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LEICESTER -SQ u.s.RE saAsen. 1, New Coventry-street, Leicester - sq uare. CLOSING - OF THE SHARE LIST. The directors are happy to announce that, in consequence of the large number of shares that have been allotted and paid upon, the share list will be closed on Friday, the 30th November, after which date no applications will be received. Arrangenients have been made which will enable the bank to commence business early in January next. This bank, to be incorporated by royal charter, is estab ished for the purpose of founding the principle of MUTUAL BANKING, whereby customers, who create the profits, be come entitled to a participation in them, by way or interest on their cash balances. The principle of mutuality has been for many years acted on ',3y insurance companies, and their policy-holders have participated to a very great extent in the bonuses, with much advantage to the institutions and the shareholders. By ban'as, however, to this period, MUTU ALITY has been negliscted. The whole of the profits result ing from successful crperations have been given to the share holders only. ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THE UNITY BANK. I. To sharebold.ers, 5 per cent., from the date of p a y ment, on all paid-up ca-pital,, as well as 50 per cent. of the profits. 11. To custorAers, in addition to the ordinary amount paid on deposit and current accounts, interest on the ir cash ba lances, equiva l ant to 50 per cent. of the profits. This is the plan on which the UNITY Joule STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ABF CIATION is established. By it is created, for the first time, ~ tn identification of interest between the customers and sharel , s olders of the bank, who thus become mutually con cerned in * the extension of its business. It will be the means of openb g lip neer business, preserVing a connection once formed,, and productive of practical benefits to the public genera - 11 r. J.. CONDITION OF LONDON JOINT STOCK BANKS. Th e slices= of joint stock banks in London is readily-ad mit+,ed, as well as proved by -the statements periodically issi Led by those great commercial institutions. In support of this, the following table is submitted, showing the condi r V i en of each of the six metropolitan joint stock banks which 'have published accounts, the original- cost of the shares, their present market value, and the dividends payable thereon ;-- --...___ is o ci c 57: 7a f): ii "Q NAM; OP Bart. 1 ' F 4 ::*- 1 A 0 f '.... I s I Z., 75 & 41 - rj 4 g. g•f i •9 -t 41 3 4 1 1 . 4 i .ima w.. .. . £ X .£ London and Westminster .. 1834 1,000,000 20 47 16 - i 4 London J btnt Stock ......•• t 836 600,000 -30. 32% 25 , 7". Union Bank of London .... 1839 422.900 -10 ' , 30t 20 1 4 4 London and County . ...... 1839 394,135 • 20, - 39)& 12 i..; Commercial Bk. of London 1840 300,000 20 31 10 I ; )10711.1 8ai1k1.10,0,41.,.. • 1849 ,3.4 000 50 • • 6.1 i t --•- - - ._ - The above banks publish the following facts with regard to their positions :—• I. The entire amount of subscribed capital in the six joint stock banks in, bonden is 12,704,200/. 11. The amount"thereof paid up is 2,817,0351. The aniount of deposits, or customers' balances,: is 29,376,4101_ IV, The tetiniumber of shareholders is 4,097. V. The number of shares issued, 187,084. Thus is presented proof of known security, extent of busi ness, and general financial resources. These e s t ablishments hold ' half-yearlx v meetings,, and lay before their connections full accounts 6f iceir progress and general operations. This course cannot fail in inspiring with confidence all who have any dealings wits them, while it gives to the public the means of forming an opinion as to their responsibility. INCREASED VALUE OF JOINT-STOCK BANK SHARES. It isproved to demonstration, that joint-stock banking, under proper supervision, affordss most legitimate and un usually profitable field for the investment of capital. The dividends paid by the banks above quoted vary from 6 to 25 per cent., and the latest quotations of their shares show an increase of 55 to 225 per cent. on their paid-up capit.A. The real increase, however, in the value of the shares may be bet ter understood, by the fact that the paid-up capital of these six banks is 2,817,0351., and that its present market value is 6,912,1161. It has thus increased two-and-a-half fold. so that every 11. has now become 21. 10s. , and there is every prospect of this amount continuing to increase in value. COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE UNITY BANK. GOVERNOR. J. J. MECHI, Esq., Tiptree Hall, Kelvedon, Essex. WILLIAM JOSEPH BRUCE,' Esq., 16, Duke-street, West minster, and 4A, Hyde-park-place, Cumberland-gate. G. L. P.' EYRE, Esq. (Messrs. Trinder and Eyre), 1, John- street, Bedford-row. THOMAS CARLYLE HAYWARD, Esq. (Messrs. Hayward and Sons), 93, Minories; and 3, Highbury-park North. MAJOR HENRY STONES, LL.B., 33, Nottingham-place, Regent's-park, ROBERT GARLAND, Esq., Thames-chamber, York-build ings, Adelphi, and Belfiore-lodge, Highbury. THOMAS H. BAYLIS, Esq., Cannon-street, City; and 4, Nottingham-terrace, York-gate, Regent's-park. Dr. LLOYD, 4. Suffolk-place, Pall-mall. ROBERT JAMES SNA.PE, Esq., 2, Stone-buildings, Lin- coin's-inn. EDWARD GOULD BRADLEY, Esq., Heathland-lodge, Hampstead. MAJOR MARTIN MULICERN, Ightfield-house, Alsop- terrace, Regent's-park. , ... _ BANKERS. THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. SOLICITOR. THOMAS TAYLOE, Esq., 27A, Bucklershary, London. BROKERS. Messrs. R. and J. SUTTON, 22, Royal Exchange, London. GENERAL MANAGER. GEORGE CHAMBERS, Esq. (from Messrs. Rune% Hoare, and Co.) SECRETARY. HENRY LAKE, ESQ. Each of the directors is duly qualified, having subscribed for twenty shares, and paid the deposit of 1,0001., in accord ance with the deed of settlement. . THE NEW PRINCIPLE INTRODUCED BY THE UNITY BANK. Regarding the distinctive principle of the Unity Bank, it has been suggested that there must be a detraction from the profits of the shareholders, by reason of 50 per Dent being givin to the customers of the bank. This idea at only have arisen, however, from the want of a careful consideration of the whole subject. In the first place, it is necessary to re member from whom the profits of a bank are derived. They are not made from the share capital. The very first ingredi ent fur the formation of profits is a customer. The amount of profit must, therefore, be governed by the amount of busi ness transacted ; and the larger the business. provided it be properly conducted, the larger will be the profits. It must be borne in mind, also, that the real extent of the dividends must depend on the number of cents. of profits, and that 50 per cent, of the profits, extending over large transactions, may be far greater than 100 per cent. derived from more circum scribed business. • If, then, the customers of a bank consti tute its profits, the customers should be induced to transact their business with the bank, and thereby the profits of the shareholder, instead of being reduced, will be augmented. The inducement held out to the customer, however, should be such as does not involve or complicate the business of bank nil. It should not be by the promise of some peculiar accom modation, or some particular and increased rate of interest, or by any departure from that sound system of joint-stock banking which has stood the test of years of experience, and procured so great prosperity. But it should be, as it is in the Unity Bank, an advantage which interferes in no degree with established principles, but merely allocates a portion of that which has already been declared to be profit to those who