The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

• bEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise ? I „dvise , Alfred Mellon's Concerts, afterwards to a tie 'LS Covent-garden, hear some charming singing, order ~of their canital chops and magn ific en t p o t a t oes, an d that t he best advice I can give you. ICNAHANIS LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, pgXCIRANDY BRANDY. I o rated celebrated Old IRIS a WHISKY rivals th e fi ne st 4 . It' th!.s Pure, Mild , M ellow, Del i c i ous, and very Wholesome. od in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by &ents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. iobserve the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whisky.' CONTRACT POR PROVISIONS. ROYAL HOSPITAL, Chelsea, Aug. 20, 1565. st T. s he Right Honourable the LORDS and others COMMIS tht,ERs of the Hospital do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE at they are ready to RECEIVE TENDERS from and to i° ( ' VICTUALLING such theersons as may be willing RS to C of theONTRACT 41 3 IN-PENSIONE said BPboth ital, from the Ist October 1861, to the 30th September, days inclusive, with , the following ARTICLES of gOVISIONS, &c., viz.:—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Flour, Su Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice, Pepper, pour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sugar, Milk. Onions of Leeks, arrots Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savoury, and atB leY daily, at pr head per diem, according to the „tablished allowance of the house, as specified in the form of iveteler, which may be obtained at the Office of the Secretary TendllY between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which r mut e be filled u and delivered sealed at the Board i7_oora of the said hospital by the party or parties tendering, ij 4 1 . 3 „ . 3' an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUES. the 6th September, at 12 o'clock, at which time their tdships will be prepared to take the same into considers- It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required to :1,41 security to the Crown for the due performance of the 'llll-:9htrahourct, and above that menti no Tender will be received after the day 4, d. West Tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. 1 1 1 HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 29, Lombard-street, London; and Royal Insurance-buildings, Liverpool. At the Annual Meeting, on:the sth inst., the following were Pine of the leading results disclosed in the Report to the shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum of' £341,663 _ Being an advance of 40,977 rer )862; an amount of increase exceeding that of any pre 'l,,,°lB year. pre- The Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353 The Duty paid to Government In 1862 was. £75,993 bitto ditto, 1863 88,966 S howing an Increase in one year of .... ...... £12,973 z a Aniong the incidents which have tended to the advance isent of the Royal within the last few maul hs may be reckoned a2tion with respect to the losses sustained b the explo thTl of the Lotty Sleigh, which although on'y conyistent with mate general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti ,y proved to be no more than what had been done in for- Z ‘ss t times by the oldest and most proverbially honourable 1 4 ; 1 ° 11 g its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public lour by its unhesitating promptness. °g the largest total of Revenue and the largest ratio o of ression have been attained in the it blDens that the largest Profit, which it has ever iallen to the b,.._ectors to record has liketise on this occasion to be an-. t o "unced. The balance of net profit on theyear has amounted ; 83 ,515 ; of which sum £34, ICO only has been appropriated -.tied to and Bonus, and the large balan_e of £49,441 been -. tied to Reserve. LIFE BRANCH. Th 114„, Progress of the Life Branch, as shown by the New th„ — n,ess transacted in the last year, is most promising, and eti a ktvances made, year by year, in the amount of New In tor.slices effected, sh ,, w clearly the estimation in which the fir'"Pany is held The following is a statement for the last e Years • N et Sion Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1859 1860 449,241 11 2 1 861 1863 1862 701,4 7 15 3 752,546 18 10 4._ s rapid grow th , amoun ti ng t o 7 3 per cen t . on th e S um ce7!ured, and upwares o f 80 per cent. on th e Premium re vel in the course o f fi ve years, may j ustly be considered as maker than any which could have been reasonably expected. first r half of the current year 1864, howev jr, u,far outstiips the ratio of increase indicated by the figures t quoted, as sum assured for that period of six months only actually "„, ee eds Half-a-Mil•ion sterling.. 4.1 ,- he rate of mo r tality, lik ew i se , s till p resen t s hi g hl y favour 4Cie features, and augurs well for th e resu lt t o b e e h own b y e quinquennial investigation, whi c h i s t o t a k e p l ace when e present year is concluded. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1864. HE ABERAMAN IRON WORKS (Limited), (late Crawshqy Bailey's). Introduced b the I'INAN -I,IAL CORPORATION (limited), who invite Subscriptions !,.r Shares, of which upward s o f 5,000 h ave been alied for I n the above Company, pp 1110 rporaied under tue Companies Limited Liability Act, 1862. - - Capital £50:`,000, in 100, CO Shares of £5O each. It • E 1 Deposit on Application, and X.l on Allotment. is not contemplated to call up more than £25 per Share. DIRECTORS. ta milli am Walter Cargill, Esq., M.P., Director of the Orien .o'nk Corporation. lu"gene Collins, Esq., Director of the London, Birming -11, and South Staffordshire Bank 1 Limiter ). /,„"_•_,B. Cumming ; ii,sq Messrs. J. B. Cumming and Co., (enux)n), Director of the Continental Bank Corporation 'rafted). llu , h Logan,Banker, Berwirk-on-Tweed. stnes Mar s h 41, Esq , Wildwood, Hampstead. o f l N Esq. (Messrs. B. Gott and Sons), Leeds, Di -I,cr the London and Lancashire Assurance Company. ee kionamy Price, Esq., Director of the Western Life Assur rß Company, 'e , rinald Read, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace Com ally° (With power to add to their number). BANKERS The London and County Bank and its Branches. - the AM-ince B ink. at Liverpool and Manchester. l ilessrs. Bail ic, Cave, and Co., Bristol. he Leeds Bankinv Company, Leeds. Ic T fressrs. Crawahay Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth, 'WPort, and Abergavenny. SOLICITORS. Mess rs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, GB, Aldermanbury. London. BROKERS. Irnes Shepherd, Esq., 36, Throgmorton-street, London. easrs. T. Tinley and Sons, Brown's -buildings, Liverpool. flessrs. Ridsdale and Wailes, nark-row, Leeds. 