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THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. "ItY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman. Cheetnam, Esq., StaleybridgP. J ohn Fi e ld, Esq., Warnford-court, City. Charles Forster, Esq.. M.P. f.)r Walsall. Richard Francis George, Esq , Bath. genre H. Harrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's-wood. Thomas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Highbury. Iledgins, Esq., Cavendish Club James Edward 11Pronnell, Esq.. Wolverton. C. W. Reynolds, Esq.. Eaton-place, Belgravia. Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of Cust ms, Bomb y. R. Wickham Wickham, Esq., M.P. for Bradford. Thomas Winkworth, Esq , Gresham Club, and Canonbury. J. P. Bro,n-Westhead, Erq., H.P. for York. Security is provided in approved cases for Officers of Bank in, and Commercial Est-blishmeats, Public Companies, Municipal Corporations, and for other places of trust. Life Assurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad vantageous terms. Prospectuses, Firms of Proposal, and every information may be ob ained from the Chief Offices, 2, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; and 39, Gorge-street, Edinburgh. THE CONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). Incorporated under " The Companies Act, 1862." Capital £6,000,000, in 40,r0") Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 20,0:0 Shares. Deposit on anplication XI per Share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £3 per ~hare, and at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. Win. Latham Bailey, Esq. - (Cra;ishay Bailey Brothers and Co.), Liverpool. Montague Baillie, Esq. (Baillie, Baillie, Cave, and Co.), Old Bank, Bristol. Anthony Kingtnn Baker, Eeq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company. George S. Beecrolt, Esq., 31. P., Director of the London and North-Western Rah ray Company. Joseph Royce, Esq , Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland, and Midland Great Westira Railway Company, Dublin. Thos. Dakin, Esq., Alderman. Stauross Ditheroglue, Esq. (G. J. Cavafy and Co.), Thread needle-street. W. Smith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works, Glasgow. T homas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens), Director of the Bank of Lnndnn. Captain H. J. W. Jervis, 31. P., Deputy-Chairman Great Eastern Railway. Oct wins Ommanney, Esq. (Hallett, Ommanney, and Co ), Westminster. Joseph Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hill. SOLICITORS. Messrs Edw irds and Co., Westminster. SOLICITORS IN BRISTOL. Messrs. Daniel and Cox. AUDITORS. Messrs. Deloitte and Co., Lo'llbury. J. H. Allen, Esq., Threadneedle-street. BANKERS. Bank of London. Bankers at Westminster, Messrs. Halle' Ommanney, and CO. BROKERS. London —Messr s , P. Cszenove and Co. . Dublin —Messrs. Boyle, Low, and rim. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) J. C. Handfield, Esq. Temporary Offices-31, Threadneedle -street. This Company has been constituted for the purpose of undertaking the execution and construction of railway- and other works both at home and abroad, a class of business hitherto exclusively conducted by private co tractors. The large fortunes wh c have been realised by them. not withstanding obvious disadvantages, sufficiently attest the soundness and value of this enter. rise. It is admitted that, in many instances, the terms npon which ,lone contra •tors, even of known position and wealth, are enabled to raise the necessary funds for carrying their operations into effect crc so onerous that it is only by profits of extraordinary magnitude that such charces can be met ; and it follows that a Company having a large capital sub scribed by a wealthy proprietary, and with an able executive, would enjoy great advantages and, at the same time, fre quently afford im,,ortant aid to the individual contractor. • The sub-lettings of contracts are known to be an important source of profit. In addition to this the Company will pos sess the advantage of raising funds upon debentures secured Upon its unpaid capital at rates which would be small as com pared with those charged to sub-contractors. It is not con templated, therefore, to call up any considerable portion of the c pital, unless the operations of the Company may show it to be des rabic. The security of a large subs rihed capital will necessarily inspire confidence on the part of Govern ments, Financial Companies, and others with whom the Company may have to deal. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will be returned in full. Should a less number of shares be al ed than are applied bor the deposit will be made available towards the nayme_it on allotment, and the balance, it any, returned to the applicant. Prospectuses and forms of application for s hares m a y be obtained at the offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the boll& ors. 1111111 7 • het ent int Ich the ink' ted the re- jell aet .L 3 ist ler FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIARES ----- To the Directors of the Contract Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having- paid to the Bank of London the sum Of shares, in the , I request you to allot me Contract Corporation (Limited), and I hereby agree t,) be come a member of the Society, and to accept such shares, or any less number that may be al otted to me; and I request you to place my name on the Register of Members in respect of the shares allotted to be. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, same in full . . Address Usual signature Date MESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the Year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. Landon and Westminster Bank. Post-uffLe Orders payable at Camber- Well-park. N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. 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By the Author of "Richelieu in Love." Richard Bentley, New Barlingt •n• street. UNIFORM WITH " THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE." This day, Never before Published, price 25., SECItET SERVICE; Or, The Recollectons of a City Detective. London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) will commence a New Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled_ THE DOCTOR'S WIFE. By Author of "John 11far . c!imont's Legacy," "Lady Andley 's , ecret,' &c., &c. - Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF 6 ' SACKVILLE CHASE." In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) of the ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE will commence THE MAN IN CHAINS. By C. J. COLLINS. London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London : IS, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF BEAUTY, By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. I‘ . l - JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. 