The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-24 00:00:00

~ ..;>~ :1~..`Y t' /{:~~~~ / .E- ' . UNITY JOINT-STOCK MIITUAn SANK ING ASSOCIATION. PRINCIPAL OFFICES. Unity Buildings, 8 and 10, Cannon-street, City. - LEICESTER-SQUARE BRANCH. 1, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square. 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. Arrangements 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 lished 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 of interest on their eash balances. The principle of mutuality has been for many years acted on by 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 banks, however, to this period, MUTU ALITY has been neglected. The whole of the profits result ing from successful operations have been given to the share holders only. ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THE UNITY BANK. I. - To shareholders ' 5 per cent., from the date of payment , on all paid-up capital, as well as 50 per cent. of the profits. 11. To customers, in addition to the ordinary amount paid on deposit and current accounts, interest on their cash ba lances, equivalent to 50 per cent. of the profits. This is the plan on which the UNITY JOINT STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCIATION is established. By it is created, for the first time, an identification of interest between the customers and shareholders of the bank, who thus become mutually con cerned in the extension of its business. It will be the means of opening up new business, preserving a connection once formed, and productive of practical benefits to the public generally. CONDITION OF LONDON JOINT STOCK BANKS. The success of joint stock banks in London is readily ad mitted, as well as proved by the statements periodically issued by those great commercial institutions. In support of this, the following table is submitted, showing the condi tion 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 ; .. . . gai 2 4 1 4:g w.; 3 - ••• ••• g! .....c ~.,....o NAME OP DANIC. 76 "'/ - 4, 00 -4 t•lo , f- .0= I 'T s 4 ' r i l 0 2 . 4 71 ii ..- a. '-• a , at .?:. 11 Z C.', ---- 4 ' • ._ .. : .....,„_T•Ondon and Westminster -.. 18.14 1,000,80 _2O 47 Ig - / Fi '46, ~,„- O illiklll,a ,f 3tiatt, . o , .. ,t...".• • . fe 1 1 '1 ..-; ' .7claion ' ,-,39 422 900 "10 - - 30 •20I s :6 .... . Lontion and Comity ...... 1T432 304,135 20 39}, 12 . Commercial Bk. of Londo:; 184 , 300,000 20 .31 10 I Itoyal British Bank ...... • . 1840 100,000 50 .. 6J ,1,.' 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 London is 12,704,2001. 11. The amount thereof paid up is 2,817,0351. 111. The amount of deposits, or customers' balances, is 29,376,4101. IV, The total number 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 establishments hold half-yearly meetings, and lay before their connections full accounts of their progress and general operations. This course cannot fail in inspiring with confidence all who have any dealings with 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 is proved to demonstration, that ,joint-stock banking, under proper supervision, affords a 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 capital. 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 td increase hi 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 4e, Hyde-park-place, Cnmbeiland-gate. G. L. P. EYRE, E sq. (Messrs. 'hinder and Eyre), 1, John .__ _ _ street, Bedford-row. THOMAS CARLYLE HAYWARD, Esq. (Messrs. Hayward and Sons), 93, Minories ; and 3, Highbnry-park North. MAJOR HENRY STONES, LL.B., 33, Nottingham-place, Regent's-park. ROBERT GARLAND, Esq., Thames-chamber, York-bnild- ings, Adelphi, and Belfioie-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 SNAPE, Esq., 2, Stone-buildings, Liu- coin's-inn, EDWARD GOULD BRADLEY, Esq., Heathland-lodge, Hampstead. MAJOR MARTIN MULKERN, Ightfield-house, Alsop terrace, Regent's-park. BANKERS. THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. SOLICITOR. THOMAS TAYLOE, Esq., 27A., Bucklersbury, London. BROKERS. • _ _ Masers. R. and J. SUTTON, 22, Royal Exchange, London. GENERAL MANAGER. GEORGE CHAMBERS, EN. (from Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, and Co.) SECRETARY. HENRY LAKE, ESQ. Each of the directors is duly qualified, having subscribed for twenty shares, and paid the deposit of 1,000 i., 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 cent. being given to the customers of the bank. This idea can 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 for the formation of profits is a customer. The amount of profit must, therefore, be governed by the amount of busi ness trausactod ; and the larger the business. provided it be properly conducted, the larger will be the profits. It must be borne ia 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. lug. 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 tho 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 triffirg, 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, On 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. Now, 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 cedent 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, water, steam navi gation, insurance, and other companies, professional men, 'merchants, brokers, gentlemen of fortune, and traders of all kinds, will duly estimate the difference in th e s y s t em now proposed, from that heretofore existing. in fine, a s joint stock banks became a public necessity, as is now proved; so will the principle of mutuality—whereby these admirable in stitutions may be rendered still more serviceable to the public, and in no way less safe—demand the best consideration of the community at large. BUSINESS TO BE UNDERTAKEN. All the usual business of banking will be undertaken ; and arrangements will be made for extending the transactions of the Bank in every desirable quarter. CURRENT ACCOUNTS will be made up half-yearly, namely—to the 30th of June and the 31st of December, and interest will be allowed at the rate of 21. per cent. on them. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS.—With respect to these, the rate of in terest allowed on money placed at seven days' notice will be 1/. per cent. under the rate of discount on first class bills adopted by the 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, naval, and civil officers' pay. It will undertake the sale and transfer of stock in the public funds, (Sze. ; and will be responsible for the safe custody of title deeds and other secu rities belonging to its customers, to which they will at all times have convenience of access. Application for prospectuses and forms of application for the remaining shares, to be made to Messrs. R. and J. Sutton, stock brokers, 22, Royal Exchange ; or to the secretary, at the principal offices, 10, Cannon-street, City. HENRY LAKE, Sseretary. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE UNITY JOINT-STOCK MUTUAL RANKING. ASSOCIATION. Gentlemen,— I request that you will allot me shares of 100/. each in the above association, and in consideration of such allotment, or any less number you may appropriate to me, I hereby undertake to pay the depesit, or first call of 10i. per share thereon, and 401, at the time of incorporation. 