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No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said office. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and hear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Clothing for Prisoners of War," and must also be delivered at Somerset-House. QULTAN MULLIGATAWNEY, MADRAS and MALAY CURRIES, CAWAITBS, COAPTU, and other Indian Dishes, areprepared daily at the ORIENTAL HOTEL, Vere street, Bond•street, by the pupil and successor of the late Hadjee Allee, in a style equal to his predecessor. The Oriental Divan, the smoking-room of the Hotel, is um quailed for splendour of decora tion, loftiness, ventilation, and comfort. Dinners Ala care. Private Dlning-rooms for large or small parties. All continental and orien tal languages spoken. fIIGARS. REGALIAS. To Noblemen, Officers of the Army and Navy, and Gentlemen. J. L. BEUDEBOURCK respectfully requests a close inspection of his choice Stock of superior FOREIGN 11AVANA CIGARS. Sold in Boxes at wholesale prices- 1 4 lb. sample boxes if desired. Warehouse, 30, Walbrook, Mansion-house, City. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 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, pos sessing 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 one'thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the OW every night to appear as auxiliaries ;. and an ex . trammel:lnm, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and 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 in any 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 present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has Spared 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 where 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 subjecteef spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson 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 supply 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 reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and 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 easilyemsceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited nod elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. lie regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday,. Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New 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 he 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 solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual 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 above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman 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 splendidhumbug, offered him 2.000 dollarkper anniun if he would perform at his museum in New York- Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. 'He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for ho was poor, young (under V), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and ho would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Be inquired into the subject ; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers 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 by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when ho 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 t' , 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 one Who was present when ho and Lord Brougham had their seance 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 conveyed 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 of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the geeategt 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 in 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 ever 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, or Saturday, October 27, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—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 iglu, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air: Act 2. The Agra-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. Le Livre des Reeneils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu rainous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in 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, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be 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 de Verge; or, t h e Casket of Creesu s. Into which, though 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 New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement u p on the " inexhau stible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, ut at i t l he word of command, producing soda - wat er, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, neYea.u, or any other wine ar spirit required; and finally Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectlydry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. of Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expo s e Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons w ill un d ergo some s t ran ge metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an 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 11 will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the 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. 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ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRIICEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the Germs]. of Dr. PICKFOR.D. With an Introduction by the Editcr, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. ".Air. Fickford to known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the firs , tlne, he informs es, that ho has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect an} other equally flagrant evil which it may •be in his .ower to cor rect."—London Nt edical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and • Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this boot z.ould find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of lent Importance, though it Is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrham, and to place the treat.