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LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION. Instituted 1806. 011 lee, 81, KING WILLIAM-STREET. PRESIDENT—CHARLES FRANKS, Esq. Vlcii-PaIstpENT—JORN BENJAMIN HEATH, Esq. This Society is essentially one of Mutual Assurance, in which the Premiums of its Members are reduced after seven years. The rate •f reduction of the Premiums for the present year was 70 per (lent., leaving less than one-third of the original Premium to be paid. The Society also undertakes other descriptions of Assurance, in which the Assured do not become Members, and having ceased to allow any commission to Agents, the Society has been enabled to reduce the Premiums for this class of Assurances to the following •ery low rates : Annual Premiums for the Assurance of £lOO. Age s. d. Age £ s. d. Age £s. d. 20 1 13 7 35 2 7 6 50 4 1 2 25 1 17 0 40 2 15 5 55 5 1 0 20 2 1 5 45 3 6 0 60 6 5 10 AB C RAILWAY GUIDE for the present month can be had of all Newsvendcrs. Price Sixpence. Just published, TAY'S MANVAL OF FASHION. t). 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Just Published, price 25., illustrated with cases ; free by post for 30 stamps, 10 4 1 - MR V OIIS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper ,u7rthcatt, with Practical Observations on a sftfer and more ve FC ces stal mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generati Yste m obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and eve • ":„ . e gaishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and e ff ec t of (Th variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, • eeases, accident, or climate. followed by practical remarks, founded 14; 4 .., t We11ty experience in the treatment of Impuissance, ,"°,, , 1e Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhoaa, &c. To which ca nt l, s ' a ed Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre itng : h all' hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, th es „l' the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on "olportam. disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT. M.D. E• 0 0 ,87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONN, Z r Of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin tigh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, T i ee ntlate cf Apothecaries' Ilan, London, &c., &c. a egu e exulting al object of this rt treatise is to point out the fearful am_ whi p e b n eet res from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, Ite,„;" h ave proauced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man- Inc_ and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any elites of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is ti;ielllarlY recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of th e c i ,,, Ph Ysical condition, and who are conscious of having, hazarded tnuti — ` til, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is ed. pnnc It t a at) solutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are inca rr '; es of personal management which cannot be violated without the heydayus pcnaltiea, and when wisdom and regret succeed tally be of inconsiderate aelf-indulgence, how these penalties 414 h o 2 n itißated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, that 4 ,w the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, 4ra, tore xe4rcely any cleareo of physical infirmity or functional Th o Z i e t Tent to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. practice r has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive "fortu ain the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have erapt ri _ , a w eY teen too generally confided to the care of ignorant 1,;., in their r o inflict great injury on those who are induced to place DEBILITY may pr etensions. uus DE t rotners and Zen 1' C°. he had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, le, 9, Leicester. s er-rOW 6 3 , 23 ' Paternost er-raw t • Hannay, Oxford-street; thirty stamps aquare; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for Tord-squara. any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed- At home for coma... Siz mo t. —,••••ation n e ven till Two, and from Mlt; ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday) Stalla,:ls. Area. 2-.; Gallery. la. The first 174rr1'1.• ton wlll take place on Satarday, Dee. 10th, at 3 o'clocz.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH SALE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, December, 1854. OR SALE, by order of th e Honourable the AL' Commissioners of her biajestlea Customs, at the Commercial Bale Rooms. Mincing-lane, on TUESDAY, December 12, 1854, at 12 o'clock at! noon precisely, the following GOODS for the benefit of the Crown, viz.:—BRANDY, RUM, GENEVA, 'and WINE. The above goods may be viewed by sample at the Queen's Ware house, Custom-house, Thames-street; and at the London and West India Docks ; on Monday, 11th December, 1854, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the day of sale from Ten o'clock in the morning until Twelve o'clock at noon. Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver- General after 2 o'clock in the afternoon. —Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Customhouse, Thames-street, Threepence each. PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD CLUB; for the Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements, &e. Open To-morrow, Friday, Bth December, and last day, from daylight till 10 in the evening. Admittance, One Shilling. LOANS from 501. to 5001., on the Security of the borrower and two responsible Housekeepers,. No Life Assurance. Interest, 6 per Cent--Address (with post-head), Messrs. LAWRANCIC and CO., 110, Fenchurch-street, City. Personally from 11 to 3. TO LOVERS OF F 151.1.- 100 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postagQ stamps, or P. 0. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, county, and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great Yarmouth. COAL DEPARTMENT, North London Rail way.—Highbury Depot.—HETTON'S WALL'S -END (the best house coals In the world) are brought to the docks of this rail- Way at Poplar by aew screw steamers, Cochrane, 750 tons, Hetton, 750, and the Northumberland, 650 tons, chartered expressly for this depot, and delivered thoroughly screened, to any part of London, north of the Thames, at 275. per ton. Orders to be addressed to Mr. Thomas Lea, Chief Office, Railway Station, Highbury, Islington. Terms, cash on or before delivery. PATRON-H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Continued improvements, increased attractions, fresh deco rations. Re-lighted under the Patents of John Leslie, Esq. Miss GLYN will READ ANTONY and CLEOPATRA on Tuesday, the 12th inst., at Eight ; and OTHELLO on Thursday, the 14th inst., at Eight. MONDAY EVENING, the 11th inst., LECTURE ti the INDU;'- TRIAL CLASSES : on the MANUFACTURE of COAL GAS, by LEWIS TnoursoN, Esq. LECTURES on CHENTISTRY, by J. H. 'PEPPER, Eq. LECTURE — on NINEVEH, by Mr. COOPER, the ARTIST and COMPANION of LAVARD, illustrated by PANORAMIC VIEWS taken by himself, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at Three, and en Wednesday and Friday Evenings, at Eight. Opening of the New Hail, with LECTURES by Dr. BACHIIOFFNER, illustrated by the Hydro-Electric Machine, the most splendid and successful Electrical Apparatus in the World, on Mondays, Wednes days, and Fridays, at Three. A Beautiful Series of Forty-five COSMORAMIC VIEWS of RUSSIA and the Costumes of the Inhabitants. The DIStOLVING VIEWS maintain their old reputation, with Scenes of the War, qebastopol, &c. The OXY-HYDROGEN . MICROSCOPE, as •nsual. The Large Theatre is open on Saturday Evenings from Half-past Seven till Ten, with Mr. CRA WFORD'S VOC A L ILLUSTRATIONS of the PATRIOTIC SONGS of SCOTLAND, the American Enter fiainment, and Mr. Wand's Band. Admission, li.; Stalls, 2s. and 3s. ; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, half-price. This day, Two Volumes, post octavo , 15 5 ., GENERA L BOUNCE ; or, The Lady and the Locusts. Ey G. J. WHYTE METAVILLE. Originally published in " Fraser's Magazine." By the same Author, Two Volumes, 165., DIGBY GRAND: An Autobiography. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Now Open for the Season.—During the week the Orchestra Will perform the following music :—Overture Bronze Horse, Auber ; Waltzes : La Naturelle, H. Wienard ; Jubilee, Tinney ; Burger Ball (first time), Strauss ; Le Carnival de Venise (by desire), with Varia tions for all the principal performers, by H. Laurent. Quadrilles : Le Palais de l'Alcazar, H. Lamotte ; L'Etoile du Nord, Musa/A ; Mont Blanc (first time), Blaucheteau ; Partant pour la Syrie, H. Laurent. Schottische: The Moldavian, by Jullien. Polkas: Musen, Strauss; Bacchus, Strauss ; L'Eteile du Nord, H. Laurent; Elisen, Strauss. Gallops : Royal Artillery, Coote ; Les Guides, H. Laurent. Shortly, Kcenig's Staff Polka. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Boul euurt.—Alteration of Time —Doors open at Eight; commence at half- Past.—Adnaission, One Shilling. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. .EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE 14 SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. READING SAUCE, for Fish, Game, Gravies, Hashes, Stakes, &c.