The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

RORSMAN, M.P., AND HIS CON- BTITUENTS. STROUD, FRIDAY. The Right Hon. E. Horsman fast night attended a second meeting of the electors and non-electors of Stroud in the Subscription Rooms of that town. The attendance was much more numerous than on Wednesday afternoon, and a large body of the working classes were present. The proceedings, though not of a turbulent, were of a very exciting character. The right hon. gentleman on entering the hall was greeted with mingled cheers and hisses. Mr. S. Marling was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in a brief speech, introduced the right hon. gentleman, and requested a fair and im partial hearing for all who might be anxious to address the meeting. Mr. HORSMAN (wha on risiig was again received with symptoms of disapprobation from his consti tuents) said, —I present myself to-night not to make any lengthened or detailed statement such as I made yesterday, but rather to listen to any statements which you may wish -to make, and give any ex plenations or answers that you may require. From what occurred yesterday . I gather from the resolu tion that was passed that there were two main questions on which I was condemned. The reso lution was moved and seconded by two deservedly respected members of the Society of Friends, who in their speeches condemned me mainly on two grounds. The first was that by my speeches on 'questions of foreign policy I had taken a course - very strongly at variance with the principles and 'objects of that society; and, secondly, that I had been much too unministerial in votes and speeches. (Laughter and interruption.) As to the first of these charges, I must remind you that I never professed anything but opposition to the policy of those prin ciples which the Peace Society profess. On the very first occasion on which I stood here, when the question was to be decided whether I was to be your candidate and representative, Mr. Fewster made a speech in which he said his only objection to me was that my views and principles were so much at variance with his own on the subject of peace. (Question) I have a great personal respect for the members' of the Society of Friends. (Laughter and derisive cheering.) I know that their prin ciples are pure, that their motives are Christian and praiseworthy—(hear, hear)—but, as politicians, I honestly avow that I think them the most perni cious and most mischievous of all denominations. (Uproar and interruption.) If their power were at all equal to their will, the existence of England as an independent kingdom would not be worth six months' purchase, (A perfect storm of groans, hisses, and hooting.) There is this particular cha racteristic about them which shows how the most amiable and best of men, when they push a prin ciple too far, may be led into inconsistency ; that while the Emperor of the French is confessedly the representative of war in Europe,—for has he not been the cause of more bloodshed and more carnage than any other man, and is he not now promoting bloodshed and carnage before the walls of Gaeta ? (Continued interruption.) He finds in this coun try his friends and advocates in the representatives of the peace party. (Cries of " No, no," and Question.") There have been in our time two wers in Europe, one in the Crimea the other in Italy. Whole hecatombs of human lives have been sacrificed, and the Emperor of the French, next to his uncle—whom we defeated nearly half a century ago—has been the greatest scourge of the human race in modern days. Yet, while he has not another friend in all Europe ; while the armies of Englund are at this moment kept up to the highest state of efficiency from the fear of him ; while he threatens every Power, while he embarrasses every exchequer, while he disturbs commerce all over the world, we find that it is in England alone he has advocates, upholders, apologists, eulogists, and, strange to say, this representative of war finds them in the Peace Society. (Renewed uproar.) I say that to me it is a matter of pride that I hare assisted, and assisted not unsuccessfully, to arouse this country to the danger which threatens it from the side of France, and if I am censured by my constituents for that conduct, I can only say that their opinion differs entirly from the collective opinion of all England. (Cries of " No, no," followed by renewed uproar and confusion.) Instecfd of foaling that I am lowered in the estimation of the public by that censure, I think it rather reflects . on those who have passed it upon me. (Cries of " oh !" and groans.) The other point on which I am condemned is this, —I have been too independent of the Ministry in my votes and speeches. But' when I stood here to have it decided whether I was to be your represen tative or not, I had been 17 years in Parliament. I had taken an active part in Parliamentary affairs, and the ground on which I was recommended was that I had always been independent both of Mini sters and of party. It was in the exercise of that independence that, with your approval, I assisted to eject the Ministry of the Earl of Aberdeen for the disasters of the Crimean war. It was in the exercise of the same independence that I subse quently joined in the censure upon and assisted to eject Lord Palmerston from office on the Conspi racy Bill; and while I did so, I did it in very good company, because I went into the same lobby with half his present Cabinet. (Laughter.) In the exercise of the same independence, two years ago I told the Liberal party and the leaders of the Liberal party that they were making a great mistake in neglecting the opportunity of amending Lord Derby's Reform Bill, and I told them that they were deluding the electors by withholding the op portunity of giving them franchises which they would not afterwards be able to afford them, and in the exercise of the same independence I told the Ministry when they formed the new Government that they had made a promise of reform which they would not be able to fulfil, and therefore they were taking office under false pretences, and I have:main tained towards them the same independent position which I had always taken on previous occasions. (Interruption and uproar.) If I am to be commended 'and elected because when I was a young man in Parliament, and perfectly inexperienced in Parlia mentary matters, I formed my own opinion, why am I, after 25 years of Parliamentary experience, to give up my own judgment and opinions because my con stituents are stricken with a sudden homage for the Ministry—(groans)—a Ministry which in the last session gave them certainly a master manufac turers' treaty and a middle-class budget, but per petuated the tax on the necessaries of life to the poor operative classes, and cheated the unenfran chised of reform. (Hear, hear, and cheers and hisses.) I decline to do so, and if I am to be censured for I that course of proceeding say that I would a thousand times rather be censured now when I am right—(hisses, groans, and uproar)—then obtain your applause when I was wrong. (Renewed hisses.) And inasmuch as undeserved censure is praise in disguise, I take the vote of censure yesterday only as showing that on the question of peace and the question of independence I was acting consistently with what I have always professed and always practised; therefore I think it the highest compli ment I could have received. (Loud laughter, min gled with. hisses and cheers.) Tasked for something. yesterday of the electors which I did not get, and I will ask it of the non -electors now. (A Voice, You won't get it." Laught er .) lam sorry for that, be cause what I asked for was —only justice. If you will not give me justice I