have been the makers of it. Assurance companies have been accustomed to apportion certain of their profits, by way of bonus, to their assurers ; and so general has become the re cognition of the right of the assurer to this participation, that no assurance association would now be established without this essential to success. The justice of the principle consists in this—that as the assurers make the profits of the company, they ought to be participators in its prosperity. What is just in assurance will be found just also in banking. The customers of a bank make the profits of the bank, and they ought also to be participators in its prosperity. It has been asserted, also, that the 50 per cent. of the pro fits proposed to be divided, while it would detract from the profits of its shareholders, would be but a trifling benefit to the customers. It might, in the first place, be replied that no benefit is considerid " trifling" by those who rightly esti mate pecuniary affairs ; that the benefit; if , rifling, is in addi tion to all the other benefits usually derived by banking at a joint-stock bank ; and that no correct data can be formed of the profits which will be made. Ou the other hand, it must be remembered that hitherto persons have taken their bank ing account where personal feeling, accommodation, or con venience of locality might lead them. New, for the first time, by the introduction of the principle of mutuality, self-interest is appealed to. And when, to the large number of the public attracted by this all-powerful stimulus, is added the number of the connections of the Unity Insurance Associations in all parts of the country, who have a peculiar identification with and interest in its success, it may fairly be stated, that ante cedeut data are not sufficient to form an estimate of the ad vantages which both the shareholders and customers will derive from the Unity Bank. Great difficulty exists in estimating the effects likely to be produced by the establishment of this new and most desirable feature in banking. It is one that must become highly popu lar with every commercial interest, and with every class of the public, because its simplicity and advantages are at once to be seen and appreciated. To those great commercial bodies which are compelled to have large cash balances constantly at their bankers', it will prove to be a serious consideration, and a most important source of profit. The railway, dock, gas, gation, insurance, and other companies,water, steam navi- , adprofessional traders Tani merchants, brokers, gentlemen of fortune, kinds, will duly e stimate the difference in th e system° now In fine, as joint proposed,ublic necessity, as is nose a w dm pr i o ra v i e ) d ie , in so • bsele to the p u bli c, from that heretofore existing, stock banks became a p will the principlebe r o e f n m de u r t e u. d ll s i t t i y ll — m w o h re ei s T e b r y vi t c h ea e stitutions may and in no way less safe—demand the best consideratio n of the community at large. BUSINESS TO BE UNDERTAKEN, All the usual business of banking will be undertaken ; an d arrangements will be made for extending the transactions of the Bank in every desirable quarter. CuaRENT ACCOUNTS will be made up half-yearly, namely—to the 30th of June and the 31st of ecembe and interest will be allowed at the rate of 2/. per ce D nt. ou t r, hem. DErosir Accocyrs.—With respect to these, s, t n h o e ti l e •a e to w o il f l tcrest allowed on money placed at seven da y be 1/. per cent. under the rate of discount on first class bills adopted by tho Bank of England, regulated thereby. The bank will give receipts for the sums so deposited, or, for the convenience of depositors leaving England, promissory notes, or bills, including interest as well as principal, at not less than six months' date. The bank will undertake the agency of country and foreign banks, whether joint stock or private, and will afford every accommodation to travellers and others with respect to circu lar notes and letters of credit. It will receive all kinds of income for its customers, including annuities, dividends, mili tary, na va l, an d c i vil off i cers ' pay, It will undertake t h e sa l e and transfer of sto c k i n th e pu bli c f un d s, & c. ; an d w ill b e responsible for tile safe custody of title deeds and other secu rities belonging to its customers, to which they will at all timesApphl Application convenience for p prospectuses o e e f taccess,and , forms ofapplication for , the J. sntz,eonr, the remaining shares, to be mad e t o M essrs stock brokers, 22, Royal Exch ange ; or to; R th , e secretary, at the principal offices, 10, Cannon-street, City. HENRY LAKE, Secretary. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. T THE DIFLECTOES OF THE uNITT JOINT-STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCUTIOY. Gentlemen,— I request that Sou will allot me shares of 100/. each in the above association, and in consideration or such allotment, or any less number you may appropriate to me, I hereby undertake to pay the deposit, or first call of 101. per elms thereon, and 10/, at the time of incorporation, No. 19,69c4.] I further undertake to execute the deed of settlement when required. Dated this , 185 . . day Reference Names (in full) Resideice Profession or trade...... .... Place of business UNITY JOINT STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCIATION. Principal Offices—Unity-buildings, 8 and 10, Cannon•street, City. CLOSING OF THE SHARE LIST. NOTICE is hereby given that no further applications for SHARES in this bank will be received after Friday, the 3Uth of November. By order, HENRY LAKE, Secretary. Unity-buildings, 9th Nov., 1855. 'DOTAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS IN EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing. variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no - one can be positive that ho sods any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which bave 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 mount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. ~as,arsal,a,„Mtribute that,,suesoss eana.a Arst, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment - of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing. have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the ,heatre 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 Anlerson's exposé 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 "or Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Andersou's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem oer2o, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hum 6 :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the .olution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques ion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestlyTemarked, 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 as a medium, and he would sooner lose hid 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 one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorialarticle 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 I and, with Barnum's endorse. ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated I Professor Anderson would believe not : but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's lintel, 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 séance 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 au invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his, lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the 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. 