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( t {-0 i ~~~ ? ~t i , 1 I 1 SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY, At 2s. Ed. eech Person. SOUPS. Purée of Peas. Vermicelli. FISH Stewed Eels. Fried Soles. ENTREES. Calf's Head en Tortue. Curried Chicken ala Indienne. JOINTS. Roast Sirloins of Beef. Roast Saddles of Mutton. SWEETS. Newmarket Puddings. Orange Fritters. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MO , LLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for The London Pinner. THE LONDON, 19', FLEET-STREET. T HE COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY. Capital £2,500,00 `. DIRECTORS. EENRY WILLIAM PEEK, Esq. (Peek Brothers and Co.), _Chairman. -LC TROWEL', Esq. (Trowers and Lawson), Deputy Chair John TTolgsan, Esq. John Humphery, jun., Esq. F. Larkworthy, Esq. Moss Joshua, Esq. William Leask, Esq. Alexander aim, Esq. G. Adam Smith, Esq. John R. Thomson, jr., Esq. John Kemn Wel h, Esq. J. P. Woodhouse, Esq. John Boustead, Esq. G. T. Brooking, Esq. Jeremiah Co'man, Esq, Charles Curlin2, Esq. Edwin Fox, Esq. Nehem ah Griffiths, Esq Samuel Hanson, 1 sq. Frederick W. Harris, Esq. Smith Harrison, Esq. David Hart, Esq. Francis Hicks, Esq. MANAGER (Fire)— Henry Thomson. ACTUARY—W. P. Patti,ol3. FIRE and LIFE business of every description transacted. The Life Funds are not liable for the other branches of business, and are invested in the names of special Tru tees. Loans on approved security entertained. Every information may be had on application to the chief office, 19, Cornhill, London, E.C. HEN RY GHINN, Secretary. E CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. London, 27th February, 1863. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTII E, That the A INN t AL GENERAL COURT, and also that an EXT RAORDINARY GENERAL CO' RT, will be held at the Society's House , NO. 6 , New Bridge-s tr,et, Blackfriars, on S ATURD kY, the 21st day of March, at Two o'clock precisely, for the following purposes:— ORDINARY GENERAL COURT. To receive the Auditors' Report of the Rece'pts and Dis bursements of the Society during the year 186!, and to elect Auditors for the present year. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT. To consider a proposed amendment of the Article 82* of the Deed of Se tlement, by which the Directors will be em powered to grant Assurances to the extent of £lO,OOO, and, if approved of, to pass a Resolution to that effect. As the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Court wilt require confirmation, so Saturday, the 28th March, is ap - Pointed - for that purpose, ht Two o clock precisely. By order of the Board of Di' ectors, ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. * Article 82.—That no ASSUrallee shall be eranted by the So ciety, on the same Life or Lives, for more than the sum of rive Thousand Pounds. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. ~l l. .enry Hulse Berens, Esq., IG. Shaw Lefev re, Es q . 1 1 en r y Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. IRowland 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., M.P. James Tulloch, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AIID: L,..e`ivis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Corn Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel 'Whiting, Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—IINDER TUE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In turers 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 Liie Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. :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 X5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re- Ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. A.D. 1720. Total .. • • 1861. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• • • Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. • • Schooner Prospect, of Berwick Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn, of PortmadoC Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. • • .. .. 2 Schooner W Minn, of Morecambe .. • . .. 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry 4 Schooner Margaret Anne, of Presto n .. 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven • • .. .. 8 Schooner William, of Liverpool .• .. 5 I ugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. • • .. 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. 4 Barque Guy ma, of Glasgow :• . .. 19 Brig Roman Empress, of Shields . .. 10 Brig San Spirid one, of (;alaxide •: .. 2 Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Viana .. 8 French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese . .. 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .: 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. 1 4 Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. 8 Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) • • • • .. 1 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 4 B arq ue Frederick, of London .• .• • • 1 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and 6 crew) • • • • • • .. Barge Peace, of London L ug ger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. 11 Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .• 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .• • • 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen 11 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone • • • • 6 W re cked boat on Blackwa ter Bank, on the Irish coast •• .• •• •• Norfolk .. • • 5 1 Brig Lively, of Clay, Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth g S c hooner Friends, of Lynn .. • • • • 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .• • • 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. .• • S Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4 Schooner Epimachus, of Amst erdam .. 5 R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established 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 PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. nenry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq. lohert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Tohn ? Garratt - Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Nark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Ne lson, Es q . William Davidson, Esq. The Ho n. Jo.celine W. Percy. homas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel T,eo Schuster, Esq. Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrinc , ton Smith, Esq. ttiversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. /n. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. "as. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.— Me usual fifteen days allowed for payment of IRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire 0 /1 ith January. _FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par rtiaeirptiactiipoaenio. in Profits, or, at lower Premiums , w ithout such The Reversionary Minus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by p e rsons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. AnY sum not exceeding £ 15,000 ma y be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured- - Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stack. 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 HALE. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1861 .. • . ..136 Total •• .424 1•62. Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. • Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon .. • • Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich • • Prig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh 6 Brig Sisters, of hitby •• Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm •• • • • • 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields .. .• Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) . .• .• • • •• •• Brig Trial, of Poole Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool _ Sloop William, of Liverpool •• Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth •• •• •• Barque Cruz, of Oporto Barque Druid, of Sunderland Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved yes and crew) .• • • • • .• 3 Fi s hing Boats of Wbitburn • • •• •• .. 