrassed thoughts to the people he is addressing. The character he best likes to fill is that of a sort of intellectual Hans— the model simpleton of the old German stories--ia the act of confiding himself to the public. In the German stories Hans only makes a practical fool of himself in all sorts of impossible ways. But Arte mus Ward intellectualises him—shows the inner absurdity of his own thoughts with a pathetic ear nestness and candour. His mind seems to wander when he speaks of his own past with winning simpli city. With the sunny days of youth, he says, many sweet forms are associated, " especially Maria— she married another —you may notice they fre quently do"—and he brings out all such happy generalisations with a real heave of intellectual tra vail that convulses his hearers with good reason. Nothing is better than his eager, ardent way of pro le a truism, You cannot avoid the convic tion for a moment that it has just struck him as a real truth. When he points to the summit of one of the mountains in Utah, and says, with an evident wish to be useful to his audience, " the highest part of this mountain is the top," or pointing to one of the horses on the prairie, " that beautiful and in teresting animal is a horse, it was a long time be fore I discovered it," in spite of the exceeding sim plicity and obviousness of the joke, which any clown in a pantomime might have made as well, he reaches the sense of humour simplyby the engaging earnest ness and naivete of his speech. Perhaps the most humorous part of Artemus Ward's lecture, how ever, is the natural, unresisting way in which he drifts about in search of words and phrases, often conveying a sense of difficulty and of conscious error, and then correcting himself by the use of a phrase still more ludicrous, and on which yet he seems to have been landed by an imperious neces sity. Thus, when he says that he used to sing, but not well, lie stumbles in the most natural way, and is a prey to melancholy that he can't hit on the proper phrase, " as a songer," be said, " I was not successful ;" and then, in a depressed and self-cor recting way, conscious he had gone wrong, " As a singster I was:a failure. I am always saddest when I sing—and so aro those who hear me." The art with which he gives the impression that he is floun dering along in his choice of words, the victim of the first verbal association which strikes his memory, and yet just familar enough with language to feel uncertain as to his ground and to wish to get hold of some clearer term, is beyond praise. When he lighted upon " singster" he evidently felt that he was near the mark, a partial, but not complete, satisfaction lit up his face, and yet he did not pronounce it with confidence, but with a modest sort of diffi dence, as if the phrase was as near as he could get. A general effect of having to grope for his language before he can express himself always hovers about his manner. When he says, with some pride, that he would not allow them " to sculp" him, and that " the clothes I now occupy produced a great sensa tion in America," there is uo glimmer of a smile on his face, and a marked absence of emphasis on the grotesque words, which he slips out exactly as if he were rather anxious to divert attention from points on which he feels his ground somewhat uncertain, —just as an Englishman abroad hastily slurs over his doubtful grammar to get on to idioms of which he is more certain. Then occasionally he will fall in the most natural and helpless way into a lan guage-trap of his own setting, as where he says that in the hurry of embarking on board the steamer which took him from New York, some middle aged ladies against whom he was hustled mis took his character wholly and said, " Base man, leave us, oh leave us !—and I left them, oh I left them !" where he appears quite un able to help throwing the second half of the sentence into the form of an antistrophe to the first. It im presses one as a sheer inability to get out of the wake of the first half of the sentence, not as any wish to be amusing, that makes him interpolate the second " oh !" He seems like a man who, having taken a good run, cannot stop himself at ie right point, but must run beyond it ; the rhythm of the elderly ladies' exhortation mastered him ; he help lessly succumbs to it in explaining how he obeyed it. It is the fatalism of grammatical construction. So, again, when lie finds the 17 young Mormon widows weeping, and asks them, " Why is this thus ?" he falls a victim to the perplexity and embar rassment with which the juxtaposition of " this" and " thus" has overpowered his weak brain ; and goes on helplessly, what is the cause of thisthusness ?" He cannot evidently help developing at length those subtle suggestions of verbal confusion which so often strike everybody's ear with an idiotic jingle of fasci nation. This is closely analogous to his curious habit of floating feebly down the chain of intellectual as- _ sociation, however grotesque. When