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R. ALBERT SMIV ITS MONT BLANC, e-N TO-NIGHT, and every evening (except Saturday), at 8 oek; and Tuesday,' Thursday, and saturday Mornings at 3. stalls,". 38 . ; area, 2s. ; gallery, le.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW , OPEN for the winter season. Principal Cornet Bouloourt.—Doors open at S. Admission One Shilling. Lent's new Varsovlana every night. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Yoke, Character, tridalDYle concluding with an inapersonation of Mlle. Rachel, as in "Los Hon.:m.4.P Every evening, at S. Private boxes • stalls may be secured in advance, without extra charge. Poly -41404M11, Ring William-Street, Charing-cross. JADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND. EXETER HALL. It THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. 8 respectfully announced that Mr. and Madame GOLD it'4O.IIDT will give an EVENING CONCERT of SACRED and 4 C2ELLANEOU4 MUSIC, with Full Band and Chorus, at Exeter w iT. on TUESDAY EV KNING, arch 11th, 1856, the proceeds of o eh Will be presented to the Nightingale Fund. to n, this occasion the seats throughout the Hall will be numbered E lsel . 7ved, price One Guinea each. ollloication for Tickets received by Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, d, .. nu -street. • T he Places will be appropriated according to priority of applies " and tickets will be ready for delivery oa and after Monday, arch 3. Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. - - THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN. Seco, ' ENGLISH OPERA. - riPpeararce at this Theatre of Lucy Escott and Mr. Henry ~ .1 Haigh.—Re-appearance of Mr. Leigh Murray. ti frofessor ANDERSON has much pleasure in being able to an re that he has succeeded in obtaining the services of the whole ,:,m'ailallie English Operatic Talent for this Theatre. I ~,"1 , 8 EVEtNING, Bsliini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, lki m ' Plett; Elvino, Mr. Henry Haigh ; Count Rodolpho. Mr. d: . Eich of these operas will be produced on the grandest !q t Whole of the unlimited resanrces of this, the first theatre T h L, ,etropolis, will be called into requisition for the occasion. 0,4,111 Z en scene will be characteristic of all that has been produced s k re tioards of Covent-garden. Conductor, Mr. Loder. Full band Te. chol'us. • T h mirrow will be repeated the Opera of the Bohemian Girl. db2,?pora to be followed each evening with the new Farce (con -I—., .) of WHA P D41(0II W ANT ? (in consequence of nutnerous rtes). Th e Wild, by Professor Anderson ; the other Wizard tki., r . Leigh M,perity, who will have the honour of introducing his p_.oreted fac-siinfles of Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Charles - "lke. ,il 4l Performance. - to conclude each evening with the Ballot of I t „ w9SAis ERETILLAN r, snpported by Mr. Flexmore, Mr. W. v,i i r t l_es. Mr. Charles Brown, and Miss Emma4iorne . /Mlle. Auriol th e 2ake her second appearance these eight years at this theatre in a_'"le ofJosfiphine. •rlv !de boxes, 31. 35., V. 2s , it. Is.. and 12s . ; grand balcony, is. ; dboxes, 28.6 d. ; pit and amphitheatre stalls, 2s. ; gallery, Is. te boxes and seats in the balcony, stalls, and upper boxes, may s '"clired en application at the Box Office of the theatre,,xiggh is b ender the di rec ti on o f M r . O'R e illy, d a ily f ro m Ten to live. tz.,,..7 operi every evening at Half-past Six. Commence at Seven. — ` 144 Price at Nine o'clock. .._ 14 °I MON and NORTH WESTERN, MAN- Plgwertn, SHEFFIELD, and .LINCOLNSIIIRE, and The RAILWAYS. Woi t ,d'ublte aro informed that the above Companies have RESUMUD the Hn ' ss rllotommus between London and the undermentioned *t wing Fares and Times from Loudon : Fares. A.M. P.M. 1 4.1 14 an Ist Class'24 Class. ~.4 01 4142 h :• ••• • • • ...... dep. 945 5 0 s. d. ant ....... arr. 1 10 825 6 0 a 0 M 4,1. • .... 220 935 10 0 6 0 I111ml: • ': • . : 435 15 0 18 • 43711, Victoria Station • • „ 230 945 11 3 5 8 kkr i ,„ t er .. ............ .. 2 50 10 10 0 3 0 Wik A :nton. • ... 2 55 10 10 14 0 9 0 N el d ' ormaiitott— 320 10 50 15 0 10 0 r s4/0 ..... ........... ,3 20 10 35 15 0 10 0 roc rd • By order. te b• 7, 185 G. if ARK II AS. ALL D. NA T] .UISII. ,PORT. KIN. 1 4 °NDON and NORTH-WESTER N !rid LA —REDTJCTION of FARES between LONDON EUROROUGIL—UntiI further notice, the Fares between s4ll!Ti_!l Peterborough will be— • ~s; Class An Trains leave the Euston Up Trains leave Peterborough. Eitation. London. 6.30 a.m. 9.15 „ 10.30 °eilera &t By order. anager's Office, Euston Station, 6.8) a.m. 10.13 „ 2.20 p.m. 4. 0 „ b. 15 „ February, 1856, „S et ,,n,.„ E RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the , 0k„.1. , 5T ANNUAL GENERAL MEE TING of the above m"`"Y, held at theft' Offices, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, "44 Y, Feb. IS, 1856 The i• W. P. ANDREW, Esq., in the Chair; eollewing Resolutions were carried unanlin 'ugly: Tr at e . l by the Chai rman , secon d e d by Si r H e rbert Maddock, M.P. l 'rsofts Meeting recei v e and a d o pt the Report of the Directors., 38_,u by the Chairman. seconded by Sir Herbert Muddock, ww,itt t he Board s hall f or th e presen t cons i s t of five Directors only, p' lO ni three shall be a querutn. -°P°36l by Sir Herbert Maddock, M.P.. seconded by Francis 1.. hat Horsley Robinson. Esq., , •P. Andrew , and Thomas Williams. Egg-s., the two retlr- N, irtetors, be re-elected Directors of this Company. T i t tkd by the Chairman, seconded by Sir Herbert Maddock, M.P., pip ed Alexander Mackenzie and Harry Borradalle, Esqrs., be Pr o ,' ,l Auditors of this Company. posed by Thomas Williamson Ramsay, Escl., seconded by Charles Fraser, Esq. iait .Meeting desire to record their sense of the ability, zeal, oh e nlonay evinced by the Chairman,W. P. Atnirew, Esq., and the kitt: tero of the Company, in the management of the affairs com their hands. Ti i ll'ased by W. H. Tyler, Esq., seconded by C. Nicholson, Esq., 4 4 1 .2...ti1e cordial thanks et this Meeting be tendered to W. P. ". Esq., for his able and courteons conduct in the chair. (Signed) W. P. ANDREW, Chairman. 0 44 THOS. BURNELL, Secretary. Ina noun, Old Broad-Street, Feb. 18, 1856. STA-11. PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER, hOBAVESEND, 9, 2. 1 0 110,„?_ZI 4 vrICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the gle t '"W Trains from Fenchurch-street, 10 3%, weather permit- P ackets will call at the Rosherville, Greenhithe, Purfleet to oilttit Woolwich Piers. ern Gravesend and London.. • • .....• 10(1. .. la. 2d. ,r a i Jt h a vnd astd Blackwell or • Woolwich Bd. .. Os. MI h ose nd London•• • • • • .... • • • . Bd. Os. 10d and Blackwell or Woolwich."... 43,,,rravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. " 4 r 23, 1855. )NT LABEL.—In consequence of the great t lAQ,k g ,riety of counterfeit labels of A. ROWLAND & SONS' riit OIL, now in circulation, and which so nearly rosemble :0ye,7,1 , a1 as frequently t deceive the unwary—they have cm tre,q°,e eminent artists Messrs Perkins, Bacon, & Co., who, Itly r cost, and by to a peculiar process of their own, Cannot be for:zed. uP° 4ll,l - ",„:,, Dosed of a section of an engine-turned circle, repeated one and thirty times—ami forms an original lace-work grovni, ni "ch is engraved in white letters, Vo x " ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, TH E 01towrn, IttsTottATloN, AND F OE BEAUTIFYING TII6 HUMAN HAIR." Which is the Signature of the Proprietors in Red Ink h " A. ROWLAND & SONS." `trfy "Y them at 20, Ilatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and krs. pr„ if THE mall COURT OF CHANCERY. ' s. IESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 18.55, an NA l the ;Vth W:salon was granted by the High Court al of Chancery, and of Juno following was made perpetu, against Joseph I t kaq oM others, to restrain them, under a penalty of ono thou ep 1 0 °Yeroda, from inaltatinz this Medicine, which is protected by ..Atters Patent of England, and secured by the Scala 01 the v leq Phartnacle do Paris, and the Imperial . Colley of Medicine, 1% ,O‘• TRIESEMAIt, No. 1, t4eltlY for Relaxation, Spormaterrhasa, and all the distressing e nees arising from early abuse, &c., and 113 effects are ern ere re 10 Youth, manhood, and old age ; and t • those p e r s o n s who Snor e nted entering the married seats trona the results of early " to hivalaable. TRIESEM.A.R, No. 2, gall!rltel t e , ll Y in the short space of three days, completely and entirely , f 4 O O traoes ot those Disorders which Capaivi and Cubebs p„ ° ,a ) lig been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health -"" Portion of the population. the TRII?.SEMAR, No. 3, llnfo rt reat Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which tpi tab, two , ,y the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in -1,114,.:e 'fdesarlU truction of the patient's constitution, and which all the Cil in the world cannot remove. • o' 3I IIIAR, Ncs. I, 2, and 3, are alike devoid Of taste or smell, with out il nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table. lcU 110,,,their use being suspected. .r. q. • Ncs. I, 2, and 3, are s'ild in tin cases, price I Is., or titer is in ens for 335., which saves Is.; and in 51. eases, whereby itrki } , s a slain- of I/. 