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First class , ' ~,,, • ..*':' .. • . , , --• P. * plO • , ,t - 4' , i I 1 , , „ _,,- . ~ Vie 4) '..,*"7,k S..eN.;.'iti" ' Its _ , ~_,_ . . ..___ goods at second-class rices. Terms peculiarly liberal to `.,*;•-: 0 •L'-', '4 , -- ',.•ir. ~,•,.= '''' ~.,,, 0,4 -•••= - .--:--,,r' .. H, ,r_. - , .---v .; i ,• - 5,, , .. * . Cler_rymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select 5,:- '';,', t- ''''''.• ..., , • • '4 40.. 4 ~_ ''''. t w Z k 1 - from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying - an acre of ground. . ' 2. 4-, 4: ''''''' 12' ‘,.''' i '''-l'‘,.. - 46 —4, , .- - 1. --4- A.... , ..1, ), ~,; ,:`" 1 1 ~ 'o . Every article warranted •,• - . I. '" '' - ' "" -S. )1), "' ...iiit-W ' . 7 ' "'". . 4 ...Eft , ,- , , . C . . I '4, OL Eli Y3LEN and GENTLEMEN ABOIJT TO FUR- ' ' - c - 'l, •.,,, - L., , f ;s , _ 5y ,,..' .4. 64 --- ' '-, ~1 ..,,„ - L - • 2 , ,--,.., i ,•03,.... , ~,.1 0.-..., , , \ :.• 44 ,• :1;7- •--,,,,,,, ' DI 6 , , ir.• ,_,,-- ow /'----* ~,, ~ ~ ~ 14 ISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and • -1 .',,`./ " - ' /V l * -, ' ' ,e_.4 1 .; if - 1 :. i I S- rl; 4 ! - -DROIT• -• tN -- -- - 4.•.. ~ dr , , , Co. are publishine , an entirely New Edition of their un- I equalled HOUSE FT T 0a,..r. -- LNG GUIDE, illustrated by 410 1 ..q _. SE FURNISH tiNi (i .., ~ - admirable enaravinvs of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised Beale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-rcomed ditto , 91 it 0 Together with a Price List of purified rsedding, and a mass of valuable information to all requiring househ3ld furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlLmen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester. Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Ox , ord. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder- Minster, Wellington. Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 510 other places in all parts of Great Britain. COB BE TT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, T HE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (The Directors reserve to hemselyes the right of changing the name of the Company.) To be incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1862," by which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of share , . Capital £1,000,006, in 20,000 Shares of £5O. First issue, 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £1 per share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at inter :els of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £2O per share. DIRECTORS. George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con stable', Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great St. Helen's. William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Wm. M`Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander 3PArthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street. F. J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargoed, Kin;, and Sargood), London and Melbourne. Th mas Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres aad River Plate Bank. James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.), Gutter-lane. *Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. *Richd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman 4; Co. *Samuel Baker, Esq. * Committee of Management. BANKERS. The London and. Westminster Bank, -4 " ''"' SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. BROKERS. James Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane. Messrs. Sandeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. Offices—No. 4, Abatreh-lane. PROSPECTUS. In forming this Company the Directors have secured the no-operation of Messrs. Sandeman and Co.. of Abchurch-lane. Whose well-known and long-established business it is the object of this Company to take up and develope. The Company will conduct all the operations of ordinary discount busines , . The terms on which the business of Messrs. Sandeman and Co. 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 commence from that day. No promotion money has or will be paid, and the expenses will be strictly confined to the necessary payments. Prospectuses and forms of' applications for shares may be oh' ained 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 depDsit will be made avail able towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. N°. 22,309. Io PERSONS SEEKING LANDED ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER PIES GENERALLY- To BE HAD GRATIS, at tliTeprincipal Hallway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY VEGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS or PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can erns brace the opportunity that the medium of this Resister affords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., both rhea t ' ge t con' ectedf de ill over. WOMAN'S RANSOM. By P. W. ROBINSON, _ S tone• per qr. 20 Per Author of "Grandmother's Money," &c. " A Woman's Ransom' will fascinate the attention of the reader to the very end."—John BuIL Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. )•day' to 94 to 284 to 2 t 4 to 4" to 4°6 FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolideed Discount Company (Limited). , . Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of £ , I request you to allot me s h ar es in the Consolidated Discount Company (Limited), and I hereby azree to become a member of the Society, and to accept such shares, or any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I request you to place my name on the Register 6f Members in respect of the shares allotted tome. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. Name in full . Address Usual signature • Date CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that no APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Compaqy will be received after WED NESDAY next, the 30th instant. By order. Temporary Offices, 4. Abchurch-lane, E.O , Dec. 24, 1863. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. This Company is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for Mercantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced scale of rates. Particulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle street. PPERIAL LIFE INSUR tNCE COMPANY no. 1, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. Instituted 1820. HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., Chairman. EDWARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq„ Deputy-Chairman. Insurances effected before the 31st January, 1861, will be entitled to Three Years' Additions in the Profits to be de clared in 1866. SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. NOTICE,-CHRISTMAS RENEWALS. g 76 ,* 3:o 3 ' 2, 001 1 ,0 4.17 1 9 3,65 52, 92 i Mercantile and Deck Insurances at the reduced rates. ,5 2 5 1 66 . 379 3,9 77 OS 12,0 3 1 1 3, 71 ! 67 ' 1 , .... S 9l 441 0.7 2, 510 16 1, 6 r! 63 49. 291 OP° CB3 4. 