* moat upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." " London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK. MEETING OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S FRIENDS. Yesterday evening a very crowded meeting of the electors of Southwark assembled at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge, to hear an address from Sir C. Napier on the occasion of his offering himself as a candi date for the representation of the borougb. Mr. CYRUs LEGGE was voted to the chair, and in a short speech, which was scarcely heard in consequence of the confusion and noise which prevailed, introduced Sir Charles Napier to the meeting. Sir C. NAPIER then mounted on the table, amidst great cheering and cries of " He is on the quarter-deck now." He proceeded to say that the first and last time that he had hal the honour of meeting the electors of Southwark was on the occasion of the reelection of their late lamented representative, Sir W. Molesworth. He be-_ lieved it was entirely unnecessary for him to tell them that when he stood against Sir W. Molesworth he bad no intention of turning that gentleman out of the repre sentation of the borough. He had too high a respect for that gentleman as a Minister of State and as an up right and honest man to wish to turn him out ; but be., (Sir Charles) took that opportunity of stating to the electors of Southwark what his political sentiments were, and he now came forward at the request of a great many of the electors of Southwark to offer himself to be their representative in Parliament. (Hear, hear.) He knew it was a very great honour which he asked at their hands when he asked to be elected as the represen tative of so large a constituency as that of the borough of Southwark. Still he felt satisfied and convinced that many of the independent men of Southwark would not be sorry to see him their representative. He had been before the public a good many years, both as a naval officer and the representative in Parliament of another metropolitan borough—that of Marylebone. He bad represented Marylebone for six years in Parliament, and he was not ashamed of any vote he gave during the whole time he sat for that borough, and he would defy any one to say that he ever gave an improper vote. If 1 the electors of Southwark did him thehonour to send him to Parliament, he would come back to them at the pro- ' per time, and he would then challenge any one to say whether he had given an improper vote as their repre sentative. It was well known that we had embarked in a long, and, ho feared, a dangerous war with Russia. ' The war had been going on for two years, and they all knew, and knew full well, that that war had not been carried on in a way that a war ought to be conducted. (Hear, hear.) They all would recollect the sentiment expressed by the Duke of Wellington, that "this country could not carry on a little war." That seuti rent ought to be engraved on the heart of every Eng lishman, for it was the sentiment of a great mar, and , one who well knew the art of war, and the necessity for carrying on war in a proper manner. He (Sir Charles) admitted that there were various excuses for the Go vernment with regard to the bad way in which the war bad been carried on in the Crimea. But, though he ad mitted that there were excuses for the Government, owing to the long duration of peace, yet still it was to be blamed that, during that long peace, we were not pre pared for war, and our officers and our army made ready for every contingency ; but everything had been ne glected, and when the day of trial came everything was found wanting. Look at the enormous loss of life in the 1 Crimea ; did that not show negligence in preparation 7 1 (Hear.) Look at the state of the hospitals. (Hear.) But it was no use going over all that, for they all knew the 1 , state of the hospitals in the East after the blows which ; had been inflicted on Russia. There was no excuse for such bad conduct as that, and the fact was simply this— that the Government during the peace bad put the wrong men in the right places, and so had brought on all the misery and confusion which had occurred duricg this war. He must say that, though he complained of the conduct of the war, the soldiers had at Alma behaved like those who fought in Spain ; and at Inkerman too, which, as the Duke of Cambridge had said, was the "soldiers' battle." (Hear, hear.) But wby was that not an " offi cers' battle" also ? Because the officers bad not been brought up in peace to understand their duties in war. Could a nation like this expect to be at peace for ever ? But it seemed as if we did so expect ; and no military education was given to our officers to fit them for the conduct of war. When ho looked at the campaign in the Crimea—when he thought of the men in the trenches, up to their necks in water, and when they returned to their quarters without bedding or any comforts— he • could not but ask whose fault that was ? And be must say that it was the fault of the Government and the fault of our system. We had for Minister of War a very excellent man, but one who knew nothing of war. How should he have known anything of it, when it was our system to pick up a duke or a marquis for such an office; and he knowing nothing of war sent out troops and officers to carry on the war necessarily in an imperfect and incomplete manner. But that was all over now. The battle of Alma was a glorious battle ; at Inkerman our troops fought gloriously ; and at Balaklava, where our cavalry was sent to do impossibilities, they yet maintained the honour of England—(cheers)—but with a loss which ought never to have been incurred. (Hear.) We had carried on the war in the Crimea for eleven long months; sometimes our guns gave way, and sometimes our mor ' tars gave way, but the courage of the British soldier never gave way. (Hear, hear.) Well ! Sebastopol fell at last. He would not say a word about the officers of our army employed at Sebastopol, but he lamented to say that the British troops were not successful. He did not blame them, for there were impossibilities in war as much as there were impossibilities in other things. Our troops attempted to storm the Redin g and they took possession of it, but were unable to retain it. He would say no more on that subject, but would pr'ceed to speak of the manner in which the war. bad been carried on in the Baltic. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Her Majesty's Government thought 'proper co appoint him to the command of the fleet in the Baltic. He went there with a very undisciplined , :ind badly-manned fleet, but with good and excellent ,fficers, and, indeed, with very good men too, though they were undisciplined. It was new ground. We knew nothing of the Baltic—of its harbour; or coasts, and were obliged to search out those things ; and he would say that during the time the fleet was there the British navy did as much service as it was possible for it to do. But the people of England, unused to war, looked for the performance of services which were impossible. They grew impatient, and he was expected to go to Oroestadt, and to St. Petersburg, and he believed absolutely that he vas expected to sail up to Moscow. (Laughter.) He lid as much as he could do, and as much as the admirals of former days would have done. They had never heard of Nelson or (Jelling wood going into Ton ' lon, or Cherbourg, or Brest ; but he was expected not only to go into places like those, but even to take his fleet overland to Moscow. (Laughter.) It was impossible to go to Cronstadt, as there was not water to take the ships in, and he had not a single gun-boat or mortar boat. In short, in 1854 the Government sent out the fleet without &gun-boat or..mortat44 l 4. 