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Incorporated under " The Companies' Act, 1862," by which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of Ills Shares. Capital £2,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £lOO each, with power to increase. Deposit on Application, £1 per Share; on Allotment, £1 per Share. Soon after Allotment a First Call of £3 per Share 'will be made ; subsequent Cage are not to exceed £5 per Share, and are not to be made at intervals of less than Three Months from the date of prior Calls. It is not at present proposed to call up more than £5O per share. DIRECTORS. Thomas Chilton, Esq DIRECTORS. and Chilton), Chairman of toe Shipowners' Association, Liverpool. Robert Dirom, 13.'8% (Dirom, Davidson, and Co.), Director of _the National Sank of Liverpool. ~ploollriattmioJ.47es Ferrite, Esq. (Fernie Brothers and Co.), Direc tor of the, British and American Exchange Banking Cor- Liverpool. 11,1 A Bernard Gunsten, Esq. (Gunston, Wilson, and Co.), -'-:v , rpo I Rd- ° • , .vin Haigh, Esq. (Thomas Haigh and Co.), Co . a ward Lawrence, Esq. (Edward Lawrence and o.), Direc tor or the B r iti s h and Foreign Marine Insurance Company, Harvey Lewis, Esq., MX., Director of the National B ank , L , ndon. J oseph Neale Til'Kenna, Esq., Director of the National Bank, London. Robert Maxwell, Esq. (A., F., and R. Maxwell), Director of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Liverpool. Andrew Malcolinon, Esq. (J. and D. Malcolmson and Co.), Liverpool. Thomas Wilkinson Tetley, Esq. (Hollinshead, Tetley, and Co.), Liverpool. Major Usborne, Esq. (Usborne and Sons), Director of the National Bank. London. Henry Threlfall Wilson, Esq. (H. T. Wilson, and Chambers), Deputy Chairman of the British and Foreign Marine In surance Company, Liverpool. BANKERS. °nd n. ..The National Bank, Old Broad •street. Ireland ...... The Branches of th e N ational Bank. Manchester.... The Bank of England. Liverpool ....The National Bank of Liverpool. BROKERS. London ster.. - J and J. Whi tehead, 8, Moorgate-street. Manche I homas Warner, Esq., 9, Stamp-office Build ings. Cross -street Liverpool .... Thomas Tinley and Sons, 44, Brown's buildings, Dublin .Edward Fox, Esq., 51, Dame-street. L0nd0n..... SOLICITORS. Liver ... Flux And Argles, 9. Mincing-lane. pool ....Fletcher and Hull, 6, Cook-street. SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT. John Jordan, Esq., lite Chief Surveyor to the Underwriters' Registry of Iron Ships. GENERA', MANAGER—W. B. Macalister, Esq. - _ SECRETARY. Joseph Treffry, Esq. - - • TEMPORARY OFFICES. Throgmorton-street. Liverpool ... , Commercial-buildings, Water-street. Nothing has been more remarkable, in connection with the progress of Lancashire, than the rapid extension of the Steam Trade of Liverpool. In the year 1852 the tonnage of foreign steamers entered inwards at the Custom-house was 188,7:5 tons, while in 1862 it was 595,339, which, in the year end fn June, 1863, increased to 756,420 tons. In the earlier days of steam, and before the recent improve- Ments for the economy of fuel had been introduced, steamers tould be employed with advantage only for the carrying of mails and passengers, but latterly, owing to the improve ments in marine engines, economy of fuel and space has been effected, thereby greatly reducing the working expenses, and screw steamers have not only been employed in alt the near trades for the conveyance of goods, with large profit to their owners, but, owing to the advantages which they afford to shippers, they have, in these trades, almost entirely displaced salting vessels. For some years the carrying trade out of Liverpool has been gradually undergoing a change. In the American trade screw steamer, have taken the place of the once celebrated New York liners, but as yet only as carriers of the highest class of fine goo.ls and passengers. Other descriptions of goods and a large number of i ntermediate and steeragepassengers being stitl conveyed by sailing vessels. In the important branches of the American import trade, Viz., those of grain, flour, and provisions, the lose annually sustained by heating during the protr cted voyages fre quently made by sailing vessels is so great, that the interest of all engaged in these trades will be enlisted in favour of such any scheme or the extensio of steam shipping to include freight,f and there can be no doubt but that the whole of the enormous trade in these articles, which in Liverpool alone amounts annually to 750,000 tons, will fad entirely into the hands of steam companies. The first object of this Company is to place on the New York station a fleet of screw steamers from Liverpool and London, of large size and great capacity, which will be able to carry almost, if not quite, as cheap as sailing vessels, Whilst at the same time, from the regularity of their p assages , t hey will co mmand a full share of the steam trade, and the Directors also intend sending steamers to the American Cotton Ports when the war is brought to an end and the trade re-opened, and have also under their consideration the Wants of the Brazil and othertrades. jn organising this Company the Directors believe that it will hot enter into undue competition with the existing lines. Mails e Th Cunard Line is a subsidi se d company, carrying the and passengers with fast and expensive steamers. The Inman Line has no subsidy, but nevertheless has been Most successful, and it now employs eleven vessels, having commenced its operations with two steamers, the City of Glasg,ow and City of Manchester. The steamships of the Inman Line are, however, ot greater proportionate horse- Power than those projected by this Company, which will be sailed at much less cost, and will be constructed to consume dise a co mparatively small amount of coal; at the same time of such Capakity that, in addition to a large cargo of merchan and passengers, they will be able to carry sufficient fuel for their voyages both out and home, and so avoid the ex l'elle end delay incurred by coaling abroad. Pln. order that the objects of this Company may not be even art ially antic pated, and that the stations may at onc e b e x iipied, provisional arrangements have been made whereby three new steamers, of the description indicated, and in all res pects suitable for the service. have been secured, and con -3,500 tons each, con -3r50 CtS have been entered into for the building of others of about and it is proposed to cAnmence with a tort nightlY service each way, to be increased to weekly sallings ture as Seon as the vessels can be got ready. The ports of depar- Shall be Liverpool for the weekly line, ant London to The extent the metropolitan trade may require. Jordan —late The ships will be built under the inspection of Mr. John of Iron Rh; Chief Surveyor to the Underwriter's Registry —. l ) N—whose seices as Insectin En,!ine and Naval Architect the Direceors have secured to hs Company. The success which has attended the formation of well managed steam companies has been very marked. That of SnStCunard and Inman Company is well known. the Pacific earn Navig a ti on Company, whose shares,£so paid, are sell holdeg at £7B p er s h are, has out profits given to its share rs new paid-up shares exceeding the amount of the ori ginal capital, and pass a regular dividend of 10 per cent. on the increased issue, carrying over at each annual meeting an almost equal sum, white m..ny private steamship owners, with similar descriptions of vessels, but much sueiller than those this Ccmpa_y intend to possess, have reaped like results. The Directors have, therefore, every reason to anticipate a very great success to the undertaking.. They are not en tering upon an experiment, but are providing for this Com pany a similar description of vessel, but of larger size, than those which have proved so remunerative to several well known private firms engaged in the Mediterranean and other trades, and have thus the advantage of tee experience so acquired, which proves that what is needed, under efficient management, to ensure profitable results, are large ships, with moderate but sufficient horse-power and great carrying capacity. The introduction of the limited liability principle has en abled undertakings of great magnitude like the present to be carried out by joint-stock companies, which may embrace the co-operation of shippers