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The Proprietor begs t, inform the public that this iashionable place of resort ha been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doers open at half-past eight. commence at nine. A.dmis ele.n One Shillinx. LOND WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1:6, 1856. DR. KA.IIN'S ANATOMIC AL M us Eum. 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square. —Open (for Gentlemen lily) from 11 , till 10, containing npve ,rds of one thousand model , ~.ad preparations, Must:Mine' every part of the human frame in health and disease, the rare of men, &e. Lectures delivered at 12, 1,4, and half-past 7. by Dr. G. R EXTON, ; and a new anti hlYAntereStin g , erles of r .ectores is now i n rourso of d e li ver y v Pr. KAHN, at a quarter pllt 8 p.m. precisely. Admission, Onp (N,. 20,105.) [PRICE 4D.. STAMPED 17• PUBLICATIONS. MEPROPoLITAN BoAi-z1) OF WORKS, Now ready, at all the libraries, in 3 Tols., EDGAR B ARBON, By W. KNIGII T 0 N", M.A. A meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held, by adjournment., in the Council-chamber,. Guildhall, yes terday, to consider the statement showing the financial condition of the several parishes and districts within the jurisdiction of the Board ; Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The minutes of the last Board were read and confirmed. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. ME "An interest!ng story, wit ten wi , h spirit And animation. Th, hero's adv , ntures In India are varied and exciting."— sun. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to henry Colburn. ,TR OP 0 LIT A N COUNTIES and _ GENI..R t.L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterloo-place, London. Caiital, 100,0001. TRUSTEES. Rt. Tin. Spencer IL Walpole, M.P 1 Richard Spooner, Esq., M P. Henry Peter Fidler, Esq. I E. Yansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N.B. The bonus declared ?t the last divi.lon of profits averaged 32 per cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. NEW SYSirElif OF LIFE ASSURANCE• rr HE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL AMUR ANC ft and INYESTMEN r AssoerA "lON invite attention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted by this Association, viz., that of allowing Interest on all Premiums Pam, Instead of the remote and uncertain system 04 Bonuses usually adopted. By this Plan the Policyholder will secure to himself a constantly increasing anneal income during lire, s 9 well as the payment of the n O2 assured to his rcpre , entatives at his death. Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system of Asgurance may be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pall-mall East, or for warded free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL.MALL EAST, LONDON. Establi,hed P artfes desirous of INVESTING iIION , P,Y are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of interest Lay be obtained with pe*fect security. The interest is payable in January and July, at the Head Office in London, or at the various branches in the country. PETER MORRIsON, Managing Director. Prospect3ses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free. r ir o LOVERS of FlSH.—Fifth Season.— Ge: nine YARMOUTSI BLOATERS • These highly -10 tes d delicacies forwarded to all parts, on receipt of the amount, r 0 to Rourke ir , atage strmspe; or Past-oince I* !ally selected.. Ss. 44 ?Package included. 50 ditto .... 4s. 6d. Rend Hill and plain directions, county, and nearest station. Ad dress, THOMAS LETTES, Jun., Fish Curer, Ore it Yarmouth. IMPORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A MORSE, COW; SHEEP, OR PIG. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE. THE 'HEAYEST AND BEST RYER YET INTRODUCED ! Sold in Cases containing 448 Packages—each Packlge One Feed, at the coat of hree Half-pence each, equal to 565. per cu.!. Carriage paid to any railway station. None are genuine without my signature— JOSEPH TH RLEY. the Inventor, 115, High street, Hull. Post-office Orders must be made payable as above. PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—Extension of Time for Compulsory Purchase. NOTICE IS lIEREItY GIVEN, That application is in tended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an let to extend the time granted by " The Pimlico Improve ment Act, IR5:1" (public), for the compulsory purchase of lands, tenements, and bereditaments, authorised by the said Act, and also by the Act of the 15th and ltith Victoria, cap. 78 (public),to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of ber Majesty's Works and Publ , c Buildings, for the purposes of the said Acts, or either of them. Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight kundred and fifty-six. By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works sad Public Buildings. JOHN GARDINER, Soli'itor, Board of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster. PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION d NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , Th at ap /ictation is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an act to empower the Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Works and Public Buildings to pull down and remove eertain houses and tenements, situate in Upper Crown-street, Grown -court, Lower Crown-street, Charles-street, Duke street, Upper Charles-street, King-street, Whitehall, and Parliament -street, in the parish of Saint Margaret, Westmins ter, in the county of Middlesex ; and to appropriate the sits of the said houses and tenements, and a small portion of Saint James's-park, and all the ground described in•the plan hereinafter referred to, whether now used as streets, ways, yards, pleasure grounds, vacant ground, or otherwise, as a site or sites for the erection thereon of offices for the public service. Also to empower the said Commissioners to stop up any streets, ways, paths, or passages which n 'w lead into, or pass upon, through, or over the site hereinbefore de scribed, or any part thereof; and in such act powers will be contained for the compulsory purchase of all such lands, tene ments, or bereditaments as may be necessary for carrying the purposes aforesaid into effect, and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any manner connected with the lands, tenements, or hereditaments proposed to be , aken for the Purposes aforesaid. And Notice is hereby further Given, that a duplicate plan aad section, describing the situation of the houses and tene ments proposed to be pulled down and re Pored, with a book of reference thereto, containing the names of the owners, or reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the said houses and tenements, and also a copy of this notice, as published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the 3 0th day of November instant, be deposited for public inspec tion with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, at his Office, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in the said "2„, u atY of Middlesex ; and with the Clerk of the Peace for the 0y and liberty of Westminster, at his office, at the Sessions t llB e, Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that on or before the said day of November instant, a copy of the said plan and book of reference, and also a copy of this notice as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited with the Parish cL er & of the said parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, at his Place of abode. b ated this s even th d ay of N ovem b er, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. Board J HRDINER, Solicitor, of W O ork N , dr G c. A , Whitehall-place, Westminster. P _ ROSPECTIJS of th e NEXT EXAMINA TION for ADMISSION to the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY at Woolwich. N.B. No fliers direct appointmeats will be made to Provi sional Commissions in the Royal Artillery, An Examination for the admission of Cadets to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich will be h e ld i n London in the month of Jun e , 185 7. Provided a sufficient number are found competent thirty admissions will be made to that Institution ; candidates must Ile between the ages of 17 and 20 years. Those, ho wever , who have n t exceeded 2'l years of age on the Ist Jan • next', will act be considered disqualified. The successful candidates will remain under instruction until they are sufficiently advanced is scientific knowledge to ,pass a satisfactory examination, and they will then receive commissions in the Royal Ar on, or Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum of 221. 10s. on admission, to cover the expense of uniform, books, &c,, and a contribution of 621. 10s. for each half- year of the time during which they remain at the Academy, Th e half-yearly contributions, however, for sons and orphans of maul and military officers, will be regulated at the following rates, as heretofore : For Sons of admirals and generals having regiments... £4o Sons of generals without regiments .... Moss and of 35 .So of captains an d commander; of the navy and f colonel and regimental field officer of the army 3O Mons of all officers of the Navy and Army under the above ranks Sons of o ffi cers ................................... . 2O of the A rmy an d Navy who have died in the service, and whose families are proved to be left in peccuiary distress lO The sons of general officers paid only on their commissions as field officers, will pay the same contribution as the sons of field officers. The sons of officers on full and half-pay will pay alike ; but sons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, or received the difference, will only be admitted on the terms prescribed for the sons of private gentlemen, viz., 621. 10s. for each half-year. The sons of officers in the civil departments of the Army are admissible to the Academy upon the same terms as those prescribed for the sons of Naval and military officers. The admissions will be determined by the result of a compc %iv* examination, the subjects of which will be as follows ?lire and Mixed M athematics, i . e ., Statics, Dynamics, and Hydr05tatic5,.......................... 3,500 lheglish Language, Literature, Composition, History, and Geography ............ .. .............. Language, Literature, Geography, an d . History of . ...... 