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Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, which specially limits the liability of each Shareholder to the amount of his Shares. Capital, X 1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each. With power to increase to £2,0.0,000. First , 25,000 Shares. Deposit, on Application, lssue £1 per Share, and £1 on Allotment. DIRECTORS. Archibald Boyd, Director of the Union Bank of London Francis C. Braun, of Blessig, Braun, and Co Liverpool. Thomas Chilton, of Holderness and Chilton, Pre sident of the Chamber of Commerce Francis Anderson Clint, of Clint and Co., Chair man of the Shipowners' A ssociation . Chas. B. Colchester, of Colchester and Woolner London. William James Fernie, of Fernie Brothers and C 0.......... . ................................ Liverpool. Arthur Bower Forwood, of Leech, Harrison, and Forwood Liverpool. Peter George Heyworth, of Heyworth, Pearce, and Balman Liverpool. Thomas Harrison, of Thomas Harrison and Co Liverpool. Thomas Kendall, of Kendall Brothers Liverpool. Edward Lawrence, of E. Lawrence and Co Liverpool George Lyall, of Lyall, Still, and Co London. Andrew Malcomson, of J. and D. Al alcomson and Co Liverpool. Robert Maxwell, of A. F. and R. Maxwell Liverpool. George M. Papayanni, of Papayanni Brothers Liverpool. John Park, of Williams, Park, and Co Liverpool. Chas. K. Prioleau, of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co Liverpool. John Ravenscroft, of W. and J. Ravenscroft and Co., Chairman of the North and South Wales Bank James Searight, of James Searight and Co London. Samuel Stitt. of Slit; Brothers 'and C Thomas Wilkinson Tetley, of Hollinshead, Tet ley, and Co. Themes Stenhouse, Director of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, &c, Henry Trelfall Wilson, of H. T. Wilson and Chambers SOLICITORS. Messrs. Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool. Messrs. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane, London. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Auction Mart, E.C. Liverpool —Messrs, Thomas Tin'ey and Sons. Messrs. G. and T. Irvine. BANKER S. The Union Bank of London, London. The Union Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. TEMPORARY OFFICES OF THE COMPANY. 8, Cook-street, Liverpool. 39, Lothbury, London, E.C. Notwithstanding that several new Marine Insurance Com panies have been established within the last few years, it is generally recognised that the means of effecting marine in surances are not sufficient to meet the increasing expansion of trade, insurers being now driven to effect their insurances in remote towns in the provinces, in Ireland and Scotland, and on the Continents of Europe and America. The actual price of shares in the existing Marine Insur ance Companies demonstrate clearly that the business is highly remunerative. Of th • new Companies one only has been established in Liverpool, and it has already secured a very large and lucra tive business. More than half the exports and imports of the kingdom pass through the port of Liverpool, and there is no doubt, therefore, that another Company having its Chief Offices in London and Liverpool will meet with ample support. finder these circumstances the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company has bean established. The business of the Company will be confined to the issu ing of policies on freight and goods only, and it is expressly provided, as a fundamental element in the constitution of this Company, that no insurance shall be effected on the ships themselves. The principle of limited liability, as applicable to insurance companies, came into operation during the month of Novem ber last. The Directors, observing that in banking and other I mportant commercial enterprises limited liability has met With universal favour, have adopted it as an unalterable Principle in the present undertaking. The Directors, therefore, express the greatest confidence in the success of this Company. Such provision has been made by the Directors for the pre liminary expenses as will secure the Company against pay ing any promotion money. A copy of the articles of association lies at the offices of the Company for inspection. The prospectus and forms of applications for shares may be Obtained of the brokers of the ompany. Application for shares to be addressed to the Directors ; but no application Will be considered unless a payment has been made to the bankers of the Company of El per share, on the number of shares applied for. This sum will be returned if no allot rnent is made to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) To the Directors of the British and Foreign Marine Insur ance Conn any (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers the sum of £ , being a deposit of £1 per share on shares in the above Company. I hereby request that you will allot Inc that number, and I agree to become a member of the Company is respect of such shares, or in respect of any le=s number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of As sociation, when required ; and I request that my name may be lot ted. placed on the It ouster of Members for the shares so al- same in full iteMdenee Profession or Business .. Date THE BRITISH and AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANKING CORPORATION (Limited). Established under the Companies Act, 1882, with Limited Liability. Capital, £1,000,000 sterling, in 20,000 Shares of £5O each. First Issue 10,000 Shares. It is not intended to call up more than £l5 per Share. With power to the Shareholders to increase the Capital. Deposit, Xi per Share on application, and £1 per Share on allotment. DIRECTORS. Archibald Boyd, Esq., Director of the Union Bank of London London. William James Fernie, Esq., of the firm of Fernie Brothers and co. James Gilchrist, Esq., of the firm of bilchrist, Watt, and Co., of Sydney, Director of the Union Bank of London Robert Gillespie, jun., Esq., of the firm of Gil lespies, Moffatt, and Co. London. Henry George Gordon, Esq., Chairman of the Oriental Bank orporation London. Harold Littledale, Esq., of the firm of T. and H. Littledale and Co William M. Neill, Esq., of the firm of Neill Brothers and Co. Manchester. Thomas Rees, Esq„ of the firm of R. and T Woodward and Co LiverpooL William Rennie, Esq., of the firm of Cavan, Lubbock, tt, Esq and Co Samuel Sti., of the firm of Stitt Broth ers and Co Liverpool. BANKERS. London—The Union Bank of London. Liverpeol—The Bank of England. Manchester—The Bank of England. India and China—The Oriental Bank Corporation. SOLICITORS. London—Messrs. Cotterill and Sons. Liverpool — Messrs. Fletcher and Hull. BROKERS. London—Sheppards, Pelly, and Allcard, 98, Threadneedle street ; J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate..street. Liverpool—llorsfall and Addison. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 6, Newman's-court, Cornhill, London. Middleton Buildings, Rumford-street, Liverpool. The British and American Exchange Banking Corporation. Limited) is formed for the purpose chiefly of dealing in Ex changes, a business which, excepting with British posses sions. has hitherto been mainly in the hands of private firms; and it is well known that with many countries such banking facilities have not been afforded to merchants and others as the vastly extended commerce of the present day demands. This is particularly the case in the trade between England and America, and it is rm.osed that this Corporation shall commence its operations by the establishment of an agency in N , w York. The profitable nature of exchange bu- iness is well known, especially that with the American States, and although the Profit is at present greater than can be calculated upon in o rdinary years, there is generally a much larger margin than is usually found remunerative by bankers. The purchase and sale on commission of securities in New York and London, the dealings in which amount annually to many millions sterling, and the remittances of interest and dividends, will afford other sources of profit. The practice now become very general of attaching bills of lading to bills ol exchange as collateral