and of others interested, instead of by private capitalists as heretofore; the result being that the supporters of this line will become interested in its suc cess, and participate in the profits which they assist to earn. Applications for shares may be addressed in the annexed form to the Directors, and copies of the prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Office of the Company, or at the offices of the Brokers and Solicitors, but AO application will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per share on the number of shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To e reined b the . To the Directors of the National Steam ßankers Navigation Company (Limited`. £ Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of the above, C being a deposit of £1 per s h are on s h ares i n that ompany, I hereby request that you will allot me number, and I agree to become a member of the Com pany in respect of such shares or in respect of any less num ber you may a l lot me ; and to execute the Articles of Associa tion when required ; an d I request that my name may be placed olk the Register of Members for the shares so allotted. Name in full Residence . Profession or Business Date T HE NATIONAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPNY mite d). NOTICE IS HEREBY G A IVEN (L , i That NO APPLICATION for SHARES in this Company will be RECEIVED after NA TURD AY next, the 7th inst. ; from Ireland not later than the 9th fast. By order, Tempor ary Offices JOSEPII TREFFRY, Secretary. , 11, Throgmorton-street, London. Commerci al Buildings, Water-street, Liverpool, 3 rd November, 1863. GREATIviit A ---------------.T.A.fCE PLACE AT DRA.WING OF PRIZES ST. JOSEPH'S RETREAT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N., , the liquidating the I)ebt still of NOVEMBER, 1863, to aid in Organ ; and to assist in lainiug on the New Church and St. Nicholas in Paris, now establishing the English Mission of Fathers. under the charge of the Passionist The prizes of the first catalogue Consist principally of objects of art and other precious articles, presented by His Holiness, several Cardinals, Princes, and other persons of distinction in Rome. TICKETS ONE SHILLING EACH. The arriount realised will be disposed of as follows :—That ariai n`g; from the sale of tickets in England will be applied to St. Joseph's and that from the sale of tickets in France to ~,B t . - Nicholas' , , in Paris. isHE DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE ART UNION. Any one purchasing or aiding in selling 25 tickets will be Planned to a large Engraving, either of the Death of St. ` J oseph, or of Bl ,, ssed Paul of the Cross, which will be forwarded by post upon receipt of 4 postage stamps. Catalogues as well as tickets may be had on application at St. Joseph's Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris. CELEBRATION of th e TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert • C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, 'Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Payne, and co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakepeare for their aid and asstetance. The Committee r, st their claims upon the ground that Str a tf or d i s no t on l y -the birthplace of Shakspeare. bnt the centre of attraction to ail admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved. P.nd where he lived and died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the imme state vicinity of the Great Northern Rail- Way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEE N. Pres,ident—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, LG. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This ',gas the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for- Maiity of aovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti te,tion in its most pitiable form—viz., th at which is accom. Punted by sickness and disease , and is now of sufficient taagnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered 'capable of admitting; into its wards a ve r y 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 I t gratuitously affords medic al advi ce and medicine t o more , 013 the average, than 3,000 out-patients a Week. ~ The Weekly Board feel it t heir im perative duty to mak e an x- , A.RNEST 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 Blasterman, Esq. ' Ni c holas-lane; also by Messrs. C outts and Co. Prescott, Grote, 0 . ; Drummond and Co. Hermes and Co. ; Ra nsom and Co. and co. ; Smith, Payne, and C o . ; G lyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and CO. ; W Mame, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool auci at the liospita4 bTANFORD S. SMITE Secretary N O . 22,265. T HE MERCHANT BANKING COMPANY of LONDON (Limited). Establishedunder the Companies Act, with Limited Liability. Capital, Two Millions Sterling. In 20.000 shares of £lOO each. First issue, 10,000 shares. Deposit, El per share on application, and £llob. on allotment. It is not contemplated to call up more than £25 per share. Calls not to exceed £5, at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. Richard Henry Browne, Esq., Director of the London Char tered Bank of Australia. W. M. Cadell, Esq., Merchant, London. J. H. Reynell de Castro, Esq. (Carruthers de Castro and Co., Merchants), Manchester and Rio de Janeiro. Lewis Fraser, Esq. (J. and L. Fraser,Merchants), London and Singapore. James M'Master, Esq. (late of Wm. M`Master and Brothers), Toronto and Manchester. John Paterson, Esq. (Paterson, Kemp, and Co., Merchants), London and Port Elizabeth. William Pearce, Esq. (William Pearce and Co., Merchants), London and Calcutta. Janat s Adam Smith, Esq. (Smith, Wood, and Co., Merchants), London, Liverpool, and Manilla. Thomas Stenhouse Esq. (Thomas Stenhouse and Co., Mer chants), London and Bombay. Henry Thurburn, Esq., Queensborough-terrace, Paddington. Harrison Watson, Esq. (J. R. Thomson and Co., Merchants), London and Cape Town. Edward Weston, Esq., Director of the Standard Bank of British South Africa. BANNERS. London—The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury and Southwark. Liverpool—The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool. Manchester—The Union Bank of Manchester. SOLICITORS. Msssrs. Flux and Argles, 9, Mincing-lane. BROKERS. Messrs. J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street. TEMPORARY OFFICE OF THE COMPANY. 27, Moorgate-street, London. PROSPECTUS. This Company is established in order, 113 its name implies, to carry on the trade of Merchant Bankers. Hitherto this department of business has been almost exclusively in the hands of private firms, but it is confidently believed that the Joint-Stock principle may be most beneficially applied to it, as well in the interests of commerce as to the advantage of those who desire a safe and profitable investment. The Merchant Banking Company of London, Limited, is in consequence projected, having been carefully matured under the auspices of merchants, and, having every facility already available and in full operation, the Comoany will at once enter upon a business ascertained to be of highly re munerative nature, with all the advantages of local know ledge and exrerience of the respective foreign ma, kets. 'the Company will avoid costly establishments abroad, which abmirb so large a port ion of the profits of other bank ing establishments, and avail themselves of the agency of mercantile houses already established. The Company will grant negotiable orother credit s, b y and upon their Foreign Agents, to importers of produce in this country, on the continent of Europe, and in America. They will make advances on the staple manufactures of this country under documentary bills, or consigned to their Agents abroad, for such periods as may be necessary to reaNse the sale of such goods, and on terms favourable to the shippers. 