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The following figures exhibit the progress of the whole Fire Branch, running, over the last Ten years : _ _ Total Premium Increase of the year received. above each preceding one. 1850 £44,027 10 0 £9,557 19 8 1852 76,925 4 2 24,251 18 3 1854,....... 128,459 11 4 15,895 7 0 1856 151,733 9 6 21,673 17 7 1858 196,148 .2 6 21,092 17 10 1859 228,914 7 3 32,166 4 9 Placing the Company among the very largest offices in the Kingdom. Indeed, it is believed that there are now only three offices in existence which equal it in Fire revenue. LIFE BUSINESS. The Directors desire to call the especial attention of the Proprietors of THE LIFE BRANCH of the Establishment. The ACTUARY'S Report on this subject is accompanied by an Appendix, illustrated by two coloured Diagrams, which make plain to the unprofessional eye the mortality ex perienced by the "Royal," as indicated by curved lines, which contrast most favourably with the former Averages of mortality, also displayed 011 the Diagrams. 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Tele scopes,ann known n in a ts onlge,sbLwdhalcnh object a b p ec err t t in 2 air o b - 4 cl m e seenarly iles' clis tance ; and wit an extra astronomical eye-piece Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly seen ; they are in endless variety, of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal letters patent.—Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the 'fork Hotel, W. . l NEWSPAPER (f, -1- , . --- --", k..? 4 , „, —„*. s. c4ol:r 4 r• A . , 4,:jk ...1.4 ," , 2 C er - ...._, ---7------------ - ----------- G „..,rikt,r, 7 - . .vi :-.. 'r ,4, NI a s 4 tru il . (la' • Att . -_-_- , i t . 1 / 4 ..... ,DINNER TO COLONEL SIR ARTHUR .., ••,. e''''Q4A,A - V r aiti*, : ~ !„ ~,, , 4 _- ‘,..,-,,, , v iiii. COTTON. '1"11111 I I i 1 A ) r • , 1 ' l4 , ~' _,-... • . . 11 ,,k el ftA,, 'V * 'l 2 , 011 : t ,,iek \ 0 ii;, , ... • - c9O '. . ' ' ••,_,--,-71,( ce,.,,,' $,., fi, ' - ,4%. ..er, clc.- ..;) nn+ .. ~,,,....,,, DIP, , , , ~, .• ~ 114g, k ,p\ t \ 4\ \ v. , \-.:e,„..... di - 1 , 11 ,. 0rr . ae % - --_,.:-.--- ' .'‘',:,.- • -/ '';: ' - , .. ~ .... ..._ - Yesterday evening a number of gentlemen con nected officially or commercially with our Indian Empire entertained Colonel Sir Arthur Cotton at abanquet, as a public recognition of the great ser vices which have been re nd er ed by th a t officer by his extension of the means of irrigation and canal navigation towards the financial and social pros gress of that vast dependency. The dinner was given at Willi s ' s - rooms , near l y 200 &renthmen being present. The Earl of Sh.aftebburyloresided, and among others there were also at the table Lord Lyveden, Lord Harris, Sir James Elphinstone, Mr. Justice Haliburton, M.P., Major-General Hay, &c. The customary toasts of " The Royal Family," "The Army and Navy," "The H ouses o f L or d s an d Commons,"—to the last two of which Lord Harris and Mr. Haliburton briefly replied,—having been drunk, the noble Chairman gave the toast of the evening—" The health of Sir Arthur Cotton." His lordship said they were not there to w i s h G o d speed to any servant in public affairs going for the first time to the scene of his operations, nor were they there to close with public honour the career of a veteran worn out in the public service; they were assembled to celebrate 40 years of unparalleled ser vice to our Indian Empire, and to meet and see the man who had earned a noble retirement, but who was ready to go forth again to resume those labo urs which had so great and so good an object in view. Colonel Cotton possessed in perfection those rare combinations of talents which were seen nowhere in such completeness as in our Indian service—the combination of the soldier and the civilian, of men who came home from the field to their desks, and quitted their desks to enter the field again. Colonel Cotton had been the first to see the waste of nature's benefits in the want of a proper system of irrigation and canal navigation, and how the streams flowing idly to the sea might be diverted to great and good purposes. (Hear, hear.) He saw what many others could not see, that if nature was only slightly aided by the simplest means, ,a short tim e wou ld be sufficient to produce results of' the most important and lasting benefit. They were not . met there to di scuss thd comparat i ve advantages of canals and railways, but to thank Colonel Cotton for accomplished results—results which had increased the price of the land, inc rease d the cultivation of the soil and the comforts of those who lived by it, and which were bringing hundreds of thousands of acres of land under the plough which had hitherto lain a mere wilderness, He trusted that for years to come Sir Arthur Cotton would be spared to receive the thanks of his country, and, deeply and from his heart, he called upon them to do justice to the toast. In reply to his health, which was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm, Sir Arthur Cotton said that, except during the campaigns in Burmah, he had been employed during 40 years in the Irrigating Department in India. In 1828 he was sent to Tanjore, a district in which irrigation was most sadly needed. At that time the revenue of Tanjore was only £300,000. At the present time, since a proper means of supplying the crops with water had been adopted, and a canal navigation opened up, the revenue was £600,000. The average revenue of all the 130 districts of India was .