security, renders ex change operations more than usually safe, whilst the ship- Inent of gold involves scarcely any risk whatever. The shipments of produce and specie from New York alone for the past year have amounted to nearly forty millions sterling, and the average of several years has not been Much less. There is thus a very extended field for the ope rations of the Corporation, and the facilities which it will afford, both in this country and America, must tend to pro mote, and still further to extend, the commercial and mone tary transactions between the two countries. The same remarks are applicable to other places in which the establishment of agencies is contemplated. A large business is also anticipated betwixt America and the ports in India and China, which will be carried out in co operation with the Oriental Bank Corporation. The success of Joint-stock Banks dealing in Exchange is evidenced by the present quotations of the shares of the un dermentioned companies ; and it is somewhat remarkable that the joint-stock principle has not yet been adopted in the American trade, though presenting a wider field for its profit - able operation than any other part of the world. Paid-up Present Prices. Bank of Australasia 4O .... f 9 to 71 New South Wales 2O . 49 „51 Union of Austraii,, London Chartered of Australia Oriental 2% .... 54 „ 55 • -4- Agra and United Service Mercantile B an k of India,London, and China Ottoman Colonial The Corporation will h ave • offices both in • London and Liverpool. The Corporation is formed under ‘. The Companies' Act, 1862," whereby the liability of the shareholders is strictly limited to the amount of their respective shares. No promotion money will be given for originating the un dertaking, and the preliminary expenses will be strictly con fined to such as arc indispensable. Applications for shares may be addressed in the annexed form to the Directors, or to the Broker o s ht o a f in t e h d e u C p o o r n p a o p r p ato ca n . , and copies of the prospectusmaybe tion to them, or to the Solicitors, or at the London and Liver- Pool Offices of the Corporation. No. FORM OF APPLICATI t O h N e FOit To be retained by Bankers. S it li e A d 7 s. To the Directors of the British and AllteriCallthEexcehuanm Exchange Banking Corporation (Lim £ Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers shares being a deposit of £.l per share on In the above Corporation, I hereby request that you will Cos allot me that number, and I agree to become a mem c b f e a r n o y t i t c h s e s me in respect of such shares, or in respect number you may allot me, and to execute the articles of maya hssoe elation when required ; and I request that my name Placed on the register of members for the shares so allotted. Name in full Residence Profession or business .. .. Date ST E 0 What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 560. _F. D 0 Nt GABRIEL'S Sell-adhesive Patent Incles`ructible MINE !tAr.L TEE rn and FLEXIBLE GUMS, I?i eitige or wires, and without operation. One set lasts ART IaTLAT I `;Ti t nut palates, ARRANTED FOR MASTICATION cost. N. Purest materials only, at halt the usual Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE' 34, LUDGA.TE-HILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW-STREET, B IRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET LIVERPOOL. INTERNATIONAL EXH IBITION, CLAss 17. One visit Praotical Treatis onlye grat requiredis f rom country p a ti ents, Ga b r i e l' s • .Cvnatiltations tree. N° 22,009. THE CONTINENTAL BANK CORPO RATION (Limited). To be Established under "The Companies'Act, 1862," where by the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of his Shares. Capital £1,000,000, In 10,000 Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 5,000 Shares. Deposit £1 per Share, with a further payment of £2 per Share on allotment. It is not contemplated to call up more than £25 per Share, and no Call shall exceed £5 per Share. DIRECTORS. Paul Bre& Esq., 41, Threadneedle-street, London. William W. Cargill, Esq., Director of the Oriental Bank Corporation. James 1. Cumming, Esq., Messrs. Cumming, Beaver, and Co., London and Singapore. Thomas IL Gladstone, Esq., Messrs. John Gladstone and Co., White Lion-court, Cornhia. Salomon H. Godefroi, Esq., Messrs, De Mattos and Godefroi, Copthall-court William J. Maxwell, Esq., Director of the National Pro vincial B nk of r ngdand. The Honourable Roden Noel, Chandos-street, Cavendish square. Robert A. Routh, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the English and Australian Copper Company. Vincent B. Tritton, Esq., Messrs. Kelson, Tritton, and Co., Old Broad-street. Richard B. Wade, Esq., Director of the National Provincial Bank of England. BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., st, Lombard street, E.C. The National Provincial Bank of England at its various Branches. SOLICITORS.--Messrs. Wilkinson, Stevens, and Wilkinson, icholas-lan e, E.C. BROHERS.—Messrs. 1110 - lens, Harrison, and Co., 21, Thread needle-street, E.C. SECRETARY.—George summing, Esq. Temporary Offices.-90, Cannon-street, E.C. The application of the joint-stock principle to Banking and Exchanges, under the control and general management of boards of directors in London, has proved so eminently suc cessful in the British colonies and dependencies, more parti cularly in the East and West Indies, that it is deemed ..xpe dient to intro uce that system into the Continent of Europe, with which our commercial intercourse is now so great as to demand additionat facilities and safety in support of our mu tual monetary transactions. Banking on the English system, and with English capital, has already been applied with success to foreign countries in the instances of the Ottoman Bank as regards Turkey, and the Bank of Egypt in Egypt, both conducted under Royal Charters of Incorporation. Other companies have more re cently been established, with similar objects, under the Limited Liability Act. The Directors propose to take powers to apply for a special Charter for this Bank. In the limits of a prospectus it is impossible to enter into full details, but official statistics are available to show the increase in the totals of our imports and exports of merchan di.e with the principal countries of Central Europe, between the years 1851 and 1861, which may be briefly given thus : With France, from 17 to 35 millions; with Germany, from 16 to 19 millions ; with Holland, from 13 to 18 millions ; with Italy, from 5 to 9 millions ; and with Spain, from 5 to 8 mil lions sterling. Arrangements are matured to secure the services of gentle men of large experience to conduct the Foreign Department of the business. The Bank, in addition to ordinary banking operations, will conduct all the business of Exchange Agents. It will Import and Export Go.d and Silver. Purchase approved Bills of Exchange, Coupons, Notes, Scc. Undertake Foreign Financial Agencies. Grant Drafts on Its various Agencies, and issue Circular Notes. Buy and Sell Foreign Stocks and Shares on Commission. Applications for Shares must be made in the annexed form, accompanied by a deposit of £1 per share. If no allot ment be made to the applicant, the deposit will be returned without deduction ; and if a le , s number be allotted than is applied for the surplus will be placed towards the payment on allotment. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the Temporary Offices, 00, Cannon-street, E.C., and from the Brokers of the Company. LOYAL FREE HOSPITAL FOR THE DESTI CUTE SICK, Gray's-Inn-road.—FUNDS are urgen!ly REQUIRED. Treasurer and banker—Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicho las-lane. By order. STANFORD S. SMITIT, Secretary. NEW NOVEL BY DR. BREWER. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., BEATRICE SFORZA. By DR. BREWER. Hurst and Blackett, publisners, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Mai lborough-street. In post Bvo., with an Illustration. 10s. 6d., lIHROUGH ALGERIA. By the Author of " Life in Tuscany." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 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CANTERBURY HALL—The LANCASHIRE CHAMPION PRIZE HAND-BELL RINGERS— Twelve Performers, 66 Bells—conducted by Mr. EDWARD BENSON, will make their Mirst Appearance in London on MONDAY, the 19th January, at half-past Nine o'clock, and will perform Classical, Operatic, and Dance Music. A portion of the proceeds during the engagement Will be given to the LANCASHIRE TRESS FUND. CANTERBURY HALL,- THE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto mimic Entertainment THI ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, including Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and cantaloon, sustained solely by Mr. E. Marshall, re-written by W. F. Vandervell, Esq., new characters and new dresses. UNSWORT H, in his renowned Speech upon all the topics of the day; and the following Comic favourites: -Ew.;ene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAND SELECTIONS from POPULAR OPERAS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. H E 0 X F oR D, 6, OXFORD STREET. George Hodson's Irish Entertainment. UnsWOrth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Songs and Dances. W. Randall's Comicalities. Caroline Parkes' Pantomiinioodcal Sketch, " Little Red Riding H " EVERY EVENING. In addit'on to Drew Dean's Flute Solos, Operatic Selections, by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, and Miss Oesten ; Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, Atc., /cc., with full Band and Chorus, Conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. EVE KY EVENING AT SEVEN. rpURNHAM'S GRAND CONCERT HALL. EDGWARE-ROAD, W. (Sole Proprietor, Mr. JOHN TUR HAM). Operatic Selections.—Great success of John Barnett's "Mountain Sylph," with full band and Chorus—Vocal and Instrumental Solos. Comic talent —Maekney, Sam Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Bren nan, Harry Wall, West ("Or any other Man"), and Taylor. Arthur Barnes (Champion Vaulter), Chadwick (Parisian Grotesque), nd Madame Cerito (the Great Transformation Dancer). Admission, 6d. and Is. Musical Director and Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. MR. And MRS GERMAN REED. with MR. JOHN PARRY, give their highly-successful Enter tainment, THE FAMIY LEGEND—followed by Mr. Parry's new Domestic Scene, MRS. ROSELEAF'S "LITTLE EVENING P ItTY"—EVERY EVENING (except Satur day) at 8, and SATURDAY MORNING at 3.—ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved Seats, ls., 2s ; Stalls, Is. ; Hall Chairs, ss. A RGYLI, ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly, Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant E.itablishment a Grand Conversation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. Boulcourt. The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission U.—Manager, M. Grenet. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. Open daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlem , n only).— Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and 45A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. Sets of Tth rs b TEW ee :fr 7 ll3' MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION , e e x al u E i ranted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial fitted in a few h ot l tely enamelled to nature, are made and imperishable base of f h means of his patented soft elastic and heres with wonderful tena city these t o e colour of the gum, to which it ad fettlr. Eskell's invention unsightly fastenings, and ety , dispensing with springs or observer. The peculiar attregiir detection by tne closest -adapted to is, the readiness with which any change of the mouth (even by the can be ; re and as they act independently of all disturbing causesawreril Of ordinary construction, they at e guaranteed V affect teeth time, as well as for mastication and a rticulat l i aet a life ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains hi st ? . .. Mr. post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens a - n e d i gZ 4 sultations free. Terms strictly moderate. -8, Grosvenor: minkham. street, Bond-street , Lo ndon ; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Eh._ A N EFFECTUAL REMEDY.—LAMBERT'S AS THMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly effi ca cious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coL7hs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumptin• It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce ill fruralhe, admirably allays the tickling which pro vokes frequent COtizhing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief by in a few minutes aft er taking it. Pie ay only and sold W. LAMBERT, Chemist, S, Kim/ William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13id., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. eftelf. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's AsthmatiO 1341/Uun. isms And ad dress is engraved en the damp. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1863, The Proclamation of President Davis. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES-A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, a communication was addressed on the 6th day of July last (1862), by General Robert E. Lee, acting under the instructions of the Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America, to General H. W. Halleck, Commander in-Chief the United States Army, informing the latter that a report had reached this Government that Wm. B. Mum ford, a citizen of the Confederate States, had been executed by the United States authorities at New Orleans, for having pulled down the United States flag in that city, before its occupation by the I) nited States forces, and calling for a statement of the facts, with a view of retaliation, if such outrage had really been committed under the sanction of the authorities of the United States : And whereas (no answer having been received to said letter), another letter was, on the 2d of August last (1862), addressed by General Lee, under my instructions, to General Halleck, renewing the inquiries in relation to the execution of the said Mumford, with the information that, in the event of not receiving a reply within 15 days, it would be assumed that the fact was true, and was sanctioned by the Govern ment of the United States : And whereas an answer, dated on the 7th of August last (1862), was addressed to General Lee by General H. W. Halleck, the said General-in-Chief of the armies of the United States, alleging sufficient causes for failure to make early reply to said letter of the 6th of July, asserting that " no authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of Mumford, but measures will be immedi ately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution," and promising that General Lee should be duly .informed thereof : And whereas, on the 25th of November last (1862),another letter was addressed, under my instructions, by Robert Ould, Confederate agent for the exchange of prisoners, under the cartel between the two Governments, to Lieu tenant-Colonel W. H. Ludlow, agent of the United States under said cartel, informing him that the explanation pro mised in the said letter of General Halleck, of the 7th of August last, had not yet been received, and that, if no answer was sent to the Government within 15 days from the delivery of this last communication, it would be considered that an answer is declined : And whereas, in a letter, dated on the 3d day of the present month of December, the said Lieutenant-Colonel Ludlow apprised the said Robert Ould that the above-recited com munication of the 19th of November had been received and forwarded to the Secretary of War of the "United States, and whereas this last delay of 15 days allowed for answer elapsed and no answer has been received : And whereas, in addition to the tacit admission resulting from the above refusal to answer, I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederacy, was aotually and Publicly executed, in cold blood, by hanging, after the oc cupation of the city of New Orleans, by the forces under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an un resisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the capture of the said city : And whereas, the silence of the Government