444.1essr Mewburn and Barker, Moult-street, Manchester, aX. AUDITORS. P redCriCk 'Maynard, Esq., Bread- street, London. James Matinee, Esq Old Jewry, London. Samuel Lowell Price, • Esq., Gresham-street, London. SECRETARY. J. 11. Fleshcr, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 29, Threadneedle-street, London, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. ' e l' he extensive and valuable properties of CrawshiLy Baile 1 1 :1, M.P., known as the Aberaman Iron Works and M- O rti', which are of European celebrity, have been careful l y kaelred by Joshua Richardson, Esq., M.1.C.E., F.G.S., &c., s.extend over an area of 1,530 acres of Freehold Land on " 4 0rth Crop of the South Wales Coal Basin, and contain n e °,, r e,ater number cf the veins of ironstone and coal than is " a ilY found in any property of equal extent. bb -e coal is the noted Aberdare Steam Coal, and certified Richardson as " The best steam coal in the kingdom," ' l % stands at the head of the Government list. e, Richardson describes the property in his Repo rt " as fe e Juin.' 16 veins of coal, of the aggregate thickness of 48 tatt t e s besides the num e rous courses of ironstone, of the aggre- Nth thickness of 141 feet ; the extend over e area of th b e ele estate, and there are fou es the e r veins of the average tlfek e - a4 B a 8 feet, which crop out on the side of the mountain ; t„.. below the 9 feet there are four more veins of co a l of 10 `'t in thickness." Np;l s ke ironstone " is the black bind, a carbonaceous ore, 011% e u is comparatively rare, and yields from 60 to 70 per cent. s gr ,..°n." and aso the ordinary argillaceous ironstone. The xegate thickness is 5} feet. Nv i li t _e estate contains at least 91,485,440 tons of whole or un -10-,,l'l`ed coal, which would yield a supply of upwards of 00 bra a day, or 3C0,0)0 tons per annum for 304 years ; and of Oak band iron ore, 4,f40,500 tens, which is equal to 3,000 gni& of bar iron per annum for 773 years; and of argillaceous Vt:L st ene, 135,3..9,270 tons, which is equal to 500 tons per or 26,C00 tons of bar_ iron per annum for 1,300 years. tjilta Company has entered into a provisional cDntract for 2 Purchase ot the whole of the freehold 'and leasehold vpates, including the whole of the minerals, rents, royalties, ~_l 2 gYleaves, &c., besides the ironworks, coal-fields, and good -7111 of the business, and aso the mansion, 300 cottages, ttlildings, plant, machinery, engines, stocks, railways, tram waYs, and other property. filr Crawahay Bailey, although working the property only i,e et l. re v s err n ii oo mi n t s e e d qu e e x n t e e e nt i;f hasasva at realised very r , y vi line p y i re nce fit l s s; f a r n r d . time. kr Richardson reports wi t h the g income may be doubled Or trebled with moderate additional outlay, and Mr. D. Jones reports that 2100,00) per annum net profit can easily be tea - lised; and assuming only half this income be proiured, Brest supposing the share capital upon which the dividend will aable to loie £250,000, ii follows that, after allowing in on loans, &c., from 15 to 20 per cent. will be available nor a dividend to the shareholders, and this not from an un itettaking requiring to be developed, but from an old-estab "shed and lucrative business. With a view to keep the called-up Share Capital as low as %Bible, arrangements have been made by which the vendor, ras agreed to allow a large portion of the purchase money to t o staain at interest ; this will materially increase the dividends shareholders. maples o f the Articles of Association, which contain the t e %la of the provisional contract , and of the reports referred 1: 1443,. t naY be seen at the offices of the Solicitors of the Com 14Pplications for the remaining shares must be made in the annexed, and be accomp tnied by a payment of Z 1 per 10,te ; if no allotment be made , t he amount will be returned th".nwith ; if a less number is allotted than is applied for, ba:_ftinount paid on appli ation will be applied towards the bit client of the £4 due on allotment—the balance, if any, Detailed returned. vuetailed Prospectuses and Forms of App'ication may be ad I t at the Office of the Company, and of the Bankers, Bro eotl. and Solicitors ; and also at the Offices of the Financial 'l 3 oration (limited), 14, Leadenhall-street, London. OL DR ID GE'S BALM of COLUMBIA egt .. ‘ standsnrivalled as a tlet requisite. It has bee_n ev :+olished 40 years, and is the best and on ly certa'n remedy tl ." l ' discovered for preserving, strengthenitur, beautityinv, l 'ioring,r the Hair, Whiskers, or 111oustaeltes, and pre- N. „lug' them turning gray or fa linz off.—Sold in bottles, 10 4 7 ,6s , and Its. by U. dA. OLDRIDGE, 22, W elling street, Strand, W .C. ; and all chemists and perfumers 111 1',..,r Children's and Ladies' liar it is most efficacious and CAMERON'S GOUT SPECIFIC. k a „ An Effectual and Speedy Remedy for the Gout, Rhen 1t,,,.qh, Sciatica, Lumbago, and Neuralgia. This invaluable , ncine is so pre-eminently efficacious as to admit of no 16"1111el. Instance , have been known, in which sufferers have ik - " , confined to their :ptartrnents, hand and foot, writhing' ims ler the most intense ;ig - ony, whose sufferings, to the asto itnent of their friends, lace been wholly removed in less Len 2 4 hours after taking the above medicine, and themeelves mdered abe to resume their avocations, Indeed, the effect a been such, and brought about in so harmless and speedy eh7a 3 : l laer, that the pro'priator, with the utmost . confidence, It „Viges the medical world to odce a medicine equal to 11 4 ,,..-uo the constitution it is harmless; to the fluids of the g"' o3 3. frame it adds an agreeable impetus ; to the system kaP a lly it is i4vigorating to a degree unparalleled ; and th e or temale may tyke it to equal advantage. A dose of ".4." above medicine taken about once a month operates most ftiltually in preventing - a return of the complaint. e .i. r „ id, 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. per bottle. Prepared only by the FcP t etor, If Cameron 40, Tavistock-street,Covent-garden, (41 . Wholesale 'London agents—Barelay and Son, 95, of 13 don-street ; Butler ard Crispe, 4, Cheapside, corner ao, -Paul's Churchyard ; Cleaver, 63, Oxford-street ; Dart, .... ou thampton-street, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford -street, etinMPle bottle fortvaided free from the manufactory on re -0110 stamps, (lONNECIING SHIP' OWNERS (Limited). Incorporat d under the Joint-Stock Companies' Act, 1862, whereby the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. N°. 22,515. 110 ?ERSONS SEEKING LANDED E&A ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPERTIES GENERALLY— TO BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. 141. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Register affords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible °tiara ter, thereby avoid- InE,- the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon veniences. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur cnaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION, Limited. Capital subscribed, £5,000,000, is 100,000 shares of £5O each. Paid up, X 500,000. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman. Xenophon Balli, Esq. Belson, Esq, E. J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Macpherson, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. Sir J. H. Pelly, Bart. James Dickson, Esq. W. Scholefield, Esq„ M.P. P. D. Hadow, Esq. Sir S. O. Scott, Bart. J. 0. Hanson, Esq. H. D. Seymour, Esq., M.P. W. H. Harford, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq. G. F. Holroyd, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, Es J. G. Homere, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbert Johnston. M. Zara Esq. BANKERS. The Bank of England. The Agra and Masterman's Bank, Limited. The Bank of London. The Union Bank of London. Sir W. Miles, Bart., and Co., Bristol. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., and Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and CO. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. This Association receives money on deposit at notice, and for fixed periods, on terms to be agr eed upon ; makes advances on approved securities, and effects purchases and sates of stocks, shares, and debentures ; negotiates loans, and under takes general financial business. Communications io be addressed to the Managers. By order. W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary. TEMPORARY OFFICES. Crosby House, 96, Bishops - ate-street Within. Fj AGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT of the Directors for the Year ending 30th June, 1864, read at the Annual General Meeting, 12th August, . • - 18n4— Sir JAMES BULLER EAST, Bart„ D.C.L., in the Chair. The duty once more devolves upon the Directors of making a report to the Proprietors on the transactions of the past year, and, as usual, they commence it by a reference to the particulars exhibited in the Surplus Fund Account. These particulars are as follows : INCOME OF THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1864. Balance of Account, 30th June, 1863 £528,263 12 11 Premiums on New Assurances ..£23,683 14 1 Ditto, old ditto . 2E8,%06 1 4 £311,979 15 5 Interest from Investments 81,146 13 10 £393,126 9 3 Profit on the Sale of Securities.. 17,515 16 8 Total Income 410,642 5 11 £938,910 18 10 CHARGE OF THE YEAR. Div'clend to Proprietors Claims on decease of Lives As sured .. ,- £199,324 2 0 Adaitions to those under Parti cipating' Policies. • ... 15,993 9 8 Policies surrendered 1f.!,953 13 1 Re-assurances, new •.. 8,089 12 2 old £274,779 2 6 Commis =ion ... 9,518 19 3 Medical Fees 7lB 7 2 Income-tax Expenses of Management 12,926 18 6 ~...... 300,510 11 10 Total Charge Balance of Account, 30th June, 1t 64 £938,910 18 10 Examined and approved, THOMAS ALLEN, I Auditors. HENRY ROSE, Here It will be seen that the total income of the year is £110,642 ss. 1 d., and the total charge £10,831 6s. 10d. The difference—£9x,Bo7 19s. Id.—increase the surplus Fund to £628,076 12s. The difference last year, it may be remembered, was £50,875 lOs. 7d. The income of the year IP greater than that of the preceding one by nearly £22,000. The increase is mainly attributable to the profit derived from the sale of premises in the City, and elsewhere. With exception of the payments on account of re-assurance, and those to the proprietors, all the items of charge are less than those of the previous year. Thus, the sum paid for claims is less by .£27,600, an i that for surrender of policies by £5,300. A considerable reduction, too, is observable in the expenses of management, arising from a diminution in the number of the Board, and from other circtunstAnces. The Balance Sheet is as follows : BALANCE SHEET. LIABILITIES. Interest due to Proprietors £5,432 14 9 Claims on decease bt Lives Assured and ad- • ditions thereto unpaid Cash Bonus due to Policy-hollers .. Sundry Accounts 1,015 10 10 18 Value (6 1 of Sums Assured . _ 4,781,193 7 0 Proprietors' Fund £190,187 10 0 Surplus Fund, as above 818,20 2 0 £5,651,801 13 1 ASS ,TS. __,..., ~...,. Amount invested in fixed Mortgages £903,790 1 6 Ditto, ditto, decreasing Mortgages Ditto, ditto, Reversions Ditto, ditto, Funded Securities 402,148 18 4 Ditto, ditto, Temporary Securities Current Interest on the above Investments 28,085 1 3 Cash and Bills Advanced on Security of the Company's Po- Ag licieents' Balances s ...,..•. • ... 120,524 16 0 32,177 2 3 hundry Accounts. 28,957 8 1 Value (1862) of Assurance Premiu ms . 3,568,151 7 8 Value (186 :)of Re-assurances 34,263 10 8 Examined and approved, £5,651,801 13 1 THOMAS ALLEN, j Auditors. HENRY ROSE, The Assets here specified remain nearly as they were in the last Report, except that the amount invested in Rever sions is increased, and that in fixed Mortgages is diminished. The balance of the Surplus Fund is, of course, increased (as it should be) from £528,268 12s, 11d. to £628,076 12s. The Trustees and Directors of the Company are now as follows : TRUSTEES Lord Bateman. Riehar3 Harman Lloyd, Esq. Robert Cheere, Esq. Wm. James Maxwell, :_sq. Joseph Esdale, Esq. Hon. E. T. Yorke, M.P. And other Gentlemen. DIRECTORS. Thomas Godfrey Sambrooks, Esq., Chairman. Charles Chatfield, tsq., Deputy-Chairman. Charles Bischoff. Esq. Sir W. G. Ouseley, K.C.8., Thomas Boddington, Esq. D.C.L. Sir James Buller East, Bart., Ralph Charles Price, Esq. D.O L. Philip Rose, Esq. Nathaniel Gould, Esq. George Russe 1, Esq. Robert A. Gray, Esq. Capt. Louts Symonds Tindal, William Augustus Guy,lll.D. R.N. Charles Thos. Ho]eombe, Esq. Col. Chas. IVetherall, K.C.T. Richard Harman Lloyd, Esq. Right lion. Sir John Young, Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart. James Murray, Esq. Capital £1.000,000, in 60,000 shares of £2O each. Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 on allotment. trip Certificates. which can be converted into Registered Shares, at the option of toe holder, will be issued imme diately after allotment. These certificates will be capable of transfer, by delivering from hand to hand, without any necessity for registration. DIRECTORS. Rear-Admiral Currie, Bletchingley, Surrey, Chairman. E. Lloyd Bagshaw, Esq, Bath. J. Britten, Esq., Director of the Bank of Wales, Basing,hall street, and 3i) and 31, London-wall. G. Howard Fenwick, Esq., C E., late Resident Engineer Madras Railway, Oatlands Park, Weybridge. G. W. Harris, Esq., Merchant, 5, Nicholas-lane. The Hon. Augustus Jocelyn, late Chairman Dundalk Steam Packet Company. Col. William R. Nedham, Royal Horse Artillery, Ramsgate. George Pearce Pocock, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace Gas Company. George Scammell, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company. BANKERS. Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, and Branches. CONSULTING ENGINEERS. Edwin Clark, Esq., and J. C. Gunn, Esq., 24, Great George street, Westminster. SOLICITORS. Me Hers. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Reeves. BROKERS. Messrs. Castello Brothers, Throgmorton-street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Alison and Waddell, Public Accountants, 14, Walbrook. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Horace Fenwick, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 61, Cornhill—Entrance, 126, Bishopsgate-street. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established to own and work Connecting Steam Ships. _ . Connecting Steam Ships are designed on a new system, which consists in constructing steamers in several distinct compartments for carrying large cargoes, with great economy of power, the compartments being all of one gauge, admit of immediate disconnection from and re -connection to each other; and of the transfer Of the compartment oontlning the engine, officers, and crew from one set of cargo compart ments to another, so that it can be kept in constant employ m nt, while the inexpensive cargo compartments are detained during the .oading, unloading, or sale of their cargoes. pen:rietbi,!oisnwa,ione engine and one crew to ~ ertorin the work of ti o tr earners of the ordinary constr uc ti on, an d rea li se pro profits. It, is intended to commence business by running one steamer compartment, and three sets of Cargo Compart ments, to demonstrate the enormous advantages to be gained by the system before proceeding to build th e proposed fleet, which will consist of Eighteen Screw Steame7 Compartments, and one hundred and ninety-eight Cargo Compartments, and will deliver over one million of tons of coal to London, and over three hundred thousand tons in Paris, annually. Estimates of the cost of the proposed fleet, and details of th e annua l e xpendituie and receipts have been pi epared, , profit of more than 20 per cent. after showing, the large making ample provision for insurance, depreciation, and con tingencies. A prospectus with plans and drawings of vessels con structed on this system, detailed estimates showing the pro bable profits, together with forms of application for shares, can be obtained, or will be sent post free, on application, at the Offwee, 61, Cornhiil, entrance 13i,hopsgate-street, dor .1% - r • f tlf z . Great Fire at W00tt,1001 , , , ,„." • a . . ei o w • - •"s• • , r 4 .44 z, " ‘l l ,Z , • st' LISS, A( la eve 4 ' , • " .