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' . •4.4 , --- - SOUTH YORKSHIRE. 4....1•1111 0 Le hon ample, ay, we id pro course GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM PAN Y. (Incorporated by Act of Parliament.) 71, Lombard -street, London. NOTICE IS ITERERY EN, That the HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEE GI N V G of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the Company's Offices , 71, L ombard -street. on TUESDAY, the-24th inst., at Two o'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to declare the Dividend for the Half sear ending the 31st December, 1'62. 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Gio 1 , 30,101001' se , e l ~,,l ' e l Ile° - s. „ p et, hire- 0 " of sq. , 013 ' ler Ile ,NDR' 'o OfAc e ' ti the COUP London, Feb. 2, 1863. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Established 184). The 22d Annual General Meeting of this Association was held on Wednesday, the 4th February, 1863. The Income for the year 1862 was 0 0 The Accumulated Fund . - • ' l on ,400 applicatioorgate-street 0 0 The Report and Balance-sheet ma y be' 470 n to the Agents, or at the Chief Office, 18, E M E.C. WM. THOS, LINFORD, Secretary. February 5, 1863. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, .No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1521. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR. Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., ;G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. , Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. ' James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. , Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., 31. P. Jame s T u ll oc h, E sq. J ohn Labouchere, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. ) Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq. T hos. Tallemath, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS or AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life Pranch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, I ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS. —No Extra Premium is required for service therein. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re ceived and registered. or M Pulle C y StamFps EDIAL EES paid by the Comp any, and no charge FIRE DEPARTMENT.—InsuranZ-es are effected upon every descrip•ion of property at Moderate rates. Losses caused by Explosion, of Gas are admitted by this Company. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE (Establish CORPORATION ed by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEA.RICES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq Charles Robinson, Esq Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.— Me usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this El'avporation on advantageous terms. In the Lif e Department, assurances are granted with par- Part ticipation in Pr o fit s, or, at lower Premiums, without such pation. nearl The Reversionary per Bonus on British Poli c i es h as average d y 2 cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Li fe. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 m ay b e insured on one This Corporation affords to the Asstired—' Liberal participation in Profits —with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus guaranteeth average returns of Mutual Societies —with the of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always all owe d th e A ssured to serve nthe Militia, Yeom anry, or V olunteer Corps within the united Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. ARMY C ONTRACTS. —TENDERS will be trorn received at this Office until noon on the 3cl of March, persons who may be willing to enter into CONTRACTS for the SUPP LY of WOOD for lighting fires in the London litilitary District in such quantities as may be required for the use of her M a.iesty's land forces stationed in any of the followin places, from lst April, 1863, to net March, 1864 I- H y d ep •rk and Kensington Palace New Barracks. ' T , • racks ßegent's-park, St. J o h n ' s -wood, and Portman-street ai. 4. r acks, and Wellington, St. Cl eorze ' s, and Buckingham Palace Bar 4. The Tow r nfa er ntry Guards, St. James's-park. 6. Hounslow and Kanner Hall. 7 Hampton Court. . Croydon. ion Se pante tenders must b e made for each of the above-men 'Jere& ted 'nati barracks as separately grouped and num of tender and conditions of co ntact may be liiObtained on application at this Office, by letter or in person, onuset w een the hou r s o f 10 an d 4 o ' clock. Tenders on the printed tvill roust be properly filled up and signed, and no tender be noticed unless delivered at the nniirrmentioned office, under closed env e l ope ( mar k e d on the oubide, "Tender for ' 44.l nY Supplies") before noon on the 3d March next. T ., W. H. MATURIN , D e p u t y C omm i ssary-GeneraL • yeputy Commissary General's- Eke. 5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W., Feb. 10, 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS for FUEL and LIGHT. TENDERS will be received at this office until noon on the 3d of March, from persons who may be willing to enter in to contracts for the. SUPPLY of COALS, COKE, and ti CA NDLES, in su h quantities as may be required for the ne of her Majesty's Land Forces and Military Departments any of the following places, from Ist April, 1t63, to 31st ham, 1864 yde-par South Kensington, and Kensington-palace New Barracks :—SSO tons Wallsend coals, 3 tons coke, 1,550 lbs. c omposite candles, 610 lbs. dip candles. Regent'sark, St. John's 7 wood, and Portman-street co'wracks :-1 109 tons Wallsend coals, 11 tons coke, 1,685 lbs. • , Inpntute r.andles, 3,488 lbs. dip candles. 3 . W ellington, St. George's, and Buckingham-palace Bar rAck Horse Guards, Infantry Guards, St. James's-park. av_ncl Royal Engineer Office, Buckingham -gate :-1,667 tons allsend coals, 250 tons Wylam oor coals (for Wellington dipx'acks), 12 tons ooke, 2,206 lbs. composite candles, 1,214 lbs. andles. Military Store establishment, Pimlico : -228 t ons Walls-- V.l 4. d coals.. 364 tons Dowlar's Merthyr coals, 10 tons Tanfield 10or 400 lbs coals, can 400 chaldrons coke, 3,0 lbs. composite can d ies, dip dles. „ fr t. Th e 'rower :--823 tons Wallsend coals, 160 tons Dowl ar ' s ge,,rtcompositehYr coals, candles, to 200 lbs. dip candles.ns Tanfield Moor coals, 101 tons coke, 920 l iounslow ad Kneller-hall :-740 tons Inland best coals, 45 to ns coke 1 ,000 lbs. corn,. osite candles, 4,000 lbs. dip Candles. 7 ' lia mpton-court :-115 tons Inland best coals, 150 lbs eornposite candles, 500 lbs. dip candles. „ 8 . Windsor :-1,3" tons Wallsend coals, 6 tons coke, 2,250 log. composite candles, 600 lbs. clip candles. 9. Brighton, with Coast F: its from Newhaven to Shore "B-M:-645 tons Wa'lsend coals, 3 tons coke, 1,630 lbs. com posite candles, 6,310 lbs. dip candles. ‘ , 5 1 0 . Croydon :-200 tons Wallsend coals, 3 tons coke, 4 lbs. eotaprsite candles, 1,500 lbs. dip candles. The quantities above i.peol fi ed of each article of supply are °l lly approximate estimates of what may probably be required ',within the period of the contract, but the contractor will be held liable to deliver such quantities as may be demanded tinder competent authority, whether more or less tha n th e a bove. Sepa ra t e tenders for fuel and for light must be made for each of the abovementioned stations or barracks as separately grouped and numbered. Forms of tender, and conditions of 'tract, may be obtained on appli ation at this office, by or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'c Tenders on the printed forms must be properly fi lled up l and Bignel, and no tender will be noticed unless •del:veted at the Undermentioned since, under closed envelope (marked on the outside; " Tender for Army Supplies"), before • noon on the 3d March next. De W. 11. ATURIN, Deputy Commi ssar y -G enera l . Deputy Commissary-General's 0111 ‘e, 5, New-street, Spring -gardens, London, S.W., F e b . 10, 1863. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, G ray ' s- i nn -road, in the immediate vicinity y of the Great Northern Rail witY Terminus, at King , ro ____ Patron—The. QIIEmN. President—The Dukeof m ß a U ste Ce rm LE an Uy E ll sq ,.K.G. ,„,_ Treasurer — Edw ard anaduilus s zti a i d e m ti i r s s s t io h n o s t p o i t t a h l e t o d l e n s t a r t o u d t u e ce sic t k, he wi l h n o d u p t le th o e f f fr o e r e_ tQalit 4 entire ly devoted to desti -11 ion in its most pitiable form — v iz ., t t Y O . aovernors' letters . ....t cs iz, that which is accom tnied by sickness and disease, and is it n m o a w y b () e f sufficient rendred biag/litude that, with adequate suppor t , large P r op ortion of ;limbic of admitting into its wards a very rimegthen metropolis. It requires but the araal sick of this great tl ~ gratuitousl Moreover, i d . _ . most wretched of our fellow - creatures . illaeorder to have 500 beds available for the reception of week, on the average{ than 3,000 out-patients a w make an Th e duty to medical advice and medicine to mor e, t A ,, Weekly Board feel it their imperative daily them to f dm lt and relieve the distressing to ' TIE ST APPEAL to the public for support, continuecl eases present thmsees. Cant • ,_ ributions are received by the a .1 (wawa, Emq., Nicholas - lane; also by Messrs. m and Co % o ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ranso . _ c , .0...; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith Payne, and Co.. liqn !!