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Prospectuses, with full Tables and Details and Forms, may be had at the Company's Offices, or of the Agents. WILLIAM NEWMARCII, Secretary. N.B.—Life Insurance Premiums are allowed as deductions in In come Tax Returns. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE: THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of tho visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany ; a melodrama replete with startly 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 have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art 31 . 8 at aqy piacee:.been- hoovered with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment ho 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 theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's 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 for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited 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 ber 20, and taken by that journal from the 11'e211 York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is we'l-known throughout thaAnglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2.000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 21)), 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 his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum. one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom Might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe In spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents? and. with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when 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, ho considers it t be time for bim to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their Blanes with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played 'an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the 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 au antidote for the bane of the spiritual jugglers. . In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre, —a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, 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 the 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 Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery osti every of Article in the position which w ou ld seem the m or, the napriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin do Yer Casket of re ; p dr jr ce n sus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause t h e money of his visitors t o transport itself, and rain into t he ca s k et , though its lid b e closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Tran sparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel wi n , 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, Isoyeau, or any other wine or spirit re q uired; and finally proving to bo filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly d r y, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Exposé of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit - rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the 'Shortest Route to the Antipodes. 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THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ind Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 30th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Per sons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyard at Davenport and Keyham with TEAR'S OP HORSES. A form of the tender and the conditions of the contract may be seen at the said oMee. 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 be in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Teams of Horses 'for Devonport and Keyham," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by twe responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,0001. for the due performance of the contract. CONTRACT FOR BUILDING A VESSEL. War Department, Pall-mall, Director-General of Contracts Department, 11th October, 1855. THE Director-General of Contracts hereby gives Notice that he will be ready to receive Sealed Tem! ers for BUILDING a COASTING YES ,B L of Ninety-three Tons, for service of this department, according to the plan and section which may be seen on application at this ftice, where specifications may be had. The said Vessel to be completed within four months from the date of the contract, and the payments to be made by three instalments, viz. : let, When the frame is completed ; 2d, When the ♦essel is completed ; And the remainder six months after. The Tenders to be sealed up, and delivered at the War Department, Pall Mall, addressed to the Director-General of Contracts, on or be fore the 27th day of October, and marked in the corner, " Tender for Building a Vessel." SALE OF OLD STORES AT GOSPORT. ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET -PLACE, 18th October, 1855. rr HE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on FRIDAY, the 2d Novem ber next, at 12 o'clock at noon, the Captain Superintendent will put up to Sale, in the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, several Lots of OLD STORES; consisting of serviceable Tongues, Old Provisions, Biscuit Bags, Staves, Casks, Paymasters' Implements, Necessaries, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said Ye.rd. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent for notes of admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the Yard. B RITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New road, London. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the LIST for 1t55 of II VGE lAN AGE \TS duly appointed for the Sale of Mr. Mori,on's (the Hygeist) Vegetable Universal Medicine throughout the world is now printed, and may be had gratis on application as above. 2,IOIiiSON and Co.; Iligeista. Sporting Intelligence. TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. Soon after the commencement of business, 3,000 to 1,000 was offered on the field ; 4 to 1 would have been taken to 5001.; the current price, however, througuout the afternoon vas 100 to 30, taken and offered. Flatterer was backed at 100 to 15, and Flacrow at 100 to 6 and 100 to 7. 600 to 50 was taken once about Vandyke, but 10,0 to 30 was afterwards obtainable. Veteran and Calamui were backed for some money at 500 to 30 each. At the close the former was slightly in advance of the latter. Pole Star's performance at Warwick on Tuesday was deemed good enough to giver her a pretty strong chance for this event. After some investments had been made at 20 to 1, the odds dropped to 100 to 6. 