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MIPS t'IREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- v•ig ___ ALTET:ATInN OF TRATNS FOR NOVEMBER. Liu The 7.20 a.m. Traits from Paddington will start at 7.15 a.m The 1.40 p.m. Train from Paddington will not call at Slough. A Train will leave Padding - ton for Slough and Windsor at 2.0 p.m. The 2.0 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued over the South Wales Line. The 2.80 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 3.40 p.m., and will not take Passengers for Didcot and stations west of Didcot. The 3.45 p.m. Train from Paddington to WI. West Midland Line will start at 3.40 p.m. The 9.30 p.m. train from Paddington will start at 9.0 p.m. The 7.25 a.m. Train from Reading to Hung,erford will be discontinued. UP TRAIN 4. The 6.10 a m. Train from Hungerford to Reading will be discontinued. A Fast Train will leave Windsor for London at 4.0 p.m. The 4.45 p.m. Train from Windsor will start at 4.20 p.m., and will be earlier at all stations. For minor alterations see Time Tables for November. THE INDUS STEAM FLOTILLA The Directors are prepared . to receive applications for DEBENTURES, at par, bearing interest at 5 per cent. per annum, guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in Council. The Debentures are for five years, and may be renewed for a further term of five years, at the same rate of interest. The Debentures may be converted into Indus Steam Flotilla Capital Stock at the option of the holder. TEIOMAS BURNELL, Secretary. Indus Steam P'otilla Office, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, Sept. 25, 1861. PREPARATION for HOLY ORDERS.—Mr. D'ORSEY intends to deliver TWO COURSES of LECTURES on PUBLIC READING and SPEAKING, to Candidates for Ordination resident in London, commencing on MONDAY, 18th November. Elementary Course:—Formation of the Voice—Principles of Pronunciation—Correction of Local Errors and Defective Articulation. Advanced Course : Critical Study of the Prayer-book and Lessons, as the basis of correct, natural, and impressive Reading—Delivery of Written Discourses—. Extemporaneous Speaking. Gentlemen desirous of attending are requested to commu nicate with the Lecturer before 4th Novomber. Cambridge, 26th October, 1861. V. R.—ARMY CONTRACT. Commissariat, South Camp, Aldershot, October 10, 1861. QtALED TENDERS will be received at this ►7 Office until Noon on Thursday, November 7 next, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of PAILLASSE STRAW, AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINNER SERVICE, in such quantities as may be required from Ist December, 186/, to 30th November, 1862, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed at ALDERSHOT CAMP, and within the Command. Printed Forms of Tender, together with the Conditions of Contract, may be obtained on application at this Office be tween the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, where every infor mation which may be required on the subject will be furnished. The Tenders must be made on the Printed Forms, which should be properly filled up and signed, and delivered under sealed invelope at the above-mentioned office, marked outside " lender for Army Supplies," before noon on the 7th proximo. No Tender will be noticed unless made on Forms obtained from the Office. (Signed) ALFRED SELWEY, Deputy Commissary-General. A RMY CONTRACTS.—Tenders will be -Lx- received at this Office until noon on the sth of November. from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to ;supply BREAD AND MEAT, in such quantities as may he required, for the use of her Ma jesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from Ist December, 1861, to 31st May, 1862 :- 1. Brompton House, Ifyde Park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's Park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street Barracks. 3. Wellington Barracks, Horse Guards, Buckingham Palace, and St. George's Barracks. 4. Tower. 5. Hounslow and Kneller HalL C. Hampton Court. 7. Windsor. 8. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham. 9. Croydon. 10. Sandhurst. Separate Tenders for Bread, and for Meat, must be made for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks as separately grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender, and Conditions of Contract, may be obtained on application at this Office, by letter or in person, between the hours of to and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and signed. and delivered at the under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked on the outside "Tender for Commissariat Supplies,") before noon on the sth November next. W. T. POWER, Deputy Commissary General. Deputy Commissary-General's Office, 5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W., Ist October, 1861. GROSVENO R.-STREET, GROSVENOR-S QUARE.- ALL CONSULTATIONS FREE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and Ili 'lL PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EACH TOOTH (including all charges.) Mr. ESKELL'S PATE TED INVENTION (protected by her Majesty's Royal Seal, July, 1860), for adapting Arti ficial Teeth, from one to a complete set, by Self-Adhesion, are fixed without springs or fastening, without pain or ex traction, restore perfect articulation and mastication, ren dering detection impossible, and last a lifetime. "Unrivalled for its utilityand economy."—Morning Post. "An admirable contrivance for remedying the defects of nature, without requiring new sets of teeth."—Sun. Decayed Teeth Stopped, Loose Teeth Fastened, Discoloured Teeth Restored, &c. Constant Daily Attance at 8, Grosvenor street, Grosvernor-square, London; Old Steine, Brighton; Bennett's-hill, Birmingham fIR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION.— The GREAT CHEMICAL COMBINATION of Phos phorus, Quinine, Iron, and other invigorating ingredients, is the never-faihngßemedy for Spermatorrhcca, and all Diseases of the Reproductive System. A single course of this invalu able preparation insures health, strength, and in anly 'vigour in every stage of life. Price, 11s. per bottle, or four 11s. bottles in one, 335. ; and in cases containing three 335. bottles, for £5, at a saving of £1 12s. DR. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE ; the most speedy remedy known. The BUCHU GLOBULES, containing the Quintessence of Copaiba, Cubebs, Buchu, &c., at once cure, without the possibility of failure, Gonorrhoea, obstinate Gleet, Stricture, &c., immediately subduing all infiamn iatory action; encased in sugar, free from taste or smell. Price lls. ;by post 12s. ed. Prepared and sold at the Laboratoyv, 44A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, IV. (opposite the side of St. George's Church), London, where also may be had the new medical work, en titled "Nervous Exhaustion," on Physical Disqualification and Impediments to Marriage, 2;5 pages. Prize is. ed. ; by post, is. 10d. ; abridged edition is., by post 14 stamps. All communications and Post-Office Orders fo be addressed to Ralph Bright. The above medicines have been confided to a Registered Physician, Member of the Royal College of Sitrgeons, Eng land, who may be daily consulted from 11 to 4. ENERATIVE and MUSCULAR POWER VI REGAINED by the use of PERRY'S CORDIAL PALM of SYRIACUNL Established nearly a century, and known throuLfhout the world as THE GREATEST RE GENERATOR ' • a never-failing remedy for the loss of manly power, produced by early indiscretions or any other cause. It enriches the principal vital fluids, enabling those who 'have deemed themselves incurable at once to fulfil the most