The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-15 00:00:00

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I I .r+► .4. ilk -0 r ~ ~`- Royal Geographical Society. /rt '' PERSONS SEEKING LANDED Ir,,,F4STATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, 1 YPERUIE 4;;; S GDHOLD AN NE R LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND EALLY -1421 nx HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls zik7Zhout the kintzdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, s,-,., 67 , Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's t il i lEE PROPERT Y R EGISTER, " conta i n i ng a var i e d se l ec ti on Abe Wed and house properties now in the market, from ~,,,,nocbleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the "`lt s ..e with its few acres. O WNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can etn vr"lorS the opport un it y th a t t h e me di um o f thi s Regist er I], ta . B , by sendino• the particulars of their properties to the tam?, °f fices, 6 7Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Y can in most cases introduce immediate customers, thel,l;'re property is of an eligible chant ter, thereby avoid- Vent en , d advantivres of delay and its attendant incon - TH E ' • c 1 1 8 .6 R E IS NO ertAnc E i n c ur red, unless a tenant or pur fttOhen onl r is introduced the usual moderate throuot M commission. essrs. Lumley's Agency, A uction and ' Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN (2, RAILWAY.—NEW YORK DIVISION. t t h IT FONS due Ist January next will be PAID in London, e C onsolidatid Bank (Limited), No. 7, Fenchurch-street, T h d °n, at the ra t e o f 4 s. t o th e d o ll ar. B en e f k•uuDons must be left two clear days for examination ; tona n ",!°,,the Offices of the Company, No. 2, Old Broa . d-Street, witt ed al by post, a cheque for the amount be re- Th due course. option to convert Bonds into Shares expires on 31st tuber, non, No, 2, Old Broad-street, Dec. 9, 1863. ANTIC and GREAT WESTERN A R ILWAY.—NOTICE to BONDHOLDERS. B in with the terms on which the First Mortgage Issue! of the Pennsylvania Section of this Rsilroad were u to the public, the FIRST ANNUAL DRAWING of 4 at ti c i " , t. of the gross amount of these Bonds will take place k r , I, 9ndon Tay.rn, Bi.hopszate-street, in the presence of at rain, Public Notary, on TUESDAY. January 12, 1864, at te u n tle o'clock precisely. when Bondholde are invited to ti• The authorised issue is as under, viz.:-2 on • 0 Bonds of 1, 1 00 dols. each 600 500 ~ 300,000 „ 2 , 0 00 " 100 „ 20:,000 „ ,500,00 Feu 71r per cent of each denomination will be drawn „ on the to bove m ' IB Y, and the Bonds so drawn, that have been issued in doh. Anall be paid off at the r a te of £225 for every 7,000 ev,£ll2 10s. for every 500 dols.Bond, and £22 10s. for 0m' ,„.." 10 0 dots. Bond, on presentation at the Company's he x No. 2, Old ilroad-street, E.C., on and after Ist April all In addition to the Coupon due on that day, after whioh scaonterest will cease. n payment, the drawn Bonds will be cancelled in the pre tss.... o'': of a public notary. laces, 2 Old Broad-street, London, E.C., Dec. 9,1863 • '''',-.—______'___._________ SPECY'A.I, NOTICE, THE BOOKS OF THE NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Life For the Year 1863, close on 31st December. d ato Pol inal Y e cies effected on or before that date will rank ear's Bonus in comparison to later entrants.for an -- the Four Years preceding last Division of P alZ, fi r °•ts (1858), the Company issued 1,595 Life -I)° ucies, assuring .£1,221,603 n• 9: the Four suc'eeding Years the number of Sums Polices issued amounted to 3,168, an d the oluns assured to £2,22',5y2 BEING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT. SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the COM ",Y'IIS PROFITS will t a k e pl ace on 3 1s t D ecem b er, 1865 . , W 0 L 41E PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMU- P,D SINCE qlsT DECEMBER , 1858 , WILL THEN , AND PER ALLOCATED 01 ONOLIVIDED THE ASSURED NINETY ON THE CENT. PARTICIPATING SCALE. CERTIFICATES of INDISPUTABILI I•Y granted, and every facility offered to Insurers. FIRE DEPARTMENT. insuran^ terms. es granted both at H ome an d Ab road on the most liberal „Porms of Proposal and every information will be given at Read Office, or any of the Company's Agents. CHEAP EDITIONS OF FAVOURITE NOVELS. Each Volume Embellished with Two Illustrations. EAST LYNNE. By Mrs. WOOD. 6s. The CHANNINGS. By Mrs. WOOD. fis. MRS. HALIBURTON'S TROUBLES. By Mrs. Wow). 6s, The INITIALS. By the Author of "Quits" and "At Odds.' 6s. The LAST of the CAVALIERS. 6s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. By order. F. W. LANCE, Secretary. tc,ndon, November, 1863. tr nir.oll READ OFFICES : 58, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury. I], •• West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-prace, Pall-mall. NTIUUGH 64, Princes-street. AISULLIEN'S CONCERTS. