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LONDON TAVERN COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies' Act, with Limited LtAbility, Capital £120,000, in 12,000 Shares of £lO each. First Issue 6,000 Hiares. bcposit:on application £l, and .£1 10s. on allotment, with a further Call not exceeding .Z.llos. within three months. DIRECTORS. Mr. Alderman ABBISS, Chairman. Joseph Causton, Esq., Eastcheap. Sir Cusack P. Roney, 15, Langham-place. J. W. Chatcr, Esq., London Tavern, Manacing Director. (With power to add to their number.) MANAGER. Mr. John ,'untie. 11Axtuns. The Bank of London, rareadneedle-strect ; and 450, F. - strand, W.C. SOLICITORS. ?Actin's. Sole, Turn'a's, and Hardwick, 3 and 4, Alderman.- bury, E.C. BROKERS. Messrs, Eykyn Brothers, 2 9 Chano- e - a lley, B.C. _ AUDITOR. Dioney, Esq. ( 'Toney and llumphrys), 14, Ironmonger- lane. - SECRETARY pro tern. Mr. Reed. Offices—The London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. PROSPECTUS. It is proposed to form a Company to purchase the business Of the well-known London Tavern, Bishopggate-strect. The Directors have entered into a provisional agreement w l nth Mr Chater, which g yes them tire cption of purchasing the Freehold (within three years), or leasing - the property at a fair rental. The stock in trade, (r o od will, wines, plate , fu rniture, fit- Vigs, &c., are estimated at £30,00/, and the pres ent Proprie or guarantees a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on that amount for three years. 'These estimates have been verified RS to the furniture and Illaut by Mr. - Daniel Cronin ; as to the wines and spirits, by ' tr . R. C. Wilson, of 37, i+rur y -lane ; as to the fre hold, by m • l'ebenham. of the firm of Debenham and Tewson, 80, `"leapside ; and a report has been made on the nrofits of the ~ . I. ..”ilsiness by Mr. Henry ho ne y , of the firm of Honey and ''''„tlinphrys, Accountants. The ompany to take pos session on the Ist October next, and the profits will accrue as from that date. The option of purchasing the freehold of constantly increasing va ue, and a substantial guarantee of a minimum dividend of 10 per cent., are obviously great advantages. In the formation of this Company no promotion-money has been or will be paid, and with a view to avo d a'l unnecessary expens, the offices of the Company will be a t the London Tavern. se Upwards of two-thirds of the requisite Capital for the first issue has already been subscribed for by Mr. Chater, the .1../irectors, and their friends. Forms of Application for Shares to be made in the form annexed to the Prospectus, with clencsit of £1 per Share, to the Bankers, Toe Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, and 450, Strand. The Articles of Association can be inspected at the offices of the Company. _ Prospectuses may be obtained at the office of the Brokers , n. Change-alley, E C. ; at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street ; and at the Company's Bankers. The liability of each shareholder will be limited to the amount of his subscription, and if no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON TAVERN COMPANY (Limited). Registered as a Limited Company under the Joint-Stock Companies' Act, 1862. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of £lO each in the above Company. and I hereby agree to accept Fuck Shares , or any less number that maybe alioted to me, and to pay the deposit of £1 10s. on allotment, and I further a uthorise you to enter my name on the Reg.ster for the num ber of Shares so allotted. Signature Ir•••• • Address in lull Date TFIE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established in 1836. 0 fl ees :-1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London, E.C. PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850 : .car. Fire Premiums. I Life Premiums.) Invested Funds. 18i/ £51,305 1856 222,279 1861 360.130 18g9 - 436,065 £27,157 £5n2,824 72,781 821,061 12 974 1,417.808 1 13 , ,703 1,417.803 ... r-r be Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862 SWINTON 130TTLT, Fec - etary VI the Company. JOIIN ATKIN S, It, sident Fe retary, London. Fire Policfr.s falling due at BlLhaelmas should be renewed by the 14th October. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 2 0, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildings, Liverpoel. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,o'o. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000. Chairman in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. E XTRACTS FROX THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insurance rompany are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have. as .pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close oi the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is ag"in fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s. 6 d., wad of the North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,007165. 10d. LIFE FRANCA. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directcr s to Mate the sum assured on n ,, w policies for fhe year 1862 exceeds even that of theyesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of •P 01,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until wit hin the last. ICS Years it is believed that such a sum assured as that a hich has just been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. T his Portion of the Company's business has been carefully Watched. and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the i 4 iareholeeer, as well as no small encouragement for the l utsre to thearticipating life assurer. Evitlence of p continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the numb er re j ected. These have , a lwaunted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum Proposed for assuran^e mounts to 43,281. Various degrees el ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day tecord their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert firiefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that In Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company establishe d either in ondm or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken Place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal ; l lsuranca Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater rnagni- Ilide, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. - - • PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. MINERALOGY. —King's College, London.— Prefessor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE OF LECTURES on MINERALOGY, with a view to facilitate the study of Geology, and of the application of Mineral substances in the Arta. The Lectures will begin on FRIDAY, October 2, at Nine o'clock, a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Fee, £2 28. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SITAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co , bankers, London. - - - - The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BITCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of zovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly' Board feel the imperative duty to make an EARNEST AY admit to public for continued support to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. C on t r ib u tions are received by the Treasurer, Edward liltuiterman, Esq., Nicholas -lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; D rumm ond and Co. Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Mims, IDeacon, and Co. ; Overend , Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until f ro m persons who 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of Octob er, may be willing to enter into' Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW , in such quantities as may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1864 : - - . FORAGE. 1. Hyde-pa-k, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Horse Guards. 2. Hounslow and Kneller 3. Hampton Court. 4. Windsor. ti. Brighton. R. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. 1. Brompton House, Hyde-park. and Kensinzton. 2. Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman -street Barracks. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington and St. George's Beracks. 5. The Tower. 6. Hounslow and lineller Hag. 7. Hampton Court. 3. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. separate Tenders must be made for Forage and for Pall 58Se Straw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar racks as grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up a tit i ll te st ` 4l 'ett and no Tend will be noticed unl ess d e l ivered on tk under-mentioned tffice, under closed envelop e ( mar k e d 72 wel outsioon on thede " Tende3d October next for Commissariext at Supplies "), before c'uk n. • (Signed) W. I'. POWER, Deput. Commissary -General. •Gill • e w ...._ratssary-oenersi's office, Londoe'ree,t, Spring-gardena. lOth Sopt., 1863. N°. 22,231. THE SUN, LONDON, MO , N DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1863. Now ready, in 1 vol., with Illustrations, 155., bound, EARL RUSSELL AT BLAIRGOWRIE. title of original partition, on the title of conquest, and AWINTER IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT. By a A. HOSKINS, Esq., F.R.G.S. " To travellers recommended to explore the Nile in search of health this volume will be invaluable. It abounds with excellent practical advice and instruction—an advantage which renders it su erior to all other Egyptian works of travel we have met with."—;:un. On Saturday Earl Russell was entertained to dinner in the new Town-hall of Blairgowrie by the tenantry on the Meikleour estate and their friends in honour of his lord ship's visit to the district. The inhabitants of Blairgowrie assembled in procession at 1 o'clock, and met the noble lord, who was accompanied by the Countess and family, about a mile and a half from the town. On reaching the town the noble earl was presented with an address by the magis• trates, in which allusion was made to his many and success ful efforts in the cause of civil and religious liberty. rejecting all those conditions by which by the treaty Vienna that title was, as it were, accepted by Europe. What may be the consequences of that act, what conduct the different Powers• of Europe 'nay follow, ate not questions cu which I can properly enter. I merely wish you to rem9rk the fact that those conditions which are contained in the treaty of Vienna, by which Russia oh tained the kingdom of Poland, have not been complied with, and with the conditions of the tenure broken the title itself can hardly be complied with. (Cheers.) There is another question concerning our foreiga relations on which a good deal of misapprehension has very likely prevailed. I mean the question of Mexico. It is said that there has been intervention in Mexico, and that we took part in that intervention ; now that word intervention is not unfre quently appplied with a great degree of looseness and con tusion to very different kinds of proceedings. There is an intervention certainly when the subjects of a power are wronged, and that power seeks redress for these subjects when their property has been unjustly seized, or when the persons of these subjects have been injured; but that in tervention is quite justifiable and indispensublY necessary —(cheers)--but there is another kind of intervention against which I have protested, and which I think is Ty rarely, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW SPORTING NOVEL. Immediately, at all libraries, in Three Vols., Price 31s. (id SACKVILLF, CHASE. By C. J. COLLINS. London : John Maxwell and Company, 112, Fl :et-street. Earl RUSSELL, in replying to the address, said— Gentlemen,--I beg to thank you for the very gratifying address which you have presented to me. It has been my good torture, in co-operation with many others, to promote the civil and religious liberties of my countrymen. The enlightened state of public opinion and the progress of poli tical knowledge have caused the success of measures which in former days had been obstructed by selfish interests, or defeated by ignorance and apathy. Let us hope that, with the increased interest which is felt in public questions, loyalty to the throne, attachment to the constitution, and zeal far all useful reforms, will pervade every class of the community. At the conclusion of his address Earl Russell was loudly cheered. T/LACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for OCTOBER, 1863. No. DLXXVI. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. Tony Butler. Part I. Caxtoniana.—Conclusion. No. 25.—Readers and Writers. No. 26.—0 n the Spirit of Conservatism. No. 27. ThotOtts on rolitics, L'Envol. Sheridan Knowles. To-day in Italy. Barrow SchooL Chronicles et Carlingford: The Perpetual Curate.-- Part V. Amen ! In the Cathedral, St. Andrews. Gold and Social Politics. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. indeed, to be justified, and which generally flub its con demnation in the consequences which flow from it; I mean intervention in the internal affairs of another nation to dic tate what form of government it shall adopt and who shall be its rulers. In the former kind of intervention we have taken part ; but immediately the latter kind was adopted by one of the three powers concerned in these hos tilitiesin Mexico we at once parted companywith our allies, and have not since taken a. part in the aktlrs of Mexico, (Hear, hear.) Such is Our ttonelition at tiatapfesent moment. If the people of Mexico approve of the intervention that has taken place—if they like to set up a monarchy—if they all like to obey—if they are willing to seek peace and prosperity in Mexico on these conditions—l say with all my heart let them do it—(cheers) --if they have adopted them, I say it is no business of ours to contradict them ; but the people of Mexico, however irregular their form of government has been, and however the country has beeri deformed by acts of robbery and violence, yet I do not think we have any right to interfere with their own choiO or their own form of go vernment. Well, gentlemen, I come now to another ques tion, a question interesting to us all, a question to which I beg your attention, because I want to explain some circum stances in which I think the character of this country has been maligned. I am speaking of what occurred in what a few years ago were the United States of America. A few years ago we we exulting in the prosperity of that country, we were happy to see the people derived from the same an cestors as ourselves enjoying free institutions, enjoying ap parent harmony with one another, and with whom we had, at least before the civil war broke out, hardly a difference— there was a difference about a small island called San Juan, and which we proposed to refer to the arbitration of the Swiss Republic. Such was the state of affairs when that in which we certainly had no part broke out; nine of the Southern States of America declared that they would form an independent republic. Our course on this subject has been attacked and blamed, sometimes in the bitterest terms, Blamed sometimes by the Federals, sometimes by the Confederates. The first offence was felt by the Federals. They state that we had no right to grant, as far as we were concerned, to the Confederate States the rights of belligerents. Well, gentlemen, that question of the rights of belligerents is a question of facts, and I put it to you whether, with five millions of freemen declaring themselves in states, and collective* , an independent state, we could pass it over as a petty rebellion ? Our admirals asked whether the ships they met bearing the Confederate fleg should be treated as pirates or not. If we had treated them as pirates we should have been taking part in that contest. (Cheers.) It was impossible, looking at it as a community of five millions of people, to treat it as a mere petty insurrection—(hear) —or as not having rights which at all times have been given to those who by numbers and importance, and the extent of territory they possessed, were entitled to those rights. 