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No 7, Fenchurch-street, T d °n, at the rate of 4s. to the dollar. if The -e Coupons must be left two clear days or examination ; to sent to the Offices of the Company, No. 2,01 d Broad-street, rairm, E.C. by post, a cheque for the amount wid be re d in due course. Illo te h e option to convert Bonds into Shares expires on 31st radon, -on, No. 2, Old Broad-street, Dec. 9, 1863. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—NOTICE to BONDHOLDERS. In to,,, c onformity with the terms on which the First Mortgage 1 8 , tt 's of th e P enns yl v ania. Section of this Railroad wt-re n c , e d to the public, the FIRST ANNUAL DRAWING of 4 itii i. t ent. of the gross amount of these Bonds will take place bt r. ",, e London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the presence of at k , rain, Public Notary, on TUESDAY. January 12, 1861, attend. O'clock precisely, when Bondholders are invited to - ti. The authorised issue is as under, viz. 4,00 0 Bonds of I,i 00 dols. each ..- 2,001,000 dole. 600 600 2,000 lOO 21 20 ~ 000 „ 2,5n0,000 „ At° l . l r per cent. of each denomination will be drawn on the ve day, and the Bondiso drawn, that have been issued in Z ° doe will be pawl off at the rate of L. 225 for every 1,000 Bend, £ll2 10s. for every 503 dole. Bond, ard L 22 10s. for Z 9 100 dols. Bond, on presentation at the Company's eBt, in No. 2, Old Itroad-street, E.C., on and after Ist April addition to the Coupon due on that day, after which interest will cease. ' paynipnt, the drawn Bonds will be cancelled in the pre- AT of a public notary. --4 ces, 2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C., Dec. 9, 1863. CFARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COWPANY. SPECIAL NOTICE. ate ehDirectors are now prepared to arant Insurances on l 'ellandise in the Port ot Lo.iebn at the REDUCED ALE OF RATES. Pa rticulars to be obtained at the Offices, 11, Lombard street, E.C. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, 25th November, 186 t The COURT of DIRECTORS of the Corporation of the ncyat Exchange Assurance do hereby give Notice, that their Transfer Books will be shut from TUES riAY, the 15th of December next, to THURSDAY, the 7th of January follow ing; that the Annual General Crurt appointed by their Charter will be holden at their Office on the Royal Exchan re, on WEDNESDAY, the 23d rf December, at Twelve o'clock at Noon ; and that a Dividend will be considered of at the said Court. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICE. THE BOOKS OF THE NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, For the Year 1863, close on 31st December. Life Policies effected on or before that date will rank for an Ulditional Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants. 1:•11,4 --alg the Four Years preceding last Division of Pro fits (1858), the Company issued 1,595 Life Policies, assuring ton r; - -nt; the Four suc'eeding Years the number of Idle Polices issued amounted to 3,168, and the Sums assured to £2,22',581 BEING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT. The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the CONE 'I-NY'S PROFITS will take place on 3 ist December,lB6s. LP" WIA O PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMU - A~~TED SINCE 11sT DECEMBER, 1858, WILL THEN D IVIDED, AND NINETY PER CENT. ALLOCATED eN BeALF G THE ASSURED ON THE PARTICIPATING CERTIFICATES of INDISPUTABILT l'Y granted, and every facility offered to ILsurers. FIRE DEPARTMENT. u , beral ter Insuranms. granted both at Home and Abroad on the most orms of Proposald eve information will be given at t he Head Office, or any ry of the Company's Agents. By order. F. W. LANCE, Secretary. London, November, 1863. 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Jullien's Iliew GREAT CONGRESS QUADRILLE, introducing the National Melodies of different nations. Vocalist, Mdlle. VOLPINI.—VioIin, Signor ' 4 IVORI. Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductoi—M. JULLIEN. Commence at S.—Admission, One Shilling. M. Jullien's GRAND BAL D'OPEItA will take place on MONDAY, December 21. T " OXFO R D, R, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CL ARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir H. vishop ; also, from LA FORZA. DEL DES IINO Verdi ; by the following talented artistes —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, S% Amsley, Tyrrell and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, finish, Kimbaley, Stuart, &c. Also, Solos on the Violin by viorn COLLINS. the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SuIIAL KENBACH, the Inventor. • - Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Encrene, W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, and the marvel lous Gymnast, J. B enderson. Ihe HALL has been newly Decorated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. „THE GHOST CLUB” at the. CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting' Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, throu2h the medium of Professor 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, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real life, 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 lite pictures will be rapidly replace tby othyrs. The pages ,f Shakspere and the elder Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., wia, 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 Hutchenson. Fearful Murder in the Waterloo Road. ROYAL ALHAMBRA. PALACE. - IM MENSE SUCCESS. Houses Crowded Nightly. FRANCONI'S CIRQUE IMPERIAL. The most talented Male and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, and the best Stud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World. Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Day Pertormane'ss on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at Tao. Admission—Reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, 2s. ; promenade, is; private boxes, one guinea. 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Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALE S,K.G President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. . • Aseets"."‘•4 6:.:2o;eadeera.e.e....t3. eel f -a"tt, i insdutwluncertainties, indulged iena A NOBLE TRIRITTE.