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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. Professor ANDERSON'S GREAT CARNI- I'LL BENEFIT, MONDAY and TUESDAY, March 3 and 4, 1856. Professor ANDERSON most respectfully begs to inform his friend s and the public, that his GRAND CARNIVAL COM- Pt IIdENTARY BENEFIT and DRAMATIC GALA will oc ear on. MONDAY and TUESDAY, 3d and 4th of March. It comprise Opera, Drama, Pantomime, Burletta, MCIO - nd a Bal Maque, thus constituting a roun of ase- %It mo a re copious, s attractive, and varied than ha d s eve m r u oc :!lrred in London. In fact, it will be the first time in the hie n? of ent er t a i nmen ts in England that any such thing has e on oven attempt e d. In America on benefit occasions, and Allen it i s d es i re d b y professionals to pay a mark of respect to a deserving beneficiaire, a Dramatic Carnival has been ' r ,„___ l lanised and attended with the most profitable results. The o"kival at Covent garden will be an effort to realise on Eng ah ground that which American ingenuity and enterprise „. already accomplished with success in the Transatla ntic ka eatres. The Carnival will commence on Monday, March 3, at one o'clock, with the performance (the last in London for m ?) of the great Pantomime of 1856, in, which Miss Harriet ThL d ,° ,l , Miss Emma Horne, Mr. Harry Pearson , Mr. W. 'ere, Mr. C. Brown, Mr. W. A. Barnes, and Mr reLotFlex will sustain their several characters. To be followed h° most p o pul a r Burletta of the day. After which , a two - Drama. Then a three-act Opera. To be succeeded by th. ,greatest Farce of modern times. That to be followed by 114 ,11 , 3 w Squib, And the whole to conclude with an amusing 141 ,7 0 . The whole of the various Artistes who are to appear , .among them aro those who take highest rank i n the y o rtrical world, have most kindly, and without reserve , L_ n ateered their services. Every employe in the Theatre "", with similar good feeling., expressed a wish to serve i thout fee or r ew ard. tie performances commencing on Monday, at 1 p.m., with C 'l'eat Comic Pantomime of 1856, entitled TB BELLE ALLIANCE; or, LiCtITIN GOOD HUMOUR AND THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. bei lld% LEGEND of the MEETING of the MONARCHS. Ike was a marvellous sweete and goodlye sight to see t hose I k e riThees,'ln the flower° of their age, is the height of their s h ..,ette and in the dignitie of theii - manlye beautye, coin '''`ning two great Nations, thattade been so long rivals and iinstead of leading hostile armies to deso late and st • r•Yooneet in that peaceful valleyo, arid embrace like Ittb ern, in the sight() of the choice nobilitie of either land." Chroniclers. 4:‘,. 46 Pantomime invented, arranged , and produced by Mr. 1• 1 4rris, with the same attention to Scenery, Costumes, effects, which has characterised the productions of " "Il Trovatore," " L'Etoile du Nord," and the 'Ph °l n , Operas lately produced at this, the recognised chief eatre in Europe for Spectacular Display. The entirely New • most elaborate Scenery Painted by and under the Super of Mr, WILLIAM BEVERLEY, assisted by . Cuthbert, C. Adams, W. Shaldcrs, W. Glover, awl 4"olerons Assistants. The Opening written by Mr. George a:' 1 ' 11141 m Sala, The Music composed by Mr. Loder (who has bp j'nglY lent his aid on account of the Pantomime bei n g Ili'' need at this. Theatre). The Ballet and Incidental 4 1 _ 0 esarrang e d by Mr. Benjamia Barnett, The Comic Tricks )( T i nted by the. Brothers Bough, Mr. A. Harris, and William Dorrington. The New Spectacular Designs by ae ry ,_ 4e rin, o x f numerous Assistants The Ori and Ultra-Grotesque Masks by Mr. G. Ewing. The ks W, Costly'Properties by Mr: Prescott, assisted by Mr. k r — b r 4 nd• The Ladies' Costumes by Mrs. James. assisted by tt l i e Zanchamp. The Gentlemen's Costumes by Mr. Smithers, ift by Mr. Lawrence. The Armoury Department by ks: 4 1 °IrIg. The Chappellerie by Mrs. Walker. Copyist, Ari s °r tnn. Prompter, Mr. Rance. Perruquier, Mr. Rick- o fßudges-street, Covent-garden. The Novel Gas Pp od :gelnents by Mr. Palmer and Assistants. The Whole Action being under the Immediate Superintendence of ' A. HARRIS. _ _ si tE n Scene I. CAVERNS OF THE GNOME BRITANNICUS IN SUBTERRANEANU SSIA. the .den (a fine old English Gnome), one of (I tia 7." 4 time, bearing a close resemblance to the " Old tlt t i.: 44l n.” fully answering to his co-Gnome-en ; a pure un 11k:rated British Spirit, strongly oppbsed to anything in the W. - of Foreign Wines, French Brandy, and great in his be- Beer, 'Baccy, Beef, and Boxing—Mr. John Neville. IticLuabile des Diablotines, by Mesdemoiselles E. Honey, fi e. Arlington, Cleveland, Granville, Losh, Brown, Page, lit t 2 r 3', Rose, Kendall, Martinez, Gosselin, Turtle, Ford, A .v *rt, Ranee, and Clare. 6 66is tant Gnomes—Blue Fire, Mr. Williams ; Phosphorus ' *ell Mr. s Gnomes — Blue ; Candescentington, Mr. A. Smith ; Match- Mr. Saunders ; Ignisfay, Mr. P. A. Jmes ; Red- ki:7 1 . 3 , Mr. Voller • Cratervom tt it, Mr. Spindle Torchlight, Nza„Ter; BlazetOn, Mr. Parkos ; Sulphurite, Mr. Topham ; ,Simkin s t i 7u gto, Mr. Pman • Gassington, Mr. B. Brown Crater kr it, Mr, • Haspark, Mr. J. Jones; Illuminoso, . 1144 °Y ; Nitrabank Mr. Pratt. 11 41 r Scene 11. LAND'S END, CORN WALL, WITH THE CAR Qom OF THE DRAGONS. .u.lunour—(a familiar spirit, whose familiarity is con to the very reverse of contempt. The prettiest page in 'whole volume of the Pantomime)—Miss Harriet Gordon. Urn, Diorama—No. 1. IMPEROR NAPOLEON'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON, And his Enthusiastic Reception. (4 " 1 `1 . VICTORIA'S VISIT 2 '1 . 0 NAPOLEON'S TOMB, In Use Hotel dos Invalides at Paris. Of Malice that shrine the last Rememtrance quench aa/ice 'twist the English and the French I" Scene 111. BECK OF " THE GREAT HARRY," FOUR DECKER, ' l na (the first English Man-of-War). The vessel lying Tg t alengside the Quay at Dover, with • 4, 4 ,, E MBARKATION OF HENRY THE EIGHT 1 1. it 10N.. -4 !"' the Eighth (a stout monarch, of middle age, residing . tim e ago at No. 1, West Minster, whose idea was that i l b, -4 Posaible to have too much of a good thing, or a good too,: A good wife being a good thing, he thought that the t Wives he had the better. Himself being a good king, be Nkled - that he could not m‘ke too much of himself, and It hi ac cordingly made as extensive lie possible in the person th _a' e faithful representativeY-Mr. 11.n.ry r"rs"n. tty- Ppc t(Page to King Henry 'lll.)—Master lb:,;eneen of England—Mr. Jones. of the Bedchamber to the English Queen- Mesdlles ,FmE3l94.ll,:viallnaiiiinkewr::),lsDe ay is ( y a , n P au an ti s c y al an ei d itl i em ily an . much accustomed to - on bladders in seas of glory,") vide Shakespere—Mr. Iteq h aalior Spritsail (commander of the Great Harry), a v ri l i " - heaten seaman, who—paradoxical as it may appear ! I °t allow himself to be beaten by the weather, and maxim is " Needs must when the Old Harry Drives " M tr D. Stewart. a,in! ‘" J -- , T urn Bowline, Mr. Silver • Jack Halyards, Mr. Up tstl; Foremast, Mr. Partingt ' on ; Bob Holystone, Mr ti_r."l;"" t • Joe Sheetanchor, Mr. T. B. Smith ; Davy Docks, °° cLaeld; Ted Trunchion, Mr. Freby ; Tim Towrope, kr . e nr.7; Dick Longboat, Mr. Barry; Peter Stanchion, ,4tamszzo;:i.ll Figurehead, Mr. Solomon ; Hal Hammock, fit. Charles Caboose, Mr. White ; Sam Sailcloth, Nat N th oh Mr. Fredericks ; Bill Bunt- Payne.Or p , I kl'A fit , •cl Diorama—No. 3. --` FROM ENGLAND TO FRANCE, with A STORM at SEA. T , Scene IV. - "TERtort OF THE CHATEAU OF FRANCIS I Or a ,„ Between Guises and Ardennes. I . —(Next door neighbour of the aforesaid Henry . ; -4 e . 1., Westminster, but who himself " didn't quite ' 4 lll W estminster" for an obvious reason—" he lived t'other Of tho owater.") A monarch of the same ag e a s Henry , tit thncal'lY of the same size ; joint author (with Henry VI ) aLl,ltriginal plot of the gorgeous Drama, YE BELLE "‘ie - 'CE, now represented for the first time in a complet 4 lir, ° ,_ ll the Theatre of European Politics. A monarch with ° litpt'cd nose (who h in consequ ence, always looks sharp) — 1, Shaldei 7 s. , Fitzjerald, Bennett, St. Clair, fir l• , 0 Gaveston, E. Gaveston Prince, ctc., ( ter ug ," lr e,.. do Firmboisy.—(Lord 9 Grand Chamberlain to the Ki ng) —Mr. H. Caries. Itik;', l _ 4 uf France.—Mr. Gough. grApiT uf the Bed-Chamber of the French Queen.—Mesdles. -*ln ; Contrepoint, Rideanfin, Oreillerino. !Scene V. Intly l E T II FIELD OF THE CLOTH OP GOLD. - -ttein g a I .. an d p as de Bosiere, by Was Emma Horne. k rt reteeiselles Hicks, E. Honey, Gosselin, Ranee, Kendall, ii ttw a llez, Rose, Arlington, Loch, Gregory, Turtle, Ford, far' Page ' Rouse, Brown, St. Clair, Granville, Wood- Ep' a nd - h -R " Courtiers. —Norfolk, Mr. Roba. Suffolk, Mr. Ab uttlik„• 'Puckingham, Mr. Jay. Rutland, Mr. Andrews. Cum- Jake', . Sphinx. Northumberland, Mr. Cox. Essex, Mr. (.„$\•:,;„, Mr'. Mr. Thomas. Courtiers.