The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-31 00:00:00

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E. and 11. *matey's' "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection !?I landed and house properties now 'in - the market, from The nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. - , OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell OF Let can em i Brace thetopprrrtunity that the medium of this Redster !_ffords, by sending* the particulars of their properties to the It'state Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.. -Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, there the property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid . Fr; the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant iflcon t, retkiences. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced throurrh Messrs. Lumley'a Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. . ..: Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery.-lauch London. :. ....... 13 UTISUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause MORRIS against PITT PN, The Creditors of and Ineumbrancera on the real London of William Carlile, late of Bow-lane, in the City of 4 0ndon, warehouseman, who died in or about the 23 1mh of ' , ll7tist, 1'353, are by their Solicitors. on , Jr before the °l.January, 1861, to come in and prove their debts and claims at the chambers of the Master of the Rolls, in the Rolls 1. 1 5 rd, Chancery-lane, Middlesex, or in default thereof they , 11 be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of t he said decre e. 'WEDNESDAY, the 27th day of January, 1161, at Twelve 4 iclock at noon , a t th e sa id Chambers, is appointed for hear i°s and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 23d day of December, 1963. • GEORGE MIME, Chief Clerk. ASHURST. MORRIS, and KNIGHT, 6, Old Jewry, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors. must give the Presider to Abraham's tender m . cies. The army of the Potomac must offer up their glorious leader, under whom both have become illustrious. Beauregard must be hanged. la even Lincoln base enough, to imagine a brave people, such as the Confede rates have proved themselves, would, under any stress of fortune, prove traitors to the men whom they have called to lead them in camp or council ? This infamous proclamation will but arouse us to new zeal and new efforts." THE SUN; LONDON . , THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1863. PRICE ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. No. 22,313. AMERICA. tIURNITURR,. CARPETS, B EDI)ING, and FLOORCLOTEI, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in he kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First class goods at senimd-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clerg - ymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed fin Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article Warranted. CLEnGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR -NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and. Co. are publishing. an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illqstrated by 410 admirable entzravings of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised scale : _ _ WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER TH E PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at E VANS', Covent-garden. FUXERAL OF MR. THA.OKERAY, AIJTHOES. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, Sa. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the prinoipal towns )n England ; or wholesale at 8, eiBBAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the lied Ptak Label, and Cork branded " Kinahasqe LL•WhiikY•„ (From the Vines.) MR. TROLLOPE'S great glory is in the portraiture of women : end his success in this walk, says the limes, has made him the pet of our drawing.rdoms. The women adore him. Nobody understands the gentle dames and damsels of modern life half so well as this modern Anthony. We do not pretend to speak of him personally; we are only speaking of him no a book, ho is the great lady-killer of the age. He has attained this distinction chiefly by merit, but partly—we were going to say, by demerit—we shall say, by an appeal to the prejudices of society. His merit lies in his charming portraiture of the sex. He has studied all the wiles of the feminine heart, and knows every fold of feeling—how in fe.shionable life Mamma thinks of the jointure, and how in humble life the worthy dame has thoughts of buttered toast. Emotions great and small he dis cusses with equal facility—the emotion of a lady who is moving heaven and earth to circumvent her lord, and the emotion of a girl who in the midst of a ball discovers that her back hair threatens to fall loose upon her shoulders. He has really a great know ledge of womankind, and paints them lovingly and tenderly, with all their passions and all their foibles, Over and above this, however, he is the apostle of propriety, and appeals to the prejudices of the drawing-room of the exponent of its favourite NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 6 p.m. Doh -patches from Cumberland Gap of the 16th report that Gen. Longstreot captured 22 loads of quarturmasters'itores at the fight on the 14th, which is now stated to have occurred at Bean's Station. The Fe :oral Gen. 'Wilcox had been driven back to Tazewell, where he was fortifying. Fighting was reported in progress at Blair's Cress. reads on the 16th, from which it would seem that the Fe6erals have been also forced to retreat towards Knoxville. A leading war journal of this city recoraricas General Grant for the next Presidency upon the supposition that he is just the man to crush the rebellion, restore the Union, drive the French cut of Mexico, obtain indemnity from England for the depredations of the Confederate cruisers, or declare war against her, or seize the Conadas and the British West India Islands as an offset. A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto `)s 9 16 6 A Twelve-roomed ditto OI 11 0 Together with a trice List of purified teciding, and a mass of valuable information to all requiring household furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentkmen in or near Great insivern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsboroucth, 31Argate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Britain. COBBETT and CO., General Houso Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, 13. E, THE bptIROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are, M* mods by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond-street. They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being' carelessly Olt together, nor •eo dear as to gain only the wealthy piathasere. "In medic) tutishnus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS l'Elt PAIR. Gold, IM-Z-. A body of Gcn. Mosby's cavalry captured one en tire eernpauy of the 140th New York Regiment one mile and a half beyond Fairfax Courtuouse last The Briti% brig Ale, from Minatitlan, November 19, reports that town closely be s i ege d by the French. All supplies were cut off, a n d tbo citizens were suffering from want of provisions. The rumoured recapture of Puebla by the Mexicans is alleged to have been confirmed by late arrivals at New Orleans of vessels from Vera Cruz. There was no resistance. The number of French troops gar, rieoning the town being small, they retired before the Mexicans, who occupied the place with 5,000 men. NOTId IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the WEWNOTON haying been CLOSED for repairs. &a, will be RE-OPENED THIS DAY, (THURSDAY), the 31st DeesMber, at 5 o'clock p.m. By order, JOHN CATES, Manager. Theltregington.fit. James's-street. Entrance, 100, Piccadilly, W. December 30,1863. night. Accounts from Newbern, North Carolina, of the 12th assert that blockade running at Wilmington continues to increase. It is estimated that goods to the amount of one million dollars land at that port every 24 hours. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT. —SPECIAL NOTICE. MQ hie Company is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for 'tereantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced Bale or rates. Particulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle street. The situation at Chattanooga is unchanged. There is no later news of importance from Charleston or Texas. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rook Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair. teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond oomparison.—Can be had only at Madame RACHEL'S, 47A,' New Bond-street, .where.ah,e-ean-ba-oonsulted daily. AU communications are Advices from Tampico represent the French gar rison there in a state of siege. No dates are given. The Etna takes 673,393 dollars in specie. • , :at ig a re- Arley well fib• A) 315 ,or 30 )t to" a in v. Var i°° Doted. P eals ted a t l a , a t gable hea d a,Ta Price' 17 6 fl7s° uAA'- 175 sd 443 305 , 1 37s ot. ,24s0a a ged leY , 55 4cl to 0 clo to 1 3 to ° 0 to 0 to -- 0 t o 20 n to 2 8 u derat ° is has . ° sold ill Asshe bastoo, es, h•P• y ,Wor. a of J. 01 1013) Lhurcbt richara, , vivv; j',a(l.) 00 11 h all, ett he a althavla wal es ' ughtono Admira l 0 4 ,f o s n. . k eat. alOn ler. >svell''' shirid a V. - ---•-....."° -_----- , 14 . " DIII2Y IMPERIAL LIFE INSUR&NCE COMPANY No.l, Old Broad-street, Loudon, K.C. Instituted 1820. HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., ch a i r man. 'l]rw.iviti) HENRY CHAPMAN, Req„ Deputy-Chairman. In4urueees effected before the Blet.l , dill be ''lttilect to Three Team' Additions bede= suweti Vit.ot SAMUEL LNGAU: Actuary. /IRE MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND AGENCY COMPANY (Limited). 40 be incorporated under the Companies Act, 1P62, by which the liabi ity of each shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. C apital, £230,900, in 12,500 shares of £ 2O each —of which 1,5C0 are reserved for Mauritius. 41 Per share to be paid on application, and another £1 on allotment. Further calls to be made as required, at inter vals of not less than three months. But it is not Contem plated to call up more than £4 per share. TRUSTEES. 81 r S. Villiers Surtees, K.B. (Silkmore House, near Stafford), late Chief Justice of :Mauritius. 'lames du Buis•on, Esq. (Messrs. Henekell, du Buisson, and Co.) J ames A. Guthrie, Esq. (Messrs. Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co.) 11 DIRECTORS. ,a/or-General IT. P. Burn, 9i, Inverness-terrace, W. (late r ,.t.ember of the Ind an Military Finance Commission). ueorg e Ireland, Esq., Blackheath Park (Messrs. Ireland, Fraser, and Co., Mauritius). George Lyall, Esq., 9, Mincing-lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still, ,a*.d Co.) .tzobert M`Kerrell, Esq., Inverness-terrace, W. (Messrs. Scott ,and Co., Mauritius). ter Ranken, Esq., 0, Idol-lane (late Manager of the Mauri tius Branch of the Oriental Bank Corporation). With power to add to their number. MAURITIUS BOARD. 4 ohn Curr'e, Esq. ' Merchant and Planter. Th e Hon Sir Gabriel Fropier. Member of Council. &c. The Hon. IL Lemicre, Mayor of Port Louis, Member of T he n. Charles Montocchio, Member of Council, &c. anile Pipon, Esq, Vice-President cf the Chamber of Agri culture, &c. With rower to add to their number. GENERAL MANAGER. C. J. A. Ulcoq, Esq. AUDITOR. John Ball, Esq. (Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co.) BANKERS. In London -The Union Bank of London. In Mauritius—The Oriental Bink Corporation. It c .„ SOLICITORS. - ""s•Wilson, Bestows, and Carpmael, 1, Copthall-buildings BROKERS. Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co., Threadneedle-street. Ceo. E. Seymour, Esq., Throgmorton-street. Financial y (Limited) have een ii', c°ll raged lnternational to aid in the orga ci nisation Societ of this Company by b the e u j t ure°egsire for its succes evinced by the Chamber of andAgri the commercial bo y in Mauritius, and by the 1 ,„": 1 9 - support it has met with from leading houses connecte d ' 4, h the colony. tt Lille progress of the island as a sugar-producing colony has In „laie been extremely rapid. The production of sugar has ~"re than doubled within the last twelve years; and the of last year (viz., IS6'-63) exceeded 150,( 00 tons. Withindlie same period of t me there has been an increase 1 : 1 0,000 in the population, consisting, for the most part, of -4 , 41, n immigrants who are becoming permanent settlers. Railways,, the first section of which will probably be opened ?11 , next year, are in course of construction; and cannot fail ' , Niter to develop the resources of the island. „ The annual exports have for the last five years exceeded, i ll an average, £2,500,0 0 0 ; while the imports have, during ` l, t same period, amounted to little more than £2,00 1 ,000. t h 'llie colonial Midgets have, for many years past, shown, on ,l s kVeritge. a large surplus. iie legal rate of interest on mortgages in Mauritius is 9 )S ei cent. ; and the Company in rsising morey in England on ~,) e titures, for investment in the colony, will preserve such 1 0 7. 4 4 ,, r g1n as, together with the commission they may receive the small amount of paid - up capital required to conduct e business. ~,• l rith a view to secure the debentn - e holders, it will be a ighle shallhe total amount raised by the Compan % e e never exceed the amount inveAted inMortgages ; ,,' , 4 that investments shall be made only in First Mortgages, ills for amounts not exceeding half the estimated values of e Properties offered as security. I,,, k rrangcments hav , already been made for placing the first - Ue of debentures on satisfactory terms. Mortga ,, e L erass in Mauritius, of six years and up ), ar ds. the borrow will be required to contribute half early to a Sinkiun - Fund, on the principle of "Credit t'''neler," which has been adwith so advantae to oth lender and borrower in many parts cfmuch the Continen g t of addition to employing its own capital, the Company will h 'ji'st the money of constituents, guaranteeing interest, or '!letpal and interest, as may be agreed upon. t o iliere is in Mauritius an cient register of original titles 14 n 1. connected with the "Land Court" of the island; and ttse a Transcription Office, where successive titles may be aped e mortgage investments made by the Government say i,Ze bank of Mauritius, during the last twenty-five years, t a „,._ c 've that investments judiciously made under the mortgage , v of the island are eminently secure. i& new law which is passing through the Local Legislature I , 11 reduce the operation of lending on mortgage to a condi of still greater simplicity and safety. il ri he management of the Company will be vested in the ,oard of Directors in London, assisted by a Board in Maus The influential support given to the Company both in h tt ßind and Mauritius, and the great want ot such an insti n, must secure an ample field for safe and lucrative ope i!e io n , th l:he Directors of the International Financial Society feel, sh',„refore, no hesitation in recommending the undertaking to , - tvourable notice of the public. cis 'rated copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Asso lit"Lion may be inspected at the Offices of the F olicitoi s, I,e, , E 3 B srs. Wilson, Bristows, and Carpmael, 1, Copthall-build- , • t t "Dplications for shares must be addressed to the Interns t,(lnal Financial Society (Limited), at their Temporary Offices, I) " , Old Brold-street, E.C., in the annextd form, which must G ; lett with their bankers, Itiebors. Glyn, Mills, and Co., No. iForrthard-s treet. e cernber, 1863. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. No (To be left with Messrs. Glyn, Mills , and Co.) To the Directors of the International Financial Society Gen (Limited). tlemen,—Naving paid to your bankers the sum of being £1 per share on shares, I request you I° allot n; e shares, of £2O each, in the Mauritius 4 1 4 .Z1_ Credit and Agency Company (Limited), and I hereby Vo become a member of that Company, and to accept and I r hares or any less number that may be allotted to me, equest that my name may be placed on the Register of Membersill respect of the shares allotted to me. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full ...................... Address in full ............... ..... Reference ........................ Date .............................. MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND AGENCY The DlR''Prn COMPANY (Limited). t NO CI i r s oc " —.ORS oft the INTERNATIONAL FINAN ,. .1 I Filly 0 . ~,,,a tice tha. APPLICATI oNs Niz.md), hereby give , , will be received after 12 0•010ek in he above Company . . 01 0e r k on FRIDAY, the Ist January next. By order. 5 1 , Old Broad-stree SALT A. MICHAEL, Secretary. t, 30th Dec ,1803. _________-- 0 CURE NO PAy - - . — The Pre-eminent, success N., ._ attending the use of icimsllAW'S VOLTAIC P LEXIBLE BELT, novel in . P—nciple and action, oure 01 nervou s and muscular affections, admits of its sale i)eing made dependent upon verified efficacy. A new Belt can be hal on trial for a month, free of charge, for rheumatism , neuralgia, sciatica, in the epilepsy, nervous debility, paralysis, lumbago, ti c doloureux, b ronch i a l cough, asthma, spasms,timins, indigestion inactive live, &c. By th e m il d continu ous electric current evolved, exhausted vital ener , y is enec lacy restszed. Prices, ss. to 155. each ; for extreme cases, according to size and Power. Test i mon i a l s sent free.—Depo t , +I, Crjoked-lane, Kin", William-street, City. K u ?TURES. — _ BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. W HITE'S MOC-M IN --A LEVER TRUSS ) (PERFECTED AND 111Xo, . ED ,;IBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1882j, 4 "T IN THE GREAT 11 1 .1:flowed by upwards of 4 W 0 I I unfired Medical Gentierne J'vention in the curative so often .e of HERNIA. the most effective I o the use of a steel spring.ften —ll i i 4 here avoided—a soft bandage hel l 4rtful in its effects, 1 3 , 4 Y, while the requisite resisting power I ,:or . ern round the -.oe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting w i th uPplied by the end closeness that it cannot be detected, a ud ° o much ease b. ri e`r sleep. A descript ve circular may be tY be worn .'" 8 ", which cannot fail to tit, forwarded by post, - ;;* and the u thc "eruference of the body, two inches below the hips, being 'etit to the manufacturer. Mr. WRITE, VB, Piccadilly. 1 L A . D_ S ou in b g io le i T , ruu55;311685.,62d1.5,.,2i15. f)ti., and 31s. fid. Postage, le 425., and 528 tag ge, 1 8 8d: -.4 unibilic:l'rruss, .425. and 525. bd. Pose,Posta ls. 10d. l'e "" Bt-°thee Orders to be made p a y able to John White, Post. ' w ee, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT MASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE -CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all eases ot ‘ , 4,- )l V. T ict 3 and Swelling ot the Legs, Sprains, &c. TheY are ". fight in texture, and inexpensive, and arc drawn on Q `"'o• ordinary stocking. l'rioe 4s. 6d., 7s. Ocl., 108., to 168. `wa l'o,stage 6d. Manufacturer. 2231. Piccadilly. LAIMBERI"S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN Or P ECTUAL ItEMEDY, without Confining the bowels ti ,„ I,'!frecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad (),, txl to be the best medicine tor immediately relieving colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con- Dr'LiPton. It frequenfly cures persons whom the faculty Dr ° , 4 "rce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which v.kes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption t h .j,2 l, cts arc truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or ,: I )Yirlf2: down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief minutes after taking it. Prepare° on,y and sold by (!hemlst. Kin;~-W.lllam-street, Charing thre2 -London, and by all drugg , sts, in bottles, 134 d., and quantities in one, 2e 9d. each. Ile particular. and ask et': Lambert's Asthmatic Balnm, The name and address Lte. i s the etauip. IVILESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and Westminster Bank. Post-affize Orders payable at Camber well-park. N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—BoTT and JACKSON, " Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. TF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indizestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Tneir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. .nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. PRIZE MEDAL.-INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER .t CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manuf suture. A. distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, .. __ says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you ~rave them, and can sincerely, in my tuna, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 24. per lb. Third Ordinary quality . • • • .. .. .. 2:4. Ccl. per lb. n VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. , est go:di t .. .. .. Is. 54. per lb. ,econcl Y • ... .. quality .. .. .. .. .. is. 34. per lb. c luslit y 8, South 31olto lR n Carriage pre- . • • • • • ~ .. .. ls. ld. per lb. Carriage pai d to London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. The largest Establi t s l l 3 ANCIS TUCKER AND CO., laintreet, Grosveno--square. Manufactory— gton (Established 1730). of , Wax Candles In England for the Manufacture for the use of the Altar. EETH.—Mr. Esic.-, ti,T, - vs the construction of ARTIF following a dvantages :—A set or ARTIFICI AL TEETH has the INVENTION in manship and mechanism, can be ri ,,M , of excellent work most perfect accuracy and success, in a n f nd fitted with the pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer h ours , without of mastication and articulation. ar e quite immoveable, except at l'i l They are a A t the wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfe ctl y without purposes Y to the gums, that they of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the countryecoPtion just these teeth f a many changes of the month without the aid of a dentist. They a re not so ilable to in j ur y , are a lway useful, and will last a lifeti me. Comfort guaranteed. Tret! tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations tree.