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Cobbett and are rpublishing an entirely New Edition of their un 'quailed HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by 410 , ad mirable engravings of every description of Furniture and Be dsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent giatis and Post-free on application. This costly work also contains k com plete estimates for furnishing on the follow in g revised ale A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto n, A Twelve-roomed d:tto 191 11 0 4 , o Zether with a erice List of purified be d d i ng , a n d a mass of valuable information to all requiring houselpid furniture, car Pets or bedding. References kindly pe rmitte d t o Clen2y nisen and gentlf men in or near G reat Malvern , Southam p ton, ~ L ichester Bury, Ely, Preston. Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Oxf'ord. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder 'Oster, Wellington. Croydon. Cambridge , Staines , Dork in g , Alban's Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, W rexham and above 50 0 other places in all parts of Great hritai n. ' COB BETT and CO., General House Furnishers , Deptford bridge, London, S.E, NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. I t Tlll3 Copnany is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for ereantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced 'cale of rates. Particulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle- Street. SPECIAL NOTICE. NORTH BRITISH I T l E s () H o K s A OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY, MERCANTILE _ For the Year 1863, close on 31st December. Life Policies effected on or before that date will rank for an traditional Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants. LUr .nr-r, the Fonr 'Years preceding last Division of Profits (1858), the Company issued 1,595 Life Policies, assuring £1,221,603 farina the Four suc'eeding Years the number of Life Polices issued amounted to 3,168, and the Sums assured to £2,22',5,2 BEING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT. The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the COM PANY'S PROFITS will take place on 31st December, 1865. ~ THE WP OLE PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMU LATED SINCE 31sx DECEMBER, 1858, WILL THEN 4} : DIVIDED, AND NINETY PER , CENT. ALLOCATED ' ll ONG THE ASSURED ON THE PARTICIPATING SCALE. CERTIFICATES of INDISPIITABILI FY ranted, and every facility offered to lusurers. FIRE DEPARTMENT. ienr7l terms.ra n'es g ranted both at Home and Abroad o n the most bbera yorms Proosal and every „ of information will be given at 14 ° Head Office, p or any of the Company's Agents. By order. F. W. LANCE, Secretary. London, November, 1883. HEAD OFFICES: LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street. ~ SDI.. West - end Office BB. Wa inces- terloo-p street.la, Pall-mall. NBURGII 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 DEPA RTMENTS. T HE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. RENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., IMP., Chairman. John Cheatham, Esq., Staleybr:dge. John Field. Esq., Warnford-court. City. Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall. Richard Francis George, Esq , Bath. ilenry H. Parrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's-wood. Thomas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Highbury. auhn Hedgins., Esq., Cavendish Club tames Edward Meronnell, Esq., Wolverton. W. Reynolds, Esq., Earon-place, Belgravia. Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of R• Wickham ms, Bomb y Wickham Wickham. Esq., M.P. for Bradford. Thomas Winkworth, Esq , Gresham Club, and Canonbury. P. Bro n-Wssthead, E2q., M.P. for York. , Security is provided in approved ca ses for Officers of Bank and Commercial Estoblishmeats, Public Companies, Municipal Corporations, and for other places of trust. Life Assurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad vantageous terms. Prosnectuses, Firms of Proposal, and every information may be obtained from the Chief Offices, 2, Waterloo - place, ~, all-mall, London ; and 39, Gorge-street, Edinburgh. TETE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (The Directors reserve to hemselves the right of changing the name of the Company.) I ' o be incorporated under " The Companies Act, 1862," by which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of share , . Capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £5O. Pirst issue, 10,e00 shares. Deposit on application .£t per share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at internals of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £2O per share. DIRECTOE.S. Gc . orcze Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con . _ stable\ Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great Sen'. 'WilliCHelam Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. 17 m. VArthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street. F. Sargood,LJo.naon and Melbourne. Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, and Sargood), Tli ma. Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres awl River Plate Bank, James _Thompson, Esq. (M essrs. Le Gros Th om p son an d o tiutter-lane. vfing,h Mannernan Esq. *l;ichd. Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman & Co. *Samuel Baiter, Esq. * Committee of Management. BA.NKERS. The London and Westminster Bank. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. atnes Shepherd, E s q. , BROKERS. Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane. tears, 6andeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, Offices —No. 4, Abchurch-lane. PROSPECTUS. In forming this Company the Directors have secured the co-operation of Messrs. Sandeman and Co.. of Abchurch-lane. Whose well-known and lonz-established business it is the (30 :1 , et 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 'Pilled by Mes.rs. Sandeman and Co., as from the Ist day of 'January, and the business of the Company will commence tr °ln that day. Promotion money has or will be paid, and the expenses n l , ll be strictly confined to the necessary p.yments. Prospectuses an.: forms of applications for sharf a may be obtained at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and 15 t the Solicitors. • In the event of no allotment being' made the deposits will !,Je returned in full : should a less number of shares be al lotted than are appUed for, the deposit will be made avail able a ny, towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if 3 7 , returned to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolidaled Discount Comp,llY (Limited). Gentlem^n,-11 - avinir paid to your Bankers the sum of , I request you to allot me shares in the nsolidated Discount Company (Limited), and I hereby ,f r ee lo become a member of the Society, and to accept such I la res, or any less number that may be allotted to me ; and iVequest you to place my name on the Register of Merabers respect of the shares allotted to me. • I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. Name In full Address Usual signature Date T E A. — MOORE BROTHERS res p ectfull y inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready . The y e 8 pecially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced ; South reduced to 35. ; mixed Assam, re _uS d to 35. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. 4s. 11d. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, Loudon -bridge, City, E.C. pgaeout husks, suppli IGS ! and Inw PIG S i PIGS!-INDIAN PIG ME AL ! , equal to 14 ,74 3 1 Z7 in England, 16s 6 dper cwt. ; one cwt. d free in Lon don. Established 1: plied to the Royal farms, Windso , 185 g or any meal. Dellyer,e, Manager,66, lant-street, Southwrr 'l2llo MAS PE ARGE, lc. B rA-MP YOUR PAPER . ENVELOPES. INVOICES, Bze , with JONES'S PATENT PERCUSSION EXTBO . SSING- PRESS. embossing their Books,Drawi The above would be found useful to youths at school for ng s Complete, with Plain Crest, Name, or ape ßusiness Die, 95. 