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Followed a Procession of the B. Sacrament and Benediction. Grand Vespers, at 7 p.m. Ivr(AIRIST S EVE, MIDNIGHT MASS at 11 . 30 p.m. I " lo —Haydn's No 2. -'IIRISTMAS DAY, HIGH MASS at 11 a.m. Music— yrtber's Grand Mass. Vespers at 3 p.m. _ "lIIION on Christmas Eve and on the Nativity. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TIRE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. T hin Company is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for sca-rcantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced le of rates. articulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle "re e GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO NI PANY. SPECIAL NOTICE. irecto ar now prepared to grant Insurances on • rellan D dise in rs th e e Port of Loudm at the REDUCED • LE OF RATES. Particulars to be obtained at the Offices, 11, Lombard- Etree t ' THE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE BONDS AND POLICIES. OF GUARANTEE ARE ACCEPTED BY Til t TREASURY, CUSTOMS, INLAND REVENUE, GENERAL POST OFFICE, WAR, ADMIRALTY, HOME, COLONIAL, INDIA, AND OTHER GOVERNME NT DEPARTME N TS. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. EIC RY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman. chn Cheatham, Esq., Staleybridg , . John Field, Esq Warnford-court, City. Charles For s t er , 'Esq., M.P. f.)r Walsall. chard Francis George, Esq , Bath 44 enry H. Harrison, Esq., Hamilton - place, St. John's-wood. l',,homas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Highbury. hn Hedginv, Esq., Cavendish Club J ames Edward M`ronnell, Esq.. Wolverton. C. W. Reynolds, Esq., Earon-place, Belgravia. Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Alajesty's Commissioner of rust ms, Bomb y. R. Wickham Wickham, Esq.. M. P. for Bradford. Thomas Winkworth, Esq, Gresham Ciub, and Canonbury. J. P. Bro An-Westhead, Eaq., M.P. for York. Security is provided in approved cases for Officers of Bank ing and Commercial Est blishments, Public Companies, litunicipal Corporations, and for oilier places of trust. Life A surance may be combined with Guarantee on ati vantag, ous terms. Proseectuses, Firms of Proposal• and every information may be ob ained from the Chief Offices, ?, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; and 39, Gorge-street, Edinburgh. THE CONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). Incorporated under " The Companies Act, 1862." Capital £1,000,000, in 40,10 Shares of £lOl each. First issue, 20,0c0 Shares. Deposit on arplication £1 per Share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. Wm. Latham Bailey, Esq. (Crawahay Bailey Brothers and ,t 2 t)•), Liverpool. "• Montague Baillie, Esq. (Saline, Baillie, Cave, and Co.), Old Bank, Bristol. nthony Kington Baker, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company. George S. Beecrolt, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and North-Western Rail vay Cornpqny. J oseph Boyce, Esq , Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland, and Midland Great Western Railway Company, Dublin. T hos. Dakin, Esq., Alderman. St auross Ditheroglue, Esq. (G. J. Cavafy and Co.), Thread needle-,,,_ street. ,‘,Y - Smith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works, Glasgow. 'hennas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens), Director of the tank of L on d on. Captain B. J. W. Jervis, M.P., Deputy-Chairman Great _ Eastern R a il way. Oct •vius Ommanney, Esq. (Hallett, Ommanney, and Co ), Westminster. J oseph Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hill. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster. SOLICITORS IN BRISTOL. Messrs. Daniel and Cox. AUDITORS. Messrs. Deloitte and Co., Lothbury. H. Allen, Esq., Threadneedle-street. BANKERS. Bank of London. Bankers at Westminster, Messrs. Hallett Ommanney, and Co. London— BROKERS. IVlessra. P. Cazenove and Co. Dublin—Messrs. Boyle, Low, and I'im. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) J. C. Handfield, Esq. Temporary Offi,:es-31, Threadneedle -street. This Company has been constituted for the purpose of undertaking the execution and construction of railway- and other works both at home and abroad, a class of business hitherto exclusively conducted by private co •tractors. The large fortunes wh c i have been realised by them. not withstanding obvious disadvantages, sufficiently attest the Soundness and value of this enter, rise. It is admitted that, in many instances, the terms up on which - 1 lone contra3rs, even of known position and wealth, are enabled to raise the necessary funds for carrying 'their ' , Aerations into effect ,re so onerous that it is only by profits of extraordinary magnitude that such charees can be met ; and it follows that a Company having a large capit 1 sub scribed by a wealthy proprietary, and with an able executive, would enjoy great advantages and, at tue same time, fre qUeutly afford im ortant aid to the individual contractor. The sub-lettings of contracts are known to be an important source of profit. In addition to this the Company will pos sess the advantage of raising funds upon debentures secured upon its unpaid capital at rates which would be small as com pared with those charged to sub-contractors. It is not con template therefore, therefore, to call up any considerable portion of W 4e c pita( unless the operations of the Company may show ill be des ranle. The security of a large subs ribed c a pit a l illc necessarily inspire confidence on the part of Govern- Financial Companies, and others with whom the (3° .. l oPany may have to deaL in the event of no t allotment being made the deposits will ye returned in tul l. Should a less number of shares be al -4°l' ed than are applied or the deposit will be made available `owards the eayme .t on allotment, and the balance, it any, returned to the applicant. ob i tH i n Tctusesforms of application for shares may be d at the offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Oolicf ors. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Contract Corporation (Limited). Of Centlemen, —H av i ng paid to the Bank of Lon d on t h e su m , I request you to allot me shares, in the Contract Corporation (Limited), and I hereby agree tr, be ec:nie a me m b er o f t h e Society, and to accept such shares, or 41, 3' less number that may be al otted to me; and I request Mt to haremy name on the Register of Members in respect of the llotted to be. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address Usual signature Date MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. 3 e xecute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the W,rar. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. I, radon and Karr Market Bank. p os t-„& e O r d ers p a y a bl e a t C am b er - W ell-park. N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—BoTT and JACKSON, " Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powd er, ci and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahar a . , se cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These ' costly and inimitable toilet preparat.ons render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful had ly at beyondS comarison.