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PERSONS SEEKING LANDED j",]sTA.TE TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, pr&L',ILIOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND,‘„uvER rIES GEN E RALLY -11. RE HA D GRATIS, at th e pr i nc i pal Railway Bookstalls ',,,. 00, h0ut the kingdom. or at the Auction and Estate Offices, PROPERTY London, Messrs. K and H. Lumley's of rEREGISTER," containing a varied selection th e n "ded and house properties now in the market, from obleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the with its few acres. b;:',VNERS OP PROPERTIFS wishing to Sell or Let can .em ff.aye. the opportunity that the medium of this Res2isier I: s e t : p i- vs, by sending the partimears of their properties to the ' te Offices, 67', Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. vti_vni,eYre the can in m os t cases introduce immediate customers, property is of an eligible charapter, thereby roid ,,7enietnheee disadvantages of delay and its attenaant incon- Tfft is Cha IS NO CHAR GE i ncurre d , un l ess a tenant or pur an„B introduced through ATessrs. Lumley's Agency, 'nen only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. 11,-UILDRAT,L, 30th November, 1863. The ,411 COITMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS I)th ri‘ T EET at GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the ,tmber next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive ,tr,,POSALS for LEASES of a HOUSE, No. 4, Mitre _aeet, Aldgate, lnd TS o Houses, Nos. 5 and 6, Little Cole ti44 -street, Finsbury. ~ hf al v °I the Property ma y b e seen, an d F orm a of Tender n ed, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guild- FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. 1-ARDIAN FIRE AND - LIFE INSURANCE CO lIPANY. Th e SPECIAL NOTICE. 111erch Directors are now prepared to grant Insurances on SeAs t andi AT R se in the ES. Port of London at the REDUCED ' OP at;2llieulars to be obtained at the Offices, 11, Lombard . ,e It o y AL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, Way T:„,„ l ,he immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail ,-`'''nus, King's-cross. -ratron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. e " Patron—H is Royal Highness the Prince of WALE F,K.G .I". r esident—H is Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. fit Th e unierous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad an,L,! humane,e Committee to entreat the bounty of the t7;l7t and as the medical officers are daily obliged ko z at as out-patients many distres.ing cases which. with Th e adequat e funds, they would gladly admit into the wards. bed's Premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 icho v c , l o . e hospit a l i s not endowed, but is wholly dependent on th Alt! tary contributi ons and legacies, which are received by b;b3retinurer, Edward Has rerman, Esq., Nlas-lane; also 4 3 0 1 ",;I Co.;srs. Coutts and C o . ; D rummond and Co. ; Herries and a*; xt t . ansom and • Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, v i lne, and C o. : Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay f lver Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Ill a n.end, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street; th_n e r spman and fro Co)0 . ; till a T. armed and Co., Liverpool ; and t hoitl m B 5. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. AISULLIEN'S CONCERTS. • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK BUT TWO. Vocalists—Mdlle. VoLrrNI and Miss KATE RANOE. Violin—Si2nor , IVORI. Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Commence at B.—Admission, One Shilling. HE 0 X F ORD, R, OXFORD STREET, W. follow THIS will be performed Selection s f rom the ing Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, y r Hy. Bishop; also, from LA FOR TIZA DEL DES I INO—Verdi ; by the following talented and artistes : -- Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, %), almsley, ElRso n ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Also, Soros on the Violin by VIOrTI COLLINS, the Celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL rIA NO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. ~ ,,•Comedy, by UNSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eurene, Randall, W. T. C r it c h f i eld, T. Maclagan, and the marvel- Lens Gymnast, J. Henderson. _ oThe E IALL has been new l y Decorated, and is one of the 4 1 at Beautiful in the Metropolis. 41 43 4 Pen at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, 6d.; stalls balcony, Is. ; private boxes, ins. ed. .01 THE GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting that, Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce rat, throu 2 l the medium of Professor Pepper's World of T h ,, a ,,,d o ws, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly at the CAN -15,:',,,P,URY HAL L. The object of the is not the re b;„,°Pung or the Haunted Houses of London; but, through app of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient and of the drama of real life, both in its serious Inirthfut aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, n. recall, and still further impress on the mind, some l'alt the teachings or pleasantries of the best wrters. At pre and the two - orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the . South, the " White" Slavers , of a more boastful civilisation, s e-. " emphatic illustration ; and these lite pictures will be 04,P,eidly replace by others. The Pages et Slrmksinerse &c, &0., wi, r Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, cen , Li n All t urns, furnish subjects for illustration. in clud t.be other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, aOperatic Selections, eze. ; in r E th (11thaerSITaiern d n G e e m o o r t h lle nuetsc)h, e n E s o u n g . e ne , C o G m e e o d r y g George Y H tr o Hodson, t°... 1( 19:,. L ., ALHAMBRA PALACE. IM tpneceAlLslikte-d44PrSelineChri E 8 S. —ARTHU R and BE STRAND, this ' Clowns, will appear anunent rese d pressly for their enza, . .every evening establishment - e a t Ivocrii.clerfl Peri or mer T s rvh in ee ti 3' h er e xA IV R O V rI E d L — S LA ot NO PE LO RU IS ' , the the great t :4 1 la 'I Juggler—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN -Operatic Selec .l,4 -Grand The Divertissement, by the Francesco Family `w• irons. Ratel, assisted by 12 Young Ladies. "----________Doors open at 7— commence at h a l f-past 7. 10YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great c,„Musical Attraction he —lmmense success appear Every 6: lOYAL ALHAMBRA.—The Manerer has the Aiao honour to announce that rat arrangement has been ( . 