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Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible chara , ter, thereby avoid ing, the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon veniences. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " COUSIN GEOFFREY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., GUILTY; OR, NOT GUILTY. By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey," lac. " Guilty, or Not Guilty,' will find many readers. There can be no question as to iti talent and power."—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE t o an y h ouse in I URN]. I'URE, CARPETs, BEDDING, an d the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First. class goods at second-class prises. Te rms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. A n i mmense s t o ck to se l ec t from, displayed in Showrooms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. KGYSIEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR- L .18H are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and , are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo all, -able engravings of every description of Furniture and ...,easteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and poet-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing oa the following revised cale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring househ3ld furniture, 'arpete, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban s, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. ROYAL HOSPITAL, Chelsea, Aug. 20, 1861. ENEight Honourable the LORDS and others COMIIIIS -I'l2the,R of the Hospital do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE are ready to RECEIVE TENDERS from and to f o e at with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT VICTUALLING the IN-PENSIONERS of the said ~Lnspital, from the Ist October, 1861, to the 30th September, t_ s , both days inclusive, with the followin.g ARTICLES of i - Beef lON S, &C., viz. :—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, itter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, :Barley or Rice, Pepper, jelour, Suet, Cocoa, T Black Tea, Sugar Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, hyme, Marjoram, , Winter Savoury, and " a m.ey daily, at per head per diem. accorin to the 21tabl1shed allowance of the house, as specified in the form of T ender, which may be obtained at the Office of the Secretary T a y day between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which „„ender must be filled up and delivered sealed at the Board ' O OM of the said Hospital by the party or parties tendering, or bv an agent Sep te p on his or , on TUES- P i tt the 6th Sepmber, ointed at 12 o'clock, their at behalf which time their r on rd ships will be prepared to take the same into considers- It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required to and security to the Crown for the due perfo , mance of the Contract, and that no Tender will be received after the day and hour above mentioned. , T he Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the LOvirest Tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. Now Ready, in Crown Svo., F OOTPRINTS ON THE ROAD. By CHARLES KENT. Chapman and Hall, 193, PiLcadilly. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur cnaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. IN - OTICE.—BERTIE BRAY. —The Second Edition of this new Novel, by the Author of ' Sir Victor's Choice," i 2 now ready. Also by same Author, THE CROSS OF HONOUR. Price 2s. London : John Maxwe 1 and Co., 122, Fleet-street, THE LATEST NEW NOVELS. T HE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION, Limited. Capital subscribed, £5,000,000, is _lOO,OOO shares of £5O each. E It T I E B It A Y. JUIP By the Author of " SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE," &c. DANGEROUS CONNEXIONS. In Three Vols. THE MAN IN CHAINS. By the Author of " SACRVILLE CHASE," &C. London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 29, Lombard-street, London ; and Royal Insurance•buildings, Liverpool. At the Annual Meeting, on:the sth inst., the following were F tome of the leading results disclosed in the Report to the . N.,, shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. - 4,.. 1 ' , ,,..,The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum I of Being an advance of 4311,66140,977 over 1862; an amount o f i ncrease excee di ng t h at o f any pre- Vious year. The Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353 The Duty paid to Government in 1862 was Ditto ditto, 1863 88,966 Showing an Increase in one year of Among the incidents which have tended to the advance pent of the Roy a l w ithi n th e l as t f ew mon th s ma y b e re ckoned ts action with respect to the losses sustained by the explo- Von of the Lotty Sleigh, which although on , y con .istent with t he general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti tlately proved to be no more than what had been done in for /ler times by th e o ld es t an d mos t prover bi a l l y h onoura bl e 3among its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public 'avour by its unhesitating promptness. As the largest totAl of Revenue and the largest ratio of progression have been attained hi the present year, BO it Directorsh the largest Profit whicE it has ever tallen to the t to record has likewise on this occasion to be an tounced. The balance of net profir on theyear has amounted I '7 £B3 ,5 15 ; of which sum £34 ,1 00 on ly has been appropriated 9 1 vidend and Bonus, and the large balance of £49,441 been " . ° ll.l ".ed to Reserve. LIFE BRANCH. -r:rhe rogress of the Life Banch as shown by the New vilsinesps t-ansacted in the last r , year, , is most promising, and the advances made, year by year, in the amount of New In kiarauces effected, shrm clearly the estimation in which the c u lliPany is held. The following is as tatement for the last ve Years : Net Sum Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 This rapid growth, amountirg to 73 per cent. on the Sum A ssured, and up war d s of 80 per cent. on the Premium re- T e lved in the c ourse o f fi ve years, may j ustly b e cons i dere d as The than any w hi c h cou ld h ave b een reasona bl y expecte d . he first half of the current year 1864, however, far outsti ips the ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as the sum assured for that period of six months only actually exceeds Half-a-Mil ion sterling. The rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour able features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by toe quinquennial investigation, which is to take place when the present year is concluded. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1864. rpHE ABERAMAN IRON WORKS (Limited), _IL (late Crawshay Bailey's). Introduced by the FINAN CIAL CORPORATION (limited), who invite Subscriptions fer Shares, of which upwards of 5,000 have been applied for in the above Company. Incorporated under tile Companies Limited Liability Act, 1862. Capital X 500,000, in 100,r00 Shares of £5O each. £1 Deposit on Application, and £4 on Allotment. It Is not contemplated to call up more than £25 per Share. DIRECTORS. Ws'liam Walter Cargill, Esq., M.P., Director of the Orien tal_B tilt Corporation. -Nu gene Collins, Esq., Director of the London, Birming 'ant, and South Staffordshire Bank Limitell. J. B. Cumming, sq. Messrs. J. B. Cummlng and Co., - 4.,.c1nd0n1, Director of the Continental Bank Corporation kl-hnited). William Hugh Logan, Eq., Banker, Berwick-on-Tweed. dames Marsh 11, tsq., Wil Iwood, Hampstead. J. E. NaN lor, Esq. (Messrs. B. Gott and Sons), Leeds, Di rector of the London and Lancashire Assurance Company. Bonamy Price, Esq., Director of the Western Life Assur ance Company, Reginald Read, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace Com pany. (With power to add to their number). BANKERS. The London and County Bank and its Branches. The Alli ,nce B ink, at Liverpool and Manchester. Messrs. Bail ie, Cave, and Co., Bristol. The Leeds Bankint: Company, Leeds. __Messrs. Crawahay Balky, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth , Newport, and Abergavenny. SOLICITORS. atessrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, 68, Aldormanbury. London. BROKERS. James Shepherd, Esq., 30, Throgmorton-street, London. Messrs. T. Tinley and Sons, Brown's- buildings, Liverpool. tlessrs. Ridsdale and Wailes, Park-r ow, Leeds. Messr Mewburn and Barker, Moult-street, Manchester, 411 (1 Halifax. AUDITORS. Frederick Maynard, Esq., Bread-street, London. James Maurice, Esq., Old Jewry, London. 