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AWIDOW LADY, possessing a thorough knowledge of Domestic Management, is Rust desirous of an eneagament as Companion to a Lady, or to superintend the Family of a Widower or Elderly ficrracrnim.—Address C. G., 4, Trinity street, Blackheath-hill, Blackheath, Kent. . . A NNOUNCEVENT,.—By th a igvestme lit of a . 711- small stun, even as low ss 2I;10.., ll'oukands of p minis Witty be oAained.—Apply by 'etter for . particulars (which will be sent post free) to Messrs. STRAUS and Co, No. 32, Villiers-st., Strand. ItGYLL ROOMS.-LAIJRENT'S CASINO, i - ‘ G-eat Windmill-street, Tllymsrket.—The .above elegan ) - cionls are now open every evening( .fqr the *inter sessint, with Laurent 'is celebrated Ortiiestra. Principal Cornot.a-piston,'' Boulcourt. The Proorietor Le; to inform the pt}Wic tNA fashionable pace of resort hay been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at • stie: -4limis elon one Shilling. . • 1 .- .bR. KAHN'S ANA.TOAIICAL MIISMM, 3 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-sgnare.—Open (for Gentlemen only) from 10 till 10, containing upwirds of one thousand models and pteparat , ons, illustrating every part of the human frame in health end disease, the race of tren , &c. Lecture.; delivered at 12, 2, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SErrow, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and highly-Interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. KAHN, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One Shilling. 110YAL SURREY GARDENS.- JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.—Positively the Last Week of the season. THIS DAY, Sept. 27, Performance of Locke's magnifl cent Music to MACBETH, vocal and instrumental. Principal strivers —Miss Poole and Miss .;tabbach ; Mr: Perrin and Mr. Leffler (their sixth appearance.) The Chorus conducted by Mr. Land. Admission, ts.—M. Jullien's Benefit will take place on ,Monday, Sept 29 ; parti culars duly announced. ROYAL GARDENS, CREMORNE.—Dail y , One Shilling. - The Last Week of the aeitsri.—NlONDAT, Sept. 22d, and during the week, Concr.rtn, Ballet. Vurlesqtfe Opera by la f t the Southern Troupe of Stthle Harmohists. Dancing on the Ntonstre Platform, Egt,:estrian Scenes in the Royal Cirqup,hy winent artiSles. Grand Pyrotechnic Displays by the ChevalleittM ram, Brilliant Illuminations, and a host of varied amusementa.,' ea on Sundays for Promenade. Table d'ilote at 6,2 s. 6d. eaz 4 h.' • - • ! 1 t ' ti•.%. . C AN'PERBURY HALL, West. , +. .4-road. • --OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The eele •.HUNG A RIAN HAND, ender the direction of Herr K • .*ill perform every E#ening at 9 and o'clock, in additio._. eralsual Vocal Entertainment. The following company pt „Vocalists are permanently engaged for the performawW, nett ne from all the Popnlar Operas, Madrigals, Ch o oruses;tleati,, viz.:—Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss ltrunet, Miss SernmArs, !Melina Pearse ; Sam Cowell, Mr. J, Caulfleld, Herr F. Jonglunaits•A.Jlones, T. Farrant, W. Melling, Backer. Russell Grover. and P. Carrie ; Masters R. Con nell; 'Austin, and Bennett, an 4 Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. J. Harrowax, .R.A.... harmonium, J. Caulfield,. Jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely., Suppers. &c., until twePre o'Ciock. ' , NEW ZEAL AND.-FREDERIOK YOUNG and CO.'S LINE.—One of the finest and fastest vessels ever engaged in the passenger traffic, to follow the Rose of Sharon. for Wellington direct, and Canterbury under engagement to the Pro vincial Government of Well in gt , m, New Zealand, for whom Frederick Young and Co. are the duly appointed agents in England, the magni ficent new, high-classed, British-built Clipper Shipi, HEROES OF ALMA, A 1 for 13 years, 1,200 tons burthen, Thomas Silk, Comrnan; der, now loading in the East India Docks. Intending passengers are invited to an inspection of this truly noble vessel. She was con structed last year by the celebrated ship-builder, Mr. White, of Cowes, upon the most recent lines, and the beauty of her model has commanded the admiration of all who have seen her. Will carry an experienced surgeon, and be des , atched on the sth November. FREDERICK .YOUNG and CO , New Zealand Colonist's Rooms, 74, Cornbill. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—AUTUMN ALTERATION OF TRAINS. NOTICE FOR OCTOBER, 185 G. The 9 a.m. Express Train from London to Scotland wit be dis continued during the winter. Passengers to all parts of Scotland arc conveyed by the Mail Train leaving the Euston-square station at 9 15 a.m. The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Train leaving London at 9.30 a.m. will be despatched at 9 o'clock, and call at Winslow and Biccster. By order. MARK HUISH. General Manager's Office, Easton Station, Sept., 1856. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. EXCURSIONS to Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednes bury, Bilston, Wolverhampton, Wellington, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Llangollen-road, Wrexham, Chester, Birkenhead, and Liverpool.— Trains will leave Paddington on Monday, 29th September, at 8 a.m., returning on 6th October, from Liverpool (landing stage) at 8 a.m., and intermediate stations as per hand-bills. FARES. Birmingham.. • . • • • ...... . .. •• .. 20s. Od. .. 9s. 6d. West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and BiLston .... 21s. 6d. • • 10s. Od. Wolverhampton Wellington Shrewsbury .. . • Wrexham, Llangollen-road, Oswestry and Ches ter ....... ...... ........ ..... 33 5. °J. 15g. (41. Birkenhead and Liverpool.. Cbild•en under 12 years of age half price. Tickets not transferable, and only available for the trains specified. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- EXCURSIONS to the SFA. SWF, commencing July 30, ending 15th October.—Tickets, available by any train for 28 days, are issued tt isle of Man, Bangor, Llandudno, and Carnarven, via Great Western and Bhrewsbury Railways, to Birkenhead and Liver• pool, thence by any of the steamers leaving Liverpool for the Isle of Nan, or to Bangor, Beaumaris, Llandudno, and Carnarvon, by the Prlnce.of Wales steamer, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. FARES THERE AND BACK. Ist Class and 2d Class and Best Cabin. Best Cabin. From London to Isle of Man... , £3 0 0 £2 5 0 Oxford to ditto ..... 2 5 0 .. 1 15 0 London to Bangor, Beaumarls, Llan dudno, and Camarvon ...... 310 0 .. 210 0 Oxford to ditto ditto ditto.... • 210 0 .. 115 0 Passengers must return from the Isle of Man by the.same Com pany's boat that they proceed there by ; also from :larnarvon. Llan dudno, Beaumaris, and Bangor, by steamers, on Mond ,y, Wednes day, and Friday. They may on their return stop at Llangollen, but must complete their journey within 28 days from the date of ticket. These tickets are available by any Train, but are not transferable. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- TOURISTS' TICKETS (Great Western, Heveford, and South Wales Railways) Available for Three Weeks from the day of issue. These Tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at l'addington, Oxford. or Leamington, over the Great Western Lines, via Glouces ter, to Ross and Hereford, and over the South Wales Line, to Milford Maven, and back, with the liberty to stop at Ross, Hereford, Chep ilberw:MlßCOMEtiffftithett. - ' - • Futzs. Ist Class. 24 Class. From London and back.. „ Leamington and d 0.... • • .... 215 ..•• 2 0 „ Oxford and d 0... .... • • ...... 210 .• .. 115 Tourists' Tickets are available by any train, but are not trans ferable, and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direction over any portion of the lines of railway. G REAT WESTERN and SHREWSBURY RAILWAYS. NORTH WALE 3 TOURIST TICKETS available for Three Weeks from the day of issue. These tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at Paddington, Oxford, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, to Chester and back, 'with permission for the passengers to stop at Shrewsbury either going or returning, to proceed either from Llangollen-road to Cernwen, or from Oswestry to Welshpool by coach, the London passengers hav ing the option of calling at Leamington and Warwick, and returning to London either via Shrewsbury, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester, or Via Shrewsbury. Birmingham, and Oxford. Ist Class and 2d Class and Fares. Inside Coach. Outside Coach. From London and back • ...... ..£3 10s. .... £2 10s. From Oxford and back.. •• • • .... •• 2 10s. • • • 1 15s. From Birmingham and back 2 Os. . 1 103. From Wolverhampton and back These tickets are available by any train, but are not transferable, Alld they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direc tion over any portion of the lines of railway. Passengers can proceed into the interior of Wales by coach from Corwen or Welshpooi, by arrangement with the coach proprietors from those places. SCIIWEPP'S MALVERN SELTZER WATER.—Having leased the Holy Well Spring at Malvern, renowned for its purity, J. S. and Co. can now produce a SELTZER WATER with all the Chemical and Nfedicinal Properties which have Tendered the Nassau Spring so t elebratcd. They continue manufac turing SODA, MAGNESIA, and PO rAsA WATERS and LEMON ADE, at London, Liverpool, Bristol. and Derby. Every Bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their signatures. 2190 MILNERS' HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING SAFES (non -conducting and vapourlsing), with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840-5144 and 1i55, including their Gunpowder Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). THE STRONGEST, BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNEItS' PIRENIX (212 e ,) SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, G and 8, Lord-street. Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE BTRY:ET, City. Circulars free by post. eIREY HAIR RESTORED to its ORIGINAL COLOUR with ease, safety. and certainty, by the PATENT GALVANIC COMBS and BRUSHEC, which arc alss an unfailing remedy for nervous headache and all neuralgic affections. Illus trated pamphlets," Why Hair becomes Grer, and its Remedy," gratis, or by post for four stamps. Neuralgia, and all Rheumatic affections are perfectly eradicated by the Patent Galvanic Flesh Brushes, the most safe, simple, and efficient galvanic instruments extant : patro nised by the faculty. °faces :—F. M. HERRING, 32, Basinghall street. Agents :—Child, South Gallery, Crystal Palace ; Savory and Moore ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-street ; Godfrey and Cooke, Conduit street; Ilendrie, 12, Tickborne-street ; Twinberrew, 2, Edwards street, Portman-square ; Saunders, 315 B, Winter, 205, and Kennedy, 166, Oxford-street ; Ross, 119, Bishopsgate-street ; Rimmell, Ger rard-street, Soho; Worn, 17, Dawson-street, and Birch, I, Moles- Worth-street, Dublin. Sold by all chemlsts and perfumers of repute. TrOURISTS and TRAVELLERS exposed to A_ the scorching rays of the sun, and heated particles of dust WI find ROWLANDS' KALYDOR most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the aloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, end immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples. Flushes, and Discoloration fly before its application, and give place to delicate clearness with the glow of beauty and of bloom. In cases of sunburn or stings of nlsects its virtues have long been acknowledged. Price 4s. Gd. and Is. Gd. per bottle., ROWLANDS' MACAS3AR OIL. A delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation, and, as an Invigorator and purifier, beyond all precedent. The Prices are 3s. 6d., 75., family bottles (equal tit four small), 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, frees them from tartar, and imparts to the gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a grateful sweetness and purity. Price 2s. Dd. per box. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfluners. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY (Limited). For establishing Steam Naviga tion on the Rivers of India. Capital 250,0001. in 25,000 Shares of 101. each, with power to increase it to I,ooo,oool.—Deposit 10s. per Share. TRUSTEES. JAMES ALLAN, Esq., Managing Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The Honourable W. WILBERFORCE BIRD, Esq., late Deputy- Governor of Bengal. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. W. WILBERFORCE BIRD, Esq., late Dep.-Governor of Bengal. Captain BOLD, K.T.S., Belvidere Villa, Millbrook, near Southampton. HARRY BORRADAILE, Esq., late Civil Service, Bombay. Jong BOURNE, Esq., late of Messrs. John Bourne and Co. Lieut.-General JOHN BRIGGS, Madras Army, late Political Agent in Candeish, and officiating Resident at Nagpore. C o lonel A. COTTON, late Chief Engineer of Madras. Capt. COTTON, R.N., Alpert House, Whitechurch, Salop. Major-General DICKINSON, late Chief Engineer of Bombay. MoNTAGUE GORE, Esq., South Audloy-strcet, Grosvenor. square. Lieut.-Col. GRIMES, Hon. E.1.C.5., lately stationed at Nagpore. Capt. HUTCHINSON , Hon. E.LC.S., Asst. Civ. Eng.Godavery. EngineerCoL A T o W f E ttLKAiasEt,naCh.Bir,riAgaidties-n Works.de Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, late G. MAY, Esq. (Messrs. May, Mathewson, and Co.), London and Calcutta. Colonel the Hon, 'lt T. RowLET, 47, Berkeley-square. (With power to add to their number.) MANAGING DIRECTOR—JOAN BOURNE, Esq., late of Messrs. John Bourne and Co., Glasgow and Greenock. ENGINEER--JAMES KENNEDY, Esq., late of Messrs. Bury, SOLICITOR—II C H u N y Curtis, HlLL, aud Esq.,Kennedy, Liverpool. street. BA NKERB—Messrs WlLLlAMS,2i3Ds_hkcrg,m°utl°ll and Co. SECRETARY--JOH N MATHEWSON, Esq. Offices, 9 Billiter-street, London. This company is established for two reasons —first, Pecause it is wanted ; and second, because it will pay. India wants cheap means of conveyance for her produce; water conveyance is cheaper than any possible mode of conveyance by land ; and ten thousand miles of this cheap water conveyance will be afforded by the great livers when properly navigated by steam. The last dividend of the Ganges Steam Company was 48 per cent. per analuu, and the latest returns of a Navigation Com pany on the Godavery was 55 per cent. The field, however, is far too large to be adequately filled by local effort, and an English Company is necessary, which, with adequate capital, will render available the resources of European science. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the offices 9, Billiter-street, London. OF MEDICINE. Patent Mice Seal of great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pharmaclen de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESE NEAR No. I, 2, and 3, prepared In the form of a lozenge devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemaud, Roux, Ilicord, &c. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION, SPERM ATORRIREA, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now In the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR =AGE, they are effectually subdued hl' this Wonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAR No. 11., effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated forms, Meets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the lulu of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIE3EMAR No. Is the great Continental Remedy for syphilis and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and au Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vita! stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, awl expell 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 disorders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable destruc tion of the patient's constitution, and which all the complains in tao world cannot restore. Price l is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves 11 s., and in 5/. eaSts, whereby there is a saving of 1/. 12e. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Johnson, 68, Cornhill; liannay and Co., 63, Ox ford-street ; Sanger, • 5 0, Oxford -street ; R. U. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; 11. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 51, Lord•streei, Liverpool ; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland- stree t, D u blin ; Wnall, bookseller, ntglaitree ai ttliirutingbana.. Unity Joint Stock Mutual Banking Association, Chief Offices, Unity Buildings, 10, Cannon-street, City, London, September 27, 1856. TO the SHAREHOLDERS of the UNITY GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, It appears that your Directors d d not consider my inter ference for a reconciliation sufficiently made. Therefore, fearing that my letter of the 23d may have led you to an erroneous conclusion on that subject, I beg to with draw it. • I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Faithfully yours, J. - J. MECHI. ance of the 1 thar, and Con; irioa arer. New Ld per 151bs I unalt , f late, and to I s Per I 6d to 330 6,1. rmer that' a demand iferior sorts ig per V. Is per qrt and b,l/10 barley, 44 0 Od. I from 8s 641 1 Os Oti 40 0 - F now w heat , r oats, 35 to 8s Otl 500. 01 per , Os (ki to 01 I ; butchers to s each• )le; ewes. 6t l ' lb. Pi ; slips, 2 0S 4id per l. 1• low, and not r shies wad e q scnnewhir ion were it le parcels °f larkq. B. a _l9 _lB _l7 3 ' .18 9 ‘ - .17 6 18 3 - 18 3 13 $ RDA S, 29 55 25 75 44% j 234 52% i' sight ICN, PIN 0%. 9 Ars £3 17 1.. a D 0 ... 0 0 g ... 0 0 ... • 0 0 T 8. loing a vo/ °action to 4 , at the viol •e, terns, 1021 a C oun ties, vi P. )11 way a -bo ut su • k of Frio? he busbies,_. re, • 21 lA' Matern Dveri des elll3. vare laigh er. r at •*est elli ; e 1 g-' floral Post-atle4 due in he ,. . End • ! „ t; , 1 „:Heekli ;niec e alr. • flacert in. .. 6th of itt° d 19t1I 0 npt; /Mt ,th• ~;3, 16tu 1; Ip• iptor Ipto' 3pnu • .. •• I:tor .•• Iptor ipton u ^L ipte, per• port, ip'(D apter 16th oil, .I: ,l , il yt 4th 1 and 1 ,"6 4 and 2 and I 1 and 2 _7" Twiceiw , Twice 1 6 604' taut g juaUY Nth, and 2 1° S; 29° 16 and Is c 1 5 9 h 4th • n d /I Ist old 14 vrc elilf Ist A 16t11 Wee I'll I so 6 01 'l'm:mill'' t ands yr', , .! be 4 ?: of trio 4110 During th e Lnd the corP 4 the comma°. • very int.e l l presentatio:: Ps on pars a ing a 6 , 1 ,0 r were calle d ad been Se ll! ▪ wbiah and in the )s W. Pablell =•.° of Lieut.-001' as. August° Lady Smith P ark-lane, Ml.' 3r wood, 3 .01111 ,, ter-at-Lavr, , and (laugh °. , Wm. Leask' 'yde.park.P r; ter of Jsu ie SurroP sq., buristerd 'hos. Sandell' urch, Charl e° iilworth,War y J. NorroY 6 and young° Ale, co. Cor" ngar, late ° I rich, aged 6"' izabeth Fier 3. T. Norri 6 ►O YOU ]° Office, It in the ool+ ol7 56. 2 4.2:1 , (so. 20,054.) • 4 PUBLICATION,S. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the libraries, in 3 vols., OUT ON THE. WORLD. By HENRY OWGAN, Hurst and Thackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marl )orough-street. ( 41 . I. .-. 1 , , ,4Nc. LON DON. S!