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In these times it was necessary that we should avail ourselves of indivi dual and independent enterprise and ta!ent, and we might depend upon it that we were on the wrong tack when we allowed the Government to become manufacturers, instead of dealing in the open market. TO PER SONS SEEKING LANDED ESTATE 8, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASJAIOLD INVESTMENTS, AND _PROPER FIE S G ENERA I .LY -40 BE HAD GRATIS, at Vac principal Railway Bookstalls throughout Vue kingdom, or at the Auction a.nd Estate offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY VEGIST ER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties r,ow in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTITS ve.shing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity ttiat the medium of this Register affords, by sending the Trceficu!ars of their properties to the Estate Offices, t 7, Chic ricery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most c aces introduce immediate customers, where the property is an eligible character, thereby avoid ing the disauvantage s of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. THERE IS NO CITA Rr.E incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduce , I through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then onlythe r Dual moderate commission. Auction and L ind Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. No. 22,252. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1863. PRICII.— .........4d. STAMPED ....sd. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ence to him, as he was standing only at £lB or £2O a-year in Water-lane. MR, HENLEY, 111,1), KELSO AUTUMN MEETING--WEDNESDAY. Mr. White said the books produced were most unsatis factory, as they were prepared for the occasion. The claimant had got another house, and would take his busi ness with him, so that he would not materially suffer by the removal. A sum of £5O would be ample compensation. Mr. Eadey addressed the magistrate for his client. At the Quarter Sessions for the county of Oxford, held on Tuesday last, Mr. Cripps, the senior counsel on the circuit, rose with all the barristers pre-. sent, and addressing the chairman, said that, before the business commenced, he hoped he would allow him, on behalf of the Bar, to express the great re gret which they all felt that they should no longer have the pleasure of acting under the presidency of Mr. Henley. His recollection carried him back to the whole of the time Mr. Henley had officiated as chairman of these sessions. He had the honour of acting with two gentlemen of this circuit who had been elevated to the judicial bench, and, in paying this tribute to the services of Mr. Henley, he felt assured that he was only speaking their sentiments. It was a great pleasure and gratification to them to remember that during the whole time of Mr. Hen ley's chairmanship there had not been the slightest approach to anything like an altercation between the chairman and the Bar. They claimed no credit for that, inasmuch as it was due to the great cour tesy which he had invariably shown them. They entertained the utmost respect for the high judicial attainments, his habitual firmness cf mind, and judicial clearness which led him to a right conclu sion, whether in law or practice. Ae a remarkable illustration of this, it was a striking fact that they were not able to point to any appeal against anyone of his decisions, and during the whole time he had presided over this court no one decision of his had ever been disputed or overridden by the Court of Queen's Bench. He could not but feel that no testi mony of theirs could add anything to the high character which he had achieved for himself in a higher and more public career, but he assured the court that it was most gratifying to them to express their sense of his services, as well as their regret at the loss which this court and the county had sus tained by his resignation. SALE OF ,O,T ,D STORES, AT THE ROYAL ARMY CLOI , DING DEPARTMENT, PIMLICO. A Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, with 50 added ; for 2-yr olds, colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b. 6 furlongs. Mr. H. Owen's Persuasion, Bst 71b ..........(Midgley) 1 Mr. Holt's Dawdle, B,st 71b (Mr. Thompson) 2 Mr. J. Scott's Tooi-Tooi, Bst 71h (Owner) 3 Betting-2 to lon Persuasion. Won by a length ; the same between second and third. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, 17th October, 1803. ATOTTC - E IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the -I- SE I JR.ETARY of STATE for WAR is prepared to , receive cra before SATURDAY, 31st inst., Tenders for the purcha e n'f Un.erviceable Stores now lying at the Royal Army Clo , ..hing Department at Pimlico, comprising Price One Shilling, W ral TAE STORY o f t h e MHO W COURT MARTIAL, recited by J. 0. See Cornhill Magazine for November. After which, Mr. Alderman Hale said he thought the claimant was entitled to compensation, for the increased rent he would have to pay in the neighbourhood be had removed to was not by any means an improvement. Under all the circumstances, he awarded £lOO compensation and £lO for expenses of removal, without law costs. Possession to be given in 14 days. his me nd Smith, Elder, and Co., C 5, Ccrnliill. Tho Roxburgh Handicap of 15 sovs each, with 20 added ; winners sxtra. One mile and a half. Mr. Merry's Lioness, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (inc 91b extra) (Hayward) 1 Mr. Saxon's The Monk, 6 yrs, Bst 51b (inc 91b extra) Mr; CO BDEN net proposed the toast of the even-, ing, " Prosperi ty to the Warehousemen and Cl er k s ' schools," an d gave a highly satisfactory account o f the financial conditionl of the charity. Hitcerto, h o said, the instit ut i on building was houseless and home less, bat a hands ome on one of the healthi est c ost £2,700, and th e was now being erected contract in Surrey. The land 0 0:s He stated for the building am ounted to £17,100. at o e o d the funds in hand at £14,000, exclusive of xio,o reserved for meet ing the current ex p enses of the schools. There was thus a deficiency of £ 3,100, but t that it w ould soon be made U. (L ater e had . no doubt in the even ing the secretary announced that up wards f had been subscribed i n the roo m, in addition to £7,000 received on the occasion of th e layin g i of the foundation stone of the new institution by the Prince of Wales in July last.): Several other toasts followed ; amongother s « The Health of the Chairman," which was proposed b y Mr. Morley and briefly acknowledged by Mr. Cob den. The hon. gentleman said he had always la. boured to promote liberty of action in men, to re move obstructions, to break away fetters, to give free scope to the human mind. His leading idea a a politician was admirably expressed by the great poet of liberty, Cowper "'Tie liberty alone that gives the ft mer Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume. And we are weeds without it; all constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil," During the evening a selection of vocal music was performed, under the direction of Mr. Edwin Gray. ?Military Clothing, Great Coats, Tin Ware, Waterproof Articles, Too, &c., &c. Tlie St ores maybe viewed at Pimlico from 9 to 11 and from 1 to 4 o'clock during the four days previous to the 31st inst. Tenders must be made upon the prsper printed form, which may be obtained on application at this office, or to the 111ilitt my Storekeeper at Piralion. anY Th,Or .t Secretary ot Tend ere for 7lrar reserv es th e right to reject all of 122, FLEET -STREET, LONDON. NESSRS, JOHN MAXWELL AND CO. beg to announce that the undermentioned new Works may be now had at every Circulating Library. Subscribers to those useful Institutions should not experience any delay in ob taining copies, as adequate editions have been printed, and the type is kept standing, to meet every demand as quickly as it arises :- 1. SACKVILLE CHASE. 