_ n q CO. Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison. o nt Ed ward tsa n and Coetet•h; :Frolleipaimtas I,.Deacon and Co . ; Overend. Gurney, am ~0 ; Nisbet and Co. • Messr s.' J. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. 08 T E O Patent, March 1, 18A2, No. 560. EID 0 N I:2s Self-adhesive Patent I ndestructible MINE- ItAL 'MPH and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, ;':lll4tigilalt, wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime. and WARRANTED POR MASTICATION and AItTICULATION, even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual goat. Messrs GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQPIAREI 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON; t 5, NEw_sTREE T, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 an d 10 to 15 guineas. .„ One visit only required from country patients, Gabriel'a rnaltical Treatise gratis. 0911 AUltat10111 free. N°. 22,041. tcE E Now _R'S NEW WO RK . - . ready, b i 2 vo l s., with i'ortraits, 218., 91 11 7., LAST DECADE OF A GLORIOUS REIGN : Beim- the Concluding Part of "The History , of Henry IV., King of France and Navarre." From Original and Authentic Sources. By M. W. FREER. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. With Fifty beautiful Illustrations, by Wolf and Zwecker, BALDWIN'S AFRICAN HUNTING ANT) ADVENTURES from NATAL to the ZAMBESI FALLS. "A hunting epic in prose."—Spectator. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. l'opular Edition, 65., with 2 Illustrations, T" CHANNINGS. HyAITS. HENRY WOOD. Richard Bentley a ;klew Burlington-street. SIR RUTHERFORD A LCOCK'S WORK ON JAPAN. Now ready, in 2 vols., Bvo., with two Maps, and 142 Illustra tions on Wood and in Chromo-lithography, price 420., cloth, T HE CAPITAL of the TYCOON: A Nar rative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan. Exit RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.8., Her Majesty's Envoytraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 14, Ludgate-hill. MR. KINGLAKE'S INVASION OF THE CRIMEA." The SECOND EDITION IS NOW PUBLISHED, and may be had of all Booksellers. Vols. L and 11. Bvo. Price 32!., cloth. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. CHRONICLES OF CAR i.INGPORD : In Two Volumes Post Octavo, price 24a., 1.3 ALEXI C HAPEL. Originally published in " Blackwood's Magazine." "This book will take a permanent place in English titers ture. " S p ectator. "It is a picture of actual life, not copied, indeed, from any one e .tisting community, but stu‘iied with a realistic strent;th from many ; it has a combined humour, pathos, .ind vivid ness, not inferior lo any n vel that has a.peared for, at least, three or four years."—Horning Herald. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. AWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY, At 26. ed. each Person. SOUPS. Mulligatannv Brunoise. FSH Soles ala Hollandaise; Fried Smelts. E Stewed Kidneys au Madere. NTREES. Fricatelle aux Champlgnons. JOINTS. Sirloins of Beef. Roast Legs of Mutton. Potatoes ala Lyonnaise. Choux Fleurs au Beurre. SWEETS. Sir Watkin Puddings. Rhubard Tartlets. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOs ELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for The London Dinner. THE LONDON, 19', FLEET-STREET. nANTERBURY HALL. N._) Great success of the Third Edition of the renowned Pantomimic Entertainment, THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, swely sustained by F. MarshalL The Comic by Unsworth, in his celebrated stump sp eec h , "Or any oth er Man." Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Laura Sanders. GRA D OPERATIC SELECTIONS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. H X F OR I) 6. OXFORD STREET. , Re-appearance of Miss Russell. ALCESTE (by GLucx), By the entire company, conducted by Mr. F. Jonamans. Drew Dean's Flute Solos. Ballads by Master Edwin Sanders, the juvenile vocalist, aged 9 years. George Hodson's Irish and Miscellaneous Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Scenas and Dances. W. Randall's New Comicalities. Miss Caroline Parkes' Pantomimic Sketch, "Little Red Riding Hood;" and other varied attractions. Hall, 6 d.—Balcony and Stalls, ls.—Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. The Cantata, " HERNE THE HUNTER," by M.W. Lutz, will be produced on SATURDAY. T HE PRINCE of WALES' MARRIAGE will be celebrated at the LONDON PAVILION by a MONSTRE ENTERTAINMENT on the Evening of TUESDAY, the 10th of March. Each visitor will be presented with A HANDSOME SOUVENIR in commemoration of the auspicious event ; and no expense or exertion will be spared to characterise the proceedings with that loyalty due to the occasion of the nuptials of Eng land's future King, The London Pavilion, Tichbourne-street. MMJULLIENIS PROMENADE CONCERTS . EVERY EVENING at the ARGYLL ROOMS. Great Success.—See opinions of the Press. Conductor—Mons. JULLIE The celebrated Cornet-a- Elston, Mr. J. LEVY, Will play at intervals from 9 to 12 o'clock. The Concert, composed of Classic 1 Music from the GREAT MASTERS, will terminate at a quarter-past Ten, and the Dance music at five minutes to Twelve. Promenade, la.—Reserved seats, 2s. Doors open at Eight o'clock Manager, Mons. GRENET. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; 1 containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformati ons , an d Mon strosities. ()pen daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlemen only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and 4C Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don W W. Explanatory Lecture every Afternoon at Four. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, poet free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. T HE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 508., a new Instrument, by Neg re tti and Zambra, will Cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls fbr Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing; stamp.-1, Hatton-garden; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. MOORE BROTHERS' TEAS. Choice SOUCHONG, recommended 3s. 9d. per Z. suitable for superior purposes , f u ll r i c h S ouch ougliavour. M:xed ASSAM, 1 ighly recommended 4s. Cid. per Z of' very choice quality, and the cheap es t T ea sold. • id per lb. deduction on 201 h. Bags and 4515. Chests. Prospectus free. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unf aqing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., 10s. 5d., and 21s. Forwarded on ri ceipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first Boor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s wigs, £1 10s. OLDRIDGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA established upwards of thirty years. Is the best and only certain remedy ever discov ere d for preserving, strengthening, beautif ying, or restoring the hair, whiskers, or moustaches, and preventing them turning grey. Sold in bottles, Is. 6d., 65., and ifs., by C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 22, Wellington-street. Strand, London, W.C., and all chemists and perfumers. For childrens' and ladies' hair it is most efficacious and unrivalled. TEETH. -By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by means of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing* with springs or unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by toe closest observer. -The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even-by the g wearer)• and as they oftac indeendently f ll disturin causes whiCb affect teeth ordinapry constr u ct i on , b on, they are guaranteed to last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains hisinvention, post free for seven st itMpS.--Tnspectlon of specimens and Co nsultations free. Terms strictly moderate.