-% T It DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1856. I , MR. VERINTON SMITH AND MR.4loaysvu§ STAFFORD AT NORTIIAIVTON. The ar.nual meeting of the Northamptonshire Agricul tural Satiety was held on Thursday last, in the county town.. The morning was occupied with the inspection of Van stock, the show of which surpassed the exhibitions of 'late years. The dinner afterwards took place at the George Hotel ; Lord HENLEY in the chair. After dinner, The CHAIRMAN gave "The Queen," "Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family," which were drunk with three times three. The Right Hon. R. V. SMITH, M.P.; rose, by per mission. of the chairman, to propose " lihe Army and NaTy." • (Cheers.) With what xecollecitions it filled them when'tkey remembered the enduranCe and achieve ments of those devoted services.. Though{, at the'outset of the war, we might, from unpreparedneths, have exhi- , bited comparative failure —though we wet not able to pour-in our my r i a d s o f men lik e th e E mp ror of Russia and of France—still, with the pride of Edglishmen, we 'could remember the'higli position in which we stood at 'the conolfision of th( 0 , was aa the Let ;f her had' in aP . ‘*y to .I per- Ayr.' • I f t icitUut! A to ,ay that be was anxious to propose the tqast, because it enabled him not only to state his conviction of the indomitable valour of the men composing our army, but to eLpress his hope that the - militia, which bad done the country such good service, would now, upon their return, become as useful labourers in peace as they had been beneficial soldiers in war. But in speaking of peace, if the subject had been mentioned in his presence ten years ago, he should have spoken of peace as likely to be permanent. He was ;afraid, how ever, that was not the case now. Events were occurring on all hands preventing any firm reliance in.the prospect of peace. But by those events, we also, being fore warned, should be forearmed., (Hear, hear.) He did not Unit it necessary to keep together a large and use less military force, but a sufficient force ought to be maintained to uphold the dignity of the country in criti cal periods. Let no one suppose that such periods were not likely to happen. And though it might be impolitic to maintain a very numerous standing army, it would yet be most unwise for the country to disarin to the ex tent that it had done in years recently passed. (Hear.) Every unjust and unlawful expenditure ought certainly to be cut down. It would be necessary to.have a good Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a goed Secretary-at- War, but he did not hesitate to say it would be wise policy to be always prepared with such an army and navy as would do honour to England in time of need. Therefore, in time of peace, as in time of war, he was most happy to propose the toast " The Health of the Army and Navy of England." (Cheers.) Colonel CARTWRIGHT, as an old Peninsular officer, returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing " Prosperity to the Northamptonshire Agricultural Society," said that be defied any man to find a place in which the agriculturist could beat the British farmer in the production of corn. But even if it were found that the English farmer were beaten in corn production, he hid still another staff on which to lean. The British farmer could still breed and feed cattle better than any other nation in the world— proved by the falling off of the importation of foreign cattle, about which so much apprehension was at one time entertained. And why, he would ask, should they not cease to import corn as they had ceased to import cattle, and become the monopolists of their own markets, by producing the best articles in the greatest quantity ? There was another mrstter. Five or six years ago, when it was questioned whether the English farmer would be able to continue to produce corn, landlords were called upon to erect buildings for the reception and feeding of cattle. His lordship reminded farmers that landlords thus called upon would naturally expedt to be sharers in the profits, and that it would be to their mutual interest for occupier°. who required buildings to tender to the land lords a proper percentage on the required outlay. His fordsf*.ip remarked that there were other imperfections in the social system, and pointed at once to a vast burden rai fed upon the land alone, amounting to six or seven millions, paid by the holders of real property. Why the tax was so charged he had never been able to discover. He was always told that it was a most difficult Wog to assess funded and personal property, but allowing thg, ; „,:-----.7,-Yeseao,kuomealeetweervesessirgewee more equally amongst themselves. He hoped they might live to see a new system in assessing the poor rate —parishes in a larger area, or minimum rate fixed for parishes. There was also another rate—the county rate. Those who paid it appeared to imagine that the magis trate had power to fix the tax and spend' the money without reference to the rate-payers. Let him undeceive them. The ratepayers had already directed the sum to be spent through their representatives in Parliament. If, therefore, Parliament ordered the building of a gaol, a IstinaCc asylum, &c., the magistrates were only the agents in carrying out the act, and those who asked for a voice in that agency were asking for more than the constitution intended to give them, for they would not only have a voice in ordering the expenditure, but in spending the money also. The noble speaker concluded by proposing " Prosperity to the Northamptonshire Ag ricultural Society." (Cheers.) Mr. AUGUSTUS STAFFORD, M.P., proposed the next toast, " The Agricultural Labourers," and in the course of his speech referred to the subject of agricultural sta tistics. Alluding to the remarks of Sir Edward B. Lytton at Hitchin, that the bill of last session was founded upon the recommendation of a committee of the House of Lords, the evidence of which was collected, not from the representatives of the feelings and habits of the tenant farmers, but from Government officials, and that the said committee were " green" enough to believe the re presentations of these men, he (Mr. Stafford) would venture to add that, in the opinion of the majority of the tenant farmers, so odd a "green crop" was never pro duced as the bill on agricul;.Jeal statistics in the last session of Parliament. (Loud laughter.) He (Mr. Stafford) had hal some experience of the collection of agricultural statistics in Ireland. It was not done there by the Government ; the police we-e simply requested to ask the different neighbours certain questions, which they might answer or not, and on the answers to those questions were founded the shtistict which were sent to Parliament. The tenant farmers of Ireland did not object to this system, because there was nothing inquisi torial and compukary in it ; and he believed that if the Government would bring in a bill which should not be inquisitorial and compulsory, the tenant farmers of Eng land would readily respond, and the agricultural statistics of the empire would be generally collected, perhaps not so minutely as to catalogue every egg that was laid, but sufliciere.4 accurate to afford to the country and to the world all necessary information as to the agricultural caps'oilities cf the island. (Hear, hear.) It was urged by the press that a return was made of every pound of cotton iinpored. But did the manufacturer give an account of every pound of cotton be bought, spun, or wove, or did every shopkeeper tell the extent of his sales ? Well, then, farmers would say that agricultural statistics might, or might not, be useful to the commu nity at large, but that they at all events were able to manage their business without them. (Hear, hear.) The statistics of Ireland were no more guide to the occupiers there as to the state of the market than the Georgics of Virgil. What really would influence farmers, as well as the community at large, would he a knowledge of the quantity of coin to be expected from foreign parts, but of this it was impossible to have anything more than vague rumours. The returns from Scotland, too, of agricultural statistics formed no guide for the market, as it was known that they referred only to the crop of 1855, and not• that of 1856. Well, then, the farmers felt this, that as a class they were not more likely to benefit than any other elms by the provision of agricul tural statistics, and that, if the process were to be com pulsory and inquisitorial, if they were to be annoyed and harassed by its exactions, they would one and all protest against it, and direct their representatives to resist it in every possible way. (Cheers.) Several other toasts were drunk, and the meeting separated. Naval and Military intelligence. I The annual inspection of the troops and the garrison establishment of Woolwich was yesterday morning com menced by the Commandant, Major-General Sir W. F. Williams. The usual parade at guard mounting having been dispensed with, the C and D troops of Royal Horse Artillery, and Captain and Adjutant Calvert's detach ment were assembled in review order on the common, under the direction of Col. E. C. Warde, C. 8., in com mand. Brevet Lieut.-Col. Strange, Capt. Hill, Lieut. Strangways, and Lient. Stirling were attached to the C troop, and Major Earlit and Lieut. Tillard to the D troop. The Colornand a n oh. attended by his aide-de-cainp, Lieut.-Col. Teesdale, Bade-Major Shaw, and Deputy- Assi,tant Quarterina4m4eneral Captain Froeth, arrived on the ground at 10 o'clock. The inspection commenced, and was proceeding in tie ordinary routine of a field .day, when, at the suddei; clang produced by 'unsheath ing the swords from the steel scabbards, a young and untrained horse on whichtlajor Earle was mounte I made a plunge among the acaminition waggons, and jammed the rid( •,h En against the wheels as to render it his seat a most difficult one. ajor attempted to throw himsel came in collision with one of the observed gushing over his face,,a his position, it was found that lit •ely lacerated wound over the tei of the legs and side from the un he horse. The major was remove and immediately attended by . Dr, Dr. Staunton, and three othet. ",oyal Ordnance Hospital, de opinion of his ultimate rsoire; ' "''he. 