• 1 :4 • # '" z- • is 0p.,. :0 •••••1 1 ii t 1 1 11(*. „,,, \ i s E' , 04 4 . af ) , A, D A. 4 ' laV'MaMig!! 0 , " ""`" A tremendous conflagration, more like one prairie fires of the western continent .than anything we are accustomed to realise in this country, oc curred in Longmoore enclosure on Wednesday evening, and in its course, which has only just been arrested, has rendered a belt of country seven miles in breadth and three in depth a scene of black desoi lation. Hundreds of acres of fir plantation, the property of the Government, have been destroyed, besides several plantations belonging to private in. dividuals, and an immense quantity of ;h me. The fire commenced just below Sleaforth gate, to the right of the Petersfield-road. It was observed to break out simultaneously in a dozen different places, and owing to the dryness of the heath and furze, it spread with alarming rapidity. It was not long before the plantations became a sheet of fire, which roared and crackled with ominous fury, and tinged the any for miles with a lurid glare which inspired the belief in d;st,int places that a and other whole t own was in flames. At. Guild ford, and Ald e rshott the fire was plainly seen, and when the authorities of the latter piuc t had ascer tained it s s i tuat i on an d mag nitude, a body o f t roops , consisting of th e 75 t h an d 83d Regimen ts,and a d e . tachmcnt of the Royal Engineers—in all about tang off' 00maenncTswuberdeuindg the despatched to B : r t o h o e l mt time et ofo dthigeiar a trench, and employ oth er military means for cuts arrival, however, the fl ames had extende d over a vast area of fir plantations, and it wasth evident reduction of the conflagration wou ld b e a work of some time, if not of difficul ty. Great fears were e ntertained for the farms er dwellings that near,the the mass of flame was so great and the heat so fear ful; and it was a fortunate circumst ance t h at th ere was scarcely any wind, as otherwise the flames must have embraced a still wider area of destrao tion, and perhaps have defied every effort for their extinction. Notwithstanding the active exertions of the military, the fire continued to rage daring Thursday, Friday, and a portion of Saturday, l ea ing little but the blackened embers of thousands of fir trees in once flourishing plantations, and trans forming the landscape for a long distance into a dreary and blighted-looking wilderness. On Friday the conflagration was a grand though almost ter rifying spectacle. For a mile mile beyond New Inn the fire was burning to Weaver's Hill, a dis tance of at least five miles. scaring from the coverts every living thing that it did not destroy, and darkening the air as far as the eye could see with rolling billows of smoke. Several cottages and out buildings fell a prey to the flames, and of the quantity of game destroyed some idea may be formed from the fact that no less than twelve hares were taken out of one hole burned to death. On Saturday the military succeeded in successfully ar resting the progress of the fire, and if no fart her damage is apprehended the force will return to Aldershot to-morrow morning. PRICE ...4d. STAMPED;....Sd. The fire was evidently the work of incendiaries. There is no one who ventures a contrary opinion, and the supposition is strengthened by the fact that the gipsies and broom sellers, who were allowed to gather broom and heath, and to depasture their cattle in the neighbourhood, have this year been denied those privileges. Some of them were heard to say that they would be revenged on this accoun% and the extensive conflagration is pretty generally • considered as the fulfilment of this threat. A considerable number of persons visited tt le neighbourhood of the fire to-day, and gazed wi . th no small astonishment upon the scene of wide-spry ad desolation. At least 1,200 acres of timber in vari( Due) stages of growth have been destroyed, and the total value of which cannot at present be estim at. ed, but which must have ; represented a lea -ge sum of money. The Extraordinary Murder on the High Seas. COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED. SOUTHAMPTON, Sunday. _ _ The adjourned examination of Adolphe Bjornsea, the G er man sailor charged with murdering his captain on the High. Seas on the 21st Juno last, was resumed yesterday morning at the Guildhall before Mr G. S. Brinton, the mayor of Southampton, and a bench of borough magistrates. As on the previous day, the court was crowded with e Ewer listeners, who manifested the deepest interest in the pro ceedings. Mr B. Mackey was again present to watch the cam for the accused. The prisoner was brought up in the custody of Sup eri n tendent Enright, and buying been placed at the bar, Mr Eldridge, the clerk of the court, called Heinrich Alten, who deposed—l was steward on board the vessel Gustav Adolph. On the 21st June last I was forward with the rest of the crew, I was half asleep. About 9 o'clock in the evening the chief mate ran forward, calif ug out, " What is the matter with the second mate ? I think he is mad." We jumped up and ran aft, as we did not know what was the matter. As we came aft I saw the second mate walking up and down the quarter deck. By the time we arrived there the captain came out of the cabin on deck, with his right hand holding on his left arm. As soon as the captain came on deck he called out, " Where is the second mate ? Have you secured him ?" As he said 'those words the captain went towards the second mate, who said, " What I secure me I" and I then heard a report and saw the captain fall. The second mato stopped a moment, and then walked leisurely towards the companion, and jumped down the cabin. After that we were busy washing and laying the body of the captain out. I remained with the body, and procured fresh water and vinegar, while the rest of the crew went forward. The body remained by the skylight, and I, being afraid to remain by myself, went forward, and begged of the crew to help me to bring the body of the captain from aft forward. No one would go with me, and I went back by myself. When I came back the captain groaned several times, opened his mouth, but could not speak. Although I called him seve ral times he did not answer. I then went again forward to the crew and begged of them again to come aft, bat they re fused. I had to go back again by myself. The captain was still alive. When I proceeded the third time forward I got two of the crew to come aft with me, and we carried the body forward. The captain died about 20 minutes after he was shot. By that time the chief mate wanted to go down into the cabin, but the crew would not let him. About an hour and a half after the captain was dead I proceeded aft near the skylight and tried to look down the cabin to see what was going on. I went to the companion