30 and 25 to 1 were taken about Miss Allen, 40 and 50 to 1 about Blooming Heather, 1,000 to 25 and 1,000 to 30 about Welham ; Robgill re2eded 20 to 1, taken and offered, and Elvaston 100 EO 1. The quotations at the conclusion of business were as . ollow : CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 10 to 3 agst Crown Pigeon (taken and offered) 6 to 1 agst Flatterer (7 to 1 taken) 100 to 7 agst Veteran (taken) 100 to 7 agst Flacrow (taken) 15 to 1 agst Vandyke (taken) 15 to 1 agst Calamus (taken) 100 to 6 agst Polo Star (20 to 1 taken) 20 to 1 agst Robgill (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agat Miss Allen (taken) 33 to 1 agst Welham (taken) 40 to 1 agst Blooming Heather (taken) 100 to 1 age, Elvaston (taken and offered) 1000 to 5 agst Le Juif (taken) 200 to 100 agat Crown Pigeon and Flatterer cou pled (taken) DERBY. 35 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (taken to 1001.) 40 to 1 agst West Langton (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Bucolic (taken four times) NOTICE.—The room will be opened at the usual time next Saturday. The ERA NEWSPAPER of to-morrow will contain, as usual, more original information than any other weekly journal ; including articles entitled " General Simpson's Defence," " Omer Pacha and the Turks," " Windsor Theatre Mismanagement," " The Wrongly-Judged and 111-used Theatrical Profession," "The Lunatic Opera Scheme," " Unnecessary Interference with the Jews," doings at all the theatres in town awl country, music, literature, money and railway markets, freemasonry, "Touchstone" prophesied, in Era, Mr. Sykes to win the Ccsarewtich, and will endeavour to name the winner of the Cambridgeshire Stakes in to-morrow's pub lication, with all the sporting news of the week. Order of your news agent ; or send six postage-stamps to Era office, 3, Catherine street, Strand. WHY DON'T NEIVSPAPERS GO BY POST? (Prom Punch.) The above inquiry, which is now made on all sides may perhaps be answered by the following copy of the last instructions furnished on the subject. Instruction No. 185,990, cancelling Nos. 11, 1,002, 3,097, 4,608, 9,758, and 15,555. INSTRUCTION TO POSTMASTERS. It being desirous to check a ribald press, by placing every possible obstacle in the way of transmitting juur nals, you are hereby ordered to take that notice as the basis of your dealings with all posted newspapers. In answer to any inquiry by the public as to the proper mode of forwarding any journal, be perfectly civil, and give the most elaborate instructions, always, however, conveying the impression that it would be wiser not to attempt sending the paper at all. In the event of a journal being sent in a way which palpably violates the new rules, do not always detain it. Its exemption under such circumstances will produce imitation, and then a large crop of disputes and com plaints will arise. If three journals are posted by the same party, all in violation of the rules, deliver one and detain two. The apparent inconsistency of this course will create fresh confusion in the public mind. When an indignant recipient who finds his paper in scribed "Not in accordance with the law," and himself mulcted in an enormous postage, comes in to demand explanation, tell him that you cannot understand the reason of the overcharge, but that he had better write to head-quarters—the utility of this latter process being proverbial. There is no wish that the transmission of newspapers should be over-burdensome to you, and you are at liberty to delay them, should your own business make it incon venient for you to forward them until next post. Close examination is strictly enjoined, and this cannot be done in a hurry, nor is it expected that 'you should sacrifice valuable time to the purpose. Breakfast and supper offer the best occasions for your looking over the journals, and Sunday morning for the weekly press. Lose no opportunity of abusing the recent alteration and the new orders, as this will cause additional convic tion that the chance of a newspaper being delivered is ♦ery scanty. You are aware that the affixed stamp is very liable to be detached in your letter-box, or if your counter hap pens to be damp, or if your thumb should be sticky while sorting. On no account omit to notice the ab sence of an affixed stamp. Act up to the spirit of these instructions, and the pre sent belief of the public that the chances are against a newspaper being delivered will become certainty, and the desired effect will be produced. _ _ General Post-office, St. Martin"s-le-Grand. A. nun in a Dominican convent at Mondovi (Sardinia) recently made her escape. She left the dress she usually Wore, belonging to the community, at the door of he r cell, and then disappeared, leaving no traces of her route Naval and Military Intelligence. The following appointments appeared in our late edition of yesterday : Lieut. Henry L. C. Robinson, to the Dasher. Lieut. Henry Berkeley, to the Malacca. Lieut. Denis B. Pack, to the Penelope. The crews of -the Cornwallis, Pembroke, and Hast ngs, i.e., such portions of them as have been employed in the Black Sea fleet and not had leave on arriving at home, were yesterday paid wages at Portsmouth, and granted 45 days' leave. The Russell's are to be paid to- MOTTO V?. The Fury, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Chambers, lately returned from the Black Sea fleet, was paid off at Portsmouth yesterday. The Vixen, . steam-transport, Master-Commander Pym, left Portsmouth yesterday afternoon for Devon port, with portions of the machinery of the Centurion, 81. The screw steam-sloop Wasp, 14, Commander Henry, Lloyd, left Balaklava for England on the 22d September. The paddle-wheel sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander Selwyn, was the only man-of-war at Gibraltar. The trans port Emperor, No. 108, was about to sail for the fleet. The Transit spoke, on the Bth inst., just off Tarifa Point, the steam store-ship Urgent, Commander Phillips ; and on the 15th, in lat. 43.36 N., lon. 9.23 W., the Hibernia, 104, with stores for Maltd. On Wednesday evening, at 7 o'clock, 25 miles from the Start, the Transit came in contact with the American ship F. W. Brune, Captain Landers, of Baltimore, from Havre, with 176 Swiss, Ger man, and French emigrants for New Orleans, when both bore up for Plymouth. The American, with larboard forechains and rigging damaged, entered the Sound in the afternoon. The steam-sloop Rosamond, 6, Com mander Crofton, went outside Plymouth Sound yester day morning and put abouj 20 men on board the screw steam-ship Pembroke, 60, Capt. Seymour, which then proceeded, in company with the Cornwallis, 60, Capt. forlterreuda and the West Indies. T,he Rosamond will follow when her crew is complete. The Volage store-ship, Master-Commander John C. Hutchings, arrived at Sheerness on Wednesday, at 1 p.m., from the Baltic. - The mortar-vessels Nos. 4 and 22, with the steam tug. vessel African, are in the fitting basin, Sheerness ; the two former fitting for immediate service, the latter mak ing good defects and damage. The new frigate Chesapeake is ordered to be fitted forthwith, to be ready for being commissioned as early as possible. The Sultana transport, No. 32, has sailed from Wool wich for the Crimea direct, with ordnance and military stores, a considerable