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First Issue 6,000 Shares. _ _ _ Deposit:on application £l, and £1 10s. on allotment, with a further Call not exceeding £2los. within three months. DIRECTORS. Mr. Alderman ABBISS, Chairman. Joseph Causton, Esq., EastcheaP. Fir Cusack P. Roney, 15, Langham-place. J. W. Chater, Esq., London Tavern, Managing Director. (With power to add to their number.) MANAGER. Mr. John Funge. BAN KERS. The Bank of London, Threadneedle-street ; and 450, Strand, W.C. CITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and SOLl Hardwick, 3 and 4, Alderman bury, E.C. BROKERS. Mcssrs. Eykyn Broth ers , 22, Change-alleY, E.C. AUDITOR. Henry Honey, Esq. (Ho ne y an d ll ump hrys), 14, Ironmonger- lane. SECRETARY pro tern. Mr. Reed. Offices—The London Tavern, 13Ishopsgate-street. PROSPECTUS. It is proposed to form a. Company to purchase the business of the well-known Lon'aon Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The Directors have entered into a provisional agreement with Mr. Chater, which g yes them tee option of purchasing; the Freehold (within three years), or leasing- the property at a fair rental. The stock in trade. good will, wines, plate, furniture, fit tings, &c., are estimated at £30,00 0 , and the present Proprie tor guarantees n minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on that amount for Varee years. 'these estimates have been verified as to the furniture and plant by ?,fr. Daniel Cronin ; as to the wines and spirits, by Mr. R. C. Wilson, of 37, Drury-lane ; as to the Ire hold, by Mr. l'ebenham. of the firm of Debenham and Tewson, 80, Cheripside ; and a report has been made on the profits of the business by Mr. Henry Honey, of the firm of Honey and Ilumphrys, Accountants. The t-ampany to take possession on the let October next, and the profits will accrue as from that date. The option of purchasing - the freehold of constantly increasing va ue, and a substantial guarantee of a minimum dividend of 10 per cent., are obviously great advantages. In the formation of this Companyno promotion-money has been or will be paid, and with a view to avo d a'l unnecessary expenses, the offices of the Company will be at the London Tavern. Upwards of two-thirds of the requisite Capital for the first issue has already been subscribed for by Mr. Chater, the Directors, and their friends. Forms of Application for Shares to be made in the form annexed to the Prospectus, with dennsit of £1 ner Share, to the Bankers, The Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, and 450, Strand. The Articles of Association can be inspected at the offices of the Company. Prospectuses may be obtained at the office of the Brokers, Chanze-alley, E.C. ; at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate- Etreet ; and at the Company's Bankers. The liability of each shareholder will be limited to the amount of his subscription, and if no ailotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. TO THE DIRECTORS OF Tr. ff; LONDON TAVERN COMPANY (Limited). Registered as a Limited Compiliii i tr the Joint-Stock Companies' 9 Gentlemen,—l request r t me Shares of £lO each in the above Company, and I hereby agree to accept such Shares, or any less number that may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit of 10s. on allotment, and I further authorise you to enter my name on the Register for the num ber of Shares so allotted. Signature Address in full Date THE LIVEBPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established in 1836. Offices :--1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, tondont E.C. PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1553 : Fire Premiums. Life Premiums. I Invested Funds. £51,305 222,279 360.130 436,065 £27,157 £5(,2,8.4 72,781 821,061 135.974 1,3 '1,905 13,703 1,417.808 The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862 Was £71,214. SIVINTON BOULT, Fec - etary tl the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Fe retary. London. Fire Policies falling due at 11i haelmas should be renewed by the 14th October. T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. DEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-ecrcet, London, and Royal Insurance buildings, Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,0 , 0. Accumul,ated Funds in hand over 1,010,000. Chairmen in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now smiled upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Ydeeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is aglin fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preced.ng year, and in fact sur passes that of any rear, with but two exceptions, sinc-t the commencement of thi-i Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,101 10s. fid., and of rite North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,007 16s. 10d. LIFE BRANC IT. The very mtifyinz duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on n •Nv policies for fhe year 17 , 62 exceeds even that of the ye‘r 1861 by £/80,000, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of .£701027 on 1,408 new policies issued. Until within the last lbw years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which has just been announced as the Jesuit of one year's business was all but unheard of. Thi s Portion of le Company's business has been carefully watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the Pha reholder, as well as no small encouragement for the fu - tare to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assuranne o mounts to .£ '43,2at. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis eitle in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business its proiress has been undou btedl y more rapid than that of any other Company established either in London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of'a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater macni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY H. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. VEINERALOGY.—King's College, London.— Prrfessor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE OF LECTURES on MINER ALOGY, with a view to facilitate the study of Geology, and of the application of mineral substances in the Arts. The Lectures will begin on FRIDAY, October 2, at Nine o'clock, a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Fee, £2 25. E. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. CIELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of ..J the BIRTH of SHA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, S m ith , an d Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co , bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at Ring's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCIT, Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow -creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward lliasNicholas-lane; also by Messr s . C outts and and Co. ; Hearer and Co. ; Ransom an d ter m Drummondan E sq. , Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith , Payne , and Co. Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; De nison a c n o d . ;CNo.is; Nisbet t andlli ani c s o ,. D ; e ressis. J. .Deacon, and d and Co.,Gurney, and Co.; Barned ()verend o. Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, in such quantities is may he required. for the use of ITer Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1864 : FORAGE. 1. Hyde-pa k, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Horse Guards. 2. Tronushw and Kneller HalL 3. Hanipton Court. 4. Windsor. 5. Briahton. fi. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. 7. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street Barracks. 3- New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks. 6. The Tower. F. Hounslow and Kneller Hail. 7. Hampton Court. S. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. separate Tenders must be made for Forme and for Pail. asse Straw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar racks as grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the pr;nteil forms must he properly filled up and sivned, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned t Alice, under closed envelope (marked t . ?tt the o u t s i ae " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before l' o'clock noon on the 3d October next. (signed) W. T. POWER, Dem, f„ COM Mis scary-General. y - G ener al. --- *`- 31 ranissary-General's Office, °ll4°ll ('Nv-street, 2'ardens, S.W., 10th Sept, 1863. 38 - ,1 1856 1861 1862 N°. 22,231. THE SUN, LONDON, MO, , DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1863. Now ready, in 1 vol • with Illustrations, 155., bound, EARL RUSSELL AT BLAIRGOWRIE. AWINTER IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT. By G. A. HOSKINS, Esq., P.R.G.S. title of original partition, on the title of conquest, and rejecting all those conditions by which by the treaty 3f Vienna that title was, as it were, accepted by Europe. What may be the consequences of that act, what conduct the different Powers of Europe may follow, are not questions eu which I can properly enter. I merely wish you to remark the fact that those conditions which are contained in the treaty of Vienna, by which Russia ob tained the kingdom of Poland, have not been complied with, and with the conditions of the tenure broken the title itself can hardly be complied with. (Cheers.) There is another question concerning our foreign relations on which a good deal of misappiehensien has very likely prevailed. I mean the question of Mexico. It is said that there has been intervention in Mexico, and that tie took part in that intervention ; now that word intervention is not unfre quently appplied with a great degree of looseness and con fusion to very different kinds of proceedings. There is an intervention certainly when the subjects of a power are wronged, and that power seeks redress for these subjects when their property has been unjustly seized, or when the persons of these subjects have been injured; but that in tervention is quite justifiable and indispensably necessary —(cheers)--but there is another kind ofintervention against which I have protested, and which I think is very rarely, indeed, to be justified, and which generally finds its con demnation in the consequences which flow from it ; I mean intervention in the internal affairs of another nation to dic tate what form of government it shall adopt and who shall be its rulers. In the former kind of intervention we have taken part; but immediately the latter kind was adopted by one of the three powers concerned in these hos tilities in Mexico we at once parted company with our allies, and have not since taken a part in the affairs of Mexico. (Hear, hear.) Such is our condition at the present moment. If the people of Mexico approve of the intervention that has taken place—if they like to set up a monarchy—if they all like to obey—if they are willing to seek peace and prosperity in Mexico on these conditions—l say with all my heart let them do it—(cheers) --if they have adopted them, I say it is no business of ours to contradict them ; but the people of Mexico, however irregular their form of government has been, and however the country has been deformed by actsof robbery and violence, yet I do not think we have any right to interfere with their own choice or their own form of go vernment. Well, gentlemen, I come now to another ques