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REMEgIIER! WE WAIT SUPP E R not, FOR YOU, atter the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail 1{ .. 1 -A. II AN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC pThmift celebrated Old IRI.3IIBRANDY WHISKY rivals the finest it CB BRANDY, • lot Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. iC e r ld hi Bottles 38 8d at the Retail Houses in London ;by ‘t. Agents In the prin3ibal towns in England; or wholesale '3, GREAT WINDMILL-STREgT, LONDCtN, W. %%se rve the R e d S ea l, Pink Label, and Cork branded K i nahan's LL Whisky." IMPERIAL _MERCANTILE CREDIT Nov,— ASSOCIATION (Limited). NAl tv . 4 ,`" , ” IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the FIRST ORDI ABq GENERAL KETING of the Shareholders in this atr_ociation Will be held at the London TavernMishopi gate- J an 'et, in the City of London, on Alf 'ND AY, the 23d day of p th .'arY, 1865, at Twelve o'clock at noon pree6ely. for the IT CAIVRe a receiving the Report of the Directors and B..tate pn rPoses ot Accounts, of declaring a Dividend, and for g eneral 6u A i t Meeting the Election of Two Auditors for the en- By order of the Board, Crosb W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. Rouse, 95, Bishopsg - ate-street, Jan. 10, 1865. P IPRE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of gu - RQ '"'NGLAasto (Limited) are preparedto RECEIVE Ildpw-tRIPTIONs for the Capital ot the CITY of MILAN -" ,( IVEM &NTS COMPANY (Limited). c I ncorporated under "The Companies Act 18'2. eical* etc As dated 28th Jtfy, 1854, granted by the Muni abotY of Milan, confers the grant of the . fee simple of ate r Feven Rem of land in the heart of the city, immedi- InzYti:urrounding the Cathedral, for the impose of rebuild della ,eol:llazza del Duro.% and connecting it with the Piazza Of 4hare CaDital £609,0^0, in 20;0) shares of VD each. a. shar eh it is not proposed to call up more tha £2O per rno n 4 l The calls to be at intervals of not less than three q uir 8 , and no call to exceed Li per share. Further re tur:leats are intended to be met by the issue of Deb6n stru e a r . by the sale or leasing of the buildings as recon rrovisi ter eq 01 1 is made in the estimates for the payment of in- Inv , at the rate of £7 per cent. per annum, on the 15,h Ja- B b,Z i r c Y t and 15th Jul, ending the sale or lease of the recon- PI buildings ;the first hall-year's interest will be paid al d ulv 180 L _?Posit utraent 41 per Share on application, and 44 further on TRUSES. T he Earl of Warwick, I he Earl Somers, and Edward Warner, Esq., M.l'. _ Th e DIRECTORS Cr eli , ,, lght Hon. James Stuart Wortley, Governor of the Sir Voneier and Mobilier of Eng and. ar nes P. Lacaita, K.C.M.G., Member of the Italian anient, Director of the Anglo-Italian Bank. C „r i es Fletcher, Esq. (Messrs. Alexander Fletcher and cern London, Director ot the Alliance Marine lneuranze a.. Provincial Bank of Ireland. CO.) ' e ri ck alelber t, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, Hankey, and n , Geer: n( l: 3n ' -e If. Seymour, Esq. (Messrs. Seymour and Co.), 38, - ^ nl orton-street, London, Director of the Anglo-Ain 't). Barb, , • of ritish Archi 'guy Wyatt, Esq, late Via -President of the Institute tects. AR C lIITECI S. ot I f i l i l it o n r . Glusepp e Mengoni, Consulting Architect to the City Mee SOLICITORS. Iti . e v t , s s rs :w il . ircham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Co., Parliamew BANKERS. ereagr , mo S. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, the Anglo-Italian BanLc il lk o r ic il E a n n s .. ' , t r e o sgra. Laure n ce, Son, and Pearce, 8, Angel-court, Throg- Q„. t ee nstreet. . srs. Ilichens and Harrison, 21, Threadneedle-street, SECRETARY (pro tern.) J. D. O'Brien, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 17 and 18, Cornhill. --- I provementa ttie right acquired by the City of Milan -m- fee-simple Company Limite.ii to the possession of the actual of about seven acres of land in the commercial centre of one of the prinsipal cities of En __rope, pre this from all other undertakings hitherto carried out upon -eminently distineuishes _ the Contine t by means of Btish capital. Under the Italian Law of Expropriation affecting pro- DErty required for works of public utility, these seven acres, l pith the buildings upon them, of which the cjillPheillluni- Dcoine absolutely possessed, were purchased by t __ _ c l l alitY at an average kiliar The rice to be paid ple:3 of 750 lire or francs (x3O) per . b, „e Metre, or a total sum of Z , AQ,335. 4l Concession ires is fixed by the Concession at Ztres, 1 ,244, or 300 lire (£l2) per square metre f010rr234:519441 square , an 1 150 lire (-£6l per square metre t t Lr ea, leav'ng a difference of 153 - le a 4 9 k t .£5 '7,0 0 will result as a positive p the a v o c u o r m p T a l n i y e X. 55,000 in 0 i r o t fi h t e t t o r ea'ihidie Purchase-money for the Concession, viz., be £407,(,00 plus ht a nd L tv £ 7 5 .c00 in paid-up Shares . The actual difference th e ' , or of the Company will consequently paid by th e ir)lfesent value of the property beyond the price ~, nicipality. ‘4lr. Charles Barry, the eminent architect, of London, who o,itaPecially deputed to examine the plans, estimates, &e., .eti, ( l ,,g ‘ l ) ot, values this area to the accompanying above zi t o c o t ,(1) t ste rth ;' ,4 lire) per square metre, or a total of t, l[o,ooo ..g. ea„l4l_o Coneessiona'res have already provided £90,000 for gr e firireat of caution-money to the a, unicip r a p lity, g agreement has ham, lle elion of the lag 1 (which has:been An iite a rei in the b c, ot the Company's Trustees)' & th e T,"€ell. entered into between them and shall include preli vaint,':,ireliase-rnoney for the Concession i t ._Y„ l '%.:ens es of every kind. 14, 4 V be seen from the accompanying: been made by ph i to 50 large a contribution would not have report by Mr Barry h a lottery ean but for the fact that the lgunie pality sa . l3 , ained the to uche °' , et the State, four years since, ... is there f from the Preft. "xPress purpose Of buying up this property to estattl he rai, ei tt 0 . e resu of w of the necessary Cost it hich has been t , "Alni a any cost to the city, of the whole - vote ih.eonsFquently the Municipality are _e e na c b o le m d ,a t n o y de to t naltin ' entire purehase•moLey paid to th le, f's the n 4 , on e , „.