and looked down the staircase, and saw the second mate, and was frightened and went forward again, and half an hour after wards I saw the head of the second mate peeping out of the staircase companion. The man at the helm then left the wheel and made signs to us. After this several of the crew went aft, and then the second mate came on deck. I stood midships and saw the prisoner standing at the top of the staircase companion. I saw he had one gun in his hand, and another he gave to one of the crew. I saw him before this bring several things on deck, and amongst them one ham, one case, different clothing made np in a bundle, and a large tin case containing biscuits. After this he went over the port side into the boat. The things were put into the boat by several of the crew. The boat was lowered and the second mate went away in her. One of the sailors had two guns and fired two shots at him, but missed him. One of the guns belonged to the second mate. He fired several shots, but they hit against the mast. During this time two of the crew went below and fetched up several fire-arms, which were kept in the se cond cabin, where the chief and second mate had their berths. After this I and the chief mate went down below to look for powder and shot. We went into the captain' s cabin, and saw several marks of blood on the table, sofa, and at the back of the sofa. We found powder and shot. 1 saw a hatchet on the top of the companion which ought to have been where the second mate slept, On the floor I saw two rings and the captain's hat. Oat of the captain's berth was missed his gold watch and chain and his revol ver,elled H as well as the gold watch of the chief mate. The in hie p i s t o l while at tea. e drank his tea but ate nothing. j showed the ine a prisoner double-barrelled Wbaarsr fully asked him why, and he said he had no appetite. T wo days before this I saw him pack up severa l thi ngs evening This b closed lo e s f e o d r e the the he examination, prisoner fs h and c l o thes bag, and put in a b er th un d er hi s own. committed for trial at the next assize;:. Foreign Mail Packet List. -- ~--- MAIL* DIJE. Australia and Mauritius, via. 6truilininpton.......Aug. 18 v;ll \tari,eilies ...... SePt. 12 * ciruzil and Cape Vads, packet.. ....... SePt. 4 . Cape of Good Hope, A s . ecri ,l„,. and st. i s . Peretug,-, end 6:Lgapore via SouthauiP ? '" u ' Au g'. , via 31av ie ilte, ...Aug. 2/. ...... Nth. (Oitiouttu), and C ey l on , v i a Southampton... Aug . -1 v i a Marseilies.. • Aug, (Bury India (Beay), via Southampton Aug. 25. via Marseilles Aug. 204 Portugal .... All 18. .......... .... Sept. 4. j/L6:113 1 E gypt, an d Ad en , ...... 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So the downward progress ever advances with increasing velocity, men are ever more and more degraded, and, as their masters have themselves confessed, it becomes every day more and more needful to absorb and destroy ell states in which the imege of liberty is still reflected. Twenty years ago, we watched with apprehension the strides of Russia over the steppes of Centred Asia, and feared the extending influence of France is the East. Our alarm at that time was only for India; yet it was sufficient to engage us in despe- rate wars, lest our situation by quiescence might become such as no war could redeem. But the march of our enemies is now no longer eastward upon our dependencies, but westward upon our allies and aurselve. And because we now think we made blunders in resisting it by force when it only threatened to curtail the limits of our Empire, we have come to the conviction that we ought to allow it to hold its way when it strikes at the very centre. Strange infatuation ! Singular delusion, to imagine that a system by its nature so inevitably aggressive will be driven back by the narrow seas that protect our shores ! Like Canute, we sit on the brink, and bid it recoil at our word but, unlike Canute, we believe in the potency of our own command, and calmly watch the tide as it submerges all surround. ing objects, confident that it dare not come to us. Heaven grant that we may soon receive such warn• ing as will at last rouse us—a warning merciful, if it be but severe enough to teach us that we are mortals too, that we cannot dissever our fate from that of our fellow-men, and that, if we would retain freedom, civilisation, Christianity itself, we must be ready to fight for them whenever they are assailed. " THE EXAMINER" AND "THE NORTHERN WHIG" ON THE IRISH VICE-ROTALTY.—TIIO Earl of Carlisle being compelled by ill health to resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, again the question arises whether it be worth while to maintain an office of which all the uses seem to have departed. We need not repeat what we have often said in ex pressing our wish for its abolition. One evil in the office, as matters now stand, is that respect for Ire• land makes it desirable to send a man of high char racter and ability; yet it is hard on an able man to ask him to play the part of a State dummy. Our respected contemporary, the Northern TVhig, sug gests the appointment of Prince Alfred, and if that be not feasible, asks whether the Government cans not find an Irish nobleman who would grace the office :—" We have no great sympathy with the cry of Ireland for the Irish,' which often means, All Ireland for the Irish, and as much of England as we can get,' but we are patriotic enough to think that it is a slight upon the fair ferns of our Irish aristocracy to pass them over in the case of the vice-Royalty. It cannot be said that there are no Irishmen who are eligible for the office. An Irish man now governs Canada, and there would be more of the class in similar positions if they chose to leave home, It my appear invidious to make a election, but there is one nobleman whose great abilities, elegant taste, courteous manners, and culti vated judgment eminently fit him to be at the head of the Viceregal establishment. We refer to Lord Dufferin. His lordship did good service in the East, and he was soon afterwards offered one of the highest offices in the gift of the Crown, which he refused because its acceptance would necessitate his departure from Ireland. We have not had an Irish man in the (Zee of Viceroy since the Revolution. Lord Palmerston's policy cannot be said to be 'measures, not men," but the reverse. We can assure him that it would be a most popular measure for him to select an Irishman for the post of Lord- Lieutenant. This is well suggested, and the credit given to Lord Dufferin is even less than his due. If the Vice-Royalty is to be continued, a more desira able man to fill it cannot be imagined. Is there a dignity beyond that of ceremonial in the Viceroy's office ? Can a true political service really be done to the two kingdoms by a viceroy specially apt for his duty, whom the two kingdoms would gladly trust, and who could bring high aims, warm sympathies, clear judgment, and the quick insight of genius to the public service? If so, Lord Dufferin is cf all men the one most able to show that it is so. Either let the office be got rid of as worn.out upholstery of State, or let it be treated as a real and living trust, and given to a man with every claim on Irish sym ptithy and the full confidence of England, who will bring out whatever hidden value it may yet pos. SESS. To u.t_cS eATdThaUe Rmrpeopuleeil mp s aw ß e ai el ienuoEnrftrlefs'euGlasolEp.rii:lni' thena' Grant's Yeasp DEFEAT.