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aar.... ,—, 1 THE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). Established under the Companies Act, with Limited Liability. Capital, Two Millions Sterling, in 20,000 Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 10,000 Shares. Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 10s. on allot ment. It is not contemplated to call up more than £2O per Share. Calls not to exceed £5, at intervals of not less than Three Months. Drnre'rons. James Bruce, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Abchurch-lnne. Charles Bye Colchester, Esq. (Messrs. Colchester and Wool ner), South Sea House. H. D. Cartwright, Esq., 61, Moorgate-street (Messrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay), late Chairman of Commercial Bank of India. Horatio Sydney Coulson, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Ab church-lan e. George Lyall, Esq., Mincing. lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still, and Co., Hong Kougl. Charles Edward mangles, Esq., Director of the Union Bank of Australia. Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., Director of the Chartered Mercan tile Bank of India. John Torrance, Esq., Director of the Alliance Bank. Edmund Westby, Esq., Director of the Bank of Victoria. BANKERS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury, and Southwark, London. Brown's-buildings, Liverpool, and Birkenhead. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Flux and Argles, 9, Mincing-lane. BROKERS. Messrs. J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Robert Slater, junior, Esq. Temporary Offices of the Corporation-26, Change-alley, Cornhill, E.C. PROSPECTUS. The Discount Corporation is established to aid the mone tary arraneenients of the increasing commercial interests of Great Britain and its dependencies. In founding this undertaking the Directors have secured the co-operation of an old and highly -respected Discount Firm in London, with whom arrangements have been made for the transfer of' its lucrative business to this Corporation, and two of whose partners join the Direction. It will thus be manifest that the Di scount Corporation starts with a large and valuable connection, and acquires the experience of Directors whose influence and intelligence are certain to command the confidence of the public. The material basis of the Corporation will be a large sub scribed Capital, judicially distributed. The recent creation of several large Indian and Colonial banking institutions, coupled with the expanding home and continental trades of the country, and the greatly extending commercial transactions with India and the Colonies, lead to the conviction that greater discsusting facilities than at pre sent exist are required An establishment, which from its ample means will be able to supply such requirements, will no doet be favourably re ceived by the trading community, and will at the same time afford a safe and profitable return equally to those who seek the permanent investment of their money, and to those who merely desire the temporary employment of their surplus fnnds. The known profitable operations of the old private Dis. count Firms, and the new Discount Companies, give the as surance that a purely Discount business, prudently managed, will prove a complete success. The Head Office of the Corporation will be in London. No protnotioa-monef will be given for originating the undertaking, and the preliminary expenses will be strictly confined to such as are indispensable. Applications for Shares maybe addressed in the annexed form to the Directors, and copies of the prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Corporation; or at the Offices of the Brokers and Solicitors ; but no application will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per share on the number of shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. To the Directors of the Discount Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above Corporation, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to become a member of the Cor poration in respect of such Shares, or in respect of any less number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of Association when required ,• and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members for the Shares so allotted. Name in full • . Residence Profession or Business.. .. Date . THE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). —NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That no further APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Corporation will be received after THIS DAY (SATURDAY), the 17th October. By order, ROBERT SLATER, Jun., Secretary, pro tem. Temporary Offices, 26, Chance-alley, Cornhill, October 17, 1833. T HE MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). lapital £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each, with power to increase, ade rosit of 10s. per shar to be paid on application, and £1 10s. on allotment. First issue £250,000, in 10,000 shares, of which only £l2 10s. per share is intended to be called up. No second issue will take place until £l2 10s. per share has been called up on the first issue. Calls not to exceed £2 10s. per share, at intervals of not less than two months. DIRECTORS. Captain R. W. PELLY, R.N., Elder Brother Trinity House (Director of the London Assurance. and late Director of the Hudson's Bay Company), Chairman. James Borman, Esq. (Messrs. Hickie, Borman, and Co., Mer chants), 127, Leadenhall-street. Alexander Calder, Esq. (late Director of the India General Steam Navigation Company, Calcutta), Putney. Abel Chapman, Esq. (Director of the Mid-Wales Railway), 79, Old Broad-street. Ambrose Emerson, Esq. (Messrs. Newby, Carson, and Co.), Gresham House, Director of the West African Company. Henry Fox, Esq., Director of the London and Provincial Marine Insurance Company. John flan, jun., Esq. (Messrs. J. Hall, jun., and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), New London-street, Fenchurch street. Robert Hewett, Esq. (Iressrs. Hewett Brothers, Merchants and Shipowners), Trinity-.quare. William Anastasius .Jones, Esq., late Local Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mint Company, Wilton Lodge, Croydon, Surrey. John Rogerson, Esq. (Messrs. J. Rogerson and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), Royal Exchange-buildings, sad Newcastle-on-Tyne. John Gustavus Russell, Esq. (Director of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company), 61, Moorgate street. Captain Lu , e Thom is, late of Aden, 136, Leadenhall-street, and Nevill Lodge, Tunbridge Wells. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Dawes and Sons, 9, Angel court, Throgmorton -street. BANKERS. London and County Bask, 21, Lombard-street. The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Edwards and .la - in - e - Ei:lB:iiing-street, Cheapside. STOCKBROKERS. Messrs. Froom Brothers, 20, Change-alley, Cornhill. SURVEYORS. Timothy Harrington, Esq„ Consulting Engineer, 61, Grace church -street. Captain Thomas tribe, The Jerusalem, Cornhill. SECRETARY--MF. Thomas Sharer, 27, Leadenhall-street. TEMPORARY OFFICES OF THE COMPANY. 18, King-street, Cheapside. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established for the purpose of granting temporary loans and advances on eligible ships and other marine property, by way of mortgage or assignment, covered by Policies of insurance, and on such other security as may be found desirable. Money will also be received on deposit for stated periods, upon interest to be Agreed. and will be employed in like manner with the capital, the uncalled por tion of whit'', and the property held on mortgage by the Company, will at all times afford ample security to depo sitors. The estimated value of British vessels mortgaged is up wards of five millions sterling. It thus becomes apparent that a wide field exists for a well-established Company of this kind. The want of some ready channel for obtaining loans on shipping has been so severely felt that the Directors enter with confidence on the prosecution of a class of business hitherto transacted by private individuals with considerable profit. In addition to the profits on capital, which are estimated at from 10 to 15 per cent., the Directors have facilities for borrowing at such rates as to yield a surplus profit of 5 to 6 per cent. The detailed prospectus and forms of application for shares may be obtained of the Secretary, Brokers, and Bankers, and at the Offices of the Company. Should the full number 01 shares applied for be in excess of those at the Directors' disposal, the surplus will be credited to the allotment, or returned at the applicants' option, MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE.—The Directors will proceed to an ALLOT MENT on SATURDAY, 17th instant. Applications tor the Remaining Shares to be made not later than that date. By order of the Board, (Signed) THOMAS SHARER, Secretary. IE, llln g - atreet, Cheapaide, Oct. 9, 1863, ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, ind Dinin•g-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment at VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights , 'ago., in Italian, Alabas• er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire S_par, azo. Imported and man u f ac t ured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her ilaiesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. ind GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149. Strand, W.Q. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CRAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1861, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £28,550 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England. Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 13,220; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, and 17,200 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £75,380 on Life-boats, Life-boat 4 r „ a ,pinorting-cari iag,es, and Boat-houses. th 4 e ue Committee desire to express their grateful sense of iiritnerous support which they have received from the ha s l japtiblic during the past few years, a support which of .. 12 ,; 4 ?Td them to establish their present magnificent fleet Deepl y Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. rest s on „ 11 !;ible, however, of the great responsibility that stat e , air alt i r. to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient boats, wht, Crews practised in the managemmt of their annual hi m ," call only be effected by a large and permanent country men n T, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their great and trut° aid them in upholding and. perpetuating so The co nnui 7,national a work. tributions:— "ee gratefully acknowledge the following con- Tier Majesty the o n £ a. d carnpbell, the ri,ii -e „,.." • • .. .. annual 50 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R. 14 ::"-trs• G. .. .. .. annual 50 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., :: Ciirrie, Wm., Lag., .... . annual annu4 10 0 0 11 1 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice. • • • • 4th don.lo 0 0 iJce.:EAsdqm.:rcao,Viorr•A.., H.C.B. .. 2 d d on d . on. 2510 10 0 I F 'a en n ii sh i a ck w , e , G V . apor ting• Carriage . a Lifeboat and Tran- H arv ey, Rev. G. G. and.Mra. • • • • • • .. 250 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • .. S don. 30 0 Palmer, Sir Bounden, 2d,p., ii .m ,8 .. olici . .7th don.lo 0 0 • tor-General .• • • .. R- '1 Yacht squadron .. annual 2 2 0 ..coyat Steel, Michael, Esq• *: • annual in 0 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston -super-Mar con - • don. 100 0 0 Ladyship . • • • • • .. a b n y .ii h u e a r l 16 106 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord • • .. Donations and Annual Sul,scriptions will be si t esar ki i :9l 7 re _ reived by the Bankers of the Institution, Perci7al, and Co, 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. c o ,i t williB, Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and c 10,8 aud James's-street, London ; by a I the Collectors of dusom% and Bankers in the UnitedKindom; and by the Secretary,- Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14 John-street, Adelphi, London, ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, 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 governors' 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 it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masierman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Matas, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STAZTFORD_S. 19.31ITHfiecrotsey, No. 22,248. ITALIAN CHUR CH, 22, HATTON-WALL, HATTON-GARDEN. Next SUNDAY, Oct. 18, 1863, HIGH MASS, at 11 a.m. Followed by a solemn Procession with the most Blessed Sacrament. Music—Beethoven's Mass in C; Offertorium, a Composi tion of M. Costa, will be sung by Madame Itudersdorf. GRAND VESPERS, at 7 p.m., with Full Orchestra. The "Beams Vir," from Mozart. Benediction. The Italian Band will accompany the chaunting during the procession. FOR SALE.—RAILWAY BONDS, having Three Years to run, in Lots, to suit Purchasers. Coupons are attached for Interest of 5 per cent. per annum, payable Hall-yearly, at the London ana Wcstminstet Bank. Applyto Mr. S. 0. Rattenbury, 6, John-street, Bedford-row, London. CASTLEWARD UNI FED MINING COM PANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDI NARY GENERAL ➢iEETING of this Company will be held at the Company's Office, No. 33, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin, on THURSDAY, the 29th day of October, at the hour of 12 o'clock, for the purpose of adopting or rejecting the following Resolutions : - Resolved—That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting, being an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Castleward United Mining Company (Limited), that the Company cannot, by reason of its liabili ties, continue its business, and that the said Company shall therefore be wound up voluntarily Resolved That* be and hereby are appointed Liquidators for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the Castleward United Mining Company (Limited), and with full powers to wind up the same; and that remuneration for acting in said office shall be the sum of £ to each Liquidator for each day necessarily and properly occupied by them in such winding up, together with their travelling expenses properly incurred by them in the exercise of their said office. By order. ARTHUR LESLIE COUSINS, Secretary. 