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MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC and EADIIN TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock.—Egyptian Hall. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAUR ENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James e.—The above c!cgan Rooms are now open every evening for the whiter semen, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. rrincipal Cornet-a_piston, iloulcourt. The Pro,,rieor begs i. , fcrm the public t' - at lashiontble pace of resort hn been entirely re , lecorared during the recess. Doors open at hall-oast eight, commence at nine. Adults -1,14n One Shilling. D R. gAii(N'Seet ANATOMICAL AWBE'UIt, v 4, Covent, Leicester-suare. (for entlemen niy) from 10 till ry-st 10, r containing upw q Irtis of one —Open tholfsan G d end preparations, illu , o7atinz every part of the human frame in t,ealth and diseaße, the rime of men, .fie. T,peturea delivered at 12 2,4, and half-past 7by Dr. G SEX•rom, F.R.O.S ; and a new an,' highly-Interesting .cries or T,ectnres ii now in course or deliver, by Dr. KAHN, at a quarter pia 8 p.m. precisely. Admission, One Shilling. Adr E T P 0 LITAN COU NTIES and GENFIAL LIFE ASSUR &NCR SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterlco-place, London. Ca..ital, 100 , 000 1. TRUST EZ3 Rt. Rn Spenc.r 11. 'Walpole, 4, 1. P Richard ' , sooner, Esq., MP. I henry Peter Full.r, Es q E. Vansittart Neale, FN. Life Assurance business transacted in 41 its bra ches. N.B. The bonus declared the last diThion of profits averaged a 3 Per cent on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. TNEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURANCE HE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL ASSURANCE and INYESTMEN T ASScICIA rION invite at tention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted by this Association. viz.. that of allowing Interest on all Premiums paid, instead of the remote and uncertain system of Bonuses usually adopted. EY this plan the PolicyhAder will secure to himself a constantly inoreasing annual income during lire, as well as the payment of the sum assured to his representatives at his death. Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system of Assurance may be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pall-man East, or for- Wanied free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON, Established A.D., 1844. P arties dnirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine tha Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of interest neap be obtained with perfect security. The interest is payable in January and July, at the Head Office in London, or at the various branches in the country. PE fER Pro spectuses and Forms fo MORRNON, Managing Director. r Opening Accounts sent free. T o LOVERS of FlSH.—ri ifth Season.— Genuine YARMOUTTI BLOA.TERS These hiahly• esteemed delicacies forwarded to all parts. on receipt of the amount as ander, in penny postage stamps, or Post-office order :- 100 prime 100 especially selected.... Ss. 41. Package Included, 5 0 ditto C.',...: 4s. ed. Send fall and plain direCtiong,•count7, and nearest station. Ad dress, THOMAS LETTES, Jun., Fish Curer, Ore It Yarmouth. (M. 20,105.) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the 111,rarieF, in 3 vols., EDGAR B , ARDON By W. ANIGH lON, M.A. "An interesting story, wri ten with spirit and animation. The hero's aiiv nturee In India are varied and exciting."—Sun. Hurst and Elaokett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. LIVING CELEBRITIES : a Series (d P EIOTOGRA Pll EC FORTRAITS, by MAIILL and POLIBLANE f'he November number contains; SA NIUE% WARREN, Esq., Q.C., M.P., with Memoir. Maull and Polyblank, 55, Graceeharch-street ; and all book and printsellers. The Second Edition, just pablished, price 53., by post free, ss. 6d., 4TRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. THE PATHOLOGY AND RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRICTURE of the URETER 1, in all its Varieties and Compli cations, with Observations on the Use and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment of ;Diseases of the Urethra. The whole Illustrated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of Twenty Years' extensite end successful Practice. By F.D. COURTENAY, M.R C.S.E. " ' " We know of no man to whose care we would sooner intrust the treatment of a severe stricture."—Medical circular. London: E. BailliCze, 219, Regent-street. IMPORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A HORSE, COW, SHEEP, OR PIG. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATThE. THE CHEAPEST AND REST EVER YET INTRODUCED ! Sold in Cases containing 448 Packages—each Package One Feed, at the cost of I hree Half-pence each, equal to 565. per case. Carriage Mu to any railway station. None are genuine without my signature— JOSEPH THORLEY, the Inventor, 115, High-street, Post.office Orders must be made payable as stbove., • PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—Extension of Time for Compulsory Purchase. NOTICE IS HERE RY GIVEN. That application is in tended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an Act to extend the time granted by " The Pimlico Improve- Inent Act, 1853" (public), for the compulsory purchase of lauds, tenements, and bereditaments, authorised by the said lAct, and also by the Act of the 15th and Pith Victoria, cap. 18(Public).to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of er Maje s t y ' s W orks and Public Buildings, for the purposes of the said Acts, or either of them. , D ated this s even th d a y o f N ovem b er, one t h ousand eight 'Mildred and fifty-six. By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works via 'Public Buildings. JOHN GARDINER, Soliqitor, Board of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster. prEtiO OFFICES EFT ENSION NOTICE IS EIEREBY GIVEN, That ap Plication is intended to be Made to Parliament, in the next 1e88 )°o, for an act t o empower the Commissioners o f h er M a - J e sLY's Works and Public Buildings to pnll down and remove eel tain houses and tenements, situate in Upper Crown-street, Crown -court, Lower Crown-street, Charles-street, Duke Street, 'Upper Charles-street, King-street, Whitehall, and Par liament -street, in the parish of Saint Margaret, Westmins ter, in the county of Middlesex ; and to appropriate the sites of the said houses 'and tenements, and a small portion of Saint James's-park, and all the ground described in the plan hereinafter referred to, whether now used as streets, ways, yards, pleasure grounds, vacant ground, or otherwise, as a Bite or sites for the erection thereon of offices for the public Service. AISO to empower the said Commissioners to stop up any streets, ways, paths, or passages which n,w lead into, or pass upon, through, or over the site hereinbefore de *ribed, or any part thereof; and in such act powers will be a ootained for the compulsory purchase of all such lands, tene- Items, or hereditaments as may be necessary for carrying the P u rposes aforesaid into effe c t, an d t o vary or extinguish all ghts and privileges in any manner connected with the lauds, lete ments, or h ere dit amen t s proposed to be taken for the 1'1111)08es afciresaid. andnd Notice i s h ere b y further Given, that a duplicate plan section, describing the situation of the houses and tene loents proposed to be pulled down and removed, with a book of reference thereto, containing the names of the owners,. or tillAited owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occuiiiers of ,„ e said houses and tenements, and also a copy of this notice, 70tAllblishect in the London Gazette, will, on or before the ti h day of November instant, be deposited for public inspec on 'with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, at his office at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in the said county of iiddlesex ; and with the Clerk of the Peace for the and liberty of Westminster, at his offico, at the Sessions 30th e, Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that on or before the said l oo k a -ay of November instant, a copy of the said plan and _ of reference, and also a copy of this notice as published in the London Gazette, Clerk o fwill be deposited with the Parish 1 ,, the said parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, at Place of abode. Dated this seventh day of November one thousand eight h undred an d fifty-six. , By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor, Board'of Works, .Lc. Whitehall-place, Westminster. DROSPECTUS of the NEXT MINA -I_ -.. TION for ADMISSION to the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY at Woolwich. N.B. No more direct appointments will be made to Provi sional Commissions in the Royal Artillery. An Examination for the admission of Cadets to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich will be held in London in the Month of June, 1857. Provided a sufficient number are found competent, thirty a dmissions will be made to that Institution ; candidates must be have between the ages 21 of 17 and 20 years. Tho se, h owever, who n exceeded years of age on the lat not be consid ere d di squalified. The successful Jan : n ex t , will candidates will r emain under instruction until they are sufficiently advanced 121 scientific knowledge to pass a satisfactory examination, a •nd they will then receive commissions in the Royal Aleil loll or Royal Engineers. • They will be required to pay a sum of 221. 108, on admission, to cover the expense of uniform, hb kl tigc., and a contribution of 621. 10s. for each half-year Of the time during which they remain at the Academy. The ilalf-Yearly contributions, however, for sous and orphans of baval and military officers, will be regulated at the following rates, as heretofore : Per Sons of admirals and generals having regiments... 240 Sons of generals without regiments goes of captains and commanders of the navy and of Colonel and regimental field officer of the army Sons of all officers of the Navy and. Army-under the above ranks .................... ... .. .. .... 