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[OS' 19C 8 ' 1 IVVI I°rr l AAvAA EP' ao lu 1 10 Ch— ect f Tre c,,lst ° O f ' 1 ,0 of,j ~e 5; 1111 4 ,06 v rel;tej:frol• 0 .4 , 0; of .ney ll 'oo , 0* 11 &ci, (4 , • th e ' — o pg 1 0'0 ‘.rros tr oj , bore . 1 1:15 ° : ' c t . 1 ° aa a o f ;, 4 0 0: 0 :1 , e q;i °l( ear le , „„7 1 41 0 4 ' o v , ne B I by v Su') it). $O O w i 110, 3 V li tw ILLTIS • Allt This c i n. -L.,-`4 D WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. -- • 11 ~, -3-1 ' e bruary 10, 1855, is published, .H.', V - No I of - A:Nil. PENCIL 4 L NI ILLUgr e (Si xt - --• , A-TED FAMILY NEWSPAPER ~_ 11114 "II Pages: similar to the Rxaminer) ' Ilk l'i Wh a t Pr ice Sixpence. • - - - . lAeati t he Masters of Prai AND PENCIt would say in ki, 01l of a ,-, ft,l. ' the Penn ' , her - cw endeav our f or public favour.. r has yet donp ifs best for journalism, 7:474tt...42._4.04:::::::cirbet/lb.ttevter yet beep, thoroughly i d Our t,„ lis trati„ °I Y 'written newspapers need the aid of Pictorialcomb._ne : more than ever in this stirring War r illustrated Paners do not ventitre to compete, tit?llr-g7objecgriellds with their un-illustrated contemporaries. 1,, Mitti . , B to unite the two qualities-literary ability 'oat stir ...nu clear digest of the week's news, and to iiitt e ;e 44 : e cr o es t l il e ) l 7 l 7 ti ll str :: to give the reader a well-arranged tlet4, gi,,T" t roo of the ns-do really illustrate and.help to the Hera ferm i of those news. We would combine Spectator and ihe illustrated Londn Ile''l t'uelisingoeosdrooa m new fo s r pa a per as the first, 4 ii el ; 'is at an on its strongest ground of pictorial and aiming -to 71:1,"(11,1rill efficiency. generous rivahT in art. PEN tacit t aper P will alw s strive for the higlicst place. • . i. be especially a Family Newspaper: aiming 16 1s testh r 7 t es ulld predilections of all. The news, up to t„", ali(,aBer2 carefully edited, so as to be pleasant in road 4rie, in to be followed and unclerstood—Political Com kit --loticea bro a d an,, ,, ~,„ BOf int generous spirit, avoiding all party ktil tv ,'-th e r)cresting novelties in Art, Literature, and "s Mo ri ral ea and the Fashions--the state of Trade i a Z i e 'l}ap er. c.3',,Earlcet : these arc the ordinary contents of a 4 , f s t lie vei i w n ? Shall give, in addition, an original Story 'or Inter ter the excel]wrsti such as might fit a modern Rambler, t heir al so ent manner of llowellold.irmi"?' The t4 ks 'l ' Year s will fi nd a page devoted to them, and proper ti,,,,,tpt,„_ ,at once instructive and amnsing. We hope '4, i ll ' , 'ne both old and —to be, in ,,, ev e ,„ _ and young, grave gay —to q t '4 ehriug,toreapect a Family Newspaper. '- krtZ t , socl Da,.2verwhelm our subscribers with mere amount fen, ''r (tw i rl', and hoping to have our Illustrations valued. til l „,; 4 1 1 1, y p tet !): rathei than only for their quantity, we shall AYin g ~,`,7 condensing the News into our usual scope to, If tu ;L i ali a i m atters , pr,i f BDlall importance for the sake of filling N l' ''. - `' el 'acnts. We shall never have a double•litieed' Iv "Ns eeki y , r tto T ,,, aurl 1 ,, e lule,'2 ,l llco a Journal perfectly satisfecteryAe-the Weli s q° 4 h bi4,7betber at home or-in the public news-room, pizi‘cstrateep for preservation as a well-written and .. ilk raq h , 4 4 Y l3 Plivl l4l 7 of the Years. to" 4 rtist,":"AL will be in the hands of the best Au er lin c i er • t aod the Engravings (always carefully priated): h ' all te 1 f NitsB perin m ence o Il lts.„lrteig j-, W. W. AND H. D. LINTON_ . Jost v. 144 -N. . 1 0 , 'Crane-court, Fleet-street; and 221, , ~ Ne on. . iti, , , ( j: l)ll 01: 8-4 , 0 ,, Year, 265.•: half-year, 130.-•-payable to 0 4 - e sPi •''''''' jun.," at: tile Strand Office London. 4114 . et to „ - "Y Part of theiiingdom, or AbrOad, for six 14: 44 ko. ~" I,PASINO ARGYLL ROOMS.— t0Q44,1,1t tttetliie?tbeh, 185 5. 2 During the course of this week played by Laurent's Orchestra :—Over- I ZIZ4 `3 trEtu:: l l.; Waltzes • Germania Bernard ; Vermah- NC; W IA Sultana. Bosisio • Le Camaval de Yeniso % Well La urent ' , rent, w i ttt kot tt rtno Variations for all the principal per -1'14.% La„: "gen (first time) Strauss ; . Quadrilles L asa ia, Tin-otte; Austerlitz, Carbon ; Le Rol du Pastel, -4 tetis, ,le7. Scho t tische, The Moldavian, Jtillien. t t, 4 ) ' ,„s c l i le° l 4 4 l :'t h i l l t d r ea u ss,i . The Bouaves, Laurent ; Warshauer, -A rek thf or Laurent. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, a; h B Ltory „ DA:lttion relative to music to be obtained at a w-pu t s' ll dcr the orchestra. Doors open at Eight ; --411 raiasion e One Shilling. '14, 4 ,4,q , t i Ot i v -- !•ILII. PRINCE ALTIERT. N. o n I.I P,tI,;`,., I :ECTINIC INSTITUTIO 0 " th t ~- . - ,..,C.,m , the 12th inst., DRAMATIC READINGS f„ 4 tiii - , t'', Iv t ;mitii. ~ s r () ,. r .,,rar c i . ,,,41 1 ix,„1( I N ;;I:,,,ART LECTURES. vi e P c, -, 1 , 11),„. li s .lit e -,, E. by Dr. t ,BACIIIZOFFNES. !I 'A lt. ." OD "%.1 'ONCERT y- invisible performers on t ly,4°l' 41,11'a, Esq. atekb,„ Or ti,„ _ bin W - uItA E MA ot the VOYAGES of SINBAD te . IsB 'S i l . t. ~ 1p..., tk x .• sth. ay b , tOra , 41 , 0 1 1 11 gs . " 4, lrhich now discharges 200 Palls per • '1)401:444 ,Noo.;7l,rellar,discao .f Caledonia, by M r. and Miss t rielm n 0 , Nt ni r. r Wand, and the Royal Polytechnic A 4 ' - '„SEND S T A I: et, n4ekets ACKE .T S. rj,,., 1 At At the G reen hi t h e an d Purfieet Piers. /tli tri `lrB as underlined (weather pertruttinZ PIER., GRAVESEND. 4 71 A . ; 14 4g . , ------ w,,,y,,,, , nantreh-street Station to all parts of London "ra,,j , P.LACKALL, on the arrival of tha fo L a the Fen W elturch-street Station. 8r 21DA . 1) C. g Time E - 0 I t. a 74 :.7 I I Ni„ -- -. _ __ X b 4., FAA. , ;I r u e r e e t h ).*---j • ??. 1 ~~ c ti c~ Fen church Street, to 411112 z 0 raver k Te Kt ,„nd kidygwall or Intermediate kts. °nth, ntermetliate Pie 110,..; 0r,21. i:).;;Ive Months, si. • le,„ b d of thC " 65 4. ".°llk Te rrace Pier, Fore Cabin. tit 10d. .. Is, mish Bd. • • Os, ,rs.. 6d. .. Os, • 03.; Six Months, c Collectors on bo, 3ravesend. 3 7 . Os. ; )ard the 1 1V I k fie Iltt klikea OfttT tiPrR , Pric o 2 4IT TER OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. -vi .t; b 3., illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 14,, k4i tttlj t3 \." CI stamps, Yl 4, h c " " ' RYtis P 8 DEBILITY; t i tte k r n lth p r P"orns, and Cirn Essay on Spar ab, , ob Ode of ae tioal ti tt ztal th taf nm treat Observations on a safer and more Ni t ' c aa ni et b by th e 'tont of the diseases of the Generative Op , —cty' t - I Urio,"; Me of the Microscope in detecting and h„_utt„tiloki.,_,coomi,,.!_c,zamination, the real cause and effect of sit`to 4l , 3 , y ea `ot : o r ;,`_`_cr. Whether arising from solitary habits, ttt,telik h tbili t ll e,,,,eluriate, followed by practical remarks, founded N'44,,,, easy Low N .,, e , n, 0 in the treatment of Impuissance, 144.41 , haitingiritath,. eakness, Spermatorrhosa, &c. To which Ilatphot den el l t 147 Gl ', the Physiology of Marriage, with pre neat trolls re emanating emanating from empirical practice, on b. 11 cra ers `". es advocated by various writers N I 4 t 47 gAhnm, • ,kit to otk., b 1. , 0 .- - . 1, LA'MERT M.D. N40,71e a, 1)- 8 QUA RE ' , LONDON, kh t ittk,'rty . ""atriem .4 1 , t of A af e ,,, ated Member of the University of Edin. h i ta t zeatepott le —aer of th. London Hospital Medical Society, la t kli q resi t hrlect 4 ri e 3 ' Tian, London, ac., &c. a t , teri Vt Pr o : 1 1 tro t , wa treatise is to point out the fearful con is t,44,DraNtaom racertain habits, irregularities, and excesses, t ke lrNrl 'r dis ttt e de afore I nisery in Youth, degradation in Man .la h Dlly sl Y r k .ease 4:Y at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any it i Nthexi k e llhom e n to modern pathologists. Its perusal is . t,d. s 'Api a l l eitio, ' to Persons entertaining secret doubts of '1 't eh. — gels ' and vrho are conscious of having hazarded I llat' l l'lt. ie ltit t i ' 411,1 Privileges to which every human being is 4 4 ‘ Nri t kr Y „„hcc„. Cltlat3,4riev.h_alitair.-arY thatall men should know, that there are t a al il l, le,,_cf-ZPea4lagement which cannot be'violatea without wa it holt tlrtatti e onski.`e 3 , and when wisdom and regret succeed it% ' l ta tei t 4 l4:ol,ll_ ll ola ti;:ate self-Indulgence, how these penalties ... %A, ‘ 44 t Zki it u e Sting of their bitterness may be removed, ~,r`ltea,"ata,,io,llY ,: en, equences may be avoided, and above all, rfo rt "t h I,o‘o ",,,s_giehill," d etree of physical ' infirmity or functional Loaf r i u llate b if t " , a t "e thilely aid of science cannot apply a cure. ~.h I :; Ivg„te t ,,NtiZ t e , of Years been engaged in an extensive Ittft,,the r "lliffi n ,ta t , .. or these delicate complaints, which have O tp :Ott ß Pre;„;' , are.otterally confided to the care of ignorant S ‘ - ‘ 1 ali - t/4 4151 15 4t ha jurY on those who are induced to place 1 9, LIC° BIT. , 4 4kraZ i efia . 4` 3 ,P, At rriaY be had, re 2s, of Mesers. Piper, katt, et te Niki, clr noater-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; tijN,_ 'thy u k,re; mann 39 Cornhill •or free by post for •I ti`tt,.. --. eas from he Author's ' residence, 37, Bed oh. -itt etatip eq ' 4 ° , l daily from Eleven till Two. and from 44. It ,,_ Pi°4 t N. Iv tl,l, „ . 