6d. itc. The Press Note the Address : ILLI Alt JONES, Die Sinker, Press Maker, and Embosser, 3, Queen's-c ourt, High Holborn (op posite Day and Martin s). R. REARDEN, LAND ESTATE, and HOUSE AGENT, SU itVEYOR and VALUER, 91 and 92, PICCADILLY , ne ar Cambridge house, opposite the Green-park, Establisbed 23 Years, respectfully invites the Particulars of Landed Estates, Farms, and Iloute Property for Sale, to be Let, or wanted to Rent or Purchase, for which to charge is made unless a treaty is concluded, and then only his usual rates of charge, particulars of which will be Riven on application. In all cases of his Letting Farms Mr. Reardon charges toe Tenant only, and not the Landlord. particulars of Property for Sale and to be Let wl.l be given Personally. or forwarded free of charge. N.B —Several Town and Country Residences, Landed Properties, and Farms Wanted to Rent and Pur,hase immediately. Direct full particulars to Mr. Reardon as above. pEATING'S PALE NEWFOUNDLAND 311„ COD LIVER OIL. The Finest I mported havthi,scason. T luS VALUABLE MEDICINE _, come into sit It general use. and being, moreover, laoteexytecatr,s.. rclY prescribed by the most eminent practitioner uwn and country, Mr. Keating can with rs both in contidence recommend this Oil as beiug perfectly l u e _greatest lasteless, and free from adulteration, having. he% pure f,eported on, and recommended by Prof. Taylor, ~t d' i l ' i l a, , Ysed, St Thomas's Hospitals, Dr. Scott. M.D., L.R.C.p Y kl h and C. and i , r. Edwin Payne, M D., L.E.C.P., 3.11.6.'s ~.!;bs., In the words of the late Dr. Pereira, says that " The ti , st Oil 2 that which is most devoid of colour, odour, and flavour, clia ,'49ter this wi l l be found to posse ss, being. purely of hepati c 4- t:' ,l3 ' a point of great weight wit h re g ard to its therapeutic %,- • a. , ie, I ,Lold in Half-pints, ls. Pints, 3s. ; Quarts, Is. 61 ; and li . ", v , e- idnt Bottles, Vs. 61. imperial measure, by TiromAs .A.TING, Chemist 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. tin. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre -I,,sred without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. suffer of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who aliveness, as a family sp from bilious and fiver complaints, indigestion, wind, co aeral, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, dre. For habitual aperient medicine, and as a purifier fi ft h " 1 2lood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera mot:ii,°, grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro. Sold - op w e ation, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Loud e r • Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. tim er . %and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three Beott B e quantifY in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. green Moue and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square etkinp e Pac4ka g e . With " William Lambert,". engraved en the ROYAL ALHAMBRA.- CONTINUED and IMMENSE SUCCESS of FRANCONI'S CIRQUE IMPEKIAL.—This Renowned Troupe, comprising the best Stud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World, together with the First Star Male and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, Clowns, and Van tors in either Hemis here, at tracts enthusiastic and delighted audiences nightly to this Magnificent Building, who behold with wonder nd admira tion the Marvellous Feats of this far-famed Company. Change of Programme Nightly. Morning Performances, Mondays, Wednesday e, and Saturdays, at T o. Two Grand Performances on Boxing Day, viz , Two and Half-past Seven. Admission—Private boxes, one guinea; Reserved seats, 35.; Stalls and Balcony, 2s. ; Pit and Promenade, ls. ; Gallery, Gd. Box-office open doily. On Monday, Dec. 2'st, first appearance of M. Jules Perez, from Madrid, the Greatest Rider of the age. AR GYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During, the Concerts given by Mons. JIILLIEN. at Her Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at S o'clock. Admission, is. Manager—M. GRENET. MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. L9ndon and westminster Bank. Post-ufflce Orders payable at Camber well-park N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—Bovr and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. 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 RACHWS, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidential. PRIZE MEDAL —INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., ,to., To the Queen and the rib= of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862. testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A. distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, "I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 25. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality •• .. 2e. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. is. sd. per lb. Second quillty • Is. 3d. per lb. Is. ld. per lb. Third quality • • • Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 173 q). The largest Establishmrmt in Enp.:land for the Manufacture of WRY. Candles for the use of the Altar. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. —The greatest and most useful invention of t be day, AGUA AMARELLA. Messrs. JOU N GOS N ELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to thl public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually rest,;. , 7cs the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at vv ln hi b t t a p c . . :t : inil l e t e e pse A s gua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and thewhen hair is once restored one application per month wil rofetcltlc_aolleosu.r. Price one guinea per bottle, or 't bottles, 10s. Gd. Testimonials from artistes of the ieat_order, and from individuals of unuoubted respecta bility, and c 0. 1, 2 Y be se en on application. Messm John Gosnell Hess , : %.v.e been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High- T EETH —m following aavantst e T. ESK ELL'S INVENTION in tha conbtrucrti manship and mechanie of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the mechanic set of teeth, of excellent work pain or extraction of stumps acy and success be made and fitted with the most perfect aceur of mastication and articul success, in a few hours, without and tanswer all the purposes gums, that they are quite immovea wires or fastenings, and adapt i''They are fitted without themselves so perfectly to the of the wearer. Invalids or residentsei except at the option of tl l i a e the country can ad ci:lolith without the ad just these teeth t;► many change s aid of a dentist. They are not so liable t free for rTivenor useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort _stery, are always Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c . ,. 6 and at 39 Bennett' ZG 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations tree-- street, Bond-street, W ; , 0 -hill, Bir mipgham. .INI 0 . 22,306 Ng W NOVEL. This day is published, in 3 vols., It E V E R : A Story of English Country Life. By A CLERGYMAN. Itunt and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street F ° Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., BARBARA'S HISTORY. By AMELIA B. EDWARDS. " This story will rank among the very best productions of its class. We have met with nothing of equal power or merit since the decease of Charlotte Bronte."—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in magnificent Emblematic Cover, designed by John Leighton, price 21s. ; morocco, 31 s. 6 d. , THE IL LUSTR ATED INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, from Sixty Original Drawings by Cruikshank, Leech, and Tenniel. " For Christmas there could not be found a more pleasant book than Tne Inczoldsby Legends.' A series of humorous legends, illustrated by three such men as Leech, Cruikshank, and Tenniel what can be more tempting - ?"—Times, Dec. 4. *„* Also, an Edition without illustrations, small Bvo., 58. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. A GIFT BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS AND FOR ALL TIMES. . . . Now ready, a quaint little Vol., square 12m0., containing Nine Photographic Illustrations and various Ornamenta tions to each page, in binding of an Elizabethan stamp, price Five Shil THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN. Described by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Depicted by ROBERT 6MIRKE. L, Booth, 307, Regent-street, W. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. In the January Number (now ready) commences a New Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled — THE DOCTOR'S WIFE. By Author of "John Marchmont's Legacy," "Lady Audley's Secret," &c., Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " SAUKVILLE 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. UNIFORM WITH " THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE." This day, Never before Published, price 25., SEChET SERVICE; Or, The Recollections of a City Detective. London : Ward and Look, 158, Fleet-street. LAND IN VICTORIA. Price 2d. with, and ld. without Map; p osta g e, id. extra, THE LAND LAW of VICTORIA (Australia), By the Hon. GAVANDUfFY, Minister of Public Lands London : W. H. Smith and Son, 188, Strand, and 21, Lower Sackville-street, Dublin ; to be had at all their Railway Book Stalls ; and at Mr. G. Street's Colonial Newspaper Office, 30, Cornhill, E.C. T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and JL Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London: 18, New Burlington street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK CIF BEAUTY, By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. Just published, gratis, THE REPORT of the BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, LONDON, for 1884.. It contains a signifi. cant remark on the excess of 23,000 in the mortality during the three healthiest months of the year. May be had of al the llygeian agents throughout the world. THE 0X F ORD, 13 , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA. FORZA DEL DESI INO—Verdi ; by the followinn talented artistes . —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, %% almsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, finish, Kimberley, Stuart, tc. Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTII ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Macligan, and the marvel lous Gymnast, J. 11 enderson. In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas E e, sup ported by the entire company, a new and original Cantat t, entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and composed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment. Director, Mr. F. Jon,ghmans. "THE GHOST CLUB" at the CA.NTEBBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MO RTON is enabled to announce that, through the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN TERBURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real life, both in its 'serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best wrters. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful eiviEsation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly replace 1 by others. .The pages of Shakspere and the elaer Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, lngoldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., wid. in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictortal attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Alarshall, and George Hutchenson. ;.4 . . f . • •- •• . • p •. ... 7 .40„ • „ - • ' 0 •1 111111 t 61:?;t: , • .: 1111L , w *‘ ••• • . BOLT• . . • - • • •••• •• . g - , • . \ .9y 4 ft. • • .4° .. PR1CE.....—..4d. STAMPED ....6d. States are dependencies of the Government which is at. ministered at Washington. Great Britain has accordingly entertained with that Government the closest and most intimate relations, while refusing on its demand ordinary amicable intercourse with us, and has, under arrange ments made with the other nations of Europe, not only denied our just claim of admission into the f :may of nations, but interposed a passive though effectual bar to the acknowledgment of our rights by other Powers. So soon as it had become apparent, by the declarations of the British Ministers, in the debates of the British Parliament in July last, that her Majesty's Government were determined to persist indefinitely is a course of policy which, under pro fessions of neutrality, had become subservient to the de signs of our enemy, I felt it my duty to recall the commis eionets formerly accredited to that Court, and the corres pondence on the subject is submitted to you. It is duo to you and to our country that this full statement should be made of the just grounds which exist for dissatis faction with the conduct of the British Government. lam well aware that we are unfortunately without adequate remedeifor the injustice under which we have euffered at the hands of a powerful nation, at a juncture when our entire re sources are absorbed in the defence of our lives, liberties, and independence, against an enemy possessed of greatly superior numbers and material resources. Claiming no favour, desiring no aid, conscious of our own ability to de fend our own rights, against the utmost efforts of an infu riate foe, we had thought it not extravagant to expect that assistance would be withheld from our enemies, and that the conduct of foreign na ti ons would be marked • by a genu i ne impartiality between the belligerents. It was not supposed that a professed neutrality would be so conducted as to justify the Foreign Secretary of the British nation in explaining, in correspondence with our enemies, how " the impartial observance of neutral obligations by her Ma jesty's Government has thus been exceedingly advantageous to the cause of ithe more powerful of the two contending parties." The British Government may deem this war a favourable [occasion for establishing, by the temporary sacrifice of their neutral rights, a prdcedent which shall justify the future exercise of those extreme belligerent pretensions that their naval power renders so formid able. The opportunity for obtaining the tacit assent of European Governments to a line of conduct which ignores the obligations of the declaration of Paris, and treats that instrument rather as a theoretical exposi tion of principles than a binding agreement, may be consi dered by the British Ministry as justifying them in seeking a great advantage for their own country at the expense of ours. But we cannot permit, without prot est, the assertion that international law or morals regard as "impartial neutrality" conduct avowed to be "exceedingly advan tageous to one of the belligerents." I have stated that we are without adequate remedy against the injustice under which we suffer. There are but two measures that seem applicable to the present condition of our relations with neutral Powers. One is, to imitate the wrong of which we complain, to retaliate by the declaration of a paper blockade of the coast of the United States, and to capture all neutral vessels trading with their ports that our cruisers can intercept on the high seas. This measure I cannot recommend. It is true that, in so doing, we should but follow the precedents set by Great Britain and France in the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the British Orders in Council at the beginning of the present century. But it must be remembered that we ourselves protested against those very measures as signal violations of the law of na tions, and declared the attempts to excuse them on the ground of their being retaliatory, utterly insignificant. Those blockades are now quoted by writers on public law as a standing reproach on the good name of the nations who were betrayed by temporary exasperation into wrong doing, and ought to be regarded rather as errors to be avoided than as examples to be followed. The other measure is not open to this objection. The second article of the declaration of Paris, which provides "that the neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the ex ception of contraband of war," was a new concession by bel ligerents in favour of neutrals, and not simply the enuncia tion of an acknowledged pre-existing rule, like the fourth article, which referred to blockades. To this concession we bound ourselves by the convention with Great