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. rositioeiy the Last Night of Sivori, and last Night but Four of the Season. '`lmmenseo success of M. Jullien's new GREAT CON clifteent n 0 QUADRILLE ations , introducing the National Airs of r . V ocalist, Mdlle. Signor Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor-31. JULLIEN. Commence at B.—Admission, One Shilling. kr3iiJullien's GRAND BAL . D'OPE RA will take place on DAY next, December 21 E O X F OR D, 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. isib ß , I , S EVENING, will be performed Selections from the ng Onerss, viz., T SLAVE, and the r "-',.._ot MIL AN, by Sir H. HE ; also, from L A FORZA C ; by the following talented artistes rg' BB es Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, Vl , Almsley, Tyrrell lltsou ; Messrs. Green, Finish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. tel klBo , Solos on the Violin by VIOM COLLINS. the e brated English Violinist. A _ Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. 47,1 the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL by Herr S'2HALKENB &CH, the Inventor. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Co m .. 1/7- . e‘-tY, by tJNSWORTH ("or a-. 17 OVner man "), Encrene, , Rs.ndail, .T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, and the marvel- The rz J. Henderson. ~.4..ta, has been - Decorated, and is one of the host ' • 8 new'''. tleruttful in the Metropolis. 4 ,1 _Oper, at half -past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, ed. ; stalls `b4lcony, I s. ; private boxes, O. 6d. ~......_ HE GTIOST CLUB" at the g CANTEIZI3URY HALL.—New and Interesting Pectral Tableaux.—Mr. C.lllO RTON is enabled to announce Sh adows through the medium of Professor Pepper's World of *dows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN ORRURY HALL The object of the Club is not the re ti:°l3ling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through I x , agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) , n wures of the drama of real lite, both in its serious t o cl lairthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux. nr,teeall, and still further impress on the mind, some t e „Te teachings or pleasantries of the best wr ters. At pre kV, the two orders of Slavery —the Slavery of the South, the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, IriZ t '",e emphatic illustration ; and these life pi c t ures w i l l b e eirt'Y replacel by others. The pages of Shakspere and the 1,1,e,r Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., A L in turns furnish subjects for illustration. hall the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, (tl r s'Uding Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth ," tandem Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. 'l'shall, and George Hutchenson. :11 , 13 YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - AIENSE SUCCESS. Houses Crowded Nightly. ?(V A ICONPS CIRQUE I3IPERIAL. The most talented pea t '. , 9ld Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, and the otud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World. 2 ki ve r y Evening at Half-past Seven. D at TA o. ay Performances on ,"Ys, Wednesdass, and Saturdays, ur aission—Reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, 2s. ; promenade, P r ivate boxes, one guine a . Box-office open daily from Ten until Four. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. ia• v ;:ng* The Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Her <Ve x l ;s TheaNlNtre, E the BALL will commence EVERY "i-NG at O'C. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. 31anager—M. GRENET. 1 29 , GEORGE -STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. li n E LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Welo c k"Pen daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 'Wif e , • Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Sia m ; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the ber tv i" Twins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre gold, '2ls, &C. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years One shilling tor Gentlemen only). ANKRTJPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS .- t WETHERFIELD, Solicitor, 35, Moorgate-Street, City, PR. ACTIgES in COURT, and effects PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS with creditors, wit. , out Charges, the lowest possible, payabl by' instalments. Coun try oases economically conducted. e D.