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MR.' ALBERT SMITH'S AIONi BLANC and BADE :4 TO-N MUT at • o'cloc:::!-Eoltian PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD CLl33.—The. Annual Exhibition of Prize cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements, grc., commences on Tuesday Morning! and closes on Friday Evening-9th, 10th, llth, and 12th December. BAZAAR, Kim,-street and Bakor-Greet. c/peit from daylight t l ill nine in the evening. ' Adinittance Clue Shilling. 1 CI U RAND BAL MASQ. - CASINO DE ‘../1 VEN SF, High Holborn.-1111311SDAY, 4th December, 1554. Gentlemen's Tickets, ss-; ladies do., 3s. Doors open at half past nine. Supper at one ; tickets 3s. 6d. . - - ..„ i t3ryra, - goo:)Is,--44 fTRENT'S CAST •Q neat St. - James's --The ab,ve elegan Romps attic; now open every• eveninz , o r th e K ir, er wit) Laurent's telebrated Orchestra Principal Corneti.3-Aston. M Boulcourt. The Pro . )rlwor , ega....;,,corm .the public 1! at th fashion4ble pace ~f resort ha been entirely re,) , .c.)rwi,i during th• recess. lore o pen eight, eo,n al ence a t sioa 'ne gl,6llin, R. KAHN'S ANATONIICAL MUSEUM .• 4 4, Com.dritry-street, LeiCester-scuare.—Open (for Gentlemen. nly) from 1U till 10, containing opw,rds of one thousand model and prepars.r ems, illust.•ating every part of the human frame it; ';ealth and d' ease, the race at men, ke. Lecture. delivered at 12. 2, 4, and hal f-past 7. by 1) , . G. S'EXTON, F. R.G.s. ; and a new highly-interestng series of 1 eesnres is now in course of deliver' hv Or. KAHN. at a quarter p tst 8 p.m. precisely. A.idmission, Onr Shilling. CiONLMERCIAL BANK of LONDON. Tof h ry, and . Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Th(• Directors lITIKEIIT GIVE NOTICE. That a GENERAL 7 , IEE rING of the Sharthohlers will he held at the Banking Honqe of the Corn. pany in ',rabbitry, on TIIESDIY, the 16h. December next, at one o'clock precisely, to elect a Director in. the *oom of trdward Oxen ford, Esq., itesigneci, and that lierbert ,TrO ior, Esq. (Of the firm 01 • David Tayl or and. Sons. Mark-lane) who is a duly ,qualified pro prietor, has; announced his intentiou,of offering himsalf as a candi date for the vacant seat. 22d Noverpber, 1856. lETY, By order of the Board. A.E. CTiTBILI.4, Manager mErr R 0 P 0 LITAN COUNT: 0 EINE RIL LIFE A.;SURANCE SOCIETY, street, t. at trloo-place, London. Ca•dtal, 100,0001. TRIIBTET.S. Rt. En. Rim) leer Richard Spooner, Es. Henry Pete r Fuller, El, E. Vansittart Neale Life Assu tance business transacted in all its briviche N.B. The bones declared it tit, last division ot pro 23 per cent. "eha all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMEOTTX P 1311 tirE A;SSUIt.4.I%T . CE SO ES and 27, Regent- ..?4 P. Is aver age d Manager. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE TN FOUR-FIFTTIA, or 50 per cent., of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the conditions contained in the s' , ciety's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives Pre lower than in many oth.:m old-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in Pddition to the accm.Mated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy stomps paid by the Office. Prospectis ses may he obtained at tho Oftlce in Threadneedle-street, Loudon, or 4 g any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. ESTABLTSHED 1837 B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM Zmpow, mod bySpecial Act of Parliament, 4 Vict., cap. 9, and B tITANNIA 'IUTITAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Emp. )were . l by iTer Vaiesty's Royal Letters Patent. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. MAsos- , GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Number if Policies is- ued, upwirds of 11,000. Annual 'income from Prom ums (exclusive of Interest on Inves ments) upw arils of 84,000/. Bates of IPremlum reduced to the lowest possible sc , le compatible With socuri't,y, awl computed in such variety Pt* wa. s as to suit the ircumstanuti.s and conven:ence of every class Policy-hWers. E. R. FO TER, Vesi.lent Diroctor. %NIIIEW FRANC Hz. ,ecretary. INVES TMENTS in BRITISH MINES.—RiII partict 11 irs of the mo=t Important Divid:.nd and Progrcs , ive Mines will IsS found in the Fourth Edhion of BRITISH MINE , CON!iIDF.R.E D AS AN INVESTMENT. recently published by J MURCHIS!)N, Esq.. F.G.C., pr!ce 3e. Gil. ; by poet 4s Mr. 34tyRopITSON also publishes a QU ARTERLY REVIEW of ERITISEI M IS ING, giving the position and prospec's of the Mines at the end oft each quarter, the dividends paid, &c. The Revie v for the quarter ending 30th Sept. last contains a Map of the Bassett cli.trlet, price Is. "The hook will be found extremely valuable."- Observer. " A valuable little book."—Globe "A valual de guide to investors "—Horanath. "A useful little volutne,"—Mornhair Herald. "Of great value to apitalliqs " --%underlanol Times. " Parties requiring information on mining inve , tl cuts will tlid no better and safer instru-to , than Mr urchkilt eds limes "One of the moat valuable mining nithlicado - s ha' come tinder our notice, an contains more hiformation than any other on the subject c f which it t• eats " Derby Telegyanb. "To those:who wish to invest capital in Briti-h Mines, this work Is of the first. importance." welsnin m. .. ..... "This wafrk enables the capitalist to invest on sound principles; it is, in truth, an excellent uuide "—Plymouth Journal Copies of the above puhlicaVons can be obtain° i at'.'lr. Murchison's *tikes, 17, rishopsgate-street Within, 'on : and reliabl infor mation and Advice wall be given at any time to those who may re quire it. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and W , St Brot noton.—'ecretary Office, '67. Piccadilly.—This Tnstitu tion has he en e-tablished excluiively for the treatment of the poor afflicted wit la cancerous diseases. out-doo- patients to attend at 167. Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. in-door patient' are admitted at the iirompton Esta.lishment, for one month, end for a longer period if rec oramende4l 1.3 , the edical officers. The number of per sons tinder treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the I , st threie years about 400 rases each ear. Since the foundation of this Hostel tat in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under ever, form of thin dr adful enslady, have received the b nefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secret ary. Contrinutlons to enable the Committee to continue this rent work of benevolence are urgeroly solicited, and may be Paid to Willi am f.oxhm Farr -r, E q., the Treasurer. 06, I.i coin's inn -fields ; !•ressrs. Cruets and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167,, _Piccadilly. By orrier. W. J. COCRERILL, Secretary, OYA LT, FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN. - Fouuded 1828. No order For admission is here required. The sick poor are admitted on their over t application clone. Uurinv th,e past month the followinc• number received the benefits of this Chai pity, either as out or in - door patients , on their personal Prikteatio n Week ending 7th October. 2, 'as Ditto 14th October •.. • 2,182 Ditto 21st pet ber .. • • .... 2,075 Ditto 28th October ...• 2,241 29th,3Gth, and 31st October ...... 1,014 • Total in October .. •• 9,680 _ °f Which 3,:103 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) Navin • : t been admitted previously. s j il earY ex penses are inevitably incurred in affording such ex.ten te relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of c Public. The man agement of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, e arlY tier rted from the general 11. t of subscrlbers, at the Annual 'ocral M eeting 4 in lanuary. A B lard is held every Thursday , at clock Key. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, 11 any s atbscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at wirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation The . Hos pital is not endowed, but is wholly de7.endent on volun contri, mtions and Iceacies. which are received by the l'reasurer, ;MO Mast. trman, Esq., M P., Nicholas-lane also by Messrs. Coutts ;MO Co. ; wummond and Co.; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; trts;.olt, :Ind Co. ; Smith, Payee, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; ;ones Loyd. ~" „c o rind Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams, "coo, an it Co. ; Overcu6, ... . -nd Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber - s a, reet t; Masterman and Co.; ant “L ;Lc ' Clothing for the destitute patients will he thaakf-::, By order. J. B. OWEN, 31.K.,Chainuan. Fr eehold Building Ground and Houses—Liverpool and Evei ton. 1 1 10 B E SOLD BY AUCTION, pursuant to an Or, er ot the High c curt of Chancery, made in a cause of Lot an, plaintiff, anti John Stewart and others, defend an t s , 1 ,, , n the :a probation of the Honourable the Vico-Chancellor ,ir N;el lard I'4 Kindersley, by Nir Samuel Turner Winstanlev. at 49are n don Room, South John-street, in Liverpoo!, on WED th 1 - th day of December, 1856 , at two o'clock in the aftern -00 0 , an extensive and valuable p cce of Freehold Building ad.i 'cluing Vauxhall-road, in Kirkdale, near Liverpool ; an te Y r er a l sees of Budding Land (copyhold of the manor of West p r .