44 41.,, „ ''' ,„,. N FRVOUSNESS DEBILITY, AND on f,,.A -.‘. 11. , ' "ieran„,, .ziDI4GESTION. ' ' T ~ vrnents, Constipation, and Htemorrhoids, Is. .af i lS„„ -1 -0 lo a A eh .l by post is. 6d. L l'l tN ' Abst:'''' '- u DRINK, AND AVOID. e h i t . 4 )txDom : ,1 1tia or : 1 to . or . n o . ~,, , u ti curantur morbi." ;til t tat":,ally I,, ilie , b ." ‘ ' . the principal causes (over and careless I ts ti.) tlay" , l oriciligN'e harassing and distressing complaints, N. 11 0,1„kid f„7; 3 ca ; t e and Popular exposition of how wo should k e - : wit m st _e Which is added, diet tables for every meal i , of ,_rliatioris for the regimen and observance of , L ie ".% twenty-four. Illustrated by numerous • 1 8 B TH 11 5 sTTA,-, 2. ll tt 1 4 tim t e a -- -a- , ES OF MARRIED LIFE. e t% iik Ik e 1,. b as ath no w i t , I . t IIN tl 4 14 c 1 all desoi t , hold him lost, ~14 rri /la win , „ . Ile that bath no child, CC t t tlor kt ake, it, e. —Chaucer. ;tt,Nl,4cliatiblipt4l.,,ot.. '4caztene‘Ltations and Necessities—Development t e,,_ty a nd gon g . ca— Precipitate, impelled, and retarded kt. 1, 11 ,, ril t ,., rties— Unsuitableness—Mental Atil t "g I L ZY of al Defe ctiveness—Advantages of Inter: 4114Witi"Lia"c:teaftt°Dni—vollrceer,e 8c di c t . 7 8, y e ll . esemblance—Mode of e gg--1„, 3 L On Infelicitous Infertile, and all Unas-- err .aa,,,,„. . arppl. ~, 3. I t tA L .m, i , :tt i .t v ni: tbt.l , ,3i ,k ont4 A 7 ll :: Lre i t T o s y T o lsT un F a ll iN l T .N e G n. E . NlENTS. ti'lilatioDtt,k,,4-.ol3rt."ll,tigrrrin"erar, T t e h h o o n d s y— e w r h h a e t ar i i m i y , rovo, ttkitlNikt. P ll ast r i7 age ' tr°ol infan ev ey to old age. The advent lath e . (11 41 4 and iN infringemeet. The casualties of rithe n ' Aa v °o, with illustrations graphic, narrative, 0 3 ta te ecacy of Itl !l '4l tO ti 'll r i .et I)13 as o e arly marriages, &c. 'INN tape . 1 10,A . .. their elf - management S and Cure. ‘ t n. ecciZ i oary (1.7-8- coM prehensiveand popular exposition S 4 Nngj DritriarBeaB"—their nature and treatment, cora l), kid k i hcrits, Y. and secondary symptoms, all forms of t t oteti,,., 'tincture and spermatorrhrea ; with 250 en -41,41 larons,, b ee . btlt, ,„ Orce uIItTIIR 5 . • 1 11% joi„ , T Ocists, 0, 3 ., Mad RECTUM.—Comprising .1,z, i 6,p ~,, i',",.,OstiPation. and Haemorrhoids. k tx - roPrr , 1,.. to the preceding. l ikt i , . T ' 1 • vlb l Pew ' L ' -t• HOW TO BE HAPPY. Lcia, '', 23 p at r de . Vivere." ‘4 i tr, ` or ,' ' r faith."—Shakespero. 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GEORGE and EDWARD BROOK c, Leadenhall Market, consisting of Ptarmi gan and Black Game, any quantity of which may be had of any of the London Poulterers and Game Dealers. • TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal. Letters. Patent of England, and scoured by the Seals of the Eno], de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TREESEIIIR, No. I, i a reme Iv for Rela'eatlon. Spermatorrham, and Exhaustion of th. lystem, whether arising from 'excesses, accident, or climate. Toihose persons who are prevented entering the mrwriod statg.hy the eowequenues of early errors It Is invaluable:—"" TRCESEMAR,. No. 2, arrectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely +•ndicates all traces 01 tho3e Disorders which Capivi and Cubabs 3 , ive so long been thought an antidote for, to the rain of the health If a vast portion of the population. TRIESEHAR, No. 3, Is the great Continental Remedy fox:that class of Disorders, which trifortunately the Enitli3h physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution; and which all the sa7saparilla in the world cannot remove. lESE7sIAIt, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, an of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their U.3C being suspected. in tin cases at 1 ls. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into icsarate doses, as administered by Valpeau, LailemanA, Roux, ge., f:c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, €B, Conditll; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 50, Ox ford-street ; R. ti. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; 11. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, nolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. CALCULATIONS ON THE AIINISTRY.- What statesman can best guide the affairs of the nation, and minister to the exigencies of the times, is a question very justly can vassed. Comfort is ministered to everybody by the seasonable clothing manufactured by E. Moses and Soli. That every one in the City, in the country, and in all parts oft the world may have the ministry of the newest a nd most approprate articles of dress, E. MosEs and Sort have recently improved the styles and quality, and reduced the price of all goods thoy submit to the inspection of the public. At E. MOSES and Sox's the most commodious Clothing, Hat, Ilcylery, and Boot and Shoe departments, are connected with the most comprehensive Wholesale business in the world. This offers better investments for Merchants, Captains, and Emigrants than any other merchandise can secure. SPECIAL NOTICE.—UntiI March 1,1855, E. 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GILL—LIVERPOOL, Friday.—lt blew a severe gale front the east last night and the early part of this morn ing, but as yet we have heard of no accident to the shipping either in or off the port. Several snow showers fell during the night. The gale moderated about 5 a.m., and has been succeeded by a cutting easterly wind, with frost. Throughout the south of England we believe the fall of snow was very heavy—interrupting the railway communication for a considerable length of time—the mail from Liverpool due at Euston-square at 4 a.m. not having arrived at 12.35 p.m., and the express train from London at 6.15 a.m., and slue here at 12.10 p.m., did not arrive till 3.30 p.m. None of the Irish steamers have up to the present moment (5 p.m.) made their ap pearance ; indeed, it is uncertain whether any of them would leave their ports while the gale lasted. 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Cure No. 71. — Of dyspepsia, ' from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decks.— I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it clue to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.—Stuart de Decks." Cure No. 32,836.—Fr0m the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross.- " Three years; exces sive nervousness, with painsin my neck and left arm, and ge neral debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food —Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen." Cure No. 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms and nausea, have been effec tually removed by Du Barry's delicious Food in a very short time.—Rev. John W. Flayell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti pation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vo miting?, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. —Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, near Dies, Norfolk." Cure No. 3,9o6.—Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and gene ral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food.—James Potter, Athol street, Porth."—ln cauis eirlathi o i f i post 6 o ters, suitably packed for all climates, and with full instruc tions-11b., 2s. 9d.; 21 b., 4 s. 6 d. ; 51 b., 11s. ;121b., 22 8. ; super-refined, lib., Gs. ; 21 b. , lie . ; 51b., 225. ; 101 b., 3 3s The 101 b. and 121 b., carriag e free, on r , c ce o p office order. 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The poor fellows were wrapped in blankets to shield them in some measure from the cold, being all on deck. Dr. Odell, the staff-surgeon of Ports mouth garrison, with Assistant-Quartermaster -General Dalgetty, went on board and noted the caws capable of immediate removal, which proved more numerous than was expected. There remain on board the Neptune 1; severe cases, sshich cannot be landed' at present. All the Neptune's invalids have been under the care of Sur geon Salmon, R.N., of that ship. The able were landed' from the Sprightly, on the jetty in th 6 dockyard, under the superintendence of Commander Waddilove and Lieutenant Parks, R.N., and. Master-Attendant - Under wood, and removed in omnibuses and.spring vans to temporary quarters in the Clarence Barracks, whence they will be forwarded to the invalid depot. The Blenheim, 60, Captain Hall, was taken into the Angle dock at Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon, to com plete her refit. The Hastinws, 60, Captain Caffin, went into the steam basin at Portsmouth, yesterday, to ship her machinery. The screw steam-ship Cornwallis, 60, was taken out of dock at Devonport on Thursday, and having been masted, was put.lnto the floating basin. She is to be rigged with all possible despatch by the riggers of the yard. The screw steam-ship Euryalus, 51, Captain George Ramsay, having had defects made good. was taken out of dock yesterday; to hive her bowsprit pat on board, OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM FIELD MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN. [FROM THE UAZETTR OF LAST . EVENING.] WAR-DEPARTMENT, lep3. 7. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has received a des patch and its enclosure, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace by Field -Marshal tho Lord Raglan, G. C. B. : Before Sebastopol, Jan. 16, 1855. My Lord Duke,—l have the hoacur to lay before your Grace the copy of a despatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Simmons, which he wrote by desire of Omer Pasha, ex pressing his Highness's approbation of the services of Major Bent, of the Royal Engineers, and the dd.:dimwit of Sap pers which I lent him in the summer ;• his regret at the loss of Lieutenant Burk e , o f the Itlyal Engineers, and his high sense of the condn c t an d exertions of Lieutonant Glyn, of the Royal Navy, o f hi s Serene Highness Primo Ernest of Saxo Leinin gen , an d of the detachment of seamen of her Majesty's fleet, empl o y e d i n th e construe , tion of the 'midge across the Danube, tho seccess of which he attributes in .a great measure to their well-planned dis position. Colonel Simmons, your Grace will perceive, has further been dosirod by Omer Pasha to say, that it would be very gratifying to him if her Majesty should be graciously pleased to reward those officers for the able services they have rendered the Ottoman army and the common cause. I think it right to mention that the Hon. Major Gage, of the Royal Horse Artillery, was the officer who conducted these detachments to Rustehnk from Varna. I appointed him to this duty, having previously sent him to examine the armament at the former place, and being satisfied that the employment of his services on the occasion would be advantageous. • I beg your Grace will be so goo a as . air; her Ma jesty's permimaion for PrivatQ Andrew onion, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, to accept and ear the decora tion of the 4th class of the Order of Medjidie, in considera tion of his distinguished gallantry... 4 h ave, &c., His Grace the Duke of Newcastl e , RAGLAN. &c., '&c., &c. (Enclosure.) Varna, January 8, 1855. My Lord,—His Highness Omer Pasha has requested me to write to your lordship to return his best thanks for the services rendered to his army. by Major Bent, of the Royal Engineers, and the detachment of Sappers; under his command. His his reg re t a t th e losses sustakiineedxpesbrytshis small detach ment,i whish Highness have been me who, under the direction of Major B en t , have well sustained the character of the British army, His Highness has already expressed to your lordship his regret at the loss of Lieutenant Burke of the Royal En gineers, who his Highness considers to have been an officer of much merit. fo m ns e otu. t i ? Jtoa in m fo we r sr z te y ex o to u p r rteh l s o es r i l ng s u h r i tk p hies t h h d a eA t si h rn e e. has a s a dHi sdo Highnesson re himselfat the Court d theesire h onour of his Majesty the Sultan that Private Andrew Anderson, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, may receive and wear the decoration of the 4th class of the order of Mejidie, in commemoration of his gallantry in recovering the body of Lieutenant Burke, after he was killed at the passing of the Danube on the 12th of July last. In the meantime he has presented Private Anderson with the decoration, and trusts your lordship will allow him to wear it until the commands of her Majesty may be received. His Highness further desires me to express •to your lordship his entire approbation of the manner in which Major Bent has conducted his duties. He desires me to inform your lordship that this officer showed great energy in his endeavours to enter Silistria before the siege was raised ; that he subsequently showed great gallantry at the passage of the Danube, when he was the first to land on the left bank, and covered the landing of the Turkish troops with 'a detachment of riflemen, who maintained their ground under a very heavy fire u n til th e disembarkation of the supports was effected. Major Bent and his Sappers were subsequently o f great service in throwing up the tete de pont at Giu rgevo, and in the construction of the bridge across the Danub e . His Highness desires to take this opportunity of express ing to your Lordship his high sense of the services rendered by Lieutenant Glyn, R.N., and H.S.H. Prince Ernest of Saxe Leiningen, with the detachment of sailors of hor Ma jesty's fleet under their command, in the construction of the bridge across the Danube. His Highness considers that the success of the construc tion of this bridge is in great measure attributable to their well-planned dispositions, which, although executed with limited means, proved fully effective to resist the storms and strong currents of the Danube. Ho desires me to say that ho is fully satisfied with the zeal and indefatigable energy •f this detachment of her Majesty's fleet under the able direction of Lieutenant Glyn, whom lie considers a very promising officer, and entirely worthy of the confidence of your Lordship. His Highness desires me to add, that it would bo very gratifying to him if her Majesty could in some way reward these officers for the able services they have rendered to the Ottoman army and the common cause.—l ant, &c., (Signed) J. L. A. SIMMONS, Lieut.-Colonel. Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., &c. MR. BRIGHT, MP., ON COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS. The annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was held at the Town-hall, Manchester, on ,Thursday, when Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Baxley, the president, Mr. Alderman Watkins, Mr. John Slagg, Mr. B. Potter, and some of the most influential mem-. bers were present. • • The PRESIDRNT, in opening the proceedings, referred, it , the first place, to the conduct of the British Govern ment's representative lA. China, who had afsumed the duty of collectiag the customs on British commerce for the Chinese Gbvernment, which, owin„, , to the state of anarchy prevaili ng th ere during the hut two yearn, the Chinese authorities had been unable to collect for Vietn selves.' This extraordinary proceeding ledle the greatest dissatisfaction, and thie chamber had had important nego tiations with the Foreigu-office in reference to the injustice of the demanda which had 'been made. Upon British mer chants. - Their intercourse with Lord Clarendon 'had been most satisfactory ; and it. was hoped that the re mission of, these duties would be obtained, and that here after the labours of the British Consuls -would be con fined to -the performance of duties. they owed to their 'own country, without assuming duties connected with 'the governments of the country where - they were placed. (Hear, hear.) The affairs of India continued to re ceive great attention, the board of directors believing that there was still ',felt a great lack of the supply of raw materials from that country, and that it was still felt that the exoorti 'hence to that great de pendency rested essentially upon the _quantity of pro- duce they could return us in payment for those exports:, There was still evidence coming from many pasta of India that various products which would be of immense use and benefit to this country were produced in India ; and yet such had been the laxity in the admi nistration of the affairs of India, that hitherto the at . - tempts which had been made in this country to improve the condition of India had been almost entirely baffled. (Hear.) - There had been abundance of proof that a very superior claskof goods could he produced, and there were gentlemen in the room who were convinced that large quantities could be grown quite equal in quality to the American cotton, whieh was so largely consumed in this district • that silk might be largely manufactured ; and that indigo and other dyes might be bad in much larger quantity ; and yet, from want of communication with the interior, and from the unfortunate apathy of the Go ' vernment of India, the resources of that country had not , been at all developed. The Commercial Association had acted with this Chamber in reference to the proposal which had been laid before the public of Manchester r u i p v o e n r G the pd m ve p ry ort ; an an ce d o h f e im re p fe r r o r v e ig the referred navigation meeting at whicht e Col. Cotton, who had recently returned after along pe riod of services in India, had been present, and made some very important statements in reference to that subject. It was probable that out of the visit of that gentleman would arise an improvement in the navigation of that river which might at some future time give an ample return for the investments which might be made in it. (Hear.) A subject of great importance connected with the prosperity of Manchester was the movement in respect to the town dues of Liverpool, which werefound to be a most unjust exaction. -And he was satisfied that a spirit had now been developed which would no longer permit, and through which the merchants and manufac turers of this country would no longer allow, the corpora. tion of Liverpool to levy such a tax upon the