12 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. .. 4 Ship ‘nnie R. Hooper. of Baltimore, 13.5... .. 18 S c hooner Rook, of Liv e rp ool •• •• •• 3 Schooner Ceres, of Arbroath (saved yes. and crew) 5 Sloop Loftus, of Padstow • • .. • t • • Smack Schooner 3 t aE rEllen,Liverpoolnozfabeth. of pa ( d s s a t v o e lv d ves . and crew ere? 3 3 2 Smack John, y of Teignmoulh Schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh .• • • •• 6 Schooner James Davell, of Newcastle (saved ves sel and drew) • •• •• •• Schooner Champion, of Liverpool .. • • Galiot Aremana, of Jaffa (assisted to save vessel and crew) •• •. .• •• •• •• Ship James Browne, of Philadelphia (assisted to save vessel and crew) if •• •• •• Smack Countess of Lisburne, of Aberystwyth .. 3 Screw steamer Alice, of Leith Barque Brazil, of Liverpool Schooner Little Aggie, of Berwick • • •• 4 Schooner Sisters, of Wick 3 0S T E EI D 0 Nt l Patent, March 1 , 1862, No. 550. _GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indstructibl MIE- It AL TEE fIT and FLEXIBLE GUMS e , withoute palNates, !rings, or wires, and operation. One set lasts a lif p imeet, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and AItTICULATION, even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual ost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, lIARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; .15, NEW-STREET, PIRMING AM ; and 134, DUK 1.-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 g ati uin ents, eas. Gabriel's One visit only required from country p Practical Treatise gratis. Consultatt !MS free. ..134 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 wearer); and as they act independently of all distuebing caus es which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guarantee , : V. last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. It s ELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains his invention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspecti,‘n of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor et. eet, Bond-street, London ; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir tain ham. Total • • • • 358 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1862 .. • • • • .. ..213 Total . • • • • . . • ..N7l For these joint numerous services in saving 1,450 lives from shipwreck, the Institution ha, granted regards iinounting to £3,502 12s. 7d., in ddition to 68 Silver Medals. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the . Society nd other means, since its formation, is 12,800 , tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and f 16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67. o‘ , on Life-boats, Life-boat Transportinv-car, laves, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generotia si,PPort which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enab ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet o ' 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibility thatt res s on them to m aintain their fle et i n a thoroughly efficien state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi h ca' , only be effected by a large and pe, manent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so \peat and truly national a wo rk. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions : COUGHS, ASTHMA, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION ARE EFFECTUALLY CURED BY KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. daily recommended by the Faculty—Testimonials from the Most of whom may be inspected as the most effectual, sate, speedy, and convenient remedy for Cough and all Disorders of the Lungs, Chest, and Thro at. Sold in Boxes Is. lid. ; Tin s 24 . ud. 4s. 6d., and 11-. each.- 1 HOMAS KEAT.NO, Pharmaceutical Chemist 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Copy of a letter from the late Colonel Hawker (the well known Author on " Guns and Shooting.") Longp Irish House, near Whitchnrch, Hants. Sir,—l cannot resist informin9. - you ot the extraordinary effect I have experienced by taking only a few of your Lozenges. I had a cough for several weeks that defied all that had been prescr bed for me ; and yet I go - completely rid of it by taking about half a small box of your Lozenges, Which 1 - fi n d are the only ones that relieve the cough without deraio ng the stomach or digestive organs.—l am, sir, your humble servant P. IlAwicEn. To mr. Keating 79, St. Paul's Churchyard.' TRuLY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- 1 Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre- Itared without anv mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. '"eott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, 'Pasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &a For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to 'he stomach, they create appete, pro mote di g estion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert. 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most clyug?lsts, in boxes,ls. lid., and three Scott's the quantity in one, 25. Od. Be sure to ask for Dr. Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert , " e n g raved on D• the Sta m --- X a. d Her Majesty the Queen ((..,.oleurtkt.sCaonldonceol., Co., Messrs., ..ank;rs .. .. .. annual 50 0 0 G- Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. • . .. annual 50 0 .... anneal 1 1 0 I 10 0 0 Currie, • Wm. Esq. .. 4th don 1 0 0 0 Erie, Lord Wm., Esq., • : ... . don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir • A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick, G. J., Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage .. • . .. 11.. •• 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. 30 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony. K.C.B. .. .. annual 20 0 Thom a, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Lady. , hip .. 6. .. .. .. .• 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Ere , by, Lord .. .. .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Sul , scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard- , treet ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 50, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs an d Bankers in the Unitedlcingdom; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, p r R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, THE John -street, Adelphi, London. W.C. • PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, the Nobility, and the L" URIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Gentry are strongly recommended to use OLDRIDGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA, established upwards of forty years. Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of Is acknowledged to be the best and only certain remedy ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties ever discovered for preserving, strengthening, beautifying, of which are unfailin in their operation. Thomas Elliott or restoring lie hair, whiskers, or m.,ustaches, and p r event- i n vites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con ing them turning grey. Sold in bottles, 3 s. 6d., 6s. and vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., 108. (id., It -s., by C. and A. otoutooE. 22, wellington-street. Strand,: and 21$. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Louden, W.C., and all chemists and pertumers. For chi'. , Elliott, hatrgrower (first floor) , 61 , renchurel-street. T. H.'s Oren, it is moat efficacious and unrivalled. wigs, 41 105. ILLS' m erit. pOP t rdcock. FUR• or =6o° KlectlO piece& 8, and Irneric Fur y Dag! 3, as ; _____....-0 vu °CO: co" .. 11 fel*/ smith, i pton. A ceed" GUY. n o,pital C °11" e'en; " port; ; _--- N ' 11-411 : slat e ' P litat f ' )14 0 St )2ab. orol l ritv G s of v e sa e Cr o f ire it 1 .4 •ffee'" , 9 d i e i b 1 the ucb e* r o be 10 hP e An the d 'lr. )1. Dela se. e . ar' d, te,Jr°' r 0 0 ,; I 0 , e e i. ,0, Th ey cn irawn I• )1 01V . 5 , No. il' ;Q 10211. (/ 1 - . * N°. 