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The most attractive personage of the tale, Simeon Hughes, is one of those creations that will be remembered of all readers like the Adam Bede of Miss Evans, or the J canie Deans of Sir Walter bcott"—Star. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. l'ogether with a Price List of purified Bedding, aad a mass of valuable informationto all requiring househ 31d furniture, •arpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, ityde, Plymouth, Wells. Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, statues, Dorking, St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great tint a • ._. COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices -2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS, (Ohio Division) Payable in London. 4,C00,(00 Dollars. Due in 1883, Coupons due Ist January and Ist July. f,Secured by a Registered Mortgage on the Income and all ~ -v rP erae Rights, Privileges, Lands, Franchises, Plant, and -yroperty of the Ohio Division of the Railway. T he Bonds are redeemable at par in New York, or in Lon don at 4s. 6d. per dollar. and are transferable wi bout stamp iZ l et lelorsement ; Interest Coupons are attached to the Bonds, ..,Yable semi- annu 1 y, at the Cons lidated Bank in London, at the fixed rate of 4s. to the dollar. The Rands will be rued at 66, at wh ch rate Bonds ot 1,000 dollars will cost '" 1 48 105., carrying Coupons due January 1, 1865. 1 ,04 ,he Coupons represent £l4 per annum on each Bond of dollars, or 91 per cent interest on price of issue. ti The immense de, elopmeut of the Western States of Ame -,,ca, without any increase in the means ot transit to the V;astern ports, has given the At antic and Great Western 4allvvay; as rapilly as the different sectio s have teen "Pened, an unexampled success. The whole line is now till!) , ! C ady tor business and thoroughly ballasted, but the demand e! ng siock has been so far in excess ot anticipation that 1 7 equate pi ovision for it has not been made, and 200 miles of ' e main line has remained shut up until now. Great efforts The been made to supply locomotives, carriages, and trucks. e Company has built extensive works for their construe /441, and are now turning out one locomotive complete every demand days, and ten freight cars every day. In too way the ' e Mand will, in reasonable time, be supplied. As the entire through tra ffi c to and from New York will t' , B over the Erie Ballo ay, it is but reasonale that that ~.,Muparty, which will so largely benefit, should f urnish a por- Zun of the rolling stock, and to meet this a treaty has been 'fade with the Erie Directors for the expenditure of five million dollars in the construction of engines and cars. The Mire amount is now under contract for rapid delivery, and as received will be used exclusively for the through traffic over the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, the latter Company on its part agreeing to supply a similar quantity for the same purpose. Following the financial policy, adopted at the outset, of securities to the public only after so muc , i of the line Was finished as would secure the necessary income for pro `riding the interest, the Company feel justified, now that the building of this great railway is complet d, in making this additional issue of Bonds. During the last ten years no railroad of any magnitu'e has been built on the American Continent except the Atlantic and Great Western, in which period the population and all produce, agricultural and mineral, have largely increased; ence results the pro nerous state of most of the railroads. Whose net receipts have enabled large dividends to be paid to the stockholders, after providing interest on indebtedness, thu s _ The Clevelar d, Columbus, and Cincinnati Rail wayn. divided last year The Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton 4he Little Miami The Michigan Central lB „ The Lake Shore, Cleveland, l'ainsville, and Ash tabula and it cannot b a d ou bted th a t the Atlantic and Great ilireq :rn, 1 osses-ing almost a monopoly of the petroleum traffic, and p ;ssing over the extensive coal fields of Ohio, whin h are of PI eater extent than even the large field- of Pennsylvania, rill show results at least equal, and most probably exceed ing' some of those above named. The whole system of this Railway, when in operation, will ( insist of— The Main Line—Sa'amanca to Dayton. 385 miles, Branch to Cleveland 67 Franklin Branch and Buffalo Extension BO „ Total 532 „ bt this 322 miles have been successfully worked during the Bilu nner ; for the last three months the earnings having ex :eeled 1,000,0t.0 dollars. Es imating the receipts on the entire line to be only aq great in proportion (and unques -I"ablY they will be considerably larger), there would accrue_ Dols. A gross receipt of Deducting 50 per cent. working expenses Leaving net gain 3,373,708 Interest on total Bonded DeLt, in- Dols chiding pre: ent Issue -Rent of Leased Lino -1,266,560 Leaving surplus 2 107,018 This, under ordinary circumstances, would be applicable to Dividend on Stock, but for the amount required to pay I nterest on Sends (717,86 d o ll ars b e i ng p a yable in London, at the fix' I rate of 4s. per dollar, and the rate o f exchange at present ruling exceptionally high), a portion of above Burling would be absorbed in the premium fOr gold. It is thus evident that the resources of the road will be far Tore than equal to meet the charge for interest, even should the rate of exchange rule much higher than at present. The several divisions of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway have been cansolida ed under the government of James Cobb, Esq., whose reput tion as a Banker and ltail- W ay Administrator is estab;ished in Europe as we 1 as in America. Mr. Robb. as President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, joins the Direction of the Erie and other lines forming the Throu,h Route between new York and St. Louis, so as to secure unity of action. The price of issue has been fixed at (6. The terms of issu3 are as follows : £ s. d. 5 per cent on application, being 11 5 °per bond of 1 000 dole. 10 „ on allotment „ 22 10 0 ss 15 „ 10th November „ 33 15 0 11 „ 19th 11 cember „ 15 0 „ 11 15 it 21 lilth January „ 47 5 0 less £7 Coupon due let J ' anuary £l4 • 10 0 Sift scribers have the option of paylnz the instalments in advance, and will be allowed a discount of 9 per cent per an "m on such pre-paymen s. After allotment, Scrip Certificates will be issued to "bearer." These Certificates will be excharged for Bonds t() bearer" on paym nt of the final instalment. Forms of Application may be obtained at the Consolidated 'sank, or at the offices of the Company, No. 2, Old Broad street, London, E.C., or of E. F. 