-B,Grosvenor street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. T IFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent heavy gales some of the boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the 'following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17; schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 ; pilot boat, of St. Ives, 7 ; schooner Arlon, of Workington, 4 ; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1 ; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1; fishing boat, of Filey, 7; Tenby fishing boat, 3 ; and barque Providence, of Dantzic, 7. Total lives saved, 55. The lifeboats also assisted in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camoglin o, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, the schooner Guilia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress on fourteen oceasions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward paid for all these services was £216. The Committee of the Institutionearnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to [enable them to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 lifeboat estab lishments. Contributions are received by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, john-street, Adelphi, London. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 30. Our new Lord Mayor is resolved to bring out the corporation on New Year's-day with a splendour surpassing anything of the kind known in modern timer. It is intended to revive the warlike and picturesque usages of the middle ages. All the city , functionaries will figure in the procession in appro priate costumes—from the Recorder and the Presi dent of the Court of Conscience to the city turn cocks. There will bo trumpeters in quaint dresses, knights in brass armour, javelin men, mace-bearers, and gallow-glasses in suits of mail, armed with battle-axes, mounted police, hussars, &c. Of late years the corporation seemed to be getting rather ashamed of the antiquated mummeries of the Lord Mayor's show ; but the splendours of which it was shorn will now reappear, brighter than ever after the temporary obscuration. It would ,do Mr. Ruskin's heart good to witness the renaissance of mediaeval art in connection with civic displays; to see the lumber of antiquity, the mouldering relics of departed ages, brought out into the sunlight, freshly painted and decorated, as if to shame the bald utilitarianism of modern civilisation. Happily the Saxon origin of the Irish corporations does not detract from their antique charms to the Celtic imagination. On the contrary, the intention is to make the civic procession of Dublin resemble, as nearly as possible, the same pageant in London, with the addition of our tall gallow-glasses and some other Hibernian variations. In fact, accord ing to the programme that has just been issued by the secretary of the Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Michael Angelo Hayes, there has been no procession to equal this in poetic conception, richness of artistic colouring, and theatrical effects, since the Highland clans were marshalled in Edinburgh by Sir Walter Scott to meet George IV, It is supposed that this revival movement will greatly increase the circulz tion among us of Mr. Carlisle's " Sartor Resartus." The delay of the Galway mail steamer Columbia is accounted for by the following facts : On her out ward voyage she suffered severely from the gales which at that time visited the Irish coast and Channel. Her boats are said to have been carried away, her decks s wept,and her pad dleboxes stripped. These damages had to be repaired in New York, where she was a day late in starting, and was en gaged in taking in coal when the passengers were all going onboard. She was a day late at St. John's, and was delayed 17 hours there in coaling again. She is said to be a slow vessel from being too deep in the water, which is caused by the weight of iron put on to increase her strength. The Commissioners under the late Fishery Act are at present holding a court in Limerick, and are engaged in defining the mouths and the boundaries of the estuaries of the river Shannon and its tribu taries, the Maigne, Fergus, and Deel. The Shannon Fishery Company, the Shannon Fishery Protection Association, the Lower Shannon Protection Asso ciation, the Harbour Board of Limerick, the Lime rick Snap-net Fishermen, as well as Lord Annaly, the Knight of Glynn, and other fishery proprietors were represented by counsel. Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, an eminent and wealthy Manchester merchant, having recently offered to erect a handsome town-hall in Drogheda, his native place, a meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Tholsel last Monday to hear the terms of the offer and make all necessary arrangements. A resolution conveying the thanks of the inhabi tants to Mr. Whitworth for hie munificent offer, and gratefully accepting it, was passed by acclamation ; and a committee of 24 (12 Protestants and 12 Catholics) was appointed to select a site for the building and superintend the work. Another public-spirited gentleman, Mr. Smith, offered to give an extensive piece of ground (free of all charge) for the site, which was provisionally ac. cepted. The Condemned Convict, Samuel Wright. The execution of Wright has, we learn, been postponed to Tuesday, 12th pros. Strenuous efforts to avert the capital sentence are being made by working men and others in the Lambeth district. The all but universal feeling on the subject appears to be that the very summary course of procedure in this case was incompatible with a due regard for that fairness which has hitherto invariably distin guished British justice in dealing with offences in volving the life of the accused. There is some reason.to believe that Wright intended to apply for the postponement of his trial; but it is said that he was overcome and lost his presence of mind at the last moment. This is not to be wondered at when the extraordinary haste with which he was called upon to plead, after being committed by the coroner an d magistrate, ere taken into consideration. A very general opinion app ears t o prevail that Wright's sentence will be com mu ted, arising pro bably from the public feeling being favourable to that course. Wright has himself memorialised Sir George Grey, setting forth his account of the sad affair which has placed him in his present awful position.—Morniny Paper. Yesterday 'at noon Mr. Thackeray was buried in the cemetery of Mensal-green. The day was so fine that, notwithstanding the distance from town, a vast concourse of his friends were enabled to sur round his grave, and to pay him the last honour. Many hundreds must have been present of almost every rank and class. Mr. Thackeray had the gift of associating with a wonderful variety of persons ; to be in his company was in the case of most per sons to be entirely at ease with him ; and it was impossible not to pass` from easy intercourse to affection and regard. Among the great throng of mourners we noticed nearly all the foremost men of letters and artists of the day, some of them having travelled far to be present on the sad occasion. It may be enough to state this in general terms, and we forbear to mention nem', because in so large and promiscuous a crowd in 'which there were no signs of arrangement or precedence it is difficult not to overlook some eminent men who might be entitled to mention. Only very few of Mr. Thackeray's most intimate fricnds were expressly invited to the funeral. The hindreds on hundreds who attended came of their own accord to bear witness to the worth of a' ear friend and a much admired masalt-Isnaset ~,these we venture to refer to but one name—that of Mr. Charles Dickens. We do so because he is the author most frequently remembered in connection with Mr. Thackeray, and because he has sometimes been regarded as a rival. In point of fact, there can be no rivalry