The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-31 00:00:00

rill PERSONS 'SEEKING LANDED ESTATES, TOWN AND COIJc:TRY RESIDENCES, OtEEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND , ROPER PIES GENERALLY— ., To RE lIAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls liziroughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, 67 , Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's ERE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection landed and house properties now In the market, from " nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the Cottage with its few acres. „ OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Reuis'er rfords, by sending the particulars of their propertie s t o the Lu mley Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the M essrs. W here can in most cases introduce immediate custome rs, , ere the property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid -10,7*, the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon- Veniences. ,Z is IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur ser s introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, ."'d then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. tbURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of anery, made in a cause MORRIS against PITT r Ch , The c Creditors of and lucumbrancers on the real t , : t e of William Carlile, late of Bow-lane, in the City of a °- '" , warehouseman, who died in or about the month of °f lips% 1553, are by their Solicitors, on before the 231 day at ,fluary,ls6l, to come in and prov 2 their ebts andlaims chambers the Master of the Rollds, in the Rolls All , l, ! Chancery-lane, Middlesex, or in default th ereof th e y decree u e Peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said o,YEDNESDAY, the 27th day of January, 1564, a t Twelve neon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hear ^ and adiu s li, a ti ng ,. upon the claims. Dated this 23d day of December. 186.3. GEORGE lIUME, Chief Clerk. ASIMRST, 310 R RIS, and KIM; LIT, 6, Old Jewry, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPART3SNT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. Comnany is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for aft ,:antile Insurances ill the Port of London at the reduced eartfoul u!' rates ars . may be had at the Of fi ces, 28, Threadneedle reet. IMPERIAL LIFE INSUR tNCE COMPANY No. I, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. _ . Instituted 1820. DAVIDSON,IIFNRY Esq., Chairman. , vARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq,, Deputy-Chairman. ' ll 4lra/ices effected before the 31st ,f %unary, 1864, will be entitled to Three Years' Additions in the Profits to be de eltred in 1866. SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary. THE MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND • , , AGucT o3ir.A.NY, _ , , , ~,„. ~, - be . nt iiiiiiirporated under the Companierikut.4#62; . whiff (~r:liabiity of each shareholder is limited to the amount of , (~, Sharek. mt Pitai,zeo(4,ooo.-in 12,503 shares.ot £2O esalit,rot which 1,5(0 • to • • are reserved for M auritius. • I, 01 r shall) ter-be paid oit application , and' an o ther £1 on t o ''.i is otrdent. Further calls to be made as requirdd , at inter ? , , 8 of not less than three months. B ut it is not optem , .' trated to call up more than £4 per share. TRUSTEES. it K.B. ' .1 S. Villiers Surtees, (Silkmorc House, near Stafford), C 4. ate Chief Justice of hUuritius. ... - ... I. ,1 1,0 8 du Buis , on, Esq. (Messrs. Ifenokell, do Buisson, and ue ,),,,,,'‘i. es A. Guthrie, Esq. 'Messrs. Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co;) *a. ‘ • • ' ' DIRECTORS. k ,Jor-General IL P. Burn, 95, Inverness.terrace,.W. (late iValember of the Ind:au Military Finance Commission). • .George .-„, Ireland, Es Blackheath Park (Messrs. Ireland, 0 craser, and Co., Ma q U'ritius). "Me Lyall, Esq., 9, Mincing-lake' (Messrs. Lyali, Still, ~,,r.d Co.) ' --- Mo pert lierrell, Esq., In,verness-terrace, W. (Messrs. Scott deter Co., Mauritius). • '‘ Scottie `"er Itanken, Esq., 9, Idol.lane(h}te Manager of the Mauri. tins Branch of the Oriental Bank tOrporation). ' With power to add to their number. joh . .! , , MAURITLUS BOARD. 4 4 , • n Currie, Esq., Merchant and Planter. . i The Finn. Sir Gabriel Fropi#r, Member of Council..&e, C Hp • 1 - 1 Lemicre, MaypF of Port Louis, Member of ) e o • • rt, 4 uncil, &c. . 'l l tpi.n. Charles Montoceblep Member of Council,he. 1 o Ripon, Esg , Vice- eresident et the Chamber of Agri culture, 47. c. _... _ With rower to add to their number. GENEILU, MANAGER. C. J. A. Ulcoq, Esq. LtIDITOR. John Ball, Esq. (biessrs. Quitter, Ball, and Co.) EXNKERS. • In L oll € lo 7. -The Unien Bank of London. • w • • In Mau:Aim—The Oriental Bulk Corporation. . i • 11 y iteg . .. SOLICITORS. '0 .. , . 1 - j -sr VaVilson, Bristows, and Carpmael, I, Cop th a l l-buildin g s a ' BROKERS. , i . ? -) Tetsrs. Prqazenove awl Co., Th rea d n eedle-street.. 't . p. E. Seymour, Esq., ThrogrLorton-street. The I --- . , f , N - nternational Financial Society (Limited) have been illtr„iged to aittlu the organisation of this Company by the V tt it i;ng desire . for its success evinced by the Chamber of Agri it) ,„tare and .the commercial bo y in Mauritius, awl by the , eiT,Y,.pport it has met w th from leading houses connected 1 '.. the colony. " - ' 1 , ', ; 44 1 1 . he progreirs of thetislan4 as a sugar-producing colony has • itik a ' e bee;( extremely rapid.' The ploductiOnTht starer has , efo re trap doublecloNvithin. the last twelve .years.; and the ~ vt, 3 ,01 last year (viz., 186 , fi3) exceeded 150,(00 tons. ii . 4 ioti , thin the kettle period df tme there has-been en increase , 0 / / 1,1 0 ,400 in the populatiou, ponsisting, for the most part, of , ?I'll immigrants who lire becoming permanent settlers. 1 , , ailivar, tlie first sectian ofwhich wall peohably be,opened.„ , / h l t t lY uext year, are in copr a of con s tru . ction ; and cahnot fail ( i o lher to develop the resbiaces of the island. • • •:. i fh i•bevatimial , exporte, have for Ihsp Nit five y9ars exceeded, C. "teti average„ L 2,590,0,0 ; while the imports ham, - during . i` • ',Sallie period, atilt:hinted to little more than £2,,00) . ,90.0. , f- necolonial budgets have, for many years past, shown, on • Zaverage. larue surplus. eul-hcrlegai I rate‘of interest op mortgages m y Mauritius is 9 lj e r b c e e nt. ; and the Conapany in raising i England on 4 ~., whims; for investment iff the colony, will preserve,such tkl o ;, u ,a,rigintas,•together.with the C.11111:088i011 they may receive - -d t ,, t 'i l u t e i ir agency, should enable them to realise a large profit • ti t , b small amount of paid-up capital ,re,cgcl tcicoldu , g, - Ivi gnees. - • hi a view to secure the debenture holders, it will be a t ur e ls Kat the total amount raised by the Company on Deben kil shall never exceed the amount invete sdin Mortgages ; 4 , 1 4 that investments shall he made only in 1. irst Mortgages, the tor amounts not exceeding half the estimated values of • propes offered as security. 