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the Matter of the Joint-Stock Companies JL, Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and of the SECURITY MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY—Notice is hereby given, that all parties claiming to be Creditors of this Company are to come in end prove their debts before Sir Richard Turin Kinders ley, to whose Court this matter is attached, at his chambers, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London ; and, until they shall so come in, they will be precluded from commencing or prosecuting any pro ceedings for recovery of their debts.—Dated this 28th day of June, 18N. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. CLARKE, GRAY, and WOODCOCK, 20, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Solicitors. TIN the Matter of the Joint-Stock Companies JL Winding-no Acts, 1848 and 1849, and the SECURITY MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—Notice is hereby given, that Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, to whose Court this matter is attached, will, at his chambers, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London, on Friday, the 11th day of July, 16.56, at 12 of the clock at noon, or at such other adjourned time or place as he may then or afterwards fix, APPOINT an OFFICIAL MANAGER of this Company; and notice is hereby given, that all parties interested are entitled to attend at such time and place, and to offer proposals or objections to any such appointments.—Dated this 28th day of June, 1856. C HAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. CLARKE, GRAY, and WOODCOCK, 20, Lincoln's-hen-fields, Solicitors. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madlle. JOHANNA WAGNER. TO-MORROW EVENING (Saturday), July 5, will be per• formed Belliai's Opera I CAPULETTI ED I MONTECCHI. Romeo, Madlle. Johanna Wagner ; Juliet, Madlle Jenny Baur ; Tebaldo, Signor Reichardt ; Lorenzo, Signor Bouche ; and Capellio, Signor Beneventano. To conclude with a Divertissement entitled LA MANOLA. Maiame A Belion, Mesdlles. Katrine, Rosa, Lizereux, Clara, and Pierron, M. Venefra and M. Vandris. In which will be introduced a Grand Pas de Deux by Mdile. Katrine and M. Moutplaisir. On Tuesday next, an entirely new Ballet, Le Corsaire. Medora, Madame Rosati; Conrad, Signor Ronzani (his first appearance). Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. TiIXAT RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, 51r. R. I'. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENIN' will be produced ESMERALDA. To conlude with THE FAIRY'S HAUNT'. c ! TIEAT RE ROYAL, II tYMARKCT. Under the Management of Mr. Enckstone. THIS EVENING, SINGLE LIFE. After which FEREA NENA, and the Spaniqh Dancers will aprear i a new Ballet, called TIIE CAPTIVES. Followed by MR HUGHES AT HOME. To con.:lude with SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCF,Sa'S raF,ATF:A. OMFORD-STREET. Under the ITP.nazetnent of rte. CHARLES KEAN. TILL EvENrNG. A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. After whicn, TiE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL TITF: kTRZ ADRLPITT. Proprietor and Mana;er, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, 7.1 ariame CC1.916. ~'TITS Wv" NIN"G, TILE FLYING DUTEIDIAN. After which, THE CIISTJUS OF I'IIE C3ITNFRY. Followed by THE R3TAL OLY TIIEATR, Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfrei Wignn. TUN EVENING A F %SCIYATivG DTDIVIDU \L. After RETRIBUTION% Tn enrletil 1, with A CONJUGAL LESSON. ASTLEI73 narAr. A;IPIIITHFATRE. Lessee and Mena:ter, air. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The Romantic Equeltrian Ppectacle, Tan HORSE OF Tin; C %VERN. or the Mounted Brigands of the Abruzzi, introducing Mr. W. Cooke's wonarfully trained horses. After which, A select variety of SIENES in the CIRCLE. The laugtiOle, exhibition of Desarai's troupe of Dozs and Monkeys. The extrao:- (Unary performance of the German Brothers. To conchwe with THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE ;- or Honour to the Brave. oosn fr)in E'even tEI Stale Manager. Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. inn. MGM WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIS DAY—Morn. 4 min. aft. 3 —Evening 27 min. aft. 3 TN-Monnoiv—Morn. 46 min. aft. 3—Evening 6 main. aft. 4 THE WEA.THlllt—Sulr OFFICE, JULY 4. THERMOMETER, IN TIIF, SHADE. 67 —higheat since noon yesterday. 7,1 -lowest this morning and during the night. 71 -this day at noon. nAFomE"RA-30.11—falling. WIND, Northerly.—Moderate, with cloudy fine weather, indicating rain. ••• 4 ' \ L,544,1 •; C:\ LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1856. There is a prospect of a vacant throne, aid, of course, there is a Coburg candidate. It appears that King ©Tao has no children, and his brother, whe is about to marry a Spanish Infanta, the sister-in-law and cousin to the Queen of SPAIN, has refused either to become a member of the Greek Church or to permit any of his children to be brought up in that faith. An indispensable condition under the settlement that elevated the Bavarian Prince to the rank of a Sovereign will thus be violated, and a successor must therefore be found of the State religion. It is more than hinted that we owe the present visit of the King of BELGIUM to this cause, that he is desirous of obtaining the influence of the British Court on behalf of his second son, the Compte de FLANDRES, who possesses all the COBURG aptitude for ruling, and with whom a question of religion would not be permitted to form an ob stacle to his elevation. The convenient arrange ment by which they have Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of the aspiring house, so as to suit any unmarried Sovereign, will be extended by having another of the Greek Church ; and should there be any other dynastic failure, there will doubtless be a COBURG ready to take any pledges or profess any creed that may be required as a qualification. But why, we ask, should the English Govern ment make any efforts on b e h a lf of the Count of FLANDERS ! What has Ki n ,. L EOPOLD done for us, except pocketing a very large amount of Eng lish money, and allowing to be kept up at Eng lish expense, a princely residence for the accommo dation of his foreign connxtions. During the late War he rendered no assistance to those to whom he was bound by the strongest ties of gratitude. On the contrary, there is but too much reason to believe that to his insidious counsels we are mainly indebted for the temporising policy, that per mitted us " to drift into the Russian War," and to accept the dishonourable and ignominious truce which has been dignifidd with the name of Peace. King LEOPOLD has done every thing for himself, but nothing for Great Britain, and Bri tish interests would not be in any degree pro moted by one of his family achieving another Crown. " England has no cousins," and her Government should cautiously abstain from in trigues, from which considerable mischief may arise, but no possible advantage. Let the modern 'ULYSSES fight his own battle without English assistance. He has doubtless greatly conciliated Russia by his conduct during the late War, and if the conversion of the youthful candi date be promptly made, the vote and interest of the CZAR may be obtained. With Austria he is already connected by marriage, and has also earned a strong claim to her good-will by the zeal and energy which he contrived to display in the cause of Germanism ; and the Prussian marriage, said to be on the tapir, may further increase his chances. Let him be con tented with these, and if England be wise let it cautiously abstain from involving itself, by striv ing to influence the election of the future sove- reign of Greece, and also from advancing loans that will never be repaid, or giving guarantees which she most unquestionably will have to re deem, for the sake of elevating one of the ConURG family to the throne of Greece. What a vast difference an audience does make to be sure in the outpourings of Oratory ! Fancy Dr. GILLANS, who spoke on Wednesday evening at the Glasgow banquet to Sir COLIN CAMPBELL —fancy the learned and eloquent Doctor, with his eye in a fine frenzy rolling, thus addressing himself, say, to the House of Commons :—" Fear ful as is its aspect [he is speaking of war], rather would I see the warrior with garments rolled in blood than the tyrant flaunting in purple !" Fancy excellent Dr. GILLANS, the Grand Gaelic Boanerges prefacing a sentence like the following [it is in allusion to the prowess of the gallant Brigade of Highlanders] with the Parliamentary and matter-of-fact—Mr. Speaker, Sir,—" Yes, wherever danger lowered darkest, or steadiness was demanded, there flapped the kilt, there swung the philabeg, there nodded the feathers, there screamed the pipes, and there flashed the claymore like to the eye of a tiger when about to poance on its prey !" Well, —a-hem !