1 , 3 51,0 erate havo old in ........and __... ydetl' itor. older• , wife v ile Of Stre 3t° . of ii gr' I (int °f le Vl' O f ' gate; had The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was £85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock, £10,086,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received sums amounting in the aggregate to .C 440,000 ; and the Society now holds a large Reserve applicable to a future Bonus. letono col ll ' r) to Job ° ,tona l itlall 41 1 '; , The rates of premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal offices making no returns to their insurers. For pro , pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. THE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE BONDS AND POLICIES OF GUARANTEE ARE ACCEPTED BY THE TREASURY, CUSTOMS, INLAND REVENUE, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, WAR, ADMIRALTY, HOME, COLONIAL, INDIA, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. HENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman. John Cheetham, Esq., Staleybridge. John Field, Esq., Warnford-court, City. Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall. Richard Francis Georqe, Esq , Bath. Henry H. Harrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's-wood. Thomas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Highbury. John Hedging, Esq., Cavendish Club. James Edward M`ronnell, Esq.. Wolverton. C. W. Reynolds, Esq., Eaton-place, Belgravia. Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of Cust'ms, Bomb iy. H. Wickham Wickham. Esq. M.P. for Bradford. Thomas Winkworth, Esq., Esq., Club, and Canonbury. J.P. Brown-Westhead, Esq., M.P. for York. Security is provided in approved cases for Officers of Bank -11:1Z and Commercial Establishments, Public Companies, Municipal Corporations, and for other places of trust. ---• Life AFsurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad vantageous terms. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, and every information may be ob'ained from the Chief Offices, 2. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; and 39, Gcorge-street, Edinburgh. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION ( Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. __OCT_VTIJS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. svmr:f__A-RNICEB BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. ki ay PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. iTenty Bainbridge E DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, E BO s q. Wilmot Holland, Esq. John Garratt Cattl - v . r Earl of Leven and Melville. Mark Currie Close, c E,,' -s q. Chas. Ji m M ann i n o., E sq . William Davidson, Esq; Henry Nelson, Es cc. ISElaropn:ur,je I °Bee Leo ll Il s Thomas Dent, Esq. e cl: V u . st P e e r r , 7 E . sq. Alexander Druce, 'E n Charles Robinson, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, E a ,. Riversdale W. Grenfell, req. wilij am ' a rrPFton Smith, Esq. 1! ob 1. Amadeus Heath, Req. joser sr tau ' E N' Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.! Nyn am Zncs, Rao., M.P. Wallac e l an Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Yoliu 1 p iernet on Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, E sq., O F Sq. NOTICE.- The usual fiftedeunedaatyschalriloswtmedasfzinnr). , FIRE PREMIUMS falling 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. I Insurances against Fire on Merchandize n the doerand warehouses in the P or t of London are accepted at the late reduced rates of Premium. FAR MING - STOCIC—No extra charge is made for the use of a Steam Thrashing m ach i ne. The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave raged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. A n y sum not exceeding £15 , 000 Life. , o ---- nn may be Insured on one - - • -- This Corporation affords to the Assured-- the li Liberal participartnershipation in Profits—wi th exemption from A rate of Bonus equal to the a verage r eturns of Capital Mutual S oc i e ties—with the guarantee of a large Invest e d Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the B of an Office whose resources have been tested by th e e g perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail- Way Terminus. Icing's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MajeAy the QUEEN. Tice -Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALE S,K.G President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the at tient and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged t) treat as out-patients many di stres •ing cases which. with Inore adequate tun ds, they would gladly admit into the war r" s. The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 600 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on tltuntal7 contributions and legacies, which are received by b Treasurer Edward Nas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also Co.Y Messrs. Coutts and Co.: Drummond and Co. ; Herries and 6 ; Ransom and Co, Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, - gne, o and Co.: Glyn and' Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay o y t _C • ; Denison and Co. W Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; ~,are n d, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., BerPers-street ; Lrman and Co. ; I. Barned and Co., Liverpool; and at the 1108 Pita1, from 10 till 5. Now ready, illustrated by Millais, is. bound, CHEAP EDITION OF LOST AND SAVED, by the Hon. Mrs. NORTON, forming the New Vo'ume of "HURST and BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY." " A novel of rare excellence, with a brave soul speaking through it. It is Mrs. Norton's best prose work."—Examiner. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. On Tuesday next, in post Bvo., 10s. 6d., CHRISTMAS AT OLD COURT. By the Author of "Richelieu in Love." Richard Bentley, Nevißurlingten- street. 13TANFORD f 3. 011TH Oeorst477. NOTICE. —CHARLES READE'S Great Story of " HARD CASH " is now Ready, in 3 Volumes, post Bvo., cloth, 31s. 6d., and may be obtained at any Library or Bookseller in the Kingdom. London : •Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 14, Ludgate hill. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. In the January Number (now ready) commences a New Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled 111HE DOCTOR'S WIFE. By Author of "John Marchmont's Legacy," "Lady Audley's Secret," &c., &c. Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " SACKVILLE CHASE." 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. Fcap. Bvo., 280 pp., cloth, lettered, 3s. free by post, T HE PRINCIPLES and PRACTICE of VEGETARIAN COOKERY, Founded on Chemical Analysis, and embracing the most approved Methods of the Art. By the Author of "Fruits and,Farinacea the Proper Food of Man." London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. 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. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—D ur i ng the recent heavy gales some of the boats of the Royal Nalonal Lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17 ; schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 ; pilot boat, of St. Ives, 7 ; schooner Anion, of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1 ; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1; fishing boat, of Filey, 2 ; Tenby fishing boat, 3; and barque Providence, of Dantzic, 7. Total lives saved, 55. The lifeboats also assisted in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camoglino, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, the schooner Guilts, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress on fourteen °cessions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward paid for all these services was £216. The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANuE to enable ?hem to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 lileb Jat estab lishments. Contributions are received by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and Westminster Bank. Post-office 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. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendo r s at is. lid. snd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. SOHO ESTATE. HOUSE, AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and Houses to be dispose,' of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 20, Gerrard-street, Soho, 7.. _ Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &c. Rents Collected. PRICE..... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. STAMP YOUR PAPER, INNS OP COURT. The Council of Legal — Education have approved the following rules fur the public examination of the students for Hilary Term, 1864. ENVELOPES. INVOICES. &c with JONES'S PATENT PERCUSSION EMBOSSING PRESS. The above would be found useful to youths at school for embossing their Books, Drawings, Papers, &c. The Press complete, with Plain Crest, Name, or Business Die, 9s. 6d. Note the Address :—WILLIAM JONES, Die Sinker, Press Maker, and Embosser, 3, Queen's-court, High Holborn (op posite Day and Martin's). BANKRUPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS.- Mr. WETHERFIELD, 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, free of law costs. Divorce and Probate business conducted at moderate ex pense. The attention of the students is requested to the following rules of the Inns of Court : As an inducement to students to propose themselves for examination, studentships shall be founded of 50 guineas per annum each, to continue for a period of three years, and one such studentship shall be conferred on the most dibtin guished student at each public examination; and further, the examiners shall select and certify the the names of three other students who shall have passed the next best exami nations, and the Inns of Court to which such students be long, may, if desired, dispense w ith any t erms not exceed ing two, th a t may rema i n to b e k ep t by su ch s tud en t s pre viously to their being called to the bar. Provided that the examiners shall no t b e o bli ge d t o con f er or grant any stu dentship or cer tifi cate unless they shall be of opinion that the examinati on of the student they select has b een suc h as entitles them thereto. At every call to the Bar those students who have passed a public examination, and either obtained a studentship or certificate of honour, shall take rank in seniority over all other students who shall be called on the saute day. No students shall be eligible to be called to the Bar who shall not either have attended during one whole year the lectures of two of the readers, or have satisfactorily passed a public examination. RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR HONOURS OR CERTIFICATES ENTITLING{ STUDENTS TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR. An examination will he held in next Ililary Term, to which a student of any of the Inns of Court, who is desirou s or o o f f o becoming o a a o c e a r n t i d fi i o d a a t t e e f o o f r fi a t n s o a t u s dent for i e i p n g o r Called u r t o s , the bar, will be admissible. MR. REARMS, LAND ESTATE. and HOUSE AGENT, SURVEYOR and VALUER, 91 and 92, PICCADILLY, near Cambridge Douse, opposite the Green-park, Established 23 Years, respectfully invites the particulars of Landed Estates, Farms, and House Property for Sale, to be Let, or wanted to Rent or Purchase, for which no charge is made unless a treaty is concluded, and then only his usual rates of charge, particulars of which will be given on application. In all cases of his Letting Farms Mr. Reardon charges tne Tenant only, and not the Landlord. Particulars of Property for Sale and to be Let will be given personally, or forwarded free of charge. N.B.—Several Town and Country Residences, Landed Properties, and Farms wanted to Rent and Purchase immediately. Direct full particulars to Mr. Reardon as above. TEETH.—Mr. ESKELL'S INVE NT ION in follow', the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH h as th e maa u ng advantages : —A se t o f t ee th , of excellent work matnfp a nd mechanism, can be ma d e an d fitted with the Perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, w ithout pain or ext raction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without 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 liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetim e . C omfort guaranteed. Trea tise Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 s t amps. Inspection of specimens and o onsu lt at i ons iree.-B,Grsvenor- eetexp lainin Bond-street, W ; and at as , B ennett ' s-hill, Bir mingham- str, g Each student proposing to submit himself for examina tion will be required to enter his name at the Treasurer's office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs, on or before Friday, January 1 next, and he will further be required to state in writing whether his object in offering himself for examination is to compete for a studentship or other honourable distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtaining a certificate preliminary to a call to the Bar. The examination will commence on Thursday, January 7 next, and will be continued on the Friday and Saturday following. It will take place in the Benchers' Reading-room of Lincoln's-inn, and the doers will be closed 10 minutes after the time appointed for the commencement of the examina tion. The examination by printed questions will be conducted in the following order :—Thursday morning, January 7, at half-past 9,:0n Constitutional Law and Legal History; in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on Equity. Friday morning, January 8, at half-past 9, on Common Law; in the after noon, at half-past 1, on the Law of Real Property, &C. Saturday morning, January 9, at half-past 9, on Jurispru dence and the Civil Law ; in the afternoon, at half past 1, a paper will be given to the students, including questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination. The oral examination will be conducted in the same order during the