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1". ittsiret A FRILLAAC4 artirt4 i‘cia Aut, oAw, 61 40 1 1 7 10 ptoolto, gs ratit. PrTI p 4.4-liffteik 0444 4s, ic , t4rpit It 0, , :)4 .ptri4 i t sroti k 'lOl 4 tr ,2 Iteprowntations tale place ev4ary Theaday, Thtu-aday, ii.atiat,lay, at s o'clock. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. THE PANTOMIME OF 1855-C will be at the THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN' for the winter season. Prinlpal Cornet a Piston. M. Pouloonrt.—Doors open at 8. Admission one Shilling. Laurent's new yarsovlana every reght. STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER, (111.1.VESEND, 9, 2. Isar NSIwICK WilAItF, BLACK - WALL, on the arrivA, of the following Trains from Fenchurch-strect, 10 1 ,4, 314, weather permit tinz. The Packets will call at the Itosherville, Greenhithe, Purfleet, and North Woolwich Piers. To or f:vm Oravusena and London•• •• •• 10d. .. Is. 23. tiravesand and Illackwall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 101 Frith and London.• •••••• • • -• Bd. .. 01. 10d Frith anl Blackwell or Woolwich.... •• 641. .. Os. 8(1. tet,-pen G , ayes •nd and Intermediate Piers 6d. .. Os. Bd. Octobtr 23,1835. LAST FEW DAYS. ROYAL LYCEUNI THE A_TRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary Effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pee ceasing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any - ono thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the cora. pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged anl fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or my place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, -so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes; first, that in his preeent entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in ono peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that ho has spored no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring wher ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Auderion has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which roach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies acid gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions os spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th- Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that tha , public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. lie regrets that th names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanaths: from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septet]] ter 20, and taken by that journal from the Ncit) York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what lie has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the volution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actpal hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tiOn for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the *beim, has recently left England, and the following account o' Who; and what ho is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 645: —"This young man, who is a Scotchmau by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that medium. could a isengkit. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply andSonostly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or• pilaus and in very bad health : but he would leave been afraid .of losing' his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. Tho refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believer s in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose bs this'uccessiou to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to bo negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel. in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day. however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from ono who was present when he acid Lord Brougham had their fiance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table -(a Large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was convoyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out."' With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people pf the 19 th century, with the facts before us that the Most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by thes e juggling spirit-mongers--thae thee greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held iu St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest _At tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual jugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has over before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, December 15, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; '- Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. Act 2. The Aqua.Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Lo Livre des Reeusils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck hi mself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, iu discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Trausitiou without Trou. ble. In which will bo comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin do Verve; or, the Casket of Crcesue. Into which, t'aough made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A Now Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, rioyeau,, or any other wine or spirit required ; mid finally anovins, • •to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole sp ace when ti g htly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an ExposCs and of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property ofmor tlie Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange meta Phosas, and, amongst others, their bandkorcldefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Es g • land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which be who sea t s himself will be under the magic spell, and aPP ear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, iu a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act; 11. T he M y ster y of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience Will have the goodness to observe, in au earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the She stest Route to tho Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to bet obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; salls, 4s. ; t he circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; galleesa 6(1. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, uudei the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Saturday, December 15, at 2 o'clock, Doors open at half-past 1. No. 19,719•] Now publishing, in 2,600 pages Imperial Octavo, price 345., THE POST OFFICE - LONDON DIREC TORY FOR 1856.