„ facades , 8 a s buildings as men t nd widenin the orna "oned 11,`e of the Company 111. t - 'lie Concession. I N _ , ,_ rt ne at the Concess'on which the Company purchases ?, ,t ;, briefly stated as follows : and free irle4i frarsicr of the Company in perpetuity, tid, ~,,,, I,leumbrance, of 27,734 squire metres of freehold the houses and t o i tLi din T i siit.to about seven English acres, P t naafi, and its t c- act ual -ncl'n,g thereon. now in and with pccu ied, constiteting est a erie eeetre of commerce in the city o . 2 Th e ~,I Y , Populated area. Teeth ed 'gut of es Unending ` 11 (' 'lmo )14 ettecesslVe lots, viz., 8,000 s quare met purchasing this land at th prices above I:tdiateitPlartre metres alread tember, 1815, i', (l the r Y ; 141,120 square n etres by the 20th ~), 1 ) - th September, y pail for and transferred) s tin s, eie l'he Co m -"Ililli n" 3,311 square metres by the ..9 and dwelling 4,it•lia• plan w — Patly are to erect, in accordance with the fount cl-seB 41'ehouge counting-houses, shops, Company may cleter,'• and 84 , • ; ,Mile, eu other Pp,. buildings as the Comp vi ll ith h - e e , , to • letting, or dealing the Company ot selling, P5l; it. zreehold land and the_ buildings reconstructed the ceded land toVrterents of the existing buildings upon 'ver,"rt absohr ely to the are the date 41 "' east I reported by eug•oni gninents. These renta s . Ital specially Signor aDpoint_,,an architect of great reputation in at tvi ( l to the Municipality of Milan, and by Mr. C. Barry, o Per .mnurn. bhil di ee materials arising from the demolition of the old out ftu a tqa (valued at 1,000,000 lire, or £40,000) to belong, w.th 7. Y pa yment, to the s cmp y an be b° Costs of extra ornament of the proposed buildings to Per /li r : 3 e hY the Municipality. but all such ornament to be the use a lunicipatity to pay the company, at a fixed tariff, Th i ,.. Penßes ot paving, drainage, and construction of sewers. r ,:t tar ff will be a source of profit to the Company. Ohl),,The Municipality binds itself to give absolute possession e e Lne preperty coneett, d, with. ut any other charge to the I,l.) , trtartv than the usual Govern cat dues ur oa transfer. . The Corn r any t . have the prefer. net in executing any attire N'untcipal in provements in Milan The wealth and rnportance of Milan as the commercial eentre of Northern Italy, and which will be increased by the removal of the capital from Turin, render the prospects of this Company exceptionally laveurabl-. The qua- ter of the city t . be rebuilt is, as stated by Mr. Barry, as much t:te Centre of commerca in Ililan as Cheapside and Cornhill are that of London. The improvement of this business portion ! the town has long been imperatively called for. Treat these facto, coupled with the progressive increase of rentals, ;he demand from occupants about to be displaced and others, "her business premises, offices, houses, dubs, caf es, and other D irect, on the sites which the Company will possess, the irecti rs are satisfied that hi 'lily lucrative returns will attend the proieeted operations, in b The Company will forthwitheroceed to the erection of the ti ' t ill(li nga. sub&cquently selling' the same or granting leave _ Premiu ms, reserving the ground rents in perpetuity, or t'ilaita ising. them as hereafter may be determined. The de ceded of the old buidings on the first section of' the land ceded to the i o hinny is etre dyi in pror2,ress. ~APPlirations have been receive d lor leasing and purchasing t ulne of the buildings as si on as reconstructed, on terms in ~...x4cess of the estimates submitted to the Directors, These ,Inlii.ates, calculated by Signor Mengoni and Mr. Barry only :."Pen the basis of the present rents, show a return of£ (6,000 ve' C hinum f tan the reconstructed but dings. e a g to the probability that a large proportion of the thePital for this undertaking will be derived from the attic of Ile -W buildings, it is difficult to arrive at any precise cal ,, tion of the large profits likely to accrue to the Company ; 'l4 taking £lOO,O 0 a year merely from rent al as a basis, and assuming the capital to be raised, as proposed, in shares and `O.el.itures, the ultimate dividend cn the share capital may 1..,.:.tair1y estimated at 15 per cent., and this from freehold 12t i m• A. considerable increase on this return may be looked ,;-;:tfrom the gradual sale of the Company's property and ,ner sources. f T he Concession, plans, reports, and articles of association t.rt b ens pected t the Offices of Messrs Bircham, Dalrymple, rake, and Co., 46, Pi.rliament-street, Westminster, AP p l ications for Share s are to be made in the annexed p oem, and l e ft w th the Bankers of the Company, upon pay ment of the dep os i t of £1 per Share. If no allotment is made t° t he applicant, the deposit will b e i mmediately returned without deduction, and if a le s number of shares be a lotted than is applied for, the deposit paid w 11 so far as nec:ssary be credited towards' the payment c due on allotment Arrangements have been made with the Company for a re servation et Five Thousand Shares for allotment to appli cants who are sh.rehoidera of The Credit Ponder and Mo biller of England (Limited, In consequence of inquiries which have alreapdiiber made, the Directors have decided also to recei ve a Allotments of Shares fully paid up not exc ectirn:ln i` A" e ' f o. or gregate one-fourth part of the Capital. Such shares to baeitr Interest from the date of payment. Prospectuses and Forms of Application can be obtaine I at the Office of the Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England (Limited), 17 and 18, Cornhill ; also of the B an k ers, Brokers, and o f th e S ecre t ary o f th e C ompany. of the January, 1865. