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1 11 PERSONS SEEKING LANDED p [t ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, Iltoi; - IOLD AND LEAS EIIOL INVESTMENTS, AND ~ ER VIES GENERALLY — tl4 } ? lun GRATIS, at the principal . Railway Bookstalls lo hancery-ut the kingdom ne , or at the Auction and Estate Offices, .1, 11 7 , khan Lond on. Me srs. E. and IL Lumley's Of I , E Z,PROPERTY TZEGtsTza," containing ayaried selection th e "'-led and house properties now in the market, from inoblernan's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the pZe With s few acres. brPnr.us or PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em e the opportunity that the medium of this Re2iSier Q, by sending the particu'.ars of their properties to the Chanc.ry-lane, London, as the Messrs. Ith_ eY can in most cases introduce immediate customers, i tl 77 l , e tl ° le ffi p e r e o s p . e l r l7 ty , i s of an elii.,riblechara,ter, thereby avoid disaav intarres of delay and its attendant incon ►enoences , • Tx/r, • eh a ._• . n is NO cnAitOn incurred, unless a tenant or pur an'r is introduced throueli Messrs..Li . imley a Agency, 'hen onlythe usual moderate commission. A uction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. NORTH TIMTISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Tv FIRE DEPARTMN ET.—SPI•:CIAL NOTICE. Coronany is now prepared to TSSUE POLICIES for antile Insurances in the Port of Loudon at tt:e reduced ie of rats. , lllicular e s may ha had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle t. -:----._._____--- tr'ICONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). c. Inccrnorated under "The Co m p anies Act, 1852.'' 1:41 £1,000,000, in 4',e0 1 Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 1) 20,0 - 0 Shares. ' N P O Q , it on arplication LI per Share, and Li on allotment. 'future call to exceed AZ per zhare, and at intervals of not le than ' three " SS Vfm DiuEcrous• iv i.atham Bailey, (Crawshay Bailey Brothers and Co.), i „,"Tonta,2-,ue Raillie, Esq. (Batl lie, Dalllie, Cave, and Co.), AOBank Bristol. Kngton Paker, E q., Director of the Great Western e adway Compan. ' ° r_Ze S. Boecroit, y Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Js A,orth-W es tern Rait way Company. Tinyce, Esq , Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland, o (l Midland Great Western Railway Company, Dublin. T h y Dilberoglue, Esq. (G. J. Cayaly and Co.), Thread- VB. .akin, Esq., Alderman, President of the Great Western 'atiwy of Canada. I s , 4 dle- street. T i ; 'Mith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works. Gla s g ow. "lati Gooch. q (Gooch and Cousens) , Di rector of the t a ..s rinic of Li r . J adon. n B. W. Jervis, M.P., Deputy-Chairman Great o e., tern Railway. 1 1s Ommanney, Esq. (Hallett, Ommanney, and Co ), Jo , eSttninster. s ePh Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hill. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster. SOLICITORS IN BRISTOL. Messrs. Daniel and Cox. AUDITORS. Messrs. Deloitte and C. J. 11. Allen, Esq., Threadneedle-street. tam. B ANKERS. Of London. Bankers at Westminster, Messrs. Halle Ommanney, and CO. BROKERS. lon don —Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co. Dublin—Messrs. Boyle, Low, and rim. SECRETARY (PRO TEX.) J. C. Handfield, Esq. Temporary Offies-31, Threadneedle-street. undertaking Company has been constitut ed fo.r the purpose of 2 1 .ciertaking the execution and construction of railwaya and ner works both at home and abroad, a class of business 4, therto exclusively conducted by private co ,tractors. 4 1 'he large fortunes which have been rea l i sed b y them. not ', thstanding obvious disadvantages, sufficiently attest the S oundness and value of this enter, rise. It is admitted that, in many instances, the terms upon Which „lone contraltors, even of known position and wealth, are enabled to raise the necessary funds for carrying their ( 'aerations into effect are so onerous that it is only by profits Of extraordinary magnitude that such charees can De met ; and it follows that a Company having a large capital sub scribed by a wealthy proprietary, and with an able executive, Would enjoy 2reat advantages and, at the same time, fre quently afford im:.crtant aid to the individual contractor. The sub-lettings of contracts are known to be an important source of profit. In addition to this the Company will pos sess the advantage of raising funds upon debentures secured tip its unpaid capitil at rates which would be small as com pared with these charged to sub-contractors. It is not con l',nplated. therefore. to call up any considerable portion of c pital, unless the operations of the Company may show ! , .to be des'rable. The security of a large subvribed capital v a' necessarily inspire confidence on the part of Govern- Tents, Financ,al Companies, and others with whom the "repany may have to deaL In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will ye returned in lull. Should a less number of shares be al ed than are applied tor the deposit will be made available t owards the caymeat on allotment, and the balance, it any, returned to the applicant. Prospectuses a , td forms of app lication for shares may be c htaintd at the offices of tte Company, of the Brokers, and Of the Solici ore. FORM OF APPLICATION FOIL SHARES. To the Directors of the Contract Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen, —Havinz paid to the Bank of London the sum Of Contract, I request you to allot me shares, in the Corporation (Limited), and I hereby attree to be en°,ne a member of the Society, and to accep t such shares, or any less number that may be al otted to me; an d I request You to place my name on the Register of Members in respect 0 1 the shares allotted to be. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address Usual signature Date ..... ....• .• •• •• THE CONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). NOTICR.—The RE LIST will be CLOSED at our o'Clock TO-MORROW ( WEDNESDAY), the 21d inst. By order. J. C. lIANDFIELD, Secretary (pro tern.) T HE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (The Directors reserve to hemselecs the right of changing the name Ortire Company.) - To be Incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1862," by which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of share ;. Capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £5O. First issue, 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £ 1 per share, and £2 on a'lot men t . No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at intervals of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £2O per snare. DIRECTORS. George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con stable', Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great St. Helen's. William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Wm. llPArthur, Esq. (of the firm of Win. and Alexander M'Arthur, Australian merchants), 4G, Moorgate-street. J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, and Sargood), London and Melbourne. Th mas Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres and River Plate Bank, (James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and C'e'Hugh Gutter-lane. Ffaser Sandeman, Esq. :ilichd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman & Co. Samuel BaKer, Esq. * Committee of Management . BLNKERS. The London and Westminster Bank. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. BROKERS. Messrs, Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane. atessrs. sandeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, Offices—No. 4, Abchurch-lane. PROSPECTUS. „,,In forming this Company the Di rectors have secured the c o - operation of Messrs. Sandeman and Co., of Abchurch-lane well-known and long-established business it is the ct of this Company to take up and develope. The Company will conduct all the operations of ordinary discount busines , . The terms on which the business of Messrs. Saudeman and Co. has been purchased justify the Directors in anticipating a Profit of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the paid-up Capital. 