• ever r h t --- -s-- - (From the Vines of This Mo7ning.) His Royal Highness the Primo Consort. BORN '2l3Th AUGUST, 181 r DIED—TWO YEARS AGO TO-DAN-14V' DECEMBER, 1861., .7._ sent t d b en es ly et w ro i u th sed tro f u ro b m les, o a n n e e of thr th ot, e ,a f h on a d f e u s t t ure dreamsdark r b s y t there ty:si:gn: ii e t e et i at t the aa c snt o . u o n nl t e r n y as:abr was ele. the Monday morning without showing any signs of their presence. As soon, however, as the na- trust on whichthe lives knew that they were fairly gone, and nothing and gentle ' nation fouled repose. A \ vise prince possessed the whole heart end but a garrison of 25 volunteers left at the stockade, absolute coefide they began a fierce attack in great force, their that lofty place nee of the Sove.reign, and uscid numbers being at least 300 men. The small gar- stitutional tend a personal boy alty and a con'- but even ideal s passing not only example, rison resisted stoutly, and returned the fire with of conception All the circumstances the country, whether ' spirit, keeping the Maories from attempting an immediate . abroad, or fa home, or in the more imine actual escalade. The heavy and continuous firing wa nt of such a gutiedecLrhelel of Royalty, showed the was soon heard at other camps any posts on the by a rare fortune, theree P w r a and friend, and such, eolith road about four or five miles off, and detach- C msort. wit.lMe nation local: .4 found in the Prince inents of small fare were sent out from several of Y't not out H o me ,:i.ll` with nts ich hope , 'lT:sees to a sadly ~ casegasrsd p- st, To the risi these. As these gradually arrived at the seene or panding cos nsetioa, and trite6l; fi 'molly , and fah° ex action the fight became more equal, and in the interests that tied pron g many new sod a tiried afternoon ng out, of this happy was waged almost on a perfect equality, Over this ever wideniiig presaa onect there o hsa A , l e party being in the clearing, and the other i one soft and genial light ; there, wa „, , —"`" under cover ' sire to be respected, one eye that one anthority of the edge of the bush. The fallen logs afforded excellent aantimend love, one voice that could never always cover for our men, and the • plead in vast superiority va in, one who could at the same time h o ld of our marksmanship was soontogether distribute ON d 'er new fields of dot apparent. Before anY. end us evening we had fully 150 men /less . With this best of human securitie eful " upon the ground, and the s, we all 1 our ha pp_ lot with that of natives seeing that they contrastea PP. an y former were about to be charg e d ma d e off, taking with generation And any mete people. We would take them, as usual, all the killed and wounded they nothing on trust, so we criticized and even re could venture to stricted within due limits this boon, which reach without fear of being them- selves shot. No be too much, but could not fail. The Prince Con- Wounded men whatever fell into our hands, but the bodies ninesort had learnt what he could do and what he could of natives were taken not do; and that little region of his own, won by and buried, which had fallen_ too far within range '' his own sword and bow,' circumscribed, as it for their c omrades to remove. V er y ma ny were were, by one da y iommion ' s furrow tien', and watched by se en to fall wh o were dra gged off into the bush; j ealous neighbours, he made a t . Yet, in and the most moderate estimate of this country of domestic life ad,d unobtrusive in the native killed and wounded makes it at least fifty fiuences, we all thought more of die Prince as the men. Our own loss was three men killed and seven prop of his household. Indeed, to this one duty t which was wonderfully engagement, , little . wounded in the and the service of his Queen he had bowed every 'when it other consideration, so that, wlaatever else he wits is considered that it lasted nearly a whole da y , and in quality, in hope, in speculation, o r capacity, this the firing never c eased during the who l e time, and he was alone in fact — the perf ection of a Royal hus was so heavy as to be distinctly heard over a die- band. Then all at once he was t aken away,and an trict of many miles in extent. The whole district anticipation that already covered Europe And half has since been placed under the able command ea a po century with a continual presence and a visible power had become as the hri ht to recall of a sun- Colonel Nixon, the commander of the Colonial De set, a thing • it is g P which fence Force, who, with a flying column of between mind's eye. In du two and three hundred m en, is constantly travers- it came out that the Princ e Consort e time had be n ing it in search of native s. It appears that this imagined,e even more of a necessity th an m ost of us has frightened the Maories across the Waikato, as Sovereign not t d that he had become one with the there are manifold traces of their exodus in great heart, mind, an°dllli in affection and in ystic tie—in numbers at a favourite crossing-place, Their return By his aid alone had the Queen been enabled to dis must, of course, be provided against, but in the anxious from thio'usly a great variety of (fettles either meantime it is no trifling moral advantage to have minuteness and erier gravity. or burdensom aby their driven them headlong out of such a stronghold as have supposed as muchpetition. Common see se might his bush afforded. and approved as n iuch, but the state of Royalty is notconsidone upon evil. ieh it is easy to be sensible and of envy, of admiration, and. It is the object erate but not of symp a t h y , We so mew hatdo n't even of awe, under ordin ar y circumstances, eigns and pity is pity So v ta er only key that can ever open to one sumari ', heart t h e mys tery of ano ther, and disclose to us the overwh diff i cu l t ies and necessities o f each other's a lming , is pal high. The outside of a p rincel y career met the and ' became as cu stomary as the order of Nature 3 it self ; but " t he sublime life," as it has be en i ats ti called, was within, and few indeed of the multite ode who saw in the Prince the most fortunate cf m en would themselves have borne for a single week h is round of duteou s toil. A better insight into t e story of that life only served to prove the greatness of the loss suffered by the survivor. It is believed that she sought a dreary and ineffectual consola tion in a long atruggleto do single-handed, without cheering voice and helping hand, the da il y work that had been lightened in a labour of love. Foyr tune, however, it was felt, hau brought and as still bringing a more real allele and comfortla-, and one in ptoportion to the great scale of the Ga mity. No Royal family in the world can be smile d so prosperous and happy to mortal eye