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xF?Y...~..~ THE CONTINENTAL GAS AND WATER co NiPANY (Limited). ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. Capital tlOO,OOO, in 0,000 shares of £lO each. First issue £ 0,000. i 5,000 shares. 1 - ) c..Posit, 108. per share on application, and 10s. on allotment. No future call to exceed per share, at intervals of not less than three months, Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum to be allowed for the first twelve months, during the construction of the new works. DIRECTORS. Alexander Beattie, Esq., M.D., Medical Inspector Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company. Amyatid Elliott, Esq., 29, Cadogan-place, Belgrave-square. James Reynolds, Esq., Director of the Independent Gas Company, Juhn Romanes, Esq., Director of the G. neral Iron Foundry Company. Charles Saunderson, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society. George Seamen, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company. Henry Palfrey Stephenson, Esq..,lleintfY Chairman of the Crystal Palace District Gas Company. Felix Webber, Esq., Catferd Howe, Catford Bridge, Kent. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co , Westminster. ENGINEER. Hodgson Jones, NI emb. Inet.Civil Eneineers, F.C.S , 26, Great George-street, Westminster. BANKERS. Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 75, Corthill. BROKERS. Messrs. Crossley Brothers, 30, Cornhill. Offices : 30, Cornhill. The highly profitable resulta which have attended the in vestment ot English capital in gait works- orrthe Continent favour an extension of enterprise in thaf direltion. The fol , owing are the dividends paid on, and the present priced or, the shares ot English cowponies having works on the Continent : ~Dlvidend.l Name of Company. Amoant paid( Present per share. I Price. The Impe , ial Conti- 1 mental Gas The European Gas .... Ditto New .... The Malta and 3ledi- t terranean Gas. re cently established 12 per ct. 10 „ 10 £43 15 £B3 to £B4 210 0 £l6 £2lO £6 6 „ £3 0 IXito 1 pm. Tnere is room for areat improvement in the present sup- Ply of water on te Continent. e directors secured the water h -works of Arras Th , the chief towhave already of the de partment of the Pas-de-Calais, in Prance. The earnings of the current year will be sufficient to give simper cent. profit on this oration of the capital pt the company. No payment is to be made to promoters. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained of the brokers, the solicitors, and at the offices of the company, where the memorandum and articles of asso ciation can be seen. THE LONDON COCOA - NUT FIBRE 0011PANY _(Limited)- - - - - 111 rated under-the - TZmnanirs Act, 18t2, whereby the Liability of every Shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. Capital £20,000, in 20,i" 00 Shares of £1 each. Deposit ss. on application; and ss. on allotment. Calls not to exceed ss. per share. No call to be made within three months from the Incorporation of the Company, and sub sequent Calls at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. F. M. Hayward, Esq., 32, Hanover•equare. Major Bamford, 6, Sutherland- street, Belgrave-square. Frederick Angerstein, Esq., 133, S.oane-street, and Carlton Club. Frank Cole, Esq., 76, Gower-street, Bedford-square. T. Littlewood, Esq, Broom Hall, Sheffield. J. Stevens, Esq„ 68, CornbilL With power to add to their number. BANKERS. The English and Irish Bank (Limited), 25, Poultry, B.C. SOLICITOR. Charles Parke, Esq , 37, Moorgate-street E.C. AUDITOR. Mr, S. T. Cooper, Public Accountant, 10, Basinghall street, E.C. SECRETARY—Mr. C. H. Baker. MANAGER OF WORRS—Mr. James Lane. Temporary Works—Arthur-terrace, Holloway. Offices —No. 1, Sun-court, CornhilL This Company is formed for the purpose of manufacturing Coooa-Nut F bre Mats and Matting, under Letters Patent granted to George Davies, dated the 24th April. 1862. The principal feature of Davies's Invention consists in the Improved pile of the mat, and, owing to the mode of weaving, great durability is given to the fabric at a reduced cost of manufacture. The superiority of articles manufactured by this process over the present method will be well understood in the trade When it is stated that matting of all descriptions, and car riage and door mats, dm., have a thick fibrous pile upon the surface hitherto unattained. The continually extendin g demand for articles made of Cocoa fibre will be greatly stimulated by the introduction of the Patent process into the manufacture. The harshness hitherto complained of in matting made of this material in the ordi nary method will no longer rema n a source of complaint, the Patent process rendering the material and articles made of it not only more durable, but much softer. The Patent at the present time is being worked profitably to a limited extent. The proposed Capital will be ample for the payment of the Purchase-money for the patent, for looms and other plant, and for working the busine- a on a large scile. The calculations made warrant the probability that the profits will exceed 25 per cent., and as the manufactory re quired is of a simple and inexpensive character, the works will be in operation, and profits will be realised, within three months after allotment of shares. The following is an Estimate of Profits to be realised s. d. 430 Looms, producing 30ft. Mats per day, at 2d. per foot profit (when sold at the lo west mar ket price), equal to XllOB. per week per loom ; I*.fter allowing for stoppages, &c., say Li per 'week per loom, equal to per annum .. .. 3,120 0 0 20 Looms on Matting and Fancy Work at a profit its. per loom per week, equal to per annum 620 0 0 £3,f40 0 0 Rent, Taxes, Gas, and Firing for Manufactur- Wages and Management .. 3 Horses' keep .• •• •• E ,penses of ffices and Staff Wear and Tear a count •• Reserve account .. • • 180 0 0 .. 524 0 0 .. 150 0 0 .. 300 0 0 :: £2OO 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 Balance of Profit on Capital of £5,000, nearly equal to 40 per cent. per ann um .. .. 1,986 0 0 £3,640 0 0 If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. Specimens of the new and improved manufacture may be seen at the offices of the Company, where applications for prospectuses and shares may be made. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR MARES. To the Directors of the London Cocoa-Nut Fibre Company (Limited). No. 1, Sun-court, Cornhill, E.C. Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , being the de-osit of ss. per share on shares in the London Cocoa-Nut Fibre Company (Limited), I request that yo u will allot me that number ; and I accept such shares, or any less number. And I further request that my name may be placid on th , . register of shareholders for such shares so allotted. And I further agree to sign the Articles of Association when called upon so to do . I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient Servant, Name Address • Profession or Business Date RECEIPT FOR DEPOSIT. Received, this day of . 1563, from , the sum of pounds shillings, being a deposit of s s. per share on shares in the London Cocoa-Nut FAbre Company (Limited). For _ If Inconvenient to make the deposit with the Bankers, the entlne form may be sent to the Compsny's offices, by post, accompanied by a Cheque crossed, or by Post-office urder, payable to the Secretary. THE GREAT CADER IDRIS LEAD, COPPER, IRON MINING, and SLATE COMPANY (Limited). This Company being completely registered under the Joint- Stook Companies' Act, 1862, with Limited Liability, no Shareholder can, under any circumstances, be made re sponsible for a greater amount than the shares tor which he subscribes. Capital .£40,00?, in 40,000 Shares of £1 each. Deposit, ss. per share on application, and 6s. per share on allotment. DIRECTORE. Col.'Abbott, 150, Leadenhall-street, and Upper Spring-street, Portman-square. William Ancrum, Esq. (formerly H.M. Consul at Tunis), Penge, Surrey. E. J. Bridell, Esq. (Director of the St. David's Mining Com pauy), 34, Beaumont-street. Portland-p ace. E. J. Cole, Esq., 76, Gower-street, Bedfora-square. Ed , ards Richards, Esq., Knightsbridge, and Westbourne, Emsworth, Sussex. - James Young. Esq., 19, Great George-street, Westminster. With power to add - to their number. BANKERS. Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Lombard-stree`. SOLICITOR. G. R. Dodd, Esq., F.S.A., 26, New Broad-street, E.C. AUDITORS , Will be appointed by the Shareholders. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Messrs. Letch and Maguire. Temporary Offices—No. 1, Coleman-street -buildings, Moor gate-street, E.C. This Company is formed for the purpose of purchasing an extensive and valuable grant of l ead, Copper, Iron Ore, and Slate, en the north side of the noted Cader Idris Mountain, known as the Cyfannedd-fawr, in the parish of Llanegryn, Aferionethshire, North Wales, held under lease for 2t years, at 1-15th Royalty on all minerals (except Iron Ore, at a Royalty of only Id. per ton). The great grant includes numerous lodes of Lead. Zinc, and Copper Iron of the beat quality, and blonde with traces of Gold—also excellent Slate. Au adit-level intersects several lodes of Silver-lead, or Galena. . A Copper lode open( d upon, gives promise of excellent re sults. An Iron vein runs through the entire grant. An extensive bed of Slate of good cleavage can be worked to erect advantage. The Silver-lead, proved by assay, has yidded 40 ounces of silver to the ton of ore. Lead and Cop -er from a shaft at the end of the adit have reali-ed £32 per ton. The Iron vein is estimated to produce 61 per cent. of iron. The Slate is of superior quality, and can be cut into pave ment, flooring. c himne y pieces, &c. The streams of water running through the grant offer great facilities for working, scouring . , and cutting the slate. In fact, a Quarry opened upon the property will pay well for working. The foregoing' facts and the position of the grant, in a rich mineral district, warrant the conclusion that, efficiently worked, the mine is capable of yielding returns equal to those of the most profitablP mines in the P cp y u w a a l t h i e t i d e h . half a The property being advar,tageouslriniti mile from the Welsh Coast Railway, from a can be constructed at moderate cost, ant only 21 miles byCubt'c road from the shippingport of Barmon th, affords a facility of transit which greatly enhances its value. With these a 'vantages, and adequate water power for working machinery, dressing ores , &c. i , the Directors, after careful investigation, confidently anticipate that 10s. per share upon the capital of the Company will be sufficient re to develope 'he wealth of the mine, and produce profitable sults without further calls. The Lessee having agreed to take £3,00 1 in cash, and .5. 000 paid up shares. assigns all his interest in the mine, inc uding upwars of IGO acres of mineral ground—the prvious out lay—mining buildings, smith's shop, offices, dresinr floors, bucking house, &c., immediate operations can therefore be commenced when, in the judgment of the Directors, sufficient capital is subscribed. Samples of the different ores talcen from the mine, reports, prospectuses, and forms of app ication for shares, may e obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Comr any ; and the deposit paid on application will be returned if no allotment be made to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATIO N FOR SHA RES. To the Directors of the G reat Cader Idris Lead, Copp er, Iron Mininff, and Slate Company, (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to your credit with Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., X , I hereby request you will allot mebock, shares in the above Company, and I agree to accept such sh.res, or any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I authorise you to insert my r ame in the register of Shareholders for the same. Name O Address Profession or business DM® O ..11....•.111 IMO.= IrU :. N°. 22,154. LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 3 vols, 1W AR Y YNDS A Y. By Lady EMILY PONSONBY. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received at all the Libraries. • LORD WILLIAM LENNOX'S BIOGRAPHY. Now ready, in 2 vols., Bvo., FIFTY 'YE ABS' BIOGRAPHICAL 11 EMINISCENCES. By LORD WILLIAM PIT I' LENNOX. Hurst and Blacken, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ST. JAMES'S HALL. — GRAND TANCT BAZAAR. THIS DAY, fromDNE till NINE o'clock. Admission—lMF-A-CROWN. Choice PICTURES—FLQMand FRUIT — RIMMEL'S FO NS. ST. J A .1%1 H,A. L L.- GRAND FAROY BAZAAR: - - THIS DAY (TUESDAIS,OO WEDNESDAY and THU itSDAY. The Band of the SioileXpallier Guards. Beautiful SPECIMENS of WOBB. ST. JAMES'S HALL.- GRAND FALNOTALZAAB.-.. TILINOIS , A.Y, from ONE tIIrNINE. AID of the FUNDS of the LONDON SURGICAL HOME, MINION'S CHINA—CHILDREN'S CLOTHING and TOYS, Sze. &c. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE, JUNE 39, 1863. A Grand MELANGE DRAMATIQUE will take place in AID of the FUNDS for a NATIONAL METROPOLITAN MONUMENT to SHAKESPEARE, under the immediate Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess of Wales, before wnom 60 eminent artistes will hate the honour of appearing. —Hon. Sec., Mr. Adolphus Francis, 43, Cumberland - street, Hyde-park. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1863. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—On and after the let of JULY the Price of SEASON TICKETS will be REDUCED. MONTHLY TICKETS will also be issued. Particsulars on application at the Superintendent's Office, or at any of the Stations on the Line. TH ENGLISH and SCOTTISH MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited) will COM MENCC BUSINESS at its Temporary Offices, No. 2. Royal Exchange-buildings, on WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Ist July. _ _ By order, D. MACPHERSON, Secretary. 26th jtme, 1F63. FA AB T AND WEST COMPANY. INDIA DOCK The COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give notice that a HALF YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MEETING of the said Company will be held, pursuant to the direction of the Act Ist and .2d, William IV.. cap. 52, at the Dock House, No. 8, Billiter-equate, on FRIDAY, the 10th day of July next, for thei)uraose ot choosing and appointing EIGHT DIREC TORS in the tem of those going out of office by rotation ; at which Meeting a DIVIDEND will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the half year ending the 30th June.. : By order of the Court, GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East VI4 West India Dock House, Bilttter-square, June 26,1863. NA-44%e chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS for ORPHANS and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN, Pinner, Middlesex. A General Half-yearly Court was held at the London. Tavern, this day, June 29, 1861, George Moore, Esq., tree surer,in the chair, when an election of fourteen children— nine boys and five girls—took place. The following is the result of the poll : SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. BOYS. Piper. Edmund WU'S= 9,281 Cooi)tr, R. W. .. 5,786 Jones, Benjamin Chapman, James Headland, C. Waters, T. H Baxter, E. A. Thorp, Lucy M 4,BV Mansell, L. E. . ..... 4,548 UNSUCCESSFUI Bo' Alassing.ham A. E..... 3,156 Goodchild, Louisa E... 3,050 CANDIDATES. MR. CHURCH'S New Picture, the ICEBERGS, painted from studies made in the Northern Seas in the summer of 1859.—German Gallery, 168, Ne w Bond-street, W. Admission, Is. PARIS. -GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE. Established in 1855.-Situated in the most Central part of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal-Six hun dred Bedrooms at from 3 to 20fr-r0 Sitting-rooms at from 4 to 20fr.