am very sorry, for I as k for that, and th a t only. (A. V o i ce, "And you have got justice.") I have come to meet face to face any one who has a charge to bring against me. All I asked yesterday was that the electors should hear me before they judged me, and how did they act They came down w ith a ready cut and dried reso lution, and I hope I don't use too strong a term when I say that resolution began with an untruth. (Hisses.) It began with these words :—" That, having heard' Mr. Horseman." (Laughter.) Will anybody who prepared or spoke to that resolution tell me that it was not prepared before I entered this room, and before I began my speech ? Am I not therefore justified in saying —I don't wish to use too strong a term, I don't wish to offend you, but I tell you the truth when I say, that the words of that resolution are self- evidence of untruthfulness and hypocrisy, (Hisses, groans, and great uproar.) While it pretends that I was heard, and that the resolution was founded on the view of the meeting after they had heard my speech, the fact is that the concoctors of that resolution condemned me first, and then came into this room, and s,-me of them with great impatience heard m . afterwards. (Laughter and cheers, mingled with I isses.) Under these circumstances I say that I did not meet with justice. I hope you will be kind enough to give me justice to-night. (Cries of " We will.") lam here at your service and command. You may sug gest your own topics, and put to me any question which you please, or ask me for any explanations, for I am not disposed a second time even to run the risk of pleading before a jury that has determined on a verdict before they have heard the evidence. But if you want any explanation, if there are any points upon which you wish to examine my con duct to any extent, you will find that I shall not flinch from being probed to the utmost. I leave you to open the discussion, and at the conclusion to come to any resolution which you may please, but which I am riot so sanguine as to latter myself will be perfectly favourable to me ; but I will bear it as I have borne everything, knowing that it comes sincerely from your judgment and your hearts. (Derisive cheering.) I shall therefore treat it kindly, and with the greatest possible respect. (Loud laughter, cheers, and hisses.) Mr. FLINT explained that several resolutions had been prepared on the previous day, and it was not until the proceedings of the meeting had consider ably advanced that the resolution adverted to by Mr. Horsman was placed in the hands of Mr. Bow ley. (Cheers.) _ _ Mr. BRIDGES, on rising to move a resolution, be lieved that the position of Mr. Horsman resembled that of the criminal who, in reply to his demand for justice, was told, " Yes ; justice you shall have, for you shall be hanged on Tuesday." (Loud laughter and cheers.) Mr. Horsman in his speech had alto gether overlooked the question at issue, It was neither more nor less than this :—He had entered upon the representation of Stroud, the electors believing him to be a politician of one kind, and he had turned out to be one of a different descrip tion. While telling them he had fought their bat tles and acted as a faithful representative, the voice was the voice of Jacob, and the hands were the hands of Esau. (Cheers.) Mr. Horsman entered the borough as an advanced Liberal, but when the surface was removed from his character he proved to be a concealed Conservative. (Cheers.) It was quite clear that kis opinions were not in accordance with those of the great body of Liberals throughout the country, and he had done all ho could to oppose a Governmenf which his constitu ents approved. If the last session had been barren of results a considerable portion of the blame was attributable to Mr. Horsman, who no longer justly represented the borough in Parliament. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Entertaining these opinions, ho begged to move,—" That this meeting having heard Mr. Horsman's explanation of his votes and speeches in the late session of Parliament, are decidedly of opinion that his views and conduct are so much at variance with the Liberal constituency of Stroud that he no longer represents them in Parliament." —(Loud cheering, mingled with a few hisses.) Mr. BOWLEY, in seconding the resolution, remarked that Mr. Horsman had not advanced any satisfactory reasons for opposing the Government. He had advised the country to accept a Tory Reform Bill, on the ground that it was the best that could be obtained. But why? Because such men as Mr. Horsman would not support a better. (Cheers.) It was quite clear that a good Reform Bill would never be obtained so long as Liberal constituencies were represented by such men as Mr. Horsman. (Cheers ) Constituencies were greatly indebted to men of talent who undertook the laborious duty of repre senting them in Parliament, but when they did not represent the people fairly they ought to withdraw from the representation. (Cheers;) The electors of Stroud were willing to release Mr. Horsman from his laborious duties. (Great cheering, and some cries of " No, no.") • Mr. HORSMAN—I am willing to abide by the challenge which I yesterday gave to Mr. Bowley, and will resign my seat if he will point out any one principle which I have abandoned during the last 25 years. He says that I don't represent hint—that I have ceased to represent him—(cries of " Us, us") —and he is so kind as to offer to release me from being his representative ; but will he inform me whether I was more his representative when I was last elected than lam now ? Was lof his opinion at the last election, and has what has occurred since that time made him my opponent P (Yes, yes.) Now, with respect. to Mr. Bridges, who was so playful as to become almost ridiculous. (Loud laughter, and cries of Oh, oh.) He judges me by my votes and speeches in Parliament. Ac cording to the pledge which I gave you when elected I appear before you, and if he will show me any one principle or opinion which I have aban doned I will resign toy seat. I think that is a fair challenge. (Cheers.) Upon that challenge you ought to vote upon the resolution before you. If since I was returned to Parliament I have changed no opinion and abandoned no principle, and you censure me, it is you that are apostates and not I. (Strong marks of disapprobation.) With respect to what has been said about my recommending the acceptance of a Tory Reform Bill what are the facts ? When that measure was proposed the Liberal party had a majority of 140, and could have made any amendments they pleased. I there fore recommended that we should take Lord Derby's bill, remodel it, make it a Liberal bill, and pass it. I said if you do that those whom you wish to admit to the franchise will become voters at the next I election. Mr.BOWLEY—Why do you think that a Tory bill could have been amended and remodelled, and that one brought in by the Liberals could not hive been carried at all ? Mr. HORSMAN—Because it is notorious that the leading members of the Liberal Cabinet were strong anti-reformers. (Groans, and loud cries of " No.") Who made the strongest speech in favour of Lord Derby's Bill, and for the retention of rotten and nomination boroughs ? Why, Mr. Gladstone. With Mr. Gladstone and Lord Palmerston against Lord John Russell and Mr. Bright a good Reform Bill could not have been passed. And with respect to the charge of impeding the progress of the bill of , last session, all I can say is that the delay was not attributable to me, for I did not open my lips upon it. (Hear.) [The right hon. gentleman then pro ceeded to comment upon some observations made by the preceding speakers, which we are unable to give at length. He