The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

Liberal Demonstration in Essex. MALDON, Dec. 16. The IVlaldou Liberal Independent Cub celebrated its fifth anniversary last evening in the public hall in this town, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion. The chair was occupied by Sir T, B. Western, Bart., who was supported by Mr Chichi s ter Forteseue, M.P., Under Secretary for the Colo nies ; Mr T. Sutton Western, M.P. for Maldon ; Mr Charles Buxton, M.P. for Maidstone; Mr J. G. Re.bow, the Liberal candidate for Colchester; Mr R. 13, Baker, the Liberal candidate for South Mc R. J. Bagshaw, late M.P. for Harwich; the Th - iv. Sir J. Page Wood ; Captain Byng, R.N.; 3lejor Russel!, Colonel Western, Mr G. Cour. taa,d. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, The CHAIRMAN gave " Hae jesty's Ministers," remarking that he was sure the toast would be well received, as Lord Palmerston was the most popular Minister this country had had for a long time. Mr CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, M.P., responded, The right hon. gentleman said he was closely con nected with her Majesty's Ministers, and he re turned thanks on their behalf as one of the Liberal party. Ia respect of their character as Conserve. tives—if they had such a character—ho did not at tempt to return thanks ; but his sentiments went with the Liberal party, and that was the reason why he acted under the present Ministers. Her Mae jesty's Government was in very good health at the present moment. It was true that during the past summer they had a very severe attack, but that at tack ended favourably, the recovery was rapid and complete, and he thought that their health had since been better than it was before. (Laughter.) He cen'd wish, however, that the members of her Majesty's Government were better acquainted within the walls of the House of Commons with the Liberals of Essex. It seemed to him that the great object of these political gatherings was that those present should exchange to the best of their power political information and political ideas, Wei as to keep awake and alive the spirit of the party. With this feeling he should venture to make a few remarks upon certain subjects which interested the country at the present time,end first of all with respect to those subjects with which he was personally moat conversant, he would say a word or two upon one of the colonial questions. He would begia with the colony of New Zealand. He wished he could announce to the meeting that the war in New Zealand was at an end. Ha was not, however, able to do so, and the last accounts from the colony were not epite so satisfactory as our hopes had led us to expect. The submission of the natives had not yet been secured, and it would evi dently require another campaign before peace could be restored. However, in spite of certain contretemps and certain disappointments, all he could learn from the colony by the mail which arrived only the pre vious day led him to the belief that the campaign which had lately begun would be the last of a war which he hoped and believed would not be witnessed again. He knew that fears had been entertained by many good men in this country that the Govern ment of New Zealand was inclined to deal hardly with the natives to deprive them in an unjustifiable degree of the land and even to continue the war for the sake of the gain supposed to be derived from the imperial military expenditure in those islands. But he confessed that he did not believe in the desire of the New Zealand colonists to continue the war longer than it could be helped. His knowledge of the great sacrifices which they bad been and were still making, by the shedding of colonial blood, by the spending of colonial money, and by the paralysis ofcolonial trade, led him to the conviction that they would not be inclined to continue the war a day longer than could be helped. He felt also sure that the natives would not be treated urjustly with regard to their land. Precautions had been most properly taken by his right hon friend, Mr Cardwell, the present head of the Colonialeoffice, that the large powers with respect to the confiscation of native land which the colonial government had taken should not be abused. It was impossible that the Govern ment in the islands of New Zealand engaged in deadly conflict with another race could view these matters with that calmness and impartiality which the Imperial Government was able to bring to bear upon them ; and, therefore, it was the duty of her Majesty's Government to take particular care that no wrong should be done to the native race in the terms of peace. At the same time he thought that portion of the natives of New Zeelsnd who had been to their great loss and ours perversely shed ding their blood and the blood of the colonists, and of her Majesty's troops, should receive a severe lesson, which should prevent them pursuing a simi lar line of conduct in the future. He believed that that was necessary and just, and the best thing which could happen both for us and for them; and this he believed would he the practical result of the powers given by her Majesty's Government to the Governor of New Zealand. He would add one word as to the general subject of our dealings with this interesting colony of New Zealand and its native population, because there had been in the public press and elsewhere a good deal of ignorant and unjust accusation indulged in with respect to our dealings with that remarkable native popula tion. In the first place, could we be blamed for baying taken the government of New Zealand ? Any one who knew anything of the history of that colony must feel that we were not open to blame upon that point, Oar people had already gone to New Zealand in very considerable numbers before we assumed the government ; and it was perfectly certain that magnificent islands, equal in extent to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, could have been left in the possession of a small, sparse, and already diminishing native race, and must inevitably have been, sooner or later, occu pied by some European Power. In fact, it w well known that it was a race between Great Britaiu and France as to which of these great Powers should obtain possession of New Zealand. Oar Government sent them to New Zealand because they were forced to do so, and because it was their duty to keep order between British sub jects already settled there and the native race. So far he thought we were (Teri to no blame, and what had happened since ? In spite of the present unfortunate war, in spite of the prejudice which the power of a great country like this against a small native race might excite in some minds, he maintained that the war bad been caused by no pro ceedings on our part. Let any one examine the history of our dealings with these natives, and he would find that however much we might have failed in otter respects, we had not oppressed them. In this war the natives had not risen against any vio lation of their liberties, against robbery of their property, against tyranny and wrong. We had, he admitted, failed to maintain, for any length of time, peacet al relations between races differing so greatly from one another; but this was a result which per haps had not yet been achieved by any European nation. It was a result which we hoped to attain, but which we failed to attain ; but our sins had been more those of omission than of commission. We had not been oppressive, but on the contrary we had been tolerant. We had tried perhaps to do more than was possible, and had substituted theories for facts. For instance, we voted these natives to be British subjects, enjoying all the rights and privi teg7 of B r i t i s h su bj ects. Our Ministers, in their e at ,y despatches to colonial governors, directed them to treat the natives as British subjects, and above all me end to enforce law end order ; but the factions, the natives o f N ew Zealand, declined the privilege; offered when coupled with the conditions of law and order. The Colonial Government had no power to enforce the principle Nid down, and it was found impossible to re duce the theory to practice. Then came a change which was highly beneficial to th e English race in New Z..aland,but not ao b eneficial perhaps to the native race—viz., the introduction of responsible government into the colony, H e did not mean to say that the responsible Go vernment of New Zealand bed oppressed the natives, but that change had increased the weak ness of the Executive GovernMent, and had induced those difficulties of a -double authority under Which we were now labouring—a state of things in which it was most difficult with a simi-savage race to deal with, to wage a war of 1 any kind. In this wer, and the difficulties With which we had to deal, we had been far from blame —we had not reached that beau