—DETITS recovered on co mmission, free of law costs. Divorce and Probate business conducted at moderate ex pensie. rriEETFL—Mr. ESK r^+.I,I,•S INVENTION in s, without ollowing ativantazes :—A set of teeth, ot '"ETTI has the Ifianship and mechanism, can be made acd /Cost perfect accuracy and success, in a few g !; l aln or extraction of stumps, and to answer allTz 4, mastication and articulation. They are fitteedPzit; ,„....es or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the t ;3,lT,fs. that they are quite immoveable, except at the option Ai he wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad ttifft these teeth to many clvingcs of the mouth without the iii:flf a dentist They are not so liable to injury, are always tba t ul, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea ln;e3_Tlaining Mr. EskelPs Patent,.&c., free fpr_7 ro s s t v amps. isi te v e ?ct on of specimens andconsultationsiree.-8 li ir- In t r, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill,enßc!r -_ tighate. RIZE MEDAL -INTERNATIONAL FR A EXHIBITION, 1862. — 4.-LNCIS TUCKER dr CO., Wax Chandlers, cte, To the Queen and the P:ince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) Th te 4t : jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, '"es to AUfacture• he excellence of the quality of M e ssrs. Tuckers' 4 Tu e , distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addres se d t o Francis 4..ez and Co., on the subject of 4. A CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : Whi ch n ave fou them full equal to the remmedaton. ke gfave nd them, and can y sincerely, in my tutu, n recom i nd them to the clergy for the use of the altar." denagv quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb quality Od. per lb. nest ''GETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. is. 3d. 35dd.. per rr lb. 4 .ri ci quail! yirnd Y ••• .. • • .. Is. ld. per lb. a g e Paid in • London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. South FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.. - ` ll Molton-street, Orosvenw-square. Manufactory— •Che Kensinoton (Established 1730). lar gest Establishi " mnt in Eng,land for the Manufacture Of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. iiii,l%,„ll3ERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN °l' air e ':„ V ECTUA I. TIE lIE DY. without confining the bowels Initt Nt :ng' the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, Is ad no t - to he the best medicine for immediately relieving. tl44l3ts,,_colds Confirmed cases et asthma, and incipient con- Drot io l ?n• It frequently cures persons whelp the faculty Provo,:ice incurable, admirably allays the tickling wh!ch it, eff!ies frequent coughing. In approaching con snmption IP. ATh!Lites fl.ze r , Ts are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, .or In it f 'Y2 l 2' down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief atter takine - it. Prepared on,y and . sold by , L 111 '"T , Chemist. S,"KinT-William-street, uhanng for . 1 . !I t iantities in One `, thr ee °lldon, and by 'all drue.gists, in bottles, 130., and d each. - _ lie particular. and ask *ug;.hert's Astlimaii -s. 9 . The name and address are 4 Ved 04 the eta c Balsam, mp, (ARNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, And Dining-room, consisting of a new and e,egatit assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand. W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, 11INERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. {rid GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNAM.V. at 149 Strand. W.C. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps , and Alabaster Li q ui d. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. —Can be had only at Madame RACE' EL'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidential. rxriingoEnn , c _____ R UPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC—MAIN LEVER TRUSS is here avoldeePel sPrint 1 A 2) is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred lONS ( PER FECTED E181)51 ANDAND ..E B X s. 11,18 I T E D IN TILE GREAT nvention R N I A. The use of a the curative. treatment of II E in Medical Gentlemen to he the mos , t effective s effects, nd closeness that 1: body, while the re a soft cannot be detected , the m oc _m ain Pad annsite resisting power is supplied by the ansdoagefetenbeihnurg hurtful l rn in round it during sleep. A descri t tent Lever, fitting with so much ease truss, which cannot fail t P o fi v t e and may be worn tv; forwarded by post, on the cir circular may be had, and the samference of the body, sent to the manufacturer, o inches below the hips, being 425. and 525. 6d. Postage Mr. WHITE, 228, plooadill Postage, 18 Bd. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s . A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 426., end 52.. 