sacred obligations of married life. Price lls. and 335. per bottle. PERRY'S PURIFYING TASTELESS GLOBULES, a prompt Cure in every stage of Gonorrhoea ; immediately sub duing all inflammatory action, at the same time restoring the organs and surroundi ng p ar t s t o a v i gorous an d h ea l t h y state. Per box. lls. and 335. PERRY'S CONCENTRATED DETERSINE ESSENCE, tor effectually eradicating all Syphilitic poison from the blood, and the after consequences of mercurial treatment. Price lOs. and 335. per bottle. _ THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on Single and Married Life, enlarged to 190 pages, with 100 engravings, Is., by post 14 stamps ' • also, Extracts from the above Work in all Languages, post free on receipt of two stamps. To be bad direct from R. and L. Ferry and Co., 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, W., where all letters and Post-office orders are to be addressed. Attendance daily, from 10 till 8, by a Consulting Surgeon, Member of the Royal College of S A urgeons of England (registered under the new Medical t). EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL DISCOVERY. Extract from the " Medical Circular," Nov. 16, 1859 : "We have observed with much pleasure an important dis covery in the grinding of spectacle lenses by Mr. Bernard Davis, optician. They are superior to any others ; and from their peculiar transparency can be easily adapted to any sight, avoiding all strain to the vision. We have no doubt that the most imperfect eyes may be surprisingly assisted by this novel discovery." Country residents suited with the greatest accuracy by stating age. List of Prices :—Fine steel frames, with real Brazil pebbles, 7s. 6d. ; ditto, very finest frames, 10s. 6d. ; d itto, with best glasses, 3 s. 6 d. , 4 s. 6 d. , s s. 6 d. ; patent panto- E eopic, for the clergy or public speakers, to look over without removing, with pebbles, 12s. 6d., 10s. ed.; with best glasses, 4s. 6d., Cs., 7s. 6d. ; solid gold , 20 s. per p air. Address, BERNARD DAVIS, 430, Euston-road, London, 'Optician to the Opthalmic Institutions. TELESCOPES—By the application of the improved lenses, Hr. D. can guarantee his telescopes as being of the highest Power and at half the usual charges, viz.:—Small pocket telescopes, to define 5 miles, 10s. 6d. ; ditto, 10 miles, 21s. ; ditto, and showing all the heavenly bodies, 42s.—size, from 4 inched to 6 inches long. :MICROSCOPES with the improved lenses.—Student com pound achromatic microscopes, with three powers and every nwssarY, 635. and 84s. in mahogany cabinets ; com p ou nd mi croscopes, with one s t rong power, magnifying 5,000 times 10s. 6a. ; ditto, three powers, 12s. 6d. ; ditto, with every ne cessary, magnifying 20,000 to 40,000, 215., 305., 425. Printed instructions how t o use microscopes free with each instru ment. Opera and Field Glasses of the highest power, at 158., 210., 305., 400. aviAGI O LANTRORNS AND DISSOLVING VIEW s. q gues for 2 s t am p s. —P os t- o ffi ce O r d ers D e scrVtive Ca e, B ernard Davis, optician, 430, Ens- payable, Euston-s talo uar ton -road, near Re g e nt's - park, London. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPEW% N ERVOUS AND GENERATI VE _ .lATORRFICE DEBILITY, &c. Jvi3t Published, the 150th thousand, with narn e eror plates, to a sealed envelope, Author ; Sold by all sent post paid, by the for 1 2 stam p r " lien, and ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE YA.. MAT URE DECLINE IN MAN, with Pl a i n Directions for P er f ec t Restoration to Heal th and V igour. By Dr. J. L. Cozens, 15, Alberraarle -street, Piccadilly, London CONTENTS: INTRODUCTOR Y CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Spermatorrhoea and Impot enft; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lii.—A Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting uses, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and fahnuld be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," gd March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de• 'ditty ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and usetuL"—Recorfl. London: Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann. 29, Cornhill. 1119 Prq of Consultation_ , lo ti? 3400 ty Suusigys, 10 till N°. 21,633. PUBLICATION Just ready, in 2 vols., Svo., with Portraits and other Illustrations, THE LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. From Original Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and Fellow-Academicians. By WALTER THORN BURY. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. DUBLIN UNIVER No. 347. FOR NOVE CONTE 1. The House by the Church yard : a Souvenir of Chapelizod. Part 11. (Continued.) By Charles de Cresseron. Chaps. V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X. 2. A Triplet of Historical Writers. 3. The Prison Chaplain—The Rev. John Clay. 4. Rhyming Satirists. 5. The Woman with the Yel low Hair. A Tale. 6. Isabel Clare. A Waking Dream. Revelations of Peter Brown, Poet and Peripatetic. Dublin: George Herbert. I SITY MAGAZINE.- LIMBER. Price 2s. 6d. 7. At St. James's One Hun dred and Fifty Years _ Ago. 8. An Only Son. By the Au thor of "Artist and Crafts- man." Part X. (Con cluded.) 9. Leigh Hunt's Last Even- - inh at Home. 10. A Subterranean Search for a Suspected stream. 11. A Glimpse of the Super natural in the Nineteenth Century. 12. The late Earl of Eglinton. 13. The Volunteer Force in England and Ireland. ,ondon : Hurst and Blackett. NEW EDITION OF MRS.PIOZZPS LETTERS AND MEMOIRS. On Friday, November 8, will be published, in 2 vole, post Bvo. with Portrait and Plate, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LETTERS, and LITE RARY REMAINS of MRS.7PIOZZI (THRALE). Edited, with Notes and some account of her Life and Writ ings, by A. HAYWARD, Esq., Q.C. Second Edition, thoroughly revised, with copious Additions. The additions to the present is thrown by this accession of edition comprise amongst I materials, especially by the other matters from fifty to excerpts from Thraliani, on sixty pages of fresh entries I the alleged rupture between from Mrs. Piot zi's private Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Piozzi, diary (Thraliani) ; a selection that the Editor has re-written of her curious marginal notes-that part of his introductory on books ; and copious ex- Memoir of her Life which re tracts from Letters hitherto later to this memorable lite unpublished. So much light I rary quarrel. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. C. READE'S NEW WORK.—SECOND EDITION. Just out, in 4 vols., £1 lis. 6d., THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH. The Era—The characters (male) are the Hero, a Burgo master, a Cross-bowman, a Giant with a treble voice, a Dwarf with a bass voice, several Monks, good, bad, and in different, a Mediaeval Beggar, a Pope, a Physician, an Alder man, a Professional Assassin, a Cure, an Italian Painter, Thieves, Robbers, &c. Females—The Heroine, a Flemish Painter, a Busybody, a Domestic, a Female Dandy, a Roman Matron, an Italian Princess, an angelic Cripple: Among the more Dramatic Scenes are: The Lovers' Meet ing—The Duke's Banquet—A Mystery—A Struggle with a Leopard—The Hero rescued from a high Tower by means of an Arrow—The Bloodhound—A Man Hunt Suffocated by his Sweetheart, and saved by his Foe—A Walk from Hol land lo Venice—A desperate Fight with a She-bear—The Crowded Gibbet—On the Rhine—ln the Rhine—The Siege in a Bedchamber —Seven to Two—The Assassin's living Hand pinned to the Door—The Colossal Robber spitted on two Swords—Medieval Justice—The Dead Man's Meal— Servant to a Beggar, and Master to a Count—The Robber's Mill—The Fatal Bed—Strange Escape by the Sails of a Mill —The Medimval Shipwreck—Executions in Rome—The Fatal Letter—The Goddess of Beauty a Boy—The Suicide baffled by the Assassin—The Ordeal by Cold Water—The Preaching Friar—Meeting of the Living and the Dead—The Medimval Curse—Wife and no Wife—The Hermit's Cave—Strange Meeting of the Hermit and his Wife—The Wife's Repulse— Meeting of the Hermit and his Child—The Wife's Victory— The Plague—The Cross of Wood Ashes—The Lover's United, to part no more. 