'Well, it was said that we ought not to have done it, because it was a community of slaveholders. I trust our abhorrence of slavery is not in the least abated or diminished—(cheers) —for my own part, I consider that it is one of the most horrible crimes that yet disgrace humanity, but when we are treating of the relations which we bear to the communities of men, I doubt whether it would be expedient or useful for humanity to introduce that new element, declaring that we will have no relation with a people that permits slavery to exist among them. We have never adopted that yet—never adopted it with Spain or Brazil, and I do not believe the cause of humanity would be served by adopting it. (Cheers.) But then it was said that the Confederate States were rebels against the Union; perhaps wo are not so nice as we ought to be on that sub ject. But I recollect that we rebelled against Charles I. and James 11., and that the people of New England, not con tent with these rebellions, rebelled against George 111. I do not now say whether all these were justifiable or wrong. I do not say whether the rebellion of the Southern States is a jistifiable insurrection—whether it is a great fact or a great crime; but I state the mere fact that a rebellion is not in itself a crime of so deep a dye as to cause us to re nounce our relations with the people guilty of rebellion. ( Ch eers.) But to look at the orations of New England orators—and I have been reading lately, if not the whole, at least the greater part of a long speech by Mr. Sumner in New York, and I cannot but wonder that this man, the offspring of three as we are of two rebellions, should be speaking like the Czar of Russia, or Louis XIV., of the dreadful guilt of a crime of rebellion. Then comes another complaint, and it comes from the so-called Confe derate States. It is said we have —contrary to the declara tions of Paris—contrary to international law, permitted the blockade of 3,000 miles of American coast. It is quite true we did so ; and the presumable cause of complaint is quite true—that, although the blockade is kept up by a sufficient number of ships, yet these ships were sent into the United Stites navy in a hurry, and were ill fitted for the purpose, and did not keep up so completely as was required an effec tive blockade—(hear, hear)--still, looking at the law of na tions, it was a blockade we as a great belligerent power in former times should have acknowledged—we ourselves had a blockade of upwards of 2,000 miles—it did seem to me that we were bound in justice to the Federal States of America to acknowledge that blockade. But there was another rea son that weighed with me; our people were suffering severely for the want of that material which was the main support of their industry, and it was a question of self-interest whethe we should not break that blockade. But in my opinion the men of England would have been for ever infamous if, for the sake of their own interest, they had violated the law of nations, and made war in conjunction with these slave-hold ing states of America against the Federal states. (Cheers.) I am not speaking sentiments which are peculiar to me, who had no interest in the question, but such I believe to be the sentiments of that noble-hearted people of Lancashire who lived and flourished by that industry, but would not sully a single spot on their escutcheon in order to the maintenance of that industry. Well, gentlemen, we come to new complaints on the part of the Federals that we allowed ships to leave the port of Liverpool which after wards committed depredations on their commerce. It would lead too far if I were to go into all the particulars ; but you must know that in order to prove you require evi dence—such evidence as might be sifted in a court of justice —and it was not until the day the vessel left that we had an opinion of lawyers sufficient to stop that vessel; and I doubt that if even then we had brought it before a court of law whether there would have been evidence sufficient to condemn her, because, by an evasion of the law, the ship was fitted up without arms or equipment, and that equip ment was conveyed to her in the waters of a foreign coun try; very far from the jurisdiction of this country. Gentle men, t h ese questions must be w e i g h e d, and I think they will be weighed, as they have been by the Government of the United States of America, in the balance of equity. (Hear, hear.) We know that the Foreign Enlistment Act and the whole law respecting the subject is one of difficult application. The principle is clear enough. If you are asked to sell muskets you may sell them to one party or the other. Guns, powder, cannons in the same way. If you are asked to sell a ship you may sell it in the same manner; but if you train and drill a regiment with arms in their hands, and allow that regiment to go out with arms in their hande, and to take part with one of the two belligerents, you violate the neutrality, and commit an offence against the other belligerent. So with regard to ships, if you allow a ship to be armed, and to go out at once and make an attack on a foreign belligerent, you are thus, according to your own law, taking part in the war, and that is an offence w hich is punished by the law; but these questions will lead, as you will see, to most difficult problems—as, for instance, a thou sand persons hero may go out as labourers to the Federal States in ono ship ; there may be a thousand muskets go out in auother slip, and when they arrive, those thou sand labourers, having had an understanding before, now make a formal engagement with these States, and are armed with these thousand muskets ; but if that had been done in the territory of this country it would have been an offence. There are other matters with regard to ships that have lately been prepared within this country, because these ships are not like ships that receive the usual' equipment; they are not like vessels you sent in former times of war, but are in themselves, without any farther armament, formed for acts of offence and ever; they are steam rams, which might be used for purposes of war with out ever touching the shore of a Confederate port. Well, gentlemen, to permit ships of this kind knowingly to depart from this country, not to enter into a Confederate port, not to enter the ports of a belligerent, would, as you see, ex pose o'ir good faith to great suspicion; and I feel certain that if during our war with France the Americans had sent out line-of-battle shipsto breakour blockadeat Brest, what ever reasons they might have urged in support, we would have considered it a violation of neutrality. Such is the spirit in which I am prepared to act. Everything . that the Earl Russell then proceeded to the Public Hall, where the chair was taken by the Earl of Airlie, and Sir George Ramsay, Sheriff Barclay, and Mr. Kinloch were croupiers. The Rev. Mr. Marshall presented an address to the noble earl on behalf of the tenantry of Meikleour, which referred at considerable length to various important measures in the carrying of which his lordship had taken a part, and to his present difficult and delicate duties as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Earl RUSSELL, who was received with loud cheering' said—Sir, when I receive an address of this kind I hardly know whether I ought to be most gratified or asriamed— gratified.at such high commendations on my conduct, but ashamed that to me are addressed praises which more properly belong to many others with whom I have acted and co-operated in public life. Several of these have now passed away, and even in the present year I have to lament the loss of some by whose wisdom, by whose sagacity, and activity I was aided in the measures I brought forward. You have alluded to Parliamentary Reform, and to• the alarm which was felt at the prospect of such a measure by many, and even by so great a man and so distinguished a genius as Canning, and you rightly said this alarm had abated, because it was found that the fruit, instead of being bitter to the taste, was beneficent and useful. (Cheers •) But, in fact, the alarm which had been cased by the French revolution and the wars which succeeded, had made men averse to any prospect of innovation, even although it came in the shape of improvement. Mr. Canning once said, most justly, that those who are afraid of improvement, be cause it is accompanied by innovation, may find one day that they will have to submit to innovation which is not improvement. (Cheers.) Happily in this country we have avoided the error which Mr. Canning thus touched. We.. have adopted improvements and avoided mischievous inno vation. (Cheers.) Perhaps no country has seen such a series of changes as this country, during the period of the' last 40 years to which you have alluded, without violence, without revolution. I may say not only without danger to the throne, which it was predicted the Reform Bill would produce, but with increased veneration for the throne, and love to the person who occupies it. (Cheers.) You have alluded to other great measures which, in days gone by, caused great alarm to the agricultural interests. We all remember when we were told that it would be impossible to carry on farming if the corn laws wore repealed ; but with respect to that subject, as well as many others, it has been a constant observation that has occurred to my mind as years passed on, that many of our laws were made not to prevent men doing evil, which ought to be the object of all laws, but to prevent them doing what a as legitimate and even some times exceedingly useful, (Cheers.) 