The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence, THE NAVY. VALETTA, DEC. 27.—The Peninsular and Orien tal Company's steamer Massilia, Captain Roberts, arrived on Thursday last from Alexandria. She brought no China or Calcutta mail, haring left before their arrival, in order to have a new shaft fitted, which will be ready on the arrival of the Ripon, when she will proceed with the mail for Marseilles. In the meantime I take the opportu nity of the French steamer leaving to-day to send you a few lines. The Massilia goes out to- - morrow to Gozo to try her engines. The delay of the China and India mails is beginning to cause some anxiety, as by the last accounts by telegraph they had not reached Suez. Her Majesty's screw corvette Racoon, 22, Capt. Count Gleichen, arrived unexpectedly on. Tuesday from Gibraltar,having re- ceived orders to proceed to Alexandria, with the Psyche, 2, despatch vessel, Lient.-Commander R. _ . Sterne, to await the Countess of Elgin, who is on her way back to England. These vessels left for Alexandria on Thursday. It is axpected that Lady Elgin will proceed in the Psyche direct to Mar seilles, accompanied by the Racoon, without touch- ing at Malta, being desirous of reaching England without any unnecessary loss of time. There have been no other movements in the fleet, except the departure, on Monday, of the Cossack, 20, Capt. IV. R. Rolland, for Tunis. She is enpeeted back shortly. The Marlborough, 121, Capt, C. Fellowes, will leave for a short cruise and target practice as soon as the weather moderates. The Prussian pad dlewheel war steamer Preussischer Adler, 4, Capt. G. Klatt, arrived on Wednesday in four days from Constantinople, and is still lying in the Great harbour, together with the Prussian gun boats, Basilisk, 2, and Blitz, 2, lately arrived here from Greece. All three vessels have received orders to return to Prussia. The Swedish screw frigate Vanadis, 22, Captain F. Haver. man, arrived on Thursday from Carlskrona in 85 days, and Algiers in 15. She is bound for Naples. An Egyptian frigate, the Brahimis, Captain F. Mustapha Bey, laden with cotton and other mer chandise, arrived here on Friday from Alexandria, and proceeded to-day for Marseilles to embark horses for the Egyptian Government. The murrain among the cattle in Egypt continues to effect dread ful ravages, and is extending to the animals lately imported from abroad to a very alarming extent. Her Majesty's ships in port are the Marlborough, 121 (bearing the flsg of Vice-Admiral Robt. Smart, K.H.); the Hibernia, receiving ship (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. T. Austen, C. 8.) ; the St. George, 86 (this vessel is under sailing orders for England) ; the Trafalgar, 70 ; the Phoebe, 3.5 ; the Mdgicience, 16 (this vessel is lying in Sliema Creek); the Chanticleer, 17 ; the Hydra, 3, and the Firefly, 3, surveying vessels ; and the gunboat Growler. Yesterday the official annual return of the nunaT ber, name, tonnage, station, and every particular regarding the steam and sailing ships composing the British navy, together with the horse power and armament of each, was published under the autho rity of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The total strength of the effective ships of the navy on the Ist January was 975 of all classes, not in. eluding a number doing duty in the various har bours both at home and abroad, the whole of which would be speedily converted into block ships for the defence of the coast, together with a numerous fleet of iron and wooden mortar boats laid up at Chatham. Of this number there are 72 vessels ranking as line of battle ships, each mounting from 74 to 121 guns, 42 vessels of from 60 to 74 guns each, 91 steamers and other ships, carrying an armament of from 22 to 46 guns each, and the majority of which are of a size and tonnage equivalent to line of battle ships, 25 screw corvettes, each carrying 21 guns, and 500 vessels of all classes, including iron ships of great power and tonnage, carrying an armament of from four guns to 21 guns each. Ex clusive of the above there is a squadron bf 185 screw gunboats, each mounting two Armstrong guns, and nearly the whole of which are fitted with high pres sure engines, each of 60 horse power. The total Lumber of ships of all classes in commission and serving in nearly every part of the world is upwards of 300, the remainder being attached to the reserve sqnadrons at the various naval ports, and partially equipped in readiness to proceed to sea whenever their serviess may be required. Daring the past year the following vessels have been completed and launched at the several deckyords-vz., the iron -clod, 35, 6,080 tons, 1,250 horse power, and the Sshercis, 4, 835 tons, 250 horse power, paddlewheel sttamer, at Chatham; the Ocean, 35, 4,045 tons, 1,000 horse power, armour plated frigate, et Devonport ; the Research, iron cased ship, 4 guns, 1,253 tens, and 200 horse power, at Pembroke; the Minotaur, iron clad, 50, 6,621 tons, 1,350 horse power, at Blackwell ; the Hector, 32, iron clad, 4,063 tons, 800 horse power, at Glas gow ; the Valiant, 34, iron clad, 4,063 tons, 800 horse power, and the Tamar, 3, 2,812 tons, 500 horse power, iron troop ship, at Millwall; and the Wolverine, 21, screw corvette, 1,702 tons, 400 horse power, at Woolwich. Daring the same period the following vessels, the whole of which are either of iron, or iron cased, have been commenced at the several dockyards-viz., the Lord Warden, 36, 4,067 tons, 1,000 horse power, and the Bellerophon, at Chatham ; the .Lord Clyde, 36, 4,067 tons, 1,000 horse power, at Pembroke ; and the Pallas, 6, 2,372 tons, 600 horse power, at Woolwich. The iron clads now building for the Admi ralty, in addition to those above enumerated, are the. Northumberland, 50, 6,621 tons, 1,250 horse power, at Millwall; the Agincourt, 50, 6,621 tons, 1,250 horse power, at Birkenhead; the Royal Alfred, 35, 4,045 tons, 800 horse power, at Portsmouth ; the Zealous, 20, 3,716 ton, 800 horse power, at Pembroke; and the Favourite, 8, iron cased corvette, 2,186:t0n5, and 400 horse power, at Deptford, together with the iron cased shield ship Enterprise, 4, 990 tons, and 160 horse power, build ing at Deptford, and the Royal Sovereign, 3,963 tons, and 800 horse power, which is being con verted into an iron cased cupola ship, at Ports mouth. The vessels now on the stocks at the vari ous Royal dockyards, exclusive of the iron and iron cased ships, aro the Bulwark, 91, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power, the Belvidere, 51, 3,627 tons, 600 horse power, the Menai, 22, 1, 857 tons, the Rein deer, 17, 951 tons, 200 horse power, and the Myr midon, 4, 695 tons, 200 horse power at Chatham ; the Dryad, 51, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power, the Harlequin, 6, 950 tons, 200 horse power, and the Helicon, 4, 835 tons at Portsmouth ; the Dart mouth, 33, 2,478 tons, 500 horse power, the Re pulse, 89. 3,716 tons, 800 horse power, and the Sy 'cis, 4, 695, tons, 2(.0 horse power, at Woolwich ; the Robust, 89, 3,716 tons,BCo horse power, thelster, 36. 3,027 tons, 500 horse power, and the Bittern, 4, 669 tons, 155 horse power, at Devonport ; the En dymiee, 36, 2,478 tins, 500 horse power, at Dept ford; the North Star, 22, 1,623 tons, 430 horse power, at Sheerness ; the Tweed, 51, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power, the Trent, 6, 950 tons, 200 horse power, the Newport, 5, 425 tons, 80 horse power ; the Nassau, 4, 695 tons, 200 horse power, and the Tartarus, 4, 695 tons, 200 horse power, at Pembroke ; and the Prince Albert, 5, 2,529 tons, 500 horse power, iron cased cupola ship, at Mill wall. The names of the following vessels, ordered by the Admiralty to be built at the several dock yards, have been removed from the .Navy List the Circassian, 4, 669 tons, 150 horse power, and the Sappho, 0, 950 tons, 150 horse power, ordered to be built at Deptferd; the Alligator,22, 1,857 tons, 400 horse power, at Woolwich ; and the Guernsey, 4,605 tens, 200 horse power, at Pembroke. In addi tion to the above vessels there is a squadron of screw gunboats in course cf construction at Portsmouth dockyard. The number cf line-of-battle ships and vessel of all classes, in:tidies; gunboats which com pose s the East Ind i a a nd China s q uadron, is 51, under the orders of Vice-Admiral A. L. Kuper, with Coremodore F. B. Montressor, in command of the' East Indies division. The North Amsricn and West Indio. equ edron, under the command of Vice- Admiral Sir A. Miiee, K,C..41, consists of 29 ves sels. Tb 6 squadron in the Mediterranean, under i 'the command of Vice-Adrniral SlSmart,K i w hose fligship is the Marlborough, 12 „ 00 Ms " , 800-hors power, CTt. C. Fallo7e2, numher.oneds 29 ships and gunboats. The number of ships stati on the West Coast of Africa to aid in the suppres sion of the slave trade is 