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THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all Is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON SPERMATORRIICEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Rezent-street: A RGYLL ROOMS.--GREAT SUCCESS!!- .Ex The Band and Musical arrangements under the direc tion of M. BOULCORT, Conductor and principal Cornet. In addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss /uadrille, and novel ties of last week, A NEW POLKA, by M. Boulcourt, the Solos performed by him and M. Greebe. Admission Is.-- Manager, M. P. Grenet. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous 'offerers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike o Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., :which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from obi nervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITE', M.D., b, Burton -rescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. 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The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Tr refrulatitles in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and R - 7noval of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of - the Speculum. Also, No. 1. HEALTH HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; D ebility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, Their Obligation s, Happiness, LOVE AND MARRIAGE : and Disappointments ; Love aad other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off s ..ring secured.: No. 2. THE CASE ROOK': auerisations, Galvanis m &c. &c. 100 Cases of SP ER MATORRMEA, Symptoms, and Tr ea t men t , C on f ess i on s and T u h r e r ir o c y a u n Cau ses, To be had of Mann , 39, Cornhili ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working Classes fee Half-a-Guinea: (SPECIAL NOTICE.) 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LORD :111ALMESBURP AND ADMIRAL WALCOTT AT CHRISTCHURCH. weight—that oppressive and fatiguing weight—. which falls upon members of the House of Com mons, and, perhaps, sometimes weakens their energies and their talents. They have the ad , vantage, besides all this, of hearing subjects dis , cussed not for the first time—of receiving subjects from the other House ;after they have been well battered, as it were, and sifted in the other House of Parliament. They are, therefore, never taken by surprise—they have ample means of considering a subject when its shadow has been thrown before their doors, and they must be men of little ability if they do not receive those subjects and consider them with clearness and a judicial spirit. (Hear, hear.) These are advantages, and I am bound to say, although I have the honour to be a member of that body,lthat I believe they have made the best use of those advantages, and that every subject that does come before the House of Lords is discussed in the calmest and best possible spirit, with all the good humour and good language and all the good breed ing, as Mr. Tice has said, which so ornaments a discussion in a legislative assembly. I should be sorry indeed if the "roughness" of which he speaks should be worn off in the other House of Parlia ment. (Hear.) It is good for this country that the voice of the people, rough and rude as it may be, should have an exponent and be heard in its proper place; and if disagreeable truths, and disagreeable assertions untrue, were not allowed to be uttered in the House of Commons, we should hear much more of them in the streets than we do now. (Loud cheers.) It is, therefore, most desirable that in the House of Commons the nature of the people should be expounded. The House of Lords, an hereditary body, is an assembly of a different kind,—an assembly, it has been unjustly said, of men wishing to control the liberties of the subject ; but we should be ungrateful to our ancestors if we did not recol lect that it was in the House of Lords that the first liberty of England dawned, and that it was from the barons of England they received the charter of their liberties. (Cheers.) It is not agreeable to boast of those honours which are but an accident of birth, but it is impossible not to feel justly proud of belonging to a body and an order of men who have formed a part of the greatness of England's career for so many centuries. The noblest spirits have been proud to be in that House; the noblest spirits have aspired to gain that honour ; and who shall forget the chivalrous heart of Nelson, when, boarding the Spanish ship, he shouted, "A peerage or Westminster Abbey !" (Cheers.) You have been good enough to drink my health. I thank you again and again for the kindness with which you always receive me at this table, I consider that although I am a member of the House of Lords, although I am not legally responsible to any consti tuency in this country, I am responsible to God, to my conscience, and to the whole nation for the votes which I give in that assembly. It is a duty of great importance and responsibility which I have received with my birth ; I have tried to carry it out as well as human nature will enable me to do ; and depend upon it that no vote of mine given in that House for or against any measure proposed in it is given unless I am perfectly convinced that at the moment I am acting rightly to my fellow-countrymen. (The noble earl resumed his seat amid loud cheers.) two difficulties which I see before me, both of which, I think, may act prejudicially. The first is a natural disposition among men who have joined this force, after attending a certain number of drills, and undergoing a certain quantity of labour, to con sider that their occupations, after all, are such— their private occupations—that they can hardly carry on both with credit to themselves. They natu rally say to themselves, and justly, " We, are not a truly military nation; we are engaged in trade, in manufactures, in agriculture, in commerce, in the duties of civil life, or as civil officers, and we have not that time in the 24 hours,---which no magic can lengthen—to do justice to ourselves and attend long enough and sufficiently to make us as perfect as regular troops, or as we should like to see ourselves and others." This is a very natural feeling of vanity, but it is an entirely mistaken one. After the first year or year and a half of drill—and that is over— they should know sufficient to form the nucleus of a body of men who, when the occasion arrives— which God forbid !