as this of o ors. The Prince had doue his work, and his reward , was come. His children were responding to his C I ire, and were rising, one by one, either to take his p ace in the Royal councils or to establish homes a nd houses of their own. How many would gladly t lie if by so doing they could leave th eir families WI 111 on with the world, started fair, and giving hani V e arnest of a brilliant future! So all h o p ed that t.:'' a Queen would look to the future, not in order to forwe t the past, but to see the past in the future, and va ° absent in the grog!) that met trio eye. Perhaps l t Was too natural to contrast her case: with that of tb 3 typicel widow, desolate, friendless, perhaps childlest , destiVite, with a blank where there should be a future, and, as if more were wanting, robbed, in 7' suited, ant persecuted. But in these matters, un less we have more sympathy than falls to the share of most natures, we are the slaves of types and con ventions. Experience shows that anything the sufferer has, or receives, or expects, or has to do—in a word, the whole outside world, be it ever so splendid, is clothed with the dark hue and loaded with the dull weight of the one master sorrow. Out side things only reflect the light withf.n, A darkened palace is not so bright as the deli that is penetrated by the smallest ray. A routine of plea sant occupation may become crushing bondakt.,es when it has to be borne alone. What should .t. happiness is misery where there is none to Perhaps,sharei So the nation, slow to learn, ornu but yet by no means thoughtlese a Royal feeling, has seen without murmuring our I lis retirement without a precedent. cants, eleas flattering, tory. It has seen troops ofgin and a glori about, more than Royal pa f dours of the hot ir, ous future anticipated in the sp . en o of our allegianite at the time that the true Soverteol mind. We believ e was out of sight , but never h eve i r t out have found it absen that her Majesty' woul k from the world of memo.. lately impossible bu s brea 1. . been lying. It is vain to tell'. ries in which she nt to be present. You ma y the absent that they wig_ from that vasty deep,summon the human eptrit do call for it. but it will not come when You time there • is Nature will take its course, and for . ano arebreak interwoven all the ing the spell in which of a ~e Yet, plea sures and all the pains . lit ,e. sooner or later, there comes a time when 'Ale continual con templation of one w . ho oigone leaves something ,to be desired wh i c h life and action alone can supply-- He still lives, and it must be in the living world. He is not a memory, an image, but a real exis tence. Ills works are in the world, and ah • e 'world continues his work and asks his aid • li e d ea lt with the s pirits of men, and still de als advanc e and to improve : It was his nature to not stopped—there is stillell about him ; he has im provement he still room for all he quickened and shared. There is word of w i s d om th did, and oceasion for every admirer, the eahs a i 9,1: he uttered. The warenest that the object o f • loving heart could never imag:'",..° at once into not h l . fs regards, if worthy, was to sm.! . the clay. Al' ingness when the spirit had left, by death is goes on still, and the interval created. or any , no more than that created by distance J ether t would the Prince h emporary obstacle. What w this day ? A ave wished could he have foreseen in tombs _sepulchral life in the past ? A ~ ' 1 A grief 'tee r sr A shadowy haunting of in TT deaf and No. In dumb to this waking world? due time changes it sgarb, the most pious menaorylight of death itself shines through tellyast in the a victory, and what we natur celebrate und e r a an d a present revered name is a living history power. t be cons idered, WAS The Prince Consor t, it mus This is a quality eminently a practical character. k actually done, for not to be measured by the worow opportunities ; it that work may have but miff_ may even consist may lie under the surface ; s it practical to meet diffi much in prevention. It was _ . of a sound judgment ; it copies with the quiet force was a proof of practical sens e to enjoy the respe c t o f the soverei ns . It succ essive Ministries and g de ree of practical abroad power required a high g as rare devo t io n to do so much in Bs we ll so short a time for the encouragement of British a rt and science, and for improvement in. all matters relating to health, material wellbeing, and mental elevation. Many of our Princes have had their ideal as marked in their memories as t heir lives , but those ideals hive generally been in of the sentimental order. It was either a superstitious hero ism, or a wil d s p irit of adven ture, or pom p and pageants , or a gallantry" a bigotry, a taste for or a rivalry , or a fo pp er y , or so me folly w ith the hour. The P Consort rinse C sure to pass rt bqt elated his adopted country an d a er appree he a „ a „,;,, aimed r.t practical benefl . s, acing mane "g" . it. Stich a name sboloci o le!ive his mark upon, asts e power, and sugg honourable arati,.,,,mcctliter, "f duty, sacrifice, and called on to live and a • A numerous family iS and to win the love o t t In . tile spirit of P.s father, and usefulness. That ° ' . eations by active goodness or relinquished. I is a Mow meat to be sustained her strength that t could onl be from a distrust of lead a work a at her Majesty would hesitate to the security 0 , necessary to the welfare of nations, of Uovernmenta, peac e of the world. bi n roments, and the value, fo r t,,eces in these days must h pro ve their do. It was tulle tut y l a e r p e r.l t n ak e en e at what made i : or himself w I , ')sideu batter than :i.ee g a o a n e so hics, and left Erg laud his debtor, It is thus that his survivors must Prove their affection his for wen anr Y' atidllerPet '' ' `' lt4 his moral presence among 10- PR1CE.....