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,LZ/K ( ( -) 6I ---- "ZK) frY ~~- , v.- . i To HOLDERS OF POLICIES IN THE EQUITABLE LIFE OFFICE. . • 4 - . • ati•N44 ILA ' •;') ft4l .‘ ! w rit 'lllll- 1; 6‘1. 1 - .It r ' . •IN - • j•• • 4 ''''l ll • l ' 4 .ll.4 • •• /.4 " - • 4,74t,ire!c. •• • 4111W - "7 11111 * ) - k A'f, i l:o7,so -ROIT• , Rit •, TIONDs SECURED, Those per•one whn will be entitled to Bonus Additions to their Policies. if they survive the 31st December, 18 .9, are intormed that such addition. may be secured at the HAND-IN-HAND LIFE OFFICE, upon most favourable terms, which may be ascertained upon application to the Actuary. Parties wishing to avail themselves of this arrangement are respectfully requested to signify the same without delay, in order that the requisite number may be obtained and the scheme adopted forth with. .~ S LONDoN SATURDAY t4vENING DECEMBER 27, tBh6. By order. RICHD. RAY. Secretary. Thad-in-Hand Fire and Lire Office 1. New Bridge-street, Elackfriars, London. 0 . 20,132.) 4 1 ). STAMPED D. DELIVERY of LETTERS.—The Postmaster- General, anxious to promote rapidity and correctness in the delivery of letters, has, for postal purposes, divided London and its environs into ten district. , , each to be treated, in many respects, as a separate town; and to render this arrangement effectual, he earnestly requests that every paeans may be taken by the public for causing letters to be directed according to the district for which they are intended. Initials will suffice, and for the house at which this notice is left the initials are W. C., the district being the Western Central. In the direction of a letter, these initials should be legibly written in a separate line, and should in all cases end the address, thus : _ _ JAMES THOMPSON, Esq , 500, High Holborn, W.C. Or, whim the letter is from the country, thus Jewas THOMPSON, Esq., ,500, High Holborn, London, W.C. Among other means of inducing this practice, it is sug gested that, when convenient, each resident of the Western District should add the name of the district, or the initials to his own address inside his letters when writing to his corre spondents, and on his address card. Also, that if in busi ness, he should give the name of the district, or the initials, in the heading of bills or invoices, in advertisements or placards, and on any article of manufacture which may bear his address. Correspondents not attending to the above arrangement, should be requested to use the initials in reply. Information as to the district in which any locality is in cluded may be had at any receiving -house in London and its environs, or at any head post-office in provincial towns, at all of which alphabetic lists of streets, tizc., will be kept for reference. The British Postal Guide, which can be procured (price 6d.) at any bead post-office, will hereafter contain a similar street list showing the district initials : and Ike information, the Postmaster General is assured, will be given in the London Post Office Directory for the year 1857, in the part headed " Street Directory " Tho following additional information may prove useful : TAILS OF DISTRICTS. Names. Initials. Eastern Central Distzlet Western CentraHribtrice — W. C. Northern District North Eastern District N. E. Eastern District South Eastern District S. E. Southern District South Western District S W. Western District W. North Western District . If the initial letters be thus regularly appended the depart *ent will be able to assort with facility and correctness the estuary letters, according to their respective districts, before trey reach London in the morning. By a recent improvement about 60,000, or fully one-third, of such letters are already so assorted with as much correct• ness as circumstances allow a change which has greatly ex pedited the delivery and, it is hoped that, if the previous assortment, with full facility for correctness, can be extended to all, this advantage, seconded by other improvements now in progress, will eventually secure to the public the benefit *fa further and important acceleration of the morning deli. Very throughout London. By command of the Postmaster-General. Routes]) HILL, Secretary. Osneral Post-office, Dec., 1856. THE MONS UNITED COLLIERIES COMPANY (Limited). Capital Oie Million, in 100,000 Shares of 10d. each, deposit 2/. per Share on Allotment. • TRUSTEES. Ili Grace the Duke of Wellington. The night Hon. the Earl of Albemarle. H. 8. Thornton, Esq:, Banker, Birchin.lane. T. M. Weguelin, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England. DIRIOTOES. Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Lord James Hay, Chairramt. The Right Hois. Lord Viscount Bury. Lieut.-Col. the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Hay. Baron Gudin, Chateau Beaujon, Paris. William Gladstone, Esq., (Messrs. Thomson Bonar and Cs.), Old Broad-street. J. Fortescue Harrison, Esq., Cambridge-square, Hyde- Park. Robert William Kennard, Esq., Upper Thames-street. Alexander Miller, Esq., Ashfird-house, Middlesex. AIIDITOLS—(To be appointed at the first General Meeting). BANKERS. .Mesars. Williams, Deacon, Labonchere, Thorn h London ton, and Co., Birchin-lane . Metiers. Hankey, 7, Fenchurch-street. h Mois Messrs. Guillochin , Sons, and Co. la Paris Messrs. Charles L a ffitte and Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Amory, Travers, and Faith, London. Monsieur Dole; Avocet, Mons. BROKERS. Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Sea. Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce. SECRETARY —T. R. Preston, Esq, Temporary Offices No. 46, Moorgate-street. The object of this Company is to develope the resources of certain collieries, situated in the most central and best portion of the well-known coal basin Of Mons, in Belgium. They comprise two distinct sections, of which part is already in full working operation, and the remainder consists of conces • tons front the Belgian Government, granted on condition I that the coal shall be worked . The niworked concession, known as " Bonne Yictoire, Situated at Asquillies, and those applied for, severally called " Mons Nira3r" and " Ghlin," occupy an area of 18,000 acres ; 156 well-ascertained coal seams run through their while *Stela. The collieries in full work are fere, viz., " Bonne Veine," " Bonne Esperance," " Seize Actions," " Ste. Cecile," and " Midi du Flenu." They comprise an area of 2,000 acres, With the right of working sixty-two seams of coal. It is cal ciliated that their produce could be largely increased, within Sour years, at an outlay of 20,0001. (See Engineer's Report.) The plant and other works are ample, well constructed, and substantial ; the engines now at work give an aggregate power of 939 horses. These collieries are now yielding a minimum .bet profit of 40,0001 per annum (see Report), and it is agreed that a preferential interest of 6 per cent. per annum on the capital mow to be raised shall be the first charge on these 'return. The confidence of the vendors of the working Collieries in the success of their new undertaking is further shown by their agreeing to accept in part payment of their property 20,000 shares (representing 200,0001.) denominated H shares, which, though considered as paid up , are on l y t o rece i ve di.! Vidends in proportion to the amo un t paid up share s offered to the public. The remai n d er of the purchase money, consisting of 254,0001., is to be paid in cash, out of the first funds of the Company, at any time within two years from the incorporation of the Company Two-thirds of the above 2 0,000 shares will be annulled should the new concessions, contrary to expectation, fail in yielding coal of a good com eaereial quality, and this proportion of the shares in question Will no,t be handed over to the sellers until such produce be emus e d . The coal is generally of a semi-bituminous quality. it is leaded at the several pit-mouths into the waggons if the A *Ahem Railway of France for conveyance to Paris and the %owns and manufactories along the line, at which there is a 'great demand, and also into those of the Haut et Bas Flenu 2Raileray (which traverses the collieries of the district, and Connects them with the met-work of the State Railways of Bel , Shim) for the supply of the towns and the extensive manufac turing districts of Flanders ; the greater proportion of the coal, however, is conveyed by the Conde Canal, on the banks of which there are extensive sheds, where the boats are loaded. existing facilities for transit will be further extended by the railway now in construction between Mons, Haumont, and Maubeuge. The constant demand by railways, iron works, gas-works, and for other manufacturing and house hold purposes, is more than sufficient to absorb, at all times, the utmost produce of the collieries. At the request of the Directors, a detailed report on the Present state of the collieries at work, and to be worked, was Prepared by the eminent French Civil Engineer, Mr. F. N. budet, which report has been confirmed by Mr. H. Gain, a local mining engineer of great experience. Subsequently Mr. Charles Manby, Q.E., was deputed to verify the statements Ina& A. majority of the Directors have also lately made a Personal visit to the