22. NG THH Hyde, a Somers death of ad. I sworn, 'clock, I ie death Somers found a 1. It was ie at the that the uarrelled shed and keep her muiries to a house, it he was into the eked the de I Hi the man liatake." ner then .man. I xve been ock ; she Somers ay night Shortly going up 1) on th• ressed as lie to se ed. The e. I se tre,which rs of an use in the gain, and morning a all was ock, and e woman and the her head, to go to a the pri- RIDER AT 1r in the ,tlsea, was . .:harge of vely aged nitructed ie service t respon• hich was lave been the dock, hat since End oldest es, and a " Found which the e at pre ► the two there wag but the he magi ued the g thrown er. he would own• He gave evi• ated that prisoner') ye in the of course me three ter, were evening. 1g at half me about ad lodged used was irged her eemed to )re. Sh• rrowed a 'he eldest of age, as Witness y) about. crawling, oh-street, at a little , prisoner WO *de 'coherent hen vol• a ordered that be Isequent fiat there that be gain put adverted it to hini affecting a his de ;used she children i, "It is t is." la Wood' as in the band on sea, Mb' I Pier on from the he upper of them Bed, Ire as said it D. There lad from stairs for knees in when he- e the fin ed child, ►e occur be given t require pearanee i no case hould re another the sub ; present Bed, was mew loop ;equence , par Mir*e ring. the inv. estei National Coin. air oners. 11,091 11,775 14,03 4 34,521 1 37,973 51,260- 16,933 od , MEM.-- 'ounts, I, MR, .. John's- I Wm. )unbar, luards, sq., sou merest sitehill, le Rev. rabley, Dole, of >mmer• :, Ken• sfalgar• , s of Port f Eon c ,erraoe, th, Mr. . _ - RTNG 0 0. 112, utty '.!11 `. 0 No. 19,702.] T further undertake to execute the deed of settlement, when required. Dated this day , 185 . Reference Names (in full) Resideace 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 30th of November. By order, HENRY LAKE, Secretary. Unity-baildings, 9th Nor., 1855. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. — 7 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-chaining 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 he sees 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 have nightly filled the Lyceum inortn , Mystery for Coll' lionons repetition. He -believes that no professor of his art as at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Fie would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, - that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this enterta;nment 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 't 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 previoiis 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. Ile 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 New 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 himielf 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; hut 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 diem to master." 'Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, bas 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, offeredhim 2,000 dollarOper annum if he would perferm 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 honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very had 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 night 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 l 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, he considers it te be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, thero 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 an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right band, 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 aro 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- . !sts of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, wal 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. in.., the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, November 24, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part 1. —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. Lo Livre des Becueils Choisies : or, Pueles Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifiing the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of triaguituCe 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 - visible to the eyes of all, present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. AC't. 7." A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement npoß 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, r Y° lll , or any other wino or spirit required; and finally and proving occupyi ng oce to be fill e d w ith p oc k e t handkerchiefs perfectly dry, t v h i e sib w l h es ol . Act. 9. Gr an d e space when tightly packed. Act 8. 0 Half tocsin of tbeein. an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expoié of Spirit-rappin, Introducing the spirit-rapping table and patr M on y s sti Enchantede Chradiirnioaf. Act. 10. will il A l m u al n g d a e m rg , o in so w m h e ich str t a h n e g? pi•ope property of the Wizard's metamor phoses, and, amon gst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into th e fla gs y,and Sardinia. victory—the banners of Eng • land, dF ranee ih T e k Comm, in which he who sea ts himself will bo unde r th e magic spell, and app ear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest • or, the Nucleus of the Night' Nights Wonders. T o comprehend ' which he in an au di e nce will have the goodness to observe,earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome 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; commonce at 8. Private boxes, U. 11s. 6d. and lt. ls., to be obta'ned at the Box-office, or- at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chattorton, jun. Grand fashio nable Mornin g P er . formance on Saturday; Noverabor:24, at 2 o'clock. Doors open , at half-past 1, • ;0 1. 4 ....... • „.. . •;•:: • 44 - eift • fi , • 4 4 . Nv,o, , ' • ••• 14, - tt9 )i,4•stt , - c 4, „" . 'T)I -4 410 , Ep • M:w , 4 ° l :L. . 0 IT • ‘-‘ ak(Ve ' - 1 . )11x • . [PRICE 4D. N.F.:ivspAp_ ER _ : -.0--- X :4-----1 ,Z 7------ ? -7 4 4-- ---- i. , z •- ' -, : - .7 . :414..: - ' ..,,,,,,,z,-,7, ,;-..'.• '''' however, from an English poi n t o f v i ew, this is not the eel -ll S cl.ief consideration. Let us, for the Fake of argument, suppose Col. Tur to fall xvithin the category of deserters, the fact for Eng lishmen to consider is--Ist. Whether Coronim can claim the right of seizing deserters not belonging to his own - army of occupation, wherever he happens to find them. 2dly. Whether Eng!