123. • divided the s :parole doses, as adminis , 'l% ) - t 3 ; Vol Peal, Lallemunel, Roux, i'orsih n ? had Wholesale and Re.all IR London of Johnston, 68, I's.rd'str Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-str. et; and sancer, 150, Ox t R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. Market-atrout, Manchester ; or -auh rbOokseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, uat i li n a. verpool; Powll, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, • ' Li book,eller, e High-st re :t Birmingham. dun 11' StCRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. ITY. ‘ l. l2bllsll ed, price is., illustrated with cases; free by post for 14 s RVOU A tamPg, DEBILITY; Sat o Its C auses Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on s - lec with ' Practical Observations on a safer and BmPtcoivrree '3llten," made of treatment of the diseascs of the Genera --**. Obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and e kes vulsapieintyg. of f y urinary examination, the real cause and effect of complaint. whether arising from solitary habits, ea tZa. accident, or climate, followed by practical remans, founded Iter vei ,. s4 tY years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance. Ikr a ebtlity, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhosa, east To which 115 Co mmentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre keg „ ° rY hints on the ev il s emana ti n g fr om emp i r i ca l prac ti ce , these, nnPortant the slangerous remedies ders advocated by various writers on disor. h By SAMUEL LA I 3( Pr M.D Oyster' U EDFORD-SQUA FE, LONDON, istir " M edicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edirt• th,•Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society. • tl e ,• s rltiat •of A P?ttocarlosi Hall, London, Ste.. 805 * essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con -o.iii,periees resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, .01. have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man ,Zand premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any , r class of disease k nown to modern pathologists. Its perusal is ty i ,,leniarly recommended to peuens entertaining secret doubts of bl ie g i l physical condition, and w h o are conscious of having hazarded el, ii 'tr e a a ltli, happiness, and privileges to whi c h ovary h uman b e i ng i s ori l b tis abs o l u t e l y necessary that all men should know, that there are in t „'llles of personal management wisdomt be violated without bt,elrileg grievous penalties, erd when and regret succeed k ey , ~,YdaY of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties ~".5 Mitigated he the sting of their bitterness may be removed, th itt `ry the evil ,hew s consequences may iiie a vo i ded, and above all, qc,rati,uere is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional .gernent to which the timely aid of science cannot apply Pra tt ritilor has for a series of years been engaged i n au extensive Ithr r j e 'a„ in the treatment of these delicate corn cure. plaints, which haw., ttlit, u r.' n atelY been too generally conlided tc the care of igneriu. t 1'44 11 7; Who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place sln their pretensions *,e,iviVOIIS DEBILITY may be had i p i r a i t c n e uty ls , , r, o i f , °Al:fors/m(11.. 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Just published, in Bvo., price ss. cloth, THE INFLUENCE of OCCUPATION on HEILTII and LIFE. By JOEL PINNEY, Esq., author of "The Code of Health," &c. "This woth, as one alTecting the general health of the commu nity, in regard to the calling and occupation of its ra4mbers, is em phatically valuable."-- 'lYeekly Dispatch. Lon;mz,n, Brown, Grepn, and Longm In oae vol. dewy Bvo., with Maps, 12s. 6d., INSIDE SEB.A.STOPOL, The new issue of this work contains a defence of the author's account of the Repulse at the Uedan, and au answer to some foolish critieisms. Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly. EST I UILISHED 1837. B RITANNIA: LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9. DIRECTOIIB. Major-General ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park, CuaramAtf. 11 7 1111 am Bardgett, Esq., 149, Fenchurch-street, Gorge Bevington. Esq., Seckinger Mills. Bermondsey. F. P. Cockerill, Esq., Shadwell and Twickenham. George Cohen. Esq., Shacklewell. 3lillis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street. Jolm Drewett, Esq., 50, Cornbill. Erasmus Robert Fo%ter, Esq., 1, i'rlnces-street, Bank. T. S. Girdler, Esq , 7, Tokenh , nse-yard. 11. L. Swale, Esq., Doctors' Commons. STANDING COUNCIL.—II. Belloaden Ker, Esq., 8, Old-Evlare, Lincolu's Inn. Soticrmas.—Messrs. M'Lec,d and :-tennlng, 16, London-street, Fcnchurch•street, BANKERS. —Messrs. Dimsdnle, Drewett, Fowlers, and Bamar,l, be, Cornhill. Increasing Rates of Premium fbr securing Loans or Debts. Half Premiums, only, required daring first seven years. Sum assured payable at Sixty or at death if occurring previously. Provision, during minority, for Orphans. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. • Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Profits divided annually. Premiums computed for every three mouths' difference of age. half-credit policies—the unpaid half premiums liquidated out of :he profits. (PROPRIETARY.) (MITTUAL.) Half Whole : 1 1 i ',premium Quar- Age. remium premium to 1 First for Re- Annual ; Yearly tell!' 44 1 Seven mainder ,premium' Pre- PTO- Years. of Life. 4 s. d.: £ s. d. Years. ISIontlis l : X. s. d. l'. .: um s. .d.l A inig s. s d. 30 ; I 1 9 2 3 6 30 0 ' 2 7 3' 1 4 2: 012 3 40 1 9 2' 218 4 3 2 7 f; 1 4 41 012 4 50 2 2 6; 4 5 Oi 6 2 7 10: 1 4 6: 012 5 60 3 6 81 613 41 9 1 2 8 2' 1 4 81 012 6 E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSUR..4 NCB COMPANY. Capital, Two Millions. Established in 183 d. Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. Offices : 37, Carlo-street, Liverpool; 20 and 21, Poultry, London; aid 61, King-street, Manchester. TRUSTEES. Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, Bart. Adam Hodgson. Esq. I Samuel Henry Thompson, Esq DIRECTORS IN LIVERPOOL. CHAIRMAN—THOVAS BROCK Esq. DSPUTT-CRAIRMEN —Josoph C. Ewart, Esq., and Francis Haywood, Esq. Secretary—Swinton Boult, Esq. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. Chairman—MATTHEW FORSTF.R, Esq. Deputy-Chairman—George Frederick Young, Esq. Resident Secretary —"Benjamin Henderson, Esq. DIREGRORS IN MANCHESTER. Chairman—SAMUEL ASHTON - , Esq. E. R. Lanworthy, Esq. James Aspinall Turner, Esq. Edward Tootal. 'Esq. I Thomas Wrigley, Esq. Resident Secretary—R. A. Kennedy, Esq. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Premiums received in 1853 were 113,612/.; and In 1854, 146,0961. Insurances may be effected in this department on terms as low as those of most other Companies. Farming Stock Insured at 3s. percent., free from the conditions 0 average, and allowing a Steam Thrashing Machine. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Premiums received on New Business were, in 1853, 6,913/. ; and in 1851, 10,2671. Annuities Immediate and Deferred. Bonuses guaranteed when the Policy is issued. No Stamp Duty charged on Life Policies. Prospectuses and (lather information may be obtained at the Offices of the Company, or from any of the agents. SWINTON BOULT. Secretary to the Company G UARDIAN FI ASSURANCE RE AND LIFE C OMPAN Y, No. 11, Lombard •otreet. London. ;TOIL& DIREC' FRANCIS HART DYKE, HENRY HULSE BEREN: John Dixon, Esq. Sir W. M. I'. Farquhar, Bart. Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Brt. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. John Harvey, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq. George Johnstone, moi. John Labouchere, EaiN. John Loch, Esq. , Esq., Chairman. iS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. titewart Marjoribanks, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, John Thornton, Esq. James Tuned), Esq. Henry l'igne, Esq. AUDITOR& A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. 1 John Henry Smith, Esq. George Keys, Esq., Secretary. Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par ciament, this Company now otters to future insurers Four-fifths of he Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or, Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in Juno. 18GO, when all participating Policies which shall have subsisted :it least one year et Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total eversionary, Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913.000 r. At Christmas last the Assurances in force amounted to upwards of 4,240,0001.; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more Than 200,009/. ; and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the Guarantee Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. FOREIGN RISICS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East And West Indies, the (British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United States of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LIVES.--Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received and registered. Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for Policy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMIINT.—Insurances effected upon every then of property, at moderate rates. deserlr- Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. A.D. 1720. R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSUIIII\.TCB CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., club-Governor. Sir Juhn IV'lliatu Lubbock, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. - Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. rolm Garrett Cattley, Esq. Alexander Colvin, Esq. Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander Druce. Esq. Rlversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Charles John Manninc, Esq. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville. Henry Nelson, E.sq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, flart. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Abraham George Robarts, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. William Soltau, Eeq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. William Wallace, Eeq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. MEDICAL REPEREB - -SAIIIIICI Solly, Esq., F.E.S. Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre miums falling due at Christmas will expire on the 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnership, and s p t a o y cz ent of their claims is guaranteed by a large invested capital stock. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation in profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary BONUS on Lite Policies has averaged 2 per Cent. per annum on the stun assured, or 46 per cent, on the Premiums paid. Any sum not excee ling 10,0001. may be assured en one Life. The Corporation bears the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees, and requires uo entrance-money. Tito Assured aro subject to tic expense hut the Premium. No extra charge is made for service In the militia 'within the United Kingdom. LOANS are granted on Lite Poll , des to their full values. This Corporation affords all lists advantages of modern practice, with the stability of an office safely constituted under Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament, and tested by the experience of nearly a century and a half. There is but ono older life allies In existence. HOTAL EXOUANGEI, LONDOS. JOHN A. litOlll3l, Actuary and Secretary. JOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED • CAPSULES, approved of by the french Collegc of Physicians, successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the beat remedy for a certain disorder. (See" Lancet" of Nov.ll, 1952.) A • A Copy will he forwarded on appll est;on.—Price per 100, 44.6 d. ; 20, 2s. 9d. To be had of the investor, GABRIEL JOZEA CI, French cheinist,:49. ilayuuulet, London, and i 11 the principal chelnits• .. . • . - ' ' ' - . . . • . ' ---.. • 1 (.- - /- .• • = ::-/ • / • '.-;'-•—/ ---' -- -- _7Y - ' ---- c•- - / • ) /. . . Itt /: /L , - 6 - (1 <-"" __ • , ~.....„,„,..... ~ . , . i •.. - f (). 104,_. , .. .. .. . 1 . .. . . f 40 ..,„ ... .4.=,., r i 1 ,,., ,, : , -4, . 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Rorr..oo.- , : ~,, -.:-..-. • • Zf/e NEWS PAPE: sr-I„.Lal " i tt x iAi. ‘' .-41;421"/Ie fit. .7 ' f. ‘ ' way not available ; but he might state from authoris • .`'" -,,,, -• -...' ~: . 0 . reports that during the mouths of June, July, an -4 . i;'-'.-:---,t..,. iii.,i,r; . ' s ' August, of 1853, six vessels, which drew upwards of Ist 13. §--- 161 feet of water, entered and left that port without any impediment whatever. _Another objection had been raised against the port of Kurrachee, on the ground of the bar at the entrance of the port. Now, the fact was, it had been ascertained that the bar con sisted simply of soft sand, and he had the satisfaction of stating that the East India Company were so convinced of the value and importance of the harbour that two steamers had been sent out fcr the purpose of dredging the bar, so that a full flow of 9 0 feet water would be per manently secuted. lie should mention also that the harbour was what is called landlocked, by the protec tion of a headland called Nora Point. Having said so much in reference to the harbour, which it was of the ' utmost importance that the mercantile interest should be made acquainted with, he would now proceed to say something in respect of the railway which they proposed to construct. Some portions of the Indus were so dan gerous to navigate, that according to a return furnished by the Government authorities, no fewer than two out of seven of the boats coming down were lost. There was another point of considerable importance in connection wil the navigation of the Indus, which was, that vessels fitted for the navigation of the river down to the Delta wei e totally useless for ocean navigation. There were many pi ints therefore, from which it might be seen that a considerable economy would he accomplished in the tiaviwation alone ; but when the extension ( f the com munication was °pore Ito the Punjaub, by a scheme of railway and river transit, the advantages of the system which he (the chairman) had advocated in 1846 would, he trusted, be done justice to. In slant, he desired to see the principh which he then advocated carried out in the present instance. It was a frequent objection in this country that the system of intercommunication prof osed by railway and water conve , ante involled such fre quent transshipment, that the time of a journey was, under all circumstances, ridiculo-.sly prolong id. The exponents of such views as these should bear: in mind that in England wo were accustomed to travel at the rate of 400 miles a day, but the fact was that 10 or 12 miles a day was a very goad rate of travelling in India, upon which the system to be introduced was a marked amendment. When the value of time was ap preciated in India as it was in England, there would . nut be wanting capital to carry out a continuous system of railway. (Hear.) lie was reminded that Gov. rament were about to put on two steamers between Burr tcbt a and Suez for the purpose of proving the amount of corn! mercial demand for that line of transit. The hon. gen. tleman then moved the adoption of the report. Sir H. MADDOCK seconded the motion, and observed that the line proposed from Kurrachee (110 mi'es) to Hydrabad would open up a communication with thirty millions of people and all the commerce cf Central Asia. For his own part he did not doubt that such would be the advantages of the present line of railway that in fifteen years' time they would have a line from Lahore to Kurrachee. As to the port of Kurrachee, no doubt ought to be entertained on the sul jest, for recent surveys showed that ships of 700 to 800 tons have phssed into the harbour. It had a bar of soft sand, and as Mr. Andrew had said, the East India Company hat sent oat two steamers to cut through the scud, and wheu the work was accomplished the port of Kurrachee would be more accessible than the port of Calcutta. In answer to questions, Mr. Yastrow, the engineer, said no doubt the line might be cnnpleted within threw years from the presceA time. After some further conversation, the report and ae. e Anti were adopted, as was a reolution, authorisiug a reduction of the number of directors to five, three to be a quorum ; Mr. Andrew and Mr. Williams were re• elected directors, and Messrs. Mackenzie and Borra daile were re-elected auditors, and votes of thanks has • ing been given tD the chairman and directors, the meet ing, separated. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1856. Spirit of the Public Journals. (From, the Times of this day.) The importance of regular and rapid communication be tween our Australian colonies and the mother country is every day becoming more apparent ; and if anything were required to demonstrate it, the late commercial crisis would suffice, when it may be said that the whole mer cantile interest looked with breathless anxiety for the :sr rival of even a single ship laden with the precious metal which was to relieve, were it ever so little, the pressure on the money market. While we at home were, perhaps, anxiously waiting the arrival of the costly freight; it was, through our own mismanagement, tossing for so many weeks upon the ocean that the mere interest of the hun dreds of thousauds of ounces of gold thus for the time sunk would have more than covered the price of a steamer to cenvy it. In the same way, for the want of a speedy in terchange of letters, the Australian markets have been al ternately starved and surfeited, so that at ens time an ar ticle has been sold at more than ten times its value, while a few months later there has been such a glut of imports that traders were only too happy to dispose of the very same article at Irilf its value--at less than the cost price in Eng land. We thus ourselves suffer very considerably; the colonies are still greater sufferers; and our mutual injw ies act and react upon each other. It will be remembered that the General Screw Steam Navigation Company con tracted to carry a mail by the Cape of Good Hope, and the Peninsular and Oriental Company by Singapore, in every month alternately. The former company has abandoned the contract ; the latter has been temporarily released from it ; and the mails are now carried by sailing ships the fast sailing clippers, which may possibly be the best means of conveyance for passengers and ordinary goods, but which certainly do not afford so rapid a transmission of letters and general intelligence as the Australian colonies in these days of steam have a right to expect. They have, in fact, been rather hardly treated in this matter, large subsidies being given to the companies that carry the Atue rican, West Indian, and East Indian mails, while a mere pittance in comparison is offered for the conveyance of the Australian letter-bags. Our Post-office gives 240,0001. for the conveyance of mails to the West Indies, and 30,0001. more for their further conveyance to Brazil. Nearly 100,0001: is given to the American line of steamers. The mail to India has a subsidy of more than 210,0001., of which the East India Company pays only about one-fifth. And what is given for the conveyance of the Australian mails ? The sum is not to be found in the estimates of the packet service, where it might be brought into eomparison with these im mense rewards; but in those of the Post-office, where it looks very respectable as 14,0001. Why, we give more than that for the conveyance of the mail s across the Chan nel. That sum is little more than three times what wo give for the carriage of letters between Southampton and the Channel Islands, where the communication en other grounds must necessarily be very frequent, and the mails can be carried at a very trifling cost. The inconvenience has been so great, the loss has been so enormous, that the Australian colonies are willing at length to go to any definite expense rather than undergo the hardships of slow and the risks of uncertain communi cation. Victoria alone is willing to pay 50,000./. as its share of the burden. Almost •all the colonies, indeed, have separately offered rewards for the establishment of a line of steamers under certain conditions ; but, from not acting in concert, the stipulations of one are at utter variance with those of another. The Legislative Council of New South Wales offers a reward for steam commu nication by the Indian route, through Torres Straits, the distance from Sydney to England and back be ing performed in 120 days. South Australia will be content if the distance to England be accomplished in 70 days, but then it demands a line by way of the Cape. Western Australia, on the other hand, is the most inconsistent of all—is quite willing that the mails should go by Torres Straits, that is round the north-eastern cor ner of the continent to Sydney, but on condition that they first touch at Fremantle, at the very opposite corner, almost on the line of the Cape steamers. Then Victoria hay a scheme of its own, by which it is proposed that the mails may go either by the Cape or by the Red Sea—it don't