--8, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London ; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXH IN THE I x unaITION R OF 1851 AND 1862), 181TED is allowed by upwards GREAT of Two Hun dred Medical G e ntl emen t o b e the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of fl ERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, here avoided — a soft bandage being worn round th e nody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the %loc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the truss, which cannot fail to lit, forwarded by post, on the dr lsentumfeto therence omanufacturef the body,r, two inches b e l ow the hips, being Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. ed., and 31s. ed. Postage, le. Double Truss, 31s. ed., 425., and 52 5 . ed . Postage, Is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White; Post- Ace, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases o f Weakness and Swelling ot the Legs, Sprains, &a They are porous, I tght in texture, And inexpensive, and are drawn on nit an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 108., to 16s. ea4h. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.—LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving , coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con consumption its con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty , pronounce in eurabie.admirably allays the tickling which d of sleep, or even pro vokes frequent coughing. In approaching effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprive lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, Sine William-street, Charine— ?l'n, as, London, and b all druggists, in bottles, 130., aid f r ee, quantities in on e, 2s • 9d. each. Be particular, and ' d rub . 4 _ engram4bveertd'oenAtshtehmstaamtiop.Balsam. The name and ad- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1863 . Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Powerful target-ship is receiving alongside Portsmouth dock yard another supply of armour-plates for testing at the practice moorings in Porehester creek. They include five plates from the Thames Iron Works Company, one of five inches thickness of metal for the Ocean, and four others experimental, one 15-feet rolled plate is from Rigby and Beerdmore, of Glasgow. The Mersey Company, Clare, Horsfall, and Co., send 12 plates of a somewhat novel charac ter both as regards their size and the way in which they will be bolted on the ship's side for firing at. Each of these plates are 6 feet long by only one foot wide, and are two and a-half inches through the metal. Six of them will be bolted on the ship's side in a longi tudinal position, and close to each other, forming a layer of iron planking of two and a-half inch iron, six feet square. Over this layer will be laid and bolted the remaining six plates of planks, but in a vertical position ; the whole thus forming a square of iron planking five inches in thickness, but divided in the centre; and laid at right angles. Two other plates have been fixed on the Powerful's side, for trial at the same time, and the result is watched with conside rable interest. This is purely a Government experiment. A Royal Alfred Plate was directed to be taken from the stock in the dock yard, cut through the centre, and the two parts then bent four-and a-half inches, the thickness of the plate,. from a straight line, one part to be heated and then bent to the required curve in the wedge press, and the other half to be bent cold in the hydraulic press--the object sought being to ascertain whether any or what difference ex isted conseqnent upon the two systems of bedding as would be shown when struck by shot. The plate to be bent cold was first taken in hand, but owing to the opening of the metal, the plate was not bent beyond two-and-a-half inches, instead of four-and-a-half inches, as ordered. The remaining portion of the plate was therefore bent in the wedge press only to the same extent. It has been contended by many that iron armour plates can be bent cold with the same facility that they can when heated, but, 89 far as is known by experience in the Government yards at present, this cannot be done, nor can plates over three inches in thickness be bent at any time cold and with the hydraulic press in safety. This opinion is borne out also by that of more than one firm engaged in the manu, facture of armour plates. More is known of the results attending the bending of rolled than hammered plates, and While it is said that the cracks in the latter caused by the bending are. more destractisar than is the case - With the former, enough is known of the results to the rolled plate to enable a tolerably safe prediction to be formed of the nature and extent of the openings in the metal, however excel lent may be the plate's quality. The reason of this is simple enough. If in bending a plate its inner circle could be made to submit to its due share of compression, and thus reduce itself and ease the outer circle in its expansion, it would throw the neutral axis in the centre of the plate, and there would be less risk of cracks or opening. of the metal in a direction with the fibre. The inner edge or surface of the plate does not, however, when cold undergo any important compres sion, and the whole force is tensional and greatest on the outer edge. The pressure with the single ram hydraulic presses in use in her Majesty's dockyards is also local, instead of being diffused over the entire surface, and thus with a hammered plate risks the breaking of the metal, and with a rolled plate, the strain being thrown across the fibre of the metal, the risk is an opening of the plate's outer sur face in the direction of the fibre. This plate is the first which it has been attempted to any extent of curve, cold, by the hydraulic press at Portsmouth. With a different application of the hydraulic power to the single vertical ram at present in use to a plate's surface, the plate being heated in the furnace to a black heat, it is thought that plates may yet be bent with a certain degree of safety to any curva ture. This would probably be accomplished by six or eight rams placed horizontally, part bearing on the outer and part on the inner surface of the plate, by which means the tremendous pressure brought into service by the hydraulic press would be diffused over the plate's entire surface, which it is believed would render a good plate secure from any serious injury. Perhaps the safest and most economical plan would be to let the manufacturers of the plates bend them at the time of manufacture to moulds furnished them from the yard in which the ship for whom the armour is destined is being con structed. It cannot be doubted that not only the manufacture of armour plates, but also the preparation which they have to undergo after they are manufactured, is at the present moment a subject of the greatest interest, not only to iron-workers and scientific men, but to the public generally. In the Naval Estimates for 1863-64, iron and armour plates for iron-cased ships building at Chatham figures 15,0001., and iron for armour plates for wooden ships for i 60,0001. The Curacoa, 24, screw frigate, in the basin at Portsmouth, has re ceived her lower masts, has got her tops on, her topmasts pointed, and is getting up her low i er rigging and stays. A swarm of ship wrights, joiners, and caulkers are about her decks at work to com plete her for the pennant. The Megaira, screw troopship, Commander L. H. Henderson, em barked the right wing of the 61st Regiment this morning at Ports mouth for conveyance to the Channel Islands, returning with a wing of the 2d battalion 18th (Royal Irish), under orders for New Zealand The Esk, 17, screw corvette, 1,169 tons and 250-horse power, was floated out of No. 5 dock yesterday at Portsmouth, where she has been undergoing very heavy repairs to her hull, having been, in fact, almost rebuilt, in consequence of her very defective condition. In the last week of the old year but part of the ship's frame was stand ing in the dock, owing to the removal of the decayed and weak por tions, both bows being entirely swept away as far aft as the fore channels, a great number of her timbers taken out and other parts of her framing removed, and planking and lining partially stripped. Since then she has been taken in hand conjointly with the Curacoa, and shipwrights crowded upon her as thick as they could conve niently use their tools to give her a thorough repair, yesterday being the exact time then fixed for bringing her to her present state of progress, and floating her out of dock ; and, greatly to the credit of the shipwright department, the programme has been faith fully adhered to, the prescribed amount of work done, and the ship undocked on the day originally named when commencing the work. There is, it is asserted, no record of an equal amount of work in the repair of a ship having been done in the same time on any other occasion in any of the dockyards. It cannot be forgotten, however, that to execute this work the workmen were almost entirely with drawn from the iron-cased ships Royal Sovereign and Royal Alfred. Indeed, at present there are not more than two men and a boy em ployed upon the Royal Alfred. A of this csLagut4f vessels will, • however, be ready for commission, as stated by Lord Clarence Paget, on the 19th of March next. The Esk was built by contract in a private yard at Millwall, in 1853-4, and