-,e7 >rfeiting the position of an index ,ildent pee, .. dto submit to this pretended right in the pti:.,i. of tier own officers ? This is the question with England. Now, what man in his senses would dare to deny that the right of seizing deserters is necessarily limited to cue's own territory I Hit were otherwise, I do not see what could hinder the Austrian Minister in London to kidnap by his valetaill any Hungarian refugee who happens to walk near Chan dos-street. Perhaps it may come yet to this. From the path England is treading, conjunctures bid fair to come to this point. Austrian Ministers dared so much at Constantinople while I was a prisoner of European diplomacy at Kutahya; the fact was not unknown to the Minister of England ; I myself have brought it for- , wally under his cognisance, but have not heard of any steps taken in consequence of it by the English Govern• ment for the vindication of international law. " Cone siderations for Austria" prevailed then, as they prevail now. And you have but to allow expediency to inter fere with right, and you will not be able to telt how far the logic of the first indulgence will force you to yield. At all events, it is indisputable that the right of seizure is a territorial tight, restricted to one's own ter ritory. Wallachia is no Austrian territory. Though by the most fatal of errors (I would not exaggerate were I to call it a crime), England had connived to play over Wallachia into the keeping of Austria, she is not a sove reign there, and apart from the authority of providing for the security, order, and maintenance of the army of occupation, she can claim absolutely no power—no juris diction there, beyond the terms conceded to her by the fatal convention of June 14, 1854 ; and lamentable as the act of that convention may be, there is not a word, either in its letter or its spirit, that could, I will not say Justify, but in any way extenuate, the criminalarroganoe of the perpetrated insult. If Austria is allowed to do thus much, why, I see no. thing to prevent her from seizing Omer Pacha himself, he happening to fall unquestionably more under the qualification of an Austrian deserter than Colonel Tor, • on account of the concomitant political circumstances, . at I trust the illustrious warrior is pourtif the act hat he has left the service of Austria, and boldly vindie —.- cated his personal liberty of choosing for his adopted home a foreign country to which he has become a shining star of glory and world-wide fame. As to the second question, the right era-resting, under . . the pretext of desertion, a ritish officer, stripping him of his English uniform, and throwing him in prison, while he is on special service, in a country where Eng land has at least just as much right, nay, unquestionably a better right, than false Austria has to station troops, to purchase and store military implements, and to undertake military movements wlw.ever, without having to ask the permission of Francis Joseph or of his myrmidon. Why, the act is so monstrously insulting, that if England, be sides the personal reparation due to Colonel Tur (if he be yet alive), would cent: nt herself w ith anythir g less for satisfaction than the immediate Evaluation of the Principalities by Austria, history would not fail to pass the judgment that England did not deserve the name, and shall have forfeited the position of an independent nation. , Matters take, indeed, a very sad turn. For months the press of England resounded with the atrocities per netrated by the Austrians in the Danubian Principali- - ties, reconquered from Russia by the heroism of the Turks—independent members of Parliament proclaimed it a shame and a disgrace to see the name of an Eng lish minister appended to trausactions referring to Moldo- Wallachia—Austria enabled the Czar to prolong the de fence of the. Crimea to the second year, by shielding him from attack on the Danube—fear of Austria, and consi derations for Austria, sent the allies to a bloody field of barren victories, and caused them to throw in a bottom less gulf hundreds of millions, and hundred thousands of lives, a third of which sacrifice would have been sufficient to break the power of Russia for ever, and to make Europe free ; Austria baffled the aim of the war . ; all this mr t a blind eye and a deaf ear with the rulers of • England. One thing there yet remained to fill the cup of humiliation—that England should be insulted by Austria in Wallachia, the mournful theatre of so many atrocities, of such amount of disgrace ! That one thing has been done likewise. England is insult , A. An officer on duty is stripped of his uniform, - and sent to an Aus trian dungeon, for having, obedient to his orders, gone on duty to Wallachia. Will England bear this likewise ? Well, she will do as she listeth, and reap as she is sowing. Foreign dic tates have much power in England for a time, and are likely to have more yet by and bye. Such choice, such Fite. But one word I would venture to say. If the English Government has not either the will or the power to assert the inviolability of the English uniform from insult, England should not invite foreigners to enter her service. What with her is a matter of national dignit y towards the foreigners in her service is a question of honour and morality. KOSSUTH. 'AMPED 5D- Inominated to fill that office who had disputed the legality of the last church rate, and against whom the churchwardens had not deemed it wise to take proceedings for its enforcement.- Their course was now clear. They refused to accept the nomination of these gentlemen. Their votes were tendered as parishioners ; they rejected the votes. The pending mandamus has been applied for in order to test the validity of this summary proceed ing. Let the ca se b e f u lly rea li se d. The position of the churchwardens is, as wo have pretty well shown, undoubtedly one of difficulty. But that difficulty is of their own seeking. The law binds them to take the opinion of the vestry on the re pairs which may be necessary, the amount of money it should cost to pay for them, and the manner in which the money is to be raised ; and, having obtained their directions, to carry them out in the best way they can. So far their course is easy. It is only when, in addition to these duties, they mix themselves up with a special party who are determined not to raise the money except in one way, that they find themselves in difficulty. But the case of the parishioner is altogether dif ferent. He refuses to pay the rate, as it appears by the report in this case, because he has good grounds for believing it to be illegal. As the law stands he cannot test its legality by any of the modes open to him in other cases. He cannot "quash" the rate. He cannot take the initiative against it in the Ecclesiastical Courts. The only thing he can do is to refuse to pay, - and then to support his refusal in the manner we have hinted at. So that the question at issue is simply this— Can a churchwarden, to whom the law has - en- trusted the sole initiation, and armed with sufficient powers (if he is in the right) for enforcing his de mands, refuse to exercise those powers, and thus disable a recusant ratepayer from testing the va lidity of his acts, and at the same time disfranchise that ratepayei for non-compliance with his de mands ? This, we take it, is practically the ques tion which the judges will have to decide when the motion comes on to make the mandamus absolute. To the settlement of the church-rate controversy their decision will be of no consequence whatever. If it be held that non-payment of a presumably bad church rate (and we suppose a church rate refused and not proceeded on will hardly be presumed a good one), if this legally disqualifies the recusant, we would not give much for the seat of any borough member who shirks the divisions on Sir W. Clay's bill next session. The first clause of that measure —" From and after the passing of this act no church rate shall be made or levied in any parish in England or Wales"—will be the only corollary to such a decision. If, on the other hand, the mandamus is made absolute, the manner in which vestry contests are now being everywhere con ducted