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~, ~ ~- L ~~~~.~ "AZ hare responded to the p teit 9 . 4 calling for troops, and desi,‘e the exertion to have their Sta to q Ilk__ ?real den :)Ir4 $V 15, 1L "A'r quota for New York is 38,000. The coming election in ,iew Y g vskor- S ort ously canvassed by both parties. T. he Democrats are very sanguine of success. An official despatch from General 23, irnside, dated Knoxville, Oct. 17th, states th a t a cat", llry brigade from hi s comman d encountere d t h e mil ?is at Blue Spring, and after a sharp fight drove I. hem from a 'str ong pos i t i on. G eneral Shakleford, with his cavalry and a brigade of infantry, continued in Pur suit, the Confederates making a stand at e‘'arY im portant position, but he finally drove them*. com pletely out of Tennessee, captured the fort at Zolli coffer, burned the long railroad bridge at that p lace, also five other bridges, three locomotives, and' 35 cars. His advance was ten miles beyond 13ristol. The\Federal loss in the.fiqht at Blue Springs s about one hundred killed and wounded. Tho enemy's loss was much greater. One hundred and. fifty prisoners were taken. Parson Brawnlow and Horace Maynard made speeches at Knoxville, October 13th, endorsing the administration, and favouring immediate emancipa tion in East Tennessee. THE NATIONAL STEAM NAVIGATION the i nLiabilityclCOMPANY (Limited). radunder " The Companies' Act, 1862," by which ids &hares, of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of Capital £ 2 , 0 00,000, in 20,000 Shares of £lOO each, with power to increase. Deposit on Application, £1 per Share; on Allotment, E r l per Share. Soon after Allotment a First Call of £3 per Share Will be made; subsequent Cans are not to exceed 5_ I) ,Share, from not to be made at intervals of less than Three Illontlis he date of prior C a ll s. Share. It is not at present pr o p osed to call up more th a n 450 per . un • 11 . - . AM • )1(A ) , z.eo. A‘,.. SPal V IL' ‘ , , 4- ?1"411110.,' - , 1: -AL Rorr Ik\ '' 7-4 . Dr E c 4 at pro :re die- eess is no real nuniea- is ban we ex- ve been the first re than before. [falians Every at this ith the mild do re them. No. 22,265. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1863. PRICE..... -....4d. STAMPED ....dd. T HE MERCHANT BANKING COMPANY of LONDON (Limited). Established under the Companies Act, with Limited Liability. Capital, Two Millions Sterling. In 20.000 shares of £ l OO each. First issue, 10,000 shares. Deposit, El per share on application, and £llos. on allotment. It is not contemplated to call up more than .£25 per share. Calls not to exceed £5. at intervals of not less than three months. EW NOVEL BY MR. %ILLS. Just ready, in 3 vols., THE WIFE'S EVIDENCE. By W. G WILLS, Esq., Author of "Notice to Quit," &c. Hurst and Blacken, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Naval and Military Intelligence, AMERICA. THE NAVY. (Per the City of Baltimore.) NEW YORK, OCT. 24. General Meade had an interview yesterday with President Lincoln, and returned afterwards to his post. The reports of his being removed from com mand are, therefore, untrue. rsel ves, :;h inca )idly to de. At e treaty f tariffs Italians 29th of tice to a expe- Aless in le with disap nd sur e shown t which ey have ) or se progress ey have vin in a DIRETORS. Ri chard Henry Browne, Esq., C Director of the London Char tered Bank of Australia. W. M. Cadell, Esq., Merchant, London. J. IL Reynell de Castro Esq. (Carruthers d e C as tr o an d C o., Merchants), Manchester and _Rio de Janeiro. Lewis Fraser, Esq. (J. and L. Fraser, merchants), London and Singapore. James Nl`Master Es. (late of Wm. 3PMaster d Brothers), Toronto and Manchester. John Paterson. Esq. (Paterson, Kemp, and Co., Merchants), London and Port Elizabeth. William Pearce, Esq. (William Pearce and Co., Merchants), London and Calcutta. Jams s Adam Smith, Esq. (Smith, Wood, and Co., Merchants), London, Liverpool, and Manilla. Thomas Stenhouse Esq. (Thomas Stenhouse and Co., Mer chants), London and Bombay. Henry Thurburn, Esq., Queensborough-terrace, Paddington. Harrison Watson, Esq. (J. R. Thomson and Co., Merthantb), London and Cape Town. Edward Weston, Esq., Director of the Standard Bank of British South Africa. NEW NOVEL by the Author of "ANNE DYSART." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 21 5., THE BROWNS AND ME SMITHS. By the Author of "Anne Dysart," &c. Also now ready, in 3 vols., QUEEN MAB. By JULIA KAVANAGH. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " EAST LYNNE." On Wednesday, Nov. 11, in 3 vols., post Svo., T RE SHADOW OF ASHLYDYAT. By Mrs. WOOD, Author of "East Lynne," "The Channings," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On Monday next, in crown Bvo., with Two Illustrations, price 65., THE LAST OF THE CAVALIERS. A New and Cheaper Edition, uniform with "East Lynne." BANKERS. London —The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool Lothbury and Southwark. Liverpool—The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool. Manchester—The Union Etta of Manchester. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Unionists in large numbers were said to be join ing the army of General Burn side. The following is from the Richinonj E nquirer of October 16th : SOLICITORS Msssrs, Flux an d A rg l es , 9, . Mincing-lane. BROKERS. Messrs. J. and J. Wbitehead, 8, Moorgate-street. TEMPORARY OFFICE OF THE COMPANY. 27, Moorgate-street, London. This day, Never Before Published, price 25., BE L DEMO N I O. A LOVE STORY, By PAUL FEVAL, Author of " The Duke's Motto." London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. DIRECTORS. Thoma s the Shipowners' Association, Liverpool. and Co.irector of Chtlton, Esq. DIRECTORS. and ChiltOn), Chairman of Robert Dirom, Esq. (Dirom, Davidson, • , the National Bank of Liverpool tor of the British and American Excha , the James Ferrate, Esq. (Ternie Brothe n r; e an ß d a C nkin o.), g D c ir o ec r: poration. Liverpool Thomas Bernard Gunsten, _Liverpol. Liverpool. Wilson, and Co), x'-dWin Haigh, Esq. (Thomas Haigh Lawrence and o. , Edward Lawrence, Esq. (Edward L r a . w ne r (Gunston, ,, Insurance Company, /islet and Co.), Direc tor of the British and Foreign Ma ' Liverpool. C ) Tlarvey Lewis, L,ndo n . Director of the National Bank , Jo seph Neale M'K enna , Esq., Esq., M.P., Director of the National Bank, London. Director Company, Robert Maxwell, Esq. ( the North British an' A d - Liverpool. '3l F erc a a n n d ti lt le 3 l i n a s x u w ra e n ll c ) e Liverpool. Andrew Malcolmson, Esq. (J. and D. Malcolmson and Co.), Thomas Wilkinson Tetley, Esq. (Hollinshead, Tetley, and Co.), Liverpool. illajor Usborne, Ilscis. o (usbome and Sons), Di rector of the National Bank•Lo l cdc . c ksq. (11. T. Wilson, and Chamber s ) , Henry Threltall Wln Deputy Chairman Liverpool, fthe British and Foreign Marine In surance Company, 13ANKERS. London.—...... The National Bank, Old Broad-street Ireland ... . The Bran c h es of the National Bank. Manchester.... The Bank of England. Liverpool The National Bank of Liverpool BROKERS. London J and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street Manchester.. -.Thomas Warner, Esq., 9, Stamp -office Build ings, Cross -street Liverpool .• Thomas buildin Tinley and Sons, 44, B rown ' s- Dublings. ..,,..,, Edward Fox, Esq., 51, Dame-street. SOLICITORS. London Flux and Argles 9, Mincing-lane. Liverpool .• • •Fletcher and Hal, 6, Cook-street. SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER AND NATAL AR CHITECT, John Jordan, Es 1 ite Chief S urveyor to the Underwriters Registry of Iron Ships. GENERAL 3IA_NAGER—W, B. Macalister, Esq. SECRETARY. Joseph Treffry, Esq. TEMPORARY OPPICES. • London..