—Chateau Margeaux, Mr. Thompson. Lafitte, Mr. Rivers. Bordeaux, Mr. Abby. St. Jul- N 4,7. Charles. St. Estafet, Mr. Iteynolds. Bonrgoyne, Mr. ikt k i;• De Chablis, Mr. Tower. Do Champagne, Mr. Scott. b TOURNAMENT of the FIELD of the CLOTH oi a h GOLD. rfolbieres celebrated Picture in Hampton Court Palace. Scene VI. GRAND CORRIDOR IN THE CHATEAU, Fogg Leading to the Bed-chamber of the Monarchs. one Normaady "smiles, Six Feet Two Inches in their Clogs. Scene VII. E OUTSIDE OF BLONDETTE'S FARM. ss - -.4etto ( a village Rosik.e so purely innocent, that she lbein"rm in having three lovers at a time, two of them ~(710 7 ,1 1, ,8 ) — M i5s Emma Horne. : I de elueot—a rustic youth, whose name being translated Littl e 'Pler's Dietioaary") signifies " Poppy." . He is, never thi:lB, the reverse of Soporific, being particularly wide sot k e „' (He is one of the three lovers alluded to, who does fir' n. Pr l eu to be a kin g , and takes his measures accordingly) •-•• Brown. Scene VIII. " The Abede - o - f - ifte . F - a - ity Qin 114 GOLDEN GROVES OF GO ueen OD HUMOUR. T ae P •• (By Mr. Wm. Beverley.) airy n ‘lloelt General Transformation. 144410 0 h ****************************** **** ******. Mr W. C. BROWN. A. BARNES. (The Transatlantic Pantomimist.) * ... Miss EMMA HORNE. °WII **************************** ***** GREAT FLEXMORE. **** ************************** &I TERATION BUILDINGS, TURMERIC-ROW, s . gi lt REDLEAD•SQUARE. tott. 4 „ L' E l of Ale and a Stomach-ache for 4d. Genuine double tire,,atut—Up to Snuff and down to Pepper—How the ' ‘ , l eltie s ' .lB°B--- „ Sweet upon Sugar. All pickles to believe in -- Usalk-farm Dairy Cows v. Pumps—Gunpowder lk,.. Wa rranted to go off"—Pale Ale peculiarities. 4 11i/r,„,' - squassia, Mr. Wyatt ; Strychnine, Mr. Scott ; Blue 'tr. Carter • Oxyplumbi, Mr. Strangeways. terror of ' The " Times"—The Laneinations of Use ce t --Black Crosses in Red Lead-square. " l EARD'S LABORATORY IN THE CHATEAU DE MEPHISTOPHILES, HELIGOLAND. ed%rnersaults—The Bewitched Ottoman—The Dragon k ble, ` r ee—The Inextinguishable, Inexhaustable, Unstopper tlo„,„7-a-head Bottle—" 1001. Reward, who'll Shoot a Elanderbuss of Botheration—Bursting of the aect e - , i ' ' s Bust —Small Wizards made to order, Pattern Pre ...l—Quickest way t o N ow here—How to m a k e H ar l equ i ns e Way to Crush the Crushers. Ik 4 ' RE NEW CASTLE OF BALMORAL. gi l t' e ;tY In the Highlands—Pipers and Pastoralities-- Port f l" Reel, introducing a grand Flexmorcan Medley The abl e - sir° of Inexhaustibility and Universality—The Incaptur- Nd ' "lrie qiVery " fowl" proceedings—The Seductive 11.4 -chair —Strange Birds in a Cage. 043...erlytAKERS' ESTABLISHMENT, CHRONOMETI- Nksr.: I4, LE—MILLINERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BON. vILLE BELLHANGERS' ESTABLISHMENT, -_ 1142 d--Cilk Nis sad - Mom role! —The h! - - -Frs. 22. ,ATs. ol d 3 6fl 481 , Od 444 a 6d 364 qrs ., 770 s old 5 qrs., OS so ; 3 qr,. 6513 () qrs., 150 O s TER. 15 10 4-12 0 A 4 4 6.l2tbs -Tr ml. 21 bfetio r ~... 2 1 ' .... 2/1' g ~... 42$ lbs per bukt• lbs • p r boll. r sack. .0s Odto Os 61 to 0, 01 2s 6d to 34 oj 'Zs 6d to Of 03 Os oat 4,39 0.1 , Os Od 0 138 6d WO oi Os Od to vt.Bls Od t(' ..... ..6d to 141 b 08 to leloloit Os 2d toO'l to 2,304 d. to 4.. 01; 6$ Od to 41s is , rape 16~ Od ; bak e o `i 33s Od to 365 leneral Post o" U• go d ' 4 ' ll DIAr• Feb. 27 %rn • t btuipm anipt. ampto7 us porgy ampto' a p amptct ampton mMpt.o ,, rob. 21 A O' Tsfid4 kmpt,t , 1 till ilyneor Mar. 6 f mot , ' , 6. ri: t. r: iB," Feb 26 1""s ; liar. 4 amp ,. 1~~ a ~,~4 I Feb' Votl. 26. o toer oth 4 3° ampto , , uth •• -•• •• •• toad .Tw I' 26 ampto f amptori pool • •• I 0 '4 SO° r - Lamar,- r r.... • • lamptoT , , us port linc "t• truripton tamptnn. „ ir is* as portsV 4 ' r I •l it o6oo 14motoft 1if 1 " 14 .- LAMEOTI e e mallo ,' l an of the DO:, ` t tf 100 defWateh" b.° narket has et , t a firtn goP e r fidlands , 0 7 5 ° 4i I Lincoln , ' op , -South EA b i t e 1.9i — Lau -- Ethonish, i P. 3. r has beer dig na. Leet l9 ' Do r 19 1 . 1 6 ' q uo, Ids, 24/ - Di bri4 L iarket wag -Ann on"- shade )1 a i 1-I ' ll ' ll sP , ,taffords, i , " sterns, 591. i —North °lt onsols, 91 9/V er N ew Tbreo,f, h March, 9 ' ,a it S o uthern4ol ank Stock, `pa W .at estern " o r ficklo w Cog SHILLING i• Season ticket ot ' a certain P ea , dre e , se Sarah . 16 fr dee, in a la t '" •10 1853, t? 01 severe Pals 3akness in D eompani O a ) , known ree 4 ,l ived no betlerio :olloway's time, sh^ ys t Uggists ' oa. t. Strand, by A. Starq, and u Po" tomas Jeaki °6 )ark i of iient..CAl' E seez, gr°. -en dish-sql 6re i D.A., viola e tenham, O i r o l Lieut.-Gene: r t . !ter of the le it i or of the Rd Jersey, j °l3n , O Rosa Dow,: .31aremont.to 'are, WolP°l° , Mr. Rav el. ngs, aged 4 6 0, ~ Mary A lll3 looyne. lionise Sag e : ollege of sll' ihumberlaD dl techapel, gr. Manners St' lit Rev. c• "`' Lath) Quee n ed 73. , K) YOU?' " • fice. 1 12 , I 00 11311 ° i reb, 26 N o . 19,7791 Movements of the Age—What's o'clock—" The Clock strikes two"—How to Ring a Belle—Umbrella Courtship—Who's your Hatter —Barly Closing Association " Love Laughs at Locksmiths'—La Varsoviaaa—The Strike of Belles against Time. . . Grand Equestrian Feats, by Signor Flexmorini. HIGH-STREET, SPIRIT-SQUARE. Apartments to Let. A Cold Roll for B r e a kf as t—The Organised Naisance Ta bleaux—Punch's Pocket Book—Patent Perambnlators—Ast ley's Equestrian Feats—Policemen and Cooks—Monsieur Tierce—All-round Collars and Punch's Coats—The quickest way to the Coal-cellar—Spirit Rapping Extraordinary. HAIR-DRESSER'S, FILTER MANUFACTORY, PICKFORD'S PARCEL WAREHOUSE, AND NEWS. VENDER. The Purifying of Old Father Thames—The Invasion of London —The Russians set the Thames on fire—Foreign Fruits and British Stuffs—Odd Importation of Bear's Grease--Sar dinians and Zouaves—The Illustrated London News—The Humours of Good Humour. THE APOTHEOSIS OF YE BELLE ALLIANCE, Designed by M. Guerin. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. • Mourners at One Altar—Victors on One • Throne. The Coro nation with the Coronals of Valour by the Genius of Victory. THE PANTOMIME to be followed, at 4 o'clock, by the Drama of real life, in Two Acts (with permission of T. Payne, Esq.) untitled TIME TRIES ALL, Mr. Leeson (a, Merchant), Mr. George Cooke ; Matthew Bates (his Partner), Mr. Basil Potter the Hon. Collander Yawn, Mr. Kinloch; Charles Clinton, Mr. F. Hall ; Tom Tack, Mr. T Clarke ; Laura Leeson, Miss Herbert; Fanny Fact, Miis Somers. To be-followed by, at half-past 5 o'clock, the Scottish drama of GILDEROY. Jock Muir, Professor Anderson. At a quarter-pait 7 o'clock, the favou rite Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, Mrs. Henri Drayton (late Miss Lowe); Elvino, Mr. Henry Haigh ; Count Rodolpho, Mr. I.urand. Then, at a quarter-past 9 o'clock (by the very gracious permission of E. T. Smith,- Esq.), Mr. Charles Mathews will himself appear in the celebrated Drury lane Farce of the GREAT GUN TRICK, suppoifted by Mr. Tilbury, ffr. Worrell, Mr. James Rogers 'Mr. Templeton, and Miss M. Oliver. After which, at halit'past 10 o'clock, Mr. Leigh Murray will appear, in conjunction with Professor Anderson, and imitate Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Charles Kean, and Professor Anderson, in the new Squib entitled WHAT FOES HE WANT? The whole of the First Even ing's Entertainments to conclude 'with a Grand Ballet, in which Mademoiselle Auriol, Miss Emma Horne, Mr. W. A. Barnes, and Mr. Flextnore will appear. The Second Even ing, Tuesday, March 4, will be devoted to the Great Wizard's GRAND BAL MASQUE, whiclrwill commence at 19 o'clock —doors open at 9. The whole of the spacious Pit will be ertirely covered, the Stage thrown into the Salle de Danse. The Carnival will thus comprise a Dramatic-day, Monday, March 3, on which Seven different P , :rformances will take place, and more than six hundred artistes will appear ; and a Second day entirely devoted to the Bal Masque. Admission to the entertainment on Monday will be : Grand Balcony, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit and Amphithe atre Stalls, 2s. tid. ; Gallery, Is. ; with the privilege of leav ing the theatre and returning, or of taking refreshment in the theatre. Admission to the Bal Masque on :Tuesday, for a lady or gentleman, ss. nADAME JENNY GOLDSCJIMIDT-LIND. EXETER HALL. THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. It is respectfull , announced that Mr. and Madame GOLD. scumlDT will give en EVENING i'ONcERT of SACRED and MISCELLANS OUB MUSIC, with Full Band and Chorus, at Exeter Ball, on TUESDAY EV .NING, Mach 11, 1856, the proceeds of which will be presented to the Nightingale Fond. The Programme will comprise Mendelssohn's Hymn, " Hear my Prayer, 0 God," - for Soprano. Chorus, and Organ, Madame JENNY Go LDscHMIDT. Bt eth oven's Choral Fantasia, Pianoforte, Orchestra, ,nd Chorus ; Pianoforte, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt. "he 130th Psalm, for Soprano. Solo, and Chorus, by Mr. Otto Galdschmidt (first time of performance) ; Solo part by Madame JENNY GoLDSCIIMIDT. Meyerbeer's Tr o, " Horst I)a," for Soprano and Two Flutes, Madame JENNY GOLDBCIIMIDT ; Flutes, Messrs. Pratten and Remusat. Finale to Weber's " Euryanthe ;" Seprsna part, Malame JENNY GOLDScriMMT. Beethoven's March and Chorus from "The Ruins of Athens." The Full Programme will be (I,ly announced. Con duetor, Mr. Benedict. On this occasion the seats throughout the Hall will be numbered and Reserved, price One Guinea each. Application for Tickets received by Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. The places will be appropriated according to priority of applica tion : and tickets will be ready for delivery ea and after Monday, March 3. Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. 31[R. ALBERT SMITa'S MONT BLANC, TO-NIGHT, and every evening (except Saturday), at S o'clock, and Tuesday, Thursday, and -aturday Mornings at 3. Stalls, as. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, le.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. Prin.:l pal Cornet a Piston, M flonicourt.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling. Laurent's new Varsoviana every night. R W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, _ Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character, and Costume, concluding with an impersonation of Mlle. Rachel, as Camille la " Lea lioraces.". Every evening, at 8. Morning Per formance every Saturday at 2 o'clock; night at 8. Private boxes and-stalls may be secured in advance, without extra charge. Poly graphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. • BANK OF LONDON, Threadneedle-street, and Charlng-cross. Cruntst.sx—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SItELIEY, Bart., VICE -CHAI MAN—JWIN GRIFFITH FRITH. Esq. CurreniAcecunt.;;;;e received, and interest allowed on italanees. 51. per cent. Interest is allowed on deposit!, with 10 days' notice of withdrawal on Bums of 101. and upwards: By order. —•-- _ MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. HE NJA MI g SCOTT, Secretary. Threadneedle-street, January 19, 1856. OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY, AI; No. 18, Cannon-street, London, February 23d. 185 e, The Directors of this Compa , y beg to inform the shareholders that as soon as it was discovered tha't any irregalarities had taken place in the issue of the Shares and Obligations of this Company, the accounts of the Company were place tin the hands f the firm of Broom, Bagsltsw, and Westcott, the eminent Accountants. who were appointed for that purpose by a committee of shareholders, and who are now employed in the investigation of its affairs. The Directors hare no reason to believe that any forg• - d Shares or Obligations are in existence. Immediately atter the Directors shall be enabled to make an accurate report, a meeting of the shireholders will be called. WIESBA DEN RAILWAY COMPANI EIGHT' PER CENT. PREFERENCE 911A1t FS. Ihe Company is prepared to receive Appleations for Preference S ,, ares of 6/. each, bearing Eight Ter Cent. interest, payable nalf yearly in London, Paris, or Frankfort, at the option of the holders. A first instalment of 21 per share will be payable on allotment, the second 21. on the 31st March next, and the remaining 21. on the 31st May ne t. T ,, e amount of these shares to be issued will not exceed 'OO,OOOl, being the amount required to open the lime to Rudeshtim, opposte to Bingen. Applications may be made in the subjoined form to the Company's brokers, A. 5. flo.diton, Esq , 11, Angel-court, Throgmortor, street ; and Messrs. Bragg and Stockdale, 6, Throgniorton-street; or to the secretary, at these offices. Loudon Agency, 18, Cannon-street, City, London, 16th February, 1856. By order of the Council. W. W. LANDER, Secretary. Foam OF APPLICATION. To the Council of Administration of the Wiesbaden Railway Company. Gentlemen,-1 request that you will allot me Eight per Cent. Preference Shares of 61. each In the Wiesbaden Railway Company, and I agr•-e to accept the same or any less number that you may allot me, and to pay t , e instalments thereon at the dates fixed In your advertisement of the 16th February, 1856. Name.. • Addre55........... . • • Reference CONTRACTS FOR FRE4EI BEEF, MUTTON, BREAD, VEGETABLES, &c., FOR 'TTIE ROYAL MARINE INFIRMARIES AT WOOLWICH AND CHATHAM ADMIRALTY, 20th February, 1856. 'THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of IL. Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, the 13th March next, at One o'clock, they will be ready at the office of the Director-General of the Modica' Department of the Navy, Somerset-place, in London, to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for the supply of all such quantities of all or any of the 'allowing articles as shall from time to time be re quired for th use of either one or both of the Royal Marine Infirma ries at Woolwich and Chatham, from the let day of April neat to the alst day of March, 1857, 'VIZ. : BEEF and MUTTON BREAD MILK SOAP (Yellow) CANDLES ( •loulds anel Dips) VEGETABLES • Samples of the Soap and Candles, together with the Conditions of the Revised Contracts, to which particular attention is called, may be seen at this Office, or by applying to the Purveyor, at the infir maries at Woolwich and Chatham. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised ha writing. E-fery tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, ind hear In the left-hand corner the words "Tedder for and must also be delivered at Somerset-plaCe, accompanied by a let tersigned by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1001. for the due performance of the contracts, for Beef and Mutton, for Bread and for Vegetables, and in the sum of 501. for each of the others. JOZEAII'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED CAPSULES, approved of by the drench College of Physicians, .uccessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder. (See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inventor, GABRIEL JOZ EAU, French chemist,:49, Haymarket, London, and 111 the principal chemists. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMAIL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the nigh Court of Chancery, and on the 11th of June billowing was made perpetual, against Joseph Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by 'loyal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the &sole do PhArmacte de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR. No. 1, is a remery for R e laxation, spermatorrbtea, and all the di s t ress i ng consequences arising, from early abuse, Scc., and its effe c t s are ell cachous in youth, manhood, and old age ; and t thos e p ersons who are prevented entering the married State from the results of early errors it is invaluable. 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To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 69, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-sit, et; and Sanger, 150, Ox ford -street ; R. 11. Ingham, druggist, 46. Market-street, Manchester; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 62, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, WestmorelanditlCet, . Dilblia i Winansll, wa s sailer. Itigkitrtet. DR. DORAN'S NEW WORK. This day is published, in pot Svo., 10s. 61, KNIGHTS AND THEIR DAYS. By Dr. Doa&i, Author of "Habits and Mon," "Table ii airs." London : Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. A DMINISTRATIVE REFORM ASSOCIA.- TION.-M tRYLETIONE MEETING' ,Literary and Scientific Institution. 17. Edwards-street, Portman-square, on TUESDAY Evening,26th February ; Jacon BELL, Esq., in the Chair. Corrupt influence and favoritism in Government appointments— consequent ineffic en-y of the public service. Report of the Com missioners in the Crimea; starvation in the midst of plenty ; the reward of neglect, and the neglect of merit. The Chair will be taken at Eight Otleeitlirecisely. For Cards of Admission apply at the Institution, 17, Edwrirdr street ; or at the Office of the Administrative Reform Association, 86, Ring William-street, City. CA.OUTCHOITC COMBS:-M. FANVELLE DE LEBARRE, 10, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, Inven tor of the India Rubber Combs, has obtained a First-class Medal at the Universal Exposition. The jury, wlshtng to recompense the signal services rendered by lidessrs. Favrot and Desrueltes, assistants to the above-named gentleman, have presented each of them with a medal of the second-class. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in the matter of the Estate of William Greening, and in a cause, Richard Greening and. others against Wal ter Stanton Boustield, the CRE (TOM of WILMA i GREENING, late of No 22, Marlborough-place, Old Kent-road, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, deceased, the Te.tator in the proceedings named (who died on or about the 6th day of June, 1855), are, by their zolicitors, on or before the 29th day of February, 1856, to come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, No. 12, Old square, Lincoln s-inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. _ . . WI 171..4”.• • Thursday, the 6th day of March, 1856, at one of the clock in the afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adju• dicating upon the claims._ Dated this 12th day of February, 1856. ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk. HENRY BATT, Dyers' Hall, London, and Wandsworth, Sarren Plaintiff's Solicitor. NEW LABEL.