8 mud Loweli Price, Esq., Gresham-street, London SECRETARY. J. H. Flesher, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 29, Threadneedle-street, London, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. ,The extensive and valuable properties of Crawshay Baffle M.P., known as the Aberaman Iron Works and Col '"7, which are of European celebrity, have been carefully s urveyed by Joshua Richardson, Esq., M.1.C.E., F.G.S., ttc., and extend over an arca of 1,53) acres of Freehold Land on 'ao North Crop of the South Wales Coal Basin, and contain I I greater number of the veins of ironstone and coal than i s usually found in any property of equal extent. %, The coal is the noted Aberdare Steam Coal, and certified Xlr. Richardson as " The best steam coal in the kingdom," "d stands at the head of the Government list. Mr Richardson describes the property in his Report " as !:ontaining 16 veins of coal, of the aggregate thickness of 48 r est, b es id es th e numerous courses of ironstone, of the aggre kat& thickness of 14i feet ; these extend over the area of the rhole estate, and here are four veins of the aver a ge th'ck ess of 8 feet, which crop out on the side of the mountain ; 1 1c1 below the 9 feet there are four more veins of coal of 10 ,9 eet in thickness." The ironstone " is the black band, a carbonaceous ore, Which is comparatively rare, and yields from GO to 70 per cent. Of iron," and aso the ordinary argillaceous ironstone. The a ggregate thickness is 5i feet. The estate contains at least 91,485,440 tons of whole or un- W orked coal, which would yield a supply of upwards of 1, 0 :00 blacka day, or 3(.0,0)0 tons per annum for 304 equal' and of _ band iron ore, 4,e40,5 1 0 tons, which is to 3,000 lons of bar iron per annum for 773 years ; and of .rgillaceous ltonstone, 135,3.9,270 tons, which is equal to 500 tons per Week, or 26,100 tons of bar iron per annum for 1,300 years. This Company has entered into a provisional contract, for the purchase of the whole of the freehold 'and leasehold estates, including the whole of the minerals, rents, royalties, Wayleaves, &c., besides the ironworks, coal-fields, and good- Will of the business, and aso the mansion, 300 cottages, buildings, plant, machinery, engines, stocks, railways, tram- Ways, and other property. Mr Crawshay Bailey, although working the property only to a very limited extent, has realised very large profits, and retires, in consequence of advanced age, with a princely for tune. Mr Richardson reports that the income may be doubled or trebled v ith moderate additional outlay, and Mr. D. Jones reports that X 100,00) per annum net profit can easily be realised ; and assuming only half this income be prolured, and supposing the share capital upon which the dividend will be payable to be £250,000, h follows that, after allowing in terest on loans, &c. from 15 to 20 per cent. will be availablefor a dividend to the shareholders, and this not from an un dertaking requiring to be developed, but from an old-estab lished and lucrative business. With a view to keep the called-up Share Capital as low as possible, arrangements have been made by which the vendor has agreed to allow a large portion of the purchase money to remain at interest ; this will materially increase the dividends to shareholders. Copies of the Articles of Association, which contain the terms of the provisional contract, and of the reports referred to, may be seen at the offices of the Solicitors of the Com pany, • • - Applications for the remaining shares must be made in the fort annexed, and be accomp inied by a payment of Li per share ; if no allotment be made, the amount will be returned forthwith ; if a less number is allott e d t han is applied for , the am oun t paid on appli ation will be applied towards the Payment of the £4 due on allo tment—the balance, if any, fug returned. Detailed Prospectuses and Forms of Applcation may be ` B4 l at the Office of the Company, and of the Bankers, Bro " t ,ere, and Solicitors ; and also at the Offices of the Financial "'°rPoration (limited), 14, Lea denhall-street, London. OL DR IDGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA stands unrivalled as a toilet requisite. It has been established 40 years, and is the best and only certain remedy ever discovered for preservintr, stren gthening, beautifying , o r restoring* the Flair, Whiskers, or 3loustaches, and pre venting them turning - gray or la lin_g off. —Sold in bottles, 6d., 6s , and Its. by U. and A. OLDRIDGE, 22, VI ening ..on-street, Strand, W.C. ; and all chemists and perfumers F or Children's and Ladies' hall* it is most efficacious and Unrivalled. CAMERON'S GOUT SPECIFIC. An Effectual and Speedy Remedy for the Gout, Rheu matic, Sciatica, Lumbago, and Neuralgia. This invaluable Medicine is so pre-eminently efficacious as to edmit of no parallel. Instaaec have been known, in which sufferers have een confined to their apartments, hand and foot, writhing finder the most intense agony, whose sufferings, to the asto nishment of their friends, hate been wholly removed in less than 24hours after takinr , the above medicine, and theme elves t e ndered able to resume their avocations, Indeed, the effect as been such, and b rou ght about in so harmless and sp ee dy a 'tanner, that the proprietor, with the utmost confidence, Viallenges the medical world to produce a medicine equal to To the constitution it is harmle . ss ; to the fluids of the h uman frame it adds an agreeable impetus ; to the system erfer,tlly it is invigorating to a degree unparalleled t h e above medicine taken about once a month operates most effectually in preventing a return of the complaint. Prt'e 4 ?• 1 44., 2s. 941., and 4s. tid. per bottle. Prepared only by the j'ePrietor,R Cameron, 40, Tavistock - street , Covent-garden, p °loo ll. Wholesalc London agents — Barclay and Son, 95, arringdo n -st re et ; Butler and Crispe, 4, Cheapside, corner 30, :II St. Paul's Churchyard ; Cleaver, 63, Oxford-street Dart, Southampton -street, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street, emsampl `l e bottle forwarded flee from the manufactory ou re. of of 0 , • P . . . aid up, X.500,C00. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman. Xenophon Balli, Esq. Charles Kelson, Esq, E. J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Macpherson, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dairin. Sir J. H. Pelly, Bart. James Dickson, Esq. W. Scholefield, Esq„ P. D. Radow, Esq. Sir S. I). Scott, Bart. J. 0. Hanson, Esq. H. D. Seymour, Esq., M.P. W. H. Harford, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq. G. P. Holroyd, Esq. P. G. Westmorland, Es j. J. G. Homere, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbert Johnston. M. Zara Esq. BANKERS. The Bank of England. The Agra and Ulsterman's Bank, Limited. The Bank of London. The Union Bank of London. Sir W. Miles, Bart., and Co., BristoL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., and Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and CO. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman,Esq. This Association receives money on deposit at notice, and for fixed periods, on terms to be agreed upon ; makes advances on approved securities, and effects purchases and sates of stocks, shares, and debentures; negotiates loans, and under takes general financial business. Communications io be addressed to the Managers. By order. W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary. TEMPORARY OFFICES. Crosby House, 96, Bishopgate-street Within. E AGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT of the Directors for the Year ending,' 30th June, 1864, read at the Annual General Mteting, 12th August, 1854 — Sir JAMES BULLER EAST, Bart., D.C.L., in the Chair. The duty once more devolves upon the Directors of making a report to the Proprietors on the transactions of the past year, and, as usual, they commence it by a reference to the particulars exhibited in the Surplus Fund Account. These particulars are as follows : INCOME OF THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1864. Balance of Account, 30th June, 1863 . £528,263 12 11 Premiums on New Assurances ..