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, on Saturday, November $4, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer 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 fre possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre 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 its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without 'Pron. ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be 'risible 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, *oyeau, or to b a e n fi y lle o a tl w ie i r th wi p n o e ck o et r h s a p ti ii d it ke 7lu ie ir fs ed p ; er a fe n c d tly fin d a r l y ly , proving Spirit-rapping. tocsin of the invisi Act 8 the a whole space when tightly packed. and occupyi nglf Act. 9. Grand Mystic an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of Introducing the spirit-rapping table and i , ‘ l .malgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons amongst others, undergo some strange metamor their handkerchiefs become phoses, and, transformed into the fla gs ers ' Sardinia. Act. banners of Eng. land, Franee, Turkey, a nd Act. 10. The Enchanted C ' hai i r ni o a f . Cotaus, in which ho who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appea r t o the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act, 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; N uc leus of the Night's Wonders. T o comprehend whichr , the the audience will have the g oodness to obse rve , in au earlier part of the evening , t he chest suspended (like Mahonamed'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 friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. Is., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dross circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per : formance on Saturday November:24, at 2 o'clock. Dona open 4 half-put 1. LONDON, riUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1855. CHEADLE (STAFFORDSHIRE) RAILWAY COMPANY—(RAILWAY from CRESS WELL to CHEADLE, with BRANCHES to HOLLINGTON and DILHORN, all in the County of Stafford). (Incorpora tion of Company— Powers to construct Railway, Branches, and Tramways, and to Amalgamate with, or to Sell or Lease to, or to make Traffic Arrangements with the North Staffordshire Railway Company, and for Amendment of Acts.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Application is in tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an Act to incorporate a Company, and to give such Company power to make and maintain the Railway, Branches, and Tram ways, or any or either of them hereinafter mentioned, and all necessary and proper works and conveniences connected therewith (that is to say) First, a Main Line of Railway, commencing - by a Junction with the North Staffordshire Railway (Uttoxeter Branch) in the parish of Checkley, in the county of Stafford, at or near a point on the said Railway, being Five Furlongs East of a certain level crossing in the parish of Draycot, in the Moors in the said county, known as the Newton Level Crossing, and terminating in a field called the end of the Brook Meadow, owned and occupied by William Bowers, junior, situate in the Town End Quarter of the parish of Cheadle, in the said county, which said intended Railway will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situated within the several parishes, township, and extra parochial, or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Draycot in the Moors, Cresswell, Checkley, Upper Tean, Lower Tean, Totmanslow, Tenford Huntley Quarter, Mobberley, Town End Quarter, Cheadle Mill, and Cheadle, all in the said county of Stafford. Secondly—A Branch Railway or Tramway, commencing by a Junction with the said intended Main Line of Railway in a field called Bohemia Field, situate near to Tenford Mill, in the parish of Cheadle aforesaid, and terminating at or near a certain piece or parcel of land known as the Freeholders allotment at Hollington, situate near or adjoining a certain Stone Quarry, owned and occupied by William Seal, at Hol lington aforesaid, in the township of Madeley Holme, in the said parish of Checkley, and which intended Branch Rail way or Tramway will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, townships, .extra Rare chial and other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Draycot in th e M oors , T o tmanslow, Tenford, Cheadle, Upper Tean, Lower Tean, Checkley, Hollington and Madeley Holme, all in the said county of Sta ord. "CinnuTelllfiltrir Junction with the said intended Main Liao of Railway at or near the north end of an occupation road at Mobberley, in the Huntley quarter of the parish of Cheadle, numbered 1,595 on the parish plan of the Huntley quarter of the said parish, and terminating in or near to a certain field called the Mill Pool Meadow, adjoining the Whympney Wood, be linging to and occupied by Edward Buller, Esquire, in the parish• of Dilhorn, in the said county, and which last-men tioned Branch Railway or Tramway will pass through, in, from, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, town ships, extra parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Cheadle, Tenford, Huntley, Mob berley, Cheadle-mill, Brookistone, Foresbrook, and Dilhorn, all in the said county of Stafford. And it is intended by the said Act to take powers for all or some of the following purposes, that is to say :—To sell and transfer, or to let on lease the said undertaking to the North Staffordshire Railway Company, and to enable the said North Staffordshire Railway Company to purchase or take a lease of the same, or otherwise to enable the said intended Company and the North Staffordshire Railway Company to make and carry into effect such contracts and arrangements, with respect to the working and management of the traffic upon the said intended Railway and Branches, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such restrictions as may be nuitually agreed upon or be specified in the said intended Act, and for the purposes aforesaid to amend, vary, and en large the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament follow ing, or some of them, that is to say :—The Acts relating to the North Staffordshire Railway Company (local and personal), namely, 9 and 10 Vitt., cap. 85 ; 10th and 11th Viet., cap. 108; 11th and 12th Vict., caps. 66 and 83; 13th and 14th Viet. cap. 55; and 1 William IV., cap. 55. And it is pro posed by the said intended Act to take powers to purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, the Lands and Buildings reqr 4 red for the purposes of the said undertaking, and to levy Tolls, Rates, and Charges, for or in respect of the use of the said intended Railways, Tramways, and Works, and of the Car riages and Engines used thereon, and to grant exemptio n s from all or any of such Tolls, Rates, and Charges, and to raise money on the credit of the said Tolls, Rates, and charges or otherwise for the purposes of the said undertaking. Also,to alter, vary, stop up, or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and other roads and highways, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, rivers, sewers, mains, pipes, and other works situate within or near to the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places, or any of them with which it may be necessary to interfere in the construction of the said intended works or any of them. And it is intended by such act to vary, repeal, or extin guish all existing rights, privileges, or exemptions in any manner connected with the lands and buildings, or other property or works proposed to be purchased or taken or in terfered with, o: which would in any manner impede or int-ir fere with the construction, maintenance, or use of the said intended railway and works or any of them, and to confer other rights, privileges, and exemptions. And it