Britain and France, which took the shape of the resolution adopted by your predecessors on the 13th August, 1831. The consi deration tendered us for that concession has been withheld. We have, therefore, the undeniable right to refuse longer to remain bound by a compact which the other party refuses to fulfil. But we should not forget that war is but tempo. rary, and that we desire that peace shall be permanent The future policy of the Confederacy must ever be to uphold neutral rights to their full extent. The principles of the declaration of Paris commend themselves to our judgment as more just, more humane, and more consonant with modern civilisation than those belligerent pretensions which great naval Powers have heretofore sought to introduce into the maritime code. To forego our undeniable right to the exercise of those pretensions is a policy higher, worthier of us and our cause than to revoke our sanction to princi ples that we approve. Let our hope for redress rest rather on a returning sense of justice, which cannot fail to awaken a great people to the consciousness that the war in which we are engaged ought rather to be made a reason for for bearance of advantage than an occasion for the unfriendly conduct of which we make just complaint. The events of the last year have produced important changes in the condition of our Southern neighbour, The occupation of the capital of Mexico by the French army,and the establishment of a Provisional Government followed by a radical change in the constitution of the country, have ex cited lively interest. Although preferring our own govern ment and institutions to those of other countries, we can have no disposition to contest the exercise by them of the same right of self-government which we assert for ourselves. If the Mexican people prefer a monarchy to a republic, it is our plain duty cheerfully to acquiesce in their decision, and to evince a sincere and friendly interest in their prosperity. If, however, the Mexicans prefer maintaining their former institutions, we have no reason to apprehend any obstacle to the free exercise of their choice. The Emperor of the French has solemnly disclaimed any purpose to impose on Mexico a form of government not acceptable to the nation ; and the eminent personage to whom the throne has been tendered declines its acceptance, unless the offer be sanctioned by the suffrages of the people.. In either event, therefore, we may confidently expect the continuance of those peaceful rela tions which have been maintained on the frontier, and even a large development of the commerce already existing to the mutual advantage of the two countries. It has been found necessary since your adjournment to take action on the subject of certain foreign consuls within the Confederacy. The nature of this action, and the reasons on which it was based, are so fully exhibited in the corre spondence of the State department, which is transmitted to you, that no additional comment is required. In connection with this subject of our relations with foreign countries, it is deemed opportune to communicate my views in reference to the treaties made by merit of the United States at a date anterior to our s the separa tion,Govern- merit and which were consequently binding on us as w el l ,W as on foreign Powers when the separation took effeet.inein_ as partly with a view to entering into such ear Is that we the change in our government bad made necessary'or the felt it our duty to send commissioners pur pose of entering into the negociations proper'to those treaties. rela tive rights and obligations of the parties abro to fix the ed as foreign to the treaties to which As this tender on our part has been deo m nations have refused us the benefitav ceased to be binding on we were parties, they certainly ashtions with European nations us, and, in my opinion, exclusively by the general are therefore now eonotrollreed i t i s proper to add that these rules of the law of nations. to treaty obligati no reference t o remarks are intended to Apply have, and ge relates to internal towards foreign Governor right of individuals. The remain der odfesth:LMessa affairs, and conclu year entertained of an e • The hope last ear ly termination of t been realised. carnage the war has n o Could e have satisfied t h e a ppetite of our enemy for the destr uction of human life, or grief have a ppeased their wanton d es i re to inflict human suffering, there has been bloodshed enough on both sides, a nd two lands have been sufficiently darkened by the weeds of mourning teeinduce a disposition for peace. If unanimity in a people could dispel delusion, it has b ee n displayed too unmistakeably not to have silenced the pretence that the Southern States were merely disturbed by a factious insurrection —and it must long since have been admitted that they were but exercising their reserved right to modify their own Government in such a manner as would best secure their these own happiness. But consi derations have been powerless to allay the un-Christian hate of those who, long accustomed to eraw large profitsthe from a union with as, cannot control the rage exacted by e the conviction that they have, by their own folly, des e t e ro e y v O d a to richest sources of their prosperity. Tblerebteutwoon listen to to proposals for the only peace poshstree g ulf which di • a peace which, recognising the impassa arately to recover vides us, may leave the two peoplesh se the causeless war from the injuries inflicted on both g beguny the w'er in direct now waged against us. nrivin;enieh forbade the attempt violation of their constitutionb,een hardened by crime, until to "el" a State ' they htaevsereil their purpose to destroy the they no Inger at tempt t the sover ei g nt y and inde,pendenee institutions an.l subrver now k no w that the only reliable hope of these States. 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N.B.—The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. gotiation on this matter" to the British Consul at Charleston, he was informed that " the most perfect accord on this question exists between her Majesty's Government and the Government of the Emperor of the French," and these instructions were accom panied by a copy of the despatch of the British Fo• reign Office of the 18th May, 1861, stating that there was no difference of opinion between Great Britain and the United States as to the validity of the prin ciples enunciated in the fourth article of the declara tion of Paris in reference to blockades. Your prede cessors of the Provisional Congress had, therefore, no difficulty in proclaiming, nor I in approving, the resolutions which abandoned in favour of Great Britain and France our right to capture enemy's property when covered with flags of those Powers. The " securities" desired by those Governments were understood by us to be required from both belligerents. Neutrals were exposed on our part to the exercise of the belligerent right of capturing their vessels when conveying the property of our enemies. They were exposed on the part of the United States, to interruption in their unques tioned right of trading with us by the declaration of the paper blockade above referred to. We had no reason to doubt the good faith of the proposal made to us, nor to suspect that we were to be the only parties bound by its acceptance. It is true that the instructions of the neutral Powers informed their agents that it was "essential under the present cir cumstances that they should act with great caution in order to avoid raising the question of the recog nition of the new Confederation," and that the un derstanding on the subject did not assume, for that reason, the shape of a formal convention. But it was not deemed just by us to decline the arrange men on this ground, as little more than ninety days had then elapsed since the arrival of our Commis sioners in Europe, and neutral nations were fairly entitled to a reasonable delay in acting on a subject of so much importance, an.l which, from their point of view, presented difficulties that we, perhaps, did not fully appreciate. Certain it is that the action of this Government