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S URNITURE, CARPETS, B EDDING, and PLOORCLOTIL CA Rill - AGE-FREE to an , house in he kingdom, regardless of amount or dis'ance. First class f•Znods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to goer 2 ,7lnen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select m, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Zvery article warranted. ~,CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR 1118H are respectfully . informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are , publishinz an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4l o a dmirable encrravings of every description of Furniture and tedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains Complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised ale : No. 22,309. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1863. FE10E.....—..4d. STAMPED A Six-roomed Parsonage L7I 3 0 An Eight-roomed ditto 138 1 0 A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed d:tto t9l 11 0 Together with a Price List of purified Bedding - , and a mass of valuable information to all requiring household furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindlypermitted to Clen2y tlen and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester. Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborourill, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington. Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's, Worvster, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham and above 500 other places in all parts of Great ritain. COB BETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, Ic) PERSONS SEEKING LANDED ESTATES, TOWN AND CoUNTI;Y RESIDENCES, FREE HOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPERTIES GENERALLY— WHERE CAN WE MEET AF rER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. Speech of M. Thiers on the French Loan. INNS OF COURT. , The Council of Legal Education have approved the following rules for the public examination of the students for Hilary Term, 1864. The attention of the students is requested to the following rules of the Inns of Court : hike lob y nag. taste To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OP PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Register ■fiords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible chararter, thereby avoid ing. the disadvantages of delay and its attencant incon veniences. TZINAHAN'S LL BR I A V N H D I IL S , KY v. COGNAC, This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WIND3IILL-STRE'F,T, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky," one , the At tite's ,iting ivate As an inducement to students to propose themselves for examination, studentships shall be founded of 50 guineas per annum each, to continue for a period of three years, and one such studentship shall be conferred on the most distin guished student at each public examination; and further, the examiners shall select and certify the the names of three other students who shall have passed the next best exami nations, and the Inns of Court to which such students ha long, may, if desired, dispense with any terms not exceed ing two, that may remain to be kept by such students pre viously to their being called to the bar. Provided that the examiners shall not be obliged to confer or grant any stu dentship or certificate unless they shall be of opinion that the examination of the student they select has been such as entitles them thereto. At every call to the Bar those students who have passed a public examination, and either obtained a studentship or certificate of honour, shall take rank in seniority over all other students who shall be called on the saute day. No students shall be eligible to be called to the Bar who shall not either have attended during one whole year the lectures of two of the readers, or have satisfactorily passed a public examination. in a at a THERE IS NO crunGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency-, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the WELLINGTON is CLOSED for repairs, &e„ and will be RE-OPENED on TifußspAy, the 31st December next, at 5 o'clock By order, JOITN CATES, Manager. The Wellington, St. James's-street, Entrance, '6O, Piccadilly, W. December 25,1663. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WOMAN'S R By F. W. ROBINSON, A Author of "Grandmother's Money," &C. _ ._ --------- - " A Woman's Ransom' fascinate the attention of the reader to the very end."—John Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. pARIS.--GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE. Established in 1855.—Situated in the most Central part of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal—Six hundred Bedrooms at from 3 to 20fr.-60 Sitting-rooms at from 4 to 20fr. —a richly decorated Dining Saloon—Table d'Hote at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining Rooms— Choice Wines—Dinners served a la carte both in the dining rooms and the private apartments—Reading, and Conversa tion Saloons ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other parties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications received— Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms- numerous Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises —first-class Private Equipages at command—Omnibuses running to all the rail way stations —Postal Letter-box—Telegraph office day and right—Photographic studio—a staff of Servants speaking all Languages. • Now ready, illustrated by Millais, ss. bound, CIBEAP EDITION OF LOST AND SAVED, kJ by the Hon. Mrs. NORTON, forming the New Vo'ume of "HURST and BLACKETT'.3 STANDARD LIBRARY." " A novel of rare excellence, with a brave soul speaking through it. It is Mrs. Norton's best prose work. "—Examiner. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street, On Tuesday next, in post Bvo., 10s. Rd., CHRISTMAS AT OLD COURT. By the Author of "Richelieu in Love." }. 2µ. Richard Bentley, New Burlington• street. T" E OXF OR D A, OXFORD STREET, W. NOTICE. —CHARLES READE'S Great Story of " HARD CASH " is now Ready, in 3 Volumes, post Bvo., cloth, 31s. Bd., and may be obtained at any Library or Bookseller in the Kingdom. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA FORZA DEL DESTINO—Verdi ; by the fol lowing talented artistes .—Misses !Russell, Townley, Fitz- Henry, SI , almsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, tm. Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS. the cele brated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHAL KENB &CH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWOItTII ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall,W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, George Hutchen son, and the marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and Foster. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 11, Ludgate hill. Pinot, n , de ad do Del- THIS EVENING, tvill be produced, supported by the entire company, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the estaWishment. Tering at the w hich l other to 4 9 to 426 to 3(31 ° to 378 iade at trade. nd Os 30s to to 269 per qr. met 5 )f last rather )re utv down , down• down• down• 8s od; n. 18. n. 12 . .32. 