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THE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). Established under the Companies Act, with Limited Li abaity. Capital, Two Millions Sterling, in 20,000 Shares of £lOO each. Rret issue, 10,000 Shares. Deposit, £1 per Share on application. and £1 10s. on allot ment. It is not contemplated to call up more than £2O per Share. Calls not to exceed £5, at intervals of not less than Three Months. DIRECTORS. James Bruce. Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Abchurch-lne. Charles Bye Colchester, Esq. (Messrs. Colchester and Wool ner), South Sea Home. D. D. Cartwright Esq., Gt, Moorgate-strect (Messrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay), late Chairman of Commercial Bank of India. lloratio Sydney Coulson, ELq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Ab church-lane. George Lyall, Esq., Mincing. lane (Messrs. Lya. l .l, Still, and Co , Hong Kong). Charles Edward slangles, Esq., Director of the Union Bank of Australia. Thomas Stenhouse. Esq., Director of the Chartered Menai'- . tile Bank of India. John Torrance, Esq., Director of the Alliance Bank Edmund Westby, Esq., Director of the Bank of Victoria. BANKER S. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury, and :- , outhwark, LondOn. Brown's-building•s, Liverpool, and Birkenhead. F'OLICITORS. Messrs. Flux and Argies, J, 31incing-lane. BROKERS. Messrs. J. and J. Whiiehe , d, P, Moorgate-street. ECRETARY (pro tem.)—Robert Slater, junior, Esq. Temporary Offices of the Corporation-26, Change-alley, Cornhilt, E.C. PROSPECTUS.. - - The Discount Corporation is established to aid the mone tary arrangements of the increasing commercial interasts of Great Britain and its dependencies. In founding this undertaking the Directors have secured the co-operation of an old and highly -respected Discount Firm in London. with whom arrangements have been made for the transfr of its lucrative bus , ness to this corporation, and two of whose partners join the Direction. It will thus ba manifest that the Dis-ount Corporation starts with a large and valuaole connection, and acquires the experience of Directors whose influence and intelligence are certain to command the confidence of the public. The material b9sis of the Corporation will be a large sub scribed Capital, judicially distributed. The recent creation of several large Indian and Colonial banking institutions, coupled with the expanding home and .conthientil trades of the country, and the greatly extending commere.al transactions with India and the Colonies, led to the conviction that greater discounting facilities than at pre sent exist are required A n e stablishment, which from its ample means will be able to supply such requirements, will no don t be favourably re ceived by the trading community, and will at the same time afford a safe and profitable return equally to those who seek the permanent investment of their money, and to those who merely desire the temporary employment of their surplus Innds. _ _ _ The known profitable operations of the old private D's. count Firms, and the new Discount Companies, give the as surance that a purl. Discount business, prudently managed, will prove a comulete success. The Head Office of the Corporation will be in London. No promotio ,-money will be given for originating the Ymdertaking, and the pre'im;nary expenses will be strictly confined to such as are indispensable. Applications for Shares m be addressed in the annexed form to the Dir ctors, end copies of the prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Corporation, or at the Offices of the Brokers and Solicitors ; but no application will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per snare on the number of shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. --- To the Directors of the Discount Corporation (Limited). ---- Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a d posit of Ll per share on Shares in the above Corporation, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to become a member of the Cor poration in respect of such Shares, or in respect of any less number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of Associat.on when required ; and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members for the Shires so allotted. Name in full Residence Profession or Business. Date THE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). --NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That no further APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Corporation will be received after THIS DAY (SATURDAY), the 17th October. By order, ROBERT SLATER, Jun., Secretary, pro tern. Temporary Offices, NI, Chanze-alley, Cornhill, October 17, 1853. T HE MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). £500,G00, in 20,000 shares of £25 each, with power to increase, a deposit of los. per char - to be paid on application, and £1 10s. on allotment. First issue £25 0 ,000, in 10,000 shares, of which only £l2 10s. per share is intended to be called up. No second issue will take place until £l2 10s. per share has been called up on the first issue. Calls not to exceed £2 10s. per share, at intervals of not less than two months. DIRECTORS. Captain R. W. PELLY, RN., Elder Brother Trinity House (Director of the London Assurance. and late Director of the Hudson's Bay Company), Chairman. James Borman, Esq. (Messrs. hickie, Borman, and Co., Mer chants), 127, Leadenhall-street. Alexander Calder, Esq. (late Director of the India General Steam Navigation Company, Calcutta), Putney. Abel Chapman, Esq. (Director of the Mid-Wales Railway), 79, Old Broad-street. Ambrose Emerson. Esq. (Messrs. Newby, Carson, and Co.), Grr sham House, Director of the West African Company. Henry Fox, Esq., Director of the London and Provincial Marine Insurance Company. John Hall, jun., Esq. (Messrs. J. Hall, jun., and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), New London-street, Fenchurch street. Robert Hewett, Esq. (Messrs. Hewett Brothers, Merchants and Shipowners), Trinity-square. Wiliam A nastasius Jones, Esq., late Local Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mint Company, Wilton Lodge, Croydon, Surrey. John Rogerson, Esq. (Messrs. J. Rogerson and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), Royal Exchange-buildings, sad Newcastle-on-Tyne. John Gustavus Russell, Esq. (Director of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company), Gil. Moorgate street. Captain Luke Thom is, late id . Aden. 135, Leadenhall-street, and Nevill Lodge, Tunbridge Wells. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Dawes and Sons, 9, Angel court, Throgmorton-street. BANKERS. London and County Bak, 21, Lombard-street. The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Edwards and James, Is, King-street, Cheapside. STOCKBROKERS. Messrs. Froom Brothers. 20. Change-alley, Cornhill. SURVEYORS. Timothy Harrington, Esq„ Consulting Engineer, 61, Grace church-street. Captain Thomas rrilw, The Jerusalem, Cornhill. SECRETARY-11r. Thomas Sharer, 27, Leadenhall-street. TEMPORARY OFFICES OF THE COMPANY. 18, King-street, Cheapside. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established for the purpose of granting temporary loans and advances on eligible ships and other Marine property, by way of mortgage or assignment, covered by Policies of insurance, and on such other security as may be found desirable. Money will also be received on deposit for stated periods, upon interest to be , greed. and will be employed in like manner with the capital, the uncalled por ton of whic , , and the property held on mortgage by the Company, will at all times afford ample security to depo sitors. The estimated value of British vessels mortgaged is up wards of five millions sterling. It thus becomes apparent that a wide field exists for a well-established Company of this kind. The want of some ready channel for obtaining loans on shipping has been so severely felt that the Directors enter with confident on the prosecution of a class of business hitherto transacted by private individuals with considerable profit. In addition to the profits on capital, which are estimated at from 10 to 15 per cent., the Directors have facilities for borrowing at such rates as to yield a surplus profit of 5 to 6 per cent. The detailed prospectus and forms of application for shares may be obtained of the Secretary, Brokers, and Bankers, and at the Offices of the Company. Shoild the full number of shares applied for be in excess of those at the Directors' disposal, the surplus will be credited to the allotment, or returned at the applicants' option, MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE.—The Directors will proceed to an ALLOT MENT on SATURDAY, 17th instant. Applications tor the Remaining Shares to be made not later than that da,e. By order of the Board, (Signed) THOMAS SHARER, Secretary. 16, Eing-street, Cheapside, Oct. 9, 1863, ORNAMENTS for the D raw i ng - room, Lib rary , ,nd Dining-room, e, cotasisting of anew and eiegant assort ment of VASEg,Pi pp Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid l'abL o s u , Tables, Paperweights , &c., in Italian, Alabas er, Parini, Marble, Derbyshire Soar dm manufactured by JAMES Imported and man , Mine ralogist to her ilajesty, 140, Stand, W.C. London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary coffe e ' th r , . of MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which n wiIISIELLS, facilitate tie interesting study of MINERALOGY, CITOLOGY. ind GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guinea; each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNA.Nr, at 149, Strand, W.C. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Tier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. TuLSIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland , K.G., F.R.S. CITAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN—ThOMas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1811, the Roya, National Lifeboat Institution has expended £28,150 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the 4::.ciety, dud other means, since its formation, is 13,220; IX which services 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, and ii,',; 200 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu- T, suß has also expended £75,380 on Life-boats, Life-boat I,llP,?rting-cari iages, and Boat-houses. the g.,‘-'no mmittee desire to express their grateful sense of %Wal l er ° ll4 rt which they have received from the bas enab ri , u e b ci lio during the past few years, a support which of 125 Lit- th em to establish their present magnificent fleet Deeply s eri l' i s On the shores of the United Kingdom res . a on them e, however, of the great responsibility that state, and i ts r ,o maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient boats, w . hi, k , Xews practised in the managemett of their rainual tI ZIIY be effected by a large and pe, manent countrymen to m,,Yearnstly appeal to all classes of their great and truly . na u tio ttim in upholding and perpetuating so The Committee gr: t 4l a work. tr ibutions:— etulty acknowledge the following con- Tier Majesty the Queen Camp bell, the Iron. , , .. .. Xs. d mi. Clerk, Colone l, R.A, 'G. .. annual 50 C 0 Coaputts and Co., Messrs.,'L • • .. .. annual 50 0 CAI:Tie, Wm , Escl, , rs • • .. annual 11 0 auk, .. :. .. annual 10 0 0 Fxle, Lord C hief .Justice .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Fanshawe, Vice Admiral Sir •A' . r • c : B .. don. 10 10 0 • .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick, G. J., Esq , cost o f a l i t f . . sporting' Carriage .. .. Lifeboat and Tran • ..Solini: ITarvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. 11 .. 250 0 0 7t don. lld on . 1 3 0 Martin, Sir Henry. Part.o o 0 0 Palmer, Sir Roundel], M.P., ais t. ,: tor-Genersl .• • • .. .. Royal Yacht Squa,,ron .. • • annual 22 0 .. Mtn], Michael, Esq. • • ••• •• annual 10 0 0 • • .. annual 16 16 6 'Thomas, Lady, Weston -super-Mare, eoll e ' c i d doll. 100 0 0 Ladyship .. L ord •.. .. e bY her Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. Donations and Annual Sescriptions will be tha 5 ° ° re.!ved by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. nk fu N , v ,YII re- Pezoi.l,? l . and 0, Lombard -street; Messrs. Cottts flits ' Co., 59, Str.nd; Co., Aessrs. Ilerries, Farquhar, and Co., st omp James's-street, London ; by a I the Collectors of _ etigtomf., and Bankers in the Unit ed Ki ng the Secretary, dom; and by Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office Of the Institution, li, John-street, Adelc,lll, London, W. No. 22,248, IT A LIAN CHURCH, 22, lIATTON-WALL, HATTON -GARDEN. Next SUNDAY, Oct. 18, 18•3, HIGH MASS, at 11 a.m. Followed by a solemn Procession with the most Blessed Sacrament. Music—Peethoven's Mass in C; Offertorium, a Composi tion of M. Costa, will be sung by Madame Ituderedort. GRAND YES L'ERS, at 7 pan_ with Full Orchestra. The " Beams Vir," from Mozart. Benediction. The Italian Band will accompany the chaunting during the procession. FOR SALR—RAILWAY BONDS, having Three Years to run, in Lots, to suit Purchasers. Coupons are attached for Interest of 5 per cent. per annum, payable 11a1:-yearly, at the London ana IV,stminstet Bank. Apply to Mr. S. 0. Itattenbury, 6, John-strect, Bedford-row, London. CASTLEWARD UNI FED MINING COM PANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDI NARY GENERAL MI'ETING of this Company will be held at the Company's Office, No. 33, Upper Sackville-street, Dublig,, on THURSDAY, the 29th day of October, at the hour of 12 o'clock, for the purpose of adopting or rejecting the following Resolutions : - Resolved—That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting, being an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders or the Castleward United Mining Company (Limited), that the Company cannot, by reason of its liabili ties, continue its business, and that the said Company shall tierefbre be wound up voluntarily. Resolved That* be and hereby are appointed Liquidators for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the Castleward United Alining Company (Limi , ed), and with full powers to wind up the same ; and that remuneration for acting in said office shall be the sum of £ to each Liquidator for each day necessarily and properly occupied by them in such winding up, together with their travelling expenses properly incurred by them in the exercise of their said office. By order. ARTHUR LESLIE COUSINS, Secretary. 33, Upper Sackvilte-street, Dublin, Oct. 15, 1863. Persons to act as • Liquidators will be named, and their remuneration fixed by the meeting, CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS. Transport Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, Oct. 17, 1803. THE COMMISSIONERS for Executing the Offic3 of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 20th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat under the Conditions contained in the Regulations for her Majesty's Transport Service and the form of Charter Party, which may be seen at the above office, for the conveyance, from Woolwich to AUCKLAND, N.Z., in two fast-sailing ships, of abut In one Ship. In the other Ship. Officers l 4 La dies Officer Children .... 