'He could not do impossibilities. The people getting impatient, the Admiralty got alarmed, and endeavoured to put the blame on him. He resisted that—he came home and endeavoured to show that he had been treated with in. justice ; and he believed that he had made out his case, for the people of England, who were dissatisfied with him at first, were now in his favour. (Hear.) He was 4uperseded in his command. He did not say the Govern ment had no right so to do, for he held they had a right to supersede any officer if they had not confidence in him. But he did complain that they had refused him the redress ~ o which he was entitled. That was not the way in which an English admiral ought to bo treated. If he was said to have behaved ill, let him be tried by a court-martial, and puniFhed if he deserved it—let him even be shot, as they did with Byng ! But they refused to grant him (Sir Charles) a court-martial. He remained quiet because he knew it wa-i dangerous for the country to make an expose of the state of things in the Baltic ; and he waited till a new fleet was sent out and operations took place against Sweaborg. He did not blame his successor in any way except in this : that he was one of the board which censured him (Sir Charles), and having censured him, he then took his place. (Hear.) Of course great things were expected of the new fleet. Government sent out with it 16 or 17 mortar-boats, and the French had four or five, and there were also some gun-boats, while in other respects the fleet was equal to his. But a most extraordinary thing occurred. They brought up the mortar-boats against Sweaborg, and they destroyed the whole of the dockyards and other buildings. No doubt that was a great triumph. But he wanted to know why the Admiralty, who knew from his reports the state of Sweaborg, did not have 16 sail of the line before it at the same time, and follow up the success of the mortar boats with the ships cf the line ? But the Admiralty did not do that. He did not blame Admiral Dundas, for the whole campaign was formed and laid down at the Admiralty ; and he would say that they did not do their duty when they neglected to collect the whole fleet to follow up the success of the mortar-boats before Sweaborg. He did not say it could have been done easily, or that we should not have lost four or five sail of the line ; but the people of England wanted to take Sweaborg, and they would not have cared a straw for that loss. You could notfight battles withoutlosingships. If, in the exercise of that which had been so much spoken of—his " discretion"—the admiral saw an oppor tunity of attacking a place, be should do it, and let the people of England see what th e fleet could do. The case was, in fact, this—that in 1854 the Government sent out a fleet without gun or mortar-boats, and in 1855 they sent the gun and mortar-boats to act without the fleet. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) That was the state in which things now were. He had advised that 100 gun and mortar-vessels, at least, should be sent out this year, and 16 or 17 only had been sent ; and that was the way in which the money of the people was `expended - I:meter:sips Next'year it was not 100 gun and mortar-boats that woulcrbe required to destroy Cronstadt and Sweaborg, but 200, and it was possible that even then it won't.' not be done at all. That was the way the war was carried on. He would say that it was necessary that there should be men in the House of Commons who understood war, and who were bold enough to ask the Government why they had done this or that ; and also to tell the people that they must not ex pect impossibilities, such as the taking of Cronstadt or Sweaborg with imperfect means. Look how distrustful the country had become of Gen. Simpson. Whether that officer had done right or wrong he (Sir Charles) was not prepared to say. ; but be thought that after what had been said of Gen. Simpson, when that officer came home he ought to have a court-martial granted him. He (Sir Charles) was as much in favour of the liberty of the press as any man, but still he thought that officers ought not to be superseded merely because the press disapproved, of them ; and, therefore, he thought that General Simpson ought to be allowed a court-martial, at which he could defend himself on the charges whic h had been brought against him. With regard to the immediate subject of the meeting, he could only saY that he was there to offer himself as their representa tive if they thought proper to elect him. (Hear.) If they did not, all he could say was, " Choose some one else," and he would take off his hat and wish them good morning. With regard to the mode of carrying on an election, there were various opinions. He thought a candidate should hold public meetings in all parts of the borough, and state what his political sentiments were. It was not necessary for him to explain his. They were well known, or else the greater part of his life had been thrown away. He inteuded to hold a meeting to-morrow (this) evening at the Literary Institution, and on other days at different places, of which advertisements would be duly published. After a few observations on the state of political parties, in which men were one day Whigs , another Tories, and another a jumble of both, he stated that all he could say was that he would act fairly and candidly if they sent him to Parliament as their repre sentative. He did not propose to canvass the electors, because it was impossible to canvass personally 10,000 or 15,000 men. The other candidates acted by means of paid canvassers—they were never themselves seen by the electors, and they got a number of promises of sup port which often at the day of election turned up blanks. He hoped the electors would not take offence at his not visiting them, or sending paid canvasssers to them. (" No," and cheers.) He would not have anything to say to a paid canvasser who came to ask him for his vote, and he held that every one should act as indepen dently as he did himself ; and, therefore, he did not in tend to employ a set of paid canvassers at 3s. or 4s. a day. If they expected him to do that, he told them• at once he should lose his election, for he would not do it. He was prepared now, and would be at all meetinge of the electors, to answer any questions which might be put to him, and he would do his best to give satisfaction to the electors, if they sent him to Parliament; but, at the same time, he m u st sa y th at h e wou ld no t be their mere delegate, but would exercise his best judgment on all questions, and vote for what he thought right, and against what he thought wrong. He would never be the instrument of any Ministry. (Hear, hear ) In his opi nions he was, as they well knew, liberal to the back bone. He approved of Lord Palmerston as Prime Minister ; he thought he was the best we could have ; for he was a strong man, and a bold man, and one who would never make an inglorious peace with Russia. He thought we were in a position that, if Russiafor it ; sued for peace, it might be granted ; but she must sue and, as it were, go on her knees to ask for it. Then , and then only, it would be the duty of the Ministry to agree to such a peace as would be s e cure, and would tie down Russia in such a