The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-08 00:00:00

/1 711E TIR CAN WE MEET A *Th.r- rt , , at x v ~ rtm , ANT ? dear THE Covent-garden. Geutlemen sup iLNAHAN'6 LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. BRANDY fllPy,tlebraterl Old IRISH WIIISKY rivals the finest , ' are, Mild, Mellow, D e li c i ous, an d very Wh o lesome. th e Vin 'Bottles, 3s. 8d at the Retail Houses in London ;by "utB In the principal towns in England ; or wholesale ob se 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. ,the Red LL 'Whisky ! Seal Pink Label, and Cork branded ' fr E best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear I t „T' e e n t e l ls),se mad by ELSTOB, of 60, s N s eN a v Be their being :ea e l t e l, 4 ' l Y P It.OgOerr n n p o r r i c s e o a s d t e o a r n e a o s e t t to gain only the P u rchasers. "in medio tutlsimus ibis." ° a's TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER. PAIR. ARMY CONTRACTS. R\r , Commissariat Office Aldershot, sth Fek)ruary, 18i31. ''HERS Will be received at this office until o'cl ock , 1);1 partieq knoon) on . UESDAY the 21c1 February, ta pply oi Nvno may be willi ling to ent , r into Contracts for Bach FUEL AND LIGHT, ply q u antities b required for the usa of her Ma 11.4orces an u s 3i,l a iLar Departments at the following Iri Ist April. 1864 Military 31 -t March, 180:5 : e' lpp e o r sit h e °t . allsend Coals, Coke, Kindling Wood, 'NI A. •" 11,1 Dip Candles. Wate lilitary College, Sandhurst—Wallsend Coals. as 11 " r ks, Bourley—Small Coal (such as that known 4p a P r °r t Na cte, ate Tenders are required for each of the above-named p m _rtuel for Fuel and for Light. hi lle r of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob- I lt , e t (41 a pplication at this office, by letter or in person, be- I tiati o , th il ours of ten and four o'clock, where every in for Th Pa e the subject will be furnish( d. tlime 'enders must be made on the Printed Forms. properly ezv,10111), s lrMed. and delivered at this office (under closed ~he ho ur Marked on the outside " Tender for Supplies") . by corn—pritaPPointed, then no Tender will be noticed that is not with e conditions. . °l/W- ICH UNION FIRE AND LIFE OFFICES. Th A NOTICE OF REMOVAL. oir e .., e.141,,.;;E0rs hereby give notice, that, in consequence of i!ilwa-;',,,late extension of the London, Chatham, and Dover I,i rl dfzef4' 4 eY have vac itel their offices, No. 6, Crescent, New Feb,p ' P e% and REMOVED to their NEW PREMISES, tb leetstreet E C g, 1864. . ER NAIIONAL FINANCIAL SOCIETY (Limited). Temporary Offices, 54, Old Broad-street, sth rteti n February, 1861. e thi. nEREBY GIVEN, That the Transfer Books f e , ety will he Closed, preparatory to the General 4*,Oth days inclu y : Tuesda the lath inst., to Tuesday, the let ive. By order. WALTER A. MICHAEL, Secretary. ' y R C REDIT FONCIER (Limited).— Lo n CREDIT COMPANY for GREAT BRITAIN e and IRELAND. ,ter'e4CANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited) ''',,,kett l P r ed TO recei e Subscriptions for the Capital of the • ,, o b e In Tluier (Limited). C apita Tporated under "The Companies Act, 1862." £3,000,00, in 30,000 Shares of £ ICO each. First• Issue, i0,(00 Shares. " eeq u 'n, anDlication £1 per Share, and £2 on allotment. r —4 " CailS 11 , t to ' exceed £5 per share, and at intervals not intended - it less than three months. . e to call up more than £2O per Share ; but EiNal !!.. rat one of the Company increase, and more share e a s be be made, a advantageously reference emplbeing oyrd, u tl er issues of' prefer g l it, r 'en to the then The ^,Diaincilieflareholders. r A c anlile Credit Association (Limited) will act as oF TIIE MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION Xp t 1 1 1 , 6 Plio n. (LIMITED). a a „: 1 / 1 af, ,_lll, Esq., Merchant, London. fuel ) 3 , Tun, Es Alderman, Abehurch:lanc. Vac/ ` e ' s ° ll , Esq. (Messrs. Lenox, Nephew, and Co., Li am on). '-'adow r iarford, Esq. (Messrs. Sir W. Miles, Bart. , and G e t; ara -sq., Deputy Chairman Peninsular and Oriental ire FPavia Company. 4 ' ( '. l ,d b o y' 11,1 royd, Esq., Director of the London, Chatham Fl om ! Railway Company. 44 . ,, r roadf:„ r f . e, ,,Esq., Merchant, London. pi Manchester. 1 ,58 % Th nl ' Rsci., Dublin. i• q. .ornton Fs Beaver Hall, Southgate. gif estrn " c t , k.rect orland, Esq. (C. Joyce and Co.), London. ' l eli e l;9l - 1, Esq., Director ot the Bank of London. ..artiL Esq. (Zarifi Brothers), London. ,The i t? DIRECTORS. kom,, i ght thn Hon JAMES S ruART WORTLEY, Chairman. TAail Wa u F itzgerald, Director of the Midland Great Western E a e ti on Y of Ireland. a ti wtod Haliburton, M.P. . k oee im 13 , v arner, E q., MP. io le kand„q_ce, Esq., Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland. Cauunbar, Esq.. 57, Old Broad-street. t' a er toyk, Esq. (Messrs. Boyle, Low, Murray, and Crie oi s Alers), Dublin. _ "skim, Esq. Lloyd's. 40.), L "aktm, Esq. (Messrs. Pinto, Hakim Brothers, and ), 4 2es pf„gles i;,. - vick, Esq., 9, King's Arms-yard. .10rTh.4Q Fsq. (Messrs. James Pim and Co.), Dublin. ,I?twnall, Esq. Russell-square. Loileatrnorland, ' Esq., Director of the Royal Insurance "rty, London. RANKERS. IVrhe_ss_rs. Mate RANKERS. Peters, Mildred, and Co. iee Bank of London. I,,!tiFirS. Hallett, Omnaan ge Royal Bank of Ireland, Dublin. ney. Westminster. SOLICITORS. /V4l. New Edward ano., Westminster. r bong Evans, and Co., 28, Nicholas-lane. It '4( *tr ra '; P ield 9 BROKERS. t 1 ,4 , t. on, and Wood, 9, Warnford-court, Throg- Lik, Th ':ee ma and Barber, 29, Threadneedle-street. "'llei N ti ttETAßy (pro tem.)—G. W. Benwell, Esq. ° laces—Offices of the Mercantile Credit Assocla tion, 21, Threadneedle-street. ): Cr e e d A2'egt PROSPECTUS. th;',LPo,laceess which has attended the operations of the z , 40;,,` iact in France is well known, and is viden or c h ,ISte.„ll}.e ~„'"t the orieinal Shares (£lO paid) are now w t / 4 4 ket, the la-t dividend deci . red being at the fr A e c ent, per annum, after providing a large reserve ; ) tivi cti 4 2d th e bit2,.. n Pf the advantages which would . be derived i . titi oh 'ne;` ,l llctio n of the same system into this the for'- the? Profits attendant thereon, has to 1 Credit Foncier ' for Great Brit/in r and Ire rtne:ePatio..(4. many months past has been und care ul 'etiti,' - xter it ".• Although the objects of this Compa e ny . ar e e r to .. and ehlatrodilentical with those of another undertakin, t 9, b l '''eclt ere p. u , eri, Yet the field of operation is urine s , To -Ot I , ' 1 )13, a . so certain lucrative branches of do peeai.l ndertaken by the "Credit Fronder w IhibraEett'),;all.° ha ve been contemplated by the Company re of the Credit Companies recently estab- De r r th e over a variety of interests, but they do not emx ailine,,lice Jects of the " Credit Fonder," as the daily . e e - s seeking for advances on landed securities a x ea 4lle eStifie s. ratk;eredit 8 oncier " will receive money on deposit at Ad ' and will issue debentures for long or short ttiklegs, shall be made upon all kinds of interests in lands, I One a ß're t u al `o upon approved securities, to be repaid as t r i lva,,,, c 't the upon p l ,n 'el e ! sin Objects of this company will be to make Obi e eq ue "e dsposit of title deeds. Borrowers, to wh )1 Ito obt ot the utmost importance, will thus be ain Loans for short eriods, without the delay h h i e. r h the are pow p invari . ably subjected, and erabihis snore I_,h rate of interest will readily be paid: Or, e hr ofit e will the Directors anticipate that consi i. additio,s,vvill arise. l employment of its own resources, the tri tm e bo rt , r will act as agent between the capitalist kei lrit 4 sio ns .