'earn gunvessel, atrived at Wool w: er coaling, proceeded to Sheerness. The experimental paddlewheeldespatch gunboat B•une was yesterday morning ordered down the river to Sea reach on a trial trip of her machinery. Mr. Atherton, chief engineer of Woolwich Dockyard and inspector of machinery, accompanied the vessel on behalf of Govern ment. The Admiralty yacht Vivid, Master-Commander Alio; was yesterday morning ordered to get up steam, and sail immediately for Devonport to await orders for special service. The paddle-wheel steam-yacht Black Eagle arrived at Woolwich on Thursday night from Portsmouth. A. Norwegian transport, the Jonas Gabrielson, with chains, anchors, and 7,500 shot, from Sebastopol, en tered the outer basin of Woolwich Dockyard yesterday morning. The neither, a Norwegian transport, laden with a cargo of corn from the East, arrived at Woolwich yester- day morning, and was ordered to the Victoria Docks to discharge. The Isabella Bligh and the Ordnance transport Lord Lqndesborough have been discharged the Government service at Woolwich. A court-martial, comprising Capts. Sir Thomas Mait land, C. 8., President; G. A. Eliott, J. Robb, G. H. Seymour, C. 8., G. Giffard, C. 8., T. S. Thompson, W. Pet-I, C. 8., C. F. A. Shadwell, C. 8., W. H. Stewart, C. 8., and Mr. W. J. Hellyer, deputy judge-advocate of the fleet, assembled on board the V►ctory flag-ship, at Portsmouth harbour, yesterday morning, to try Mr. T. Reece, acting assistant-engineer of the 3d class, serving on board her Majesty's gun-boat Hawk. for having on the 4th of August last, in Queenstown Harbour, quitted his ship without permission, his leave at the same time being stopped for baying committed a similar offence, and for remaining on shore until brought on board the next day by a serjeant of Royal Marines. The Court found the charge fully proved, and sentenced the pri soner to be discharged her Majesty's service and be de prived of all pay and allowances due to - Her Majesiy i 's ship Malacca, 17, Capt. Farquhar, left Spithcad yesterday for the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral W. F. Martin, Superintendent of Ports mouth Dockyard, left yesterday with his flag in her Majesty's ship Fire Queen, Mr. Paul, Master R.N , commanding, for Plymouth, to sit as a member of the court of inquiry commissioned to investigate the conduct of Captain Nias, C. 8., superintendent of the Royal William Victualling-yard. . _ The Powerful, 84, Captain T. L. Massie (1854) has been towed up to Chatham dockyard, from Folly-point, for the purpose of being paid off. The Resistance, Government troopship, has arrived at Chatham from Woolwich, to be paid off. The Dido, Captain Williams, H. A. Morehead, was paid off at Sheerness yesterday. The Eurotae, Captain William Moorsom, was taken into the fitting basin at Sheerness yesterday to be dis masted. She is to be paid off on Monday. The new screw steamcorvette, Cadmus, 21 guns, passed through Sheerness harbour from Chatham at 10 yesterday,a.m. on 4,,trirtj trip of her machinery, "IlarChinlsibisr 'the /lir e'vAii4. The following appointments were made yesterday at tho Admiralty : Frederick Skead, master, to the Tartarus; Edward A. Bindon, second master, to the Impregnable ; John W. Dobbin, acting assistant•surgeon, to the Weser; Thomas F. Edgeworth. acting assistant-surgeon, to the Royal Albert; Wm. Connolly, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Arrogant; Thomas Craig, acting assistant•surgeon, to the Itnperieuse. TILE NATIONAL GALLERY-HERHMUIV. DLER "LE DOOTEU_R WA.AGEN." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sist,—Mr. Wilson, of the Treasury, Mr. W. Stirling, and other sycophants of Germanism, an , l ab3ttors of the fraudulent appointments at the National Gallery, have, on various occasions, endeavoured to excuse the foisting upon us of the German, Herr Mundler, as " travelling agent," at the cost of 1,0001. a-year ; and, at the same time, their own servility, by affirming that that indivi dual was "favourably known" in the principal capitals of the continent. Mr. Stirling, however, ventured upon particulars, and specified Paris in support of that state ment. My personal experience of Herr Mundler justi fied me in immediately denouncing that assertion as a mere fabrication, meant to serve a particular purpose, for I knew it to be impossible that a man of his capacity and conduct could have won favourable consideration anywhere. I can now deal directly with the assertion r3garding Paris, in every respect by far the first capital of the Continent, and where Messrs. Wilson and Stir ling's German client has resided many years ; where he is best known, and where our patriotic ministers picked him up. I have been at no small pains, during iny stay here, to master this knotty point. The result of my re searches is a complete confirmation of all that I have at various times advanced in the public papers, and I offer those whom it may concern the benefit of my experience. The reply to my questions respecting the opinion enter tained here of Herr Mundler is invariably as follows : " Mundler n'est connu s Paris qua pour un bavard, un intrigant, un faiseur, enfin, qui a empoisonnd la ville avec ses crontes—(a babbler, a time-server, a humbug, in short, who has poisoned the town with his daubs)— jamais comme connoisseur. C'est un individu qui s'insinue par des bassesses. On sait parfaitement qu'il n'est h la Galerie Nationale de Londres quo parceque le Princl Albert a intrigud pour placer, et parceque c'est un Allemand. Si Monsieur IVlundler posed fait moindra sentiment d'honneur, it n'y resterait pas une heure," &c. I have conversed with many Frenchmen here, con nected with art and well acquainted with thin Mundler. I solemnly declare that I have heard but one account of him, and I defy contradiction. Tae thousands squan dered on those daubs, the "Adoration of the Magi," the "Botticelli," the " Giovanni Bellini," &c.,* the pertinacity with which he clings to a place into which he was surreptitiously inducted, and the effrontery with which he holds that place in defiance of the Press and the feeling of the nation—a clique of jobbers and para sites excepted—prove to what a nicety he is appreciated in Paris. With regard to " Gustav Waagen," the few here who are acquainted with his name hold the same opinion of him as of his associate, Mundler. They meet my in quiries about him with " C'est nn Decteur, n'est ce pas ? —c'est ci. C'est un intrigaut, un faiseur, un meneur aussi, et tres stupide. II aurait bier voulu s'imposer ici, mais ca n'a pas pris du tout. On dit que lui et Mundler partagent—est ce vrai ?" " They say that he and Mun dler divide—is it true ?" I will add, that the English residents in Paris are both indignant and ashamed that their country should be dragged in the mire at the heels of incompetent, in triguing, and mean-spirited aliens ; and the French, with a just sense of national honour, entirely sympathise with them.—l am, sir, yours obediently, Paris, Sept. 20. MORRIS MOORE. *I have heard Mr. Davenport Bromley, a friend of " Doctor" Waagen, and Mr. Alexander Barber, of Picca dilly, express opinions of all these pictures similar to those publicly recorded by Mr. Wm. Coningham and myself. The "Doctor" speaks of these gentlemen, in his book, as men of rare judgment and authority on art. LONDON MISSION OF THE AGAPEJIONII. Yesterday evening two members of the "Agapemone," near Bridgewater, appeared at the Hanover-square Rooms, according to their advertisement, " for the pur pose of publicly making known the testimony of what the Lord Jesus has done to redeem the earth." The large room was densely crowded. Two respectably dressed men, having nothing peculiar in their attire or appearance, spoke to the meeting, one after another, and urged the claims of their leader, "Brother Prince," to be regarded as the inspired author of a new revelation. They observed that some persons had been so foolish as to say that his followers regarded Mr. Prince as God, or as the Messiah, or the Holy Ghost ; but God forbid that any one, either in foolishness or in wickedness, should ever say such a thing. Brother Prince was by nature a child of wrath, but he had been made by grace a vessel of mercy. Some eleven years ago the Holy Ghost ful filled in Brother Prince all that he came to be and to do, as-the-epirit of the Gospel dispensation emptied Brother Prince entirely of self, destroyed in him all personal consciousness, all independence, all knowledge of him self ; and thus the Holy Ghost became the life of his body, and was enabled through him to carry on the pur pose f•tr which Christ came on earth. The audience at this statement evinced much disapprobation and disgust, and some persons cried out that it was gross blasphemy, and worse than Mormonism. The speakr, who seemed quite imperturbable, and who calmly surveyed the meet ing through a single glass stuck jauntily in one eye, pro ceeded to allude to a second spiritual manifestation, which, he said, occurred at the Agapemone about five years ago, in which case the phenomenon was exhibited in the person of a woman, a prophetess, "not privately, but in the presence of us all." Some of the expressions used by the speaker in describing this transaction were probably misunderstood by many of his hearers, for they interrupted him indignantly, and at last stopped him with a very general howl of execration. The two stran gers, who preserved their impassive demeanour, then re tired from the room ; upon which Mr. NEWMAN, apparently a working man, rose and denounced the doctrines and practices of the Agapemone as impious. He moved as a resolution that the state ments which bad been made by the two persons from the platform that evening were contrary to common sense, degrading to humanity, and blasphemous towards God. Toe Resolution was carried with acclamation, and amidst vociferous cheers. A sergeant of police then stepped forward, and good humourediy said, " Now, gentlemen, the meeting is over," and the proceedings terminated. TEE LATE LORD HARDINGE. His lordship was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, a Knight Grand Cross of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of Wilhelm of the Netherlands, of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, and of St. Ferdinand of Spain. He had a gold cross and five silver clasps fir Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Douro, Busaco, Torres Vedras, Albuera, Badajoz, Ciudad R idrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Parapeluna, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes ; and also had a medal and two clasps for Moodkee, Feroze shah, and Sobraon. The deceased viscount's commissions bore date as fol low ;—Ensign, Oct. 8, 1798 ; lieutenant, March 25, 1802 ; captain, April 7, 1804 ; major, April 13, 1809 ; lieut.