£23,683 14 1 Ditto, old ditto 288,46 1 4 £311,979 15 5 Interest from Investments...... 81, .46 13 10 t93,1Z6 9 3 Profit on the Sale of Securities.. 17,515 16 8 Total Income £938,910 18 10 CHARGE OF THE YEAR. Div'dend to Proprietors Claims on decease of Lives As- Z 10,3-23 15 0 .....-. ... .. ..._ sured .. • £199,324 2 0 Additions to those under Parti cipating Policies..... 15,993 9 8 Policies surrendered 12,958 13 1 ---------- Re-a6surances, new 8,089 12 2 old 44 £274,779 2 6 Commission Medical Fees 7lB 7 2 Income-tar Expenses of Management 12,926 18 6 ,—..... 300,510 11 i 0 Total Charge .... 310,834 6 10 Balance of Account, 30th June, 1864 £938,910 18 10 Examined and approved, THOMAS ALLEN,I Auditor& lIENRY ROSE, Here It will be seen that the total income of the year is £110,642 ss. 1 i d., and the total charge 40,834 6s. 10d. The difference—£9.l,B o7 198. Id.—increa-e the Surplus Fund to £62e4,076 12s. The difference last year, it may be remembered, was £50,875 ISs. 7d. The income of the year is greater than that of the preceding one by nearly £24000. The increase is mainly attributable to the profit derived from the sale of premises in the City, and elsewhere. With exception of the payments on account of re-assurance, and those to the proprietors, all the , tems of charge are less than those of the previous year. Thus, the sum paid tor claims is less by £27,000, an l that for surrender of policies by £5,300. A considerable reduction, too, is observable in the expenses of management, arising from a diminution in the number of the Board, and from other circumstmces. The Balance Sheet Is as follows: — BALANCE SHEET. LIABILITIES. Interest due to Proprietors £5,432 14 9 Claims on decease of Lives Assured and ad ditions thereto unoald Cash Bonus due to Policy-holders 674 2 8 Sundry Ac.'oun is 1,015 10 10 Value (186 lof Sums Assured _ ___ _ _ 4,731,193 7 0 Proprietors' Fund £190,187 10 0 , Surplus Fund, as above 816,264 2 0 £5,651,801 13 1 ASSETS. ....._ ...._ Amount invested in fixed Mortgages £903,790 1 6 Ditto, ditto, decreasing Mortgag,s Ditto, ditto, Reversions Ditto, ditto, Funded Securities 102,►48 18 4 Ditto, ditto, Temporary Securities ...... Current Interest on the above Investments 28,085 1 3 Cash and Bills Advanced on Security of the Company's Po licies .... Agents' Balances 32,177 2 3 ;sundry Accounts. 28,957 8 1 Value (1862) of Assurance Premiums . 3,568,151 7 8 Value (186 4)ot Re-assurances 34,263 10 8 £5,651,801 13 1 Examined and approved, T H O.HAAS ALLEN, } Auditors. HENRY ROSE, The Assets here specified remain nearly as they were in the last Report, except that the amount invested in Rever sions is increased, and that in fixed Mortgages is diminished. The balance of the Surplus Fund is, of course, increased (as it should be) from £528,208 12s, 11d. to £623,076 12s. The Trustees and Directors of the Company are now as follows : TRUSTEES, Lord Bateman. Riehari Harman Lloyd, Esq. Robert Cheere, Esq. Wm. James Maxwell, r sq. Joseph Esdale, Esq. Hon. E. T. Yorke, M.P. And other Gentlemen. DIRECTORS, Thomas Godfrey Sambrooks, Esq., Chairman. Charles Chatfield, a sq., Deputy-Chairman. Charles Bischoff. Esq. Sir W. G. Ouseley, K.C.8., Thomas Boddington, Esq. D.C.L. Sir James Buller East, Bart., Ralph Charles Price, Esq. D.O L. Philip Rose, Esq. Nathaniel Gould, Esq. George Russe 1, Esq. Robert A. Gray, Esq. Capt. Louis Symonds Tindal, William Nugustus Guy, M.D. R.N. Charles Thos. Ho!combe, Esq. Col. Chas. 'W ether all, K.C.T. Richard Harman Lloyd, Esq. lOWA Hon. Sir John Young, Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart. James Murray, Esq. fONNECZINO SHIP OWNERS (Limited). Incorporat -d under the Joint-Stock Companies' Act, 1862, whereby the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. Capital £1.000,000, in 50,(00"shares of £2O each. Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 on allotment. crip Certificates. which can be converted into Registered Shares, at the option of the holder, will be issued imme diately after allotment. These certificates will be capable of transfer, by delivering from hand to hand, without any necessity for registration. DIRECTORS. Rear-Admiral Currie, Bletchingley, Surrey, Chairman. E. Lloyd Bagshaw, Esq , Bath. J. Britten, Esq., Director of the Bank of Wales, Basinghall street, and 3u and 31, London -wall. G. Howard Renwick, Esq., C K, late Resident Engineer Madras Railway, Oatlands Park, Weybridge. G. W. Harris, Esq., Merchant, 5, Nicholas-lane. The Hon. Augu , tus Jocelyn, late Chairman Dundalk Steam Packet Company. Col. William R. Nedham, Royal Horse Artillery, Ramsgate. George Pearce Pocock, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace Gas Company. George Scammell, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company. • ----- - . BANKERS. Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, and Branches. CONSULTING ENGINEERS. Edwin Clark, Esq., and J. C. Gunn, Esq., - 24, Great George street, Westminster. SOLICITORS. Mears. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Reeves. BROKERS. Messrs. Castello Brothers, Throgmorton-street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Alison and Waddell, Public Accountants, 14, Walbrook. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Horace Fenwick, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. CI, Cornhill—Entrance, 126, Bishopsgate-street. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established to own and work Connecting Steam bhips. Connecting Steam Ships are designed on a new system, which consists in constructing steamers in several distinct compartments for carrying large cargoes, with great economy of power, the compartments being,' all of one gauge, admit of immediate disconnection from and re-connection to each other; and of the transfer of the compartment containing the engine, officers, and crew from one set of cargo compart ments to another, so that it can be kept in constant employ m nt, while the inexpensive cargo compartments are detained during the ,oading, un!oaclinz, or sale of their careoes, enabling, one engine and one crew to yeti orm the work of three s earners of the ordinary construction, and realise- pro portional profits. I t is intended to commence business by running one steamer compartment, and three sets of Car.; o Compart ments, to demonstrate the enormous advantages to be gained by the system before proceeding to build the proposed fleet, w hich will consist of Eighteen Screw St eamer Compartments. and one hundred and ninety-elght Cargo Compartments, and will deliver over one million of tons of coal to London, and over three hundred thousand tons in Paris, ann ua ll y. Estimates of the cost of the proposed fleet, and details of the annual expenditure and receipts have been reared, p showing the large profit of more than 2 0 per cent. of ter making am ple provision for insurance, depre c i a ti on, and con tingencies. A prospectus with plans and drawings of vesse l s con structed on this system, detailed estimates showing the pro bable profits, together with forms of application for shares, can be obtained, or will be sent post free, on application, at the Offices, 61, Conabill, eutrance ,Ciqiopsgate-street. 20th Thousand, price is., DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.--Its diminution and cure without injury to health, with Remarks upon the Maladies produced by obesity. CA.NCtIt and CONSUMI'ION. New and painless treat ment. Price Is. By JOHN HARVEY, M.D., 9, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Smith and Co., 52, Long-acre. WILL SHORTLY CLOSE. MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new ANGLO EGYPTIAN ENTERTAINMENT, THE PYRAMID. To be followed by THE BARD AND HIS BIRTHDAY, a new musical tercentennial seance, by William Brougn, Esq., sustained by Mr. and Mrs. German Reed; and THE SEA SIDE, or MRS. ROSELEAF OUT 01' TOWN, by Mr. John Parry. Every evening , except Sat rday), at 8 ; Thursday and Saturday mornings, at 3.