—Mcst gratifying Reviews of the huge volume have appeared in all the leading Metropo litan Journals, of which only very short extracts can be hero quoted. " In short, this work contains all that can reasonably be required in a Directory, and much more, probably, than was over found in one before. It may be safely referred to for information upon everything connected with the metropolis and the elements which constitute its wealth and importance." —Times, Dee. 8, 18 5. The Post Office London Directory is indeed a triumph of energy, enterprise, and combined talents of many orders, to which, upon reflection, every one will be ready to assign the merit it deserves."—Morning Advertiser, Nov. 12, 1855. '' There has been competition, but it has passed away ; for the Post Office Directory has been too carefully and sedu lously edited, too prompt in its intelligence, too simple in its plan, and too judicious iu its classifications, to admit of suc cessful rivalry."—Morning Herald, Nov. 12, 1835. "An indispensable necessity, nut only in the counting houses of the mercantile part of the community, but also in the balls of the great and fashionable."—Morning Chronicle, Nov. 16, 1853. '' The Post-Office Directory' has made its appeal aneo this year without a rival in the field ; but the absence of compe tition does not appear to have led the publishers to be , tow less care upon the preparation of the work."—Morning Post, Nov. 30,1855. 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It has been said we could not afford to lose our I lines the same observation applies to our Post Office Directory.' "—Herapath's Journal, Nov. 17. 1855. " The proprietors of this work have now the field to them selves ; but that they have not relaxed in their exertions on that account is fully evident from the completeness of the Directory for the coming year."—lllustrated London Xews, November 17, 1855. " Still swelling its dimensions as the ever-increasing area of the vast metropolis increases, this bulky volume presents itself as an annual visitor on oar library table."—John Ball November 17, 1855. 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It e' joys a deserved reputation never achieved by any work of its class, and London may be proud of its standard di rectory."—Weekly razes, November 18, 1 " Every householder iu London, whether in trade, and every person belonging to any profession, or employed iu the service of the Crown, has an opportunity of testing for him self the accuracy of the work, and we believe that the result of their inquiry will lead them to concur with us in the opinion that the Post Office Directory is ono of the marvels of the present age."—Observer, November 19, 1855. " We can conceive of no better representation of the super ' ficies, as there is certainly no better guide to the contents of London than the Directory just named, now the only publica tion of the kind."—Nonconformist, Nov. 21, 1855. " As we, in common with most people, prophesied would happen, so it has come to pass. The rival D i re c t or y has g iven up a battle ' in which victory was scarcely to be won. 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While the loss of life had been immense, even on our side, and on the French greater than ours, that of the Russians had been almost incalculable. We had, however, the conso lation of a firm, and, he hoped, enduring friendship with France. (Applause.) He thought is was a hopeful sign that we who were called "ancient enemies " should !low at last find out that it was our interest, and he believed inclination, henceforth, to be firm and fast allies. Two nations, such as France and England, struggling against each other only made them the laughing -stook of Europe. The people ot the Continent saw two ot the most power ful nations on the earth weakening each other, an d on l y exulted at their weakness. But when they were united for a good purpose, they might almost guide Europe an d the world, and they would always be able to promote the prosperity, happiness, and welfare of mankind. (Applause.) He sincerely trusted that nothing would ever be done by this country, as he believed there was no intention on the part of France by the extraordi nary cla m m a en n t %' th h a n t ap plause.) The otherconsolaticn was that which was kn own g n o o v w ern e V ist t e h d a , t a n n a d ti t o h n a , t to the d y is w se o v u e l r d th go e as Administrative Reform. The offices of the Govern :cent had got too much into the hands of families—too much in particular associations. Now, however, they were a little departing from that. There was now, he wits glad to say, a tendency to soften down these monopolies, and ho trusted that tendency would extend further — that in Church and State, and in all those services on which the welfare of the nation so much depended that greater equality and fairness would prevail, and that ad ministrative referm would be carried out fully and fairly. (Applause.) With respect to the prospects of peace, he was one of those who thought that we really ought to teach Russia that her ambition must be kept down, and that she could not with impunity give vent to those angry and selfish pas-ions which guided her into this war. (Applause ) must also get safe securities ; and he trusted that we should accept none that were not safe. (Applause) He knew there was no way of get ting a safe peace but by fighting for it. We must win it by the sword when once the sword was drawn. (Ap plause.) If we could keep the sword in the scabbard it would be a blessing, but after the sword was drawn, it was he who could last the longest and could strike the hardest who would get the best terms.. (Applause.) It was just like two individual —if one man seized another by the throat, and that person were thrown down to the ground, he must defend himself or be crushed. There tore, we were fairly justified in having gone into the wnr —we were justified in carrying on the war; but we were not justified in carrying it on a single moment longer than we could pr , cure honourable, safe, and up right terms of peace. (Applause.) lie trusted that day was re,t far off, but if it were, he would as cheerfully as any other man urge that we proceed with it. We must expect taxes. It was wonderful how fast the money flew. lie (Captain Scobell) knew something of the last war, but he thought money had been flying at a most extravagant rate. The House of Commons did not like to pull up, for few that it should be sued, if any blunders were made, that they would not !give the money, and therefore the blunders be put on the representatives of the people. (Applause.) The money was certainly flying very fast. It had got up to 00,000,0001. last