—..4d. STAMPED ....U. JAPAN. The intelligence from Japan leads to the cone sion that however bad foreign relations with tha' country may be, they are not so bad as has been represented. The British Minister at Yokohama remonstrated with the Tycoon's Government at the obstructions placed upon the transit of produce from the country. The Japanese authorities replied that no such obstructions existed, but that a combination of native merchants had arranged that produce should only come to market in driblets, and that these merchants fabricated the story about Govern ment obstructions to suit their own ends. In a situa tion of alarm foreign. merchants naturally seek to, realise their imports and to invest in exports, so as to restrict their liabilities. Tois natural impulse the Japanese merchants have managed to excite by the extravagant stories lately current. Then the massacre of the native merchants at Nagasaki, referred to in last report, is quite untrue. Still matters are in a bad state. The Mikado, and the leading hostile Daimios have undoubtedly com bined to expel foreigners if they can. The Tycoon is powerless, and is temporising—seeking to keep the treaty if be may. Foreigners are confined to the settlements of Yokohama and Nagasaki. A French officer has been assassinated wantonly at a very short distance from the former place. Produce is prevented from coming to Nagasaki by the Daimios, and a lage body of their followers are in that town threatening the native merchants. A rumour prevails that. civil war has commenced, but the accounts cannot be relied on. Admiral Kuper is wisely awaiting the arrival of land troops, and Satsuma is preparing to repel another attack. The Loss of Fishing-Boats on the East Coast, GREAT YARMOUTH, Dec. 12. To•day the crew of the steam tug Volunteer, five in number, were brought into Great Yarmouth by the smack Eliza. The tug, which belonged to Mr. S• J. Fill, left the harbour on Thursday with three other steamers, for the purpose of cruising in the German Ocean and obtaining intelligence of the missing boats. The weather was exceedingly bois terous, and the sea ran fearfully high. After cruis ing about 20 hours, at a distance of from 60 to 70 miles cff land, without falling in with any of the missing smacks, it was found that the Volunteer had sprung a leak and was in a sinking state. The crew at once took to the pumps, but it was with the utmost difficulty that, in the heaNy sea, the steamer could be kept afloat. About 5 a.m. yesterday, see ing a light ahead, they made for it, and came up with the smack Eliza, of Great Yarmouth. The tug was then on the point of foundering. The crew of the Volunteer got out a boat, but it was instantly swamped. They then ran their vessel alongside of the Eliza, and, at great risk to themselves and to the smack, they jumped on board the latter and were saved. Tne Volunteer, which was valued at £1,600, and had been recently fitted with new boilers and thoroughly repaired at an expense of £6OO, soon afterwards disappeared. She was unin sured. It appears that the total number of smacks belinging to Yarmouth, and still unaccounted for, has been reduced to-day to 11, but little hope is en tertained that these boats or their crews will a fish again be heard of. Each smack, with nets an tog gear, cost from £6OO to .£7OO, while the average yen hands. crew carried by each ranges from six to se Ded is The number of Yarmouth fishermen drew should the worst already known to exceed 30, and, smacks still fears be realised with regard to the 11 . ed to missing, the total deaths will be car t r h i at about 20 some where about 100. It is computed portion of smacks have been lost with the greater astrous gales ; and their crews during the late_ disastrous d istess prevails ' as may be supposed, the tri° u s who have r s een left in among the bereaved 8, fa- I laestitution, and on Wh ose circumstances approac behalf aid is urgently needed. ever ALboAoCkE OoFfTin'rEavrreaUlri.: ' writer) that nothiLnnEgoßtchTEiund. Ville but bad t t h h e o rill:el:se:si Tuileries the i-. when The el the furnit ure, crimson coloured velvets and satins, the - the green and fancied ac surpasssonu T cdti a ri n e gst ecl(tlrj,evibyeTesseiEpdtonhlsfeihnti:tdnhiti oasseora nirToirenuseteerhnuePoet:f which festoon the windows of each s variegated brocades magnificence of the chandeliers and su ccessive saloon, the mirr the b r onzes, of the Florentine table s , ors, the beauty of and cab i ne ts, and the splendour of of the marbles and tapestries—all combine tothe Gobelin and Beauvais render fur nished, the beats ideal of au • thi s palace, as now imagine that when the m Imperial home ; and I can easily reflected from the any thousand dazzling lights are and bright eyes who mirrored Walls on the richly dressed forms casion of an imperial crowd these vast apartments on the oc even an ball, a sight Arabian poet will be presented of which when traversing those could scarcely dream. I remember, attendant towards ose gorgeous rooms, I was called by the gardens, from which h the centre balcony which overlooks and beauty, extendin g cthere is a vista h ofi s plendour wonadnedrfuitla gardens across the Place de la Concorde, Croonnicotrdee, Pandaeaelong the Champs Elysees, to the Arc de Triomphe, with all the uiony ad. junets of moving life which throng that lovely and animated Scene. But when my foot reached this Belvidere balcony recollections swept athwart my memory that made me alto gether forget the landscape. I remembered, when first in Paris, I had seen the portly form of Louis XVIII. showing himself to his subjects on the very spot where I then d stood. I recollected that there, too, the hero of f 31.anr,engioe of ~A v u i s- a terlitz had frequently listened to the c_l_ea eni t Louis ss Philippe l'Empereur" —that there Charles S. and ~ i i had each receive d the nattering salutations of Viva le Roi,' , and that even before the last named king, when flee ing from the threatenings.of an infuriated mob, had reached Neailly, the cries of " Vive la the road to Republique" had been thence bellowed. Neither could I forget that the ' throne which then occupied the neighbouring Levee room ' had been but a few years . ago borne away in triumph and burned, amid the demoniacal exclamations of a maddened i populace, N°. 22,298 AP UB LI C MEETING on the POLISH QUE"TION will be held at the Bridge House Hotel, Loudon-bridge, Southwark, TO-,IIORROW EVENING, Dec. 15. --- JOHN LOCKE, Esq , ➢i. P., Q.C., will take the Chair at Eight o'clock precisely. 