—JOHN and CHARLES COCKS. the Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers of the celebrated READING SAUCE, beg to CAUTION the Public azain;t the daily frauds prac tised by many persons, who are offering their spurious imitations as t he genuine Reading Sauce. This sauce is patronised and recom mended by most families in the kingdom, and for general use it Stands unrivalled. It is sold by all respectable Fish Sauce Venders. Be particular in asking for "Cocks' Rea tiny Sauce," which is pre- Pared ONLY by John and Charles Cocks, at their Manufactory, Duke - street, Reading. All others aro counterfeits. Observe the name, . J. and C. Cocas, Reading," on the seal and label of each bottle : 'without this none are genuine. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters le Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de ie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIEMAR, No. I is a rem e d y f or R e l ax ation, S ES perrnatorrhcea, , aid Exhaustion of the SYstem. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, et lednally, in the short space of three days, completely and . entirely !Iradieates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. is the TRIESEMAR, No. 3, great Continental Remedy* for that class of Disorders, which . .fortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, arid which all the sarsaparilla in the world canhot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of ta3te or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table Without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into 2..abarato doses, as administered by Valpeau , Lallemanel, Roux, ate., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John- Iton, 68, Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. GRA.VESEND ,STI PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Greenhithe and Purfleet Piei The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (wqather.permit FROM TERRACE PIER, GI4VESEND. No. 19,407.] PUBLICATIONS. On Friday, the 15th inst., will be published, in 3 stelS. post Bvo,, CHARLES RANDOM ; or, Lunatics at large. By THOMAS WHITZ• London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Just published, price One Shilling. ALETTER to the INHABITAN TS of IPSWICH, upon the INJUSTICE of Mr. JUSTICE CRESS WELL'S SUMMING UP in the CASE of AIRES, Secretary to By Eastern Union Company, v. WASON. RIGBY WAS )N. London : Longman and Co. QUACKS UNMASKED The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German of Dr. PICKFORD. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the a d ve rtising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Dr. Picktord 'a known to English readers by his frequent practi- Jai contributions to Gerfnan medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any other equally flagrant evil whlcth it may be in his 'ewer to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book t;onld and its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied tlit many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of loody and mind, and what is of [etc importance, though it is that which the (packs most prize— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment non a more rational and physiological basis. it is, therefore, lik.e'y to do much good." London: 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS. Istablished 1823. Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. DIRECTORS. The Right lion. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P., Chair man. HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq. Deputy-Chairman. A. Kinesford Barber, Esq. 1 Sir Alex. Puff Gordon, Bart. Arthur Kett Barciay,Esq., ) Archibald Basile, Esq., M.P. Henry Barnett, Esq. • Charles Morris, Esq. Robert Biddulph, Esq. William Routh, Esq. Thomas Edgar, Esq. AUDITORS. Edward Charrington, Esq. I Captain Robert Gordon, R.N. Francis Dumergue, Esq. John Gilliam Stillwell, Esq. PrITSICIAN—John Ayrton Paris, M.D., Cantab., Hon. D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., 27, Dover-street (President of the Royal College of Phy- sicians). SuaGEoN—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., No. Li, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. SOLICITOR —Henry Young, Esq.. No. 12, Essex-street, strand. ACTUARY—James John Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S. The advantages offered by this Society are ECONOMY combined with Security, and Lower Rates of Premiums than those of any other office, which entitle the assured to participate in the profits, and considerably lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society. The WHOLE of the PROFITS are divided every fifth year among the Assured, and a Bonus is added, after the payment of the Fifth Annual Premium to every Policy effected on the participating Scale, If a claim accrue thereon prior to the next division of profits. The sum of 397,000/. was added to Policies at the last division, which produced an average BONUS of G7l. per cent. on the Premiums paid. Number of Policies in force nearly 7,000. The Assurance Fund amounts to 1,400,0001. Income upwards of 230,000/. per Annum. No charge for Policy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeomanry or Militia Corps. The subjoined Table shows the advantages offered by this Society, resulting from low Premiums, and a division of the entire profits among the Assured:— - 1 tg z' ; , 4. , 74,5 , 1 %.• g 7 r, -) Acs M 11 - 8 M c 3 usa -5 ; = -- 22 daC HP-4 c ° nA z - 3 a>23 - Fri 1854.1855. 1854. 1855. X. s. (1. £ £ £ £ £ £ 20 21 15 10 1260 260 116 12 25 1388 1413 30 26 13 6 1205 205 125 12 24 1342 1366 40 33 19 6 1140 140 130 11 22 1281 1303 50 45 6 0 • 1030 30 141 10 20 1181 1201 Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on ALEXANDER MACDONALD, SPECI.k.T, NOTICE. Proposals for Assurance must be made prior to the 1855, to entitle the Assured to participate in the no! Profits in 1859. application to , secretary. Ist January, :t Division of DR. CULVERWELL ONINDIGEST NERVOIA lON. NESS, DEBILITY, AND Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Haemorrhoids, is. each. by post I s:.6d. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstentia multi curantur morbi." A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal In the day, and full instructions for the regimen and observance of every hour out of the twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous cases, &c. 2. LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " He which that bath no wif, I hold him lost, Helpless, and all desolat. He that bath no child, Like sun and winde."—Chaucer. Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities —Development of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness —Advantages of Inter marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &c. CEIASTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Trnths as refined as Athens ever heard." Subject t Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. On Secret Diseases, their Self-management and Cure. The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition of genito and urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forms of urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcea ; with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. 5. The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUM. —Comprising Urinary Derangements, Copstipation, and Hemorrhoids. Vols. 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Juciinde Viyere." " Few words to fair faith."—Shakesi er3. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of DP. RICHARD CULVERWELL, Brother, Successor, and Twenty Years Consulting Colleague of the late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London, who may be advised with on the above matters daily, from Ten till Five, and in the evenings, from Seven till Nine. SPECIAL NOTICE.—UntiI March 1, 1855, E. MOSES AND SON'S Eatabllahmenta will bia closed at Eight o'clock every evening, except Saturday, when they will be open until Eleven o'clock. EAST AND WEST, TWO HEMISPHERES OF TRADE. We are not accustomed to symbolise ; but the progress of the sun of civilisation, manufacture, science, and literature from east to west, and the concentration of power, influence, riches, and skill in the western nations is illustrated in the commercial transactions of E. Moses and Son. Their magnificent business career commenced in the east of the metropolis and ;extended over the known world, and at the urgent request of their friends, patrons, and the public, they founded a branch at the west end. There, and at the Parent Esta blishment, they have continued to famish the most seasonable, the most fashionable, and the best Dress for all classes at the most eco nomical prices. Winter Attire, Overcoats, Faletots, Waterproof Dress. Juvenile Clothing, UnPorms, Liveries, Ladies' Habits, costumes far all sta tions and professions. the Working Man's and the Seaman'S clothing being provided with the same industry, at prices never imitated. In conjunction with the Tailoring and Ready-made Clothing business, E. Moses and Son have long had the lead as Healers and shirt a a novelty,ror detail,and splendour ha t which of willsoe stock e ; , manufacturers. To ad d their a Branch uesiery Establishment,peimlieat, whichN ew can O a x a fo t rhde stre-t, they have it affords advantages c u e m n c e e r be selected as cannot be obtained equalled for extent, may there highly appreciated by the nobility, gentry, and the public, as such hosiery Goods else where. ma t g oo nill n • Merchants, Captains, an d Emigrants derive the greatest advan tages from investment in the Wholesale Clothing, Boot and Sh oe, and Shirt Department, at E. Moses and Son's. CAUTION.