4 Soldiers Women Soldiers' Children Stores (heavy) 10 tons ••••••• 4 Stores (tight) 106 tons. Tenders are to be made at rates per head (officers and men separately), and per ton for Stores. The rates per head are to include conveyance, freight of baggage according to Government scale (App. XXII of the Transport Regulations), the supply of articles for the mess place, cabins, and berths (App. XV.), articles for table use of Troops (App. XVI.), and of cooking utensils, fuel, lights, and necessaries for their use (App. XVII.), as well as of all such Stores (especially those referred to in Art. 97), and other requisites as are re quired by the Transport Regulations to be provided by the owners. ttiessing for officers or other first and second class passengers is to be supplied by the owners, and will be paid for, in addition to the above charges "per head," at the rates specified in App. XXIII. of the Regulations, which rates are to include the supply of bedding , exclusive of bed ,Inen and towels), medical comforts, articles for table us., cooking utensils, fuel, light, and other requisites (see Art. 201 and App. XV. to XVII. of the Regulations). Fittings will be erected, and provisions, a supply of water, medical comforts, and Bedding for the roldiers and their families, will be put on board by Government, The owners are to supply a dis tilling apparatus, and water casks or tanks. Drinking tanks in the mess decks for the daily use of the troops will, how ever, be lent by Government, in lieu of the usual mess water barrels. The Ve= sels are to be ready for immediate service, and to sail as soon as the Government fittings, &c., are completed, without any delay on account of the shipment of private cargo. No private passengers are to be conveyed. All Tenders must be made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application at the said office, and be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Somerset House, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Transport Department." No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of November, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply BREAD AND MEAT in such quantities ss may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from ist December, 1863, to 31st May, 1861 :- 1. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's-park and St. Johns-wood. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace, and St. George's Barracks. 5. The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller Hail. 7. Hampton Court. 8. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. 11. Sandhurst. Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks as sepa rately grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and sinned, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before 12 o'clock noon on the 3d November next. W. T. POWER, Commissary-General. Deputy Commissary-General's Office, 5. New-street, Spring .gardens, London, S.W., 10th Oct., 1813. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1863, from persons who may be wining to enter into Contracts to supply FLOUR AND MEAT, . _ in such qutnttties as may be required, from the Ist December, 1163, to. pis' May, 1861, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the command. Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and siencd, and delivered at thin office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for Army Supplies,") and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat-office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 18 63 . TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock, noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1563, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contraot to supply FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD, in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist Decem ber, 1863, to 31st May, 1.64, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. _ _ _ _ _ — Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and sinned, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies"), and no tender will be noticed un'ess made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct, 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, wail 12 o'clock, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth November, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Con tra,t to supply PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINEER SERVICE, in such quantities as may be required fram the Ist December, 1863, to 30th November, 1861, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the corn mind. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the out-ide "Tend er f or Supply of Straw), " and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. SPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented kJ Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, includinv, Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary re.lef to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarl e - s t reet, Piccadilly. CELE BRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Comm ittee ( of which Sir terbert N. C. Hamilton , Bart. , K.C .8. . Is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, SVarwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co , bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion lint to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at Ring's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, B.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 governors' Betters. 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 suppoirt, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mau rerman, Esq. ' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. 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I::, I'?'" ~,,,,,.:,,,,...,-......--- ~n~~ , C-"------,--) STAMPED effects, and cannot be misled by subtle refinements and vague theories. When you speak of civil liberty to an Englishman, visions of certain great guarane tees, great historical institutions, rise up to ;i s mind, such es the habeas corpus, trial by jury, the supremacy of the law, the subordination of the nine. t ary to the civil power—these constitute in the Eng lish mind the true exponent of civil liberty—(cheers) —and their history teaches them that wherever a despot or a tyrant under any disguise seeks to pros trate the liberties of the people, and to trample down their rights, these great guarantees are the first object of attack. (Hear, hear.) I repeat, that when a despot seeks to oppress a free pecple he finds in these great bulwarks the first impediment, and seeks to hew them froea his path. Now, test the contest in America by that. I say we are contend ing for civil liberty and constitutional government, Cast your eyes over the Northern States. Do you see the great bulwarks of Anglican liberty existing there ? Why, the chief of the Cabinet, the Secretary of State, is said to have boasted to the representatia e of your Government, as his own evidence of his strength, that sitting in his private chamber he could touch a bell to his left which would consign to prison a citizen of the far distant State of Michi gan, and that by touching the bell to his right he could imprison another in the distant States of Maine or New Hampshire. Way is it that the citi zens of that great country are not exempt from ille gal arrest ? Why is it that the houses of Americans are not, like the houses of Englishmen, their castles, but are subject to illegal and unwarrantable searches ? I will tell you that