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THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those mad , 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 medio tutisimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS It would almost seem that some localities in London are doomed to bear a fatal reputation, either from having been the scenes of crimes or accidents, or from possessing evil reputations gained in other ways. Waterloo-road is, un fortunately, particularly distinguished on account of the doubtful reputation attached to it in times not far gone by ; and al though great efforts have been made by the police and the parish authorities to remove some causes which have at tached an evil stain on this thoroughfare, It would seem that their efforts are doomed to be ineffectual, and that from time to time the familiar name must be again brought before the public in connection with some new horror. The tragedy of which Eliza Grimwood was the victim, from the mystery attending the circumstances, and from the fact that the perpetrator has never been brought to justice, was enough to impress the name of the locality on the public mind for a long time, even had the road not borne a name which history will not let die. After the lapse of years a sudden and fearful accident occurred by which a number of lives were lost through the imperfect manner in which a large grating was fixed, and yesterday morning a tragedy occurred which, from its barbarous and worse thanbrutal nature, can be matched by few deeds of blood on record. At a house on the left-hand side as you descend the road from Waterloo-bridge, and not far from the scenes of the tragedies alluded to, lived a man and woman who occupied a back-room on the second floor. The man, whose name is Samuel Wright, is a bricklayer by trade, and had worked at the buildings now being erected for the Strand Music Hall Company. The woman, the victim of the tragedy, was named Maria Green. Wright, who appears to have been of a somewhat dissolute charact er, was a widower with two children,who, however,were not living with him. The woman had been ranked among that class generally, and too truly, termed " unfortunate ;" but it appears that for about 11 months sloe and Wright have been cohabiting as man and wife. There would appear to have been some redeem ing qualities in the unfortunate woman, for, although her character was apparently lost past all hope of redemp tion, she was of an industrious nature, and strove to make the home comfortable, assisting, by taking in washing, to add to the joint income. It seems that during the time they occupied the lodging in the Waterloo-road their conduct gave no great offence to their fellow-lodgers and neighbours though Wright was occasionally in the habit of neglecting his work, and his unfortunate paramour was not of sober, habits. Jealousy on the part ut the woman would appear to have been the cause of a great change in their domestic habits, and to have ied to the crime just committed. The woman discovered a circumstance which happened on the night of Saturday, the sth inst., and which caused a quarrel between her and Wright. The effects of the quarrel were that Wright neglected his work until Friday last, and during the week altercations occurred between him and his wretched partner which led to blows and the infliction of a black eye on the woman. They were, however, in company at a public house on Saturday night last, when the woman drank a quantity of gin and ale, which rendered her intoxicated, and in this condition she was removed to her home by a woman who had been with her and Wright. The man also betrayed symptoms of intoxication, but went home with the two women. As nothing was heard ut them from this time by the other lodgers, it was thought that they had gone to bed—but about half-past three o'clock yesterday morning a woman named Ireland, who occupied a room underneath that in which Wright and Ge een lived, was aroused and alarmed by a repeated knocking on the floor above. a She rose, partially dressed herself, and proceeded up stairs with a light, to ascertain the cause. On the stairs shemot Wright, who was dressed with the exception of his coat, and whose shirt-sleeves were smeared with blood. Mrs. Ireland, though terribly alarmed at the appearance which Wright presented, asked him what was the matter. He replied with much calmness, " Go and see," and then went down stairs. On entering the room the woman was seen lying near the fire-place, but:her face was so covered with blood that she could scarcely be recognised. In an swer to some exclamations from Mrs. Ireland, who was na turally horrified at the eight, she said, " He's cut my throat." Mrs. Ireland returned to her room to finish dress ing, and locked herself in. In a few minutes Wright re turned up stars and knocked at her door. Ireland told him she would not open it, but would fetch a policeman as soon as she was dressed. He replied " All right," and then returned to the room where his victim was lying in - the agonies of death. In the meantime Mr. Redbourno, the son of the landlady of the house, being aroused, came down stairs, and on meeting with Mrs. Ireland and hastily hear ing what had occurred, dressed :himself and remained in the passage to prevent the escape of Wright, whilst Mrs. Ireland went out to look for a policeman. This precaution appeared to be needless, for Wright quietly returned to the room where the poor creature was lying, and remained there without making any effort to escape. Newton 76 L, the policeman on the beat, was found after a short time. He proceeded to the house with Hrs. Ireland, and on going up stairs found Wright standing at the window, while his victim was then lying near the door, showing that she must have either been removed from the fire• place, or must have dragged herself across the room in the vain attempt to obtain assistance in the agonies of death. Mr. George Harrap, who manages the Waterloo-road business of Mr. Dodd, the parish doctor, was sent for, and on his arrival shortly after four it was found that two deep cuts had been inflicted on her throat—one from left to right, and another in the opposite direction, by which the head had been nearly separated from the body. At first sight it would appear, as both the woman and the man were dressed, that neither had been to bed, but on examination it was found that the woman had apparently lain down on the bed when brought home, and that the firse assault upon her had been committed while so lying. It was evident that she had been beaten on the face apparently with the poker, which was found covered with blood, and it would seem as if a struggle had then ensued, during which she had fallen or rolled off the bed. On the table was a razor with which the wounds had. evidently been inflicted, and also a table knife ; and in answer to an observation the murderer said, " It's all right. It can't be helped. She took the knife and I took the razor." When informed that he was chargr with murder he asked to be removed from the room at once, as he did not like to remain where the body was. On further examination a basin of water was discovered in which ho