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A MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PANTO MIME EVERY WE DNESDAY, at Two o'clock. Co H IS EVENING will b e presente d M r. E. F a l coner ' s omic Drama, entitled EXT OF KIN. Principal Characters byred_ Mes,rs. S. Calhaem, H. Sinclair, warde, Rourke, F ricks; Mrs. Edmund dFal coner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Annual in the form of an entirely Novel, Original, Bur lesque, Grotesque,_ Poetical, Pictorial, P as t ora l , G rand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled A' the t, and d the sited, :aring hurry Mr. anter- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1803, lough is fire o the ently, N°. 22,006. PR1CE.....-..4d. STAMPED ....od. OPENING OF THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. PASSENGER TRAINS will run on and after SATUR DAY, the 10th January, as follows : Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. upper ), the ed by th no ntion ver to ent— LAVES OF THE RING; k-) OR, BEFORE AND AFTER. By the Author of "Grandmother's Money," do. " Slaves of the Ring' is superior to any of the author's previous works. It is developed with great skilL"—Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WEEK DAYS. 7alue, whole ) por while Led or more heat veek o 32s o 31s o 24s 0 45s o —s [ness ) 36s 1 32s ) 24s -B iel )1e on for go ili nit its LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES; or, HARLEQUIN and COCK ROBIN "Little Bird with bosom red, Welcome to my Humble Shed, Daily near my table steal, While I pick my scanty meal, Well rewarded if I spy, Pleasure in thy glancing eye."—O/d Poem. The novel Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. GRIEVE and T ELBIN, assi s t e d b y Messrs. DAYES, JONES , C. F ENTON, E. LLOYD S, GRIEVE, Jun., TELBIN, and D ANSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Ur. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. 'CLARKE, The Masks, Designs, and Personal APPoWanents by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN ; cora plete‘ft under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, ICIIALTON, and numerous Assistants. The Tricks, Pro ierties, Changes, and Transformations of the Harlequinade by Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments by Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by IL BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The Groupes, Tableaux, Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. The Overture and composed and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. The Opening invented and written by E. L. B-AN C HARD, Authbior of "Th e H ouse t h at Jack Built, " "Peter Wilkins, " " Ron Hood," &c. THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARL MRNING. Little Goody Two Shoes Y —M O iss LYDIA THOMPSON. ," This dear little Girl, wh ose rea l name was Margery 4Leauwell once lived," & c .—Old S tory. 8 ," His kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pair of new Showing them to every one she met, sayi ng , 'Two Shoes— T:oo Shoes,: Lhat she gained the name Little Goody Old O'tory . The Raven, the Pigeon the Cat, and the White Rabbit (her pets), Masters Quork, Coo, Mew, and Bunny. Pet Robin —M as t er R e db reas t. Little 13oy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN HO WARD. Johnny Stout (the Good Boy) ROBINS. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. G Day Scholars —Lag, Masters Wag, Fag, B rag , D ag, N ag, ag, Mag, Tag, &c. and Misses Nimble, Simple, Sample, Rumple, Whimper, Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. bacon Villa Tgers—Mhatcheress&c.re.Bunikin,Whackstraw,Oatcake,Chaw- , , , &c, " The room in which she large, s o th a t s h e could taught her scholars was very have her children s her whil e s h e instructed them. —Old Stor y laud in front of Of the proposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. HUNTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF Th e THE FOREST. w •"tirY Good Nature (assuming the form of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. Footman, Mr. Powdernob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. howßow Litlßo Blue meets with a particular friend, and the Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate to general destruction, and what ensues thereupon. THE B RAMBLE BRAKE IN THE DEPTHS OF THE FORE ST.—SUN SET. ir"When good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her tl:ecteo of letters, she invited a great number of her poor r upanions to meet together under an old oak tree, and there she taught them."—Old Story. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLIN ON. lia 'red and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Th Growl. -e Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE WOOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May, Miss WENT WORTH. Colßluebell, n I, ' l ' B 4, Violet, Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, edw e.., Daisy, Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, volvulue,Wild Rose, Traveller's Joy,C e landine, Hearts host' of C Glove, a &c, (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a ox oryphee. pas de F orget-me-not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, The Misses GUNNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD, " All hail to thee, thou first of May, Sacred to merry sport and play, To wine and jest and dance and song, And mirth that lasts the whole day long." CELEBRATION OF MAY-DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OtiTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL ROOK, AND BELFRY. "Who killed Cock Robin ? ANCIENT I, said the Sparrow, with my Bow and Arrow." —Old Nursery Legend. The .Sparrow, Mr. Take-an-Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy. The Fish, Mr. Gillbut- -The-Betatio, / - 4 , ...pr The Linnet, Master Down e y. Th e O w l, M r. Whit- t o • Wh oo. The Lark Mr. Higbfly er . Th e R oo k, M r. Bl ac k eoa t. The Bull, Mr. Roar er , w ith a H orn accom p a niment. The deed done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, and his marvellous restoration by Good Nature, who pro ceeds on her radiated Path of Prisms over the World. Harlequins, Mr. CORMACK and Mr. ST. MAINE. Columbines, Madame BOLENO (her first appearance here these two years) and the Misses GUNNISS. Pantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN JOHNSON. Clowns, Mr. HARRY BOLEN 0 (his first appearance here these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. 1 1 , 13 °x-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open at " - Loaf-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. kALTA-ALLIANCE'D A GREEK-PALATINE OF CHESTER, ON JuLIAN O.S. 1 [i 014 12 1] V. Greg°Rien v N•s TAX INCH-FULCRUM OF ARCHIMEDES, ON AMERICA'S CARIB IND'N § BALTIMOR' RATE, '42. karlbro'-street Coal-hole case, Dog-set'ng grievance, with its L'EU rt ka Gladiatorial Inchkeitla Toga'rry. The Telegraph of Ctmas-day states that C4pt. Ackerley elairaed £5 fine and coats, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner,, an d wife agents of George Harrow), on their being p bo und over to keep the peace six months , under £lO enalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a Le Micmac"-plot intent to' do injury by canine agency, ° 2l . Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis crepancy in u.c.l Police reports, induces us to refer to this Hark -government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup porter of Angio-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter asquet, 114 years)—for holding under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent lease, now a 20-yrs title ; checkmates the WorksiWoods, and Forests' 1682 N.S' Chiliarcher Cowper of St. Alic, Corn hill's gold-key lessees' wish, by Ouster le main to regain a Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in verted tenantry by their lessee Batchelor building-in his Coal-hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—to To mb.). 