The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

_ , -r- COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS for ORPHAN and a ECNSSIT3ITi CHILI)kF.N, rinner Patron, His Royal Highness Prince AT BERT. IsITITICE IS HEBERT GIVEN, That a GENERAL TIAT r- YEARLY COURT ot the. governors o' this I. , stitutinn will be held on 11,1!)ND kY, the 29th. Inst., at the London Tavern, Blshotisgrte- Went, to commence acti 1 o'clock In the forenoon, when an Election of Childreri(ten boys Lnd six girls) will take place. The report of the Board of Manasiment and of the Auditors will then he sub mltthd, and all nth other Questions and matters as may be Itiw ally brought before th*Cotirt will be discussad and decided. ALFRED LENCII SAUL, Secretary. 81, Cheapelde, Dec. 23, 1856. DELIVERY of LETTERS.—The Postmaster- General, anxious to Promote rap idi ty and corractnem in the delivery of letters, has, for postal purposes, divided London and its environs into ten district'', each to be treated, in many respects, as a separate town ; and to render this arrangement effectual, he earnestly requests that every 'nears may be taken by the public for causing letters to be directail according to the district for which they are intended. Initia'ts will suffice, and for the house at which this notice is left the initials are W. C., the district being the Western Central. In the direction of a letter, these initials should be legibly written in a separate Rue, and should in all eases end the address, thus : JAMES THOMPSON, Esq 500, High Holborn, w. c. Or, when the letter is from the country, thus : JAMES THOMPSON, Esq., 500, High Holborn, London, W.C. Among other means of inducing this practice, it is sug gested that, when convenient, each resident of the Western tdateict should add the name of the district, or the initials, to hih own address inside his letters when writing to his cone spoidents, and en his address card. Also, that if in busi tess, he should give the namo of the district, or the initials, in the heading of bills or invoices, in advertisements or lachrds, and on any article of manufacture which may bear his address. Correspondents not attending to the above arrangement, should be requested to use the initials in reply. Information as to the district in which any locality is in cluded may be had at any receiving -house in London and its environs, or at any head NIA-office in provincial towns, at all of which alphabetic lists of streets, dm., will be kept for referenee. The British Postal Guide, which can be Procured (price fid ) at any head post-office, will hereafter contai n a similar street list showing the district initials : and like' information, the Postmaster General is assured, will be Riven in the London Post Office Directory for the ye ar 1857 , In the part headed " Street Directory." The following additional information may prove useful : TABLE OF DISTRICTS. names. Initials. Eastern Central District Western Central District ... W. C. . Northern District North Eastern District N. E. Eastern District South Eastern District Southern District South Western District S. W. ' Western District W. North Western District If the initial letters be thus regularly appended the depart tsent will be able to assort with facility and correctness the nntry they letters, according to their respective districts, before aY reach London in the morning. BY a recent improvement about 60,000, or fully one-third, of such letters are already so assorted with as much correct- I teas as circumstances allow a change which has greatly ex pedited tt e delivery; and it is hoped that, if the previous 4 1t asurtreent. with full facility for correctness, can be extended 0 all, this advantage, seconded by other improvements now 111 Progress, will eventually securo to the public the benefit ° ls further and important acceleration of the morning deli ter"' throughout London. By command of the Postmaster-General. ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. General Post-office, Dec., 1856. THE MONS UNITED COLLIERIES COMPANY (Limited). %ital One Million, in 100,000 Shares of 10/, each, deposit 2/. per Share on Allotment. TRUSTEES. Rig Grace the Duke of Wellington. The Right Hon. the Earl of Albemarle. !! B. Thornton, Esq:, Banker, Birchin-lane. Z M. Weguelin, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England. DIRECTORS. L ieut.-Cameral the Right Hon. Lord James Hay, Chairman. Th._ • Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bury. . . 11, teut.-Col. the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Hay. Liaron Gudin, Chateau Beaujon, Paris. William Gladstone, Esq., (Messrs. Thomson Bonar and ` 41 .), Old Broad-street. Fortescue Harrison, Esq., Cambridge-square, Hyde- Robert William Kennard, Esq., Upper Thames-street. Alexander Miller, Esq., Ashford-house, Middlesex A Unireas--(To be appointed at the first General Meeting). =SEERS. Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, Thorn. 1n London ton, and Co., Birchin-lane. In Messrs. Hankey, 7, Fenchurch-street. Mons Messrs. Guillochin, Sons, and Co. nt Paris Messrs. Charles Laffitte and Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Amory, Travers, and smith, London. • Monsieur Doles, Avocet, Mons. BROKERS. Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Sou. Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce. SECRETARY—T. It. Preston, Esq. Temporary Offices No. 46, Moorgate-street. „Ile object of this Company is to develops the resources of ;rtain collieries, situated in the most central and best portion t he well-known coal basin of Mons, in Belgium. They I ; 4 Prise two distinct sections, of which part is already in Working operation, and the remainder consists of conces tul from the Belgian Government, granted on condition St the coal shall be worked. ~_tne unworked concession, known as " Bonne Victoire," . '"u.t l ted at Asquillies, and those applied for, severally called 1 ens Y Nim " and "Gblin ' " occupy an area of 18,000 acres ; siteialvt.ell.aseertained coal seams run through their whole I The collieries in full work are five, viz., " Bonne Veins," e:l 3° une Esperance," " Seize Actions," " Ste. Cecile," and , du Flenu." They comprise an area of 2,000 acres, ih the right of working sixty-two seams of coal. It is cal- Sted that their produce could be largely increased, within Val' years, at an outlay of 20,0001. (See Engineer's Repert.) 07_ nlant and other works are ample, w e ll cons t ruc t e d, and ,7tlntial ; the engines now at work gi ve an aggrega t e p owe r n.,7 3 9 horses. These ccllieries are now yielding a minimum ,Profit of 40,0001. per annum (see Report), and it is agreed n t ,,! a preferential interest of 6 per cent. per annum on the td . 'tal now to be raised shall be the first charge on these er ns. a4 T ile confidence of the vendors of the working Collieries in it it e success of their new u n d er t a ki ng i s f urther shown by 1 . ) 4 .r t. agreeing to accept i n p ar t payment of their property )";o )0 shares (representin g 200,000 1.) denominated K shares, though considered as paid up, are only to receive di ere rids in proportion to the amount paid up on the A shares tills to the public. The remainder of the purchase money, Lileisting of 254,0001., is to be paid in cash, out of the first of the Company, at any time within two years from • ?corporation of the Company Two-thirds of the above shares will be annulled should the new concessions, 441:trary to expectation, fail in yielding coal of a good corn qilteial quality, and this proportion of the shares iu quest i on 1.;.n0t be banded over to the sellers until such produce be 1' T he coal is generally of a semi-bituminous quality. It is ed at the several pit-mouths into the waggons of the t:,,,,lllern.Railway of France for conveyance to Paris and the h;Lue and manufactories along the line, at which there is a t demand, and also into those of the Haut et Bas Flenu eam w aY (which traverses the collieries of the district, and ;_ ni cts them with the net-work of the State Railways of Bel ta:4) for the supply of th e towns and the extensive raauufac io,;(eg districts of Flanders ; the greater proportion of the ef l ,L h owever is conveyed by the Conde Canal, on the banks there'are extensive sheds where the boats are loaded. the e zisting facilities for transit ' will be further extended by s kA ir a ilway now in constru c ti on b e tween Mons, Haumont, Vt o ,, l4 aubetige. The constant demand by railways, iron gas-works m , and for other manufacturing and house ittslPurposes, is ore than sufficient to absorb, at all times, i7tnnst produce of the collieries. 