—In consequence of the great variety of counterfeit labels of A. ROWLAND ,Sc SONS' MACASSAR OIL, now in circulation, and which so nearly resemble the original as frequently t , , deceive the unwary—they have em ployed those eminent artists Messrs Perkins, Bacon, a‘ Co., who, at great cost, and by a peculiar process of their own, have succeeded in producing from steel" A NEW L ABEL," which cannot be forged. Ills composed of a section of an engine-in -lied circle, repeated one hundred and thirty times —and forms an original lace-work ground, upon which is engraved in white letters, " ROWLAND' MAC ISSAR OIL, FOR THE GROWTH, RESTORATION. AND FOS BEAUTIFYING THE Hume( Ilsts.." Under which is the Signature of therr , prietors in Red Ink 'ROWLAND & SONS." Sold by them at 20. Hlatton•garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. MINORITY FOR LORD GLENE(G'3 MOTION. 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My Lords,—Referring to the 434th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, which provides that an assessor appointed by the Board of Trade to assist at an investi gation shall, upon the conclusion of the case, either sig nify his concurrence in the report by signing the same, or, if he dissents therefrom, shall signity such dissent and his reasons therefor to the Board of Trade,' I beg to submit that I differ from Mr. Yariley in the conclusion coma to him respecting the cause of collision between the Josephine Willis and the Mangerton, and consider that, so far from the chief officer of the Josephine Willis, who was in charge of the deck at the time, being excus able, the collision was caused by his wrongful act and default, and I submit the following reasons for forming that opinion, viz.:- " 1. That the cl ief mate of the Josephine Willis, at the time of a light being reported ahead, rather on the star board bow, was in charge of the deck of that vessel, and ought to have known, from the bearings and distance of Folkestone, that the light on Dungeness was some 12 or 14 miles to the westward ; and if the night was suck as is described it was impossible to see so far ; consequently there could be no necessity for immediately altering the course of the ship for the reason stated by him. "2. That he should have carefully watched the light, and upon seeing a led light ought then to have known that it was the port bow of a steamer crossing or edgi❑g to starboard ; that there was a risk of collision if they continued their respective courses, and have ported his helm in accordance with the 296th section of the Mer chant Shipping Act ; they would then have passed on the port side of each other, and thus have avoided a collision. The evidence of Mr. Ray, late chief officer of the Josephine Willis, is confirmatory of this in a great measure, as he admits that had the Josephine Willis ported her helm no collision would have taken place. "3. With respect to the chief mate's evidence as to his seeing a green I cannot conceive that was pos sible until the vessels were so close that a collision was inevitable, "4. With respect to the curse pursued by the Man gerton, I think they did perfectly right in porting their helm after losing sight of a light they had ju•t before seen a point to a point and a half on their port bow, as they could not po ably tell the way the ve,sel might be standing, which they could have done if she had been a steamer. It is to be regretted that the helm was not put hard a•port at first. " I ain also inclined to think that ha - I a bright light, such as is required to be used by all sailing vessels, been shown the co.linion might not have taken place. The steamer Mangerton losing eight of the light of tke Jose phine Willis arose, in my opinion, from the latter star hoarding her helm, thereby presenting to the steamer a green light, and that being a fainter light ace unts for its not being again seen up to the time of the collision, as stated by come of the witnesses. The lantern in question was fixed at the bowsprit end of the Josephine Willis, and showed a blight light ahead, a green light on the starboard bow, and a red light on the port, cer tainly not such a light as is required to he shown by the ' Admiralty regulations. I consider, therefore, that there is no blame to be attached to any person on beard the j Mangerton as regards the collision. " With regard to the conduct of the captain of the Mangertm after the collision, f coincide in the opinion expressed by Mr. Yardley, excepting that I consider him to blame for having all his boats inboard on deck ; and one of the boats which was got ont, and by which seven persons were saved, had neither tholes nor even a plug to keep the water from coming in. This is noticed in Mr. Yardley's report. " Tne conduct of the two mates and part of the crew of the Josephine Willie, after getting on board the Man gerton, seems to hays bee❑ very reprehensible, no at tempt having been made by them to go to the assistance of the persons lelt on the wreck of the Josephine Willis. " There are four particulars elicited in this evidence to which I would beg to call their lordships' attention : " 1. The state of the boats and their being carried in board, which is said to be very common. " 2. The particular kind of lantern carried by the Josephine Willis, and which is said to be coming into general use. " 3. To the very unsatisfactory answers given by the several witnesses as regards the lights and the rule of the road. "0. The creditable conduct of two young seamen, passengers by the Mangerton, named James Newham and Anderson, who went in the Mangerton's boat to the wreck and saved Leven of the crew and passengers when no one eke would go, and who are, I submit, deserving of such a reward as their lordships may deem fit.—l have the honour to be, "Your Lordships' ob:dient servant, "R. ROBERTSON, Commander, R.N., Survqur•Gentral. "Board of Trade, Feb. 21." TOWN DUES--MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. On Friday a public meeting, convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition signed by nearly 2,000 of the bankers, merchants, brokers, and general traders of Liverpool, was held in St. George's-hall ; John Stew art, Esq., the Mayor, presiding. The meeting was con vened in opposition to the bill introduced into tne House of Commons by the Vice-Presideut of the Board of Trade, by which it is proposed to deprive the corporation of the borough of the properties of the town dues and anchor age. The meeting was exceedingly crowded, and them e were present on the platform most of the members of the corporation, dock committee, and the leading gentlemen of the town. _ . __ The CHAIRMAN in opening the proceedings, said that the property sought to be wrested from the corporation bad been secured to them by conveyance, and those who were fur abstracting it forgot that they were losing one of the great strongholds of society by which the property of the country was held, not only by municipalities, but by individuals. (Cheers.) He had it from unquestionable authority—that there was property held to an enormous amount by municipalities, noble lords, dukes, and others derived from that very title of which their town dues formed only a small part. (Cheers.) Mr. J. P. HEYWOOD, late high sheriff of the sounty, moved the first resolution, as follows : "That this meet ing has learnt with astonishment that a bill has beeu in troduced law Parliament by the Vice President of the Board of Trade, by which it is proposed to deprive the burgesses and corporation of this and many other sea Potts in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, of the revenue which they now lawfully derive from dues on goods and shipping." LI the measure of the Govern ment, he could see neither reason nor justice. The town dues were not devoted to lecel proposes only, but the greater part of them were expended in matters c on nected with the welfare i I the nation at large, and more particularly of the manufacturing districts around Liverpool, which benefitted largely by the facili ties afforded by the corporation of Liverpool to the commerce of the town. The jealousy with which some of their neighbours regarded the town clues was, in fact, foolish and unbounded. Those dues were obtained by the Corporation as the result of a fair and free bargain and sale, and consequently there could be no justice in taking them from the Corporation, except upon the principle of an ample cornpeneatiou. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GEORGE DOLT seconded the resolution. They had seen how legally the foundation of their rights rested in a court of law, when it bad been decided that the town dues were their property ; and who of them would not be satisfied that their claim was good after such an assertion as the courts of law gave ? (Hear, hear.) The dues had mainly been devoted to purposes of a national character. For the purpose of having better access to the docks from the town, and from the former to the railways, the Corporation bad granted land of their es. tate, at almost nominal prices, for the benefit of the docks, and for the promotion of the commerce of the country. Look at the conservancy of the river, the landing stage, &c., paid for out. of the funds of the Co rporation ; and if the dues were taken from them, did they think they would have a remission of those rates ? Did they imagine that the Vice• President of the Board of Trade would administer far better than the Corpora• tion of Liverpool had done ? (Cries of "No, no.") He was properly reminded of St. George's Hall, which bad been a very sore subject. Was it not built as much iQr , 7/7/7' eeeee the county as for that borough l Was it not also built for the Hundred of West Derby, and for Salford. as much as for Liverpool ?