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ETS. ttS 1 44 f an d .3' and th ow. ow. ostr- -0 , i 1314 # Ord fro st x d o- 0 ow. c,st• cot. rd fr t, rd f r r ° o , ,rd f 16. Dv,. ot. y! a lb dfr ° T : r i 2 I (e r i, 'yeti ' rclf r°llt. e 9 , ;gY rd ft ° 0 let. frOP a t, rd lit. rtf. Le. coY l ' Le. 0 1 ie. 4 :1, , 4 0:0 g tile ;110 -iBCI Orslsll 'Feb e g" 011$ 144 I °lji.6°o°:l;ll 04)0 5 11 9 01000 11). ,0 15 Orri 10 5i11 r 5l oio tl io 04,10 1, o r \ • a LIT) 0 t o , T itle 3 0,00 1 ‘,411, 0 00° i f 5 0110 # 4l 00 tot „ l e th e /de; 1114 ' vobb6frif, o'6 bal e i 0 ta o esit f4 r o ' ,robe co siP g , ° " of 111 the go its o Po r " 0 111' Chun°4, ri„ is-str°° C t o o ;o w 0.0 freigp,3viieo, 0. the I L ' S° of g hter S ooto o. i toeoc 01 W' 1 3 r ig a bt ff v pecte -1,011, ?A, cler'of 131/00, esrfro•J 000 EV/ . evil errieel, 13ele.' C., cov sn, of th e 1 0." :gl. , if ► l iv ~ ,ega terr ill . C 47 r ` f CO~ BAST rt4Tobi. ItOtt" 2157 FEL, 1855. 'btr t tcr u , r o f DIRECTORS of the EAST 11 11 AN - rdohereby gi ve N o ti ce , th a t th e R a te of I ,hey Wiu receive Cash for Bills on Bengal and :t• pr esent date, and until further notice, be 2s. Id ,1 kg, 4 P , e, and fit Bills on Bombay 2s. the Corn- mpany ET—FEB. 20- 0 7"-.......................2k1iE1l I. M&LTILL, Secretary. Backe oattC•fai i i A , 81213 : -18 A 24. 1 1f Li413.11' t .1 4 lGi rr SMITH'S MONT BLANC ; t r . ;at 8 o'clock, ety ' z. B,, oa ,, r , and Every Night (but Saturday). g ARICST - kill ..nzelday , L ,a! 3% li. The 3lerning Representatioms LW , clec admy. . oarsday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock. — >f all delleriPt•°- 10- 1 Zi . Axr as follow : to +r,, --LID SOUTH WESTERN LAlL- kemPle ° f 16 ; 0 . I 'lree' 11 1, 1 ?.131:j en PARCEL RATES BY PASSENGER i 5s Ocl t ° " ' .tt i tt under 71b 5 , 6.0., 0. 0 a.. ~ we a „ 3 . wei g ht are now charged 6d. each 1:1 to OCI Per r 4611111" the Dor London l and any Station on this Railway, ea par _ c ester and Salisbury liness-ta- U—FE B * 19' " 8 ' 4l, tinder 2 lbs. weight are now charged 6d. d. 111 '' ,l l Ctlas • - -P . I Secon ss, , y at „ Attlee sending Parcels are requested to de- d 1 395 Oct , ° %1104 • ` ll ,e follos e i n 0 n A .... i k. , t e . a . ' IN°. 4 3, ~3 dices in London:—Parcel Office, d 1 —e .'-' , `a,p ie wle, c he Bing William-street, City ; Blossoms d $ Oa ...4 . Obt e r t ;__ l 'treet ; Nos No. 90, Iligh-qrect. Borough ; d __, od . k,”%ut s „ a 33, Regent Circus ; No. 13 4, Alders- od ..-4 wypp er, ,,,,y_l ; Old White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly; d 0 i_ures.4 l ,'„naulee-street (for Goods only); Swan with t , .enstle_..streq; Spread Eagle, Gracechurch street ; 0. 0 ' , ~ 1 1k.,,e 17 . 1 White Horse, Fetter-lane; Golden Cross, 3er gtill obe,ef ro, *l,,ird Gri t 0 , like, Regent Circus ; George and Blue s of oar Liv . 1 .. 7 Itr on „. 4 *Green Man and Still, Ox ord-street. De e 0 .. ,.., 11 se clut ~ . .i . it t he z!,),.. r ecommended to avail themselves of the lite 8 u`, e , of r e kt y 'larg t L a ittl Western Railway Company have no con- e Cdrrellei . ' , Orr made u . • , eCt ec t .,. . Pon, he* can they be responsible for the egs 0 41 ' 1 ' l 4 th„ yerY ef, Goods or Parcels booked at any ditto .'-- t pefe kk, -- Cot* to I;' 6d ; A I ! bak I Ok 4l 'W to I, 1) On purchasing goods, &c., in London, us 0. , j e . ; '' , "*7 ord eringCo tp „ them to be addressed " per South lid to 43, od to ,- k'' o 7," and forwarded through one of the 1,.,. 47 order of the Directors. corn, " a attat itic ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. ........ Di Jan uar" - , 1855. ---- . 21. it liv 0 101 . I %,4 ltiejta, - e t of the fa i. t b. ae l 'inlty AAILWAY.—HALF-YEARLY 7.10 q, -4 1 -.TIN G.—NOTICE IS HERE BY GI VEN, V. ~ lis. tarl y a n s end, 0 ~ a t N, 7 Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders in ,in ................ ' i s ''' 11 4 :Enel'onmany will be held, pursuant to Act of .............. g ,i , iti o p _ 0.6,.._cil Chamber, within the Town Hall, of the .................. ; ~,,,IlltelhAtiriKnDNESDAY, the 28th day of February .................. ;3 ' 4 4IN the afternoon precisely, to receive the ;range ..... , t , b y "1 04. to elect three Directors in the place of Mr. ' ............ 0 ''D r ette tiek,.7. Mr. William Came, and Mr. George Smith, "fir 04 r ............. ... ....."'1,5 I , Ns 0 ,,;:•atIon, and to authorise the borrowing of (3. ' 1 " ............ : heft "° 4 l l , and for the other purposes of general ........ gowat • lan...— . ...... • 4 ,, be talten at One o'clock precisely. c .......... ..... ltrbtiffe t i;:AOßDlNAßY MEETING. ellOe ..... .... .. 0 ......... '9O 1 "kw. , k er b e k ;riza ki t• the said Meeting will be made Special ........ , e'''', 'l,--'allse a ..r1,1 3 an agreement for the Joint Working ......... : ;;;;40/. ~ .I,,;jet tle Y under a Lease for a term of seven years, to ;stet P I, l 4l hirk7 Ore: e fling of the line Irom 1 - lymouth to Truro, to Western Railway Company, the Bristol and ~. _ ,----- sok i i.l s t ic . ..r,.and the South Devon Railway CI, mpany, LS. `q 'for m eolktect to the conditions specified in such ri too A, ...tting the same to the proprietors for their • 1 b 7 %, erlt h the .' - lo k •ott Ra.;eit,Ween the Cornwal Railway Company, and ' 1011 1 : 110 111 a 7 4 WAY Company, for making certain arrange- itch.) o i t .‘ 211rp, , ,, 5 4 11 3'inuth. at ' th gtf) ~ eof considering the pro isions of the following Al 7, 4 1 a, 'tin. 'MI FYOI3 I " .41 , - ‘l4. , te t.„..artient by this Company, viz :—" A Bill for fat P - _,, , ,i ,!liaki n `,,,h0 oonipletion of the Cornwall Railway and WO - ..- 1 - I, tek,,aath i . lorther provisions as to the shire capital of nisP' .. .„./taci ' 4111 a 3' Coin ------ 1 F Wilt ~ MY, and for other purposes," when a kl,iverr -- .1 ,0 ii l L ''••" submitte Ito the meeting for approval. I -4 4% . MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Chairman. l oy erpo ol j t k 4,..t a lr f in g b_ .O W. M. TWEEDY, Deputy•Cha rmart. O) ,N; _ or re : : , eCt rs and the Auditor are eligible, and will south' 't l i fp , .rtilja,k., election. tot o ' 7-- , N 0 a w in be closed on the 13th, and not reopened alf. .soutbil l ' l ~I p i k tvi ~- 'early Meeting on the 28th of February. Door .• - to s# k iti JoY order of the Board. It aY WAI. H. BOND, Secretary. . Office, Truro, ith February, 1855. Ply ,osite „ : . tit,k,,, t . . _ ;lover • ri ;; * to. , ' : FOll TESTIS ' 4, ut" rn .° l 'pi ti L I "Dart..., , '''' 4l3l S OF FIORSES FOR SHEERNESS. ' tn. , ' fk,l — .eta of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, , let. f . .....i i , Dove gip, kil,Vet,,, Somerset-place, 21st Feb , 1855. ..,1 c ,,, u i t ai. jj ... a 1 i0 r . ,,,-::, I I , 5,4 . : 41 t0 e17 4 .ka ? ni i r O a Tl i eTS for Executing the Office of Vari•'""' / dies,„,, 11tg,,„, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ,sotlxt ','"Y GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, Soutli *— AJr . ‘'boo . " 4ll 4' "'• 'rwo o'clock they will be ready to treat A 7 , ` , 44 may be in = willing to Contract for supplying her ott i b . ' . 1 9N , Sheerness with Son tharl 2L 0 : ,, 41t1i , t ItA- Mn OF HORSES. So uth ee'r k ha . ender 0 71 ..,•4 1 _,:fter ,„ may be seen at the said office. No tender ~ ..., , e oi - ob i c;stik t ~"e o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any Duve".;i i pto' ' ,ji O it :tr u f,.. Party attends, or au agent for him duly autho- -B° u 'll4 .''. t ie s 4 ll k ill tei ra tiot Dove r '. 1 4 1 , . kti;14,14-511.1,101-,aildressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, ~. ,",;/' A, % 'We i ,""vete d. " corner the words "Tender for Teams," and Dosch ' o 2to 1 I ttk att. tetki.,,,Dousib i at Sonierset-place, accompanied by a letter t wathri , i je ••'A4, 1 ,, Persons, engaging to become bound, with to ." the Sum of 5001. for the due performance of AoeihO lP o l ~, ti Loacle ° ,,;;; o o ktib. Seat" - elt ktik i C k CiT/ r ,,, Do ver ..',9, , h t let.; l lliii , -i i irt th3lll ‘'' 1 0 1 41 vt , ill l'etl. - ''',. G'. —SAMUEL ALCO Cit. and s p°,, i n n out i :ki , 5 , 4 .1 1t :t g,,, , tiai rWY, northern, Staffordshire, being desirous of Dover .... 0 tt l , l is, 4,.. t eh r ' d f liael e b,i of all to possess a memorial both of the l ) "" .- 01. Ai 6 , t iza, l l' l lll6,' oti r ° '',le and generous sympathy displayed by illoiyite , i . '"aa '''t'atet.-',ltl truly brave soldiers, have published a ;South O w ' . ktul.ktit i. 81 tr t :t allte of the horrors of war, as well as of irjoutbsi ,i , v‘ '' 4 41,,,,.Nit,: t ' l to alleviate them, evidenced by the Royal 'Liver '''tko,„ .. ' ef this interesting work can be had at all ~.\ I Al . ‘ll -- ' 5 In the kingdom. Dover , I 'AI) ~_ IN ' I " I 110 0 0 'r f 'llZ 4 k 'tBA .s l k , .air c lo l 1 l ble -- t he R e * et, . 1, PATRIOTIC JUG. south.