he tells us that the picture of the Nevada mountains is by " the ancient masters," the mere idea of the ancient mas ters of course suggests at once that they are dead ; so be goes on, " This was the last picture they painted, and then they died." So when he points out the lion on Brigham Young's gate, he says, pointing to a very ridiculous and elongated feature in it, " Yonder lion, you will observe, has a tail. It will be continued for a few evenings longer." The humour of all this is the humour of helplessness, the humour of letting your thoughts drift idly with the most absurd association that crosses them, and never rescuing yourself by any insurrection of common sense. Artemus Ward in all his best jokes—of course, like other professional jokers, he has some poor ones, at which it is wrong to smile—is, as we said before, an intellectualised form of the German village-simpleton Hans. He yields a literal obedience to every absurd suggestion of thought and language, just as Hans does to the verbal directions of his wife or mother, and gets into intellectual absurdity just as Hans gets into a practical absurdity. This, with the melancholy, earnest manner of a man com pletely unconscious that there is anything grotesque in what he says, conveys an effect of inimitable humour. THE " EXAMINER " ON TIIE " TIMES" AND TIIE BALLOT IN AMERICA.--It is difficult to follow the course or to understand the policy of the Times in reference to the Ballot. Unfounded statements in leaders are generally corrected by precise, accurate, and reliable statements in the letters of correspon dents. If we read in a leader a taunting reference to the Ballot in Australia we generally find in the next letter cf the Melbourne correspondent a state ment that the Ballot is a moral engine in electioneer ing, the benefits of which we cannot appreciate because we have never seen it at work. Touching France, the leaders have often spoken of the Ballot box as the nest wherein Imperial despotism is hatched, while the Paris correspondent speaks of it, if not in the words of Cicero, " Tabella vizzdex tacitce liberatis," yet as the shield under which French electors successfully fight the Imperial can didates at the poll. The latest instance of our powerful neighbour's appearing on this head in the character of Mr. Facing-both-ways is the yearly election in New York State. Here is the statement of "Our own correspondent," under date New York, Nov. 6, transcribed from the Times, Nov. 19 : " Bribery is a penal offence, but that bribery goes on to a greater extent here than in England, taking the country through, is capable of proof, I will relate some of the means which are adopted to bring voters to a proper sense of the merits of a candidate. In the first place the candidate or committee of the party bribe by wholesale—they do not deal with individual voters. For example, the foreman of a fire company goes to the candidate and says, There are twenty or thirty of us who are going to vote in this election, and we do not much care which way we go. We rather prefer you, and if you will give us something to drink your health with we will vote for you.' The can didate asks them how much they want, and, if his committee approves, he pays them the sum, when, as a victim remarked to me, they very likely go to the other candidate and say the same thing to him, and get his money too." And (let us ask in passing) which of the two candidates gets the votes of these men in buckram suits or rogues in Lincoln green ; or how is it to be known whether all the 20 or 30 vote en masse, or vote variously as each thinks fit. ? The story does not sound likely, or agree with what we have heard of American acuteness. The Times, however, has other testimony, " but neither so does their witness agree together." A Times correspon dent, whether the same as the one just quoted or another we know not, but writing from New York no farther back than October last, said :—" Large amounts of money are collected for electioneering purposes, but it is not spent in buying votes, but in conducting the preliminaries to an election. It is a very rare thing that a voter is paid for his vote, for the reason that the election being by ballot there is no certainty that he keeps his bargain." In this discrepancy it is demonstrable that the fault lies with the witness against the ballot. . We say so be cause the testimony of the last quoted correspondent is confirmed by testimonies of American citizens, one of which, out of many at hand, we quote : "There have been closely contested elections where ardent and unprincipled partisans resorted to bribery. Men have been convicted for this crime as they have for all other crimes in America. It is an un usual thing, wholly exceptional. Public sen timent condemns it as one of the most criminal acts, and circumstances in exception a l cases only make it an impossibility. It is not an institu tion as here (in England) buying voters. Not only the extent of the numbers who exercise the suffrage, but its instrument, the ballot, makes corruption to any very great extent an impossibility. Human nature instinctively abhors venality, concede that all men are willing to receive the wages of corrup tion, it is the reward and not the corruption men like. The chances are, that as the ballot makes one's act his own secret, if he receives the wages of venality he will the more certainly betray his suborner.