18, rrangements have already been made for placing the first pe of deentes on satisfactory terms. °r Mortgage ',tans in Mauritius, of six years and up c,,,`%B. the borrowers will be required to contribute half 'r,Y to a , 4nkiwr Fund, on the principle of "Credit bcheier," which hati . been applied e ith so much advantage to lilt lender and borrower in many parts of the Co ntinent of , 7 °Pe ' 1 4 4 addition to employing its own capital, the Company will tr r'st the money of constituents, guaranteeing interest, or T here and interest, as may be agreed upon. to land. is in Mauritius an efficient register of original titles 41 8 ' 5 ". connected with the " Land Court" of the island; and i• 0 a Transcription Office, where successive titles may be 'ra,aeq ' Th it i , e mortgage investments made by the Government say 1s bank of Mauritius during the last twenty-five years, 4ve that investments'judiciously made under the mortgage 0 1 the island are eminently secure. toil; new law which is passing through the Local Legislature -ti* of still greater n reduce the oper simplicity and s ation of lendi ngafety on mortgage to a condi . t:lle management of the Company will be vested in the r"ard of Directors in Loudon, assisted by a Board in Mau -144 P, l 'he influential support given to the Company both in. 1 4 ,Rland and Mauritius, and the great want of such an insti ttl°n, Must secure an ample field for safe and lucrative ope -ons. th e 'ue Directors of the International Financial Society feel, thi„ i l'ef yoore, urable no hesio tice tation of in recommending public. the undertaking to , n the ci at rllted copies . of the Memorandum and Articles of Asso lit:n may be inspected at the Offices of the solicitois, 14 2 . 8 5 r5. Wilson, Bristows, and Carpmael, 1, Coptliall-build t4 doti - Pplications for shares must be addressed to the Interne- Financial Society (Limited), at their Temporary Offices, b e , ,Old Broad-street, E.C., in the annexed form, which must 0 , rit with their bankers, Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., No. is , ombard.street. e cember, 1863. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SWARES. No (To be left with Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.) . 7 0 the Directors of the International Financial Society Limited (). .o e ntlemen,—lTaying paid to your bankers the sum of to being £1 per share on shares, I request you all m e shares, of £2O each, in the Mauritius - , aod Credit and Agency Company (Limited), and I hereby -,-,nzeie_to become a member of that Company, and to accep , nares or any less number that may be allotted to me. Dt e '; request that my name may be placed on the Register of atoers in respect of the shares allotted to me. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in fall .. Address in full ............... Reference Date MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND AGENCY The LIR' , CToRs 0 , CO vip a kNy (Limited). AN CIAL SOCIETY (i. 4 the INTERNATIONAL Notice, that NO APPLICATIONS .....OmCWI), hereby dive FIN AN , 8 n the above Company will be received after 12 ' o'cloek of;R i IDAY, the Ist January next. By order. WALTER A. MICHAEL, Secretary. , t', OA Broad-street, 30th Dec ,1863. INNO CURE NO PAY. —The Pre-eminent success attending* the use of KERSHAW'S VOLTAIC L EXIBLE BELT, novel in principle and action, in the Z l • l re 01 nervous and muscular atiections, admits of its sale being made dependent upon verified efficacy. A new Belt can bad on trial for a month, tree of charge, for r h euma ti s m, r,uralgia, sciatica, epilepsy, nervous debility, paralysis, Probago, tic doloureux, bronchial cough, asthma, spasms, 'Drains, indigestion, inactive liver, &c. 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We must that demon thirst for their blood all the whom we have won fame, if not among natie. must give the President to Abraham's tender na. The army of the Potomac, mnst - offer up . their glorious • leader, under whom both, have become illustrious. ..Beauregard must be hanged. Is even Lincoln base enough to imagine a brave people, such as the, Confede rates have proved themselves, would, under any stress of fortune, prove traitors to the men whom they have called to lead them in camp or council,? This infamous proclamation will but arouse us to ne w zeal and new efforts." A leading war journal of this city recommends General Grant for the next Presidency upon the supposition that he is just the man to crush the rebellion, r: tore the Union, drive the F renc h out o f Mexico, ns of obtain the indemnityfrom E ng l atd for the ( I ,,epdt iConfederate cruisers; or declare war against her, or seize the Caned as and the British. West India Islands as an offset. 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This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised scale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed d:tto Together with a r'rice List of purified bedding, and a mass of valnable information to all requiring househ3ld furniture, carpets, or bedding, References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gen tltmen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, gy, Preston, Grimsby, Hyde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborou , h, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking - , St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Britain. COB BETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, 3.E, WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. FUNERAL OF MR, TRACKERAY, AUTHORS. AMERICA. (From the limes,) MR. TnoLLores great glory is in the portraiture i of women : and his success in this walk, says the NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 5 p.m. Tires, has made him the pet of our drawing-rooms. ' Des p atches from Cumberland Ga p of the 16th The women adore him. Nobody understands the report that Gen. Longstreet captured 22 loads of gentle dames and damsels of modern life half so well qua rtermasters' stores at the fight on the 14 th, which as this modern Anthony. We do not pretend to is now stated to have occurred at Bean's Station. speak of him personally; we are only speaking of The federal Gen. Wilcox had been driven back him as a book, he is the great lady - killer o f the age , t o Tezenaa ell, where he was fortifying. He has attained this distinction chiefly b y mer it , Fi g htin g was re p orted in progress at Biair's Cross but partly—we were going to say, by demerit—we reads on the 16 th , from wh ich it would seem tha t shall say, by an appeal to the prejudices o f societ y . the Federals have been also forced to retreat towards His merit lies in his charming portraiture of the K.noxville. A body sex. He has studied all the wiles of the fem inine of Gen. Mosby's cavalry captured one en heart, and knows every fold of feeling — how in tire company of the 140th New York Regiment one fashionable life Mamma thinks of the jointure , and mile and a h a lf b e y o nd Fairfax Courthouse last how in humble life the worthy dame has thoughts night. . , of buttered toast. Emotions great and small he die - Accounts from Newborn, North Carolina, of the 12th assert that block a d e runn i ng a t Wilmington cusses with equal facility—the emotion of a lady who is moving heaven and earth to circumvent her lord, con tinues to increase. It i s es ti ma t e d that goods to and the emotion of a girl who in the midst of a ball the amount of one million dollars land at that p ort discovers that her back hair threatens to fall loose eve r y 24 hours. upon her shoulders. He has really a great know- The situation at Chattanooga is unchan g ed. ledge of womankind, and paints them lovingly and There is no later news of importance from tenderly, with all their passions and all their foibles, Charleston or Texas. Over and above this, however, he is the apostle of COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. propriety, and appeals to the prejudices of the Gold, 152. Exchange, 167. United States' Sixes drawing-room of the exponent of its favourite con- registered, 1881 , 104 1 ; Treasur y 7-30 No tes, 1063 '. ventions. Far be it from us to despise the conven- New York Central Railway, 134}; Eriee, 108 s ; tions of society and to run down the proprieties of Illinois Centrals, 119. Cotton, S2c. Brea ff ,life. -Qat fislavation‘kayLgiejr IWO& ig*lgi In ' ' ,'ng.. , --- 24:4tWitzaDregintif.i - §vgrea , man of sense will deride. 