22,058. IR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK'S WORK ON JAPAN. Now ready, in 2 vols. ' Bvo., with two Maps, and 142 Illustra tions on Wood and in Chromo-lithography, price 425., cloth, - - - - THE CAPITAL of the TYCOON: A Nar rative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan. By Sir RUTH RFORD ALCOCK, Her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan. . .. . - --- - . " These two magnificent volumes eon titute the best work which has yet been published on the subject of Japan."— Queen. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 14, Ludgate-hill. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in th immediate v'cinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at Ring's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BM CLEUCTI, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of eovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to er.able them to P dmit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas errnan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Mama, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and CO., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. R OIAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATnormss—D er 3lost Gracloo. Majesty the Queen. uEsmENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, E.G., F.R.S. neAN—•Thos- Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. I Erumv-Ciimum Ax —Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1880, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,( , 00 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments n the Coasts of Eng' and, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have ' een instrumental in rescuing tue Crews of the follow ing Wrec,ed Vessels:— 18f0. Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose 1 Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. .. 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. 9 Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. .. 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry n• •• •• 4 Barque Niagara, of Shields .. • • .. 11 A Barge of Teignmouth •• •• •• •• 8 Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• •• 6 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats •• •• •• 3 Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. 7 5 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .. • . Smack Wonder, of Teign mouth • • .. .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland • • • • .. 6 5 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .• Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge •• . .. 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth .. .• •.. 8 3 Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. 5 Barque Vermont, of Halifax.U.S... 16 17 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon •• •. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby • • • • • 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Reg is • • .. 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. • • .. 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. .. 5 3 Schooner Rose, of Lynn Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .• • • .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg ......6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields •• .. 7 210 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1860 •• .• •• •• ••245 ..455 .. _2 4\,. ) - O M'Srp",..>„&, N • '~ PRICE..... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. I ..... INEWSPAPER . ti, said on Saturday last, that the Bri t r *, , '. \ \", k ,.. 1 .... V1AN' ,may -. ' '-•^ ~ , • , ..1.1, ', ~,,, z.- suspended the writ without ques c.:,:3_l(!AttiOso 1)\ 7 ::3,''' (Lk (1.1 5 1 • Ar,, i-- pleased, and cited, as an instance, Let , Ai' , __ r, .1 11.;;P - -''',) : 1(- ( (//' s ' ... .m's.f.,, „.( • ..,. ~.5 .. _,,,) e- , - ), , , --z" ~,: '' ' - ' of Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Hcle . , A, ...,c.--- , -,-- . "'"- --4 - 1 , ' f ir' 1 • ..., 'z' 2 \--1 , British Government could imprison th • ' 1. • 6 7- ° "CT" . --,- r ~.- pleasure,Nwhy,Aie S ovorr. 4 , ~,.Xl/4\,,,Z.___,••=7, collqUeror because such was its r , triumphantly asked, might not the President of the United States imprison any one whom he adjudged to be a public enemy ? The pregnant question re mained unanswered. The Senate and its leading shoe: maker were satisfied with the logic and the illustration, and inquired no further. The same body has passed that portion of Mr. Chase's financial project which provides for a uniform issue of notes for the whole of the United States, such issue to be secured not upon gold or silver, but upon Federal bonds. This measure amounts to a decided infrac tion of State laws, which declare banking and its regulations to be matters entirely fortbe legislation of the commonwealth in which the banks carry on their business. This is the thinnest edge of the wedge. It is driven in much closer and more forci bly in the Cense; irion Act, which the Senate, under the guidance of its leading shoemaker, has hurried through all . its stages with scarcely any debate. The bill has yet to be considered by the House of Repre sentatives, which, through its minority, has mani fested a disposition to contest it at every point and to employ every privilege, every rule, and every artifice which the forms of the house allow to ob struct its passage, with the hope—a very forlorn one—that the inevitable 4th of March will come, and find it still under discussion, and therefore lost. The bill is not so much intended to raise soldiers for the conquest of the South as to supply an armed force under the pres sure of which the next election for the Presidency will be conducted. The conscripts of each State will be sent to do military duty in States with the people of which they.. have no sympathies. The least dissatistaction expressed by the people will be construed into treason, or danger to the public public peace, sufficient to justify the placing of the State or district under martial law. And under the operation of martial;law the election will take place. This is a desperate game to play ; but it seems to be the game of the revolutionary majority of Con gress. They think by this means to defeat the elec tion of General M'Clellan, or any other man who may be brought forward by the Conservatives, and secure the election of an e.itreme Republican, pledged to obliterate State boundaries, to make Washington, or some other more convenient capi tal city, the heart and brain of the Federal system —that shall regulate the affairs of every part of the body politic, and reduce the powers and functions of the local Legislatures to a level with those exer cised in England by parish vestries or boards of trustees. By these and kindred means they may weld the mass of the Northern States into a nation ; but it will be at the expense of its liberty, and ulti mately of its republicanism. rya , LONDON, WEDNLSDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1863 C" Eftl - EUEt Y HA L L. — GRAND SELECLIONS from popular OPERAS, con ducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Artiste Miss Russell. The Comic by Unsworth, the modern Demosthenes, in his renowned stump speech ; Eugene's burlesque songs and dances ; Frank Hall, Arthur Lloyd, and Miss Laura Sanders, and a variety of other attractions. T " OXF OR D,' e, OXFORD STREET. TI11 , : ROSE OF DENMARK," Sung every Evening by Miss Ru. sell and the entire Company, also The New Cantata, by Herr Meyer Lutz, " HERNE THE L I UNTER," Gluck's ALCESTE, and other Operatic Selections, Sup,,orted by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Mr. Green, Mr. Bernardi, Mr. J. B. Huish, and Mr. Albert, with lull band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghm ns. Drew Dean's Flute Solos. Ballads by Master Edwin Sanders, the juvenile vocalist, aged is years. George Hodson's Irish, Miscellaneous, and Ventriloquial Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Scenes and I lances. W Randall's New Comicalities. - Miss Caroline Parkes' Vocal and Terpsichorean Sketches, and other varied attractions. 