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The Subscribers have always SHARESney in the best and safest Dividend Mines, also is Ind wiuch will soon pay Dividends, and with prospects of early 14. rd -lagtr°e.int 114,01"13iclerable, im rovement —James Stevens Tripp and Co., eesi Lombar P d-street Chambers, 33, Clement's-lane, Lom- PATRON—II R. H. 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WANTED , k• at t h "'. of Correction, at Coldbath Fields and Westminster, lere le !louse of Detention at Clerkenwell, SUPPLIES of the 24th tuned ARTICLES, from the 25th of December instant to , 0 118 net, about 19 cwt. of Bread daily. in loaves of %Nag e . e1 „ 411 la ;good Ox Beef without bone, consisting of clods and 4 8 1sti n ' yx-heads, weighing on an average 2311 as each ; Mutton, g eo f ~ _ ) f breasts, necks, and ribs ; Molasses, Sugar, Rice, rota tr,r); \r„,?,,R Barley, Oatmeal, Salt, Soap, Oils, Leather, Linen Drs .:4 — "leo Cloth, Bedding and Linen. Persons willing to con -.‘e ge k .,to b. o Patterns and samples, according to which the tenders (Plice tt ; Made, and obtain the necessary forms of tender. upon 1; 11 are J o ' at either of the said Houses of Correction. Sealed ten s, Irin a be delivered before half-past Ten o'Clock on Friday, the 143 f e e der the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green ; and the per t', re itt, guig, or some authorised agent, must be in attendance ▪ re,,,,„ even o'Clock precisely, with the n . ames and addresses of i'ok'unsible sureties. The Visiting Justices do not bind them .`Y otb_actePt the lowest, or any of the tenders. — Dated this ith ' 4l7 aber, 1852 CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerks. CHARLES P. ALLEN, PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY COM -41'04 • -- Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.— 4 ",.,11,111e;-'rs .• 25 . Per Share. Approval and support of the following, amongst other e tiip, m . and gentlemen interested in the counties of Surrey, and Sussex. Vik,rl of Winterton, Shillinglee Park, Sussex. T he Zaia lifonek, M.P., Portsmouth. T aYor of Portsmouth. Sir I,"everell, Esq., Peubrook Park. Itiurnry John Leeke, West Leigh. Ris 1.;, 1, r. Evelyn, Esq., M.P. for West Surrey. G. H..T6lliffe, Bart., M.P. ' l ol th , A aYor of Peterstield. 'anham Carter E M.P. )teliosraddington, ' sq. , La ' tigrish. The ii ..4(initral Sir Phipps Hornby, Little Green, Sussex. 'No cin • J. Carnegie, Fair Oak, Petersfield. J OlO • kundy, Hollybank. Nurstcad. `lie D P - 4 artillean , Esq., Basing Park. eoloniel v. William Legge. Charles Wyndham, Rogate Lodge. Nr A rchibaid vi aries Taylor, Bart., Hollycomb. Eeppel Macdonald, Bart., Woolmer Lodge. " 4 " Butler, Esq., Downiands. Ch„ DIRECTORS. aj,"" Sony Blake, Esq., 15, Devonshire-place, ililue n r. Liphook. 11,., 441 Eldridge Butler, Esq., Le Court, near Petersfield. 711 , e am Carter, Esq., 6, Whitehall, and Petersfield. b 'leld,t. Thomas William Gage, Westbury, near Petersfield. E Buriton. l t t ' e sa l i cY , Esq., Petersfield, Ba nker. odbrid e Guildford. tr 4 jarai angles ' Egg " g brewer. a Mew. Esq., Newport, Isle of W igh t, brewer. Esq Trotton House, Petersdeld ; and De fon- The r ,„ 4 ce, London q,-.44 Ellis Owen, Esq., Dover Court, Boullisea• 4., "am j o „, ha , Scott, Esq., Portsmouth. 'Lewart, Bag , Director of the London and Westminster 40 104 al Sir James Stirling, Belmont, Havant. ENGINEERS.—Messrs. Locke and Errington- BANKERS. --- I le London and Westminster Bank, London. It es 4 rs. Grant, Gilman, and Long, Portsmouth. 4.,,e London and County Bank, Petersfield. . 4 e West Surrey Bank, Guildford and Godalming. SoLicrroas.—Messrs. Roy, London. 84c kErsitY.—Alexander E. Lloyd, Esq., pro tern. °l'Plets.-37, Great George-street, Westminster. 21 i , PROSPECTUS. . 3 8,,,on't:i 3 ite nded to construct a Railway between Godalming and %,,,., l kitu 2 miles in length, to afford a more direct and a cheaper or h ololeatlon between London and Portsmouth, as well as Railway i „, at . i en generally to the large extent of unopened country h Tile it will pass. atiliehr,sit of plans and sections, and all other necessary steps, taken with a view to an application for an Act of Incor ii;he jcuring the present Session of Parliament. 4h4i`loitiu:Will commence at the end of the Godalming Branch of sh,, W estern Railway, and will pass the towns of Godalming , liket pre, and Petersfleld, and g, nerally following the route of the t rt ' o tit Tsinuth Railay as anctioned by Parliament in 1546, to h 4 3', o there unite with s the Coast Line of the Brighton Com 111„..ythaUd 'he Pareham Extension Line of the South-Western Com- Proeeed thence directly to the town and harbour of Ports o ola ud ", 11 4 orre di Wilers and others locally interested in the district have th ;i - Promoting this measure, and have, to the extent of tiluo'i-e e- fourths of the length of the line, signed agreements for , f their land at its mere agricultural value, and in several I,ll' 4 ,Sen u „"' v e agreed to take the company's shares in payment : •Se h4 ,.'.exion with the South-Eastern Railway, near Godalming, t h liti h i? to the proposed line the advantage of a second entrance tbhoo'llrtt of the City, from London, the one to the west end, and the oer k t en, v ,_ establishing by the same means al so a L e re et, li utication, and with a great saving in distance, between eWoolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Reigate, and the i 'Viv i ., e rn Line generally, and Guildford, Portsmouth and tie "e 11 ifht, as well as with all the intervening country. 14°Artih u n „ e Will effect all the objects contemplated by the Direct d h r i t . l Act of 1846, but stet he reduced cost of 400,0001. now, him hat „, 00 ,0001, then requid. Iter % e 'en also further greatly improved by a late survey . made list;POt and of Messrs. Locke and Errington, by which it oo '"Y be materially shortened, but three out of the four most titl4 h ilailY objectionable tunnels in the former plans have ft ka t 'Y got rid of in the present, andlthe fourth, near Peters bhiotavoiccierl to one-third its length. th„, all risk and uncertainty, however, on these essential tsh,eetly:Prontoters have entered into a provisional contract with ( - 4.,..._ e2 Ponsible parties, for the completion of the entire line 110, C , M3 01 ~ "7,„, 2 , 1 ng to Havant, for the extremely moderate sum o f ". t 2,0001. per mile, including the cost of land, rails, sta sh; fu rthe all other necessaries, excepting only the locomotive plant ; t o"ithe r ' t he same parties have come under a formal and binding 4 t tr Tat to take a lease if required, of the line when completed, p b , 441 , o d at t ,nve years, at a ' net minimum rental of 4 per cent. per tori ta t ila ° no-half of the profits beyond that amount. 