The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-02 00:00:00

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It is not intended \ - 't - t'- ' A r .._-_,- to call up more than £25 per share. was mainly the throne, ial rights, of and giving lgsgate, and , which was in fell to 3s. speak of ;11 lasted for tents was the of the Crea thfield by A Maitland), 'cliffe's doc- DIRECT 0 RS. Jose Marques Braga, Esq. (Vice- ( ,:onsul for Brazil), Liver • pool. John Chapman, Esq. (Director of the Union Bank of London). Francis Cramp, F. :s q. (Messrs. Offley, Cramp, and Co. , London a n d , b porto). James Farquhar, Esq. (Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of London). Sebastian Pinto Leite, Esq. (Messrs. Pinto Leite and Brothers, London) Charles Edward Mangles, Esq. (Chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Paeket Company) Robert Russell Notman, Esq. (Director of the South- Eastern Railway of Portugal) George Barnard Townsend, Esq. (Director of the South- Eastern Railway of Portugal) Francis Morrogh Walsh, Esq. (late of Messrs. Morrogh Walsh and Co., Lisbon, 11, Gloucester-square, Hyde park. N°. 22,000. guisher ---Put out the Light 1 Put out the Light—A Squally Night—Clown gets rid of a Lodger—Both Child and Nurse are fast asleep--Clown gives them a drop too much—a new method of getting off to sleep—forty winks—Harlequin Box and Cox (up)—'Tis when to sleep the World retires—the Vision —an unwelcome Visitor—The Shades of Night and the Night Shade—Look on this Picture and on this—List, oh, list—l'm always with you—l'll warm yer—Oh, slum ber my darling, and sleep while you may—Visions light as air—the Nurse—the Child—the Great Sensation Scene and Denoum ent. market, and to ashes." would have wa4 grievi m a pension his heresy, ly was sun n Oldeastle, was roasted tildhall was Scene 3,—SHELL-FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE! Invented by Mr. D. Johnson. Pantomiroists—Misses GUNNISS and Messrs. ST. MAINE, DEULIN JOHNSON, and C. LAURI. Pas Trois Mansilla Spiritu—The Misses GUNNISS and Bankers—The Union Bank of London. Solicitors—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgete-street, E.C. Brokers—Messrs. J. C. and C. W. Morice, 1, Warnford court, E.C. Secretary—John Beaton, Es q. Temporary Offices, 27, Cornhill, E.C. Although few countries present a more eligible field for the establishment of a sound system of joint-stock banking than Portugal, it has hitherto been nearly destitute of this advantage. The increase in the trade of the country, and its further development by the opening of its railways renders the introduction of such a system a matter of the utmost importance to Portugal, while it will afford a legi timate source o f profit on the capital invested for that purpose. The eperrtions of the Bank of Portugal (the only one in Lisbon) ar.e of a very restricted nature, affording nova of Bthe advantages belonging to the English Joint-Stock Aki• ag system, notwithstanding which its shares cora- V:1 a premium of £ll 10a. per share. In Oporto three local banks have been established within the last few years, and are all in a prosperous condition, their shares commanding the following premiums :- 1. The Commercial Bank, capital £444,444 (all paid up), amount of share £44, present price £l3 premium. 2. The Oporto Mercantile Bank, capital £333,333 (all paid up), amount of share £44, present price £l3 premium. 3. The Union of Oporto Bank (very recently established), capital £444,444, amount of share £22, paid up £lB 95., present price LI premium. In addition to an extensive and profitable business be tween. Portugal and the United Kingdom, in Lisbon, and the provinces, large transactions constantly take place in the negotiation of paper from the Brazils, in which country it may be found desirable to establish branches. The preliminary expenses will be strictly confined to the actual disbursements attending the formation of a com pany. P rospectuses and forms of application for shares may be Obtained from the brokers, or the Secretary, at the tempor ary' offices of the Company. Sir Henry sets, by or ter, between ig coats, and :r dark, cry ksperc com at happened Alter en formidable rho citizens ndon Stono Lord of the Guildhall, )mmanding I was struck nner. Still Alderman owever, he the streets, rade, fleeing ity Tress. y of wheat, ir advance. last week. .35s to 37s .32s to 34s ..24s to 27s .—s to —s TFI EA TRE ROYAL D RURY-LANE. -a- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, having been Re-modelled, Decorated, and Embellished in trttly magnificent and costly style, is now open. Notwithstanding the immense expenses incurred in the arrangements, the Prices of Admission will be as usual, and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz.:— Private Boxes, 10s, 6d., 21 5., £1 I ls. 6d., 42 25., 35., and Zi 4s. Stalls, 6s. Dress circle, 4s. First Circle, 3s. Boxes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lo wer G a ll ery, is. Upper Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. A MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PANTO MIME EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. T HIS EVENING will be presented Mr. E. Falconer's Comic Drama, entitled NEXT OF KIN. Principal Characters by Messrs. S. Calhaem, H. Sinclair, Neville, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks ; Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Annual in the form of an entirely Novel, Original, Bur lesque, Grotesque, Poetical, Pictorial, Pastoral, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES; or, HARLEQUIN and COCK ROBIN I "Little Bird with bosom red, Welcome to my Humble Shed, Daily near my table steal, While I pick my scanty meal, Well rewarded if I spy, Pleasure in thy glancing eye."—O/d Poem. The novel Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. GRIEVE and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, JONES, C. FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., TELBIN, Jun., and 'JANSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE. The Masks, Designs, and Personal Appointments by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN ; com pleted under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, CHALTON, and numerous Assistants. The Tricks, Pro perties, Change s , an d Transformations of the Harlequinade by Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments by Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by H. BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The Groupes, Tableaux, Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. The Opening invented and written by E. L. B-4ANC HARD, Author of "The House that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," " Robin Hood," &c. THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARLY MORNING. Little Goody Two Shoes —Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. "This dear little .Girl, whose real name was Margery Meanwell, once lived," &c.—Old Story. ofnew_on. shoes ; and s h e was so pleased with them, ' Goody and Two sodi showi ng t h em to every one she met, saying' Shoes— Two Shoes,' that s h e ga i ne d th e name of 'Little Two Shoes.' "—Old story. The Raven, the Pigeon, the Cat, and the Whit e R a bbit (her pets), Masters Quork, Coo, Mew, and Bunny. Pet Robin—Master Redbreast. Little Boy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN O . John ny S tout (the H Good WARD Boy) Mr. J. ROBINS. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. Day Scholars —Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, Gag, Meg, Tag, &c, and Misses Nimble, Simple, Sample, Rumple, Whimper, ' Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. Vill agers —Messrs. B tunkin ,Whackstraw, 0 atcake, Chaw bacon, Thatcher &c. &c. "The r oom in which she taught her scholars was very large, so that she could have her children stand in front of her while she instructed them. —Old Story. Of the proposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. HU NTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF THE FOREST The Fairy G oo d Nature (assuming . the form of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. Footman, Mr. Powderhob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. How Little Boy Blue meets with a particular friend, and how the Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate to general destruction, and what ensues thereupon. THE BRAMBLE BRAKE IN THE DEPTHS OF THE FOREST. —SUNSET. " When good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her ten sets of letters, she invited a great number of her poor little Companions to meet together under an old oak tree, and there she taught them." —Old Story. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLIN nON. Hatred and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE 'WOOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May, Miss WENT WORTH. Bluebell, Cowslip, Violet, Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, Speedwell, Daisy, Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, Colvolvulus, Wild R ose, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts ease, Fox Glove, &c, (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a host of Coryphies. Pas de Forget -me•-not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, The Misses GU.NNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD. " All hail to thee, thou first of May, Sacred to merry sport and play, To wine and jest and dance and song, And mirth that lasts the whole day long." CELEBRATION OF MAY -DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OUTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL BROOK, AND ANCIENT BELFRY. " Who killed Cock Robin ? I, said the Sparrow, with my Bow a n d A rrow. " —Old Nursery Legend. The sparrow, Mr. Take-an -Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy, The Fish, Mr. Gillbut. The Beetle, M G The Linnet, M aster Downey. The Owl, Mr. Wh rs. it-to-Wamp. hoa. The Lark, Mr. Higbflyer The Rook, Mr. Blackeoat. The Bull, Mr. Roarer, with a Horn accompaniment. The deed done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, and his marvellous rest orat i on by Good Nature, wh o pro ceeds on her radiated Path of Prisms over the world. Harlequins, Mr. CORMACK and Mr. ST. MAINE. Columbines, Madame BOLENO (her first appearance here these two years) and the Misses GIJNNISS. Pantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN Clowns, Mr JOHNSON. . HARRY BOLEN 0 (his first appearance here these two ye a r s ) and Mr. C. LAUR Scene I.—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITI I The Me e ti ng of all Natio ON ns—Go OF l F d Washing and G Phu:ling—Armstron's Breech-load er— the Exhibition Bells old and Belles o f the Exhibition—Cloy n rings one of the Belles --a belle Sav age — t h e Majolica Fountain—Clown's new hibi Vapourizer—Cent. per Scent—Striking Two—the Ex t ion Club —a Medicated Vapour Bath--a Piping Bullfinch -- (Raree Ai rs ) —the Australian Obelisk makes a decided sMove —a Toad in the Hole—a Long Nap (2,000 years)—a e tt in the C oa l H ole —Froggy would a-Wooing go—a sud• en influx of Strange Visitors and close of the Exhibition. Scene 2.—EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF IN TER NATIONAL LODGING-HOUSE. pa Invented and P ro d uced by Boleno (Registered). ntalehnists--11ARRY BOLENO, Madame BOLEN°. Trip CORMACK, and TANNER. StormLandladymN alse—Madame BOLENO and Mr. C ORM ACK. Housemaid, _rs. Graball ; Page, Master Bellbutton Shoe-Black B r ig a de ngaged ; Visitors, Cabmen, Sweeps, mention. , &c,, by Artists too numerous to Lodgings! Loagi fn„ Sample of a Cabby's a's'. Lodgings I—Ho use F u ll—A F a i r Bolen o ' s return to his ar-A Forei gner a ll A b road—Harry —Nobody' s L uggage (Oh Quar ters —Somebody's Luggage the cold ground—ADam ,Dickens)—My Lodgings are on are always danip)—Bottliin Bed with Sheets of Water (which —Coming down with the D Spirits —A Policeman on Duty solve to change their ua t q .r ers—The new Bedroom Door— :t —Clown and Pantaloon re the Exhibition Early-risin Iropreissioxi--ph, te a t the e, Bedstead —clown makes an ee s 14 5' Babe —4 Novel UtiA• .29s to 32s . 263 to 30s .22s to 24s .42s to 45s .-3 to —s wheat, and Is has been heat came mintained. I to 53s Od 1 to 505 Od to 51s Od I to 46s Od I to 56s Od I to 62s Od Itosls Od to 52s Od to 37s Od to 33s Od . to 38s Od to 34s Od . to 31s Od to 28s Od dto 133 to osl3lcl d to 05133 to 46s Od to 44s Od to 42s Od to 35s Od tc 38s 6d tc 38s Od to —s Od to 34s Od to 56s Od to 52s Od £9 5 0 9 0 0 6 5 0 6 10 0 ~~. M. ST. MAINE. A Neat Trip—a Trip less Flat—Flat Fish, Flying Fish, and Ground Bait—taking in the Natives Childish Games, Boyhood's happy days—Arrival of Fun—Sudden appear ance of an old friend—Clown goes a fishing—Gets a bite which prove to be a nibble for him, Garotting with a Ven geance —the strong Arm of the Law—Clown in a Fix— Lucky Escape—Clown gets a Ticket of Leave—the indus trious Cobbler that Lived in a Stall—Clown finds a pair of Boots and gets Awl for his pains—a Rally and a Jump— Clown has a taste for Music and Gives a Concert, in which he will play a Solo on the smallest Banjo in the world and 12 Common Garden Pots—Pataloon has Five Bars rest— Clown gets Drummed in and quickly gets Drummed Out Again—A Supply of Natives—a fair Division—the head of the force and everybody taken in and done for. Scene 4—THE ISLINGTON:AGRICULTRAL HALL, AND GREAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND FLOWER-SHOW. Invented and Produced by BOLENO (Registered). Pantomimists—HAßßY BOLENO, EMMA BOLENO, CORMACK, and TANNER. Flowers of Loveliness and Flowers of the Forest—going to see the Green Bushes—Heartsease and Tulips—coming in Pears (pairs)--a clearing Pair—Fruits of Industry -Music, the Food of Love—l calculate not—Music hath Charms—not so always—Where's the Police P—Opening of the Great National Dog Show—Port Whine and Bark—ran Impudent Puppy--Carrots and a Turn-up—Clown gets Pugnatious—a Dog-MA—Dog cheap and dear Hound— Clown keeps the Dog Watch, which he enters—the Way to Barking—Clown and Pantaloon gone to the Dogs— Sweet Sounds—Calculation, Multiplication, and Vexation —Clown's Cat Show—Cats-up and Cats down, and a Cat for the Garotters—Descend ye nine—Dogs' Meat—Cats' Meat—a Jolly Dog—a Pair of Tabbies—the Kill-Kenny Cats—the Seat of War—How it will all end—a Prize Fight for a prize Cup—Catalessis—Catacresis—a Catastrophe which leads to a Cataract of the Feline Race, and thus ends the Catalogue. Scene S—(Comic)—EXTERIOR of MARINE STORES, PUBLIC-HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME. Invented by Mr. J. Cormack. C,.LAURI, D. JOHNSON, ST. MAINE, and the Misses GUNNISS. Nautical Hornpipe, by M. ST. MAINE and the Misses GUNNISS. Set a thief to catch a thief—and he will go the " whole Hog or None"—A Sailor, half Seas over, mistakes all he Sees—Old Aunt Sally proves herself, rayther— Shell Hands wanted—and secured by Hook or by Crook—An cient and Modern Warriors—Hearts of Oak—Our Ironsides (not Cromwell's) Al good metal—the great Drainage Question—Pretty Poll of Wapping—she was such a nice young Gal / with Old Ballad, " the Lass that loved a Sailor"—" Home, home, Sweet Home"— The Sailor? Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce you to Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICHES BROUGHT BY HER OCEAN WAVES I Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open at Half. past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEru'rv-CrimnsfAx---Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has incurred expenses amountmg to £27,260 on various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have i een instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow ing Vessels:— Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby .. 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .• • • .. .. 