1 1 ,":! the request of the Directors, a detailed report on the )67' 4 state of the collieries at work, and to be worked, was 4;t: r ed by th e em i nen t F renc h Ci v il E ng i neer, M r. F. N. 1%4 t, which report has been confirmed by Mr. H. Gain, a tha,:i nli ning engineer of great experience. Subsequently Mr. a Zea Xauby, C.E., was deputed to verify the statements lki.7;• A majority of the Directors have also lately made a to sp .,nal *visit to the collieries, and having taken every means au c i l l*/ themselves of the soundness of the undertaking, lia4:"'-e truthful ness o f th e above reports, they now feel justi -I,,in inviting the investment of capit• t l in the Association. - nt lle capital of the Company is divided into 100,000 shares p t ,'Cg. each, whi c h are su b -d i v i ded into two c l asses, v i z., A elerential Shares, and B Free Shares. The deposit will be ▪ Per share, and the first call of 21. per share will be due on lit June 1857. e vendors consent to waive their claim to any dividend Yetheir B share s till 6 per cent, shall have been paid on all A. shares thus infect g i v i ng to the A shareholders a pre- Arential dividend eo the amount of 6 per cent. ; and in the e vent of the winding up of the Company's affairs, the amount kid on the A ihares will b e repaidtother h olders before 44 7 payment is made on the B shares. bivideads will be paid half -yearly at the Company's bankers I,..,Londeria, Mons, and Paris, up on Whatever amount may be d • up on the several shares. 4 0b administration of the Company's affairs in Bel rum is Zfully provided for. g te nted, various reports alluded to in this p rospectus have been ainted, and may be obtained on appli ca ti on at the Com ra of fi ce, as also a chart, showing the p os i t i on of the tleried and the new concessions. :t.. A Pplications for shares must be accompanied by th e bank -4,l,reeeipt for a sum equal to one pound upon every s h are ore s for. The deposit will forthwith be returned on such re ° applied for as may not be allotted. .ms of application may be obtained at the brokers' _ ‘4 at the o ffi ces o f the Company, 40, Moorgate-street. nfr el l applicant for Shares will be required to pay into one Bankers of the Company, one pound (IL) per Share, d e t h e numbers of Shares applied for, in part payment of the A• osit of 21., in exchange for which a voucher will be Neb . ,;* In the event of the Directors allotting less than the • e number applied for, the amount paid in will be appro ieted towards th e d e p os it o f(21 . ) p er Share payable on those til letted . Should no allotment be made to the app li cant, the arl lle Y lodged at the bankers' will be forthwith returned free urge. • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SMARMS. ir ° the directors of the Mons United Collieries Company (Limited), "mntleraon,—Having paid into the hands of Messrs. , the Bankers of the Comp an y, £ to your %h a . I request that you will allot m e les of 10/. each in the capital . I ag p r re ee fe t r o en a t c ia e l ep A t,, e4 'hares, or any less number that thereof may be allotted to met gi ai 3 , the rem a i n i ng . deposit, to execute th e ar ti c l es o f asso eth e n Or a printed copy thereof when required, and in all ,th ) : respects to conform to the provi s i ons of the Joint Stac k 1 111; 41) anies Act, 1856. In the event of my failing to perform li a. „r these stipulations I agree to forfeit the deposit now 1 ) 4 ' 4 by me to your Bankers, and authorise you cancel the • I am, Gentlemen, ,veur obedient servant, Na!,:e iu f&' Profession or occupation Date Residence in full Place of business, if any (N,. TOWER.-SALE OF STORES. BY order of the Secretaryof Mate for War.— To be gold, by public au , tion, in the Tower, on WKI,NE3DAY, the 31st d4y of December, 1856, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon pre 'iselY, the •o!lowing STOdES, lying at the Victoria (London) Duals, : Accoutrements I Copper Measures. &I. tlothing, various Stoves, American, Ste.. Sheets and Rugs f Scales arid Weights utlankets I TOoi3, varion4 Clair Beds and Bolsters I Bedsteaos, Folding, &c. t In, Z•nc, and P ew t er A r ti c l es And Misc-Ilairous Articles. -- - - May be viewed at the Vi - toria liocris.frotoii to 4 o'clock, on the 3 days previous to the sale, and catalogues had at the War Department, F'aU•mall; the "('osier; Victoria Docks; and Royal Arsenal, Wool wich ,on payment of Gd. each, which will be allowed to purchasers. No person will be admitted to vie iv the lots, or into the SW e room, without a catalogue. QOUTHWARK BRIDGE. - NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Dieidend will be Payuble on the lb,h of JANUARY, to the Proprietors of the New Shares, and to the Subscribers of the 131. advan,ed on the Old Shares of the outhwark hridge, and that the Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 25th lust., until the lith of January next. JAM Office, Queen-street-pl ace , D ec. 22d, 1855. CS LEITH, Secretary. GRE NT WESTERN RAILWAY.--Further Reduction of Fares between READING and LONDON.— The fares by the trains leaving Reading at 8.18 a.m, 11.5 a.m., and 7.45 p.m., and Paddington at I 1 a.m., 4.45 p m , and 6.15 p.m., and on Sundays from '_'leading at. 5.30 a.m. and 7 p.m , and from Paddington at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. are now— For the Single Journey, first class, 2s. , second class, Is. 3d. For the Double Journey, available on the same or following day, first alas, 3i., second class, 2s. These tickets will be ava lahlebetween Reading and London only, and by the trains above named. Paddington, November 25, 1856. LONDON an , LAND HAIL , FIRST and SECOND the Euston Station, L' Lin 'oln Collinghain Newark ' Fiskerton Thurgarton I owdhain by all. trains on WEI by the ordinary trains Day tickets will alsu I NORTH-WESI vAYS.-C ;Less DAY TICKETS INDON, to— Nottiniharta De. by Yo' Bradford Leeds 'ERN and MID HOi.IDAYS. will be issued from Normsnbon Oakenshaw Doncaster Sheffield, and lfasboro' DNESD A.T, De'. 24, a` up to and including Moi be Issued from the abo By order. iftice, Euston !:-tation, I ,:railable to return with ,nday. Dec. 29. 'ye stations t• London. General Manager's occember, 1856. L ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL• wAY.—CHRIST MAS HOLIDAYS. DAY TICKETS issued on WE DNEQDAY, Dec. 24, and interven. ing days, will be available until MONDAY, Dec. 2,. By order. MARK TIMM General Manager's Office, Euston Station, December, 1856. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, LONDON. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE iN , 'OUR-PIFTIIS, or SO per cent., of the Net Profits of the Society, .ccorcling to the conditions contained in the S,ciety's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives ,re lower than in many other ohl-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected trom all risk by an ample guarantee fund, In uklition to the accuLulated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy stamps paid by the Office. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, Loudon, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. ESTABLISHED 1837. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY, Lmpowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vict., cap 9, and BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Nfajesty's Royal Letters Patent. I, Princes-street, Bank, London. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Number of Policies is ued, upwards of 11,000. Annual Income from Preimums (exclusive 01 Interest on Invest ments) upwards of 84,0001. Rates of Premium reduced to the lowest possible sole compatible with security, and computed in such variety of wa. s as to suit the circumstances and convenience of every claps of Policy-holders. E. R. FOSTER, Resi.lent Director, .