The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH LONDON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at the Euston Station—Mr. J. Bancroft in the chair. The report (which has already appeared) was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, and said that, though the receipts were as satisfac tory as could have been anticipated, yet the accounts ge lerally did not come out as well as could be de sired. The expenses had been above what might have been looked for, and the principal causes of the increase' of the expenses were compensation claims £2,025, ..ates and taxes £3,041, and Government duty 12,7J0. These three items amounted to £7,894 on the half year, or about 6 per cent. on the gross receipts. With respect to the compensation claims, they were for accidents, which, in 19 cases out of 20, could not he guarded against by all the vigilance of the directors and their servants, and yet in all cases the company was made responsible, as if they had designedly laid traps to maim and kill their customers. So, indeed, juries seemed to treat these cases. Persons who were in a train when an acci dent happened set up an excuse whereby to obtain compensation when they had sustained no bodily injury, that their nerves were affected, or their spinal cord injured, and in this the claimants were sus tained by medical evidence, they got lawyers to plead the cases and juries to believe them. With re gard to the rates and taxes, no reduction could be expected, as the company's property was constantly increasing in value, and parish officers were aware of the fact. As to the item of Government duty he thought the company and all other railway compa nies had cause for complaint, for the Government had been the means of the company reducing the rates, and compelled them to carry those who were called the " working classes" at low rates, The Go vernment then, instead of decreasing the duty as an allowance for these low fares, had aettsally increased the duty. If this course wereperseverectin the com pany would have to raise the rat,e6,,..The present dividend would have to be paid oti. a capital of £2,287,387, and there was a money value of about £150,000 in surplus land, which might from time to time be disposed of, if not made available. The re gistration of debentures had been made in due form, and they had not exceeded the amount the company was legally authorised to issue. He regretted to say the company had received no income from the Lon don and North-Western for the Broad-street sta tion, as the station was not yet completed. The ex pense of getting down to Broad-street was very great indeed, and the London and North-Western Com pany Was pushing on its works with all passible speed. When that source of income was opened to the com pany they had a right to anticipate a very material increase from that source. There had been a very satisfactory increase of passengers during the past six months. In the corresponding half-year the number of passengers was 5,292,018. During the last half-year the number carried was 7,789,526, showing an increase of 2,497,508, which would have been much larger bat for the unfavourable weather. In the mineral traffic there had been an increase, but a slight decrease in the goods traffic. Mr. R. D. MANGLES seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. CUNNINGTON said he could not regard the report as satisfactory, There was an increase of 30 per cent. in the receipts, but no increase of dividend. Then it appeared to him that the shareholders were suffering for the benefit of the London and North- Western Company. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said that he had already explained items which had taken off 6 per cent, of the gross receipts, and it was also to be borne in mind that there were other causes of increased ex penditure,—namely, the enormous advance in the price of fuel, and the advance in wages. There was also additional capital which had been laid out in the proper development of the undertaking, and the benefits of this extra work could not be realised until the additions to the line were in working order. The resolutions were then carried. Dividends at the rate of £2 10s. per cent for the half-year on the preference stock and £2 15s. per cent. on the ordi nary stock and shares of the company were declared payable on the 28th inst. A resolution was also passed for the conversion of ptid-up shares into stock. The retiring director, Mr. Stewart, and the retir ing auditor, Mr. Greenaway, were re-elected, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND. The report of the directors of this company states that the revenue account, as furnished by the lessees, showed that the receipts had amounted to £31,959, and the expenses to £19,700, leaving a balance of £15,259. Compared with the corresponding period of the previous year there was a decrease of £2,942 in the receipts and of £3,447 in the expenses, leaving a net increase of £505 in the balance of the present account. The returns of passenger tolls and pro portions of goody receipts derived by the Great Eastern and North London Companies amounted to 113,732, which added to the £31,959 made the gross receipts for the Tilbury Company's traffic £48,692. Considering the extraordinary wet sum mer, the ravages of cholera, and consequent distress at the east end of London, and also that the line was as much as possible avoided in consequence of a por tion of its traversing the infected districts, the pro prietors had, doubtless, anticipated the exceptional decrease in the passenger traffic shown in the ac counts. The returns under the head of goods, cattle, and sundries showed a decrease of £872. The works contracted for at Thames Haven had been long since completed, but no increase in the cattle traffic could be secured until the present restrictions were removed. The Thames Haven Company were fully prepared to bring on to the line a largely in creased traffic, either of cattle or of carcases of beasts slaughtered at Thames Haven as soon as some settled policy had been determined on. The North London Company were promoting a bill in the present session for making a branch from their Bow Station to the Bromley Station on the Tilbury line, which if constructed would be the means of bringing a considerable accession of traffic to the line, and would have an important bearing on the position and prospects of the company. The capital account showed that £795,744 had been expended, leaving a balance of £656. BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES UNION. Negotiations have been concluded between the directors of this company and the Great Western Board for the entire transfer of the line to the latter company. For the first three years the Great Western is to pay all debenture and preference charges, and afterwards the original shareholders are to receive Great I'Vestern stock, in certain pro portions, in exchange for their shares. PEMBROKE AND TENBY. The half -yearly meeting was held in the Town hall, Tewby ; Mr. W. Owen in the chair. The report stated that the development of the traffic on the line was highly satisfactory, and there had been a large increase in the receipts. Arrange ments had been made with the Post-office autho rities for the conveyance of the mails from Whitland to Narberth and Tenby, which could not fail to be o f great benefit to the line. Through -booking facilities had been granted by the Great Western and other companies. The capital account showed that £299;82t had been expended. The CHAIIZMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulz ted the shareholders on the in crease in the traffic. Utile 33 the Great Western laid down a narrow gauge from Whitland to Carmar then they had power to do so, and when this was accomplished he looked forward to a large increase in the goods and mineral traffic. The report was unanimously adcpted, a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on both the preference and ordinary shares was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated. LOn'WITETIEL AND FOWEY. ,The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Fowey, Cornwall, on Thursday ; Mr. B. T. Head in the The CHAIRUMT said the directors were engaged in negotiations for the recommencement of the works, the results of which would be laid before the shareholders at the earliest possible period. Hopes were entertained that the line would be shortly completed to Came Point, and it was very desirable that this portion of therailway should be opened for traffic without delay, or a large traffic coming from Newquay and Cornwall Junction railway would be diverted. The report was adopted, and Messrs. Head and Lambert, the retiring directors, were re-elected. TRENT AND ANCHOLME. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Doncaster on Saturday ; the Hon. W. G. Eden presided. Mr. Ross, the secretary, read the report, which showed that £261,260 had been re ceived, and £265,615 expended up to the end of December last. The line was opened for public traffic on the Ist of October last, and a thorough service of trains between Grimsby and the West Riding commenced. The Hon. W. G. Eden and Mr. Fenton were re-elected directors, and Mr. T. R. Barker auditor of the company. BLYTH AND TYNE. The report of the directors states that the gross revenue for the half year amounted to £65,585. The expenditure, including way leases and interest, to £44,702, leavingia balance of £20,883, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on the 10 per cent. preference stock and on the ordinary stock and shares of the company, and 5 per cent. on the 5 per cent. preference stock and shares, leaving a small balance. The directors bad a bill in Parliament for extending the powers of the company in connexion with the authorised Walbottle, Warkworth, and Newbiggin branches, and also for the construction of a short line from the Tynemouth branch to a new deep-water shipping place near the Lowlights. Naval and Military Intelligence. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a Levee at the Horse Guards on Saturday. Upwards of 180 officers attended. The Ist Dragoon Guards, who now occupy the cavalry barracks at Colchester, will leave that sta tion in April and will proceed to Aldershot. They will be relieved by the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars, from Edinburgh, who will remain at Colchester un til required to embark for Bengal. The horses of the 4th Hussars will be taken over by the 6th (Enniskillen) Dragoons, commanded by Col. Craw ley, who are expected home from Bombay during the summer. The 2d battalion 6th Regiment is ex pected to reach Ireland from Jamaica in the course of next month, the 98th Regiment from India dur ing the spring, and the 94th from India and the 57th from New Zealand in the latter part of the year. The depots of these regiments will, conse quently, leave Colchester during the year. The movements of the Aldershot Division during the past week have been more restricted than usual, owing to the strength of the camp being much diminished by the despatch of troops to Ireland. On Tuesday the 2d Infantry Brigade, consisting of the 18th Royal Irish and the 65th Regiment, under Major-Gen. Campbell, C. 8., was exercised in field evolutions on the Queen's Parade, North Camp, Lieut.-Gen. the lion. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., commanding the Division, was present on the occasion, and on the conclusion of the manceu vres complimented the brigade on its efficiency. On Thursday the Horse Artillery marched out to Pystock and Hungry-hill, returning to quarters by the On the same day a para graph appeared in " divisional orders" instructing the officer commanding the Royal Artillery at Alder shott to hold the " F" battery 9th Brigade in readi ness to proceed to Ireland. The battery will be relieved by the " II" battery of the same brigade from Shorncliffe. On Friday morning the remain ing five companies of the 81st Regiment marched from camp to the Farnborough station of the South- Western Railway, and proceeded by special train to Weedon. On the same day a board of officers, presided over by Major-Gen. Campbell, C. 8., as sembled at the Royal Artillery Barracks to consider and propose sites for married soldiers' quarters. On Saturday, in compliance with instructions received from the Adjt.-General's-office, dated Horse Guards, Feb. 16, 1867, the undermentioned non-commis sioned officers and privates, who had been selected to serve on probation with the purveyor's branch of the Army Hospital Corps, were ordered to proceed by train from Farnborough en route for the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley :—Corporal Bolding, 89th Regiment ; Lance-Corporal IL Abrams, Pri vate W. Sandham, Private W. C. Lillie, 3d Hus sars ; Gunners J. Brittain, J. Needham, and J. Kelly, B Battery, C Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery. It is expected that a considerable force of militia will be brigaded at Aldershott for training during the ensuing summer, and that the regular troops will for the most part be placed under canvas. The Trinity steam yacht Irene, Mr. Jones, master, which left London at 5 a.m. on Friday, arrived at Plymouth at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Capt. Arrow, Deputy Master of Trinity House, accompanied by two of the Elder Brethren, Copts. Webb and Nesbitt, arrived by train the same evening at Pearce's Royal Hotel, Plymouth. The object of this visit is to have a conference, before departure for the Mediterranean, with the Duke of Edinburgh, who succeeded to the office of Master of Trinity House on the death of Lord Palmerston. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Devonport, from Paddington, on Frid ty afternoon, and hav ing taken refreshments at the official residence of Admiral-Superintendent Drummond, went with his suite on board his ship, the Galatea, in Plymouth Sound. On Saturday morning the Com mander-in-Chief, Admiral SirlV, Martin, mustered and inspected the crew of the frigate. She is ap pointed to sail this (Monday) afternoon for Lisbon, Gibraltar, and Malta. The Cossack, 20, screw corvette, 1,296 tons, Capt. R. D. White,• was on Saturday paid out of commission in the large basin of Sheerness dockyard by Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., of the Sheerness Steam Reserve. A gratuity and a good conduct medal were awarded to one of the petty officers. The ship, which has been in commission nearly four years on the Mediterranean station, has been dismantled and placed in the third division of the Steam Reserve. The Rodney, 78, screw ship, 2,770 tons, 500- horse power, Capt. A. C. P. Heneage, ig ordered to be ready to proceed to sea for her destination as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., on the China station, by the 16th March. Her crew numbers now nearly 700 officers and men, who are at present lodged in the naval barracks of Sheerness dockyard, but on the Ist of March they are to be turned over to their.ship. The La Plata embarked war stores from Wool wich arsenal for Halifax ; the Castle Howard shipped Palliser shell, shot, &c., for the ships on station at Valparaiso ; and the Hindoo took in guns, carriages, &c., for St Helena. Her Majesty's 17-gun sloop Chanticleer went down the river from Woolwich dockyard in com mand of Captain Dillon, of the local Steam Re save, on trial of her engines on being completed for sea. She is expected to be commissoned for service in a few days. Her destination had not been an nounced. The crew of the steam sloop Pantaloon, 11, Commander George L. Sulivan, in Plymouth Sound, have been mustered and inspected by Capt. Ewart, of the Cambridge. The Pantaloon was under orders to proceed in the afternoon into the Ilamoaze, where her crew will be paid off, and she will be dismantled and placed in the third divi sion of the Steam Reserve. It is reported at Plymouth that the screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh, will leave the Sound on Monday for Lisbon, Gibral tar, and the French ports in the Mediterranean. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty : — Commander Henry K. Leet to be inspecting commander in the Coastguard ; Lieut. H. B. Lang to the Narcissus ; R. Coen, master, to the Aboukir; Sub-Lieut. G. Mainwaring, to the Galatea ; Sub-Lieut. R. F. 11. Henderson to the Royal Alfred; Sub-Lieuts, H. G. M. Pugh and F. W. Sanders to the Vestal; A. C. Corry, P. C. de Crespigny, midshipmen, to the Galatea, as super numeraries, and C. M. Luckraft, midshipman, in stead of cadet, to the Galatea ; A. T. Miller, second master, additional, to the Victory, for disposal ; Dr. W. Reid, assist.-surg, to the Victory; J. W. Angear, master's assistant, to the Galatea ; R. G. Canney, chief engineer, to the Himalaya ; G. Wynhall, en gineer, to the Asia, for service in the Fancy ; R. Crosthwaite, G. Deans, and E. R. Cockrell, engi neers, to the llimalaya; G. Nicholls, first-class assist engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Glasgow ; D. Francis, first-class assist. engineer, to the 'lima laya ; J. Craven, acting first-class assist. engineer, to the Himalaya ; and G. N. Michell, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Himalaya ; C. 11. Bayly nominated a naval cadet. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :--W. J. Moore, midshipman, to the Bellerophon ; Morris N. Hall, midshipman, to the Zebra, as supernumerary ; Dr. W. Hoggan, staff surgeon, to the St. Vincent ; and T. Burnett, engineer, additional, to the Fisgard, for the Rover. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25 1867. in view of the deep interest manifested by the Sovereign Powers of France and England in the regent nautical performance of the New York Yacht Club, to suggest as a sentiment the honoured names of the representative women of either land—' EUGENIE !—VICTORIA !' May they meet on the glad waters of the deep blue sea, as on an equal and mutual home.' " 'Tis said that a ball is shortly to take place at the Tuileries, and that the costumes of the time of Henry 11. will be de rigueux on that occasion. The richness and elegance of these costumes will give a spice of novelty and eclat to the ceremony, which will be relished by the elite of the city. Exertions are being made here among English and Americans to build an Anglo-America❑ Church. During the Exposition many persons visiting Paris will have to give up attending church, on account of not being able to obtain seats. A site for the new building has been granted by the city ; and it is determined to erect a wood or iron edifice that will accommodate a thousand or more persons. The grant of this land is only for the time of the Exposition. It is gratifying to observe the anxiety, on the part of all Americans here that the appointment of General Dix should be confirmed. Not only is he popular with Americans, but also with the French and other nations. Never in Paris were such demonstrations shown towards any other Minister, and it is to be hoped that he will retain his position. Captain Cornwell, captain of the American armour-plated monitor Mi.intonomab, died sud denly at Toulon, a few nights back, from a stroke of apoplexy. His funeral obsequies were celebrated three days after with all the ceremonial used in France for a superior officer dying on board a ship of war. The Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, is now in Paris, where he has come to recover his health, which for some time has been bad. Mr. Washburne, it will be remembered, has been for many years a member of Congress. He has been received here with great kindness by his friends and many other AMericans. A complimentary dinner was given to him by Montgomery Gibbs, Esq., at the Hotel Hollande, and Was attended by a large number of distinguished guests, desiriini of exchanging poli tical opinions with one who is so thoroughly con versant with all American politics. In my next letter from Paris a full account of the grand ball on the 22d will be given the readers of the Anglo and Franco-American. Miscellaneous French News. (From the Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.) The reception on Saturday night last at General John A. Dix's passed off with its usual brilliancy, and was attended by the elite of America. On the 14th the Emperor pronounced his address to the members of the Senate and Legislative Corps. The day was beautiful, and the attendance very large. The usual military guards and official demonstra tions were observed in the courts of the Louvre and Tuileries during the passage of the Imperial family to and from the palace of the Louvre. This discourse is always looked forward to with great interest by the press of all parts of the world, because it is of interest to the people at large. The speech was clear, elevated, and dignified. The speaker—desirous of his country's good—de clared his determination to inaugurate liberal reforms, and a greater development of constitu tional liberty. It has been the dream of France for many years—has been the union of the two fundamental ideas of the Revolution—Liberty and Democracy; and to this end his Imperial Majesty now invites the active co-operation of his legisla tors. The speech was, indeed, an able production, worthy of the Emperor, and worthy of the great nation over whose destinies he is presiding. Progress, and the propagation of liberal institu tions, are watch-words that are ever acceptable to Frenchmen. The Emperor concluded his speech by saying— _ _ " Up to this time liberty in France has been only ephemeral; it has not been able to take root in the soil, because abuse has immediately followed its use, and because the nation preferred to limit the exercise of its rights rather than undergo dis order in ideas and in things. It is worthy of you and I to make a larger application of those great principles, which are the glory of France. Their development will not compromise, as formerly, the necessary prestige of authority. Power is to-day based—and ardent passions, the sole obstacle to the expansion of our liberties, will become extin guished by the immensity of universal suffrage. I have full confidence in the good sense and patriotism of the people—and strong in my right, which I hold from them ; strong in my conscience, which wills only good—l invite you to mar c h w ith me, with an assured pace in the way of civilisation." Paris is daily becoming more crowded, caused by the influx of visitors that are arriving so as to obtain comfortable apartments for the Exposition. Among the recent departures of Americans are Mr. French and family, who have gone to Italy, and Dr. Heighway, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The latter gentleman, who was a surgeon of some dis tinction