1, 'e w ith Mons. BASTIEN FRANCONI, Proprietor of the AT,V I4 Cirque I m p er i a le, th e w h o l e o f w h ose UNRI , o L ED TROUPE will M'PEAR, for a limited period, 13e .4 . t . nl e ber 7. neing on the FIRST NIGHT o f the CATTLE SHOW, .-etu --__ .4.4GYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, burl Piccadilly. nV, the Concerts g iven by Mons. JULLIEN, at Tier -tiV - -k s p T at heatr N e, the O'CLOCK BALL will commence EVERY 'LAO NIE . Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GRENET. 1 1 29, GEORGE -STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE, 11 LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Rife where daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 wif e where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Sian:1411111a Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the D.arati o „ Twins ; and upwards ot 3,000 Models, Natural Pre- A s " .B, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years draission, One Shilling* ,tor Gentlemen only). Al _ TH 11 • A. B. HOLLINGSWOR , ....sti tsr .,, COMIC VOCALIST. -r.A.I'KIPTIONS RECEIVE!) at the OFFICE of THIS head,ardor the above artist, suddenly afflicted with Blind- Dead , ill his helplessness, having a wife and child de 0, h . .ani. 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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. In conclusion, may I be permitted to say that, while ad mitting many errors of judgment and numerous instances of tardy decision, it has been proved by general opinion of the maritime, if not also of the agricultural, interests, that the system of meteorologic information existing now under the Board of Trade is worth its cost to the nation, and is deserving of efficient maintenance. Dec. 2. It. FITZROY. s low ready, in 2 vole., 2 ts., . , MEMOIRS OF JANE CAMERON, FEMALE CONVICT. By a PRISON MATRON, Author of " Female Life in Prison," (tc. "This narrative, as we can well believe, is truthful in every important particular —a faithful chronicle of a Noman's fall and rescue. It is a book that ought to be widely read." —Examiner. Sir,—You have aided practical meteorology so efficiently that I am now induced to ask for your publication of the following memorandum, as a general answer to very numerous observations and questions. As the public pay for what is effected in our international meteorologic telegraphy, all have a claim to "know the reason why." Your obedient servant, London, Dec. 2. 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." " There can be no doubt as to the interest of the book, which, moreover, is very well written. "—Athenaeum. Hurst and Blackett, 13, t, reat Marlborough-street. THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond-street. hey are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy purchasers. "In media via tutissimus ibis." Scuttling of a British Ship and Murder of the Captain and Officers by the Crew. ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. R. FITZROY. Yesterday the subjoined despatches were re ceived by Captain Halstead, R.N., secretary of Lloyd's, from the Admiralty, respecting the wilful scuttling of the British ship Flowery Land, of Lon don, bound to Singapore, and the murder of her master and officers FORECASTS OF WEATHER. Many persons have asked questions about forecasts of weather and their principles. Some have impugned their accuracy, and a few have demurred to their having any claim to a really scientific basis. No doubt that as very different views of atmospheric com motions or changes are taken by able men, such subjects may scarcely seem worth their earnest attention, because as yet they have not been brought to the verification of a rigid mathematical analysis. But to metaphysical inquiries, and to other researches or avocations, indispensably useful, one might take objection, and decline their study on similar grounds. Meteorology not only abounds in physical facts, excessively useful as well as interesting, but it demands an extensive range of intellectual and extremely comprehensive considerations. One cannot take it into full use without due study; yet who is there without an inderpsftdent opinion of the wea ther, and perhaps too little understood barometric indica tions ?, Admiralty, Dec. 1. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for the informa tion of the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, copy of a despatch from the Rear..A.dmiral Warren, report ing that a party of 14 seamen had landed in two boats near the entrance of the River Plate, and that one of them had given information to the authorities that they were part of the crew of the English merchant vessel Flowery Land, who had mutinied and murdered the captain and other per sons.-1 am, sir, &c., W. G. ROMAINE." Saulettite, Monte Video, Oct. 28, 1863. _ . My Lord,—On the 18th inst. Mr. Lettson, her Majesty's Charge d'Affairs at Monte Video,:acquainted me he had re ceived information that 14 seamen had landed in ttvo boats on the coast near the entrance of the River Plate, and from the statement made by one of them they were part of the crew of an English merchant vessel who had mutinied and killed the master and several others. Mr. Lettson having requested me to assist him in getting the men up to this place, the Government authorities here having agreed to deliver them over to us at Maldonado, and despatched the Curlew clipper on the 23d inst. to bring them up, and I forward for their lordships' information the follow ing summary of the statement the Minister of the Interior here has received from the local judge at Rochas, a town about five leagues from the coast where the men were made prisoners :—On the 9th Oct. 14 persons landed in two boats near Castillos, and stated they ware part of the crew of the American ship Maria, wrecked on the passage from Peru to Bordeaux, with a cargo of guano, and that shortly after leaving the wreck the boat with the captain and several others parted company; they were provided with food, &c. On the 15th J. Taffer, who had left the party some days previously from fear of assassination, appeared before the local judge and stated that he was the boatswain of the English merchant vessel Flowery Land, that the other men were the crew of that ship, who had mutinied and killed the captain, chief mate, and several others. They then com pelled him as the only person on board who could navigate to take the ship to the mouth of the River Plate, and on sighting Cape Maria they scuttled the vessel and landed in the boats. The captain's name was G. Smith. The ship was bound from London to Singapore. He (Taffer) was afraid of his life, as the others would kill him to prevent his giving information, so he had left them. • On this statement they were made prisoners, but one of them James Wilson, had left the party previously. The Curlew has just returned with the individuals above referred to as prisoners, but there is no time to make any further inquiry into the case before the sailing of the mail steamer. As far, however, as I can at present ascertain there seems little reason to doubt the correctness of the statement made by the boat swain of the vessel.