The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

ItENIEMBER! WE WAIT SUPP E R 4, t FOR YOU, after the Pantomime, at E VANS'. Fail IiTAXIAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC ANDY B. prtie, ce lebrated Old IR IS WHISKY rivals the finest Iti t BRANDY, Pure, Mud, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. thße ow "u ~..t Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by tt In the principal towns in England ; or wholesale , 1 ' G REAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. o jr;',!!.rve the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whisky." T i lt SOUTH AFRICAN LAND AND . FINANCE COMPANY (Limited). %Mil li d under "The Companies Act of 1862," by which Cdr . I.,l 2 uartery of the shareholders is limited to the amount of . x r , „ Capital £500,000; First Issue X250,C00. 0'4' 3 0 shares of £25 each. Deposit on application £1 per e& e, and e 4 on allotment, and the remainder in Calls not £1 per share, and at intervals of not less than 4111 Months. k i . 1121 /uurn dividend of 7 per cent. for the first year, and lo cent. for the second and third years, is guaranteed to sh areholders to the satisfaction of the Directors. seatllel DIRECTORS. JtiGibson Getty, Esq., M.P. Ce e V I',,Les M ti l Afri c a Esq , Director of the Standard Bank of British (Limit ir ed', London. hie Walter Constable, Esq., St. Michael's House, Corn- Win!' Ze• 4,,a,n1 Dann, Esq., Merchant, 150, Leadenhall-street. E.C., r,crt Elizabeth, South Africa. e o f "u Plessies, Esq., Member of the Divisional Council, es berg. • 0 ,147 Green, Esq., Civil G. mmissioner and Resident Ma h?'ate of Colesberg. e o ,,, u ard Allen Green, Esq ., Member of the Divisional Colesberg. Col • Von Maltitz, Esq., Member of the House of Assembly, 80b e e sberz. sou r t t h White, Esq., Director of the Standard Bank of British 04 Africa (Limited), London. S. Windham, Esq., 14, Connang,ht-place, W. - These gentlemen will constitute the Local Board. AGENTS IN CAPE TOWN. Messrs. Deane, Johnson, and Co. Th e BANKERS. 111 ' 2 5' Bank, Threadneedle-street, E.C. ei,„'_tillidard Bank of British South Africa { Limited), 90, -440 u-street, E.C. BROKERS. ears. Eykyn Brothers, 22, Change-alley, B.C. Asp. SOLICITORS. '"• 14 - 1 11&sford and Dorman, 23, Essex-street, trand,W.C. al b AUDITORS. u uullstone, Cooper, Winne, and Evans, 3, Coleman street-buildings, E.C. SECRETARY, PRO TEM. Te u T. R. Eames, Esq. 4.°111 7 ()flees —St. Michael's House, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, E.C. 6T61 8 Zg th .e "M•Pany is established to assist generally in develop gob, Jesources of South Africa. As a basis of their opera gain Directors have provisionally agreed to purchase ~Olog valuable lands in the eastern province of the Cape ( hes e r and in the Orange River Free State. A portion ot l ands is under cultivation, but the greater part is re . Tl 4 I,or grazing purposes. Lilledb"tnp any is therefore introluced to the public not as '''th e. for sperm ation, but as a solid basis of investment, lTh e 'vidends accruing upon the formation of the Company. ipohnSolonies of South Africa are at present but slightly de lair:', ; but such as have had capital expended en them ex -I,l,,eareer of solid prosperity, which is proved by— . G rn th eiGile,e large dividends paid by the local banks. k e ex - -lhe increase in the amount, and the charade: of 010,,Ports. The export of wool has risen, in the Cape thr ee ' alone, from eight millions of pounds in 1853, to thirty tatqnillions of pounds in 1861; and Natal, after having ( le e , Bi led an increasing export trade in sugar, is about to totoo, coffee, and other articles, to her profitable ap,,rl - Poduction. Ne4.1,-----The increasing value of land, in consequence of the vier @ °lon of agriculture and the construction of roads, ports, , 0 4 t ild other works of public utili y. ett• i t ,4--The completion of rat roads and telegraphs con -17,10 ,he principal ports with the interior, to be supple ,q,e ei t '' 0 Y others in the Eastern and Western Provinces of ti red Of Good Hope and Natal, for which tenders have A s ioeen called for. i„4l4„'„Ple system of land registration exists in the South 'e.t,g ' k;olonies and the Free States, under which convey 'erl,a_ed mortgages are effected with expedition, and at a "'Aerate expense. trit Tlie OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY. Pro l ,rnpany proposes to buy and lease operations to t t l k iti ed these lands by irrigation and farming as rre, "in Australia and New Zealand ; to stock and farm Orc,, A and to import both agricultural implements from t Zl44` and pure 'blood of all descriptions ot stock, for the lo t , evaent of the flocks, and for sale to the farmers in the i l * 4 4 14 0 °, 0 ,_flipany will, further, be open to make advances ltieVue produce of the country, consisting of wool, skins, ,The (feathers, and other staples. I‘ B ter a `°ranany also proposes to organise forthwith a regu'ar ii ol ts of transport of merchandise from the ports to the in ,hlie7nB, from which Boum?. alone a conside.able income , 4,, , Pated. '„, l ' pu'b e it °ropany will take powers to negotiate loans required I, , p e 3 works in any of the South African colonies. ti llt estates to be acquired by the Company have an excel hrioo a I e VIY of watr.r ; one estate alone, containing about ta''etie 1 ,4, 8 , has 15 miles of frontage along the Orange River. it'4liti, l be improved, resold in smaller farms, and in the b,, It, '4,r, stocked with sheep, horses, horned cattle, and other li"te or ',lie estates comprise not less than 246,000 acres. The Olitl,,.._these, with the buildings thereon, including all pre k`'ed ; Y r , expenses up to the allotment of shares, has been b t Qrdi t ,'„° ll a computation of from 25. 