£250,000. Tanjore was the smallest district, and its revenue was £600,000, which was six. times the revenue of Kartah, though the latter in a productive point of view pos sessed infinitely greater advantages. The only reason for this increase in Tanjore was that the water had been turned to good account, and there was no part of India in which the value of land was now to be compared to Tanjore, and all the population there were incomparably better off than elsewhere. It might be said that this system was not capable of application to all parts of the coun try, but he thought there was none where the con dition of the people was not capable of immense improvement by attention being bestowed on the means of irrigation and navigation. In 1844 he went to Rajahmundry to see what could be done for the improvement of the Delta there, and by a weir which had been erected in the river, and which commanded, as it were, 1,100,000 acres, all but 400,000 were already irrigated. What had been. the result ? The revenue, which previously had. been £196,000, was now upwards of £300,000, and the imports and exports of the district, which had previously been almost nominal, had risen the ex ports to £390,000, and the imports to £70,000. In the first year after opening the canal in this district 700 boats passed; now it was used annually by 13,000 boats of nearly double the tonnage of the previous ones. It had been said that the Ganges Canal did not equal the expectations entertained of its profitable results, but that was entirely due to the fact that its branches for purposes of irrigating the surrounding country had never been completed. Otherwise it ought and would yield 15 or 20 per cent. to the Government. Unfortunately, this want of completeness was the case with nearly all the hydraulic works of the Govern ment in the country, the Godavery, the Kinlar works, and many others which were stopped from want of funds. On the Upper Godavery he believed • that, the best cotton fields out of America were to be found ; but to make the produce of cotton pro ductive in India the Government would have to bestow care upon the means of emigration and canal communication. The work, however, should be taken up by the Government at once, and on a system, and carried out thoroughly wherever it was needed. (Hear.) Other toasts, such as "Peace and Prosperity to India," followed the toast of the even ing, the last being, as usual, " The Health of the noble Chairman." The dinner was served a la Busse, and was one which did infinite credit to the cuisine and arrangements of Messrs. Willis. pRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. To have our names enrolled in the Capitol, to be repeated by future generations with greatful ap plause, this is an honour higher than the mountains —more enduring than monumental alabaster. Yes, Virginia's voice, as in the olden time, has been heard. Her sister States meet her this day at the council board. Vermont is here, bringing with her the memories of the past, reviving in the memories of all her Ethan Allen and his demand for the surrender of Ticonderoga in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Ameri can Congress. New Hampshire is here—her fame illustrated by memorable annals, and still more lately as the birthplace of him who won for himself the name of Defender of the Constitu tion, and who wrote that letter to John Taylor which has been enshrined in the hearts of his countrymen. Massachusetts is not here (some member said She is coming')—l hope so (said Mr. Tyler) and that she w ill b r i ng w i t h h er h er d aug h ter Maine. I did not believe it could well be that the voice which, in other times, was so familiar to her ears has been addressed to her in vain. Con necticut is here, and she comes, I doubt not, in the spirit of Roger Sherman, whose name with our very children has become a household word, and who was in life the embodiment of that practical sense which befits the great lawgivers and con structors of Governments. Rhode Island, the land of Roger Williams, is here, one of the two last States in her jealousy of the public liberty to give in her adhesion to the Constitution, and among the earliest to hasten to its rescue. The great empire State of New York—represented thus far but by one—delegates to-day a fuller force to join in the great work of healing the discontents of the times, and restoring the rein of fraternal feeling. Nov Jersey is also here, with the memories of the past covering her all over. Trenton and Princeton live immortal in story—the plains of the last encrim soned with the heart's blood of Virginia's sons. Among her delegation I rejoice to recognize a gal lant son of a signer of the immortal Declaration,' which announced to the world that 13 provinces had become 13 independent and sovereign States. And here, too, is Delaware, the land of the Bayards and the Rodneys, whose soil at Brandywine was moistened by the blood of Virginia's youthful Mon roe. Here is Maryland, whose massive columns wheeled into line with those of Virginia in the contest for glory, and whose State House at Anna polis was the theatre of a spectacle of a successful commander, who, after liberating his country, gladly ungirthed his sword and laid it down upon the altar of that country. Then comes Pennsylvania ; rich in revolutionary lore, bringing with her the death less names of Franklin and Morris ; and I trust ready to renew from the belfry of Independence Hall the chimes of the old bell which announced freedom and independence in former days. All hail to North Carolina! with her Mecklenburg de claration in her hand, standing erect on the ground of her own probity and firmness in the cause of