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PERSONS SEEKING LANDED F STATES, TOWN ANT) COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FltEb: HOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND J.--ROPER. 'VIES G kNERALLY— __ II BE BE ltArt GRATIS, at the principal Railway llookstalls Itirgli Tait the kingd om, or a t t h e A uc ti on an d E s t a t e Offices, No 67, ta ut the London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's 42 ; REPA PROPERTY REGISTER," containing . a varied selection tit:4'3(l(M and house properties now in the market, from _,41-loblernan's mansion, with it s manor i a l domain, to the %a/3 .ar.fe with its few acres. ,UW:NERS or PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can cm ltQe the opportunity that the medium of this Register tgords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the state Offices, 67, ChancPry-lane, London, as the Messrs. un ileY can in most cases introduce immediate customers, 'Where the property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid the disadvantages o' 3n, f delay and its attendant incon- Venienees. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, add 'then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—NEW YORK DIVISION. (-'OI.TPONS due let January next will be PAID in London, 1t the C onso lid ated B ank (Limited), No. 7, Fenchurc h- s t ree t , -L ondon, at the rate of 4s. to the dollar. The Coupons must be left two clear days for examination ; it sent to the Offices of the Company, No. 2,01 d Broad-street, London, E.C., by post, a cheque for the amount will be re )nitted in due course. becThe option to convert Bonds into Shares expires on 31st ember. London, No. 2, Old Broad-street, Dec. 9, 1863. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—NOTICE to BONDIIOLDERS. .„In conformity with the terms on which the Fi rs t M or t gage 130 /Ids of the Pennsylvania Section of this Railroad were issued to the public, the FIRST ANNUAL DRAWING of 4 Per cent. of the Gross amount of these Bonds will take place at the London Tavern, Bi.hopszate-strePt, in the presence of fir. Grain, Public Notary, on TUESDAY, January 12, 1864, a t one o'clock precisely, when Bondholders are invited to 4 ttend. The authorised issue is as under, viz. :- 2,000 Bonds of 1,100 dole. each 600 „ 500 „ 2,000 „ 100 tt 20:,000 „ ,500,00 Four per cent. of each denomi na ti on will 2 be dra o wn „ on the above day, and the Bonds so drawn, that have been issued in London, will be paid off at the rat of £225 for every 1,000 dole. Bond, £ll2 10s. for every MI dole. Bond, and £22 10s. for every 100 dole. Bond, on presentation at the Company's Office, No. 2, Old Broad-street, E.C., on and after let April text, in addition to the Coupon due on that day, after which all interest will cease. On payment, the drawn Bonds will be cancelled in the pre sence of a public notary. Offices, 2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C., Dec. 9, 1863. SPECIAL NOTICE. THE BOOKS OF THE N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, For the Year 1863, close on 31st December. Life Policies effected on or before that date will rank for an additional Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants. During the Four Years preceding last Division of Profits (1858), the Company issued 1,595 Life Policies, assuring £1421,603 During the Four suc•eeding Years the number of Life Polices issued amounted to 3,168, and the Sums assured to £2,22',522 BEING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT. The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the COM PANY'S PROFITS will take place on 31st December, 1865. THE WROI•E PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMU LATED SINCE alsT DECEMBER, 1858, WILL THEN BE DIVIDED, AND NINETY PER CENT. ALLOCATED AMONG THE ASSURED. ON THE PARTICIPATING SCALE. CERTIFICATES of INDISPITTABTLI PT granted, and every facility offered to Icaurers. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuratres granted both at Home and Abroad on the most liberal terms. Forms of Proposal and every information will be given at the Head Office, or any of the Company's Agents. By order. F. W. LANCE, Secretary. London, November, 1863. HEAD OFFICES: LONDON ~.58, Threadneedle-street. 4 New Bank Buildings, Lothbury. West-end Office RI Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. ZDINDURGII 64, Princes-street. MSULLIEN'S CONCERTS. • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. P ositively the Last Night of Sivori, and last Night but Four of the Season. Immense suecess of M. Jullien's mew GREAT CON , QUADRILLE, introducing the National Airs of tu 7. ffe'rent nations. Vocalist,Mdlle. VOLPINL—VioIin, Signor SIVOBI. 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The tJALL has been newly Decorated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. THE PUBLISHING SEASON. NOTICE.—REVISED LISTS of the Principal WORKS in circulation at MUDIE'S LIB4ARY, CATALOGUES of SURPLUS COPIES WITHDRAWN FOR SALE, and LISTS of BOOKS in Ornament'l Bindings, adapted for PRESENTS and SCHOOL PRIZES, are Now Ready, and will be forwarded postage free on application. NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON, December 10, 1863. "THE GHOST CLUB" a t th e CANTEURY HALL.—New and Seectral Tableaux ß .B Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to lnteresting announce that, through the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is ntghtly held at the CAN TERBURY 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) Pictures of the drama of real life, 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. teachings or pleasantries of the best wr ters. At pre gent, the two orders of Slavery —the Slavery of the South, and the " White" Slavery at a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be 14 aPielly replaced by others. The pages of Shakspere and the else r Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., Will, in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, I ncluding Operatic Selections, ; Comedy by Unsworth the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George H o d son, E. arshall, and George llutchenson. ItOYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - IM MENSE SUCCESS. 