6d. to 12s. 6d. per acre i ti .a t4 1 to the locality ; £35,00,0 of the pui chase money will Itai ke n debentures, and the remainder (X 90,000) in cash t,' 1 1 41 4 1.!Es extending over a period of 18 months. Me1it . 4 , 11 . 1 132_ dividend of 7 p , r cent, for the first year, and l 0 t i pF l o e t• 11 4 :,r n tlg e se p co a li d d -u a p nd ea t p hij a d l. yem is L g e r a r l air e e s e r d d bLth et ,441 - ittt a much larger dividend may be expected alter Ile et , cl Ytar. V'er ri ;,oPeration of five gentlemen, of high standing in the ,ted ~' rovince Colony, by whom this un&rtaking was sug if 4 he',3 been secured. fhey will form the Local Board. h, all a , nareholders will incur no liability beyond the amount ti ll, li ese_alltted to th m. Applications for shares must be I N Day „kt the annexed form. Each applicant will be required 14 1 , 4 1b er le Bankers of the Company £ 1 per share upon the Mier of shares applied for, and upon allotment to make a V; th e PaYttient of XI per share on the shares allotted to him. th:ett,,,,event of no allotment being made the deposits will 1 0 ,4 ar ed in full. Shen: d a less number of shares be allotted /e v4 e,;aPplied for, the deposits will be made availab:e . paedTte Payment on a lotment, and the balance, if any, 1 1 20 8 ,. ‘ the ap licant. 01 1 1 ot7tutes and Forms of Application for Shares may be ot,ee t4, s':?.... ll . rokers ; of the Secretary, at the Temporary h a te" 1,.,'; Alichael's House, Cornhill, E.C. ; and at the Offices t ki ;, I.l.(,;ernati mai Contract Company, 85, Cannon-street 4 1 2 1 th„''• The Articles of AsPolation and the Agreement be V endor may be inspected at the Solicitors', and at ' ll)Gl arY Offices of the Comp my. Ttu r , SOUTH AFRICAN LAND AND FINANCE COMPaIs,Y (Limited). l'(:)I tNt OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. 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We deem it our duty to point out how utterly unfounded is the panic that now prevails at Liverpool, and to do what we can to prevent a serious and widespread commercial dis aster. No doubt the stock of cotton in Liverpool is larger than was anticipated, but any one ac quainted with the trade wit admit that the dif ference between the estimated and the actual stoe will not account for a fall of Id., or at the very ui most of 2d., in the pound. 'How then can we e:: plain a fall of 9d. per pound ? The reports receive from India and from the Mediterranean do not wa rant the suppOsition that the receipts of cotton frk those places will be in excess of the receipts of t past year, and we are not aware that any one pi tends that the prospect of an increase of Indian a Egyptian cotton has had anything to do with the sent ruinous depreciation. Can the recent successes of the Federals hi anything to do with the panic in the cotton m: ket ? No doubt, the fact that Wilmington is do and Charleston and Savannah are in the hands the enemy, puts an end, at least for a time, to : considerable blockade-running. But surely fact should enhance, rather than depreciate, value of cotton in Liverpool. The trade knows well as we do that large supplies of American ( ton have come to hand. For example, from the f week in February until the current week we have nounced the arrival of upwards of 30,000 bale American cotton. It will be conceded that ha not been for these large importations of cotton f the Southern States those holders who calculate higher prices would not have been disappoh Now the termination or suppression of bloc! • running puts an end to this source of supply, therefore the blow struck at blockade running not lower the price of the article, since it will it scarcer. p PRICE 4d., S TAMPED 5d.: a (ion; c wo t at t , ttuh i n t ei second e a ac a ,d n bpy d a th s o t of i c w e t nhaent General's ue fairness, and liberty to asr t une h ead e hl Portuguese lvyaero enityou relevant fo l nation enfvaaalcntst to have government, h ave its andow actual,to reform lawful, it legally and Eng land was doing just then. and to t h e accusations exculpating Pe raa j si m a s lm b a e i l te d e tn d e a tr n : t h o at a g hs together, and the principal and substantial charges in my last letter, that to answer all specifically and fully would take much more space than you would accord to me. I, therefore, will not venture on such work now, however much I wished it ; but let our friend the General distinctly understand that I am willing, and with pleasure, to reply fully to every item he brings forth, if he, or rather you, guarantee me the necessary space for the work. At present, not to extend this letter beyond all reasonable bounds, I shall confine my self to—lst, repelling the insinuation of my having any personal indisposition against Saldanha, except on public grounds ; 2d, to simply denying imputations that I know not to be true ; 3d, to pointing out incorrect statements ; 4th, to show how the General does not exonerate his Duke from any of the real and serious charges contained in my letter to which he replies, against the same Duke. Then : Ist, Saldanha never injured me in my private capacity ; I never saw him even but once at Epsom races some 20 years ago (and his likeness stuck at a shop in Regent-street) ; never spoke to him or he to me ; always regarded him as a sort of bon-enfant, pliable like wax ; so that, even now, in spite of my most decided political hostility, I cannot hate him. This is the real truth ; therefore, to his person apart from political considerations, I have no sort of aversion whatever. 