year, including the interest of the debt ; this year it might be something more. The result would be, of c turse, that ultimately there would be some scrutiny into the manner in which the money had been expended. With respect to the transport service, nothing could have been more extravagant. lie believed the transports had been bought all of them over and over again. Those that had been in the service from the beginning of the war had been purchased by the money paid for the tonnage and the hire of them. (Applauoe.) lie hoped this would be looked into; but that no steps would be taken that would curtail anything in carrying on the war with effect, and that in future we should more effectually ex pend our money without at all crippling the public service. _ _ _ [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D lauele) With respect to what bad fallen from him that It:yr:ling, lie (sir. MaugloF) would observe that in some of the points he entirely concurred with his bon. friend, but with regard to others—if he might use the expres tsi m—he agreed with a difference. He cordially con icurred with him in expressing his sympathy for Turkey. Be 'Cordially agreed in defending the little man who was {struck by the big bully. It was alwsy s wise to do right, and it was right to stand up for justice in this world against the strong and powerful wrong-doer. (Cheers.) But his sympathy and the sympathy of the nation went ileyond that. It was iinposeib:e—after reflecting upon the enormous military resources of Russia, after seeing how year after year that empire had enlarged itself, and after witnessing her vast accumulation of military power and strength in the Crimea—nut to arrive at the conclu sion that sooner or later the struggle must have come, unless we were prepared to submit to Cossack and Tar tar domination. (dear, and cheers.) It would pro bably have come in this generation, but, if not, cer tainly it must hs6 , o fallen with redoubled force upon our Children. The military power of Russia appeared to have been growing year after year in an accumulative ratio, and if we had not, through Gad's providence' risen up to oppose it, no man living could tell to what fearful reeu:ta it might not have lad. (Cheers.) There I agree with my bon. friend. Bat my hon. friend spt ke rather Vaguely upon another point. Some one, he observed— he eid not say who—but some one had said that this was a war for the protection of Turkey ; and now they had Changed their note and said it was a war for ci‘iliation. e (Ar. Mangles) did not think that any marl who had the slightest claim to the posit salon of comae)) sense 4vouhl wish that this country should go out as a scat of knight-errant for the sake of civilisation, atteekag this nation or defending that for the sake of carrying out an abstract principle under the denomination of the pro gress of civilisation. But it was a very differ() it thing to say it was for civilisation, meaning thereby that it was a war for the sake of disputing the inroad of bar barism and the insults of a barbarous and despotic em pire. (Hear, and cheers.) In that sense a wer for the advance of civilisation was a very proper war—(bear) — and in that sense this war was a just and righteous war. (Renewed cheers.) It was a war to press back—as he hoped the allies would succeed in doing—to their forests, their steppes, and their morasses these Tartars and Cos- , sacks who would otherwise trample down the civili,a tion, and, with that civilisation. the liberties of Europe under their feet. (Loud cheers.) In that sense ha could not agree with his hon. friend, fur he did not think that the allies were justified in carrying on this war in de fence of civilisation against barbarism, and that the cause they had in hand was a righteous one. (Hear.) There was another point also in which he agreed with his lion, friend, with a ditlerence. He beiieved with him, that the Emperor of the French was truly and sincerely desirous of peace ; but did not they all de sire peace ? Ile believed that every Eng ishman of intelligence and humanity, not only in that room but in the country at large, was desirous of Vence. But what sort of a peace did the Emperor of „the French deslre ? Why the description of peace at which we were all aiming--a peace which promised to be a lasting one—(cheers) —a peace, in fact, which should bind the Emperor of Russia to keep the peace. (Renewed cheer ing.) Not such a peace as would last for a few weeks or mouths, or even for a year or two, and then that the nations should have to go to war again. No person could deprecate the horrors of war more than he did ; no per son was more anxious to stop the effusion of blood and the expenditure of treasure, which tended to exhaust the very life and sinews of a country ; but it was for that very reason that he should wish to see such steps taken as should effectually secure the country from the recur rencepwel a p t l e t he ,v a p n e t o e p d l e w w haat, at the G lle ov ( e N r l n r x . nent w Mangles) e believed relooL.in he looking fur f t ,,r, of suck scenes. His hon. friend desired to know and what all men, he was sure, most ardently desired, an honourable and lasting peace—a peace of such a charac ter that it should be worthy of the name—and not one that in a short time would turn out a mockery, a delu sion, and a snare. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to direct his attention exclusively to agricul tural matters, upon which he spoke at some length, and concluded by expressing his thanks for the honour they had done him. Several other toasts of a local character followed, and the prizes to the successful candidates having been awarded the meeting separated. Mr. TITE having alluded to the advantages which ag riculture derived from associations such as that which he was addressing, said he would refer to the war. (Applause.) The whole mind and feeling of England was embarked, he believed, in this question. It was a war which appeared to him one of the holiest, he was going to say, in which we bad ev,r embarked. We went into it with no purpose of getting au increase of our glory or aggrandisement, or to add to our land or territories ; but we went into it to succour the weak against the attack of the strong. (Applause.) If that were the right view of the question, surely we had a right to expect that the blessing of God would, sooner or later, rest upon it. (Applause.) A war in which we bad embarked with such views was not a war of a common hind, and though war was certainly one of the greatest trials that a nation could be visited with, yet, at the same time, be could scarcely conceive a war, associated as we were with our great ally, France, in