33, Upper Saakvilie-street, Dublin, Oct. 15, 1863. * Persons to act as Liquidators will be named, and their remuneration fixed by the meeting, CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS. Transport Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, Oct. 17, 18u3. THE COMMISSIONERS for Executing the Office of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 20th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat under the Conditions contained in the Regulations for her Majesty's Transport Service and the form of Charter Party, which may be seen at the above office, for the conveyance, from Woolwich to AUCKLAND, N.Z., in two fast-sailing ships, of about In one Ship. In the other Ship. Officers - 14 Ladies 6 Officer;' Children .... 4 Soldiers Women Soldiers' Children Stores (heavy) 10 tons Stores (light) 106 tons. Tenders are to be made at rates per head (officers and men separately), and per ton for Stores. The rates per head are to include conveyance, freight of baggage according to Government scale (App. XXII. of the Transport Regulations), the supply of articles for the mess place, cabins, and berths (App. XV.), articles for table use of Troops (App. XVI.), and of cooking utensils, fuel, lights, and necessaries for their use (App. XVII.), as well as of all such Stores (especially those referred to in Art. 97), and other requisites as are re quired by the Transport Regulations to be provided by the owners. blessing for officers or other first and second class passengers is to be supplied by the owners, and will be paid ter, in addition to the above charges "per head," at the rates specified in App. XXIII. of the Regulations, which rates are to include the supply of bedding exclusive of bed men and towels), medical comforts, articles for table use, cooking utensils, fuel, light, and other requisites (~ee Art. 201 and App. XV. to XVII. of the Regulations). Fittings will be erected, and provisions, a supply of water, medical comforts, and Bedding for the ►oldiers and their families, will be put on board by Government. The owners are to supply a dis tilling apparatus, and water casks or tanks. Drinking tanks in the mess decks for the daily use of the troops will, how ever, be lent by Government, in lieu of the usual mess water barrels. The Vessels are to be ready for immediate service, and to sail as soon as the Government fittings, &c., are completed. without any delay on account of the shipment of private cargo. Nt) private passengers are to be conveyed. All Tenders must be made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application at the said office, and be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Somerset House, and bear is the left-hand corner the words " Transport Department." No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of November, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply BREAD AND MEAT in such quantities pa may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from Ist December, 1863, to 31st May, 1864 :- 1. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's-park and St. John s-wood. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace, and St. Geor4e's Barracks. 5. The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller Hall. 7. Hampton Court. 8. Windscr. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. 11. Sandhurst. Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks as sepa rately 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 and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before 12 o'clock noon on the 3d November next. W. T. POWER, Commissary-General. Deputy Commissary-General's Office, 5. New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W., 10th Oct., 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1863, from persons who maybe wiling to enter into Contracts to supply FLOUR AND MEAT, - in such quqntlties as may be required, from the Ist December, 1863, to ,its , May, 1864, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the command. Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and sinned, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies,") and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hoar appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat-office, Aldershot, Oct. 9,1813. TENDERS wilt be received at this Office, until. 12 o'clock, noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1163, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract to supply FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD, in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist Decem ber, 1863, to 31st Mav, 1.64, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~......,.. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for Army Supplies"), and no tender will be noticed un'ess made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct, 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'cicck, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth November, 1863, hem persons who may be willing to enter into Con tract to supply PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINEER SERVICE, in such quantities as may be required Pram the Ist December, 1863, to 30th November. 1864, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp. and within the com mand. lotrns of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office., by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. cI.PECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented kJ Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTE NARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8. , i s C h a i rman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to e account of the Tercentenary Comm ittee . at t he Stourbridz and Kidderminster or Warwick an d Leami ngton 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 luved, and where he lived and died. , - c P , A7R • • • rzZ4,, ,- ;4 -(ott: --cannibals, not reaching up even to civilisation of the Feejee islanders. T „„„4- 47 Qtal '&' -ga c i 411 k, race which the Europeans came in co nbtAitit y s i- ,S/ 4 • 15,7 • ANC upon tbat continent. But what has been thislfatea s ,A ‘ lllll/ * 1 7 , • 5 A 4/ FA* .41=6.V., of the two races. The Indian race—the noble race 11 ±, '1‘141r ; ► alj f nn —incapable wild and nomadic pursuits, has been driven back to narrower circles, with diminished means of of domestic life, incapable of any but subsistence ; not to degradation, but almost to extinction. Those noble tribes have, in fact, almost disappeared before the advancing wave of our civi lisation. The other race—the negro race—with all its foulness, with all its prosaic vulgarity, naturally servile, timid, and domesticated, has been — in spite of the instit u tion of slavery, if yea please—raised up higher and higher in the sock.; scale, until it furnishe s h eroes an d h ero i nes f or mo d e rn romances, social ain l y v e o e f e mEuropean of the o d i a mequality.which has The h into f or mo d ern songs, an d i nv i te d b f statesmen institution whi c h has done so muc h f or this race e been thrown upon i t deducted. Bat lam told that having brought th em to that point of c i v i l i sat i on I t is our duty—a d u ty that we owe to Christendom — to emancipate th em . (Hear.) Well, I have to British ans wer