—' An Inquiry Answered. The Demo cratic Institutions of America.' By O. Vanden burgh. P. 25." Reference has been made to the carelessness of the November correspondent. Ob serve his statement :—" There is a Democratic and a Republican Ballot-box, and to one or the other the voter goes, according to his opinions." We presume the writer was actually present at the polls, and give him credit for meaning to describe accurately what he saw or thought he saw. But although not in New York, we write with a most perfect recollection of accounts in the Times of New York elections in former years, and with a " Guide to Elections," published in New York at hand, and venture to say that a greater mistake never found its way into a correspondent's letter than this which asserts the existence at a New York or any American election of boxes intended for the votes of the opposing parties. When considering the use of anonymous voting in foreign countries, it is a striking fact to bear in mind that it is the mode of voting which has been established for the elec tions to the new Parliament of North Germany. A comparison of the election law as first proposed by the Government with the law as it finally passed the Chambers, shows that the Prussian Liberals took care to perfect and secure this shield of electoral freedom. This is a development of " geist" hitherto we believe unnoticed ; and which we commend to the careful consideration of the many worshippers of that lately discovered metaphysical essence. The Daily News is of opinion that the Reform Conference at Manchester, and the banquet which followed it, afford gratifying proof of the unanimity and resolution of Reformers. Independent and ex official members of Parliament, capitalists, and representatives of working-class organisations, men so different in temperament, intellectual habit, and pursuit, as Lord Houghton and Mr. Bright, are not drawn together upon the same platform except by a very strong and wide-spread feeling. The appearance of " elderly gentlemen of Parliamen tary standing, and with invested capital," upon a public platform, demanding Reform, and giving the last proof of an English man ' s zea l in the cause, ought to abate the alarms felt or affected in certain quarters at the idea of any considerable extension of the suffrage. Possibly, the News sug gests, these members of a class, necessarily and na turally Conservative in the true if not in the party sense, perceive clearly that the danger against which we have to guard is not in opening the gates of the Constitution too wide, but in keeping them obsti nately closed. They feel probably that extreme theories are the most dangerous where the educa tion of the school, of the newspaper, and of the book is unchecked by the practical training derived from conversance with affairs ; and that a people which is taught but does not vote stands always near the verge of revolution. As to the particular measure of Reform demanded by these and other considerations, the News considers that the con ference at Manchester acted wisely in declin ing to commit itself to details. If th e prin ciples on which any measure acceptable to the Liberal party must be based were not made clear by the debates of last session, the public time was un warrantably wasted in idle talk. The _Herald admits that the Manchester banquet was a very respectable affair. Indeed Mr. Bright himself showed that he was a victim to the intense respectability of the meeting, and was able to pro duce no new piquant details of the profligacy of the governing classes or the selfishness of the landed proprietors. As for the speeches they contain a few tame platitudes about the necessity of enlarging the franchise and the inequalities of the present re presentative system. We hear a great deal about general rights and principles, but we hear nothing of any particular scheme of Reform—of how much ought to be conceded and what may be accepted. After the flowery language of all the former pro grammes the bill of fare at Manchester is couched in the tamest words. The Star dwells upon the magnificent character of the meeting. The cream of the middle-class politicians of Lancashire and Yorkshire crowded the hall, men whose influence has been felt at every great crisis of our political history—the self-made men of industry, the solid men of wealth, who can subscribe £l,OOO for a purpose which is to benefit their country, without expecting anybody to quote it as a reason why they should be permitted to do political wrong for the rest of their lives. The men who carried