of the United States, and its maintaining of said Butler in high office under its authority, for many months after his commission of an act that can be viewed in no other light than as a de- liberate murder, as well as of numerous other outrages and atrocities hereafter to be mentioned, afford evidence too conclusive that the said Government sanctions the conduct of the said Butler, and is determined that he shall remain unpunished for these crimes : Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Con federate States of America, and in their name, do pronounce and declare the said Benjamin F. Butler to be a felon, de serving of capital punishment. Ido order that he shall no longer be considered or treated simply as a public enemy of the Confederate States of America, but as an outlaw and common enemy of mankind, and that, in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging. And I do further order that no commissioned officer of the United States, taken captive, shall be released on parole, before exchange, until the said Butler shall have met with due punishment for his crimes. And whereas, the hostilities waged against this Confede racy by the forces of the United States, under the command of said Benjamin F. Butler, have borne no resemblance to such warfare as is alone permissible by the rules of inter national law or the usage of civilisation, but have been cha racterised by repeated atrocities and outrages, among the large number of which the following may be cited as ex amples : Peaceful and aged citizens, unresisting captives and non combatants, have been confined at hard labour, with chains attached to their limbs, and are still so held in dungeons ant fortresses. Others have been submitted to a like degrading punish ment for selling medicines to the sick soldiers of the Confe deracy. The soldiers of the United States have been invited and encouraged, in general orders, to insult and outrage the wives, the mothers, and the sisters If our citizens. Helpless women have been torn from their homes and subjected to solitary confinement,—some in fortresses and prisons, and one especially on an island of barren sand, un der a tropical sun ; have been fed with loathsome rations that had been condemned as unfit for soldiers ; and have been exposed to the vilest insults. Prisoners of war who surrendered to the naval forces of the United States, on agreement that they should be re leased on parole, have been seized and kept in close con finement. Repeated pretexts have been sought or invented for plundering the inhabitants of the captured city, by fines levied and collected under threats of imprisoning recusants at hard labour with ball and chain. The entire population of New Orleans have been forced to elect between starve- tion, by the confiscation of all their property, and taking an oath against conscience to bear allegiance to the invader of their country. Egress from the city has been refused to those whose for titude withstood the test, and even to lone and aged women, and to helpless children ; and after being ejected from their homes, and robbed of their property. they have been left to starve in the streets or subsist on charity. The slaves have been driven from the plantations in the neighbourhood of New Orleans until their owners would consent to share their crops with the Commanding-Gene • ral, his brother, Andrew J. Butler, and other officers, and when such consent had been extorted, the slaves have been restored to the plantations, and there compelled to work under the bayonets of the guards of United States' soldiers. Where that partnership was refused armed expeditions have been sent to the plantations to rob them of everything that was susceptible of removal. And even slaves, too aged or infirm for work, have, in spite of their entreaties, been forced from the homes pro vided by their owners, and driven to wander helpless on tho highway. By a recent general order, No. 91, the entire property in that part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River has been sequestrated for confiscation, and officers have been assigned to duty, with orders to gather up and collect the personal property, and turn over to the proper officers, upon their receipts, such of said property as may be required for the use of the United States' army ; to collect together all the other personal property, and bring the same to New Orleans, and cause it to be sold at public auction to the highest biddy re—an order which, if executed, condemns to punishment, by starvation, at least a quarter of a million of human beings, of all ages, sexes, and conditions, and of which the execution, although forbidden to military officers by the orders of President Lincoln, is in accordance with the Confiscation Law of our enemies, which he has effected to be enforced through the agency of civil officials. And, finally, the African slaves have not only been in cited to insurrection by every licence and encouragement, but numbers of them have actually been armed for a servile war—a war in its nature far exceeding the horrors and most merciless atrocities of savages. And whereas the officers under command of the said Butler have been in many inst ances active a nd zealous agents in the commission of these crimes, and no instance is known of the refusal of any of them to participate in the outrages above narrated. And whereas, the President of the United States litta by by public and official declarations signified not only his ap proval of the effort to excite servile rear within the Confede racy, but his intention to give aid and encouragement thereto, if these independent States shall continue to refuse submission to a foreign power after the Ist day of January next, and has thus made known that all appeal to the law of nations, the dictates of reason, and the instincts of hu manity would be addressed in vain to our enemies, and that they Call be deterred from the commission of these crimes only by the terrors of just retribution. Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Con federate States of America, and acting by their authority, appealing to the Divine Judge in attestat ion that their con duct is not guided by the passion of revenge , but that the y reluctantly yield to the solemn duty of redre ssin g b y neces sary severity crimes of which their citizens are the victims, d said Benj am i n P P. o issue this my proclamation, and by virtue of my autho rity _ as Commander-in-Chief of the armies of the Confede rate States, do order : I. That all commissioned officers in the command of the Butler be decl a red not entitled to be con sidered as Beadle d death; and that they, and eserving each of them be, engaged in honourable warfare, but as robbers and criminalss w henever captured, reserved for exe cution 2. That the private soldiers Ron-commissioned offi cers in the army of said Butl er 1 be considered as only the . instrume nts used for the commissio n of that they therefore f crimes perpetrated by his orders, and not as free g Of war WitUktia * dam be treated when captured a o primine and humanity, ala be sent home on the usual parole that they will in no manner aid or serve the United States in any capacity during the continuance of this war, unless duly exchanged. 3. That all negro slaves captured in arms be at once de livered over to the Executive authorities of the respective States to which they belong, to be dealt with according to the laws of said States. 