'The purity of milliners Coffee firm. requires a ceremonial law which is sometimes as Dec. 19, 11 Cm. , ... . hard to observe as anything in Leviticus. To oni. Chattanooga despatches of the 18th state that thinking, however, Mr. Trollope is more conscious 'Geri. Wheeler has rejoined Gen. Hardee at Milan, than becomes a good artist 'of the importance of where he is reorganising his cavalry for an active conventional 'usage. Ladies, we believe, take 'a winter campaign,,against the Federal lines of come ,different view. The ceremonial or conventual law munication. of society is their safeguard; and they rather like On the 16th the Confederate cavalry commander the man who, without being exactly a prig, is osten. , Ferguson, with a small force, captured the train of talious in his observance of established custom, and the let Cavalry Division, while on' the route from knows exactly how far he may advance and when M'Minnville to Sparta, in Tennessee. No late news he ought to 'withdraw. This is one of the Weak- from Knoxville had been received.'' i nesses of feminine nature. It' is pleasant for them ' The same despatches announce that General to see a great strong fellow like Mr. Anthony Trole Morgan crossed the Tennessee River at Gillespie's lope seriouslyconeerned to decide the precise moment Landing, 60 miles above Chattanooga, on the 13th. of time when Rachel Ray can allow Rowan to oall Captains William and Robert Cummings, who her by her Christian name, wjien Rowan can, with; escaped with General Morgan from tailumbus, were out a breach of the proprieties, snatch a kiss from ' captured, together with 14 of their escort, during the lips of Rachel, or when it would be correct for the the ride from that town. pair to walk' out alone together. The pages and General Howard's cavalry is in pursuit of General pages whibh Mr. Trollope devotes to the exposition Morgan. e , s of what is proper in lovemaking seem to suggest a Considerable anxiety is evinced by, theepublic to period when ceremony was more conscious than it learn the true situation of affairs e at Knoxville. i is' now ; and as we began this potice of him by The statement in ' th e d es p atch from Cumberland comparing him to Defoe among the writers of the Gep on the nth, to the effect thiit 'the Union last century we might continue, it by comparing citizens wereledving Knoxville, leadeltei -the belief him to 'the great ladies' man of that centur y— that General Longstreet is about to' again besiege Richardson. He was the great painter of women, the town. . the great master of the ceremonies in fiction of the The World remarks : • last age, and Mr. Trollope may be proud to be men- "The news from Knoxville has not a very cheer tioned in the same sentence with such a man. pm ful look. One of two things, we fear, has happened J , may also, when he is inclined again to w r ite on the —either our forces have been two widely scattered, , ' tieties prop of love, remember 7,44 advantage a with a view to cut off Longstreet, upon the theory , remark of Walter Scott's, made in connexion with' that he was retreating in disorder; dr else he has 'Richardson: Richardson had little acquaintance 'been lately reinforced from General Lee's army. ,with the" usages of high life, anal Lady Ma r y' This last is practicable. It would, be an awkward ..WOrtley ' Montague i mocks at hini for making' circumstance if, after all, Knoxville and East Ten- peeple kiss who ought 'not to kiss; and who salute nessee should be repossessed by the Confederates." at wrong times And' in wrong plains. • Where. The guerilla 'attacks upon ' Mis'sissippi river 'upon. Sir Walter observes,---,,1t was, natural that steamers contlitue, and the Brazil' was fired into a' parson of Lady Mary Wortley Montegue's near Roomy on the 11th, and three women and ote taste; and rank should be shocked at the want of man were killed, and several others wounded. The deCoaum ) which she complains of, ,but at this die- 'fecumseh was burnt on the 16th, but it is not tenet. of 'time ewe are not sufficiently aconainted stated at what paint. . . ' with the fashions 'of George IL's 'reign to share The Federal steamer Dacotah arrived; at Sambre her displeasure. -We know in general that• salu- immediately after the capture of the Chesapeake, tation continued . for a long period t o be p e r - and her co mmander ordered both captor 'and prize witted by fashion, and with this general knew. into Halifax. ledge it is of little consequence to us at what The Trzbune s Waahington correspondent writes -reticular year of God men' of' quality were re- that the capture hating been made in British strained - flan - kraain . their cousins. On the same waters, the veteeCt will be euffendered to - the pro- ' principle many of Mr. Trollope's discussions cn vincial authorities. A demand, under the Ashburton propriety will one of these days be of little con- Tre a ty, for the return of the vessel end prisoners sequence. has, however, been made upon Lard Lyons by Mr. Seward. The official reports of the commanders of the Monitors made to Admiral Dupont immediately after the failure of the attack upon Fort Sumter, in April last, were submitted to Congress by Secretary'. Welles with his annexed report, and show that these vessels were incapable of resisting the concen trated fire of heavy rifled ordnance. Captain Dray ton, of the Passive, says : " I was struck in quick succession in the lower part of the turret by two heavy shots, which bulged in its plates and beams, and forcing together the rails on which the carriage of the 11-inch gun worked, rendered it wholly useless for the remainder of the action ; a little after a very heavy rifle-shot struck the upper edge of the turret, broke all of its eleven plates, and then glancing upwards struck the pilothouse with such force as to send it over, open the plates, and squeeze out the top, exposing the inside of the pilothouse, and rendering it ex tremely likely that the next shot would take off the top entirely." Captain Rodgers, of the Weehawken, reports : " Two or three heavy shots struck the side armour near the same place. They so broke the iron that it only remained in splintered fragments, much of which could be picked off by hand, and the wood was exposed. The deck was pierced so as to make a hole, through which water ran into the vessel ; 36 bolts were broken in the turret, and a great many in the pilothouse. To the Patapsco no damage was done which disabled her, although injuries which she received, if multiplied, would do so. Forty bolts in the funnel were broken. After the third shot from the 15-inch gun of the Nantuck a port stopper became jammed,'eeveral shots striking very near the port and driving in the plating. It was not used again. A number of the time plates were started __ so much that another shot in their vicinity would have knocked them off. The deck plat es were out in 12 places; one shot cut through the starting and about two inches into the beam,star W for some gthe plates, several bolts, and the plankine' feet below. The plates on the fa de armour of the Nahant were badly broken in seve ral places, and one, where etruok by two shots i n close proximity, partly stripped from thew ood 9a nd the wood backin g broken in, with edging o f back plates started