—to all that about the warrior with garments rolled in blood, and the tyrant flaunting in purple, the actual audience of Dr. GILLANS re sponded with " Cheers." While to the hugeous fanfaronado about kilts flapping, feathers nodding, philabegs swinging, pipes screaming, and clay .. mores flashing—all of these, by the way, clay ./.30r4;,; pips", philabegs, and kilts, somehow or other; =like to the eye of a tiger when about to pounce on its prey "—the sympathetic hearers of Dr. GILLA.N replied not with " Cheers " only, but with " Laud Cheers." Whereas, had all this been raved and ranted witit appropriate gesticulati ous—gesticulations something between the flourish of the flail and the attitude of the teapot—in the House of Com mons, the fair fame of good, amiable Dr. GILL A.N S would infallibly by this time have "died the death" amidst an explosion of inextinguishable laughter. Instead, however, of being incontinently sent either Coventry or Jericho, the orator of Wednesday evening seems to have been cheered rather voci ferously. Well—after all—is it not some one in " PELUAM" who observes sententiously ? " Every one to his taste, as the Frenchman said, when he boiled his grandmamma's head in a pip kin !" And so, we presume, we must leava in peace those charming judges of rhetoric, the Glas gow auditors of Dr. GILLANS, who unconsciously " fooled him to the top of his bent" [and a very wonderful twist that same bent must be upon the occasion of the recent banqlet to Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL ! Only—it must really be permitted us again to remark, almost with a feeling of awe—What a vast differ ence an audience does make to be sure in the mere style and manner of your man of Eloquence. As Sir HUGH EVANS saith, with a flinging up of the hands—" 0 what the tifference is !" The Russians, as we predicted, are now turning their attention to Circassia, and a desperate effort is about to be made to annihilate that gallant race and their Prophet-chief SCHAMYL. A Russian corps of 40,000 men has been despatched against him, and no effort will be spared to subdue or destroy those who so long and so efficiently resisted the Russian Power. A word from the Eng lish representatives at the Conferences wou'd have saved them, but that word remained un spoken. Sir CHARLES WOOD intimated that they did not desire assistance, inasmuch as they bad not flung them Selves without solicitation into our arms. Had England acted fairly towards the Circassian tribes we should have had no just cause of complaint. But we held aloof from them aid, then, forsooth, felt surprised and vexed that they had not flung themselves into our arms, and directed all their efforts for our advantage and because they did not do so, felt perfectly easy in our consciences at abandoning them to the deplorable fate intended, and from which they can only save themselves by their own unflinching courage and desperate resolution. We fancy that the English people will not con cur with the First Lord of the Admiralty in the views which he put forward, nor will the deli berate sacrifice of the Circassian tribes, and the war of extermination that will now be waged, increase the popularity of the Precious Truce— we cannot call it Peace—recently patched up at Paris. It is something to know, as we du on the evidence of a Cabinet Minister, that the omission of any stipulation on behalf of Circassia or the Circassians was not occ - sioned by any oversight or carelessness—it was deliberately planned. We refused to stretch out our hands when it might have saved a gallant nation, and "sarved them right" is the verdict of Sir CHARLES WOOD and his colleagues, who, by not repudiating, have adopted the senti ment that so deeply excited the national indigna tion. There is yet time for remonstrance. Will the English Government see them destroyed with out even uttering a word in their behalf? The butchers or meat-sellers in Newgate Mar ket----and, we may add, in many other parts or the metropolis—are advised to pay a visit to the Great Globe on the first opportunity. There is nothing, we are told, like teaching by example ; and if they turn to the right they will speedily be enabled to read a lesson which, if they.,are not entirely lost to virtue, is well calculated to " do them good." Among the numerous waxen groups they will find one in which a Turkish baker is not the least conspicuous figure, and by no means for his good deeds. The wretched culprit is, in fact, undergoing the award of justice for his heartless frauds on the poor, and this consists in having one of his ears nailed to his shop doorpost. The infliction, as ma y be gathered from the expression of his countenance, is not pleasant ; but if the population of London were polled to-morrow an overwhelming majority, we will undertake to say, would pronounce it de served. Look at it, gentlemen ! Ponder over it and instanter bless your stars you don't live in Turkey, but in Christian England, where nothing is safer and nothing more common than cheating the poor. Iu recommending this spectacle, gentlemen, to your attention, we but follow with a difference an approved example. For really many of you are greater culprits than he, and consequently deserv ing of a worse punishment. -He deprived the poor of an infinitesimal portion of , the article of food in which ho dealt, by giving short weight —you con spire to raise meat to such a price that the poor have to go without it one day to have any the next, and in carrying out your atrocious conspiracy y o u destroy tons of that food which a bountiful PROVIDENCE has provided for the hard working, thrifty, and much-enduring poor. Rather than they shall have the food necessary to maintain the animal vigour requisite for the per formance of their onerous tasks at a fair price, you suffer it to rot in your hands, and consign to the earth ..a4,putrid, carcase what should go to the sulitename of (OD's cr eatures, Your guilt i • THE SUN S LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1A56. greater than his ; should not your punishment be greater ? The designs of PROVIDENCE are never outraged with impunity ; and it is to he hoped your reward, whatever that may be, will be be stowed where your penitence may be otherwise availing ! The most accursed of all robberies is robbery of the poor ; and the riches that fastest make themselves wings and flee away are those which have wrongfully been wrung from this source. These remarks may be deemed severe ; but let the reader turn to the letter from Mr. COBBETT, in another column, and ho will admit there is ample cause. He will there find that, to maintain the present disgracefully high prices, 10 van-loads •f prime meat enough to dine 100,000 of the population—were found last Monday to have been