which we could embark with more credit to ourselves, and out of which we could come with more credit as a nation. (Applause.) As to the pros /Teets of peace, lee confessed they appeared to his wind not to be very flattering. Hedoubted anything that cause from Austria ; she could hardly be sincere now any more than she was sincere twelve months ago. If she had been sincere then, the war might soon have been put an end to. However that might be (aid his earnest aspira tion was that it might turn out to be true), he trusted that, if they lived to meet another year io Bath, they might see this terrible war at an end, and be once again living in peace, beating their swords into ploughshares. (Applause.) He hoped this might be so, but ho very u h i s u li c du p h eo o pl e b t h ed ad i t. do n e NN ( ' a l n a (and as s nationspoke d o o u u t ti a t st the h e e p En e op g l of Bath would speak out), it was the duty of the Legis lature, as leading the people, to carry out the war firmly, honestly, and honourably, and to seek a peace that would be lasting, that we and our children might never again have to contemplate the horrors we had had to think of, nor meet the difficulties that we had had to contend with. It could only be taking a far bolder attitude than we took at the beginning of this war. (Applause.) If we had done that we should not have had the war in existence to-day. Let the terms of peace be such as Englishmen might not be ashamed of. It had often been said that England always lost by diplomacy what she gained by valour. lie hoped the time would come when that reproach would be removed from us, and that our present Government would not patch up a peace leading to difficulty and confusion hereafter, when we might have to open the question again without the allies we at present boasted of, and without the feeling of the pea ple, and the great cause we now had to support us. His tsiend (Capt. Scobell) had suggested the filling up of the never sheeern harbour of Sebastopol. He should like to see it. There s a th d ha v ar e te r o t t e fh d teh t eot costme e w. had was h d ew h hw e eaanrrellaopf( peace a h pc e ep f l o aw u ua r s se p . points, was one point about the testae of peace which he had but he wished to know why Russia should not be made recollectedto pay with France, and when she was, unhappily, humbled at the end of the great war, that she was called upon to pay her millions towards the war in which we had then embarked. He recollected, again, the Chinese war (in reference to which he was not sure that we were as mo rally right as in the present) when that peopteellwheirme called upon to pay millions, and would any one be called upon to pay her mile why Russia should not Quixotic, it might lions also It might be that this was d be that we should be asking too much, b i t i tt appear 11 to him that that was the mode . (po it ca y speak )mailded must make Russia feel. Her ing) by which we herself by pressure on her ag grandisement must recoil on finances. With respect to the que s t io n of Administra tive R e form, he believed that a g reat de al of good had b e en done by the discussion of that subject. The lull discussion by a nation of any wrong or grievance was good and useful to that country, especially a nation such as this, where every man had the power to make hi s grievance heard, and where, through the freedom of our institutions, men could make those grievances beard and listened to. In conclusion, Mr. Tire observed that he hoped it would be his happiness at the end of the next year (whether he was their member or not) to meet them again, and congratulate them on cultivating the arts of peace, instead of having to think of the horrors of war. (Loud applause.) THE WEATHER ..4T KERTCH. A n l e n t e t i e , ro g a fr ye m : _,, Kertch The of w the l i nd has 5h . 16th e u n l t . b , l i o n t w in la e blowing he or 3v i e i t i y i- t u t from the eastward for the last 4 days, and has i goree 119 A sudden transition from summer to winter. We have not, however, been taken by surprise. All the French troops encamped at Wit. Paul are well s h e lt ere d, but at Ye Ilh4ile This, the tents have notyet been rrplaced by wooden hlte_; long, however, is an inconveniences which will n ot j" preparations having been already made t 9 o bviate it. _ There is nothing new from the Sea of not yet heard of any casualties from theA it is to be feared that many vessels in that sea taken place in the French The Caton and the Fult b ou vee t el, been replaced by a bons formidable mortars Are r_ the Russian campuna, of our heaviest g s monster mortiair be disagreea )3: projectiles of this l a te wife', but Austrian merchant vessels of war on this station eee left the Sea of Azoff and the Sesostris. Her two visit from some of the Yenitche, which is out of the reach but whi,h will not be CO with the of the Sesostris. The enemy will soon vessel, none of which have been used world. The this part of the surp ii is ll ed ha b v y n e f a in nesh movement in the eastern part of the Crimea. 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The following figures show the grain produce of Scotland as estimated in " M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary," and other works of authority, and founded on statements in many written and oral debates, and the actual quantities as ascertained in each locality for this and last year, stated in quarters : FORMER ESTI3I.ITES, ASCERTAINED. 1854. 1555. Qrs. go , . Qrx. Wheat 1,225,000 604,063 632,817 Barley 6 Oats ,500,000 4,231,7 89 3 ,7 58,893 Beans and Peas 9,675,000 5, 92 7, 917 5,301,279 To this decrease of 626,638 quarters in the year's pro. duce has to be a , !ded a considerable , but unascertainable deficiency in the w e i g ht o f this year 's crop as compared with last. Remembering, however, that last year's was a crop above the average even in acreage, and very greatly above it in yield per acre, the decrease above shown cannot be regarded as very great, especially when we take into account that there is no decrease, but a very considerable increase, in wheat, each quarter of which represents, in value, and almost in utility, two quarters of any of the other grains. If the produce of England has been affected only in the same propor tion, and if it be admitted that the produce of last year the three kingdoms over was considerably above an average, the present high prices are difficult to account for by any decline in the supply. When like re turns shall have been procured for England, it will not improbably be found that we have been estimating the consumption of the whole country at not greatly lees than doable the fact, so that we have been much more than we thought dependent on foreign supplies and affected by foreign prices. Turnips and potatoes show a considerable increase in acreage, and the latter an increase in estimated produce of nearly 200,000 tuns or about 30 per cent. Consider ing the extent to which potatoes come in as a substitute for flour in times of dearnes.:, the great increase in this crop might.hao e been expected to bold prices at a lower level. We deduce from the tables the average produce per acre of each ki n d o f crop i n S co tland in 1855. The grain crops we state in bushels and pecks per acre Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bert.. Beans and Peas. P. B. P. /3 P. B, P. B. P. 213 2 32 3 32 01 32 1 3 / 4 . 