up and twice back in places. The deck was struck t near the propeller wheel, damagingly,one oh o quite r ing the plate pass shattering and tee late in it age, and s t ar ti n g 25 beli e, another starting plates et and 20 bolts in the turret. There were marks u of nine shots ; 56 of the bolts were broken perceptibly, the heads fa th e i ns ide the turret, and flying obolts starting the i r length outside, som e a lmost completely, and being found at a considerable dis tance from the turret, on the deck. One shot struck the upper part of the turret • , breaking through every plate. The pilot-house Was much damaged and wrecked, and four more such shots as it receive( would have demolished it. One shot at the base broke every plate through, and evidently nearly penetrated it." The Richmond Inquirer, in publishing Mr. Lin coln's Procl • amation of amnesty, rejects its projects in the owi f 0 ll -ng language : " He is going to forgive us something it seems, on certain terms. Forgive us what ? Forgive us because he has invaded our States with armed mul titudes to compass our destruction %Forgive us be cause he has plundered our seas, ravag ed our coasts,Forgive us burnt our towns, desolated our homes • 2 for the many thousands of brothers and sons whom e he has slain upon our soil while repeWe his inva sion, and mu tilated ones who for the many dear the war ir will remain the legacy of t he war w hen : u s for all these his crimes, over ? He may forgive - hearts to feel and hands to forgive but so long as we hav e - . him. But he goes strike we shall never • further, he makes his forgiveness dependent upon terms. 'We have to swear that the proclamation of emancipation which we received with mocking last year, and which has since betu a general derision, IjINAHAN'S " BR W ANDY WHISKY BRANDY COGNAC, This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd,, at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at Yesterday at noon Mr. Thaokeray was buried in the cemetery of Kensal-green. The day was so fine that, notwithstanding the distance from town, a vast concourse of his friends were enabled to sur round his grave, and to pay him the last honour. Many hundreds must have been present of almost every rank and class. Mr. Thackeray had the gift of associating with a wonderful variety of persons; to be in his company was in the case of most per sons to be entirely at ease with him ; and it was impossible not to pass from easy intercourse to affection and regard. Among the great throng of mourners we noticed nearly all the foremost men of letters and artists of the day, some of them having travelled far to be present on the sad occasion. It may be enough to state this in general terms, and we forbear to mention taunts, :because in so large and promiscuous a crowd in *fah there were no signs of arrangement or precettence it is difficult not to overlook some eminent inn who might be entitled to mention. Only (} very few of Mr. Thackeray's most intimate Maids were expressly invited to the funeral, The htidreds on hundreds who attended came of their dwn accord to bear witness to the worth of a dear friend and a much admired man ; and of &Obese we venture ;, to refer to but one name—t of Mr. Charles Dickens. We do so becaus e 0 is the author W11C14444:1:‘01;2"1*e4404.41"MtiPn -with, Mr. Thackeray, and because he 'kris sometiniesbeed i regarded as a rival. In point of fact , the r e can b b no rivalry between those two great novelists; and any special comparison between thein must &timed on superficial grounds. No one had a greatik;ad-t miration for Mr. Dickens than Mr, Thaokertiy himself, or more unaffectedly rejoiced in hicex ceeding popularity. On the other hand, to no. one could ell thought of rivalry with Mr. ThaCkeray be more distasteful than to Mr. Dickens, who afwayi recognized Thackeray's genius, and yesterday Oame a long journey to testify lo the love and the hohaur villich he felt for his greittliterary brother. ' '. - For ione so distinguishedit has been suggested that Westminster Abbey is the only fit resting : plece.c It ; must be remembered, howeyer, that lklr• Thackeray desired to. be interred in the simplest manner at Kensta-green. Ile has be r en laid in a brick-htiilt grave beside one of hiechildren, and his family affections were so strong that we believe it Would have been a positive pain'to him, if, when he was alive,; he could have looked forward to being sepa rated from his children in, the tomb, , ; Those who were nearest to him, and whom he luyed best of, all in the world, were 89, mush in his mind that even in the presence of 'casual acquaintances whom he saw'.only at one or otlier of hilt ; clubs he ()Odd not choose but let out somewhat' Of the strong feel.- ing which stirred within:l;in heart for those4tcho were as the light of his eyes. at was one of the simplest and most winning traits: of his character; and by those who could net help vowing wha,t he felt in this way no more yuching sight could , he, witnessed than that of his two )roung dadghters,' veiled in crape, advancing' fronv the crowd tint pressed about the grave, taking 'last sad' look at the coffin, and then turning suddOnly away.. .Theke are reasons why Mr. Thackeray should be buried in: his own ground it Keneal-green Mr. Thackeray, had 'tt rarer distinction than , that.of being a , great ,writer ; he was a classicak one. ..tfe is the greatest master of English prode iilaiCh titer:Century has tiro- ... chiced. There may have - been med'of greatergerrtits' than he; there may been more fortible , writers than he; but no one has approached him'in the comniand of polished idiomatic English in all its varieties, in flexibility and richness, and finish of style., 4t . first, this was not fully understood, Out now it is seen . more and,more clearly every year; and Thackerayj English,' notwithstanding the liberties • sibich - re 4 sometimes took with it, is coming to be regarded as the model English. We may say of him, as John son said of another, the most classical writer of the last century, " Whoever wishes to attain an Erg lish style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Thackeray." Such ti man, who is something more, something rarer than a great writer, surely deserves a niche in Westminster Abbey. But, in the darkness which for us and all who knew him overshadows this festive season, it is not of the great author and the brilliant wit that we think most ; it is of the warm-hearted, simple minded gentleman, honest in all his ways, trans parent in all his words, full of charity in his utmost satire, and ready to give even when he had little 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinalian's LL Whisky." THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond-street. They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy purchasers. "In medic) tutisimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. The British brig Ada, from Minaiitlan,fcsico November 19, reports that town closel>4 besieged by the Froncb. All supplies were cut off, and th e citizens were suffering from want of provisions. 'rho rumoured recapture of Puebla by therMesicans is alleged to have been confirmed by late arrivals at New Orleans of vessels from Vera Cruz. There was no resistance. The number of French troops gar. risoning the town being small, they retired before the Mexicans, who occupied the place with 5,000 men. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the WELLINGTON having* been CLOSED for repairs, &c., will be RE-OPENED THIS DAY, (THURSDAY), the 31st December, at 5 o'clock p.m. Liy order, JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington, St. James's-street. Entrance, '6O, Piccadilly, W. December 30,1863. DR. CUMMING'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 1 vol., crown Svo., 7s. 6d., DESTINY OF NATIONS, AS INDICATED IN PROPHECY. By the Rev. JOHN CUMMING, D.D. "Among the subjects expounded by Dr. Cumming in the present interesting vo'ume are—The Little Horn; or, the Papacy—the Waning Crescent, Turkey—the Lost Ten tribes, and the future of the Jews and Judea ; Africa, France, Russia, America, Great Britain, &c."—Observer. 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IFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent A heavy gales some of the boats of the Royal National .Lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17; schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 ; pilot boat, of St. Ives, 7 ; schooner Arlon, of Workington, 4 ; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1; fishing boat, of Filey, 2 ' • Tenby fishing boat, 3 and arque Providence, of Dantzic,7. Total lives saved, 55. The l b ifeboats also assisted in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian .brig Camoglinp, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, the schooner Guilia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress on fourteen oceasions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward paid for all these services was £216. the Committee of the Institutionearnesti y AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to tenable them to meet the con tinuedi heavy demands on the Society's 125 lifeboat estab lishments. Contributions are received by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq.+, at the-Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 30. Our new Lord Mayor is resolved to bring out the corporation on-New Year's-day with a splendour surpassing anything of the kind known in modern Aimee, It is intended to revive the. warlike and picturesque usages of the middle ages. All the city functionaries wilkgure in the procession in appro priate costumes--efrem the Recorder and the Presi dent of the Court of Conscience to the city turn cocks. There will be trumpeters in quaint dresses, knights in -brass armour, javelin men, mace-bearers, and gallow-glasses in suits of mail, armed with battle-axes, mounted police, hussars, &c. Of late years the corporation seemed to be getting rather ashamed of the antiquated mummeries of the Lord Mayor's allow ; but the splendours of which it was shorn will now reappear, brighter than ever after the temporary obscuration. It would do Mr._ Ruskin's heart good to witness the-renaissance-of . . mediteval art in connection with civic displays rto see the lumber of antiquity, the mouldering relics of departed ages, brought out into the sunlight, freshly painted and decorated, as if to shame the bald utilitarianism of modern civilisation. Happily the Saxon origin of the Irish corporations does not detract from their antique charms to the Celtic imagination. On the contrary, the intention is to make the civic procession of Dublin resemble, as nearly as possible, the same pageant in London, with the addition of our tall gallow-glasses and some other Hibernian variations. In fact, accord ing to the programme that has just been issued by the secretary of the Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Michael Angelo Hayes, there has been no procession to equal this in poetic conception, richness of artistic colouring, and theatrical effects, since the Highland clans were marshalled in Edinburgh by Sir Walter Scott to meet George IV. It is supposed that this revival movement will greatly increase the circulz tion among us of Mr. Carlisle's " Stator Resartus." The delay of the Galway mail steamer Columbia is accounted for by the following facts : On her out ward voyage she suffered severely from the gales which at that time visited the Irish coast and Channel. Her boats are said to have been carried away, her decks swept,and her paddleboxes stripped. These damages had to be repaired in New York, where she was a day late in starting, and was en gaged in taking in coal when the passengers were all going on board. She was a day late at St. John's, and was delayed 17 hours there in coaling again. She is said to be a slow vessel from being too deep in the water, which is caused by the weight of iron put on to increase her strength. The Commissioners under the late Fishery Act are at present holding a court in Limerick, and are engaged in defining the mouths and the boundaries of the estuaries of the river Shannon audits tribu taries, the Maigne, Fergus, and Deel. The Shannon Fishery Company, the Shannon Fishery Protection Association, the Lower Shannon Protection Assa eiation, the Harbour Board of Limerick, the Lime rick Snap-net Fishermen, as well as Lord Annaly, the Knight of Glynn, and other fishery proprietors were represented by counsel. Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, an eminent and wealthy Manchester merchant, having recently offered to erect a handsome town-hall in Drogheda, his native place, a meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Tholsel last Monday to hear the terms of the offer and make all necessary arrangements. A resolution conveying the thanks of the inhabi tants to Mr. Whitworth for his munificent offer, and gratefully accepting it, was passed by acclamation; and a committee of 24 (12 ,Protestants and 12 Catholics) was appointed to select a site for the building and superintend the work. Another public-spirited gentleman, Mr. Smith, offered to give an extensive piece of ground (free of all charge) for the site, which was provisionally ac cepted. The Opening of the Charing-Cross Railway, OFFICIAL INSPECTION BY CAPT. TYLER, R.E Yesterday the official inspection of this important metropolitan railway was made by Captain Tyler, R.E., the Government inspector, previous to the almost immediate opening of the line for passenger traffic. The inspection, which was of a most rigid character, commenced at the western extremity, or Charing-cross end of the railway, a number of gen tlemen connected with the Charing-cross and South Eastern Railways being present, among whom were Mr. Eborall, the general manager, Mr. Knight, the traffic superintendent, Messrs. Stanton and Barry, for Mr.. Hawkshaw, Mr. Wythes, the contractor, the Duke of Sutherland, Major Malcolm, R.E., in spector of Indian railways, Mr. Walker, the tele graph superintendent, Mr. Cockburn, the superin tendent of the Charing-cross station, &c. About 12 o'clock the train left the Charing-cross end of the line and proceeded gently along the down rail to the junction at the Waterloo-road, when a minute scrutiny of the signals (Saxby's patent) and the points was made by the inspector. After some time had been spent at this point the train proceeded on its way to London-bridge, pass ing the new Blackfriars station, which is provided with two side and one central platform. The whole of the signals, points, stations, and permanent way were carefully examined by Captain Tyler, who we believe expressed his satisfaction at many of the arrangements, and on the arrival of the train at London-bridge the party alighted, and the inspector proceeded to thejunction with the main line, which was closely inspected, together with the working of the points. The new line at London-bridge runs into the Greenwich and North and Mid-Kent ter minus, from which platform the trains for Charing cross and the intermediate stations of Waterloo and Blackfriars will be started. It was nearly 5 o'clock before the examation at this