ideal which we set before ourselves ; but, on the other hand, he was ready to maintain that, compared with the rela tions of any European Power with any other race of savages in the world over and at any period of history, our relations with New Zealand stood out in favourable relief. Let them be compared with our dealings in former times with the natives of North America, or with the dealings of the Govern• went of the United States at this moment with the natives of North America, and reason would be found in spite of all drawbacks to congratulate our selves upon the degree of prosperity which in a very few years the young colony of New Zealand had attained with a comparative freedom from outrage and bloodshed, or putting the white man against the dark man, or the dark man against the white man. He said this although war was raging at this moment, a war which he hoped would soon come to a termination, and which was being con-• ducted even by the natives themselves to a very great degree upon the principles of civilisation. (Hear, hear.) There were two other colonial ques tions of striking interest at this moment. The first was the question of transportation to Australia, and he could but congratulate the meeting upol the abolition of transportation in that direction: It was well known by the public press that that system was at an end, the Government having announced its intention to put an end, with the sanction of Parliament, to that small remnant of transportation which still remained to Western Australia. Upon this subject he must say that our patience had been rather tried by our fellow-countrymen on the other side of the world. They had taken the matter into their own hands with a degree of vigour and tem. per which had made it rather difficult for her Ma jesty's Government to deal calmly and justly with the question. However, he was glad to say that the act of shipping a certain number of ex-con victs back to these shores—rather a strong measure —had been the work of certain individuals at Melbourne, and not the act of the Colonial Government ; and, in spite of this somewhat provoking conduct, her Majesty's Government had announced to the colonists that in a short time transportation to Australia should cease. For him self he rejoiced at this, for he w as perfectly certain the.: transportation could have been continued for a very short time even to the colony of 'Western Australia; and as to the conduct of our country men, it must be remembered that while they exag gerated the evils under which they were now suffer ing they did not exaggerate the evils of the past influx of convicts, and their feelings were so strong upon the subject that they were hardly capable of reasoning upon it. He confessed he hat' considerable sympathy with the feelings of the colonists, and that he rejoiced for their sake as well as for ours that her Majesty's Government had come to a dual decision upon the subject. (Hear.) The other colonial topic to which he wished to allude was the project of the federation of the British province of North America. He had no authority to go into details upon that subject, or to express the opinions of her Majesty's Government, but ha knew very well that they would very well represent the feelings of this country it they entertained too jealousy whatever of the grow• ing power and prosperity of those great provinces; on the contrary, her Majesty's Government, like all -he rest of Englishmen, wished to see these pro vinces growing more and more in all the elements of power. He believed that the project in question would greatly contribute to such result. He believed that it was our interest and the interest of the human race, that an independent self-reliant power should rise up in North Americas, and that the whole porn. lotion of that vast continent should not be moulded upon one type. He had no doubt that the relations between this union of colonies and this country would remain the same as they were at present, and that they would remain under the sovereignty of the Queen. The only change would be that they would be better able than they had hitherto been to contribute towards their own defence, and instead of having several minor provinces, they would form one great dependency of the Crown, the Government of which would be an object worthy of the ambition of the greatest of our public men. (Hear, hear.) With regard to other affairs it seemed to him that this was a period in which opinion was a greater power than action. In point of action there was a lull in the political world; but opinion was maturing itself upon many important points, and the times of ripening opinion were perhaps not less important in the history of the world than those of stirring action. Among other matters opinion was forming with respect to our relations with the colonies. The main fact which struck him upon this subject was, that, while in former times the leading motive as to the relations between the Imperial power and the colonies was that of interest, in these times the lead ing idea and motive was that of daty. It was thought in old times most important as a matter of self-interest to acquire as many colonies as possible, in order to obtain a monopoly of their trade. Those ideas were now exploded, and in these times there was a certain feeling upon the surface that we gained very little by our colonies. The truth of the matter was, that having acquired these colonies, it was our 1 duty to keep them, and he believed that in the per. formance of that duty we should find that we had not forgotten our interest. It was impossible to believe for a moment that a country which had been able to acquire these magnificent colonies in America, Australia, and South Africa—these cus tomers for our goods, these faithful allies at distant points of the globe—these homes for our superabun dant population for many generations to come— could be sacrificing her own interest iu doing her duty towards those dependencies. He was con vinced himself, and he hoped and believed, that the people of England would be convinced also, that in this, as in all other matters, honesty was the best policy, and that in doing our duty towards the coionies we should v.- ricniy repaid. (H 4r, hear.) As to domestic alLirs, the diacthsion had lately been renewed upon the great question of Parlia mentary reform with considerable vigour, and he could only say that he hoped that them Liberal party would be able to discriminate that line which should admit—and, he must add, not more than admit—within the franchise that portion of the working classes in this country who could enter within these bounds with advantage to themselves and to the commonwealth. With regard to the re• lations between the Es'ablished Church and the Dis senting bodies, it seemed to him that it especially behoved the Liberal party to keep in their hands and guardianship the principle of civil and religious liberty, and to maintain fairly ideas of equity be tween religions bodies. The maintenance of equity and equality was not inconsistent with the most sincere adherence to one's own religions belief—the danger was that religion, so essential in its own sphere, sometimes entered into spheres which were not its own, changed its own nature, and instead of maintaining, as it ought to do, contradicted the principles of equality and equity. Upon this subject he might be excused for saying one word on behalf of a very great and important class of Dissenters— he meant the great Roman Catholic body of Ire land. He himself, though a Protestant, was con nected with that body, and he should feel false to his duty if he neglected this opportunity of entreat. ing the meeting, as representing the Liberal party of England, to maintain good terms with that great and important body. In regarding this question, one was dealing with a nation which formed a very great and important part of the Queen's dominions, and it was not a mere matter of party interest to keep upon good terms with the great Roman Catho• lic body of Ireland. He should be sorry to see the weight of that body thrown entirely into the Tors camp ; but the party interests involved were insig nificant in comparison with the public and national interests which were at stake. Ho knew himself, having been in Ireland lately, that the great bulk of the sensible Roman Catholics of Ireland were net disposed to join the Tory or Orange part 3 . "their wish w as to act, as they bad for many years acted, with the great Liberal it was highly desirable that thing s such a par e t t y rst ; 6 and should exist. non intervention in the affairs With respectint foreign to oo n n o n n : tries —a subject which had lately—a e been much discussed confessed he thou to lay dow n an ht it w as i mposs ib le g programme on such a subject which should bind a great country like this. He believed TILL