on the occasion, and its faithful performance of its own engage ments, have been such as to entitle it to expect on the part of those who sought in their own interests a mutual understanding, the most scrupulous adhe rence to their own promises. I feel constrained to inform you that in this expectation we have been disappointed, and that not only have the Governs ments which entered into these arrangements yielded to the prohibition against commerce with us, which has been dictated by the United States, in defiance of the law of nations, but that this con cession of their neutral rights to our detriment has on more than one occasion been claimed in inter course with our enemies, as an evidence of friendly feeling towards them. A few extracts from the cor respondence of her Majesty's Chief Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will suffice to show marked encouragement to the United States to persevere in its paper blockade, and unmistakable intimations that her Majesty's Government would not contest its validity. Earl Russell pointed outO ntothtehe2lustniotfedMsa y ta , te l s B6 M 4 inister in London that " the blockade might no doubt be made effective, considering the small number of harbours on the Southern coast, even though the extent of 3,000 miles were comprehended in terms of the blockade." On the 14th of January, 1862, her Majesty's Mi nister in Washington communicated to his Govern ment that in extenuation of the barbarous attempt to destroy the port of Charleston by sinking a stone fleet in the harbour, Mr. Seward had explained "that the Government of the United States had last spring, with a navy very little prepared for so ex tensive an operation, undertaken to blockade up wards of 3,000 miles of coast. The Secretary of the Navy had reported that he could atop up the large holes' by means of his sh ps, but that he could not stop up the small ones.' It has been found neces sary, therefore, to close some of the numerous small inlets by sinking vessels in the channel." On the 6th of May, 1862, so far from claiming the right of British subjects as neutrals to trade with us as belligerents, and to disregard the blockade on the ground of this explicit confession by our enemy of his inability to render it effective, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs claimed credit with the United States for friendly action respecting it. His lordship stated that " the United States Government, on the allegation of a rebellion pervading from nine to eleven States of the Union, have no AP, for more than twelve months, endeavoured to maintain a blockade of three thou sand miles of coast. This blockade, kept up irre gularly, but when enforced, enforced severely, has seriously injured the trade and manufactures of the United Kingdom. Thousands are now ob liged to resort to the poor rates for sub sistence owing to this blockade. Yet her Ma jesty's Government have never sought to take ad vantage of the obvious imperfections of this blockade, in order to declare it ineffective. They have, to the loss and detriment of the British nation, scrupulously observed the duties of Great Britain towards a friendly State." Again, on the 22d September, 1862, the same noble earl asserted that the United States were " very far indeed" from being in " a condition to ask other nations to assume that every port of the coasts of the so styled Confederate States is effectively blockaded." When in view of these facts, of the obligations of the British nation to adhere to the pledge made by their Government at Paris in 1856, and renewed to this Confederacy in 1861, and of these repeated and explicit avowals of the imperfection, irregularity, and inefficiency of the pretended blockade of our coast, I directed our Commissioner at London to call upon the British Government to redeem its promise, and to withold its moral aid and sanction from the flagrant. violation of public law committed by our enemies,,we were in formed that her Majesty's Government could not regard the blockade of the Southern ports as having been otherwise than " practically effective," in February, 1862 , and that " the manner in which it m e h n a t s s since n o excuse for nto neutral Govern- been a enforcedascertaining t a gives n g that the blockade has not been effectually maintained." We were further informed, when we insisted that by the terms of agreement no blockade was to be considered effective unless "sufficient really to prevent access to our coast," that the declaration of Paris was in truth directed against blockades not sustained by any actual force, or sustained by a notoriously in adequate force, such as the occasional appearance of a man-of-war in the offing, or the like." It was impossible that this mode of construing an agreement, so as to make its terms mean almost h conveyed, could be consideredvers e h of t er whatwis e they a notification of the refusal to the B ritish Gover nment to remain tere otherwise than plainly a s bound by its agreement, or longer to respect those articles Of the declaration of Paris, which had been repeatedly denounced by British statesmen, and had been characterised by Earl Russell as " very imprudent" and " most unsatisfactory." If any doubt remained of the motives by which the British Ministry have been actuated in their dissipated by the a conductdistinet aitvowwoaullsdabned e c :p ni la P n le a t t eY i l ons contained in the published rs. I n commenting on th e rem onstrances of this ineffective blockade, the retary sfpoere Fchoreg cnenAtlffylimde by her Majesty's Secretary following language is used,--" It is said we have, contrary to the declarations of Paris, contrary to in • ternational law) permitted the blockade of 3,000 miles of American coast.. It is quite true we did so, and the presumable cause of - complaint is quite true, that although the blo ckade is kept up by a , suffi cient number of ships, yet these ships were sent into the United States navy ill-fitted . in a hurry, and are for the purpose, and did not keep up so completely and effectively us wad re quired au effective block ade." This unequivocal confession of violation, both of agreement with us and international law,is defended on grounds the validity of which we submit with confidence to the candid judgment of mankind. These grounds are thus stated :—" Still locking at the law of nations, it was a blockade we, as great belligerent Power in former times, sh ou ld have ac knowledged. We, ourselves, h a d a bl oc k a d e o f up wards b o o f2 r in justice 0 miles, and it did seem t o me t h at we were e to the Federal States of Ame- rica to acknowledge that blockade. Bat there. was another reason which weighed with rne. Our people were suffering severely for the want of that material which was the main staff of their industry ; and it was a question of self-interest whether we should not break the blockade. But in my opinion the men of England woule have been for ever infamous if, for the sake of their own interest they had violated the law of nations and made war in conjunction with those slaveholding States of America against the Federal States." In the second of these reasons our rights are tot involved; although it-may be permitted to observe that the conduct of Governments has not hereto- fore, to my knowledge, been guided by the prin ciple that it is infamous to assert their rights whenever the invasion of those rights creates severe suffering among their people and injuriously affect great interests. But the intimation that relations with these States would be discreditable because they are slaveholding, would probably have been omitted if the official personage who has published it to the world had remembered that these States were, when colonies, made slaveholding by the direct exercise of the power of Great Britain, whose dependencies they were, and whose interests in the slave trade were then supposed to require that her colonies should be made slaveholding. But the other ground stated is of a very grave character. It asserts that a violation of the law of nations by Great Britain in 1807, when that Govern- ment declared a paper blockade of 2,000 miles of