The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTn3IISIES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. IVNAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It I Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the prin lipal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET. W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whisky." TEN PER CENT. MORTGAGE BONDS.- STRAND MI.HIe HALL COMPANY (Limited) BONDS ot £5O each, are now ready for issue, constituting a First Charge upon the Property ot the Company, repayable in Three Years, and hearing Interest at £lO per Cent. per Annum, p 'yable hxl -yearly. Apply at the Offices of the Company, 315, Strand, W.C. or to Mr. G. T. Taylor, Stock and Share Broker, 11, Token house-yard, E.C. By Order of the Board, FREDERIC LLWRANCE, Secy. TETE CITY MERCANTILE CLUB and DINING HALL COMPANY (Limited). (Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.) Capital, £30,000, in 8000 shares of £lO each. Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment. Should no allotment be made the deposit will be returned in full. - BANKERS. The London and County Bsnk, Lombard-street, City, and Hanover-square. Mears. Cousins, Allen, and Co., Leeds. SOLICITORS. liessrs. Tippetts and Son, 2, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury, City. Messrs. Upton and Yewdall, Leeds. AUDITORS. Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and Co., SA, Lothbury, London. H. W. Blackburn, Esq., Bradford. BROKER—Alfred Ashton, Esq., 75, Old Broad-atreet,City. SECRETARY (pro. tern.)—Mr. J. W. Tempest. Temporary Offices-24, Bucklersbury (two doors from the M'ansion House) Holders of £lO shares and upwards will (subject to the ballot) be admitted to the membership of the club, without entrance fee. In consequence of a large amount of shares having been already applied for (and a most encouraging number of applications made for Club membership),the Directors are compelled to add that the list of applications for shares can remain open for a limited period only. in the meantime applications for the unallotted shares must be made to the Solicitors or Secretary; the required deposit having been previously paid to the Bankers of the Company. NOTICE.—In the Preliminary Contract made by the Di rectors for securing Premises, in their opinion, uarticularly eligible for the Club-house, they were restricted from iden tifying the particular premises so purchased until a large number of shares had been subscribed for, and the application for shares being already far in excess of this restriction, the Directors have now much n'easure in announcing to the public that the Premises they have secured comprise the nob'e pile of Buildings, Nos 107 and 103, Cheapside. imme diately opposite to Bow Church, and extending to Honey= lane in the rear. having been erected two years since, from the designs, and under the superintendence, of J. J. Knowles, Esq., CITY MERCANTILE CLUB end DINING HALL COMPANY (Limited), 24, Bucklersbury, E.C.— WANTED, a MANAGER for the Dining. Hall.—Applica tioons to be sent to the Offices of the Company, on or before Saturday, the 10th inst. ntrY MERCANTILE CLUB and DINING BALL -COMPANY (Limited), 24, Bucklersbury, E.C. WANTED, a SEI:It ETARY.—Applications to be sent to the Offices of the Company on or before Saturday, the 19th inst. CITY MERCANTILE CLUB and DINING HALL COMPANY (Limited), 24, Bucklersbury, ANTED, a STEWARD for the Club.—Applications to be sent to the Offices of the Company, on or before Saturday, the 19th inst. T HE ISLE of MAN RAILWAY COMPANY (Limited)-I,OI3GLAS to PEEL. Capital 100,000, in 10,000 shares of £lO each, with usual borrowing powers. Deposit £1 per share on application, further payment on allotment £1 10a. per share. DIRECTORS. Samuel Gibeon Getty, Esq., M.P., Belfast. William M' Cormi ck, Esq., M.P., Londonderry, and Regent's-park, London, Richard A. Mould, Esq., Merchant, Liverpool. T. Harrison Ridley, Esq., Merchant. Liverpool. Joseph Rigby, Esq., Kew, Surrey. With power to add to their number. BANKERS. The North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool. Messrs. Dumbell, Son, and Howard, Douglas. ENGINEER G. W. Hemans, Esq., C. E., 13, Queen. square,Westminster. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Littledale, Ridley, and Bardswell, Brown's.build lugs, Liverpool, Samuel Harris, Eeq., Douglas. AUDITOR. Thomas W. Read, Esq., 30. Castle-street, Liverpool. SECRETARY. Thomas Bagot, Esq , 5, James-street, Liverpool. B P. B. D r i n k wa f er. Esq , 32, ROKERS. Exchange. st. East, Liverpool. Charles Stanley, Egg., 3, Throgmorton street, Loudon. Edward Ash wort h , Esq., Exchange-chambers, Mlnchester. M. J. Beverley, Erg., Leeds. This Company has been formed for the construction of a Railway from Douglas to Peel (passing through St. John's), in the Isle of Man. The improved trade of these important towns, as well as the prosperous condition and increasing population of the island, and the rapid augmentation of the uumber of visitors during late years, call for the immediate introduction of railways. The Agricultural capabilities of the Island are great; and its Mineral products are acknowledged to bo rich in yield and avove average value ; whilst around the Coast there are extensive Fisheries, and an unlimited supply o f Sea weed for Manure. The expense and trouble, however, of land-carriage, have hitherto rendered these advantages com paratively unavailable. 