—Can be on Atadame ItACEI ..L, All communications New Bond-street, where she can be consulted communications are strictly confide n ti al. daily,' PRIZE MED:"----9„L-..1/g-----E RNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862 T FR.IL.NC.IS TUCKER do CO., Wax Chandlers To the Qu,en and the P i nce of Wales. (Established 17'0.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Chur Candles i n i o „„ testifies to he excellence of the quality of Messrs, %rn - e i` e ' r ':. 'Maw acture. A di sti guished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tuck er and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have f oun d th em f u lly equal to the recommendation Iv, i 3 h you gav e them , and can sincerely , in my tun, recom rnu end them t o th e clergy' for the use of the altar." Fi nest quality, with Pl a tt e d Wicks, patented.. 2 s. 2 d. per lb , k ) rdinar y quality .. 2•. Cd. per lb. VEGETABLE CA.NDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Il est quality . .. la. sd. per lb. Third quail •• •• •• .. ls. 3d is. ld. lb. .. .. .. hirct quail Y• • • .per lb. • C arriage pa.d in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. - - FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO, . 8 , South Molton-street. Gr osveno - -square. Manufactory — Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establislimmt in England for the Manufacture of the Altar. Wax Candies for the use ef ORNAMENTS for the Drawing - room, Library, .nd Dining-room, consisting of a new and ehegant assort tnent u VAS ER Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks Ink 4 Mine .- - ttands, ~e autitul inlaid Tables, Paper wights, Aze,, i n i t ; o3 . - .; lklaba;.4 er, Partin, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire S , -- ,i" ~4 1, Ported and nu:sutured by JAMES TENNAN `alOgiSt to her llajesty, 149. Stand. W.C., Lonaon. 1/ 11 .,,, Er . :Pennant arranges elementary collections of SIIELLB, i" E.FALS ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly . • , itcllita4,e tle stud, N CH — OLOGY. .nd interesting GEOLOGY, at 2, 0 f 5, M 10, 20, INERALOGY CO 60, to 100 gui neas each . R I : I L T ‘CTICAL INSTRUCTION In GEOLOGY and MINE. -",, )6- IC is given by Mr. TENNAN r. at 149, Strand. 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Now ready, at all the Booksellers, in 1 vol., 7s. 6d., T HE DESTINY OF NATIONS, AS INDICATED IN PROPHECY. By the Rev. JO IIN CU3I3IING, D.D. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Mariboroug,h-sfreet. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE WIFE'S EVIDENCE. By W. G. WILLS. "A remarkable novel. It has a marked, earnest purpose, urged with the utmost pow*r. It is a story of rare and in tense interest."—Morning Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great 3larlborough-street. Now ready, illustrated by Millais, ss. bound, °HEAP EDITION OF LOST AND SAVED, k j by the Hor. Mrs. NORTON, forming the New Vo'ume of "HURST and BLACKETT'a tTANDARD LIBRARY." " A novel of rare excellence, with a brave soul speaking through it. It is Mrs. Norton's best prose work."—Examiner. Hurst and Black. tt, 13, Great Marlborough-stree.. MR. J, A. FROUDE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Now ready, in Bvo., with Medallion, Vols. L and II„ price 285., THE REIGN of ELIZABETH; being Vols. VII. and VIII. of The History of England from the Fall of Wols yto the Death or Elizabeth. By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, ALA, late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Vols. I. to IV. Reign of Henry VIII. 2d Edition, £2 14s. Vols. V. and VI. Edward VI. and Mary, 28s. London :'Longman, Green, and Co., Paternoster-row. On Wednesday next, in post Bvo., 10s. ed., CHRISTMAS AT OLD COURT. By the Author of "Richelieu in Love." Richard Bentley, New Burlingt sn• street. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) will commence a New Novel, to be continued Alonthly, entitled— THE DOCTOR'S • WIFE. By Author of "John Marchnpntls Le Itcy," "Lady Audle 's 'ecret," ttc. Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF SACKVILLE CHAUE." In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) of the ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE will commence THE MAN IN CHAINS. BY C. J. COLLINS. London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. T HE TEETH, As Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By 31. C. ROGERS, 31.R.C.5., Surgeon-Dentist. London: 18, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTI FUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK. OF B E A U T Y. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. ATJULLIEN'S CONCERTS. .111 L • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Positively the Last Night but One 01 the Season. THIS VE v ING, M. Jullien's new QUADRILLE, THE GREAT CONGRESS, introducing the .National Melodies of different nations. Vocalist, Mdlle. VoLPINI. Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Commence at B.—Admission, One Shilling. M. Jullien's BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW ( ATURDAY), and the GRAND BAL D'OPE RA on MON DAY next, the 21st inst. OYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL qb ISLIIGTON.—GRAND TOURNAMENT, HIP- PoDROME, and CIRQUE, on a scale of magnifiPenee hitherto unattempted in this country, will open on BOXING DAY. ROY AL AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—CROCKETT, the renowned LION RING, will rn4ke his First Appearance in Loudon with his wonderful troup of Lions on BOXING DAY. Lessees—Messrs. STRANGE and JULLEYN. H E 0 XF O R D, R, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir A. Nishop ; also, from LA. FORZA DE DES t INO— Verdi ; by the following talented artistes —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, %N,lmslev, Tyrrell and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Finish, Kimberley, Stuart, rte. Also, Solos on the Violin by VIO COLLINS, the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr S HAL ICENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by , UNSWORTIT ("or any ()Liter man "), Eucrene, W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Macligan, and the marvel lous Gymnast, J. Henderson. In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas Eve, sup ported by the entire company, a new and original ('antat entitled "King Christmas " written by Litchfield Mosely, Esq., and composed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the estub,ishment. Director, Mr. F. Jong,hmans. „THE GHOST CLUB” at th e CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting' S nectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MO RTON is enabled to announce that, throu , 11 the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is n . ghtly held at the CAN TER RURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London ; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictu , es of the drama of real lite, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teaching,s or pleasantries of the hest wr tars. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slaver , of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these lil e pictures will be rapidly t eplace t I , y oth rs. The pages f Shakspere and the el er Dramaiists. of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., wi 1. in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. An the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. -ROYAL ALHAMBRA. PALACE. - IM MIAINSE SUrCESS. Houses Crowded Nightly. FRANC(NI'S CI ttQUE IMPEKIAL. The most talented Male and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, and the best Stud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World. Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Thy Performances on Mondays, Wednesda3 s, and Saturdays, at 'l7 ,o. Admission—Reserved seats, Bs. ; stalls, 2s. ; promenade, is; private boxes, one guinea. 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Woodcock, Chemist The following is the passsge referred to : It has been a fashion of late to talk of an extension of the franchise as something not to be tolerated, because it is as. sumed that the mass of the people are not fitted to take a part in Government, and they point to America or France, and other places, and draw comparisons between this coun try and others countries. Now, I hope I shall not be consi dered revolutionary, because at my age I don't want any revolutions. They won't serve me, I am sure, or anybody that belongs to me. England may compare very favourably with most other countries, if you draw the line in society tolerably high, and if you compare the condition of the rich and the upper classes of this country, or a considerable por tion of the middle classes, with the same classes abroad. I don't think a rich man, barring the climate, which is not very good, could be very much happier anywhere else than in England; but when my opponents treat this question of the franchise as one that is likely to bring the masses of the people down from their present state to the level of other countries, I say I have travelled in most civilised countries and that the masses of the people of this country do not compare so favourably with the masses of other countries as I could wish. I find in other countries a greater number of people with property than there are in England. I don't know a Protestant country in the world where the masses of the people are so illiterate as in England. These are not bad tests of the condition of a people. It is no use Your r eop t a h r e iso i talking of your a rm y an d nav y, your exports and your ins ports—it is no use t e lli ng me you h a ve a small portion o f your peopl e exceed i ngly well off. I want to b r i ng t h e test Jr ! o o e rgs atyd in of to sumo people n th of n t gi h ns e oi n ut i ii a fe j or o r r ec i t go y un n o tc f roi u t e the r i p e e Ns o o p ww l e a, with a, yt a cwo m ir at a h. - pare favourably, The condition of the English peasantry has no parallel on the face of the earth. (Rear.) You have no other peasantry but that of England which is en tirely divorced from the land. There is no other country in the world where you will not find men holding the plough and turning up the furrow upon their own freehold. I don't want any agrarian outrages by which we should change all this; but this I find, and it is quite consistent with human nature, that wherever I go the condition of t h e peo pl e is generally pretty good, in comparison with the power they have to take care of themselves ; and if you have a class entirely divorced from political power, while in another country they possess it, they will be treated there with more consideration, they will have greater advantages, they will be better educated, and have a better chance of having property than in a country where they are deprived of the advantage of political power. (Hear.) You will observe in the above passage from my speech, taken from youc own report, that I use the words, "I don't want any agrarian outrages by which we shoula change all this;" and now we roust appeal to the tribunal of the lexicographer. If you turn to Webster's (quarto) Dictionary you will find the word " agrarian" interpreted, on the authority of Burke, as follows :-- Relating to lands, Denoting or pertaining to an equal division of lands ; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands equally among all the citizens, limiting the quantity which each might enjoy, Again, in the same dictionary the word agrarian ism is given as " an equal division of lands or pro perty, or the principles of those who favour such a division." Thus, in repudiating the agrarian sys tem I repudiated in pure and unquestionable Eng lish, according to Burke, the principles of those who favour an equal division of land; I repudiated the agrarian laws of Rome; and yet, in spite of this, you charge me and Mr. Bright with "proposing a division among the poor of the lands of the rich," and you associate us with Gracchus in schemes of socialistic spoliation. I will leave Mr. Bright's case or the future, as you seem to prefer it, to his own good keeping, merely observing that his remarks upon the land question were more slight and inci dental than even my own, and quite as incapable of being perverted to your sense. I must add a word with reference to the explana tion I- have given-of what weiCgassing in my mind when I spoke at Rochdale against agrarian outrage. In the House of Commons a speaker is allowed to put his own interpretation and meaning on his dis puted utterances. This is fair in viva voce discus sions. But I decline to claim or accept the benefit of this practice in the present case. There is no dispute as to what I said. I accept your own ver sion of my speech ; it is a marvellously accurate re port, and I will abide by every word of it in its simplest and most obvious meaning. And now, having given you the above materials, which I do solely to leave no ground for a pro longed correspondence, I ask whether you are pre pared to adhere to the charge that I rroposed at Rochdale on the 24th ult. to divide " among the poor the lands of the rich," and, if so, I call on you to cite those "certain passages" from my speech which you say " will bear no other interpretation." I must be allowed to remind you that it is now wholly a question of proof; that there is but one issue before us, and that any attempt to evade this issue by raising others, or entering on vague and irrelevant discussions, cannot be tolerated. I will repeat the assumption that yon could not have made this grave charge without believing it to ? be founded in truth; that in alluding to " certain pas sages,', you thought them to exist. I call on you to produce them in the specific form in which you would feel bound to establish your charges before a solemn legal tribunal, and as you are