‘N.r,REw FRANCIS, ...ecretary. FAkRTNGDON WARD WITHIN, Dec. 22, 1856,—At a WARD:IIOTE holden Tlll DAY, before the Worshipful EDWARD EAGLET , IN, Esq. Al 'erman of the Ward, at the Great Hal!, Christ's Hospital, for the choice of Ward Officers for the year en-wing, the following gentlemen were declared duly elected to represent this Ward in the Court of common COuncl', viz.:— Deputy Holt, Messrs. C. Phillips, Deputy Virtue, .f, icholson, Messrs. M`Lauchlau, Wheeler, Blake, Kelday, 18. S. Phillip., f Reed, Morris, Dol ond, and Young, Bengough. Moved by Mr. Weawicx ; seconded by Mr. CHILD ; and carried unanimously : That we respectfully request the Common Council to watch the progress of the bill that the New River Company are about to in troduce into the Commons' House of Parliament, an I to endeavour to obtain the introduction of such clauses as will secure to the in habitants a sufficient supply of water at the lowe‘t 'charge, and, at the same time, prevent the Company from imposnig the tenants which ar e expemive and useles 2. e restrictions on Moved by Mr. HxArs; seconded by Mr. CARTER : and carried unanimously: That the thanks of this Wardinote be presented to the Worshi pfa Edward Eag'eton, Esq., Alderman of this Ward, for the ability and impartiality with which he has presided upon the present occasion ; f r the diligent, able, and independent manner in which he Is known to dis 'barge h's important daties as a magistrate of this City; for the liberal support and encouragement he has given to our Ward schools; and for the kindness and courtesy invariably displayed in his intercourse with all who obtain access to him. And this Ward mote fervently hopes that he may be blessed with health and strength for many years to fill his present distinguished position with satis faction and honour to himself and to his fellow-citizens. Moved by Mr. Humenitsys: seconded by Mr. Coac, and carried unanimously : That the thanks of this Wardmote be presented to the deputies and other gentiennen, being members of the Comment Con cil for this Ward d.ilinz the past year. for tine diligence, attention, and ability with which they have discharged the Important duties of their office, and for the zeal with which they have at all times c aleavoured to protect and promote the ii.terests ci!" this Ward. Moved by Mr. WARWICK ; seconded by Mr. Binninam, and carried unanimously. That the thanks of this Wardmote be presented to the President, Treasurer, and Governors of Christ's Hospitat for the use of their superb flail for the holding of this Wardrnote That the for-roing resolutions be advertised in the usual morning and evening papers. J. W. WARKEN, Ward Clerk. MISS P. HORTON'S POPULAR ILLUS TRATIONS-Mr. and Mrs. T. GERMAN REEL) will give the above E-tertainment, intriducing several DCA' lilust , atlon., at the 'Gallery of Illustration, Every Evening* (Except • aturday), at Eight o'clock. A MORNING PERFORMANCE every Saturday at Three o'clock. Stalls, 35., 2s , Is., may be secured at the Gallery, from 11 till 4, daily, and at Cramer, Beal, and Co.'s, 201, Regent street. WIONIS.—LA ITRENT'S CAtiti.V‘, o-ea. Wi; dmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan - ooms are now open every evening for the winter Reqsor, with fts ce in f b i l , e 00 p i,3 plats open o f aurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet.a-piston, M. oulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public t h at th s h resortathalf-past f h - a been entirely redecorated during the teas. .ine past eight, commence at nine. Admis- 11R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen ,ly) from it till 10, containing upwirds of one thousand models nd preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in ealth and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, .4, and half-put 7. by Dr. G. Sarrois, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and ‘,.,:hiy..toteresting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery -y Dr. KAHN , at a quarter pest 8 p.m. precisely. Admission. One -hiking, Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gratis). N'S New Costumes ° a l nd novelties, f ies O Vocal l a T nd lE Ch B :- rutetistic, will be g vea during the Christmas liolidays, in the ratitor-h.ll. Kind William street, o bering-cros.. Opening Night. FR DAY, Dec. 26th. First 'MORNING PERFORMANCE ott rURD Y, Dec. 27, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured without extra charge, at th e B ox-office. The Polygraphic flail is being entirely redecorated. GENERAL TOM THUMB has arrived. This American Man in Miniature, undoubtedly the smallest in the wor d —intelligent, sprightly, educated, perfectly a' mmetrical in all his proportions, and graceful beyond belief, will hold THREE PUBLIC LEVEES each day, for a short time only, at the REGENT GALLERY, Quadrant, Regsnt•street, commencing on BORING. DAY, 26th Dec. He will appear in a great variety of NEW CHA RACTERS and COSTUMES, SONGS. DANCES, GRECIAN STATUES, &c., &c. Ins MINIATURE EQUIPAGE will promenade the streets daily. The General was honoured with the patronage of her Majesty and the elite of fashion in 1841 PARTICULAR OTICE. —Ladles and families who can conveniently attend the early morning Levees (from 11 till 1 o'clock) will incur much less inconvenience from the crowd than by visiting the later Levees. Hours of Exhibition —from 11 till 1 ; 3 till 5 ; and 7 till 10 o'clock. Admission Is., without regard to age. Reserved Stalls, 2s. ; Children, Is. AWIDOW LADY, thoroughly acquainted with the routine of Housekeeping, is desirous of an engage ment as Domestic Companion to an elderly or invalid Lady or Gen tleman or Widower with young children, where one or m re servants are kept. A comfortable home the chief con-ideratien. Unexcep tionable references given.—Address C. G., Mrs. Powell's, 4, Trinity trect, Blackheath-hill. VI R. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet. street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI ICIAT. TEETH ,flied without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so erfectly resemble the nataral teeth as not to be distinguished from he original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or lecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. his method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful peration, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is end ppo u nranteed to restor e ar ti cu lation and mastication. Deca y ed t ee th . red sound a n d use f u l in mastication.--. 52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. THE exuberance of the feelings, amid scenes of gaily, induces the fair and youthful to shine to advantage under the gaz e of many friends, a nd therefore to devote espe ci al attention to the duti es of the toilet . ' It is at this festive season that ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, For creating and sustaining a luxuriant head of hair; ROWLANDS' IKALYDOR, For rendering the skin soft, fair, and blooming ; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, For imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the teeth, are called Into in creased requisition, to the attainment of those personal advantages so universally sought for and admired. Beware of spurious imitations ! Ihe only genuine of each bears the name of "Rowlands" preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, Loudon, and by Chemists and Perfumers. 2 j 2 0 :MILNER'S HOLDFAST an d FIRE . RESISTING SAFES (non - conducting and vapourising), ,1!11 all the itnorovcmeirs, ender their Quadruple patents of AtiJ iiichiding their Gunpowoer Proef Solid Loch and Door (without which no Safe is secure). Tut STRONGL6I, East, AND CITEAPEHT SATI:caI,I7,D EXTANT. MILNERS' PMENIX (212 , 9 SANE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. LONDON, DEPOT, 47A, BLOORGATE -BTREET, City. Circulars trot, 17 post. ~=~GT~ Z- ~~~ ~ ~,; ) //: , . . • , . • • „.-.- ..:,..7-' .-;,•-•-: ~.--,..;,.. / . .. '4llllllllihib ri(e',,,olii, •,)„...„,..,,,, 4 ~.w.i, 4 ~te. ~,, . „ : , A' ~ - ~ i 4 ....., . O.IJI •at , --•-, 1( 10 . ...... 1.1 , _dr .. 1\ ,•,,, . .i- . . 4 . 6 ". 5ik.a,,,,, , mtii i, o, i *,irc., , mo tifß - - \\ ee.