'Think !--every day to be thy last, .( Chandos. For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.' The papal i'29 Metropolis Police Act, 3 Wm. 4, cap. 19, 15, 39, 44—gives £5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on Offences against the person, &c., 24-25 Viet., cap. 100, e ee. 4, 42, 67, 77—Garot-Chlor'formists, and "t heater po lice fire -raisers" conviction, with £5 fine, recoverable against afar in homage to our rea d ers we refer to this case, (of Clapham Atkins City beam and Mint Scale Sydney-like, 13 Hen. 8, in 1835 standard act), wherein the Ca pt ain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason o f J u l . 3' s Pa p al 9* b oy Edw. 6th in-valid City grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by 35 H. 8, C. 1, he being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem Rospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, as Q, Eliz. Park lodge, 5 Swallow-st., & Ormond -Yard, as the people's land, under no (British -crown) Queen's Church head t assump tion from Cardinal (John o'Gaunt's Swinford) Beaufort's bastard niece Joan.-----James I. Stuart 1424 race in illegal Vic. by Papal-legitimization act—hook'd on to' Greg°rien' Mythological N.s, calendar. See M. Post, Jan. 711863 " She was and is, what can there more be said--- On earth the chief, in heaven the second maid." * Russ -Polish Rothschild took out Troy-weight meter zrota the Exchequer for Pope's mitre •and-key mint in 1838? w hence, by City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Hess Mayor Rose, ALP. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance Office-shift, for Winchester),—was mock presented in November to Indian Peter, Constable of the Tower—as Angl° Micmac flag Union' Thetleene-ic Parliament dath'R, 1843 act. tOn Luther -set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp. Charles V, for Paduan interniediate Heligoland supremacy - -Sydney was made the ) 1 S•Meli Goza . standard inch bearer. Likewise, by 30 Matoy 8-31's C o - p a rtner Act, 64, for 2-3 Will. 4, ca put-81, 92, 1832, (for Russian Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the Clergy and restraint of appeals to Rome, on lack of justice—names 25 l ien. 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5), for marine causes. So, on 1825 Aliance of Kings' abolition, the Malta Caesar Peru' 1547rotaterown '29-Protector Lietut Ackerley, It '/ .1 ) as King John's Ist Montague 'R/ kin trus al a ' 1 3 2 by Gold " Judge, at Worcester's Crt. in January, stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose JoRDAN-daughter marries the eePtain's nephew, by the 2nd branch of Dartmouth's Slaney le Fleming' Chamberlayne, in Leicester Coke, Hun .n - Somer h e re gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bite(' eraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by stet' half-cast],--as Malcolm 111. line of Clare Lincolo-in.'- ` 4 °Y as P a la -t en of Wales - T`lreland, since 1825-37 on Holy t Alli ance in A c k er l y ' s £. m i nt of Chester by Indian Mary il4aw Crt-tie 1820 (2d) as the fii st Civic Chri s tian marriage Y Pomponia Grtecina =-. Plautus, 43 A. D. edict Claudii. tr.o. { " As Chest er ' s J u d ge —lik e o w l a l one rk ßugh `•=.l4oop'd am I,—thy '.Plautie'a one. }A. D. cl ¶ same illegal Isolating influence appears to have n °Bed a gainst him the doors of Junior United Service Club, 1 1 his X 4,000 C o-burn discovery fraud, and U.S. Museum Ibliewrshcaipu,sefor holding to his Duplex official duties, and (of his mixed church imprisonment at Bath, ( *in, and Merthyr Tydvil), without crime, t• Th us. for a death riddance of Ackerley's Nfndland Ba/- Ztoire-set Maryland, of Car. I. 1631 life-trust in Cherokee CaZ i '„ l73o -74's Cecil N.S` Exeter Change attaint—which by GrY e Pist Quakers peculiar institution' claim oiati . ve 4dstone's Hs. Cora. committee, 1832.-37, as Georgia, -'lOO monastic war for LINCOLN'S Dec. word Nation. , the °d s arc Ofcillation of pend u l um i n l a t . 51 2 30 N . as 1 9 30 to & fro in sphere A'Noah to like polar * decline- T ° ll 4 (abo ve 25 M.) below the pols, 29 Sept., for Poor-law Treasury audits year, now in : : • • . 0. Style as /V3road ' R.' (0, 0 „. v e"' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' tor Prefix 13* to 510 30 Pow, Bantry, tounswie. 44181 Q4 Howe 'Market,' Loudon, Jan, 9, 1863. Trains will depart from the Terminal Stations at Bishop's road, Paddington, and from Farringdon-street, in the City, calling at all intermediate stations, at 6 o'clock a.m., and every 20 minutes following, until 8 o'clock a.m. After that hour at each quarter of an hour following, until 8 o'clock p.m. After that hour at every 20 minutes following, until lz o'clock at night. SUNDAYS. At Q o'clock a.m. until 10.20 a.m., and at 1 o'clock p.m. until 8 e'el, ck p.m., at can quarter of an hour following. After that hour at every 20 minutes following until 10.4 t) p.m. For the times of stoppage at intermediate stati , ns, as well . as for I area of passengers and other particulars, see the Tram Bills. No through trains or carriages to or from the Great Wes tern Railway trains will run over the Metropolitan Railway until further notice. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited.) Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, which specially limits the liability of each Shareholder to the amount of his Shares. Capital, £1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each. With power to increase to £2,0 0,000. First Issue, 25,000 Shares. Deposit, on Application, £1 per Share, and £1 on Allotment. DIRECTORS. Archibald Boyd, Director of the Union Bank of London Francis C. Braun, of Blessig, Braun, and Co Liverpool. Thomas Chilton, of Holderness and Chilton, Pre sident of the Chamber of Commerce Liverpool. Francis Anderson Clint, of Clint and Co., Chair man of the Shipowners' A ssociafion Liverpool. Chas. B. Colchester, of Colchester and Woolner London. William James Fertile, of Fertile Brothers and Co Liverpool. Arthur Bower Forwood, of Leech, Harrison, and Forwood Liverpool. Peter George Heyworth, of Heyworth, Pearce, and Balman Liverpool.. Thomas Harrison, of Thomas Harrison and Co Liverpool. Thomas Kendall, of Kendall Brothers Liverpool. Edwanl Lawrence, of E. Lawrence and Co Liverpool. George Lyall, of Lynn, Still, and Co London. Andrew Malcolmson, of J. and D. Malcolmson and Co Liverpool. Robert Maxwell, of A. F. and R. Maxwell Liverpool. George M. Papayanni, of' Papayanni Brothers Liverpool. John Park, of Williams, Park, and Co Liverpool. Chas. K. Prioleau, of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. Liverpool. John Ravenscroft, of W. and J. Ravenscroft and Co„ Chairman of the North and South Wales Bank James Searight, of James Searight and Co London. Samuel Stitt, of Stitf. Brothers and C Thomas Wilkinson Tetley, of Hollinshead, Tet ley, and Co. Thomas Stenhouse, Director of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, &c, Henry Trelfall Wilson, of H. T. Wilson and Chambers SOLICITORS. Messrs. Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool. Messrs. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane, London. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Auction Mart, E.C. Liverpool—Messrs, Thomas Tin ey and Sons. Messrs. G. and T. Irvine. BANKERS. The Union Bank of London, London. The Union Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. TEMPORARY OFFICES or THE COMPANY. 6, Cook-street, Liverpool. 