6,-i: 6d. Postage, Is. In po U s m t- b offi ili c c e al o T r r d u er s s s, to be made payable to John ' I NPhi n t d. e, Post- Office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of 'Weakness and Swelling of the Le g s, Sprains, &,3, They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on D'e an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d, 108., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOIIN WHITE. Manufacturer, 22A, Gray's-inn-road, R n Rail- ity of the Great Nor ther in the immediate vicin OYAL FREE HOSPITAL , way Terminus, King's-cross. P atron —Her Most Gracious MajeAy the QUEEN. Vice -patron--ilia WALE Royal Highness the Prince of ,K •G President —His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. The numerous and urgent appeals of the si,k poor for ad missi.n compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and umane, as th e me di ca l o ffi cers are d a ily o bliged t treat RS ohut-patients many distres4ing cases which, with more adequate I unds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The beds premises of the H ospital are capable of containing 500 . _ _ The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received 'by the Treasurer, Edward Maar erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; D rummond and Co. ; Harries and Co. ; Transom and Co. ; Prescott Grote, and Co.; Smith, and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; warns , Payne, and Co.: Glyn and ; zones Loyd and C o . ;Barcla y Deacon, and Co. ; liverend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and CO. ; T. Barned and C o., Liverpoo l ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. bTANIPpIi,D S. SALITII Secretary, N O . 22,299. "VURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOT 11, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every ariicle warranted CL Ei,GYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR- Ni SH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are "publishing an entirely New Edition of their un quailed HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, ill , strated by4lo admirable engraving of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the fullowing, revised scale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed d:tto S9I 11 0 Together with a trice List of purified heeding, and a mass of valuable information to all requiring househild turn iture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, zqain es, Dorking„ St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 510 other places in all parts of Gloat Britain. COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, MRS. MUTER'S TRAVELS. On Saturdly, Dee. 19, in 2 vols., 215., TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE IN INDIA, CHINA, AND NEW ZEALAND. By Mrs. MUTER, wife of Lieutenant- Colonel D. D. MUTER, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL by the Author of "GRANDMOTHER'S MONEY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WOMAN'S RANSOM. A .-•- - Author:cif"'Granainother's Money," Itc. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. DR. CUMMING'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 1 vol., 7s. 6d., DESTINY OF NATIONS, AS INDICATED IN PROPHECY. By the Rev. JOHN CUMMING, D.D. Hurst and Blae:ett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. THE NOTICE. THE SECOND EDITION of THE SHADOW OF' ASHLYDYAT, is now ready at all Libraries and Booksellers, in 3 vols., post Evo. l Ichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On Wednesday will be published, CAPTAIN SPEKE'S JOURNAL of the DISCOVERY of the SOURCE of theNILE. In one volume. octavo, price 21s. With Portraits and Map, and numerous Illustrations chiefly from Drawings by Captain GRANT. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) will commence a New Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled— T" DOCTOR'S WIFE. By Author of "John Marc!lmontis Legacy," "Lady Audley's Secret," ac., &o. - Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " SACKVILLE CHASE!' In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) of the ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE will commence T HE MAN IN CHAINS. By C. J. COLLINS. London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. H UME'S SELECT LIBRARY, THE PUBLISHING SEASON. NOTICE.—R !WISED I ISTS of the Principal WORKS in circulation at NIUDIE'S LIB.iARY, CATALOGUES of SURPLUS COPIES WITHDRAWN FOR SALE, and LISTS of BOOKS in Oroament4l 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. T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London: 18, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, A B O O K OF BEAUTY. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. SHORTHAND. -PITMAN'S PHONOGRA. PHIC TEACHER 6d.; free by post, 7d. SHORTHAND. -PITMAN'S PHONOGRA. PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d. Q H OR T H A N D.