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Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury Hall a Magic Spectacle far transcending in poetry of conception, beauty and in n-entity of arrangement, scenic effect, and brilliancy of light and colour any former application (even at this Hall) of the principle kr.own as the OPTICAL ILLUSION. in this last collective display of scenic art and of brilliant choreographic and statuesque grouping will be found pictures surpassing some of the greatest achievements of the Modern Extra vaganza—S, e "THE S IP WR E C K," "TH E PH ANT OM COMBAI'," and " THE CURTAIN OF FIRE." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corus cations, is by Mr. W. F. Vandervell; the overture and inci dental music by Willem Vandervell. Prince Perfume, Mrs. William Randall. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). QTRAND MUSICK HALL-PROMENADE L. 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Admission, Is. ; Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; balcony stalls, 2s. Open at half-past Seven, commence at Eight. M AD GA A L NIE ERY :TeUstSabSlAishUeaD'2SB yearsli l a S t T th O e ß ß l a C z A aa ti r, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full lenfth portrait model of DR. COUTY DI LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, taken from the ortzinal photograph, by Mons. T iequart, of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of l'hysio4n my. Admittance, fs. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. _ _ _ Open from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Pr.)prietor, it. R. BIGNELL. During the week, and till further notice, in addition to the Dance Mtis'c, Selections fr um Verdi's popular Operas, Il Trovatore, Traviata, Rigoletto, ; Meyerheer's Moile du Nord, Ittwuenot+, &c. ; Melodies of the Forest, \raise, Guy Manntring, Polka, &c. Conductor—L. CURTI. Doors open at halt-past B.—Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GREN ET. SH ORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. SHORTHAND.-PITM AN'S PHONOGRA PHIC; MANUAL. Free by post, is. 6d. H 0 R THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient -probably the MOST efficient-system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland HILL TEETH. _IMPROVED MECHANICAL DENTIS TRY—Professional abilities and great artistic skill have been most successfully combined in the production of ARTIFICIAL T EET Ft upon a new principle. The real value of the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all wishing' to avail themselves of professional assistance by cmsulting Mr. ALBERT, 34, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, whose experience has enabled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so perfectly efficient. Mr, Cobden and the Newspaper Press. The following correspondence appears in the Scotsman " Midhurst, Oct. 150864. " Sir,—A friend has forwarded me from Scotland a copy of your journal of the 14th, and called my attention to a leading article in which, speaking of the agitation for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, there is the following passage : _ _ . - " But what were the ' anticipations' of the chief agitators for the change ? Mr Cobden stated over and over again in public speeches that his object or hope was to see a news paper press which would abstain from discussion, and con fine itself to reporting events, especially platform speeches and police trials; and he explained before a Parliamentary Committee that, in his opinion, the model for the British press was 'the press of Spain.' These, we submit, were the anticipations' that best deserved to be called ' s i n i s t er ,' an d certainly these are the anticipations that have been most signally disappointed.' "I am not in the habit of challenging the criticisms of public journalists. The more freely the acts and utterances of public men are discussed the better. But here are a couple of groundless statements, involving charges, to use the most appropriate words, of supreme silliness of conduct on my part—and as they have been brought under my eye, I suppose lam bound, as mere matters of fact, to notice them. I will deal with them separately. In the first place, you allege that I ' stated over and over again in public speeches that my object or hope was to see a newspaper press which would abstain from discussion, and confine it self to reporting events, especially platform speeches and police trials.' "There is hardly any passage of my public life that I look back upon with greater satisfaction than the part I took in the struggle for untettering the newspaper press. My exer tions in that great cause, though secondary in value to those of Mr Milner Gibson, Mr Bright, or Mr Collet, extended over several years, during which I addressed many public audiences, especially at the anniversaries and other meet, ings of our associated body in the metropolis. I call on you to produce from any of my speeches a single passage which can be quoted in jus`ifi3ation of the above statement; and by way of affording a benevolent stimulus to yourself and your readers, I offer a donation of £2O to any hospital you may name on the production of the passage in question. "When proof of the truth of the first charge has been produced I shall be ready to apply a similar test to the se cond allegation—namely, that I explained before a Par liamentary committee that in my opinion the model for the British press was the press of Spain.' I will only hero re mark that I never appeared ' before' any Parliamentary committee to give evidence on this subject, though I did serve as a member of the select committee, of which Mr. Gibson was chairman, to inquire into the taxes on know ledge ; and I remember that it was my unpleasant dety,atter endeavouring in a friendly spirit to dissuade him from ap pearing as a witness, to cross-examine the editor of the Scotsman, whose evidence, which is fully recorded in the blue-book, excited the astonishment of every free trader in the committee room. It is not, however, to enter the field of controversy, but solely to give you the opportunity of sub stantiating or retracting a specific accusation that 1 have penned this communication.