•, 21, Throgmorton-street. Liverpool • Commercial-building,s, Water-atreet Nothing has been m ore remarkable, in connection with the progress or Lancashire. than the rapid extension of the Steam Trade of Liverpool In the year 1852 the tonnage of foreign steamers entered in at the Custom-house was 188,7i5 tons, while hi 18e2 it was 595,339, which, in the year ending June, 18d3, increased to 756,4 M tons. In the earlier days of steam, and before the recent mprove -Inents for the economy, of fuel had been introduced, steamers could be employed with advantage only for the carrying of mails and passengers but larly, owing to the improve ments in marine engines, economi of fuel and space has been effected, thereby greatly reducing the working expenses, and screw steamers have not only be, n employed in alt the near trades for the conveyance of goods, with large profit to their owners, but, owing to the advantages vvhicfi they afford to shippers, they have, in these trades, almost entirely displaced sailing vessels. For some years the carrying trade out of Liverpool has been gradually undergoing a change. In the Arner,oan trade screw steamer. have taken the place of the once celebrated New York liners, but as yet only as carriers of the highest eg o c d la s s an so d f line gown and passengers. Other descriptions still conveyed by sailing a large number of intermediatevesselas.nd steerage passengers be .ng . In the important branches of the American import trade, viz., those of grain, flour, and provisions the loss annually sustained by heating (luring the protr cted voya ges fre quently made by salline• vessels is so great, that the interest of all engaged in these trades will be enlisted in favour of any scheme for the extension of steam shipping to include h freight, and there c,n be no doubt but that the whole of the enormous trade in these articles, which in Liverpool alone amounts annually to 750,000 tons, will fa,l entirely into the hands of steam coinnenies. The first object of thi= Company is to place on the New York station a fleet of screw steamers from Liverpool and London, of large size and great capacity, Which will be able to carry almost, if not quite, as cheap as sailing vessels, whilst at the same time, from the regularity of their passages, 111 ,ey will command a full share of the steam trade, and the Directors also intend sending steamers to the American Cotton Ports when the war is brought to an end and the trade re -opened, and have also under their consideration the *Wants of the Brazil and othertrades. In of this Company the Directors believe that it Will not enter into undue competition with the existing- lines. The Cunard Line is a subsidised company, carrying the Mails and passengers with fast and expensive steamers. The Inman Line has no *ubsidy. but nevertheless has been Most suecestful, and it now employs eleven vessels, having conimenced its operations with two steamers, the City of Glasgow and City of Manchester. The steamships of the Inman Line are, however, of greater proportionate horse- Power than those projected by this Company, which will be Sailed at much less cost, and will be constructed to consume a Comparatively sinall amount of coal; at the same time of such capacity that, in addition to a large cargo of merchan dise and passengers, they will be able to 'carry sufficient fuel for *their voyages both out and home, and so avoid the ex- Pee and delay incurred by coaling abroad. In order that the objects of this Company may not be even partially antic gated, and that the stations may at once be occupied, provisional arrangements have been made whereby three new steamers, of the description indicated, and in all respects suitable for the service, have been secured. and con treets have been entered into for the building ildingot others of about a,500 tons eaeh, and it is proposed to commence with a fort nightly service each way. to be increased to weekly sailings as soon as the vessels can be got ready. The ports of depar ture *Mall be Liverpool tor the weekly line, and London to the extent the metropolitan trade may require. The ships will be limit under the inspection of Mr. John Jordanlate Chief Surveyor to the Underwriter's Registry of Iron Ships,—whose services as Inspecting Engineer and Naval Architect the Directors have secured to th s Company. The SUCCeSEt which has attended the formation of well managed steam companies has been very marked. That of Cunard r i te In companies Company is well known. Ihe I,lacific Steam Navigation Company, whose shares,4so petit - are 5e11 , 7 ins at ;£7B per share, has out .1 profits given to Its share holde'a new paid-up shares exceeding the amount of theori gintra capital, and pays a regular dividend of 10 per cent, on the increased issue, carrying ever at each annual meeting an almost equal sum, while many private steamship owners, With similar descriptions of vessels, but much sm•dier tltan those this Ccmpa.,y intend to possess, have reaped like results. The Directors have, therefore, everyreascrnhet very great success to the undertaking. yo anticipate c notipa t e e n a... i ce f thi Com tering upon an experiment, but are provid n„ or s Patty a similar description of vessel, but of larger size, Chan those which have proved so remunerative to severer 'well known private firms engaged in the Mediterranean and other trades, and have thus the advantage of toe experience so acquired, which proves that what is needed, under efficient management, to ensure profitable results, are large ships, with moderate but sufficient horse-power and great carrying capacity. The Introduction of the limited liability principle has en abled undertakings of great magnitude like the present to be carried out by joint-stock companies, which may embrace the co-operation of shippers and of others interested, instead of by private capitalists as heretofore ; the result being th the supporters of this line will become interested in its Suc cess, and participate in the profits which they assist to earn. Applications for shares may be addressed in the annexed form to the Directors, and copies of the prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Company, or at the offices of the Brokers and Solicitors, but no application will be considered unless a deposit of .£l. per share on the number of shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. To the Directors of the National Steam Navigation Company (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of being a deposit of £1 per Share on shares in the above Company, I hereby reqaest that you will allot me that number, and I agree to become a member of the Com pany in respect of such shares or in respect of any her you may allot me; and to ' execute the Articles of Assoma less num tion when required ; and I request that my name may be Placed on the Register of - Members for the shares so allotted. :P.i . ame in full Residence Profession or Business ... Date ........_________ T" - HE NATIONAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM PANY (Limited). for :NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Th a t N O APPLICATION SII&RES In this Comp any will be RECEIVED after NATURD AY than the Oth, next, the 7th inst.; from Ireland not later in st By order, JOSEPH TREFFRY, S ecretary. TernPnra ry Offices,2l, Throgmo r t on - street, London. Commercial Buildings Water - street, Liverpool, .__ 3 rd November, 1863. ....:______ - - GREAT DRAWING OF PRIZES ST. JOSEI,R w E I, L . TAKE PLACE AT On TIIIIRSDAy, ti lt e E 2 AT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N., liquidating the Debt still 6fll of NOVEMBER, 1863, to aid in Organ . hin ; and to assis ris t in erezlafning on the New Church and stablisg the English Mission of at N he i r cl s i . olas Pa, 110 W under the charge of the Passionist The prizes of the first cat al „ e consist principally of objects of art and other preciao°'n i mted is Holiness, several Cardinals, pr u i s nc es , other sonsper of distinction in Rome. TICKETS ONE SHILLING EACIL The amount realised will bed isposed of as follows :—That arising from the e.,ale of tickets in England will be applied to St. St. Nicho Joseph'las' s, Pa, that P aris. from the sale of ticket s i n F rance to TUE DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE An PRINCIPLE OF THE ART UNION. entitledne Purchasing or aiding in selling 2.5 tickets will be to a large Engraving, either of the Death of St. C 44 'l, or of Blessed Paul ot the Cross, which will be orwarded by post upon receipt of 4 postage stamps. t eat alovrtes as well as tickets may be had on application at • J nl.i's Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris. C 81-4EBRATION of the TERCENTENARY o n o - f A ~.i the BIRTH of STIAKSPEARE, at Stratford - u p on- N. -Itigbert 24-7.11.,.The Tercentenary Committee . i • " -n-antiltou, Bart., K.C.8., is Chaarm (o a t _ s n w o ) abree paidnow rteoce:.nve 4V. SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may at ne,,, iunt of the Tercentenary Committee, at the btourbridge Iti;4ldderminster or Warwick and L nw ea a m y ington Banks, Smith, and Gre:),_°M-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Gree ~B c oitrl , 7l , 4 Y , Warwick , ; or their London aie_nts, Messrs. ` 11 )% t ,„,:lYne, and co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. The —". Co ' bankers, London. 4, l,, "on 4,te,_tocutenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip °l Shat.. `'° the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers rt at tf;Deare for their aid and assistance . The Committee the bilthr o ihnius upon the ground that Stratford is not only 411 a q p toe of Shakepeare. but the centre of attraction to 11 " l e 1 ,. 8 oi the great Poet's works, and that it w_ as his mho '°v'en he loved, and where he lived and died. 11 ° , -- -----._.