1,250 Aacient Rome, and of Ancient Greece.. 1 75 , 1 Ditto dit t0 ............... . ' ditto of Fra nce 1 , 00 0 in ditto ditto of G erman sad viva voce). y 75 Phe exam Ditto ination Fr ench and G erman will be both writteno }experimental Sciences, i t is . Chemistry Heat, Electri city, including -...llEagnetis.m.. . . Natural Sciences, Mineralogy, .au . d . d;c*ln'....."' ............... 1,000 ... , ..... .. I,oeo Moral and Political Sciences ........... ...' ............... 75 ° Elementary GeometricaTiii: Instruments, IZZT2e;thienr. Drawing, i.e., eluding the use of Drawing Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or J . ,.,, a _ :i.rancrne than i ....... 1,000 scape Drawing ..................................... Mo candidate will be allowed to be examined lye subjects, of which one must be Mathematics who does not obtain at least one -fifth of the allotted nu°moloneet. subject will be eligible tor an appointment. . of marks in this From the other subjects of examination each candidate may select those in which he desires to be examined ; but no one will be allowed to count the marks gained in any subj ect, 'anima those marks shell at least amount to one-sixth of the total number of marks allotted to that subject. Ne candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military eadenly 'titl es , h e o b tain au aggregate of 3,000 marks at east. Any candidate who shall not select French and drawing among the subjects for his examination, will be required to ali tifffY the examiners that he has such knowledge, at least of the elements of these two subjects, as shall afford reasonable eE ex pectation that he w ill perfect himself in both during his residue° at the Academy. T he following papers will be required to be transmitted by *ten gentleman to th e W ar Department, before the let Jun e, h with his application t o b e noted as a candidate, unless shall notify th a t h e h as been a candidate at a previous exami nation, in which case the statement of subjects only need ac company the application :- 1. An extract f rom the register of his baptism, or in de fault of that, a certificate verified by affidavit. 2. A certificate of good moral character, signed by a cler- Olean of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or itead of the scho o l or co ll ege at which ho has received his edneation for at least two years, or such other proof of good Moral character as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of %etc 3. A. statement of the subjects of t orn e xaation in which (in ildditieu to mathelatics) he may desire be examined. place All eandidates will be required to present themselves at the thenof e xamination, hereafter to be determined, in order to i erebeted by military surgeons, that it ma y i e ascertained Ire fres from any bodily defects or ailments calculated to iaterfere with the performance of milit ary duties. of the P lac e 11.tiee wlil be given a mon th previously, in the p u bli c papers, aad days appointed for holding the examination. 'Wee le elli t t M. R. •Fazeizt, Pal-141.1, Nov. 14, 1356. DREwRY. LCELEBRITIES : a Se r i es o f KA PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, by MAULL and POLTBLANK The November number contains, SA 11 ULM WARREN, EN., Q.C., M.P., srith Mem , ir. Maull and Polyblank, 53, Graccchurch-street ; and all book and printsellers. The Second Edition, just published, price 55., by post free, ss. lid., s TRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. THE PATHOLOGY AND RATIONAL. TREATMENT of cTRICTUR F. of the URETER a, in all its Varieties and Compli cations, with Observations on the Use and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment of Diseases of the Urethra. The whole Illustrated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of Tweni y Years' extensive and successful Practice. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R C.S.E. " We know of no man to whose care we would sooner intrust the treatment of a severe stricture."—Medical circular. LondoU: 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. PRESERVATION of LIFE from SHIP- Wl4 ECK.—The Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTI .N would earnestly call the attention of the public to thereat and extraordirniry exertions which the Aociety has recently made, and is now making, to provide eilleent Life 11.,ats for Rye, Dungeness, Hornsea, Appledore, Wicklow, Ark low, Wes port, Dundrum Bay, Drogheda,infore, Ros•dana, Toughal, and Ballycotton. To supply these L re -boats, to gether with transporting carriages and boat-hous:is for some of them, will involve an expenditure of nearly 3,000/. During the present year the Committee have also granted upwards of 4001. for meritorious exertions in saving life from wrecks. The ommittee therefore earnestly APPEAL to the public fo pecuniary assistance, to enable them, with unabated vigour, to con tinue their hitherto successful exertions in the cause of humanity. THO MAS Aim.% 0, Chairman. - .. --- "riP , BrA fit CHAPMAN. Deputy , rhatrmatt. gratefully acknowledge the following additional The Cent' contributions : Admiral Sir J. Rowley, Bart— .• •• W. Hine, P'sq. . Charles Kilinirn, Esq a ...... • • ...... 5 0 0 'I he Rev. E. J. ‘iarsh a Miss f:dwards .... • • ..... ........ ••• • • . 2 '2 0 Messrs J. Robinson and Sons.. •••• • • .... 10 10 0 Donations and Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. Wjllis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street, by al the London bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, at the office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. COCKS'S CELEBRATED RE AG DIN SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with F!sh, Game, Steaks, soups, Grills, Gravies. hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene ral use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in fish and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manufacturers BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Prce Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d. per box. This preparation is one of the benefits which the science of modern diumistry has conferred upon mankind ; for during the first twenty 'ars of the present century to speak of a cure for the Gout was con .idered a romance ; but now the efficacy and safety of this medicine s so fully demonstrated by unsolleite i testimonials from persons in very rank -f life that public opinio, .proclaims this as one of the flost important discoveries of the present age. urtber roof of the great efficacy of BLAIR'S GutlT and RIIEIT. MATIC PILLS, forwaried by \ir. Reinhardt, Chemist, Hull:— Sir, Enclosed is a testimonial front a customer of mine, who is ell known about here ; he speaks in the highest terms of Blair's rout and khe matic Pills, and would be glad to give information to anybody. " To Mr. Reinhardt, 22 Market-place, Hull. "eceber , 1855. "Dear Sir, — I have b een a ffli cted with rheumatism for 12 yea :luring which ti me h ave tried almost everything, both internally and externally, but could not obtain any permanent relief. A short time ago I purchased a 2s. 9d box of Blair's Pills of you, and before had taken the whole of them I was more free from pain than I had . ieen for the last dozen years. You will please let me have another hex, as I me m to keep them by me in case I should again require hem, and oblige, "Dear Sir, yours obediently, "JEEEMIAn GAMESS." Sold by Prout and H arsant, 229, Strand, London, and all Ven dors of Medicine. & NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. atent ORice 4 eal of 'real Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TIIIE' 4 E MAR No, 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, levoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. old in no canes, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpean, Lallernand, Rona, Ricord, &c., &c. 'IIRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION, 'PERMATORRFICEA, and all the distressing consequences slicing from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too ong residence Pin hot clinsates. It has restored bodily and sexual trength and vlitour to thousands of iebilitated individuals who are now In the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and whatever May be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR ItIAGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. RIESEMAR No. 11., ftectually, in the shortTspace of three days, completely and entirely ra .:cates all traces of Gonorrhea, both in its mild and aggravated oars, Clefts, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Fraie, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which opaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the uin of the health of a vast portion or the population. TRJE.;EMAR No. 111., the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp (lns. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all utaneons Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup io, 'ho and y s ir a impurities from thdexepvalitai it str tw e it insensible perspiration together to eradicate h m' th aS e unfortunately never-failing remedy for that c l ass o f di sor d ers wh i ch hrongh the medium o f th e pores of the skin and urine, and is sarsaparilla in •ion of the patient's cons tit ut i on , and wh i ch all the saisap he English Physician t reats with Mercury, to the inevitabledestruc am world cannot restore. Price l Is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves lie., and in 51. axes, whereby there is t saving of 1/. 12s. To he had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and Gordon, 140, Leadenhall-greet ; Prout. 229, Strand; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxfird-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford•street. HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular Medical work, price Is., post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 engravings, and containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallernand, Roux, Ricord, &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by impediments from entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhoea, and syphilis, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatoza, by the author's newly-constructed microscope, with powerful lenses.