4. a. 29. n. 2. 0. 21. 4 ~,, c. 2i• ac. 21 . ;0 . 2tr. C. 21. n. 2• c. 27. 0. 27• a. O. .c. 31 an 1 • 11 . 10. n. 1 4 . ;c. 29' .c. 29' (Limited). I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. GUARANTEE ARE ACCEPTED EY ongs t )tiDg" st 0 11 gre at 11DP et° ie CO: 1 great . A aln) t ht th e iryold° square, Eaton 2cl So' Surrey'', on, the titer. rnwalif yoraltf 3artho laphew ,h e late Clarke'. dicitor. heriner ne. rnwa ll ; ag' 13r0 01 ; t of °. t, ages Ta l3l ` , Es4l co. 112 ' AutY ° T HE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (The Directors reserve to hemselves the right of changing the name of the Company.) To be incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1862," by Which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of share'. Capital £1,000,000, in 20,001 Shares of £5O. First issue, 10.000 shares. Deposit on application XI per share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 p'm• share, and at intervals of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £2O per share. DIRECTORS. George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con stab!e,, Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great 'illiamHelen's. Lan?, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. M'Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander M , Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street. Sargood, Esq (Messrs. Sargood, lim7, and Sargood), London and Melbourne. „, 411 nuts Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres and River Plate Bank, James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.), Gutter-lane. "Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. : Richd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman & Co. Samuel Baker, Esq. * Committee of Management. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. BROKERS. *.„ T attles Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane. Messrs. Sandeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. Offices—No. 4, Ablrurch-lane. P OS PE CTUS. In forming this Company the Directors have secured the -operation of Messrs. Sandeman and Co., of Abchurch-lane. Whose well-known and long-established business it is the object of this Company to take up and develope. The Company will conduct all the operations of ordinary discount busines , . The terms on which the business of Messrs. Sandeman and Co. has been purchased justify the Directors in anticipating a Profit of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital- The Company will take possession of the premises now oc e_opied by Messrs. Sandeman and Co., as from the Ist day of January, awl the business of the Company will commence from that day. No promotion money has or will be paid, and the expenses Will be strictly confined to the necessary payments. Prospectuses and forms of applications for shares may be ob•aim d at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will be returned in full ; should a less number of shares be al lotted than are applied for, the deposit will be made avail able toward. the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolidated Discount Company Gentlemen,—Ravin' paid to your Bankers the sum of I request you to allot me shares in the Consolidated Discount Company (Limited), and I hereby aZree to become a member of the Society, and to accept such )'hares, or any less number that may be allotted to me ; and 1 request you to place my name on the Register of Members in respect of the shares allotted to me. Name in full Address Usual signature Date CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS TIERETIY GIVEN, that no APPLICATIONS Tor WEINIZES in this Compa,y will be received after WED NESDAY next, the 30th instant. By order. Temporary Offices, 4, Abchurch-lane, Dec. 24, 1863. FORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. This Company is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for 41 e , cantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced scale of rates. Particulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle street. I MPERIAL LIFE INSUR ANCE COMPANY No. 1, Old Broad-street, Landon, E.C. Instituted 1820. HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., Chairman. lINVARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman insurances effected before the 31st January, 1361, will be e ntitled to Three Years' Additions in the Profits to be de clared in 1866. SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary. N -ORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. NOTICE.-CHRISTMAS RENEWALS. )lereantile and Dock Insurances at the reduced rates. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year ISO 2 was ' -8▪ 5 ,e62, and the amount insured on farming stock, ' 10 , 0 80,332. _ _ A bonus of three-fifths of the profi periodically made to Parties insuring, who have thus, from.time to time, received "urns amounting in the aggregate to .C 110,000; and the Society now holds a large Res-rve applicable to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those • 4illarged by the . other principal offices making no returns to eir insurers „,ror pro=pectuses apply at the Society's O ffi ces, Surrey- Ireet, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black 'Mara, E.C. TuE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE BONDS AND POLICIES OF TREASURY, CUSTOMS, INLAND REVENUE, GENERAL POST - OFFICE, WAR, ADMIRALTY, ROME, COLONIAL, INDIA, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIREcToRg IN LONDON. HENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman. J ohn Cheetham, Esq., Staleybridge. John Field, Esq., Warnford-court, City. Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall. tichard Francis George, Esq , Bath. ;I-fenry 11. Harrison, Esq., H a milton -place, St. John ' s - Wood. jiiomas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Ilighbury. l athes Hedp,,ine, Esq., Ca ven di s h Club. 'arttes Edward M‘Con ne ll , E sq., W o l v e r ton. C. W. Reynolds, Esq., Eaton-place, Belgravia. <ichard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of Customs, Bombay. Wickham Wickham, Esq., M.P. for Bradford. v homas Winkworth, Esq., Gresham Club, a n d C anon b u ry. J, P. B r o w n-Westhead, E3q., M.P. for York. Security is provided in approved cases for Officers of Bank and Commercial Establishments, Public Companies, M unicipal Corporations, and for other places of trust. Life Assurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad vantageous terms. t r , l)r osDectuses, Forms of Proposal. and every information baY be obi ained the Chief Offices, 2, Waterloo-place "' all- mall, London from ; and 39, Gcorge-street, Edinburgh. ' A.D. 1720. 11, 0 YAL 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. ir,_ OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. `O,_"...GE YRARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. 