end of the line was completed, and the train then made a return trip along the up.line of rails, pausing for a few moments at Blackfriars and Waterloo, over the Thames-bridge, to Charing-cross, and running up alongside the platform, which was lighted for the occasion with the globular lamps which have been supplied to all the stations. Here the inspection, which lasted nearly six hours, ter. minated. Before leaving the officials who had accompanied him, Captain Tyler expressed his desire to go over the line once more, in order to see that some im provements suggested by him are carried out. The first train which will be run will be between the Charing-cross terminus and the Greenwich and North and Mid-Kent terminus at London-bridge, thus opening a communication between the country intersected by those lines and the West-end of Lon don. • The length of the new line is about two mile, and the distance between London -bridge and Charing-cross will be accomplished by the trains in about five minutes, though it can be done in three minutes. The distance between Charing cross and the Waterloo station is about half a mile, Waterloo and Blackfriars a quarter, and Bl ac kfriars and London-bridge one mile. to spare. Among the mourners were Mr. Dickens, Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, Mr. Mark Lemon (the editor of the famous periodical in which were laid the foundations of Mr. Thackeray's fame), Mr. John Leech (a fellow pupil and friend), Mr.Tenniol, Mr. Horace Mayhew—in short, the whole staff of the contributors to Puncl ; Mr. Robert Browning (the poet), Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. John Hollingshead, Mr. G. H. Lewes, Mr. Dallas, Dr. W. Russell, Sir James Carmichael, Mr. H. Cole, C,8., Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. O'Neile, R.A., Mr. Creswick, R.A., Mr. George Cruikshank, Archdeacon Hale, Mr. E. Pigott, M. Louis Blanc, Mr. Herman Merivale, Rev. W. Brookfield, Baron Marochetti, A.R.A., Rev. Wm, Mitchell, Mr. Rus sell Sturgis, Mr. George Smith, Mr. Charles Collins, Mr. Palgrave Simpson, Mr. Henry Thompson, Mr. Seymour Haden, Mr. F. Fladgate, Mr. Reeves Truer, Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. F. Elliot, Mr. W. Richmond, A.R.A., Mr. John Millais, A.R.A., Mr. Richard Doyle, Mr. Valentine Princep, Sir Wm. Alexander, Mr. Richard Redgrave, &c. The coffin, which was exceedingly plain, bore upon it the following inscription : " WILLIAM MAKEPEACE DIACRERAY, Esq., DIED 24TH DECEMBER, • 1863, AGED 52 YEARS. THE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho-square, founded in 1842, and designed exclusively for the treatment of those peculiar ailments from which neither age, rank, nor character exempt the female sex, was re opened on Wednesday, when a number of addresses were given iu the ward by several noblemen and gentlemen. From the statement issued, it appears that, as the building required extensive repairs, and the committee were desirous of providing further accommodation for in-patients, it was determined to add another storey; but the walls being un equal to sustain the additional weight had to be taken down and rebuilt. Prior to the alterations only 25 in-patients could be received at once, with a yearly average of 135; now 50 patients can be accommodated. The average attendance of out-patients annually is 14,000. The corn-• mittee are earnestly appealing for funds to enable them to discharge their liabilities, and provide for the occupation of ' all the new wards. DUTIES ON PLAYING CARDS In 1788, and again in 1801, the duty on card s was increased on six p enn y packs, till it reached the su m of half-a-crown a pack. The stampedwas powerfully stimulated btryaffithceihnigcahrddsuntyo.t dulyvarious evasive devices were invented, and more than one speculator amassed a large fortune by selling, under various pretences, cards on which no duty had been paid. Under the then arrangements, waste aces of spades could not be procured to any great extent, for the damaged aces were returned to the Stamp-office,and allowed for in the cardmakers' accounts. Packs, therefore, were made up for sale with a blank card in place of the ace of l i spades. Cut-corner cards, as they were called, i.e. , packs of cards of which one corner was cut off, and minus the ace of Spades, were sold in immense quantities. Cards with a corner cut off were considered by Parliament sufficiently mutilated to render them unfit to be used in play. The pub lic, however, put up with the inconvenience of using cut corner cards rather than pay the high tax. In fact, the law was found powerless to prevent evasions; every fresh enact ment produced some fresh dodge for driving through it. It was therefore decided to diminish the duty, and to legalise, under certain restrictions, the sale of second-hand cards. In the year 1828 the half-a-crown duty was reduced to one The shilling duty was tc be denoted on the ace of spades. This was the duty one shilling ace, called " Old Frizzle," on account of the elaborate flourishes which adorned it, with which all caul players were familiar up to last year. --Once a Week, PRIZE DEsIGNS.—.." As affording the most striking con trast, Mr. Benson shows with these a fresh exhibition of modern watches, with cases made from prize designs at the South Kensington Museum, some of which are fine specime ns of engraving."—Times, Sept. 15, 1802. Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every description of watch, adapted to all cli mates. Benson's illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by post for two stamps) co ntains a short histo r y o f watchmak ing, with prices, f r om 3to 200 guineas each. I t serves as a guide in the purchase of a watch, and enables those who live in any part of the world to select a Watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize medal and honourable mention, classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 1749. Watch and clock maker by special warrant of appointment to R.R,E, the Prince of Viream EWSPA._ 91, 1111114 .1 1 4 •.; • 1 „. alit • At et „ 11 7 14101& • , • • Oe 61.1br , . Z • I • • , .41 derr a. :24;1 A s • - I .111111% 7 4 414 A 111-1;:a1 :": 1)9 I , • . whorr m . „„, c, • r I 1 -1 4/ . y • • 0 ,, 140- P ' 1 • 4. , • PER Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WOMAN'S RANSOM. resituirkalllyalevetr."-A-Eitts.t3. • • • . •.• •* " NN'ornim's Banigoth ' wlil faseifasfaethe attention of the reader to.the very end.','—John Bull.: Hurst and ilaekett, 13, Great 31q113.orotigl-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., 218., 11/11VMOIRR . OF JANE CAMERON, 111 'FEMALE CONVICT. By a PRISON MATRON. " A faithful chronicle of a woman's tall and rescue. It is a beet that'ought to be widely read."—Examiner. Hurst and Bladkett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TAUBLIN , UNIVER No. 31 ' 3... FOR JANI SITY MAGAZINE.- UARY. Price 2s. 6d. 1. 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CHARGES, OPENING ADDRESS, and REPLY on the part of. the Prosecution; with PLANS of the 'IIVO IMINUALOWS in wnich Sergeant BL Lilley was confined. Price One Shilling. Rogerion and Tuxford, 24R, Strand, London. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER, MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, 80 v ,..0'1C OF BEAUT Y. '-' By Madame RACHEL. • To be had,, at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. 'pOLYTECHNIC.—Patron, H.R.H. the Prince of Wa!es.—The Ghost Effects and Spectral Illusions, being Professor,Pepper's ,daptation of the original and most startling' Illusion of :Henry Dircks, Esq., C.E.