manner as to prevent her again disturb ing the tranquillity of Europe. We all saw, since Se bastopol had been taken, that the navy was released, and u s n ur d e er th h a is t vas going to work as it did in former days, and it was certain that it would now do what it bad ever done. The fleet'in the Black Sea was commanded by a most excellent officer, a friend of his, and hewas that commander would not let the grass grow feet. He had nothing more to add, and he left the elec tion. totally and entirely i n th e ir hands. (Loud cheers, .and three cheers for Sir Charles, which were given with great emphasis.) Mr. SHARPS *moved, and Mr. LAWRENCE seconded, the f snowing resolution :—" That this meeting, knowing the public character and conduct of Sir C. Napier, and having this evening heard his sentiments, highly approve of them, especially those relating to the present war with Russia ad ho n ; e s a t n believing e Et o c o n d t u h c a t t t t the e c s o a u m n e t r yt o w a a n g t i s o r e i u e r e g a e i d c honourable peace, thinks him a very fit and proper per son to represent the large and important borough of Southwark in Parliament." . Mr. NEWMAN addressed the meeting, and urged that it was necessary to know something beyond Sir Charles's opinion on the question of the war ; and he inquired whether Sir Charles was in favour of an extension of the suffrage, and, if so, what kind of extension ? Whether he was in favour of the ballot as a protection to the working classes ? Whether he was opposed to church rates, and the expenditure of public money on religious endowments ? Whether he would support the repeal of the land tax, and reform of taxation generally, and would make the probate duty applicable to land as well as to other property ? Whether be was in favour of administrative reform ? And lastly, if he would support the nationalities of Europe with reference to the war ? Sir C. NAPIER said that he was always of opinion that the suffrage ought to be extended ; but be should not be fit to be a senator if be attempted then to point out the exact length to which the extension shonld go. That was a question which should be discussed by Parliament, and all he could say was that he would go as far as any man on that question. With regard to the ballot, he was of opinion that the franchise was not worth sixpence with out it. (Hear.) With regard to administrative reform, what was the use of asking him such a question? Did not they all know that all the evils which had arisen from the conduct of the Government were caused by the want of administrative reform? He would go on that question to the fullest extent. As to reform in taxation, he did not know what to say about it. We were paying 7?,- per cent. income tax now, and next year we should have to pay 10 per cent. If the hon. gentleman could specify what taxeshe wanted to be taken off, and what pnt on to supply their places, he might try to give an answer, but he was not a financier, or acquainted with all the tricks and roguery of that trade. (Hear.) No doubt they all wished not to be taxed, but if they were determined to carry on the war they must have taxation ; and all they could do was, if they paid their money willingly, to see it pro perly expended. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) .With re gard to the probate duty, that was also a financial ques tion, with which lie could not pretend to deal. As re gamed church-rates, he would be always ready to con sider any measure which proposed to deal with that ob noxious import. (Hear.) Mr. J. G. WATTS attempted to address the meeting, but was unable to obtain a hearing. The resolution was then put and carried amidst loud cheering. Mr. A. B. RICHARDS moved a resolution to the effect that " the meeting pledge itself to use every exertion to secure the election of Sir C. Napier, and thanked him for his manly and straightforward address to the electors." This was agreed to, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting, which had been very noisy and confused, was brought to a close by Sir Chas. Napier being almost carried out of the room in the arms of his enthusiastic supporters. MEETING OF MR. SCOVELL'S SUPPORTERS. Yesterday evening a general meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. G. Scovell, one of the candidates for the representation of the borough, was held at the Queen's Head Inn, High-street, Southwark, to take into consideration the address that that gentleman had issued —Mr. Martin, who was called to, the chair, read the address, which stated that Mr. Sewell was prepared to vote for the ballot, the non-endowment by the state of any religious sect, an extension of the suffrage, a reform of our defective system of administration in our public departments, and all the measures which would promote the well-doing of the workieg classes, On the motion of Mr. HAWKIIIIRST, seconded by Mr. WARNER, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :- -'• That the political sentiments of George Scovell, Esq., as set forth in his address, are such as to merit the fullest approbation of the electors of South wark, and therefore the meeting pledges itself to use every possible exertion to secure his return." Mr. SCOVELL was then introduced and the resolution was read to him. He said it devolved upon him to re turn his very sincere thanks, not only for the resolution, but else for the large and influential meeting by which it had been passed. Before he entered upon other subjects, there was one which was naturally paramount in his mind. It would be unnecessary for him to allude to the feelings with which he heard of the death of their late esteemed member the, late Sir W. Molesworth. (Hear.) Most of the electors knew him well, but none so well as he (Mr. Scovell), who was in constant communication with him en the subject of commerce. He need not expatiate upon the loss the nation must sustain by the death of such a man, for he was the first instance of the sincerity of the Government in putting the right man in the right place. They had now to look about for another right man for the right place ; and after the very flattering reception he had met with, he had no doubt but that he would be the man. Considering the manner in which he was treated when he was a candidate at the last general election, he did not think that ho was advancing claims that could be thought unreasonable. Much stress had frequently been laid upon the advisability of having for its member a man resident in the borough. As a very large employer his interests were identical with these of the electors, and they could never be opposed to them. (Hear.) He did not know that he could add anything to the address which he had issued, but he was sorry to find that he had omitted two subjects on which he was desirous of speaking. The first was the emancipation' of the Jews, which he thought formed a very important element in the great question of civil and religious liberty. For that emancipation he would decidedly vote. Then as to the much•vexed