number of carts and waggons, and sundry vats and cases of bat-saddles. The following have no stations appropriated to them, and several are only fitting out The Calcutta, 84, second rate, Captain James J. Stop ford, 750 men, commissioned Juno 19, 1854, at Devonport. The Powerful, 84, second rite, Captain Thomas L. Massie, 750 men, commissioned May 3, 1854, at Ports mouth. The Penelope, 16, fifth rate, paddle, 650 horse-power, Captain Sir William S. Wiseman, Bart., 300 men, com missioned March 27, 1854, at Chatham. The Malacca, 17, sixth rate, paddle, 200 horse-power, Captain Arthur Farquhar, 200 men, commissioned June 21, 1854, at Portsmouth. The Havannah,* 19, sixth rate, Captain Thos. Harvey, 240 men, commissioned August 6, 1855, at D evonpor t . The osamond,* 6, sixth rate, paddle, 280 horse-power, Commander Steph en S. L. Crofton, 160 men, commis sioned Feb. 28, 1854, at Woolwich. The Simoom, 8, screw troop-ship, 350 horse-power, Captain Thos. R. S u lli van , 183 men, commissioned Feb. 10, 1852, at Portsmouth. The - Urgent, 2, screw store-ship, 450 horse-power, Com mander Chas .G. Phillips, 160 men, commissioned July 27, 1855, at Woolwich. The Zolus, store-ship, Master Commander Wm. L. Browne, 43 men, commissioned April 16, 1855, at Ports mouth. The Tyne, 4, store-ship, Master Commander Peter Wel lington, 60 men, commissioned Oct. 7,1350, at Devonport. The Caradoc, 2, paddle steam-vessel, 350 horse-power Lieutenant C. S. S. Stanhope, 65 men, commissioned Sept. 26, 1855, at Woolwich. The Wye,* screw tank vessel, 100 horse power. Total-12 ships; 242 guns ; and 2,911 men. The subjoined six vessels are fitting for screw :- - - The Mars, 80, second rate, 400 horse-power, at Chatham. The Centurion, 80, second rate, 400 horse-power, at Devonport. The Eurotas, mortar-vessel, 200 horse-power, at Sheer ness. The Forth, mortar-vessel, 200 horse power, at Devonport. The Seahorse, mortar-vessel, 200 horse-power, at Devon port. The Fox, transport, at Portsmouth. The followi❑gg are under repair and refitting : The Marlboroligh, 130, first rate, 860 horse-power, at Portsmouth. The Conqueror, 100, first rate, 100 horse-power, at, Da venport. _ __ The Repulse, 90, second rate, 600 horse-power, at Pem broke. The Brunswick, 80, second rate, CD horse-power, at Pembroke. Tho Devastation, 6, sloop, 400 horse-power, at Wool wich. The Satellite, 20, sloop, 400 horse-power, at Devooport. The Pearl, 20, sloop, 400 horse-power, at Woolwich. The Tartarus, 4, sloop, 135 horse-power, at Woolwich. The Hecla, 6, sloop, 240 horse-power, at Devonport. The Salamander, 6, sloop, 220 horse-power, at Ports m( stk. The Polyphemus, 5, sloop, 200 horse-power, a Ports mouth. The Thunder, 14, floating battery, 150 horse -power, at Sheerness. The Trusty, 14, floating-battery, 150 horse -power, at Sheerness. . _ The Sampson, 6, frigate, 467 horse-power, at Ports mouth. The Lucifer, 2, tender, 180 horse-power, at Portsmouth. The Widgeon, 1, tender, 90 horse-power, at Woolwich. The Skipjack, 2, gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Deptford. The Seagull, 2, gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Woolwich. The Sheldrake, 2. gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Deptford. The Sandfly, 2, gun-boat, 60 horse-power, at Woolwieh. Not in hand :- The Inflexible, 6, sloop, 378 horse-power, at Devonport. The Virago, 6, sloop, 300 horse-power, at Devonport. The Vixen, 6, sloop, 280 horse-power, at Woolwich. The Janus, 4, sloop, 220 horse-power, at Woolwich. The Princess Alice, 1, sloop, 120 horsepower, at Wool wich. The Pluto, 3, sloop, 100 horse-power, at Deptford. The Kite, gun-vessel, 170 horse-power, at Deptford. The Fearless 2, tender, 76 horse-power, at She erness. The Pike, 1, 'tender, 50 horse-power, at Devonport. The under-mentioned are termed advanced ships :- The Nelson, 120, first-rate, 970 men, at Portsmouth. The Princess Charlotte, 104, second-rate, 850 men, at Portsmouth. The Collingwood, .80, second rate, 750 men, at Ports mouth. The Royal Adelaide, 104, second rate, 850 men, at De vonport. The Bombay, 84, second rate, 750 men, at Devonport. The Canopus, 84, second rate, 750 men, at Davenport. The Clarence, 84, second rate, 750 men, at Devonport. The Thunderer, 84, second rate 750 men, at Dev on p ort . The Asia, 84, seco n d ra t e , a t Portsmouth. The Ganges, 84, second rate, at Sheerness- The Superb, 80, second rate, at Chatham. The Goliath, 80, second rate, at Chatham. The Meeanee, 80, second rate, at Chathaul. The Foudroyant, 78, third rate,' 650 men, at Devonport The Indus, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Devonport. The Cambridge, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Devonport. The Achille, 78, third rate, 650 men, at Sheerness. The Cumberland, 70, third rate, at Chatham. The Vindictive, 50, fourth rate, 500 mon, at Portsmouth. The Alfred, 50, fourthrate, 500 men, at Portsmouth. The Grampus, 50, fourth rate, 450 men, a t Portsmouth. port. The Java, 50, fourth rate, 450 men, at ortsmouth. The Dubln, 50, fourth rate, 500 men, at Devonport. The America, 50, fourth rate, 500 men, at Devonport. The Eagle, 50, fourth rate, 500 men, at Devolved. The Warspite, 50, fourth rate, at Chatham. The Phaeton, 50, fourth rate, at Sheerness. 'The Raleigh, 50, fourth rate, at Portsmouth. The Constance, 50, fourth rate, at Devonport- The Cambrian, 40, fifth rate, at Devonport. We have eight vessels complete- The Isis, 44, fifth rate, at Chatham. The Actmon, 26, sixth rate, at Portsatouth. The Brilliant, 20, sixth rate, 230 men, at Sheerness. The Ar a ch ne , 18, sloop, 145 men, at Devonport. The Terpsichore, 18, sloop, 145 men; at Chatham. The Larne, 14, sloop, 130 men, at Sheerness. The Acorn, 12, brig, 130 men, at Chatham. The Sappho, brig, at Chatham. The following are under repair and refitting :- The Helena, 16, brig, at Portsmouth. The Persian 12, brig, at Sheernes s. The Elk, 12;brig, at Chatham. Captain Lambert, of the Royal Engineers Corps, st a . tioned at Chatham, has received instructions from head quarters at Woolwich to hold himself in readiness to embark for S e b as t o p o l. Captain Lambe rt is to take out under his command 100 non-commiss ioned officers and privates of th e R o y a l S a ppers and Min ers . The following genera l o rder has bee n issued from the Horse Guards, d a t e d O c t o ber 4 : "The Field-Marshal Commanding -in-Chief has been pleased G to appoint a r ppo A in s t h t l h ey e fmolalouwdein,gco.ffiace, Royal Artill ery, officers to be hi s lord ship's aide s -d e - camp , f rom the Ist inst. — viz., Brevet , - Majorand Brevet-Major John Peel, 34th Regiment. "By command. "G. A. WETHERA LL, Adjutant-General." * The Havannah has sailed for South America, the Rosa. mond for North America and the We st Indies, an d the W y e is ordered to proceed without delay to t he Black Sea, w THE CONVICT ELIZABETH NPINTOSH.