22, under the orders of Commodore A. P. E. Wilmot, C.B. The Pacific squadron, under the command of Rear-Admiral J. Kingcombe, flagship Sutlej, 35, 500 horse power, Capt. M. Connolly, numbers 13 vessels, and that on the south-east coast of America 11 ships, under the command of Rear-Admiral R. L. Warren, of the Forte, 39, 400 horse power. There are eight line of-battle and other ships stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, the flag officer commanding at which station is Rear-Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.B. Seven vessels compose the squadron in Australia, under the command of Commodore Sir W. S. Wise man. The following vessels compose the Channel squadron, viz :—The Edgar, 71, 3,091 tons, 600 horse power, Capt. G. T. P. Hornby, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C.B. ; the War rior, 40, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse power, Captain the Hon. A. Cochrane ; the Royal Oak, 35, 4,056 tons, 800 horse power, Capt. F. A. Campbell ; the Black Prince, 41, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse power, Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright ; the Defence, 16, 3,720 tons, 600 horse power, Capt. A. Phillimore ; and the Trin culo, 2, 60 horse power, screw gunboat. Yesterday Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P., continued his investigation at Chatham dockyard into the system of management and other matters connected with that establishment. Commodore Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., the newly ap pointed superintendent of Woolwich dockyard, yes terday hoisted his flag (a blue bargee) on board the Fisgard, and assumed the duties of his office. Her Majesty's iron screw troopship Dromedary, Master-Commander Alexander Brown, arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning with returned stores from Rio di Janeiro, and having landed her powder at the Royal Arsenal buoy, she proceeded to the dockyard to discharge her cargo. A couple of huge condensers for the iron steam ship Achilles at Chatham, were yesterday received at Woolwich from Messrs. Penn's factory at Green wich. The weight of each condenser is 23 tons 10 cwt. 3 qrs 121 b. Orders from the Admiralty have been received at Sheerness to the effect that the Bellerophon target, which has recently been subjected to a severe test from the monster Armstrong gun at Shoeburynoss, is not to be removed to Chatham and there repaired, but will be taken to pieces at Shoeburyness by workmen hired for the purpose. The Salamander, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 818 tons, 220-horse power, Commander the Hon. J. Carnegie, which has been fitted at Sheerness for surveying services, was taken out to the measured mile off Maplin Sands for the final trial, preparatory to de parting to sea on Thursday, and was inspected yes terday by Capt. J. Fulford, of her Majesty's ship Formidable, 84, fl4gship at Sheerness, Admiral Sir G. R. Lambert, R C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief, being on leave. The vessel is expected to sail for Plymouth this day, where she will embark a num ber of Royal Marines intended to form a new military colony at Port Albany, Cape York, Aus tralia. A memorandum has been issued by the Lords of the Admiralty announcing that, with the view of distinguishing the several branches of the naval service from each other, her Majesty has been pleased to sanction the introduction of distinctive colours between the gold lace stripes at present worn on the sleeves of uniform coats. The military branches are to remain as at present, except that the staff-captains, staff•commanders, and masters are to wear stripes of light blue velvet alternate with the gAd lace now worn. The officers of the medical department are to wear alternate stripes of scarlet velvet; officers of the Paymaster's depart ment to wear alternate stripes of white velvet ; officers of the Engineers' department to wear alter nate stripes of purple velvet. The Queen's naval Aides-de-Camp are in future to be distinguished by a gold and scarlet shoulder sash, as at present worn by military aides-de-camp. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—William L. Inch, pay. master, to be secretary to Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, at Devonport ; F. W. S. Ponsonby, paymaster, to be secretary to Commodore Dunlop, at Woolwich; Thomas S. Chanter, assist.-paymas ter, to the Victory ; Russell Osborn, assist.-cierk, to the Boscawen ; Chidley O'Molony, assist.- clerk, to the Implacable ; and Alexander R. Hood, nomi nated to a naval cadetship. THE NEW STREET IN SOUTHWARK. their hilarious demonstrations yesterday, will be fully able to appreciate. The cost of the new street has been :—Purchass of property, &c., £480,012 ; ten per cent. for contingencies, £27,936 ; sewer, paving, &e., £24,153 ; Mr. Pear son's contract, £24,950 ; total, £557,051, being an excess of £37,627, over the estimated expenditure. About four hundred houses have been pulled down for the formation of the street, and the space cleared, less the roadway, has been divided into 200 plots, of which 17 have already been let. The Alliance Bank of London and Liver pool have reared an imposing structure at the Borough end of the new street, and several other plots have been let to hop merchants. The total length of the street is 3,450 feet, and the breadth from front to front of houses 70 feet. After the formal opening, which consisted merely of the knocking down of the barriers in Blackfriars road, and the indiscriminate admission of the popu lation of the locality, the chairman of the Board of Works and his friends adjourned to the Bridge house Hotel, where Mr. Spencer, the new landlord, had prepared an abundant and well-arranged lun cheon. In the course of the evening Mr. Thwaites proposed as a toast, Prosperity to the Board of Works," pointing out that the new sheet which they had just opened was one of their most impor tant undertakings. It would give a new and wide avenue for the immense traffic which was always flowing between London and Westminster-bridges, and would ultimately carry the traffic clear up to Vauxhall. The Board had bought its land much cheaper than any railway company had done, and had contested every unreasonable claim for com pensation. His former connection with the district made him doubly glad that he had been humbly instrumental in procuring so great a boon for South wark, but he believed that, by the relief it would afford to the great arteries of trade on the northern side of the river, it would be a boon to the whole metropolis. Mr. Thwaites subsequently proposed " The Health of the Corporation of London," and bore testimony to the amicable spirit in which its members had co-operated with the Board of Works in the exertions of the latter for the improvement of the metropolis. After one or two other toasts the company sepa rated, the majority having engagements which called them away early. Mr, Cardwell, M.P., at Oxford, OXFORD, Jan. 1. The annual dinner of the Ancient Order of Druids at Oxford, took place this evening in the Town-hall, and it being the occasion on which the members for the city of Oxford address their constituents, the hall was as usual densely crowded. Both Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Neate, the recently-elected member, were most cordially received by their constituents. The chair on the present occasion was occupied by the Arch Druid, Mr. Brunner, and among the company we observed the Mayor of Oxford (Mr. Carr), Aldermen Ward, Randell, Towle, Thompson, the ex-Mayor the Right Hon. Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. Neate, M.P. Colonel Fane, M.P., Captain Mellon, Captain Fane, Mr; Sheriff Watson, Mr. Clay, Mr. Pike, Mr. E. T. Spiers, Mr. Hussey, Mr. Saunders, &c. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been given and cordially responded to, The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the City mem• bers, which was received with loud cheers. The Right Hon. E. W. CARDWELL on rising was re ceived with renewed cheering. After some preliminary re marks—in the course of which he alluded in feeling terms to the death which had taken place since he had last ad dressd them, of his late colleague, Mr. Langton, and to the more recent death of Mr. Thackeray—he expressed the pleasure he should have in working with a common purpose with his newly. elected colleague, Mr. Neate. He then con tinued :—The most remarkable feature of the year which has just passed is the great and happy contrast which under the blessings of Divine Providence in our tranquil, steady and continuous progress in prosperity, this kingdom has presented to the signal sorrows which have bt en ey perienced in some foreign countries, and the great anxiety and alarm which have been prevalent throughout the whole of Europe. So far as our pecuniary prosperity is concerned, I for one own that it has exceeded altogether any anticipations that I had previously entertained. It certainly appeared to me, and I have no hesitat:on in acknowledging it, that it was impossible for that great convulsion which has shaken the United States of America to the centre to have taken place without producing more disastrous effects to this country than those which we have actually experienced. But, gentlemen, probably in the very circumstances from which we anticipated, and indeed have experienced such great trials, we may trace at least a part of the caused of our comparative prosperity. At the beginning of a great war, when the expenses are met by means of borrowed money, and by that most seductive form of borrowing money, the issue of paper money not corresponded to by actual gold— in the commencement of a great war there is always a large expenditure, not only on military objects, but also on those articles which are luxuries even in times of peace, and I have no doubt whatever that a great part of the American expenditure has contributed to maintain the trade and com merce of this kingdom. Then again there is little question that we owe a great deal to the increasing intercourse be tween this country and Franee, an intercourse which has not only been beneficial to us in itself, but which is highly to be cherished as giving mutual securities between two great nations for the maintenance of peace, (Cheers.) But after all, the great cause probably why we have suffered Yesterday afternoon the Metropolitan Board of Works, headed by their chairman, Mr. Thwaites, formally opened " Southwark-street," the new avenue which connects the Borough with Black friars road, and, by means of Stamford-street, opens up a wide thoroughfare from London to Westmin ster-bridges. The ceremonial was not very im posing, but the importance and usefulness of the event seemed to be highly appreciated by the local public. A dense crowd waited at the barrier close to Blackfriars-bridge, and when that had been thrown down the newly opened-up territory turned out its inhabitants en masse, who crowded at every corner, and cheered vociferously as the unostenta tious procession passed along. Precisely at a quar ter past three Mr. Thwaites and his friends, includ ing Mr. Layard, M.P., Alderman Finnis, nearly the whole of the members of the Board of Works, and a large contingent of Southwark notabilities, arrived at the Blackfriars barrier, and many were admitted by the police inb the new street, who speedily de scended into the subway, which is the great novelty of the work. This subway, which is six feet high at the end of the arch, and twelve feet wide, pre sented a very imposing vista as the party proceeded along it, guided by a double row of lamps on the ground at each side. The intention of the subway, which is above the main sewer, is to give access to the various gas and water pipes which supply the mains with light and water, without those frequent tearirgs up of the pavement which are so well known as the established nuisances of London. Many of the visitors, however, who promenaded its entire length yesterday were struck with the strategic uses to which such a subterranean passage might be put in case of a serious street riot; and one gentleman suggested that it might be made available for a wide extension of the operations of the Pneumatic Despatch Company. There is no doubt that a regi ment of soldiers fully accoutred might pass from one end of the subway to the other without the slightest difficulty, and it is equally certain that the tubes of the Pneumatic Despatch Company could find ample accommodation. There are narrow side passages at short intervals leading to the various pipes, and all is as fresh, clean, and airy as could be expected above ground. The inspection was most satisfactory, and everyone concurred in thinking that the works had been executed in the soundest and most durable nrinner. less than we expected to suffer is to be found in that con tinuous expansion which the energy of the English people has always found iGr the broad deep stream of British in dustry and commerce, Let us be thankful to the Giver of all Good for the benefits which we have enjoyed, and let us endeavour to prove ourselves worthy of them in future years. With regard to foreign countries, the great question of interest to us must ever be until happily it shall be closed, that wonderful, that sorrowful chapter of history which we are reading in the condition of the United States of America, an epoch which will probably have as great an effect in that country as the civil wars ending in the great revolution had in our own, or as the first great revolutionary struggle had in France. To this country it has been particularly interesting during the year that has passed, for it has brought into action in this country a principle of law of the utmost importance to England, the greatest maritime country of the world—a principle which will survive the war in America, and will remain to guide the destinies of nations long after those who are contem _ _ The history of the new street is brief enough, and its facts are very creditable to the energy and perseverance of the Board of Works. For nearly a quarter of a century the want of a main street between Blackfriars and London bridges had been felt and proclaimed, but it was not until Aug. 10, 1857, that the board obtained their act. Negotia tions for the purchase of the property to be pulled down occupied a year, and on Oct. 1, 1861, the first contract, undertaken by Mr. Downs, of Union-street, Southwark, and his portion of the road—namely, from High street, Borough, to the Southwark bridge-road —was opened for public traffic in July,' 1862. In March, 1863, Mr. Pearson, of Kenaing. ton-cross, took the second contract, and this having been completed to Blackfriars-road, permitted the simple ceremony which took place yesterday. - 01 the street above ground there is little to be said. There is an excellent roadway 70 feet wide, but the houses on each side are yet to be supplied by an enterprising public. The site is certainly a noble one, and first-rate commercial houses would soon find tenants, but it unfortunately happens that the Board has been so economical in its purchases of property as to leave little or no margin on either side of the roadway. The little cross streets which have been cut in two for the now avenue protrude their jagged ends to the very edge of the pathway, and there is hardly at any spot along the route space sufficient for a good roomy house, such as would be required by a bank or a large mercantile firm. The little erase etreete, however, will have alt the more fresh air, which the inhabitants, judging by porary with it shall have gone to their rest. I refer to the question now under discussion in our courts with regard to the rights of belligerents and neutrals at sea. Seventy years have just elapsed since we begun our struggle with revolu tionary France, and the minister who represented France in the United States of America then endeavoured to make the harbours of the United States a focus for expeditions by sea against the commerce and the possessions of England. The remonstrances of England were acknowledged in Arne rice, and thecomplaints of Mr Pitt and Lord Grenville being received by Washington and Jefferson, the result was the enactment in America of that law which now under altered circumstances, they being the belligerents and we neutrals, is the principal subject of discussion in this kingdom. The ability with which the matter has been discussed upon both sides has been remarkable, and we now; wait patiently for the decision of our tribunals. But of this there will be no doubt in this or any other assembly, namely, that with the same measure with which we expected they should mete to us with that same measure, now that the circumstances are reversed, it is our duty to mete to them. The one principle by which you are to be guided is that, fearless to menace, uninfluenced by favour, we shall give to the principle of strict neutrality full and impartial effect, and carry out to utmost of our power that principle of international law to which we in our own time of danger and necessity ourselves appealed. (Cheers.) I wish most heartily that I could give you a more satisfactory account in regard to what has passed in respect to the unhappy kingdom of Poland. 