much matter; only in any case they must go round the south-west corner, that is by King George's Sound, so as to reach Melbourne in not less than 55 days from the date of leaving London. The contradictory character of those stipulations is evident, but we believe that, even if the matter rested entirely with the colonies, they are too much in earnest to let local rivalries interfere with the general good. They have shown this desire so strongly, and have appealed to the home Government in so liberal a spirit, that, although the contract cannot ultimately bo decided until we hear definitely from all the colonial Go vernments, the Lords of the Treasury have come forward with a scheme which they propose for the acceptance of Australian Legislatures, and in which they have so much confidence that they do not hesitate at once to invite ten ders, in order that the contracts may be completed and the service commenced at the earliest possible period. With regard to a route they make no selection. They have wisely left that to the contractors. Let it bo by Panama, by the Cape, or by the Red Sea, —the coutrac tors are most likely to fix upon the most expeditious, con venient and profitable highway. The Treasury, by its recent minute, however, has decided that the points at which the steamers of the main line shall touch shall be restricted to three—namely, King George's Sound, Mel bourne, and Sydney, and that branch lines shall be estab lished at the general expense for the other colonies—for ' South Australia, for Van Diemen's Land, for New Zealand. With regard to expense, the Governor of New South Wales has calculated that the maximum, cost of the service would be 100,0001., or about half what we give to the American steamers. The Peninsular and Oriental Com pany has, in fact, already offered - to convey the mails in connection with their Indian boats for a sun of 84,000/. ; and, subtracting from this sum 24,0001., or two-thirds of the postal revenue, the portion of it applicable to the sea service, the surplus required to meet the expense would be 60,0001. But whatever be the amount required for the contract, the home Government proposes that the colonies shall divide with us the loss, and shall share with us the profit. This will be effected by rendering the pre-payment of all letters compulsory ; the colonies will retain their own postal receipts, and we ours, it being presumed that the number of letters to and fro is about equal. The num ber of letters which each colony receives will also afford a pretty fair test of the proportion of tire expense which each ought to bear. The arrangement is very simple ; the need is very urgent; the colonies are very willing ; the contract ought to be made very soon ; and it is to be hoped that after all our delays and disappointments the service will at last be very effective. (Front the Times of this day.) There aro two parties very much aggrieved by the pre sent condition of Church rates. Their grievances, however, are by no means the same. The clergy and churchwardens, backed by the more zealous members of the Church, have au ancient customary right to levy rates for the repair of the church and for the maintenance of divine service; but while flattered with the pretence of this right, they can only enforce it with the a ssistance of a majority in the vestry. It frequently happens, therefore, that they cannot enforce the right, and have not done so for many years— in some parishes never at all in the memory of man. Having, however, a legal maintenance, they find it all the harder to collect voluntary subscriptions, or to put the church on the same footing as religious and charitable in stitutions of a minor character. They find it difficult to get either the one or the other, and between the two stools of law and goodwill the church often falls to the ground. This grievance rankles in the mind of many a clergyman and many an earnest Churchman. They do not like to sur render the rights of the church, and give up the bat tle for Church rates so long as the shadow of a right remains. Hence the most venerable and august institution in the country, the very edifices of which are many of them as old as the Conqueror, and far older than Parlia ment, subsists in many places in a state of proud poverty, or a medium between despotic pretensions and actual squalor. Such is the hardship of the Church. That of Dissenters is also considerable. They are liable to be called on to pay to an institution which they think little better than the Popery that Churchmen, in common with themselves, have long ago renounced, and to support a rival at the demand of a tyrant majority. Notwithstand ing all that the bolder class of Church advocates choose to hay about rates being an obligation, not on parishioners, but on houses and lands, they certainly aro felt to be a burden on the conscience and an insult to independence. Nor are those the only classes aggrieved. They who pay rates for the support of a church two or three miles off, they who have built churches for themselves without the power of levying rates, they who find nearly the whole area of the church monopolised by largo pews, and they who have the pleasure of hearing the sermons preached and the service conducted in a manner which grates against all their warmest feelings and profoundest convictions, do not like to pay a tribute which, besides its cost, is the symbol of an abject subjection. When this is the state of things, and when a civil war actually rages on the subject of Church rates through. out the whole of the kingdom, so that it is only a question of time how long they will be collected in any given parish, it is a wonder that no decent plan has been hit upon for putting an end to a scandal and a nuisance. The only re sult, besides the civil war itself, with such superciliousness on the one side and rudeness on the other, has been a series of bids on both sides. Now it is the advocates of the Dia sunting interest, now the friends of the Church, that come forward with a plan for putting the Church out of its pain by determining the question one Way or another. Nothing shows so ill for the sense and temper of the Church as that it has not ere this settled upon Borne scheme for the satisfaction of all reasonable people. The Church of England at this moment does not possess any extraordinary amount of eloquence; it hardly professes to be learned; it eschews philosophy , and la y s little claim to those aus tere virtues which won the reverence of a simpler It ought, at le ast, to exhibi t some of that sense poetry, nd o with a go w d r h o i :an c o op c h a m i e:. o srttlnn:tey to exhi bitpp lyn supply no matter pthraec w ti a c n al go want of genius, c bastihtissoognreeraetdaeeemalilnagngdrasce as in devising some pl an f or settling a wretched pecuniary squabbl e. So long as it simply looks on the breach widens, parish after parish falls a victim to the epidemic resistance, the rates, once refused, are never more granted, and there is an end of the question as far as that parish is concerned. qMean while, every session is producing schemes from other quarters, all coming with the immense recommendation that, at all events, they settle the question. Many a man has acquiesced in a very strong reree:ly because he could not stand the worry, and fret, and discussion about a mild one. In like manner even quiet Church noople will soon consent to the amputation of Church rates altogether in order to save the perpetual blistering, plaisteriug, lancing, probing, cutting, and hacking, that goes on at present. Indeed overy year that the Church declines to come for ward with a remedy wo are drifting nearer to the most summary possible treatment of the disorder. The bill just introduced by Sir William Clay, Mr. Hutt, and Mr. Miall to abolish Church rates, and to make other provision in lieu thereof, will probably not be very accept able to those Church people who have stood out for the Church's common law right to a maintenance by rates. It proposes to substitute for the rates voluntary subscrip tions, to be spent, as the rates are now, by the church wardens, subject to five auditors, to bo nominated, olio by the clergyman. the other four by the congregation. This part of the bill is of the less importance, inasmuch as tin auditors would not he wanted if there were no subscrip tions, and, if there were, the subscribers would probably take their own measures for the proper employment of their money. The real gist of the bill is the substitution of a voluntary collection for a forced rate, and, though this may seem to give up the whole question as regards the Church, yet we cannot help suspecting it will come to this in the long run. It certainly will if the Church does nothing. Had the Church in the metropolis not followed bad counsels, and resisted the extramural interment bills, ono and all, for so many years, it would probably have made a much better bargain than it has now. The same result may be expected from the tenacity with which the Church clings to its rates. If it sets its face against all accommodation and all adjustment of claims, it will find that one day it will have to swallow as best it can some such simple and final measure as that now before us. THE ARMY IN THE BAST.-LORD CARDIGAN. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN TO L')RD PANMURE. Portman-square, Feb. 13, 1856. My Lord,—ln consequence of the allusions which have been made to me in the report of the commissioners of in quiry into matters connected with the British army in the Crimea, I consider it my duty to express to your lordship, as Secretary Of State for War, an explanation of my con duct as therein auitnadverted upon. The reflections upon me are conveyed in these words : •• When the supply began to fail the commissariat officer referred to, who appears to have done everything in his power to meet the difficulties of the case, proposed, as he know there was plenty of barley at Balaklava, that if a de tachment of the horses were allowed to go down daily, he would engage to bringup enough for the rest of the brigade. This proposition appears to have been brought specially under the notice of Lord Cardigan by Lieut.