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'''' 4 ''l t•R` 4ll - - ;::„ , "3,sc. ~p- , . 4,..5•,,, 4 _, .., y' . clered TtENTEMBP,R, WE SUP AT EVANS' keno jVEItY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred Promenade Concerts. eted at terilent THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. READ OITICES, 29, Lombard -street, London, and Royal Insurance buildins, Liverpoel. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500, 0 10. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO. named ler" at Ted his fifteen biding the day in the lied his ;racer's )e s. In kiraselft ntering replied, urdored .le time, .91 IE3 a off to ag spec folding, I pool of ad been fall Off ar marl- in his covered Le police h a fair prices. Beaus order to Is to 32 6 "i's to 30i 2s to 24s 8s to 41s —s to .ra of Eng' As takers prices of I barley , 311 in re - And late so liberal pies at 20 trley, but et a sloW 36s to 366 8s to Vs 28 to 260 —8 to l. ...is 9 ...17 G ...18 9 ...17 6 ...17 6 ...17 6 ...18 9 •••17 3 6 ~..18 Dct. Dd. 13. Oct. 5, a ept. 28. Det. Sept. 21' Sept. 25. Dct. 2 S e pt. 27. Sept. 25 , Dct. 5 . Dct. 5:„ Sept. : 40 ' Oct. 11. Sept. 30. Sept. 30, Sept. 2 5 ' Oct, O. Jet. 22. Sept. AS' Sept. 28, ,hick iii I vo been ranaina of rams ive, and aeas per hock and nest. Sale, at al smart )t intor- le not: Housgo e• streets , klphegef House, ghter of adrew'st -terrace, Basiret f Mr. .1° ?red. 0. t, Hyde• William lizabeth epsteadt :sland of Iv. WO' STorfolki )RE;AI' No. 1 1 '' , (mai vb Chairmnn in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Eq., M.P. Chairman in London: WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. I TRAC.I'S FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. cal Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are DOW i l u " upon to make their accustomed periodical R e por t at the eeting of its Shareholelers. The FIRE BRANCH. lose Directors hare, as pleasingly or the year, to announce, for the first time, t h^t the Fire Premiums have not o but exceed £300,000. illy reached,e. as unexpectedly, at the Government Returns Duty is The high comparative position held by the Royal in the The exceeds considerably 4 , profit of the business of the year and n fact sur passes that of any veer, with but two exceptions, since. the --r utieneement ot th Office, a ccountK of BritiOi and Foretan Insurances being £15,107 ifs. nod ~f the North American business, which is kept sepa• 1 ' 441 7, £11,097 16s. 10d. LIFE BRANCH. "re very gratifying duty n ow falls u p on the Directors in titate the sum assured on n-av policies for the year ltz62 exceeds even that of the year 1801 by £180,009, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last f ew veers it is believed that such a sum a s sured as that which has just been announced as the zesult of one year's busin ess as all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully Watched, and cannot fail to ;rive much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the futt , re to the pFticipating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum Proposed for assuran - mounts to £'4:4,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis slide in a single year from deterioration of some kind ex* another. 1 4; to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business i's progress has been undoubtedly more ra; , id than that of any other Conti:inns - established either in T,ondm or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns 01 duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater mae.ni tuck, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. CF.ORCE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOAN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry, M Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland , Es q . - _.noert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and elville. Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Chas..Tno. Manning, Esq. V,a . ric Currie Close, Esq. , Henry Nelson , Es q . William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. 'lorries Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Vrexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. „.edk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. tl i versdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. .;,913t. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.. M.P. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq. "as. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. w Chas. Baring, Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLT, Esq., F.R.S. ri N,OTICE.— Me usual fifteen days allowed for payment of PRE NIIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire on 11th October. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this C orporation on advantageous terms. The Reversionary Banns on British Life Policies has aye 4.aged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums aYable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £ 15,000 m a y be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured — Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern p r actice, —with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. SPECIAL NOTICE. Polici , s on the participating system, granted on or before the list December, 18v3, and in force at th , close of the year 1865, will be entitled to share in the next division of profits ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE. Secretary. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1800. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumnlq.ted and Invested Funds Annual Revenue. 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Ir suran-CR 9/mu teri both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the particip ,tine principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows : Policies. Amnunt In=ured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,331 £23,611 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every infor.nation will be furnished on application at the OFFICES: LONDON . 5B, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buil dimra. Lothbury. West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, rall-mall. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASBOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., 3r,p, Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M I .P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 0,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is . • .. £Bl,OOO The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2'0, , 00 It has paid in Claims . • • • • • 112,000 ThP whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among* the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the Policies Dec. 31, 1847 .. £,400 „ 1852 .. 11,500 1857 23 200 1882 50,500 Making. the total bonus additions, £98,600. Bonuses ma; be received in ctsh or applied to the reduc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the lacy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid np policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of po icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. Wlll. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, RC., Aug 1, 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will he received nt this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 1863, to 3 , st October, 1861, for the use of Tier Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on apnlication st this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary- G eneral. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY o f the BIRTH of SHA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Itobert N. C. Hamilton, Bart, K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon - Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of' Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his hc.. , me, the town he luved, and where he lived and died. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be receiv'd at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who may be willing* to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, in such quantities •s may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces to stationed In thell64 following r laces, from Ist Novembe r, 1163, : FORAGE. 1. Hyde-park, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Horse Guards. 2. Hounslow and Kneller Hall. 3. Hampton Court. 4. Windsor. 5. Brighton. 6. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. 1. Brompton House, d and Portman-street 2. Regent's-park, St. John's-woo , rlyde-pa-k, and Rensinzton. Barracks. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. ICS 4. Wellington and St. George's Barrae • 5. The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller Hall, 7. Hampton Court. 8. Windsor. 9. Brie•liton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. Separate Tenders must he made for Forarre and for Pall asse S ra, for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar acks as groupe 1 and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained ou application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and siLfned, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned ,'flice, under closed envelope (marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before 12 o'clock noon on the 3d October next. (Signed) W. T. POWER, Comm . ssary-Gencral. Deputy Commlslary-Gener3l's Of11;,e, 5. New-street, spring •gardens, London, S.W., 10th Sept., DR. SCOTT'S 'BILIOUS ANI) LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMFDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the reel pe orDr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who auffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, vPastns, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual ( ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier ( 1 1 n the blood, they are truly excellent ; m ild in their opera inoll_and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro soq. dizestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. T.0n4 3 „ .5.- VV. Lambert, d, King William -street, Charing-cross. time.'" l ' u land by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three 1 3cotv, I.e.n.qaantity in one, 2s. 941. Be sure to ask fbr Dr. ""ri "Ws and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square ta131 P. "441 / 4 e, " Willtaan leiAlubert,7 en. , raveti en the ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCTI, K.G. Treasurer—Edward ➢lasterman, Esq. --- - This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-. ponied by sickness and disease, and Is now 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 fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 5,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutt s an d Co. ; Drummond Co. and Co. ; Berries and Co ; Hansom an d Co. ; Prescott, Grot e , an d C o . ; S m ith, Payne, an Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Jones Loyd an d Co. ; Barclay Glyn and Co. ; W lliams, Deacon, and Co ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., and at the Hospital Liverpool STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. R O lAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CDAIRMAN—•Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN — Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 18 50 , the 'toys, National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments , n the Coasts of Engand, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, iind other means, since its formation, is 12,800; for which services 82 Gold Modals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 i n cas h have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £57, , 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting- cari lazes, and Boat-horses. The Com m itt ee desire to express their grateful sense of the generou s support which they have received from the British public d ur i ng th e pas t f ew years, a support which has euabied them to establish their present magnifircot fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and . i• S crew s p ract i sed i n the rnantiormert of their boats, whit. cat. only he effected by a large and pc;inanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all clast;es of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so ble at g and truly national a wor k . The Committee gratefuliy acknowledge the following con tributions:— £ s. d tier Majesty the Qu e en Clerk, Colone l, R.A. .. •• .. annual 50 0 0 •• .. an n ual 5 0 0 C am pbell, the lion. Mrs. G. ..•. •• .. annual 1 1 0 Colitis and Co., Messrs., Bankers ,• .. annual 10 0 0 curr•e, Wm. , -I':s,., •" • • • • . 4th don.lo 0 0 Erie, Lord C hief Justice ~ .. .. .. den. io 10 0 rar, ,i,„,we, Vice-Admiral ..i.r . A., K.C.B. .. 2 d don. `, '5" 0 0 Fcnw i e l ; , C. J., Esq., cost of a LifOicat a n d T ran- lorliOff, Carriage ::_ • • • • .. 250 0 0 tq. , •, •• .. don. 3 0 6 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart • • .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Harve y, Rev. G. (7. and Mrs. Moore, Rev. G. B. •• •• •• Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .• .. • • 3 0 o annual 2 0 Thom:, s, Lady, Weston -super-Mare, collected by her a ( ..' ci k u t ii t t l s t Y and re- 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. :: don. 15 15 0 ~t 4 i :e n e s t N ; V ix ii l e b s e sr t h s. Ladyship the 4 1mtitution, Messrs. Willis, " •• •• 1616 0 Willoughby d'EresbY, Lord .• • . .. annual 50 0 Donations and AnnualL Percival, abty and d e Clola.:11:ers of Co., 5`J. Strand; Afessrs. Denes, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St. Lombard- treat; London ; by al the Collectors of Customs and Bankers ,in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office vi the institution, 14, JO4-StlCet, Adeinh,i, LOALIOI I , W.C. . L 8. N°. 22,229. NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., FLORIAN'S HUSBAND. Also now ready, in 3 vols., GOOD SOCIETY. By Mrs. GREY, Author of " The Gambler's Wife," &c. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. F R USER'S AIAGAZ Price CONT' iINE for OCTOBER. 2s. 6d. '.Eruzland and America. Late Laurels. A Tale. Chap ters X and XIX. England and her Colonies. 'EN T 8 On Certain Physical and Natural - History Pheno mena of the Atlantic : especially with roterence to the proposed Telegraphic Communication between Ireland and Newfoundland. By Professor William Kinz. A Itouvh Ride on clmsie Ground. London: Parker, Son, an, The Ser3ond Part of Gtithe's " Faust." The Sketcher in the Ardennes and Moselle Land. The Falling of the Leaf. Sequel to "Harvest." By Astley IT. Baldwin. Recreations of a London Re cluse-li. On the Present State of Rus sia, and the A dvantages to Europe of a Constitution for that Empire. Bourn, West Strand, WC• Crown Bvo., sewed, is. lid. ; cloth, 2e., THE NECESSARY EXISTENCE OF GOD, by IV. H. GILLESPIE, Era., of Torbanehi ll. The " Russet " Edition, being the fourth. "A valuable aadition to the science of Natural Theology." Lord Brougham. " Among the very ablest specimens of S pe culative Philo— sophy which this country has latterly exhibited."- - Sir Wm. Hamilton. London : Houlston and Wright, 65, Paternoster-row. NEW SPORTING NOVEL. Immediately, at all libraries, in Thrce Vols., Price 31s. Gd. SAUKVILLE CHASE. By C. J. COLLINS. London : John Maxwell and Company, 112, Fleet-street. T H 0 X F OR D 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Bellini's SOSN A MBULA. Principal Artistes—:Hiss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, Sze., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongdimans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Pet tormanee by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHE6T HE, contain ing a full band of 40 instruments. 