110 to b o '" having already, in 1846, sanctioned this li t ne t now pro; P o or efl e ° 4 l structed, its promoters cannot believe ha any s "%t u ' y e opposition can be again offered to i . ?h r .va nt P, it may be safely asserted that the undertaking holds I,`'Y Yet ''ges to subscribers and the public generally that have ti t o ' Will been offered by any other railway project, viz.:— - "" 4 , Loul ffo rd the most direct, and by far the cheapest route be • eoh i .: eat',n and Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, being the shorter 1 114'„ Miles th ither ofthe two existing lines, and being th,t h" o r at 12,000 r a e mile in lieu of about four times that a- Lo h u i ,"kh tf i e „%d ed on the Brighton and South-Westerr. lines,' t will have, ,‘°lll - 0 ," h ; f r ,,,? ° uth-eastern, from Godalming, a double entrance into "11 '^irnu o cli it tbllows, almost as a matter of course, .that tl it ih4err ho th od the entire traffic of the Isle of Wight and portsmou ' Nil while highly remunerative to its proprietary, must ' Pi4otion on the part of its rivals hopeless, if not the whole cost of the entire works and . material has hq„,, freeingy respectable contractors, for a specific and . fixed 1 1W ii„,,he 1 ' tat' s and estimates of the engineers th e - ..c and unee ea lta e i n lon A d finally, the Shareholders will of of wit!r o faccepti n n t g Y Or not,n And, their ' option, the offer of a P er c h „,..".. when completed, for five years, at a minimum rate interest on their capital, with half the profits beyond. ta g th e given the particulars of the lengths of the different dt "oon ,','-'snoer with the existing population and traffic, re 95 o. rtsmouth by Brighton Railway . • 95 miles 311 by South-Western - • • 04 C o b3 th Sv le vent n' by proposed Godalming and Ha . ' Ai ' al et t line . . . 73 -i,intledon Su s hj e E rh ast ß e a nt ilw vi a a y Godalming . XS 681 14.814 ~ on Bri g ht on an d S outh Coas t : : 7,200,000 ~imat, i , n n toot. p be expended on proposed single line from tiodahning. to fifty:int so in g Thr Isle of Wight uree„,otigli Traffic from those two l o i t linii cat 7 h i Y, exclusive of all Local Traffic £150,000 per annum, he t o for the Comp an y' s Sh ares rema i n i ng und i spute d o f, 19 Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Stockbrokers, )4 h i'tlibu r / , London ; to the Solicitors, Messrs. R. and W. G. Roy, 1 111,,,Z5h, 3 7, Great George-street, London ; or, to Thoma 3 til e ; ell a t ,po,,Godalming ; G. J. Parson, Esq , Hatlemere ; Messrs. giu`Pidn u Petersfleld ; C. "J. Longcroft, Esq., Havant ; fi eic i , ford on'Tei Westminster Bank, London ; the West Surrey Bank, the and m "° Clainling ; the London and County Bank, Peters foll essrs. 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', / ' *, '' V „;,,i‘ -- -... s g r '' "fis 'V" , P DIE v' '- • - kta3 • 011ib,.,, i ' W.V.' 4: come tax, I think that this part of the subject reflect great credit on the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. lam bound to say `that it is remark able that a Government, representing territorial interests, should deal fairly with the income tax, at least in prin ciple, when applied to trades and professions. Most assuredly that proposition ought to have come from this side of the house. (Hear, hear.) I say, in spite of all that mathematicians or philosophers may say to the con trary, that you must either vary the tax on income, and make it less than the tax levied on property, or you must capitalise income and treat it as capital. You must make a difference between the income derived from the midnight labours of the physician or the lawyer, and an income drawn from the funds. I give the Govern ment, therefore, full credit for this alteration, and, whe ther they are destined to carry it out or not, it must be carried out by some Government. But, see how strange it is, that in dealing with this question the old curse of the party has clung to them. (Hear, hear.) What a paltry thing it is to make such an alteration as this budget presents to conciliate the tenant farmers. You propose to assess the tenant farmer on one-third of his rental, instead of one-half as heretofore. In the time of Mr. Pitt he was assessed at three-fourths of his rental. Sir Robert Peel reduced the assessment to one-half, and now you propose to reduce it to one-third. Now, I will put it to the right hon. gentleman, does he think that farming would be worth following as a trade if the tenant farmer made an income equal only to one-third of his rent, that income being derived from the application of his capital, directed by his own skill and industry Would it not be more fair to say that one rent goes to the tenant ? Then, again, with regard to the extension of the income tax. How does this act in the case of the tenant farmer ? You propose to extend the area of the income tax, so as to include income derived from real property from 501. upwards, and from 1001. upwards in trades and professions. As a principle, I have no ob jection to the extension of the area of direct taxation. If you carry out that principle as you do in local taxa tion, you must levy on every description of property, and on every amount, and the only thing that embarrasses us in carrying out direct taxation for general purposes is, that we have such an amount of indirect taxation pressing on the labouring classes that it gives them a claim to ex emption from direct taxation. There is no other objection to th 4 system of taxation being universal. Well, you pro poseto extend the operation of the income tax to incomes of 501. a year derived from real property, and to incomes of 1001. a year arising out of trades and professions. But see how the system works with regard to the tenant farmers. Here is a farmer with 250 acres of moderate land, for which he pays a rent of 2801. a year. 'By your act all rentals under 3001. a year are exempt from taxa tion altogether. If that man farms as he ought to do, and as he must do, in free-trade times, he must have from 2,0001. to 3,0001. of capital ; in fact, 101. an acre is not as much as he ought to have ; he would do better with 121. or 151. an acre. Here, however, is a man with 2,8001. of capital, and you assume that he is not worth 1001. a year. (Hear, hear.) Well, this farmer rides into the market town on a good horse, in good health and spirits, and as he is going to market he passes a law yer's clerk who has an income of 1001. a year. You tax the lawyer's clerk sd. in the pound on every penny of his salary, while the farmer, who has 2,8001. capital, with a good farm house and steading, and who employs a great number of labourers, escapes the income tax al together. Do you think that that will last ? If the farmers are like the rest of their countrymen they will not thank you for putting them in such an invidious po sition. By your law you are widening the operation of the income tax, so as to embrace a great number of per sons who were not included in it before, but with respect to the tenant farmers you have taken care that you will not include any of that class whom the income tax did not affect formerly. You embrace a great number of small tradesmen who have hitherto been exempted from the operation of the tax, but not one tenant farmer who was not affected by it. Now, where can be the advantage of this ? Is it worthy of the territorial party, and do they seek to secure the tenant farmers in their interests by holding out such a boon. I would ask the farmers whether they have not had enough of this sort of thing, and what they have got for it ? What is the use of their being a different party from the rest of their countrymen, and being made political capital of? Have they not been bamboozled enough already ? Sir, Ido