0 The Company will take possession of the premises now oc cupied by Messrs. Sandeman and Co., as from the Ist day of fanuary, and the business of the Company will commence rent that day. No promotion money bits or will be paid, and the expenses UM be strictly confined to the necessary payments. Prospectusesforms of applintions for sharcs may be o btained at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will returned in full ; should a less number of shares be al lotted than are applied for, the dep3sit will be made avail able towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolida 4 ed Discount Company (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having p a id t o your Bankers the sum of Z . I requ es t you to allot me shares in the Consoli dated Discount Company (Limited), and I hereby arzree to b ecome a member otthe Society, and to a ccept such shares, or any less number that may he allotted to , . I request y ou to place my name on the in respect o f th e shares allotted to me. I am, G entlemen, your obedient servant. N ame in full Register of 3m aid lenibers Address .. 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First• class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Shown oms occupying an acre of ground. Every ariicle warranted. C'LEI,GYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishing au entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illnstrated by4lo admirable engravings of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent g; atis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing en the f ]lowing revised KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It 1.4 Fu:e, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. • Sold in Bottles, 3s. Sd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in Lnnland ; or wholesale at Shipwreck of the German Emigrant Ship Wilhelmsburg. MR. COBDEN AND THE "TIMES." Tice following additional correspondeneelas been 'rwarded to us for publication : LOSS OF THREE HUNDRED LIVES. It has been briefly announced that an emigrant vessel which left, Hamburg for Australia a short time since with about 400 persons on board was lost on the coast of Holland during the recent storms, and that nearly every soul on board perished. One of the few survivors has furnished Midhurst, Dec. 18. Sir,—For the first time you now disavow having imputed S, GREAT WINDMILL -STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." to Mr. Bright and myself the design of promoting by vio lent, illegal, or imm oral means a redistribut ion of the land of this country. H ad y ou contested y ourself with this that of the equa l testa havesimpl i e n d v i o s n a Te o d w f a o i r i tusmigh another have mentary division of land , for which you have no bet ter foundation in anything that ever fell from us than for the epassed in sil enca ; b ut you theory, former and heavier aspersion. You now ask my acquies cence in a process of reasoning by which you attempt to show the connection between your former language and your new accusation—against which grammar, logic, and THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 4 and 5, King . William-street, City, will be CLOSED on SATURDAY, the 201 h instant. the following narrative of the wreck : " You will have heard that the Hamburg ship Wilhelms- A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto Together with a erice list of purified fedding, and a mass of valuable information to all requiring - hYuseluld turniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permit.ed to Cler ton men and gentlemen in or near Great AID lvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborowli, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorkin d's, g, St. Alban's. Worcester , Ipsw i c h, Peterborough, St. Davi Wrexham, and above s g o other p laces in all parts of Great Britain. COB BETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, RIDGIVAY & CO. burg, Captain Gross, belonging to the house of Godafroy and Son, was lost on the coast of Holland, and that few lives were saved. Among these few lam one, and there are also 15 of the crew saved, and about 25 of the passen gers. About 300 men were drowned or died in the terrible night from Thursday to Friday, and among these were the captain and the aged doctor, No clothing was saved, as all was washed away and strewn on an unknown coast. Of the Wilhelmsburg, one of the largest vessels sailing for Ham burg, nothing remains but a portion of the after part, which, in consequence of the strength of the deck, still re mains a little above water. I will briefly tell you our adven tures from the time we sailed. We left the city for sea, having on beard from 315 to 320 passengers, and had a fair wind. We had not been long at sea when we encountered a westerly wind, which increased from day to day, until it became a storm which we could make no head against, and were driven back to the coast. In the night from Thursday to Friday the storm raged so violently that the sails which were stowed were blown away, and those which were set were more or less split. None of the sailors dared venture up the masts, and we feared they would go every minute. The vessel was driven about in a terrible manner by the winds and waves, and at last she could no longer be steered.. About 1 o'clock the captain gave orders to sound with the lead. We did so, and to our horror found only 17 feet of water. We saw that we were lost, and in a few minutes the ship struck for ward, and with a terrible shock she afterwards struck aft, The rudder then gave way. We immediately proceeded to cut away the masts, but they broke off like sticks, and their wreck beat great holes in the deck,through which the water poured and filled the 'tween decks. Another fearful crash was heard, and the ship broke in two amidships. All who were in the fore-part of the vessel and 'tween decks were drowned, as the one sank with all who were there, and the other was full of water. Thus 250 lives were sacrificed to the waves in the space of a few minutes. It was a fearful sight. Yet we could do nothing. In such a moment one has enough to do to think of himself, and has also enough to do to save himself. The after-portion of the vessel also sank in a few minutes, but was not entirely covered with water. The lower portion held together, but was imbedded in the sandy bottom. Now, however, one sea after another rushed over the deck, tore away the bulwarks, and carried off all who could hold on firmly. We all jumped into the largest boat, which was firmly jammed in between the wrecks of the masts and water vessels. Behind and before me lay dead and wounded, and among these was the cap tain. Thus cowering together in the boat, exposed to every sea which swept the vessel, sometimes lying on the dead, at other times packed between corpses, I awaited the dawn of day. It was quite 7 o'clock when we saw a northern barque in the distance, with her masts cut away, but other wise holding together, drive upon the strand. Her crew launched their long-boat,and fortunately succeeded in land ing. We followed this example, although our boat leaked. Men now came from behind the masts and water ves sels and from every corner of the deck, almost blue with hunger and frost, but anxious to get to land. There were about 10 more than the boat would carry; but, as these were passengers, come of the crew were compelled to remain be hind,and amongst these I was one. The boat left us with the promise that we should soon be fetched from the wreck. The boat, however, soon stuck fast, and those who were in were compelled to wade to dry land. The tide now ebbed,and as the boat lay high and dry we were compelled to try and save our selves, as we could expect no help from the shore. We therefore patched up a small boat the stern part of which had been broken away by the waves, and this frail barque we launched in the darkness into the sea. The waves fortu nately drove us to the shore, and then we got out and waded towards our comrades. The next night, like the last, we were forced to spend without any shelter ; but at all events we were not exposed to the waves. On the evening of the next day some men arrived, and we were conveyed to the nearest village in waggons, We then learned that the land was the island of Terscheliing, and here we remained till we could be sent to Harlingen. Of the 300 passengers only 24 men and one woman are saved, and, with the remnant of the crew, are reduced to a state of utter destitution. They are now at Hamburg, where they have been treated kindly ; but one or two have left for England, with the intention of finding their way to Australia in another vessel. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.I CHRISTMAS EVE. The Lessee and Director bres to announce that a Grand Performance of the MESSIIII will take place on TUC-1(S -DAY, December 21. Principal Vocalists—Madile. Titiens (most positively her last appearance previous to her den,rture for Italy), bliss Lascelles, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Sai.tley. Conductor, Signor A rditi. The Band (selected from the Orchestra of Her Majesty's Theatre and the Sacred Harmonic Society) and chorus will consist of 500 Performers. Prices :—Gallery, 2s. ; pit, is.; dress circle. 75. ; upper box seats, 5s ; pit stalls, half-a-guinea ; private boxes, from one to three guineas. Doors open at half-past nun. Commence at eight o'clock precisely. Boxes, stalls, and plales may be. obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre, open daily (under the superintendence of Mr. N agent) from ten till five. Now ready at all the Libraries, crown Evo., price Os., common sense at cite rebel. I will not allow you to divert me from the real question at issue into a new discussion as to the comparative merits between the equal division of real property, as it exists in France and a great part of the Continent, and the custom of primogeniture as it prevails•here. That is a subject fairly open to discussion in our Law Amendment Societies or the Social Science meetings, and as it can affect the pocket of no living proprietor it is not likely to lead to a very impas sioned debate. But I must point out to you how impoisible it is to reconcile your present plea with your former lan guage. You now profess only to impute to us the design of favouring the equal division of landed property among all the children at the death of a proprietor. But this will not MRS. MUTER'S TRAVELS. Now re .cly, in 2 vols., 215., TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE IN INDIA, CHINA, AND NEW ZEALAND. By Mrs. MUTER. wife of Lieutenant- Colonel D. D. MUTER, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HE 0 X F ORD, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MIL AN, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA FORZA DEL DES 1. 'NO— Verdi ; by the following talented artistes —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitzlienry, Vs slmsley, Tyrrell, .and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, .tc. Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS. the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr ScHAL KENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTIT ("or any °Hier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, W. T. Critchficld, T. Machigan, and the marvel lous Gymnast, J. B enderson. In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas Eve, sup ported by the entire company, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas." written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and composed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the estab:ishment. correspond with your reiterated charge that we contem- I plated a division among the poor of the land o f the rich. What you now affect to consider to be our object is the divi sion of the laud of the rich equally among the children of the rich. I must bring the question to the test of your own language. In your leading article of December 3 you alleged that the small States of the Continent regarded a Congress with the "satisfaction with which the poor might regard Mr. Bright's proposition for dividing among them the lands of the rich." I now infer from your new interpre tation that I am asked to construe this as meaning only the satisfaction with which the children of rich landowners would regard a proposition of a division among them of the lands of their fathers. NEW NOVEL by the MONthEY Auor of "GRANDMOTHER'S ." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WOMAN'S M. By F. W. ROBINSON, A N OM Author of " Grandm other' s Money," Sze. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY. Now ready, Thirty-third Edition, 1 vol., withilt ed the Arms beau tifully engraved, handsome y bound, gges, 31s. 6d., L ODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1861. Corrected throughout by the Nobility. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street Now ready, in crown Svo., with Two Illustra ti o ns, 65., THE LAST OF THE CAVALIERS, A NOVEL. Also. uniform, The INITIALS. By the Author of "Quits" and "At Odds." Gs. EAST LYNNE. By Mrs. HENnY WOOD. Os. The CHANNINGS. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD. Cs. MRS. HALIBURTON'S TROUBLES. By Mrs. HENRY WooD. 68. Richard Bentley, New Burlir gton-street. CAIN SPEKE'S JOURNAL of the DISCOVERY of the :OURCE of the NILE Is now published, in One large Volume Oct tvo, with nume rous Illustrations. price 2ts. William Biackwoud and Sons, Edinburgh and London. To be had of all Booksellers and Libraries. Now ready, price 36g., with Map, FOST-OFFICE DIRECTORY for 1864 (Sixty-filth year). Kelly and Co., Old Boswell-court. Strand, W.C. ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; and all booksellers. NOTICE. —CHARLES READE'S Great Story of " HARD CASH " now Ready, in 3 Volumes, post Svo., cloth, 31s. Cpi., and may be obtained at any Library or Bookseller in the Kingdom. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 14, Ludgate hill. TEMPLE BAIL MAGAZINE. In the January Number (now ready) commences a New Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled_ T " DOCTOR'S WI FE. By Author of "John Marchmont's Legacy," "Lady Audley 's -ccret," kc., &a. Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " SACKVILLE CHASE! In the January Number (now ready) of the ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE commences THE MAN IN CHAINS By C. J. COLLINS. London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. UNIFORM WITH " Tar, PRIVATE DETECTIVE." This thy, Never before Published, price 25., SECRET SERVICE Or, The ItecollecVons of a City Detective. London : Ward and Lock, 15S, Fleet-street. Now ready, price 3d., N T H E B 0 X, IBeing the Extra Double New-year's Day Number of CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL. A New Series of Chambers's Journal will be commenced on January 2,186 t, on which date will be given the first of an entirely new and interesting serial tale, entitled LOST SIR MAS, - ,INGBEP , D. in external appearance this Periodical (now in its Thirty third year) will be improoed, and no effort will be spared to render the literary matter more attractive than ever to all classes of r aders. W. and R. Chambers, London and Edinburgh. Fatal Collision on the Scottish. CeLtra] Railway. (Front the A'orth British .Daily Mail of yesterday.) On Saturday morning we were able to announce the fact that a collision attended with serious consequences had oc curred the previous night near the Dunning Station of the Scottish Central Railway, and that two men had been killed and other three severe!) , injured. • _ . T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGER`, M.E.