20 Sons of offi cers • o f the Arm ad Nav wo have died in the serv i ce, and whose familiesy are proved ... to be left in peccuiary distr,ss fie The sons of general officers paid only •on their commissions field officers will pay the same contribution as the sons of acid officers. • 8 The sons of officers on full and half-pay will pay alike ieeei.oll3 of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, ;buro ve6 the difference, will only be admitted on the terms Prscribed for the sons of private gentlemen, viz 621. 10 ~ s. for each balf-year. The sons of officers in the civil departments of the Army are admissible to the Academy upon the same terms as those Prescribed for the sons of Naval and military officers. _. The admissions will be determined by the result of a compe titive examination, the subjects of which' will be as follows • Pure and Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynamics, • _ and Hydrostatics. ................. ............... . ... 3,500 Finglish Language, Literature, Composition, . History,... and Geography ..... Language, Literatm:e, ..... .......... . ...................... .. 1,250 and History of Ancient Home, and of Ancient Greece .................. 1,751 Ditto ditto ditto of France 1,000 ditto of Germany 750 Ditto ditto (The examination in French and German will be both written and viva voce). E xperimental Seiences, i.e., Chemistry, Heat, Electri city, including Magnetism ................ 1 000 DoNatural Sciences, Mineralogy, and Ge010gy.;,: ' :,........ '75 0 nal and Political Sciences ................................. 1 000 " J raWing, i.e., Elementary Geometrical D rawing, i i , ' eluding the use of Drawing Instruments, and either lfachinery, Architectural, Engineering, or Lu t d. 'Lea._ Pe Drawing ................................................ 1,000 e a 0 candidate will be allowed to be examined In more than 11:11'ye !subjects, of which one must be Mathematics, and no one 0 does not obtain at least one-fifth of the allotted number o f rearks in this subject will be eligible for an ppointinent. lit rorn the other subjects of examination each candidate may select those in which he desires to be examined ; but no one Will be allowed to count the marks gained in any subject, unless those m ar k s shall at least amount to one-sixth of the total number of marks allotted to that subject. A cllO can didate will b e a d m it te d i n t o th e R oya l Mili tary Teasatclerny unless he obtain an• aggregate of 3,000 marks at a,4nY candidate who shall not select French *and drawing Itt-7, ( "Lig the subjects for his examination, will be required to "TY the examiners that he has such knowledge, at least of e elements of these two subjects, as shall afford reasonable ePectation that he will perfect himself in both during his residence at the Academy. .a'rlie fo llowing -papers will be required to be transmitted by .",_,',, gentleman to the War Department, before the Ist June, ""a his a lication to be noted as a candidate, unless he ellhaat!l n otify p t p hat he has been a candidate at a previous exami er, I°ll . in which case the statement of subjects only need ac l'Pany the application :- A f ault ix extract ,frsun the register of his baptism, or in de "t of that -' 6 tificate 'verified by affidavit. ' 9 . , ~aer e .„'' 8, certificate of good moral character, signed by aor of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or !IL:c7" of the 'school or college at which he has received his ilation for at least two years, or such other proof of good tarteal character as will be sntisfactory.to the Secretary of 44ditit_staotoment of the subjects of examination in which (in All candidL. at hematics) he may desire to be examined. ~,;ee ates will be required to present themselves at the t" of exanaination, hereafter to 'be determined, in'order-to Itladel..%Prlne,t..ed military surgeons, that it may Le ascertained - nee fron t aterfers with th i ' 4,2 3 7 bodily defects or ailments calculated to Notice Iviil be ') Performanee of military duties. of th e place ana gi,Tea a month previously, in the public papers, days appointed for holding the examination. , War Department H. R. DREWRY. 1 1 i TI-71 . 1 1411 No. 14 1856. PRESERVATIO,N of LIFE from SHIP WRECK.—The Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTI9N would earnestly call the attention of the public to the ereat and extraordinary exertions which the Society has recently made, and is ,now making; to provide efileent Life- Boats far Rye, Dungeness, Hornsea, Appledore, Wicklow, Ark low, Westport, Dundruin Bay. .Drogheda, Kilmore, Rost]ana, Youghal, ant Ballycotton. To supply these .Life-boats, to gether with transporting carrite.es and boat-houses for some of them, will involve an expenditure of nearly - t7,1100r: During the present year the Qoaue.ittae ..6.,granted upwards of 400 t. for Itterttorions eltertlonif in saving , life front Wrecks. The Committee therefore earnestly APPEAL to the public for pecuniary assistance, to enable them, with unabated 'rigour, to con tinue their hitherto successful exertions in the cause of humanity. THOMAS AAIUN G, Chairman: THoMA CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following additional contributions Admiral Sir J. Rowley, Bart.. W. Hine. Esq. .. ........ • 20 0 0 Charles Kilburn, Esq.' a• • .... • • ........ 5 0 0 The Rev. E. J. March a .... •••• • .. 1 1 0 Miss Edwards . Messrs. J. Robinson and 50n5.........,., 10 10 0 Donations and Subscriptfbns will be thankfully received by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street, by all the London bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, at the office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adeiphi. COCKS'S CELEBRATED READ ING SAUCE, whioh Is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game, Steaks, Soups, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene ral use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in Ash and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manufacturers. B LAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Pr'ce Is. 13¢d. and 2s. 9d. per boa. This preparation is one of the benefits which the science of modem chemistry has conferred upon mankind ; for during the first twenty years of the present century to speak of a cure for the Gout was con -Idered a romance ; but now the efficacy and safety of this medicine s so fully demonstrated by unsolicited testimonials from persons in every rank of life that public opinion proclaims this as one of the most important discoveries of the present age. • Further proof of the great efficacy of BLAIR'S GoiTT and RHEU MATIC PILLS, forwarded by Mr. Reinhardt, Chemist, Hull;— Sir, Enclosed is a testimonial from a customer of mine, who is well known about here ; he speaks in the highest terms of Elair's Gout and Rhet.matic Pills, and would be glad to give information to anybody. "To Mr. Reinhardt, 2§ Market-place, Hull. "December4th, 185. "Dear gir,—l have been afflicted with rheumatism for 12 years, during which time . have tried almost everything, both internally and externally, but could not obta'n any'permanent relief. A short time ago I purchased a 2s. 9d box of Blaii's Pills of ru, and before I had taken the whole of theml Was more free from p a i n than I had teen for the last dozen years. You w i ll please let me h ave another box, as I men to keep them by me i n case I should again require hem, and oblige, • "Dear Sir, yours obediently, " JEREMIAH GAMESS." sold by Pront and Ilarsant, 229, Strand, London, and all Yen. dors of afedicine. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. atent Office -eal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmaele Pbarmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIE;E MAR No. I, 2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, ievold of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. old in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpean, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy fQr RE LAXATION, szPER MATORRIREA, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residencetjn hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual •trengtb and ykour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now in the enjeymen t of health and the Functions of Manhood ; and whatever may be the cause for D ISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR RIAGE, they are effectually subdued by this IVonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAR No. 11., ftectuany, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely tradi cates all traces of Ponorrhtea, both in its mild and aggravated orals, Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and thoso disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an - antidote for, to the , Wit of tho health of a vast portion of the population. TBIE , ENIAR No. 111., the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp oms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all utaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup ions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel] it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorder s w hi c h un f ortunately 'he English Physician treats with Mercury, lathe inevitable destruc tion of the patient's constitution, and which all the earsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price I Is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves 1 is., and in Si. ans, whereby there is a saving of 11. 12s. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and Gordon, 140, Leadenhall-street ; Pront, 229, Strand; Hannay and Co.; 63, Oxford•street ; Sanger, 150, Osford••strect. HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular Medical work, price Is., post free, beatftifully Illustrated with 100 engravings, :and containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by impedimenta from entering into the married state, also 'showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhoea, and syphilis, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatoza, by the author's newly-constructed microscope, with powerful lenses—Piper and Co., 23, Paternoster row: and from all agents for the sale of "Trlesemar." IRELAND, DUBLIN, TUESDAY. THE TIPPERARY BANK=IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. At the sittings of the Court of Chancery this morning the Lord Chancellor gave judgment in the important case of O'Flaherty v. 111‘Dowell. The petition was for the purpose of removing the affairs of the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank from under the Winding-up Act, and placing them under the old act of the 33d George 11., on the ground that the forme r act was intended solely for the settlement of a joint-stock concern as between the shareholders, and did not give relief or security to the creditors. His lordship the Chancellor dismissed the petition, without costs. He decided that the 33d George 11. did not apply. , The proper course was to pro ceed through the official manager. THE 111171tIfEE OF MR. LITTLE. ,To j4dge from the confidential reports whispered among persons who may be presumed to be well informed on the subject, there is every reason to believe that the police know perfectly well the party or parties by whom the murder of Mr. Little was committed, but nu arrest has, nevertheless, been yet made. The police have acted all along with the utmost caution in the matter, and hesitate to compromise themselves or any individual until the chain of evidence has been made as complete as possible. The Attorney-General joined the Crown Solicitor in the investigation yesterday after noon, and remained for several hours at the scene of the murder in the Broadstone Terminus Build ings. It is said that private information was laid before those conducting the inquiry yesterday evening, by a person who stated th a t on th e even ing of the murder he saw a man in a fustian jacket cross the boundary wall of the railway, and ap proach the canal, into which he dropped some heavy object, which he presumes was the money, which he had ample time to remove subsequently, before the nature of the crime committed became publicly kn,,wn. If this statement be true, and that the man seen under these circumstances was the assassin, the police still think that the fustian jacket was only assumed as a disguise. THE FRIEND 01' THE CLERGY CORPORATION.—An election of pensioners of the Friend of the Clergy Cor poration was held yesterday at the London Tav ern ; t h e Rev. Joseph B rown , M.A., the Rector of Christchurch, chair. After some Blacktriars-r oa d, occ upying the__ re marks fr om a su b scri b er as t o the mode of conducting the election, the rev, chairman said, that although the fund s were low, it was most encouraging, and . showed the f ee li ng of the public towards the corp oration, when it was found that they had no less than 250 new sub scribers. They had, however, from the cramped state of the funds, been unable to afford that assistance to o the institution would soon recover cler gymen in di stress which they requ i re d, b u t h e s till confi dently hoped from the s h ocks which it bad unfortunately received, and year after year increase the sphere of its usefulness. At the clos e o f the poll, the Rev. J. Brown announced the 135), the pr oceedings closed with names of th e f our successful candidates (from a list of the chair. BITUMENS OP THE ELBE. A treatie on the question of the Stade dues, whi c h has just been published at Ham burg, gives us the follovving computation of the aggre" and Lower Elbe, by the several gate amounts levied upon the colnmeree of the Upper vernmen ts throug h whose territory th a t r i ser flows, from 1841 to 18 50 in cltisive :—Austria l ev i ed 328,634 marks banco upon that portion of the s t ream which is within the Aus trian empire ; Saxony took 4 85,890 marks bane() ; Prussia got 1,873,722 marks tanco ; Anhalt got 535, 038 marks banco ;11anover levied, including the Stade dues, no less than 10,205,082 marks balm ; Mecklenburg riceived 4,252,572 -marks banco on account of the abolition of the toll through its territory ; and Lauen• burg received 1,921,026 marks banco on the 'same 8 0 - c.)unt ; whilst the E•elinger z o ll, which was what Lu beck and Hamburg had to share between them, amount . ed only to 252,446 marks bum The t ota l amoun t of these imports upon the navigation of the River Elbe comes to the enormous sum of 19,852,410 marks levied in 10 years. V I jo.T I • 3 / 44. ;„? q .(l ' 7 t : „.0 4, 1 1 ; t j v ‘,/, • tqy' L st. I "•-• • , ./M 4 • - • 4 , / 11--- • • n IPI 1 4-° '11 )F 1---- , 11 tkif: • 114)11 , - - 7 46,),e%c C. e " 61-t z_e NE WS PAP E R k ~( W i . , T 1 . ,?; -,-- • -- -a 4--- ': qi \., i '. WA- ,4 (-4 0 \ ..'' _ -tVtilis .,- 04 , \ ..L. ,..Q , ;.. t ---.. X ri • S SOUT.H AUSTRALIA. At an annual meeting 'of the South Australian Chamber of Commerce at Adelaide, the following report on the subject of postal communication was adopted :- 11E.NEWAL OF POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH ENCILASD BY STEAM. " Few meetings of the committee have passed through. out the year wit hoot th:s all-important subject being to some extent alluded to. On two several occasions spe cial meetings have been held for its consideration. The first of these was occasioned by the publication of a do cument signed by the secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and stating conditions on which tt at company had offered to resume the Australian mail service, when certain resolutions were passed to the same effect as those adopted by the public meeting of the chamber, specially called to consider the question in April, 1855 ; but expressing a willingness to give the • proposed scheme of the Peninsular and Oriental Com pa❑y a fair trial. The second was called on very short notice to consider the now well-known Treasury minute issued in November, 1855, on thesubject of the Austrian mails; a copy of which his Excellency has forwarded to the chamber, requesting an expression of opinion as to whether the branch service proposed between Adelaide and Melbourne was the best which could be adopted, more especially with reference to any scheme which might be proposed for connecting Adelaide with the main line via King George's Sound. After a lengthened discussion of the minute in all its bearings, the follow. ing resolutions were adopted and transmitted to the colonial secretary : " That this Chamber. in acknowledging the great ability and knowledge of the subject displayed in the Treasury minute, dated Nov. 27, 1855, signed James Wilson, is of opinion that any contribution from South Australia should be conditional upon a satisfactory ar rangement being made by the contracting company as to the branch from King George's Sound, or Melbourne, to Adelaide. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED bl3* iwas assisted by a man named Glower, then a ticket-collector in the company's service, who supplied him with Ostend steam-boat and railway return tickets. _lndeed Agar, in his evidence, it will be recollected, said that, on the night of the robbery, when they returned to London with the gold, they came up with Ostend return tickets, which Pierce said he had obtained from Gower. In October last Gower was detected in these frauds, and was tried at the sessions, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. After Agar's conviction for forgery Pierce's whereabouts for two or three months could no t be ascertained. Sabso quently, however, he was traced.by the City detectives in (deposing of bars of gold to one or two individuals, and in vesting the amount in Turkish bonds. It was also discovered that he bed become the manager and part proprietor of a betting-office in Paxton-street, Haymarket, which, on ac count of its "largo bank," was doing considerable business, Pierce keepieg a private account at the London and Corn ' mercial Bank. It does not appear, however, that he en tered upon any great extravagances. Immediately after his apprehension the metropolitan police searched the floor of the pantry where Agar said Pierce had buried the gold for security, but the treasure had vanished. With respect to the other prisoner, BUrgess, the guard, he appears to have had the most unlimited confidence re posed in him. He is the son of a respectable man still in the company's service. Within a few days after the rob bery suspicion pointed to him, in consequence of his having charge of the snail train from which the gold had 'been abstracted. He underwent at the time a searching inter rogation by the company's officers. He denied all know ledge of the robbery, and his conduct throughout marked the greatest self.possession. Ho, however, admitted that he had been in the habit of allowing "gents" to ride in his brake-van while he had,charge of the train; but declared in the most positive terms that on the night of the robbery no ems rode down in it except himself. For months Bur gess was under the surveillance of the City detectives, but he was never seen in the company of either Pierce or Agar. He was, however, frequently in that of Tester, at a sing song in a public-house in Dover, where he was in the habit of entertaining his brother guards and the general company with his favourite song of " Dick Turpin and his Black Bess." Ho is married, but has no family. The other party accused as being concerned in the rob bery, Tester, whose apprehension Mr. Bodkin confidently spoke of at the Mansion-house, on Monday, as being likely to be effected by this time, is a young man, and was for merly a clerk in the superintendent's office at the London bridge terminus. It appears that it was part of his duty to arrange the duty of the guards in running with the trains. The practice laid down by the company is, that the guards should work the mail train monthly alternately. The guards' journey -book, which is in his handwriting, shows that, instead of Burgess only running the mail one month, he worked it successively for three months. Agar, it may be remembered, stated that for weeks he and Pierce were " ' That in the furtherance of the scheme proposed in the foregoing minute, the only branch service which would be satisfactory to this Chamber would be a steamer on the line between King George's Sound and Adelaide. " That the chamber still retains its opinion in fav•ur of the plan proposed by the government of South Austra ha, and emanating from this chamber in April, 1855, and adverted to in the Treasury Minute.' "This expression of opinion did not apparently meet with the approval of the local government, as the bill which was !sought forward on the succeeding day con tained no reference whatever to a branch service to King George's Sound. Copies of the resolutions, how ever, had been sent from the chamber to the members of the legislature, and the act as passed restricts the con tributions of this colony to a line of mail steamers touching at a South Australian port, or to a scheme embracing a branch service via King Georges Sound. "The