2d. It would be difficult to me, or to anybody, to defend the King " against a variety of crimes and misdemeanours with which he was charged, commencing with that step he took during the lifetime of his father, King John, to pave his way to the absolute power he contemplated." Which step does the General mean ? How can I know which is the particular step amongst "a variety" (wholly undefined) "of crimes and misdemeanours?" I shall, however,, assume that he whiles to speak of the well-meant but imprudent and ill-advised affair of April 30, 1824. In this point, the General addresses himself to one who, without having -had any part in the same affair, happens to know all about it most competently from that very time ; and, by the strength of this knowledge, I can tell the General that the Prince had no more intention or wish of dethroning his Royal father, or paving the way to absolute power, 4c., than I have just now a mind to go and jump down from the top of the Monument in Fish-street Hill. Of course, I cannot enter here into a discussion and demonstration of my denial. Nor will I enter either upon the case of the murder of the Marquis de Loul6, that noble patriot, who had been condemned to death in Lisbon for being a traitor to his country, in the service of Napoleon 1., whilst Sir John and Saldanha were bravely fighting for the independence of Portugal and the Peninsula—and who was generously pardoned by the king and nation in 1817, or thereabouts. But this I will say, that I was in Lisbon at the time, and tried by means in my power (and I had many) to learn and could never get even a tolerable guess about who might have been the murderer of the Marquis. The General, therefore, who seems to know all about it, ought to inform .us of the real facts, rather than ask the information from me. And to what I can also testify without hesitation is, that, disapproving, as every sensible person did, and con demning the manner in which the palace had been cleared of the Marquis, there was not one person in a hundred in Lisbon and throughout Portugal, who was not glad to learn that Louie was no more by the side of the old King. These are• facts to which I can speak without hesitation, from my own perfect knowledge and observation, and on which I could expatiate, and state many important circum stances, had I not regard to the limited columns of the Weekly Register. 3d. As to the accuracy of the facts and imputations charged by the General, apropos de bottes, on my calumni ated and lawful King, I should like also to have room in the paper for properly and fully analysing all the jumble:—" Is it not true that Don Miguel, on subsequently assuming the reins of Government, did not, without judge or jury, in carcerate in the dungeons of Fort St. Julian and other prisoners, all the noblemen and others of note, who wore op posed to his system of Government, where they remained, suffering the greatest privations for several years, until the reins of Government were wrested from his hands, and the constitution restored by universal acclamation, when it was found that the greater part of the unfortunate prisoners at Fort St. Julian had perished under the cruel treatment of But we may be told that the Federals have pc sion of cotton districts, and therefore cotton come out without any difficulty. From what place at Charleston, where a large stock of c' was given to the torch, we may be sure that no federate general will repeat the blunder of Ge Hardee. But, in truth, no Confederate genera have the opportunity of so blundering. Suppc which is not the case, that the possession of th( coast towns enabled the Federal% to sweep the of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georf all the cotton stored in them, the amount of pL would be small. North Carolina is not acc growing country. Except the sea islands, - have long been in the possession of the Federal staple of South Carolina is rice. The cotton part of Georgia occupied by the Federals was E in Savannah. But, further, it must be remem . that Charleston, Savannah, and Wilmington the most convenient ports for blockage runnint consequently a large supply of cotton—r 500,000 bales since the commencement of tL —has been obtained at these ports. The stoc these places were reduced to a very low ebb, reason sufficiently apparent to those who are quainted with the military situation and its ex' cies. The lines of railroad were so engrosse military purposes, and it became so costly to t; port cotton from Alabama, and from the cc States east of Alabama, to the Atlantic seap that it was only sent forward in small quant Captains of blockade runners can testify that of they have had to wait in port day after day for return cargoes of cotton. Where is then the a of cotton in the States of which the Federals I obtained possession of the seaports? Therefore recent Federal successes must suspend, may enti cut off, but cannot in any way add to our stoc cotton. its Governor Tolles Jordao, who was torn to pie'ces by the inhabitants of Lisbon and thrown into the Tagus (a retribution so far for the Murder of the Marquis de Louie ?)" murdered at Salvaterra nine years before, without the fact of the murder having any