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ROPING TO HULT. Notice is hereby given that all Shares in this Company, on which the Final Call of 21. per Share, .payable on the Ist October, 1855, shall not have been paid previously to the Bth day of December, 1855, will, in accordance with the Statutes of the ompeny, be For feited at the next meeting of the Directors after the last-mentioned date. By order of the Board. JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman. London, 18, Cannon-street, 23d Nov., 1855. 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 ; ills 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 corn. pasty ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex trayaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged an-I 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 the. 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 subject of spirit-rapping, which Pre lessor 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 simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which 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 telleetual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and se easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions ce , spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi , public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that th names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanatin 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 Sptri- Nal Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what lie has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits 4 fehothus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate 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 isho, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 048: —" 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 splendid humbug, offered him 2.000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that medium' could 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 he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power ara medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is ens 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 went to it; is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more like]. to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it 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 he 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'. right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through ont." 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 greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held 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. -1 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, December 8, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinica' Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Uwe des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for itrcistence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and inOinging forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely ~..&11,Ce (or to be found. i i i tta*.iwmat 4. Magical,Lecomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer mation—hlack into white, and the Discovery of every Article hi the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre; or, the Casket of CrOMIS. 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 upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisribles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange 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 be who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and app ear 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 all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome Mend, 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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His Majesty the King of Sardinia left Windsor Castle at 25 minutes past •7 o'clock this morning, attended by the Marquis d'Aieglio, Count kocca;, Chevalier Carderina, Chevalier Ciaala, Count de Persano, Count de Barone," Chevalier Nigra, and Count de Robilant. His Majesty travelled to Lon don by a special train on the Great Western Rail way, and returned by the same route to the Castle at half•past 1 o'clock. The Queen held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Castle, for the purpose of investing his Majesty the King of Sardinia with the Order. The Knights Companions of the Garter were summoned to attend, and were robed in the Guard Chamber in their mantles of purple velvet, and wearing the hoods of crimson velvet and the Gold Collar of the Order. The officers were robed in their respective man tles—the Prelate and Chancellor of purple velvet ; the - Registrar, Garter King of Arms, and Black Rod of crimson satin. The Knights Companions were called over by Garter in the Music Gallery, when the following answered :—The Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of Richmond, the Marqois of Lansdowne, the Duke of Cleveland, Earl de Grey, the Marquis of Aber corn, the Marquis Camden, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Spencer, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Duke of Nor thumberland, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of El lesmere, and the Earl of Aberdeen. The officers of the. Order present were—the Pre. late, the Bishop of Winchester ; the Chancellor, the Bishop of Oxford ; the Registrar, the Dean of Windsor ;. Garter Principal - King of Arms, Sir Charles George Young ; and Gentleman Usher of ' the Black Rod, Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart. ' Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, was conducted by the Lord Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the House hold, the Vice-Chamberlain, and the Controller of the Household, from her apartments to the Throne Room. Her Majesty wore the Kirtle, Mantle, Hood, and go ld- ename ll e d C o ll ar o f th e Garter, and also wore a magnificent diadem of diamonds. The long mantle of the Queen was borne by the Pages of Honour in Waitin g . Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge both appeared in the Mantle and Hood of the Garter, and also wore the Collar of the Order. The Queen was conducted to a Chair of State of imperial purple velvet, richly carved and gilt, placed at the head of the table, a little in advance of the throne, which is canopied with crimson vel vet, having the national badges of the three king doms embroidered in gold. The Knights of the Garter, with the officers of the Order, entered the Throne Room and took their seats at the table, the senior Knights nearer the Queen. The table was covered with purple velvet, w;th a deep border of gold lace and bullion fringe. The Prelate of the Order stood on the right hand of the Queen, the Chancellor on the left, and the Registrar, Garter, and Black Rod at the bottom of the table. The Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor of the Order, read a new statute dispensing with existing statutes in as far as may be required for the especial pur pose therein mentioned, and ordaining and declar ing that his Majesty Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, be declared a Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, any statute, rule, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. His Majesty, by command of the Queen, was conducted from his apartments to the Chapter, or Throne Room, between their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, the two Senior Knights Companions, prceeded by Garter (hearing the ensigns of the Order upon a velvet cushion) and by Black Rod. The King wore the uniform of a Sardinian Ge neral—dark blue, with silver appointments, and was attended by the Ministers and officers of his Court. Her Majesty the Queen and the Knights of the Garter received the King standing, and his Ma jesty was conducted to a seat in a chair of state placed on the right hand of the Sovereign. The Queen announced to the King of Sardinia that his Majesty had been elected a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Garter King of Arms kneeling presented the "Garter" to the Queen, and her Majesty, assisted by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, b uckled it on the left leg of his Majesty, the Chancellor pro nounced the following admonition : "To the honour of God Omnipotent, and in memorial of the blessed Martyr St. George, tie about thy leg, for thy renown, this noble Garter, wear it as the symbol cf the most illustrious order, never to be fergetten or laid aside, that thereby thou may'st be admonished to be courageous, and having undertaken a just war, in which thou shalt be engaged, t'iou may'st stand firm, valiantly fight, and mines-dully conquer." Garter King of Arms presented in like manner the Riband having the George suspended, and the Queen, assisted by his Royal Highness the Prince, placed the same over the left shoulder of his Ma jesty, the Chancellor pronouncing the usual admo nition. Her Majesty the Queen then gave the Accolade to the King o f S ar di n i a , an d hi s Majesty received the congratulations of Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, and also of each of the Knights of the Garter present. The Chapter being ended, the Knights Com panions were again called over by Garter, and, with the officers of the Order, retired from the pre sence of the Queen with the usual reverences. The Queen accompanied the King to his apart ments, followed by Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Gentlemen of the Sardinian Court. The Queen's Court was attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes; the Duchess of Wellington and Lady Macdonald, Ladies in Waiting ; Viscount Sydney, Captain of the Yeo men of the Guard ; Lord Datierin Lord in Wait ing ; Mr. F. C aven di s h , G room in Waiting; Major - General Wyli e , G room i n W a i t i ng to t h e P r ince; Sir George P. L ee , Li eu t enant o f t h e Y eom en of the Gnarl ;C o l one l t h e H on. C . B . Phi pps , Keeper of her Maje4ty's Privy Purse; Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher of the Sword of Sta. e ; Colonel Upton, Field Officer in Waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel Hogg Silver Sti c k i n W a i t i ng ; M a j o r Harmar, Standard Bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Colonel Seymour, Groom of the Robes ; Mr. Joseph Skip Lloyd, the Clerk of the Check and Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Colonel Fitzmaurice, Adjutant of the Yeo men of the Guard ; and Colonel Wilson, the Queen's Harbinger. Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Groom in Waiting to her Majesty, were in attendance on the King of Sardinia during the Chapter of the Garter. A guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was in attendance on her Majesty the Queen at the Chapter Room, under the command of the Right Hon. the Captain. A special guard of honour of the Hon. Corps, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Topham, the Lieutenant, was in attendance upon his Majesty the King of Sardinia at his apartments and at the Chapter-room. Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the Music-gallery, and on the Grand Staircase, under the command of Captain Macdonald. A guard of honour of the Grenadiers, with the band of the regiment, was on duty within the Castle quadrangle during the ceremony. Her Majesty's footmen in state liveries lined the vestiblue. At 5 o'clock the Corporation of Windsor arrived at the Castle to present a congratulatory address to the King of Sardinia. The Corporation was headed by the Mayor, Mr. James Brown. There were present—the Recorder, Mr. A. M. Skinner ; Aldermen Blunt, Twinch, Berridge, and Adams ; Councillors Clode, HOUR den, Phillips, Holderness, Layton, Cantrell, Bed borough, Cleave, Oliver, Harris, Driver, Nixon, and Finch ; the Town-Clerk, Mr. Henry Darvill ; and the Chaplain, the Rev. H. P. Ellison. The Corporation was conducted to the Music gallery, and was afterwards ushered into the Re ception-room, in which the King received the deputation. His Majesty was attended by the Marquis d'Azeglio, his Minister at this Court, Lord Byron, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood. Tilt) Recorder read the address to the King, and the Mayor presented it to his Majesty. The King was graciously pleased to return the following answer : " I am extremely touched at the mark of sympathy which you have been pleased to present to me from the Corp ration of Windsor on my visit to her Majesty your gracietia Queen. "The flattering sentiments and eulogiums which you have conveyed on behalf of your fellow-townsmen for the par , which my troops have taken in the deeds of arm- which have already rendered so illustrious the allied flags are (fear to my heart. "The cause which is being decided at this moment on Y EVENING, DECEMBEn 6, 1855. the field of battle in•the Crimea is too just and too lofty for iine not to feelit an honour that the colours of Sac.- dink haire mbar d in dangers the precursors of common gloties—tie4 the most certain to render durable the union betirget-n.countries. a Continue, gentlemen, to consolidate our alliance by new successes." The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth, the Turkish Minister and Madame Musures, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl of Mb.lmesbury, the Earl of Harrowhy, the Earl of Liican, Lord Wedehouse, the Right Hon, the Speaker; Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, _ the Right HoOi. Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone, Baron Maroehetti Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Coblirane t and Captai n plilne, R.N., left to-day. The Duke of Richmond,. the Duke ot Northum berland, the Duke of Cleveland, tha,Varquis of Exeter, the Marquis of C am d en , th e of Car lisle, arl Fitzwilliam, - Sail de Grey, par] of Elles mere, and the Bishops of Winchestetand Oxford, who were present at the Chapter of the Garter, re mained at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. The Earl of Mulgrave 9 the Earl of Bessborough, Lord Ernest Bruce, a n d Viscount Drumlanrig also arrived on a visit to-day.. At a quarter-past 7 o'clock, a Greed Banquet was served in St. George's Hall. The Queen, the King, thii Prince Albert, and the memberi of the Royal Fainily, with the respective Courts of Great Britain and Sardinia, assembled in the Throne Room. Her Majesty's guests on a visit to the Castle, the Knights of the Garter, the Ministers, aid the nobility and gentry who had been honoured with invitations, met in the Grand Reception Room. by tn dinner being annaueoed the Weep, aandeeted , he King of Sardinia,t-proeeedad to ilie-R•414, preceded by the Great Officers of the Household ;. the; Royal personages came iminediately after their M4jesties, and the general company followed from the Grand Reception Room. On the entrance of the Queen and King in the Hall the band com menced playing the " Fanfare Sarde." Her Ma jesty took her seat in the middle of the north side of the table, having the King of Sardinia on her right hand. His Majesty wore the Insignia of the Order of the Garter. His Royal Highness Prince Albert sat opposite the Queen, having the Royal thichesses on either side. Behind the Royal party onjeach side were stationed a special guard of her Mjesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, unqider the command of the Lieutenant. A body of the Yeomen of the Guard were posted at each end of the hall. All the gentlemen appeared in full uniform, court or official costume. The banquet was served with the greatest magnificence. The sefvice was entirely of gold plate • down the centre of the table throughout the whole length were a subcession of the most• beautiful vase, epergnes, wine coolers, and candelabra, all in gold plate. Some of the vases were adorned with artificial flowers. Immediately before the Queen was placed the St. George's Candelabrum. This is of large size and. noble proportions, and bears 12 waxlights ; on the base are figures of the infant Mars, and it is en dolled with national emblems and badges. The wnole is crowned by a statuette of the saint on hdrseback in combat with the dragon. In addition to the great number of beautiful articles appropriated td the service and decoration of the table two lai•ge and lofty buffets were erected at each end of the hall, lineal with crimson, for the display of the more artistic and ornamental specimens of gold phite and articles of vertu in the Royal treasury. Op these were displayed the shield presented by the King of Prussia to his godson, the Prince of Wales. The shield of Achilles, designed by Flax man ; a very large salver, the border of which was designed by Flaxman ; the National Cup, sur mounted by St. George ; Cellini's Nautilus Cup ; two ivory cups, carved by Cellini ; two crystal cups, presented by Queen Charlotte to her son George the Fourth on his coming of age, the solid geld salver, made by order of George the Fourth ; some jewelled tankards, bulb cups, and a large golden box of East India workmanship. At the conclusion of the banquet the Lord Steward gave " The Health of his Majesty the King of Sardinia," when the Sardinian National Hymn was performed by the band of the Grenadier Guards, who were stationed in the gallery. The dinner party included his Majesty the King of Sardinia, their Royal Hignesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prime Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of Suther land, the Dukes of Richmond, Northumberland, and Cleveland, the Duke and Duchess of Wel lington, the Sardinian Minister, the Marquises of Breadalbane, Lansdowne, Abercorn, Exeter, and Camden, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Spaeth, Lady Caroline Murray, Lady C iroline Barrington, Lady Isabel Howard, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earls of Carlisle, Aberdeen, Fitzwilliain, Clarendon, Bessborough, de Grey, Ellesmere, and Mulgra ye, Viscounts Palmerston, Drumlanrig, and Sydney, Lord... Ernest Bruce, the Bishops of Winchester and Oxford, Lord Foley, Lady Emily Cavendish, Major-General Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Miss Barrington, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Miss Phipps, Sir George Cou per, the Fi e ld-Offi cer i n aiting, the Silver Stick in Waiting, Sir Augustus Clifford, Sir Charles Young, Sir William Martins, Colonel Sey mour, Captain Sayer (23d Fusiliers) Count Cavour, Duke Pasqua, Chevalier Maxime d'Azeglio, Major- General Count Morozzo de la Rocca, Major-Gene ral Chevalier Luserna Angrogna, Major-General Chevalier Carderina, Chevalier Riheri, Colonel Chevalier Cigala, Captain Count de Barone, Cap tain Count de Robilant, Captain Count de Persano, Chevalier N gra, Lord Byron, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood (in attendance on his Majesty the King of Sardinia), the Dean of Windsor, M tjor Home Purves, and Colonel the Hon. James Mac donald. After the banquet, the Queen, accompanied by the Royal Duchesses, the Princesses, and the other ladies present, entered the Grand Reception Room, end were afterwards joined by the King of Sar dinia, Prince Albert, the Princes, and other gen tlemen. THE WAR, TRADE, AND MONEY. A meeting was held, last evening, at the London Tavern, to consider the state of our monetary system, and the influence of the Bank Charter Act of 1844 on domestic industry and foreign commerce. The chair was taken by Mr. Francis Bennoch ; besides whom were on the platform Messrs. A. Spottievvoode, Alexander Wilson, W. Littlewood, J. Ingram Lockhart. H. In gram' Leone Levi, E Capps, of London, Mr. H. Ayres, Col. Macdonald, Messrs. W. Pare, of Dublin ; T. C Salt, of Birmingham ; Alexander Alison, of Glasgow : J. L. Thackeray, of Nottingham ; E. V. Neale, and others. The room was about half full. The CHAIRMAN said that the object of this meeting was not to consider the policy of the war. However glorious, war was, at all times, attended with horrors which could not be exaggerated. But the question for the traders and merchants of London was, how it happened that this great war should be attended with horrors of such kind, that they sapped the very foundation of our national industry ? The question would come, how was it that our trade, which in January last was suffering from a collapse, arising, as was said, from the uncertainty of affairs in the Crimea, and from the horrible sufferings of our army there, and which • soon after that period experienced a gradual improve ment, during the months of January, February, March, April, and up to July, until a tide of prosperity, in every branch of productive industry, set in, such as had scarcely ever before been experienced in the his tory of our great country—how was it, that in July and August again uncertainty and the fear of ap proaching dangers seemed to prevail—how was it that the orders received from foreign countries suddenly, in the beginning of . S Istember, were withdrawn, re duced, or cancelled--how was it that the retail trade of England began to feel the effects of that