—Piper and Co., 23, Paternoster.. row ; and from all agents for the sale of "Triesemar." lABL AND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY. THE TIPPERARY BANK-IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. At the sittings of the Court of Chancery this morning the Lord Chancellor gave judgment in the important case of 071aherty v. M'Dowell. The petition was for the purpose of removing the affairs of the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank from under the Winding-up Act, and placing them under the old act of the 33d Georg. 11., on the ground that the form e r act was intendQd solely for the settlement of a joint-stock concern as between the shareholders, arid did not give relief or security to the creditors. His lordship the Chancellor dismissed the petition, without costs. He decided that the 33d George 11. did not apply. The proper course was to pro ceed through the official manager. THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. To judge from the confidential reports whispered among persons who may be presumed to be well informed on the subject, there is every reason to believe that the police know perfectly well the party or parties by whom the murder of Mr. Lite,' was committed, but no arrest has, nevertheless, been yet made. The police have acted all along with the utmost cautima in the matter, and hesitate to compromise themselves or any individuA until the chain of evidence has been made as complete as possible. The Attorney-General joined the Crown Solicitor in the investigation yesterday after noon, and remained for several hours at the scene of the murder in the Broadstone Terminus Build ings. It is said that private information was laid before those conducting the' inquiry yesterday evening, by a person who stated that on the even ing of the murder he saw a man in a fustian jacket cross the boundary wall of the railway, and ap proach the canal, into which he dropped some heavy object, which he presumes was the money, which he had ample time to remove subsequently, before the nature of the crime committed becam.,) publicly kn-wn. If this statement be true, and that the man seen under these circumstances was the assassin, the police still think that the fustian jacket was only assumed as a disguise. THE FRIEND Or THE CLERGYCOEPORATII,OrNgy . — election of p ens ion,rs o f the Friend of the C Cor poration was held yesterday i‘i a Rev. Jo sep h B rown, .f thet the Lo Rector ndn Tv o o f ae ;the Christchurch, A Blackiriars-road, occupying the chair. Aftersonrere : marks f rom a su b scriber as to t h e mo d e of conducting; the election, the rev, chairmansoaoiodr,athiog, andatalt showedhoughyri fund s were low, it was most ou • g the feeling of the public towards the corporation, when it wa s f ound that they bad no less than 250 new h scribers. They had, however, from the cramped state of the funds, been unable to afford that assistance to clergymen in distress which they required, but be still the close hoped the institution mues of the four would soon recover front the shocks which it had unfortunately received, and At year alter year increase the sphere of its usefulness. the ATHENS 011, .too), the proceedings closed with the uual•courtesies to , tto chair. o l i' successful I e Rev. . j : Browncandidates announce d frtn ttlist t of Bu of the Stade dues, which has just been publi , hed at Ham urg, gives THE ELBE.—A treatise on the question us the folio • gate amount; levied upoNto-inL eo comma-rce of the Upper and Lower }7.11, —. ..'e, by the several governments throu,_;h whose territory that river flows, from 1841 to 1350 in elusive :—Austria levied 328,634 marks banco upon that pertion of the stream which is within the Aus trian empire ; Saxon Prussia got 1, no less than 10,205,082 ahrkasooobanocno 873,722 marks banco ; Anhalt got 535,033 Laxn nY took 485,890 marks baneo ; marks banco ; Hanover levied, including the Stade dues, received 4,252,572 markr;i3 abolition of the t-11 through its territory ; and Lauen• bulg received 1,921,026 marks harm) on the same ac ;aolo‘lo.:enkt c•bunt ; whilst the Esslinger zoll, which was what Lu beck and Hamburg had to share between them, amount le o n f hu th rg e ed only to 252,446 marks bance, these imports upon th e navigation ~f the River Elbe comes to the enormou s sum of 79 ,852,410 marks levied in 10 yam. The t ota l amount . of Balance in bands of Treasurer, Nov. 18, 1856 £6,597 12 7 Checks drawn, but not presented.. Available balance Amount of deposit account, 6,48(3 13 9 102,522 2 2 Total general balance... £109,008 15 11 PARISH OF CA3fBtRWELL. A deputation from the parish of Camberwell presented a nemorial, setting forth that it appeared by the financial statement published by the Board that largo sums of money had been borrowed for the purpose of improving the lrainage under the Surrey and Kent Commission, extend ing from Ravensworth to the Wandle River, and the me mo:ialists could not find that any portion of those sums hid been applied to the improvement of Camberwell, al though the adjoining parishes had been greatly benefited. They therefore prayed that before issuing the precepts fer collecting the rates an account should be furnished to them showing the manner of the expenditure of that money. Mr. IRVINE (who introduced the deputation) supported the prayer of the memorialists, and stated that while the .surrounding parishes were ,pet fectly drained, Camberwell was left in a most wretched state. He was almost afraid to let the fact go forth, lest it s'Aould have the effect of depreciating the value of property in that parish. He moved that the prayer of the memorialists be granted. IYIFTAwGErt seconded the motion. The CHAIR WAN said if the request of the memorialists were acceded to it would occupy 12 months in preparing the n-Jcessary papers, and probably cost 1,4001. or 1,500/. he:ore the information required could be furnished. He t terefore would suggest that a small deputation fr'om the parish should attend at Gzeek-,street and examine the ac counts, and at the same time obtain all the information they required from the engineer. Mr. D'IFFANGER asked what remedy the parishioners of Camberwell would have supposing it should be shown that t ley had been charged unjustly by the late commissioners? Tde board ought not to cover over the improper conduct of those commissioners. Mr. DOULTON could not see that any practical result was likely to follow the resolution. It was a question whether the Board had the power to grant these accounts as asked Mr. TURNER was of opinion that the Board had not the power. Mr. IRVINE said one practical result of granting the re quest would be to show that 20,0001. or 30,000/. of rates had been raised in the parish of Camberwell and had been applied elsewhere. The CHAIRMAN said, even if that were shown, still the board was utterly without power to remedy it. There was no unwillingness on the part of the board to remedy a wrong, provided they had the legal power to do so ; but, when they were distinctly told, as they had been by their legal adviser, that they had no power to re-open the ques tion, it could not be fairly attributed to them that they were unwilling to do justice to the memorialists. The motion was then put and negatived. THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. TURNER rose to propose a motion respecting the financial statement submitted to the board on the 2cl of October, showing the financial condition of the several parishes and districts, with the particulars of outstanding loans and mortgages, and an estimate of the sums to be raised by the board for the year ending the 31st of De camber, 1856. It must be obvious to every member that the subject to which their attention was about to be called was one of the most important that could be brought un der their consideration. If there was one thing snore important than another for the board to regard it was that before they proceeded to tax the ratepayers they should take every possible means to tax them justly, and in pro portion to the relative value of the property in the different Darts of the metropolis. With regard to the assessment of the value the Board was no doubt precluded by the act of Parliament from dealing with the greater portion of the area of the metropolis, because by that act it was expressly stated that where a county rate existed they must take that rate as the ground of assessment. Still there was a large amount of property within the metropolitan area which wa s not subject to any county rate at all. With regard to that portion of property the act told the Board that they must tat it_" upon a like estimate," and the question they had to consider was what a "like estimate" meant. The great bulk of the property not subject to a county rate was repre sented by the city of London. There were smaller portions, such as the Inns of Court, Furnival's Inn, &c. ; therefore the practical question was whether the Board had taken every means in their power to assess the city of London upon a " like estimate" as the rest of the metropolis. When this question was sti scussed on a former occasion it was con tended that the Board had not taken all the means in their power to determine at what sum the city of London ought to be assessed ; and that in order to avoid an inequality of assessment., instead of taking for their criterion a lock tax, such as the sewers-rate, they ought to have taken the income tax, which was not a local tax, but one superin tended by an external authority, and in all districts and places managed upon one general principle. Such bad been the criterion taken to avoid any inequalities as between the parishes of Marylebone, St. Pancras, and St. George's , Hanover-square, ant he would assert th a t th e p r i nc i p l e which was good as between one parish and another was good also as between Middlesex and the city of London. Just as they were not willing to take a local assessment of Marylebone, St. Pancras, or St. George's, Hanover_ square, so ought they not to be satisfied with a local assessment of the city of London. The property tax was common to the city of London and all the other districts in the metropolitan area, and, as it was necessary for the purposes of a uniform system of taxation that there should be one general standard of estimate, none better than the property-tax could be suggested. He therefore pro posed, first, that the Board should adopt a general principle, and afterwards