public com merce to the benefit of their own towd. (Applause.) Pro bably the last year in trade and commerce had been more disastrous than any one had experienced for a consider able length of time. An old evil bad unfortunately revived, for we had a scarcity of food, and therefortifood had been extraordinarily dear; the population had had to live at a greater rate of expenditure for their mere subsistence than for many years previously ; and it had become a plain and palpable fact that the more people spent in bread, the less they had to spend in clothing. About two years ago he had called attention to the importance of the earth being cultivated in every possible direction, for the supply not only of food but of raw materials to employ our industry upon, and from that moment to the pre sent he only saw the increased necessity of less attention being paid to the mechanical element of this country and more to the agricultural element, not only in this but in every other country on the face of the earth. We could not, he believed, have a sound state of everything until we had food, the first element of our existence, in greater quantity, and therefore at a cheaper rate. (Hear, hear.) ' In looking at the state of our foreign trade, he found America was one great cause of the em barrassment which had prevailed in this country among the commercial classei. The people of America were no doubt embarrassed by the state of their commercial arrangements, hut they seemed to overlook the fact that they were paying for their .mateattures, by their pro tective system, a larger amount than had been involved even by IlLeir unkortuitaktAyatem_of banking.. lie, Blzley) computed 'that thit ty millions st rling per an . . nuns ;sere al;scrbed IT the unfortunate proteciire eye tem existing there ; and lie trusted that the people of that country would yet see it, and that we should have a reduction of duties. The exports from this country to France wore really very trifling, and they were in the same position there as in America. He believed that in France they were paying upwards of fifty millions ster ling per annum through the system of protection. France would be the richest country perhaps on the earth but for this system. lie looked to the example of England prevailing, and he had no doubt that that ex ample was even now producing the most beneficial re sults. Ile was called upon some time ago by the enii• nest publishers in Edinburgh, the Messrs. Black, to revise an article in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" upon cotton and cotton manufacturers. He wrote a new article upon cotton, and considerably enlarged the arti cle upon manufactures ; and in the course of the investi gations he was led into by this task he was enabled to prepare a table which he conceived to be of some impor tance. The Board of Trade had kindly given him the facts he required from that department ; and therefore, in the collection he made, he depended entirely upon govern mental authority. The Board of Trade, in doing so, usually gave the gross sum sent out of the United Kingdom ; but he had ascertained to what country every parcel of cotton manufactures was sent, and the result he found to be, comparing the population of each country with the amount seat, that our exports were— to the British dominions in the East Indies, where we had 150 millions of people, the value of our exports in 1853 was 5,680,0001., or 9d. per head fur every person in India. If we referred to Russia, with 67 millions et people, our exports amounted only to 180,0001., or six ' tenths of a penny per head ; but to Russia within the coast of the Black Sea, with a population of three mil lions, the exports were 13,0001., which gave Ifd. per bead. To France, with 36 millions of population, he found we exported goods to the value of 155,7101., or ld. per head per annum. To British North America we exported 749,0001. worth of cotton manufactures, or to the amount of 6s. 11d. per head ; and to the United States, with a population of 27 millions, we exported 4,182,1091. worth, or at the rate of 3s. ld. per head. , By the assistance of his friend, Mr. John Leisler, a foreign merchant, he had been able to approximate as nearly as possible, perhaps, to the value of the cotton manufactures consumed in Great Britain and Ireland, and he found that whilst our exports amounted to 32,712,0001., we had retained at home no less than 21,224,0001. worth of cotton manufactures ; showing that the people of Great Britain consume of our staple manufacture of cotton at the rate of 15s. sd. per annum; and the result was that to the 850 millions inhabitants in the world Great Britain supplied nearly 54 million sterling worth of cotton manufactures, being about an average to each person of is. 30. per head. Now, ac cording to this table the cotton industry of Great Britain and Ireland was 54 million sterling in 1853, and this might be considered half the cotton industry of the whole world. But foreign countries, besides taking half the raw cotton sent to the market, received large quantities of cotton yarn from this country, and in Asia and Africa cotton was still largely spun by hand ; hence the world's cotton industry might therefore be reckoned at 120,000,000/., which would be to every man, woman, and child 'on the face of the earth equal to about 2s. 9id., or 14 yards each per annum of excellent calico. (Hear.) Reverting to the " Encyclopedia Britannica," the Pre sident observed that an excellent article on agriculture had been contributed, and he called the attention of gentlemen 'engaged in manufactures and commerce to it, as well worthy of their attention, as well as of agricul turists themselves. ' Mr. BOOTHIIAN read the annual report, containing a review of the business of the year, which has been already published in substance, from time to time, in the newspapers. On the motion of Mr. Alderman WATKINS, seconded by the Mayor of ASHTON, the report was agreed to, and the officers of the chamber were then elected and other routine business disposed of. A. vote of thanks to the retiring directors having been proposed and seconded. Mr. Munn', M.P., after expressing his cordial con currence in the resolution, said—The position in which we find onrselves to-day is one rather less satisfactory as regards the interests to which this chamber has regard than any we have occupied for - some years past. I s hould like to make one remark on a point to which some re ference is made in the report, and that is as to the 'Debt ing lately held for the purpose of receiving Col. Cotton, and hearing his explanations with regard to the naviga tion of the Godavery. I have observed, since that took place, in a Madras newspaper, that the commission which was appointed there to inquire into the condition of the public works in that presidency has reported ; and in speaking of the Godavery. river they state, that if that river should cost the Government 1,000/. a mile to make it navigable during its course and the course of its tri. but Ines for 500 or 600 miles, it would be a very cheap Undertaking, if we take into consideration the enormous results to the population who live upon its banks, and the district through which it flows ; not that such ex pense would be at all necessary, because there can be no doubt whatever that that commission, so iar as the obstacles in the river are concerned, were less acquainted than Colonel Cotton and his brother, Major Cotton, who is now out there, and other gentlemen with whom he is connected were ; and I would, therefore, much rather take the authority of those gentlemen, engi neers on the spot, and who know more than any other Finglishwan on the subject, than I would the opinion of the commissioners with regard to the actual sum that would require to be expended. And of course we knw I that, in preparing a river for navigation, you may spend ; just as much as you like ; that is, you may straighten it where it is crooked, and give it such a depth of water, or a less depth ; and you may clear the chatihel more or less, and you may spend ;the wealth of a nation ona river of 600 or 800 miles, if you choose to do it on a certain plan. And I am inclined to think, from all the information I can get, that the sum which Colonel Cotton explained to us hero would be one that .would at i any rate open that river sufficiently to give a constant and most productive navigation—l mean not only to tiett country and to this as regards the material which would be transported along its course, but also to the people, who would be willing to make some investment ie the undertaking. (Hear, hear.) We are met, I be lieve, to discuss matters of trade ; and I was very much struck with a statement our chairman read from the table which he has drawn up. He says that the whole cotton indhstry of this country may be estimated at fifty-four millions of pounds sterling per annum,. .two thirds -of it being export, and one-thirduot quite — being home consumption. The first thing that struck nie when 'fifty-four millions was mentioned was, that it comes just to the amount of our ordinary taxes—l don't mean the taxes of this year, which are extraordinary, but the taxes