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rill PERSONS SEEKING LANDED ESTAT ES, TOWN ANT) COLT tiTRY RESIDENCES, pVi ER -I ri ~ R iOL D L. S D ANEASERAIL 17 TTOLD INVESTMENTS, AND GFNE i 0 tie lUD E GRA_TIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls s t h r oughout the kingdom. or at the Auction and Estate Offices, 4‘` 67 , Chancery-line, London, Messrs. E. and IT. Lumley 's FREE PROPERTY MOISTER," containing ayaried selection of landed and house properties now in the market, frbm "4nobleman's mansion, with its manorial do main, to the '" l,, a,9*e With its few acres. I .,,YwNEus or PROPERTIES wishing* to Sell or Let can .ein ''ace the opportunity that the medium of this Reeisier ,!torrla, by sendino• the particieurs of their p roperties to the Lumley Offices, 67", Chancory-lane, London, as the Messrs. can in most caees introduce immediate customers, uere the property is ot an eligible charm , ter, thereby avoid -I,enYhe disaayantages of delay and its attenuant incon ences, e.lnEriE 'NO crtAriorl incurred, unless a tenant or pur aaser is introduced throw:di Messrs. Lumley's Agency, knd then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DErARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. Coimany is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for . clothe Insurtnces in the Port of London at tile reduced -eale rates.ticulars Par may 193 hr.d at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle- EIF CONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). ;p:ta i i nnrporated under " The Compnnies Mt, 1t312.'' £1,000,000, in Pp" Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 20,0"0 Shares. Deposit on anplication £1 per Share, and XI on allotment ' 0 future call to exceed £5 per share, and at intervals of Ilut less than three mouths. DIRECTORS. il l. Latham Bailey, (Crawshay Ba ile y Brothers and Co.), Liverpool. iklontazue Baillie, Esq. (Baillie, Baillie, Cave, and Co.), yid Bank. Bristol. Anthony liin. - ton Baker, EFq., Director of the Great Western IZ ail vi Compan. '"rEre S. ay Beecrolt, y Esq., M.P., Director of the London and , North-Western vaa. ° '-ePh Royce, Esq, Direct or Com p of the ny Royal Bank of Ireland, ead Midland Great Western Railway Company, Dublin. r „ , ,aaross Dilheroglue, Esq. (G. J. Cavafy and Co.). Thread 'na. Dakin, Esq., Alderman, President of the Great Western hallway of Canada. needle-street. TSmith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works, Glasgow. of the ( nnas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens), Director ,Ilaak of Lenden. ‘4l)tain H. J. W. Jervis, 31. P., Deputy-Chairman Great 0 astern R etavius Ommanney, Esq. (Hallett, Ommanney, and Co ), J° Westminster. el)h Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hilL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster. SOLICITORS IN BRISTOL. Messrs. Daniel and Cox. AUDITORS. Hecate. DPloitte and Co., Lothbury. C. J. 11. Allen, Esq., Threadneedle -street. BANKERS. 13 a 114 of London. Bankers at Westminster, Messrs. Halle' Ommanney, and Co. BROKERS. London—Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co. Publin—Messrs. Boyle, Low, and Pim. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) J. C. Handfield, Esq. Temporary Offices-31, Threadneedle-street. This Company has been constituted for the purpose of Undertaking the execution and construction of railways and littler works both at home and abroad, a class of business hitherto exclusively conducted by private Co Aractors. The large fortunes which have been realised by them, not 'withstanding obvious disadvantages, sufficiently attest the Soundness and value of this enter; rise. It is admitted that, in many instances, the terms upon Nvhich alone contractors, even of known position and wealth, are enabled to raise the necessary funds for carrying their vherations into effect arc so onerous that it is Only by profits of extraordinary magnitude that such charges can be met ; and it follows that a Company having a large capital sub scribed by a wealthy proprietary, and with an able executive, would enjoy great advantages and, at the same time, fre queatly afford im , ,ortant aid to the individual contractor. The sub-lettings of contracts are known to bean important source of profit. In addition to this the Company will pos sess the advantage of raising' funds upon debentures secured upon its unpaid capital at rates which would be small as com- Dared with those charged to snb-Contractors. It is not con templated. therefore, to call up any considerable portion of the c pital, unless the operations nt the Company may show it to be des ranle. The security of a large subscribed capital Will necessarily inspire confidence on the part of Govern ments, Financial Companies, and others with whom the Company may have to deal. In the event of no allotment being made th e de p osits will o ,e returned in full. Should a less num ber of shares be al riled than are applied for the deposit will be made available towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, it any, returned to the applicant. Prospectuses and forms of appl ication for shares may be ebtaini.d at the offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR STIARES. To the Directors of the Contract Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen, —llavino• paid to the Dank of London the sum of I request von to allot me sharei,, in the Contract Corporation (Limited), and I hereby agree to be come a member of the Society, and to accept such shares, or any, less number that may be clotted to me; and I request )ott to place my name on the Register of Members in respect 0 1 the shares allotted to be. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address .. - Usual signature Date .... •• •• • THE CONTRACT CORPORA TION (Limited). NOTICE.— The SIT LTST will be CLOSED at .w Our o'Clock TO-31ORROW (WEDNESDAY), the 23d inst. By order. J. C. ITANDFIELD, Secretary (pro tern.) THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (Tne Directors reserve to henvelles the right of changing the name of the Company.) To be incorporated und er " Th e Companies Act, 1862," by which the Liabilit y amount of share:, of each Shareholder is limite d to the Capital .£1400,000, in 20,003 Shares of £ 5O . First issue, 10,C00 shares. Deposit on application £1 per share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at inter sls of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £2O per share. George Walter ConstabIe, DIRECTORS Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con stable`, Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. Geon'e Denny and Co.), Great St. llelen's. 'William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Wtn. M'Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander ~..M`Arthur, Australian Merchants), 4G, Moorgate-street. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, Kin:, and Sargood), London and Melbourne. Th nins Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres and River Plate Bank. James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.), Gutter-lane. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. * llichd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman tt Co. * Samuel Barter, Esq. * Committee of Management. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. BROKERS. 'Tames Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane. Messrs. Sandeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. 