that British s t atesmen, T philosophers, and British travellers, all unite is the testimony that the emancipation of that race ,at this time, and especially by the mode pointed o,ut by those people in the North who are so clamorous' for con stitutional government, would be an appallikg curse to both races. (Hear, hear.) Whether that be so or not, I think I may with safety-say that the =AY boons which have been conferred upon that ram', that the earnest conduct as Christians and fellow men which we have observed to the inferior race— inferior inconsequence of centuries of barbarism and ignorance—are sufficient guarantees to civilisation that if the time should ever come when we have reason to believe that liberty would be a boon to them and not a curse, we shall be prepared to con- , far that boon upon them also. And ,indeed, the time should ever come when they are capable of en joying freedom, and when they themselves assert their right, we could not if we would withh? • ld that boon. It is said by those who have been misrepre senting the South, and said for years to Engl ish audiences by men who have never lived in the South—and who do not know as much of her people and of her institutions as you do, because they are blinded by fanaticism—who have always hated us when union was not their pretext, but when under the banner of disunion they poured forth a:stream of falsehood and vituperation on us —these men have stated publicly in England that the negro in the South was deprived of all the rights of a human being by the law of the Southern States, that he was/considered entirely in the light of a chattel. Now, I assert to you that that statement is untrue. On the contrary, the laws of every Southern State regard them as brethren and as Christians, and they have had thrown around them all the guarantees of personal security which are thrown around every other class. The law denouncees the penalty of death on him who murders a negro, and de nounces the pnnishment of imprisonment in a peni tentiary against any person committing a penal act against him. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will close what I have to say simply by thanking you for the demonstrations of interest and sympathy which you have made for our country. I know they exist in every English mind, and they cannot be kept out by any barriers of Custom-house regu lations, by the regulations of States, or neutrality proclamations. (Hear, hear.) Like an ethereal essence, it has already leaped over its bounds, and tends to raise the hearts of our people to higher thoughts and more heroic deeds; and that, gentle men, is the secret of the enmity which has been shown in the North to your people; but I hope the time may soon come when the South can answer for England. (Loud applause.) Various other toasts of a local character were then given and responded to, and the proceedings did not terminate till a late hour. PRICE... STAMPED effects, and cannot be misled by subtle refinements and vague theories. When you speak of civil liberty to an Englishman, visions of certain great guarana tees, great historical institutions, rise up to his mind, such as the habeas corpus, trial by jury, the supremacy of the law, the subordination of the mili tary to the civil power—these constitute iu the Eng lish mind the true exponent of civil liberty—(cheers) —and their history teaches them that wherever a despot or a tyrant under any disguise seeks to pros trate the liberties of the people, and to trample down their rights, these great guarantees are the first object of attack. (Hear, hear.) I repeat, that when a despot seeks to oppress a free people he finds in these great bulwarks the first impediment, and seeks to hew them from his path. Now, test the contest in America by that. I say we are contend ing for civil liberty and constitutional government, Cast your eyes over the Northern States. Do you see the great bulwarks of Anglican iiberty existing there ? Why, the chief of the Cabinet, the Secretary of State, is said to have boasted to the representative of your Government, as his own evidence of his strength, that sitting in his private chamber he could touch a bell to his left which would consign to prison a citizen of the far distant State of Michi gan, and that by touching the bell to his right he could imprison another in the distant States of Maine or New Hampshire. Why is it that the citi zens of that great country are not exempt from ille gal arrest ? Why is it that the houses of Americans are not, like the houses of Englishmen, their castles, but are subject to illegal and unwarrantable searches? I will tell you that Government is not seeking to establish civil liberty ; but cruel despotism glooms over the land, and liberty stands naked and defenceless before it. Spies, police officers, provost marshals, dog the heels of the purest and the wisest statesmen, and report every chance word they may utter. The legislators of sovereign States broken up by armed men, together with judges, are dragged from the bench and imprisoned. Men are arrested without the warrant of law, and undergo a long and in fact indefinite imprisonment without the slightest examination into their case. Conscripts are march ing through the streets menacled together, and shot before the armies ; and all this is done in the name of constitutional liberty and free government. If you look to the other side of the Potomac—a plain invaded by a million of armed men at different times—you will not see that spectacle. You will see in the Confederate States a constitution in peace ful operation, safe in the affections of the people. You will see the majesty of the law unimpaired and operating with undiminished vigour. Yon will see the courts of law everywhere, except where hostile armies stand confronting each other, open to every citizen, the judges deciding in many cases against the Government and its officers, and all bowing to the justice of ;its decrees. When, gentlemen, the Southern States by a spontaneous vote of their peo ple, too spontaneous to have been the result of pre concert or conspiracy, by a vote that leapt from the nation as freely as the water from the fountains of the earth, withdrew the powers which they dele legated to a common Government which was using those powers to its destruction, there was not a break in the social institutions of the country, nor even a pause in the internal administration of the Government—not a cord of civil society loosened, but everything went on precisely as if there had been no change in our political relations. Why was that? It was because it was a movement inaugu rated in the interests of order and for the conserva tism of liberty and law, and the supremacy of the Constitution ; for even while the question stood in abeyance before the convention was made at Mont gomery which formed the new Government, the people obeyed the law, although they held in a nerveless hand, with power to enforce it, a sceptre of sovereignty over the hearts of a people mightier than that which an Emperor now waves over his subjects, Thus stands the issue between these two peoples. lam willing for you, gentlemen, as Eng lishmen, to decide who arc the representatives in America of intelligent liberty and constitutional government. They have