- a richly decorated Dining Saloon-Table d'Hote at six o'clock-Public Coffee and Dining Rooms-Choice Wines-Dinners served a la carte both in the dining-rooms and the private apartments- Reading and Conversation Saloons ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other par ties -all Newspapers and Serial Publications received- Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms-numerous Bath-roams-Carriages on the premises -first-class Private Equipages at command-Omnibuses running to all the rail way stations-Postal Letter-box-Telegraph-office day and night-Photographic studio-a staff of Servants speaking all Languages. T H E OXFOR D, e, OXFORD STREET. Will be performed Selections from the following Operas : LA CTRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and MASANIELLO. Bupported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Edison, Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Finish, Kimberley, and W. Evans, with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Drew Dean's Flute Solos • Master Sanders, the Juvenile Vocalist. lINSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes. Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the mat venous ARTHUR and BERTRAND. The HALL has been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and Is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Porter, Clement 3,650 Marshall, Wm... 2,616 Compton, P. C 2,275 Shenton, Fred. Ryder, E. C. " ' ..,, 2,155 Bolton, Isabel 1,966 Worsfold, Emily Powell, F. W. ..... 1,381 Campbell, E. J ..... 1,039 Potter, John . Hartley, G. N. R. 228 'LB. I Walker, E. C. Hurley, F. L Swann, r. R. ENRY LENDON, Secretary. ton, E.C., June 29, 1863. Offices, 76, Cheapslde, Lonct CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT. This Evening the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND, the Two Frew h Clowns. ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly for him. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH'S new Comicslilies, dm. SAM COLLINS, with new Songs. UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator. EUGENE, and G. HUTCHINSON. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, Signor Small, and Signor Tivoli. Conductor, Mr. Jonghtnans. Admission—Hall, ed. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. N ew Musical Invention, the GRAND PIANO ORC EST RE, cumbining a full Band of 2n Instruments, will be Performed on by the Inventor, Herr SCH A LICENBACIT, EVERY AFTERNOON, between the hours of Three and Five o'clock Admission—Sixpence and One Shilling. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE: - -Continued Success of the marvellous RISARELIS. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Ball_ past Ten o'clock. A.D. 1720. R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir Join; HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. 'ohn Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Thomas Dent, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Ed'mann, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. P obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.! Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. William Wallace, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.— file usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Midsummer will expire on 9th July. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Life. Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured — Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve n the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ARGYLL ROOM S.-JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERT S. NOTlCE.—During the Week the Selections will be—" D er Frieschntz "—" i.a Forza del Destino "—" Il Trovatore " " Don Giovanni," Am. LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays from half-past Nine to Twelve. Admission, is. MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic xstabliablnent, 32, Regent-street, Piccad►lly-circus, is now in full operation. Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d ; 21 for £l. Miniatures on Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former styles. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 505., a new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. GEORGE HOBSON invites public attention to his Superfine West of England Woaden BLACK CL , )THS, for Beaufert and Frock Coats, £2 15s. to £3 3s. ; the New Neutral Colour Scotch Angola Travelling and Tourist Suits, £2 10s. to 18s. ; the new Summer Trousers, ifs. to 21s. ; the Baden Waistcoats, Va. Excellence wi li Economy. GEORGE IIOBSON, 57, LOMBARD-STREET. LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., is. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s £1 10s. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ! XHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to De the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the • ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the lfoc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease rid closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the rruss, which cannot fail to lit, forwarded by post, on the cir nimference of the body, two inches below the hips, being -ent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. td., and 31s. Bd. Postage, ls. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. td. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Bd. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,Post uftice, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELAST IC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS. &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling 01 the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on tire an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 22.8. Piccadilly. D EAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib;e, removes singing' noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. MEETING THIS DAY. The quarterly meeting was held this day at the offices in Norfolk-street—Lord Ranolagh in the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr, Gruneisen) read the advertise ment convening the meeting. The NOBLE CHAIRMAN read the following report of the Executive Committee : It will be gratifying to the shareholders to find that the Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society are enabled to annex the following satisfactory tabular returns of the receipts for the three first quarters of the eleventh financial year : Qrs. ending 'Shares ini Shares Total I Receipts. progress. Complete. Shares. s. d. Dec. 24, 1802 136 67 203 15,946 15 2 March 25, 1863 2OB 24 232 15,013 19 11 June 2i, 1863 255 91 346 20,697 2 0 --. Three quarters ending Mid summer, 1863 599 182 781 52,257 17 1 Totals to Sept 30, 1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2 Grand totals to Midsummer,'63 15,359 4,107 19,466 077,650 10 3 ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail• way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCTI, N.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of . our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it ,ratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas -lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and W Co. ; Presc o tt, G ro te, and Co.. Smith , Payne , and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; J ones Loyd' and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ;Matas, - Deacon, and Co. Co.;; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co.; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital STANFORDA SKITS, Bectetazy. The Union of thei lonian Islands with Greece. - Earl Russell has addressed the following despatch o her, Majesty's ambassadors at the Courts of Aus ria, France, Prussia, and Russia : EARL RUSSELL TO LORD BLOOMFIELD. " Foreign Office, June 10. " My Lord,—The time is at hand when her Ma jesty's declaration o her readiness to consent to the union of the loniatlslands with Greece, if the lonian Islands shoulktheiiiselves desire that union, must be followed by practical measures ; and her Majesty's Government arti anxious, before taking further. steps, to free :the subject from ambiguity. As, therefore, some unfounded notions are enter tained with respect to those islands, it may be use ful that I should call your Excelleney's attention to the truth regarding their position, their rights, and their future condition. " The lonian Islands are not, as some persons ap pear to suppose, a part of the possessions of the British Crown. They form the Republic of the Seven