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The principal reduction this year was under the votes for stores, owing to great exertions in the manufacturing departments of late years, besides which, as ex eriments with ordnance were going on it had been determined not to manufacture guns to any extent fur the present. The house was asked for 148,212 men, as com pared with 152,403 in last year, being a decrease of 4,000, which was effected not by reducing any battalions, but by withdrawing 100 men from each battalion, except those in Ceylon and the regiments going on foreign service. He pointed out that, with the peculiar distribution of our army, it was not possible to reduce the number of men so as to af ford a just system of foreign reliefs. There was an increase of £198,000 for the volunteers this year, which was caused by a compliance with some of the Royal Commission which inquired into the subject. There was an addition of £35,000 for the charge for the militia, chiefly for clothing. In other items there was no change, or, if any, it was in the direction of decrease. The first vote of 148,242 men was then put. Mr. WILLIAMS moved the reduction of the number of men by 10,000. On a division the amendment was lost by 77 to 19. The vote was agreed to. On the vote of £5,709,733 for the pay of general staff and regimental pay and allowances, General PEEL moved a reduction of the vote by £38,000 for the pay of two native Indian regiments in China; but on a division the amendment was lost by 64 to 58. Sir M. PETO moved the reduction of the vote by £225,136, the increase of the sum charged this as compared with last year. On a division the amendment was lost by 96 to 28, After some further discussion on the vote a division was taken on a motion to report progress, which was rejected by 80 to 25. However, progress was reported and the house resumed. The other business was disposed of, and tha house ad journed. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.---Monday. THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM. Mr. ADDERLEY rose to move that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, thanking her Majesty for hav ing issued a commission of inquiry into the operation of the acts relating to transportation and penal servitude, and into the manner in which sentences under the provisions of those acts have been carried out; and praying that, pend ing that inquiry, the conditions on which any remission of punishment, or licences to be at large, are given, may be strictly enforced according to the intentions of those acts. The hon. gentleman proceeded to say that, notwithstand ing the assertion of the Secretary for the Home Department that our police system was the envy of the world, it was a fact that last autumn it was scarcely possible to walk in the streets of the metropolis after dark with safety. Fortunately the garrotters had selected a member of that house as the , object of their experiments—(laughter)—and on that account attention had been aroused in their regard more speedily than it would otherwise have been. During the autumn the outcry had become so great that the Government were compelled to issue a Royal Commission. to inquire into the operation of our penal system. No doubt there was a good deal for such a commission to inquire into, but the Govern ment ought to have done much more ; they ought in the meanwhile to have put the existing law into force. (Hear.) Let them, at all events, try the existing law before they altered it; and he could show that the existing law had never been put in force. He might almost say that. consi dering the great powers vested in the Government, they were responsible for the state of things which were witnessed last autumn. Every member of the house would admit that it was a most serious thing that the principle of this im portant criminal law should be utterly at variance with the practice. This state of things was quite sufficient to ac count for the increase of outrage and crime, and enough to make people tremble for the security of their lives and pro perty. The law said that a man guilty of a crime, just shot t of the penalty of death, should be subjected to penal servitude, and, under that sentence, might ultimately be removed out of the country, or if not—and that was what occurred in the greater number of cases—that he should be subjected to imprisonment, in the first place, for a rigid un remittable term of imprisonment, varying from one-half to two-thirds, and afterwards to a further term, which was capable of being reduced from one-sixth to one. third by the good conduct of the criminal while in prison. The con dition upon which that remission was given rested with the Secretary of State, and it was easy to show that neither the remission nor the conditions upon which the remissions had been granted, had been carried out by the Home Sec retary at all in accordance with the terms of the act, but rather in direct contravention of them. The remission of a sentence was meant to be a suspension and not a pardon. The suspension should be granted on a guarantee of good conduct and a certain test of labour which the criminal might perform in person. Nothing could be clearer than the act, which was based upon the sth, 12th, and 16th reso lutions of a select committee in 1856, which stated distinctly that the remission was recommended as an abridgment of the second part of the term of imprisonment, the first part being rigid and incapable of abridgment, and that such abridgment should involve the sentence still being held over the head of the criminal. The practice, however, for the first two years after the passing of the act was to let prisoners out of prison with the minimum term of deten tion, as if they had all entitled themselves to the largest pos sible abridgment, and as it the rigid term of imprisonment was the whole term of the sentence. This course of pro cedure rendered the part Parliament had taken in passing the act an absolute farce, and rendered the sentences passed by the judges an absolute lie. The terms of a ticket of leave were that the holder should consider himself out of prison upon trial ; but the practice had been the reverse, for the ticket-of .leave holder did not have his license can celled unless he committed some new infraction of the law. The hon. member referred to the conditions under which licenses were held in Ireland as being very superior to the same conditions in England. There every convict had to report himself on his arrival in a district, and sub sequently once a month. Ho could not change his locality without notice; and any infringement of these rules en tailed revocation of his license. There was no reason why the same system should not be carried out in England. .) His simple request to the G overnment was, that the Toevaerrnment,pending the inquiry of the Royal Commission, should put the existing law in force. (Hear, heat.) He would not have asked the house to press this upon the Go vernment if he had seen any indication on their part to alter ' the existing state of things. The hon. gentleman concluded by reading his motion. t.