4. That the like orders be executed in all cases with re• spest to all commissioned officers of the United States when found serving in company with said slaves in insurrection against the authorities of the different States of this Confe deracy. In testimony whereof I have signed these presents, and caused the seal of the Confederates States of America to be affixed thereto, at the city of Richmond, on this 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1862. JEFFERSON DAVIS. By the President, J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State. THE TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS. A meeting of the Juridical Society was held last evening, at their rooms in St. Martin's-place, Mr. C. CLARKE presiding. The subject of discussion was " Our Present Treatment of Criminals," which was opened by Mr. WORSLEY, who observed that in substituting penal servitude for transportation we had undertaken, as it were, to burn our own smoke; and it bad been alleged that in doing so we had withdrawn from s tciety its necessary protection. The object of all punishment was first, the safroty-of society ; secondly, his reformation. As society was in some degree responsible for the moral condition of every indivi dual composing it, society was bound in inflicting punishment for crime to provide for this second object. It was complained that the present system neither protected society nor reformed the prisoner, and consequently that it had altogether failed. It was all important that the judicial and the executive officer should be at one, mad the sentence which the former pronounced it was the duty of the other to carry out ; b u t at presen t th e chaplain stepped in between the two to mitigate the punishment the judicial officer awarded. Now, gaol chaplains, from their training, were perhaps the least competent to judge between an assumed and a real reformation of criminals, and thus it was that tickets of leave were given to the worst class of con victed prisoners, who were let loose again to prey upon society. The speaker alluded to the Rev. Mr. Davis's sport in confirmation of this view. He (Mr. Worsley) doubted much whether a man brought up by criminal parents and the companion of thieves all his life was capable of reformation unless taught very young. The ticket of leave he regarded as an unconstitutional abatement of the punishment the judge awarded. Quoting a recent case of burglary committed by a ticket•of-leave man who had been four times convicted and on a fifth eonviction sen tenced to three years penal servitude, was let loose on a ticket of leave, and shortly afterwards com mitted the crime of which he now stands charged, he remarked that it was mere madness to treat har dened criminals in this manner. Under the present system crimes, and especially crimes attended with violence, had largely increased. As bearing out his opinion as to the improper interference of the Exe cutive at the Home-office in mitigating without suf ficient cause the sentences pronounced by the judges he quoted the recent addresses of Sir W. Crofton at Bristol, Sir C. Hamilton at Warwick, and Sir W. Miles in Somersetahire, the latter having offered a very valuable suggestion emanating from the chief constable of Somersetshire, that no convict should hate a ticket of leave granted him unless he bad a bona fide offer of employment, and could produce re sponsible persons who would be answerable for his future good conduct. The system now in operation had been introduced at the instance of Sir J. Jebb, not for the purpose of reforming criminals and pro tecting society, but to save expense; but it had failed in this—the expense in consequence of these ticket of-leave men being brought up, tried, and con victed again and again having increased rather than diminished. He objected strongly to the practice of allowing persons charged with serious crimes to elect whether they wou'd go to a jury or be dealt with summarily, urging that in most cases the magistrate who was called upon so to deal with the offender could not as a rule know so much of his antecedents as would be in all probability known if the criminal were committed and tried by a jury. Generally the result at which he arrived was that, under the existing system, the law was not carried out—that there was no concord of action between the judicial and executive authorities—that inside the prison there was no means of creating fear in the minds of the prisoner of returning to the gaol on committing a fresh crime, but a system of com parative luxury and high mental and physical ali ment—that tickets of leave were granted without sufficient proof of the reformation of the criminal, and that they were seldom or never revoked, tor, as far as he (Mr. Worsley) knew, there was no instance of such revocation—that there were no means taken to prevent the criminal returning to criminal life—that the evil lay not with the law but with the executive, and that the punishment of crime was costly and inefficient. He had three suggestions to offer for the consideration of the meeting and of the Government c ommission—first, a judicious mixture of penal discipline at home and transportation to the colonies afterwards; secondly, that in all punishments not capital it should be pro vided by act of parliament that the executive should have no power to alter the term of punishment, but only to regulate the discipline of the gaol, to relax it or to heighten it according to the conduct of the prisoner ; and, thirdly, the repeal of the Summary Jurisdiction Act. The CHAIRMAN felt they were much indebted to Mr. Worsiey for his suggestions. _lt would be for the meeting to consider them. In regard to the ticket-of-leave, he considered it was not only unconstitutional, but dangerous. The object of the change of the law was to redu:e the extreme severity of the criminal law as it formerly stood in respect to punishment, but the earlier advocates of milder punishment were still more strongly the advocates of certainty of punishment, which under the ticket-of-leave system was impossible. He agreed with Mr. Worsley as to the impropriety of acting upon the reports of gaol chaplains, who were often deceived by the prison conduct of prisoners, and with regard to a suggestion made by that gen tleman, that every convict let loose upon society should be branded with the view of identification, he (the chairman) concurred that if such a practice were adopted it would be advantageous. He agreed that the power of withdrawing the ticket-of-leave by che„interference of the Secretary of State, was no sufficient protection, and he would suggest that if tickets•of-leave should still be granted, it should be in the power of any magistrate or judge before whom the party holding it was brought, charged with another offence, to revoke it at once. Mr. S. WILLIAMS remarked that the - Public had at length come round to an opinion he expressed some years ago in that room, that the present system neither reformed nor inspired fear in the criminal. He recommended that criminals should be sentenced not to so much time in prison, but to so much labour, and it that labour was not performed that he should be reduced to a diet of bread and water, and remain a prisoner until it was performed. He also sugrste that the prisoners should he associated in gangs, the members of which should be all responsible for the conduct of the general body, and for the performance of the allotted labour tasks. When the labour was completed, then the convict should have the right to go freo. Mr. HUME WILLIAMS took a different view to that of the previous speakers who practically by their propositions upheld the existing system of uncertain and varying punishments. It was unfor- tunate that in the scale of dietary and general treat- meat the prisons contrasted so attractively with the workhouses. Prisoners ought to have only such c oarse food as would enable them to do the work allotted to them, and not luxuries or comforts which the honest poor could not command. In Ireland the system of penal servitude had worked well, because when the sentence was commuted the criminal was still kept under surveillance, and was furnished with work in the prison at trades there taught them, and strange as it might appear the men so taught and employed were eagerly sought for in the manu factories here. If the system thus guarded and carried out with such precaution answered so well in Ireland, he saw no reason why, if the same means were adopted, it should not be equally successful in thiscoun try. He opposed the suggestion of branding the criminal on his leaving the gaol as tending to degrade him beyond redemption, and he doubted but little if it had been adopted that instead of 400 out of 1,400 discharged criminals, who they had been told had returned to their criminal habits within a given