suffered to rot. The dealers, it is true, wore bitten ; the warmth of the intervening Sunday not having been cal •ulated on, but their culpability is none the less on that account. It is revolting—the coarsest feeling must be shocke.l at so shameful a waste. What a world of good those van loads of prime meat might have done among our hungry popu lation, whose choicest luxury in the way of animal food is stinking fish ! The worst of all, however, is, this sort of thing is still carried on, and with success. Surely the revelation just made will stimulate the friends of the poor to some efforts to-break up so unprincipled a combination, even if at the cost of abstinence from meat for a time. The price of meat throughout the metropolis is indefensibly high. Why should it be one-third higher than it was a few years ago ? LATEST NEWS. WARLIKE POSTURE OF CIRCASSIA AND ASIA MINOR. A letter from Trobizond of the 16th, in the Hamburg News, says :—" A Russian corps of 40,000 men has been sent against, Schamyl. The Turks have abandoned all the fortresses of the Asiatic coast and completely destroyed that of Shefketil. The Russians have as yet only occupied Redout Kale ; they dare not occupy the other points for the present, the populations of Abasia and Cir cassia having sworn that no Russian shall touch their territory so long as there is a Circassian THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Madrid has arrived with the Peninsular mails, having left Lisbon on the 29th ult. The Marquis do Loule has been appointed Minis ter of Public Works. Sanches is appointed Minis ter of the Interior. The new loan is to be the amount of 1,500 contos of reis. The interest must not exceed 25,0001. sterling. The loan is to be appropriated to the construction of works of public utility. The Portuguese Government bill on Paris to the amount of 1,000,000 f., the result of the mission to Mr. Thornton, is anxiously looked for • it is be lieved the Ministers intend offering the contract with the bondholders in its original form, and that Count Thomar's party will be in the ascendant in consequence. Quarantine regulations are again enforced at Lisbon. It is believed there will ba no yield of wine this year. _ _ All the productions of the country, except oil, are scarce. Freights are dull. Exchange on London 54 to 533 ; 90 days, 543 1. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (From the Morning Post.) As far as the public are concerned, the late general meeting of the Crystal Palace Company must be considered eminently satisfactory. The gigantic conception is being graduaily realised, and. the whole concern is assuming the proportions and significance originally contemplated. Twenty thousand people surrounding their Sovereign have gazed upon the grandest system of waterworks in the world. The peace fete and the flower shows have attracted vast multitudes—the latter being at a lower charge for admix;;on than has ever been attempted before in the neignbourhood of London. Permanent attractions have been added to the Palace in the picture gallery, which, when properly weeded, will bo both a source of enjoyment to the public, and of advantage to the profession. The naval museum, a truly national collection, is in rapid course of formation, as also the architectural and engineering models, the court of inventions, the ceramic court, and the machinery in motion. The operatic concerts, too, have been a happy idea. They have furnished Mr. G-ye with the means of keeping his company together. , ---they have given the subscribers an incredible amount of tuost, su perior music, under circumstances of comfort and enjoyment never to be met with elsewhere. They h Iva raised the tone and character of the under taking itself to a higher standard, and they will be a source of profit to the company to the extent of six or seven thousand pounds. Everything seems to prosper—the landscape has that richness and repose that England alone produces—the view from the water towers has hardly a rival, reaching, as it does, to the sea—the tropical plants have re covered their removal, and become reconciled to their new abode—the exhibiting stalls are rapidly filling—and the visitor is no longer disgusted at his arrival by the scene of gormandising that for merly used to greet him ; in short, the Crystal Palace is a complete success to everybody in the world—but its owners. It is not as yet a paying concern. One reason for this failure, we believe to he, that it is in a state of transition as regards its audience. We all remember how, at its original projection, it was emphatically called the " People's Palace " how it was expected that the toil-worn Londoners would rush down in hordes to delight their eyes and refresh their senses with its artistic glories, and return with their rougher humours smoothed and their minds elevated with the contemplation of its sights of beauty ; but the experience of two years has effectually dissipated those visions. The fact is that the masses have not found their way to the palace. The distance is fatal. They say, we could easily save and spare a few shillings, but it takes a day, and we cannot, or will not, give up the day's work. There is no reason to suppose that circumstances will alter in this respect, and unless the Saturday half-holiday system is extended enough to justify the directors in abandoning the five shilling admission On that day—which, how ever, can hardly be done this year, and would in any case devolve the danger of a considerable loss in the sale of season tickets—or the Sunday open ing be conceded, we much fear that the labouring classes must remain excluded from the best shil- ling's worth in the world. This, however, has not involved total failure ; for, whilst the contemplated audience have re mained at a distance, another has appeared in its place, and the middle and upper classes have taken possession of the place. The railway whirls its thousands of well-dressed people down to Syden ham—at, it must be admitted, a very leisurely pace. The road swarms with carriages ; and the visitors approach a million and a-half a-year, and will probably considerably exceed that number when the West-end railway is open, with a termi nus within the same distance from Hyde-park corner as Portman-square is, and within a few minutes' drive of all Belgravia. The company, however, if it really means to pay a good dividend, or any dividend at all, should consider the require. ments of this class, and we must tell the company it has not done so yet. The refreshments are not of the character that that class requires. No doubt when any public body has a feast there, which, of course, is regardless of expense, Mr. Staples puts down a dinner which would be pronounced faultless in Leadenhall-street, and very likely may be so; but that is not what is wanting by those who, as it now appears, are destined to be the principal supporters of the Crystal Palace, which from its, for any such purpose, unbounded space and unrivalled other advantages, ought to contain the very best restau rant in Europe. The wealthier classes and the pleasure-seekers of the metropolis--those who go to Richmond and suck suburban ruralities, in large parties, and would assuredly frequent the Crystal Palace in the same way if their tastes and habits were consulted—reason thus :—" It either," they say, ""involves the expense of post horses, or it wastes a day. If we are going out in the evening, we cannot keep our horses at work all day and all night, and so we must have posters ; if not, it is an exhausting amusement ; there is hurry and scramble, and a dusty road, to get home in time for dinner, or else dinner must be later "—a consi deration which, we may remark, when there is a papa in the case, is conclusive of most questions, and any proposition to dine at the Crystal Palace is uniformly