—A respite dur ing her Majesty's pleasure, preparatory to a commuta tion of sentence, was last night forwarded from the Home-office to Cupar Angus, on behalf of Eli za b eth M'lntosh, th e con vict in Fifeshire. ELECTION OF PROVOST OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE.-031- FORD, Oct. 18.—This morning the election of the Head ship of Queen's College took place, according to previ ous notice ; the electors, consisting of the fellows of the elder foundation of that society, were all present. After divine service in the chapel, the election was conducted according to the forms laid down by the founder, Ro bert de Eglesfield, chaplain to Philippa of Hainanit, Queen Consort of Edward 111. The Rev. Dr. Audland, senior fellow, presided, and announced that the choice of the electors had fallen upon the Rev. W. Thomson, 14,A. MR. JOAN M'GREGoR, M.P., ON THE WAR. Mr. M‘Gregor, M.P., according to his annual cus tom, met the electors and non-electors of Glasgow in the Merchants' Hall, on Wednesday evening, to give them an account of his stewardship. The building was crowded to excess. Mr. Bailie 11PGREGOR, who was called to the chair, in opening the proceedings, said that such meetings were very useful both to the constituencies and representa tives, and had no right to be characterised as farces. Mr. M‘GliF.eon, M.P., on rising, was received with general cheering, and, after a few prefatory remarks, said that, since his last annual interview with his con stituents, events had occurred, the results of which, ac cording as they wore wisely or foolishly managed, would promote or retard the civilisation of the world, and the progress of mankind. With the permission of the meet ing he would address them upon three topics :-1. The doings of last Parliamentary session ; 2. The manage ment of the war and foreign policy ; and, 3. The pro spects of the people in reference to future taxation. With respect to the first, he regretted to slay that so barren a session had not been remembered by any man who had a seat in the house. (Hear, hear.) It was occupied chiefly in long and oftentimes useless debates, and the introduction of measures to be after wards abandoned. Had it not been for discussions on the war and personal matters, the house, instead of sitting eight months, might have been dismissed at the end of two. No reform Bill had been passed, and other measures had been so mutilated in their progress that their original promoters were glad to abandon them alto gether. [The hon. gentleman illustrated this statement by reference to the Scotch Education Bill, which he had originally supported.] The house certainly, with the concurrence of the country, had passed measures to se cure money by way of loan, in addition to a previous increase of the income tar, for the purpose of carrying on the war in which England and France were engaged with the greatest tyrannical power that ever oppressed or afflicted mankind. . (Cheers.) The great bulk of the people of this country did not yet understand how far the war was a just or an unjust one. (Hear.) His own opinion was that ao war was just except a defensive one. But what was the definition of a defensive war ? The present war had been most seriously and deliberately entered into for the purpose of defending the liberties and freedom of mankind against a conspiracy of monarchs more insidious and dangerous than any that bad ever been recorded in the annals of the world. (Cheers.) He granted that we iu these islands might for a while longer have held aloof from this war ; but from the first he was of opinion that the most fatal policy for this coun try, and finally the most expensive with regard to taxa tion, was to defer declaring war beyond the time that that step was resolved upon. (Hear.) To sustain this opi nion, he craved the patience of the meeting for a few minutes. The revolutions of Europe in 1848 had so greatly terrified the leading despots of Europe—Russia, Austria, and Prussia—that they determined to carry out the principles of the Holy Alliance, and combine their forces for the repression of any future attempt on the part of struggling nationalities, in any of their dominions, to secure their independence. When the Holy Alliance was first entered into between the late Emperor Alex ander, the late most dastardly monarch, Francis Joseph of Austria, and the late timid King of Prussia, it was upon this condition, that if the subjects of one of them attempted to revolt for the purpose of procuring a con stitutional government, the two other monarchs should aid him with their forces for the purpose of crushing the rebellion. When the late King of Prussia died he left a will, in which this injunction was laid down to the pre sent King—" When you rise in the morning, and ad dress your Maker, pray that the Holy Alliance may be maintained," and it was that will and that injunction which now governed the counsels of the King of Prussia. (Hear, hear.) And they would remember that when the Emperor Nicholas died the other day the last words he uttered were—" Tell my brother-in-law Frederick to remain always the same with regard to Russia, and not to forget the words of his papa !" In consequence of this compact—notwithstanding the pretensions of Austria—which were nothing but hypocrisy—if we had not gone to war we should have had a combina tion of all the military forces of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, to prevent anything like the development of civil, religious, or political liberty throughout Eu rope. As attempt made in the Italian States would be put down, as the insurrection in Hungary was put down by Russia; and a rising in Poland would be crushed by the aid of Prussian and Austrian armies. (Cheers.) He had seen such documentary proof of all this that he believed that if ever there was a just war it was the one in which we were now engaged. (Cheers.) After referring to the perfidious manner in which the house of Romanoff had, he said, ever violated its treaties with other States, and given come illustrations of the exterminating atro cities which al ways characterised Russian wars of con quest, Mr. M'Gregor proceeded to say, England at length declared war. Did they manage that war as they should have done ? He said emphatically they did not. (Cheers.) He believed the Government of Lord Aber deen was never sincere in carrying on the war. (Cheers.) While squandering millions of the money of the tax payers of Great Britain, they allowed, by their criminal negligence, 28,000 of our brave soldiers to perish from want of shelter, food, clothing, and consequently disease. (Cheers.) This criminal negligence produced its fatal fruit; in Varna, the Crimea, and Scutari. All the naval and military posts of Government were held by men who had been known as friendly to Russia, and who, of course, determined to do as little as possible to humble that power, believing as they did that at the Confer ence in Vienna a peace would be brought about. He (Mr. M'Gregor) had no hesitation