—E, MOSES and SON regret having to guard the Public against imposition,h e yine learned th e ir Establishment," or " It's falsehoo 1 of " Being connected with that the untradesman-like the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that t he y No CONNEXION WITH ANY °Tacit noose 1N oa oIIT OF LONDON, MinerieS, 84, . 155 156, and 157, i except their own Establishments, as f ollows;-- London City Establishment, 154, 85, and 86, Ald ga t e, oppos i te the C hurc h. a ll communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 5014, New Oxford-street, 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-Street. Pieffield Branch, 30, b'argate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. 0 Merchant Tailor, Clothi ers , Hatters, hosiers, Furriers , 13" and Shuo Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishments aro closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 11 o'clock. A new Book for A utum and Winter. " The Commercial Cornu copia," containing full lists of prices, our system of self-measure ment, Bce., &e., may be had on application, or post-free. Tel Von parle Francais. Qui si parla It allene. Hier speicht man Deutsch. Aqua sa habla Espano. AGES OF AMERICAN POETS.—J. K. Paulding, 75 ; H. Dina, 67 ; C. Sprague, 63 ; W. C. Bryant, 60 ; Ralph Watdo Emerson, 51 ; N. P. Willis, 47 ; H. W. Longfellow, 47 ' • J. G. Whittier, 46 ; H. T. Tucker man, 41 ; J. R. Lowell, 35 ; Bayard Taylor, 29. Boston Trans. - / ' ----- , --i -- _7' - , -(---(-- , '., . . , r , ~.. - .:,.. - .7%; ---. ,/ /.. 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', V . % -. .7. , ... , ~. - '*....:.? .. 1 , I- , ‘-' '42ra-thisErf -- .., i ' Z ,,,, r - ; 16° .... - ....3tJi . . ,• 0 ~, ! ,t ;' #, iii ---- % -.- :- '' • .a.,•,..A -, • - • ' • /-, 6 \` ~/~ ~~~~~~ ~~ /~ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBkR 7, 1854. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Neptune, 120, Captain Hutton, sailed yesterday for Queenstown, to embark the 72d Highlanders, and detachments of other regiments, after having shipped about 100 tons of Ordnance stores for the seat of war. She will only proceed as far as Malta, and then return. The crew of the Rhadamanthus, steam-troop-ship, arrived in the Dockyard last night from Woolwich. They are to be turned over to the Dee, steam-vessel, which is to be employed in the conveyance of ma chinery between the different dockyards. The Dee's own crew are to be paid wages and granted leave of absence. Dee, 6, paddle Lieutenant Commander Smith, got up steam alongside her berthing hulk at Portsmouth yesterday morning, to prove boilers and machinery. The Cumberland, hired steam transport, sailed to-day for Balaklava, with her cargo of houses for the troops in the Crimea. A party of seamen have been sent out to the Neptune, 120, at Spithead, to assist in navigating her round to Cork, to embark troops there for the Crimea. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants William H. Wright (1853), from the Conway flag-ship, at Cork, to the St. George, 120, at Devenport ; Edward S. Meara (1854), recently serving in the Phcenix screw steam sloop, to the St. George; the Hon. W. B. de Blaquiere (1844), to the Conway, vice Wright. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE COMING SESSION. ( From the Daily News. ) There appears to be now no reason to deubt that a fierce onslaught will be made upon Ministers as soon as the Parliamentary Session opens. It is rather curious that those who are preparing to make this onset should, whie ringing the changes on the phrase, " Coalition Ministry," be contemplating a coalition for the purpose of assailing it. The " independent Liberals" are ex horted to coalesce with Mr. Disraeli for the purpose of driving the " Coalition Ministry" from office. To such practical inconsistencies do the slaves of words expose themselves. In the abstract there is nothing necessarily wrong about a " Coalition Ministry." With the excep tion of the short-lived Ministry of the Duko of Welling ton, we have had hone but coalition Ministries for the last thirty years. George Canning's Ministry was a coalition of the Whigs and liberal Tories. Earl Grey's Ministry was a coalition of the Cauningites and the was a coaliti on o f the Eldon Tories and Whigs who had stood aloof fro m C anning. Sir Robert Dilly. Lord Derby's p ar ty embraced the ci-devant Cannin g it e L ord G eorge Ben tinok and the other Whig Cor n -l aw recusants. The the Peel's s ixMinis try insides of the Derby truth is, there is no party at present in existence that does not number in its ranks " waifs and strays" that have originally appertained to o th er parties. To call a Ministry a `° coalition'' is to say nothing ; the question is, whether that coalition be an honourable or a dishon ourable one. Nevertheless the emphasis laid by the adversaries of the present Ministry upon the phrase " Coalition Ministry," evinces considerable skill in the low art of political manceuvrmg. The present Ministry is made up of two distinct sots., Q of : matti , who Vt.:ones time were arrayed in orgame. hostility --to other. iA notion prevails in many quarters that the two parties, though brought into such close juxta position, have not yet amalgamat e d . Upon this assumption a calculation is made that an a tt ac k con centrated upon one of the parties may be joined in by many who are friendly to the other ; and that the party left unassailed, if they see the storm run hi g h, may be disposed to throw their obnoxious colleagues overboard like so many Jonahs. It happens that the Peelite section of the Cabinet have so managed matters as to lay them selves more opea at this moment to a rough attack than their colleagues. The Ministerial sins of omission or com mission—real or imputed—which at this moment render many of the supporters of the Government disposed to revolt from them, are all connected with the manage ment of the war. Now the Peelites, as they are called, have contrived to monopolise among themselves almost every post that gives a minister real influence in the management of the war. Lord Aberdeen is First Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Gladstone Chancellor of the Ex chequr ; the Duke of Newcastle i 3 at the head of the War Department, and Mr. Sidney Herbert Secretary at War ; and Sir James Graham is First Lord of the Admi ralty. The Peelites have no right to be surprised, or to complain, if, having thus taken into their hands a mo nopoly of the direction of the war, they are also expected to monopolise the responsibility. It is no time to blink these circumstances, or to allude to them in circuitous and delicate phrase. Their possible consequences are so momentous, that they, and all their possible consequences, ought to be deliberately looked in the face, and fearlessly canvassed. In common with the great Dolts of the country, we have no part or interest in the Administration as at present constituted. Like the great bulk of the people, we accepted it at first because we nowhere saw a more eligible combination of statesmen ; and even at this day we do not see where a better Ministry is to besot among existi ng pu bl ic men. We believe th a t we apes the sense of th e country when we say that though there has been much in th e p a st con d uct o f the war to complain of, we would prefer se e i ng th e neces sary improvements in its management made by the men now in office, than risk the embarrassments that might result from a change of Ministry at such a critical period of the nation's history. At tie Caine time, though we would rather avoid such a ticklish experiment, we have that entire confidence in the patriotism and good sense of Englishmen, and that fixed faith in the high destinies of England, which would make us regard what is called a " Ministerial crisis " with very little alarm, should the conduct of Ministers render it inevitable. We say . "the conduct of Ministers," for we feel con vinced that their fate is in their own hands. Two things only are requisite to ensure their hold of office against say assailants :—concci , I and strictly 'honourable con duct towards each other among themselves ; and an honest determination to prosecute the war with their utmost energy to the only termination that is consistent with Elbe honour and interests of the State and the wishes of the people. Concord and honourable conduct towards each other—for there can be no doubt that incompati bilities, more or less important, still exist araeng them, notwithstanding they have been so long associated in office. Let them come to a frank and fair understand ing as to how far they are at one in their objects. If they can agree upon the vigorous prosecution of a com mon policy, let them continue as they are : if there are any dissentients from the voice of the majority among then, let these dissentients retire without endeavouring to embarrass their colleagues. Determination to prose cute the war with the utmost energy to an honourable ter mination—for any resolute policy can only degrade the country in the eyes of the world, and involve it in future troubles. It is indispensable to the continuance of Ministers in office, that they meet Parliament with that frankness which can only result from