is intended by the said act for the purpose of carry ing the said undertaking into effect, to create a joint stock or capital, and to confer on the said company so to be incorpo rated, and to make applicable to the objects of the said bill all or sone of the powers and provisions of " The Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815," " The Lauds' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and " The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and all other necessary powers and provisions. And Notice is Hereby Given that a map, plans, and sec tions, describing the line or situation and levels of the said intended Railway and Branch Railways respectively, and the Lands and Buildings proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, together with books of reference to such plans, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of such lands and buildings, and a copy of this notice, as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited, on or before the 30th day of Nvember in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Stafford, at his office in Stafford ; and that a copy of the said notice, and a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of reference as relate to each of the parishes or extra parochial places in or through which the said intended Railway and Branch Railways respectively are intended to be made, will be deposited, on or before the said 30th day of November instant, in the case of each parish with the Parish Clerk of such parish, at his res'dence, and in the case of each extra parochial place with tbe Parish Clerk of soine adjoining parish, at his residence ; and that copies of the paid Bill will be deposited at the Private Bill office of the House of Commons, on or before the 31st day of December next, Dated this Eighth day of November, 1855. BLAGG and SON, / Joint Solicitors to CATTLOW and DANIEL, f the Promoters. CONTRACT FOR PIG LEAD. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 17th Nov., 1855. THE Commissioner s f or execu ting the Office of 1 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain nd Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, tile 4th December next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with .nch persons as may he willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyard at Chatham with PIG LEAD. A form of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and hear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Eg Lead," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a setter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,000/. for the due performance of the contract. PUBLICATIONS. NEWT NOVEL BY:THE AIJTIIOR OF MARGARET MAITLAND. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., LILLIESLEA:F.- A New Story, by the Author of "Margaret Maitland, &c." Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlberougli•street. This day'is published, in Bve., price 215., THE STORY of the CAMPAIGN of SEBASTOPOL. Written in the Camp. By Lieut.-Col. E. BRUCE HAMLEY, Capt.,Royal Artillery. (Originally published In Blackwood's Magazine) With Coloured Illustrations, drawn in,Camp by the Author, includ ing a Sket4h-Map of Sebastopol and the Siege-Works. Wm. lilackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and Loudon. 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COCKS, Reading," on the seal and label of each bottle : without this none are genuine. _TOZEAIT'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED tfi CAPSULES, approved of by the trench College of Physicians, successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and ecknuwledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder. (See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on applt cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inventor, GABRIEL JOZ,EAU, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, ,London, and all the principal chemists. TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN DEVEY, OF THE MERMAID. Yesterday, at the Underwriters' News-rooms, Liver pool, the ceremony took place of the presentation of a service of plate from the shipowners and merchants of Liverpool to Captain Devey, of the Royal Mail clipper ship Mermaid, belonging to Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson. The circumstances which occasioned the testi monial in question have been lately detailed in the form of a judicial investigation, the particulars of which were reported at the time in The Sun. It will be recollected that Mr. Cooper, her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco, wished to detain the Mermaid at that port, on the ground of its being unseaworthy, but Captain Devey, relying on his own skill and judgment, refused to yield to the consul's representations, and brought the vessel to England, thereby doing great service to the owners of the ship, and saving the underwriters a lar g e sum of money. The service of p late, valued at 1701 . , was presented to Cap - ain D eve y by Mr. Charles T urner , chairman of the dock committee, who, after passing a high compliment npon the ability, judgment, and firmness displayed by the captain, observed that the conduct of her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco af forded ample proof that it was most desirable the question of remuneration derived from the misfor tunes of shipowners should be inquired into, and the custom abolished, in r eference to her Ma j es ty's repre sentative at that port (Pernambuco ) . Had Cap tain Devey yielded t o the consul's representations the loss to the shipowners and underwriters would have been extremely heavy—indeed there was good reason to fear that if the vessel ha d once g one into port she would never have left it again. Mr. Turner then rea d a tasti monial, numerously signed by shipowners and memb ers of the Underwriters' Association, conveying the hearty concurrence of the subscribers with the decision arrived at by Captain Robertson, who had investigated the case on behalf of the Board of Trade, and which had proved that the injurious representations of Mr. Augustus Cooper, her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco, with re ference to the state of the ship Mermaid, were totally unfounded. Captain Devey having suitably expressed his acknowledgments, Mr. Turner read a letter from the manager of the Grea t Western Insuran ce Society, stating that, though the Mermaid was not insured in that so ciety, he had been directed to acknowledge the praise worthy conduct of .Captain Devey in opposing the authority of the British Consul at Pernambuco—a place, it is stated, known to all underwriters for its impositions. (Cheers and a laugh.) The letter was accompanied with a cheque for 101., which the underwriters of that associ ation hoped that Captain Devey would accept. Arr. Turner, in conclusion, stated that the underwriters with whom the ship was insured had determin e d t o p resent Captain Devey with 1,000/. The proceedings then closed. THE MOIISTACHE. — The directors of the Northumber land and Durham District Bank have, we understand, ordered all the employes who adorned their faces with a naoutatache W ohm or resign,—/Sanclorlanoi anca. THE BRITISH ARMY. ( From the Times Special Correspondent.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3.