01liccs—No. 4, Abehurch-lane. Pc OS PECTUS. In forming this Company the Directors have secured the „",n?,l-oPerati on of Messrs. Sandeman and Co., of Abchurch -lane we well-known and long-established business it is the obj,et of this Company to take up and develope. The Company will conduct all the operations of ordinary discount busines4. The terms on which the business of Messrs. Sandeman and has been purchased justify the Directors in anticipating a Profit of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital, The Company will take possession of the premises now oc cupied by Messrs. Sandeman and Co., as from the Ist day of January and the business of the Company will commenc e f rom that day. __l\ r o promotion money has or will be pa id, and the expen ses wrll be strictly confined to the necessary p,yments. Prospectuses and forms of applications for shams may be obtained at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will be returned in full ; should a less number of shares be al lotted than are applied for, the deposit will be made avail able towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolida' ed Discount Company -- (Limited). G entleman,—llayinc,r paid to your Bankersthesuin the of e I request you to allot me shares Consolidated Discount Company (Limited), and I hereby agree to became a me m b er o f the Society, and to accept such and in respect or the r r a e r t j u m e ' s r y olersis number that may be allotted to me ; shares allotted to me. ace wname on the Register of Members I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. Name in full Address Usual signature Date saoRTHAND.—PITMAN'S PHONOGRA. PIIIO TEACHER. ad, ; free by post, 7d. STlOATMiirel‘elS PHONO GRA by post, i s . 6d. riIinA3NTA.N—PITMAN'S cient— p r b N a b 1 ° H ORTHAND. — " PIT mAN , s pH ONO Corms an exceedingly effi the MOST efficient —system of Shorthand that ext Rowland Hill. London :F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.c. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. 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Sold in Bottles, 3s. Ed., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at Shipwreck of the German Emigrant Ship MR. COBDEN AND THE "TIMES." Wilhelmsburg. The following additional correspondencs has been oricarded to us for publication : LOSS OF THREE HUNDRED LIVES. It has been briefly announced that an emigrant vessel which left Hamburg for Australia a short time since with ab3ut 400 persons on board was lost on the coast of Holland during the recent storms, and that nearly every soul on board perished. One of the few survivors has furnished Midhurst, Dec. 18. Sir,—For the first time you now disavow having imputed 8, GREAT WINDMILL,STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky. to Mr. Bright and myself the design of promoting by vio lent, illegal, or immoral means a redistribution of the land of this country. Had you conteated yourselt with this simple disavowal it might have passed in silence ; but you have invented for us another theory, that of the equal testa mentary division of land, for which you have no better foundation in anything that ever fell from us than for the former and heavier aspersion. You now ask my acquies. eence in a proccss of reasoning b y which you attempt to show the connection between your former language and your new accusation—against which grammar, logic, and THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 4 and 5, Kin William-street, City, will be CLOSED on SATURDAY, the 26th instant. the following narrative of the wreck : " You will have heard that the Hamburg ship Wilhelms- RIDGWAY & CO. burg, Captain Gross, belonging to the house of Godtffroy and Son, was lost on the coast of Holland, and that few lives wore saved. Among these few lam one, and there are also 15 of th© crew saved, and about 25 of the passen gers. About 300 men were drowned or died in the terrible night from Thursday to Friday, and among these were the captain and the aged doctor, No clothing was saved, as all was washed away and strewn on an unknown coast. Of the \Vilhelmsburg, one of the largest vessels sailing for Ham burg, nothing remains but a portion of the after part, which, in consequence of the strength of the deck, still re mains a little above water. I will briefly tell you our adven tures from the time we sailed. We left the city for sea, having on board from 315 to 320 passengers, and had a fair wind. We had not been long at sea when we encountered a westerly wind, which increased from day to day, until it became a storm which we could make no head against, and were driven back to the coast. In the night from Thursday to Friday the storm raged so violently that the sails which were stowed were blown away, and those which were set were more or less split. None of the sailors dared venture up the masts, and we feared they would go every minute. The vessel was driven about in a terrible manner by the winds and waves, and at last she could no longer be steered. About 1 o'clock the captain gave orders to sound with the lead. We did so, and to our horror found only 17 feet of water. We saw that we were lost, and in a few minutes the ship struokfor ward, and with a terrible shock sheafterwards struck aft, The rudder then gave way. We immediately proceeded to cut away the masts, but they broke off like sticks, and their wreck beat great holes in the deck,through which the water poured and filled the 'tween decks. Another fearful crash was heard, and the ship broke in two amidships. All who were in the fore-part of the vessel and 'tween decks were drowned, as the one sank with all who were there, and the other was full of water. Thus 250 lives were sacrificed to the waves in the space of a few minutes. It was a fearful sight. Yet we could do nothing. In suck a moment one has enough to do to think of himself, and has also enough to do to save himself. The after-portion of the vessel also sank in a few minutes, but was not entirely covered with water. The lower portion held together, but was imbedded in the sandy bottom. Now, however, one sea after another rushed over the deck. tore away the bulwarks, and carried off all who could hold en firmly. We all jumped into the largest boat, which was firmly jammed in between the wrecks of the masts and water vessels. Behind and before me lay dead and wounded, and among these was the cap tain. Thus cowering together in the boat, exposed to every sea which swept the vessel, sometimes lying on the dead, at other times packed between corpses, I awaited the dawn of day. It was quite 7 o'clock when we saw a northern barque in the distance, with her masts cut away, but other wise holding together, drive upon the strand. Her crew launched their lee g-boat,and fortunately succeeded in land ing. We followed this example, although our boat leaked. Men now came from behind the masts and water ves sels and from every corner of the deck, almost blue with hunger and frost, but anxious to get to land. There were about 10 more than the boat would carry; but, as these were passengers, come of the crew were compelled to remain be hind,and amongst these I was one. The boat left us with the promise that we should soon be fetched from the wreck. The boat, however, soon stuck fast, and those who were in were compelled to wade to dry land. The tide now ebbed,and as the boat lay high and dry we wore compelled to try and save our selves, ap we could expect no help from the shore. We therefore patched up a small boat the stern part of which had been broken away by the waves, and this frail barque we launched in the darkness into the sea. The waves fortu nately drove us to the shore, and then we got out and waded towards our comrades. The next night, like the last, we were forced to spend without any shelter ; but at all events we were not exposed to the waves. On the evening of the next day some men arrived, and we were conveyed to the nearest village in waggons. We then learned that the land was the island of Terscheliing, and here we remained till we could be sent to Harlingen. Of the 300 passengers only 24 men and one woman ate saved, and, with the remnant of the crew, are reduced to a state of utter desTitution. They are now at Hamburg, where they have been treated kindly ; but one or two have left for England, with the intention of finding their way to Australia in another vessel. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. CHRISTMAS EVE. The Lessee and Director bees to announce that a Grand Performance of the MESSIAH will take place on THU IiS DAY, December 21. Principal Vocalists—Madile. Titicns (most positively her last appearance previous to her departure for Italy), JMiss Lascelles, 31r. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Sautley. Conductor, Signor A rditi. The Band (selected from the Orchestra of Her Majesty's Theatre and the Sacred Harmonic Society) and chorus will c)nsist of 560 Performers. Prices :—Gallery, 2s. ; pit, fa.; dress circle, 7s. ; upper box seats, 5s ; pit stalls, half-a-g - uinea ; private boxes, from one to three guineas. Doors open at half-past seven. Commence at eight o'clock precisely. Boxes, stalls, and plales may be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre, open daily (under the superintendence of Mr. Nugent) from ten till five. Now ready at all the Libraries, crown Bvo., price Gs., MRS. MUTER'S TRAVELS. Now re dy, in 2 vols., 21 5. , TRAVELS AND ADVENTUR ES OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE IN INDIA, CHINA, AND NEW ZEALAND. By Mrs. MUTE If. wife of Lieutenant- Colonel D. D. MUTER, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry. 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In the January Number (now ready) of the ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE commences THE MAN IN CHAINS, By C. J. COLLINS. London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Fatal Collision on the Scottish Central Railway. - (From the 11'orth British _Daily Mail of yesterday, On Saturday morning we were able to announce the feel that a collis'on attended with serious consequences had oc curred the previous night near the Dunning Station of the Scottish Central Railway, and that two men had been killed and other three severe'y injured. Dunning Station is nine and a half miles south of Perth; and 53 miles from Glasgow, and the dire catastrophe oc curred between the distance signal and Dunning Station, on the down line of rails, about half past five o'clock p.m. A down train had arrived at Dunning Station, and was a considerable time detained there in shunting. While doing eo a ballast engine, with one third. class class carriage attached, came up, also from the south, on the same line of rail, and drew up close to the rear of the goods train, which had not started off on its journey, and within protection of the distance signal. The carriage was filled with platelayers, who had been engaged dur ing the day working on the line near Blackford, and who were returning to their homes at each of the stations on the line up to Perth, including Forteviot and Potpie denny. Some time afterwards another goods train of 34 trucks, from Greenhill, came up, ran past the distance signal at full speed, and into the ballast and other goods train, producing a scene which forcibly recalled the dread ful spectacle presented by the Winchburgh collision last year, Happily the workmen in the ballast carriage had all got out but five, or it would probably have rivalled that catastrophe in the loss of life. The destruction to property is not so extensive as that which took place at Winchburgh, although it must be very considerable. Both lines were blocked up with a dozen broken trucks, and the passenger carriage was smashed into very small pieces, while the en gine and tender of the train which did all the damage—a very heavy one—was damaged so as to render them well nigh useless, and the ballast engine and tender were like wise a good deal broken. Some of the vans had been thrown right on the top of others, while one or two were knocked on end as if they had been lucifer-match boxes, and others were so reduced in size that only their mere framing re mained intact. The down rails were twisted and broken, and the debris heaped around was very considerable. As soon as the sound of the collision reached Dunning station the attendants there ran to the spot and gave speedy help to the injured; while, at the same time, a telegram was sent to Perth informing the chief officials of the occurrence. As quickly as possible they arrived in two special trains, bringing with them Drs. Buist, Wallace, and Stirling, all of Perth. By this time the five men who were in the carriage had been extricated alive from its broken fragment?, but two of them died in the Dunning station house soon after. Their names aro William Morris and James Bowden, both married men, who have left widows and families to lament their loss. Morris, who was an elderly man, resided in Perth, and his family are all grown up, some of his sons being drivers on the line ; and Bowden is a younger man, who lived at Forteviot. Other two men, surgeonsfo u found na med Matthew Reilly a nd Geor g e C unningham, both re siding at Forteviot, were carefully con veyed to the Perth In firmar y , where the y arrived abou t 10 p.m. Reilly is b adl y in j ured in the chest, and he had also his foot bruisad ; bu t Cunningham's in j ur ies. which are bein attended t b were the dto b e much injured. After g they chiefly on his back, are believed to be more severe. How ever, he has youth on his side, being only about 30 years of age, while Reilly is at least 20 years older.. Both were re ported on Saturdayas being slightly better, although neither is out of danger. The other man who was hurt was able, with assistance, to walk home, and no serious consequences are apprehended on his account. Immediately after the sufferers had all been extricated and attended to, a strong force of men were gathered to , gether from various points, and vigorous pleasures were taken to clear the up line, so as to permit of the usual traffic being resumed with as little delay as possible on the one line of rails. This was accomplished by midnight, when the south express, leaving Glasgow at 9 o'clock, which arrives at Perth at 11.20 p.m., was able to proceed. In con sequence o f the stoppage of the lin e the passengers by the trains leaving Glasgow at 4.15 and 6.15 p.m., and that at 7 30 pa n. from Perth were detained, they having to leave the carriages and walk to others which were in waiting for them at the ether ends of the blocked part of the road. nom this cause the latter train dal not arrivo in Glasgow till midnight. Who is to blame for this sad catastrophe it is not for us to say at present. The distance dan ger s i gna l was shown, it is averred, but the driver says he ne ith er s aw it nor any tail lamp at the ballas t carriage; in fact, that he saw not hin g o the preceding trains until ho was within 20 yards ud of er them, 'Cr these when he had, of couree, no time to pull up. circumstances it is wonderful that more casualties have not occu rre d, an d that the drivers and stokers of the trains were not injured. Itir. John. I\l`Lean, the procurator-fiscal for the county, was early on the ground on Saturday, and com menced a Fearchieg investigation into all the circumstances. • C , , 1 • ' - • ~. • .• - --4i.,1/2, ~4 11 i ,.. ... • .„.....,.,•. . ... , - , 0. k ,..,....1.1 0. .- .041,•,, ••._ . fin...,,,,_ ~,. ..4. , , 4, . - : • ',...tc. 1 .4 ,'... 1 K k •-: ~ d.,., „ ~. -,,... , i5i. _.. , ,, , ,kpi , :,,' , t .. , .1. 1 Y- - • 11 - 4, . i , .. : , - f: . .,;4ttl' 6 , .. .., 1 ,i , , ~-5--,;). ~........,, ,! 