tremor which the. affected the commercial atmosphere—how. -wets it that large warehousemen, with their stocks in hand, began to feel, by sad experience, that the demand was daily lessening—how was it that the manufacturers throughout the kingdom suddenly -discovered that the goods they bad been producing for several months began to hang upon hand, and could not be sold except at re duced and sometimes ruinous prices—how was it that within a period of seven weeks the hopes of England, in regard to its commerce and merchandise, and its inter nal trade more especially, were made to decline, in the manner which he had thus described ? (Cheers.) This was the question for the consideration of the meeting. They found now that manufacturers were obliged to give notice to their workpeople of a reduction of wages, and that the population of the manufacturing towns, instead of being cheerfully at work, were unable to live, in these hard times, upon the reduced wages allowed for the subsistence of themselves and families. Such was the scene presented by Manchester at this mo ment. The great social problem, which it was for the present meeting to attempt to solve, was the cause which had produced, out of the most complete and hopeful prosperity, within three months, a condi tion of adversity such as was perfectly appalling. Lord Palmerston had lately declared that commerce was the great mine of national resources, by which armies and navies were furnished for the war. But he could not mean to say it was necessary that commerce should sos'ain ouch privations as these for the purpose of car rying on warfare. If it were so, could the resources of coo 'nem. be depended upon, liable to such great priva tions ? The nation was only wealthy when the great mass of its labour was profitably employed, and whilst there was a sufficiency of the means of payment for the daily work which was done. It was not a rapid rise of the prices of foreign produce—it was not a busy activity in Mark-lane, or in Mincing-lane, which indicat , d the prosperous condition of the nation. Nor was it always the state of our money market, for there might be a large amount of money, whilst the nation was suffering for want of a proper application of it ; and when are channels of industrial enterprise were stopped, we might find Consols rising, because men had not the opportunity of investing their capital in productive industry, and so they invested in the national securities and raised their price above the natural level. The principle which he would lay down was, that an abundance of money, at a moderate price, was essential to the well-being of society. Every news paper, and every authority in the kingdom, declared unequivocally that the cause of our present depression was the withdrawal of a certain quantity of gold from the cellars of the Bank of England. All the distress which we were suffering, and with which we were threatened, was traced by some parties to the simple tact that an amount of bullion not exceeding four mil lions bad been withdrawn during the last four or five months from the Bank of England. Now, how did this work ? The amount of notes issued by the Bank of England, with the provincial, Scotch, and Irish banks, was about 42 to 44 millions. These notes depended for their convertibility upon the quantity of gold in the cellars of the Bank of England. That quan tity was now about 11 millions ; so that four millions of notes rested upon one million of gold ; and upon each million of notes rested from four to five millions of bills of exchange. So that each million of gold in the Bank of England sustained a circulating currency of from 18 to 20 millions. Thus the withdrawal of one million endan gered, or disturbed, the circulation of at least 20 millions ; and the four millions of gold withdrawn disturbed the circulation of the large amount of SO millions of currency, upon which the welfare of the country depended. But this was not all the mischief. The banks in Scott 'lid did not depend entirely upon a golden basis, but they were compelled, by the act of 1844, to have in their possession a certain quantity of gold, beyond the maximum issue at a particular date returned to the House of Commons. Those Scotch banks, in consequence of having faith in the credit of a large number of their clients, had issued notes considerably beyond that limit ; and they were compelled to bold gold for every note which they issued beyond that limit. The result was, that at present there was no less than 1,250,0001. value of gold held by the banks in Scotland, which they did not require, and would rather be without. They had offered to Government to take, instead of that gold, consols, or other state secu rities, or anything which was really exchangeable and of value, and to give back to the Bank of England that which the Bank of England required, the gold which they held, and for the want of which our commerce aa s starving. Now, the arrival of a million of gold from Australia was enough to rai-e the price of Console 11 or 2 per cent. ; and why, therefore, should not the same advantage be gained by bringing one million from Scot ian 1, wh( re its was much nearer home, and not at ail required, into the coffers of the Bank of England ? Yet this inflexible law Still injured the banks of Scotland, by els`iging them to retain a million and a quarter ' for which they obtained no i n t eres t, an d which was kept away from England, where it was so much needed. He then complained that the variations in the rate of discount, which were caused by the present system, ex cited a gambling spirit amongst the mercantile commu nity. On the let Sept. last he said the rate of discount was 31 per cent., and Consols stood at 91. Within seven weeks from that time the rate of discount was raised to 7 per cent., and Consols came down to a little above 80. Now what was the amount of loss which this difference created in the value of our funded property? The amount of our funded property was close upon 800 millions, and 4 per cent, upon that. gave us a difference of no less than 32 millions sterling caused within seven weeks. What was the effect upon our railway property ? Taking 26 of our largest railways he discovered that on the average the difference in the value of their shares during the seven weeks was nearly 10 per cent. We had almost 300 millions sterling invested in railway works, and if the loss were to be taken at only 8 per cent., there was a diminution in the value of our railway property within seven weeks to the amount of twenty-four millions sterling. It was estimated, moreover, that we had engaged in manufacturing and commercial enter prise, a capital equal to 600 millions sterling. Now, everybody who had commodities to sell must know that the difference between selling in August last and selling now the produce of the national industry would be at least 10 to 121 per cent., if one were to be compelled now to go into the market. But, estimating the loss upon the same basis as that upon the railway shares, there