was a very unfavourable specimen of such work, judging by the official reports concerning her. Her frame was weak, and the materials not of the best description. In carrying out her present repairs it has been found necessary to strengthen her main-deck beams by 16 additional knees. Several of her lower-deck beams have also been strengthened in a similar manner, and other parts proportionately. The ship is' without doubt, much stronger now in every respect than she was when first off the stocks. The repairs have been made under the , direction and supervision of the same foreman, Mr. Loney, to whom was assigned the outfit of the Warrior and Black Prince. The 2d of April is the date named when the Esk is to be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities and ready to hoist the pennant. The royal paddle yacht Osborne, Master-Commander G. K. Bower, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday at 4 p.m. for Antwerp, to convey to England her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia. t ch l o n le te ra llig h en as ce e h n a t i s r e b ly een lef r t ec t e h i e ve s d ere a w t P s l t y e ln am o u f t r h i g , a a t n e n E o u u n r c y i a ng u s t , ha ICnadpita. andJ. S. h Joshing,ina station, flagan of the that the C o Commander-in-Chief rmoavn areder - n i n o 1 i n - v C hi e f good d t h h e e alt East h . She continued at Hongkong. About 3o invalids from the frigate are d coming home in the screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. George L. S. Bower. It is reported at Plymouth that, in consequence of the state of his health, Rear-Admiral L. Kuper is about to le ave his command. Last winter the French steam frigate Vauban left Vera Cruz with military invalids for France. When off Cape Hatteras she lost her mainmast, which, in falling, injured several of the crew. Shortly after she was exposed to a heavy gale, and bore up for Bermuda, where it was discovered that the head of the rudder and the pintles were seriously damaged, thus rendering her arrival at the island a subject of twofold congratulation. In the absence of Admiral Milne, Capt. F. H. H. Glasse, C. 8., the naval officer in charge, placed the resources of the Government establishments at the command of the captain of the Vauban, whose disabled ship was immediately handed over to the officers of the Royal Arsenal there. All the worst cases of disease among the crew and many of the soldiers wounded in the Mexican war were sent to the Naval Hospital in Ireland Island, where they were placed under the care of Deputy -Inspector-General R. E. Smart, M.D., and Dr. W. G. Domville, of the flagship Nile. On the 6th of January the Vice-Consul for France, who resides at Hamilton, paid an official visit to the Naval Hospital at Ireland Island, and was much gratified at witnessing the comfort and order which prevailed, and on learning from the afflicted inmates themselves how much they felt indebted to their physicians for the benefit they had derived. The utmost cordiality exists between the officers of the Vauban and the residents at .Bermuda. Her repairs were not completed up to the middle of January. The paddlewheel steamvessel Caradoc, 2, Lieut.-Commander Wil kinson, having embarked supernumeraries, left Plymouth on Tues day for the Mediterranean. During the past six months several hundred of the convicts at tached to the convict establishment at Chatham have been engaged in preparing the materials, manufacturing the bricks, and iu various preparations to build the additional docks and basins at Chatham for the reception of a class of vessels considerably larger than any now afloat belonging to the British navy. The whole of the land required for the proposed undertaking has now been obtained pos session of by the Admiralty, the various corporations, public bodies, and other parties interested having had their claims satisfied. The total cost of the construction of the proposed basins, docks, and locks at Chatham, including the embankment of a considerable portion of the Medway, which is to be deepened Irom Chatham harbour to the Nore, so as to form a channel 600 ft. wide and 27ft. deep at half tides, which will give sift. at neaps and 35ft. at springs, is close upon 1,000,0001. sterling, the Admiralty estimate of toe work being 943,8761. Of this suns 68,0001. has been already voted for the work. The Navy Estimates published on Tuesday show that only 20,0001. will be asked for by the Admiralty to carry on the works this year, so that no very extensive operations will be commenced in the proposed un dertakings for several months to come. In addition to the docks already existing at Chatham it is intended to construct five other docks, each of which will be very nearly double the length of the largest dock at that yard. The three centre docks of the intended number will be each sooft. in length at the clear, with two smaller docks of 400 ft. in length. Each of the new docks will communicate on the south side wilh a large basin 22 acres in extent, with a depth of soft. at the neap, thus enabling vessels of the Warrior and Achilles 1 class to float alongside the wharf with all their guns, stores, &c., on board. There will also be two other basins at Chatham, the largest of which will be 31 acres In extent' by upwards of 2,000 ft. at its g aa re t a n te th st e l a l i gr o , tog and doo 7oo k ft . . in breadth, o wi tw th o tl l i a e rg sa e m doo e depth of of ho w a a r te e r . pairing basin of somewhat lesser extent, this being intended to have as tho th to e t w a hole being will Mft .tbhyus4wbeftexin biuireadarteha. of Th abo o n to t t s ai eve b n ast a n cres ar , ea its a l t en of the basin accommodation b e a a i ra u ll t t h h a l e f r o as y a l n i d u o c c h k y a a g rd a 1 n s , which are totally inaccessible to large ships. The new Deptford, actly 60 acres, which will and basins intended to be formed at Chatham will occupy the ex tent of which is only 41 acres , inc l u din g the basins at Woolwich a nd docks south side of St. Mary's Island, the portion of which bordering on Chatham harbour for a distance of about two miles having been al ready embanked by the convicts , who h a v e been em p lo y ed on the length work for several years past. Two locks , each o f SOO feet in . wide to receive the largest class of iron vessels, will and sufficiently communicate between the largest of the three basins and the river. who are the owners of the Medway azs far as the Nore, for the Admi raltyhich contains a valuable earth to dred ge t h e b e d o f the river, w ertnission has been already granted by the corporation of Roches te r , for the manufacture of cement to be used in constructing the new docks and basins. The other works in progress at Chatham, for v f o e r s new which a vote will be required this year, include a new caisson for the dock in which the Achilles, So, is under construction, foundations cost of the latter vessel cannot be ascertained the harbour of mud, and for new machinery, the total estimate for eluding the tehseowhole of the above being 21,6601. A further sum of 67,0401. will w g u n n i d ac ei llerY s , tni th e e ti e o nl n ar a g t em eh e a n t t h o a f m th a e n plumber's shop, clearing ,be required to be voted for engines and machinery for the The amount required machinery for the iron frigate Achilles. The exact plete her, beyond the large mates, but it is ably less than that confidently stated that it will be consider dtaialnerdeadfryomordtehreed,esintiz of f iron vessels built by private firms. sum will be taken in the votes storesg a e tedto of that material already accumu lated additionnialade or armour-plates , and iron to com- Navy Estimates f0r,1863-4 is I,osB,27i:lyear' this estimates to be 15,0001., which at Chatham, Is stated Yesterday at the Admi- The net decrease in the • The following appointments were ralty :--Capt. F. A. Campbell in the Royal Oak ; W. G. Wratten, chi' to cf the Fisgard, borough ; Peter Steil, chief engineer, to th e nflineer, to the Marl for service Atlas ; Robert J. Hay, chief engineer, to thee C c umberland, for the berland, for the BristolChannon , engineer, to the Indus, a s and Thomas Rose, Ist class assistant enginee r , to ttsoupernumerarY '4 . Indus, for the Fervent. at Netley Hospital during the first week in the ensuing month, im mediately after which the entire invalid depot at St. Mary's Barracks will also move to the same establishment. As soon as the new ar rangements are completed Chatham will cease to be the station to which troops will be forwarded from all parts of the world for the purpose of being discharged. Under the new system the vessels ar riving from abroad with troops will lie in Southampton Water, near Netley, where the time-expired men and invalids will he landed, when those not requiring medical or surgical treatment will be at once sent inland to their depots or forwarded