—for the adMinistration of jes. I too ; and if a tax were laid on the hundreds, the count 7 would greatly repine. (Cheers.) With regard. to the meeting at Manchester, held the previous day, l i S eeeee surprised to see such inaccuracies ; he bad almost Paid foolery - -(laughter)—speakers agreeing in favour of the bill, and supposing that they would be relieved by its operation. They would not be relieved one farthing, but they might go elsewhere were they successful. Mr. S. IL GRAVES, chairman of the Shipowners' Asso ciation, moved the next resolution to the effect, that the dues on anchorage tolls and on goods had been legally acquired by the corporation, and were too trifling in amount to be of serious importance to the shipping interest, the right hevine been also ratified by the highest law courts. The Vice-President of the Board of Trade, in the speech which he delivered in introducing the hill into the House of Commons, complained df the griev ances which the shipowners of hie country felt by the operation of their towit dues. Now he (INIr. Gr.' , ei) denied that the shipowners of that town, or of the country, had ever asked to be relieved from the town dues. He felt convinced that the Government them selves were ignorant of the measure which they asked the c iuntry to support. For himself, ho looked upon the bill as nothing mere nor less than a mockery ; fp., instead of a boon, he conceived that it won d abeoletely become a bit then to the shipowner. (Hear.) He felt that he was justified in stating that the Ishii melon of that pert bad unanimously exprtsied thei- eisapproval of the measure, and were determined t i adopt every means Ito oppose it. The association was prepared to offer the m st vieorous opp ,sition to the bill in its pas. saee t Hough Parliament. (Loud cheers.) [Here the speaker read as extract from the proceedings of the special meeting of the Shipowners' Atseciaticn, which was to the effect that that b idy had never considered the town dues as bearing injuriously on shippirg or the commerce of the pert of the Mersey. That ape , bad never made any stch complaints to Government or Par liament, and that any such representations which might have been made to their honourable house had been made in error and without inquiry. The speaker also read an extract from a petition to Parliament against the bill, which was agreed to at a meeting of the Asso ciation.] In continuation Mr. Graves proceeded to say that he thought such a forcible appeal from the ship owners could not fail to attract the attention of the members of :Par:iament and influence their conduct when they were called npon to record their votes upon this question, and asked to effect the confiscation of that which was nothing less than an honest right. 0, Mr. ROBERT RANKIN seconded the resolution, and as a shipowner, denied that from his 40 years' experience, that the removal of the dues would benefit shipping. Quite the contrary. lie instanced the fact of the surplus funds of the Marine Board arid another association hav ing been applied to the benefit of other places than Liverpool. (Cheers.) Mr. JAMES AIKEN, the next speaker, entered at length into the origin anti l. istory of the town dues, tracing them from the earliest period to the time when they were absolutely purchased from the Sefton family by the corporation, and then reverted to the trial as to their legality, which took place in the year IS3O. The trial, ho said, took place before the Lord Chief Justice of England, when most eminent counsel were engaged on both sides. Eventually, the case went to the jury, and the corporation obtained fa verdict. Their opponents then availed themselves of a bill of exceptions, but on their own counsel intimating to them that they had not a leg to stand In se—that our right to them was clear and complete, they gave up the contest, and submitted to an adverse decision. Though entitled to those dues, eithout performing any act, the corporation gave ground for the making of docks, and, instead of seeking for power to rate the dock estate, they were parties to an alt being obtained by which the docks of Liverpool were male national property, and freed froth being rated at all. (Hear, hear.) It the Manchester gentlemen and others would but read the statement made by the Vice- President of the Board of Trade in the House of Com mons they will find the title to those dues indisputably clear and complete. He felt confident the bill would be rejected by a large majority. lie supposed the Vice- President of the Board would not deny that if these dues had still remained the property of the Earl of Sefton, he would not have thought of touching them ; but as they were no longer the property of an individual, they were no longer to be held sacred. (Applause.) Mr. J. H. Saurn, a shipowner, also argued at consi derable length that the shipping interest did net consider the town dues as at present levied a burden, while there was nothing in Mr. Lowe's to show them, that when the dues were collected by the Board of Trade, they would not be appropriated to matters unconneeted with the port, such as the harbour of Holyhead, which was not of the slightest use to the commerce of Liver. pool. The resolution was passed unanimously. The third resolution, condemnatory of the proposed bill as a measure of unjustifiable spoelietion, was moved by Mr. AmintosE LACE, and seconded by Mr. I. BEOCLEBANK, Mr. Councillor PICTON, in supporting it, contended that hitherto no acknowledged right or property bad been taken from individuals or 'communities without granting compensation. In reference to the Manchester meeting, he deprecated the terms applied to the corpo retion of Liverpool, and strongly condemned the plea es of plunder and plunderers applied to those dues and to the corporation. It seemed to have been taken for granted throughout the Manchester meeting, that if Mr. Lowe's bill pea ed there would be no snore dues on goods—than 2,1. per bale on a bale of goods would for ever cease, and that halcyon days for the people of Manchester wau'd begin. But he felt that Manchester would not be quite in this happy state, for ho had looked carefully over the bill brought in by the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and he did not Fee that the mown dues were to be done away with at all—(heal)—neither did he see the slightest reference to it in Mr. Lowe's speech. lie warned the gentlemen of Manchester, that, if successful in obtaining all that was proposed in the bill, they would find that they bad got rid of the Liver pool town dues, but had merely been successful in trans ferring them to the hands of Government. Be eo n . derened the bill as one of the numerous attempts o the G ivornment to carry out the reprehensible system of centralisatier. The resolution passed non. con. Mr. R. A. .MACFIE opposed the fourth resolution, which condemned the drawing of any distinctions be tween the rights of property belonging to private indivi duals and that held by communities. Ja the course of a lengthy speech, Mr. Macfie detailed the various public purposes for which the corporation bad expended their funds. They had built public baths and washhouses, opened free public libri,ries, spent upwards of 1,000,000/. in widening streets, principally for facilitating the com mercial business of the port ; 30,000/. had been laid ont in the conAtrietion of a lighthouse, and upwards of 1201. was now being expended in the construction of a large landing stage for sea-going steamers. The very cotton and timber brought to Liverpool for Manchester and the surrounding towns involved the cerporation in a vast annual expense in repairing the streets. Mr. CHAS. SAUNDERS seconded the resolution, which was urriniinni s y ad( ptei'. Mr. W. RATHBONE moved the fifth resolution, which protested against the attempts made in the bill t.) re move the control of the corporate fund, from municipat to Government officials. Tile Government, if suo3essful in their attacks on the right of corporations, might some day take a fancy to confiscate railway property, for the great and wealthy railway companies were also corpo rations, with no better legal title to their vast revenues than that possessed by Liverpool to their town dues. As to Manche:Aar, the corporation of that city devote the profits of their gasworks to municipal pnrposes, and by them they have paid for many town improvements. Some day the Board of Trade might take a fancy to manage that property, and he would like to know what the Manchester people would say to that ? The resolution was seconded by Mr. A. F. HAMILTON, of the firm of Brows, Shipley, and Co., who said that the mercantile community had always found the corpo ration ready and willing to do anything which would facilitate the business of the port. The resolution having been supported by Mr. CMS , TornEn BUSHELL, was passed unanimously. The adoption of a petition to Parliainent, embodying the resolutions agreed to at the meeting, was moved b y Mr. 11. DANsoN(aczent for Messrs. Allsopp and Co.) The resolution was seconded by 111 r. SruNsv, boot and shoemaker, and having been passed Tura. con, the pro ceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chair• man, and three cheers for tbo Queen. LAST YEAR'S IMPORTS OF GRAIN AND A return bas just been published by the Board of Trade of the grain and flour imported into this country during the year 1855, distinguishing the relative propor tions front the various sources of supply. The total taken of grain of all sorts appears to have been 5,729,241 quarters, and of flour 1,922,318 cwt. This presents a considerable diminution from 1854, when the quantities were of grain 6,850,49 S quarters, and of flour '3,705,161 cwt. The quantity ordinarily to have been looked for from Russia, against which there is now a blank, easy be estimated at about 1,500,000 quarters of grain. _ Of the total of grain the quantities of each - description were : Qrs. ... 