was an aggregate difference of 48 millions sterling upon the value of that kind of property. In other words, he discovered within seven weeks, in our funded pro perty, railway property, and commercial property of various kinds, the terrific reduction of one hundred and four millions sterling, a sum nearly ten times the value of all the gold in the coffers of the Bank of England ! It might be argued that because all this property was not to be realised now, therefore the loss was not sustained, and the nation was none the poorer, because the same dividends were pay able on Consols as before. But if Consols at 100/, per cent, were to be taken as evidence of the nation's prosperity, he was justified in taking their lowest price as an indication of the nation's adversity ; and those in dividuals who were obliged to sell did suffer to the ex tent he bad described, by the operation of a law over which they had no control. After a comparison of the proportions which the amount of the currency bore to our population at different periods from 1815 to the pre sent time, he referred to the immense increase of our trading transactions, which, he said, had been multiplied at least fivefold since the year 1819 ; so that according to the proportion then observed, they now required a circulation of at least 100 millions sterling. He observed that the act of 1819, and the act of 1844, equally failed to attain their object, to secure the convertibility of the bank note ; that the existing legislation upon this subject ought therefore to be amended or swept away ; and that it was necessary to provide some circulating medium which should not be liable to such disastrous fluctuations. Lieut.-Col. MACDONALD then moved the first resolu tion :—"That the meeting is of opinion that the existing laws for the regulation of our currency have produced, and are calculated to perpetuate, great an d fre q uent fluctuations in the amount of the circulating medium, and thereby to produce periodical panics and pressures on the money market highly prejudicial to trade and com merce, destructive to productive industry, and ruinous to national prosperity. Mr. T. C. SALT, of Birmingham, seconded the resolu tion, observing that the laws which regulated the cur rency were the most mischievous enactments on the sta tute book, and would appear to have been devised by men who were alike destitute of sense and of humanity. The crirainality of the Government on this subject was only to be equalled by the igura49.of On people. " ALICE GRAY" IN BIRMINGBAM. The neighbourhood of the Police-office in Birmingham was crowded yesterday morning with persons anxious to obtain a sight of this notorious impostor. At 11 o'clock Mr. Chas. Shaw and Dr. Me!son, the magistrates of the day, took their seats upon the bench, and shortly after wards " Alice" was placed at the dock. She appeared perfectly cool and collected, and took her seat upon the bench usually occupied by prisoners awaiting examina tion. Mr. Shaw—Let the prisoner stand up. Prisoner—l am not able, I'm so ill. She was accordingly allowed to remain seated. Mr. T. Harding then said be had the honour to ap pear on the part of the prosecution. The prisoner was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury, in having, on the 11th of October last, sworn that a man named John Mutlow bad robbed her of her clothes and a considerable sum of money. The innocence of the accused was placed beyond all doubt. Mr. Bartlet, of Wolverhampton, was instructed to defend the prisoner, but that gentleman had, in an interview which he had had with Mr. Ste phens, the ohief superintendent of police, the previous evening, consented to a remand until Saturday. At the present moment Mr. Stephens was not prepared with the evidence necessary to substantiate the charge, and the adjournment of the case would be convenient to all parties. (He (Mr. H r ) might also state, that during the morning a telegraphic communication had been received from the Lords of the Treasury directing that the pri soner should be conveyed to Wolverhampton, where another charge would be preferred against her for per jury committed in the county of Stafford. Under these circumstances he applied for a remand until Saturday, when he should be fully prepared to prove the accusation now made against the prisoner. Mr. Stephens, chief superintendent of police, being sworn, deposed to the facts stated by Mr. Harding, and the arrangement he had made with Mr. Bartlet, the pri soner's solicitor. Mr. Shaw—Prisoner, we accordingly remand the fur ther heari gof the ca-e against you until Saturday. Prisoner —Very well ; I think I'll be well tried and purified at last. Mr. Stephens—Take the prisoner away. Prisoner (on being removal)—l don't see my friend, the Rev. Mr. Morris, here. Mr. Stephens _Go on. Prisoner--No, I won't go. Give me anything but a Divine. - The prisoner was then taken below, and during the afternoon was conveyed to Wolv,-rhampton, where she %ill undergo an examination upon the charge referred to in the communication from the Treasury. In the course of yesterday, and previous to her intro duct on into the police-court, "Alice" sat for her por trait—for police purp ise4, as it was understood—to a photographic artist. She willingly acceded to the re quest of the authorities, and so arranged her person and figure, with book in hand, as to give the limner the best opportunity of taking a correct and characteristic like ness. Should the charge at Wolverhampton fail, she will be brought before the magistrates in Birmingham ru Saturlay. PRUSSIAN SPIRITS...mine Boursc Gazette, of Berlin, gtatea that the suppf Bei r, of the ex p ort d uty on sp i r i ts which bas been effe, tied in Prussia will likewise take place in the other eta es of the Zollverein. The Prussian Government, it says, had come to an understanding with those statue before piomulgatiog the late decree. rtfi " .-a twrsirr eirosel [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD. Though England was rich in natural resources, sbe was I schject to visitations of dire distress, and this was mainly attrioutable to a monetary system vicious in principle and iniquitous in operation. Look where they might there were evidences of the extreme difficulty of selling goods and of employing labour. There were everywhere symptoms of a fierce competition ; there was a per petual pinch on price and profits, and the foot of the buyer was on the neck of-the seller. The pre.ent cur rency laws should be at once repealed, and an attempt should be made to establish an equilibrium between the quantity of money and the quantity of goods. He had a great respect for the imes, and he knew of no other paper whicli had rendered such essential service to the people of England ; but--he did not approve all its pro ceedings, and least of all did he concur in the pr )priety of the course which it had taken on the currency ques tion. The Times sang a hymn of joy last month because the 4th day of the month— that on which bills are usually payable—had passed without