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .• .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. • • • • • • 3 Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. • • .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. 7 Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford 5 Schooner Prospect, of Berwick Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. .. 9 Smack John Bus, of Yarmouth .. .. 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry 4 Barque Niagara, of Shields •• .• 11 A Barge of Teignmouth •• .• •• •• 2 Brig George and James, of London .. 8 Brig Zephyr, of Whitby 6 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats 3 Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool 15 Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Teigmmouth .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. .. 5 Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. .. 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth g• •• •• •• •• 8 Spanish Barque Primers de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. 1 Sloop Hope, of Dublin •• •• •• •• 3 Schoener Druid, of Aberystwyth .. .. 5 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. .. 4 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead. (saved vessel and crew) .. •• •• •• •• •• •• 6 Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved 'yes and crew) .. .• • • • • • • • • • 3 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boats of Whitburn •• •• •• 16 Brig Arethusa, of Blyth 8 Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2 Schooner William, of Morecambe .. .. • • 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry 4 Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. 8 Schooner William, of Liverpool .. • • 5 Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown .• •• 3 Brig Providence, of Shields .. .. • • • • 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. .. 4 Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. 19 Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. .. 10 Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide .. 2 Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna .. 8 French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese „ .. Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough „ .. 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven • • .. .. 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marans •. • • • . 8 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. 5 Barque Druid, of Sunderland Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. •• .. 1 Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon .. • • .. 1 Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich Brig Minerva, of Workington 4 Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 Brig Sisters, of ‘ , l hitby .. • • • • 9 Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. .. 4 Brig Jane, of North. Shields .. 10 Brig Trial, of Poole •• •• •• •• •• 7 Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. 3 Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) .. • • • • •• •• •• •• 7 Barque Frederick, of Dublin 1 Barge Peace, of London •• •• •• •• 2 Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. 11 Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen . 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast .• •• •• •• •• •• 1 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. .. 6 Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. 5 Schooner Rook, of Liverpool .• •• •• 3 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. .. 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland ,e .. 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. . • .• Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda •• •• ••134 Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. .• .. 2 Sloop William, of Liverpool .. 5 Sloop Elizabeth, of Teig,nmouth .. 3 Portuguese Barque Cruz V. .. 14 Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, U. 5.,. .. 18 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. .. 4 Total .. .. .. ... 762 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution hat, voted £2,158 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has also granted rewards amounting to £572 for saving 552 , hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak ing a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years and a half. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, - end other means, since its formation is 12,690; for which serv i ces 82 Gold Medals, 713 Silver Medals, and .£16,000 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has a l so expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat publc Tr ansporti ng - eart lazes, and B oa t-h ouses. nowb The ein a er e not but symnathise with the vigorous efforts wrecked made b this Institution to save th e li ves of Sh i p- I he present time, When, help was never more nee d e d t h an at the Society has made 'through the extraordi nar y exert i ons One Hundred and Wittin the past few years, it has now ne'ement, for the maintenance Life -boats under its man efency, a large permanent of which, in a state of thorough . annual Income is absolutely needed, it its humane mission IS to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefully a cknowledg e the following con tributions:— Her Majesty the Queen .. • • annual 5o o s. d A Lady at I,eith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. d on. 100 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • • • • • • • annual Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. . • • • don. 25 6 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .• .. annual 10 0 Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 o Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. 2d don. 25 0 o Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .• • • don. 30 0 Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0 Lanesborough, the Earl of .. annual 5 0 0 Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of Salford.. •• •• •• •• •• 100 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. 7th don.lo 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. • • .- .. don. 15 15 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. .. annnal 5 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0 Trench, Lady Helena .. .. don. 30 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. 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In a paper in the Exchange on this subject Mr. Bazley, M.P., says : A great consumption of any manufactured commodity cannot be maintained at a high price, and if the people of this or of any other country are to be well fed and clothed the necessaries of life must be afforded at moderate rates. Cotton manufactured products have become the minister ing comforts of the great masses of mankind ; and unless they can be offered for consumption upon easy terms, diminishing quantities of them only can be sold and used. Essentially the cotton trade has risen upon cheapness, comfort, and convenience ; and from its introduction to the times of the present American convulsion, it has con stantly increased upon lowering and cheaper prices—cheap ness always being identified with plenty, and dearness with scarcity. To have relied upon one adverse source of supply for the raw material of the great cotton industry of this country is now proved to have been an almost fatal policy ; and to have depended upon one country for this foreign product has been as unwise as was the protection ist regulations which attempted to limit the supply of food for the people of this country to the growth of their own home fields. The vast resources of the British East Indies and of the colonies have been comparatively un developed and neglected. Advantages have bean offered by land grants, and by every possible facility to induce our ever-increasing population to emigrate to