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) Nn KO the Directors of the City of Milan Improvements Company (Limited). Gentlemen,— e,`,: a ZIIIV paid to your Bankers, Messrs. - Robarts, Lubbock. Co., the sum of , being a deposit of £1 .er Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby re Share that you will allot me that number ; and I agree to q n 'LkePt such Shares, or any ess number lonu may allot to me the terms ot the Prlspectus ; and gre. to pay the 'ilinsit on allotments, and to sign the Art Hes of Association insert Company, when r quircd ; and I authorise you to 0/ . 1 my , name on tome Register of Members for the number "'"rcs allotted . Usual Si2nattirc Name in lu 1 Residence Profession Date sse • ,r F ULLY PAID-UP SHARES are required, on• the Mention e d Pon.. 4 OF `4 APPLICATION • FOR FULLY PAID-UP .SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) No. 'e the Directors of the City of Milan Improvcments Company Limited). 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( -------.7 N` r ';' - '. / , /' \i.l -4- - .„. . i 1 ....., / _ ' ,. . 4 ' , !.,), ' \ '''.,*--. _, , I ~ f': \ P '"' _/ p morning in inspecting the iron. e c a t i t n e r her tb e launch p add i e and Favourite, i n cons t ruc ti on a , designs in W oo l w i c h D oc k yar d ; necessity of empl oy i ng a ll poss ibl e spee d , i n or d er that the Fa vour i te may be undocked and made place for the d v ie fi: ,a, M eh a t r ß ch la l ek last. An Admiralty orde r was yesterday received at Iro Eagle, Staff Commander Whiffler (as more suitable for the purpose than the Vivid), to be got ready for the service of Prince Arthur for a cruise in the Afedi terranean, to sail from Woolwich, where the Prince will embark on the 15th of March. Preparations are ordered to be commenced forthwith for the con struction of an elevated cabin, for which the dimcn.. slims of the Black Eagle's quarter deck are highly appropriate. The cost of the entire work has been estimated at about 5001. limori" PRICE 4d. STAMPED 5d successfully administered, and under it, I believe, we have at last arrived at a system which approaches, if it does not reach, the most economical, rapid, and mtisfactory way of distributing the estates of . a bankrupt. The main distinction in principal which now exists between the system in force in England and our own consists in one working 1830,creditors the th r t e l:e i t t t go ts rl e iss l v hi e i a s I: lua d eti i fr t re i o o mainly of courts and officials, and the other work ing ion however, which is of recent growth, for I believe priorthat I)3' to do with the administration than they have now. The tendency of all the En m 1830 to 186I.has been in the direction of • • giving more power to the Court and -less to the creditors, while in Scotland the tendency has lain entirely in the opposite direction. The bill of Lord Westbury did not, cause,' but, on the other hand, did not cure, many of the evils complained, of in the English systeml But a Parliamentary committee, of which I was a member, has pulled to pieces the toy which decoyed the commercial mind :of Scotland in 1853. His Lordship proceeded to analyse minutely the evi deuce taken by . the Select Committee, pointing out that of the 646,0001. of assets paiXto official as signees in'lB63,'onlY 489,0001. had been paid out as dividends, leaving a balance of expenses of 157,0001., in addition to the proper expenses of the court— namely, 126,000/., making the total * cost' of the systeni 283,0007. 'He also quoted evidence to show that in two-thirds of the, bankrupt estates there was no dividend, and that in . 5G cases reported in the Birniingham district the liabilities were 90,0001., the assets were 30,0001., the amount after paying pre ferable claims was 14,000/.; and the sum divided 6,0001. The evidence was cited of one merchant who called the Bankruptcy Court a sink of iniquity, and of another who said that the threat of a small dividend often induced creditors to accept a much' less favourable settlement than they would get if the estates were more easily realised. The absence of any real audit of the assignees' accounts, the influ ences exerted by the lower office-bearers upon the higher, the powers usurped and fees exacted by the messenger, ushers, and broker were severally ad verted to, his lordship remarking that it was im possible to see that there was the slightest check upon these officials. He proceeded to say :—I think the bankruptcy law ought to proceed upon ordinarytrade principles. If a man cannot pay his debts the object is to get payment of what he can pay as quickly and as cheaply as possible. My opinion is there should be no other object whatever in bankruptcy law but to do that. The question is, how can you make him pay his debts with as little expense to his creditors as possible and with as great a return to them as can be had. I rather expect a great deal of mis chief has arisen from supposing that there should be combined with bankruptcy law a kind of penal code to be worked at the expense of the creditors. I perfectly agree that nothing is more dangerous to a 'community, nor. should be more closely watched, than a fraudulent bankruptcy. It is a thing to which there is great temptation, and in which there is great danger, but what I demur to is that the public morality is to be protected at the expense of the cre ditors, who have already lost enough. There is no good reason why creditors should be at the