-colonel, May 30, 1811 ; colonel, July 19, 1821 ; majorgoneral, July 22, 1830 ; lieut.-general, Nov. 23, 1841 ; general, 1854; and field-marshal, 1855. His lordship was in the receipt of a pension for the loss of his arm at Ligny, and enjoyed a pension of 5,0001. per annum for his services in India while he was a Gover nor-General. The noble and gallant viscount is succeeded in his hereditary honours by his eldest son, the Hen. Charles Stewart Hardinge, M.P. for Downpatrick, who was born in 1822, and was private secretary to his father whe❑ Governer-General in India. He married, last spring, Lady Lavinia Bingham, second daughter of Maj or-General the Earl of Lucan. A vacancy occurs in the representa tion of Downpatrick, which he has represented since August, 1852, by his elevation to the peerage. The deceased lord married Lady Emily, daughter of the first Marquis of Londonderry, and widow of Mr. John James, by whom he leaves issue, in addition to the successor to the title, Colonel the Hon. Arthur Hardinge (Coldstream Guards), the Hon. Frances Elizabeth, married to Majer- General Cun3nghitine, and the Hon. Emily Caroline, unmarried. By the lamented demise of his lordship, the fainiliesiof the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, the Marchioness (Frances) of Londonderry, the Mar quis Cambden, Colonel and Lady Caroline Wood, the Earl and Countess Vane, and many others of rank are placed in mourning. THE WOMAN : FLOGGING IN MARYLE BONE. At the usual weekly meeting a communication was read from the Poor-law CoMmissioners, requesting the guardians to reconsider their decision with respect to the master of the workhouse. The letter concluded with the following passage : "Unless, however, the directors and guardians are pre pared to tlke the former course, I am directed to inform you that the board having decided that the master is unfit to fill his office will have no other alternative than to adopt the latter." The following resolution was passed by the board : "That the board of guardians of St. Marylebone, hay ing already decided upon the case, decline further to consider the same, especially as the Poor-law Board, in their communication of the 11th inst., state that no mere change of the officers of the house will enab!e the directors and guardians successfully to cope with the evi s which exist.' The report of a special committee appointed to inquire into an :•Ileged flagrant outrage committed on a young lady by Green, the porter, who was concerned in the late flogging business, and who bad been retained in the ser• vice of the directors, was next brought up and read. l'hc committee stated that the charge bad been clearly proved against Green and his , wife, and recom►nended that they should be reprimanded. Dr. Bachhoffuer and others whiled for Green's instant smi Atter some discussion the motion for the dismissal of the accused was carried, and the board, after a length• ened discussion up Jn score charges of irregularity against the medical officers of the house, whose dismissals were nearly carried, adjourned after a lengthened meeting. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• THE CUSTOMS CONGEES3. (From the Daily News.) BRUSSELS, SEPT. 25. • The Congress met to-day at twelve o'clock, in the splendid gothic house opposite the old Town hail, in the .plendid gothic room of the Literary and Artistic So ciety. The addition to the list of pamphlets for distri bution was on "The Past and Future of the old Flemish Ports, Bruges, Ostend, and Nieuport." In this pamph let a contrast is drawn between free and protected ports. To this protection, it is asserted, is due the de cline of Bruges, of Nieuport, of Ostend. "To compare our port of to-day," said some Marseilles writer, " with the port of former times, would be to compare death with life." This state of death, it is asserted, is the con dition of the F.emish ports in question. The Congress was thinly attended. The secretary having read a report of yesterday's proceedings, the Pre sident proceeded with the business of the day. In the first place a letter from a M. Policant was read, asking to be heard on a general question. He was supported by M. Pascal Duprat. It was arranged that the gen tleman should be heard at the conclusion of the business of tile day. M. de Brouckere then read a copy of the address it was proposed to send to the King, thanking his Majesty for the opportunity the free institutions he had known how to preserve to the Belgians had affordel them of calmly discussing the great subject of customs reforms. The address concluded with ex pressions of gratitude for the opportunity given them of carrying out their business in Brussels ' • and of con gratulation on the brilliant fetes that had been offered to his Majesty on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his advent to the throne. This address was carried unani mously, with the exception of one voice —that, it was Understood, 'of a Belgian communist. M. de Broucklge then introduced two propositions to the Congress; which he proposed should he debated before the rest, viz., one to abolish octrois, and one to abolish the salt tax. He proposed to allow one hour for the . . . . discusiion of the former, and halt an hour for that of the latter. Each speaker was to be allowed ten minutes. After the reading of the sections' report on the octroi, Ni.Wolowski, of the French Institute, declared that he had been in favour of their abolition, but be must con fess that he had been converted to the other side. In the first place, be would state that the question should not have been introduced at all to the Congress. It was fi-cal, not a protective duty ; and the object of the Congress was to substitute fiscal for protective duties. He referred the Congress to Mr. Cobden's letter. He was persuaded that the wants of the towns made octrois for the present inevitable. It had been proposed often to abolish the octrois and tax houses ; but this would have an effect exactly like that of the octroi it would supplant, for the landlord would add the duty to the relit. It had been said that England was au apt example of the possibility of suppressing ootrois ; but in England indirect taxes were more easily carried out than in other countries. Monsieur Faider succeeded M. Wolowski. He al- luded to M. Wolowski's statement that it was unpopular to support octrois. He didn't care whether this imposi tion was popular or unpopalai —all he wanted to esta blish was that it was against reason. It was simply a question—the old question—as to the preference the world should give to direct or to indirect taxation. Thiers had maintained that indirect taxation was the sign of a barbarous nation—in this case Englishmen and Americana were savages. It had been said that the octroi was a fiscal and not a protective duty : he contended that it was a protective duty, and a most oppressive one, touching raw materials—materials of general consump. tion. Why, in Brussels there was an octroi duty on wood. _Caere were protective duties in various towns on shoes, to protect shoemakers ; on clothes, to protect tailors. At Liege the octroi levied dutiee upon every thing, even eau-de-Cologne and pomatum. The meat of the inhabitants of Brussels v% as taxed to the amount of 32,000/. They had a set of octroi servants, who lounged about the town gates, peeped into baskets, were particu larly severe with pretty women, and cost 6,0001. a-year. ➢id they propose to let meat free through the frontier to reserve all the pleasure of taxing it at the town gates ? It was this belief that a house tax was the'proper substi tute for the octroi. As regards fiscal duties, if they must tax beer, for instance, the way was to tax it in the manufactory, and not in retail quantities at the town gates. _ _ _ M. de Brouckere now left the chair and ascended the tribune to give the reasons why he had continually op posed the system of octrois since 1848. To abolish the octroi, however, was not enough. He thought that the proposition should be altered ; thet the question, instead of being referred to the International Free trade Con gres., should be referred to the delegates of the various countries, and that they should bo recommended to form local committees, baying for object the abolition of this obnoxious task. It was not an international question. There were no octrois in England or Switzerland, and in those countries where 'it exisiel tkey were distinct and different from those of their neighbours. After a few words from M. Pascal Dupre, the President's proposi- Con, " That the Congress declares a wisb that some tax be substituted for the system of octrois, and tkat com mittees be formed in those countries where octrois existed to advocate their abolition," was carried. The next proposition as regards the salt duty having been set aside, as beyond the province of the Congress, The next proposition was to the effect that all duties on alimentary substances should Us at once and finally asolished. This proposition, the author of which was M. Berthoud, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Marseille', was carried unanimously, after a few words from M. Pascal Duprat. The third proposition—that of M. D'Anj on—ran as follows :—" That the Congress expresses a wish that the high duties on foreign wines levied in England should be reduced." This proposition elicited some discussion, in the course of which a delegate said he spoke from his own personal experience when he said that you never saw drunken people when wine was plentiful. It was carried unanimously, with one dissentient voice. An amendment of M. Pascal Dnprat, to that calling for the abolition of all duties on raw materials, viz., that protective duties on iron and coal should he grade• ally but definitively abolished, was carried after a short discussion. Then M. Garnier's proposition—that, indeed, in cluded all the rest—was put forward. Briefly it meant this—that the Congress expressed a hope that a general, gradual, and ti tal reform of custom duties be