public liberty, and represented in her attributes by her Macon, and in this assembly by her distin guished son, at no great distance from me. Four daughters of Virginia also cluster around the council board, on the invitation of their ancient mother, the eldest Kentucky, whose sons, under that intrepid warrior, Anthony Wayne, gave free dom of settlement to the territory of her sister Ohio, and extending his hand daily and hourly across La Belle Riviere to grasp the hand of some one of kindred blefod of the noble States of Indiana and Illinois and Ohio, who have grown up into powerful States already grand, potent, and almost Imperial. Tennessee is not here, bat is coming— prevented from being here only by the floods which have swollen her rivers. When she arrives she will wear the badges on her warrior crest of victories won, in company with the great West, on many an ensanguined plain, and standards torn from the hands of the conquerors at Waterloo. Missouri, and lowa, and Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minne sota, still linger behind, but it may be hoped that their hearts are with us in the work we have to do. The eyes of the whole country are turned to this hall and to this assembly in expectation and hope. I trust, gentlemen, that you may prove yourselves worthy of the great occasion. Our ancestors pro bably committed a blunder in not having fixed upon every fifth decade for a call of a general Convention to amend and reform the Constitution. On the con trary, they have made the difficulty next to insur mountable to accomplish amendments to an instru ment which was perfect for 5,000,000 of people, but not wholly so as to 30,000,000. Your patriotism will surmount the difficulties, however great, if you will but accomplish one triumph in advance, and that is triumph overy party. What is party when compared to the task of rescuing one's country from danger ? Do that, and one long, loud shout of joy and gladness will resound throughout the land.' The proposed increase in the tariff was beginning to excite considerable attention, as will be seen by the following extract from the New York Shipping List :-- " New York merchants pay about five-eighths of the entire Federal revenue, and when the General Government is in need of a loan or other relief from a financial difficulty it is the New York bankers and capitalists that usually come to the rescue. When a proposition is started in Congress to un settle the present tariff system and to substitute for the present schedules rates of duties which will operate at once upon the commercial and financial interests of the port, the New York merchants, bankers, and capitalists, in equity, have a right to be heard. In the exercise of this right the Cham ber of Commerce on Thursday adopted a memorial indicating the most objectionable features of the proposed bill, showing how prejudicial must be their effect upon the commerce of the country, and earnestly remonstrating against their adoption. The memorialists set forth that the 29th section virtually abolishes the warehousing system. As it passed the House of Representatives it cuts down the time within which foreign goods entered for warehousing may be withdrawn for domestic con consumption, from three years to 30 days, leaving the right to export unrestricted as to time. As modified by the Committee of the Senate, the duty on all goods warehoused must be paid within 90 days from the time of deposit, and unless they are exported within six months thereafter the duties will not be refunded. If either of these propositions shall be adopted, the memorialists say the object for which the warehousing system was adopted must be defeated, and its usefulness destroyed. The first excludes warehoused goods from the market after 30 days ; the second, in effect, expels them from warehouse after 90 days, because it requires the payment of duties within that time, and it ab solutely excludes them from the foreign market after nine months by depriving them of the right of drawback. Double duties is another objection urged against the bill. Another will be the vexa tious delay to which the importer will be sub jected in passing his goods, owing to the in creased number of weighers, measurers, ap praisers, and clerks that will be required under the new system. The duties, as prescribed by the bill, as it passed the House, the memoria lists say further, are so high as to amount almost to prohibition. On blankets, pilot cloths, cassimeres, broadcloths, cotton fabrics, and many other articles the rates of duty, as compounded of the specific and ad valorem charges, range from 20 per cent, to rising 100 per cent. The modifications proposed by the Senate bring these extremes nearer together, by a moderate reduction of the higher rates; but en many articles they remain so high that they amount to a virtual prohibition. If it becomes a law it can scarcely fail to exercise a depressive influence on our foreign commerce, and thus impair the source of public revenue. The memorial further remonstrates against the pass.age of the bill, on the ground that to pass it at a time t fail to widen when a portion of the Southern Sta tes represented in Congress could scarcely are n the existing breach, and present a new andstead serious obstacle to reconciliation ; as a l so that, in increasing, it will decrease the. revenuefo augmentingr at a time when there is a pressing necessity the financial strength of the Government. The committee appointed to convey the memorial to Washington are Messrs. i Opdye, Duer, Mali, J. J. Ph e lps, and C. H. arsh al l. It may not be