- .10 0 , 11., , , 4 „ , ,ce . . , ...':. ^-, ....., - , N ~,,, .AlllllB - =-....--.-..4. . . , . ... - ~.. ' , • a ...-;',9„ , ,, ,x. , .4 . •-'" ' ''' ~, • ''',' ...- 7 1 . . ''..- fh ' ' it4 c s- " ,--:. ., , x/r . , w rirj! 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Beneath them, in the road which passes directly in front of the terraces towards Ser rieces, they could see a stream of passengers go by, 1 and many a friend or relative of those confined lie , :e might be observed in passing to look up eagerly towards them. Sunday was the great visiting day, ' and the prisoners, therefore, instead of taking the air in the gardens,. remained in their c e ll s during the afternoon t o receive their friend s , w h o were admitted with ou t exception, and without any ti c k e t or special order bein.. , requird. They came in crowds from 2 o'clock till 4, each bringing a little parcel, a basket, a flask, or a bundle of cigars to comfort his imprisoned friend." MILITARY STATISTICS OF SIVITZga. LAND. We read in the Monitettr de l' Armee : ' The strong interest which seems to have been awakebed in the affair of Neuchatel. renders it very desirable that, at the present time, the situation of that part of Switzerland, in a military point of view, shduld be correctly understood. " The canton of Neuchatel has formed, since 1815, the 22d canton of the Helvetic Confedera tion. It is situated between France, the-canton of Vaud, and that of Berne. It s popu lation amounts to about 60,000 souls, and itsLarea to 725 square kilometres. It consists of the so-called Principality of Neuchatel proper, and of the county of Valan gin. The public are now acquainted with its poli tical organisation, and with the causes that have given rise to the present difficulties, upon which it would be needless for us to enlarge. "By the terms of the federal compact, each canto' of Switzerland is bound to furnish to the army a contingent proportioned to its population. In case of war, the aggregate numerical strength of these contingents is 33,758 men, who form part of the first levy ; in this particular instance, the quota due from the canton of Neuchatel is 960 men, of whom 734 are for the infantry. "Independently of the troops composing the first levy, the federal army has a reserve of the same numerical strength, which, in the event of a serious emorpncy, would raise the forces of the Confederation to 67,515 combatants, not including the landwehr or militia, which consists of all the men capable of bearing arms, who belong neither to the contingent nor the reserve. " The Swiss are brave and intelligent, but, not withstanding their merits, we must not shut our eyes to what is the real strength of an army con stituted like theirs, comprising as it does men with families, men taken from their business or work, and who do not possess, like the soldiers of per manent and regular armies, the instruction or the habits acquired in military life. "Nevertheless, it is necessary to take into account the patriotic sentiment, the profound de votion to the independence of his native land, to which the Swiss in every age has been indebted for successes otherwise hopeless. " In fine, looking at its actual condition, the Helvetic army is fully adequate to maintain order within the sphere of the Confederation, and to cause the federal pact and the laws of the country to be everywhere respected.; but, abandoned to itself, it would evidently not be able to sustain a serious contest against one of the great military powers of Europe. " When Switzerland is engaged in any military contest, the Diet forms the supreme military au thority. It is that body which publishes military orders, determines the general organisation of the army, calls the citizens to arms, and appoints the general commanding-in-chief, the quartermaster general, and the commissary-general. It presides over the instruction of both officers and men, as well as the purchase and custody of-the munitions of war. " The general commanding in chief receives from the Diet his instructions and powers, and he alone . is responsible for his acts. His office may in no case continue longer I han the duration of the term for which the forces are embodied. " Tile canton of Neuchatel, protected by the lake of the same name, which extends from Yverdun towards the north-east as far as Saint Raise, over an extent of nearly 32 kilometres, with an average breadth of 7 kilometres, is accessible through the canton of Vaud and that of Borne, and the moult tains of the Jura chain, which traverse these dis tricts, contain many defiles of a nature greatly to assist the defence. " The city of Neuchatel, the chief town of the principality and, the seat of its government, lies close to the Seyou, where it debouches into the lake ; its inhabitants number about 6,000 souls. It is incapable of defence and could not stand a siege. The other towns in the principality are Boudry, Travers, Motiers, Valangin, Le Locle ' and Le Chaux de-Fonds. The soil of Neuchatel is generally rich and well cultivated, and the inhabitants who dwell in it are laborious and peace able." The following is from Le Nord : " According to a recent statistical work of Ste • phen Franseini, councillor of the Confederation, Switzerland possesses, with a territorial extent of 718 square miles, a population of 2,391,478 citizens, the majority of whom are of the Protestant faith. The finances of the Confederation, as exhibited in the budget for the year 1357, amount to a revenue of 16,200,000 francs, against an ordinary expendi ture of 15,760,000 francs. The public debt was covered in 1815 by the share allotted to Switzer• land out of the contribution exacted from France by the Allied Powers to defray the expenses of the great continental war. The Federal army, the chief command of which since 1847 has been vested in General Dufour, with 91 colonels and lieutenant colonels, and 132 commissioned officers of inferior rank, comprises, taking the regular troops and the reserve together, an effective force of 108,000 sol diers, of all arms. It will be seen, therefore, that Switzerland is a power of some consideration." TEE SWISS PROGRAMME. Never was a people called upon to play a more impor tant part, morally and politically, in the affairs of Europe than are . the descendants of T e ll a n d Baumgarten at this critical juncture. Never have the despots of Europe attempted a more impu ent and open violation of the inalienable and legal rights of nations than this demand made by the King of Prussia, and. supported by the man of the 2d of December, for the release, without trial or parley, of the Neuchatel conspirators, simply because they conspired for a king, and not for a nation. Take the French, Polish, ar.d Hungarian, Italian his tory for the last 50 years. Count up the list of victims executed often without any form of trial, still oftener without legal defence, simply because they conspired sometimes in act, often only in word or thought, to win back their own God-given rights that usurpers had wrested from them. Now, take the case in question : Neuchatel is a Swiss canton, geographically, politically belonging to Switzerland. In 1814 the Holy Alliance grants to the King of Prussia certain privileges which in 1848 the inhabitants of the canton withdrew, and to which withdrawal the King of Prussia makes no demur, neither at the time nor during the eight years that have intervened since then. Here in 1856 certain wealthy men conspire, not to restore those said privileges to the King, but actually to hand over bodily . the canton of a s t w h i i s e s g federalu ti ea.r unheard of Neuchatel to Prussia. The attempt . is suppressed by the p mutation, the leaders of the insurrection are arrested and remanded for trial, the crime laid against them being that of conspiring against the vernment, the ackn)sviedged government of the country. A! e sodrythe generosity, heads of havethat allowedgo v e rnm t e h n e t , chiefeither - o conspiratorsfrom weak ness patriots are to remain at large until their trial— they are re .to in despotic governments when conspirin g concerned. But this does not suffice ; quested to give up all the prisoners immediately and willout trial, and thus to sanction insurrections