3 vols. (Midgley) 2 Mr. Redhead's My Mary, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (H. Grimshaw) 3 Mr. Temperley's Alice, 3 yrs, 7st (inc 61b extra) (Martin) 4 The following also ran :—Joey Jones, Early Purl, Bonny Bell, Venison, and Serf. Naval and Military Intelligence. T11031.A.s HOWELL, Director of Contracts. 2. STRONGHAND. By G. AIMARD. 2 vols. 3. BREAKFAST IN BED. By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. Second Edition. 1 vol. THE NAVY. His Swedish Majesty's screw corvette Vanadis, Captain Haverman, sailed from the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, yesterday morning for the Mediterranean. The Falcon, 17 gun screw corvette, 751 tons, and 100- horse power of engines, was ordered to be commissioned at Portsmouth yesterday, reported by Commander Parkyn, who has recently been serving in her Majesty's ships Eury alus and Mersey. Betting—Even on Lioness, 5 to 2 agst The Monk, G to each agst Alice and Serf. 4. THE REV. ALFRED HOBLUSH AND lIIS CURACIES. 1 vol. Won by a neck ; three lengths between second and third. The Stewards' Cup of 50 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 3 sovs each ; 3-yr-olds, 7st 71b ; four, Bst 81b ; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st; penalties and allowances. One mile three furlongs 20 yards. Lord Durham's Michael Scott, 3 yrs,. 7st 121 b (Oram) 1 Mr. It. Calder's Miss Chaytor, 4 yrs, Bst Slb Mr. Bruce's Cocktail filly, 3 yrs, 6st 13th (Dixon) 3 Mr. Frank's Dick Swiveller, 5 yrs, 9st (Bunting) 4 Mr. Elliott's Lisette, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (Goodall) 5 Betting-5 to 2on Michael Scott. Won by three lengths ; the same between second and third. 5. SECRETS OF MY OFFICE. 1 vol. 6. CROSS OF HONOUR. 1 vol. [This day, London : John Maxwell and Co.. 122. Fleet-street. Tr H 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Pei formance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO oRCHLESTRIA, oontain ing a LOU band of 40 Instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. The Bowmont Stakes of 3 soya each, One mile and a half. Benvoirlich, 12st 101 b Nicety, 12st 91b (Mr R. Henhouse) 2 D'Aubrey, 13st 31b ..(Mr F. Waugh) 3 Tana Glen, 13st 10113 ...... (Mr Moore) 4 The following also ran :—Fidget, Clarida, B arney Otter, and Lord Charles. Betting-2 to 1 agst D'Aubrey, 3to 1 agst Benvoirlich, 4 to 1 agst Nicety. Won by a head, four lengths between second and third. The Kelso Plate (Handicap) of 30 says. One mile. Lord Durham's Michael Scott, 3 yrs, ist 71b p . ANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order N...} to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transf erre d th e representat i on of Pro fessor Pepper and Henryllircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "THEE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past Nine o'clock. . - - (Whiteley) 1 Mr Winteringham's Saltant, 3 yrs, Gst llb .... (Marson) 2 Mr Cowan's Certainty, aged, fist 131 b (D ix on) 3 The following also ran :—Lothian's King, Little Nell, Unfashionable Beauty, Enfield, and Spirit of Air. Betting-6 to 4on Lothian's King, 3to 1 agst Sal lant, 4 to 1 agst Michael Scott, 5 to 1 agst Unfashionable Beauty. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CON. VEYANCE OF TROOPS. Transport Department Admiralty, Somerset House, Oct. 17,18u3. HE CWAVVISSIONERS for Executing the 1 Office of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, tha;; on TUESDAY, d te 20th instant, at half-past 010e,k., they will be One o' . in. the Regulations eicontained yto treat under the Conditions ncl the form of Charter Service ?.for p a her r Majesty's im a T Transport at A.atutchKero,:ibl.oiDve, N otice,. for . the conveyance', which Woo y lwich to ~ two fast-sailing, ships, of about In one Ship. I n th e o th er Shi p. uflio'Ars l4 4 Ladies.lll, 6 C./Meer-1' Children .... 4 Soldiers Women Soldiers' Children Stores (heavy) 10 tons ....... Stores (light) 106 tons. Tenders are to be made at rates per head (officers and irnen separately), and per ton for Stores. The rates per head :are to include conveyance, freight of b9ggage according to Government scale (App. XXII of the Transport Regulations), the suonly of articles t , v. the mess place. cabins, and berths App. XV.), articles for table use of Troops (App. XVI.), and of cooking utensils, fuel, lights, and necessaries tor their use (App. (VII.), as well as of all such Stores (especially those referred to in Art. 97), and other requisites as are re quired by the Transport Regulations to be provided by the owners. Messing for officers or other first and second class passengers is to be supplied by the owners, and will be paid ter, in addition to the above charges "per head," at the rates specified in App. XXIII. of the Regulations, which rates are to include the supply of bedding exclusive of bed then and towels), medical comforts, articles for table us", cooking utensils, fuel, light, and other requisites (Fee Art. 201 and App. XV. to XVII. of the Regulations). Fittings will be erected, and provisions, a supply of water, medical comforts, and Bedding for the Soldiers and their families, will be put on board by Government. The owners are to supply a dis tilling apparatus, and water casks or tanks. Drinking tanks in the mess decks for the daily use of the troops will, how ever, be lent by Government, in lieu of the usual mess water barrels The Ve"sels are to be ready for immediate service, and to sail as soon as the Government fittings, &c., are completed, without any delay on account of the shipment of private cargo, No private passengers are to be conveyed. All Tenders must be made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application at the said office, and be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Somerset House, and bear iu the left-hand corner the words "Transport Department." No tender will be received alter half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty. ARMY CONTRACTS. MENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 , a'clock noon on the 3d of November, from persons Who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply - - - BREAD AND MEAT In such quantities , s may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from ist December, 1863, to 31st May, 1864 :- 1. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Pc. - r,ent's-park and St. John's-wood. 3. Ne w Barracks, Chelsea. 4 . Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace, and St. George's Barracks. 5 . The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller HalL 7. Hampton Court. S. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Ports from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. 11. Sandhurst. Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for each of the above -mentioned Stations or Barracks as sepa rately grouper: and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on r.pplication at this office, by letter or in person, between thrs hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and si , /ried, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the ralder-mentioned Office, under closed envelone (marked on the outside "Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before 12 o'clock noon on the 3d November next. W. T. POWER, Commissary-GeneraL Deputy Commissary-General's Office, 5. New-street, Spring -gardens, London, S.W., 10th Oct., 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock nowd, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1863, from persons who. maybe willing to enter into Contracts to supply FLOUR, AND MEAT, In such qua ntitle:s as may be required, from the Ist December, 1863, to 318' 15.11ay, 1861, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the command. Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tr:riders must be properly filled up and si2ned, and delivereri at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies,") and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat-office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. r FIENDERS will be received at this Offic e , unt il AL 12 o'clock, noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract 10 supply FLOUR R HTAL BR, in such quantities as FO may be O requ SPl ired, from the Ist Decem ber, 1863, to 31st May, 1-64. for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forma of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and sizned, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside n Tender tor Army Supplies"), and no tender will be noticed un , ess made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. AR3LY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct, 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth November, 186.3, from persons who may be willing to enter into Con tra-t to supply PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINEER. S, in such quantifies as ma) be required fra RVICE m the Ist December, 1863, to 30th November. 1864, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of. Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered atthis office (under closed envelope, ma r k e d on t h e 9ut , ifi e "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will 1 2. 1 !p'aticed un l ess made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. II WALKER'S NEW NEEDLES.—" The • Patent Ridged -Eyes extend the Cloth, so that the thread may pass through it quickly and without the slightest drag. For ease in threading they surpass all others.'' samp'es, post tree, at Is. of any Dealer. H. Walker's Patent Penelope Crochet Needles have the word " Penelope" on each handle. A set of four Bone Handles for 10d. ; Japanned, Sd. : Parallel Tartan, ls. : Black, sd. A set of four with the new Patent Uncotopic Handles, which keep the hooks at all times in their true position for work, for Is. post free of any dealer. —H. WALKER, Patentee and Manufac turer to her Majesty of Needles, Pirh Hooks, Pins, Hooks and Eyes, Alcester, and 4 7, Gresh am - street, London. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS 'PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards o f Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, 1s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe -Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, And the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 815. 6d. Postage, ls. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, le. 10c1. Poet -office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT lE LAST IC STOCKINGS, TEE-CAPS, Am., for Varicose Veins and all oases of toor o Z:esa and Swelling ot the Legs, Sprains, and They are zi"e a u : . ou ght n texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on e a 4 h. p o d s tliary stocking. Price 48. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16e. j- O , 4 Se W RITE. Manufacturer. 22g. Piccadilly. It°VAT ------------ ______ - - 4 pp 1 11 t,, LEE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, way TerillinZanltTAate vicinity of the Great Northern Ball- Vuscross. 11- Presid e Pat ron —The QUEEN. Tr ea , nrer_ Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. This was the first 1 Edward Masterman Esqpitatto introd the . and instant admissiol" nudity .of Instance r i l t t ° the destitut i e lee sick e i principle lioutth o e f for tut ion in its most pitta e hi er f s n • it is eniirely'd w ev t Oted to disti pcnied by sickness and e c em — viz., that which is accem magnitude that, with a d - - "ase, and is now ot sufficient capable of admitting int o j e t r a te support, it may be rendered :zreat wards a very large'proportion of the casual sick ot this funds in order to have noo b e W s et a r °l l olis. i'eviitilable for the reception of It requires but the these the most wretched or our e a week. it gratuitously :Words medical advt ° ,, w , 'creatures. Moreover, on the average, than 3,000 out. medicine to more, rative duty to make an The Weekly Board feel it theirim EARNEST APPEAL to the pub& to enable them to admit and reliev e thel.e.A2l?tinued Sport, _., Edward daily present themselves. ''' es sitqf ca s e s that Co. ;rsuCoutta and Contributions are received by th e Trea surerlie. Mastertnan, Esq., l‘lieholas - lane; also by Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herpes and Cu. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and a t, B o ° . m and and Co. ;Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and co, ; D ' e glyn and Co.; W.lllarns, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gur ney, a s 1 1 Co.; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverp oo l d and at the Hospital. STLOTFORD,S. SMITH _Secretary, All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, Arc. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E, Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN— Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO- SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL, DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler. „Every Evening. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great .11., Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director and Conductor, Mons. L. JULLTEN. Great Success of his new Quadrille, " The Prince of Wales," nightly encored. The band is selected from the Italian Operas and the Household Troops. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. STAMP YOUR PAPER, NVE LOPES. INVOICES. &c., with JONES'S 111 ;1 PATENT PERCUSSION EMBOSSING PRESS. The above would be found useful to youths at school for embossing their Books, Drawings, Papers, &c. The Press complete, with Plain Crest, Name, or Business Die,9B. Gd. Note the Address :—WILLI AM JONES, Die Sinker, Press Maker, and Embosser, 3, Queen's-court, High Holborn (op posite Day and Martin's). LUXURIANT WHISKERS or MOUSTACHES. —My formula firers them to grow heavily in six weeks upon the smoothest face, without injury to the skin, and a sure remedy for bal iness. 13 stamps.— Mr. FOX, Macclesfield. Fo Y's celebrated Hairwash Formula, for removing scurf and curling the hair, seven stamps, ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, v and Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian, Alabas - er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand. W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. ind GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANP. at 149. Strand. W.C. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of . deafness. It fits int o the ear, not perceptib ;e, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMOI\ S, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee. at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion 114 to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee r st their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspe ar e. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,828 Annual Revenue.... 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. In suraw-es : - ranted both at Home and in Foreirrn Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the participating principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows : Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the OFFICES : LONDON 5B, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings, Lothbitry, West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildings, Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRACI'S FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insurance company are now called upon to o make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexp close of the year, to announce, for the first thiceete ih dlY, at the Premiums have not only reached, but exceed Z:3O-0:0: t s i t d h e e r a p b i rl ye The high comparative position held by the Itg,t Government Returns of Duty is again fully m a nt w ine ,l' . l the The profit of the business of the year exceeds the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa. rately, £11,097165. 10d. LIFE BRANCH. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on new policies for the year 10 2 62 exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a sing.le year of £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last few years it is believed that such a sum aesured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the future to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for at,suranv t , mounts to .£ t 43,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to the , e lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance t ompanies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at all, exceedin , z those which the Royal has declared as in admis sible in a single year from deterioration et some kind or another. lf, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have lo announce that in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. _ _ _ The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that, the future may untold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY EL DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary iu LoalOD. Won by a length, a bad third. Lothian's King fell. BETTING AT MANCdESTER—WEDNESDAY. For the Cambridgeshire Gemma, who a few days since had supporters at 20 to 1, and who afterwards receded to 1,000 to 6 (offerel), was backed to-day, apparently for good money, at all prices to 100 to 3 (taken and wanted). During this process Limosina receded to 8 to 1 be;ng laid ; buj afterwards her friends rallied, and 5 to 1 was booked. No lg of importance was done on any of the others, with the of Hubert, who appears to be hopelessly gone. Closing prices : CAMBRIDGESHIRE. sto 1 agat Limosina (taken) 6to 1 agst Catch-'em Alive (offered) 11 to 1 agst Carnival (taken) 11 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken) 16 to 1 agst Port Royal (taken) 20 to 1 agat Borealis (taken) 30 to 1 apt Jack of Hearts (taken) 33 to 1 agst Gemma (taken) 33 to 1 apt Despair (offered) 100 to 1 agat Hubert (offered) COMPENSATION CASES. GUILDHALL-WEDNESDAY, Mr. Alderman Hale presided; Mr. White appeared on behalf of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com pany; and Mr. Tindal Atkinson, instructed by Messrs. Lumley and Lumley, of Moorgate-street, conducted the case on behalf of the claimant for compensation. The subject-matter in dispute consisted of premises situ ated at No. 5, Water-lane, Earl-street, Blackfriars, which were occupied by Miss Eleanor Knight, who carried on a retail business there for the sale of cigars, tobacco, news papers, fancy stationary, lemonade and gingerbeer, and a miscellaneous collection of other small articles. It appeared that 13 years ago she took the house and opened the shop in the same line of business which had been carried on there for the last 40 years. It was a shut-up shop, bat immediately she opened it she did a good trade, and had done so eversince. She had paid £4O for a new shop front, £22 for fixtures and fittings, and her rent, including rates and taxes, was only £l7. The gross takings of the year amounted to £758, of which £278 was the annual profit, from which, however, had to be deducted £47, which would reduce the actual income to about £230. The gross takings, of course, in cluded about £3O a year which she received from her lodgers. There was no means of testing the accuracy of these estimates. inasmuch as no books had been kept, it being a ready-money business, and no vouchers of any kind were produced. The claimant was in failing health, and too ill to be subjected to a rigid cross-examination; and a person who managed her business for her exhibited such an extraordinary amount of obtuseness as to render it an impossibility to get anything like an intelligent statement from him. The Courtwere, therefore, compelled to rely solely upon the written claim for £5OO, and the evidence of Mr. Fi yer, a wholesale tobacconist, who had for the last 15 years supplied the claimant with cigars and tobacco; and he, having selected the year 1858 as the test of the business done on the premisesin question, said he had supplied goods during that year to Miss Knight to the amount of £2OO, but that her trade had lately fallen off. The goodwill of such a business might be worth £lOO or £l5O, but, of course, the value would much depend upon the nature of the tenancy and the length of the lease. The claimant's business was such that the goodwill would have been worth £2OO if there had been a good lease with it. Mr. Warwick, the overseer of the parish, said he always considered the claimant did a very good business, and he knew there was no place she could obtain in the neighbour hood where she could carry on that class of business on easing her present shop. Mr. T. Atkinson said this was a case where the business had been the support of the claimant, her mother, and her sister's family. She had established the business by her own exertions during a period of 13 years, and he submitted it was a case for substantial compensation, particularly as she being in failing health, and not able to obtain a place in the neighbourhood, would have to recommence life with greater difficulties to overcome, and not the same health and strength to carry her through them. Mr. White urged upon the magistrate's notice the total absence of books, vouchers, and proper accounts to show that the business was what it had been represented. The company were anxious to deal liberally with all with whose interest they interfered, but the claims of annual tenants being by far the most numerous and the most fallacious, it behoved the company, on behalf of the share • holders, to watch those claims very narrowly. Ia the pre sent instance the claim sent in was for £5OO ; the com pany had been the claimant's landlords for two years, during which time she had not paid a fraction of rent. They had offered her £2OO as compensation, which had been refused, and if the Court thought the very unsatisfactory statement of the witness who managed the business for Miss Knigh sufficient to justify him in dealing with the case, he would suggest that the utmost that the claimant would be entitled to would be one year's profits, the goodwill of an annual tenant being worthless. Mr. Alderman Hale said he perceived there was a discre pancy of a third between the business alleged to have been done in cigars and tobacco, and the quantity of such goods stated to have been supplied, and in the rest of the items he thought the calculations excessive. He was desirous of doing strict justice to Miss Knight, and with as much libe rality as was consistent with justice to the company, and had com e to the conclusion to award £195 for one year's profits, £l2O for goodwill, and £lO for expenses of removal, making a total of £325, possession of the premises to be yielded within 14 days. Mr. Atkinson asked for costs. Mr. 