still more bound to do, at that higher tribunal, the public opinion of this country, to which this correspondence will be referred. _ I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, *lidhurst, Dec. 14. R. COBDEN. P.S. I purposely abstained from saying a word in the body of my letter in answer to other parts of your communication, because I wished to have a distinct and categorical answer from you on the single question at issue; but, as you seem to be curious upon the subject of my alienation from your pages, I will give you a trivial historical inci dent. When entering on the arrangement of the details of the treaty with France, in Paris, in the spring of 1860, I found that the Times arrived daily at the offices of the Commission, in rue de l'Universil e. While every faculty of my mind was employed on the task in hand, I found my efforts thwarted and opposed day after day in the columns of your journal, where the treaty was in cessantly denounced, ridiculed, and misrepresented. I knew of course that the statements made in the Times were groundless, I knew that the writers could not know them to be true, and I believed then, as I believe now, that you were actuated by the mercenary fear (foolish enough, as I say) that the abolition of the paper duty, which was contem plated as a part of the measures in connection with the treaty, would be injurious to the interests of your journal. To prevent this you appeared to be ready to destroy the treaty, defeat the Budget of the year, sacrifice Mr. Gladstone, or worry me to death. I was tongue-tied and could not speak, owing to my cfficial position, and it was only through the confidence which the Chambers of Commerce placed in my commercial knowledge that I wets enabled to defeat your unpatriotic efforts. I was naturally led to inquire how the Tones reached the Commissioners' office, and was told that it came from home as a part of our equipment. It seemed strange enough that a Government pro fessiog to desire the success of the treaty should favour a journal which was doing its best to pre vent it. Resolved that so long as 1 was at the head of the Commission the Times should not enter the premises, I sent a communication to the proper quarter requesting that the Daily News should be substituted in its stead. This was done, and from that time the Times has never entered my house except by accident. TO RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P. Sir, —Having done already all that in your first two letters you seemed to think essential to your purpose, having abandoned " the shield of an im penetrable secrecy," having refused to "suppress my individuality," or to " shield myself under the third person of the editorial nominative," I might very reasonably decline to do more than acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, and leave you to that remedy which you seemed to think all-sufficient if you could only confront a living man instead of an impersonal entity. It appears to me, however, that I have been dragged into this correspondence entirely by the exaggerated intensity you have chosen to attach to the often-quoted phrase, "Mr. Bright's proposition for a division among the poor of the lands of the rich." The very passage to which you refer me with so much 4enfiden6e conveys, in my opinion, the whole of this meanieg. You seem to assume that I charged you with proposing that this division should oe accomplished by violence. But your own words were there to prove to me that such was not your meaning, and to confute me instantly if I had at tempted to attach that interpretation to it. There are, hc*eier, as no one knows better than yourself, other and Mots effective, because more enduring, means than violendii for the division of the land of We see in France, for the rich among the pool'. described to your Rochdale exam ple, the effect you d in England—the amorcel audience as so desira ted ble -puced by the law of succes- l enie nt of the land sion which prevails therifi A similar measure proposed by yourself, or by Mr Bright, and carried in a Parliament elected princi pally by the peasantry whom you desire to enfran chise, because they would then §‘ have a better chance of having property," would in two or three generations not only check the accumulation of land i n f e w h an ds, but would break up all existing estates great or small, a nd thus ler g el y increase th 6 number of proprietors. In another generation, probablYc the peasant himself would " turn up the furrow 0.7 h is own freehold," and be no longer " divorced trot: the land." Yon suggest so obviously that it is by legislative measures—rendered possible by giving political I Power to the peasantry —you propose to " amend the unequal distribution of the land between the that no one would think of rich and the poor,'' chargin g you with endeavouring to effect this great change by violence. But if you did not desire to produce by other means than violence a "division among the poor of the lauds of the rich," allow me to ask, with all re t!pect, what is the m eaning an d o bj ect o f t h e pas sage to which you have referred me ? As I write I find that Mr. Cobbett is in a similar difficulty. For myself. I can but repeat that " certain pas sages in your speech will, in my opinion, bear no other interpretation than that ascribed to them," andwhich yotlh I have yourself quoted th e ver y passages upon rely to justify my opinion. —I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Dec. 16. JOHN T. DELANE. P.S.—ln your postscript you mention what you call " a trivial historical incident." It is of little interest to me or to the Times why or when you ceased to read it; but you must allow me to remind you that the Times, as the largest consumer of paper, has always recognised its own interest in the abolition . of the Paper Duty. Your negotiation a' Paris Iff: cted not the limes, but the papermakers , who complain, as I still think justly, that while 5 ou made such concessions to France as the under taking to levy no export duties on coal, you omitted to stipulate that the French export duty upon the materials of paper should not be maintained. Surely it was not unbecoming a great commercial journal to remind the British negotiator of such neglect while there was yet time to amend it ? ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 17. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) . THE MURDER AT WHITTIASY. JohnTireen7Clabourer, 25 years of age, was charged with the murder of Elizabeth Brown, at Whittlesey, OR the 12th of March, 1863 and William George Smedley, de scribed as a magistrate, age 45, was charged that he did feloniously receive, harbour, and maintain the said John Green, well knowing him to have done and committed the felony aforesaid. Mr. D. D. Keane and Mr. Markby conducted the prose cution; the prisoner Green was defended by Mr. Metcalfe and Mr.Orridge ; and Smedley by Mr. Sergeant Tozer, spe cially retained. The case excited great interest, and the court all day was very full. Excellent arrangements were, however, made by the persons in charge, so that at no time was it inconve niently crowded, This trial should have taken place at the last summer assizes, but quite unexpectedly, and at the last moment, the prisoner Smedley, who before the magistrates and coroner had been examined as a witness for the prose cution, was given into custody and indicted jointly with the prisoner Green. Mr. Metcalfe was then instructed to defend both prisoners, and feeling embarrassed by this sud den step on the part of the prosecution, applied to the late Mr. Justice Wightman for the postponement of the trial. After some discussion and consultation with the Lord Chief Baron, the application was granted. To-day Mr. Keane stated the case for the prosecution, and the following narrative will embody what he said. Mr. Whyle is a maltster, having large premises in the town of Whittlesey, and both prisoners, at the time of the murder, were in his employment—Green as a labourer, the elder prisoner as foreman. Adjoining the malting is a publichouse called the George and Star; and on the night preceding the murder there was a dance at the house. The prisoner Green and the woman were there (Green only at the dance), and at about half -past one in the morning were last seen leaving the house together, going down the lane in a direction for the malting. This was the last time she was seen alive, and between that time and 6 o'clock the prose cution say the poor creature was barbarously murdered. A na tive of Whittlesey, she had :e d a very immoral life, and at the time of her death was about 35 y ears of age, living in a gaininga her livelihood by pro s tit ut i on . Th e prisoner ma rried man, and also a nat i ve o f t h e place, and lived at i lnham's End. It seems that i n Whittl e - cottage lived Green sa m sey the ancient custom of ringing a morning bell at a quar ter before six still exists, and there is a functionary styling himself the public beliringer. On the morning of the 12th of March he was going rather late to the church bel fry when he was startled by a sound as of a door hastily shut. He looked round towards Mr. Whyte's malting door, but saw no one, and went on to his duty. A f ew minutes after this a man named Stevenson, going to his work and towards Inham's End, was passed by a man running fast towards the prisoner's cottage. His braces were hanging down, and Stevenson called out, "You'll lose your brace, old partner." The man continued running, adjusted his braces without turning, and his face was not seen, but al most immediately after two men coming from Inham's End met a man running whom they distinctly recognised as the prisoner Green. He was well known to both, and they saw that he was dressed in the clothes he had been wearing the night before. A men living in a cottage next door to Green also heard about this time a noise as of some one running towards his house, and almost immediately Green's street door open and some one go upstairs to the bedroom. The prisoner Smedley pow must come upon the scene, for on going to his work as usual to the malting, immediately en opening the door of the kiln furnace room he found the roo m filled with a thick s moke, and saw the body of, ashe supposed, a man lying upon a heap of smouldering sacks. He turned back at once, and meeting in the street a matt named Robinson, called to him, " Jim, Jim, make haste, Jim, Jack Green's got burned to dead. I know he's dead, for he can't speak. He's in the kiln house." Robinson at once went and Smedley with him ; they were soon joined by more, and Mr. Crisp, a surgeon, was sent for. The doors and windows being opened and daylight becoming stronger, it was found that a settle opposite the furnace door within two or three feet of the fire was burning, and upon a heap of partly burnt sacks was the bodyof a woman, partly consumed and still burning. Water was thrown on and a door brought, on which the remains were placed. It was a horrible sight. She was lying on her back inclining towards the left side, the hands were clenched, the knees drawn up towards the body, the tongue protruding and almost bitten in halve s b y the teeth, the features much burnt away, the eyeballs col. lapsed by fire, and much of the tissues and muscles destroyed. On attempting to raise the body it was found that the left arm was brokenin an oblique direction between the shoulder and elbow, and not only broken, but the part from the frac ture removed as if by some instrument, for the edges of the bone were clear and untouched by fire. This part of the arm was never found, and on a minute examination made by Mr. Crisp, some of the ribs were found fractured as if by some instrument and untouched by the fire. From these circum stances there can seem little doubt the poor creature was, cruelly murdered before an attempt was made to burn the body. Green, who usually came to his work a little before six, did not arrive this morning so early, and was sent for by Smedley. His wife answered the messenger from the bedroom window, and soon after Green came to the place and assisted with others in disposing of the remains. The same morning. about eight o'clock, Smith, the superinten dent of police, in the presence of Mr. Whyle, spoke to Green, who was then at his work, asking him what time he left the malting the night before, and when he got home. He turned pale, looked confused, and said he left the malt ing about half-past eight, and was at home by 11 o'clock. Being asked further if he had seen Elizabeth Brown last night, he said he saw her in the George and Star taproom, but never saw her afterwards. Shortly after he was taken in custody, and it was then observed that his clothes emelt strongly of burning, and his hair was slightly singed. H e said to the policeman, Oh pray don't, pray don't," and trembled violently. Near the body of the woman was found a cap belonging to him, and which some women had seen him in the George and Star the night before believed he then wore. A son of this risoner Smedley was called fer the prosecution, and expned that the malting doors had Chubb's locks, and were always carefully locked by his father upon leaving work. If the prisoner Greeen could possess himself of the keys he might have entered and admitted the woman, but nothing seemed disturbed, and there was no unusual appearance with the exception of a window, a pane of which was broken, as it was suggested, from the inside, and some foot marks on the yard gate, and an impression of a boot t o b n e some ice on the top of a water cask that stood inside. gates. It may now be asked, but how is SmedblepTalrine impli cated cated ? He was a witness in the first instancreh:af nd nmagistrates against the prisoner Green in solicitorsee for the be tween that time and the assizes in July it come to the knowledge of Mr. Smith, theetWhittlesey, that prosecution and clerk to the magistrates was returning •of the murder, as SmedleyAlarnes to have to on the morning body lying on he met the driver of the the floor, before giving an alarm, for