'Q.' J OHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. 'Re DIRECTORS. it Rob ert Ba in Wiimot Holland, Esq. taro "' ESq. P Min G arr ay, E sq. Earl of Leven and Melville. '-' 4 ark Cnr4 t t eattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. William D Cl ose r, Henry Nelson, Esq. Thomas Dent , 1 , 11 , L avids o ' I,'(l*ag. Hon.. Josceline W. Percy. Alexander DruePi,',,, Ch ar les Robinson, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edl4-gl,„ S am uel Leo Schuster, Esq. Iliversdale W. Oren - far v s q• Rob,. Amadeus Reath '1,,-;.Bq. Eric Carr s in cd a t t a o u n , ESmscii.th, Esq. William , Esqi, m.p. Win. Tetlow Ilibbert,'};;.;;l* Joseph Solne2! . Villam Wallace, A Jas. Stewart Hodgson 1 - ;'*: 1 1 • youne-, Esq. " B CI. ' Chas. Baring ~, Medical Referee, SAMUEL Sorax, Esq. , Kit ' S. NOTICE. The usual fifteen s da at allowed for payment of Ie IRE Pit Ell II:31S lapin;, due Christmas th 'January. w ill expire on FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES ma be effected with this ,cor poration on advantageous terms. y _ In surances against Fire on M.rch an di ze i n the docks and yrarehouses i n the Port of London are accepted at t h e late r tiuced rates of Premium. I ' , AR MING-ST of a Steam Thrashi ng Machine. OCK.—No c etra charge is made for the use The Reversionary n B onus on British Life Policies ha s aye razed nearly 2 per cent. Per annum on the sum assured. ~ Tlquivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums . 4 yabie by persons who preterred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take placo every Five A nY sum not exceedin t , ' X 15,000 be insured on one I may years. l'ilfs Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal tl e liabiliti p es art ofp icip ar i t o n at ;I:cats—with exemption from n er i s n h l i 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 practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. r. STEELE, Secretary. it ( IYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray's-inn-road, W r i in the Immediate vicinitv of the Great Northern Rall y T erminus, King's-eross. _viers Ilatron—Her Most Gracious Majeqy the QITEEN. _: -. ratron—ll is Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE vresident—Ells Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL IC.&. 7 , 11 Trea.surer—Edward Mastermsn, Esq. M ilnerous and urgent appeals of the si 1 poor for ad t.,;lgn compel th e Committ ee t o en t reat the b ounty o f the t l e 'll .t t t and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged , • as out-patients many distres.ing cases which. with I,elhore adequate unds, they would gladly admit int o th e war's. b,,l,i,yreinises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 vote,Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on the, ,`,`LarY contributions and ltgacies which are received by .teasurer, Edward Mar erman, E 9 sq., Nicholas-lane ; also C0.4.-Les:4rs. Coutts and Drummond and Co. ; Rendes and liansom and Co. Co. '• 'Pre.r.colt, Grote. and Co.; Smith, RniVe, Co. ; Co. : G;yn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay ..ne r ,„,?•,l Denison an ' d Co. ; NV dliams, Descon, and Co. G urlleY, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street th e ~:rntan and co. ; T. Banned and Co., Liverpool ; and at ' t°ls Pltal, iron). Id till 5. 6 TANFOItD 8, 8/11ITIT Secretary. TEETH. —Mr. EWELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, ant adapt themselve s so perfectly to the :turns, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the nlouthvitrheoaultwathyes , aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to inju r y, useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guar an t eed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskeil's Patent, &c., free fo r 7 stamps. I n spection of specimens and consul tations ree.— B Grgsven or - Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett 's-hill, Lir., RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS - PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ExIIIIIITIONS OF 1851 AND 18(32), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERN I A. ?'he use of a steel spring ' so often hurtful in its effects, !S here avo i de d— a so ft bandage being worn round the body, whil e t h e requ i s i te res i s ti ng power is supplied by the lll nloseuess c oc- d Alain Pad and Patent Lever, littituz with eo much ease during pi that it cannot be detected, and nifty be worn eeP. A descriptive circular may he said the truss, which cannot fail to lit, forwarded by port, on the cir- Ninfcrence of the body, two inches below the hips, being scut to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Intend'lly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. ed. Postage, ls. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 125., and 525. ed. l'Ostagv, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 520. 6d. Postaze, is. 10d. Post-Office Orders to be made p a y a b le to Joan White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT r A -4 l i' cl A- u , ,E S _ c T ii f i s ., C i tc,, for Va S ric l os l e O Vei C ns i and l al N l cases of cakness and Swelung of 1 - le. Legs, Sprains, &c. They arc ,:;orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on !We an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. ed., 7s. 6d., lOs., to ifs. cult. Portage 6d. _ . _ JOHiQ VI7IIITE, Illaauio4turfa, 243, Pia►adiliy: NO CURE NO PAY.—The Pre-eminent success attending the use of KERSIIAW'S VOLTA IC FLEXIBLE BELT, novel in principle and action, in the cure of nervous and muscular atiections, admits of its sale being made dependent upon verified efficacy. A new Belt can be had on trial for a month, free of charge, for rheumatism, neuraloa, sciatica, epilepsy, nervous debility, paralysis lumbago, tic doloureux , b ron c hi al cough , asthma, spasms , sprains, indigestion, inactive liv e r, &c. By the mild continu ous electric current evolved , exhau sted vital enemy is °ace tunny rest:Ted. Prices, ss. to _lss : each ; for extreme cases, accordin g - to size and power. Testimonials sent free.--Depot,ll, Crooked-lane, Kind William-street, City. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM. -AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or aff ecting the head truly etncacious and Pleasant, is ad matted to b e th e be s t me di c i n e for immediately reli ev i ng coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthm a, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cure s persons whcm the faculty pronontice incurable' admirably allays the tickling which provokes ireauent en'n,rhi n ,, I n approaching, consumption its effects are frilly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for f ear o f su ff oca ti o n, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. p re p ar es only and sold by W. LAIHIER, Chemist, v emist. 