Government is not seeking to establish civil liberty; but cruel despotism glooms over the land, and liberty stands naked and defenceless before it. Spies, police officers, provost marshals, dog the heels of the purest and the wisest statesmen, and report every chance word they may utter. The legislators of sovereign States broken up by armed men, together with judges, are dragged from the bench and imprisoned. Men are arrested without the warrant of law, and undergo a long and in fact indefinite imprisonment without the slightest examination into their case. Conscripts are march ing through the streets menacled together, and shot before the armies ; and all this is done in the name of constitutional liberty and free government. If you look to the other side of the Potomac—a plain invaded by a million of armed men at different times—you will not see that spectacle. You will see in the Confederate States a constitution in peace ful operation, safe in the affections of the people. You will see the majesty of the law unimpaired and operating with undiminished vigour. You will see the courts of law everywhere, except where hostile armies stand confronting each other, open to every citizen, the judges deciding in many cases against the Government and its officers, and all bowing to the justice of .its decrees. When, gentlemen, the Southern States by a spontaneous vote of their peo ple, too spontaneous to have been the result of pre concert orconspiracy , by a vote that leapt from the nation as freely as the water from the fountains of the earth, withdrew the powers which they dele legated to a common Government which was using those powers to its destruction, there was not a break in the social institutions of the country, nor even a pause in the internal administration of the Government--not a cord of civil society loosened, but everything went on precisely as if there had been no change in our political relations. Why was that ? It was because it was a movement inaugu rated in the interests of order and for the conserva tism of liberty and law, and the supremacy of the Constitution ; for even while the question stood in abeyance before the convention was made at Mont gomery which formed the new Government, the people obeyed the law, although they held in a nerveless hand, with power to enforce it, a sceptre of sovereignty over the hearts of a people mightier than that which an Emperor now waves over his subjects. Thus stands the issue between these two peoples. lam willing for you, gentlemen, as Eng lishmen, to decide who are the representatives in America of intelligent liberty and constitutional government. They have made sacrifices for that in dependence—sacrifices of everything but their civil liberties. They have preserved them unimpaired under trials which might have caused a less Con servative people not to stand by their Government and their laws. The two armies have o ten met in conflict, and the result of that conflict it does not become me to describe. Englishmen have formed their own opinion on that point, and the South has I had the good fortune to fight battles and let her ene mies write an account of them. My friends spoke of his hospitality to those who come from a down trodden and oppressed nationality. I thank him for his kindness and hospitality to the Southerners; but they are not downtrodden and oppressed, and, by the blessing of God, they never will be. (Hear, hear.) No; liberty may sometimes be crushed under the armed heels of despots ; but if you will go to that Southern country, and sea men, old and young, standing up with hearts pure, their bayonets glistening in the sun , unstained by anything but the blood of the enemy--might going side by side with right. But, gen tlemen, it is well to know this fact—that the South, so much abused, pallid and bleeding, her lifeblood almost drained from her, is this day contending for her own liberties, but for th e liberty of the very people who are sen ding armed millions to sub jectby murder, and by civil in surrection.she is striking a blow her by rapine, that More than , for freedom everywher e, and seeking to rid the world of the most r intolerant, aggressive, and overwhelming Pow er that ever disturbed the repose of Europ e or the peace of the civilised world—a Pow er which stands h as the emb o di me nt of brute force, w hich will yet, if it stand s on its defence, b e a fireship among the nations, and even now, in anticipation of its triumphs, laughs to scorn th e faith of t reaties, the obli g ations o f hu mani ty , and the laws of civilised warfare. (Hear.) It has been said by those whose interest it is to mis represent the South, that although she may be en gaged in defending her own independence, her great object is to perpetuate the degradation of another race whom she has enslaved. I have no desire to comment upon any of the social institutions of the South to Englishmen. Ido not stand here to de fend any of her institutions. With all your opi nions made up and pronounced upon the subject of some of those institutions, I believe that you are fair men, that you are willing to hear the truth ; a nd I can assure you that the truth has not been told to England on this subject. With the full and distinct understanding, that between you and me there exists adversity of opini • ' on on the subject, not asking you to take my view, I , do assert in the face of this intelligent audience, and before the world, that that statement is a calumny on the South, and that the white race of the South has been the guar dian, the protector of the black man there, that he has elevated him in the scale of rational existence, and that he has Christianised him to an extent that he has never • attained to through any other pro cess of education to which he has been subjected. I have no objection to dissent on the part of others to these statements, for I always feel in the ring of honest ;dissent that there i s a true heart. But I do ask you to listen, not to opinions, to misrepresentations, to exaggerations, bu t to facts._ Since the American continent was discovere d and occupied by the European race, it has com e in con tact with two savage races. 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THE PAGE AND THE LEAF.—It being reported the Lady Caroline Lamb had in a moment of passion t is hi m s was n to a l t d ur b a y l Lord fora S li t t r e a r n ary gfo l r a d d , y ob th s a er n ve t d o double down a page." " I would rather," replied hi s lord ship,knocked down one of h er pages w i t h a s t oo l , M oore, the poet, to Oh, t o nothing wora "advise Lady Caroline to turn over a new leaf.' " SERMONS IN STONES AND (TRUTH ?) IN EVERY THING." —According to a fantastic book recently published by Messrs, Houlston and Wright, called " The Soul of things," every action and every sound is photo graphed in some indelible and unchemical way, and "re gistered as in a piCture-gallery for all time." If you cut yourself while shaving, the glass before you will record the grimace you make, and the strong exclamation by which you accompanied it. Beware how you wink at young ladies in the street, for " the brick in the wall and the paving stone in the road will catch the picture and faithfully preserve it." After this the Road murder must cease to be a mys tery, for the detective police, aided by the decipherer of these photographs, will soon learn the features of the per petrator. Dr. Colenso's difficulties about . Moses will be silenced by a visit to the Wilderness of Sinai, where he may see on the face of the rocks the portraits of all the Israelite s in, their forty