27 2 The rout crops are stated in tons and cwt. : - Turnips. Potatoes. T.I. IT. 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The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks, according to the ordinary system in use at several of the Universi ties, and the number set opposite to cacti branch in the preceding paragraph denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it. 5. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any sub ject of examination, unless he shall obtain, in respect el that subject, 011s•sixth of the number of marks set against that particular subject. 6. The examination will be conducted by means of printed ques tions and written answers, and by viva voce examination. 7. After the examination shall have been completed, the marks obtained by each candidate, in respect of each of the subjects in which ho shall have been examined, shall be added up, and the names of the twenty candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate num ber of marks than any of the remaining candidates shall be set forth in order of merit ; and such twenty candlib i tes shall be demot to be selected candidates for the Civil service of the East In dia Company. Their choice, so far as it can he allowed, of the Presiden c y in India to which they shall be appointed shall be determined by the order lu which they stand on su c h li s t. S. In August, 1857, a further examination of the sel ected candi dates will take place in the following subjects : Law, including the ordinary rul e s of taking evidence a nd 1,000 The History of India ....... •• •.......... 400 •'• ' • • Pob • lical Economy Any vernacular language of India, to be previously fixed by the Board of Co mm issio n ers for the affairs of India 200 the mode of conducting civil and criminal trials .. •• . • 400 and such further examination will bo conducted in the same manner as that above described. (The rum'aer set opposite to each subject denotes the greatest number of marks which can be obtained in respect of such subject). 9. Any selected candidate who shall not, at such further examina tion in 1857, obtain in each of the subjects above-mentioned, one sixth of ti , e number of marks set against such particular subject, shall be struck off the list of selected candidates. 10. The selected candidates who, at such further examination, shall Ito deemed by the examiners to have a compe tent inowledge (ascertained iu the manner mentioned in the preceding paragraph) of Law, the History of India, Political Economy, an 1 one Language of India, shall be entitled to be appointed to the civil service of the East India Company ; and the names of such candidates shall be placed in a list in the order of their me , it in such examination, esti mated as above by the total number of marks which they shall have obtained In respect of all the subjects in which they shall have been examined at such examination. 11. The seniolty in the civil service of the East India Company of such candidates shall be determined according to the order in which they stand on the list resulting front such further examination. 12. No person will, even after such examination, be allowed to proceed to India unless he shall comply with the regulations in farce at the time for the civil service of the East India Company, and shall be of sound bodily health and good moral character. 13 The Commissioners for the Affairs of India will be ready to rez.elve, at any time previous to the Ist of May, 1856, the testimonials of persons desirous of being appointed to the office of Examiner; but, with respect to the examinations above mentioned, no such appointment will be made until after the date above men tioned. 14. All papers relating to the above-mentioned examinations are :o be sent, and all inquiries are to be addressed, thus : " rho Secretary, "India Board. " Westminster. E. I. C. CI•il Service " Examination." MR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TE gni, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in masticatiou.-52, Floet-street. At home itom ten till five. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. 'rtIESEMA.II.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was [granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the llth June following was made perpetual, against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by I:oyal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Mole i , e raitrlllaClO de Parts, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRLESEMAR, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation, Spennatorrhoia, and Exhatutton of the , y stem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented emeriti: the married state by the cousNuenees of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, tffeetually, in the short specs of three days, completely and entirely .radicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs lave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health - if a vast portion of the population. TRU:SE SIAR, No. 3, Is the great Continental Rein,t,',y for that class of Disorders, whict unfortunately the English physlcian treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla In the world cannot remove. TRIEAEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, ere alike devoid of taste or smell. cud of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet talk vithout their use being suspeated. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided tut , ~varate doses, as administered by Valpeau, LaDemand, Roux ae.,&c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in Londot ef Johnston. 68 .. „thin ; Hannay and Co., 63, 0 - vbrd-strc et ; and Sanger. 150, Ox ford-street ; R. li. Ingham, druggist, 41.3. Market-street, Manchester ; 11. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; l'owell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland - Street, Dublin; Winnall, bookseller, lllgh-street, Birmingham. LAUNCH . OF THE FLORENCE NIGRINGALE. lIARTLEPOOL, Tuesday, Dec. 11.