1.111_• HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Positively the Last Night but One of the Season. THIS P.VE ING, M. jullien's new QUADRIL k.E, THE GREAT CONGRESS, introducing the National Melodies of different nations. Focali4t, VOLPINI. Grand Orchestra—Three Military Band., and full Chorus. Conductor —M. JULLIEN. Commence at S.—Admission, One Shilling. M. Jullien's BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW ( ATURDAY), and the GRAND BAL D'OPE RA on MON. DAY next, the 21st inst. ROY AL AGRICULTURAL HALL ISLIVGTON.—GRAND TOURNAMENT, HIP- P( , DROM and CIRQUE, on a scale of magnificence hitherto unattempted in this country, will open on BOXING DAY. ROY AL AGRTCULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—CROCKETT, the renowned LION KING, will mike his First Appearance in London with his wonderful troup of Lions on BOXING DAY. Lessees—Messrs. STRANGE and JULLEYN. T H E X F O R D, $, OXFORD STREET, W. _ _ THIS EVENING, wiil be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir H. rishop ; also, from LA FORZA. DE f DES INO— Verdi ; by the followinv talented artistes —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, ‘N. Amsley, Tyrrell and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, iluish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Also, Solog on the Violin by viorn COLLINS, the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the oRCHESTRA.L PIANO, by Herr S HAL KENBA.CH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "I, Eugene, W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. 3lacligan, and the marvel lous Gymnast, J. Henderson. In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas Eve, sup ported by the entire 4 company, a new and orizinal Cantat t, entitled • King Christmas " written by Litchfield Mosely, Esq., and composed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the estab'ishment. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. «T HE GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, through she medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN TER MIRY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real lite, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux to recall, end still further impress on th- mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the besr wr tars. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South. and the " White" Slaver, of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly t eplace fby oth rs. The pages 4 Shakspere and the el ier Dramatists, of Scott. Hood, Involdsby, Dickens, &C., dic., wi 1. in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, Stc. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1863, nO NO FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT. iL7 —We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's Concert. IZINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRI FI WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i Pu e, Mild. Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold In Bottles, 3s. Ed., at the Retail Houses in London ; . by the Agents in the principal town s ,n En g land ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WIND3IILL-STRE FT, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." 911 HE TPA ESTABLISHMENT, 4 rind 5, King' William-street, City, will be CLOSED on SATURDAY, the 26th instant. RIDGWAY & CO. S ORTH AND .-PITM AN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. STIORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHO NOGRA PHI MANUAL. Free by post, is. 6d. 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Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. 14d. •nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by pest for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. having property than in a country where they are deprived of the advantage of political power. (Hear.) Yuu will observe in the above passage from my speech, taken from your own report, that I use the words, "I doi't want any agrarian outrages by which we shoula change all this;" and now we must appeal to the tribunal of the lexicographer. If you turn to Webster's (quarto) Dictionary you will find the word "agrarian" interpreted, ou the authority of Burke, as follows : Rilating to lands, Denoting or pertaining to an equal division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands equally among all the citizens, limiting the quantity which each might enjoy. Again, in the same dictionary the word agrarian ism is given as " an equal division of lands or pro- perty, or the principles of those who favour such a I &vision." Thus, in repudiating the agrarian sys tem I repudiated in pure and unquestionable Eog lish, according to Burke, the principles of those who favour an equal division of land; I repudiated the agrarian laws of Rome; and yet, in spite of this, you charge me and Mr. Bright with " proposing a division among the poor of the lands of the rich," and you associate us with Gracchus in schemes of socialistic spoliation. I will leave Mr. Bright's case or the future, as you seem to prefer it, to his own good keeping, merely observing that his remarks upon the laud question were more slight and inci dental than even my own, and quite as incapable of being perverted to your sense. I must add a word with reference to the explana tion-thOie given of.soihat was ; ilissing in my mind when I spoke at Rochdale against agrarian outrage. In the House of Commons a speaker is allowed to put his own interpretation and meaning on his dis puted utterances. This is fair in viva voce discus sions. But I decline to claim or accept the benefit of this practice in the present case. There is no dispute as to what I said. I accept your own ver sion of my speech ; it is a marvellously accurate re port, and I will abide by every word of it in its simplest and most obvious meaning. Aad now, having g iven you the above materials, which I do solely to leave no ground for a pro longed correspondence, I ask whether you are pre pared to adhere to the charge that I proposed at Rochdale on the 24th ult. to divide " among the poor the lands of the rich," and, if so, I call on you to cite those "certain passages" from my speech which you say " will bear no other interpretation." I must be allowed to remind you that it is now wholly a question of proof ; that tbera is but one issue before us, and that any attempt to evade this issue by raising others, or entering on vague and irrelevant discussions, cannot be tolerated. I will r:-.peat the assumption that you could not have made this grave charge without believing it to be founded in truth; that in alluding to " certain pas- sages,' you thought them to exist. I call on you to produce them in the specific form in which you would feel bouud to establish your charges before a solemn legal tribunal, and as you are still more bound to do, at that higher tribunal, the public opinion of this country, to which this correspondence will be referred. _-I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Nlidhurst, Dec. 