between these two great novelists, and any special comparison between them must proceed on superficial grounds. No one had a greater 'ad miration for Mr. Dickens than Mr. Thackeray himself, or more unaffectedly rejoiced in his ex ceeding popularity. On the other hand, to no one could all thought of rivalry with Mr. Thackeray be more distasteful than to Mr. Dickens, who always recognized Thackeray's genius, and yesterday came a long journey to testify to the love and the honour which he felt for his great literaty brother. Forone so distinguished it has been suggested that Westminster Abbey is the only fit resting-place. It must be remembered, however, that Mr. Thackeray desired to be interred in the simplest manner at Kensal-green. He has been laid in a brick-built grave beside one. of his children, and his family affections were so strong that we believe it would have been a positive pain to him if, when he was alive, he could have looked forward to being sepa rated from his children is the tomb. Those who were nearest to him, and whom he loved best of all in the world, were so mash in his mind that even in the presence of casual acquaintances whom he saw only at one or other of his clubs he could not choose but let out somewhat of the strong feel ing which stirred within his heart for those who were as the light of his eyes. It was one of the simplest and most winning traits of his character; and by those who could not help knowing what he felt in this way no more touching sight could be witnessed than that of his two young daughters, veiled in crape, advancing from the crowd that pressed about the grave, taking a last sad look at the coffin, and then turning suddenly away. These are reasons why Mr. Thackeray should be buried in his own ground at Kensal-green. Mr. Thackeray had a rarer distinction than that of being a great writer ; he was a classical one. He is the greatest master of English prose which the century has pro duced. There may have been men of greater genius than he; there may been more forcible writers than he ; but no one hes approached him in the command of polished idiomatic English in all its varieties, in flexibility and richness and finish of style. At first this was not fully understood, but now it is seen more and more clearly every year ; and Thackeray's English, notwithstanding the liberties which he sometimes took with it, is coming to be regarded as the model English. We may say of him, as John son said of another, the most classical writer of the last century, " Whoever wishes to attain an Eng lish style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Thackeray." Such a man, who is something more, something rarer than a great writer, surely deserves a niche in Westminster Abbey. But, in the darkness which for us and all who knew him overshadows this festive season, it is not of the great author and the brilliant wit that we think most ; it is of the warm-hearted, simple minded gentleman, honest in all his ways, trans parent in all his words, full of charity in his utmost satire, and ready to give even when ho had little to spare. Among the mourners were Mr. Dickens, Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, Mr. Mark Lemon _ . . . . . [the editor of the famous periodical in which were laid the foundations of Mr. Thackeray 's fame), Mr. John Leech (a fellow pupil and friend), Mr.Tenniel, Nlr. Horace Mayhew—in short, the whole staff of the contributors to Punch ; Mr. Robert Browning (the poet), Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. John Hollingshead, Mr. G. H. Lewes, Mr. Dallas, Dr. W. Russell, Sir James Carmichael, Mr. H. Cole, C. 8., Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. O'Neile, R.A., Mr. Creswick, R.A., Mr. George Cruikehank, Archdeacon Hale, Mr. E. Pigott, M. Louis Blanc, Mr. Herman Merivale, Rev. W. Brookfield, Baron Marochetti, A.R.A., Rev. Wm, Mitchell, Mr. Rus sell Sturgis, Mr. George Smith, Mr. Charles Collins, Mr. Palgrave Simpson, Mr. Henry Thompson, Mr. Seymour Haden, Mr. P. Fladgate, Mr. Reeves Traer, Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. F. Elliot, Mr. W. Richmond, A.R,A., Mr. John Millais, A,R,A., Mr. Richard Doyle, Mr. Valentine Princep, Sir Vim. Alexander, Mr. Richard Redgrave, R.A., &e. The coffin, which was exceedingly plain, bore upon it the following inscription :-- " WILLIAM MAKEPEACE TIIACKERAY, ESQ., DIED 24TH DECEMBER, 1863, AGED 52 YEARS. THE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho -square, founded in 1842, and designed exclusively for the treatment of those peculiar ailments from which neither age, rank, nor character exempt the female sex, was re opened on Wednesday, when a number of addresses were given in the ward by several noblemen and gentlemen. From the statement issued, it appears that, as the building required extensive repairs, and the committee were desirous of providing further accommodation for in -patients, it was determined to add another storey; but the walls being un equal to sustain the additional weight had to be taken clown and rebuilt. Prior to the alterations only 25 in-patients could be received at once , w ith a y earl y average of 135; now 50 patients can be a ccommodate d. The average attendance of out-patients an nuall y is 14,000 . The cora.. mittee are earnestly appealing for fu nds to enable them to discharge their liabilities , and provide for the occupation of all the new wards. DUTIES ON PLAYING CARDS.—In 1788, and again in 1801, the duty on cards was increased on sixpenny packs, till it reached the sum of half-a-crown a pack. The traffic in cards not duly stamped was powerfully stimulated by the high duty. Various evasive devices were invented, and more than one speculator amassed a large fortune by selling, under various pretences, cards on which no duty had been paid. Under the then arrangements, waste aces of spades could not be procured to any great extent, for the damaged aces were returned to the Stamp-office,and allowed for in the cardmakers' accounts. Packs, therefore, were made up for sale with a bl ank card in place of the ace of spades:Cut-corner cards, as they were called, i,e., packs of cards of which one corner was cut off, and minus the ace of spades, were sold in immense quantities. Cards with a Corner cut off were considered by Parliament sufficiently mutilated to render them unfit to be used in play. The pub lic, however, put up with the inconvenience of using cut ccrner Cards rather than pay the high tux. In fact, the law was found powerless to prevent evasions ; every fresh enact ment produced some fresh dodge for driving through it. It was therefore decided to diminish the duty, and to legalise, under certai n res trictions, the sale of second-hand cards. In the year 1828 the half-a-crown duty was reduced to one shilling. The shilling duty was to be denoted on the ace of spades. This was the duty one shilling ace, called " Old Frizzle," on account of the elaborate flourishes which adorned it, with which all card players wore familiar up to last yr,—Qhcc a 117c,a. DR. CUMMING'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 1 voL, crown Svo., 7s. 6d., THE DESTINY OF • NATIONS, AS INDICATED IN PROPHECY. By the Rev. JOHN CUMMING, D.D. "Among the subjects expounded 4 by pr. Cumming in the present interesting volume are—The Little Horn; or, the Papacy—the' Waning Crescent, Turkey—the Lost Ten Tribes, and the future of the Jews and Judea ; Atria; France, Russia; America, Great Britain. Ac."—Observer. Hurst and Puckett 13 Great Marlboronah-sfreet. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WOMAN'S RANSOM. 