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That is a subject fairly open to discussion in our Law Amendment Societies or the Social Science meetings, and as it can affect the pocket of no living proprietor it is not likely to lead to a very imPas" sioned debate. But I must point out to you how impossible it is to reconcile your present plea with your former lan guage. You now profess only to impute to us the design of favouring the equal division of landed property among all the children at the death of a proprietor. But this will not correspond with your reiterated charge that we contem plated a division among the poor of the land of the rich. What you now affect to consider to be our object is the divi sion of the laud of the rich equally among the children of the rich. I must bring the question to the test of your own language. _ln—yojw leading article of December 3 you alleged that the small States of the Continent regarded a Congress with the "satisfaction with which the poor might regard Mr. Blight's proposition for dividing among them the lands of the rich." I now infer from your new interpre tation that I am asked to construe this as meaning only the satisfaction with which the children of rich landowners would regard a proposition of a division among them of the lands of their fathers. Again, in your letter to me of Dec. 7 you stated, "These speeches are diecussed elaborately in two leading articles on successive days, and in each of them certain passages are interpreted as recommending a repartition of the land among the poor." Now, the word partition or repartition means simply a division, and not a bequest or inheritance, and yet, with our dictionaries at hand, you now ask me to interpret the " repartition of the Wad among the poor" as only meaning to say that Mr. Bright and I wished to compel rich landowners at their death to leave their estates equally among all their children. And in your letter to me of Dec. 11, you " repeat' the assertion that "certain passages" of our speeches "bear no other interpretation than that ascribed to them." Now, up. to that date you had put no other interpretation on those speeches than that they advo cated the division of the land of the rich among the poor. The poor we are now told to interpret to mean only the children of rich landowners Then, I suppose, we must altogether agree to forget that you coupled us with Gracehus and the agrarian system of Rome, No; in the teeth of a ll these p roof s in plain, unmistake able English to the contrary, I should be sacrificing truth to courtesy were I to affect to concur in this new version of your language, which does not admit of two meanings. I note your recantation, but repel the attempt to raise a fresh issue to cover your retreat under a are of minor accusations. I will conclude this correspondence with merely remarking ' that the blow which was aimed at the fame of Mr. Bright and myself has missed its mark. How far the recoil of the weapon may affect the hand that levelled it time will show. —I am, Sir, yours, &e l R. C OBDEN. • J. T. D elate, Esq. P.S. I cannot compliment your political economy. You reproach me for having made the " concession" to France of undertaking to levy no export duty on coal. Sir Robert Peel had abolished the export duty on coal for the benefit of England a doz3n years before the French treaty, and all I engag ed was that for ten y ears more we would not be so i market. If of rags, it foolish as to put any im p ediments in the wa y of our ex ports. As for the pap er dut y , it is the interest of the British everythingn the on cheapest the export is an additional re ason why we should take their p a p er. This may,— and I am sorry for it—for a time, b ut only for a time, bo injurio us to our own manufacture of that public forei g n er to s put t y f oolis foolish restrictions tirade, in which I believe you or your family are largely engaged. The difference between you and me in 1860 was, that I was looking to the public interest and you were ad vocating the interest of a class. Dec. 18. Midhurst, Friday Evening, sir—l am compelled reluctantly to resume my pen, after having sent to the post what I hoped was my fi„al com munication. But this morning's Daily .21'etes Which has just reached me, contains a statement which cannot with honour be passed over, either by you or myself in silence. In the first leader of that journal 1 have read, for the first time, the following passage, which purporte to be an extract from a leading article in your journal of the 25th of Novem ber on the following day, commenting on the speeches of Mr. Bright and myself at the Rochdale meeting Thi. language, so often repeated, and so calculated to ex cite discontent among the poor and half-informed, has really only one intelligible MEANING. Reduce the elec torial franchise; for when you have done so you will ob tain an Assembly which will SEIZE on the estates of the proprietors of land, and DIVIDE THEM GRATUITOUSLY AMONG THE POOR.' duce the franchise, but certainly not as a step TO SPOLL&- TION.' ' I sincerely trust there is some inaccuracy in this quota tion, which is not only a libellous outrage on two member a of the House of Commons, but a dire insult to millions of honest and industrious Englishmen. If it be a correct ex tract from your leading article, which I have no means of verifying at the moment of writing, it is in direct contra diction to the statement made in your last letter, that you never imputed to Mr. Bright and myself the contemplation of any more violent means of dividing the land than by a change in the law of succession. Assuming the words to be correctly given, you charge us distinctly with aiming at the SEIZURE of the landed property of the country for GRATUI- Tous division among the poor. You will at once Fee that unless this language be unreservedly recalled it makes the statement in your last letter simply a mockery and an un truth.—l am, sir, yours, &c., IL COBDEN. J. T. Delane, Esq. 16, Sergeants'-inn, Dec. 2 Sir, --I received your second letter, dated "Friday Even ing, December ls," only last night. The quotation you take from the Daily News is so far inaccurate that it does not convey the same meaning as the whole article from which it is taken does. I enclose that article and that which ap peared on the following day. I add an extract from an other, which has been published since; and, having now given you all the means necessary for obtaining that redress which purported to be the object of your first letter, I beg to retire from the personal part of this controversy,—l am , sir, your obedient servant, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. JOHN T. DEL Nu UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGII. — A vacancy having been created in the chair of Scots law by tho lamented and sudden death of Mr. George Ross, advocate, who has filled it for two years, the Faculty of Advocates met on Fri day to exercise their privilege of selecting two names to be presented to the curators of the patronage. The Faculty unanimously selected as the first name Mr. G; Moir, advo cate, sheriff of Stirlingsbire. Mr. Moir was called to the Scottish barin 1825,and from 1835 to 1840 filled the chair of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edin burgh, but resigned it in consequence of increasing profes sional practice, and the chair has subsequently b een filed till 1845 by Professor Spalding, and since that date by Professor Aytoun. The second name chosen—the advocates beg' required to present two—was the Dean of the Facultyc(uMrar.. Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, M.P.), Nvho is sent to o t t h h a e t they tors as a nominal candidate in the expectation tho open- will, as usual, choose the first on the list. ing of the university session is November d severaland by Prince classes have been attended by Prince Alfre . o'ecupied,apart ,Sine of the William of Hesse, who have for the ti e m e a s left on Friday ments in Ilelyrood Palace. for the Christmas holydays, ly in January. again to his studies in Edinburg o h n the h n e d eraPrr o Alfred returns MR. STANSTELD, ALP. Friday, I+lr. Stuns- Admiralty, who has fold, M, P., Junior Lord of v t a ,he dockyards, and inauiring been making a tour of the n arrived at Birkenhead on a visit to into their management, left f . o , r , London on Saturday, Dorian John Laird, M,P., a a n a d i Isis stay he visited the Birkenhead docks, INE,;,:s: Clover ana Clayton's gra ving docks, and minutely inspe e t e d the extensive works and docks of Messrs. Laird Br.,th.. , rs. Ho also went on board the Agincourt, at preent, in cour-o of censtruetion by the firm. The suspected rams under seizure in the river were visited. On the Liverpool sido Mr. Stansfeld confined his attention to the C ana d a D oc k, the Sandell Graying Dock, and the new steam docks. He boarded the Inman Steamship City of London, During his visit Mr. Stansfeld made particular inquiries into the progress of all works on both sides of the Mersey.' He was accompanied by Mr. Walker, one of the chief audito:s to the Admiralty. DIRECT COMMISSIONS.—The nett elimination for direct commissions will take place at Chelsea Hospital on Monday, the Ist of February, ISM r 4 /L PRICE..... S' ,~.~ 'A AIPED ....sd. LE JOUR DE L'AN, 7....". x... ..., 24 e .e. ., e. ,. 40 - N E W S PAPE ict ,/,.r , -'....;4:•,,,,,......"--„,e be a chance of the Rhine, but then Rearkel- col r.dw; Ne 1 O be in the single position which his devil:MlZ, " iti , _ 4 of his uncle's life will not allow him t 15i-/t....K -1.9 f, ' , ..:4 . 1.,... r , s. 1L... that is, to bs opposed to a coalition. II et : ~.-: , , ,- 7 Russia, and still be in accord with pa 444 1 4 A A, but to menace on January 1 what he cannektno v A g till May 1, and so afford time for all manner of corn- ti binations, is not his usual line of action. Tlicre is / no other enemy to be threatened, professions of amity are pleasant bat not scenic, and as to internal liberties, it is not of them that an Ealpror of the . \-,,../ French will talk to a meeting of foreign Amhfosa bra- On the whole, admitting, as we have said, the temptations which nress the Emperor towards • a coup de theatre, the r ea so n abl e pr e . .3abiAity is that he will express nothing beyond a ngret that, his proposal should not have met a widcr and more COT. dial acceptance. (Front the Spectator.) . The salons of Paris are feverish, for the jour de ' Tait is approaching. Ever since 1860, when the Emperor with a &nu words sent down the funds in every capital of the Continent, and broke up that icy surface, S 9 smooth and so dangerously thin, which is called the European peaco, Paris has been unable to divest itself cif the belief that a coup de thcTre so exciting and so successful would one day be repeated. The temptation, they say, of the im. promptu Congress, with all Europe in attendance, the world listening anxiously for the tele,gram, and DO pcssibi ity of reply is to a rnorareh who combines with unusual power of secrecy unu.i - ual love for sudden and striking scenic effects -always great, and this year may, they think, prove irresistible. The difficulties of the Empire are, they conceive, thick ening fast, the deus ex machina must descend, and the clouds could not open with more awe-inspiring effect than amidst the combined etiquette and joy ousness of the Imperial receptions held upon New Year's Day. talk of circles to which ar e t o -d a y in possession of the mit the ordinary newspaper cor respondent has ra re l y access, and though we be lieve their opinion is based as much on a secret rrin.ce Napoleon on the Probabaity o1W:x. (From the Fiend?, Correspondent of the Dahl; News) Ifla been sh - ut . in PAINS, SA:le-Ay Evenir,g Prince Napoleon, who , ..:c mouth reproduces from the Senate, is now brought bc,f o : o t l: ~1 . . the letter - , e-pno.ac .in an unexpected m'7:llnrr. 'ne .Nat ion the Vaterland of Vienna the following lettiticait.,:t::iis bated to ilitn, and expressing an opinion inevitable. Tho name of his correspond ent i s 110 4 " stated. The Nation, while publishing under all reserve as to its authenticity, says i t f i nds in it the bellicose language of the prince, wh o Seems to desire a war at any price both in the north an d the south. Here is the text of the letter in Tie,. tion:.-e ' " You ask me Whether I believe in war. Yes, I do. How will it break out ? I will tell you. It .- will break out in the spring, and my father-in-la W . begin it. The situation of King Victor Em manuel is no longer tenable. The public debt in- Crews every year. There must be an end to this. The King has several times written to the Elezror that he must have a solution,. and that he would' rather be plain Chevalier de Cerignan than continue to play the part of .a sovereign who is gravitating towards a precipice. I repeat to you, my father-in. law has warned my cousin that in the spring he - means to attack the Austrian l ines. Believe me that this is the way the struggle wi ll commence ; - the Ki ng g i ves wa y to no illusions; he knows that Austria will re-enter gain the victory, but he k nows also that his magnificent army will not yield without m aking a serious resistance. The conquero rs will but bombard the si t t h u e ei will, i w lb ill pe c r h h a a n p g s e , . occupy iiow Turin ; . ever great may b e , the desire of the Emperor for peace, he can no t allow • t m o y afallthe;l2 Austria to destroy the wor k of Franc© in Da: Y• -de will be forced, in spite of himself, to maint a i n the kingdom of Italy. If, hew eshv e o r u , id c a o t n a tr n a d r o y n cee ectation, the Emperor -. re lieved of the responsibility eil.-s,hich to become once again Kin g o f Pi edmont, -in-law, he would prefer and so be at m c. o f r . w e e p ig ro l' b 3 ab u i P e o i n him as King of Italy. s .. t e h r e r aever, the • that France will interfere , end th and King will have Northern Italy, 4 nperor. will Clispose of the south es he think s B e. e A few hours will probably decide whether the above letter, which a Paris journal, with 1 all the fear of warnings and suppression before it s es e'3' ve ntures to print, is or is not an impudent forp;es. If it be genuine, it w ill p robabl y rank as one of the most stirring events of those momentous timee. This Much is certain, that all the recent letters from Italy speak of preparations for immediate w ar which nobody can account for. Prince Napoleon's ,etter—if it be hie—gives an explanation of them. —terribl l on ging for sensations —terribly strong in a society whichto speak, b e calmed—as on trustwtehrte empirehycalculhsataiO so to is well worth the passing study of those who recognise that Napoleon may at any moment a pp l y a solvent to all diplomatic chemistry. . The line of argument current in circles in which argument has not been suppressed by a governing hate of Bonapartism runs much in this direction. The Emperor, say the talkers, stands, and k nows he stands, in the presence of three now dangers, two of them self-created, and one the natural effect of eleven years of repression: His address to hi s Legislature, with its great but dreamy proposal, followed as it was by a series of refusals reverberat ing from every superior Court, had among his own people two distinct effects. It excited, and very powerfully, the popular imagination. France feels great ideas as no other country fee ls an y thing, ex cept, perhaps, menace or new taxation, and French men had special reasons for feeling this one. The conviction, perfectly just in itself, that the treaties of 1815 were intended to humiliate France, that they had for nearly for fifty years operated as a heavy