got up by the retrograde party by allowing unpunished and untried -in short, d'encouragement to any royal co oef th e e r m a to pr p im as e s It remains to be seen whether aspirator for the future. the S wise federal Government the men who compose situa tion. If they remain firm andare equal to their the population will remain resolute in their refusal, Nei ther is it pr , bable that the peaceful d and . obedient.. persist in their refusal. So much disgust hasespots will pe o rs f i Louis sa. poleon—Swiss citizen—whom the conduct ' Confederation so enthusiasticallum the Swim! . Y protected against Louis Phi ipp I' oc casioned, that the French EN has burst its bends i for an instant, and outspoken r ts e true mind. Logically — for . sooner or later he mustenter into a close alliance with Russia, Prussia, ad Austria —the French Em peror had no choice but to act as he has acted, and Support the Prussian King. But (or we overrate his powers of calculation) he has studied the map of Europe and the spirit rife among the pen P lO4 tJo att en tively to forc e the Swiss into open wallah!. For, how-ever the federal government !nay act, whatever discrepancies, whatever elements of disso lution may exist in Switze rland, national p ride still lives in the people, and however they may wink at come- LON Do N, T UES_DA ENT NING-, DECEMBER -23, 6. VENEZUELAN BONDS. Yesterday a meeting of the holders of these bonds was' held at the London Tavern to receive and consider a new proposition from the government of Venezuela for the arrangement of the (eht. Mr. POWLES, the chairman of the committee of Spanish American bondholders, by whom the tneeting had been called, was in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that in consequence of the nego tiations between the committee and the agents of the republic two commi,sioners hid been accredited to this country by the Venezuelan government with proposals for the settlement of the bondholders' claims. After some delay, consequent upon the necessity the commis sioners were under of proceeding to Paris, the commit tee en Saturday last received the following communica tion from those eentlemen "Great Western Royal Hotel, London, "Dec. 20, 1856. "Sir,—ln strict conformity with our instructions we made to the committee the proposition contained in our ietter of the 16th inst. Being, however, convinced that the Venezuelan oovernment knows that the first neces sity for the republic is to re-establish its foreign credit, we offer in its name to capitalise the interest up to the let of April next, with 3 per cent, per annum from the raid date, and to pay 2} per cert. on the :Wive, and 1 per cent. on the deferred, foia term of five years. "If after that period the national duties at present in force in the established ceetom houses should exceed 5,000,000 the creditors can ask for an arrangement that may then be compatible with the growing wants of the country. "For the fulfilment of this offer there will be applied 25 per cent, of the duties of the five principal custom houses of the republic, to be received by an agent of the committee at a commissisu of 13 per cent,, without any other charge or responsibility on the part of the republic after the delivery of the said 25 per cent. " The committee may rest assured that this offer will be made into a definite agreement, receiving the appro. bation of the Venezuelan Government, who will omit no effort to re-establish the credit of the republic. " We, on our part, shalldistinctly inform the Govern went about the matter, and about the imperative neces sity to re-establish the foreign credit of the republic, from which the country will derive great benefits. "The approbation of any agreement whatever is abso• lutely requisite for its validity. " We are, sir, your respectful servant., (Signed) " JUAN GIUSEPPE, " MODESTO URBANEJA, " A. D. Powles, Esq., Chairman of th e Com mittee of panish Bondholders." The committee having in a conversation which took place with the commissioners since expressed an opinion that the proposal would not be likely to be accepted in the form in which it was made, a second communication had been addressed to the committee that moining, ex planatory of the previous one, and of which the following was a copy : "G;•eat Western Royal Hotel, London, Dec. 22. " Sir,—ln amplification of our note of th , : 20hh inst., and in proof of the lively desire of the Venezuelan Go vernment and of ours to establish the credit of the re public, we have the honour to state to you that the pro posals made in the said note shall be limited to the term of five years, at the expiration of which, that is to say from the IA of April, 1862, the republic will pay 4 per cent, annually on the arrears of interest, 3 per cent, on the active debt, and 14 per cent, on the deferred. "That the commis, ion of 1i is offered for collecting and remission of the funds, and on this basis we will regulate with the committee everything relative to the issue of new boocis and payments of dividends, the amount of which shall be placed in Landon, liquidating the account every six months. "We have to lay before you the following —That the position of the Government admits of its complying reli giously with our proposal for the first five years, but to offer more would lead to a failure, as it has to pay debts which have been arranged by diporna!ic twerference on the part of several nato , ,s, and which proceed from revo lotions and the law of Espera, and on those accounts large sums have already been paid to British subjects. Toese engagement s will be paid off in five years. "In proof of the sincerity of our proposals, and to tranquillise any fears which the bondholders may have as to their approval by C.eagress, which, by our laws, is indispensable, we offer that one of us will return to Caracas by the first steamer, accompanied by a commis eion,er of the committee, if they deem it fit to name one who may personally conclude definitively this negotiation. " We are, sirs, your respectful servants, (S!gre J) " JUAN GUISEPPE, " iSIODESTO URDANEJA. "A. D. Powies, Es.q , Chairman of the Committee of Spani?-h Bondholders." The meeting would see that these terms were in advance of any previous offer. What tho committee proposed was that for the arrears bonds ebeuld be given bearing 4 per cent. for the first five years; the commissioners offered 3 for five years, and to increase afterwards to 4. The com mittee proposed that the current interest of the active debt should be reduced to 3, the offer of the commis sioners was 2i, and with regard to the deferred debt the committe's proposition and the offer of the commis sioners were the same. Then the committee demanded 25 per cent. of the customs receipts to be allocated to these purposes ; the former commissioners baying offered 20 per cent , the present commissioners agreed to the 25 per cent., and in the converse tion the committee had had with them they consented that the agreement should be ratified under the sanction of the Foreign- o ffi ce , which to that ex t en t wou ld g i ve i t additional force, and that the committee should appoint their own agents at the five ports to whom manifests of the cargo of every ship should he delivered on its arri val, as a security that tl;e duties were properly charged and paid, amid the 25 per cent. of the receipts forwarded to London. This the commissioners considered would, by imposing a check upon smuggling, increase the amount of the duties. A BONDHOLDER--The interest is never to increase be yond 4 per neut. ? 'rhe CHAIRMAN—It has never been proposed that it should. In reply to other questions, Mr. Powles added that the total amount of the arrears on the active debt to the let of April nex; would be 587,8001. ; and on the debt, 111,0811/. ; together in round numbers, 700,000/., which it was proposed to pay in these bonds bearing 4 per cent. - A resolution having been moved, authorising the com mittee to conclude an agreement with the comnaisQionerA en the terms proposed, several proprietors expressed a very decided opinion that nothing less than 3 per cent. upon the active debt ought to be accepted—and after an ineffectual remonstrance from Mr. Haz'ewood and Mr. Mocatta, members of the committee, that the effect of their insisting upon such a condition might be to post pone the settlement for a couple of years longer, which would entail a sacrifice of m , .re tha❑ equal to the half per cent., Mr. Powles altered the resolution in accord ance with what appeared to be the general view of the meeting on this point, and with a c mdition inserted, that the committee should not conclude any agreement in reference to the active debt on terms less favourable than 3 per cent. 