___________,_ ,sAL FREE HOSPITAL, Way T c :- the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail •-rMinus, at Ring's-cross. Gray's-inn-road, Patr on — The QUEEN. —T Presidenthe Duke of BUCCLEUCII, B.G. This was t T he fi rst reasurer —E dward Masterman, E sq. hospital to introduce the principle of free arid instant admission to the destitute sick, without the f or- Mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—riz., that which is aecom- Pained by sickness and disease, and is 310. W of sufficient Magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellovv-creatures. aloreover , it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it theirimperative duty to aka an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued ernup-port, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Co. Coutts and Mas Lerman, Co. ; Drummond' and Co. ; Herries and Co ; Ranso CO. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. Ginn yn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co.;Denison and Co.; W Ulnas, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Glirney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co.. and aka at the llopit4L STANFOF•ka SMITH &gag) / . SHORTHA N D .-" PITM A N' S PHONO• GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland Hill. London : P. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, B.C. A REAL SEA BATH in your own room by using TIDMAN'S SEA SALT. This article, extracted from the " foaming billows," is a valuable adjurct to the daily bath, and the best possible sub • stitute for a visit to the sea -side. Price 16s. per cwt. For warded on receipt of post-office order or stamps. TIDMAA and SON, Chemists, 10, Wormwood-street, Lon don, E.C. TIDMAN'S SEA SALT is ot great benefit to weakly child ren. and a boon to all who would obtain. the invigorating effects of a sea bath in the comfortable se cluion of an apartment. Instructions for use are enclosed in each packet. rrIIDIVIAN'S SEA SALT )---he been analysed by it_ Dr. Hassan, who strongly recommends it as very superior to the rock and other sal's commonly used for bathing purposes. It is the only efficient 'substitute for sea bathing. s., In bags of 141b 5., price 2s. ; 281b5., 45.; 561b5., Bs. 1121 b Sole London, Propri. Soetorsl , d by all Chemists. TILMAN & SON, 10, W ormwood -street, C. Messrs of Clock' Candelabra, Latups,VaBseosf, A LGERIAN ONYX MAftB L K -- -----------_.__ HOWELL, JAMES, and CO., respectfully solicit al ; inspection of their Onyx Salon, which contains upwards J j 'a °° rdi o n b ie je re c s ts , , l c n on k s s i t s a t n in d g s, Yen-trays, and a variety of smaller articles of taste, at moderate prices. This beautiful marble is perfectly translucent, bears a very fine polish, presents a diversity of pleasing tints, and can be turned or chiselled into any form necessary for utility or ornament.-5, 7,9, Regent-street, Pall-mall. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cassian Bloom. Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. —Can be had only at Madame EACH ET,'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidential. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatr: e tt ,, 111 most useful invention of the day, AGUA AlV ,Aßvia ku 3 : Kin g n^r Jart, Lombard: whichctfully offer Lombard street, r e e s e s t r , s .LJoOn London, , G p PerfumersS N E L L t a o n d herCO.m , ajesty. , gradually r to est t o h r e es p t n h b e lic hum thi a s n tr h u a l i y r m to ary it e s llo ri us , fir_ id, P--F.,,tne hue—no matter at 7 what age. The Agna A marflT. b ,5 none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, , 18 ",eneficial to the system, and when the hair is otrz r'Lcored one application per month will keep it in PP:ilect Wlour Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest 0 -der, and from individuals of unaoubted respecta bility, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and •.'o. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales. 1)R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING RESlEDY.—Pre „aired without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and river complaints, indigestion, wind. spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, dco. For habitual ..ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote di_gestion, and strength en th e whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes, Is, lid., and three titles the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The g enu i ne are a square iits4l4 44 '-'-re-c'u Packge, with Willial3ll4anabert," engraved on the A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Her Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. - : - Matrager—M. GARNET. 29, GEORGE-STREE I', HANOVER-SQUARE . THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Wife ; Julia Pastrana and Infant ; Eug and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One chilling lor Gentlemen only),. DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe eases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib:e, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMON S, 39, Albemarle street, rlccadilly. HEATHER'S TM:ST.—Under the manage ment of the CLOTH WORKERS' COMPANY.—At a COURT, to be holden on the 2d DECEMBER next, this COMPANY will distribute to SIX POOR WIDOWS of DECAYED HOUSEKEEPERS the amount divisible under the above Trust, being about £8 to each. Printed forms of application may be obtained at the Company's Offices, Cloth workers' Hall, Mincing-I,ne, London. The applicant m us t insert therein particulars relative to her condition and cir cumstances, and name references from whom information may be obtained for verifying the same. The application, with certificate of her marriage, and a certificate or other proper proof of Lhe death of her husband, must be left at the Company's Hall previously to the 23d November instant, addressed to ROBERT BECRWITH TOWSE, Clerk. Clothworkers' Hall, November, 1863. --- - Statue of Napoleon I. in the Place Vendome. PROTEST OF THE " SIECLE.” Oar voice has not been heard, as a body of workmen have let down the popular statue—the effigy of the conqueror of Austerlitz ; and hence forth the Imperial Roman mantle will replace the grey overcoat and the littlecocked hat. The persons who witnessed this scene were painfully affected, and the noise which the displaced statue made in touching the ground had a melancholy sound in their ears. The column was destined to consecrate the memory of the glorious and rapid campaign, which commenced on the 24th Sept., 1805, and ter minated on the 26th Dec., 1806, by the treaty of peace at Presburg. The bronze plates which cover the stone column are made with Austrian cannon. The bus-reliefs, modelled by Bergeret, represent the passage of the Rhine, the combats of Donawerth, Wertin gen, Gunzburg, Albeck, Langenau, and Nee resheim ; the capitulation of Ulm ; the victory of Diernstein ; the entry of the French into Vienna on the 13th November, and the battle of Austerlitz. If ' , the architects, Denin, Gondouin, and Lepere, had not limited the column to a height of 42 metres, the length of the spiral freise might have been doubled. Was it not natural to crown those great military deeds with the effigy of the captain who commanded the grand army ? Louis Philippe's Government understood that such ought to be the case. It not only gave to the statuary, M. Sourre, the indica tions and particulars necessary for representing the captain with the historic costume, but also borrowed it t athkei ne b an ri l e a) f tg r: e r r iwa t . h as r l e r e victories,tandeehas wi t hre lt a ihe n ef d sm t r h ee e tpa s rle t asoetfunoetaewnatihtoi the which g g o a f ti t o l: O e f o t n b c . o e rd a t. signin promulgation the peace of Amiens, the code, the coronation and mar riage of N ti , , "m -eon 1., the ses s io n s of the Council of State, at i a other incid e nt s o f a tivil order, one might un der:dta n d that the figure by which they are sur '..ounted would bear the co s t ume w hich the chief of the State had adopted. It wou ld no t i n this Olympian t ravesty, which is no longer suited to the present age. any case be _____,........—.....,„„„,„, THE GALES.--.PORTSMOUTH, Monday,—intelli gence has reached here that ti hull of a brig Or schooner, supposed to have gone down with all hands off upwards, on the betch St. Catherine' s , I s l e of Wight, during the gale on Pride), last, has been was h e d ashore, keel off Niton Baths, I s l e o f Wight, below theßorai Sandro e k Hotel, at the west end o f U nderelie. At the time theletter containing the intelligence was despatched from Niton the unfortunate vessel lay half buried in the sand ; and this cause, combined with the constant sea breaking over her, rendered it impossible to ascertain, from any writing which might be on her stern, what was her name, or the port she hailed from. The wind has been very strong here all day, from W. and W.S.W., and weather cloudy. Tho barometer since 10 a.m, has stood at 3028. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by p ar . chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 41 a n d 4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported, Agents in every ton supply it in packets. VALETTA, Oct. 31.—There have been very few move ments of ships of war in this port since the departure of the last mail. Her Majesty's ship Icarus, 11, screw sloop, Corn • mender N. Salmon, V,C., arrived on Saturday night from the Pirveus, with mails and despatches. She had orders to return with the mail due on the 7th from Marseilles, but will have to remain here to repair damages sustained in a colli sion with a large French screw transport, the Ardeche, which was proceeding from a port in France to Alexandria. having troops on board for Cochin China. The collision oc curred at 4 in the morning of the 22d inst., 60 miles from Cape Matapan, and was nearly proving fatal to the Icarus. Owing to weather being hazy, the masthead light of the French steamer was mistaken for that of a sailing-vessel, as she carried no other lights. The English was steering west, half north, at the rate of six knots, and the French man south-east, at a speed of nine knots. On perceiving a collision was inevitable, the order was given on board the Icarus to starboard the helm, which, although contrary to the rule laid down, was the only means, under the circum stances, of saving her from being run into amidships, in which case she would have probably been sunk. As it Was; the French vessel struck her violently on the starboard quarter, breaking in the bulwarks, laying her side open al most to the water-line, and carrying away her mizen.mast and mainroyalmast. The Ardeche lost bowsprit, figurehead, foretopgallantmast. Such was the violence of the shoat that it was feared at first she was going down. A bluelight was burnt as a signal for the French ship to stand by until the extent of damage was ascertained, and it having been found that no leak had been sprung in the Icarus, and that her steering apparatus was still in good order, the two vessels parted company. On the 24th she fell in with her - Majesty's despatch boat Psyche, Lieut.-Com. Sterne, 40 miles from Malta, which had left that day for the Piraeus, and the op portunity was seized to send a report of the accident to the commander-in-chief. No blame is attached to Commander Salmon or the officers of the Icarus for the unfortunate oc currence, which is generally attributed to a bad look-out on board the French ship, and the fact of her not carrying the usual steamer's lights. The Icarus has been admitted into dock for repairs, which it will take some six weeks to cora -1 plete. The vessel will then proceed home to be paid off. ' Her Majesty's surveying tender Growler, Staff-Commander Stokes, returned on Tuesday from surveying operations in the direction of Sicily, and will leave again in a few days to continue the survey of the Malta Channel. We are still expecting the Hydra, 6, paddle-sloop, Lieut.-Commander G. R. Wilkinson (temporary), from England. This vessel is to replace the Medina on the surveying service. The Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, which left Plymouth on the 7th inst., and is to relieve the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill yar, has not yet made her appearance. The only men-of war here just now are the Icarus, Medina, and Boxer. The Chanticleer, 17, Commander Stirling, left to-day with a mail for the Piraeus, and despatches for Admiral Smart. The following are the names of the officers and the strength of the 23d Regiment, which left on Saturday last for Gibraltar in her Majesty's troopship Orontes :—Lieut.• Col. Bell, V.C. and wife, Lieut.-Col. Gubbins, Surg. Tydd and wife, Capt. Douglas, Capt. Shadwell, Capt. Tupper, and Capt. Holroyd, Paymaster Leet, Lieuts. Cary, Lees, Lewis, Napier, and Kenny; Ensigns Fitzgeorge, Williamson, Luxford, Knox, Patterson, Ramabottom, Watson, and Graves; Quarter master Burden, Assist.-Surg. Greig and wife, 839 non commissioned officers and soldiers, 41 women, and 65 chil dren. The following also took passage by her :—Assist.- Surg. Kelly, R.N,, Lieut. Calder, R.M., Ensign Lead beater, 25th Regiment ; Messrs. Innes and Bain, 172 sailors and marines, 56 invalids, 22 women, and 36 children, and Mrs. Spratt and family. A letter from the Piraeus of the 19th of October says " A court-martial was held on board her Majesty's ship Trafalgar on the 7th inst. to try a private of the Royal Ma rine Light Infantry, of her Majesty's ship Marlborough, on the charge of making use of insubordinate language to a sergeant of the Royal Marines when on duty at the National Bank at Athens. The Court found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to be deprived of a good conduct badge, to be placed in the second class for conduct, and to be imprisoned for three months in one of her Majesty's gaols. Another court-martial was held ou board the Trafalgar on the loth and 16th inst. on Lieut. Mangan, of her Majesty's ship Meeanee, upon a charge of drunkenness. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma jesty's service. The following ships of war remain here:— English—The Marlborough, 121, Capt. C. A. Fellowes, flag of Vice-Admiral Robert Smelt, K.H. ; the Trafalgar, 74, Capt. T Mason ; the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill yet.. The Meeanee, 80, Capt. A. Wodehouse, arrived on the 14th inst.-isemaalamata, and pmains in_Salaraia Bay. The Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson,also arrived on the 10th inst. from Kalamata with the mails and des patches brought there from Malta by the Meeanee. The Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, arrived on the 16th inst. from Nauplia and Perils. The St. George, 86, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, arrived this morning from Kalamata, and remains in Salamis Bay, and the 0r1and0,,46, Capt. G. Randolph, arrived on the 18th inst., and is also in Salamis Bay. Her Majesty's ship Trident arrived yesterday morn ing with mails, &c.. from Malta, and left this evening for Syria. French—The Magicienne screw frigate (flag of the Rear-Admiral commanding the Levant station) and the Mouette paddle-sloop arrived a few days ago. Austrian —The Dandolo screw corvette ; and the Frederick screw corvette (bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Tegit hot!), arrived on the 15th inst., and the Wall screw gunboat. Italian—The Tancredi paddle-wheel steamer. Turkish—The.Braussa,screw corvette. Greek—TheAthens paddle-wheel steamer, and one screw gunboat. The Prussian paddle •eteamer Preussische Alder arrived on the 7th inst. from Malta. en route to Constantinople, where she is to be stationed to attend on the Prussian Minister at the Porte. The screw gunboat Blitz arrived in company, and in tow of the Alder for about three miles, as when just off the Piraeus the cover of her cylinder sprung. It will take some time to effect the necessary repairs. On the morning of the Bth the Prussian gunboat Basilisk ar rived from Malta. The Blitz and Basilisk are to be stationed at the Pawns. The Preussische Adler sailed on the 14th for Constantinople. On leaving she got on shore just outside the Pillars, but shortly afterwards was floated again with out assistance, and proceeded on her voyage. She is to touch at Syra on her way," The Admiralty have directed that a report shall be made by the officials of Portsmouth Dockyard and the officer com manding the Admiralty yacht Enchantress of the results which have attended the trial of Spence's patent non-con ductive and non-combustible composition, which has been applied to coat the boilers, cylinders, and steam pipes in the hydraulic engine house at the south corner of the dockyard, and the steam pipes and valve boxes of the Enchantress's superheating apparatus, with the iron casing which encloses the latter above the deck. Without pretending to any knowledge of what will be the tenor of these official reports, we may simply state what has been accomplished. The great heat produced in all confined spaces where steam ma chinery is at work, whether on shore or on board ship, is well known. The metal surfaces, such as the boilers and s team pipes, are generally c overe d w i t h su b stances as nearly non conducting as possible, in order to lessen the radiation of heat and prevent contact with the more exposed parts of the metal surfaces. Fell, lead, and wood sheathing have been the substances employed for this purpose. It is evi dent, however, that these substances, however applied, could only partially remedy the evil, while their use must always