same hours, and on the same subjects, as those already marked out for the examination by printed ques tions, except that on Saturday afternoon there will be no oral examination. The oral examination of each student will be conducted apart from the other students, and the character of that examination will vary, according as the student is a candi date for honours or a studentship, or desires simply to ob tain a certificate. IN LEVER TRUSS ROYAL LETTERS "PATENT. E lIBITED IN TRE GREAT M A XI E xtuRITION BOF 1851 AND .. , mT R U P (PERFECTEDTU RE. ROYAL AND 1862 ) to be the most effective The uee of a steel spring, Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen nt of HERNIA. HITE'S MOO nvention in the curative treatment is allowed by upwards of round the Is here avoided--a soft bandage being worn by the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied ease Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much be worn And closeness that it cannot be detected, and may the during slee so often hurtful in its effects, p• A descriptive circular may he had, and truss, which cannot fail to ournference ot the body, two inches below the hip ®, being fit, forwarded by post, 011 sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WRITE, 225, Piccadilly. A Single TrUss, 165., 215., 268. 6 d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. 1 Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. Xn Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, is. 10d. the cir- Post-office Orders to be made payable 1-, s— John White, Post office, Piccadilly. Theoral examination and printed questions will be founded on the books below-mentioned, regard being had, however, to the particular object to which the student presents him self for examination. In determining the question whether a student has passed the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to be called to the Bar, the examiners will principally have regard to the general knowledge of law and jurisprudence which he has displayed. A student may present himself at any number of exami nations until he shall obtain a certificate. Any student who shall obtain:a certificate may present him self a second time for examination as a candidate for the studentship, but only at one of the three examinations im mediately succeeding that at which he shall have obtained such certificate, provided that if any student so presenting himself shall not succeed in obtaining the studentship, his name shall not appear in the list. Students who have kept more than 11 terms shall not be admitted to an examination for the studentship. The reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History will expect the candidates for honours to be well acquainted with the Origin and Progress of our Laws and Constitution, as explained in chap. 3, part 3, of Hallam's History of the Middle Ages. He will expect them to be well acquainted with the chapters in Hallam's Constitutional History which give an account of the reigns of Henry VIII., of Elizabeth, the Stuarts, William 111. and Anne, with the State trials of persons eminent in our history, or remarkable, for any other reason, from the accession of James I. to the year 1747, vith the history of the law of treason and the law of libel. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, Arc., for Varicose Veins and all oases of Weakness and Swelling of rhe Legs, Sprains, dm They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on We an ordinary stocking. Prioe Is. 6d., 7s. 6d., 108., to 16s. eaoh. Postage 6d. All candidates will be required to know the leading events in English history from the Conquest to the accession of George 111. , to have an accurate knowledge of the reigns of the Stuart Kings, of Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, the Act of Settlement, and the Toleration Act. The Reader on Equity proposes to examine in the fol.• lowing books :-1. Haynes's Outlines of Equity ; Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence ; Hunter's Elementary View of the Proceedings in a Suit in Equity, part 1. 2. The cases and notes contained in vol. 1 of White and Tudor's Leading Cases; the Act to Further Amend the Law of Pro perty and to Relieve Trustees, 22 and 23 Victoria, chap. 35 ; the Act to Further Amend the Law of Property, 23 and 24 Vic., chap. 38 ; the Act to give to Trustees, Mortgagees, and other certain powers now commonly inserted in settlements, mortgages, and wills, 23 and 24 Vic., cap. 145; the Act to Regulate the Procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 25 and 26 Vic., cap. 42 ; the General Orders of the Court of Chancery of the Ist February, 1861, and of the sth Febru ary, 1861 (Jurist, vol. 7, N.S., part 2, p. 58); Mitford on Pleadings in the Court of Chancery, introduction, chap. 1 secs, 1 and 2 ; chap. 1, sec. 3 (the first six pages); chap. 2, sec. 1; chap. 2, sec. 2, part 1 (the first three pages) ; chap. 2, sec. 2, part 2 (the first two pages); chap. 2, sec. 2, part 3; chap. 3. Candidates for certificates having passed a satisfactory examination will be expected to be well acquainted with the books mentioned in the first of the above classes. Candidates for a studentship or honours will be examined in the books mentioned in the two classes. The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes to ex amine in the following books and subjects: -1• Joshua Williams en the Law of Real Property, sixth edition. 2. Legal and Equitable Interests, J. W. Smith on Real and Personal Property, second edit., pp. 234-287. 3. Vested and Contingent Bequests; Stapleton v. Mottles, Prec. Chan., 317; Hanson v. Graham, 6 Ves. 239 and the notes to those cases ; Tudor's Real Property Leading cases, second edit . pp. 724.762. 4. The Fines and Recoveries Abolition A ct, 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 74, and the notes to that Act, sh e i_ ford's Real Property Statutes, seventh edit. 5 7 1 , nature and effects of tenure, Hayes on Conveyancing, vol. L, cap. 1, pp. 1.51, fifth edition. Candidates for honours or the studentship Will b exa mined in all th e foregoing books and subjects; candidates for a certificate in those under heads 1,2, and 3, The Reader on Civil Law and Jurisprudence proposes to exam i ne in the following books and subjects --1 Justi nian's Institutes, book ii., with thejuenotes of . Ortolan s and_ Sanders. 2. Mackeldeii-Systems e i a lis, lib. 1., secs. 208-327 (p p. 227 is Romani, Pars , • 3. Code Napoleon, art. 516-710, 388 edit. Lips., S4 ‘ ) differente s modifications de la proprict6 ; des - biens et des esorip. tion. 4. Wheaton's Elem art. 2,219-2,281 de It P aw r 1, c ommencement ents of International 1863) ; Part IV,, c. imme diate effect. 5. Austin, thelnencement of war and its im (e ra di s t de fined, lectures I. and Candidates for . province of jurisprudence hobnours will be exam' 'ned in the whole of the above subjectsbe examined in 1, , 4, ut c d an s did l ates for a pass certificate will The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the following books and subjects : Candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in,-1. The Ordinary Steps and Course of Pleading In an Action. 