to their homes, while the sick and wounded only will he detained in the hospital, the plan of keeping up what is termed an invalid depot, as at Chatham, being discontinued. The intention to convert Fort Pitt into barracks for the reception of officers and troops has, it is understood, been abandoned, and the building will still be retained for a hospital, for which its excellent site eminently fits it. According to present arrangements, it is intended to make Fort Pitt the central hospital for the whole garrison, thus doing away with the necessity of separate hospitals for the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and the Line, as is the case under existing arrangements. The officers of the Staff already named as selected for the new hospital at Netley are Col. R. Wilbra ham, C. 8., Governor ; Major J. M. Kennedy, Paymaster; and Capt. W. Hawtree, Captain of Orderlies. entrapped into fellowship with those who represented the principles of human slavery, and were themselves traf fickers in the sinews and the souls of their fellowmen. He contrasted the conduct of the corporation in decreeing busts of Granville Sharp and Clarkson, and said that the city of London would lie under a stigma which he be lieved it did not deserve until its citizens met in Common Council to resent the insult which the present Lord Mayor htid put upon it in welcoming Mr. Mason. He concluded by moving— "That the Lord Mayor, by inviting and receiving at the Mansion-house Mr. Mason, the author of the iniquitous Fugitive Slave Law, as the representative of those Southern Confederate States in America whose independence the Bri tish Government has hitherto refused to recognise, has offered a wanton insult to the Government, to the citizans of London, and to the whole British nation, and has disgraced the annals of a Corporation not more renowned for its anti • quity than for its great and continued services in the cause of freedom, and the honours it has rejoiced and been proud to render to men distinguished by their Christain and philanthropic labours and sacrifices for the liberties and welfare of mankind." Mr. J. CUNNINGIILX seconded the motion, which was supported with much energy by Mr. Washington Wilks, and carried, like the first, with entire unanimity. The proceedings terminated shortly before 11 o'clock, with a collection. The Marriage of the Prince of Wales. The great reception to be given to the Prince's bride on her arrival in this country promises, as ' each day developer fresh preparations, to be one of the most spontaneous and magnificent popular wel comes ever given in England. Along the whole length to be traversed by the Princess, from Graves end to Windsor, there is not a municipality or cor poration which has not its thoughts fixed just now on how best to welcome and do honour to the caval cade while passing through its boundaries. There is not an important space along the entire route which has not been already marked out as the scene for some display, and the sites which have not yet been definitely allotted have many eager claimants from different bodies, ail more or less qualified to occupy them with credit and effect. The efforts made by the people of Gravesend to do honour to the departure of the Princess Royal have led to high expectations of what the Corpora tion would do on the arrival of another royal bride. As on previous occasions, the portions of the town through which the procession will pass are to be given over from roof to basement to a professional decorator, Mr. Snelling, whose designs for the ap propriate and harmonious adornment of all the thoroughfares were accepted yesterday. This arrangement insures a completeness of effect and a harmony of parts to the whole that are impossible when the work is left to individual efforts, which on this occasion will only be suffered to expend them selves in the side streets off the main route. The principal features of the decoration will be a kind of light garlanded arch, bearing banners, with the arms of the Prince and Princess, surmounted in the centre with the Prince's coronet and plume, and having handsome winged Victories on either side extending chaplets of flowers. The greater portion of the line of procession will be roofed in as it were by these light structures, which are to be erected at intervals of every 40 ft. along Harmer-street, at the top of which a massive triumphal arch will be erected, with its four ribs meeting in the centre, over the intersection of the roadways. Here, also, will be a richly decorated stand for visitors. All along the New-road to the railway station similar decorations will be continued, so as to form one con tinuedvista of arches and garlands throughout. The station itself will be beautifully adorned by the Com pany, and the Terrace-pier, on which the Princess will land, by the Corporation. Under the awning of this pier are to be seats for 1,200 visitors, for which seats there are already nearly 4,000 appli cants clamouring for tickets which really belong to the ratepayers, at whose expense the whole wel come is given, and whose claims the Corporation have most properly determined to consider first. The Danish man-of-war Slesvig, with the Princess on board, and escorted by two Danish frigates and the English ships, is expected to arrive off the pier a little before noon. The naval portion of the de monstration, will, it is probable, be increased from the Nore by several gunboats, manned by the officers and men of the Naval Reserve of the port of London, who have petitioned the Admiralty to be allowed the honour of thus forming part of the river escort—a petition which, we believe, the Admiralty, have already acceded to. The military commandant of the district will furnish the guard of honour on the pier from Chatham, and the West Kent Yeo manry, one of the finest bodies of cavalry in the kingdom, will form the escort, under the command of Major the Earl of Darnley. The Prince of Wales, with the Danish Minister and other distinguished personages, will, it is expected, go on board the Slesvig to welcome the Princess, and her landing is to take place, with all the Royal ceremonies of salutes and manning yards, at ono o'clock. On landing, Mrs. Sams, the wife of the Mayor of Gravesend, will present the Princess with a bouquet in a richly-jewelled case, which has been purchased by general subscription by the ladies of Gravesend. As on the occasion of the Princess Royal's depar ture, 60 young ladies, dressed alike in red and blue and white—the colours of England and Denmark— will be stationed along the Terrace-pier, 30 on each side. Each of these young ladies will be provided with ample, though pretty, baskets filled with violets and roses, which they will strew along the path as the Princess advances. Viscount Sidney, as Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, will receive her High ness at the upper end of the pier, and present the Mayor and the other members of the Corporation. An address will be presented by the town-clerk, but, following the admirable rule which has lately come into fashion on these State occasions, it will be presented only, and not read. The Royal party and their suites will then enter their State carriages, and proceed in procession through Gravesend by the route we have already in dicated to the railway station, the whole extent of the line from pier to railway being kept by the Kent ish Volunteer Artillery and the various Kentish rifle corps. The Royal train is expected to arrive at the Bricklayers' Arms Station soon after 2 o'clock. It is understood to be the wish of Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, that the Royal progress should be facilitated as ranch as possible from the Bricklayers' Arms Station to that of the Great Western, at Paddington, in order to spare the Prin cess unnecessary fatigue. Originally Sir George de sired that the Royal procession, after passing along London-bridge, should proceed by way of Cannon street to Temple-bar, an arrangement which would have materially abridged the distance; but on being told that a large number of the principal citizens in King William-street, about the Royal Exchange and the Mansion-house, in Princes-street, the Poul try, and Cheapside would be deprived of the pleasure of seeiug the pageant, he yielded the point, and so from London-bridge to Temple-bar the procession will follow the more circuitous route of King IVil liatn-street, Cheapside, St. Paul's Churchyard, Lud gate-hill, and Fleet-street. An endeavour will be made to keep the civic retinue within reasonable limits, and to that end it will probably be composed‘h of representatives of the different branches of . e . it e corporation, rather than of the whole body It will consist chiefly of m t i h d e dle L s o e r x d ; Mayor th Sheriffs of London and the members a and the of the Reception Committee, about com posed of Aldermen and Common Councilmen ; a 40 in number, and wardens of the 12 principal livery companies ; de putation from the Co urt of Lteutdraancy ; the masters and probably the ministerial officers of the Corpo ration. The Lord Mayor will go in state, and the rest of the civic authorities in carriages — o p en, i f the day be fine. The membere of the Court of Lieutenancy will be in uniform ; the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Councilmen will wear their official robes, as will also the officers of the Corporation and the masters and wardens of companies. A grand triumphal arch is to be erected, by the authority of the Corporation, near Fishmongers'- PRICE .... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. hall, at the entrance to the city, and London bridge will be decorated throughout its entire length with flags and trophies. In front of the Mansion-house a gallery for 400 people will be constructed, and the portico of the build ing appropriately ornamented• The whole of the open space within the enclosure on the east, south, and west sides of St. Paul's Cathedral will be occupied by seats, rising tier over tier, and with canopies, for the accommodation of about 10,000 people, including the Dean and Chapter, the governing bodies of the whole of the livery companies, nearly 80 in number, with their friends, and about 700 boys from the City of Lon don School and the Orphan School. The whole of this vast amphitheatre of seats will be erected in the most substantial manner, under the direction of Mr. Bunning, the city architect, and some notion may be formed of the care which will be bestowed upon the work with a view to the public safety when it is stated that, with the exterior decora tions, it will probably cost about £7,000. The ex pense will be borne jointly by the Corporation and the livery companies. Temple-bar is also to be elaborately decorated, and on the evening of the nuptial day it and the Mansion-house, and probably Guildhall, will be illuminated. Yesterday the Court of Lieutenancy held another meeting at Guildhall to make their arrangements, and the Reception Committee will meet again on Saturday to forward the work. Along Pall-mall the windows and balconies of the clubs will be draped, and this fine thoroughfare will on this occasion present a really magnificent appearance. Perhaps, however, the great centre of attraction will be in Hyde Park, where not only will there be an immense concourse of spectators, but from 18,000 to 20,000 of the finest of our Metropoli tan Volunteers will be massed, so as to give the Princess a fair idea of the strength of that second line of defence within which she is in future to dwell, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held on Tuesday at the London Tavern to receive a report from the scrutineers, as to the result of the poll demanded on Friday and for the transaction of the remaining business of the half-yearly meeting. Mr. T. Broderick, the chairman, presided. The CHAIRMAN stated that the poll had closed at 2 o'clock on Saturday, and the result was that 78,749 shares, representing 19,055 votes, were re corded in favour of the adoption of the directors' report, and that 56,164 shares, representing 15,214 votes, were recorded in favour of Mr. Anderson's amendment; consequently there was a majority of 22,585 shares, representing 3,841 votes, in favour of adopting the report of the directors. Mr. IVATKIN objected to that mode of stating the result of the poll, and required the chairman to read the report of the scrutineers, from which it appeared that there was a majority of 5,535 ordinary shares in favour of Mr. Anderson's amendment, and a majority of 28,120 preference shares in favour of the motion proposed by the directors. Deducting the majority of ordinary , shares, 6,535, from the 28,120 preference shares, left the majority for the directors' motion, 22,585 shares representing £3,841 votes. Mr. WATKIN thought the directors ought to con sider that the holders of ordinary shares, who were most interested, had voted against the adoption of the report, and in favour of Mr. Anderson's motion. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was received, and a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares of the company for the half year ending the 31st Dec. last, less in come tax, was declared, payable on the 28th inst. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that all the ordi nary shares of the company, upon which the sum of £l9 16s. 4d. per share had been paid up, be con verted into a capital stock of the company, Mr. GoEz thought that it would be better to give the shareholders a small bonus by consolidating the shares as £2O each. CHAIRMAN said the secretary had suggested the repayment to the shareholders of odd shillings and pence, which would simplify the conversion into stock, and would only amount to a few shillings and pence per share. Mr. BURCHELL explained that the act authorised th© company to raise £3,200,000 on shares, and if they adopted Mr. 0 oez's suggestion they would have a larger amount of share capital than Parliament had authorised. The motion of the chairman was then agreed to. Mr. ANDERSON said the result of the poll was most gratifying to him, giving a majority of 5,500 ordinary shares in favour of the amendment. He considered that the preference shares had no imme diate interest in the increase of the dividend. The preference shares were secured their dividend of 5 per cent. by £4,000,000 of stock. He hoped the holders of preference shares in future would refrain from yoting against measures intended for the im provement of the ordinary dividend, Although the preference shareholders had defeated him on that occasion, he would not slacken his efforts to reform the board. Mr. GOEZ said they had now 13 directors, and they had power to elect 24 directors. He would propose that Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Watkin, and Mr. Leith be elected to seats at the board, and ho hoped the directors would receive the sugges tion in a friendly spirit. He then gave notice that at the next meeting he would propose that a similar by-law to that passed at the Great Western meeting be adopted by this company. Lard A. PAGET suggested that Mr. Anderson and Mr. Leith be elected directors. Mr. GOEZ proposed that Mr. Watkin be elected a director. The CHAIRMAN could not agree to the election of Mr. Watkin. After some further observations, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Leith were elected mem bers of the board, and the proceedings terminated. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at Manchester. Mr. H. W. WICKUAM, M.P., the chairman, ex pressed his regret that owing to the continued de pression of trade in the cotton districts, the income of the company had suffered severely, but he tbe lieved there were slight symptoms of improvement, en the and those who looked at the traffic there returnswas f last five or six weeks would see that some increase as compared with the correspondingoopts,ei week of last year. Th e falling off in receipts, o w ing to the cause re f e rred to, had been £130,00'), equal toeaadeividend o f 2 per cent. com pared with the half - y ear ending December, 1860. The receipts of the last half-year were less than those in the corresponding half of 1861 by 1;78,000, and that amounted to about 8 per cent. on the whole but he was glad to say that the directors had also been able to make a saving in I he working expenses during the same period equal to 71 per emt. He moved the adoption of the report and accounts. Mr. G. WILSON, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously adopted. The CHAIRMAN then moved the declaration of the guaranteed dividends on preference and other stock, and 2 per cent. on the ordinary stock foe' the half_ year, payable on the 2d of March. Mr. ANDUS seconded the motion and expressed a hope that, from the state of the traffic, next half year instead of paying a dividend of 4 per cent. per annum they should be able to pay 43 per cent. The motion was passed. Mr. Andus and Mr. Fielden, directors retiring by rotation, were then re-elected. 