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London: 18, New Burling - ton-street, W. Dunning Station is nine and a half miles south of Perth, and 53 miles from Glasgow, and the dire catastrophe oc curred between the distance signal and Dunning Station, on the down line of rails, about half-past five o'clock p.m. A down train had arrived at running Station, and was a considerable time detained there in shunting. While doing so a ballast engine, with one third• class class carriage attached, came up, also from the south, on the same line of rail, and drew up close to the rear of the goods train, which had not started off on its journey, and within protection of the distance signal. The carriage was filled with platelayers, who had been engaged dur ing the day working on the line near Blackford, and who were returning to their homes at each of the stations on the line up to Perth, including •Forteviot and Forgan dem. Some time afterwards another goods train of 31 trucks, from Greenhill, came up, ran past the distance signal at full speed, and into the ballast and other goods train, producing a scene which forcibly recalled the dread ful spectacle presented by the AVisehburgh collision last year. Happily the workmen in the ballast carriage had all got out but five, or it would probably have rivalled that catastrophe in the loss of life. The destruction to property is not so extensive as that which took place at Winchburgh, although it must be very considerable. Both lines were blocked up with a dozen broken trucks, and the passenger carriage was smashed into very small pieces, while the en gine and tender of the train which did all the damage—a very heavy ene—was damaged so as to render them well nigh useless, and the ballast engine and tender were like wise a good deal broken. Some of the vans had been thrown right on the top of others, while one or two were knocked on end as if they had been lucifer-match boxes, and others were so reduced in size that only their mere framing re mained intact. The down rails were twisted and broken, and the debris heaped around was very considerable. As soon as the sound of the collision reached Dunning station the attendants there. ran to the spot and gave speedy help to the inj ure d ; while, at the same time, a telegram was sent to Pe rt h informing the chief officials of possible they arrived in two them Drs. i3uist, Wallace, this time the five men who t sa h pn e edc o i s e a c la u rt r lri r an e i n gn c : bl ro A i fn s gp q i en u rg i t c h l w e . t ha; By were in the carriage had been extricated alive from its broken fragments, but two of them died in the Dunning station house soon after. Their names are William Morris and James Bowden, both married men, who have left widews and families to lament their loss. Morris, who was an elderly man, resided in Perth, and his family are all grown up, some of his sons being drivers on the line ; and Bo wden is a younger man, who lived at Forteviot. Other two men, named Matthew Reilly and George Cunningham, both re siding at Forteviot, were found to be much injured. After being attended to by the surgeons they were carefully con veyed to the Perth Infirmary, where they arrived about 10 p.m. Reilly is badly injured in the chest, and he had also his foot bruised ; but Cunningham's injuries. which are chiefly on his back, are believed to be more severe. How ever, h e has youth on his side, being only about 30 years of age, while Reilly is at least 20 years older. Both were re• ported on Saturdayae being slightly better, although neither is out of danger. The other man who was hurt was able, w i t h as sistance, to walk h ome, and no serious consequences are a pprehended on his account. Imme di a tely after the sufferers had all been extricated n and vigorous measures were taken to clear th e u p line, so as t o permit of the usual t r e ! - being ferionmg re t s o u , a various resumes r with strong force of men were ga th ere d to ghpoints,i t h s little del a y as p oss ibl e on th e on o line of rails. This was accom p li sh ed b y mi dnight , w hen the south exp ress, leavin g Glas gow at 9 o 'clock , which arr i ve s at Perth at 11.20 pan e w as a bl e t o procee d. I n con sequen ce of the stopp a g e of t he line the passengers by the and attended r trains leaving Glas g ow at 4,15 and 6.15 p .m., and that at 7 . 30 p a n. from Pert h were det ained, they having to lea ve the carriages a nd walk to others whch were iu waiting for th em at the eth er ends of the block ed part o f the road. From this co. • use the latter train did not arrivo in Glasgow till midnight. Who is to blame for this sad catastrophe it is not for us to say at present. 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Finest quality. with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. niy turn,ieeoln. Best quality Is. sd. per lb. Second quality .. , . is. 3d. per lb. Third quail. , y • • • Is. ld. per lb. Carriage pad in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. 1 . >4,z e • , t zu :, 1. 7 : 1 4.4 *1 * lb . , t - '; • - tiff V.) mg"- , a • X .4 + s 'bROIT• ." \' 1.* " !--" ' 0 ' • "e*liat. • At‘ . Again, in your letter to me of Dec. 7 you stated, "'these speeches are diecnssed elaborately in two leading articles on successive days, and in each of them certain passages are interpreted as recommending a repartition of the land among the poor." Now, the word partition or repartition means simply a division, and not a bequest or inheritance, and yet, with our dictionaries at hand, you now ask me to interpret the " repartition of the land among the poor" as only meaning to say that Mr. Bright and I wished to compel rich landowners at their death to leave their estates equally among all their children. • And in your letter to me of Dec. 11, you "repeat'' the assertion that "certain passages" of our speeches " bear no other interpretation than that ascribed to them." Now, up to that date you had put no other interpretation on those speeches than that they advo cated the division of the land of the rich among the poor. The poor we are now told to interpret to mean only the children of rich landowners I Then, I suppose, we must altogether agree to forget that you coupled us with Gracchus and the agrarian system of Rome, No ; in the teeth of all these proofs in plain, unmistake able English to the contrary, I should be sacrificing truth to courtesy were I to affect to concur in this new version of your language, which does not admit of two meanings. I note your recantation, but repel the attempt to raise a fresh issue to covet your retreat under a fire of minor accusations. I will conclude this correspondence with merely remarking that the blow which was aimed at the fame of Mr. Bright and myself has missed its mark. How far the recoil of the weapon may affect the hand that levelled it time will show. —I am, Sir, yours, &C., R. COBDEN. J. T. Delete, Esq. P.S. I cannot compliment your political economy. You repro ach me for having made the " concession" to France of undertaking- to levy no export duty on coal. Sir Robert Peel had abolished the export duty on coal for the benefit of England a dozen years before the French treaty, and all I engaged was that for ten years more we would not be so foolish as to put any impediments in the way of our ex ports. As for the paper duty, it is the interest of the British public to buy everything in the cheapest market. It foreigners put foolish restrictions on the export of rags, it is as additional reason why we should take their paper. This may,—and lam sorry for it—for a time, but only for a time, be iDjurious to our own manufacture of that article, in which I believe you or your family are largely engaged. The difference