--I have the honour to be, &c.. Having ascertained that the principal atmospheric currents are incessantly in more or less circuitous but mutually opposed progress, sometimes side by side but in contrary directions, sometimes superposed, one or other being nearest earth's surate, temporarily, and always having lateral as well as direct progression, we have a clue to their dynametry by observations at distant stations and by telegraphing to a centre, somewhat like that which might be given in a tidal estuary by ships swinging in advancing or receding tide streams to an observer at a fixed station. By the tension or barometric pressure, the temperature and other characteristics of the air at each station—by the approximate knowledge now possessed of the set, turn, or progression of atmospheric currents—of their relative breadth horizontally, and of the circuitous eddies usually, or often, between their edges or boundaries—one may tell what conditions of air exist within some hundred miles around —say, a sweep of 500 miles from London (as a centre), and, which is of far more value, what changes or move ments are impending. The capability of doing this for about two days in advance rests on the proved fact of a general lateral transla tion towards the east in the Temperate Zone, while north erly, southerly, or other (mixed) currents of air are in very various movement, the practical results on earth's surface being usually composite motions. By thus estimating the atmospheric area above, around, and within some hundred miles of us; by statical observe- tions at the same hour, and by summary calculations of a dynamic character, all the principal motions and changes are brought within the grasp of forecast. But this applies only to general and principal averages, not to local peculiarities or special disturbances so limited in nature that they do not affect more than a few score miles expanse of atmosphere. It ought to be kept in mind that broad shallow cur rents are the chief aerial features, below or between or among which there can be vacancy, unless momentarily, as when a violent blast of wind is caused by a sudden (ap proximate) vacuum ; and that when currents act against each other (gravity restraining upward motion) their ten dency is to cause more or less rotation. The lamented Espy said that winds always set from the place of higher barometer towards that of lower, but he also said (which some writers seem to have overlooked) that the meeting of such winds causes a circuitous effect. Espy's views accord with those of the authoritative Dove and our own illustrious Herschel. • RICHARD WARREN. The ship Flowery Land sailed from Gravesend for Singapore on the 20th July. She was about 400 tons register, and her cargo appears to be largely insured. The word cyclone has been so associated with stoma that few persons attach to it now the simple and ancient sense of circuit and circuitous. Without duly following the progress and ultimate desti nation of material fluid air having great bulk, infinite elas ticity, and more or less vis inertio, or rather momentum, according to mechanical laws, some persons have imagined that air currents intermix, as if unresistingly, instead of opposing each other for a time, especially if in rapid motion, just like the currents of water in a river or in the sea. Air streams in opposition must deflect or turn each other, or go upwards (against gravitation). Without a general, lateral, or transmeridinal movement, or translation of atmosphere towards the east in the tempe rate zones, but westward in the intertropical regions, in ad dition to meridianal movements from and towards the poles (of which full explanations are given elsewhere), it would not be possible to forecast the character of wind and weather beyond one day's interval. It is the prescience of dynamic consequences. arising out of statical facts, that enables a really scientific calculation of probabilities to be made. Cer tainly it is not yet attainable, but a fair average probability, for a certain area or district, is already within our reach. Out of these forecasts spring the cautionary notices of im pending storms. It is by a continuous observation of the changes and in dications of change that we are now enabled to decide and direst with confidence. Without such a generally informed state we should often be surprised, as we should derive our warnings solely from distant stations, and should not be able as now fre quently to warn even outposts such as Nairn, Valentia, or Rochefort. That errors have occurred, that we have been too slow, or have given warning where it seemed to have been un necessary, may appear to have been unavoidable in such new and tentative experiments. But there have been four special causes of occasional failure, which ought to be fairly considered. 1. A watch having been officially set to report on the results of each cautionary signal, has somewhat discou raged such speedy action as might otherwise have been taken in signalling, but a record of their inutility should be complied, rather than the contrary. 2. Public offices are not open on Sundays, and only a few principal telegraph stations are then available. Hence there is sometimes unavoidable delay between Saturday and Monday. 