decide in what manner that principle should be carried out, whether by itself or by committee. It was not necessary for the purpose of his argument to prove either that the sum at which the city was assessed was an adequate or an inadequate sum. There was no evidence that it was a just amount, but before the public would be satisfied that the city was estimated at a proper amount, it mustbeshown that they had gone upon the same principle as had been applied to the other districts in ascertaining that amount. There was this difference between the assessment on the sewers rate and the property tax, that the former wa s arrived at by the local surveyor, who ascertained the value of the property as well as he could, whereas the latter was the result of returns made by the occupiers themselves, who stated the amount of rent actually paid. To justify their proceedings, therefore, it was necessary the Board should inspect the property tax returns, which enabled them to ascertain whether any and what inequality existed. Thi s was not entirely a matter of speculation, for on referrin g to a return made to Parliament in 1855 h e found the pro perty tax for the city of London was 1,584,3511. This sum, however, included the Inns of Court, which were not in eluded by the valuation of the Board, and therefore a sum of 106,1841. would have to be deducted. The sum, then, assessed to the property tax in the city of London, after making that deduction, would bo 1,478,1671., excluding the inns of Court. The sum put down in our financial statement is 1,153,0691., making a difference between the property tax assessment and the assessment by the Metro politan Board of 325,0 981. This difference between the two assessments was 22 per cent. He had deduced from the printed tables the difference between the property tax assessment and the county rate assessment on property in the other parts of Middlesex out of the metropolis, and he found it to be 161 per cent.—that was to say, the sum at wLich they proposed to assess the city of London was 22 par cent, below the assessment of the property tax, while the sum at which they proposed to assess the other parts of Middlesex was only 161 per cent. under the property tax. If these calculations were correct they were in favour of the city of London from N to 6 per cent. That was a mat ter which ought to be inquired into. If the assessment of the city of London were made equal to the average assess ment of the rest of Middlesex, 85,000/. ought to be added to the amount of the estimate. He had thus shown ground for inquiry. A general basis of taxation should be est s blishod, and that basis ought to be the property tax. He at s e u l h a v e l e i s ty wasofotnal taxation. professed tion to carryingrepresenta tivestwhaes p s l o o i r f n r yet nut—viz., the i te ci t m t hv y i o e , zy t .becausei,otnahneshould be opposed by the ber conch,ded by moving the following resolution 'r " That, in order that the city of London may be assessed anxious hb ee t to carry desirous 1. owu es noi out t: for the purposes of the Metropolitan Local Management i l Eli, which the sit e e l h ty a t o f r et o a n r ( 4 1 o s n h o h u a l s d Act upon a like esti ma t e with the rest of the metropolis, it b l e m en ha a d ssa t s o ssa th f e or am t o h u e nt pu a r t . poses of the property tax." Mr. SAVAGE seconded the motion. Mr. DALTON said the Finance Committee, of which he was a member, ender-N - onm' to arrive 1- • 4- 4 • 4- 4• *uldAlegelaulelystaiodnolstthea , ajlr-,t. 090 111a1,t4 1.,. the amount at which the city ought to he assessed. The committee could not at the time get the property tax re t how ever,ur re turn, wasbu t raisedi t had whether since be been the o b b o t a a r i d n e c d o property tax as the criterion of value, but Mr. Woolrycla, their legal adviser, having givin his opinion that they could, he (Kr. Dalton) thought the h oar d ought toconsider the question submitted to them by Mr. Turner. Mr. Deputy HARRISON did not think the motion would effect the obj ec t th e h on. mem b er h a d i n view —namely, an equality of t axa ti on t h roug h ou t th e w h o l e of the tnetro'po litau distri cts . H e woul d not di scuss t h e legal question whether the board could or not ease the assessment of the rateable value of the City of London upon the returns made to the Property Tax Commissioners ; but it would be un fair it hedid nut state to the board that that question had been raised and a regal opinion taken upon it, which opin ion was to the effect that the board hail no such po w er.. Mr. Turner had stated that the rateable value returned fer the City of London was, according to a Parliamentary re turn, 22 per cent. und er th e va l ue as fixe d by the Property Tax Commissioner s . Now, ho was prepared to asy that - if all the districts within the metropolitan area were assessqcl upon the property t ax re t urns ' h e was the las t man to op. pose it. On examining the estimate of the value of the dif ferent districts it would be found that nothing like such basis had been adopted, and he would briefly show the i - justice of applying'the property tax standard exclusive y to the City of London. By the Parliamentary return Ft was clearly shown that Hampstead, the district repre sented by Mr. Turner, was assessed at 23 per cent. Under its proper value, the city being only assessed at 22 pa , cent. under its•value. Maryl e b one on the other band, was charged so hi g h th a t the estimate was only 14 per cent. under its proper value. St. Pancras was still higher estimated, it being only per cent. below this Parliament ar y s t an d ar d ; an d Lambeth was 24 below the standard, while th e City was only 22. If, therefore, the hoard would a d o pt th e cr i ter i on of value genera ll y to the districts alike, he would agree to it with thankfulnesS, but he could not consent to make the City of London an exception. Ho would just mention the discrepancies that existed in regard to other parishes. St George's, Hanover square, was es ti ma t e d a t 1 8 per cent. under the value as signed to it by th e p ro p er t y t ax return ; Islington, 21 Or ' cent.; Shereditch, 24 per cent.; Paddington, 21 per cents; Bethnal-green, per cent. ; N ew i ng t on , 20 per cent.; Camberwell, 17 : per cent. Thus it appeared that the county rate afforded a most variable criterion of value when compared with the property tax returns ; and yet, because the City of London happened to have no county rate, it was proposed to assess it up to the fell amount of the property tax return. The board never could adopt such a course. The sewers rate had been taken as the ground of assessment for the City instead of a county rate, the City not having any such rate. Surveyors had been appointed who were bound to make that rate au equitable one, and the best mode for arriving at au accurate estimate had been adopted. There would be in a few weeks a new rate made for the City of London, and it might therefore be necessary to postpone this question, till -that took place. Meanwhile all he asked was justice. He sought no favour; but he could not consent to apply a principle to the City Of London which was not applied generally to the other dii tricts of the metropolis. If Parliament had intended to ascertain the ratealde value by means of the prooerty-tax returns, nothing would have been more easy than for it t;o have been declared in the act itself. But it stated that where there was no county rate you should take a like rate, and in this case you had a like rate. Mr. WRIGHT--No; the act means a like estimate, and not a like rate. Mr. Holes called upon the board to make an exception in the case of the City of London, because the act itself had male that exception. It stated that the rate was to be made upon the basis of the county rate, where there was one. But in the city there was no county rate, there foie the city was in an anomalous position. Had the committee been able to obtain the property tax returnS, an accurate basis for the accountant to make out the esti mates would have been afforded ; but those returns were not forthcoming at the time the financial statement was made. Since then the returns had been obtained, and by them it appeared that a very large increase of value ought, in justice to the other districts, to be made in regard to the city of London, the difference being not less than from 300,000/. to 400,0001., which the committee would certainly have included if the property tax returns had been before them. Mr. LESLIE said the question had got into a form which was exceedingly disagreeable. It was not a contest be tween the city of Loudon and the other portions of the metropolis, but the question was whether they had arrived at the right system by which all parties should be made to pay alike. He had only just seen the Parliamentary paper quoted by Mr. Deputy Rani-on, and its contents struck him with astonishment. It stated the rateable value of the city to be 1,58'i,3511. and the number of houses to be 7,297; whereas by another return it appesred that the number of houses was between 14,000 and 15,0)0. Mr. TURNER-14,190. Mr. LESLIE—Very well ; what, then, was likely to be the result ? Why, instead of the rateable value of the city being 1,586,3511., it was likely to be 3,000,00)1. How this discrepancy arose he could not tell. He understood that the magistrates of Surrey and Kent were about to make a new rate, making the property tax an element iu their calculations. It therefore appeared to him that the board were not yet ripe for making a rate; that, in fact, the basis on w hi c h t h ey had proceeed was bad, and that equal justice would not be done by it. Mr. DOULTON said, if he understood the object of the hon. and learned mover, it was not that the board should base their calculations upon the property tax return ; what he asked was that the sum which was assessed upon the city of London should bear the same proportion to the property-tax as the sums assessed upon the other parishi3s bore to the same tax. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Deputy HARRISON. —To that I have no objection. Mr. DOULTON.