—in a mo s !!th or six weeks would make effective soldiers. Let them consider that it is not necessary to have all thehearing and smartness of troops of the line ; that they look equally well, and are equally respected, without any ornamental thing of that sort ; and thatas soon as they know the A B C of their company drill they are per fectly able then, and woul' be sure to be able to act within a month%;:=fir.. six weeks of a given time—and then natily: all their time would be given to it, and to leaA/tinuch as it is possible to know. Therefore they should not be discouraged, and those who are not perfect need not wish to with draw from the corps because they do not think they could give time to it. If they only learn one-half the exercises—if they understand them in their heads—when the time comes they will be able to proceed rapidly with the remainder. I do not wish them to put themselves to personal inconvenience to attend the drill; they should do so only when their business permits them. This is one danger. The other is an opinion, which is not general, but which I have heard advocated by some men, that the institution of the Volunteer force will enable us to reduce our regular army. Depend upon it, that is a very great mistake. It would be unfair to this country and terribly unfair to the Volunteers them selves. (Hear, hear.) Take, for example, the habits of discipline, of life, of the class of men who form the Volunteers, and compare them with those habits and customs of discipline and of order which regu late the Royal army. It is impossible—perfectly impossible—that you should change human nature so completely. If you could transform them into regular troops, and subject them to some such dis cipline as regular troops are subjected to, yet if they were not always under those regulations they would not be so effective as a regular army. They would be effective in their own way ; they would be effective as a supplementary army, relieving the troops, in case of war or invasion, in various toils to which they would otherwise be exposed ; and they would be effective, doubling and trebling the amount of the efficiency of the regular troops by enabling them to act together instead of employing them in duties which the Volunteers are able to perform ; but to trust the safety of the country to a body of men whose habits do not accustom them to the stern discipline of the Line would be a most dangerous and fatal thing to the country itself, and to the Volunteers themselves. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) We have seen what has taken place in America. Those men who fell at the battle of Manassas and at Bull's run were doubtless as brave as ourselves, or any others de scended from our race ; but from the inferior qua lity of the officers—volunteer officers who had not been in military command opposed to those who had—and the experience of the troops themselves, when brought to face dangers to which they were unaccustomed, and led by persons not accustomed to lead regular troops, they sustained a disastrous defeats We, as Volunteers, must, therefore, consi der ourselves as supplementary to the regular army. (Hear, hear.) Year after year we should improve and be a nucleus, increased in size, and vigour, and strength whenever required; but it would be the greatest mistake, either from economical principles or believing that volunteer forces are equivalent to regular troops, to take upon ourselves to reduce the army even in a small degree in consequence of the Volunteer movement; in fact, we should be destroy ing what we have done. (Cheers.) We consider ourselves an independent portion of the army. When we enlisted our idea was, not that we should enlist as soldiers, and that so many soldiers should be dismissed in consequence ; but we enlisted to assist those soldiers, and to be a reserve to de fend the country if attacked. (Hear, hear.) Re collect what this country is. Its safety depends upon its navy, because, although an island is the strongest of all countries so long as its navy main tains its supremacy at sea, if it has no navy it is the weakest of all countries. Take Austria. Sur rounded by neutral territories she may have friendly neighbours. But in England, an island, if you have no navy, a powerful military monarchy that pos sesses a navy—l will at once say France—(hear) — could land soldiers at different points; and, as we have no neutral territory around us, and our " friendly neighbour" would have ceased to exist, we cannot number too many men to defend the in terior of this country. Our army could not pos sibly do it. One hundred thousand regular men could not defend the coast if the French had the superiority at sea ; but if we had a volunteer force of 150,000 or 200,000 men to assist that army, added to all the strength and vigour and advantage with which all soldiers fight upon their own ground, if the navy were overpowered we should still be able to defend our land. (Cheers.) What I have said is no conceit of my own, and no dream. England, 800 years ago, was conquered, and by men who came from France. But what was the cause? In those days it had no navy ; it had a brave king and a very brave army, but that army, four days before the battle of Hastings, fought a desperate battle against the Danes on the eastern coast. King Harold conquered the Danish army, and slew the Danish king and his valiant brother. But in conse quence of that battle it was that with a broken army he had to meet the Norman William on the coast of Sussex; and that proves that without a navy this island may be attacked, at one and the same time, at more than one point, and that it requires more than one army to defend our shores, even if we did not lose our supremacy at sea. (Cheers.) Let nothing, then, discourage our keeping up the volun teer force, our keeping up their drill; above all, do not, if you ever entertained it, foster the delusion that, brave as you are, patriotic as you are, you can act alone and without the assistance of the regular force; but consider yourselves supplementary to that regular force, and be ever ready to double its exertions and its usefulness. (Immense applause.) Capt. TANNER responded, and, after some others, Mr, W. TICE proposed "The House of Peers— the highest Assembly of Englishmen and of the Assemblies of the World." This toast was enthu siastically received. The Earl of MALmEsnußY—Gentlemen, I think that you will be tired of seeing me so often on my legs. It is not my fault this time ; it is that of my old friend Mr. Tice, who has most kindly proposed my health in connexion with that of the most ancient and great institution—the greatest, perhaps, that there is in this country. He has described its nature and its character in very simple, but very eloquent language, and to that language I can add nothing that would give it force. He has said with very great truth that the persons who compose that body of men—the greatest legislative assembly, I believe, in the world—have advantages which others do not possess. They have, or they ought to have, an impartial, a liberal, and a distinguished educa tion ; they have, generally, much time upon their hands to attend to their parliamentary duties, those duties not falling upon them ifith that continual The South Avon Agricultural Society celebrated its anniversary on Tuesday at Christchurch, Hamp shire, In the afternoon premiums were distributed in the Town-hall for proficiency and good conduct in the various branches of agricultural labour as well as to general servants, and also to agricultu rists for skill in cultivation. In the evening the annual dinner took place at the King's Arms Hotel (Mr. N. S. Newlyn's), where there was a large assembly. The Earl of Malmesbury, G.C.8., patron of the society, occupied the chair. The noble earl was supported by Admiral Walcott, M.P. fer the borough, Sir G. E. M. Tapps-Gervis, Sir G. E. Pocock, Mr. W. W. Farr, Mr. W. Tice, &c. On the cloth being drawn, and after the loyal toasts had been honoured, The Earl of MALMESBURY, in proposing "The Health of the Army and Navy," said—lt is a toast which has been received with peculiar favour for the last eight or ten years. Before that time a long peace had naturally