—ROYAL GALLERY of IL LUsTRATION, 14, .Regent-street. Unreserved seats, is., 25,; stalls, 35.; stall (spring) chairs, 55., can be secured in ad vance at the Gallery without fee. GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL, Rezent-street and Piccadilly.—Re-appearance of PROFESSOR ANDERSON (after absence of seven years), in his origi nal entertainment "The World of Magic," as performed by him in every part of the globe. Miss ANDERSON, the modern Mnemosyne and Retro-reminiscent Orthographist, wilt make her first appearance in London. She has accom panied her father round the globe, and has displayed her extraordinary powers of Presti-occult Magic, or Second Sight, in every great city of India, China, Japan, Australia, California, and America. The Enchanted Psychomantheum will eclipse all former efforts. The apparatus will be of the most gorgeous character. The Great Wizard of the North's original experiments will be in the repertoire. His new DELASSEMENS MAGIQUES will be experiments hitherto unattempted in this country, the whole of which will be, per ormed with apparatus, with the exception of Miss Anderson's Presti-occult Magic, or Second Sight (as per formed by her onty.. MONDAY, September 5, will be the Grand Opening Night. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road, London. OXFORD and CANTERBURY HALL COMPANY (Limited). GRAND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE FOREST OF SHADOWS Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. Also, the New and successful Illusion, entitled THE TERCENTENARY; or, a NIGHT WITH SIIAKSPERE. Operatic Selections, Glees, &e., by the whole of the talented Artistes. Comedy by Mr. Arthur Lloyd, with his new song of "The Organ Grinder," a decided hit; Mr. W. Randall ; Miss Nelly Power, and those marvellous Gymnasts, mes.q.s. TALLIOTT and BURNELL' (from the Principal Cirque, Madrid). " THE ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN I" "Go, knock, and call ; he'll speak like an Anthropopha ginian unto thee: knock, I say." —Shakspere. Merry Wives of Windsor, 4 act, so. 5. THE WONDER OF THE DAY Will shortly be Illustrated by Mr. W. Hilton. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. T " OXFOR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THE OXFORD and CANTERBURY HALL COMPANY (Limited', During this week will be performed, Selections from the following Operas, vlz., THE TROVATORE, NABUCO, UN BALLO IN MASPHERA, LA. Pi JRZA DEC, DESTINO, by Verdi; and THE TWO GENTLESIEN OF VERONA, by Sir H. ti ishop. Principal Artistes:—Misses Russell, Tyrr,ll, Walmsley, Fitz-Henry, and Barrie; Messrs. Marini, Hush, Green M ;nen°, and Albert. Comedy by UNSIVORTII,' EUGENE, W. Randall, C. Burton, and Mdlle. Cava ho, the celebrated Comedienne, Marini. 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ANDREW MIND w ill SELL b y AUC TION. at GARRAWAY'S, Chang e - a ll e y , C orn hill, on TUESDAY, August 30, 1864, at One o'clock, the conve nient FREEHOLD Seven-roomed HOUSES, Nos. 1 and 2, Lancaster-road, New Barnet, near the railway station, with front and back gardens, now let at £44 per annum, but pos session of one may be had if desired. May be viewed and particulars, with conditions of sale, had at Garraway's ; and at the auctioneer's offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, lit. Paul's. Pinner.—Freehold Building Land. MR. ANDW. HIND will SELL by AUCTION shortly, 23 Acres of LAND, beautifully situa• e near the village, and about a mile from the station. The plots will contain from half an acre to two cres and upwards. The estate is well wooded, and has a stream of water flowing through it. 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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON DENMARK'S DREAM.—L)st week, the chiefs of the last Polish National Government were hanged on the glacis of Warsaw, and the preliminaries of the partition of Denmark were signed at Vienna. An ominous co incidence ! Is it to be reckoned as simply fortuitous, or is it such a coincidence as natural philosophers seek to explain dreams to be—those fatal dreams in which the unconscious soul receives the in - press of events which yet lie in the womb of time, but are too surely brought forth at last ? Is Poland Thne rearles dream ? Is the consummation of tee fate of the earlier victim only by accident simultaneous with the commencement of the later agony, or is it the foreboding shadow of that which in the ripe. ness of time the world shall yet see a second time realised ? At least, by such coincidences—whether we call them the result of natural law, or glimpses of the unknown vouchssfed by Providence—we are sometimes usefully startled i n t o re cognition of the influences that beneath the visible current of daily events are hurrying on. And Europe has had more than one such ill dream of late. More than once she has plainly seen that—. n An eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." Her noblest races, the models of the highest devea lopment to which in form or intellect humanity seems capable of reaching, have been strangely struck down by hordes of misshapen savages or the puny offsprings of a false civilisation. The fantastic Frenchman, well described by a poet of his own nation as a mi x t ure of t h e ti ger an d th e ape, has his foot on th e nec k o f th e s till graceful l and haughty and majestic Ro man; t h e ill-f e at ure d an d murderous Croat hold s i n bondage t h e super b Hungarian ; the Russian ser f i s t h e s l ave -d r i ver an d inheritanceoli polished Pole; the eexecutionero b l o t o h r e sei g z r c a seizes large sealed descendants of the Vikings. Most striking, perhaps, if least apparently important, is that this ver y year has seen the root and typo of our race, the beautiful and gallant Circassians, driven from their prediluvian home by the Tartar and the Calmuck to palish in an alien laud. Ugly nightmares, these, to haunt us in the sleep of overfed prosperity. A ne w irruption of barbarians presses the life out of Europe. If its progress is less distinctly perceived than that which quenched Roman civilisation in blood and ruin, it is because it is more general, and therefore more sure. Fro m the Euxine to the North Sea it spreads steadily onwards, and irresis tibly absorbs its successive opponents. It is one, while we are many, and it turns with savage cune ning our disunion into our defeat. It carries off the conquered Pole to aid in conquering the Circas sian; it transplants the subjugated Hungarian to hold Venice and Denmark in subjugation; it mixes Italian and Finlander in the armies that desolate Poland; and soon it will have absorbed the Schles wig-Dane in the ranks that hold all Europe east ward of the Rhine in bondage, and that still are pressing on. We, indeed , the heart of civilisation, still escape, But how long after the extremities are enchained will the heart be able to keep its healthy action ? There is, indeed, something at once unnatural and s tip/Allienin the means by which this new tide of barbarism gains ground on freedom and intellectual refinement. It is effected by turning the arms of science and pro gress against itself, and making those dis coveries whose natural action tends to raise mankind the very instrument by which growth is stopped and mankind is b rutalised. The latest inventions in firearms, in ships of war, in the defence of fortresses, are instantly taken advantage of by the despots whose battalion, overrun Europe. With all our own energy and manufacturing skill we are laggards in the race of military improvement beside the Russian, the Austrian' or the Prussian Powers. No wonder , then, that the smaller and lees active States, such as Denmark, Switzerland, or Holland, though the very nurses of freedom and all peaceful arts, should and themselves far outstripped, and forced, when : uriven to bay, to combat with weapons and systems which a few years of rapid modern progress have rendered as antiquated as c h a i n armour or the science of the balista. But even more cruel and deadly is the method by which the