be attended with considerable danger, This latter point has been frequently illustrated on board ships of war, and indeed most strikingly by the recent return of the Pelorus to Devonport, after sailing thence for foreign service. One of her boilers by some means became empty, and therefore soon redhot, and as a certain result set fire to the felt, and sheeting, and to the ship. To prevent a recurrence of this accident, as Well as to cover a highly-heated iron surface on the upper deck, the Enchantress's superheating appa ratus and fannel casing were coated with the new composi tion early in July lee ) and nothing can be more satisfactory than the non-conducting qualities which it has been found to possess when the yacht was under steam, or its present condition and appearance. rho cy lind ers, boilers, a nd s tain pipes in the hydraulic engine-house have been coated with the composition now 16 months, and steam there has a daily ' (except on Sundays) pressure of 001 b. The bare hand may be placed on the boilers or steam-pipes, as, indeed, it may on the Enchantress's superheating apparatus, without the slightest ineonVettitinee, The heat reached in these super heaters ranges from 250 eleg, to 400 deg. The material used can be applied by any ordinary labourer. When dry it is coated with a covering of paint. This is what has been already accomplished. What is being now attempted is confined to the internal skin of iron ships, and is here chiefly used as a preservative, but in a secondary view, again as a non-conductor. On the docking of her Majesty's iron screw some three or four ye ars s i nce at Ports troopship Meg mouth Ar after bein 5) ain • off on her r e t urn h ome f rom lengthened foreign s er , g p vice, it was '"Covered that nearly the L. ' N o w i e o f the iutunal rivet-heads ofher „,:!tora plates below -, ior surface i 4 Water -line were eaten oft level W.tn t)e. ' •eoped of the plates, and many of the rivets had therefore el.. Out of their holes and wet() gone altogether. The ship plates were, in fact, chiefly held in their position on the framing by the external pressure of the water, and thus any undue strain on any one part either by striking on a rock or straining in a gale of wind, would in all probability have opened up the ship's bottom and caused her, with all on board, almost instaneouely to sink, An iquiry took place, and the I conclusion arrived at was that the never-ceasing motion of the water, with the girt from the bilges, destooyed the rivet heads and damaged the edges of the plates, a nd that some protecting covering was needed, This led to the introduc tion cf Portland cement and other materials. The rivet heads and edges of the plates were thus protected, so long as the on) emit did not crack and admit the water, and a our snar e rates of s. Beane , 308 to 323 .25s to 283 .206 to 24s .37s to 408 , 32s t 0.340 wheat was e made at Carley was y. Beans to 46s 0 1 to 428 Oa to 44s Od to 39s Od to 40s 00 to 28s Od to 35s Od to 31s 00 to 313 00 to 28s Od dto 130 to 08131 0 d to osl3 o to 45s Od L to 41s Od to 42s Od to 33s 6d ti' 34s Od tc 34s Od to —s Od to 34s Od to 56s Od to 52s Od £0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 5 10 0 ng : ._Red )arley, 5 3 4s 4d to 'ge of oatO y the cow d. s. 0 to -- 0 to 1 3 v 0 to 25 n 0 6 to 1 3 0 to 20 0 0 to 28 rket. a. d' m" ....17 3 ....20 0 ....19 0 18 3 .... ....20 0 )1...1 0 9 ....1 9 0 .Nov. I S' .Nov. 1 4 " . Nov, 4 ,Nov. 3°' .Nov. IS,' .Nov. I%'' :Nov. 1 1 ' .Nov. 1 8 . .Nov. V' ,N0v.1 1 ,. .Nov. a. ,Nov. 4 ; ,Nev. 1" .Nov. 0. ,Nov. ---" Nov. I`2, . .Nov. 7• .Nov. 10. .Nov. 19, . Nov. 2S. Nov, 13, ill be is Ependitnr ° four rail' the debt nd liroro ................ ..-...--•••`°.°.." , Mayfair, m-EquE lret fighter• 0 nsleh tij Moe are, of , OW A l s, Bsse%l :iint, se4. the way—. o f aroo" t Trell°ft rt, Iste , of Or a of l -1 - ;o u-u.,,P r , ° F arta CO Willi° *1 rles Jrag 0°338' 7rodori °lll r .jldAi r° Dawng ©t Cat N-Ar , o. oati PROSPECTUS. This Company is established in order, as its name implies, to carry on the trade of Merchant Bankers. Hitherto this department of business has been almost exclusively in the hands of private firms, but it is confidently believed that the Joint- Stock principle may be most beneficially applied to it, as well in the interests of commerce as to the advantage of those who desire a safe andirofitahle investment. The Merchant Banking Company of London. Limited, Is in consequence projected, having been carefully matured under the auspices of merchants, and, having every facility already available and in full operation, the Com , any will at once enter upon a business ascertained to be of highly re munerative nature, with all the advantages of local know ledge and experience of the respective ioreign ma, kete. The Company will avoid costly establishments abroad, which absorb so large a portion of the profits of other bank ing establishments, and avail themselves of the agency of mercantile houses already established. The Company will grant negotiable or other credits, by and upon their Foreign Agents, to importers of produce in this country, on the continent of Europe, and in America. They will make advances on the staple manufactures of this country under do mmentary bills, or consigned to their Agents abroad, for such periods as may be necessary to realise the sale of such goods, and on terms favourable to the shippers. they will also undertake to execute orders for produce through their Agents abroad, on terms highly advantageous to importers. Th; Company will further undertake the monetary agency of Foreign and Colonial Governments, and other constituted public bodies. They will receive deposits at their Head Office in London, at the current rates of interest, and grant loans, through their Agents abroad, on approved securities. Toe safety of the Merchant Banking Company of London, Limited, as an investment will be understood from the na ture of the business proposed to be transacted, and the profits likely to be made by the Company may be in some measure estimated by the well-known success of several mercantile banking establishments engaged in the same description of business. No promotion-money will be paid in connexion with this Company; the pre iminary expenses will be strictly confined to actual disbursements. The Articles of Association can be seen at the Offices of the Solicitors. Applications for Shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to the Directors ; and copies of the Prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Company, or at the Offices of the Brokers and Solicitors ; but no application will be considered unles s a deposit of X 1 per Share on the num ber of Shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. To the Directors of the Merchant Banking Company of London, Limited. . Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, andl agree to become a Member of the Company in respect of such Shares, or in respect of any less number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of Association when required; and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members for the Shares so allotted. Name in full Residence . . Profession or Business . Date T HE MERCHANT BANKING COMPANY OF LONDON (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the List of Appli cations for SHARES in this Company will be CLOSED to applicants from London on MONDAY next, the 9th inst., and from the Country on TUESDAY, the 10th inst. By order. Temporary Offices, 27, Moorgate-street, London, E.C., November 4, 1663. MHE; QUEEN, INSURANCE COMPANY. ~ 156, Leadelihall-street, London, B.C. Queen Insurance-buildings, Liverpool. Capital ONE MILLION STERLING. At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, held at Liver pool, on the 21st October, 186 i, BERNARD HALL, Esq.. Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, the Threcturs' Report for the year stated— That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted to £70,300 being an increase over the precedin t r year of 22,b80 That the Life Premium Receipts for the first three years were and for the past three years being an increase in the latter triennial period over the former of That the amount accumulated since last Meeting, as a Fire Reser v e Fund, wa s 23,427 and the amount added to Life Fund was That during the past five years the Company had paid for Claims the Actuary reported that the Life Liabilities had been valued on the soundest principles, viz., Net Premiums at 3 per cent. interest, and that the Bonus to participating Policy holders averaged as much as 46 per cent. per annum of the Premiums paid, while in some instances it was as high as 65, 70, and even 75 per cent. A dividtnd was declared to proprietors at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, Manager and Actuary. JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary. IT ALIAN CHURCH, 22, HA.TTON-WALL, HATTON-GARDEN. Next SUNDAY, Solemn Hi,zh Mass, at 11 a.m.. will be sum , by the Rev. Padre Contini. SERMON (in Italian) at the Gospel, by the Rev. Dr. Faa de Bruno. The music of the Mass, with full orchestra, will be Haydn's No. 1. OFFERTORIUM—Handers "Selo quod Redemptor." Sung by Madame Itudersdorff. Grand Vespers, with full orchestral accompaniment, at 7 p.m., followed by Benediction of the B. Sacrament. SOR T HAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. SHORTHAND. -PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, is. 6d. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF BEAUTY , By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. T " OXFOR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any oiler man "), Eugene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Pei formance by Herr SCHAL K.ENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHE6TRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at S o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order 4J to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH MI:MING, at half-past Nine o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The Marvels of PERU, the most wonderful Performers in the WorId—LANGLOIS, the marrellous Indian Juggler. —Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family and Mons. Ratel, assisted by 12 Young Ladies. - The beauti flit FAIRY FOUNTAIN—NICOSIA, the eminent Italian Violinist. Special Notice.—lmmense Attraction.—Tbe celebrated French Clowns, ARTHUR. and BERTRAND, will make their appearance in a new Entertainment, reserved expressly for their engagement at this establishment. Doors Open at 7—commence at half-past 7. 110YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR 'NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.-THE PRINCE'S BIRTHDAY.--A Grand FANCY BALL will take place on MONDAY next. Tickets at the principal Libraries and Costumiers, and at the Alhambra. The Hall will be perfumed by E. Rimel, of 288, Strand. level surface was obtained which enabled the ships to be kept clean inside and free from foul collections in the bilges, a thing impossible previously in iron ships. The cements were, however, liable to crack, and they did not prevent the oxidation of the iron inside, and they were capable of being applied only under certain cireumstances of heat and posi tion. These objections, it is said, do not attach themselves to the use of the Spence ship-lining composition. It is elastic, and will not crack by any straining of the ship—it is oleaginous, and prevents any oxidation or corrosion of the iron ; and, to conclude, it is a perfect non-conductor of heat or cold, and therefore furnishes the required means for lining the mess decks or cabins of iron ships. Her Majesty's screw iron sloop Sharpshooter, at Portsmouth, of 503 tons and 150 horse power, has her starboard side internally, from keel to upper deck, coated with this composition, and the Buffalo, screw iron sloop of 440 tons, at Woolwich, is also being coated with it. As a proof of the necessity existing for protecting the rivet-heads on the inside of iron ships' bottoms, we may mention that her Majesty's screw troop s hip Urgent, now in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth, has her bottom plates riveted together by rivets an inch in dia meter, and that some hundreds of these are out of her bottom, having had their heads on the inside of the ship, destroyed by the motion of the bilge water and sand or grit. The fine new transport ship Empress, Captain Ellis, 1,313 tons register, recently purchased by Messrs. Honlder Brothers, of Leadenhall street, yesterday hauled alongside the T pier at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, in pre paration to embark the 4th battalion Military Train under orders for service in New Zealand. The Empress will undergo her last official inspection this morning by Sir B. Decree and staff, commanding the garrison at Woolwich. The troops will embark in the course of the following after noon and take possession of their quarters, and, according to present orders, the vessel will sail on Monday morning. The hattalion•consists of Lieut.-Col. O'Brien, in command; Major Gray; Copts. Green and Witchell ; Lieuts. Sewell,. Creagh, and St. Aubyn.; Ensigns Leir and Davis; Capt. Reeve . , paymaster; Qatrtermaater Lambert, Lieut. and Adjt. Shackleton, Veterinary-Surg. Appleton, one medical officer, 267 non-commissioned officers and privates, 38 women, and 50 children. The steam storeship Balaclava has arrived at Woolwich Arsenal, after a perilous voyage from Scotland, vizi has co mmenced discharging her cargo of returned stores. The Balaclava bore up in Yarmouth Roads during the violence of the gale, and again proceeded to sea on Sunday morning, when she was enveloped in a thick dark fog, and struck on a sandbank off Wells Point. She came off at high water without damage. _ .• The whole of the guns, shot, shell, and other War De partment stores belonging to the screw frigate Emerald, 35, 600 horse power, Capt. A. Cumming, lately attached to the Channel Squadron, have been landed at the Ordnance wharf, Chatham, and the other stores deposited in the dockyard. The Emerald is entirely di smant l ed, and will be paid off at the Nore to-morrow, and placed in the steam reserve. general order from the Horse Guards, signed by Sir J. y. Scarlett, K.C,8., Adjutant-General, has been received at Chatham, announcing that her Majesty has been pleased to a pprove a new description of sword belt, with three rows of gold embroidery, for field marshals, general officers, and generals on the staff, and a similar belt, with two rows of embroidery, for staff officers under the rank of general offi cers,lieu of those n ow prescribed by regulation, which aref in lieu not sufficiently strong for service. The Duke of Cambridge directs that all general and staff officers on active e mployment shall furnish themselves with the new sword ba ts , according to the pattern deposited at the Horse Guar d s , and general officers not actively employed will adopt the new pattern as they may require to replace those n owin use. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA TTERS ALL'S-YESTERDAY. The interior of the subsciption-room this afternoon pre sented a marked contrast to the scene of bustle and excite ment on Monday last. The few subscribers who s t ro ll e d in in the cours e of the d ay grouped themsel ves i n c l ose proximity t o the fire, w hil e they discussed the effect and consequence of th e past Cambridgeshire. Betting future events w as almost a dead letter, the o nly feature wor th nam ing being the increased anxiety to g et on Golden Pledge for the Autu mn C up ; b ut o ff ers of 7 to 2 were not suffici ently tempting t o l ea d t o any inves t m ent ; 6 to 1 was accepted a b out Catch- ' em -Alive, a nd a point more would have b een taken about Fair water. For the Derby 1 ,000 to 40 was booked about Birchbroom, and 1,000 to 30 laid agst Historian to 450. Clos i n g prices : on _ LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CUP. 7 to 2 agst Mr Owen's , Golden Pl e d ge (off, take 4 to 1) 6 to 1 apt Mr W. 1:14?_&-C44 tchwezu-Aliva4takero, 6to 1 agst Mr Ca rtwri g ht 's Pairwater (oftlmed) 10 to 1 apt Mr T. Hughes ' s , Earl of S urrey (taken and off) 10 to 1 apt M r T. Hunt s Blithefield (offered) 10 to 1 apt Mr J. Day's ns Trumps (taken and offered) THE DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Birchbroom (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr W. Day's Historian (taken) ITPTON-ON-SEVERN .STEEPLECHASES. THURSDAY. The Severn Bank Steeplechase (a; "n"‘ ,u • -C aP), of 10 Bova each, b ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 13 subs. Mary Ann, 10St 121 b .................. (Stevens; 1 piff gaff, Ilst .... Gal, 7 to 1 agat Rufus, 8 to The following alse ran :—Yaller Gal, Socks. Grey Peter and Rufus. • Betting-2 to 1 each agst Mary Ann and Piff Paff, 3to W on by a short neck only. Only two passed the post, Socks fell and broke his back. The Farmers' Steeplechase . Cup, value 20 soya. Three , F 6 et t e o r. l agst Yeller , miles. 1 1 a a g g s e t t G.Sorcek; 12st ............ (M r. Davidson) 2 B o nny Lass, 12 st (Mr. Rob er t s ) 0 F o xhunter, 12 st (Mr. Gou g h (di s .) B e tting-6 to 5 agst Fa xh unter, 2to 1 agst B ang B u ll , 6 to 1 agst Gen eral Ra gg . Won by two leng ths. On retur n i ng to scale an objection was lodged agains t Foxhunter for having gone the wrong side of a post. T he stewards, u p on in vestigating the case, a warded the stakes to Ban g Bull, who ca me i n second. The Upton Steeeple chase Plate BGaenngera B l ti Ragg, a gg, 12st (Handicap) of 40 801,8; winners extra. Two miles. Inkerman, 10st 7lb (Mr. Edwards) 1 Ironsides, 9st 11Ib Miss Ilaria and Harkaway gelding also ran. Bn oc %i,g..4 to 1 on Inkerman, who won i n a canter by ten lengths. re The s t ers hire Cup. value 100 sovs. Three miles, over a fair hunting count r y. etlt Tupsley, 12st. .......... (lIr. Pears) 1 Rufus, 12st 51b (Mr. Drake) 2 Huntsman, list 71b (Mr. Ivens) 3 The following also ran :—Wild Duck, Measham, Medora, Nereus, and Nabob. Betting-3 to lon Medora, sto 1 agst Nereus, 7to 1 agst Nabob.l a length; four lengths between second and third W" Medora fell. HEREFORD MEETING-THURSDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 aovs each, with 25 added; weight for age, with selling allowances. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr T. Parr's Buckland, 2 yrs, Gat 51b (£5O) • (G. Sopp) 1 Mr. Mellon's F letton, 3 yrs, st 71b (L5O) (Maidment) 2 Mr R. Sly's Belladrum, 3 yrs, 7st 41b06). J. Riordan) 502 ( ( E.ATarydlaon) 4 Taylor) Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, sst 121 b ( Mr Adams's Ledbury, 4 yrs, Bit (£5O) .... (J. Holman) 5 Betting-3 to 1 agat Jessie, sto 2 agat Flotton, 3to 1 each agst Ledbury and Buckland. Won by a length, four lengths between second and third. The winner was bought by Mr Barber for 130 guineas. The Herefordshire Stakes of 10 sous each, with 60 added ; winners extra. A mile and a half, 12 subs. Mr T. Parr's Blondin, 3 yrs, ist 61b Mr Brodia's Lothia n ' s Kin g , 5 y rs, 7st 91b.. (Grin:alhal 1 ) 2 Tourist, The Monk, and Pearl Diver also ran. Betting- 9 to 2 each agst Tourist and Blondin. Won by three lengths. Only two passed the post. The Town Plate (Handicap) of 3 soya each, with 25 added, for all ages. Half a mile. Mr Sa%on's Littlecote, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (11. Sharpe) 1 Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, Est 41b .... (J Grilnshawt)) 2 Mr T. Stevens's Pinkepoe, 4 yrs, 7st 12Ib (Maidmen 3 Mr Lincoln's Rowena, 4 yrs, 7st Blb Betting--Even on Littlecote, sto 2 agst Pinkepoe, to . Taylor) 4 1 agat Jessie. third. e The winner len g w t hg as , t b w o o ug l h en t g b t y hs m b r e . tr ud en re s w ec s o f n o d rl4s and Von guineas. tprao.f 51sovosmeailcehs,. with 30 added ; The Hurdle RacweinLinaenrdsiecxa (Holman) 2 Mr Wadlow's Pot Pourri, 4 yrs, list st w (in. 101boevx White) 1 Mr Herbert's Wh it e hall, 3 yrs , Mr Brayley's B rother tod S u p nr i k n n g o b w ok n , ), 3 a y g r e s d , , 9 9 st s . t . l ( 3 J l a b mcs) 3 Mr O'lslalley's ehnl (pe• (Mitchell) 4 Tho following also ran :—Consternation, Dliss iittw. thorn, and Rapture. 3 Betting- 5 to 4on Pot 1. ourri, to 1 agst Whitehall, 6 -st Miss Hawthorn. Won by ,hthreef Three-quarters t ; e r a s bad of a third. mile. yr to 1 ap,_ ~,,dicap of 5 says each, w ith 50 a d ded for 2- qss, 6st 61b (M or d an ) 1 Th e Nurseryh ..elds. Mr Brayley's Victoria CI, - (Sopp) 2 Mr Morgans Cosette, 6st 1116, (Tomlinson) 3 Mr Drake's Eugenie filly, 6st 41b,, "Toss, Cutaway, Life- The following also ran :—Golden 'nu. buoy, Bianca filly, Wildman, and Impositi. -q-st Wild- Betting-5 to 2 agst the Eugenie filly, 3tol . w huoy man, 4 to 1 agst Golden Cross, 11 to 1 each agat and Bianca filly. Wor. by a 7r,:ek the some between seeowl and third, Information, believed to be perfectly reliable, has been received at Washington that Lee is sending to Bragg two more divisions of his army, and that it is his intention to retire with the remainder of bis army to the defences at Fredericksburg, where they will, as the rebel authorities believe, prevent any demonstration against Richmond by that route, or up the bank of the James River. They calculate that the injury done to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad will prevent any attempt this season to advance against Richmond by the Gordonsville route, and they regard any movement up the peninsula as impracticable at this late season. General Gregg's cavalry yesterday (23d) made a reconnaissance within two miles of the Rappa hannock, and returned without finding the enemy. The Orange and Alexandria Railroad has been repaired one mile beyond Bristow Station. Forces are engaged night and day repairing the damages done by the enemy. The discipline and morale of the army are said to be fine, and both officers and men have great confi dence in General Meade. There are no indications whatever of a general engagement. It is estimated that the Federal losses during the late desultory campaign in killed, wounded, and prisoners, will not exceed 1,500 men. The Ilkknow' Examiner of the 20th, says :—... " Meade is believed to be resting at Centreville after the fatigue of his prodigious skedaddle. His retreat is considered to have been so masterly as to have dimmed for ever the laurels won by M'Clellan in that branch of warfare. He fell back with more celerity than Pope, and with more success than either he or M'Clellan. While we admire the success of his escape, we shall always wonder why he exposed himself in a manner to make his flight necessary. If it was his design to flee as soon as menaced, why did he ever come to the Rapidan. One would suppose that from the Rappahannock to Washington was a sufficiently long race track. What his next movement will be, it is impossible to conjecture. Perhaps, as he was so successful in running away, he may advance again. " If he does advance again to the Rapidan, he can hardly do so in less than a month, as it will take him at least that time to reconstruct the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which, by the exertions of both armies, has been pretty thoroughly demolished from Culpepper Court House to Ma nassas J unction." The following telegrams are from the Richmond papers ; CULPEPPER COURT-HOUSE, OCT. 17. The heavy rain yesterday caused the Rapidan to rise, and the bridge careened last night, ren. dering it impassable for the present. The battle at Catlett's Station proved to be a cavalry skir mish, in which we took some prisoners. There was hard fighting late on Wednesday evening at Bristow Station. We were driving the enemy back, when skirmishers fell upon M'lntosh's bat tery, supported by Cook's brigade. Gen. Cook was wounded early in the action. His brigade was thrown into confusion, during which the enemy succeeded in taking five pieces of artil lery. Reinforcements coming up we pursued the enemy towards Dumfries. Our 13ss is about 500 killed and wounded. Fifteen hundred prisoners have been gathered during the day. GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 18. The enemy have been driven back to their fortifications at Centreville, to which they have been flying for several days past pursued by our forces. They have destroyed in their flight such stores as they could not take with them. The fight ing has been with small bodies as our forces would come up with them. The battle at Bristow station was an engagement between parts of the two armies. It is reported that but for a deserter going over to the enemy and giving information, the day our forces commenced moving, we should have achieved a much more substantial success. GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 20. One thousand Yankee prisoners, captured last week, are expected here to-night. The Rapidan bridge will be repaired by to-morrow morning. (From the Richmond Sentinel, Oct. 21.) The force reported to be moving on Abingdon is believed to be the same cavalry and mounted in fantry, commanded by Foster, who was so easily whipped in September at Zollicaffa by two regi ments of Cerse's brigade. They numbered then 2,000, and can hardly have increased more than a few hundred. If these are all we have to contend with, as we believe they are, our salt works are safe for the present. We wish we could say as much for East Tennessee. That valuable section will never be free from Yankee inroads until we retake Cumberland Gap, Richmond papers contains the following : MISSIONARY RIDGE, OCT. 17. Gen. D. H. Hill has been relieved, and Gen. Breckenridge placed in command of his corps: The recent heavy rains have caused a freshet in the Tennessee river. The bridges ove r -Chicka mauga and Chattanooga Creeks have been sw e pt awa y. For the first time in four days w e see the sun. The bridges are being rapidly repaired. Th e enemy's pontoon bridge along the town was sub- merged. Sigel's corps is reported to have been at Stevenson on the 14th. Confederate accounts from Charleston up to the 21st October, state that a brisk fire is maintained upon the Federals with no response. The Ironsides is asserted to be leaky since the torpedo attack. She steamed around Cumming's Point on the 21st. One more Monitor had joined the fleet. The French ship Tasiphon had arrived ; her commander, De Marivaux, is said to be a cousin