'Slate Quarries aro in active operation; and the quality of the Slate is equal in closeness of grain and durability to any produced from the great Welsh quarries. The Granite hear St. John's compares favourably with that now used in the Liverpool Dock Works, and would at once, by means of railway facilities, become available for export. One of the proposed Stations on the line will be at St. John's, where the Courts of Tynwald meet, and which is also the centre of the Foxdale mining district. The produce of these mines is now brought by land-carriage (there being no water communication) to Douglas, a distance of nearly ten miles, whilst Coals and other important materials, as well as all necessaries required by the inland population, are conveyed into the interior by the same mode. Besides these items of traffic, the Fairs, which are frequently held during the year in this district, must add considerably to the annual revenue of the Company. The principal towns are Douglas, Peel, Castletown, Ramsey, and Laxey : Douglas being the chief port, and the great commercial depot, as well as the principal place of arrival and departure of the steam packets plying to and from the Island. At the port of Peel the fisheries are prin cipally conducted, employing upwards of 1,000 vessels; the place of destination for the produce is Douglas ; the route is tedious, and the transit by the existing means ex pensive. The access to the Island is easy, and the means of cora taunication with Liverpool, Fleetwood, Whitehaven, Silloth, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and other ports, both by nailing and steam vessels, are frequent and convenient. Hence, Tourists visit the Island in large numbers, above 100,000 passengers having been landed at its Ports during the past year. Such Visitors, attracted by the antiquarian relics, scenery, and other objects of interest, would, as a matter of coarse, go by the proposed Railway from Douglas to the interior, and across the Island to Peel. The highest medical authorities bear testimony to the salubrity of the climate and purity of the water. The picturesque is united with the more solid advantage of cheap living, provisions being abundant and comparatively inex pensive, whilst the rates of duties on foreign produce are so small as to render the Island most advantageous as a per manent place of residence. Her Majesty's Government and the Local Authorities are now expending upwards of £60,000, for the improvement of the Ports of Douglas and Peel The Electric Telegraph to England has been recently established. The Lines of Rail will be single, with requisite sidings. The length of Line will be about twelve miler, and the gradients easy throughout. The landowners and popula tion along it are most favourable to the project. From Statistics recently collected on the spot, with much care, by competent persons, and well supported by Official Returns, it is confidently expected that the Traffic will re turn a good Dividend upon the Invested Capital. The fol lowing is an Estimate of the Traffic : Passengers, inclusive of Tourists £7,500 per annum. Goode, Minerals Fish, &c 5,500 Parcel's and Mails £13,150 Working Expenses at even 50 per Cent. 6,600 Leaving for Dividend Plans, Sections, &c., of the Line are completed, and all necessary forms are being complied with, in accordance with the St: nding Orders of the Court of Tynwald to obtain an Act of the Local Parliament. Neither Imperial or Local Taxes are levied in the Island, and those heavy charges which tend so much to reduce the value of Railway property in England and other countries, no less than to diminish the Shareholders' Dividends, can not, in any degree whatever, prevail with respect to this Lino. An eminent Contractor's firm have agreed to purchase the land. make the Railway, provide and fit up all Stations, furnish Rolling Stock for working the Line, and Telegraphs, upon satisfactory terms. Interest at 5 per cent. per Annum will be all owe d , until the opening of the Line, on the amount paid upon shares. An advantageous arrangement can be made with respon sible parties to Lease the Line for 7. 14, or 21 years. Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained from the Secretary, Solicitors, or Brokers of the Company. KAYE'S WORSD ELL'S PlLLS.—These Pills are a purely vecretab'e preparation, and may be taken at any time by either sex without fear or danger. They act upon the bowels mildly yet effectually, and by their floe tonic, aromatic, and aperient properties they remo e all oppressive accumulations, regulate the secretions of the liver and bowels. strengthen the stomach, and purify the blood. Unlike many remedies, they do not induce liability to take cold or esta blish a necessity for the habitual use of purgatives, and are thus stronoly recommended as the BEST FAMILY 11[EDICINE. Prepared solely by John Kaye, Esq.. of Prospect Hall, W oodford, Essex. SAd by all chemists and other dealers in patent medicines, at is lid, 2s 9d, and 4s 13d. Wholesale Depot, 22, Bread-street, London. TEETH.--`lr. ESK ELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETHhag th e Tolle wing aovantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent 'work- Manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the Most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without Pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purpos es Of mastication and articulation . They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the filirns, that th ey are quite immoveable, except at the option, 9 1 the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad- Just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist . They are not so liable to injury, are always Useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea e explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. ;gPection of specimens and consultations tree.-B,Grosvenor t4et, Bond-Wect. W. sad at 39, Bennett's-hill, ilir- Zilata. N°. 22.373. "EKSONS SEEKING LAN])EIJ R. I,„:..ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREE HOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER TIES GENERALLY — To RE HAT) GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom. or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing, to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Register •fiords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the Estate Offices, e 7, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible chara-ter, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. rIIERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur cnaser is introduced throuoit Messrs. Lumley's Agency, tad then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. F INANCIAL CORPORATION (Limited). 