• ir G. GREY thought it would be extremely inconve nient for the house to agree to the motion of the right hon. gentleman before the commission appointed to inquire into the operation of the Acts relating to penal servitude had m dwra a e d ss s e nwo t h to c ou i nl r dl r y e b p ve o a r gt tou. vague. pledgeii I n e i t t s h tt o eh u re g m h hs t : bu t us h et a wt t o t i o ac h r a : g ws r oh e l e iul et t i o o gno t ihwneghailcd ahr beyond what the right hon. gentleman h intended, would still The ri ht hon. gen not effect the object he had in view. g tleman had referred to the crimes that had of late disturbed the public mind, and which be had attributed entirely to the mode in which the law as defined by the Acts of 1853 and 1857 had been administered. He might observe that others who were in a good position to form an opinion took a different view ; but, at all events, the operations of the police (the particulars of which he did not think prudent to describe in detail) had led to the principal offenders being brought to justice, and they were now suffering the penalties of their crimes. He was bound to say also that in his opinion the present law was sufficient, and that no change was necessary. The conditions endorsed upon a license to be at large (commonly called a " ticket of-leave") expressly stated that the convict was liable to be sent back for his whole term if he associated with `thieves or led a disorderly life. (Hear.) The great diflloulty tion. with the authorities was to prove those facts judicially. It had been found that a second conviction was the safest proof ; and the rule had been, that in all such cases (except a few minor offences of hawking without a licence, drunk enness, &c.), the license had been revoked wherever a cri minal had been a second time convicted within the term of his license. The right hon. gentleman having denied all knowledge of the circular alleged to have been issued from the Home-office to the mayors of all the towns of Great Britain, asking for a list of ticket holders residing within their jurisdiction (and which he supposed must have come from the Royal Commissioners), said he feared the right hon. gentlemsn (Mr. Adderley) had been imperfectly in formed both in his law and his facts; and for the reasons he had given, he thought it better that the house should not agree to the motion. Mr. H. D. SE YMOUR was glad to rind the subject had been Lrought forward, and was surprised that the right hon. gentleman had not given a more sufficient answer to the speech of his right hum friend. He apprehended the reason whit the right hon. gentleman opposite had brought the subject before the house was, that the Home Secretary had not carried out the conditions attached to the ticket-of leave. It was well known there was a large number of convicts dismissed from prison who were creating terror all over the country; and there was no necessity for an act of Parliament to deal with them, as there was power already existing in the ticket-of-leave itself ; the conditions of which were that the holders, as soon as they showed auy signs of relapsing into crime, should be deprived of the license to be at large. The Home Secretary was the supreme head of the Irish system as well as the English system, and how was it, if the former one had been found to work so well, that the latter was not assimilated to it ? The may upholders of the English system were the Home Secretary himself and Sir Joshua Jebb ; and he sub • mitted it was in the right. hon. gentleman's power, with out any fresh act of Parliament, to place the whole of the ticket-of-leave men under the surveillance of the police. He could not see anything which the commission had to inquire into that had not already been fully investigated by the committee of 1856; unless, indeed, they were to inquire into the whole question of secondary punishment. But the case was not ripe for so large an inquiry, as the Home Secret try had not carried into effect his own orders. Mr. HENLEY said he would not follow the hon. gentle man who spoke last into the extraneous matters to which he adverted, but would confine himself to the terms of the motion. He thanked God the commission had not to in quire into the "whole question of secondary punishment," which was a field so wide that he should not wish to traverse it. Nor would he go into the question of giving the police greater powers of surveillance. Th ere wer e many people who thought the police already possessed powers enough. He should also abstain from entering into a comparison between the Irish and English systems ; but would simply say that he knew of nothing which could lead him to the same conclusion as the hon. gentleman opposite. He be lieved when the facts were accurately examined into, it would be shown that, if the recommendations of the com mittee of 1856 were carried out, there would be considerable difficulty in following out the Irish system. He believed his right hon. friend who introduced the motion made some confusion in his mind between the Acts of 1853 and 1856 ; for he told them there had been a wholesale discharge in 1856 of the worst kind of criminals, and that the system had become more lax after a couple of years. Well, what was the result? It was this, that from 1857 to 1860 there was a more remarkable diminution of crime than they had ever known. They enjoyed the greatest security for life and pro perty at the very time when his right hon. friend com plained the greatest abuse of the system was going on . Why, in 1860, the gaols were nearly empty ; and for 30 years there had not been such an absence of crime. He admitted things were going wrong again, and that there was a tendency backward ; hut they were not yet quite so bad as in 1857. He believed the increase and decrease of crime did not rest upon the treatment of criminals, hut that there were other and deeper causes at work to account for it—(hear, hear) --and if they were to change their laws with every ebb and flow of crime the statute book would become a greater mass of confusion than it was at present. For his part he thought the right hon. gentleman was not exercising an unsound discretion when he required more than a simple statement of the guilt of the holder of a ticket-of - leave; something approaching to a judicial in quiry. He was not one of those who thought any man should be condemned unheard. (Hear, hear.) He should vote against the resolution, but he hoped his right hon. friend would not divide the house upon it. Sir S. NORTHCOTE thought, whether his right hon. friend went to a division or not, that he had reason to congratulate himself upon the results which his motion had produced; and looking at the feeling out of doors he thought it would not be satisfactory if the session were allowed to pass without having some discussion upon it. All his right hon. friend asked was that, pending the report of the commission, the Government should carry into effect the recommendations of the committee. It was the inten tion of the committee that the ticket-of-leave should be a reality and not a sham. These tickets had been shams from the great difficulty attending their revocation without proof of further misconduct. It was reasonable, under the circumstances, for the Home Secretary to ask the house not to press him to take steps that would involve the necessity of action ; but at the same time they must all feel good service had been done by the right hon, gentleman bringing forward the question to enable the house to give expression to what was the prevalent feeling of the country upon the subject. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HADFIELD considered the present system had been successful. During three years, out of 6,000 persons discharged 90 per cent. of that number had not offended a second time. In Ireland, out of 724 only 51 men and 20 women had offended a second time. He regretted that no provision was made for persons when discharged, but that, having lost their character, they were let loose upon society without a friend in the world. He co nsidered the Govern ment had acted with, great propriety. The system was a good one, though no doubt it was c a p able of modification and improvement. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the majority of the magi strates of Warwickshire were opposed to the right hon. gen tleman (Mr. Adderley's) plan, and highly approved of the appointment of the commission. He could not condemn the G over nment for not carrying out a law which they believed t be imperfect, and he considere d the feeling of the majo rity of the people was that the abandonment of the trans portation had been a great misfo rtune to this country. The lamentable condition of discharge d p risoners from their difficulty in finding employment appeared to him to be proof of the high tone of morality in the country. It had been over and over again admitted that prisoners when removed from the country had a greater chance, and frequently be came better members of society than under any other sys tem. He expressed a hope that what had been said in the course of the debate would not prejudice the question with the commissioners, but that they would be able to dis cover a new sphere for transporting our criminals. Mr. BENTINCK objected to the resolution, The Home Secretary had committed a great error in referring the mat ter to a Royal Commission, and he was at a loss to under stand on what grounds it had been done, as it was impos sible for any commission, however able, to become possessed of better or more information than that already in the Home-office. Nothing was more mischievous than the practice which was now becoming general with the execu tive of evading their proper responsibility by shelving a question for months, by referring it to a Royal Commis sion. The Executive Government ought to be able to deal with such a question at once, and it was one of those cases in which the right honourable gentleman was bound to act on his own authority and responsibility. It was the rapid and sudden increase in a particular description of crime, and by a particular class of men, and not a general increase of crime, had aroused public feeling. They would never arrive at a good result until they again resorted to transportation. (Hear, hear.) That afforded the only possible chance of reforma- Mr. CAVE considered the manner in which ticket-of leave men were treated in Ireland better than the English system. The ticket-of-leave was looked upon in Ireland more in the light of a good character, whereas it was con sidered a bad character in England, which he attributed to the fault of the Home Secretary from the manner in which We tickets were endorsed. It was extraordinary that a man having been condemned for a crime must actually commit another before his ticket could be revoked. Such a state of things was likely to cause men to commit the acts of violence they had lately heard of—(hear, hear) — and if the question had been discussed in that house a few months since, the benches would not have been so empty as they were. (Hear, hear.) There was a most unfortu nate stagnation in those crimes—(laughter)—now that they wanted the law to be put in full force. (Hear, hear.) Colonel SYKES said that unless some means of employ ing the ticket-of-leave men were discovered, they must be always a prey upon society, He believed it was quite possible to fix upon some one of our colonial possessions to which our criminals might, with propriety and advantage, be transported. Mr. P. URQUHART pointed out that in Ireland there was no professional criminal class, and that it was much easier to maintain a surveillance over the ticket-of-leave men there than in England. At the same time, he did not think that the English police exercised a sufficient surveil lance over the ticket-of-leave men. He entirely condemned the maudlin sentimentality which would permit our sol diery to go to any climate in the world, while it called out against sending convicts to any but the healthiest. (Hear, hear.) The motion was withdrawn. ARMY ESTIMATES. Sir G. LEWIS then rose to introduce the army esti mates, Ile stated that the estimate exhibited a reduo. (From the Times' Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Feb. 21. Remaining in this city for a couple of days on my way to Washington, I have been a spectator of the reception given by the people to Benjamin F. Butler, the model General and gentleman of the war faction. The journals published under the auspices of the military Governor represent the welcome as most enthusiastic as well as nearly unanimous ; those under the patronage of the Baltimoreans them selves scarcely condescend to notice it at all, or nar rate it in a paragraph of a few lines among their local intelligence. The people of Baltimore, properly so called, kept entirely aloof from the proceedings. Not a single citizen of any note, character, wealth, or position was present to do him honour. The only persons who figured in the celebration of the day were the Mayor and members of the city council, who were appointed some time ago under military dictation, when the old civic functionaries were compelled to resign their offices or take an oath against their consciences, and the military and naval officers and other dependants of the Govern ment. The Mayor is an Englishman, who keeps a shop for the sale of crockery, and the city council is composed of persons entirely unknown to the merchants and professional classes. The General was invited to a dinner, the cost of which was to be defrayed out of the city funds ; and the invi tations were limited to 150 persons, comprising the members of the municipality and the mili tary officers of the garrison and the sui round ing forts that keep the rebellious city in subjec tion. The General, on his arrival, was hailed with shouts of welcome by a mob of about 300 people, among whom the Irish hackman and car drivers were conspicuous, and conducted by these in triumph to his hotel. Thirty-four young women, dressed in white, each supposed to represent a State of the Union, were stationed in the drawing rooms to receive him. It may be surmised that they were not known to the society of the city, and such was the fact. There was not one of them who would be acknowledged a lady b 3 the ladies of Baltimore; and if hereafter any of them, by marriage or other wise, shall take rank with the educated and wealthy classes of their city, their appearance at this cele bration will be remembered against them as a bar rier to exclude them from the society of all who sympathise with the ladies of New Orleans and con sider Gen. Butler the reverse of a gentleman. In Baltimore this class comprises at least four-fifths of the whale population, and all the ladies, except those of the Federal officers and other strangers in temporary residence in the city. Gen. Butler made a short and characteristic speech, in which he pro claimed the United Statss to be a young giant,un der going the painful but necessary agonies of teething —agonies that would speedily pass away, and leave it strong—to bite as well as to feed, If Gen. Butler is himself a specimen of the teeth that the young giant is so painfully producing, the teeth are not handsome front teeth, but strong molars, well cal culated to grind into aliment any New Orleans plums that may happen to excite its appetite for sweet plunder. The dinner in the evening, which was to have concluded the day's festivities, and at which the General was to have made his principal speech, was abandoned in consequence of a melan choly casualty that occurred in the afternoon. Com marder Maxwell Woodhull, of the Federal Navy, a relative of Gen. Schenck (pronounced Skenk, and by the Baltimoreans wickedlyperverted into Skunk) was walking on the ramparts of Fort Marshall, along with Gen. Schenck, Gen. Butler, and others, ' and lingered a little behind the rest of the party. The gunner charged with the duty of firing a salute in honour of the distinguished guest, imagining that the whole party had passed, discharged his gun,and the wadding unfortunatelystruck Commander Woo dhull with great violence, tearing away the calves of both his legs, and dashing him along the ground a distance of 30 feet. The unfortunate gentleman never spoke, and survived but three minutes after the accident. The occurrence threw a gloom over the whole city; and though it was, no doubt very cruel and very wicked in people at such a moment to harbour such a thought, there was an all but univer sal expression of regret that the wadding had struck the wrong man. Gen. Butler left the city this morn ing en route for Massachussetts. It is not positively ascertained whether he is to return to New Orleans or to be appointed to some other command. He stands higher in the President's favour than any other General in the service, and it is known to be Mr. Lincoln's wish that he should resume the ad ministration of affairs in Louisiana, from which, in Mr. Lincoln's opinion, he ought never to have been removed. Gen. Banks is not sufficiently a Couthon, or Fouquier Tinvil le, to satisfy the Jacobins of Washington. They think a "reign of terror" essen tial to reduce the South to obedience, and that• Banks is not the man to enforce