witnessing any large in solvency, as if our monetary system was to be applauded not because it was operative of good, but because once in a way it was not productive of positive calamity. The Times al ways looked anxiously out for the arrivals of gold, and if the precious meta's were detained it recommended mer chants and buyers goderally to be very cautious, and to limit 'their purchases—forgetting that to limit pur chases meant to limit life, for the first right of the labourer was to be allowed to live by . his toil. lie (Mr. Salt) was for establishing a legal tender money and re.;ulating the issue • and the rule sh o uld be that money should be issued till every honest labourer had found full employment at remunerative prices. (Laughter.) If money were sufficiently abundant they might take his word for it that labour would be fully and completely employed. He would not have an excess or deluge of paper, but it should , be so regulated as to keep the quantity of money and the power of exchanging it in strict proportion with the labour to be engaged and the quantity of goodi tole cc:instil:lied: Mr. TAYLOR, of Nottingham, supported the resolu tion, saying that there was to be a public tneeting in that town upon the question, and that a Parliamentary in quiry int., the working of the act of 1844 was required. Mr.LOCKHART expressed his doubts whether the value of property had really been affected to such an extent as the chairman described; he attributed such crises to over speculation, or to the monopoly of capital, and approved of the Limited Liability Act, although it would have been better not to have required that the shares should be each of the amount of 1.0/., because that requirement would exclude the labouring man. He had prepared an amendment, declaring that the large efflux of gold re cently was clearly traceable to the wants of the armies and navies engaged in war, and that the only effectual remedy was to stop the war ; but seeing that the feeling of the meeting was against him, he would not propose tha' amendment. The resolution was then carried. Mr. J. DuNear , " who said this meeting was to be im mediately followed by the holding of a congress to dis cuss the whole question, and that the expense of the meeting would be entirely defrayed by Mr. H. Ingram, having addressed the meeting for some time, moved the second resolution :--" That 110 system of currency can be satisfactory that does not reseore gold to its natural cha racter as a c mmodity, so that it may find its value under the natural laws of supply and demand." Mr. E. CAPPS seconded the motion, and congratulated the meeting on the fact that the T imes was prepared to go Kith them, at least to a certain point, for in its City Article of October 26 he found this pas-age :—" At that p , riod (meaning 1844) the paper circulation of the coun - ry was nearly the- same as at present, and consisted party in notes of the B an k o f E ng l an d, an d par tly i n those of joint-Auck and private banks. Suppo,ing this circulation to be required solely for internal commerce, r o necPssity could exist for gold being held for any por tion of it. (Hear.) A deposit for Government Stock, or the fact of its being receivable for duties, would at all times keep it from fluctuating in value. (Hear, hear ) Whatever might be thought of the soundness of the general views respecting a deposit of Government Stock —a question which he had his doubts on, but which mould admit of c.)nsideration —he could, at all events, say that he cordially concurred in the pro priety of making it receivable for duties as suggested by the Times. He could not, however, agree with that great organ of public opinion in thinking that the sys tem established in 3844 had by any means accomplished the doctrine of Sir H. Peel, that the currency should at all times, and under all circumstances, maintain the same intrinsic value ; on the contrary, he believed that the Bank Charter Act had completely failed in that ob ject. But if the present monetary sy-teni were changed and another substituted founded on the present, resolu tion, how, it might be asked, would we manage with our foreign trade ? It was said that foreigners would not take our notes. He hoped that they would not— (" Hear," and laughter)—for then we should remain in quiet possession of our own instruments of exchange. (Hear.) The balances should, of course, be pail in gold, but at the market price of gold, and not at a fixed mint price. (Hear.) Mr. E. Varretrranr NEAT az moved the last resolution, as follows :—" That such national paper money may be. issued under conditions calculated to remove the objec tions usually urged against paper money, and that it be referred to a congress to discuss the system of currency which might conveniently be adopted." This resolution having been seconded and agreed to, the proceedings ended. Naval and Military Intelligence. The transport Durham, - No. 179, has arrived at Wool wich Arsenal, with condemned stores from the East, last from Portsmouth and Malta. A second iron mortar•boat was towed up to Woolwich dockyard yesterday morning by the steamer Monkey, from Messrs. Scott Russell's yard, at Northfleet, and is to be immediately rigged and fitted out for an experi mental trial. She is similar in all her appointments and build to the first of this species of mortar-boats received at Woolwich last week, with the slight exception of her mortar framework being of wood, instead of iron, which is subject to spring from its position under the shock oc casioned by the discharge. The first of these boats will be ready in a day or two, to commence her round of ex perimerts. Her piece of ordnance was hoisted on board yesterday morning. The new floating battery just commenced in No. 7 Fl p at Chatham dockyard is the .2-Etna (so nanv-cl after the one destroyed at B'ack wall). She is pierced for 28 guns, hut, will carry only 14 large ones, which will be stilted from side to side as required. Her dimensions are as follow :—Length, 180 feet ; height, 18 feet; breadth, 40 . feet ; with flat bottom, and drawing six or seven feet of water. There are 150 hands employed on the -Etna, which will be launched in March. The new steam-sloop Pearl crossed topsatlyards yes 11,•rday, and is expected to be ready for commission in three weeks. The Sandfly and Plover gun-boats have coaled, and are to go down to Sheerness, to make room for others which are ready to be taken into basin and pass under the bands of the riKg, , rs. Two 68-pounder field-pieces, 1911 feet cast in Woolwich A r s e nal, on the Lancaster principle, were yesterday morning fired at the proof butt, and turned out satis factorily. A material improvement has been added to these guns—namely, a greater weight of metal from the trunnions to the muzzle, that being the point at which some of the old Lancaster guns showed their defect and burst. The remedy is now considered effectual in these guns. They will therefore be rifled, and go through some sub sequent trials. The Commandant of Chatham Garrison has received from her Majesty the photographic likenesses of Thomas Walker, 95th Regiment, and Robert Evans, 13th Light Dragoons, which he presented yesterday, by the Queen's command, to those two young men, now in Fort Pitt. The former had 13 pieces of his skull bone taken away; the latter lost his right leg under distressing circum stances. APPOINTMENTS. The following appeared in our late edition last night : • COMMANDERS. J. P. Luce, to the Wanderer. 