pooh-poohed. If we could get a com fortable dinner, as at Richmond, and drive home in the cool of the evening, it would be very well ; but "You can get nothing fit to eat there" is the uniform answer. The directors may think those people unreasonable ; but if they act upon that conclusion they simply sacrifice their shareholders' dividends. The opulent classes of London go in vast numbers to Richmond, and Greenwich, and Blackwall, and pay vast sums there for their dinners, because the dinners are what they require ; and surely the profit of purveying for those who are ready to pay anything in reason will be greater by furnishing them than by stinting them. Let the fare at the Crystal Palace equal that at the Star and Garter or the Trafalgar, and the stream of visitors will be speedily diverted to Sydenham. We recommend these remarks very strongly to the shareholders of the Crystal Palace, to which we wish every success. No doubt their undertaking is con ceived in a lofty spirit, and their edifice an honour to the country, but ordinary human means are neces sary to human success, and eating and drinking are serious matters in this country, especially when a 16 miles' drive is in the case, and, as we have already remarked, the Crystal Palace ought to con tain the very best restaurant in Europe. Indeed, unless Mr. Staples' contract has given him an ex clusive right, and it has only two years to run, there ought to be half a dozen restaurants in the Palace or in the park, each of which would soon acquire a reputation for some special perfection, and the park would become the habitual resort of wealthy thousands, whose example would influence tens of thousands more ; for the middle and lower classes in this country are, as we all know, very imitative of those above them ; but, in the meantime, the year is slipping away, and we should recommend, in the strongest spirit of good-will to the company, very decided action to the directors and share holders of the company upon this homely, but very important subject. 'A letter from Copenhagen in the Hamburg News says :—" The Bulletin des Lois, of June 29, publishes the law relating to the domains of Hol,— siein-Lauenburg, as well as an ordinance deciding, in conformity with Art. 29 of the general constitu tion of October 2, 1855, on the private affairs of the Duchy of Holstein. According to those pub lications the domains are comp r i se d in the affairs common to the whole monarchy." THE STRIKE AT PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.—The strike of the masons employed by the contrantors, on the exten sive works now in progress at the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke has, to a certain extent, been broken up. The contractors, Messrs. Smith and Tregeuna, have brought round from Dublin a body of 200 men, in order th sup plant those who held out ; and of this body a large num. ber last week went to work. Some of the older hands also joined, so that now the works have been fully re sumed. At present the workmen are engaged upon the construction of two new building slips at the eastern end of the yard. The masons have stood out for 4s. 6d. a day, but to these terms the masters were not willirg to accede, many of the workmen being but indifferent hands. It is to be hoped that no further delay will take place, as the works have been suspended for three month* at the best WWII of the year. NEW 'SPECULATIONS. The fever of speculation now gradually commenc ing will be watched with anxiety by all who regard the permanent welfare of the country. Every one can see that with the influx of bullion the deinand for new investments will increase, that this demand will be met on all sides, and that the majority of the schemes introduced will call not merely for.the surplus funds seeking employment at the moment, but will pledge the community to a continued out- lay long after the tide may have turned. They can also recognise that the final result will be a crash such as was witnessed in 1825, 1836, and 1847, and which in this country may be looked for with abso lute precision once every 11 years. The whole population will nevertheless go on, each man be lieving that he will pause in time, and that his neighbour is to be the person who must suffer. In such a state of affairs all warnings are useless, since there is no difference of bpinion as to the end. The only service that can be rendered is to remind the public from time to time of their actual position, so that, if they increase their commitments to an extravagant extent, they may at least do so with a full knowledge of what they are undertaking. Thus tar no danger has been incurred, but a retrospect of the enterprises of the past half-year will show that the amounts already engaged to be furnished are considerable, and that when these shall have been doubled or trebled—as will, perhaps, be the case during the next six months—they will make an aggregate sufficient to absorb the disposable means of England for three or four years thereafter. Annexed is a list of companies introduced on the Stock Exchange since the Ist of January, 1856 Company. 1 Acadian Iron 2 Alliance Bank 3 Bank of Egypt 4 Ottoman Bank 5 Bank of Switzerland 6 Pernambuco Railway 7 Riga Railway 8 Ceylon Railway 9 Eletern Bengal Railway 10 Italian Junction 11 Lombardo-Venetian Euphrates Valley Indian Mercantile Agency Colonial 'Fibro Hults4orf Mills (Ceylon) Turkish Gas Caisso des Mines. Quartz Reduction (California) Societe des Clippers Francais Trinidad Fuel Capital. .. £200,000 800,000 .. 250,000 .. 500,000 ~. 800 000 .. 1,200,000 ..1,600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 6,000,000 . 1,000,000 . 1,0,0,000 1 00,000 100,000 100.000 800,000 50,000 . 800,000 50,000 Ruhrort Coal Mining Company 160,000 Societe Parisienne for Supplying Coals to Paris 800,i 00 Fibre and Paper Fairfield Canine ....... 160.0()0 Great Yarmouth Fishery 30,000 '6 Hansor's Oliphant Gas 27 Imperial Hotel 28 Western Bank of London 29 National Discount 30 West Metropolitan Bank 31 Bank of Wales 32 Unity Bank 33 London Armoury 31 London Wine 33 British Slag 36 Bernard's Patent Boot and Shoe 37 Metropolitan Milk 38 North and South Wales Steam Fuel ...... 39 Metropolitan Field Bleaching and Scouring... 40 Sunken Vessels Recovery 41 Surrey Gardens 42 West Ham Distillery 43 Thames Steam-tug and Lighterage 41 Mid Kent Railway 45 Brighton Hotel The aggregate capital apparently demanded for the abova is 23,49),0001., a total which would already seem alarming, but that it admits of seve ral important deductions. The schemes from No. 1 to No. 22 inclusive are alone those which involve 50,000 1,010,003 400,000 1,000,000 300,009 100,000 300.000 60,000 • 50,000 ▪ 53,000 ▪ 120,0u0 50,000 30,0, 0 30,000 60,000 40,000 200,000 200,000 70,000 50,000 outlay in foreign countries. They amount to 10,110,0001., and as ,several of thew, such as the L enbardo-Venetian Railway, the Italian Junction Railway, the Bank of Switzerland, and the Societe des Clippers Francais have been subscribed jointly on the English and Continental Exchanges, the sum will be by that means diminishec? about 6,000,00 W. Another million or two may be esti mated for the Bank capitals, which will probably not be required to be paid up in full. The actual amount, therefore, now promised to foreign coun tries may be set down within 11,000,0001. This will not appear - extremely heavy, when it is re collected that in 1853 a sum nearly as large was undertaken to be supplied to one concern alone —namely, the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada —but it is of sufficient magnitude to produce a sensible effect, and, if it were in the shape of an immediate loan, instead of a number of works which will be spread over a few years, it would not fail to exert, as our recent experience regarding the Turkish Loan may illustrate, a very decided and inconvenient influence on the money market. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that these claims do not represent all that are in pro gress, since Australian and Canadian and a variety of other debentures are quietly negotiated almost every week, and there is likewise an advance of 1,000,0001. to be made to Sardinia. With regard to the companies in the above list numbered 23 to 44, whose operations are confined to home, there is - little to call for remark. Their total is 4,380,0001., and 1,000,0001. of this is placed to the Imperial Hotel scheme, which is either in abeyance or aban doned, while 2,100,000/. is taken by the National Discount Company and several banks, and is there fore in no way diverted from public use. It is a singular fact that while the law of limited liability has been assailed on the ground that it would prove a stimulus to the wildest speculation, it has thus far led only to a few moderate and for the most part useful projects, which may serve in their de gree the healthful purpose of finding employment for our energies within the limits of our own shores. —Times' City Article. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. alive. The whole population is under arms. The Naib of Anapa has been obliged to make his escape to avoid being murdered by them. The Turkish fleet has carried off the cannon of the forts of the Asiatic coast. There are still five battalions and two detach ments of artillery at Trebizond. There are 10,000 men expected from Erzeroum; all our troops are to proceed to Constantinople. Mustapha Pacha is still at Batoum with two battalions and a war brig. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. A lithographed protest of the Princess of Orleans against the bill for allowing 600,000 f. a-year to the three Princesses of Orleans or their families was distributed to the deputies at their residences, be fore the discussion of the measure by the Legislative Body. The Prefect of the Seine has received a letter from the Mayor of Birmingham, announcing that a meeting has been held in that place in favour of tho inundated, and enclosing a first subscription of 2501. The last sitting but one of the Corps Legislatif appears to have been of a stormy character. It is thus described by a correspondent of the Inde pendance Beige : The sitting of the Corps Legislatif to-day has been a very stormy one, and a qutstion badly mooted, and badly presented, gave rise to it all. The affair is as fol lows :—The members had already voted the law opening a credit of ten millions of francs for the sufferers by the floods ; the one which inscribes at the treasury a pen sion of 600,000 f. for the Princess of Orleans ; the one relative to the Railway of Grenoble, Lyons, and Va lsnee— all without debate, and everybody thought that the vote on the Pyrenean branch would also pass without discussion, but the Chamber was at this moment in an impatient mood. It was on the point of leaving ; it was desirous of getting away as fast as possible into the country. M.Jubinal,deputyoftheflautesPyrdedes, having risen to thank the Government fir fulfilling pro mises long since held out to the inhabitants, found him self interrupted after a few sentences by such a noise that he was hardly able to finish his short address. It soon got worse. M. Keenigswarter, the Deputy of St. Denis, having raised an incidental question, that of inquiring whether there was not a contract signed, before the vote of the Corps Legislatif, between the Minister and a great company (evidently the Credit Mobilier), you would have said the Chamber was stung by the taran tula of speechifying, Everybody demanded permission to speak. A most irregular discussion broke out be twesn M. de Kerveguen, M. de Cassagnac, M. Perret, M. Ravine], and the Government commissioners. They rhapsodied about everything except that which was on the order of the day. They commenced a string of alle gations, recriminations, passionate outbreaks, interrup tions. Some wished the discussion to go on, others de manded its adjournment to the following day. Fortu nately, Messrs. de Tauriac and Schnieder brought the Chamber back to true principles and re-established a little order in the assembly by two speeches, one of which was fiery and impassioned, the other calm, cold, didactic, and logical in its arguments. Fatigued with strife, the debate was closed ; the members passed to the vote, and itt was discovered that every one was of the same mind in the main, for the law was voted with only one dissentient voice." BOURSE, July 3.—The following wore the last quotations : Cast. er. e. 4i per Cents 93 50 3 per Cents 7 L 65 New Loan 7l 75 End of Month. —f. —e. 72 20 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Mobllier 1,587 . 50 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... 98k— Spanish Threem 45 Piedmontese(s) 93 Home Debt 39i RAILWA It 13-70/1 CA BEL fr. a. 'fr. O. Orteans 1,407 50 Western 966 Northern 1,140 Strasburg byofus . Mediterranean . ..... 1750 Grand Central 667 50 Lyons Geneva 835 Testo Cotte 1770 Austrian Com. 905 25 CRIMEA. A letter from Warsaw, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" The papers have spoken several times of the reconstruction of Sebastopol ; but as yet all the Russians have done has been to clear away the rubbish ; and the plan of the rebuilding of the town, which is to be laid before the Emperor and the Minister of War, is not yet finished. Th e troops are returning but slowly from the Crimea. The disarming of Poland is insignificant as yet, but the corps in the Baltic provinces is being dis banded." AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 28th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" M. de Bourqueney, the French ambassador, was received yesterday by the Emperor at a private audience, and handed to his Majesty an autograph letter from his sovereign. It is believed that the communication in question relates to the intended interview between the two monarchs." The same letter adds :—" Count Paul Esterhazy, who is to represent Austria at the Rus sian coronation, is making for that ceremony the most magnificent preparations. In addition to the crowd of servants and carriages covered with gold and silver, it is in particular the Prince's own cos tume which excites astonishment. It is completely covered with precious stones, estimated at several millions of florins. In the buckle or ornament in which the plume of his hat is fixed is a diamond worth 300,000 florins." Cardinal Rauseher has left Vienna for Rome for the purpose of submitting to the Sovereign Pontiff the rest lt of the deliberations of the episcopal con ferences in the Austrian capital. The decisions of that assembly will not be made public till after the return of his Eminence. SPAIN. MADRID, July 2.—The civil governor of Valla dolid has been dismissed. Castile is tranquil. The cause of the late disorders is still involved in mystery. The visit of the Prince of Prussia (the father of Prince Frederick William) to England is fully con firmed, and will probably take place next week. His consort and his daughter, the Princess Louisa, will accompany him. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING. The African Steam, Navigation Company's mail packet Gambia, Commander Rolt, arrived thi s morning. Her homeward dates are—Old Calabar, May 25th • Fernando Po and Camoroons, 26th ; Bonny, 281 ; Lagos, June Ist ; Accra, 3d ; Cape Coast, sth ; Sierra Leone, 14th ; Bathurst, 17th ; Goree, 18th ; Teneriffe, 22d ; and Madeira, 26th. She has 1,337 ounces of gold dust, and a general cargo of palm oil, cotton, ivory, bees'-wax, &c. At Cameroons trade was brisk, and the rivers healthy. Oil is scarce at Old Calabar and Bonny. The dispute respecting the King's duties, at Lagos, continues unsettled, and there is much dis satisfaction regarding the poll-tax at Cape Coast Castle. _ _ _ The colony of Sierra Leone is healthy, trade dull, and merchants will find great difficulty in fulfilling their contracts. A number of ships are waiting cargoes at Ba thurst. - —Commodore Adams, in the Scourge, left Lagos on the 20th May, destination unknown ; the Minx on the 28th ; and the Childers for a cruise on the 31st. Her Majesty's ships Orion and Virago, and the French ship Fulton, were at anchor at adeira. The Archer screw steam-ship, 14, Capt. Heath cote, arrived there on the 25th inst. The Imperieuse, three gun-boats, and several ships of war left on the 25th, and the Tartar on the Nth. The mail packet Niger, outward, arrived at Sierra Leone June 10, and left for the leeward coast on the 11th. Would be at Accra, hotuewards, on the Ist inst. ARRIVAL OF THE GUARDS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING. Her Majesty's ship Princess Royal has arrived, with the Scots Fusilier Guards, and the steam transport Orinoco with the 2d. • Dragoons and other cavalry and artillery. The Guards land this morning and proceed in special trains to Aldershot, thence the whole brigade go into London to-morrow.—Times Second Edition. THE ENTRY OF THE GUARDS INTO LONDON. We can positively state on the best authority that the brigade of Guards will certainly not enter London to-morrow (Saturday). Her Majesty has not yet appointed the day on which the interesting ceremony is to take place. Until her Majesty fixes the, day the Brigade will ren►ain at Aldershott. LOSS OF THE.] AMERICAN BRIG COLUMBIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Madrid, with the Peninsular Mails, which arrived last night, brings intelligence of the total loss of the American brig Columbia, Kippin, mas• tor, bound from New York for Malaga, with a cargo of pitch, tar, and turpentine. The brig was off the Western Islands on the night of the 17th June, steering an E.N.E. course, when she was run into by the bargee Victoria, of Liverpool, and immediately sank. The whole of the crew were saved and conveyed to Lisbon in the Victoria. The night was dark, and there was no look-out on board the brig. . TEIE QUARANTLYB SYSTE.Z.. The Constitutionnel publishes the following let ter from its correspondent at Alexandria, dated June 20 : _ _ _ " Considerable excitement has recently prevailed here, owing to rumours that :e number of persons performing quarantine in the lazarett) had been allowed to die of hunger. The following are the facts of the case, as given in an official circular On the 9th June, the Ottoman brig Fellah-el- Flair arrived hero from Bengasi, attn. a passage of eleven days, with 259 passengers on board, nearly all being of the poorer class. The captain reported that they had embarked to escape from famine, with but a scanty supply of provisions ; that water ran short during the voyage ; that four had died at sea, and that many of those on board were sick. The passengers were landed at the lazarce to, and one woman died during the disembarkation; the physician of the quarantine as certained that nearly all bad suffered much from privation; he found ten seriously ill, and bad them placed apart with their families, that they :tight be properly attended to. Contrary to the practice in most places, the passengers are here supplied with provisions gratuitously, during the six, days' quarantine, there was no delay in the dis tribution of bread, except on the third day, owing to administrative difficulties, but the passengers could not have suffered on that account, as the rations are abund ant, being no less than two pounds and a half a day. The result of the inquiry proved that the eleven who died during the qnaranttne were persons -rho had been reduced a state of great extenuation by previous want of food. This circular is dated June 20, and is signed by the president of the Intendance. KING LEOPOLD'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.—It is said that the visit of the King of the Belgians to this country is connected with the future government of Greece. The present dynasty, according to the settlement of the treaty of the three powers, England, France, and Russia, has finished itself—King Otho has no children—his bro ther refuses to comply with the conditions of the succes sion in becoming a member of the Greek Church, or even undertaking to bring up any child he may have in that faith. Therefore it is reported among diplomatists that a new settlement of the throne of Greece is imminent. There has been, for some time, afloat a suggestion that the Count of Flanders, the second son of the King of the Belgians, should be provided with a throne. Hence. it is stated, the appearance of his Majesty to a family con clave in this country. PRINCE OSCAR OF SWEDEN.—PORTSMOUTI4 July 3. —His Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden arrived at the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard this morning at half past eleven o'clock on a visit to this port. The Prince, accompanied by Sir George Seymour, Rear-Ad miral the Hon. Sir R. S. Dundas, and other officers of the port, went up the harbour to the Excellent gunnery ship, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, and there witnessed some good practice in shot and shell firing. His High ness also inspected the new 50 gun screw frigate Shan non, the Erebus iron screw floating battery, and some of the departments of the yard. His Royal Highness will dine with Sir George Seymour to-night, and coatinue his inspection of the various establishments to-morrow. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF ST. GziereNs.e--We regret to record the death of the Countess of St. Ger mans, who died on Wednesday, at noon, at the family mansion, in Dover-street. Princess Frederica of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen ar rived at Venice on the 28:.11 ult. from Ferrara. The Second Chamber of Hanover adopted in its sitting of the 30th June a proposition in favour of a reform of the Germanic Confederation. The Earl Fitzhardinge, who has quite recovered from his recent illness, has been some days in town, and le: tends shortly to go on a cruise in his yacht, now sta tioned off Greenwich. Monsignor Amici, the new Commissary Extraordi nary for the four Legations, arrived at Bologna on the 26th ult. t, take possession of his post. Her Majesty has given the residence of the late Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, in the Ambassador's Court in St. James's Palace, to General Sir Frederick Stovin. The gallant geheral takes possession next month. MADAME VESTRIS.—This popular and highly gifted actress, who has for some time been suffering from most severe indisposition, will shortly take a farewell benefit, preparatory to her final retirement from the stage, MADAME GASSIER.--110 " musical world" will be glad to learn that this eminent artiste (who , was pre vented by severe illness from appearing in the Italian operas at the Surrey Tneatre) is now recovering, and will shortly be able to resume her professional duties. MUSICAL FACTS —Sign sr Venzeno, the composer of the celebrated "Gassier Vale," has just arrived in London to fulfil, we bc:iewe, t w e h e i i e c i h , t h h i e s e as xt s r i a s o ta rd n an engagement with the house of Cramer, Beale, and C o . , who are making pre parations for a succession of m usical entertainments in is also a b out t o re - appear in this country, unde r the i c n e a r will .be valuable.jrineronthe double-bass, auspices of the same establishment. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. --The highly suc cessful entertaiesnients svh:ch have been given here by Miss P. Horton (Mrs. T. G. Reed) for several weeks pest. without intermission, will shortly be brought to an end for the present season ; but the final performances will be distinguished by the additional attraction of two new characters, and Mrs. Reed proposes to introduce, in order that those who were her first patrons at this Gallery may be induced to be amongst her last . Mr. and Mrs. R ee d w ill a f t er w ards make a provincial tour. BANQUET OF THE GRUNADIER GUARDS —Yesterday evening a superb banquet was given by the Grenadier Guards at the London Tavern, his Royal High ness Prince Albert in the chair. Covers ' were laid for 140. The company included the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Saxe Weimar, General Bentinck, Colonel S. 1 Wood, Lord Downes, Lord Grantley, Dake of Man Chester, Sir G. Nugent, Sir J. Kirkland, &c. GOOD ADVICE.—Never take a paper snore than ten ytheeari/riwnitehroiuntsil3satayi o n z f h f a or vi i n t g . II I! 1 7 a t y t i li b e end e sar sure f t o t ti e t n op y T it r e s i paper in e dieguet,..Amri f _... - . - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUlf. SlR,—Thanks for your promise to watch over the con• templated removal of the National Gallery from Trafal gar-square ! The removal of the pictures from the centre of London would prove a great inconvenience to the provincial public, and a loss to the nation. The working classes, and commercial men, like Mr. Cubitt, are limited in their opportunities and in their time ; and, if the pictures were removed to the Kensington-gore cabbage gardens, they would be too far away to be visited by many who have only an occasional chance of a day in town. For instance, on Monday next an excursion train leaves Yorkshire for London, and returns on Wednesday, leaving only one day to myself and several others who a. e preparing to visit town for the sole purpose of seeing t , e National Gallery, with its pictures, and the Crystal Palace, with its splendid collection of busts and statuary. But if the National Gallery were removed to a distance it would be impossible, in the time, to visit the two col lections. For a working man to take a cab is oat of the question ; the faro would absorb the price of his Sun day's dinner. Again, there are so ve r y f ew pu bli c insti tutions that the people really feel t o b e nat i ona l , that we deem it bad policy to remove the pictures to where the attendance will be limited, for the sole convenience of Belgravia. Be wise in time ! As to the evils connected with the building, they would exist in any similar edifice if put at the back door of flunkeyism. The present structure in its effect is an abortion, and seems squatting to make water for the fountains ! The pepper-boxes should be kept in an old curiosity shop, and the feathered virgins sent to a nunnery ! But, as the site is the best, it not " the finest in Europe," pray let us have a National Gallery erected on that spot, and no other —a gallery worthy of its refining objects, and such as shall become a source of pride to the nation— not an elaborated structure which would require an opera-glass to examine the details and count the parti culars, but a Palace for the People, which from its elevation and proportions shall satisfy the requirements of good taste, and at once impress the mind and the imagination with a feeling of its magnitude, its grandeur, simplicity, and beauty. More space is required than could easily be obtained in the rear of the present site. If desirable to add sta tuary and portraits to the present collection, it would not be advisable to bring " fossil bones" among works of art, as intimated by the letter of the Earl of Elles mere. The historic portraits, however, can scarcely be seen to advantage, placed as they are above the cases in the museum ; and in the shadow of the ceiling they seem like old and useless panels. These painted bio graphies would be a useful and interesting addition to the National Gallery of Portraits. - If there is not space to realise the long galleries of the Louvre, there is ample ground near Trafalgar square for a National Gallery large enough to embrace the new and old masters in painting, sculpture, and por traits. The evils arising from- the dust and want of ventila tion and space can be remedied in Trafalgar-square as well as at Kensington 1. Cover the floor with cocoa nut matting, and the chief source of annoyance will pass through to the boards, instead of remaining for the visitors to grind and kick up in dust as at present. 2. Veoti'a'e thoroughly, and by a known process which drives out the rarefied air without inconvenience to the visitors or pictures. But to remove the National Gallery from its present site would cause, in an educational point of view, a national loss. The Royal Society can promote science as well at Kensington as elsewhere. But the National Gallery, to fulfil its mission, should be constantly in the midst of the people. Science instructs the under standing, and must be cultivated by the educated stu dent ; whilst Art exercises the tastes, appeals to ide ality, and refines the moral feelings. The first can only be cultivated by the few ; the lost awakens the springs of sympathy in all, rich or poor, educated or otherwise Hence the imperative necessity of retaining the National Gallery in the central and accessible position it no' occupies, that tae people may have ea s y a d m i ss ion and a temptation to visit the Temple consecrated to the Beautiful. E. T. Rotherham Mechanics' laatitute. . THE COUNCIL. OF WAR. PAINTED BY AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG, A.R.A. The absence of Mr. Egg from this year's Exhibi tion of the Royal Academy has at length been ac counted for, and that, moreover, most satisfacto rily. Here, in this noble historical picture (now on view at the Messrs. Graves' Gallery, near the Opera. Colonnade), is his remarkable contribution for 1856 to the Art Treasures of the United King dom. Thanks to Mr. Roger Fenton, we are all of us long ago familiar with the subject of the paint ing as originally portrayed in one of the most popular of all his three hundred celebrated photographs. The Council of War held on the morning of the taking of the Mame- . lon ! Otherwise, to give the date with all due pre ciseness, on the morning of June the 7th, 1855 the British Commander-in-Chief, the French Com mander-in-Chief, and the Turkish Commander-in- Chief, grouped together. round the little circular _ table at Lord Raglan's head-quarters. Even in the vague, pinkish, neutral-tints of Mr. Fentoirilibci- - tograph, the scene has been all along recog nised as one inatantaneously arresting the atten tion of all chance spectators, even of those flaneurs of Pall-mall and loungers of Piccadilly, who have sauntered from time to time round the apartments adorned with the Crimean Collection, glancing negligently to the right hand and to the left, with an air of negligent indifference. Coloured into life-like verisimilitude by the magic brush of Mr. Egg, the incident represented at once assumes to iteelf an importance commensurate in some degree both with the value of the picture as a work of art, aid with the magnitude of the incident of which it is so strikingly commemorative. It would iSe rather difficult we fancy to decide with accurac4which is. really the most admirable of the three gt e ett histo rical portraits here preserved for tit 4 ultimate wonder of posterity-, as well as for the fmmediate recognition of actual contemporaries. St an di ng in front of the picture, the spectator observes seated in front of him on the opposite side of the little council table, with his right elbow resting upon it, Omer Pasha with his griz zled beard and his dark and flashing eyes,—the very beau ideal of what you might reasonably have expected in the greatest of all the living warriors of Turkey, the defender of Kalafat, the victor of Giurgevo, and the hero of Oltenitza ! Upon the Pasha's right band, that is of course to the left of the spectator, sits Lord