accustomed us to look, not, I will say, with indifference, but with something less of attention to those important services of which we know the great value. Since that time we have been almost in a continual state of warfare in some part or other of the globe ; and we have seen with an universal conviction that it is impossible that this country, an ancient monarchy, with a consti tutional Government, should enjoy its liberty un less prepared - to dbfend that liberty, that eonsti: tution, and that monarchy against ,"any attacks from foreign Powers. It is a just observation to make if I say that for the last eight or ten years we have fully appreciated the national im portance .of these two great services. With this feeling, therefore, whenever a meeting of English men has taken place this toast has always been re ceived with the most heartfelt and grateful senti ments, knowing as we do that we are not paying an empty compliment to men who are only employed for show, but are paying a tribute of gratitude to those who have supported the honour of our flag and have made our name respected abroad and at home. Admiral WALCOTT, M.P., in his reply on behalf of the navy, said—At no time, I believe, was the popular feeling stronger in respect to the navy than at this moment. It is undergoing a change in its architecture, in its equipment, in its armament. The navy is well aware of its responsibilities. It will never underrate the courage or the capabilities of the enemy to which it may be opposed ; it will not despair in any difficulty which courage or enter prise may overcome. The days of Benbow, of Hawke, of Nelson, and other heroic naval chiefs have passed away, when the wooden walls of old England were placed alongside the enemy and took the chance of what might happen. Now the screw propeller, the iron ships, the iron plates, the Minie rifles, and last, but not least, Armstrong guns, have completely altered the tactics of warfare on the sea, when the shots from these guns will reach to many miles. We are now engaged in endeavouring to get ships which will not only be invulnerable, but will carry their armaments well, and at the same time maintain a great rate of speed in case any emergency should arise at sea. In this I trust we shall be successful. We are sometimes taunted that we are not a military nation. The true strength of a nation lies in its internal means of defence, not in its external power of annexation and aggrandise ment ; it lies in that spirit which can raise and sup port a militia; it lies in that army of volunteers, every one of whom is a free man. God forbid that we should shortly have the pest of war again, with its waste of human life and drain of treasure ! It would be much more satisfactory to report an im provement in the prosperity of the kingdom ; but, if the time should arise, be persuaded with the con viction that animates myself, that the future will draw such a page as was never equalled in the past history of England as regards both our land and sea forces. (Loud cheers.) Capt. TANNER replied for the Army. _ _ The toast of " Succ ess to the South Avon Agri cultural Society" was proposed by the Earl of MALMESBURY, who testified to his experience of the improvements effected by it and similar associations in the cultivation of the land during the past 30 years. The agriculturists, he said, have not only done good to themselves, but they have given an innate strength to the land in which they were born. They are adding positive strength to the national constitution and to its power of asserting its position on the face of the earth. Agriculture is the backbone of a country ; and if it be said that agriculture will not prosper without manufactures flourish, it is equally true that manufactures cannot progress without agriculture. Bread is the staff of life; it is the first strength of a country; an increase in the produce of corn is so much gain to a country —and the country that can produce £1,000,000 worth of food in one year, and next year £2,000,000, must, as a truism, have doubled its strength, for good or evil, in that time. (Cheers.) Agriculturists, then, are following out a great duty and national work ; and, looking at it in this way, I hope they will not flag, but continue to use those efforts they have hitherto done, and I am certain that they will be crowned with increased success. (Loud cheers.) Mr. W. TICE, of Topley-park, in returning thanks, said his lordship's view was one of the soundest that could be taken of agriculture. Sir G. GERYIS proposed. " The Health of our noble patron, the Earl of Malmesbury ;" and His LORDSHIP briefly acknowledged the compli ment. Mr. W. W, FARR gave " The Health of the gal lant Admiral the member for Christchurch," and it was drank amid loud cheers. Admiral WALCOTT, M.P., in his reply, said he had always determined, whenever he was able and wherever he might be, to keep in the open sea, as he did not wish to run his head against sandbanks, shoals, or breakers. He could say a few words on two or three points without incurring these dan gers. The first was on the thanksgiving that would naturally occur to them for the bounteous and abundant harvest. In the se,cond place they would all agree in their regret at the unnatural war now raging in America, an d the serious apprehen sions that it will cause great sufferings to our manu facturing districts in the: course of the coming winter. He sincerely hoped that the contest would soon terminate, and, that 'we might see a Southern Republic with perfect independence and security. All would agree in heartfelt wishes for the Neapo litan kingdom, and in tl ae hope that Italy would soon be embraced in one c onstitutional government, and that it would give ciN iland religious liberty to every class within its boundaries. (Cheers.) As a naval officer he had served his country for a long period. As e% member of Parliament, he thanked the constituency of Christchurch for placing him in that position for nearly the last ten years. He had endeavoured to carry out the tt maxim of the poet— " Love thyself last ; cherish tho, se hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than t honesty. Still in thy right hand carry g entle peace, To silence envious tongues. 'Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aimest t be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's." (C heers.) The Earl of MALMESB CUM proposed " The Christ church Volunteers," and exile ained that, as he had only just returned from the Continent, he did not, as captain, take part in the la to Hampshire review, but left the honour to these , officers who had in structed the men in his absence. The noble earl then proceeded :—I think that us, t a h n e d re on a l r y e t t w w o o . no danger of any caprice in this There e ers apparen tly is country, of the . noble movement which has taken place faili ng its vigour or its usefulness. It is q uite evident, after two y ears have and e fil • ' elapsed—and the great rams of Volunteers in this country have inc reased rather ' than diminished— -1 a c diminished— that the characteristic spirit of constancy, so well exhibited in gpglislinien, Int there are ' and Feversham, and on that day, too, we hailed the first earlypromise of a dawn too soon withdrawnfrom us in the first public essay of the young Lord Milton. And I, at least, cannot forgot that here, too, sat my own honoured father. These several distinguished persons were brought here by a wish certainly to provide for the necessities of the blind poor, but also by an especial desire to connect that work of mercy with the memory of one just