87King-William - street , Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1:31., and three quantities . in one, 2s, pd. each. Be particular , and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. rp HE NEW WEATHE It INDICATOR. .By S. CASELLA, for correctly foretelling Changes in the Weather, either for Rain, Wind, or Moisture. Parton lars, with rules, by inclosing stamp. Also, just published, C.AsEPPA'g Niuv run Improved POEMS for correctly RE( ISTERIN - 0 METEOROLOGI CAL OBSERVATioNS. 2:3, Hatton garden, London, B.C. The following is a translation of the speech de livered by M. Thiers upon the French loan, in the Corps Legislatif, on Thursday last— Gentlemen,—l had intended, on the occasion of my first speech before you, to give you some expla nations of the motives which decided me to appear once more within these walls, and of the line of con duct which it is now my purpose to pursue. But the moment is at hand when I shall have a better opportunity of doing this. To-day I come to speak of business and business only. I like this better ; for politics may sometimes divide, but business I hope will tend to unite you. I am pleased to-day to have to speak upon a subject on which we have ideas in common,rather than one which might be irritating I come, then, at once to the great question before us. We are asked for 300 millions to meet the expenses already incurred. It is money due that we are called upon to provide. Although this expenditure has been occasioned in great part by an expedition which I regret extremely—the Mexican expedition —that consideration in no way diminishes either our desire or our duty to :pay the money owing. These expenses have become saddled upon the float ing debt, and have thus attained the character of a public debt. The question now before us is simply this—is it not desirable to transfer this liability from the floating to the consolidated debt ? But pari passu with this question there arises this other —ls it not incumbent upon us to take precautionary measures to prevent the floating debt from swelling again, in the course of a few months, to the same amount which you now think unsafe ? That is the question which I propose to examine. Although I had rather not mix up politics with this discussion, yet I may perhaps add a few words with the view of recommending that thi s lo a n may have an essen tially pacific chara c t er . If it w er e otherwise, com mercial transactions and even diplomacy might be very much damaged. (Cheers.) I shall endeavour, in the first place, to define as clearly as possible what the floating debt is. The word deficit, which is often used to describe it, doss not precisely cor respond to the idea which I always had of the float ing debt. The floating debt is not even, as I under stand it, a deficit. There is a deficit, when a mini ster, transgressing legal limits goes beyond his credit. There is a deficit until he has excused himself before you by the plea of necessity. But when once a deficit forms part of the floating debt it becomes a public debt. The floating debt is the aggregate of the deficits which have not been provided for either by taxes or loans. A simile will explain my notion exactly. Let us suppose that a rich banker doing a large business And having many correspondents, allows himself to be led into engagements beyond his resources. In that case he resorts to the expedient which is vul garly called making money of his signature. Well, just so the Treasury is a rich banker; it receives from its correspondents considerable sums, which it applies to current expenses. To raise the surplus it has recourse to its signature and issues Treasury bills. Now, what are the limits within which, ac cording to the dictates of prudence, the amount of Treasury bills should be fixed ? Under the Resto ration it went as high as from 300 to 350 millions. Under the constitutional Government of 1830 it was sometimes 400, 500, 600, and 700 millions. The latter figures appeared to me excessive, and, for my part, I complained of them at the time. Under the present regime the floating debt has successively risen to 800 and 900 millions and even to a milliard. The latter has been the figure for the last two years. That is an amount calculated to cause uneasiness, and it is desirable that it should be reduced. Is it pos sible now to fir,with any certainty, the exact amount of the reduction which ought to be made in the issue of these bills .? No. Bat the example of the banks may furnish us with an approximative rule. It re sults from a series of observations that the metallic reserve of a bank ought to be about one-third of the amount of its issue of paper. This proporticn, which in France is merely customary, is compelled by legal enactment in Eregland. A sort of analogy applicable to the floating debt may be found from these data. The correspondents of the State are all the great public establishments. Their funds are all fused in one great bank, that of the State. That state of things is eminently useful, it is one which has been approved of by the most eminent financiers, and especially by the most eminent of all, one under whom I had the honour to serve, Baron Louis. The receiver-general are obliged to deposit considerable sums with the Treasury, and always to be in advance witn it. There we have a fund of about 130 millions. The communes pay into the Treasury the rescnces which enable them to meet their authorised expenses. There again, you have a fund of about 110 mil lions. Then there is the Caisse des Consignations, the Caisse d'Essargnes (savings banks), and the army Caisse. Those are the correspondents of the Treasury, and they pay altogether about 630 million a year. This snm was far from being so consider able under former regimes, A has always borne a proportion to the march of affairs in the country. As the movement has developed itself and as the receipts of the Treasury have augmented, so this part of the floating debt has become more consider able, At this day the correspondents of the Trea sury deposit with it from 600 to 630 millions, more or less—let us say 600 millions. If to this sum we add 100 millions of Treasury bills, that makes the floating debt 700 millions, I am well aware that the limit of Treasury bills is difficult to fix exactly. Between the maximum and the minimum there must necessarily be a certain margin. I think it would be undesirable to do away with the circula tion of Treasury bills; they are excellent 'securities, sought for by men of business, who have negotiable paper in their portfolio, and often also by family men who see in them a safe and readily convertible security. I should be sorry if the public were to Treasury bills—namely, lose o the the r re as habito ofor of k investing p in them. There is an that in given circumstances they may become a most precious resource for the State. I was a wit ness in 1830 of a most serious situation. Our revo lution had provoked armaments throughout Europe, and France was necessarily obliged to arm also. We then passed through most difficult days—capi tal shrunk from the funded debt, and we were com pelled to have recourse to Treasury bills. In that way we raised several hundred millions. This re source ought then to be left to Government. But this resource must,be