restraint, and that " glory" was impossible until they were swept away, has burnt itself deeply into the mind of France. A vague hatred of those agree ments, acknowledged by all classes of educated Frenchmen, by Republicans no less than Impe rialists, by M. Thiers as much as Prince Jerome, has extended itself even to the peasantry, whose traditions are of the Grande Arniee whose career was arrested in 1815. Peasants who read nothing else still read the Emperor's speeches, and as they deem him irresistible, the acknowledged leader of the Continent, his pledge that those treaties should end, should be replaced by a new "fundamental pact" more favourable to France and the nationa lities, created throughout all France a sense or deep and pleasurable excitement. It was increased by the knowledge that the Congress must first of all take up the question of Poland, upon which the strong feeling always existing had been recently deepened by the unchecked invectives of the press, and the greedily credited stance of Russian cruelty to the Poles. That feeling might not survive a long and still less a disastrous war, but it was strong enough to authorise the Emperor to begin one—as he said in his speech he would have done had England consented—and to obtain euch a result of a campaign in peace seemed to most Frenchmen the no plus ul.tra of strategy. The universe]. refuel of Europe to obey the summons has disenchanted the populace, and their disappointment, like the hailstorms and every other misfortune, is visited on the Government. The educated classes know the truth in spite of the /llnniteur, and alb uneducated, though baffled as to the facts, have an instinctive sense that notre maitre is not so strong as he said he was. "Isolation in Europe," "diplomatic de feat," "dust thrown on the flag," these are to the public mere phrases, but that Mouravieff goes on, and that Napoleon does not interfere himself, and cannot make Europe interfere for him, this is a fact, and one which the masses by no means accept with pleasure. Napoleon, who hears from official reports everything that passes in France, the very talk of the wine-shops and gabble of the market women, knows well how deep is the disappoint ment, and knows, too, that a similar one discredited Louis Philippe for years, and that he, far more than Louis Phillipe, cannot afford to fail. Some striking act, some speech which shall set the world in movement, would seem absolutely required to alter the current of national thought, and remove the impression of failure, and that speech must be made just when the world from habit begins to listen. Again, the Emperor is known to have been startled, not to say shocked, by the result of the elections, a result which has been, so to speak, re peated by the votes given this week in Paris and at Dijon. He suffers, despite his cool judgment, from the temptation of day-dreamers—the disposition to believe that the world is going their way, and he had imagined that the masses of France were reconciled to the Empire. The elections show nothing to the Contrary, but they prove that the townsmen through out the country are thirsty for wider liberty, that the artisans are voting with the rich, and the Em peror, who knows best of all men the gigantic efforts made to divide those classes, is proportionately alarmed. The debates in the Corps Legislatif have proved that thevote of towns has greatly affected th e ' 1 prestige of the Government, for tho u g h the Liberals claim only 35 members, yet in the trial d e bates on_ the elections 84, some of them " against M. de Persigny." There is a swerve, nominees, voted too, in the tribunals, which are too barometric a the fluctuations of power in apt to respond to prosecuted by exa mple, veme . s style, and editors, for nt getting prefects, are to their own am acquitted. These thin h as himself, and it ' gs move the personal following wrmhotheantjotyhse some e w f d a e in sa t of the Emperor alniost as affirm is, the past fortnight, w am e o b ng eli t e h v e e m , within,ctohrereocnti;oonaefa Emperor that if the Legislaturei unmanageable, war, or a further grant of s no t sinhfaorremoefd social the lik.ng, has, are the only alternatives, to become liberty, are exactly th© B ty is still not beyond the reach of internal Liberty onaparte role, iinste not,rn aliv the dril ls attack, and war, if circu mstances:would only allow, m ight be the more popular aB Well as the easier out letsay the salon s , reason for fear i ng t h a t N situation. There is , from an unmana g ea ble th etawrefyoreeo,e3 aty will b u tterance, possibly 0 marked by some Imperial dangerous, and certainly im portant. We admit the full force of these arguments, at least as far as to the influences now work in g in the direction of some grand and theatric c ou p , bat there are reasons which make such a Ne w Year's gift to Europe seem to men not longing itn I and possibly will, proaahle. The Emperor mean scheme of a for scenes at least and throwing the re take the opportunity of publicly abandoning his aponsibility on the Powers w- • . withdrawn ; but this general Congress, . llose adheston has been is only when that which would be suggestive of peace. It . et. becomcas immi exists is to exist no longer that w. speech by itself . h w ould be a confession that nent, and such n . .pece con tinue to last. Yet that which exh3ts must - 2 Ito i: 1 known to • w hat else is the Emil,-rnr to sad , , b e bitterly annoyed at the conact of the Austrian Court, wh ich has saddled him with the ArchdukeMax,withoat affording him the support he expected in retur n, bat he cannot a se cond time menace the A us trian representative. There is nothing to fight, Austria for, unless, indeed, he draws the sword on A ll Germany its defence of Denmark, which h e seems as yet by no means inclined to do. Popete.r feeling might back him then, because there would THE GREAT FIRE Ili THE CITY, A clover examination yesterday of the track of the recent fire in Wood-street shows in a striking manner how much it was confined to a class of buildings the interior arrange ments and means of communication of which appear to have been made in defiance or in ignorance of the principles which now regulate such matters, under the operation of the Metropolitan Building Act. The warehouses and offices which have perished seem to have been separated from each other by thin lath and plaster partitions for the most part, . and only in one instance was there an iron door between one part of the interior of the same building and another, such as is now commonly used and made imperative, indeed, . in the conetruction of warehouses as an invaluable means of which remaios uninjured would have been completely shutting off communication in cases of fire. That iron doe - , too, effectual in arresting the flames in that direction had they not pinetrated by a vulnerable point into the part of the building which it protected. The use of iron for safety against fire was most conclusively proved by a very remark able circumstance. The large and handsome warehouses of Messrs. J. and R. Morley, situate at the corner of Gresham and Weod-streets, overlooked by a large window on the ground floor at the back the little court in which the fire originated, and to which it was at first confined. This large window was protected on the outside by a folding iron shutter, and that more against robbery than fire. Cu this occasion for some time the flames played fierce ly, but harmlessly abona the outside of t he window, Sob uared by the iron shutter. Had they once entered Messrs. Mor ley's premises at that point, the stock stored inside, and estimated at from £250,000 to L'300,000, would inevitably have been destoyed, if, indeed, the devastation would have ended in that one vast