14. R. COBDEN. P.S. I purposely abstained from saying a word in the bcdy of my letter in answer to other parts of your communication, because I wished to have a distinct and categorical answer from you on the single question at issue ; but, as you seem to be curious upon the subject of my alienation from your pages, I will give you a trivial historical inci dent. When entering on the arrangement of the details of the treaty with France, in Paris, in the spring of 1860, I found that the Times arrived daily at the offices of the Commission, in me de l'Universite. While every faculty of my mind was employed on the task in hand, I found my efforts thwarted and opposed day after day in the columns of your journal, where the treaty was in. cessantly denounced, ridiculed, and misrepresented. I knew of course that the statements made in the Times were groundless, I knew that the writers could not know them to be true, and I believed then, as I believe now, that you were actuated by the mercenary fear (foolish enough, as I say) that the abolition of the paper duty, which was contem plated as a part of the measures in connection with the treaty, would be injurious to the interests of your journal. To prevent this you appeared to be ready to destroy the treaty, defeat the Budget of the year, sacrifice Mr. Gladstone, or worry me to death. I was tongue-tied and could not speak,owing to my official position, and it was only through the confidence which the Chambers of Commerce placed in my commercial knowledge that I was enabled to defeat your unpatriotic efforts. I was naturally led to inquire how the Times reached the Commissioners' office, and was told that it came from home as a part of our equipment. It seemed strange enough that a Government pro fessicg to desire the success of the treaty should favour a journal which was doing its best to pre vent it. Resolved that so long as I was at the head of the Commission the Times should not enter the premises, I sent a communication to the proper quarter requesting that the Daily News should be substituted in its stead. This was done, and from that time the Times has never entered my house except by accident. capect, what is the meaning and object of the pas sage to which you have referred me ? As I write I find that Mr. Cobbett is in a similar difficulty. For myself, I can but repeat that " certain pas sages ir. your sp€ech will, in my opinion, bear no other interpretation than that ascribed to them," and you have yourself quoted the very passages upon which I rely to justify my opinion. -1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant , Dcc. 16. ImiN T. DELANE. P.S.—ln your postscript you mention what you call " a trivial historical incident." It is of little interest to me or to the Times why or when you ceased to read it; but you must allow me to remind you that the Times, as the largest consumer of paper, has always recognised its own interest in the abolition of the Paper Duty. Your negotiation a• Paris effected not the Times, but the papermakers, who complain, as I still think justly, that while you made such concessions to France as the under. taking to levy no export duties on coal, you omitted to stipulate that the French export duty upon the materials of paper should not be maintained. Surely it was not unbecoming a great commercial journal to remind the British n( gotiator of such neglect while there was yet time to amend it ? ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 17. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) THE MURDER WHITTLESY. John Green, a labourer, 25 years of age, was charged with the murder of Elizabeth Brown, at Whittlesey, on the 12th of Maroh, 1863; and William George Smedley, de scribed as a magistrate, age 45, was charged that he did feloniously receive, harbour, and maintain the said John Green, well knowing him to have done and committed the felony aforesaid. Mr. D. D. Keane and Mr. Markby conducted the prose cution; the prisoner Green was defended by Mr. Metcalfe and Mr.Orridge ; and Smedley by Mr. Sergeant Tozer, spe cially retained. The case excited great interest, and the court all day was very full. Excellent arrangements were, however, made by the persons in charge, ro that at no time was it inconve niently crowded, This trial should have taken place at the last summer assizes, but quite unexpectedly, and at the last moment, the prisoner Smedley, who before the magistrates and coroner had been examined as a witness for the prose cution, was given into custody and indicted jointly with the prisoner Green. Mr. Metcalfe was then instructed to defend both prisoners, and feeling embarrassed by this cud. den stet) on the part of the prosecution, applied to the late Mr. Justice Wightman for the postponement of the trial. After some discussion and consultation with the Lord Chief Baron, the application was granted. To-day Mr. Keane stated the case for the prosecution, and the following narrative will embody what he said. Mr. Whyle is a maltster, having large premises in the town of Whittlesey, and both prisoners, at the time of the murder, were in his employment—Green as a labourer, the elder prisoner as foreman. Adjoining the malting is a publichouse called the George end Star; and on the night preceding the murder there was a dance at the house. The prisoner Green and the woman were there (Green only at the dance), and at about half -past one in the morning were last seen leaving the house together, going down the lane in a direction for the malting. This wa, the last time she was seen alive, and between that time and 6 o'clock the prose cution say the poor creature was barbarously murdered. A native of Whittlesey, she had :ed a very immoral life, and at the time of her death was about 35 years of age, living in a cottage alone, gaining her livelihood by prostitution. The prisoner Green is a married mart, and also a native of the place, and lived at Inbain's End. It seems that in Whittle sey the ancient custom of ringing a morning bell at a quar ter before six still exists, and there is a functionary stylicg himself the public bellringer. On the morning of the 12th of March he was going rather late to the church bel fry when he was star tied by a sound as of a door hastily shut. He looked round towards Mr. Whyte's malting door, but saw no one, and went on to his duty. A few minutes after this a man named Stevenson, going to his work and towards Inham's End, was passed by a man running fast towards the prisoner's cottage. His braces were hanging down, and Stevenson called out, "You'll lose your brace, old partner." The man continued running, adjusted his braces without turning, and his face was not seen, but al most immediately after two men coming from Inham's End met a man running whom they distinctly recognised as the prisoner Green. He was well known to both, and they saw that he was dressed in the clothes he had been wearing the night before. A man