—l am, &c., "RICHARD COBDEN." Before answering Mr Cobden's questions—which we hope to do to the general satisfaction, if not to his—we have to ask why he never put them before ? The statements he only now challenges have been made over and over again, cer tainly in Mr Cobden's knowledge, and at times when the public memory and interest as to the facts were fresh. For instance, besides having been the subject of numerous allu sions in numerous quarters for a dozen years past, they figured largely in an article in the Edinburgh Review in 1E53; that article was reprinted by the Provincial News paper Society, and sent to all members of Parliament; Lord Stanley replied in detail in a pamphlet addressed to our selvem; and the controversy. with Mr Cobden's name and these same allusions dancing through it, was afterwards continued by Lord Stanley in these columns. If Mr Cobden felt aggrieved, why did he not speak then, or upon some one of many similar occasions, instead of now, when the facts are a dozen years old ? It will appear that the most probable answer to this inquiry is, that Mr Cobden speaks upon the matter now only because, like most other people, he has forgotten almost all about it. Mr Cobden offers £2,0 for "a single passage" justifying the statement that he desired to see a newspaper press ab staining from discusr.ion, and confining itself to reporting. He shows his characteristic acuteness in asking that a de scription of the tenour of many old speeches shall be justified in "a single passage ;" but, though thus severely restricted, we can give him what he asks for. Speaking at Holmfirth, in February, 1853, he thus depicted one of the blessed effects he expected to flow from a revolutionieingof the newspaper system :-- "People would resort to newsrooms, not to read the lead ing articles—for I regard the leaders as of far less import ance than the articles of news in the paper. I believe these original articles, so far as guidance Enact direction are cone cerned, are the least useful and interesting art of the papers —facts and intelbgence being more so ng tter by readers. e4There are tar more newspape rs i n A m • a than here, but they have lees political influence." If this (among other similar utterances) did not mean that he hoped the change for which he was agitating would render the press less discussional and more purely narrative, and so give it "less political influence" and the platform more, then Mr Cobden was quite misunderstood at the time and cannot be understood now. It may be indeed that, of the two chief witnesses whom he and his friend, Mr M. Gibson, brought up before the Parliamentary committee, one was brought to testify that " tales from the police-office are about the most instructive reading in the world" (679) ; "police reports are the most instructive and most desirable reading in the world" (638) ; and the other to testify that what was most desirable was " a good account of some trial at the assizes"—" a good account of some farmer's stack yard having been burnt down" (3,193), and that he was " willing that leading articles should be prohibited"(3,2l2), Though Mr Cobden is not desirous that we should at pre sent say anything about his envious allusions to the press of Spain in the Parliamentary committee, it is better to dis pose of the whole cherry at one bite. As we had special reason to know, Mr Cobden in that committee, though not a witness, but a member, spoke more than he allowed some of the witnesses to speak ; and everybody is aware that a man may express his opinions as plainly by a question as by an answer. A leading article in Mr Cobden's questions throughout all the so• called inquiry was to get witnesses to say that the press, not only of America, but of other countries generally, was superior to our own, especially in the matter of "courtesy to public men," Mr Cobden feeling at that time, as he is even at this time,very sore in consequence of the great body of the press taking the liberty to combat some of his newer and more extreme opinions. Thus (Q. 2,152), in cross-examining Mr Mowbray Morris of the Times, he asked—" Are not the leading articles in the French press more courteous than those of England towards public men ?" And next—" Have you had an opportunity of forming an opinion of the press of Spain or of Germany ? Has it not struck you that there is greater courtesy shown towards in dividuals ?" Has that any other meaning than that Mr Cobden held the press of Spain—which is about the most abject in the world—to be something to which that of Eng land was inferior and ought to be assimilated ? Of the allusions of Mr Cobden to certain Scotch evidence given before the committee, though glancing at some rather private incidents, we do not complain. It was very good evidence, though Mr Cobden did not like it, and it would have bean much better had Mr Cobden let it. It was simply to the effect that to charge id for carrying three or four ounces cf newspapers round the country, and then to India er Australia, while the same sum was charged for carrying a half-ounce of letter to the next street, was no , " tax " and no infraction of "free trade." We have no re collection of the friendly dissuasives which Mr Cobden says he vainly administered in private, but since he so states we do not for a moment doubt, and can only express a hope that the dissuasives were so politely declined as we are sure that they would be kindly offered. What we do recollect is, that the witness iu question was primitive enough (it is a long time ago) to tell Mr Cobden beforehand and in private what he wanted to bring out to the committee; and that.' consequently, the couple of hours ha spent in the box wero occupied chiefly in fencing with Mr Cobden. who aimed at preventing him saying what he came to say, and at inveigling him into saying what be did not mean to say and did not think. All than, however, is, we believe, quite usual in such cases, and, being quite usual, must be more or less fair; and it was the more natural in this particular case, as the witness was a witness by accident, and not by invita tion, the managers of the committee having previously arranged that there should be no witnesses of that class or that side. It was not very sharp practice to try that those who came unasked should be sent away unheard. The only other question is about the allotment of the £2O reward which Mr Cobden offers for tho discovery of the "single passage" given above. Since he handsomely leaves the arranging of that matter to us, we say—half to the Royal Infirmary, and half to the United Industrial Schools. Lord Palmerston's Eightieth Birthday. On the 20th of October. 1784, Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, now her Majesty's First Minister of State, was born at Broadlands, in the county of Hants, Not since the year 1710, when Sidney, Lord Godolphin, was abruptly dismissed by Queen Anne, has a Prime Minister of England conducted the national affairs at such an age as that to which Lord Palmerston has attained. And on this his 80th birthday, while a select circle of friends assembled at Broad lands drinks continued life and health to the Minister who was born in the 24th year of the reign of George 111., it will not be amiss to cast a retrospective glance over the prin cipal events in the history of the remarkable man who still presides over the destinies of the country. When Lord Palmerston was born, William Pitt, then in the 25th year of his age, had holden the Premiership about 12 months. Fox, his great political rival, was 10 years older, and had been in Parliament 15 years ; Sheri dan was 33, and had been four years in the house ; Burke was 66, and had a Parliamentary experience of 18 years. Wilberforce, who was of the same age as Pitt, had formed one of the