1 he HALL luis just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CIANTERIAJRY HALL " GHOST."—In o r d er ) to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Ball, where a new and elcgant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Ball. Be has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Uusworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, ttc. pOLYGRA.PHIC HALL.-MISS HERAUD and Herr KRUEGER'S celebrated SITAKESPE R lAN ENTERTAINMENT Illustrative of THE PAS SIONS, interspersed with Descriptive Music, THIS EVEN ING, and every Evening, at Eight; Saturdays at Three. Music by J. C. Benthin, Esq. Soins Mies Mabel Brent Mrs, Beuthin. Herr Bonn, Mr , Page, Mr. Stedma n, an d Signor ' Nappi. An efficient chorus. Booking, &c., at the Hall, King William-street, Strand, from Ten to Five, or Tickets of Musicsellers. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele brity. The band , s selected from the Crystal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GROST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN-- Grand Divertissem , nt—Favourite Oncra Selections —'NICO SIA, the eminent Violinist—EAPHAEL, DE SOLLA, the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler, Every Evening, Doors oven at 7—commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Grent Musical Attraction Immense success of SIGNOR, ICOS[A, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ESTABLISHED 1833. IOWDEN'S lERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep mood twelve months. Lemonade, Sa-water, , otass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3,1 N hite Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib'e, removes singinv, noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town or Country).—A GENTLEMAN is willing to NUKE ADVANCES of CAS H, without delay, to respectable person= (male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy can be relied on.—Apply (it by letter enc'ose fo ur s t amps) to tV., st Mr. Robertson's, Accountant, 40, King Wiliam-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants. TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1863. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Achilles is to be furnished with four masts, and, should the results of the experimental trials be satisfactory, her a eizasimilar a nd c rig a s s. T will beh eiron masts adopted have vessels been received at Chatham from the firm at Chep stow by which they weremanufactured, and are now placed in theo temporarily rdina ry on untilbo at d requiredtw o o t f o t the s sailing hip pe o ves selsn board the Achilles. The foremast is 104 feet in length, and 2 ft. Bin. in diameter; the second mast is 103 ft. Gin. in length, and 3ft. 4in. in diameter; the mainmast measures 121 ft sin, with a diameter of 3ft 4in, and mizen mast 81ft, and 2ft 2in in diameter. All the masts are hollow, and will serve as ventilators between decks. The bowsprit is of wood, and in this respect differs from that of the Royal Oak, and other iron-clad ships, which have their bowsprits of iron. Its length is 37tt 9in, and diameter 2ft Bin. The mainyard is 105 ft in length, with a circumference of 6ft 3in, and the yard of the second mast is of the same dimensions. The fore mainyard is 71ft in length, and the cross j ack-yard of the mizenmast the same length. The spankerboom is exactly 70ft in length. The sailing frigate Venus, lent by the Admiralty for the accommodation of the crew of the Peruvian frigate at Greenhithe, being no longer required for that purpose, is ordered to be sent round to Chat ham, 'where she will probably be fitted as a training ship for the volunteers of the Naval Reserve. It is announced that a considerable reduction wilt shortly be made at Chatham dockyard by the dis charge of several hundred boys and men. The re duction will affect the hands belonging to all the departments, and will, in the first instance, include a large number of the hired men who have been taken on during the last few years. The policy of discharging any number of mechanics employed on the iron frigate Achilles is questionable, seeing that the iron frigate Bellerophon and the iron cased ship Lord Warden have been delayed in consequence of there being no hands who can be spared from. the other ships in progress. The whole of the dockyard mechanics engaged on the Achilles were formerly shipwrights employed on the wooden ships, and since trained at the cost of consideable time and labour to become workers in iron. In addition to the ordinary established dockyard hands, hired workmen have also been taken on from time to time, and those have attained considerable proficiency in ironwork. If the country is not to stand still in the career of iron shipbuilding which it has commenced, the services of any men now dis charged will inevitably be required as soon as they have turned their backs on the dockyard gates. Two hundred men and boys win, it is understood, be discharged from the ropemaking department, the machinery recently introduced as well as that about to be erected enabling the authorities to dispense with their services. The contractors' trial of the engines of the iron plated screw steamship Prince Consort, 35, took place outside Plymouth breakwater, and proved very successful. The mean speed of the six runs at the measured mile was 13.132 knots an hour; the revolutions of the engines were 561 per minute. Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Scylla, 21 guns, 1,467 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. Richard W. Courtenay, who has been appointed in the place of Capt. S. G. Creaswell, superseded at his own re quest in consequence of ill-health, was yesterday taken from Sheerness to the measured mile eff M ap lin Sands for the final trial of her engines and ma chinery previous to deporting for sea. The trial was conducted under the superiatendence of Capt. W. K. Hall, of her Mojesty's ship Cumber;and, 70, com manding the Steam Reserve at Sheerness. The en gines were in charge of Mr. W. Rumble, inspector of machinery afloat, and Mr. G. 131axland, chief en gineer of Sheerness dockyard. Capt. Cresswell was also on board. The vessel made six runs at the mea sured mile with full boiler power, and attained an average speed of 10387 knots an hour, with a draught of water 171 t, forward and 19fc. aft. The revolutions of engines were 57 per minute, pressure of steam 20ib., vacuum 24. Two runs were also made with half-boiler power, giving a result of 9.092 knots, revolutions 45, pressure of steam 201 b., va a slight force of wind cuum 241 b. There was 'ram &S.W., and water smooth. The circle was turned at full boiler power, with helm port 21 de grees, in 4 min. 55 see., the diameter of circle being 405 feet ; at half-boiler power, with helm starboard 36 degrees, in 5 min. 30 sec., diameter 419 feet. Messrs. John Penn and Son are the builders of her engines, which are fitted with Smith's screw pro peller, diameter 16 feet, pitch 3 feet 6 inches, length 3 feet. The trial was considered to be of a highly satisfactory character, both the vessel and machinery ans wering every expectation. It is not yet decided when the vessel will leave for her destination, as sho is waiting the arrival of Capt. Courtenay, when she will be inspected by Vice - Admiral Sir C. R. Lambert, Commander-in-Chi e f a t th e N o re, and immediately afterwards proceed to sea. The following appointments and promotions have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. R. W. Cour tenay to the Scylla, vice Capt. Cresswell, super seded on account of ill-health ; W. H. Adams, sur geon, additional to the Britannia ; Dr W. M'Mahon and J. A. Macdonald, acting assist-surgeon, addi tional, to the Euryalus; W. H. James, second master, to the Royal Adelaide, as supernumerary; Gerard J. Capes nominated to a naval cadetship; Arther G. HO, naval cadet, to the Pelorus ; W. H. C. Pooke, naval cadet to the Euryalus ; W. U. Moore, naval cadet, to the Revenge ; H. J. Wick ham, A. G. H. Hervey, H. N. Dudding, J. Ferrers, F. R. Sandilands, and W. J. Moore, midshipmen, to the Gibraltar ; M. A. S. Edye and C. H. P. Jones, midshipmen, to the Revenge ; T. Lumley, chief en gineer to the Indus, for the Research ; John D. Lamont, in the Nile, promoted to engineer; A. Lawton, in the Orlando, promoted to first class assist.