14, Leadenhall-street, E.C. Capital £3,000,000. Subscribed Capital £1,50 1 ,000, by nearly four hundred shareholders. DIItE CT ORS. James Goodson, Esq., Chairman, 32, Kensington Gardens square. Richard Spooner. Esq., Deputy-Chairman , Forest Hi 1. Robert Collum, Esq , 1, Chester-place, Hyde Park-square, W. Thomas Cottereil, Esq., 50, Eaton-Pquare, S.W. J D. Heatley, Esq., 22, Great St. Helens, E.C. J. W. Holland, Esq., Forest Hill. Wit, F. Laurence, Esq., to. New Broad-street E.C. t.ouis Nathan, Esq., 32, York-terrace, Regent's-park, N.W. J. D. Thompson, Esq., St. Peter's-chambers, Cornhill, E.C, Cornell .s Walford, Esq., Managing Director, Litt e-park, Enfield. BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tretton, Twe'ls, and Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Maples, Maples, and Teesdale. Messrs. Hughes, Masterinan, and Hughes. The Corporation is prepared to receive deposits, on terms to be agreed upon. To make advances on approved securities. To undertake financial agencies of every description. JA3IES GAMBLE, Secretary and Assistant .1s anager. THE ALBION BANK (LIMITED) Capital £1,000,000 in 20.000 Shares of £5O each. First Issue, 10,0:0 Shares. Deposit £1 per Share on Application, and £1 per Share on Allotment. It is not intended to call up more than £l5 per Share. No call will be made for three months alter allotment. Three months interval, at least, will elapse between two calls, and no call will exceed £5 per Share. To be Incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies Act of 1862, whereby each shareholder's liability is limited to the amount of his shares. DIRECTORS. James England, Esq. (late of Plymouth), Springfield House, Upper Clapton. Thomas Care, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex. Thomas Cotterell, Esq., CO, Eaton-square, S.W. W. F. Masters, Esq. (firm of W. F, Masters and Sons), Newg.ate-market. Benjamin Baugh, Esq., Bradford-street and Balsall-heath, Birmingham. J. T. Pritchett, Esq. (firm of J. T. Pritchett and Sons), 131, Fenchurch-street. Thomas Aggs, Esq. (firm of Thomas Aggs and Co.), 155, Fen church-street, E.C. Henry Haggard, Esq., banker and bullion merchant, Cheaoside. R. F. Potter, Esq. (firm of R. F. Potter and Co.), 25, Newgate street. A provisional arrangement has been made for merging an old-established private bank with the Albion flank (Limited), the active Partner of which will join the Board as soon as the Directors are in a position to confirm the provisional agreement. BANKERS. Bank of London, Threadneedle-street. The London and Northern Bank, 2, Bank-bui'dlngs, London; and 'Newcastle, Leeds, and II uddersfield. BROKER. James Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart. SOLICITOR._ G. W. Cuming Dean, Esq , 27, New Broad-street. AUDITORS. William Cooper, Esq., public accountant, '3, George-street, Mansion-houtie. W. Andrews, Esq., Manager United Kingdom Electric Tele graph Company. SECRETARY (pro tern.) Mr. II L Price. Temporary Offices, 2, Bank-buildings. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. Although the system of jo'nt-stock banking has ben esta blished to meet the rcquirements of most departments of trade, it has not be °n intro timed for the business of the Agricultural and tattle-markets of the metropolis ; and though the population has doubled within the last twenty five years—and consequently the necessary cuiantity of sup plies —yet the whole business, anruuting to fifteen to twenty millions per annum, is left in the hands of a few private firms. The Albion Bank is introduced to provide increased facilities for this trade, by establishing an off n , in the City, as well as at Smithfield and the Me•ropolitan Catt e-market ; and subsequently, show d it be found cesirable, by opening branches in he agriculteral tilstricts. The value of the rapidly-increasing commission business to be trans lcted by the Al ion Bank can be rea iily appre eiat-d by a k no xledge that the method in which de dings are carrie i ont at the Cat, le-mar;•et c Its tit ute the ba 'k, the de po;itory of all the moneys passing troat the buyer to the producer. The )Irect ors have cntered into provisional arrangements by which the advantage of c mmencing up m an estatl shed connexion, under competent and experieno d manageme-t, will be se,ured to Shareholders fr im the c )mmence meat of basin. se, by which they are warranted in expect ing that they wi 1 be enabled to de:dare a dividend during the first ear. Should no al otment take pine the deposits will be returned in full. Shou'd a less number of Shares be a 1 fitted th-in are applied for, the deposit wit be made available tow irds the p ,ymcnt on • llotatent, and the ba, ante, if any, returned to the arielic int. Application for Shares may be addressed to the Mullen, Brokers, or Directors of the Company, and to the Sec. - et iry, at the Ofite of he Company. T HE LONDON and LIVERPOOL HOTEL COMPANY (Limited.) Capital, £120,000, in 6,000 Shares of £2) each. Incorporated under the Companies Act, 186 Z. Deposit Z 1 per Share on Application, and on Allotment. No call to exceed n per Share. DIRECTORS. Colonel Brownlow Knox, 31. P., Wilton-crescent, Bel,grave square, Director of the Alexandra Hotel Company. Captain Capel Coape, the Army and Navy Club. Colonel A. Lowry Cole, C.B. Chairman of the National Vo lunteer Hotel Company, Wimbledon. Thomas Cotterell, Esq., Eaton-square, Director of the Bank of Hindustan. - William Earp, Esq., Washington Hotel, LiverpooL Major William Fletcher Gordon, Wilton-crescent, Belgravia. Charles Heneage, Esq., Director of the Langham Hotel Com pany. Patrick Kean, Esq., Talbot-terrace, Westbourne Park, Bays- water. Charles 11. Maude, Esq., St. George's-square, Pimlico, Director of the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Com pany. Charles Ritchie, Esq., Tulse Hill, Director of the Queen's _ . . ~.. Hotel, NorwoOd. Thomas