mass of inert or even repugnant humanity which has been already enslaved is forced to work its master's will in fur thering the enslavement of others. The conscript serfs knows nothing of the merits of the quarrel in which he is driven on to fight; the conscript Pole, or Hungarian, or Italian, knows well that it is against his own country he combats when he charges the foes of his tyrant sovereign, Yet such is the new power of modern discipline that indifference and disaffection are alike stifled and made to fulfil the purpose designed as thoroughly a s if they were replaced by patriotism and devoted loyalty. With demoniac knowledge of human nature, the tyrants count on the natural pugnacity of the human race to make man fight with man like bulldogs in a ring when once brought face to face ; and they are able, by the modern military system of strategy, to wield them so that, till brought into the field, they have no knowledge of the work they have to do. Like those singular bands of musicians whom the Czars love to main tain, in which each performer utters only a single note, but by the skill of the teacher and the con ductor the combination is made to execute the most difficult. pieces ; Sc, the single soldier who knows no more than to march and halt et word of command, and to strike one blow when placed opposite his pretended enemy, is.tbe unit in a vast system of which the result is the overthrow of ancient king doors, and the crushing of freedom throughout' the world. But, as every system reacts on itself, the consequence of the adoption of a method so arti ficial is to compel still greater care in keeping the soldier, and the populations from which he is taken, utterly sunk in ignorance, lest, if the armies should but learn their real purpose and work, a convulsion of despair might yet vindicate their manhood. So the downward progress ever advances with increasing velocity, men are ever more and more degraded, and, as their masters have themselves confessed, it becomes every day more and more needful to absorb and destroy all states in which the image of liberty is still reflected. Twenty years ago, we watched with apprehension the strides of Russia over the steppes of Central Asia, and feared the extending influence of France in the Fast. Our alarm at that time was only for India; yet it was sufficient to engage us in despe rate wars, lest our situation by quiescence might become such as no war could redeem. But the march of our enemies is now no longer eastward upon our dependencies, but westward upon our allies and aurselve. And because we now think we made blunders in resisting it by force when it only threatened to curtail the limits of our Empire, we have come to the conviction that we ought to allow it to hold its way when it strikes at the very centre. Strange infatuation ! Singular delusion, to imagine that a system by its nature so inevitably aggressive will be driven back by the narrow seas that protect our shores ! Like Canute, we sit on the brink, and bid it recoil at our word but, unlike Canute, we believe in the potency of our own command, and calmly watch the tide as it submerges all surround ing objects, confident that it dare not come to us. Heaven grant that we may soon receive such warn ing as will at last rouse us—a warning merciful, if it be but severe enough to teach us that we are mortals too, that we cannot dissever our fate from that of our fellow-men, and that, if we would retain freedom, civilisation, Christianity itself, we must be ready to fight for them whenever they are assailed. " THE EXAMINER" AND " THE NORTHERN WHIG" ON THE IRISH VICE-ROYALTY.—The Earl of Carlisle being compelled by ill health to resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, again the question arises whether it be worth while to maintain an office of which all the uses seem to have departed. We need net repeat what we have often said in ex pressing our wish for its abolition. One evil in the office, as matters now stand, is that respect for Ire. land makes it desirable to send a man of high cha. racier and ability; yet it is hard on an able man to ask him to play the part of a State dummy. Oar respected contemporary, the Northern Whig, sug gests the appointment of Prince Alfred, and if that be not feasible, asks whether the Government cans not find an Irish nobleman who would grace the office:—" We have no great sympathy with the cry of Ireland for the Irish,' which often means, ' All Ireland for the Irish, and as much of England as we can get,' but we are patriotic enough to think that it is a slight upon the fair fame of our Irish aristocracy to pass them over in the case of the vice-Royalty. It cannot be said that there are no Irishmen who are eligible for the office. An Irish man now governs Canada, and there would be more of the class in similar positions if they chose to leave home. It may appear invidious to make a election, but there is one nobleman whose great abilities, elegant taste, courteous manners, and mild.. vested judgment eminently fit him to be at the bead of the Viceregal establishment. We refer to Lord Dufferin. His lordship did good service in the East, and he was soon afterwards offered one of the highest offices in the gift of the Crown, which he refused because its acceptance would necessitate his departure from Ireland. We have not had an Irish man in the office of Viceroy since the Revolution. Lord Palmerston's policy cannot be said to be "measures, not men," but the reverse. We can assure him that it would be a most popular measure for him to select an Irishman for the post of Lord. Lieutenant. This is well suggested, and the credit given to Lord Dufferin is even lees than his due. If the Vice-Royalty is to be continued, a more desires able man to fill it cannot be imagined. Is there a dignity beyond that of ceremonial ia the Viceroy's office ? Can a true political service really be done to the two kingdoms by a viceroy specially apt for his duty, whom the two kingdoms would gladly trust, and who could bring high aims, warm sympathies, clear judgment, and the quick insight of genius to the public service? If so, Lord Dufferin is of all men the one most able to show that it is so. Either let the office be got rid of as worn.out upholstery of State, or let it be treated as a real and living trust, and given to a man with every claim on Irish sym pathy and the full confidence of England, who will bring out whatever hidden value it may yet pos sess. TILE "SATURDAY REVIEW' ON TIIE LAST FEDERAL DEFEAT.--The repulse of Grant's attack upon Petersburg has produced a more painful impression in the North than any of his previous failures. His repeated changes of the plan of the campaign were applauded with deliberate levity, as successiveimprovements on the original project which had proved to be impracticable. His pliant tenacity in adapting his measures to the necessities of his position were more reasonably admired. No Federal General before him had so fully appreciated the advantage of vast superiority in numbers and resources. If he sacrificed a large army in fighting his way to the James River, where he might have landed without the loss of a man, he surprised both friends and enemies by proving that he could still afford to threaten Petersburg and Richmond. For the obsolete anaconda popular fancy substituted a bulldog who had fastened on the throat of the rebellion, nor was it necessary to remem ber that every other line of approach had been vainly essayed before the enemy was attacked in front. The defeat in the breach of Petersburg has, for the first time, disturbed the easy confidence of the North. It is generally felt that no alternative plan of campaign can be discovered, nor can the loss of 6,000 men be regarded, as in the beginning of the summer, with indifference or complacency. The most discouraging circumstance is the employment of negro troops in the decisive assault. During all the previous operations since the passage of the Rapidan, General Burn side has commanded the reserve, including the greater portion of the coloured regiments. It is impossible to sup pose that Grant would h ave r i s k e d his success on the s t ea diness of the black s , if