2,667,702 .... 349,110 . 1,033,7 27 2,358 113,479 344,948 ... 1,215,333 340 2,244 Wheat Barley Oata Bye Peas Beans Indisn Corn Buckwheat Bere or bigg - . T• Total .. ............................ 5,729,211 Of these the chief portio n of the barley and oats came from Denmark, Sweden, Hanover, and Holland. Of peas the largest impo rtation was from Denmark and the Hanse Towns. T he beans w ere principally from E gyp t . Of the Indian c orn the United States supplied more than half, and the remainder was mostly from Greece . and Egypt. ExrLosforr or ans.—During Friday n i g ht a chan delier in the head offices of the Manchester and Shef field Railway, at Manchester, fell from the ceiling, and on Saturday morning, when the woman employed to light fires entered for that purpose, so 'much gas had escaped Itbat an immediate explosion occurred. The woman was a good deal burnt, several windows were blown out, and doors detached from their hinges ; ■oaie fittings also, caught fire, but the porters and servants of the company being speedily in attendance, tile ilvnes were extinguished with very slight damage lasing ism The loss will therefere be ineonsidertihis LON DON, MON DAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25. 1856. PUBLICATIONS. Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Times of this day.) Fortune proverbially favours the bold and does not always withdraw her smiles from the rash, and so the House of Peers may boast that it has triumphed for a moment over the Crown. We have no wish to deny or dissemble the magnitude of this victory, and as little to conceal our sense of the means by which it has been obtained. The [louse of Peers saw in the attempt to renew peer ages for life what they believed to' be an invasion of their dignity and a curtailment of the privi leges of their Order ; their passions were excited, their fears were stimulated, and no- they took the matter into their own hands, and assumed a posi tion requiring an impartiality which they scarcely pretended to possess. Nor was their claim to act as judges in their own cause better founded in right than it was in fairness and sincerity.. The House of Lords, as a body deriving its existence from a succession of individual acts of a higher power, does not appear to have any greater right to exercise any control over the admission of new members into its Order than any other body simi larly situated. What would be said of a claim on the part of 59 County Court judges to resist the appointment of a sixtieth because they Considered him disqualified according to the law under which thersit, or of an insurrection of the Privy Council because some member was obtruded upon it who had not, in their opinion, the proper qualifications for the office ? Upon 'suck a foundation is built the new jurisdiction, which has circumscribed the prerogative ot the Crown, and defeated a Wail meautattempt to remedy the monstrous d.eficieries of the highest, tribunal of appeal. The conclusion has been worthy of its commence ment. At first, denying that Lsrd Wensleydale took by his patent any peerage at all, and speaking of him only as Sir James Parke, in utter contempt of his writ and patent, the Peers subsequently saw fit to retreat from this untenable position, and to take refuge in one which, could it be brought to any test, would surely not be more tenable—that her Majesty could, by her patent, make Sir James Parke a nobleman, but could not by her writ snake him a peer of Parliament. The writ, the law books say, gives the seat in the House of Peers and a peerage in fee ;* the patent limits the effect of the writ. The peers hold, on the other hand, that the writ is absolutely void, and the patent limits that nullity, or rather extends it into a peerage for life. The conclusion, then, is, that half the Queen's pre rogative remains —that, namely, which allows her to confer honours ; but that the other half, which annexed to those honours a seat in the Legislature, is abrogated by a majority of the House of Peers, unless the Crown condescend to comply with the conditions which the Lords are pleased to prescribe for its guidance. We know not whether the strug gle will be protracted, and the Lords compelled to inflict the last indignity on their Sovereign by re fusing the bearer of her writ and patent access to the chamber •from which he has been, only as far as words are concerned, excluded. It matters little how the dispute terminates ; the victory has been gained, and we have only to consider what will be the next step to be taken now that the ap pointment of peers for life has been established by the same proceeding to be theoretically legal and constitutional and practically impossible. The remedy is gone, but the grievance remains. To reform the peerage, by rendering it more easy of access to men of shining abilities but of moderate fortunes, is denied to us, and the house must shine on by its own light with such aid as it may gain from an occasional legal luminary who has, in addi tion to a profound knowledge of the law, the equally indispensable talent of saving a large for tune. The non-legal peerscanisot administerjustice; the legal peers are few in number-and advanced in age. The house is closed for three months of the legal year, and might be closed to the suitors altogether without any loss to the suitors. A cour of appeal, unless stronger and abler than the Court appealed from is a heavy and cruel op pression, a cause of delay and expense incurred only to give the worse reason a chance of triumph ing over the better. no matter, therefore, comes to this—that there is no chance of reforming the Judicial Tribunal of the House of Lards from within, and the question arises whether it should be abolished altogether. This latter remedy would, indeed, be preferable to existing abuses, but would be liable to grave objections. The constitution of the Exchequ3r Chamber is by no means perfect, the administration of equity would suffer much from want of a Court of Appeal, and the law of Scotland would probably be far more technical and narrow in its principles than it is had it been left to the exclusive interpretation of Scotch expositors. Is there, then, no remedy, and must we give up in sheer despair our highest tribunal because its members will not let us reform it by an exercise of the prerogative We think not. We believe that ancient precedent and modern ptacttice combine to point out a simple and satisfactory solution of the difficulty. The House of Lords and the Privy Council are, it appears, only two branches from the same stock— the ordinary or lesser Council of the King. Both have inherited judicial powers, but, while the House of Lords has insisted on exercising thole powers itself, the Privy Council has delegated them, with great advantage to the public, and without any loss of dignity or consideration to itself, to the Judicial Committee. Such, it appears, was anciently the practice of the Lords, who were aided by a Court of Assistants, which heard the arguments and pronouncedjudgment in the name of the Sove reign and the Peers. This use ful tribunal gradually fell into desuetude, and the Peers, by successive encroachments, made themselves masters, after the Restoration, of the appellate jurisdiction of courts of equity, and of the right ot reviewing the deci sions of the Scottish Court of Session. From that time to the present they have exercised this juris diction with a dissatisfaction gradually increasin g as the public has now become more enlightened , till it has reached its culminating point in the re cent abortive attempt at correction by the establish ment of a life peerage. Now, what would be easier than to return to the state of things which formerly existed in the House of Lords, and has for the last 20 years prevailed in the Privy Council ? Let there be formed by act of Parliament a Judicial Com mittee of the House of Lords, consisting partly of such members of the 'House as are skilled in law, together with such other judges as may be neces sary to give the Court the requisite strength, who might bear the title of " Lord," and be members of the House in its judicial capacity, without being created Lords of Parliament. Something must be done, and we can imagine nothing more likely to extricate us from our