coast (a violation then defended by law courts and jurists on the sole ground that her action was reta liatory), affords a justification for a similar outrage on neutral rights by the United States in 1861, for which no palliation can .be suggested; and that Great Britain "is bound in justice to the Federal States," to make return for the war waged against her by the United States in resistance of her illegal blockade of 1807, by an acquiescence in the Federal illegal blockade of 1861. The most alarming fea ture in this statement is its admission of a just claim on the part of the United States to require of Great Britain, during this war, a disregard of the recognised principles of modern public law and of her own compacts, whenever any questionable con duct of Great Britain "in former times" can be cited as a precedent. It is not inconsistent with re spect and admiration for the great people whose Government have given us this warning, to suggest that their history, like that of mankind in gmeral, offer exceptional instances of indefensible conduct "in former times," and we may well deny the morality of violating recent engagements through deference to the evil precedents of the past. After defending, in the manner just stated, the course of the British Government on the sub ject of the blockade, her Majesty's Foreign Secretary takes care to leave no doubt of the the purpose of the British Government to prevent our purchase of vessels in Great Britain, whil e sup plying our enemies with rifles and other munitions of war, and states the intention to apply to Perna tnhtefouretihteedfsu r t t a h te e e ra t n h c e e a o e f eu t r h e i n s e d e etshigetn he. w H i e ll gdiev in m to e their favour not only "everything that the law of nations requires, everything that the present Foreign Enlistment Act requires," but that he will ask the sanction of Parliament'` to further measures that her Majesty's Ministers may still add." This language wouldnotw have hic h lis so unmistakab l y a n official ex p osition of th e policy adopted by the Britis h Government in rel ation to our affairs, that the duty im p osed on me b y the Con stitution of giving you from t ime to time, '' informa tion of the state of the Confederacy," been performed if I had failed to p lace it di stinctly before you. I refer you for further details on this wh ole sub ject to the corresponde nce of the State De p art ment , wh h ie a h ve lle briefly ee narrated mpani are,esthismessge. The facts I trust, sufficient to enable you to appreciate the true nature of the neu trality professed by this war. "It is not in my power to apprise you to what extent the Government of France shares the views so unreservedly avowed by that of Great Britain, no published correspond ence of the French Government on the subject hav ing been reeeived." No public protest nor opposi tion, however, has been made by his Imperial Majesty against the prohibition to trade with us, imposed on French citizens by the paper blockade of the United States, "although I have reason to believe that an unsuccessful attempt was made on his part to secure the assent of the British Govern ment to a course of action more consonant with the dictates of public law and with the donnas of jus tice towards us." The partiality of her Mejesty's Government in favour of our enemies has been further evinced in the marked differenoe of its conduct on the subject of the purchase of supplies by the two belligerents. This difference has been conspicuous since the very commencement of the war. As early as the Ist of May, 1862, the British Minister in Washington was in formed by the Secretary of State of the United States that he had sent agents to England, and that others would go to France, to purchase arms, and this fact was communicated to the British Foreign-effice, which interposed no objection. Yet in October of the same year Earl Russell entertained. the complaint of the United States Minister in London, that the Confederate States were importing contraband of war from the island of Nassau, directed inquiry into the matter, and obtained a report from the authorities of the island armiesesu o 1 : i t . denying the allegations, which report was enclosed to Mr. Adams, and received by him as satisfactory evidence to dis sipate " the suspicion naturally thrown upon the authorities 1 of Nassau by that unwarrantable act." So, too, when the Confederate Government purchased in Great Britain, as a neutral country (and with strict observance both of the law of nations and the municipal law of Great Britain), vessels which were subsequently armed and commissioned as vessels of war, after they had been far removed from English waters, the British Government, in violation of its own laws and in deference to the importunate demands of the United States, made an ineffectual attempt to seize one vessel, and did ac tually seize and detain another which touched at the island of Nassau, on her way to a Confederate port, and subjected her to an unfounded prosecution at the very time when car goes of munitions of war were being openly shipped from British ports to New York, to be used in warfare against us. Even now the public journals bring intelligence that the Bri tish Government has ordered the seizure, in a British port, of two vessels, on the suspicion that they may have been sold to this Government, and that they may be hereafter armed and equipped in our service, while British subjects are en gaged in Ireland by tens of thousands to proceed to the United States for warfare against the Confederacy, in defiance both of the law of nations and of the express terms of the British statutes, and are transported in B ritish ships,without an effort at concealment, to the ports of the United States, there to be armed with rifles imported from Great Britain and to be employed against our people in a war for conquest . f uhilleistrained international law, on the part of our enemies, w new enact iNs No interposed s Qd prerogative against thisis ifinavgorkaendt, breach a e c ec h e executive i vino interference constructions are placed on existing precluding the possibility of purchase by t purpose, unless of vessels that are useless for belligerent 1 the neutral juris hereafter armed and equipped outside o diction of Great Britain. Government has exercised scoefoenutfrhe e d e eracy is either independent ments proposed, and questionable expaetaditetiteitsss'devised, Government For nearly three years this many millions of wiiling and unquestioned jurisdiction its citizens th • C PP3rted u p n e d e e p r le t h h a e v p e r b o e te en cti d o e n ve o l f op th ed e racy has leckcd no clement which Lis mbuishes en inde pendent nation, according. to the principles of public law. Its legislative, executive, dui judicial departments, each in its sphere, have formed their appropriate tunetions wills a lu,yn in vadersi:hede , people.cwonhfiode confidence have I e t and nn has,viaami affection cs t o .to v iu and gn r hotf: defeated ti si. t. subversion.vas.t regularity as undisturbed as in a time of profound peace, in the organisation of vast armies, while their rights and of the United States, for no other the right to govern it. Without one a l coe i n oar b ur d e tri r htt tt courts heyoisesfp justice.l v oa h w h a ed v o r whole e pc le e anniresteddemTre energies dependency sy s historic fact, on which the pretension can rest, without one line or word of treaty or covenant, which can give colour to title, the, United States having asserted, and the British Government has chosen to concede, that t'aese sovereign PRESIDENT DAVIS'S MESSAGE. This document, addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States, of which we have already given a telegraphic sum- marl', after mentioning the chief incidents of the late campaign, says : While therefore our success in driving the enemy from our soil has not equalled the expectations con fidently entertained at the commencement of the campaign, his further progress has been checked. If we are forced to regret losses in Tennessee and Arkansas, we are not without ground for congratu lation in Louisiana and Texas. On