in saying that a peace at that time might have been agreed to, but it would have been a disgraceful peace, and would have proved disas trous to the national honour ; it would have involved no safeguard for the future ; it would have taken no gua rantee, either material or otherwise, for keeping under the power and restraining the ambition of Russia ; in a word, it would have been one of the most disgraceful acts that an intelligent and liberty-loving people was ever asked to sanction. (Loud cheers.) He was of opinion that at that time influences were at work of an exceedingly dangerous character to the liberties, civil and reli gious, of this country. He regretted to find that a distinguished nobleman, whom he desired to give great credit for his former ser vices—he meant Lord John R uesell—(hisses)—had, through smite weakness, agreed to accept the Russian terms of peace. By means of the press, the House of Commons and the country became alive to the gross mismanagement of the war, and the consequent miseries endured by our soldiers in the East ; and he was bound to say that nothing that had been said by the press on this fearful subject had been exag gerated. The country took alarm. It was found that one department, the transport service, on which seven millions of money was wasted, was all but useless, as no one ship could be found to carry out to its destination a single article that was wanted, or produce it when it was most urgently required at any port. This state of things was attributable to the Admiralty, and especi ally to Sir James Graham, whose criminal neglect was the cause of inconceivable hardships and disasters, not withstanding all his plausible statements, and his reck less and untrue assertions. Then caine the Roebuck motion, and the Ministry were condemned by the largest majority ever known in the House of Commons. They retired, and Lord Derby was sent for to form a new Go vernment, but he abandoned the task, as he found that he had no chance of getting a working majority in the Commons. Lord John Russell tried, and failed.. Lord Palmerston was then sent for. He was warned that if he took into his Cabinet any of the Aberdeen members of the late Administration, they would soon abandon ' him, and show their Russian countenances in come other part of the house than the front rows of the Ministerial Benches. (Laughter.) And so it proved. In a very short time, when the Aberdeenites could not prevail upon Lord Palmerston to carry out the policy which they had at heart, in connection with certain German in terests, they retired, and took their seats on the same bench with the Peace-at-any-price Party. No sooner did they do so than they turned against Lord Palmerston, and Lord J. Russell shortly afterwards came out with a speech which indicated that he was desirous of following in the same course. Lord Palmerston, however, was firm and said, "I will not make peace with Russia until I do so upon terms that will maintain the honour and dignity of this country." (Cheers.) He declared that he would carry on the war with the utmost vigour and energy, and with a perfect understanding with the Emperor of the French never to conclude a peace until they had humbled the arroganceof Russia, and obtained material securities for the future peace of Europe. (Cheers.) That was the policy which he communicated to his Parliamentary friends, and the result was that he had until the close of the session the supp3rt of all the Liberal party, with the exceptions he had mentioned, in the House of Commons ; and as far as he (Mr. M'Gregor) could see, he would continue to re ceive that support in the next session of Parliament, al thtugh his course would not be free from difficulties. If the Premier put his trust in the country, and pursued a course that was calculated to humble the power, and lower the arrogance of Russia, and compel her to in demnify us for the expenses of the war, which she, with unpardonable aggression, commenced by seizing a por tion of the Turkish territory before we declared war in this country, lie would continue to receive the cordial support of Parliament and the Empire. (Loud cheers.) Notwithstanding the early mismanagement of the war much had already been done to humble Russia. How humiliated would the people of England feel if all her harbours were so effectually blockaded by Russian fleets that a vessel dared not move out to carry away her ma nufactures, or bring back to the island the produce of other countries, and if we were obliged to burn our men of-war in Portsmouth and Plymouth, in order to pre vent them falling into the hands of the enemy. (Se ar ' hear.) And yet this was the condition to which Russia herself had been reduced. (Hear, hear.) His id" side that the war should be prosecuted with vigour, by side with France, in order that the aggressive policy of Russia should be put an end to, a he hoped that the alliance with France would be main tained in its integrity, and that the commercial tions which had so long existed b e tween the two • countries would vanish with their ancient_ hatred. (Cheers.) Through the blessings o f Free Trade we bad till not suffered so much by the war . as . we otherwise might I have done ; for, bad former restrictions s existed, the burdens on the people would have been much more se t Tere i y felt. Looking tt ths_ state of Europe, be trai tocl ' the time was not far distant when most of the German nations would obtain constitutional freedom. The fall of Sebastopol bad created fears in the minds of the Sovereigns, which must terminate in one of two things. Either they will give constitutional freedoM to their subjects, or their subjects will wrest that freedom from them. (Loud cheers.) The hon. gentleman then ad dressed himself to the third topic mentioned in the opening part of his speech, and gave it as his opinion that taxation had reached its maximum, and that in fu ture the necessary money for carrying on the war would be obtained by way of loan. He concluded, amid ap plause and some hisses, by thanking the meeting for the patience with which he had been heard. After he bad undergone some " heckling" from querists on the platform and the body of the hall, a vote of thanks was passed to the honourable gentleman—an amendment to the contrary falling to the ground for want of a seconder, and the meeting separated. BANK OF ENGLAND. ADVANCE OF THE RATE OF DISCOUNT. The measures of the Bank of England yesterday are rather more stringent than was expected, but although they will cause the financial course of the country during the next two or three weeks to be regarded with the most unparalleled watchfulness, they have excited neither dissatisfaction nor alarm. It is assumed that the next Gazette return will exhibit a farther large decrease in the bullion, and apart from this th e fresh step taken by the Bank of France confirms the necessity for increased caution. The total absence of commercial distrust is as marked as ever, and apparently the only point for dread is, lest the public, unaccustomed as they are to such a rate as 6 per cent., should suffer themselves so suppose that it necessarily involves something terrible. " What are to be the consequences I" is a question passed from •ne idle person to another. The real features of oar position, however, owing to the indisputable health fulness of trade, admit of being summed up with more than ordinary precision. One principal matter which the public have yet to learn is the vast effect of a very moderate withdrawal of bullion. During each of the last seven weeks the average drain from the Bank, which has been accompanied by a series of advances in the rate of discount until from 8i it has reached to 6 per cent.,. has been about 550,0001.