SVN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1864. that we had been very much disgusted with our failure in maintaining a certain treaty with respect to Denmark, and the result of that feeling had been to drive us into the other extreme. But there was no reason for us to come to the conclusion that we were never again to take any part in the affairs of Eu rope. The truth was that while on the one hand we should not indulge in any meddling policy, or at tempt anythieg for which our insular or maritime position unfitted us, on the other hand we should not proclaim to the nations of the world that we were prepared to witness passively any wrong which might be committed by the powerful upon the weak in Europe. His belief was that if small States such as Denmark proper, Belgium, Holland, or Switzerland were to be attacked by some power ful neighbour we should find it imposaib.e consis tently with our honour and our true interests to sit by with our arms foided. Upon the subject of the lamentable war still raging on the other side of the Atlantic, it seemed to him that her M ijasty's Go vernment had represented with peculiar fidelity the leelings of this country—and he believed that no thing was more creditable to the Government and to Lord Russell than the true and honest neutrality which had been maintained. He believed that they had been right in not identifying themselves with the enthusiasm for the Sout hern States so strongly felt by the Conservative party, or with the fanatic ism on behalf of the Northern States expressed by sections of the Liberal party. He sympathised with the Northern States so far as their struggle was for boundary and for the prevention of slavery in territories still free from it. O❑ the other hand, he had not withheld his sympathy for those States which had fought gallantly for their independence. (Cheers.) Mr It. SMITH proposed " The Health of Mr S. Western, M.P. for Maldon." (Loud cheers.) Mr WESTERN, M.P., briefly replied. Mr G. COURTAULD proposed the " House of Com mons,'' associating with the toast the name of Mr C. Buxton. (Cheers.) Mr C. BUXTON, M.P,, in responding, observed that a great deal had been said of late as to the rapid effacement of all distinctions between 'Tory and Liberal, so that it was quite a relief to find that i❑ one point at least the Conservatives were rapidly diverging from the Liberals and taking a course which, unless the Liberals were false to their prin ciples, if the Conservatives were false to the pro. feseions they were making, must bring the two par ties into collision. The Conservatives seemed to have got the idea into their heads that it would be their policy now to push themselves forward once more as the especial patrons of the Established Church, and to make the country believe that if Liberalism had its way the ruin of the Church was at hand. This assumption must strike any one who was not ignorant of the history of the last forty yeats with astonishment at its audacity. Would any man of common sense say that the magnificent position in which the Established Church now stood, rooted so deeply in the heart and mind of the Bri tish people, would have been possible had the To ries got their way ? They would have preserved the Test Acts; they would have preserved the Acts which interfered with the freedom of Dissenters to worship God in their own way ; they would have preserved the splendid sinecures which excited such intense disgust. They would have preserved the abuses by wtiich the old system of taking tithe was surrounsied both in this country and still was in Ireland. It surely could not be denied that the true friends of the Church—those who had given her that mighty hold which she now had in this coun try—were the Liberal party who rid her of the abuses which disgraced and weakened her; and he thought that no true friend of the Chinch, whether Liberal or Conservative, could have read Mr Disraeli's great speech the other day without some consternation in watching that dexterous orator balancing the Church on his chin, to the infinite amusement, it would seem, of his hearers—at least if we might judge from the laughter, much laughter, repeated laughter, with which his sallies on her behalf, and especially his great joke about external punishment, were received. What he (Mr Buxton) feared was lest this outcry of the Tories, that the Church was in danger. and that its true friends must hurry on to its rescue, should by degrees lead Liberals to take for granted that this really was so, and that as the Conservatives were the friends of the Church the Liberals therefore, as a matter of course, must look on themselves as her enemies. F Bat in reality the Liberal party was needed for the rescue of the Church from a serious danger that did actually threaten her —not indeed in her connection with the State, nor yet in her emoluments—but lest the Conservatives should succeed in the endeavour they were making to recover that freedom of thought within the Church herself by which she had hitherto been marked. There was no doubt that of late men's minds had been much disturbed by what seemed to them dangerous opinions among the bishops and clergy themselves. Mr Disraeli, in his great ora tion, seized eagerly on this alarm, hoping, it would seem,that if the tide were taken at its flood it would lead him on to fortune; and no doubt he thought that the tremendous broadside which he poured into the Broad Church party would be heard with general delight. Undoubtedly it was only a small section even of the Liberal party which belonged to that Broad Church; but he trusted the Liberals would not, either on that account, or from any fear of sharing in the distaste with which that party was regarded by the people at large, stand idly by while the Tory party availed themselves of a tem porary alarm in order permanently to cripple the energies of independent thought among the clergy. It was the most essential principle and the greatest glory of Liberals to bo the advocates not only of civil but of religious freedom ; but let them not merely lisp the phrase of "civil and religious liberty,' without standing _courageously by that great and true principle. Mr Disraeli, of course, with his usual skill tried to increase the unpopu. larisy of the Broad Church party, by declaring that the comprehension at which they aimed was that of including everybody who believed nothing. He said they repudiated creeds, and rejected articles, and he did not hesitate to apply to them the word :,ceptical, and to predict that, if they became para mount, the result might in time be that opinions the most absurd might be developed, to be followed, perhaps, by the incantations of Canidia and the Corybanlian bowl. (Laughter.) The weapon by which the Conservatives hoped to drive out the Broad Church party was a court of final appeal, in which the clerical element should be supreme. It seemed almost incredible that in the nineteenth century a skilful statesman should set himself to restore ecclesiastics to that position which they had so invariably disgraced—the position of judges in cases of heresy. The Conservatives could not en dure that clergymen accused of heresy should be tried and judged by the Lord Chancellor, with merely two or three Episcopal assessors. They wanted the Church authorities to be absolutely supreme. 'What was the real meaning of this pro posal ? Neither more nor less than this—that they wished the tribunal to consist of men who would share in their views, and might be trustee to condemn those who might trespass upon them. But after all, the only real question that such a tribunal had to judge was whether the clergyman who was accused had or had not violated the law of the Church by his teaehivg. Who was so fit to lay down the law as he who had risen to the very top of the legal profession, viz., the Lord Chancellor ? Who was most fit to ascertain whether the clergyman's writings really bed or had not violated that law—the Lord Chancellor, who came to the case an impartial judge, or the bishops who inevitably must feel some kind of prejudice against the assumed heretic? All experience had shown that bishops when intrusted with judicial power abused it, no merely to the ruin of the unhappy individual upon whom they sat in judgment, but to the prejudice of the Church to which they belonged. The express aim of some Coneetva tives appeared to be to put down anything like indepen dence of thought within the borders of the Church of Eng land. They had what he admitted was a very natural feel ing—namely, an intense aversion to seeing others forming ' , pinions of their own of a novel kind upon religious topics. That feeling was natural enough. Almost everyone expe rienced it more or less; but he regarded it as the highest triumph of wisdom, both of head and heart, to be wilting to allow others freed,m to think for themselves, even when their