- - ~, ,1 4 , both -:tastll,, 4 1,, ,Dover_• . p . t, : Lei tt . to th -, 114 1 ‘ IA DsninE ADVERTISER," . FEB. 17, 1855. Souill"' - ,sffi • 7, 11,,,,,, m ied t h e list, P t Zasure in calling attention to a uroduc- yarieu*rD pi '''wellC'elet,„%siijies, which we consider highly credit- 'Dover ~.,"v . t orM ' .te. s efe e.. e ottb, 'eStih,lich has suggested and the skill which South a „„ -- ;toi l d , ir't rs„ 1 0,,Pllor:, Work. Me srs. Alcock, of the Hill Pot- ' 0 the"„ a r 01 '' ' i plash _ , 'l'es e „,'" 4 i bh :me the stirring events of the war in the Pot- 'South Y- $ t 7 Ail led, . - d t „OSlliZ„ 4 , Bo rne china jug, on either side o . f which pover 0 1, t tt il . +te re u 0 1) , ;Larly appropriate to the subject intended Dover " 'to , ' , , 1 1 ," 2,t l fle ati k do the Siege of Sebastopol is the subjeet. sout illu" 1 's o, 4 ' 4l ol:',, A dler -- " ° as is in the distance: the siege is in pro- -10 5, " ' - ", I , t 1 ..._"ad,%„"2 ale advancing to the trenches, others ton '` I lis k ntit ° 4 prrOb li a - 7, dly portrayed figure conspi- osallo , 8 00 1 0.4„ 14 tte e • Pon,h" ei ng a wounded so'dier, reclining in 5 . 0 111 , th e 8 lire h . z .„, I li t a- ott the ' home and the little ones the u "ghe la ' •'. ' ' 41 '4d ".le of B ti, - : all appearance for ever parted. The ' ;',PU .II p dall 4tel ", ' lb e 14: 1Sb and's i on we „ . guj j a, of tu cath, d -- "aews reaching the now widowed wife , _ The little ones cling round the ,:, ..__Waer, b i Z e ', r artit grief; but a ray of light is visible. !I r ' k il t is ,, , .te a -, i ;_,"'sf a gratefth nation's tribute in the 'A l d o ._ thole guarantee that Lognmer win ne as BVPoicp. . k , :iti:i , , Childs of her brave sons departed, and as a father 1 6%,.gte1i I ,`'n• Our patriotism is aroused by the sight of c , 1 1: 44, ' , N . -- ,,,5e , beautiful a form touches the feelings and .., pr ‘1 1J 1 ,,,,,. , he figures are executed in line engraving, and ) Ng$DA. , a sh N n etkii t t t p tt ' 4 l done. The gay colouring and rich gilding of „, Weer' ri 'kid foot of,the jug form a striking contrast to the S tate .., . 4i , 'Oti t , of the other designs. We doubt not that the 010. .Ballylig y "Wg' will be in great request." rd fr o ' )sr. i i It t/ t 411 10 ' , , ia . N—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. )vr• Dir. - 4. 1 1, ,-, •I N •' i,1k, t ,,, - -% Q - LyTEcnNic INSTITUTION. ,at. :tx - 't4. I , on Wednesday and Friday Evenings, at bet. , ' e ' IS 44 ‘.% lAt s ker t ,,,, Est. , ,` ' ''' 1.1 i ' lk:,%‘,cetki,s ,l *TOMY, by Dr. BACEIROFFNII, illustrated Di f' Oaw 00 ; 41 ilat e - I` 4 elont."'a ORRERY, commencing on Wednesday rd r a ' f ig ' r. , i , N,Ptctk,„- ,, -111'1:11 appropriate Music from Haydn's Ora- le -- I) kb: rt u 1k ly .itt ll etyl° -0 4,:.wttnd and Chortle of Fily Performers, iudi. , Cit,, ,aY t,, " ' 10,Aci, of the Royal Italian Opera. Prin. Di*. ),th e -;l44l, , i elll ai i", --° nIAIDON, Mr. MITSGIUVE, and ist. ' k) .‘l tt 're Alf lto4'eb ' 331. th.,,er RN. Oh. -.0 Tat Eight. DRAMATIC READING eV'. t ''Slti , "Jlitt .) . ' , %,,, 1 JULIET. se p to the s k quLVING VIEWS of the WAR, DIO- (Or. i l' , . 40 811-',„ I .PR , COSMORAMAS. the CONCERT pig. Ati : , -- r-.IS, and all the LECTURES, as usual. .......... v' 1 , I 1 2 I t 4 I \ 4 * i N 1 ', "......1 , ~.c........_____.H . ~ '"---• I -.. _ iti k t li e 4ttite r toril ... 4,. 741 . rtirell.nrch-street Station to all parts of London p, 111, ACKWILL, on the arrival of the to 4 , trona the Fenehnrch-street Station. , --k ti„ , s • \ 1„.... 1 SUNDAYS. , .c L" i'. -, g Et _..~_ Tim• t 14 I P-. SUNDAYS. " 6_bl f' 1 5 (z, Street -4 g ‘T f.t II 1 1 Oh, * k c t lit , 0 t1 1 11°11:114' Fore Cabin. rialooti , 4 Ot,rl 4, i 4 ,,d and London lOd. .. 18. 1 2 0 1 I' l& li t k r, -' 4 4l' Blackwall or . NP — OOlw " le . h . ad. •• Os. , f i C 4l ith: k tli' % nd Interin 1 1 i or,, gig' .rw 1 ediate Piers.. 6cl. .. Os. 8.1. .4 of "0,., ,e ye Months, S. Os. 3 Six Months, 31. Os. ; . 1%,7r. l us t ,o be had of the Collectors on board the "ux; Terrace Pier, Gravesend. ‘`IIN 44, 14PI RILIT Dri es .. IRS OF YOUTH AND MATURITY illustrated with cases ; fr ee by pest for 30 / 1 1 \ i t t h N 'llst, o IT V mps' DEBILITY; 5. 4 , b ,*ti l l t lYinpt,„ t it t i 4 ,, 5V91,1 rra c t i ,. t a u i s • and Care.—An Essay on Sper 1, im,74,,,, sf t re _,' Observations on a safer and were Nttf , l o ;". hy the of the diseases of the Generative ,il oo t 't4 o f tirh Ar ; use of the Microscope in detecting and YVY (Istitt°'UPlaitietr"nination, the real cause and effect of It, p,,h,.: or el ,_ • whether arising from solitary habits, 1 / 4 , - 11 , „sliji,.. tx,wate, followed by practical remarks, founded I', , ot'2 ta r Lenee in the treatment of Impuissance, IN \ denN - < ari __ , Y o ettkness, i s permatorrhosa, &c. To which ' if Se ero h t h r, ev u n t s he Physiology of Marriage, with pre t,l:44); citt, tia reruai emanating from empirical practice, em irs ell advocated by various writers en , rt • 44:it:I 1 :1 P litrl q , r•I'MERT, M.D. /4 411 sir, °itt, s 4Z1,,_ t tsr -e • Nt atrit, i QCA R E, LONDON, \‘l,44o ot leltib ti . 4 o a r t t '' h d e Nl L e o rn t her o i l the it l s - L , l 3 n N ir i er!ity , of Edin- Il it, l 4Vit tl !ltZi e ct e ,o li tl e i T_' Hall, LounCiTn, h osp it a l &c. ca` Society, ki,lk‘l4,4lk4irsacttaet2rimi ` cert ls reattseis t i o rr po egTl t agi t es th t e an re d a e r x fu ce l excesses, y0 h ki; 4 41, 4 44. d e tt,or min erY in habits , Youth, degradation in Man tZlikizta t k no aY at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any IN 41 01 4 eoll, nl ende ' c ' i rT L t° modern pathologists. Its perusal is jlli t ' 4 X414-lion `,' Persona entertaining secret doubts of 1 4 ,k 4)1 ‘ 1 401 4 ,_ . 4 s; a' a ' d u . l ' i _ who are conscious of having hazarded privileges to which every human being is i i) 44; i 4r i tpec tu 1 / 4 1 > ‘' .0 111: 141 Tall? thatall men should know, that there are \t } 4, k4l tigl f , inDenaluesagement which cannot be violated without k iti k hi t litqt t - 1, , , 1 - . ide rat ': ll 4: f svhen wisdom and regret succeed ‘'l,l4N,Hear I, l7t en he sting.o-fitTulgbenitceth,rnhesows may ar pe em n o al v t e iT \ '44,1 1 10 4 ,4 Y, an,rrequences maybe avoided, y and above all, tit\tist)4llittitilast tress s li , t e ll ' r fti ta rr el e y o a f id p o hr i s e ic ie al ne indrm n it o y t or functional Isl,. a lt4!)etZ t Meat e , ll , uf Years been eng e ag ca e n d in a a p n p e y x a ten c sive . mi i ,,tip,,olei c .too ge'lllll:Tse delicate complaints, which have ilio i Ntteet t ,,,Vlreat VulY confided to the care of ignorant tiljZ:So Eti l i t e , ris, Jul"' On those who are induced to place 1141 4 'll e' 2 a Vl' rlaY be had , I t t IN 14 east atern°fter-row price "' 6 f 3 I ( l )l7.7dls ri tr i : e el! h , I _ 43 ,, a tt d r r e c,; y, ann, 39: co an m nay : 1 o ' r ' free by post for ' 1 4. 0 1. „„, " from the Author's r. , :l.lencc, 37, Bel "t• ' 4 4int ft ,,_ 'Un dail y ftonl Eleven till Two, and from N o . 19,470.] PUBLICATIONS. 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Par liaments may be very troublesome, and public inquiries very inconvenient; Czars and Emperors may be able to manage very much better, and it is possible that the proposed committee is a stretch of the censtitution ; but we must take things as they are. We cannot do without the House of Commons. Lord Palmerston, in the course of an unusually long and varied political career, has had occasion to feel the power, not to say the caprice, of the House of Commons, as much as any man living, and be is well aware that it would be simply an act of suicide to persist in saying "Nay," when the house has so em phatically said " Yea." The house has said what it wants, and he is there to do what it want=, and, if he refuses, it will undoubtedly find others to do its work. We may all rest assured there will be a Committee of Inquiry, and the only question about the matter is its constitution, and, consequently, the temper with which it will proceed to ite business. The members to be pro posed this evening, with the concurrence of Government and Mr. Roebuck, are, we believe, airea ly settled ; and we trust it will be found that due security is taken, on the one hand, for a free, full, and sea thing inquiry ; on the other, that it shall be conducted as much as possible without inconvenience to the public service, or betrayal of secrets, if any there are, to the enemy. If the in quiry be directed, in the first instance, to the physical condition of our forces in the East, we cannot see who is to be taken from his, duty, what department is to be hindered, or what hint of importance need be given to the fee, by an inquiry into the operations and mutual relations of the Commissariat, the Naval and Land Transport Services, the Medical Department, and their connexion with the higher departments of the Exchequer, the Ministry of War, and the Admiralty. What a tale, for example, 'has already come out insthehistory' of the green coffee berries, and how little has the public ser vice been interrupted or an enemy served by the dis closure Why should not the rest of the investigation be conducted in the same manner ? No doubt, it ean, if people will only go the right way to work. The fact is that there is nothing about which people are so ignorant as the manlier of doing business in our public departments—whose duty it is to do certain things ; who gives the order ; who executes it ; whose consent or ce-operation is necessary ; who is answerable for the delay, if any ; what limitations there are to such an officer's authority or resources. For example, when complaints came from the Crimea that the poor soldiers could do nothing with their green coffee berries, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury appear to have been " moved" by somebody or other to