—that is to say, the Bank have raised their rate 4 per cent. for every 700,0001. or 800,0001. lost. The singular delay in the Australian arrivals which has again become notice able is therefore nearly enough to account for the in creased pressure of the last week or two. According to sound estimates at least 1,000,0001. is now overdue, and some persons set the amount at 1,500,0001. The absence or presence of this latter total might have made a difference of 1 per cent. in the Bank rate. Again, the more recent reports from France of a deficiency of at least 3,500,000 quarters of wheat and a like quantity of rye have given a new impulse to our orders for grain. These imports are not required for our own use, and consequently are as good to us as gold, except that they involve delay before we can convert them, and mean while the pressure is just as great as if the gold they are ultimately to repay would never reach us. Hence there are influences amply to account for all the dis turbance now experienced, in addition to that origi nally created by the withdrawals on the part of the Bank of France. 'lt is true a cause of perplexity remains in the fact that if, by the reaction from the re cent measures of the Bank of France, coupled with ship ments of grain to that country, things arrive at a point which would draw gold back from Paris, the difficulties on that side may involve the adoption of new plans to obtain a further artificial supply from the Bank of Eng land, but there is a limit to such operations. The con tinental markets having been once cleared of bills can only thenceforth furnish the natural daily quantity created by the regular operations of commerce, while with regard to the use of accommodation paper, or the obtaining of money on the deposit of foreign securities, there can scarcely at present be much apprehension. It is to be remarked, moreover, that while the public gene rally fail to estimate the momentary effect of the loss even of a moderate sum of bullion, they also, on the other hand, never attach sufficient faith to the effects of an increase in the rate of discount. In 1847 it was oarried as high as 8 per cent., the Bank bullion having fallen to 8,312,691/., and in a month from that time a reaction commenced, until within a year it was as low as 3 per cent., and went on unchecked until it had declined to 2 per cent. There is no reason to suppose that in the present instance the measures adopted will prove less efficacious. Indeed, as the drain has been much more sudden now than then, there might, perhaps, were it not for the Turkish Loan, .be an expec tation of a still more rapid reaction, as soon as the final point of pressure shall have been reached. Already there are indications that strong effects have been pro , doted. From Hamburg it is said gold could now be sent both to Paris and London. The demand for specie for India has subsided, and, although the next steamer will take out probably 300,0001., it will chiefly be for contracts previously entered into. But will even the certain prospect of mitigation be sufficient meanwhile to sustain confidence all over the country ? Hitherto everything has tended to that con clusion, and among the banking and other financial establishments in London not a shadow of distrust in its accuracy is observable. The great addition made by the Bank in their charge for bills having more than 60 days to run will probably affect more than a third of the paper in circulation; but one object of that step was, doubtless, to throw the demand from the Bauk, where it had lately been too much concentrated, to the discount houses, who have been cautiously holding back until they could feel moderately certain that the highest point had been reached. Should they now entertain that conviction — and, inasmuch as 7 per cent. is within 1 per cent, of the highest rate known in modern times, the supposition that they will do seems reasonable—they will be pre pared to act with more boldness, and the market may assume, from the absence of uncertainty, a degree of soundness greater than previously prevailed. If this hope be realised, and all should go well during the next month, the advantage to the country will be incalcu lable, from the demonstration that will have been gained of the possibility under the Bank Charter Act of our passing through a period of trial without falling into senseless panic, while it will also afford a lesson to Rus sia and her friends as to the actual solidity of that com merce to which we look for the means to meet any struggle, however protracted, that may be necessary to accomplish all that we have resolved upon.—Tinies! City At-title. REMEDY FOR THE MONETARY CRISIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —Fully aware of the value of your columns, I shall be glad if you can find room to insert, for the con sideration of the public, the annexed draft of a petition, which, if granted, would effectually counteract the drain of gold, prevent a monetary crisis from becoming a mone tary panic, and benefit the exchequer without oppressing the nation. Were it necessary to issue one pound notes (already in use in Scotland and Ireland) to the extent of 30,000,0001. on the plan suggested, sovereigns would be set at liberty for exportation to the amount of 20,000,0001., and a revenue derived of 800,0001. per an num, so long as the notes remained in circulation. This suggestion, made by me in a pamphlet some time ago, is not intended as merely a temporary remedy for the present monetary crisis, but as a means of counteracting all future drains, and enabling our domestic currency to ap. portion its supply and:dencand,s.ndependently of the influx and efflux of bullion. It is founded on the plan proposed in the Economist in 1847, for a secure and economical currency, which was republished in a pamphlet, enti tled " Capital, Currency, and Banking, along with its Articles, or the Bank Charter Act of 1844," declaring "that the principles upon which it is founded are not only not true, but are, in every instance, nearly the re verse of truth," a work which at this crisis ought to be studied by every one desirous of understanding our monetary system.