question of church rates, he was decidedly opposed to that imposition, which, how ever, he now considered practically thfunct. He found that he was likely to be opposed by a gallant admiral, who certainly was not the right man to cla'm their suffrages. He wished to speak with the highest respect of that gallant admiral ; but he considered that, being more_than 70 years of age, he was not qualified to represent that borough, which required a man of great energy and activity. Sir C. Napier was evidently desirous to get into Parliament to avenge a personal quarrel ; but the electors of Southwark, he was sure, would not lend themselves to such an object. He believed that the country was indebted to the gallant admiral for many naval achievements, but that was no reason why he should be elected in opposition to a resident candi date, and one whose interests were closely identified with ' those of the electors. Mr. Scovell again thanked the meeting for the resolution that had been passed, and said he would with confidence leave his interests iu the hands of the electors. Committees were formed for canvassing purposes, and a series of district meetings were determined upon. The proceedings then terminated. DR. KANE'S ARCTIC' EXPEDITION. The last mail from New York brought intelli gence of the safety of Dr. Kane, who iu May, 1853, sailed in command of an expedition fitted out at the cost of Mr. Grinnell, of New York, and Mr. George Peabody, of London, in search of Sir John Franklin. Considerable apprehensions had been entertained regarding his fate, and several months back some Government vessels were des patched in the hope of meeting with him. The following letter, containing the first announcement of his explorations, reached London yesterday afternoon : " Godhavn, North Greenland, Sept. 12. "My dear Sir,—l have only time to report to you the safe arrival of our party at Godhavn, whence we have taken passage to England in the Danish brig Mariane. "The explorations of our party embraced the entire shores of Smith's Sound, and a new channel expanding from its north-eastern curve into an open Polar sea. This great watercourse embraced an area of 3,000 square miles entirely free from ice. It washed a bold and moun tainous coast, which has been charted as high as lat. 82.30. " Smith's Sound terminates in an extensive bay which bears your name, and the coast of Greenland, after being followed until it faced the north, was found cemented to the continent of America by a stupendous glacier which checked our further progress towards the Atlantic. "Throughout this long extent of new coast, the result of much hard travel and exposure, I have found no traces of the lost party, whose search instigated your own connection with our expedition. " The past two winters exceeded in severity any that have before been recorded. Both scurvy and locked jaw embarrassed our efficiency, and our dogs, to the number of 57, perished of this latter scourge. A zone of 81 miles of solid ice interposed between us and the nearest water, and to have remained a third winter would have proved fatal. "On the 17th of May, with a carefully-matured or ganisation of boats and sledges, I abandoned the brig and commenced our journey over the floes. We sup plied ourselves with animal food entirely by our guns, and transported our sick in separate sledges. After a travel of 1,300 miles, and an exposure in open air of 84 days, we reached Upernavik in health and safety. "It is right that while announcing our own restora tion to the world I should mention the death of three of o.r party. These brave men perished in the direct dis charge of the duties of search, and are entitled to the grateful recollection of their comrades and commander. "With sincere regard, your friend and servant, "E. K. KANE, - Commanding Expedition. "George Peabody, Esq., London. " P.S.—I open this letter to announce the arrival of Captain Harlstone and party, who must have, passed us in Melville Bay. The officers and crew are rll well. I have cancelled my engagements with the Maziane (Cap tain Amondson, to whom I am much indebted for his hospitality), and will proceed to New York with my countrymen. " May I beg you to either call upon or send to Sir Francis Beaufort a copy of this letter, as also to Lady Franklin and Mr. Barrow, of the Admiralty ? " There is no open water above the mouth of Smith's Sound (Pelham Point of Cape Inglefield), so that my escape has been in all respects providential.— I am, dear Sir, yours, "E. K.. Kelm " Sept. 18, 1855." "House of Mr. o:nik, Royal Inspector, Godhavn, North Greenland. " P.S.—No. 2.—1 will report to the Secretary of the Admiralty, as also to the Royal Geographical Society, as soon as I can arrange my papers and charts. All my documents are saved, but my collection of natural history is sacrificed. I left the brig safe in Winter Harbour. "E. S. SANE." EMBEZZLEMENT BY A RAILWAY MANAGER.—Se ver aI weeks ago Samuel Peak, the goods manager of tbe Bir kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jnnction Railway, at Thrlienhead, absconded with upwards of 300/. of the company's money. He was apprehended between Liver pool and C rewe . Th e pr i soner was taken before Sir E. Cust on S a t ur d ay , when Mr. J. B. Lloyd , solicitor of the company, applied for a remand, which was granted. Sir E. Oust intimated that two responsible sureties of 1501. each, the prisoner himself being bound in 3001., would be required. The b a il not being forthcoming, the pri mer was retained in cuatody.—lnackburn Standard. [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD. THE FAMILIES OF DECEASED OFFICERS. The following Royal warrant, which is about to be issued by the War Department, to meet the case of officers' families, so well put by Mr. Headlam in his motion on the subject last session, will be read with great interest both by the relatives of officers serving in the Crimea and the public at large " Whereas we have deemed it advisable to allow to the widows and families, or to certain of the relatives hereinafter specified, of officers of our army who, since the declaration of war with Russia, have been or may be killed in action, or who have died, or may die of wounds received in face of the enemy within six months after being wounded, the alternative of receiving a fixed sum of money, in lieu of such rates of pension, and com passionate and other allowances as are prescribed by our Royal warrant of the 15th of June, 1855 ; our will and pleasure is, that this our Royal warrant, to be adminis tered and interpreted by our Secretary at War, shall be the sole and standing authority upon the matters herein contained. " Rules and regulations for granting a fixed sum of money in lieu of pensions, compassionate allowances, and gra tuities to the widows, families, and relatives of officers killed in action, or dying of wounds in face of the enemy, within six months after being wounded : "1. The amount of money to be paid to a widow, widow and children, or other relatives of an officer killed in action, or dying of wounds received in face of the enemy, -within six months after being wounded, shall, whatever branch of the service he may have belonged to, be the regulation price fixed for commissions in cavalry and infantry of the line, as set forth in 'the following scale, viz. : To the Widow, Widow and Children, Children, Fa ther, Mother, Sister or Sisters of, Lient.