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The resolution refers to stocks and shares, but it is presumed all the securities of the com pany are intended to be included : - "The committee having received evidence that the Great Northern Railway Company have refused to re giqter transfers of stock accompanied by coupons officially signed by the registering clerk of the com pany and by the secretary, and for which stock certi ficates of due registration in the names of the sellers have been issued by the company's secretary, resolved unanimously,— " ' That, 'there being no security to the public under these circumstances, the committee will not recognise any further transactions in the Great Northern Rail way Company's stocks or shares, nor of the stocks or shares of those other companies connected therewith, and order that the name of the Great Northern Railway Company, and of such other companies, be struck ou t of the official list of the Stock Exchange so long as such transfers shall remain unrecognised.' " THE BITER BIT.—A few days ago, a seaman boarding at the Sailors' Home was crossing Tower-hill, when two men, apparently quarrelling about the value of a w atch guard, came in his path. One of them offered 21 , but the other indignantly refused his offer, saying that it was worth 8/. The parties then departed, apparently in anger, when one of them came alongside the sailor, expatiating on the roguery of Jews, but offering the chain as a great bargain to Jack for 3/. So saying, he put the chain in his hand, desiring him to inspect it, but Appeared sadly disconcerted when the sailor coolly in brmed him that he should retain possession of it until he met a policeman. A struggle then commenced, and a third ruffian appeared ; but Jack vraa a determined fellow, and dragged his assailants a considerable distance, till a policeman hove in sight, when they precipitately retreated, leaving him i n possess io n of the chain, which proved to be worth on l y a few shillings. A painful accident is stated by the Brussels journals to have befallen M. Notbemb, the Belgian Minister of Justice. A few nights ago, Madame National) having occv.sion to use a flask of ether, 801110 of the liquid was spilt, took fire, arid burnt her face severely, as well as her infant, whom she had in her arms. M. Nothomb, in attempting to extinguish the flames, was also much burnt. PRUSSIA AND SI WITZ/RLAND.—PREPA .&AT.PINS FOR W.au. The German Journal of Frankfort announces that the Federal Council has convoked the officers of the staff, and communicated to the caurons the nominations of commanding officers of corps. The attitude of the p ople is calm and decided. The same journal also says that the Federal Council has ordered a levy a 20,000 men. More over, a reserve will be formed. Colonel Bourgeois will occupy Bale, with 10,000 men. Col. Zeigl, , r will march to Schaffhausen with the other 10,000. The Grand Council of Berne has unanimously voted an unlimited credit for the army. A latter from Berne, of Dec. 18, in the _bide pendance Beige, speaks as follows " We can no longer allow ourselves to indulge in any illusion ; if we are not actually at war, we have now at all events all the precursory signs of it. The attitude of the French Government sin gularly complicates and aggravates the situation of affairs which engages exclusively the attention of us all. The article in the Moniteur , which every one has read and pond ere d on , will in no respect change the determination of the Federal Govern ment, unless it be in consequenco of it that the Government is about to convoke the chambers im mediately, for the purpose of laying the state of things before them, and getting them to ratify such preliminary measures as it. shall deem expedient to adopt. - It is on the 27th of December that the Federal Assembly is to meet. The Federal Go vernment, moreover, has just urgently in vited all the cantons to fill up the ranks without delay, and complete the equipments not only of the troops selected for the field, but also of the reserve and- the militia or landwehr. Apart from these measures, and doubtless with a view to show that the warlike manifestations made against us will only render it the more incumbent upon the Federal Government to expedite the pending trial, three Federal magistrates—M. Amiet, the Attorney-Geueral ; M. Martin, the attorney of the district and public prosecutor ; and M. Zen Ruffinen, president of the criminal chamber —pro ceeded this day to Neuchatel for the purpose of signifying to the prisoners the decree of the Cham ber of Accusation in what concerns each of them individually, and of going through the preliminary formalities which must precede the holding of the Federal assizes. "Amidst the critical circumstances in which the country is placed, the Swiss army has just sus tained a great loss by the death of the Federal Colonel Rilliet de Constant, inspector-general of cavalry, and formerly an officer of the Empire ; he commanded at the time of the Sonderbund the division that took Fribourg. As a compensation for this, M. de LentaluA, a member of one of the oldest patrician families of Berne, and formerly a superior officer in the service of the Pope, at pre sent comptroller of one of the Federal tax districts, has offered his services to the military department, which lost no time in accepting them. "The ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Diet have all called to-day at the Erlich Hotel, where the Federal government holds its sittings." A Berlin letter of the lith in Le Nord says : " Some of the German papers speak of a loan which would be raised by the Prussian government to provide for the expenses of the expedition against Switzerland. There is no idea of such a loan oeing raised at present, for the Minister of War still has at his disposal twelve millions of dollars which are left of the loan of thirty millions, and that reserve will be sufficient for a three mon.hs' campaign. lf, however, the war should continue longer than that time, the government would only have to prop•)se a lean adequate to the requirements of the War Dopartment, and it is certain that the loan would be subscribed within twenty-four hours." It is stated that the Prussian Cabinet on the 16th came to vary important resolutions of a warlike cha racter, and that General Groben was nominated Commander-in-Chief of the expeditionary corps. This statement probably is a premature one ; the late Minister of War, General von Bonin, at pre sent Governor of Mayence, has been mentioned as most likely to command the expedition. A Berlin correspondent of the Times, writing on Saturday last, confirms the statements already made, that military preparations are actively going on in Prussia, and adds the following parti culars "In the Ministry of War everything is ready to put the troops iu motion at a few minutes' notice ; the march ruutes are made out, the halting stations fixed, the supplies at hand, and nothing is wanting but the royal order. The entire force that will be set in motion will amount to four corps d'arince, about 120,000 men. In consequence of the recent return to the old military arrangement of the pri vates serving their full three years instead of a year and a half, as it had practically become of late, the regiments are now at their full peace strength, and should the reserves be called out they will be at their full war strength. It is pot easy to ascertain which troops will be employed ; one naturally as sullies that the 7th and Bth, the two corps d'arnoe of the Rhenish ptovince3 and Westptialia, with their landwehr, making up their whole force to the strength of four corps d'arntee, will be set in motion, and their