Islands, placed by treaty unclgA. Ike protec tion of the Sovereign of; the United Kifigdom, his heirs and successors. The manner in which these islands came under the protection of the British Crown is well known to all those who are acquainted with the European transactions of 1816. Provisions relating to them were not included among the arti cles of the general treatyconcluded at Vienna in the month of June of that ye!, , r, but on the 4th of June of that year the pknipuientiaries of the fouiPow s ers,' Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, being assembled, recorded in a protocol what had passed at their conferenceof that day. The plenipotentiary of Austria declared that the question of the posses sion of the lonian Islands being connected with the tranquillity of Italy and of the former Venetian pro vinces, the Court of Austria would charge itself with the protection of these islands, and would gua rantee to them the maintenance of their laws and privileges. But the plenipotentiaries of Russia said that, desiring nothing else than to assure to the in habitants of those islands the happiest lot, and that most appropriate to their situation, they thought it their duty to promote the wish of the inhabitants of those islands that they should remain under the protection of Great Britain. The plenipotentiaries of Russia also remarked that Count de Capodistrias, who had been charged specially with this matter, being absent, they could not then make any defini tive arrangement, and they proposed an adjourn ment, and this proposal was finally adopted. It is well known that Count de Capodistrias, who at that time enjoyed great favour with the Emperor Alexan der, was zealous in behalf of the nationality and freedom of his countrymen. Knowing that the lonian Islands could not stand alone as an inde pendent state, he wished to place them under the protection of Great Britain, whose institutions, framed on principles of liberty, he desired to see established among a people of Greek habits and language. These desires of Count de Capodistrias were, by the influence of the Court of Russia, and with the consent of Great Britain, accomplished by the treaty of Paris of November 5, 1815, between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. "The preamble of this treaty recites that the Powers concerned, animated by the desire of pro secuting the negotiations adjourned at the Congress of Vienna, in order to fix the destiny of the seven lonian Islands, and to insure the independence, liberty, and happiness of those islands by placing them and their constitution under the immediate protection of one of the great Powers of Europe, have agreed to settle definitively by a special act whatever relates to this object,' &c. The first article of this treaty declares that the islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they were described in the treaty between his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias and the Ottoman Porte, of the 21st of March, 1800, shall form a single, free, and independent state, under the deno. mination of the United States of the lonian Islands.' The fourth article declares that the Lord High Commissioner of the protecting Powers shall regu late the forms of convocation of a legislative assem bly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in order to draw up a new constitutional charter for the State, which his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be requested to ratify,' The fifth article is as follows In order to ensure without re striction to the inhabitants of the United States 'of the lonian Islands the advantages re sulting from the high protection under which these states are placed, as well as for the exercise of the rights inherent in the said protection, his Britannic Majesty shall have the right to occupy the fortresses and places of those States, and to maintain garrisons in the same. A like provision places under the order of the commander-in-chief of the troops of his Britannic Majesty the military force of the said United States. Compared with the receipts of the corresponding period last year, the present returns for the three quarters show an increase of £3,880 ss. 9d., an increase in the quarter over the Lady-day cne of £5,083 2s. ld, and an increase on the issue of shares of 223. The total withdrawals since the formation of the society (September, 1852), to Midsummer, 1863, £199,348 3s. 3d. ; the total sale of land to Midsummer, 1863, £326,990 ls. 7d. " It appears clear from these provisions that the intention of the high Allied Powers was to found in the Seven Islands a free, independent State, which, by the protection of so powerful a country as Great Britain, might develop its resources without fear of external aggression, or internal anarchy. It appears also from the filth article that the main object of the stipulation placing the fortresses in the hands of Great Britain was 'to insure to the inhabitants of the United States of the lonian Islands the advan tages resulting from the high protection under which the States are placed.' The constitution established in execution of the articles of the treaty contained in its fourth article a provision that the established language of the States is Greek,' thus showing conclusively that the intention of Count de Capodistrias to create a Greek nationality was steadily kept in view by Great Britain, as the state entrusted with the protectorate. " The British Government having received this trust, have endeavoured faithfully to discharge the duties imposed upon them by the allied Powers. In spite of many obstacles, they have amelio rated in all respects the condition of the in habitants. With regale', however, to the exer cise of the constitutional functions of the Lord High Commissioner and the legislative body, complete harmony has seldom prevailed between them. Bat the great change which took place in the condi tion of some of the neighbouring Turkish pro vinces, when the Greek people of those provinces asserted their independence, altered materially the political condition of the inhabitants of the Seven Islands. From that time the sympathies of the lonian people began to turn towards Greece, and when the Greek kingdom became a recognised State of Europe, the wish to be politically united with men of their own race took root among the people of the lonian Islands. This wish has been often laid hold of as a pretext for factious opposition ; it has been expressed since 1850, at times when Great Britain could not listen to it without yielding to projects of ambition very foreign from the freedom of Greece. But in its origin and tendency there is something iu this lonian wish of union with Greece which must obtain the respect of the British nation. A love of independence in union with a kindred race has in itself claims to regard from a nation which prides itself on the love of freedom. It is thus that, with a view to strengthen the Greek monarchy, to fulfil the original objects of the foundation of the lonian Islands as a State, and to comply with the wishes frequently, though irre gularly, expressed in the lonian Islands themselves, her Majesty's Government have declared their readi ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands with Greece. TEE BRAZILIAN DIFFICULTY. " HOWARD DE WALDEN AND SEAFORD." (Translation.) The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are as follow : Completed. Drawn. Seniority, 4972 3191 1681 Deduct Rights exercised on estates, &c.. Total. 