of the Emperor. The _Richmond Enquirer of the 21st states that Gen, Price with a force of 20,000 men is marching upon Little R oc k, w i t h on l y s i x t h ousan d in front of him. H e i s sa i d to b e on h i s way t o Misesn r Gens. l A serious disagr eemen t h a d t a k e n p Price a n d H o l mes, caus i ng considerable demoralisa tion among their troops. It was, h o wever, finall y settled to their mutual sat i 8 faci.n. A despatch from that Bragg is reported to hPliavis.crossed' dated Oct. 21 , states crsed the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad, and transported his sup plies to Rome and Selma re President Lincoln'spiy to the Missouri-Kansas great dissatisfaction to the delegation has Se re given s to remove Gen. Schofield. Radicals. on a visit to Nia gara f " us h e ave gone " The Bussians i invitations have been given them Municipal and Washington. The Philadelphia, -it Boston, . to visit be ari angements for the grand ball to th em in New T York are not yet completed. me Governors of New York and New Jersey 1 ,>. , Save on our own terms we can accept no p eace whatever, and mus t fight till doomsday rath er than yield an iota of them, and our terms are:— Recognition by the enemy of the independence of the Confederate States. Withdrawal of the Yankee force from every foot of Confederate ground, including Kentucky and. Missouri. Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that State shall decide by a free vote whether she shall remain in the old Union or ask admission into the Confederacy, Consent on the part of the Federal Government to give up to the Confederacy its proportion of the navy, as it stood at the time of secession, or to pay for the same. Yielding up of all pretension on the part of the Federal Government to that portion of the old territories which lies west of the Confederate States. Anequitablesettlement on the basis of our abso lute independence, and equal rights of all accounts of the public debts and public lands, and the add vantages accruing from foreign treaties. These provisions, we apprehend, comprise the minimum of what we must require before we lay down our arms. That is to say, the North must yield all—we nothing —and as they have waged a wicked and causeless war upon us, they ought in strict justice to be required, according to usage in such cases, to reimburse to us the whole of our ex penses and losses in the cause of that war. Assuredly as we completely ruin their armies, so surely will we make them pay our war debt, though we wring it out of their hearts. And they know it well ; therefore they cannot make peace except through their utter inability to strike another blow. Tho stake they have to forfeit if they lose the game is as vital as ours. So is the stake to be won. It is no less than the entire possession of our whole country, with us in it and all we own, to have and to hold to them and their heirs for ever. Oxide more, we say, it is all or nothing. Tho Confederacy or the Yankee nation—one or the other must go down, forfeit its national existence, and lie at the feet of its mortal enemy. Meade's army and Rosencranz's once scattered, 1 - , , . , e can get no more armies. The draft turns out manifestly fruitless. Both the German and the Irish element are for peace. The Yankees have to bear the brunt of the war themselves; but in the meantime their inevitable bankruptcy is advancing like an armed man. "Hungry ruin has them in the wind," and it cannot bo long before the Cabinet at Washington will have to consider seriously terms of peace, uuder auspices and circumstances very different from the present. For the present, let the war roll and thunder on, and God defend the right. Re viewer.—For many years there ENGLISH OPERA.—Defined b h y as a b S ee a n tudy Re arcaryfor p m r an f a o g r e t r h s e ha p v e e rm co a m ne e n f t erward a w n it a h ti s o p n l a en l d op id er s a e . hem Su es c , cessive the works of native composers n estab lishment of a theatre inownhpiachenatoiuvre native tongue. s y in e g i t each scheme in turn tumbles from the crumbles into the lofty pedestal very on w hich its propounders place it, and or dinary materials. A distaste for Er glish opera cannot be charged upon t g h o o od pu o b p l e i r e a , who oaanr: kind,qui quite andreadyv Nh to oflock to the appre. ciato and re theatre when any piece but slightly above the usua I. feeble run of ;English opera is produced. There is, more over, a s t r ong wish among the lo vers o f music for the de velopment in this country of a school of dramatic compo sition; yet, with all this demand, with all the increased at tention which music has lately received, and with all the improvement in the national musical taste, the hopes of a national opera are as small as ever. The cause must surely be found in our composers and our managers. The former allow their pens to be guided, not by their musical and dramatic feelings, but by the wishes of their publishers, and, in place of composing for the stage, write what will suit the milder atmosphere of the drawing-room, This is the crying vice of our English operatic writers. If they have by them a pretty ballad or a sparkling song, they care nothing for dramatic situations, but bring it in head and shoulders, that they may get good terms from Bond-street, which thus obtains the best possible advertisement of the msreeatt by its being sung by the pet singer in the new opera, with which it has perhaps no more in common than Achilles with the distaff. Th© best opera writers are guided by different principles' Take " Fidelio " or " Der Freyschutz"—there are but ono or two pieces in each of these operas bearable off the stage, and o ne can count upon one's ten fingers all that Meyerbeer's op eras y i eld for drawing-room consu mption. The same is true of Anber in a less degree ; and aithouoga: Mozart's music and that of the great Italian composers in. be listened to with pleasure apart from the story, .: tenfold jug as it does so much pure melody, yet the effect . is , r greater when the passages are heard in the b s ee itua aase the : which they were composed. This happensas we.. as great composers, being really operatic composerhsara " eters of their musicians, clothe the situations and thetocry an d paints the dramas with music which tells the iss to write an opera; passions they wish to express. but to string together a series by any unity of purpose, gives a resu lt may be intrinsically valu able, a savage, in which each stone m ond barbaric, exciting no tho u n n e c e o u nn a e e c e te e d i Phis songs, of hie : the course of the i t k his book so as to p ab le l a e s , ur b e ut in th it e s ewountoolme pisiattaiLd.irlyeyial,thie te ensure show r e t to advan tage large demand front exe cution f ba ll a ds for his publisher ; and have average theg English rea test Co numbern i po s er 0 . find :übitei esw;ah what It r composers theyntl of Miss B, or the volume the.... writteneecn eang gentlemen who attend the a a s nd th u o p y p a e r r e n g o e te n s er o a f l iu ly r and tiroe of Mrs. A, the young fancy will suit their respective so long a National immediately reproduce such pieces for the benefit voices, and circles in which they move as • of the . lasts, is musical (or infliction), lon g as this system opera to , lights . So Opera impossible ; bongs than with singlego on choosing a story themselves. . t into half-a-dozen of th • and putting i their best ballads taken at random from their desks, filling up with a noisy chorus or two, bestowing some pains perhaps upon a solitary con. certed piece, fitting the prima cknner with a sufficiently difficult rondo finale, and imagining they have written an opera. A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF POCKET-PICKING is said to have recently happened in London. A gentleman from the country received a large sum of money in sovereigns. Ile bought a sort of canvas bag for it, walked along the streets, all the while keeping his hand in the pocket where the purse was, with a desperate determi nation not to be done. All at once, to his astonishment, his purse was gone. Ile at once went to a policeman, by whose assistance he had the singular good fortune to find the thief who had taken his purse. The gentleman was so amazed at his purse being taken while his hand had never o left his po c k e t , th a t h e o ff ere d t o f org i ve th e th ie f, h would tell him how it was done. The thief then said " I happened to see you receiving the money, and _ a u you. I saw you buy the bag-purse, and . again un you. After a time I tickled your ear with fewera urse -pocket to consciously you took your hand out of your parse-pocket fi and while remove what you thought, perhaps, was onec you were rubbin your ear, I got the 12°°r Y Trek.