said]—With respect to the French getting the command of the Channel, people are too apt to forget that every day of the year there are goods to the value of £50,000,000 belong ing to England, and two of our admirals during the last session told the House of Commons that the French Emperor, if he had the command of the Charinel—(cries of "If, if," and laughter) —no one doubts that he would have it if a war :were to break out soon, and all he would have to do would be to put three or four iron-plated ships at the chops of the Channel, and then he could intercept every vessel, and stop our cotton and corn, and other articles, and starve us out. (Loud laughter.) M r . Bridges censured me for not voting for the resolu tion respecting the paper duty. On that occasion I went into the lobby with Mr. Gladstone, Mr. M. Gibson, and Mr. Bright, and I do not see how I am liable to censure for acting along with his friends. (Cheers.) With respect to ;ny conduct towards Lord Palmerston's Government great in justice had been done me. The first time that I ever made a speech that brought me into collision with the noble lord Was when I was liYing, on the most intimate terms with him, and when I was a strong supporter of his Government. In 1846 I condemned and protested against his system of secret diplomacy. I never lost sight of that ob jection, and have since that time repeated it. I as sisted in driving out Lord Aberdeen's Governmdent, and when L or d P a l merston ' s was formed he offeredt me the Secretaryship of Ireland, and I accep e . offer, believing him to b e th e most fitting Prthe ime Minister for th e coun t ry, when the matter rested between him, Lord Aberdeen, Lord I. Russell, and Lord Derby. I voluntarily resigned that office some time afterwa r d s. I voted against Lord Palmerston on the Conspiracy Bill, and that vote was acquiesced in by the whole nation. I objected to the abstract THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1861.' resolution with respect to reform, and said that I considered it a mistake. I want to ask the question. Mr. Bowley says he believed me to be an advanced Liberal—will he tell me why ? When I was pro posed on the hustings, my seconder, Mr. Bernard, said that I was not an advanced Liberal, and his brother afterwards expressed a doubt on the sub ject. I never expressed myself such. (Cries of Oh, oh, and Cockermouth.) I never professed myself such at Cockermouth, and I was pelted there be cause I was not an advanced Liberal. (Oh, oh.) Mr. Bridges intimates that I disappointed him, but does he pretend to tell this company that he was one of my friends at the last election, and that the proceedings of the last session have converted him ? Will he deny that he was one of four or five who met to get up the opposition of the advanced Libe rals? Will he deny that he canvassed for that pur pose ? And with what face can he tell me now that I don't represent you because I have forfeited his confidence, which I never had ? (Laughter.) The hon. gentleman opened his speech by relating an anecdote about a Scotch judge. The fact of his not shaving reminds me of an anecdote of an English statesman. When Mr, Sheridan was on the hust ings at Westminster one of the electors said to him —" Mr. Sheridan, I was always one of your best and steady supporters until yeu gave that particu lar vote of which I disapprove, and then I with drew my countenance from you. To which Mr. Sheridan replied, "My friend, I am extremely obliged to, for it is the ugliest countenance I ever saw." (Great laughter.) PETER WOOD, a non-elector, in reference to the challenge of Mr. Horsman defying any one to tell him wherein he had changed his principles, said that whet the late member for the borough presided at a meeting the remark was made in Mr. Horsman's presence that he was too much of a Radical, and Mr. Horsman did not tell the meeting that he was not a Radical, but allowed the impression to go abroad that he was a Radical in reality. Now, had he not deviated from Radical principles ? Had he not during the last session almost always voted for Lord Derby, and had not the whole press of the country declared that he had renegaded from his principles ? (Cheers.) If he had not been praised by the whole of the Tory press, if he had not altered his princi ples, all the Liberals of England had altered theirs. Whatever the right hon. gentleman might say of his friendship for Lord Palmerston he (Mr. Wood) believed it was personal pique, and nothing else, that had induced him to pursue his present course. (Cheers and laughter.) The right hon. gentleman said he had not changed his opinions or his prin ciples. He wished the right hon. gentleman would tell the meeting what his principles really were. (Laughter and cheers.) Were they Whig, Radical, or Conservative? [A Voice—Neither, and laugh ter.] He did not represent the views of the Libe rals of the borough, and ought to resign his seat and let the electors have a representative more congenial to their views. (Cheers.) Mr. HORSMAN—As a supporter of Liberal prin ciples I deny that I have changed my views. (Oh, oh.) I have supported the ballot uniformly, and the abolition of church rates, both of which pro positions the present Government object ‘ to. (No, no.) At any rate, they have not been made Go vernment measures. I now repeat my challenge, upon which I offer to resign my seat tomorrow. That challenge is yet unanswered. (Cheers.) Mr. BOWLEY —I think none of us here can tell how far Mr. Horsman's principles may have changed, because that is a question of the mind, which we cannot fathom. We can only judge by his conduct. I can only say that, if he has not changed his opi nions, we have been deceived as to what his opinions are. (Cheers.) The question is - whether the views he has propounded and the votes he bas given during the last session are in accordance with our views or not ? (Cheers.) I will ask what Govern. ment he is prepared to support ? If the Queen sent for Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright. would he support them ? Mr. HORS:II,IN, —No. Mr. BowLEY.—He is not prepared to support the Whigs, because he votes against them. Is he prepared to support Lord Derby's Government ? [Mr. Horsman made no reply, but, after some hisi tation, shook his head ] A Voice.—Ask him about measures. Mr. BOWLEY.—Ife has voted against the best measures that have ever been brought forward, and, whether I look to the. course he has pursued with respect to the Government, or the measures which have been brought before the House of Commons, he is no representative of mine. (Loud cheers.) The ;CHAIRMIN then put the resolution, which was carried amid loud cheers, by a majority of at least four to one. Mr. 1101ISMAN.