stir in the matter, and they made a minute ordering that their Secretary write to the Secretary of the Admiralty re questiag him to " move" the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to direct that early steps might be taken for providing and shipping 225,0001 b. of roasted coffee. It took, however, six weeks of moving, countermoving, requesting, writing, directing, expediting, hastening, sealing, signing ; providing, and 'shipping, before one single pound of roasted coffee was actually put on board a ship. When' that ship sailed, whether it called any where, where it stopped, what became of its cargo at last, are further questions that may very likely lead to the same results. But all the people con cerned in this affair are not only anxious to do their duty, not only men with bowels of compassion for their fellow-subjects, but they are the very people who in.private society will complain the most of the in terminable hindrances and inextricable perplexities of the public service. No doubt Mr. Gladstone would take care not to lose five minutes, if he could help it, in succouring our brave soldiers in the Crimea. No doubt often as he has had to talk by the hour about coffee and sugar, he never felt so much their importance as when it became his duty to get off a supply to the Crimea as soon as could be. No doubt, Sir James Graham, even from a bed of sickness, would rise to despatch the needful stimulant to our perishing defenders. No doubt, Sir Charles Trevelyan has the same humane sympathies as his chief. No doubt, every official concerned in this matter is only too ready to complain of the delay, some where above or below him, or in some other department he knows not where. Surely this is a case for inquiry, with a view to a thorough departmental reform. The only thing it can be compared to is that distressing, though strangely grotesque malady, called St. Vitus's Dance. The poor sufferer cannot convey a piece of bread to his mouth without flourishing it in all imagi nable directions, up and down, sideways, zigzag, cir cuitous, till it describes a journey of many yards, and takes half a minute and no smell expenditure of muscular energy to do what is usually an unconscious and almost instantaneous act. The poor creature tries to go out of a room, but cannot do so without performing all sorts of eccentric and highly un necessary evolutions .before the door, visiting both doorposts again and again, and finally leaving the door open, and his errand ixcomplete, or perhaps tumbling down on the threshold. Nobok who had a child in this melancholy case - would hesitae to Bend for the (lector and inquire into the natoie and proper treat ment of the malady. That is what the House of Com mons is doing with respect to this political St. Vitus's Dance, which infests every department of the public ser vice, and makes us all look more like madmen or idiots than sane, and—as we flatter ourselves—partioularly sensible people. TAXES OL 4 I KNOWLEDGF. RESIGNATION OF MR. GLADSTONE, SIR J. GRAHAM, AND MR. SIDNEY HERBERT. (From the Times of this day.) We purposely abstained yesterday morning from ad verting to the dissension which was already known to exist in the Cabinet, because we were unwilling to anti cipate and to expose the humiliating spectaele of a Go vernment divided almost as soon as it had assumed the responsibilities of office, and some faint hope was still entertained that more prudent and patriotic counsels would yet prevail. That hope has not been felfilled, A Cabinet Council was held yesterday before the early sit ting of Parliament ; and the result of this meeting was that Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Sidney Herbert announced their intention to relinquish their respective posts in the Administration. The motive as signed for this resolution, unjustified and unexplained by any circumstances which did not equally exist when Lord Palmerston formed the present Ministry, is stated to be the strong objection entertained by these gentlemen, both in principle and in practice. to the inquiry by a select committee of the House of Commons into the pre sent state of the army, and into the causes of the disas ters i❑ the Crimea. But, if this be the only ground of their secession, it appears to us, and we think it will appear to the country, quite insufficient to explain their conduct. The vote of the House of Commons on Mr. Roebuck's motion destroyed Lord Aberdeen's Govern ment, and established, by an irresistible majority, that a Parliamentary inquiry should be made into the causes of these misfortunes. Opinions may be divided on the expediency of such an inquiry, and we know_ that.. among those who voted for the motion of Mr. Roebuck many foresaw the difficulties which would attend such an investigation. But this much is certain—that the will of Parliament and of the people of England was never more clearly expressed than in favour of this inquiry ; the nation feels that it has a right to ascertain the causes of a calamity which has sacrificed an army and tarnished our military reputation ; and, though it may be difficult to conduct such an inquiry with prudence and success, it would be incalculably more dangerous and impracticable to attempt to refuse it. This proposition was self-evident when Lord Pal merston took the Government, and Mr. Sidney Her bert, in his address to the electors of South Wilts on his re-election last week, distinctly admitted the necessity of inquiry. Indeed, we question whether any man could skow his face on the hustings at this moment in any part of England who should be so bold as to deny it. This toeing the known state of affairs, the vote which stood recorded on Mr. Roebuck's motion, and the impending nomination of his committee, were the first topics which must have engaged the attention of the new Government and of all its members. On the first wind of this inquiry Lord John Russell decamped, and the Duke of Newcastle soon afterwards retired ; but Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Sir James Graham took, or retained, office under Lord Palmerston, without having made up their minds to stand by him during the very first difficulty which awaited him. Of all imaginable courses, this appears to as to be the least defensible and the most absurd. Although no one contests the brilliant oratorical powers of Mr. Gladstone, or the administrative abilities of Sir James Graham, we do not hesitate to express our conviction that the present Ministry may be strengthened rather than weakened by their with drawal from office. Whatever the talents of this coterie may have been, such was the ambiguity of their lan guage, the obscurity of their motives, and the incon sistency of their actions, that they detracted from the Parliamentary strength and popularity of the Government more than they contributed to it by their services. They, perhaps unfortunately for them selves; filled all the offices more immediately connected with the business of the war, and they have consequently borne the larger portion of responsibilty and resent ment. Such a coalition was possible under the cautious direction of Lord Aberdeen, but it could not survive his fall. Lord Palmerston's Cabinet may gain considerably in force and union, and in the confidence of the Liberal party, by the separation of these members, provided the head of the Government is resolved to supply their places with the ablest practical men he can find in the House of Commons. We cannot, however, take leave of this episode in the history of parties without observ ing that it appears likely to terminate the separate poli tical career of that section of politicians who are com monly described as the followers of Sir Robert Peel. In dividually, they cannot fail to play hereafter a consider. able part in public affairs, for they are men of indisputable eloquence and ability; but they must themselves be sa tisfied by the experience of the last few weeks that their influence as a separate party is at an end, and that it cannot be renewed without injury to the public service acid to themselves. They will gradually be absorbed in one or the other of the two great political parties which permanently divide this country, and their utility will be increased by a nearer connexion with the lower benches of of the House of Commons and the masses of 'their fellow countrymen. We may here add, however, that Mr. Card well and Lord Canning have not yet followed Mr. Glad stone's example; we hope they will avoid so grave an error; and, as neither of these Ministers was a member of Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet, or connected in any way with the war administration, they are entirely free to act in the present emergency upon their own sense of duty to the country ; nor have they any pretence, beyond a sense of personal friendship, for quitting the Government at a moment of great difficulty. Whatever Lord Palmerston and his remaining col leagues may have thought of this strange desertion, we apprehend that it has in no degree weakened their de termination to carry on the government with all the vigour of which they are capable. They doubtless feel that it would be an indelible disgrace upon themselves to shrink from the task, ardeous as it is, which the So vereign confided to them after the