„ 3 ' ,, n and near Sackville-street, Everton. near Liv-rnonl and se / , s ' e hol 4,Dwelline-house, Blackfield-terrace, Klrkdale, and ;: at wellino*.houses (conyhold of the manor West Derby), in street: Evert . on. In 12 Lots Fart•cula, of and conditions 1, 0 8 2 14 it a y he obtained gratis from Messrs. Lowndes, Bateson, and saiivndes, solicitors, Brunswick-street, Liverpoo! ; Mr. T. K. Has eit,' ' , licit tor, Liv roool ; Messrs. Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, s p re 1.8 , 41, Bedford-row, London ; and ef the Auctioneer. And the fo / T i ses I nay he seen on appli ca ti on to the tenants. Ja o a t !d t his 26th day of November, 1856. ' , harp°, Field, and Ilt ate :" 11 , of 41, Bedford-row, Lond n, agents r lie , srs. Lowndes, ° ,l , and Lowndes, of Liverpool, plaint ff's solici!ors. 11114 A JR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Pree Is. I 34d. and -Is. 9d. per box. This eparation is one of the benefits which the science of modern - Mr: has conferred upon mankind ; for during the first twenty a f d ars e r , the present century to speak of a cure for the Gout was Coll is s e 'd C. romance ; but now the efficacy and safety of this medicine tq 2 fu Ity demonstrated by tinsoli ite 1 testimonials trout persons in r tink of life that public opinion proclaims this as one of the ^,,,!„rti t in portlant discoveries of the pres ent age. ter proOf of the great efficacy of BLAIR'S GoUT and RHETT- Ie 1 PILLS, forwar 'ed by sir. Reinhardt, Chemist, Hull: ; ; Enclosed is a testimonial from a customer of mine, who is I wit about here ; he speaks in the highest terms of Blair's . Ybody an r I Rheumatic Pills, and would be glad to give information to .a The Second Edition, just published, price 53., by post free, ss. 6d., 4,;TRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. - 7 THE PATEIOLOGY AND RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRICTURE, of the URETHR k, in all its Varieties and Compli cations, with Observations on the Use and Abuse of Instruments ix the reatment of Diseases of the Urethra. The whole Illustrated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of Twenty Years' extensive and successful Practice. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.II C.S.E. - • - "We know of no man to whose care we would sooner intrust the treatment of a severe sircture."— edical Circular. London: H. Isailliere, 219, Regent-street. "To Mr. Reinhardt, 22 Al arket-plrire, FIuIL " "Dece ber4th, 1855. a nee u. air,--I have been aflVcted with rheumatism for 1 1 years, daring s - filch time have tried almost everything, both internally and ext a Tnally, but could not obta'n any permanent relief. A short time ag, j. 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PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court o Chancery, made in the matter of JOHN lITUULFE, late of Cliche ham, in the county of Gloucester, a Lieutenant• General in the service of the East India t 'ompany, decessed, aft persons claim g, any debt or liability atiecting the personal estate of the said John %Voulfe, who died in or about the month or April, 1855, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the ninth day of April, 1857, to come in and prove their claims at the Chambers of the Vice-Chaaceller Sir Richard Twin Kindersley, =Number Stone-buildings, Lincoln';-inn, Middle sex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of thu said Order. Thursday, the 16th day of Amll, 1856, at one o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the Dated this 25th day (if November, 1856. ell As. ruGII, Chief Clerk. ,N 0 . 20,109.) PUBLICATIONS. CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Sow ready, in 1 vol , with nuairrous Illustrations by the author, price lOs. 6d., bound, PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES, By THOMAS HOOD. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13 treat arlborough-street. NEW VOLUME OF MISS STRICKLAND'S ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES. Just published, price 105.6 d., the Sirru VOLUME of ." IVES of the QUEENS of SCOTLAND, and 1.4 R, , YAL PRINCESSES connected with the Regal Succession. By AGNES STRICKLAND. Continuing tht, Life of Queen Mary. The richness and abundance of the material, especially the results of the recent disc ,, verics, have rendered it n cessary to exceed the limits at first proposed for this biography, which will be concluded in the next volume. Vols. I. to V. may be had, price Ins. 6d. each. ttlackurood and Sans, Edinburgh and London. This day is published, . . T Ht RAMBLER, for DECEMBER. Price Is. 61., post free. CONTENTS 1. A Glimpse of the Working of the Penal Laws under James I. 2. Catholicity and Despotism. 3. Instructen v. Education. 4. The Morals and Politics of Materialism. i. Ben oilmen, Recusant and Renegade. 6. 'Turner's Pietures at Marlbgroueh House. 4 */-; Co/1104116e as4lnlth.-1141sitponAVeVieff4_,_ ft. - -Igtdt London : Burns and Lambert, 17, Portman-street, Portman-square , . . _2~!-z~ ( )-z--. • , ~ • . , , • , , . . ' _ . , , 0. , if i ;'/, • 41111% l , 1,, • , --,' .. ,. 74 _—; .,.... .. ..; 4., ,, . : r ' . • ''elimkA ..,,,. . 44 Ar.4.e . I , . 1664 .11, ...‘'. yiv• I., Bl4 '' ' ;'' 4 I'l ' .1.• V .I' s ; 0 '*) ~ _ . • ~,... 4.: 4 . ..• I ',, ' ) ' Nir 34 A . k 4 - - —, , 1.• " ' d - ,Y , .. .. ' :•'` , ,:.P, , i ~,,,, , . • 4 -. i,r : - i :fa 4 4 4 I • &dr o` ------' , , `: 4 • .44 .1'26 . to I'll' lW '''' , , —7 --- ‘ 4 t.'h X W A; '' ' '" i . ~ 4 ft --' '-- • A. - : tr :4 44 If.. ,-- •,-. .• ~ • I • . , -,,. 0 \ s ,- ' t: 141,0) , 'fttaf,Y - Ata mi ' II ,i- 0 4 " //9.1-r,7; 439 -:', ~ ‘..'. --...'' • ' ' • : - '41 1 % , 1 5 ' -. • . ..-,. t''." ". N, 4-40*1 ~i11.0V, , ,,L 0 , 4,- 1 iiir P 2/. ''' •cieli * 1 .. ', l _„.‘,--...N1._ ~ 1 • t • ,e , Cam' - 1 ~, ,i , ,- =,=o', 4,-,- l "Le , if ~ ,- •.,: -'_,,, -.4.~, ~ f I T , ' l :‘,4 4 ~,, ' 4 v , . `,‘,.; V' ---____,-- . ...•.(,,,,, , 1 ,` ,- • '`) • , \'‘ 1 1 - pia G> 4D.. STAMPED bro. Order to prevent ebe resignation being received . l should wish it made'lenewn te the Court at.large. The Lord' MeYe:m. 2 —We bad better have from the Town Clerk his views upon the'subject. The TOwN. tließecorder's resignation were note to he accepted this office would be void, stud no _per-. 'son would be etaiiatle of *loin , 'the iiehecouas now nu oesaary ,for the Mayor's - Cott, and it is therefore requi site eta!' to keep in existence the office of Reeco - rder,', as the officer of this Court for public purposes; Mr. iAlderrnan SIDNEY.—Theo I ;ilk wt!itti took place upOn the death of the late Recorder t Thieve "was then an interregnum of about two months before his snecessor was Itppointed. I ask the Tokyo Cleric to livenr us with what took place, then. The TOWN CERK.--At that tune the business in the Mayor's Court was nut so great that the appointment could not be postponed. At present it is so great that it cannot be postponed nitlibut- doing an act of injustice, to the euiters. Mr. Alderman SlDNEY.— then I think we should at once accept the resignation, and to the appoint ment of the learned Recorder's successor forthwith. The Town Clerk may have given a satisfactory reason, but to my mind it is a most in conc l us i ve one, that the business of the Mayor's Court Fix years ago was so un• important that for two months at least the office was in abeyance, and that it is now so important that for a few days we cannot accept the resignation. The most im portant fuoctions. of the Recorder, it is well known, were at the ,Central Criminal Court, and during the whole of this week the 'Recorder, on account of the more important office for which he has been selected by favour of her Majesty, has not given his attendance at that Court. The public are largely interested mu this question, and surely we must satisfy the public that, es a public body, we cannot do as other public bodies de— namely, that when a judiciaLoirzrer tendopf his resigna tion there is a difficulty about Accepting it. I- , beliere there is but one course open to us—namely, that we should . reoieve the resignation, and then it will be open to a committee to enter upon the consideration of the duties and emoluments of the office, with injunctione , te 'bring up a report, notice being given with respect to the appointment cf a successor. We should not be doing. our duty if we did not receive the resignation at once. Mr. Alderman ROSE.--If the learned Recorder re tains his dace till the next Court he has the power of appointing a deputy, and if his resignation were accepted at the present time that power would not be vested in him. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY.—We never heard of that be. ore. Sir P. LAIIRIE—The public have not suffered by rea. son of the Recorder's not having been at the Central Criminal Court this week, because others were present to officiate for him. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY—AS he has resigned, can he appoint a deputy ? The LORD MAYOB—We have not reached that part of the business yet. The Town* CLERK—It has been moved and second that the letter be entered upon the minutes of the Court. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY—I move as an addition and by way of amendment, that the resignation of the learned gentleman be accepted. Mr. Alderman CARTER—I am at a total loss to under stand the pertinacity with which my friend (Alderman Sidney) adheres to his proposition. lam quite satisfied with the letter we have received from the learned Re corder, because I trpst he is in a better position than he stood in here. I learn with extreme regret that he has determined to leave us, and I ardently trust that his suc cessor will do us equal honour with himself, but I cannot understand why my friend wants the Court so hurriedly to accept the resignation. Surely, when we appoint a gentleman to that high, honourable, and distinguished position, it is needful and necessary for our own protec tion, as well as for the benefit of the community at large, that we should look around us and endeavour to select the man best • qualified for the duties of an office which has been so gracefully filled for so many years by the learned Recorder. I therefore hope and trust that no undue haste will be exhibited in the appointment, but that an opportunity will be afforded the Court of select ing such a moan for the office as will do houbur to the corporation and the citizens at large. Sir W. MA GNAT —I beg to second the amendment. AG the Recorder has the power of appointing adeputy I think he should he requested to do so at once. The office now being in abeyance I Viol( will tend very much to interfere with the regular business of the Court, and therefore the vacancy should he filled up as quickly as possible. Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE—WhiIe you hold the Re corder in his present position be can appoint a successor, but if you deprive him of the office he cannot de so. Mr. Alderman CIIBITT—I think the letter of the learned Recorder expresses the necessity which he is under of tenderinE, , his resignation, and it goes on to say that he shall be happy to surrender his office into the hands of his successor. I think if the letter is fairly read it is not a letter now giving his resignation, but tender ing his resignation, to be consummated herafter. Mr. Alderman ROSE—If the resignation were ac cepted the functions of any deputy whom the learned Recorder might appoint would cease with the accept. once of the resignation, Mr. Alderman SIDNEY—I do not want a deputy; want a Recorder. The Town Clerk• put the amendment, which was ne gatived by a laige majority, there being but two hands held up in favour of it. The original motion was then put and carried. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY—At the next Court I shall move that we proceed to the election of a Recorder. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS—And at the proper time I shall bring forward a motion expressive of the regret we feel at parting with the Recorder. The Court then adjourned. LNTERESTING PRESENT. CHEAP EDITION of LILLIESLEAF ; 'the Concluding Pas ages In the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, or -unnyside, written by herself. Now ready, in I vol ,6s , bound. 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HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Additional fixtures received since our last publication. STAG HOUNDS. Baronßothschild's ..... .Thurs. Aston Abbotts ll 0 Fox J:1011NDS. Bed ale • •• Fri Pepper-hall , 10 45 Bellew's, Mr. F. T ues. Yarde-down Wed. Challacombe Pri. Cazziconibe-post lO 30 Sat. Plawk bridge Cleveland .... ..Thur. Roseberry Colyer's, Mr Tues. Timberden Thur. The Portobello . Sat. Merph am lO 30 Dacre's, Lord Wed. Kennel lO 30 Fri. Silsoe Durham County Wed. Woodham Fri. Pasture-house, Little Stainton lO 45 Eggesford Thur. Ilighridge F. B. H.,Mr. 'Williams's Tues. Merthyr-in-Constantine lO 30 Fri. Chiverton Wed. Myr, ackty Naval and Military Intelligeuce. MALTA, Nov. 24. Admiral Lord Lyons, in the Royal Albert, 121, with the Majestic, 80, and Cressy, 80, screw steam ships of the line, Diamond, 27, sailing frigate Stromboli, steam sloop Wrangler, Coquette, Boxer, and Weser, steam gun boats, continued, on the 13th November, at anchor at Buyukilere in the ilosphorus, expecting to be reinforced by the Gladiator steam frigate, which left Malta on the 15th. Her Majesty's steam frigates Vulture, Curacoa, and Magicienne, Sphynx steam sloop, Lynx steam sloop, and Medina surveying steamer, were cruising in the Black Se 9, The Grinder gunboat, to be shortly re. lieved by the Boxer, was stationed at the mouth of the Danube. The Gorgon steam frigate was at Smyrna, and the Miranda steam corvette on the coast of Albania. The Vigilant steam gun boat had been suddenly ordered away to the Piimus of Athens. The assistant-surgeon of the Sphynx was missing, and is supposed to have met with a watery grave. The Paymaster of the same ship, Mr. Wright, is under arrest on a charge of drunkenness. The squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas, which had been reinforced on the 13th by the Dautless sncw frigate from England and Gibraltar, con- tinued pre, excepting her Majeqy's screw steam cor vette Malacca, which had been despatched to Naples, and the Wanderer screw steam sloop for Sicily and Naples on the 19th. Her Majesty's steam frigate Gladiator left for Constan tinople on the 15th to reinforce the squadron under Ad miral Lord Lyons, and conveyed the medals brought from England by the ➢auntless for the Ottoman army. The Dauntless will, it is expected, relieve the Miranda on the Albanian coast and lonian islands' station. Her liaTest:; ; ; si;;;;;;;;tteA riel arrived from Gib- raltar and Algiers on the 15th. Her Majesty's screw steam transport Supply arrived from Constantinople on the 20th. The Jura screw steam transport arrived on the 12th from Liverpool, Cork, and Gibraltar, bringing Colonel and Mrs. Denny, and Assistant-Surgeon Leach, 71st, Major and Mrs. Trevor and three children, and Assistant. Surgeon Stockwell of the 14th Regiment ; the Rev. T. D'Arcy Preston, 7 non-commissioned officers, and 7 pri vates, 209 serjeauts, corporals, and privates' wives, aad 341 children for Malta; Captain Gore, 3d Buffs, 92 more women, and 124 children, for Corfu, for which port she left on the 13th, conveying in addition to these last mentioned passengers Major Dillon, Lieut. Brook ; 46th; Lieut. Bedingfield, 48th, and other two soldiers' wives. The Fancy schooner yacht, which left Malta on the 24th of October, for Algiers and England, returned from Algiers on the 15th of November ; her owner, the Mar quis of Drogheda, having altered all his plans in conse• quence of the melancholy death from a fall off the rigging of the Hon. Mr. Fortescue, a relative of the Marquis, who, with the Marchioness, was on deck at the time and witnessed the sad accident. The unfortunate genngtilneetneargn, was interred at Algiers. On Saturday the 26 th company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. G. E. L. Walker, with Lieut. R. M. F. Sandford and Lieut. E. Mitchell, R.E , left Chatham for Gravesend , where they embarked e n' board the Apolline, for Bermuda. On arriving at that station they will be employed upon the Government engineering work now in progress. Capt. W. Mosse, 26th Cameronians, also embarked on board the same ves sel, having been ordered to join the head quarters of his corps at Bermuda, for the purpose cf superintending their instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle. Her Majesty's frigate Raleigh, 50, Capt. the Hon. Henry Keppel, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope and the East In dies. Outside the Breakwater she carried away her maid )pgallant-yard. and in little more than an hour was out of sivlit. Wind northerly. Letters have been received at Plymouth from the Amethyst, 26, Capt. Sidney Grenfell, dated Halifax, Oct. 6. She had a boisterous passage of 46 days from Falmouth. Capt. John C. Hay hoisted his pennant on Thursday afternoon on hoard the Indus, 78, at Plymouth. She was nehrly mp,nned by Friday evening, chiefly from the crew of the Hannibal, recent 'y paid off at Portsmouth. The Indus wa4 masted on Saturday, and warped to the basin dock to b 3 rigged and to receive stores. The steam store-ship Rhadamanthus, Master Com mander Wen. L. Browne, from Woolwich, arrived on Saturday at Plymeutb, with machinery for the Keyham yard. The gun-boats Fenella, Garnet, Handy, and _Hunter, were taken into the fitting basin at WOolwiah on Satur day. The 6 gun screw steam gun vessel Roebuck, in temporary command of Master Commander Allen, left Woolwich on Saturday for Portsmouth, to be placed in the first class steam reserve there, Goggerdan Sat. Noyadd Hambleton, Mr. Bell's Tues. Kelvington-hall Sat. Kilburn lO 30 A junction has been effected between the Cunard Company and the European and Australian Royal Mail Company calculated at once to bring the new Australian mail system into complete efficiency. The Cunard Com pany are to perform, the Mediterranean portion of the service with the Etiaa, Jura, and other vessels, while the Australian and European Company will be able to throw their whole strength on the portion between Suez and Melbourne. The Mediterranean service is to commence from Southampton in February. The united company, it is added, have engaged to provide a steamer tc carry mails between Matta and Marseilles in connection with the ttunk line. ANTIQUITIES EttO3l KETCH.