—1 was obliged to omit in my last despatch some particu lars with respect to the Kinbourn expedition, which may prove interesting even now. _ _ _ When the fleet was off Odessa the advice of the highest person in France on the project of bom barding the town was sought by the French Ad miral, and it is believed that his reply implied a " radical opposition" t 3 any such proceeding, nor was our Admiral authorised by the home authori- ties to attack Odessa unless he was certain of suc cess. Sir E. Lyons and Admiral Bruat have acted all along in the most perfect accord, but there has been this difficulty in their mutual relations; that Admiral Lyons is not under the orders of the Bri tish Commander-in-Chief of the army, while Ad miral Bruat is directly under the control of Mar shal Pelissier, and it is known that the latter is opposed to any operations which would require large detachments from the French army. It was proposed at one time to send in a flag of truce to Odessa with some such proposition as this to the Governor—" Are you the Governor of a commer cial town or of a military station ? If you say Odessa is purely a commercial town, destroy your forts, abandon your efforts to fortify it, deliver up your gun-boats, if any, and we promise to respect the place. If you say Odessa is a military station, you must expect to see it treated as such by the Allied fleets." However, in case of the Russians refusing, to give up their guns, &c., and setting us at defiance, it would have been necessary for us to attack the town ' coute qui coute, and there were many reasons why at that particular time such a course would not have been desirable. It may be doubted—indeed, it is, I believe doubted —by the English Admiral that we could de stroy -Odessa from the sea by such' Means' as we at present possess. It is a town of stone, of wide streets, of places, and squares, offering little combustible matter, and placed at such a distance behind the batteries as to be accessible only to mortar vessels and horizontal fire at a very long and, therefore, at a very uncertain, range. The houses are roofed with iron, and, in many cases, there is no woodwork in the flooring or ceiling of the different storeys, but iron girders and til s and slabs of stone are used instead of planks and rafters. Many of the houses are detached, and stand like so many palazzi in their own grounds. Under these circumstances a general fire would be almost out of the question, and the damage caused by a bom bardment would not be very decisive or extensive. With all the efforts of friends and foes to destroy it, how much of Sebastopol still remains ? The Russians, by the agency of powder, of piles of wood, of tar, of turpentine, and of all sorts of com bustibles, tried to get into a blaze, but they failed, notwithstanding a favourable breeze ; and we rained shells on it for months, and never succeeded in creating any conflagration of importance. Well, Sebastopol contained much more wood than Odessa, and was much more accessible to our fire. The inference is, that we could not, by any bom bardment the fleet could inflict on Odessa set the town in a blaze, or inflict damage which would compensate the Allies for the expenditure of all their shell. It is evident that, at some period or another, our fire would cease from exhaustion of means. Even a line-of-battle-ship's powder maga zines and shot and shell rooms are not illimitable. It is equally clear that a line-ef-battle steam-ship could not try to come in close enough to the forts to develope her fire, without running the greatest risk of being disabled before she could get into position. The moment would come eventually when our bomb.vessels and gun-boats and heavy steam frigates would be compelled to cease firing, and that probably before much injury was done to a large distant stone-built town like Odessa ; and then, if the Russians could fire even one gun as we re treated, they would claim, and with some colouring —which would seem very bright and decided in some circles in England and in many cities and towns of despotic Germany and of free America— the credit of having beaten off the Allied fleets I If Odessa is to be destroyed, it can only be done, first, either by great numbers of floating batteries to reduce the forts and enable the liners to ap proach within broadside distance ; secondly, by a sustained fire, constantly renewed for several days, of a flotilla of gun-boats, bomb-ketches and mor tar-vessels, fed by continuous supplies of ammuni tion, and even of new guns and mortars; thirdly, by the disembarkation on the coast below the city of a force sufficiently strong to defeat the garrison and the outlying army defending the place, in which case the city would be open to the conque rors, and all the defences taken in reverse; or, fourthly, by some unknown operation of war, locked up the Admiralty key in Lord Dundonald's bosom. Of these plans the third alone seems to insure the certainty of destroying Odessa. The wear and tear of materiel in a protracted bombard ment is incredible. Even in our affair at Kinbourn numerous guns were disabled—as an example, I may state that both of the Arrow's heavy Lancas ter guns burst after a few rounds, so that the gun boat was rendered quite useless. (It should be added by parenthesis that these guns were not fur nished by Mr. Lancaster, but were ordinary heavy guns bored out in conformity with his principle ) The mortar-beds also underwent heavy strains on the occasion, although those suspended on Julius Robert's principle were found to answer very well, and to give less shock to the vessel than those mounted on the old plan. Although Sir Howard Douglas declares that a 13-inch mortar ought to hit a large object such as a fort at the distance of 4,000 yards, I know that many of our bombs missed Kinbourn from a distance of less than 3,000 and 3,600 yards. The whole of the glacis and of the ground before the fort for some hun dred yards was burrowed up and pitted by the craters of bombs which made prodigi ous holes in the soft sand on which they ex pended their force. For one shell which would fall through the roof of a house in Odessa three or four would fall in the public streets, squares, and yards, where they would. be comparatively harmless. These large missiles take up great space, and the fleet could not hold enough to lay Odessa in ruins.'" Even had the Admirals been provided with all the appliances for destroying Odessa, the project would not have had the concurrence at present of one Go vernment, at all events ; and so the fleets, after approaching the town, lay quietly before it. They might have caused great damage to property and loss of life by firing on the place during their stay, for, though complete destruction is often difficult where damage and loss are easily to be effected, there can be no doubt that a vigorous fire would have occasioned the enemy a considerable amount of both. The French Admiral, indeed, suggested that a certain number of gun-boats and mortar vessels should go in every night and throw shell into the town ; but Sir Edmund Lyons was of opinion probably—and if ho was, there can be but little question in English minds that he was right —that such a petty measure of warfare was un worthy of us ; that we ought to destroy Odessa, and at all events assail it with all our strength, or refrain from a partial attack, which, on its cessa tion, the Russians would say, and not without pretence, was repulsed. The soldiers and sailors who are doomed to stay at or off Kinbourn for the winter will have a dreary time of it. The sea on both sides of the spit is frozen to some distance from the shore, but Major-General Kokonovitch, the late Russian Go vernor, who was there for four years, said he had never known the sea to be frozen right across to Oczakoff. By the by, it is believed General Lu ders was in Kinbourn just before our arrival, and that he only crossed to Oczakoff in a small boat the night we arrived off the spit, leaving behind him assurances of relief to the garrison, and in forming the Governor he ought to hold out at