the State of America ; but difficulties in obtaining land in British pos sessions, and the restrictive regulations which have been enforced, have deterred the spirited emigrant and adven turer from settling in English colonies, The land tenure in India, the want of roads and of communication there, and of a common and practical contract law, have not allowed English energy and capital to penetrate that vast dependency. Latterly many beneficial changes have been effected, and hopes are now entertained that obstacles to the advancement of our foreign possessions, and to their offering valuable support to the commerce of the parent country, will be removed. Of the amazing capabilities of Australia to supply Europe abundantly with every class of cotton there ;s no doubt, provided a generous system for 1 he introduction of emigrants were adopted, and land grants made on tempting terms. Queensland and New South Wales might in a very short time be rendered capable of supplying the American deficiency to the country. British possessions in Africa and the West Indies only require to become a most extensive have their advantages placed within the grasp of the energetic and enterprising. In the dominions of Turkey pr q . i t t ; and . of the Emperor of the French, inducements which rtioval those held out by Great Britain, are now offered encourage the v g e row so t u h rce of of co th tt e on s . uppl E y g o y f pt cot h to a n s of superior • and the successor of Mehemet Ali, the to onlightened Pasha, is wisely im parting an itnpulse which cannot fail titos b inereased cultivation in that coun tryy d e ir u ec se t ful as well as profitable. To the East Indies we may r y d efforts h with or a great e a t o pros ps which, h of, if f success.hf w ould supply the whole ')w world with most acceptable cotton. From the Dharwar district w e half cotton is now obtained of a quality quit e equalto middling American, and which yields satisfactory p ro fit t o i ts culti as m Tato:- ; and for this boon i greet debt of gratitude is due to Mr. Shaw, who caused the average yield of it to be quadru pled, and the market price per lb. to be doubled—thereby affording an eightfold benefit to the ryots, who now declare that their cotton cultivation is their gold gathering, their whole crop being now about 200,000 bales. If every part of India where cottton is grown were rendered equally productive, the entire crop would be four times the extent of the present yield ; and the market price of the superior produce being double that of the inferior, we should have the eight-fold advantage extended over the whole dominion ; and in place of a yearly production of four million bales, for which the ryot has not been paid an average of twopence per lb. giving some twelve millions sterling for the entire of the present crop, there would be grown 16,000,000 bales, worth ninety-six million pounds sterling. So much for spirited and scientific agriculture. Tempting as is this picture in prospect, it really only repre sents half the advantage which would accrue from the im proved cultivation of cotton in India; because any large portion of such a crop of cotton coming to this country would only be paid for by the extended export chiefly of cotton manufactures. Still, merely to change the depen dence of this trade upon one single source of supply to another single source would be unwise. Political convul sions have been suppressed ; but possibly another mutiny may succeed, and then would arise the repetition of diffi culties and the foreboding of further dangers. Let the trade, therefore, emancipate itself from any chief or sole depen dence for its supply of cotton, especially as there are more than 20 fields, of immense extent, whence excellent cotton can be obtained by exertion and cultivation. Hitherto, ex travagant prices for cotton have not directly or importantly stimulated its extended cultivation; and the 20 millions sterling already paid for the advance alone which has been effected in its price have been impott'aclecl by the successful speculators. So eager, indeed, have been the mere cotton operators in the ports of India to secure the immediate bene fit of high prices, that the ryot has been stimulated to gather his crop before it had attained maturity, and send it to market without being sufficiently cleaned and prepared. This improvidence is further damaging the already suffi ciently low reputation of Indian cotton. The ryot is not generally rewarded for the production of a high class of cotton, and therefore it is not his interest to grow it and care fully clean it. If the cotton spinner and the cotton grower could dispense with a few of the intermediates in India who keep them asunder, the benefit to both would be palpable. In the States of America the cotton planter has been fol lowed to his plantations by the agents of the European spinners ; and the stimulant of the price paid for the article, according to its quality, being obtained by the planter, has promoted the growth of the best classes of cotton, and has vastly extended their cultivation. How gratifying would it be to the free labourer of Britain to know that the toil of the slave ministered not to his necessities, and that the free only served the free. To correct an erroneous impression, it may be well to repeat the fact that cotton, with all its guilt has employed fewer slaves than sugar, tobacco, and other products; and therefore cur generous sympathy should be extended to the many as well as to the few op pressed negroes. If, instead of spending a million sterling per annum in endeavouring to capture slaves, and at the same inflicting miseries and cruelties in the service, one third of that sum had been expended, under judicious inspection, in encouraging the growth of the ordinary products of slavery by free labour, then it is probable the death blow to the inhuman traffic would have long ago been given, and our calamities, and those of the States of America, might have been spared. Unfortunately, attempts have been made to divert well-directed efforts from the cultivation of cot ton to other costly vegetable materials to supersede cotton ; btft nothing can so easily, cheaply, harmlessly, and securely be obtained as cotton itself; hence such eff or t s are i n j ur i ous evri impediment to the employ ment and the c ol on i es . F ree and useless, terminating in repeated disappointments. m Go vernmentsentoflabsohuorualndd capitalremove in e labour is more efficient than that cf the slave, and is less costly. Cotton growing, judiciously conducted, has been, is, and will be profitable. The trade or public opinion should enforce higher cultivation of cotton in India, and induce the extended cultivation of the Dharwar class to compete with American. Some of the late supplies of cotton from India are so poor in staple, short and irregular in fibre, and dirty in condition, that amendment is imperatively called for to prevent the abandonment of the use of Indian cotton when American supplies are again offered. With the evi dence that India can produce excellent cotton, it will be a national disgrace if, after pleading for large supplies from her, and when she seems t) be yielding to our entreaties, we should be compelled, by inferior, dirty, and faulty cot ton, to be obliged again to desert her produce. It is, indeed, as much the interest of India to give, as it is the interest of Great Britain to receive, good cotton. Europe, besidi s this country, lsgs to +be supplied with cotton; and now the opportunity is offered for the prsductious of British foreign possessions which has never previously been, and may never more be, presented. Inferior Indian cotton is opposed to the true interests of the workpeople and of their employers ; the former can only earn upon it low and unsatisfactory wages, and the latter has the mortifica tion of obtaining a diminished production of yarn and cloth which