him, and that he from the malting after he had discovered the m ail cart, who was to carry being • told he had, instead of asked if ho had received it-- n he told the next man he met, telling what he had Smith there seemed nothing '1 cart driver told D r. Themai and upon Mr Smith con addressed as " Jim I Jim!" unusual in Smedley' d Smedley, the latter admitted ho said who it will be rememit:binsetraesudeneihare, fronting the driver sad "he Rot not hi ng to the dr iver llis present (Mr. Whyle) had employ e d mas ter know."ars, w ith a char acter an d upon entering his servi ce h e ,h e was frightened, he did a'im for th e last two ye t e r for go od conduct from his last eta.' 4th whom for 20 years and up war d s. he had b een -idence Smedley was given into custody, and 'e hanging over his head for five months. nly went as far as this—and upon -11 witnesses who could prove no came rloyer, Upon such o. has had this char t , Tu•day the evidence Mr. Keane continuing to (h.. more, Mr. Baron Martin interposed, At, there was no more a case against Se4ot le,, h i m self (the learned judge). There was no elm— ever that he knew any felony had been committA «- law, uulees it could be cl ear l y s h own th a t holi.uow of L., said, in his opinion than against J ena) what• .nd in PRIM—. —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. felony, and then assisted the felon, he could not be con- victed, The prosecution against Smedley was then withdrawn, and the case closed against Green, and it being nearly five o'clock, The learned Judge said he should not sum up the case to-night, and would, if Mr. Metcalfe wished, now adjourn. The learned counsel, however, elected to address the jury on behalf of his client at once, and urged strongly upon the jury the very unsatisfactory nature of the medical testi mony. The Court adjourned at the conclusion of Mr. Metcalfe's speech. HOME cmcurr.—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 17. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) CHARGE OF ARSON.—Sydney George Snead, 33, a re spectable looking man, i•urrendered to take his trial upon a charge of having feloniously and maliciously set fire to a dwelling house in his occupation, persons being therein at the time. Mr. Barrow prosecuted and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. This case stood over from the last assizes. It appeared the prisoner carried on th e b us i ness o f a ta il or a t Rochester, and that his mother lived with him, and two maiden sisters , named Anne and Elizab e th Garish who occupied two rooms ---'one on the first fiJOI a s a sittingroom, and another as a hareem. The fire that was the subject of inquiry tookplace on the night of the 30 th of March l as t, an d it appeared that the two ladies above - mentioned went t o b e d about a quarter to 10 o'clock at night, and very shortly afterwards they heard the prisoner' s mother go to her bedroom and in a few minu t es thereafter the prisoner also went to his own room, and, according to the evidence, y almo st immediately after wards the house was discovered to be o n fi re. Tie ladies endeavoured to go down the stairs, but there was such a quantity of smoke coining from the lower part of the house that they were unable to do so, and they eventually ma d e their escape by a ladder from their bedroom window. The prisoner and his mother also got out, and none of the inmates of the house received any injury, although no doubt but for the timely discovery of the fire their lives would have been seriously endangered. Mr. Radley, superintendent of the Kent constabulary, and some of his men obtained admission to the premises very soon atter the alarm was given, and they succeeded in putting out the fire be fore any material amount of mischief was done; and it appeared the company with which the prisoner had effected an insu rance (the Commercial Union) paid him the amount of his loss by the fire, the agent stating, as was proved during the trial, that " it was not worth their while to contest claims of such a trifling cha , - , meter, or to prosecute, whatever their suspicions might be. The magistrates of the city of Rochester, howe ver, from the facts that were laid before them, felt it to be their duty in the interest of the public to take up the matte r, and it ap peared that the prisoner was in the first instance summoned before thew, and the result was that he was committed to take his trial upon the present charge, which would have been disposed of at the summer assizes, but an application was made to Mr. Baron Channell to postpone the trial, which was granted, and in the meantime the prisoner was allowed to be at large upon bail. The principal facts that appeared to be relied upon in support of the charge were, that accord ing to the opinion of the two ladies who lodged in the house, at the time the prisoner went up to his bedroom the house was actually on fire, and he must have been aware of the fact ; and it appeared that they made an observation to this effect to the prisoner on the night the fire happened, and he replied it was all right when he went up to bed ; and this, according to the theory of the prosecution, could not have been the case. Another circumstance relied upon to sup port the charge was that upon the police going into the house they found fire under the stairs, and after they had extinguished the fire they discovered that the counter in the shop was on fire in two places, and it was suggested that these were all distinct fires, and could not have been commu nicated one to the other. It also appeared that when prisoner was questioned about the fire by the superintendent he said the house was quite safe when he left the lower part of it, and that he was in bed when the alarm was given ; but upon the officer going into his bedroom the bed did not ex- hibit any appearance of having been slept in. Besides this, it appeared that in the bedroom of the prisoner's mother there was found, fastened to the bed, a long cord, knotted and with a hook at the end, which was evidently ire ended as an instrument to facilitate the escape of any person in case of the house being on fire. The whole of the facts proved in support of the prosecution appeared, however, merely to make out a case of suspicion; and with regard to the last mentioned piece of evidence, it appeared that the prisoner told the officer that the rope had been in the possession of his family for a great many years, and there were no grounds for doubting this to be the fact. A good many of the suspi cious circumstances in the case were also to a considerable extent explained away in the course of the cross-examina tion, and it was not at all distinctly negatived that the fire was the result of accident. Mr. Ribton made an able address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and he contended that the evidence had alto gether failed to establish the fact that the fire had been oc casioned wilfuay, and he urged that it was monstrous to suppose that the prisoner should have committed