thoughts might seem to us falsa or dangerous. To be sure, the clergy did not stand in this respect on the same footing with the laity, They had declared their adhesion to the doctrines of the Church, and in receiving emoluments they entered into a kind of honourable compact not to vio late her doctrines ; and especially in the case of parish priests the laity had a right to demand that their clergymen ehould not outrage their religious feelings, Notwithstand ing that, he utterly denied that it could be for the real inte rest either of the laity or of the clergy, or of the Church herself, that the minds of her members should be bound down under a tight and narrow bondage. We might fairly claim that no man should serve at her altars who did not accept her leading principles; but it would be the greatest folly in the world to carry that stringency so far that the clergy should not dare to use their minds vigorously and boldly within those Ride bounds. (Hear.) It had been the unique characteristic of the Church of England, that she had given liberty to her ministers to stamp their mind and character upon their teaching instead of being forced to cut their teachings to one exact pattern; and at this time, when there was such a mighty stir of mind every where, it would be most disastrous to the clergy and to the Church it they were restrained by joutward artificial machinery, elaborated for the express purpose, from exer cieing:their intellect upon the question of questions, " What is truth ?" He could not imagine how any thinking man, who knew anything of the :religious history of the world, could suppose that religious history in such a country as this could be kept at a dead stand-still. It must undergo some change, it must pass through phase after phase of development—and the rash endeavour to resist the univer sal law of nature, and to keep the faith of mankind in stagnation must inevitably in the long run, deaden the faith which it sought to preserve. (Hear, hear.) Those who in their terror of anything which bore the faintest semblance of unorthodoxy would set on foot the most potent machinery possible for its extinction, forgot one thing which it was of the highest importance to remember, viz , that if you put down all false thought lyou inevitably put down all true thought along with it. There was no alternative, if you gathered up the tares you would root up the wheat as well. The censorship of ,the press wherever it had been attempted had shown that if men were to be crushed the moment they passed beyond some narrow limit they would et length become afraid to stir—and if we shut up the minds and mouths of the clergy by creating a more stringent inquisition in opinion than that which now existed the result must be that thinking men would shrink more and more from entering the Church, and that her ministers who ought to be the leaders of religious thought would sink into mere repeaters of parrot phrases. We might depend upon it that the intellectual decay of the Church must in due time break her power over the heart and mind of the English peuple. He trusted, however, that the Liberal party—Dissenters as well as Churchmen —would stand by the great principle of religious liberty. (Cheers.) The healths of the Chairman—Mr R. B.:Baker and the Liberal Electors of South Essex—of the Liberal Electors of North Essex—of Mr Rebow and the Liberal Electors of Colchester—of Mr Bagahaw and the Liberal Electors of Harwich—of the Liberal Electors of Malden, and other toasts followed. It was announced that it was in tended to bring forward a Liberal candidate for North Essex—but the name of the gentleman in question was not indicated• Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service. (From the Civil Service Gazette.) Homo office—Mr J. C. A, Bones, deputy-governor of Portsmouth convict prison, has been appointed governor of Pentonvillo prison. Captain C. B. La Tonche has been ap pointed deputy-governor of Portsmouth prison. War-office—Mr C. A. Ellis, first-class clerk, Royal Car riage Department, has been promoted to be principal clerk in the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, vice G. C. Munro, superannuated. Mr J. Weld, second-class clerk, Royal Laboratory, has been promoted to the first-class, vice Ellis. Mr R. E. White, third-class clerk at Enfield, has been promoted to the second class, vice Weld. he Post-office—Mr Robert Grime has been appointed postmaster at Doncaster. Customs—Mr John Rennison has been promoted to the Ist class of examining officere, Grimsby. Mr George Fuller has been} promoted to the 2d class of examining officers, Grimsby. Mr Joseph Read has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of out-door officers, London. Mr J. B. White has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of out-door officers, Landon. Mr R. M. Parks has been officers, pr ord o o n t d e o n f . r o i‘ m i r t j h o e s e s p t h h m t o w t e h r e t o4ottht hasel a s b s e o e nf promoteout-doo r d from the sth to the 4th class of out-door officers, London. Mr Robt. Johnstone has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of out-door officers, London. Mr Wm Morton has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of out-door officers, London. Inland Revenue—Stamp and Tax Branch—Mr John Purdue, inspector of taxes of the 14 Metropolitan district, has been superannuated. He served over 50 years. Excise Branch—Mr George Curtis, supervisor, Hinckley district, Leicester collection, has been appointed to Mill. bank district, London, South, collection. Ireland—Mr P. J. '1 wohy has been appointed a third class clerk in the Board, of Works Office, secretary's de part ment, vice Mr E. D. Thorpe, promoted. Scotland—Mr Thomas Win. L. Spence has been appointed a clerk in the Lunacy Board Office, Edinburgh. The East Indies—Mr H. C, Barstow, assistant magistrate and collector al Agra, has been appointed to officiate as a joint . magistrate and deputy collector. Mr W. E. Neale, assist ant magistrate and collector, Meerut, has been appointed to officiate as assistant commissioner in the Jhansi division. Mr J. H, Carter, assistant magistrate and collector, Muttr has been appointed to officiate as ussistaut commissioner in the Jhansi division. Mr W. Johnston, commissioner of excise and stamps, has been appointed to be also registrar general for registration of assurance in the N.W.P. Mr A. Shakspear, commiseionerof the Beaares division, has been appointed to officiate as member of the Sudder Board Of Revenue during the absence of Mr Muir, or until further orders. Mr G. P. Money, judge of Allahabad, has been ap • pointed to officiate as commissioner of Benares. Mr A. S. Donald has been promoted from the 3d to ,the 2d grade of small cause judges in the Punjaub. Mr G. D. Westropp been promoted from the 3d to th e 2d grade of small cause the eou. Class,t d commissioner s u h t y a w co u m r. . commissioner s pa s ep i s o t .h n ps e _r . commissioner, has been j n s d t g o e l sa class, t h h a e s been Punjaub.promoted W tpl • ty has be en promoted from the a p d r uo Maxwell,tmr o t it h ie e dj 2 dfo class, r a reopjiltAythel c. Peshawur. oC2mrdimPtPoi sss;odene Major T, W. Mercer, assis o tant commissioner, Ist class, hail been promoted to be de puty commissioner, 3d class P es h awur. Mr G. Knox, as sistant commissioner,peshwau. Li h r asb e e n en appo i nted from the 2d to the t class,t. e .. G . S andeman, assistant o mmissioner, has been prom o t e d from the 3d to the 2d class, Peshawur. Lieut. Col. J. ja . Beadier, C. 8., has been transferred from the Hisser t o the Peshawur division. Mr eilaate at Mooltan. M r E. Wilmot ppointed to th e H isser c d W i v . i s P i o o n r , b c u o t m t m o i o s o s n i o tt n . n e u r e , h t a o s b of c i been i sp mr ipoj. he p ntetd Priacipal o f t h e Government Friz elle, assistant commissioner, hs l elhi to ti t G oorgaon district Mr J. G. Ryall, extra assiet azt commiss . oner, co a le g b e e n has transferreda D s ellei from has been transferred from the Scalk ote to the Th ong district. Dr Aitken has been appointed to offi ciate as assistant master at Madras, without prejudice to his other appointment. The Rev. J. R. Macfarlane, senior chaplain of the Church of Scotland, has been permanently attached to the station at Bellary. The Rev A. C. Bell his been appointed chaptain of St. Andrew's Church at Madras. The Venerable T. Deal try, M.A., Archdeacon of Madree, has been appointed to be joint chaplain of St. Georges Cathedral. Mr W, C. Stuart has been appointed to be deputy collector and magistrate of the 3d class, in succession to 14 -..Raghunda Raw promoted to be posted to the M a lab ar d istrict. Mr J'. A. Majoribanks, fourth-class deputy collec'or sett magistrate in the Kistna district, has be e n appointed to a b t as deputy collector and magistrate of the third class, On iud