„ .c vr, and will, in such cases, for an adequate t n IVII4, desired, guarantee the sufficiency of title and t e th e m l ep,'",,erj a `gn v ercial value of landed property will thus Fstine toe n re l t e s e d 7 r. rea b s i onable facity g nted to bor m the various sources of ~1 14 1 4 1 1 ' as t a j' s e from th v e a tra e ns f a r c o tions of the Company will t'eli se, old erB a a l f i t ow of the payment of large dividends to the . th" ar e , e r r makin,g ample allowance for working ex ev e , t e ve fund. ail will b e 0 1 no allotment of shares being made, the de ottea returned in f 11. Should a ess numb . er _of shares 1,, tabl e , h a , ar u IC T1 ) , r Lowa rds e applied for, the deposit will be made q iii 4t tur ued t th e payment on allotment, and the balance. erea„ 'On f or , 0 the applicant. Prospectuses and forms of e r !-Lares may be obtained at the Offices of the ' B , and of „ It the Solicit Association 21, Threadneedle-street, of the ors: F0i 1 ,. 41 4 0. OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ..., To be retained by the Bankers. G To epe elll t h ( bt l ,... rectors of the Credit Fonder (Limited). tlittbn,... ---- , bet 111 " trig paid to your bankers. the sum lit - bre r iga deposit of er share on shares in ki 411 •ornpa o0 1 1),, I llber 11, 1 herebyrequest that you will aliot_me ' r ,`. Trol l ',," n -t agree to accept such shares or any iess 0 "rttre nt -) Y allot to me ; ani I agree to pay the deposit I § 4 y w .,: en and fr, ~ i gti the Articles of Association of the Itoheße r equired, and I authorise you to insert my me. Oster of Members for the number of shares Usual signature Name in full Residence Profession Date February, 1864 • Insert Banker's name. P4I:O,3I,I,CREDIT FONCIER (Limited).- ' ? ti r - cti -,-‘.' IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Lists oi ^itchol(3,l.or Wires in this Company will be CLOSED at -' datl - ' ° r , WEDNES AY nrxt th received.st., after ) 11 . 0 further applications will be 4 ,0 400 n, is G. W. BENWELL, Secretary pro tem. s ; l l ,2hre adneedle-street, Feb ruary, 1864. Et ill Loii,, n h, b'*---+Mr. ESKFLL'S INVENTION in ,b itlg c°„„-R.rustion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the 140. : 41 1) itZr a ntaczes •.-A set of teeth, of excellent worlc lkii; Peri;,.' Uleehanism, can be made and fitted wit i h . the tt ~.th' ekc accUracy and success, in a few hours w tnou lititasti„..etion of stumps, and to answer all the purposes t sp it or Fa‘81•011 and articulation. They are fitted without i' 4 , l . tit,' that Pings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to th ""t ' Wea 'eY are quite immoveable, except at the option 4 fl -, t hese tter• Invalids or residents in the country can a4 e liq ii . i a d ent eeth to many chsnges of the mouth without th 44 e -' Etre` ig t• They in e not so 'table to injury, are always 11,,, D i a. , Will l a s t a lifetime, C t omfort guaranteed. Tree ti•rtning Mr Esk P t t&e free for 7 stamps. 1111 ::1 1 ' 110 4.. 813 . eci na . ena and co s nsaueltnailons-iree.-B,Grosvenor ak. stre tt w ; and at 39, Bennett 's-hill, Bir- t l lo, ll ' 1 Z MEI) A L.--INTERNATIONAL -ANers , t tre :g t n & BI C T O ION, ax 1862. W Chandlers, &a, &a , tri, To th e Qu , en and the P; ince of Wales. tele,: .111 1 .„„ , (Established 1710.) rak,,•"ea to'B R ePort on Wax and Church Candl s in 1862. 41ketti4e excellence of the quality of Blessr e s. ' Tuckers' 11`,,•41ati • • PfAx"‘ter ;„'R' l, ,, ,„lehed Dign ary i a letter addressed to Francis `' ,-., on the istubjectnof CANDIYS with PLATTED WICKS, I h ave l''„,lllol, I says : Ne 4,- Yott,°llllld them fully equal to the recommendation o:ettti . thetn,a're them, and can sincerely, in my urn, titt to the clergy for the nee of the altar. (141,varykcilnitf With Platted Wicks, patented.. 0 1 per lb. 114,(111.9111Z111:,4411/tIt C :iiiNDI:ES, with a • DlixtUr • e of Wa P x. I. sd. per lb. Thirtt quality • • '• .. .• • • • : ls. 3d. per lb. till.to,D,tlilalit . . • • • • .. : : . ... Is. ld. per lb. g ..° 'la irl Lond.on on Orders of Five Pounds in value. ~t' 411th koltPolAstNreeitS aTUCKEoß r AquNapre.COM.anufactory— 'et hirzest Ratezihngton (Est F abli f e a h n e d d fie7r3Otte manufacture °I WILY Cal l n dl ie eti nt fo in r thfi g uie ot tile Altar. r 1 0 0 ° 1 tree '1 13° ale 1 0 , al ° 00 44 10' 10140 Cad 1 043 1 13. t $O .l tr .• 1101;1 Of r 1~~ ~ N°. 22.346. THE SUN, LONDON AIONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1864• ITURNI WM.:, CARPETS, 11 EDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First• class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select rom, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and . are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by , 11.0 admirable engravings of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent g,iatis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised cale A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto 9Ol 11 0 ALE of the AUCTION AIART. LONDON. The DIRECT ORS of the COMPAISY of PROPRIE TORS of the AL CTION MART will be prepared at one o'clock, p.m., on MONDAY, the 29th of February next, at the BOARD ROOM of the said Company in the Mart, to OPEN sealed TENDERS from persons desirous of purchasing the premises generally known as the Auction Mart, opposite to the Bank of England, London. Each Tender mu- tbe ac companied with a receipt annexed to it, signed by the proper officer of the Union Bank of London, acknowledging that the sum of £2,000 has been paid into the bank by the person making such Tender to an account there of " The Trustees of the Auction Mart," and no cognisance will be taken of the Tender of any person who shall not have delivered his Ten der with such receipt annexed thereto into the hands of the Secretary of the said Company, either or Saturday, the 27th day of February next, between the hours of ten a.m. and four p.m., or upon the morning of Monday, the 29th day of February, between the hours of ten a.m and one p.m., after which last-named date and hour no Tender will be received. The highest Tender will be accepted, provided the sum ten dered shall be equal in amount to or exceed a reserve price placed under seal prior to the o p en i n g d any of the Tenders. determined upon by the Dire c t ors o f the said Company, and If upon opening the Tenders it shad be found that two or more Tenders are of the same amount, such amount being the highest amount ten&tred, the Directors of the said Company reserve the power of deciding which one of such two or more Tenders snail be accepted, and of rejecting the one or more not so accepted. A form of agreement bas been prepared, which will have to be executed by.theperson whose Tender shall be declared accepted, immediately upon any such declara tion being made by the Directors of . the said Company, and in default of his so doing, such person shall absolutely forfeit to the Company the sum he shall have previously deposited in the said bank. Copies of the said agreement, together with copies of this advertisement, conditions of tender, and forms of tender, have been printed, and may be had gratis on ap plication at the Auction Mart, or at the Office of the Solici tors to the said Company, Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austinfr are, E.C. The moneys deposited by all parties whose Tenders may not be accepted will be returned to them on application at the Union Bank of London, on the 29th day of February, between the hour at which a final declaration may be ma ‘e with respect to the Tenders re ct.ived at four p m., or on the ensuing day between the hours of ten a.m. and four p.m. Cardinal Wiseman on the Warlike State of SPORT. Europe. The following pastoral was read in all the Catho de chapels yesterday by command of Cardinal Wise- man : Nicholas, by the Divine mercy of the Holy Roman Church, of the title of St. Pudentiana, Cardinal, Priest, and Archbishop of Westminster,— To our dearly beloved brethren and children in Christ, the clergy, secular and regular, and the faithful of the said Health and benediction in the Lord, Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valnable