—The resolution certainly is car ried, but by so narrow a majority—(loud laughter) —that I heartily congratulate my friends, the ad vanced Liberals, upon their victory. And I don't grudge it. lam not the least surprised t it. I fully expected it. (A Voice,—" And you fully de served it." Cheers.) Before I tell you how I mean to act upon it, I beg most sincerely to thank you for two things,—first, for your kind indulgence towards me to-night; and, next, that at least there were so many gentlemen more than I expected who were kind enough to hold up their hands against the resolution. I do not grudge the advanced Liberals their second victory—their great triumph. I must say that they have had some severe trials of late, and I shall be glad if, at Christmas time, any triumph over me can give them a rnsrry and a happy Christmas. I must say that I hive felt for them very much during the last six months. (Oh, oh !) It has been said that a good man straggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods ; but I have sometimes thought for the last six months that the advanced Liberal struggling to conceal his agonies, while the abortive measure of Re form was being strangled, instead of being a spectacle for the gods, was rather a subject for the benevolent attention of the Humane Society. (Great uproar.) As to the resolution, I will tell you why I do not intend in conse quence of that resolution to resign my seat. (Groans and hisses.) If you do not know when you have got a good servant—(loud laughter)—l know when I've got a capital master. (Laughter and cheers.) I have received a great deal of kindness from you, and I assure you that, although not a very old, I am a very attached servant—(" oh, oh," and laughter)—and an old and good servant, if his master in a fit of intoxication—(groans and uproar) —or a fit of passion, turns him off at night, it would be very ungrateful if he took him at his word and did not wait to see whether he would not be sober and sorrowful the next morning. (Laugh ter and cheers.) I have the greatest hopes of you, ant more than that I sincerely believe—you may think it vanity—but I sincerely believe that if I were to resign my seat you might go a great way and fare a great deal worse. (Roars of laughter.) Therefore if you are disposed to verify the old pro verb, and cut off your noses to spite your faces —(" oh, oh 1" and laughter)—l will not be so un grateful as to assist you in that disfigurement. (Oh, oh, and groans.) If it be any pleasure to my friends the advanced Liberals to pelt me with their speeches and censures on the platform, I shall be happy to give them many opportunities of doing so. (Loud laughter.) I promise to meet them again this time next year, and I do not despaii then of seine of them proposing a vote expressing their renewed confidence in me, thanking me for not taking them at their word, and hoping that I may represent them for many years. (" Oh, oh," laugh ter, and cheers.) That hope I do most cordially entertain. I thank you for your past kindness ; I thank you for your present indulgence, and I (Laughter confidence. thanking you for your increasing 0 -i nall have many future opportunities of A vote of thanit...° was a u : T ;hter and cheers.) man, and the meeting sepa l ._ then passed to the chair . - - [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment am. 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BETTING AT MANCHESTER'-YEITERDAY, DXYLBY, • 13 to 2 agst Durkdee (taken) 14 to 1 agst Big Ben (taken) 20 to 1 agst Diophantus (taken) 20 to 1 agst Kettledrum offered) 25 to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dictator (taken) 33 to 1 agst Folkestone (taken) 50 to 1 agst Rouge Dragon (taken) Nothing done on Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. ENTRIES FOR THE SPRING HANDICAPS. 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NOMINATIONS FOR THE ' GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES.—Bridegroom, Millionaire, Zodiac, Starke, Sa tellite, Umpire, Overton, Conscript, Mouravieff, Juno, Sycophant, Wombat, Vancouver, Parmesan, Guilder, Cape Flyaway, Merrimac, Joskin, Robinson Crusoe, Oxford, Croagh Patrick, Chance Shot, Danao, Thormanby,Buss ley. Sweet Hawthorn, Northern Light, Rapture, Borderer, Black Prince, Gouvieux, Pretendant, Balham, La Reux The Rock, Pierrefonds, Chere Arnie, The Brewer, Physi cian, Bumble Bee, Bandsman, Petra, Lady Trespass, Rosa mond, Jingling Johnny, Paul Clifford, Wild Dayrell, Sister to St. Albans, The Prophet, Simla, Wallace, Somer sault, Ben Webster, Blue Jacket, Styria, William the Conqueror, Pitman, Highflyer, Crater, Moorhen, Rouge Dragon, Black Sultan, Philip the Falconer, Mountain Nut Bally Edmond, Meyerbeer, South Australian, Syringe, Belleisle, Clydesdale, Dreadnought, Yellow Rose, Timan dra, Betts, Canary, The Rap, Lucy, Yorkminster, Atropia, Cross-stitch, Nicholas, Caine, Artless} Pancake, Ivanhoff, Simple Simon, King of Kent, High Treason, Viscount Brignall, Rattlebone, Voltella, Benham Lass, Lovett, Man trap, Pixie, Interest, Pounce, Jacintha, Horror, Newcastle, Pagoda, Rupee, Elcho, Precise, Bevis, Rollcall, Kildonan. NOMINATIONS FOR THE GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.—Cape Flyaway, colt by Wild Dayrell—lntimida tion, Barb Pigeon, Doefoot, Scent, Industrious, Master Begot, Highflyer, Promotion, Tho Duchess, Donner und Blitz, Pounce, Benbow, Jacintha, Stockade, Mouravieff, Butterfly, Rupee, Newcastle, Promised Land, Ipswich, Croagh Patrick, Launcelot Gobbo, Rose, Henham Lass, Red Pole, Timandra, Moorhen, Ben Webster, Mistake, Lovett, Horror, Lawyer, Pagoda, Dreadnought, Greta, Yellow Rose, Miss Stewart, Parmesan, Maid of Chester field, Oxford, Astropia, Robinson Crusoe, Sherbome, Wild man, Lady Trespass, Dotterel', Weatherproof, Pedlar, Little Dick, Tonio, Physician, Cambondo, Jeddah, Po darces, Oliver, Sporting Life, Meyerbeer, Athos, Billy Dwindles, Kildonan, Ballyedmond, Emblem, The Monk, Simla, Eskdale, Avalanche, Siberia, by Autocrat—Elcot's dam, Desmond, Moorcock, Black Sultan, Philip the Fal coner, Syringe, Belleisle, The Rap, Fisherman, Nativity, Simple Simon, Ambush, Rover, Feodorowna, King of Kent, Man-at-Arms, Rattlebone, Voltella, Bevis, Gridiron, Dulcibella, Schism, Overton, Conscript, Black Diamond, Millionaire, Bridegroom, Forager, Rapture, Guilder, Mer rimac, Joskin, Sycophant, 'Wombat, Vancover, Danae, Bor derer, Benham, The Rock, Predictor, King of Diamonds, filly by King Torn—Molly, Bumble Bes, Sister to St. Alban's, Plumper, Paul Clifford, Wallace, Somersault, The Brewer, Bandsman, Pitman, Cheesecake, Petra, Springwell, El Hakim, and Rajah Brook. NOMINATIONS FOR THE LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.— Eheu, Gorsehill, Clovornook, Bayonet, Wombat, Ataman, Vulture, Aneurin, Little Gerard, Oliver, Sweetbrier, Esk dale, Forager, Golden Pippen, Sheffield, Medusa, Lustre, Jenny Longlegs, Jack Steadfast, Confidence, R,ataplan colt, Amsterdam, Estella, Libellous, Miss Emma, Misty Morn, Mermaid, Woman in Red, Conundrum, Master Bagot, Gwellyan, Audrey, Parapet, Spicebox, Beethoven, Bab at the Bowater, Isthmian, Canta, Annan, Walkington, Green wich Fair, North Lincolnshire, Foretop, Gaylad, Croagh Patrick, Benbow, Donner and Blitz, Corona, Steelpin, Maid of Chesterfield, Eidolon, and Edmund Kean. NOMINATIONS FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. —Mouravieff, Parmesan, Guilder, Vanquisher, Virgilius, Dover, Cape Flyaway, Pax, f by Voltigeur—Makeless, Oxford, Comforter, Vancouver, Fisherman, Black Prince, Lysiscote, Light, The Rock, La Reux, Merrimac, Physi cian, The Brewer, Crater, Sawcutter, Ben Webster, Moun tain Nut, Syringe, Belleisle, Betts, The Wizard, The Rover, Feodorowna, Artless, Atropia, Weatherwitch, Vis count Brignall, Ericthonius, Horror, Interest, General Hess, Pitman, Pounce, Jacintha, Rupee, Pagoda, New castle, Bevis, Dulcibella, Schism;;Cassio, Lifeboat, Donner und Blitz. NOMINATION FOR TEE SOMERSETSHITLE STAKES.