living in a cottage next door to Green also heard about this time a.neise as of some one running towards his house, and almost immediately Green's street door open and some one go upstairs to the bedroom. The prisoner Smedley now m ust come u p on the scene, for on going to his work as usual to the malting, immediately on opening the door of the kiln furnace room he found the room filled with a thick smoke, and saw the body of, as he supposed, a man lying upon a heap of smouldering sacks. He turned back at once, and meeting in the street a man teamed Robinson, called to him, " Jim, Jim, make haste, Jim, Jack Green's got burned to dead. I know he's dead, for he can't speak. He's in the kiln house." Robinson at once went and Smedley with him ; they were soon joined by more, and Mr. Crisp, a surgeon, was sent for. The doors and windows being opened and daylight becoming stronger, it was found that a settle opposite the furnace door within two or three feet of the fire was burning, and upon a heap of partly burnt sacks was the bodyof a woman, partly consumed and still burning. Water was thrown on and a door brought, on which the remains were placed. It was a horrible sight. She was lying on her back inclining towards the left side, the hands were clenched, the knees drawn up towaros the body, the tongue protruding and almost bitten in halves by the teeth, the features much burnt away, the eyeballs col lapsed by fire, and much of the tissues and muscles destroyed. On attempting to raise the body it was found that the left arm was broken in an oblique direction between the shoulder and elbow, and not only broken, but the part from the frac ture removed as if by some instrument, for the edges of the bone were clear and untouched by fire. This part of the arm was never found, and on a minute examination made by Mr. Crisp, some of the ribs were found fractured as if by some instrument and untouched by the fire. From these circum stances there can seem little doubt the poor creature was, cruelly murdered before an attempt was made to burn the body. Green, who usually came to his work a little before six, did not arrive this morning so early, and was sent for by Smedley. His wife answered the messenger from the bedroom window, and soon after Green came to the place and assisted with others in disposing of the remains, The same morning. about eight o'clock, Smith, the superinten dent of police, in the presence of Mr. Whyte, spoke to Green, who was then at his work, asking him what time he left the malting the night before, and when he got home. lie turned pale, looked confused, and said he left the malt ing about half-past eight, and was at home by 11 o'clock. Being asked further if he had seen Elizabeth Brown last night, he said he saw her in the George and Star taproom, but never saw her afterwards. Shortly after he was taken in custody, and it was then observed that his clothes smelt strongly of burning, and his hair was slightly singed. He said to the policeman, " Oh pray don't, pray don't," and trembled violently. Near the body of the woman was found a cap belonging to him, and which acme women had seen him in the George and Star the night before believed he then wore. A son of the prisoner Smedley was celled for the prosecution, and explained that the malting doors had Chubb's locks, and were always carefully locked by his father upon leaving work. If the prisoner Greeen could possess himself of the k-ys he might have entered and admitted the woman, but nothing seemed disturbed, and there was no unusual appearance with the exception of a window, a pane of which footwas broken, as it was suggested, from the inside , a nd marks on the yard gate, and an impressieno of some ice on the top of a water cask that stood edlnside the wa atas. It may now be asked S , but how is . s a om bo e ot on impli atod ? He s a witness in the first instinbainalacreehbie : Y faoorde be magistrates against the prisoner Greene... tween that time and the assizes iu Julyhiet come to the knowledge of Mr. Smith,t at "Whittlesey, that prosecution and clerk to the magistratessmediey t r o havefor theto was returning on the morning of the murder, a s s o e l e i m ci s to he met the driver of the the floor, before giving an parcelalarm, for him, and that he from the malting after he had disscovered the body lying on mail cart, who was to carry ha • a a told he had, instead of asked if he had received it — :told the next man he met, he did not addressed as J.m I Jim 1" t w e h ll o in i g t N iV v h ill at be he re h m ad em j u b s e t re s d ee ih n e ehl and upon Mr. . Smith g h con- The mail cart driver told It r. Smith there seemed nothing unusual the latter admitted he salt' nothing con fronting nheSdurtievdelre Ills present master (blr. Whyle) had employed h n o o o th w in ., g , to the driver, but "he was frightened, him for the last two years, and upon entering his ser vice he ca me with a char acter for good conduct fro m his last em i o 20v into custody, and years and upw ar d s . Upon ey sucher,wi evthwidheoomoela Smedley w e had i been a f e br gen has n a d e this charge hanging over his head for five months. To-day the evidence only went as far as this—and upon Mr. Keane continuing to call witnesses who could prove, no more, Mr. Baron Martin interposed, and said, in his opinion th e re was no more a ca se aga i nst Smedley than aga inst himself (the learned j u d ge ) . There was no evidence what ever that he knew any f e l ony had been comm i t t e d, and i n law, unless it could, be clearly shown that he knew Of the THE OLD•ESTABLISHED B ROMPTON GENERAL REGISTRY OFFICE FOR SERVANTS. (UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE.) MRS. DONO VAN, 56, BROMPTON-ROAD. Families requieng Servants are respectfully sol cited to apply, there being always a large supply on the books. Applications for Servants during the past year, 1,760. Lists of Servants forwarded on application. Office Hours from 10 till 4 daily, Yearly subscribers of One Guinea supplied with every du of Servants free of extra charge. Upper Servants, ss. ; Under do., 2s. 6d. MR. COBDEN AND THE "TIMES." We publish today another instalment of this most unnecessary correspondence: — To JOHN T. DELANE, ESQ. _ Sir,—l have received the letter dated from your private residence, and bearing your proper signa ture, in which you take on yourself personally the responsibility of the interpretation put by the 7 Imes on the speeches of Mr. Bright and myself at Roch dale—namely, that we proposed " a division among the poor of the lands of the rich." Your letter to me says : You attribute to the Times a deliberate miss presentation of your meaning, and that of Mr. Bright, as to the means of amending the unequal distribution of the land between the rich and the poor. I repeat that certain passages in your speeches will, in my opinion, bear no other interpreta tion than that ascribed to them. _ _ . This is a grave accusation. lam told thlt, if