between you and me in 1860 was, that I was looking to the public interest and you were ad vocating the interest of a class. Midhuret, Friday Evening, Dec. 18. sir—l am compelled reluctantly to resume my pen, after having sent to the post what I hoped was my final com munication. Bat this mornings Daily News which has just reached me, contains a statement which cannot with honour be passed over, either by you or myself in silence. In the first leader of that journal I have read, for the first time, the following passage, which purports to be an extract from a leading article in your journal of the 26th of Novem ber on the following day, commenting on the speeches of Mr. Bright and myself at the Rochdale meeting " Thii language, so often repeated, and so calculated to excite discontent among the poor and half •informed, has really only one intelligible MEANING. Reduce the elec. tonal franchise; for when you have done so you will ob tain an Assembly which will SEIZE on the estates of the proprietors of land, and DIVIDE THEM GRATUITOUSLY AMONG TILE POOR.' duce the franchise, but certainly not as a step TO SPOLIA- I sincerely trust there is some inaccuracy in this quota tion, which is not only a libellous outrage on two member s of the House of Commons, but a dire insult to millions of honest and industrious Englishmen. If it be a correct ex tract from your leading article, which I have no mea ns o f ver ifying at the moment of writing, it is in direct contra diction to the statement made in your last letter, that you never imputed to Mr. Bright and myself the contemplation of any more violent means of dividing the land than by a change in the law of succession. Assuming the words to be correctly given, you charge us distinctly with aiming at the SEIZURU of the landed property of the country for GRATUI TOUS division among the poor. You will at once see th a t unless this language be unreservedly recalled it makes the statement in your last letter simply a mockery and an un truth.—l am, sir, yours, &c., R. CoBDEN. 3. T. Deane, Esq. Sir,—l received your second letter, dated "Friday Even ing, December 18," only last night. The quotation you take from the Daily News is so far inaccurate that it dces not convey the same meaning as the whole article from which it is taken does. I enclose that article and that which ap peared on the following day. I add an extract from an other, which has been published since ; and, having now given you all the means necessary for obtaining that redress which purported to be the object of your first letter, I beg to retire from the personal part of this controversy.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. JOHN T. DELANE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGI3.—A vacancy having been created in the chair of Scots law by the lamented and sudden death of Mr. George Ross, advocate, who has filled it for two years, the Faculty of Advocates met on Fri day to exercise their privilege of selecting two names to be presented to the curators of the patronage. The Faculty unanimously selected as the first name Mr. G. Moir, advo cate, sheriff of Stirlingshire. Mr. Moir was called to the Scottish barin 1825,and from 1835 to 1840 filled the chair of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edin burgh, but resigned it in consequence of increasing profes sional practice, and the chair has subsequently beeed till 1845 by Professor Spalding, and since that date by Prueessor Aytoun. The second name chosen—the advocates bei‘inrg required to present two—was the Dean of the Facultyc(uria, Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, M.P.), who is sent totthhaet ey tors as a nominal candidate in the expectation ° the open ing will, annual, choose the first on the list. of the university session inprNinoevaeAmibfreerd,oStelaievdpoi;alraorrfintheee classes have been attended by b ed art- William of Hesse, who have for the . time e s left on Friday ments in Ilolyrood Palace. for the Christmas holydays, The ed princes rly in n e J A a l n f u re a d ry r . eturns again to his studies in Edinburgoleae Mn. STANSFELD, i'riday, Mr. Stans. fold, Junior Lord of the Admiralty, who has been making a tour of the naval d o ckyards, and inquiring into their manageme nt, arrived at Birkenhead on a visit t o e u ir. ri .Tohn hi L s Laird, for ng an d left London on Saturd ay. he visited the Birkenhead docks, Messra, docks, and minutely inspected Cl ove r and Clayton's g raving she extensive works aed docks of Messrs. Leirti Ilrothere. lle also went on board the Agincourt, at pres€.ut in course of construction by the firm. Tim suspected rants under seizure in the river were visited. On the Livcrpeol side Mr. Stansfeld confined his attention to the Canada Deck, the Sandon Graving Dock, and the new steam docks. He boarded the Inman steamship City of London, During his visit Mr. Stansfeld made particular inquiries into the progress of all works on Loth tides of the Mersey. He was accompanied by Mr. Walker, one of the chief auditor to the Admiralty. DIRECT COMMISSIONS.—The next examination for direct commissions will take place at Chelsea Hospital on Monday, the Ist of February, 1861, S' 'AMP - ED ....sd. LE JOUR DE L'AN. IP,•••.co° ~.` n be a chance of the Rhine, but then Ipiitit:ki'Ci - 141 ...\ri be in the single position which hie dciptOrilitAn*.'4` A, of his uncle's life will not allow him t4tyck4iliglil:-,4", gliz I \ l4 that is, to be opposed to a coalition. It 'l4cir 4 1 4 co l -T j ,.: 7 Itussia, and still be in accord with pa . * iilt'e'' . .f . fi `; - . - Ala... but to menace on January 1 what ho cannlimo S X.IA as till May 1, and so afford time foiall manner of com binations, is not his usual line of action. There is no other enemy to be threatened, professions of amity arc pleasant but not scenic, and as to internal liberties, it is not of theta that, an Emperor of the French will talk to a meeting of foreign Ariba3sa dors. Oa the whole, admitting, as we have said, the temptatlons preEs the Em2ercr towards a coup de theatre, th e reaLonable prol)abidty is that he will cr.:press nothing beyond a r,Trat that his preposalshould not have met a wider end more ccr dial acceptance. (From the Spectator.) The salons of Paris are feverish, for the jour de l'an is cpproaching. Eger since 1860, when the Emperor with a dersn words seat down the funds in every capital of the Continent, and broke up that lei surface, so smooth and so dangerously thin, which is called the European peace, Paris has been unable to divest itself of the belief that a coup de the7Ure so exciting and so successful would one day be repeated. The temptation, they say, of the im. promptu Congress., with all Europe in attendance, the world listening anxiously for the telegram, end no peesibi ity of reply is to a monarch who esmbhees with unusual power of ceerecy unusual love for sudden and striking scenic effects always great , a nd this ye ar may, they think, prove irresistible, The difficulties of the Empire are, they conceive, thick ening fast, the deus ex machinemust descend, and the clouds cou ld not open with more awe-inspiring effect than amidst the combined etiquette and joy ousness of the Imperial receptions held upon New Year's We are to-d a y in possession of the talk of Day. circles to which the ordinary newspaper corre spondent has rar e ly access, an d t h oug h we opinionbe sensaoinss based —terribly s t rong i n a soc i e ty as much on a secret be lieve longing e for which the Empire h a s , so to speak, becalmed—as on trustwor thy calculation, it is well worth the gass i ng study of those wh o recognise that Nap o l eon m a y at any moment a pp l y a solvent to all diplomatic c hemistry. The lino of argume nt current in circles in which argument has not been su pp ressed by a governin g hate of Bonapartism runs much in this direction, The Emperor, say the talkers, stands, and k nows he