pay, in the place of D. V. Narasiega Row. Hewetson has been ap• pointed to act as deputy collector and magistrate, during the absence of Mr Boalth on leave, and to continue in the Male bar district. Mr Huntly p. •-•erlon assistant to the collec tor and magistrate of Cohnbators, has been vested with the powers of a subdrdinate raagistrate of the first class. The Extensive Forgeries on Malton Firms. It has been stated that durin g last week forgeries upon the Melton corn merchants had been discovered to have been carried out by a member of the trade at Scarborough, who had absconded. The person charged with forging acceptances of the Messrs Rumen of Melton, and Mr Pearson, of Hungerford House, Norton, and others, to bills of exchange for large amounts, and which he had got dis. counted at Scarborough, 'So, is ' a young man named Isaac Huddlestone, 27 ye ars of age, who hes now for some time carried on business as cornfactor in Scarborough, and has there ranked as one of the first men inthe trade. It appeals that Mr Thomas Pearson, of Melton, by accident made the discovery th a t Huddle ' stone was floating bills bearing his acceptance. This gentleman and the other firms whose names have been used never gave a bill in their lives. An investigation ensued, which resulted in the flight of Huddleston, anti the issuing of a warrant fur his apprehen eion. Since the instrument has been placed in the hands of the euperintendent of police at Scarborough, more extensive forgeries have been detected. The specific charge made against Huddleston is that he felo niously forged the acceptance of a certain bill of exchange for the payment of £ll3 25., with the intent to defraud; and with uttering the said bill of exchange, well knowing the same to be forged. It is, however, stated that his bad paper will reach a startling amount. Huddleston, it seems, kept hie carriage, and actually drove cut of town on Sunday week, as usual, to a small etation. He is married, and took his wife with him. But it is ascertained that before absconding he purchased and took with him a new Sharpe's repeater re volver and 500 cartridges to fit, and ho also took a now rifle of Moorhouee's stamp. It seems, therefore, he is fully pro vided for close company. y es t e rday a reward of £5) was offered for information which shall lead to Huddleston's being found by the police, It is, however, the opinion of many that Huddleston, getting some days' start, has sailed from the country. The affair has caused no little stir in the district. The fugitive wee a native of Scarborough, and quite a leading man,—,Leeds Mercury. The Collection of Naval Models at South Kensington Museum. The great bulk of the colection of Naval Models formed by the Admiralty has lately been removed from Somerset house to South Kensington, where it has become for the first time accessible to the general public. This collection was commenced by Sir R. Seppings, who was Surveyor of the Navy during some years in the beginning of the present century, and it has been continued by his successors to the present time in a tolerably complete series. The first in order of time and historic interest is the Great Harry, which was built in the reign of Henry VII., and played an important part at the unsuccessful attack on the French gal leys at Brest in April, 1813, where she bore the flag of Ad miral Sir Edward Howart', whose impetuous bravery cost him his life in that engagement, which gave the English command of the narrow seas during the whole reign of Henry VIII, Of this ship the Admiral thus expresses himself in a letter to his Sovereign :• " Sir,—Your good ship is the flewer, I trow, of all ships that ever sailed. Sir, she is the noblest ship of sail is this great ship at this hour that I trow in all Christendom." She possess=es a special historical interest, also, as having been the first vessel of the Royal navy properly so called in England, the Crown having been hitherto dependent on the Cinque Ports for a supply of vessels whice were required for any emergency, and which were resumed by their e wners as soon as the special service for which they wore required had been rendered. The Great Harry was accidentally burnt at Woolwich in the year 1553. It is a very remark ablo structure, and conveys a good idea of the requirements of ships of war at that period. The observer cannot fdl to be struck with the small extent of the immersed portion of the hull compared with that out of water, and the enormous structure at the head and stern—the forecastle, aptly so called, and the poop, intended to harbour and protect large numbers of bowmen and arquebusiers, who played the most important part in naval engagements ce those days, which were chiefly carried on hand-to-hand. The broadside guns were small and of light weight. With an armament similar to that of our modern ships, the Great Harry would have been absolutely dangerous. As it was, it must have been a matter of no slight peril to navigate her during high winds and through heavy seas, even in the Channel. To have crossed the ocean in her would have subjected the bold mariners who attempted it to almost certain shipwreck. It is instructive to observe in the series of models of later date how very gradually the dimensions of the forecastle and poop were reduced to meet the exigencies of a heavier and more effective armament, and of ocean navigation. A strongly marked forecastle and poop were characteristic of our ships until nearly the middle of the 18th century, while the practice of building large vessels, with flush decks, as in the case of our irouclads, has been introduced only within the last few years. Between the building of the Great Harty and that of the Royal Sovereign, or Sovereign of the Seas, built in the reign of Charles I. with the ship-money, the collection of which led to such notable results, an in terval of nearly 150 ye irs occurs. 'the disturbances arising from the change of religion in the days of the later Tudors, and the consequent exhaustion of the Exchequer, prevented all addition to the Royal navy during this peliod. The vessels which played so important a part in the reign of Queen Elizabeth in defeating the Spanish Armada and es tablishing the supremacy of England at sea were hired from the private trade to meet the emergency, and reverted to their original owners as soon as the emergency was passed, and were engaged probably during the remainder of their existence in a traffic much resembling piracy, which com pletely broke the Spanish power at sea. These ships, pos ceasing so high an historical value, are unrepresented in this collection. The Sovereign of the Seas was built in 1635 by Mr Peter Pett, the second of a generation of naval archi tects who were the chief constructors of the navy from the reign of James I. to that of William 111., and is a consider. able improvement on the Great Harry. From this time the series of models is tolerably complete, though the names of many of those of the period are unknown. Among those possessing an historic interest may be mentioned the Vic tory, of 100 guns, built in 1735, lost in the Channel in 1744 ; and her successor, launched in 1765, the renowned flagship of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805, which still, as the flag ship of the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, perpetuates to successive generations the memory of teat glorious era in our naval annals; the Royal 'William, built in 1682, and the Royal George, launched in 1756, which went down at Spithead with Admiral Kempenfeldt and all her crew in 1782. The models of the ships are arranged according to their rates, thus enabling the student to estimate the progress made in shipbuilding . in this country from time to time. This was exceedingly slow up to the commencement of the present century. In 1719 the Navy Board, content with the performance of the vessels then in the Royal service, laid down a table of dimensions and tonnage for ves sels of each class—from the first-rate, carrying 100 guns, down to the gun-brig—from which the constructor was not at liberty to depart. A vessel of the highest class was thus limited to about 2,000 tons burden, and no latitude m as left for improvement or for adapting the chip's carrying power to increased weight of armament. Although, as a matter of. fact, some deviations were ad mitted, especially in the attempts which even then were made to introduce the improved French types into our ser vice, yet so little real progress was made that when in the middle of the century the master-ship srights of the several dockyards wore required to forward to the Navy Board pro posals for an improved scale of dimensions and tonnage for the several classes of ships, the changes proposed were trifling, and in some cases were absolutely ntl. Thus, the scale of 1719, with very insignificant alterations, remained in