collieries, and having taken every means to satisfy themselves of the soundness of the undertaking, sad the truthfulness of the above reports, they now feel justi fied in! inviting the investment of capital in the Association. The capital if the Company is divided into 100,000 shares of 10/. each, which are sub-divided into two classes, viz., A l'referential Shares, and B Free Shares. The deposit will be 2 1- per share, and the first call of 21. per share will be due on 'Mao let June, 1857. The vendors consent to waive their claim to any dividend 'en their .B shares till 6 per cent. shall have been paid on all cite A shares, thus in fact giving to the A shareholders a pre ferential dividend to the amount of 6 per cent. ; and in the event of the winding up of the Company's affairs, the amount Paid on the A shares will be repaid to their holders before any payment is made on the B shares. Dividends will be paid half-yearly at the Company's bankers 21 London, Mons, and Paris, upon whatever amount may be )aid up on the several shares. • The, administration of the Company's affairs in Belgium is carefilly provided for. The various reports alluded to in this prospectus have been Printed, and may be obtained on application at the Com- Pany'a office, as also a chart, showing the position of the eollieries and'the new concessions. Applications for shares must be accompanied by the bank - ers' receipt for a sum equal to one pound upon every share applied for. The,deposit will forthwith be returned on such shares applied for as may not be allotted. Forms of application may be obtained at the brokers' ; end at the offices of the Company, 40, Moorgate-street. EiCh applicant for Shares will be required to pay into one of the Bankers of the Company, one pound (11.) per Share, en the numbers of Shares applied for, in part payment of the `deposit of 21., in exchange for which a voucher will be . , given. In the event of the Directors allotting leas than the whole number applied for, the amount paid in will be appro- Priated towards the deposit of (2/.) per Share payable on those allotted. Should no allotment be made to the applicant, the ' money ledged at the bankers' will be forthwith returned free of charge. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. T 9 the directors of the Mons United Collieries Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid into the hands of Messrs. , the Bankers of the Company, £ to your Credit, I request that you will allot me preferential A Shares of 101. each in the capital thereof. I agree to accept ouch shares, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the remaining deposit, to execute the articles of asso ciation or a printed copy thereof when required, and in all other respects to conform to the provisions of the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856. In the event of my failing to perform any of these stipulations I agree to forfeit the deposit now Paid by me to your Bankers, and authorise you to cancel the SAletraleit ' I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full ..................... P r ofession or occupation ............. Date ........ Residence in tall Place of 'bullion, if ioy RUSSIA —Its PALACES and its PEOPLE. — GREAT GLOBE, Leicester-square.—A new and magnificent DtOrtAM A, in forty immense Tableaux, of RUSSIAN SCENERY, with novel scenic effects ,and the sites and scenes of the memorable events of the late Campaign. The Ural Mountains, Ni.j.d Novog rod during the fair. Panorama of St. Petersburg and M,scow, Corona tion of the Czar in the grand Cathedral of th Assumption. Ex planatory Lectures at three and eight. Admission to the whole building, is. RGYLL ROOMS. -LA (RENT'S CA SIN , Oreai Windmill-street, St. James's. —The above elegan ooms are now open every evening ror the winter season, with aurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. oulcourt. The Proprietor begs vi inform the public that th•e fashionxble place of resort ha• been entirely redecorated during the ecess. Doors open at:half-put eight, commence at nine. Admis 'on 'ne 11. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, ) • 4, Coventry-street , Leicester-square. —Open (for Gentlemen .111 y) from 10 till 10, containing upwsrds of one thousand models .nd preparations, illusteating every part of the human frame in alth and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, 4, and half-put 7. by Dr. G. SEXTON, ; and a new and zhly-interesting series of Lectures is now In sours' of delivery y 11r. KaNN, at a quarter past 8p m. precisely. admission, One -billing. Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan 'gratis). G RAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY C kNAI)A., NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Transfer Books of the above Company will t e Closed from Thursday, the Ist day of January, 1857, to Thursday, the 15th, both days inclusive, for the purpose of making up the Half Year's interest accrued on the A ant B Series, Queb 'c and Richmond, St. Lawrence and Atlantic, and Toronto and Guelph Issues of Grand Trunk Shares. These Shares are, by resolution of the shareholders, passed at the General Meeting held at Toronto on the 10th of November last, con verted and consolidated t to a garterari•apital stock, to be called the " Consolidated stock of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of r'anada The Certificates of the above Shares may be forwarded to this Ornce, and exchanged for Certificates of such Stock, after the 15th January next, and all tmsfer+ after that date sill be entered as Trans ferii.g Stock of the Company. instead of Shares, as hitherto ; and no Transfers will be registered unless accompanied with the certifi cates tor the amount. By order of the Board of Directors. C. P. RONEY, Secretary. 21, Old Broad-street, December 16th, 1856. COMMERCIAL BANK of LONDON, Lothbury, and 6, Henrletta•street, Covent-garden. Subscribed Caiiital, 1,500,0001. Paid up Capital, 300,P001. Guarantee Fund, 71,0001. DIRECTORS. MARK BUNTER, Esq., Chairman. JOHN SAVAGE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Charles Butler, Esq. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. Edwa d stillingfleet Cayley, William Jackson, Esq., M.P. Esq , M.P. Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P. John Alfred Chowne, Esq. Robert Stacey Price, Esq. George Clive, Esq Herbert Taylor, Esq. William Cooper. Esq. Joseph Thompson. Esq. Charles HIJI, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq. Thomas Winkworth, Esq. Manager— Mr. Alfred Richard Cntbill. Accounts of parties received and kept on the plan generally adopted by London Bankers. Parties having current accounts with this Bank have the advan tage of transferring any surplus balance to a deposit account bearing interest ; and sums of money are received on deposit f om parties not keeping current accounts. The r, te of interest allowed is I per cent. under the minimum rate of discount of 'he Bank of England, the deposit being subject to 10 days' tritice of withdrawal. The agency of country and foreign banks undertaken on such terms as may be agreed upon. Purchases and sales of British and Foreign Securities, & ~ effected, dividends received, and every description of banking business trans acted. Letters of Credit are granted on the principal cities and towns in Europe and elsewhere. No Christmas-boxes or other gratuities are allowed to be taken by the officers of the Bank. A. R. CUTBILL, Manager. UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY (FIRE, LIFE, andANNUITI S). A.D. 1714. Cornhill. and 70, Baker-street, London. College•green, ronengen. street, Hamburg. Exchange-street West, and Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. No , th Nelson-street, Fdlnbtirgh. instituted in the reign of Queen Anne, A D 1714, with large Invested Funds. DIRECTORS &C. CHAIRMAN-JOH , RE ,i INGTON MILLS, Esq. DEPUTT-CHAIRMAN-HENItY ALDWIX SOAMES, Esq. James Bentley, Esq. John Paynter, Esq. Thomas Rodley, Esq. John Rogers, Esq. Daniel Britten, Esq. Henry Hutt, Esq. Nicholas ( harrington, Esq. George Spencer Smith, Esq. S reston Child, Esq. Richd. Hersman Solly, Esq. William Gilpin, Esq. W. Foster White, P sq. Thomas .ewis, Esq. Samuel Wilson, Esq., Ald. Thomas Mills, Esq., M.P. Stephen Wilson, Esq. John Morley, Esq. LIFE. Reduced rates for young itiamidelle ages, with guarantee of a company in existence upwards of 140 years, and a large accumulated capital. he last Bonus (1855) gave additions to policies varying from 25 to 70 per cent. on the previous seven years' premiums Lower rates, without profits. Two-thirds only of the premiums may be paid until Beat ,, . Decreasing and increasing rates of premium, and half-yearly or quarterly. Medical fees allowed. _ _ FIRE. Insurances at the usual rates,andpiolits returned on policies taken out for seven years by p omp pa) mein. Lo se. occasioned by ex plosion of ga , made good. The offices cies. on Saturdays at two o'clock. excepting in the fifteen days after each quarter-day. Insurances low expiring must be paid on or betnre the 9th Janu ary, at the office in London, or of the respective agents. WILLI ail B. LEWIS, Secretary. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. THE Pxuberance of th e f ee li ngs , am id scenes o f gaity, induces the fair and youthful to shine to advantage under the gaze of many friends, and therefore to devote especial attention to the duties of the toilet. It is at this festive season tha t ROWLANDS' MACAS , IAR OIL, For creating and sustaining a luxuriant head of hair; ROWLANDS' ICALYDOR, For rendering the akin soft, fair, and blooming ; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentiflice, For imparting a oearl-like whiteness to the teeth, are called into in creased requisition, to the attainment of those personal advantages so universally s , ught for and admired. of spurious imitations ! ! The only genu i ne of each bears "Rowlands" preceding that of the article on the wr a pp er o Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatto n - garden, London, a r o d by chemists and Perfumers. the name : r o .f CANCER HOSPITAL , L o ndon and West Brompton.—Pecretary's Office, 167. Piccadilly.—This Instan- 'ion has been estab lished exclusively for the treatment of th e poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are adulated at the Brompton Esta , lishment, for one month, end for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this E reat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be Paid to William Loxham Farrar, E-q., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn -fields; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By meter. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray ' s -inn -road. Patron —The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; ao re commendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal oplication Week ending 7th November 2,154 Ditto 14th November 2,043 Ditto 21st November 1,972 Ditto 211th November 2,309 29th and 30th November• ••• ..... • 269 Total in November •. • • 8,747 of which 2,775 were ne w cases, the remainder ( still under treat. m ent) having been admitt e d previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients.. Heavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in affording such eaten 41ve relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, early elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual general Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at e n i f en ex de pi n a t n o a n tio v n o . i.n. o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at which are received by the Treasurer, ill times desirous is of n re ot ce en iv d i o n w g e s d u . gg bu es t t i ir w s h o . 7 2, .i l g y iv d i volun tary tJaohnc.Aolasterman, Esq., M P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts d Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; an ott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; nlitguittalions and legacies, and Co. ; Co.;erend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber- Illonesees Loyd and .• Barclay and Co.; Denison and CO. ; Williams. Deacon, the destitute patients will be thankfully received. Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman. By order. ners-street ; for e k NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. 'etent Mice Seal of Oreat Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pharmaclen de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, tevoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. old in tin cases, divided into seprat doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, a &c. e , &c. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION, r-PERMATORRHCEA, and all tee distressing consequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too °lig residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are ow in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and w hatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR, ELIAGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. 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It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all utaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup t cns and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate lie virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible p ers p iration hrough the medium o f the pores of the Skin and urine, and is a h e e ve u r n .f g ai h i s i h eianngphreyisnindy for that class of disorders wh i c h unfortunately treatsnatt with Mercury, to the inevitabledestruc ion of the patient's co uti on, and which all the sa rsa pa rilla in theworld cannotrestore. Price I Is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves I Is., and in 51. •ases, whereby there is a saving of IL 12s. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and Gordon, 140, Leadenball - street ; Prout, 22% Strand; Hannay and Co., 63, Oa /o rd-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. 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THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE No. CCLXXXIX., J NUARY, 1857, price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. The Second Congress and the Principalities. A Story for the New Year. University Essays The Doctor of Philosophy. Chops. 111., IV , and V. The yew Atlas-System of Mr. Keith Johnston. The Fortunes of Gleneore. Chaps. XLI., XLIL, and XLIII. Isaac Weld, sq., M.R.1.A., V.P.R.D. , . John Twil'er. Chaps. VII. to XI. Poetry:—Peace in the Vale. The Rides and Reveries of Mr. Asop Smith.—Continued. Dude, as a Kingdom Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., 104, Grafton-street; Hurst and Blackett, London ; Menzies, Edinburgh; and sold by all booksellers. ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1857, price 6d., post-free. CONTENTS: National Loss and !Willill ition ! The Moon-struck Philosophers, and the true motion of the Moon ; not round the Earth, as they teach. Answer to Sir David Brewster's attack on astrolowy. The prigin of Idolatry, &c. Fulfilled Predic tions of the Peace, &c. London : Piper, Stephenson, and Spence, Paternoster-row. ZADKIEL'S ENIEMEBIS for 1857 and 1858 ; price Is. F ENTON'S PHOTOGRAPHS, TAKEN in the CRIMEA. PAUL and DOMINI' COLNAGHE and CO., 13 and 14, Pall- Mall East, Publishers to her Majesty, beg to announce that they have purchased the glass negatives of the above valuable work, co pies of which they are now prepared to sell at a considerable reduc tion on the published price. AMERICA and ENGLAND.—The Restoration by the People of the Uni , ed States to the British Sovereign of the Ship REAOLU rE at Cowes, Dec. 16, 1856. Dedicated by permission to her Most .Iracious Majesty.—PAUL and D: JMINIC Cr/LNAGIII and CO., 13 and 14, Pall-Mall East, publishers to her Majesty, bog to announce that they will shortly publish an EN GRAVING of the above subject, from the painting by WILLIAM SI M PSON, the artist of the celebrated Sketches at the Seat of War. 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The speakers especially dwelt on the inquisitorial and unequal nature of this tax, more especially alluding to the unfairness of the commissioners in allowing insur ance on sea risks by policy as legitimate deductions from income tax, and refusing to allow averages. Mr. Pow thought that the tax could not be avoided before 1860, but he argued that the double tax laid on to meet the requirements of the late war should be at once removed, otherwise the Milditry would be guilty of a breach of faith.—Sunderland Herald. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Alnwick ,called by requisition to the Chamberlains of the borough, wa held in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioningthe Legislature to reduce the income tax. There was a larga and respectable attendance of parties interested in Lae equitable adjustment of this unpopular impost. Mr. G. Tate, sen., chamberlain, in the chair. A series of reso lutions wree moved by Mr. Wm. Johnson, and seconded by Mr. J. Horsley, and unanimously adopted, to the effect that the present charge of is. 4d. in the pound on income is oppressive, and as, when the act passed in creasing the tax to tbat amount, a pledge was given by the Government that the increased rate should be con tinued for one year after the termination of the war, and no longer, this meeting considers that the additional burden of 9d. in the pound should be taken off from and after the sth of April next. That experience has proved that the present system of levying the income tax leads to evasion, and in many instances to false returns, and that in consequence it works not only oppressively, but also unequally and urtjustly. That a petition be sent to the House of Commons, embodying the foregoing resolutions, and earnestly praying that the income and property tax be at once re•tuced; from Is. 4d. to 7d. in the pound, and that in 1860, or as much sooner as the fi nances of the country will allow, the whole of the income tax to be abolished. That Lord Os.ulston be requested to present the petition —and that Lord Lovaine, the Hon. Mr. Liddell, Sir G. Grey, and Mr. Beaumont be re quested to give it Weir support. It was also moved by Mr. L. Rindmarsh, seconded by Mr. G. Pike, and una nimously carried, that a memorial be sent to Lord Pal merston embodying the resolution of the meeting.— Newca,stle Chronicle. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND 'PROMO TIONS IN TEE CIVIL SERVICE. Privy Council Office. —Mr. Charles A. Hamilton, first class clerk, has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Privy Council Office, vice Mr. J. Barrett Leonard, de- ceased. The Foreign Department.—The Consulship at Balti more, United States of America, has become vacant by the death of Mr. Henry George Kuper. Salary, 500 i. The Board of Trade.—Capt. Bartholomew Sullivan, R.N., C. 8., has been appointed a professional member of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, in place of the late Admiral Beechey. The Admiralty.--- 1 commissionership of Greenwich Hognital has become vacant by the death of Admiral Sir Hart. Customs. Mr. P. IL Lowther has been appointed from ',mond to first class searcher at Hull. Mr. Thos. s Stork has been promoted from third to second class at Hull. Mr. John Frise has been promote d from fourth to third class searcher at Hull. Mr. Charles Taylor has been promoted from second to first class tide surveyor at Southampton. Inland Revenue Department. —Stamps and Taxes Brancb.—Mr. Sells has been appointed to Buckingham. Mr. John Nicholson has been promoted from Norwich to Burton-on-Trent. Mr. King Patten bas been pro moted from Worthing to Lynn. Mr. John Dalziel has been promoted from Buckingham to Worthing. Mr. John Duffield, of Ashbourne, has been promoted from seventh to sixth class, his district being enlarged. East Indies.--Messrs. H. T. Prinsep and G. N. Bar low have been attached to the Bengal division of the presidency of Fort William. Mr. W. D. Grant has been appointed an extra assistant commissioner of the second class in the Hyderabad assigned districts. Mr. T. J. Fallon, extra assistant, has been appointed assistant commissioner at Bassein, vice Lieut. Dangerfietd. Mr. S. N. Martin, officiating magistrate and collector of Juaupore, has been appointed to officiate as a deputy commissioner in the province of Oude, in the room of Mr. It. Simeon. Mr. A. A. Koberts, civil and sessions judge in the Saugor and Nerbudda territories, has been appointed c•riornissioner of the Lahore division. Captains A. and P. Orr have been appointed assistant commis.' —Civil S ervice Gazette. siooers of th e fi rst class in.the province of Oude. Mr. S. F. D av i s h as been appointed collector of Chittagong [A: A.DvEsorisauEsiTZ-The following extraordinary cures with. out medicine of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Consti pation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, effected by Du Barry's delicious health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, are not the least remarkable :—From the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart.— Cure 52,612. Rosstrevor , County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1851. —The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in th e interest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food has cured her, after all medicines bad failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritability, of many years' standing. This Fooddered a deserves real the confidence of all sufferers and may , be con si blessing. Iminiries will be cheerfully an swered. Cure No. 49,832.--" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food.—MARIA JOLLY, Wortham Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Um ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of . cu ti r m e et h i ad ons fi ln led ea . nSisutietia,sb,liyibp.a,c2kse.d9afo.r; all mb c o li 4 m s a . 6 te d. s, ; with full ins 51bs , lls. ; 121135., 225.; super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 211;s. 118. ; Bibs . , 225.; 101bs., 335. The 101bs. and 121135. carriage f ree. ,B3traiasTyond,uaHnarra Co.,yan Purveyor: Co. e , y y r: on ne receipt e . nt.stree o t f , also at 60, Graceehnrch-street ; 330 and t Majesty, 4s stran Pi d er 4 d . : c ll li y ea ; gate-street; 55, Charing - cross ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63 pside : 68, Cornhill ; 49, Bishops- P LOnlot c ; e F o o rd rt e n r um . and 1.50, Oxforthdroot. RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN. A special meeting of this company was held on Wednes diy at Glasgow to consider the propriety of subscribing towards the British and Irish. Grand Junction Railway, Mr. A. Orr, the Chairman, presided. The CHAIRMAN stated that the object of the meeting was to submit to the proprietors a proposal from• the land owners of Galloway to form a railway from Castle Douglas to Stranraer and Portpatrick. The length would be 62 miles, and the cost would not exceed 460,0001. The local proprietors and others in the district had subscribed 200,0001., the Great Northern Railway 160,0001., and the Glasgow and South-Western Railway 60,0001. The balance of 40,0001. was expected from other English Railway Companies, and further local subscriptions, which were . _ still liberally coming in. The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company were to give a rebate or discount of 20 per cent. on passengers, and 15 per cent. on goods traffic! to and from Ireland, passing over their line, which would be equivalent to a large subscription. Before the directors would consent to take any interest in the undertaking they stipulated that subscriptions must be found, locally or otherwise, to the amount of the estimates, for the purpose of proving the bona fide character of the project, and, that being accomplished, they had no hesitation in recom- mending the company to subscribe the amount proposed-- namely, 60,0101. The crpital of the British and Irish Grand Junction . Railway would be 460,0001., in 46,000 bhares of 10/. each. The principal advantages to be gained by the line were Direct and speedy communication between Great Britain and Ireland by the short sea passage of Portplarick and Donaghadee. 2. The Government had fixed on this passage as the best, and had also agreed by Treasury minute to adopt those ports for a mail passage, and make them suitable for the purpose, provided the ne cessary railway communication were made. 3. There were only nine miles of railway to make on the Irish side to connect Donaghadee with all the network of lines in Ireland. 4. When the proposed railway of 62 miles was completed. the whole of the north and mid. land of Ireland would be connected with the south of Scot land and all England by a two hours' sea passage. 5. And which, as a company, they were more immediately inte rested in, it would bring over their lines, from Castle Douglas to Gretna (44 miles), the whole of the Irish traffic, as well as the whole Wide of the counties of Wigton and the greater part of Kirkcudbright, to Dumfries and south ward. (Cheers.) For these reasons the directors were of opinion that the sum they had agreed to subscribe was not more than they were fairly bound to do, considering the advantages to the company. The directors were assured the line would be executed in the most economical manner, and that it had the hearty support of the landed proprie tors and tenantry of the two important counties, who had subscribed the large sum of 200,0001. in from single shares upwards to Lord Galloway, who took 10,0001., and Lord Stair 30,0001., and that agreements had been already made for the greater portion of the land at the agricultural value. All the money would not be required for two or three years, and they would obtain power under the bill to raise the necessary amount. There were now in course of making branch lines equal to nearly 70 miles, and this by their only giving aid to the local parties to the extent of 135,0001.; this was a small sum compared with thobenefit these additional lines would give to their main line of railway. There could be no doubt, were the British and Irish Grand Junc tion Railway formed, it would induce the large southern companies to point to a connection with Dumfries for the purpose of securing a portion of the Irish traffic southward, and this would open up to their main line more effectual and ready communication with all parts of England. He hoped the shareholders would also subscribe individually, in order to stimulate the exertions of the promoters, and to place the undertaking beyond the chance of failure. He concluded by moving a resolution authorising a subsorip tion of 60,0001. towards the British and Irish Grand Junction Railway. Mr. JAMIESON seconded the motion. Admiral MONTGOMERY was opposed to increasing the capital, and moved as an amendment, " That the proposed grant be not given at present." Mr. BROWN seconded the amendment. Mr. BROUGH said he was opposed to extensions in gene ral, but he thought the directors were right in the present proposal to subscribe 60,0001., as the additional traffic they would derive from the proposed line could not fail to pay more than the interest of the money they proposed to sub scribe. The CHAIRMAN having explained that the matter would be submitted to the shareholders at the Wharncliffe meet ing, Admiral Montgomery withdrew his amendment, and the motion was carried. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedingc. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. It appears that the total expenditure upon the various sections of this company's great line of railway, 851 miles in length, amounted to 8,148,1251,, being at the rate of 9,5751. per mile. The section from Portland to Montreal, a distance of 292 miles, cost 2,775,5071., or 9,5001. per mile; that from Montreal to Toronto, 335 miles in length, 3,131,3001., or 9,3471. per mile ; from Toronto to Strat• ford 88 miles, the cost, including the purchase of land and surveys throughout to Sarnia and the rolling stock, amounted to 1,119,3351., or 12,7201. per mile; from Que bec to Richmond, and extension, 96 miles, the expenditure was 774,8831., or 8,0711. per mile ; and from Quebec to St. Thomas, 40 miles, 347,10)1., or 8,6771. per mile. The Vic toria-bridge at Montreal, nearly two miles in length, is to cost 1,2u0,0001., making, with the above, 9,348,1251., or at the rate of 10,9591, per mile. RAILWAY TRAFFIO RETURNS. Miles ' Receipts. opened. 1 NAME OF RAILWAY. 1856. 1856. 1855. ---.,_-.....-,--- --------- BRITISH. £ £ 115 1 Aberdeen .. •• • • .... ••••• • • • • • ••• • • - - 37% Belfast and Ballymena .............. 1,127 829 17 1 Belfast and County Down.. .......• .. - - 33 1 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,614 2,052 2634 ' Bolton,l3lackburn,and West York •• • • - - 117 1 Bristol and Exeter ...... • • .......... 5,579 6,220 1943 i f Ca1ed0nian............. ............ 11 , 928 10,153 945 4 I Chester and Holyhead..... • • ........ 4,458 4,356 6 56 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ......18 5 •• •• 138 20 Cork and Bandon .. • ..... ........ _ 261 220 56 Dublin and Belfast I unction .. .. •• • • 1,082 1,004 63 Dublin and Drogheda.. • ... ......... 1,553 1,732 7 li Dublin and Kingstown ...........• •. 1, 58 1,080 16 % . Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • • • • • 534 454 31 ' Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 931 920 36 Dundalk and Enniskillen.• - • • • • • • • • - 67 % East Ang1ian.......... •.•• • • •• •••• •• 980 761 93 East Lancashire .................: .. 6,557 5,529 417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk. • • IN • •• s 23,390 23,940 Eastern Union... • . • . • • • • • • .• • • • • • • I 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• ••• • • •..... 4,979 4,4 8 128 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • ... .. 5,186 5,168 6 Exeter and Creditors.. ••• • • • ••• • • • - - 22 Furness RailwayB3 ... .. .• :. .• • - - 1% Glasgow, and South-Western:: •. •:: .. 5,982 5,576 283 Great Northern 203 34 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 6,258 6,748 3 88 Groat Western .................... 26,973 30,309 25 % Irish South Eastern ........ -.. - - - 90 Lancaster and Carlisle.- :: ...... 5,436 5 322 286 1 4 Lancashire and Yorkshire...-. • • .... 22,435 20,633 - I Leeds Northern ............ --• • •• .- - 161 I Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport•• - - - 637 1 London and North Western .. - • •... 50,775 64,995 5% 1 London and Blackw all• . • ....... ... 1,208 1,092 183% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 12,576 12,705 267 London and South Western. .• ....., 13,619 16,597 60 London.lerry and Enniskillen - ..... 762 718 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c - - 173% Manchester, Shcfdeld,and Lincolnshire 9,721 9,519 954 Manchester and South Junction,. •• . , 744 683 30 3, .4 9 4 0 2 9 30 3: ( 4 17 78 S 28 Maryport and Carlisle -.• •........, 854 840 • - - 4 1 9 25 8 62 % Midland sl:odni kainadn Ga5.r.e.a...t.....e.;,;.e..rn: ....( . r . i. . 5. . h .. ).. ... ... ... ... ... . • 78 % Newcastle and Carlisle • • ......... - - 149 North British ••..••••• • • • • • • • • .... 4,965 4,999 233 North Staffordshire •••••.. • • • • .• • 7,343 6,101 47 North-Western • • .................. 837 866 8754 Scottish Central .• .. ••.•.•••• • .• , • .• - - 32 Scottish Midland •••••••• • • • • • • • .. - - 2954 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .... - 1,584 1,516 48 Shrewsbury and Chester .... - .... - 2,847 2,826 30 Shropshire Union .. •••••••• •• • • • • • • 915 902 57% South Devon .••• • • • ................ 2,087 2,429 289 South Eastern •• • • .................. 16,669 17,916 17154 South Wales .......... • ......... - • 7,092 6,540 97 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 2,761 2,014 39 Taff Vale .......................... 4,154 3,775 36 Ulster . ......... ...... ............. 1,402 1,320 77 Waterford And Limerick • • .......... 1,063 960 2754 West Cornwall .....• • .... ....... 573 594 12 Whitehaven Junction . • • ............ 355 302 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. - - TOZEIGN• 109 Dutch Rhenish .. • • ........ •• .. .. .. -..- 328 Lyons and Mediterranean •......... - - 63 Montereau and Troyes .......-. •• - - - ; - Namur and Liege .. • • ............ • • - - 445 Northern of France .• • • ............ 35,606 37,147 - Orleans and Central .. - - 59 Paris and Lyors .... - - ' - Paris and Rouen. ••.•••• • • • • • • • .... - ' - - Paris and Strasburgh -• • ••• • • • .... - - ) - Rouen and Havre •• ... ...... . •• . .. - - 1 - Western of France .... - - LOCAL SHARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2G. STOOK ExoriArrak.--The market opened with a quiet but steady aspect to-day, at a slight improvement. East Lancashire, 228 3--Grand Trunk of Canada, 13 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 341—Midlands, 82$ #—South Eastern, 22A—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 97 / —London and North Western, 105,i—Buffalo and Lake Huron, to I pm. MANCHESTER, DEc. 26. STOOK EXCHANGE. —There was a moderate business, and prices were better. East Lancashire, 22 15-16- -Midland, 82I—Leeds, 97t 4—Dovers, 22i—Sheffields, 34I—Ditto, Pref., 12i —Birmingham Guaranteed, 73t. BIRMINGHAM. DEC. 26. STOOK EXORANGE.—This market was almost at a standstill to-day. London and North Westerns, 1051 Midlands, 824—Ditto 46 per cent. Pref., 99—Birming ham Guaranteed, 73; 4—Stour Valleys, 8i 9—Birming ham Banks, 33. THE BALLOT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. Sir,—With many thanks for the candour and spirit of fair play in which you inserted my former replies to the Times, and in asking you to insert the accompanying letter, I can venture to point to the fact that my advocacy of the ballot is point edly divested of all party bias. I am, Sir, yours obediently, F. HENRY F. BERKELEY. Victoria-square. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES, Sir,—You will scarcely refuse me a reply to your last article on the ballot, seeing that you have quitted—per hales you will be very angry it I say that you are beaten off—your original ground, and now take up a new posi tion. So far from being angry or petulant, I never was better pleased than in read ng your leading article this morning, and observing that you had followed my ad vice, and eschewing all attempts at argument, have had recourse to your sharp-bitten barking cur again. Tell us that the ballot is a fox, a bull, or a boar (spell that word " bore" if you like), that it comes in with green peas, or asparagus at grouse time, or with mincepies and turkeys at Christmas; all that will be quite a la Times, we have heard it before, and it will de senile From the prefusion of bark and the absence of bite in the animal, which to follow out your simile you keep to worry the ballot lox, and from its want of irstiact as to English affeirs I do let loose mine opinion, hold it no longer," this is no English cur that snarls, but some Dingo dog, imported from Australia, and borrowed from the menagerie of some Whig zeologist. I will now say one word as to your attempt at argument, which I confess este nishesne. Who the writer of the article may be, who lever met with any man who wanted the ballot for him belie:leaf-privacy of the Times' editorial ballot-box forbids my knowing. The .statement is calculate , l to fill the mind with awe and to throw a halo of mystic solemnity over the subject. Fancy a haggard student who wastes the midnight oil, wrapped iu contemplation and employed in the solution of great metaphysical questions, and wh never mixes with his fellow-men, such a person must the gentleman be who never met with a man who neede protection in giving a vote. The sacred Veltmegericht of Printing-house-squire, composed of such philosophers, must be regarded with wonder, but if I or any oteer in dividual had ventured to make the assertion, that of the hundreds of thousands of men who have petitioned for the ballot no one man needed it for himself, but called for the measure from complaisance or spite to others, and at the suggestiocs of men on plat forms who get up the cry, heaven knows why or fur what, I should expect to be accused of gross ignorance or impudence, or both. Lot any man, among your writers, who has not passed his life in some remote colony, and who knows the character and the habits of the pc pie of this country, answer this question. If the ballot is not needed by the people—if it be, as you say, needed by no body for himself, but for somebody else, nobody knows who or where, would it be possible " in any considerable town to get as many signatures as may be ordered to a petition fur the ballot ?" Is it the habit of Englishmen to leave their business and their firesides merely because they have the opportunity of insulting 200 or 300 other people ? You assume the meetings at Greenwich and