2 . The Law of Contracts so far as set forth in Broom's Commentaries (second edit.), book ii., omitting chaps. 4 and 6. 3. Selwyn's Nisi Prius (twelfth edit.)—Titles : Assault and Battery, Deceit, Libel, Trespass, and Troyer, 4. Archibold's Criminal Pleading, 15th edit. (by Welsby), book ii., part 1, secs. 1-3 of Larceny, Embezzlement, and Cheating. Can did a tes for the students hi p and honours will be exa mined in 1,3, and 4 supra, and also in-5. The under mentioned cases, with the notes appended to them con tained in Smith's Selection of Leading Cases (last edition), vol. II : Cutter v. Powell, Elves v. Mawe. Macriot v. Hampton, Pesky v. Freeman, Vicars v. Wilcocks. 6. Broom's Legal Maxims (third edit.) ; chap. s—Fundamen tal Legal Principles ; chap. 8.--The Interpretation of Deeds and Written Instruments. 7. Smith's Mercantile Law, sixth edit. (by Dowdeswell) ; Book I.—Of Mercantile Persons. 8. Taylor on Evidence (third edit.) ; part 1.-- Nature and Principles of Evidence. By order of the Council, C. WES7BURY, Chairman. ROBIN HOOD has been taken as the subject of a German poem by Anastasitts Grim. It is a curious question to ask what detectives really do, and how they do it—how much crime is found out through their agency, and what are the means they employ ? Those wretched private detectives, as they call themselves, who offer their services to get up scandals, do unquestionably pick up or invent a mass of gossip; and it is by no means a pleasant reflection that any one who owes another a grudge can hire a scoundrel to spy out all the details of his irsets police particular aek dimple s p o i f o persons questions o the enemy's lif e , i n the hope of securing some base end by daring the m an h e has spied to face publicity. There are, et we suppose, s ome private detectives of a higher stamp ; but putting these pe o pl e aside, what do the detectives employed in a proper and resp ons ib le way, by official authority, really itperfectly obvious. A d ead body is found, and the do ? We believe th a t th e experience of all lawyers who have had much to do with the working of the criminal law their selves' The police merely conduct an inquiry lawe ea l h h e a is that the detectives do exceedingly little. The crimes which are found out, in nin e t y - nine cases out of a hundred, reveal make inquiry p eelemost about oe t. which Tt likely to know, tied get answers whi c h s h ow who was the murderer. It is true that the police in suc h a case discover the criminal, but this is merely becaus e th e police are the persons paid to go through this easy proc ess. If a crime has be en comm itt e d o f a ki n d t o make d e t ec ti on complicated the poli ce may o b ta i n some c l ue by s impl y exhausting all the ch ances of finding something to guide. Th ey have unbounded time b e f ore them; if they succeed, t h ey are com p li mented and paid extra; if they fail, they are still paid as much as their labour is worth in the market. Th e y have also the prestige of the law to help them, and in most cases, in England, there is a general desire in the popula tion that the offender should be brought to justice. But they have not anything more, and if the concealment of the crime is such as to bailie the investigation of :persons who are armed with the authority of the law, and can afford to take plenty of time in the search, the crime almost always remains undetected. There is no such thing, unless in very exceptional cases, as sending to London for skilled detec tives who, by some magical art, can hunt out a crime un discoverable by a decent set of competent policemen work ing in the ordinary way. The main use of calling in the gprviece of London policemen is, that the men sent are the most expert of their class, and are tolerably sure to avoid gross blunders at the outset. They may b e useful in pre venting the local authorities from going o ff the wrong scents and so losing time. But when they set t o wor k , t h ey can but work as all men of sense and experi ence woul d work in conducting such an inquiry, and have n o spec i al secret or art of their own. T hen what can detectives r ea ll y d o ? They can do two things if they are masters of the bu s i ness. They c an catch, better than mos t men , a person supposed to hav e committed a cr i me ; and, secondly, when they h ave ca ught him, they can deal with him better than most per sons can. B oth these things are distinct from unravelling the secret o f a crime. The detectives could not find out the clue to the R oad murder; but if they had fixed reasonable suspicion on a ny person, and that person had tried to run away, they would have effected his capture better than any ordinary men of intelligence could have done. This is partly from experience and partly from a natural capacity for acting, A man accustomed to hunt criminals gets a general idea of what criminals are likely to do—what ports, for example, they are likely to embark at, or what are the most common devices for throwing suspicion on other people. Then, again, the detective has, or ought to have, a turn for acting, and a good deal of practice in acting. He has the face and figure which admit of disguises : he can, in tech nical language, make up well; and when he is made up, he can behave as a person of his assumed character would be have. He can do at least as well as a fair farce actor could. He knows how to dress as a waiter, as a clergy man, as a commercial traveller, and he is tolerably at home in his dis guises. Wherever the fugitive is, he must, unles s in soli tude or in a regular den of thieves, be among people inno cently pursuing the ordinary business of life, and regardless of him. He is on his guard against exceptional people who look as if they were engaged on special business, and whose special business may be to catch him ; but he cannot be on his guard against all the people who seem to be doing only what they do every day, and to be going on without any reference to him and his crime. It is the part of the detec tive to pretend to be one of these people, and to act so na turally that the fugitive is entrapped ; and in order to act the part the detective must have a manageable figure and face, and knew how to talk naturally, and be willing and ready to tell a vast amount of lies on the spur of the mo ment. Then, again, when the prey is bagged and the de tective has revealed himself as a detective, and has his criminal in his grasp, he often, from experience of criminals, and from the general quickness which a life like his fosters, can deal with his man in a very effective way. He can, perhaps, read in the captive's face whether he is guilty or not, and if he looks guilty he can often make defence vir tually impossible by boldly accusing him of the crime, while beforehand the detective had no more than a general sus picion.—Saturday Review. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, VA, PlaidlllY. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1863. 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But the moment is at hand when I shall have a better opportunity of doing this. To-day I come to speak of business and business only. I like this better ; for politics may sometimes divide, but business I hope will tend to unite you. I am pleased to-day to have to speak upon a subject on which we have ideas in common,rather than one which might be irritating I come, then, at once to the great question before us. We are asked for 300 millions to meet the expenses already incurred. It is money due that we are called upon to provide. Although this expenditure has been occasioned in great part by an expedition which I regret extremely—the Mexican expedition —that consideration in no way diminishes either our desire or our duty to pay the money owing. These expenses have become saddled upon the float ing debt, and have thus attained the character of a public debt. The question now before us is simply this—is it not desirable to transfer this liability from the floating to the consolidated debt? But pari passu with this question there arises this other —ls it not incumbent upon us to take precautionary measures to prevent the floating debt from swelling again, in the course of a few months, to the same amount which you now think unsafe ? That is the question which I propose to examine. Although I had rather not mix up politics with this discussion, yet I may perhaps add a few words with the view of recommending that this loan may have an essen tially pacific character. If it were otherwise, com mercial transactions and even diplomacy might be very much damaged. (Cheers.) I shall endeavour, in the first place, to define as clearly as possible what the floating debt is. The word deficit, which is often used to describe it, dots not precisely cor respond to the idea which I always had of the float ing debt. The floating debt is not even, as I under stand it, a deficit. There is a deficit, when a mini ster, transgressing legal limits goes beyond his credit. There is a deficit until he has excused himself before you by the plea of necessity. But when once a deficit forms part of the floating debt it becomes a public debt. The floating debt is the aggregate of the deficits which have not been provided for either by taxes or loans, A simile will explain my notion exactly. Let us suppose that a rich banker doing a large business and having many correspondents, allows himself to be led into engagements beyond his resources. In that case he resorts to the expedient which is vul garly called making money of his signature. Well, just so the Treasury is a rich banker ; it receives from its correspondents considerable sums, which it applies to current expenses. To raise the surplus it has recourse to its signature and issues Treasury bills. Now, what are the limits within which, ac cording to the dictates of prudence, the amount of Treasury bills should be fixed ? Under the Resto ration it went as high as from 300 to 350 millions. Under the constitutional Government of 1830 it was sometimes 400, 500, 600, and 700 millions. The latter figures appeared to me excessive, and, for my part, I complained of them at the time. Under the present regime the floating debt has successively risen to 800 and 900 millions and even to a milliard. The latter has been the figure for the last two years. That is an amount calculated to cause uneasiness, and it is desirable that it should be reduced. Is it pos sible now to fi x.with any certainty, the exact amount of the reduction which ought to be made in the issue of these bills ? No. But the example of the banks may furnish us with an approximative rule. It re sults from a series of observations that the metallic reserve of a bank ought to be about one-third of the amount of its issue of paper. This proportion, which in France is merely customary, is compelled by legal enactment in England. A sort of analogy applicable to the floating debt may be found from these data. The correspondents of the State are all the great public establishments. Their funds are all fused in one great bank, that of the State. That state of things is eminently useful, it is one which has been approved of by the most eminent financiers, and especially by the most eminent of all, ono under whom I had the honour to serve, Baron Louis. The receiver-general are obliged to deposit considerable sums with the Treasury, and always to be in advance witn it. There we have a fund of about 130 millions. The communes pay into the Treasury the resoices which enable them to meet their authorised expenses. There again, you have a fund of about 110 mil lions. Then there is the Caisse des Consignations, the Caisse d'Essargnes (savings banks), and the army Caisse. Those are the correspondents of the Treasury, and they pay altogether about 630 million a year. This sum was far from being so consider able under former regimes, it has always borne a proportion to the march of affairs in the country. As the movement has developed itself and as the receipts of the Treasury have augmented, so this part of the floating debt has become more consider able, At this day the correspondents of the Trea sury deposit with it from 600 to 630 millions, more or less—let us say 600 millions. If to this sum we add 100 millions of Treasury bills, that makes the floating debt 700 millions, I am well aware that the limit of Treasury bills is difficult to fix exactly. Between the maximum and the minimum there must necessarily be a certain margin. I think it would be undesirable to do away with the circula tion of Treasury bills; they are excellent securities, sought for by men of business, who have negotiable paper in their portfolio, and often also by family men who see in them a safe and readily convertible security. I should be sorry if the public were to lose the habit of investing in them. There is an other reason for keeping up Treasury bills—namely, that in given circumstances they may become a most precious resource for the State. I was a wit ness in 1830 of a most serious situation. Our revo lution had provoked armaments throughout Europe, and France was necessarily obliged to arm also. We then passed through most difficult days—capi tal shrunk from the funded debt, and we were com pelled to have recourse to Treasury bills. In that way we raised several hundred millions. This re source ought then to be left to Government. But this resource must be prudently used, otherwise you will exhaust it, and it will leave you empty. It is therefore necessary to fix limits. We propose the limit of 100 millions. Some may say 80 is the right figure, others 120 ; but at any rate I say this, that in ordinary times it is unreasonable to issue Treasury bills to a greater extent than 100 or 150 millions ; and if that limit be observed, the floating debt will be kept within 700 millions. We are all agreed that the debt