present embarrassment with out injury to the Peerage than such a proposition. It is of no use to lament past errors. Whatever be the faults that the Peers have committed they , are an essential part of the constitution, and it be comes the nation to take more care of the dignity of their order than they seem disposed to do them selves, under the guidance cf rash and impetuous counsellors. ( From the Times of this day.) There is to be an end of the internecine warfare between the four great railway companies. The Great Northern, the North-Western, the Midland, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, have agreed to refer their differences to the impartial arbitrament of Mr. Gladstone, the late Chancel lor of the Exchequer. The ex-Minister some five years ago made an award under similar circum stances, which, if it has not satisfied every one, may at least, in fairness, be said to have given very general satisfaction. This is a result at which the public should rejoice, as well as the shareholders of the different companies, for it can never be the interest of the public that any one of these great corporations should cease to prosper. No concern in the long run can afford to do business so cheaply w as a thriving one. Any temporary abatement of price dependent upon the necessity of defeating an opposition must in the end be followed. by a cor responding the end, m ak e ak rise. u T p h t e h a e l r a r eh losses, old as er s in e u l s l t as ' replace and will in their operations upon a correct basis. They must, in fact, be indemnified for every penny they have uselessly spent during the abnormal period of mad competition. The passengers who rejoice that they can now run d own t o Leeds for 55., o r t o Peterborough for 25., may feel very sure that when the period of opposition fares is at an en d they will be compelled to reimburse to the com pany, in some form or other, every penny they now appear to have saved. This is, in other words, to say that, in the long run, the railways must be worked at a profit, and not at a loss. Great inconvenience may, no doubt, result to the shareholders in the meanwhile, and many who had placed their money in the concern as a permanent investment will suffer great inconvenience. Sellers will be many—buyers, save on speculation, will be few, and altogether the great lines of communi cation throughout the country will be affected with the taint of jobbery. This cannot be a whole some state of things, and therefore we ought all to rejoice that good, sense hap prevailed, aad that j the chairman and directors of the four compa nies have perceived in time that the interest' of their constituents is best consulted by 'Compromise and reciprocal concession. A scheme of a traffic arrangement, which is , to be binding for 14 years, is to be submitted to Mr. Gladstone, and his award is to be final for the period named. It was at the meeting of the proprietors of the Great Northern line, held on Saturday at the Lon don Tavern, that the opening of the Railway Peace Conferences was announced. The proposition to which we have just referred was first made to a de putation from the other companies, and by them rejected. After a little time for consideration bet ter counsels, however, prevailed, and the original proposition of the Great Northern directors was returned to them as the basis of a settlement by the very persons who had previously re jecied it. When the measure was laid on Saturday before the general meeting for its approval or rejection, it was carried by acclamation ; followed " by long and enthusiastic cheering." Thus far, then, the matter is in good train, and there is every reason to believe that the three other companies are quite as much in earnest as the Great Northern. It is only from compromises of this kind that any safety or stability can be looked for in our English system of railway property. There must either be Parliamentary control, or competition for all practical purposes unchecked. With us the latter system has prevailed, and, whether for good or for evil, we must accept it with all its conse quences, and the good sense of the shareholdeis must supply the place of legislative check or con trol. A district which is traversed by two, three, or four competing lines must be worked, in fact, as though the lines were but one concern. Oppo sition begets opposition, to the detriment of all the competingparties, until they aro driven in the end to do that which they might just as well have done in the first instance—namely, accept the decision of an impartial arbitrator, and a scheme for con ducting their traffic which shall offer . equal advan tages to all. The pity is that the same principle has not been applied to the allotment and con struction of lines as to their working. A district must be pre-occupied. The directors of lines which appear to be remote enough from the scene of ac tion rush into mad contest. Branches are formed long before the districts upon which they are thrust are really ripe for their reception, and the trunk lines are bled that the useless suckers may flourish. It is most unfortunate that some form of arbitra tion could not be applied to these ruinous contests for priority of occupation, as well as to the strug gles for the monopoly of traffic when the lines have been once formed. Before concluding our few remarks upon this very important subject, we would draw attention to the financial result from the reduction of fares in the recent instance of the Great Northern. It appears that during the first week of the cheap trains 556 persons were bioked from Doncaster to London—the total receipts being 1041. 2s. During the week ending on Saturday last there were 775 passengers booked as before—the total receipts being 1461. 17s. ; total for the two weeks 250/. 19s. Before the period of the competition the same station produced as the result of its Landon traffic about 601., the number of passengers being, on the average, 40. Of course, on glancing at arithmetical results of this kind, the expense of extra trains, additional staff, wear and tear of the line, must be taken into account ; still, on the whole, do not the calculations seem to show that upon a system of far cheaper fares the railway traffic might be made much more productive to the shareholders ? The custom of more frequent travelling would beget the necessity for it. If such results were obtained in a fortnight, what might not a year produce ? If this contest tends to prove that cheap fares are not inconsistent with good dividends, both the public and the shareholders will have no reason to regret it. NOTICE. 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Abingdon Enfield FAIRS. Lansdowne Ellenhoroug h Devon Worcester, Bishop Fitzhardiege Exeter, Bishop A rand el Bollester, liiihop Bucki: glum udeloy Teutorden Longford THE BELLE-ISLE NUISANCE. On Saturday, at Clerketwell, Mr. Richard Cross, of No. 8, Little King-street North, Camden-town, was summoned before Mr. Tyi.whitt, he - being the occu pier of a certain building used for the purpose of slaughtering horses and boiling offal and blood, situate at the Shoot, in Belle-isle, Maiden-lane, the said bus nem being a nuisance injurious to the health of the inhabi tants of the neighbourhood. The court was crowded by the inhabitants of the district. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the de fendant's yard in which he carried on his business wan only six yards long and four wide. When the officers visited the defendant's premises, the stench was intoler able, and the place was filthy in the extreme. There were no means whatever employed for mitigating the nuisance, which is, however, capable of very great improvement. In the shed there was one copper, four feet in d;ameter, used for boiling the flesh , entrails, bones, &c., and at the time the visit was made the water was being heated prior to the introduction of the bones. There was no lid or cover to the boiler, and the vapours escaped unchecked through a hole in the roof. There was then a ton of bones piled on the floor ins very putrid state. The shed was paved, but the drain was almost useless, and there were pools of putrid blood lying about. The walls wore covered with filth and animal refuse. Some entrails in an advanced state of decomposition were hanging from one of the walls in the yard, and there were also two coppers containing putrid blood. The following are the recommendations of Mr. Brad ley, the surgeon :---1. That the premises may be thoroughly cleaned. 2. That there might be a supply of water laid on. 3. That the place may be properly drained and paved. And 4. That the e ffl uvia arising from the boiling of bones should be made to pass through the ash pit or furnace previous to being carried away by a shaft into the external air, and also that no accumu lation of bones or offal should be allowed. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 51. and costs, but before inflicting it, he would give the defendant thre e weeks to comply with the request of the parish, then, f they were properly carried out, the fine would not be enforced. SUICIDE.