'I hey will also undertake to execute orders for produce through their Agents abroad, on terms highly advantageous to importers. The Company will further undertake the monetary agency of Foreign and Colonial Governments, and other constituted public bodies. They will receive deposits at their Head Office in London, at the current rates of interest, and grant loans, through their Agents abroad, on approved securities. The safety of the Merchant Banking Company of London, Limited, as an investment will be understood from the na ture of the business proposed to be transacted, and the profits likely to be made by the Company may be in some measure estimated by the well-known success of several mercantile banking establishments engaged in the same &scrip Lion of business. No promotion-money will be paid in connexion with this Company; the pre iminary expenses will be strictly confined to actual disbursements. The Articles of Association can be seen at the Offices of the Solicitors. _ _ Applications for Shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to the Directors ; and copies of the Prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Company, or at the Offices of the Brokers and Solicitors ; but no application wall be considered unlesi a deposit of £1 per share on the num ber of Shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. To the Directors of the Merchant Banking Company of London, Limited. Gentlemen, —Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to become a Member of the Company in respect of such Shares, or in respect of any less number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of A ssociation when required ; and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members for the Shares so allotted. Name in full Residence Profession or Business Date ..... T HE MERCHANT BANKING COMPANY OF LONDON (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the List of Appli cations for SHARES in this Company will be CLOSED to applicants from London on MONDAY next, the oth inst., and from the Country on TUESDAY, the 10th inst. By order. Temporary Offices, 27, Moorgate-street, London, E.C., November 4, 1863. THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY. 156, Leadenhall-street, London, E.C. Queen Insurance-buildings, Liverpool. Capital ONE MILLION STERLING. At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, held at Liver pool, on the 21st October, 1861, BERNARD HALL, Esq.. Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, the Directors' Report for the year stated— That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted t 0.... £70,300 being an increase over the precedinz year of .... 22,880 That the Life Premium Receipts for the first three years were . and for the past three years being an increase in the latter triennial period over the former of That the amount accumulated since last Meeting, as a Fire Reserve Fund, was and the amount added to Life Fund was That during the past five years the Company had paid for Claims the Actuary reported that the Life Liabilities had been valued on the soundest principles, viz., Net Premiums at 3 per cent. interest, and that the Bonus to part'cipating Policy holders averaged as much as 46 per cent. per annum of the Premiums paid, while in some instances it was as high as 65, 70, and even 75 per cent. A dividend was declared to proprietorq at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, Manager and Actuary. JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary. IT A LIAN CHURCH, 22, HATTON-WALL, HAT TON-GARDEN. Next SUNDAY, Solemn High Mass, at 11 a.m.. will be suni by the Rev. Padre Contini. SERMON (in Italian) at the Gospel, by the Rev. Dr. Faa de Bruno. The music of the Mass, with full orchestra, will be Haydn's No. 1. OFFERTORIUM—HandeI's "Solo quod Redemptor." Sung by Madame ltudersdorff. Grand Vespers, with full orchestral accompaniment, at 7 p.m., followed by Benediction of the B. Sacrament. SHORTHAND. -PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. SHORTHAND. -PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d. SHORTHAND. -"PITMAN'S PHONO GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland Hill. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. A REAL SEA BATH in your own room by wing TIDMAN'S SEA SALT. J-_-1_ This article, extracted from the "foaming billows," is a valuable adjunct to the daily bath, and the best possible sub • stitute for a visit to the sea-side. Price 16s. per cwt. For warded on receipt of post-office order or stamps. TIDMAA and SON, Chemists, 10, Wormwood-street, Lon don, E.C. TIDMAN'S SEA SALT is of great benefit to weakly children. anti a boon to all who would obtain the invigorating effects of a sea bath in the comfortable se clusion of an apartment. Instructions for use are enclosed in each packet. TIDMAN'S SEA SALT has been analysed by Dr. Hassall, who strongly recommends it s very superior to the rock and other satts commonly used Itch' bathing purposes. It is the only efficient bubstitute for sea bathing. In bags of 141b5., p r i ce 28.; 281b5., 45.; 561b5., Bs. 1121b5., les. Sole Proprietors, TIDMAN & SON, 10, Wormwood -street, London, E.C. Sold by all Chemists. ALGERIAN ONYX MARBLE. ---- —.---ivf • Messrs, HOWELL, JA!IES, and CO., respectfully solicit ~,--: iwpection of their Onyx Salon, which contains upwards— -1,00) objects, consisting of Clock , Candelabra, Lamps.Vassosf, Jardinieres, Inkstands, Pen-trays, and a variety of smaller articles of taste, at moderate prices. This beautiful marble is perfectly translucent, bears a very fine polish, presents a diversity of pleasing tints, and can be turned or chiselled into any form necessary for utility or ornament-4, 7,9, Regent-street, Pall-mall. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara, Cir cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison.—Can be had only at Madame RACHKL'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidentiaL NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., :3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua A marelia has no ne o f th e properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of unuoubted respecta bility, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre ,..ired without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who :uffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, 'prisms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier d the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the wh o l e nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three tlmea the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. hoott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square 411 'en with" Lambtrt," engraved cu the SUMO. ~, - --e _ . . . , . '. . . . " ...\ : I 3 . . • . 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Naval and Military Intelligence, level surface was obtained which enabled the ships to be kept clean inside and free from foul collections in the bilges, a thing impossible previously in iron ships. The cements were, however, liable to crack, and they did not prevent the oxidation of the iron inside, and they were capable of being applied only under certain cireumstances of heat and posi tion. These objections, it is said, do not attach themselves to the use of the Spence ship-lining composition. It is elastic, and will not crack by any straining of the ship—it is oleaginous, and prevents any oxidation or corrosion of the iron ; and, to conclude, it is a perfect non-conductor of heat or cold, and therefore furnishes the required means for lining the mess•clecks or cabins of iron ships. Her Majesty's screw iron sloop Sharpshooter, at Portsmouth, of 603 tons and 150 horse power, has her starboard side internally, from keel to upper deck, coated with this composition, and the Buffalo, screw iron sloop of 440 tons, at Woolwich, is also being coated with it. As a proof of the necessity existing for protecting the rivet-heads on the inside of iron ships' bottoms, we may mention that her Majesty's screw troop ship Urgent, now in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth, has her bottom plates riveted together by rivets an inch in dia meter, and that some hundreds of these are oat of her bottom, having had their heads on the inside of the ship, destroyed by the motion of the bilge water and sand or grit. The fine new transport ship Empress, Captain Ellis, 1,313 tons register, recently purchased by Messrs. Honlder Brothers, of Leadenhall street, yesterday hauled alongside the T pier at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, in pre paration to embark the 4th battalion Military Train under orders for service in New Zealand. The Empress will undergo her last official inspection this morning by Sir R. Dacres and staff, commanding the garrison at Woolwich. The troops will embark in the course of the following after noon and take possession of their quarters, and, according to present orders, the vessel will sail on Monday morning. The battalion consists of Lieut.