in the United States army during the late war, has been spending some weeks in Paris visit ing the hospitals, which are conducted here in such a superior style. Arrangements are being made by a few enter prising Americans to start a club, and it is to be hoped their efforts will be crowned with success, for with a club and the new American bar-room, a la mode Americaine, and where " brandy smashes," " gin cock-tails," and " sherry-cobblers" are to be had when called for, Americans will, in deed, feel " at home" in Paris. The weather for the past week has been inter wittingly fair and foul. Now and then we have a bright sun-shiny day, and the various promenades, Boulevards, the Bois de Boulogne, and Champs Elysces arc thronged with thousands in quest of pastime and pleasure. On such days the Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial take their accustomed drives, and show themselves to an appreciative populace. The Empress has a gracious smile, and a charming salute for all, which wins for her wherever she goes hearty cries of Vive 1 1 Imperatrice ! The Emperor is in perfect health, and promises fair to live to a good old age. Let us hope that he may never die. The preparations that are being made for the ball in honour of the birthday of General Washington are on a grand scale. It is to be held to-morrow, at the Hotel, and will, no doubt, be largely attended by "fair women and brave men." It is a praiseworthy action on the part of the Paris- Americans thus to celebrate, in a foreign land, the birthday of Washington ; and next summer, when Paris is filled with Americans, the 4th of July will not pass " unheeded by." • It is said that Generals Grant and Sheridan will come over in April and attend the Exposition, re main in Paris a few weeks, and go on an extended tour through Europe. It is also rumoured that Hon. Reuben E. Fenton, Governor of the State of New York, will visit Paris during the Exposition. There is no doubt that a very warm reception will be extended to the above distinguished gentlemen should they arrive in Paris. A large dinner was given here a short time since by the members of the Paris Yacht Club. Air. Hamilton Morton, secretary of the New York Yacht Club, was in attendance. The dinner was a magnificent affair, and everything passed off in a very happy manner. Many speeches were delivered and toasts drank, and then Mr. Hamilton Morton was called upon, and delivered to his atten tive audience the following address, which is trans lated from the French : " Mr. President,—lt is not in my power to ex press to you how highly gratified I am at being present on the occasion of the annual festival of your society, or my appreciation of the distinguished consideration you have thus conferred on the New York Yacht Club through the person of one of its officers. Permit me, however, to remark that, though officially connected with an association (strictly speaking) of a more maritime character, and whose members have recently given evidence of a predilection for—. ' A life on the ocean wave, And a home on the dark blue sea,' still, I have ever regarded associations analogous to your own as the germinal point,' the punctum saliens of the future yachtsman, as well as that of the professional mariner. And whether on the placid waters of the Seine, the Loire, or the Thames / they bear the same relation to the naval and mari time power of a people that military associations, or 'schools of practice, do to the army or military power of a great nation. The one is the cradle of the sailor—the other that of the soldier. And it is in no small manner due to the encouragement and fostering care, extended by a neighbouring Power to all associations, and tendencies of an admiralty and maritime character, that has all but' verified the proudest boast of England's bard— Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the stoop— Her march is on the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.' If sovereignty, then, from her sea-girt isle,' regard with complacency all that tends to enhance that right arm of a nation's power, it is not only pru dent, but just and right, that Imperialism, as well as Republicanism, should go and do likewise.' For where there is equality there is peace. It can not be questioned, Mr. President, but that when the members of such associations as that over which you have the honour to preside have, on the inland waters of France, familiarised themselves with the first and essential rudiments of naval tactics, they needs must send ' aspirations' towards the coast, and ask for— A home on the sea— Where the wild waves aro crested with foam, Where the shrill winds are whistling free, As o'er the glad waters they como. They'll list to the ocean's wild roar, And join in tho stormiest glee ; Nor ask iu the wide world for more Than a home on the deep-heaving sea.' In conclusion, allow me, sir, in thin connection ) and A CAUSERIE NOT ALL ABOUT FASHION. Of all the duties imposed on us by society there is, perhaps, not one more importunate than that called " morning visiting," which, contrary to all logic, is not at all carried on in the morning hours, but seems to have been instituted for no other pur pose than that of wasting the best portion of our time in idle pursuit and useless babble. I do not only call the habit of spending the hours from two to five in gossip both idle and useless, but I say it is pernicious, and that these quiet. drawing room receptions, as they are now carried on, are made more baneful in their effects than the reading of avowedly bad French novels. It is a notorious fact that those ladies who are over-scrupulous in going their morning rounds are groat mischief makers, newsmongers, and fearful talkers. They have a natural penchant for discussion, and catch up every rumour as they proceed from house to house, which they spread and propagate as if it were gos pel truth. They are walking registers of all the births, deaths, and marriages that have come within their hearing since they " came out"—and, indeed, no better expressi on can b e applied to that process by the help of whi c h youn g people have their egg shells after careful training under the tender wing of a motherly governess. When girls v emerge from the obscurity of the study into the splendour of a well-lighted ball-room they run less risk of turning prematurely world-wise than when they expand by degrees, after having been initiated into the wiles of society by dint of visiting with mamma at Mrs. Takemdown's, or at Madame Hautenton's. These are the hotbeds of feminine diplomacy in the arts of " innocent seduc tion," toilet, scandal, and egotism. But, may it be objected, those who frequent society must follow its laws. Girls must learn that all is not gold that glitters, and also learn to distinguish right from wrong ; better far that they should go through this imitating process with their mothers, and in ladylike company, than be left to pick up evil out of books or from hearsay. I answer to this that the know ledge of right and wrong is called conscience, which exists in every human breast without the assistance of worldly wiseacres. If a young lady were taught during these visits to put in a good word for an absent party when falsely accused, or encouraged to recall some ex tenuating quality wherewith to obliterate his defi ciencies ; or, again, were she simply to say she preferred the practice of virtue to hear ing it praised with high-flown encomiums, I should be reconciled to morning meetings, and think they atoned for a good deal of evening ab surdity. As it is, whole hours