1 remember giving an instance of a weaver engaged in a very useful manufacture, and he naturally wished to exchange for the produce of the farmer, it may be on the other side of the Atlantio. What was there criminal in this that it should be objected to, or that a man should be prevented or obstructed in doing it? Nothing whatever, and yet our laws were in tended to prevent that safe and profitable exchange. With respect to other matters, and particularly foreign affairs, I will not say anything just now, as I nosy have to address you at a later period of the afternoon. With regard to the latter part of the address, you are quite right in saying that I have enjoyed the parks and trees of Meikleour, and above all, the view of that magnificent river which passes close under the mansion; and what has given me grtat pleasure, perhaps I may say superior pleasure, is the sight of the la bourers around, and FO well dressed, and appearing to be in the possession of so much comfort. To those especially who pass a great part of their time in large towns, and have to view those alleys and the filth and degradation of moral character which belong to them, it is delightful to see classes of labourers, under so excellent a class of tenants as that a Meikleour, exercising their in : thistry and at the same time enjoying all the comforts of life. I had a letter from my old and valued friend Count Flahault expressing regret that he was not able to be present to-day, having made it a rule not to attend anything like a political dinner in this country. But depend upon it that his heart is with us, and he feels for the benefit of those around him. I must thank him for having enabled me and my family to enjoy the benefits of Meikleour. (Cheers.) Dinner was then partaken of, after which the Earl of Airlie gave the usual loyal toasts. He next gave " The Health of the Guest of the Day," alluding to the political career of Earl Russell from the time he carried the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, down to the time of his lordship acting as Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs in the present Administration. Earl RUSSELL on rising was received with continued cheering. He said—Gentlemen, I am deeply grateful for the invitation you have given me to be present to. day, for the manner in which you have received the toast that bas been proposed, and to the noble lord in the chair for the manner in which he has proposed it. Gentlemen, I think the noble lord very truly observed, that however im portant those matters of domestic interest ,to which he alluded may be, yet the contest being over, there is no longer much excitement about them, and that for some time the state of foreign affairs has rightly occupied the attention of the country. (Cheers.) I confess I do not wonder that such is the case, for the state of foreign affairs has been a very anxious one, and on the state of foreign affairs depend in a great measure the prosperity of the com merce and manufactures of the country. Every rumour, every alarm, tends to depreciate or improve the property of thousands. The apprehension of war causes burdens to be placed on the people of this country, and might bring on a struggle at which every mother would have to feel for the danger of her son in the army or the navy that he may have to encounter the enemies of the country. But beyond all, in the danger of war, in averting it, if it can be prudently and honourably averted, in meeting it courageously and consistently if it has to be met—on these things depend the character of this country and its high place among the nations,--(cheers)—its fame in future ages, its very exist ence as a great community. (Loud,cheers.) I have, there fore, partaken in more than an ordinary degree of that anxiety during the period I have held the seals of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and there have been important events during the short period I have held that office. There was, when Lord Palmerston came into office, the war in Italy sill pending, though soon closed. Then came the quest;on whether the Italians would be allowed without interference to throw off their governments—most of them corrupt and effete—(cheers) —and to attempt to obtain freedom and unity for themselves, or whether Austria, or France, or any other power should interfere and turn aside the destiny to which Italy was aspiring. The Government of Lord Palmerston did not hesitate for a moment to tell the people of Italy to choose for themselves their form of government, and from the capacity they had shown, and the courage they had shown, it was our belief that they were fit to take their place among the great BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The OCTOBER NUMBER contains CARDINAL POLE. OR, THE DAYS OF PHILIP AND MARY. An Historical Romance. By WILLIAM HARR [SON AINSWORTH. Book VII.—THE TREASURE-CHESTS. Chaps. I. to VII. 11. The Russian Magna VIII. Six Weeks at Hunsdcn -- Charta. Manor. Part 111. 111. Treves, theßelgic Rome. IX. Oriental Embassies. IV. Scent Memories. By X. The Ass Election. By Francis Jacox. Edgar A. Bowring, C.B. V. The Sicilian Vespers. XI. A Remote Corner of VI. Baron Von Stockman Wales. VII. The Pont Neuf. i XII. A Night at the Café Ann laic. id Hall, 193, Piccadilly. London : Chapman (10LBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGA ZINE. k) Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Contents for OCTOBER. No. DXIV. I. Southwood Priory. 11. The Shadow of Ashlydyat. By the Author of " East Lynne." I'art XXV. Cleon. By Sir Nathaniel. IV. Evening at the Land's End. By Nicholas Michell. V. Twice Sacrificed. By Mrs. Bushby. Part 11. VI. Killarney, and some Parts of the South of Ireland. Part I. VII. Strathmore ; or, Wrought by his Own Hand. By the Author of "Granville de Vigue." Part IV. VIII. Madelon. IX. My own Experience of a Ghost. X. Gip ,des. NI. Bayard. XII. Renan and D'Elchthal. Chapman and Hall, 193. Piccadilly. nations of the world. (Cheers.) - Gentlemen, it so hap pens that I expressed thai; opinion as an organ of Lord Palmerston's Government, and that in one of your own Scottish cities—the city cf Aberdeen—and T found, I must say, that the whole country responded to the opinion I then gave, and, supported by that public opinion, the voice of England was powerful in preventing any intervention with out. the wishes of the Italians. I well remember there oc curred that which is even now giving us painful cares—l mean the civil war which has taken place in Poland. For my own part, lam ready to defend, if need shall be, the course which her Majesty's Government, in conjunction with France and Austria, have taken on that question, but I have stated in my place in Parliament, and I hold the opinion still, that neither the obligation of England nor the interest of England require that we should go to war for Poland. Holding that opinion, I think it unbecoming of us to rail at Russia when we are not prepared forcibly to resist her aggression. However, I must say that it has astonished me that, at the end of several months of corre spondence, Russia has taken the line she has done. The partition of Poland was an event which was the scandal of Europe in the last century—(cheers)—which is the reproach of th 3 three Powers who were parties to it; bat, at the treaty of Vienna, it was thought fit--and circumstances of expediency perhaps justified what was done—it was thought fit to admit, as it were, into the law of nations, the state of Poland as divided between these Powers, and to give a kind of retrospective sanction as it were to the partition of Poland. The Powers of Europe became, to use a legal phrase, accessory after the fact. Austria and Prussia complied with the conditions of the treaty. Russia has not complied. It seems to me that was an act of great imprudence in Russia, when she had the great advantage to have the act of spoliation and partition condoned, as it were, by Europe, to reject the terms on which that sanction, was given, to rest it, as the now rests it, on the ..................'..-::.,:. ' '.',. ''''' 1 . • .1. ' , ... ~ -•-‘7, ; •: . 1 .4 1 ..,. _ . ..,..„,. , z ..,. • ~' '' ~ . • ~.. - - . ~A Oi . - '' •!( 'k'Stitt: 11 ti , • C4 ' in . k li - - '''!. 1 7 7 1 ' `i, 4 1 ' - •• , .t-' - ' c ,4gl • ' „---' , `t.'i„.•::',.... 7:C;;6"34 ., ' AS t.' .... , , . . 46 40 '..414 . , • ---.- 1 ',. ..•-. 