—The hon. deputy said he had no objec tion; if so, then there was an end to the discussion, be cause the resolution did Lo t comm it th e b oar d-t o an asse.4.s-. went based on that property-tax return. He did not care whether his own parish (Lambeth) should be raised 10 per cent. or not, because he knew that other parishes would be raised to the same or a still greater extent. The question ought not to be delayed, otherwise the parishes would be called upon to pay two or three rates at the same time. Mr. OFFOR feared the property-tax would not form in any shape whatever a correct datum for them to proce6d upon with regard to the assessment. At all events, thby must act upon one uniform system in regard to all the dis tricts. The city having no county-rate was no reason why the property-tax should be taken as the datum. There were great discrepancies in the returns as to the value of property. In one return the rateable value of the property in one portion of the county of Middlesex was stated to be 1,697,6011., whereas the return under schedule A. of the property-tax the same district was 2,214,3321. This differ ence no doubt arose from the fact that tithes, manors, profits on railwayS, on gasworks, and on other descriptions of property, were assessed in schedule A as well as rental. Under these circumstances there was a decided objection to take the property-tax return as a criterion. All that was wanted was an equality of rating, and, although the poor-rate was not i n a ll respects unobjectionable, still, taking it as a wh o l e, he could n o t conce i ve an y b e tt er sys tem than the adopti on o f th e poor, or, what was an equi valent in the city, the paving, sewer, and lighting rate. They had not to rate the inhabitants upon their property, but assess the aggregate amount each district should pay. He therefore hoped they would adopt the recommendation of the committee. Mr. HAWKES was of opinion that nothing would be more deceiving than the adoption of the poor-rate as a rule for their 'guidance ' every parish making a different degree of deduction in their ratings, some taking off 6 per cent., others 7, and up to 10 per cent. The property-tax returns were also very deceptive, and the Board must either devise some better mode of assessment or go to Par liament for further powers. Mr. WRIGHT was of opinion that the diffieulty expe rienced in this matter entirely arose out of the misinter pretation of the words of the act. By the act the rate was to be based upon the county rate, where there was one, and where there was no county rate then the amount of the rate was to be assessed according to a like estimate," not "according to a like rate." There was all the differ ence. The finance committee or the accountant had taken the consolidated rate of the city as " a like estimate," and it was for the Board to determine whether it was a like estimate or not. The committee said it was a like esti mate. Mr. Turner impugned that statement, and said it was not, and that the consolidated rate did. not bear the same proportion to the property tax as the county rate in the other districts did. It was altogether a question of pro portion. He asked the Board, as business men, to decide whether it was to be a like rate or a like estimate. A like rate was a rate for a similar purpose; a like estimate was au estimate of a similar kind. Major LYON said it would not be fair for the committee to adopt their recommendation, inasmuch as it was made before the information which had been since obtained was known to them. Mr. KNIGHT was of opinion that the consolidated city rate was in every respect on a parity with the county rate. If the Board accepted the county rata with all its infirmities why not accept the sewers' rate with all its infirmities ? Mr. D'IFFANGER felt assured that there was no member of that Board who had any desire to act unjustly towards the city, but the hon. deputy had told them that even the city people were not 'satisfied with their present rate—(no, no !)—aud were about to mdre a new one. At all events, he (Mr. Vitianger) knew that his constituents would not be sa tisfied with the present assessment. Considering the great error made in the return of the number of houses assessed in the city, he thought the better course would bo to post pone the whole question till the Board had the new rate of the city before them. Mr. CItELLIN did not find that persons were always rated in proportion to the benefit they derived from the object from which the rate was raised. He could not see why the occupier of a large house which was most valuable because it was situated in Cornhill should pay a much greater sum for the sewers rate than the owner of a similar house would pay if situated in another part of the metropolis. He thought the sewers-rate was as near the right system for rating the city fur the purposes of that Board as could be obtained. _ . _ Mr. WILKINsoN remarked that the Board were bound to adopt the county rate, save in the case of the City of Lon don, and, therefore, it was useless to discuss its propriety. They were bound to adopt the county rate as a basis, with all its infirmities. Whether the sewers rate v luatiou or the property tax bore the nearest approach to the county rate assessment might involve a nice legal question, but in his opinion, if they adopted the consolidated City sewers rate as a basis for taxation, their whole assesaineut would illegal.be They should take the Prop er t y tax as the nearestapproach to justice. Mr. TURNER replied, when a division took place— Forthe motion ............... . .................... 17 Againstit ........................................ 12 Majority.. ................................... 5 After a discussion, it was agreed to refer the whole finan cial statement to the committee for further consideration, many of its members, however, expressin g their opinion that a committee of the whole board would be preferable. Mr. DREW then gave notice of the following motion : " Thatit be an instruction t') such committee to take into consideration and report on the expediency of borrowing or otherwise providing the amount of outstanding liabilitiesof the late Commission of Sewers, with a view of making the repayment thereof by annual payments of 2 per cent. and interest, instead of calling upon parishes for au imme di,te payment of the whole amount." SITE OF OFFICES. Mr. SEELEY brought up the report of the Committee on Site of Offices, stating the result of their communication with the City Lands Committee, and recommending— " That a proposal be made by the Board to the corporation of the city of London for taking a portion of the site of the former Fleet Prison, in Farringdon-street, having a front age of 100 feet, on a building lease for a term of $0 years, at a rent of 4 guineas per toot." The CH4iRmAN hav i ng s t a t e d th at a plan, though not mentioned in the report, accompanied it, a i eng th ene ddi n . cussion ensued on the question of the report and plan being received, but that having been ultimately agreed to, Mr. WILKINSON said the vestry of the parish of St. Pancras had passed a resolution to the effect that any outlay by the Board for official purposes would at the present time bo an unnecessary expenditure of the public money ; and in accordance with that resolution he begged to move— " That inasmuch as the proposal to take A portion of the site formerly of the Fleet Prison, in Farringdou-street, on 'ewe from the city of London, would involve an outlay of many thousands of pounds, and considering that the Board is engaged in carrying ou t large improvements which will impose a very heavy amount of taxation cm the idetropAis, it would be inexpedient at the present time to incur such an expenditure, therefore it is resolved that the report be not adopted." Mr. D'IFFANGER seconded the motion. The time was not come when so large a sum of money should be expended for such a p urpose . They ought to wait till they had lone some good for the public before they raised a building for their own especial use. Mr. TURNER moved as an amendment that the debate be adjourned. Mr. SEaLEy seconded the motion. A division was called for, when there appeared — For the amendment Against Majority Mr. COLLINSON then moved that the board do adjourn, which motion was put and negatived. The main question was then put, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 9 Majority The report of the committee *as consequently negatived, and the board adjourned a t a quar t er past 5 o ' c l oc k. Notice was immediately given of a motion to rescind this vote. THE GREAT GOLD DUST ROBBERY. - There aro some facts connected with this extraordinary case which have yet escaped public notice. From the pro. ceedings at the Mansion•house it would appear that the parties implicated in this daring act of plunder were not known until the revelations made by the convict Agar. That, however, as will be seen, is not correct. On the receipt of telegraphic news from Paris announcing the robbery, the City detectives were called upon to act in the matter, and they so far pushed their inquiries that within a few weeks after the occurrence they were enabled to inform the directors that the robbery had been committed on their line between Loudon and Dover, and who the par ties were—Agar and his three accomplices. The company, however, had some misgivings as to the truth of the of ficers' suspicions. They had great confidence in Burgess in consequence of the years he had been employed, besides there might be a doubt as to whether the robbery took place on their line, but on the Continental ones, and even whether there had been any plunder at all. With the exception of a few incidents detailed by Agar the police had acquired all the principal facts, and a report was presented to the directors which, if it had at once been acted upon, not only the whole of the prisoners would have been taken, but the receivers, and probably a large amount of the stolen trea sure recovered. Still, however, they declined to act upon the officers' representations. There was a possibility of their being wrong, and there was some suspicion pointed elsewhere; and so the affair rested until Fanny Kay com municated what she had heard of the robbery, and confirmed th• report which the officers had months before given. The, antecedents of Henry Agar, the approver, furnish ample evidence of the convict having pursued a most re markable career of crime fur some years. That he should have escaped the ends of justice so long can only be ac- counted for by the extraordinary cunning and tact which he displayed in all his