aspect which this q.....estrion has now assumed in England, constantly and ably discussed as it is by the magnates of the press, kept alive by means of influen tial public meetings, enforced on the Government by numerous deputations of gentlemen representing the colonists, and the subject of frequent allUsion in both Houses of Parliament, leads us to infer that zo long period can elapse before some arrangement is concluded for the re-establishment of naail•steamers between Eng land and Australia, especially as a vast fleet of ocean steamers are now, through the restoration of peace, released from the transport service. Whether the claims of this colony are to be conceded seems to be more than doubtful. If it is arranged for us that we must receive our mails via Melbourne, it is to be hoped th a t th e con tracting company will be strictly bound to see to the due performance of the branch service within a limited time, otherwise we know, from the experience of the last few months, that our letters may be subject occasionally to eight or ten days' detention in Melbourne, which would der rive us of the possibility of replying by the return steamers." in the habit of going down nightly in a cab to the London bridge station, as they never could know beforehand when the bullion was to be sent down, and that the guards were not apprised of it until within a few moments of the de parture of the train, when it was wheeled out of the strong room of Mr. Weatherhead's office on to the platform. This uncertainty of knowing when the gold would be sent down will probably explain the reason why Bergess was allowed to run with the mail for so long and unusual a period. Tester having access to the key of the iron safe, which was kept in the superintendent's office, he, like Burgess, under went a strict interrogation by the officials. By this time, it should be observed, the detectives who were employed by the company, Hayden, Brett, Scott, Jarvis, Knight, and others, had ascertained that he had baon in company with suspicious characters at Folkestone, and had dined at the Pavilion with one of them. It will be borne in mind that Agar admitted in his examination that they ware watched by the police at Folkestone, and in consequence of the place becoming too hot for them, they (Le and Pierce) were compelled to remove. Tester was highly indignant that ho should be suspected, and stoutly denied having dined with any stranger there ; when, however, he was cautioned, and assured that there coal be no mistake about the matter, ho admitted dining with a party. At En st he did not remember the stranger's et one ; then he re collected, when pressed, that it was a friend named Co ningham or Adams, but could give no accouut as to where he lived, or how long he (Tester) had been acquainted with him. Two months after the robbery Tester resigned his situation, having obtained an appoiutmeut at Stockholm, in the service of the Swedish Itailwa,y Company, and which he retained up to the time of his reported arrest. Fanny Kay, the female who cohabited with Agar, is a respectable-looking person, about 26 years of ago. Her parents reside at M arga t e , an d it i s s t a t e d th a t Burgess recommended her to the situation at the Tonbridge refresh ment room, and afterwards introduced her to Agar. It is very probable that a claim will be made on her behalf in respect to the reward of 300/. which the South-Eastern Company offered to any one who would give such informa tion as would lead to the apprehension of the thieves. Sho was the first person who communicated what she knew of the robbery to Mr. Weatherhead, who forwarded her story to the solicitor of the company, and hence arose the arrest of Pierce and Burgess. Agar, it will be remembered, stated before the Lord Mayor that when he wee making his way with Pierce with the stolen gold to the train at the Dover Railway station they met with some discomfiture at the hands of one of the porters, who politely, as it were, forcing the bags of gold out of their hands, took them to the first-class carriage they had to occupy, and some rather sharp remark was made in consequence of their showing return (Mond tickets. The altercation, however, was soon put au end to by dropping a few shillings into the porter's hand. The porter turned out to be one of the company's servants named Winterden. When Agar was apprehended for the forgery Winterden was taken to the Mansion-house lock-up, and among a batch of other prisoners pointed out Agar to the police as one of the men whom he saw get into the mail train at Dover with very heavy bags on the night of the robbery. /at this time the company were urged to prosecute, as the police had full knowledge of the receivers, but for some reason they declined doing so. A short time afterwards another opportunity presented itself, but the company still held aloof. It was a case where the police traced a quan tity of gold to an individual living at the east end of the metropolis, and on whom a large amount of gold was found. There were no fewer than seven examinations, which ter minated in the Lord Mayor discharging him for that, but committing him for another offence. He was arraigned, but in consequence, as stated, of the death of an important witness, he was acquitted. From the great number of witnesses which are yet to Le examined, it is not at all improbable but what the case will go over until the February sessions. MINING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Frown the South Australian Register of August 23.) The operations at the Burra Burra Mine are continued with great vigour. The average raisings amount to about 1,000 tons of ore per month, of a very superior description. There is a large accu mulation of ore at the mines, about 12,000 tons awaiting the coming season, when it will be smelted and carted to the port for shipment. The working of the Kapunda Mine continues to be carried on with vigour. About 280 tons of ore were raised during the last month. There are about .190 men and 20 boys employed upon the works, besides about 40 others engaged in carting, (450. Several new furnaces are in course of erection at the smelting works, where it is intended to reduce all the ore to fine copper, instead of export ing part of the produce in the form of regulus. The greatest depth reached is 50 fathoms, but it is intended immediately to carry down the princi pal shafts 20 fathoms below this. Fire-bricks are now being made on the ground. We were favoured recently with au opportunity of inspecting a number of specimens of copper ore, sent down by Mr. Matthew Forster, manager of the Australian Mining Company, from their new mine, near Mount Remarkable. The specimes were of various character, comprising several blue carbonates and one promising -looking mass of ma. lachite. The mine having beers recently opened, the specimens were necessarily obtained from near the surface, some of them, indeed, immediately below the alluvial soil. The greatest depth reached appears to be about 41 fathoms. No analysis has as yet been made of the ores from this mine, and we are, consequently, not in a position to speak positively of their value. From the indications afforded by weight and colou r , however, we ima gine they must be classed among rich ores. The specimens we saw are to be forwarded per James Baines to the directors of the company in England. It has been determined to erect smelting works at the ,Kaninantoo Copper Mines immediately. There is abundance of firewood at no great distance from the mine and a considerable quantity of ore at grass. About 20 men are at present employed on the works. STATE OF TRADE. THE SEARCH FOR GOLD. In consequence of the long-settled opinion of many competent observers that the northern ranges of this province were of a character likely to con tain large deposits of gold, and further, in conse quence of small portions of the precious metal having been found by persons in the vicinity of Tanunda and Angaston, it was resolved to memo rialise the governor on the subject of instituting an effective exploration. The memorial to his ex cellency was signed by nearly the whole of the commercial houses in Adelaide, and the result was that his excellency set aside a sum of money for the prosecution of a direct search. The govern ment geologist, Mr. B. H. Babbage, has already made the tour of the Tanunda district, which he found to contain a large quantity of those rocks that are usually associated with gold, the district in many respects resembling the gold diggings of Victoria. MANCHESTER, Nov. 25. The market continues quiet, and there is but little change in the position of cotton cloths, except that home trade fabrics, which have until recently held a favourable position as compared with export goods, are in• less de inand, and are suffering from the same causes which de press the general market. The principal of these causes is as before, the dearness of money ; but the news from the United States by the last mail, to the effect that cotton was easier in price, naturally tends further to in duce buyers of manufactures to hold back in anticipation of a more favourable opportunity for operations. Prices are slightly in favour of the buyer, but manufacturers show no great anxiety to sell, and the market is quite as firm as could be expected. In yarns there is also very tittle business doing. Prices are about Ad. per lb. below the rates of last Tuesday for most kinds except doubled, without tempting much business. There has been little or no inquiry for India„ and the business reported has been chiefly for the home trade. The Germans are only executing small orders, and these mostly in anticipation of stoppage of navigation by frost. Mr. John Lowe, of the firm of Lowe and Lawe, yarn Agents, who stopped payment some months ago, came up for his last examina tion in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, but a further adjournment for a fortnight took place. The main cause of stoppage, Mr. Lowe said, was the giving of their names to Mr. Wright, the mill-owner, at Stockport, for 20,0001., in addition to previous guarantees to the same person for 22,0001., to assist him in cotton purchases at Liverpool, which proved disastrous. Mr. Babbage has made a somewhat minute ex ploration of the country over which he has passed. Tracin g the course of the Tanu n d a C reek, he ex amined the ranges forming