failure of Lord Derby and Lord John Russell ; and they will avoid as long as possible the renewal of those scenes of abortive effort which have so long held 'in suspense all the powers of the empire. By this singular but not unpropitious turn of fortune, Lord Palmerston has at his disposal three of the principal offices in the Government, and is enabled to repair some of the emissions which were so conspicu ous upon his accession to once. It can no longer be al leged with any appearance of plausibility that he is not the master of his own Cabinet, and not free to select his colleagues and his instruments. The times we live in demand a leading Minister and a more direct authority both in Council and in Parliament, and much of the sullen excitement which broods over the country would be removed if we could discover a clearer course of action for the Government, and a more definite ob ject for the hopes and efforts of the nation. The im portance assumed by Parliamentary committees of in quiry, and the invasion of the functions of executive government by the House of Commons, are mere indi cations of the popular determination to supply at all hazards that energy to the Government which the Mi nisters have not adequately displayed, and that assembly, which is so turbulent and hostile under a Minister who is always craving its forbearance, would become the ♦igorous and faithful support of a leader who boldly and is plain sincerity appealed to its and to the country's patriotism. We know not by what subtleties of reasoning Mr. Gladstone may have satisfied himself and convinced his friends that it was consistent with public daty to aban don the post he had accepted only ten days before, and, possibly, in the memorable epitaph he pronounced over the late Administration some expressions might now be applied with peculiar force to his own fate. But we are confident that such conduct will be condemned by the instinctive honesty and good sense of the English na tion, and that Parliament will be the more disposed to rally round the Government when it has shaken off its wavering adherents and its dubions allies. (From the Morning Post of this day.) We arelenabled to state that Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Sidney /ierbert are no longer members of the Palmerston Administration. It is no doubt deeply to be regretted that men of so much ability, and of such power to serve the public, should feel it necessary to withdraw their services at such a moment. It is for tunate that we have a Minister with zeal and strength enough to supply their places at once—that their re tirement involves no crisis —and that their spirit and principle will still move in support of the Government. The fact is, that these members of the old Adminis tration could not separate themselves from its mis past deeds. They considered themselves t o h ave b een too much identified with the past con d uc t o f th e war to sit in office while that cond uc t was di scusse d or inquired into. They resign, th ere f ore , on L or d Palmerston 's wise acce ss i on to the desire of the House, expressed to have a committee physical condition of our army before Sebastopol. Th a t comm i ttee, as p ro posed orig inally by Mr. Ro e b uc k , was absurd and i ne ff e ctive. t has been amend e d , and the following nam es now constitute the body :—M r. R oebuck, Mr. of almost inquiryost nto the i unanimously Drummond, Sir John Pakington, Mr. Layard, Mr. E. Ellice, yen., Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Brain ston, General Peel, Colonel Lindsay, and Lord Sey mour. These are the names of men who will make the Blue Book as good a thing as a Blue Book can be made. The house will feel that it has hi them v. strong and able court of inquiry—that it wilt have from them a verdict on which reliance can' be placed. The concession was ono which it was really impossible to refuse, and which it would have been absurd, under the existing limitation, to dispute or discuss. The country is satisfied with the new life—the new vigour —the new measures of the ex isting Government. It feels the practical strength of the plans proposed by Lord Palmerston and Lord Pan mure. It distrusts and doubts the splendid hallucina tione and warlike visions of Lord Ellenborough, who seems to view no country but as a battle-field—to look upon no inch of ground but with reference to its capabilities for light infantry —to think of no coun try except with regard to the possibility of forcing it into a gigantic campaign against Russia—to regard India, not as a hardly-won possession, held in peace solely by our military superiority, but as a tributary of this country, ready to supply at any time, and at any junc ture, the means of war by which it is maintained and kept. Lord Panmure's Bill for the Amendment of the Army Service is a better, and abler, and a quicker mea sure for the recruiting of our troops and the augmenta tion of our army than would be the bringing into reality the most brilliant dreams into which Lord Ellenborough wandered on this question. The present is a time at which, above all things, is wanted a strong head to a Cabinet—a strong hand in the Ministry of War. These are the points which most require force, attention, and sageeity. T he pests va cated by the retiring members of the Cabinet are not of a nature to need the highest administrative power, nor are they of a kind which it is difficult to supply from those members among whom Lord Palmerston can apply without fear of failure. He will have no difficulty in filling these places with perfectly good and able men. None of them, fortunately, are in the condition of the army. Neither our finances, nor our navy, nor our Colonial Department, have been idly filled. Tke last nom inally vacated, and Mr, Sid ney Herbert is only " Herbert postpones his tria l in a higher place than that which he had formerly filled. On the past conduct of Mr. Gladstone, a s the Chancellor of the Exche quer, we have more than once had occasion to ex press the strongest disapproval, He was not, in our opinion, the Chancellor for the day. He had n o t th e plain, simple view of the truth, which is mainly needed by that officer in time of war. He was fond of experi ment, and his mind bad a turn for dangerous indulgence in theories and crotchets. With all his ability, h e was, in our opinion, not happily placed in the Government, and. his absence will prove no great less. For Sir James Graham the same cannot be said. He undoubtedly filled, as well as it cot.ld be filled, the important office which he held, and we most deeply regret that, in addi tion to his adminiitrative ability he should not bare possessed enough of generosity, of patriotism, to have faced the appointment of a committee which it was idle to resist—that he should not have felt strong and secure enough in the excellent workieg of his department to say , " Here are my deeds, judge them who will." This is not a view which these gentlemen have had the confidence in themselves or the courage to take. They feel a sting in the committee of inquiry, an d on that they withdraw themselves from the work that the country has for them. They have not the manliness to face the jury, and they fly from it, leaving to their col leagues and to their successors the more honourable task of freeing the country from the gloom and uneasiness into which it has fallen. One point is at least gained by this retirement, ill-judged as we deem it. The last look of the old Ministry—the condemned Ministry— disapp ars with Messrs. Gladstone and Sidney Herbert. With the appointment of their successors we shall wel come a new, and, we believe, a strong Administrrtion. (From the Times of this day.) This day ought to be one of no small anxiety to this country. It was appointed for a collision between the House of Commons and a new Government, the former baying pronounced with unprecedented force in favour of an inquiry before a tribunal of its own members, and the latter, from the day of its birth, having endeavoured to dispense with that inquiry, or to take it into its own gentler hands., As one Government had fallen rather than acquiesce in a scrutiny which it alleged to be not only offensive te its own dignity and inconvenient to the public service, but even contrary to the spirit of the con stitution, so there was every prospect that another Government would follow the, example. This seemed all the more inevitable, inasmuch as the new Govern ment was, as Mr. Disraeli has described it, the " identi cal successor" of the last, consisting of nearly the same members,—that is, of the very men who conceived them selves censured and damaged by the proposed inquiry, and who bad therefore once already gone out upon it. It was about as singular a knot of affairs as even the infi nite phases of British politics could produce, and, if we may be excused a metaphor at such a crisis, one felt, only as late, as Tuesday morning, in the situation of travellers in a mountain pass, who see the rocks closing around them, and cannot for the life of them understand where is the opening through which they are to proceed. We don't pretend to say that the mode of extrication that has occurred is one to give unmixed satisfaction. Under the circumstances, however, we are convinced that any is better than none, and we, for our part, are prepared tolcoegratulate t , he country on th e resu lt. Th e three principal " Peelite' members of the Cabinet, Sir James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Sidney Herbert held out against the committee of inquiry, on the ground, as we are informed, that it was not only a censure on themselves, but also that it would impede the public ser vice at a time when freedom of action and confidence were especially required. On Tuesday, as we wore then made aware, they had placed their resignation in the hands of Lord Palmerston ; but at a Cabinet Council held yesterday to give them an opportunity of withdraw ing it they declined to do so, and are no longer members of the Administration. Rumour has filled the vacancies. Sir Charles Wood is, it is said, to succeed Sir James Graham at the Admiralty, where he was once Secretary ; BainesMr. CCardwell i take S s irto George e e d G M re r. y,s G p l l a a d e s e to a n t e t , h e an H d o M m e r. . office, while Sir George Grey replaces his cousin at the India Board. Minor changes will of course follow Meanwhile Lord Palmerston, we believe, has already been in communication with dr. Roebuck, and they hays _ _ , 2 Z / Z-/--_-c- X__e E____.