-Col: llilayow, assistant quartermaster general of cavalry, whastates that his lordship declined to accede to it, as he had previously done when a similar proposition was made to him to send the horses down for hay before that supply failed." I will now, my lord, proceed to show upon wi l A, Ax id enoe it is that this statement is made with regard to my con duct. I will commence by stating that the 14th of November is the earliest date referred to in these accusations, and that I resigaed the command of the Light Cavalry Brigade, owing to extreme bad health, on the 28th of the same month. I beg to transmit a copy of my official resignation. Tne f )110 wing is an extract from Lieut.=Colonel evid,nce, then brigade major of the Light Cavalry Bri gade : " For some time after the 14th of November no hay was supplied to the brigade, but a full ration of barley, After some days the issue of barley fell off, in consequence, it was understood, of the deficiency of transport. The commissariat officer applied to Lord Cardigan to have the troop horses sent down for forage. When that application was first made the brigade was receiving full rations of barley, and he understood from the commissariat officer that no hay could be got at Balaklava. It did not, there fore, appear to him at that time that it was expedient t o send the troop horses. When the ration of barley fell off the application to send troop hoiscs for forage was re newed by the commissariat officer, and brought by him (Colonel Alayow) under the notice of Lord Cardigan ' • but his lordship declined to send them, and they were n o t sent so long as the regiment remained in front." I beg hors to observe that Colonel Mayow does not state what the exact date was of his change of opinion as to the expediency or inexpediency of sending down the troop horses for forage. But that I must consider it of great im portance, when evidence is given four months after events have occurred, and that evidence /effects upon the conduct of an absent commanding-officer, that dates should be an curatoly adhered to ; and the necessity for this is particu larly demonstrated by the inaccuracy of Lieut.-Colonel Douglas's evidence as to dates. Before I state in detail that officer's evidence, it is right I should point out that I have Colonel Mayow's own official reports to me up to the 20th, 2181, and 22d November ; and on the 20th he reports— " The troops have a supply of barley not quite the full amount ; there is no bay." On the 21st he reports—" The horses got barley last night, not quite the full quantity, but no hay. The men had their rations." And on the 22d of November—" There was as near as possible a full ration of barley came up last night, but no hay. The men are well off for rations." On Nov. 18 Col. Mayow previously made the following report—" The horses had hay and corn yester day, but nut their full allowance ; by some mistake the ar tillery got some intended for us. I had spoken to Mr.- Cruickshank, who is now gone to Balaklava, and said he hoped to be able to supply full rations this eveniug." I scud your lordship Colonel Mayow's official reports to me, that you may see that my statement is correct ; and I beg to point out to you that the full ration of barley was all the cavalry horses got daily, except for short periods, since they landed in the East ; there was very little hay iu Bulgaria, and the only substitute for it, viz., chopped straw, was supplied with great uncertainty. Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas in his evidence states as fol. lows, viz. :—" For about a fortnight after the 14th of No vember the horses were without hay or straw, and had only ou average 2?-ilb. of barley per day. * * "While things were in this state, I made a representa tion to the officer commanding the Light Brigade, through •the brigade major, proposing that a certain number of the horses should be sent down daily to bring up forage from Balaklava, where it was understood that it could be ob tained, but the proposal was rejected:" This statement is supported in Appendix, page 19, by a letter dated Balaklava, Dec. 3, 1854, four days after I had resigned the command of the Light Brigade, and dated from the camp near Balaklava, and not from that on the heights of Inkerman. _ _ "Balakleva, Dec. 5, 1854. "Sir,—l have the honour to report that the 11th Hus sey, under my command, have only received the quantity of barley specified in the margin, from the 28th November to Ist December, 1854 (both days inclusive) and no hay. " I have, ttc., (Signed) "J. DOUGLAS, Lieut.-Colonel Commanding 11th Hussars." I beg to state that I could have furnished some addi tional information to the board, and I do so now for your lordship's perusal, viz., a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Douglae, of the 28th of November, 1854, the evening before I resigned the command of the brigade, in which, although the great deficiency of forage is complained of, not one weed is said in the way of recommending, that troop horses should be sent for the forage. I beg leave to direct your attention to the manner in which this evidence is given, viz.:—" For about a fort night after the 14th of November the horses were without hay or straw, and had only on an average 21 pounds •f barley per day ;" whereas the commissariat reports sent to me daily by Col. Mayow go to prove that very near full rations were lulled on the 20th, 21st, and 22d of the mouth; and Col. Mayow himself states in evidence that for some time after the 14th of November full rations of barley wore supplied. Colmel Shewell states that he learned from Colonel De Salis, then in command of the regiment, that " towards the end of November a representation was made to Lord Cardigan, of the expediency of sending down a certain number of horses to Balaklava to procure forage, but his proposal was rejected." I have already pointed out the nature of the representa tion made to me by Col. Douglas, and in addition I have to state that the commissariat officer of the brigade pro• posed verbally to Colonel Mayow, for soy information, on the 24th of November, that troop horses should be sent down for forage to Balaklava. This I objected to, upon the grounds that the horses were totally unfit to march seven or eight miles (the distance as stated in the report of the commissioners) from the camp to Balaklava, and then return heavily laden with forage, and without a greater loss of horses to the brigade and the service than that which occurred by the deficiency of forage. The commissary-general never applied to me officially to send down troop herscs, nor was any representation made to Lord Raglan by that department. It may here be ob served, too, that the greater part of the correspondence by the deputy-assistant commissary -general, relative to the Light Cavalry Brigade, WitS address e d t o th e lieutenant general commanding the division (vide pages 48 and 49 of the commissioners' report). ...... _.... . • I beg to add, that no proposal was ever made to me to send clown troop horses either by Col. Douglas, Col. Do Selig ' or any officer of the brigade ; and I world here ask why Co]. Showell, who in his evidence named me as the responsible person, did not, on the 18th of Nov., when the lieutenant-general of the Cavalry Division gave a variety of orders to the commanding officers of regiments as to the details of the duties of the brigade, and wen he (Colonel Showell) personally asked for and obtained leave of absence to go on board ship, why he did not, if the case was so pressing, apply to the lieutenant-general for permission to send the troop horses for forage? But this omission of profiting by such an opportunity, on the part of C o lonel Showell, and the fact that no other commending officer in the Light Brigade, when they were assembled to receive the lieutenant-general on the 18th of Nov., needs auy similar suggestion, confirms nay conviction that what ever opinions those officers may have expressed in the month of March before the commissioners, they all eon " °a: well g s a a re, against made' curred with me in opinion in the month of November, 1854, that the troop horses were unfit to perform the duty of carrying the forage. Another opportunity was afforded to the commanding officers a ny o f regiments representations t o o li th th e e l 2 i B e t u h te o n f a N nt o -g v e " ne l r B a s4 l W o it f h n i ja eg k a iu r g d to the transport of forage, when an order was sent direct to them with regard to encampment, a copy o f w hi c h is now transmitted. With regard to Col. Shewell's evidence, that officer states that, " if the horses had received their lull rations they would not have suffered so much, notwithstanding their 1 exposure to the weather,"—whereas it is notorious that the mortality amongst the horses in the heavy brigade 1 during the month of November, 1854, was greater than that of the light brigade, although they wore so much better supplied with forage. Reference is made by Colonel Showell " to the deficiency of nosebags, in consequence of which the grain was laid on the ground and a great part of it lost." I have to state that every endeavour was made by me to obtain nosebags for the brigade, without huceess.; so that at last I applied to Sir E. Lyons to assist me, which was the cause of 400 nosebags being supplied to the Light Brigade, by the kind ness of the gallant admiral. I received the following letter on the subject from Sir E. Lyons : " Her Majesty's ship Agamemnon, off Sebastopol, Jan. 3, 1855. " My dear Lord,—At length the n but your lordship is gone, and I think I am doing as y ou would wish in sending them to your successor in command of the Light Division. aga " in l st ai t n he so e r fi ry .ec t t o s ohfeairmtihiestcaymoupahigandinbge7 obliged to leave this army —obliged you certainly were ; for no roan fought the enemy, wore manfully than your lordehio—to wit, the heat and privations on the Danube, the cold and exposure before S-bastopol, and the glorious charge before Bala klava.