years' wanderipgs, Kr. Beresford Hope at the Liverpool Southern Club. Yesterday afternoon there was a numerous meeting of the members of the Southern Club at Liverpool, at which there were also present a large number of merchants on 'Change and several ladies, to receive and hear an address from Mr! Beresford Hope, Mr. Victor Poutz, the president of the club, occupied the Chair. The Cnaiumeat, in intreducing Mr Beresford Hope, as a Southern American thanked him for the noble efforts he had made to obtain from the British Government that re cognition which the South had a right to expect. Un fortunately he had not succeeded ; at the same time, they felt that they were deeply indebted to Mr. Hope, and they would always gratefully remember the services which he had rendered to the Southern cause. (Cheers,) Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, who was received with enthu siastic applause, said. he felt the very high and unmerited compliment paid him by the chairman in the presence of those who were his friends before they had become his ac quaintances. As a favour, he asked only that while he spoke his mind in a sort of cross between a lecture and a speech--a drawingroom conversation.—intended for the Confederate ear, delivered in an English town and partly to a Confede rate auditory, they would express their approvsl or dissent from his observations —the results of three years' intense study of the national pulse, and his impression of what Englishmen thought upon the matter of his discourse, in order that it might tend to maintain the entente cordials between the two people. He was the more moved to take this line from what he read in the papers the other day of the grave misstatements of fact from the mouth of the noble Earl who presided over the Foreign-office, who said that the majority of the Eng:ish people sympathised with the United States in this conflict. (A. voice, " True I" Cries of "No, no," and cheers.). A voice said "True." He differed from that gentleman, and he would convince him so that they should agree. His experience proved the change which had almost universally come over the English mind in sympathy with the Southern cause, where before, in con sequence of the dissemination of Northern publications, it had bad an opposite tendency. The sympathy of the ma jority of Englishmen was now decidedly with the South. (Load cheers.) He stood to that point, and he left to those who denied it to perform the most difficult of all logical operations, the proving of a negative. (Laughter.) There was much to unlearn as well as to learn respecting the last three years. The British Government did not when it could dash in and put an end to the war. The South had bitterly complained of England not recognising its independence. The Southern press had also complained of our non-inter vention. After all, there had been a great deal to forgive and to forget on both sides. Englishmen had been misin formed of the South by Northern writers, and as to the South, Englishmen must make great allowances, because they could not be expected to be particularly good-humoured when they found an enemy burning their houses, outraging their families, and devastating their country. (Applause.) It was, however, astounding to remember the way in which the prejudices against the South in England had been swept away. The death of. Stonewall Jackson had excited almost as much regret, and his life as much admiration, as that of our own Havelock. (Hear, hear.) Let them look again at the manner in which the whole of the English press had done justice to the 'statesmanship of President Davis. (Ap plause.) Had there been no rude or uncivil word said or thing written in any English newspaper of any Southern statesman or general? (Hear, hear.) The sympathies of England were unmistakeably with the Southern States of America, in the face of Lord Russell. (Loud cheers, and a cry of " Never.") Let them hear that gentleman. (Laugh ter.) Earl Russell was in the House of Lords. Had he been in the House of Commons he would have heard his political chief, Lord Palmerston, brand the acts of Butler as infamous. (Great cheering.) He supposed that was about the strongest word that had been ever used in the Legislature by a Prime Minister of England against the chosen general of an ally with whom we had not quarrelled. More than that, the echo of that brand of infamy re sounded through both Houses of Parliament. (Loud cheers.) Then how did Lord Russell prove that the sympathies of the majority of the peopleof England were with the North ? He had once heard the story of a gentleman who belonged to one of the three kingdoms that was not on this side of St. George's Channel—(cheers)—whose friend was accused of drunkenness, or rather of having been intoxicated--(laugh ter)—and being a man of a kind of statesmanlike mind— such a man as should preside at the British Foreign-office-- (roars of laughter)—he said, for his part, he es as unwilling to consider any gentleman intoxicated until he saw that gentleman attempting to light his pipe at the pump. (Great laughter.) Now, itseamed to him that Lord Russell required equal stringency of proof before he would understand that the sympathies of this nation were with the Confederate States. ( Laughter.) Now he, for one, claimed all those who were not against the South as being for the South. There were some in that room ; there were many more on the Exchange flags below, and there were others who had not considered the question politically at all in reference to States' right. The man who cheered General Lee because he was at once a soldier and a gentleman but had not studied State rights, he would not put down as a gentleman who h a d "tried to light his pipe at the pump"—(hear) —and therefore that man was a Southern sympathiser. Then there were those who cared little for either side. The intellectual market of England had been " rigged" by Northern political writers. Still the man who did not care for either side was just the man who seven or eight years ago would have thought Fremont the right candidate for the Presidential chair. Next there came the ticklish question of the black population of the States. As to the foundation of that population, he had Confederate friends present who might differ from him. But taking it for granted that they agreed, he congratulated them that the question of the practical w orking of the system of that p opulat i on was h otter under stood in England now than it was some years ago. (Ap plause.) If they looked at all the newspapers of the day they would find that, apart from the question of whether the system of black labour was or was not justifiable, it was admitted that the black peasant of the Southern States of America was as well clothed, as well fed, as well sent to church, as a ny peasant i n th e world. (Cheers.) That ad mission, however, did not preclude them from saying that they wished to see the condition of those peasants improved. Far from it. England 25 years ago, at a cost of 20 millions, had emancipated her Slaves ; and, therefore, the question of the amelioration of the condition of the blacks in the Southern States should not be regarded as a question of honour, but one for fair discussion. Let them discuss the question amicably. It was very like a question that had been agitated in some of the counties of England, as between the lessees and tenants at will. That being the case, and be lieving, as he did, that the growth of public opinion and the increased intercommunication between England,Europe, and the Confederate States would lead to a modification of the presen t