- YC '/-,,__) - x , ..--e_- - /, -- ...., +ly :, , /// „A ,u- , ,i w -wh K -.. FPRICE SD. meat, 'lowest - er, could not but excite one's wonder and sr uprise. IA r_e were, it was true, engaged in a war , but ree war a,ppeared to be nowhere carried on with such edge eur as is our own Cabinet ; and if our statesmen were to go on slayJng themselves and destroying each other in that < Tay, wr .'rust rOon resort to a Foreign Enlistment Act tee secure a MinStry. (Laugheer.) The chair man haul told them that , *ere were certain elapses bearit g character of comproineee. But be had always sa id, " Let us do away with eieee compulsory stamp —let us, abolish the security system---tbe system as sumed tiat when a man began the busineeya which admi nistered meet to moral and social progress:. and to the advancers tee it of civilisation—which assumed Islet such a man was going to be a scoundrel—that he was going to libel somebody, and that, therefore, he must givee secu rity that hs must not carry on the trade of a literary , assassin. ( Cheers.) Let us see an end to that legisla tion which esorung from that dark political age of our co entry when Castlereagh ruled the land, and when the ga -ing acts and the Six Acts were passed. Let them the laws that for a century and a half had swe ep a:eve"Y. accum ula tea to stifle the press. Let them do this, and he would z; of quarrel with the measure, though it m i g ht contain a fe edauses bearing the character of a com peomise and a dapted to conciliate existing interests. He believed, hove ver, that the existing newspaper pre7ei set a higher value• upon the privilege of repeated transmission by post than it was justly entitled to. He career not whether the carriage of half an ounce more or less for a period of ten years was allowed to an exist in; newspaper so long as the main object of that asso ciation was yeained ; and,. indeed, he would be glad to buy off the opposition of a powerful journal upon these terms. It evac a delusion to suppose that the bill would serious: el,. tninish the privilege of repeated free v transmission of lie, vspapere through the post now en ' joytri„tecaustrtb rpt n_who paid.sd. for a paper bought it not for himself only, foot for the t i se : o f s e v e ral other persons, residing at a dia.fance from hi m , an d w h o h a d ea t present to wait three or foe days for the news ; wh erea s the cheaper newspapers that would be started und er th e i•Jginv, would be immediately accessible to everybody, and every man could afford to hay - 0 his penny newspaper for himeelf. Nobody in America, where the press was thoroughly popularised, would buy a newspaper a day old at any price, and with a free press in this country no intelligent American would be startled by seeing any such notices in the shop windows as " yesterday's,Tintes at half price." In New York the carpenter, the brick layer, and the shipbuilder had his daily newspaper brought as regularly to his door as had our great merchants and bankers in Lombard-street; and after the penny stamp was remitted he believed the Times would enjoy as great a circulation ae it did now, because there would always' be a demand among the wealthier and more limited classes for the high-priced papers ; and it would be no injury to those papers if a cheaper article was provided for a larger class of readers who were not in the habit of reading a . . - The annual meeting of the Society for Promoting the I Repeal of the Taxes on :Knowledge was held in the large room, Exeter-hall, yesterday evening. It having been announced that Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Milner Gibson, the leaders of the movement, would be present and take part in the proceedings, a numerous attendance of ladies and gentlemen assembled. The chair was oc cupied by The Right Hon. MILNER GIBSON, who explained that that society had met, according to its ueeal custom. in order to give the public an account of its etewardship. The opponents of all taxes on knowledge begat; by setting four different objects before themselves, viz.—tit repeal of the duty on foreign books, the repeal of the e:cci" duty on paper, the abolition of the newspaper stamp together with the security system, nod all restrictions upok the press, 'excepting those imposed by the law of libel, and the abolition of the impost on advertisements. They had already . succeeded in achieving the last of these objects, and thereby conferred considerable advan tage upon the public, but the full benefit of that remis sion could not be secured until the whole of the complex and obnoxious system with which the tax on advertise ments had, once been interwoven had been thoroughly swept away. Whatever encouragement that agitation had received from other quarters, it had certainly ob tained none from the established newspaper press of the country. In fact, the press had offered it the cold stioulder, 'although its aim was exclusively the public good, and not any desire •to assail existing interests. The association, however, he was happy to say, was ra pidly approaching its hour of triumph. A bill had been brought in by Mr. Gladstone—whom he must describe, if report spoke truly, as the " late" Chancellor of the Exchequer—to abolish the compulsory stamp on news papers, aril entitle all printed — roatter up to the weightOf 4 ounces to be transmitted by post at the charge of The measure would also abrogate the security system, and all those odious gagging statutes passed in the dark days of a Castlereagh Administration, and known by the name of the "Six Acts." These propositions might be considered to be the leading features of the measure, but there were also clauses in the bill which were evidently introduced out of regard to what might be called the vested interests of the established press. (Hear, hear.) It had been contended that the right of retransmission without an additional charge was a privilege highly valued by the established press. The bill offered, ie consequence of that claim, to the established press, test if they chose to print a portion of their impression upon stamped paper, that portion of the impression shall be transmitted and retransmitted without any additional charge for a period of seven days. (Hear, hear.) As it was considered that there were some large papers—he believed there was one in that metropolis well known to them all— (hear, hear)—which exceeded four ounces in weight, there was a clause that papers of a certain size of superficial square inches, even though they ex ceed the weight of four ounces, should have the privi lege of retransmission during seven days—(oh, oh)—with out any additional charge. (Oh.) That latter provision was to be in operation for a period of ten years. (Hear, hear.) He was extremely surprised that there should be any opposition from any quarter to the plan as pro posed on the ground of interest, but he should not be surprised at there being opposition to it on the dound of principle. For one, he should have preferred a simple measure, repealing the /stamp and the security laws, and establishing a postage charge for printed matter, to be paid at each transmission ; but the plan proposed was moat favourable to the established papers, because they were left all they now enjoy practically, namely, trans mission and retransmission for a period of seven days, at the cost of their stamping only a portion of their im pression, whereas they now enjoy that privilege of re transmission at the cost of stamping their whole im pression. (Hear, hear.) The plan was undoubtedly a great boon to the public, in the way of removing ob stacles to the diffusion of knowledge, and, instead of being an injury, it conferred an obvious and great ad vantage upon the established papers. (Hear.) They could only explain any opposition to the measure on the ground that there was a fear of the competition of the cheap penny newspapers. (Hear.) That association wished to see daily newspapers brought within the reach of the humblest classes of the community, and not con fined to the affluent ; and they believed