Catholic Emancipation were there—not, indeed the same generation of individuals, but Eng lishmen of like position, of like generous instincts, of like political influence, and of like indomitable perseverance of purpose. The men who carried the Reform of 1832 were there—the men who carried the abolition of the Corn Laws were there—and. 4 the success of these great struggles the Tory Chiefs may read the omens of their fate. If they have all spark of honour, consistency, or regard for the o', name of English public men, they will not attell: to exhibit the amount of their hollowness by swap lowing their principles, but will show some frill ' meet for repentance by resigning. The Daily Telegraph of Monday last makes late following following remarks on M r . J ames Howards paper on American affairs :—" He related. the eq o cumstances attending a great trial of reaP ers . America, which lasted three weeks. The mach lll— ,4 sixty in number, were tried on every d e scription i - 4 crop, and the performances had to b e made no% the keen inspection of twel v e judges divided 1001. three committees, a ' time committee,' aacme. meter committee,' and a committee of dea t ton . ,' every judge being furnished with a long the of . instructions. ' The pains taken in preparing t o points to which the attention of the judges s b° ll „ es be directed, the various modes in which the rnacu l t - be were to be tested, the subdivisions of the PI , "„,, length of time devoted to the purpose, and the ea '' o ful report, containing a record of facts rather thA d , of opinions, seemed to me to be a long way vance of our English mode of conducting such trials.f So speaks Mr. Howard. Such a careful record ti u , facts elicited must prove a means of teaching 1113 . 11 ,,, fa . cturers of these implements their own deficiel d cies, and accounts in no small degree for the 1,,P r0 advances they have made in this branch of in o `g a t invention. He observes, too, on the absence of narrowness . of feeling too often observable aul ° ; rivals in trade. ' I was struck with one arra ng ra . meat which exists in America. Owing to the nt l ,„, ber of patents the leading builders of rear; machines, some years ago, found themselves ,c u er. stantly in collision with patentees and each o f ''u the To obviate this serious difficulty a number 01 , principal makers and patentees united, and wat t common stock of their own and a number of cn t patents which they bought up. A gentleman t. Auburn was appointed their attorney and age_t e Under this arrangement the maker can have the Iw o of any or all of the patents, but he only PO l e , royalty upon such part as he may choose fo r . This is sensible and broad—due probably, as S Howard suggests, to the breadth of the cou ntie Had a similar system prevailed here ten years teak ' he would, perhaps, have attempted to solve the si;e B d , problem in its application to tillage in a less r 01 ,1 1 . 0, about way. Possibly his suggestions as to P ° i i. ness to strangers on the part of the officials a t z, cultural shows will also be noted and imitated 00 where." COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—Nov. 24. A moderate supply of wheat at market, which sold try: advance of 3s per qr on red and 2s on white from the P iot vious week. Fine barley was again dearer, a nd c ' t kinds sold well. Beans and peas is higher in value. iv Wheat,white tsa 72s Beans, klazagan...-••j A , /OS red, 62s 668 Middle and 41 1 Barley ........ 32s 518 Peas, white. ......... 40 Oat ........—s -s grey .......•• ••• CHELMSFORD—Nov. 23. iv bu t At the market to-day wheat was in good suPP.qtet. the trade was inactive, at an advance of is por g r il or oter Barley firm, at late rates. Oats disposed of at 1 terms. Beans and peas advanced is per qr. , ; 43° Wheat, old white....s2a 56a Peas, Partridge ...... .. 360 new . .sus 65s White ...... ....32 A old red %Os 59a BAling ....... :." 4 , f . : new ..50s 5Ss Dun.... ..... . .... 0 ~ Barley... 26s 31s dit.o, neW•••• 4 J Chevalier - a —s Beans, Tick, 01d....••",400 44 Grind.ng 9 5s 30s new. • ••„, 40• Malt. sBs cOs Harrow OWL''' . 40 Chevalier 6•41 62i ew.. •• 1 Oats ••• 2ls 27s Mazagann..... .; ,9° : 134 GRANTHAM—Nov. 24. nab Old white wheat, 58s to 61s; old rod, 54s to 5 8 s; pr white, 54s to 588 ; new rod, 49s to 54s per 36 stone • „„or ley for malting, 38s to 455 per qr. ; grinding, 308 to 870 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s •, new 25 8 to 3 0 1:04e• stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; new, 39s to 468 per 3u " Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. NORTHAMPTON—Nov. 24. ola Now white wheat, 56s to 60s; new red, 50s to ' a4 "- rt " 'le9 white, 58s to 625; old red, 56s to 59s per 36 ston e. for malting, 42s to bls per qr. ; grinding, 29s to 3 69 P e on e. stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s ; new, 23s to 32s per 24 143 0,q, Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. 