—The F THE E A O impression attacklseNesrdse T repeated originali ne rE hti enpu L drptchoj nee nxtFEDEßAL w goe deliberateehrtetsiNorth osehvfbhhuithaaryde, a p a s n l a y s n u o c olf e h t s h: s i e v p e r i e m v p i campaign o r u o proved to be impracticable. His pliant tenacity in adapting his measures to the necessities of his position were more reasonably admired. No Federal General before him had bulldogc River, oul where had o rto fastened o so fully appreciated the advantage of vast superiority in numbers and resources. If he sacrificed a large army i n a fi p n g o pdhuteil enemies er g m h f his c w byy a yprtoovtihn substitutedeg Jamesth a a t he d still who afford he de might othreaten have on landed without the loss of a man, ho su r p r i se d b o th f r i en d s Petersburg and Richmond. For th e o b so l e t e anacon d a the throat of the rebellion, nor was it necessary to remem ber that every other line of approach had been vainly essayed before the enemy was attacked in front. The defeat in the breach of Petersburg has, for the first time, disturbed the easy confidence of the North. It is generally felt that no alternative plan of campaign can be discovered, nor can the loss of 6,000 men bo regarded, as in the beginning of the summer, with indifference or complacency. The most discouraging circumstance is the employment of negro troops in the decisive assault. During all the previous operations since the passage of the Rapidan, General Burn side has commanded the reserve, including the greater portion of the coloured regiments. It is impossible to sup pose that Grant would have risked his success on the steadiness of the blacks, if he had not already expended the best portion of his army. Even in the last assaults, he seems, as might have been expected, to have placed white troops in front ; and if the Confederates had been driven from their defences, the negro regiments might have been competent to improve the vic tory. Little blame can attach to recruits from a servile and despised race for their inability to stand against adversaries of unsurpassed energy and daring ; but the panic which ensued, though perfectly excusable, was not the less fatal to the hopes of the North. The losses of Grant's army since it crossed the Rapidan are variously estimated at 80,000, at 100,000, and at 150,000 men. Whatever may be the actual numbers, it is certain that the best troops have been expended in the earlier battles. It is as natural for a general to use his chosen regiments first as for a mechanic t o put a steel point to an iron tool. Napoleon, indeed ' generally held his Guard in reserve; but the balk of his arm y was superior in fighting qualities to his continental opponents. In the Italian war of 1859, the picked troops of the French army were always placed in the front, and ono of the supposed reasons for the hurried pacification was the approaching necessity of depending on the conscripts. The composition of the Federal army involves an unusual amount o f inequality. The soldiers who have served through two or three campaigns are better than the recent levies, a n d the negroes, though they have displayed commendable discipline and steadiness, fall far short of the standard of American or European efficiency. If Grant was not forced to employ his coloured troops in a desperate attack, he would be liable to a charge of reckless cruelty and injustice. The defeat or destruction of the negro regiments will tend to discredit the strange measures by which the Northern States are prepared to answer the demand for 500,000 recruits. When Congress, after many changes of pur pose, fi n ally abolished the money compensa ti on for the personal service of conscripts, a singular clause in the statute provided that substitutes might be procured from the States in rebellion. As the Confederate population is by no means likely to volunteer suicidal assistance to the North, the measure was intended to apply exclusively to fugitive or liberated slaves. A citizen of New York or - ,4 ts who finds himself drafted for service, in- Massachus 6, . stead of going into the market r Irish or German substi will employ a broker to find a negro volunteer at the Lutes, market price of the day. It seems scarcely probable that a eufficient number of coloured recruits will be ultimately forthcoming ; but the supply is not yet exhausted, and the morr ow must take care of itself. For t he present the nego tiations are conducted on behalf of States or townships which desire to fill up their quota before the compulsory draft is enforced. Under the pressure of immediate per sonal liability, prices are likely hereafter to undergo a rapid rise. If a large coloured army is raised, the Con federates will have little cause for alarm. No proceeding could be more certain to estrange the feelings of the North f ro m a warlike policy, The honour of the Federal arms would be compromised by the inevitable defeat of the black mercenaries; and even if it w er e possible that they should conquer, their success would grate u p o n all the national sympathies and prejudices. 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Residents on this property will be entitled to the privileges of Harrow School, and the occupant of each house of the value of £5O per annum will receive a free first class railway ticket to London for thirteen years. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON DENMARK'S DREAM.—L sat week, the chiefs of the last Poiish National Government were hanged on the glacis of Warsaw, and the preliminaries of the partition of Denmark were signed at Vienna. An ominous co incidence ! Is it to be reckoned as simply fortuitous, or is it such a coincidence as natural philosophers seek to explain dreams to be—those fatal dreams in which the unconscious soul receives the in press of events which yet lie in the womb of time, but are too surely brought forth at last ? Is Poland I),:ni , mark's dream ? Is the consummation of the fate of the earlier victim only by accident simultaneous with the commencement of the later agony, or is it the foreboding shadow of that which in the ripe ness of time the world shall yet see a second time realised ? At least, by such coincidences—whether we call them the result of natural law, or glimpses of the unknown vouchsafed by Providence—we are sometimes usefully startled into recognition of the Influences that beneath the visible current of daily events are hurrying on. And Europe has had mole than one such ill dream of late. More than once she has plainly seen that— " An eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." Her noblest races, the models of the highest dove [opulent to which in form or intellect humanity seems capable of reaching, have been strangely struck down by hordes o f m i ss h apen savages or the puny offsprings of a false civilisation. The fantastic Frenchman, well described by a poet of his own nation as a mixture o f the tiger and the ape, has his foot on the neck of the still haughty and majestic Roman ; the ill-featured and m urderous Croat holds in bondage the superb Hungarian ; the Russian serf is the slave-driver and executioner of the graceful and polished Pole; the gross Saxon boor seizes the in hcritance of the large souled descendants of the Viki ngs . Most striking, perhaps, if least apparently imp o rtant, is that this very year has seen the root and type of our race, the b eau tiful and gallant Cir ease i ans, d r i ven f rom th e i r prediluvian home by the • fartar and