1 wish I could have told that when the wrongs of Poland ex cited the sympathy of Europe, and when Austria, France, and England thought proper to remonstrate, their remon strances had been effectual for the end which they had in view. But I can give you no such assurance, and I deeply regret that the consequences ehould have been those which are familiar to your knowledge. All that I shall say upon that subject is that there were only two other courses which England could have pursued. One was to have preserved absolute silence, which, under the cir cumstances of the case, might have been interpreted into giving its assent to the course which was being pursued in Poland; and the other was that Austria, France, and Eng land should, by openly raising war against Russia and the allies of Russia, have opened again those floodgates of a general European war which were closed some 50 years ago of which few of us of have seen the desolation and misery it entailed, but which are yet green in the memory of Europe, for there are probably many of its provinces that have not attained to that prosperity and progress which they would have otherwise enjoyed. You have looked with great interest to the proposals which have been made by the Emperor of the French for a general European Congress, and I believe I speak the sentieeents of every man in this room, and I am sure that I speak my own, when I say that I yield to no man in the most earnest desire for the cordial union at all times between the policy of England and of France, for I hold that the cordial union of England and France is ono of the greatest safeguards for the peace of Europe, which I value beyond all things. (Cheers.) I sympathise cordially with all the motives by which the congress was recommended to the consideration of England, but on those very grounds, viz,, difference of view, I think the people of England generally egree that it was right on our part to refuse to join in it. They rightly thought the hezerd was too great to bo en countered, and that such a congress, with the most earnes desire for peace, would have produced a totally contrary and THE SUN, LONDON, STAURDAY EVENING, JAN cARY 2,1864 w ° pposite result. We could lave no self interest in view; England desires no aggrandisement ; she has nothing to seek ; and in the case of the Icnian Islands, she has shown the very year that has passed that, if there be anything which she possesses, that she believes it for the interest of those who are chiefly concerned, and for the welfare of the country, that she should surrender, she is prepared at once to surrender it, not at the sugiestion of any number of per sons, but by her own free wil, and from her own sponta neous feeling. (Cheers.) II another quarter clouds have arisen, which threaten the naintenance of peace between two nations with which we lave been upon every account on terms of the closest and most intimate relationship. From the Danes and from the Germans we draw our blood, I sincerely trust that as Gernany hitherto has been consi dered, with justice, the most )acific of all European powers, as the great centre of tranquility and peace in Europe, so by the wisdom and moderation of its councils, this great danger might be averted, ant peace be happily preserved. In this case, at any rate, the appeal of England is to treaty. Treating of the statute law of Europe, it is the title deeds of monarchs and the charter which guarantees the rights of nations. (cheers.) I sincerely trust that by wisdom, by firmness, and by moderatioa on both sides, that peace which we all so earnestly and cordially desire may still be preserved. As 1 have said, to us the year has been one of great and solemn thankfulnass, and the revenue returns which have been published this morning show how pros• perous upon the whole has been our condition, and how buoyant has been our revenue. By the legislation of the past year every duty whichimpeded foreign trade has been romoved, every duty upon domestic manufactures which tends to prohibit the use of articles in the promotion of manufactures has been remitted, and in the course of the year which has just expired Parliament felt itself at liberty to remove a portion both cf your direct and indirect taxa tion, to relieve a portion of the burdens upon property, and also of the burdens upon consumers in regard to those articles which form the humble luxuries of the poor. How far those remissions of taxation can be further carried will depend upon two considerations, one of which is to what amount the expansive trade and industry of the country will contribute to pour into the treasury an increased re venue, and the other is the state of our foreign relations, and how far they will permit us, with a due regard to the safety and honour of the country, to put a restriction on the expenditure necessary for the military defence of the na tion. It was General Washington who, in founding the republic of America, gave birth to the wise maxim that the people of that country should avoid all the quarrels of Eu rope, enlarge their commerce. and study to be at peace and amity with the whole world. It never can be our case that we can avoid the questions that agitate Europe. but I sin cerely hope that under all parties and all governments we shall observe this rule with respect to other countries as far as we can, and with a proper spirit of moderation and firmness, I do not doubt that we can secure to ourselves the blessings of peace. Mr. NEATE also addressed the meeting, observing that as yet he was untried in Parliament, but his satisfaction at being their representative was considerably enhanced by his having the right hon. gentleman who had just sat down for a colleague; and though he could not say that he should always follow his ad vice,he should certainly resort to him for it in times of doubt and difficulty. He (Mr. Neate) could not but think that it would have been better and more dig nified on the part of the Government if it had maintained absolute silence on the Polish question, considering the position in which it had been placed. He thought that the Government were right in having nothing to do with the congres. He, like other Englishmen, was not averse to seeing a fair standup fight, and they had lately had a con • flict between the great champion of the press and he might say the great champion of freedom of opinion, or what some might call the champion of democracy—he referred to Mr. Cobden, When a man had done good service to the coun try he must protest against the unfairness with which he had been treated by the great organ of the press. He should not have said this if others had not shown themselves re luctant, and had shrunk from coming forward in his cause, and he must confess that he felt disappointed when he saw that at a great gathering in Lancashire the other day no voice had been raised by the Lancashire and Yorkshire gen • tlemen, for whom Yr. Cobden had done so much, in his favour. He should have thought that voices would have been found to speak in favour both of Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden, in a district which they had so much benefited. (Hear, hear.) He was one of those who thought that the present law of the settlement of landed property ought to be amended, and that the agglomeration of the landed property into the hands of a few individuals was not only an inconvenience,•but might one day become a danger. The health of Colonel Fane, M.P., in connection with the county magistracy, was also drunk, and having been briefly responded to by the gallant c )lonel, various other toasts of a local character were drank, and the proceedings did not terminate till a late hour. bridge to the Mansion-house. He should lament if the Board refused to co-operate with the Commissioners of Sewers, as the setting back of this street would undoubt edly be a great improvement. Mr. LE BRETON seconded the motion. Mr. DOULTON, M.P., opposed the motion, and said they ought to seek elsewhere rather than by direct taxation for funds for improvements of this character, but he believed this would not be an improvement of the slightest benefit in connexion with the new street to Blackfriars-bridge. What they wanted to improve the street was to pull down a corner of the Mansion- house. Mr. BENNETT also opposed the motion, as the improve ment would be on the wrong side of the street. He should vote against the motion, and should have voted against any money being applied to this purpose had he been present. Mr. HEALEY and Mr. FECKE'TT opposed the motion. Mr. SAUNDERS said the Board must do that which was practicable, and if it was desirable to widen the street and take down the Mansion-house, he would ask them were they prepared to go to Parliament for powers to do that which would not cost them £25,000, but a very much larger sum ? Mr. FREEMAN looked upon it as reckless to proceed with a work without proper data which might possibly cost them 100,000, or even more. _ _ _ Mr. ROCHE urged that the Corporation of London ought to contribute out of its own funds to so important an im• provament. Some members having expressed their ()Pinions, The CHAIRMAN put the question, when the motion was negatived by a majority of 31 to 7. ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN THE SEWERS. A letter was received from Mr. Panizzi, of the British Museum, inviting the Board to send to the British Museum such antiquities as were found during the progress of the main drainage works. The subject was referred , to the Main Drainage Committee. Some other matters were disposed of, and the Board ad journed at an early hour for the purpose of proceeding to open the new street in Southwark. THE CONVICT TOWNLEY. (From the Derbyshire Advertiser.) We append a letter received from the Rev. J. Bryans, the gentleman whom Miss Goodwin pre ferred to Townley. Now that so much interest is felt in the whole of this sad story, this letter will be eagerly perused. Without it the narrative of the tragedy would not be quite complete. Mr. Bryana asks no pity for himself, but every man's heart must feel some sympathy for fond hopes and tender ambitions ruthlessly blighted—and while they remember the life of love and happy useful. ness which the poor girl might have enjoyed, they cannot but extend their pity to the victim rather than to the murderer:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBYSHIRE ADVERTISER. Sir,—As many surmises and conjectures seem to be afloat concerning myself and one who was very dear to me, I feel bound in justice to her memory to make known the facts of the case. Our sad story is this :—Five years ago we were fondly attached to each other, but having the un pardonable fault of being poor, friends interfered and we were condemned to separate. We did so with much sorrow and with much pain. Hinc lacrytnce. Was it not natural, therefore, that on our meeting again, under what appeared happier auspices, our old affection should revive with redoubled strength, and that she should return to her first and early love, whom she had never forgotten, and whom she found still faithful to her ? What wonder if we vowed never to part again, come what might ? But we have been again cruelly separated, to meet again no more in this world. I would wish to say, that it was from a desire to do what was just, right, and honourable that she lost her sweet life. These few words I feel bound to say in justice to the memory of one whose beauty, goodness, and kindness of heart had endeared her to all who knew her, and whose cruel and early death has plunged many into hopeless misery and thrown a fearful shadow over my own life.—l am, sir, yours, &c., Cheshire. FRANCIS R. BRYAN'S. Our Derby contemporary also publishes the fol lowing interesting details : Most of our readers are aware by this time that the exe cution of the sentence upon George Victor Townley, who murdered Miss Goodwin, has been respited, and in order that the public may know how the respite was obtained, we proceed briefly to state what steps have been taken by Mr. Leech (the prisoner's solicitor), hii relatives, and others, to secure that object. Immediately after Tbwnloy's condemnation application was made to Mr. Baron Martin, the judge who tried him, with a view to induce him to suggest to the Home Secretary the desirability of directing a commission of inquiry into the state of the prisoner's mind. Before, however, the applica tion had reached the learned Baron, his lordship had already been in communication with the Home Secretary on the sub ject. Statutory declarations of numerous persons, including several of the leading medical men resident in London, Man chester, Leeds, York, Scarborough, and Chesterfield, were also made, together with a record of numerous cases of hereditary insanity in the prisoner's family. Statements were also made to the Home Secretary to the effect that the extraordinary theological and moral views of the prisoner, as expressed by him to Dr. Forbes Winslow, were entirely opposed to the notions which he had previously entertained, and that his previous lifa was most ex-mplary and remark. able for its morality. Some rather singular statements were made on oath by Mr. Bolin and others, as to the alleged past delusions of the prisoner. Mr. Dolan's evi dence was to the effect that he was an intimate friend of Townley whilst in London, two :rears ago. He also knew about that time of the first breach of the engagement be tween Townley and Miss Goodwin, and although the former apparently acquiesced in what had been done, and returned the unfortunate young lady's letters, his conduct at times was extremely eccentric. On one occasion, in London, Mr. Dolan stated that Townley purchased seven white hats and three umbrellas at one shop, and in order to distinguish one hat from another he cut square holes in them of different sizes, and wore the hats on alternate days in spite of remonstrance. On another occasion Townley accompanied Mr. Dolan to some swimming -baths and plunged in with his clothes on. On being told about it he expressed his surprise at what had occurred, and said he believed he had been undressed. He also turned the pictures in his rooms upside down, and otherwise acted in a very extraordinary manner. An ex planation was given to the Home Secretary as to why this evidence was not known or adduced upon the trial. Nine of the jury who tried Townley signed a memorial to the Home Secretary, stating that, although their verdict was a just one, they were of opinion that an inquiry should be made as to the present state of the prisoner's mind. Petitions in favour of commutation were sent from London, Manchester, Leeds, York, Hull, Derby, and other places, the aggregate number of signatures obtained being about 30,000. A certificate was also signed by three local magis trates and two medical men, in accordance with the provi sions of an act of Parliament, expressing their view to the effect that they believed Townley to be insane. Sir G. Grey being unable to withstand these influences determined to appoint a lunacy commission of inquiry, and Dr. Foster, Dr. Wilkes, and Mr. Campbell, solicitor, the commissioners selected, arrived in Derby at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, taking up their quarters at the Midland hotel. They at once proceeded to the gaol, told the governorr their errand, and were ushered into the con demned cell, without any previous arrangement or Townley being made aware of the object of their interview with him. After an interview of two hours they left, and returned to the gaol on Sunday, when at one o'clock they proceeded to examine Mr. Sims, the governor; the Bev. Mr. Moore, chaplain; Mr. Gisborne, the surgeon; Mr. Carrington, head turnkey, four under turnkeys, and Mr. and Mrs. Townley. Dr. Foster also attended the Sunday afternoon service at the gaol chapel, and, unknown to the prisoner, watched his conduct narrowly. The Rev. Mr. Moore preached on the Sunday morning and afternoon, the follow ing being the text selected :—Morning, Ist Timothy i. 16— " Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering, for a pat tern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." Afternoon, St John xiv. 6—" I am the way, the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father but by me." The lunacy commissioners were engaged from 1 o'clock on Sunday afternoon until 7 the same evening in examining witnesses; after which . they had another protracted inter ♦iew with Townley in his cell. They then. left the gad, On Monday morning they prepared their report,and at noon proceeded by train to London, having arranged to present the report at the Home-office between 4 and 5 o'clock the same afternoon. Sir George Grey was spending the Christ mas holidays at his seat, Fallados, in Northumberland, a distance of 323 miles from the metropolis, and a special mes senger was at once despatched to him with the commis sioners' report, together with the evidence taken in the in quiry. The messenger reached Falladon between 9 and 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when Sir George Grey perused the documents, and then at once despatched the messenger to Derby, who arrived here at 7 p.m., on Tuesday evening. He reached the gaol at 7 . 