h e h a d not already expended the best portion of his arm y. Even in the last assaults, troops been and if t expected,he Confederates t o had been driven from their defences , t he negro p l ace d white breegimseeenintss,asmight in have front ; might have been competent to improve the vic tory. Little blame can attach to recruits from a servile and despised race for their inability to stand against adversaries of unsurpassed energy and daring ; but the panic which ensued, though perfectly excusable, was not the less fatal to the hopes of the North. The losses of Grant's army s i n ce it crossed the Rapidan are variously estimated at 80,000, at 100,000, and at 150,000 men. Whatever may be the actual numbers, it is certain that the best troops have been expended in the earlier battles. It is as natural for a general to use his chosen regiments first as for a mechanic to genpeuratliay h s e te ld el h po is in G t ua to rd a iron man reserve;tol o. butN a t p h o e le h o u n l , in ke d f ee h d ia , army was superior in fighting qualities to his continental opponents. In the Italian war of 1859, the picked troops of the French army were always placed in the front, and one of the supposed reasons for the hurried pacification was the approaching necessity of depending on the conscripts. The co mposition of the Federal army involves an unusual amount of inequality. The soldiers who have served through two or three campaigns are better than the recent levies, and the negroes, though they have displayed commendable discipline and steadiness, fall far short of the standard of American or European efficiency. If Grant was not forced to employ his coloured troops in a desperate attack, he would be liable to a charge of reckless cruelty and injustice. The defeat or destruction of the negro regiments will tend to discredit the strange measures by which the Northern States are prepared to answer the demand for 500,000 re cruits. When Congress, after many changes of pur pose, finally abolished the money compensation ,for the personal service of conscripts, a singular clause in the statute provided that substitutes might be procured from the States in rebellion. As the Confederate population is by no means likely to volunteer suicidal assistance to the North, the measure was intended to apply exclusively to fugitive or liberated slaves. A citizen of New York or Massachusetts who finds himself drafted for service, in stead of going into the market fc.r Irish or German substi tutes, will employ a broker to find a negro volunteer at the market price of the day. It seems scarcely probable that a eufficient number of coloured recruits will be ultimately forthcoming ; but the supply is not yet exhausted, and the morrow must take care of itself. For the present the nego tiations aro conducted on behalf of States or townships which desire to fill up their quota before the compulsory draft is enforced. Under the pressure of immediate per sonal liability, prices aro likely hereafter to undergo a rapid rise. If a largo coloured army is raised, the Con federates will have little cause for alarm. No proceeding could be more certain to estrange the feelings of the North from a warlike policy, The honour of the Federal arms would be compromised by the inevitable defeat of the black mercenaries; and even if it were possible that they should conquer, their success would grate upon all the national sympathies and prejudices. The vic torious army must occupy the South, after overpowering resistance in the field, and the Northern Americans are not yet prepared to place their countrymen in subjection to emancipated negro slaves. It is only as auxiliaries that the coloured regiments can be safely employed, even if they can be induced to take arms against their former masters. RePugllance to new methods of conducting the war, die4P pointment at the failure of Grant's expedition, and growing financial embarrassment, may perhaps at last produce a re action in favour of peace. It is impossible to foresee the course of popular feeling, nor does it follow that urgent sons will operate as cogent motives of action. Perha p s, how • ever, the collapse of Grant's military reputation may render a change of policy more feasible. The Democratic party some time since postponed its convention at Chicago to the end of Jaly, with the obvious purpose of waiting for the result of the pending campaign. It Richmond had been taken, it would have been necessary either to acquiesce in the re• election of Mr Lincoln,, or to persuade the victorious corn • mender to accept a Democratic nomination. As both can didates are now discredited by a succession of defeats, there is at last an opening for M'Clellan. No rival has, on the whole, displayed less incapacity, and the unwise enmity of Mr Lincoln has converted his former General into an irre concilable opponent. The Democrats have for some time discovered that it was useless to affect, in their contest with the Republicans, superior enthusiasm for the prosecution of the war. Even now their success is hopeless unless they undertake to advocate a policy of their own, and there can be no doubt that the majority of their leaders are sincerely desirous of peace. For the present, it will be necessary to possess a determination to preserve the Union, but the real terms of compromise will consist in the recognition of Southern sovereignty, to which it would be the policy of the North to add a Customs Union, and, if possible, a common &reign policy. There are some indications that the Confe derate Government would not be unwilling to listen to such proposals, and it might not be impossible to reconcile Northern feeling to an alliance which would partake of the nature of a federation. Whenever the negotiations com mence, the scheme which may be adopted will be recom mended to popular favour by its Northern promoters on the ground that it will facilitate the humiliation of England by the conquest of Canada. There are, in fact, dangers of the kind to be apprehended, whenever the present contest is terminated; but, for some time to come, neither the North nor the South will be inclined to engage in a wholly gra tuitous war of aggression. THE SPECTATOR.—MR BROWN ON THE CANADIAN FUTURE—It is a pity that the speeches of colonial notables are so seldom reported at home, They are frequently as much superior to colonial, articles as the Parliamentary de bates are to our own provincial leaders. The Hon. George Brown, for example, member for " South Oxford, Canada," and author of the plan for the federation of the North American Colonies, has recently explained his policy to his constituents in a speech which is incomparably the best essay yet published on the political history, position, and prospects of Upper and Lower Canada. It does not add very much except upon one grand point to the information previously received, but it justifies the new policy suggested by arguments which will weigh heavily with:her Majesty's Government. Mr Brown talks like an English statesman, without a trace of bombast or dreamy oratory, states facts simply, quotes figures which do not weary, bases a great proposition upon intelligible grounds of national interest, looks steadily at the future, and above all refers throughout his discourse to ideas higher than those of mere political expediency. The coalition which he has helped to frame is in itself, he declares, a thing to be condemned. A combina tion of politicians who have always opposed each other to take office ought, he argues , prima facie to shock the public mind, can be justified only by the presence of some overpowering national need, but in this instance the need, he contends, exists. The state of things is, it appears, even worse than was at first reported in this country. We all knew that the political equality of the provinces had ren dered Government impossible, that three administrations had been overset in three years, that the country was in a perpetual agony of elections, and that the finance of the combined colonies was wasteful beyond all precedent. But we did not all recognise that the equality was based on a radical injustice so great that unless another remedy could befound one racist be sought in a dissolution of partnership. Not only has Upper Canada outstripped her rival in popu lation by 400,000 souls, say 30 per cent., so that in one in stance a county member represents more electors than eight other county members elected by the same class, but there is still a, greater inequality in taxation. Upper Canadif, possessing only half the political power of the united colony, pays four-fifths of its taxation, contributing, for example, 575,000 dole from excise duties, while Lower Canada yields only 193,000 dols. The productions of the two provinces, the best means of testing their comparative wealth, show a still greater disproportion, the most important items being— Upper Canada. Lower Canada. Wheat (bushels) . 