are spent in dissect ing one's friends, or at least as much of them as is apparently their own, and what is not is subject to no less harsh criticism. " 11Idlle. P.'s nose 1 what a net I" and then a pun will escape from some one buried in the depths of an arm-chair, who says, " Ladies, why complain of her nez? In company such as yours is not every one Li e „- n o " Horrid pun But I have heard it, and maintain that it is historical. Then Mdlle. S.'s chignon is put on the Lapis—a very disastrous position for a chignon—and Mdme. T. will be accused of benoiton airs, and so on till all the other letters of the alphabet have had a tale affixed to them. The following is a scrap of conversation collected in a salon a la mode:— " How do you like Agrippas r, " Really," answered the party thus questioned, " I—I—" " Ah ! you think them heavy, perhaps ?" "I beg your pardon. But are Agrippas a new name for cakes, lobster salads, or anything that lies on the chest?" A burst of laughter. " No, sir ; Agrippas are new barques worn on the front of our dresses, and they arc made of jet trelliswork, coloured velvet, or cross-cut bands of satin ; they hang over the-in fact, below what you call one's chest. " I thought Agrippa was the mother of Nero," continued the gentleman, much puzzled. " So she was, and we Mean to adopt 'the Roman style." Oh! mothers; oh! decadence, :thought a lis tener, as he moved his chair farther off, not much edified by the communication he had heard im parted. Renaissance and decadence are so united that it is difficult to discern one from the other. The Francis I. style is to be very fashionable at all the bals masques. We are to have Diane de Poitiers in all colours. Hebes's and belle Ilelenes will be no less in favour, and the flowing style will be fur ther represented by Aspasia, Cleopatra, &c. I greatly advise the four seasons. It is com posed of a grey satin underskirt, dotted over with swan's-down, which figures snow in a grey cold winter morn. The over tunic is autumn, and is made of tulle, hardened with worked rich grapes and vine leaves. The waistband is summer, a circle of silver from which bang cordons of wheat-ears, with a field-poppy, and clover here and there. The body is spring ; th a t i s , a t r ellis-work with daisies pressing out between, If the colours are well chosen, nothing can be younger, fresher, or more maidenly. Dr. Mary Walker has delivered another lecture, which, like the first, was uproariously interrupted by a few rude boys, several of whom were ousted by the police. One was brought up at the police court yesterday, and bound over to keep the peace. There was an additional charge against him of assaulting the proprietor of the lecture-hall. The magistrate spoke strongly of the rudeness of the young men in thus treating a lady, which he attri buted to jealousy. The postal treaty concluded between Spain and Portugal establishes a unform rate for the whole Peninsula, Miscellaneous American News. After the Reconstruction Bill had been tossed backwards and forwards between the two Houses of Congress, it appears, from the New York news of Thursday that the provisions of the measure bad been concurred in. Military governments are to be established in the South, and all who were engaged in the rebellion are excluded from office and from voting. Any State may be completely restored upon adopting the new Constitution, embracing the Constitutional Amendment, under the operations of a free suffrage. Another frightful accident has occurred on the Mississippi, in which 65 persons lost their lives by the explosion of a steamer. The Allemannia has arrived out. Gold discoveries have been made at Hastings, Lower Canada. The new Chilian Loan has had a severe fall, under the influence of rumours which have very little foundation in truth. An arrangement which had been made with the Chilian banks for a loan to the Government in August last, for which the banks received bonds carrying a condition that they would be empowered w change these bonds for others payable in sterling iu London at a reduced interest. The option was open till Ist of January last. It appears the banks availed themselves of the exchange, and are about to sell these bonds in the open market. On learning that negotiations had been made with some London firms, through whose means the Chilian banks intended to dispose of these bonds, Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. took steps to pro tect the subscribers to the loan they lately intro duced. A strong set appears to have been made from the very beginning against the loan brought out by that house, and every pretext has been seized to depress it in the market. During Thursday the Bonds fell to 3 dis., but afterwards rallied and became firmer. Mr. F. Seward has failed in obtaining the Bay of Samana as a naval station in the West Indies for the Government of the United States. He has returned to Washington with the statement that the Government of St. Domingo is so unsettled that at present they could not make the transfer. Mr. Stevens sustained a severe defeat in a division on a question by which he intended to stop debate on the Martial Law Bill. Many of the Republicans voted with the Democrats, and the result wag a de feat to the extreme Radicals by a large majority. Among a people gifted. with more than an ordinary amount of common sense the result of pressing ex treme views will surely raise a powerful opposition, and transfer to the other side many who favoured moderate measures, but preferred no change to extreme ones. In spite of pamphlets, and all the machina tions of the " bears," the Atlantic and Great Wes tern Railway Debentures bad a strong rally on Thursday from their extreme depression. It is possible that some of the facts obtained by the committee of investigation have oozed out. The report will be issued at once, and a meeting of the bondholders has been convened for the sth proximo for its consideration. We will now have a true Knowledge of this much-vexed question, and the interests of the shareholders will cease to be influ enced by the contention of the two parties who strive to uphold and who strive to pull down this property. It is said that Mr. Stevens is not happy in the bills he introduces into Congress. When held up to the light they are generally found to be full of holes, but his bill to establish common schools in the district of Columbia is believed to be a sound, practical measure. The bill requires the establish ment of a sufficient number of schools in the district for the education of every child between the ages of 6 and 16, the schools to be kept open for ten months in the year, and one-third the expense to be paid by the Government and two- thirds by the people. The father who neglects to send his children to school is to be punished by the loss of suffrage. The bill also provides for instruction in the con , stitution of the United States—a feature that might well be admitted in all public schools. The bill provides for competent teachers, a superinten dent and a school board. In the preamble it is stated that the capital of a great nation, though a political necessity, is generally a social evil, and it proposes to lessen such evil as far as possible by the education of the young, which, " next to Chris tianity is the best foundation for virtue and safe guard of Republicanism." The Supreme Court having set aside as unconsti tutional the oath intended to debar from practice therein attorneys who took part in the late rebellion, the House of Representatives has passed a bill pre scribing another way for excluding