that the repeal of the stamp duty would have the effect of insuring the cheap and expeditious diffusion of intelligence of all passing events, as well as of extending the influence of the best intellect engaged in journalism among the great mass of the people, and thereby mitigating the evils arising from the want of a comprehensive system of national education, which the dissensions unhappily ex isting among different sects of religionists rendered im possible in this country. There was no knowledge so useful and so necessary as a knowledge of the events of the day, and of the reasons alleged for the legislation of the day, and it was impossible that this knowledge could reach the masses except through the medium of a cheap press. If there was a compromise in the Government bill, it contained a great deal of good, and Mr. Gladstone deserved great credit for having grappled with the ques tion, and he was sure that he had yielded on this ques tion from conviction , and not in deference to what was called clamour. (Hear.) It was his duty to submit terms of peace to their old friends at the Board of Inland Revenue. (Laughter.) They would let bygones be by gones ; their warfare was at an end ; and he could not help saying that any odium that might have attached to the officers of that board was entirely owing to the bad system they had to oarry out. He believed those officers had simply endeavoured to do their duty, He knew, too, that the Attorney-General would not have liked to figure before his fellow•couetrymen in the character of the pro • secuter of the press, and as endeavouring to prevent cir daily paper at all, but who, if their taste were first culti vated might by and by aspim to peruse the dearer and better journals. The hon. gentleman went on to observe that since lie had entered the arena of that movement (they had been assailed by individual organs of the press in a manner f;lr which he was totally unprepared. Newspaper conductors who had co-operated with him in the agitation against the corn laws, the moment that free trade in newspapers was proposed, instantly forgot their principles and turned Protectionists—(laughter) — but he believed that in a few years' time these persons would feel preciSely as the landowners and farmers had done, that they had taken a very shortsighted view of their own interests in this matter. (Hear, hear.) The press, which was incessantly criticising the conduct of public men, was itself remarkably sensitive when any one touched upon the fallibility of its writers and con ductors. He himself once ventured, at a mechanics' in stitute in Yorkshire, in attempting to persuade some high Conservatives to allow newspapers to be admitted to the reading-room, to remark that the leading articles were not the whole or the moot important part of a paper, but that it was the facts they nar rated that he highly valued ;-when he was instantly pounced upon as having attacked leading articles generally, and told by his critics that it was all very well for him to want to gag the press—that no doubt he would like to put an end to the leader', because it was by them that he was trimmed up from time to time when he needed it. (A laugh.) Now, he was not par ticularly thin-skinned, and, next to the late Mr. O'Con ne:l, he was, perhaps, the best abused man in the coun try ; and yet, he could say that in proportion to the efforts he had made to liberate the press from the fiscal burdens which weighed it down was his desire to see that free and fearless criticism of the conduct of public men and of public measures to which he was absurdly charged with being inimical. (Hear.) If the law now in ope ration in France, by which newspaper writers were re quired to append their names to their articles, were attempted to be introduced into England he should stoutly oppose it ; but he w as not quite sure that politi cal writing would not be as salutary in its influence when it was known who it was that conducted the journal in which it appeared as it could be when anorly- MOUP. In conclusion, he had sufficient confidence in the intelligence and morality of his countrymen to be lieve that in the long run the best conducted and most useful newspapers would be those which would thrive best under that system of free trade which in less than a month hence he hoped to see established among us. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman sat down by moving the second resolution, viz. : " That this -meeting has heard with satisfaction that a bill was introduced last night by the Government to abo lish the compulsory newspaper stamp and the security system, and to admit all printed matter to a cheap rate of postage." Mr. J. BRIGHT, M.P., in seconding the resolution, said that he had been asking himself why they had met that night, because they had heard that the battle had been won, and that the enemy, if not conquered, had been converted, and had come over to their side. Still there were some persons (though, happily, they could not do much harm) who thought the measure of the Go vernment would not advance the public weal, but he be lieved they entertained this opinion because they did not properly consider the subject. The hon. gentleman then proceeded to treat the question of taxation upon news papers in a commercial point of view. He reminded the meeting that, on the newspaper sheet, which cost three farthings, there was imposed a tax of one farthing, which was equal to 33 per cent. Then there was another stamp of one penny, or 133 per cent., so that by the time the paper was damped for the machine the sheet of paper bore a tax upon the original cost of the manufacture of no less than 166 per cent. This was a pressure of taxa: ation upon an article of commerce which was hard y paralleled by the imposts levied on other manufactures. And until the measure of last session, if a respectable woman offered herself t- be engaged as a cook, or if a poor widow's boy wished to obtain an engagement to run errands for his daily bread, and published an advertise ment to that effect in a newspaper, he was laid bold of by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and charged 18d. for the paragraph. (Hear, hear.) Running down column after column of a newspaper. they could net calculate the actual percentage imposed by the Govern. ment upon the original cost of the paper, regarding the matter entirely as a branch of industry. (Hear, hear.) Articles had appeared against the proposed measure in the Dispatch and .Examiner, and papers that had got a little shame with them, and that did not like to write anything against them, transferred those absurd articles into their columns, as if they could do any damage to the great cause in which they were engaged. They, did not pretend to benefit the existing newspapers, though if they got a benefit they would be glad of it ; but there were many suppressed newspaper editors ; there were many in that meeting—there was no trade on which so many disasters had fallen as on the newspaper trade—and they would call those men from their obscurity, and, may be, from their ruin. (Cheers.) Their were many now studying in college who had got minds and hearts to instruct their fellowmen, and they would call them from some task of badly-paid labour, and place them on a high and broad platform, where men could see and follow them, and no Chancellor of the Exchequer, no Board of Inland Re venue, should repress their efforts to serve their country men. (Cheers.) They had an increasing population, won derful industry, vast wealth, churches and chapels on every hand, and books, too, the finest and the best in the world ; they had parliamentary discussions for six months of the year on every kind of subjects, and yet it must be admitted that a very large portion of their population were in a condition of gross and pitiable ignorance. (Hear.) They had schools, too, and the children even of the humblest classes found their way at some period or other to some kind of schools. It had always occurred to him as a curious thing, that the number of men and women who could read did not bear a fair proportion to the number of horsed girls that were at school; but when they considered that those children on leaving school re turned to a home where books were scarcely to be seen, they could not wonder that a great proportion of them, by the time they had grown up, had entirely forgotten what they bad learned with so much difficulty at school. He wanted, therefore, this great and universal instru ment of education to be turned on for every house, like the water and gas, conveying light for the mind and a liment for the soul. He desired that something should be done that would make their population different from what it was, Land confer infinitely greater glory on the people of the nation than some of the things present and historical about which they sometimes heard. It was said tie tax was only one penny ; but if it were pro posed that every man should pay a penny tax for liberty to send his child to school, would net every man and woman in the country revolt against such a proposition? and this penny tax was as great a barrier to education as if it were imposed fur liberty to send a child to school. ( a ne appeared n d ar, he, and w ii:hear.)hi prejudicialwished dh etheyL The