made sacrifices for that in dependence—sacrifices of everything but their civil liberties. They have preserved them unimpaired under trials which might have caused a less Con servative people not to stand by their Government and their laws. The two armies have o ten met in conflict, and the result of that conflict it does not become me to describe. Englishmen have formed their own opinion on that point, and the South has had the good fortune to fight battles and let her ene mies write an account of them. My friends spoke of his hospitality to those who come from a down trodden and oppressed nationality. I thank him for his kindness and hospitality to the Southerners ; but they are not downtrodden and oppressed, and, by the blessing of God, they never will be. (Hear, hear.) No ; liberty may sometimes be crushed under the armed heels of despots; but if you will go to that Southern country, and see men, ~ old and young, standing up with hearts pure their bayonets glistening in the sun, unstained by anything but the blood of th e enemy—might going side by side with right. But, gentlemen, is well to know this fact—that the South, so much abused, pallid and bleeding, her life-blood almost drained from her, is this day co ntending not alone for her own liberties, bu t for the liberty of the very people who are sending armed millions to sub by murder,. and . by civil in ject her by rapine , surrection. More than that, she is striking a blow for freedom everywhere, and seeking to rid the world of the mos t intolerant, aggressive, and overwhelming Power that ever disturbed the re pose of Europe or the peace of the civilised world—a p o wer which stands as the embodiment of brute force, which will yet, if it stands on its defence, be a fireship among the nations, and even now , in anticipation of its triumphs, laughs to scorn the faith of treaties, the obligations of humanity, and the laws of civilised warfare. (Hear.) It has been said by those whose interest it is to mis represent the South, that although she may be en gaged in defending her own independence, her great object is to perpetuate the degradation of another race whom she has enslaved. I have no desire to com ment upon any of the social institutions of the South to Englishmen. Ido not stand here to de fend any of her institutions. Wi t h all your opi nions made up and pronounced upon the subject of some of those institutions, I believe that you are fair men, that you are willing to hear the truth ; and I can assure you that the truth has not been told to England on this subject. With the full and distinct understanding, that b e t ween you and me there exists adversity of opinion on the subject, not asking you to take my view, I do assert in the face of this intelligent audience, and before the world, that that statement is a calumny on the South, and that the white race of the South has been the guar dian, the protector of the black man there, that he has elevated him in the scale of rational existence, and that he has Christianised him to an extent that he has never attained to through any other pro cess of education to which he has been subjected. I have no objection to dissent on the part of others to these statements, 'for I always feel in the ring of honest [dissent that there is a true heart. But I do ask you to listen, not to opinions, to ; misrepresentations, to exaggerations , but to nnd ts. Since the American continent was ili,q.aver ms co me in-con occupied by the European race , it _ as the noble tact with two savage races. 005 Indian race, which it found e l re ady occupying the highest ipetu7s ; goin type of savage continent, and which was tbe m ,nhood—a race noble, free, g the poetic embodi ment ment of the savag e man. into history, as it would go, lut it has come int o con tact with another race, race ours, b whichbrought utb w y a a s nagency agency a of there, not by any which / will no t at present discuss. That ra ce Was the African race, and one which all hi s t or i ans and all philoso phers have pronounced to be the lowe s t the natural man in his nati type of who knew not Cod, who racenO rßtiengtfirill METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS, This board held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, at their offices in Spring-gardens ; Mr. J. Thwaites in tho chair. The cash statement showed the balance in the hands of the treasurer to be £202,552 4s lid, Government securitio4 £87,500 9s . id, and total of cheques ordered but not pre sented, £28,653 16s 7d. REPORT FROM STREETS COMMITTEE. This report, recommending that the sum of £5OO by way of loan from the general current account of the board to the Finsbury-park current account, the Finsbury-park ac count being charged with the deposit Atte of interest until the amount sha ll h b a e r g repaid ; ino u a n n t d i n t h g a t t o a cheque x 221 be drawn 13a 2 d, , rn zu for the arbitrators ' re W MENT WORKS. i T g ( Es lci ) n E s it b s u F r3 o - - R p a s r o k 1 )," tTII Na E v it s N re E c 3 e l i n v At e N d. K The whole board committee for the above works broug)it spring-gardens, Oct. 16, 1863, " Your o have : to to report that, in obedience to upthfollo committeew ingrepor h t the resoluti t o h n e o q f u t e h s e tin h n on n . f b 3 o l a r. r d it o i f di t e h y e ,n 2 t d en inst., in t.t r thheye haN' c onsidered con struction of the a T te h r a in m n e . s uri em dg b e t a m nd en t havewo in rks s b ti e t t n w te e d fuenWllest minster and w in quiries on the subject, and having carefully considered the sam e, have arrived at the following resolution :—"rhat, in the opinion of this committee, the result of their inquiries respecting Mr. Ridley's competency to carry out the por tion of the Thames embankment for which he had tendered is not sufficiently satisfactory to warrant this committee in recommending the board to accept his contract.' " Mr. Newton moved that the report be adopted. An amendment was then moved by Mr. Legg that the tender of Mr. Ridley be accepted. A long and animated discussion then ensued, in which Messrs. Freeman, Robinson, Lowman Taylor, and others took part. It was contended on the one hand that Mr. Ridley, in addition to his securities being unsatisfactory, was incompetent to undertake such an undertaking ; and that, having tendered to complete the work for £495,000, he had met the objection by stating that arrangements had been entered into with Mr. M'Cormack to carry out the under taking, the great objection to this being that Mr. M,Cor week had tendered for the work at an increased sum of £137,000 on Mr. Ridley's tender, and that if such a coali tion were allowed it would give rise to jobbery in all the board's undertakings. On the other side it was contended that although Mr. Ridley's securities were deemed unsatis factory an offer had been made which ought to be consi sidered a fair and just offer to meet that objection, that Ntr- Ridley would deposit £20,000 as a substantial guarantee for the completion of his contract; and with respect to th e charge of incapacity, the many certificates which he P re " duced showing hi s com p e t ence t o un d er t a ke works of g:r7,, magnitude fully entitled him to retain the contract wh ich had been granted him. On a division th e amen d men t was ne gatived by 4 :I I " 23. The original motion was then put and carriet p After some discussion as to the course to 1)9 $ t ol cinifiotr " the construction of the work the board went ill to uneed tee; and, on its re-assembling, the Chairrueri atino on that the committee recommended that th t o ra c , h x ; 2O be given to Mr. Furness, on his tender fo r danthe board, after t w sho i u ch ld , being put as a motion, was carried: otoz ed. transacting some routine business, d ALLEGORICAL MEANING CF g STORY OF JACIC ms ,„ it not be a politi ca l AND THE BEAN-STALK. 