carried out in all countries ; and that the Congress reproves all domiciliary visits, prohibitions, reprisals, and premiums on exportation. This proposition, each clause of which was .voted upon separately, was carried almost unani- mously. M. Brennus, of Switzerland, then spoke on the finan cial advantages to governments of commercial freedom; and was followed by Mr. Richard Bird, of Manchester, on the high duties still imposed in England. He cited the tea duties, as equal to 150 per cont. ad valorem, and noticed that the Ciiinese received our manufactures at 5 per cent. The business of the Congress now being at an end, M. Corr Vandaniaren read the statutes of his Interna tional Free Trade League. He announced that Mr. Cobden had been appointed its English representative. Among other foreign representatives was M. Mon.?, for Spain. There was to be an international fund, a cen tral office in Brussels, and a subscription of 12 franca from each member, together with voluntary subscrip• tions. M. Brouckere then thanked the International Free Trade League fir the promptitude with which they had organised themselves. Alter speeches from M. Policant and M. Kuranda, for Austria, a preposition was put in from M. Cipri, re• ' questing that the Congress would express a hope that the Governments of Italy would call together a congress at Florence to harmonise their commercial laws in the interest of free trade. M. Cipri spoke in favour of his proposition, and assured the Congress tlmt it would have a great effect in Italy. A delegate having spoken against it, MM. Arrivabene and Cassati begged M. Cipri to withdraw his proposition. Withdrawn accorlingly. M. Cogels then put in a resolution advocating the simplification and codification of customs duties. The author of this proposition supported it in a speech show. ing the complicated and unintelliaile state in which the Customs:laws of Belgium eamined. Carried unanimously, with the exception of one voice. The President, in closing the Congress, hoped that all to whom he had spoken harshly in the course of the sit ting, would attribute it to the heat of debate. He be lieved the battle was won. LA them thank once more, and in conclusion, the Belgian Association for the Reform of Customs Duties. (Immense applause.) M. Sciajoia proposed a vots of thanks to the chair man, which was carried with great applause, and so brought the meetings of the Congress t o a close. FATAL COLLIIIRY EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday Mr. Badger, coroner, opened an inquest at the Red Lion Inn, Thorpe Hexley, near Sheffield, on view of the bodies of Samuel Smith, aged 20, years, and Samuel Hodgson, aged 14 years, who wore killed on the previous day by an explosion of firedamp at the Grange.lane belonging to Mr. Joseph Stenton, of Ecelesfiold. The pit has been sunk but a short time, and the workings, which are not extens;a7e, are as yet in a somewhat in complete state. The deceased went to work at 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and about 11 o'clock John Fox, the underground steward, entered a heading in their boardgate with a lighted candle. There being an accu mulation of inflammable gas, a n explosion instantly succeeded, which was so powerful as to blow away the board and other parts of the gearing at the top of the The . only person engaged in the boardgate at the tune of the explosion besides the deceased were Fox and Willoughby Wood. Shortly after the explosion Fox and Wood arrived at the bottom of the shaft very seriously injured, and were at once drawn up and re rnovtd to their homes. In the meantime two men, named Moxon and Rodgers, courageously descended to A. arch f or th e deceased. Hodgson they found lying under a waggon, which had been blown upon him by ' the force of the explosion, and severely injured about the head. He expired shortly afterwards. Smith was found at a little distance, severely burnt and quite dead. Fox and Wood were 3o ill as to be unfit for examination before the jury, and the inquiry was adjourned to Thursday next fur their evidence and for the attendance of Mr. C. Morton, the Government inspector, who will in the meantime make an examination of the pit. No; fOf the 'toe conclusion of the wat. Our army at he close .- ir . ~ better accoutred , better fed, better equip ed,Ahan i I I is• ~ -'2 4 pi' armies of either of the'powers engaged in be war. . '. 7 i . England always remember this, and in lking of .` •! , ', i 'navy, letithem remembir that, though our Heathen 'int an.: icei• Cotrteppo- had iro opportunity •of distinguishing theiaselvep in ' ; 1 , , ~- 1 I >Ai"( yetsii had been the proud privilege of the, us* ch4se frOm the seas ever y flag , hostile and thus • to' 4 4 . 0 '/form meat useful - and e ffi cient . service inithet.; ~ 1 j • , , : , - & fp. " vOlaleiralllt are - • •. th ~ ••?' , ,th, .herpe!! .'"' : , Otte. re • o'• ors. .e rig, t hon. gent eman proceede Piccadilly. hRV that ha am,: en.r;nr., +" ......,,......,.- 41— L---s. L__ der with so mucVorce s 1r the task of ri3aintstioing, In this 'dilemma tae :if off, 8.0 .unfortnnAtely c waggens,' Blond Vwas o and, when. raised #hm le had sustained 104 ever( flaple, besides *ons arestrainahleli s i of tl red to hi e o i lli a r. Alexander -A e, medical offi lays wiprese ' arab] E'47 , `pO A* ate wick yesterday, and, aft ME SEA SERPENT AGAIN! The following is an extract from the log book of the ship Princess, Captain A. K. N. Tremearne, in the London Docks, on the 15th inst., from China, " Tuesday, July 8, 1856. Latitude accurate, 34 deg. 56 min. S. ; longitude, accurate, 18 deg. 14 min. E. ; gentle breeze, fine weather. At 1 p.m. saw a very large fish, with a head like a walrus, and 12 fins similar to those in a blackfisb, but turned the contrary way ; the back was from 20 to 30 feet long, also a great length of tail. It is not improbable that this monster has been taken for the great sea serpent. Fired, and hit it near the head with rifle-ball. At 8 wind fresh and fine." We submit that the repeated accounts of seeing a marine monster, whatever be its correct name or kind, yet harmonising in some leading descriptions, forbid longer doubt of some such creature existing, and we en elo.,e you a rough sketch (as this one appeared), signed by Captain Tremearne, who has been six years in our employ and is otherwise well known. His own private log contains a similar record, and we have interrogated Others of the Princess's crew, who assert the fact of such appearance. Captain Tremearno states that Captain Morgan, a pas senger by the Princess, ,but who at St. Helena joint/a the -hip Senator, to command her to Liverpool (where she is daily expected), also saw this monster, and can corro borate the statements. U❑til the 13th of October the Princess will be at London•duck jetty, loading for Me bourne, and natura!- ists or other scientific persons can there make further inquiries, provided they do not subject Captain Tre tnearne to correspondence or interrupt ship's duties, which are urgent for her speedy departure. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. This board sat yesterday, after a short recess, in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the transaction of busi ness devolving upon it ; Mr. Thwaites, the chairman, presiding, There was a large attendance of members, and no fewer than 73 different subjects upon the paper for consideration ; but that to which the most public interest attached was a supplemental report read by Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer of the board, on the northern and southern drainage of the metropolis, in obedience to a resolution of the board on the 12th of August last, which referred back to Min his previous reports, in order that he might report to them anew on the whole question. Mr. Bazalgette states in the document read yesterday, of which we give the material portions, that the metropolitan drainage scheme, as originally pro pounded by him, is capable, without any material alte ration of design, of being adapted to a variety of points of outfall into the Thames, at various distances below London, or to the deodorisation or utilisation of sewage. Although the sewage of London cannot at present be profitably applied to agriculture in a commercial point of view, it may be advantageously deodorised and rendered inoffensive at Barking Creek and Woolwich marshes, or even nearer to London, and the Thames thus purified at hes eost than by constructing sewers to a great distance below the metropolis. He is still of opinion that, in the absence of deodorising works, the sewage may be dis charged into the Thames without nuisance at Halfway Reach, beyond the limits of the metropolis, in the manner already proposed for the south side of the Thames. Va rious propositions have, however, been made with regard to the position of the outfall and mode of discharge into the river, and with respect to the application of the sewage to agriculture. There appear to him to be four different modes by which the metropolitan sewage may be disposed of :-1. By retaining the points of outfati originally proposed at Barking Creek and Woolwich marshes, but dispensing with the reservoirs at those places, and substituting for them deodorising works, and discharging the purified waters into the Thames at all times of the tide, after having abstracted from them the deodorised manure, which would be available for agri l i - cultural purposes. 2. By discharging the sewage into the river at Half way Reach, beyond the limits of the metropolis, at and near high water, so that it should not reflow up the river within the limit of the `metro polis, excepting on occasions of heavy storme, which occur on from 20 to 30 days per annum, and last for short periods only on those exceptional days, on which occasions the sewage would be highly diluted. 3. By discharging the sewage into the river at Long Reach during the first half of the ebb tide, reducing the ca pacity of the reservoirs, and preventing the reflow of the sewage into the river within the limits of the metropolis. 