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The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliaed t ) treat as o ut - patients many distressing cases which. with more adequate tun ds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The premises of th e Hospital are capable of containing 500 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Edward Alas rerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Hansom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, a P n a d yu c e, o.; and DenisonCoG an a d n d Co.;Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay W.llianas, Deacon, and Co. ; reverend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and CO., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD 8. SMITH Secretary. • • • • '±!k- . • • •cari.k.t t , A i, _ - - c - • N'4 • - • • 0 /. 40. 1 11 .: , - 0 ' . , 4i* l~Q~+r•~1ri 4 I) • , e 4 , r - - DROIT• - . , 4t TRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 15, 1863. ists, who have appreciated the freedom and independence of the Press, and I believe it to be essential to the interests not only of the press, but of the Public. Although, therefore, I have accepted your challenge in this instance, I shall decline to make any further contri bution to the Rochdale Observer. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 16, Serjeantr-inn, Dec. 11. JOHN T. DELANE, ANOTHER HORRIBLE STORY. A writer in the Times says :—After I had de spatched my letter on the subject of the Flushing lunatic, which you did me the favour to insert in your paper of Thursday last, I felt some compunc tion at having ended with the inquiry, " Are there any similar cases demanding investigation ?" It seamed to me too dark a reflection upon the age to suppose that parallel cases could exist. I almost felt that I had done an injustice to humanity in propounding such. a question ; but, sir, compunc tions are cast aside in the presence of the appalling facts that are forcing themselves upon me. Even in the short interval which has elapsed since the publication of my former letter four fresh cases have come to my knowledge, not all of them of equal atrocity, it is true, but still so dreadful that, had I not been somewhat inured to such hor rors by the experience of the Flushing case, I should have considered these equally incredible, and the terrible truth is becoming manifest that these rank blots on our social system are scattered broadcast throughout our rural and, possibly, our civic dis tricts, shielded from public view by ignorance, cun ning, and the reluctance of neighbours to become informers against those with whom they are living on amicable terms. Two of the cases to which I refer, of recent occurrence in an adjoining county, have been hap. pily disposed of. One—the details of which, as narrated to me, were as loathsome as in the Flush ing case—was exposed by a solicitor, a friend of my own, practising in the county to which I refer; the other, not so aggravated a case, for the patient was kept clean, resulted in the death of the sufferer. By yesterday's post, in consequence of my former letter, I received an intimation of a case nearly as bad as the one in Cornwall still existing in a dis tant county, which I have this day forwarded to the proper authorities for investigation. This case is stated to be " well known to several persons, but up to the present time has not been made known through fear of the persons concerned in the atro city." The fourth case was revealed to Dr. Byrne, and was made the subject of our immediate and conjoint inspection. At present it is not de sirable to mention the names of those implicated, or the locality ; but I would wish your readers to dwell upon the following picture, which gives but a faint idea of the picturesque horror with which the case is invested :—A lonely cottage, surrounded by woods and orchards, standing close down by the waters of a remote creek, opening into a well-known river of this district. This cottage is to outward appear ance an ordinary working man's abode, with the single significant exception that the door is fastened on the outside by a padlock. We enter this cottage, we will suppose, at night, which was the fact in our own case. The partition walls have been removed, the whole ground floor thrown into one, and is used as an apple store. We know that we are within the solitary abode of a lunatic, and by the light of one tallow candle we look cautiously around to see if he be at large among the apples. Nothing visible but the piles of fruit extending to the outer walls, in terspersed with the common lumber of a barn in a farm-yard. We stumble up a staircase, or rather ladder, to the upper floor, gaining it rather cau tiously, for the lunatic may encounter us awkwardly, as our heads rise above the floor. Another large pp l es ag ain exte n di ng to t h e outer square loft—a walls. A corner, screened off by some hoarding exactly Cft. by 7ft., hardly attracts our notice, for we are still looking all round for the lunatic. But the father, aged 74, approaches this " box" in the corner, and pointing to a small door says e N ow, this is the place we are obliged to keep him." There is still some hesitation, for the mother, over 70, who is always with us, is a little nervous. The doctor seizes the candle, and without hesitation throws back the bolt. The well •known sickening stench meets us as we enter. There lies the lunatic crouched with the updrawn knees, which seems the rule in these cases. A raven black moustache and beard, a face pallid as snow, cramped, ema ciated limbs, nails that might be measured by the inch, the limbs spotted with filth, cobwebs de corating the walls, and some mildewed spots upon them and on the bedstead which have an ugly look. But we have seen Porter in his den, and we don't think so much of this case. This man has a straw bed beneath him, a clean shirt on him (is it possible a visit was anticipated ?), and some sacking, and an old quilt to cover him. We could hardly expect more—" He tears everything up." Still, for two years, confessedly, to be shut up in a box in the corner of an apple loft ! No sweet breath of Heaven in summer; no fire, no light in winter; no companionship at any time, for he is the sole occupant of the house, his relatives living i n another some 200 yards away. There is no window to this box, the only light that ever reaches its interior struggles over the top of the boarding, in the small space between that and the uncoiled roof. I pause to ask myself as I write whether I am not penning the page of some old romance rather than the de scription of a hard fact that came under my obser vation only last night. I have visited asylums and felt my heart sicken es I have watched the group of lunatics congregated in their various rooms, and thought that the world cookl scarcely show a sadder scene ; but, Sir, the condition of a pauper lunatic at an asylum is a blissful heaven compared with that of this poor wretch, rotting in a loathsome den, the bare remembrance of which makes me