—"PITMAN'S PHONO GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland Hill London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling . merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. Pnd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and Westminster Bank. Post-dfize Orders payable at Camker well-park N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—Bow and JACKSON, " Man of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 15, 1863. 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 WIIISKY 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 al 8, GREAT WINDMILL-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 i laplin 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 reeeived 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 is every respect ready for sea. If is rumoured that_thpSala;.. mander will shortly embark a detachment of Royal Ma rines, accompanied by their wives 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 abundantly 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 Com mander,—F. Howson, H. M. Miller, J. W. East, L. M. Croke, A. IL 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. MR. COBDEN AND THE " TINES," 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 been long personally acquainted; your handwriting is known to me, and I know you to be the chief Editor of the 7imes. Under such circumstances I cannot allow you to suppress your individuality, and shield yourself under the third person of the editorial nomi native, i❑ a correspondence affecting your personal respon sibility for a scandalous aspersion on myself (as I now learn from you) as well as on Mr. Bright. 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 cision comparatively harmless. A few years ago the Tunes possessed almost a monopoly of publicity. Four-fifths of the daily newspaper circulation issued from its press. How it constitutes, probably, one-tenth of our diurnal journalism, and my letter will be only the more generally react 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 nur interpretation ; in other words, as a proof of our guilt I Here we have, in a compendious form, an exhibition of those 4wi lities_a mind which vhurfethrise-the-editorial manage ment of the Times—of that arrogant 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. Delane, 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 your 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 number 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 benefit 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 ties 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 myse —I a m, Sir, your obedient servant, Midhurst, Dec. 9. R. COBDEN. To RICHARD COMDEN, EsQ,, M.P. Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter o: ;he 9th inst. y:yufmoopuryo upon whatndyiovui professeddr ys u : al ltf i o t a y adnr , e' and It is quite true, as you say, that we have been long per sonally acquainted. You had no need to identify my hand. individuality su e m om momentous o i which e w r rit t i e ng d . en l y h m a y ve p n er o so d h e a si l re re to sp ‘ o ‘ u s s u i p b p il r i e t s pleased u r.B r i g t to call ßright. You "scandalous a s s a p l e l rs t i h o a n t s i s n id y er o a u t r et le a t h t d er f te rem the w e h d i i e t h or y o e t u th a e n i ti i c i i n p es ated consequences. You will theref ore ha ve no difficulty in rendering me responsible to th e verdict eit her of a court of cheerfullyl aw o r oof t the l acceptgeneral their body od y o f decision, o You proceed to attrib ute to " limes e g ot ism" my countrymen, and I shall 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 you seldom read the Times, and it is proba bly because you take your opinions of it at second-hand from its rivals that you apply to it such terms as arrogant and truculent, and only hesitate over ruffianl y . I appeal from your professed ignorance to the better informed judg ment of that large majority w ho do read t he Times, and who t have discovered in it no such q ualities. landdeliberate misrepresentation between the rich tthan other interpretation amendingo fY o your u meaningattribute r the h b et unequal ander i l tuha that h T dai t t : ter e of M r. distribution tri. o Bright roifg h as to the means of str instalment and seaene t ht h he e as tw p a o isl o ci : i . ibne l dm that ty r o e e p tph e i a enm t ie.n, I bfe arn certain passages in your you merely intended to ro commend measures for facilitati n g t he conveyance of land, strang e ly of law reform. yexaggerated that was our ever used toh ea y our r eference to our transac tion a t Ascot would suggest, Sour If you had read the Times, in stead of condemning it unread, you w ou ld know that it has al wa y s advocated the simplifi cation of means for the tran sfer of lan d , and that its advo • language was further t the er a m humble ost 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 itself to the j u d gmen t of all, whether statesmen or public- 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.