perfect unanimity among themselves, and a resolution to do and dare everything for the assertion of the national honour and interests. The people are intensely excited, and at times rash and inconsiderate words nay be spoken, and rash and in considerate men may push themselves into a prominence that is not their due. But in the main the prevailing excitement is of a high and even a holy character. It is one that prepares men to make sacrifices of all kinds for the attainment of the object placed before thew. It is one which if app ea l e d to b y a statesman of a high minded and honou ra bl e am b ition, with faith in his own principles and purposes, in that tone of command natural to men born to take the lead in great emer gencies, will carry hi m t r i umphantly over all the petty opposition of party and faction. The nation is tho roughly wound up for a great effort, and only wants a leader worthy of the occasion. Who of our present Ministers will take upon him to chastise the flag ging spirits of his comrades, and inspire them with the resolution to r ema i n the foremost men of Eng land at this inspiring moment ? If nsne of them are prepared to do this, they may rest assured that the country will look about for other leaders, and they may also rest assured that circumstances will create the men who are wanted. We have no connexion with, no interest in, any party but the universal nation ; aud, if we had, we would feel it to be our duty to throw all such consi derations to the wind at a moment like the present. We have no iinterest in Ministers, or any section of them, except in so far as they may show themselves worthy of the occasion, and able and willing to steer the helm of state in the present storm. But we have no animosity towards any of them, and are prepared to support them, if they will.,enable us by their conduct to do so. We have urged up on t h e people the expediency of meeting Ministers in a conciliatory spirit, notwith standing all that is passed and gone. We now urge upon Ministers that it is their duty to meet the public more than half way. There ought t o b e on th e par t o f Minis ters no affectation of mystery—no attempt at conceal ments. We do not mean that councils about to be carried into act should be garrulously told, in order that foes as well as friends may hear. But we do insist upon the most complete explanation of what has been done ; upon a frank confess ion of mistakes and shor tcomings ; upon unequivocal indications that there shall be no room for complaint of tampering with principles or lack of vigour in the futu re. W e would rather see action than listen to talk ; b u t i f an irresolute and temporising policy on the part of the Government shall call for criticism, we have no fear that the most unreserved discussion can lead to anything but ultimate good. AUSTRIA. AGAIN. (From the Daily News.) A. morning contemporary published yesterday what purports to be an abstract of the treaty concluded be tween Austria and the Western Powers. We place little faith in this abstract. The journal in which it appears has been rather notorious of late for its readiness to give publicity to the most false and absurd reports upon slender or no authority. In addition to this, there is a precision in the details of the statement very remote from the vagueness which would be likely to characterise such accounts, as could escape by the indiscretion of officials, of the tenor of a treaty which is not, we believe, to be ratified till the 15th. There is, moreover, something so radically and incurably bad in what is alleged to be the purport of the fourth article of the treaty, that we will not believe any English Minister can have given his sanction to it, until the publication of the document may place the shameful fact beyond dispute. The tenor of the fourth article is said to be : "Eng land ri.nd France pledge themselves that the territorial pos sessions of the Emperor of Austria shall, under all cir cumstances, remain undiminished." England has sanc tioned the diminution of the territories of the Xing of the Netherlands. England did not interfere when one Sovereign in alliance with it—Louis Philippe —was stripped of all his territories. Why ? Because Eng land respected in every other people that right to choose their own ruler and form of government which our fore fathers successfully asserted at the revolution of 1688, and again on the accession of George I. England gua rantees the integrity of the Ottoman Empire against foreign aggression ; but England sanctioned and sup ported the Greeks when they shook off the Ottoman y o ke. In like manner England might consistently pledge itself to delend the Austrian Government and State against the aggressions of Russia or any other foreign power. But for England to pledge itself " that the territorial possessions of the Emperor of Austria shall, under all circumstances, remain undiminished," would be at once a base sacrifice of the rights of the people, a gross violation of one of the first prin c ipl es of justice, and a cowardly desertion of its hereditary policy. t For England to pledge itself that "the territorial poa. sessions of the Emperor of Austria shall, under all cir cumstances, remain undiminished, is to undertake to lend resistance, when called upon, to put down any at tempt on the part of the Hungarians or Italians to re assert their liberties. By what means could England fulfil such a pledge? Would an English Government send troops to fight against Italians or Hungarians in arms to assert their liberties ! Would an English Par liament vote a subsidy to hire troops to fight for the Emperor of Austria in such a cause ? Would the Eng lish people tolerate a repetition of the unutterable base ness of the statesman who caused Mazzini's letters to be opened, and who, by imparting their,contents to the Nea politan Government, made himself accessory to the murder of the Bandieri ? We will not believe that any English Minister has been base enough, by taking such a pledge, to yield himself up as a tool to a despot " under all cir cumstances." We will not believe that any English Minister can be such a fool as to expect that an English Parliament or the English people would tolerate such baseness on his part. A true English Minister, if in sulted by a request that he should take such a pledge, would quietly answer that England had put down in surrection in Ireland without asking the aid of Austria, and that Austria must not expect, aid from England should insurrections occur in any part of its dominions. He would go on to say that the English people, having exercised the right of deposing a Sovereign who sought to trample on the national convictions and will, could not with common decency interfere to prevent any other people from following their example. England's prin ciple and practice are to abstain from stirring up insur rections by intrigues in any neighbouring State ; to ab stain from all interference between nations and their rulers when in controversy or at war with each other ; and to recognise the de facto rulers of every nation as long as they maintain their place—believing that the national will is the cu2ly. legititeate tenure - a 9. Trernment. We repeat that nothing short of the prrAuction of the treaty can convince us that any English Minister can have been guilty of setting his nand to such a pledge. If the statement that the treaty with Austria contains such a pledge is false, Government ought not to lose a moment in disabusing► the •public mind. Every moment that they allow the assertion to remain uncon tradicted will be turned to account by their enemies to arouse a spirit of hostility to•wards theta. If unfortu nately the charge is true : tl e y may prepare to encounter such a storm of nationa:i indignation as has rarely burst upon the devoted hes.a s of a Ministry. Our hopes are sanguine that ultir:iately the story will only add one to the long list of ridiculous and mischievous canards to which the Tines has of late given currency. But should it, contrary to our expectations, prove true, the early publicity given to the terms of the treaty can only be attributed to tha treachery of the Austrian Government : that Government will, after seducing our Ministers to give such a pledge, have hastened to degrade them in in the eyes of the English people by proclaiming their abandonment of the principles of the English constitution. THE COSSACK. IThp Cossack, 20, screw, Captain E. G. Fanshawe, was taken out of dock, at Devonport, on Monday last, it having been discovered, as it was thought, that the leak, to remedy which she was taken into dock a second time, arose from some defect in the works connected with the machinery, which was remeiied. She was pl4ced at. moorings, in the Barbour, aaa it Is now found she continues to make the same quantity as before she was placed in dock—the cause of which is still a mys tery. A similar circumstance occurred in the case of the Daring, some years since. She was docked twice, and filled with water while in dock, but notwithstand ing the cause of the leak remained undiscovered—but after she had been at sea a short time the leakage ceased. HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER HECLA FOR THE BLACK SEA. Hecla, 6, paddle, Commander Hawker, has received her orders to be ready to sail to-morrow for the Crimea. An accident was well nigh depriving the first lieutenant (Berkeley) of the number