stands, in the presence of three new dangers, two of them self-created, and one the natural effect of eleven years of repression: His address t 3 his Legislature, with its great but dreamy proposal, followed as it was by a series of refusals reverberat ing from every superior Court, had among his own people two distinct effects. It excited, and 'very powerfully, the popular imagination. France feels great ideas as no other country feels anything, ex cept, perhaps, menace or new taxation, and French men had special reasons for feeling this one. The conviction, perfectly just in itself, that the treaties of 1815 were intended to humiliate France, that they had for nearly for fifty years operated as a heavy restraint, and that " glory" was impossible until they were swept away, has burnt itself deeply into the mind of France. A vague hatred of those agree ments, acknowledged by all classes of educated Frenchmen, by Republicans no less than Impe rialists, by M. Thiers as much as Prince Jerome, has extended itself even to the peasantry, whose traditions are of the Grande Arnge whose career was arrested in 1815. Peasants who read nothing else still read the Emperor's speeches, and as they deem him irresistible, the acknowledged leader of the Continent, his pledge that those treaties should end, should be replaced t4e a new "fundamental pact" more favourable to France and the nationa lities, created throughout all France a sense of deep and pleasurable excitement. It was increased by the knowledge that the Congress must first of all take up the question of Poland, upon which the strong feeling always existing had been recently deepened by the unchecked invectives of the press, and the greedily credited stories of Russian cruelty to the Poles. That feeling might not survive a long and still less a disastrous war, but it was strong enough to authorise the Emperor to begin one—as he 52id in his speech he would have done had England consented—and to obtain such a result. of a campaign in peace seemed to most Frenchnien the 120 plus ultra of strategy; The universal refusal of Europe to obey the summons has disenehe.nted the populace, and their disappointment, like the hailstorms end every other misfortune, is visited on the Government. The educated classes know the truth in spite of the M'niteur, tied ti uneducated, though b.: fit a as to the facts, have an instinctive sense that no!re maifre is not so strong as he said he was. "Isolation in Europe," " diplomatic de feat," "dust thrown on the flig," these are to the public mere phrases, bat that Mouravieff goes en, and that Napoleon does not interfere himeelf, and cannot make Europe interfere for him, this is a fact, and one which the masses by no means accept with pdeasure. Napoleon, who hears from official reports everything that passes iu France, the very talk of the wine-shops and gabble of the market women, knows well how deep is the disappoint ment, and knows, too, that a similar one discredited Louis Philippe for years, and that he, far more than Louis Phillipe, cannot afford to fail. Some striking act, some speech which shall set the world in movement, would seem absolutely required to alter the current of national thought, and remove the impression of failure, and that speech must be made just when the world from habit begins to listen. Again, the Emperor is known to have been startled, not to say shocked, by the result of the elections, a result which has been, so to speak, re peated by the votes given this week in Paris and at Dijon. He suffers, despite his cool judgment, frcna the temptation of day-dreamers—the disposition to believe that the world is going their way, and ho had imagined that the masses of France were reconciled to the Empire. The elections show nothing to the contrary, but they prove that the townsmen through out the country are thirsty for wider liberty, that the artisans are voting with the rich, and the Em peror, who knows best of all men the gigantic efforts made to divide those classes, is proportionately' alarmed. The debates in the Corps Legislatif have proved that the vote of towns has greatly affect he iberals prestige of the Government, for though t • in ebates on claim only 35 members, yet in the tria ed the es, voted the elections 84, some of them nom is a swerve, " against M. de Persigny." There pond to too, in the tribunals, which are apt to re s the fluctuations of pow er in too barometric a amp l e , prosecuted by style, and editors , for ex getting move the personal followinn. acquitted. These things prefects, aro to their own amazement • of the Emperos.• almost as mew shimsand it is, h elf e ' we believe, correct to efarm e shrewdest faint the only one who enjoys Bea le has within the past fo t • r T. 7 eror that if the Legislature • informed the Ea ure is not nmana geable, war, or a further sahmaornegofthseoincia'l likineo to become n er grant of Ives. Liberty w hen avoidable, exactly th e internal liberty, are the only alternati ves , is not, Bonaparte role, the dynasty is still no t b eyond the reach of internal attsc l r , and war , if circurnstaneea:Wou d only allow, m i g ht be the more popular es Well as the easier out let from an unmana geable situation. There is, salon there fore, say the 8 ) reaeon for fearing that N e w Year's Day will be marked by some Imperial utterance, possibly daportant. We admit the ngerous, and certainly im full force of these argume nts, at least as far s to the influences now working in the direction of some grand and thcatric coy, but there are reasons which make such a New Year's gift to Europe seem to men not longing for scenes at least improbable. The Emperorand possibly will , take th e opportunity of abandonin g scheme publicly •sio ha uld s ben e scheme of a general Congre ss, and throwing the re• sponsibility on the Powe rs w h ose adhe lf n wo withdrawn ; bat this speec h b y is only when t hat which suggestive of peseta It itse be h wo uld be a confessi on that cent, and such a s p ec° exists is to eNist no longer that war in c omes immi rer to set ? 11.0 is hnown to w h a t else is th e En pe that which exists moat continu o to last. Yet s saddled him wit h the Archdu ke be bitterly annoyed at the conduct of the Austrian Court, w hich ha Max , w ithout affording him the support he expected i n wore, but he cannot a second time menace the Austrian re presentative. There is nothing to fight Austria for, unless, indeed, he draws the sword en all Germany in defence of Denmark, which he seems as yet by no means iectiued to do. Popular feeling might baelt him then, because there would Pr 4 nce T-Tap::.le,ou 032 the Proly.thr:ity of Mr., (From tile Fioncls Corresi:A7:,;isit: oduchlties:Dt3t:2....„,l7_;urle-;::if.1.1±; been shut in Prineo Ne.pc:lzon, .1' . 