pile of buildings. Upon such a slender condition of safety did property a lmost fabulous in value and belonging to a single firm depend in this case. bornicke,ascohmseidoef them. The ruins, consiating for the meet part of large masses of charred timber, show how largely wood rather than brick had been used in the construction of the houses which have perished. The fire, indeed, has literally followed in the ef the t g r e a p c t w o h f itchhe Ete ohmeebulsetfitblheumgeatecraiballe, saonfd most valuable ' supposed to be 300 years old, and which the flatlets ever© powerless to harm, remain_ standing. It is the otinieu. of Mr. Woodthorpe, the district surveyor of the northern division of London, who visited the spot yesterday, that but for those formidable old walls :the whole mass of ware houses forming the east side of Wood-street and the west and including with right Some up of t f o h h m e o a London, would . ild have been destroyed. Ca in the city of h ptain Shaw, too, the chief of the London Fire Brigad e , first time after his recent danger ous of th e l l i r il cOn s t t e r n eetsti illness, o was out for the mead the temptation to go and and could not his amazement that i n a neighbourhood see the place, expressed Packed the conflagration nec) ',lad so de Y paratively small a -n area. T been confined to so cepa . - he truth is that the promPt.l - with which the stenumber, were brougheam fit e"°E &es) six or seve n . in b into " d the resist ht v i gour withaction, an . which they played on the lire, materially checked itsr d that ' in spite of diffielatti. progress. from the first, a to it only through a few blind' s experienced in finail,ng e ae h firemen' had at imminent risk t courts and alleys. over the tops of lofty piles of hous both e o cr i du l o v t their d hos e e t ar l DEIII.--stract, and through littl e by-waysnbefo°:e Wood-street and 13 in all, could be brought to bear on the barning mass. Fortunately, the trade books of Messrs. Grant, who aro the largest sufferera w ere preserved intact in an iron safe on their premises but about 300 people to whom they gave employment have been suddenly thrown out of work. The firm is understood to be that sum being spread insured to the amount of £37,000, over eight different insurance offices. Their stock consisted mostly of underelotting of all kinds, shirts, neckties, um brellas, and parasols, of all which they were manufactuiers on a large scale. 1n ono room alone on the third floor they had 1,200 dozen of fine flannel shirts stored, all of which have been burnt. They occupied four large warehouser, four stories high, two of which have been completely destroyed, with their valuable contents. Messrs. Morley, notwith standing the risk they ran, did not suffer to an extent at all commensurate with the loss sustained by Messrs. Grant. It is true their shirt factory, with many valuable machines, has been burnt, but it was not a place in which they ka pt a ny very considerable quantity of stock, and they only estio mate their loss, which is covered by insurance, at about £4,000 or £5,000. An underground communication existed. between the shirt factory which has been destroyed and anot h er part of their exte nsive p remises, an d there, too sa f e ty afforded by an iron door which sh ut offy: the place from the other in the subterranean passageone 'ace by the result. A considerable amount o4c was established salvage was hair' collected from among the ruins of. Mes, --g ware houses yesterday; but of Messrs. uc 1 eas. Grant's contente, or of the stocks of Mr. L r ey'a factery and its and Mr. Gibson, the other stifle tinting, 11ie , 6113. IL ti y , zers, not a vcetigo remains. - THE LANCASIIIILE, COAL TRADE.—WIGAN, Situr day.—The district stems at last about to r3turn to a peaceful state, the advance of 10 per cent. arkrd by the rnea having been g rante d in many instances ; it Mug uncle!! stood in the ortiers that the additi3ual wages wid be ra': l , after the "nearest vatting lip (Ily to tl?a Ist Of Ji!'7, 3 ',„ The trade during. the week has b Try. rrrnart , :abl3: . L , o 7 . v t o : 1 : 1 ; quantity of coal despatched being really r_ sTinace, or a the state of the cotton trade is considered that has extended wonderfully in La r r a ly -brisk, and the dull fright. market at Liverpool, 'rho iron trade, c r t i l u n g an t e h b. e past 1,.w years, is, however, particuuntry number of furnaces in blast in the country of considerably to the increased number pro spects of the winter are very c i ! r l o c m a contributes very crders. ' The Trade seems to the long depression, and.. have completely recovered from r _ hoped, counteract to CA tlllB the improvement hero will, ! o t o l n, ' y extent the evils of the still gt manufacture. condition of the cotton Now ready, price 3d., T H E B 0 X, IBeing the Extra Double New-year's Day Number of CII &ALBERS'S JOURNAL. A New Series of Chambers's Journal will be commenced on January 2, IS on which date will be given the first of au entirely new and interesting serial tale, entitled LOST SIR MASSINGBERD. Tn external appearance this Periodical (now in its Thirty third year) will be impro.ed, and no effort will be spared to render the literary matter more attractive than ever to all classes of readers. W. and E. Chambers, London and Edinburgh. T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London : 18, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY," Just published, /kBOOK OF B E A U T Y. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price Zs. Gd. Just p u blished, gratis, IHE REPORT of the 13 RITIS H. COLLEGE of HEALTH. LONDON, for 1E64. it contains a signifi cant remark on the excess of 23,060 in the mortality during the three healthiest months of the year. May be had of all the Hygeian agents throughout the world. ITF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indifiestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. 14d. .nd 2g. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist 141{ESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the Year. Market price guar anteed . Remittances. London and Westminster Bank. Post-dllce 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. BANKRUPTCY ANI) COMPOSITIONS... — Mr. WETIIERFIELD. Solicitor, 35, Moorgate-street, City, PRACTISES in COURT, and effects PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS with creditors, without publicity. Charges, the lowest possible, payable by instalments. Coun try cases economically conducted. N.B.—DEBTS recovered on commission , fr ee of law cos t s. Divorce and Probate business conducted at moderato ex pense. QOHO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERA L BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and Houses to be dispose l of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 2t, Gerrard-street, Soho, W. Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &c. Rents Collected. NO CURE NO PAY.—The Pr.-eminent succ es s attending the use of KERSHAW'S VOLTAIC FLEXIBLE BELT, novel in principle and action, in the cure of nervous and muscular affections, admits of its sale being made dependent upon verified efficacy. A new Belt can be bad on trial for a month, tree of charge, for rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, epilepsy, nervous debility, paralysis, lumbago, tic doloureux, bronchial cough, asthma, spasms, sprains, indigestion, inactive liver, etc. By the mild continu ous electric current evolved, exhaus ted vital energy is euec tually restored. Prices, ss. to 15s. each ; for extreme cases, according to size and power. Testimonials sent free. —Depot , 11, Crooked-lane, King William-street, City. TII has the m moata n s hi p perfect and acc mechanism,ura t work following aavantag - es :—A set of teeth, of excellent . TEETH. - Mr. without INVENTIONTEE in twan d can suce be ess, pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without made in a afredw hours,fitted with the wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so ;table to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining 31r. Eske:Pa Patent, .167.., free for 7 stamps. Ins p e ction of specimens and consultations I ree.