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, HAMER STANSFELD. The Grange, Burley, near Otley, Oct., 1855. We, EXCELLENTT th O e Til u E nd Q e u r E si iN gn ' e a d mO b a a T nkers, m erc ha nts, MAI C 8 and T i r. liege subjects of the realm, considering that the present foreign drain of gold most seriously deranges the do mestic currency of the country, thereby paralysing trade, throwing the industrious classes out of employment, depreciating property, and increasing unnecessarily the Ma burden of the war, most humbly pray that your jesty will be graciously pleased, with a view to counter act these evils, by Order in Council to empower the Bank of England, until the sense of Parliament can be taken, to issue one pound notes to serve as substitutes fer sovereigns, whenever the Bank minimum rate of ( U s _ count shall exceed 6 per the on depositing Gover nment other stocks for two-thirde, and gold for the r• • aini one-third of the amount of such issues as a guarantee for the convertibility of the notes, an d on paying . at the rate of 4 per cent . to the Exchequer for 1 interest of the State on the two-thirds, of which the y e benefit have th e beneficial use, or n n suct , ey would 'esty shall seem fit. u other terms as to your 341 2.nd your petitioners will ever pray, &o. , E 7 M wi A ll T l:e illaj cel T e Y b . ra — t T ed he wi election Salomona as Lord Mayor for the year en dour, far exceedi ng th at of late years ; no expense is to ec u t nu n stud of e p M len r : be spared to gi ve cc / at to this the advent of an entire release of th e J ews from all restrictions placed upon them, as als o t o make the Lord Mayor ' s Day of the 9th of 11,1: ovember, 1855, ce l e b ra t e d as th e p recursor o f th e s A u l i id n e g gr , la Ts N e a t u a l t N ed G , entire emancipation of the Jews. RAISING THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.—LnIzarooL, Oct. 18.—The announcement that the directors of the Bank of England have again raised the rate of discoun t created considerable uneasiness on 'Change to-day, and a memorial wa s i mme di a t e ly p re p are d, ca lli ng upon th e_ r the temporary suspension o local Chamber of C ommer ce to petition Parliament f of Peel's Bank .Act, with . th e .. ' intention of reli ev i ng th e existing . press ure by the co culation of paper money. The petition is being name rowdy signed. A report was brought up from the Improvement Com mittee, and ordered to be received, setting forth that the endeavours of the committee to obtain a larger share of influence under the Bill for the Local Management of the Metropolis than was conferred by the Corporation by that act had failed, the amendments introduced in the House of Lords having been objected to in the Com mons as important alterations in rate clauses, which it was not competent for the Upper House to make. The proposed alterations were therefore waived by their lord ship, which was to be regretted, as the City paid a tenth of the whole sum collected in rates. Mr. ABRAHAM complained that hardly a suggestion of the Corporation had been adopted by the Government. This would show them in weat state they would be when the question of Corporate Reform was brought forward by the Government, unless they were a little more united in their ilea, on that subject. (Hear.) IMPROVEMENTS IN CLERKENWELL. Mr. T. H. HALL also brought up a report, which stated that the committee for improvements, to whom, in 1851, it was referred to carry into execution the act completing the improvements authorised to be made by the Clerkenwell Improvement Commissioners, &c., had had their attention drawn to the state o f th e funs for carrying into effect the provisions of the said act, and found that the account has been overdrawn by the sum of 6,701. 3s. Sd. To repay the above, to defray other charges, and continue the progress of the works, would require a sum of 50,0001., and the committee recom mended that they should be authorised to take steps for obtaining the said sum, upon the most reasonable and advantageous terms that could be arranged. Mr. Cox and one or two other members of the court thought that it was not fitting to go into the money mar. ket for so large a sum at the present high rate of interest, the corporationrevenuei being already so largely charged. Deputy HARRISON said the Government had consented to advance 80,0001. upon the coal tax, on condition that the corporation carried out the great improvement under consideration. When the new street was opened, the value of the adjacent land would be largely increased. The motion for the adoption of the report was put, and carried unanimously. THE OATH OF ABJURATION. Mr. ANDERTON moved—" That by the total extinc tion of the family of the person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the lifetime of the late King James, the oath of abjuration referring to such family, and required to be taken by persons to enable them to hold various offices under the Crown, is no longer neces sary ; and, for its being not only unnecessary, but wholly inapplicable to exisiting facts, it is but too frequently re ceived with derision, anti without that sanctity with which oaths ought to be taken. That to abolish the taking of the said oath petitions be presented to both Houses of Parliament." Mr. Anderton said that the law - which at present rendered it necessary that persons holding public offices should take the oath of abjuration was a diigrace to the statute book. (Hear, hear.) The corporation at all times had taken the lead in erasing from the statute book oaths which at all interfered with the religious opinions of the people, and they had from time to time, from 1828 down to the present period, pre sented petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying fir the aholition of all oaths which interfered with men's consciences. Mr. ABRAHAM seconded the motion. Mr. T. PARKER moved, as an amendment, the pre vious question. Mr. BUTLER seconded the amendment. On a division the amendment was rejected by 30 votes against 6. The original motion having been put and carried, The following petition, for presentation to the House of Commons, was then adopted : " The humble petition of the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and commons of the City of London, in common council assembled, " Showeth, that such of your petitioners as are mem bers of the common council are, upon their annual elec tion, required. among other oaths, to take the oath called The Oath of Abjuration,' which contains the following declaration I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I do believe in my conscience that not any of the descendants of the person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James 11., and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the style and title of King of England, by the name of James 111., or of Scotland by the