it. Thera are symp toms, however, in the disposition of the ruling party to try a " reign of terror" in the North as well as in the South. And after the 4th of March, when Congress separates, it may perhaps be found that New York, and not New (Means, is to be the scene of Butler's future operations, and that the quasi rebellious and very troublesome democracy of the North may find him installed among them to re-enact all the atrocities of New Orleans, except the crowning atrocity against the women, which Gen. Butler, whatever else he may be, is by far too good a tactician to repeat. WASHINGTON, FEB. 24. e m n i t na to nt s , satisfy an A y d f s w p a d s s a i y o s n a i n t e t i h n i ci s u i c r i e t r y has grown desperat e, and that,. having failed to su bdue the South , it is directing t that a r e theau sufficient dominant its remaining ener gies to the subjugation of the North. The infatua tion of the Republicans is almost inconceivable: They are, and always have been, in a minority. All the Conservative feeling—all the instinct of race— all the interests of commerce—all the glorious tradi tions of the Republic are against their party. In its favour are the corruption of politicians, con tractors, and swindlers ; the baseless assumption of a nationality that exists but in theory ; the passion that is fed upon bloodshed ; the insolent tyranny that would assimilate conflicting opinions by the agency of the sword; and the still more odious tyranny of the pulpit, that would crush out the last remnant of civil liberty by the establishment of a sanguinary theocracy which would rather the white race should perish than that liberty, in the name of God and for the advancement of His glory, should not be given to the black. Mr. Lincoln was elected by that party, and has made himself its organ and its instrument. It has always been a defect in the working of the Constitution that the "spoil." of party were of necessity redistributed, on every Pre sidential election, among the needy professional politicians by whole agencies the success of the party candidate was assured. In the days of peace and prosperity comparatively little harm was done. One set of greedy, venal, and incompetent public servants was displaced to make room for another with the same defects, and in a minimized central government, such as that implied in a Federation of self-governing States, the evil was neither very extensive nor very oppressive, except in so far as it impaired public morality, and debased the character of the citizen. But in a time of public peril, when the whole fabric of society was shaken, a too rigid adherence to the old system of party administra tion has brought the Northern half of the Republic to the very verge of a second disruption. The Re publicans are new to power, and do not know how to wield it. There is not a man of any grasp of mind in the councils of the President. There is not a man of the least range of thought in either House of Congress who is not accused by the domi nant faction of being a traitor and a rebel, because he sees, feels, and knows that the Union is at an end, and that it has been ended by the very means taken to restore it. The Senate is led by an ex shoemaker of the most violent opinions, who can neither write nor speak grammatically, and who differs so far from the President and his Minis ters as to believe that the Union can be restored by force of arms, and that the bitter memories of the war can be softened or obliterated by a re morseless coercion. The House of Representatives shares the hallucination. No man belonging to the Conservative party is trusted in civil or military life by the rampant revolutionists who are fast usurping the Government, and driving Mr. Lin coln into their own groove. General M'Clellan was dismissed, not because he was an inefficient or unpopular officer, but because he had rendered himself obnoxious to the Anti-Slavery and ultra- Republican party by his cautious Conservatism on the question of the Southern negroes. Mr. Cassius Marcellus Clay was made a Major• General, not be cause he was a soldier, not because he knew any thing of the art or science of war, not because he had rendered cr could render to the State any military service that could not have been better performed by the rawest recruit from Kerry or Connemara, but because he agreed with Mr. Henry Ward Beecherlon Emancipation, and with Mr. George Francis Train in hatred of Eng land. Generals M'Dowell, Fitz-John Porter, Sum ner, Franklin, and other professional soldiers have been set aside, in the very agony of the public dan ger, because the weak President was over-per suaded by the theorists who manage him that it was more essential that a commander should agree with Mr. Wendell Phillips on the social and poli tical status of "Americans of African descent" than that he should be as good an engineer as Vauban or as admirable a strategist as Wellington. The President is a party President, and has become less of a national President every day the war has lasted. 'the fact alone is sufficient to explain the deplorable failure which he has made. Were he a thousand times as sagacious as he is simple ; were he not a joker of irreverent and irrelevant jokes; were he possessed of all the qualities of head and heart that qualify men to lead their fellows,—he would have been equally a failure if he had attempted, at such a crisis, to govern a practical people on the principles of a philosophic and ductri more minority, whose notions of the negro are derived from England, where there are no negroes, and whose ideas of Government would seem to be inspired by the Austrian administration of Venice, or the policy of Russia towards Poland. The Republican party cannot restore the Union. The fact has become palpable to itself. The Presi dent knows that he is not fighting at this moment for the sake of Union, but for the sake of being in a position, when peace is imposed by the dissatis fied Northern people, by Southern arms, or by the mediation of Eur ope, to secure the Border States and the best available frontier. Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase, and all the men in power who have any pretensions to statesmanship or sagacity, know it also, though they have not the courage or the patriotism to confess it. But worse even than that —the Republican party cannot restore or preserve American liberty, and does not wish to do so. Its principles are not the principles that lie at the base of the Constitution, but principles that are in compatible with the mild and diffused Govern ment of the States, and which have made America what it is (or was). Republicanism, in the sense attached to the word by the Republicans as dis tinguished from the Democrats, is incompatible with liberty. It ignores the right to disagree. It will not tolerate adverse or hostile discussion. It pro tests against personal liberty. It sets the theory above the fact It would render the drinking of a glass of wine in the State of Maine as great a social sin, or public treason, as the holding of a black man in bondage in South Carolina. It loudly asserts its own freedom to do what it pleases, but will not allow a dissentient the same privilege. It would thrust its principles down the throat of recalcitrants at the point of the bayonet. With all its faults it may succeed in the effort to make a nation of the Northern people, but if it do, it will be at the ex pense of every constitutional right which Americans up to the outburst of this miserable war were proud to uphold. Leaving out of view the negro question and all that relates to it, the principles of the Re publican party are simply those of a despotism ; and the despotism is coming. Mr. Lincoln is in reality a more imperious autocrat than the Emperor of I Russia, and will be the precursor of a second despot more iron-handed and intelligent than himself if the war be much longer protracted. A strong war and a weak Government cannot coexist on the same soil., To carry on a great domestic war there must be a strong Government. A strong Government must be a centralisation. A