prudently used, otherwise you will exhaust it, and it will leave you empty. It is therefore necessary to fix limits. We propose the limit of 100 millions. Some may say 80 is the right figure, others 120; but at any rate I say this, that in ordinary times it is unreasonable to issue Treasury bills to a greater extent than 100 or 150 millions ; and if that limit be observed, the floating debt will be kept within 700 millions. We are all agreed that the debt ought to be kept 'down to that amount, but we must efficaciously provide that that shall be so. If you devote 300 millions to the pur pose of reducing that debt from a milliard (which s an excessive though not an alarming amount) to 700 millions, it will not do that at the end of a few months, you should again find yourself saddled with the very same figure which you want to re duce. In this sort of mistrust, gentlemen, there is nothing offensive. No. I wish to say nothing dis obliging for the honourable members of the govern ment, but if I do not mistrust individuals I do mis trust the nature of things ? What happened two years ago ? The floating debt had not then risen to a m illiard. lal. Fould desired to reduce it to a more normal amount, and I applaud him for it. At that time M. Fould had a great repugnance to a fresh inscription on the great book of :the public debt. I again praise him for the feeling. But it was indispensable to find resources. The Finance Minister appealed to the fundholdors, and he asked from them the money which he would not have asked f rom a loan—he asked for the con version of the Rentes. I resnect the motives which led you to vote that to,ervolie ; but allow me to say what I think of the results. Conversion of Rentes, when the time is ripe for it, is an excellent mea sure, but you ought s ;du t ecs o rho take ium v mo e pes r set y rai at g n t o ciie o os s a ns o c u a r r e . t h A a t the on o s n r o s t . vf g re r ur e is t ti t o a in b s '1 naturallyee reallycf f o : n ae l s tl e e consequences, ences, for th e f un dh o lders wp hroicdhu cd i e n the first place, and for the State afterwards, In such a situation promises are made and hopes excited which are not always realised. Now, what were the results obtained by this conversion, whi c h, i n my opinion, was premature ? The Finance Minister hoped that it would produce 300 millions for the Treasury, and in point of fact it only realised 157 millions. And to obtain this result you have left the interest of the debt exactly as it was before the operation, and you have augmented the capital by a sum of 700 or 800 millions. While making this great sacrifice of capital you have, I repeat, gained nothing on the score of interest. And as to the fundholders, who were promised that as a result of the unification of the debt they would soon see the Threes at 71ethey find the average price for a long time past 67. But in this business there is a still more serious deception. The 157 millions paid by the fundholders to the Treasury were all employed in the reduction of the floating debt, and yet a few months afterwards this debt was found swollen to the amount of a 'milliard. The example of the past ought therefore to induce us now to take precau tions. What should those precautions be ? We have invented nothing. We have inquired of the law what should be done. Every year there is a financial law which limits the issue of Treasury bills, Article 18 of the Budget Law of 1854 fixes this limit at 250 millions, and an Imperial decree in due form, as I admit, has added 50 millions. That is the limit fixed by law as it at present stands. We think that now you have the loan this limit may be reduced to 100 millions. Well, what says the amendment which I and several of my colleagues have had the honour to present ? It demanded a legislative re duction to 100 millions. Of course in a matter of this kind we have no bigoted attachment to a pre cise figure, and I thought that if a larger sum would obtain the adhesion of the majority I would very willingly adopt it. I told the Government com nrissaircs, when I was before the commitee, that if our measure seemed to them inconvenient they might propose another, and we would consider it, but that , we could not possibly grant a loan destined to cover 300 millions of Treasury bonds now in circulation, and leave them at the same time the power to issue bills for the like amount in the course of the ensu ing year. I must confess that upon this head nothing satisfactory was said to me. After a conversation upon the exact amount of the limit which ought to be put to the issue of Treasury bills, M, Thiers concluded : I shall be told that lam mistrustful. No, lam not. But you must admit that this loan of 300,000,000 is a melancholy new year's gift for the country. There ought to be a consolation with it, and this is what our amendment proposes. . . . As I understand the mandate I received from my electors, they desired me to support three things — public liberty, good finance and peace. The MINISTER OF STATE--We are all agreed on that point. M. TE lERS —As to the question of public liberties we shall speak of that a fortnight hence. The economical question consists in the good direction of finance. As to peace. I declare myself a de cided partisan of it. (Applause on several benches.) Not of a peace which would injure our honour, for if that were in question, we who arc called the opposition, would not refuse the Govern ment all the resources of the country. But under present circumstances, when I look at Europe, I see the possibility of making tremendous mistakes, fatal mistakes perhaps : but I see no great French inte rest involved, unless perhaps in relation to the Danish question. France is mistress of peace or war at her pleasure, If any great events were to occur our amendment would be no impediment, for milliards would then he wanted ; for, gentlemen, the next war will not be an isolated one, but such a general war that the present generation may, per haps, not see the end of it or the consequences of it. (Cheers.) But I should not be sorry if our vote were to stand in the way of little wars, such as those of China, Cochin China, Japan, Mexico, and perhaps Madagascar. This is all I have to say. I will leave our amendment in the hands of the majo• rity to deal with it as they will, but we who have signed it have our responsibility and our conscience. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. 