9844 7449 Unexercised Rights The last share number on the register by seniority is No. 13,853 ; and the last share number issued to midsummer, 1863, was No. 19,466. Since the last report, a second estate has been acquired in West Worcestershire, situated on the Henwick-road, with frontage to the Ludlow -road, Com manding views of the Malvern hills are obtained from this new property, which is adjacent to many handsome villas and grounds on the banks of the Severn. The committee hope that they may be in a position to allot the Worcester Estate, and also the recent purchase at Southampton, during the current quarter. The next allotment of land will be on Wednesday, July 8, of the Stoke Station Road Estate at Ipswich, and the Reading Estate; and some well -secured ground rents, on the Roman Road Estate, North Bow, will also be offered on this occasion. The allotment will take place at Ipswich, after a public meeting, at which a deputation of the board will attend to explain the society's system. The Ipswich property adjoins the Hand ford Hall villas, and is laid out into 48 plots, ranging in price from £37 up to £220 per plot. A portion of the pro perty will be formed into a crescent, facing which will be an open space, intended for ornamental gardens extending to the Stoke Station Road, In addition to plots for de tached or semi-detached villas, land has been kept free for close building and for business purposes, such as an inn or hotel and shops. The Reading Estate is a portion of the Castle Hill property formerly allotted, but as the original site for the proposed church has been changed to another locality, the centre of Downshire-square mil now be con verted into plots for detached and semi-detached houses of moderate size. The committee have much pleasure in re porting that the Rector of Reading, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Cust, is now actively engaged in raising funds for the new church, the society having granted a site free on the estate equal to the original one. In the new plan of allotment there are 45 plots, ranging in price from £52 4s. 6d. up to £lO4 9s. per plot. The executive committee have to report that the works on the final portion of the Woodbury park Estate, Tunbridge-wells, and on the first allotted portion of the Colchester Estate, are just completed, and an inspection of these two properties will show the great improvement in the respective localities, by the opening up of new communications. The committee will be enabled to announce in their next report the completion of the works in progress on the Roehampton and Putney-Heath estates. It is with much regret that the committee have to report the death of John Gorham Maitland, Esq., one of the earliest promoters of the Conservative Land Society, with which ho was connected as a member of the board, until his appointment as Secretary of the Civil Service Commis sion. As the Registration Courts will be opened in due course, the allottees whose names have not yet been inserted on the register are reminded that their claims will be maintained free of expense, but that it will b e necessary t o forward their deeds in ti me to the society's solicitor, as well as proper instzuctions as to the polling place in the county, where their land is situated, they may find it most conve nient to vote, should they not reside in the county. The executive committee, in conclusion, congratulate the mem bers that the business of the past quarter has been of a nature to afford every promise of another successful financial year, when it terminates at Michaeln2aB, " Her Majesty's Government are not insensible of the value of Corfu as a maritime and military sta tion, nor are they unaware of the apprehensions felt in Austria and Turkey at the prospect of the aban donment of the lonian Islands by Great Britain. It has been suggested in England that Corfu might be retained, while the other islands might be given up. But her Majesty's Government conceive that it would be a perversion of the trust confided to them by Ea- C~ ~ ~~ ; , , .M t,„: 4/ , \ NS f - a • , - • , , t .. 410141111 0: AO' • r: Il' - > 5 . v.... 0 . 4 '•-•••1"'„ C 4 r e - • 11 111-'ll I rope, and a breach of faith to wards the lonian people, it Great Britain were to turn a portion of a single free and independent State under her protectorate into a part of her military possessions, and to make Corfu an element of her European power. Her Majesty's Government propose, therefore, now that a King of Greece has been recognised by the protect ing Powers, to consult in the most formal and au thentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the lonian Islands as to their future destiny. If those wishes, deliberately expressed, should bo in favour of a union with Greece, her Majesty's Government would propose that, with a view to considering the future condition of the lonian Islands, a conference should be assembled, to consist of the representa tives of the Powers who signed the treaty of 1815, and of the protecting powers who, in 1827 and 1832, signed the treaties by which the kingdom of Greece was constituted.—l am, &c., (Signed) " RUSSELL. " P.S. You are desired to read and give a copy of this despatch to Ceunt Rechberg. R. * Similar despatches were addressed to Earl Cowley, Sir A. Buchanan, and Lord Napier. The following despatch from Lord Howard de Walden, transmitting the decision of his Majesty the King of the Belgians in the case of the officers s!,Earls, wasvablished_yeaterday LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN TO EARL RUSSELL. (Received Jane 24.) "Brussels, June 22. "My Lord—l had the honour of receiving yes terday from the hands of the King the accompany ing portfolio, containing the text of the decision of his Majesty as arbitrator in the case of the officers of her Majesty's ship Forte and the Brazilian agents. "I expressed to the King on behalf of her Ma_ jesty's Government their sense of his Majesty's gra_ cions and friendly act in having accepted the part of arbitrator in this painful and troublesome affair. "The King restricts his judgment to the character or spirit of the proceeding of the Brazilian agents, whether, in a national point of view in regard to the British navy, it was to be deemed offensive or not; and on this his Majesty decides in the nega tive.—l have, &c., " We, Leopold, King of the Belgians, having ac cepted the functions of arbiter, which have been conferred upon us by common consent by Great Britain and by Brazil, in the differences which have arisen between these States in the matter of the ar rest, on the 17th of June, 1862, by the guard of Brazilian police posted at Tijuca, of three officers of the British navy, and of the circumstances which resulted after and at the time of that arrest ; " Animated by a sincere desire to respond by a scrupulous and impartial decision to the confidence which the said States have shown towards us ; " Having to this end duly examined and maturely weighed all the papers that have been produced by one side and by the other ; " Wishing, in order to fulfil the task which we have accepted, to bring to the knowledge of the High Parties interested the result of our examina tion, as well as our decision in the capacity of arbi ter upon the question which has been submitted to us in the following terms, namely : " Whether, in the mode in which the laws of Bra zil have been applied towards the English officers there has been offence to the British navy ; " Considering that it is in no way shown that the origin of the conflict was the act of the Brazilian agents, who could not reasonably have had motives for provocation ; " Considering that the officers, at the time of their arrest, did not wear the uniform of their rank, and that in a port frequented by so many foreigners they could not expect to be believed on their mere word when they declared that they belonged to the Bri tish navy, while there was no outward sign of their rank to support their declaration ; that, conse quently, once arrested, they ought to have submitted to the existing laws and regulations, and had no right to require any treatment different to that which would have been applied, in similar circum stances, to all other persons; " Considering that, although it is impossible to deny that the incidents which ensued were most un pleasant to the English officers, and that the treat ment to which they were exposed must have ap peared to them most harsh, it is nevertheless proved that, when by the declaration of the English Vice- Consul, the social position of these officers had been duly established, measures were at once taken to secure them special consideration, and that their unconditional liberation was