—Iren shipbuilding; which is yet in the stage of infancy at this port, made a second step to-day in the launch of a magnificent iron screw steamer, which has received the name of the heroic Florence Nightingale. This vessel has been built by Messrs. Richardson, Brothers, by whom the rapidly extending trade of iron shipbuilding was introduced to the port of Hartlepool. This is the second vessel launched at this port ; she is a beautiful specimen of the clipper class now so much in vogue. The prow is orna mented with a full-length figura of the lady whose name she bears, and who is represented as in her usual hospital dress, having in the oneliand a cup antd in the other ahand. kerchief. On each side of the bow are beautiful scroll. boardi, beneath which is carved in bold relief the figure of a wounded soldier in a recumbent posture, looking with feelings of gratitude to her by whom his wounds of honour have been attended. small bust of the same lady ornsenents the stern of tle vessel. The following are the d' mensions :—Length, 189 feet; breadth of beam, 27 feet ; depth of hold, 16 feet 6 iteches ; tonnage, about 600 ; two inverted cylinder engines of 90-horse power ; she is further fitted with iror water tanks capade of containing 140 tons of water for the purpose of ballast, which can be ejected in a few minutes by means of a donkey" engine placed upon deck. An additional festers in the outfit of this statue , : consists in her being fitted with two cranes, with a pe.ir of boilers to each, for the purpose of discharging her cargo when employed ire transporting goods. These engines are on the loco motive principle, and are statiouod, as are also the boil ers, upon the deck. The machinery is manufactured by Messrs. Richardson and Sor. The Florence Nightin gale has been built for Mr. - Your u, of Wisbeach. GUILDFORD AGRICULTURAL A S'S 0 CIA GUILDFORD, Dec. 13.—The annual meeting of this association took place to-day at Guildford, and was largely attended by the gentry and the farmers of the district. The show of stock was extremely good. _ In the evening about 150 gentlemen dined together at the Angel Hotel, the chair• being occupied by Mr. H. Drummend, M.P. far West Surrey. The hon. gentleman was sepported by Ler.' Lovaine, M.P , Mr. Mangles, M.P., Mr. It tikes Currie, the Rev. G. Melyneux, &c. The cloth having been drawn, The CHAIRMAN gave " The Queen," which was drunk with much enthusiasm. The next toast was " Pr'nce Albert," in giving which the CHAIRMAN observed that his Royal Highness had upon all occasions shown himself the blend and patron of agriculture—not that kind of patron implied by a rich man giving what he did not value or feel the want of, but in the intelligent patronage es hich a welbiefortned man and master of his subject gave when ho encouraged any particular science or art. He ;;hought, then, they did well always to drink the health of his Royal Highness after that of the Queen ; and when they reflected upon his many virtues they ought at least to do him the jus tice not rashly to censure him, or to believe the anony mous slanders which some persons scrupled not to spread abroad concerning h:in, but to ascertain for themselves the truth of the matter before they concurred in any thing of the kind. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN then said, the next toast that I have in the performance of my duty to propose is, " The Health of the ...Arley and Navy, and that of our brave Allies." I confess that I feel somewhat ashamed, in proposing this toast, that there should be in England commercial speculations the proprietors of which find it profitable to traduce the army and navy. I hope the people of England will not allow these things to be pro fitable speculations any longer. Stand by your army and navy, for you may rest assured that those men who write so confidently, and take upon themselves to censure them, know no more about the army or about what the Commanderen-Chief has been doing than any one of you. When I see these anonymous writers urging on the war in this way, I remember an anecdote of an old French bishop, who, being asked why he went himself to attend an old woman, said, " It is much easier to say to another go and do such a thing than to do it oneself ; ' and when I see all these editors and rowspaper writers—the whole kit of them go—then I will say to them, " You are fine fellows," but not before. I beg to g ive y ou " The Health of the Army and Navy." (Cheers.) This speech was followed by a comic sung, after which Col. SUMNER returned thanks for the honour done the service, observing that dating the past year no less than 500 cf the Surrey Militia had voleoiteered into the line, end the reg,bnent was now 700 strong. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the "Bishop and clergy," was .isiA acknowledged d by t h t h e e ‘, Rev. o r G. e l u o t ly e , n n a e n u wh x . m ich r. and magistrates of the eount.y. Lord LOVAINE returned thanks. Mr. R. AUSTEN proposed " the Health of the County Nlembere." He thought that iu the present circumstances of the country, when meinhsre of Parliament had more serious duties imposed upon them, and greaterimpoi tai ce .vas attached to their votes than had ever been attached to them before, the conduct of the hon. chairman was such that his constituents had every mason to be satis fied. His ability was undoubted, asst they could all gua rantee perfect independence. (Hear.) Mr. DRIIIIIIOND, in reply, said-1 am neither a maker nor a lover of long speechee, but, having often observed how few the occasions are upon which I can meet my constituente, I think that when I have the advantage upon the present occasion, and when you have separated my name as the representative of the county, and have drunk my health in that form, instead of the obvious and natural toast of "the President of this Society," you do expect to hear from me something upon that sub ject which after, all is uppermost in the heads and hearts of you all. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I must be can did and open with you. I confess to you that at the outset of this war I thought it most dignified to the country to stand aloof from foreign interference, and for this reason—l could not sympathise with tyrannical Go vernments which had ground down their people from one end of Europe to the other, neither could I sympa thise with those madmen who said that the only means of regaining their liberty was by waging a war of uni versal destruction against every arowued head and Sove reign of Europe. But here had arisen a peculiar case. Here was a great Emperor determined to possess himself of the lands of his neighbour. Well, gentlemen, all the people of this country seemed to be taken aback. It wee the most wonderful thing ever heard of in the world. Dear me I remember ever since I was a child that it was nothing but the uniform policy of Russia to possess itself of Constantinople. I remember it was said and generally believed that the Empress Catherine christened her eldest seri Constantine, with the sole view of making hire Emperor of Constantinople and Turkey, and thus carrying out the tradition of the Russian empire, and epinione which had been received for 100 years. But, apart from this, I don't find that the love of having a little more laud is such a very uncommon or rem arkale thing. I remember, and my hon. friends can remember, perhaps, better than I can, bow we have gone on filch ing a little more land in India, until at last we havegot a very fair-sized estate there. (Laughter.) I hardly know a landed proprietor who does not want another little farm lying near his estate. (Continued laughter.) Nay, snore, I hardly ever knew a farmer who did not say he should do better if he could have atincnoed merriment.)uplefieldebelTonifili;ggentotleihniesn,neisigrheablolyur.the(Cen Em peror of Russia on a small scale, that is all. Well, but were we to stand by and see this poor Turk robbed ? Cer tainly not. In point of justice, is point of policy, and in consideration of the laws of humanity, we won't see a little man knocked down by a big bully. Well, then, I say we had a right to go to war t ) protect the little man. But now your great guides and instructors change their tone, and say you are going to WE r for the sake of civili sation, What on earth ha's - civilisation to do with it ! Are we to go on till we extend civilisation through the world 1 Peace at any price may be a fallacious cry ; but war at all price is equally fallacious. When aro we to have common sense ? We are in the middle of a battle, and the reason why I always object to go into a battle is because I won't come out till I have conquered. (Cheers.) That is the reason why I did not like to enter into war, but I don't at all shirk the war. You are in the midst - of a great and terrible struggle, and I wish you were well out of it. I must confess the more I see the more difficulty I see, and I believe that at the present moment you are totally 'misinformed as to the real difficulties of the question. I, for one, doubt very much whether the Emperor of the French is inclined to go on with the war, and if not, I ask you, are you in clined to go on with it singly ! (Cries of " No, no.") I am not saying that this is really the case, but I do beg you to make up your minds upon the subject, and tell tile plainly what it is you want with me. Ain I, as your representative, to say that we will stand against Russia single-handed, and not snake peace oven if we are asked to do so! Now screw your courage to the stiek• ing place. You have spent 100,000,0001. this year. Those poor chawbaeons outside don't understand what it is to spend 100,008,000/. ; they may think it some thing fine; but the quartern loaf gets up, sugar gets up, and the fellows get lee to eat. Then they find out what is the meaning of spending 100,000,000/. Do you think your manufactories will go on at this rate ? I am pretty sure they will not ; and then what will your newspapers—those great lights and great guides—do Why, they will turn the other way. Depend upon it, if you are goaded on to war by false represeeta tione now, you will be goaded into a dishonourable peace by false representations hereafter. I think if you make up your minds like men, say, and stand to it, that you will not consent to carry on this war single-handed into the heart of Russia. I have not the smallest objec tion to take military possession of Constantinople, and to say Russia shall not come in there ; but beyond that I am not disposed to go. That is the object for which we went to war. We are t )Id now we are to unite with Austria in the progress of civilisation. What! Austria, that has now for the first time in the wend given up the whole of its subjects bound hand and foot, body and soul, unto the Pope. Is that part of the progress of civilisation ? Why, Turkey, bad as she is—Russia, e ha n d o as she is—are infinitely better than Austria. The y ma y . systematically, for t heir own advantage, intend end th t e o p a o n pe d do wilfully keep t he p eo p le in i g norance ; the y don't, notice however,of t h e exert .m u ut in themselves the t i o n d s t o a n in c e e they e Austriay simply has positively been permitted to say to the people,— " You shall not learn ; it is true that the Creator has written you a book, but I, one of his creatures, tell you that that book will do you no sort of good, and that you shall not read it." This you may call civilisation, but who look strictly at things, and not at words, say it is not civilisation. We will not be blinded and hoodwinked by words. It may be weak, it• may be ridiculous, but, translate it as you will, it is despotism in its grcssest form, and I will cmtend against it. It is stated in the papers, and I have seen in the papers such expreseions as, " We can't understand tlse member for Surrey." don't care a farthing whether they understand me or not, but I hope you will understand me. I t am anxious that you should do so ; you may see from the past that I have never deceived you, and I will act as honestly as I }Mr.e done W . (Cheers.) HAROOD having proposed "The health of the Borough Members," Mr. MANGLES returned thanks. He observed that although he bad not intended to address o them n the war, his friend, Mr. Austen, had sounded the trumpet so loudly that ho felt it might be misonderstood by some of those " mercantile speculations" to which his hon. friend had alluded if he refrained from doing so. He had observed at agricultural gatheringe all over the country, that members of Parliament present bad almost invari ably, either at the request of their constituents or of tehnecior a m t e gr ti eont, subjectdi ted w t h h i e c h a attention e o np present e their l a m u e d n i • to enlisted, and, in fact, almost engrossed the attention of the nation —he meant the war. (Hear.) He had given a silent vote for the inquiry into the state of the army be. fore Sebastopol, and claimed greater credit for that vote inasmuch as in giving it he had voted against his party. His hon. friend, Mr. Drummond, belonged to no party, and therefore could not vote against his friends. (A. CAP TAIN SCOBELL AND MR. TITE ON THE WA R. At the dinner given by the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, on Tuesday, on the health of the members lox the city being given, the hon, members