the basin of its upper portion, and explored the Kaiser Stull]. and sur rounding dykes from Jacob's Creek ou the south west. The Kaiser Stuhl is 2,000 f eet a b ove the level of the sea. South of Penrice the " iron topped hilt' was explored, after which Mr. Bab bage directed his course to the German Pass Tri gonQmetrical Station. Particular attention was paid to the character of the c'ifis at the head of the Gawler River, and the basin of the North Rhine was also minutely examined. The neighbourhood of Evandale and Flaxman's Valley was also tra versed. Mr. Babbage next visited Pewsey Vale, and after exploring the Barossa Range visited Mount Crawford, thence across the Soul Rhine ani Mount Torrens to Adelaide. The lower part of the bed of the Tanunda Creek consists of s t rata of crystalline mica sch i s t, the upper part of the creek flowing through strewn with large quartz pebbles. Only one e re i ally of the dozen that have been sunk has b en n ove the bottomed. These diggings are 1700 feet a as very sea level, and are still spoken off v b- some of a few likely to yield gold; but with the exception oiscending the table-land specks no gold has been found. first sa n w basalt and Kaiser Stulh Mr. Babbag© Ou reaching the vol canic country not far distant. Station his expects- German Pass verified,Trigonomt-f for he found himself trap, from which he inferred the t existence of a tions were pleasingly oeanic in the very heart of a I country. Lava and mixed with igneous see quantity of pumiceser o n o s v e abounded. A considerable rife, was strewn other volcanic eje o c tr t h i e ( t ) the country, and even the presumed site of this of district crater was determined. The Mr. Babbage de characteristics resembling the auriferous districts lthough he would not search for of Victoria; d of the former volcanic eruption,. gold in the centre in thebasis of the North Rhine, at that me, he con scribes as clo: n el i y a at the head of the Gawler River, or amongst the granitic ght be ht schists of Tanunda Creek, go ld m i for with every reasonabl e pro b ability of sought success. __: LEEDS, Nov. 25. There has been an average attendance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning, and au improvement in the tone of business was noticeable. A fair amount of cloth was sold, and prices are very firm. The weather having changed from comparative warmth to severe frost, a more active demand for winter clothing will now ensue, and the retail dealers will get relieved of some of the stock which now keeps them from purchasing other goods. The report of the Huddersfield cloth-market to-day is of a more favourable character, and the general aspect is ; . one of confidence in the future prospects of trade. The chief inquiries this morning have been for black unions, steele, Law-priced goods command toler ably ready sale. Wool is firm in pries. CANTERBURY HALL. THE SPANISII MINSTRELS. The celebrated Spanish minstrels, seven in number, under the direction of Signor Antonio, are at present ful filling an engagement at this attractive place of entertain. ment. The pieces selected last evening comprised several of their best, and each composition was Executed with great taste and precision. ' The soprano, Senora Ma rietta, possesses a sweet, clear, and flexible voice, com• biped with an intonation perfectly true. In the execution of several of the pieces she was highly successful, and the deep pathos she infused into a favourite ballad, when sung in English, made a profound impression on the audience. The voice of Signor Doming© is one of the most extraordinary organs we ever recollect hearing. For power, volume, and effect we may truly say it is unrivalled, and we cordially recom mend all lovers of music to embrace the opportu nity the enterprising proprietor of this establishment has afforded them of hearing these accomplished artistes. In addition to the gratification of hearing the Spanish Minstrels, we were both surprised and delighted by the ability of the stock company of the establishment, and from the applause last night bestowed upon the eff)rts of Miss Pearce, Mr. Grover, Mr. Currie, Mr. Mackney, and Mr. S. Cowell, w e should imagine they are im mense favourites, and deservedly so, for they all sieg with the greatest good taste and judgment. Before we, close our remarks, we must notice the judici9us mane ner in. which the programme is arrange d . It ealt which pieces to suit tie tastes of all, from the lover. of our good old E ng li s h ballad to that Of the most scientific musician ; in illustration o f which we may mention that Verdi's " Miserere,” from .1 - 1 Trovatorc, was ren dered in a manner that reflected the greatest credit upon every one concerned in its execution. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WESTERN VALLEYS R A ILWAY.—NEWPORT, Nov. 24 .—To-day the inquest on the body of John Richards, fireman, in the employ of the Monmouthshire Railway an d Canal Company, w ho was killed on the 19th inst., on the Western Valleys branch line, was brought to a termination, the jury hav ing sat at Aberbeeg to hear the evidence. The question arose whether the points were defective, or whether btoken springs had caused the engine to jump off the line, as was the case on the Newport and Hereford line. William Thompson, rail inspector, said the points were all right about an hour before the accident, and the road was in good condition. Mr. Laybourne stated tha Col. Yelland, one of the Government inspectors , had examined the line, and stated the engine did not leave the rails from its faulty construction nor the breaking of its springs. Some other witnesses having been ex amined the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. LiOND L k WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1856. I►iEZ'RO.POLITAN BOAIW. OF WORKS, A. meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held, by adjournment, in the Council-chamber. Guildhall, yes terday, to consider the statement showing the financial condition of the several parishes and districts within the jurisdiction of the Board.; Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The minutes of the last Board were read and confirmed. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Balance in hands of Treasurer, Nov. 18, 1856 £6,897 12 7 Checks drawn, but not presented.. Available balance Amount of deposit account MSG 13 9 102,522 2 2 . . . ' Total general balance £109,008 15 11 PARISH OF CAMBERWELL A deputation from the parish of Camberwell presented a memorial, setting forth that it appeared by the financial statement published by the Board that large sums of money had been borrowed for the purpose of improving the drainage under the Surrey and Kent Commission, extend ing from Ravensworth to the Wandle River, and the me morialists could not find that any portion of those sums had been applied to the improvement of Camberwell, al though the adjoining parishes had been greatly benefited. They therefore prayer.' that before issuing the precepts for collecting the rates an account shoed be furnished to them , ihowiug, the manner of the expenditure of that money. Mr. IRVINE (who introduced the deputation) supported the prayer of the memorialists, and stated that while the surrnj at b i d os s ov zore perreetly draTiiiia7Lantifkrafell W 11.3 loft in a most wretched state. He was almost afraid to let the fact go forth, lest it skould have the effect of depreciating the valve of property in that parish. He moved that the prayer of the memorialists be granted. Mr. D'IFFAWGER seconded the motion. The CIIAIRYLAN said if the request of the memorialists were acceded to it would occupy 12 months in preparing the nicessary papers, and probably cost 1,4001. or 1,500 t. before the information rewired could be furnished. He t rerefere would suggest that a s.nall deputation from the parish should attend at Greek-street and examine the ac counts, and at the same time obtain all the information they required from the engineer. Mr. D'IFFANGEA'asked what remedy the parishioners of Camberwell would have supposing it should be shown that tee; had been charged unjustly by the late commissioners? Toe board ought not to cover over the improper conduct of those commissioners. Mr. DOULTON could not see that any practical result was likely to follow the resolution. It was a question whether the Board had the power to grant these accounts as asked fur. Mr. TURNER was of opinion that the Board had not the power. Mr. IRVINE said one practical result of granting the re quest would be to show that 20,000/. or 30,0091. of rates had been raised in the parish of Camberwell and had been applied elsewhere. The CH,LIRMAN said, even if that were shown, still the board was utterly without power to remedy it. There was no unwillingness on the part of the board to remedy a wrong, provided they had the legal power to do so; but, when they were distinctly told, as they had been by their legal adviser, that they had no power to re-open the ques tion, it could not be fairly attributed to them that they were unwilling to do justice to the memorialists. The motion was then put and negatived. THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. TURNER rose to propose a motion respecting the financial statement submitted to the board on the 3d of October, showing the financial condition of the several parishes and districts, with the particulars of outstanding loans and mortgages, and an estimate of the sums to be aised by the board for the year ending the 31st of Do somber, 1856. It must be obvious to every member that the subject to which their attention was about to bo called was one of the most important that could be brought un der their consideration. If there was ono thing more important than another for the board to regard it was that before they proceeded to tax the ratepayers they should take every possible means to tax them' justly, and in pro portion to the relative value of the property in the different parts of the metropolis. With regard to the assessment of the value the Board was no doubt precluded by the act of Parliament from dealing with the greater portion of the area of the metropolis, beCause by that act it was expressly stated that where a county rate existed they must take that rate as the ground of assessment. Still there was a large amount of property within the metropolitan area which was not subject to any