had apparently washed the blood from his hands dead,,heon returning up stairs. He was then searc h ed and removed to the T ower - stree t s t a ti on -house, near the lower end of Waterloo-ro a d. O n b e i ng t o ld that he was charged with murder, he said, coo ll y enoug h, "That's right ; it's right h enoug." sdplaaeTyriat,he ti nb of h foru a murder the a state few ore mdHdeeareyt ofwi tsatwaswas not u. pn immediately oorge epua only esrsoaenld generally ye yotphklsaenacgeiwrdng , I ena i t n ien,r a London cell,osnh partdyester day, o eon where yester day people n gathered discussing and d the 0 t o m u i n n t g h e on latter the crime their attention was naturally drawn to the windows of c t r h ee r, e tba s ei e nn c o e ul n a t d uhs fl ti o eh o ..eh r s , ae he a offered the "best entertainment iwiwhiwnedaresowtthsh,eewh,a,orrid d ee d took place, and a ghastly s mi a ons b t o i a e, o r l e di o n na n t, a t r_ u o n o c m i that commentary on the deed of blood which has taken place within. The landlord of the house removed .the number from the door during the day to prevent .the I , ,ouse becoming iden tified with the Lowder. MR. CHARLES KNIGHT, The Veteran Author, Editor, Printer, Pub lisher, Historian, Encyclopaedist. (From the Athenceum.) Mr, Charles Knight may be considered as a Literary Elder in many senses, and in every sense a good one. Byron said he hated an author who was all author. Byron would, it may be presumed, on this account, at least, have liked Mr. Knight: as many of the poet's successors have been proud and happy to owu they did on higher grounds, Certainly, he has been an author : yet not all an author. Inds ed, it may be said of him, that he has been a professor in every branch of the book trade, from the humblest to the highest, He has been a printer. He has been a publisher. He has been a compiler, a reporter, an editor, a critic, an author; and it is not too much to say of him, now that he puts his case before us, as a whole, in his ripe ago, that in all these departments of intellectual trial he has gained some distinction. There may be cases of a somewhat similar kind in our rich literary annals. Richardson was a printer, Dodsley, the publisher, wrote plays. Jerrold set up copy before he supplied it. Cottle " sold the books he did not write." Lackington wrote a book, but it was only about his own experiences. Lord Campbell reported the House of Commons, Tom Moore wrote leading articles: Byron started a newspaper. But we do not remember an instance in which one and the same gentleman could boast of the same infinite variety of literary occupation of Mr. Knight. What man has set up newspaper copy and written a History of England—published Poor-law reports, and composed a tragedy in verse—reported the Parliamentary debates, and edited a compendious cyclopmdia of universal knowledge Even in the amount of effort achieved, the number of pa ges printed, Mr. Knight's literary labours are remark able. His works would fill a very large shelf—almost a library. They are on all sorts of subjects ; but chiefly perhaps on those connected, more or less closely, with social reforms and popular education. Probably Mr. Knight has written and edited more pages than Hume, Gibbon, Byron, Moore, and Wordsworth all put together. Within the last ten years he has produced more literary matter, original and edited, than Dickens, Lytton, Tennyson, Trench, and Browning all combined. We happen to be writing these remarks away from books of reference, but we have a very recent and pleasant recollection of eight octavo volumes of history, twenty-two quarto volumes of Cyclopoadia, four volumes of " Half-IlJurs with the Best Authors," ten volumes of the " Stratford Edition of Shakspere," one volume of " Shakspere Studies," and two octavo volumes of " Once upon a Time." When it is considered that these works are the productions of a man otherwise engaged as a publisher, they become still more remarkable. People were amazed that Richardson should have found time, in the course of a long life as a man of business, to write the stories of "Pamela," " Clarissa Harlowe," and " Sir Charles." . In these several capacities of printer, publisher, reporter, editor, and author, Mr. Knight has seen i good deal of mankind, and especially of the eminent of nankind. In his early youth, as the son of a Windsor bookseller, he was familiar with George the Third and his Windsor circle ; a little later, as a local printer, he became ac quainted with a knot of young Etonians who were barn for fame, including Praed, Moultrie, and Mtcaulay. After his removal to London, his friendships extended right and left round the circle of poets, wits, philosobers, and politi cians ; and in this magic circle Mr. Knight has lived for nearly 50 years. Is Sergeant Shee to get the Vacant Judgeship ? It is now a great many years since the public I saw with indignation two eminent lawyers shut out from the ordinary course of preferment in their pro fession on account of their political opinions or for reasons connected with the zealous exercise of pro fessional duties. Mr. Brougham and Mr. Denman had no special right to the rank of King's Counsel, nor would it have been decorous or even reasonable in any public speaker or public writer to clamour for their advancement. But when it became notori ous that they lay under a ban by re icon of their politics, and that it had been declared they never should be alto wed to rise above their then positions at the Bar, the public protest was very loudly made, and their exclusion was felt as a general grievance. Unless we are much misinformed, something of the same kind is now happening, and a very eminent lawyer has been avowedly excluded from the English Bench because he is a Roman Catholic. It is very commonly believed that upon the last vacancy this gentleman was named for the appointment, and that his religion was made a ground of objection. The whole profession will agree that no other objection could have been urged. It can be nothing to us or to the public what competent man succeeds Mr. Justice Wightman, but it is of great consequence that any remnant of the old rags of bigotry and intolerance should hang about our Council Chamber, and should narrow the choice of selection of our public servants. If it be a homage paid to the baser pre judices of the nation, it is very cowardly; if it be a real substantive conviction that a Roman Catholic can never be an upright English judge, it is a mon- strous folly. There ought to be only one rule in the selection