of some former years ; and if you consider that half of this fifty-four millions is in labour,' in the value of the labour bestowed on the cotton industry, it comes to this The CRIIRMAN—I think you may say thirty millions for labour. - Mr; we are not to a million in a matter of Ilia sortotiod thereforik:takintin zat. half;• it `~ Ill follow that it requires the whole labour of Zouble thinuMber of persons who are employed in the cotton industry of this coutry to provide every year for the ordinary taxa tiers of the country. (Hear, hear.) That is, call this country what you like, either in population or in labour —I mean taking also the surrounding districts, those parts of Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire which are interested in the cotton trade—and, be they as nume rous as they may, the population of these districts, and all its labour, so far as it is concerned in the production of our cotton manufactures, would only yield half the ordinary taxation of this country, and it would re quire double the whole of that labour to produce the whole ordinary taxation of the country. (Hear, hear.) Well, that struck me as being a very serious fact ; and probably this year it may not be incorrect to say that it will require three times the whole of that labour to produce as much as will be actually expended out of the public taxes and income by the Government of this kingdom. (Hear.) Now, I know some people believe it is an ordination of Providence that there should be very rich people, and that there should be a great many people very poor ; but, putting theories of that kind aside, 1 think a man would be blind, and he ought to have some one to lead him about, or he ought not to be allowed to go about at all, if he cannot see that the ab sorption by a Government of the profits, or a sum equal to the products of the industry of such a vast proportion of its population, must tend necessarily to create a vast amount of suffering and pauperism in the country. Now I ain one of those who take rather a gloomy view of our present position, and what we are approaching to. Our chairman has mentioned the condition of the food mar ket. Now, I have a circular from one of the most emi nent persons connected with the corn trade, in which it is stated that the harvest of 1853 was the most deficient probably that we have had in this country since 1817, and that the harvest of 1854 was the most productive that ever we had in this country ; and I believe these two facts are not disputed by anybody connected with the trade • yet it is a very curious thing that though the price of Wheat last year, 725. 2d. a quarter, was higher than it has been for a whole year during any year since 1819, and notwithstanding the extraordinary harvest of 1854, the price of wheat in December last was 735. id., being higher by about ls. 6d. than it was in 1853, when the harvest had been so greatly deficient. Thus Provi dence has given to the husbandman his full share of re ward, has filled every measure, every storehouse, and every barn, and yet in December, 1854, the price of wheat was actually higher than it was in December, 1853, after the most deficient harvest we had bad since 1817. (Hear.) Well, then, further on in the same circu lar is another fact stated, that—" Since the publication of our last monthly circular we have procured- a little , further information respnting- the exports of wheat from Russia in 1853, which fully bears out our estimate that, it was at least 6,000,000 quarters. It is not, therefore, surprising that, with stocks exhausted in every other part of Europe, the stoppage of this source of supply should have produced the present high range of prices. Even with a continuance of average crops we cannot expect inucly lower rates, in the absence of imports from Russia ; while another harvest similar to that of 1853 would make the continuance of the present war a eau.o of ino.annlable misery to the poor.throughnut the rest of Bur Te."- If we could coticeive that= in 1854 the harvest bad be 'n no better than in 1353; and that the supplies from Russia, bad been stopped, there cannot be the slightest doubt but our poor people would have been perishing in our streets and on our door-steps, and it would have been absolutely impossible to preserve the peace of the country. That is a fact, and it is a slats of things which aprwars to me very worthy of our serious con:ider.ttior. There are one or two more statements I wiil alinde to with respect to this sul t ject, because I know there are people who fancy that so long as people are well employed it does not much matter what ?eople pay for food, but they seem to lose sight of the ftct, that every day somebody is becoming less and less able to purchase it. In the United Kingdom the consump tion of wheat, in rouud numbers, is 30 millions of quar ters—perhaps a little less, and the present price being 31. 10s. a quarter, that will give us an expenditure, at this rate of price in a year, of 105 millions sterling for wheat. There can be no doubt whatever that, if the imports had been free, with our late great harvest, the price would have been 50s. instead of 705., that is, a saving of 20'. a quarter ; and 30 millions of quarters at 21. 10s. would come to 75 millions sterling, and it makes therefore a simple difference of 30 millions sterling in the cost of our ordinary food. But it we had spent the same sum of 105 millions, and had purchased the wheat at 21. 103. per quarter, it would have given us 12 mil- lion quarters of wheat, that is, in all, 42 millions of quarters for the same sum we now give for 30 millions of quarters ; and, therefore, that which is now an actual scarcity, as shown by the markets all over the country, would have been an abundance of the most profuse char acter—perhaps as profuse as we have ever seen in this country before. Now, that extra expenditure comes to an amount exceeding 51. per annum for every family in the country, being equal to doubling the rent of all the working classes is the United Kingdom, because on the average, they don't, I believe,- live in houses of more than 51. yearly rent, agd there being about 6,000,000 families, or rather less than that, it would give 30,000,0001. as the extra sum they have to give for food. That is not the whole matter, be cause this 30,000,0001. paid for food is folowed by an other sum almost equal in amount—l will not call it equal, I will be under the mark, and I will say 20,000,0001. of extra expenditure on the part of the Go vernment, which will bring the whole extra expenditure in food, and the increased expenditure of Government together, to a sum not less than 50,000,000/. sterling this year. Therefore we are in the position of actually paying a tribute—to a foreign country I won't say—but to an idea of supposed benefit and gain of some kind, of 50,000,0001. sterling this year; and whether we shall get anything on the other side of the ledger or not is a matter which seine people are sanguine about, but I con fess I am not ; but at any rate the payment is made, and cannot be escaped, and its results, I think, we are bound to look at. That 50,000,0001. is withdrawn from cipi tal, the fund out of which labour is supplied ' • but that does not make the whole mischief, for we all know the doubt, and fear, and uncertainty prevailing in the minds of capitalists all over the country, causing probably a withdrawal of funds, of capital equal .to , the whole of that amount of 20 and 30 millions together ; and, there fore, the sum you actually expend is by no means a fair indicatior of the mischief to which you are subjected. Look at the absorption of money—a loan in France, a vast loan in Austria, a loan in Prussia, Russia raising money in some way, and by loan* if it be possible, this country balancing whether it shall be by extra taxation, or whether it shall be by a loan ; but in whichever way it is, whatsoever be this expenditure now going on at such a prodigious rate all over Europe, and to so large an extent in this country, that money being withdrawn t from profitable investments and modes of empl o ym en t by by which labour : is sustained, it must, a s . a m atter_ . t h r e this Take country A m l e s . course, act upon this country, and I h belie a v n e d npon thi l s i country more powerfully than any _!4 _sr, upon a ll other ecountriesAme rica,monetary intahnectwo6onirltod,erooilaf wcheinc too fast, and imported. toe much, and it is quite possible apart f ro m all this, there would ha ve b een some trao rdinaryimportalion of th a t coun t ry f rom ctthhilaiest°;kbiunaiex ttheemoMent these difficulties arise here, English cap it a l, which is partly invested there, or in the course of being invested, is naturally withdrawn ; the blood comes back to the heart, and the extremities are left without support, and thus you hare a crash in the United States, not only precipitated, but much more violent and alarming than you would have had, in all limbo bility, if this state of thi nsg had not arisen. Thus , although we may h ave f anc ied, as some public writers have insanely or dishonestly attempted to show us, that trade is not suffering at all by the foreign policy of this country, we find that not only at home are all the sources of our prosperity dried up by the impoverishment of our people, but that there is not a s'ngle market on the face of the globe that is not influenced adversely to our inte rests by the effects produced there by the contraction of money facilities at home. Well, now, this state of things puts us all in a condition of more fierce competi tion ; we are all producing really rather more than our customers require ; we are all anxious not to suspend our operations, and we are all competing for the dimi nished number of customers ; and the consequence is that profits are almost universally brought down to nothing, and in many branches of trade, there cannot be the slightest doubt that in some considerable branches of the cotton trade, there is actually a loss being made by all those who are' engaged in them. If profits are gone,• what becomes of employment l Don't ere know that at this moment, if it were not for the annoyance it giYea to many 'spinners and manufacturers t o see their - APPOINTMENTS. Commander—Alexander C. Gordon (1858), recently serving in the Majestic, 80, screw steam-ship at Sheer ness, to the Coast Guard. Chaplain and Naval Instructor—Rev. 