Stanton, Esq., Porchester-square, Hyde-park, Direc tor of the Inns of Court Hotel Company. John Evan Tibbs, Esq., Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street, Director of the Staffordshire Rolling Stock Company. BANKERS. in London, Liverpool, and Manchester—The Alliance Bank (Limited). SOLICITORS. In London--Messrs. Crosley and Burn, 34, Lombar3-street. I n Liverpool—Messrs. Littledale, Ridley, and Bardswell, Brown's-buildings. ARCHITECT In Liverpool -J. A. Picton, Esq. AUDITORS. Messrs. Edwards and James, Public Accountants, 18, King-street, Cheapside, London. Stanley It. Bennett, Esq., Public Accountant, 3', Nicholas lane, London. BROKERS. In London—Messrs. Crosley, Brothers, 30, Cornhill. In Liverpool—Messrs. Theakstone and Hargreaves, India buildings. SECRETARY (pro tern). W. Thompson, Esq. OFFICES. In London-29, Threadneedle-street. In Liverpool—The Washington Hotel. PROSPECTUS. Liverpool is the port through which the vast passenger traffic which exists between this country, America, the West 'wiles, and Canada passes. It is obvious, therefore, that first-rate Hotel acoommoda tion is not only desirable, but absolutely necessary ; and to supply that requirement the Washington Hotel was built within the last two years. It has been designed and fitted mi on the model of the great American and Continental Hotels, replete with all the comfort, convenience, and luxury which modern taste can suggest. The Hotel is situate in Lime-street, opposite the principal railway terminus, on one of the finest Wei in the town. It contains about 200 rooms, furnished in the best style. Under the Hotel have been formed ice wells, capable of storing about 3.(00 tons of ice. These are the only public ice wells in Liverpool, and from their position can supply the whole town. The Company has arranged to purchase the lease of the Washington Hotel, together with the goodwill, stock in trade, furniture, and fittings. The ice wells, which are included in the purchase, are now full, and from that source alone the Directors expect that a dividend of 5 per cent. on the capital will be realised. It is intended that the establishment in Liverpool shall be the principal Hotel, and that it shall co-operate with other existing hotels in London, Manchester, and other la ge towns in the United Kingdom, and also in America. As the Hotel is now in full operation, and making large returns, the delay occasioned by the erection of premises, and acquiring a business, will be avoided. The Company will take immediate possession of the pre mi-es, and enter at once upon the business, consequently re turns will be made forthwith, and the Directors believe that they are not over-estimating the profits when they anticipate large dividends for the shareholders. 'there will be no promotion money, and th. preliminary expenses will be restricted to the amount actually incurred. If no allotment be made to an applicant, the deposit wi 1 be retnrned in full ; and if a less number of shares be allotte than are applied for, the balance of such deposit wi,l be cre dited towards the payment on alotment. Plans of the prot , erty may be seen at the Offices of the Com pany, and also at the Brokers, where Pr3spectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be had. , THE LONDON AND LIVERPOOL HOTEL COMPANY (Limited , . Capital £120,000, in 0,600 shares of £2O each. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the London and Liverpool Hotel Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to your Bankers the sum of £ being a deposit of £ I per share on shares of the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that num ber, and I agree (accm ding to the form prescribed by the arti cles of association) to accept such shares, or any less number you may allot me, and I request that my name may be placed on the register of shareholders for the shares so allotted. I am, Gentlemen, Name in full Profession .. Address in full. Date. ....... • ••••••• The form, when filled up and signed by the applicant, to be left with or sent to the Bankers, or so the Company s Offices, alorg with the deposit of £1 per hare:s the Bankers• re,ript will be either given or sent by post. IF THIS SHOULD ME E T THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion. or Biliousness take PAGE WOO D COCK'S WIND PILLS. Thcir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. 10. and 2s 9d. ; or free by Loat for 14 or 33 s tamp from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist /110010, ~,~~--~ D~,,G e / ~i /1"---e/v NEWS PAPER 41 a 1 01) // 2 w • - • 0 4 , - • _ • _ _ . 4 1 / 4/ vomit 4 7 . .00 1 ;;Pl- rr:4l ( 0 4,. nid : •-• ti • , 1 1 . DIE 0410! „ : la DROrr. 4111TPP%\ Federal navy was incompetent too all events, unsuccessful in accomi it not to strike these over sangui that the British navy might not in the case sup posed be quito so powerless as tl i 8 t of the United States; that the enterprising alai skilful people who built the Florida and the All hams for " the Emperor of China" might be able ti ) build 40 or 50 or 100 better vessels for the British Government ; and that their commanders might tx. Ake very short work both of the ships and the nee kE of any pirates hailing from Federal ports who s henild venture to come within 100 miles of them ? It would be con sistent with the dignity of the A merjean Govern ment and people to devote thei r energies to the capture of the ships that so distilt b them : but it is neither consistent with dignity n or reason to con tinue to whine over their lo sses wif hout striking a blow, or to talk of reprisals again st Great Britain for acts which the British Govern, vent has neither committed nor sanctioned. PRICE .4d. STA3IPED:....Sd. against the union of influences whie will be brought to bear in opposition to him ; that his character as a temporiser and men of shifts and expedients has tended to prolong the war during his first term, and would tend still more injuriously to prolong it during a sE coed ; that the patronage of the Govern