acts of fraud and robbery. Agar states his age is about 40. He is of the middle stature, quick and determined in his manners, and possess- jug some intelligence. For years it was known that he was associated with a class of systematic bank forgers in what are denominated large offences. In the pursuit of his nefa rious practices various stratagems were resorted to, and perhaps his most successful scheme was that of advertising for young men as clerks, or writing to those who had ad vertised for situations, engaging them for some kind of ser vice, and " testing their honesty" by sending them, gene rally at the first interview, with forged cheques to th• bankers. A confederate was always placed on the watch ; he followed the clerk to the bank, and in the event of there being any delay, and au evident detection of the fraud, the principal accomplice had timely notice, so as to enable him to effect an escape. It was in this way that all traces of the real delinquent were so frequently lost. The ex tent of this description of frauds on banking firms of late years has reached to a considerable amount. One of Agar's confede rates was a man named Nash. He, like Agar, generally passed as a commercial man. He was convicted at the C .ntral Criminal Court about six years since, having bom detected at the Bank of England in obtaining gold for 80,11. in notes which had been paid ',4y Messrs. Barnett and Hoare in Lombard-street, on a forged cheque, and which was pra sented by a young man who had been entrapped in the manner previouslydescribed. The forgery was not discovere until the money had been paid over the counter and the party had left. The heads, of the firm, however, immedi ately apprised the Bank of England authorities of the numbers of the notes nearly at the same moment that they were presented by Nash, who was at once handed over to the custody of the detectives on duty at the Bank. Nash was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. From some cir cumstances or other, however, after a servitude of five _ . years, he obtained a ticket-of-leave, and he is now in the metropolis. Agar, it is stated, was coneerned with Nash in that forgery, and it is believed was the party who watched the dupe to the banking-house. Agar then , took up with Pierce, and with him pursued the same career, and it would appear with such success, as to induce Agar to take several trips to New York, in. order to dispose of 13euk of England notes, which were not negotiable in this country, the numbers having been posted at the bank. They son tinned this system of crime up to the period of the goat bullion robbery on the South-Eastern Railway. As stated by Agar in his evidence at the Mansion-house, the proposed daring act of plunder was first broached by Pierce, and it was some months ere they could mature their plans for car rying on their desperate project. Owing to the strict vigi lance kept by the police over the different bullion dealers in the metropolis for some months after the robbery, the Tesidue of the stolen gold, somewhere about 6,0001., was, as Agar stated, buried until a favourablnopportunity pre sented itself for the disposal of the precious spoil. Soon after this, probably about a month, Agar was apprehended on the charge of forgery. The circumst,ances under which he was detected are worth notice• One day in the month of August last year a man gave information to the For resters at the Mansion-house respecting a cheque (forgsd) for 7001. on Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co., the Lom• bard-street bankers, which had to be given to him to get cashed on a certain day, and of which he had his suspicion, as he was promised the handsome gift of 5001. if he suc ceeded. The man was taken to Messrs. Bush and Mullens, the solicitors to the Committee of Bankers, who arranged that he should act as he had been directed. The man pre sented the cheque at the bank named, and received in re turn a bag which he supposed to contain sovereigns, and proceeded to Bedford-row, where the party had appointed to meet him. After loitering about some time, a well dressed man accosted him. It was Agar, who, observing two men on the opposite side of the street, said, " Come on, we aro watched;" and, on reaching the corner of Princes street, he added, "Sling the stuff over to me, anal bolt." The man did as required, and Agar took to his heels. He was pursued by the two men, who were Goddard , the offi cer, and an assistant of the Forresters ; and a desperate chase took place before he was captured. he denied being the man, but the bag was found in his possession. Instead of containing sovereigns, however, they were 700 fierthings, which Mr. Mullens had arranged with the bankers to sub stitute for gold. At his trial a paper parcel was produced which contained nine copper-plates, 69 bank cheques of Messrs. Coutts and Co., 49 blank cheques of the East of England Bank at Norwich, and a number of others. These were stated by the prosecution to have been placed by Agar in a party's hands for security. The clerks of Messrs. Glyn and Co. and Messrs. Coutts and Co. proved that some of those blank cheques belonged to customers of theirs whose places had been burglariously entered. In two instances cheques for 7601. and 8001. had been paid. For realer produced Agar's trunk, which were found at his lodgings, 7, Stanley-place, Paddington - green. The con tents comprised some gold, documents and securities of value (portions of the proceeds of the sale of the stolen bullion); but as the prosecutors were not in a positiou to prove that it wrer the produce of any particular forgery, the judge ordered it to be delivered up to Agar. His de- fence was, that he had been ensnared by a third party- The jury found him guilty of the forgery, and he wao transported for life. Pierce was said to be implicated with Agar in the forgery, and was ineluded in the indictment on which Agar was convicted. The part he is supposed to have taken in the affair was in watching the man to the bank in Lombard-street; and seeing him come out with the bag, as he supposed, containing the gold, hastened off to apprise Agar of their apparent success. Although 501. was offered for his apprehension, he continued to evade the vigilanc e of the police until taken on the charge of stealing the gold. Agar was noted for being an expriencad locksmith. Hisexplanatiorr of the way he got au impression of the key of the bullion safe,. and the mode in which ho ma nufactured it, showed him to , be very quick and skilful in the art. To him is imputed the making of the duplicate key which opened the iron safe of h Tessrs. Rogers, the bankers in Clement's-lane, on the occasiO n of the robbery of 45,000 . some years since. These and ther circumstances, it is thought, were communicated to the learned judge whopre sided on the trial, and led to the a entence of transportation for life being passed upon him, 'l] ich, to those not ac quainted with the career of a e convict, was con sidered a severe punishment, titer e being no previous convictions against him . . No doubt some extraordinary revelations will come out in his ei 'oat -examination at the trial. That ho has told all respectii Ag the bullion robbery there can be but little question, and 16 remains to be seen whether he will make a clean breast it in respect to his general vicious course of life. It is eta God that when it was proposed to him that he should beet une approver he ex pressed some desire to screen Tester, t be clerk, and Bur gess, the guard, and only to give evidence against Pierct'. On being informed, however, that it w. is utterly impos sible that such a condition could be obta tiled, he re in quielted all scruples in the matter. The prisoner William Pierce is about 4( years of age,. 1 and has rather a broad Lancashire dialect. , Re is married,. and has several children. For many years h e was located. in Cooper's-road, Old Kent-road, where hi s wife kept a. kind of lodging-house, his nights being prin ci p all y spent: at the Windsor in that road, the Swan, , Old Kent rord, and the Peacock, Kenniogtou-lane. ior to being , employed in th e p r i n ti ng ticket department of the South,- Eastern Railway Company, from which he was .dischargaa' for secretly printing tickets resembling those of a largo railway company, he appears not to have had 9 p y regular occupation, and mixed with an indifferent cl r aes 0 , f people. During the time they were employed in -ng the exec for effecting the robbery of the ballion, Pierce ' to cise great caution 'to yrevent being re te lce journeys to and from Folkestone. In Ibis, it ':' ll ' se d in his is 5.4 ~,,at„,,l ho 0 was assisted by a man named Gower, thee a ticket-collector in the company's service, who supplied him with Ostend steam-boat and railway return tickets. Indeed Agar, in his evidence, it will b e , recollected, said that, on the night if the robbery, when they returned to London with the gold:, they came up with Ostend return tickets, which Pleere . said he had obtained from Gower. In October last :Gow er was detected in these fraud's, anti was tried at the sessions, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude After Agar's conviction for forgery Pierce's whereabouts for two or three months could not be ascertained. Sabsee quently, however, he was traced by the City detectives in ( ieposing of bars of gold to one or two individuals, and in vesting the amount in Turkish bonds. It was also discovered that he had here:nue the manager and part proprietor of A betting-office in Paxton-street, Haymarket, which, on ay; count of its "large bank," was doing considerable businesp, Pierce keeping a private account at the London and Coll mercial Bank. It does .not appear, however, that he en tered upon any ;treat extravagances. Immediately aftar his apprehension the metropolitan police searched the llodr •of the pantry where Agar said Pierce had buried the gold for security, but the treasure had vanished. 