—Among recent acces sions of an interesting character to the British Museum, not yet generally known to the public, the valuable col lection o f anc i en t orna ments and relics obtained from the catacombs a,t Kertch by Dr. Duncan M`Pherson, late Inspector-General of Hospitals, Turkish Contingent, f,,rrn a n ew feature in the series of antiquities. They are the result of the excavations carried out at his expen,e during the recent occupation of Kertch by the allied armies, and the unfortunate destruction of the p rec i ous collections heretofore procured in the mu ,,euto a t t h at plaae has given an increased interest and v a l ue t , ) the relics disinterred by Dr. M'Pherson, and whi c h h e has liberally presented to the national depository. They comprise, with vases of bronze, terra cotta, and glass, ivory carvings, ornaments of gold and other metals, includin g examp l es of a high class of ancient G ree k art, certain objects also of a later age, but of even greater interest to the English antiquary. These consist of personal ornaments of bronze, identical in form with those found in the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in cur own country, explored by the Hon. It. Neville and other archasoinuist:. The presence of these remains of so distinctly Saxon Kertch can only a charact er i n th e ca tacombs of he explained by the supposition that they are vestiges of some of the Varangian body guards of the Byzantine Emperors, The Anglo-Saxon origin of many of those warriors is clearly stated by Ordericus and other historians. Dr., M`Ptierson will deliver a m emoir on these curious discoveries at the monthly m eeting of the Arch.aefilogical Institute on Friday next. salts of his late interesting researches in the Cimmerian Bovhoru F.-Literay acme. LAIN DON.,MONDAY EYENINOrt DECEYIBER 1,186 e. THE TVALL4C,4,IITON.UMEIVT. (From th,e Caledonian Mereury.) Friday tight a public meeting in favour of the pro posed monument on the Abbey Craig, ptirli4., to Wal lace,'was held in the Queen Street Hall, The Lord Pro vost, on the motion of Bailie Grieve, took the chair ; and among those on the platform were Professor Mackie, Bailies Blackadder and Grieve, Councillors Mackinlay, Gorrie, Potts, Cassels, Dick, Murray, LL.D , and Crichton, George Harvey, Esq , R.S.A., N oel Eaton, Esq., R.S A., A. B. Shand, Esq., W. Downing Bruce, Esq., John Foreman, Esq., W.S., John Dick, jun., Esq., Wm. Begbie, Esq., Robert Bald, Esq., C.E., F.R.S., J. W. Mitchell, Esq., Leith, Lient.-Colonel Somerville, Capt. R. C. D. Bruce, Sheriff Tait, Rev. Mr. Grahame, New haven, Rev. A. M. Halkett, Provost Gray, of Lanark, W. Fairley, Esq. of Moss. From Glasgow-.--Councillors Gemmel and Binnie, J. T. Rocbhead, Esq., Wm. Forbes, Esq. From Stirling—Provost Sawers, T. Drummond, Esq., Rev. Dr. Rogers, J. Gair, Esq., Precura.tor-Fiscal, of Clackmannanshire, Major-Gen. Yule. The hall was filled with a numerous and respectable audience. ::The CHAIRMAN said he did riot expect to have had the pleasure of being there that evening, and was not, there fbre, prepared to enter at length on the object of the meet ing. He was glad, - howover, to perceive, from the enthusi astic manner in which the committee were greeted on their entrance, that it was altogether unnecessary for him to say anything in commendation of the important object which they had met to promote. They were aware that the ob ject was to adopt measures in order to aid their friends in the West in their proposal to erect a monument to the man who stood out prominently in the annals of their country. ;Ages-bad coma and gone since the days in which he wield ed his prowess in order to secure the independence of his native laud. And he lived still in the memory of a grate ful country. He knew that they would sympathise in the efforts being made in favour of that great and pa triotic movement. He was sorry to have to announce to them that the Rev. Dr. Guthrie, whom they expected to have had the pleasure of seeing there that evening, was prevented from being present by indisposition. The Rev, Dr., however, said in a note that he hoped the meeting would be a very successful one, and that the monument to Wallace must be followed up by the erection of monu ments to two other great Scotchmen, John Knox and Thomas Chalmers. (Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. concluded by expressing his regret at not being able to be present. The movement, as they were aware, began in the month of August last, at a meeting held in Stirling, the report of the proceedings of which was doubtless familiar to all of them. Since that time the committee had pi osecuted with considerable success the object that was entrusted to their care. He was glad to be able to inform them that subscrip tions had already been collected to the amount of 2,250/. A committee had also been formed in London, which was prosecuting the same object, but they had not yet received any return of the subscriptions there, and the amount he mentioned was altogether exclusive of what was to be received from the metropolis. He was also requested to state that a committee had been formed in Dublin, and that there was a •_,entleinan then present, as a representa tive of the Glasgow Committee, whom he would introduce ho thorn by and bye, and who would give them an account of the, proceedings there. The movement he would have them remember was no party one. It was one in ~ vhich all cheeses, the h lders of all shades of opinion on civil and political subjects, could unite; and he did trust that they would show their earnestness to the `cause by giving it their hearty and warm co-operation. Since he entered the room a note had been handed to him addressed by a lady to the Rev. Dr. Guthrie, and enclosing 51. in aid of the Wal lace Monument Fund. He congratulated them on the large numbers who had attended the meeting, and on the spirit which he knew animated those who had come. Within the last few weeks they had had the privilege and honour of welcoming home the heroes who had lately fought the bat. tie of national independence in the East. He was glad to think that they were then ready to blend their respect for the heroes of the distant past with the recently expressed gratitude to those who had done so much to support the honour of their country. His lordship concluded by again apologising for any deficiency in his remarks, and called upon Mr. A. S. Logan to address the meeting. A. S. LOGAN, Esq., said this meeting would be known as the meeting of apologies. He felt that he himself was but a poor apology for the rev. doctor who, by indisposi tion, had unfortunately been prevented from appearing on the platform. Ho had, however, in addition to being an apology himself, to make an apology, for, owing to circum stances to which it was unnecessary for him to do more than allude, he had reason to believe, until about a couple of hours before the meeting, that the part which he would have to take would be very formal indeed. Ho bad, however, been celled upon not only to prqpose a resolution, but to occupy the dangerous position of coming forward in the van of the meeting. He could not say that he was unaccustomed to public speaking, as most of them knew public speaking was his profession ; but he had always shrunk instictively from addressing public assemblies like the present. He felt, however, that on this occasion it would not do for him to allow feel ings which, however commendable as feelings of modesty, were more or less selfish, to prevent him from coming forward. He would throw himself upon the sympathies of the meeting, because, if it were true that To Wallace name what Scottish blood But boils in a spring-tide flood ? Surely a man who had been brought up to speak his mo ther-tongue should be able to say something to Scotchmen on the subject of Wallace. There was one circumstance of fitness to which the Lord Provost had alluded, in his taking part in such a meeting. It was true that he had first drawn breath upon the field on which Robert Bruce fought and conquered at Bannockburn ; and what to the less sentimental was perhaps a more substantial consideration, he was the owner of a considerable portion of the field on which Sir William Wallace fought and conquered at Stirling. Now, he would say that, although some progress had been made in achieving the object they had in view, he muret say —and he said it with regret --that that progress was far from satisfactory to him. He did not thiuk that as yet Scotland had been