then ordered ; " Considering that the functionary who caused them to be released ordered their release as soon as he possibly could, and that in acting thus he was prompted by the desire to spare these officers the disagreeable consequences which, in conformity with the laws, must necessarily have entailed upon them from any further steps taken in the matter ; " Considering that, in his report of the 6th of July, 1862, the Prefect of Police had not only to make a statement of facts, but was also obliged to render to his superior authority an account of his conduct, and of the reasons that induced him to treat them with consideration ; "Considering that he was from that time, pro perly, and without any malicious intention being fairly attribtitable to him, authorised to express himself as he did •; " We are of opinion that, in the mode in which the laws of Brazil have been applied towards the English officers, there was neither premeditation of offence nor offence to the British navy. " Done and given in duplicate under our Royal Seal, at the Palace of Lachen, the 18th day of Jane, 1863. " LEOPOLD I." MEMORANDUM REGARDING THE ASSESSMENT OF COM FBNSATION IN TILE CASE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. On the Bth of February Earl Russell directed the Queen's Advocate to be informed that the Govern ment of Brazil had instructed their representative in England to notify to her Majesty's Government that he was authorised to pay, under protest, what ever sum her Majesty's Government might demand in the shape of compensation in the case of the ves sel Prince of Wales; and his lordship requested the opinion of the Queen's Advocate as to the amount at which that compensation should be assessed. The Queen's Advocate was at the same time in formed that the responsibility of assessing compen satton had not been sought by her Majesty's Go vernment, who had, indeed, proposed through Mr. Christie, that the question of amount should be referred to arbitration. The course pursued by Brazil, had, however, left her Majesty's Govern ment no option in the matter. The Queen's Advo cate's report is to the following effect :—The Queen's advocate states that he is of opinion that no sum should be claimed in excess of the sum mentioned in Mr. Christie's communications to the Brazilian Government; that no demand should be made on account of freight or on account of the loss of the vessel itself; that the demand should be founded on the plunder of the cargo, of the effects of the crew, and also upon the too probable murder of some or all of them. lie estimates roughly the loss of wages and effects at £290, and the compensation for pos sible murders at £4BO, to be paid to the families of those who were wrecked. As to the cargo, he makes allowances for probable and necessary damage, and for salvage had the inhabitants of the coast appeared as salvors in place of plunderers ; and he then roughly estimates this item at £2,360. Upon these data a sum of £3,200 was fixed by Earl Russell, instead of £3,490, the sum total of the items esti mated by the Queen's Advocate. This sum was demanded by a note of Feb. 24, addressed by Earl Russell to M. Moreira, and was paid by M. Moreira on Feb. 26. Foreign-office, Jane 21, 1863. e PA .i: ~,__, ~,,, ti LIA - . : 1314 idli;4' 7: z ) • The President governs by responsi e.. nnf s ee ?l 1230 A - 0.1, and it seems to be just as unseemly fo4 . e e sa s se3 e . / Al scend into the political arena to justifjeelteipatiuy- - qi' 7 e as it would be for the e queen of ate k te:a 4 4 - 4A as .Asas . write an autograph letter t - seta. e o the chairman public meeting which passed rs seolutions ceiddislna-' - ' air a n s tory of the policy uursued by hi.n . Government. At the present moment, however, when the Con federates are lite ra lly th un d er ing at the gates of Washington, and when a milit i a i s . being rapidly organised to do the work of armies wil`ch have dis appeared, there is something positively ~'. u dicrous in the tone in which the Chief Megistrate of te'le United States speaks of the rebellion, and gravelly' contests the various grounds on which secession cemild be justified. It is true that when the letter was written Lee's army still occupied the line of the Ral-Ta hannock, and the public received daily assure:cakes thatthe backbone of the rebellion was within an jack of being broken, but still the contingency which has since occurred was not then completely absent from ' the minds of Mr. Lincoln or his advisers. We will e not follow the President through his lengthy epistle. If it satisfied its recipients, and if the population of the Northern States are content to accept his expo sition of constitutional law, and consider diequisi lions on the legality of secession instinctive reacin T e r we have no objections to offer. Assumir g, as Mr. Lincoln seems to assume, that the provision of the Constitution authorising the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in cases of rebellion and invasion confers the power of suspension on the Executive, and not on the Legislature, of course he can justify his recent arrest of Mr,Vallandigham. But as the majority of persons will be inclined to think that it wasn ever intended that the President and his Minis: ters should be the sole judges of the propriety:ler , ' making arbitrary arrests, it is not probable tha '.' Lincoln's justification of a gross violation s e ., :, rights of citizenship in the person of Mr. litillairit e' , a , . -- digham, will carry conviction into the minds-et - 7' . many. . -; HERALD.—The propositions which the Allied Powers have addressed to the Russian Government have this radical vice, that they o.re.unacceptable i alike to the Russians and the A les.: .They askfrom . Russia much more than . :iv And air , lb* . s, Poles far lesaViaits W 1 ",,, ' "-"'...'..e4sisilAg* the Russian Government were reduced to the last extremities it might submit to the summons to put down its arms and recognise the Poles as a bellige rent power, with whom to treat upon an equal foot ing. If the Poles were convinced that Europe will do no more for them, they would abandon a strug gle which they only sustain by enormous sacrifices; and although they would not accept—if their accept ance should be demanded—guarantees of liberty, for which they do not care, they would take the concessions given without thanks, as so many steps upon which, at a future day, to attempt again to rise into independence. To please neither party in a quarrel is, by some persons, held conclusive evi dence that a judgment is impartial and sound; and the supporters of the Government may cite the failure of Earl Russell to conciliate either Prince Gortschakoff or the National Government of War saw as decisive testimony to the fairness of his pro posed arrangement. We do not question it. Earl Russell has, no doubt, been actuated by a very sin cere desire to see Poland prosperous and free under Russian rule. His arrangement would have been defensible, perhaps admirable, if he had been called upon as arbitrator to settle the question. But his interference is perfectly gratuitous. The Poles, on whose behalf it is made, repudiate alto gether the terms which are demanded for them ; the Russian Government has felt itself con strained to declare that it will listen to his sug gestions, but it has also said plainly enough that it thinks the tender of them a piece of imperti nence with which it could very well have dispensed. The Minister of a great country who undertakes to intervene in the quarrels of another Government with its subjects, and puts himself before the world as the mediator between them, must look not to the absolutely just, but the practicable, and suggest an accommodation which has a chance of being accepted. The fact is, that in interfering with the Russian Government on behalf of Poland, and in framing an arrangement, the allies undertook a task impossible of fulfilment—a task which one of them, at least, knew to be impossible, whilst both the others should have known it too. The Poles have never con cealed their objects. They have declared loudly