name of James VIII., or the style and title of King of Great Britain, bath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm, or any other the dominions 'hereunto belongirg. That the oath of abjuration is also required to be taken by other persons taking upon them elves public offices and appointments. That as th ere has not been for many years any descendant (as your Petitioners believe) of the perso n w h o p re t en d e d t o b e rince of Wales during the life of the late King James the Second, the requirement of the said oath is not ne cessary, and is so absurd that it can hardly be taken with the seriousness indispensable from the sacredness of an oath, whilst the purpose for which the oath was origi nally intended is better effected by the oath of allegiance to the reigning sovereign, and a reliance to the known and tried loyalty and affectionate attachment of all classes and sects of British subjects to the person and family of our beloved Queen. Your petitioners there fore humbly pray that your honourable house will be pleased to pass an act whereby your petitioners, and all ner Majesty's subjects, may be relieved from taking the said oath of abjuration." A similar petition was then adopted for presentation to the House of Lords. THE LATE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND xuriuss OF THE 7RENCH. Deputy liamuseN moved " That a medal be struck itt bronze to commemorate the late auspicious visit of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of the French to the City of London, to receive the address of the corpo ration." Deputy OBBARD seconded the motion, which, after a short discussion, was carried. Mr. J. Wood moved "That the address of this court to his Imperial Majeety the Emperor of the French be ornamentally written, signed by the town clerk, pro perly emblazoned, framed and glazed, and transmitted to his Majesty." Mr. MunuELL seconded the motion, which was put and carried. The court then adjourned. M. SOYER'S FIELD KITCHEN. _ ~___ TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—According to promise, I herewith forward you a detailed report upon the economical and culinary ad vantages of the " Field Kitchen," instituted for the Bri tish army in the Crimea.—l am, &c., A. SOYER. Ist Division, Guards' Camp, before Sebastopol, Oct. 5. SOTER'S FIELD KITCHEN.—Each apparatus will contain a cauldron holding 12; gallons. Two of the apparatus will easily cook for a company of 100, and even more, if re quired ; and both stoves can be carried by one mule, and loaded inside with sufficient dry wood for two days' con sumption for a full company, whereas an additional quan tity of fuel for one day's further consumption may be car ried outside between the apparatus on the animal's back. The weight would then be 60 lbs. under the entire charge of a mule. The cauldron is made of such material as not to require tinning, and the saving of fuel is remarkable, being above eight-ninths under the old system, the allow ance to each man being 41, lbs. of wood during the spring o and summer months, which were formerly consumedo 100ia• cooking only. Therefore, taking two full compaciss w f h i l each, a saving would be effected of SOO lbs. of. fuel,euorinous. upon an army consisting of 30,C00 the saving e The stoves will also burn any kind of fu rt l an i a s t n en tirely free from smoke. The most imp considera tions are are the reduction in the shipping, the number of mules, and tho numerous that tbe the camp in bad employed for such a daily purpose, besides labourersoe t landh e removal transport, usually o f evderail'hundreds. the vastweather. Another f advantage di s tribution cwl:ltis,eire o ba v ed e r ogfa is: will have but a few cooks employed in eachd split, give a taste to soldiers to f cooking, which they are now ill be much m • • and the food w ore nutritious by acquiring, o f any weather or climate, and from its follow M. Soyer entities, as the lesser evaporati takes cooking in large ea an cook ' on ratus c , 8 system cooking t e e o ar B The app in the open air, and a. m c P i l ° ic n ity of construction will last for and , except by wilful d yeare, a ieri)nexlssatlu.crBrBeteni.----tihet'''s°sin ever getting out of order, accident. In the winter season, two of the appa ratus, will cook for a full company,• ht be placed da mage or . opiirotahst might huts o • ccupied by 50 or 60 men, and the cooking being conducted therein every part, and thereby obviate the necessity of will thoroughly warm the wooden Ic e uae r i'r'gi fi ne res. When no longer required for camp cookery, , the stove can be applied to any public establishment, such as workhouses, schools, barracks, hospitals, prisons, asp lums. colleges, &C. When a regiment is stationary, four men with six assistant cooks may cook with ease for 1,000 Persons. The camp stove is moderate in price, and will be found much more economical than the present camp kettle, which r equ i res rep l ac i ng every two or three months, and is utterly impracticable to cook with in wet, stormy, or snowy weather, except under shelter. Extract from a letter addressed to head-quarters by Colonel J. H. Daniel, in command of the lit Battalion of Coldstream Guards : " Guards' Camp, before Sebastopol, Sept., 1855. " I have this day attended M. Soyer's course of Met% tion to the cooks of my battalion. I have tasted the ande and d f fuel cooked and served to the men, consisting of salt pork made beef. meat rendered The m °e tender in and consider is conducted which b y M M. as t &hot soldiers. toeshsurmateelartolficslioei consumption ols field x oent t gor r v a a c c o a 1 m o d 0 f serviceable for other purposes is admirable , andthe atrhroansgimempelinetistyrewlaittihvewthoiethhe much t o the health, corn wasted by the old " I noticed t o -d ad 4i when fully carried out, fort, and well-being of the d ldi to its not suffi cient Bull. 4i lbs. of excellent lard save pork, contai n ingaYatilm which have been hitherto tv of meat boiled ' in each, be of the canteen fo cient water ' dark gelatinous stock, in which the water sides forming a d t o gether and thrown away ; and I can and fat were mixed not too highly express my appreciation of the manner in arautheeePqauna'nti owing . which al. Soper convoys instruct ion to th e men , an d a l so how highly I approve of his bivouac recipes, and the pl an • ho carr ies out his camp cookery. " upon which BUTCHERS' CHARITABLIt INSTITUTION.—Yesterday the twenty-seventh anniversary of this valuable charity was c elebrated by an elegant and substantial dinner at the London Tavern, at which about 200 gentlemen con- nected with trade were assembled. The chair was taken by J. J. Mechi, Esq., of Tiptree-hall, supported by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Kennedy ; C. Pearson, Esq;-; Messrs. Ba nn i ster, W. Qollins, R. Cooper, '• Prentice, &c. Thetl Ql sp B a Quli i eciebron i f f whtilgia 0,0 theWoesi.tislngeloiald.stearner yeeter• day ~~