little band who, headed by Burke and Fox, had 'not ceased to condemn the policy which had led to the establishment of the American Republic, then in the ninth year of its existence, William Cobbett, then just 22, with little idea of future notoriety in the Political Register and in Parliament, was doing duty as a corporal in the inhospitable region of New Brunswick. Louis XVI. was barely 30, and had swayed the French sceptre for 10 comparatively peaceful years, scarcely dreaming of ap proaching bloodshed and revolution. But Lord Palmerston's education, which was begun at Harrow and continued at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, progressed amid events of more stirring into. rest. The present Prime Minister was a very little boy when the commencement of the trial of Warren Hastings com manded so much attention throughout the country. " Drag ging its slow length along" for seven weary years, it was far from completed when the horrors of the French Revolution burst like a thunderclap over Europe. It was during his lordship's schooldays that the great State trials of Hardy, England. It was during Thelwall, and Horne Tooke created such universal excite n ment—when Erskine's. famous d.efence exploded for ever the period that the Prince of Wales married the un fortunate Prince Caroline . of . Brunswick ; that a desperate and that the maritime pride of England doctrinet the same ofconstructive treason. war was carried on against . Tippoo Saib and his sons; that time maintained by the intelligence of the memorable Irish rebellion broke out, and the legislative u v w i na c is t o o nf r w es as by teiffra H eec o t w etdo e , Cornwallis, Bridport, Nelson, Camper down, and St. Vincent. We now pass on to January, 1806. Barely three months had elapsed since the battle of Trafalgar had annihilated the naval forces of France and Spain; and, amid many years laboured unsuccessfully in tokens of national grief, the body o f N e l son had just b een onl . Eearyle Burke, who retired from the poli" deposited in St. Paul's Cath e d ra l . At that time Si r y, who entered Parliament had been d ea d n i ne years. Cann i ng i C tt ahi c h ea a ll r 7c l aaB e ru6 s ne aho in (afterwards ndnlf7ec 9frolr,some had enjoyed a Parliamentary experience of thirteen years, and had given repeated proofs of th ose grea t ora t or ical gifts which won for him the title of the Cicero of the Senate. Lord Ca stlerea g h had been in the House just one e the yea p year leas, an d held as firmly th en as h e did i n a f ter lif e that le have nothing to do with the laws but toobey them. The cumbrous proceedings in the Court of Chan cery, then presided over by that everlasting doubter, Lord Jeremy Bentham Was busil y agitatin g f or l aw r e f o rm,while Yimpoverished suitors. his efforts for aweeping away C sito h mo a ra n ei C ol e ify ll t o hb r eaEd sanguinary snt m , o r e s n s e ep d ne h ici a ea r d l upon penal l aws then in such great force on the statute book. Wilberforce, who had been denounced by the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV.) as " a meddling fanatic, who ought to be expelled from Parlia ment," had not ceased to demand the abolition of the slave trade. Fox, with the leading men of the Opposition, had long abandoned all hope of arresting Pitt in his policy with respect to the war with Franco, when, on the 235 January, 1806, the lefty spirit of the brilliant commoner then at the head of the Administration sank under the overthrow of the continental coalition against Napoleon, of which he had been the directing genius. The death of Pitt rendered vacant his seat for the University of Cambridge, and this was the first opportunity for the present Premier to step into public life. It was the second Parliament of the United K ingdom. Lord Palmerston was then in the 22d year of his age, and had succeeded to his tide about four years previously. He had just taken his degree of M.A. at the university, the representation of which he now contested with Lord Henry Petty, afterwards the Marquis of Lansdowne. The prize upon this occasion was borne off by Lord Henry Petty. Lord Palmereton was, however, immediately afterwards returned for the nomination borough of Bletchingly, a village of Surrey. The death of Mr Fox, on the 13th of Sept. in the same year, was the cause of numerous changes in the Ministry of " All the Talents" which had succeeded Pitt; and when, in the March following, Lord Gren ville resigned the reins of power into the hands of the Duke of Portland, Lord Palmerston, who this year ex• changed Bletchingly for Newport, Isle of Wight, com menced his official life by becoming a Lord of the Ad miralty. It was in this capacity that he made his first speech in the house, the occasion being a defence of the bombard went of Copenhagen by the British fleet. The duel between Lord Castlereagh and Mr Canning ou the 22d Sept., 1809, led to the breaking up of this Administration, for which was substituted one by Mr Spencer Perceval, in which Lord Palmereton was appointed Secretary at War. In 1811 he was returned for the University of Cambridge, and held the post of Secretary at War without interruption for 19 years under five successive Governments. In 1828 he, together with Mr Huskisson and Mr Grant, representing what might be termed'. the:,:Czpring party of the Duke of Wellington's Ministry, seceded from that Administration. For two years Lord Palmerston was without office, when, on the resigna tion of the Duke of Wellington and the accession of Earl Grey to power in November, 1830, his lordship was ap pointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the fol lowing year his attachment to the reform policy of his col leagues lost him his seat for the University cf Cambridge, and ho fell back on his old boiough of Bletchingly. This was one of the 56 swept away by Schedule A of the Reform Bill, and Lord Palmerston next found a seat for South Hants. He retained the Foreign Secretaryship until Nov., 1834, when Sir R. Peel came into office for a few months. In December of the same year, defeated at South Hants, the noble lord took refuge at Tiverton, which he has over since represented. In April, 1835, Lord Melbourne came into power, and Lord Palmerston resumed his functions at the Foreign-office, continuing to hold the seals of that de partment until Sir R. Peel's return to the Treasury Bench in Sept., 1841. Another five years of opposition now en sued, when, on the accession of Lord John Russell to the Premiership in July, 1816, Lord Palmerston was reinstated in his post of Foreign Secretary, where he remained until Dec., 1851. In Dec., 1852, on the formation of the Aber deen Ministry, Lord Palmerston was appointed Home Secretary, He filled this post until the breaking up of the Govemment in 1855,when he was appointed Prime Minister. In February, 1858, the adverse vote of the House of Com mons on the Conspiracy Bill obliged him to give place