the sea coast he is exhausted by vain efforts to capture our ports, while on the northern frontier he has in turn felt the pressure and dreads the renewal of invasion. The Indomitable courage and perseverance of the people in the defence of their homes have been nobly at- tested by the unanimity with which the Legislatures of Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia have re• cently given expression to the popular sentiment; and like manifestations may be anticipated from all the States. Whatever obstinacy may be displayed by the enemy in his desperate sacrifices of money, life, and liberty, in the hope of enslaving us, the experience of mankind has too conclusively shown the superior endurance of those who fight for home, liberty, and independence, to permit any doubt of the result. Oa the state of the foreign relations with the Confederacy, the Message proceeds : I regret to inform you that there has been no improvement in the state of our relations viith fo reign countries since my Message in January last. On the contrary, there has been a great divergence in the conduct of the European nations from that practical impartiality which alone deserves the name of neutrality, and their action in some cases has assumed a character positively unfriendly. Yon have heretofore been informed that, by com mon understanding, the initiative in all action touching the contest on the continent had been left by foreign Powers to the two great maritime nations of Western Europe, and that the Governments of these two nations had agreed to take no measures without previous concert. The result of these ar _ rangements has, therefore, placed it in the power of either France or England to obstruct at pleasure the recognition to which the Confederaey is justly en titled, or even to prolong the continuance of hostili ties on this side of the Atlantic, if the policy of either could be promoted by the postponement of peace. Each, too, thus became possessed of great influence in so shaping the general exercise of neu tral rights in Egrope, as to render them subservient to the purpose of aiding one of the belligerents to the detriment of the other. I referred, at your last session, to some of the leading points in the course pursued by professed neutrals, which betrayed a partisan leaning to the side of our enemies; but events have since occurred which induce me to renew the subject in greater detail than was then deemed necessary. In caring to your attention the action of these Governments, I shall refer to the documents appended to President Lin coln's Messages, awl to their own correspondence, as disclosing the true nature of their policy, and the motives which guided it. To this course no excep tion can be taken, inasmuch as our attention has been invited to those sources of information by their official publication. In May, 1861, the Government of her Britannic Majesty informed our enemies that it had not "allowed any other than an intermediate position on the part of the Southern States," and assured tliem " that the sympathies of this country (Great Britain) were rather with the North than with the South." On the Ist day of June, 1861, the British Govern ment interdicted the use of its ports " to armed ships and privateers both of the United States and the so-called Confederate States," with their prizes. The Secretary of State of the United States fully appreciated the character and motive of this interdiction,:when he observed to Lord Lyons, who communicated it," that this message, and that of the same character which had been adopted by France, would probably prove a deathblow to Southern privateering." On June 12, 1861, the United States Minister in London informed her Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affaira that the fact of his having held interviews with the Commissioners of this Govern ment had given " great dissatisfaction," and that a protraction of this relation would be viewed by the United States as " hostile in spirit, and to require some corresponding action accordingly." In re sponse to this intimation, her Majesty's Secretary assured the Minister that " he had no expectation of seeing them any more." By proclamation, issued on the 10th and 27th of April, 1861, President Lincoln proclaimed the blockade of the entire coast of the Confederacy, extending from tho Potomac to the Rio Grande, embracing, according to the returns of the United States coast survey, a east lino of three thousand five huudred and forty-nine statute miles, on which the number of rivers, bays, harbours, inlets, sounds, and passes is one hundred and eighty-nine. The navy possessed by the United States for enforcing this blockade was stated in the reports communicated by President Lincoln tonic Congress of the United States to, consist of twenty-four vessels of all classes in cona_ mission, of which half were in distant seas. The ab surdity of /he pretension of such a blockade, in the face of the authoritative declaration of the maritime rights of neutrals made at Paris in 1856 was so glar ing that the attempt was regarded as an experiment on the forbearance of neutral Powers, which they would promptly resist. This conclusion was justi fied by the fact that the Governments of France and Great Britain determined that it was necessary for their interests to obtain from both belligerents " se curities concerning the proper treatment of non. Veda." In the instructions which confided the ne- ~~~ ~ ai•- , .#o''' ' '-'4-edoio-41 pp Li k; ‘iV ::iiZi.l,. t a .0.-2.40.-.. e.... i .., i *,.. -, 117 , 7177.7).., //,. :i...41...,r t yik-v, THE GREAT Plant i- I :te 7 , , "• ., "• .4 t ....._____ i. , ,i',.:.440 , Q-''A, . ' i c., - '---,-, *'.-: Ilf. i-- - 4,4 /41:41 A Z ;•- i'1 .‘,42 " N. ...iSaI . ..AL,' ../ 't a s 4 4, MARK'S-CROSS, NEAR WADRURST, Tete* ' This morning the informations which had been laid a„ the principals, seconds, eiders and abetters, and othesa, took - part in the recent contest between Tem Ki ng John Carmel Heenan, at Wadhurst, in the county of Sussex, came on for hearing before the magistrates sitting in Petty Sessions at the Justice-room at this place. The justices present were Messrs. D. Barelay:(chairrnan), E. Hussey, H. Dixon, E. W. Smyth, W. C. Molland, G. Field, and the Hon. F. G. Molyneux. The defendants, upon being called, answered as follows : —Thomas King, John Carmel Heenan, Thomas Sayers, James Mace, John Calvin Noon, alias Jerry Noon, John Tyler, alias Boa Tyler, Robert Travers, John Macdonald, William Richardson, and William Preston. Edward Smith did a ct answer, and inspector Silverton, of the C division of London police,who had aerved the other summonses, stated, in reply to the Bench, that he had delivered the summons at the plane of business of the defendant, Bell's Life in 1;071. don, 170, Strand, and had been told he would attend in the afternoon. Mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor, of 10, Basinghtill-strcet, ‘ - peered for all the defendants except Heen an , Sayers, sad Macdonald. Mr. Beard said that, as far as Meg WAS concerned, it was not his intention to fight any more, and that he thought the ends of justice would be fully satisfied if be wore bound over to keep the peace. The other defendants would also enter into similar recognisances, and as in the aeljecen,`, county of Kent it had been considered sufficient to edept such a curse, he hoped the banch would consider that would be sufficient. Heenan also assured the magistrates that, with Sayers and Macdonald, he would enter into any sureties considered necessary, and that, for his own part, ho did not intend to fight again. The Chairman observed that the object was not so much to punish as to deter others from doing the same thing, a n d said that the Bench felt they must go on with the case. The following evidence was then taken : Mr. George Campion Courthope, a county magistrate, said on the morning of the 10th of December, hearing the fight was about to take place, he went to the Wadhuest railway station, where he saw a great number of people in a field. He went to the spot and found the space enclosed with ropes and stakes, and two men fighting