7 0 i a poor lone widow ; his allegory ? Jack is the only tr° d murdered by a cr ue l g i ant, father was betrayed, NW a ', i n a Glace, an splendid , keeps who eats human flesh' owns a hon that lays golden eggs, two large monerbt!' th a g olden harp. Jack's poor mother and diverts Weal tyra nt to tell the young m an how his is forbidden by Witted. Nevertheless, when the miraculous father was i ll-tre w , u p in her garden, and the boy is prompted, bean-stalk gli o e ti hit and love of adventure, to climb to its tops by his ' um ; the upper region in which the giant's castle is he diseave— d then, by the exerci se o f his cunning and situa ted, an valour, he recovers one by ono, th ose articles which had men his father's property ; after which the giant is de orroyed. Now, supposing that we could trace the origin of this story to some country, where the primitive inhabitants. an oppressed and impoverished race, bud long nourished feelings of hatred towards the conquerors, and envied their luxury and wealth, we might thus get a plausible interpre tation of the tale. Jack would be the leader of a conspiracy or an insurrection by which the subject race, in one gene ration, obtained redress and vengeance for the injury done to 1 heir fathers. The personification of their native country as Jack's reqtber would be natural enough. The varie gated Jack purchased and sowed in his garden, 1•o grow up into the convenient bean-stalk, might remind us °I an incident which h as b een more th an o n c e r epeated i n real history, where peculiar coloured beans have been distribut ed, as tok ens o f recogn iti on am o ng th e partisans Of a p o lit ica l consp i racy, just as the chupatties or e sepoyl: small cakes we re p asse d f rom h an d t o h an d among th The hen throughout India before the revolt in 1857. which laid the golden eggs might signify the prerogative the rere clans e ga tive of of taxation ; and the golden harp might stand fe minstrels or troubadours attending upon a . co urt. Thera which are several other well-known tales in this ._ might, by the sagacity of some erudit e b e con strued into allegories of great, social, re ' or political events.—London knew. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1863. 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(Cheers,) Mr. BERESPORD HOPE, who was received with enthu siastic applause, said he felt the very high and unmerited compliment paid him by the chairman in the presence of those who were his friends before they had become his ac quaintances. As a favour, he asked only that while he spoke his mind in a sort of cross between a lecture and a speech—a drawingroom conversation—intended for the Confederate ear, delivered in an English town and partly to a Confede rate auditory, they would express their approval or dissent from his observations—the results of three years' intense study of the national pulse, and his impression of what Englishmen thought upon the matter of his discourse, in order that it might tend to maintain the entente cordiale between the two people. He was the more moved to take this line from what he read in the papers the other day of the grave misstatements of fact from the mouth of the noble Earl who presided over the Foreign-office, who said that the majority of the Engdsh people sympathised with the United States in this conflict. (A voice, " True I' Cries of "No, no," and cheers.) A voice said " True." He differed from that gentleman, and he would convince him so that they should agree. His experience proved the change which had almost universally come over the English mind in sympathy with the Southern cause, where before, in con sequence of the dissemination of Northern publications, it had had an opposite tendency. The sympathy of the ma jority of Englishmen was now decidedly with the South. (Loud cheers.) He stood to that point, and he left to those who denied it to perform the most difficult of all logical operations, the proving of a negative. (Laughter.) There was much to unlearn as well as to learn respecting the last three years. The British Government did not when it could dash in and put an end to the war. The South had bitterly complained of England not recogrising its independence. The Southern press had also complained of our non-inter vention. After all, there had been a great deal to forgive and to forget on both sides. Englishmen had been misin formed of the South by Northern writers, and as to the South, Englishmen must make great allowances, because they could not be expected to be particularly good-humoured when they found an enemy burning their houses, outraging their families, and devastating their country. (Applause.) It was, however, astounding to remember the way in which the prejudices against the South in England had been swept away. The death of Stonewall Jackson had excited almost as much regret, and his life as much admiration, as that of our own Havelock. (Hear, hear.) Let them look again at the manner in which the whole of the English press had done justice to the statesmanship of President Davis. (Ap plause.) Had there been no rude or uncivil word said or thing written in any English newspaper of any Southern statesman or general ? (Hear, hear.) The sympathies of England were unmistakeably with the Southern States of America, in the face of Lord Russell. (Loud cheers, and a cry of " Never.") Let them hear that gentleman. (Laugh ter.) Earl Russell was in the House of Lords. Had he been in the House of Commons he would have heard his political chief, Lord Palmerston, brand the acts of Butler as. infamous. (Great cheering.) He supposed that was about the strongest word that had been ever used in the Legislature by a Prime Minister of England against the chosen general of an ally with whom we had not quarrelled. More than that, the echo of that brand of infamy re sounded through both Houses of Parliament. (Loud cheers.) Then how did Lord Russell prove that the sympathies of the majority of the people of England were with the North ? He had once heard the story of a gentleman who belonged to one of the three kingdoms that was not on this side of St. George's Channel—(cheers)—whose friend was accused of drunkenness, or rather of having been intoxicated— (laugh ter)—and being a man of a kind of statesmanlike mind— such a man as should preside at the British Foreign-office— (roars of laughter)—he said, for his part, he was unwilling to consider any gentleman intoxicated until he saw that gentleman attempting to light his pipe at the pump. (Great laughter.) Now, itseemed to him that Lord Russell required equal stringency of proof before he would understand that the sympathies of this nation were with the Confederate