to the Earl of Derby; but in June, 1859, he was again called upon to construct an Administration, of which he still re mains the head. It seems difficult to believe that the Prime Minister of England in 1864 was living in the days when the young Pretender, wearied of his intrigues, was quietly passing away his existence at Rome; and that the Premier of to day was an active War Secretary ere Lord Wellington baffled Massena before the lines of Torres Vedras. Yet Lord Palmerston has served four Sovereigns, he has been a member of the House of Commons 58 years, and has sat in 16 Parliaments. During the long period of his political life he has witnessed the construction of 17 Ministries, in 13 of which he has holden office. Of his 58 years of Parliamentary life no less than 46 have been passed in the national service. Of the colleagues with whom he acted on his entrance into public life not one now survives, and from the death of the Duke of Portland, in October, 1809, to that of the Duke of Newcastle, two days ago, the names of the statesmen with whom Lord Palmer ston has taken counsel, and who from time to time have passed away, constitute a long and formidable list. Of the Premier's colleagues in the present Cabinet, Earl Russell is the next in point of age, and he is 72. When Lord Pal merston entered Parliament, Lord Russell was doing his continental tour, Sir George Grey was a little boy seven years of age, the Earl of Clarendon was six, the Lord Chan cellor and Sir Charles Wood ono year less, Mr Villiers and Lord Stanley of Alderley numbered four summers, the Duke of Somerset was just two years old, while neither the names nor the titles of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Earl do Grey, Mr Milner Gibson, and Mr Cardwell had then been heard of. The extent of Lord Palmerston's patronage has been enormous, and never since the days of Sir Robert Walpole has an English Prime Minister wielded the sword of State with so much advantage to his party. Of the prelates who Low constitute the hierarchy, no less than 17 owe their positions to Lord Palmerston. They are the Archbiehops of Canterbury, York, Armagh, and Dublin—the Bishops of Carlisle, Cork, Durham, Ely, Gloucester, and Bristol, Kiilaloe, Kilmore, London, Norwich, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, and 'Worcester. He has besides nomi nated to several deaneries and canonries. He has added 17 names to the rolls of the peerage, including those of Wen sleydale, Aveland, Lyons, Belper, Evereley, Ebury, Ma caulay, Chesham, Llanover, Lyveden, Taunton, Westbury, Russell, Fizhardinge, Seymour, Houghton, and Annaly. He has created 18 baronets, namely, Sir D. Baxter, Sir W. Browne, Sir J. F. Burgoyne, Sir D. Cooper, Sir F. Cros sley, Sir W. Dike, Sir H. Havelock, Sir W. G. Hayter, Sir C. Lyell, Sir J, Jejeebhoy, Sir D. Lloyd, Sir C. Locock, Sir F. G. Moon, Sir S. M. Peto, Sir H. Rich, Sir B. Walker, Sir W. F. Williams, and Sir A. Wilson. In his two Governments he has had the services of three Lord Chancellors, four Attorney and six Solicitor-Generals—he has appointed the chiefs in the Court of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas—while of the 15 judges of her Majesty's three courts of common law who administered justice on Lord Palmerston's first accession to power, only four now hold the same positions they occupied in February, 1855. He has had the appointment of just one half of the 116 lord-lieutenants of the United Kingdom, and has disposed of two-thirds of the 25 Garters. He has added more than 40 names to the Privy Council, and of the 216 members cf that body as at present existing, the Premier himself is the oldest member, having been sworn in 55 years ago. Of the minor departments of patronage in the hands of the different departments of the Government .we have no room to speak. Including the clerical patronage of the Lord Chancellor, the appointment of county court judges, bankruptcy com missioners, and magistrates, and the appointments to the naval, military, and civil services, it embraces every office and place of emolument in the country. But it is not simply at home that the patronage of the noble viscount's Administration has been conspicuous over that of many of his predecessors united. Since he first took the Premiership the governor of every British possession both at home and abroad, numbering 51 in all, has been reappointed. He has made three viceroys of India, two lord-lieutenants of Ireland, and two governor , generals of Canada ; while every colony and dependency, from the freez ing latitudes of New Brunswick to the scorching swamps of the Gold Coast, has had a new ruler p laced over its inhabi tants. In the colonial episcopate there is similarly extensive evidence of the effects of Lord Palmerston's being in power. And, finally, during his reign as Prime Minister, of the 38 British Ministers abroad, with five exceptions, the whole have been reappointed, from the splendid dignity of the St Petersburg embassy to the unpretending "agency" at the Court of Tunis. To follow Lord Palmerston through the many episodes of his lengthened career would require little less than a history of his times. The debates in which he has taken part, the long story of his foreign policy, the measures he has assisted to carry, together with the immense progress which the country has made, and which are inseparably connected with a record of the chief public events of the past half cen tury—all these things are written in other chronicles. But whatever opinion his lordship's political opponents may en tertain respecting his statesmanship, there can be no ques tion that a genial and kindly old age makes him universally popular amongst the masses of his countrymen. A week or two after the close of a long and harassing session we find him on a blazing hot day talking to the Northamptonshire peasantry about the advantages of railway communication, Then, leaving the black mould of the fens and the brown, crumbling loam of the uplands, he is next laying the foundation-stone of a new exchange amid the smoking chimney-stacks of Bradford. Again, he is whirling down by the Great Western express Co Tiverton, and there, surrounded by the jolly yeomen of humid Devon, at length defends the policy of his Government, and con vulses his hearers with laughter by drawing amusing parallels between the racec - airse and the House of Com mons. Once more he is on the rail, and this time he is in North Wales, inspecting his new slate quarry near the top of the Moelwyn mountain. Then, passing on to the city of Hereford, he inaugurates the statue of a departed colleague who was born in the year he himself entered Parliament. Yet again, and he is down amid the chalky plains of Wilt shire, where, at the former residence of another lamented colleague, who was an infant when Lord Palmerston was vigorously carrying on the war against the first Napoleon, he gives sound advice to a portion of our great volunteer army. Thus occupied in the recess, and at SO years of age still the key-stone in the arch of his Administration, what ever he may be likened unto by the fu'ure historian, it cer tainly never can be said that Lord Palmerston has stood idle in the market-place of life ; it never can be said that when called upon to serve his Sovereign in the political crisis and exigencies of his country he has been weighed in the balances and found wanting.