'Frederick W. Smith, B.A. (1849), from the Odin, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at Woolwich, to the Russell, 60, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness. Chaplain—Rev.-Robert N. Jackson to the Hastings, 60, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. Paymaster—John Nott (1835), to the Royal George, screw steam•sbip, at Sheerness. Clerk in Charge—Henry J. R. Mall (1847), from the Neptune, 120, to the Oberon paddlewheel steam-vessel, at Portsmouth. Second Master Murray T. Wright (1848), recently serving in the Arethusa, 50, has been promoted to be Master. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. The new screw steam-transport Scamander, Captain Jones, belonging to Messrs. Moss and Co., of Liverpool, which left Plymouth on the 24th of January, at 6 p.m., for Havre, encountered a gale of wind dead a-head, against which she steamed until 7.30 a.m. on the 25th, averaging eight knots. The course was then altered and sails set, when she made 12 knots, which was maintained till within 20 miles of the port. Time occupied, 19i hours ' • average speed, nine knots. Immediately on arrival, the French authorities commenced shipping stores, consisting chiefly of barrels of salt meat. A large number of ambulance waggons of excellent workmanship was also embarked. The total quantity of stores shipped amounted to about. 900 measurement tons. She sailed at one o'clock on Sunday last direct for Malta, where she will coal, and then proceed to Constantinople to land the chief part of her cargo. Her ultimate destina tion is Cape Cherson. As the Scamander was steaming out, the Pactolus, belonging to the same owners, was going into Havre, also bound for the Crimea. the large and commodious steam-ship City of Man chester, belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company, has been chaitered by Government for the conveyance of troops and stores to the Crimea. She arrived at Liverpool from Philadelphia on Monday. The -Harbinger remained at anchor at Spithead at dark last night. _ _ _ The Oscar, stearn-vessel, from Sligo to London, put in at Spithead yesterday afternoon, being short of coals. The Crcesus steam-transport left Portsmouth yester day afternoon, on her way to Malta, calling at Ply mouth. PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPRING. The following steamers are ordered to be got ready.at Plymouth by the 2d of March—viz., the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Rosamond, 6 ; the screw steam-corvette Esk, 20 ; the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Dragon, 6 ; and the paddle -wheel steam-frigate Magicienne, 16. MILITARY. Within a few days draughts from the depot battalion, quartered in Birr Garrit;on, will be ordered to proceed to Cork for embarkation to the Crimea. It is under stood that six officers and 120 rank and file from each of the three regiments—viz., 21st,. 57th, and 63d, will be the number ordered to leave, in all IS officers and 366 men. There aro more than 1,100 men at present in that garrison. DEATH OF GEN. SIR P. STUART. General the Hon. Sir Patrick Stuart, G.C. ' M.G., who died on the 7th inst., in the 78th year of his age, entered the army as cortiet in 1793 ; was appointed lieutenant in the 2d Life Guards in 1794 ; was made colonel in ISI4 ; inspecting field-officer in the lonian Islands in 1316 ; and general in 1851. He was colonel of 60th Rifles from 1837 to 1843, when he was appointed colonel of the 44th Foot and Governor of Malta. He was a deputy-lieutenant of East Lothian ; a director ex traordinary of the Bank of Scotland. Ile was second son of Lord Blantyre. THE MILITIA. A letter has been received at Banbury from the Secre tary at War, stating that her Majesty has been pleased to accept of the offer of foreign service ma d e b y th e r egiment of the Oxfordshire Militia, and that as soon as the number of volunteers is made up to 540, and re ported to the War-office, an order will be sent down for the regiment to be sent to the Mediterranean. The re quisite number of volunteers is now nearly,completed. Captain Pipon has resigned his commission, and it is re ported that he will be succeeded by Lieutenant and Quartermaster Holloway. COMMISSARIAT PROMOTIONS. The following circular, regulating the promotions in the Commissariat, was one of the Duke of New castle's latest official acts, and we publish it as no bad illustration of the honest care for the efficiency of the public service which characterised his admi nistration : " Secretary of State's Office, War Department, Jan. 15, 1855. " Sir, —Upon the occasion of the transfer of the Com missariat from the Board of Treasury to the department of the Secretary of State for War, the Duke of New castle had under his special consideration the rules by 1 w a h t c d h. the promotion of Comm issariat officers is regu " These may thus be summed up : eso`h" year. That promotions be conferred onl y at the close of " That length of service be calculated according to the period of each officer's actual service on full pay. "That seniority be allowed its full weight, but that selections be. made dependent upon recorded merits and services. " His grace is of opinion that these general rules, if carried out in their integrity, are calculated to elevate the commissariat service, to stimulate exertion, and to insure a succession of able and zealous officers for the various important duties to be performed. " But it appears to his grace to be of the last import ance that no extraneous influence, either private or poli tical, should be allowed to enter into the consideration of the comparative claims of officers of the department, which, when viewed in the doublo light of seniority and superior merit, are already, in some cases, so difficult to be decided upon with perfect fairness. " The Duke of Newcastle is at all times ready to give his best attention to representations made in official form in favour of officers on the ground of services, but his grace private trn e i ne e eo s art i p r hf e pra s loti m m otsh e t etf toor merits s e , x p o r n e s s hisother determination e t t h o e considerconsfrom nds onof such their officers behalf,rs areas fiulortniashloinnge sufficient to justify their being promoted.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant, " HENRY ROBERTS. "To the Commissariat Officer in charge." NAVAL AND MILITARY OPERATIONS. The following letter has been addressed to a contem. porary : Sir,—At the time that the honour of England and her position as a great Power are involved in the success or otherwise of our military and naval operations against Russia, and considering that much of that success must mainly and of necessity depend upon an effective adminis tration of our naval resources, it may not be inopportune to call the serious attention of Parliament and the country to an extract from a speech of the Earl of Malmesbury in the debate in the House of Lords on Thursday last. The noble earl, who knows well the responsibility of office, having himself been a Secretary of State, and who is a Privy Councillor, and one of our hereditary legisla tors, thus announces the inefficiency of our present sys tem of the administration of the navy, showing clearly its injurious consequences upcn the honour and material interests cf this great element of England's strength : " If the administration of the patronage of the army were assimilated to that of the navy, it would become the hot-bed of jobbing and trickery, which has been for many years a reproach to the Admiralty and this country. (Hear, and I myself can recollect that one o f hear.) I say it has been a rep r oa c h , and a just reproach, I took in public life showed me, with ou t of corruption prevailed un d er t dt o ho the eu bt earliest, A (l o m w i: ft a ae l rp t y st h a t system the peculiar administration of the navy." I am, sir, yours, &c., Feb. 9. A NAVAL REFORIIHR. Her Majesty's monster steamer Himalaya is to leave Southampton on