them. This bill declares that it shall be a rule for every court of the United States that no person shall be admitted to act as counsellor or attorney therein who has been guilty of treason, bribery, murder, or other felony, or who has been engaged in any rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who has given aid, comfort, or encouragement to the enemies of the United States, in armed hostility thereto. This bill makes it the duty of the judge, or judges, when a suggestion is made in open court that any person acting as attorney or counsellor, or proposing so to act, is barred by the above conditions, to in quire and ascertain the truth in the case, and to exclude such persons if the charge is established. Mr. Schenck has prevailed upon Congress to adopt a resolution ordering the removal of the Naval Academy from Maryland. Mr. Schenck urged as a reason the disloyal social influences which the people of that State brought to bear on the young cadets. The academy was situated at Annapolis. As Mr. Schenck had been provost-marshal at Baltimore, he had had many opportunitieftf judging of the social influences he described, but perhaps few fair oppor tunities, as the office to a proud and irritable people was not a good passport into society. Mr. Frederick Seward's mission to the West Indies has, we believe, resulted in the establishment of a naval station for the United States in the Bay of Samanas. That gentleman having completed his task has returned to Washington. A correspondent of the Louisville Journal gives some details of the annihilation of the party of the 18th United States infantry, near Fort Philip Kear ney, on the 21st Dec. last. It appears that the Indians made an attack on the wood train, when Colonel Carrington sent out a reinforcement to assist the guard. The Indians, who numbered 50, retreated before the party, who bad then mustered 81 officers and men. The soldiers in pursuit entered a ravine where 2,000 warriors were concealed. When the troops had entered the narrow defile they found themselves surrounded and attacked by the large body of Indians. Desperate as was their position the men maintained the fight with the greatest re resolution, and thrice repulsed the charge of the savages. At last they were overwhelmed, falling to a man. The scene was witnessed at a distance by Dr. Hines, who states that the Indians em ployed a hundred of their number in carrying off their dead and wounded as they fell. He estimates the loss of the Indians at 400 killed and wounded. Every soldier was scalped and the bodies horribly mutilated. The Springfield Republican of the 9th inst. thus details the Reconstruction plans and counter-plans : —The President and his friends have made a flank movement upon the Constitutional intrenchments, in the shape of a Congressionai amendment, agreed upon by a meeting of Southern Governors at Wash ington, and proposed in the Senate by Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut. It adopts the most important fea tures of the now pending amendment—that basing representation on the classes allowed to vote, and that securing the validity of the national debt and the repudiation of rebel debts—and also forbids the States to require a property qualification of over $250, or education beyond ability to read and write, as conditions of suffrage. The section of the other amendment most objected to, the exclusion of rebels from office, is omitted from this. Tice President approves this scheme, which may be con sidered skilful hedging on his part. The Southern Governors evidently hope to secure restoration by it, and are making an effort to get it approved by their Legislatures, and in connection with it, amend ments to the State constitutions establishing equal suffrage, qualified by the educational or the pro perty test. The Reconstruction Committee, re_ proached with having done nothing at this session, has offered a hastily and crudely prepared bill to establish military governments in the South, partly superseding the present State governments and partly not. It is supposed that this is only prelimi nary to a bill for reconstructing the State govern ments. What is to be the effect of these new moves on the political chess-board, events will soon show, but the Southern and Presidential movement is encouraging, as showing unmistakable progress to wards the true solution, which all must soon see to be equal suffrage, and nothing else. The Committee or Ways and Means has agreed to abolish the tax on newspaper advertisements. The taxes on a large number of articles will be consi derably reduced in the Amendatory Tax Bill, which will soon be reported. The bill introduced into the Senate for a Govern ment telegraph between Washington and New York is similar to that introduced in the House at the previous session. It appropriates $50,000 for the purpose, and fixes the price of telegraphing at 13 cents for twenty or less words, and half a cent for each word over twenty. The National Academy of Design, in a memorial to Congress, asking protection on oil paintings by a duty of £2O each on those imported into the country, has given an instance of the absurdity to which the principles of protection can be carried. This peti tion has been signed by 73 artists, and has met with almost unmixed ridicule at the hands of the American press. The difficulty is, where to draw the line. The higher class of American artists scout the idea of this protection. Many of them are at taining to the highest rank, and it is not improbable that the American school will soon take the fore most place in the world. A detective of the Treasury Department lately visited 23 customs officers on the Canada border, and succeeded in making an arrangement with 22 of them for smuggling goods into the United States. But one, out of the 23, was found incorruptible. Such is the result of the excessive duties, leading to fraud, smuggling, and deception. These practices in the end will lead men to distrust each other and establish a system of espionage, raising a body of informers that are hateful to a free people. Already in many European ports the Government of the United States is compelled to keep on foot a num ber of spies, through whose instrumentality they obtain information as to the wines and spirits shipped for American ports under false entries. Although the proceedings of the Government may cause much annoyance and uneasiness to traders they cannot defeat the ingenuity of smugglers, and no better proof of this could be given, than the ex perience of the Treasury detective. We extract the following from the Week of the Nation of the 7th inst. Of course it is under stood that the Nation is the New York Nation:— " General Grant is said to have called a meeting of army officers to consult together upon the necessity of maintaining garrisons in the Southern States. General Grant, it is understood, would likethem to be withdrawn. Mr. Williams, of Oregon, offers a bill providing that each State which has been in rebellion shall constitute a military district, in charge of a major-general or brigadier-general, whose duty it shall be, in brief, to exercise an authority paramount to that of all courts in the State. The bill further provides that United States courts may issue writs of habeas corpus in behalf of prisoners in military custody in the South only when some commissioned officer en duty in the district where the prisoner is held shall endorse upon the petition a statement certifying that he believes the imprisonment wrongful. To us it seems that the question which of these two plans shall be adopted is answered when an answer is given to this question : Shall the United States protect from tyrannical abuse, from the most galling and open injustice, those citizens of the South who were and are loyal, and who alone are loyal, or shall it give them over helpless into the hands of people like this man, for instance, who writes in the Richmond Times, the most popular newspaper in Virginia ? It is one expression of opinion out of a mil lion similar, or only different in being worse. Texas is the subject of eulogy : " There the negroes have not been demoralised by the Freedmen's Bureaus and the school-mar/its. The climate, too, of this magnificent State, although salubrious in the extreme, has been found unhealthy to the few straggling Yankee letter-writers and meddling negrophilists who have ventured there in quest of mischief.