38s to 42s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—Nov. 16. cooa The attendance at the corn market to-day wats,lol and there was deal of business doing. Prices for " flour, bere, and barley generally dearer. el. White wheat 52s Od to 60s Od) 6211)13 bushel. lied wheat 48s Od to 55s Odj 01 Potato oats 24s Od to 26s Od i 40 1bil bils b Common oats 23s Gd to 25s Od j 01. Bore 3ls Od to 32s 6d t . 531 1, .11 basi l ar 32s Od to 33s Od 28°' ` . Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6d j 11 boll 0f 28 0,t b . Flour, fine 43s Od to 50s 6d iii sack 0f KCALD—. . A pria s Good supplies Kl of R wheat, ba Y rley, Noy and l7 oats, all" • for wheat and oats as beforo ; barley is down. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...— 55s Od ; 35a , 41 23s Od svs ' 3.1 a Od r(1 s 6t LAIN ci3s 01 424 Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. o.d. t 5 Lambert's W.Hartley 17 9 Walls End Hotton .0 i 2 s . Holywell Main l7 9 West Hartley ......... n , 3 Bradyell's Hetton Wylam l7 0 Walker Primrose ....•' g . 6 Davison's W. Hartley 18 3 Kelloe ................25 on Acorn Close 2l 3 Original Hartlepoo l - 0 " n Walls End Haswell 23 0 Cassop ........ .... .. 1 9 v. Framwellgato 2O 6 Pittingtou .............. , t U . Hartlepool South Hartlepool 2l. 6 Tunstall ............... East Hartlepool Ships at market, 92—sold, 78. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 1 0 ' Lustralia and New Zealand, via Southamptoft•••••"" Pee' Ditto, via Marseilles Brazil and Capa Verde. by British packet...... . , Ditto, by French packet ..... . De c 4 / ....... Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. •• . • l4 o 3. China, Penang, and Sing & pore, via Sou:hampton• • . 1.) , Ditto, via Marstales ........... . Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via zutropton India (Calcutta),o 23 and ha Ceylon, via Southampton••••• oi r 91. ,p• Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton Dee' 8 • Ditto, via Marseilles NoQ Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov 91: Ditto, via Marseilles 2 o Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles • . Newfoundland Portugal ••• • •• ..... ••• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ............. United States and British North America, by Bri- 29. ./10Y• tish packet .. . •__ Ditto. by United States packet, via Southanzr ton Ditto, yin Cork ........ 10, Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry • • 14° ;0. West Coa4 of Africa, Bladcira. and Tenerilfe ..•• D0 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and , 23 Honduras) No" .46 Cuba 4nd Mexico Bermuda, via Halifax De ° ' Bahamas. via New York. DISAPPEARANCE OF AN HElR.—Letter- 1014 Naples state that the princely family of Angc ll " l4 : e 19 ; tivoly lost all hope of finding its heir, a young m an o r 0 1) ; who disappeared at Custozza without any nav e d trace of him being obtained. The family latell •:r1; glimpse of hope, as he was said to be a prisonerin $O. afterwards that he had been carried off by briglin-i-04 At last they have had his funeral service celebraWloo gone into mourning. He was one of the finest lol l " - in Naples. gt==3 Births. , yadp BUXTON— On the 25th inst., at 9, Seanaore-PA—' Buxton, of a daughter. A 0 964 MANNERS—On the 23d inst., at 6, Cumberlal l--t bto r • Regent's-park, the Lady John Manners, of a dolg a 00 T UI!NER —On the 25th inst., at Clifton Cottago,N4'.) wife of A. H. Turner, Esq., late of the B th (" Be Regiment, of a son. YARDLEY—On the 24th inst., at Hadlow Park, P SI 4 Yardley, of a son. Marriages. Is o BATTEN—BURTON—On the 22d inet a t Cheltenlier n ° f E. Batten, Esq., late of Rhode House, Stroud, - Eliza, eldest daughter of the late J. Burtoe, Andover Lodge, Cheltenham. rg e f : g ' MITFORD—WYMER-011 the 22d inst., at SA A l Ge 'e 6 ; h th Hanover-square, Win. Milford Esq.,"h e Regiment (late of the 73d) on'l suiviv‘ing cu"-daegv,; late Col. "W. V Milford, to 'Emily y only survivig Jo 10 1" ter of Gen. Sir G. P. W mer , K 0 13 • Lodge, Ryde, I.W. • • Deaths. r tn ! lel' BENNETT—On the 24th inst., at Woodha ll Ville ' - aged 7 / 0. CHESTER—On the e 25th hist ,at West Bri %ten, Stirre' 1 Chester, Esq., sol 12 aged 70. n r tr i ` t) FIELDING—OR the 25th inst., a t Bucklands, 4-. °v ° ' Rev. Charles Fielding ? aged 76. TER —On the 24th inst., a t Pembroke J. WV F'l PAYN -,l'er' Esq., aged 78. 1309' TuLLocH—On the 23d inst., at 23, Dawson-placed, uoolit water, Jacobins Maria, relict of Lieut.-Gen. ".11 C. 8., late of the Indian Army. ar o Vituou.s.N—On the 22d inst., at 9 , The M ount, St. Leoll on-Sea, Martin H. Vaughan, aged 11 days. A Ole WODEHOUSE —0 n the 6th ult., a t G o vernment Ilouslotiset Town, Catherine• Mary, the wife of Sir P. E . W°cle K.C.8., Governor oftle Capo Colony, aged 49. ______ ---. _...- ---------- 0, London: Printed and Published by WI LLIAM AN P, it , i. iii , , of No. 112, Strand, Print er at Tun SUN oil l o o, ' - ty ' Strand, in the Prec inct of the Savoy, in the Cotin tiliddlefez,—Tueeday, November 27, 1804. n.,,,~ ~ ... . b •