places in their usual station be supplied by other troops drawn from the central provinces, and they again be replaced partially by troops from the eastern provinces. This, I believe, will be the course adopted, as admitting of the greatest . expedition and facility of movement. I am, how ever, told that the Rhenish and Westphalian corps d'arniee will be left at their present stations, and the troops, employed for the occupation be selected from the rest of the army. Tue conside. ration that would recommend this latter plan is that the hardships or the glory would thus be more equally distributed over the whole army, and the whole amount of injury and impoverishment at tendaut on the calling out of the reserves and the landwehr would not fall on the Rhenish provinces and Westphalia alone." The latest intelligence from Berne states that on Saturday M. de Saliguac Fenelon, French Minis ter in Switzerland, announced to the President of the Federal Council the intentions of the French Government, adding that " Switzerland had only to decide on war, as Prussia was determined to en force her rights." A Paris correspondent of Le Nord says that, on the day of the publication of the Moniteur article upon the Neuchatel affair, the Swiss Charge d'Affaires at Paris, Colonel Barmann, hastened to Count Walewski to ask for au explanation of it. The French Minister replied that he could only report the warnings which the M.miteur had given, and that he begged Colonel Barmann to convince the Federal Directory that they could by no means reckon upon any aid from France. The Swiss Minister began to speak of the tympathy which England and Austria felt for his country, to which Count Walewski replied, " Very well ; you will see how much assistance may be expected from either of them." It would have been safer and more prudent, remarks the correspondent, for the Helvetic Confederation not to have despised the support of France. The Corre.spondance Prussienne of Berlin con firms the news of the rupture of diplomatic rela tions between Prussia and Switzerland; and adds that the Prussian subjects in Switzerland, as well as the archives of the legation, have been placed under the protection of the French embassy. A Paris letter in Le Nord affirms as positive that Prussia has already obtained the authorisation of Wurtemberg and of Baden for her troops to pass through those States, in order to take military pos session of Schaffhausen. It is not necessary to have that authorisation further confirmed by the Diet— in the first place, because Prussia acts in her own personal name ; and next, because she has already received the approbation of that body. The Anklage-Kammer, or court of preliminary investigation, at Berne, found bills of indictment against 66 of the accused conspirators, on the 10th; 14 others were placed on the second category, that of those whose oases are to be reserved ; and two of them—viz., Count Pourtales G o rgier, and M. Perrot, the advocate, formerly president of the Stadtrath of Neuchatel—were acquitted. Several others were conditionally liberated on bail—viz., Heinreich von Rougemont, Edward Pourtales Pury, and Augustus de Montemolin, each of whom was to find bail to the amount of 50,000 f.; Karl Fried rich Sauvin, a clergyman, and Philip Grevillat, to find bail each for 50df.; and Carl Augustus Mat they de l'Etang, a member of the Federal Council, placed in the second category of those whose cases are reserved, was released without bail. This s. cond category includes all who only took a subordinate part in the insurrection, to the number of several hundred persons. Colonel Donzler, who is in command of the Fe deral troops which occupy Neuchatel, has written to the Swiss representatives at Paris a complete 1 denial of the statements of the Assemblee Nationale about the oppressed condition of the inhabitants of that canton. The Neuchatel prisoners have also, without exception, testified to the humane and considerate treatment they have experienced. A VI. VTL. VIM 2 MAJESTY'S BOA 1W OF WOBICS. Thwaitee, th e Ceairina n o f th e Metropolitan Board cf Works, accompanied b y M r. Woolrych, the clerk, and Mr. B izalgettc, the enegi eer of the board, waited on Sir B. dial!, her Majesty'e, Chief Comrnieeiener of Works and Public Buildings, yestarday, at White hall-place, for the purpose of submitting to the ri ht hen baronet the nee pan of outfall for she main dr ain. age of the metr pull which had been prepared in ac cordance with the suggestions of Capt. Burstal, the Go vernment engineer, and which was Adopted by the Me tropolitan Board on Tuesday last. !Ir. THWAITES said he waited on the right hon. gentle. man for the purpose of formally presenting to him a plan relating to the main drainage of the metropolis which the Metropolitan Board had adopted, embodying the sug gestions of Capt. Burstal, which were made to a deputa tion of the beard a short i.ime ago as to the outfall of the sewage. The plan was marked B*, and he believed it would be found to be in conformity with the arrange ment which was on that occasion made as to the point of outfall. Mr. Bazalgette was prepared to give any explanation the right hon. gentleman might desire. Mr. Bazdgette having pointed out the alterations which had been made in the plan, Mr. Thwaites, at the request of the Chief Commissioner, affixed his signature thereto. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I see by the plan you hare just placed before me that the °naafis are precisely in accordance with the sugeeetions wade by Capt. Borstal. I wish to impress upon your minds that those sugges tions were merely in reference to the nearest point at which byanypos i i bility the outfalls mold bemade in corn reiarree with the provisions of the stem te. So far, there fore, I conceive the Metropolitan BoarG' of Works have entirely complied with the provisions of the act, and I accordingly accept the plan, with the intention of taking the course which I wilt now exp!ain to you. I think it extreuselydesirable, in relation to a work of t.`iis enormous magnitude, that we should have the very beret adviceand counsel that can be possibly procured. Ties course, therefore, which I propose to take is to nominate three gentlemen, two of them civil engineers, and one a mili tary engineer (end I will endeavour to select three of the most experienced men that can bo found), to whom I a ill refer all your plane, accompanied with instruc tions, the nature of which I will now state to you. I shalt in the first place direct their attention to the Me tropolis Local Management Act, 18th and 19th Viet., c. 120, and especial y to the clauses 135 and 136 of that acne By the Eist of those sections power is given to yon to make those great works. a full deseription of which I shall net forth in the instructions. By the second of those sections the approval of the Minister who may be at the time the Firet Commissioner of Works is made necessary before any plan con be c irried out. I next propose to send to those referees, as they may be called, curies of the several reports which have been presented to you by your engineer in relation to the various plans which have from time to time been submitted to you ; and I shall he obliged by being furnished with four copies of each of those reports. I , hall also give to these three , gentlemen copies of Captain Borstal's two letters in re ference to the flow of the tide in the river Thames, be cause I think the contents of those letters may be very useful to them in their itivestigetion of this matter. There :s tine print wnich I th nit it right especially to name to you, which is that I shall direct their very particular at tention to a fact not ccntaine in any report, but which was mentions-I in a vtate•uent made by your engineer at the interview we bad, acid which was reported in the papers of the 21-t of Nevetneer last, as to the amount of the di=charge of sewal.e. There are at present some very great diecrepaecies on Ullt point, and it will be neces sary ler the three gentlemen to be appointed to obtain the most accurate iofcrination iu respect to that parti cular ; beeati,e the respective eizea the drains and the re-ervoirs must neceeearily be determined