of his mess. In hoisting in a boat, the gear gave way, and the derrick spar fell with force on the deck, striking severely the first lieutenant and two men. Had it pitched full upon them it must have destroyed all three ; as it was, the spar cut a large piece of cloth out of Lieutenant Berkeley's coat, and has given him a very heavy concussion, and, after strik ing the deck, bounded overboard. REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE PACIFIC. Monarch, 84, Captain Lyster, returned to Spithead yesterday morning, having carried away her foreyard in a heavy gale whilst working down Channel. She was supplied with a new one from the dockyard yesterday morning, and will doubtless have left for Plymouth during the night, as a favourable breeze set in from the northward. Captain J. A. Stuart, of the Chatham division, is ordered to hold himself in readiness to proceed to the Pacific, to join the President, vice Parker, killed in action at Petropaulovski, Brisk, 15, screw, Commander Curtis, put into Fal mouth on Tuesday from stress of weather, and for a supply of fuel. • CAPTURE OF A RUSSIAN BRIG. From Singapore the capture of a Russian merchant brig by a British cruiser, in the Straits of Sunda, the Brstpziza taken in those waters, was made known. The European residents had organised themselves for the protection of the colony, it being in a defenceless con dition. Yesterday advices were received, under date Gibraltar, Nov. 29, that her Majesty's ship Dauntless had arrived and passed on with stores for the Black Sea, as also the following ♦essels with reinforcements, stores, and am munition for the Crimea—namely, the Melita steamer, from Cerk ; the Clifton and Wildfire transports, the French steamers Phare and La Place, a French frigate and a French transport, all filled with troops. Yesterday, the 20 days' notice required by the act of Parliament in respect to the Russian prizes Themis, Lorentzein late master, captured by her Majesty's ship Cruiser ; and the Leucade, of which Spiridione Annonis was late the master, captured by her Majesty's ship Firebrand in the Black Sea, having expired, the Court of Admiralty will proceed forthwith to condemn them, and issue decrees of sale for the benefit of their captors, The name of the commander of the Lord Raglan transport, which went on shore off the Katcha in the late gale, is Livesay, and not Lindsay, as it was printed in our impression of Tuesday. MILITIA. The Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, the Marquis of Salisbury, having received her Majesty's warrant for ,embodying the Royal East Middlesex Militia, that regiment will assemble at Hampstead on the 26th inst., under the command of Colonel Wood. Since its last training in May it has given more than 100 volunteers to her Majesty's other forces. Yesterday 100 ♦olunteers from the York Militia, who landed the previous day at Southampton from Dublin, arrived at the head-quarters of the 7th, at Winchester, for service it that regiment. The West Essex Militia Staff have received notice at their head-quarters, Chelmsford, that the regiment is to come out for permanent duty. The Glamorganshire Militia is expected to be em bodied. The Hampshire Artillery will assemble this day at Fort Monckton, near Anglesea, for permanent duty, under Colonel Burnaby, R.A. This is the first Artil lery regiment embodied. The 4th Middlesex remain at Haslar Barracks, instead of proceeding to Ports mouth, as we announced. The Ist and 2d Regiments of the Warwickshire Mi litia have received their orders to be embodied without delay. The former will assemble at the county town, on Tuesday, the 19th inst. ; and the latter at Leamington, on Friday, the 15th inst., where they will remain until further orders. 106 privates of the Ist Regiment have enlisted into the regulars since their training in May last, but recruits are easily obtained. Captain Holman, of the Ist Devon Militia, by order of Colonel Earl Fertescue, has given notice that the regiment is ordered to be embodied on Monday, the 18th inst., and has summoned the men to assemble in the cavalry barrack-yard, at Exeter, at 10 o'clock of the morning of that day. THE ATTACK ON PETROPAULOVSKI. Amongst the passengers per the Atlantic, West, from New York, at Liverpool, was Commander Forsyth, pro moted from her Majesty's ship Virago, who was present at the Allied fleets' attack on the Russian possessions in the Pacific. The Anglo-French fleet had arrived in San Francisco, and had brought with them the Russian prize-ship which was taken off Petropaulovski, the Russian port which they had lately 'besieged. Colonel Fremont had been invited to a public dinner, which he declined in a letter full of gratitude for the proffered honour. Admiral des Pointes, commanding the French squadron, had paid a friendly visit to General Wool, and it was said the gene ral would return the compliment on board one of the French vessels. Her Majesty's steam-ship Virago, Commander Mar shall, arrived at San Francisco on the 28th October, in a passage of 6 days from Victoria, Vancouver's Island. President, 50, Capt. Burridge ; Pique, 40, Capt. Sir F. Nicholson ; and the French fri g ate Forte, Admiral des Pointes, remained in the harbour of San Francisco. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY• The lase overland mail brought details of the working of the East Indian Railway during the seven weeks from its partial opening on the 15th of August. The length of the line at present is 42 miles from Calcutta, 20 of which, from Hooghly to Pundooah, was opened only on the Ist of September, and it passes through no town of importance, while Pundooah, the village, is no thing but a large village. The receipts, however, for the seven weeks, averaged nearly 4601., and, allowing for the Sunday traffic, which had not yet commenced, it was calculated that the net profit might be considered to he vt the rate of nearly 6 per cent. per annum, or 1 per cent. above the interest guaranteed to the shareholders by the India Company. At the same time, it is stated that the traffic thus far had been carried on under all the disadvantages of incompleteness and inexperience, and that the transit of goods, which was looked to as a chief source of revenue., was not expected to be developed until the line shall have been carried further. Under these circumstances great confidence seems to have been established at Calcutta in the financial results of the undertaking, and, although it was admitted that, as it is the first railway opened in the presidency, no positive conclukions could be drawn from the traffic during the immediate excitement of such an event, a strong impres sion appeared to prevail that, not only would the ulti mate returns be great, but that they might, even from the present period, be expected to show a steady pro gress. The best mode of raising the necessary funds for the rapid extension of the above railway is understood to have been lately under serious discussion between the authorities in Leadenhall-street, the Board of Control, and the company, and an impression is entertained that the conclusion arrived at is to raise the guarantee of 41 per cent. on the Extension Shares to 5 per cent. This will enable the company to make calls of sufficiently heavy amount to obtain such sums as are immediately required, without issuing at present any additional shares. (From the Times.) The ratifications of the treaty signed at Vienna on Saturday last between Austria, France, and England will doubtless be exchanged as speedily as possibly, and the treaty itself will then be made known to the world. In the meantime a variety of conjectures have been hazarded on this important subject, some of which have been trans mitted to us by our own correspondents abroad ; but we are satisfied that the real substance and purport of the treaty has not yet transpired. Whatever may be its provisions, we undertake to affirm, from ouraknow ledge of the policy of the allied Governments and of the intentions of Austria, that it does not postpone for a period of three months the decision of a ques tion of ♦ital interest to the conduct of the war and to the future peace of Europe ; that it does not con tain any guarantee, either direct or indirect, of the possessions of Austria ; that it has never been intended to send a division of the Austrian army either to Varna or to the Crimea ; that it does not contain any promise of subsidy or secret article ; that the belligerent Powers have not in any way bound themselves to make any fresh propositions of peace to Russia, or to enter upon negotiations on any basis proposed by the German States; and, lastly, that, although France and England adhere to the Four Points Contained in their Notes of tho Bth of August, as the chief substance of their demands and the sole basis of negotiation at the present time they distinctly intimated what their interpretation of these propositions is, such as to include all the great objects of the war, and that the Cabinet of Vienna concurs in this intepretation of those terms. The conjectures we have mentioned having been more or less accredited and circulated in Europe, we feel it our duty positively to contradict them ; and we are inclined to believe that, when the articles of the treaty are known, they will prove much more consistent with the account we gave on Tuesday last of the result of this negotiation. Ii our information loe correct, although this