Lambeth did not want the ballot fur themselves. On what grounds do you found this assumption ? The Times cannot expect the public to deal with a fact solely from the knowledge possessed by some gentleman who writes articles for a given sum of money ; and, how ever inflated may be the importance which the Times at tributes to the infallibility of its writers, their bold asser tions will not disprove notorious facts. Is the Times . ignorant of, or does it deem it convenient to ignore the evidence taken by Mr. Grote's committee in 1835, with its cases of political persecution ? Nine hundred pages of evidence there are which it becomes every man to have a knowledge of before he ventures to write on the question the subject of which was dissected by that cone mittee. Are the election committees from that day to this, with their evidence of the need of protection to the elector, to go for nothing ? Are the detailed cases by members of Parliament made year after year to go for nothing ? And is it to be expected that any man not ab solutely an idiot is seriously to believe that of the hun dreds of thousands of petitioners for the ballot not on e is to be found who wants the ballot for himself ? " We do not believe in the existence of that pretended race of animals, electors voting against their convictions to 'please customers and employers," says the Times. The evi fence before Mr. Grote's committe s remains not only undisputed and uogainsayed, but added to by every suc cessive election committee, confirmed by every general election, and established beyond the possibility of con- ' tradiction by the columns of the Times itself. What is the meaning of the word " influence," which you meet with in Dod's "Electoral Facts" and other similar worke, tent a power which commands and guides voters irrespective of the only influence recognised by the con stitution—the opinion of the voters. Any man who hes ever canvassed a borough or a county will be at no loss to call to mind numerous individuals of that "pree a led race of animals" whose existence you feign to disbelieve. The Times accuses those who advocate the ballot of having Utopian notions. On the contrary, it is the Times which creates an imaginary body of eleotor, be yond the control of landlords, creditors, and cusioneers. Virtuous Britons—perfect Job Thornburys, or Farmer Ashfields—who will meet ruin boldly rather than flinch in the cause of conscience, under whose frown the Cus tomer quails, before whose virtue the landlord withers. To such men the ballot might be an insult. Unless in Utopia where are we to find a body of such men, and if such rant be sense what is flepdoodle ? As to the kind of influence practised at the last gene ral election, you are mistaken in saying it was only of a "mercenary kind " To back my opinion I refer to the Edinburvh, Review (for October, 1852), another anti ballot organ, which admits that the amount of intimi oation practised at that election was indescribable. The last general el: ction, you say, did not present the same atrocious features as former elections, for no elec tion was ever less political. True, but it was a great party contest. Lord Derby, at the head of the Cale servatives, likes Dickens's Lord Doodle, threw himself on the country "in an auriferous and malty shower;" while the free trade Whig landlords, emulating Sir Thomas Foodle, controlled the votes of their Protestant tenants, and rivalled their opponents in their use of sovereigns and beer. With regard to the farmers my reply is simply the law gives them the right to vote as they please. If you, as I believe from your article you do, think they are not fit to vote as they please, say so ; at any rate, they are as fit to vote for themselves as the majority of landlords or stewards are to guide them. I have met with scores of farmers who want the ballot for themselves, and would vote diferently under its protection. There can be no doubt but that for the undue idle ence of Whig landlords over the tenant-farmers, a ma jority of whom were Protectionists, the Conservative party would have been strengthened by the addition of many county members. With regard to the efficiency of the ballot to prevent "mercenary influences," you must bear in mind that with the ballot every fact as to bribery will remain as open and capable of proof as now, save the great induce went to bribe, viz., the fact that the vote is given in return for the money paid for it. As regards the responsibility of the elector, I utterly deny that secret voting severs him from the only respon sibility of whose existence I am aware, the obligation to vote according to his conscience, it matters not for whom. If he cannot openly vote according to his conscience he has a right to be protected by secrecy ; to what man or body of men electors are responsible, and who, conse quently, has a right to know how any particular elector votes, I will thank you to inform me. As to the parity of the cases of the elector and the writers of the press, of which you truly say you will hear more, I will answer your objections categorically. Under the ballot a number of persons acting together e., the constituetey—would be responsible for the result if, as the Times lately, in the case of Mr. Smith, of Crimean fame, they commit a breach of the law. The responsibility of the aggregate constituency would exist as the responsibility of the aggregate Times does exist, but as the particular person who wr•te the libel against Mr. Smith was on grounds of public policy, " severed front all visible responsibility," so the particular voter would, with the ballot, have the same protection. A recent num ber of the Illustrated Time., contains the following vindi cation of the right of jeurnaliste to the protection of secrecy. I quote from memory, but the quotation is substantially accurate :—" A journalist needs the pro tection of secrecy because he has no official protection ; the parson has his cloth, the la w y er his gown ; the jour nalist has neither; but for his privilege of anonymous writing he would be a universal oockshy ; the public offender, when castigated, would attack him as the cri minal occasionally throws his shoe at the judge, con -1 founding between the law and him who administers it." This is a nswerable ; but it is as unanswerable for the voter as the journalist. One word more as to the tam pering with voters under the ballot. Grant that under the ballot you can easily tamper with votes after they are gives, and that under open voting, to use Mr. Cohden's celebrated phrase, "a record is kept against every man how he votes." Still, believing as I do that votes are now as much tampered with before they are recorded as with the ballot they could be after they were given, I do not see the overwhelming s uperiority of the open over the protected system. But how stands the fact ? Take the New England states of America where a proper system of ballo t prevails. Are the ballot boxes tampered with ther e ? Name your in stances. In Belgium, Holland, Sardinia, Victoria, are there complaints ofitamperi n g with the electoral urn 2 If there are, particularise them ; if not, what becomes I of your theory ? As to Fra nce, the country have not before named, if you refer to the evidence of the French gentlemen examined before Mr. Grote's committee of 1835, you will find testimony to the value of the ballot to restrain the undue influence of the Government at elections. As to what bee occurred since that time, I believe the election, in 1848, of the present Emperor to the representation of Paris, and afterwards to the presi dentship of the republic, correctly expressed the public opinidn of France. The subsequent elections of 1851 and 1,852 either were or were not similar expressions. It they was e; public opinion in France was in favour of de spotie vovernment. If they were not, a mock exprevsion of public opinion wa,i obtained by force, as is too often the case With our English elections.—l am, &0., Vwtoria•rquare. F. HENRY F. BERKELEY. AMERICA. ' v ' z ." 4- 1- --- • M 7 7 ' //' ' d j 7 , ._• - / , ~- •r/ -- k. 4:r: ~ . . what injured. The c h urc h was th oug ht t o be oia;,...;Z:?t;:: of the most elegant and costly buildings in Canada. W'A . . It was not, however, equal in size, to the RomarL\ - '!" . Catholic Cathedral of- Montrwal, which is k capab ':. s za. . of holding from 10,000 to 12,000 pers o ns . : Th e '`'.