4. By conveying the sewage on the south side of the Thames underneath that river to the north side, and die charging it at Sea Reach at all times of tide, so that it would not return within the limits of the metropolis, and dispensing with reservoirs, or by occasionally distri buting such sewage, or any portion thereof, as liquid manure over the lands or marshes through which it would be conveyed on its route to this outfall. The extension to Halfway Reach would involve an increased expendi ture of 345,1301. ; to Long Reach, 918,060/. ; to Sea Reach, 1,763,3241.; and the addition eVdeodorising works to the original scheme, 1,273,4801. The substitution of deodorising works for reservoirs at Barking Creek and Pluinstead-marshes would involve the smallest expendi ture of capital, but the largest annual outlay. A further saving of probably nearly 500,000/, might be effected by terminating the sewers and establishing deodorising I works on the south side of the river, and the West Ham marshes on the north side, which would in his judgment accomplish the object desired without creating a nuisance. He was still, after mature coneideration, of opinion that the second proposition, or the extension of the outfalls to Halfway Reach, would fully satisfy the requirements of the Legislature, and be effective in a sanitary point of view, as already explained in his former reports upon this subject. At the conclusion of the report Mr. Les lie asked whether, regardless of expense, Mr. Bazalgette considered the propo:al he bad made would be equal to carrying off the entire drainage and the rain-water of the metropolis ? Mr, Bazalgette replied in the affirma tive, adding that he gave the preference to his second proposition. On the motion of Mr. Hows, seconded by Mr. Doulton, the report was ordered into consideration at a special meeting of the board on Wednesday next. Mr. Leslie gave notice that he should then move that the report be entirely negatived. CASE OF CHILD MURDELL—A millworker, hawed Mary Wood, has been apprehended in a village near Edinburgh for the murder of her infant child by drown ing it in the Union Canal. She had given birth to the child about a fortnight previous in the Edin burgh Maternity Hospital, and had just left that insti tution ;,be day before its body was found in the water. It is said that the unhappy woman has confessed the crime with which she is charged. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CRIMEA. Vol. 2. An Historical Sketch. By GEORGE BRACKENBUIIY, accompanied by Forty-one Plates from Drawings taken on the spot, by WILLIAM SIMPSON. Size, royal Bvo. Price, elegantly hound, 215., or coloured, 425. Ju't ready. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., 13 and 14, Pall Mall Ea%t, Publishers to her Majesty. PARLOUR LIBRARY. Vol. 150,Thr Octdber, price 25., FATHER DARCY. An Historical Tale of the Gunpowder Plot. By the Author of "Emilia Wyndham," &c., &c. Also, just published in thii Series, CARDINAL MAZARIN ; or, Twenty Years After. By Alex, Dumas. Is. MARGARET GRAIIANI. A Tale. By 0.. P. R.; James. Is. HUNGARIAN BROTHERS. By Miss Porter .1 Fs. 6d. GliANl'.7l PHANTOM REGIMENT. Is. 64. ; ' London: Thomas Hodgson, 13, Pai =row. On September 30 will be published, ..Tv NATIONAL .R' CONTENTS: T. The Govrrie Conspiracy. 11. Crime in England, and its Treatment. 111. Victor Cousin on Madame de 11,autefo' raries. IV. Percy Bysshe Shelley. V. De Foe as a Novelist. VI. Italy. VII. Sydney Dobell on the War. VIII. Personal Influences on our Present Coleridge—Carlyle - - Price Five Shl London: Chapman and Hall, 193, ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-ISLINGTON BRANCH, 97, Doswell-road.—These capital business pre mises to be LET on Lease. Apply to C. J. Graham, Esq., 3, Plow den-buildings, Temple. BANK of L O N D O N. HEAD BANICING.HOUSE—ThreadneedIe - street. CHARING-CROSS BRANCH-450, West Strand. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Muni/AlL—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., 25, Park-lane, and Maresfleld-park, Sussex. VICE-CIIAIRMAN.—JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq. (Frith, Sands, and Co.), Austin-friars. John Edmund Anderdon. Ei44., Devonshire-terrace, Hyde-park. Colonel William Elsey, H.E.1.C.5., Bank House, Acton. Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens, Lcndon-wall), Brixton Rise. _ . _ Jeremiah Greatorex, Esq. (Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co., Alder - manbury), Spring Hill House, Upper Clapton. Alexander Constantine lonldes, Esq. (Firm of lonides, Sgouta, and Co., Gracechurch-street), Tulse-hill. Charles Joyce, Esq. (Firm of Charles Joyce and Co., Moorgate street), Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park. Thomas Luce, Esq., M.P., King-street, St. James's, and Maltnel bury, Wilts. Henry Morris, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service, 25, Mark lane, City. Sir Henry Maggeridge, Alderman of London, St. Andrew's-hill, City. Alfred Wilson, Esq. (Venables, Wilson, and Tyler, Queenhlthe), Firgrove, Weybridge, Surrey. Current accounts made up to the 10th of June and the 31st of De cember in each year, and interest allowed on the balances. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS.—The rate of interest allowed on money placed on deposit at three days' notice of withdrawal is 1 per cent. per annum under the Bank of England rate of discoant for first-class bills, rising and falling therewith. The Agency of Country and Foreign Banks, and all other banking business, is undertaken. MATTHEW MARSHALL, jun., Manager. BENJAMIN SCOTT, Secretary. UNITY FIRE and LIFE ASSOCIATIONS. SIIARES either Purchased or Sold in the above Com,tanies. Apply to Thomas Bensusan, 75, Old Broad-street. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent- Street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,0001. TRUSTEES. Hn. Spencer H. Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branchc% N.B. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged I 3 per cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Mangler. ENGINEERS' MASONIC and UNIVERSAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GITEN, That an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Society will he held at the Society's Offices, No. 345, Strand, London, on TUESDAY. the 7th October next, at one o'cl.)ek precisely, to confirm the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Meeting, held on the 9th inst., adopting the new deed, establishing a share capital, and enlarging the scope and operations of the Society ; to confirm a Resolution of the Direc tors for embodying the "Age Assurance Company" with this Society. By order of the Directors. G. H. ROBERTSON, Secretary. 31t, Strand, 25th Sept., 1856. T HE GENERAL LIFE ANO FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. ratanlisbed urn.- - Empowered by Special Acts of Parliarannt. Capital, DIP.' [,080,000L George Bousfleld, Esq. I Chas. Maley, Esq., M.P. T. challis, Esq., Alderman, M.P. James Pilkingten, Esq., M.P. Jacob Geo. Cope, Esq. Thomas Piper, Esq. Joseph Dawson, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. The Right Hon. CUM. P. Tillers, Benjamin Edgington, Esq. M.P. John T. Fletcher, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq. The MICHAELMAS Fire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and May be had on application at the Head•offlce of the Company, or of any of its agents throughout the country. Losses by Explosion of Gas made good by the Company. • In the LIFE DEPARTMENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROIFITS divisible by the Company's Deed of Settlement, allowed to Assurers; and the Company transacts all business relating to Life Assurances, Deferred Annuities, or Family Endowments. on the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and public security. No charge for Stamps on Life Assurance Policies. LOANS granted on personal security, and the deposit of a Life Policy to be effected by the borrower. To all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal allowance is made. By order of the Board, THOMAS PRICE, Secretary. Unity Buildings, 10, Cannon•street, London, Sept. 27, 1856. TO the SHAREHOLDERS of the UNITY GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN , Although deeply grateful for the confidence which you have reposed in me by placing at my disposal more than half the shares of your company, thus making me the arbiter of your wishes, I have, by the advice of my friends, and after careful deliberation, determined not to take any share in the management of either the Life or Fire Assurance offices. My reason for this determination is that I feel that the affairs of a bank require the most tranquil and cordial co-ope ration, free from tho-e disturbing influences which might pos sibly arise from several directorates. I shall, therefore, as long as the shareholders desire it, con fine my attention to the interests of the Unity Bank. I trust that my determination will not he injurious to your institutions, to which, for many reasons, and as a very large shareholder, I sincerely desire every success. Again thanking you for the great confidence reposed in me, I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Faithfully yours, J. J. MECHI. P.S. I must beg to decline acting on any Committee of either the Fire or Life Office. -,/,,/6 F A .. ; . , t , .- _ , • ' ' . ' .14 n , t t f , • ,/ r.rii .*" ,i) •- . • ,4 1 ,..,- 0." , •‘),Ot ~\ ,„ ,• y ~.. 4 ..... 