shudder—the home of noisome insects, and the probable battle-ground of vermin in the dreadful midnight gloom. I no longer ask the question, " Are there any other such cases ?" I ask now how many such cases there are throughout our land, if in my own experience of a few days I can enumerate so many ? In this case also our guide to the spot told us it had been long talked of; that his wife had said that very night ''„this ought to be inquired into." " The poor man has been like one dead to us these six years past," he added. The poor wretch had been sick upon his pillow when we saw him, and the foul stuff was still there, not likely to be removed until the morning, as he was shut up for the night. This was about 7. He is fed three times a day regularly, however, and eats well. Re ferring to his sickness, his mother told us he was like that once a month—" o wing to the moon, sir-" lie had been at the asylum some seven years before,. and was returned to his parents in a somewhat ink e what proved state. Without, I fully believe,any ; so: lute intention of cruelty on their part, things gradually grown worse and worse and dwindled Sir, it is ri had down to this condition. With your aid, possible my words may penetrate to the inmost . May hearts of the dwellers in our humblest if not for the I entreat them for the love of God, homes love of their fellow-men, not to blind themselves wilfully to the enormity of suc h cases as those I have described ; not to let an y false scruples o f intimacy or friendship present their making some effort to relieve a fellow- c reature with an im mortal soul like themselves from so dreadful an earthly doom? How many such cases may yet b e b rought to light, who s h a ll tell? But there is a s t a i n upon our country w hi c h no self-adulation can remove so l on g as one is left unrevealed. Your readers will be glad to learn that the Tre gony case, referred to by your correspondent Mr. Charles Reed—who in " doubly convicting" Corn s wa ll seems to forget that he convicts himself by his long-continued reticence—. was brought to the notice of the Commissioners typo years ago. Will you allow me also to state, in answer to numerous in quiries Nyhidk have reached the privately, that N_FIV-S I 3 11 PL eeer.-,,eA -veei i ee \ileeek P -1 .41,112. vorr,oly t ,4700 Royal Geographical tfr At the meeting of this society yesterday . eviginga S —Lord Strangford in the chair—a paper yes. 3 read, communicated by Mi. Swinhoe, on Formosa, 1 vhich island was opened to'British commerce by the -late Lord Elgin. Mr. Swinhoe was appointed vice-con sul of Formosa, and visited different parts of the coast to ascertain which port would be best adapte d for trade- In his communication he stated some of the result' of his investigations in the character of the island vid its inhabitants. A ridge of moun tainous hills eztends north and south nearly through its cent(e, those portions of the country being in habited by native t; ibex priecipal:y of Malay origin, the lower country on ti'e west and north being in possession of the Chir%sc. On the north of the island there are extensive seams of cowl, which is highly bituminous ; so much ad indeed as not to he fiaed for combustion in the furna.ces of ste umships, bfourt thew h when purpose.m ed r. i h t i h e Voi:e s.:al ?ieltsrec.,no Swinhoe very ft think t,eheoinutsais_tit::temberlyges to be o inf the tertiarycharacter etrat strata, t h ' can be very deep. At present they are worked near the surface, and to a Email extent. The rocks are volcanic, and not far distant from the coal there is a sulphur hill, in the vicinity of which there are ho t springs and other indications of volcanic action. The summit of the highest of these hills is covered with coral, indicating that the whole range has been elevated from the sea. The country, so far as Mr. Swinhoe had an opportunity of observing, is very fertile, and on the east s ide of the island it is well cultivatedthe attention by thenatives. o f the iNI r. societyS w Swinhoe h t o o the want of eparticularly called accurate maps of the coast, the absence of which renders the navigation very dangerous. Admiral COLLIN SON, who said he considered Formosa a child of his own, as he had surveyed the coast sixteen years ago when little or nothing was known of it, described the general character of the island, and mentioned that on the east coast the equatorial Gulf stream is stronger than at any other part of the globe. It carried his ship in one day 95 miles against the wind, and on another day upwards of 100 miles. On the west side of the island there is a strong current in the opposite direction. PRICE..... 4d. STAMPED Porter was, of course, an imbecile when first con - fined? I never imagined that my letter would convey the impression that he was incarcerated when in a sound state of mind• The tale needs no romantic addition to intensify its naked horror. Falmouth, Dec. 13. THE ALABAMA AGAIN. Two More Vessels Destroyed. LIVERPOOL, Da. 14. _ . By the arrival of the India and China mail we learn that the statement that the Alabama had gone to tile eastward is correct, and that she has already signalled her arrival in the Eastern waters by the destruction of two large Ameri can merchantmen off Java Head. From the particulars at present to hand we only know that the Amanda, which is one of the vessels destroyed, under the command of Captain Larrabee, left Manilla on the 18th September last, bound to Cork for orders. The Atuanda was a fine clipper barque, built at Maine, in 1861, and was owned by Messrs. J. T. Stevens and Co., of that city. Her cargo was a very valu able one, being comprised principally of coffee, indigo, pepper, hemp, and tobacco. The other vessel burned was a fine square-rigged clipper ship, called the Winged Racer, Captain Cummings. This vessel left Manilla about the 4th of September (we are not certain as to the exact date), and was also fallen in with by the Alabama off Java Head, cap tured and destroyed. The Winged Racer was laden with a most valuable cargo, and bound for New York. She was built at Boston in 1852, was 1,767 tons burthen, and was owned in New York by Messrs. R. J. 1 aylor. The latest intelligence received from the Mauritius states that the United States war-steamer Vanderbilt, Captain Baldwin, had left that place in search of the Alabama, Captain Bald win having been apprised of the new cruising ground of the notorious Confederate cruiser. Sir HAR RY P ARKES no ti ce d th e o r iginal occupa tion of Formosa by the Dutch and Japanese, and stated that though bi ih oeu e n,to i p sland is so large that it now forms one of the 54 divisions of the Chinese em