expense of punishing debtors in bankruptcy any more than under other circumstances. In England there is no public prosecutor, and fraud in bankruptcy as well as fraud in anything else must be punished by pri vate individuals prosecuting. But in Scotland it is different. In the second place, Isay that the essence of bankruptcy administered is despatch. A dividend of ss. to-morrow; in nine cases out of ten, is worth more than a dividend of 10s. two years hence to the creditors ; and it is very likely that at the end of of the two years, instead of being 10s., it will only be 2s. 6d. (Laughter.) Despatch means economy. Lawyers' bills have a wonderful aptitude to grow with time. (Laughter and applause.) An while legal-authorities are dreaming over the law of the case, and trying to do exact justice, the unfortunate, creditor is fairly starved out of his claims. Time is too short for that, especially commercial time, and to do the business of bankruptcy well it is essential to do it quickly, and I should say that in the great majority of cases to do it quickly is to do it well. (Applause.) All that you have to provide for is, to see that the creditors are to have the management of the estate in their own hands. I would only say now, in conclusion, that, while free trade flourishes in other respects, we may hare, in this matter, free trade in law reform—and import and export what we please. We have long since found it more profitable to buy English cattle than to steal them—(laughter)—and so, 'perhaps, we may come to be of one mind on both sides - :of the Tweed, that a fair interchange of good institutions and wise laws is better than wrangling about their merits. If we Oink we can with advantage communicate to Eng- The decision of the Admiralty in the case of Mr. Hatch, the foreman of riggers at Chatham dock yard, who was suspended from that establishment for having, as was alleged, been in a state of int oxi cation on the occasion of the docking of her Ma jesty's Cadmus, 21, Captain A. C. Gordon, was announced at the dockyard yesterday- Their •lordships - direct the removal 'of Mr. Hatch from his. present office. Ile is ordered to join the Wellesley, 72, for service with the ordinary, and he is no longer to be employed in the civil de partment-of the navy. The appointment of foreman of riggers at Chatham dockyard, thus rendered vacant, has been conferred on Mr. Wallace, one of the warrant officers at the port. The Vernon, 50, sailing frigate; is ordered to be masted at Chatham with the masts and gear belong ing to the Castor, 22, now attached to the Royal Naval Reserve, and afterwards sent round to Wool wich, where she will complete her fitments. The screw gun vessel Torch, 50, 80-horse, fitting at Chatham harbour for the first division of the steam reserve, will be .out of the hands of the ship wright department to-morrow, in readiness for handing over to the officials of the reserve." There are now five vessels attached to the Chatham steam reserve which are completed, or - on the eve of com pletion, and at the disposal of the Admiralty for commission, the whole being rigged and equipped— viz., the Bristol, 39, 3,027 tons, 600-horse power, screw frigate ; the Terrible, 21, 1,850 tons, 800-horse power, the largest paddle-wheel steamer in the ser vice, which has recently been almost rebuilt ; the Scout, 21, 1,462 tons, 400-horse power, screw cor vette, which has also undergone a most extensive repair ; the Torch, 5, 428 tons, 80-horse power ; and lastly, the ironclad frigate Valiant, 24, 4,063 tons, 800-horse power. In addition to the vessels above enumerated, the paddle-wheel steamer Basi lisk, 6, 1,031 tons, 400-horse power, is being brought forward with all expedition for the first class *steam reserve. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. A. L. Mansell, to the Hydra ; Commander G. R. Wilkinson, to the Firefly; Lieut. Thomas V. Williams, to the Excellent; William G. Atkinson, master, to the Cumberland, for the Basilisk; George A. Browning, additional, to the Sutlej, for surveying services, promoted to master ; Edward B. Brooks, midshipman, to the Cadmus ; F. H. Richardson, assist.-surg., to Jamaica Hospi tal ; J. W. Ashford, assist.-surg., to the Donegal ; E. W. Doyle, acting assist.-surg., to the Princess Royal ; C. J. Devonshire, assist.-surg., to the Pen guin ; R. H. Lavers, assist.-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; J. Hindley, assist.-engineer, to the Dauntless ; C. F. 11. Burt, assist.-engineer, to the Wasp ; R. W. Allison and W. N. Sennet, assist.-engineers, to the Princess Royal ; C. Wig gins, assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernu merary ; and. R. S. S. Ross, assist.-clerk, to the Dauntless. Hornble Scenes in China, The following is an extract from a Shanghai letter of November 22, published in the Times : Interesting depositions have been made by two English subjects who were detained by the rebels at Hoochow, ana have only just effected their escape, which throw some light on the internal arrange ments of their cities. The executive arrangements and state of Hoochow are thus described by Mark Conry :—" I saw the Tow-wing decapitate 150 of his soldiers one morning. Ido not know what their crime Was. A man was punished by death for smoking. Whenever I went into the city I saw heads and trunks lying about. Dead bodies were not buried, but were - allowed to re- main in the streets. The city was in a most wretched state. There was no _ trade of any sort going on ; provision shops were allowed to be open, but no others. There used to be executions every day, sometimes 20 at a time, but never less than four." These. are the people whom we were to have upheld in preference to the Imperialists; bad Has the latter may be, corrupt as are their officials, and effete as is their Government, their regime is better than that here described. The