39, Lothbury, London, E.C. Notwithstanding that several new Marine Insurance Com panies have been established within the last few years, it is generally recognised that the means of effecting marine in surances are not sufficient to meet the increasing expansion of trade, insurers being now driven to effect their insurances in remote towns in the provinces, in Ireland and Scotland, and on the Continents of Europe and America. The actual pric, of shares in the existing Marine Insur ance Companies demonstrate clearly that the Business is highly remunerative. Of th new Companies one only has been established in Liverpool, and it has already secured a very large and lucra tive business. MoreihWii half the exports and imports of the kingdom pass through the port of Liverpool, and there is no doubt, therefore, that another Company having its Chief Offices in London and Liverpool will meet with ample support tinder these circumstances Vie British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company has bum estabiishi d. The business of the Company will be c infined to the issu ing of policies on freight and goods only, and it is expressly provided, as a fundamental e►ement in the constitution of this Company, that no insurance shall be effected on the ships themselves. The principle of limited liability, as applicable to insurance companies, came into operation during the month of Novem ber last. The Directors, observing that in banking and other important commercial enterprises limited liability has met with universal favour, have adopted it as an unalterable principle in the present undertaking. The Directors, therefore, express the greatest confidence in the success of this C mipany. Such iirovision has been made by the Directors for the pre liminary expenses as will secure the Company against pay ing any promotion money. A copy of the articles of association lies at the offices of the Company for inspection. The prospectus and forms of applications for shares may be obtained of the brokers of the ompany. Application for shares to be addressed to the Directors ; but no application will be considered unless a payment has been made to the bankers of the Company of fl per share, on the nu ❑ber of shares applied for. This sum will be returned if no allot ment is made to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) To the Directors of the British and Foreign Marine Insur ance Comr any (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers the sum of in the al ovee ,"--" = ls panrrher -l' ini; n ftel u ffefrotrin s haresnrott me that number, and I agree to beeomo a member of the Company In respect of such shares, or in respect of any leas number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of As sociation, when required ; and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members for the shares so al lotted. Name in full Residence . ... Profession or Business Date CANTERBURY HALL.— THE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto mimic Entertainment THI ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, including Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and antaloon, sustained solely by Mr. E. Marshall, re-written by W. F. Vandervell, Esq., new characters and new diysses. UNSWORTH, in his renowned Speech upon all the topics of the day; and the. following Comic favourites : Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAND SELECTIONS from POPULAR OPERAS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. T H E 0 X F OR D, 6. OXFORD STREET. George Bodson's Irish Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, " Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Songs and Dances. W. Randall's Comicalities. Caroline Parkes' Pantomimical Sketch, " Little Red Riding Hood " EVERY EVENING. In addit'on to Drew Dean's Flute Solos, Operatic Selections, e., by Miss Russell, dies cownley, and Miss Oesten ; Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, dm., &c., with full Band and Chorus, Conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. EVE ItY EVENING AT SEVEN. TURNHAM'S GRAND CONCERT HAL L, EDGWARE-ROAD , W. (Sole Proprietor, Mr. JOHN TUR HAM). Operatic Selections. —Great success of John Barnett's "Mountain Sylph," with full band and Chorus—Vocal and Instrumental Solos. Comic talent —Mackney, Sam Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Bren nan, Harry Wall, West ("Or any other Man"), and Taylor. Arthur Barnes (Champion Vaulter), Chadwick (Parisian Grotesque), .nd Madame Cerito (the Great Transformation Dancer). Admission, 6d. and Is. Musical Director and Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Open nightly for Promenade. There is added . to the above elegant E.itablishment a Grand Conversation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. Boulcourt. The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission Is.—Manager, M. Grenet. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. ()pen daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlem n only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and 40A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Dins trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. (") STEO EID ON: What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1812, No. 560. GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEEM and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, springs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION. Purest materials only, at half the usual cost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Delutists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. practic l:T T E r :N ti :l e T gr lO at N i :L EXHIBITION, CLASS 17. One vi sit only required from country patients. Gabriel's Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., MISTRESS AND MA ID, By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." " A good, wholesome book, gracefully written, and at pleasant to read as it is instructive." Athenaeum. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Ready in a few days, Crown Bvo. cloth, price Rs., POEMS. DESCRIP r I v E an d LYRICAL . Illustrations of the Beauties of Tropical Scenery, and Sketches of Objects of Interest ; with Notes, Historical and Explanatory. By the Author of "The Nuptials of Bar celona." London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXXV, will be Published on WEDNESD AX NEXT. CONTENTS. I. Travels in Peru. 11. Institutes for Working' Men. 111. Constitutional Government in Russia. IV. Editions of the Greek Testament. V. The Ticket-of-Leave System. VI. The Art Loan Exhibition. VII. Life of Christopher North. VIII. The Stanhope Miscellanies. IX. Three Years of a Reform Administration. John Murray, Albemarle-street. Consultations free. 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Bd. ; post free, 55., the QECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with: kJ numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanc:11:rd, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have t een instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow. ing Vessels : Barque Vermont, of Halifax:U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby •• •• •• 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. .. 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. .. 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn . 3 •• •• •• • Brig Prodroma, of Stockton Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough •• Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. Schooner Prospect, of Berwick .. Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. . • Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields •• • • A Barge of Teig - nmouth • • •• Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• Coble Honour, of Cullerooats • • Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. Barque Oberon, of Liverpool .. 15 Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth a Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth •• .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth .. • • • • • . 8 Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. . • .. 1 Sloop Hope, of Dublin •• •• •• •• 3 Schooner - Druid, of Aberystwyth .. 6 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. .. • • • • • • . 4 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead. (saved vessel and crew) .. .. 6 Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved ves and crew) .. 3 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boats of Whitburn .