— Somersault, Eskdale, Highflyer, Medusa, Black Sultan, Mountain Nut, South Australian, Syringe, Belleisle, Lady Chesterfield, Nativity, The Little Drummer, Birmingham, Tirdandria, Atropia, Simple Simon, Artless, East Sheen, Feodorowna, Monastery, Canary, Lovett, Weatherwitch, Master Begot, Man- at-Arms, Pitman, Prince Imperial, Rattlebone, Voltella, Henham Lass, Jacintha, Rupee, Elcho, Gridiron, Schism, Dulci belle, Bevis, Priestess c, Cashio, My Uncle, Overton, Sharp shooter, Black Diamond, Mouravieff, Gauntlet, Fitz-Avon, Russley, colt by Surplice, out of Concertina, Vinegar Hill, M. Philippe, Robinson Crusoe, Cape Flyaway, colt by West Australian, out of Lady Evelyn, Parmesan, Guilder, Avalanche, Ringbone, Oliver, Almeric, Weather proof, Tonio, Aneurin, Conscript, Promotion, Bivouac, Berdener, Predictor, Bumble Bee, Nessus, Plumper, b c by Wild Da3'rell, out of Intimidation, Sister to St. Albans, Lisbon, CharLers 11., Newcastle, Ipswich, Bandsman, Pan, Pagoda, Tame Thor, Farmer from Kerry, Lady Trespass, Zaretan, Yellow Rose, Scent, Maid of Chesterfield, Bally Edmond, Optimist, Lawyer, Little Dick, Sporting Life, Mimic, Moorcock, Siberia, The Rock, Heiress, Physician, The Brewer. NOMINATIONS FOR THE LIVERPOOL STEEPLE •CHASE. —Anatis, Bannockburn, Bantam, Bridegroom, Brother to Lady's Maid, Brunette, Bucephalus, Chester, Cloughbally, Cockatoo, Conducter, Confederate, Cosmopolite, Diamant, Doctor Leete, Doubtful, Dunboyne, Evelyn, Fairy Saint, Franc Picard, Ghika, Goldsmith, Half-Caste, Harry, 'Oman, Irish Emigrant, Jealousy, Jean du Quesne, Kibworth Lass, Kilcock, Killigrew, -ed. Longrange, Lord Oswald, marmion, Master Bagot, -• New Broom, "harm- Fruxu._ Pirate, The tiddler, The Tattler, The Tumbler, The ' Unknown, Thomastown, Tom Moody, Tom Sayers, Wee Nell, Westminster, Willoughby, Xanthus, Yellow Gal. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. ILLINOIS CENTRAL. It appears that the earnings on this company's railway for the second week in December amounted to 54,478 dols, against 51,248 dols in the correspond ing week of 1859, showing an increase of 3,230 dols. The collections in the land-office from the Ist to the 18th of December amounted to 35,000 dols, and the sales of land to 65,000 dols, which, under an unfavourable state of business transactions, was con sidered satisfactory. Miles Opened. 1800. 125 219 81 401 122 31 67i 499 142 29t 31 183/ 283 329 470 i 291 721 306 171 k 118 123 828 26i 161 879 922 1,032 1859. 125 2191 401 122 17i 31 671 4UI 142 29l 22 183} 283 2491 460 25} 3051 24 26t 461 943 i 339 2231 192 1731 6141 177 722 302 1711 118 119 Receipts. 431 1,200 564 2,611 923 7,411 17,102 259 236 777 1087 181 1,253 199 1,476 1,2 , 9 1,209 1,372 587 1,074 1,089 25,529 5,756 3,276 915 7,907 31,361 1,385 6,234 26,336 200 35,147 141 387 65,532• 1,487 15,016 15,774 1,119 12,274 1,107 1,312 41,601 2,954 1,328 1,834 3,633 279 1,025 673 26& 161 486 2,619 1,214 7,282 16,157 225 216 245 773 1026 1,111 200 1,30) 1,258 1,447 1,329 667 1,021 24.233 5,529 3,782 5,724 240 1,002 7,471 29,245 1,366 5.573 25,876 .5.!3 37,497 2,151 7,916 324 202 34,190 122 93 108 308 72,543 1,408 14.452 14,607 975 138 1,113 253 1,040 619 3,542 6,786 675 650 390 1,141 11,406 1,831 1,105 37,211 2,689 1,490 1,889 2,916 5,912 535 33,418 2,383 6,076 905 35,323 255 1,037 537 1,825 3,048 1,731 2,508 1,837 975 2,543 16,282 6,585 2,116 6,608 3,870 1,483 834 24,790 .254 1,275 2,427 3,379 47,023 11,556 3,419 2,203 8,355 4,835 10,813 88,508 51,502 1,919 3,413 45,821 10,646 3,212 1,944 7,362 3,554 10,655 80,063 43,842 885 21,875 38,486 686 32,921 463 1,131 16,521 301,52 856 30,456 The traffic receipts on railways in the United Kingdom for the year 1860 amounted on 10,270 miles to £27,576,783, and for the year 1859, 0n.9,880 miles, to £25,576,117, show ing an increase of 390 miles, and of £2,000,666, in the re ceipts, or 7.8 per cent. Of this increase £214,881 was con tributed by the London and North-Western; £209,289 by the Midland ; £199,728 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire; £128,946 by the North-Eastern; £91,738 by the Great Western and Shrewsbury lines; £78,592 by the London and South-Western ; £58,189 by the South-Eastern ; £56,277 by the Great Northern; £53,234 by the London, Brighton, and South Coast ; £52,789 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire; £52,317 by the Great Southern and Western of Ireland; £49,879 by the Caledonian; £47,965 by the West Hartlepool; £37,246 by the Taff Vale ; £36,513 by the West Midland ; £34,990 by the Glas gow and South-Western ; £27,306 by the North Stafford. shire; £27,086 by the South-Western; £20,417 by the Eastern Counties; £18,806 by the Stockton and Darling ton ; £16,863 by the Newcastle and Carlisle ; and £10,849 by the Midland • Great Western of Ireland ; making to • gether £1,553,800, and leaving the remainder, £446,866 as the aggregate increase on all the other lines. The capital expended on those lines amounted to £329,827,200, or £32,500 per mile, against £322,219,100, or £32,603 per mile at the corresponding period of the preced ing year, showing an increase in the expenditure of £7,608,100, while the increase in the traffic receipts was £2,000,666, This must be considered as a very satisfaetory result of the year's operations, having increased the divi dends of several railways for the first half of the year, and will, no doubt, likewise contribute to increase the dividends of the principal railways for the second half of 1860. It is probable that the aggregrate working expenses of the year will amount to about £13,100,000, leaving £14,476,783 for interest and dividend on the capital expended, which will give the whole an average of about £4 Bs. per cent. for the past year, being the highest average return on railway capital since the year 1847. THE M.AILS. WEST CORNWALL. The financial measure of this eompany, in its pro posed application to Parliament in the ensuing session, is intended to enable the directors to create debenture stock in substitution for and in redemp tion of their existing mortgage debt, the company having been originally incorporated with a capital of £500,000, and with borrowing powers to the extent of £165,000. THAMES HAVEN. It is proposed to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for power to abandon this under taking, to wind up the affairs and sell the available property, the funds subscribed having been insuffi cient to effect the carrying out of the scheme under the Act of 1856, by which the company were au thorised to construct docks and basins at Thames Haven, and raise a capital for that purpose of £51,000. TRAFFIC RETURNS. The traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom for the week ending the 29th of December amounted to £483,445, and for the corresponding week of last year to £165,610, showing an increase of £17,835. The gross re ceipts of the eight railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted to £202,142, and for the correspond ing week of 1859 to £202,736, showing a decrease of £594. The decrease on the London and North Western Railway amounted to £6,011; on the London and Blackwall to £11; and on the South Eastern to £l74—total, £6,196. But from this must be deducted £1,296, the increase on the Eastern Counties, £2,116 on the Great Northern, £460 on the Great Western, £1,167 on the London, Brighton, and South Coast, and £563 on the London and South Western, toge ther £5,602; leaving the decrease, as above, £594. The receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted to £281,303, and for the corresponding week of last year to £262,874, showing an increase of £18,429, from which must be deducted the decrease on the metropolitan lines, leaving the total increase £17,835, as compared with the corresponding week of 1859. Railways. 13allyniena and Port Push Belfast and N. Counties Belfast and County Down Birkd., Lane., & Cites. June Myth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cocker mouth & Workington ) Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Cork and Youghal Cornwall Deesiuc Dublin & Belfast Junction Dublin and Drogheda Dub. & Wicklow (in. King, Bt ) Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun East Anglian E:Counties,Nrfk.,&E.Union Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western Great Northern Great North of Scotland rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) Great Western tnverness & Aberdeen June. Irish South-Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foy nes Llanelly London & North-Western . London and Blackwall London & South-Western . Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast. London, Chatham, & Dover Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheiflold, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrinchaml Maryport and Carlisle Midland (incl. N.-Western) Midland Gt. Wes tn. of hind. 31(w:china Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal Newcastle and Carlisle North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) . North Devon N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn)l North London North Staffordshire Oswestry and New ton Rlivraney St. Helen's Canal& RailwaY s S co co t t t t i i s s i l i t North-Eastern Cenal Shrewsbury & Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union South Devon South-Eastern South Wales S. Yorkshire and River Dun Stockton and Darlington T air Vale Ulster Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL West Midland Whitehaven Junction Whitehaven & Furness Jun W'haven, Cleator,&Eg-rmnt FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam ' Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction Buffalo and Lake Huron Demerara (fortnight) Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula Great Luxembourg Great Western of Canada Lyons and Geneva Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant Northern of Canada Northern of France .. Norwegian 21runk.... Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn Paris and Orleans Paris and Strasburg Royal Danish Sambre and Meuse Southern of France South Austrian Welland..... . . West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 1800. 1859, MAILS DUE. Jerusalem, J kg...- King William, Lon gi ,._ Lovett, Medora, Margery paw) Morgan Rattler, M. Philippe, Napoleo,„ Newcastle, Norma, Old Ben Roe, Penarth, Prince .,_ ing, Ralph, Red Eagle, Redwing, Romeo, Sahib, Sepoy, V i e Sir Charles, Sic R o b er t , S uminer hill, Th e B rew er, The u n il' ve d Dane, The Colonel, The Comet, The Curate, The Emperor, Western Coast o= - The Fresb.inan ) The Friar of Apslialt, The Miller, The West Indica and Paclnvi Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. ..' Jan. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds • Jan. 4. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. • • .. Dec. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Dec. —. Cuba and ;lexica Dec. 29 Canada, &e. (via Galway) • • .. .. Dee. Cape of Good Hope, Bce - . %. • • • • .. Feb. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Jan. 18. Do (via Marseilles) Jan. 12 Gibraltar (via Southampton) . • .. Jan. 10 India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Jan. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Jan. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 4. Lisbon • Jan 11 Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Jan. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Jan. 4. and Oporto .. • • • • Jan. 11. - , As, California, Bto. .. Jan. 9. ktriea, Madeira, Teneriffe Jan. 10. - Carthagena, Cuba, &o, Dec, 29, FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. WHITEHALL, JAN. 4. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Hill Bur ton, Esq., to be one of the Managers of the General Prison at Perth, and also to discharge the duties of Secretary to the said Managers. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 4. On Sunday, January 6, and on every day henceforward, on which the Holy Communion is to be celebrated, the mid-day Service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, will begin with the Litany, Morning Prayer having been said at the early Service. _ _ WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 4. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Charles Gabriel Alfred Barnes has been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Cemmission. 6th Dragoon Guards—James Dyson Bourne, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Henry Dailey, who retires. 6th Dragoons—James Stocker Grant Smith, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Baskerville, promoted. 9th Light Dragoons—Cornet Henry John Hall has been permitted to resign his commission. 14th Light Dragoons—Cornet Francis Bleke Eagle to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice George Meyrick Dew, deceased. Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Morton Parker Eden to be Second Captain, vice George Albert Augustin; Walker, who resigns. The tuadermentioned Gentlemen-Cadets to be Lieutenants, viz. :—Cheyaux Morley, George Patrick Alston, James Gore Booth, Robert M‘Grigor Stewart, Henry George Pilleau, Thomes Charles Cooke, John Samuel Foster, Charles Bent, Joshua Morris Saunders, Arthur Godol. phin Yeatman, Frederick William Lee Morier, Harry William Rooke, George Christopher Davie, Henry Beauchamp Richard Harvey, Alexander Murray Brown, William M'Clintock, Pemberton Harrison, and Edmond Bainbridge. Royal Engineers—The undermentioned Lieutenants with temporary rank to be Lieutenants with permanent rank, viz. :—Edmund Stephens, Albany Featherstonehaugh, John Cosmo Macpherson, Frederick Bailey. The date of the undermentioned Lieutenants to 'be 22d June, 1859, and not Ist April, 1859, as previously stated, viz. : —Lieutenants Arthur Balfour Haig, Henry Cautlay, Joseph Henry Satterthwaite, Ernest Marsh Lloyd, Thomas Howard. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants with temporary rank, viz. : Arthur Hill, Francis William Nixon, Edward James Castle. Coldstream Guards—Major and Brevet-Colonel William Samuel Newton to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8., pro moted to the rank of Major-General ; Captain and Lieut.- Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Thomas Montague Steele, C. 8., to be Major. without purchase, vice Brevet-Col. Newt on • Lieut. and Captain and Brevet-Major Philip Sambrook Crawley to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Steele; Ensign and Lieut. Frederick Charles Buller to be Lieutenant and Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Crawley •, Ensign Henry Robert E 3 re, from the 73d Foot, be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Buller. let Regiment of Foot—Capt. John Henry Nett , fro m the 11th Foot, to be Captain, vice Adolphus Halkett Vers , turme, who exchanges. 2d Foot—George Cox, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Crawford, promoted. 11th Foot—Captain Adolphus Halkett Versturme, from the Ist Foot to be Captain, vice John He nr y Nott, who exchanges. 13th Foot—The Christian names of Captain Hall are Henry Edward, not Edward Henry, as stated in the " Gazette" of 28th December, 1860. • 15th Foot—Lieutenant Henry P. Shafto Orde to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Richard Clancy, who retires ; Ensign Edward J. Boultbee to be Lieutenant by pur chase, vice Orde. 16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet James Mackenzie Howes, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Henry Bowyer Smith , decease. 18th Foot—Captain Charles Frederick Kelly to be Major, without purchase, vice Anthony William S. Freeman Armstrong, deceased ; Lieut. Walter Blake Burke to be Captain, with , ut purchase, vice Kelly ; Lieut. Fearnley to be aptain, by parches; vice George William Sten poole, promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached Majo rity; Ensign Charles Goring Minnitt h be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Burke; Ensign St. George Alex ander Smith to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fearn- l. 30th ey Foot—Lieutenant Patrick M'Loughlin, from half-pay 50th Foot as Quartermaster, to be Lieutenant, vice Francis John Connell, appointed Adjutant of a Recruit ing District ; Ensi , n Joshua E. C. C. Lindesay to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice M‘Loughlin, who retires. 