3. No one or two persons Can be always at their station all the year round from morning to night. The new sub ject of forecasting and warning is hardly yet so familiar to many persons, however zealous, as it may be in due time. Lastly, the telegraph offices are not open in general till 8 or 9 in the morning or after those hours at night ; therefore official communications are only practicable over so wide a range as ours between those times of the day. To communicate between Nairn or Valentia or Roche fort and our office in London usually takes about two hours in actual practice. For proofs of what has been thus stated, perhaps too dogmatically, about the movements of air currents and their literal translation, I would suggest a reference to published works, except in one recent and very remarkable instance. During the storm of last October 29.30, such remarkably sudden and violent shifts of wind to ok place, about the same time, at many places in a nearly meridional direction across England, between or by Oxford, Greenwich, Notting ham, and other places, that to meteorologists even they seemed unaccountable; but, if we contemplate parallel cur rents, side by side, moving rapidly in opposite directions, and having also a lateral movement to the eastward, such sudden and meridional changes may become as easy to com prehend as those so well described by aeronauts who passed out of one stratum or current of air into another, so closely superposed that while the balloon was tilted (dragged aside as it were) by the one, the car was influenced differently by the other. This Elem entary effect was accompanied by a ru s hi ng sound, like that of a torrent of water. These currents had different temperatures, electric characters, degrees of dry ness or moisture, and horizontal motions. The sound, caused by pressure and friction, is suggestive of various ideas in connexion with heat and electric considerations, inadmis sible here. In this case, of course, the representative of an observa tory moved vertically through horizontal air currents, at times differing in velocity (referred to earth's surface) from some 30 to 60 miles an hour. In the former instance— that of a land station, the currents were separated vertically, their division passing across any place suddenly, but hori zontally. At the present time our meteorological communications are utilised, and highly appreciated on the Continent. At about 10 o'clock in the morning (as soon as in Lon . don) Paris receives notices of wind and weather, from our most distant stations, and distributes th em. Two hours afterwards the French G overnment despatches our forecasts, and (if any) cautionar y notices to more than 18 stations on the coasts of France. This British system has, therefore, incurred a large re sponsibility. " What does it cost ?” is, of course, a frequent question. The Meteorological-office of the Board of Trade, and for the Admiralty likewise, was established in 1855, with a yearly estimate of £4,200. This was for many duties, exclusive of those now super added, not then contemplated. To include and provide for all—with these additional subjects and their contingent expenses. I now ask to have £5,800, being only £1,600 more than 1855-8, when raeteero • / - //-7.7 . ,lo c -/ /,‘ 5 1 . 4i,,•• . . .. , . ..., - •_.n . --- - - . - AN-. ----...„. ....-„,..v.„.., ~..... 4. ,i,. - . . sa,III • (I ,, y_f Ati 0 . 1. P. ' ''.;. l /**".."77.•••....-. '', c,\ , ;'' , 1 4100 '.;` ~..... sk Ayit - 1 ,1 '‘C. , .- ...• ~ 41, , - ' lll4l6l.l " l "" .' '''' . '., .. , , -..: ', :' ur , . ) 11111 011&,' ip- 11,4 j.' .. . ~.. ,ft....,15ea. 4 -- 4111 ex , : t 1 410.) H 1 1. - it J,,w HI,/ ,l. .160, 0 .1?),...' 'IOEOTr• An ." '11111:::1C-. r'l4::141 .c.' , .P . ,- ,- 4 1 - • .. 'd, " . .-2. - ,- - . , ..4 0 . "! . i ' illN.i.; -.•-- 55............. ', 1 v ft:_ " ._.,....--.-- PRICE.— —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. REPORTING IN THE LAW COURTS. A very numerously attended meeting of members of the bar took place yesterday in the Hall of Lin coln's Inn, to cons;der the present system of pre paring and publishing the reports of decisions in the various courts of law and Equity. There were present—The Attorney-General, the Solicitor- General, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., Sir Hugh Cairns, M.P., Mr. Matins, M.P., the Hon. Geo. Denman, Mr. Mecqueen, Q.C., Mr. Anderson, Q.C., Mr. Baggallay, Q.C., Mr. Shapter, Q.C., Mr. Willcocin Q.C., Mr. Gifford, Q.C., Mr. Daniel, Q.C., Sec. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Roundell Palmer, NIT.), who occupied the chair, said that all present were aware of the cause of their meeting that day. He had rece i ve d a very numerous ly s i gne d requisi tiolyrom members of the bar to call the present meeting. The subject was one for the common benefit of all, and he had invited them to come together to discuss it. Having done what was pro posei‘i Mr. DANIEL A fi . s l t EL re s s a o i l d ut t i gene"rally requir e d, h e would hoz: call on Mr. Daniel to * resolution he had placed in the hands of the Attorney -General was, t, That, in editing, and pu bli shin the opinion of this m ee ti ng, the present system t of f judicial prepari ng decisions in thi s country gthe requires r e p a o m r s n d o ment." The question was —are th e bar satisfied e with the present system ? He had no doubt but that the opinion of the meeting was that it required some amendment. If the proposition affected the interests of those who are at present engaged in the publication of reports, those interests should not be interfered with without proper compensation ; but, if in the public interest, a sweeping change should be required, the sooner it took place the better. Our system of law consisted of two parts, the written and the unwritten; one the acts of Parliament, and the other the reports. The same law or unwritten law was left in the hands of private individuals, the pre sent reporters, which he considered a most fatal system. The learned gentleman then went on to describe the history of reporting in this country. He said that at one period, a long time ago, the law was officially reported by official persons employed by the State up to the 27th of Henry VIII., when the year-book ceased; the reason these official reports ceased was that Henry VIII. had other requirements for the public money. What was the consequence ? The reports became inaccurate, and loosely con ducted. From the time of Henry VIII. till the end of the reign of Elizabeth there were only the works of Plowden and Coke, which could hardly be called reports; from the time of Sir Edward Coke we passed to Lord Bacon, who in 15th James 1., 1617, odtained letters patent from the King for the pur pose of appointing two official reporters. The reign of Charles 1., and during the Commonwealth, was a period unfavourable for law reporting, during which reporting was at its worst. At the Restora tion, 13th and 14th Charles 11., an Act was passed, directing that no report of law cases should be pub lished without the special licence of the Lord Chan cellor or some other judge, which continued till 1692—he might say almost till Lord Mansfield was elevated to the bench. But the public required the decisions quickly reported. Under the old system of official reporters many cases were not reported till 20 years after the judgments had been given, and when the judges were dead. In 1822 a gentle man of the name of Paget, a solicitor of great expe rience, knowing how difficult it was to obtain re ports at any reasonable time after judgment, started