—The Illus trated Fairy Tales—The" shadow Pantomime—The Christ ;Trigs Tree—The Improved Chinese Fireworks. ihe Enter tainments and Lectures provided th s year are on the most liberal scale. . _ T THE OXFORD, - OXFORD STREET, W. IRIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, by Sir D. Bishop; also, korai. A FOSZ A DE . L DESIJNO—Verdi ; b the tol lowintslalented- artistes .—Miitses Tomilty, "Fitz- Henry, IN .lmsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Solos on the 'Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS. the cele brated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Ilandall,W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, George Hutchen son, and the marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and Foster. THIS EVENING, will be produced, supported by the entire comany, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. "T " GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, throulh the medium of ?rotessor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN— TERBURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, tc present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real lite, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best wr'ters. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration; and these life pictures will be rapidly replace' by others. The pages of Shakspere and the elver Dramatists, of Scott. Ihod, Ineoldsby, Dickens, &c., in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. 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 George Hutcherson. ROYAL ALHAM BRA.-FRANCONPS CIRQUE IMPERIAL at Two, and half-past Seven o'clock. ROYAL ALHAMBRA. The Great Bare back Rider, JULES _PEREZ, EVERY EVENING. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay market. NOTICE.—M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS Will be continued nightly at the above elegant rooms. Admission ls. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Solo Performers—Messrs. Mosea, Tyler, King , M'Kenney , Snelling, Ste rnal] , I'rogratski, Baker, &c. 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 my be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Wife; Julia I'astrana 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, Ole bhilling (tor Gentlemen only). MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. execute COIIIIIISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances, London and Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber well-Paric li.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. „Address—Borr and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. V THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Tneir w orld-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. ,nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. pB,I Z E ME D A L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER Jr CO., Wax Chandlers, ac., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A. distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, recom mend them to the clergy tor the use of the altar." Finest quality quality ualitytvith .. .. . . Platted Wicks, patented.. • .. . 021. per rr lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. Is. sd. per lb. Second c in "I • • ** • • ls. 3d. per lb. Third qua 'A, l 7 tY • • • " Is. Id. per lb. Carriage • • •• •• Patel London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. 8, South Molto—nNClS TUCKER AND CO. , street, Cr c.-square Manufactory— .siingroi; ° (E sv e L t li ablished 1730).. The largest Establishment for the use of the Altar. 'of Wax ' Candleslsts'_ in England for the Manufacture TEETH. —AI r. ESK ELL'S the construction of ARTIFICIALINVENTION in following advantages :—A set or t e TEETH has the perfectly excellent work manship and mechanism, can be man e a l in a few Iltted with the without toe most perfect accuracy and success, pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the without fi le a purposes wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so of mastication and articulation. They are gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids o r residents in the countr y c just these teeth to m any changes ef the month without ad_ aid of a dentist. They arc not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last• a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. liskeirs Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens andconsultations free.-B,Grosvenor street, Boud-street, W ; and at 39, Ben.liett'S-hill, Dir. min,gbatu. The Condemned Convict, Samuel Wright. The execution of Wright has, we learn, been postponed to Tuesday, 12th pros. Strenuous efforts to avert the capital sentence are being made by working men and others in the Lambeth district. The all but universal feeling on the subject appears to be that the very summary course of procedure in this case was incompatible with a due regard for that fairness which has hitherto invariably distin guished British justice in dealing with offences in volving the life of the accused. There is some reason to believe that Wright intended to apply for the postponement of his trial; but it is said that he was overcome and lost his presence of mind at the last moment. This is not to be wondered at when the extraordinary haste with which he was called upon to plead, after being committed by the coroner and magistrate, are taken into consideration. A very general opinion appears to prevail that Wright's sentence will be commuted, arising pro bably from the public feeling being favourable to that course. Wright has himself memorialised Sir George Grey, setting forth his account of the sad affair which has placed him in his present awful position.—Morning ,Paper. OBITUARY FOR 1863. the annual nictepnly --..,------w-- . from the .41 a on ve aouwi tagb ::: 1 ..:!. ihg. O . " Jar ' ,g I F44-" 4 ef ,! c l° ''. t • II 77ifichtelttatkl'' Walla** 454P-140 4 0. 1 1T 6 tb . . , e4iiisii i TA .. - ' !e t ; the tigpper -ten thetrand" fi rst, we find that their ran against) 16 deaths in the have been thinned'during' lB33 to an extent far it lexcess f. l lC Llovwo i lli a i stc g d: d r; t s il o el inl ai,tko t :2 : ia :p l e L g ,: i ' ~ . a illryalts departed, we have ?to to chrO ared Hatherta a shlgie death,that of Frederick Charles tbrietiata, ' gig, ,F., , , ...,- , • ~, i, Dien_ 0 ~ 4,_ ‘ q YePPlarkf whose name must catorL4 disappear , Amona .thePaembeiGstolfl:%;e:"iele'ra peerage of 4: 1 , ' :tlnite9d --- , - aye been no less than 30 deaths to, be.set i , the -Archbis: ltt ho 6 p r ril d, , n T e s ,p o ay f t: Lard d rd D Stat oirn dy e sti s Graften,lLoid Pdo rSaumarez: l4 41 1; 1; ei p r e vio u sill s i, d v a w n ii syc :e oe ,: a c t i i h ,v r t e l l: T l T ie a o, m r:l;o il t i o i ! a ci t at...r . : t n, s e s a n a :: 1 I te Le f ol o rg l a :: . Lauclerdale,,Lord Macdonald t . the Duke of ' Hamilton,Lord de Froine, 'the Earl of MOrningteu, ti l i,' INi ar shi s . loo . marib - y,. Lord Sudeley,' E aSii Btli - (3 1,,,,,,;^ . ' - ',- Ni , 7 4 .r 7 Towniliencl, the Marquis of lluntly, T.,„,t,d. th th el 4 l) E u ar e l . of P 1: -.- n;h rst a lf i rd ls. Sinclair, 'Lord Chesham, Viscount Midletokl Y , Eir,l u lPo ' lett; the Earl pf. Elgin, the Earl of Charlemont. • .Three o u t ' of the above, titles,, namely, the baroniei di 7. . —yndhUret,'di l v and Downes, have become cannot;- aficcl tho earldomY x); Mornitigten "has become merged in the superior 'honours of the paid. of Wellington. The baronets'deceased during the year number thirty five; thelollowing are their names:-Sit' M. Bruce, Sir li. Blakiston, . Sir .0; j. - Honyraan, , Sir J. B. Robineon, Sir 11. Lyshington, Sir J. Outran, - Sir-B, .Hughes ' --Sir G, C. Lewis, !Sir'. X.i.Louis, Sir 'IL' Bateson Sir WZ IL WwixAllr .) Sir J . V. Pollen, Sir A. Nifdten, Sir":o'.' E!, 'Flerdl4; si t s i ,A. Campbell;` Sir N. 