43d Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Evelyn Arthur Rich, from the Royal Military college, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Charles William Pole Warner, appointed to the 4M Foot. 44th Foot—Lieutenant Augustus Richard Trimmer to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Leake, promoted in the 70th Foot. 47th Foot—Captain Charles Compton Abbott, from half pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice John Thomas Chandler, who retires upon half-pay. 48th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon John James Chappell, M D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice J. V. de Boissicre, M.D., appointed to the Staff. 54th Foot—Ensign Henry Lambard to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Arthur Galbraith, who retires. 60th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Morris Hazen to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Robert Crowe, who retires; En sign Nesbit Willoughby Wallace to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hazen ; and George Carpenter, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wallace. 61st Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Roger son, appointed by purchase on the 21st December, 1860, is Alexander. 67th Foot—Thomas Rennie Stevenson ' Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice John Worthy Chaplin, promoted in the 100th Foot. 71st Foot—Ensign Arthur Edward Morgan to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Blair, who resigns. 87th Foot—Ensign Robert Atkin Hickson to be Lieute• pant, by purchase, vice Holiest, whose promotion, by purchase, oh the 18th December, has been cancelled ; Archibald Neil Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur- chase, -vice Holiest, promoted. 98th Foot—Ensign Richard Townley to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Lance, appointed to the com mand of the Eurasian Regiment in India. 99th Foot—Lieutenant Eustace Wilberforce Jacob to be Captain, by purchase, vice Thomas Hollingsworth Clark son, appointed Adjutant of a Depot Battalion ; Ensign. Charles Bruce Henry Somerset to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Jacob. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign William Villett Rol leston, from the 17th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Burt, who retires. DEPOT BATTALION.—Capt. Thomas Hollingsworth Clark son, from the 99th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Captain Innes Colin Munro, who retires. UNATTACHED.—Major and Brevet-Colonel the Hon. St. George Gerald Foley, C. 8., from Major half-pay Un attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Captain George Wm. Stacpoole, from the 18th Foot, to be Major, by purchase ; Lieutenant Alfred John Ford, from the 35th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieutenant James Fielding Sweeney, from the 12th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Alexander Mackinnon to be Staff •Surgeon:, vice Atkin son, deceased Assistant-Surgeon Jean Valleton de Boissiere, M.D., from the 48th Foot, to be Staff-Assist.- Surgeon, vice Mackinnon. CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. William Ponsford to be Chaplain of the Fourth Class. BREVET. Second Captain William James Stuart, of the Royal En gineers, to be Major in the Army. Captain Jacob Glynn Rogers, Unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, retired upon full-pay, to have the honorary rank of Major. Lieutenant John Thompson ' Paymaster 33d Foot. to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal War rant of 27th January. Paymaster James Marshall, Recruiting District to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 27th January, 1860. Paymaster Henry A. Berry, 28th Foot, to havo the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 27th January, 1860. MEMORANDUM.—Major Godfrey William H. Massy, half-pay Unattached, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission, he being about to become a settler in Nova Scotia. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day of Jan., 1861: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ......X26,111,4101 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 10,202,300 Silver Bullion .... 1,644,110 £26,411,410 £26,411,410 BANKING D . Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Saving - s' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- , ;PARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including _ . . . Dead Weight A nnuity) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver Coin 716,429 L. • counts) 7,275,906 Other Deposits 13,224,494 Seven Day and other Bills 640,417 £38,940,895 M. / X 38,940,895 :AR SHA LL, Chief Cashier. Dated Jan.. 3, 1861. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. William Owers Jennings, horse dealer, Uggeshall Suffolk. Benjamin Chandler, attorney, Sherborne, Dorsetshire. BANKRUPTS. George Brice Sainsbury, coal merchant, Church-lane, Whitechapel, to surrender, Jan. 17 and Feb. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Louis Dethier, confectioner, Carpenter-place, .Berkeley equate, Jan. 18, at eleven, and Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Peter Whitelook, grocer, Leeds, Jan. 18 and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Henry Paine, tailor and draper, Strand, Jan. 18, at one, and Feb. 14, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Grove, licensed victualler, Kingsland road, Middlesex, Jan. 11 and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Wiseman, printer, Luton, Bedfordshire, Jan. 16 and Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Gibbs, licensed victualler, Hackney, Jan. 17, at two, and Feb. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. John Reynolds, grocer, Burelem, Staffordshire, Jan. 17 and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. William Millward, grocer, Dudley, Jan. 21 and Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Joseph Harland, cloth merchant, Leeds, Jan. 24 and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. James Joseph Clerk, leather merchant, Aldersgate-street, Jan. 15, at two, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Thomas Gray, woollen warehouseman, Bread-street, city, Jan, 15, at half-past one, and Feb. 16, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Rogers, hotel-keeper, Brighton, Jan. 14, at clown, and Feb. 11, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Robert George Pike, grocer, Maidstone, Jan. 16, at eleven, and Feb. 18, at one, at th e C ourt of Bankruptcy, SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Thomas Clark, flesher, Ardrossan. James Millar, ironmonger, Edinburgh. William Glasgow, fanner, Bowhouse-bog, Lanarkshire ~~-., FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHAT- IL.AM. AND DOVER RAILWAY. SITTINGBOURNE, JAN. 4. A fatal accident occurred on the London, Chat ham, and Dover Railway this morning, at a short dis tance from this town, whereby one passenger lost his life, and the head guard of the train and several other passengers were more or less injured. The train to which the accident happened was the 9 55 express from Victoria station, which is due at Sit tingbourne at 11 27. The express was, however, five minutes late at starting, and by the time it reached the spot where the accident occurred was half an hour behind its time. After leaving the Rainham station there is a sharp curve in the line just before arriving at the junction of the Sheerness and Sittingbourne line with the London, Chatham, and Dover, and it was at this point that the acci dent took place. The