15 p.m., where every preparation was being made for carrying out the sentence, the scaffold being in course of erection. The messenger at once handed the respite to the Goverror. It was to the effect that the execution of the sentence of death passed upon George Vic tor Townley be respited until further signification of her Majesty's pleasure. Mr. Sims at once communicated the news to Townley, and whilst all the officers of the gaol were overcrome with feelings of satisfaction, Townley re ceived the information without the slightest emotion. Directly afterwards Townley's family, who were in the town, were made acquainted with the contents of the de spatch, and on the sa• le evening they had an interview with the culprit in his cell. Previous to receiving the respite on Tueslay,a deputation, consisting of two leading members of Parliament,a physi cian, the Rev. Cosmo Gordon, Mr. Wright, the prison philanthropist (all from the neighbourhood of Manchester), and Mr. Leech, the prisoner's solicitor, had been organised, and had actually started on their way to Failed= fur the purpose of having an interview with Sir George Grey; but upon the arrival of the messenger, they were telegraphed for back. With regard to Townley's health we may state that he is heavier now than at any time since he entered the gaol. He never was in better spirits, and a few days ago talked cheer fully about his execution, and remarked that on Thursday (yesterday) he should be restored to Miss Goodwin. Since the respite his conduct has been much the same, and he still remains in the condemned cell with two warders in charge of him day and night. Whatever opinion may pre vail as to whether or not he ought to have been executed, there is but one opinion as to the able manner in which his defence has been conducted by Mr. Leech, to whose un wearied exertions the culprit is indebted for the respite of his sentence. Russian Official Accounts of Events in Poland. In an article confuting certain assertions made by the official Dziennik of Warsaw, in contradiction of Polish news published by the Journal des _Wats, the French journal makes the following remarks on the accuracy of Russian reports generally : With regard to young Rawicz and the tortures to which he is said to have been subjected during the detention which preceded his condemnation and punishment, the Dziennik confines itself to a repetition of the statement, " that no civil or military tribunal has any right to apply torture, be cause the law has suppressed it." But where are law and right in Poland at the present day ? Has not the state of siege suppressed them also ? The 'act is attested by a large number of correspondents of various nations—English, Ger man, and Polish—writing in all the journals of the world, and who are opposed, not by a categorical denial, but by an argument, we are told, that the law has suppressed torture; that the Russian Czar has also abolished the penalty of death since the reign of Catherine ; yet every day people are hung or shot by imperial order in the whole of Poland, both in the kingdom and in the provinces annexed to the em pire. . . As the Dziennik appeals to our impartiality, as it justly invokes the rights of truth, and speaks of rectifications, we have been induced to examine the Russian telegrams, to sex whether they, too, are not sometimes full of exagge ration, and whether they are to be blindly credited. It is right that public opinion should be enlightened on this point. No one has forgotten the telegram from St. Peters burg, dated the 23d January, immediately after the exe cution of the famous recruitment, announcing that in the night of the 22d of that month the Poles had failed in an attempt to renew the St. Bartholomew massacre against the Russians. On the 31st it is officially announced from Warsaw that nothing is known of the proclamation of a state of siege in Lithuania and Podolia. These provinces are tranquil, and yet, three days after a telegram from St. Petersburg says that numerous bands have appeared in the district of Troki, government of 'Wilna ; and on the 7th Feb., as announced in a Warsaw despatch of the 10th, Gen. Maninkin has a battle with 6,000 insurgents at Sie miatycze, in the Government of Grodno—notwithstanding which, the Warsaw telegram of the 17th March declares that " no movement has taken place in the western provinces, and tranquillity has not been disturbed there." " These instances will suffice to show what confidence Russian official despatches and denials generally deserve ; but they are as nothing compared with the extraordinary adventures of Ihe Polish chiefs related by the Warsaw tele grams. One of them, Bogdanowicz, was, according to a Warsaw telegram of the 20th Feb., taken prisoner, another of the 27th states he was killed in battle—and a third,of the 7th March, declared he was condemned to death and shot. Another well known Polish chief, Padlewski, is killed by an official despatch of the 14th March, and his papers fall into the hands of the Russian troops. He reappears in the de • spatch of the 27th March, to be beaten and put to flight; and it is only after his death and posthumous defeat that he is definitively taken prisoner in the telegram of the 23d April, and shot a few days after. Czachowski, whose death we announced quite recently, had already been killed in a Warsaw telegram of the 25th March, and his papers, as usual, had fallen into the hands of the imperial troops ; this, however,did not prevent his reappearing alive in the d espatch of the 12th May, his being in action for several months, and his being spoken of in several subsequent official telegrams. • . There are sometimes curious contradictions between the official telegrams from Warsaw and the official reports of the lnvalide Busse. Thus, quite recently, a Warsaw de spatch of Dec. 12 deciared that the news given by the Paris journals of certain battles, particularly of that of Ociosianki, fought by Bosak and Chmielinski, were a pure invention;' while the Invalids Russe, in its number of Dec. 15, gives a detailed account of this very battle of Ociosianki fought by Bosak and Chmielinski. . _ _ "But let us now pass to another class of facts. It might be alleged that errors and omissions might slip into the re • citals of numerous engagements over the whole extent of a country where communications are difficult. Lc t us now speak of cases where the perversion of truth cannot be ex plained by accident. It will be remembered that a Warsaw telegram denied the report of the condemnation to death of the prelate Bialobrzeski after the closing of the profaned churches in the night of October 15, 1861. The following are the words of a St. Petersburg despatch, dated a few days after (January 2) The guilt of Canon Bialobrzeski having been confirmed in his trial, the military tribunal has condemned him to death. This penalty has been commuted by General Luders, the imperial lieutenant in the kingdom, to banish • ment to Siberia. . . . On Dec. 20, 1862, a St. Peters burgh telegram gives the following unexpected news— 'An Imperial ukase, published to-day, annuls all the confisca-- tions which have been hitherto maintained in Poland. The confiscated estates shall be returned to all Poles that return to their country, both to exiles even and to those who have been born abroad.' The text of the ukase arrives, and it is found that no confiscation has been annulled, no restitution of estates ordered; on the contrary, all confiscations are confirmed and the estates are declared as reverting defini tively to the imperial exchequer; all that is abandoned is further search after what may have escaped the investiga tion of the police for the last 30 years. It was simply a sensation telegram, like that which, in the spring of 1862, announced the approaching proclamation of a constitution in Russia, just at the moment when Russia was about to negotiate a loan abroad. " An official telegram of the 24th June last denies the authenticity of the instructions to General Mouravidffi published in the European press, founding its denial on the assertion that no document was ever signed with these words—lmperial Chancellery.' We must first observe that this assertion is incorrect. It is notorious that the imperial Chancellery is the highest institution in Russia, the first in strument of the Imperial Government, and that it is sub divided into sections, of which the third has precisely the charge of the higher police and the safety of the State. The despatches proceeding from this department are all headed Imperial Chancellery, section of —,' as is usual in all great institutions of this kind. The error would, therefore, appear to consist in the sign of the authenticity of the docu ment in question having been placed at the end instead of at the beginning. But, without insisting on this detail, which is a mere matter of form, we see that whole passages from these instructions have been reproduced, almost word for word, in General Mouravieff's circulars, and that these instructions are not only literally executed, but even in praC tice exceeded, at Wilna. We will take but one phrase from the official denial of June 24—that which says ' no rigorous measure has been ordered against women '—and compare it with the ordinance of General Mouravieff against women in mourning, dated 25th June, which contains the follow ing passage Women appearing in mourning in public shall be punished with a fine of 25 roubles for the first offence, of 50 for the second and by arrest, and by the same punishment as is given to those who participate in the revolt for the third. . "This very incomplete list will suffice to show how Rus sian official despatches and journals write history, and