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Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, vertical, repeating, centre seconds, keyless, astronomical, reversible, and chronograph watches, from 200 to three guineas each. An illustrated pamphlet and price list of every description of watch post free for two stamps. J. W. BENSON, by special warrant of appointment watch and clock maker to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Manufac tory, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, E.C. ventions. Far be it from us to despise the conven tions of society and to run down the proprieties of life. Oar conventions have their uses which no man of sense will deride. The purity of manners requires a ceremonial law which is sometimes as hard to observe as anything in Leviticus. To our thinking, however, Mr. Trollope is more conscious than becomes a good artist of the importance of conventional usage. Ladies, we believe, take a different view. The ceremonial or conventual law of society is their safeguard ; and they rather like the man who, without being exactly a prig, is osten tatious in his observance of established custom, and knows exactly how far he may advance and when he ought to withdraw. This is one of the weak nesses of feminine nature. It is pleasant for them to see a great strong fellow like Mr. Anthony Trol lope seriously concerned to decide the precise moment of time when Rachel Ray can allow Rowan to call her by her Christian name, when Rowan can, with out a breach of the proprieties, snatch a kiss from the lips of Rachel, or when it would be correct for the pair to walk out alone together. The pages and pages which Mr. Trollope devotes to the exposition of what is proper in lovemaking seem to suggest a period when ceremony was more conscious than it is now; and as we began this notice of him by comparing him to Defoe among the writers of the last century we might continue it by comparing him to the great ladies' man of that century — Richardson. He was the great painter of women, the great master of the ceremonies in ficti on o f t h e last age, and Mr. Trollope may be proud to be men tioned in the same sentence with such a man. He may also, when he is inclined again to write on the proprieties of love, remember with advantage a remark of Walter Scott's, made in connexion with Richardson. Richardson had little acqu a i n t ance with the usages of high life, and Lady Mary Wortley Montague mocks at him for making people kiss who ought not to kiss, and who salute at wrong times and in wrong places. Where upon Sir Walter observes,—" It was natural th a t a person of Lady Mary Wortley Montague's taste and rank should be shocked at the want of decorum which she complains of, but at this dis tance of time we are not sufficiently acquainted with the fashions of George IL's reign to share her displeasure. We know in general that salu tation continued for a long period to be per mitted by fashion, and with this general know. ledge it is of little consequence to us at wh at particular year of God men of quality were re strained from kissing their cousins. On the same principle many of Mr. Trollope's discussions e n propriety will one of these days be of little Per). sequence. The Opening of the Charing-Cross Railway, OFFICIAL INSPECTION BY CAPT. TYLER, R,E. Yesterday the official inspection of this important metropolitan railway was made by Captain Tyler, R.E,, the Government inspector, previous to the almost immediate opening of the line for passenger traffic. The inspection, which was of a most rigid character, commenced at the western extremity, or Charing cross end of the railway, a number of gen tlemen connected with the Charing-cross and South Eastern Railways being present, among whom were Mr. Eborall, the general manager, Mr. Knight, the traffic superintendent, Messrs. Stanton and Barry, for Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Wythes, the contractor, the Duke of Sutherland, Major Malcolm, in spector of Indian railways, Mr. Walker, the tele graph superintendent, Mr. Cockburn, the superin tendent of the Charing-cross station, &o. About 12 o'clock the train left the Charing-cross end of the line and proceeded gently along th e down rail to the junction at the Waterloo-road, when a minute scrutiny of the signals (Saxby's patent) and the points was made by the inspector. After some time had been spent at this point the train proceeded on its way to London-bridge, pass ing the new Blackfriars station, which is provided with two side and one central platform. The whole of the signals, points, stations, and permanent way were carefully examined by Captain Tyler, who we believe expressed his satisfaction at many of the arrangements, and on the arrival of the train at London-bridge the party alighted, and the inspector proceeded to thejunction with the main line, which was closely inspected, together with the working of the points. The new line at London-bridge runs into the Greenwich and North and Mid-Kent ter minus, from which platform the trains for Charing cross and the intermediate stations of Waterloo and Blackfriars will be started. It was nearly 5 o'clock before the examation at this end of the line was completed, and the train then made a return trip along the up .line of rails, pausing for a few moments at Bleckfriars and Waterloo, over the Thames-bridge, to Charing-cross, and running up alongside the platform, which was lighted for the occasion with the globular lamps which have been supplied to all the stations. Here the inspection, which lasted nearly six hours, ter minated. Before leaving the officials who had accompanied him, Captain Tyler expressed his desire to go over the line once more, in order to see that some im provements suggested by him are carried out. The first train which will be run will be between the Charing-cross terminus and the Greenwich and North and Mid-Kent terminus at London-bridge, thus opening a communication between the country intersected by those lines and the West-end of Lon don. The length of the new line is about two miles, and the distance between London -bridge and Charing-cross will be accomplished by the trains in about five minutes, though it can be done in three minutes. The distance between Charing'eross and the Waterloo station is about half a mile, Waterloo and Bleckfriars a quarter, and Blackfriars and London-bridge ore mile. PRIZE DESIGNS.---" As affording the most striking con trast, Mr. Benson shows with these a fresh exhibition of modern watches, with cases made from prize designs at th e South Kensington Museum, some of which are fine specimens of engraving."—Times, Sept. 15, 1862. Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeater, centre seconds, keyle ss, split seconds, and every description of watch, adapted to all chi mates. Benson's illustrated pamphlet OR Watches (free by pos t for two stamps) contains a shor t his _ tory of watchmak ing, with prices, from 3 to 200 guineas each. It serves as a guide in the purchase of a watch, and enables those who live in any part of the world to select a *watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize medal and honourable mention, classes 33 a nd 11. J. W. Benton, 33 and 34, Ludgte-11111, London. Established 1749. Watch and clock maker by special warrant or appointment to )14li, the Prime of Wales. Gold, 152. Exchange, 167. United States' Sixes mgistered, 1881, 10444 .Treasnry,7-34 New York Central Railway, 134 k; Illinois Centrals, 119. Cotton, 82c. Breadstuffs rising. Provisions improving. Sugars steady. Coffee firm. Dec. 19, 11 a.m. Chattanooga despatches of the 18th state th a t Gen. Wheeler has rejoined Gen. Hardee at Dalton, where he is reorganising his cavalry for an active winter campaign against the Federal lines of com munication. On the 16th the Confederate cavalry commander Ferguson, with a small force, captured the train of the Ist Cavalry Division, while on the route from McMinnville to Sparta, in Tennessee. No late news from Knoxville had been received. The same despatches announce that General Morgan crossed the Tennessee River at Gillespie's Landing, 60 miles above Chattanooga, on the 13th. Captains. William and Robert Cummings, who escaped with General Morgan from Columbus, were captured, together with 14 of their escort, during the ride from that town. General Howard's cavalry is in pursuit of General Morgan. Considerable anxiety is evinced by the public to learn the true situation of affairs at Knoxville. The statement in the despatch from Cumberland Gep on the 16th, to the effect that the Union citizens were leaving Knoxville, leads to the belief that General Longstreet is about to again besiege the town. The World remarks : " The news from Knoxville has not a very cheer ful look. One of two things, we fear, has happened —either our forces have been two widely scattered, with a view to cut off Longstreet, upon the theory that he was retreating in disorder; or else he has been lately reinforced from General Lee's army. This last is practicable. It would be an awkward circumstance if, after all, Knoxville and East Ten nessee should be repossessed by the Confederates." The guerilla attacks upon Mississippi river steamers continue, and the Brazil was fired into near Roomy on the 11th, and three women and one man were killed, and several others wounded. The Tecumseh was burnt on the 16th, but it is not stated at what point. The Federal steamer Dacotah arrived at Sambro immediately after the capture of the Chesapeake, and her commander ordered both captor and prize into Halifax. The Tribune's Washington correspondent writes that the capture having been made in British waters, the vessel will be surrendered to the pro vincial authorities. A demand, under the Ashburton Treaty, for the return of the vessel end prisoners has, however, been made upon Lord Lyons by Mr. Seward. _ _ The official reports of the commanders of the Monitors made to Admiral Dupont immediately after the failure of the attack upon Fort Sumter, in , April last, were submitted to Congress by Secretary Welles with his annexed report, and show that these vessels were incapable of resisting the concen trated fire of heavy rifled ordnance. Captain Dray ton, of the Passive, says : " I was struck in quick succession in the lower part of the turret by two heavy shots, which bulged in its plates and beams, and forcing together the rails on which the carriage of the 11-inch gun worked, rendered it wholly useless for the remainder of the action ; a little after a very heavy rifle-shot struck the upper edge of the turret, broke all of its eleven plates, and then glancing upwards struck 1 the pilothouse with such force as to send it over, open the plates, and squeeze out the top, exposing the inside of the pilothouse, and rendering it e , 7- tremely likely that the next shot would take off the top entirely." Captain Rodgers, of the Weehawken, reports : " Two or three heavy shots struck the side armour near the same place. They so broke the iron that an pierced d s a o great as to make any m it only remained in splintered fragments, muc h o f od. The ok de which could be picked off by hand, and th e w o od 36 was bolts ex P se were broken inc k the was turret, a hole, through which water ran into the ve s s el ; in the pilothouse. To the Patapsco no damage was done which disabled her, although injuries which she received, if multiplied, would do so. Forty bolts in the funnel were broken. After the third shot from the 15-inch gun of the Nantuck a port stopper . became jammed, ;several shots striking very nearu used port and driving in the plating. It was n:t. ar s t u Z l again. A number of the ssmc plates were.t started so much that another shot in their were cut have knocked them off. The deck _Pi t a he iron, and in 12 places; ono shot cut throng:, starting the vicinity y would about two inches into the b r en kiag, for some plates, several bolts ; and feet below. The plates on places, and one, t t h be e Paid() armour of the close proximity, 1 Nahant were badly broken in several s hots tri where struck by two od, and the wood.backing partly stripped from the;Z ac k plates started up and quite broken in, with edging The deck was struck t w i ce rolled back in places' damagingly,onc shot near the propeller wh ee l , s Passage, and There were marks of nine shots; shattering and starting 23 bo , ite tearing anotherthe Plato startingin i its passage, and 20 bolts were broken perceptibly, the heads s b G ol o ts f : , o ff inside the turret, and the bolts starting ilyi e b - • length a lmost their . outside, some of them flying out itnhethe turret. completely, and being from eturret, o taueefound at a c onsiderable dis th n the deck. One shot struck the u pper part of the turret breaking through every plate. The pilot-houseand wrecked, and four more pas muchshots (laasuitagreccdeived would have denaoll:ihed it. One shot at the base broke every pl ate through, and ev idently nearly penetrated it." in the folic) The ROO/lend Inquirer, fft's' l- prr . oiet Lin coln's proclarn ' " H e is going to forgive us something it seems, on cortain term - s. Forgive us who P Forgive u',.; because he has invaded our States with armed mul titudes to compass our destruction?.,Yorgive us be :7-i:gtl7.lnogf tiaanig:LsrityP,,uib.eliiseheti,s, caus3 he. has plundered our sns, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, desolated our homes ? Forgive us for the many thousands of brothers and sous whom he has plain upon our soil while repelling his inva sion, and for the many dear mutilated ones who w ill / * c rania the legacy of the war when the war is over ? lie may forgive us for all these his crimes, but so long as we have hearts to feel and hands to strike we shall never forgive • him. But he goes further, he makes his forgiveness dcpezdent upon 'terms. We have to swear that the proclamation of emancipation which we received with mocking last year, and which has since been a general derision, Our record of "death's doings" for the year which is just drawing to a close is, we fear, both long and sad. T a ki ng the " upper ten thousand " first, we dud that their ranks have been thinned during 1803 to an extent far in excess of, the annual average. - In the catalogue of Royalty departed, we have to chro nicle only a single death, that of Frederick Charles Christian, King Of Denmark, whose name must henceforth disappear from the Almanach do Gotha. Among the members of the peerage of the United Kingdom there have been no less than 30 deaths to be set against 16 deaths in the previous year. The list is as fol lows :—The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Cottenham, the Archbishop of Dublin, Viscount Temple own, Lord Waterpark, Lord Reay, Lord Clyde, Viscount Massareene, Lord Seaton, Lord llatherton, Lord Sandys, the Duke of Grafton, Lord de Saumarez, Lord Downes, the Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Macdonald, the Duke of Hamilton, Lord de Prune, the Earl of Mornington, the Marquis of Nor manby, Lord Sudelay, Earl Beauchamp, the Marquis Townshend, the Marquis of nuntl, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Sinclair, Lord