a paper called the Law Journal. In this publica tion the members of the profession could obtain, at a small cost, and more accurate than from news papers. and with greater expedition than from the authorised reports, the various decisions of the judges in the different courts. In 1832 a I4CW and better system was established. Sixteen gentlemen of the bar were employed in reporting for this pub lication. We had now what were called authorised reports, which were, however, nothing more than private undertakings for commercial profit; and he contended that the decisions of the judges in all great eases should not be entrusted to private enterprise, but should be paid for and published by the State. There were now the Jurist, Law Zinies, Weekly _Repo? ter, New Reports, &c., all the offspring of competition, and the Law Amendment Society had called attention to this fact in 1849. The evil was one of long standing. Everyone complained of the system, and he con tended that the State was in fault. Ia 1853, Mr. E wart gave notice of a motion in the House of Com mons on the subject of law reporting, but the sub ject was so dry that he believed the motion had dropped. In bringing forward the question, he assured the members of the profession that he had no object except to benefit the bar ; and he was certain that the present system might be improved by them to their own advantage and the public benefit. Sir FlTzriol . KELLY said that the deep interest he took in this subject induced him to second the resolution, and he was glad to se.: the meeting so numerously attended by the members of the profes sion. He went on to say that the evils had been pointed out, and it was fur them to consider what was the best remedy. He thought there should be one report only of each decision. At present there were conflicting reports of the same judgments de livered by the same judge. There were often five or six reports of the same case in different publics tions,each of which was materially different. His opinion was, that if official reports were published within three months of the judgment, the public, as well as the profession, had a ri g ht to insist that these reports should be issued in the cheapest pos sible form. He thought a committee of the bar, with power to communicate with the bench, should be appointed to consider the matter. Mr. GEMMET opposed t he motion on the ground of monopoly. He contended that law reporting üb was in no way different from other literary p lications. Mr. WEBSTER admitted that the measure present system was bad, but h e said the proposed no t give us bar r e p orts but judge-made reports. 1-1,,, was not prepar ed to deny that liberty to the bar wh i c h they had so long enjoyed. No one ever werewatched cou ld in this c ountry prevent competition, The H on ' GEORGE PENMAN said th a t , in his o pinion, if the re ports were settled by the jud ges it wou ld be most un safe. At p rese nt they by a most intelligent class of men, . w h t h a t took place in court , which, in h 0 reported all i a great check upon the judges, and he for one did s opinion, was no t believe that we could d o anything to improve the present system. It would indeed be a bad s ystem to trust to the judg es the officials whom it was for reports, or trust to proposed to appoint. They would have no interest in furnishing re ports. Tne guar an t ee f accurate If the present rep or accuracy was competition. would buy them, reports were not correct, no one and the present proposal would interfere with free trade in reports. He protested against th e state paying for reporting. In his Opinion the State had nothing to do with reporting. Mr. I\ CE said he considered the general public had nothing to do with the question. The profes sion had nothing to find fault with in the present reports, which had existed for 30 or 40 years. He did not think that we ought to disturb the present system. Mr. MALINS would not sanction a monopoly in law reporting. He believed that the system of re porting was best when the sayings and doings o f all the judges were reported. He strongly opposed the idea of appointing a Government reorter. His opinion was that the committee a b ou t to be ap pointed would report t hat they cou ld propose no better system of law reporting. Mr. Tennison Ed wards, Mr. Winkels, and Mr. W. G. Harrison addressed the meeting amidst cries of " divide." Sir HUGE/ CAIRNS had a preposition to make which would not r,quire:a speech. He moved that a committee of members of the bar be appointed to Nov ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., SECOND EDITION By JULIA KAVANAGH, OF QUEEN MAB. Author of " Nathalie," Sze. " ' Queen Mab 'is a good and interef ting novel. It has a strong, we!l complicated plot. 'Queen Mab,' as she is called, is charming. The book is well worth reading, It is well written, and the interest is sustained to tue last page."— Athennum. 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Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. In consequence of the severity of the weather the iron screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Capt. J. B. Wainwright, was prevented on Tuesday and yesterday from proceeding from Hamoaze into the Sound. When the gale veered round yesterday morning to north-west, it caught the corrugated iron roofing on No. 2 building slip in the Devonport dock yard, and carried large portions of it over the high walls into the town of Devonport. Some of it fell on the roofs of the houses in Mutton-cove, and some was carried into the river. The wooden framing, part of which is 12ft long by Sin thick, was driven into the roofs of the houses, and in one case a chimney was knocked down. Portions of the corru gated iron are rolled up on the roof of the building slip like paper, and some of the lead on the roof of the sail loft has been blown off. The gates of Keyham steamyard have been thrown down, boats are crushed alongside the ships of war in Hamoaze, and the traffic of 'the passenger steamers be tween North Corner and Saltash was for a time suspended, There are no casualties to report among the ,naval and mer cantile shipping. The direction of the gale was not likely to damage them in this port, but great fears are entertained at Plymouth for the safety of ships in the Bristol Channel. The iron screw steam troopship Tamar, 2,812 tons, 500 horse power, Capt, F. H. Stirling, having been minutely in spected at her moorings in Sheerness harbour by Capt. the Hon. J, B. Drummond, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Ad miralty, and Capt. W. B. Mends, C. 8., director of trans ports, was taken out to sea for a few hours' run on