—l 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 seemed 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 bat 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 li g ht o f 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 square loft—apples again extending to the outer walls. A corner, screened off by some hoarding exactly 6ft. by 7ft., hardly attracts our notice, for we are stilt looking all round for the lunatic. But the father, aged 74, approaches this " box" in the corner, and pointing to a small door says "Now, this is the p!ace we are o bli g ed 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 hav e 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 unceiled 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 as I have watched the group of lunatics congregated in their vatious rooms, and thought that the world cc:mid 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 bad 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." He had been at the asylum some seven years before, and was returned to his parents in a somewhat imn proved state. Without, I fully believe, any ab b s a o d " lute intention of cruelty on their part , aid, gradually grown worse and worse and down to this condition. With your Sir, it Is things dwindled down possible my words may penetrate t the inmosti‘iay hearts of the dwellers in our humblesitf n ot for the homes. I entreat them for the love of love of their fellow-men, nottoGobdlind themselves wilfully to the enormity of such ca ses as those I of have described ; not to let any scruplesfalse intimacy or friendship prevent their making some effort to relieve a fallow -creature with an im mortal soul like themselve s from Bo dreadful an earthl y doom? How many suc h cases may yet b z b rought to light, who shall tell? But there is a stain upon our country w hi c h no self-adulation can ronove so long as one is left unrevealed. Your readers will be glad to le arn t h at the Tre re gony case,referred to by your correspondent Mr. Charles Reed—who in " doubly convicting" Corn wall seems to forget that he convicts himself by his long-continued reticence--was brought to the notice of the Commissioners two years ago. Will you allow me also to state, in answer to numerous in quiries which have reached me privately, that PRICE..... —..4c1. STAMPED ....6d. 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, Dec• 14. . _ . Ey the arrival of the India and China mail we learn that the statement that the Alabama had gone to the 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 Amanda 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. Taylor. 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. THE ARMY. The large military gymnasium recently erected at I 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 physical 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 1001 t 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 advantages 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 oblong 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, preponderates 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' fencing school is itself the largest building of the kind yet erected, being 50ft in length by 25ft in breadth. The most ample arrangements are made for light and yen tilation, the necessity for a constant supply of pure air being especially required in a building where so many as 300 men will be engaged for several consecutive hours in active bodily exertion. The gymnasium has been inspected by G em 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 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 descripti on 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 are 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 employes 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 y 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 I 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 I "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 villanoua 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,—Dam directed by the Poor-law Board to inform you that they have received from their in spector, Mr. L imbert, 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 baturday, 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 be 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 cfficer 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 furniture in course of removal. It is evident also, although the fact is denied by the relieving officer, that he used coarse and improper expressions towards