the Calmuck to Perish in ten alien land • Ugly nightmares, these, to haunt us in the sleep of overfed prosperity. A new i r ruption of barba r i ans presses the lif e out of Europe. If its progress is less distinctly perceived than that which quenched R oma n civilisation i n blood and ruin, it is becaus e it is more general, and therefore more sure. From the Euxine to the North Sea it spreads steadily onwards, and irresis tibly absorbs its successive opponents. It is one, while we are ma many, ll and it t urns w i t h sa v age cu , n ing our disunion into our defeat. It carries off the conquered P ole to aid in conquering the Circas sian; it transplants the subjugated Hungarian to hold Venice and Denmark in su bj uga ti on ; it mi xes I ta li a n and Finlander in the armies that desolate Poland; and soon it will have absorbed the Schles wig-Dane in the ranks t hat hold all Europe east ward of the Rhine .in bondag e , an d th a t s till are pressing on. We, indeed, the h ear t o f c ivilis a ti on , still escape, But how lon g after the extremities are enchained will the heart be able to keep it s healthy action ? There is, indeed, something at once unnatural and a ppalling in the means by which this new tide of barbarism gains ground on freedom and intellectual refinement. It is effected Science b turn i ng the arms o f ; -- and pro gress against itself, and .making those dis coveries whose na tural acti on tends to raise mankind the very instrument i by which growth is stopped and mankind s brutali sed. The latest inventions in firearms, in ships of war, i n the defence of fortresses , are instantly taken a d van t ag e of by the despots who se battal ions overrun Europe. With all our own energy and manufacturing skill we are laggards in the race of m ilitary improvement beside the Russian , t he Austrian, or the Prussian Powers. No wonder, then, that the smaller and less active States, such as Denmark, S w i tzerland, or Holland, though the very nurses of freedom and all peaceful arts, should find themselves far outstripped, and forced, when driven to bay, to combat with weapons and systems which a few years of rapid modern p rogress have rendered as antiquated as ch a i n armour or the science of the batiste. But even m ore cruel and deadly is the method by w hi▪ c h the mass of inert or even repugnant humanity which has been already enslaved is forced to work i▪ ts master's will in fur thering the enslavement of others. Th e conscript serfs knows nothing of th e merits of the q uarre l i n which he is driven on to fight; the conscript Pole, or Hungarian, or Italian, knows well that it is against his own country he combats wh en h e charges the foes of his tyrant sovereign. Y e t such is the now power of modern discipline that i n diff erence and disaffection are alike stifled and made to fulfil the purpose designed as thoroughly as if they were replaced by patriotism and devoted loyalty. With demoniac knowledge of human nature, the tyrants count on the natural pugnacity of the human race to make man fight With man like bulldogs in a ring when once brought face to face ; and they are able, by the mod ern military system of strategy, to wield them so that, till brought into the field, they have no knowledge of the work they have to do. i Like those singular bands of musicians whom the Czars love t o main tain, in which each performer utters only a s i ng l e note, but by the skill of the teacher and the con ductor the combination is made to . execute the most difficult pieces; so the single soldier who knows no snore than to march and haft at word of command, and to strike one blow when placed opposite his pretended enemy, is the unit in a vast system of which the result is the overthrow of ancient king , dome, and the crushing of frceaom throughout the pointreent at the failure of Grant's expedition, and growing financial embarrassment, may perhaps at last produce a re action in favour of peace. It is impossible to foresee the course of popular feeling, nor does it follow that urgent sons will operate as cogent motives of action. Perhaps, how • ever, the collapse of Grant's military reputation may render a change of policy more feasible. The Democratic party sonic time since postponed its convention at Chicago to the end of July, with the obvious purpose of waiting for the result of the pending campaign. If Richmond had been taken, it would have been necessary either to acquiesce in the re• election of Mr Lincoln, or to persuade the victorious com • mender to accept a Dernecratic nomination. As both can didates are now discredited by a succession of defeats, there is at last an opening for No rival has, on the whole, displayed less invpacity, and the unwise enmity of Mr Lincoln has converted his former General into an irre concilable opponent. The Democrats have for some time discovered that it was useless to affect, in their contest with the Republicans, superior enthusiasm for the prosecution of the war. Even now their success is hopeless unless they undertake to advocate a policy of their own, and there can be no doubt that the majority of their leaders are sincerely desirous of peace. For the present, it will be necessary to possess a determination to preserve the Union, but the real terms of compromise will consist in the recognition of Southern sovereignty, to which it would be the policy of the North to add a Customs Union, and, if possible, a common fsreign policy. There are some indications that the Confe derate Government would not be unwilling to listen to such proposals, and it might not be impossible to reconcile Northern feeling to an alliance which would partake of the nature of a federation. Whenever the negotiations com mence, the scheme which may be adopted will be recom mended to popular favour by its Northern promoters on the ground that it will facilitate the humiliation of England by the conquest of Canada. There are, in fact, dangers of the kind to bo apprehended, whenever the present contest is terminated; but, for some time to come, neither the North nor the South will be inclined to engage in a wholly gra tuitous war of aggression. THE SPECTATOR.—MR BROWN ON THE CANADIAN FUTURE.-It is a pity that the speeches of colonial notables are so seldom reported at home. They are frequently as much superior to colonial articles as the Parliamentary de bates are to our own provincial leaders. The Hon. George Brown, for example, member for " South Oxford, Canada," and author of the plan for the federation of the North American Colonies, has recently explained his policy to his constituents in a speech which is incomparably the best essay yet published en the political history, position, and prospects of Upper and Lower Canada. It does not add very much except upon one grand point to the information previously received, but itjustifies the new policy suggested by arguments which will weigh heavily with.her Majesty's Government. Mr Brown talks like an English statesman, without a trace of bombast or dreamy oratory, states facts simply, quotes figures which do not weary, bases a great proposition upon intelligible grounds of national interest, looks steadily at the future, and above all refers throughout his discourse to ideas higher than those of mere political expediency. The coalition which he has helped to frame is in itself, he declares, a thing to be condemned. A combina tion of politicians who have always opposed each other to take office ought, he argues , prima facie to shock the