-C01... £6,175 £4,500 Ditto Major 4,575 3,200 Ditto Captain 3,225 1,800 Ditto Lieutenant.. 1,190 700 Ditto Ensign B4O 450 but it shall in no case exceed the regulated price actually paid by the officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. Caval. Infan. " 2. When an officer so killed, or so dying of his wounds within six months, shall leave a widow only, the price thus fixed shall be paid to her for her sole and absolute benefit, provided she be not left in such wealthy circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to a pension ; and she shall be required to give, according to such form as may be hereafter prescribed by the Secre tary at War, an acknowledgment as having received such sum in lieu of, and as a full compensation for all pension and gratuity to whieh she may have proved herself en titled in consequence of the loss of her husband. " 3. In the event of an officer leaving a widow and children who have established a claim to the pension and compassionate allowance, then, and in that case, the money awarded in lieu thereof shall be invested in Go vernment securities, in the names of two or more trus tees, to be nominated by the Secretary at War for the time being, and shall remain so invested, and the inte rest shall be receivable by the widow until her death, when the money shall be divided, share and share alike, among the children then alive of such deceased officer. In' the event, however, of the widow surviving her said children, the money shall then become her sole and ab solute property, as laid down in Article 2. "4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or chil dren, but no widow, the money shall be invested, as stated in Article 3, and the interest thereof shall be applied by the trustees for the benefit of such child or children until he, she, or they shall attain the age of 21, when the money, as in the case of the widow, shall be come the absolute property of such surviving child or children, share an d s h are a lik e . Sh ou ld, h owever, suc h just liabilities,l dor childrenshall r b e e v f e o r r t e te attainingth the c re t wm he age of 21 years, then and i n th a t case t h e money, a f ter di sc h arg i ng all "5. In the event of an officer leaving, at his death, neither widow, child, nor children, then the money shall be paid to his father, and if he leave no father it may be paid to hie mother, for his or her.sole and absolute bene fit, provided that neither be excluded by wealthy cir cumstances. And in the event of there being neither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, share and share alike, and provided they shall have attained the age of twenty-one years. But should any sister or sisters be under that age, then the money shall be invested, and the interest be applied, as stated in article 4, until such sister or sisters shall become 21 years of age, when it shall become the absolute property of the sur vivor or survivors. Should no survivors or survivor attain the age of 21 years, then the money, after 'dis charging all just liabilities, shall revert to the . Crown. " 6. No grant of money under the provisions of this warrant shall be made to the widow if she were ineligible for a pension under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 15th of June, 1855 ; but the ineligibility of the widow to any grant under this warrant shall not affect the interests of the legitimate children of such deceased officer, for whose benefit the money shall be invested, as -stated in article 4, except they be left in such wealthy Lcircuinstances as would disqualify them for the compas sionate allowances under the provisions of article 2. "7. In the event of it being represented and satisfac torily proved to the Secretary at War that any widow on whose behalf money shall have been invested for the henefit of herself and children, under the provisions of this warrant, shall thereafter so conduct herself as to be come unworthy of the bounty of the Crown, or shall neglect or ill-treat her children, then, and in that case, the Secretary at War shall have full power to make such arrangements for apportioning the interest of the money, and making better provision for the children, as in his judgment may seem most advisable. The allowances to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not applicable to the cases of officers killed in action, or dying of wounds before the declara tion of war with Russia, but it is to take a retrospective effect up to that date ; and. therefore, any officer's widow to whom there may have been granted a pension, compassionate allowances for children, or gratuity for herself and children, or any other relative of an officer who may have received a pension or gratuity under the warrant of the 15th of June, 1855, who may wish to commune such pension, allowances, or gratuities for the sum fixed under the provisions of this warrant, shall be permitted to do so ; but, in that case, whatever sums may have been received by or on account of the widow or children or other relatives will have to be deducted from any amount paid under the terms of this warrant. " 9. A. return of all sums paid under the provisions of this warrant shall be laid annually before Parliament on or after the Ist of April. "Given at our Court at St. James's, this 23d day of October, 1855, in the 19th year of Our reign. "By Her Majesty's command. " PANM.URE." CURIOUS CASE. At the Staffordshire quarter sessions a few days ago, Thomas Jones, a master builder, of Wolverhampton, was indicted for stealing a half-sovereign, at Wolver hampton. _ _ Mr. Spooner appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Motteram for the defence. The case (says the Staffordshire Advertiser) was one which excited some interest, from its novelty. On the 6th instant the prisoner was sitting in the bar of the Crown and Anchor, Horsley-fields, kept by Mr. Joseph Newton, drinking a glass of rnm and water, in payment for which he had given Mrs. Newton a shilling; and the case for the prosecution was that Mrs. Newton gave him in change three penny pieces, and, in mistake for a sixpence, a half sovereign, which she had just previously received from another customer, to whom she also in mistake gave only change for sixpence. The prisoner, on being taxed with having the half sovereign, replied that what ho had he should keep. He was given into the custody of the police, and a half sovereign was found upon him, which, however, he alleged was his own property. Mr. Spooner said the rule of the law was, that i k f i a s man finding property whi c h was l os t a pplied it to .n."e_ own use, having no k now l e d ge or means of ascertaining