Raglan in a black frock coat and regimental trousers, wearing as his head dress what he almost always wore as such in the Crimea, a broad brimmed white felt hat, with a still whiter scarf wound round it. Added to which last mentioned items of his costume, the circumstance of a glaring white wall forming the background, tow• titer with the unmilitary peculiarity of his lord ship's white cravat, and that, too, of his smooth shaven face,—and the difficulties the artist had to contend with in this one portraiture, may in some smallfdegree, perhaps, be conjectured. Yet over every one of these difficulties as to outline and colour Mr. Egg has triumphed so completely that his artistic skill has, perhaps, never before been more conspicuously manifested. So completely has he triumphed over the various obstacles to suc cess enumerated, that the pale profile, the white cravat, the white wall, the white hat, and especially, and above all let us say, the white scarf twisted about the crown of it, tend each and every one of them actually to enhance the artistic beauty of the composition, and to perfect the charm of the portrait as a work of art by the very subordination of all other considerations to that of absolute and literal truthfulness. Confronting Lord Raglan upon the opposite side of the small circular table of Council, to the left of Omer Pasha, to the right of the spectator, is standing Marshal Pelissier—standing, not seated like his companions —eagerly pointing out to them upon the plan spread open upon the table, the. immediate scheme of operations. The gold laced cap jauntily tilted forward on the white bullet-head of the old dare-devil Soldat d'Afrique, the massive epaulettes, the embossed riding-whip, the blazing Star of the Legion worn even in cow= parative undress—all tell characteristically enough the well-known coxcombry of the gallant com mander-in-chief of our heroic Allies, the General who rides to battle in his carriage ! And who would fain dash through the serried ranks of the foe, we might conjecture, as O'Connell threatened again and again, to drive through acts of Parliament— namely, in a coach and six ! There the three great Captains are—preserved to us in vivid colours upon canvass by the master hand of Augustus Leopold Egg—as they actually were at the Council of War held on the morning of the taking of the Mamelon. You can see at a glance that the Council is just upon the instant of " breaking up"—it is visible in that one glance, upon that instant—in the resolute decision of Pelissier, in the amiable satisfaction visible upon the features of Raglan, in the fiery joy conspicuous in Omer Pasha's every lineament. The moment chosen is, we cannot but think, most admirably. The Council of War has reached its consummation. Another minute or two, and the little table will be deserted, the trumpets will be sounding, the drums rolling, the whole of the extended camp of the Allies in one grand spirit-waking commotion. The Commanders-in-Chief no longer brooding over a chart in deliberation, but each on his accustomed " coign of 'vantage," directing the movements of their forces and watching the development of their movements with eager looks of vigilance and satisfaction. Yonder, upon the Green Hill over there Sir Calla Campbell with his black-plumed Highlanders. Yonder, at the post of honour and of danger, the wild Zouaves, waved forward by th e i r d aun tl ess l ea d er, G enera l (now Marshal) Bosquet, " going in like a deli:a pack of hounds," as a British officer re marked, who watched them upon that me morable 7th of June, streaming over the verge of the disputed Mamelon. But hold !—Hero, still before us in Mr. Egg's admirable historic paint ing, still at the Council Table, in that last minute or so of final deliberation, life-like, all but breath ing, are the Allied Commanders-in-Chief ! Each inimitable as a portraiture. Together admir able as a renowned group, reminding us of a very memorable occasion, the occasion of the first seizure by the Allies of one of the great keys of Se bastopol. Supposing Mr. Egg to have done nothing else during the past season, he has done enough for his own lame, we are satisfied, in the production of this single masterpiece. A master piece about to be engraved, we Believe, in the highest style of art under the competent auspices of the enterprising firm of the Messrs. Agnew and Sons, of Manchester. INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS. Yesterday a quarterly court of the incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers took place in the board-room of the institution in Kennington-lane. The governor, Mr. E. Rountree, of the Ship and Bluecoat Boy, Walworth-road, took the chair shortly after 3 o'clock. Mr. SMALLEY, the secretary, having read the minutes of the previous court, they were put and confirmed. The SECRETARY then read the accounts, from which it appeared that the total amount of receipts was 11,793/. 16s. 81. The whole expenses were 9,3171.75. 7id., r d the total profits 2,476/. 9g., and the excess over the vious quarter was 5751. 14s. The auditors' report having been read, the who'd. was approved. _ The letter of the coffee and eating-house keepers having been read, upon the unanimous vote of the assembly, 10/. 10s. was advanced as the customary contribution of the in stitution. After a long discussion upon the merits and demerits of the newspaper, a vote of thanks was moved to the gover nor, trustees, and committee, and was carried unani mously. Th© GOVERNOR having returned thanks, Mr. FINDLY proposed a vete of thanks to the auditors, which was seconded by Mr. MITCHELL, of the Brass Drum, Bermondsey, and carried unanimously. Mr. OLIVER had been recently elected auditor, an office he had formerly held, and he felt proud to express his ap probation of the superior manner in which the accounts were kept. The time was fast approaching when the dividends would be received, and he thought that some provision should be made for the schools. He was of a different opinion to other parties, and imagined that the trade could not go on properly without such a provision. Mr. RAVEN then moved a vote of thanks to the Beare tary, Mr. Smalley, which was seconded by Mr. BROMLEY, and carried unanimously. Mr. SMALLEY expressed his sincere thanks for the honour which had been done bim, and signified his deter mination to exert himself to the utmost to forward the interests of the society. Mr. BYRON moved a vote of thanks to the editor, which was seconded by a gentleman who did not give his name. Mr. SYMES and Mr. GRIMES opposed this vote, but after some discussion it was put and carried. The proceedings then terminated. PRESENT TO THE PRINCESS ROYAL.--A very hand some cloth, Rix feet square, has been sent from Chatham to Colonel Phipps, as a present for the Princess Royal, made by James Murphy, 28th Regiment, recently re turned from the Crimea wounded. It is beautifully made of pieces of woollen cloth sewed together, each piece an inch square, and contains 1,440 pieces. The several pieces are all herring-boned with coloured silks, giving a very pretty effect. The cloth has a white centre, with the English and French colours, worked with silk, with laurel leaves, for m i ng a wreath. Outside the centre are eight pieces of coloured cloth forming another square, with the two nations tastefully worked also with silk. The cloth has a border, with a coloured fringe of red, white, and blue. It took two months making. For this splendid piece of workmanship Pri • vate Murphy bss just received a present of 101. from the Princess Royal, for which he feels truly grateful He is discharged from the service on a pension of Bd. per day for three years. He has lost the use of the forefinger of his right hand. H service ill 18 yoan and 6 mollthig. _ . - . 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