Caroline Dalmer, one of the neighbours in attendance upon the deceased, a s he was leaving the house ; and t he Board have reason to believe that his conduct in other respects was not so temperate and forbearing as it ought . to have been, elusion that the death of Caroline James was accele- The board, however, are u nable to arrive at the eon. rated in any sensible degree by the . course pursued officer, and, having regard also to sister, the by the relieving the fact that she was afterwards taken and main are not they tained by her mother, and that her funeral expenses twheirnekatfhteartwthaerdcsirpcauimd circumstances li o r f o t t h h e e re case e d such as services, and as to requ ire so extreme a step as th at of requiring h resignation, especially e n s g p t e h c i o a f hiist l when they take into con sideration the deliber ate o p i nion expressed t h a t in this instance there is bY the guardians is res thegreat extenuation for h i s conduct. The board at 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 to his offer any such condition as that already al luded to.'Phis is not the first occasion on which Complaints have been preferred against Mr. Christy, and the board request that in conveying to him their decisions on the case the Guardians will remind him that if any serious neglect or omission in thedis : charge of his duty is established against him h ere after, ho will not be allowed to r etain his office. "I am, sir, your obedient servant, „C. G/LpIN, S(Crettity. it To Mr. W. T. Howard, clerk to the .i liutir dians of t h e Poor o f the part. of St. Matthew, Bethnal -green." On the motion of Mr. COLLINS, I . t w. .s resolved b e called in and reprimanded by that Mr. Christy the was done accordingly ; and Mr. Christy chain:lamb whlaii emphatically denied that ho had ever made use of such la n g ua g e as had been attribute d to him. Th e board soon afterwards adjourned. The other business was not of general importance. N.E.; S PAPER /tegomi-o-ittoes. " 1 :4 4611: ). 13 : 'phical S r ‘ o\ l --,,,, .445 4 / 4 1 \:4 1 :4 - ard? 4l ' At the meeting of this society yesterdity evemit ns —Lord Strangford in the chair—a Met was ret, 3, communicated by Mr. Swinhoe, on Fbrmt )sa, whic island was opened to Biitish commerce b 3 the is to Lord Elgin.- Mr. Swinhoe was appointed vice-con sul of Formosa, and visited different part of The coast to ascertain which port would be best a dapted for trade. In his communication he stated some of the results of his investigations in the character: of the island and its inhabitants. A ridge of moun tainous hills extends north and south nearly through its centre, those portions of the country being in habited by native tribes principal:3- of Malay origin, the lower country on the west and north belt g in possession of the Chinese. On, the north of the island there are extensive seams of coal, N, thieJa is highly bituminous; so much so indeed as not' to be fitted for combustion in the furnaces of steam: Chips, but when mixed with Welsh coa l i s very su i ta h ' ha for the purpose. This coal Mr. S w i n h oe cons id e rs to be of the character of lignirc, and as the scam a occur in tertiary strata, he does not think that thnl can be very deep. At present they are worked net. x the surface, and to a small extent. The rocks ar e volcanic, and not far distant from the coal there is: a sulphur hill, in the vicinity of which there are hot springs and other indications of volcanic action. The summit of the highest of these hills is covered with coral, indicating ;hat The the country, so whole rangfa h r as Mr. e as been elevated from the sea. Swinhoe had an opportunity of observing, is very fertile, and on the east side of the island it )713 well called attentionthe natives.of t particularly a ntf o the society S soo w ln•ietyh°e to the want accurate maps of the coast, the absence of wAich renders the navigation very dangerous. Admiral COLLINSON, who said he consider ed Formosa a child of his own, as he had surveys d the coast sixteen years ago wren little or nothing was known of it, described the g eneral eh , ?.rac ter of the island, and mentioned that on the ea st 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 (lay upwards of 100 miles. On the west side of t:he island there is a strong current in the opposite direction. Sir HARRY PARKES noticed the original occupa— tion though 4 of P Formosa h by the Dutch and Japanese, and stated that th t s he island is so large that it uow forms one f and is only divisions of the Chinese em pire,coast, it was not about take 2 n o p o 9 os s session of by the Chin ese miles distant from the until within the last . years. He mentioned tve difficulty of trading with th savage character of e island, owing to its w ant of harbours, and to the s ome of the native trib es, and even of the Chinese themselves. There is, he said, a south-east all tribe, not amoun ting to 300, who occupy th e h of the island, and m ake it a practice o t cot B east p oint head of every on e who falls into the ir h ands. that tribe and by the Chinese nearl y the whole of the crews of the two English ships were wrecked on the island were murdered. He took a more favourable view of the probable extent of the &lamas of coal than Mr. Swinhoe, and stated that though, there is no trade with Formosa carried on directly with this country, there is nevertheless a considee able indirect trade through Hong Kong. 