least for a fortnight. The Glatton is at Ka miesh, and will not, I believe, take part in the defence. As to the blockade of the Boug and the Dnieper, it will, I presume, be raised by the first frost, and the guu-boats engaged in that service will drop down and join the flotilla at Kinbourn. The only thing to look forward to is a liberal en joyment of shooting, if the Cossacks will permit it, as the whole of the shores abound with m ultitudes of wild fowl. Before the expedition started nearly a all the smaller gun-boats were despatched to rein force Captain Sheiard Osborne's flotilla the Sea of Azoff, where that active and e nergetic ofhcer is harrying the Russians as a hawk perturbsi b a field of larks. The Fancy, Lieutenant Gry h w as still with the fleet ; indeed she is so ba dly uilt that waves in she is scarcly fit for the short !lacking * The impression in the Crimea, which no doubt our correspondent faithfully echoes, SCNXIS to be that Odessa should have been destroyed, whereas we believe that an attack on Odessa would have been considered throughout Europe as a barbarous outrage, which the aggressors would have been heartily ashamed of after the heat of conflict had passed away. If Odessa were really . a military station, the stern laws of war would, no doubt, justify itthsedehsturruncitnigen;i but an attack on a gr eat commercial cit y , on the pretext that its stores supplie d p rovisions to the Russian army, could only be classed in history with Waalainton! [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5r that sea, and she strains and leaks iu bad weather Ito a dangerous degree. The attent io n of a l l naval officers is turned noes to the navigation of shallow waters, by vessels with heavy armament, and Com mander Cowper Colas, of the Stromboli, who in vented the raft Lady Nancy, which did such good service at Taganrog, has constructed models of two very ingenious rafts, which have been sent to the ' Admiralty, and which are highly approved of by the Admirals out here. Rafts of this construction would do immense service in the Sea of Azoff, and one model provides for the adaptation of steam power, which would give the raft a moderate pro pulsive agency of its own. As to the ascent of the Boug or the Dnieper it is only to be attempted by vessels with shotproof screens and proof decks, inasmuch as every man could be picked off the decks by Almie riflemen unless the banks of the river were cleared by troops in numbers sufficient to beat back the enemy as they advanced. Captain Coles's raft is provided with a shot-proof screen which shelters the gun and every soul on board, helmsman and all. In spite of our operations in the Sea of Azoff let it be re membered that we have not reduced Arabat or Genitchi, and that the Russians will soon have free use of the Spit. The moment the frost compels our boats to retire the Spit of Arabat is in the hands of the Russians, for the water of the sea is frozen to the distance of several miles, so that no boat can approach to prevent the passage of troops or convoys. Had Arabat fallen, and an expedi tion landed at Kaffa or Theodosia, we should have been masters of the Peninsula of Kertch. NOVEMBER G. The regiments which came from Kinbourn are still on board the fleet at Kamiesh. It is known that the English Admirals are most anxious that they, with a sufficient body of French troops or with reinforcements of English troops, shotild pro ceed at once to Theodosia, to undertake the Opera tion I have indicated. But they are opposed by men of great weight and authority, and it is be lieved that reference has been made by electric telegraph to France and England to know what is to be done. The weather has been fine to a mar ' vel. It is so far back as October 27 that prepara tions were made to embark the English troops, and it was then whispered that they would certainly go to Kaffa, and march on Arabat, which is only 10 miles across at the other side. On Sunday, the 28th, Captain Paris came up to the allied squadron blockading the Boug and Dnieper, with orders to take the command as soon as Admiral Stewart left, and when we sailed on Tuesday we left that officer in charge, with the Beagle, Viper, Snake, and another English gun boat, and four French gun-boats, to keep up that dismal duty. For several days previously the weather had shown symptoms of making itself un pleasant--enveloped us in fogs in the morning with stiff breezes of wind, and in a muggy smothering atmosphere at midday ; but the cold had by no means set in, and the air was indeed rather dis agreeably warm. On Monday, the 20th, the order to embark was given, and Brigadier-General Spencer came up in the Danube and made a short reconnaissance up the Boug. He did not go as far as the little battery with which we had a brush on our arrival ; and indeed the Danube would very likely go to the bottom at once if hit by a shot, for she is only a river steamer, little larger than a Greenwich or Wool wich Waterman. However, her appearance created an immense stir among the Russians. Cossacks galloped about on all sides and in every direction. The battery at the point was manned at once, and a field gun was detached from the small camp be hind it, and kept along the west bank rani passe with the steamer, in hope of sending the little Danube to the bottom of the Bong ; but she kept out of range, and as soon as the Gen e r a l h a d seen all ho could he returned. That evening three large bodies of infantry marched down from Nicolaieff, and occupied the villages on the east bank near the sea. One battalion set at once to work on a high cliff, about six miles up the river, and threw up an earthwork, either to cover riflemen or receive guns. No doubt the enemy saw our preparations at Oen koff, and. were persuaded the troops were coming up to attack Nicolaieff. The infantry we saw wei e fine solid-looking masses of men. On Tuesday morning before we left they were seen in the vari ous villages or hamlets oh the east bank, so that there must have been a good fore z ready for us when they had united with the troops about Stanislaus. Admiral Stewart sailed from the Boug on Tuesday morning, and joined the fleet at Kinbourn, and a portion of the fleet which had gun-boats to tow started for Kamiesb the same evening. The allied fleets under Sir E. Lyons and Admiral Bruat, Sir H. Stewart and Admiral Pellion, sailed the follow ing day for the same anchorage, and encountered a strong breeze of wind. The wisdom and foresight of most of our mili tary operations in burning, laying waste, and blowing up was never better exemplified than at Kertch. There was a very fine barrack near the quarantine sta ion, on the Bay of Kertch, recently built, provided with every comfort, and well sup plied with water from a deep well, and with capa cious tanks. In the ordinary exercise of reason ono would have preserved these buildings, inas much as it was determined to keep a British force at Kertch, but before Sir George Brown left they were burnt by order and reduced to a heap of blackened ruins. We are now, with infinite labour and trouble, and at prodigious expense, sending the materials for huts to Kertch, and dragging them up close to the site of the barracks, where they will form a very poor protection against the weather in comparison with the substantial build ings which we destroyed. A s th e t an k s are ru i ne d and the well spoiled, the men will have to drag water a distance of three miles to their new resi dence. Provisions are now tolerably abundant. The Highflyer returned yesterday from Circassia and a cruise alone. the Turkish coast, having on board the Duke of 'Newcastle and Mr. Simpson, the artist, who accompanied him on the excursion. His Grace will find things greatly changed since he went, roads made, huts erected, Generals gone. Sir Colin Campbell, Colonel Sterling, Sir H. Ben thick, and Brigadier Shirley have left the camp during his absence. The Duke's trip is said to have been most agreeable, and to have afforded a pleas ant melange of hunting, shooting, visiting, travel ling, sight-seeing, and Circassian adventv_ire. The Bth Hussars, with the exception of a troop ordered up as an escort to head-quarters, will em bark to-day for winter quarters at Ismir. 