time, they would have had the whole 1,400 preying upon society. He submitted that the Government works and the Government manufac tures would afford ample means for providing con - victs with employment, both while undergoing their sentences and when released on tickets-of-leave, while it would effect a considerable saving of public money. Mr. WALKER MARSHALL considered the circum stances of England were so different to those of Ire land, that a system which might succeed in the lat ter country might altogether fail in the former. The ticket-of-leave system, coupled with the discipline and dietary of the gaols, failed in the three great requirements of all punishment—viz., that they should be certain, punative, and reforma• tory. He suggested that professed criminals, or persons convicted more than once, should be kept on poorer diet and be subjected to greater severity in the gaol than the labouring man who was con victed for the first time, and who ought to be kept in a state of health that would enable him to resume his ordinary work on his release. For the State to undertake the duty of teaching criminals a trade, and provide them with work, would be to do more for them than for the honest portions of the com munity. The debate was then adjourned to the next meet ing, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. The Royal Geographical Society. An interesting meeting of this society was held at Burlington-house last evening. Sir Roderick I. Murchison presided, and there was a numerous at tendance of members and others. Among those pre sent were the Earl of Sheffield, Lords Strangford and De Blaquiere, Admirals Sir E. Belcher, R. Col linson, and Elliott; i ord A. Churchill, M.P. ; Mr. M. Milnes, M.P.; Mr. Danby Seymour, M.P.; Sir H. Rawlinson, Sir R. Alcock ; Colonels Baynes, Stewart, Rark, and Shaffner ; Major Kane, Captain and Mrs. Burton ; Captains Belford, Glyn, and Sel wyn, R.N.; M. Du Chaillu, Mr. Alderman Finnis, Dr. Rae, Ducket, Day, Goss, and Beke, Professor Tyndal, Sir Digby Neave, Sir Charles Bright ; Messrs. Charles White, Osborne Smith, J. Lyons M'Leod, &c. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read by the hon. secretary, Dr. Norton Shaw, and some preliminary business despatched, Mr. J. A. MANN read a paper on Ocean Currents on the North-east Coast of South America. The ob ject of the paper was to present an account of the voyage, in July and August, 1862, of the Monte Christo from Cayenne, in Guiana, to Paranahiba, in Brazil, in which some extraordinary phenomena conected with the Guiana current were experienced. The popular idea is that this current always runs i❑ a north-west direction, at a rate varying from one to four knots per hour; but in this voyage of the Monte Christo it was found that the current was entirely reversed, running at a rate of 41 ; knots per hour—a circumstance which, if proved, would upset the received ideas not only on the subject of this particular, but of the entire ocean streams. Much evidence was adduced, and well authenticated, to prove the phenomena de scribed, and although, as Mr. Mann stated, he was not able to secure as satisfactory observations as he could wish, it seemed that there was no good reason to doubt its existence. Captain MAURY, of the American navy, being called upon by the president to make some remarks upon this subject, said that during the last year or two his mind had been occupied with other matters than ocean currents—(hear, hear)—and he very much regretted that he had lately had very little to do with the sea. But he must express his thanks to Mr. Mann for the very interesting and philoso phical paper he had laid before them. That gen tleman had truly said that these currents were ap parently most capricious, for sometimes they not only did not run forwards, but they even turned and ran backwards. When he was at Bermuda, on his way hither from South Carolina, he saw an officer of her Majesty's navy who had been cruising for some years on the North American station, and he was told by him a fact corroborative of what Was stated in the paper just read—viz., that on his passage from Halifax to Bermuda he had come across this extraordinary phenomenon; that the Gulf stream actually ran to the southward and west ward. The temperature of the water was all right, but his reckoning was all wrong. On going back he tried it again, taking care to verify his instru ments, and, singular to relate, it happened again that the Gulf stream not only was not running in its usual course, but was running backwards. He thought the action of the Gulf stream accounted for the mild winter now being experienced in Eng land. It operated like a hot-air furnace in the sea, mitigating the temperature, and to what ever eccentricities it might be liable in its course, it reached the shores of this country in the long run, influencing its climate. The pecu liarities of the Guiana current were almost as re markable as those of the Gulf stream itself. Ships sailing from the month of the Amazon to Rio Ja neiro had to stretch out to the northward, and west ward until they reached 25 or 30 deg. north when about the longitude of 60, and then they got into the trade winds and came south again, thus dodg ing those very currents which Mr. Mann's observa tions showed to be of an exceptional nature. Before proceeding to the next paper, The PRESIDENT said he had received within the last 24 hours an interesting letter from that distin guished African traveller and his excellent friend, Dr. Livingstone. With the concurrence of the Council of the society he would now read it. It was as follows : "River Rovtima, Oct. 10, 1862. " My dear Sir Roderick,—We have just returned from a month's exploration of the Rovuma River. We turned at long. 38 deg 30 min. east, and let. 11 deg. 13 min. south; so, assuming the longitude of the anchorage to be 40 deg. 30 min. east, and lat. 10 deg. 28 min. south, we went about 114 miles, as the crow flies, from the coast. Adding our longitude and latitude together, we went 156 miles up the river. It was unusually and excessively low, and entailed frequent dragging of the boats at the crossings. When the water split up into three channels the work was grievous ; but having chosen the the dry season, when we cannot do much in Zambesi, we put a stout heart to daafaeterYlsbdr:yePs' never stopped except on Sundays, a up and 10 down find ourselves rathern tired and brown. a m " T 1 e h w e i b d ed e. of u t. he es flanked ve is o r a b b yho a ut fi ghwhi t el h lllsl r a: e nws e do i c u dfo e a eme r d tte tablet h r e i s l go o hs e s la o n ni d e , t w im h e ic s h th lo e ok s e pu li r k s e o r f an th g e es to the water, but generally there is a mil e of level alluvial soil between them and the bulk. So f ew people appeared at first, it looked like a land to let,' but, having walked up to the edge of the plateau, considerable cultivation was met with, though to make a garden a great mass of brushwood PRICE .4d. STAMPED must be cleared away. The women and children fled, but calling to a man not to be afraid, he asked if I had any objection to liquor with him, and brought a cup of native beer. There are many new putting ownish trees on the slopes, plenty of ebony in some places, and thickets of brushwood. The whole scenery had e d e a y thebe called othersour winter. on brownish a light gray appearance , dotted over with masses of green on n ew trees, foliage, which forich re Otherd, but s trees o,m all showedwil l b their eg young leaves gloriously green. Further up we came to numerous villages, perched on sand banks in the river. They had villag es on shore too, and plenty of grain stowed away in t he woods. They did not fear for their victuals, but wer e afraid of being stolen themselves. We passed thr ou g h them all right, civilly declining an invitation to precede m I land at a village where two human heads had been cut off. A lot of these river pilots then followed us till there was only a narrow passage under a high bank, and there let drive their arrows at us. We stopped and expostulated with them for a long time; then got them to one of the boats and ex plained to them how