of judges, both in England and Ireland—to choose the man who will make the best judge. The best judge is the man who, possessing the learning of his profession, has strength of mind to put off the form of his politics and the form of his fai th at the door of his court, to take them up again as he goes out. If be cannot do this, be he Whig or Tory, Churchman, Dissenter, or Catholic, he must be a partisan judge; if he can do this, it is of no conse quence what his politics or form of religion may be. In Ireland, where the Protestants are the most edu cated and wealthy part of the community, it is almost a qualification for the Bench to be a Protes tant; in England, where the Catholics, although very few, are second to none of our fellow-subjects in respectability and loyalty, it is declared to be an absolute disqualification to be a Catholic. All this is an anachronism, and we ought to be ashamed of such folly. In a Liberal Government such an os. tentatious intolerance is especially odious. — Tinges. THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. (From the Sydney Herald.) The last fortnight or so has been the most stir ring in incident of any that we have had for some time, although there are signs that would lead me to expect that it will be exceeded by the next in in terest. There has been a very unusual amount of fighting, and a very unusual amount of bloodshed, at least amongst the natives, during this period. They have ventured upon an entirely new system of tactics, and have found themselves thoroughly worsted in every respect and at every point. The news which my last letter contained relative to natives who had left Mere-Mere, and had ventured into the vicinity of the great South Road, and even to Pukekohe, on the west of that road, was the first indication of the new policy, now said to be the plan of William Thompson, who has been acting as generalissimo of the forces for some little time b wk. It was not then known on how large a scale the new tactics were about to be carried out ; but it has since appeared that not less than from six to eight hundred natives must have been thrown into the waste triangular belt of forest which lies along the Waikato River to the westward of the south road and terminates at the village of Waiuku (now a military post), while it contains the settlements of Mauku and Pukekohe, besides the townships of Cameron and Tuakau. The forest is here very heavy, and in places exceedingly swampy—so much so as to be all but impassable for man, while it is entirely so for beasts. The idea of the campaign was certainly a clever one, and does the general who planned it great credit. The large body of natives was to split into two or three divisions, and then at their own time to come down upon one after another of the settlements, all of which were occupied as mili tary posts, although most of them very inadequately garrisoned. One of these bodies it undoubtedly was that committed the murders of Mr. Armitage and his two European companions, of which you must have heard. In this matter there is little doubt they received no small assistance from the treachery of the friendly natives who accompanied the party as a convoy tor the provisions to the Bluff. Having succeeded in this exploit it seems probable they were on their way to some other point of attack when they fell in with Captain Swift and his fifty heroes (for such they seem to have been). Their numbers on that occasion were certainly not short of 200 men, and it is a subject for wonder and just pride even to a regiment of British troops that a detachment so weak, and having lost its commis yet have fought as they ' did for many hours in sioned officers at the very beginning of the action, should an overwhelming force, and have finally defeated and driven them off. Happily Lieut. Butler, who behaved with remarkable courage, even shooting two natives dead with his revolver after being brought to his knees by a most severe wound, is rapidly recovering. Oar loss in numbers was providentially very slight, while that of the Maories now appears to have amounted to between twenty-five and thirty men placed hors de combat. The deepest regret is felt here for the death of the gallant Capt. Swift, who was by far the most promising officer of his regiment (the 65th). His body was brought to Auckland, and buried with all military honours on Sunday the 13th, being followed to the grave by the governor and all the ministry, besides a large part of the most respectable of the inhabitants. Oa the same day on which Captain Swift's party was engaged there was fighting at two other points, so proving that the enemy were at least in three divisions in the district. One of these was a mere skirmish near the south wall at the Razor-back redoubt, where no one was even wounded on our part, although the body of one native, apparently a man of some im portance, was found in the bush where he had been shot, after the fighting. The other was in the neigh bourhood of Manku, and was brought about by the energy of our own local forces, who, having reason to suspect that natives were in the uei sallied into the bash and came upon a large P k erZ, of little short of 100 men, engaged in the yr° were devastation upon such of the settlers' houses as was isolated in the forest. The fight that ensued en only num sharp but short, for although our m of being more at ° p u t r h their °t bered 50, they had the advantage home in the forest than the ntage of being them had the vast additional adva h. -loading carbine, armed with the short breec deadliest and most effective which is by far the dea upon whom they seem weapon in the forest. sometimes as near as hour's hard b e hind them e g x l i c b e fighting, took After about h ul a o l s f t an the natives td flight, at ten yards' range , leaving everything most. into the Pakeha's hands. All that could fall back lender rescued, and their hats burned their plunder the foresters . The most hardly con at once by killed and tested, and probably by far the most deadly, of fights to the natives these took place on the 14th, at pakehehe• Thz. natives had evidently kept an e ye for some time uPon this place, as they carefully timed their attack cn 7c, to allow the convoy which had COMC U en - F':atTirday to go down again on wounded,. t PER PAIR. PIGS! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL, without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, and in every county in England, iGs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to 14 cwt. bar'ey or any meal Delivered tree in Lon don. Established 1858.