Monday, as a preliminary trial of her engines. On the following day she:steamed to the measured mile off Maplin Sands to undergo an official trial of speed, &c., in charge of Capt. W. K. Hall, commanding the Sheerness steam reserve, there being also present Mr. G. Blaxland, chief engineer of Sheerness dock yard, Mr. Urquhart, chief engineer, and Messrs. Ravenhill and Elliott, of the firm of Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., manu facturers of the engines. Six runs were made with full boiler-power at the measured mile, giving an average speed of 10.778 knots an hour ; pressure of steam, 251 b ; vacuum, 2411 b; and revolution of engines, 52 per minute. At half boiler power the vessel made two runs at a speed of 9'290 knots, with 46 revolutions of engines. The circle was turned at full speed, with helm 24 deg. to port, in 9m, 25., with 50 revolutions of engines, the diameter of the circle being 1,28 D yards. The vessel is fitted with horizontal direct a3t ing engines, which worked in an excellent manner, there being an entire absence of priming or hot bearings, and plenty of steam. The propeller is Griffiths's patent, with a pitch variable from 25 to 30 feet. On the trial the pitch was 27ft. 6in., and the diameter 18 feet. The draught of water. both forward and aft, was 22ft. 4in. The wind was from the SSW., with a force of frbm 5 to 6, and the sea was rough. The screw was lifted from its place and ieplac3d with rapi dity and precision ; and the trial, both as regards vessel and machinery, gave the greatest satisfaction. The Tamar will be inspected to-day by Vice• Admiral Sir G. R. Lambert, K.C.B, Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, and will pro ceed to sea on Saturday, when it is believed she will sail for the lowan Islands, to fetch home the troops at present sta tioned there. The 14-gun ship Trusty, floating battery, 1,539 tons and 150 horse power, fitted about two years ago at Woolwich with Capt. Coles's cupola, with a view to experiments afloat at Shoeburyness, is still lying at Woolwich, and encumber ing the inner fitting basin of the dockyard. An engineer and a party of working men are constantly employed in the care of the machinery and at the pumps to prevent her filling. The expense thus incurred in the maintenance of the Trusty, which has been pronounced to be utterly worthless for any purpose afloat, is stated to exceed £3OO per annum. The freightahip Guide has arrived at Woolwich from Malta, and has commenced unshipping her cargo, which consists of soldiers' clothing, military tents, shot, engineers tools, &c. The Steam Reserve Commission continued their labours at Portsmouth yard yesterday, attended by their secretary, Mr. W. Hickman, R.N. Five hundred able seamen have been selected from the books of the Coastguard ships in the Portsmouth district, and are held in readiness for service in sea-going ships. A number of second-class lads, about 60, were yesterday mustered by Capt. Lysaght on board the Fisgard at Wool wich, and were transferred by train to Portsmouth, for instruction in the flagship Victory. The number now entered on the Fisgard's books, and who are distributed to the various flagships at Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Pembroke, averages about 25 weekly, the required number being 60 per week. A telegraphic message was received at Portsmouth Dock yard yesterday from the Admiralty containing orders for the authorities to select 25 riggers from the dockyard and for ward them to Chatham, where their services are required to assist in expending the outfit of the Bombay screw line-of battle ship, now fitting for commission at that 3 ard. A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the trial of James Anderson, sick berth attendant on board her Majesty's ship Malacca, on charge of insubordination and disobedience of orders. The court was composed of Capt. W. S. Chamber lain, president; Capts. Ssceombe, Hire, and Bowden, and Commander Phelps. The court found the charges proved, and sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour, and at the end of the term of imprisonment to be dismissed with disgrace from her Majesty's service. We have to record the death of Admiral. Sir James Han way Plumridge, K.C.8., at the age of 76. The deceased was educated at the Naval Academy, Chelsea, and entered the navy in 1799. He served in Egypt in 1801, and at Trafalgar in 1805. In 1806 he was made a lieutenant, and commanded the boats of the Melpomene frigate at the cap turemmeahne-loaft a w f a r r i g c a u t t e t e a r t in thelBtoa2k. e g H e e f w t h a s e first of e eF t f e o r n a f at a n n a tch t e D e. o was aide-de-camp to the commander-in li chief was promoted to be commander in 18 14 . Subsequently he af c n a tilih p s t eeh ure of Genoa in 1814, and for his services t commanded ienad w a v a e s s m e l a s d o e n p t e h a e t ! e ll e d p i t a a n i n , S f t e , H rh e i l e e n a a e , r and e a I r against sh ga i s h t a s t smugglers on the coast of Ireland. He was captain of the Magicienne frigate, in India for several years, and was cap tain-superintendent at Falmouth five years. This office he resigned on becoming Storekeeper-General of the United Kingdom. From 1841 to 1847 he represented the borough of Falmouth and Penrhyn in the House of Commons. In 1854 he took the command of the flying squadron in the Gulf of Bothnia as rear-admiral, and three years afterwards succeeded to the second command in the Baltic Fleet. He served at the capture of Bomarsund, and subsequently com manded two detached squadrons. He was appointed Ad miral Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard in 1855, and Rear-Admiral of the Red in 1856. The deceased Admiral was married three times—first, in 1821, to the daughter of Rear-Admiral Hart; second, in 1835, to the daughter of the Right Hon. Hugh Elliott ; and, third, 1849, to the daughter of Col. Skinner, of the Royal Artillery, The folio wing appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty:—Commander Francis A. Hume, to the Vic tory; Commander Henry Fairfax, to the Resistance ; Lieutenant James D. Curtis, to the Egmont ; Lieutenant Arthur C. Curtis, to the Bla3k Brince ; George T. Temple, George Trower, and Charles R. Congreve, midshipmen, to the Euryalus; David L. Dickson, Frederick S. Pelly, Frank R. Robinson, and Edward T. Hume, naval cadets, to the Euryalus, Albert Hodges, master's assistant to the Euryalus; and Henry C. Tremane, master's assistant to the Dee. THE ARMY. V.C., comma n di ng Capt. and Brevet Lieut.-Col, Henry, the Riding troop at Woolwich, has been promoted as Regi mental Lieut.-Col., and is succeeded in the Ridi ng estab lishment by Lieu t.