hope that this part of the Budget will be modified, and that the tenant farmers will be placed on an equal footing with the rest of their fellow-subjects. You say that the far mers do not keep books, and that they do not know what they make in the course of the year. Then here is a very good occasion for compelling them to keep books. (Hear, hear.) You cannot do the farmers a greater service than by compelling them to keep books, and thus ascertain how much profit they get from their farms every year. I must say that I did not expect on this occasion to hear this old grievance revived. I thought that as the Chancellor of the Exchequerhad thrown over local burdens, we were going to get rid of this controversy altogether ; but it seems as if hon. gentlemen opposite do not even yet understand their own position or what free trade means. They have confounded two questions which are essentially distinct—namely, the question of protective duties and of direct taxation. Will they ex cuse me if, as an old professor, I show them a little of their ABC in this matter ? I see the hon. member for Cambridgeshire there, who has not been accustomed to free trade speeches. The advocates of free trade have not necessarily been the advocates of direct taxation. We have opposed protective duties because we wished to have freedom of exchange with other countries, but we did not inquire what would be the effect on prices. We want as great a quantity of things as we can get, but I am sure that the hon. member for Cambridgeshire has shed tears—(a laugh)—on the supposition that we free traders want low prices. But what we really want is an abundance of everything. We do not say that free trade will decrease prices. It is possible that both the quantity and the price may be increased. The con dition of a country may be so prosperous, that, with an augmented quantity of articles produced, an increased price is obtained for them. That has been the case with some articles, such as wool and meat, and we do not know what will be the effect on corn itself. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer framed his budget, as it would seem, to compensate the industrious classes for the ef fects of unrestricted competition ; but what necessity was there for this step I have always understood that the industrious classes have been prosperous since free trade was established. We say that it has already done them much good, and that it will confer upon them still greater benefits. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer comes and tells us that he is going to introduce great measures, and that he will cheapen the necessaries of life. He says, " I will reduce the price of beer, and I will do so by raising the price of lodging." (A laugh.) But is not lodging as great a necessary of life as beer ? If you are to compete with foreigners, I say that you are going the wrong way if you lower the price of beer and raise the price of lodgings. The people of this country are not coming to sue in forma pauperis for such a boon. Why, then, do you make such a proposal ? It is a thing of your own creating ; you have made pro mise that you never ought to have made, and that has placed you in a false position. But I want to prevent you from putting free trade in a false position. (Hear, hear.) We say that we have done everything with free trade, that we have greatly increased the comforts of the labouring population, and diminished pauperism, and then you come and give a new name to our princi ple, and call it "unrestricted competition." Lord Byron used to say that a man had a right to pronounce his own name as he pleased ; and in the same way, I pre sume, that a political party has a right to give their own name to their own principle. I never insulted you by calling you m onopolists when you called yourselves protectionists—(laughter) —and why should you come now and change our good Saxon words "free trade" into " unrestricted competition ?" How can we pos sibly call o urselvesunrestricted competition " in party 2 (Renewed laughter.) If you adopt our prin pa • ciples, adopt our name and all. With regard to the tea duties, I think I should have done the same thing which the Chancellor of the Exchequer now proposes to do (with the trifling difference between us of a penny a pound) at least four or five years ago, and I do not be lieve that the revenue would have suffered at all by it. Looking, however, at the budget as a whole, I cannot persuade myself that this budget is the production of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I believe that at the last moment it was so pared down, and snipped, and cobbled, and squabbled about, that almost every . good thing, and every hnkl +l,ing was mkt otit of it. It is not worthy !31: a five hours' speech, and 1 numbly conceive that could have done it in an hour and twenty-five minutes. (A. laugh.) Before I sit down I wish to add a few words on a matter which must soon engage the serious atten tionve of every thinking man. Ido think that weeen— begun a controversy which will not e end h v e e n ry . member namely, who is to pay the taxe s ? Th for West Surrey said the oth er day dthtahtatlohuardedsteachlalirsehd that the taxes would not b e p aid, an. m e nts would not be maintained. Wtli regard o gard . too. theour es t a blishments, I think so still ; but i as the people i of l Eses paying taxes, I have a lways thoughtthat also been that with direct taxation t ey would scrutiniz e land would pay t heir j ust debts, though myopinion h as expenditure more closely than they have done, N ow, however, that we are beginning to have a controversy about who is to pay the taxes, we shall find that our imperial expenditure, including the cost of collection, is nearly 60,000,000 k This sum is very nearly as large as the amount of real property which is assessed to the income tax. You may well imagine, therefore, that people will be crying out when they find themselves galled by some particular tax. Since I have been in this house I have seen a sheet of paper, used for an American newspaper, made out of straw, and printed d r y. Now, the raw material o f thi s kind' of paper costs two guineas, but the duty upon it would be fourteen guineas. He says that but for this excise we could have w manufactured this straw . paper Then c i t t u h r e e ds quiteaptax. a If any h er e as ll in ag itation should arise against it cou ld i t not b e put i n argument, and would it not shame any man of property into willing ness to pay a little extra, that he lived in a countr y where dirt was ma d e a p re mium by act of P arliament? (Hear.) Tak e a l so t h e insurance tax. As these be come discussed you will find more and more the neces sity of resorting to some other mode of taxation. It is not merely that the competition is great with foreign countries, but the changed habits of business render a continuance of the present system i m possible ;the greater velocity and the greater magnitude of business render it impossible. Now, as regard the Customs' duties, you have two great blue-books or more on the inconveni ences of the present Custom-house regulations ; but any man that gets to the bottom of the question must know that you cannot get to the end of the difficulty except by abolishing custom-houses altogether. (Hear, hear.) Take Sir R. P eel ' s reductions. Sir R. Peel abolished the duties on hundreds of articles, and thought probably that in so doing he should lessen the Custom-house ex es• But , no • it is necessary to examine a rticles pens • that come in free. Suppose you allowed your own cotton bales to come in from America without examination, how 000 u would they be tobicoo bales I Nor, look at [PRICE SD. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) (Continued from our Third Edition of last evening.) Mr. COBDEN (in continuation of what appeared in our third edition) said—lf you pass such a law it will be the worst thing that can happen to you, because it will revive this controversy between town and country, not in the old form, that you can say it is a contest be tween cotton lords and landlords, but as a contest in which every little market town will be taking sides against you. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Look also at the way in which your taxation will operate to the pre judice of house property as distinguished from property in land. I think it most likely that this, as well as every other tax, will ultimately be felt, more or less, by every body ; but you must bear in mind that, with respect to a great portion of house property, you are taxing the owners as well as the occupiers, because a large propor tion of the houses which are occupied, are dwelt in by their owners. See how this will work. You have spring ing up in all directions benefit building societies, which are especially formed by industrious artisans, who seek to have a house of their own, and who are likely to build 101. houses, because there exists among that class a laudable desire of improving their dwellings. What kind of justice is it that you will mete out to these men by your taxation, when you demand from them 21 per cent., and force them to compare their situation with that of the owners of large landed estates ? Take another case. There is in London a large amount of landed property owned by noblemen who let out their vast landed estates on building leases. There is the Belgrave-square property, for instance. This property is let on a building lease for ninety-nine years, at a ground rent for each house of about 501. a year. A person puts bricks and mortar upon the land, or buys the lease, and you come to the owner of this property, and call upon him to contribute to your house tax, but you do not touch the ground landlord, though he clears 20,0001. or 30,0001. a year from the estate. The owners of bricks and mortar you consider subjects for direct taxation, but not the owners of land. It must be borne in mind, besides, that the inhabitants of towns are sub jected to very heavy local charges, not only for the sup port of the poor, but for the police rate, the lighting rate, and other ocal liabilities, yet although house pro perty is of smaller value than property in land, you press upon the owner of house property with equal severity for local rates, so that he is rated much higher than the owner of landed property for local as well as general purposes. You must not expect, therefore, that such an unequal system of taxation as this can ever be earried out. And what is this unequal tax laid on for l Why, to enable the Government to take off half the malt tax. The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has stated, with his usual frank ness, what the object of the . Government is in reducing that tax. He says that it is to be taken off for the bene fit of the land. The Chancellor of the Exchequer told us, however, that the moiety of the tax was to be taken of for the interest of the consumer. I think the Go vernment would do well to come to an understanding upon the principles of their budget, or, if they cannot agree, it would be well if one party or the other could be silent. (A laugh.) Now, my idea of the malt tax is very much that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is a tax laid on the consumer, but there is no doubt that the producer is subjected to inconvenience and to loss by it. The case of printed cottons, which was re ferred to by the right hon. gentleman, is precisely ana logous. The duty fell upon the consumer, but it hamp ered the manufacturer in his business. I agree, there fore, that the producer of barley, though to a very small extent comparatively, is affected by the malt tax. I have always 'understood that the great grievance of an excise tax is its interference with the necessary opera tions of trade. The malt tax does not interfere much with the farmers, yet still in a certain way it does. The only interest I ever took in the malt tax was owing to what I learned from a practical farmer and free trader, Mr. Lattimore, of Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, who is looked upon as a model farmer by his neighbours, and he persuaded me that the malt tax ought to be re pealed whenever it was practicable, because the repeal would enable the farmers to feed their cattle with malt. How far that may be the case I do not know myself, but I have confidence in Mr. Lattimore's judgment, and I have always felt that since the corn laws were abolished, the claim of the farmers to a repeal of the malt tax rested upon their right to malt their barley for the purpose of feeding their cattle. A case is made out, therefore, for the repeal of the malt tax whenever you have a sufficient surplus. But I have always said that I would not be a party to imposing any substitute for that tax. I have always been opposed, on principle, to the taking off of half the malt tax, because I object to the taking off of half of any excise tax, and I further object to the way in which you are going to make up I the deficiency. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has said that beer, like bread, is a necessary of life—that it must be drunk in order to keep up health and strength. There is, however, a very wide difference of opinion on this subject. I have always considered that one of the difficulties which you would have to deal with in repeal ing the malt tax was, that there is a large growing body of people in this country, and some of them very fana tical, too, who say that not only is beer not a necessary of life, but that it is highly pernicious. (Hear, hear.) T can cite the authority of a very large and influential and very useful class of persons who are of the same opinion, and I will read a declaration to this effect ; but I must request that hon. members opposite will suppress any manifestation of feeling until I have read to the end of the document : "An opinion handed down from rude and ignorant times, and imbibed by Englishmen from their youth, has become very general, that the habitual use of some portion of alcoholic drink, as of wine, beer, l or spirit, is beneficial to health, and even necessary to those subjected to habitual labou7. Anatomy, physi ology, and the experience of all ages and countries, when properly examined, must satisfy every mind well in formed in medical science that the above opinion is alto gether erroneous. Man, in ordinary health, like other animals, requires not any such stimulant, and cannot be benefited by the habitual employment of any quantity