enough that they will be content with nothing short of the expulsion of the Russians from every inch of territory which at any time formed a por tion of the Polish republic. They recorded in a hundred different ways their contempt for liberal institutions and administrative reforms, and the Governments of England and France ought to have known thoroughly that administrative autonomy or any other of their six points, would never induce a Pole to lay down arms so long as he felt the slightest confidence in his ability to resist Russia. !ley should not have interfered at all beyond the expression of an opinion and a hope ; or they should have put to Russia tlie cliinarid or theTelimiiiish ment of Poland, and have backed it up by force of arms. The course they have taken has inflicted the most serious calamities on Poland, has estranged Russia, and has placed them in a very unsatisfac tory and discreditable position. The struggle in Poland has been kept up for the last three or four months solely in the hope of the assistance of England and France. The Poles have been well aware that unaided they must succumb to the im mense armies which Russia could bring against them. But long after all attempts to enlist the pea santry on their side had signally failed, long after the attempt to raise an insurrection in the Polish provinces of Russia had proved a complete disap pointment, the contest has been kept up at a most tremendous sacrifice of all that can be dearest to the Polish heart. The language of the English Ministers has induced the belief that England would eventually, on the failure of her own. schemes of mediation, give the Polish cause her active aid, and for that reason, whilst diplomacy has been at work the semblance of an insurre©- --- A2 4 - -Z--o•-7----, ~.,%...ed. e.- -- --de---- PRICE.— ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.-.-" If it should appear that from jealousy of trade, or unjust suspicion of contraband, or any ether motive, the British trade were deliberately and systematically made subject to vexatious cap ture and arbitrary interference, it is obvious that Great Britain must interfere to protect her flag." Such are the words of a despatch from Lord Rus sell to Lord Lyons, written to be communicated to the American Government. "It cannot be con ceded by the American Government, nor claimed by Great Britain, that some British vessels may not be fraudulently engaged in an ostensible trade between British ports and Matamoros in con veying supplies to the insurgents of the United States." Such is the important portion of the counter despatch which has been received from Mr. Stewart. This is a very important issue. We are promised that the next steamer will bring us a report of the arguments and judgment in the case of the Peter hoff ; and the fate of the Dolphin is already decided The American Courts appear to be fully equal to the occasion, and to be ready to make an interna tional law to meet the exigencies of their own special and temporary convenience. According to the doc trines now laid down by Mr. Seward, a belligerent cruiser may blockade not only his enemies' ports, i but also the ports of neutral powers which have any possible communication with his enemy's port. If be can board neutral vessels passing from one neutral port to another, and can make prize of them, and if the Admiralty Judges condemn them upon the ground that the cargo was intended ultirnatiiir to reach the enemy, then it clearly come to what - we hove said, that a ,belligerent - prirer - ln& right to blockade neutral ports; to prevent anything entering therein which may ultimately reach the enemy. It is evident that Mr. Seward's words mean this It is a very strong doctrine, and it carries the rights of belligerents beyond anything that has ever been claimed in their behalf since modern views and armed neutrality protests have set a limit to the old pretensions. There is nothing to be said in favour of such a pretension, except that if the Ameri cans are determined to rivet this patch upon the hard old international law, we of all the people in the world are the least interested in opposing the innovation. The nature of " contraband of war " is also receiving a very extended interpretation at the hands of the traditional champions of the rights of neutrals. Although we have not yet the judgment in the case of the Peterhoff, we know that a special commission had been issued to inquire into the quality of her cargo, and the report of that special commission had been read in court. These Com missioners say that they have opened the boxes, cases, and bales found in this steamer, and have made a true and perfect inventory of the contents. It seems, however, that there were no cannon, or muskets, or arms of any description ; no gun powder, or shot, or shells ; nothing which, even if the Peterhoff had been going to an enemy's port not actually blockaded, would have subjected the ship to confiscation as carrying contraband of war. Bnt the Commissioners remark that there were articles on board capable of being applied to army uses. There was an assorted parcel of drugs, con taining quinine, calomel, morphine, and ehloro form, addressed to " Burchard and Co., Matamoras, Mexico." There were also cases of Blucher boots, which we must in candour admit might be worn by soldiers as well as by any other unfeathered bipeds. Moreover, there were bales of gray blan kets, which " are believed to be such as are " used in the United States' army." But as these undoubtedly came from England it seems hard to conclude that, because the Yankees have bought some of our woollens for army purposes, we can therefore make blankeis for army purposes. There were also harness and riding saddles and horseshoes, and 13 pieces of bacon and a bag of peas, all of which might, doubtless, have found a use either in or out of a camp. Lastly, there were two hydraulic presses, capable of pressing cotton, and one basket of rusty cotton hooks. Such is the cargo which, from its con traband nature, is held to justify the detention of an English steamer passing between neutral ports, and such is the " contraband of war" which the American Courts are now being asked to hold suflieient to insure the condemna- tion of a neutral vessel upon the high seas. Of course we do not pretend to doubt that the quinine and the boots might have been intended ultimately to reach the Confederate storehouses. It may be just possible that they might have been bought up for Mexican use, but the probabilities undoubtedly are, that if they had reached Matamoros, they would have been pushed into the Confederate terri tory. The question, however, remains whether medicine and boots are contraband of war because they can be used by soldiers; and secondly, whether anything thus capable of being usei by an army can be seized anywhere by the strong band. The Ame. ricans say they have the authority of Sir William Grant and Lord Stowell for what they are doing, and we are happy to see that they now entertain a reverence for the decisions of those two great inter national lawyers which they certainly did not pro fess in other days. Lord Russell is careful not to commit himself to any opinion us to whether Sir William Grant and Lord Stowell's doctrines will justify such strong measures as are now being taken ; but if they should, we think he is quite right, as an English Minister, not to do anything to weaken those doctrines which have been found so necessary to our own island interests. On the other hand, if these pretensions should turn out to be far beyond anything ever heard of in our Courts, and quite im possible ever to be put forward by ourselves in case of war, then Lord Russell can scarcely consider himself acting as a neutral if he submit to them from one of two belligerents and to the disadvantage of the other. If we allow boots and blankets to be seized on their way to Mexico because they are the same sort of goods we are sending to New York, that can scarcely be called neutrality. Public opinion will support Lordßussell in the maintenance of an absolute neutrality during this