pire, and . is only coast, it was not taken , and to until within the last. Lvy 9osssemssiii possession ns of distant by t h the fromc Chinese n t e t , s _ e c with the He mentioned the difficulty of trading and tile island, savage character, its o f want of harbours and one mwaokoe falls a a practice ti ll : i t rt o h some of the native tribes, t .: small tribe, not d even of the Chinese themselves. There is, 1 1 , sai amounting to 300, who Occupy south-east point ands. By h cut off the , of ne a t hdenifs eve:l a. d y , that tribe ana by the Chinese nearly the crews of the two English ships worn whole of wrecked on the island were murdered. He took more favourable view of the p robable extent of the seams of coal than Mr. Swinhoe, and stated that though there is no trade with Formos..l carried on directly with this country, there is nevert. l ieless a consider able indirect trade through Hong Elong., After some observations from the chairman, a second paper, describing a journey from Nazareth to Bozrah-Moab and Damascus, by Mr. Eaton, was read, and the meeting ajourncd to the 11th of January.. -.... THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. --- The election for the county of Buckingham, vacant by the elevation of the Hon. W. Cavendish to the peerage, will take place next week, and this will complete the list arising out of the deaths and official changes which have taken place during the recess, with the exception of Tewkesbury, which was vacated by Mr. F. Lygon prior to his election for West Worcestershire, and for which it seems the Speaker of the House of Commons has nu autho rity to issue a writ as in other cas 2S. The electone td w i a) h ey i c ob h fa rhtahauevgepa prorogation o ak orto e . gn aPontefracti place o na s n t e a w n d i Nni a follows:—On lw , r s it th we a o rsa a s om : r — deo O lf.e n the dikrforr Monckton Milnes, who was raised to the peerage under the title of Baron Houghton. On the 3d. of August Major Waterhouse (Conservative) was elected without opposition. A few days after the prorogation Mr. F. M. Callcutt, member far Clare, died. On the 31 of August Sir Collman 0 logh lan m tg wa o sneleonier elected. Captain Burghs, Captain died a few days l- lie3otinson, 1%,.P. for the o w r p t h e r a . f bteerr The Ri ai\ isrh.a.Aripo rg after the prorogation. On the 20th of August the Hon. Charles Richard Douglas Hanbury Tracy was elected. Mr. Beriah Batfield, M.P. for Ludlow, died on the 6th of August. On the 28th Sir Wm, Fraser was elected. Earl Beauchamp died on the 9th of September, end was succeeded in the earldom by Viscount Elmley, M.P. for West Worcester shire, which consequently became vacant. Ott the 26th of October the Hon. F. Lygon, formerly mem.. her for Tewkesbury,iNi.p. for Tamwortb, aai elected. w a r t db i, .asa The uoc en le‘telhdaeer qd7otitnosh. Townsend died on On a e t l h O e th l o 2 f th Se a p f te o m c b t e o r b , e a r n A d i V r. ie ji Vis count llaynharn, the marquisate. fight H Peel con test A O l n .P t . h f e or Bt C h o o v f en o ti c y to , of September. ni E b l e l Ellice, the e le eHteon. for Henry Tam C w o Treherne was elected after a severe contest with Mr. A. Peel . Mr. Potts, m.p. forl3 o n the 2 1 st of September. otith Barnstaple, died e 20th of Octo ber Mr. Lloyd was elected, a f ter Mr. Bremridge, who formerly a contest with borough. On the 25th f represented the announced that Mr. Sergeantl3 September it was to the dignity of a B Pigott had been raised. October 16, mr. aron of the Exchequer. On member for Reading 20 it was announced Without opposition. On Sept. resigned the office that Sir William Atherton had Sir Roundell of Attorney-General, and that cessor. This Palmer had been appointed his suc- Richmond, created a vacancy in the borough of for which Sir R. Palmer was re-elected without opposition . By this promotion the Solici tor-C4 -eneraishi having became vacant, and Sir H. P. Collier been appointed to it a pealed to the borough of Plymouth for - 13 t d with re-election. He wasre urne °Tit opposition. On October 18 Mr. Hope, one of the members for Windsor, died. On November 4 Colonel Vyse was elected after a contest with Capt. Hayter. On October 19 Mr. Langton, one of the members for the city of Oxford, died. On Nov. 7 Mr. C. Neate, Fellow of Oriel College, was elected without opposition. On October 28 Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P. for Andover, died. His son-in-law, Mr. Humphery, was returned after a contest with Mr. Hawkshaw. G re at Western Railway has Midland section of the the past week in accidents. On been unfortunate duringhe t first train proceeding from Wor cester morning - a pproaching Ledbury tunnel ran cester and Hereford " the line, which proved to be a fall of A:CHAPTER OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.--The W r est which had taken place in the night. earth in a deep s l ow goods train, and was proceeding up The train was h a at little damage was done. The subsequent an incline, so . t were delayed, but the line was cleared by passenger trains o . On the preceding there was an extra ordinarythe evenint " from a frightful accident on the West Mid land escape . into an obstruction on cutting tindne A s a goods train was proceeding front Oxford Vo li t - ce . ster a coupling chain broke,and several trucks be came detached, the driver proceeding Without them. For tunately, there was a guard at the end of the dissevered trucks, and he,knowing that the express train from London to Worcester was following behindrau back with his lamp and succeeded in attracting attention of the driver, who pulled up just a few yards before reaching the trucks. lie then pushed the trucks before him to the next station, i he only result being a delay of about an hour. On the same day, as some m nc ep were employed in r, casing the interior of Mickleton tiettn the on the same line, near Chipping Campden, a portion 0 men roof of the tunnel tell iu upon the workmen. ' A i k n l d a la fractured boy where he is doing well. The other sufferers were train front ere ;tinjured.u,i was conveyed e b; e y d n t a e med Wrisbe l lt h :_b e r a in d a h r3, i , s , former place much hurt. Two or three nights agoa Worcesterspecial th Worcester to Malvern, on approaching the road in the had to pass a level crossing on a e t r u _ a .20 no notice of tubers of Worcester. The gateke h e f p f he hvi ii not so driver, not heeding the train, had the gates closed; was passing along the road pieces. Fortunately, no person at the time. the obstruction, drove througnh but smashed the gates to no NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT. —We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's Concert. K INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDAIILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky." Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Her Majesty's screw steam line-of-battle ship Conqueror, 78, 500 horse power, Capt. W. G. Luard, after having un dergone an official trial at the measured mile, off XL aplin Sands, was inspected yesterday at Sheerness, where she has been fitted out, !by the commander-in-chief of that port, Vice-Admiral Sir G. R. Lambert, K.C.B. She sailed im mediately afterwards for Plymouth, where she will take on board a battalion of Marines, as well as a large number of supernumeraries, and proceed with them to Japan. The Salamander, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 818 tons, 220 horse power, now preparing for sea with all despatch at Sheerness dockyard, and recently commissioned by Com mander the Hon. J. Carnegie, has received nearly her full supply of stores while in the basin of that yard. She will be removed to moorings in the harbour this day, and soon afterwards will be taken out for a preliminary trial at the measured mile, which, if satisfactory, will leave her in every respect ready for sea. If is rumoured that the Sala mander will shortly embark a detachment of Royal Ma rines, accompanied by-their-4lva and families, and convey them to Port Albany, Cape Australia, where it is intended they shall form a military colony. The men will have double pay, besides workmen's wages, when performing Government work, according to their trades, and the colony will be abuudantly supplied with seeds, roots, tools, and all things necessary to establish a new settlement. Mr. Martin's newly invented patent anchor, which was proved under the hydraulic testing machinery at Woolwich on Saturday for service on board the flagship Edgar, was yesterday submitted to a most severe fire proof. The parts of the anchor were taken to pieces, placed in separate fires, and heated to a low red heat. Each section was examined and searched over with the most scrupulous care, in order to discover any kind of weakness or flaw in the metal. The cheeks and other portions of the anchor subject to the greatest amount of strain were filed over, and the surface was chiseled off where any scratches were perceptible. The chips were then put through a course of inspection by Mr. Wilcox and his assistant smiths, but no blemish or imperfection could be detected. The anchor was thereupon pronounced fit for the service for•which it was intended. Admiral Montague Stopford, chairman, Mr. Maturin, manager of the works, and other members of the company were in attendance. Arrangements are in progress for the erection of premises near Charlton pier, in the vicinty of Woolwieh Dockyard, for the manufacture of anchors, 600 of which, it was stated by Admiral Stopford, have been already supplied to the mercantile navy, the whole of which are of acknowledged excellence. During the late gales the new invention is said to have been pre-eminently success ful and efficient. The following promotions and appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty : Commanders promoted to the rank of Capt.,—E. Hardinge, E. Stirling, H. Harvey, W. Graham, A. H. Hoskins, B. S. Pickard, N. Salmon, and J. C. Soady—Lieuts. promoted to the rank of Corn mander,—F. Hewson, H. M. Miller, J. W. East, L. M. Croke, A. H. Alston, P. R. Sharpe, P. H. Colomb, R. Wells, and E. W. Brooker—J. Watts and S. B. Williams, assist.-engineers, to the Conqueror. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander J. E. F. Risk to the Chanti cleer, vice Stirling, promoted—Commander T. M. Jones to the Chamelon, vice Hardinge, promoted—Commander A. C. F. Heneage to the Lily, vice Harvey, promoted:— Commander C. G, Lindsay to the Zebra, vice Hoskins, promoted—Ossian L. Carlisle, chief engineer, to the Orestes—Henry W. Tregilgas. late of the Algerine, confirmed as engineer. Messrs. William Colvin V. Baker and Harry D. Law have been nominated to naval cadetships. THE ARMY. The large military gymnasium recently erected at Chatham, is now complete, and only awaits the formal order from the War-office for its being taken over by the military authorities of the garrison. In future the exercises of the gymnasium will form a daily portion of the physica 1 training of every officer and soldier at Chatham, they being, in short, incorporated with his daily drill. Although the gymnasium at Chatham is the eighth of these establish ments already erected and in full operation, yielding daily bodily training to several thousand men, it is, in fact, the parent of all the others, every portion having been constructed from the designs submitted to the autho rities three years since by Mr. A. Maclaren, of Oxford. The whole of the others, with the exception of that of Alder - shot,which is on the plan of the Oxford gymnasium, are but modifications of the establishment just completed, altered to meet some local or exceptional requirement. The main structure consists of two large divisions, each in the present instance 100 ft in length by 50ft in breadth. The primary object of this form of building is to insure perfect supervi sion and inspection, every portion of either part being over looked from the other. The first division consists of the school of arms, and is appropriated to the introductory course with the movable apparatus which experience has shown to be so valuable in the training of recruits between their earlier drill and regular training in gymnastics proper. Here will also be carried on every kind of defensive exer cise, including fencing, sword exercise, and bayonet drill, which together form the supplementary part of the system. This division is therefore without fixtures of any kind, and presents a clear floor throughout its entire surface, its lon gitudinal shape offering various aBrantages for the most judicious distribution of men under training. The second division includes the gymnasium proper,and is appropriated for every variety of exercises with the fixed apparatus com prised in the system; while on nearly every foot of the floor, walls, and supports of the roof are appliances for carrying out the training of the pupils. In this department the floor is formed of a soft elastic substance, so that from whatever height a fall should occur comparatively little injury should be the result. This division is also obl on g to permit of the erection of apparatus worked by large numbers of men at the same time; as, for instance, the elastic ladder and row of rings, both valuable inventions of Mr. Maclaren for de