informationto all requiring househ)ld furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde , Plymouth , Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsboroueh, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places In all parts of Great Britain. COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, We have scarcely entered on tho new year before it be comes our duty to address you on the obligations of the Lenten fast just about to commence, You have been instructed from your tender age, taught, indeed, in your very catechisms to regard the observance of this annual ordinance as one of the earliest precepts and practices in the Church. In fact, it bears the special title, beyond almost any other ecclesiastical institution, of Apos tolical. For no one ever doubted in the ancient Church, nor are we aware that any learned man now denies, that among those traditions which are traceable, or referable, to the Apostles, the fast of Lent is certainly one. If, therefore, its conditions, however, mitigated in modern times, are still difficult and distasteful, we may well be en- T HE CONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1802, Capital, £4,000,000, in 40,000 Shares of £lOO each. DIRECTORS. Wm. Latham Bailey, Esq. (Bailey Brothers and Co.), Liver pool. W. Montague Mille, Esq. (Mille, Baillic, Cave, and Co.), Old Bank, Bristol. Anthony Kington Baker, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company. George S. Boecroft, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and North-Western Railway Company. Joseph Boyce, Esq., Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland, and Midland Great Western Railway Company, Dublin. Thomas Dakin, Esq, Alderman, President of the Great Western Ra lway of Canada. Stauros DlTheroglue, Esq. (G. J. Ca afy and Co.), Thread needle-street W. Smith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works. Glasgow. Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens), Director of the Bank c,f London. Captain H. J. W. Jervis, M.P., Deputy Chairman, Great astern Railway Com any. Octavius Ommanney, Esq. (Hallet, Ommanney, and Co.), Westminster. Joseph Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hill. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster. Solicitors in Bristol—Messrs. Daniel and Cox. couraged in our compliance with them by the reflection that we share our penitential sufferings with the holiest and best of our fathers in the faith, from the earliest ages. Indeed, a link of their sensible and almost material character may bring home to our minds our bond of union and unity with the primitive Church more definitively and clearly than the - . . tic T k i e t e s P , r to e m b e s O s b t m ai * n y e b d e a v a l a e b w o e v d e b . yr an persons provided with By order of the Board of Directors, G. ii, JAQUES, Secretary. subtle and complicated connections of dogmatical teaching. Indeed, so many doctrines on sin, penance, atonement, mor tification, fasting, and other religious observances now al- Auction Mart, January, 1861. most exclusively ours, are inculcated by the simple observ ance of Lent, that we cannot douLt that they were equally taught and ,understood by those who not only kept more _ _ _ Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. rigidly than we this yearly fast, but who must have had no intelligible grounds for keeping it, if their belief had dif- The Duncan, 80, screw, line-of-battle ship, Captain R. Gibson, with Rear-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.B„ the future naval Commander •in-Chief of her Majesty's ships on the North American and West Indian stations, on board, sailed from Spithead for her destination at daylight on Sa turday morning. The Nile, screw line-of-battle ship, re turns to England with Rear-Admiaal Sir Alex. Milne, K C.B„ the late naval C om mander-in-Chief, immediately on the Duncan arriving out. Thc, Duncan made a final trial of speed at the measured mile on Friday, when she attained a mean speed, with full boiler power, of 11 knots, and with half boiler power 9.200 knots. The ship drew 23ft sin of water forward, and 52ft Bin aft. The wind was strong from the N.W., and thare was a scarcity of steam during two of the runs, or the rate of speedwould have been some what higher. The machinery worked perfectly, and the Duncan enters upon her maiden cruise the handsomest, and most probably the fastest, line-of-battle ship afloat. The Duncan, brought to outside Plymouth Sound yester day morning, and having received from a steam tender su pernumerary seamen for the fleet on the American station, continued her voyage fo Halifax and the West Indies. The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. Henry W. Hire, will embark to-day at Portsmouth 17 officers and 51 men, women and children, belongitg to various regiments serving in the Mediterranean, for ou veyance to Gibraltar and Malta. From the latter place the Orestes will proceed on to Corfu, where she will embari. the 2d battalion of the Gth Foot, which she will take to the West Indies, and return thence to Spithead with the frst battalion of the 14th Foot. The Orontes is termed in oEcial phraseology an " improved " Himalaya. The actual difference in the two vessels is that while the Himalaya is continually at work, the Orontes is continually under repair. On Saturday she was tested at the measured mile in Stokes Bay, after being fitted with a temporary crank of ber foremast engine, and attained a mean speed of 12.336 Inots. f ered from ours. Wherefore, dearly beloved in Christ our Lord, let us begin • _ , this year courageously by bearing the reproach and pain of His Cross, during this spring season, of sowing in tears that we may later reap in joy. For this is the order and course which our Divine Master has prescribed. You have been always taught that this season of Lent is one of fasting and bodily mortification, as well as of recollection and retire ment for purposes and motives of higher importance than are these practices themselves. By these means the mind and heart are purified and sanctified ; past sins are expiated, lesser imperfections are corrected, command is obtained over passions, evil desires are repressed, self-will is curbed, obedience to God's laws is enforced, and a spiritual manliness is produced or en couraged, in the soul to wrestle with the trials of life, and of the spirit, in resignation, patience, and conformity to the sublime will of God. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the above Corpora tion is now prepared to entertain APPLICATIONS for CON' TIACTS. Communications to be addressed to the Secretary. By order of the Board, J. CHARLES HAN DFIELD, Sec. pro tem. Temporary Offices, 31, Threadneedle-street, E.C. THE MEXICAN BANK (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862. Capital £2,000,000, in 20,100 shares of £lOO each. First Issue 5,000 shares. Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 per share on allotment. Calls will not exceed £5 per share, at intervals of three months. DIRECTORS. Frederick Harrison, Esq., Director of the London and County Moreover, the relaxed spring of our religious duties is in a manner wound up, and moves with new energy the me chanism of daily and hourly duties for the rest of the year. During this period our prayer besomes more frequent and more fervent, our meditation is more concentrated ; our de votions in presence of the most adorable sacrament, publicly exposed, are more continuous and more recollected, our fre quentation of the Sacraments is better prepared, our hearing of the Divine Word is more repeated and more docile, and our entire mind, undistracted by the frivolous or dissipating amusements of the outer world, is brought down to a graver tone, and thinks more seriously, and feels more deeply on eternal truths. Bank. James L. Hart, Esq., Consul for Mexico (J. Hart and Co.), London. Abel Heywood. Esq. (ex -Mayor of Manchester), Director of the Alliance Bank. Lewis Laneworthy, Esq., Manchester. William J. Marshall, Esq. (Wilson, Bowles, and Co.), London. John Paterson, Esq , chairman of the Standard Bank of British ~outli Africa. Robert Rumney, Esq., Director of the Alliance Bank, Man- chester. Charles Alexander Thurburn, Esq., late of R. and H. Thur burn, of Alexandria. BANKERS. The Alliance Bank. Lothburv, London ; Brown's-buildings, Liverpool ; and Cross-street, Manchester. SOLICITORS. London—Flux and Angles, 9, Mincing-lane. Liverpool—Fletcher, Hull, and Stone, Cook street. BROKERS. J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-streot, London. Shore and Kirk, Manchester. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 16, King William-street, London, E.C. In other words, dearly beloved, since a mutual anxiety comes over us, on entering a new year, as to who amongst us will reach its end, and who, as some must, will drop on the road, and be lost for ever to this earth, the Church seizes en this solemn feeling, and matures it into a wise thought of preparation for what may this year, and will assuredly some coming year, befal us. Not in the spirit of timid solicitude, still less in the superstitious terror of an imaginary presenti ment, but with the calm foresight with which at the year's close a prudent man balances his past accounts, and readjusts his future expenses, is this preparation to be made. And thus every year will prepare foz that possible event, which may God avert from each among you, of its being your last. These almost natural graces which the fast of Lent brings with it are greatly increased by its almost necessary accom paniments of prayer and charity. That prayer which is joined to fasting is ever commended in Scripture as peculiarly powerful in propitiating the Divine wrath. We surely stand much in need of such supplication at the beginning of this new year. Its future is indeed as yet dark to us, but it is not omincusly dark ? Do not clouds, fore boding storms, hang round the entire horizon, in every quarter of the heavens ? The North, in spite of winter's rigours, see armies advancing to invade and to repel; and we may soon hear that blood has melted and defiled the earth's mantle of snow. And the South threatens too ; dis satisfied within itself, agitated, divided, with its sacrilegious thirst unslaked, with its cravings after usurpation unsatis- We have to record tl e death of Admiral George Hender son, who expired on die 23d ult. at Middle Deal Kent, aged 78. The deceasel entered the navy in 1794 as part of the retinue of Admiral Lord Bridport, to wham his father for some time acted as secretary. - While serving in the West Indies as master's mace to the Ulysses, 44, Mr. Henderson assisted at the captari of Tabago, in 1803. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant: by Sir Samuel Hood, and ap pointed to the Aliigabr, 28, which, under Capt. C. Richard son, formal part of the force employed at the reduction of the colony of Surinam. In this service he was severely wounded. After the surrender of Madeira he returned to England with Sir Samuel Hood's despatches and strong re commendations, which secured him, in 1808, a commander's commission. During the Walcheren expedition he particu larly distinguished himself, and for the third time was honourably mentioned in the Gazette. He obtained post rank on the Ist of August, 1811, accepted flag rank in 1846, and was appointed vice-admiral in 1855 and admiral in 1860. The following appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. John B. Michell to the Meander; George Williams, master, to the Euryalus; George Gilpin, master, to the Indus, for the Cmstance; Herbert S. Taylor, naval cadet, to the Prince Consort; Harcourt Popham, midshipman, to the Hector; and Wyllys H. Wyllys, master's assistant, to the Dasher. fled, it is sharpening its sword for new inroads into the pa trimony of other States. The East, in Europe and in Asia, is no less convulsed or menacing. Whatever may be our political opinions,we must all bewail the savage warfare which is depopulating and ravaging unfortunate Poland, for which the Holy Father has invited all to pray. And thence round the globe, through India, Chins, and Japan, to New Zealand, news daily reaches us of battle and skirmish, of destruction of cities or massacres of men, amidst barbarians or semi-civilised races, whose remoteness from us ought, apparently, to have been a security against disturbance. ' And in the West, from which not a broad continent separates us, but with which rather a wide ocean connects us, we are promised but little prospect that the year on which we are entering will put an end to the fratricidal war that threatens almost the extermination of a grandly hope ful race. Which way shall we turn for succour or for comfort Let us not 1 ook around us, or turn from side to side, for from none comes a cheering look. Let us rather" Lift our eyes to the mountains," to the eternal hills, " whence help will come to us. Our help is from the Lord, who made Heaven and earth." (Ps. cxxi.) Towards God, the mighty and strong, lot us turn our hearts, in fasting and in prayer, that from darkness Ho may bring forth light, and from affliction gladness. But dearly beloved, for the discharge of one part of our duty, that which regards the Church of God, its peace and serenity, we have a higher encouragement than any words of ours, in a letter addressed to us by our Sovereign Pontiff, in reply to our last filial address at the close of the last and the advent of the present year. " We do not doubt," such are his venerated words, "that you continue ever, with more fervent earnestness, unceas ingly to pray and entreat our great and good God that he will command the winds and the sea, and grant to His holy Church most desirable peace and tranquillity ; that He will humble all her enemies and those of this Apostolic see, and bring them back from the ways of impiety to the right road of justice and salvation." Yet, let us pray for peace, true and solid peace, only to be gained where truth and justice aro betrayed or assailed by the return of evil-doers to the path of righteousness and saving faith. To these more public demands upon our earnest suppli cations during Lent, we need not add those which our own personal necessities press upon us. Each one knows best their extent, in his own case, and will apply to it the remedy so simple, and so apt, suggested by an Archangel to Tobias. " Bona est eratio cum jejunio," " Good is prayer with fast ing."—(Tob. viii, 12). After exhorting all Catholics to have recourse to prayer, and directing their attention to the orphan ages at North Hyde, to the prospects and need of aid they required, the Cardinal goes on to say— And now we will conclude by bestowing on you a blessing better than our own—one transmitted to you, through us, in the following words of our holy father, in his letter of the 14th January : " We in our turn most humbly implore God, the giver of all good gifts, that Ho bestow upon you all things conducing to prosperity and salvation, and that He ever pout out abun dantly upon you the gifts of Divine grace, which may like wise plentifully descend on the beloved flock committed to your watchfulness. " And as an augury, and surest pledge of the peculiar benevolence with which we embrace you, we most lovingly bestow our apostolical benediction, with the deepest affection of our hearts, on you our dear son, and on all the faithful clergy and laity entrusted to your care." Given in Westminster, and ordered to be read in all the churches end chapels of the archdiocese, on Quinquagesima Sunday, this 7th day of February, 1864. N. CARD. WISEMAN. F. Canon SEARLE, See. CLOCK MAKING.—" Benson's great piece of clock work is 'certainly a marvellous achievement in clack making, both as regards the workmanship, and its capacity under difficult circumstances for time measuring."