second man who has returned, named Patrick Nellis, went up in i lk. On arriving one of the small st eamers w hi c h run i n to the interior in h g ad at be t e h n eir oc d c e :p ti i n ed ati b o y n they found that the place the rebels a few days previously, and Nellis, with the crew, was • made prisoner. He was taken to Hoochow, asked by the Tow-wang whether he understood rifles, and, on his replying in the affirmative, was requested to remain. The question was superfluous, as he had no alternative ; but it was a matter of form, and the form having been gone through, the chain was taken from his neck and the fear of immediate death removed. Some time after he had been in Hoochow the Kan-wang arrived - from Nankin, and it oozed out the city had fallen. The siege of Hoochow followed, and Nellis describes various successful operations against the Imperialists ; until at length starvation compelled the garrison to evacuate it. Several of the little band of foreigners had been shot and died of sick ness, but such as remained were compelled to accompany the retreat, which will be best de scribed in Nellis's own words :—" Men were patrol . ling the streets to cut down any who might attempt to escape. That evening we saw fearful sights. The rebels were embarking their wounded, and could not take all. The poor woman crowded down to landour system of registers and of bankruptcy, there will be no difficulty in squaring the account, and even if ultimately a balance should be due on either side, that which is due from benefit received is easily paid with goodwill. (Loud applause.) Mr. J. Marshall, seconded by Lord Deas, moved a cordial vote of thanks to the Lord Advocate for his address. Naval and Military Intelligence. ,_____ Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Secretary of State for War, who was accompanied by Gen. Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., Principal Director of Works; and Inspector-General of Royal Engineers ; Lieut.- Col. W. F. D. Jervois, C. 8., Deputy-Director of Works ; Capt. J. C. Caffin, C. 8., Director of Stores and Naval Director-General of Artillery, with other officials, was occupied until late on Wednesday evening in making an inspection of the new works completed and in progress at Chatham connected with the 'War Department, including the fortifica tions, barrack buildings, hospitals, magazines, and other buildings at the military station, preparatory to the framing of the new Estimates for the ap proaching Session of Parliament. His lordship, who was met at the railway station and accompanied on his tour of inspection by the principal officials of the garrison, directed his attention chiefly to the subject of the barrack accommodation at Chatham. The several barracks now in the occupation of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and the troops of the Line were ,all inspected, in order to enable a correct estimate to be formed of their present con dition and requirements. In the course 'of his tour of inspection the principal portion of the fortifica tions and magazines were visited, but in neither of those departments will a large outlay be required during the ensuing year. It was expected that a visit would be paid to the extensive powder maga zines and War Department stores at Upnor Castle ; but as the whole question of the removal or non removal of the gunpowder stores from their proxi mity to Chatham is just now under the considera tion of a committee, of which Gen. Sir John Bur goyne is the president, it was not eonsideornaedurd: sary to inspect the Castle pendi n g the roo tion of the committee. The largehospital was inspected, esta formerly used as a garrison liosspolunetedent, i h s i as was also the Fort Pitt establishment,ple the te df near r r C h h o a s t p h i a t a n . : being now the military hospitalf or the lvh t o h l e e o la f t t t i e l i e t roo ps quartered at - Ile being required fo r q uarters Clia :for the troops. " recentlyt 1 i c a o i b arrac ks, and inte nded for quarters for the m arr i e d for occupation. soldiers, were also visited, the whole of the rooms ythreeandoyur at which the inspection termi oarfl Owing to the n t se he extensive stores and establishments at the being n la a t t e e n d es , Ordnance and Gun-wharfs could not be visited. Mr. E. J. Reed, chief constructor of the Royal Navy, who is still suffering from the effects of his late 'severe indisposition, yesterday visited the de partment of Woolwich Dockyard. The chief con structor, accompanied by Mr. George Turner and Mr. Henwood, master and assistant-master ship wrights of the `yard, spent a great portion of the wounded man' • the boats, and were cut at and driven back. We left the city, which was empty, at three a.m., and soon saw it in a blaze. It rained, however, heavily. We pushed on, and passing through the lake, came to the entrance to a creek. Here the most fearful confusion ensued. All the boats were sculling on and jamming each other, the rebels marching along the bank. Here we passed the night. The next day the confusion still continued, and ' advance. Six men (Cowroy's party) here ,left for the ostensible purpose of getting • ftl w rt e h firewood,coulde further could- n- but o t man. The latter never came back. With me nd certain death as . we could not carry him. remained two Greeks. l a v n as in o te u rp r interpreter , a t l . d ou a ble w ; him, and offered his ring could not do but b iHi e hen b d le o ge n go e endi i i i v n i (li t eo : I took leave of s him, and told to remain. countrymen. They refused, and we nstoao l i i ds i i ii l i oo , roet a , e. it, he could left him in the . boat. 