—l have, &c., (Signed) " EDMUND LYONS." And I will here state that I feel proud of the good opi nion of so distinguished a man as Admiral Sir E. Lyons. Colonel Doherty gives similar evidence to that of Col. Douglas before the commissioners—viz., that the horses only had an average of two pounds and a half of barley after the 12th of November, but which statement cannot be sustained against the evidence I have adduced to the contrary. Ile also states that El troop horses fell dead, al though led, marching flow ono encampment to the other. Although this occurred four days after I h a d res i gn ed the I command of the brigade, I cannot but think that that number 'has been unintentionally exaggerated ; but if otherwise, it only tends to prove that for any rea sonable number of days previous the horses could not have been fit to go the distance, and carry the burdens I have already alluded to. I have now to advert to a very important point—viz., that on the 16th of November I suggested to the officers commanding the regiments of the Light Brigade the ne cessity of their furnishing me with reports of the state of their regiments with regard to their men and horses, noti fying all deficiencies and grievances which they might wish to represent, in order that I might transmit them through the lieutenant-general commanding the division to Lord Raglan, knowing the hardships and inconveniences to which they were all exposed, and hoping that the com mander-in-chief would order the brigade to be removed to a more convenient place of encampment. I herewith transmit to your lordship copies of the re ports famished by officers commanding regiments in the Light Brigade ; and you will no doubt be surprised to see that scareely . any allusion is made to the state of the horses, and no suggestion whatever made as to the advisability of troop horses being sent for forage.' Not having received after the 16th of November any acknowledgment of those reports, I addressed a letter to the tdedstaut adjutant-gene ral, Lord Wm. Paulet, to which I received a reply, an ex tract of which I now forward a copy. " Camp near Sebastopol, Nov. 18, 1851. "My dear Lord Cardigan,—l submitted your letter; and those of the five commanding officers, to Lord Lucan, who has them now in his possession, and, I think, does not in tend forwarding them for Lord Raglan's consideration. " I have, Sr.e., (Signed) " W. PAULET." To prove further my constant attention to the details of the brigade, I beg to transmit a letter which I addressed to the lieutenant-general commanding-the division on the 16th November, 1354, relative to the state of the sick in the hospitals of the camp (iu which, after making some slight complaints as to-the details of duties of the brigade), I strongly urged that immediate means might be adopted for them-tile neat " on ship. ' In this, negret to state, a long delay occurred, consequent, no doubt, upon the unavoidable absence of the means of transport. I have only further to add, that taking advantage of the private friendship with which. Lord Raglan honoured me, I several times urged upon his lordship the benefit that would be derived by removing the Light Cavalry Brigade to a more convenient encampment; and the brigade was removed to the valley near Balaklava on the 3d of December, four days after I had resigned the command of it, Colonel Doherty having been instantly on my resignation put in orders as my successor in command of the Light Cavalry Brigade. Havingthus, my lord, given a plain statement of all which occurred during the last days of my command of the Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea, and feeling that in conse quence of the report of the commissioners a great deal of obloquy has been heaped upon me, and my military cha racter has been severely and unsparingly reflected upon, I must beg leave in a few words to state what my humble services were whilst serving with the army of the East, and the opinion of the commander-in-chief of the army as to the manner in which I performed the duties which de volved upon me. On the 24th of June, 1851, I received the following orders : "Head-quarters, Varna, June 24, 1854, 11 p.m. " The Earl of Cardigan will proceed in person early to morrow to Bagnrdjik with two squadrons of cavalry, carry ing with him three days' provision and forage, take with him from thence the whole of the Turkish cavalry stationed there, and proceed with the least possible delay towards Karasou in order to ascertain the movements of the enemy. "Forage and provision will be sent for his party, in cluding the Turkish cavalry, from hence to Bagurdjik by the direct route early to-morrow. Await his arrival and follow his movements. " I have, &c., (Signed) , " II AGLAN." " Varna, 24, 1854. " My dear Lord Cardigan,—Accounts have just been re ceived that the enemy have raised the siege of Silistria and retreated behind the Dauuba, but as there seems to ba reason to believe that a portion—probably a large portion —have gone down the right bank into tho Dobrudseha, Lord Raglan is desirous that you should in person push a patrol through Bagurdjik, in the direction of Karasou, in order to ascertain the fact. From Bagurdjik you will carry with you the whole of the Turkish cavalry stationed there, and the commissarial, have been instructed to posh on forage and provisions for the whole three squadrons for three or four days to that place. Arrived at Karasou, you will patrol with small parties to the left towards the Danube until you either fall in with the enemy's poste, or ascer tain the direction of his march, and you will send back reports direct to Varna by means of Turkish dragoons, which you had better leave at Bagurdjik and drop on the road for that purpose. The patrol will, of course, leave their tents in oamp, and take nothing with them that is not carried on their horses. " You will observe that by this arrangement you will have forage and provisions for six or seven days, as the mules will be able to follow y*ur motions at such safe dis tance in the rear of the troops as you may direct. " It is unnecessary for me to remind your lordship of the necessity of caution anti circumspection in the performance of this important duty, or to assure you of Lord Raglan's full confidence that you will conduct it with judgment, intelligence, and success. " I have, &c., (Signed) " G. BROWN." I received the following letter from Lord Raglan, dated Varna, 3d July, 1854 :- 1 "My 'dear Lord Cardigan,—Mr. 3faxe delivered to me your report of the 30th, early oa the afternoon of the Ist instant. " You had then been at Karasou, and were on the point of patroling to Rossova,. where I understood yesterday, from an indirect source, you did not find anyof the enemy. You have thus fulfiled your mission, and are now, I con clude, on your return. " I am very much obliged to you for the pains you have taken to carry out my instructions. By so doing you have ascertained for me that the Russians have withdrawn from this end of the Dobruilscha, and that the country between this and Trajan's Wall is not only clear of the enemy, but is totally deserted by the inhabitants. " These are important facts, which it was very desirable I should be made acquainted with, and I hope that the fatigue that you and the squadrons have undergone in ob taining the information will not prove injurious to your health and that of the officers and men under your orders. " I have endeavoured, I hope successfully, to keep you supplied with provisions and forage corn. Yours, &c., (Signed) " RAGLAN." In the performance of this duty the squadrons under my coir mend marched nearly 300 miles, bivouacking for 1.7 nights in the open air. I afterwards had the Light Cavalry Brigade, the troop of Horse Artillery, and two regiments of Heavy Dragoons, under my command and superintendence, at a distance from head-quarters, in Bulgaria, during the period when the cholera, fevers, were raging, and I received his lordship's appreval of my arrangements and services in a pri vate letter, which I transmit for your lordship's perusal. The commander-in-chief of the army wrote the following despatch with regard to the cavalry affair at Bulgarnack the evening before the battle of the Alma : EXTRACTS PROM GENERAL LORD RAGLAN'S DESPATCH, DATED HEAD-QUARTERS, KATCHKA. RIVER, SEPT. 23, 1854. " The English and French armies moved out of their first encampment in the Crimea on the 19th, and bivouacked for the night on the left bank of the Bulgarnack, theformer having previously supported the advance of a part of the Earl of Cardigan's brigade of Light Cavalry, which had the effect of inducing the enemy to movo up a large body of Dragoons and Cossacks, with artillery. " Oa this first occasion of the English encounteritp , the Russian force it was impossible for any troops to exhibit more steadiness than did this portion of her Majesty's cavalry. It fell back upon its supports with the most per fect regularity under the fire of the artillery, which was quickly silenced by that of the batteries I caused to be brought into action." Secondly : " Iu tho afternoon of the previous day, Major General the Earl of Cardigan exhibited the utmost spirit and cool ness, and kept the brigade under perfect command." Lord Raglan again wrote the following despatch with re gard to the battle of Balaklava (Extract.) " Before Sebastopol, Oct. 28, 1854. "Major-General the Earl of Cardigan was ordered to move forward with the Light Brigade. This order was obeyed in the most spirited and gallant manner. Lord Car digan charged with the utmost vigour, attacked a battery which was firing upon the advancing squadrons, and having passed beyond it engaged the Russian cavalry in its rear ; but there his troops were assailed by artillery and infantry as well as cavalry, and necessarily returned after having committed much havoc upon the enemy. " They effected this movement without haste or confu sion, but the loss they have sustained has, I deeply lament, been very severe in officers, men, and horses, only coun terbalanced by the brilliancy of the attack, and the gallan try, order, and discipline which distinguished it." * * * The lieutenant-general of the cavalry division, who was a witness to the transaction, wrote the following report of the charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade against the Rus sian batteries on the 25th of October, 1854 : (Extract.) " Balaklava Oct. 27, 1854. , " The attack of the Light Cavalry was very brilliant and daring; exposed to a fire from heavy batteries on their front and two flanks, they advanced unchecked until they reached the batteries of the enemy, and cleared them of their gunners, and only returned when they found them selves engaged with a very superior force of cavalry in th e rear. Major-General the Earl of Cardigan led this attack in the most gallant and intrepid manner, and his lordship too expressed himself to me as admiring in the highest de gree the courage and zeal of every officer, non-commis sioned-offlcer, and man who assisted." Having made this statement I now fearlessly leave the case in the hands of your lordship and the public, trusting that you will do me the favour to give it tho greatest pos. sible publicity. I have, &c. (Signed) CARDIGAN, Major-General and Inspecting-General of Cavalry. A FUGITIVE SLAVE IN LIVERPOOL.