out of place to say here that, so far as we are able to observe, the feelin g against the new bill, on the part of the mercantile interest here, is wholly unin fluenced by partisan feeling or political bias. A striking confirmation of this fact is that the author of the remonstrance from the Chamber is attached to the dominant party in Congress, who propose to make these alterations in the tariff. Another is the strong opposition to it from at least one of the m os t influential organs of the same party in this city. This view of the case, if nothing else, ought to have some weight at -Washington. MR. LAI ARD, M.P., 47 TILE METRO- POLITAN TABERNACLE. Last evening Mr. Layard, M.P., delivered a lec ture in aid of the funds of the Metropolitan Taber nacle, in that edifice. The immense building was pretty well filled. The Rev. C. H. SPURGEON, who occupied the chair, introduced the hon. member, alluding to the jests which that humorous individual, Mr. Punch, had perpetrated upon him, and expressing a desire that he would fulfil them. Mr. Layard, how -1 ever, was now not only the member for Nineveh ; but the member for Southwark—(cheers) —and he earnestly hoped that for many years he might i continue so. (Cheers.) May he be strong in health, still earnest in working for his country's good, and. I in every respect have the blessing of God resting 1 upon him. Mr. Layard had served the Church 1 right well in a recent struggle, when a certain 1 school declared that many scriptural personages were myths, and that they were to look at the 1 cha racters described as • " logical inve n ti ons ." M r . Layard's great bulls and winged lions had crushed whole herds of these pretenders. (Laughter,) Na one could now doubt that there was such a place as 1 Nineveh, and that it was really so singularly punished. He had vindicated most entirely the credibility and consistency of Holy Writ by the discoveries which he had made. At Nineveh Mr. Layard found nothing contrary to the Written Ward, and gave them abundant, cogent, and solid reasons for its maintenance, so that they might contentedly base their belief that the Word of God. was trte, and historically, and consequently infe rentially, true throughout, because the history was so interwoven witk the doctrine that if the one was true the other could not be false. With these ob servations he begged to introduce the lecturer. (Loud cheers.) Mr. LAYARD, who was received with loud ap plause in opening bis lecture, said that it was a. pleasant duty to do something in the cause of truth., He believed that they were met that evening for a good purpose, which was to enable his rev. fri•end for the construction of v tb h e ich gr h e a a d t 111 r. Spurgeon to make up, as far as he was able, the debt owiLg sat. It s w o a f s t o h n ci e. which b(i e the ar l ree T ye h e money had, been collected us th f e re p e o p or eo a p n le a building sof beenra isei England.dn £30,000, he believed, substriptions, given bynot so much from the wealthy, (Cheers.) s h e e d e r s b . y ) s m a ll Nearly nearly 2,000,000 of persons. The lecture he was going to deliver to them they were not as new, since the facts of it w ere all to receive his book. Many, however, might embodied in and to these he hoped it would not have seen it, The hon. gentleman then prove i ns t ruc ti ve . lecture on his Assyrian r proceeded to d e li v er his esearche nearly two hours. s, which lasted for A vote of thanks to th proceeclings. e Chairman terminated the DEATII PROM S geant Pa TARVATlON.—Yesterday Mr. Ser- Yne held an inquest at the Fountain, Fore-street, Cripplegate, on the body of John Westmoreland, aged 78, who had died of starvation. It appeared that the deceased had formerly been a master tailor in a large way of busi ness, having had shops at Charing-cross, Chelsea, and the New North-road, but had lately lost the whole of his pro perty. lie occupied one rocm at No. 73, Milton-street, Cripplegatc, and not making his appearance on Monday the door was forced open, when the old man was found on the floor, quite dead. There was no bed in the room, and only a bundle of rags for him to lie down upon. There was not a particle of food, clothing, or furniture in the place, and al/ the money that was found was one-half-penny. Pr. Ttme thy had made a post •mortem examination of the body, and he found that the deceased died of ossification of the heart,. accelerated by the want of nourishment and the common necessaries of life. It was stated that if the deceased had made his circumstances known the parochial authorities of: St. Giles, Cripplegate, would at once have relieved him. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died of ossification of the heart, accelerated by the want pi thQ I, common necessaries 9f WO?", G OVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners chartered on Monday last the John Masterman, of 608 tons, belonging to Messrs. John Lidgett and Sons, of London, to sail from the Thames on the 23d March for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l7 19s. 1 6d. per statute adult, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FE BRUARY 21, 1861 HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. Her Majesty the Queen held a levee, the second ,his season, yesterday afternoon at St. James's Palace. The Queen and Prince Consort, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived from Buckingham Palace about two o'clock. The Queen wore a train of black satin, trimmed with black gimp and rosettes. The petticoat of black satin trimmed in front with black lace and gimp. Her Majesty wore a diadem