'rhe rebels were now in con fusion, running everywhere, and the Imperialists as k and his money two close at hand. We landed and took to the hills, and, after wandering about two or three days, got a boat, and with some difficulty got down to Shang hai." The picture of Hoochow and of the Tow wanes administration given by Cowroy only con firms the accounts which have already frequently been made public of the horrors of the Taeping oc cupation—accounts which receive their confirmation in the desolation and ruin which everywhere mark the footsteps of their retreating armies. THE AMMON (S.). —The Amphion steamer has been stranded on Sherringham beach, and is ex pected to become a total wreck. The ill-fated vessel at the time of the disaster was on a voyage from Sunderland to London, and ran ashore at Sherringham during the pre valence of thick weather. All efforts to float her have proved fruitless ; indeed the gale of Friday and Saturday drove the vessel higher up the beach. The Amphion is a vessel of 1,600 tons burthen, and was originally an English frigate, having formed part of Sir Charles Napier's blockad ing squadron in the Baltic during the Russian war. She was purchased from the GovernMent by Messrs. Wilson, of Sunderland, her present owners , and is insured for £17,000. . • THE B , r(IN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, 'JANUARY 13; 1865. r - I -URNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, E-FREE to any nouse ir the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First• ails, goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. ta4r.iitGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR giSIU are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated bytio Wm -able engravings of every description of Furniture and 6easteads, with prices attached. A copy sent malls and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised scale:— " A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto .A Ten-roomed ditto - A Twelve-roomud d!tto 39' 11 0 Together with a eri.e List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable inforruationto all requiring, housch)ld furniture, , arpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ityde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington. Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. A iban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Brits: L. _ _ _ - 11613AETT and CO.. General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London. S.E. Mr. Layard, M,P., on the History of Art, At a meeting of the Lambeth Society of Arts yes terday evening, Mr. Layard, M.P., delivered a most interesting and comprehensive address on this sub- ject. After a few preliminary observations as to the true meaning of the phrase " Fine Arts," which in the case of nations of any refinement of civilisation he denied to be the property of any particular class of the people, instanced the Greeks, who were so thoroughly permeated with a feeling of art that everything they constznitted, even to the most ordi nary implements, were beautiful. True arthe defined to consist in a perfect appreciation and combination of form and colour. Some nations had one, some the other ; but without a combination of the two no nation had ever been great in art. The Mexicans, the Peruvians, and other South American nations, the Chinese, and the Japanese had a fine appreciation of colour, but none of forma The Assyrians and the Egyptians had the earliest appreciation of both forms of art ; whatever they did contained the elements of beauty, and everything we possessed now might be said to be a development of one or other form of art. Almost at the commencement of his address Mr. Layard laid down the canon that the arts of a nation depended on the character of a people, and represented its characteristics and peculiar circum stances, and his first illustration was drawn from the dissimilarity of Assyrian and Egyptian art. Egyptian art, in its massive invariable character, corresponded to the character of an exclusive, un changing caste people, possessing unlimited com mand of stone materials ; while, on the other hand, Assyrian art represented a conquering, ambitious people, given to assimilating the characteristics of the different peoples with whom they came in con tact. From these two peoples the Greeks collected the chief features of their arts, and developed out those beautiful forms which were still the admira tion of the world. To illustrate this idea Mr. Layard referred to numerous drawings on the wall from the remains of Thebes, Nineveh, Selinus, 2Egina, Paestum, and Athens, tracing the form and • development of each great architectural idea in its structural and ornamental details. The great spe cimens of Doric art were all clearly drawn from Egyptian models, and recent discoveries in Assyria had furnished a remarkable fulfilment of Niebuhr's prophecy, that lonic art would be found, some day or other, to have an Asiatic origin. Persia adopted almost entirely the art of the country which it con quered, and the specimens at Persepolis and in the cities of Asia Minor showed the most manifest traces of Assyrian origin. With regard to other nations of antiquity, neither the Jews nor the Phoenicians ap peared to have any ideas of art of their own. The Jewish ideas of art appeared to be entirely Assyrian; so that the description of the building of the Temple in the Book of Kings and in " Josephus" appeared to 'correspond almost entirely with the description of an Assyrian building. The decay of art in Greece was contemporaneous with the decay of Greek free dom, as was the case in every other country in which art had flourished. Passing to Italy, Mr. Layard pointed out that Etruscan and Roman art was merely a reproduction of Greek art, and that archi- tecture was the chief art by which the Romans were distinguished. Nothing gave a greater idea of their power than the magnificent public buildings which they had erected in their colonial cities, and which tide. far exceeded anything this country had ever pro duced. Passing