-engineer; H. W. Wilkins, W. E. Blackburn, and Edward Boulton, assist-engineers, to the Asia, as supernumeraries; J.T. Stockting, assist-engineer, to the Dauntless, for charge of the engines of the Argus; R. E. Chis well, assist.-engineer, to the Daunt less, for the Argus; J. W. Hawes , assist-engineer, to the Colossus ; J. T. S. Flynn, assist-engineer, to the Cumb e rland, as supernumerary ; George Tyree, Charles J. Cock, and W. G. M‘Burney, assist.- engineers, to the Indus, as supernumeraries ; Wil liam J. Brown and Charles H. Crane, assist.- clerks, additional, to the Euryalus. THE ARMY. The half -yearly inspection of the C field battery 9th brigade Royal Artillery, took place yesterday by Colonel W. R. Icedham, commanding the Royal, Artillery in the Chatham district. The battery, numbering 6 officers and 157 non-commissioned offi cers and men, having assembled at the north square of the Artill er y B arracks, B rOW ptoll, under the command of Capt. A. J. M ac d ouga ll, Col. Ned ham minutely surveyed th e accoutremen ts, barrack room, stables, harness, & c ., an d a f terwa rde exa mined the books and official documents belonging to the b ittery. In the afternoon the officers end men assembled in review order in the barrack square, and executed a 1 . 0 NV movements. This morn ing Col. Nedbam will inspect the battery on Chat ham Lines. The Artillery will go through the met truvres incidental to a field day, e:leh gun being fu-niched with 15 onnds of blank. cartridge. The quarters of the merried roldiers of the Royal Artillery on Woolwich-common and at the Cam bridge-cottages, in Mill-lane were yesterday in spected by Major-General Sir It. J. Dames, K.C.8., accompanied by Major Milward, Brigade Major, Major Reilly, Aide-de-Camp, Captain N . :angle, De puty-Assistant-Quartermaster-General, ,and the commanding officers of the brigades at "Woolwich. During his inspection, the General repeatedly sig nified his approbation of the state of those rooms where he found the mot oleaniinesft and, soiftt order. Quarters for 40 additional married men have been recently completed at the Cambridge cottages, besides the 80 already occupied there. Including 100 cottages on the common, comfortable accommodation is available far 220 married soldiers. In addition to the above, the War Department have sanctioned the erection of other batches of cottages in the same locality. An infant's school is also to he built within the enclosure of Cambridge-cottages, for the accommodation and reception of 150 chil dren. The General and Staff subsequently visited and inspected the garrison and brigade schools under the superintendence of Mr. - Wherry, where nearly 1,000 children are instructed, and where their moral progress, as well as their personal tidiness, is carefully directed. The General visited each class in succession, and examined many of the children rather sharply. The adults' schools were afterwards examined. There were about 400 non-commissioned officers and gunners present. The pupils of every class in these schools were likewise closely ques tioned, and at the conclusion of his inspection, Gen. Dacres announced that, except in a few cases of minor importance, he had no remarks to make but those of unqualified approbation. Gen. Dacres, and the officers who accompanied him, were of opinion that the school instruction of the non-commissioned officers and gunners might wig advantage be made to bear more directly on theii ordinary duties as artillerymen. Leer.) This a proof that not to the season alone, but that also to the improved skill of the farmer, the nation is indebted for the increase in the main element of its wealth, and perhaps Professor Liebig is not too sanguine when he says, in the remarkable pamphlet which has just been published, recom mending the utilisation of the sewage of towns, that in the continued progress of agricultural im provement in the three kingdoms, England, Ireland, and Scotland will give corn sufficient to supply the wants of the whole population, without purchasing corn from abroad. (Hear, hear.) I need net detail to you the many causes which have con tributed to this progressive increase in the fertility of the soil, such as the more liberal employment of artificial manures, the bolder recourse to improve ments in machinery, the more careful selection of seeds, a better system of rotation of crops. Per haps I might mention among the minor causes some few things in which the landlords may claim some share of the merit—such for instance as when they have not only permitted, but somewhat en couraged the removal of superfluous hedges, the thinning, when it is neither useful nor ornamental, of hedge-row timber, and the opening the fields to the air, (Hear,hear.) While on this head perhaps I may be allowed to say that drainage would be more extensively practised if the stipulations with regard to Government aid were somewhat relaxed —(hear, hear)—for there really are some soils on which drains four feet deep and so far apart do little or no good. (Hear, hear.) lam aware that tenant farmers would be much more eager appli cants for drainage, and would much more cheer fully pay a per tentage upon the outlay of the Go• vernment aid, to which unfortunately the landlords were often compelled to resort, if the landlords would take more into consultation the tenant far mers themselves as to the peculiar requirements of the soils in which they embark their capital. The bounty of the season has been the more opportune because, although the root crops are more promis ing than they were at the early part of the summer, still on the whole they are likely to be much below the average, and that circumstance, together with the very partial nature of the hay crop, which, although good in quality, and even abundant in some parts, is still deficient in others, is likely to raise the price of meat, and to diminish the quantity of stock which the small farmer may be able to keep through the winter. (Hear, hear.) That brings me to a matter of the most vital importance both to the farmer and to the public at large. I mean the alarming extent to which of late years disease has prevailed amongst all kinds of stock. I may point out more particu larly the prevalence of the lung complaint amongst cattle. A very eminent authority at the Interna tional Congress of Veterinary Surgeons at Hamburg has given us an account of the mortality of stock in the three kingdoms, and his statement is really most startling, for be computes that in the six years end ing 1560 the value of the stock which have perished in Great Britain and Ireland is £24,500,000, whilst the quantity of stock which has been imported from abroad within the same period is less than £4,500,000; so that the nation has lost within that period four times the value of the stock which has been imported. Professor Gangee ascribes this great mortality prin cipally to the introduction of foreign stock, and he justly observes that, although he is not desirous of stopping free trade in foreign stock, still this amount of disease from which not the farmer alone, but the consumer, is the sufferer, partly because it must tend to increase the price of meat, and next because the consumer is the sufferer from the quality of the di , eared meat which he purchases, end this enor mous amount of money which is lost not to the far mer only, but to the whole nation, has become a matter of paramount and serious importance. Pro fessor Gangee suggests, and very properly, that all persons who have discovered any effective remedy for that disease should make it known as a great public benefit. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps some one present may he able to give us the result of experi ments in inoculation. I may mention, with great deference, a slight experiment which I made at Tol leridge. Two cows out of ten were attacked by the lung disease, but I have not had are cow attacked since I tried the experiment of inoculation. Professor Gangee suggests as a valuable preservative against milk fever to which cows are subject, a dose of Epsom salts previous to calving. I know you will pardon me for these heavy and dry details, which I give as an inducement to those who are more competent judges than myself to offer hints and suggestions for our general instruction. (Hear, hear.) And now for a few moments allow me somewhat to widen the scope of our surveys. In proportion as England has extended not only her colonial empire, but her foreign trade, the condition of our country. men, whatever their class and calling, is liable to be affected by the vicissitudes of foreign nations, some times affecting our commerce,sometimes our honour, sometimes threatening our very safety itself; and if these vicissitudes should unhappily entangle us in the perils of war, there is no clues in the commu nity which it would more sensibly affect than the inhabitants of the rural districts. War for a time may raise prices, but then it draws money, it impairs the facilities for credit, and it ends in taxes of which the land is pretty sure to bear the principal burden. And it weighs more heavily on the heart than the fear of pecu niary loss, because it is from the rural class that our armies are mainly drawn, and every newspaper which records a victory for which the streets of the metropolis may be joyfully illuminated announces to many a country home, from the hall to the cot tage, the mournful death of a brother or a son, (Hear.) When I addressed you in this room about two years ago I dwelt perhaps at some length upon those remarkable events which had rendered the age in which we live memorable for startling and sudden changes. During the two years that have elapsed since that time Europe has continued to exhibit the same political elements of change and disorder. While in America a civil war unprece dented for the merciless waste of treasure and of kindred blood continues animated by passions which appear to us at a distance so void of reason, at this moment the newspapers of the Northern States of America are actually inviting Canada to exchange the disorders and oppressions of British dominion for the mild blessings of American peace and bro therhood. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) One might have supposed that even the vainest American would have thought that this was not the most favourable moment to persuade Canada to desert the old Union Jack for the American flog of the stars and stripes, just at the moment when that flag is so torn in two that the stars are gone and the stripes remain. (Hear, and laughter.) Now, whilst the old world is thus disturbed and the new world is thus convulsed, it seems too commonplace to say that England must remain upon her g uard. Not that I am one of those alarmists who suppose that these shores are always on the point of being in vaded, and certainly I am not disposed to render this as expensive as war by costly preparations for imaginary d an gers. But still I consider that there is no duty more obvious to a British statesman than the vigilant maintenance of the British navy, for if even a fight for England as a first-rate power is to be decided by force of arms, the battle is more likely to be fought in the midst of the Mediterra nean or the Atlantic Ocean than in the straits of the British Channel. (Hear, hear.) It is not from any boast of national vanity that I. :•r.y liow much the great interests of universal civilleation and the noble cause cf national freedom are bound up with the material prosperity and moral power of England; for it is not the least remarkable feature of those changes to which I have adverted that they all take England as their model and example in the institutions which they seek to ea abash. (Hear.) You recognise in it the material prosperity of Eng land, the advantages of her politic's!. system; and you revere in it the moral power of England, as the tidT9ute of Innelanity aud freedom, (11 : 1.1 - , hear.) The Right Hon, Sir E. B. Lytton at Hitchin. IIITCHIN, Thursday. The annual meeting of the Hertfordshire Agri cultural Association was held at the Corn Ex change, in this town, to-day. The Right Hon. Sir E. B. Lytton, Bart., presided at the dinner, and was supported by the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. G. A. Puller, M.P., Mr. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Ames, the Rev. G. B. Blomfield, the Rev. C. Pearson, the Rev. L. Hensley, the Rev. E. Prodgers, Mr. S. H. Smith, Mr. W. Baker, &c. On the removal of the cloth, the health of her Majesty having been given and duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN said—lf the sins of the parents are visited on the children, so, on the other hand, in the virtues of the parents the children often find a priceless inheritance of affection and esteem. In the joy of the nation at the nuptials of the heir apparent, in the welcome which was so enthusi astically accorded to the bride, no doubt there was an unconscious tribute to the virtues of his royal parents, and the Prince may be said to have en tered on the duties of life in the lustre reflected from his mother's reign. (Hear, hear.) But all that we know or can know of his royal highness and his august bride tends to confirm and to justify the loyal affection that was willing to take upon trust the virtues not yet put upon their trial. It is not the least happy sign of the strong sense and the general temper of his Royal High ness that we see him so readily and so graciously seeking to associate himself with the various callings and classes of his future subjects. In enrolling in the guilds and fraternities of British commerce, at tending the meetings and interested in the objects of British art, endeavouring also to acquire a prac tical acquaintance with the hardy pursuits of rural life, h country gentleman in his Norfolk manor house, a keen sportsman, and one of the boldest riders in the hunting field, he is acquiring that knowledge of mankind which is among the rare accomplishments of princes, and acquainting him self with those subdivisions 'which make up the national character, and sum up the total of what is public opinion. (Cheers.) As for her royal high ness the Princess, she needs no words of encomiun. of mine, for she has only to appear in order to charm all eyes and to win all hearts. I give you the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal family. The toast was drunk with all honours. The next toast was " The army, navy, volunteers, and militia," which was responded t..) by W. Baker, jun., Eeq. W. BAKER, Esq., proposed "The bishop and clergy of the diocese," which was responded to by the Rev. L. Her.sley. " The health of the Lord-Lieutenant of the county " (the Earl of Verulam) was proposed by C. G. Thornton, Esq., and received with great enthu siasm. The Rev. C. B. PEARSON proposed " The two Houses of Parliament." The Marquis of SALISBURY briefly responded on behalf of the House of Lords, and expressed a hope that as his order never had disgraced their name they never would disgrace it, and would always so discharge their duties as to merit the esteem of the country. (Cheers.) The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I