Monday, baying undergone a thorough overhaul, THE NEW SHERIFFS. (o.ftom-- At the Court at Windsor, the Bth da.y of PolaritarY, 1855, present—the' Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council; tho following Sheriffs were appointed : BOdfordsiiire--John Shaw Leigh, of Luton Hoo, Elf/. Berkshire---IFinry Elwes, of .111.rcha in-park, near A bieg don, Esq. Buciciughamshire--Philip Duncornbe Pauncefoit Dun and combo, Williamson co c m a li n e l , b o r f id Grickhill, Esq. ge r s e h a i t r ß o Booth, of Ganihngay, Bart. Cumberland—Thomas Story Spodding, of Mirehonse, Esq. _ _ _ Cheshire—John Chapman, of Hi Mottram, in Lougdendale, Esq. Derbyshire—Peter Arkwright, of Willersley Castle, Esq. Dovonshire—Thomas Daniel, of Stoodleigh, Esq. Dorsetshir—Robert Williams, of Bridehead, Esq. Durham—Robert Surtees, of Redwoith House, Esq. Essex—John iWatlington Perry Watlington, of Moor Hall, Esq. Gloucestershire—Corbett Holland Corbett, of Adming ton Hall, near Stratford upon Avon, E sq . Herefordshire—Richard Francis Wegg Prosser, of Bel mont, near Hereford, Esq. Hertfordshire—Nathaniel Hibbert, of liuuden,Watford, Es Kent—Sir Walter Charles James, of Betshangor, near Sandwich, Bart. Leicestershire—William Ward Tailby, of Homberstone, Esq. Lincolnshire—George Skipworth, of Moortown-House, E s M o nmouthshire—John Russell, of the Wyolands, Chep stow, Esq. Norfolk—Brampton Gordon, of Letton Esq. Northamptonshire—Frederick Urben Sartoris, of Roe den-Hall, Esq. Northumberland—Rowland Errington, of Sandhoe, Esq. Nottinghamshire—Henry Bridgeman Simpson, of Bab worth, Esq. Oxfordshire—Benjamin John Whippy, of Lee-place, Charlbury, Esq. Rotlandshiro—Arthur Heathcote, of Pilton, Esq. Shropshire—Willoughby Hurt Sitwell, of Bneknoll, Esq. Somersetshire--George Barons Northcote, of Somerset- Court, Esq. Staffordshire—Samuel Pole Sh awe, of Maple Hayes, Esq. Southampton—The Hon. Sir Edward Butler, of Hare field, near Southampton, Knt. nearE sg Anglesey—Hugh Suffolk—John Josselyn, of St. Edmund's -hill, Bury St. Edmund's, Esq. Surrey—James Gadesden, of Ewell Castle, Ewell, Esq. Susex—George Carew Gibson, of Sandgate-lodge, near St Su Esq. Warwickshire—Chandos Wron Hoskyns, of Wroxhall Abbey, Esq. Westmoreland —John Hill, of Castle-bank, Appleby, Esq. Wiltshire—Simon .Watson Taylor, of Urcbfont, Esq. Worcestershirc — Williaru Do wdeswell, of Pull-court, Tewkesbury, Esq. borough, Esq. Yorkshire—Jamessitamuol Dukinficid Darbishire, of u o g f he r :P o g f roLe c , fr n w ea yn r , :snqa.res .John Williams Vaughan, of Velinnewydd, Breconsirir Carn m.rvon., Pendyffryn, Esq, Middleton-hall, Brown, of of Carmarthenshire—Edward AbAdam, sq. Cardiganshire—John Battersby Harford, of Peterwell, , of Iravod- Dungannon, of Esq. of Lland llenbighshire—Hen:Ey.7ll.,ohunedrtEsothneStiatnondboavcehel, unos, Abergelo, Esq. of Car- B r F y i n i k n LI h a 1 1' h'r Glamorgan% i Wyndham William L ewis, tr.o—Arthur Trevor, Viscount of the He m at o h n , tg e o o m ar er C y a sh rcl ire iff L Newcastle rinio Esq. rogiMpinisrai,ornEoosktrihe.ashhiirree--__Cjnies :o h ne , o o n f b l y 7 T . o T t o te: e h :mt:q. .... c o tißrlt d , n b E o s r q sli . ir John Abraham Whittaker, of doe, one of the has been .., William . In T s;e s ct e or i s Vi a L t selected to succeed Deputy Commissary-Qeneral Thomas S th e e itirf u s d . i —Mr. Stickney, at Constantinople. Mr. Andoe in early life nerved at Lisbon, under the Auditor-General of Ac counts. Dr. Lyon Playfair, C. 8., and Mr. Henry Colo, C. 8., instead of being Joint Secretaries, will hencefor ward be—the former sole Secretary, and the latter In spector-General, at the department of Science and A rt, Marlborough-house. Mr. Vincent T. Doyle has been transferred from the Board of Trade, to be Senior Clerk in tho department of Science and Art, vice Charles S. Parker, resigned. Messrs. Ilenry William Williams and Philip Owen have been nominated junior clerks in the same department. Mr. Georee Dalhousie Ramsay, third-class clerk at the War-offic'e, and late Acting Secretary to Mr. Sidney Herbert, has been appointed Private Secretary to Lord Panmure, the new Minister of the War Department. Mr. Stapyl ton, Ordnance Clerk at the Tower, has exchanged with Mr. Sparrow, Clerk at Guer nse y . M r. G. C. Holden, Clerk at Cape Town, h as been promoted to be Deputy Storekeeper. Mr. . Bird, Clerk at Cape Town, to be Deputy Storekeeper at King William's Town. Mr. W. H. Scott, Clerk at Graham's Town, has been promoted to he Deputy Storekeeper. Several temporary appoint ments have been made at the Tower and Pall-mall in consequence of the great increase of business in those departments. Mr. J. Duggan has been appointed Clerk for General Business in the Customs at Liverpool. Mr. J. O. James has been appointed Extra Clerk in the Custom iti Lonclen,—Civii iScrvici gazette. 1 PRICE SD. - works stopped twuor three weeks and their h an d s idli ng about, and because they don't like :tanubniit to n'prs- , -- sure which their neighbours are still able and willing to bear, if not from that feeling of pride, to a large extent in many, or of good will to their workmen in ?there, or* hope that things will be better, or a determination not ~ to be beaten, which I am sorry to say is too :much a characteristic of Englishmen, even when they are wrong s many are carrying on business at this Inciment * days a week, when probably it would ,e far more rational if they were working only thi'oe day's. • If you come to the condition of your population, what is that ? liwo or three years ago every man that was charitably disposed was like a frozen-out gatelenet , —there was . nothing for him to do,'and 'all the' places . of benefactions, soup-kitchens, and • places ,of )hat: kind, were shut up for want of paupers. But now, if 7on go to the Chorlton union, or the Manchester • union—in fact there is hardly a union in the kingdom_l believe in which the increase of poor-rntea is not : most marked. I beard it the other day in conversation, and no doubt it is truei that in one of these unions an ex. penditure of 4001. had risen to 7001. a week. In Bit, mingham you find hundreds of people about the poor law offices, -mid the magistrates aed Catholic iisieses, and es erybody who has influence, brought out to- persuade. the peop'e that relief would be given to them. In some of the London unions the increase of patiperism N is. ah- .olutely frightful, and I doubt very much if there be a single union throughout the country in which -the in- . crea,se of poor -rates is not very strongly marked during the past year. I know myself that two or three years ago you hardly ever saw a beggar, unless it was some man who was so from long habit, or from actual incapa city, and one of those poor men whom everybody allows to go about and live upon his neighbours. Otherwise there were no b eggars , b ut now the case is altogether different. I know thaas in fa m r aansyrepgaarrtdss ofm y th h e ou co s Unt an ry d ; our works, and our neighbourh oo d, w h ere I believe we are much better o ff th a n the beggars are increasing every day, and becoming al most as great a trouble as they were 10 or 15 years-ngo; and at the same time the applications for employment from those who certainly do not wish to beg are very much more numerous than they were two or three years ago. Now, in our town (Rochdale), I believe it is not so bad as it is many places ; the flannel tradehas beau : brisk,; I believe the long frost of the Bealon i s faty,o_tit- ~ . able, and - Government enatiaita hive iaded.l4 the pro fits of that particular branch of trade. And there are some men who fancy, because they have got Govern ment contracts, that therefore trade is good, and that war is good for trade. (Laughter.) Why, it is, in fact, carrying on the trade of Rochdale or Dewsbury, or any where else, by the taxation of the country, and as some body has described it, it is like keeping a dog alive by feeling him with his own tail. (Laughter.) I confess I think, as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, we are bound to look a little seriously at this matter. We have got in Yorkshire and Lancashire three millions of people dependent for the most part on the prosperity of those great commercial industries so long settled in in these district! ; and we know perfectly well that a long course of high prices in food, markets abroad glut ted, home market enfeebled and hampered —we know perfectly well what all that b r i ngs us to in a not very long time in this district. Whether it be a corn law or a deficient harvest with no supplies from abroad, or an abundant harvest here insufficient for us without sup plies from abroad, and supplies from abroad not obtain able, or from whatever cause it happens, if you have the supplies of food in this country for any long period at 70s. per quarter, it is not in the changes of cabinets and prime ministers ; it is not in dreams of glory in foreign wars ; it is not in any contrivance of human statesman ship or human imposture, that the population can be prevented from sinking deeper and deeper into suffer ing, and if into suffering, then into discontent, and if into discontent, then at length into insubordination. (Cheers.) My