o tax n dhtoao was had the Ehthze eap n t\uvaibrnlo public cer ra most interests. nofit un article t there . e g ar U ge a Ta. l and i hneii un just, Hrtetehhaearnd. )1 He wrote it in some dingy room or other, for he had never found an editor's room that was comfortable. (A laugh.) Nobody knew who the writer was. He (Mr. Bright) might have met him that day in Pall-mall, and yet knew nothing of him. When they, on the contrary, had anything to say to the public or the press, they came before the country and were ready to answer for every thing they did. He wished the writer of that ar ticle was there on that particular night, because he said that Mr. Gladstone had "yielded to a limited, but ac culation of news, particularly at a time when our army was perishing in the Crimea, and thousands of the poorer classes were filled with anxiety for the fate of their rela tives who were with the army. That was not the posi tion which a Liberal would like to fill. (Hear, hear.) He hoped they would not be called insatiable people, but he could not help saying that he, and those who acted with him, would not be satisfied until the paper duty was repealed. That was the natural result of the repeal of the newspaper stamp duty, and he had great hopes they would succeed before long in removing the paper duty. It night be laid that a time of war was not the time to remove taxes ; but he contended that a time of great expenditure was exactly the time when they should endeavour to raise the revenue in the least oppressive manner. Now, they insisted teat the same amount of revenue might be raised in a much less objectionable mode than by the paper duty, and they were, therefore, justified in calling on the Government to repeal it. (Hear, hear.) He was bound at the same time to say that, however insatiable they might appear, that society ought not to be contest to rest upon its oars until the Government were induced to surrender the remaining instalments of their demand, and yield what were but the natural and necessary corol laries of the just concessions they had already made. (Cheers.) The financial report of the society having been read by the Secretary, Dr. JOHN WATTS moved the first resolution, which was as follows : " That the paper duty is a tax on knowledge ; that, by hindering the use of new raw materials, it limits the sup ply and enhances the price of paper, and thus restricts the field for the employment o f cap it a l and labour ; and that the increased expenditure of the country imperatively de mands that a less injurious mode of praising money be re sorted to than an excise duty on so important a manu facture." It was denied that the duty on paper was a tax on knowledge. But it clearly was, inasmuch as it was a tax upon the materials used in the dissemination of know ledge. It might just as well be said that the tax on pig iron was not a tax on the iron manufacture, or a tax on calico not a tax on calico-printing. (Hear.) True the Government did not tax a schoolmaster or an author as such, but if it taxed the tools with which one worked, or hampered the other in his attempt to put his works before the public, they clearly imposed a burthen upon them as much as they did upon any other classes of pro ducers whose industry they checked by fiscal regulations. It was said again that the paper duty was not really any tax on knowledge because of its small amount, but let them recollect how large fortunes were made up of very small items. It might be very true that the amount of the tax which fall on a primer, for instance, might be very small ; but when the publisher came to sell thou sands of primers, the tax being taken off would leave such a sum in his pocket as would enable him to employ a better man to write his primers, and he would thus be able to produce a better article, and one more suit able to the instruction and the education of the people. (Hear, hear.) But he denied altogether that when they Game to add the several profits which had to be paid on the duty to the several parties through whose hands it passed before it reached the consumer, it would be found that the tax was anything but a trivial matter. Besides that, they must take into consideration the hindrances which this tax placed in the way of industry. It pre vented the most advantageous methods of employing capital, and the introduction of impraved processes by which the cost of production might be lessened. Mr. A. PELIATT, M.P., seconded the resolution, and expressed his conviction, after 25 years' experience of the practical working of the excise laws, that it was the greatest curse that could possibly befall the manufac turer to be subjected to the galling and vexatious bond age of the Inland Revenue Board. He also adduced statistics of the expansion which had been produced in the glass manufacture of this country since its exemp tion from fiscal burdens, and predicted that a similar impetus would be given to the consumption of paper of all kinds by its emancipation from excise restrictions. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., nex t addressed the meeting. H e said he little thought, when he saw Mr. Gladstone only 48 hours before, proposing the measure which they had all so much at heart, that the right hon. gentleman would so soon have ceased to hold office in the Govern ment. Ho regretted Mr. Gladstone's retirement, be cause he had the highest respect for his general as well as for his financial abilities ; but he did not believe that what had occurred would endanger the safety of the bill, because the right hon. gentleman was a statesman whose • convictions they could reach, and, whether in office or out of it, they would doubtless have the support of his • commanding eloquence and ability to insure its passing. These sudden and kaleidoscopic changes in the GoYern• 17 -L- )- -- 7..7 4 - , — c., , 7-7 ‘‘, agitation, in which nre: consider able number of the I working men or of the edtelated of al iy classli a d j o i ne d . " 101.1, 0h.).) Why, there were several thousands listening to him (Alr. Bright) that evening. 4 (Cheers.)'' The writ r had also said that Mr. Glails 4 ,o ne head made up his mind, in coesequenee of the importoe iitieei of Mr. Mii,,,,,,, 53ib. son, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. B: righ t,' to put au end t unrestricted free transmission qinieugh the post; but be did not mention the fact that the Government was at ' the same time about to take the. hand of death off a number of papers that were nov: nearly destroyed in con sequence of this tax. He would now call attention to what this gentleman said, where 20 years ago he was ad ' vocatiwg the repeal of the tax, which at that time was fourpence. Lord Mentea,gle, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, reduced the tax froia fourpence to one penny —and if some of the gentlemen who advocated the quEE• tion in Parliament at that time had been as earnest as as his colleague (Mi. M. Gibson), the whole fourpence would have then been given up. But what did the Examiner say when the fourpence was brought down to one penny ? He said, " This is a considerable abatement of the most impolitic impost that ever was devised." He believed the paper still belonged to the same pro prietor, and was now under tie same influence as it was then. (Hear.) The writer proceeded to say :—"Every restriction upon information is , a sin against principle, and to to the extent of its cr,neration is unjust and injurious." He then said :—" A. tax evert so low as a penny will keep the price of newspapers above the means of many of the poor, and the question is why they should remain excluded from the knowlodge of the business of ithe world, which has been brought within the reach of those above them in condition." He then said that the apprehension that the reduction would rivet the remain ing. tax west groundless, for, as the benefits of a free circulation of intelligence wore felt, it was hardly to be , expected that the demand for the removal of all impedi meats woald die a way. (Hear.) They were acting exactly in accordance with that which the editor of the Examiner, in 1836, wrote and advised ; and they were assembled there that night to support the policy he had recom mender. (Cheers.) Swore person said the Examiner was growing older, and certainly they had bad a great deal to do with old people lai'aly. (Laughter.) He believed that this was the most ilia portant agitation in which he or any of those around hint had been engaged. For it would elevate the working classes more than any other, and would give far greater power, and a far wider di• rection, to public opinion tt. , aii it heat ever had before. For the triumphant position their cause had now attained they were deeply indeilted t 3 the adroit tact and keen logical power of his - right hon.