- They have, in many instances, when they have stirred up ill-feeling between the races, been mysteriously devoured by wolves and bears, or scalped by the Comanches. The settlers in Texas have not been able to prevent them." The passage of the bill would, of course, be in effect a declaration of the opinion of Congress that the state of war is not ended, and for that, as well as the other reason, we are free to say we should he glad to see the bill pass. The Springfield Republican considers the coolest thing out in the protective line is the petition for a duty on imported ice. I,t is wanted to protect the Eastern ice-cutkra against . blue-nosed competition in the Southern markets. We consider that the artists' protection petition is, if not a cooler thing, at least a more absurd one. The Republican adds the protection the Bostonians most need is a prohi bitory tariff on the east wind, and we hope they may get it. The Tribune correspondent speculates as fol lows :—" In the event of the rejection of General Dix's - nomination," th - eTteneh- mission will be in all probability solicited for Senator Foster. Governor Andrew, of Boston, is spoken of as a still more available and competent candidate, his great ser vices during; the War calling for F4icli a distinguished recognition. • It is stated -the. President favours Governor Andrew,- notetUtatid - ing his politics. The:Vienna mission will probably be tendered to GOneral - King, now at Rome. Cowan cannot be confirmed." The New fork Tribune says that " Mr. Mor rill's statistic's showed that the total amount of paper currency now in use, including legal ten ders, national •bank notes, compound interest notes, &c., is $963,290,551, or nearly one thou sand millions. In 1862 the total of paper currency was but $184,000,000. Can it be con tended that business requires such an enormous increase? The very depreciation of the currency is an answer; its excess diminishes its value, and prices rise as the value sinks. Mr. Morrill shows that the increased production of gold and silver is tending to the steady depreciation of specie itself, while the coinage of the United States in comparison with Europeon standards, is debased. How, then, does our paper money stand when the standard itself is degraded ? A Chinese nation may fix arbitrary standards, but the Americans, a commercial people, cannot prosper with a currency which is terribly discounted in every market, and even refused in our own gold States on the Pacific." COMMERCIAL. Money continues easy in Now York, though the rate in the West is becoming stringent. Call loans here can be obtained on Government collaterals at 6 per cent. down to 5 per cent., but 7is asked on other security. The best business paper is discounted at 7to 8 per cent. Although gold has fluctuated a little, yet it has been on the rise. The closing price was 137 i. Last Saturday $418,000 were exported to Europe. Tho main feature is the growing strength of the Five-Twenties, and both the issues, 1862 and 1865, are very strong. The Treasury department reports the following statistics for last week :—Fractional currency printed $156,108, de stroyed $320,100, disbursed $473,193; national currency issued $119,240, making $298,719,504 in circulation ; dis bursed for the war department $2,160,023, for the navy $333,229, for the interior $179,291. The disbursements for these departments in January were, respectively, $8,579,012, $3,781,027, and $1,251,699. The revenue re ceipts last week were $5,828,587, making the total since July 1, $186,958,599. Tho present receipts fall largely below the estimates. The exports from Now York (exclusive of specie) for the week and year were $2,881,102 against $5,917,007, and $1(3,789,651 against $23,322,613. The year 186 G has been a disastrous year to fire insur ance companies. If losses continue as heavy a further in crease in the rates will be necessary, if the companies are to sustain themselves. At Chicago the rates have been doubled within the last few months. Many New York companies are endeavouring to reduce their capital—some are winding up—and all aro under a black cloud. Dry goods are looking better, and tho future is more hopeful. Business has increased, and the spring trade promise Well. Stocks c l ose d ac ti ve. Amer i can gold touched 1 7 1 . l l vicktt At_l37l, United ktates Five- Twenties (1862) 1081 (1864) 1061 (1865) 1074 to 1071, (1865, new issue) 1951, United States Ten-Forties 100; United States 7 3-10 loan 1054 to 1051 Missouri Sixes 94 to 95, Virginia Sixes 59, New York Central Railroad 1021, Erie 591 Erie Preferred 734 to 75, Hudson River 1291, Reading 103 i, Michigan Central 1084, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 75, Illinois Central 1144, Cleveland and Pittsburg 844, Cleveland and Toledo 120, Chicago and North Western 38, Chicago and North Wes tern preferred 684, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 981, Chicago and Alton 1144, Alton and Terre Haute 32, Chicago and Rock Island 99, Adams Express Company 66, American 65, United States G 7, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s 694, Merchants' Union 13, Western Union Telegraph Company 414, Pacific Mail Steamship Company 1584 to 160, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company 10 3 , Cumberland Coal Company preferred 36 to 38, Canton Company 444, Quicksilver Mining Company 394, Mariposa Mining Company preferred 224, Boston Water Power Com pany 27. The return of the public debt, which I give below, showing a material reduction in the receipts of tho Govern ment, bears testimony to the stagnation of business. This is the first return since we fairly got rid of the actual war expenditure, which shows an increase instead of a de crease in the nett indebtedness. Though the sum is not large, amounting to $24,574, yet it is a bad sign. The Stock Market continues very feverish, and even more than ever uncertain. Every rumour, however absurd, excites it. The attempts to produce an advance are abortive, for the market is intrinsically weak and declining. The greatest fluctuations have occurred in Erie Railway Shares, which have ranged from 52 to 65 on the reports that the earnings for January will show a falling off of some $'225,000. The receipts of the New Jersey Railroad in 1866 wore $1,770,862, and the running expenses $981,817, leaving a profit of $789,014. The receipts of sixteen western rail roads were $74,077,621 last year, against $76,339,135 in 1865, a decrease of $2,270,514.—1n January the Chicago and North Western Railroad earned $690,831, an increase of $105,242. The statement of the public debt on the Ist of February is as follows : Debt bearing Coin Interest. Five per cent. Bonds $198,091,350 Six per cent. bonds of 1867-63 ... 