aroused on this subject. (Hear.) They had. had eminent Scotchmen coming forward —some by speeches, some by purse, and some by both—but little or nothing had been done to rouse the general people of Scotland —(applause) and although he was by no means a demagogue, nor one inclined to flatter the people, when telling them the truth would do more good, there was a peculiar fitness that, in a movement like this, those who were connected with it should throw themselves on the common heart of the people of Scotland. There was this peculiar fitness in it :—When Wallace was not a name, a mere shadow of renown, but a living, toiling, hoping, workirfg man for Scottish rights and Scottish liberties; when the high nobility frowned upon him, and the middle-class gentry, to which he belonged, looked on him with suspicion and di-trust, what made Wallace the Protector of Scotland ? What made him what he truly was, notwithstanding what he after wards owed to Bruce, for he made Bruce what he was ? What made Wallace the Saviour of his country was the hearty co-operation and support of the peasant people of his native land. Therefore, it was fit to that people, whether residing in scattered villages or in dense and crowded towns, that peasant people of Scotland, at all times the true representatives of nationality, and among whom lingering nationality longest remained, who were the last to be rubbed smooth into a common mass with a greater nation and a higher civilisation —it was to that people that they should appeal in such a movement as they all had at heart. He could only notice one objection which had been put forward in the public papers—he did not think it was a solid one—but it was a prominently stated objection to the monument, and he thought, too, it came very much from those who did not feel its force in a literal sense, but whose temperament rendering them keenly sensitive to ridicule, were averse to the under_ taking lest the thing should be a failure, and the pro. meters only get themselves laughed at. The objec tion was— Wallace was much too great a man to re quire a monument, and the nineteenth century was much too late to speak of giving him one. Now, he agreed that Wallace was too great a man to need a monument. For five centuries and a half (it was just 550 years since the dishonoured remains, but most honourable fragments, of him whose head was struck off on Smithfield were put upon London-bridge), but during those five and and a half centuries the imperishable renown gained by the unequall e d d eeds of Wallace had been his great and imperishable monument, and they would continue to be so as long as Sc o tl and was surrounded by the sea, and con- 1 tinned ceorthy of h er name, and that would be (for he was a hopeful patriot, notwithstanding all he saw) as long as Scotland remained an independent people, but it was thought a man was too great to require a monument, therefore we should give none. Now, if they were to act in this way, all the most illustrious men would be without wi monum thout ents, and those who were merely distinguished, being illustrious —such a s h e took Dugald Stewart and David H ume to be, mi g h t have them. such men it was said should have monuments, be cause their fame would be helped by them, and with out a monument they might come to be forgotten. Now what did that amount to ? it amounted to this, that the great men of every age and country, Washington, and Milton, and Shakespeare —Wellington, 9, should have still whose statues were seen at every corner, like a policeman upon picquet, th a t a ll th ese s h ou ld h ave remained without a monument, an d th a t th a t beautiful gothic structure which beautifi e d an d h onoure d our c i t lain in the quarry, because Scott, in addition to being the greatest poet of the 19th century. wee the author of Wa verley and those unequalled romances which would carry his name down to the latest posterity. There was abaci. _ < lutely nothing in this objection. But the true point of view in which to look at it was not—does Wallace need a mo nument ?—but, was it right and duty that the Scottish people should give a monument? From time to time the idea had been mooted and dropped—it had now been mooted once more, he hoped not this time to be dropped. Sensitively alive to the honour and fame of his coun try, he must say that, now that the idea had been made public,, the honour of Scotland' required that it should not be abandoned. (Hoar, hear.) His subscription would he farthconsing tb the extent of his ability ; but, if it were not enough, '•he would rather give ten times as much than that the taunt bellowed forth by the Times, and echoed by the penny trumpets, should be justified-- that " Pride made Scotland patriotic, and poverty made Scotland feckless." Sheriff Logan then made the follow ing motion :—" That this meeting warmly entertains the proposal to erect a national monument to Sir William Wallace on the Abbey Craig, near 'Stirling, and earnestly recommends the citizens of Eainburgh to co-operate heartily in this national, undertaking." Before sitting ( f a w n , and at the chance; of repeating himself, he would implore them to take up as a natienel act, and one to be carried through and mule perminent by the people of Scotland ; and by the word people he did not, as was often done, •use it i n a restrictive sense—he did not mean the higher, th e m i ddle, other words, wh a t th ey prestrma l the lower class ; it should be taken up b y all classes 6 f th e peop l e. In to call a national monument must. be taken up by all classes without distinction. Let the very poor come forward with their pence,l those a little less poor with their shillings, and let them lave pounds and guineas from those gentlemen .Wko,, delight ; ,to appear on , platforms, 'Pre live in an age of projections, and he would - appear be fore them, ere he sat down, in the character of a projector. Of course, he made sure that they would catch their hare before he gave directions for dressing it. (Laughter.) The Lord Advocate the other day had suggested a very striking, but rather bare idea. It was, that on the Abbey Craig should be placed a huge cairn, very like to a continuation of the craig itself. He (Sheriff Logan) had this further idea, that he would take his right hon. friend's word as a pedestal, and on the top of it he would place a lion of pro digious dimensions, whose grim countenance would face England, where, in the year 1297, in September month, Wallace stood, or sat, or crouched in the same place, over looking the river Forth, which, ere the noon of that day came, ran red with English blood ; and truly if blood was ever grateful to the god of battles, it was when abed in the defence of a country to which the world owed much of the civilisation and improvement to which it had attained. Bailie BLACKADDER said he had been asked to second the motion for something like the same reason for which his friend Sheriff Logan had been asked to propose it. He considered it a great honour, whatever others may think, to have been born on the classic field of Bannockburn ; and he considered it a great honour that this monument was to be erected in his native county. That country was worthy of all the honour that could be conferred upon it. There was not a more beautiful place in the world. From the Castle of Stirling tuey had a prospect, the like of which was not to be seen anywhere. The monument was proposed to be erected on a situation where it would be seen on all Bides—by travellers coming to Stirling from the north, and also by those coming from England. He thought that those English tourists would now view that monument without any jealous feelings, bnt rather the reverse. They would respect us rather than the reverse, fur now doing an action which ought to have been performed five or six hundred years ago. ( Applause.) But it was never too late to mend—" Better late due weel, than ue'er dae weel." He thought the present generation had great credit in resolv ing to erect a monument to that great patriot who had fought and died for the freedom of his country, and for the liberty and freedom whioh we enjoyed in our own day, because the freedom which was so purchased in one age did not then die, but descended from generation to generation, and it was well seen now that those principles, in defence of which Wallace spent his life, and for the upholding of which he was murdered—for it was a regular murder—it was seen that the love of those principles had descended to our own day, and he was sure there was not an individual present but would, if they had means and opportunity, be ready to follow the example of that great man, and do for his country— he would not say that they would like to lay down their lives—but he was sure they would go a very great length in supporting the liberties of his country. He need not go over the grounds on which Sheriff Logan had already spoken so well ; but, as that gentleman had said at the end of his speech, the real object for which they were uallod together was that money was wanted ; and there was no