4;„,.." . ~,,. - . . , '- Ofto`d, ,g• 1,44,Nri" , * Yr% '''' A i all i killik ozio ..... H .' ...... ,, :.,.. ,: O s , cf .,. .47/4i,_ ~ , 44ii t ''' . , „,,, - t i "!''' 141.0 4 5 0 ,,,,A1y!, ,, ...MOM .'"' ' 4. ''.: 4: '' % ,'":".- 4' '•••• 7 -7. trrp•N , ' ' ' 4- law of nations requires,everything that the present Foreign Enlistment Act requires, I am prepared to do—even if it should be proved to be necessary, for the preservation of our neutrality, that the sanction of Parliament should be asked to further measures that her Majesty's Ministers may still add. In short, to sum up, we are prepared to do everything that the duties of neutrality require, everything that is just to a friendly nation, taking as a principle that we should do to others as we should wish to be done unto ourselves. (Applause.) But this we will not do. We will not adopt any measures that we think to bo wrong ; we will not yield a jot of British law or British rights in consequence of the menaces of a foreign power. And now, referring again to the complaints that have been made. It is singular to ob serve how jaundiced is the mind of some of those who speak in the New England States upon this subject. There were some persons in the House of Lcrds who thought fit to complain upon an apparent grievance, and not one apparent cause, but many apparent causes of grievances of ships of ours that had been seized, in some cases passing from neutral ports, in other cases on the high seas, but apparently on legitimate voyages ; and it was urged that we should not submit to have our vessels thus seized and our vessels thus interrupted. I had to deal with that case ;. and my answer was, that according to the law of nations, if a ship had an ostensible voyage to a desti• tination which was not her real destination, if she was bound in effect to the enemy's port with munitions of war, that belligerent had a right to stop that vessel on the high seas, and said that law had been laid down by Lord Stowell and other great English authorities, that it had been laid down by those great English authorities in time of war, and that now we were neutrals 1 did not think we should depart from the law we had laid down as belligerents. I said that although in America there were some of the local courts which did not know the authority of such men as Lord Stowell and Sir William Grant, there was a court of appeal —the Supreme Court of the United States—which contained and had contained for many years men as learned and of as high a reputation for law and as unsullied a reputation for integrity as any that had sat in our English courts of jus tice, and that we ought to wait patiently for the decision of these tribunals. Now, What was my surprise, and what will be your surprise, to find that Mr. Sumner has hismind so prejudiced as to bring against me the charge that I have attempted to diminish the reputation of the American courts, and show myself biassed against the American states, by the declaration I had thus made. I will not detain you further on this subject, but one remark I must make----one remark on the general tendency of these speeches and of these writings in America, The Government of America discusses these matters very fairly with the English Go vernment. Sometimes we think they are quite in the wrong, and sometimes they say we are quite in the wrong. We discuss them fairly. With regard to the Secretary of State, I see no complaint to make. I think he weighs the disadvantages and difficulties of our situation in a fair and equal balance, but there are others—and that speech of Mr. Sumner's is one of them, being an epitome of almost all that has been contained in the press of America on the sub ject—there are others by whom bur conduct is very diffe rently judged, I say, with regard to all these mutters they are difficult questions. We may have reason to complain in some instances, and the Federal Republic of America may have reason to complain in others. But let us recollect that we are, as I have said, descended from the same ances tors, that in the courts of justice in America the common law of England is constantly cited, the decisions of whose judges are constantly referred to as decisions ever respected —(applause)—that our Shakespeare and Milton are to them the classic books they are to us; that we have the same in heritance of freedom ; that many of our institutions—as you may see by reading that excellent book of De Tocqueville's —many of our institutions are identical; that the same spirit of liberty animates us both; that though we, after our re volution, chose constitutional monarchy as our form of government, and that though, after theirs they chose a republic as their form of government, yet the community have the same spirit of law, have the same spirit of liberty, have the same spirit of freedom, We ought, when these unhappy days are over, to embrace one another as friends. We in the old world, and they in the new, ought to be lights to promote the civilisation of mankind. (Loud applause.) Now, gentlemen, with this feeling, I own I almost lose my patience when I see men in what is called an oration heap ing up accusation, misrepresentation after misrepresenta tion, all tending to the bloody end of war between these two nations. I cannot but say are they not satisfied with the blood that has been shed in the field in the last two years, with that field of Gettysburg, where 10,000 corpses of men, mostly in the prime of manhoad, lay stretched on the ground, who had been vigorous in the early morn ing ? (Cheers.) Are they not satisfied with this blood shed, but would they seek to extend to the nations of Europe new days on which fresh sacrifices are to be made of human life, human interest, and human happiness ? Gen tlemen, I trOt that will not be the case. (Cheers.) I know at all events that my efforts, such as they are—weak they may be, ineffectual I hope they will not be—but my efforts, such as they are—will be directed to keep peace between these two nations—to do everything which I think is just, everything which I think is right, towards this people ; and I trust we shall be ready to meet an attack, if we are un justly attacked—ready to bear our part in the contest, if contest there must be, but yet believing that we ought to make every effort that all these various complications may end in peace to the nations and in friendship. (Applause.) I say, at all events, I shall have a conscience that I have done my best to preserve peace between these mighty na tions. Gentlemen, this is a great subject. It affects the people in our part of tne world and of America. It affects the future state of civilisation. It affects the well-being of the black race, whom it was the crime of our ancestors to introduce into America, and who, if these matters are arranged, as I believe they will be, are fitted to be peaceable and intelligent members of a free country, on behalf of whose welfare we have been ready to make great efforts, to sacrifice much. (Cheers.) But we will not sacrifice any of those views of ours to mere pretence. (Applause.) We have as strong a feeling for good of mankind as any people can have ; but we must maintain our own position, and my belief is that the people of what were the United States, whetker they are called Federala or Confederates, will finally do us justice, that they will observe, as they cannot help observing, that in this free country, where there is so much discussion and so much difference of opinion, there are parties, very considerable in number, who sympathise with the Confederates, and there are other large masses, I believe superior in numbers, who sympathise with the Federals ; but, whether sympathising with one or the other, we have all impressed in our hearts the sentiments of justice, and that we will do to others the justice we ex pect for ourselves,—(cheers) —and I hope I interpret the feelings of your minds when I say that justice ought to prevail. (Loud applause.