'White said the worthy alderman had dealt so libe • rally with the claimant that costs ought not to have been asked for. Mr. Alderman Hale declined to order costs. There was another case of a similar kind, in which John Pleasant, a tailor, in busines4 M Water lane, claimed £175 compensation. appeared for th e company, and Mt. Eadey for Mr. White the claimant. In this case the clai mant stated that his rent was £36 a yePr. rates and taxes £lO, and rep a i rs about £lO. That when he entered into possession of the premises twelve years ago he paid a premium of £3O, and that he paid two journeymen £1 each per week all the year round. He kept no books, but produced a set of books which he had made up from invoices and the measure book for the purposes of this claim. He estimat e d th e wages for 1862 ' in cluding abo u t at £101; stock purchased, £116; rent an d taxes, £52; and repairs and ' s undries, £25, making a t o t a l o f £297. His £ gross thaio,keihr.l. he duringreceived the t.r e year e d w g e e r r e s, £: l 4 l 2 e 11, aft er d educting £287, left a net profit of £145, to which was to b e a d ded £lO for removal, and £2O as a proportion of the premium Pa id by claimant making up the claim of £17:5. The had succeeded in getting anot h er ea said 2 y h e e a r h s ago, house in Warwick-lane, at the advanced rental of eel° , which, with rates and taxes, would make a serious di4ffer. Yester lay Captain M %Mop, the inventor of the apparatus for cleaning iron ships' bottoms afloat, which was recently tried on the bottom of the iron frigate Recruit, 6, in Chatham harbour, visited Chatham dockyard in order to make the necessary arrangements for a further trial of the invention. The labourers completed cleaning the bottom of the Recruit yesterday, and every part of her hull is now exposed to view, the marine encrustations, weede, &c., which covered her bottom at the time of the vessel was placed in dock having all been scraped off. On both sides the hull nearly every particle of the anti-fouling compo sitions with which she was originally paved over has disappeared, leaving the iron plates of her bottom in nearly their original state, with the exception, perhaps, that in several parts the ravages of the marine insects on the iron plating are very conspicuous. The hull of the Recruit is now ready to receive a new coating of the composition by Mr. Hay, and the anti-fouling mixture by Mr. Crispin, which will be applied, as before, on different sides of the bottom, in order that an extended trial may be made to ascertain their respective merits. Tenders have been issued by the War Department for the contract supply of a large amount of pig iron, to be deli vered at the Royal gun factories in Woolwich Arsenal, to be prepared for the manufacture of the new species of naval guns, 50 of which are ordered to be commenced forthwith. The officials of the Royal carriage department at Woolwich have received instructions to construct an equal number of carriages on a principle already approved by the Secretary of State for War. The gun, it is stated, will be somewhat similar to the 100-pounder smooth-bore gun, which with stood a severe experimental test at Shoeburyness at the commencement of the past summer, and which was after wards tried with success on board the gunnery ship Excel lent, at Portsmouth. The mechanics employed in the smithery at Chatham dockyard are now engagel in forging the first portion of the stem for Mr. Reed's new iron frigate Bellerophon, the next vessel to be commenced at Chatham, as soon as the iron ship Achilles is out of hand. The stem will be composed of three immense pieces of iron, and will be the largest forgings of the kind ever attempted at Chatham dockyard, the stem and stern portions of the Achilles having been manufactured by a private firm. In order to afford greater facilities for the work, and to meet the increased demand made on the establishment since the introduction of iron shipbuild;ng, the smithery is to be considerably extended, and, in addition to another large and powerful steam ham mer, some new furnaces of an improved kind are to be forthwith erected. The object of the Admiralty in having the principal forgings for the new iron ship made in Chatham yard is to prevent a repetition of the delays which were experienced in the early stages of the construction of the Achilles, caused chiefly by the long time occupied by private firms in producing similar forgings for that ship. With the same object in view the form of the forgings for the Bellerophon have been greatly simpli fied under the personal direction of the Chief Constructor of the Navy, who has sent an Admiralty draughtsman to Chatham dockyard, where he has been engaged for some time in the preparation of the detailed drawings of the vari ous parts of the new ship, in order that every practicable improvement may be made in carrying out the designs for her construction. There can be little doubt that this ar rangement will tend greatly to facilitate the progress of the Bellerophon, and thus reduce the time and labour expended upon her construction. It will also, it is to be hoped, be the first step towards putting an end to those changes and alterations which have hitherto been so frequently made by the Admiralty during the building of new ships at Chat ham and the other dockyards. An announcement was yesterday made at Chatham dockyard, in accordance with a notification received from the Admiralty, that the appointment of timber inspector will in future be filled from the most efficient foremen of shipwrights, at the several dockyards, and not, as hereto- fore, by seniority. This decision has been arrived at in consequence of the inconvenience and expense arising from the existing arrangements in taking foremen, at an ad vanced age, and giving them the appointment of timber inspectors at a salary of £lOO per annum, and at the end of two or three years allowing them to retire at the full super annuation allowance. Considering the comparatively small quantity of timber now used at Chatham dockyard since the introduction of iron shipbuilding, it becomes a question for the consideration of the Admiralty whether, as the duties heretofore pertaining to the office of timber inspector are very considerably reduced, the office itself might not be abolished, or, at least, amalgamated with some other ap pointment, whereby a very considerable saving might annually be effected. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Thomas E. Biddlecombe, master, to the Fal con ; William A. Callagan, to a naval cadetship ; Peter W. Rolston, surgeon, to the Falcon; James W. Ashton, second master, to the Formidable for the Lizard ; Isaac Waugh, assist.