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Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishm?.nt in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN. The distribution of clothing has been continued with some vigour during the past week. Since the 11th inst., no fewer than 6,679 articles have been given to 939 families, or, in that number of cases embracing 3,579 persons, at a cost of £BO3 13s. 6d. This was up to Wednesday evening ; on which oc casion the clothing committee heard 300 more cases, embracing 1,100 persons, and ordered a distribution of 2,000 articles to be made on the following day (Thursday). These articles were valued at £3OO. By to day, the committee will have distributed in all, since the commencement of this winter, 22,897 articles of clothing of various kinds to 11,969 persons, comprised in 3,069 cases or families, of an aggregate value of £3,498 7s, a portion of which has of course been contributed to them in clothing by the generous of the destitute in this period of the year to protect them from cold, by furnishing them with apparel of a good and substantial kind. The guardians of the poor relieved £4,337 persons be longing to the Blackburn relief district with £229 15s sd, against 4,439 persons with £232 7s 4d in the previous week; the labour committee relieved 612 able-bodied men employed at out-door work with £232 10s 3d in money and £43 16s 9d in kind, consisting of 74401 b. of flour and 9801 b. of oatmeal; the relief committee granted £4O 2s 2d to 125 needlewomen engaged in the making up of ar ticles of clothing and £l3 13s in money and £l5 5s 3d in kind (2,1601 b. of flour and 4801 b, of oatmeal) to 144 families not otherwise relieved, numbering 652 persons. In this way it will be seen that from all sources there were 87 fewer recipients of relief this week than last at a less cost of £4 4s Bd. The total expenditure of the week, inde pendently of the clothing department, was £575 5s id, of which £345 Os 8d was ex pended by the relief and labour committees and £229 15s. sd. by the guardians, against £579 9s 9d in the preceding week. The sewing schools were closed last Wednesday, but the committee have voted an additional sum for clothing, with the view to employ such of the needlewomen who required re lief for a few weeks longer in making up the piece articles at their own dwellings. It is very gratify ing to report that every family which has a pp lied for clothing up to last Tuesday night, were on Wed nesday and yesterday supplied with such articles as the committee considered necessary. In reference to the destitution of the Union we way st ate, that last week 5,887 persons were reliev ed in the week — £324 3s. 10d. against 5,953 persons in the preceding and egainst week with £324 13s. id., 16,291 with £929 2s. 7d. in the corresp onding week of 1862. The master's returns showed that there were 414 inmates in the Union Workhouse last Saturday, against 468 in the corres ponding week of 1862, This day (Christmas -da y ) the whole of the inmates are to be regaled w ith their Christmas dinner of roast beef and plum - p uddin g . Oa Wednesda y the man James Soyands , who was the rin g le ader of the disturbance among the labourers in th 3 Park on the 21st of October last, was fined 20s. and costs for assaulting James Brown, one of the gangers, and [ was sent to gaol fora month in default of payment. I Everthi ng is very quiet and tmde is depressed. THE DOTt ON PETROLEUM 1N 3.:; RANGE.—The Grocer says :—" It is reck one d th at th o B u d ge : of the city of Paris . has suffered this year a very consider: J . l)le I ° 2 's through the introduction of petroleum, the duty vr . yliich is only 101., aping eolza oil 30f. the 100 litres, RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR HONOURS OR CERTIFICATES ENTITLING STUDENTS TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR. An examination will be held in next Hilary Term, to which a student of any of the Inns of Court, who is desirous of becoming a candidate for a studentship or honours, or of obtaining a certificate of fitness for being called to the bar, will be admissible. Each student proposing to submit himself for examina tion will be required to enter his name at the Treasurer's office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs, on or before Friday, January 1 next, and he will further be required to state in writing whether his object in offering himself for examination is to compete for a studentship or other honourable distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtaining a certificate preliminary to a call to the Bar. The examination will commence on Thursday, January 7 next, and will be continued on the Friday and Saturday following. It will take place in the Bcnchers' Reading-room of Lincoln's-inn, and the doors will be closed 10 minutes after the time appointed for the commencement of the examina tion. The examination by printed questions will be conducted in the following order :—Thursday morning, January 7, at half-past 9, on Constitutional Law and Legal History; in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on Equity. Friday morning, January 8, at half-past 9, on Common Law; in the after noon, at half-past 1, on the Law of Real Property, &C. Satut.day morning, January 9, at half-past 9, on Jurispru dence ai2d the Civil Law ; in the afternoon, at half •past 1, a paper wif2 be given to the students, including questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination. The oral examination will be conducted in the same order during the same hours, and on the same subjects, as those already marked out for the examination by printed ques tions, except that on Saturday afternoon there will be no oral examination. The oral examination of each student will be conducted apart from the other students, and the character of that examination will vary, according as the student is a candi date for honours or a studentship, or desires simply to ob tain a certificate. _ _ _ Theoral ex aw illation and printed questions will be founded on the books below-mentioned, regard being had, however, to the particular object to which the student presents him self for examination. _ _ In determining the question whether a student has passed the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to be called to the Bar, the examiners will principally have regard to the general knowledge of law and jurisprudence which he has displayed. A student may present himself at any number of exami nations until he shall obtain a certificate. _ . Any student who shall obtain:a certilicate may present him self a second time for examination as a candidate for the studentship, but only at one of the three examinations im mediately succeeding that at which he shall have obtained such crtificate, provided that if any student so presenting bimself shall not succeect in obtaining the studentship, his name shall not appear in the list. sit: dents who have kept more than 11 terms shall not be admitted to an examination for the studentship, The reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History will expect the candidates for honours to be well acquainted with the Origin and Progress of oar Laws and Constitution, as explained in chap. 3, part 3, of llallam's History of the Middle Ages. He will expect them to be well acquainted with the chapters in Hallam's Constitutional History which give an account of the reigns of Henry VIII., of Eiizabeth, the Stuarts, William 111. and Anne, with the State trials of persons eminent in our history, or remarkable, for any other reason, from the accession of James I. to the year 1747, with the history of the law of treason and the law of libel. _ _ _ All candidates will be required to know the leading events in English history from the Conquest to the accession of George 111. ; to have an accurate knowledge of the reigns of the Stuart Kings, of Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, the Act of Settlement, and the Toleration Act. The Reader on Equity proposes to examine in the fol.