proved, it would bring Mr. Bright and myself within the provisions of the Act 57th George 111., cap. 19, and render us liable to the penal cunse quences of transportation for seven years. I will not believe that you can be so wanting in the respect due to others, as well as yourself, as to have addressed this accusation to me, unless with the belief that you have evidence to substantiate it. I call on you to give me those " certain passages" to which you refer, and which are really now the only quest:on at issue between you and me. That there may be no excuse or ground for delay, I accept the rf port which appeared in your paper as an ac curate version of my speech ; and to aid you in your task I have cut from the Times the entire passage which contains all I said in reference to the condi tion of the whole people, or to the agricultural population and the land question in particular. But tet it be distinctly understood that I do not confine you to this passage, but that I give you the entire rarge of my speech. Before giving the passage I will say a few words, which, although I do not in the slightest degree claim for them the character of evidence, may have interest in some quarters. It is known that I am not in the habit of writing a word beforehand of what I speak in public. Like other speakers, practice has given me as perfect self-possession in the presence of an audience as if I were in my closet. Now, my one constant and overruling thought while addressing a public meet ing, the one necessity which tho long experience of the arts of controversialists has impressed on my mind is to avoid the possibility of being misrepre sented, and prevent my opponents from raising a false issue—a trick of logic as old as the time of Aristotle. If I have, as some favourable critics are pleased to Ojai., sometimes spoken with clearness, It is more owing to this ever-present fear of mis representation than any other cause ; it is thus that the most noxious things in life may have their uses. When in my speech at Rochdale I came to touch upon the subject of the land, the thought in stantly flashed through my br ain—and none but the public speaker knows with what velocity thought moves when iu the presence of 4,000 listeners—that I was dealing with a question about which there is a superstition in England unknown elsewhere, and !hat the enemy would raise the cry of agrarianism against me, and hence my denunciation of agrarian outrage, which will be found in the following ex tract. Had I been inspired with the faculty of se condsight, to have foreseen the Editor of the limes sitting bodily penning his criticism on my speech, I could not have more completely refuted and con founded beforehand the charge now brought against The following is the passage referred to : It has been a fashion of late to talk of an extension of the franchise as something not to be tolerated, because it is as sumed that the mass of the people are not fitted to take a part in Government, and they point to America or France, and other places, and draw comparisons between this coun try and others countries. Now, I hope I shall not be consi dered revolutionary, because at my age I don't want any revolutions. They won't serve me, lam sure, or anybody that belongs to me. England may compare very favourably with most other countries, if you draw the line in society tolerably high, and if you compare the condition of the rich and the upper classes of this country, or a considerable por tion of the middle classes, with the same classes abroad. I don't think a rich man, barring the climate, which is not very good, could be very much happier anywhere else than in England ; but 'when my opponents treat this question of the franchise as one that Is likely to bring the masses of the people down from ;heir present state to the level of other countries, I say I have travelled in most civilised countries and that the masses of the people of this country do not compare so favourably with the masses of other countries as I could wish , I find in other countries a greziter number of people with property than there are in England. I don't know a Protestant country in the world where the masses of the people are so illiterate as iu England. These are not bad tests of the condition of a people. It is no use your talking of year army and navy, your 07ports and your im ports—it is no use telling me you have a small portion of your people exceedingly well off. I want to bring the test to a comp ar i son o f th e ma jority of the people with a ma jority of th e p eop l e i n o th er co untries. Now, I say with regard to some thi ngs i n f o reign countries we don't corn pare favourably, The condition of the English peasantry 'has no parallel on the Cana of the earth. (Hear.) You have no other peasantry but that of England which is en tirely divorced from the land. There is no other country in the world where you will not find men holding the plough and turning up the furrow upon their own freehold. I don't want any agrarian outrages by which we should change all this; but this I fled, and it is quire consistent with human nature, that wherever I ga the condition of generally pretty good, in comparison with the tphoewle)eropthiee is they have to take care of themselves ; and if you have a class entirely divorced from political power, while in another country they p o ssess it, they will be treated tire with more consideration, they will have greater advantages, they will be better educated, and have a better chance of To RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P. Sir,—Having done alreddy all that in your first two letters you seemed to think essential to your purpose, having abandoned " the shield of an im penetrable secrecy," having refused to '•suppress my individuality," or to " shield myself under the third person of the editorial nominative," I might very reasonably decline to do more than acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, and leave you to that remedy which you seemed to think all-sufficient if you could only confront a living man instead of an impersonal entity. It appears to me, however, that I have been dragged into this correspondence entirely by the exaggerated intensity you have chosen to attach to Lhe oaten-quoted phrase, " Mr. Bright's proposition for a division among the poor of the lands of the rich." The very passage to which yuu refer me with so much confidence conveys, in my opinion, the whole of this meaning. You seem to assume that I charged you with proposing that this division should ue accomplished by violence. But your own words were there to prove to me that such was not your meaning, and to confute me instantly if I had at tempted to attach that interpretation to it. There are, however, as no one knows better than yourself, other and more effective, because more enduring, means than violence for the division of the land of the rich among the poor. We see in France, for example, the