-Col. O'Brien, in command ; Major Gray; Copts. Green and Witchell; Lieuts. Sewell, Creagh, and St. Aubyn ; Ensigns Leir and Davis; Capt. R ee ve, paymaster; Quartermaster Lambert, Lieut. and Adjt. Shackleton, Veterinary-Surg. Appleton, one medical officer, 267 non-commissioned officers and privates, 38 women , and 50 children. The steam storeship Balaclava has arrived at Woolwich Arsenal, after a perilous voyage from Scotland, and has commenced discharging her cargo of returned stores. The Balaclava bore up in Yarmouth Roads during the violence and again proceeded to sea o n Sunday morni ng , when as enveloped in a thick dark f og , and struck on as andbank off Wells Point. She came off at high water Th e whole of the guns, shot, shell, and other War De partment stores belonging to th e screw frigate Emerald, 35, 600 horse power, Capt. A. Cumming, lately attached to the channe l Squadron, have been l an d e d a t th e O r d nan ce wharf, Chat h a m, and the other sto res d e p os it e d i n th e d oc kya r d. Th e Emerald is entirely dismantled, and will be paid off at t h e Nore to-morrow, and placed in the steam reserve. A general order from the Horse Guards, signed by Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, has been received withoutofthe shegale, lv damage. at Chatham, announcing that her Majesty has been pleased to a pprove a new description of sword belt, with three rows of gold embroidery, for field marshals, general officers, and generals on the staff, and a similar belt, with two rows of em b ro idery, for staff officers under the rank of general offi cers,aonin lieu of those now p rescr ib e d b y regu l at i on , w hi c h reu d not sufficiently strong for service. The Duke of Cambridge directs that all general and staff officers on active employment shall furnish themselves with the new sword belts, according to the pattern deposited at the Horse Guards, and general officers not actively employed will adopt the new pattern as they may require to replace those now in use. THE NAVY. VALETTA, Oct. 31.—There have been very few move ments of ships of war in this port since the departure of the last mail. Her Majesty's ship Icarus, 11, screw sloop, Com • wander N. Salmon, V,C., arrived on Saturday night from the Pirzeus, with mails and despatches. She had orders to return with the mail due on the 7th from Marseilles, but will have to remain here to repair damages sustained in a colli sion with a large French screw transport, the Ardeche, which was proceeding from a port in France to Alexandria. having troops on board for Cochin China. The collision oc curred at 4 in the morning of the 22d inst., 60 miles from Cape Matapan, and was nearly proving fatal to the Icarus. Owing to weather being hazy, the mast head light of the French steamer was mistaken for that of a sailing-vessel, as she carried no other lights. The English was steering west, half north, at the rate of six knots, and the French man south-east, at a speed of nine knots. On perceiving a collision was inevitable, the order was given on board the Icarus to starboard the helm, which, although contrary to the rule laid down, was the only means, under the circum stances, of saving her from being run into amidships, in which case she would have probably been sunk. As it was, the French vessel struck her violently on the starboard quarter, breaking in the bulwarks, laying her side open al most to the water-line, and carrying away her mizenmast and mainroyahn est. The Ardeche lost bowsprit, figurehead, foretopgallantmast, Such was the violence of the shock that it was feared at first she was going down. A bluelight was burnt as a signal for the French ship to stand by until the extent of damage was ascertained, and it having been found that no leak had been sprang in the Icarus, and that her steering apparatus was still in good order, the two vessels parted company. On the 24th she fell in with her Majesty's despatch boat Psyche, Lieut.-Com. Sterne, 40 miles from Malta, which had left that day for the Pirams, and the op • portunity was seized to send a report of the accident to the commander-in-chief. No blame is attached to Commander Salmon or the officers of the Icarus for the unfortunate oc currence, which is generally attributed to a bad look-out on board the French ship, and the fact of her not carrying the usual steamer's lights, The Icarus has been admitted into dock for repairs, which it will take some six weeks to com plete. The vessel will then proceed home to be paid off. Her Majesty's surveying tender Growler, Staff-Commander Stokes, returned on Tuesday from surveying operations in the direction of Sicily, and will leave again in a few days to continue the survey of the Malta Channel. We are still expecting the Hydra, C, paddle-sloop, Lieut.-Commander G. R. Wilkinson (temporary), from England. This vessel is to replace the Medina on the surveying service. The Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, which left Plymouth on the 7th inst., and is to relieve the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill. , yar, has not yet made her appearance. The only men-of war here just now are the Icarus, Medina, and Boxer. The Chanticleer, 17, Commander Stirling, left to-day with a mail for the Pirmus, and despatches for Admiral Smart. The following are the names of the officers and the strength of the 23d Regiment, which left on Saturday last for Gibraltar in her Majesty's troopship Orontes :—Lieut. Col. Bell, V.C. and wife, Lieut.-Col. Gubbios, Surg. Tydd and wife, Capt. Douglas, Capt. Shadwell, Capt. Tupper, and Capt. Holroyd, Paymaster Leet, Lieuts. Cary, Lees, Lewis, Napier, and Kenny; Ensigns Fitzgeorge, Williamson, Luxford, Knox, Patterson, Ramsbottom, Watson, and Graves; Quarter master Burden, Assist.- Surg. Greig and wife, 839 non commissioned officers and sohiiers, 41 women, and 65 chil dren. The following also took passage by her :—Assist.- Surg. Kelly, R.N,, Lieut. Calder, R.M., Ensign Lead beater, 25th Regiment ; Messrs. Innes and Bain, 172 sailors and marines, 50 invalids, 22 women, and 36 children, and Mrs. Spratt and family. A letter from the Pirteus of the 19th of October says • " A court-martial was held on board her Majesty's ship Trafalgar on the 7th inst. to try a private of tbe Royal Ma rine Light Infantry, of her Majesty's ship Marlborough, on the charge of making use of insubordinate language to a sergeant of the Royal Marines when on duty at the National Bank at Athens. The Court found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to be deprived of a good conduct badge, to be placed in the second class for conduct, and to be imprisoned for three months in one of her Majesty's gaols. Another court-martial was held on board the Trafalgar on the 15th and 16th inst. on Lieut. Mangan, of her Majesty's ship Meeanee, upon a charge of drunkenness. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma jesty's service. The following ships of war remain here:— English—The Marlborough, 121, Capt. C, A. Fello wes, flag of Vice-Admiral Robert Smelt, K.H. ; the Trafalgar, 74, Capt. T Mason ; the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill yar. The Meeanee, 80, Capt. A. Wodehouse, arrived on the 14th inst. from Kalamata, and remains in Salamis Bay. The Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson,also arrived on the 10th inst. from Kalamata with the mails and des patches brought there from Malta by the Meeanee. The Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, arrived on the 16th inst. from Nauplia and Patras. The St. George, 86, Capt, the Hon. F. Egerton, arrived this morning from Kalamata, and remains in Salamis Bay, and the Orlando, 46, Capt. G. Randolph, arrived on the 18th inst., and is also in Salamis Bay. Her Majesty's ship Trident arrived yesterday morn ing with mails, &c., from Malta, and left this evening for Syria. French—The Magicienne screw frigate (flag of the Rear-Admiral commanding the Levant station) and the Mouette paddle-sloop arrived a few days ago. Austrian —The Dandolo screw corvette ; and the Frederick screw corvette (bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Tegit hoff), arrived on the 15th inst., and the Wall screw gunboat. Italian—The Tancredi paddle-wheel steamer, Turkish—The Braussa.screw corvette, Greek—TheAthena paddle-wheel steamer, and one screw gunboat. The Prussian paddle-steamer Preussische Alder arrived on the 7th inst. from Malta, en route to Constantinople, where she is to be stationed to attend on the Prussian Minister at the Porte. The screw aunboai Blitz arrived in company, and in tow of the Alder for about three miles, as when just off the Pirtous the cover of her cylinder sprung. It will take some time to effect the necessary repairs. On the morning of the Bth the Prussian gunboat Basilisk ar rived from Malta. The Blitz and Basilisk are to be stationed at the Pinous. The Preussische Adler sailed on the 14th for Constantinople. On leaving she got on shore just outside the Pillars, but shortly afterwards was floated again with • out assistance, and proceeded on her voyage. She is to touch at Syra on her way." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTE RS ALL'S-YESTEIMAY. The interior of the s ubsciption-roomthir afternoon pre sented a marked contrast to the scene of bustle and excite ment on Monday last. The few subscribers who strolled in in the cour se of the da y g r ouped themselves in close et ti ng on proximity t o the fire, whil e t h ey discussed the effect and c onsequence of th e past Cambridgeshire. B future events was almost a dead letter, the on ly feature worth n amin g being the increased anxiety to get on Golden Pledge for the A u t umn C up ; b ut offers of 7 to 2 we re not sufficiently tempting to lead to any investment ; 6 to 1 was accepted about Catch-'em-Alive, and a point m ore would have b een taken about Fair water. For the Derb y 1,000 to 4,) was booked about Birchbroom, and 1,000 to 30 laid agat Historian to £5O. Closing Prices : LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CUP. 7 to 2 agst Mr Owen's Golden Pledge ( o ff, t a k e 4 t o 1) 6 to 1 agst Mr W. Day's Catch 'em-Alive (taken) 6 to 1 agst Mr Cartwnght's Fairw a t er ( offered) 10 to 1 agst M r T. Hughes's Earl of Surrey (tak en an d o ff) 10 to 1 agst M r T. Hunt's Blithefield (offered) 10 to 1 agst Mr J. Day's ns Trumps (taken and offered) THE DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Birchbroom (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr W. Day's Historian (taken) UPTON-ON-SEVERN THURSDAY STEEPLECHASES. Tll5 SOVern Bank Steeplechase (FT ar"i; ' --Ca P)t of 10 goys each,h ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 13 su b s . Mary Ann, .......... (S tevens ' 1 Piff Paff, i lO s t 121 b list he following also ran. :—Yaller G a l, S ocks, Grey Peter T y Ann and Piff P a ff, 3 t o a nd Rufus. . 1 aßgesttt i snoge — ks 2 , 6 to to l e l a a c g h st a y gs a t il l‘ o t r a G r al , 7 to 1 agst Rufus, S to 1 agst Grey Peter. Won by a short neck only. Only two passed the post. steeplechase Cup, value 20 sous. Three Socks fell and broke his back. miles. The Farmers' Bang Bull, 12st General Ragg, 12st (Mr. Davidson) 2 Bonny Lass, 12st (Mr. Roberts) 0 Foxhunter, 12st (Mr. Gough (dis.) Betting-6 to 5 agst Foxhunter, 2to 1 agst Bang Bull, 6 to 1 agst General Ragg. Won by two lengths. On returning to scale an objection was lodged against Foxhunter for having gone the wrong side of a post. The stewards, upon investigating the case, awar ded the stakes to Ban g Bull, who came in second. l rs. Plate Two miles. (Handicap) of 40 sovs ; w Th e Upton Steeienpnleecrha winners The Admiralty have directed that a report shall be made by the officials of Portsmouth Dockyard and the officer com manding the Admiralty yacht Enchantress of the results which have attended the trial of Spence's patent non-con ductive and non-combustible composition, which has been applied to coat the boilers, cylinders, and steam pipes in the hydraulic engine house at the south corner of the dockyard, and the steam pipes and valve boxes of the Enchantress's superheating apparatus, with the iron casing which encloses the latter above the deck. Without pretending to any knowledge of what will be the tenor of these official reports, we may simply state what has been accomplished. The great heat produced in all confined spaces where steam ma chinery is at work, whether on shore or on board ship, is well known. The metal surfaces, such as the boilers and steam pipes, are generally covered with substances as nearly non conducting as possible, in order to lessen the radiation of heat and prevent contact with the more exposed parts of the metal surfaces. Felt, lead, and wood sheathing have been the substances employed for this purpose. It is evi dent, however, that these substances, however applied, could only partially remedy the evil, while their use must always be attended with considerable danger. This latter point has been frequently illustrated on board ships of war, and indeed most strikingly by the recent return of the Pelorus to Devonport, after sailing thence for foreign service. One of her boilers by some means became empty, and therefore soon redhot, and as a certain result set fire to the felt, and sheeting, and to the ship. To prevent a recurrence of this accident, as well as to cover a highly-heated iron surface on the upper deck, the Enchantress's superheating appa ratus and funnel casing were coated with the new composi tion early in July last, and nothing can be more satisfactory than the non -conducting qualities which it has been found to possess when the yacht was under steam, or its present condition and appearance. rho cylinders, boilers, and steam pipes in the hydraulic engine-house have been coated with the composition now 16 months, and steam there has a daily (except on Sundays) pressure of 601 b. The bare hand may be placed on the boilers or steam-pipes, as, indeed, it may on the Enchantress's su perheating appar a t us , w ith ou t t h e slightest inconvenience. 'ti,w heat reached in these super heaters ranges from 250 deg. to 400 deg. The material used can be applied by any ordinary labourer. When dry it is coated with a covering of paint, This is what has been already acsoutplishe I t What is bei ng now attempte d i s confined to the internal skin of iron ships, and is here chiefly used as a preservative, but in a secondary tieW, again as a non=conductor. On the docking of her Majesty's iron screw troopship Megaara, some three or four years since at Ports mouth, after being paid off on her return home from lengthened foreign service, it was discovered that nearly the whole of the intcrnal rivet-heads of her bottom plates below the water-line were eaten off level with the interior surface of the plates, and many of the rivets had th ere f ore d ro pped out of their holes and were gone altogether. The ship's plates were, in fact, chiefly held in their position on the framing by the external pressure of the water, and thus any undue strain on any on e part either by striking on a reek or straining in a gale of wind, would in all probability have opened up the ship' s bottom and caused her, with all on board, almost instaneously to sink, An iquiry took place, and the conclu s i on arr ived at was that the never-ceasing motion of the water, with the girt from the bilges, destooyed the rivet heads and damaged the edges of the plates, and that some protecting covering was needed. ibis led to the h introduc tionriveL- of Portland cement and other material heads and edges of the plates W ere thus protected, so long find admit the water , end as the °merit did uct crack Inkerinan, lOst 71b (Mr. Edwards) 1 Ironsides, 9st 111 b (Mr. J. Lamb) 2 Miss Maria and Harkaway gelding also ran. Betting-3 to lon Inkorman, who won in a canter by ten lengths. Th© Worceste rshire Cup, value 100 sovs. Three miles, over a fair hunting country. Tupsley, 12st .............. R u f u s, 12st slb (Mr. Dr a k e ) 2 Huntsman, llst lb (Mr. Ivens) 3 The following also ran :—Wild Duck, Measham, Medora, Nereus, and Nabob. 1 on Medora, sto 1 abet Nereus, 7 to 1 agßsteNttianbgo—b.3l to Wou by a length ; four lengths between second and third Medora fell. _ HEREFORD MEETING—THURSDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added ; weight for ago, with selling allowances. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr T. Parr's Buckland, 2 yrs, 6st slb (£5O) .. (G. Sopp) 1 (£5O) (E Taylor) 3 (59) .. (J Mordaaa) 4 Mr. Mellon's Fletton, 3 yrs, st 71b (£5O) ..