11r. liarpur was also re-elected. The CHAIRMAN then moved that the directors be authorised to expend not exceeding £lOO,OOO on the The report of the directors states that £51,228 had been added to the capital account during the half-year ending 31st December last. The revenue account showed a gross income from all sources of £87,616, and a total expenditure of £33,257, leav ing a balance of £54,359, which, after meeting the interest and preferential dividends, would yield a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital, and the directors recom mended the declaration of that dividend. The capital account showed that £2,463,549 had been expended, leaving a balance in hand of £54,900. THE ARMY. It is now definitely stated that the principal officers of the Staff at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, together with the professors and heads of departments connected with the Army Medical School at that establishment, will leave the garrison and enter on their duties NEGRO EMANCIPATION. A meeting of the friends and supporters of the Emancipa tion Society was held at St. James's hall last evening to hear addresses from various gentlemen upon this subject. The chair was taken by Mr. W. Evans, president of the society, and among the principal persons present on the platform where the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Professor F. L. Newman, the Rev. W. Landells, Sir Benjamin Pine, Mr. Besley, Mr. J. A. Nicholay, Mr. W. Wilks, the Rev. J. Stent, Mr. Malleson, Mr. L. A. Chamerovzow, &c. The great hall was crowded with people. The CHAIRMAN said that the response given throughout the whole country to the Exeter-hall meeting must have .convinced all those who imaeried there was a lull in the public mind on this question that though the hatred of slavery might appear dead it only slumbered. The old hatred of that atrocious wrong was now as intense in the hearts of the people as it was in the days when L')rd Derby introduced his famous measure declaring that the name of slavery should be erased from our statute-book. This society had been in existence only two or three months, yet meetings had been held in every metropolitan borough and in every large town in England, and associations had been formed in the Midland Counties and the West Riding To their detractors they were indebted for having served their purpose well, and chief among these detractors he would name the 7 illus. The article in that news paper declaring that slavery was consonant with Scripture bad been worth a month's agitation to them. Again, Earl Russell had used expressions in this matter unworthy of his name. ("No," and confusion.) He had spoken of this rebellion of the South as for independence, (Hear, hear.) Now, if any meaning was to be attached to this word it meant freedom, and what could freedom mean in the South, where there were 4,000,000 slaves ? (Cheers.) Another cause of success was the lamentable exhibition made by the Lord Mayor in having welcomed Mr. Mason. (Hisses, and a cry of "Question.") Throughout the country the working men had taken a noble attitude on this question, and, with an intuitive perception of what was true to their principies, and to their country, they took the right stand upon this question. It was said that the North and South, so dire was their enmity, could not come together again. Having travelled through the country, he believed that the intimate domestic relations existing between the two sections would lead to their reunion when the monstrous wrong of slavery was redressed, and America would then become stronger and more powerful than ever. Professor NEWMAN passed in review the course of the struggle in America, and said it would have been criminal in President Lincoln to have gone to war for slavery. War was not a weapon which a philanthropist would choose to wield for the purpose of humanity. Every reasonable and wise man in the North at the outset sought for freedom through the Constitution, and desired that slavery should be extinguished by legal and constitutional means. When, however, the South broke into rebellion the first thing was to enforce the law and preserve the Union. Suppose the South, having missed its spring, had said, " We will come back to the Union with no submissions and with no condi tions." Mr. Lincoln would have received them, and rightly. The South would then have been cowed, no slavery Presi dent would thereafter have been elected, and slavery would slowly and legally have passed away. He believed that by. and-bye the poor whites in the South would see that they had been cheated by the Southern leaders, who had promised them the re-opening of the slave-trade, so that each of them should have a cheap negro to work for him. No doubt, some of these poor whites had fought against what they regarded as an attack on their homes and liberties, and when they came into contact with the North they would see that the Northern whites were as gentlemen by their side, and that slavery degraded the white man, and was a greater curse to him even than to the black. When the Union was restored and slavery extinguished the uncultiveed fields of the South would bear a thousandfold under free labour, and that was the way in which the expenses of the war, which so much terrified the Times, would be defrayed. Mr. Newman con cluded by moving the following resolution :—" That the re• volt of the Southern States of America against the Federal Government having avowedly originated in the determina tion not only to maintain but to extend slavery, and having been followed by the organisation of a Confederacy based upon the denial of human rights to the negro race, this meeting indignantly repels the assumption that the English people sympathise with a rebellion that thus violates every principle of political justice, or with institutions framed in defiance of the moral sense of civilised mankind, and which are an outrage upon the religion the sanction of which has been claimed for their support." The Rev. W. LANDELLS, in seconding the motion, said they had met not as out and out partisans of either North or South, but to consider whether the success of the South or of the North was most likely to lead to the liberation of the slave. Now, it was absurd to suppose that, having struggled for slavery as the corner-stone of their Confe deracy, the South would at once relinquish it when they obtained their independence, and to any one who held such a belief he could only say, "O man, great is thy faith I" The leaders of the South were most likely to know their own minds, and they had spoken not one word to show that they had abandoned their old opinions. The South going to abandon slavery when independent! Why, they might as well say that when the Devil had full s wing he would cease to do mischief. (Great applause.) It was far more likely that Southern success would increase the arrogance of the slaveholders, and that in some years there would be 8,000,000 slaves in the South instead of 4,000,000. Of course the North were fighting for the Union. They had no right to fight for anything else. Mr. Lincoln was bound by his oath to main tain the Union. It was said that the South were fighting for freedom. Yes, freedom to enslave others, to flog the negro, to sell for the vilest purposes their own flesh and blood, and inflict the worst tyranny npon the weak and de fenceless. They were fighting for independence, indeed, but it was independence of all laws, human and Divine. What infatuation had come over Englishmen to give their admiration and sympathy to such men? How was it that Mr. Mason, the author of the Fugitive Slave Law, was the man whom the Mansion house of London delighted to hon our ? The maledictions of 10,000 slaves and the hatred of all true-hearted Englishmen must rest on the Mansion-house while it ad m itt e d t o it s ta b le such " distinguished guests." (Loud applause.) At this stage of the proceedings some confusion was oc casioned by a gentleman in the body of the hall, who appa rently desired to address the meeting. (Loud cries of " Turn him out 1" however, were raised, and the gentleman, yield ing to pressure, was escorted to the door. The Chairman then announced, amid laughter and cheers, that the author of the confusion, being a well-behaved man, had left the meeting. Mr. G. THOMPSON, in proposing the next resolution, said that the English people were now bestowing the fullness of their sympathy upon the cause of freedom, and the absence of every distinguished and of any respectable manin favour of the South'on the public platforms proved, if there were there who sympathised with the South they were afraid to unveil their motives, (Here another person in the gallery ventured to dissent, but order was ultimately restored by his forcible expulsion, his hat and coat being thrown high in air after him.) The cause of this war was slavery, and the desire of Englishmen was that its result should be abolition. They did not desire so much the success of the North for the sake of the Union, as the defeat of the South in its wicked and malevolent attempt to found an aristo cratic form of government upon the basis of negro slavery. The Confederates were only fighting for indepen dence as a means to an end, that end being the reduction of God's immortal creatures into the condition of slaves. As for Mr. Mason, author of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Newgato Calendar did not contain the name of so black a felon, of so conspicuous a rebel against God, and so dire an enemy of man, as he who was recently entertained at the Mansion-house. The hospitality o f the City was wantonly and flagrantly abused on that occasion, for