7.,c re mouth has the Senate, is now brmight befo7e the p u bli c in an unexpectc. , (3. tr.onnst.. Teo Natien rc,p ro d u ,„,,, the Vaterland of Vitrna the followiio•-ec " enl • ter, attri buted 10 him, and czzpressing an opinion th at war is inevitable. The name of his correspend , c nt is not stated, Tue Nation, while publishing the l etter under all reserve as to its authenticity, says i t fittoti in it the bellicose language of the prince, who se ems to desire a war at any 'price blth in the north en d the south. Here is the tent of the letter in quts. tion:— " You ask me whether I believe in war. Yes, I do. How will it break out ? I will tell you. It will break out in the spring, ana my father - in-law will begin it. The situation of King Victor Em manuel is no longer tenable. The public . debt in creases every year. There must be an end to this. The King has several_ times written to the Emperor that he must have a solution, and that be would rather be plain Chevalier de Carignan than continue to play the part of a sovereign who is gravitating towards a precipice. I repeat to you, my father-in. law has warned my cousin that in the spring he means to attack the Austrian lines. Believe me that. this is the way the struggle wi ll commerce ; t he Ring gives way to no illusi ons ; he knows that Austria will that his magnificent army will not yield w ithout ' makin g a serious resistance. The coequerors will re-enter Lomb ar d • they will perhaps, occupy Turin ; b u t t h en the situation will change. How ever great may be - th e d es i re o f the E m peror fee peace, he cann o t a l low Austria to destroy the work of France in Italy. lie 7 himself, to maintain the hin in gdbote f n of Italy , . in y. I s f p , i h te ow of , - ever, contrary to all should abandon my fathe e:p i e tn - to become once arin Bing that, after ri c .i ,: z. t l . o , n, the Emperor he would prefer 0 of Piedrnent, and so be relieved of the responsibility w hi ch - him as King of Italy. Wh a t i weighs 131)011 a war, ell s more probable is that France will interfere, and King will have Northern Italy, end the " Emperor w ill disuosc of the south as he thinks fi t. ” A few hours will probably decide whether the above lettere which a Paris journal, with an the fear of warnings and su pp re s sion before its ~,,e,, ve ntures to print, is or is not an im p udent forgery'. If it be genuine, it will p:obably rank as one o f the most stirring eveeits of those momentous times.. This much is certain, that all the recent letters from Italy speak of preparations for immediate w ar which nobody can account for. Prince Napoleon's etter—if it be his—givis an explanation of them. TEE GREAT FIRE ET THE CITY. A closer examination yesterday of the track of the recent fire in Wood-street shows in a striking manner how much it was confined to a class of buildings the interior arrange. meats and means of communication of which appear to have been made in defiance or in ignorance of the principles which now regulate such matters, under the operation of the Metropolitan Building Act. The warehouses and offices which have perished seem to have been separated from each other by thin lath and plaster partitions for the most par t, and only in one instance was there an iron door between one part of the interior of the came building and another, such as is now commonly used and made imperative, indeed, in the construction of warehouses as an invaluable means of shutting off communication in cases of fire. That iron door, too, which remains uninjured would have been comple t ely effectual in arresting the flames in that direction had they not penetrated by a vulnerable point into the port of the building which it protected. The use of iron for surety against fire was most conclusively proved by a very remark able circumstance. The large and handsome warehouses of Messrs. J. and It. Morley, situate at the corner of Ge3shata and Weed-streets, overlooked by a large window on the ground floor at the back the little court in which the flre originated, and to which it was at first confined. This large window was protected on the outside by folding iron shatter, and that more egainst robbery than fire. On this cccasion for some time the flames played fiercely, but harmlessly about the outside of th e winders-, so guarded by the iron shutter. Had they once entered Messrs. Bier ley's premises at that point, the stock stored inside, and Upon such a estimated at from £ 9 ,50,000 to £300,030, would inevitably have been destoyed, if, indeed, the devastation would have of them ended in that one vast pile of buildings. slender condition of safety did property almost fabulous in value and belonging to a single firm depend in this ease. The ruins, consisting for the most part of large masses of andliteraol l iterally each h ow s e id d e i o n f charred tinabsr, show how largely wood rather than biick had been used in the construction if the houses which have the ptreareisthoefdt.heTcohme bfiurest,ibilnedmeeadt,erhiaasi, supposed to be 300 years old, and which the flames , v , lc , e, gap which it has left huge cables of brick, some powerless to harm, remain standing. It is the opinion of Mr. Woodtherpe, the district surveyor of the northern division of London, who visited the spot yesterday, that but for those formidable old walls :the whole mass of ware houses forming the cast side of Wood-street and ejing will the west o f Milk-street , ri g ht up to Cheapside, and ir- 1 the i r co ntents so me of the most valuable in the city of London, would have been destroyed. c, ptain Shaw, too, t h e chief of th e London Fire Brigad e , ' who was out for the first time after his recent dangerous illness, and could not res i s t the temptation to go and his a mazement that in a see the place, expressed Packed the conflagration has neighbourhood so densely com paratively small an area. been confined to so tude with which the th e truth is that the steampromPt.'- fileeengines, six or seven . In number, were broil less vigour with ght into action, and theheresiiierte: which they played materially checked its first,oo the that in spite of difficulti progress from the e , s to it only through a few blinds experienced in finding heafiremen had at imminent risk to c 4 courts theirand ahloleyescver the tops or lofty piles of houses both W t ood-streest and Milk-street, and thro ugh little by-ways before the engines, 13 in all, could be brought to bear on the harming mass. Fortunately, the tr ade books of Messrs. Grant, who aro the largest sufferers were preserved intact in an iron safe on their premises ; but about 300 people to whom they gave employment have been suddenly thrown out of work. The firm is understood to be insured to the amount of £37,000, that sum being spread over e ight different insuranc T e offices. heir stock consisted mostly of underclothing of all kinds, shirts, neckties, um brellas, and parasols, of all which they were manufactureis on a large scale• In one room alone on the third floor they had 1,200 dozen of fine flannel shirts stored, all of which have been burnt. They occupied four largo warehouses, four stories high, two of which have been completely destroyed, with their valuable contents. Messrs. Morley, notwith standing the risk they ran, did not suffer to an extent at all commensurate with the loss sustained by Messrs. Gran% It is true their shirt factory, with many valuable machines, has been burnt, but it was not a place in which they kept a ny very considerable quantity of stock, and they only esti.. mate their loss, which is covered by insurance, at about £t,COO or 5,000. An underg round comm unication nis + eci and the s hirt factory which has been destroyed ' ano th e r part of thei r extensive p remises, and there, sa f e ty afforded by an iron door which of;debt too, the f ro m the other in the subterranea n passage one place by the result. A considerable amount was established of s . ‘ , collected from among the ruins of Messrs." 'be. was 1)244 " houses yesterday ; but of Messrs. ''.'• Grant's ware content, or of the stocks of Mr B''ic.ri'l'e (actor}' "1":1 :its and Mr. Gnbson, the other -s" : a:ging., Messrs. Heir y, his llRlONSlrmarsumme ULLA Cr" '`• ') +. ,0,, a vestige reuniimi. „.................. many e i,i iiini ,s),lt:tilliiee e c i ir '-'_ 0 : ,, 1 ; 1 3 1 w d i u n'g paid t ' 1 TIIE LANCASHIRE,' COAL TILIDE.—WIGAN, S.llur drs having tc i la y ncti . c — iil - ini l ls ‘ t) l tle l lay e etn C e l. : it grantedsi theltf r i sa e ii t ihv s an t ' fir: e n: : : s o t at. l 01 pertst about ce nt. a asked l o t e r a •e b t 11 . , r t. t u t) to in : :. f, b e. i nar g i :::l(l l r e after the " nare2t making 1) tLy to tha lEL of J P-r 1 0 11 ,1 "? 7 , : _ The trade durinfr Urn wok has b: en renvirkably , fo o : " II ;Len Trattily a coal dcFp;ltelied bein7, really sn i rilj n ..