— B.Grosvenor street, Bond-street, IV ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. pRIZE MEDAL -INTERNATIONAL EX I lIIT lON, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER lz CO., Wax Chandlers, Ste., ,to., m ri a ie n k i:a . c a t n u d re. To the Queen and the ince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) The Jams' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1E462, WAX CANDLES testifies to ,he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckere' r _ A dist ingnished Diffni'll'V in a letter addressed to Francis Co., on the subject with PLATTED WICKS; : wh"ilchhyaovue g f a o v n e nd th t e h m em anfudlisayscyaneqsitniaclertenlyt,hin m e re mend them to th e clergy for the use of the altar.'' Finest quality. with P latted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per l b. Ordinary quality 2-. Cd. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. e r i tu ni tn e , li r d e a :o -ioll - m Best quality .. Is. sd. per lb. t•:eeond quality .. is. 3d. per lb. Third quail , y is. id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. CIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South 31°1ton-street , C4rosvoner-square. hianufactory liensintou (Established 1730). The larc , est Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candied for the•ule of the Altar. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. "THE GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MO RTON is enabled to announce that, throu2h 'he medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" i s nightly held at the CAN TERBURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real life, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best writers. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly replaces by others. The pages Shakspere and the elder Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &C., tec., in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, i nc l u ding Operatic Selections, &c. ; Co med y by Unsworth (the 'modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. OYAL ALHAMBRA.— CONTINUED and IMMENSE SUCCESS of FRANCONP siS CI the best Stud of Trick' and Manage Horses in the World, together with the First Star Male and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, Clowns, and Vau tern in either Hemisphere, at tracts enthusiastic and delighted audiences nightly to this Magnificent Building, who behold with wonder and admira tion the Marvellous Feats of this far-lamed Co 111 mpany 8.11CCS, . Change of Programme Nightly. alorning reTfOr Mondays, Wednesdat s, and Satiirdays, T o. Two Grand Performances on Boxing Day, viz , Two and Half -past Seven. Admission—Private boxes, one guinea; Reserved seats, 38.; Stabs and Balcony, 2s. ; Pit and Promenade, is. ; Gallery, M. ' Box-oilice open daily. On Monday, Dec. 2 ; st, first appearance of M. Jules Perez, f:om Madrid, the Greatest Rider ot the age. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN. at Her Maicsty's Theatre. the BALL will commence EVERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, le. Manager—M. GRENET. PECTACLES.—The Patent Newlv-invented k ) Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, includim;Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary re,ief to weak, di and detective vision.—S. and B SOLO3IONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. CAP'PAIN WHITE'S ORIENTAL PICKLE, CURRY or MULLIGATAWNY PASTE, Curry Powder, and Curry Sauce, may onto.ained from all • Sauce Vendors, and wholes of CROSSE and BLACKo -squarWELL, Purveyors to the Queen, ohe, London, AT Christmas many suffer from INDIGESTION, and require some little assistance. P.UIR'S LIFE PILLS stimulate the digestive organs, and remove, without the sligh• est pain, uneasy or nauseous sensations, so familiar to thoselwho have indulged a little too freely in good Corist rdas la , c. NI ny be obtained of any fnedicine vendor, in boxes, is lid, 2s Od ; and in family packets, its each. BEAUTIFUL OMEN.— Alabastcr Powder, and the Magnetic Rock 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 comparison.—Can be had only at Madame BACH ti:L'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidential. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21 The mail steamship Briton arrived here this even. ing at 10 o'clock. She left the Cape on the 20th ult., St. Helena on the 28th ult., and Ascension on the 2d inst., an I brings 39 passengers. Bishop Colenzo's trial commenced at the Cape on the 17th ult. in St. George's Cathedral, before the Metropolitan Bishop of Cape Town and two suf fragans, the Bishop of Graham's Town and the Bishop of the Orange Free State. The accusing clergy, the Dean of Cape Town and the Archdeacons of Graham's Town and George Town, were present to support the charges they had preferred. Dr. Black, Curator of the Grey Library, attended on behalf of Bishop Colenzo, and read a letter from the Bishop, denying the jurisdiction of the court and handed in a formal protest against the proceedings. The Dean of Cape Town supported the charges in an eloquent and forcible speech, characterised by deep research and great ability. The trial was expected to extend over several days. The question at issue would finally pass into the hands of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. A civil action was pending against the Dutch Reformed Church for suspending from the ministry the Rev. Mr. Kobse, on a charge of heresy. The Federal steamship Vanderbilt returned to Cape Town from the Mauritius, and remained in Table Bay until Oct. 27. She then proceeded to Angra Pequina, the Confederate rendezvous, and carried a quantity of coals stored on Penguin Island, which was annexed to Cape Colony two years since. The Vanderbilt also seized the British bark Saxon, of Cape Town (in British waters, it is said) that vessel being supposed to have been laden with part of the cargo of the Federal bark Conrad, captured by the Alabama and converted by Cspt. Semmes into a tender to the Alabama, and renamed the Tuscaloosa. The Vanderbilt then put a prize crew on board the Sazon, and sent her to New York for condemnation. The crew of the Saxon, with the F e x e e d e e p r t a i l o n o ffioefetrh,ewmeraetet,rasd transferred ha redt v o e a b c e o e a n st e in h a ot v b es y a vessel and forwarded to Table Bay. There had been destructive storms and heavy floods is the Eastern Province. Provisions continued plentiful and cheap. Trade - I was reviving. ton Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate I in price, and who lesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in packets by 2,280 Agents. ACCIDENT ON A RAIL WAY. —On Sunda y mor ning the driver of the good s train which arrives at Swin don station on the Great W estern Railway at 2 o'clock was passing Hay.lane, midway betw een Wootton Bassett and Swindon, when he perceived so mething lying between tbo rails on the up line. The engine was stopped, and it was found to be the body of a woman, about 40 years of age, quite dead. The legs of the deceased were broken ; the head was crushed. Thrxe were no marks by which she Could be identified. The deceased was dreesed as if for travelling. The body was br oug ht on a t ruc k to S,,vindon station, where it now lies awaiti ng id ent i f i cat i on a nd the inque st . 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