—Mechanics' Magazine, Sept. 15, 1862. Clocks by the first artists of the day for the drawing room, dining room, bed room, library, hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, church, turret, railways, warehouse, counting house, musical, and astronomical. Church and turret clocks specially estimated for. Benson's illustrated pamphlet on clocks (free by post for two stamps) with descriptions and prices, enables those who live in any part of the world to select a clock. Also a short pamphlet on cathedral and public clocks, free for one stamp. Prize medal and honourable mention in classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 1749 Watch and clock maker by special warrant of Op • pointment to 11,R,11, the Prince of \Yalu, . „ . ~....„:,....... ,A . i.,: .- - . _ ~,.... • . ;:. .f) .. --,...„.„,,,, ~__•, . .. : .. . . - . , • ~„.....„...„,- .... 4J. -. • . ra , , i _ . ...„. 4 " ' 7 . • - - - . 4 1. ' . 7 - 1 1 , • ~. , ~ , . .4 . ....--•" . 1, I.s 1 ... k , , v ,„ ~3„ .:-......,.., ..,.„.„v;.•-.4_ . ",64‘z--0„,,-. . .;,---_-- r-s- 4,... •,,, „1.,,,0 , . - .........• ':..\'-- -.--, . .,. .., " . . . -.,.-- , ' OIIII4 N DIE I , ' ~...i i irt 1 . 0itt: .9 1. .....,° : .,; w1 f .-". 10. ....ifi. • ROIT. '''''' ia 'IN..' ..., , ..„ FENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SiTumply. LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. 25 to I agst Real Jam (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sinking Fund (taken) 33 to 1 agst Umpire (taken) 50 to 1 agst Avalanche (offered) CHESTER CUP. 16 to 1 agst Accident (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) 25 to 1 agat Blackdown (take 30) 30 to 1 agat Change (taken) 33 to 1 agst Merry Hart (taken and offered) TWO THOUSAND. 11 to 2on the field (offered) 13 to 2 agat Cambuscan (taken) THE DERBY. 10 to 1 aget Scottish Chief (taken and offered) 14 to 1 bar one (offered) 18 to 1 agst Forager (taken) 22 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken) 33 to 1 aget Ackworth (taken) ~~ ~~~ PRICE.— ......4d. STAMPED ....sd. With the exception of Chester Cup, there is not a volume open in this market on the Spring Handicaps; and, judg ing by the few commissions that have been executed on the Roodee event, bookmakers are not likely to commence operations on the Northamptonshire Stakes, City and Suburban, or Metropolitan Stakes just at present.—For the Chester Cup, the only horso really in demand is Accident, about whom 10 to 1 was freely taken. 20 to 1 was laid to a little money against Anfield, but less than 30 to 1 was re fused about Blackdown.—Betting on the Derby, Two Thou sand Guineas, and Liverpool Steeple Chase was flat ; and there was no new feature in connection with the Waterloo (Coursing) Cup. Closing prices THE WATERLOO . (COT.TRSING) cur. 100 to 7 agst M. H. llaywood's nomination (offered task° 16 to 1 frooly) 20 to 1 agst Mr. Lloyd's nomination (taken and wanted) 20 to 1 agst Mr, Blackstock's nomination (offered) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Dunlop's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's nomination (offered) 28 to 1 apt Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Knowles's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Jardine's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lord Binning's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gordon's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination (offered) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bruce's nomination (ofiered) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Leigh's nomination (offered) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Callander's nomination (offered) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bell Irving's nomination (offered) PROSPECTUS. This Bank is established In order to meet a want which has lonp.; been experienced in Mexico—the want of those assured Banking, facilities which have done so much to stimulate the industry and develop the resources of other countries. 'I he field before such an Institution, which Mexico and the South American States present, is most inviting. Its re sources in silver are boundless, while the climate of this wonderful country is such that almost every production of the soil can be cultivated to an extent which can scarcely be imagined. With the hoped-for success which is to be anticipated from the policy of the new Government, Mexico has a great future before her. Money there commands at all times a high re munerative price, ranging from 10 to 18 per cent., and, as the field will be almost free, the Bank will be able to select those securities which are ample and undoubted, on which to make its several advances. It will also constitute a favourable feature of the Mexican Bank that, as a strong London Institution, which has already secured to itself promise of the support of influential Mexi can and South American houses, it will command the confi dence of local depositors, who are at the present tine in the hands of private money-dealers, but who, so soon as such a Banking Institution is established in their midst, will lose no time in transferring considerable deposits to such esta blishment, as offering a security, ample and sufficient, which the private money-dealers there do not afford. The Mexican Bank will commence its el. erations in Mexico, and the magnitude of the field there may be estimated by the subjoined strithtics : Imports silver into Great Britain from Mexico and South America (except Brazil), for toe eleven month , ending . November 30, 1863 Imports of gold ditto ditto 3,493,914 he exports from this country, consisting of Manchester goo , s and other I q.itisli manufactures, are very considerable; and this trade will no doubt be extensively augmented as the empire becomes consolidated and the confidence of merchants in the stability of the Government is secured. The Direct , rs of the Mexican Bank will also establish a Branch in Valparaiso, the gr eat commercial sea port of Chili, and where the want of the facilities which such an institu tion ould afford is much experienced by English and Ameri can, as well as the native mercantile firms, carrying on the great trade of that important territory. Arrangements are in contemplation for the incorporation of an existing successful Banking Institution with the Mexi can Bank. No promotion money will be given in the establishment of the Mexican Bank, preliminary expenses to be confined to necessary disbursements. The remuneration of the Directors left to the Share holders. Prospectuses and forms of applications for shares may be obtained of the Brokers, Bankers, Solicitors, and at the Tem porary Offices of the Company, but no application for shares will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per share has been previously paid to the Bankers of the Company. The Articles of Association can be seen at the Offices of the Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will be returned without deduction, and should the number al lotted he less than the number applied f.,r. the payment in excess will be applied towards the amount due. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. To the Directors of the Mexican Bank (Limited). Gentlemen, Having paid to your Bankers the sum of £ being a deposit of .£lper share on shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you Nall allot me that num ber, and I agree to become a member of the Company in re s , ect of such shares, or in respect of any less number you may allot me ; and I request that my name may be placed on the register of members f or th e s h a res so allotted. Name in full Residence Profession or business Date . TROUSERS. —Special attention is called to the WINTER GOODS, and Gentlemen who do not mind paying a fair price for a good pair of trousers can depend on material and patterns that cannot be ex3elled, at HAMILTON and KIMPTON'S, TAILORS, 105, Strand (opposite Exeter Hall). IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. 