of them, large or small ; nor will their use during his life time increase the aggregate amount of his labour. In whatever quantity they are employed they will rather tend to diminish it." This declaration is signed by 70 of the most eminent medical men in this metropolis, in cluding Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Chambers, Sir James. Clark, Mr. Bransby Cooper, Mr. Travers, and others. Now I think that declaration may, at all events, have , sufficient weight with this house to justify me in saying , that it is at least an open question whether beer be a necessary of life or not. You ask, however, the profes sors of temperance to tax themselves in order to relieve the country from one-half of the malt tax. I have re ceived many letters from my constituents who are tee totallers on this subject. They say that they have abolished the use of alcoholic liquors among themselves, and that they believe the consumption of malt is perni cious to society ; and yet you ask them to submit to a house tax, in order that beer may be cheaper, and that, consequently, a greater consumption of beer may take place. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman has put the matter in such a way as to make the reduction of the malt tax a grievance to all these persons. He has not put the restriction of the duty on scientific grounds, as a skilful political economist would have done, on the ground, namely, that the farmers had a ri g ht to malt f their barley for the purpose of fatten in g their cattle. the right hon. gentleman had do ne so, the sympathies which my constituents felt for free trade would have in duced them to acquiesce in the proposal at once, but the Government said that the object of the reduction was to cheapen beer to the consumer. My objection to the house tax, therefore, is twofold ; first, that it is a partial tag. ana next. that a urcv ferent to a reduction of the malt tax, while thousands, and I believe even hundreds of thousands, are opposed on principle to the reduction of the duty on that article. That being the case, although I do not know what a majority of the house may do, I am sure that you will not be able to maintain the house tax, even if you are able to lay it on. You have seen how long-lived a con test may be when the object is to get rid of an unpopu lar tax. Look at the window tax, for instance : and yet you are going to enter into a contest in which you are sure to be beaten, and on a matter, too, which is really not worth fighting for. I have now a word or two to say about the proposed alteration in the hop duty. I have had much talk with the hop-growers of Sussex on this subject; and when they have told me that they wanted a total repeal of the duty, but that the hop growers of Kent were for taking off half the duty only, I have said, " After the great works of Sir Robert Peel, we shall never have a peddling Chancellor of the Ex chequer who will make two bites of a cherry and take off half the hop duty. (Laughter and cheers.) Hcherae " you have a tax which is perfectly except ional in its racter— a tax which is worthy of Turkey or Persia, but which is ridiculous in Great Britain. In the spring of the year there are a number of unfortlialeiampeenrst oannsii of needy men, who come to member sr say—" Will you recommend me to the Gornment as a when ve September collector of the hop duties ?" 11, comes, and the hops are dry and ready to be picked, the Chancellor of the Exchequer disperses a little army of these collectors over the c ountr y , and they go an d t take f stock, of the fields and ga rdens, and make an estimate o the tax. Sometimes it comes to 200' 000/ , sometimes to 300,0001. or 4 00 , 0001 . ; it hardlyo Chancellor of the Ex ever comes . to 500,000/. It is an uncertain tax, and n chequer knows how to calculate the amount. It has all the evils which a tax can have. It is cumbrous and i c ostly in collection , it is uncertain n different amount, and p a r t it s b ear s with most unequ al pressure on of the country. (Cheers.) There aro some districts where the hops are hardly worth half the amount of the tax, and, as the duty is levied by weight, it falls with the greatest pressure on the poorest soils. It is inconceivable, therefore, that any Chan cellor of the Exchequer, after the repeal of the corn laws and the abrogation of the navigation laws, should think of taking off half the duty on hops. I hope the house will never condescend to such paltry trifling as this. If nobody else does so, I will myself move the total repeal of the hop duty ; and if I should be defeated on that motion, I will vote against the partial repeal, for an ex cise tax of this kind should be abolished altogether or not at all, With respect to the modifications of the in- LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1852. FINE HEAD of HAIR, WHISKERS, AND MUSTACHIOS. 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In our Third Edition of yesterday we announced the arrival of the Queen of the South screw steamer, at Plymouth, with the Calcutta and Cape mails. We subjoin the following additional par ticulars. The monthly summary of the Cape Town Mail of November 6th, states that the war is not yet brought to a close. Operations continue against the Kaffirs, who, although dispersed and pursued, are neither reduced nor driven beyond the Kei. Early in October, General Cathcart constructed a defensible post at Hog's Back, opposite the ruined military village of Auckland, in order to clear the Amatolas, and the laager of the rebel Uithaalder. Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre had command of the pa trol, which consisted of the 73d Regiment, three companies of the 60th, Armstrong's Horse, Camp bell's Fingoes, the Kat Kiver Levy, two brigades of rockets, and a proportion of the Cape Mounted Rifles. They started on the 4th of October, and on the sth surprised and burned Uithaalder's laager, without loss to the t roo p s . This patrol has ever since been incessantly engaged in following up the enemy. The chiefs decline the General's terms of uncon ditional surrender. Macomo and Sandilli, with the Gaika Kaffirs, find shelter in the forests which skirt the Amatolas ; they are said to be destitute of ammunition, and their herds are fast decreasing. Captain Hearns, of the 12th, has been killed while out with a detachment of this regiment, escorting a drove -of contractor's cattle. Two of the 12th, and a civilian named Riley, were killed at the sarn? , 7 ,74, A spirited but unsuccessful effort has been made by Lieutenant Whitmore, of the Cape Mounted Rifles, to capture the chief Sandilli, who had with him 14 or 15 mounted Kaffirs, and several on foot. Although possessing an-inferior force, Lieutehaift Whitmore dashed on, and having divided the enemy, followed the lesser portion, Sandilli and one attendant, who, having the better horses, escaped into a wood. On the 6th of October General Cathcart had an interview with the chiefs of the Slambie tribes at Fort Murray. They consisted of Pato, Cobus Congo, Toise Umhala, Umkye, Jan Tzatzoe, and Siwani and his mother Nonebi, being all the Slam bies except the rebel Seyolo. The Governor's address promised protection provided they did not allow any of the rebels who had taken shelter