• •• •• 16 Brig Arethusa, of Blyth 8 Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2 Schooner William, of Morecambe Smack Gipsy, of Newry .. .. 4 Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. .. 4 43rIg Newir.voritifitNtlaftotiaanift--- 8 Schooner William, of Liverpooi 5 Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields •• •• Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood Barque Guy Ina, of Glasgow Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirid.one, of Galaxide .. 2 Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna .. 8 French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese .. 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater .. 4 Ship Danube, of Belfast •• •• •• •• 17 Schooner Borten sia, ot Hanover .. .. 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marano .. 8 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. 5 Barque Druid, of Sunderland Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. 1 Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon .• 1 Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich .. 5 Brig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 Brig Sisters, of %A hitby •• 9 Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields .. .. 10 Brig Trial, of Poole Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. . • • Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) •• •• •• •• •• Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. Barge Peace, of London .• •• Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. -- Pilo cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. • • •• 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen . .. 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast .. .. • • • . 1 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. 6 Brig Lively, ot Clay, Norfolk .. 5 Schooner Rook, of Liverpool .. 3 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. .. 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland .. 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool Sloop William, of Liverpool .. Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth •• •• •• Portuguese Barque Cruz V. .. • • • •• 14 Ship tunic E. Hooper. of Baltimore, .. 18 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. .. 4 .. 6 .. 1 .. 6 .. 3 .. 4 .. 19 .. 11 .. .. a 06 ..134 66 so 2 .. .. 6 Total .. •• • • •- 762 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution hae oted £2, 458 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It haB also granted re wards mounting to £572 for saving 502 hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak ng ct total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during 'he last two years and a half. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society , nd other means, since its formation, is 12,690; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 711 Silver Medals, and £16,0r0 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting -cart cages, and Boat-houses. The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous effort; now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship v, reeked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at he present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions he Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man •,g-ement, for the maintenanoe of which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions:— dE 8. d Her Majesty the Queen .. .. annual 50 0 0 A Lady at ..eith, per W. G. Slitter, Esq.. don. 100 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. • • .. annual 1 1 0 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. • • don. 25 0 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0 Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. don. 80 0 Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0 Lanesborough, the Earl of .. annual 5 0 0 Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of Salford.. 100 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .. don. 15 15 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. .. annnal 5 G 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. ~ annual 2 0 0 Trench, Lady Helena .. .• don. 30 0 0 Donations and Annual Suhscriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Rankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lon don, W.C. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, E.G. cathpaaabalse oflad. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of eovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is aecom na Sirtifotifintghlisngtoreiatts !panted by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered funds in order these the xnost 4' m wa et r r d o s p a o li verys. I l a t rg r e e q p ui o r p es or b ti ti o t n th o e t have 500 beds available for the reception of it gratuitously a Z i tc . bed of our fellow-creatures. MoreNier, on the average, " than 8 medical advice and medicine to more, The Weekly Board i 010 out-patients a week. EARNEST APPEAL eetnittliheir imperative duty to make an to enable them to admit and r e_ public for continued support, daily present themselves, uheve the diStressing cases that Contributions are received by t man _ el . outB.4an _ ; he Treasurer, Edward Macer , it. ~ Men e also by Messrs Coutts and Drummond and Co. ; !Terries and Co • Co. ; Prescott, Grote. and Co.; Smith, Payn,:.; R d ats o o m and and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Rarelay and aCo. iJegion Co .; W iliams, Deacon, and .erend . 8 Co.;Messrs. J. Barne s ß a • Grey. and Ca. ; Nisbet and , and Co L i v erpool ~; and at the Hospital. TAIVORD-g. §llllTAZlSoretitry TlMES. — Commercia I prosperity,we are told, is apt to cut its own throat, and certainly there are instances to that effect rather fresh in our remembrance. But England has now been assailed in what is at once her strongest and her weak( at point, in the very backbone of her trade. " Cut off cotton," it has been said twenty times, " and the giant will col lapse." Cotton pays taxes, cotton keeps up con , sumption ; cotton tills the land and pays the rent, and builds the ship, and digs the mine, and doubles the city, and lays clown the rail, and does every thing. This was a precarious basis for an empire. One was reminded of that sulphur plain in Italy, where you have but to stamp on the ground and you become aware that you are on the thin crust of an extinct volcano, with perhaps an unfathomable abyss, perhaps eternal fires, but at all events sul phureous vapours below you. "Beware how you trust yourself in the power of a rival and, perhaps, a foe." We have often been warned. "Do not commit your very existence to the winds and waves of the Atlantic. Do not let Washington be the master of your destinies." These prophets of ill did not exaggerate the direct influence of the supply of cotton ; but they overlooked our other vast and various resources ; and they overlooked also our immense wealth, credit, stability, mutual confidence and sympathy. They were blind to every thing but the problem on the paper before them. We have now had a year, and sore than a year, of the visitation which was &tit ae as-fatal and insurmountable as the failure of provisions or fresh water in an emigrant ship far from land. As for the people themselves directly concerned, they are in health and strength; so we dismiss them, and pass on to standard and ordinary signs and tests of our national prosperity. These are to be found in the Financial Returns, and in the private but widely circulated and very authoritative Trade Circulars, from which we give extracts to-day. They tell us exactly how matter of fact, they m u we t he stand yea ; r l a B n 6 d 2 , in 1862, just ended, has b een a very good average year, and th at t h e great British family has, with the one gre a t except i on, done as infors that usual, bought and sold as usual, and kept things at very fair average prices. Indeed, it is still an open question, and a very curious one, whether the cotton famine has done us any mischief at