convention is not an actual treaty of offensive and defensive alliance be tween Austria and the Western Powers, inasmuch as Austria is not at this moment at war with Russia, it is of nearly similar significance, and the strongest engage ment, which, under the circumstances, Austria could Sign. We mean by this expression that we believe the Emperor of Austria to have contracted a positive en gagement to enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with the belligerent states against Russia unless peace upon the terms exacted by all the Powers be concluded before the termination of this current month of December ; or, in other words, unless, in answer to the announcement of St. Petersburg, that Austria is about to join the Western alliance, the Em peror of Russia declares at once his inability to prolong the contest. Such an act of surrender on the part of the Czar is at present highly improbable. He rejected these terms in the summer, when they were presented to him in a more conciliatory form, and when they were not preceded by the invasion of the Crimea. Count Nesselrode declared that such terms could only be ac cepted by the Russian Government if it had already suffered the defeat and exhaustion of a protracted and unsuccessful war ; so that the very language in which the Emperor scornfully rejected this proposal seems to condemn him to abide by the consequences of that re fusal. The very first pledge of the sincerity of Russia, if she professed her readiness to enter into negotiations upon the conditions required by the rest of Europe, would be the entire cessation of her military movements and preparations ; these are, however, carried on with un abated activity. A despatch from Warsaw, dated the 4th of December, states that General Sievers is con centrating the First Infantry Corps of the Russian army, with a portion of the Imperial Guard, on the left bank the Vistula, that is, on the extreme western frontier of the' empire, while General Paniutin is advancing with the Secon I Infantry Corps on Podolia and Volhynia. Movements of this magnitude and importance, under taken by whole armies (for each infantry corps consists, when complete, of about 52,000 men) at this season of the year, when the troops would otherwise be taking up their winter quarters, indicate a conviction of the near approach of hostilities. Prince Gortschakoff, and the Russian agents in Germany, have been lavish of their promises and unsparing in their exertions to prevent the conclusion of the treaty between Austria and the Western Powors, but there is no reason to sup pose that they are authorised to make larger concessions after an act of all but direct hostilitythan they consented to make in the whole course of the previous negotiations. The policy of Austria, though slowly executed, has been steadily pursued ; she has given ample and repeated notice to Russia and to all the world that, if peace was not restored, she would throw the weight of her armies on the side of the Western Powers as soon as her prepa rations were completed and the factious opposition of her german confederates overcome. Accordingly, within four days after the conclusion of the additional article of her treaty with Prussia, which removed all uncertainty in that quarter, she entered into her present engagements with the Western Powers, which bring her to the verge of a declaration of war against Russia, and of an offensive and defensive alliance with France and England at the close of the present year. The effect already produced upon the whole of Ger many by the intelligence that the treaty with the West ern Powers is actually signed has been great and instantaneous. It is everywhere felt that the time is approaching when Germany may hope to play a bolder and a nobler part than she has hitherto borne in these transactions. The King of Prussia boasted the other day in the speech in which he opened the session of the Prussian Diet, that he was acting in the closest union with Austria, and that, whatever might be the necessities of the time, Germany would act as one body. We are not so sanguine as to believe that the inertia and the divisions of the Confederation can be so easily overcome as to make the German States parties to the agreement now subsisting be tween the allies, or to engage the federal forces of Ger many actively in the war ; but the Prussian Assembly, to which the words we? refer to were so recently ad dressed, can hardly fail to ask for proofs of that inti mate union with Austria, which means also union with the west of Europe ; and among the first objects of the alliance concluded at Vienna, we have no doubt that one of the chief purposes of the three powers is to apply their influence with energy to determine the future conduct of Prussia at this crisis. It is fortunate that at the moment when Ithe Chambers are just con voked at Berlin an event of this importance occurs, not in the obscure regions of diplomacy, but in the face ofEurope. A few days more will bring this treaty to the knowledge of the public, and the question will then be asked with authority whether Prussia intends to adopt the resolutionseof the triple alliance, or to separate herself from them by a neutrality, which is a disguised adherence to the cause of Russia. The King of Prussia is suspected in Germany of some secret en gagement or personal promise to Lis Imperial brother in-law, which precludes him from acting as an inde pendent German Sovereign on behalf of the honour and interests of his country ; and it is remedied with astonishment that the military forces of Prussia have been studiously removed from the Polish frontier, so as to leave the kingdom defenceless on the eastern side. But these suspicions will ere long be brought to a more decisive test ; for when Austria announces that she shall join the Western Powers, and -place herself at the head of the national party in Germany, unless the peace of Europe be immediately secured, the neu• [PRICE SD. trality of Prussia is, in fact, the only circumstance which encourages and enables Russia to carry on the war. • (Front the Morning Post.) Prince Gortschakoff, we are informed by a telegraphic communication, had, so lately as yesterday, a long audience with the Emperor of Austria, at Vienna ; as Russian Ambassador the prince can no longer stay if the Treaty of Alliance just signed be not a mockery. But with other credentials—as Russian Plenipotentiary for negotiating a peace—he may remain at Vienna with as much right as he might visit London or Paris, his object being the same. That the immediate result of this treaty will be nego tiations for peace we entertain little doubt, for Russia will not probably accept the alternative—namely, th e warlike action of Austria on the beginning of the new year. The opening of negotiation will be a considerable step gained by us—a considerable concession on the part of Russia ; because, in order to open negotiation, the Czar must admit the four bases laid down as starting points in the notes exchanged on the Sth of Augest. The negotiations, if, as we expect, they take place, will be conducted on the part of the Allies by the Plenipo tentiaries of England, France, Austria, and Turkey, and on the other part by the Russian Plenipotentiary. As Prussia takes no side in the war, she must not be per mitted to co•operate in negotiations for peace. She has taken her part. She has chosen to descend to the status of a second or third-rate Power, and has no more just claim to participate in a negotiation affecting the balance of power of first-rate States than Denmark, or Hanover, or Naples. Prussia posseiises neither the wide extent of territory, nor the vast commercial enterprise, nor the great manufacturing energy, that are necessary to con stitute a State first-rate. If she has held a proud posi tion in Europe, it has been due to the genius of Frederio the Great, and to the talent of her generals and states men, during the commencement of the present century. But they and their talent are gone, and folly may undo their great work. The present rulers of Prussia have thought fit to adopt, in the great affairs of Europe, a timid, shifting, selfish neutrality. But, if neutral in war, they must accept as a consequence insignificance in peace. Those who hide in corners may well be left in their obscurity ; and they who shrink from using such power as they have, remain in a position of impotence. So much, we believe, is this felt, even by the King of Prussia, even by the Russian Camarillo. of Berlin, that we are confident they will not be slow to obey the voice of the country and the Parliament, and to ask, on the part of Prussia, to be allowed to join in the negotiations for a settlement of the great European question in dis pute, and therefore to solicit that alliance with Austria, England, and France which but so recently was refused. It is impossible to suppose that negotiations will be opened, except upon:the concession of the four bases by Russia as the preliminary points. Upon this condi tion only can any negotiation be proceeded with. With the status quo ante Whim such a congress as we are supposing can have nothing to do, as offering any basis for peace. The four points as indispensable prelimi naries, and the further demands of Turkey and the Allies, are the matters for the consideration of such a congress and the Cabinets of which its members would be representatives. It is needless to observe how necessary it will be far the Western Powers, if such a congress open, to be on their guard against the insincerity of Russia, the mis chievous vacillation of Prussia, if admitted, and the pos sible urgency of Austria for that dear aim for which even some of our own statesmen are willing to sacrifice so much—we refer to " Peace at any price." It would be a sad blunder to sell our costly war material in the cheapest market, and by .our Peace in the dearest. But in this Eastern question we have had now so much ex perience of the temper and conduct of all parties con cerned that it would be inexcusable were we in any way to be duped. As we have already observed, the Emperor of Russia will either give in sincerely, or make an at tempt to play with our patience and damage our inte rests. If he give in, well • but, in the other case, it will be our own fault if we suffer a moment's trifling. It is hardly necessary to observe that the half-a-score of contradictory " accurate versions" of the Treaty just concluded with Austria are absurdly and patently in accurate. 