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Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. and 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.C. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and IA most useful invention of the day, AGIJA AMARELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO. 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restwes the fflie A human gua A hair mapa tsp has none of the properties of to iristine hue—no matter at what acre. dyes ; ft, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 108. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals undoubted respecta bility, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell nen the Princess of Wale s. and Co. have been appointed rerillfilero W her Royal High- THE ARMY. The Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Command. in -Chief, held a levee on Saturday afternoon at the Horse Guards, Upwards of 130 officers were present at the levee, Address of the HoistEin Teachers to Duke Frederick. KIEL, Feb. 3. The address delivered by the teachers at the Holstein schools to Duke Frederick has been pub lished to-day. It runs as follows : • Most illustrious Duke! Most gracious Prince and Lord We, teachers in Holstein, and representatives of many parishes of the country, neirg unable to appear here early yes t er day with our other colle agues , yet would not depart w ithout the joy of haring seen your Highness. We have come, like the entire people, to which we belong, and which we serve, by all the sacred feelings implanted in the infant mind, to deliver our testimony in the historic drama now being developed in our country, Your Highness I Never, so far back as the history of the people's schools in our country extends, has one idea or one conviction so universally end deeply penetrated to the hearts of the teachers, forcing them to testify to it as one man. Now, however, one conviction, one feeling, one wish, one vow, pulsates in all of us, and we are obliged to speak of it as with one tongue. We acknowledge before heaven that we are led by unalterable conviction to regard your Hi g h nes s as the legitimate heir to the throne of our country, as our duke by the grace of God ; we bring our devotion with the consciousness that your Highness has the same right to accept it as we have to give. We wish and implore of the Almighty that the daymay very speedily arrive when your Highness will be able to take into your own hands the govern ment of our country, of the undivided and indis solubly connected duchies of Schl es wig and Holstein, and we promise to be faithful and devoted to your Highness. as becomes subjects of our position and office. Your Hi g h nes s! We should have utterly misconceived the meaning of a teacher's calling if, during the years when our country struggled for her rights, we had desired to con vert the quiet chambers of the school into seed-beds of po litical tendencies, as has been done in the most outrageous manner But we had the right, and were our r kindred country of Schleswig to thin bound by duty, by traini n g and discipline, to prepare the ground in the minds o f g ro wing by hour our ena la enemies ve d. in youth, upon which the political and moral convictions of the man develop and ripen under the influence of historical events. And accord ing to this we have acted. With all industry we have im planted and fostered faith and morality, love of right and respect for the laws, and especially a love of country, founded upon knowledge of the history of our land of its people. And now, when God himself has struck off the fetters which caused our country BO much misery and shame—if now the entire people looks up to heaven with thankful joy —if now the nation rises heart and hand for your High ness's right, which is identical with the country's right—if now the men and youths of the nation capable of bearing arms only await the summons of your Highness to go to battle and death for that right- thoe results have certainly been produced by the quiet labours of the schools. Let not your Highness forget that, however dark the clouds now rising up on our horizon, no power on earth can extinguish the light of Heaven : taxi we build upon and trust in the fact alone that it is God himself, not we, who has created the new day now dawning upon our country. Therefore we shall continue to labour, so far as lies in our calling, that the future generation emulates its predecessors in faith and morality, in fidelity to its country and to its native ruling house, to the full extent of the character of genuine Schles-Holsteiner s . And may the Lord, who holds the mighty ones of the earth in his keeping, enlighten them, and cause them no longer to prevent your Highness from assuming the govern ment of our country. The constitution secured by your Highness to the coun try promises new development to the schools, and that rise in social position to the teacher which he has so long de sired in vain. The grace and protection of the Almighty reign over our dear country 1 God bless and guide our beloved Duke Frederick the Vllth. 1" No HOME complete without a WILCOX AND GIBBS SEwiNs-mAOHINE. Simple, compact, efficient, durable, and noiseless. Warranted to fulfil all the requirements of a perfect family machine. Prospectus free on application at N 0 43 5, Regent-street, W.—LADvT.I CITY BETTING-SATURDAY. Although many books have been opened on the Spring Handicaps and Liverpool Grand National Steeple Chase, the transactions thereon have not been marked with any special features; in fact, speculation has been extremely limited. The horses most inquired after for Liverpool Steeple Chase have been Emblem, Wee Nell, Bantam, Sink ing Fund, and Real Jam ; and, considering that the accept ances are not published, the prices accepted about these horses are short, and present a striking contrast to those laid in the Manchester market. For the Chester Cup, Accident, Anfield, Blackdown, and Muezzin have most admirers, the investments made on the others quoted being trivial. The Two Thousand Guineas and Derby betting present no particular change since last week. Closing prices : . _ LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. 15 to 1 agst Benjamin (taken) 15 to 1 agst Donnybrook (taken) 16 to 1 agst Suburban (taken) 16 to 1 agst The Principal (taken) THE LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 8 agat Emblem (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Wee Nell (taken) 100 to 6 agat Bantam (taken): 100 to 6 agat Sinking Fund (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agat Real Jam (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agat Portland (taken and offered) THE GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES, 100 to 6 on the field (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Liston (taken) 33 to 1 agst any other (offered) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 scot Accident (taken) 20 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) 25 to 1 apt Blackdown (taken) 25 to 1 agat Muezzin (taken) 25 to 1 agat Carisbrook (offered) 25 to 1 agst Change (offered) 30 to 1 agst Tooi Tool (taker) 33 to 1 agst Merry Hart (taken) 40 to 1 agst Durham (taken) 40 to 1 agst Tattoo (taken) 40 to 1 agat Greenland (offered) TWO THOUSAND. 11 to 2 agst Fille de r Air (taken) 6to 1 agst Paris (taken) 13 to 2 agst Cambuscan (offered) 10 to 1 agst Claremont (taken and offered) THE DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken and offered) 14 to 1 apt Coastguard (offered) 14 to 1 agst Paris (offered) 15 to 1 agst Cambuscan (offered) 16 to 1 agst Forager (offered) 20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (offered) 22 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken) 30 to 1 agst Idler (taken) WINDSOR STEEPLECHASES.