Chesham, Viscount Mi dleton, Earl Poulett, the Earl of Elgin, the Earl of Charle mont. Three out o f Y the above titles, namely, the baronies of Lyndhurst, Clyde, and Downes, have become extinct, and the earldom cf Mornington has become merged in the superior honours of the Duke of Wellington. The baronets deceased during the year number thirty five ; the following are their names :—Sir ri. Bruce, Sir M. Blakiston, Sir 0. J. Honyman, Sir J. B. Robinson, Sir H. Lushington, Sir J. Outran;, Sir R. Hughes, Sir G . C . Lewis, Sir J. Louis, Sir R. Bateson, Sir W. L. Wrazall, Sir J. W. Pollen, Sir A. Warren, Sir C. E. Eardlcy, Sir A. Campbell, Sir A. Armstrong, Sir Isaac Grant, Sir J. R. Dashwood, Sir J. Bonham, Sir W. M. Stanley, Sir R. A. Anstruther, Sir T. Sykes, Sir H. Nugent, Sir J. G. Sinclair, Sir F. E. Scott, Sir T. G. Skipwith, Sir F. W. Slade, Sir H. Martin, Sir J. B. Warren, Sir R. P. Glyn, the Rev. Sir G. Shiffeer, Sir St. Vincent Cotton, Sir 1). Cameron, Sir A. Nicolson, and Sir F. H. Gilbert. The last four mentioned titles have become extinct. In the House of Commons the following deaths have oc curred :—The Hon. William T. Bernard (Bandon), Captain Gladstone (Devizes), Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart. (Radnor, &c ), Mr. Western Wood (London), Captain Gordon (Berwick), Mr. Francis M.Calcutt (county Clare), Captain J. S. Winos Johnson (Montgomery Burghs), Mr. Beriah Botfield low), the Right Hon. Edward Ellice (Coventry), Mr. G. \V, Hope (Windsor), Mr. J, H. Langston (Oxfotil), Mr. William Cubitt (Andover), and Mr. George Potts' (Barn staple). From the various orders that compose the knightage the following names will have to be struck out Charles Allis, Sir William Bellaire, Sir Henry William Bruce, K.C.8., Sir James L. Caldwell, G.C.8., Sir John Camp bell, the Right Hon. Sir Cresswell Cresswell, the Hon. Sir George Elliot, K.C.8., Sir George Leigh G oldie, K.C.8., Sir Robert Hagan, Sir Hugh Halkott, G.C.H., Sir John Banbury, K.C.8., Sir Henry Hops, K:C.B., Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.8,, Sir John Spencer Login, Sir Thomas Erskine , Napier, K C.B , Sir James H. Plumridge, K.C.8., Sir William G. Power„ K.C.8,, Sir Henry Roper, Sir William Henry soweil, 8., Sir William Stevenson, K.C.8., Sir Warwick H. Tonkin, Sir William Wightman. Other members of the aristocracy who died during the year were as follows :--Viscountess Boyle, the Hon. and Rev. Thos. Ji. Keppel, the Hon, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Dowager G. A. C. Dashwood, Esq., the Hon. Miss Stapleton, Lady Countess Ashburnham, the Ho n . M rs . W. H. Y e i ver t on Kathleen Tighe, Dowager Lady Bolton, the Hon. and Rev. Adolphus F. Irby, the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean Pakonham, the Hon. Robert Curzon, the Hon. Mrs. Ca vendish (mother of the Duke of Devonshire), Dowager Viscountess Andover, the Hon. Herbert A. Moreton, Miss Louisa M. Tollemache, the Hon. Charles Bruce, the Hon. Samuel Crichton, the Hon. Samuel Talbot, the Hon. Mrs. Plantagenet Cary, Dowager Lady Foley, the Hon. Lady Rushout, Viscountess Gough, Lady Olivia Sparrow, the Hon. Lady M au d e , D owager Lady Headley, Lad y Elizabeth Borough, D owager Lady Fitz Gerald, Esq., Major the Hon. 11. Powy s -Neck, Lady Kumaine, Edward Fox Frances Wade, the Hon. Mrs. Calliphronas, Mrs.JamesLady D. Brabezon, Mr. T. C. Robertson, Lady Monson,Ftl a Margaret Jane Stuart, the lion. Lionel H. zearenee' the Dowager Lady Banbury, the llon• George r Nelson, the Dov;ager Lady Poltimore, the Hon. Miller, Lady Elizabeth Dawson, lderloV l . Ca gram, Wgram, the the Dowager Lady 1 .'.._ . (1 Y. -111111 er, the Hon. Mrs. Stratford, the Hon. ~ C aptainr shaml lLl dell, Lady Sophia Hoare, Lady A.molia C. Mr. Charles VT. Dowager Lady Stanley th E n the Hoe. Charles Sinclair, Sou l, l aw. Grattan-Bellew, Mr. Bsauclerk, Lady Scaton,ofLaAdy3lCaatherine sq , , Lady Camilla Sinclair, Mr. Joseph Weld, of u worth, Mr. John Labou y * Westbury, Vero Mrs. MuLsgadravz.Lad Esq, the f l) V "r e fa r m , William Dow ager Beckett, Lady Mr. George Forbes, Mr. Anselre. E. Guise, Mr. John George Fludyer, White-Jervis, Miss Caroline Lamb, Captain Francis Price, Mrs. F. W . Ord, Mrs. B. y . Brownlow, Mrs. Childers, Beaver, Mr. F. A. t h e Dowager Lady Broughton, Mr. W. Gamier, Miss Catherine Scott• Douglas, and Capt. Edward Wilmot. Besides the Archbishop of Dublin (already mentioned), two members of the episcopal body have died during the year, viz., the Bisho Gibraltar Queb ec ' PS of and Amongst the other not a ble personages whom death has carried off, first and foremost stands the name of William MakepeaceThackeraY \ hose recent los s we are all mourning. Besides hi m wo have to chronicle the deaths of the Vert. Archdeacon 'Bonne Mr. Justice Wi g htman, Professor Cockerel?, 1.I„A Mr Y . Augustus Egg/ R.A., Mr. Jas.Wm, Gilbert, S , (founder of the joint-stock banking system), Mr. M -Sines B. Harding (artist in water colours), the Rev. ~.., • Win. Hope (founder of the Zool ogi M. Wm. ea r i ProfessorshipMulrea, at dy, Oxford), the Rev. Alexander M.Cau 11 . A„ Mi s s Julia Pardoe, Mr. A Pgle ßeed, the Rev. Y Follett, the Rev. Dr. Ratios (of Liverpoo l ) , the Rev. Andrew Dr. Russell (formerly Head ~ Master of Charterhouse), Mrs. Thomson (author of the " Memoirs of the Duchess of Marlborough"), Mr. William Tooke, F.R.S., the Rev. " Richard A. Willmott, 'the Rev. Fred riek William Faber, n, Mrs rubella the'Rev. Josiah Forsh all, Mr. J.. • Gree T. c os M n , r. Trollopo (the novelist) , Mr . William B. a Jas. T. Willroore (engraver), an d the Rev. henry Drury. In the list of distinguished foreigners who have died ons. during the year are the n ames of M Neap French tan ßillault fame), th e e F r ench Minister), General Pep e (of eap Dr. L (ter F r ench General Bedoau, the Rev.L. Beecher of Mrs. Beecher Stowe), Delacroix (the Be painter), Said Pasha (Viceroy of Egypt), Jacob Grimm (the philo logist), Samuel Houstotm (the American general and poli tician), Madame Lamartine, General Oudinot,, Horace Vernet (the eminent painter), Alfred Victor Vigny (the poet), William Lowndes Yancey (of Alabama ) i G not :R n N: ig E h N b T oou ß fr RE WARD. - 9 A a n fra stte T;:: a ht A THE LATE BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON A lir assaulted a ß u l E t r e a m i s: L t - h be recollected that a short time ago a woman '-- - Majesty's4\\l BETHNAL-GREEN-GOVERNMENT This morning the Commissioners of her °f Treasury issued a bill offering a reward appre hension of Joseph Anconey, one of the men coucerned. QUEENSL AND EMIGRATION. The Ship Prince Consort, 2,500 tons burden, belonging to Messrs. T. M. Mackay and Co. , sailed o n the 25t inst. from Plymouth for Queensland , Ca p tai n Aim, ' esou, commander. The Prince Conso rt is the th irty - si 4th vessel that has sailed on, the land order system of o ro ; gration, un d er the immediate di rec tion of the Queensland. Government. She contains 373 souls, divided into paYin t) , cr an d c onsisting of 151 assisted, and free p assengers, members of families, 173 single men, and 44 single females. THE CROW N PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE HOLSTEIN QuESTION.—Our Berlin corres p ondent wr ites, under date D ee . 2 8 Od hero the Crown Princehis waY had an interview with the Prince of Augustenburg, an old friend of Who rode with him in the same carriage from Guntershausen to Gotha. His Royal Highness has been Very active in the interest of the popular cause ever since. With what result, the next few days will pi obably show." I t