need for going about the bush in the matter. (Laughter and applause.) It was all very well to sit anti listen to the addresses of Sheriff Logan and other eloquent gentlemen who were about to address them—it was all very well to sit and listen to them—(cheers)—but it would would be a poor compliment to the practical force and effect of such speeches, were wejust to hear them, and then go away and button up our pockets, and there was no thing more about it. They had applauded that speech, and the practical application was just this —that they must show their estimation of the object, and the plead ing for that object, by liberal subscriptions. He need not say more to induce them to give either their pounds and shillings, or whatever else they could afford. Every one present could give something, and there was not a doubt but a monument would be raised, and one, too, worthy of Scotland, and, above all, worthy of Stirlingshiro. Professor BLACKIE, on rising, was received with loud and repeated cheers. He said—Nothing is more delectable to a public speaker than to be greeted with ap plause before he opens his mouth. Because it makes him sure of so much applause at least, and it is not always very sure that when he ends there will be any applause at all. If I were merely wishing to shy off on this question, as my task is altogether a mere piece of formalism and not requir ing a long speech, I might say nothing at all. I have to propose that " the following noblemen and gentlemen bo appointed a committee, with power to add to their num ber, for procuring the subscriptions of the citizens, &c." I put it to you as plain practical Scotch men whether the motion requires a single word of speaking from me? But as I feel, like my friend Sheriff Logan, as a man and as a Scotchtnan on the subject, I feel bound to say what comes uppermost, anti the extempore is sometimes the best, as we have seen to-nig'ut. We have been laughing and amused, as my learned friend Mr. Blackadder said, and we all seem to be in very good humour, and that you know is extremely proper and very conducive to health, both of mind and body. But I beg leave to say that I look on this whole matter as a very serious matter indeed. There may be some to whom it is a matter of mere sentimentality. There may be persons who study blue books and figures and political economy, and who are always talking about " production," who think the highest happiness of man is in raising masses of beef steaks and mutton chops, and nothing more, for that is what they call " production," and if that is achieved these very dry and meagre and sanctified politico-economical gentlemen are perfectly well satisfied. Ido not belong to that school; but, however, I do not think this is a matter of sentiment at all. I think it is a most serious question. It belongs at least to a grand question. It is a fraction of the grand question of Scot tish nationality. Are we or are we not a nation ? Is Scotland a district an independent, integrant, and compo nent part of the brotherhood or sisterhood composing the British empire, or is it only as Lancashire, er Yorkshire, or Middlesex, or Surrey—nothing at all. (Cheers.) Now, that is a point that is very serious. I say there is a tendency on weak pretences, and in one quarter that I respect very highly, for in no quarter is there greater talent exhibited, or generally more patriotic words spoken with reference to Scottish affairs than in the Times newspaper—in the Times newspaper there are often most patriotic and useful words spoken with regard to Scottish affairs, when the local representa tives of opinion in Scotland seem to be timid, and afraid to speak out boldly—but I must say I have seen articles in that very influential paper, which is a good friend of mine, and which I respect very much, which seemed to sneer at what is called Scottish nationality—which seemed to tell we are not a nation—and, in fact, in p l a i n words, that ' Scotland is nothing more than a Lanc as hi re i n the history of the and I believe thecountry.Now, against that I most distinctly everypro test, heart in thi s meeting beats in stinctively with mine in making that protest. The question of a Wallace Monument is in itself of comparatively small importance. Whether a certain amount of stone and lime be glued together in honour of that great name, is, after all, but a matter of small importance ; but if it be viewed as an index of moral feeling in this country, if it be an index of the amount of self -recognition and self-esteem in Scotland, it becomes a very important question in deed, and I for one would be extremely sorry, I would weep bitter tears, if this monument should not bo success ful in Scotland, now that the notion has begun. It is a matter of no consequence whether Wallace gets a monu ment or not, abstractedly speaking ; b ut if you once begin thinking about it, and if you make an appeal to the peo ple, and you find they do not care a single straw for their old traditions and patriotic memories, then this is a very serious matter indeed, And I say that tho days of Scot land are numbered so soon as the names of Wallace and Bruce and John Knox shall be mentioned, without excit ing memories and aspirations that are not known in Lan shire, nay, nor in the whole world. (Cheers.) So much for the exemption, "out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh." Humbug requires some time to be got up, but we have had no time to get up anything of the sort, so we say what we think and whst we feel. With regard to the question of nationality there can be no doubt, as a matter of political history,'" that God has created social men in various types, They grow out of various roots, out of different nations, and different divisions of nations ; they grow in different elements and form theinsebree Into distinct entities, as much as the-oak tree, the fir tree, and the beech tree are separated, and dis tinct one from the other. It is the, will of God that the beech trees should not be transmogrified into fir trees to the' honour 'and glory of the fir trees. It is the will •f God that there should be various kinds of dogs, deer hounds, mastiffs, Skye terriers. But it is not the will of God that any one of these tribes, in its separate type, should be absorbed and swallowed up in the general idea of " dog;" or by any other (separate kind of dog, even supposing it could be proved before a society of zoologists that one spe cies of dog was better than every other. Therefore, ac cording to the system of nature, it is in the same way the will of God that Irishmen ought to be Irishmen, that Eng lishmen ought to be Englishmen, end that Scotchmen ought to be Scotchmen. And if that be the, will of God, it is our duty to take care to watch jealously any of that secret influence and those insidious workings that may tend to make us forget ourselves, to snow our selves gradually to be drawn away by some larger creature, and to forget our great duty of developing ourselves accord ing to the original idea. (Cheers.) It is the proper business and functions of snch despotisms as that of Russia and else where to develops whole peoples in one type. It draws up the Pole in the idea of Russia; it swallows up Hungary under the idea of Austria. It destroys the original type, be cause the original type is the idea of liberty. (Cheers.) Now we do not fear a violent and forcible despotism in this country, but we have reason to fear a despotism—the quiet, insidious, slow - ; corrupting despotism of custom and fashion. We have reason to fear that we may all become Anglified— that we may forget we are in Scotland; and I am happy to say that even in the south they begin to speak with wise warning QU this subject. kread a very striking paper. to day or yesterday in a London paper on this - very sub ject —a warning to Scotchmen not to forget that they were Scotchmen rushing into coquetry with Episcopacy, and then marching over in a while to Rome. In other matters in law, for instance I find it the same. We must take care that England does not force us to take their laws, that we do not give way before blind admiration of mere multitude, though our laws be superior to theirs. It is their duty to come down to us and borrow from us what is better in our laws then in their own. Most unquestionably that is their duty. There is a great danger that people, for the sake of fashio]a, and the glitter of rank and show, and many other causes, may go away to England and become Englishmen, to forget that they are Scotchmen at all. Young men go and study at Oxford and learn very little Greek, and a great deal of Episcopacy, and a small portion of Popery, and a great deal of anti-Scottish notions. In fact they are completely smoothed over. Now that is a serious business. You w •—• find that the Wallace monument goes into a very deep question with regard to the general tendency of Scotchmen to forget themselves and to become apes of, what I call in many respects, an inferior people. (Cheers.) At all events, I will never allow that the English Church, with its semi-Popish flirtations