• lowing books :-1. Haynes's Outlines of Equity; Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence ; Hunter's Elementary View of the Proceedings in a Suit in Equity, part 1. 2. The cases and notes contained in vol. 1 of White and Tudor's Leading Cases ; the Act to Further Amend the Law of Pro perly and to Relieve Trustees, 22 and 23 Victoria, chap. 35 ; the Act to Farther Amend the Law of Property, 23 and 24 Vic., chap. 38 ; the Act to give to Trustees, Mortgagees, and other certain powers now commonly inserted in settlements, mortgages, and wills, 23 and 24 Vic., cap. 145 ; the Act to Regulate the Procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 25 and 26 Vie., cap. 42 ; the General Orders of the Court of Chancery of the Ist February, 1361, and of the sth Febru ary, 1861 (Jurist, vol. 7, N.S., part 2, p. 58); Mitford on Pleadings in the Court of Chancery, introduction, chap. 1 secs, 1 and 2 ; chap. 1, sec. 3 (the first six pages); chap. 2, sec. 1; chap. 2, sec. 2, part 1 (the first three pages) ; chap. 2, sec. 2, part 2 (the first two pages); chap, 2, sec. 2, part 3; chap. 3. Candidates for certificates having passed a satisfactory examination will bo expected to be well acquainted with the books mentioned in the first of the above classes. Candidates for a studentship or honours will be examined in the books mentioned in the two classes. The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes to ex amine in the following books and subjects :-1. Joshua Williams en the Law of Real Property, sixth edition. 2. Legal and Equitable Interests, J. W. Smith on 3. 'Vested and Personal Property, second edit,, pp. 234-287• Contingent Bequests; Stapleton v. Chaim!, Proc. Chan., Real and 317; Hanson v. Graham, 6 Ves. 239 and the notes to those . . second . edit. cases ; Tudor's Real Property Leading eas es ' pp. 724 , 762. 4. The Fines and Recd to Abolition Act, 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 74, and the notes . that Act, Sh.el ford's Real Property Statutes, seventh edit . . 5. The nature and effects of tenure, Hayes o n Conveyancing, vol. 1., cap. 1, pp. 1-51, fifth edition. Candidates for honours or will the studentship be era mined in all the foreg oing books and subjects; candid ates i !. n a: and . Jurisprudence jsasesttio. for a certificate in those under heads 1,2, and 3. with the notes of Ortolan and n• books and subjects • Systeme Juris Romani, Pars Spe nelnnTamh,sine R iewe e i a 2nt d .it e iviut r htes o es n o,kf C eobilo i ld v ooe i kN i vii. edit. Lips., 1847). Sanders. 227-388 S ns et des differentes li e b. Napoleon,l.,c s 2 art.oB 3 5 2 1 7 6 !Ra o . 2 d 2 0 7 8 - modifications do la propriete ; art. 2,219-2,281 de la prescrip 3ci.aleiso,d tion. 4. Wheaton's Elements of International Law (edit. 18 63) ; Part IV,, c, 1, commencement of war and its imme diate effect. 5. Austin, the province of jurisprudence de fined, lectures I. and 11. Candidates for honours will be examined in the whole of the above subjects, but candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in 1,4, and 5 only. The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the following books and subjects : Candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in,-1. The Ordinary Steps and Course of Pleading In an Action. 2. The Law of Contracts so far as set forth in Broom's Commentaries (second edit.), book ii., omitting chaps. 4 and 6. 3. Selwyn's Nisi I'rius (twelfth edit.)—=Titles : Assault and Battery, Deceit, Libel, Trespass, and Troyer. 4. Archibold's Criminal Pleading, 15th edit. (by Welsby), beok ii., part 1, sees. 1-3 of Larceny, Embezzlement, and Cheating. Candidates for the studentship and honours will be exa mined in 1,3, and 4 supra, and also in-5. The unc(e.,rl,. mentioned cases, with the notes appended to ~.t he l t ion), tained in Smith's Selection of Leading Cases t ( , la' A ' farriot V. vol. II :—Cutter v. Powell, Elves v. 113w A e lrilcorks. Hampton, I'a ley V. Premium, Vicars v. 5 —F and atu Broom's Legal Maxims (third edit); caP.lnterpretation The . of tat Legal Principles ; chap. S. — with s Mercantile Deeds and Written Instruments. 7- S Law, sixth edit. (by Dowdesvvell); Book I.—Of Mercantile Persons. 8. Taylor on Evidence (third edit.) ; part Nature and Principles of Evidence. By order of the Council, C. WESTOtLY, Chairman. R OBIN gooD a.is been 2-I:n r i, a 5 ts, o subject of a Anastasiub Cr:ca. G e rm= room by V i'4iPT , It is a curious question to ask wh a t detectives Xert N li 4 4X and how they do it—how mush crime ie found out htkie their agency, and what are the means they employ ? Tee wretched private detectives, as they call themselves, who offer their services to get up scandals, do unquestionably pick up or invent a mass of gossip ; and it is by no means a pleasant reflection that any one who owes another a grudge can hire a scoundrel to spy out all the details of his enemy 'a life, in the hope of securing some base end by daring the man he has spied to face publicity. There are, we suppose, some private detectives of a higher stamp; but putting these people aside, what do the detectives employed in a proper and responsible way, by official authority, really do ? We believe that the experience of all lawyers who , have had much to do with the working of the criminal law is that the detectives do exceedingly little. The crimes which are found out, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, reveal themselves. The police merely conduct an inquiry which is perfectly obvious. A dead body is found, and the law sets a particular set of persons to make inquiry about it. The police ask simple questions of the people most likely to know, fled get answers which show who was the murderer. It is true that the police in such a case discover the criminal, but this is merely because the police are the persons paid to go through this easy process. If a crime has been committed of a kind to make detection complicated the police may obtain some clue by simply exhausting all the chances of finding something to guide. They have unbounded time before them; if they su cceed, they are com plimented and paid extra; if they fail, they are st ill paid as much as their labour is worth in the market. They have also the prestige of the law to help them, and in most cases, in England, there is a general desire in the popula tion that the offender should be brought to justice. But they have not anything more, and if the concealment of the crime is such as to baffle the investigation of ?persons who are armed with the authority of the law, and can afford to take plenty of time in the search, the crime almost always remains undetected. There is no such thing, unless in very exceptional cases, as sending to London for skilled