must be disposed of under great disadvantages in the market, from their flagrant imperfections. The economical aspect of this question will make the discreet shudder. Labour is pining in want, and capital is wasting, and the losses of both, added to the charitable con tributions of the benevolent, and to the expenditure in increasing poor rates, will, before the termination of the struggle, supposing it to continue to Midsummer next, in volve a total cost and loss of 50 million pounds sterling. To have originated a new cotton-producing industry in Queensland and New South Wales to an extent which would have compensated at the present moment for the loss of the American supply of cotton, might have been effected by the discreet investment of five million pounds sterling I Will the Government hold out no saving hand to rescue the en dangered interests of the most industrious people which ever enriched their country ? Will the capitalist classes neither help themselves nor those who have contributed to their wealth, by efforts commensurate with the necessity to procure abundant supplies of their first clement of employ ment and of commerce ? Shall the greatest textile manu facture which the world has known expire of ina n ity ? Shall the free recur to the support of the slave, still craving the imperial weed, sugar, cotton, and other products ? May impending evils be averted, and the lesson of duty which has been taught learnt equally by the rulers and ruled of this great country I SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The dangerous classes seem to be getting the better of society. We are not speaking of poli tical disaffection or popular discontent. From seditions, conspiracies, rebellions, and all those an gry passions which involve States in revolutions, we are happily free. We have no smouldering animosities to fear or overt insurrections to dread. Though a large portion of the population is plunged in distress, that distress s patiently endured and munificently relieved. It is with far slighter ele ments of danger that we have now to deal, but they are proving too strong for us. Whether the irreclaimably criminal class be a large class or a small one seems to be doubted, but, whether small or large, it defies our treatment, and comes off win ner in the contest between crime and law. The plain expositions which have now been given of our penal system make the whole case as clear as day. Under the influence of philanthropical sentiments and a hopeful policy, we have deprived the law of its terrors and justice of its arms. It is not enough to say that we have ceased to hang evildoers, or to transport them, or to flog them. We have so miti gated the operation of the only penalty left to be inflicted—that of imprisonment, that no offender objects to go to prison. He will have no hard la bour to perform, because, though he may be sen tenced to such work, there are no means of making him do it. He will have no tedious period of con finement to go through, because by merely abstain ing from gratuitous misconduct while under sen- tence he obtains prompt liberation with his ticket of-leave. He will not anticipate any bad lodging or painful condition. The days of "gaol fevers" and such like things are over long ago. A prison is now rather a mason de sante, where a debilitated crimi nal may recover the strength which indulgence has impaired. This is no exaggerated statement or para doxical representation of facts. It is simple truth that the worst and most ferocious criminal, not being a red-handed murderer indisputably due to the gallows, can only be sentenced to a few short years of detention in a comfortable abode, without the least liability to any species of suffering. The next punishment to that of death is "penal servitude for life," and penal servitude for life, we are now plainly told, means nothing more than imprisonment for 12 years at the outside, and probably a much shorter term, with labour so very light and living so very pleasant that any honest peasant would jump at such a bargain. That is the system now in opera tion, and the results are exactly such as might be expected. The classes who prey upon society have no fear of the reprisals which society can prevail upon itself to inflict, and so they carry the day. This is mainly an incident of administration. Our prison authorities may not always wish to be so very indulgent to offenders, but they cannot help them selves. Criminals, under the present system, are congregated in large convict prisons, and it is ad mitted without reserve that these prisons could not be governed except with a kind of consent on the part of the convicts purchased by indulgence. If the prisoners chose to be mutinous or troublesome, there would be no dealing with them—unless, in deed, by the aid of severities at which " humanity would revolt." This is where our benevolence comes in again. The convict must not be treated in any such manner as would harden, brutalise, degrade, or debilitate him. This leaves the officials with very little marginal power, and, as they cannot drive, they endeavour to lead. They succeed pretty fairly in this attempt, but for their own advantage only. The population of the gaol becomes orderly and submissive, insomuch that the most inveterate and abandoned criminal acquires an excellent pri son character. As a reward of merit, he is let loose again some years before his time, and resumes his profession at the public expense without any dread whatever of the fresh term of probation which will shortly be his lot. All this the dangerous classes know perfectly well. They understand as well as we do what the "state of public feeling" renders impossible. They defy us to hang, flog, starve, or transport them. They know that we shrink from the " moral misery " engendered by solitary confinement and the horrors incidental to a penal settlement. They know that even the sen tences still at the command of a judge will not be carried out ; that the longest term of imprisonment will in fact be a short term, and that hard labour will not be enforced. Of this knowledge they take full advantage. While at large they pursue their trade of rapine fearlessly and ruthlessly. While periodically in confinement they so behave them selves as to obtain, at the earliest possible period, their freedom of action once more. The prison warders know perfectly well what kind of people they are discharging, and after what intervals they will come back upon their hands. The police have exactly the same appreciation of their characters, and the judges too, but there is nothing to be done, because society recoils from anything like cruelty, and cruelty would be the name given to any treat ment productive of suffering or providing the means of effectual coercion. So the dangerous classes beat us. Hanging is out of the question. Transpor tation has been given up, and they threaten to make our prison establishments too hot for us unless we make them agreeable to them. DAILY NEWS.