among their tribes to attack the Queen's subjects. These chiefs severally expressed their desire for peace, and a few days after Seyolo delivered himself up, and is now in safe custody. The colonial papers state their inability to give explicit intelligence to the public from the deficiency of general orders. The present Commander, they say, is as close as General' Sir Harry Smith was open in this particular. A correspondent writes that the last (sham's Town Journal contains a proclamation offering, with certain exceptions, life to all the Hottentots on condition of their surrendering themselves. It is understood that those in the Waterkloof are in great want, and anxious to come in. Rumours are rife as to the removal of the seat of Government ; Graham's Town is spoken of, but the eastern colo nists would prefer Uitenhage or Alice. A Com mando of the Trans-Vaal Boers, 406 men, has lately invaded the country of the Chief Secheli ; they took the principal town by storm after six hours' hard fighting, and left 4 farmers and 300 of Secheli's warriors dead on the field. The cause of this ex pedition is unknown. Much discussion has taken place on the Colonial Church Bill, proposed by Mr. Gladstone. The Cape Town Churchmen are, by a large majority, favourable to synodical action. Commodore Bowker has submitted to the Go vernor, through Commissioner Owen, a plan' for locating 400 young farmers on the Tambookie frontier, under military tenure—a measure which is looked upon as extremely sound, and likely to be productive of advantage to the country at large. Several emigrant vessels proceeding to Australia, have put into the Cape for refreshments, viz. : On the 14th of October, the Koh-i-noor, from Leith, July 22 ; Collooney, from Leith, July 22, and sailed October 31 ; 28th of October, Lizzie Webber, from Sunderland, August 1, and sailed November 2 ; sth of November, Australia, from St. John's, New Brunswick. The brig Xarifa, with wines from Oporto, arrived at the Cape on the 21st of October, bound to Port Philip, and the Portuguese ship Adamson, from Lisbon, arrived at the Cape on the 21st, and sailed for Algoa Bay on the 26th of October. The General Screw Steam-Shipping Company's mail packet Sir Robert Peel, which left Natal on the 12th of October, East London on the 14th, Algoa Bay on the 15th, and Mossel Bay on the 16th, arrived at the Cape on the 19th of October, and left again with the English mails on the 27th of October. _ The steamer Fettercairn, from Algoa Bay, on the 22d of October, arrived at the Cape on the 31st of October. The General Screw Steam-Shipping Company's mail-packet Lady Jocelyn arrived at the Mauritius on the 19th of October, only 39 days from Ply mouth. The French Government war-steamer Archimede, 6 guns, which left Bourbon on the 25th of Septem ber, arrived at the Cape on the 13th of October, bound to Rochefort. Her Majesty's frigate Spartan, 26 guns, Captain Sir William Hoste, from Plymouth the 29th of July, arrived at the Cape on the 13th of October, and sailed subsequently , for Madras. Her Majesty's steam -vessel Hydra left Table Bay, in October, with the new lighthouse for Bird Islands, and re turned o n the 3 0th of October to Simon's Bay. The United States steamer St. Mary, 22 guns, from Penang the 28th of August, arrived at the Cape on the 15th and sailed for Boston on the 27th of October. The Queen of the South brings 100,000 rupees from India for the Oriental Bank. The mails, in charge of Commander Wharton, R.N., were landed in time to be dispatched by the train which arrives at Paddington at 10.40 p.m. education. To this M. Osy replied that, in a country which is almost exclusively Catholic, there being only ten thousand dissidents in a population of four millions and a half of inhabitants, it was atural and proper that the clergy should have an influence on public education. If, added M. Osy, the education were to be exclusively liberal, the result would be socialism. The debate was ad journed. 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In short, every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental to the generative system, and the means of immediate relief and ultimate cure are described in detail. The professional reputation of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these cases. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater noster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Staric, Titchborne•strect, Haymarket ; Mann, 23, Cornhill ; or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author, who may be consulted personally, or by etter daily, from Ten till Two, and from Six ti Eight. CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS. N all hands arrangements are making to celebrate the anniversary of Christmas. To create novelty for a festivity so ancient requires some degree of ingenuity. and to introduce fresh sources of comfort and enjoyment claims more than ordinary talent. For a great number of years novelties in Dress have been an important item in Christmas preparations. What, hen, must be the amount of skill possessed by those artists whose introductions arc new on each recurrence of this festivity? It is those only whose success has long been the admiration of all classes, and whose seasonable productions have gained lasting celebrity, who can provide articles of ATTIRE worthy of universal patronage. The DRESS prepared for Christmas by E. MOSES and SON embraces variety, surpassing all attempts at imitation, and exhibits novelties which only the first Tailoring Establishments in the universe can device. To maintain this distinction, E. MOSES and SON'S Christ mas Preparations present ATTIRE for ADULTS and JUVENILES in the widest range of taste, the nucleus of their most celebrated styles, DRESS for Ckristmas parties, the most splendid materials and the neatest workmanship. OVERCOATS and WATERPROOF CLOTHING . in the most gentlemanly and comfortable styles. HATS, CAPS, and HOSIERY, unequalled for qualily and beauty, and all Goods charged considerably lower prices than at any other house. N.B.—Christmas eve being Friday, E. MOSES and SON'S Esta blishments will be closed at half-past four o'clock. TO EMIGRANTS. All requisite Goods andClingCcilied - n OUTFIT, or the best opportunity for selecting to the largest or smallest amount, is afforded to all Emigrants, at the Outfitting Establishment of E. 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MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike alsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have NO CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER nOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : Mndon City Establishment, 154, 155, 156 and 157, Minories, 83, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicatin, London West-end Branch, 586, 507, 608, New Oxford-street 1,2, and It, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge street. Sheflieia Bianch, 86, iargate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, natters, Hosiers Farriers, Boot and Shoo Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. I MPORTA NT.