1 With respect to the other prisoner, Burgess, the guard, he appears to have had the most unlimited confidence r .. posed in him.' He is the son of a respectable marstill . the company's service. Within a few days a ft er th e ro - bery suspicion pointed to him, in consequence of his havin charge of the mail train from which the gold had bee abAra,cted. He underwent at the time a searching intei rogation by the company's officers. Ho denied all knovi ledge of the robbery, and his conduct ,throtlghout marked the greatest self possession. He, however, admitted that he had been in the habit of allowing "gents" to ride in his brake-van while he had charge of the train; but declared in the moit'positive terms that on the night of the robbery no-one rode down in it except himself. For months Bue gess was under the surveillance of the City detectives, but he was never seen in the company of either Pierce or Agar He was, however, frequently in that of Tester, at a sing song in a public-house in Dover, where he was in the habit of entertaining his brother gnarls and the general company with his favourite song of " Dick Tarpin and his Black Bess." Ho is married, but has no family. - Tne-othee pasty aoeused as-beime-coueexasil, in.... 1 1 1 2 19, 1- bery, Tester, whose apprehension Mr. Bodkin confidently spoke of at the Mansion-house, on Monday, as being likel tube effected, by this time, is a young man, and was fo - nierly a clerk in the superintendent's office at the Londe - bridge terminus. It appears that it was part of his duty arrange the duty of the guards in running with the train . The practice laid down by the company is, that the guar s should work the mail train monthly alternately. T guards' journey -book, which is in his handwriting, shoves that, instead of Burgess only running the mail one mont4, , he worked it successively for three months. Agar, it in be remembered, stated that for weeks he and Pierce we 6 in the habit of going down nightly in a cab to the Londe - bridge station, as they never could know beforehand wh the bullion was to be sent down, and that the guards we a not apprised of it until within a few moments of the d - parture of the train, when it was wheeled out of the stro g room of Mr. Weatherhead's office on to the platform. T s uncertainty of kno wing when the gold would be sent do will probably explain the reason why Burgess was alloweld to run with the mail for so 'long and unusual a period. Tester having access to the key of the iron safe, which was kept in the superintendent's office, he, like Bargees, under went a strict interrogation by the officials. By this tim s, it should be observed, the detectives who were employed by the company, Haydon, Brett, Scott, Jarvis, Knight, and others, had ascertained that he had been in comps,: y with suspicious characters at Folkestone, and had dined at the Pavilion with one of them. It will be borne in- mind that Agar admitted in his examination that they were watched by the police at F o lk es t on e, and in consequence Of the place becoming too hot for them, they (he and Pier 4) were compelled to remove. Tester was highly indignant that he should be suspected, and at' utly denied having dined with any stranger there; when, however, he wes cautioned, and assured , that there could be no 'mistake about the matter, he admitted dining with a party. It &at he did not remember the stranger's name ; then he re• collected, when pressed, that it was a friend named Cp ningham or Adams, but could give no account as to whop) he lived, or how long he (Tester) had been acquainted with him. Two months after the robbery Tester resigned his situation, having obtained an appointment at Stockholm, in the service of the Swedish Railw - ay Company, and whit* he retained up to the time of his reported arrest. 1 Fanny Kay, the female who cohabited with Agar, is la respectable-looking person, about 26 years of age. Her parents reside at Margate, and it is stated that Burgess recommended her to the situation at the Tonbridgerefresb snout room, and afterwards introduced her to Agar. It is very probable that a claim will be made on her behalf in respect to the reward of 3001. which the South-Eastern Company offered to any one who would give such informa tion as would lead to the apprehension of the thieves. She was the first person who communicated what she knew pr the robbery to Mr. Weatherhead, who forwarded her story to the solicitor of the company, and hence arose the arreist of Pierce and Burgess. Agar, it will be remembered, stated before the Lord Mayor that when he was making his way with Pierce with the stolen gold to the train at the Dover Railway station they met with some discomfiture at the hands of one of the porters, who politely, as it were, forcing the bags of gold out of their hands, took them to the first-class carriage thby had to occupy, and some rather sharp remark was made in consequence of their showing return Ostend tickets. The altercation, however, was soon put an end to by droppibg a few shillings into the porter's hand. The porter turnt out, to b 3 one of the company's servants named Winterd n. When Agar was apprehended for the forgery Winterdpn was taken to the Mansion-house lock-up, and among a batch of other prisoners pointed out Agar to the police ins one of the men whom he saw get into the mail train ,at Dover with very heavy bags on the night of the robbeity. At this time the company were urged to prosecute, as the police had full knowledge of the receivers, but for some reason they declined doing so. A short time afterwatis another opportunity presented itself, but the company still held aloof. It was a case where the police traced a quell tity of gold to an individual living at the east end of the metropolis, and on whom a large amount of gold was found. There were no fewer than seven examinations, which ter minated in the Lard Mayor discharging him for that, but committing him ' for another offence. He was arraigned,- but iu consequence, as stated, of the death of an import4nt witness, he was acquitted. From the great number of witnesses which are yet tAis examined, it is not at all improbable but what the case will go over until the February sessions. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, N.3v. 25. The market continues quiet, and there is but little change in the position of cotton cloths, except that honie• trade fabrics, which have until recently held a favourable position as compared with export goods, are in less de mand, and are suffering from the same causes which de press Vie general market. The principal of these caukka is as before, the dearness of money ; but the news. fri - nn the United States by the last mail, to the effort that cotton was easier in price, naturally tends further to in. dace buyers of manufactures to hold back in anticipation of a snore favourable opportunity, for operations. Prices are slightly in favour of the buyer, but manufacturers show no great anxiety . to sell, and the market is quite as firm as could be expected, In yarns there is also very little business doing. Prices are about id. per lb. below the rates of last Tuesday for most kinds except doubled, without tempting much business. There has been little or no inquiry f r India, and the business reported h been chiefly for the home trade. The Germans are wily executing small orders, and these mostly in anticipation of stoppage of navigation by frost, Mr. John Lowe, of the firm A* L'owe and Lawe, yarn , kgents, who steppe - J . payment some months ago, came up for his last examina tion in the Bankruptcy ('court yesterday, but a further ailjournment a fortnight took place. The main cause *if stoppage, Mr. Lowe said, was the giving of their names to Mr. Wright, the inner, at Stockport, for , 20,0001., in addition to previous guarantees to the same person for 22,000/., to assist him in cottJa purchases at Liverpool, which proved disastrous. LEEDS, Nov. 25. There has been an average attendance of buyers in the cloth-hallo this morning, and an improvement in the tone of business was noticeable. A. fair amount of cloth was sold, and prices are very firm. The weather having changed froo comparative warmth to severe frost, a more active demand for winter clothing will now ensue, and the retail dealers will get relieved of some of the stock which now keep them from purchasing other goods. The report of the kluddersfield cloth-market to-day is of a more favourable character, and the general aspect is one of confidence in the future prospects of trade. The chief inquiries this morning have been for black unions, steels, &c. Low-priced goods command toler ably ready sale. Wool is firm in price. CANTERBURY HALL. THE SPANISH MINSTRELS. The celebrated Spanish minstrels, seven in number, 1 under the direction of Signor Antonio, are at present ful filling an engagement at this attractive place of entertain. ment. The pieces selected last evening comprised several of their best, and each composition was executed with great taste and precision. The soprano, Senora Ma• rietta, possesses a sweet, clear, and flexible voice, com bined with an intonation perfectly true. In the execution of several of the pieces she was highly successful, and the deep pathos she infused into a favourite banal, when sung in English, made a profound impression on the audience. The voice of Signor Domingo is one of the most extraordinary organs we ever recollect hearing. For power, volume, and effect we rosy truly say it is unrivalled, and we cordially recom mend all lovers of music to embrace the o ppoetu- 1 nity the enterprising proprietor of this establishment bas afforded them of hearing these accomplished artistes. 