-friend Mr. Gibson, which could not fail to o onvince the House of Commons that it was impossible -.to make a decent de fence for the newspaper laws as they at present stood. Their gratitude was also due to another right hon. gen tleman. He beard that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was no longer in office • and he regretted this, not be cause he agre e d w ith that right hon. gentleraan in all his principlea or in the whole of his policy, but because he h a l. always found him accessible to reason, to , argument., and !;o facts, and especially so upon the very subject they were then discussing. To Mr. Gladstone would belong the credit that was due to Lord lletca,lfe for striking off the shackles of the press in India, for, at that: particular juncture, wizen public difficalties were thickening around, and when the public voice was heard in no very harmonious tones, the right hon. gentleman had dared to come forward to make the press of this country as free as the platform, and to permit the public ietelligencep the public reason, and the public voice to dictate with increased power to Cabinets and to Parliaments. (Cheers.) . Mr. G. DAWSON, ALA., supported the resolution in a humorous speech, in which he denied that the press was either " ribald" or vienal. He considered it as unjust to charge the newspapers with supporting the war because it brought them more fivepences, as it would be to accuse the grocer of advoea ting an inglorious peace because it enabled him to selr more tea and sugar. Neither was he very fond of the .American newspapers, the type of which was very bad, and its matter just now very disgusting, because it laughed at England, the old bald-headed dad, from which the child derived all the good it possessed, and all its Saxon bone and muscle and sinew. He advocated the freedom of the press, because it would tend to make every man a politician, and put an end to the rule of routine and red-tapery which bad just now brought the country so low in the eyes of the world. (Cheers.) The second resolution having been put and carried unanimously, a vote of thanks was then passed to the, chairman, and the meeting separated. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENO2 t. The Neptune, 120, sailing-ship, Captain Hutton, is taking in stores at Spithead, to fit her for sea. Thei:e is still a report that she conveys the Wiltshire Militia, Re giment, and drafts of regiments of the line, to the lie diterranean. The Edinburgh, 61, screw, Captain Hewlett. 1i is believed that Rear-Admiral Baynes, third in command of the Baltic fleet, will hoist his flag on board this ship. The Dee, paddle steam store-sh. 4 p, Master Commander Pullen, having landed the boilers belonging to the Re tribution, as well as some machinery,. hauled out of doc k„ and sailed this afternoon for Woolwich. The Oberon, 3, iron paddle, Lieut.-Commander Free land, swung ship to-day and ascertained the deviation of her compass. The lEolus, 42, was brought down the harbour to-dny and placed in the fitting-basin. She is ordered to lie completed with all despatch, to take shot, shell, al id ammunition for the Baltic. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAT I I The wind has been all round the compass to-day, and much milder. We had a slight fall of snow from the south-east, where the wind is now, with a disposition to westwardly. DEVONPORT, WSDN.ZSDA.Y..; The Nankin, 50, Captain the Hon. Keith Stewat t, which arrived here on Thursday last from the eastward, was paid wages in advance on Monday, and sailed yes terday for the East Indies. The Exmouth, 90, Captain the Hon. F. Pelham, w as paid wages on Friday, and on Monday put to sea on a cruize, to shake down her riigging and try her machi nery. She is destined for tine flag ship of Rear-Admiral Seymour. '*The Conflict, 8, screw, Captain A. Camming, and Cruiser, 10, screw, Commander Hon. E. H. Douglas, arrived here on Monday to make good defects. The Conflict will be taken into dock at Keyham this day (Wednesday.). Dragon, 6, Captain Stewurt, at this port, was taken out of dock yesterday (Tuesday), as was also the Nau tilus apprentice brig. Archer, 14, screw, Capt; Heathcote, which arrived here on Saturday last, will be taken into dock this day (Wednesday) to make gooti t defects. Bulldog, 6, paddle, Ca , ptain W. K. Hall, arrived here on Friday last. She has no defects, and remains in the Sound, ready for any service for which she may be required. Rosamond, 6, paddle, Commander S. S. L. Crofton,,i was taken into dock at Keyhatn yesterday. In the Sound.7-Buildog.. In Harbour,—lmpregnable, Royal William, D u k e o Wellington, Nile, ,Dragon, Ma,gicienno, Vulture Eur3 - alis, Cornwallis,. Rosamond, Hazier, Arches Cruiser, Conflict, Belieisle, Sylph, Avon, Nautilu ti Resistance, Confiance, and the Tortoise and Devoi lighters. , - - , k - . saill • Ai de 41'1- 4 :,:i • '''' -- 4,-...=-7,-....., , -,,- A )- ...1 ." :77 0 4 ., "„ •• ' AV 'jr 'PI:: .0' -li' 4 ' -"-- N-'' 1;,,,,,...,T ~ -. . 4$ ' r ___...- ' , 0R017.4 • / 3 ik 'C --- :=_ 1 ''''''.4 .J.l' . '''' APPOLVTMENTS. Lieutenants Charles S. Fitton (1855), recently l nv moted from mate of the \ culture, paddle-wheel ste aro frigate, is appointed lieutei tant to that vessel ; Fralvcis W. Bennett (1854), to the Himalaya, screw steam trollop ship, at Portsmouth. Surgeon Hugh T. S. Beveridge, M.D. (184-4), recently serving in the Sampson, paddle-wheel steam-frigate„ to the Hawke, 10, screw steam-ship, at Chatham. Paymaster George Teait (1855), recently promo ted from clerk of the Caesar, 91, screw steam-ship, to the Arethusa, 50. Clerks in Charge—John Seldon (1848), from the Impregnable, flag-ship, at })evonport, to the Weazel, new steam gun-boat ; Brice W. White (1848), from the Victory, nag-ship, at Portsmoilth, to the Recruit, new steam gun-boat. MORE VOLUNTEERING AT CHATHAM FOR THE CRIMEA. Considerable excitement prevailed amongst the troops comprising the Provisional Battalion, owing to the gar rison orders issued on Tuesday evening, to the effect that the whole of the depots of the Indian and British regiments were to be on the general parade ground of the barracks by the following morning at eleven o'clock, and that every soldier, be he an officer's ser vant, or engaged i n any ot h er occupat i on, must b e present in the ranks ; the officers also were directed to attend with their corps. Another order was also issued, commanding theguard muster to assemble at half past eight o'clock. These orders being unusual l icreated great interest among the young soldiers. Accord ingly, thi s morn i ng (W e d nes day), the battalion, to the number of 3,400, including serjeants and privates, as sembled onthe parade, and they formed in open columns of depots. Every man was at his post. The comman d a nt, Colonel Henry Jervis, with Colonel Phillips, second in command, and Staff-Major Jackso n , w ith ot h er o ffi cers of the ae t garrison, ter tz a t troops o t p h s e whi ch ground,he had d d r e C n o e l i o v n ed e I fr J n e m r- Majo visre r ad -General G. A. Wetherall, K.H., deputy adju tant-general, who had been directed by Lord Hardinge, K.C.8., to allow the battalion to be open for volunteer ing into the followi ng reg i men t s , a b ou t t o p rocee d f or service in the Crimea—viz., 3d Buffs, 54th, 72d High landers, 82d, and 92d Highlanders. The numberof men required for each corps was not named. The letter directed that the volunteers must be able-bodied men, none to be under 20 years of age. They must well understand their drill, and be fit to take the fi eld. The bounty money for volunteering to be 21. ; 1 1 . to be paid immediately after medical inspect ion, if approved, theev every volunteering and the other 11. to be paid on th eir j oining the regi mwoenultds.notlht a w ve as be g e e n n l e imt generally y ed as there was a bar drawn it disheartened . th e young men who would have gladly e ntered for the corps. expected and that y one who thought proper might accept th e p roffered service ; and ROYAL MARINES. Captain Searle, of the Plymouth division, is under orders to proceed to Portsmouth to embark in her vice Nolloth, promoted. Majesty's steam - sh i p Blenheim, -- --- The General Screw Company's Steamer Calcutta, chartered by the Government, and fitted up for the con veyance of troops, is now ready for sea. A quantity of stores for the army and navy, in the East, has been put in board of her at Sotithamptoa. Vti l ...'n Ski`;: , V 11% lir VIEWS Of In* W AK, MU , 'OA 5,/,„9R, C 0 S MOR AIWASI. the CONCERT Atr /tt , -As, and all the LECTURES, as usual. k% ko 14 'N'tiN btu' e s CART t §l 4 ,: e ktuZi ~Peb. 0 ,. } :•-I‘TO, ARGYLL ROO MS.— c 0h ., 4 (14 1 4 ,111 1 ;' 1855 .—During the coarse of this week 4 `4.2:10,,Vie } ,, 411 0e) i ta:fed by Laurent's Orchestra :—Over -I,tttllite.qatio--,he i'L lt Airei et :.N. Tutton,; Waltzes: Wellen and Wogen, kktr l i' 42 10 r m ,e,itrr 4 . 4 _ llll ; Vermahlung's Toaste, 6trauss; La t ~ L q; 1-., il - r ial ci de it. Venise thy desire ), 11. : L j a e a t r o e m n 0 , Irt L‘ ' 4 , bi t ti , 111 :; I ,kbe t ; % . eotilierP I d, o p r e r n . o o rm n ti r: Q I ; ; the Highlanders. H. iii k 7 l4.l ;,.; th' , . t\r 'schottische the Argyll Renaussy ; Polkas : N t 'llst : 1 Weltil r ., l : l : La Menagerie Bousquet ; The Zouaves, \ t ti Lk i l ' l 'l it s), 1 , 16 . 60 .? (first time), Streather ; Ctall p op, n Dover ttc4o_;), 4l:l4 o r4t ration . 'r r oZ t e iv . 8 P to rin in cl u p s a i l e t C o orn be e o t- b a t - ain is e t d o , at the . 1 ' t,..._4.41110 orchestra. Doors open at Eight ; cern rnisslon, One Shilling. ‘4kt, 1,.,, N . t , b -SEND STAR , - -ket s „', ACKETS. ir tt lt itt c , at the Greenhlthe and Purtleet Piers. i t . k Til t r t iera as underlined (weather permittinzl. SCE PIER, GRAVESEND. =I