of emeralds and diamonds as a headdress. The foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were in troduced, when the following presentations to the Queen took place in the diplomatic circle : By the Persian Ambassador,—Mirza Hassan Khan, First Secretary of th e Persian Embassy ; Aly Khan, Second Secretary of the Persian Em bassy. By the Brazilian Minister, —Mr. de Collaco Sarmento, Attache to the Legation. One hundred and four noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of being presented to the Queen. The following presentations to the Queen took place, the names having been p reviously left at the Lord Chamberlain's-office anid submitted for her Majesty's approval:— Hon. Major Anson, on promqion..and return from China, by/his Royal Highness the Duke o f Cambridge. Lieutenant R. Arbuthnot, on pr c motion, by Colonel C. B. Challoner. Lieutenant Armstrong, by Lieut.—t General Hon. Sir Ed ward Cust. Sir George Armytage, by Lord W' ynford. Captain Armytage, R.N., by the :Duke of Somerset. Lieut.-Colonel Atkinson, on retu t m from India, by the Adjutant-General. Lieut. C. H. Barnes, by the Seen tary of State for India, Ensign A. S. Beaumont, on al ?Tointment 23d Royal Fusileer Regiment, by Lieutenant- General Spink. Major-General W. Beckwith, on appointment to be Colonel of the 14th Light Dragooi t s, by his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge. _ _ _ Lieut. R. H. Beddome, by the Secretary of State for India. Captain T. S. Bigge, by Colonel :1 E ,ysons. Lieutenant Bircham, on appointment to 3d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia, by Colonel C. B. Challonsr. Lieut.-Col. H. Bird, by the Duke of Newcastle, Lieut.-Col. E. S. Blake, C. 8., o his returnlfrom India and receiving the decoration of Corn clpanion of the Bath, by the Secretary of State for India. Sir George Bowyer, M.P., on suc x seeding to the title, by Viscount Castleßosse. Mr. T. Unett Brocklehurst, by L o rd Stanley of Alderley. Capt. A. Broome, by the Secretai yof State for India. Lieutenant A. B. Brown, R.A., on foreign service, by Colonel Bingham, R.A. Captain M. C. Browning, on hist return from India, by Lieutenant-General Arbuthnot. Lord C. Bruce, on his marriage, lb y Earl Spencer. The Hon. G, Cadogan, by his fat her, Viscount Chelsea. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. S. Caltherpe, on his ap pointment to the command of the 51 Itr Dragoon Guards, by the Adjutant-General. Lieutenant T. C. R. Carpendal t 3, by the Right Hon. Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P. Captain Lord Eustace Cecil, oR3 his marriage, by the Marquis of Salisbury. _ _ The Earl of Chichester, on his appointment as Lord- Lieutenant of Sussex, by Viscount; Sydney. Captain W. Couchman, by the . Secretary of State for India. Lieutenant-Colonel Cox, by M 4 z jor- General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett. Captain R. Curtois, by Colonel ". Francis Seymour. Sub-Lieutenant G. A. Curzon, o r t appointment 2d Life Guards, by Lieutenant• Colonel H a ward Vyee. Ensign H. J. Daubuz, by Colon 1 Crutchley. Earl de Grey and Ripon, on t ppointment as Under Secretary of State for India, by the , Secretary of State for India. Major the Hon. J. C. Dormer, co promotion and return from India and China, by General TA4 3rd Clyde. Ensign J. T. Down, on appointmi ant to 57th Regiment, by Major General Hon. Sir J. Y. Se arlett. Major Edwards, on promotion, by Lord de Tabley. Captain Earle, on his return from. Gibraltar and appoint ment as Adjutant to the Ist Battal ion Grenadier Guards, by Colonel the Hon. J. Lindsay. Colon]. George Erskine, by Lora Herbert of Lea. Copt& Every, by the Adjutant General. Cornet George Fairbairn, by Li eutenant-Colonel Lord de Tabley. Major Finney, on promotion, by the Marquis of Salis bury. Lieutenant-Colonel Fisher, on promotion, by his Royal Highness t ing in Chief. Dr. Fyffe, by the Adjutant • Genet Colonel J. Graham, by Major-Ge Major Wilberforce Greathed, Ca vice in India and China, and nom the Bath, by his Royal Highness tb The Very Rev. Dr. Goode, Dean Darnley, in the absence of the Arch Deputy Inspector-General of Hott all, Madras Army, by his brother in rence. •eturn from China and he General Command- Major-General Green, on promoti ness the Duke of Cambridge. Captain S. Grimston, by Major-1 Commander Stradling, her Majesty's Indian liavy, on return from India, by the Secretary of State for India. Major-General Stransham, onpromotion, by 'the Duke of Somerset. Col Swanson, her Majesty's Indian Forces, by the Se cretary of State for India. Major F. Swinfen, on promotion, by Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Scarjett. Captain Tom Taylor (Civil Service Volunteers), by Viscount Bury. _ _ Captain H. Thurburn, by the Secretary of State for Lieutenant Samuel Unwin, by Colonel Viscount Chelsea.. Ens i gn an d Lieutenant Lord Wallscourt, on appoint ment to Coldstream. Guards, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Hon. George Waldegrave, on his marriage, by Viscount Eversley. Major-General E. Walker, on being appointed to the command in New Brunswick, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Lieutenant J. S. Walters, by the Secretary of State for India. Ensign C. J. Watson, by the Secretary of State for India. Cornet Wauchope, by Lieutenant-General Hon. Sir Edward Cust. Mr. F. C. Wemyss, on appointment to Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley. Major Wollaston White, on promotion, by Lieutenant- General Hon. Sir E. Cust. Lieutenant H. C. Wilkinson, on promotion and return from India, by Lieutenant-General Hon. Sir E. Cust. Captain J. D. Williams, by the Secretary of State for India. Mr. B. B. Woodward, on appointment as Librarian in Ordinary to the Queen, by the Lord Chamberlitin. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. (From the New York Times.) For three months events of startling magnitude have so closely followed, one upon the heels of another, that our whole time has hardly sufficed for their record. We have been too much en tranced by the phenomena to study their origin or law. Astounding robberies and defalcations; the most shameless abandonment of public trusts; the treachery of civil and military officers ; the surrender of the forts, armaments, and munitions of war of one-half the Confederacy ; the disarm ing of one portion of it to arm the other ; the con spiracy in the Cabinet to destroy the Government, in which the facile Buchanan has been so much involved as to completely demoralise the man, and destroy all ability for prompt and independent action—events and developments so unforeseen and incredible, have occurred with such rapidity that we could only regard them with mute wonder. All these things, disjointed and unconnected as they seemed, were entirely consistent with each other, and were harmonious parts of a well-designed plan, of which we at the North have been the quiet and unsuspecting dupes. It is perfectly well known by those who have given attention to the subject that for years there has been a settled determina tion in the Gulf States to break up the Union, from which they were thoroughly estranged. The ulterior object was the formation of a grand slave empire, to embrace the islands in the Gulf of Mexico and the territories facing it. This plan has long been the absorbing idea at the Soutb. For a time its ,success seemed probable under the auspices of Walker, but he failed from the defective qualities in his own character. At one time Gen. Quitman was near heading a foray upon Cuba. The failure of the feeble expeditions sent out both to Cuba and Central America served only to, excite and consolidate the sentiment on which they were based, and to turn attention in another direction, from which adequate means might be obtained for expeditions fitted out on a much more imposing scale. The first step of the conspirators, conse quently, was to seize upon our own Government, and either compel it to abet their ends, or to plunder it to an extent that would disarm 'the Northern, and arm the Southern States, and supply all the means not only for the defensive but aggressive warfare. The election of the feeble and compliant Pierce was the stepping-stone to their entrance to power, which was fully secured to them by the appointment of Mr. Jefferson Davis, who for a life time had been a determined Disunionist, as Secre tary of War. This gentleman was the master spirit of the Administration, as he is now of the present secession movement. The composition of Mr. Pierce's Cabinet did not suffer the conspirators to go further than mature their plans. The election of Mr. Buchanan followed, and we now know that his nomination was effected upon the express assurance of co-operation and sympathy with the extreme Southern sentiment. Cobb became Secretary of the Treasury, Floyd Secretary of War, and Thompson of the Interior. Everything in the Government was arranged to suit their de signs. The President was a supple tool in their hands; so were the other Secretaries. But events clearly indicated that the power was gradually slipping from their grasp. Douglas became the inevitable candidate for the Democracy, and his election was to be defeated at all hazards. The disruption of the Democratic party was to follow, and with it the secession of the Southern States, and the inauguration of the new empire. The emergency of the crisis demanded energetic action. The leadership was assigned by general consent to Mr. Davis, who, by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Committee of Military Affairs, possessed great power, and a thorough acquaintance with al 1 the military men and defences of the country. With an impudence which, from its daring, loses much of its baseness, the head-quarters of the in surgents were transferred to West Point, at which Mr. Davis spent the summer months as chairman of a committee of examination of this post. In pursuance of the programme laid down, Mr. Floyd commenced the transfer of arms and munitions from North to South, which were placed in exposed posi tions where they could be readily seized. The forts were purposely left unguarded and defenceless. To supply such means as the official relations of Mr. Floyd did not allow him to steal, he commenced the issue, on a vast scale, of his acceptances, nomi nally to contractors for transporting of Govern ment stores, which, being supposed to be obliga tions of Government, were eagerly purchased in the Northern St ates, where capital was abundant. In this way the Military Chest of the New Confe deracy was to be, and has been, to a considerable extent, supplied. An equally important step was a thorough mani pulation of the army, the officers of which were so disposed that in all cases where it was possible, confederates and tools of the Secessionists were placed at the points where they could readily join them, and at the appointed signal deliver over the forts and magazines in their charge. Such officers as were known to be loyal were carefully with drawn from the places to be seized. To others in the secret, furloughs were given, which have been spent in the Southern States in drilling bands of insurgents, or in visits to Europe to purchase arms, the first