places us very much at our ease upon even the question of time. A dissolution is the only chance for another year of church rates. But we heartily thank the churchwardens of St. Clement Danes for having raised this question. Lord John Russell once said something about the church rates in connection with the Monarchy, which we believe nobody now exactly understands. But by the course which these gentlemen have taken they have contrived to present us with a practical illustration upon how slender a thread may hang our rights as mere citizens, irrespectively of denominational distinctions, which no one who meets with it can fail to apply. KOSSUTB ON THE ARREST OF COL. TUR. (Prom the Atlas.) England is really falling low in the estimation of the despotic powers of Europe. Even Austria—only think, Austria! dares to offer England a monstrous insult, coupled with a flagrant ♦iolation of international law. Col. Tur, late of Hungary, now holding a commission in the service of England, while on special duty by order of his commander, has been arrested by the Aus trians at Bucharest, stripped ignominiously of his Eng lish uniform, and, in spite of the energetic remonstrances of Consul Colquhoun, hurried off a prisoner to Transyl vania, for the time being an Austrian province by the grace of Russian bayonets and English contrivance. Such is the monstrous fact. SALE OP COPYRIGHTS.—Yesterday Mr. E. Hodgson, the auctioneer, offered to public auction, at his rooms, 192, Fleet•street, a considerable ',umber of copyrights of works, the property of Messrs. W. S. 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The joining of Carlo-Alberto of Piedmont in the wpr did not change the character of it. When (to the misfortune of Italy) he declared his participation,. Aus tria was already defeated both at Venice and in Lom bardy. Zichy had signed a capitulation at Venice, and Radetzky at Milan ; the whole regiment of Albrecht and a battalion of Cecepieri at Cremona, a large portion of the regiment of Haugwitz at Brescia, in all upwalds of 8,000 officer, and men of the Austrian army, faithful to national duty, took their stand with Italy against Austria. ~ tereotype, and steel plates and woodcuts 3501. Richard son's Rural Ha n d-b oc k,, comprising Bees, Flax, Cows, Doggy, Fowls, Horses, Pigs, Sheep, P es t s o f t h e Farm, Manure, Drainage, ower-garden, and Rural Arclntec- Lure, 13 vole.; the copyright, 4701. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, by Mudie and others ; the copyright, stereo type, and eteelplst's-3001. Dr. Forbes's Physician's Holiday ; the copyright, 191. 53. 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Ireland—The office of clerk of the Crown for the county of Lowth is vacant by the death of Mr. John Maher ; the office of librarian to the Queen's College, Galway, is vacant by the death of Mr. J. Hardiman, the Irish Antiquarian ; Mr. J. Macdonald Royse, late accountant in the Inspector of Government Prisons' Office, has been appointed secretary to the Directors of Convict Prisons in Ireland. Coloniab—East Indies— Mr. Charles Chester has been appointed commissioner of the Allahabad Division ; Lieutenant J. A. Steel has been appointed deputy commissioner of the second class at Baitool ; Mr. Win. Edwards has been appointed ma gistrate and collector of Budaon, during the absence of Mr. R. H. S. Campbell ; Mr. A. Littledale has been ap pointed an additional judge of Beha and Patna.—Oivil Service Gazette. Will you call deserters those 8,0001 If you do, then you must brand with the name of deserters the memory of many a hero likewise, who shed his blood for your own freedom, when Cromwell rose a glorious star on England's canopy. In the course of events the Hapsburgs, the joint ser pent head of whom we could have crushed at Vienna with a tread of our heel, but whom with foolish magna nimity we spared—the Hapsburgs, in reward of our generosity, by one of those foul crimes as only Haps burgs know how to commit. assailed Hungary. The nation thus treacherously assailed charged me and my colleagues to provide for the defence of the country. We called the nation to arms, and with the authority of our people's sovereign will (the only legitimate, the only " divine " source of authority) we ordered every Hun garian soldier stationed in foreign countries either to hasten home, to defend their native land against the treacherous aggression by Austria, or, should to any of them circumstances render the fulfilment of this duty impossible, to join there, where they happen to be, those who are up in arms against the aggressor of our country, and fight there where they happen to be agains the common enemy, under the penalty of being considered traitors to their fatherland. Many a gallant patriot answered our first appeal. History has recorded deeds, bordering on the ancient fables of miraculous heroism—deeds of brave patriots who, sword in hand, cut their way across hostile armies and foreign lands, and either died in the attempt or ar rived home with the words, " Here we are, obedient to our country's call." tADvselismiENT.l--The following is not the least remark able among the numerous extraordinary cures witiv ing Re. medi cine effected by Du Barry's delicious He a lth-al;criLt atuleney, valenta Arabica Food, of Indigestion Asthma, Consumption, and Debility: . ad long been consump tive, Nervous, Bilious,and Liver Ys Com plaints, ( Dys pe psia ), Ps 1 Aug. 7, 1854.—My daughter Virginie had was in July last reduc tive, withdiarrhceaand night swea ts,n Maastricht, Holland Co ugh, , Upon tho recommend& - fwteeil•l.thThe fiirsstexfeeewl. c e a d l t m o s e u n c a b gi a .e s ea tate thw o e f em p nmtlr wase s o i f s stt prostration t hm • a , eee, t booin i s. .e o 3t wlnoiamolpasspfnahot perfectly ul e g a l f : as r: acenteiousAdvts generally recovery strength y u t , rale t on h nf : atnirah o oa i wum ir derane za dt e ibanda d atu i te - d.. days 'Barry's Revalenta Arabic; she could not survive tried Du tion of a friend, which, to the arable, and in six days the diarrhoea change.mtnedalsnight s f t o o r s t ify l e i c o l at t b sj o e a t hs t s asd most sa cred cred 1 discharging a I consider i .. recommending it to all sufferers.—S. 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The valuable ad in v.'"_. i m paired is from this invention is that vision beco ago ins p d persons are preserved and strengthened, and v j . : e l ro ost minute aft % the frequent changes occu enabledpation_e to employ esemeplwioyththtehieser...„sitriehnoest at f a much less magnify. fur ther powerful assistance. p a t e nt for valua a b n l d e p a e n r d . to i P° the we d r— an a g n er d ou th s ey ei d e o eta n_o o t tfte re: 'By leer Majesty's Royal e i f o the most powerful and extraordinary imPreve m i; , Racecourse, Opera, brilliant Telescopes, t o know the distances of objects viewed spective Glasses, . rtealaetseiempLorrossceesstostitchhe eaxrmtrayo,rdinnava4 a j - u h p a l i t f er,smoons, inches , theimanopeoxtcraaneybee. e:ra=?-I"vre t • with the *same Saturn's ring, t pan h: dwers u o g a h m.ers th i a nd pe rson's countenance three miles and a half distant, er d seh i r srin a c n tl a y s een a rilect from 16 to 20 miles , stainers:ewers aceord Th in e g y ly are ; wohilf larger ge r ir an v d ary al l j a i niz g edic from ea.n the ' witho i I I 4 double i t en o be °r e 1 inches I n ... above, and the Georgian, with his 6 satellites, &e.