such an act, which might have resulted in the death of his own mother, without, as it appeared to him, anything like an adequate motive for the commission of such an atrocious crime. In the course of his observations the learned coun sel said that it was clear the case had been got up by the police, and that it exhibited a strong illustration of the want of a public prosecutor ; and he said if there had been such a functionary, he felt satisfied that such a charge would never have been brought forward. Ho then proceeded to com ment upon the facts of the case, and said that fires were constantly occurring which could not be accounted for, and that this had been the case ever since the Fire of London, which was at first generally attributed to the Papists, w;th out the slightest foundation for such a suspicion; and he cited the well-known lines of Pope upon this subject : d , Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." He then called a number of witnesses, who gave the prisoner an excellent character. The learned judge having summed up, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was then discharged. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—YORK, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) Joseph Hartley, Charles Shepherdson, Robert Haigh, and John Scott, were charged with night poaching, being armed, at Womersley, on the 30th of October. There was also a second indictment charging the prisoners with shoot ing Thomas Hiles, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, at the same time and place. Mr. Mettle and Mr. West prosecuted ; Mr. Blackburn appeared for Haigh and Scott, and Mr. Bruce for the other two prisoners. It appeared that on the night named in the indictment Lord Ha*ke's keepers and some watchers were out near Daffy-wood, at Womersley, and hearing a shot in the direc tion of another wood named Broad Oak , t he party went at once to the edge of it. On their arrival s ome of the watchers were sent into the plantation, the kee p ers and the rest stationing 'themselves behind the trees in the immediate neighbourhood. While they were th ere four men, who w I stated to be the prisoners, came out of the wood, and one i of the party at once exclaime d, the moment he one the the keepers, "There are the keep ers ; shoot them ;" usiia same time a coarse expression. On this one of them who of West had a gun, and was stated to bo the prisoner Shepherdson, immediately fired at Thomas Hiles. The shot took eff ect and Hiles became partly insensible. One of the men then o it liv t e h d en ne b a c r in th e added, "Go in and finish him," and the keeper was a good deal maltreated. In order to connect the prisoners With the offence Hiles deposed that ho had known Haigh before, and recognized him. A day or two after the occurrence Lord Old Church Hawke offered a reward of £5O for the discovery of the offenders. In the meanwhile tho superintendent Riding police at Pontefract, Mr. Hall, having b it happened that they com municated with, he, accompanied by one of his officers, t t h im e m e o e f n : a w y h , at Pontefract. They were each found in b e the middle eers a ap prehended ed ,one of them partly e partly dressed, and when asked how were e i n n d b e e d d two o t h o a f t the forenoon, one of diem attempted t s aying that although he had been at o account f to seek or it by work, he had not obtained it, and Fetherstone w hen he returned. Haigh was taken th e sam e day at the had therefore gone to bed village of Knottingley, and S places being in the immediatehepherdson vicinity of Pontefract , and the prisoners e Broad Oak wood. To sh ow that were all Hiles, a man mixed up with the affair, and to cor roborateon his way to workbnamed Salkeld, a labourer who t was of the prisoners, whom ' ou h t 6 o k o'clock in . the morning,abyromade from IbVomereley to Pontefract. Mnrewkiaclolmortfir:pd the boots worn the prisoners, and on comparing them with footprints t by the side of the wood, they were found to correspond exactly. In cress-examination it was elicited that Hiles during the 64 3 7 before had been drinking, and ho admitted that although he saw Mr. Hall, the superintendent, the next day, he did not mention llaigh's name to him, and on being pressed for 1 his reason for not having done so, said he had forgotten to do In defence, Mr. Blackburn urged that practically t h e pri soners were sought to be convicted on the testimony of Hiles, almost unsupported, and that he was in such a state from his previous day's drinking as to be totally unreliable,besides which he had admitted that he clld not mention llaighos name, although ha said he had recognised him, until after Lord g a wks had offered the reward. 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Office Hours from 10 tdl 4 daily, Yearly subscribers of One Guinea supplied with every else of Servants free of extra charge. Upper Servants, ss. ; Under do., 28. 6d. MR. COBDE N AND THE " TIMES." We publish today another instalment of this most unnecessary correspondence : To JOHN T. DELANE, ESQ. Sir,—l have received the letter dated from your private residence, and bearing your proper signa ture, in which you take on yourself personally the responsibility of the interpretation put by the limes on the speeches of Mr. Bright and myself at Roch dale—namely, that we proposed " a division arrong the poor of the lands of the rich." Your letter to me says : You attribute to the Times a deliberate misrepresentation of your meaning, and that of Mr. Bright, as to the means of amending the unequal distribution of the land between the rich and the poor. I repeat that certain passages in your speeches will, in my opinion, bear no other interpreta tion than that ascribed to them. This is a grave accusation. lam told that, if proved, it would bring Mr. Bright and myself within the provisions of the Act 57th George 111., cap. 19, and render us liable to the penal conse quences of transportation for seven years. I will not believe that you can be so wanting in the respect due to others, as well as yourself, as to have addressed this accusation to me, unless with the belief that you have evidence to substantiate it. I call on you to give me those " certain passages" to which you refer, and which are really now the only quest:on at issue between you and me. That there may be no excuse or ground for delay, I accept the report which appeared in your paper as an ac curate version of my speech ; and to aid you in your task I have cut from the Times the entire passage which contains all I said in reference to the condi tion of the, whole people, or to the agricultural population and the land question in particular. But let it 'be distinctly understood that I do not confine you to this passage, but that I give you the entire range of my speech. Before giving the passage I will say a few words, which, although I do not in the slightest degree claim for them the character of evidence, may have interest in some quarters. It is known that I am not in the habit of writing a word