-surgeon, to the Falcon; and Benjamin H. Chimmo, assist.-clerk, to the Fisgard, THE ARMY. The I battery 4th brigade Royal Artillery, in command practice at the school of gunnery, Shoe b uryness, h ave re.• of Lieut.-Col. Barstow, having gone through a course of turned to Woolwich, in preparation for their departure for New Zealand, which, it is rumoured, has now been deferred until tho 7th of next month. Three of the guns to be used in the forthcoming competi tion between the Whitworth and Armstrong guns were yes terday mounted, and fitted to the trunnion bearings in the new gun mounting park in Woolwich Arsenal. One is a 12-pounder Whitworth muzzle-loading gun, one a 12- pounder Armstrong shunt gun, and the third a 12-pounder breech -loading gun, finely grooved. Three others are shortly expected. The embarkation of the 76th Regiment on board the Hornet and Atalanta, hired sailing transports, at Portsmouth was deferred from yesterday until to-day. The regiment will leave Aldershott this morning in two divisions, and proceed to Portsmouth by Special trains from Farnborough at 9 30 and 10 30 a.m, DREADFUL MURDER IN YORKSHIRE. A great deal of painful excitement has been caused in the a town in Cl eve l an d , di stan t neighbourhood of Stokesl e y , from Stockton and Mid dlesboro ugh about ten mil es . Th e facts are as follows :—Two respectable farmers, who were neighbours, living a short distance from Stokesley, had been in that place on business, but had had rather too much liquor. They left the town together to walk to Hemling ton, where they both resided. Their names were Mr. William Johnson, of Newhaven Hall, and Mr. Brad shaw Graham, of Hemlington. The 111011 were on very amicable terms until they had arrived at Newby, a small village on the road. Here they were met by Johnson's farm servant, who brought a horse for his master. There upon Johnson wanted Graham to get upon the horse with him, but he refused. Johnson then mounted the horse and again urged his companion to get on behind, but the latter again refused, upon which Johnson retorted that it was because he was too proud—Graham being in rather a better position in life than Johnson. This remark led to some angry words between the two men, till ulti ma t e ly Johnson said that if Graham gave him any more 't chaff" he would get off and wring his neck. Graham made a pro voking and defiant answer, when Johnson got off his horse, and both men began to square at each other. Ultimately Graham struck Johnson on the side of the head with a stick, when both men closed together and fell. Whilst they were on the greund Johnson called out to his man, " Oh, John, come and help me." The man came and assisted his master to get on his feet, when be immediately fell backwards. On being a gain helped up, ho repeatedly fell, and never spoke again. Graham was at once secured and lodged in the lock-up. Au inquest was held yesterday ; verdict—wilful murder. •-• Pills.—Despondency, [ADVERTISEAIENT.] Luwayss of Spirits.---The Ilisery occasioned by disordered digestion is unfortunately telt by many. Known to every one, Holloway's pills should. be taken to restore health ; they dispel headache, bilioustiss, nausea, lowness of sirits, and similar symptoms, which indicate the presence of poisonous matter or per action. A course of these an ju . il l s n ever fails !ia reoving th e causes invaluad consequences of these morbid signs, m without subject nlP,' the s ufferer to any di sa greeable restrictions of diet or ordinary pursuits. They strengthen the stomach and brace the nery et. H o ll owa y's pills are peculiarly adapted for re- Ix/yacht / ; systems enfeebled by late hours, hard living, over anxi e t y or any other excess Nyinh is known to debilitate a " e . a.IJ 4iut the human coubtaution. awwfhtohhe magistrates and hi mse lf, t h ey were gra tifi e d this expression all gr atifying c oei l fld only iy n _ The CHAIRMAN repli e d, an d sa id t h a t, on th e part it m entertained from the bar towards one for so high a respect. They had a lways felt everything M r . C r ipp s h a d sa id,—th e y h a d always had the grea t est p l easure an d con fid ence i u Mr . Henley's leader s hi p an d guidance; no man ever occupied so hi g h a pos i t i on and en j 'yed to a grea ter extent the con fid ence of the magistracy ge nerally. a a t Y They felt th a t i t was a loss not to b e re p ' and that the loss of hi s ex p er i ence was a l oss n to themsel ves , b ut to the public. It was g to_know that the business had been con so happily a n d h armon i ously un d er M r . ducted Henley's guidance, and he might be permitted to sa y that they felt that this was in a great measure (Wing to the fact that the chairman and the magis trates had always received from the Bar the greatest possible kindness and assistance. It was a matter of great importance that the business should be so conducted, and no man appreciated that assistance and ki n d treatment wh i ch h e h a d always received m ore t h an Mr. Henley himself. Wha t e ver his ability m i ght be, he felt that his suc cessor w ould recei ve the same assistance ; and on the part of the magistrates a n d hi mse lf, h e th an k e d Mr. Cripps and the Bar he represented for the kind and able ma nner in which he had brought this sub ject before t he Cour t , and assured him they felt very sensibly h i s mo ti ve f or so doing. HEREFORD AGRICULTURAL , SOCIETY, The annual meeting of this society was held at The show of stock was Hereford on Tuesda y , limited, as usual, to cattle of the Hereford breed, which were sent in large numbers; and, it being the day before the great annual fair, a large quan tity of stock was sent for sale, independent of those sent in for competition. In fact the cattle market overflowed with specimens of Herefordshire bucolic excellence, and the streets were perfumed with the odour of neat cattle. The £2O prize for the and offspri ng best bull, cow, Was token by Mr. T. R o berts, of Wington bury, and the second by Mr. Taylor, of Showle.court. Mr. Capper, of Ross, took the 1.:15 prize for the best bull, and Mr. B. Rogers, of Staunton•on-Arrow, the second best. The diaper was held at the Green Dragon Hotel in the evening. Mr. R. Arkwright, of Hampton court, presided, and there were present Mr. King, M.P., C o l, Clifford, M.P., Mr. M.P., Mr. G. Clive, Chandos W. Hoskyns, e ac . After the usual loyal toasts had been given, that of " The Bi sho p and Cler gy of the Dio cese " was proposed from the chair, and responded to by The Rev. T. POWELL, wh o d efended the Hereford shire agriculturists from the attacks made upon them by a certain portion of the press at their last meeting, when they were charged with uttering mere platitudes. The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Health of the County Members," explaining that the absence of Lord W. Graham and Mr. Mildmay arose from illness. Mr. KING KING replied, and congratulated them on the prosperous harvest 'which they had experi enced. Th e y had reason to be thankful for this blessing, although it might be a blessing of a tem porary character, and a change for the worse might ho apprehended. They could see no end to the present deplorable condition of America, and they saw the trouble that was arising in different parts of Europe. Let them be thankful for the good which they enjoyed, and bear i n m i n d t h e ax i om that "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." The CetailtataN gave "The City Members." Col. CLIFFORD replied, and while defending the speakers at the last Herefordshire agricultural din ner from talking "platitudes," said he must confess that he held a strong opinion that at dinners of this sort, where agriculturists assembled together, it would be far better that they should shorten the mere official and complimentary speeches, and devote themselves more to what were the real objects of these associations. This object might be attained— first, by responding to the official toasts as briefly as possible; and secondly, by making the toasts bear as much as possible on the practice of agriculture; and, keeping this in view, he would not detain them longer by any remarks in reply to the official toast of ",The City Members." (A laugh.) Mr. CLIVE having thanked the meeting for the honour'done him and his colleagues, observed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer when about either to impose a new tax or to repeal an old one was in the habit first of telling his audience what he would not do, and he (Mr. Clive) would in a manner fol low his example. He would say then that, as was done at Leominster, he would not make a speech about the ladies, because there were none present. lie would not talk about domestic politics, because that subject was supposed to be forbidden at these meetings; nor would he advert to foreign po litics, because if ho did ho should only be t elling them what they could learn from the ne wspapers , that they were quite right in not int erfe ring_rt n affairs of America, and should be wrongquiteel in to in terfering in Poland. Nor would hepetecykd r i eg do e so about agriculture, because if heattoed m t about he might be fairly met with the I the foolishness of te achin g an aged elative, h though he did not happen to pos how to suck eggs. sess one, the w a y (A laiis .) But lie thought he ther, might make one remark connected w and which ith the subject which had brought them ? get was that he thought Herefordshire was rather behind hand in the matter of steam p oughing, He had 1 ately been on a visit to Mr. Lane,ton, the member for Oxford, feoni whom he had learnt a good deal about the advantages of steam Voughing, and he strongly recommended his Herefordshire friends to read a pa mphlet, price 9d., recently published on the subject by Mr. Nicholson, who farmed many hundreds of acres of land for Lord Brownlow. He thought after reading that pamphlet they would be convinced that a great deal of benefit was to be derived from steatu ploughing. He hoped to see the time when every landlord would have a steam plough on his estate for the use of his tenants, and he (Mr. Clive) hoped to have one at work on his own grounds next year. He believed the introduc tion of the steam plough would be found necessary not only to keep their land in a consistent and por ous state, and also firm and retentive, so as to let the air and water pass through it freely, but also to enable them by increased produce to meet what he considered would be found to be the perman ently depressed price of corn. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion he proposed " The Committee of Manage ment for the year." Mr. C. WREN HOSKYNS, replying to the toast, alluded to the late harvest, which he said was pro bably the best that had ever been gathered in this country. No doubt many of his hearers had read the remarks of Mr. Lawes in the columns of the limes, in which he had given the results of the harvest, as ascertained on his experimental and ordinary farms. The result was that an extra produce had been raised, amounting to 20 bushels, or he would put it lower—say, two quarters per acre. He spoke of this excess as extending over a very considerable area of land, and it would be a very in teresting problem to solve what was the total gain in increased produce in England this year. Out of the 37 millions of acres of land in England 18 mil lions, or nearly one-half, were under arable cultiva tion, of which nearly 4,000,000 were under wheat craps alone. They could, therefore, roughly estimate the surplus crop of wheat in this country—two quarters per acre over 4,000,000 of acres making 8,000,000 quarters of wheat in excess of the average produce. The natural produce of the country was estimated at five months' consumption. After some further remarks on this subject Mr. Hoskyns ex pressed an opinion that the pastures of England were not so weil managed as the arable lands, and he especially advocated the use of lime and road scrap ing on them to restore those inorganic substances which were being continually taken out of the soil. He next came to the subject of agricultural statistics, and expressed a hope that they would soon be ar rived at. It had been objected to this proposition that these statistics would afford an advantage to the landlord, and might lead to rents being raised; but he (Mr. Hoskyns) believed that rents were already as high as the market would bear. What he recommended was, not that they should take the statistics of every farm, but that they should obtain the returns of the growth of each particular grain or other produce in each parish, so as to be enabled to compare the produce from year to year. He hoped they would succeed in obtaining this before the expiration of another year. Other toasts of a complimentary and local charac ter followed. Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools, The annual dinner on behalf of these schools took place last night in the London Tavern. Mr. Cobden, M.P,, presided, and was supported right and left by Mr. William Leaf, Mr. Samuel Morley,:Mr. J. It. Jeffrey, of Liverpool ; Mr. J. W. Machin, of Manchester; Mr. John Dillon, Mr. J. P. Foster, Mr. J. Sargood, Mr. Walford Greatorex, Mr. R. Slater, Mr. George Lawrence, and other gentlemen. The institution has been established eight years, during which time 110 children have been received, and there are now in the schools 62 children-47 boys and 15 girls—who are clothed maintained, and educated, free of all charge. In proposing the toast of " The Queen" the CHAIRMAN said it was a sound maxim in this con stitutional monarchy thatithe Sovereign could do no wrong, but that was a maxim which applied only to the Sovereign in a political sense, for it was impos sible in a country like this, where habits and man ners descended so much from one class to another, that the highest personage in the realm should fail to exercise, for good or evil, a great influence on the character of society. There could be no doubt that the illustrious lady now on the throne had for the last 26 years, by her exalted example, by her per sonal and domestic virtues, favourably influencad the character of this and future ages. Nay, more, she had given stability to the throne itself, for she had rendered impossible for the future that which was witnessed in the not very remote past, when the persons highest in rank and birth were among the lowest in the scale of morality—a monstrous com bination, the recurrence of which would be the only way in which the monarchical institutions could be jeopardised in this country. The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. Mr. COBDEN, in submitting the next toast— " The Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and the remaining Branches of the Royal Family"— said that when we felt more than ordinarily inte rested in the career of the