—The Royal E x hibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1 i miles distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 milt. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, Pohang' sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. O d l e =l race-course , camp, and perspective glasses, with wenpposlie p ow er. -39 ,Albemarle-etzeet, PiceadillY• ORw'!"" -- i the York Hotel. Colonel (then lieutenant) Tur was less fortunately cir cumstanced. The then position of Italy explains the impossibility of his making his way home ; but as a good citizen he did what he could in obedience to his nation's sovereign command ; he drew his sword against the aggressor of his country where he found himself, and sided with the Italian nation against our common enemy. Soldier is a noble name ;it means defender of one's own country. His natural oath is, that he will bravely combat every enemy of his country wherever he be ordered to do so, by sea or by land. Tur was faithful to this duty, as old with every citizen as his life, and lasting while his life lasts. Honour , ani glory to him for it. Will you call him a "deserter?: Then you had to give the like name to those thousand of Hungarian heroes who, faithful to patriotic duty, the ex changed the yellow black of treacherous Austrialoar the national tricolour, and shared in the glory faithless tyrant to the footstool of your ene7n i z h . ti t r h Go o l d B : z r e e. r s there to mendicate aid against the j vealed in the victory of right. They, ldadeserve the igno. gallant Tur amongst the number, wou he y not answered us ir of them, and igno minious title of " deserters " their country's call, had they . parricidal bands for the enemy. remained bled - in the ranks of Austria, and raised their parrioio But if, such as they were, are 1 , deserter " will be a title t be called "deserters," then, from this day, the name the mark of ignominy, of honour, like as the cro, once honour. ha, become an emblem of t f the Austrian service for the M. Tur did not des e rt the the command of the Piedmontese service d ; es be i of Hungary by siding with the national governmen t the enemy of his own country. Italian patriotsag convincingi proof of this principle of his action He gave a T a twaen the battle or freedom was unluckily by the fact t over in Lombardy, he did not accept Piedmontese ser vice, but offered his arm to the caus e of popular lib er t y i n Baden, where he did good service, and was pro. moted to a colonelcy. After the catastrophe in Baden, h a ving honour abl y p rovided fo r the Passage to America of his comrades who served under hiw, he went to exile, a homeless wanderer like myself, until in an evil hour. he cla i me d and was granted the honour of a commission i n the service of England, which, it would appear, s tands in so little estimation with Austria, that it does not protect him from being stripped of his uniform and carried off to prison when on duty by command on the territory of England's ally. So much for the " deserter ;" to which I might add, that Francis Joseph, in one of his manifestoes, had pledged a general amnesty for Lombardy and Venice, and that I should be greatly mistaken if the same pledge were not reiterated in the treaty of peace between Aus tria and Piedmont. But this does not matter, inasmuch as it would appear from other unfulfilled st i pu lation s, that England, though one of the mediators in that trea ty, is not v er y muc h in the habit of i ns i s ti n g on e.imili n a _, r stipulations, whenever "considerations fo r Austria terfere with the claims of humanity,. I thought it due to the personal honour in particula r , an d t o the principle in g of Col. Tur general, to expatiate th e - retended desertion; on these remarks with regard to p LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, N OVEMBEIL 24, 1855. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON AND NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE UNION RAILWAY. (Incorporation of Company for making a Railway from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, at Stocksfield Statio'n, to _ . join the Stockton and Darlington. Railway near Conside Iron Works, with a Branch therefrom to the private Rail way of the Derwent Iron Company, near Crook Hall Furnaces.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Appli cation is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in -a Bill to incorporate a Company for constructing and maintaining the Railways hereinafter mentioned, or some Part or Parts thereof, to gether with all proper Stations, Works, and. Conveniences con neqted therewith, and approaches thereto (that is to say), Railway commencing at, and proceeding from, the Main Line of the Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Rail way, at or near to a Point One Chain East of the Bridge carrying the road from Old Ridley to Bywoll, over the said Line of such Railway, in the Parish of Bywell Saint Peter's, in -the - County of Northumberland ; passing from thence from, iu, through, or into, or situate within, the seve ral Parishes, Townships, and Extra-Parochial Places, or other Places following, or some of them (that is to say), Bywell Saint Peter's, Bywell Saint Andrew's, Ovingham, Old Ridley, New Ridley, Bromley, Stocksfield Hall, Apperley, Mickley, Whittonstall, Newlands, Hedley; Hedley Woodside, Hindley, all in the County of Northumberland; and Lanches ter, Ebchester, Medomsley, Benfieldside, Consett, and Knits ley, Ivestone, or Iv.eston, Shotley, Shotley Bridge, Black Hill, Berry Edge, Lead Gate, • Ccook Hall, Conside and Con set, Rough Side il and Rowley, - all in the County of Durham, a nd terminating by a junction with the Main Line of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, at or near a Point Twenty-ono Chains North-east of- the Top of the Hownes Gill Incline of the said Stockton and Darlington Railway, in the Township of Conside; or Cousett, or Cosset, and Knitsley, in the Parish of Lanchester, in the County of Durham, immediately adjoining to a Field belonging to Thomas Baker, and occupied by John Robinson, and marked A upon the Plans to be deposited as herein mentioned % Second—A Railway, or Branch Railw; y, commencing at, Itßarlii'strfliere inbeThire described, at or about a Distance of Eighteen Chains from the Junction thereof' with the Stockton and Darlington Railway hereinbefore described, in the Parish of Lanchester, in the County of Durham, iu or near a Field belonging to Thomas Baker, and occupied by John Robinson, and marked B upon the Plans to be deposited as herein mentioned, passing from thence from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several Parishes, Townships, .and Extra-Parochial Places, or other Places following, or some of them (that is to say), Lanchester, Conside, or Cou sett, or Conget and Knitsley, Ivestone, Iveston, Berry Edge,.Lead Gate, Crook Hall, Roughside, and Rowley, all in the County of Durham', and terminating at, and by a Junction with, the private Railway of the Derwent Iron Company, at or near to Crook Hall Furnaces, and in or near to a field belonging to Thomas Baker, Esq. , awl occupied by Thomas Browell, situate in the Parish of