effect you described to your Rochdale Eg' —the audience as . as so desirable in oduced n by and the law of succes lement of the land—p r sion which prevails there. A similar me asure proposed by yourself, or by Mr Bright, and carried in a Parliament elected princi pally by the peas antr y whom you dosire to enfran chise, because they would then " have a bettor chance of having property," would in two or three generations not only check the accumulation of land i n few hands , but would break up all existing estates grea t or small , a nd thus largely increase the number of proprietors. In another generation, probably, the peasant himself would " turn up the furrow on his own freehold," and be no longer " divorced from the land." You suggest so obviously that it is by legislative measures—rendered possible by giving political p ow er to the p e asantry—you propose to " amend the unequal distribution of the land :between the rich and the poor," that no one wou Id think of chargingyou with endeavouring to e ffect this great change by violence. 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STAMPED ....sd. felony, and then assisted the felon, he could not be con victed, The prosecution against Smedley was then withdrawn, and the case closed against Green, and it being nearly five o' clock, The learned Judge said he should not sum up the case to-night, and would, if Mr. Meicalle wished, now adji4urn. The learned counsel, however, elected to address the jury on behalf of his client at once, and urged strongly upon the jury the very unsatisfactory nature of the medical testi mony. The Court Vjourned at the conclusion of Mr. Metcalfe's speech. I...,.,•••••••••• HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 17. (Before /sir. Baron Pigott.) CHARGE OF ARSON.—Sydney George Snead, 33, a re spectable looking man, turrendered to take his trial upon a charge of having feloniously and maliciously set fire to a dwebing house in bis occupation, persons being therein at the Uwe. _ Mr. Barrow prosecuted and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. This case stood over from the last assizes. It appeared the prisoner carried on the business of a tailor at Rochester, and that his mother lived with him, and two maiden sisters named Anne and Elizabeth Garish, who occupied two rooms —one on the first Haw- as a sitting room, and another as a bedroom. The fire that was the subject of inquiry took place on the night of the 30th of March last a the two ladies above-mention e d went to, that bednd appearedt quarter to 10 o'clock at night, and very shortly afterwardsaou a they heard the prisoner's mother go to her bedroom, din few minutes thereafter the prisoner also went to au n a and, according to the evidence, almost immediately s oroom,af te wards the house was discovered to be on fire. The ladies endeavoured to go down the stairs, but there was such a quantity of smoke coming from the lower part of the house that the) were unable to do so, and they eventually made their escape by a ladder from their bedroom window. The prisoner and his mother also got out, and none of the inmates of the house received any injury, although no doubt but for the timely discovery of the fire their lives would have been seriously endangered. Mr. Radley, superintendent of the Kent constabulary, and some of his men obtained admission to the premises very soon atter the alarm was given, and they succeeded in putting out the fire before any material amount of mischief was done; and it appeared the company w ith which the prisoner had effected an insurance (the Commercial Union) paid him the amount of his loss by the fire, the agent stating, as was proved daring the trial, that " it was not worth their while to contest claims of such a trifling cha,-, meter, or to prosecute, whatever th eir sus p icions might be." The magistrates of the city of Rochester, however, from the facts that were laid before them, felt it to be their duty in the interest of the public to take up the matter, and it ap peared that the prisoner was in the first instance summoned before thew, and the result was that he was committed to take his trial upon the present charge, which would have been disposed of at the summer assizes, but an application was made to Mr. Baron Channellto postpone the trial, which was granted, and in the meantime the prisoner was allowed to be at large upon bail. The principal facts that appeared to be relied upon in support of the charge were, that accord ing to the opinion of the two ladies who lodged in the house, at the time the prisoner went up to his bedroom the house was actually on fire, and he must have been aware of the fact ; and it appeared that they made an observation to this effect to the prisoner on the night the fire happened, and he replied it was all right when he went up to bed; and this, according to the theory of the prosecution, could not have been the case. Another circumstance relied upon to sup port the charge was that upon the police going into the house they found fire under the stairs, and after they had extinguished the fire they discovered that the counter in the shop was on fire in two places, and it was suggested that these were all distinct fires, and could not have been commu nicated one to the other. It also appeared that when prisoner was questioned about the fire by the superintendent be said the house was quite safe when he left the lower part of it, and that he was in bed when the alarm was given ; but upon the officer going into his bedroom the bed did not ex hibit any appearance of having been slept in. Besides this, it appeared that in the bedroom of the prisoner's mother there was found, fastened to the bed, a long cord, knotted and with a hook at the end, which was evidently ini ended as an instrument to facilitate the escape of any person in case of the house being on fire. The whole of toe facts proved in support of the prosecution appeared, however, merely to make out a case of suspicion ; and with regard to the last mentioned piece of evidence, it appeared that the prisoner told the officer that the rope had been in the possession of his family for a great many years, and there were no grounds for doubting this to be the fact. A good many of the suspi cious circumstances in the case were also to a considerable extent explained away in the course of the cross-examina tion, and it was not at all distinctly negatived that the fire was the result of accident. Mr. Ribton made an able address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and he contended that the evidence had alto gether failed to establish the fact that the fire had been oc casioned wilfully, and he urged that it was monstrous to suppose that the prisoner should have committed such an act, which might have resulted in the death of his own mother, without, as it appeared to him, anything like an adequate motive for the commission of such an atrocious crime. In the course of his observations the learned coun sel said that it was clear the case had been got up by the police, and that it exhibited a strong illustration of the want of a public prosecutor ; and be said if there had been such a functionary, he felt satisfied that such a charge would never have been brought forward. He then proceeded to com ment upon the facts of the case, and said that fires were constantly occurring which could not be accounted for, and that this had been the case ever since, the Fire of London, which was at first generally attributed to the Papists, with out the slightest foundation for such a suspicion; and he I cited the well-known lines of Pope upon this subject : " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." He then called a number of witnesses, who gave the prisoner an excellent character. The learned judge having summed up, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was then discharged. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Yong, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) Joseph Hartley, Charles Shepherdson, Robert Haigh, and John Scott, were charged with night poaching, being armed, at Womersley, on the 30th of October. There was also a second indictment charging the prisoners with shoot ing Thomas Hiles, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, at the same time and place. Mr. Maule and Mr, West prosecuted ; Mr. Blackburn appeared for Haigh and Scott, and Mr. Bruce for the other two prisoners. It appeared that on the night named in the indictment Lord Hawke's keepers and some watchers were out near Daffy-wood, at Womersley, and hearing a shot in the direc at - tion of another woad named Broad Oa k, the party went once to the edge of it. On their arrival some of the watcher rest stationing themselves behind the trees in the immediate neighbourhood. While they were there four men, who were stated to be the prisoners, came out of the wood, and one of the party at once exclaimed, the moment he saw the keepers, "There are the keepers; shoot them ;" using at the same time a coarse expression. On this one of them who had a gun, and was stated to be the prisoner Shepherdson, immediately fired at Thomas lilies. The shot took eff ect , and Hiles became partly insensible. One of the men then added, "Go in and finish him," and the keeper was a good With w deal maltreated. In order to connect the prisoners • the offence Hiles deposed that he had known Haigh before ' and recogn i ze d him. A da y or two after the oct.nr reneeLord Hawke offered a reward of £5O for the discovery of offenders. In the meanwhile the superintendent the Riding police at Pontefract, Mr. Hall, h a • eut of Nest Riding municated with, he, accompanied by on been com p-el:tended two of the men, who lived near of his officers, at). at Pontefract. They were each found ea the Old Church partly dressed, and when asked how in bed, one of them were in bed at that time of day, it it happened that they the forenoon, one of them attemptedthen being the middle of say i n g that although he had to account for it by work, he had not obtained i been at Fetherstone to seek when he returned. Rai t/ and had therefore gone to bed village of linottinglegh was taken the same day at the places being in the Y.' and Shepherdson at Tanshelf, both about four miles from immediate vicinity of Pontefract, and the prisoners vi, era the Broad Oak wood. To show that ere all mixed up with the affair, and to cor roborate Hiles, on his way to w a or m k b an named Salkeld, a l a bourer who was o of v the priso ners, whom u h t o 6kno'ecwloccioimninthg up a by. r ' oad from . 1 otuersley to Pontefract. Mr. flail o btained the b oots worn by the p r i soners, an d on c omparing them with footprints left by the side of the wood, they were found to correspond exactly. in cress-examination it was elicited that Hiles during the day b e f ore h a d been drinking, and he admitted that although he s a w Mr. Hall, the superintendent, the next day, ho did and one had forgotten for being pressed not mention Ilaigh's name to him, his reason for not h aving done so, said hto _ _ . do it.. In defence, Mr. Blackbu rnurg ed that practically the pri soners were soug ht to be convicted on the testimony of Hiles, almost unsupported, and that he was in such a state from his previous day's drinking as to be totally unreliable,besides which he bad admitted that he did not mention Haigh's wan e, although he said he had recognised him, until after that to Lord Haw ke had offered the reward. Mr. Bruce ( who commenced his address bye ruess stating sorryting he a ppeared for Mr. Ca m p bell Foster, who, he s ay, was preventee by illness from coming to court) urged the like topics, and further insisted that i_e hjury m ust , not place too strong a reliance upon the fact of the correspond. ~ ship. The pr'soners, haVing both begged for mercy, were then severally sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for six years. The Fire Brigade System of London, Last evening, at the usual meeting of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, held at the vestry room of the parish, Kennington-green, Mr. Churchwarden Rhodes in the chair, Mr. KNIGHT called the attention of the vestry to a report which he had heard, that Sir George Grey, the Secretary for the Home Department, intended, during next session of Parliament, to introduce a bill for the abrogation of their present fire brigade establishment, and of piecin g i t un d er t h e superin tendence of a different body. lie understood that such transference of management would cause an expense to the ratepayers of from X 40,000 to i 50,000 a year. He wanted, therefore, to know whether the vestry had received any information on the sub- r the pct. Mr. F. DOULT ON, M.P., said ho was n that any such questi on woul d be asked; but at aware same tine, as he was in possession of some inf tion on the subject , he had much p leas ure in ° co n" - - m unicating it to the me etin g . The ma tter was very important, and in the course of a week or two the vestry, together with the other vestries of the metropolis, would have their attention called to it, and have placed before them the whole facts of the case. The insurance companies, as they were aware, had hitherto supported the fire brigade at a cost of about £30,000 per annum. In the last two or three years, however, these companies had protested against charges thus placed upon them, as a large number of the premises where fires occurred, and where their engines attended, yielded them no thing, in consequence of the premises burnt down not having been insured. They stated, in fact, that the properties were not insured at nine-tenths of the fires their engines aided in putting out. They, therefore, under these circumstances, hinted in the course of last year that they were not prepared any longer to carry on the system. On that circum stance becoming known, the question arose what was to be done ? Or course the Home Secretary