— IVestern Morning News, of Oct. 20. THE VICEREGAL HOUSEHOLD.—The public will be glad to learn that Capt. Robert William has been ap pointed comptroller of the household of the new Lord Lieu tenant. Nr Wodehouse, a cousin of his Excellency, is pri • vato secretary, and Colonel Wodehouse, who is already well known among us, becomes Master of the Horse.—publin Evening ltad. On Wednesday evening Mr W. E. Forster, M,P., pre sided at a meeting held at the Mechanics' lastitution,Brad ford, under the auspices of the Western Freed Men's Aid Commission. He said that the address of that Commission showed that in the progress of the fearful contest waging in the United States the slaves had flecked within the Federal lines in multitudes. Coming from a country impoverished by the protracted operations of two vast opposing armies, they reached a place of security within the Federal lines in a condition of wretchedness and want, clothed i❑ rags, toil worn by marches, depressed and effiicted by privations and exposure. In the freed men's camp of the Mississippi valley alone there were more than 50,000 dependent persons ; and as these would be dependent on the Government, and on the donations of the humane and benevolent for food, clothing, and other supplies, the work of charity had given rise to the Western Freed Men's Aid Commission. It was organised at Cincinnati in January, 1E63, and the slaves had proved themselves worthy of every benevolent exertion in their behalf. Thousands who at first were dependent on the Government were now supporting themselves by com pensated labour. Whether old or young, they studied with eagerness and learned rapidly. Knowing that there were thousands in Great Britain who sympathised with this long oppressed people, the commission had instructed Mr Levi Coffin to proceed to England to lay the cause before its friends, and to solicit co-operation and contributions. He (the chairman) considered that, apart from their actual dis tress, the slaves of America had strong claims on the sym pathy of England. He could not forget that when the starving people of Ireland were in great distress, the Ame ricans most generously came forward and relieved them. He could not forget that a few months ago, when the 'sad and terrible war caused great misery in Lancashire, notwith standing the claims that the Americans had at home, they came forward most nobly to the assistance of the Lancashire poor, It was therefore now the turn of England to pay back to the suffeting Americans, for thcugh black these negroes wore Americans, what they had done for us. Besides the claims of distress and gratitude, they had also the special claim that we were friends of the coloured man and haters of slavery. They had also this claim upon us, that the exist ing state of things followed the emancipation of slaves in Bri tish dominions- It followed the efforts which had been made to bring the people of America to the same standard as our selves, and to consider slavery a sin. No one could deny the stand that was made in this country against American slavery and the protests that were being constantly dinned into the ears of Americans who came amongst us, how incon sistent slavery was with their institutions, and that those remonstrances had had a greater effect in raising that feel ing in America which induced the people of that country to take such a position against the extension of slavery that the slaveholder felt the insinuation threatened ; therefore he re belled, and the war began. Ho was not going to speak of the merits or demerits of that war, but should confine his remarks to the condition of the negro in consequence of it. They had heard that Mt Jefferson Davis had eslimated the number of emancipated slaves at two millions. Whether there was that number or whether there was only one half, was a set-off against the evils of the war, but such a change could not be brought about without immense suffering. They must expect it to be severe, and, this country baying been instrumental in bringing it about, we were especially bound to do what we could to relieve it. He did not regret that we had been thus instrumental in bringing the existing state of things to their present condition, for we had only taken the position which we would have taken the more strongly and the more earnestly years ago, if we had known how, It was certainly not our fault that we had raised the standard of freedom, and done all that we could to excite our fellow-Christians in America who felt as they ought for their enslaved fellow-citizens. It was not because we did our duty in this respect that therefore we were to blame ; blame, of course, fell upon those who were now reaping the terrible punishment ; upon those who preferred to continue slavemasters rather than listen to the protests against it. Though the suffer ings of the .negroes were great, ho must not allow those whom he addressed to go away with the idea :that they were no better than before their present condition was brought about. They had most delightful and encouraging proufs of the improvement in the condition of the negro— there were encouraging instances of the noble manner in which, generally speaking, the negro race had responded to the call that had been made upon them by the cum stances of the war. Gen. Banks, who was sent to be Go ♦ernor of Louisiana after the Federal army had taken pos session of it, had under his protection many thousands of emancipated negroes. In March last he wrote stating that he had no doubt whatever that the emancipated coloured people could discharge all the duties incident to the great change in their condition. He had seen them in all situa tions within the last year and a half, and they seemed to have a clearer comprehension of their. position and duties than many other classes. Among other things they demanded that they should not be flogged, that they should only labour when they were well treated, and that their children should be educated. The touching earnestness with which these poor people asked fur the education of their children was one of the most encourag ing facts in connection with their condition. Though when General Banks assumed the command of that de partment there were many thousands of coloured people without employment, and many of them suffering from dis ease, there were not, in March, 500 who were not self-sup porting, Col. Hanks, the superintendent of negro slavery in the Gulf department, said in February last, that