shipment of which, in rifled cannon, has just been received at Charleston. Near the close of the session Mr. Davis succeeded in getting a bill through Congress, forbidding the Secretary of War to purchase patented arms, the object being to leave Government without a supply of the most approved weapons. To Mr. Cobb was assigned the role of destroying the means of supporting Government, by breaking down its credit, and leaving it power less when the outbreak should occur. Mr. Thomp son's duties were various. Ye was to manipulate the members of the new confederacy, and leave the property in his department, where it could be stolen by his old associates and friends. The whole line of Southern forts was left in such a condition as would allow them to fall an easy prey to the conspirators. The President for a long time was a coadjutor of all their measures, of which Mr. Floyd and the South Carolina Commission have furnished abundant proof. The schemes of the Secessionists succeeded almost to the extent of their aims. The election of Lin coln 'brought matters to a crisis. All the impor tant forts of the Southern States, with the excep tion of Fort Monroe in Virginia, Fort Sumter at Charleston, Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Key West and Tortugas, were seized .and are now in their hands. All the magazines Of arms andmu ni tions outside these forts have bseen also These were judiciously placed by 111(r. Floyd, far inland, at such places as Baton Rouge, : Loui eiana, and Augusta, Georgia thus supplying ample means for placing an army of 30,000 mean in the field. These very arms, stolen by Mr. Floyd, are now going into the hands of the new regiments which are being organised in the Southern States. Mississippi has just authorised the formation we believe of eight ; Georgia and other states, of seve ral each. These arms, only a few months ago, were in Northern armouries, where they now belong. While we at the North, like hon est but very stupid people, foolishly supposed everything to be going on fairly and above-board the most stu• pendous conspiracy the world has ever see,u has been enacted under our own noses, while we have been hugging to our breasts its very chiefs. ghe sacred spot of West Point has again been the scene of a plot, compa re d w ith which that attempted by Benedict Arnold sinks into insignificance. The value of arms and munitions of war stolen by Mr. Floyd, together with money raised upon his fi audu lent acceptances—which, by a masterly stroke of policy were sold North, amounts to many millions of dollars. Adding the cost of the forts surrendered, the whole amount of which our Government has been despoiled by this stupendous codspiracy, must equalls,ooo,ooodols. What is the method and plan of all these robberies and seizures ? Defence first, if necessary, and aggressions afterwards not North, but against Mexico and the West Indies. As for secession, that long ago was a foregone conclusion. As soon as the Southern army now forming is relieved from the fear of coercion 'from the North, it is to be launched against Mexico. Southern imagination is fired at the prospect of revelling in the " Halls of the Montezumas." The uneasy and restless spirits that will comprise its army will brook no delay. Of this new foray Mr. Jefferson Davis is to take the lead. The movers of it count, and not without reason. upon the effect of a brilliant dash upon the restless temper of a large population that crowd our Northern cities, who would flock in crowds to the standard of a successful military leader. It is well known that a number of retired officers and military men now in New York stand ready to join the new expedition at the first tap of the drum. Such is the inclination among the masses North to peace, it is felt no interference would be experienced from that quarter, should the expedition make a successful landing with an im posing force. Such is the programme of the Gulf States, of which the Northern are soon to be the spectators, if not directly involved ; and such is the scheme to which the quiet and peace-loving capitalists of the South are to be yoked. It remains to be seen whether they have the courage or strength to at tempt any resistance. If not, who is to oppose any ? Will the Northern ? Will England ? At the South, a movement towards the tropics is felt to be a necessity. More room for the slave or a black Republic bordering the Gulf, instead of a white one, is inevitable. The law of population will soon bring this round, without an outlet for the redundant population of negroes, increasing in much greater ratio than the whites. The Southern people feel the coils of the anaconda about their necks, hence the intense restlessness they display ; hence secession and the formation of a new Con federacy, with a vast domain, where slavery can indefinitely expand. To compress it within narrow limits is to provide an explosion fatal to all who may happen to be near. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The Cunard screw steamship Etna, which touched at Queenstown yesterday, has arrived. In the Senate, on the 6th, a committee of con ference was appointed on the Deficiency Bill with the house amendments. The usual number of memorials and petitions in reference to the pending issues were presented. Mr. Douglas made an in effectual attempt to reconsider the vote by which the a bill to organise the Government of the territory of Colorado passed. The President's Message coming up, Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, resumed his remarks. A committee of conference on the Loan Bill was appointed in reply to the request of the house. After Mr. Johnson had concluded his speech for the Union, the Senate adjourned. On the 7th there was a brief debate in reference to the resolu tions of the Legislature of New Jersey. Mr. Col lamer, in presenting a petition from citizens of Vermont in favour of the Border State propositions as amendments to the Constitution, declared that Congress cannot pass such amendments, but must present them to the States as the request of several States. Mr. Wigfall responded to the speech of Mr. Johnson, from Tennessee, and, with some noisy interruptions, occupied the floor until the adjourn ment. On the Bth the Loan Bill was reported by the committee of conference, who said that they had agreed to an amendment to the effect that the amount accruing from the former loan shall be applied to the redemption of the outstanding Trea sury notes, and to no other purpose. Pending the consideration of the Tariffßill the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, on the 6th, the Senate amendments to the Loan Bill were taken up—the one to repeal the act of June 1, 1860, au thorising a loan and providing for the redemption of the Treasury notes, was rejected ; a committee of conference was ordered. The bill in reference to the postal revenue was debated and passed-131 against 26. It provides that whenever, in the opinion of the Postmaster-General, the postal ser vice cannot be safely continued, or the Post-office revenues collected, or the postal laws maintained, or the contents of thb mails preserved inviolate till delivered to the proper address, on any post-route, by reason of any insurrection or resistance to the laws of the United States, the Postmaster-General is hereby authorised to discontinue the postal ser vice on such route, or any part thereof, and at any post-office thereon, till the same can be safely restored. The report of the Committee of Thirty three was further debated by Messrs. Humphrey (New York), Harris (Virginia), Maynard (Ten nessee), and Wells (New York). On the 7th, after a consideration of the patent laws, the debate on the report of the Committee of Thirty-three was resumed, Mr. Davis (Maryland) making remarks which caused confusion in the galleries and exciting comments on the floor. He also stated that Maryland did not recognise the right of secession, and that he would vote for the report of the majority of the committee. He was fol lowed by Mr. Sedgwick (New York), who opposed all compromise, because " the complaints were as utterly groundless as the remedy was puerile." Mr. Vallandingham (Ohio) offered propositions to amend the Constitution by dividing up the United States into four sections. Mr. Sickles gave notice that he would introduce a resolution calling on the Secretary to the Treasury for information as to whether the duties on imports continued to be collected in the ports of South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida. On the Bth a Message was received from the President, enclosing the cor respondence between himself and Colonel Hayne, of South Carolina ;—ordered to be referred to a select committee of five, and to be printed. The report of the Committee of Thirty-three was re sumed, and speeches were made by Messrs. Hatton (Tennessee), Kellogg (Illinois), and Smith (North Carolina). The President having refused to comply with the demand of Colonel Hayne, of South Carolina, to surrender Fort Sumter, the latter had left Washington, after sending the President an im pertinent letter, which was returned. Ex-President Tyler, Chairman of the Peace Convention at Washington, on taking the chair, made the following remarks : " Gentlemen,—l fear you have committed a great error in appointing me to the honourable position you have assigned me. A long separation from all deliberate bodies has rendered the rules of their proceedings unfamiliar to me, while I should find in my own state of health, variable and fickle as it is, sufficient reason to decline the honour of being your presiding officer; but, in times like these, one has but little option left him, personal considera tions should weigh but lightly in the balance. The country is in danger—it is enough—one must take the place assigned him in the great work of recon ciliation and adjustment. The voice of Virginia has invited her co-States to meet her in council. In the initiation of this Government that same voice was heard and complied with, and the results of 70 odd years have fully attested the wisdom of the l decisions then adopted. Is the urgency of her ca ll now less great than it was then ? Our godlike fathers created,—we have to preserve. up, through their wisdom and pa . es You built onu sk equally grand, have before you, gentlemen, a ta meats which have eternalized thetirrintaimsTmh'eg.y: aangdreiamtmaonrd teaciluitayll.y sublime, quite equtoit. esn a a s tto f oh ull fr o o f ni gl r o u r i y n reserve the Govern glorious Confederation,, If dinvigpo meat,rate the Constitution. renew a height il of this great occasion, your henc to h e hi t l h d e ren will rise up and call you blessed. i yo u ld and r I confess myself ambitious of sharing in the glory of accomplishing this srmul and magnificent result. neral Walker. 3., on return from ser ination to the Order of Le Duke of Cambridge. of Ripon, by the Earl bishop of Canterbury. pitals, Abraham Good law, Sir John M. Law- on, by his Royal High. General Sir J. Y. Scar. "owl, Secretary of State Captain J. C. Hailes, by Sir C. Vi for India. Lieutenant C. M. Hailes, by Sir State for India. 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