centralisation must be a des potism. The Republicans, true to their despotic principles, are wilfully engaged in doing their ut most so to centralise the Government as to eliminate the question of State rights from all future contro versy, and to convert the North into as homogenous a unity as France. Democraticmoment Abraham Lincoln shall the Government when Mr. A r l e t d h a o t p e t s h e proscpuercet The and n otap too soon. party y issanla.m De ver to have quitted ; but it does not kn ow what may happen in the interval. havreturn which r eturned h to e ou practise giit law in the little Western village havee lie cannot be dethroned for two years without a coup d'etat, and such violent measures are not (yet) to the taste of the Americans. Daring those two years events may totally change the character of the people, as well as of their institutions. In this Congress the Democrats are in a helpless minority in consequence of the secession of the South. The Republicans are doing their utmost in the few remaining days of its existence to cut from under the feet of the democracy all the planks of its platform. They justify the President in every ar bitrary act which he has committed or sanctioned, especially in the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and yesterday passed a bill through the House of Representatives which makes him virtual master of the personal liberty of every man in the country. One of the shining lights of _ the Senate THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, March 9. Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Keating arrived at this city from Durham on Saturday, and opened the com- mission. Their Lordships yesterday attended Divine service at the cathedral. This morning Mr. Baron Martin, after break fasting with the Lord Mayor, tried the city prisoners at the Guildhall. At 12 o'clock their Lordships took their seats in their respective courts at the Castle, Mr. Justice Keating charging the Grand Jury and sitting on the Crown side. The West Riding cause list contains an entry of 36 causes. The East and North Riding list is not yet published. The list is considered an exceedingly small one, the causes mostly being of a trivial character. The calendar contains the names of 106 prisoners and 2 for the city, and is very heavy. Two are charged with murder, 12 with manslaughter, 6 with burglary, 3 with rape, 6 with forgery, 13 with perjury, and the rest with various offences. - - Mr. Baron Martin, in the Civil Court, disposed of several undefended causes, and then tried prisoners. His Lordship announced that, to suit the general con venience, the Court would not sit to-morrow, which will be kept in this city as a day of rejoicing. CROWN COURT. (Before ➢ir. Justice Keating.) Thomas Hibbard, aged 34, was indicted for uttering a forg,d acceptance of a bill of exchange for £23 2s. 6d., with intent to defraud one John Wicks, of Sheffield, on the 16th of September last. Mr. Maule prosecuted, and Mr. C. Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner was a bone and ivory carver carrying on business in Sheffield, and that for some years he had had various business transactions with one Geo. Croft, manufacturer, of Eyre-street, Sheffield. On the 16th of September last he presented a bill to be discounted to Mr. John Wicks, purporting to be drawn on and accapted by Mr. George Croft, of Eyre-street, Sheffield, for £23 2s. 6d., at four months, which Mr. Wicks discounted at the usual rate. There had been business transactions between the prisoner and Mr. George Croft for some years, Croft owing him money, and paying by bill at four months, which was continually renewed, and at this moment a bill of his ac ceptance was running on which he owed £4B to the prisoner. He denied that the acceptance in question was his, or that he had authorised it There were plenty of George Crofts in Sheffield, and the acceptance, he said, was not at all like his handwriting. For the defence it was urged that, for anything that ap peared, the acceptance was no forgery, as it was not shown that no other George Croft, of Sheffield, of whom it was in evidence that there were several, had not accepted the bill. It was also contended that the witness Croft's evidence was not altogether satisfactory, and that it was not conclusively established that he had not given authority for the accept ance. His Lordship having summed up the evidence, The jury, after some consultation, acquitted the prisoner. He was immediately again put on his trial on a charge of uttering a forged acceptance of Mr. John Harvey, of Lead Mills, Sheffield, for £49 is. 6d., with intent to defraud Charles Fisher, on the 10th of September last. Mr. Maule again prosecuted, and Mr. Campbell Foster defended the prisoner. In this case, as in the last, the prisoner had gone to Mr. Fisher, and had get the bill discounted, and while there on a subsequent day Mr. Harvey called, and there was a dis cussion about the bill. On being asked by Mr. Harvey whether he had ever accepted the bill, the prisoner answered, ~ No, he had not ; it is a forgery." Mr. Harvey took no further steps in the matter. Subsequently the prisoner was apprehended on this charge, and told the policeman that it was no use denying it; he was guilty of the whole lot, and supposed he should get three years for it, It was attempted to be urged as a defence that Mr. Harvey's conduct in the matter amounted to a ratification of the prisoner's acceptance, as he had done nothing after he be came aware of it, and had taken no step against him. I His Lordship having summed up the evidence, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence was deferred. His Lordship said, as it appeared to be the general wish, the Court would be adjourned over to-morrow to Wednes day morning. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—NOTTINGILA.NI, March 9. CROWN COHRT. (Before the Chief Baron.) Job Reddish, Elizabeth Nicklin, and John Hays were indicted for unlawfully taking Susannah Moore, a girl under the age of 16 years, out of the possession of her mother, at Cuckney, on the 25th of January. Mr. Bristow° appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Bussard defended the prisoners live and Nicklin. The prisoner Reddish was undefended. It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that the prisoner Reddish had gone with the girl to a neighbouring village, taking her clothes with her, and had there passed the night with her, leaving her the next morning to return home. The proseoutrix, a girl of 15, but appar en tl y muc h o ld er , swore that the prisone r Reddish had prop ose d t o h er to go away with him, and she had immediately consented to do so. b e had never spoken to her before on the sub ject, and there had been no previous courtship between them. She went on to depose that Ni c kli n h a d consente d t t o h e receive flight, andher tclothes,ha tha t Hays had helped her to carry the clothe* for some distance in her flight, until he was relieved by Reddish. Mr. Buezard, for the defence, contended that the tees statement was extremely improbable, and that the defen dants were only assisting her, as they supposed, in flying from her mother, with whom she had frequent quarrels, and obtaining a situation at a distance. The jury found all the prisoners guilty, and sentence was deferred. Several other cases were disposed of; but they were all of a trivial and uninteresting character. NISI PRIUS COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) The Court was occupied in the morning in trying throe undefended causes. TURTON V. TURTON. This was an action for goods sold and delivered. Mr. Cave was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Merewether for the defendant. This case involved a disputed account, and, after a pro tracted investigation, the jury found a verdict for the plain tiff of £6 59, . Kt: tho SG 00 , tioU [.s. rr,135 •udi• reet, cos r. tor den; rties liotx COT" 99i a 4 A S. :er t• )ur. )er 11,. ....•. !;.e. RY .ro hfil ;11 .per: -f% lot° H. tha ipOr .4 13. C. 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