(Maidmeni) 2 Mr R. Sly's Belladrum, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, Sat 121 b Mr Adams's Ledbury, 4 yrs, g5O ) .... (J. Holman) 5 Betting-3 to 1 agst Jessie, sto 2 agat Fletton, 3to 1 each agst Ledbury and Buckland. Won by a length, four lengths between second and third. The winner was bought by Mr Barber for 130 guineas. The Herefordshire Stakes of 10 soya each, with 60 added ; winners extra. A mile and a half. 12 subs. Mr T. Parr's Blondin, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Heslop) 1 Mr Brodi.'s Lothian's King, 5 yrs, 7st 91b.. (Grimshaw) 2 Tourist, The Monk, and Pearl Diver also ran. Betting-9 to 2 each agat Tourist and Blondin. Won by three lengths. Only two passed the post. The Town Plate (Handicap) of 3 soya each, with 25 added, for all ages. Half a mile. S. Sharpe) 1 ,s Mr Saxon's Littlecote, 3 yrs , 7 st 41 b ... .. . Mr Kempson's Jessie , 2 yr s, Est 4lb ..., (..( Grimshaw) z Mr T. Stevens's Pinkepo e, 4 y rs, 7st 121 b ..(Maidment) 3 , IL Taylor) 1 Mr Lincoln's Rowena , 4 y rs, 7st Blb ........ <., t ri n kepoe, 6 to . Betting—Even on Littlecote, 5 to 2 a s 1 agst Jessie. fornd and l 5 with 30 added; third. Won Theby t hr e winnere len g w t h a s s , two bou g guineas. sa ys each, lengths M b r e . t w A e n e d n r e s w o second o w i nners extra. T wo miles. The Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 Mr Wadlow's Pot Pourri, 4 yrs, list (in. 101 b exf ra) (W. White) 1 Mr Herbert's Whitehall, 3 yrs, 08 1 ,; ;_ , _ yrs, gat (Holman) 2 Mr Brayley's Brother to Springbok , 3 o. Olt • • (James) 3 Mr O'Malley's oh m (ped. unknown), Linea, Ust 131 b (Mitchell) 4 Tho following also ran :—Consternation, Miss I' m ,. thorn, and Rapture. Betting-5 to 4on Pot Pourri, 3to 1 agst Whitehall, 6 to 1 agst Miss Hawthorn. Won by three lengths ; a bad third. The Nursery Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 addod for 2 yr-olds. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr Brayley's Victoria Cross, Est 61b (M or d an ) 1 Mr Morgan's Cosotte, 6st 111 b (Sopp) 2 Mr Drake's Eugenie filly, Est 41b (Tomlinson) 3 The following also ran :—Golden Cross, Cutaway, Life buoy, Bianca filly, Wildman, and Imposition. Betting-5 to 2 agst the Eugenie filly, 3to 1 agst Wild man, 4 to 1 agst Golden Cross, 11 to 1 each agst Lifebuoy and Bianca filly. Won by a neck; the oarae between woad and third, ~ ---1 / ~,..0 . . ~,c _ , ,/, / , - 6-1" 7 ---e-- 1 -" ( ' — ' 'iN ENV S PA. 'PE li ~,-. -; -, U , a_ . ( 043 ( 11 ' have responded to the Presiders ~,: gr iii , -7 104 ' 5 . ~..,. ___ " " t calling for troops, and desire the p , ...,,, . ..:,,... wm ,, ;, ' exertion to have their State quollt4/KEI t.. „i . .%`'ee quota for New York is 38,000, NT a s n . oc r atsThe coming election in New.YorkrtihsebeDinesi vigor ously canvassed by both parties. - are very sanguine of success. , An official despatch from General Burnside, dated Knoxville, Oct. 17th, states that a cavalry bt igade from his command encountered the rebels at . Blue Spring, and after a sharp fight drove them ft, om a strong position. General Shakleford, with 7a.'s ce.valry and a brigade of infantry, continued in pur suit, the Confederates making a stand at every im— portent position, but he finally drove them com pletely out of Tennessee, captured the fort at Zolli. coffer, burned the long railroad bridge at that place, also five other bridges, three locomotives, and 35 cars. His advance was ten miles beyond Bristol_ The Federal loss in the fight at Blue Springs was about one hundred killed and wounded. The enemy's loss was much greater. One hundred arid fifty prisoners were taken. Parson Brownlow and Horace Maynard made speeches at Knoxville, October 13th, endorsing the administration, and favouring immediate emancipa ,on in East Tennessee. _ STAMPED ....sd. AMERICA. (Per the City of Baltimore.) NEW YORK, OCT. 24. General Meade had an interview yesterday with President Lincoln, and returned afterwa rds to his post. The reports of his being removed from com mand are, therefore, untrue. Information, believed to be perfectly reliable, has been received at Washington that Lee is sending to Bragg two more divisions of his army, and that it is his intention to retire with the remainder of his army to the defences at Fredericksburg, where they will, as the rebel authorities be ieve, prevent any demonstration against Richmond by that route, or up the bank of the James River. They calculate that the injury done to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad will prevent any attempt this season to advance against Richmond by the Gordonsville route, and they regard any movement up the peninsula as impracticable at this late season. UnionistO in large numbers Were said to be join ing the army of General Burnside. The following is fro m the _Richmond En quir er o f October 16th : General Gregg's cavalry yesterday (23d) made a reconnaissance within two miles of the Rappa hannock, end returned without finding the enemy. peace Save on our own terms w e can accept no whatever, and must fight till doomsday rather than yield an iota of them, and our terms are:— Recognition by the enemy of the independence of the Confederate States. Withdrawal of the Yankee force from every foot of Confederate ground, including Eentucky and The Orange and Alexandria Railroad has been repaired one mile beyond Bristow Station. Forces are engaged night and day repairing the damages done by the enemy. The discipline and morale of the army are said to be fine, and both officers and men have great confi dence in General Meade. There are no indications whatever of a general engagement. It is estimated that the Federal losses during the late desultory campaign in killed, wounded, and prisoners, will not exceed 1,500 men. Missouri. Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that State shall decide by a free vote w hether she shall remain in the old Union or ask admission into the Confederacy, Consent on the part of the Federal Government to give up to the Confederacy its proportion of the navy, as it stood at the time of secession, or to PaY for the same. Yielding up of all pretension on the part of the Federal Government to that portion of the old territories which lies west of the Confederate States. An equitable settlement on the basis of our abso lute independence, and equal rights of all accounts of the public debts and public lands, and the ad. vantages accruing from foreign treaties. These provisions, We apprehend, comprise the minimum of what we must require before we lay down our arms. That is to say, the North must yield all—we nothing —and as they have waged a wicked and causeless war upon us, they ought in strict justice to be required, according to usage in such cases, to reimburse to us the whole of our ex penses and losses in the cause of that war. Assuredly as we completely ruin their armies, so surely will we make them pay our war debt, though we wring it out of their hearts. And they know it well ; therefore they cannot make peace except through their utter inability to strike another blow. The stake they have to forfeit if they lose the game is as vital as ours. So is the stake to be won. It is no less than the entire possession of our whole country, with us in it and all we own, to have and to hold to them and their heirs for ever. Once more, we say, it is all or nothing. The Confederacy or the Yankee nation—one or the other must go down, forfeit its national existence, and lie at the feet of its mortal enemy. Meade's army and Itosencranz's once scattered, Lee can get no more armies. The draft turns out manifestly fruitless. Both the German and the Irish element are for peace. The Yankees have to bear the brunt of the war themselves; but in the meantime their inevitable bankruptcy is advancing like an armed man. "Hungry ruin has them in the wind," and it cannot be long before the Cabinet at Washington will have to consider seriously terms of peace, under auspices and circumstances very different from the present. For the present, let the war roll and thunder on, and God defend the right. The Richmond Examiner of the 20th, says : " Meade i€ 3 believed to be resting at Centreville after the fatigue of his prodigious skedaddle. His retreat is considered to have been so masterly as to have dimmed for ever the laurels won by M'Clellan in that branch of warfare. He fell back with more celerity than Pope, and with more success than either ho or M'Clellan. While we admire the success of his escape, we shall always wonder why he exposed himself in a manner to make his flight necessary. If it was his design to flee as soon as menaced, why did he ever come to the Rapidan. One would suppose that from the Rappahannock to Washington was a sufficiently long race track. What his next movement will be, it is impossible to conjecture. Perhaps, as he was so successful in running away, he may advance again. " If he does advance again to the Rapidan, he can hardly do so in less than a month, as it will take him at least that time to reconstruct the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which, by the exertions of both armies, has been pretty thoroughly demolished from Culpepper Court House to Ma nassas Junction." e has been a cry for Re viewer.