1 -1-13 ,3 F. A. Maxse, to the Ariel, vice Luce. . 6 0900 - , MASTERS. • 4 , John M. Hockley, to the Arachne. o°l4 David Moore, to the Wanderer. :7 ,Fr SURGEONS. Charles D. Steel, to the Conqueror.' Frederick Hawey, to the Conway. William Wood, to the Russell. John Forbes (D), to the Arachne. ASSISTANT -SURGEONS. John C. Robertson, to the Belleisle. Raymond R. Carroll, to the Salamander. COAST GUARD. Capt. Charles Eden, C. 8., to be Comptroller. General of Coast Guard, vice Henderson, deceased. STABBING BY A LUNATIC.—A. well-looking young woman rushed on Sunday morning from No. 7, Rue naitholon, crying out, " A rrest him! arrest him ! Be has stabbed me !" At the same moment a mean looking man was seen running with all his speed to wards the Faubourg Poissonniere. A police-agent suc c..,,,led in barring his passage, and he was taken into cu stody. The ma n , on finding himself a prisoner, said to the officer, " Let me go I am the son of tle Almighty !" A n d a t the s a memoment, drawing forth a long poniard, he struck himself several times wi h it in the breast, though not with any great force. The weapon was at last wrested from him, an& he WAS taken to the post of the Rae Cadet. As to the woman, she expired almost immediately after, from a dreadful wound which the man had inflicted on her in the left breast. She seemed to be about 25 years of age, and was a eressmaker by occupation. The murderer, who lsa married man, admits hia crime. He is a journeyman jeweller, li v in g at La Villette, and asserts t ha t n he stabbed the young woman in a violent burst of an ger, e a r s , because she would not continue to receive hi s n visit s but the I formerly. At times he speaks incoher ent belief is that he has assumed an a ppearance of folly for with hips reason of her The the purpose of extenuating his act , im be declares having broken off her connection w ith hinuelfgotopletely ignorant of. e."/Zie.l2/eseer4/7 ----- '--- X ----- se. e:-- C- C o se se 1. r , 7•.,-, V:., TILE ikt:9,B/ - iliVl7lo•Ww.ii; c -- t ". ifi T' 7 ;3 ,, '''''. • • _...__,,„_._____. -. • <,-,:•., el - 4 fe 'S oel". • BERLIN, Dec. 3.—Frain the text of th ''Vtis at the' opening of the Chambers last Thuray you Wiro . have perceived that its first and foremost hAect was , the high price of provisions produced by the instiffeeien:, harveet and the disturbance of the usual course of trafflirsie:l2„ by the war. And this is, in fact, the subject 'of the . greatest interest here, where the higher aspirations of a fir:,. - s European mission for the preservation of general peace i do not find any echo in the hearts of either ruler or peo ple. :Not only was it the foremost subject of the King's speech, it was also the subject of the first motion brought ferwrird in the House of Deputies at their first sitting on Friday, the (fay - after-the-opening, and which was cha. racterised as or.e of '" great' Urgency."' The tenoer of the motion was to cali upon the Government to take in to earnest consicleiretibwe the - distress occasioned by the high prices to 'the inferior civil servants of the Crown and find means for its relief. "It was! however, withdraw n on the as-nrance that Govern rir ent hal already come to resolutions on the sub ject, and would publish them without delay. The courts of justice have Already bestowed an extra allowance on their officials, derived from a variety of small economies made during the war with reference to the possibility of such an emergency. The railway companies the same ; every corporation finds some means of assisting. their subordinates in the present scarcity, but no exertions, either public or private, suffice to relieve the' want that is just now felt here by every one of fixed income, and still more by those of no income at all. The claims of the latter upon the charity of the former bring all into the one category of " persons in want." The distress is sogreat , in Germany that in many places the inhabitants have been driven to be public-spirited, enterprising, and practical. The state of things, you may be sure, that has produced this revolution must indeed be urgent. Some of the results already attained are worth being made known. A Hanoverian manu facturer, for instance, cf the name of Egestorff, him in the neighbourhood of Hanover, at a place called Linden, erected an eating-house for the poor, which supplies food for 2,100 persons daily at the cost price- Part of them fetch or send for their dinners and eat them at home, part avail themselves of the well-lighted and heated dining rooms. The establishment employs 34 pair . , of hands in a kitchen fitted up with six cauldrons heated by steam. The present apparatus is equal to delivering 3,000 portions a day, and with the help of - twoimore steam cauldroul could supply 4,000. By the employment' of 34 persons, instead of perhaps 500 women, who would waste each of th em a t l eas t h a lf- a -d a y in cooking for those 2,000 persons, at least 216 whole work days are saved. The firing of the one establish• ments costs 4s. a day, that of the 500 families would cost at least 60s. ; the actual outlay for the meat and vege tables is at least 20 per cent, less than the aggregate of the individual households, and the produce of the broken meats and offal is a clear profit over the economy of the many separate cookings. A portion or serving contain ing one quart of strong soup, with vegetables in it, and a piece of meat from 2i oz. to 3 oz., costs lid., and this price leaves a surplus towards the wear and tear of utensils. The arrangements have been found so bone• finial for the poorer classes, that in Hamburg already tees similar establishments have been formed arid are in full activity, the police force being necessary to control the ardour of the customers ; in Bavaria, where the Government has required the local authorities through eut the land to erect similar ones, it has already taken place in many towns, Ie Berlin, the seat of intellec t Jai civilisation, they have already got so tar as to pro pose the plan for imitation. The preparation of tread is also a subject that just now, in these hard times, occupies the public atten tion ; seeing that, though the prices rem sin the same, the size of the loaves becomes "small by degree' and abornieably less." It is pointed out that in the grinding of corn at least 12 to 20 per cent. of the ,vhule quantity of grain to be grimed is turned out as bran, of three different degrees of fineness, while, accoreing to Liebig, wheat contains only two per cent, of indigestible ligneous matter ; that this bran is applied only