young we naturally turned with curiosity to the parental advantages which they might have enjoyed. If we were to survey our annals from the Norman Conquest to the present reign we should not, perhaps, find an in stance in which the throne of these realms had been surrounded by so pure and elevated an atmosphere as that which had pervaded the Court of Queen Victoria. The late lamented Prince Consort was not only a man of high character and careful edu cation, he also possessed great natural talents; he and if it had had rare judgment and rare sag acity, been possible for him to have entered the political arena he would have placed himself in the foremost rank of our public men. Besides the advantage of having been brought up under the eye of such a father, the Heir Appare nt had the great blessing of who,us all with her being united to a prin cess since her arrival in England, had not only deligbted grace and beauty, bu t bad won our hearts by her amiability. With such favourable auguries every one naturally felt confident that the Prince of Wales to who'll as their warm supporter and , patron, the ware h o usemen and clerks' schools owed substantial benefits, was destined to run a career of exalted happiness and usefulness. The toast was received with all the honours. Mr. coBD EN then proposed " The Army, Navy, and V o lunteers," and his remarks were loudly cheered. He observed that in the course of his travels abroad he had found that our pretensions to superiority in some things were contested, and i n others conced ed. For ex ample , the French would not allow that we were superior to them either in politeness or taste ; the Prussians would not ad mit that we were their equals in education, while the Spaniards claimed supremacy over us in tempe rance. But there was one attribute of Englishmen with respect to which he had never heard any peo ple i n any part of the world pretend to superiority ever us, and that was courage —courage, he meant, supplemented with those most formidable qualities, tenacity of purpose and manly endurance. As the verdict of mankind had declared that we had no superior in those qualities, it would be a sheer waste of time if we were to dwell upon them our selves. He was not sure, indeed, that it would be good taste to do so; audit was certainly altogether unnecessary, because henceforth the contests of na tions would depend less and less upon mere brute force. We lived in a scientific age—an age when science assisted us to travel, to send our messages, to manufacture our goods, and to cultivate our soil. In future, battles would be fought and won by the aid of science, and hence it was necefssary that be sides courage we should have at our coal best resources of our mechanical and chemical g:irbe He was not going to say anything tha_t.easte, mend the and contvoverted, because he held it to be bad t Principles, not in aecordanef+ with approved 8 miitnortgeot 1111ffle to talk upon any difficult or abatrilusan a i `Wanted qu.et and diately after dinner, when ho had a theory freedom from strong emotions, but ' which he should like to propound s hortly to the men of business whom be saw aroun d him. Ho h a d always entertained t he o pinion that the business Govern meat should carry on their very mu c h as our large merchants and capitalists carried on theirs, in other wor ds ? that when they wanted anything t h e y s hould go into the market et and buy it rather I than a ttempt to nylke it for themselves. It was GREAT WESTERN. It appears that the directors of this company are about allotting to the shareholders, in rateable pro portion to their holding, 41 per cent. perpetual irredeemable preference shares to the amount of £1,227,562. They state that it will not create any fresh or additional charge upon the revenues of the company, being issued in substitution of moneys borrowed from bankers and others in the form of temporary loans, renewable at short periods. Though the state of the money-market and the credit of the company have enabled the directors to borrow this money at 4 or 44 per cent., yet the commission and other expenses of frequent renewals have increased the yearly charge to an amount more than equal to 41 per cent. So then, when taken up as proposed, the interest payable upon that amount will be rather less than it has hitherto been, and the company will thus be secured against all contingencies in respect thereof. The allotment will be in the proportion of one new share of £lO for every £lOO ordinary stock or shares in the company. The new shares are, to be issued on the 29th inst., payable by six instal ments, the last being on Sept. 29, 1864. The shares will be treated in respect of dividend as fully paid up from the 29th inst., being equivalent to a bonus of £2 per cent. A discount at the rate of 4:i per cent, per annum is to be allowed on any instalment paid in advance. MISTLEY, THORPE, AND WALTON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Manningtree on Monday, Mr. R. Brooks in the chair. The report stated that arrangements had baen made with the Tendring Hundred Company v by which the construction of any unnecessary mileage would be avoided. A further advantage of this was that it would not be necessary to raise more than two-thirds ot the capital sanctioned by the company's Act of Parliament. The Great Eastern had agreed to find one-third of the required capital, and to work the line when completed at 48 per cent. of the traffic receipts. No opposition was anticipated from the landowners through whose property the line would pass. The report of the engineer (Mr. J. S. Cooke) stated that the necessary surveys had been made. The first section between the junction with the Great Eastern at Mistley and Tendring and 5 miles now under construction would be executed at a cost pro portionate to the total expense for the whole line. miles might be The works on t he first section of 51 c ompleted by June, 1864. • The surveys for an ex tension from Tendring to Thorpe were in a forward state, and would be ready by the required time. ti a After some discussion the rep or t was adopted. i Alexander, Mr. C. Taylor and p. Daniels Messrs.lt. Brooks, Re. ele F et r e e d e d , W. H o r . s; and Mr, W. Shawsfield were appointed auditors, and the proceedings terminated. HEACHAMAND WELLS. A public meeting was called recently at Lynn by the Mayor to consider a proposed line of railway from the Heacham station of the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway to the town of Wells. The Mayor explained that this was an extension of the Heacham and Burnham Railway, which it was thought should go on at once to "Wells. Mr. H. Edwards, solicitor to the company, stated that the extended line had the support of Lord Leicester, whose park at Holkham it would skirt, and who had offered to sell his land at agricultural price, and to take up the amount in shares. Five miles of the railway would pass through Lord Leicester's estate. The Great Eastern Company had offered to find one-third of the capital for the Heacham and Burnham line, but would raise their contribution to one-half if the line went on to Wells. Mr. Vale ra' tine, C_E., stated that the length of the line wo uldo. be 18-1- or 19 miles, and the estimated sum to C ru plete it would be £lOO,OOO, including borrow ing 500 0 per powers ; that would be a little over A i the dis trict. There was a population of 10,0 v 0 don . t h e new tue trict. 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