'We will not be at the pains of exposing them. We shall have the text itself; no doubt, very shortly ; and, in the meantime, we know Austria has allied her self with the Western Powers to obtain such a peace as they require. If negotiations are opened, we shall see what will come of them ; and, if they are put a stop to, Austria, who has placed an insurmountable barrier between Russia and herself, has but one course left— namely, to support our cause in arms. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM COMPANY. Yesterday the proprietors of this company held their fourteenth annual meeting at their offices in Leadenhall street—Admiral Thornton in the chair. The aceounta and (report were read by the Secretary, from which we extract the following : " The revenue account shows that the gross revenue or income of the company, from freight, passage money, postal service contracts, hire of ships in the war service, and other sources, including the balance of undivided profits (4,4111. 7s. 11d.) brought forward from last year, amounted for the twelve months ending 30th September last to 1,333,2681. Es. ; that the total charges of all kinds on revenue for the same period, including interest on debentures, and the re serves made for repairs, insurance, and depreciation, amounted for the same period t o 4263,918/. 17s. 3d. ; leaving a net profit of 69,3481. 10s. 9d. ; out of which it is proposed to pay a dividend for the year of 5 per cent. on the share capital, estimated to amount to 66,2501. ; leaving a balance of 3,0981. 10s. 9cl. ; of which it is proposed to apply iu aid of a bonus, as subsequently explained, 2,2841.; and there will remain undivided, and to be carried to next year's account, 8141. 10x. 9d. " The capital account shows that the company stood possessed, on the 30th September last, of stock in ships, hulks, barges, docks, workshops, buildings, freehold and leasehold, in payments made on contracts for vessels in course of construction, stook of coals on hand, and naval and victualling stores, to the value of 2,558,7981. 3s. sd. ; also in cash at the bankers, bills receivable, balances in the hands of agents and debts due to the company, in th e course of liquidation, 192,0961. 15s. 9d.—total assets, 2,750,8941. 19s. 2d. The capital on shares received from the proprietors at that date amounted to 1,447,405/. ; raised on debentures, 500,0001.—total capital, 1,947,4051. The liabilities of the company on bills payable and other wise wore 339,623/. ls. 3d. ; making the total capital and liabilities, 2,237,0281. is. 3d. ; showing a surplus of assets of 463,8661. 17s. 11d. " Guarantee Insurance Fund.—Amount, Sept., 1853, 213,624/. 14s. 9d. • add 4 per cent. for sea risk on ships, valued at 1 , 250,0001., for the year, 50,000/. ; total, 263,624/. 14s. 9d.; deduct damages and law expenses arising from collision of Erin and Pacha, 46,7301. 7s. Bd. ; cost of Doura, lest in the China Seas in June last, 31,6711.105. 2d.; together, 78,4101. 17s. 101 ; total at the credit of this fund, 185,2131. 168. 11d." The report went on to state— " That a number of now vessels, recently completed, with others nearly finished, have been added to your fleet —all with screw propulsion. That these vessels are adapted, by their larger capacity and reduced cost of navi gation as compared with paddle-wheel steamers, to increase the earnings and lesson the expenses of the company. And that, although the withdrawal of so many of them for the war service deprives the company of those anticipated ad vantages for the present, the postal contract gives you a right to indemnity, should any loss be sustained on that account. They recommend a dividend of 5 per cent., clear of income tax, for the year ending 30th September last, payable on and after the 28th instant." The list of the company's fleet gives the names of 47 vessels, 40 steamers and 7 sailing ships, of an aggregate burden of 58,525 tons; of the steamers 8 are in the war service. The report, on the motion of Mr. Dent, seconded by Mr. Norton, was unanimously adopted. In reply to questions, Mr 4..Nbaicvs replied that only 500,000/. of the new capital would be called up for a considerable time to come at least. The sum that would be immediately called up would not be more than 200,000&, which had, in fact, been forestalled. The proprietors of this com pany were their own underwriters, and bore any loss that might occur from ordinary sea risk. In the event of any of their vessels being placed in a position of danger by the Government, as, for instance, under a battery, and she was sunk or injured in consequence, the Government would be liable. The resolution was then put and carried. Major IllsLor moved a resolution, that a dividend of 5 per cent, clear income tax for the year ending Sept. 30, 1854, be declared, and be payable on and after the 28th instant. Mr. MALIIOLLAND seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. RERAPATH moved a resolution empowering the directors to distribute a bonus of 1/. per share among the proprietors, which he was glad to say was to be free of income tax. (Cheers.) Mr. DEWAR seconded the resolution, which was also carried unanimously. A committee was afterwards appointed to consider what would be the most appropriate testimonial to pre se-it to Mr. Wilcox, the Into managing director, and to Mr. Andrews, both of whom had resigned vo luntaril y their per centage to which under the deed of settlement they were entitled upon the profits of the company. A vote of thanks to the chairman and his colleagues concluded the business. MANCHESTER AND THE WAIL—The following memo rial to the Mayor of Manchester is now in course of signature, and has already been signed by a number of the most influential liberals of Manchester, supporters of Mr. Bright :—" To the Worshipful the Mayor of Manchester.—Sir,—We, the undersigned, having learned that the letter of Mr. John Bright, M.P., on the war, has been translated and circulated in Russia as embody ing the sentiments of the people of Manchester, respect. fully request that you will call a public meeting, in order to enable the citizens to declare that they do not concur in the opinions of Mr. Bright, but are fully convinced of the justice and necessity of the war, and earnestly hope that it will he carried on with the utmost vigour until the objects for which it was commenced are thoroughly effected." /--- ,o- - u ~~. y. ~r~ _~ SMITIITIP,LD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday the number of visitors to the show exceeded that of almost any single day in previous years, nearly 20,000 persons having visited it during the day. In addition to those who attended the show as a means of pleasure, or merely for the purpose of seeing an extraor dinary fine collection of animals, there was a large num ber of persons intent on business, and considerable com petition existed among the purchasers of live stock. Nearly the whole of the prize animals have already been disposed of, at prices most satisfactory to the breeder and feeder, and the finest of the animals not honoured by the award of the medals have already passed into the hands of the butchers of th e me t ropo li s an d th e chief provincial towns. THE DINNER OF THE CLUB. The usual annual dinner of the members and friends of the club took place yesterday evening at the Free masons' Hall, Great Queen-street---his Grace the Duke of Richmond, president of the club, occupying the chair. Among the company present we noticed Lord Berners, Mr. William Miles, M.P., Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., Sir John Shelley, M.P., Mr. Sheriff Muggeridge, Mr. Ray mond Parker, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Druce, Mr. Jonas Webb, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Dr. Air, Mr. C. Barnett, Mr. R. Millward, Mr. Hudson, Professor Symonds, and others. The healths of her Majesty and of Prince Albert hav ing been drank, The noble CHAIRMAN proposed that the company should depart from its ordinary rule upon that occasion, and drink " The Health of Lord Raglan and the Army and Navy." The army in the Crimea (said the noble duke) had undergone privations of po ordinary character. Sent out some months ago to Bulgaria, the cholera had committed the greatest ravages among their ranks. When landed in the Crimea, the troops were compelled to carry the stupendous heights of