—One of the latest numbers of the Moniteur des Communes indicates the scrupulous anxiety with which M. de Persigny seeks every occasion to instil sound principles into untutored minds. Whether that ignorant impatience of taxa tion, which is one of the primitive political ideas of all civilised peoples, has lately stirred the hearts of the millions on whose will the empire reposes, we cannot say. That it should ever occur to the patriotic public to whom the Moniteur des Com munes is addressed to compare taxation under the empire with taxation among their neighbours over the water, or Mr. Gladstone's financial statements with those of M. Fould, suggests not only a sharpness and shrewdness of inquiry, but a habit of studious reflection which is not always found even in the Faubourgs of Paris, the "capital of civilisation." It must be that under the Persigny regime political instruc tion has been making vast strides among the mul- titudinous readers of the Moniteur des Communes. The Minister of the Interior must know for what sort of public he is providing, and what subjects are likely to interest the readers of a broadsheet stuck on a village wall. Some months since a de voted adherent of the Imperial regime, M. Latour Dumoulin, published a careful and well written "Essay on the Constitution of 1852," comparing it at all points with the British constitution, to the manifest and decided disadvantage of the latter. Not having had the advantage of meeting with M. Latour Dumoulin's work we cannot gauge the depth or the accuracy of his remarks upon a con stitution so much older than that of the French Empire, and therefore so much less easy to " for mulate" with truly French neatness and precision. The constitution of 1852 is an "order of the day;" and M. Latour Dumoulin, with all his ingenuity and impartiality, could not seriously undertake to compare the customary charter of English liberties with a guard-room decree, though he had got t he Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights by heart. v f. • Latour Dumoulin, however, appears to scended from abstract theories of gov ernmen t the latest practical conclusions of the Eni i chapter and he dissect s d sh o ws the French and English budgets, WS that under the constitution of t h e Second Empi re t h e disbursement of p ublic money is more ze alously checked, more rigorously controlled, and more eco nomically and efficiently administ ere d t h an b y the free Parliam ent of En g land. It is this chapter of M. Latour Dumoulin' s treatise that M. de Per eigny has ordered to be printed whole i n th e Mont four des Communes, f or t h e e di f i cation and comfort g la s h and the French systems. In one e to of the French people. This, at least, is a fair and legitimate appeal to public opinion, for which the STAMPED ....Bd. Minister of the Interior deserves all the credit due for good intentions. No Government can be ex pected to publish, free of expense, the arguments and invectives of its adversaries. No absolute Government can be blamed for giving the utmost publicity to the opinions of its admirers and supporters. And if rNI. De Persigny had never done anything more hostile to public liberty than this he might with tolerable gravity pretend that the French press in 1862 Was as free as the Eng lish press a hundred years ego. M. Latour Du moulin may have abundantly convinced himself and his readers that the budget of an English Minister of Finance is practically voted by the House of Commons en bloc; that the discussion of the esti mates is nugatory ; that the naval and military expenditure is enormous, wasteful, and inefficient; that the miscellaneous estimates when minutely examined look like a jungle of privileged abuses ; and that, generally speaking, England is the most prodigally and the least logically administered State in the world. All this, for aught we know, M. Latour may have clearly and copiously esta blished, and much consolation may it afford to the readers of the Moniteur des Communes. But it is one thing to prove that somebody else is a victim or a dupe, and quite another to prove that you are yourself all the better off for the comparison. Now on this point M. Fould's financial report, just pub lished (and which will doubtless appear in the Moniteur des Communes), may serve as a correc tive to M. Latour's chapter on the French and Eng lish budgets, and it may temper the sharpness of that writer's free and friendly criticism. The items of M. Fould's statement are matter, no doubt, for serious study to French taxpayers ; but it is hap pily no concern of ours to inquire too curiously into the cost of assisting the Mexicans to establish a government of their own choice ; or into the cost of keeping the Romans subject to a Government they abhor; or into the cost of" glory" in Cochin China. What we would respectfully submit to the medita tions of the readers of the itioniteur des Com munes is the admirable elasticity of the French bud get. In this respect we are happy to acknowledge the immense superiority of the imperial constitution of 1852, even as amended at the instance of M. Fould by the Emperor himself. It is evident that the increased control over the national expenditure which was accorded to the Legislative Corps by Imperial decree in November, 1861, has not in the slightest degree diminished the expanding powers of an Imperial budget. The sole difference between a budget edited by M. Fould and a budget edited by M. Magne is that in M. Fould's statement the Unforeseen figures under the title of Legislative Supplementary Credits, whereas under the admi nistration of his predecessor it was covered by a stroke of the Emperor's pen. M. Fould assures his Majesty that but for extraordinary credits he would have returned to a" completely normal" budget. Hitherto it has happened that extraordinary credits have been the most " completely normal" charac teristic of the Imperial budgets. Le necessaire c'est le superfu. As the burden of these extraor dinary credits falls upon the people, it is but fair that the prerogative of granting them should be long to the representatives of the people. In this sense the Senatus Consulte of December 21, 1861, was a liberal boon to the Legislature. M. Latour Dumoulin will no doubt be able in a future edition to point to the Legislative sanction of extraordi nary credits as a proof of the harmonious co-opera tion of the great bodies of the State in crowning the edifice of the Imperial constitution. HERALD,--Judging by American standards, we should say that the effect which the defeat of Fre dericksburg seems to have produced upon the Northern mind is out of proportion to the magnitude of the calamity. Even if, as was first reported, and as is very possibly the case, the Federal loss has been as high as 15,000 killed, wounded, and miss ing, this, in a war which has already cost the North more than 300,000 lives, is not so terrible that it should make a deeper impression than any previous disaster has done. There has been no stampede like that of Manassas. There hes been no overwhelm ing, crushing blow like that endured on the Chick ahominy. There has not even been so complete an overthrow as that of the armies of Pope and M'Dowell in the last battles before Washington. And there has been no disgrace in the repulse. The best and bravest troops in the world, in such a posi tion as that of General Burnside's army of recruits, with a line of strong and well defended entrench• meets in front and a river in their rear, might ex pect defeat, and be glad to make good their retreat without loss of baggage or artillery. Nevertheless, it appears that the result of this battle has produced a greater effect than might have been anticipated by those who have observed how quietly, after the first outbreak of dismay and disgust was over, the Northern people have borne more alarming and more ruinous reverses. There is not a great clamour, but there is, as it seems to us, a profound feeling of dis couragement. An indignation meeting, called in New York, has been postponed to await the report of the Senatorial committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances which led to the disaster; and such a postponement appears to us to indicate that the indignation is real and earnest, and that serious action is intended. The papers are less confi dent than usual after defeats, and forget their usual practice " chanter pins fort, quand ils soot bien battus." It is not easy for English. observers to judge correctly the meaning of the signs of popular sentiment reported from America ; but so fa r as we can see, we are disposed to think that the people of the Northern States are more disheartened and morn deeply angry on account o f this reverse than they have been at any time since the fall of Fort Sumter. And from their point of view this