what credit is due to their testimony." RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The wills of George Hobson, Esq., of Westbourne-roal was proved in the London Court under £lOO,OOO personalty. The testator has bequeathed the bulk of his property, with the exception of an annuity of siooo to be held in trust by his executors for the benefit of his son, including the testa tor's interest and share in the business and firm of Messrs. Reid and Co., brewers—his son receiving £lOO a year during his minority. The will of William Gardner, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, was proved in London under £20,000 personality by his brother, Henry Gardner, Esq., the sole executor, to whom he has entrusted the whole of his property, making a provision for his (testator's) wife, and leaving to his (tes tator's) niece life interest in the sum of £60,000. The will of George Edward Russell, Esq., late in the Hon ourable East India Company's Madras Civil Service, who died at his residence, Hyde Park. street, on the 27th of October last, was proved in the London Court under £70,000 personalty, the executors and trustees being G. B. Carr, Esq., of Cumberland-terrace ; W. Moncton, Esq., Clifton, Gloucester ; and the Rev. H. Russell, of St. John's College, Cambridge, to each of whom a legacy of £2OO is bequeathed. To his wife th; testator has left an annuity of £l,OOO, with all the furniture; the plate, paintings, and books, upon her decease, to become the property of his eldest son. To his sons he leaves the residue of his estate, bequeathing to the children of his late daughter, Mrs. Hill, £lO,OOO ; to his daughter, Jane Leonora, £15,000 ; together with certain contingent interests to his children, and an annuity of £250 to his sister, Leonora Russell. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-- Healing not Harmful.—No application has met with the same universal approbation for curing all external ail ments as that which this unguent has received. Skin sores, deep uleers, fetid discharges, barns, blistered sur faces, and many similar affections are at once soothed, and put on the road to soundness by Holloway's Oint ment. With this ointment and his pills the wealthy may save themselves much suffering and the poor may help themselves to health, since these medicaments aro reason able in price, and can be purchased in every hamlet. They have effected cures of stiff joints, swelled legs, and ulce rated limbs, and opened out the prospect of a happy future after every hope of recovery had been given up, METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS• The usual meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held yesterday at the office in Spring•gardens—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The financial statement was presented, which showed the following cash balances in the hands of the treasurer : Current accounts, £65,390 3s 10d ; deposit accounts, £35,122 lOs 91; total, £100,512 14s 7d ; Government securities, £96 729 8s 71. THE CHIEF ENGINEER AND THE ODESSA CONTRACT. Communications were received from St. George's Vestry, Southwark, and the Westminster District Board of Works, enclosing resolutioxs approving the report of the Main Drainage Committee of the Board with relation to the en gineer's connection with the works at Odessa. THE NEW MARYLEBONE. ROAD, A communication was received from the Marylebone Vestry praying that the numerous places and terraces abo lished by calling the thoroughfare throughout by the single name of the New Marylebone-road might be restored. The sutject was referred to the Streets Committee. THE PROGRESS OP THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS. The Chief Engineer laid before the Board the following report on the progress of the main drainage works :-- "Making due allowance for the shortness of the days in the present month, and for the stoppage of the works in the Christmas week, fair progress has been made in the execu tion of the several sections of the main drainage works. In connection with the Middle Level line and its branches, Messrs.Brassey and Co. have now completed nearly 11 miles of sewers, varying from 4ft to 12ft, at an estimated cost of £293,000 or £4,000 more than was reported last month. Messrs. Moxon and Co. have completed above 2! miles of the Western sewers, ranging in size from 4ft Gin circular to 3ft 9in. to 2ft bin, at a probable cost of about £40,500, being £2,500 in excess of my last monthly report. These works are still being carried on in confined localities, and great precautions are necessary to avoid damage to adjoin ing properties. ' The apron piece in the river, at theoutlet of the Northern Outfall Sewer, is not yet quite completed, owing to the very short tidal periods in which it can be pro ceeded with. Some other minor works also remain to be done to complete this contract, under which, to the present time, Mr. Furness has executed work to the value of about £614,000, of which £9,000 is due to the progress made in the past month. The amount of work done by Mr. Furness un der his contract for the Northern Outfall Reservoir is esti mated at about £140,000, £15,000 representing the propor tion of the work done last month. At the Southern Outfall Works, Crossness, about 142,000 cubic yards of ground have been excavated and removed, and about 70,000 )ards of concrete filled in. About 4,000 rods of brickwork, 28,000 cubic feet of masonry, and 67,000 superficial feet of paving have also been executed, and 85 p enstoc ks fixed. To the present time the total co s t o f the work execu t e d b y M r. Webster under this contract a mounts to a b ou t £175,000, or £6,300 in excess of the sum reported las t month. Mr. Webster, under his contract for the Main Southern Low Level Sewer, has now completed nearly 21 miles of this line, which, with other works, amount in value to abount £86,000, an excess of £12,000 over my last monthly report. Messrs. Aird and Son have satisfactorily completed within the time allowed by the contract the entire line of the Bermondsey branch of the Southern Low Level Sewer. Its total length is nearly three miles, and its cost, as far as can be ascer tained till the account is finally adjusted, is about £94,000. Notwithstanding very many difficulties with the paviors and others, some of whom struck on Tuesday last, the new Southwark-street will this day be opened by the Board for public traffic throughout its entire length from the Borough to the Blackfriars-road. The total value of the work done by Mr. Pearson under his contract for the completion of this street amounts to about £24,500, or £5,000 more than reported last month. " J. W. BAZALGETTE, Engineer," The report was received and ordered to be printed and circulated. PROPOSED STREET IMPROVEMENT IN THE CITY OF LONDON. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR rose to move the resolution of which he had given notice :--“That, on account of the great im portance of the widening of Mansion-house- street, as a means of facilitating the public traffic, and its connection with the formation of the new street from Blackfriars to the Mansion-house, the Board do contribute one-half of the ac tual cost of effecting the improvement, and that,the resolu tion of the Board of 30th October last (No. 3), limiting the amount to be contributed by the Board to £2,600, be varied accordingly ; that the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of Londcn be requested to proceed forthwith to acquire the property proposed to be taken, and that the amount of the contribution by the Board be paid to the commissioners, on a certificate by the architect of this Board of the cost and completion of the work." In support of this motion he said that since this matter had been before the Board it had been found that the owners of the property required had set a much higher value upon it than had been contemplated, and from inquiries he had no hesitation in saying that this improvement could not be effected for less than £50,000, but the maximum might be £60,000, That -sum would include the setting back of St. Mildred's Church about 14 or 15i t, and the whole line of Mansion- hou-e-st reet would he thrown back to the Britannic Assurance Office. Be suggested that the Board should contribute £25,000 towards the cost, the Commissioners of Sewers contributing the other half. Now the contribution on the part of the Board would only in volve a rate of Ich in the pound, but the City of London would have to contribute 51d. in the pound, in addition, so anxious were they to see improvements in that particular locality in connection with tho new street from Blackfriars Death of Viscount Valentia. _ We have to record the death of VisoonntVelenti s which event occurred on Wednesday, at Bletchior ,on Park, near Woodstock. The deceased