— THOMAS PEARCE, Manager, 66, Lant-street, Southwark. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. ltd. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, B.C. 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Who's Champion of the Thames 1 " Who's champion of the Thames ?" is s question that may be naturally asked by our aquatic readers, and " Who's champion of the Thames ?" is not a question eo easily an swered. We are always moat happy and willing to afford the public at all times any information in our power, but [hat which we do not in ourselves possess we cannot impart to others. Once upon a time during our long existence, and once upon a time only, were we in something like a similar fix to the present ; but the affair was not so complicated. Then we had only two heroes in question claiming precisely the same thing, but now we have four; consequently, taking it only as an arithmetical problem, the question is just twice as difficult? But it involves infinitely more than this in its ramifications, and in its complexity admits of many considerations. No such difficulty to determine who was the Champion existed in former days. From the time of the celebrated Richard Farsons up to a few months rgo the thing was as straight as the road, save in the one particular instance to which we have adverted. Although Farsons was avowedly the best man of his day, he was never exactly dubbed " Champion," but his successor, Charles Campbell, was, and his reign of supremacy com menced on the 9th of September, 1831. But a few years after this came the dispute as to whether he was entitled to retain the honour, which Robert Coombes disputed with him. Campbell always held this great little man very cheaply; he beat Coombes so signally on Nov. Ist, 1838, that he ap peared to hold his subsequent pretension to the title of Champion as too contemptible to be worthy of notice. The assumption of the title by Coombes was founded upon his second defeat of Robert Mewell , on October 15th, 1842, when he challenged the world, and as Campbell did not notice the thing at all, the friends of Coombes laid claim to the title, and many and severe were the discussions upon the rights of that claim, and then only, as we have before said, was there until now a dispute as to who was the Champion. On August 19, 1846, the dispute between Coombes and Campbell's claim to the Championship found its termination by Coombes beating him as easily as he himself had formerly been beaten, and we suppose ere long the present knotty point will receive some such un- ravelling. On Sept. 29th, 1859, the renowned Robert Chambers (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) acquired the Cham pionship of the Thames from Henry Kelly (of Fulham). The end crowns the work. He was proved by this and other victories to be avowedly the best man afloat, for on Sept. 18th, 1860, he beat Tom White for the Championship, and after other great encounters in the provinces was once more in his wager-boat upon the Thames to contend against George Everson (V Greenwich) for the Championship of the London river. This was on April 14th, and on June 16th he had to encounter a more formidable rival, the Aus tralian, who had come over to this country months before to contend with the very best man our waters could produce, and had been carefully training for the event during the whole time that Chambers and Everson's match, of which not much can be said, was in its tardy progression. The defeat of Green by Chambers for the Championship must be fresh in the memory of our readers, and the subsequent sending of £5 and articles for a fresh match by the Australian's friends. This amount was covered, but no terms come to as to the time of rowing, and Green received £5 for felt of the Champion of the Thames, and thus, as it seems, considered himself justified in claiming that title. The next race which is at all connected with the Championship question took place at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 28th of July, for £lOO a side, the course extending over a mile, and the com petitors being Chambers (the Champion) and Robert Cooper, a man there who has rendered himself famous as a scalier. This ended the defeat of Chambers, and, being beaten by Cooper, the latter styled himself " Aquatic Champion of the World." The next epoch is the Tyne Regatta, in which some of the finest scullers ever seen contended. Green (the Australian) was unavoidably absent, and the three trials heats were won by Chambers, Cooper, and Henry (the ex-Champion of the Thames). After a great deal of fouling and squabbling, the race was ordered to be rowed again, and Cooper, who had come in first, with Chambers second, refused to row, as he considered himself justly entitled to the cup and stakes. The other two there fore contended, and this race was only characterised by boring and fouling, and Chambers came in a winner by two or three lengths, Kelly claiming a foul, w hi c h was dis. allowed. The ex -Champion (Kelly) . then sent £lO and a challenge to Chambe rs to row him from Putney to Mort lake, for £2OO and the Championship, but this was un heeded by the north countryman, and some time having elapsed, Kelly now takes upon himself the title of Champion of the Thames, so that oar readers will see that we have no less than four candidates for the Championship of the Thames, or the " World," whichever they please to term it, for Green has left, a polite invitation to pay liberal expenses to any one to make a journey to the " far West' , to contend against him for the Championship of the Globe. Next summer we presume some more definite notion may be formed of who may really be entitled to the appellation of Champion, until which we leave our read er s at perfect lib e rty to exercise their own judgment and entertain their owa opinions upon this knotty subject. —E ra . .ed Affecting Tributes to the Genius of Shakspere ! King George 111. remarked (as Miss Burney tells us), "Was there ever such stuff as great part of Sbakspere ? only one must not say so I But what think you ? What.? Is there not sad stuff? What? What ?" Mr. Knight, in his newly published autobiographic Re collections, takes occasion to observe that Farmer George was not singular in this abuse of Shakspere. " I have ohdafliewmatrahedyne,ss"iKcoahnilnsel m of the writer of the sad stuff, ' D— and I .' " Who, asks the Athenceum, can this " heretic" be ? Is he a live ? 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