'Atmstroiig, ; Sir Liaic Giant, Sir 3; •' IL. Dasitwood, Sir J. Bonham,, Sir W. m. Ster4r, . Sir' , , , B. A. Anstruther, Sir T. Sykes, Sir H. , Nugent, Sir J. (1.: , ,t • Sitielair,'Sir F. 'E. Scott,' Sir' ,G; SipwCh l ;' . Sir'F.'W . . • ' Slade,Sir ll;Martin, Sir J. B. Warren, Sit 8,. P. Glyn,,, the Etik: - Sii: G. Shiffaer; Sir St: Vincent Gotton;gSir l), CamenoN Sir A. Nicolson, and Sir ,g. 'lL,.q:!bpit,', TEC': '. lAA four (mentioned titles have become extinctt ~. . ..-. •,, !-In. the lirmse of Commons the followingg u lkaths have oc., ~ currecl:."---The Hon. William T. Bernard' (BanclOn), Otti3tain, ....: .• Gladstone (Devizes), Sir G. C. Le*is,Baft.'(Radnor, &e:); • Mr. Western Wood (London), Captain Gordon (BeTitick), '. - Mr.Francia.M.Calcutt (county.Clare),Captain:Ji S. Willem Johnslpn (Montgomery Burps),.Mr: Beriahßotfield (Lirlt. ' - low), ihe Right Iron . Edward 'Ellie,e (COventrl• 111r . ..tr." 0' ! 'W. ilbpe („Windsor),' N.r. J, 11. lingston (Oxfoid), Mr.. Willi4niTubitt (Andover), and blr; George PattEt . (Barn= staple)... _ , , . • Fronihe .various orderSthat compose the knightage , tie. • k following- nmes will have to ba struck euh:—Sir Chides Sip William BeHairs, .Sir .Henry William truce,; • K.C.8.,,,- : Sir Jamel L. Caldwell, G.C.8., Sir John Camp..:' bell, thO=Right Hon. Sir Crcsawell Cromwell, thdHan. Str • George Elliot, K.C.8., Sir Ge'orie Sir Robert Hagan, Sl'. Hubh Halkott, Haaliurri di .C. 11., Sir Henry Hope, K.C.13., Bfr'fofthua - Jefth, 1C—C.13., Sir:4 oh= 5p4u:36.7 , -Logia, brr Tkorli:26ilif f er' Napier, K,C.8., Sir James 11. Plumridge, K.C.8., Sir William G. Power, K.C.8., Sir Henry Roper, Sir William Henry Sewell, K.C.8,, Sir William Stevenson, K.C.8., Sir Warwick H. Tonlcin, Sir William Wightman. Other members of the aristocracy who died during the year were as follows :--Viscountess Boyle, the Hon, and Rev. Thos. R. Koppel, the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Dowager CountcEs Ashburnhant, the lion. Mrs. W. H. Yelverton G. A. C. Dashwood, Esq., the llon. Miss Stapleton, Lady Kathleen Tighe, Dowager Lady Bolton, the Hon. and Rev. Adolphus F, Irby, the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean Pakenham, the Hon. Robert Curzon, the Hon. Mrs. Ca• vendish (mother of the Duke of Devonshire), Dowager Viscountess Andover, the Hon. Herbert A. Moreton, Miss Louisa M. Tollemache, the Hon. Charles Bruce, the Elizabetht D. the Tien. B ra ba zo L n Lady d Borough,) • i r I ‘. I aiDu‘.do Dowager a. g D e Dowager wa Robertson,g e Ladyr Lady Ladyi iln ai nme , n EdwardeHeadley,on Hon. Samuel Crichton, the Hon. Samuel Talbot, the Hon. Mrs. Plantagenet Cary, Dowager Lady Foley, the Hon. Lady Rushout, Viscountess Gough, Lady Olivia Sparrow. Lady Westbury, Vera Fitz Gerald, Esq., Msjor the Hon. H. Powys•Keek, Lady Frances Wade, the Hon. Mrs. Calliphronas, Mrs. James Lady Margaret Jane Stuart, the lion. Lionel F. Fitzclarence, Isloopnh.i Sophia Hoare, Stratford, Lady Am t the i a Icon. e . i‘ i c aor p sh ta a i m n ,lii;lrL.idcdheallr,leLs a l d li y . the Dowager Lady Banbury, the Hon. i.I NelsonL,Faldohyxe Dowager Lady Poltimore, the Bon. George Ponsonby, Beauclerk, Lady Seaton, 1,4d7 Catherine Wigra m, Lady Elizabeth Dawson, tho Dowager Lady Milner, th e the ru mtrta:3A. nsielini I B lli . am M t s e l lo p t t . - ArchbishopDA i Scott-Douglas, gla s, 0 f Beckett, Lady Charles Sinclair, Robt. 11 Esq., Lady Camilla Sinclair, Mr. Joseph Weld, of L7Lertdh, Mr. John Labou- P u t George i a s i e n , t : i Fil u Hon, j d o yer , 'qrs. Musgravioiirl Fane, Esq,, the Dowager Lady cudbriht, the Dowa lam , Mr. . W I D ch o e w re a , ge t r he L H ad o y n. Stanleyra of BAeldeerlwe,ym, C Beever, and Capt. Edward Wilmot. 1 Captain Francis Price, Mrs. F. Iv. Ord, Mrs. E. M. B re _ ccwoancht Catherine seeteirrd:enc j iseie rv i s , Mi B s Carol wnlow, Mrs. Childers, the Dowager Lady Broughton • bliss the Mr. W. Gamer, iss g m er r. C o o e un org te e ss F o o f rbo V sa e , two members of the epigeopal body have died during the year, viz., the Bishops of Gibraltar and Quebec. Amongst Amongst the other n Dublin (already mentioned). carried off, first - and foremost name of William MakepeaceTh stands the n acker Besides him aY > whose recent loss we are all mourning. we have to chronicle the deaths of the Ven. Archdeacon 'II notable personages whom death has —Miley, Mr. Justice Wightman, Professor -) R.A m R A Mr. Jas.Wra. Gilbart, . t , ~ r. Augustus Egg, • " ''R.S. (founder of the joint-stock banking system), Dlr. James I). Harding ( a rtist in water colours), the Rev. F' Wm. llope (founder of the Zoological Professorship at "'°td ), the Rev. Alexander M,Caul, Mr. Wm. MulreadY. p ZA , I Miss Julia Pardo°, Mr. Apsley Pellatt, the'Rev. Dr. - "Miles (of Liverpool), the Rev. Andrew Reed, the Rev. Dr. Russell (formerly Head Master of Charterhouse), Mrs. Thomson (author of the " Memoirs of the Duchess of Marlborough"), Mr. William Tooke, F.R.S., the Rev. Richard A. Willmott, the Rev. Fredrick William Faber, the:Rev. Josiah Forahall, Mr. J. 11. Green, Mrs. Frances Trollops (the novelist), Mr. William B. Turnbull, Mr. Jas. T. Willmore (engrave r ) , and the Rev. Henry Drury. In the list of distinguished foreigners who have died during the year are the names of Mona. Billault the F r ench Minister), General P e p e (of Neaptan fame), the French General Bedeau, the Rev. Dr. L. Beecher (father of Mrs. Beecher Stowe), Delacroix (the historical painter), Said Pasha ,(Viceroy of Egypt), Jacob Grimm (the philo logist), Samuel Houstoun (the American general and poli tician), Madame Lamartine, General Oudinot, Horace Vernet (the eminent painter), Alfred Victor Vigny (the • I poet), William Lowndes Yancey (of Alabama-) g1Mie5........"....... ..,71•. ,• t ; 1 . N "—GOVERNMENT REWARD,—It Will AT BETHNAL-GREE. . ted that a short time ago a woman was brutally be recollec ted men in the neighbourhood of Bethnal assaulted by thre e . ; . Thi s morning the Commissioners of her Majesty's !l7rceelry issued a bill offering a rcwari of .4.,":5') fur the appre- THE LATE BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON A WOMAN honsion of Joseph Anconey, one of the men coaeerned. QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION.--Th e thip prince C o nsort, 2,500 tons burden, belonging to M essrs . T. M. M ac k a y and Co., sailed on the 25 th inst. f rom Plymouth for Queensland, Captain Aitchesen, cc annan dcr. The i Prince Consort is the thirty t3=x'h vessel that has sailc:l on. the land order system of emigration, under the immediate direction of the Queensland Guvernment. She contain s ;J73 souls, divided into paying, as,sistea, and f reo r.s , , , engets+ and consisting of I.:.)1 ineu i b elo of fam ilies, 173 si:o.-Lle men, and 44 single f ema l es. THE CROW N P RINCE OF PRUSSIA AND TITE, HOLSTEIN QITESTIONT, Our Berlin corre s p ondent w rites, under date D ec . 28:—." On his way here the Cro wn Prince had an inter v i ew w i th the Pr i nce o f Augustenburg, an o ld friend of hi s , w h o rode with himin the same carriag e f rom Guntershausen. to G o tha. His Royal Highness h as b een wry acqve in the interest of the popular cause ever since. • With what result, them:a few days via - erobably show." i • :NTS. 1 ;~ gRAPjr• t • • ;r - - . • • 1r) -4 4, f , - of • , fG :; s rgl DUE wife lon. 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