the loser, he was not guilty o f f e lony ; but if_ he did so,N i having reason to b e li e v e th a t th e owner could be found, then he was guilty of larceny. In this case therecfotuhlde be no doubt about the defendant's knowled g e o owner of the property. The chairman suggested that the original taking bad not been felonious. the half sove- Mr. Spooner contended that in taking defendant had beenking reign, to which he hail no right, the guilty of feloniously taking. Mr. Motteram replied that the money had been given, not taken. Mr. Spooner acknowraleldged that there was no 'ease in which he thought bor a upon point, but quoted seve e. others the case of " th , s Kig the question, and a m o n gwbereinitwas held to be. larceny to take the hands o f a person having it for safe v. Bramley," being answerable for it. In this case property out of the custody, the bailee the bailee of the half sovereign, ' and M rs. N e wton was was answerable to the person from whom she had re ceived it for the change. Il e a l so quoted the case of Queen v . Riley,t" wherein the defendant was Feld gu il t y of iareeny in having driven away by mistake an other persons lamb with his own sheep, and on disctwer jog the mistake selling it. The Chairman said there bad been in that case e res passn the first i n .t ance, the defendant haling no right to dr i ve away the lamb. Mr. Vaughan called attention to the case of 1 ' 'elle Queen v. Vincent," reported in the Law Journal, `2 , 10, where it was held that where an owner parts with. pos session of property by mistake, he does not divest him self of his proprietary in it. Mr. Spooner contended that in the present case iffrs. Newton had never really parted with th e property , a nd that the pri soner had only a right to take up his ct ,ange, and not a half-sovereign. The Court, h owever , h e ld t h at t h e c h arge o f felony could net be maintained, and without hearing evtde. pee, directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. " Great Stanhope-street, Oct. 25. "Dear Sir,—l have just zect-i %Ted your letter of yes terday, is whi , :ii von, trte that diffiou'titt; have arisen in CO , eIO-oce iif a variety of opinions entertained respect lug the qualification of a vestryman under the Metropolis Act. I cannot give you any opinion upon the case, but . I will state to y ou th e f ac t s i n re l a ti on t o the qualifies; tion of vestrymen.. Excepting as regards one point, I was anxious in passing my bill to adopt as close as pos sible the provisions of 1 and 2 William IV., c.'6o, com monly called ' Hobhouse's Act.' In order to show you hew closely the sixth section of my bill corresponds with the 26th section of Hobhonse's Act, I place them side by side :- Ist and 2d William IV., a. 18th and 19th Victoria, c. 60, s. 26. 120, a. 6. • " 'And' be it further " ' The vestry elected enacted, thst the vestry under this act in any parish elected under this act in any shall consist of persons parish not within the metro- rated or assessed to the re politan police district or the lief of the poor upon a ren city of London, shall can- tal of not less than 401. per sist of resident householders annum, and no person shall rated or assessed to the re- be capable of acting or being lief of the poor upon a rental elected as one of such ve s t r y of not less than 101., and no for any parish unless he be vestry, unless he shall he the taments in such parish, and occupier of a house, lands be rated or assessed as afore tenements, or heredita- said upon such rental as person acting shallas one be of capable ble sa of id tlahneds occupier tenements, eu or heredi pier of a house, menu, rated or assessed aforesaid withintuch parish.' upon the aforementioned amount of rental; within the parish for which he is to serve : provided always that if theparish adopting this act should be within the metropolitan police district or the city of London, or if the resident householders therein should amount to more than 3,000, then, and in that case, the vestry se- i lected under this act shall consist of resident house holders rated or assessed to the relief of the poor of such parish upon a rental of not less than 40/. per annum.' "The manifest point of difference is this :—Under the former set a person to be qualified must be a resident householder; under the recent ac t h e n e ed no t b e resi dent. The object was to meet the cases of those persons who occupied but did not reside. Take, for instance, the case of a large tradesman, merchant, solicitor, wharfinger, &c. Such p ersons may pay h eavy rates i n a parish and reside in the suburbs, instead of the more crowded parts of the town, where their business calls them daily. Under the former act they were excluded from election ; they are now eligible for election. In other respects, the clause in the ne w act corresponds with the clause in the old. Such being the case, if there is any difference of opinipn as to the construction to be put upon the clause, the cause of such difference has existed since the year 1831, when Hobhouse's Act was passed. You reside in St. Pancras ; Hobhouse's Act has been in force in that parish .since the year 1831 or 1832, and you were a vestryman elected under that act ; you must be therefore aware of the decision of the judges of the Queen's Bench in Easter Term, 1834, upon the very case which you set forth in your letter. (Vide Adolphus and Ellis, vol. 1., p. 80, `the King against the Churchwardens of St. Pancras.') "The point submitted in 1834 was, that `the parish is within the metropolitan police district. Some of the persons elected as vestrymen were not in the actual occupation of houses, lands, tenements, or heredita ments' for which they w ere ra t e d t o th e poor of the parish on a rental of so much as 40/. per annum ; but they were rated to the poor on that amount in the whole, a part of the rate laid upon them arising from tenements not in their actual occcupation. Other persons elected as vestrymen were in the actual occupation of tenements for which they were rated in the whole on the rental required by the act, but the tenements were separately occupied, and did not constitute one entire tenement. It was objected that under the 26th section of the statute 1 and 2 William IV., chap. 60, no person was qualifiel to ant as a vestryman who was not rated on a rental of 40/. per annum for one single tenement in his actual occupation.' "It was argued on the other side that 'the 26th sec tion specifies only two qualifications for the vestrymen of a parish within the metropolitan police district—first, they must be resident householders ; secondly, they must be rated or assessed upon a rental of not less than 40/. The vestrymen whose titles are impeached by the third objection possess both qualifications. The proviso does not say that the rental obeli be taken upon the house in which they reside, nor that it shall not be made up of sums assessed upon separate tenements. No stress can be laid on the use of the words ' a rental,' a rental may consist