- damage by the fire is estimated at sl2o,ooo—the insurance is $68,000. .The church possessed a magnificent organ, nearly as large as that of Haarlem, in Holland. The majority for Buchanan and Breekinridge in the State of Mississippi is 11,175. The weather at New York, which had beeii very fine for several days, took a sudden change 4 the 10th. A violent storm of wind and rain set in early in the day, and lasted until evening, when it ceaFel, and themoon shone out brightly. In some localities much snow had already fallen. At Janes ville, in Wisconsin, the snow fell to so great a depth and drifted so much as to put an effectual stop to railroad locoino ion for several days. In Massa chusetts the sleighing was capital and the weather cold. Ad vices from Kansas to the 31 inst. state that the Freestate Militia had been disbanded at their own request. Sixteen of the Freestate prisoners on trial for murder had been acquitted. Niue still remaine 1 to ha tried. The steam4hip Tex is, with California dates to the 20th November, and San Jua❑ dates to the sth inst., arrived at New Orleans on the 12th inst. The steamship Tennessee left San Juan for New York with $270,000 in treasure. The vote of Cali fornia for President stands as follows :—Buchanan, 60,000 ; Fillmore, 35,000 ; Fremont, 19,000. Buchanan's majority over both, 6,000. The Demo crats also obtained a majority in both branches of the State Legislature. Tne California markets generally were dull. The news from Nicaragua is highly important. General Walker had been successful in a series of battles with the Central Americans. O❑ the 10th ult. General Hornsby, with 200 men, defeated 1,100 of the enemy under he Costa Rican General Canas. The enemy lost 200, while Hornsby had only two killed and 11 wounded. Four days' fighting at Messaya had ended in the entire defeat of the enemy. General Walker had returned to Grenada, and, after giving three days' notice of his intention to allow time for the removal of valuables, fiiedthe place, not leaving a vestige of it. The inhabitants of Grenaslo, had removed -to. Rivas with all. their effects, which will hereafter be the capital of Ni caragua. A naval battle had taken place between the Nicaraguan war schooner Granada, Captain Fraysom, and a Costa Rican brig of war three times the size of the Granada. The Costa Rican vessel was blown up, and all on beard of her perished. It is'estimated that the enemy has lost 3,000 men in the various battles since October. In the New York money market, on the 12th, stocks were active and firm ; the news from abroad continuing favourable, a further improvement of prices was anticipated. State stocks, with limited transactions, were unchanged. Railroad bonds were in good demand and higher. In railroad shares a very large business was done, and there was a general advance of prices, although at the close of the First Board the buoyancy fell off. The aggregate sales amount to about 2 4 1,000 shares. New York Central improved ; Erie 4 ; Reading 11; and Western shares, from to a_ per cent. ; except Chicago and Rock Island, which did not fully sustain the previous day's price. Illinois Central sold at 1194, equal to an advance of 1k per cent. The cotton market was firm, with sales of about 1,000 to 1,500 bales. The news by the Africa was not considered unfavourable, and hence holders continued to stand out for full prices. Flour was firmer, with mere activity, the market closng, however, without change of importance in prices. The firmness of holders checked sales of wheat, which were quite moderate, and chiefly at. the previous day's prices. Corn was steady, with sales of distilling lots at 68c., and of sound Western mixed at 70c. to 71c. Among the sales were 5,000 bushels new Southern yellow, at 70c. Pork was rather heavy, with moderate sales at unchanged prices. The sales of sugars were confined to 300 to 400 hogsheads Cuba muscovado, and 200 to 300 boxes, at full prices. Coffee was more active ; 2,800 bags Bahia were sold for export, and the balance of an old cargo of Rio, with 200 bags Maracaibo. Grain freights were lower for Liver pool, while engagements both to that port and to London were to a fair extept. WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Dee, Cap tain Woolcott, arrived this morning from her inter colonial station iu the West Indies to undergo re pair. She brings a small mail from St. Thomas's only, but no passengers or cargo. The Wye's missing mails have not come, as was expected, by this steamer. The Dee experienced a succession of strong north-easterly winds from the time of leaving St. Thomas's, on the 6th inst., to the 24th, when, at the entrance to the Channel, it blew a gale from the north-west. On the 20th of Decem ber the Dee spoke the John Bunyan. from Sydney, 81. days out, in lat. 43 40 N., long. 25 W. ; and on the 22d the Amencin barque Ailsa, in lat. 46 12 N., long. 18 6 W. THREE DAYS LATER. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING. By the United States' mail steamship Arago, Captain Lines, we have dates from New York to the 13th inst., 32 passengers, $357,000 in specie (of which $34,000 were for London), 1,500 barrels of flour, and 3,000 bushels of grain for Havre, and the usu4l The mail steamer Africa, Capt. Sh annon , from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 13th inst., and the Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool, at Portland on the 10th. The City of Manchester steamship arrived at lE'hiladelphia on the 10th. She left Liverpool on the .19W-Nov., and encountered a succession of westerly gales. On December 20, in lat. 46° 15', long. 38°, the Arago exchanged signals with the ship Lady Frank lin, - bound east. . . Both branches of Congress at Washington, on the 10th, were engaged in a discussion of the messag e and the reception of a few petitions, one of which was from Mr. Wheeler, asking to be refunded cer tain moneys which he had given to distressed Ame ricaiis in Nicaragua, who had been robbed and wounded at Virgin Bay by the natives, and who had applied to the Legation for assistance. Commo dore Jones also petitioned for a restoration of the pay deducted from him by a court martial several years ago. The President has appointed J. 0. Harrison, of Kentucky, as J udge for Kansas, in place of Judge Lecompte, removed. In the Senate, ou the 11th, Geu. Cass made a speech, reiterating his opinion on squatter sove reignty, the subject under discussion being the Pre sident's message Mr. Hale stated that the Republi can party meant to apply the principle of the exclu sion of slave: y in the territories iv 1860,as he believed they ,would then possess the power to do so. Mr. Hate exhibited a handbill in which Mr. Bigler was charged with being a speaker at a Democratic meet ing in favour of Buchanan, Breckinridge, and Free Kansas, which brought Mr. Bigler to his feet, who denied the imputation. The Senate then adjourned till Monday. In the House there was considerable discussion on squatter sovereignty, which, as ex plained by General Cass, was repudiated by the Virginia delegation. There appeared to be con siderable diversiiy of opinion among the Democra tic members regarding it. The signers of the me morial presented to the House for the erection of Arazona, into a territorial government represent that they are cut off by natural barriers from the benefit of the laws of New Mexico, being nominally only in the county of Donna Ana, without any of the privileges or safeguards of citizenship, and ex posed to savages. A despatch from Washington, dated the 12th inst., SA ys : Mr. Broom introduced to the House a bill providing for a contract with Mr. Vanderbilt for carrying a monthly mail between New York and Southampton in steamers to make as good time as the Cunarders, and for every 12 hours over their average time a reduction of $l,OOO to oe made. This line is in addition to those already in existence, and deigned to test the relative merits of the Engtil and American steamships. Van derbilt is here,iwith all his I,mby strength, hoping to get his bill through. It is understood that he has connected himself with bibo and Co., and will furnish the steamers for the new Tehuantepec route. This accounts for his contemp;ated visit to New Orleans iu the Daniel Webster." The debate in the Southern Convention on the 10 h inst. was very important and exciting, being on Mr. Goulding's resolution to reopen the slava trade, which was warmly advocated by several members and as strenuously opposed by others. The resolution was finally lost by an overwhelming vote. Resolutions were offered relative to a rail road to the Pacific. The first, which declares that Government has no power to construct a rail road, was adopted. The second, that a road should be made along the line of the 32d parallel of lati tude by States, in iividual subscribers, and grants of land by the Federal Government, trc., elicited much debate. The subject was finally recommitted. The New York _Herald publishes au extract from a letter written by Captain Peabody, of the packet ship Neptune, to Messrs. Poirier and Co., in which it is stated that, on the 7th of November, a boat belonging to the wrecked steamer Lyonnais was picked up by the Neptune while on her voyage to Liverpool. No persons were in the boat when found, from which circumstance it is thought pro bable they were rescued by some outward bound vessel, and carried to a foreigs port. The Democracy of the city of New York gave a complimentary serenade to the Hon. J. Walker, for his services to Mr. Buchanan in the.late Presi dential contest, at the New York Hotel, ou the evening of the 10th. On the 11th the New York Republican Central Union met and proceeded in a body to the resi dence of Colonel Fremont, where the gallant Colonel gave them a hearty welcome. The papers publish telegraphic despatches from various parts of the country relative to the insur rectionary movements amoog the negroes in the South, which have created no little excitement in that region. The Eveknsville Journal (Indiana) of the 6th inst., says : " We bad very serious and alarming reports in