easily we could drive them off with our rifles and revolvers, but we wished to be friends, and gave about 30 yards of calico in pre sants in proof of friendship. All this time we were within 40 yards of a lot of them, armed with mus kets and bows, on the high bank. On parting, as we thought, on friendly terms, and moving on, we received a volley of musket balls and arrows, four bullet holes being made in my sail, and finding that we, instead of running away, returned the fire, they took to their heels, and left the conviction that these are the Border ruffians who at various points present obstacles to African exploration —men stealers, in fact, who care no more for human life than that respectable party in London who stuffed the Pioneer's life-buoys with old straw instead of cork. It was sore against the grain to pay away that calico ; it was submitting to be robbed for the sake of peace. It cannot be called black mail,' for that implies the rendering of im portant services by Arabs; nor is it custom dues.' It is robbery perpetrated by any one who has a traveller or trader in his power, and, when tamely submitted to, increases in amount till wood, water, grass, and every conceivable subject of offence is made an occasion for a fine. On our return we passed quietly through them all, and, probably, the next English boat will be respected. Beyond these Makonde all were friendly and civil, laying down their arms before they came near us. Much trade is carried on by means of canoes, and we had the company of seven of these small craft for three days. They bring rice and grain down to purchase salt. When about 60 miles up the table-land mentioned above retires, and we have an immense plain, with detached granite rocks and hills dotted over. Some rocks then appear in the river, and at last, at our turning point, the bed is all rocky masses, four or five feet high, with the water rushing through by numerous channels. The canoes go through with ease, and we might have taken the boats up also, but we were told that further up the channels were much narrower, and there was a high degree of probability that we should get them smashed in coming down. the R L o i v k Lu e Nyassa w a t h o il Q ht ul little lrfoit farther arising K hge i rf l wrforamo) from a t b thh o ee u t cho 3 il. o l " We were on part of the slave route from the I s mu on n n e s b c ethol f low the stati on o f Nd on d e , w h ere th a t route crosses east of the Lake Nyassa, flows into Rovuma. It is said to be very large, with reeds and aquatic plants growing in it, but at this time only ankle deep. It contains no rocks till near its sources on the moun tains, and between it and the lake the distance is reported to require between two and three days. At the cataracts where we turned there is no rock an the shore, as on the Zimbesi, at Kebrabasa, and Murchison's Cataracts. The land is perfectly smooth, and, as far as we could see, the country pre sented the same fiat appearance, with only a few detached hills. The Tsetse is met with all along the Rovuma, and the people have no cattle in con sequence. They produce large quantities of oil yielding seeds, as the susame, or gerzelin, and have hives placed on the trees every few miles. We never saw ebony of equal size to what we met on this river; and as to its navigability, as the mark at which water stands for many months is three feet above what it is now, and it is now said to be a cubit lower than usual, I have no doubt that a vessel drawing when loaded about 18 inches would run with ease during many months of the year. Should English trade be established on the Lake Nyassa, Englishmen will make this their outlet rather than pay dues to the Portuguese. " We return to put our ship on Nyassa, by the Shire, because there we have the friendship of all the people, except that of the slave-hunters. For merly, we found the Shire people far more hostile than are the Makonde of Rovnms, but now they have confidence in us, and we in them. To leave them now would be to open the country for the slave-hunters to pursue their calling therein, and we should be obliged to go through the whole pro cess of gaining a people's confidence again. " It may seem to some persons weak to feel a cord vibrating to the dust of her who rests on the banks of the Zambesi, and thinking that the path thereby is consecrated by her remains. We go back to Johanna and the Zambesi in a few days. Kind re gards to Lady M., and believe me ever affection. ately yours, " DATID LIVINGSTONE." The next business was the reading of a paper by Dr. G. C. WALLIca, on the question of a Survey of the Physical Condition of the Atlantic, cab e preli minary to the laying down of another electric. Amerlca. Dr. b connecting Europe with North Wallich began by pointing out that both the amount and kind of information we now possessed regard ing the deep-sea bed of the Atlantic were altogether inadequate to meet the requirements of oceanic tele graphy. Referring in proof of this to the line of soundings taken by Capt. Dayman, in 1857, on board her Majesty's ship Cyclops, he observed that these, though as perfect as circumstances then allowed, furnished data necessarily incomplete; in asmuch as only 41 soundings were taken at depths exceeding 250 fathoms, across an area of 1,300 miles of ocean, leaving a mean interval of 32 miles be tween each two soundings. Having assigned his reasons for disbelieving that the entirecentral basin of the Atlantic is, as many have supposed, a vast plateau unbroken by alterations of level as great as those existing on land, he observed that in the in tervals between the previous measurements of the depth of the ocean-bed some of the largest moun tain ranges might very well be included— matt er n a te s a fe ' obviously most important, as bearing no such sub laying of a telegraphic cable. marine slopes had hitherto whichbeeln'ru d etected t esv e e ma t s e a d ianst i s n auiran t ee h dd : mid-Atlantic, but the data h on ere existsouitnn t d il in a g i, w o_ e f r . e_ loo fathoms .. that they did not had purely arbitrary. A it N., within about been taken by Lieut. 32 miles of one of 3,000 5 a fathoms taken by Captain Dayman. Dr. then e numerated the v ar i ous kinds of observations that he had thought essential to a trustworthy telegraphic survey, among which was a method of probing the deposits of the sea-bed, w i t h a view to determine their geological character. He exhibited an ingenious instrument, designed by him to effect this object, b:sides other new appara tus for raising specimens of water from any desired depth, and for gauging, the pressure at all depths. Passing to the means requisite for carrying out his survey, Dr. Wallich recommended that the Government should equip two steamships for the work ; the great novelty of his plan consisting in the two vessels sailing in parallel courses, removed only two miles from each other, and the soundings being taken alternately on each line of the longi tudinal belt thus defined. Wnile, therefore, there would be an interval of five miles at the utmost be tween any two soundings on the same line (that was taken by the same ship), there would be an interval line of soundings should form, 44 it were, the base of operations, and be taken as the centre of the two-mile longitudinal belt which he proposed to have surveyed. The entire work might, he thought, be finished in five or six months. Summing up the advantages of his plan, he remarked that it would furnish no less than 640 reliable observations extendinK,,t -v the entire deep watei •of 411,e, sea bed might ultimately be mapped out. In con clusion ' - and et... wing a basis upon which its whole he said the task was unquestionably arduous. lor Its execution might prove costly and tedious. B u t there it was, staring us in the face—a task which we must either manfully grapple with and m a s t er , or leave unfulfilled to our s uccessors th e accomplish rable explorations, a accomplish ment of the grandest internati ona l p ro j ec t th a t human sagacity had heretofore suggested. Th e paper was listened to with ma r k e d i n t eres t, an d re .. peTatheedlpyßaEpstaEuNdTed.saidAttihtastcplorse. Wallich