and mummeries, I would never allow that that Church, manufactured by a king and a pack of sycophantic men, is equal to the Scotch Church, worked out of the very blood and muscle of the people. And I deny that even Oxford and Cambridge, with all their means and appliances, can produce such an amount of strong, real, and independent intellectual vigour as the Scottish universities, provided only the Scottish universi ties be true to themselves and Scotland be true to her uni versities. (Cheers.) You are very dull indeed if you do not see that the monument to Wallace has to do with a great branch of an important question. It is right we should be an independent nation; that is a fact. Another fact is that you are constantly exposed to a great number of insidious influences of a low kind that tend to make you forget you are an independent. nation. I say, therefore, it is our bounden duty at the present moment to take every possible measure to restore and to re-auimate half your lost, your slumbering feeling of nationality. University reform, that is my hobby you know, is one point. But, in the meantime, and in reference to the present meeting, there is no public meeting of such importance in keeping alive the national feeling than the erection of monuments to your great and distinguished Scotcbmen—to Wallace in the first place—(cheers) —to John Knox in the second place, to Dr. Chalmers in the third place—(cheers) —and to Dr. Guthrie when he dies. (Cheers.) The following are the names of the gentlemen who form the committee proposed by Professor Blackie:—The Right Hon. the Lord Provost, Convener, the Right Hon. Lord Dunfermline, the Right Hon. the Lord-Advocate, Lord Murray, Lord Ardmilian, Lord Neaves, Sir William Gib son-Craig, Bart., of Riccarton, Sir John 111`Neill, G.C. 8., Sir William Johnston, of Kirkhill, Charles Cowan, Esq., M.P., John Inglis, Esq., Dean of Faculty, C. Baillie, Esq., Sheriff of Stirlingshire, John Tait, Esq., Sheriff of Clack . mannan and Kinross, Alex. S. Logan, Esq., Sheriff of For farshire, Wm. E. Ay tonn, Esq., D.C.L., Professor of Rhe toric, University, J. Y. Simpson, M.D., Professor of Mid wifery, University, Professor Blackie, Professor Trail, Pro fessor Goodsir, Professor Balfour, Professor WDougall, George Harvey, Esq., R.S.A., James Drummond, Esq., R.S.A.. P. S. Fraser, Esq., J. M. Mitchell, Esq., Leith, Bailie Brown Douglas, Bailie Kay, Baillie Clark, Bailie Blackadder, Bailie Grieve, Dean of Guild Wemyss, Coun- cillor Dick, Councillor Cassels, Councillor Forrester, Coun- cillor Mainlay, Councillor Gorrie, Councillor Richardson, Councillor Dickson, Rev. James Grant, D.D., D.C.L., Edinburgh, Rev. Thomas Guthrie, D.D., Edinburgh, Robert Chambers, Esq., Charles lki`Laren, Esq., William H. Lizars, Esq., John Rogers, Esq., S.S.C., James Ballan- tine, Esq., William Tullis, Esq., James Gtay, Esq., Adam Morrison, Esq.. S.S.C., John Dunlop, Esq., 15, Dean-ter race, J. A. Campbell, Esq., W.S., A. Burns Shand, Esq., advocate, James C, Tait, Esq , W.S., James Forman Esq., advocate, Major• General Yule, Lieutenant-Colone Somerville, Thomas Murray, LL.D. Sheriff TAIT seconded the motion. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, on the motion of Mr. M`Millan, the meeting broke up. COURT OF ALDERMEN. (A. summary of the followinTtipeared in our impres siou of Saturday.) On Satardaya'special Court was held for the purpose, as stated in the paper of business, of receiving a com munication from the Lord Mayor relative to the office of Recorder. There was an unusually large attendance of members. The minutes of the last Court having been read and approved, The LORD MAYOR rose and said he had called his brethren together in consequence of a letter which had been addressed to him by the Recorder. His Lordship then handed the letter to the Town Clerk, who read it as follows : " 3, Carltor.gardens, Nov. 28. "My Lord,—Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to confer upon me the office of Solicitor-General to the Crown, it becomes my duty to resign that of Re corder of the City of London into the hands of those by whose favour I was elected to that honourable and im portant post. "In thus re'inquishing the office which I have been proud to hold in connectiora with the Corporation of Lon don for the last six years, I pray to be allowed to convey to your Lordship and to the hon. magistrates who are your colleagues in the Court of Aldermen the renewed expression of my indelible gratitude for the honour they originally conferred upon me by my unsolicited election to the highest station in their gift. My endeavour bas since been to justify their choice, and to maintain on all occasions the dignity and efficiency of the chief officer and legal adviser of your ancient corporation, as well as to assert and defend the essenti a l r i g ht s an d privileges of the citizens of London, and I trust that I shall sur. render the office to my successor, when appointed, un impaired in honour and undiminished in authority. "I now take my leave with the regret that naturally mingles in the severance of public ties, cemented by per sonal regard and respect, and in doing so I beg to tender to your Lordship, to the magistrates, and to the whole body over which your Lordship so worthily presides, my warmest and sincerest thanks for the uniform and great kindness, courtesy, consideration, and support which I have received from every member of the corpo ration and from all my brother officers during the whole period of my service. "There is nothing in the new position to which I have been called inconsistent with a deep interest in the pros perity of the corporation, and, hoping long to retain the many valuable friendships I have gained during my connection with your city, " I have the honour to remain, my Lord, •Q Your faithful and obedient servant, " A. STUART WORTLEY. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c." Sir P. LAURIE —My Lord Mayor, I move that that letter be entered upon the minutes of the Court. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY—Do you not move that the re signation of the learned Recorder be accepted ? Mr. Alderman CHALLIS —At the next Court I shall move a resolution expressive of our admiration of the manner in which the learned Recorder has performed the duties of his office. The LORD MAYOR—The resignation may not be ac cepted, but the letter may be received. The TOWN CLERK—The resignation cannot be re ceived to day. Mr. Alderman WlRE—Certain formal acts are required to be done by the learned Recorder, and ho will perform them until his successor is appointed, and therefore the motion is a proper one, that the letter be entered on the minutes of the Court. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY—I never heard of such a thing in my life, and I am not prepared to sit down without hearing some explanation of the course of proceeding. The learned Town Clerk says that the resignation cannot be received. I really do not know why. It is formally tendered. The Court is specially called together to re ceive the resignation of the late Recorder. The LORD MAYOR—NO ; the Court is called together " to receive a communication relative to the office of Recorder." (Hear.) Mr. Alderman Sr/rump—lf there be any point of ." 7320 ff7'g- V ,ree- PRE RATE OF DISCOrtiVT. k N E: R ce-1-7 .The. Bank statement' of Friday hafrar aa a''' b hsVia'w to increase the impressio n as 44 that a retup.44. rates of discount which prevailed beforftfflo of November might have been adopted ;'P! • 4 ig 41 T 1 day. The only arguments on the Oppoa . have been that, although a great improvemen • (--• resulted from the Australi an arr i vals and othe 'r- ' 4 " cuniStances, it will be better to wait to ascertain its permanence, that an impatience of high rates of discountis a characteristic of all commercial and •epeculative people which should be resisted, and that, as the adv ance t o 7 p er ce nt . to o k place only a little More than a fortnight back, de)ay would be justifiable even, on. the simple ground ;of the desir ableness'of avoiding frequent alterations. The sole considerations to guide the Bank, however, should he the actual state of the supply and demand, and the maintenance of a uniform mode of carrying into operation any changes that may be deemed neces sary. Taking thes e test's the reasons kir a reduction were complete. With regard to the' question of supply and 'den] a/1 d it is kuowu that for several days preceding the last Court the applications at that Bank were comparatively unimportant, and that if, instead of having u fixed rate, it had been their custom, like other bankers, to atlant themselves to the market from day to day lower terms would have been adopted as a matter of course. It is true this stale is not likely to last, but the main reason simply consists in the fact that the recoil ue payments froni now toJanuary will throw so much of the circu lation into the hands of the Bank that the supply outside must, under any, ,circumstances be inade quate to the public wants, and th e Bank can there fore , maintain any