Lanchester, and Township of Ivestone or Iveston, in the said County 'of Dur ham, and marked C upon the Plans to be deposited as here in mentioned. And it is intended by such Bill to incorpo rate a Company for the purpose of carrying the said Under taking into effect, and to apply for and take the following Powers,. or some of them (that is to say), to cross upon the Level, or under, or over, or to divert, alter, or stop up, whether temporarily or permanently, all or any Turnpike Roads, or other Roads, Watercourses, Streams, Rivers, High ways, Streets, Railways, Canals, Tramways, Sewers, or Drains, within the aforesaid Parishes, Townships, Extra Pa rochial Places, or other places, or any of them, which may be required to be crossed, diverted, altered, or stopped up for the purposes of the said intended Railway and Branch Railway, and Works. A , so for the Compulsory Pur chase of Lands and Houses for the Construction of the said Railway and Branch Railway, and the Works connected therewith respectively. Also for Power to purchase Lands by Agreement, and to take Leases thereof, and to vary or extinguish all Rights and Privileges in any Manner con nected with the Lands,. Houses, Tenements, and Heredi taments proposed to be taken, and which would in any Manner impede or interfere with the Construction, Mainte nance, or Use of the said intended Railway and Branch Railway, or Works, and to acquire Rights of Way by Agree ment over the same, and to enable the Owners of any such Lands to grant such Leases or Rights of Way. And also to purchase by Agreement, and use, private Railways and Tramways ; and also to levy Tolls, Rates, and Duties, for or in respect of the said intended Railway and Branch Rail way, and Works, and to confer other Rights and Privileges, and to alter or vary any existing Tolls, Rates, or Duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish Exemptions from Pay ment of any Tolls, Rates, and Duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish such other Rights and Privileges as may be expedient, and also to make all necessary Traffic Arrange mouth with the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, and with the North-Eastern Railway Company, and the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, or any of them, or with any other Company, Corporation, Person, or Per sons, whose Line or Lines- of Railway join, or shall commu nicate with, the said proposed Railway and Works respec tively. And it also intended by the said Act to authorise lateral Deviations in the Construction of the said intended Railway and . Works respectively, to the Extent or within the Limits laid down in the Plans to be deposited as hereinafter mentioned. And Notice is hereby further given, that Duplicate Plans and Sections, describing the Lines, Situation, and Levels, of the said intended Railway and Branch Railway, and other the Works aforesaid, and the Lands through which the same are intended to pass or be made, 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 a published Map, with the Lines of the said intended Railway and a Branch Rail way delineated theron, and a Copy of this Notice, as pub lished in the London Gazette, will, on or before the Thirtieth Day of November instant, be deposited for Public Inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Northumber land, at his Office at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Durham, at his Office at Durham ; and that Copies of so much of the said Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, as relates to each of the several Parishes and Extra-Parochial Places in or through which the intended Railway and Branch Railway, and WorkS, aro proposed to be made, together with a Copy of the Gazette Notice, will be deposited on or before the said Thirtieth Day of November instant, with the Parish Clerk of each such Parish, at his Residence ; and in the Case of any Extra-Parochial Places, with the Parish Clerk of some Parish adjoining thereto, at his Residence. Printed Copies of, such Bill will, on or before the Thirty first Day of December next, be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. Dated this Fourteenth Day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Five. ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY. ROPING TO HULT. Notice is hereby given that 01 Shares in this Company, upon wh'ch the Fin , l Call of 21. per Share became due and payable on the Ist October, 1855, will, according to the Statutes of the , 'ompany, be liable to Forfeiture if the Call bent paid on or before the Ist day of December next. JOHN' SADLEIR, Chairman. London, 18, Cannon-street, Nov. 12, 1855. ESTABLISHED 1837. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY. Empowered by Special act of Parliament BRITANNIA VICTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Niajesty's Royal Letters Patent. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the lowest possible rates consistent with semi ty to the a Isured. E. R. 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Mitchell, Ptiblisher to her Majesty, 33, Old Bond street. Spirit' of the Public Journals. (From the Times of this day.) Builders in these days are apt to begin in the autumn, on the idea of getting the foundations well in before summer. Perhaps that fixed the time for the ceremony in which Prince Albert took the principal part at Birmingham on Thursday; ; otherwise, spring is the time for any work that makes ()Teat demands on One's faith and expecta tion. We know what the day was in London— hardly ever one blacker ; and at Birmingham, we are told, "a cold and drizzling rain set in early in the morning and continued tgronghout the day," without, however, damping the loyal ardour of the multitudes. Such an atmosphere adds only new lustre to the public spirit and perseverance with which his Royal Highness and the other distin guished personages present strove to dispel the gloom Of the physical, and, we suppose we must add; the mental atmosphere around them. Prince Albert showed his usual depth of reflection and breadth of survey ; Lord Ashburton made an excellent speech, an 1 there was, indeed, not one without much truth and common sense. If, how ever, we say that the whole day's celebration re minds one of the phrase, "along pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether," while we think that a most creditable and truly English process, we must say that it also describes the immense labour of the effort. - It all reads as it were very up-hill work, and as if chaos itself had now to receive order and light. The first principles aro evoked from the very heart of the universe, and the human mind . probed to its very depths for the great work n ow begun. Such a task requires such a style: " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the verse moves slow." The speeches, indeed, abounded in reminiscences greatly to the credit of the undertaking, but yet reminding us how much has been done, and'to how little purpose. We are informed, to begin with, that Prince Albert had in former years clone so much for the chief institutions and manufactures of Birmingham, that the Council had scarcely felt it a presumption to ask for the renewed honour of a visit. Then not only are the two Universities described as still confined, in a great degree, to their prescriptive