torte until the peace of Amiens, when a greatly improved scale was established on the plan of the French navy, the vessels of that nation having proved their ineontestible superiority during the revolutionary war. Even then, how ever, the fatal mistake of requiring a fixed tonnage for each class of ships was adhered to, and rendered nugatory the attempts at improvement made after the . peace of 1815 to 1830, by building experimental ships to compete with each other. Sir William Symonds, who was appointed Surveyor of the Navy by Sir James Graham in 1831, was the first constructor who succeeded in freeing him self from these fatal shackles. The injurious results of these restrictions is plainly traceable in the sameness of the models during all this period. The rule for determining the tonnage being based on purely arbitrary principles, leaving ono of the dimensions--the depth—at the disposal of the constructor, led to the flaring bows, falling-in stern ports, and full, deep bodies which so long characterized our ships and rendered them bad sailers, and especially dan gerous on a lee shore, from the great amount of leeway they made. During this period the French had encouraged the appli cation of scientific principles to shipbuilding with great comparative success, the French ships captured in war and taken into the service having uniformly proved to be far the best of their class. The observer will not fail to trace the cauqes of the supe riority in the models at the French ships in the collection a superiority due to th 3 absence of the restrictions so fatal to progress in England, leaving the French naval architect tree to avail himself of all the resources of his art. The models of English ships of war built since 1832, under the influence of more enlighten( d knowledge, will bear corn parison with those of any nation. The vessels of the last few years are almost unrepresented in this collection, the only model of an ironclad being that of the Northumberland, now building at Millwall. This is much to be regretted, as vessels of this class possess a spcial interest at the present moment. It is to be hoped that this reproach to the collection may speedily be removed. For many centuries the principles on which the strength of ships and stabili•y of their forms depend seems to have been utterly unknown by nevi' constructors. A ship—of course built of wo d, there were none other in those days— consisted of a series of vertical frames tied together by horizontal planks, presenting the same mode of construction as a gate would do if it were made only of upright posts joined together by horiz Altai bars. Every one knows the speedy fate which would overtake a gate so put together. It is, therefore, no matter of surprise that the vessels built on a similar principle exhibited material symptoms of in herent weakness, many having been recorded as having " hogged" or " sagged"—i e having broken their backs by the falling in of the portions fore and aft to a very appre- ciable extent even in the act of launching. The very simple expedient suggested itself to Sir Robert Seppings of binding the vertical and horizontal pieces of which the ship was composed by diagonal tie •beams or riders, thus converting the rectangle—a form of known instability—to that of the triangle, a form of equally well-known permanence. This inc.' revetment was introduced about the year 1820 with a good result, which justified the expectations of the inventor. Sir Robert Seppings, naturally and justly proud of this success, had several very elaborate and interesting models illustrative of his new method of construction made, These are to be found in this collection, and may even now be studied with advantage. At a later period, during the surveyorship of Sir Baldwin Walker, these wooden riders were replaced by iron—a simple substitution, representing in a first-class ship a gain of 61 tons in weight, and adding greatly to the neatness and finlih of the structure. The modes of putting together an iron ship are illustrated by a series of models of parts of the Warrior, the first built of our ironelads, one of them showing a whole rib, or trans verse section—others showing smaller portions in detail, together with the armour plating and the mode of putting it on. There are also other models of the mode of pitting together the frames of an iron vessel, acocrdiag to the prac tice of Mr Samuda, the eminent shipbuilder. Nevertheless, this most interesting department of modern naval construction is not represented as fully and completely as is importance merits, and it is to ba hoped that the authorities of the Museum will lose no opportunity of making additions to it. Among the Admiralty models will be found many sent to the Admiralty by inventors seeking Government patronage for thr:r schemes —sonr:e of them groteequo and strange enough, all, however, interesting and instructive; for much may bo learnt even from the study of plans which no sane person would think of adopt ing ; and there are few plans so absurd but that they have a glimmering of sense in them. Besides the Admiralty models there are some—by no means as many as could be desired—sent by private persons. Among these the mwt conspicuous and valuable is a serie. illustrating Lloyd's mks for putting together wooden and iron ships, These rules hare not been adopted without great care and consideration, and may be said to embody the most approved systems of construction adopted in the private trade, and will well repay a careful study. Mr G. Turner has also sent soma interesting models, and Mr White, of Whitehaven, has lent a set illustrative of his mode of building adapted to the Nautilus propeller. Besides the forms and modes of construction of ships, the roasting, rigging, ropes, and chain cables are amply illus trated—and models of details of many of the operations employed in the dockyards, several kinds of gun and gun carriages and mortars, engine-room signals, and various kinds of inventions for steering, to., are exhibited. Among these the curious observer will find a complete set illustrative of the block-making machinery invented by Sir I. Brunel for the use of the Government early in the present of ntury, and set up in Portsmouth Dockyard, where it has remained in us4 l to the present day. This invention was rewarded liberally by the Government of the day, and was considered a masterpiece of skilful adaptation of ma chinery. Since that time the principles of machinery have become more extensively recognised, and successfully ap plied to most ingenious and important uses. No factory or workshop but abounds with such marvels of the ingenuity of man at the present day; but the name of Sir I. Brunel as one of the more successful pioneers in this now well trodden field must ever stand pre-eminent. It were endless to enter upon he details of the boats, spars, and other accessories of the armament and fitting-out of ships, which may be studied with advantage in the Naval Gallery at South Kensington, to which the public have now free access. Enough has been said to establish its national value. It were much to be desired that the modern modes of propulsion were as amply illustrated as the details of naval construction, and that models of marine steam engines, screws and paddles, with the details o: the several parts of each as adopted by various eminent makers and employed in the Navy, wore here exhibited. It may, perhaps, be not out of place to remind shipuilders and engineers that the loan of models of vessels and engines, and their several de tails, will be thankfully received by the authorities of the South Kensington Museum. Metropolitan Board of Works. The ordinary weekly meeting of the BDard was held yes terday at the offices, Spring-gardens, Mr John Thwaites (the chairman) presiding. The cash statement of the Finance Committee presented showed balances in the hands of the treasurer as follows : Current accounts, £61,318 5s 2d; deposit accounts £329.800; and Government securities, New Three per Cent. Annuities, £97,403 Os Bd. THE IMPROVEMENT or PARR LANE. The question of the Park-lane improvement was brought forward by the Solicitor, who stated that the next step to be taken in this matter was to present a petition in favour of the " Piccadilly and Park-lane New Road Bill,' the usual notices for which had been served. Mr RICHARDSON observed that it would be absurd to present a petition in favour of the bill, as though the Board really intended to early out the improvement, when there was a great difference of opinion among the members as to the course which should be adopted. Another member suggested that the subject should stand over, The CHAIRMAN replied that it was necessary the petition should be presented at once, in order that the Board might maintain its locus standi before the house should it be decided to make the improvement, Ater some conversation the petition was sealed, THE RANELAGH SEWER NUISANCE. At the assemblage of the Buard Mr Roche introduced to the Board a very numerous and influential deputation from the vestry of Paddington to present a memorial urging the necessity of immediately covering over the open Ranelagh sewer. The memorial was read by Mr Pollard.