train was composed of a guard's break van, two third, two first, and two second class carriages, another guard's van being the last. After the train had arrived within about a mile of this station the tire of one of the wheels of the first guard's van, next the engine, flew off; this immediately threw the break-van off the line, dragging with it a third-class, and also a first class carriage following. The third-class carriage was the one which received the greatest injury, but fortunately it had only three occupants, one of whom, a warrant-officer naaaedPatterson, who was on his way to Sheerness, received the greatest in juries, his body being mangled in a truly frightful manner. On the instant of the carriage in which the deceased was a passenger being thrown off the line the unfortunate man was dragged for about 100 yards beneath the carriage, whereby both his legs were cut off and his body otherwise frightfully mutilated. Two of the carriages were turned completely over on the space between the up and down lines of metals, and the body of the unfortunate passenger was so firmly wedged beneath the third-class carriage that it was fully an hour before the wreck of the carriage could be cleared and the sufferer extricated. When re leased he was still alive and sensible, but suffering the most excruciating agonies. The unfortunate man was immediately removed to the Railway Hotel, adjoining the station, where he was promptly attended by several of the surgeons of the town, including Dr. Morris, Mr. Ray, and Mr. Sutton, but he expired about three hours after the occurrence. The body of the deceased remains at the Railway Hotel to await a coroner's inquest ; but, although an intimation of the occurrence has been forwarded to his friends at Woolwich, the body, up to a into hour this evening, had not been identified by any of the relatives of the deceased. The remaining passengers in the train appear to have met with remarkable escapes. Richardson, the guard in the first van, although very much bruised and shaken, is not dangerously injured, and the two other passengers, both women, who were in the same carriage as the deceased, escaped with only a few bruises. A gentleman who occupied a seat in the first-class carriage thrown off the line had likewise a miraculous escape, nearly the entire front of the compartment in which he was sitting being smashed to splinters. Most of the passen gers who were only slightly injured were enabled to resume their journey during the day. Immediately after the accident Mr. Barnard, the station-master at Sittingbourne, had a number of men employed clearing the down line, and during 'the evening the whole was clear, and the ordinary traffic resumed. This is the first fatal accident which has occurred on the London, Chatham, and Dover line since its opening. COUNTRY MAIMETS. LIVERPOOL-JAN. 4. There was a good attendance of town and country buyers at this morning's market, and we had a quiet demand for wheat and flour, which may be quoted at an advance of ld to 2d per 1001bs and 6d per barrel and sack. Indian corn attracted a moderate demand, at 3d per qr decline. Oats and barley unaltered in price, and firm. Beans and oatmeal at rather more money. Peas were heavy. EXETER—JAN. 4. A fair business was done in the corn market to-day, at about late prices : Win white .. 7s Od to Ss 3cl I Barley.. 4s 6d to 6s Od Ditto red Os Od to Os Od Oats .. 3s Oa to 3s 6d New white wheat, 7e 9d to 8s ; red, 68 6d to 7s. Flour, fine, 48s to —s ; seconds, 46s to —s per sack. CATTLE. There was a small supply of cattle driven in, and prices slightly advanced. Fat beef,p score, Ils to 11s6d I Ewes, per lb .... 6d to 6id Pork carcases,do lOs to 10s6d 1 Wethers, d 0...... 6d to 7d Sheep, per lb. Od to —d Fat calves, d0....61d to Oct Rough fat, 4d per lb. WAKEFIELD-JAN. 4. The supplies of wheat were fair, but trade was still of a retail character. Good old and fine dry new met a tolerable demand at the late advance on Friday's rates. Fine par cels of barley in fair request, at high prices. Beane oats, and shelling unchanged. COAL MARE (Writes of Coal per Ton at s. d. I :BT-JAN. 4. the close of the market B. d. Davison's West Hart ley .17 6 Lambert's West Hart ley 17 0 West Hartley 17 6 Walls End. Bud dle' sWest Hartley 17 3Wharneliffe 23 6 Auckland Park.. ....17 9 Thorpe Ships at market, 11 ; sold, 9. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....17 6 Hastings Hartley ....17 6 " A strange affair," says a letter from Turin, "has occurred in this city. The Municipal Council re solved to present to King Victor Emmanuel, on his return, a gold circlet, representing oak and laurel leaves. But there were only six days to prepare one, and Italian work men were not active enougil to make it in se short a time. A Jew presented himself, and. offered, for 6,000 fr., a mag nificent crown which he had by him. His offer was ac cepted and the money paid ; but lot the discovery was afterwards made that the circlet in question had been bought at a sale of the effects of Fanny Easier, the cele brated danseuse, and, as proved by an inscription inside, that it was given to her after a performance at London, by an Englishman who was a fanatical admirer of her danc ing I Judge of the effect this created ! Nothing else is talked of in the city. [ADVERTISEMENT.)—Among the numerous extraor dinary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's deli cious Health Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, the following deserve notice :—Cure No. 54,318—Mr. James Chapman, of Clunbury, Shropshire, Dec. 22, 1856, of many years sufferings of chronic rheumatism, and complication of nervous diseases, Cure No. 3,906—Mr. J. Porter, of Athol-street, Perth, May 2, 1848, of thirteen years cough, indigestion, and general debility. 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' King Wilhata-street, City ; at 127, High Holborn: and all grocers• I It T H S. HANBURY.—On the 4th inst., at 10, Upper Grosvenor street, the wife of Robert Ha bury, Esq., M.P., of a son. _ , SAVILLE.—On the Ist inst., at Foramire Rectory, near Royston, the Hon. Mrs. rthur Saville, of a daughter. THTNNE.—On the Ist inst., at Penstowe, near Stratton, Cornwall, the wife of the Rev. Arthur C. Thynne, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. MATCHAM—LONG.---On the 3d inst., at Downton, Wilts, William Eyre, only son of George Matcham, Esq., of Newhouse, Wilts, to Mary Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Henry L. Long, E sq ., o f Hampton Lodge, near Farn ham, and th e L a d y C ather i ne L o ng. MURRAY—FENT ON .—O n th e 3d inst., at St. Paul's, Wil ton-place, David M. Murray, Esq.) Major 64th R eg t., eldest son of the Rev. D. R. Murray, rector of Bramp ton Brian, H ere f or d s hire, to Ida, youngest daughter of the late Lewis Fenton, Esq.) of Underbank, Y or k s hi re , M.P. for Huddersfield. DEATHS. BRUCE.—On the 3d inst., at 19, Pentonville-road, James BRISBANE. —On sl3 Bruce, AN E Eq . : g th ed e 3 7 d 2. inst., at Brighton, Miss Brisbane, youngest daughter of the late Admiral Brisbane. Co L ts.—On the 3d inst., at Tivert on , D evon , G eo . C o l es , i ag F.l d . _ B3 Pn the 4th inst., a t W oo d s l e y H ouse , L ee d s , Sir Peter Fairbairn, Knt., aged 61. MrruuEN.—At Brighton, Ch ar l es L ucas P au l, yo unges t son of Lord and Lady Methu en , age d 7 years. Esq.,l3A MALLA.LUE. — On the 4th inst., at 31, Welbeck• street, Ca vendish•squere, suddenly, George Mallalue, Esq., aged 72. LONDON : Printed and Published by XI CIRDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Bliddleeez Saturday; January 5, 1561, ROYAL TION.— to enable the 1 103 Lifeboat E Bankers-311 and Co. 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