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed "her Majesty's Ministers." Earl RUSSELL, in returning thanks, said—l have already given an opinion, and an account of what have been our doings with regard to foreign policy, and I do not think it would be right in me to trouble you again with any long remarks. My noble friend has very truly said that at pre sent there is no great dispute about principles. I do not know that there is any great difference between the princi ples of Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby. Gentlemen, in my humble opinion, Lord Palmerston governs a great deal better than Lord Derby—(laughter)—naturally that is my opinion as a member of Lord Palmerston's administra tion ; but with regard to domestic policy I think we are all pretty much agreed, because the feeling of the country and of those who have conducted great reforms is very much like that of the man who having made a road in your own highlands put a stone on the top of the mountain with an inscription, "Rest and be thankful." (Laughter.) That seems to be very much like our feeling, not that there aro not other roads to make and other mountains to climb, but it seems to be the feeling of the country, in which I cannot help joining, that our policy is rather to "rest and be thank ful," than make new roads. (Cheers.) A CRY FOR MORE MONUMENTS has been raised in the following terms by the Athenceuni :—There is a sort of poetical felicity in the fact that there is about to be erected in the Sandwich Islands a monument to Captain Cook, whom his countrymen have, so far, forgotten to honour. It is true that some of the greatest benefactors to England remain uncommemorated, and peculiarly so of those who have served her at sea—boasted to be her pecu liar element. Where is the public monument to Rodney, to Duncan, or, out of St. Paul's, to Howe, Jervis, Shovel ? Have any of the Arctic discoverers monuments to say how great were their courage and endurance ? Dibdin, who served his country in his way, has not even a stone with his name on it erected at public charge. Above all, there is the memory of the Author of • Robinson Crusoe'—a book which has done infinite service toward. making English lads into sailors—entrusted to his works alone. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Consumption, all nervous, bilious, 1 liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravate(' and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfee , ly curable by Du Barry's health restoring ltevalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of eases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cute 110. 62,911. Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of her r, covery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow 'cheeks. emaciated to a sle,leton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming , fleshy girl.—N. 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The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the SocietY and other means, since its formation is 12,800; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,009 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting -cart lages and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the l countrymen British public du r i ng the past few years, a support -which has enabled them t o establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on th e shores of the United Kingdom Deeply sensible, ho wever, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maint a i n their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i' .Crews practis e d i n t h o managemen t o f th e i r boats,nnu l a w hirl, can only b e ef f ected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestl y appeal to all classes of their , upholding and perpetuating so to aid them in ul The Committee gra e iy acknowledge Lige the following con tributions : Her Majesty the Queen •• .. Mrs . .. G, ...... •••• •••• 2 a d nll: o ll.a . 5 2 4 0 5 1 0 8 0 : 1 00 Bankers .• :: annual 1 1 0 annual 5 0 0 e C co a leu m rtk p is b c e s l oi l l i do t nc h eo e l: H ß : i n Aes . . srs., Currie, Win.• 1 1 :sq., • • • • • • • • annual 10 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice . • • • 4th cion.lo 0 0 F ans hawc, Vice-Admiral :: don, 10 Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Trann sporting Carriage • • • • • • • • • • 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. O. and Mrs. •• • • don. 3 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart• • • • • • • 7th don. 10 o 0 Moore, Rev. G. B • • • • •• .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Dirs. George, Greenwich • • • • • • 3 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. annual 20 0 Thont.s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collectedby her Ladyship .. • • • • • • • • 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .• • . .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions willbe thankfully re -eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard -street; Messrs. Coutta and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co. , 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs and Bankers In the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 11, John-street, Melphi, London, ri.‘..; . div. c3-> The following circular has been issued by the Bishop of London : " Palace, Bangor, Sept. 36. " Rev. and dear Brother,— There seems now to be no doubt that throughout the country we have been blessed with an abundant harvest. It is natural and right that we should return thanks to God for His goodness. "If I requested all the clergy of such a diocess as London to set apart one specific day for a Thanksgiving service, I might, be interfering with important parochial arrange ments already made and announced, I prefer, there ore, to request you to communicate with the clergy of your deanery, and to set before them how desirable I think it that, if they have not already done so, they should, when the present season of comparative vacation is ended, and their chief parishioners havo returned to their homes, each of them select for themselves some convenient t-unday or other day on which their people's hearts may be stirred to thoughts of our dependence upon God for all daily blessings, and to gratitude for His goodness. The very fact that, from the peculiarity of our diocess, so few comparatively of our people have the sight of the harvest:, with its anxieties brought before their eyes, may make such an observance only the more desirable for us. " The ordinary service of our Church, with the Holy Communion and suitable hymns and sermon, will afford us sufficient oppprtunity for the expression of the feelings suitable to such a day. "As it in not improbable that at this season of the year some of those to whom this circular is addressed may, like myself, be absent from their homes, I shall endeavour to have it published in the newspapers, in order to avoid any unnecessary delay in making my wishes known to the clergy. "Believe me to be, Rev, and dear Brother, yours very faithfully, "A. C. LONDON." SCIENTIFIC BALLOONING, Lord Wrottesley, Sir J. Burgoyne, and a large nutuber of the local gentry were present on Saturday anhe Stafford road works of the gas company at Wolverhampton, expecting to see Mr. Glaisher make the last scientific ascent this sea son on behalf of the Balloon Committee of the British As sociation, under the guidance of Mr. Ccxwell, and in the mammoth balloon of that clever aeronaut. It had been.in tended to make the ascent on Friday, but when Mr. Glaisher came down from London it was discovered that some repairs were required to the balloon. By the time they were com pleted a thunderstorm prevailed, and Mr. Coxwell deemed it imprudent to venture up whilst the atmosphere was so highly charged with electricity. On Saturday the prepara tions for the inflation commenced at five in the morning, and it was Icing successfully proceeded with up to eleven o'clock, when it was found that owing to undue despatch the valve•line had escaped from the arm of the man who was holding it, and a large quantity of gas escaped. Whilst the valve-line was being sought for the balloon became slightly rent. By the time all was again taut upwards of 30,000 of the 50,C00 cubic feet of gas that had been let into the balloon had escaped, and it was nearly one o'clock. A consultation was held, but as Mr. Coxwell could not pro mise that the arrangements would be complete to enable Mr. Glaisher to leave the earth before five o'clock, the as cent was postponed until to-day (Monday). If the weather of to-day should prove unpropitious, then the proposed as cent will be abandoned. The late Mijitary Outrages in Warsaw. A letter from Warsaw says:—One thousand infantry and cavalry now proceeded in a wide column from the orderly-room in the direction of the spot where the attempt had been made. On their road they arrested in the most brutal manner every person they met, driving all before them with their bayonets. They then entered both the houses of Count Zamoyski, one of which is strictly a pri vate house, occupied