—For many years there ENGLISH OPERA.—Defined by a Saturday permanent w ith splendid schemes, on paper , a national opera. Successive man f a e g . e t r h s e have come forward ra in our native tongue. Yet works of native compose i estab lishment of a theatre in which nativ ' e singers should sing which its propounders p lace it, and crumbles into ver y e ach scheme in turn tu mbles from the loft y p edestal o n . or di nar y materials. A distas te for Er glish opera cannot be i public, who are quite ready t o appre date good opera of any kind, and who flock to etch andarge d reward th e theatre when any piece but slightly above the USLIEL. I feeble run of ;English opera is produced. There is, more over, a strong wish among the lovers of music for the de velopment in this country of a school o f d ramatic compo sition; yet, with all this demand, with all the increased at tention which music has lately received, and with all the improvement in the national musical taste, the hopes of a national opera are as small as ever. The cause must surely be found in our composers and our managers. The former allow their pens to be guided, not by their musical and dramatic feelings, but by the wishes of their publishers, and, in place of composing for the stage, write what will suit the milder atmosphere of the drawing-room, This is the crying vice of our English operatic writers. If they have by them a pretty ballad or a sparkling song, they care nothing for dramatic situations, but bring it in head and shoulders, that they may get good terms from Bond-street, which thus obtains the best possible advertisement of the merceau by its being sung by the pet singer in the new opera, with which it has perhaps no more in common than Achilles with the distaff. The best opera writers are guided by different principles. Take " Fidelio " or " Der Freyschutz"—there are Vat ono or two pieces in each of these operas bearable off the stage, and on e can count upon one ' s ten f i ngers a ll that i. Meyerbeer' s operas yield for d raw i ng-room consu mptio _ The same is true of Auber in a less degree ; and although Mozart's music and that of the great Italian col:epos:T ian _ be listened to with pleasure apart from the story, e n e _ gai d ing as it does so much pure melody, yet the iseffect.ot w e for greater when the passages are heard in the _s ee iin ans t xu these which they were composed, This happens an b wen aa gre at composers, being really operatic com an d paints the musicians, clothe the situations and an seers; dramas with music which tells the is to wri te passions they wish to express. This en ___ s, un connected but to string together a series of isolatedi ik :ii the necklace of by any unity of purpose, gives a result , intrinsically valu a savage, in which each stone mnyd barbaric, exciting no Ptheeseecrrhgaracters of their able, but the whole is tawdry out his book so as to sthis is the course of the for his publisher ; and avers leasa g r e e have the greatest number of to allow to advantage the exe- E in ng it i s is c h on ee te m na p p e l e a e t r i .o o n o . te 3 : al e d e ey t s as they are generally writtennantent of Miss B, or the volume the sent they of a large demand from, t h e y fancy will suit their respective ut , g gentlemen who attend the ladies and yo reproduce such pieces for the benefit the ti youngofe r Dire.noteAs of 9 i‘ ou t what opera to find circles in which they rap . infliction) of the move as musical (or 1 long as this system lasts, so long is a National lights. , S° : sa ibi e ; and our composers had better busy OPora anP- •songs than voices, and iumd themselves with single it into ia h te a l l Y f-a-dozen of their best ballads taken e tte d ro pu a t random from their des k s , filling LIP w ith a noisy chorus or two, bestowing some pains perhaps upon a solitary con. carted piece, fitting the prima donna with a sufficiently difficult rondo finale, and imagining they have written an opera. A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF POCKET-PICKING is said to have recently happened in London. A gentleman from the country received a large sum of money in sovereigns, lie bought a sort of canvas bag for it, thew'a tklkpeodaeltong the st reets, all the wh i le k eep i ng hi s h an d i n where the purse was, with a desperate determi nation not to be done. All at once, to his astonishment, his purse was gone. He at once went to a policeman, by whose assistance he had the singular good fortune to find the thief who had taken his purse. The gentleman was 50 amazed at his purse being taken while his hand had neverc left his pocket, that he offered to forgive the thief, if ii would tell him how it was done. The thief then Paid a " I happened to see you receiving the money,a andain followed you. f o llowed ' you. I saw you buy the bag-purse, and g After a time I tickled your ear with af°tither ; un consciously you took your hand out of your par; ket to e remove what you thought, perhaps, wa sea-nPd oc wil s you were rubbiigg your ear, I got the fly; ,andbooty. Once NEW NOVEL by the Author of "ANNE Di SA.RT." Now ready at all the Libraries , in 2 vols ., 215., THE BROWNS AND THE SMITHS. By the Author of "Anne Dysart," &c. Also now ready, in 3 vols., QUEEN MAB. By JULIA KAVANAGH. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " EAST LYNNE." On Wednesday, Nov. 11, in 3 vols., post svo., T HE SHADOW OF ASHLYDYAT. By Mrs. WOOD, Author of "East Lynne," "The Channings," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On Monday next, in crown Bvo., with Two Illustrations, price 65., THE LAST OF THE CAVALIERS. A New and Cheaper Edition, uniform with "East Lynne." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. This day, Never Before Published, price 28., BE L DEMONIO. A LOVE STORY. By PAUL FEVAL, Author of "The Duke's Motto." London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, A B 0 OK OF B E A U T Y. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. T E 0X F ORD , 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's BONN AMBULA. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oruer man "), Eugene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. - - _____ Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. PANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order ‘..) to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST." to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and bDdy of the Hall.. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past Nine o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The Marvels of PERU, the most wonderful Performers in the WorId—LANGLOIS, the marvellous Indian Juggler. —Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family and Mona. Ratel, assisted by 12 Young Ladies. - The beauti ful FAIRY FOUNTAIN—NICOSIA, the eminent Italian Violinist. Special Notice.—lmmense Attraction.—The celebrated French Clowns, ARTHUR and BERTRAND, will make their appearance in a new Entertainment, reserved expressly for their engagement at this establishment. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR bICOSIA, the eminent ,Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.-THE PRINCE'S BIRTHDAY.--A Grand FANCY BALL will take place on MONDAY next. Tickets at the principal Libraries and Costumiers, and at the Alhambra. The Hall will be perfumed by E. Rimel, of 288, Strand. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Her Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GRENET. 