dis couragement and anger are very natural. They believe in Richmond as we nev e r did, an d as th e Confederates do not. In our opinion the loss of New Orleans was as heavy a blow to the Confede racy as would be the loss of Richmond ; and the fall of Charleston would be a far heavier one. No single blow, however tremendous, could break the spirit or ruin the chances of the South. But the North thinks otherwise. It has always imagined that the capture of Richmond would " break the backbone of the rebellion." It has never understood the de claration attributed to President Davis, that if Richmond were to fall the war could be maintained for 20 years longer. Conceiving that the South is no more in earnest than itself, it fancies that the loss of the Confederate capital would b e accepted _ as a decisive defeat, and that the " rebels" avgadt thereupon confess themselves beaten. Nc route the third attack has failed ; now that ever y e n is clearly has been tried in vain ; now that a dous defeat has been sustained, everybodyf° for an Ina aware that operations must .13110 suspen ded o ext spring ; an d definite period —certainly ti that d proved to be s e esp iaion a Vance On Impossible. most have a strong Richmond is practically in North in Carolina, or on vr T i c ir in i' ake up in Northern eyes for No successes . , the Mississippi, the abandonme nt of the obje c t f or w hi ch myriads of their best so ldi ers have b een sent to d i e on the battlefields of Virgini a or i n the swamps of the J a pes River. If' the " rebels" can keep Richmond, what signifies it whether or not they lose Vicks burg or Wilmington p Unless the Republican party can contrive to win back the confidence of the people by some brilliant military success we think it pos sible that at least the active prosecution of the war may be abandoned, and an opening for negotiation afforded before many more months are passed. MORNING PosT.—The statistical tables j ust pub lished by the Board of Trade afford a remarkable commentary upon the confident prediction of the Americans that we should be engulfed in their ruin, and that their own commercial depression must govern the state of trade in this country. It is cheerful to turn from this egotistical prediction to Mr. Fonblanque's figures, and to find that rarely, if ever, were we on the whole in so prosperous Et N S PAPE Ft,- )e• , vt condition as at this time. We haveiorten been told from the other side of the AtlantiOhnt our pro Ai t tq ductions were coming to a stand-stifi, and our ex- "2„ port trade to a dead-lock. But clear 'facts pickj ir s dissipate these vaporous vaticivations. We final that the declared value of British and Irish produce exported from the United Kingdom during the first ten months alone of last year amounts to not less than £103,519,269. It is but a little while ago that these figures exceeded our exported produce for the whole year. That the amor-• is enormous speaks for itself. It is at the rate of above £124,000,000 a year; this representing neither our total trade nor our total production, but the declared or approxi mate value of that portion of our own domestic produce that we have spared from our own consumption for exportation to foreign countries. We have exprted to our own colonies and other dependencies, during the first 10 month , of 1862, goods.to the total (declared) value of £34,591,614. Of this produce £12,421,000 have gone to Indin, £4,847,000 going to Bombay and Seintiei £6,794,000 to Bengal and Pegu, and £780,000 to 11T dras. We have exported to our Australi in •o!oelies t o t h e va l ue o f £8,930 , 000 ; near ly half this amount going* to Victoria alone. To British North America we have sent goods to the value of £3,7 95 1 000 , and to the West Indies to that of £1,800,000. Such tire the principal items of which our export trade to the colonies is made up. Turn ing toforeign commerce, th e diff erenc e be tween Northern and Southern ports of the our the considering od United States is matter ofsurprisef the blc k the e a. notorious and inevitable l axit y The export trade from this country totheNorthern ports is of the value of £11,292,000, while the export trade to the Southern ports amounts to no more than £41,000 ! With France our trade is going on increasing beyond the best hopes of the negotiators of the commercial . treaty. It amou nts during the ten months to not less than £7,760,000, and when we consider how inconsiderable the com mercial intercourse of England and France was before that treaty came into operation, we must agree in looking upon the extent to which it has already attained as very extraordinary. With the Turkish empire our trade amounts to not less than £5,500,000 on the ten months; and with the little kingdom of Greece to £208,000. or to about £250,000 on the whole year. The Hanse Towns, however, as before, carry off the palm, and import our goods more largely than any other European State. Our exports to them amount, during th e ten months, to £8,330,000. We are glad to perceive that our trade with the South American republics is reviving, and that they are slowly following in the wake of the prcsperous empire of Brazil, which has meanwhile imported our produce to the value of £3,130,000. It may per haps surprise those who have learnt to form an over estimate of our trade with Russia to be told that it amounts for the same period to less than £2,000,000, or little more than one-third of that of the Ottoman dominions. Such is the different result of bad and good commercial legislation. We may, then, on the whole, take leave of the year which we have just left behind us with strong feelings of gratitude for what it has brought us, in spite of the terrible distress which we are encoun tering in one quarter of the kingdom. We cannot hope for trade everywhere; we ought to be thank ful for the effective counterpoise which we experi ence in other branches of industry, and we see every reason, during the year on which we have now en tered, to hope for a continuance of our national good fortune. The Whole Art of Garotting. We have been told, and the statement is curious if true, that the garotter first acquired his art in a convict. ship, where her Majesty's jailors practised it on him occasionally, whenever he became very outrageous. Finding how easily he was subdued by this method, and how little it injured him if coolly applied, the convict noted the trick, with an eye to business when he should become a ticket-of-leave man. Perhaps it is because the lessons they have received were all at their own sore cost that regular garotters work with great care. They practise upon each other frequently before they venture into the streets—not only to acquire the art of garotting in every possible position and attitude, but that they may learn how long and with what degree of force they may hug their victim's throat without endanger ing his life or seriously injuring him. They consort in companies of three—a " front stall," a " back stall," and a " nasty man." These designations are perfectly significant of the part each man is expected to play. The "nasty man" is, of course, the actual operator; and, accordingly, he is the leader in all enterprises, and takes a larger share of the plunder. A regular gang does not often make speculative ventures. They call that " throwing a chance away," meaning that they run extraordinary risks. Only when the rogues are " hard up," or made audacious by drink, or encouraged beyond their cooler judgment by such a run of success, as they have achieved in London lately, do they " throw a chance away." Tho favourite method is to select a promising victim, mark his incomings and outgoings, and await a fair opportunity of time and place. By many unsuspected means, as well as those which are open to everybody, they get to know that such and such a man carries a good "stake" about with him, in money, watch, jewellery, &T., and that he is gene rally to be found walking in a certain directions at certain seasons. He is marked. Time and place are fixed for the deed ; but opportunity is never forced. If success appears doubtful on one occasion, they wait till another comes round, and will dog one man for nights and even weeks together. At last fortune favours the unjust, and the thing is done. The " front stall" walks a few yards in advance of the prey ; it is his duty to look for dangers ahead. The " back stall" comes on at a still further distance behind, or sometimes in the carriage-way—aloof, but at the victim's side. Immediately in his rear walks the "nasty man," approaching nearer and nearer, with steps which keep 0 . ! 