re turned thanks, and, amongst other topics, thus alluded to the war : Capt. SCOBELL having briefly referred to the subject of agriculture, said he would now direct their attention to a question of paramount importance—namely, the war. With respect to the cause of the war it was hardly worth looking back upon ; bet be would say that that cause was sufficient for us to draw this conclusion—that if we had not gone to war when we did, we should very soon have had to do it under greater disadvantages. Thera was no question that the artful proceedings and ambi tion of Russia were so fixed, so moulded, and so en tangled into every part of Europe whets she could reach by diplomacy, and she had such a deep laid scheme to get within her power the territory which now belonged to Turkey, that, if she had succeeded, her strength would have been so great that no man could tell what the consequences would have been to the liberties of Europe. Iu that sense we were really contending for liberty—(applause)—we were contend ing for freedom ; for so sure as Russia prevailed, so sure would there be slavery, or attempts, at least, to enslave the world, and create a great military go vernment. (Applause.) We had therefore something to fight for in the matter ; but we had to thank Pro vidence that, if we had to fight, we at least had fought bravely—that we had done our duty well, and that our soldiers from the moment they landed at Alma up to the preseEt day, had fought in a manner that had not even been exceeded in the Peninsula, great and g lorious as its battles were. Here our soldiers had ought against misfortunes -- against difficulties and sickness—against every calamity that could befal an army—against the want of clothing and provisions ; and yet nobly had they fought in spirit as well as in bay. (Applause.) And well had they behaved, ansa proud should we be of them. All ho wished was that we could see greater advantages held out to every class of our army. (Applause.) Many advances had been made towards improving the condition of the officers, and rightly so too. They had many advantages now which they had not before. If they died in battle the money they gave for their commissions was returned to the families that they left behind them. Then, again, there were pensions given to the officers' widows. He only wished we could see this system in some way extended to the private soldiers. (Applause.) lie as much laid down his life as the officer did ; but the difference was this, that though we gave the private soldier a small pension as long as he lived, if he died in battle, or from want after battle, his family did not get a penny from the country. He did wish that could be remedied. (Ap. plause.) It would not be so extravagant as some might suppose ; because a very small assistance would do for the widow to the close of life. He questioned if it was not worth osneideration to devise a plan that the fami lies of the men who died in behalf of their oountry should not be forgotten. (applause.) Now, we had heard a good deal of " the right man in the right place." We had three con: menders-in-chief of our gallant army in the Crimea. He would not comment on him who was dead, Lord Raglan. He believed he was a gallant soldier. We had now displaced another general who had ruled that army. He had been recalled, or, as stated, he bad resigned, but it amounted to this, that somehow or other there was not full trust placed in him. Now we ha I a third ; he trusted we should find that third to be " the right man in the right place." (Applause.) Thaistiownael of vast consequence to us, not only for cur n and payers glory and satisfaction, but as the disi of immense sums of money to carry oubtle F,ench army, fully. Fighting side by side with a n q was also of equal and with a small army of Sardinians, to establish our importance that we should to care.asesris we had not been military reputation. On some. d occasions whenever the day of so successful, but he trn,teand would be found to stand battle came the army of Eunr-noble &lies, in belting down in a high position 2enshere-war sUccess ., en em y with respect t• that noble tic t t h or e s of promoting a peaceful trusted it would be th Theron we saw the whole of fuel issue of the contest. der the sea and annihilated, and enemy's fleet ly lug under f t tt f ' whole of that city was in a per ec s aeo rum. Ile the r w e once got to the north side, something would hop ed ' - • •that harbour of to annihilate be done yeoreaodnyaerbis.ved—the fall of Sebastopol. He of he was ab out to mention an idea that he had never This o great undertak ing here heard ment i o ned before ; he trusted that those high hills w hich stood on the b anks of the harbour of Sebastopol, wou ld be laid low and the valley filled up with them. (Applause.) He would fill the harbour up with the hills be e n n the a harbour that good abcve it, and pull down the immense houses that for the thousands of men we had there. If we only gave the Russians the opportunity to do it, we should find their were i standing.ne.ofba t t e ships wouldfl eating Sebastopol once again. Now they bad met to-d a y t o re ward merit ; and he did not k now a more d e li g h t f u l l task. They were about to distribute premiums to those who had produced the " ox right in the right place." There was the fairest competition, and no favour. Ss only wished he could ray the same of the army and navy. He wished there was the same fair competition between man and man, officer and officer, as there era; in this society, and in the awarding of its premiums. But such was the state of things (and he spoke more rarticular!), as to the navy) that a great many men were longer in getting the first step than men of family influence were men in getting four steps ; or, in other words, many others in were longer in rising to be midshipmen than was h' e inching the position of pot captain, w tanta mount to that of colonel. Such was ty the stataet was con t things n admiral th under a political adrniralty — a politicalgifts, and stantly dosing its followers by Parliamentary, or any other casual pu-ling on men of interest, to the exclusion often of men of merit. Far be it from bim o say that there might not be men of in terest and merit t too ; and he did not care how fast they l th• d is filled were dull 6:i j d ; 1 por t 9 v, 53 1 de• own. e top I top at 21 sorts Od to Oats, o 521 rain. raior 'Ring 22st, 1, 48 s rtter. RT tid fi lb 13 ,lit'. .111, .ds4 ofmo , 20 „ ,t4l . 15 Ar , si , 16 MO. IS Me l _______.. Al 0 1° fl ye/ , 57 ), Si% 0 , 171 Che - A tha stern' tandor , 231 been G4l -- Jleye, ~dx7rt 'clock fof Stocky , 48i cent• sno _City land, in ;' n etet TO urtbe wit. 1 •i