from the fall of the Roman Empire over the dark ages, Mr. Layard took a rapid survey of the state of the arts among the Arab and Teuton nations up to, the time of the Renaissance, when the Italians took Gothic art in hand and moulded it to their requirements, still insisting on his two main theses—that this development of art was contemporaneous with the rise of political freedom among the people, and that the art itself was traceable in its main features to Greek, and beyond that to Assyrian and Egyptian models. The first great classic architect of modern Italy was Ni cholas Pisano, the first great Christian artist was Giotto, and the basis of Italian art might almost be said to be the Church of Assisi, the walls of which Giotto was called upon to ornament with passages from the life of St. Francis. (Cheers.) The per fection of Christian art was attained almost by Ghirlandajo, though it could hardly be said ever to have been brought to perfection, owing to the decay of freedom which followed the German and French inroads, and the rise of a false classical taste. This falling off was shown in the works of Raffaelle, whose later manner was inferior to his earlier. Even the great Michael Angelo could not resist the change. Venice, which preserved her freedom longest, also preserved the traditions of true art the longest, but the last stroke given to art in Italy was by the Jesuits. The churches built by them con tained specimens of everything that was false in art. The eclectic school of which Domenichino and three Caraccis were the chief glories had lost much of the repute which they had once enjoyed, since it had been perceived that they were based upon no national feeling, and that they were merely speci mens of false art. Of modern schools, Mr. Layard touched chiefly on the English ; and, after criticis ing severely our shortcomings in architecture as evinced in the National Gallery, the British Mu seum, and the House of Commons, and in sculp ture as shown by our 'public statues, he proceeded to point out, in illustration of his idea, that the art of a people corresponds to its characteristics, that the English pictures most valued abroad were our Wilkies, Hogarths, Faeds, and Friths, who re presented domestic scenes ; and our landscape paint ers, Turners, Stanfields, and .Calcotts. Mr. Layard expressed his dissent from the extreme praise which has been lavished on Mr. Herbert's fresco, and, while allowing it to be a great work, lamented the pervading lack of idealism in it. Moses and Aaron were simply common Bedouin Arabs, who might be met about in the East every day. In conclusion, Mr. Layard drew a hopeful picture of the future which English art and art schools had before them in applying the principles of form and colour to the new materials of iron and glass which had been brought into use, and to the structures, such as the railway stations, the great warehouses, and the Crystal Palace, which the wants of modern civilisa tion and commerce were calling up on every side. NTED, a T t mustomed t to A. 8., 4,. Upper'' AHEAD NURSE (Catholic), ,0 take a Child from the Month. Apply CRYS ' , 'AL kCE.—TO-MORROW.— „ ar I t' au IMAISLY WA li AI and lARY,—Lighted at t new rieturea in Spcc!al Gallery. CB. 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The Lord-Advocate on English Law and Feeling. The Lord-Advocate, ALP., delivered an addiess to the Scottish Trade Protection Society, on the Bankrupt Law, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday even- ing. Tlere was a large attendance in Queen-street Hall, and the chairman of the society (Bailie Moss- man) introduced the business of the evening. The LORD-ADVOCATE stated that the subject of his lecture would be the English Law of Bankruptcy, as to which he intended to offer information rather than criticism. Tie 'premised his observations by some remarks on the state of national feeling be tween England and Scotland. He 'said—ln the dis- cussion of international merits or demerits, of course, there are predilections and prejudices on either side. We see through the coloured glasses of our national tendencies, and judge our neighbour, even although it be unconsciously, by the standards which our habits and associations have raised among us. We are jealous of English innovations—they are not less jealous of those that come from our side of the Tweed. Which is the more uiireasonable or the more provincial in this respect it is not necessary to de- That the Scotsman is tenacious of that which pertains to his nationality I have no occasion to deny; that lie is proud of his country's history, proud of her public spirit, and of the place which her sons have taken in the world, probably none of us are ashamed to confess ; but now and then an e4cagge ration of his spirit breaks out in unreasoning fear and loud outcry at the apprehension of the invasion of English institutions. It is the quill and not the arm of the Southron that is now the subject of alarm—not the blue bonnets, but the white wigs against whom the Border is to be defended—an incursion of hostile and hungry lawyers on the sacred domain of the jurisprudence of Scotland. (A laugh.) It was but last year that I tabled a proposal for re form in our forms of procedure in our Scottish courts ; and it struck me that as Westminster Hall and the Court of Chancery had reformed themselves 10 years ago, and very mainly by building on and improving our forms, and as experiment had resulted in a most striking and remarkable success in facilitating and shortening procedure, I could not go far wrong in following the example. But the spirit of Scottish nationality was awake, and the fiery cross was displayed in stantly to spread the alarm. English terminology —apart altogether from what the terms meant— was an offence in Caledonian ears ; and for the time, believing discretion to be the better