detec tives who, by some magical art, can hunt out a crime nn discoverable by a decent set of competent policemen work ing in the ordinary way. The main use of calling in the services of London policemen is, that the men sent are the most expel t of their class, and are tolerably sure to avoid , gross blunders at the outset. They may be useful in pre venting the local authorities from going off th e wro n g scents and so losing time. But when they set to work, they can but work as all men of sense and experience would work in conducting such an inquiry, and have no special secret or art of their own. Then what can detectives really do? They can do two things if they are masters of the business. They can catch, better than most men, a person supposed to have committed a crime ; and, secondly, when they have caught him, they can deal with him better than most per sons can. Both these things are distinct from unravelling the secret of a crime. The detectives could not find out the clue to the Road murder; but if they had fixed reasonable suspicion on any person, and that person had tried to run away, they would have effected his capture better than any ordinary men of intelligence could have done. Tbis is partly from experience and partly from a natural capacity for acting. A man accustomed to hunt criminals gets a general idea of what criminals are likely to do—what ports, for example, they are likely to embark at, or what are the most common devices for throwing suspicion on other people. Then, again, the detective has, or ought to have, a turn for acting, and a good deal of practice in acting. He has the face and figure which admit of disguises : he can, in tech nical language, make up well; and when he is made up, he can behave as a person of his assumed character would be have. He can do at least as well as a fair farce actor could. Ile knows how to dress as a waiter, as a clergyman, as a commercial traveller, and he is tolerably at home in his dis guises. Wherever the fugitive is, he must, un l ess in soli tude or in a regular den of thieves, be among people inno cently pursuing the ordinary business of life, and regardless of him. He is on his guard against exceptional people who look as if they were engaged on special business, and whose special business may be to catch him ; but he cannot be on his guard against all the people who seem to be doing only what they do every day, and to be going on without any reference to him and his crime. It is the part of the detec tive to pretend to be one of these people, and to act so na turally that the fugitive is entrapped ; and in order to act the part the detective must have a manageable figure and face, and knew how to talk naturally, and be willing and ready to tell a vast amount of lies on the spur of the mo ment. Then, again, when the prey is bagged and the de tective has revealed himself as a detective, and has his criminal in his grasp, he often, from experience of criminals, and from the general quickness which a life like his fosters, can deal with his man in a very effective way. He can, perhaps, read in the captive's face whether he is guilty cr not, and if ho looks guilty ho can often make defence vir tually impossible by boldly accusing him of the crime, while beforehand the detective had no more than a general EllS• piCiOn.—Saturday Bcric lv. A COLONIAL HERO. The West Australian Times of Oct. 15 contains the fol lowing :—An incident in the life of a poor man was rrlatcd last week in the course of our criminal sessions that, in a former age, would have excited general admiration. Two rhepherds were in charge of f ne of the flecks of Mr. John Hassell, at a remote station. There was no other station within 20 miles of them. One afternoon, some time ago, one of these men while occupied in his hut, which was only composed of stakes and rushes, fancied he heard a groan at a little distance. Going outside he again heard the sound of low moaning, and soon discovered his companion, Chas. Storey, lying insensible in a brake, and covered with innu• merabic spear wounds. Carrying him on his back to the hut, he laid him on his kangaroo skin rug, w as h e d an d probed his wounds, succeeded in extrac!ing the barb of a spear which was buried in his side, and ultimately restored him to consciousness. It turned out that Storey had been attacked by a band of natives who wished to seize the sheep. This was admitted by the native witnesses at the trial of one of the party for the murder of Storey, who eventually died of his wounds. The two unfortunate men remained awake all night— one in extreme pain, the other carefully attending upon him. Next morning the natives surrounded the hut, and began throwing spears, which completely passed through both sides of it. Finding that they would be murdered, Edward Ladbury, the witness, who told the tale in simple, unvarnished terms, took his only weapons, hi s pocket knife and bill-hook, and bo ldl y sallied forth. li e had covered the bill-hook with his coat, so as only to die play the handle, which the natives took to be a pistol, lie threatened to fire upon thorn unless they withd rew, and make avidhe felt better, and t h ey resolved to their escape to Mr. H asseWs next atter some deliberation th e y sulle n l y retir ed. All that day the men remained in fear of their retur n. During the neat endeavour bedding effects, and d Storey y ury clung was laden with sta tion, 20 miles distant. A , t 2 o'clock in th e morn i ng t h ey stole er out bed of g the sad hut. to his arm. After crawling about 150 yards the wounded men said he could go no farther. • and urged Ladbury to leave him to his fate, a nd save himself. It appeared to be almost impossible to rescue Storey, but Ladbury determined not to leav e him to certain death. He hurried forward with his load and deposited it a quarter of a mile off, then re turned for his comrade, hoisted him on his back, and carried him to the same spot, where he exchanged him for their personal effects (the sole property of these poor fellows), which he again carried a quarter of a mile fur. !her. Then he returned for his friend, and thus they journeyed, one nearly dead of his wounds and the other exhausted with his exertions, for a distance of seven miles, when they reached a spring of water. Hero they remained a while, scarcely able to crawl any further. Ladbury could no lon ger carr y S tore y, but he managed to drag him along. After a miserable journey of two days and a night they reached Mr. Hassell's station at Jerrymungup, both of them nearly dead. The wounded man, after ne cessary rest, was sent forward in a cart to the hospital at Albany, where his sufferings wore terminated by death. Few men have better deserved the Victoria cross than this humble shepherd, Edward Ladbury. What struck !Is most un forcibly about the matter was, that his conduct elicited y e a_ a single comment or remark from either court, e° s !I jury, From which he are inclined to infer that such or acts are far from singular or uncommon isthe country. 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