24,620,000 2,654,000 Indian corn (buahete).... 2,256,000 334,000 - Value of farms and stock for taxation (dole) 306,442,000 178,870,000 Whatever, therefore, is taken as the basis of calculation, population, or property, or taxation, or all three, the more numerous and wealthy and highly taxed province is still always the sufferer. Add to these taw that the equality is in reality only nominal, that the lesser and poorer and less taxed French Catholic province permanently governs the larger and richer and higher taxed English Protestant pro vince, and we have a state of affairs which in the nature of things could not hope to endure. It is as if England were subject to Ireland under the semblance of strict political equality, and compelled to provide from her own resources a tribute to fatten her less energetic associate. This really happened in the Canadas. The representatives of the Lower Province always voting together always retained the substance of power in their own hands, and they used it to spend on the province contributing one-fifth as much as on the province contributing four-fifths of the common fund. "If an extra aura at any time has to be voted to Upper Canada for any special purpose, a corresponding sum must be invariably appropriated to Lower Canada to maintain the equilibrium 1 Three or four to one is the principle of taxation—equality is the principle of expendi ture!" It does not need much to prove that an English and Protestant majority is not likely to endure long so preposterous an arrangement, kept up for the exclu sive benefit of a French and Catholic minority. So evident did this appear that even the French Canadians admitted the propriety of re -arrangement, and only pleaded for local powers of a very extensive kind. These, says Mr Brown, are to be conceded, and this is the most important hint in his speech. The details are not yet settled, but it is obvious that the clauses in the American Constitution which prescribe a monotonous uniformity of 'form to the different State Governments will not be repeated in the Canadian federal compact. The desires and interests of the colonies are too widely opposed. No clause prohibiting hereditary power will be or can bo sanctioned by the British Govern ment, the French Canadians are determined to uphold the "right" of their Church, to place it beyond the power of a Protestant majority; they are resolved that their language shall not be superseded; they intend to keep the civil law as the basis of their legislation ; and they will not give up their own ideas, which are English ideas, upon the descent of landed property. All these questions must therefore be declared local questions, and it will be difficult to a degree to retain for the central Parliament sufficient authority to make unity any longer desirable. The scheme, it is true, will admit of internal experiments, of diverse or hostile forms of society highly favourable to development, but then so would separate colonial life, and the Coalition may go so far as to destroy the national sentiment they obviously wish to foster, to create an antagonism of civilisation in place of an antagonism of geo graphical position.RThis is the rock upon which the Armed can Union has split, and if the new Ministry does not deal very tenderly with the matter it will find that it has created a powerless and therefore usually mischievous central as sembly. It is the enormous power of Parliament, its sense of responsibility, which steadies its action, and to bind it in paper bonds, to deprive it of the power of acting in emer gency with autocratic energy and decision, is to deprive it of its greatest means of utility. Italy exists as Rome existed, because her Parliament could at need create a Dic tator. Finally Mr Brown approaches the greatest subject of all, the political future to which these colonies are to look, and upon that point he is distinct and emphatic. Ile does not want annexation either to the North or the Union. On the other hand, he does not believe that Great Britain will for ever lend her fleet and soldiers to colonies from which she gains nothing that independent states would not yield. Re accepts the third alternative, and remembering British America is larger than the United States, that her popula tion is incessantly increasing, her vast mineral wealth unde veloped, her forests unexhausted, her commercial fleet the fourth in the world, he looks forward to the day " when the whole of British America shall stand together, and in close alliance and heartiest sympathy with Great Britain, be pre pared to assume the duties and responsibilities of a great and powerful nation." That also is the dream of the statesmen now coming forward to the front of English politics, tho form into which as they hope the Colonial Empire will be transmuted. The " mother country" is to be changed from an Empire owing dependencies she does not rule into a kingdom ringed routed with independent but cordial and faithful allies. If these ate the views of many among the leading politicians of Canada, we can congratulate her Par liament on its success in the very highest functions of Par liament—that of breeding and training statesmen. One only hint we would add on a point apparently trifling, but really of vital importance—lf the new coalition succeeds, as it may, in conciliating- a ll the colonies o f the Atlant,c coast, and, as it will, in ccaavincing the British Parliament, let it invent for the nation it will have created some common national name, soma sound implying unity which a great population can use. The colonists of Victoria and New South Wales. Tasmania and Queensland, are all alike Australians, but the citizens of the United States, like those of the -United Kingdom, have to this hour no name, ex cept one used in reproach and another begotten of arrogance. They are not Yankees, nor the only Americans, and when the Canadians join themselves with the people of New Brunswick. Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, they will find it wise to adopt a title a little less unwieldy than that of British North Amnion.% Jet Aqj f • 4.- t• N . Great Fire at Wooln Foresreler Liss, S. anday E'svrtipg. " A tremendous conflagration, n is )re like,onei3i-thea prairie fires of the western contin, ent than anything we are accustomed to realise in this country, oc curred in Longmoore encloeur e on Wednesday evening, and in its course, which has only just been arrested, has rendered a belt of co untry seven miles in breadth and three in depth a so :ne of Week des°. lation. Hundreds of acres Of A. r plantation, the property of the Government, haves been destroyed, besides several plantations belong it , g to private in. dividuals, and an immense quantity of vitae. The fire commenced just below iSleaforth gate, to the right of the Petersheld-road. It was observed to break out simultaneously in a dozen different places, and owing to the dryness of the heath and furze, it spread with alarming rapidity. It was not long before the plantations became a sheet of fire, which roared and crackled with ominous fury, and tinged the sky for miles with a lurid glare which inspired the belief in distant places that a whole town was in fttraes. At Godalming, Guild ford, and Aldershott the fire was plainly seen, and when the authorities of the latter place had ascer tained its situation and magnitude, a body of troops, consisting of the 75th and 83d Regimen ts,and a de. tachment of the