part of valour, I retreated with my English allies, and, I suppose, if I renew the attempt, must accoutre my self with weapons drawn from our national armoury. But our neighbours south of the Tweed are quite as bad—nay, they are worse. One could understand that the poorer country should be jealous of the richer—tenacious of encroachment, standing on its dignity, suspicious of affront. That the sister who is the shorter in stature should make the most of her height, and sometimes stand on tiptoe, is natural and pardonable. (A laugh.) To what extent we indulge in it we can hardly judge, for it is difficult to judge ourselves impartially ; but whence comes, or what causes, the strange provincial sensitiveness on this subject in England—or rather, I should say, London, for it is chiefly confined to that quarter—l never could understand. Is it the memory of the raids of the Border, or the recollection of the day when the least gainly of the Stuarts, with a broad Scotch accent and a y scanty Scottish retinue, arrived on horseback from the north and took up his quar- tern in the palace of the Tudors, or is it the memory of Bute and Mansfield burning in the breasts of the descendants of Wilkes and Junius, which tinges the opinions of London critics with so strong a national colour ? It is not antipathy, for they are kindly, and warm-hearted, and hospitable ; it is not jealousy, for they are the stronger. Neither is it contempt, for generally our countrymen command respect, and I believe deserve it ; but it is a kind _ . of irresistible instinct which impels those who suffer under it, if they refer to the law of Scotland, or the religion of Scotland, or the whisky of Scot land—nay, if they review a book written or nar rate an act done by a Scotsman—to couple with their criticism some dissertation on national characteristics. I wonder it does not occur to them how thoroughly provincial the habit is. A French, or German, or Italian, or American critic would not pause for a moment to consider 'whether the author of a work in the English language was an Englishman or a Scotchman. Distinctions and peculiarities, which seem large on the narrow field disappear entirely on the wider ; and it would be well for us in all such matters to look at ourselves in the looking-glass of Europe, and consider whe ther, after all this perpetual harping on national dis, tinctions between two such countries be not precisely on a level with the petty rivalries of a country town or the contending fashions of a cathedral close. In this view the sin is mainly other side of the Tweed. When we advert to the writings, or speeches, or ca- reer of Englishmen,•we sink their nationality. We deal with them as they deal with the rest of the world, in the individualising spirit which men of en larged view and liberal cultivation ought to exhibit. Sometimes, however, our liberality takes a different direction. Sometimes the Scottish lion lays all his terror by, and is seized by an unreasoning fondness for the English leopard. These fits come on at inter vals, and when they come require to be watched. It suddenly becomes fashionable to decry Scottish in stitutions, and trumpet those of England. Incense is offered at our sister's shrine, and our native mo desty descends into self-depreciation of the most ex travagant description. We then beg for favours which, if offered, we should have resented, and break forth in ecstacy about institutions we have never taken the trouble to understand. I saw the other day a letter in a London newspaper, recommending that we should adopt the English system of criminal prosecution—that is to say, to adopt the system which England alone of any civilised nation follows, to leave the prosecution of public crimes in the hands of private prosecutors, and saddle ourselves with the dead weight of grand juries and coroners' inquests, from which the more enlightened English jurists have long wished to be relieved. Loud were the rejoicings when jury trials in civil cases were imported from the south. The advent of this " bulwark of British freedom" was hailed with ringing plaudits, and the day was considered a fortunate one in the legal calendar. Far be it from me to disparage the boon. Still, in some respects it cannot be denied that dis tance lent a little enchantment to the view, as both clients and jurymen sometimes discover ; and per haps, had we known then all which we know now, one adaptation of the system would have been more careful and more skilful. One forpa of this national modesty exhibited itself some 10 years ago in a very acute state of development. We wanted—of all morbid cravings imaginable—the English Bankrupt Law. We loudly demanded, in the paroxyism of the disease, why the blessings of official assignees were not bestowed on us ; we went into fits abou t a court of bankruptcy, and filled the air of Parlia ment with the wailing,s of Glasgow commerce bereft of its place among the nations, and left an outcast in our cold northern air, uncherished by commis sioners and unprotected by registrars. Kindly English friends were good enough to fan the flame, enlighten our ignorance, and point out the way in which our grievances might be redressed. Little pamphlets were written, little speeches were spoken, and a bill was prepared which was to heal the afflicted spirit of Scotland and cure its bankrupt woes. And indeed, so fierce had been the access of the fever that the patient had almost been forced to accept on his recovery what he had' raved for in his delirium. It was the big bill which cured him. The reality looked so little like the bright moon he had cried for that it startled and sobered him, and a year or two afterwards, when his senses had entirely returned, we passed an act on bankruptcy, which, though by no means perfect, has been well and ~~ ._^~ tetli 1:0 101/ f nt m, lotijo 1 -,1 )1; i,c I