he had had 6,500 coloured men at work on the alTandoned planta tions and fortifications, and he had no difficulty with them, although it was true that some of them had a dislike to re turn to their old masters. lie (Mr Forster) considered that among all the different and extraordinary statements that had been published in the English press there had been no more common statement than that, however abstractedly slavery might be an evil, yet there was a great difficulty in getting rid of it ; and that emancipation would practically end in failure, because negroes would never have the cour age to fight for their freedom, and such was their degraded condition that they would not work without being com pelled. Both these assertions had been contradicted by facts. The slaves had earned respect in America a.ven from those whose prejudices were against him. Mr Fellbrigg, a Boston merchant, had grown large quantities of cotton in the Sea Islands, and by holding out the hope to the negroes of good payment eventually, he had proved that, with all the peculiar difficulties under which the experiment was labouring, the cost of cultivation was very little more, if not less, than when it was grown by the negroes dur- ing their slavery. Such a fact should make England hopeful with regard to the negro, and it should also be considered as a commercial value for themselves. Even if the South succeeded, which was not so certain even in the eyes of their friends, slavery was disorganised to that extent that it would not do for England any longer to rely upon it, not merely as friends of the negro, not merely as men who wished that a great industry should no longer depend on the sinful system of slavery for its support, but also as men who had a commercial interest in the supply of the most important article of English industry teing placed on the soundest foundation. They must look to these experi month with the greatest interest, and hope for their success. The claims of the society were afterwards advocated by Mr L. Coffin, the Rev. Dr. Massie, and other speakers. Resolutions were carried in favour of the formation of an auxiliary at Bradford. A vote of thanks was given to Mr Forster for presiding, and for his efforts on the American question in Parliament. This concluded the proceedings. WOOING BY THE AUSTRALIAN BLACKS.—Court ship, as a precursor to marriage, is unknown amongst them. When a young warrior is desirous of pro curing a wife he generally obtains one by giving in exchange for her a sister or some other female relative of his own ; but, if there should happen to be no eligible damsel disen gaged in the tribe to which he belongs, thou he hovers round the encampment of some ether blacks until he gets an opportunity of seizing one of their leubras,whom perhaps he has seen and admired when attending one of the grand corroborries. His mode of paying his addresses is simple and efficacious. With a blow of his nulls-nulls (war club) he stuns the object of his affections, and drags her insen sible body away to some retired spot, whence, as seen as she recovers her senses, ho brings her home to his own gunyah in triumph. Sometimes two join in an expedition for the same purpose, and then for several days they watch the movements of their intended victims, using their utmost skill in concealing their presence. When they have obtained the knowledge they require, they wait for a dark, windy night : then, quite naked, and Carrying only the long jag spears, they crawl stealthily through the bush until they reach the immediate vicinity of the camp fires, in front of which the girls they are in search of are sleeping. Slowly and silently they creep close enough to distinguish the figure of one of those leubras; then one of the intruders stretches out his spear, and inserts its barb point amongst her thick flowing locks ; turning the spear slowly round, some of her hair speedily becomes entangled with it; then, with a sudden jerk, she is aroused from her slumber, and as her eyes open she feels the sharp point of another weapon pressed against her throat. She neither faints nor screams ; she knows well that the slightest attempt at escape or alarm will cause her instant death, so, like a sensible wo man, she makes a virtue of necessity, and, rising silently, she follows her captors. They lead her away to a consi derable distance, tie her to a tree, and return to ensnare their other victim in like manner. Then, when they have accomplished their design, they hurry off to their own camp, where they aro received with universal applause, and highly honoured for their chivalrous exploit,—Chambers's Jo 141 rial • Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, Inspector-General of Royal Marines, accompanied by his aide-decamp Captain Travers, arrived yesterday morning at Pearce's Royal Hotel, Plymouth. During the fore noon he inspected the barracks and the infirmary at Stonehouse,and examined the men's necessaries. In the afternoon ten companies of 36 rank and file each, under the command of Col.-Commandant J. H. Gascoigne, C. 8., were drilled on the Hoe, and went through several marecuvres, firing blank cartridge, &c. In consequence of the termination of hostilities in New Zealand no additional reinforcements will be despatched from Chatham to augment the regi ments serving in that colony, several of which will be at once ordered to return home. The regiments now in New Zealand are the Ist battalion of the 12th Regiment, the 2d battalion of the 14'h ItegiA ment, the 2d battalion of the 18th Rlyal Irish, the 40th Regiment, 43rd Light Infantry, 50th Queen's Own, 57th Regiment, 65. h Reginu-nt, 68'h Light Infantry, 70Ih Regiment, and the 4th battalion of the Military Train, besides the tuna_ force of Royal. Artillery Roy al Engineers, and the Commissariat Corps. The regiments which have been longest abroad, and may therefore shortly be expected to return home are the 65th, which embarked foi New Zealand in May, 1846—the 70th, which left Eng land for Bengal in January, 1849, and was subsee quently ordered to New Zealand—the 43rd Light Infantry, which was despatched from New Zealand. from the Cape of Good Hope, for which place it left England in October, 1851—and the 40th Regis went, which embarked in July, 1852. Of the other regiments enumerated which are now serving in New Zealand, the 57th embarked for Corfu in 1853, and was afterwards despatched to New Zealand, and the Ist battalion of the 12th left England in July, 1854. Yesterday Mr E. J. Reed, the chief constructor of the navy, accompanied by Mr Barnaby, assistant constructor, and other officials, visited Chatham dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the Belleroe phon, 14, 1,000-horse power, iron, frigate, and the armour-plated frigate Lord Warden, 24, 1,000-horse power, under construction at that establishment. Both vessels are now being pushed forward as rte• pidly as the resources of the dockyard will permit, about 2,000 mechanics and other hands being em ployed on them:in order to hasten their completion. The Lord Warden has the whole of her planking completed, and is ready for the reception of her armour plates, the moulds for which are now being prepared. The Bellerophon has the greater part of her inner skin of iron plates fixed, in readiness for the teak planking to which the 6.inch armour plates will be bolted. Both frigates are getting so well advanced as to leave no doubt that they will be afloat next year, and ready for sea in little more than 12 months from this date. A court-martial assembled yesterday morning on board her Majesty's ship Formidable, 84, flagship of Vice. Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Com mander.in-Chief at Sheerness, for the trial of Henry Knight, additional engineer of her Majesty's ship Fisgard, for service in her Majesty's gunvessel Landrail. The Court consisted of Capt. J. Fulford, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Formidable, president ; Capt. W. K. Hall, C,8., of her Majesty's ship Cum beiland, guardship of the steam reserve ; Capt. the Hon. G. D. Keane, additional, to the Cumberland; Commander R. Studdert, of her Majesty's ship Wellesley ; and Commander T. L. Gaussen, of her Majesty's ship Formidable; Mr G. H. Knight, of Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Admiralty solicitors, Rochester, acting as Deputy Judge Advocate. The prisoner was charged, first, with neglect ing his duty and absenting himself without leave on the 7th of October instant; secondly, with being drunk and unfit for duty on the same day at 230 p.m. Hugh Dunlop, Commodore, and Superintendent of Woolwich dockyard, prose cuted, and Mr M'Cartty Stephenson, of Rochester, defended the prisoner. Commander W. C. Luke, of her Majesty's ship Fisgard, Fred. Wm. Ponsonby, secretary to Commodore Dunlop, Thomas Leaman Bcckford, assist.-surg. of her Majesty's ship Fiegard, and ltabt. Spears, assist..engincer of the Fisgard, gave evidence in support of the charge. The prisoner denied the charge, and called two or three witnesses who spoke as to his being in liquor, but not so as to render him incapable of attending to his duty. The Court found him guilty on both charges, and. ordered him to be placed at the bottom of the list in his present rank, and to be severely reprimanded. The iron screw steam troopship Urgent, 4, Capt. James H. Henderson, from Portsmouth and Wey mouth, arrived on Wednesday morning at Plymouth with a detachment of Sappers, and with several in valids from the Channel squadron. The sappers were landed at Devonport dockyard, and the invalids were sent on board the flagship. The Urgent wan appointed to leave Plymouth on Wednesday after• noon for Ireland to land sappers. She was then to return to Plymouth to embark a detachment for Portsmouth. The screw steamship Donegal, 81, at Davenport, preparing for coastguard duty at Liverpool, will probably be taken outside Plymouth breakwater on Saturday to try her machinery. Vice-Admiral Lord Somerville expired on Wed nesday morning at Newbold Comyn, Leamington, where he had resided for many years. He was the 17th Baron Somerville in the peerage of Scotland. The peerage to which the deceased succeeded in 1842 was created in 1430. His lordship was a vice-admi■ ral of the Royal Navy, the data of his commission being May 20, 1862, but ho retired from active service when holding the rank of captain. He mar• ried in September, 1833, the only daughter of Mr. John Hayman, by whom he leaves issue two sons and five daughters, and is succeeded in the title by his eldest son Hugh, born October 11, 1839. His lordship had attained the age of 77, and had for a, considerable time been in a critical state of health. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT EASTERN. The surveyors of this company are now engaged in set ting out the extension of this line from Shoreditch to Liver pool-street, in the neighbourhood of Bishopsgate-street, and all the necessary notices to owners and occupiers of house property intended to be taken are now being served, soma of the property having already been agreed for. Operations for clearing the route of the line will shortly be commenced: LEEDS AND HARTLEPOOL. Surveying staffs are busily engaged and plans being pre pared for a line to commence at Leeds, in connexion with. the London and North-Western, and pass, via Wetherby, Easingwold, and Helmsley, up Belsdale to Stockton-on-the Tees. The country is one, although in the north-eastern district, quite unsaved by railways. The line is to cross the Church Fenton and Harrowgate, the York and Knares borough, the Great North of England, tho Mahon and Thirsk, and the Stokesby Railways, and by a tunnel through Ingleby Bank to join the West Hartlepool Railway, thus gaining access to the great iron, coal, and shipping interests of the North. At Helmsley it is intended to form branch, by way of Kirby-moorside, and Pickering (crossing the Melton and Whitby line), to Scarborough. The total length of this railway project is about 100 mile,, and in some parts the country proposed to be traversed will be found rather difficult. The estimate is stated to be £1,500,000, or £15,000 a mile. This line will form a route for the southern lines to Scarborough, totally independent of the North-Eastern system. The possession of the great ironstone field and the coast traffic is, how ever, a vital matter to the North-Eastern Company, by ei circular line commencing at Mallon and traversing Rye. dale by what is known as the Saltonridge to Helmsley, Kirby, and Pickering, a line of some 30 miles, over au, almost flat country, serving all the iron valleys, and esti mated to cost not more than £z,ooo per mile. This line, in connection with the existing North-Eastern lines,would, it is believed, servo the district and prove remunerative, CORWEN AND BALA. This company intend applying in the text session fir the necessary powers to extend their line to Festiniog and Portmadoc, and the requisite surveys have already been completed. The application, if successful, will give the Corwen and Bala a Channel terminus at Portmadoc, and the line will then form part of an unbroken narrow gauge route from the Welsh Coast to the Shrewsbury, Chester, and Hereford lines. BRECON AND MERTI3YR, It appears that thehlerthry curve, or the Pant and Dow late section of this line, is likely to be abandoned owing to the heavy cost of construction, which it is supposed would amount to about £40,000 per mile, and indeed of which it is proposed to bring the line down on the east side of the town to a junction with tho Taff Vale and Vale of Neatb. ways, by which the deep cuttings will bo entirely avoided. Just ready, in 3 vols., N 0 T PR OVEN. A NOVEL. Also, now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE QUEEN OF THE COUNTY. By the AL thor of "➢largaret and her Bridesmaids.' ' Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.