ought to be kept down to that amount, but we must efficaciously provide that that shall be so. If you devote 300 millions to the pur that debt from a milli ar d ( w hi c h p o se of reducing s an excessive though not an alarming amount) to 700 millions, it will not do that at the end of a few months, you should again find yourself saddled w ith the v ery same figure which y ou wan t to re duce. In this sort of mistrust, gentlemen, there is nothing offensive. No. I wish to s a y no thi ng dis obliging for the honourable members of the govern ment, but if I do not mistrust individuals 1 do mis trust the nature of things ? What happened two years ago? The floating debt had not then risen to a milliard. M. Fould desired to reduce it to a more normal amount, and I applaud him for it. At that time M. Fould had a great repugnance to a fresh inscription on the great book of the public debt. I again praise him for the feeling. But it was indispensable to find resources* The Finance Minister appealed to the fundholders, and he asked from them the money which he would not have asked from a loan—he asked for the con version of the Rentes. I respect the motives which led you to rote that measure; but allow me to say what I think of the results. Conversion of Rentes, when the time is ripe for it, is an excellent mea sure, but you ought to take very good care that the fruit is really ripe ; sometimes it is sour. A con version, effected under circumstances which do not naturally call for such an operation produces re grettable consequences, for the landholders in the first place, and for the State afterwards. In such a situation promises are made and hopes excited which are not always realised. Now, what were the results obtained by this conversion, which, i n my opinion, was premature ? The Finance Minister hoped that it would produce 300 millions for the Treasury, and in point of fact it only realised 157 millions. And to obtain this result you have left the interest of the debt exactly as it was before the operation, and you have augmented the capital by a sum of 700 or 800 millions. While making this great sacrifice of capital you have, I repeat, gained nothing on the score of interest. And as to the fundholders, who were promised that as a result of the unification of the debt they would soon see the Threes at 71, they find the average price for a long time past 67. But in this business there is a still more serious deception. The 157 millions paid by the fundholders to the Treasury were all employed in the reduction of the floating debt, and yet a few months afterwards this debt was found swollen to the amount of a milliard. The example of the past ought therefore to induce us now to take precau tions. What should those precautions be ? We have invented nothing. We have inquired of the law what should be done. Every year there is a financial law which limits the issue of Treasury bills. Article 18 of the Budget Law of 1854 fixes this limit at 250 millions, and an Imperial decree in due form, as I admit, has added 50 millions. That is the limit fixed by law as it at present stands. We think that now you have the loan this limit may be reduced to 100 millions. Well, what says the amendment which I and several of my colleagues have had the honour to present ? It demanded a legislative re duction to 100 millions. Of course in a matter of this kind we have no bigoted attachment to a pre cise figure, and I thought that if a larger sum would obtain the adhesion of the majority I would very willingly adopt it. I told the Government corn missaires, when I was before the commitee, that if our measure seemed to them inconvenient they might propose another, and we would consider it, but that we could not possibly grant a loan destined to cover 300 millions of Treasury bonds now in circulation, and leave them at the same time the power to issue bills for the like amount in the course of the ensu ing year. I must confess that upon this head nothing satisfactory was said to me. After a conversation upon the exact amount of the limit which ought to be put to the issue of Treasury bills, M, Thiers concluded I shall be told that lam mistrustful. No, lam not. But you must admit th a t t hi s l oan o f 3 co o u o n ,O t O ry o : ooo Th is er a e melancholyought to be a con so l at i on w i t h it, new year's gift for the and this is what our amendment proposes. . . . As I understand the mandate I received from my electors, they desired me to support three things— public liberty, good finance and peace. - The MINISTER OF STATE--We are all agreed on that point. _ M. TB lERS —As to the question of public liberties we shall speak of that a fortnight hence. The economical question consists in the good direction of finance. As to peace, I declare myself a de cided partisan of it. (Applause on several benches.) Not of a peace which would injure our honour, for if that were in question, we who are called the opposition, would not refuse the Govern- But under ment all the resources of the country. present circumstances, when I look at Eu rope, I see tho possibility of making tremendous mistak es , f a t a l mistakes perhaps : but I see no great French inte rest involved, unless perhaps in relation to the Danish question. France is mi,.tress of peace or war at her pleasure. If any great events were t o occur our amendment would be no i mpediment, for milliards would then be wanted ; for, gentlemen, the next war will not be an isolated one, but such a general war that the present generation may, per haps, not see the end of it or the consequences o f i t. (Cheers.) But I should not be sorry if our vote were to stand in the way of little wars, su c h as those of China, Cochin China, Japan, Mexico, and perhaps Madagascar. This is all I have to say, I will leave our amendment in the hands of the m a k,. rity to deal with it as they will, but we who have signed it have onr responsibility and our conscience. THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN. The distribution of clothing has been continued with some vigour during the past week. Since the 11th inst., no fewer than 6,679 articles have been given to 939 families, or, in that number of cases embracing 3,579 persons, at a cost of £BO3 13s. 6d. This was up to Wednesday evening ; on which oc casion the clothing committee heard 300 more cases, embracing 1,100 persons, and ordered a distribution of 2,000 articles to be made on the following d ay (Thursday). These articles were valued at £3OO. By to day, the committee will have distributed in all, since the commencement of this winter, 22,897 articles of clothing of various kinds to 11,969 persons, comprised in 3,069 cases or families, of an eginegate value of £3,498 7s, a portion of which has of course been contributed to them in clothing by the generous of the destitute in this period of the year to protect them from cold, by furnishing them with apparel of a good and substantial kind. The guardians of the poor relieved £4,337 persons be longing to the