noble' man, Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia, county Kerry, Baron IVlountnorris, of Mountnorris Castle' County Armagh, and Premier Baronet of Irelando born Nov. 30, 1785, was; the eldest son of Mr. A. Annesley, of Bletchington Park, Oxon (fourth is descent from the Hon. Francia, sixth son of Francis) first viscount), by Catherine, daughter and heir of Admiral Sir Chas. Hardy. On the death of George , second Earl of Mountnorris, in July, 1844, he sue' ceeded to the original Irish titles conferred in 162 8 and 1628. The deceased married in August, 180 8 ) Eleanor, daughter of Mr. Henry O'Brien, of Bls' therwick Park, Northants, by whom, who died jo June, 1843, his lordship had a large family. He succeeded in the family honours by his grandsosi Arthur, only son of the late Hon. Arthur Annesleyi born in 1842. In reference to the ancient family of the Anner leys, Shirley, in his "Noblemen and Gentlemen d England," has the following :—" Ralph, surnarne 4 Brito de Annesley, living in the second year of Henry 11. (1156), is assumed to have been son d Richard of Annesley, in the county of Nottinghaelf mentioned in the Domesday Survey. That estat' continued in the Annesleys until the death of Jobs de Annesley, Esq., in 1437, when it went by 0 heiress to the Chaworths. The family then removed to Rodington, in the same county, and after warcli to Newport-Pagnell, in Buckinghamshire, but Jre land was the scene of the prosperity of the famili early in the 17th century, which may be said. to have been refounded by Sir Francis Annesley, Ss; cretary of State, in 1616. Hence the viscounty 0 ' Valentia, which afterwards merged in the earlde o of Anglesea, in England, adjudged by the Englis ) House of Lords to be extinct in 1761 ; but by 1 111 same evidence of the viscounty of Valentia vi° allowed to the grandson of the last Earl of Angle sea, whom the English House of Lords found to bo illegitimate. He was created Earl of Mountnorreh in Ireland, in 1793, and on the decease of the lesi earl in 1844, the Irish viscounty and the represen i tation of the family descended to Arthur Anneslef' of Bletchington, Esq.; descended from the secoes marriage of the first Viscount Valentia." COUNTRY MARKETS. 11. BRISTOL—FRIDAY. The tone of our market to-day was strong, and there it,° a short supply of English wheat, which found buyers at tr prices of this day se'nnight. Foreign held for is advanc e ' Flour dull. Malting barley quiet, grinding in moderst e request, and oats rather lower. Beans no demand. LIN COLN.--FRIDAY. A fair quantity of wheat on offer at our market to-dot with a moderate business, at is to 2s per qr dearer. White wheat new, 44s to 48s 1 Barley, grinding.. 28s to .1 / Red do. 3Bs to 42s 1 Oats, old, .. 24s to n, Old white —s to —s 1 New do 20s to a'„ Red do —s to --s j Beans. 4os to 4„,%' Barley, malting....33s to 38s 1 Beans, new 37s to 4u' STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 42s to 445; red, 368 to 40s per 36 stop . Barley, malting, 34s to 365; grinding, 29s to 32a per i l; Oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 408 to 4 28 qr. ; new, 34s to 365. BURTON. ON-TRENT—FRIDAY. We had a fair supply of English wheat today, sold well, at is more money. Barley steady, and holdw firm in demanding late rates. Oats improved. Old white wheat ..43s to 47s I Old red wheat, 4os to 4 ! New. do. 435 to 46s I New do. 37s to 4 ,," Malting barley....33s to 37a I Oats. 21 s to : 3 „' Grinding d0.....29s to 31s I Beans 335 to 4" CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the qu o t a ti ons thi s m orning I t ej wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od t 0.98 8d , barleY,l 0 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 6s 2d ; black do., 4s 4d 6s 31. DUBLIN—FRIDAY. S. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 N. d. 0 1 d, 2 i Oatmeal lO 0 to P 0 Beans.. Bere - 0 Rapeseed Bakers' flour Indian corn COAL Prima of Coal per iron a MARKET. t the close el the market. 6 s. d. Cowpen Hartley 16 3 West Hartley ..16 3 Hastings Hartley ....16 3 Eden Main 18 9 Wylam 17 6 West Wylam.. l6 6 Walker Primrose 14 6 Walls End. 3 Tunstall Hartlepool l9 9 South Hartlepool.-- 1 1 9 S 0 0 Heugh Hall Kelloe . 19 0 South Kelloe 1 9 0 Hemp. 9O 0 Riddell ... 18 0 Harton lB Walls End. Goaforth Cassop 19 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 1 Australia and Mauritius, via S ou th ampton. J an . 1 $ ; 1 • via Marseilles Jan. ? i l .3razil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. - 1 .1 Cape of Good Hope, Asce ns i on , an d S t. H elena Jan. 1 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan• ',H via Marseilles Jan' ..., i Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. via Marseilles Jan. "1, India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. ' I A s -- via Marseitles • Jan, u A : Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. ".,, via Marseill es - .. Jan* Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet.... Jan. 6 ' by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet.. Jan ' O. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and TeneritTe Tan. Bahamas, via New York Jan. I _,* Nlexico. . • ... Jan. - All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Jan , California. and British Columbia. GEORGE TANNER, for this last seven yei lt l Pantaloon at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, is at preee; suffering from a severe a tt ac k o f paralysis, and not l ilt / ever again to be able to follow his professional calling' Era. ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid medicines: they always WI vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Heal' Restoring Revalenta Arabica. Food, which saves fifty Wil e , its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restorillF, perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy lii r r ef g pure blood, refreshin g s l ee p , f unc ti onal regularity, and ene $ to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few 011 4 , of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness Brehan, Paris, of a Aver complaint, wasting away for se j years, debility, with a nervous pa l p i tat i on all over, I/7,1 digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nerfo:i agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—C - ure No. 1,771. 1,5 Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many year . , dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable a oP th , from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipati o ,, iiatulenoy, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, thirty years' diseased lungs, s pitti ng o f bl ood, liver derange:, ment, and partial deafness.—C ure N o. 47,121. Miss Elise/ e l / Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherisgstl°o spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 54,b16. The Rev.' T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torll,, dity of the liver, which had resiste I all medical treatnicil l i o In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d . ; 2 1b ., 48. 6d ; 51b., its. ; 121 b., 225. ; 440; 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, LOn d° o also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemist o very town of the United Kingdom. Births. BANILES.— On the 27th inst., at Eccleston-street, S., Hon. Mrs. Nugent Bankes, of a son. C 44. LLOYD.—On the 30th ult., at Manchester, the wife of Lloyd, Commanding Royal Engineers, of a daughtet. tis STURT.—On the 29th inst., at 7, Grosvenor-street, Lady Augusta Sturt, of a daughter. t d t WARREN.—On the 30th ult., at K nap- hill , W o ki ng , wife of Captain J. S. Warren, of a son. Marriages. X'o Guier—in GILL.—On the Ist inst., at Trinity Church, iof land-place, Li eu t.-C o l one l G. M. Guinn], late of 11.'.10 Madras Artillery, to Jane Margaret, widow of the le John Gill, Retired Surgeon of the Madras Medical tablishment. M‘DowELL—Comps.—On the 29th inst., at Saint Lugs West Hollo wa y, R e d mon d cl ements M'Dowell, only t of Patrick M'D owe ll, R.A., t o S ophronia Etty, youl3V daughter of the late Henry James Combs, Esq. Deaths. ASIIPORD.—On the 28th inst., at Petersham, suddo Wm. Kerr Ashford, Esq., aged 59. COOPER.—On the 30th ult., at 57, Barton-crescent, co Edward Cooper, Esq., aged 70. a EvAms.—On the 3Jth u l t., Willi am E vans, E sq., Br o °o field House, Herne, Kent, aged 47. Nicitoil.s,—On th e 28 t h i ns t., a t Upper Edmonton, ' Nicholls, Esq. m it STIRLING. —On th e I s t i ns t., a t 18, Curtin-street, MaP ) Walter Stirling, Esq., of Drutapel er, aged 84. TEMPLE.—On the 30th inst. ; at Teignmouth, Cha lk Teuiple, Esq . , aged 26. Londcn: Prlraed and rubilshed by WILLIAM ANDll o i ii, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office No•;ct Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coUll t i Saturday, January 2, 1864. 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