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 adjourned 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 Hmse of Commons has no autho rity to issue a writ as in other cases. The elections which have taken place stand as follows :—On the day of the prorogationew,writ.wata ordered for the borough of Pontefract in the roam of Mr. 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 for Clare, died. On the 31 of August Sir Coltman O'Logh lan was elected. Captain Willie Johnson, M.P. for the Montgomeryshire Burghs, died a few days after the prorogation. On the 20th of August the Hon. Charles Richard Douglas Hanbury Tracy was elected. Mr. Beriah BAfield, 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. On the 26th of October the Hon. F. Ligon, formerly mem ber for Tewkesbury, was elected. The Marquis Townsend died on the 10th of September, and Vis. count Raynhem, M.l'. for Tamwor tb, succ eeded to the marquisate. O n the 12th of October Air. J . Peel was elected f or Tamworth after a sharp con. ight Hon. Ed war d Ellice,M.P. ie d t e st with the Hon. H enr y Cowper. The 11 M . for Coventry, on the 17th of September. On the Bth of October Mr. Morgan Treherne was elected after a severe Contest with Mr. A. Peel. Mr. Potts, M.P. for Barnstaple, died on the 21st of September. On the 20th of Octo ber Mr. Lloyd was elected, after Mr. Brem rid g e, who formerly a contest with b oro ugh. On the 25th of represented the announ ced that Mr. Sergeant September it was to the dignity of a Baron of Pigott had been raised October 16, Mr. George Shawof the Exchequer. On me mber for Reading Without Lefevre was elected 20 it was announced hout opposition. On Sept. resigned the office that Sir William Atherton had Sir Roundell of Attorney - General, and that ' this created Palmer had been aointed his sue cessor. eated pp Richmond, forvehich Sir R. Palmer was re - elec ted position. ht. By this promo tion the Solici tor-Genera') became vacant, and Sir R. P. Collier having been appointed to it appealed to the borou g h °f Plymouth for re-election. He was returned with out 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. liayter. 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. Oa October 28 Mr. W. Cabin, M.P. for Andover, died. His son-in-law, Mr. Humphery, was returned after a contest with Mr. Hawkshaw. —........ _ YACCIDENTS.—The West A CHAPTER OF RAIL week in accidents. On. been unfortunate during, first train proceeding from Wor cester morning the approaching Ledbury tunnel ran. and Hereford on.Ariexiastt Western Railway has which proved to be a fall of the line, into an obstruction on c li s i t d e l r and section of the Great cutti ng goods train, and was proceeding up which had taken place in the night, was atsliottle damage was done. The subsequent an incline, so that little delayed, but the line was Cleared by passenger trains On the preceding evening there was an extra the evening. from a frightful accident on the West And r escape . ordina y A 4 a goods train was proceeding from Oxford ter a coupling chain broke,and several trucks be eia,hreth t i r n si a a deep l slow sine detached, the driver proceeding without them. For • tunately,e thero was a guard at the end of the dissevered trucks, and hc,knowing that the express train from Loudon to Worcester was following behind,rau back with his lamp and succeeded in attracting attention of the driver, who pulled up just a few yards before reaching the trucks, He then pushed tloanldVo lin e.ce s the trucks before him to the next st ation,l he only result being a delay of about an hour. On the same day, as some men were employed in re easing the interior of Mickleton tunnel,he , near Chipping Camptlen, (al the same line roof of the tunnel fell in upon the workmen. ThuTcihi, and a boy were injured. One boy named Wrisberg in:wary, akull fractured, awl was conveyed to Woreostor not so where he is doing well. The other sufferers were special train from much hurt, Two or three nights ago a spec a portion of ureat Worcester to Malvern, road in the had to pass a level crossing on a turnpike no notice of suburs of Worcester. 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