—A. female slave was brought to the port of Liverpool on Saturday night last by the American ship Asterion, Captain Day, un der the following peculiar circumstances :—lt appears that while the ship was loading at New Orleans the poor creature made her escape, whereupon her master offered a reward of 500 dollars to any person who would restore his " property." The police, as is usual in such a race, made strict search throughout the city and on board the vessels in the harbour, but she eluded their vigilance, and found a friend in the ship's boatswain, who secretly conveyed her on borird ar.d kept her in . his berth during the whole of the passage, which occupied 25 days. A remarkable fact is, that with the exception of the boatswain, who liberated her, her presence in the ship was unknown to all on board, even the cal• tain ; and when the vesel anchored in the river she was discovered by the Custom-house officers, searching for contraband tobacco, concealed amongst the hed. clothes in the boatswain's berth. She was taken o t , shore and placed in lodgings iu Queen-street, a f ro o woman. She is a Mulatto, about 20 or 23 years of age, appeared tidily attired, and stated she was w e ll treated since her departure from " the laud of liberty." Naval and Military Intelligence. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir R.. S. Dundee, the late Commander-in-Chief of the Battle fleet, was yesterday re. appointed to that command by the Board of Admiralty, and Captain the Hon. F. Pelham, C.8.,' was appointed Captain of the Fleet, having also held that appointment last year in the Baltic. Rear-Admiral R. L. Bayne3, C. 8., who was third in command in the Baltic fleet last year, was yesterday also appointed to hoist his flag, for service in the Baltic. Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., who was second in command of the Baltic flefet during the last year, is appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Stirling as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. Her Majesty's ship Calcutta, sailing 84, will leave Portsmouth this day for Plymouth, to be fitted for the flag of Rear-Ad miral Seymour. Sir Michael 'will not wait for the Cal cutta, but will proceed to relieve Sir James by the overland route. Orders have been received at Portsmouth Dockyard for the authorities tdexpedite with all despatch the refit. ment of the three steam troop-ships Vulcan, Commander itowyear ; the Perseverance, Commander Crang ; and the Urgent, Commander Phillips, as they may be vantedi suddenly to embark troops for colonial' service. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Dragon, 6, Captain Stewart, C. 8., will leave Portsmouth harbour for Spit head to-morrow. She was tried in the steam basin after a refit yesterday. _ _ The Flying Fish, 6, screw-sloop, Commander Dew, has received her boilers at Portsmouth, and is otherwise being equipped rapidly for service. The 13Ienheirn, 60, screw block-ship, Captain W. H. Hall, bent sails yesterday afternoon at Portsmouth, and will join the fleet at Spithead on Friday. She is orde re d to prepare for sea, and it is rumoured .that she goes to Lisbon, and will send home the St. George, sailing, 120. , The steam-tender Alban, 4, Lieut. Fisher, -arrived at Spithead yesterday tilorning from the eaststarl, with supernumeraries and left again in the afternoon. The Algiers, 91, Captain Codringtou, C. 8., went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to refit. The Falcon, 17, screw sloop, Commander Pullen, corn: pleted the adjustment of her compasses in Portsmouth harbour yesterday. The steam-transport Cleopatra, No. 136, will embark this day at Portsmouth about ma of the Lancashire and Oxford Militia for Corfu. The Sovereign steam transport, No. 68, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday a ft en e The Royal Mail Company have received orders from the Admiralty to immediately prepare their steam-ships Orinoco and Great Western, now lying at Southampton, for the transport service. The Thames is also to be got ready for the purpose of conveying to Malta from Ports mouth on Saturday next 500 men and 22 officers, de tachments of various regiments. The General Screw Company have received an intima' tion that the Government might require the use of their four large ships now lying in Southampton Docks— viz., the Calcutta, Argo, Ilydaspes, and Queen of the South, for the transport service. The company are act ing upon the intimation, and the vessels are being pre pared for sea. The screw freight-ship Gottenberg, with a cargo of Ordnance stores from the Tower, for the use of the troops in the East, arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning, and after shipping 20 tons of ammunition there will sail, without delay, for her destination. The Dee, with boilers and steam machinery, left Wool wich yesterday for Portsmouth. The steam gun-boats Forester and Fervent were yes terday morning taken into Woolwich basin to be rigged and fitted for service. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lord E. H. Cecil, Lieutenant (flag), to the Duke of Wellington ; Lieut. Lionel Lambert, to the Retribution ; Lieut. W. M. Sanctuary, to the Cmsar ; Lieut. R. H. Swinton, to the Cressy ; Lieut. John B. Barwett, to the Desperate; Lieut. T. L. Pearson, to the Lapwing; Lieut. A. 11. Welch, to the Hogue. Lieutenants appointed to the command of gun-boats: —Lieut. W. B. Pauli, to the Louisa ; Lieut. E. A. T. Stubbs, to the Fervent; Lieut. A. T. Key, to the Nettle; Lieut. W. B. Stubbs, to the Pet ; T. W. Stephens, Mate, to the Mohawk ; E. C. Hawarth, navel cadet, to the Cre:tsy ; H.S. Kelly, Second Master, to the Victory; T. Coates, Master's Assistant, to the Salamander ; H. Gilpin, Paymaster, to the Nile. Recruits joined the Royal Marine corps at Woolwich in great numbers, in consequence of which orders have been issued to withdraw the recruiting parties from various stations—namely, Stamford, Ip iwich, Oxford, Bradford, and some other places. The Royal Marine battalions now number more than 16,0300. The number of invalids discharged from Woolwich per week amounts to about 20. The Woolwich and Chatham divisions have each 200 supernumeraries, and Portsmouth 74. Captain Walter B. Persse, 00th Light Infantry, will proceed from the provisional battalion this day for Ports ; mouth, in charge of a large draught of the Medical Staff Corps, under orders to embark in the Cleopatra for Scutari. Yesterday afternoon invalids to the number of. 67, from almost every regiment now in the Crimea, arrived at Chatham, having disembarked from the Thames steam-transport at Portsmouth. They left the hospital at Balakiava on the 26th of January last, and sailed the following day, in charge of Lieutenant William Daunt, of the 9th Regiment. Captain H. Foster, 95th Regi ment, and Lieutenant H. J. De Carteret, 79th High landers, also arrived with the detachment, having been invalided home. , Most of the invalids who arrived had received their wounds at the attack on the Redan. Dr. Andrew Smith, the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Army, paid a visit of inspec tion to the hospitals at Chatham yesterday. After hav ing minutely inspected the Garrison and Brompton Hospitals, which were considered by Dr. Smith to be, as to their general cleanliness, all he could desire, he drove to the General Hospital, Fort Pitt. After passing through the various wards, which were scrupulously clean, Dr. Smith inspected the new building now erecting for the insane soldiers, and before leaving expressed his entire satisfaction with the whole of the arrangements under Dr. Dartnell, the principal medical officer. [PRICIi '4D. • S T AMPED SD• THE MILITIA. The Hampshire Militia has now given to the Guards, Marines, and Line 560 men, and also 300 to the Hamp shire Militia Artillery ; total, 860 men. The regiment is now reduced to five companies, with five captains ; the remaining officers of the above rank have been or dered to retire till the regiment can recruit up to ten companies of 50 men each. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN. The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per ann um. EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE. The half•yearly meeting of this company took place at Edinburgh on Friday. A dividend was declared of 3 . .; per oent. per annum. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON. The half-yearly meeting was held at Darlington on Friday. A resolution declaring dividends at the rate of 5 per cent. on preference shares, 6 per cent. on the Wear Valley end Middlesborough and Redcar shares, and 9 per cent. on the ordinary share capital of the company, was passed. WEAR VALLEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Darlington on Friday. The usual dividend of t 3 per cent. per annum was declared. GLOUCESTER AND DEAN FOREST. The half•yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Gloucester, when a dividend was declared of 12s. per share. HULL AND SELBY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Hull. A dividend was declared of 21. 9s. 6d. on each of the 501. sharee, of 11. 4s. 9d. on each of 251. shares, and of 12s. 4Ad. on each of the 121. 103. shares. MIDDLESBOROUGH AND REDCAR. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Darlington on Friday. A. dividend of 6 per cent. was declared. ROYSTON AND HITCHIN. The half yearly meeting of this company was held y es terday at the office, St. Helen's - place ; Mr. Reed in the chair. The only business transacted was the declaration of the usual dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, after which the meeting separated, SCINDE. The first meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Gresham House, New Broad-street ; Mr. Andrew in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read, the seal of the company was affixed to the register of shareholders. The report, which has already appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The Chairman 'aid some remarks having been made in reference to the amount of preliminary expenses, he thought it right to state that in the Puna mentioned the total amount of law expenses was not included ; but the directors had reason to believe the amount would not exceed 1,2001., fees and all other matters connected with the legal expenses of the undertaking included. (Hear, hear.) The liabilities of the com pany it would also be interesting to the proprietors to learn were small. The directors had not been idle in the forwarding of their undertaking, and about 4,000 tons of sleepers and rails were now ready for shipping, the cost of which they were discharging. Their con • tracts, he might mention, were entered into at very fair prices. In reference to the accounts, he did not know that he had more to say, but he would, with the per• mission of the meeting, make a few observations on the harbour of Kurrachee, to the capabilities of which he , bad paid a great deal of attention. It had been ob j ected that during the south•western monsoons the harbour METROPOLITAN BOARD OF IVOMS. Last evening a complimentary dinner was given at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, by the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the members of that body and the metropolitan members of Parliament. Amongst the company were the Lord Mayor, Sir B. Hall, M.P., Sir James Duke, M.P., Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P., Sir W. Clay, M.P., Mr. A psley Pellatt, M.P., Mr. Montagu Chambers, M.P , Sir Charles Napie., M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Rose, Mr. Woolrych, secre tary to tse board, Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Offer, Major Lyon, &c. The usual loyal toasts having been duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN proposed the " Army and Navy," coupled with the names of Major Lyon and Admiral Sir Charles Napier. Major LYON returned thanks for the army. Adisiral Sir C. NAPIER, in acknowledging the toast on behalf of the navy, said he felt very much obliged to the company for the honour they had done him. Though the navy had not yet had the opportunity which the army had experienced of distinguishing itself daring the present war (the enemy, notwithstanding his bold and enterprising spirit, having kept so close in port that it was impossible to get at him), he could assure them that the navy was just as willing and ready as in former wars to do those deeds of glory which had recommended them to the favourable notice of their countrymen. (Hear.) He was happy to say that by the direction of the present Government—should the war continue—it would be seen that there never was a navy sent to sea in such an effi cient state as the Baltic fleet would be sent this year. The Government, ho was happy to s ty, had seen the cessity of sending proper shipathere, and no vessels were to be emplOyed that were not in good acting order. It appeared that 200 gun and mortar boats were now ready for the Baltic service, Ni ith a fleet consisting of 100 sail and pennants. With these advantages be was quite sure that, if it wore possible to get at the Russians this year, either through Sweaborg or Cronstadt, they would make a very severe example of them, and give a good account of themselves to the Government. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN next gave "Her Majesty's Ministers and Sir Benjamin Hall." Sir B. HALL, In returning thanks, said they were met on this occasion for soz,al rather than political objects, and therefore he should best discharge his duty, and act most in accordance with the feelings of the company, if he confined himself to the expression of his thanks for the compliment which they had paid the Government. (Hear, hear.) He conceived they were met here for the purpose of supporting the operation of an act of Parliament which ha I lately been passed, and that he was invited because he was the author of that measure, and the successful promoter of it. A quarter of a century had elapsed since he first took his seat in the House of Commons, and for nearly 20 years he had represented one of the largest constituencies of the empire. (Hear.) He had always hoped that the . time would one day arrive when he might be enabled to make some return for the confidence which had been placed in him by preparing a measure of reform which would produce good and great results ; and the moment he accepted office he determined that a session should not pass without his laying before the Government a scheme for the better regulation of the metropolis, in order that the various parishes might be brought into that state of local self-government of which he had always been the earnest and uncompromising advocate. It was satisfactory to him to find that, notwithstanding the difficulties he had encountered at the outset, the bill —owing in a great measure to the assistance he had al. ways received from his noble friend at the head of the Go vernment, who supported him at every step, and from his noble friend the present Secretary of State for the Home Department—had met with the greatest encouragement and success. The bill had passed, and he was happy to perceive from the reports of the proceedings of the Board of Works, and from communications which reached him day after day, that there was scarcely any provision in a legislative enactment containing no less than 250 clauses, which required alteration or recision. So far the government had been successful in their en deavour to establish reform in the management of the metropolis. And he was happy to say that another bill of a similar tendency was about to be introduced—viz., an act for such reforms in the corporation of the City of London as might be necessary in consequence of altered times and circumstances. From what he had seen of the draft of the bill, he believed it would preserve to the cor poration all those rights and privileges to which they were entitled ; whilst at the same time it would give to the City of London those principles of s e o g a o r v d e r o n f local self-government which were enjoyed by our . large provincial towns. With regard to the present bill, he over the whole empire. nweeendtonrelystoecbisewrvitehthtahtetmhe (thepr principle c Metropolitan; le of al Works). It was for them to determine whether that and he might be allowed . to say that if, as the They important duties to dia. prineilhilaedwiansantyo anbexemxutesnadnedd Chief Commissioner for Public Works, he could render charge ; them any assistance, h . e begged th ey would call upon him to aid them ; and if he ceased to be a minister, but retained a seat in the house, he should always be readily at their service. Ho should never forget the debt of gratitude which he owed t o th e metropolis ; wad he was proud of being the author of the bill which had called this influential body into existence. (Cheers.) Other toasts having bean given and responded to, the company separated after a very agreeable evening. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—LordStanIey of Alderley will shortly introduce aGavcrument bill for the purpose of giving effect to the recommendation of the Lords' committee on the subject of agricultural statistics. ,THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY. —Yesterday, at the Surrey Sessions, Richard Beattie, a watchman in the employ of the South Eastern Rail way Company, surrendered to answer the charge of having, by neglect of duty, caused an accident of a most serious description. The evidence was in accordance with the particulars which recently appeared in our columns, and to show that the accid ent (which, as will be recollected, took place in September last, between New-cross and the Surrey Canal Bridge) was caused by the prisoner's omission to shift the point, and by hi s thetrains, theth e company Lours ef L showing a wrong signal. I t was elicited on cross-exami nation of the witnesses , that the prisoners duties W ere v a er d y r n e, u iu m c e e r d ou th s, e and spe e that a of f sin tre attendance of th e switchmen. The prisoner had. been t wen ty years in th e companys service, and wa s muc h re spected. Mr. Robinson, on his bard, urged th a t cr i- t a momentary ac t of forgetfuln ess . The j ur y retur ned a verdict of mina' liability should not be attached to g uilty," with a recommendation to mercy on account or the multiplicity of the prisoner's duties. The Chair- m oan, in passing sentence, said that such multifarious duties, and so responsible a position as the prisoner's, ought to entail a liberal salary. Looking at the pri sonelt's excellent character, he thought that justice would be satisfied by a merely nominal punishment. Senten ce seven days' imprisonment. This lenient award apP earid to give satisfaction to those present. tANK OF L.ONDON, Threadneedle•street, and 450, West Strand. C LifilltAx—Slv JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P. YrCE•Cams MAN—JO GRIFFITH FRI CH, Esq. 541'stit Ace:Glints are received, and interest allowed on Balances. it,w'iDer cent. Interest is allowed on deposits, with 10 days' notice k il drawal on sums of 10?. and upwards. By order. MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. BENJAMIN SCOT r, Secretary. Thie sdneedle-street, January 19, 1856. • AIR. WILKIE COLLINS'A NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the libraries, in 2 vols., F TER D ARK. By WILKIB COLLINS. author of " Basil," "Bide and Seek," &c. 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