12 . 0 with those of him whom he follows. The first stall lifts his hat from his head in token that all is clear beyond ; the second stall makes no sign to the confitirnagrys; hisan dritghhent armt striking round the victim, the third ruffian', comin g swiftly up, king him smartly on the fore bead. Instinctively he throws his head back, and in that movement loses every chance of escape. His throat is fully offered to his assailant, who instantly embraces it with his loft arm, the bone just above the wrist being pressed against the " apple" of the throat. At the same moment the garotter, dropping his right hand, seizes the other's left wrist ; and thus supplied with a powerful lever, draws him back upon his breast and there holds him. The "nasty man's" part is done. His burden is helpless from the first moment, and speedily becomes insensible ; all he has now to do is to be a little merciful. An experienced garotter knows immediately when his prey is insensible (or so he boasts), and then he relaxes his embrace somewhat ; but if symptoms of recovery should follow too rapidly, the hug is tightened forthwith, Meanwhile the stalls are busy. Their first care, after the victim is seized and safely held, is to ta c k; off his hat and their comrade's too ; hats awkwardl y orkti. about in the scuffle, and it is obviously not well Strife. f garotter to leave anything that is his on th;3lf,i, and is st s r i i m fe : This operation is assigned to the "fr ont s i ta r ; another and pie enough ; but he has sometimes to per e s u e t a y s),, of a f t t h e e r he find a a " tfuarmuloiloet,e" onerousor, nla n o one. g oil Should sitstualeb t ittp h evl e cay i :2' blow lfgocwsts should t Y The screwing m g e a n n a h l e de a . difficulty in "screwing ur,'" , e __ "front stall" to assist him . e proceeds to rifle the victim's livered just under the 4 . La% all up :th d arouse him.— th d theoensee,c garotter allows his insensible bur drop o the ground, e Cornhill Magazine for January. den to that, pockets. and T h e i n , are ully avoiding a fall, lest that should ! EMANCIPATED NEGROES.There are from 8,000 1 )10,000 of th ese helpless beings at points between Helena and Cai ro . Th e i r num b er is da i ly increasing. There are in the North, and within the lines of our several armies, nearly a hundred thousand of the same class, and in the same state of destitution. Our armies are increasing in numbers as fast as possible, and when the programme is complete upwards of four millions of naked, homeless, 1 thriftless human beings will constitute the vast total of those who, it seems, have claims upon our sympathy and toisechevocoertsriheed, and a hymn charity, and without which, in the form of material relief, they will suffer and die. These negroes never before were in nakedness, nor in danger of starvation. Slavery took care of its victims. The awful tyranny of the South fed and clothed and housed the subjects of its despotic win d . It l o e e d t each e t s is philanthropy which brings its children into the iworrla rates abandon them, while with a self-righteous th: s ea n i, u ra f ti mna : hkt • y P want of elevating, educating, and Gospolising • bread and shelter, and something and it sends them a chaplain and a countenance,asse a hypocritical n d h a u n g d s them the Lord's Prayer, the APos t ' s' about Jesus, while it s t a ys it a s. t e h lf ota i.a e , p . lying resolutions to keep itself with the idea that it is winning the admiration of future generations an d the rest of mankind.—Clincinnati: In9uirer. ve been received from Athens via Tr A ies d t v e ic t e o s t ir e 24th ult. They state that M. Bul garia, the President of the Provisional Government, who ba d w ished to abstain, was compelled to vote publicly for Prince Alfred. The elections for the Constituent Assem bly were almost everywhere terminated, and the new build ing destined for the sittings was ready to receive the Assem bly. Goneral Kalergis, the Greek Minister at Paris, who is a native of Candia, was unanimously elected as repre sentative for the people of Crete. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY. LODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1853, CORRECTED BY THE NOBILITY, the 32d Edition is now ready, in 1 vol., royal Bvo., with the Arms beautifully engraved, handsome'y bound, with gilt edges, 31s Gd. "The standard work on the subject."—Gentleman's Mag. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The Federal Loss at Fredericksburg. A letter from New York says the returns of killed and wounded, so far as made up, are as fol lows; but further research may increase them : RIGHT GRAND DIVISION (SUMNER.) SECOND CORPS (COUCH'S). Howard's Division Hancock's Division French's Division - 6,180 NINTH CORPS (iv ILLcox's.) Sturgis's Division Getty's Division -- 1,325 Total 7 505 CENTRE GRAND DIVISION (HOOKER). FIFTH CORPS (BUTTERFIELD'S.) Humphrey's Division Griffin's Division Syke's (Sunday) - 2,950 LEFT GRAND DIVISION (FRANKLIN.) FIRST CORPS (REYNOLDS'). Gibbon's Division Meade's Divison Doubleday's Division - 2,850 Sixth Corps (Smith's) 2OO Total Right Grand Division Total Centre Grand Division Total Left Grand Division Total Butterfield's corps was only engaged half-an hour, and yet his loss was 3,000 men at least. Upon the occasion of the resignation by Major- General Hamilton, C. 8., formerly of the Grenadier Guards of the post of Military Attache at the Court of Berlin, on his appointment to the post of Vice-President of the Council of Military Education, his Majesty the King of Prussia presented to that officer a finely executed statue in bronze of Frederic the Great, as a mark of esteem and as a souvenir of his two years' residence at the Prussian Court. This handsome present was accompanied by a letter from his Majesty, expressive of his regrets at Major-General Hamilton quitting the Prussian capital. UNDER THE ICE.—I have heard of one lad who saved his life in a very curious manner. He had fallen through the ice, and could not possibly return to the hole through which he had passed. He turned on his back, and looked up to see if there were another mode of escape, when his father, who was on the spot, pointed out the direction in which he was to swim, and by walking quickly to another hole at a little distance, he guided his son to the place, and received him just in time to prevent him from sinking again from exhaustion. It is seldom, however, that such presence of mind on both sides can be found, or that the ice is sufficiently transparent to allow any person below to see through its substance.—London ASociaty. rket. s. d. ....18 0 ....18 0 , ... 16 3 ~..16 0 , ... 17 0 , ... 17 6 , .., 16 9 - .17 3 , ... 17 3 ..16 0 ys :—JA serrd as rLIS must ners visi if sharks, On the o predict oats, but the pre treara is ids, tem or it is a )ound in ned that d in this been re nt gene• of north we have cely add 1 hence- hear of shores, no one n the ing on 'eneral's 1 on the passage, ]ical at- it arms i of the ter four Cho ser hied all u. again uing of 'o wards ous in- Lie wife 3 engal e of C. heath, Jacob mas's, sq., to Esq., [ark's, f Sur vtain James aged elsea, W., G.L., Yager treet, , Ed- No. unty ,e-/ ,_ _ --,:._.:- .-....- ct_