within the ring. He knew the defendant King to be one of them, and believed Heenan to be the other. He also saw Tom Sayers, who acted as one of the seconds to Heenan. He thought he saw some other of the defendants, but he could not speak positively to them. He endeavoured to get into the ring, and said he was a magistrate. Some person said, " There are two magistrates here; will you kindly act as referee, for wo are in some difficulty about one," but he declined. (Laughter.) There were several persons present who were apparently gentlemen. He did not speak to either of tho defendants to request them to desist, because he could not get near enough to them. Mr. Christopher Ellis, an exciseman, stationed at Wad hurst, said ho went to the fight, and saw Heenan and King fighting in t h e ring .. B " TaylorKi ng's Heenan's corn er was in corner. He also saw No on and - Mace. Macdonald and Sayers were in see esisting him, He went there in discharge of his duty, to license. He did see spirits r sold. whether spirits were sold without a Wm. Price, toll-coll ec t e at Wadhurst gate, said that on being told there was a fight close by he went to see it. Ile saw the two principals—Ki ng and Heenan--fighting. Mr. Beard — l suppose you w Witness—Yes, and I would ge:t merely from curiosity ? t an other. Who wouldn't ? 0-morrow if th e re was Hill, one of the Sussex constabulary, No.t nearer 56, said that e the ring having heard of t he fi g ht he wen t thereaendn ound 1,200 or 1,300 people asse mbled. He could not g than the outer rope. He saw Kin g , Heenan, and t r ying to get near the ring , two gentlemen Sayers. On handed witness back "very politely?' (Laughter.) John A. Thompson, deputy chief constable of the Suss ex cons tabulary, deposed tha t he arrived at the rin g just as the fight had apparently terminated. He saw Heenan on th e ground. King was standing up. Witness could not iden tify any of the other defendants as being present, but he noticed those two particularly. Sohn Campany, another police-officer, who accompanied the last witness, identified King as being present. Witness saw Sayers and others assisting Heenan into a chair and dressing him. The defendant Tyler was there with King, helping to dress slim. Noon, Macdonald, and Bob Travers were there. The witness saw King go round with his cap collecting money, and Mace went with him. Cross-examined by Mr. Beard—Witness saw nothing done by Mace except going round in the field with King to collect money. Superintendent Bennett, of the Sussex police, proved the service of the informations upon the several defendants. Inspector Silverton confirmed the evidence of the last wit ness with reference to the service of the summons on King, and remarked that Preston said at the time that Ring would not have won the fight if they had not poured water on his , head. This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Beard sub • mitted that there was no case against B.ichard6on and Preston. The Bench assented, and the two defendants Preston and Richardson were discharged. Mr. Beard then made a powerful appeal on behalf of the defendants he represented. He again urged that the ends of justice would be fully satisfied if they were bound over, as he had taken kayo to suggest - , at the opening of that case. Whatever the feelings of the Sussex magistrates might be in the matter, it was quite clear that great favour and coun tenance were given in certain high quarters to men in the position of the defendants, and some allowance ought there fore to be made for persons who belonged to a humble and obscure position in life. No one could fail to see that per sons of rank and position attended such fights, and that was a reason which should induce the Bench to deal lightly with those who had been selected for punishment. Re was not there to say they were right in breaking the law, but when the Bench considered the case of the men before them he felt bound to say that reliance m i gh t fairly be placed upon their promises that they would not further transgress the law. He then reviewed the evidence as bearing upon the individual cases, and urged that there was not sufficient proof of the defendants' presence to justify the Bench in sending them for trial, He pointed out that the whole of England had been interested in the contest between Ri ng and Heenan, and an equal interest in it had been manifested in America. All the defendants had so conducted them selves in their vocation as to find friends to become sureties country, for their future good behaviour. The defendant Heenan said—As to Sayers a n d myself, I am not in a state of health to enter the ring again, and it I CsnhS of the Bench said—We have considered no t only the evidence, but Mr. Beard on behalf of someo f onuitladtinaont:lght again i n t hi s wasTA Tile I t ee certainly some Chairman i also the ob servations in this case the parties the de stherivsactaiosenscancir care fully, 1 b y y , fondants, as well as the cases of those Who are not repro.. a fn in w st h t a h t e t m hey at di t d he seated by a solicitor. We feel that any charge that may be should all be bound over to answer iet B4 preferr edYthaagt reprehensible, Quarter Sessions We do commitanything particu larlyantssome tribunal which will deal viw'll be summoned tothebelore with impunity. These persona 1 illegal, evidence which will be adduced t . h t each enter into their The hem defendantsaccordi findm u st answer any indictment appear sureties of 150, andbail to the extent of £5O, t o f e r T r e h d e againstrequire a thembai c pfeoarrmaitsdtheenineaenxotuQratahrat rinSaessybioenparteo. was then entered into, and the defend ants were liberated. Horni naan y s Tea is cho i ce and strong, moderate in p r i ce, and wholesome to use. These alvantages have se cured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in packets by 2,250 Agents. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just given judgment in an action brought by Count do Jouf froy against Count de Itlontraort and his brother-in-law, Prince Galitzin, to recover a sum of 30,000 f., the price of 580 partially paid -up shares in that the tha s atement of Ntr of uhc the (Elector. Ilesse) - hn It app plaintiff's counsel eared that his client sold the shares to the de fendants in 1861, v.ho gave bills for the amount. When the bills fell due in August, 1852, the defendants refused to pay them, on the ground that the whole affair was a gaming transaction, as the great part of the funds of the Nauheim compary were employed in the gaming-house attached to their establishment. The counsel proved that the esta. the amount blishment of Nauheim was duly authorised by the Govern ment of Ifosse, also that tho shares of the company w e - negotiated in all the principal German money markets, re he insisted that the laws of France against gaming a t altogether inapplicable. The tribunal took that we -- case, and condemned the defendants to pay ___ yew of the claimed, with interest and costs of suit, The book-stalls around the Theatre of the Odeon have been for some time past frequently plundered of works exposed for sale. Suspicion at length fell upon a well-dresssd young man, and he,buing watched, was the day before yesterday detected secreting under his c loak the second volume of Nisard's " Hi s t or i c do la Litle rature Frargaise" whil e purchasing some trilling article from one of the dealers. On being arrested and interroga ted he admitted that he had taken the book to complete the work, and on a search being made at his lodging the fist volume, whi c h h e had previously stolen, was found. The yainfr; man is a foreigner, and having passed his exn.. a- Illination a::; dcelor of me Ticino, hill come to Paris to ir, Peeve hirasi:li in his profession. A letter from Naples of the 14th says :--- "Vesuvius has become covered with snow, and note presents the appearanea of a sugar loaf. It is a cone quite White from the summit to the base. We have also a wind so cold that it nips the face, and anyone might fancy himself at the foot of Mount Viso, in the midst of the snows of the Alps." 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