—A young man, twenty-eight years of age, named Jackson, committed suicide on Wednesday last, on the railway between Southampton and Dorchester, about three miles from the former town. He laid him self deliberately down just before a running train, placed his head on the right hand rail, and his feet on the left, and was killed instantly. He appears to have been per fectly sober when he did this, but was an inveterate drankard. THE JOSBPIIINE WILLIS. The following official reports have been sent to the Board of Trade from the gentlemen charged with the late official investigation into the circum stances of the loss, by collision with the Manger ton steamer, of the above vessel : " MR. YARDLEY'S REPORT. "Thames Police•ceurt, Feb. 20. " My Lords,—l beg to state that, pursuant to the instructions contained in your lordships' letter, dated the 6th inst., assisted by Commander Robinson, R.N., acting as assessor, I have mad inquiry respecting the loss of the Josephine Willis on the night of the 3d inst., and to report as follows : " The Josephine Willis was a British ship of 786 tons register, whicb, manned by a crew of 40, including all hands, and carrying 70 passengers, sailed from the port of London, bound for Auckland, Nei? Zealand, on the 2d inst. " Immediately before departure she was surveyed and in every particular approved by an authorised emigration neut. About six p.m. on the 3d she passed the South Foreland ; the wind was south-east, the sky was clear and starlight ; the atmosphere hazy on the water and horizon. Soon after passing the South Foreland the wind changed to south•south eaa. The collision which led to the lose of the ship happened a few minutes after eight p.s.r., the direction of the wind and the state of the atmesphfre being then at last stated. Tire ship's ceurso was W.S.W., the regu lar channel course to clear Dungeness. The rate of sailing—all plain sail being set—was seven knots. Folke stonebore N. by W., 43 miles distant. The town lights and harbeur light were indistinctly visible. The chief officer, Kester Clayton, was on deck in command. The master was below ; two men were fel. ward on the look out. One of the look-out men sow reported a light a head on the starboard bow withal.' fhe chief officer ran forward from the poop and observed a bright light a-head, and, mistaking this for Dungeness light, ordered the helm to be starboarded, so as in his judgment to bring the ship a point to port, and steadied the helm. After a time he saw a red light on the starboard bow, according to his statement, as much as four points, and very shortly afterwards a green light also. As soon as the red light and bright light were visible, they were known to proceed frem a steamer. The green light being in sight, and all the lights being visible, showed that the steamer was coming directly on the sailing ship ; but, according to the chief officer's evidence, the direction was abaft the stern of the ship (see vol. 1, p. 102) ; the ships being now very near, the steamer's helm being hard-a port, that of the ship, by order of the chief officer, e as put hard-a-starboaid, in order to ease the blow. The steamer struck the ship stem on, just before the main rigging. The steamer was the Mangerton, of 363 tons register, commanded by Bourchier, trading between Limerick and London, worked by a screw cf 130-horse power, with a crew of 25, carrying ow that voyage about 40 passengers, 25 of whom were women and six or seven children. At the time of the accident the deck was in the temporary command of the boatswain, stationed or the bridge, who was acting second mate, and assisting in the captain's watch. There was a look-out for ward, and at o another on the bridge, and a very experienced seaman at the helm. The captain was justifiably below for a short time, with the first mate, for the purpose of consulting the chart, to be prepared in the event of not obtaining the assistants of a pilot. The steamer was proceeding in a course E. by N. 1 N., under easy steam, at about eight knots. Seven or eight minutes before the collision a bright light I was seen at an, apparent distance of a mile to a mile and a haf, about a point and a half on the port bow. After a few minutes this vanished, when the helm was put a-port. The light again became visible, and also the sails of a large ship, when the helm was put hard a-port and the collision took place as above described. Im mediately before the collision thet engine was stopped, and immediately afterwards backed. The bowsprit of the steamer being foul of the main rigging the ships were not got apart under 10 minutes. I will now venture to express my opinion as to the causes of this disaster. This I do with the greatest diffidence, inasmuch as the question involves considerable nautical knowledge. It may safely be said that if the chief officer of the Josephine Willis had not mistaken the nature of the bright light which he saw, and if he had followed literally the ' rule of the road,' as prescribed by section 296 of the Merchant Shipping Act, this accident would heve been avoider'. Considering the haziness of the atmosphere, this mistake, notwithstand ing the disparity of the distance., seems excusable. Having starboarded his helm upon the assumption that the light seen was that of Dungeness, the red light and soon afterwards the green light were visible. In fact, the three lights were together visible, and so as to seem to indicate that, by pursuing her then course, the ship would have easily cleared the steamer if the latter, in stead of porting, had starboarded her helm .Ti is brings me to what I conceive to be another cause of the acci dent—viz., the deficient light on board the Josephine Willis. This light was placed on the bowsprit, and con sisted of a lamp with three panes, each showing a differ ent light, the centre one being bright, and the others red and green respectively. This undoubtedly is not such a light as ought to be shown when danger in im minent. It, however, unfortunately happens that it had received the sanction and approval of the emigration agent who inspected :the ship, and was thus calculated to mislead the commander of the ship into a confidence i of its efficiency. Moreover, it appears that there s au ambiguity in the Admiralty directions on the subject of ships' lights, one clause mentioning bright white lights,' another bright lights.' I think that it will appear from the evidence that the lights of the steamer were seen before that of the Josephine Willis; and that of the latter the coloured sides were imperceptible. The officer in command of the latter ship having confidence in his light would probably assume that it was visible as soon as the others, and that the commander of the steame /would shape his course according to that of his own ship. A n _ • other concurring case I suggest with great diffidence is ii the order given on board the oteeiner t'o port the helm instead of the contrary order. If these causes all con curred in producing the accident, we cannot conclude that it was solely caased by the blameful conduct of any one in particular. After the collision the Mamzertou pro ceeded a short distance from the Josephine Willie and lay to. Her commander, notwithstanding the urgent request of his passengers that he would proceed for safety towards the shore, expressed a determination to remain to assist the damaged ship. He, however, had reason to fear that his own ship was in considerable danger, and was com pelled to devote all his attention to her Falety. Two of the boats of the Mangerton were lowered, not without difficulty, on account of the improper manner in shish they were stowed and secured ; and when in the water were found wanting in plugs and tholes. One of them, maimed by two Passengers of the Mangerton (very young seamen named Newham and Anderson), proceeded to the Josephine Willis and rescued seven of her crew and pas sengers. The effect of the collision on the Josephine Willis was a breach on her starboard side, which allowed the water to rush in and throw the ship on her beam ends. Proceedings were immediately taken to lower the boats ; one, the lifeboat, was successfully lowered. This also wanted its plug. Another quarter boat was partially store in the lowering, but it was not rendered quite useless. There seem to have been raved in these two boats 26 of the crew tad passengers. The lifeboat, with a portion of the ship's crew, after having placed her passengers in the Margeit lay off for nearly two hours, within hearing of the cries of 40 persons clinging to the wreck, without an effort being made to afford relief. The chief officer was taken on board the Mangerton, where he remained without making an effort to succour the crew and passengers of his ship either by his own exer- tions or by commands or entreaties. It is true, he was at first benumbed from immersion, but from this he soon recovered. The second officer showed equal apathy and want of feeling. A Deal lugger, commanded by the wit- ness Pearson, rescued 7—all that remained on the wreck. 69 perished, of whom 57 were passengers, and 12, including the commander, of the crew. " I have the honour to be, my Lords, "Your obedient servant " E. YARDLEY." s' ; : 4 I )'' 7Y. 7,a fi?„ To be had at all the libraries, In 2 vols., 215., A U R A A NOVEL GA .Y; ". 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