—Should any article not give satisfaction it will be exchanged If desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be hsd, gratis, on application. lei l'on parle Francais. Hier sEricht man Deutsch. I QAuctiaastogoahrlaablataEfillartpaOn. ITALY. The Milan Gazette contains a sentence pro nounced by the court-martial of Mantua, condemn ing the following persons to death by the gallows : Tazzoli, a priest, and professor in the Episcopal Seminary, aged 39; Scarrellini, a butcher, aged 30 ; Canal, of no profession, aged 28 ; Dr. Zam belli, a portrait-painter, aged 28 ; Dr. Poma, a physician, aged 29. They had been convicted of conspiracy against the Government, and belonging to the revolutionary committees of Venice and Mantua.. These sentences were executed at Mantua on the 7th. Several other persons have had the punishment of death commuted into various periods of imprisonment in irons. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. By the arrival of the General Screw Company's screw steamer Queen of the South we have some interestiag de tails of the performance of the Ocean screw-steamers that have left England for the Cape, Calcutta, and Australia within the last six months. It is due, however, to Mr. Mare, the builder of the Queen of the South, the first of the splendid fleet of 1800 ton screw-ships, to state that the performances of the Queen of the South and her sister ships, the Lady Jocelyn, Indiana, &c., have established their character as superior to any of their class afloat. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 13. The following officers passed examinations last week at the 11,6ya --- Naval College, qualifying for Lieutenants : Messrs. S. Curtis, A. Wing, L. M. Croke, D. B. Pack, E. C. Batty, H. Golden, C. C. Mitchell, and the Hon. A. Hay. For Masters :—Messrs. J. C. Scriven, W. H. Moore, A. F. Mugford, A., R. Burmiston, H. W. C. Wise, and J. P. Grant. . . The following young gentlemen have passed into the service as naval cadets :-- Messrs. C. Shuckburgh, B. Ban bury, T. L. Wood, R. H. D. King, S. Long, H. F. Camp bell, H. Salmond, and F. L. Clayton. WOOLWICH, DEC. 13. APPOINTMINTS. Lieutenant Charles Bayley Calmudy Dent 1852), for merly serving as mate in the Spiteful steam-sloop, to the Valorous steam-frigate, commissioned at Devonport. Lieutenant Tonge, whose appointment as -Flag-Lieu tenant was announced yesterday, should have been to Rear-Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew, for service on the East India station, and not to Rear-Admiral Dundas on the Mediterranean station, as was inadvertently stated. Master Thomas Osmer (1847), from the Hove screw steam-guardship, at Devonport, to the Valorous. at Wool Paymaste r Wm. H. Wiseman (18 44 ), to the Valorous. Assistant -Engineer James King to the Fisgard flag - ship C: F. Dumaresq (1850), to the Calliope, 26, on Woolwi c h vice Stephens, promoted. Mate A. West Indies and North American station. °enond Masters—G. B. Burney, to the Valorous ; R. E. Jones, to the Vulture steam-frigate, at Devonport. ; Midshipmen. —R. John Freshfleld (1847), to the Valorous. nlnisnipmen.—R. H. Thompson, to the Vulture ; Thos. G. Roe and Edward Richards, to the Magicienne, at De vonport T. G. Mead, to the Agamemnon, 90 , screw steam s hip, a t Sh eerness . Master's-Assistant. —George Chapman, to the Aga- memnen• G un ners.—William Whitworth, to the Valorous ; Henry Hockey, to the Archer steam-sloop, at Portsmouth. Boatswain. —William Dart, to the Valorous. PROMOTIONS. Commander George Pierce (1823), to the rank of Captain on the reserved half-pay list. Assistant-Engineer.—Samuel Stephens, serving in the Fisgard, to be Chief Engineer. NEW SPANISH CONSTITUTION. The following is a summary of the officially pub lished draught of the " reformed" constitution 1. Religion.—The religion of the Spanish nation is exclusively the catholic apostolic and Roman religion. The relations of the church with the state will be fixed by the Crown and the Sovereign Pontiff, in virtue of concordats which will have the force of law. 2. The Laws.—The laws are made by the Sovereign and the Cortes. The initiative belongs to the King, and to each branch of the legislature. No tax can be imposed or collected without the sanction of a law. The general budget of the state is permanent ; it cannot be changed except by law. The accounts will be pre sented annually, for the examination and approval of the Cortes. Loans and sales of national property re quire the sanction of a law. The civil list will be fixed at the commencement of each reign. 3. The Cortes.—These are composed of the two legis- lative bodies, the Senate and Congress, equal in power. The Senate is composed of hereditary members, senators by birth, and senators for life. They are nominated by the King. The qualifications of a senator are deter mined by a separate law. The sons of the king and those of the heir presumptive, are senators by right of birth. In addition to its legislative functions the senate has to judge of impeachments preferred against ministers by the Congress ; to take cognizance of offences against the person and dignity of the king ; and to judge its own members according to law. The congress is composed of those who have been chosen by the electoral juntas. Neither of the legisla tive bodies can sit when the other is not in session. Be- sides their legislative powers, which they exercise with the sovereign, the Cortes have the following attribu tions :—to receive the oath of the king, or of the regent the oath to maintain the constitution ; to elect the regent of the realm, and name the tutor of the king when a minor, and to render the responsibility of ministers effec tive by exercising the power of impeachment. The senators and deputies are inviolable as far as their votes and opinions in the exercise of their functions are concerned. They cannot be arrested going or coming unless taken in an overt act of crime. 4. The King.—His person is sacred and inviolable ; he is not responsible for his acts. The ministers alone are responsible. As the executive power his authority extends to all departments of the Government. In urgent cases he may anticipate the action of the Legis lature upon the report of his ministers, who will give an account to the Cortes on their meeting. All the royal acts will be countersigned by the ministers. The King convokes the Cortes, suspends and closes the sessions of and dissolves the Chamber of Deputies. In the latter case he will convoke and assemble new Cortes within six months. The Cortes will meet every year. They will be convoked whenever a vacancy of the crown occurs, or whenever, from any cause, the King shall be incapable of governing. The King grants amnesties, declares war and makes peace, coins money, and nominates to all employments and honours. The King cannot alienate, cede, or exchange any por tion of the national territory, ratify treaties of offensive alliances or of commerce, or abdicate the crown without the concurrence of the Cortes. The marriage of the sovereign and his ,successor will be previously brought to the knowledge of the Cortes, whose sanction will be re quired to their attendant stipulations. 5. Succession to the Throne.