system, he did say th at the South should be satis fied with what they saw in England, whose intellectual channels had pronounced the fact that, whether the system of slavery was or was not defensible in itself, there was no blame to the actual inheritors of the system; and that those inheritors of that system, taken all round, were men who generally did work on that system in a spirit of philanthropy and of w i s d om . (Hear.) He would tell the South plainly and broadly that that was the feeling of England now ; and that, considering how a certain business section here had traded on the question, it was a great proof of the growth of national justice and of national candour—which was the beat foundation hereafter for international friendship. (Loud cheers.) Upon the address of the Episcopal Bishops in the South the Duke of Argyle had hung a speech —upon which he hoped to make capital—that would have been a great success 10 or 12 years ago. That Spe ec h had been, how ever, only the subject of leading articles for 24 hours, and then it died out. (Applause.) Its e x i stence had been no doubt forgotten by this time. (Laughter.) He might tell them that he was talking th e other day with a S ou th erner , and said to him, " We don't like the word slave' in Eng land—why don't you get ri d of it. " His friend replied, " Well, we don't use it in the Southern States. We call them ' servants' or people.' " Then he asked his friend, "Why don't you get rid of it ?" (Laughter.) Having said this much he would leave his words to fructify in the minds of Englishmen and Confederates alike in the room. The system as it at present existed was not a system which they could ever expect England to go wig h. England had given up the system. She had abandoned it at great sacrifices, and would never take it up again. Without goi ng d eeply i nto the matter, it was in this as in many other matters, the theoretical differences were greater than th e practical— and, if he might prophesy, in 100, 50, or 30 years, the question of black labour in the Confederate States would become there j u st what the great questions of th e repeal of the Test and Corporations Act, the Free Trade Bill and Catholic Emancipation were in England. (Applause.) The effect of such an agita tion there would be not less than the agitation on the questions he had referred to caused in England ; and yet Eng:and, having disposed of those questions, was happy and prosperous. (Hear, hear.) He would l eave t h e question of slavery, by simply asking that that question should be dis cussed between England and America, not in the spirit of its being a bone of contention, or a matter for alienating two cognate people, but in a spirit of kindness. (Applause.) He had dwelt more lengthily with this question, because he saw in that day's Paper a speech by a gentleman of high posi tion, who was also a friend of his own—the Attorney -Gene ral—a man of eminent abilities, of spotless fame, and a man h who was destined to occupy a higher position th an th a t h e now filled. The speech of the Attorney-General was charac teristic of the man, and it was only a proof of how far South ern influences had pervaded the tone of English society. (Hear.) Both the Attorney-General and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were two of the greatest doctrinaires of the land, but the Attorney-General was the greater of the two; but under the rough surface of the Ctladatonian logic burned the lava which occasionally burst out, The volcano did not run under Sir Roundell Palmer. (Laughter.) The Atter ner •General was one who a few years ago would have been essentially a Bostonian statesman. in the pure and true sense of the word which the political shufflers of the intel lectual city of Boston put forward. (Loud cheers.) He pro tested against his friend the Attorney •General, with all his knowledge and all his philosophy, talking upon such a hol low basis, and using the word free in reference to the slaves and the North, as if there was not a slavery worse than that of black slavery —the slavery of the North, in putting down, or rather abolishing the liberty of the subject, liberty of the press, liberty of speech, liberty of commercial action, in order that they might wage a war of extermination. (Loud cheers.) How could Sir Rou.ndell Palmer talk of England's sympathies with the North, and how could he tell that those States would be free when the war was over? How could he guarantee a three years' peace when the war was over? (Hear, hear.) How could he guarantee that lowa and Ohio would sit in the same council chamber with Massachusetts and Connecticut ? (Applause.) He had run on at great length, but there was one other subject to which he must allude. Some how or other there had been certain questions about certain very magnificent ships that were building, it was said for a French house. He knew no more of those rams than this—that he had read of them in the usual channels of public information —the press. He had read that they were for a French firm, and had very Mahomedan appellations. (Cheers.) That was all he knew of them; and that was all anybody knew of them. (Roars o f laughter.) These ships with Mahomedan names were su pposed by some as likely to lead to a change in the sys tem of our international law. There were rumours afloat that there was a possibility of something like fresh powers b e ing asked in the next session of Parliament. It was im possible that such could be the case—(cheers)--and he could g i v e them the very best authority for saying that such cpuld not be the case. (Cheers.) He would give them the ex position not only of the English law but of English feel ing in the matter from the month of that man whose Go there," and " Come here," would be absolute—abso lute until the greater omnipotence of Parliament sat in jury upon him. Such a change in our law could not enter into the w ildest imagination of any man . (Ch eers. ) He would read a few sentences, and then tell them whose were the words. "I have been, I con f ess , a good deal shocked by some of the declarations made in the coarse of this debate, b y w hich it seemed th a t th e f avour of a foreign Power wa s of more value to England than th e ma i n t enance of her ancient prestige." And again, "It is easy to ask for a mill measure at first to satisfy a foreign Power. At the sam e time, even any demand of this kind naturally rouses the j e alousy and susceptibility o f t h e B r i tish people. . . If I were to vote for the introduction of this bill I should feel s hone and humiliation in giving that vote. Let those who w ill support the Bill of the Government. In that h and humiliation I am d etermined not to share. (Loud cheers.) These were th e words on the 9th of February, shame s, s. el Lord John Russell (hear, hear, and cheers), on the fill of the foreign C o l onels —the Conspiracy to Murder Bil l . (Cheers.) In a memorable debate, terminating in a memorable division, in which 99 voted, of which 99 Lord Jo h n Russell was one, and ho was another among the 99 which 99 in ten days became 299 (cheers) when who voted against the introduction of the Conspiracy to M r. Milner Gibson and Mr. Bright joined in that majority which brought Lord Derby into power again, rather than that England should share in the shame and humiliation of abandoning her ancient fame and prestige to the favour of a f ore i g n Power. (Loud cheers.) e _a What has that to do with rams ?") that England Northern States still less than brook it from that se Seward, :a d d , h s eu Sumner, told n e r, themand Lincoln,( A y o c bwr:okmcasnhteeinhal3dt'ofrftaeinn