ment had been so rapidly and enormously increased, and so loosely placed under his management, as to render the application of the one term principle essential to the safety of the Republic ; that in Mr. Salmon P. Chase are united more of the qualities of a good President than are to be found in any ether available candidate ; that his record is cleat and unimpeachable; that he is a statesman of rare ability and an administrator of the very highest order; that the discussion of his fitness for the office has developed an amount of popularity and strength in his favour which has astonished his warmest admirers ; and that, all things considered, nothing but systematic and faithful effort on the part of his friends and supporters is necessary to overcome all possible obstacles to his election. It is no wonder that Mr. Lincoln's friends should feel scandalised at such a prommeiamiento, and that the most indis creet among them should call for the dismissal of the Secretary unless he will publicly disavow the proceedings thus commenced in his name. In any other country Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Chase could not conveniently meet at the same table for the trans action of public business, and the chief, for his own comfort's sake, if not for that of his dignity, would be compelled to dismiss his too ambitious subordi nate and look out for another Minister. But it is probable that Mr. Lincoln, rather than encounter the peril of a break-up in his Cabinet, will submit, with his characteristic good humour, to the slight put upon him, and if ho be really anxious for the very dangerous honours and patronage of a second term, that he will trust to the agencies, civil and military, legal and financial, which are still and will be for a twelvemonth in his grasp to set aside, un dermine, and otherwise defeat the schemes of an ad versary, who, however formidable he may be, will be less formidable in proportion to the number of candidates that may yet be brought forward. With three Republicans in the field—himself, Gen. Fre mont, and Mr. Chase—and only one Democrat, with the chance of at least two more in the persons of Generals Butler and Banks, the President may, perhaps, be able to play a game that shall checkmate Mr. Chase, even if the operation should lead to the election of Gen. M'Clelian. Meanwhile, Mr. Chase is too powerful to be lightly interfered with. The Chase manifesto, however, has already had one result which its framers did not anticipate. It has virtually defeated a measure which has for the last week been under discussion in the House of Representatives, and the object of which was to authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to enter the gold-market whenever he pleased and sell his sur plus gold. In face of his enormous issues of paper, gold, as obstinate in following its own laws as water, that will find its level, persisted in standing at a premium of nearly 60 per cent. above greenbacks, in spite of all the hopes, wishes, and efforts of Mr. Chase to bring it down to 25. It has long been suspected and asserted that Mr. Chase occasionally exercised to the extent of a few millions the power scught to be conferred upon him by Congress ; but, however the truth may be in this respect, it was deemed advisable that a privilege so important should be legally conferred upon him. The measure was accordingly introduced into the House of Re presentatives. Its supporters contended that the premium on gold was maintained by the nefarious arts of gamblers and speculators ; that such gam bling wag immoral and unpatriotic ; that the depre preciation of the prier currency thereby expedited end maintained was treasonable, inasmuch as it gave aid and comfort to the enemy, and that whenever \lr. Chase hadatt - atirplue of gold derived from the Customs duties above the stuns required f,r the payment of the interest on the national debt, he should be allowed in the public betrilf to sell it in open market. It was further urged that the know ledge that Mr. Chase had such a power in his hands and could at any moment exercise it would tend to depress speculation and keep gold at a moderate premium. The objections to these argu ments were many and cogent. The power thus vested in the Secretary would be too much for ordinary honesty to be proof against ; he would be virtually the despot of prices and arbiter of every man's fortunes ; he would be enabled by a hint of his intentions to put unearned millions into the hands of his friends, relatives, and supporters ; and, more than all, he might, if privileged to be a seller of gold, sell too much of the commodity, and perhaps find himself by a falling off in the Customs duties or some other cause, compelled to buy back what ho had sold, or break faith with the public creditor,—a condition of affairs which would infal libly send up the premium to a far higher rate than that from which he might have reduced it by hie unwise intermeddling. These arguments had the effect anticipated, and decided the Committee of Ways and Means to report against the proposition. It was still thought,however, up to yesterday morn ing, when Senator Pomeroy's circular appeared, that means would be found to secure the bill a new hearing. But that document immediately altered the state of affairs. All the friends of Mr. Lincoln, of General Fremont, and of General M'Clellan took the alarm lest powers so mighty as theee should be employed in promoting the electioneering canvass of the Secretary. As these three sections, composed as they are, not alone of the Republican and Demo cratic, but of the nondescript parties, form at least threcefourths if not nine-tenths of the House, the measure is doomed, and gold and greenbacks will be left to the operation of natural causes, to find their value untampered with by any greater gambler or financier than such as congregate in Wall-street and William-street, and make day hideous with the uproar of their trade. The recent news from Europe has been received with unmitigated