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One shilling ,tor Gentlemen only),. DEAFNESS. —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. HEATHER'S TRUST.—Under the manage ment of the CLOTH WORKERS' COMPANY.—At a COURT, to be holden on the 2d DECEMBER next, this COMPANY will distribute to SIX POOR WIDOWS of DECAYED ILOUSEKEEPERS the amount divisible under the above Trust, being about LS to each. Printed forms of application may be obtained at the Company's Offices, Cloth workers' Hall, Mincing-l.ne, London. The applicant must insert therein particulars relative to her condition and cir cumstances, and name references from whom information may be obtained for verifying the same. The application, with certificate of her marriage, and a certificate or other proper proof of the death of her husband, must be left at the Company's Hall previously to the 23d November instant, addressed to ROBERT BECKWITH TOWSE, Clerk. Clothworkers' Hall, November, 1863. Statue of Napoleon I. in the Place Vendome. PROTEST OF THE " SIECLE." Oar voice has not been heard, as a body of workmen have l e t d own t h e popu l ar s t a t ue —the effigy of the con queror of Austerl i tz ; an d hence forth the Imp er i a l R oman mantle will rep l ace th e grey overcoat and the little cocked hat. The persons who witnessed this scene were painfully affected, and the noise which the displaced statue made in touching the ground had a melancholy sound in their ears. The column was destined to consecrate the memory of the glorious and rapid campaign, which commenced on the 24th Sept., 1805, and ter minated en the 26th Dec., 1806, by the treaty of peace at Presburg. The bronze plates which cover Vie stone column are made with Austrian cannon. The bas-reliefs, modelled by Bergeret, represent the passage of the Rhine, the combats of Donawerth, Wertingen, Gunzburg, Albeck, Langenau, and Nee- j resheim ; the capitulation of Ulm ; the victory of Diernstein ; the entry of the French into Vienna on the 13th November, and the battle of Austerlitz. If the architects, Denin, Gondouin, and Lepere, had not limited the column to a height of 42 metres, the length of the spiral freize might have been doubled. Was it not natural to crown those great military deeds with the effigy of the captain who commanded the grand army ? Louis Philippe's Government understood that such ought to be the case. It not only gave to the statuary, M. Sourre, the indica tions and particulars necessary for representing the captain with the historic) costume, but also borrowed the bronze from three victories, and the statue which it inaugurated was made with the metal of cannons taken in Algeria. If the bas reliefs represented the signing of the concordat, the peace of Amiens, the promulgati on o f th e code, the coronation and mar riageiloofrdthere, Council of might State, and Napoleonot her inc id entsl the of sessions a civil understand that the figure by which they are sur mounted would bear the costume which the chief of the state had adopted. It would not in any case be this Olympian travesty, which is no longer suited to the present age. THE GALES.—PORTSMOUTII, Bence has reached here that the hull of a brig or schooner, supposed to have gone down with all hands off St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, during the gale on Friday last, has been washed ashore, keel upwards, on the beach off Niton Baths, Isle of Wight, below the Royal Sandrock Hotel, at the west end of Undercliff. At the time the letter containing the intelligence was despatched from Niton the unfortunate vessel lay half buried in the sand ; and this cause, combined with tthoeacsconersttaainnt, fromsea barneyakvi:igtinogvewr hhiecrli, rendered it impossible might be on her stern, what was her name, or the port she we hailed from. The wind has been very strong here all d ay, sfrirce 10 V W . and W ha . s s ;t W o Oct a andt 3028. at cloudy. Th e b arometer ' her Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 38. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every teQWL eupply it in packete. The following telegrams are from the Richmond papers ; CULPEPPER COURTHOUSE, OCT. 17. The heavy rain yesterday caused the Rapidan to rise, and the bridge careened last night, ren dering it impassable for the present. The battle at Catlett's Station proved to be a cavalry skir mish, in which we took some prisoners. There was hard fighting late on Wednesday evening at Bristow Station. We were driving the enemy back, when skirmishers fell upon M'lntosh's bat tery, supported by Cook's brigade. Gen. Cook was wounded early in the action. His brigade was thrown into confusion, during which the enemy succeeded in taking five pieces of artil lery. Reinforcements coming up we pursued the enemy towards Dumfries. Our lass is about 500 killed and wounded. Fifteen hundred prisoners have been gathered during the day. GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 18. The enemy have been driven back to their fortifications at Centreville, to which they have been flying for several days past pursued by our forces. They have destroyed in their flight such stores as they could not take with them. The fight ing has been with small bodies as our forces would come up with them. The battle at Bristow station was an engagement between parts of the two armies. It is reported that but for a deserter going over to the enemy and giving information, the day our forces commenced moving, we should have achieved a much more substantial success. GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 20. One thousand Yankee prisoners, captured last week, are expected here to-night. The Rapidan bridge will be repaired by to-morrow morning. (From the Richmond Sentinel, Oct. 21.) The force reported to be moving on Abingdon is believed to be the same cavalry and mounted in fantry, commanded by Foster, who was so easily whipped in September at Zollicaffa by two regi ments of Cerse's brigade. They numbered then 2,000, and can hardly have increased more than a few hundred. If these are all we ave to contend as we beiiev© they are, our h salt works are with, We wish we could say as safe for the present. much for East Tennessee. That valuable section will never bebe free f Gap rom Yankee inroads until we r etake Cumrland , Richmond p apers contains the following : 11IISSIONARY RIDGE, OCT. 17. Gen. D• FL Hill has been relieved, and Gen, Breckenridge placed in command of his corps: The recent heavy rains have caused a freshet in the Tennessee river. The bridges over Chicka !flange and Chattanooga Creeks have been swept awa y. For the first time in four days w e see the sun . The bridges are being rapidly repaired. The enemy ' s pontoon bridge along the town was sub merged. Sigel's corps is reported to have been at Stevenson on the 14th. Confederate accounts from Charleston up to the 21st October, state that a brisk fire is maintained upon the Federals with no response. The Ironsides is asserted to be leaky since the torpedo attack. She steamed around Cumming's Point on the 21st. One more Monitor had joined the fleet. The French ship Tasiphon had arrived ; her commander, De Marivaux, is said to be a cousin of the Emperor. The Richmond Enquirer of the 21st states that Gen, Price with a force of 20,000 men is marching upon Little Rock, with only six thousand in front of him. He is said to be on his way to Missouri. A serious disagreement had taken place between Gene. Price and Holmes, causing considerable demoralisa tion among their troops. It was, however, finally settled to their mutual satisfaction. A despatch from Memphis, dated Oct. 21, states that Bragg is reported to have crossed the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad, and transported his sup plies to Rome and Selina President Lincoln's reply to the Missouri-Kansas g i ve n great dissatisfact i on to the delegation ha s He refuses to rem ove Gen. Schofield. Radicals. ~ The Russians" have gone on a visit to Niagara ; Municipal invitations have been given them • falls. to visit Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington. • The arr angements for the grad n ball to them i n N e w York are not yet completed. 1 The Governors of New York And N ew Jersey CO" e s, Of CaPt' a , the a ul' -rise, m rge ' t Iris , ' 713.803, Jobs r t tiO• hil' s ' aged D bert Ling' Lotell D. S• 1 ty ct - /-