15,779,441 Six per cent. bonds of 1881 ... 283,744,25 0 Six per cent. 5-20 Bonds 910.029,500 Navy Pension Fund 12,500,000 Total ... $1,420,145,541 Debt bearing Currency Interest. Six per cent. Bonds ... $12,992,000 Three-year compound interest notes... ... 143,064,640 Three-year 7-30 notes 663,686,100 Total ... $819,672,740 Matured debt not presented fur payment ... 15,791;454 Debt bearing no Interest. United States notes ... $381,427,0 90 Fractional Currency ... 28,743,733 Gold certificates of deposit 19,992,980 Total $2,685,773,5 39 Amount in tho Treasury, coin ... 97,354,6 03 Do. do. currency ... 45,069,07 Total ... $142,423,7 91 Amount of debt, loss cash in Treasury $2,543,349,148 (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Feb. 20, 1867.) Per the Cuba we have advices from New York to the sth inst. The Stock Market bad in a great measure re covered from the panic which we reported in our last, Government Securities being quoted fully 1 per cent. higher, and nearly all descriptions of Railroad Stocks ex hibiting an advance of from $1 to $3. Money waS decidedly easier, as the rates demanded from brokers on good collaterals was 6 par cent., after having been 8 por cent. There was no movement of importance in the premium on gold. The business in the London market for American Secu rities during the past week has developed soma consider able purchases of United States 5-20 Bonds, of the first issue, on American account; the demand, however, has been fully supplied from the Continent. The higher rate reported from Now York has enhanced the value there, and they close 71 to or one por cont. over quotations of this day week. The Bonds of the 1865 issue have not been in so much demand, and the difference between them and those of 1862 has widened the last price for the 1865'5, being 721 Illinois Central Shares have been steady ; they are now quoted ex dividend at 77 to Bf, which would be about the equivalent of the price of this day week. Erie Sharon have fluctuated in sympathy with the Now York market, and leave off 38 to j. The panic in Atlantic and Great Western Securities has continued during the week, and we have to note a fur ther decline of 6 per cent. in the Consolidated Bonds and Certificates of Debentures. (From Bowles, Brevet, and Co.s. Circular.) Paris, February 23. Since our last business has displayed very little anima tion, though prices have remained firm. The success of the Austrian loan has exceeded all expectations, the amount subscribed being more than fourteen times the sum required, and it now rules at 4 and 5 francs premium. With the closing of this subscription, another loan 11 35 been brought forward upon the Paris and London mar kets, viz., " Principanties Danubiennes," which at the rate of issue bears nearly 12 per cent. interest, but its succesg, though the advantages offered appear very tempting to investors is doubtful. Exchange on London is abundant, and has declined 25, 11 at 25 14 The . American bonds (5-20) have advanced steadily during the week, having touched 83 and close to-daY at 83 9-16. This advance is duo to the increasing confidence in their value, and to the late favourabl e advises from New York. We publish to-day a remarkable and interesting letter addressed by Mr. Beckwith, U.S. Commissioner-Geuera l for the Expedition to Mr. Seward, U.S. Secretary ° f State, upon an important international question of tho day, "Uniformity of Currency." COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. At this market to-day the supply of wheat was liberal, and the demand tolerably good, at a trifling reduction prices. A fair show of barley, with a dull trade at lac gular prices. . _ White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s ; old red colt° , (weighing 631 b), 60s to 62s ; new red ditto (weighi. 3 „. 601 b to 631 b), 60s to 62s ; best malting barley (weigb ,llo 521 b to 531 b), 46s to 48s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 1 ) 43s to 455; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 365„,_„ tt , 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple), ov to 38s per qr. Flour, 45s Od per sack. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. Thoro was a fair supply of wheat to-day, in n widerat ° , condition. The demand was inactive, is per qr. leso money. There was not much barley on oiler, but the sup' ply was in excess of the demand ; inferior was is per g ir l. ; lower. Oats may be quoted much the samo as last viee.„ The show of beans was moderate, with little change 1 " . prices. Old white wheat, 68s to 73s ; old red, 60s to 68s • Ile!white , white, 60s to 72s ; now red, 56s to 64s per 36 stone. 'oB ', L c t old, 35s to 39s ; new, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, °' ss 55s to 60s ; new, 44s to 48s per 38 ston&. Fine flour, 9 - to 50s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. ,fs Wo had a tolerably good supply of wheat at to-d 3) market; sales were slow, and prices Is per qr. lower tballsa last week. A l oss ac ti ve d eman d f or b ar l ey, an d prices „, h e, a tendency to g i ve way . I n oa t s an d b eans little Ch 3" to note. New white wheat, 66s to 69s ; new red, 59s to 63s ;° white, 70s to 71s ; old red, 64s to G6s per 36 stone. 5s ley, for malting, 50s to 55s per qr.; grinding, 33s to 2/ per 30 stone. Oats, old, 36s to 38s ; now, 28s to 30s per stone. Beans, old, 56s to 60s ; new, 42s to 48s per 38 step' Fine flour, 50s ; seconds, 45s to 46s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. Wheat a fair supply, the demand for which was do'sls and prices receded is per qr. For barley there was as' demand at late rates. The oat trade assumed a healthit tone, aLd the rates of this day week were for the most poo supported: Beans in limited demand and recent rates' or difficult to make. 6 New white wheat, 58s to 64s ; new red, 52s to 58 s p er 3 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 42s por q • g rinding . ' 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28: 24 storle• per o . Beans, new, 44s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s t ° Flour, 47s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. Births. AGNEW— On tho22d inst., at Essex Lodge, Upper Nor 3oo°. the wife of J. do C. Agnew, Commander 11. N., of a t BRADSHAW—On the 22d inst., at Arno's-grove, e S°u tbs ,o " ; v ' tho wife of Commander Richard Bradshaw, 11.N•1 11 '' .. • Star, of a daughter. the ELY—On T th a e lfo 2 u 2 r d d ins l t., E atß ., e o r c ry a m so ea n d . Priory, Ac t°la ' IIoARE—On the 22d in sq st., at 1, Upper Hyde-Park-street, the vt ife of Samuel Hoare, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. fit nce h FULLER— STOKES—On the 19th inst., at St. Luke' s ef Jersey, Captain W. Ross Fuller, B a rrack Master, J ia l t o o f second surviving son of Lieut.-Col. Fuller,•l 3 ” & Jiff° Windsor, }Jerks, to Annie, only child of CoCl. Stokes. • char ebt READE—SMITII—On the 21st hist at the parish 'Ate Aldford, Albert Combermach,'y ' oungest son of t r George Reade, of Cengleton, to Julia, daughter 01 Smith, Esq., ofi Saighton Tower, Cheshire. Deaths. BUNTING—On the 22d inst at 8, Cloudesley-street,l~',lf, t a o g n e , d E 7 l 7 iz . abeth, widow of the la te Rev. J. B unting, Charles'' Ducl's' BAYLI '-oBnatylleis,2Eotslqi.i,nasgt.e,da7t4.liedgerley Rectory, iiiW MARTINS—On the 22d inst., at 3, gyde-park--gardens, riet, the wife of Sir William Martins. of SQUIRE—On the 21st inst., in London , F. squire, '54.1.' Fairlawn, Cobham, Surrey, aged SU. of 223 ' SMITH—On the 22d inst., Thos. W. Smith, Est , 6. 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