veloping the muscular powers of the upper limbs, and the corresponding regions of the trunk, and for restoring the equilibrium of the right and left sides where the right, as in many instances, pieponderates over the left. The lofty lantern tower which surmounts one portion of the building has been appropriated for the apparatus for high climbing, and these being placed vertically are closely grouped together. The two end walls are also devoted, in like manner, to strictly military exercises, one of them being fitted with every variety of surface likely to be met with in a wall or other perpendicular erection, in order to accustom the soldier to depend on his hands and feet in escalading operations, while on the opposite side the various ropes and poles are placed in a slanting position. The roof is also brought into service, multitudes of planks and ropes tra versing the tie beams, thence passing to the escalading walls, and finally communicating with the central group of climb ing apparatus. It is in this department that there is ob viously greater fear of accidents from falls, but these are rendered absolutely impossible by an almost invisible net-. ting of fine wire rope placed immediately below every por tion of the roof, planks, &a. The lower end of the School of Arms terminates,in a series of rooms, inclu ding the offi cers' fencing room, instructors' rooms, dressing rooms, &c. The officers' fenci ng sc h oo l i s itself the largest b uilding of the kind yet erected, being 50ft in length by 25ft in breadth. The most ample arra ngements are made for l i ght and ven tilation, the neces s it y for a constant supply of pure air being especially required in a building where so many as 300 men will be engaged for se vera l consecutive hours in active bodily exertion. The gymnasium has been inspected by Gen. Eyre, in command at Chatham, and by the commence., ment of the new year it will be handed over for the purposes for which it has been erected. 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The following correspondence is a sequel to that which has for several days occupied a most un merited share of public attention : To JOHN T. DELANE, ESQ. Sir,—You and I have beer long personally acquainted; your handwriting is known to me, and I know you to be the chief Editor of the 2intes. Under such circumstances I cannot allow you to suppress your individuality, and shield yourself under the third person of the editorial nomi native, in a correspondence affecting your personal respon sibility for a scandalous aspersion on myself (as I now learn from you) as well as on Mr. Might. Your refusal to publish my former letter is a matter so entirely within your own province that I have nothing to say upon it, except to congratulate myself on the recent revolution in the newspaper world which renders your de sision comparatively harmless. A few years ago the limes possessed almost a monopoly of publicity. Your-fifths of the daily newspaper circulation issued from its press. Now it constitutes, probably, one-tenth (if our diurnal journalism, and my letter will be only the more generally read from having been excluded from your columns. But your letter proceeds to offer some most singular argu ments in justification of your attack on Mr. Bright. You state that your journal had previously contained two lead• ing articles casting the same imputation on both him and myself, that you had challenged us to disavow your interpre tation of our speeches, and as we had failed to do so you• accepted our silence as an acknowledgment of the truth of our interpretation ; in other words, as a proof of our guilt Here we have, in a compendious form, an exhibition of those qualities of mind which characterise the editorial manage ment of the Times -of that arrog*self-complacency, that logical incoherence, and that moral bewilderment which a too long career of impunity and irresponsibility could alone engender. I will not stop to remark on your demolition of your own pretence for rejecting my championship of Mr. Bright by the admission that you had included us both in a joint indictment. Now, that which forms the basis of this reasoning, if such it may be termed, is an inordinate display of what I will call Times egotism. Notwithstanding that your journal has now but a fractional part of the daily newspaper cir culation, you complacently assume that all the world are your constant readers. The Times never enters my house, except by rare accident. This I know to be also the case with Mr, Bright, who will, in all probability, never have seen your attack until he reads it in my letter. It is only during the session, at the Club, that I am in the habit of seeing your paper. The chance visit of a friend last Friday placed in my hand the Times of the previous day, when that scandalous paragraph caught my eye which formed the text of my letter to you. I was entirely ignorant of the two former attacks, which by a droll process of reasoning you now ask me to accept as a justification of the third. Now, let me ask you to descend for a minute from your editorial chair while I illustrate this logic by a hypothetical case put to Mr. Delano, the barrister. Suppose that the constituents of Mr. Bright were to indict your publisher for defaming their member, and that it was proposed in a consultation of lawyers, at which you were present, to set up as a plea of justification at the trial that the same libel had been twice previously published against both Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden,--would it fail to occur to you that, in the eyes of an honest judge and jury, this defence would be con sidered an aggravation of the offence ? But we will assume, for the sake of argument, that Mr. Bright and I are regular subscribers to and diligent readers of your newspaper. Is it seriously contended that as often as you choose to pervert the sense of our speeches, and charge us with schemes of public robbery, the onus lies with us to disprove the imputation, and that, neglecting to do so, we have no right to complain if we are thenceforth treated as thieves Would it not occur to any one but an editor of the limes that, before we violate the ninth com mandment, the obligation lies with us to know that we are not bringing a false accusation against our neighbour ? Now, a word upon the subject which has given rise to this correspondence. Nobody knows better than yourself, except the writer who actually penned the scandalous pas sage in question, that this charge of wishing to divide the land of the rich among the poor, when levelled at Mr Bright, is nothing but the resort to a stale rhetorical trick (though the character of the libel is not on that account altered) to draw away public attention from the real issue, and thus escape from the discussion of a serious, but for the moment an inconvenient public topic. In order to trail a red herring across the true scent the cry of spoliation was raised. You and ysur writers cannot be ignorant that the laws and poli tical institutions of this country tend to promote the agglo meration of agricultural land in a constantly lessening numbez of hands—you and I know, by a joint experience which neither of us is likely to have forgotten, how great are the obstacles which the law interposes to the free trans fer of landed property in this country. Now, the policy which sustains this state of things is a public question, which is not only fairly open to discussion, but invites the earnest attention and study of public men. In this, as in every other human concern, we must bring the matter to the test of experience, and in no way can this be more effectually done than by a comparison between the condition of the great majority of the agricultural population in this and other countries. The subject of our land laws has en gaged the attention of eminent statesmen and our highest legal authorities; but I will venture to add—and it is all I shall condescend to say in refutation of your aspersions— that if there are two persons who, beyond all others, have given pledges throughout an ardent discussion of kindred topics during a quarter of a century, that in debating the question of the tenure and transfer of land they would ob serve the restraints of law, justice, and political economy, they are the men whom your journal has dared to charge with the advocacy of a scheme for robbing the landowners of their property for the bsnefit of the poor. Judging from past experience, this intrusion of a gross personality will tend only to attract public notice to a matter which it was meant to put out of sight. It has been the fate of the Times to help forward every cause it has opposed. By its truculent, I had almost said ruffianly, attacks of every movement while in the weakness of infancy, it has roused to increased efforts the energies of those it has assailed; while, at the same time, it has awakened the attention of a languid public and attracted the sympathy of fair and manly minds, It is thus that such public measures as the abolition of the corn laws, the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, and the negotiation of the treaty of commerce with France triumphed in spite of its virulent, pertinacious, and unscru pulous opposition—until at last I am tending to the con viction that there are three conditions only requisite for the success of any great project of reform—namely, a good cause, persevering advocates, and the hostility of the Times. I shall forward this correspondence for publication in the _Rochdale Observer, that it may at least be perused by the community which has the greatest interest in a controversy which concerns the reputation of Mr. Bright and myself. am, Sir, your obedient servant, Midhurst, Dec. 9. R. COBDEN. e...1,. ....1...1 1 To RICHARD COBDEN, EsCl. 9 M.P. Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst. It is quite true, as you say, that we have been long per sonally acquainted. Yon had no need to identify my hand. writing. I have no desire to " suppress my individuality," or to deny my personal responsibility for what you are pleased to call " scandalous aspersions" upon yourself and Mr. Bright. You have thus all that individuality which in your letter to the editor of the limes you professed to de siderate, and from which you anticipated such momentous consequences. You will therefore have no difficulty in rendering me responsible to the verdict either of a court of law or of the general body of our countrymen, and I shag cheerfully accept their decision, You proceed to attribute to " 7imes egotism" my sup position that you had read the articles upon the report of your speech. Is it, I ask, egotistic or unreasonable to sup pose that you, who had pounced so promptly upon a single phrase in an article of much inferior interest to yourself, should have read the articles which discussed your own speech? Or could I be expected to know that you, who once preferred a single copy of the Times to all the works of Thucydides, did not admit the Times into your house? You say that yon seldom rea d th e Times, and it is proba bly because to it such t erms as arrogan t and truculent, and only hesitate over ruffianly. I appeal s rivals you that take you youra apply from it y opinions of it at second-hand from your professed ignorance to the better informed judg ment of that large majority who do read the Times, and who have discovered in it no such qualities. You attribute to the Times a deliberate misrepresentation of your meaning and that of Mr. Bright as to the means of amending the unequal distribu tio n of land between the rich and the poor, I repeat tha t cer tain passages in your ' bear no oth er interpretation tshpeaeuchtheas ur t w ma i e l ee l as , ri i b n ed m es fortyootphi fenauclioi If you merely i n t en d e d to ro commend n iitilting th e conveyance o f l an d , instalment angel of law reform, exaggerated that as your reference to our trans actio n at Ascot would suggest, languagewyoauareveruaed to h w If you had read the Times , instead of condemning it unread, you would know that it ha s alwa y s advocated the simplifi cationfausr t the e r a moat hum b e l t e r of means for the transfer of land, and that its advo • racy has not been altogether unsuccessful, But just as no simplification of conveyance will compel the rich to sell land or enable the poor to buy it, so no legislative measure will render the purchase of land a profitable investment for the poor. The possession, the transfer, and the tenure of land are, however, public questions, which are best discussed, not between Mr. Cobden and Mr. Delane, but as it has always been the practice of the English press to discuss them —anonymously. That practice was not invented by me; it will not be destroyed by yourself. It has approved itrelf to the judgment of all, whether statesmen or public-, The Riots in Pennsylvania. The following is a letter from a Pennsylvanian to his brother in London, dated November, 1E63 :—" Matters in the Pennsylvanian anthracite coal region are in a deplorable state. Enormous prices for this descriptio n of mining have been forced up by fearful violence on the part of the em ployed —or I should have said, the Irish part of them—to nearly treble the rates of a year and a half ago, and we do not see the end