-Col, Calvert. Ca p t . and Brevet Major W. E A i°Y Dcr ses aheeilsi,Yk C. 8,, Aide-de-Camp to M a j or -G en. Sir Richard .C. 8., commanding at Woolwich, will return to his regimental duties and take up the com mand of his battery, No. 3,3 d Brigade Garrison Artillery, at Woolwich this morning. The Marquis of Hartington, Capt. Caftan, R.N., an d Capt. Galton, R.E., again attended at Woolwich yesterday, and went over the remaining portion of the Store Depart ment. They commenced their inspection at 10 a.m., and examined the whole of the stores which they wete unable to inspect on the former visit, when they were accompanied by Earl de Grey and Ripon—namely, the shot and did, and the remainder of the cavalry equipment stores, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE CROYDON STEEPLECHASES.---IVEDNESDAY. The Stand Plate (Hand ica p ) of 30 sovs, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 soya each. About two miles and a half. Mr B. Land's Lisbon, 5 yrs, 10$ 71b ........ (J. Land) 1 Mr T. Price's Corkscrew, aged, 11st 21b .. (Mr. Wood) 2 Mr. H. Melville's Miss Maria ; aged, lOst 41b (J. Holman) 3 Mr W. Elphick's Bravo, 5 yrs, lOst (J. Kenuedy) 4 Also ran Harkaway and Remunerator. Betting-2 to 1 agst Lisbon, 3to 1 agst Remunerator, 4 to 1 agst Corkscrew, 5 to 1 asst Harkaway, 10 to 1 (off.) bar four. The running was made by Remunerator, who had Cork screw by his side, the two being clear of the rest, who were led by Harkaway, Bravo being fourth, Lisbo n b e i ng fifth, and Miss Maria last. After going about a mil e H arkaway gave way to Lisbon and Miss Maria, the pair following closely in the wake of Remunerator and Corkscrew to the fence going out of the winning field. There Remunerator blundered, and sent Knott " a purler," who, however, for tunately escaped injury. This accident left Corkscrew with the lead, followed by Lisbon, Bravo, and Miss Maria to the bottom by the wood, where Lisbon took a decided lead, and came up the hill to the big " bullfinch" on its brow, which he took a dozen lengths in advance of Cork screw, immediately in whose rear came the other two, side by sido, a long way behind followed Harkaway. Descend ing the hill Lisbon increased his lead, was never afterwards approached, and won, after being eased at his fences by four lengths. Miss Maria and Bravo retained their rela tive positions to within a few strides of the chair, which the former passed half a length in advance of her companion • H ar kaway was ridden home but was p ulled up after get ting over the last fence and did not pass the post. A Selling Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added ; the winner to be sold for £4O. About two miles. Mr Holman's Sunbeam, aged, lOst 121 b .. (G. Holman) 1 Mr J. Harrowby's Telegram, aged, 9st 71b .... (Arthur) 2 Mr Breary's Charley Grey, aged, 9st 101 b (A. Sadler) 3 Springheel Jack, Irish Lass, and Vulture also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Sunbeam, 2to 1 agst Vulture, 7t o 1 bar two. Sunbeam made all the running, and won in a canter by four lengths. Charley Grey lay second till within half a mile of home, when Telegram headed him, and " the Grey" was a bad third; Vulture walked in. Welsh Jack, aged, lOst 41b, was weighed for by Mr Grant, but did not start. The winner was bought by Capt. Wortham for 56 guineas. A Plate of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and up wards ; winners extra, and half-bred horses allowed slb ; selling allow ances. About three miles. Mr M. Crome's Kington (h b), yrs (Z5O), list 31b (J. Land) I Vampire, Remunerator, Bravo, Valentine, and The Huntsman also ran. Betting—Even on Kington, 7 to 2 agst Remunerator. Vampire led for nearly a mile, after which Kington car ried on the running and came in alone. Remunerator came down "a cropper" in refusing to rise at a fence. He re mained on the ground apparently lifeless for nearly a quarter of an hour, but on being lifted out of the quagmire was found to have sustained no injury. Searle, his rider, was nearly blinded with dirt. Vampire, Valentine, and Bravo pulled up, and Huntsman walked in. The winner was bought in for 60 guineas. The Grand Metropolitan Steeplechase Handicap of 15 sovs each, with 100 added ; winners extra. About three miles and a half. Count de Cossette's Harry, aged, list 9lb .... (Cassidy) 1 Mr. B. J. Angell's Ireley, aged, list 91b ....(B. Land) 2 The following also ran :—Pineapple, Light of Other Days, Inkermann, Carew, and Agnes. Betting-5 to 4 agst Light of Other Days, 3to 1 agst Agnes, sto 1 agst Harry, 7 to 1 agst Pineapple, 10 to I each agst Irely and Inkermann. Ireley made play, followed at a clear interval by Harry, Inkerman. Agnes, Light of Other Days, Pineapple, and Carew whipping in. In this order they passed out of sight, and upon reappearing to view on the opposite side of the course to the stand, Ireley held a lead of 20 lengths, inker mann going on second, Harry third, Light of Other Dav e ' Agnes, and Carew next, Pineapple being 40 lengths La ding rear of Carew. There was little alteration with division, until coming round towards the stand fotrhtabwiee:third time, when Carew rushed past Harry, and wentrdtohe s e t e h d e s hill second, but was again repassed and led by Harry, who, going well, was only about a over w deprived lengths from Ireley. On the far side of the course . Careto the fence Ireley of the lead, and carried on the r at the top of the hill, where ho SiipPedfpl2,:nigtched one Iris head and rolled over, but neither hors:andoort jockey was burr. j a dozen lengths, This mishap left Ireley again with a ys and l Agnes being next, Harry second, Light of Other D. :di n , fence, where Agnes close up with Harry to the succeeding in jury to herself or rider. fell and rolled over, without doin:Li Light of Other Days re fused, quarter of a mile from horn fused, and losing considerable ground was pulled up and walked in. From this point the race was left with Ireley and Harry, an d the latter, just before reaching the la s t jump, went to the front, andwon easily by halt a d ozen lengths; Inker ma nn (not placed by the judge) walked in third. -r.........................,,,...0 [ADVERT 'SEM EN L I - Ilolloway's Oi n t men t and Pills— U uerring rreo i b i on .—When the health i s b rea ki ng d own from the continuance of 501110 weakening discharge ; when ulcers refuse to heal and extending mischief is threatened, then is the time to try the potency of Hollo w ay's healing o i n t me nt and purifying pills. No treatment for giving ease and safely leading to a cure can be compared to this. The ointment cleans and cools the foulest and most angry sores, diminishes the inflammation, reduces the swelling, prevents the g rowth of proud flesh, a n d spares b o th pa i n an d danger. 