all,—whether, indeed, as one respectable firm expressly asserts, it has not come in the very nick of time, and done us a very opportune service by averting the mercantile collapse and universal bankruptcy of credit that were coming on us by over production. The linen trade at home in the earlier part of the year was somewhat affected by the unfortunate condition of so many customers, but afterwards improved so much that on the whole the home trade of the year has been nearly as good as that of any before. The foreign trade has been much better than usual. For the first eleven months the value of piece goods exported was £4,152,725, compared with £3,335,771 in the corresponding period of the previous year. There was also a great increase in yarns, thread, and hosiery. The exports to the United States alone amounted to £1,387,611, compared with £605,453, or con siderably more than double. The wool trade, if not quite so flourishing, has been in a satisfactory state. On the whole, a very steady business has been done throughout the year, the extended export trade to France having, in a great measure, made up for the falling off in other quarters. The sta. tistics of the silk trade are remarkable. There has been an increase of 995,4631 b. in the imports ; an increased consumption of 1,573,2881 b.; a decrease of 103,574ib. in the stock in hand at the close of the year ; and a rise of 10 or 15 per cent. in the prices. There has been the largest delivery of the material upon record. As it is believed that much of the manufacture has not been remunerative, it is in ferred that the manufacthrers ran the risk of loss in order to keep their mills open, though it does not -seem certain that they le suffered by their bene volence. Linbeed, it has often been said, is a test of both manufacturing and agricultural prosperity, the oil being used for machinery and the cake for cattle. This year, however, the supply has not been equal to the demand, and prices have been high, but fluctuating. In the oilcake trade there has been a considerable demand for America, and several thou ' sand quarters are now in course of shipment. The leather trade has been slowly recovering the bank ruptcies of 1860, but the legitimate trade has b een good, the stock of leather in the hands of the fac tors has been low, scarcely any " stale" goods are to be met, prices have been unusually steady, and the manufacturer is now in a better condition than a twelvemonth ago. In the wine and spirit trade the course of the market, we are told, has been uniform and steady. Low wines, as a rule, have been in abundant supply, and have somewhat yielded in value, while fine wines of all descriptions, and espe cially sherries, have shown a decided advance, which seems likely not only to be maintained, but even increased. In the comparison of the last year with the previous the imports have been 109,350 pipes, against 103,300 ; the home delivery 92,220, against 101,852 ; the export delivery 92,220, against 101,852; the export delivery rather more, the stock in hand rather less. It is observed that Hungary is the only country that seems to have made use of the International Exhibition to offer us a reasonable prospect of a new source of supply. The character of the continental vintages is beside our present pur pose of comparing the two years, but, in general they have not been such as to depreciate the value of existing stocks. The tobacco trade is now a war question; and we know not whether the consumers of the weed will be grateful for the intelligence, but _ _ it appears we are able to do without Virginia much more easily than was ever anticipated. The " pro duce" markets are in as satisfactory a state as could possibly be expected. Sugar stocks have increased about six per cent., and prices have become weak in proportion. The fluctuations, however, have not been severe; the lowest was reached in November, and the market, though inactive, has since had a better time. In the cheese trade there have not only been increased production and an immense importation from America, but also a larger demand. At present, however, the prices of cheese, as well as of butter and bacon, are somewhat lower than a twelvemonth ago. Turpentine and petroleum have exhibited the most extraordinary fluctuations, owing to the altern ite currents of the former from the United States and the novelty of the latter material. Here our list ends. It would be diffi cult to conclude from these returns, did one not happen to know it beforehand, that the people whose markets we are describing had just been over taken by a calamity long since thought certain to plunge them in utter ruin. The thirty million victims on whom the overhanging rock of Tantalus has at last fallen go on, as a whole, very much as usual, eating, drinking, working, enjoying them selves, prosecuting their several industries, and holding their ground in the commerce of the world. Misfortunes so borne is more dignified and more demonstrative of the national stability and the soundness of our institutions than those violent flushes of prosperity which statesmen have some times been tempted to tell us are the ordinary and legitimate result of wise legislation. DAILY NEWS.-Our social science has really put in our power far more simple and far more effectual methods of dealing with fire than we have yet chosen to use. In raising and storing water to such elevations as are required for the supply of the highest houses in the City, we are furnished with a constant force, by which we can apply it in stantaneously to the extinction of burning materials, and which far transcends the capa city of the most powerful fire-engines. These, in fact, only accomplish, in the feeble degree re presented by a dozen men at the handles, or at most by a steam-engine of a few horse power, what has been accomplished a million times more effectually by the accumulated exertion of the great pumping engines of the water companies. These last have already raised water from the Thames to the amount of a hundred millions of gallons a day, and to a height exceeding that to which any fire-engine can throw it, and they have stored up this enormous quantity in such a way that a child, by turning a tap, could apply the whole wherever it is wanted. There are two ways in which such an application might be arranged. The one is the system of " constant service," or the keeping the mains constantly charged with full pressure. This system the companies are bound by statute to adopt in any district in which it may be demanded by a certain majority of the inhabitants. But it involves the necessity of a pretty close and frequent inspection by the officers of the companies, in order to see that the water is not allowed to run to waste, and for this and some other reasons it has not been generally adopted. But the result might as easily be obtained by less objectionable means. If every house were compelled by law to have a cistern of large capacity immediately under the roof, there would be a supply abundantly suf ficient for any ordinary fire, and even in extraordi- nary cases enough to last till the mains could be turned on. An iron pipe led from this cistern down the inside wall of the house, fitted on each floor with a" union" by means of which a short indiarubber hose could be attached in a moment, would enable a stream to be directed on the flames within a few minutes of their discovery. Every policeman should -be instructed-ia-thou a£-doing thisl and if it is thought too much to require each house to keep a hose, it might at least be a regulation that every licensed victualler's, or public-house, should keep one, which the policeman of the beat might without delay obtain and carry to the place where it is required. It is obvious that a very mo derate degree of regular inspection would preserve this simple apparatus in ready working order, and as it would furnish a copious and immediate supply of water available for every part of the house ex cept the roof itself, where