1 In addition to the gratification of hearing the Spanish Minstrels, we Were both surprised and delighted by the d ability of the stock company of the establishment, and from the applause last night bestbwed up on the of of Miss Pearce, Mr. Grover, Mr. Corrie, Mr. ey Margin and Mr. S. Co well, we should imag ine they llsi n mense favourites, ,and deservedly.j s o, for they with we with the greatest good taste and udgmelit._.cipouts man close our remarks, we m ust notice the Judi ner in which Use programme is arranged. good old English ballad to that . of the may It embraces most scientific pieces to suit the tastes of all, from the lover of our , musician • in illustration of which we that Verdi a wasentio Credit upon ren dered in a manner ~, " mi s e t r h e a re t , rt, " very one concerned in its execution. Ill f e r c o t m e d Site Tglrveavatet: . . _ A S ' IUTE USTRALIA. A nr--4 • / Z At an anntral .14evtiaJg. of the South A .; Chamber of Commerca at: Adelaide, the to • • report on• the subject of postal communicition :er• • • adopted : ".RENEVIJAL OF POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND •BY STEAM. • - • " Few meetings ofthe committee have - passed through out the year without this all-important subject being to some extent alluded to. On two several occasions 'po i cial meetings have been held for its consideration. The first of these was oceasioned by the publication of eument signed by the secretary of the Peninsular slid Oriental Coimpany, and stating conditions on which - tlid company had offered to resumesthe Australian alga service, when certain resolutions were passed to the same effect ay those ad..pted by the public . meeting of • the chamber, specially called to eiAnsider the question in i April, 1855 ; but expressing a willingness to , give be ! proposed ~cheine of t h e P en i nsu l ar an d Oriental- Com pa.y a fair trial. The second was called on very short notice to consider the now well-known Treasury minute issued in November, 1855, on thesubject of the Austrian mails, a copy of •which his Excellency has forwarged to the chamber, requesting an expression of opinion ae to whether the branch service proposed between Adelaide and• Melbourne was the best which could be 'adopted, more especially with referenCe to any scheme *doh might be proposed for connecting Adelaide with the main line viq King George's Sotino After a lengthened I di scog qon of the minute in all its bearings, the follow ing resolutions were adopted and , tr t an d s: p i i t a l y ,e ed d t i o n - t t h be e colonial secretary : • - "That this Chamber , in acknowledging the great :Tabiielaitmyuryanmdinuktneo,wdaletdegdeNoofvt.he277blje 855; signed James Wilson, is of opinion that any contribution from-South Australia should be conditional upon a satisfactory, ar. rangemept being made by the contracting company as to the branch from King George's Sound, or Melbourne, to Adelaide. " in the furtherance of the scheme proposed in . the foregoing minute, the only branch service which would be satisfactory to this Chamber would be a steamer on the line between King George's Sound and Adelaide. . • " That the chamber still retains its Opinion in favour of the plan proposed by the government of South Austra lia, and emanating from this chamber in April, 1855, and adverted to in the .Treagury Minute,' "This expression of opinion did not apparently meet with the approval of the local government, as the bill ~uhish yeas trougixt. forward on the succe=din,g day con tained no reference whatever to a branch service to King George's Sound. Copies of the resolutions, how ever, had been sent from the chamber to. the .membera :4 the legislature, and the act as passed restricts the con tributions of this colony to a line of mail steamers touching at a South Australian port, or to a scheme embracing a branch service via King George's Sound. "The aspect which this ql:estion has now assumed in England, constantly and ably discussed as it is by the magnates of the press, kept alive by means of influen tial public meetings, enforced on the Government by numerous deputations of gentlemen representing the colonists, and the subject of frequent allusion in both Houses of Parliament, leads us to infer that no long period can elapse before some arrangement is concluded for the re-establishment of :nail steamers between Eng land and Australia, especially as a vast fleet of ocean steamers are now, through the restoration of peace, released from the transport service. Whether the claims of this colony are to be conceded seems to be more than doubtful. If it is arranged for us that we must receive our mails via Melbourne, it is to be hoped that the con tracting company will be strictly bound to see to the due performance of the branch service within a limited -time, otherwise we know, from the experience of the last few months, that our letters may be subject occasionally to eight or ten days' detention in Melbourne, which would deprive us of the possibility of replying by the return steamers." MINING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ( From the South Australian Register of August 23.) The operations at the Burra Burra Mine are continued with great vigour. The average raisings amount to about 1,000 tons of ore per month, of a very superior description. There is a large accu mulation of ore at the mines, about 12,000 tons awaiting the coming season, when it will be smelted and carted to the port for shipment. The working of the Kapunda Mine continues to be carried on with vigour. About 280 tons of ore were raised during the last month. There are about 190 men and 20 boys employed upon the works, besides about 40 others engaged in carting, die. Several new furnaces are in course of erection at the smelting works, Ahere it is intended to reduce all the ore to fine copper, instead of export ing part of the produce in the form of regulus. Tile greatest depth reached is 50 fathoms, but it is intended immediately to carry down the princi pal shafts 20 fathoms below this. Fire-bricks are now being made on the ground. We were favoured recently with an opportunity of inspecting a number of specimens of copper ore, sent down by Mr. Matthew Forster, manager of the Australian Mining Company, from their new mine, near Mount Remarkable. The specimes were of various character, comprising several blue carbonates and one promising-looking mass of ma. lachite. The mine having been recently opened, the specimens were necessarily obtained from near the surface, some of them, indeed, immediately below the alluvial soil. The greatest depth reached appears to be about 4i fathoms. No analysil has as yet been made of the ores from this mine, and we are, consequently, not in a position to speak positively of their value. From the indications afforded by weight and colour, however, we ima gine they must be classed among rich ores: - .The specimens we saw are to be forwarded iseilapies Baines to the directors of the company in England. It has been determined to erect smelting works at the Kanmantoo Copper Mines immediately. There is abundance of firewood at no great distance from the mine and a considerable quantity of ore at grass. About 20 men are at present employed on the works. THE SEARCH FOR GOLD. In consequence of the long-settled opinion of many competent observers that the northern ranges of this province were of a character likely to con tain large deposits of gold, and further, in conse quence of small portions of the precious metal having been found by persons in the vicinity of Tanunda and Angaston, it was resolved to memo rialise the governor on the subject of instituting an effective exploration. The memorial to his ex cellency was signed by nearly the whole of the commercial houses in Adelaide, and the result was that his excellency set aside a sum of money for the prosecution of a direct search. The govern ment geologist, Mr. B. H. Babbage, has already made the tour of 'the Tanunda district, which he found to contain a larg e q uantit y of t hose rocks that are usually ass ociated with g old, the district i .v n io m to a r n i y a. Mr. Babbage has mad e a somewhat minute respects resembling the gold diggings o f ex ploration of the country over which he has passed. Tracing the course of the Tanunda Creek, he ex amined the ranges forming the basin of its upper p ortion , and explored the Kaiser Stuhl and sur rounding dykes from Jacob's Creek ou the south west. The Kaiser S - uhl is 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. South of Penrice the " iron topped hill' was explored, after which Mr.i-Bab bage directed his course to the Gelman Pass Tri gonometrical Station. Particular attention was paid to the character of the cliffs at the head of the Gawler River, and the basin of the North Rhine was also minutely examined. The neighbourhood of Evandale and Flaxman's Valley was also tra versed. Mr. Babba ge nex t v i s it ed Pewsey Vale. and after explori ng th e B arossa Range, visited Mount Crawford, thence across the South Rhine pe twi i c ieosnftthht aid Mount Torrens to Adelaide. The hewer part of the bed of the Tanunda Creek consists of strata of crystalline mica s chist, the upper part of the creek flowing through strewn with large quartz pebbles. Only one hole of the dozen that have been sunk has lx en really th table-land bottomed. These diggings are 170 0 sea level, and are still spoken off by some ptiOn o f a few likely to yield gold; but with the ct. distant. firies specks no gold has been found. saw basalt and e jn ee ascending (P t above a sT very likelythe e 'Kaiser Stulh Mr. Babbage first be existence of a vol- Os reaching the trap, from which he inferred th e tation his canto German co u p n a t a r a y ir r n i g o t o n f o a m r for he found himself tions were pleasingly verified, country. Lava and other volcanic ejections tone "abcunded. A considerable mixed with igneous sco country, and even the in the very heart of a quantity of over the crater was determined. The presumed site of this district Mr. Babbage de scribesrim, was o s f tr characteristics e e l:e f b o a r s m is e o r f v t o h l e ca N n o ic rt e h ru n p h ti . on, districts not d although he would search for of Victoria; a nd i gold in the c entr e he considers tha t as closely resembling the auriferous d' • Rhine, a t the head o f the Gawler River, or amongst the granitic s q ua ts of Tanunda Creek, gold mi g ht b e soug ht for with every reasonable probability of success. . TEE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WESTERN VALLEYS y. fireman, 4 n . d — o T a o n - ia Canal ytcht Company, me employ i p n a q u u y 0 , a h o oo n t t t r .l:l l A e e i m r o d A n y Y ro . o — o f ti J N t o t3 h E : P n b i ii lll7T c ß h a a i ri was killed on the 19th inst.Oni the Western Valleys branch line, was brought to a termination, the jury hav ing sat at Aberbeeg to hear tre evidence. The question arose whether the points 'were defective, or • whether broken springs had caused the engine to jilinP of. the line, as was the case on the Newport sod Hereford line. William Thompson, rail inspector, said the points were all right about an hour before the accident, and the road was in good condition. Mr. Laybourne stated tha Col. Yelland, one of the Government inspectors, had examined the line, and stated th e en g ine did neoetleaevne. the rails from its faulty con struction nor the breaking of its springs. Some other . witnesses havinghaving bn L ambled the fury returned a verdict of accidental death.