solemn belief is that if these six million quarters of corn are to be, by the effects of our foreign policy, kept out of this country, before two years are over you will shoot your own fellow-citizens in your own streets. I conclude that, from all that I have seen for the last five-and-twenty years that I have been inti mately connected with the interior consideration of these questions ; and, therefore, without expressing here, as I shall not express at all, any opinion on the policy of the Government, for I think we are ourselves now rather mere concerned in these facts than in discus sing other matters ; without going into any questions extraneous from the true objects of this meeting—. (hear, hear)—l am persuaded that we are standing on the threshold of difficulties such as many of those who are now loudest in favour of the causes that are bringing those difficulties upon us, little apprehend ; mid when those difficulties come, in all probability they will be just as terrified as I have seen some of them on former occasions when these disasters haveovertaken the country. (Hear.) Now, I shall say no more, be cause I think these facts, which I believe are not to be contradicted, are in themselves more eloquent than any language that I or anybody else could use ; and I think they only need to be put before the intelligent people of this district fo bring them seriously to consider the future, not the distant, but the almost immediate future ; because now don't we perceive every week that there is a closer grip upon the means of life ; and that a branch of business that was not very much injured last week is less strong this week, and becomes feeble next, and in a month or two sinks down into that state of lassitude and depression which has overtaken so many other branches of trade ? I could point out towns—the towns of Kidder minster and Bradford, and many others in the country --in which business is in a state which has not beers paralleled f r very many years; and I see no reason in the world why that et rte of things should not gradually creep on until it presses with extreme severity upon-every bench of trade ; upon all those r,rions whose capital is not superabundant for eitrything they Lave to do, and e pecially upon all that class of workmen who are those soonest discharged, soonest plunged into suffering and ruin from any disaster-, of this kind._ All I rsk is, that we shou'd endeavour t.) introduce to the minds of all with whom we come in contact a sense of the vast evils which are tr,a.lieg close upon us—for their very foot steps you may hear now, if you will only harken ; and Oa', we slioul,l, w h enever t h ere b e any opportunity, put no obstacle i n the course of any Minister whq shall endeavour, by any rational or moderate policy, to put au acid to what I b e li eve i s a b out to be, if not soon ended, one of the most disastrous conditions wo have seen in this country during our life-time. (Cheers.) The resolution was agreed to, and the meeting termi nated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. ARRIVAL OF THE ORINOCO WITH MILITARY INVALIDS. The hired steam transport Orinoco, 1,891 tons, Com mander Wilson (one of the Royal Mail Steam Company's flotilla), arrived at Spithead yesterday noon from the Black Sea with military invalids. She left Constan tinople on the 21st of January, Malta on the 27th, and Gibraltar on the 2d instant, and hag brought home Lieu tenant-Colonel Stratton, Major Cameron, the Rev. Mr. Halpin, Mr. Stickney, D.C.G., Captain Telford, of the 17th ; Captain Bennett, of the 20th ; Captain Miller, of the 79th; Captain Hutton, of the 4th Dragoons ; Cap. tain Fairclough, of the 63d ; Captain Cockburn, of the 63d (in charge of the invalids) ; Lieutenant Nevil, Lieu tenant M`Bayne, Lieutenant M'Donald, Assistant. Surgeon Irwin, of the 28th ; Veterinary Surgeon Poett, of the let Royal Dragoons ; Mr. Barron, D.A.C.G. ; Paymaster Alldridge, R.N. ; Mr. and Mrs. Hannah and Sons ; Mr. Ferguson, Assistant' Engineer, R.N. ; Mr. Lambert, Cammissioaer's Clerk ; two Assistant Commissariat storekeepers, seven women nurses, from Scutari ; 111 sick and wounded soldiers ; and 9 women. Lieutenant-Colonel Ridley, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, left the Orinoco at Malta, proceeding to England via Marseilles. On the 24th ult. the Orinoco passed a screw steamer, which showed the second distinguishing pennant No 8,453, steering east ; on the 28th she passed a French line-of-battle ship steering east ; on the 27th the General Screw Company's ship Hydaspes, with French troops, was going into Malta as the Orinoco was leav ing, and the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Lord Edward Russell, arrived off the harbour. A vigorona attempt was to be made on the 2d instant to get her Majesty's steam sloop Hecla off the shore in the neutral passage, Gibraltar, which it was expected would succeed. On the 3(1, off Cape St. Vincent, she spoke the British brig Elizabeth Thompson. standing south, and wished to be reported ; also the steamer Monarch. The Tagus, with the Alexandria mail, had not arrived at Malta when the Orinoco left. She will go into Ports mouth Harbour this morning to land her invalids. The only wounded officers by her are Captain Hut ton, who was shot through both thighs at Balaklava ; Captain Fairclough, wounded at Inkermau ; and Cap tain Bennett, wounded in the side at Inkerman. The men are from nearly every regiment in the field, and many are very severely maimed, amputations having . been numerous. We interested ourselves in the inquiry among those from the seat of war as to whethe a r t th ß e a r l : ports and lett ers i n th e Times describing the state of mismanagement and suffering i n the camp and klava, were accurate or overstated. The universal reply was quite the contrary ; the statements, harrowing and naked as they have been presented to the public by the Timcs, they say have not half come up to the truth of the picture of horrors and misery actually apparent everywhere as the scenes so vividly depicted by indig nant sufferers. When we told them that in his place in the House of Commons Rear-Admiral Berkeley said he had lately received letters from Balaklava, purporting to ba the communications from a score of transport masters, averring that the state of that harbour was almost in its perfectness a second Liverpool, they lifted up their hands and eyes in amasement, in a z, n uca d .spiet th inali e iclioe e i. o;, c , t l at a ei into: employed e da w t h in i i ch bk f a o n l- - lowed was of the shortest and most perfect in its appli cation to such a statement. They expressed loud in dignation at the treatment of Mr. Russell, of the Time!, whose company they said had cheered many nma n ia r n his last moments , and who was beloved wherever society was enjoyed. A gallant and ieaslrtadi last he e i pt s , h stai e it tl e. officer at Portsmouth, on the arrival of the Last to Inker man in formed ra him mo e d f ww u a s a sr t : ll k a m t n, hee h wn i s being toinrr.,,g carried " Fitzgerald (Captain W. D. Plisiliers." Fitzgerald), of the 7th "The o ffi cers to m d ins the wounds R Russell Lilly x c w v o h h u e l o t d o m h enir sp okeyth i (adds aos our ro correspondent) r d e p p n w d i e t n h t) Lordr i nqu i red ui Raglan °f me pretend to say. They said the sooner he wait displaced the better, as there were, when they left the cam p, only 12,500 men left out of the 54,000 boasted of so lately. Lord Lucan, too, they hoped would be din placed. I had almost forgotten to mention that my in. ferments stated they had themselves sever once seen Lord Raglan in the camp." The Orinoco saw n ot hin g on her way hom e o f the Britannia, St. George, or Tra. _ falgar.— Time& 1 4 0 - 3 --"------- ---. u, ON A „.,. ) mi "Ay ',--LND NORTH—WESTERN RAIL tkly 4 q il Otice • ti e r;klll h:qin s r. of t , I , hereby given, that the next Half-yearly 4 e ‘ l3 ' 0 ' held at "e London aad Icerth-Western Railway Com hp,tru, r Peb,_ the E uston -station, London, on FRIDAY, the % •Qih e Ztio e 073:, gene at twe've o'clsck at Noon precisely, for ti of. 4it res he ral business of the Company ; and at ~. Ith o, E 0 ~,an OilitiOß will be submitted for the consolidation into "4 u.' l 'llelt er Y 01 The London and Birmingham 201. shares, and ate'ith! Birath, —gharn C 10t. shares, as have been fully .4 7t h , , ci ar Of rebraary. 1855' CHANDOS, Chairman. 41 toe a t " ROBT. BENSON, Deputy Chairman. 11. BOOTH,-,1 Secretaries. 011 . C. E. STEWART, • P t 4 t t et,„ '4I3TERIsr STEAM NAVIGATION ‘4, -iR t th ee ,__ COMPANY. t it4 l; yl4 Is Rzieverated by Royal Charter, 18.51. t a ky 41 ° • eall La t GIYEN,. That the Court of Directors have ) 14 1 7 1 .0 1 'abi e °f 21 . 10s. per share on the shares taken in the , neat t 0,,,,. at th e B a _,_, 4 nun House of Messrs. Glyn,'Mills, and i s ltit te , 'n street, on or before Wedngsday, the 7th day of tijfht` ( ''l th e a Ipt pq triennt for the time being paid up at the rate of li b % arinan, - ,i ti,,, 'v l ll be paid from the date of the bankera':, ..is p, , L. - - ouru, 11155. • Ne ea ..' order ofary the Court of Directors. i 8 qr"m , JOIIN YATES, Secretary. 1. Ati), tha•street, London. -