specialities of mathematics and classics, but even the Great Exhibition, now four years past, is alluded to only to measure our in crease of inferiority at Paris this year. Prince Albert tells us that almost everything is still to be done ;, Lord Ashburton that we are actually going backwards. • The Midland Institute, it appears, is the very first institution that owes its origin in any way to the great movement of 1851. Even in Lon don we are only laying the foundationsof a rary asylum for some eland scattered colt tions. Not a point was instanced by the Royal or noble speakers in which we could be said to have luip9= 'lee% improved. Only in some things our deficiency is more apparent than ever. In fa.lt, the great Bri tish nation is beginning at last to be conscious not only of some natural deficiencies, but even of a temporary obscuration of its powers. Wo have some good painters, though even they are finding their matches abroad, but for the rest—let us see I We want a .Heaven-sent general. Wewant a poet. We want a good historian—not a brilliant essayist, but a man who can write a compendious and classi cal history of England, or any other history. We wantsome endurable sermons. If the pulpitjust now has no luminaries to mention, on the other hand the stage is not in its palmiest state. There died lately in great distress a man who could compose some original airs ; but at this moment it cannot be pre- tended that we have a single composer of extraor dinary genius. • Going lower, into those homely regions where Prince Albert loves to succour and elevate the soul of British art—in furniture, paper hangings, ironwork, china, and almost everything that contributes to the decoration of our houses, we are still beaten by foreigners. ,Apropos of Bir mingham, within these few years two splendid mansions have been built in Piccadilly by million- aires, both with costly iron railings—the one, how ever, from abroad, th e o th er ev id en tly from some home foundry. The f or i gn ra ili ng is a, work of art, the other is an iron raili ng , an d no more. To what are we to ascribe this genera l s t a ndstill ? There is no committee of ag e d genera l s sitting en per manence over the designs of our crockery and hardware. No system of purchase excludes meri torious poverty, no Court favour sends genius to the wall, no seniority crushes the aspirations of youth: There is no monopoly here. There must be free trade in the realms of art. Nevertheless, British art still provokes the laborious encou ragements and splendid condescensions we now witness at Birmingham. Pelion is still to be piled upon Ossa to attain oven a respectable position. Of the promised growth of British art we must still say, as was said of the greatest fabric of antiquity,— " Tant3e molis erat Romanam condere gentem." ---- - No doubt we shall have to wait for the result, and when it comes it will probably come in a form, possibly, also, in a grandeur and comprehensive ness, that we do not expect. All experience has shown that there is no such subdivision in the domains of genius as iu the workshops of mechanical art. When the inspiration once comes down it lights many kindred studies. The Greek once pos sessed with the idea of beauty carried it out in everything. His poetry, his philosophy, his tem ples, his statues, his language, his very dress, could not be beautiful. We might almost venture to say that there never was that sudden burst of genius which constitutes what is called au Augustan Era, without the light penetrating into every corner of the human mind. Certainly we labour under great disadvantages. This is a very material and matter of-fact age. All classes are toiling hard for subsist ence or for'wealth ; and when a man does begin to rest from his labours he has not much soul left for the muses and graces. As for the great majority, theirs is a sad bread-meat -and-bear, clothes and furniture sort of existence. Then, what are we to expect from 10,000 spinners and piecers employed the whole of their lives in watching spindles and piecing threads ? What from the man who does the fiftieth part of a pin or a nail, or ono piece in a watch or a lock ? It must be confessed, too, that there is no country tu the world with l ess soc i al communication between the different classes. The workpeople of a town never see anything of their betters, and have no contact with more cultivated minds, except through the cold, dull medium of books, in which they neither see nor hear the writor, and catch neither his looks nor his tones. They who have mostexplored the " masses" of our great towns describe them as a Serbonian bog of ignorance, depression, and general deadness of heart, mind, ' and soul. Certainly their look, as they pass to and fro, is not encouraging to the philanthropist, and it argues no small courage for any man to devote himself to the task of their elevation. Something more than schools, "institutes," lectures, models, and apparatus is wanted hero. Something more even than churches and the sparse ministrations of a divided clergy. We must be excused if we have an immense distrust of brick and mortar as a means of rescuing the poor from the many living in fluences of a civilised barbarism. But when our Heaven-sent poet and statesman and general have come, we shall then also look for some one to take the working man by the hand, speak to his iner most soul, win his heart, and point —to Heaven, of course, ultimately—but, meanwhile, to moral dig nity and intellectual refinement. (From the Times of aiis ,day.) These are was ofss co enewdays le for the British in histishso ldier. Time was when General's despatch than a gun or a mortar, and it would have been considered preposterous to mentio n hi s name 1 • s name among the killed and wounded. Time was when the people would no more have thought of knitting hose and nightcaps for them, dosing them with champagne when sick, and sending out deli cate women to soothe their pain and cheer their languor, ' than they now think of performing the same services for the regimental horses. Time was when it could excite no wonder and little regret to hear of a drunken army and to imagine every sol dier a bottle imp. The bottle, in fact, formed part of the national idea of a soldier as much as his bayonet and his musket. He was the type of a . good fellow that would stand not only fire but fire-water, until he fell on that inglorious field of battle—under the table. The sergeant drank, and the , young recruit took the King's shilling in the glorious fellowship of the alehouse. His health was drunk twenty times a-day by ad miring comrades ; the farmer's wife quenched his thirst, as he passed her cottage, with a draught of homebrewed ; gin he enjoyed, his ambition was cognac, and lie was as happy as a king when he sat nightly in the bar of the Swan-with-Two-Necks, a pipe in one hand, a pot in the other, and his mouth full of smoke, mild ale, and blarney. Every song-writer asked the question, why should he not -drink? -soldier's a man, life's but a span, why, then let a soldier drink. if he went to the ' picture gallery he saw a pretty vivandiere 'serving out liquor to the defenders of her country. If he went to, the play he saw the model soldier tippling; like a fish, and every man, woman, and child be longing to that lath and