(the clerk). It stated that the present open Ranelagh sewer was a great nuisance, and emitted the most offensive exhalation, and as it was proposed to cover the land adjacent with a number of houses of the first class, they hoped the Board would at once take steps to cover this sower, which was a complete pest to the entire neighbourhood, especially so as at the present time. The district was subject to an assessment of £758,000. Alter the memorial had been read, Mr SHAW, in the absence of the incumbent of the parish of Paddington, addressed the Board in support of the prayer of the memorial. Mr CARPMAEL here interposed, and begged to be allowed to proceed with his notice of motion which stood on the paper, which was as follows :—" That it be an instruction to the•engineer of the Beard to prepare specifications and plans to the amount oflloo,ooo for the works required to be done to the main sewers according to the urgency of the cases as reported to the Board on the 8:11 March, 1864." He said, when he gave notice of his motion he was not aware that they would that day receive a deputation to enforce the views he contemplated by that resolution, but as it was the gentleman who had so eloquently addressed them on a great measure anticipated him in a good deal he should have felt it to be his duty to urge. Under those circumstances, and as he had no desiro to take up the time of the Board, he would simply move the motion which stood in his name. Mr ROCHE, in a short speech, seconded the motion. Mr H. L. TAYLOR wished to know how far they could do these works until they had approved the report of the en gineer. Mr ErIFFANGER said this was an evil that ought to have been attended to long ago, for were it not it might soon spread to Marylebone, whilh was the adj Jining parish. The CHAIRMAN said the Board had power to raise £lOO,OOO by way of loans for these works for four years, and he thought they ought to adopt the Ranelagh sewer as one of th 4 most urgent AIIRP.. Mr H. L. TAYLOR said he was willing to adopt the en gineer's report as far as they could at the present time,and take up the covering-in of the Ranelagh sewer first. Mr S. PHILLIPS said if they were sati , fied with the en gineer's report he did not eee any reason why they should not take it up as the first thing. The CHAIRMAN said there was no doubt that the engi neer would place the Ranelagh sewer first in the paper, but he ought to prepare the plans for the other works. They would get the money in March, and they might as well deal with this case at once, instead of deferring it to ft fu , ure day. He would suggest that Mr Carpmael's motion should for short cet lain sewers to be covered and deepened be agreed to. The CHIEF ENGINEER (Mr J. W. Bazelgette) recom mended that the Ranelagh sewer should be covered and deepened at a cost of £23,ooo—the Stamford-brook sewer, covered and deepened at a cost of £24,ooo—the Falcon-brook sewer, diversion, interception, and covering, at a cost of £31,900. These recommendations were agreed to. Mr MORELAND said that unless the London-bridge sewer were deepened the drainage in the parish of St. Luke could not drain into it. Mr FREMAN said there could not be a sLadow of a doubt that this sewer was a pest and a nuisance. It It as only a short time since he dined with a friend in Bristol-gardens, and the stench was so great that they could not open the windows—and he was surprised the parish of Paddington had not taken steps for removing it before. Mr Carpmael's motion was then put and unanimously agreed to. IMPROVEMENTS IN THOROUGHFARES. A report was brought up from the Building Act Commit tee, recommending that the line of thoroughfare extending from Rose-street on the north-eastern side, and from King. street on the south-western side to Long-acre, in the parishes of St. Paul, Covent -garden, and St. Martin-in-the. Fields, in the county of Middlesex, be re-numbered—that the names King -street and New King-street abolished ; and that the line of thoroughfare be named Garrick street. Mr LE BRETON moved the adoption of the report, which was agreed to. The same committee recommended that the line of tho• roughttre between Newington-causeway and Harper-street and now known as Union -road and Horsemonger-lane, to all called Union-road.—Agreed. THE SEWAGE QUESTION. On the Clerk reporting that a latter had been received from Mr Ellis relative to the granting the concession of the sewage of the north side of the metropolis, a discussion ensued, in which it was urged on one side that it ought to be entered on the minutes; while, on the other side, it was contended that, as it was not respectfully worded, it ought not to be entered on the minutes; and he had stated that the concession of the sewage had been obtained by false re. pros( nt ation. Mr LE BRETON moved that the letter bo acknowledged, upon which a division took place, and this amendment was carried by a majority of 19 to 7. Mr HALL then moved, and Mr SAVAGE seconded, a motion that the letter of Mr Ellis be read, which was carried. The Clerk then read the 'etter, after which the motion for merely acknowledging the letter was put and carried by a majority of 19 to 8. THE PNEIYMA.TIC DESPATCH COMPANY. The Engineer reported that the plan proposed by the Pneumatic Despatch Company for laying their tubes in Iligh-holbora would seriously interfere with the sewers under the control of this Board, and he recommended that the solicitor bo requested to enforce the necessary require ments of the Board in respect to them. The suggestion was put as a resolution and adopted. The routine business having been disposed of, the Board adjourned. Vizcountess JGcelyn ani the Mn. Alice Jocelyn, who are expected to arrive in town to-day from Sr. Leonard's, will proceed to Broadlands on a visit to Lord and Lady Palmerston. [ADVERTISEMENT ] Holloway's Ointment --- Sores, woundv, ulcerations, and other diseases tiff, cting the skin are amendable by this cooling and healing unguent. It has culled forth the loudest praises from persons who had saffered for years from bad legs, abscesses and chronic ulcers, after every hope of cure had long passed away. None but those who have experienced the soothing effect of this ointment can form an idea of the comfort it bestows, by restrainin g i n fl ammat i on an d a ll ay i ng pa i n. Whenever this oi n t ment has been once used it has established its own worth, and has again been eagerly sought for as the easiest and sCiost remedy fin all ulcerous complaints. In neuralgia, rheumatism, and gout, the same application properly used, gives wonderful relief. An Incident of General Butler's Rule at New Orleans. The action brought by Messrs S. and A, Smith, to recov e r 150,000 dols., damages for an allegod trespass committed by Gen. Butler, in the spring of 1862, by entering the b anking house of the plaintiffs, at New Orleaels, and taking away by force 50,000 dols. in gold coin, besides breaking up and de stroying the plaintiffs' business by depriving them of their capital, came on before the New York courts on the 30th ult. Gen. Butler's counsel moved that the cause should go before the Federal courts for trial, but the motion was 01) : posed by the counsel for the plaintiffs, who rea 4 the affidav it of Mr S. Smith. In his affidavit, Mr Smith states that when New Orleans was threatened by th e F e derals iu 18,52, the people of that city feared that they would be plunelered by tll.lO mob and the troops. "D e p onen t h a d a b ou t 60,00' 11 0 dols. gold coin in his safe, which h e h a d h o p e d to save• In this frightful consternati o r, , dep onen t t oo k 54,000 dole of the gotd coin and secreted it in th e a i r - ce ll s aroun d his sole, a „nd left about 6,000 d o le. of hi s own i n th e sa f e , besides a smal l ount belonging to some of hi s cus t omers , Ac mind lare ragut's success left New Orleans at his mercy, and Clee i butler entered the city on th e I s t o f M a y, and the rebel soldiery fled, and there was no pillage of the to w _ u. Forthwith General Butl e r i ssue d hi s proclainal wri dated May 1, 1862, an d di recte d every m an to retu rel t' his business, and promising the fullest protection. I)3' ponent did not suppose !hat this solemn proclamation by general of the United States was intended ae a delusion an d a snare, and opened his banking-house in the fullest nen g ' dente that the general would no t v i o l ate hi s plighted fal ai ' The secreted coin could not be reached without tearing a wall of masonry, and deponent being unwilling to exc ite