now rise to propose what on these occasions is generally considered the toast of the evening, but one which it has become very difficult to say anything new upon to an agricultural audience so practical and intelligent as that which I have now the hon our to address. When these exhibitions were first instituted much might be usefully urged upon the a dvantage of securing particular occasions for the competition of skill end the interchange of ideas. .J3ut that time has passed away. These exhibitions have now established a firm hold on all parts of the country ; they have acquired a little more even than a purely agricultural interest, and there are few newspaper readers who do not honour with some kindly attention the reports of their proceedings. (Cheers.) With respect to the present show, I have heard from competent judges that it is one of which we need not be ashamed. It is not one which shows anything of retrogression. I am told that the ploughing has been excellent, and that it has not been surpassed on former occasions. I have been informed that the implements are exceedingly good, and that Hertfordshire ought to be proud of them, because to the greater part, if not the whole of them, we are indebted to the public spirit of Mr. Garwood, of Hitchin. I am told that the quality of the stock is not had—that the sheep and lambs are good, but that the quantity is deficient. This is not a sign of retrogression. It would be so if the quality were bad, but so long as the deficiency is only in quantity, it shows a certain want of energy and a degree of supineness which we must endea vour to correct on some future occasion. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, Providence has blessed us this year with an abundant harvest, and in that blessing to the farmer it is perhaps net suffi• ciently considered how great is the benefit be stowed upon the other sources of national wealth which give life and activity to other branches of our national industry ; for although a nation in its domestic relations and interchanges is divided into various classes, pursuing various callings and occu pations, yet in its dealings with the foreigner a nation must be considered as a single customer, and in those circumstances in which we produce the main staple of food for our population so abun dantly as to COMO a sensible diminution in the out lay of money devoted to the purchase of foreign corn, it is clear that there must bo a correspondent saving—that is to say, a correspondent gain to the national moneyed capital, which again seeks for reproductive channels in stimulating the industry of the manufacturer, the merchant, and the trader, so that the whole community participate in the richness of the harvest es hieh rewards the labours of the farmer. (Hear, hear.) Now it is a very cheering cign for our future prospects that the abundant yield of the corn crops this year is not owing exclusively or solely to the favourable aeason, because we find that on looking back to any former year in which the weather and the season were equally propitious, still the result of this year ex ceeds the produce of any former years under cir cumstances equally favourable. (Hear, heal.) And we ace as s ured by statistical calculations that, on any average of previous years, taking good and bad seasons, impartially, the fields are now yielding many more bushels of corr . i per ecre than they have done xvrhin any cernparaMely rec.-mt. period. (Hear, —..4d. STAMPED ....bd. You will observe—and it is worthy of observation —that while in all foreign countries they have gone in one direction against forms ofgovernment based on absolute despotism, they equally discourage systems based on unmitigated democracy ; and perhaps the close of the century will be chiefly remarkable to historians by the establishment throughout the whole of the civilised world of constitutional monar chies more or less imitative of this old monarchy of ours. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps among the many , causes which contribute to our political tranquillity and the safety of our social progress is the due pro portion in which the influence of intelligence and of numbers upon legislative enactments and upon public opinion is divided between the two great classes which are happily represented in the as sembly which I have now the honour of addressing —I mean the class of those who pursue their occu pations in the busy life of the town and the class of those who form their habits of thought on the calmer life of the country, for thus political changes are pretty well considered and matured. The re forms which may be pressed by the eager spirits which catch fire from each other in the heated at mosphere of towns are sure to be sifted carefully by those who, living more remote from popular excite ment, are accustomed to weigh well the conse quences of political change, and are not disposed - to welcome a novelty merely- because it is a novelty. (Hear, bear.) Thus public opinion, we see, has time to work itself free from public passion, and reforms, whether they are wise or whether they are not wise, still never take the violent character of revolution ; while when they are once adopted into the law of the land, no politician dreams of re voking what has become part and parcel of our free constitution—as safe from the riots of a mob as it is from the guards of a king. (Hear, hear.) Now, these two classes—the town and the country—must both be gainers, and through them the nation which they compose, according as they can be brought into a friendly and familiar intercourse, as they are upon these occasions when the farmer and the trades• man can sit side by side, and find as they talk together, that however they may differ as to individual measures, or the character of public Men, they all feel the same love for their com mon country, the same zeal for her welfare, the same anxieties for her peril, the same stake in her freedom, the same patriot's pride in her renown. (Cheers.) Why should this meeting be called a meeting of the agricultural interest? Its object is one of national interest. In a paper by the illus trious Liebig, whose name is a connecting link be tween agriculture and science, I found a few words which are so impressed on my memory that I will repeat them to you, because if they were uttered by a farmer they would be considered an extravagant compliment to his own profession, but they assume the simple language of truth when they are uttered by a philosopher so disinterested and so profound. " Upon agriculture (says he) depends the welfare and development of the whole human species, the riches of States and all commerce." Well, is it not so? And may I not now call upon all pre sent, tradesmen as well as farmers, inhabitants of the town as well as inhabitants of the country, to join with equal heartiness in the toast which I now propose, " Success to the Herts Agricultural Society." (Loud cheers.) The toast of the members for the county having been duly honoured. Mr. PULLER, M.P., said it was usual for a mem ber on returning thanks to make some allusion to the events of the past session. The last session must be characterised as one of a peculiarly quiet and tranquil character. Whether it was on account of Lord Palmerston's genial character, or his courteous manner, which had endeared him to the people of this country, or from the general conviction that he drives the team at least as well as any one else could do, there was no doubt that on the part of his political opponents there was an indisposition to disturb him. (Hear, hear.) It was now two years since there had been any great party fight in the Houao of Commone. The want of excite ment might. perhaps. render the house rather dull for hon. members, but on the whole the country seemed disposed to acquiesce in the present state of