—This will follow the order of primogeniture, anterior taking precedence of posterior lives. In case of failure of descendants of Isabella 11. her sister and uncles, brothers of her father, will succeed, if they are not excluded. In cases of failure of these lives a new call to the throne must take place. All questions of right to the throne will be settled by law. Persons who may be declared incapable of gu-vea g ui Why may have committee some disqualifying act are excluded from the succession. The consort of a reigning Queen has no share in the government. 6. Regents and Tutors.—The King is a minor until his 14th year is accomplished. During the minority of the King his father or mother, or nearest kinsman, will enter upon the regency, and retain it until the King is of age. When there is no person to whom the regency falls by right the Cortes will appoint a regent. When a King is declared by the Cortes incapable of governing, his eldest son of 14 years of age will assume the regency. The tutor of a minor King must be a Spaniard by birth, and will be named in the testament of the defunct monarch, or, in default, nominated by the Cortes. The same person may not be tutor and regent except it be the parent of the King. Such is the proposed constitution of Spain. The spe cial law on the senate provides that its hereditary mem bers shall be grandees of Spain who . are such by droit propre ; they must be born in Spain, or be sons of Spaniards, 25 years of age, and pay at least 30,000 ma's (7,500 f.) tax on real estate. The law on the ;composition of the Cortes provides that the Chamber shall be composed of 271 deputies, directly elected, each from one district. A deputy must be 30 years of age, having paid for two . years before the day of his election 3,000 reals (750 . fr.) in direct taxes, or 2,000 reals, of which 500 are contributions immobilieres, or 1,000 reals of contributions . immobilieres.. Church men, soldiers in active service, and judicial functionaries, are incapable, as also are functionaries of the state re ceiving less than 30,000 reals. Electors must be Spaniards who have attained 25 years of age, and lived two years in the place where they claim to vote. Further, they must be of the num ber of the 150 persons rated highest to the direct gene ral con tributions. The ministers may, if they think fit, a ttend the sittings of the two legislative bodies. Govern ment business has precedence of all other in the Senate and Congress. Ministers may speak when they please, in or out of their turn, but they can never vote, even al though they belong of right to the body in which they appear. When the interests of public order require, the Go vernment may proclaim any part of the monarchy, or the whole, either in the etat preventif or in the state of siege. The Government may delegate this power. The eat preventif involves the suspension of the law on the liberty of individuals, but no subject can be taken out of his own province. When the state of siege is pro claimed, all power is resumed in the hands of the mili tary authorities THE FRENCH EMPIRE. Letters from Berlin have been received which leave no doubt as to the unreserved recognition of the Emperor of the French. The Moniteur announces the reception of the Spanish Ambassador by the Emperor, when the former presented his credentials. The same journal publishes the project of constitution for Spain, which, it is plain enough to be seen, is approved of by the French Government. The Duke of Nassau has expressed his satisfaction to the French repio sentative at the change which has taken place in the government of France. On Sunday morning, at 9 o'clock, the Emperor heard low mass celebrated in the chapel of the Tuileries, by the Abbe Legrand, ova of St. Ger main r Auxerrois. All the ' h ouse hold of his Majesty and the superior empl oy e s o f th e p a lace wer e present. After Div i ne servic e break fasted with his Majesty. It is said the cure that from Sun day next the mass will be celebrated with greater pomp. About three o'clock the Emperor left the Tuileries in plain clothes, and accompanied by two of his orderly officers, took a ride on horseback in the Bois-de -Boulogne. He was everywhere re ceived with the most marked respect by the crowds who were drawn thither, and i n t o th e Ch am ps ElYsees, by the fineness of the weather. Th e Presse, in its weekly commercial bulletin, states that the last month was one of the best known for a long period as regards the exports of French manufactures to foreign countries. It states also that extensive orders have been recently re ceived from England in Paris for bronzes and fancy articles, and that at Lyons there are still extensive orders for silks and velvets. By an Imperial decree dated the 4th inst., Count Alexander Colonna Walewski, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has been raised to the dignity of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. PARIS BOURSE, Monday, Dec. 13.—The market has been heavy to-day, and quotations left off generally low, Threes, for the account, having been last done at 82f. 35c., and Four-and-a-Half per Cents, at 106 f. 50c. The market closed as fol lows :—Threes, for cash, 81f, 50c. ; for account, 82f. 35c. ; Four-and-a-Half, for cash, 105 f. 80c.; for account, 106f.' 50c. ; Bank of France Shares, 2900 f. ; Austrian Loan, 98if. ; Spanish Threes, 501 f. ; Neapolitan, 107 f. BELGIUM. In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies on Fri day and Saturday last, the discussion on the bud get was rather animated, particularly as regarded some of the chapters of the budget of Public In struction. Some of the deputies of the oppoSition complained in strong terms of what they consider to be the undue influence of the clew on national •.-4411r**,,. . P PIE WEST MARIPOSA GOLD MINE 711 e Co COMPANY. ;11vr„/ 111 nittee of the West Mariposa Company have received from their Commissioner, Mr. M'BOUGAL, dated San have as Oct. 30, a nnounc i ng th e c ompletion of a treaty for a most s qlve 4 „Pnd valuable property, situated in " the Grass Valley," ,llr, 1 1 7,, erry's ledge and Baer's ledge. `cfv„ . had deferred the ratification of this treaty until the 'eas c i.;. Mr. Catherwood • when, finding that that gentleman de iri the e a , immediate payment ' of a large sum in addition to the ed i R London for a partnership in the Gold-hill property, ti ati u gal at once considered himself at liberty to break off the -n ' an d gladly availed himself of the opportunity thereby -N t h ef completing the purchase of the Grass Valley property, a e ne ,.,, d ing to the best of his judgment, offers superior advan 4ke the contemplated connexion with the Gold-hill Company. Nth,ftinittee have the pleasure to add, that the whole of the e k 'titiee' n e ,, a _ r rived in good health, and were proceeding to the before mines to carry oa the operations there on behalf of the any . By order, A d. , C. STEWART, Secretary. N........n'5-cottrt, London, Dec. 13, 1852. LAuarsrs GRAND CASINO. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, 14 ate. St. James's, Lr e :2arles Emile Laurent. Onslow House. Brompton- I. road, t Ope 4 ''' ed • Pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25 th George I tnetZ,erY evening with Laurent's Celebrated Band. Princi p al '" l ten, M. Boulcour. Admission—ONE SHILLING. Ilb e ° 4. °l.B ° P e a at n a ng Half-past Eight o'clock. Da . ncing to `.........ertni nate at H Eleven precisely. commence at e ..! ETS, 1 I