by the amount of sewage that will fiuw down to werda the ricer. But I shall go much further than that. I think, as I staeed befere ; that we ought to have the very best plan the ingeeui.y of man can devise in rela tion to this scheme; therefore I shall tell those gentle• men n t t h confine themselves merely to the p . an sub• mined by your board, but I shall desire them to give nie the very fullest infortnatieu upon this eut ject, and that if they can devise eery other sehetne which they may in their judgment consider better calculated to attain the' of ject in view, I shall desire them to set forth all the• particaare cf any such schetee in order that I may lay it beim-a you for your c msideration. I.think that this course on my part Is rendered essentially necessary in com:equeuce ut the steps which you yourselves must take in relation to the raising of the money required to carry out these works. Government cannot advance motley to so large an amount as you require until that aunmet shall have been sanctioned by Parliament, and I am quite sure Parliament will desire, before any such sanction is given, that the whole question shall be con sidered in the way I have now sketched out. When Parliament shad see that men of the best qualified minds in relation to this matter have been exercising their talent on the subject they will be much more likely to sanction the advance than if they thought I had confined myself merely to the consideration of one plan. The plan you have now submitted to me fixes the outfalls at the points referred to by Captain Burma!, and which are 15 miles below London-bridge. But we are well aware that it is desired by the inhabitants of the towns and districts bordering on the Thames below the 15 miles' point that the main sewer should be extended, and that the outfall should be carried still further from the metropolis, provided the funds can be obtained for the increased expenditure which that extension would render necessary. I shall therefore desire these three engineers to report to me whether, in their opinion, there is an, other poiat of discharge still further down the river calculated to meet the requirements of those districts. If so, I shall desire that when they submit a plan for such an extension of the main sewer that they . at the same time set forth the increased cost conse quent upon any such extension, and the benefits_to_bo de rived by the districts through which th e extended m ain: drainage will pass. I shall desire them also to state how far, in their opinion, those districts should be required to contribute to the expense of such extended works, having . from relation that a tot extension the benefit and then a w s !) o i cf h o t o h u o r s s e e, d i i t st i r s ic n ts o t wmoyuld intent ionderive onpstoriujoctaionlasrgtoorimaopmosethuapoontthhoeyiwilhoaubidi if the main sewer stopped at B. only t h a ' n g t i s v o in f g th t e he m ge etr i ly pa e y ught they to be taxed, unless there they would come in on the same terms that are T t o be t r h w at i' e e x h te a n y t e applicable the king dom. Bet it certainly • to the rest of should be a general taxation for the works, is very de sirable, as the people in the vicinity of the Thames are of opinion that the main sewer should be carried further down the river, that these three eminent en g i ne ers s hould well consider t he sub j ect, so that we may have it f u lly Wore us previous to any appiicatiou toParliament. A great man y plans have been drawn u pb y various per. sous in relation to this main drainage scheme. I shal refer all such persons who may wish to be heard on their respective plies to these gentlemen, and I feel confident they will give iull attention to any plans that may be so brought before them. I shall conclude my letter to them by expressing a hope that they will report their view* upon the whole question of the main drainage and out fall for the metropolis and other districts at the earliest period possible, consistently with a full consideration of a subject which is so important in its character, and the completion of which is so much desired by every one. Mr. TIIWAITES said, as Sir B. Hall had expressly stated that, should th e works be extende d b e yond the points i n plan BT`, it wo u ld not be at t h e e xpense of the metro polls, be had no observation to make on th at he nor thepoit. He could a - sure Sir 13. H a ll that neither than Metropolitan Board generally had any othe r . i d ea that their utmost sifting. No plan should undergo the very plan doubt, for a work of such magnitude, the best ought to b e o b ta i ne d. He apprehended t an opportunity ith the would be afforded to Mr. B azal g e t o e to confer w inted to investigate three engineers who would be app vernmen t. the pl an now s ubmitted to the c a d he would furnish the The CHIEF COMMIS SIONER board with a copy to those gentlemen, • of his instructions Bazal and at the same tim e he o w uld desire that ive them All the a Mr. ssistance in Bette should atte nd, and g his power. id their engineer WAN anxious per. Mr. TRWAITES g n a d the board was also ready to afford sonally to do so, j a il their power, so that the engineers everyytodoso, assistanchee Government might thoroughly under employed by t what they had to p e rform. stand SSIONER—VireiI, now I lope we Th e CHIEF COM MI shall bring this diffic u lt question to a close. Mr. T _EINVAITES—I hope so, too. The interview then terminated. BARON WARD.—Baron Ward, the late Prime Minis. ter of Parma, and Regent to the late reigning Duke, and now possessed of princely estates in Austria, was born at Howden, in Yorkihire, and came to London as a s table-boy, and served as groom to several noblemen ; he then went to Italy as a stable-boy, became racing groom to Baron Lowenberg, and then to the Duke Of Lucca, and afterwards, on his abdication, to hie son the . Duke of Parma, in whose household he rose by degrees to fill the most important position in the countrp—ne Household Manager. DINNERS A LA-RUSSR.—The style of dinners a la Busse was first inirainced into France and England at the peace of 1814, out of compliment to the Emperor of Russia. There is no doubt but that tne style is ancient even dating as early as the Cmsars, when it was the ens. torn to send the dishes to table as hot as visible. Thie style, like many of the Roman dishes and sauces (the gay um, for instanc.), still exists in Constantinople, from the inhabitants of which, we have no doubt, the Rue• kiwis have taken if,—Thc Bouolua M anager. ;K,eief< :,! r Zi,,-;,...%. ;•'!.'W , k'i.i..;,_,, , Itre k:', ' Finns and amiable weaknesses in th A governmee rpft- . ; 4 4 .t7: 7 % „.." 4 7.e---i.%.,' their rational pride 1) , ..., once fairl 7 attacked—let t tn - : - ..- ,7),. 4.? 1: : /j 4 '. t L t for instance, be a,, , ked to establish :‘s a principle that4tehjs loyalist party have the exclusive cl•-oit a l'insurrectibi ,V;:f . J. - F A i4'. /..,`, ''' and they will rise as one man. TlLas rising they ha4....."'-' Y *•"------'' hut to send 2,000 sharpshooters in;to Lomtardy with iki/ a. s Italian leaders at their head, the same into Germany, and I again across their eastern frontier into F rance , w h ere , between Dijon and Lyons, reside the zr, ost disaffected of his Imperial Highness's subjectF, and we have Europe in a blaze at once. We have but to recall the Italian war of 1843, to remember the , troops offered by the Federal Government itself to the Italian people when refused to the retrograde faction. We have tut to remember the 2,000 volunteers from the Canted of Vauo, who came forward to fight for Italian liberty, and we may' be sure that gratitude alone, had they no views of their own t.) second, would insure the aid of the Italians to the Swiss in their revolution. Will Napoleon 111. risk this conflagration, or shall we have a mock trial and acquittal of the regal conspi• rators ? It an acquittal, wilt it suffice the Swiss, or will • they stand out, not only for the appearance but for the reality of the rights and privileges, so hardly won, so cmirageously sustuined hitherto, of the sole republic still existing in Europe ? -o orrespondott of the Daily News. 31 . 0 N T BL ANC TO-NIGHT, AT EIGHT.