delight by that amiable section of the people of this country who hate Great Britain as ardently as they love the Union, and to please whom Mr. Seward threatened to hold the British Government responsible for all the damage inflicted upon American commerce by the Alabama and the Florida. They rejoice that the Danes and the Germans have come to blows and indulge in a 1 romantic, but possibly baseless, vision of a general European war as the immediate consequence. Crowns are to be melted up for old metal ; the purple robes of Kings and Emperors are to be trailed through the gutter ; thrones aro to be con verted into material for bonfires ; the old nation alities of Ireland, Poland, and Hungary, but not of the Heptarchy, are to be restored ; Republic insti tutions are everywhere to be established; and such a din of battle is to be kept up for the next 20 years in the Old World, that America is to bo left to its own devices, without danger of foreign interven tion, and, more agreeable than all, Great Britain ie inevitably to be dragged into hostilities with one or more of the great Powers of the Continent, in which event Federal capitalists and shipbuilders are to fit out privateers for the foes of Engla n d and sweep British commerce from every sea and OCen of the globe. "We should not be human," says one of these sweet-tempered observers of European politics, "if we did not feel some little satisfaction li 1 at the prospect. As soon as eg.and is at war we shall commence building vessels for the Emperor of Caine, and the English flag will be driven from every sea, as ours has been." The spite of this writer blinds him, and the class to whom he appeals, to many little facts that ought to be taken into the account before England or the world can accept his I con clusions as positive cer t a i n ti es. T he F e d era l Government has 12 war ships now in commission which it cannot tend to sea for want of sailors. The capture of tho Alabama and the Florida wen a duty urgently demanded of the Federal navy. and the Northern people would have been almost as mach delighted with either achievement as with i the enrrendar of Richmond or Charleston ; yat 'ht.! Louis Napoleon as a 'General, Anxious, then, to do justice to 'Louis Napoleon's t ve abilities, we must admit, after a "ducting the ad vantages he possessed in better tr )ops, better w og . pons, more experienced generals , and irresponsibl e authority, that he showed remarkable talent for conducting military operations. His movements Hweisre far fro orderly and carefulpi d, but a d they nn e w on r the 24th July, so different from the straggling array of the Austrians, was a amain cause of the victory of Solferino. And, setting aside the po licy of the flank march to th a Ticino, the march itself, though not faultless , was reason ably well conducted, while the preliminary feint and movement across the P o were exeel lently arranged. He showed, too,, a right judg ment in directing the mass of his fm!ce against Sol ferino. All these feats were surprisin gin a man who not only then first held a command , but who then first saw war, and who began his military career with directing two great armies. lievertheless, we think the march to Magenta fatal to his character for generalship. We grant that at :any phase of that movement, except when his army was astride the Ticino, he had a reasonable chance of assembling sufficient forces upon any point that Giulay might attack, to have a fair prospect of victory. But a gambler who should wager a hundred to one on an even chance would be as likely to win as to lose ; yet, if he did lose, his stake would be enormous com pared with his possible gain. Atrd this was the case with the flank march; it was sh.owy, unexpected, and therefore praised as brilliant ; but it was ex tremely perilous, and all the danger was run with out the prospect of a corresponding success. Nothing bat the fighting of his troops, and the friendly aid of that emissary from the Austrian Emperor to Giulay, extricated him from a ponition that might easily have been absolutely fatal. Neither was he forced into this dangerous coarse ; on the contrary, by moving on Mortara he would gain all that the flank march could possibly give him, and without risking his communications. We believe, then that the sole reason for incurring the danger was the hope of evading a battle. This is a very grave de fect in the character of a commander, who, though he should, of course, be properly careful of the lives of his troops, should never hesitate to gain an ade. qaate advantage by fighting for it. Bat it is a common thing to see generals, though regardless of their personal safety, yet nervously alive to the risk of engaging. Subsequent events seem to con• firm this view of the Emperor's character. Oa the sth June he hesitated, though with superior num bers and in face of a beaten enemy, to renew the contest, or to pursue. Ho equally failed to follow the retiring foe from Solferino ; and, lastly, when another great pitched battle was imminent, he made his overtures for pence, forgetting alike his own proclaimed intention and the interests of his ally. Should he, then, take the field in another war, we should expect that his combinations would be well calculated ; his movements methodical and accurate; bat we should doubt the resolution, not of the man, but of the general, and we should ex pect that, opposed to a skilful and resolute adver sary, prompt and ready to fight, he might play for a high stake and lose it. —Blackwood. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—NORTHAMPTON, March 8. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Justice Crompton came from Leicester yesterday. Thecae that has of late excited so much attention hail gone off. It was a charge of wilful murder against William Weekly Ball, a man 47 years of age, and described as a butcher. Mr. Sergeant Tozer, Mr. Douglas Brown, and the lion, G. C. Vernon appeared for the prosecution ; aLd Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., Mr. Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Metcalfe for the prisoner. In the year 1,',50 the deceased and supposed murdered woman, Lydia Atley, was living at the village of Ring stead, in this county, where also resided the prisoner. For some time an adulterous intercourse had been carried on between them, the prisoner being a married man, and in July of the year above mentioned the woman was near her confinement. On the 22d of the month she was last seen alive at about 9 at night, in company with the prisoner. They were heard talking in his orchard, the witnesses who heard the talk baying that she was refusing to charge any one else with being the father of the child. Shortly after groans were heard proceeding from the direction where the talking had been going on, but no one seems to have at tempted any interference, or to have attached importance to the circumstance. As we have before said, from that mo ment she was never again seen alive. Search was made, but in a few days a letter arrived in the village from a man at Northampton, saying that he had seen her walking with a man in that town a day or two after the 22d July. This being made public had the effect of to some extent lulling the suspicion of the villagers, and ultimately, although there was a very strong feeling that there had been foul play, the matter was at rest. In the meantime the prisoner removed to Thrapston, established himself as a butcher, and at the time of his arrest was carrying on a good and thriving trade. So many years had now passed that ho might well have imagined himself safe from any accusation in reference to Lydia Atley; but in the month of February last some labourers were digging a piece of waste land by the roadside, near the orchard before mentioned, and about 18 inches below the surface they came upon the skeleton of a woman. It was lying face downwards. The bones were collected, and on examining the jaw a tooth was missing from the back of the mouth—a remarkable circumstance, for but a few days before she disappeared a labourer, the village dentist, had extracted ono at her request. No sign of any child could be discovered. The man who wrote the letter before mentioned now comes forward and says ho wrote it at the request of the prisoner, and the story as to' seeing the deceased in Northampton was utterly untrue. It will be seen that the case is still only one of great suspicion for beyond the tooth no further iudentification of the skeleton can be arrived at. It now appears that where the bones were found Gipsies have been in the habit of burying, and, as if further to embarrass the case f or t h e in the sam e p i ece of ground, a s upposed remains of th e woman prosecution, feet cution, below last where Saturday, the s were found, another skeleton, that of a man, was found, and yesterday two more were discovered. These are the short facts of the case; and an investigation having taken p l ace before the magistrates, the prisoner was committ e d for trial. • To-day a bill was prepared for the consideration of the grand jury, but before it was sent to them Mr. Sergeant Tozer stated that he had consulted with the solicitor for the prosecution an I the counsel with him in the case, and the result was that, seeing how incomplete the case was at present against the prisoner, he should ask that the recognisances of the witnesses be discharged and no bill prepared. 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Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The risme and addr.- s se. engraved on the stallW. WALES. The Council of the Royal Dramatic College. considering that the present is a favourable opportunity for promoting one of the main purposes of the Institution they have founded, bee* to invite public support in aid of the E REC f lON and ENDOWMENT of a SHAKSPERE SCHOOL for the classical and general education, with scholarships, of the Children of Actors or Actresses and Dramatic Authors—the noblest and most fitting Monument to the memory of the Player and Poet. The Council of the Royal Dramatic College beg to apprize the public, that all Subscriptions intended/for the endow • went of the Snakspere School should be paid only to the Master, New Theatre Royal Adelphi ; or to Messrs. Coutte, Bankers, Strand, London. A Public Meeting will shortly be held in the Royal Adelphi Theatre to advance this object, of which due notice will be given. Ladies, noblemen, gentlemen, Ind others interested in carrying out this design, arc requested to communica,e with the undersigned. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, Master. Feb. 27, 1864. Committee Room (open from 11 till 4), 411, Strand. Secretary, Mr. Thomas Stuart. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. The birthday of George Washington, slaveholder, and (until he became successful) a rebel, was yester day celebrated by 20 millions of people, who affeet to hate both slaveholding and rebellion with viru lence to which history offers few parallels. • 'Vere Washington now alive, holding the principle for which he fought and conquered in his own day, he would either sit in the seat of Jefferson Davis or be among the most trusted of hie councillors; but the North, forgetting principle in passion, honours his memory, and departs from his teaching. So greatly have times changed since the compare tively recent day in which he was a power among his fellows that he has almost become as mythical as Ulysses or Achilles—a name for boys to revere, for girls to dream of, and for philosophers to theorise and be learned upon, but of no more practical account, either by his example or his precept, in the govern ancn of the Republic which he founded than if he had been dead 3,000 years. He declared that go vernment reposed upon the consent of the governed, and to prove the contrary the Federal Americans have taken up arms to coerce eight millions of people of their own race and lineage and the greater por tion of four millions of negroes. He warned them against