of it. These Irish arc influenced largely by low politicians, even in defiance of the advice and exhorta tions of the Catholic priests, to the most brutal and hideous tyranny—that of a ferocious ignorant mob. No mans life in the coal region is safe who may be inimical to them, and their cowardice is equal to their cruelty. A Cornish man, Walter Peters, a colliery boss, at Wilkesbane, an excellent man, had given his Irish employ6s some offence in the course of business. A month since he was leaving the col liery office for his house, in the evening, when he was thrown down on the pavement, and there stoned to death. Lately I had to write to Mr. G. K. Smith, an English mining sur veyor, in Lucerne county, for some business papers. He re plied that he would send them to me in a few days ; adding, in reply to some remarks of mine about the state of the Irish population in Schuylkill county, bad as things are with ou, they are no better here. A Welshman was murdered in his house a fortnight ago, and people (except the Irish) do not care to venture out of an evening. Poor Smith! By yes terday's New York paper I find the melancholy account of his death—shot in riding from the post office to his house "In going to and from the collieries some of my friends think it but prudent to avoid doing so except by daylight The aggregate of murders and serious personal assaults in the coal districts is frightful ; and none of the villanous population has been brought to justice. Unfortunately the judges and other officials are elected, and the ignorant im • migrant population being the majority in the coal region, the court is consequently Irish in feeling, and unfit for its position in respect to uprightness and other requisites—it is the mere creation of the mob." The Late Poor-law Inquiry in Bethnal-green, At a meeting of the Bethnal-green Board of Guardians, held yesterday, at the workhouse, near Victoria-park, Mr. Howard in the chair, a letter was read from the Poor-law Board communicating its decision with reference to the recent inquiry by Mr. Lambert, Poor.law Inspector, into the circum stances attending the death of Caroline James, and the alleged neglect and improper conduct of Mr. Christy, the relieving officer, in respect to the case. The following is a copy of the document : " Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Dec. 11. " Sir,—l am directed by the Poor-law Board to inform you that they have received from their in spector, Mr. Lambert, a report of the inquiry re cently held by him into the conduct of Mr. Christy, relieving officer of the western district of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, in the case of the late Caroline James, and they have carefully con sidered the evidence given on that occasion. It appears that the first intimation received by the re lieving officer that the deceased required relief was between 5 and 6 on the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of October, and that he visited her about 7 o'clock on the same evening. When he arrived, he saw her furniture was being removed in a van, and he was then referred to a house on the opposite side of the street, where he found the deceased sit ting in a chair in the back room. In the first in stance he told her that she ought to be taken to the place where the goods were going, but he after wards offered to admit her to the workhouse on condition that she would allow the furniture to be removed there, and that her children should accom pany her there. That offer, however, was not ac cepted, and the deceased was removed the same evening in a cab by her mother, who was present during the two interviews with the relieving officer, to the mother's own residence, where she died of consumption on the following Wednesday, the mother having maintained her in the meantime. In the depositions taken at the coroner's court no men tion whatever was made by the relieving officer of his offer to receive the deceased into the workhouse, and the Board find from his own admission that when he visited the deceased he made no inquiry into the state of health, the ability to work, the condition and family, and the means of the deceased, but con cluded she was not destitute entirely from the quan tity of furnit ure i n course o f removal. I t is evident also, although the fact is denied by the relieving officer, that he used coarse and imp ro p er expressions as he was leaving the house; and deceased , towards Caroline Palmer, one of the neighbours in attendance upon the t h e Bo a r d have reason to believe that his conduct in other rest t respects was not so temperate and forbea rin g as it to itough t have been. The board however , are unable arrive at the con clusion that the de ath of Caroline James was accele rated, in any sens ible degree by the course pursued and, having regard also t o afterwards taken and main hivtheaeri nsghoe: washffirecre ,a ' nd that her f uneral expenses main tained e the fact a c relieving e by that n were a fterwards pa id b y her b rother and si s t er, t h ey req uire so extreme a step as th at of requiring his resig nation, es p eciall y when they sty s services take into con sideration the len g th o f Mr. Chri as think to that the circu m stances of the Case are not such and t he deliberate opinion expre ss e by the guardians d ' t hat in this instance the re is g his conduct. The board at theresaatme time extenuation consider fo r that Mr. Christy is censurable for his omission to make due inquiry into the circumstances of the de ceased, and also for using the very improper expres sion already referred to. He ought also to have known that if he considered the deceased a fit object for the workhouse, he was not justified in attaching t l u o his de d to. offer any suc h con diti on as th a t a l rea dy al- This is not the first occasion on which complaints have been preferred against Air. Christy, and the board request that in conveying to him their decisions on the case the Guardians will remind him that if a n y ser i ous neg l ec t or om ission in the here- dis charge of his duty is es t a bli s h e d against him ee. after, he will not be allowed to retain hi "1 "I am, sir, your obedient servant, "C. Gri.ris, Secretary. "To Mr. W. T. Howard, cleft to the Guar dians of the Poor of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal -green." On the motion of Mr. COLLINS, it was resolved that Mr. Christy b e called in and reprimanded by the chairman, which was done accoldingly ; and Mr. Christy emphalically denied that he had ever made use of such language as had been attributed to him. 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