by his household exclusively, and the other, perhaps the most magnificent house in Warsaw, fitted up in a most luxurious style, and occupied by nearly 120 opulent and highly respectable families. That the tomb should have been thrown from one oft hese houses was most improbable; and I have already pointed out that it was impossible to know which was the house whence it was thrown. What were the scenes that were enacted in these, per imps the most respectable houses in Warsaw, between 5 in the afternoon and 12 at night, God only knows. The crowd outside saw the windows all smashed, and the furniture, books, pictures, mirrors, pianos, dresses, and cupboards thrown into the street; and they heard in the midst of the yells of the savage soldiery the noise of the breaking of fur niture, and the despairing cries and greens of women. It is as impossible to describe these heartrending scenes as it is for one who was not a witness of them to form an idea of what a soldiery, drunk with blood, can do to insult all hu man instincts. After seven hours of destructi• n the soldiery draggea the male inhabitants, upwards of 200 in number, covered with wounds and coutusions, to the citadel. These poor people were without hats or coats, their clothes were nearly torn oft their backs. Among them were eeveral old men, whose weary and despairing looks moved the bystanders to tears. In Miodowa-street, where there is a church, these unfor tunate people knelt down to say a silent prayer, but the soldiery rushed upon them with their bayonets, bore them from their kneeling position, and forced them to march on. Meanwhile the women and children, thus deprived of their natural protectors, were exposed to the insults and obscene jokes of the drunken soldiery, without a home—even with out warm clothing against the cold. About 11 p.m., a short time before the men were taken to the citadel, a lurid light was seen in the sky above the spot where these scenes occurred. It was thought that this must be a fire, caused either by accident or despair. The fire brigades immediately collected from all parts of the town, but the soldiers who were posted in the street would not allow them to enter it, and even threw furniture into the flames as fuel. The fire lasted all night, and this morning three heaps of ashes are all that remain of the residences and homes of nearly 100 families. Among the victims I will only mention Prince Thad deus Lubomirski and Count Stanislaus Zamoyski (brother of Count Andrew). The residences of both have been razed to the ground, and both are now in prison. The well-known Oriental echolar Kowalewski, rector of the university,owed his personal safety to the accident of his absence from home; but of his furniture, his rooms, and his magnificent Oriental library--the fruit of some 30 years' judicious col lection—nothing remains. The unfortunate old man, not having a home to go to, has been obliged to take lodgings, with his wife and children, in the Hotel de l'Europe. The valuable library of Prince Thaddeus Lubomirski, who has been for some time occupied in writing a history of Poland, has been completely destroyed in the fire. As for the other articles which, in the eyes of the barbarous soldiery, were of mere value, such as furs, dresses, gilt furniture, &c., they were taken to the citadel—there is no doubt to be divided among those who showed the most zeal in the work of de struction. The immense stores of the wine merchant Kru pecki hair e been completely destroyed. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A YOUTIL—About 10 o'clock on Saturday night, as George Young, aged 15 years, living in the Kent-road, was crossing the bridge over the Surrey Canal, in company with a friend, their attention was suddenly arrested by hearing a violent scream. They found the cry was from a young female who was struggling in the water. While his friend hastened for assistance, Young pulled off his coat and jumped into the water. Ile succeeded in dragging her in an insensible state to the bank. Assistance was soon rendered, but it was a considerable time before animation was restm ed. SHOCKING DEATII.—At the London Hospital, on Saturday, Mr. Humphreys held an inquest on Thos. Lownds, aged 53 years. Richard Jones said that the deceased was a gunmaker, in the employ of Messrs. Potts and Runt, and on Monday last he was at work at No. 33, Leman-street. lie was doing something to the por tico, but the ladder was not long enough, and he caught hold of the portico and lifted himself up bodily. He tell, however, on to the spikes of the railing. Ifs was carried to the hospital, where he died in great suffering. Verdict accidental death. ' ATTEMPT TO POISON FIVE PERSONS AT HULL. —On Friday, at the Hull Police -court, a little girl, named Mary Ann Richardson, was committed for trial at the sessions on a charge of having attempted to poison five girls, named respectively Sarah Jane Ctusons, Sarah A nu pool, Matilda Watson , Fann y Ashton, and M ary Rot. The trial was a somewhat lengthy one, and caused consi derable excitemen t in the town. The evidence went to show that about 10 days ago the accused, who worked with the victims of her malevolence at a starch manufactory in Hull, was charged by a person who superintended them with a slight peccadillo, and the accusation so excessively annoyed her , that she threatened to exact vengeance upon her ac , curer and others who worked with her. A day or two after wards an opporzunity presented itself of putting her dart:d es i g n into execution. It seemed that it was customary tor thane girls who lived in the sulurba to bring their break fasts with them, and for all of them to put their coffee into one pot, and one morning, 118 soon as the abovenained girls had placed their coffee in the pot the accused was seen to approach the fire. Shortly after the girls drank their coffee, awl were in s t an t aneous ly seized w ith alarming symptoms of having imbibed something poisonous with it. A surgeon was nailed in, and he administered the usual remedies, and in a short time they suifiiiently recovered to resume th e i r ordinary duties. The police, however, were communicated with, and the prisoner was apprehended, ar.d she was com mitted for trial for the offence, her defence beinB. remvcd. -~0~~~ iii ,~l<-~~-- _ - (From the times of India . CAWN. Tho man supposed to be the rebel Nam was brought into this station a prisoner yt and is now lodged in the station gaol. He . by Captain Carnell with a guard of three Sikhs. caused considerable commotion at first, for it was general y believed that the coming prisoner was veritably the Wax a ; but in a very few hours after ho left the railway station that excitement had quite subsided. Hundreds of people to whom the person of the Nana was well known had seen tl. o prisoner, and all declared that he was not the man. Amoni these are people who had been daily with the Nana, ma' some of them in constant attendance upon him, at Bithoor and elsewhere, for years before his flight. It might be ex-• pected, of course, that such persons would (most of them) deny his identity, even falsely; but the tacit evidence of an entire population, as expressed in the marked find speedy cessation of their ansi,ty about or further interest in the man, is matter of great importance. It is, nevertheless, still possible, however improbable, that circumstantial evidenve, added to that of his blind companion, who has turned it:- former, may yet prov e hi m to h e t h e N a na. Numbers ti,`, well-attested cases familiar to the physiological student may serve to explain away difficulties arising from the non•recog— nition even by men who must necessarily remember well the features, complexion, voice, attitudes, and general con- tour of the arch rebel, as they knew him before 1857 at Bithoor. But six years of travel, flight, exposure, change of climate, of habits, and of diet, superadded to sickness, mortification, and despair—perhaps even remorse—cannot have failed to work considerable physical changes in the Nana, wherever ho may be now. Instances aro not rare of the really honest repudiation by affectionate wives and_ mothers of their husbands and children after long and dis tant voyages or travel. Cases are recorded where brothers and sisters, meeting after many years of adventure, have even married in perfect ignorance of each other's identity. It will be admitted, by the lawyer at least, that circum stances such as those which must have attended the life of the Nana since his flight would render his non-identification