Alma by sheer Bri tish pluck. Having the advantage of an old soldier at their head, the troops had most judiciously turned the flank of the army of the Emperor of Russia, and estab lished the base of their operations at Balaklava ; and since that time the British army had fought the bloody fight on the heights of Inkerman. As an old soldier he had no hesitation in saying that few armies had ever been called upon, in so short a time, to evince so much devotion to their country's cause. (Cheers.) Nobly had they performed their duty, an d may Pro ` vidence grant us ultimate success. (Cheers.) If we had men enough, and were supported by our French allies, he had no fear for the result, for he knew well that the British soldier could not be beaten. (Cheers.) He only expressed the feeling of every agriculturist in the country when he wished our noble army well ; an d, although we did not like to pay heavy taxes, yet if the taxes were called for either to save the lives or to add to the comforts of these brave men, who have devoted themselves to their country's cause, there would not be a farmer in England who would grudge the payment of his portion. (Cheers.) "The health of Lord Raglan and the At my and Navy" was drank with the greatest enthusiasm. The next toast proposed was that of " Success to the Smithfield Club Cattle Show." In proposing this toast, his Grace referred to the great advantages which had arisen from the formation of the club as well as to the farmer as to the consumer of meat. Many of the cattle now brought to the country markets were much better than they had been in former years • indeed, so greatly were they improved that had they been sent to some of the earlier shows of the club they would, in all proba bility, have then gained prizes. No man could be a proper judge of his own animals until he saw them in competition with those of other farmers and breeders ; and these annual shows afforded a most favourable op portunity of making these useful comparisons. The present show had been considerably above the average of former years. (Cheers.) He would not be tempted to enter into questions of agriculture and farming ; but expressed his most cordial wish that the tenant-farmers throughout the country would be more generally de sirous of obtaining leases from their landlords, for he did not think that any man of prudence ought to rest satis fied with investing his capital on the property of his landlord without some security for his future tenure. (Cheers.) The list of prizes having been read, the prizes awarded, and the healths of the successful candidates read, Lord BERNERS proposed " The health of the noble Chairman," a nobleman eminent, not alone as an agri culturist, but as an old and successful soldier, and one who in every situation had nobly and conscientiously done his duty to the utmost of his ability. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to the toast, said that he looked with feelings of the highest gratification to times long since gone by, when he had the power of being of some slight use to his country by participating in the privations and undergoing the dangers of the British soldier in those countries where duty called them. (Cheers.) He deeply regretted that his present state of health had prevented him going out to the Crimea. (Cheers.) Much as he liked dining at agri cultural meetings, he would still infinitely rather have been at the battle of Inkerman, leading a regiment into action, than receiving the compliments which the company had just paid him. (Renewed cheers.) As he was not able to go on foreign service, he was at all events able to do his best to promote the agricultural prosperity of the country ; for he believed that on the welfare and prosperity of the agricultural interest de pended the welfare of all other classes, and if good farm ing would not pay the heavy taxes to which the country was about to be subjected he was quite sure that bad - farming would not. (Cheers.) The healths of Alderman and Sheriff Muggeridge, Sir John Shelley, and the successful candidates, the judges, stewards, and of Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the secre tary of the club, were subsequently drank, and the company separated. THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY SHOW. Following immediately after the show of the Smith• field Club, the attention of the agricultural classes and the general public will next week be drawn to the an nual display in Birmingham, where the breeders and feeders of stock, in the midland counties especially, usually put forth all their strength, and where there is the additional attraction of a marvellous collection of domestic poultry. The great competitions at this season excite much interest, and hold out inducements for bringing together the best specimens of cattle which are to be found in the United Kingdom. They thus become schools of comparison from which tolerable good opi nions may be formed as to the value of stock, while these meetings are of national importance, as encouraging that particular branch of agricultural enterprise which has a relation to the supply of animal food. That these contests have become highly useful in this respect will be generally admitted, particularly now that the overfed beasts which formerly disfigured the Smithfield exhibi tions have disappeared, and their places supplied by ani mals of a more useful and profitable character. This is the object for which the Birmingham society was estab lished ; but hitherto some moral courage has been re quired in applying an effectual check to a practice which found apologists in the most influential quarters, and which it was easier to encourage than to put down. The Birmingham society holds it sixth exhibition this year, and a more convenient locality for meetings of this description cannot be found. It receives the cordial sup port of the landowners and tenant-farmers of the mid land counties, while first-rate stock of all descriptions is exhibited from every part of the United Kingdom. Sales are encouraged as far as possible, and, without this, a store-show is a comparatively useless spectacle. A. second meeting in the course of the year has been projected, but whether the management will carry this intention into effect remains to be seen. The Bingley-hall exhibition commences on Tuesday, the 12th, and terminates on Friday, the 15th inst. ALDERMAN SIDNEY AND THE COURT OF TEE ALDERMEN AND LORD ABERDEEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUIL Sir, —There is an unusually long notice of the pro ceedings in the Court of Aldermen in your journal of this day, and to my surprise I find myself the chief ob ject of attack, for having at a former court given notice of an address to the Crewn " for the removal from her Majesty's councils of the Right Hon. the Earl of Aber deen." I will not deny the perfect right of my brethren to canvass the expediency of my motion, but surely any British subject, whether a member of the Court of Aldermen or not, is justified in making known his opinions as to the amount of confidence either this or any other administration is entitled to. It is, however, rather too bad, that, being appealed to by several aldermen to withdraw the notice, and in. formed by another of their intention to prevent a legal court being constituted, after a private meeting held at the Mansion House on Saturday last, my motive in withdrawing it should have been impugned and my ab sence from the court attributed to cowardice. The Lord Mayor is reported to have expressed his opinion that my present views are the reverse of what I entertained when the news of the brilliant victory of the Alma reached this country ; I ex pressed then what every Englishman must have felt, that the immortal achievements of our army were entitled to the warmest admiration and grati tude ; but there is a wide distinction between the heroic bravery of our troop^. and the policy of dooming those troops to perish on the inhospitable mountains of a forei gn pro vided shore ; in being ordered to undertak e an Herculean at so advanced a period of the season, insuffic i en t ly with medical aid for the sick and wounded, badly clothed, with the cold earth for their only bed, and the heavens their only canopy, and reinfor cemen t s d e l aye d until their numbers became: so r e d uce d as to ma k e one tremble at the bar e thought that B i , n oo t o he br r a e r s -e ist m a e n i c i e sh o o f u a l n d be compelled to conquer or die enemy seven tim es th e i r own strength. If If it is impolitic to express such sentiments, that t e throughcoun thecountry h a supineness so f Government in time of war the nsubjected to imminent peril, then the press, b o th metropolitan and provincial, are equally deserving the sarcasms of those who attribute unworthy motives. But it may be asked, why did I abandon my motion? I reply, that since giving notice of it, Parliament has been summoned to assemble at a very early day, and every ono will prefer that the Minister should have the fullest opportunity for explaining his conduct to the country prior to a verdict being given. I urged this in a letter to the Lord Mayor, and that letter having been read to the aldermen assembled at the Mansion House on Saturday, should, in common fair- ness, have been communicated to the public yesterday. I am, sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS SIDNEY. Dec. G. ;71. ttingl