States, (Laughter.) Now he, for one, claimed all those who were not against the South as being for the South. There were some in that room ; there were many more on the Exchange flags below, and there were others who had not considered the question politically at all in reference to States' right. The man Who cheered General Lee because he was at once a soldier and a gentleman but had not studied State rights, he would not put down as a gentleman who had "tried to light his pipe at the pump"—(hear)—and therefore that man was a Southern sympathiser. Then there were those who cared little for either side. The intellectual market of England had been " rigged" by Northern political writers. Still the man who did not care for either side was just the man who seven or eight years ago would have thought Fremont the right candidate for the Presidential chair. Next there came the ticklish question of the black population of the States. As to the foundation of that population, he had Confederate friends present who might differ from him, But taking it for granted that they agreed, he eongretulated them that the question of the practical working of the system of that population was better under stood in England now than it was some years ago. (Ap plause.) If they looked at all the newspapers of the day they would find that, apart from the question of whether the system of black labour was or was not justifiable, it was admitted that the black peasant of the Southern States of America was as well clothed, as well fed, as well sent to church, as any peasant in the world. (Cheers.) That ad mission, however, did not preclude them from saying that they wished to see the condition of those peasants improved. Far from it. England 25 years ago, at a cost of 20 millions, had emancipated her slaves ; and, therefore, the question of the amelioration of the condition of the blacks in the Southern States should not be regarded as a question of honour, but one for fair discussion. Let them discuss the question amicably. It was very like a question that had been agitated in some of the counties of England, as between the lessees and tenants at will. That being the case, and be lieving, as ho did, that the growth of public opinion and the increased intercommunication bet ween England,Europe, and the Confederate States would lead to a modification of the present system, he did say that the South should be satis fied with what they saw in England, whose intellectual channels had pronounced the fact that, whether the system of slavery was or was not defensible in itself, there was no blame to the actual inheritors of the system; and that those inheritors of that system, taken all round, were men who generally did work on that system in a spirit of philanthropy and of wisdom. (Hear.) He would tell the South plainly and broadly that that was the feeling of England now ; and that, considering how a certain business section here had traded on the question, it was a great proof of the growth of national justice and of national candour—which was the best foundation hereafter for international friendship. (Loud cheers.) Upon the address of the Episcopal Bishops in the South the Duke of Argyle had hung a speech —upon which he hoped to make capital—that would have been a great success 10 or 12 years ago. That speech had been, how ever, only the subject g articles fo r 24 h ours , an d of leading then it died out. (Applause.) It s ex i stence had been no doubt forgotten by this time. (Laughter.) He might tell them that he was talking the other day with a Southerner, and said to him, " We don't like the word ' slave' in Eng land—why don't you get rid of it His friend replied, " Well, we don't use is in the Southern States. 'We call them servants' or peol 3lo -' " Then he asked his friend, "'Why don't you get rid of it ?" (Laughter.) Having said this much ho would leave his words to fructify in the minds of Englishmen and Confederates alike in the room. The system as it at present existed was not a system which they could ever expect England to go with. England had given up the system. She had abandoned it at great sacrifices, and would never take it up again. Without go i ng d eep l y i n t o the matter, it was in this as in many other matters, the theoretical differences were greater than tho practical— and, if ho might prophesy, in 100, 60, or 30 years, the question of black labour in the Confederate States would become there just what the great questions of the repeal of the Test and Corporations Act, the Free Trade Bill and Catholic Emancipation were in England. (Applause.) The effe c t o f suc h an agita tion there would be not less than the agitation on the questions he had referred to caused in England ; and yet Eng:and, having disposed of those questions, was happy and prosperous. (Hear, hear.) He would leave the question of slavery, by simply asking that that question should be dis cussed between England and America, not in the spirit of its beimg a bone of contention, or a matter for alienating two cognate people, but in a spirit of kindness. (Applause.) Ho had dwelt more lengthily w ith this qu es ti on , b ecause h e saw in that day's paper a spee ch by a gentleman o f high posi tion, who was also a friend of his own—the Attorney-Gene ral—a man of eminent a bilities, of spotless fame, and a roan who was destined to occupy a higher positio n than that he now filled. The speech of the Attorney-General was charac teristic of the man, and it was only a proof of how far South ern influences had perva ded the tone of English society. (Hear.) Both the Atto rne y - General and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were two of the greatest doctrinaires of the . laud, but the Attorney -General was the greater of the two; but under the rough surface of the Gladatonian logic burned the lava which occasionally burst out. The volcano did not run under Sir Roundell Palmer. (Laughter.) The Attor ner-General was one who a few years ago would have been essentially a Bostonian statesman, in the pure and true sense of the word which the political shufflers of the intel lectual city of Boston put forward. (Loud cheers.) He pro tested against his friend the Attorney -General, with all his knowledge and all his philosophy, talking upon such a hol low basis, and using the word free in reference to the slaves and the North, as if there was not a slavery worse than that of black slavery—the slavery of the North, in putting down, or rather abolishing the liberty of the subject, liberty of the press, liberty of speech, liberty of commercial action, in order that they might wage a war of extermination. (Loud cheers.) How could Sir Roundell Palmer talk of England's sympathies with the North, and how could he tell that those States would be free when the war was over? How could he guarantee a three years' peace when the war was over? (Hear, hear.) How could he guarantee that lowa and Ohio would sit in the same council chamber with Massachusetts and Connecticut ? (Applause.) He had ran on at great length, but there was one other subject to which he must allude. Some how or other there had been cer t a in questions about certain very magnificent ships that were building, it was said for a French house. He knew no more of those rams than