county rate at all. With regard to that portion of property the act told the Board that they must tax it " upon a like estimate," and the question they had to consider was what a "like estimate" meant. The great hulk of the property not subject to a county rate was repre sented by the city of London. There were smaller portions, such as the Inns of Court, Furnival's Inn, 8:c. ; therefore the practical question was whether the Board had taken every means in their power to assess the city of London upon a " like estimate" as the rest of the metropolis. When this questigh was discussed on a former occasion it was con tended that the Beard had not taken all the means in their power to determine at what sum the city of London ought to be assessed ; and that in order to avoid an inequality of assessment, instead of taking for their criterion a local tax, such as the sewers-rate, they ought to have taken the income tax, which was not a local tax, but one superin tended by an external authority, and in all districts and places managed upon one general principle. Such had been the criterion taken to avoid any inequalities as between the parishes of Marylebone, St. Pancras, and St. George's, Hanover-square, and he would assert that the principle which was good as between one parish and another was good also as between Middlesex and the city of London. Just as they were not willing to take a local assessment of Marylebone, St. Pancras, or St. George's, Hanover. square, so ought they not to be satisfied with a local assessment of the city of London. The property tax was common to the city of London and all the other" districts in the metropolitan area, and, as it was necessary for the purposes of a uniform system of taxation that there should be one general standard of estimate, none better than the property-tax could be suggested. He therefore pro posed, first, that the Board should adopt a general principle, and afterwards decide in what manner that principle should be carried out, whether by itself or by committee. It was not necessary for the purpose of his argument to prove either that the sum at which the city was assessed was an adequate or an inadequate sum. There was no evidence that it was a just amount, but before the public would be satisfied that the city was estimated at a proper amount, it must beshown that they had gone upon the same principle as had been applied to the other districts in ascertaining that amount. There was this difference between the assessment on the sewers rate and the property tax, that the former wa s arrived at by the local surveyor, who ascertained the value t of the property as well as he could, whereas the latter was he result of returns made by the Occupiers themselves, who stated the amount of rent actually paid. To justify their proceedings, therefore, it was necessary the Board should inspect the property 'tax returns, which enabled them to ascertain whether any'and what inequality existed. Thi s was not entirely a matter of speculation, for on referring to a return made to Parliament in 1855 h e found the pro perty tax for the city of London was 1,584,3511. This sum, however, included the Inns of Court, which were not in eluded by the valuation of the Board, and therefore a sum of 106,1841. would have to be deducted. The sum, then, assessed to the property tax in the city of London, after making that deduction, would be 1,478,1671., excluding fhe Inns of Court. The sum put down in our financial statement is 1,153,0691., making a difference between the property tax assessment and the assessment by the Metro politan Board of 325,0 98/. This difference between the two assessments was 22 per cent. He had deduced from the printed tables the difference between the property tax assessment and the county rate assessment on property in the other parts of Middlesex out of the metropolis, and he found it to be 16t per cent.—that was to say, the sum at which they proposed to assess the city of London was 22 per cent, below the assessment of the property tax, while the sum at whi c h they pfoposed to assess the other parts of Middlesex wa s on l y 16i per cent. under the property tax. If these calculations were correct they were in favour of the which city of ought London t o the city of London from 51 to G per neut. That was a mat ter werebe inquired me de equalinto. to assessmentltfhtehto averagee ss e of ment of the rest of Middlesex, 85,0001,b e added and that basis ought to to the amount of the estimate. was sorry his motion should be ß o for inquiry. A general basis of t tives of the city, because he was P o e be the property tax. He p a h ; y a s a d e tad anxious ought ri o ge e tu h e hs h o e uotrlwoedpne representa tives sr esta blished,eeynuotnaad-tcarrying out—viz., an equality of taestss'et4 mem ber concluded by moving the foylleofwLineagelinsO the principle they themselves pro;' l T u h ti e on h° :- 11. ' to be desirous of for the purposes of the Metropolitan L London may be assessed Local Management " That, in order that the city Act upon a like estimate with the r st of is requisite that regard should be hadl tothl metropolis, it which the City of London has been assessed the amount Finance" Committee, of which he Jii just estimate of r of p the ALT oii property saia t h t e a tax." pur posesat Mr. SAVAGE seconded the motion. was a member, endeavoured to arrive at a ado'pt the o the amount at which the city ought to be assessed. The committee could not at the time get the properte motion would re turn, but it had since been obtained. A questiyonaxh ever, was raised whether the board could legally property tax as the criterion of value, but Mr. Wool ych their legal adviser, having givin his opinion that they e ll s L e i p o U n t e y IIItt HARRISON d could, he (Mr. Dalton) thought the board ought to consider to d th id em ne b t y th A i l n r k . Tthuerner. effect the object the hon. member had in view —namely, an equality of taxation throughout the whole of the roetropo th u . litan districts. He would not discuss the legal question whether the board could or not base the assessment of the rateable value of the City of London upon the returns made to the Property Tax Commissioners ; but it would be un fair if hedid not state to the board that that question Lad been, raised and a regal opinion taken upon it, which opin• ion was to ;,Js 4 effect that the board haal no such power. Mr.Turnerl ad.atatefl that the rateable value returned.fer the City:of Lbndon. 'was, according to a Parliamentary re- . turn, 22 per tient...udder the value as fixed by the ''i - operty Tax Commisgoners. Now, he was prepared to'say that if all the districts within the metropolitan area were assessed upon the property tax returns he was the last man'to Op pose it. On examining tilt estimate of the value of the dif ferent districts it would be found that nothing like such a basis had . been adopted, and ho would briefly show the in justice of applying.the property tax standard exclusively to the City of London. By the Parliamentary return it was clearly Shown that Flampsteatl, the district repre sented by Mr. Turner, was assessed at 23 per cent. under its proper value, the city 'being only assessed at 22 pen cent. under its value. .7.+larylebone, on the other hand, was charged so high that the estimate was only 14 per cent. under its proper value. St. Pancras was still higher estimated, it being only 12i per cent. below this Parliamentary standard ; and - Lambeth was below the standard, while the City was only 22. If, therefore, the board would adopt the criterion of value generally to all the districts alike, he would agree to it with thankfulness, .but he could not consent toanake the City of London an exception. He would jest mention the discrepancies that existed in regard to other parishes. St George's, Hanover square, was estimated at 18 per cent. un d er th e value as signed to it by the property tax return; Islington, 21 per cent.; Shorediteh, 24per cent.; Paddington, 21 per cent.; Bethnal-green, 18i per cent. ; Newington, 20 per cent. ; Camberwell, 17' per cent. Thus it appeared that the county rate afforded a most variable criterion of value when compared with the property tax returns; and yet, becauso the City of London happen7l to have no county rate, it was proposed to assess it up to the fall amount of the property tax return. The board never could ajopt such a course. The sewers rate had.beetatalien as the ground of ass6stnent for the City instead of a county rate, the City not having any such rate. Surveyors had t'ben appointed who were bound to snake that rate an equitable oue, and the best mod e f or arr i v i ng at' au accurate estimate had been adopted. There would...be in a few weeks a new rate made for the City of London, and it might therefore be necessary to postpone this question till that took place. Meanwhile all he asked was justice. He sought no favour; but he could not consent to apply a principle to the Cityof London which was not applied generally to the other dis tricts of the metropolis. If Parliament had intended to aseertaiu the rateable value by means of the property-tax returns, nothing would have been more easy than for it to have been declared in the act itself. But it stated that where there was- no county rate you should take. a like • rate and in this case you had a like rate. 111 r. WRIGHT —No ; the act means a like estimate, and not a like rate. Mr. Hows called upon the board to make an exception in the case of the City of London, because the act itself had made that exception. It stated that the rate was to be made upon the basis of the county rate, where there was one. But in the city there was no county rate, there fore the city was in au anomalous position. Had the committee been able to obtain the property tax returns, an accurate basis for the accountant to make out the esti mates would have been afforded ; but those returns were not forthcoming at the time the financial statement was made. Since then the returns had been obtained, and by them it appeared that a very large increase of value ought, in justice to the other districts, to be made in regard to the city of London, the difference being not less than from 300,000/. to 400,0001., which the committee would certainly have included if the property tax returns had been before them. Mr. LESLIE said the question had got into a form which was exceedingly disagreeable. It was not a contest be tween the city of London and the other portions of the metropolis, but the question was whether they had arrived at the right system by which all paities should b e made to pay alike. He h a d on l y just seen the Parliamentary n it um ap b p e e r a orefa that houses th to e paper quoted by M r . D epu t y H arrhon, and its contents struck him with a s t on i s h men t . I t stated the rateable value o b f e the 7,2 907 i whereast t o be l, s b B ; , another3sl / . a tur n r d e gie n number of houses was between 14,000 and 15,0,10. -Mr. TURNER-14,E93. Mr. LESLIE—Very well ; wh a t, th en, was l ikely to be the result. Why, instead of the rateable value of the city being 1,586,3511., it was likely to be 3,000,000/. How this discrepancy arose ha could not toll. He understood that the magistrates of Surrey and Kent were about to make a new rate, making the property tax an element in their calculations. It therefore appeared to him that the board were not yet ripe for making a rate; that, in f ac t, the basis on w hi c h th ey hail proceeed was bad, and that equal justice would not be done by it. Mr. DOULTON said, if he understood the object of the hon. and learned mover, it was not that the board should base their calculations upon the property tax return ; but what he asked was that the sum which was assessed upon the city of London should bear the same proportion to the property-tax as the sums assessed upon the other parishes bore to the same tax. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Deputy HARRISON. —To that I have no objection. Mr. DoueToN.—The hon. deputy said he had no objec tion; if so, then there was an end to the discussion, be cause the resolution did not commit the board to an assess ment based on that property-tax return. Hie,did not care whether his own parish (Lambeth) should be raised 10 per cent. or not, because he knew that other parishes would b© raised to the same or a still greater extent: The question ought not to be delayed, otherwise the parishes would be called upon to pay two or three rates at the same time. Mr. OFFOR feared the property-tax would not form in any shape whatever a correct datum. for thorn to proceed upon with regard to the assessment. At all events, they must :Let upon one uniform system in regard to all the dis tricts. The city having no county-rate was no reason why the property-tax should be taken as the datum. There were great discrepancies ha the returns as to the value of property. In one return the rateable value of the property in one portion of the county of Middlesex was stated to be 1,697,6011., whereas the return under schedule A of the property-tax the same district was 2,214,3321. This differ ence no doubt arose from the fact that tithes, manors, profits on railways, on gasworks, and on other descriptions of property, were assessed in schedule A as well as rental. Under these circumstances there was a decided objection to take the property-tax return as a criterion. All that was wanted was an equality of rating, and, although the poor-rate was not in all respects unobjectionable, still, taking it as a whole, he could not conceive any better sys tem than the adoption of the poor, or, what was an equi valent in the city, the paving, sewer, and lighting rate. They had not to rate the inhabitants upon their property, but assess the aggregate amount each district should pay. He therefore hoped they would adopt the recommendation of the committee. , Mr. HAWKES was of opinion that nothing would be more deceiving than the adoption of the poor-rate as a rule for their guidance, every parish ' ma ki n g a diff e r en t degree of deducti on i n heir ratings, some taking off 6 per cent., others 7, and up to 10 per cent. The property-tax returns were also very deceptive, and the Board isiust 'either devise some better mode of assessment or go to Par liament for further powers. Mr. WRIGHT was of opinion th;t the difficulty expe rienced in this matter entirely arose out of the misinter pretation of the words of the act, By the act the rate was to be based upon the • county-rate, where there was one, and where thole was no county rate then the amount of the rata was to be assessed " according to a like estimate," not "according to a like rate." There was all the differ ence. Theilnance committee or the accountant had taken the consolidated rate of the city as " a like estimate," and it was for the Board to determine whether it was a like estimate or not. The committee said it was a like esti mate. Mr. Turner impugned that statement" and said it was not, and that the consolidated rate did not bear the same proportion to the property tax as the county rate in the other districts did. It was altogethera question of pro portion. He asked the Board, as business men, to decide whether it was to be a like rate or a like estimate. A like rate was a rate for a similar purpose ; a like estimate was an estimate of a similar kind. Major LYON said it would not be fair for the committee to adopt their recommendation, inasmuch as it was made before the information which had been since obtained was known to them. Mr. KNIGHT was of opinion that the consolidated city rate was in every respect on a parity with the county rate. If the Board accepted the county rate with all its infirmities why not accept the sewers' rate with all its infirmities ? Mr. D'IFFANGER felt assured that there was no member of that Board who had any desire to act unjustly towards the city, but the hon. deputy had told them that even the city people were not satisfied with their present rate—(no, no !)—and were about to make a uew one. At all events, he (Mr. D'lffanger) knew that his constituents would not be sa tisfied with the present assessment. Considering the great error rnade in the return of the number of houses assessed in the city, he thought the better sours° would be to post pone the whole question till the Board had the new rate of the city before them. Mr. CRELLIN did not find that persons were always rated in proportion to the benefit they derived from the object from which the rate was raised. He could not see why the occupier of a largo house which was most valuable because it was situated iu Cornhill should pay a much greater sum for the sewers rata than the owner of a similar house would pay if situated in another part of the .metropolis. He thought the sewers•rate was as near the right system for rating the city for the purposes of that Board as could be obtained. Mr. WILKINSON remarked that the Board were bound to adopt the county rate, save in the case of the City of Lon don, and, therefore, it was useless to discuss its propriety. They were bound to adopt the county rate as a basis, with all its infirmities. Whether the sewers rate valuation or the property tax bore the nearest approach to the county rate assessment might involve a nice legal question, but in his opinion, if they adopted the consolidated City sewers rate as a basis for taxation, their whole assessment would be illegal. They should take the property tax as the nearest approach to justice. Mr. TURNER replied, when a division took place— For the motion ............ 17 Against it .................. . 12 Maj0rity.......... . ............................ —5 After a discussion, it was agreed to refer thb whole finan cial statement to the committee for further consideration, many of its members, however, expressing their opinion that a committee of the whole board wo uld be preferable. Mr. DREW then gave notice of the following m o ti on " Thatit be an instruction t o such co mmittee to take into o consideration the otherwise late Cop Commission providing dsrsieinnpogor theot of Sewers, o o a n m the u utw expediency it ha outstandingv view w liabilities of of making the repayment thereof by annual payments of 2 per cent. and interest, instead of calling upon parishes fo r an imme diate payment of the w hole amount?' IseiatesefoirrmomerltyheofeitthyeoFflrotiaPdoillis,onw, dFrvroil many thousands of p oun d s , an d c onsidering that the Board a very h eavy amoun t o f t axa ti on on the metropolis, is enga ge d i n c arv i ng out large improvements w hi c h will impose o i a nv g e d ° a n n . outlay tFt, on it would be inexpedient at the present time to incur such an expenditure, therefore it is resolved that the report be not adopted." Mr. DIFFANGER seconded the motion. The time was not come when so large a sum of money should be expended for such a purpose. Theyought to wait till they had - done some good for the public before tWey raised a building for, their own especial use. Mr. TURNER moved as an amendment that the debate be adjourned. Mr. SE UEY seconded the motion. A division was called for, when there appeared— For the amendment Against • - 13 Majority ; •-2 • Mr. COLLINSON then moved that the board do adjourn, which motion was put and negatived. The main question was then put, whoa there appeared — For the moti on Against it 9-4 Majority —4 The report of the committee was consequently negatived, and the board adjourned at a quarter past A o'clock. Notice was immediately given of a motion to rescind this vote. • SITE OF OFFICES. Mr. SEELEY brought up the report of the Committee on Site of Offices, stating the result of their communication with the City Lands Committee, and recommending— " That a proposal he made by the Board to the corporation of the city. of London for taking a portion of the site of the former Fleet Prison, in Farringdon-street, having a front age of 100 feet, on a building lease for a term of 80 years, at a rent of 4 guineas per foot." The CHAIRMAN having stated that a plan, though not mentioned in the report, accompanied it, a lengtheueddis cussion ensued on the question of the report and plan being received, but that having been ultimately agreed to, Mr. WILKINSON said the vestry of the parish of St. Pancras bad passed a resolution to the effect that any outlay by the Board for official purpbses would at the present time be an unnecessary expenditure of the public money ; and in accordance with that resolution he begged to move— " That inasmuch as the proposal to take a portion of the THE GREAT GOLD DUhT RoRBERY. There are somo facts ,connected with this extraordinary casa which have yet escaped public notice.