canvass village thinking it an honour to bring him brimmer on brimmer. He road a novel, and either some Major Galbraith was found throughout the volume hiccoughing " God' save the King," or the first chapter re quired a drunken quarrel of redcoats to set the story agoing. Who ever heard of sober soldiers ? Cromwell'slronsides were not soldiers ; they were merely Militant parsons, who could not drink be cause they were always holding forth—because the devil of talk had cast out the devil of drink. All *now . changed ; or, rather, the facts still remain' what they were, but our ideas of what ought to: have been considerably modified. It is no longer a point of honour with gentlemen to drink so many bottles of wine per diem. The modern reader is rather startled to find Boswell, After an nouncing that his physician has put him on the shortest possible allowance of wine, taking great credit to himself that for six weeks he actually has not exceeded one bottle of sherry at dinner. Without any Maine Liquor Law or teetotal pledges the edu cated classes of society have became extremely tem perate, and it may almost be said that drunkenness is unknown among them. We do not despair of soon seeing this good example influence all classes of the community, and without the aid of those physical restraints which the more violent advo cates of temperance in this country and in Ame rica seek to legalize ; but it cannot be denied that in the masses, and in that section of them from. which our army is recruited, the vice is as preva lent as ever, and appears, indeed, to be worse be cause we of a different class have become better. Let it not be supposed • for one moment that we have any desire to palliate irregularities in the British army which, with shame and sorrow, it has been our duty to record. There is the sad fact still staring us in the face that in our Crimean army sobriety' is the exception, intoxication the rule ; and, that a remedy may be applied, we wish to ascertain clearly how the case stands, and where the blame lies. Let us therefore say, in passing, that we are measuring the British soldier by a standard not one hairrs breadth higher than it ought to be, but considerably higher than he is accustomed to. The blue jackets get drunk the moment they get on shore. The redcoats spend in drink every fraction they can spare. The French are a whit better ; the Zouaves are as hard drinkers as any of our Highland or Irish regiments. Our soldiers are doing what has been the immemorial usage of soldiers, and we conceive that the blame lies far less with them than with the authorities. In saying this we do not so much allude to the fact that the Commanders in the Crimea have it very much in their power to put a stop to the sale of -which as the pay ofr soldiers theto motarrangemeant the tof seat of mar the scheme w • by has been increased. The pay has been increased, but what facilities have been given to the private to dispose of this otherwise than on the spot ? There the drinking booths are continually open, and if he cannot get spirits from the English canteens, ho can from the French. But what opportunities ,have been given him to send his money home or to save it ? Who is to take it from him ? Who is to take all. the extra trouble of keeping separate accounts of . savings and remittances ? Who is to take the extra responsibility of hoarding money not his own in specie ? The thing can only be managed by favour. It is true that many more soldiers than the public are aware of do send re mittances home ; and it will be seen from a letter which appeared in our columns yesterday that if a man will but keep sober he can contribute mate rially to the relief of his family ; but we are sure that this bright example would be more generally followed, and the soldier would control his thirst, if proper means were taken to facilitate in every way the accumulation and the remittance of his money.. As it is, the extra pay is simply wasted, and worse than wasted, for it is employed in demo ralising the individual and in degrading the national character. We hope that the authorities will con sider this. And is it not possible to provide inno cent amusement for our soldiers during those months when the army must be comparatively idle? We have heard something of a scheme to establish a circulating library, and hope that it will not be allowed to fall to the ground. Lord Panmure has in his day done much for the education and im provement of the soldier, and we trust he will see to it that the moral character of the British army be.raised, and not lowered, by a winter in Sebas topol. (Prom the Daily News of this alai.) The question of Church Rates is again coming into the law courts. On Thursday, we find by our report, Mr. Sergeant Shea moved, on behalf of certain parishioners of St. Clement Danes, for a mandamus requiring the churchwardens to convene a meeting, under the provisions of Sir Benjamin Hall's Act, for the election of vestrymen and audi tors. A rule nisi was granted, and the matter will probably be disposed of at the next hearing. As we believe the principle involved to be scarcely less important in its kind than that which was settled by the long litigation of the Braintree Case, we make no apology for at once bringing it before our readers. It will be recollected that the Attorney and So licitor-General have lately given an opinion that, under the 16th clause of the act in question, pa rishioners would not be entitled to take part in an election unless they had paid their church rates previously to their voting or being nominated. In the parish of St. Clement Danes there has long been the now usual amount of opposition to these imposts ; and the churchwardens have been fain to acquiesce in the accumulation of considerable ar rears. It was a course, doubtless, which appears the reverse of impartial, and calculated to produce very considerable confusion in the parish accounts; but we cannot say that they were not wise in their generation. If they summoned the recusants be fore the justices, they were met by a simple, but generally a rather too well founded, denial of the validity of their rate ; and the jurisdiction of the bench being thereby ousted, the costs—the only produce'of the proceeding—fell upon themselves. If after this they adventured into the Ecclesiastical I Courts, the whole expense, and that not of the lightest, fell again upon themselves in the first in stance, while they would be dependent for reim bursement upon the goodwill of parishioners against whom they had for years been waging an internecine war upon this very question. Even the fruits of success in their own courts might bo snatched from them at the last moment by a pro hibition, should there be a flaw in the manner or in the fact of the ecclesiastical decree. They would doubtless have reaped the earliest instalment of the fate in store for all churchwardens, b u t that the fast ripening knowledge of their legal rights as vestrymen by the inhabitants of even the rural pa rishes will be anticipated by the immediate passing of Sir W. Clay's bill. But within the limits of the metropolis o Hall's Act, as construed by the law-officers, been thought to promise at least a temporary solu tionlicig er Sirs has of the difficulty. 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