war, but it will not support him beyond this. The English people desire to hold a real bona fide neutrality between the two combatants. This cannot be to the extent we could wish it to be, because the possession of the sea enables the Northerners to draw from us all the materials of war, and to engage all the scum of Europe as mercenaries in their service. Without this aid the North would long since have been ex hausted and the fighting at an end. Bat if the South have some privileges conferred by the rules of inter national law, it would be mean in us to go cut of our way to deprive her of them because she is weak and cannot complain. Lord John Russell stated the case truly in his despatch 'when he said "the trade to Matamoras is a perfectly legitimate trade. It is carried on from New York as it is from London to Liverpool. To pretend that some goods carried to Matamoras may be afterwards transported across the frontier to Texas does not vitiate the legitimate character of that trade." If this be so, to surrender our commercial rights to the Northern States would be a breach of neutrality towards the Northern States. Although, however, Mr. Seward puts for ward these preposterous claims, there is reason to believe that the Americans themselves are seeing that these strange decisions against the rights of neutrals are establishing precedents which may hereafter be used against them. A smuggling trade to Matamoras can be of no great importance to us, and can never have any substantive effect upon the issue of the war between North and South ; but the principles now in course of recognition and extension in the American prize courts may be very precious to England at some future crisis We should therefore be very patient and cautious in these matters, up to that boundary line where acts cease to be defensible upon any possible doc trine of international law. We observe that the American papers begin to suspect that they are going too far for their own interests; that they are adopting and strengthening all our old precedents, and forging chains for themselves in future wars. Some of them are already recommending that ships going from a neutral port to another should not be interfered with, whatever may be the suspicions against them. 'W hen this mist clears away, they will discover that the course they have taken in this war has established all our pretensions as to the right of blockade and of search also. POST.—The verbose document with which Presi dent Lincoln has replied to the resolutions passed at a recent public meeting censuring his conduct in respect to the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham reads strangely at the present juncture. It is one of the pecularities of the American Constitution that both theoretically and practically the Chief Magistrate of the Republic continues the equal of his fellow citizens. He may possess by virtue of his high office great authority, or or sufferance of th e Am b e e ri E ly ruet e h op o le e h x t e h rc i a s p e a tex traordinary power, but he does not for all that cease to be a citizen whom the humblest can at anY moment approach and shake by the hand, or whom a knot of platform orators can comp e l at a moment's notice to publish an elaborate exposition of his political views. Still, however, 1 3 otveith standing th e relations known to subsist between the American people and their President, one cannot read such a letter as that which we pub lished yesterday without some feelings of surprise. tion has been kept up by some devoted men. Long since the insurrection has burned itself out. At the very first call the chivalry of Poland proper threw itself into the struggle. As the ranks of the insurgents were thinned no recruits were forthcom- ing. The peasantry refused to follow their masters, and gloated over their massacre. Posen and Galicia, furnished large contingents. Adventurers of every nation flocked like vultures to the carnage, but the number of these professional cut-throats who can command the means for a long journey is but limited, and long since the insurrection has ceased to make any head against the Russian forces. Small bands have performed wonders, and have had miracles performed for them by telegraphic agen cies, just to keep Western Europe interested in the Polish question and confident in the Polish power. Men have devoted themselves readily to death — have devoted their country to a contest which will reduce it to little better than a desert, in the con viction generated by the language and acts of the French and English Ministers that France and England would ultimately go to war for Poland. The dream is still cherished. The National Go vernment of Warsaw has declared, as a contem porary who acts at the same time as its organ in this country and the exponent of the Premier's policy, assures us, that the Poles will fight to the last unless Russia accedes to certain conditions which are equivalent to the abandonment of Po land. It is the last effort. The journals which have championed the Polish cause still try to make out that the Polish patriots are victorious. The truth is, as we have said, the insurrection is almost at an end, and the announcement by England and. France of their intention to pursue a pacific policy would be the signal for the dispersal and flight of the bands still carrying on the contest. It is due to the Poles and to ourselves that the announce ment should be made at once. England h as assuredly h tnoe re-establishmentintentionof engaging f o in a gr ea t cru sade for an independ en t Poland. She will not undertake to reverse all the decrees of history, and commit Europe to a contest e which must cause enormous misery,deprecated and, if see than es s ful, produce a result rather to be desired. It is idle trifling to talk the Russian fleet in the Baltic ignorance or want of principle l I a blockade o . as no war. It L fil meter to talk as the Morni ng of the grossest dia -1 capacity of the Poles to they are only allowed Post does about the with all our energies. to The Poles are already ' crushed by Russia, and if we want to raise them we get arms from Galicia. must engage in the task mind that it . will do no such thing; it ought to The country has made up its make up its mind, too, t o withdraw from an atti tude which compromises its dignity, and unfortu nately has encouraged delusions in the Poles which have prompted them to bring unexampled desola tion upon their uehapPY land. LONG LEGS AND bHORT LEGS.—The standard height of the sexes has been fixed by the Venus and Apollo; from whence it may be g enera ll y o b served that who exceed the height of the stat ue w ill h ave the in the legs, and those wh o f a ll b elow it will tr t ea lengthhose have the deficiency in ;the shortness of them. As a ridicu lous instance of this, Mr. Barrymore, the tragedian, was grea tly upwards of six feet high, and his friend Mr. Smith , us v ery much under five feet; when meeting at the same convivial board, they were accustomed to sit side by side, and appeared while thus sitting like two gentlemen of equal size and consequence ; when it was necessary to rise in respect, as in drinking the King's health, which they would both spontaneously do, little Mr. Smith. contrary to al/ order, would appear to keep his seat, while Barrymore would spring up like a spectre from the trap-door of the stage . ; this circumstance placed the two gentlemen in a serious predicament, as it was said of each of them that the one ought never to get up and the other ought never to sit down l—Areicle 04 46 Comparative .Beauty" IVatio nß i Magazine. ~~~ Now ready, with a LETTER from the Autho r, in 3 vols., F OURTH EDITION 0 , LOST AND SAVED. By the Hon. MRS. NORTON. " ' Lost and Saved ' will be read with eager interest by those who love a touching story. It is a vigorous novel." — Times. " A novel of ra - e excellence ; fresh in its thought, shrewd and übtle in its character-painting, and with a brave soul speaking through it. It is Mrs. Norton's best prose work." _Examiner. Hurst and Thackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ‘