connection with all the just transcribed miscellaneous statements, in which there aro some very small grains of truth, diluted in a vast quantity of the con trary ingredient. It is impossible to conceive a more unfoun panic than that which now dominates in Liverp It began with the announcement that the Fede, had at Savannah some 30,000 bales of cotton longing to neutral owners, and which, by the w would have come to hand through the agency blockade running but for the change in the militt situation. The panic has been heightened becai the Federals, ignoring neutral rights, have appr priated the cotton, and being pressed for gold ha shipped a portion of it to Europe. Assuming th the capture of Savannah liberated 30,000 bales ( cotton, which would otherwise have been shut r till the termination of the war, can anything more ridiculous than the notion that such an eves. should cause a fall in price of 9d. in the pound . When we consider the whole position—that the Fe deral successes have stopped blockade running, which was the source of our large American supply, and that in the states in which the Federal armies are located there are no stocks of cotton—there is reason, so far as the occurrences in America are concerned, for an advance and not a downfall in price. It would require a good volume to fully show the in correctness of all the charges so loosely tripped together by our General in the above quotation. I would have im mens3ly to say and to refute on the whole, but especially on what is contained in the italicized words ; but I will here limit myself to the following short remarks :—" The con stitution restored by universal acclamation," is a falsehood; the "universal acclamation" was, I suppose, by the people —the nation. And will Sir John tell us who then supported the King for five years against the obstinate efforts of his enemies, aided from this country and from France, &c., with all sorts of support in men, money, arms, diplomacy, public press, &c. ? Why, if the people of Portugal were so ready to receive with open arms and "universal acclarua- tion" the precious constitution, was it necessary to concoct the infamous Quadruple Alliance, and to send the armies of Saarsfiel and Rodil into Portugal against us? I suppose it was to rescue tho nation from the nation! The General himself cannot avoid here to admit that he has been writing nonsense. All he so glibly says about the incarceration of the "noblemen and others of note" is full of exaggeration; there is some little truth in it, but much more of the gravest falsehood prevailing in the barefaced inventions wherewith the "Liberal" Portuguese refugees and their compeers plentifully supplied for years the English press, which, with very scanty but honourable exceptions, would in those times admit nothing else in regard to us. Let the reader The panic will not be of long duration. Buyers will be eager to avail themselves of such unwar ranted cheapness, and it is hard to conceive that holders will permit an absurd panic to involve them in ruinous losses. The facts we have stated are no torious, and the conclusion is indisputable. We trust that our observations may assist in restoring the Market to a sound and reasonable condition, and if so, it will have been our privilege to have rendered a most important service to the commercial commu nity.—lndex. judge of the general accuracy by this assertion :—" Telles Jordtio, who was torn to pieces by the people of Lisbon and thrown into the Tagus." The fact being that General Telles Jordito, who had been, in the Peninsular War, a soldier as bravo and distinguished as Sir J. S. Lillie and Saldanha, was most barbarously murdered, NOT by the people of Lisbon, not in Lisbon itself even, but at Cassilhas on other side of the Tagus, by the soldiers of Villa Flor (afterwards Duke of Terceira) when he had been taken prisoner. Such are the real soldierly and " Liberal " proceedings of Sir John's esteemed friends, whom he so readily takes up the cudgels to defend. The General is not ignorant, I see, of the importance there is in a name. To buy for a trifle or nominal price, a "And then he draw a dial frem his poke, And looking on it with lack lustre eye, Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock : Thus we may see,' quoth he, "how the world wags." SIIABSPEARE. Benson's Pocket Dials are artistic, accurate time markers, made in every size, suitable for everybody, and are sent to every part of the kingdom, safe by post, at 5,6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35 guineas in gold cases; and at 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, 8,9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 guineas in silver cases. A descriptive pamphlet post free for two stamps. W. Benson, Ludgate-hill, watch and clock maker to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. convent rascally and rapaciously taken by Sir John's friends from its original owners, might not be thought a very honourable thing, nor the charge thereof be without some little weight. But call the result of the plunder " national property," and the buying of it from the robbers for a trifle becomes a trifling circumstance, and the mention of the transaction a "frivolous charge." Has Sir John, like General Butler in America, had, before he turned soldier, any ex perience in special pleading ? I make no charge against Mr. Smith ; but I cannot but find it extraordinary —a n d for a Portuguese and a Catholic, let mo say, shocking —to see a young man, a Protestant besides, without any profession that I know of, and without any services to my country, issue from Milton-street, Dorset-square, simply as an appen dage to Saldanha, and then seeing him some time after in possession of one of the homes of our expelled and plun dered religious communities ! 