had ac companiedSirtieLnsec!aonldd A h l is pen ‘Clinto h ck ad in n nr h i i ched smem th o e " scientific literatur e of the t coun ry. That society had seldom had a paper placed before it more directly connected with the highest objects of physical geography than that which hod just been read. Dr. Wallich had also exhibited and explained to them the workin g of his ingenious apparatus for not only tapping the soft strata, but also boring into the rocks at the bottom of the ocean. Whether or not any adventurous body o f persons would lay down a telegraphic cabl e b e. tween this country and our North American kins- folk, as a nautical people it was of the greatest importance that we should become acquaint Ted with the characteristic features of the great ocean bed between the two hemispheres. (Hear, hear.) It was to prevent illusory schemes from being taken up, or encouraged, that the present paper had been submitted to them. Sir E. BELCHER, as almost the senior surveying officer now in England, felt it his duty to say a few words on this project. It was very well as far as concerned the passage across the Irish Channel; but in his experience of searching for shoals even within 100 yards of his own ship, for six weeks, and 14 hours a day, he knew the difficulty of finding a rock which did not cover a much larger space than their president's chair. (Hear, and a laugh.) R e therefore conceived that the proposed survey would not only cost the country an immense sum of money and take 60 years to complete, but it could not be carried into effect. They did not want the deepest water for the laying of a transatlantic telegraphic cable. If they carried the line from the Hebrides or the Orkneys to the Faroe Islands, and so on in that direction, they would have a simple method of being sure of what they were doing. He thought a cable might be laid down from spot to spot at a very trivial expense, and in that mode they could surely feel their way across the ocean. He had him self used a very accurate instrument, not only for sounding and obtaining the bottom, but also for as certaining the temperature at any exact depth and bringing up the water. That instrument consisted of a cylinder within a cylinder, made of stout bell metal ; and between they ears 1836 and 1847 neither it nor the delicate thermometer within it showed the slightest derangement. In conclusion, Sir Edward expressed his conviction that, before sanc tioning any such scheme as that sketched by Dr. Wallich it would be better to take the opinions of scientific men as to whether it would not be right to have four separate stations for the telegraph across the Atlantic, instead of adopting the plan of cross ing by one long line. (Hear, hear.) Admiral ELLIOTT believed that if they carried out the survey proposed by Dr. Wallich, and ob tained the accurate information he desired as to the ocean•bed, they would then be no wiser than they now were with regard to the laying down of the electric cable.— (hear)—for they could not thread their way across the Atlantic, as Dr. Wallich sug gested, in the manner that would avoid the hollows and mountains that might be found at the bottom. Moreover, he did not think the proposed scheme for sounding was at all practicable, and he should pre fer the method recommended by Sir E. Belcher. Again, to keep the laying of the cable in abeyance until such a system of soundings could be taken would be most inexpedient. Let them lay down the cable at once, and if it lasted only for two years it would repay the outlay and confer a great benefit upon the public. He did not believe the failure of the last cable was attributable to the nature of the ocean bed. It might be accounted for by various other causes. One of these was the weight of the cable itself, and another was that it might not have been sufficiently tested before being put on board ship. He had great faith in the possibility of lay hag a light cable across the Atlantic, so as to enable them to establish the communication between the two hemispheres, within the next 12 months. As the chairman of a company for laying down such a cable, he should regret anything that might destroy the confidence of the public in the feasibility of such an undertaking—(laughter) —and prevent its being carried out. Professor TYNDALL believed that, as far as the physicallobjects indicated in the paper went, they were not likely to be of sufficient importance tojus tify a very great outlay. His own reflection had brought him to a conclusion on this matter some what in accordance with th a t o f Si r E. B e l c her and Admiral Elliott. The propo se d s urv ey was open to this objection, that in the five mile intervals be tweeni Matter horn m tihgeh might soundingspossibly pea exist k being discovered. __ 8.N., and Mr. W e b ster took part, Dr. Wal- Aiter some further discussion, in w hi c h C aptain ; Se ei cc h l t replied, d e f en di ng his plan from the ob wiobynrinse'tfihy at had been urged againstit, and adducing further reasons against the adoption of the counter telegraphic route suggested by Sir E. Belcher. The proceedings then terminated at a quarter to 11 o'clock. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. By late advices from Fortress Monroe we are glad to hear that the famous "sione fleet" with President Lincoln and his advisers, to the disgust oftlitoo civilised world, attempted to close up the a pproaches saferthan they were which Charleston, has entirely failed to produco theintended leading into Charles effect, and therefore a large amount of Federal .. money has been expended in vain. The clumpe d 's N pAaLndßsltubMstGaEn Gazette. positive amount of ftoornmhearrlybo;usro outare oafctatinalleyvibleitnivtotsenatnoua k y and Navy good has arisen.--dro YORK.—The , tial iron bridgopening e which 0r E N G the °l beautiful L E wh i c h lies been erected over the riv er O use at Lendal, York, too k p l a ce on Thursday last, and will supply a want which h a s long been felt. The foundation stone of a bridge was laid on Tuesday, October 9, 1860, by Mr. Alderman Evers, the then lord mayor. As the bridge advanced, and its cha racter became more prominently displayed, neither those who had seen the plans nor the general public were at all satisfied with the appearance it was likely to present. Most of our readers are acquainted with the circumstances at tending the destruction of the bridge on Friday, Sept. 27, 1861, very nearly a year after the foundation stone had been laid. One of the girders fell into the river, and the others were prostrated upon the bridge, five persons em ployed thereon being instantly hurled into eternity. The design for the bridge (which is after the style of the Westminster Bridge) presented by Mr Page was ulti mately adopted, and the contract for the iron work from Messrs. Hawks, Crawshay, and Co., of Gateshead, for £3,600, was accepted by the committee a year ago. The has a consists of a single arch of the Tudor style , a span of 175 feet 2 inches, and is 25 feet in height from the summer level of the river to the crown. Six ribs of immense sizti are tied together with cross girders e and braces tied and stayed, there being bearers f or t h e corrugated iron plates which had been prepared for the been used i n girder bridge and which have the pre sen t bridge, The spandril ls consist of castings of Gothio tracery, ornamented with large shields of the city on one side, and the arms of the see of York on the other. The footpaths on the bridge are made of the Hopton Ward stone, a beautifully white paving stone, which has been used at the 'louses of Parliament. The extreme width of the bridge is 37ft. gin. ; the width of the footpaths, Bft. 3in. ; and the width of the roadway, 21ft. 3in. The weight of the bridge is at least 360 tons, and it is believed to be of sufficient strength to carry a railway train. In the evening a grand banquet took place in honour of the occasion. the ith ,er. ver ed. re 111i- ose we ake 156 71 to in tu- the by ere the his rd ing. ex- this )ton e is ; £3 this last here that Liero rash ing, , in mde bat last ity. cea IrtS. 7ket ion. ices for 24s 468 —3 37'0 ~~~