fires scarcely ever origi nate, it is quite certain that it would succeed in rendering them a thousandfold less destructive, and would speedily repay its cost by the reduction which it would enable the insurance companies to make in their rates. That a system so easy has in very few in stances been already voluntarily adopted is probably due in a great measure to the absurdity of the rules by which we have authorised the water companies to tax us. These bodies, not content with a rate according to the rental, are entitled to charge a further sum for every cistern which a house contains. So, though the fire cistern might stand for 20 years without a drop being drawn from it, there would still be an annual fine of 10s. charged for filling it ! This pernicious rule is, however, the creature of law, and might by law be abolished or modified. There is no more difficulty in measur ing water than in measuring gas, and there is no greater reason in the one case than in the other why we should pay for more than we consume. Nor can any sound objection be taken to a munici pal regulation which should enforce the adoption of such means of security against fire as we have indi cated. We already invade the Englishman's castle so far as is necessary to compel him to build it sub ject to certain rules, and to fit it up with suitable drains. To require him to keep a receptacle for water in a position w here it will cause him no inconvenience, and to allow an occasional inspection to see that it has not leaked, and that the pipe and'' unions" are in proper order, is a very trivial attack upon his liber ties. If indeed he were to claim only the right to burn himself down, we might not think it worth while to interfere. But the privilege of being the incendiary also of his family and servants, his neighbours, and perhaps his whole street, is more than he can reasonably demand of the British con stitution. We commend, therefore, to the public the consideration of the means of security we have suggested. The question resolves itself into the in quiry whether they will continue a system which at the best leaves a conflagration a full half hour before it can be grappled with, and then involves, even if the fire is checked, an immense destruc- tion of property by the volumes of water re quired for its extinction ; or whether they will enforce the adoption of precautions which would, while interfering with no other remedy, permit the first discoverer of a fire to direct upon it, without the loss of five minutes of time, a mode rate but probably sufficient stream to prevent its extension beyond the first apartment in which it had broken out. The Great Frauds upon the 'United States Government. (From the New York Evening Express of Dcc. 26, 1862.) The recent heavy frauds by contractors who fur nished rations to the soldiers in this city, led to the appointment of Mr. Olcott as a special commissioner to investigate the circumstances connected with each case in which the Government was swindled. The commission was merely intended to collect evidence to bring the guilty to punishment in the ordinary courts, if civilians. The military officers who are involved in the frauds are to be the subjects of courts-martial. Commissioner Olcott having kindly invited the members of the press to his office this afternoon, to note the progress made in the investi gation, furnished each reporter present with the basis of the following report :—" The commission was opened on the Ist of November, since which time nearly 200 witnesses have been examined. The interpreters, a secretary who has taken notes of the examination in short hand, several copyists and detectives have been employed. The bills examined were those presented ostensibly for the board and lodging of troops previous to their being sworn into the United States service,and formed into companies. For this object 20,000,000 dole. were appropriated under the heading, for recruiting, organising, and drilling soldiers into the United States services." The frauds which Mr. Olcott succeeded in bringing into publio light are of a startling character,which show that there was a conspiracy to swinole the Government by several of its sworn agents, who may be numbered by hundreds. It was not until after the commencement of the present year tnat the frauds which are the subject of the present in vestigation occurred. In the spring of this year the swindling was extensive, as that time there were numerous squads of troops scattered over the city who were not mustered into the service of the United States for some time. There are two classes of contractors—one who have an agreement with the State authorities or United States, by proposals, to furnish soldiers with rations—the other, the spe cial contractors, who provide squads of men newly recruited, and not organised into companies or mus tered into the United States services, with board and lodging. The frauds belong to the latter class and their abettors. As soup as the commission was opened, Mr. Olcott sent to the Dishursing-office and obtained all bills over 100 dols. for lodging and sub ., troops. The commissioner then had the contractors brought before him, when in many instances the startling discovery was made that the names of many of this class had been forged on the necessary the PaP e l r n s to obtain the amount of the fraudulent bills. many instances the names of p r ivate citizens were in no way connected with prov rI I g for the w d troops were placed on the necessary pap .d ers ; The the amounts thusfro,rti hasfied di s closed ereat n a t o h n a e c n e f n a p e c r a t . l that a r r the g te e investigation, so fa f rau d s commenced in the following number of contractors, who waited for w ee k s and months at the Disbursing-office to receive the amount of their bills, were compelled to sell them to brokers. This circumstance opened a now avenue for the thrift of the latter class, and they soon em ployed agents to run round the small contractors of this city and purchase their bills at about 25 per cent. discount, The claimants sere principally lager to g e t hi s bi ll When one of th e G erman contractors rn-would state th ere were several informa whom the soldiers had pers, with b tbwh e oo e eau r rbl dsdraeodl endeavour ko,eo cashedby a broker, lities in it, tear it up, and prepare a new one. If the amount•Vas, say, 25 dols., the broker would alter it to 2,500 dole., and having the contractor's signature, obtain the amount without any questions being asked at the Disbursing-office. Over 1,000 persons are at present implicated, and the investi gation has not yet been closed. Over 50 per ce n t. of the six millions of dollars which has already been spent out of the fund of 20 million dole. is supposed to have been paid on fraUdulent claims throughout the country. (From the New York World of Dec. 27.) Col. H. S. Olcott is the special commissioner ap pointed by the Government to make the investiga tion. He has employed an interpreter and a short hand writer. The investigation has been private, for the reason, it is alleged, that if public the parties , most guilty would run away from the city before they could be secured. The results of the inquiry show, Col. Olcott thinks, that out of the 1,600,000 dols. which has been paid out in this city for the subsistence of soldiers, over 700,000 dols. has been paid on fraudulent accounts. The means by which these frauds have been accomplished have also been developed, and show, it is said, that nearly 1,000 persons have been engaged in them, though all are not criminally implicated. Such a mass of evidence has b6en accumulated as will, ii"itiliColtk biiliecurcr cOniictron and ishment of the parties who have been robbing the Government. The evidence collected in the case is to be given to the Government eounsel, to be presented to the civil courts where the parties im plicated are civilians, and to courts-martial in the case of army officers. The investigation has been mostly confined