things and to be satisfied. During the whole of the last year the country had realised the sentiment of the old Roman poet—how pleasant it is to sit upon the sea shore when the winds are agitating the waves, and to watch the raging of the elements and the havoc they make. In whatever other direction we looked we heard of wars and rumours of wars. If we looked to the east we saw unhappy Poland strug gling in her very despair to throw off the iron yoke of the most cruel despotism upon the face of the earth. If we looked to the west we saw that great nation to which the chairman had alluded carrying on a civil war upon the most gigantic scale that had ever been seen since the world began. And for what pur pose ? The Federals were seeking to force their model republic upon those who wished to escape from it—they, the great sticklers and defenders of the right of men to govern themselves, were trying to compel, against their will, the seceding states to re-enter into union, and act in harmonious co-ope ration with themselves. On the other hand, the secessionists hoped that commercial and financial necessities would compel us to come to their assist ance, so that they might be enabled to found a new and mighty empire, based upon the wickedest and most cruel institution in the world—the institution of slavery. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the legislation of the last session, the private busi ness afforded a proof of the growing prosperity of the country in the shape of railway extension, and the improvement and enlargement of docks and harbours and various other w orks required by our increasing commerce and manufactures. Some little relief had been afforded to the country by the reduction of twopence in the income tax and the remission of the war duty on tea. As one of the members for the county, he had maintained a small fight on b e half of the maltst ers , whose credit the Chancellor of the Exchequer had contracted by pursuing a course which would h ave driven the weaker men oat of the trade; and although the maltsters were not so successful as they ou ght to have be en, the plan was sofar modified that the injustice was mitigated, if not altogether removed. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member then ad verted to the distress whieh prevailed in the manu facturing districts and the steps which had been taken for its relief, and said it was satisfactory to find, notwithstanding the existence of that distress, that our imports and exports had increased to such an extent as almost to counterbalance the loss which had arisen from the combined causes of the manu facturing distress and the American war' (Hear.) Mr. A. SMITH, M.P., also acknowledged the toast, observing that his colleagues had exhausted almost every topic on which he might have touched. They might not have done anything very great last session, but he found on examination that they had Passed 124 acts upon various subjects. At all events, they had done this—theynad taken off the income tax to the extent of 2d. in the pound, which was a measure that must, he should think, prove highly acceptable to the VS bole country—as acceptable, he should suppose, as a sweeping reform bill, or even a commercial treaty. They had just beau blessed by a most abundant hai vent, and with the exception of the manufacturing districts in the north, the whole country was in a state of prosperity. There was one thing h e might say, and that was that with respect to the n ational clefaxes, the country did not grudge t h e es p.-ndittLe which the House of Commons had granted for those defences. Ho had been struck with the cordial reception with which the Channel fleet had Leen received, and the e nthusiasm which it had created on all parts of the coast which it had visited. The people of England, ho felt assured, would always support the army and navy, who on their part were always able to hold their own. England at this time occupied a proud position, being happy and prosperous at home and at peace with all the world. (Cheers.) Various other toasts were given r.Jsperldea to, and the proceediogs terminated. Sir Robert Peel and the Electorc- ' Tamworth. 4Ti, vt er • s' TAMWOIfe 1 144eitel tee' Last night the electors of Tamworth hklel;elA R # 4.4 LIL- t ; the Town-hall for the purpose of hearing as agetee.:op l l. k:4 l the Hon. Mr. Cowper, the candidate who haillieliftriateA, l 4?_, Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Robinson presided, and am kg the, :-- present were Sir Robert Peel and Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, the latter of whom had been a candidate for the borough, but had retired in favour of Mr. Cowper. Since then, 1 * however, Mr. John Peel, of Middleton, has offered himself as a candidate, so that it seems likely that the election will be a contested one. Mr. COWPER, on stepping forevard, was received with loud and continued cheering. He said he should be an in dependent supporter of Lord Palmerston'a Government, be cause he was convinced that much ef the prosperity of the country was owing to the ability, skill, ant. l experience of that statesman. After eulogizing what he considered as the wise provisions of the French treaty, he said that he did not think that his opponent, Mr. Peel, had been se .exp licit in the statement o f hi s v i ews as h e oug ht to have be e n. Pm (Mr. Cowper) w as i n f avour o f a mo d er ate extension of t h e franchise, but he thought that it should be extertt;ed to individuals rather than to classes. With regard to Church-rates, he expressed himself in favour of a mea sure that should release all persons having a conscien tious objection to their payment, but he should never support a measure for their entire abolition—that of Sir John Trelawny, for instance. He entirely approved the policy of the Government with regard to the Ameri can struggle. He concluded by alluding to the Polish revo lution, stating that that country eminently deserved the sympathy of England. In answer to a question put to him, he said he should not support vote by ballot. He did not think it would be applicable to a borough like Tamworth. Mr. Bracebridge then vainly endeavoured to address the meeting, after which Sir R. PEEL came forward, amid mingled cheers, laugh ter, and hisses. He said—Gentlemen and brother electors, I speak to you for the— [Voices—" You had better shut: up !" "Will you turn us out of our houses ?"] (Laughter and uproar.) Sir Robert Peel then insisted that as a burgess ho had a right to speak. If any one persisted in ihterruptitq, him there were thoseefresent who would silence that per son. (Uproar.) He was not at all likely to sit down, and they need not alarm themselves in the least about that. Let them remember that a Peel had stood upon that platform for the last 70 years. [A voice—" A better man than you."] (Cheers, laughter, and hisses.) Before remarking with re ference to the possible candidates for the borough, he wished. to bear testimony to the admirable manner in which their late member the Marquis Townshend had discharged his Parliamentary duties. (Cheers.) He could speak to the re gularity or his attendauee in the Jimmy, boon:Jon duriner the last session no one had been more assiduous in the discharge of Parliamentary duties than he (Sir Robert) had. [A voice —Oh, gammon I] I have been obliged to, in the first place ; and, in the second, I did it con arnor e. [A. voice—Palmer ston made you do it.] (Turning to the quarter from wieich the last as well as many of the former interruptions had come)—Now, Mr. Barraclough, will you be silent? I know your voice very well. (Confusion,) Their late representative having been called to the House of Lords, they were unfor tunately in this position—There was not another Towns hend to come forward and take the vacant seat, and con tinue a long line of ancestral