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Hastins, Mr. Puilln, Mr. Joshua 'Wil liams, Jr. George, Sweet, Mr. iames Dickinson, Mr. George Druce. Mr. Nathaniel Lindley. Mr. John Westlake, and Mr. F. Vaughall Hawkirth— which was agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman wah' proposed. by Mr, Daniel, seoonded by the Hon. Geage Den man, and carried unaniraouiy. THE GALE OF YESTERDAY. The storm of wind and rain which swept and soo:a whole metropolis throughout the gr7ater opvaerrttiol.; yesterday has been p roductive of the most disastro u s the morning, gale cum conscquEnces, not a lone in ex p ose d quart ers, but m a I s e o nc i e n a the a n m e o a s r t ly sheltered spots. irl made itself perceptible in the river, which assum e d the aspect of the sea itself, so strong was the force of the wind and rain. It was with the greatest diM culty the steamers could be navigated between London-bridge and Chelsea, while below the bridge many of the vessels broke from their moorings, a n d. at much personal risk the others were secured.. From inquiries made at the various shipping depots last night it was ascertained that several vessels due in the middle of the day had not arrived, and it was supposed, or at least hoped, they had lain . .`,O, while several which should have left the dock's were obliged to stay till the storm had abated. .It was reported that a steamer and a collier Tesse 1 bad come into violent collision just below London-bcidge, by which two men, in consequence of the slitick, fell overboard, one being, by dint of great exertion, saved, and the other unfortunately drowned, but no authentic particulars could be gleaned. In the afternoon a man named Thompson, about thirty-five years of age, while proceeding down the Caledoni an - roa d, was felled to the ground by a p or ti on of ' a large chimney pot, which was forced by the • wind from the top of a house, and falling on th e poor fellow's head caused a frightful, scalp wound. He was immediately convoyed to 'wl t a doctor's, and afterwards taken to his resi dence at Kentish -town in an insensible c 7ndi ., tion. Another accident,wl .and which it is exp. , cted will prove fatal, happened Seven Dials, w;'sere an old woman, aged about seventy, was injured i n a similar manner, but more severely, and from in , she will not recover. At Notting-hill and Shepherd's - bush the force of the wind and rain was very severely felt, more especially in the temporary buildings and g las' ; keep h o th ou ses of the innumerable gardeners who ' es t a blishments there. In several places a large amount of property had been destroyed, and in the grounds of the Messrs. Zimmerman two of the hothouses were blown down. At Chelsea, too, similar injury is reported to have occurred ; while in Dulwich, Peckham, and Camberwell the property destroyed will amount to a large sum. The Suspected Murder and. Robbery at Limehouse. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT. Yesterday the police obtained information whi ch tends to throw some light on the mystery surrour d ing the death of the late Mr. John Driscoll, whose body was found in the river Lea at Limehowe, under circumstances that gave rise to an inference that he had been robbed and murdered. It will be remembered that the deceased gentle man, who was connected with engineering works at Corunna, in Spain, had arrived in England only three days, when he suddenly disappeared on the 30th of October. Though a reward was effered for any information respecting him none could be obtained until his body was found last Monday in the river Lea. In his pockets were found a pair of soldier's gloves, pipeckyed, and marked 14 11, 330. About £lB that he was known to have had in his possession was missing, but 18s. and a silver watch were in his pockets. The family expreised their apprehensions that the deceased had been rob bed and foully dealt with, because he had on the day of his disappearance mentioned that while be was getting a draft for £55 cashed at Messrs., Huth and Co.'s, in Moorgate-street, a man. watched him, and afterwards followed him, and put his hands into his pocket. He had requested his aunt to take charge of about £4O of the money for him while ho went out to take a walk on Black wall pier, saying that he feared that the man was still watching him. Ha then went out, and was no more seen. He had come to England about the purchase of machinery for the lighting of the town of Corunna with gas . He was of sober habits. His friends feared that he had been drugged and robbed, a nd the strange ci rcumstance of a p air of sol dier's gloves being fou nd in his pockets and £lB bein g missing gave t he case a very sinister as p ec t. Th e owner of the milita r y gloves has now been f o nnd. Owing to the p ublicit y g i ven to the f comman d a nt of the 14th Hussars, at resent acts the P sta tioned in Manchester , directed John De c aux, 330 D troop of the 14 th Hussars, to call upon the police authorities in that city. Da Caux made a statement to the following effect :—That he met th e d ecease d in the Whitechapel-road, and Was asked by him to take a glass," and then to go to the theatre ; and as he (De Calls) was himself goin g t o th e P r i ncess ' s to meet his brother and to see one of the a c t ors , they both proceeded the re, and (De C m aux's) broth er, Ed Were there joined by his und De Cans, They re mained there about two went in a cab hours , when they left and to a place which he called the Bala Theatre, accomparil • ed by a female, whom ho alleges deceased had Victoria. f ormed an acquaintance with at the his While they were together deceased took gloves and u h De ceased then rose and left the Bala Theatre with the ea female in a De Cans affirms positively that this Wa s the ast he saw of the deceased, as he and hi s brother remained at the theatre after deceased left. He also states that deceased was then partially intoxicated, and that he had at time a gold watch t Id watch and chain in his possession. The police are now endeavouring to find out whether this singular statement is based upon fact; and if so, the next step will, of course, be to ascer tain who the female was with whom De Cox 83111 him go off in the cab. - Horniman's Tea is choice and strong , moderate in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. i Its sold in dackets by 2,280 Agents. A WINTERING GERANIUMS 11 : ',lace as a Window, cool cellar is almost as good ro o r the grave of all tho but a damp cellar will surely-0P v w inter. 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