taken away from that scene he had so long conspicuously occu pied—whom Yorkshire had long regarded as her foremost ornament, England as her purest patriot, and, not unduly to limit the range of his influence and his fame—the world as its best benefactor—of William Wilberforce, whose son is here to-day to represent him in the tones of his melodious voice and in the fervour of his benevolent heart. (Loud cheers.) So much for the claims of memory and asso ciation in connexion with this institution. In respect to the claims of present positive duty, I thankfully feel that very little need be said by me, both because the matter is so obvious in itself, and because it turns so much upon figures and statistics which have al ready been placed very amply before us. Into that dominion, therefore, I do not propose to enter, but I will put it to you all whether this is a matter in which Yorkshiremen ought to be content to be so far behind. (Hear, hear.) His Grace has very forcibly remindeci you that in this respect, in connection with your blind poor, the whole county of York shire does infinitely less than the one Lancashire town of,Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) Well may our pale rose blush at the comparison. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the adult poor, I believe the county does absolutely nothing, and I need not tell you how much as a class they are entitled to considera- tion and compassion. Taught just enough by edu cation and training to be aware of the duty and the dignity of exertion—able in a great measure to become profitable to themselves and to the commu nity at large, yet unable, by the obvious circum stances of the case, to meet the wholly sound and seeing part of the community on an equal footing, this only can be accomplished by special appliances, by associated labour, by such machinery of work rooms and workshops as it is now proposed to est& Nish. (Hear.) We have the best reasons for thinking that, with these appliances, the labour of the skilled adult might be made wholly self-supporting. I will here only say, in passing, that however large—as large I hope they will be—the additions may be, in consequence of the division of the pecuniary re sources of the institution, I trust that enlargement will not induce any who are concerned in its man agement to dispense with the utmost available eco nomy. (Cheers.) I have asked you whether in this matter Yorkshire ought to lag behind, for you surely cannot doubt that the blind poor are proper objects/to call forth your best and tenderest sympa thies. Why are they among us You have heard of the frightful number of those who are afflicted with this great calamity. You know from the highest of all sources that it is not to be attri buted to their sin or to their parents', and, while we may reverently hope that the same Almighty being who has visited them with this immense privation has also in his unstinted abundance immense resources also of compensa tion for them, and that, although they may not gaze upon the variegated face of nature, some times, perhaps, their ear may be tuned to a more exquisite sense of melody, and the fresh breeze of Heaven may play upon their cheeks with a purer and more thrilling touch ; though they cannot distinguish the gorgeous hues of sunrise and sunset, yet sometimes to them may be given a more unclouded sunshine of the soul. (Loud cheers.) Though, saddest of all, they may not watch the lineaments of the human countenance, yet they may have a fuller consciousness of a deeper and richer emphasis in the accents of friendship and of love. (Cheers.) While we hope, I say, that there may be much of this compensatory process vouchsafed to them, yet in their presence among us, to limit the case to ourselves, there can be no mistake. They are here as the most prominent and expressive objects to call forth our sympathy, our tenderness, our active and Christian aid—(hear, hear)—and though like the Divine Master we profess to serve, we cannot by a word of power, or by a gesture of command, call the light of day to visit their sightless orbs, yet we shall most really imitate and adopt His example if we do our utmost to surround these orphans of the senses with all the alleviations, the comforts, and the compensations which their case admits of, and thus endeavour in some degree to make our bounty keep pace with their bereavement. (Loud cheers.) Mr. R, MONCKTON MILNES, M.P., in seconding 4-_TUz---~ _ ~.~- / _ grants which Parliament had already acceded to. ..t', - hoar.) Schools for the blind had only been excluded from the Parliamentary grants in conse quence-of the mere accident of legislation. He said this in the presence of eeveral respected' legislators, and he thought that not one of them could' contra ult ipe c d( c , _t a de a : r: t . s ) -- diet him when he said that our legislation was fall of such a that, in point of fact, it abounded in them. l bills E to v e ry asmeessnd session nbisls saw w w t e h r e e of these ea ct d m en o t n s m o in c t c r u o r d r u en ce c d e a ye b a i r ll a i f ta te to r y t h ea e r H . ( o lar u l s e ec . He himself t ) Lordsto had amend one of these accidents. At one time there was no such thing as granting land for certain training .which whatever schools. There was no power enabled unprivileged persons to make these (-rants for schools because they had not happened to .be inserted in the schedule of the Bills which legalized grants for such purposes. It was his good • fortune to carry a Bill which did include them, and all he wanted now was for Government to admit that it could be only by a mistake that those who most needed public assistance were not allowed their just share of it. (Cheers.) At the same time it was for the county of York to show that they were not going to attempt solely to be charitable through the taxes and beneficent through that - which was extorted from others. They ought to show their own appreciation of the work they advo cated by raising at once the sum they wanted to enable them to go to Government in order to claim that share of help which other schools received. And, surely, there was no claim to Christian charity which was stronger or more immediate than this. Tho special difficulty they ought all to feel in administering charity was the danger of creating a greater evil even than the present distress—the greater evil of teach ing the relieved man to depend upon another, instead of upon his own (efforts. They might re lieve the present necessity, but if in relieving it they pauperized the receiver they did him a deeper detri ment than any from which they relieved him by their passing dole. (Hear, hear.) But in teaching the blind child how to use for the cultivation of his own moral and intellectual faculties the gifts which had been given him by God, they were taking from one tempted :naturally to depend upon others the sting of his temptation, and enabling him to share in his own person in that greatest perhaps of all daily blessings which God's mercy had given to us —the punishment of labour turned into the bless ing of exertion. (Cheers.) It was impossible to exaggerate the loss which the providence of God had inflicted on the blind. Let every man think how to himself through the eye had come the sense of beauty ; how through the eye had been awoke up in him feelings of sympathy. In his experi ence he would find that through the eye had come continually that which had kindled noble thoughts within him, and had sent him forth to do the work of God more abundantly. Let him think what it was never once to have looked upon the innocent brightness of an in fant's countenance, what it was never once to have seen the radiance and glory which mantled around the features of the Holy Saints, what it was never to have seen the sun rise ;or the sun set. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Again, what a loss it was never to have watched the leaves as they whispered in the wind and changed lustrously their ever-varying colour, or to have walked in the harvest time and seen the wind sweep in its path over the bending field of corn, and that purple sheen given back from the daylight, as every breath stirred it hither and thither in its unceasing movement. These and a thousand other beauties gladdened and softened the instincts of those who were blessed with sight, and yet were all withheld from their blind brethren. He asked them if they could look upon this beautiful world and not feel ashamed if they did nothing for those who were wanting in sight. (Cheers.) Mr. CHILDERS seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. On the motion of the LORD MAYOR of York, seconded by Sir J. B. JOHNSTONE, M.P., a vote of thanks was passed to the Archbishop for his kind ness in presiding, and the proceedings terminated. the resolution, called upon the meeting to subscribe liberally to the funds of the institution, in the name of the great man in whose honour it had been founded. They should remember that it was that man who, perhaps, more than all living men did most to raise the veil of that greatest of moral blindnesses which ever fell upon civil society—the curse of slavery: The removal of that curse frcm this country at the present moment we ought to feel most deeply when we saw that in the hands of a jealous God the miseries of it were perpetuated from generation to generation. The blood now being shed in torrents on the other side of the Atlantic was a monument of the evils of slavery and those misfor tunes from which the benevolence of Mr. Wilber force had freed the future of his native land. (Loud cheers.) The resolution was unanimously adopted. The Bishop of OXFORD moved the next resolution —" That a memorial be drawn up which shall urge upon the Government the justice and expediency of extending to the blind the same public privileges and benefactions in regard to instruction, moral and industrial, which are enjoyed by that part of the population which less requires such assistance, and that a committee be requested to present the me morial to the proper authorities." He thought a very short argument would suffice to convince the meeting of the expediency of adopting that memo rial—for this reason, that before they could gain their object they would have to convince one far more difficult to convince upon this subject than that meeting—namely, the Chancellor of her Ma- jesty's Exchequer. They all knew enough of Chan cellors of the Exchequer, and their grip upon what they had, and their very great reluctance to add to the drains upon it, to move them to feel that they must act together, as one man, as Yorkshire was wont to do when it meant to carry its will, in order to ob tain from the Government the recognition of their claims to right and justice. In his opinion, they had a claim capable of being stated so simply that the mere stating of it would carry a conviction of its own righeousness. The p r inciple upon which this country helped throug h its Executive Govern ment the education of any of its members ho took to be this—that there were persons who could not be educated—educated as the common weal as well as the private weal of the individual required they should be educated—unless some help was given to the local, particular, or private means by which that education was provided. There was no such thing intended in the Government grant as an eleemosynary education, but it was something given to those who were doing the most in order to aid them in doing more. In this way it was believed that no money laid out by this country could be laid out to a greater advantage than when it was laid out in giving that sound, religious, moral, and industrial education to the working classes which would enable them to maintain themselves, and, instead of being a drain upon the resources of the country, become 'new ministers of the increasing wealth of the country. (Cheers.) This, they would perceive, was but a cold view of the case ; but it was the true view they must take. They must not, in addressing the Government upon the subject, suffer themselves to be carried away by any sym pathy for the unfortunate ; but they must show i that the claim they put forward came distinctly under the head and under the prin ci p le of those f THE EARL OP CARLISLE AND THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. YORK, WEDNESDAY. This afternoon an influential meeting, in aid of the Yorkshire School for the Blind, was held in the Festival Concert-room in this city, under the presi dency of his Grace the Archbishop of York. There were also present his Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Bishop of Oxford, Viscount Falkland, the Right Hon. T. S. Estcourt, M.P., Mr. R. Monokton Milnes, M.P., Sir J. B. Johnstone, MT., the Hon. E. Lascelles, M.P., the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of York, Canon Vernon Harcourt, the Rev. W. Wilberforce, Mr. Childers, Mr. G. Leeman, Lord Mayor of York, Lc. Lord Brougham, who was prevented by indiposition from being present, addressed a note to the Archbishop, in which he stated, " I need hardly say how I lament my inability to go to York. The subject is most interesting. Indeed the name of the school commands my most fixed regard. It remains ever in my bosom one in which veneration and love strive for the mastery." The Yorkshire School for the blind was founded in 1833 as a memorial to Mr. Wilberforce, but the subscriptions having recently fallen off it has been found necessary to defray the current expenses from the capital fund. The present meeting was convened by his Grace the Archbishop with the object of providing for past deficiencies and of se curing the future prosperity of the institution. The Archbishop of YORK, in opening the proceed. ings, expressed his deep regret •at the absence of Lord Brougham. He believed, however, that the disappointment the noble and learned lord felt was at least as great as the disappointment they felt at his absence, for the lapse of time had not diminished the veneration and affection the noble lord felt for the name of Wilberforce, and had not lessened his desire to do honour to the memory of one with whom he had been associated for many years in carrying on that noble enterprise of giving freedom to the African race. (Cheers.) He would not dwell at any length on the object of the meeting, which was to place the Yorkshire School for the Blind, founded in honour of the late Mr. Wilberforce, on a more advantageous footing, to increase its finances and general usefulness. He thought that to a consider able extent it was a reflection upon Yorkshire that while in the whole of the county they simply con tributed £250 a year towards their institution for the blind, in the single town of Liverpool alone £650 should be raised. With regard to the future usefulness of the institution, he might state that it was proposed to set up workshops, and to provide the necessary appliances for giving employment to the adults who left the institution, so as to enable them to gain an honest livelihood hereafter. The Earl of CARLISLE then moved the first reso lution :—" That subscriptions be entered into and promoted throughout the county for the purposes of opening the doors