-FEB. 6. The Castle Steeplechase Plate (Handicap) of 30 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of b sovs each, 1 ft; winners extra ; about 21 miles. 9 subs. Mr J. Land's Ironsides, 6 yrs, list 7Lb (inc. 71b extra) (J. Land) 1 Mr H. H. Couper's Gray Peter, aged, lOst 41b (J. Knott) 2 Mr Nugent's Don John, 9st 101 b (NH-Jean) 0 Betting-7 to 4on Ironsides, 3to 1 agst Gray Peter, 4 to 1 agst Don John. The favourite made play at his beat 'pace, Gray Peter lying second, Don John next, the latter refusing every fence, and on ,reaching the far side was pulled up and brought back. Ironsides increased his lead as they neared the turn for home, and was upwards of a dozen lengths in advance of Gray Peter as he cleared the water. His fol lowers was less fortunate, as he jumped and fell in, sending the water in all directions. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 says each, with 25 added; sell ing allowances ; to be ridden by gentlemen, farmers, sons of farmers, or tradesmen; 12st 71b each; the rider of the winner of any open steeplechase value 50 soya, to carry 141 b extra ; about three miles. 10 subs. Mr Mersham's Almeris, 6 yrs, list 71b (car. llst 81b to be sold for 60 sous .. (Mr. Lawrence) 1 Mr M. Henry's Gipsy, aged, lOst 71b (£4O) (Captain Sharp) 2 Mr Gilkes's Mignionette, aged, lOst 71b (£4O) ..Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Cherry Ripe, Andover, Granny Snow, Hist, and Swindler. Betting-3 to 1 each agst Gipsy and Swindler, 4to 1 agst Mignionette. They ran in close company to the Stand the second time, Swindler with a slight lead, followed by Hist, Gipsy, Mig nionette, Almeris, and Granny Snow in the order we have given, to the water jump, at which Swindler and Hist came to grief. This mishap left the lead with Gipsy, closely attended by Mignionette to the top turn, where the former fell and rolled over her rider, fortunately without inflicting any injury, and who was soon remounted, and in close pur suit of Almeria and Mignionette, all the others being out of the race through falls and refusals. The two leaders came on in company, followed at a respectable distance by Gipsy, to the brook, at which Almeria fell, and in so doing caused his follower to refuse, which enabled Gipsy to got upon better terms with them. Almeria was s oon remounted, and got over, and won very cleverly by ten lengths ; a bad third. The winner failed to secure a purchaser. Military Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added ; for horses bona fide the property of officers; llst each; win ners extra; to be ridden by officers; about 3 miles. 7 subs. list.... (Mr. Harford 1 Capt. Rowley's Ballyeasey, aged, 1 t ( Lord Mr Greville's Red Miner, aged, 1 s ......Adair) 2 The foilowing also ran :—The Monk, Croton Oil, Polly Hopkins, and My Mary. Betting-7 to 4 agst My Mary, 4to 1 eget The Monk, 5 to 1 each agst Croton Oil and Polly Hopkins. The Monk led the way over the hurdles in front of the stand, which they all got cleverly over, with the exception of Croton Oil, who refused, as he did on Friday, and bolted, taking with him Polly Hopkins. Proceeding up the hill Ballycasey took tho second place, followed by Red Miner and My Mary, which position was retained to the top turn, where the Monk was disposed of, leaving Ballyeasey in possession of the lead, which he retained to the end, and won by 100 yards in advance of Red Miner. The others did not pass the post. The winner was cold to Mr. C. Peck, for 110 guineas. The Windsor Open Handicap Steeplechase of 70 soys, added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya each, 10 ft; winners extra; about four miles. 11 subs. Major Wombwell's Dell's Life, l Ost Mb (Griffiths) 1 Mr Nugent's Yeller Gal, flat Mb (Mr Barry) 2 Deception and Pilot also ran. The betting opened at 5 to 4 agst Deception, and closed at even on Nailer Gal ; 3 to 1 each agst Bell's Life and Pilot. . In consequence of the required number of horses not run. mug 40 60V8 were only added. Deception made play, fol. Now ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., BELL A DONNA; Or, The Cross before the Name. A Novel. By GILBERT PYCE. "The story of the pump little damsel Jenny Bell is told, with much clever elaboration of her character, by the lightest of touches. The tone of the book is wholesome, and the writ ing good."—Examiner. "One of the most successful novels of the season, Mr. Dyce's general style is very amusing, and his minor charac ters extremely well sketched." —Spectator. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. This day, at all Libraries, in 2 vols., THE SMUGGLER CHIEF. By GUSTAVE AIMARD. 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Z• lowed by Bell's Life, Pilot, and Yaller Gal, bttaftei v.4 ing the brook Pil o t o bt a i ne d t h e secon d place, a vmt" :l7 the far turn, where th e l o t c l ose d up, and on pict3altk t it p stand the second time Yaller Gal and Bell's Lifelrefe ho leading pair. On reaching the water the latter clearMLit slightly in advance of the heavyweight, the others following a dozen lengths in the rear as they proceeded along the line to the barracks. On reaching the watercourse in the bottom the two leaders got safely over, but on Pilot reaching it ho refused and ran round, and in so doing came in contact with Deception, the pair nearly coming down. At the succeeding fence Bell's Life took a decided lead, and ultimately an ex citing race by a couple of lengths. The others did not pa:s the post. Unjust and Unwise Commutation of Townley's Sentence. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Townley's case grows worse and worse the more one hears of it. At first a pair of country magistrates and a pair el country mad doctors rescued this wilful murderer—now admitted by the authorities never to have been mad at all— from the rightful iunishment pronounced upon hint ; and now four other persons, equally sitting in secret, like the Inquisition, with closed doors behind the back of the public, save consigned him to a punishment that is not the right one. First, the murderer is wrongly rescued from the right punishment; new he is wrongly sentenced to the wrong punishment. In other words, instead of rewarding Town ley for his hideous crime, by providing for him like a gen tleman for life, he is to be provided for for life in a way a little less comfortable. Penal servitude is notoriously a mockery of punishment. It is the mere farce of penal dis cipline. Multitudes of honest labourers are not near so well off as convicts under sentence of penal servitude. Miners are not so comfortable. The labouring poor, on Ns. or 12s. a week, are not so well off in one respect, except that of mere confinement. But the convict has proper exercise in the prison grounds. A miner is as much a prisoner as a convict under sentence of penal servitude for life. No pri soners are treated so mildly, fed so well, lodged so comfort ably as the "lifers." The alleged reason is that they cannot bear severer discipline for so long a term. The day labourer, worn out with 12 or 16 hours a day, toil exposed to all weathers, has no sympathy; but the felon, the manslaughterer, the robber with violence, who has ga rotted, maimed, and crippled his victim for life, the wilful, heartless, cold-blooded murderer, like Townley, whose sen tence is commuted, is to be treated tenderly and lovingly. Penal servitude is the life of a prince coetpared with the penalty inflic " 0 " workhouse for the unpardonable crime of _ prison is a palace to the union. And then there is the ticket of leave, and the money which the police slip into the ticket of leaver's hand to keep him " honest"—" Heaven save the mark I" The convict in penal servitude is well provided for when ill or disabled by casual accident. He is treated as well as a gentleman in his own house, in the