hated, but whom in the battle- Murder Bill, contemplation, would never cease din fields o f Europa she had never ceased to respect. (Cheers ) oifh n an ßussell's ears his own con y such truckling to the Northern fotffirucceurinaTteor a t n h y an to s r u ei b g m n it r t o o w th er e . shame (Loud con demnation i n what he uttered when he turned Lord Palmerston and hum iliation ne T ai h nu e gs s e e cheers.) lie had detained them long, but he felt that he had not occupied them fruitlessly if he had contributed one iota to that object which was his hope and prayer,—the con solidation of the kindly feeling and the good understanding had gr own up between England and those most an cient British colonies, her dearest and eldest children, Vir ginia and the Carolinas. (Loud and reiterated cheers.) iiwanteore that Li lo r ir o d o mr, smin e, in moving a vote of thanks to Mr.Beresford H ope, e epreeted an opinion that after three years of the sad for independence in America our Government struggle should no longer shirk the duty of arriving at a decision on so momentous a question. It was the duty of a Christian waFwnhor and the hdceh t°of Government to make a Christian effort to bring this for midable struggle to a close. (Cheers.) After Mr. BERESFORD HOPE had acknowledged the com• pliment which had been accorded to him amid unanimous acclamations the proceedings terminated. A Southern Statesman at a Farmer's Meeting, CIIERTSEY, Friday, too The annualk place dinner of the C hertsey Agricultural Society this town ; Mr. Lind say, M.P., in the cha i r. The hon, gen tl eman was supported by Mr. Briscoe, M . p e, Mr. Caird, M.P., Colonel member of Congress and leader L of i a mar, formerly a Southern divisi on at Bull Run, and by of the gentry and farmers of the district. a is l t a r r ie g t e body . After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been given, Mr " Success to the As sociation," referredin proposing to the su bj ect of agricultural statistics, pointed out th e f act that in conse quence LI N DSAY, a the n want of them we were exporting of d wheat in 1846 and 1847 at 50s. per quarter, which we subsequently had to import at 102 s. the quarter. He also express ed an o p inio n that good substantial cottagesmight be b u il t b y the landlords, profitable invest ment of. labourers a d e a f the County gibes,The "He a lth h acknow l edg e da lo and by Mr. Brisco e an d M r . Cubitt, who wer e both most cordially received. Th e CEAIRMAN et next proposed the health of Mr. Caird, M.P., in connexion With the toast of the visitors. Mr. CAIRD, M.P., responded. Th e CHAIRMAN then introduced t o th e not i ce o f the meeting the h ealth of a distinguished gentle man, who, he said, had come from an oppressed and down-trodden people. He proposed to them to drink " The Health of his friend. Colonel Lamar," distinguished in his own country as a statesman, and also as a brave soldier in the Confederate army. The health of the gallant colonel having been cordially drunk, Col. LAMAR, who on rising Was received with loud cheers, after thanking the company for the en thusiastic manner in which his name had been received, said—Gentlemen, it is the more gratifying to me to be received in such a manner at a farmer's meeting, because 1 belong to a country which is a nation of farmers—not, as you have been told, a country of indolent, wealthy, and dissolute planters, and poor white trash and degraded slaves—not that, gentlemen, but a country of independent intelligent freemen, men who, to the extent of two-thirds out of 8,000,000, earn their subsistence by the sweat of their brow, one-half owning the land w hich they cultivate, and nearly all seeing in the upturned sod of their fallow ground that which is more pre cious to them than the gold of California, the sparkle of independence and personal liberty. Many of the qualities which the people have ex hibited during the last two y ear s w hich have elapsed, and which have elicited the complimen tary allusions and the kind notice of this meeting, are, in my opinion, due to the fact that they are a nation of farmers. I believe that the culture of the soil, the drawing of the sustenance from the mother earth—l mean no disparagement to any other pur' suit—draws with it a certain moral nutriment, a certain richness of a sentiment, a capacity, a de votion, and a self-sacrifice, which keep the heart fresh and pure, and the na ture of man simple and upright. (Cheers.) It has b_ , een . represented to and to the English you, gentlemen, people gene rally, that the great conflict, the bloody war which is being waged, and is now going on, b y the Go vernment of the North, is a war on behalf of civil liberty, and on behalf of constitutional government, against a band cf lawless conspirators, who seek to trample down that liberty and to overthrow that august structure of constitutional government. Gen tlemen, fortunately f or the South, their appeal to the moral sympathy and support of the British people comes before a tribunal competent to decide their pretensions. The English—and, gentlemen, I congratulate you upon the fact—have a practical knowledge of civil liberty. Th ey have the thing in substance -.they know it by certain broad practical MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. WALKER'S NEW NEEDLES.—" The H Patent Ridged-Eyes extend the Cloth, so that the thread may pass through it quickly and without the slightest drag. 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The other race—the negeo race—with all its foulness, with ail its prosaic vulgarity, n,taral'y servile, timid, and dotricstica`,ed, has been—in spilt) of the institution of slavery, if you pease —raised tip hi g h er an d higher i n the so2ial scale, until it furnishes heroes and heroines for modern romances, ittintelsief(s)roerideeirrneks o song t s,and invited by sfatesmeu European equality. The in stitution which has done so much for this race should certainly have some of the odium which has been thrown upon it deducted. But lam told that having brought them to that point of civilisation it i teo our oweduty-Tatuedtutityemt.hat(lNivaear.) Well, I have to to Christendom— answer that Briti s h state me n British philosophers, and British travellers, a ll unit unite in the testimony that the emancipation of that race at this time, and especially by the mode pointed out by those people in the North whowoaurledslo)ecalnama appalling r p o a u l l s n f o g r n o o r s n 0 - tit hear.) Whether t s ob u o ti t o h na r l er ac g e o s v .( n a m e e a n r t , , Whether that be so or not, I think I may with safety say that the many boons which have been conferred upon that race, that the earnest conduct as Christians and fellow men which we have observed to the inferior ra ce _ inferior inconsequence of centuries of barbarism and ignorance —are sufficient guarantees to civili sation that if the time should ever come when we h ave reason to believe that liberty would he a boon to 'them and not a curse, we shall be prepared to con fer that boon upon them also. And if, indeed, the time should ever come when they are capable of en joying freedom, and when they themselves assert their right, we could not if we would withhold that boon. It is said by those who have been misrepre senting the South, and said for years to English audiences by men who have never lived in the South —and who do not know as much of her people and of her institutions as you do, because they are blinded by fanaticism—who have always hated us when union was not their pretext, but when under the banner of disunion they poured forth a:stream of falsehood and vituperation on us —these men have stated publicly in England that the negro in the South was deprived of all the rights of a human being by the law of the Southern States, that he was;:considered entirely in the light of a chattel. Now, I assert to you that that statement is untrue. On the contrary, the laws of every Southern State regard them as brethren and as Christians, and they have had thrown around them all the guarantees of personal security which are thrown around every other class. The law denouncees the penalty of death on him who murders a negro, and de nounces the pnnishment of imprisonment in a peni tentiary against any person committing a penal act against him. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will close what I have to say simply by thanking you for the demonstrations of interest and sympathy which you Lave made for our country. I know they exist in every English mind, and they cannot be kept out by any barriers of Custom -house regu lations, by the regulations of States, or neutrality proclamatio:is. (Hear, hear.) Like an ethereal essence, it has already leaped over its bounds, and tends to raise the hearts of our people to higher thoughts and more heroic deeds; and that, gentle men, is the secret of the enmity which has been shown in the North to your people; but I hope the time may soon come when the South can answer for England. (Loud applause.) Various other toasts of a local character were then given and responded to, and the proceedings did not terminate till a late hour. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS, This board held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, at their offices in Spring-gardens; Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The cash statement showed the balance in the hands of the treasurer to be £202,552 43 11d, Government securities, £87,590 9s Id, and total of cheques ordered but not pre• seated, £28,653 163 7d. REPORT FROM STREETS COMMITTEE. This report, recommending that the sum of £5OO by way of loan from the general current account of the board to the Finsbury-park current account, the Finsbury -park ac count being charged with the deposit rate of interest until the amount shall be repaid ; and that a cheque bo drawn for the arbitrators' charges amounting to £221 13s 2d, " In re Wing (Finsbury-park)," was received. TENDERS FOR NORTHERN EMBANKMENT WORKS. The whole board committee for the above works brought up the Spring-gardens, Oct. 16, 1863 , Youre following o committeewg have ‘ to report o that,. s in obedience i to i n report the resolution of the hon. boardhe 2d n 's ten i der t 7 t or i etfyle have cons id e red av on cons id er ed the question of Mr. . Ridley's the 2d mat., they have considered the question of Mr. Ridle s t ruc tion of the Thames embankment works between West minster andli,'satbeiereloto-abhriddgheas;inangdeahraevfaelilny consider e 3 thein quiries same, on th e u h a ve arrived at ' the following resolution :--‘ That, in the () inion of this committee , the result of th e i r i nqu i r i es resp ec ting Mr. Ridley's competen c y t o carry out the por lion of the Thames embankment for which ho had tendered is not sufficiently satisfactory to warrant this committee in. recommending the board to accept his contract.' " Mr. Newton moved that the report be adopted. An amendment was then moved by Mr. Legg that the tender of Mr. Ridley be accepted. A long and animated discussion then ensued, in which Messrs. Freeman, Robinson, Lowman Taylor, and others took part. It was contended on the one hand that Mr, Ridley, in addition to his securities being unsatisfactory, was incompetent to undertake such an undertaking ; and that, having tendered to complete the work for £495,000, he had met the objection by stating that arrangements had been entered into with Mr. M'Cormack to carry out the under taking, the great objection to this being that Mr. M'Cor mack had tendered for the work at an increased sure of £137,000 on Mr. Ridley's tender, and that if such a coali tion were allowed it would give rise to jobbery in all the board's undertakings. On the other side it was contended that although Mr. Ridley's securities were deemed unsatis factory an offer had been made which ought to be consi sidered a fair and just offer to meet that objection, that Mr. Ridley would deposit £20,000 as a substantial guarantee for the completion of his contract; and with respect to thu charge of incapacity, the many certificates which he pro duced showi ng hi s competence to undertake works of grea t magnitude fully entitl e d hi m to re t a i n t h e contrac t wh ic h had been granted him. On a division the amendment was negatived by 4 Aga inst 23. The original motion was then put and carried. te d for After some discussion as to the curse to ha ad o oP the construction of the work the board went into nouneed commit tee; and, on its re-assembling, the Chairman ,pounced should that the committee recommended that the x be given to Mr. Furnes s, on his tender ford c ontract afictehr, being put as a motion, was carried; a llu red. transacting some routine business, adjo urned. ALLEGORICAL MEANING O' OF To STORY OP SAM{ , I ~ it not be a politic a l AND THE BEAN-STALE.'—'I ;l a poor lone widow ; hi s son d murdered by a cruel giant, allegory? Jack is the only father was betrayed, robbeetstwia a splendid palace, keeps d o w wfla a hen that lays golden eggs, who eats human flesh, two largemmoney-bas,g s , go lden harp. Jack's poor mother and diverts himself with t rant to tell the young man how his is forbidden by th t is od. Nevertheless, when the miraculous father was ill-trea ted. in her garden, and the boy is prompted, bean-stalk prow s up love of adventure, to climb to its top, b e his ambitio n ~, upper region in which the giant's castle is he discove r s then by the exerci se of his cunning and situated, t a d a nd ' valour, b e r ecovers ono by one, th ose articles which had been -- hig father's property , aft er Which the giant is de stroYed• Now, supposing th at we could trace the origin of this story to some country, where the primitive inhabitants. ; o ppressed and impoverished race, had long nourished feelings of hatred towards the conquerors, and envied their luxury and wealth, we might thus get a plausible interpre tation of the tale. Jack would be the leader of a conspiracy or an insurrection by which the subject race, in one gene ration, obtained redress and vengeance for the injury done to their fathers. The personification of their native country as Jack's mother would be natural enough. The varie gated beans, which Jack purchased and sowed in his garden,. to grow up into the convenient bean-stalk, might remind us of an incident which has been more than once repeated in real history, where peculiar coloured beaus havo been distributed, as tokens of recognition among the partisans of a p o li t i cal conspiracy, just as the chupatties or small cakes were passed from hand to hand among th e T sepoys hehen throughout I n di a b e f ore t h e revolt i n 1857. of which laid the golden egg s m i g ht s i gn ify th e p r erog ative taxation ; and the golden h ar p m i g ht s t an d for the ecl i a , o h s ere of minstrels or troubadour s att en di ng u p on a are several other well-known t a l es i n this c ction might, by the sagacity of s ome er udite G er ma n,o be con strued into allegories of g re a t, social, re ligious, or political events,—Len (ton Bellew. Now ready at all Libraries, ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. 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