to frauds in the subsistent depart ment. The frauds in this city are allowed to be a sample of what is going on all over the United States in the one item of subsistence and lodging, though in fact it is going on in every department. Similar investigations have been instituted in other places by Judge Holt, Judge Shipman, and Col. Owen. It is hinted by those who ought to know that perhaps a great deal of the fraud is connived at by the Government disbursing officers. It will be remembered that when the war broke out Congress was not in session, and no appropriation had been made for defraying the expenses of recruiting the regiments of volunteers. The expenses of recruiting the regiments that were raised in this city were paid either by the friends of the colonel and regi mental officers of each, by a general subscription from citizens, or subsequently by the Union Defence Committee. But some time in August, Congress being then in session, made an appropriation of 20,000,000 dols. " for recruiting, organising, and drilling vo lunteers, and by the provisions of the act the Adju tant-General's department was the custodian of the fund, and the mustering officers in the different cities were made disbursing officers. Col. D. B. Sackett, then inspector in the United States army, was detailed on duty here as muster ing officer, assisted by several other army officers. In the tush of volunteering in answer to the Presi dent's call, these gentlemen were overwhelmed with business, and so a building was hired in White street especially for the disbursing business. The first appropriation received was 6,000 dols., which was exhausted in three or four days; for as soon as it became known that the Government was prepared to pay the recruiting, the contractors came down upon Col. Sackett in a swarm. The 5,000 dole. used up, he received no more money for three or four weeks, and during this time the bills were accumu lating in his office by scores daily, and the office was crowded with people clamorousfor pay. Finally he received another cheque from Washington for about 100,000 dole., which he paid out; and then, late in November, came a further instalment of about an equal amount. The bill for subsis , ende and lodging of recruits comp,isys a sptcific statement of the number of rations and of lodgings furnislied . M. separate accounts; and, moreover, a general state ment of the aggregate of the whole is required. These should be certified to by the recruiting offi cer, and the special contractor, and endorsed as ap proved by the colonel, but in the haste and confu sion of the moment, in some cases the colonel's name was omitted. Col. Sackett, on assuming the busi ness, wrote to the Comptroller of the Treasury ask ing how far the certificates of the volunteer officers should be taken, and whether their affidavits should not be required. In the regular army, as is well known, the word of an officer was as good as an other man's bond, and his certificate was conclu sive with a disbursing officer, but whether the same rule should be followed with volunteer officers was questionable. Colonel Sackett received no reply from Washington ; the letter was referred by the Comptroller to the Secretary of War, who did not notice it. Colonel; Sackett being thrown upon his own judgment, acted as he thought best under the circumstances, requiring affidavits in most cases. There are two kinds of army contractors, the general contractor who puts in his bid in answer to the advertisement of the United States officers, who is paid at regular intervals, and who gives security for the performance of his contract. The special contractors are keepers of lager-beer saloons, board ing-house keepers, and these arc the ones who have perpetrated the frauds, or who have been made the instruments for their perpetration. These men boarded recruits till officers had obtained men enough to take to camp, and under various other circumstances. When the t r emendous pressure and there essurere ferred to came upon the disbursing office, was no money to pay these little bills, the owners of them would become impatient, and many were finally driven to negotiate with brokers, and dis pose of their claims at a discount. These brokers commenced this business a little over a year ago in a small way, sharing bills for ten per cent., and sometimes for fifteen, or even as high as 75 per cent. The broker, by the time the disbursing officer would get an instalm2nt of money from Washing ton, would have advanced money on a large number of bills, which he would present in one batch and get a cheque for the whole amount. The disburs ing officer endeavoured, it is stated, to protect the Government as much as possible from fraud, requir ing in many cases an affidavit from the special con tractor, and employing a detective to go about the city and inquire about the probable validity of the claims presented for payment. If the recruiting officers and these detectives had been honest , it is averred that there would have been no pay ment of fraudulent claims. But this was not r i 0 0 v k e r a a.e busi ness Colonel he re b l the case. Colonel Nichols t and during Sackett on the 11th of December , the and it went on larger and latter part of his term of offi ce continued till the 26t h was in full blast, when Captain Larned took larger until Micleumni,i.er,,, charge of the o ffice. .-ne assume d .d h u o t f i e August,s on th 9th of June and.conti when h e was relieved b 3 Lieut.-Col. Reeve, who is now in c harge. About the commencement of the pre sent year the brokers ePtme to have a large business connexion, employed runners to go about the city and get up fair bills and make out false ones—not satisfied wit h theenorm ot ous profit they were making from the discounting bills. They soon entered largely into the making up of bills that were wholly bogus. A clerk would make out an imaginary ac count and get a man to sign it through false repro sentatioo. A special contractor (in most cases an ignotant German) would be asked to sign a blank as a matter of form, and then the blanks would be made into a regular bill and presented for payment. Sometimes the recruiting officer would be in league with the broker, and in other cases his name would be forged. The following was another mode of swindling extensively practised. An agent of a broker would go about the city and find lager-beer saloon keepers and others who had boarded recruits. tare, and then on the pap out for 2,000 or 3,000 dols. Not content with grin-d -ing the Government in that way, they would ..take at random some man in the city and forge hiti sig nature, and also the signature of the colonelpf the regiment, and the recruiting officer and broker would diaide the spoils. Evidences of many cases of this kind have been developed. Thirty or forty forgeries have been discovered in the course of the investigation. Three classes of forgeries have transpired;- one where the special contractor is induced to sign blanks; another, where the names of the special contractor and the colonel of the regiment are forged; and a third, where a man has a small bill against the Government-100 dollars or so—goes, to the broker, and the broker, looking at his paper, tears it, saying it is not correctly made out, buys the claim for 50 dollars, then says to the man, " You come here at suc h a ti me a nd I will have your bill rightly made ou t." Th e man , w h en h e come s, is shown one leaf of the bill ; on th a t is about the amount of which money he cl a i ms, an d he i s t o ld th ere are o th er bills whenihae was xtf told th his eNv mh bill eurse t is ha ewmeaa wasdr et tohe out bill to sign his w t a o m p o u u t nt w t i o t h it, o dollar s or more . 