public mind, can be justified only by the presence of some overpowering national need, but in this instance the need, he contends, exists. The state of things is, it appears, even worse than was at first reported in this country. We all knew that the political equality of the provinces had ren dered Government impossible, that three administrations had been overset in three years, that the country was in a perpetual agony of elections, and that the finance of the combined colonies was wasteful beyond all precedent. But we did not all recognise that the equality was based on a radical injustice so great that unless another remedy could befound one mast be sought in a dissolution of partnership. Not only has Upper Canada outstripped her rival in popu lation by 400,000 souls, say 30 per cent., so that in one in stance a county member represents more electors than eight other county members elected by the same class, but there is still a greater inequality in taxation. Upper Canada, possessing only half the political power of the united colony, pays four-fifths of its taxation, contributing, for example, 578,000 dole from excise duties, while Lower Canada yields only 193,000 dols. The productions of the two provinces, the best means of testing their comparative wealth, show a still greater disproportion, the mostiinportant items being— Upper Canada. Lower Canada. Wheat (bushels) ~.. 24,620,000 2,654,000 Indian corn (bushel) 2,256,000 334,000 Value of farms end wick for taxation (dole) 306,442,000 178,870,000 Whatever, therefore, is taken as the basis of calculation, population, or property, or taxation, or all three, the more numerous and wealthy and highly taxed province is still always the sufferer. Add to these fac,s that the equality is in reality only nominal, that the lesser and poorer and lees taxed French Catholic province permanently governs the larger and richer and higher taxed English Protestant pro vince, and we have a state of affairs which in the nature of things could not hope to endure. It is as if England were subject to Ireland under the semblance of strict political equality, and compelled to provide from her own resources a tribute to fatten her less energetic associate. This really happened in the Canadas. The representatives of the Lower Province always voting together always retained the substance of power in their own hands, and they used It to spend on the province contributing one-fifth as much as on the province contributing four-fifths of the common fund. "If an extra sum at any time has to be voted to Upper Canada for any special purpose, a corresponding sum must be invariably appropriated to Lower Canada to maintain the equilibrium I Three or four to one is the principle of taxation—equality is the principle of expendi tUre 1" It does not need much to prove that an English and Protestant majority is not likely to endure long so preposterous an arrangement, kept up for the exclu sive benefit of a French and Catholic minority. p e e r e s of a ,h verye details extensive are kind. not yet settled, , says b ut it Mr is So evident did this appear that even the French Canadians admitted the propriety of re -arrangement, and only pleaded Brown, are to be conceded, and this is the most important h fo i r nt lo i cl n a h p is ow sch. The obvious that the clauses in the American Constitution which prescribe a monotonous uniformity of form to the different State Govern:nents will not be repeated in the Canadian federal compact. The desires and interests of the colonies are too widely opposed. No clause prohibiting hereditary power will be or can be sanctioned by the British Govern ment, the French Canadians are determined to uphold the "right" of their Church, to place it beyond the power of a Protestant majority; they are resolved that their language shall not be superseded; they intend to keep the civil law as the basis of their legislation ; and they will not give up their own ideas, which are English ideas, upon the descent of landed property. All these questions must therefore be declared local questions, and it will be difficult to a degree to retain for the central Parliament sufficient authority to make unity any longer desirable. The scheme, it is true, will admit of internal experiments, of diverse or hostile forms of society highly favourable to development, but then so would separate colonial life, and the Coalition may go so far as to destroy the national sentiment they obviously wish to foster, to create an antagonism of civilisation in place of an antagonism of geo graphical position./This is the rock upon which the Ameri can Union has split, and if the new Ministry does not deal very tenderly with the matter it will find that it has created a powerless end therefore usual l y mischievous central as sembly. It is the enormous power of Parliament, its sense of responsibility, which steadies its action, and to bind it in paper bonds, to deprive it of the power of acting in emer gency with autocratic energy and decision, is to deprive it of its greatest means of utility. Italy exists as Rome existed, because her Parliament could at need create a Dic tator. Finally Mr Brown approaches the greatest subject of all, the political future to which these colonies are to look, and upon that point he is distinct and emphatic. Re does not want annexation either to the North or the - Union. On the other hand, he does not believe that Great Britain will for ever lend her fleet and soldiers to colonies from which she gains nothing that independent states would not yield. Ile accepts the third alternative, and remembering British America is larger than the United States, that her popula tion is incessantly increasing, her vast mineral wealth unde veloped, her forests unexhausted, her commercial fleet the fourth in the world, he looks forward to the day " when the whole of British America shall stand together, and in close alliance and heartiest sympathy with Great Britain, be pre pared to assume the duties and responsibilities of a great and powerful nation." That also is the dream of the statesmen now coming forward to the front of English politics, the form into which as they hope the Colonial Empire will bo transmuted. The " mother country" is to be changed from an Empire owing dependencies she does not rule into a kingdom ringed round with independent but cordial and faithful allies. If these aro the views of many amon g the leading politicians of Canada, we can co ngratulate her Par liament on its success in the very highest f unctions of Par liament—that of breeding and training statesmen. One only hint we would add on a point app arentl y triflin g , but really of vital importance—lf the new coalition succeeds, as it may, in conciliating all the colonies of the Atlantic coast, and, as it will, in convincing the British Parliament, let it invent for the nation it will have created some common national name, some sound implying unity which a great population can use. The colonists of Victoria and New South Wales. Tasmania and Queensland, are all alike Australians, but the citizens of the United States, like those of the United Kingdom, have to this hour no name, ex ' cept one used in reproach and another begotten of arrogance, They are not Yankees, nor the only Americans, and when the Canadians join themselves with the people of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, they will find it wise to adopt a title a little less unwieldy than that of 13ritieb, Xotth Americans,