as fodder for animals, while it contains 60 to 70 per cent. of the nutritious elements of wheaten (leer. The separation of the bran from the fi our by the process of bolting is one that thus necessarily reduces the stock of flour by one-fifth or one-fourth, without ma terially improving the nutritious qualities of the bread. Certain it is that the Westphalian bread, made of un bolted rye flour, and other bread made in imitation of it, such as the bread served out to the soldiers here, al though mere cheaply produced, is purchased readily by ail connoisseurs in Berlin at higher prices than the good-looking white bread, On account of its nutritive and other wholesome qualities. Another cause of the unnecessarily high price of bread is indicated as arising from the primitive man ner in which the bakes's trado is still oarried on by small masters, with two or three assistants at most, instead of applying machinery and the more recent discoveries in chemistry towards diminishing the cost of production. In Amsterdam a joint stock company has just been formed with a capital of 250,0006., for the production of unadulterated and cheap rye bread for the million. In Stuttgardt a manufactory of bread was opened on the sth of November, which turns out 500 lb, of bread every 45 minutes, and in the 24 hours (fur the demand for their article compels them to work day and night) 16,000 lb. Six journeymen bakers are constantly at work, while three are at rest, and one has a holyday; 10 in all. The flour is kneaded in a long trough by means of a main spindle running along it, which is kept revolv ing by manual or other force ; the warm water necessary for the process is obtained by pas. ing the water pipe that conveys it along the chimneys of the three ovens, which are constantly baking. The dough is kneaded very long in shorter time and better than the hums!' hand can turn it out ; the machine net only does its work cleanly, but keeps itself clean that is to say, it does not require any human labour to clear it of dough clinging to it. The bread produced at the manufactory is not only sold a kr, utzer below the price fixers by the police, but is also so sightly and well tasted, that customers fight for it every time an oven is drawn, or the little van that carries it out is sent off from ihe door. The present amount of daily production, 16,00016., is the maximum that the present establishment can turn ont ; it is proposed, how ever, to extend it to a capacity• of 30,000 d). daily, white at the same time to similar bakeries are proposed for erection on a still larger scale. Orders for the bread. are sent in from towns even at a considerable distance, so clearly has the superiority of this manufactured bread been acknowleiged: one order from Ravensburg was for 12,0001 b. of bread to be sent daily by railway. A some what similar attempt to produce bread in large quantities has 'been made here with success by the Presieent of Po ice, who supplies the whole policy force with bread bent r and cheaper that, they can have it from the baker; this bread is produced et an establishment founded by him a lithe say Trion the; town, with a view to the occu •,atiou of ciiminws in the epee air, aod thus reforming teen. By a species of thepo c esi o c. r a i l i p thus compelled t ,ai. , e o . atittice justice they are bake the bread of their vigilant per s ecutors, now become their benefactors. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. ARMAGH BOROUGH ELECTION. The polling commenced at 8 o'clock this morning, and at 11 o'clock the number; stood as follows :—Bond, 140; Miller, 131. Fr m this hour Mr. Bond's maj,rity slowly increased until before 1 o'clock, when Mr. Miller was in a minority of 26, and not more than 50 more votes to be pilled. At 3 - o'clock the poll stood thus :—Bond, 181 ; Miller, 149 ; majority, 32. The contest is there fore virtual►y over. TEM BIBLE BURNING CASE. The Commission of Oyer and Tertniner was opened this morning at the Sessions house, Green-street, before Mr. Justice Crampton and Baron Greene. At the close of a luminous charge by Mr. Justice Crampton, bills were sent up, and at 3 o'clock the Rev. Mr. Pecherine was ordered to attend in court for the pur pose of being arraigned. Ho shortly after made his ap pearance, but a case of assault being in course of trial nothing could be done until it had been brought to a close. After a few minutes the rev. gentleman, together with the boy Hamilton, appeared at the traversers' bar, and, on being arraigned, pleaded "Not Guilty. Mr. Corballis then applied to have the trial fixed for to-morrow morning. Sir C. O'Loghlen objected, on the part of the traver era; and it was a t length agreed th a t th e tr i al should - Friday t a k e place on morning, at 10 o'clock. WEDNESDAY 'MORNING. ENCUMBERED ESTATES' COURT. The estates of Mr. Michael Joseph Browne, of Mayne, situate in the counties of Galway and Roscommon, and valued at about 3,5001. a year, were sold yesterday in 29 lots. The gross sum realised for the whole amounted to 69,0001. The bidding for each lot was most spirited, and the rates of purchase, in several instances, were ex treme ly high. TIIE BURNOPFIELD MURDER. GATESHEAD, Tuesday Night.—The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr. Robert Stirling was resumed to-day by the coroner for North Durham. Two men belong ing to the village of \Vinterton, Richard Rayne, a black smith, and William Gladders, a cabinetmaker, are in custody on suspicion. Mr. Thomas Stobbart, a farmer and cattle dealer in Cumberland, deposed that on the day before the murder he had been to Newcastle fair, and on Thursday pro ceeded to Burnopfield on a visit to his sister. He left her house about 20 minutes past 1 in the afternoon of the same day, and had got into Sina il e s-lane, where the murder wa, committed, when, on turning ar i r!leg e of th e road, he observed two dirty , suspicionlooc mg men i n the hedge with their backs to him. They were lo o ki ng in the direction he wa s g oing. He was much ala rmed, g as ot h o e u h t ad ef 2O t t. uipwodngeh. and came dow n t owards him. im• When they he ar d hi m they They did not speak , an d Passed on • 011 getting further a th y e ou m ni e ventlen aan proceeding in the lo n d g i r thec t nn e taken He was walking re, pid l y, an d swinging his alking sti c k i n the a i r. In he m c b t y answ s r to his salutation of " Good-d a y," h e re pli e d w ith a e a strong Scottish accent ; and there is no doubt that the person was the murdered man, Mr. Stirling. Mr. Stobbart shortly after heard the report of a gun in the direction from which he bad just proceeded, and &word ing to the measure of time and distance the young per son that he had met must have got opposite to where Mr. Stirling was shot. Mr. Stobbart gave a pretty ac curate description of the dress of the two suspicious per sons that he met, and to some extent it corresponds with the clothes worn by the prisoners ; buthe does not swear to either of them. 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