2,00 1,500 doll. d i e n i d e. uce N d etpoerstigenf thehi paper his nameas m o to ree a . c bill I he The Then supposed was for 25 dols., ncar h e notary, without swearing him or whenln one i w n a fact e s a s s h e o i a t w G W n a e h s r i fo:r il e i asking him any questions, made him sign his name, and then the notary affixed his notarial seal. There are cases where the Union Defe nce Com mittee had paid regularly 44 cents per ration t o con tractors, where the contractor was pledged to pay to the colonel of the regiment S cents per ration, and to give the quartermaster 10 per cent. on his gross receipts. It has transpired, too, that officers have ordered orderly sergeants to return each day a * 'lava numberJaijusa than was actually, subsisted:"": After this investigation bad been for some time in progress, the Secretary of War placed in Colonel Olcott's hands a bill which had been presented at Washington by the officer of a New York regiment to the correectness of which he had made a sworn affidavit. The bill was accompanied by a dozen sub vouchers, which Col. Olcott found on examination contained only two real names among the, whole, and these two names were forgeries , The colonel had perjured himself and perpetrated a forg er y be sides. This led to an investigation concerning him, and it was found that he had swindled the Union Defence Committee, swindled many citizens of New York who had subscribed largely for him, and swindled also the general government and the offi cers and soldiers of his regiment, and that he had made out of his frauds probably 100,000 dols. He had turned officers out of the regiment on frivolous pretexts, had systematically sold commissions, and been engaged in wholesale swindling. Col. Olcott has received orders to thoroughly in vestigate the history of the organisation of other re giments. The regiment above referred to is now in the service, with the veritable colonel at its head. When the particulars of the developments in that case comes to the public, as they soon will, they will show some rich and racy as well as extraordinary transactions, The colonel is proved to have run the career of a chevalier d'industrie for several years, and yet has received indorsements from some of the best men in the service. Within a week after the commission had com menced its investigations false bills to the amount of many thousand dollars, that had been prepared, were withdrawn and destroyed, and one bill for 6,000 dols. was ready for presentation, so that much has been saved to the Government by the investiga tion, besides being instrumental in bringing the guilty parties to justice. A ROMANCE IN THE COUNTY COURT. A case involving particulars of a singular and somewhat mysterious nature was tried in the Brighton County Court on Saturday. The plaintiff was William Moncrieff, a cabinet maker in the ser vice of Messrs. Hall and Harding, North-street, and was represented by Mr. Penfold. The defendant was Dr. Alfred Hall, for whom Mr. Lamb appeared. It seems that about five years ago Dr. Hal called upon the plaintiff respecting the :are of a child whose parents plaintiff knew nothing about. Two au.m.5..at..00 and £25 had, under an agreement, been paid for the maintenance tifidrlttif child -be coming attached to plaintiff, defendant agreed to give him £7O to entirely adopt the child, and pro mising that, if all went well, he would in the coulee of 12 or 18 months give an additional £lO. This £lO was the point in dispute. Evidence was given by the plaintiff and his wife as to the terms agreed upon by the defendant. In defence, Dr. Ball de posed that by the instructions of other parties, he introduced the chili in question to plaintiff and his wife, and it was registered as their child, and from time to time he paid the money to them which he had received from the principals for its support. The duty being somewhat disagreeable, and fearing that he might be mixed up with it, and become liable for the payments he asked plaintiff's wife whether, if he could get a sum. down, she would adopt the hild, at the same time telling her that the mother of the child was a young lady, dependent upon a grandmother, who was a widow of limited means, and that the father was a married man, dependent upon his wife's income. The sum of £5O was mentioned, and she consulted with her husband. It was declined, and he (Dr. Hall) then obtained £7O, which they ag reed to accept, and gave an acknowledgment for it, at the same time offering £lO for professional services which had been rendered to himself and wife, but which he (Dr. Hall) refused to take, and said, as they had been so kind to the child, he would if he could at some at some future time get another £lO, but he was sure the grandmother had had great I difficulty in scraping that £7O together. He (de fendant) heard nothing of plaintiff for three years after the £7O was paid. In answer to Mr. Penfold, Dr. Hall said he did not wish to give the names of the parents of the child, as the mother was still living, but the father was now dead. Still he would do so rather than have the paternity fixed upon, himself, and would only do so then for the sake of his professional reputation. Mr. Penfold said under those circumstances he would not press for an an swer. The judge was of opinion that the plaintiff accepted the £7O in full of all demands, and gave a verdict for the defendant.— West Sussex Gazette. A FRONTISPIECE TO A CHRISTMAS ANNuAlt•—• The only establishment in the city of London where tho right ancient custom still exists of surrendering tho shop to the entire control of its andfore:a a n well fts decorations, appears to aPPr e employes have a model for hr of t be that of Osborne'S provi s i on executedtiCis tu a warehouse on Ludgate. hill. Thit , year the shown a Phiz-like talent, Hunting Field. Perhaps some latent meaning lurks in ~ the meet, ,, 66 the h o unds giving tongue," and the good g who are riding. cheese hi I): the its , o, There is one amongst l t o h o o k l i a n tte :_ chaps" a right royal rider — w h o g i v i ng " Ham " the co ld s houlder, saves his " ba con " b y a ras h l eap, an d t h us avoids „ ~r asher," P erhaps in " Tally Ho " we have the ii Tally," formerly used i n thi s tra d e, an d i n t h e shape of which hich while h t o h us e ekeepe rs ensemble take oy to b be "find"symbolical th the o th f e the 4, best " cover" for provisions, but this would scarcely apply, if it be true, that the Osborne preserves cannot be " beaten." EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ARSON.—Great ex citement was occasioned at King's Lynn on Wed nesday in consequence of e. bookseller (who for many years has maintained a respectable position in the town), named Johu Robinson Smith, having set fire to his premises, with the intention, it is supposed, of burning his wife alive. Smith, who has of late years been somewhat reduced in circumstances, seems to have been much ann,yed because of:his inability to get possession of some property which his wife has in her own right. Th e p oor woman appears t o be bed-ridden, and he had been he ar d t o th rea t en t o kill her. On Wednesday morning he p rocee d e d t o carr y his threat into execution, by lighting a bonfire of papers, books, writing-desks, &c., in a back room with a boarded floor into which the stairs led, so that there could be no way o f escape but through the flames, if even the po or i nvalid could have crawled out of bed. Tho attention of -ergeatat Butcher was attracted by the smell of fire, and by noticing the smoke issuing from the shop door at about four o'clock on Wednesday morning. He tried the door, found it un fastened, and then discovered Smith watching the progress of the flames, which were spreading to the furniture and woodwork of the room, ready, it is supposed, to decamp so so on as the fire had gained a suffi c i en t h o ld. T o th e o ffi cer ' s q uery, "What are you about ?" he replied, cc Warming t h e house." Butcher at once set to work, found some water, and by almost superhuman effort succeeded in ex tinguishing the flames. Smith in the meantime decamped. The poor woman, his wife, was almost suffocated by the smoke. Smith has been taken before one of the borough magistrates, and remanded on the charge of arson,