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NERVOUS DEBILITY may I e had price 2s, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternuster•row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Ibrne,l9, Leicester•square; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or free by post for stn mps to any address from the Author's resideac - 2, 37, Bed ford-square. At homo for consultation daily from eleven till two, and from six till eight. BRITISH ARMY WORKS CORPS. TUNIS, Nov. s.—On the 27th ultimo two steamers entered the port of Tunis, one bringing 350 pilgrims returning from Mecca ; the mission of the other was for some time shrouded in mystery. But on the following day it was universally rumoured that it was the Azof, screw steamer, with a number of men be longing to the British Army Works Corps, who were in a state of mutiny. On the 29th the news was confirmed by letters which reached Tunis, according to w hi t e: it appeared that, early on the morning of the 27 e ,. the Azoff struck on a shoal somewhere in the vicinity , the Skerki, and sprung a leak, but as she is built inone sepa rate compartments the leakage was confined to only. The captain, however, saw the necessity with en tering the Bay of Tunis, with a view to thea vessel had of greater accuracy the amount of danaage_ of her safe condi sustained. Having convinced himsel f Malta, a gainst tion, he prepared for his departure for ebeeding the ship which, however, his passengers (a P was unsafe) protested, declaring d attempt to get up the that they would throw overboard the first who u . the British Consulate. Mr. steam or to weigh anchor.wo As all remonstrance proved fruitless, he had recourse toousei, accompanied by Mr. Ferriere, the British Stevens, the chancellor,P.alconcedperteecremeidneeddtotothaedGheorleetttao, and found the men obstinately The consul, having examined the ship, their resolution. naturally kind and gentle mamner to endeavoured in malcontents the folly of the course they point out to d thaenhdis advised them to act as true Britons had adoetes, glorious enterprise, and to proceed quietly engaged in - a stain upon the nam e of " English man" behind ti withou t leaving them. He moreover told them as they couldnot be allowed to go at large in case th e y a b andoned the ship they would have to submit to a mo s t wretc h e d confinement. But perceiving that his efforts would prove ineffectual, and knowing the importance of these men reaching the seat of war, he at once adopted a different course. He asked the men who were unwilling to pro ceed in the steamer to assemble in one part of the vessel, which was readily done, and these amounted to 172, leaving 143 who were willing to remain on board. He then despatched Mr. Stevens, who, by dint of great exertion and perseverance, succeeded in chartering a schooner for Malta for 1251. On the 30th the schooner received its portion of passengers, and the two vessels proceeded eastward. As the consular boat separatea from them, the men of both vessels gave three hearty cheers for th e consu l , and a fourth for our b ra ve a llies, the French. It will be readily seen that much credit is due to p M ar r . . Ferriere for hi s p romp t an d conc iliatory p r oceedings, ticuhrly as there were parties who urgedthe necessity of employing fo rce i n or der to subduethe discontentedny doubtedl portion of the men. Such an act would undoubtedly have terminated fatally to So At a time when there terribleaine to war G i c - , is often so much good causefomre. metingtheout bl verumeut officials connected with which we are engaged, it is a_pl . e?.s . ure to render praise If the pritish residents of Timis where praise is due. _ _ . did not wish Mr. Ferriere a more lucrative mat‘an be has held here for the last 14 years, they-would alkro- `t. t 1 claim him to be " the right man in thieright place," and rejoice in his continuing here. With ref‘r, ace to the shoal on which the Azoff struck "I•t i may be necessary to add that there is reason to be _Neve that it is a continuation of the coral reef near Ga lita, where the Avenger was lost, in 1847, when, out of a crew of 500, only four were saved and only three of the de bodies were found, by the Rev. Mr. Davies. A rem irvey ought without loss of time to be made, tact course of the reef ascertained. No doubt 's safety is entirely to be attributed to her pe struction in water-tight and separate col:apart kind of naval architecture which it may be hoped will, ere long, be universally adopted. THE CZAR AT ODESSA. The Journal d'Odessa, of Nov. 7, contains the following official narrative of the late visit of the Czar to that city His Majesty tne Emperor has deigned to visit the city of Odessa. His Imperial Majesty, accompanied by the Grand Duke George de Mecklenburg-Strelitz, arrived frora Ni colaieff on Saturday the 3d, at 7 p.m., and alighted at the house of Prince Woronzoff, upon the boulevard. His Majesty was received upon the flight of steps by Aide-de-Camp General Luders, Commander of the Army of the South ; Aide-de-Camp General Count Strogonoff, Governor-General of New Russia and Bessarabia; Lieut.- Ganeral Krusenetern, Military Governor of the city of Odessa ; and by Lieut.-General Grothenhelm, Cow. mander of the Troops stationed at Odessa. In his Ma jesty's suite were the following Generals :—Count Orloff, Count d'Adlerberg, Baron Lieven, and Prince Bariatinaky. The same evening, thanksgivings for the happy arrival of his Majesty the Emperor were offered up in the ca. thedral by his Eminence Monsignor Innocent, Arch bishop of Kherson, and of Taurida. At half-past 10 o'clock in the morning of Sunday (Nov. 4) his Majesty deigned to receive the military and civil employes, also the body of the merchants of the city of Odessa, who had the happiness of presenting bread and salt to his Majesty. His Majesty the Em peror condescended to honour with a gracious reception all the persons who were presented to him, and expressed to the body of merchants his entire reliance on the Mcst High that He will grant a happy issue to this war raised against us by nations whom we have constantly nourished with our bread, and his conviction that after the conclusion of an honourable peace the oommerce of Odessa will resume its original importance. At 11 o'clock his Majesty the Emperor went to the cathedral. At the threshold of the temple, Monsignor Innocent, in presenting the cross and the holy_ water, addressed some words full of u n ctio n t o hi s Majesty. His Majesty assisted at the divine service celebrated by the Archbishop. At one o'clock in the afternoon his Imperial Majesty went out of the city upon the great plain, which formerly served as a hippodrome, and where the troops stationed at Olessa are now assembled, under the command of Aide-de-Camp General Luders. Thera are now under arms four battalions of infantry, three regiments of ca valry, four artillery batteries, and eleven cohorts of moveable militia of the governments of Moscow and Smolensk. His Majesty passed these troops in review, which defiled first in platoons and then in columns. The Emperor then visited the military hospital estab lished in the former institute of the demoiselles nobles of Odessa ; also the Hospital of the City ; the Emperor con descended to kindly interrogate almost all the officers and soldiers upon their wounds ; addressing to each some words of encouragement and consolation. His Majesty then visited the coast batteries from Perepice to the mole of the Quarantine. His Majesty was desirous also of visiting the hospice of the Sisters of Charity, where, amongst others, the military dangerously wounded are surrounded by the results of a charity which is truly Christan ; but time, to the great regret of his Majesty, would not allow him to fulfil this wish. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the principal authorities were invited to his Imperial Majesty's table. In the evening two military bands assembled before the house occupied by his Majesty, and performed some beautiful nto:•ceatt x, while the crowd thronged the walks of the boulevards. At nightfall the city was illuminated. At 8 o'clock in the morning of Monday, the sth, his Majesty, accompanied by his Grand Ducal Highness the Duke de Mecklenburg-Strelitz, quitted Odessa, for Nicolaiefr, in perfect health. Prayers for his Majesty's safe journey were offered by his Eminence the Arch bishop Innocent, in the cathedral. His Majesty the Emperor has expressed his gratifica tion to A.D.C. Lieut.-General Strongonoff, Governor- General of New Russia and Bessarabia, at the wise mea sures taken during the presence of the enemy's fleets in the road of Odessa ; also his imperial satisfaction to Lieut.-General Krnsenstern 11., Military Governor of Odessa ; Major-General Shocstac 1., Commander of the city of Odessa; to Von-Tchudy, formerly Inspector of the Quarantine of Odessa, and now Colonel of the Kam schatka regiment of Chasseurs ; also to Arcoudineky, Master of the police of Odessa. `• -,~ The following are the remarks addressed to the Czar by the Archbishop in the cathedral, referred to in the above : Pious Sovereign! Thou had scarcely put on the crown of thy ancestors when it pleased Providence to surround it with thorns. Our bodily eyes are not accustomed to see such an ornament sparkle on the head of kings, but the eyes of faith see in it, with piety and respect, a sou venir of the crown of Christ. Have not indeed such crowns been worn by the most pious kings and princes from David, Jehosophat, Constantine, Vladimir the Great, to Dimitrii, our hero of the Don, and finally thy patron, Alexander Newsky " Have courage, and let not thy soul become weak ai the sight of these smoking brands," said the prophet to the warrior king, Ahaz, when the two kingdoms of Israel and Assyria united against him in an unjust war. How closely do these words of the prophet apply to us and our enemies ! This unhappy France I Is she not in truth the brand which for half a century has carried fire throughout the entire world ? And the proud, but to-day abased and jeopardised Bri tain ! What is she, it not the other brand, which, after being extinguished for two centuries, recommences to smoke in the midst of a yawning gulf ? And we also will say with the Prophet, "Let not thy soul grow weak at the sight of the-e two smoking Lrands before us !" At a sign from the Most High the winds abate, and4he rain falls to fertilise our fields. These brands depart, and Russia, protected by God, recovers itself for the joy of her chief and for the well-being even of her own enemies. "Enter, then, 0 pious Snyereign,the temple where once thy august father came in the depth of night to raise towards Heaven his thanks for having escaped the tempest and shipwreck—enter, and in thy turn raise with us thy praycrs to the King of kings for the cessation of the tempest which now rages both upon sea and land. May Heaven grant that this temple m a y again see thee kneeling before God, but then only to render acknow lelginents and to give thanks. Amen. A correspondent of Le Nord, writing from Odessa, complains that the account in the official journal gives a very imperfect idea of the enthusi asm created amongst the inhabitants of the city by the visit of the Emperor. He adds that a Russian merchant having observed to his Imperial Majesty that the restoration of an honourable peace—but only an " honourable " peace—was all that was de sired to complete the prosperity of the city—the Emperor replied, " Who is there that does not de sire such peace ? I more than any one else.' THE LIVERPOOL COMPASS COMMITTEE. The following letters have been received by the Sec• retary of the Compass Committee, W. W. Runde'', Esq., in reference to the recent important communica tion regarding the variations in the Channel : " Trinity House, Nov. 15. r directiendfbotromotbhseeymrei " Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of . your letter of the Bth inst., enclosing copy of one which has been addressed by the direction. of the Liverpool. Compass Committee to the Liverpool Underwriters Association respecting the. proper correction. for toh v ma a ttu ri t a iht t te io ee allowed in navigating the Irish Channel, and having laid the same before the . board am directed by the elder and adverted th ery t e n brethren to return their thanks to the c • alderfornt as being both in tc:reTr:e:igi e a If ‘rudtri further subject q n ue st what that nlan th n tereeting.and important, observations were made, o . and whether the result arrived arriv th ed niittee obligingly many observations.— most obedient servant, have the honour to be, sir, your in a t D w tl Dublin andne consequent u L e i n v teeerprue opotomohine: " J. HEEDEBT." " Office of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, << Marine D e p ar t men t, Nov. 16, 1855. am directed by the Lords of the Committee of PI ivy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Bth inst., enclosing a copy of com munication addressed by the Liverpool Compass Com mittee, to the Underwriters' Association of that port, on the subject of the variation of the compass in St. Georfrei; Channel and Irish Sea. lam to request that acquaint the Compass Committee that my lords Y F t . i .". l ! Concur in the suggestion, and that measures se so ini". taken to give further publicity to the i o u b f r_ t I r portant to mariners.—l am, sir, your F. 1i.:61.1137,1 THE FRENCH FLOATING BATTERIES. ------.- qUOteS the following h officer at to the A Belgian contempoouracr e r d o i f t i s ° n F. r from Kinb o tb ur e n le e t x t p e put the floating batteries to a most it W e have just e opened their fire at a quarter satisfactory p c_ii a r y o distance somewhere between 400 and 600 noon there was a splendid breach. 'od af h The metres , i c t b 511 ,4 quickly scaled off the facing of the ram parts a n d the shells knocked over everything. I was in after its surrender, when the fire kindled by the past nine the fort mortar-vessels was still burning. I never saw such a confusion of smashed gun-carriages, of broken or dis mounted guns : the chaos was superb. Now we must set to work and try to do better still. The first trial has been good, but there is yet room for improvement ; the t engines are not powerful enough, and the hulls do no t rca lily answer the helm. But one thing is decidedl y proved—the main and essential thing—and tht . it_ A z!i be , invulnerability of the floating batteries. They e all°' the marks bear the dints of from 40 to 50 shots, just l t ik afew men of bullets on a target. We have only h l e os p o rt-holes. from some prpjecti.es that entered by •-„ t „ of a stozishment " We are well rewarded by the 61 g and admiration on the " IP 018410. _ part of the Zooijoi an d the Rep ma. ,11u- SO, de; RID, ,Ik, , 01 th 0. WU . ILpt. 38, srk, .00t- ,aiut late ook, cud- )ing k in ,nder ►ien, 112, Ly o f %;:z J .i'~