sectionalism as the greatest of all the dangers against which the young Republic should be on its guard, and they became sectional until sec tionalism—as he foresaw it would—ripened and expanded into war. He dwelt upon the neces sity of wise compromise as the only stable foun dation of constitutional liberty, and they refused to listen to compromise until compromise became impossible. Forgetting all his counsels, all his principles, all the objects for which he made him self a name for ever, they have deluged his na tive Virginia with the blood of a hundred thousand of their own and as many of the opposing people, carried fire and sword through that once lovely land, laid up a store of misery and indebtedness to afflict countless generations, parted with liberty for the sake of "glory," and gained not even the glory and the dominion for which they perilled so much—nothing, in fact, as yet, but a vague half consciousness that all their sacrifices have been in vain, and that as Washington was so will Jefferson Davis be hereafter. Bat if Washington's principles be forgotten, his birthday is remembered. Yester day guns fired, banners waved, illuminations and rockets reddened the midnight sky, balls and other festivities enlivened the hearts of the young and fair, while older and soberer persons took pleasure in that indigenous species of oratory known as "highfalutin," in commemoration of the glorious annil ersary. To-day all is over, and Washington's name is laid on the shelf until the 4th of July, when, if all be well, it will be taken down again to cele brate a successful rebellion against England, and to point the moral of an old revolution without throwing any light upon the principles and passion of the new. Among the promises made for the day were two which were not fulfilled—the one, a no w Proclama tion of Universal Emancipation; the other, the great inaugural meeting in the city of New York, under the auspices of the Lincoln Union League, tor the advooscy of Mr. Lincoln's claim to reelection. Per haps the first, if ready, has, for reasons best known to Mr. Lincoln, been postponed to a more appro priate season ; the second has undoubtedly been postponed because of the almost total want of sym pathy in its objects which exists among the people of the metropolis. Even the Trzbune , which made him, has formally declined to support him for a second term. Though Gen. Butler is spoken of, and he and the North are worthy of cacti other, he is scarcely to be considered a popular favourite. That honour bas been reserved for Gen. M'Clellan. His name is always received with shouts of applause whenever publicly mentioned. The soldiers when he appears among them, as he did for the first time last Saturday, receive him with a furore of delight, which proves that his enforced retirement has not diminished his popularity among his comrades. His official report to the Secretary of War on the organi sation of the army of the Potomac and its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland has just been published. Congress ordered 10,000 copies to be printed for the use of members, but, lest the document should be too extensively used as an electioneering manifesto, it reduced the number to 5,000. But this little circumstance only increased the public anxiety to read the report. It has been reprinted piecemeal in hundreds of newspapers all over the country, besides being re-issued in book form by a score of publishers. The Genoa' stood high before in the ettimation of the Democratic party, as well as of that large non-partisan class whose only bond of poli ieal cohesion is their timidity and dread of violent revolution. His report has strengthened the confidence reposed in him by both, and will, in the event of a Presidential election under the old forms which is not by any means so certain as it ought tc be—procure for him many hundred thousand votes which he might not otherwise have secured. But far more important than the movements of the General's friends is the step just taken in the interest of Mr. Chase. Cautious, solid, steady, always going forward without appearing to move, and never drawing b a ck, Mr. Chase bides his time. He says nothing, but does a great deal, and cleverly allowing Mr. Lincoln by the exercise of the war power vested in him as Commander-in-Chief to fill up the gaps left in the Senate and the House of Repre sentatives by the session of the Southern States, he seems to calculate that the two cunning engineer may be hoisted with his own petard, and that if the ultimate decision of the Presidential contest be thrown into the House of Representatives, the votes thus created may be given for Chase, and not for Lincoln. His friends—and he is a man whose purity of life, independence of character, and range of intellect would always secure him many, even if he had not high power and the power of putting his favourites on the road to fortune to add to the number —have finally come forward with a laboured statement in his behalf, in the shape of a circular or m anifesto, ostensibly addressed to the whole people, but intended for the chiefs as well as the rank and file of the Republican party. It is signed by Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, on behalf of the National Executive Committee, and when,yeeterday morning, published for the first time created a marked sensation in this city as well as in Wesh ington. To-day it has led to two reports—one that it is a lubrication, and the concoction of an enemy; and the other, based upon its authenticity, that Mr. Lincoln will either yield his own claims to those of Mr. Chase or dismiss him from the Secretaryship of the Treasury. The document is generally believed to be genuine. It states that this movement on the part of he friends of the Union who differ from the policy of the Government has been rendered neces sary by tne prior movement made to secure the re- Inomination of Mr. Lincoln ; that were the re-eleetion -;"fir. Litifto l .l flesirahlse it seen/d be irnprvtirmble NIP I