tion, a question interesting to us all, a question to which I beg your attention, because I want to explain some circum stances in which I think the character of this country has been maligned. I am speaking of what occurred in what a few years ago were the United States of America. A few years ago we we exulting in the prosperity of that country, we were happy to see the people derived from the same an cestors as ourselves enjoying free institutions, enjoying ap parent harmony with one another, and with whom we had, at least before the civil war broke out, hardly a difference— there was a difference about a small island called San Juan, and which we proposed to refer to the arbitration of the Swiss Republic. Such was the state of affairs when that in which we certainly had no part broke out; nine of the Southern States of America declared that they would form an independent republic. Our course on this subject has been attacked and blamed, sometimes in the bitterest terms. Blamed sometimes by the Federals, sometimes by the Confederates. The first offence Ras felt by the Federals. They state that we had no right to grant, as far as we were concerned, to the Confederate States the rights of belligerents. Well, gentlemen, that question of the rights of belligerents is a question of facts, and I put it to you whether, with five millions of freemen declaring themselves in states, and collectively an independent state, we could pass it over as a petty rebellion? Our admirals asked whether the ships they met bearing the Confederate flag should be treated as pirates or not. If we had treated them as pirates we should have been taking part in that contest. (Cheers.) It was impossible, looking at it as a community of five millions of people, to treat it as a mere petty insurrection—(hear)—or as not having rights which at all times have been given to those who by numbers and importance, and the extent of territory they possessed, were entitled to those rights. Well, it was said that we ought not to have done it, because it was a community of slaveholders. I trust our abhorrence of slavery is not in the least abated or diminished—(cheers)—for my own part, I consider that it is one of the most horrible crimes that yet disgrace humanity, but when we are treating of the relations which we bear to the communities of men, I doubt whether it would be expedient or useful for humanity to introduce that new element, declaring that we will have no relation with a people that permits slavery to exist among them. We have never adopted that yet—never adopted it with Spain or Brazil, and I do not believe the cause of humanity would be served by adopting it. (Cheers.) But then it was said that the Confederate States were rebels against the Union; perhaps we are not so nice as we ought to be on that sub jfct. But I recollect that we rebelled against Charles I. and James 11., and that the people of New England, not con tent with these rebellions, rebelled against George 111. I do not now say whether all these were justifiable or wrong. I do not say whether the rebellion of the Southern States is a justifiable insurrection—whether it is a great fact or a great crime; but I state the mere fact that a rebellion is not in itself a crime of so deep a dye as to cause us to re nounce our relations with the people guilty of rebellion. (Cheers.) But to look at the orations of New England orators—and I have been reading lately, if not the whole, at least the greater part of a long speech by Mr. Sumner in New York, and I cannot but wonder that this man, the offspring of three as we are of two rebellions, should be speaking like the Czar of Russia, or Louis XIV., of the dreadful guilt of a crime of rebellion. Then comes another complaint, and it comes from the so-called Conk derate St ates. I t i s sa id we h ave —contrary to th e declara tions of Paris--contrary to international law, permitted the blockade of 3,000 miles of American coast. It is quite true we did so ; and the presumable cause of complaint is quite true—that, although the blockade is kept up by a sufficient number of ships, yet these ships were sent into the United States navy in a hurry, and were ill fitted for the purpose, and did not keep up so completely as was required an effec tive bl eekade—(hear, hear)—still, looking at the law of na tions, it was a blockade we as a great belligerent power in former times should have acknowledged—we ourselves had a blockade of upwards of 2,000 miles—it did seem to me that we were bound in justice to the Federal States of America to acknowledge that blockade. But there was another rea son that weigh e d w ith me; our people were suffering severely for the want of that material which was the main support of their industry, an d i t was a question of self-interest whethe we should not break that blockade. But in my opinion the men of England would have been for ever infamous if, for the sake of their own interest, they had violated the law of nations, and made war in conjunction with these slave-hold ing states of America against the Federal states. (Cheers.) I am not speaking sentiments which are peculiar to me, who had no interest in the question, but such I believe to be the sentiments of that noble-hearted people of Lancashire who lived and flourished by that industry, but would not sully a single spot on their escutcheon in order to the ma intenance of that i n d ustry Well, gentlemen, we come to new complaints on the part of the Federals that we allowed ships to leave the port of Liverpool which after wards committed depredations on their commerce. It would lead too far if I were to go into all the particulars; but you must know that in order to prove you require evi dence—such