Royal Engineers—in all about 1,000 men —were despatched to Woolraer to dig a a trench, and employ other military means for cat. ting off and subduin g the fire. By the time of their arrival, however, the flames had extended over a vast area of fir plantations, and it was evident that the reduction of the conflagr a • twit would be a work of some time, if not of difficulty Great fears were en tertained for the farms and other t h dwellin gsheat a near, the mass of flame was so great and fear ful; and it was a fortunate circumstance that there was scarcely any wind, as otherwise the flames must have embraced a still wider area of destrue tion, and perhaps have defied every e-L -es ort for their extinction. Notwithstanding the active exertions of the military, the fire continued to rage during Thursday, Friday, and a portion of Saturday, leav ing little but the blackened embers of thousands of fir trees in once flourishing plantations, and trans forming the landscape for a long distance into a, dreary and blighted-looking wilderness. On Friday the conflagration was a grand though almost ter rifying spectacle. For a mile mile beyond New Inn the fire was burning to Weaver's Hill, a dis tance of at least five miles, scaring from the coverts every living thing that it did not destroy, and darkening the air as far as the eye could see with rolling billows of smoke. Several cottages and out buildings fell a prey to' the flames, and of the quantity of game destroyed some idea may be formed from the fact that no less than twelve hares were taken oat of one hole burned to death. On Saturday the military succeeded in successfully ar resting the progress of the fire, and if no fur then damage is apprehended the force will retur a to Aldershot to-morrow morning. The fire was evidently the work of incendial ies. There is no one who ventures a contrary opinion, and the supposition is strengthened by the fact that the gipsies and broom sellers, who were allowed to gather broom and heath, and to depasture their cattle in the neighbourhood, have this year been denied those privileges. Some of them were h :ard to say that they would be revenged on this account, and the extensive conflagration is pretty generally considered as the fulfilment of this threat. A considerable number of persons visited the neighbourhood of the fire to-day, and gazed with no small astonishment upon the scene of wide-spr ecd desolation. At least 1,200 acres of timber in various stages of growth have been destroyed, and the total value of which canaot at present be estiniat. ed, but which must have, represented a Large sum of money. The Extraordinary Murder on the High Seas. COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED. SouTufoirroN, Sunday. The adjourned examinat ima of Adolphe Bjornsea, the Ger man sailor charged with murdering his captain on the Higb, Seas on the 21st June last, was resumed yesterday mornin g at the Guildhall before Mr G. S. Brintou, the mayor 'a.f Southampton, and a bench of borough magistrates. As on the previous day, the court was crowded with ea ger listeners, who manifested the deepest interest in Lhe pr o. ceedings. Mr B. Mackey was again present to watch the caso for the accused. The prisoner was brought up in the custody of Sup: ria tendent Enright, and having been places at the bar, Mr Eldridge, the clerk of the court, called Heinrich Alten, who deposed—l was steward on board the vessel Gustav Adolph. On the 21st June last I was forward with the rest of the crew. I was half asleep.. !about 9 o'clock in the evening the chief crate ran forward, c ailing out, "What is the matter with the second mate ? I think he is mad." We jumped up and ran aft, as we did not know what was the matter. As we came aft I saw the s, ?cond mate walking up and down the quarter deck. By the time we arrived there the captain came out of the cabin on deck, with his right hand holding on his left arm. As soon its the captain came on deck he called out, " Where is the second mate ? Have you secured him ?" As he said jthoee words the captain went towards the second mate, who said, " What 1 secure me l" and I then heard a report and saw the captain fall. The second mate stopped a moment, and then walked leisurely towards the companion, and jumped down the cabin. After that we were busy washing and laying the body of the captain out. I remained with the body, and procured fresh water and vinegar, while the rest of the crew went forward. The body remained by the skylight, and I, being afraid to remain by myself, went forward, and begged of the crew to help me to bring the body of the captain from aft forward. No one would go with me, and I went back by myself. When I came back the captain groaned several times, opened his mouth, but could not speak. Although I called him seve ral times he did not answer. I then went again forward to the crew and begged of them again to come aft, bat they re fused. I had to go back again by myself. The captain was still alive. When I proceeded the third time forward I got two of the crew to come aft with me, and we carried the body forward. The captain died about 20 minutes after he was shot. By that time the chief mate wanted to go down into the cabin, but the crew would not let him. About an hour and a half after the captain was dead I proceeded aft near the skylight and tried to look down the cabin to see what was going on. I went to the companion and looked down the staircase, and saw the second mate, and was frightened and went forward again, and half an hour after wards I saw the head of the second mate peeping out of the staircase companion. The man at the helm then left the wheel and made signs to us. After this several of the crew went aft, and then the second mate came on deck. I stood midships and saw the prisoner standing at the top of the staircase companion. I saw he had one gun in hie hand, and another he gave to one of the crew. I saw him before this bring several things on deck, and amongst them one ham, one case, different clothing made up in a bundle, and a large tin case containing biscuits. After this he went over the port side into the boat. The things were put into the boat by several of the crew. The boat was lowered and the second mate went away in her. One of the sailors had two guns and fired two shots at him, but missed him. One of the guns belonged to the second mate. He fired several shots, bat they hit against the mast. Daring this time two of the crew . went below and fetched up several fire-arms, which were kept in the se cond cabin, where the chief and second mate had their berths. After this I and the chief mate went down below to look for powder and shot. We went into the captai n ' s cabin, and saw several marks of blood on the table, sof a , and at the back of the sofa. We found powder and shot. 1 sew a hatchet on the top of the companion which ought to have been where the second mate slept. O n th e fl oor I saw two rings and the captain's hat. Out of the captain's berth was missed his gold watch and chain and his revol ver, as well as the gold watch of the chief mate. The even ing before the prisoner showed me a double-barrelled pistol while at tea. He drank his tea but ate nothing. I asked him why, and he said he had no appetite, Two days before this I saw him pack up several things in his clothes Th bag, Thin closed closed an th d e p e u x t in a berthaminatiun, and d d t e h r his own. epris uao r was fully committed for trial at the next assizes. Foreign Mail Packet List. A1A11.6 Austratia and Mautitiut, via : 7 01.0.1in.ropton. ...... Aug. 1 8 ......... dept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, lry packet. ....... Sept. u/ ALu a, Pena,;, t . id Cape of Goad Elope, 6 , 4 Ha m m.. Aug. 29. • ...Aug. 27. • is Sontbanvon.Aug, IS. Falkland Isl4r,flil ..... ................... 1 s . bit/fill11.0:, vizi, :::uu . jitt!i/ptAni. ..... ! .. .j t i;: iii * sou _ A ug. is, India (Caleull4.), and Ceylon, vi,4 t:7!_ a __ :iletl...„ Aug, 2 . 7„ via Iv mui " India (13Gatbay), v i a Southampton • Aug. 25.1 s A ug . 20 ,1 Port ............ .. • . via Marseilles 11l ............ t ''; .......... A S c u p;. 4. 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