infirmary of the prison, where he has wine, beef tea, and every comfort and even luxury, to say nothing of such mere necessaries as well warmed, well aired, and ventilated rooms. But has the honest labourer any thing like this, when disabled by sickness or accident ? No I They are left to the alternative of death from want, or the tender mercies of the workhouse ; for their crime—poverty --is more severely visited than housebreaking, highway robbery, manslaughter, or murder, when the sentence is commuted by some quibble from hanging to penal servi tude. As it is now proved even to the satisfaction of the autho rities, who appear to be always the last to recognise truth and fact, that Townley is, and has been throughout, what everybody possessed of common sense knew him co be— perfectly sane—the law ought to take its course; not out of vengeance, not to make this wretch expiate the deed of blood he has perpetrated by suffering on the gallows, but to protect human life, to make the law respected, to let the would-be murderer know that he cannot get comfortably provided for, for life, by committing a murder, if only it be sufficiently foul, unnatural, and revolting, for the mono maniacal sympathisers with the murderer to raise a cry that he is mad. It is said that, after being wrongly reprieved, Townley could not be rightly hang. Why not ? The law is that when a mur derer who goes mad after sentence and before execution, and is, therefore, reprieved, comes to his right senses again, the course of justice shall go on as if he had not been mad at all. What can there be in the fact of insanity having supervened, even where it really has supervened, to frustrate justice and rescue a man sane when ho mur dered his victim, and sane at the present time, from tho penalty due to his guilt. But Townley has not been mad at all. Townley's case is different from the case of a man who really goes mad after sentence and before execution. Townley is now proved never to have been mad, but only wrongfully reprieved. And because Sir George Grey has made an egregious blunder, therefore, it seems, justice is to be frustrated and the law brought into disrepute and con tempt. It is here that the principal point is. The law is brought into disrepute and contempt. An impression is abroad among the homicidal and dangerous classes that they have only to chew insanity, or to commit crimes suffi ciently abnormal and unnatural, and the mad doctors and mad psychologists, will at once raise a clamour that they are insane, and ought to escape punishment. That this impression has got abroad is owing entirely to the mon strous failure of justice in the case of Townley, and some other like Jessie M'Lachlan's. This impression, so pre judicial to the safety of society, so dangerous to human life, is only increased and confirmed by this last blunder of com muting Townley's sentence. While ho was kept in a lunatic asylum under reprieve, as mad, the criminal and murderer class knew that he might be brought out and hung directly he was proved sane. But now they see that comfortable provision for life is the punishment for murder, the natural tendency of this lesson is to make them believe that they can commit the same crime with impunity. Penal servitude in its pre sent form is a less hard life than the criminal classes are used to, out of prison. There is nothing incon venient but the confinement, and there is always the hope and expectation of a ticket of leave, by hypocritically 0-dol ing the chaplain, and currying favonr with the parish authorities. This commutation of Townley's punishment is flagrantly against public policy and against justice. It is an encouragement to murder, and danger to human life. False mercy to the murderer is real cruelty to society. But why did Sir George Grey have all these inquiries done in secret? He might not have power to make witnesses give evidence on oath in these inquisitorial and secret in vestigations ; but he could have allowed as many persons as he pleased, including reporters for the press, to have been present. He could have ordered practical lawyers to have been present to watch the conversation between Townley and the doctors and magistrates, on every occa sion when examinations have taken place. It is not to be tolerated that secret inquisitorial tribunals, consisting of four persons, whether doctors or justices of the peace, or both, shall have power to set aside and annul the sentence of a superior judge, after a solemn open trial before a jury, with able counsel on both aides, and force the Government to arrest the course of justice, and save murderers from the consequences of their guilt. It is doubtful if there should be any power given to a functionary like a Secretary of State who is not a lawyer, and has no experience in the trial of criminals, to commute the sentences of the courts of justice; in other words, to rescue murderers and robbers from condign punishment. This is just as bad in principle as the powers given by the Act of 1840 to a couple of pro. vincial mad doctors, and a couple of country booby justices. It is hoped that the present session will not be allowed to pass without a thorough and sweeping reform. (From the Medical Times and Gazettc) It is of great importance that justice should be at last vin dicated, if not fully satisfied. No convicted murderer, once respited, has ever, we believe, been delivered over to the executioner; we are therefore content that Townley should be now condemned to penal servitude for life. But of per haps still greater importance in our eyes is the complete vindication of rational medicine contained in this last medi cal report—of true medical science as distinguished f rom the hazy theories of amiable enthusiasts in humanity, Ae mit the grounds on which it was attempted t o f ound Town ers lu n acy, n oaung, d h y o o r u awaybmraazyendoenoug, to h with assert punishment , .s cr i m e altogether , for you do away with crime, L e t or Leta man he be she was brought into the world without hi s leave b e in g that e a th ere fore he is not justly resp ons ib le for what heemdgo es in ask edit, i rv..d e and no man has a right to jud ge h im for an of his acts punish though he is ready to judg e an d others, y a s Townley did that poor girl—let hi m only show or affect such cynical indifference and depravity as will shock any amiable expert who may examine him, and he will be deemed so wicked that he ought not to be • punished. The greater his crime and hardness of heart the greater his safety. Admit such doctrine as this—and we may as well— we must logically accept the famous or rather infam ous theory propounded some years ago by a cele brated authoress—that no man is responsible for his acts ; he is the creature of his organisation, the victim of his cerebral and corporeal endowments. Townley adopted this theory, and, to his surprise, found that it was accepted as proof of his irresponsibility—to his surprise, say, for ho himself acknowledges, "I expected to be hanged, bccause I killed her; and am not such a fool as not to know that the law hangs for murder." Unfortunately for him, he has now fallen into the hands of able and scientific physicians, who, while they have deservedly high reputations for their knowledge of insanity, have no crotchets as to crime and insanity being convertible terms, and have no special ten der desire to protect criminals against society. while for getting that society needs protection from criminals; they bring to bear on this case what are called common-sens© views, as well as scientific and speci.al knowledge, and the result is a most admirable report. in which the so-called "proofs" of his insanity are blown to the winds. We will only add that society at largo is mu ch indebte d u to the magistrates of Derbyshire for the pressure th ey rt on the Home Secretary. 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