of separate sums constituting one whole. The provision made in the same section with respect to parishes not within the metropolitan police district is very differently worded.' "The judges discharged the rule which bad been ob tained. Mr. Justioe Littledale said, 'lt is enough here if the householder be rated to the poor on the rental re quired. He must be a householder, and he must be rated ; but it is not necessary that he should be rated for the house which he occupies ; it is not enough for him to have, for instance, a house on which he is rated at a rental of 20/., and land on which he is rated at a rental of 20/. ; or it is enough if he be rated for part which he occupies, and for part which he does not occupy, but of which he is landlord. It is no matter how he is rated if the whole together amount to the rental required. I can see no reason for this mandamus going.' " Mr. Justice Parke said, 'Now, by the words of this section it is sufficient if 'the householder be rated in any way ; it is not necessary that he should be rated in respect of the subject of his occupation. 1 . 4010 w that, in fact, persons are rated for property whicrllley du not occupy, and therefore I construe the statute as compre hending a rating upon any property. I find no express provision that the rate shall be in respect of the property occupied, and I cannot infer such an intention.' " Mr. Justice Littledale concurred, and said, 'I am of opinion that this rule ought to be discharged,' and the rule was discharged accordingly. " If, therefore, such was the decision of the judges in the case ' .Rex v. the Churchwardens of St. Pancras, as given in 1834, that decision must hold good now, unless it can be shown that the words of the new act are different from the words of the former act.—l am, dear sir, yours faithfully, "13. HALL. " B. Goodwin, Esq." THE BRITISH GERMAN LEGION. On Wednesday the Duke of Cambridge paid an unex pected visit to the German Legion at Shorncliffe Camp. His Royal Highness, whose object was to make himself acquainted with the state of discipline of the corps and their system of drill, dressed in plain clothes, and at• tended only by Colonel Kinloch, arrived by the morning train from London, and took them by surprise and un• c abi t t t i ifit e n snthdfe g bear ti t a rhnb h oi eoe e osti fnpnus c girtaatoni hospitals, fi,i l a ubst l iasi r nfpi y ettgeaehac h gre, ta n , veewh r l del s uarh e fiyteni s sec:, unfinished and akeinastreyi e t :R h : yb p e aivady s r ttna t stables-- the e under e state— the s tr — ho 4: prepared. and 3d Regiments of Light Infantry were a e paraded,Alatter 2 i inspe cting regiments (each nearly 1,000 strong) went through command of Brigadier General Baron von Stutterheim, severalte o a mTthbpee were ngreatebrner manoeuvres nvb s i a s, nese proceeded on foot to Sandgate, where he hon oli o i n i r gt e l d e. the Baron and Baroness von Stutterheim with his pre sence at luncheon, the commanding officers of regiments and the heads of departments being invited to meet him- His Royal Highness returned to town by an afternoon train, leaving the whole of the officers and molt to be under the command of a General v/13%0_ duty and him self so thoroughly acquainted with all det ails of of the everything relating to the comfort and m ;o b i n imn n y o d partiesto visit o surprisedat th • l b i e g a h r t i e n d g, wanitdh still i s ninoobrele,insnorldeasierindgiketlyeiert anxunsohiltuweseietaddrs_teisol.o soldier. their good ladiest h e T c h a e ma fi np n d, e gw O ehn c ot t lowebmeerer: agreeably d from m h e t d h e i n n d e, fortune in being present at the review during the royal visit. Lord Hardinge, on the embarkation the copy of a letter from Major- The o • " a greeable past of my duty to the corps ~ si r ,—lt is you, for the information of the Field-Marshal to report to y ai nff n-Chief, rho regularity d • • an soldies.like do. Com m " ----1 1 t o f the ••B Regiment of Jagers of tie British meanour . Legion on their embarkation at this port, on board German the s teamer Imperatrix, for foreign. service. Although eon f the Ist Jager Corps of the British German Legion : siderablo detention arose on the part of the railway, so that it was nearly dark before the second division arrived, and quite so before many of them were on board, not a man was either drunk or absent. At the moment that the head quarter division of the Jagers were entering the dockyard General Br e ton to embark they were met by the large detachment of in valids proceeding to head quarters who had just bees landed from the steamer Alma ; the loud cheers of greeting with which the gallant fellows were hailed by the young aspirants for those honours which the former had gained bore a touching and spontaneous homage to their good o 1 8 l o r sevtionng to is service and gallantry, and were strongly indicative of the soldier•liko spirit in which they embarked. " I have the honour to be, &c., " H. W. BRETON, Major-General Commanding." COUNTY COURTS.—From an important return just issued, printed by order of the ri.llse Of Lola, it pears that the judges' salaries are 7 , •' the fees were 22 treasurers receive 13.8:01. In 18_4 ~. has the f 1. 253,5181., and the payment in sa lar 2 ie o s o S7' Journal, deep in blvizaidthat the ME CAVAN OUTRAGE.—A northerntaJors, the injuries° the confidence of the tenant-rightefearget is notO ra e n n g i e y n ‘ c t e_ to now lodgeder i l n e g h lowing cold-blooded remarks in r sustained by the unfortunate Miss lii i n n ds lady ub : lrhecl it. the appears grossly exaggerated . Neither h t p h a a p t er t e he w a n c s count of this outre_gep still living, but recovering. Was broken, w Nor was she ever speechless or senseless, as the Mail's nor was there a bulletN erenrorbraariatn. correspondent re ported. Indeed we s h a ll not b e Bur prised 'to learn by-and-by that no shot at all was fired at her. Roughly used she seems to have been, but it is now clear that she got nothing more than a ' sevets heating.' Whether it was the intention of lit r assailants to m urder her is, therefore, now very doubtful, seeing how little they did to effect that purpose, if they enter: . tr.ined it at all. The lady appears to have been more 4:rightened than hurt, or she would not be pronounced doing well a few days after v:e were told that her body had been mangled by blows and a bullet lodged in her we brain ! It murder was the object of hoer assailants._ 0 , hope she will soon recover to disappe.int their_,wielt a purpose, and prosecute them if she kilt ryes them: It ' 7l . • 1 /-- 7' 4 - /Z#' /4 -.----- -LPL% OPOLIS ACT. 7' /V..' 4 11-‘,., * ‘ "1 12 -":.. 17 1-:" ' C .; ; At . • "------- , . 1 L.• # 4111111 k• --""' ' /i 2 T- 4-- e -9-77- 2 , HE 301 , 2 ' 4 f . ' 4 . . 4 `ift':-.*.,,0 , , , c• • a "• /1 / 4 .t. ~ ..4A, ' "- ',i, i V . ; , ‘ .4 `.!:.,,:X. ;..• ' -.. , --...--_. ' - ,:.t73'Y10Z '‘ 4 \ 4S 4!1, 1'. ., s 1, 2 1 - •, .51.-44 4.-.t. , ...1 ••• ' sr it Il '''J• ' ' .'. . 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