representatives which had been always welcome in the borough. (Cheers.) Directly the vacancy occurred there were numerous candidates in the field. There were Mr. Bracebridge and Mr. Sleigh, among the first, and he bad hoped to have seen a gentleman who on one occasion contested the borough with him. He alluded to Mr. Daniel, Q.C., a thorough gentleman, who, although he differed from him (Sir Robert) in his views on political matters, behaved in a manly, straightforward manner. When that gentleman came forward there were no misre presentations, no handbills by Barraclough and others. (Laughter.) In Mr. Daniel he met an upright antagonist, who did not countenance any such men as the blunder headed bullies who were now bellowing out every sort of misrepresentation about coercion. (Cheers, laughter, and. confusion.) Did Mr. Daniel ever speak of coercion or say he could not get those to vote for him who wanted to do so? No, he was too much of a gentleman for that. (Cheers.) There had been intimidation in the present contest. [A. Voice—On which side ?] I will tell you directly. Let the meeting recollect that Mr. Cowper was the popular candi date, and if any one dared to use intimidation there were thousands—hundreds at all events—who would come for" ward and support the old —. (Cries of " Freedom" and " Free trade 1" and cheers.) This time Mr. Daniel had not come forward. [A. Voice—You turned him back the last time he came.] At the conclusion of that contest Mr. Daniel said that he intended again to contest the borough. He, however, only mentioned this to show the position of affairs. There was Mr. Sleigh, who at once withdrew from the contest. Mr. Sleigh was undoubtedly a capital fellow, but a little too advanced for a place like Tamworth. Under these circumstances Mr, Cowper appeared—no nominee of his, for he gave the meeting his word and honour that until that gentlemen came forward ho (Sir Robert) had not the advantage of his personal acquaintance. [A.Yoice—What means the notice at the foot of the bill calling the meet in -z—" Sir Robert Peel is expected to attend?"] Sir Robert said that he should attend when Mr. John Peel expressed. hi- views. He, in common with the rest of the electors, wished t 3 know Mr. Peel's views, and what particular phase of his father's views he favoured. He was told that the farmers supported Mr. Peel. What was the feet with regard to his honourable friend ? He was heir presumptive to immense property in land, and would, there fore, be likely to watch the interests of tbo farmers quite as narrowly as Mr. Peel would. He held in his hand a copy of Mr. Cowper's address, and he asked them whether it was not better for them to vote for a man who held and expressed such views as those contained in that address than for a man who traded upon the name of Peel and talked about coercion. (" Yes, yesl" "No, no 1" uproar and hisses.) Immediately upon Mr. Cowper coming out Mr. Bracebridge withdrew. [Voices.—" We shall turn you out next time."] (Hurrah I hisses, cheers, and uproar.) Are these men voters. I h o p e you won't turn me out. I don't think you will. (Laughter.) [Voices. —We will if we can.] (Renewed laughter.) Oh I no ; come now. (Uproar.) I won't go. Now, let me be serious for a moment. After Mr. Bracebridge withdrew Mr. Cowper was the only candidate in the field. Then came forward Mr. John Peel, and he would ask that gentleman whether he had come forward as an opponent of the Go vernment of Lord Palmerston, the only statesman who could take the helm of affairs at this moment. Mr. BARRA.CLOUGIi, —No, he is not. Sir R. PEEL.—Then he would take it that Mr. Peel now came forward to divide the interests which ought to be united. Mr. BAUR/CLOUGH—Did you tell your agent to compel the tenants to vote for Mr. Cowper? (Uproar, and cries of " Turn him out.") Sir R. PEEL—Turn him out. lam not a candidate, and decline to be questioned. I must say that a course of pro ceeding has been adopted by the party of Mr. Peel which has never been followed in the borough of Tamworth in my recollection. Mr. Peel was a namesake and a most honour able man; and as to his personal character he (Sir Robert) would say nothing; but there had been charges of coercing his tenants brought against him which were utterly untrue. Coercion had never been practised on his estate, and never should be. [Voices—Carmichael has coerced your tenants.] A gentleman sitting at the front—Have your agents never coerced or attempted to coerce your tenants? Sir R. PEEL (emphatically)—Neve r. The same gentleman—Not to your k nowled g e ? Sir R. PEEL—Never, upon my honour. I recollect on one occasion a tenant farmer on my estate at a county election said to me he should like to vote the same way that I did. I told him to vote for the man who in Lis opinion was the best of the two. fie did so, and told me immediately after wards that he had not voted for the same candidate with me, and I told himthat we should b e none th e l ess f r i e ndly on that account. Mr. BARRAcLOUGH — Nonsense I Gammon! (Confusion, and " Turn him out.") Sir ROBERT said that he hold handbills in his hand of the most scandalousand scurrilous description—(applause)—and allele as he never remembered to have seen in the borough before. If Mr. Peel was privy to them he did not deserve to be returned. (Cheers.) At any rate he had sufficient spirit to say that he should acorn to bear the name of Peel and descend to such disgraceful practices. (Applause.) [A Voice—Supposing he is not privy to it ?] If ho were not, then he would meet him fairly and frankly, and as a man deserving all the support of those holding opinions similar to his own. There had been no coercion on his part, and he moat certainly had a right to express his opinion with regard to the candidates in the field, and he most unhesitat ingly said that in his opinion Mr.Cewper,who came there as a supporter of the Government of Lord Palmerston, was the best of the two candidates for the borough. (Cheers and hisses.) In many instances he had opposed the Government which had now given him one of its chief offices, and he said in all sincerity that he would resign his position to morrow and vote as an independent member if he believed the Ministerial measures were not adapted to promote the best interests of the country. And (continued Sir Robert I believe that Lord Palmerston is the only statesman who can guide the country to a satisfactory issue, and I haveheerd many of Lord Derby's principal supporters express the same opinion. (Cheers) I shall record my own vote in favour of my honourable friend Mr. Cowper, and I have no doubt that in the end he will finish with a triumphant Ma.' jority. (Tremendous uproar.) I will say further, that if t here are any electors who have pledged their votes under ledges, and false pretences, they are absolved from such pgrs, I will tell you ere perfectly at 'anty to please themselves. why I think you will return Mr. Cowper. You have re turned me for 15 years, sine I do riot think you will now turn round end elect a man who would sit upon the Oppose. tiers side of the House of Commons. (Cheers.) I know thu are smi l e persons who may think you el-tempered, but this is not the case, fur, with the except ion o f three or teur pered. Let sue givo the mee tin g a p artin g assurance that blauder-headed fellow —( l au ghter) ---you are tete- L a ughter, cheers, and confusion.) Mr. Cowper wil l win. ( Some confusion here ensued in consequence of some ex cited conduct on the part of Mr. Barraclough, when, in answer to an invitation, a man roughly dressed, and appear ing to be a mechanic, and who was said to be Barraclough himself, clambered on to the platform, and amid a tornado of groans, cheers, See., er.deavoneed to speak. He was ad vised not to, however, and desisted. The meeting thou, after a fermal vote of tlexike to the chairman, broke up.