beforehand of what I speak in public- Like other speakers, practice has given me as perfect self-possession in the presence of an audience as if I were in my closet. Now, my one constant and overruling thought while addressing a public meet ing, the one necessity which the long experience of the arts of controversialists has impressed on my mind is to avoid the possibility of being misrepre sented, and prev en t m y opponents from raising a false issue—a trick of logic as old as the time of Aristotle. If I have, as some favourable critics are pleased to thick, sometimes spoken with clearness, it is more owing to this ever-present fear of mis representation than any other cause ; it is thus that the most noxious things in life may have their uses. When in my speech at Rochdale I came to touch upon the subject of the land, the thought in stantly flashed through my brain—and none but the 'public speaker knows with what velocity thought moves when in the presence of 4,000 listeners—that I was dealing with a question about which there is a superstition in England unknown elsewhere, and lhat the enemy would raise the cry of agrarianism against me, and hence my denunciation of agrarian outrage, which will be found in the following ex tract. Had I been inspired with the faculty of se condsight, to have foreseen the Editor of the limes sitting bodily penning his criticism on my speech, I could not have more completely refuted and con founded beforehand the charge now brought against me. 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Henry Smith Evans was indicted for stealing and Thomas Dryhuret for feloniously receiving a large quantity of silver, the property of Joseph Bradbury and another, at Sheffield, on the 19th of Octcber last. Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Gully, holding the brief of Mr. Campbell Foster, who was absent from illness, prosecuted Mr. \Vaddy appeared for Evans; and Mr. Middleton fort the other prisoner. Fcr some time past Evans, it appeared, had been employed by the prosecutors, who had 0 their From events which occurred, u i extensive i r large sily stock pl a t e of , f havingsiive silver in his care almost th e w h ole t appeared that Evans was in e t u h e t; ecroyn,sataundthabit forwardingofmatkhienm to he p ut police io One of these parcels t the latter parcels, which he said were town, it ar was ls falling other pt ironer, who was some engaged into in the ahse in Birmingham, hands of h e taken to Dryhurst, who, in reply to that he had got parcels of silver fro m Evansquestions, said had disposed of them on his account, and admitted , that and that he got nearly £3O for the last lot he had sold, hhe e himself ceived something like £5 as a sort of commission for the transactions. When When asked whether the person who for warded the silver was the same Evans who had d been in the same house as he then was, ho said t..veviously f ur ther stated that he had sold the silver to som e per, and s in Birmingham. Thereupon he and Evans were both " ta n :ea i n to custody, and, inquiries having been made by the poi g - ce ' l both the prisoners were commi t ted upo n the pret t ent char ea . The only point really contested throughout the case was, whether the silver had been sufficiently identified ; and The learned Judge told the jury that they must, of course, before they convicted either of the prisoners, be satisfied that the silver was Messrs. Bradbury'a property and it they were eo, then the question, so far as Dryhurat was concerned , still remained—did he know that it had been stolen when he received it ? If so, he was guilty. His lordship also took the opportunity of remarking that he considered the plan pursued by the policeman of obtain ing a statement from Dryhurst was extremely objectionable, and he also made some strong observations with reference to the facilities apparently afforded, in this case, to the pd soners for getting rid of property evidently so valuable as this, by purchasers being found almost immediately. The jury found each prisoner Guilty, at the same time adding their Lull concurrence in the last remark of his lord ship. The prisoners, havingboth begged for mercy, were then severally sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for six years. s‘ . •• • • - • • „ : 4- The Fire Brigade System of London. Last even ing, of St. Mary, el - Rhodes in thebeth, held at the vestry room of chlial?gton-green, Mr. Churchwarden Mr. KNIGHT called the attention of ° he h at the usual meeting --- a report which he had Home heard, that Sir George s a tG r r i y r s e h tyo, the parish, K ee ri:tpres under r the Secretary for th e of par me l pepartment, intended, uer the superin dbiuirlinfegrnthexetabserossgiao would e bgad r introduce i a e establishment, and of placing t e ndence of a different body. ne understood that suc h transference of management expense to the ratep a y ers of from £40,00 o cause an to £50,000 a year. He wa n t ed, therefor e , to know the vestry had rece i v ed an y infor m n atio Whether on the sub ject. Mr. F. DOULTON, M.P., said he was not aware that any such questio n would be asked : but at the same time, as he was in possession of some informa tion on the subject, he had much pleasure in com municating it to the meeting. The matter was very important, and in the course of a week or two the vestry, together with the other vestries of the metropolis, would have their attention called to it, and have placed before them the whole facts of the case. The insurance companies, as they were aware, had hitherto supported the fire brigade at a cost of about £30,000 per annum. In the last two or threeyears, however, these companies had protested against charges thus placed upon them, as a large number of the premises where fires occurred, and where their engines attended, yielded them no thing, in consequence of the premises burnt down not having been insured. They stated, in fact, that the properties were not insured at nine-tenths of the fires their engines aided in putting out. They, therefore, under these circumstances, hinted in the course of last year that they were not prepared any longer to carry on the system. On that circum stance becoming known, the question arose what was to be done ? Of course the Home Secretary was the party to apply to on the subject; and feel ing a deep interest in it, he put a question to Sir George Grey respecting it, and the result of that was that a committee of the House of Commons was appointed on the subject. The committee cer tainly did not report that the insurance companies should support and maintain the fire brigade of the metropolis. He believed Sir George Grey had recently been in communication with the Metropo litan Board of Works on the subject, and within the last two days he believed that that board had received notice of a measure to be introduced into the next session of Parliament for placing the fre brigade of the metropolis under the superintendence of that board. 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