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Nationality has nothing at all to do with those tran.actions, which, however, afford most lamentable evidence of the extent of public credulity, and of the manner in which advantage has been taken of that cm. dual to bring ruin upon many a family." The Dublin journal, with pardonable vanity, then pints to an instance in which the genuine banking establishments in Ireland have manifested a discretion and knowledge which certainly offer a striking contrast to the loose and immoral proceed ings just brought to light at the other side of the channel. Here is the case alluded to : " We happen to know that, about the time of the sus pension of £(r. Oliver, of Liverpool, bills of the Royal British Rink of London were sent for discount to this city ; but they were then refused. One of the banks in Dublin caused inquiries to be made iu London as to the _ _ condition of the British Bank, and the result was that the bills were rejected here. That happened nearly two years ago; and we are glad to have it in our power to mention this fact, so creditable to the Irish banks, whose thriving cnidition—the effect of really prudent manage ment—is so intimately connected with the prosperity of this part of the united kingdom. The moral to be de rived from the disclosures about the British Bank is the imperative necessity, henceforward, of a bona fide audit, not alone of balances and ordinary accounts, but au exa mination of all over-drawn accounts and the securities standing against them." With respect to the two great bank swindles of the current year people here are beginning to think it would have been as well had the Master of the Rolls given full publicity 19 02n names of the three establishments recorded in th - e76ergrimirmi . of John Sadleir as the models for his conduct of the Tipperary Bank. Even now, per : hap3, it would not be too late for the revelation. A preliminary meeting of the creditors of Sad leir's Bank was held yesterday in the town of Tip perary, the Very Rev. Dr. Howley, P.P., in the chair, when it was determined to call a general ms'eting of the depositors of that branch of the concern for Tiiursday next, in order to concert mea sures for some amicable adjustment of their claim, and to save all parties from the ruinous conse quences of protracted litigation. The bare prospect of the issuing of 2,000 writs has, after all, bad a beneficial effect upon the drowsy creditors. THE DUBLIN CRIMEAN BANQUET. So far everything progresses satisfactorily, and neither politics nor polemics have disturbed the general harmony. Archbishop Cullen has sent in a donation of 51., and the Rev. Mr. Parseley, the Roman Catholic garrison chaplain, and in all re _ spects quite a model clergyman, has contributed an excellent letter upon a subject which cannot fail to excite attention at the present time, when the interests and comforts o f th e p r i va te soldiers are so justly the objects of public solicitude. The rev. gentleman, in torwarding his subscription, ex presses 3. regret that some less transitory token of public approbation has not been adopted than a mere banquet, and he adds : " There is an object much more dear to the soldier's heart than even the flattering approval of his country, and that is the welfare of his children. Let us consider what sympathy this interesting object has met with from the country. There are two well endowed institutions— the Duke of York's school in England, and the Hibernian School in the Phosnix-park,' both of which are mere nur series for Cie army, as they afford refuge only to the sons of soldiers, who are trained in them for military life, while the daughters—`the most helpless of the soldier's family' —now deprived of the shelter which these institutions would afford—are left to the precarious charity of friends (if they have any) as destitute as themselves. You will accord me your sympathy in this matter when I inform you that during 23 years attendance on the military hos pitals in Dublin, I have attended many and many a gallant fellow whose last moments were embittered by gloomy furebcdings as to the future fate of his children, particularly of his daughters. Oh ! Sir, how elevate a soul, so oppressed, to thoughts of another and brighter world—bow calm the heart thus racked with the idea that his children had no prospect but the poor-house, beggary, or worse? On this subject I was honoured with many interviews by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, when commanding the Leinster district, at the first of which I informed him of a regulation just then made by the Thard of Governors of the Hibernian School, prohibiting for the future the admission of female ehildyen. His Grace turned to Major-General (then C,,lonvl) Forster, and a=ked him—if not with an expres sion of indignation, at least with surprise --'.How they e•iuld think of shutting the door of that institutinn against tie roost helpless of the soldier's family,' and added that he was going to London, and would try to have reversed a resolution of which he highly disapproved.' His Royal Highness then made me—not for the first time--the me dium of his charitaMe donation to a widcry with four daughters, left destitute I.y a soldier wko hid been la years a serjeai.t. From iny experience of the deep in• terest which his Grace takes in the comfort and welare of the soldier I take this opportunity sincerely to con gratulate the army on his Royal Highness's appoint ment to the command-in-chief of her Majesty's forces, and I may venture to aQsnre you, sir, of his Royal ay m athy if you lend your powerful- aid in behalf of these wh he so feelingly designated the most help less of the soldier's family. In conclusion, I would ask, cou'd the residue of the patristic' and 'central relief ' funds subscribed since the opening of the war be better applied than to found two orphan a-ylums—one for the Catholic, and the othtr for the Protestant daughters of soldiers who had been lawfully married I" THE DUBLIN HOSPITALS. The following is the list of the new Board of Superintendence of the Hospitals of Durham, ap pointed by the Lord-Lieutenant under the act of last session. The selection has given general satis faction :—Lord Talbot do Malahide, Chief Justice Monahan, Sir Philip Crampton, Mr. G. A. Hamil ton, M.P. ; Dr. Johnson, Dr. Stokes, Dr. Corrigan, Surgeon Cusack, Mr. Jonathan Pim, Mr. George Roe, Mr. Richard Kelly, and Mr. Thomas Hutton. The secretary, who is to receive a salary, is not yet appointed. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN. One of the Limerick papers states that, whether his consent be given or withheld, no event is more probable than the election of Mr. Smith O'Brien by two, if not three, of the great constituencies of the province of Munster when the next dissolution of Parliament occurs. Were the Liberator himself in the laud of the living he could not expect greater honour than this. THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. The daily pipers publish further lists of valuable pictures to be contributed to this grand exhibition of art. Lord Carlisle has placed at the disposal of the committee a very fine selection of pictures from hic gallery at Castle Iloward, of which the following is a list : Ludovico Carracci The Entombment Tiiitoretto Tintorotto Mabuse Francisco Primaticcio Penelope and Ulysses Aunibale Carracci Three Marys Domenichino Paul Brill Adrian Brouwer Correggio The Mabuse, Annibale Carracci, and Correggio are pie. tures of a very high class, and the whole collection will be a great acquisition. A letter was received from Lord Spencer also, whose collection at Althorp is one of the richest in the kingdom, offering a very fine selection of pie tines from his gallery. A. list had been made out by Dr. W - aagen for the committee uf 23 pictures in Lord Spencer's possession, of the highest class, which ho considered would add greatly to the attraction of the exhibition, and would help to carry out the ehrouological hi,tory of art, which is one of the objects aimed at. This list was sent to his lord ship, and it was felt that such a. list was a large demand upon one individual's liberality, but the noble earl has re plied by not only placing these works at their disposal, but adding that ho believes since Dr. Waagou's visit additions have been made to his collection of very great value, a se - lection from which would add interest, to the exhibition, and he kindly invites the committee to send some person to examine and select from theso additional pictures. Among the pictures which Lord Spencer, with such remarkable liberality, has already promised are :—A small Raphael, a valuable specimen of Paris Bordone, a Van Cleve, a Van Orley, three magnificent Vandykes, a Rubens, two Rembrandts, a Philippe de Champagne, a Mignard, and a Baroccio. A letter from Mr. Walter, of the Times, kindly offers to contribute one of the finest specimens of the mas ter iu England, a picture by Paul Potter ; and if the com mittee should be desirous of receiving further contiibu tions, he will gladly show his collection to any one they may send to Bearwood for that purpose. Mr. B. Dobree also places some very valuable pictures by the English masters at the service of the committee, including Wilkie's, Morland's, and Turner's. Lord Do Tabley offers two of Turner's grandest pictures, and any further selection they may choose to make. Lord Sheffield promises two cele brated portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, one of them a portrait of Gibbon, the historian ; anti Lord Dartmouth, pictures by Claude, Snyders, illihens, Wilson, and Law. lenco. The committee, it will thi seen from a glance at even this brief list, centintie to receive tlters of the most encouraging kind, and there wth be no doubt that'the ex hibition will be one of extraordinary atti action and value. THE CASE OF LIEUT. I)HANE.—Msjor Andei•eon, of the 22d Regiment, in a letter to the Times, this morning, complainF of the remarks of the editor, who, in an aricle, asserted "That Captain Barlow 'Was placed under ar rest. That his b, , oks and chest: were transferred to a committee of paymastership. of which I was president. That the chest was examined and fouLd empty." These circumstances never occurred. Captain liar low's money chest was never examined, for I felt I could not order such a step without at the ►ame time relieving hint pub licly iu regimental orders from his duties as Paymaster, and this was not done till Lieut. Deane anived.at Pea hamar. NEwSPAPEIfi M . r) ~~ ~: ~} '.