Mr. Mason was a man stealer, and as a man-stealer and as a fugitive-slays kidnapper he was not worthy to loose the latchet of any gentlemanly highwayman. (Loud laughter and applause.) He might be speaking in the hearing of Mr. Mason, and, if so, he told him that there was one man in England, who knew him, and who dared and defied him to meet face to face and foot to foot in manly combat in the presence of an audience like this. (Loud applause, and a voice, " Put that in the papers.") Having traced the antecedents of Mr. Mason, in the course of which another dissentient, who reminded the meeting that Paul once sent back a fugitive slave, was immediately expelled, Mr. Thompson said the city of London was disgraved and the people of England belied by the Mansion-house h osp it a li ty. Unt il a roan should fill the civ ic chair better abl e t o di scr i m i na t e who were worthy to receive the hospitality of the city of London, i 4 Ichabod " would be written on the portico of the Mansion-house, and those citizens of shun municipality should London who would revive the glories of their ancient the banquet-room ,ere of Lord Mayor Ro se , l est t h e y were WEST HARTLEPOOL The report of the directors of — this railway and harbour company states that the net re venue of the undertakings for the last half year ending 31st of December amounts to £54,530, against £34,644 for the corresponding period, showing an increase of £19,886. The gross revenue for the half-year amounts to £116,156, and the gross expenditure to £61,626, against £114,526 and £79,917 respectively for the same half-year of 1861. For the year 1862 the gross receipts amount to £216,994, the gross expenditure to £124,210, and the net revenue to £92,784, against £65,519 in 1861, showing an increase of £27,265. The revenue account shows that the net earnings for the half-year amounted to £52,221, and the in terest on loans, dividends, and other fixed charg ex, to £89,035, showing a deficiency of £36,814. The capital account shows that £3,701,167 had been received, and £2,657,420 expended, leaving £1,043,747, being the excess of receipts over ex pomditu re. WARE, HADHAM, AND BUNTINGFORD. The report of the directors states that they had given notice to the Board of Trade to send an in spector to examine the line, which is 15 miles in length. The Great Eastern Company has made every preparation for working the traffic, and no delay will arise after the necessary certificate has been received from the Board of Trade. The direr , tors have introduced into Parliamev t a bill autho rising the raising additional capital, the amount originally authorised, £66,600, having been found insufficient. The financial statement showed that £66,650 had been received, and £76,415 expended, leaving a balance of £9,765, provided for by a tem porary loan. WHITEHAVEN AND EGREMONT. The report of the directors states that the accounts for the half-year just ended show an increase of 12,372 in the receipts, as compared with the cor responding period of 1861. The amount available for dividend is £6,274, and the directors recommend a paymeut at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, less income-tax, on the original new £lO shares and on the amount paid on the new £6 shares. There will then remain £1,415 to be carried to the reserve fund, which will then amount to £8,653. HARTLEY RELIEF FUND. Mr. AV. F. Birkmyre, actuary, of London, has made a report to the Executive Committee of the Hartley Relief Committee, who was requested by them to make a valuation of the allowances to the sufferers by the accident at Hartley. The following is the substance of the report :—The scale of allow ances authorised by the committee, and which has been assumed in the valuation, is as follows :-7s per week to each widow ; lOs 6d per week to each widow and child ; 13s Gd per week to each widow and two children ; 15s 6d per week to each widow and three children ; 17s 6d per week to each widow and four children ; 19s 6d per week to each widow and five children ; 21s Gd per week to each widow and six children. These allowances are to continue, except in cases of gross misconduct, to the widows so long as they remain unmarried, to girls until they attain the age of 15 years, and to boys until they reach the age of 12 years. The allowance to infirm adults has, as a general rule, been fixed at 7s per week. Widows on remarrying aro to have /20. On widows or adults dying an allowance of £3 to be made for funeral expenses; and £1 to be paid on the death of a child. The value of these allow ances has been estimated for two periods—first, for the next 15 years, at the expiration of which the children will have ceased to draw from the fund ; and secondly, for the remainder of the lives of such of the widows and adults as may survive that term. The reporter has not thought it proper to assume a higher rate of interest than 3 per cent., and with the approval of the committee has based the calculations on that rate. It may be thought that a higher rate might have been taken, but when it is considered that the fund has to be invested, not for a few years merely, but for the whole of the lifetime of the recipients,and that per manent investments do not yield more than 4 per cent. at the utmost, and that a certain portion of the funds must always be necessarily lying in bank un invested, he thinks that the adoption of 31- per cent. will be deemed a prudent step. As the greater value of female life is well established, the calcula tions in connexion with the female lives have been based on the Government tables. The estimate of the amount to be deducted for the probability of the widows re-marrying, and so forfeiting their allow ances, and the value of their allowances to be made on marriage, are necessarily approximations. As, however correct the statistics of marriage for the population (which have been the guide in this in stance) may be, yet whe n we come to d ea l w i th com paratively limited numbers and with a particular class the application of such statistics can only be considered a rough approximation. In the present instance there are two counter influences—there is the inducement held out by the bonus on marriage on the one hand, while on the other hand there is the deterring influence of the loss of a liberal allow ance. It is doubtful, however, whether the for feiture of the allowance will very materially affect the marriage rate, as the sum down will no doubt prove attractive ; it is therefore assumed that the rate of marriage will not differ widely from that which generally prevails. It has not been thought necessary to estimate the probabilities of marriage after the expiry of 15 years, as t h e _ result would not be affected in any _material degree. The result is that a sum o f £35,2 5 2 lls. 3d. will be required to be invested to provide for the allowances for the nest fifteen years, and a further sum o f £15 , 176 14s. 9d. will be necessary to continue them at the same rate throughout the remainder of life after the expiration of that period—making a total of £50,429 Gs. as the fund to be invested to meet the allowances for the whole duration of life from the present time. The sum of £70,000 has been in.. vested in safe and available securities by the execu tive committee, and £5,500 lies in the hands of tha bankers in Newcastle. So that there remains a surplus of nearly £25,000 to be disposed of. It is a remarkable fact that, though little more than twelve months have elapsed since the catastrophe at Hartley, ten of the widows have remarried. The couf , ideration of the disposal of the surplus, it is understood, will be brought by the executive im mediately under the consideration of the general committee appointed at the county meeting held in Newcastle at the time of tie catastrophe. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing oil inferior leaves as in the usual kinds, Horniinan's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always Good a dike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents . Another " sensation" acrobat has cotte to gri e f. The great feat of a in rformer, named Malloy], 18 Swinging upon a wire, about the thickness of a tobacco pipe, bnl inciug himself erect upon one f oot, playing several tricks with balls, knives, &c. At the Canterbury Hall, Brighton, on Saturday night, his wire was suspended over t h e stage, orchestra, and part of the pit, and he had nearly com pleted his performances when he lost his balance, and fell upon the footlights. One of the gas-burners passed through his right foot, entering the sole, and coming out between the large toe and the next one to it. A few nights previously, at the Brighton Circus, an amateur, in attempt ing to imitate Leotard's performances on the flying trapeze, missed his hold, and fell with great force into the ring, the sawdust in which broke the fall, but he was considerably shaken,