- ,L e of a the state of the cotton trade is considered a n ti( i , dull fr(4ht market at Liverpool, trade, a branch that has extended wonderfully pest i . :Nv years, is, however, particularly number of furnaces in blast in the e e spcets of the winter are very 11:Lrellaar; considerably to the increased nur o n ura : :::: g r hwe completely t he sat ed is extent th 4 evils uf the sail z , brisk, and the . v contributes wry of orders. The pro- Trade :ems to efrr'ocrn the lonr; deprusi•:e., road the irninovement hero wi11, i,000,33 11 . ( , 1 0 1 :11 d ' i c .2 - a llltc t r i ac ti:4 l : l o e : o v t . t o , ) i rt o manufacture. FRANCIS TUCKER ANY 6-6. S, Smith Molton-street, Gro sven -square. lllanuf =tory. Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establislumnt in England for the Manufacture of wax candles for the uae of the Altar. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. "T " GTIOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL. New and Interesting Spectral Tableaus.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, through the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly , held at the CAN TER BURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real lite, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still farther impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best writers. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly replacel by others. The pages cf Shakspere and the el,:er Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, In g oldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., will, in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, Itr.c. ; Comedy by Cesworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George - Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. Ir) . , OYAL ALHAAIBRA.— CONTINUED and IC* IMMENSE SUCCESS of FRANCONI'S CthIRQUE IMPERIAL.—This Renowned Troupe, comprising e best Stud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World, together with the First Star Male and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, Clowns, and Van ters in either Hernial here, at tracts enthusiastic and delighted audiences nightly to this Magnificent Building, who behold with wonder and admira tion the Marvellous Feats of this far-famed Compan es, y. Change of Programme Nightly. Morning Performanc Mondays, WednesdaN s, and Saturdays, at T o. Two Grand Performances on Boxing Day, viz , Two and Half -past Seven. Admission—Private boxes, one guinea ; Reserved seats, Is.; Stalls and Balcony, 28. ; Pit and Promenade, is. ; Gallery, Cd. Box-office open drily. On Monday, Deo. 2' at, first appearance of M. Jules Perez, from Madrid, the Greatest Rider of the age. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLTEN, at TTer I%Talesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'cloer. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GRENET. CZPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly - invented k_j Tinted Spectac•les are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, includin2•Visconut Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary reief to weak, din, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOAONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. CAPTAIN WHITE'S ORIENTAL PIC KLE, C c ran - or MULLIGATAWNY PAST F, Curry Powder. and Curry Sauce. may o b e o .aiued from all Sauce Vendors, and wholesale of CROSSE and lILA.CRWELL, Purveyors to the Queen, Soho-Equare, London, A T Christmas many suffer from INDIGESTION, la. and require some little assistance. PA ER'S LIFE PILLS stimulate the digestive orzans, and remove, without the sligh , est pain, uneasy or nauseous setrzations, so amiliar to those who have indulg . ed a I , ttle too freely in good Christ mas la. e. May be obtained of any medicine vendor, in boxes, is lid, 2s Od; and in family packets, lls each. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.--Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cas•ian Bloom. Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparatwns render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison.—Can be had only at Madame RAC aL'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidential. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21 The mail steamship Briton arrived here this even ing at 10 o'clock. She left the Cape on the 20th ult., St. Helena on the 28th ult., and Ascension on the 2d inst., alai brings 39 passengers. Bishop Colenzo's trial commenced at the Cape on the 17th ult. in St. George's Cathedral, before the Metropolitan Bishop of Cape Town and two suf fragans, the Bishopof Graham's Town and the Bishop of the Orange Free State. The accusing clergy, the Dean of Cape Town and the Archdeacons of Graham's Town and George Town, were present to support the charges they had preferred. Dr. Black, Curator of the Grey Library, attended on behalf of l3ishop Colenzo, and read a letter from the Bishop, denying the jurisdiction of the court and handed in a formal protest against the proceedings. The Dean of Cape Town supported the charges in an eloquent and forcible speech, characterised by deep research and great ability. The trial was expected to extend over several . days. The question at issue would finally pass into the hands of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. A civil action was pending against the Dutch Reformed Church for suspending from the ministry the Rev. Mr. Kobse, on a charge of heresy. The Federal steamship Vanderbilt returned to 1 Cape Town from the Mauritius, and remained in Table Bay until Oct. 27. She then proceeded to Angra P,:quina, the Confederate rendezvous, and carried a quantity of coals stored on Penguin Island, which was annexed to Cape Colony two years since. The Vanderbilt al.so seized the British bark Saxon, of Cape Town (in British waters, it is said) that vessel being supposed to have been laden with part of the cargo of the Federal bark Conrad, captured by the Alabama end converted by Cspt. Semmes into a tender to the Alabama, and renamed the Tuscaloosa. The Vanderbilt then put a prize crew on board the Sazon, and sent her to New York for condemnation. The crew of the Saxon, with the exception of the mate, said to have been shot by a Federal officer, were transferred to a coasting vessel and forwarded to Table Bay. There had been destructive storms and heavy floods is the Eastern Province. provisions continued plentiful and cheap. Trade was reviving. H orn iman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate I in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in packets by 2,250 Agents. ACCIDENT ON A R AIL WAY. -0a Sunday morning the driver of the goods train which arrives at Swin don station on tho Great Western Railway at 2 o'cock was passing Hay-lane, midway between Wootton Bassett and Swindon, when he perceived something lying between the rails on the up line. The engine was stopped, and it was found to be the body of a woman, about 40 years of age, quite dead. The legs of the deceased were broken ; the head w •as crushrti. There were no marks by w hich she cou'd b e identified. The deceased was dressed as if for travelling. [ADvEnTIstmExT ] _ The body was brought on a truck to Swindon station, where it now list awaiting identification and the inquest. varieties of ulcerations, sores wounds, and eruptions, can be cured by the diligent, use of this cooling, soothing', tti g h ihir r: ee a r l i a l iwye u e Wog n a u ll u a rY. Y e' n 'lll6 d N pro w l:at oin tm ent, t ll t' immediatelyey Holloway's Ointment. All and healing unguent. 'rho old and often failing fashion of strapping the edges of ulcers together with plaister has en before the more reasonable treatment of which builds up from the bottom of sound and healthy granulations. These reach the surface, ' then contract, become covered with a new and wholesome skin. the proper application of this o . intment diminishes the inflammation, causes the unhealthy discharge first to grow thick, then to case, when the owe itiag ( li m p_ pears and the natural Alitro. is tettorr.d. .4' A -~;,~