4th. Let me now ask the readers of the Weekly Register, whether Sir John Scott Lillie has, in his letter, exonerated Saldanha from any of the serious charges in my former letter. I charge him with :- Ist. Giving most sumptuous parties at the expense of a nation, whose revenue is hardly half sufficient for the ex penses of the State and interest of its debt. THE EASTER MONDAY REVlEW.—Yesterday the committee appointed by the commanding officers of Volunteers to inspect the ground and other facilities at Dover and Brighton as to their convenience for the forth coming Volunteer review visited Dover. On the arrival by the boat-train of the South-Eastern Railway, the deputa tion; consisting of Viscount Ranelagh, Lords Elcho, Truro, and Lieut.-Cols. Warde, Buxton, and Cochrane, were re ceived by Sir Luke Smithett, the deputy mayor, the local committee for the reception of the Volunteers, and anumber of military and Volunteer officers, who entertained their lordships at breakfast at the Lord Warden Hotel. Lord Ranelagh first inspected the shed accommodation in the town, which was pronounced ample for all requirements. The railway stations next underwent inspection, and the only fault found in respect to them was that more room for brigading outsi de the stations on the arrival of the Volun teers was desirable. After this, Lord Elcho and the others proceeded in carriages to the Round Down. midway between Dover and Folkestone, the proposed scene of the review, advantages cies c i r bed o f as t h theree iff ere in ng and two m Lord Ranelagh walking thither to see the ti me th e march wou ld occupy, and he made the jo urney i n a little over an differenthour.Tho il r e e s b vio w groundT po sitions wore then pointed out. Mr. S. Finnis drew their lordships' attention to Efougham, which used to be the fa -rourite place of the late Duke of Wellington to manoeuvre his troops. The committee seemed highly pleased with the ground, notwithstanding they saw it in its most unfavour able state on account of the bad weather of the preceding night. After carefully inspecting the ground and the neigh bourhood around, their lordships proceeded to Folkestone, and inspected the railway station. LADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Scurvy, Skin Diseases.—These unsightly complaints are the source of much annoyance to thousands. While fret ting the mind they irritate the nerves, and produce a con tinuous slow fever, disordered stomachs and restless nights. For this state Holloway's Ointment and Pills are an im mediate and certain remedy. Cure the cause and the disease will cease. Under the influence of these approved medicaments the blood reclaims its purity, the skin resumes its healthy functions, the tongue cleans, the tainted breath departs, and the languour and nervous, depression disap , pear. No corrupt humours can withstand the purify in g principles of these remarkable:remedies, which expel all , morbid matter from the system. They likewi s e c orrect all irregularities of the liver and promote digestion. 2d. Being one of the principal instruments in putting my country under the power of the present Freemasonic Government, who plundered Convents, Monasteries, Cathe drals, Churches, Confraternities (and are just now prepar ing to plunder, in the same way the Hospitals, the Orphan- ages, the Charitable Brotherhoods, &c.) 3d. Opening the doors of the Kingdom to the Protestant Propaganda (who with this hope highly favoured the Por tuguese Revolution), and to infidelity, demoralisation, and ruin, by aiding so efficaciously the Freemasons and rwvo- lutionists in their war against the lawful King and Consti tution, against the real Portuguese nation. 4th. Having several times been all-powerful, absolute Dictator, in Portugal ; having made several revolutions, in which he was the master of everything ; and still, never having availed himself of such power, means, and autho rity, to hinder the plunder of the Church, to prevent the abolishing of the Religious Orders and Institutions, or ad vocate even some partial re-establishment of them, after their scandalous, Vandalic, and impious abolition. Are these charges true or not? Has Sir J. S. Lillie exonerated Salda.nha of them ? A. B. SAlt \ • 21, Nottingham-street, Marylobono W., February, 27, 1865. DISAPPEARANCE OF A MOUNTAIN. —The Giornale di Sicilia of Palermo states that, a few days ago, a solitary mountain near Motta St. Anastasia, in the district of Sieh, suddenly sunk down to the level of the plain, leaving no trace behind except a few trees which stood on its top, and are still partly visible. This strange phenomenon is attri buted to the volcanic action of Mount Etna, though the dis tance is consideraye. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1865. CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNTAL HANDEL FESTIVAL. MESSIAH, Monday, June 26, 1865. SELECTION, Wednesday, June 28, 1865. ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865. The Programme of arrangemen s, with the price of Tickets, and the block plan of Stalls, may now be had, on written or personal applicatim, at the Festival Ticket Offices, Crystal Palace, and Exeter Hall. It may also be had at the principal Music Warehouses in London and the Provinces ; and be sides numerous other places abroad, at the offices of the South- Eastern, and London, Chatham, and Dover Hallway Compa nies, at Paris, Brus els, Cologne, Calais, Boulone, Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, Am. The two Ticket Offices as above will be open from 10 a,m. on Monday next, March 13, for the issue of vouchers wear ing seats according to the numbered plans which will then be open to inspection. Written applications, whether direct or through agents, containing remittances, and arriving at either of the Ticket Offices on or before the fir , t post on the 13th, will be attended to alternately with personal applica tions. By order. Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall, March 11th, 1865. NOTE.—Persons preferring seats in any particular block are recommended to apply for them as early as possible after i the opening of the Subscription Books on the 13th-of March. Even the Crystal Palace, with its vast space, has limits of accommodation which cannot be exceeded ; and the demand at each of the three previous Festivals for seats in particular blocks having been greatly in excess of any possible supply, the necessity for the foregoing intimation must be apparent. THE HANDEL FESTIVAL TICKET OFFICES will be OPENED at TEN O'CLOCK pre cisely, on MONDAY next, 13th March. The LOWER HALL, EXETER HALL, and the BOARD ROOM at the CRYSTAL PALACE, will be appropriated as Ticket Offices on Monday next. To afford the Clerks time to make up the accounts, the Offices will close on Monday at Four o'clock precisely. On other days they will be open from Ten till Five. March 11, 1865. By Order. PHILHARMONIC. HALL, ISLINGTON.- Proprietors—Messrs. Turnham and Adams. PREVENTION OF FIRE AND SAVING OF LIFE. A LECTURE, Illustrated by the Inventor, will be de livered by lir. tW6ON, on the FIRE PROOFING THEATRES, HOUSES, &c., and their contents (every ma terial rendered uninflammab'e), at the above Hall, on SATURDAY, March 18, 1865, commencing at Two o'clock precisely. Private Boxes, 10s. 61. ; Stays, 5s ; Balcony and Area, 2s. 6d. Application by letter to Silvester and Wilson. 137, Bt. John-street-road, KC., for Tickets and every infor mation ; or at the above Hall. 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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of 'the GOVERNOR and ANY of the BANK of EN- LAND GIVE NOTICE, CO That MP a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on THURSDAY, the 16th instant, at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of a Dividend ; also that another General Court will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 4.11 A pril next, from Ten o'clock in the forenoon until Four in the afternoon, for the Election of a Governor and Deputy-Governor for the year ensuing (which will be de clared that evening); and the same Court will le continued by adjournment, and held at the same place, and during the same hours, on Wednesday, the sth April next, for the Election of Twenty-four Directors (which will also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter), and the election cf the Twenty-Four Directors will be declared as soon as the scr utiny is over. Printed lists of the proprietors having votes al I be ready to be delivered at the Bank on Monday, 20th March. HAMMOND CHUBB, Secretary. N.B. 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PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAl3lS.—Claims paid thirty days after proof of death. The Reversionary Bonus at the Quinquennial Division in 1862 averaged 48 per cent., and the Cash Bonus 28 per cent., on the Premiums paid in the 5 years. The next Division of Profits will take place in January, 1867, and persons who effect iNew Policies before the end of June next will be exit Med at that Division to one year's ad ditional share of Profits over later entrants. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained o: any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGI CIJTCLIFFE, Aeuary and Se retary. 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. THE DUKE OF SALDANHA AND MR. S ARAIVA. (From the Weekly Register of Mrcreh 11, 1865.) . . Sir,—l am very glad—and I say it without the least affectation—that Sir John Scott 'Lillie replied to my letter about Saldanha, published in your Catholic paper this day last week. It does honour to the feelings of the gallant General to come for ward in defence of his old comrade in the glorious struggle of the Peninsular war, in which both the gallant soldiers did their duty with great credit and high distinction ; but whether his letter will do much good to the Duke or to the cause which Sir J. S. Lillie seems to have yet so much at heart, that is another question, of which your readers will be more competent judges than I am. I will at once proceed seriatim to examine and answer the several clauses of the General's letter in the same order as they there appear. He says—" That I blame the Duke for having ,aken an active part in the restoration of constitu- tional monarchy in his ozvn country, under its legiti mate Queen Donna Maria, when the throne of that kingdom had been usurped by Don Miguel, whose despotic sway and the cruelties he practised to all op posed to him, created euck general dissatisfaction throughout Europe as to cause a universal feeling amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty, and of constitutional freedom for