our city last evening from the Cumberland river in regard to the movements of the blacks ; and, from all we have heard, the excitement among the people through the middle district of Tennessee is far greater and more general than we supposed when we wrote the article in another.part of this morning's sheet. Through what is called the iron distriction the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers there are from 8,000 to 10,000 slaves employed at the ironworks ; they are there congregated in large numbers, working in the various labours of making c darcoal, digging ore, and tending the furnaces, in gangs, mostly by th,inselves, with a few whites for generil overseers. There are many of these works situaten within a few miles of each other, and in sections that have few white int , abitants. "A gentlems* who arrived hare last evening informs us that at, Dover, on the Cumberland, they had obtained such evidence as left uo doubt of a widespread couviracy existing in that neighbourhood, and that a number of the ringleaders had been discovered and arrested ; that 11 of tnetii bad been hung by the excited inhabitant-, and that among those arrested was a person who had been in the neighbourhood many months, who had al ways passed as a negro, but on his arrest was found to be a white man, painted and disguised as a negro. Our informant says the people, being satisfied that he had been the priwe mover and instigator of the rebellious design of the blacks, took aim to the woods, and by the unanimous condemnation of those present be was sen tenced to receive 900 lashes, and that he expired before the penalty had been fully inflicted. These occurrences had produced general con4ernation and terror, and the women and children were fleeing and being sent off for safety. The men were arming and organising f,r defence, and the negroes were being cJufined, or kept under very vigilant watch. A good deal of excitement has existed for some days about Clarksville and the neighbouring counties in Ten n,,,,see by the discovery of the preliminary preparations of au insurrection among the slave population, to come off on the 24th of December. A great number of negroes 'urnace bad been arrested and confined, and several ha d wade confessions. In the neighbourhood of L e r a i i s d a t k h a , a plan to blow up a church was dis d c t u v n er der • the bu w ild r i t i e i d g: A keg of powder bad been place A large collection of arms a re n a d dy am fo ui r j e t iofantahladmaatelsho. been discovered and seized. One white inan, w ho was caught in the act of cou nsel li ng the insurrection, had been arrested and imprisoned. Among the negroes arre,ted and confined are the si t ,. they posed ringlea.dare—the generals and captains, a s r are called —of the movement. "The opinion is that the plot is deep laid, and em rang ins slaves throug hout a wide extent of country, r ing from Kentu ck y south and west, and t he Plana sen g el t o have designed a g eneral insurrection during the hoill.l d ays . The num ber of fugitives is also unusually large, ~nti th e emeapes across the Ohio, roported b y the pap ery, ar e more numerous than we ever noticed before- a- Tne slave states, discussion of th e question of slavery i n the late canvass, has impar ted ideas to the blac ks o f a change to be li some vagu e pole t i ca l revolution which has e ff ecte d t h em restless by , a P'a rendered and i ns ubordinate." The .Philadel Builetin, publishes a et despatch from Nashville of the 10th : " of this cat have a sse d a law di recting the employ ment of an a dd i tional pol ice force day and night, forbiddi ng nee g ro schools a nd ne g ro preach ing, forbidding all ----sema es of neg roes after sundown, authorising th e arrest of free neg roes from other coun ties, and the arrest of free re sident neg roes if found in suspiciou s c i rcumstances. as bl A. great deal„of uneasiness is i felt in the city as we ll as in the country. A letter from Baltimore, of Dec. 11, says " change s arriv here with Rio rile bark Lapwing ha Janeiro d a t es t o the 30th of Octobe ed r. There was fu o r coffee wer e the sam e as at last d ates. Sailed, Oc of coffee." in comme rcial affairs, and the quotations t 17, the bark Cora, for New York, with 5,300 b ag s Christ Church, the Protestant Episcopal cathe dral in Montreal, was destroyed by fire on the g of theuilding 10th inst adjoin A drywgeoore ds a store and lao borne inthoerns.ing uns , b ao al and Military imetaf;ence. Charybdis, building new Tie class he R a Racoon, ° e n c . r 2 e l w , c a i l s l r d v e t t i t l e e at Chatham of dock yardtlie from the designs of Sir B. F. Walker, K.C.B , are both to be fitted with engines: of 400-horse power, and to be completed with despatch. The Goliath, 80, is undergoing some very extensive alterations and improvements at Chatham dockyard in order to be adapted as a screw steamer. The Irresistible, screw steamer, building at Chatham, is intended to be fitted with engines of 400-horse power, and the Hood, 80, with engines of 600-horse power. THE RESOLUTE —ln recogition of a season dear to the hearts of Englishmen, Lady Franklin has forwarded three splendid and massive cakes to be presented. to the officers and crew of the Resolute—thus showing that Lady Franklin, as an English lady, keeps up that ancient custom so highly appreciated by the Anglo. Saxon race, and which is as highly estimated by Brother Jonathan as by ourselves. i The Dreadnought (late Caledonia) hospital ship, is ordered to be undocked to-morrow, and will shortly be removed to Greenwich to take the place of the old Dreadnought, now moored in the river, as an •hospital ship for seamen of all nations. The new hospital is at present an object of much interest, and has been fitted up in a most complete manner, under the superintend. ence of Mr. Peake, assistant master shipwright at this yard. The vessel was presented by the Government to the Seaman's Hospital Society, and has been under the hands of 200 workmen for the past five months. She is much larger than the old Dreadnought, and since her arrival here another deck has been added, and her upper deck has been considerabl y enlar g ed. She now con tains five decks , t he arran g ements of which are as fol low :—The upper or weather deck consists of ro om for the meetings of hate comtne of ittea splendid the Seaman's Society, meet ings the ap rtments of I the commander -- t h e se are of bird's-eye ma P' ew° °c l , an pleasing of contains ect. The main deck present a very a spacious and well -arranged diningroom for the ass i s t an t -surgeons, purser, and other use of the surgeons, )ther officers ; a store room, and a chapel. The latter atter has been fitted in an admirable manner for the a per sons. The pulpit is made 1 cconarnodati,n of 100 sel, and tablets in gotta min the wood of the oil yes the Lord's pr,,verpereha have been a ffixed s con taining, Litany, and the followin g • , the Ten C ''"s nu r ' ir ni cons n m t it i t e has cau-ed t his space to inecript on : , apes, in older thst the worship ~f A. be set apart as ac! - i -e . . decency ri 1 ItEi_hty God may be cis@ orate(' with a -I- B ° l st:tit - my " Tne screen which separates the space apportioned .for the chapel from the dining room is of painted oak, French polish ed. The middle, or gun-d ec k , contains -on the s tarboard and port sides two CO „di Mal - us surgeries, an d the dispensary is on the aft portion o U t the d e ck. The lower gun-deck contains well-arranged bedrooms for the nurses, and a museum for ,, the use of the medic al t fficers of the establishment. /he lower or oriop deck, which has been at this yard, 18 wel l fitted for th e rece p tion sf patients, and contains , t" , e oh Dswnton'a pumps—which is connected with hose —to h e used in ca-e of fire, and for washing the decks. The ventilation of the various departments of the vessel has been especially a tt e nded to, and six large tanks also are provided for a constant supply of water. Baths are provided on each of the decks, and a c onstant su pp l y of hot water will be available by means of an improved ap paratus connected with each departme nt . The u pp er deck and the fore-cattle are provided with an a w ning , and every ri ar , • ng ement has been made to secure the comfort of patients who may be able to walk on this portion • of the vessel. The galley is fitted up in a most complete manner, with one of Brown and Reopath's im ineuse ranges, containing boilers and oven. At the next monthly committee meeting of the society a commander wili be app Anted for the new hospital— Capt. Saunders, the present commander of th, Dreadnought, who ba g held that office for 20 years, having resigned on a retir ing pension of 125/. per annum. The f 'flowing appointments were made t d yes er ay at the Admiralty :7 —. ... . .. __ Lieutenant H. J. Challis, to the Blenheim; Lieut. W. M. Wright, to the Scourge, for disposal ; J. C. Montgomery, H. F. Crohan, W. Otter, and J. W. Gam bler, naval cadets, to the Iris ; George A. Browning, master's assistant, to the Plumper. [ADVERTISEMENT.] .-11011 %,, iAy 7----- , P l i' S upprece: T e lted for cure of Indigestion.—E x t rac t of a letter from LB- M. 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