this—that he had read of them in the usual channels of public information—the press, He bad read that they were for a French firm, and had very Mahomedan appellations. (Cheers.) That was all he knew of them; and that was all anybody knew of them. (Roars of laughter.) These ships with Mahomedan names were s upposed by some as likely to lead to a change in the sys tem of our international law. There were rumours afloat that there was a possibility of something like fresh powers being asked in the next session of Parliament. It was im possible that such could be the case—(cheers)—and he could give them the very best authority for saying that such could not be the case. (Cheers.) He would give them the ex position not only of the English law but of English feel ing in the matter from the mouth of that man whose oGo there," and "Come here," would be absolute—abso lute until the greater omnipotence of Parliament sat in jury upo n him. Such a change in our law could not enter into t h e wildest imagination of any man. (Cheers.) He would read a few sentences, and then tell them whose were the wor d s . " I have been, I confess, a good deal shocked by some of the declarations made in the course of this debate, by which it seemed that the favour of a foreign Power was of more value to England than the maintenance of her ancient prestige." And again, "It is easy to ask for a mild measure at first to satisfy a foreign Power. At the sam e time, even any demand of this kind naturally rouses the jealousy and susceptibility of the British people. . . If I were to vote for the introduction of this bill I should feel shame and humiliation in giving that vote. Let those who will support the Bill of the Government. In that shame and humiliation I am determined not to share. (Loud cheers .) These were the words on the 9th of February, 58of Lord John R usse ll ( hear, hear, and cheers), on t l h B e ‘ll of the foreign Colonels—the Conspiracy to Murder (Cheers.) In a memorable debate, terminating in a memorable division, in which 99 voted, of which 99 Lord John Russell was one, and he was another among the 99 who voted against the introduction of the Conspiracy to Murder Bill, which 99 in ten days became 299 (cheers) when m r , Milner Gibson and Mr. Bright joined in that majority w hi c h brought Lord Derby into power again, rather than that England should share in the shame and humiliation of a b a ndoning her ancient f ame an d prestige to the f avour o f a trPower. (Loud c h eers. ) And he told them (A vo i ce i e c igil What has that to do with rams ?") that England wou ld brook contempt, from S eward, Sumner, an d Li nco l n, and the Northern States still l ess than brook i t from t h at France whom she had oft en h ated, but whom in the battle fields of Europe she had never c ease d t o respec t. (Ch eers. ) Those in th at room, if any such truckling to the Northern cause were in contemplati on , wou ld never cease din ning into Lord John Russell's ears his own con demnation in what he utt ere d w h en h e turned L or d Palmerston out of office rather th an su b m i t t o t h e s h ame and humil iation of truckli ng to any foreign Power. (Loud c heers.) He had detained th em long, but he felt that he had not o ccupied them fruitl ess l y if he had contributed one iota to that object which was hi s h ope an d prayer,—the con solidation of the kindly feeling and the g o od un d ers t a ndi ng which h a d grown up b etween England and those most an cient British colonies, he r dearest and eldest children, Vir gin Mr. sru Ncx, in movin g a vote of thanks to Mr.Beresford Hope, expre csed an opinio n th at after three years of the sad struggle for independence in A mer i ca our Government s h ou ld no longer s hirk the duty of arri v i ng a t a d ec i s i on on so mome ntous a question. It was t h e d uty of a Christian Goer/ nent to make a Ch r i st i an effort to bring this for midable s truggle to a close. (Ch eers.) Afteriad the Carolinas. (L ou d and reiterated che e rs.) BERESFORD HOPE h a d ac k now l edged the com• patient which had been accorded t o hi m amid unanimous acclamations the proceedings t erm i nated. sn Yl A Southern Statesman at a Farmer's Meeting, CHERTSEY, Friday. The annual dinner of the Chertsey Agricultural Society took place to-day in this town ; 11Ir. Lind say, M.P., in the chair. Th e h on. gentleman was suppor ted by Mr. Briscoe, M.P. Mr. Caird, M.P.,, Colonel L a mar, formerly a mem b er of Congress and leader of a Southern division a t B u ll R un, and by a large body of the gentry and farmers of the district. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been given, o in pr Mr. LINDSA Y, posing c' Success to the As sociation," referred to the su bj ect of agricultural statistics, and pointed out the fact that in conse quence of the want of them we were exporting wheat in 1816 and 1847 at 50s. per quarter, which we subsequently had to import at 102 a, th e quarter. H e also expressed an opinion that good substantial labourers cottages might be built by the landlords, and made a profitable investment of. The "Health of the County Members" was then g iv e n, and ac knowledged b y M r. Briscoe and Mr. were both most cord i ally received. Cubitt, who The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Mr. Caird, my., in connexion with t h e toast of the visitors. Mr. CAIRD , M.P., responded. The CHAIRMAN then introduced to the notice of the meeting the health of a distinguished gentle man, who, he said, had come from an oppressed and down trodden people. He proposed to them to drink The Health of his friend, Colonel Lamar," di s tinguished in his own co un t ry as a statesman, and also as a brave soldier in the Confederate army. The health of the gallant colonel having been cordially drunk, Col. LAMAR, who on risi ng was received with loud cheers, after thanking the company for the enthusiastic manner in whi c h hi s name had been received, said—Gentlemen, it is the more gratifying to me to bo received in such a manner at a farmer's meeting, because 1 belong to a country which is a nation of farmers—not, as you have been told, a country of indolent, wealthy, and dissolute planters, and poor white trash and degraded slaves—not that, gentlemen, but a country of independent intelligent freemen, men who, to the extent of two-thirds out of 8,000,000, earn their subsistence by the sweat of their brow, one-half owning the land which they cultivate, and nearly all seeing in the upturned sod of their fallow ground that which is more pre cious to them than the gold of California, the sparkle of independence and personal liberty. Many of the qualities which the people have ex hibited during the last two years which have elapsed, and which have elicited the complimen tary allusions and the kind notice of t his meeting, they area are, in my opinion, due to the fact that fthe soil, of farmers. I believe that th e culture o t e soil, tho drawing of the sustenance from the mother earth—l mean no disparagement to any other pur • suit—draws with it a certain moral nutriment, a certain richness of a sentiment, a capacity, a d e _ votion, and a self-sacrifice, which keep the heart fresh and pure, and the nature of man simple and upright. (Cheers.) 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