was the party to apply to on the subject; and feel ing a deep interest in it, he put a question to Sir George Grey respecting it, and the result of that was that a committee of the House of Commons was appointed on the subject. The committee cer tainly did not report that the insurance companies should support and maintain the fire brigade of the metropolis. He believed Sir George Grey had recently baen in communication with the Metropo litan Board of Works on the subject, and within the last two days he believed that that board had received notice of a measure to be introduced into the next session of Parliament for placing the fire brigade of the metropolis under the superintendence of that board. He believed there was a provision of that communication to the effect thereat if the Beard of Works objeced to take the supndence of the brigade, the Home Secretary was prepared to pi ece the same under the superintendence of the 'Metro politan Police. in either case, however, the metro polis would have to pay. for the matter. The esti mated cost was, he believed, from £50,000 to £60,000 per annum, or a halfpenny rate over th e w h o le of the me tro p olis in perpetuity. He certainly t hought that i f the ratepayers of the metro p olis h ad to itU they had mu ch be tter place the super is u nder the co ntrol of the super vision for f it Board of Works t h a n under th e p olice, who were an irresponsible body. (H ear.) Mr. KNIGIIT then said he considered the subject most important, and gave notice of . a motion for next meeting respecting it. Ilorniman's 'lea is choice and strong, moderate i n price, and wholesome to use. These alvantages h ave secured for this Tea a general preference. It is old in packets by 2,280 Agents. Gandol " A Idina," a new opera b y a G enoese composer , Signor s been produced a t Milan, —it is said with success. fi, ha REPENTANT GAROTTER.—At a meal". at AEdinbur held Chelsea, was told the followinggt'l on Inesday, Dr. Norman resided near oii story :—A gentlemean;3 when he w a s; e ight t o attacked by a g gar g ot b t e r low a a a b k ri a d o g e e ke D d down, had his watch taken from him, and w e a ' s leftw insensible on the ground. Every effort was made to apprehend the robber, but in n who vain ; when o ne even i ng a man call ed upon the gentlem had been robbed, and said :—,, I am the man who garotted g li m pse of you, I remembe r ed You ; but, on cat ching a having h e ard yon more 'hen once speaking at reformatery meetings, and I em ashamed id to him :—" of having done How is i such a t that thing to you." 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We quote a few. —Cure No. 62,01; Hiss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had: abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with f •arful cough, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow c_ rfec i ' lly emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God , e , m m a ias P F ai n do healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, " - I f Friinley Police. Cure, No. 45,`270. Mr. James :Roberts:if. blood, liver Surrey, of ,hirty years' diseased lungs, spittisigr . 47,121. Miss derangement. and partial deafness.—Cure , e . ss, indigest on,! expectoration,bee.9. Mlizaheth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, utsaucies.—Cure, No. gathering's, low spirits, and nervolLu , Fa.kenham, Norfolk, 61,516 • ibe Rev. James T. CamPwieiver, which had resisted of indigestion and torpidity (.)f the e b 2s Od ; 2 b, la cid ; sib, all medical treatment. In tins, du , C i 'o 77 y Barry and ~ l's • , 1 Is; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 405. i.,13,,ar.1,r--or,dnum and Mason ; ,. ant . l all Etegent-street, London ; a—rv town of the United laugdom grocers and chemists in eye 7 -77 - ‘,N. - -N t ... - once of the footprints, and further :pointed out thlti 4 1,111 A -reN which might apply to any one of the accused mi '' •= ll . 1 0 , , V .- - 1 /1 , "0. w e . e et - 4 cessarily apply to any one of the others. ::: e ft* % 4e l fa 1 4 ; , , His Lordship having summed up, the jury re '' - Aki --%; A.:___ 77 - having been absent for about an hour, returned w 4 . :•4 7 diet of guilty against all the prisoners. Hartley, Shepi;oo , ~.,."4 " 4 " :1 -; son, and Haigh were thereupon sentenced to be kept in. II S penal servitude four and Seotts for three years. Henry Smith Evans was indicted for stealing and Thomas .- Dryhurst for feloniously receiving a large quantity of silver 9. the property o f J osep h B ra db ur y and another, at Sheffield, ese , :' on the 19th of October last. Mr. Blackb urn and M r. G u ll y, h o ldi n g the brief of Mr. Mr Campbell wd Foster, who w as a bs e nt from illness, prosecuted dY appeared for Evans; and Mr. Middleton for! the other prisoner. For some time past Evans it ap p eared , empl oyed had been by the prosecut ors, who had extensive silver plates, ying in his cure almost the whole of their . large stock of silver From events which occurred, it appeared that Evans was in the constant habit of making up parcels, which he said were eut;og,d in a house ery. and forwarding in E dingth irm eo t i t o ot he other p: isoner, who was er.g a c a e rt i) t i . Ono of these parcels falling into the hands of the police to some latter town, it was taken to uryhurst, who, fn ;li i sold, Evans, n : i ul a e d m questions, i a t n t e d d t t h h eat said h h e e that he had got parcels of silver from a had disposed of them nn his account, got nearly £3O for the last let he had he himself re ceived something like £5 as a sort of the person for the W transactions. hen asked whether :na who re vi uf o s lr y . warded the silver was the came Evans who p h erson v o : 1 i c os : ho "141 the e b taken been in the same house as he then was, further stated that he had sold the silver to souni"ebYpoeerltlasniel, Birmingham. Thereupon he and Evans were into custody, and, inquiries having been made b both the prisoners were omreittedup en the presentmeleuPs The only point really contested throughout the eas e ar- :: whether the silver had been sufficiently identi fi ed ; an d The learned Judge lold the jury that they course, before they convicted either of the prisoners, b e satisfied that the silver was Messrs. Bradbury's proper t y , a nd it they were eo, then the q uestion, so far as Dr yhure; was concerned , still remained—did he know that it had been stolen when he received it ? If so, he was guilty. His lordship also took the opportunity of remarkiug that he considered the plan pursued by the policeman of obtain in g a statement from Dryhuret was extremely objectionable, and he also made some strong observations with reference to the facilities apparently afforded, in this case, to the pd.. sonera for getting rid of property evidentiy so valuable as this, by purchasers being found almost immediately. The jury found each prisoner Uuiity, at the same time adding their lull concurrence in the last remark of his lord-