evidence as might be sifted in a court of justice —and it was not until the day the vessel left that we had an opinion of lawy7B sufficient to stop that vessel; and I d ou bt that if oven then wo had brought it before a court of law whether there would have been evidence sufficient to condemn her, because, by an evasion of the law, the ship was fitted up without arms or equipment, and that equip ment was conveyed to her in the waters of a foreign coun try, very far from the jurisdiction of this country. Gentle men, theso questions must be weighed, and I think they will bo weighed) as they have been by the Government of the United States of America, in the balance of equity. (Hear, hear.) We know that the Foreign Enlistment Act and the whole law respecting the subject is one of difficult application. The principle is clear enough. If you are asked to sell muskets you may sell them to one party or the other. Guns, powder, cannons in the same way. If you are asked to sell a ship you may sell it in the same manner; but if you train and drill a regiment with arms in their hands, and allow that regiment to go out with arms in their hands, and to take part with one of the two belligerents, you violate the neutrality, and commit an offence against the other belligerent. So with regard to ships, if you allow a ship to be armed, and to go out at once and make an attack on a foreign belligerent, you aro thus, according to your own law, taking part in the war, and that is an offence st hich is l i punished by the law ; but these questions will lead, as you will see, to most difficult problems—as, for instance, a thou sand persons here may go out as labourers to the Federal States in ono ship ; there may be a thousand muskets go out in another ship, and when they arrive, those thou sand labourers, having had an understanding before, now make a formal engagement with these States, and aro armed with these thousand muskets ; but if that had been done in the territory of this country it would have been an offence. There are other matters with regard to ships that have lately bean prepared within this country, because these ships are not like ships that receive the usual equipment; they are not like vessels you sent in former times of war, but are in themselves, without any further armament, formed for acts of offence and war; they aro steam rams, which might be used for purposes of war with- , out ever touching the shore of a Confederate port. Well, gentlemen, to permit ships of this kind knowingly to depart I from this country, not to enter into a Confederate port, not to enter the ports of a belligerent, would, as you sec, ex pose (sir good faith to great suspicion; and I feel certain that if during our war with France th e A mer i c ans had sent out line-of-battle shipsto breakeur blockadeat Brest, what ever reasons they might have urged in support, we would have considered it a violation of neutrality. Such is the spirit iu which am prepared to act, L velT 4hing that the " To travellers recommended to explore the Nile in search of health this volume will be invaluable. It abounds with excellent practical advice and instruction —an advantage which renders it sur crier to all other Egyptian works of travel we have met with."—sun. On Saturday Earl Russell was entertained to dinner in the new Town-hall of Blairgowrie by the tenantry on the Meikleour estate and their friends in honour of his lord ship's visit to the district. The inhabitants of Blairgowrie assembled in procession at 1 o'clock, and met the noble lord, who was accompanied by the Countess and family, about a mile and a half from the town. On reaching the town the noble earl was presented with an address by the magic• trates, in which allusion was made to his many and success. ful efforts in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Earl RUSSELL, in replying to the address, said— Gentlemen,--I beg to thank you for the very gratifying address which you have presented to me. It has been my good forture, in co-operation with many others, to promote the civil and religious liberties of my countrymen. The enlightened state of public opinion and the progress of poli tical knowledge have caused the success of measures which in former days had been obstructed by selfish interests, or defeated by ignorance and apathy. Let us hope that, with the increased interest which is felt in public questions, loyalty to the throne, attachment to the constitution, and zeal for all useful reforms, will pervade every class of the community. At the conclusion of his address Earl Russell was loudly cheered. Hurst and Blackett, 33, Great Marlborou,gh-street. Earl Russell then proceeded to the Public Hall, where the chair was taken by the Earl of Airlie, and Sir George Ramsay, Sheriff Barclay, and Mr. Kinloch were croupiers. The Rev. Mr. Marshall presented an address to the noble earl on behalf of the tenantry of Meikleour, which referred at considerable length to various important measures in the carrying of which his lordship had taken a part, and to his present difficult and delicate dutieess Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Earl RUSSELL, who was received with loud cheering, said—Sir, when I receive an address of this kind I hardly know whether I ought to be most gratified or asqamed— gratified at such high commendations on my conduct, but ashamed that to me are addressed praises which more properly belong to many others with whom I have acted and co-operated in public life. Several of these have new passed away, and even in the present year I have to lament the loss of some by whose wisdom, by whose sagacity, and activity I was aided in the measures I brought forward. You have alluded to Parliamentary