by witnesses who judge from his present appearance alone a matter of comparative insignificance in the face of a chain of facts connecting the changed man with the personhe has been suspected to be—those facts and circurastanws account ing more or less for the change itself. Whether such evi dence is forthcoming is to be seen. But to return to this prisoner more particularly. His appearance indisputably declares his high caste Mahratta origin. Ile is much darker • than the Nana was, but not unlike what the fugitive life the Nana must have led would mate in six years of a for merly delicately nurtured fair Mahratia Brahmin. These are my impressions, and they may, of course, be wrong- But his height does not correspond with the description of the Nana, nor does his apparent age. A careful study of the man at the cutcherry yesterday during his examination convinced me not only that he knows this place, but that he was anxiously observant of faces around him, as if in search of persons whom ho recog nised, and who might, perhaps, recognise him. The same curious scrutiny on his part was observable as he passed through the station on his way from the railway to the gaol. He is no stranger to Cawnpore ; but that does not prove him to be the Nana. Indeed, he admits that he was here Lind at Bithoor several years ago, when the Nana was there. It is worthy of note that the personal appearance of thee man is undergoing a slow and gradual, but plain change. I have seen three or lour photographs of him taken at diffe rent periods, and, though some bear some resemblance to him, not one is the likeness of the man as I saw him yester day. He grows fairer, though more haggard than these photographs represent him. M a y not the one be from his being less exposed, and the other from his imprisonment, and consciousness of the fearful position he occupies, if the Nana ? On the opening of the cutcherry the magistrate (Mr. 11. Monckton, C.S.) at once had the prisoner brought before him, charged with being the rebel Nana Dhoondia Punt. He denies that he is so, and declares that he is a Brahmin who bas been a fakir nearly all his life; that his name is Appa Ham, son of Damoodhur, born in a village on the banks of an obscure river in the Deccan ; and that while ho was yet a child his father was murdered there. He says ho had two brothers. On the death of his father he (then 1 `..: years old) with his brothers, adopted the vagrant life of a fakir. His brothers, he says, he has never seen nor heard of since they set out after their father's death. He status that a few years ago he visited the village where he was born, and was then recognized by three or four persons living there, whom he names; but they are all dead now. (How does he know of their death ?) The village itself, too, ha declares, has now ceased to exist, having been washed away and was entirely destroyed by an encroachment of the river, and its inhabitants are now undiscoverable, being, as he says, absorbed in the population of the sur rounding country. (A. rather suspicious and certainly unsatisfactory tale.) Dr. Choke and Dr. Jones assisted the magistrate during the first day's (yesterday's) proceedings, which bore solely on the point of his personal appearance. Dr. Choke was formerly civil surgeon of Cawnporc : Dr. Jones is so now. In his office as civil surgeon Dr. Cheke attended professionally upon the Nana, but does not recognize the prisoner in any way. His person does not show The exPected uiarlO or iiiieglAitto 4ave s beQn left by surgical treatment for certain miner diseases: In fact, Dr. Cheke is very strongly of opinion that the prisoner is not the Nana. With the assistance of the medical officers abovo named, the magistrates drew up a most minute description of the prisoner's person, and with that the first day's pro ceedings closed, to be resumed to-morrow (Monday) morning. At present it is the belief of the authorities here that the prisoner is not the Nana; that so far from there being as yet evidence against him proving him to have been a rebel of note, or even a rebel at all, there has not been produced against him evidence sufficient to justify legally his con tinued imprisonment for any long period. The prisoner is confined in a separate ward of the gaol, apart from all other prisoners. Inside the gaol is an additional guard of 12 men, who are quartered in tents immediately adjoining the cell or rocm where the prisoner lies. 'The guard is under an European inspector, who remains on duty, in a room close by, night and day. Inside the prisoner's cell a sentinel walks on duty day and night, while one or two others aro posted outside. The prisoner seldom speaks, but sits or lies on his rug for hours together, almost motionless, and serningly quite at his ease. He eats nothing, refuting all solid food of every description, even front the highest caste me n, lie lives on milk alone, drinking one seer in the morning and one in the evening. During the day he is fettered only on the legs, but at night he is closely hand cuffed. He seems to care nothing about the curiosity of people who go to see him as he lies in gaol, and appears, on the whole, to have very little fear as to the result of the case. N E WS PAPER THE REPUTED NANk: ec ,..,, , K 17 4, iK744 . 4 . PM " ' " nv . rt %0 /27V 'eSkeaUT.,.Mqatpkr 446rgikaAtkLif AUSTRALIAN WINES. A report has just been presented by Mr. Keene to the commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, in which the Australian wines are mentioned, and it is te be regretted that more complete opportunities were not af f orded to that gentleman for testing more fully the merits of the wines exhibited by the the several colonies. He states that he was only able to obtain 18 samples of the Australian vin tages, although he had received numerous Promises that samples would be supplied to him. Of the 18 samples which were tested under the sanction of the commissioners of the cus toms, the re p ort s tates that none were of a very hi g h character, b u t t h at those from Sydney possessed some sound and ex cellent qualities that pr omise well under improved culture and more care ful manipulation ; but the im portant fact is estab lished that all the samples have a high natural degree of spirit. The wines from Victoria are stated to be inferior to those of Sydney; the body is desc ribed as weak, and the flavour poor and uninviting. And it would have been little short m iracle ii i t ft s h , e samples tested had possessed any y f a noviting guaieseeing that for three month° they were exhibited in a hot glass building at Mel bourne, afterwards made a voyage of four months to this country, and finally shown in a n u p ri g ht pos ition for six month s i n t h e I nter national Exhi bition. In the face of these drawbacks, however, the wines were' qualities. sound and alcoholic," and this must be considered as no small pro of of their in trinsic The report states that "the names by which sever a l o f th e wines are distin guished may, p e rhaps, indicate the ki nd of grape used in their manufacture; but if so, the alteration of climate, season, or some other circumstance must have com pletely changed their character, as not a vestige of resemblance remains. The Front ignac here is a red sour wine, instead of being White and luscious; the perfume, however, whic, u attached to the dis 4 tillate g „. 4 , 0 indication of its origin in the Muscat rape. The Hermitage and Burgundies are of a le red co sickly p lon • a I and thiu body. Indeed, all tie new wines hare a great family like i:css to each other, and, as well as the white w i nes , are destitute of any great i n dividuality." We also learn that the Tokay was not like its illustrious namesake, and that so little pains had been taken in the preparation and selection of many If . the ounipies that some of the white wines of Victoria were still in a ctate of fermentation, The r"sliegs of the samples c,f Nov EiJni h Wale gave the following results :—The Australian hock gave 18.9 per cent. of alcohol ; the Irrawang, 24.6 ; Porphyry (rcd wine), 25.9; Can dca Park, 25.9; Kaludah (white), 23 3. The Victorian wines were —Matzro, 20.2 ;Frontignac, 22.0 Hermitage, 20.8; Burgundy, 23.9 ; Bed Vicloris, 28.6 ; White Vic toria, 25 9 ; Tokay , 27.9 ; Whi te P incau, 24.6 ; Sauterne, X 4.6; Ctiusselas, 24.6. The great defi ciency in connection with all these Australian wines was that s ufficient attention had not been paid to their manufactur. and subsequent manipulation,-- Australian and Neu, Zealand Ga:ettc. )n ho to in ,''~