-- FrQui the pro ceeTlings at the Mansion-house it would appear that the parties implicated in this daring act of plunder were not known until 'the revelation's made by the convict Agar. That, however, as will be seen, is not correct. On the receipt of telegraphic news from Paris announcing the robbery, the City detectives were called upon to act in the matter, and they so far pushed their inquiries that within a few weeks after th e occurrence th ey were ena bl e d to inform the directors that the robbery had been committed on their line between London and Dover, and who the par ties were—Agar and his three accomplices. The company, however, had some misgivings as to the truth of the of .ficers' suspicions. They had great confidence in Burgess in consequence of the years he had been employed, besides there might be a doubt as to whether the robbery took place on their line, but on the Continental ones, and even whether there had been any plunder at all. With the exception of a few incidents detailed by Agar the police had acquired all the principal facts, and a report was presented to the directors which, if it had at once been acted upon, not only the whole of the prisoners would have been taken, but the receivers, and probably a large amount of the stolen trea sure recovered. Still, however, they declined to act upon the of f icers' representations. Thera was a wssibility of their being wrong, and there was some suspicion pointed elsewhere ; and so the affair rested until Fanny Kay com municated what shehad heard of the robbery, and confirmed the report which the officers had months before given. The antecedents of Henry Agar, the approver, furnish ample evidence of the convict having pursued a most re markable career of crime for some years. That he should have escaped the ends of justice so long can only be ac counted for by the extraordinary cunning and tact which' he displayed in all his acts of fraud and robbery. Agar states his age is about 40. He is of the middle stature, quick and determined in his manners, and possess ing some intelligence. For years it was known that he was associated with a class of systematic bank forgers in what are denominated large offences. In the pursuit of his nefa rious practices various stratagems were resorted to, and perhaps his most successful scheme was that of advertising for young men as clerks, or writing to those who had ad vertised for situations, engaging them for some kind of ser vice, and " testing their honesty" by sending them, gene rally at the first interview, with forged cheques to the bankers. A confederate was always placed on the watch ; he followed the clerk to the bank, and in the event of there being any delay, and an evident detection of the fraud, the principal accomplice had timely notice, so as to enable him to effect an escape. It was in this way that all traces of the real delinquent were so frequently lost. The extent of this description of frauds on banking firms of late years has reached to a considerable amount. One of Agar's confede rates was a man named Nash. He, like Agar, generally passed as a commercial man. lie was convicted at the Central Criminal Court about six years since, having bean detected at the Bank of England in obtaining gold for 8011. in notes which had been paid by Messrs. Barnett and Hoare in Lombard-street, on a forged cheque, and which was pre seated by a young man who had been entrapped in the manner previouslydescribed. The forgery was not discovered until the money had been paid over the counter and the party had left. The heads of the firm, however, immedi ately apprised the Bank of England authorities of the numbers of the notes nearly at the same moment that they were presented by Nash, who was at once handed over to the custody of the detectives on duty at the Bank. Nash was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. From some cir cumstances or other, however, after a servitude of five years, he obtained a ticket-of-leave, and he is now in the metropols. Agar, it is stated, was concerned with Nash in that forgery, and it is believed was the party who watched the dupe to the banking-house. Agar then took up with Pierce, and with him pursued the same career, and it would appear with such success, as to induce Agar to take several trips to New York, in order to dispose of Bank of England notes, which were not negotiable in this country, the numbers having been posted at the bank. They son tinned this system of crime up to the period of the great bullion robbery on the South-Eastern Railway. As stated by Agar in his evidence at the Mansion-house, the proposed daring act of plunder was first broached by Pierce, and it was some months ere they could mature their plans fur car rying on their desperate project. Owing to the strict vigi lance kept by the police over the different bullion dealers in the metropolis for some months after the robbery, the residue of the stolen gold, somewhere about 6,0001., was, as Agar stated, buried until a favourable opportunity pre sented itself for the disposal of the precious spoil. Soon after this, probably about a month, Agar was apprehended on the charge of forgery. , . The circumstances under which he was detected are worth notice• One day in the month of August last year a man gave information to the For resters at the Mansion-house respecting a cheque (forged) for 7001. on Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co., the Lom bard-street bankers, which had to be given to him to get cashed on a certain day, and of which he had his suspicion, as he was promised the handsome gift of 5001. if he suc ceeded. The man was taken to Messrs. Bush and Mullens, the solicitors to the Committee of Bankers, who arranged that ho should act as he had been directed. The man pre sented the cheque at the bank named, and received in re turn a bag which he supposed to contain sovereigns, and proceeded to Bedford-row, where the party had appointed to meet him. After loitering about some time, a well dressed man accosted him. It was Agar, who, observing two men on the opposite side of the street, said, " Come on, we are watched;" and, on reaching the corner of Piinces street, he added, " Sling the stuff over to me and I bolt." The man did as required, and Agar took to his heels. Ho was pursued by the two men, who were Goddard, the offi cer, and an assistant of the Forresters ; and a desperate chase took place before he was captured. He denied being the man, but the bag was found in his possession. Instead of containing sovereigns, however, they were 700 farthings, which Mr. Millions had arranged with the bankers to Sub stitute for gold. At his trial a paper paroel was produced which contained nine copper-plates, 69 bank cheques of Messrs. Coutts and Co., 49 blank cheques of the East of England Bank at Norwich, and a number of others. These were stated by the prosecution to have been placed by Agar in a party's hands for security. The clerks of Messrs. Glyn and Co. and Messrs. Coutts and Co. proved that some of those blank cheques belonged to customers of theirs whose places had been burglariously.entered. In two instances cheques for NU and 8001. had been paid. For rester also produced Agar's trunk, which were found at his lodgings, 7, Stanley-place, Paddington-green. The con tents comprised some gold, documents and securities of value (portions of the proceeds of the sale of the stolen bullion); but as the prosecutors were not in a position to prove that it was the produce of any particular forgery, the judge ordered it to be delivered up to Agar. His de fence was, that ho had been ensnared by a third party. The jury found him guilty of the forgery, and he was transported for life. Pierce was said to be implicated with Agar in the forgery, and was included in the indictment on which Agar was convicted. The part he is supposed to have taken in the affair was in watching the man to the bank in Lombard-street ; and seeing him come out with the bag, as he supposed, containing the gold, hastened off to apprise Agar of their apparent success. Although 501. was offered for his apprehension, he continued to evade the vigilance of the police until taken on' the charge of stealing the gold. Agar was noted for being an experienced locksmith. Hisexplanation of the way he got an impression of the key of the bullion safe, and the mode in which he ma nufactured it, showed him to be very quick and skilful in the art. To him is imputed the making of the duplicate key which opened the iron safe of Messrs. Rogers, the bankers in Clement's-lane, ou the occasion of the robbery of 45,000'. some years since. These and other circumstances, it i; thought, were communicated to the learned judge who pre sided on the trial, and led tothe sentence of transportation for life being passed upon him, which, to those not ac quainted with the career of the convict, was con sidered a severe punishment, there being no previous convictions against him. No doubt some extraordinary revelations will come out in his cross-examination at the trial. That he has told all respecting the bullion robbery there can be but little question, and it remains to be seen whether ho will make a clean breast of it in respect to his general vicious course of life. It is stated that when it was proposed to him that he should become approver he ex pressed some desire to screen Tester, the clerk, and Bur gess, the guard, and only to give evidence against Pierce. On being informed, however, tleat it was utterly impos sible that such a condition could be obtained, ho relin quished all scruples in the matter. The prisoner William Pierce is about 40 years of age, and has rather a broad Lancashire dialect. He is married, and has several children. For many years ho was located in Cooper's-road, Old Kent-road, where' his wife kept a kind of lodging-house, his nights being principally scent at the Windsor Castle in that road, the Swan, Old Kent rord, and the Peacock, Kenniogten-lane. Prior to being employed in the printing ticket department of the South- Eastern Railway Company, from which ho was discharged for secretly printing tickets resembling those of a large railway company, ho appears not to have had any regular occupation, and mixed with an indifferent class of people. Daring the time they wore employed in arranging the plan for effecting the robbery of the bullion, Pierce had to exercise great caution to prevent being recognised in his journeys to and from Folkestone. In this, it is stated, ho //Z