Reform, and to the alarm which was felt at the prospect of such a measure by many, and even by so great a man and so distinguished a genius as Canning, and you rightly said this alarm had abated, because it was found that the fruit, instead of being bitter to the taste, was beneficent 'and useful. (Cheers:) BUt, in fact, the alarm which had been cased by the French revolution and the wars which succeeded, had made men averse to any prospect of innovation, even although it came in the shape of improvement. Mr. Canning once said, most justly, that those who are afraid of improvement, be cause it is accompanied by innovation, may find one day that they will have to submit to innovation which is not improvement. (Cheers.) Happily in this country we have avoided the error which Mr. Canning thus touched. We have adopted improvements and avoided mischievous inno vation. (Cheers.) Perhaps no country has seen such a series of changes as this country, during the period of the last 40 years to which you have alluded, without violence, without revolution. I may say not only without danger to the throne, which it was predicted the Reform Bill would produce, but with increased veneration for the throne, and love to the person who occupies it. (Cheers.) Y ou h ave alluded to other great measures which, in days gone by, caused great alarm to the agricultural interests. We all remember when we were told that it would be impossible to carry on farming if the corn laws were repealed ; but with respect to that subject, as well as many others, it has been a constant observation that has occurred to my mind as years passed on, that many of our laws were made not to prevent men doing evil, which ought to be the object of all laws, but to prevent them doing what w as legitimate and even some times exceedingly useful, (Cheers.) 1 remember giving an instance of a weaver engaged in a very useful manufacture, and he naturally wished to exchange for the produce of the fanner, it may be on the other side of the Atlantic. What was there criminal in this that it should be objected to, or that a man should be prevented or obstructed in doing it ? Nothing whatever, and yet our laws were in tended to prevent that safe and profitable exchange. with respect to other matters, and particularly foreign affairs, I will not say anything just now, as I may have to address you at a later period of the afternoon. With regard to th e latter part of the address, you are quite right in saying that I have enjoyed the parks and trees of Mcikleour, and above all, the view of that magnificent river which passes close under the mansion ; and what has given me great pleasure, perhaps I may say superior pleasure, is the sight of the la bourers around, and so well dressed, and appearing to be in the possession of so much comfort, To those especially who pass a great part of their time in large towns, and have to view those alleys and the filth and degradation of moral character which belong to them, it is delightful to see classes of labourers, under so excellent a class of tenants as that a Meikleour, exercising their industry and at the same time enjoying all the comforts of life. I had a letter from my old and valued friend Count Flahault expressing regret that he was not able to be present to-day, having made it a rule not to attend anything like a political dinner in this country. But depend upon it that his heart is with us and he feels for the benefit of those around him. I must thank him for having enabled me and my family to enjoy the benefits of Meikleour. (Cheers.) Dinner was then partaken of, after which the Earl of Airlie gave the usual loyal toasts. He neat gave " The Health of the Guest of the Day," alluding to the political career of Earl Russell from the time he carried the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, down to the time of his lordship acting as Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs in the present Administration. Earl RUSSELL on rising was received with continued cheering. He said—Gentlemen, I am deeply grateful for the invitation you have given me to be present to- day, for the manner in which you have received the toast that has been proposed, and to the noble lord in the chair for the manner in which he has proposed it. Gentlemen, I think the noble lord very truly observed, that however im portant those matters of domestic interest :to which he alluded may be, yet the contest being over, there is no longer much excitement about them, and that for some time the state of foreign affairs has rightly occupied the attention of the country. (Cheers.) I confess I do not wonder that such is the case, for the state of foreign affairs has been a very anxious one, and on the state of foreign affairs depend in a great measure the prosperity of the com merce and manufactures of the country. Every rumour, every alarm, tends to depreciate or improve the property of thousands. The apprehension of war causes burdens to be placed on the people of this country, and might bring on a struggle at which every mother would have to feel for the danger of her son in the army or the navy that he may have to encounter the enemies of the country. But beyond all, in the danger of war, in averting it, if it can be prudently and honourably averted, in meeting it courageously and consistently if it has to be met—on these things depend the character of this country and its high place among the nations,—(cheers)—its fame in future ages, its very exist ence as a great community. (Loud cheers.) I have, there fore, partaken in more than an ordinary degree of that anxiety during the period I have held the seals of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and there have been important events during the short period I have held that office. There was, when Lord Palmerston came into office, the war in Italy still pending, though soon closed. Then came the question whether the Italians would be allowed without interference to throw off their governments—most of them corrupt and effete— (cheers)—and to attempt to obtain freedom and unity for themselves, or whether Austria, or France, or any other power should interfere and turn aside the destiny to which Italy was aspiring. The Government of Lord Palmerston did not hesitate for a moment to tell the people of Italy to choose for themselves their form of government, and from the capacity they had shown, and the courage they had shown, it was our belief that they were fit to take their place among the great nations of the world. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it so hap pens that I expressed that opinion as an organ of Lord Palruerston's Government, and that in one of your own Scottish cities—the city of Aberdeen—and I found, I must say, that the whole country responded to the opinion I then gave, and, supported by that public opinion, the voice of England was _powerful in preventing any intervention with out the wishes of the Italians. I well remember there oc curred that which is even now giving us painful cares—l mean the civil war which has taken place in Poland. For my own part, I am ready to defend, if need shall be, the course which her Majesty's Government, in conjunction with France and Austria, have taken on that question, but I have stated in my place in Parliament, and I hold the opinion still, that neither the obligation of England nor the interest of England require that we should go to war for Poland. Holding that opinion, I think it unbecoming of ins to rail at Russia when we are not prepared forcibly to resist her azp,Tes , ion. However, I must say that it has tonished me that, at the end of several months of corre spondence, Russia has taken the line :he has done. The partition of Poland was an event which was the scandal of Europe in the last century— (cheers)----which is the reproach of the three Powers who were parties to it; bat, at the treaty of Vienna, it was thought fit—and circumstances of expediency perhaps justified what was done—it was thought fit to admit, as it were, into the law of nations, the state of Poland as divided between these Powers, and to give a kind of retrospective sanction as it were to the partition of Poland. The Powers of Europe became, to use a legal phrase, accessory after the fact. Austria and Prussia complied with the conditions of the treaty. Russia has not complied. It seems to me that was an act of great imprudence in Russia, when she had the great advantage to have the act of spoliation and partition condoned, Re it were, by Europe, to rojcct the terms on which that sanction was given, to rest it, as she now rests it, on the A CRY FOR MORE MONbMENTS has been raised in the following terms by the Athenaum :—Thero is a sort of poetical felicity in the fact that there is about to be erected in the Sandwich Islands a monument to Captain Cook, whom his countrymen have, so far, forgotten to honour. It is true that some of the greatest benefactors to England remain uncommemorated, and peculiarly so of those who have served her at sea—boasted to be her pecu liar element. Where is the public monument to Rodney, to Duncan, or, out of St. Paul's, to Howe, Jervis, Shovel ? Have any , of the Arctic discoverers monuments to say how great wore their courage and endurance ? Dibdin, who served his country in his way, has not oven a stone with his name on it erected at public charge. Above all, there i 9 the memory of the Author of • Robinson Crusoe'—a book which has done infinite service towards making English lads into sailors—entrusted to his works alone. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Consumption, all nervous, bilious, liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag gvavatei and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfec:ly- curable by Du Carry's health restoring Revalenta A rabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a fete.—Cure C 2,914. Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the lat,t stage of pulmonary consumption, with frarful cough, expectoration exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks. emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissaire de Police. 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It is singular to ob serve how jaundiced is the mind of some of those who speak in the New England States upon this subject. There were some persons in the House of Lords who thought fit to complain upon an apparent grievance, and not one apparent cause, but many apparent causes of grievances of ships of ours that had been seized, in some cases passing from neutral ports, in other cases on the high seas, but apparently on legitimate voyages; and it was urged that we should not submit to have our vessels thus seized and our vessels thus interrupted. I had to deal with that case ; and my answer was, that according to the law of nations, if a ship had an ostensible voyage to a demi• tination which was not her real destination, if she was bound in effect to the enemy's port with munitions of war, that belligerent had a right to stop that vessel on the high seas, and said that law had been laid down by Lord Stowell and other great English authorities; that it had been laid down by those great English authorities in time of war, and that now we were neutrals 1 did not think we should depart from the law we had laid down as belligerents. I said that although in America there were some of the local courts which did not know the authority