his overthrow." The points or expressions I took the liberty of italicising are those I will begin by adverting upon. Then, first,— "the restoration of constitutional monarchy" in Portugal. Old Johnson, who knew some little of the English language, defines constitutional (in the sole sense applicable to our which is "consistentlstau feel extremely e rem c e iv ly il obliged ba constitutionli g ) e d t h t a o t Sir John if he kindly shows me the legality of which he so triumphantly speaks, of that " constitutional monarchy" of his in my country. I absolutely deny such legality ; the onus probandi is his ; let him bring forth the proofs of his assertions, and he will then see whether I have some thing substantial to say against them. And if he does not prove what he advances, we shall know what to think of his words. Now, for the " legitimate Queen Dona Maria." I just as peremptorily deny and reject any "legitimate'' (lawful) right in Dona Maria to the Throne of Por tugal, my country. Unfortunately, Ido not find in Johnson the word legitimate in the sense it is here used by the General, meaning lawful (as if he means that Dona Maria is the " lawfully begotten" daughter of Don Pedro, I knock under at once on this point.) Yes, I totally deny to Dona Maria any right to the Portuguese Throne, if not before, most certainly from the 24th day of August, 1825, the date of the treaty, and acknowledgment by Portugal and King John VI., of the Brazilian Independence. When the General brings forth his proofs, we shall see whether I can discover some little flaw in them ; and if he wishes at once to refute my arguments, I will refer him to the article in which I stated them with sufficient fullness, in your own paper of the 16th of January (I think it is the date), last year. Until he refutes my arguments there, he must allow me to beseech him not to speak lightly of what he has not studied, or does not know. After what I have just said, anybody who knows the name of logic will at once judge of the delicacy and fairness of calling Don Miguel something very much akin to a robber or thief, and me, consequently, his accomplice and abettor. without being able to prove the charges. I am ready to hear his arguments, and beforehand promise him to submit to their cogency, if they have any. Now, in the " despotic sway," " the cruelties practised" (by Don Miguel), the "universal feeling amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty and of constitutional freedom for his overthrow," there is only an appeal to the quackish delusions and sophistic cant with which Freemasons and shallow Liberals have heen trying to delude and upset society ever since the first French Revolution. The Encyclical of the Holy Father is the fit commentary on all this. I do not wish, however, or want, to shun any point or charge, and am always ready to answer all ; but I have regard to your space ; I therefore will only say, for the present, in reference to the " despotic sway," first that such sway was not despotic, nor did I ever admit that it was, or would ever have submitted to despotic power, which was not at all the power of the Portuguese Kings, according to the real and true constitution of the country, which the Portuguese Legitimists, or the immense majority of the people, maintained, wished, and wish restored to this day. If Sir John con tradicts this, I am ready to answer him, and to bring forth my proofs. Secondly, I deny also those " cruelties practised by him," and assert that they were for the most part invented by the Portuguese refugees, who, after having been expelled from the country by the resistance and energy of the people, came to England and set about manufacturing all sorts of calumnious falsehoods--even the most improbable and absurd—against the King. and the great majority and best part of the nation which wished and supported him. These are general assertions Sir John will perhaps say : Well, here I am, ready to substantiate them, and will gladly do so, if you promise to afferd me space for it. I leave the gallant General the benefit of the clap trap about the " general dissatisfaction throughout Europe, the universal feeling amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty, and of constitutional freedom," &c. This reminds me of the actor who said he had always at his disposal a remedy against the slacking applause in the pit : he had only to bring forth, no matter how, the bubble, " Not the smallest feather shall be plucked out from the wing of liberty !" But let me ask—what has all that to do with, or ho* does it in any way atone for, the robbery of the Church in Portugal, with its heart rending consequences, the principal charge I bring against Sir John's favourite Duke and his friends? Sir John makes a great merit to Saldanha (and of course to himself) for participating in a feeling created abroad (out of Portugal, he means) by falsehood and calumny, and for wishing to cram down the throats of the Portuguese people against their will his famous nostrum of " civil and religious liberty and constitutional freedom." The gallant General who, I think, is no stranger to some know ledge of the principles of law, cannot be ignorant of the maxim, Invito non datur beneficiunz. He must have heard something of a hero celebrated by Cer vantes, one of whose first exploits was to rescue a farmer's lad from a righteous flogging his master was administering him for some misdeed; a rescue which produced to the boy a second and more severe