notice by tearing down a heavy brick wall and withdrawing the coin, when the city was in such a fearful state, let 1 remain for a few days to await events. General Butler soon began to examine into the a ff a i r o f b an k s , bankers, a nd men supposed to have money, for what public end no one could understand, for what private end many were made to know. On May 10 Gen. Butler ordered deponent to open his safe, which he did; but the general finding but 6,000d01a in coin in the safe while deponent's bonds chewed 60,000015 in hand, demanded the concealed coin, which deponent re. fused to give'.up, telling Gen. Butler that it was concealed and the object of its concealment, but declined to reveal the place where it was secreted. The general then ordered de' ponent to prison, and threatened to confine him to For t Jackson until he revealed the place of concealment , V e c i ponent was powerless, without the protection of law, an at the mercy of despotic force. After being imprisoned 111 the manner above described, deponent revealed the pia' where his gold was secreted. General Butler tore &Wu the masonry, and carried off the 45,000 dols in gold, besid e° the money in the safe, and after a few days he returned t° deponent the 6,000 left in the sate and 4,000 dols of the O' cealed coin, keeping 60,000 dole in gold, which be 1345 1 retained from the deponent to thi s h our . The gene"; then let the deponent go. despoiled of his hard-earn e'' property, and with his business broken up and destroyed' The statement that ' this gold was condemned hY military commission as the proceeds of the robbery °' the United States Mint at New Orleans' is without a shadow of truth, is utterly malicious, and is in Or e !! syllable basely talse. Every dollar of it belonged to t"" plaintiffs; it was the proceeds of long and patient toil; n °3 a penny of it ever belonged to the Mint or to any Confede rate state, office, or department thereof, and the Milli commission so found. That commission was composed three able and upright men—Governor Shipley, 11°-. Thomas J. Durant, and Dr Mercer—and their report prove° the shameless falsity of th ese s l an d erous telegraros• 9e, ponent took the oath of allegi ance , th e amnesty o ath e l 5 and is as true and loyal a man as he who, by military for ce :, has taken away the deponent's pr o p er ty." Th e c ourt t° °- time to consider its decision with respect t o th e change °, venue. COUNTRY MARKETS. -----_- .1».._._~~. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. With an average attendance of millers and dealers at t ?,!, morning's Flour (Fury., market wheat h as me t a f a i r consumptive lo 111'., (Fury, without the least ch ange f rom t hi s d ay week. 6i remains the same. Indian corn opened very dull. 6 , lld „ a s per qr cheaper. Oat s an d oatmea l d u ll . B eans a n d steady. Feeding barley is offering freely and may be boug bt the turn lower. LINCOLN. White wheat new, 40s to 448 tied do. 36s to 38s Old white 42s to 47s Lied do. 39s to 438 Barley, malting 33s to 34s —FRIDAY. Barley, grinding 28 t too 303 Oats, old, New do 22s to 248 Beans. 4 0 s 10 e, Beans, new 365: . 0 1).1" WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. Fine dry wheat met a moderate consumptive deman d t last week's prices. In barley no ch ange . Beans ra tile at lower. Averages for the week : Wheat . 1528 qrs., at 43s ld Oats 65 .. 20s 50 Barley.... . 1484 Peas .. • 120 --- Beans STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 40s to 42s ; red, 35s to 38s per 36 stoner: Barley, malting, 31 s to 3:5s ; grinding, 27 s t o 30s pet s' et Oats, 18s to 218 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 383 to 42 6 P qr. ; new, 36s to 3'os. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. During the last day or two there has been rather 1 01 1 disposition shown io do buriness, and several purcelo West India have b een so ld at prices not obtainabt t early part of the week, Refined sugar are in improv ed " e wand, and 6d dearer. Rum sells steadily at tail prices. COAL iVIAItti ET. flues of Coal per Ton at the (goer 01 the ine.rice. Walls ,End. s. d. ; ,A. Cowpen Hartley 18 3' 6 Lambert's West Hart ley 18 31 H tie e u tt g o h n H791 .. 1 ............................ 9 6 Bates'sWest Hartley l7 9 R elloe West Hartley 18 3 South Kelloe ............... 2 : 1 1 9 6_ aolywell ..18 6 Russel's Hetton ..... `, 2 3 Hastings Hartley ....18 3 East Hartlepool ..... . 0 2 3_ Wylam 18 6 Hartlepool ......... • .`'i 6 ‘‘ alker Primros e 17 0 S out h Hartlepoo l . .. • • .• (4 6 I'anfield Moor Butes lB 0 ' Stewart's ........... .7 20 6 Tunstall Acorn Close ........... „ 21 il, Eden Main ... 0 0 ° Haswellßell ... ................ ..• •• i 6 . Cassop ..... 21 i 2 Belmont ...... Walls End. 1 South Hetton ...22 6 . KeiperGrange 21 6 Braddyll's Hetton 21 9 Framwellgate 2l 3' Caradoc 22 3' Ships at market, 135 ; sold, 124, n with GRANT'S SECOND CORPS.—In accordance ot orders from army headq uar t ers , suc h arrangei-ta and disposition of th e t roops operat i ng aga i ns t peter s ," s ia has been made as will, t o some ex t ent, re li eve the n O3 l, upon this corps, which ha s b een un i nterrupte d s i n ce the 51. til crossed the Rapidan in May last. From that time t11 : 0 1 the present it has been constantly marching, fighting,' ; ( :l l o work in the trenches, an d it na t ura ll y nee d s re st, an d ott therefore been placed in position to e n j o y it to 0 gr ey -0 I extent as is compatible with the interest of the service' t he have left the second corps dead on the fields betWeelibort Rapidan and P e t ers b urg ," sa id t h e b rave H an cock, n s l oe time previous to his departure ; and indeed but fey/ ° I t it. .. , comprising it when he took command are now left is New York Herald. e re, BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Honacoopathic practit'° co and the medical profession generally, recommen t L e dor as being the most healthful of all beverages. When trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this 4 %er A tr : there were to be obt .fined no preparati ons o f coats e ' - h ell°' tractive to the taste or accept a bl e t o the stomach; fr7ifolif was either supplied L. the c ru d e s t ate, or s o taiS s- 10 100 , manufactured as to obtain little noti ce . J. Epps, of to fpifl Homceopathio Chemist, was induced i n th e year 18 14 his attention to this subject, and at length succeedeuee to" the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being to produce an article pure in its composition, -c os° . by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it P_ sc ii, thro .gh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stnwvige• For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an it deli' rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a ut°°find its cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his wotk, "Food Adulteratio ;s," says —"Cocoa contains a great varietYu lay to portant nutritive principles—every ingredient rtene sB ,.o the growth and sustenance of the body." Aga i l tz pr COtt e° nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than h la A ° or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the 1 3 ° W "s - e cUr e : breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk • A g od pi in tin-lined alb., lb., and 11b. labelled packets , and - all grocers, I. onfectioners, and chemists.— [Apvi'3 Births. r 4 dial ° BUCHANAN.—On the 13th inst , in Paris, LadY `l6- Buchanan, of a son, stillborn.. .t ° ft ' Onn —On the 14 13. inst., at Oxford, the wife of Cap R.A.,, of a son. Tz )Jr. SUDLOW.—On the 14th inst., at Old Charlton, Kent' Sudlow, of a son. Marriages. SAtrNDERS.—On the 15th inst. at Christ' nrobff William Saunders, Esq., of Burton-upon-Trent, t° scl'P y-street, lotte Isabella, daughter of the late Charles Pratt) Cl''church "-char w o A f Ts D o e N rb — y c . vent. Hants, to Minnie, only surviving daug.-- Alban late Thomas Clark, Esq Aof Leeds. O B n u r t d h e wo l o 4 d t vv i n a i; s t 0 . , n a , t pCbhyrsi ieti:Crtilt:f rtebilbe' Deaths. et, 1431' FITZ TIEREERT.—On the 14th inst. , in Culotta- Ore Sullory Clay, lair, Lady Fitz Herbert. Soo Wpii Gary. 00 the lah inst., at St. Leonard's-on cilllaur‘ street, London, aged 62. Stre 6. e. - il SEWELL —On the 14 h inst , at Rosendale 11011o„„ora Esq., formerly of BombitYl "" 11. Office, Horse Guards, aged 61. them, John Sewell, Ezq., Of the Quarterrtasteru‘ -, % tho ii° STRUTT.—On the 14th inst., at Feering, J2,sse ) collo Emily Strutt, aged 74. -Wool* c " - 1 Lieutenant John Sparks, retired, Royal .Eng ui SPARRE.—On the 12th inst., at Brewer.street,,_eero, sge H. -I—el ---- A ,„ St; ~2 London: Pr:ozed and l'rbilahed by WiLL,l.Ag,'-"Pp'o. ' of No. 112, Strand, rri UtCf, at 1 - LIE Sus 0;1 10 ,`,,,tit Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ',l*J'e' '' 411401e,ars,—Saturday► December 17, LO4.