Blackburn relief district with £229 15s sd, against 4,439 persons with £232 7s 4d in the previous week; the labour committee relieved 612 able-bodied men employed at out-door work with £232 lOs 3d in money and £43 16s 9d in kind, consisting of 74401 b. of flour and 9801 b. of oatmeal ; the relief committee granted £4O 2s 2d to 125 needlewomen engaged in the making up of ar ticles of clothing and £l3 13s in money and £l5 5s 3d in kind (2,1601 b. of flour and 480ib, of oatmeal) to 144 families not otherwise relieved, numbering 652 persons. In this way it will be seen that from all sources there were 87 fewer recipients of relief this week than last at a less cost of £4 4s Bd. The total expenditure of the week, inde pendently of the clothing department, was £575 5s ld, of which £345 9s 8d was ex pended by the relief and labour committees and £229 15s. sd, by the guardians, against £579 98 9d in the preceding week. The sewing schools were closed last Wednesday, but the committee have voted an additional sum for clothing, with the view to employ such of the needlewomen who required re lief for a few weeks longer in making up the piece articles at their own dwellings. It is very gratify ing to report that every family which has applied for clothing up to last Tuesday night, we re on Wed nesday and yesterday supplied with such articles as the committee considered necessary. In reference to the destitution of the Union we may state, that last week 5,887 persons were relieved in the week—. £324 3s. 10d. against 5,953 persons in the precedi ng week with £32 4 133 . ld ,, and against 16,291 with £929 2s. 7d. in the corresponding week of 1862, The master's returns shewed that there were 414 inmates in the Union Workhouse last Saturday, aga inst 468 in the corresponding week of 18 62. ' This day (Christmas -day) the whole of the inmates are to be regaled with their Christmas dinner of roast beef and plum pudding. On Wednesday the man James Soyands, who was the ringleader of the disturbance among the labourers in tha Park on the 21st of October last, was fined 20s. and costs for assaulting James Brown, one of the gangers, and was sent to gaol for a month in default of payment. Everthi ng is very quiet and trade is depressed. THE DUTY ON PETROLEUM IN FRANCE.—The Grocer says :—" It is reckoned that the Budget of the city of Paris alas suffered this year a very considerable loss through the introduction of petroleum, the duty on which is only 10f,, against cojztt ;Of. thf) 100 litreff, A COLONIAL HERO. The West Australian Times of Oct. 15 contains the fol lowing :—An incident in the life of a poor man was related last week in the course of our criminal sessions that, in a former age, would have excited general admiration. Two shepherds were in charge of one of the flocks of Mr. John Hassell, at a remote station. There was no other station within 20 miles of them. One afternoon, some time ago, one of these men while occupied in his hut, which was only composed of stakes and rushes, fancied he heard a groan at a little distance. Going outside he again heard the sound of low moaning, and soon discovered his companion, Chas. Storey, lying insensible in a brake, and covered with innu merable spear wounds, Carrying him on his back to the hut, he laid him on his kangaroo skin rug, washed and probed his wounds, succeeded in extracting the barb of a spear which was buried in his side, and ultimately restored him to consciousness. It turned out that Storey had been attacked by a band of natives who wished to seize the sheep. This was admitted by the native witnesses at th 9 trial of —lit' th one of the party for the murder of Store y , who eventuall y died of his wounds. The two unfortunate men remained awake all ni g h t -- one in extreme pain, the o ther carefully attendin g upon him. Next morning the n atives surrounded the 1-, and began throwing spears, w hich completely passed throughy Sallied f ort h . H o bo sides of it. Finding that they would be murdered, Edward Ladbury, t he w itness, who told the tale in s i mp l e , unv arnished ter ms, took his o nly Wea pons, his andbill-hook, i t a h nd hi b s o e ld o l at, so as only to h po a c d k c e o t v k e n re if d e the bill-hook dis play the handle, which the natives took to be a . '-t I Ile threatened o e threatened to fire upon them unless they withdrew, and a ft e r some delib eration the y s ullen , ' remained in fear day the men re of y retired. All that their return. D • During the next night Storey said he felt bettr, en d e avour to make th eir escape to l e ‘i , and they resolved to r. Hassell's next sta tion, 20 miles distant. At 2 o'clock s t o le out of the hut. the morning they stole in .. the i r bedding and effects, and Storey clung to his arm.sl Aft e r crawling about 1 50 h o could go no farther, yards the wounded t 1n en leave said him to his fate, and save himself. and urged Ladbury to o be almost impossible to rescue Store but Ladbury It app ear d e termined not to leave him t o c y, h u rried forward with his load and d ertain death. He eposited it a quar t er of a mile off, then re turned for his comrade, hoisted him on his back, and carried him ed to the same spot, wh ere he exchanged him for their personal effects (the sole property of these poor s i fellow \ • , Which he again carried a quarter of a mile fur ther, Th en he returned for his friend, and thus they Journeyed, one nearly dead of his wounds and the other exhausted with his exertions, for a distance of seven miles, When they reached a spring of water. Here they remained a while, scarcely able to crawl any further. Ladbury could no longer carry Storey, but he managed to drag him along. After a miserable journey of two days and a night they reached M dead. The wo u r. Hassell's station at man, aft r n Jerrymungu e p, both of them n y w eerl as sent forward in a cart to the hospital at cess ary rest, Albany, where his sufferings were terminated by death. Few men have better deserved the Victoria cross than this humble shepherd, Edward Ladbury. What struck us most forcibly about the matter was, that his conduct elicited not a s i n gle comment or remark from either court, counsel, or jury. From which ho are inclined to infer that such acts are far from singular or uncommon in this country. For our own part, we feel it to be only one degree lower than a crime to allow such an instance of generous self devotion to pass without the tribute of applause ; and, although in this, as in most other cases, virtue is likely to be its own reward, Edward Ladbury may return to his hard life with the consciousness that he has nobly earned the sympathy and approbation of his fellow-min nists. A FLAVOUR OF TIIE LAST FRENCII NOVEL !- A fantastic novel by Theophile Gautier is just now the rage it is called "Lo Maudit." M. Louis Ulbach, who reviews it in the Temps, states that he has " devoured those three volumes, sincere as a confession, touching as a romance, and terrible as truth." 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