rate they please. This, however, is far from being one of the contingencies content plated in making theM the depositories of the public money, and it .has consequently sometimes been their practice, owards the termination of each quarter specially to mitigate any existing pressure by accepting lower terms for advances during those periods. As respects the second point, the main tenance of a uniform m o d e o f carr yi n g into oper a - Lion any changes' that 'may be deemed necessary, .their 'p sent course is: not in harmony with pre :lsimienta On the 22d of Maylast, when a reduction to 6 per cent. was resolved upon, both the amount of bullion and the reserve of notes were less than on the present occasion, yet at that time speculation on the Paris Bourse was rampant, a similar dispo sition prevailed on this side, the result of the harvest was uncertain, the India and China drain, instead of being partially satisfied, was just about to assume its worst proportions, and the Austrian, preparations to collect gold and silver for a resump tion of specie payments were in active progress. If under such circumstances a decline to 6 per cent. was resorted to without apprehension, it is difficult to see why the public should be charged with an impatience of restraint for desiring a similar step now, after they have been subjected to a pressure greater than any experienced since the crisis of 1847. It is always unpleasant in financial matters to have to remonstrate against what appears a poliCy of caution, but the present question derives its im portance from the fact of there being room to ap prehend that the restriction which is approved for its prudence may in reality prove a stimulus to imprudence. Exactly in proportion to the pressure put upon the community isathe subsequent rebouncl, and if when there is reason to anticipate an ap proaching turn of the tide the rate of interest is kept at such a point as to check or limit the usual orders for foreign produce, and to cause money to be drawn home from every available source, that turn becomes sudden, instead of gradual, an inflation of prices follows, and the orders which were kept back when they would have been of a moderate descrip tion, are sent . out in reckless quantities. In the height of such a renewal of ardour there would, of course, be a universal admission on the part of the speculators of the wisdom of the course by which it bad been brought about, but those who wish to see commerce pursue its legitimate channels and our money market proof against the tactics of the Credit Mobilier and their Russian friends will watch its possibility with regret. No one can pre tend to say positively that the heaviest difficulties of the late crisis have been surmounted, but there is enough to warrant a strong impression that such is the case, and provided we still kept our rate of discount as high as the highest rate known any where on the Continent, there could be no danger in giving the country the benefit of it. In case of necessity the step could be at any time revoked. The contrary argument, on the ground of the evil of frequent changes, is unsound. The desirable point is to keep the rate of discount as near its average as possible, and if this could be better effected by a change every week such changes would be advantageous. No ordinary banker, if left to his own course, would bind himself to spe cific rates beyond a day, and the contrary practice of the Banlzhas long been considered objectionable. Even as a matter of precedent, moreover, sudden changes in times like these would be consistent. In the railway crisis, after the rate was fixed at 7 per cent., it was reduced within ten days to 6 per cent. Assuming there were any force in the doctrine that a reduction once made could not be rescinded at any moment without hesitation, there would be no reason in the prevailing uncertainty to complain of the policy now being pursued ; but it is this very facility that seems to remitr it unnecessary. At the same time, it is to be admit ted that the probable course of events during the coming month is sufficiently obscure to allow of many differences of opinion. The Bank Court be ing composed of merchants whose personal wishes must be for, a moderate rate of interest, there can at least be no question of the sincerity of their con victions in taking an opposite course. The sole de sire on each side is to discover in which direction the prudent path lies, and those who contend that a reduction to 6 or 61 per cent. should have been made on Thursday last believe that course to be the • one which is alone consistent with true caution.— Times City Article. THE COMMAND OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA.-OFFICIAL BLUNDERS. We feel assured that the announcement that Sir James Outrara I,asbeen the appo British inte forcesdby the Indian dndeiasnpaatuchthed t authorities the sa e t borne tocommand Persian Gulf, will be received with unmixed satisfaction from one end of India to the other. Sir James left Southampton on the 20th inst., in improved health. It is to be hoped that the outward voyage will administer - further to his recovery, and that he will join the army with sufficient bodily vigour to give full effect to the suggestions of a mind always active and energetic, and fertile of resource. Our military readers will not require to be told that to give effect to this appointment it was necessary to confer on Major-General Outram the brevet rank of Lieut.- General. The brevet has appeared in the Gazdte, brt we observe that by a clerical error, which we have no doubt will be speedily rectified, the brevet rank is confined to the East Indies. Now, Persia is not geographically a part of the East Indies, and it has been ruled that it is not officially so. If, therefore, the present Horse Guards' notification were to remain in force, Outram would be liable to be superseded on the expedition touching Per sian ground ; or, practically (assuming the expedition to have sailed before his arrival), would never be Competent to take command of the force. • Some regret has been expressed that Sir H. Rawlin son has not also been despatched to Persia, to conduct the negotiations which are likely to arise out of this armed demonstration ; and assuredly it is time that the anoma lous position which Mr. Murray occupies should now altogether cease. But we are itot sure that Sir H. Raw linsou's extensive local knowledge and experience are not as useful in this country as they would be on the spot. For although the East India Company know nothing ab out the war with Persia, beyond what they learn from public newspapers, it may be fairly as sumed that her Majesty's Ministers, in whose bands is the direction of the war, know wherethe unlikelybestinformation is still abunda n t disentangling to find of is to be f oun d, an d t h e b est a d v i ce to be be obtained. A as fatal as a blunde r blunder in Downing-street may at Shiraz or T e he ran . Moreover, there time for Rawlinson's employment complications with which wears n our selves embarrassed at the end . o tist, thoroughly acquainted Persian Court, and capable of fathoming the depths of se with the character of th e f the war. We sh a ll as suredly then require the servic es of a first-rate diploma tist, the their influence in Iran, we s h a ll seeking to strengthen the ground that w e h ave Persian guile. With Russia, France, and Ameri ca a l l have enough to do to recover , connection with this subject, that it We may mention, in that Col. John Jacob, C.B , it is very generally rumoured that S d be • =smiler in cm e, appointed lost by years of mismanagement and neglect. now acting as com co mmand of the force—an appointment regard. difference of opinion can exist; but whe rank d position• noe eference to the „„ it a n be made, we are not yet able to declare. effi s e : n Vi t, Elde r , and Co.'s Overland Mail. secondti n h ge whe ther, w h e t nh h nr LEOPOLD REDPATH.—The interest which first excited suspicion against Redpath is somewhat remarkable. Mr. Denison, the chairman, was stanuing, outside the station conversing with Lord Redpath approached and lifted his hat to Mr. D., when Lord took him cor dially by the hand, and exclaimed, " Why, my dear fel low, how are you ?" After Redpath bad gone, Mr. Denison asked his lordship what he knew of their clerk t Why," responded the latter, "he is the jolliest fellow in life—gives the tm , st sumptuous dinners and capital bails that I know of:' That fatal and friendly recogni tion by . one so superior to him led to an investigation of his accounts, and to his present lodgment in the House of Detention. —Sunday paper. With reference to the 6tatement made in the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday last, that the appeal from the Vice - Chaucellor's.decisiun in the inatter of the Royal statedtr or e e British Bank would be withdrawn, in consequence of arrangements then pending, with a view of affording that the arrangements con e a protection ppeal n 3 must proceed, is now templated having been found impracticable. \ ----.:..,,,