thrashing. Sir John, I suppose, knows also what sort of thanks the hero of La Mancha afterwards got from the lad, when called to testify to the merits and ser vices of knight-errantry. Well, I can assure the General (and I offer to have thething tested by honest universal suffrage), that nine out of every ten Por tuguese would express to Sir John, and his friend, to Lord Palmerston and his quadruple alliances, thanks of the same kind as those of the farmer's boy, for the precious " civil and religious liberty, and constitutional freedom," which " Liberal" quackery has inflicted upon us. I feel almost sure, the Saldanha himself—who has several very good points about him —would admit the truth of what I have just said, if the question was seriously put to him. I can excuse foreigners, who were deceived by the lying inventions of the Portuguese refugees, and the lying correspondents in Portugal of most of the English papers ; but there was little excuse for Saldanha, who had his friends and relations in Lisbon (even his brother Francis, now Count d'Azin haga, then a great Mig,uelite, till 1839, and the King's agent at Turin), from whom he could know the real truth. How Sir John finds that the fact of a Government who robbed the Church, reducing to beggary and starvation hcrmost respectable ministers—a Govern ment which has done all which the Holy Father most reprobates (vide Encyclical and Syllabus)—having appointed their Ambassador to Rome just the man who chiefly contributed to the ascendancy and pre servation of that Government—that this should be a forcible reason more for the readers of the TVeekly Register holding such Ambassador in higher estima tion—is above my comprehension. The General is mistaken in thinking that I know he had been appointed to command a division of the rebels against us, &c. I never knew it. The fact of the bill about his dfference with the public- house-keeper in the Strand is all that I knew, for he must remember how unwarrantably I was incom moded on that account. I shall not tire the readers with this story, but have no objection to explaining it fully. The General still persists in calling me a "partisan of the usurper," he will see that this makes it more incumbent upon him to prove that the King had no right to his crown. He further says, I have " favoured him with va rious marks of my hostility," &c. That is possible, as I cbuld not much like those who, having no busi ness with the internal political affairs of my coun- try, did all they could against us ; but I give him my word of honour that I do not remember where or when I ever showed that hostility to him personally. Of late Sir John cannot have forgotten how we have been very friendly, and so I am still towards him), when he was most zealously trying, in combination with me and others (the late General Gomez, for instance), to find means and support for the triumph of Don Carlos (Count de Montemolin) in Spain. Now Don Carlos's principles and interests were brotherly enough with those of my King, his uncle. The General wrongs the Duke of Wellington and Lord Beresford, in accusing them of " advo cating despotic rule in Portugal ;" and with them he wrongs Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Fitzroy Somerset (since Lord Raglan) Sir George Murray, Sir Henry Hardinge (lately Loid Har dinge), and several more of such small fry, who _ _ _ _ _ sided in the Portuguese question with Wellington and Beresford, and unfortunately differed from Sir John Scott Lillie in this and other respects. He wrongs them, I say, because instead of "advocating despotic rule" in Portugal, they advocated the real Portuguese constitutional Government. Lord Aberdeen and the Duke did not listen to us with favour, or began actually to prepare for reversing the unjust policy of Canning in regard to us, until they saw laid before them the authentic documents and proofs incontestable of the perfect legality of the lawful Cortes of 1828—the real national Par- liament, who declared the legal right of the King to the Portuguese throne. I know this too well, as I had in my quality of Secretary to the Portuguese Mission, to translate into French the above-said documents, and the parallel ones of the great Cortes or Parliament of 1641, in order to show the Government here the perfect constitutional legality of our late proceedings in Portugal. And it was only after Lord Aberdeen had scrupulously examined all, that he at last admitted our being in the right. It was since then also that, being pressed, on the strength of his admission, by Viscount d'Assecca, my Minister, to recog nise formally the right of the King, he used to reply :—" Bien fait ou mal fait, 31. le Vicomte, c'est fait : nous avons reconnu le Gouverne ment actuel en Portugal, et vous ne devez pas attendre quo le Gouvernement d'une grande nation comme la Grande Bretagne puisse si facile ment rebrousser chemin." Such was his reply, and then the British Cabinet pressed our Government for an amnesty to the refugees ; the want of the ready grant ing of which was the greatest fault of our Government, and what prevented the Wellington Cabinet from acknow ledging the King before their fall in 1830. I hope this sort of digression will be forgiven, as the facts there mentioned are not without interest, and they do justice as well as honour to such statesmen departed as England would be very glad to get back, in exchange even for Lord Russell and Mr. Layard. 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