of the Wilberforce School to the many blind persons needing instruction who are as yet excluded from it, and for facilitating the efforts of the blind and skilled adults to obtain a livelihood." The noble earl said—ln bringing this resolution under your notice, I may premise that I am not quite sure that I should be willing to exa mine closely whether a mixed feeling has not brought me here to-day--the claims of positive ab stract duty on the one hand, and the claims of memory and association on the other. I hope, however, in the short time during which I shall presume to occupy the attention of this meet ing, to show that on both these accounts there were very good grounds for coming. I will begin with the claims of memory. The meeting at which I last assisted on this subject and in this place, .which was the meeting also which originat ed the Wilber force School for the Blind, and which took place now 28 years ago, is still at this moment most present to my eyes. In the chair sat one whom it was my good fortune to call my kinsman—the Archbishop of the day—Archbishop Harcourt, whom your Grace so worthily replaces, and in whom there was very much which your Grace's own character vividly recalls. On the right hand of the chair, in the place I now occupy, stood the then Lord Chancellor of England, Henry Lord Brougham, who, after a life of unequalled energy, was then in the highest position which he as a British subject could attain, and who, if it had not been f or w h a t I trust i s a mere passing indisposition, would have been here to-day to re-awaken the echoes with his eloquence, and to rekindle the glow of that ardent philan thropy which glows as warmly at the age of 80 as it did in the hundred fights of the Forum and the Senate. (Cheers.) On that day there was announced to us tb,o munificent liberality of Lords Fitzwilliam L 7 r ~~r~~ ~~ ~~~~ ~ 7 ~~ j l ~~_. PRICE 4a. STAMPED M. " A FRENCII SWINDLE.R. A most extraordinary case was three days back presented to the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Laval. A young man, of the name of Gisquel, for whom the Bishop of Poitiers pronounced in one of the churches of 4,lirkt the 30th Oct., 1860, a magnificent funeral oratiOifrin that' belief that he had been killed in the Papal ranks at the bAttle of Castelfidardo,was tried for numerous acts of swind ling. He is only 21 years of age, is ill-looking, and of coarse manners. An account to this effect was given of him :—He was born at Guingamp, of extremely poor pa rents, and was taught the trade of a carpenter. But he was of idle and dissolute habits, and some time back left his na tive town. He obtained work at Montfort, department of the Sarthe, but in a fortnight was discharged. Whilst there he called on the parish priest, and pretending to be a Protestant converted to Catholicism, prayed to be baptised ; but, for some reason, his request was not complied with. He next went to a place called Saint-Marc-la-Briere, In the same department, and before long, on a similar pretext, was baptised there. But a person from whom he had obtained work was not satisfied with him, and he left. Ho next went to Savigne, in the Indre-et-Loire, and there introduced himself to the parish priest as a Protes tant disquieted in conscience. The priest gave him in struction, and was so pleased with his apparent piety that he presented him to the Archbishop of Tours. Gisquel de manded baptism, and a lady and gentleman undertook to be his sponsors ; but before administering the sacrament the Cure of Savigne wrote to Guingamp, and he learned that when a child he had been duly baptised in that place. As ho had obtained various sums of money from the curd and other persons, he was given into custody as a swindler, but no prosecution was instituted, and he was released. There is some reason to believe that before he was arrested he had imposed on a priest at some other place in the neighbour hood of Tours, and had obtained baptism from him. He next turned up at Poitiers, and there he enlisted in the Papal Zouaves. Until he could be sent to Italy board and lodging were provided for him at the expense of the bishop, of a gentleman named de Coursac, and others, and they also gave him money. After a while he went to Italy and in October, 1860, his protectors at Poitiers re. ceived a letter in which he announced that he had been mortally wounded with grape- shot, at Castelfidardo, but that he was glad to die for religion, and left " the course for which he had fought in the hands of the Lord !" On the envelope were the words, apparently in another handwriting, " Dead dead 1" From this letter, joined to the fact of a similar one with the same ominous words on the outside, having been received at Guingamp, no doubt was entertained that the man had fallen in the Pope's cause. At Gaingamp some zealous persons wished to have a funeral service celebrated for him, but the clergy of that place declined to perform one until they should ob tain positive proof of the death. At Poitiers, however, a service for the repose of his soul was celebrated with peens liar solemnity in the church of Sainte-Radegonde, and as stated above, the bishop afterwards delivered a funeral ser mon on him. Nothing could be more pompous than the terms in which the prelate spoke of . him ; among other things ho said :—" He was a true Christian, a conscientious Christian, a Christian holding in esteem . th . e sacrament of bap tism, a Christian who knew his own dignity, and considered himself as the child of God, as the brother of Jesus Christ, aEi a citizen and member of the Holy Church on earth, as heir of the kingdom of heaven !" Some months back, the au thorities of Laval learned that a man was levying con tributions from pious persons in that town on the allegation that he had been aide-de-camp of Gen. de Lamoriciere, and had been wounded at Castelfidardo. As this statement was ascertained to be untrue, he was arrested, and then the startling d:scovery was made that he was Gisquel, who had been treated as dead at Poitiers From inquiries, which were afterwards instituted, it was ascertained that though he had joined the Papal army in Italy, he had so grossly misconducted himself, that he had been ordered for trial before a court martial, but that his chiefs had preferred to turn him out of the army altogether to trying him. He was only for a very short time in the service, and never took part in any engagement whatever. From Italy he came to France, and at Paris, Le Mars, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Chartres, Orleans, Tours, Rennes, and lastly Laval, he levied contri butions on the pretext that he was a " martyr of Castelfl dardo." Finally, it was ascertained that at all these places , and even at Poitiers before his departure, he used to spen d in drunkenness and debauchery the money given h im a ; was condemned man, who defended himself with great impudence, condemned to 15 months' imprisonment, 50f. fine, and de five a. years' surveillance of the police. On hearing tion he laughed sarcastically. the.con warming g uced with carriages tfi:otnhilitehyhi yesterday, h s v t e e e L r n v a t 7 i a e ol lw ni systemwt hh i o i lea y vdee C rtna o go m onti fn p r i a ewas n sit WARMING RAILWAY CARRIAGES. —Tile success .o d ruf o o ; arnelveoratsßai andli availing nNeogx exhausted r hr, t n i - ct else experiment) i r eti e : ss:tttseersvoanmfi winter, L t tthoe a rfei. Wolverton a nwi n dl l v cb o oe l l v d e a s onlyngri nights treat ts a abroeon triflingto expense,tho w ith the most favourable results. 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