of such men as Lord Stowell and Sir William Grant, there was a court of appeal —the Supreme Court of the United States—which contained and had contained for many years men as learned and of as high a reputation for law and as unsullied a reputation for integrity as any that had sat in our English courts of jus tice, and that we ought to wait patiently for the decision of these tribunals. Now, what was my surprise, and what will be your surprise, to find that Mr. Sumner has his mind so prejudiced as to bring against me the charge that I have attempted to diminish the reputation of the American courts, and show myself biassed against the American states, by the declaration I had thus made. I will not detain you further on this subject, but one remark I must make--one remark on the general tendency of these speeches and of these writings in America, The Government of America discusses these matters very fairly with the English Go vernment. Sometimes we think they are quite in the wrong, and sometimes they say we are quite in the avretig. We discuss them fairly. With regard to the Secretary of State, I see no complaint to make. I think he weighs the disadvantages and difficulties of our situation in a fair and equal balance, but there are others—and that speech of Mr. Sumner's is one of them, being an epitome of almost all that has been contained in the press of America on the sub ject—there are others by whom our conduct is very diffe rently judged. I say, with regard to all these matters they are difficult questions. We may have reason to complain in some instances, and the Federal Republic of America may have reason to complain in others. But let us recollect that we are, as I have said, descended from the same ances tors, that in the courts of justice in America the common law of England is constantly cited, the decis ons of whose judges are constantly referred to as decisions ever respected —(applause)—that our Shakespeare and Milton are to them the classic books they are to us; that we have the same in heritance of freedom ; that many of our institutions—as you may see by reading that excellent book of Da Tocqueville's —many of our institutions are identical; that the same spirit of liberty animates us both; that though we, after our re volution, chose constitutional monarchy as our form of government, and that though, after theirs they chose a republic as their form of government, yet the community have the same spirit of law, have the same spirit of liberty, have the same spirit of freedom. We ought, when these unhappy days are over, to embrace one another as friends. We in the old world, and they in the new, ought to be lights to promote the civilisation of mankind. (Loud applause.) Now, gentlemen, with this feeling, I own I almost lose my patience when I see men in what is called an oration heap ing up aceusation, misrepresentation after misrepresenta tion, all tending to the bloody end of war between these two nations. I cannot but say are they not satisfied with the blood that has been shed in the field in the last two years, with that field of Gettysburg, where 10,000 corpses of men, mostly in the prime of manhood, lay stretched on the ground, who had been vigorous in the early morn ing ? (Cheers.) Are they not satisfied with this blood shed, but would they seek to extend to the nations of Europe new days on which fresh sacrifices are to be made of human life, human interest, and human happiness ? Gen tlemen, I trust that will not be the case. (Cheers.) I know at all events that my efforts, such as they are—weak they may be, ineffectual I hope they will not be—but my efforts, such as they are—will be directed to keep peace between these two nations—to do everything which I think is just, everything which I think is right, towards this people; and I trust we shall be ready to meet an attack, if we are un justly attacked—ready to bear our part in the contest, if contest there must be, but yet believing that we ought to make every effort that all these various complications may end in peace to the nations and in friendship. (Applause.) I say, at all events, I shall have a conscience that I have done my best to preserve peace between these mighty na tions. Gentlemen, this is a great subject. It affects the people in our part of the world and of America. It affects the future state of civilisation. It affects the well-being of the black race, whom it was the crime of our ancestors to introduce into America, and who, if these matters are arranged, as I believe they will be, are fitted to be peaceable and intelligent members of a free country, on behalf of whose welfare we have been ready to snake groat efforts, to sacrifice much, (Cheers.) But we will not sacrifice any of those views of ours to mere pretence. (Applause.) We have as strong a feeling for good of mankind us any people can have ; but we must maintain our own position, and my belief is that the people of what were the United States, whether they are called Federala or Confederates, will finally do us justice, that they will observe, as they cannot help observing, that in this free country, where there is so much discussion and so much difference of opinion, there are parties, very considerable in number, who sympathise with the Confederates, and there are other large masses, I believe superior in numbers, who sympathise with the Federals ; but, whether sympathising with one or the other, we have all impressed in our hearts the sentiments of justice, and that we will do to others the justice we ex pect for ourselves,—(cheers) —and I hope I interpret the feelings of your minds when I say that justice ought to prevail. (Loud applause.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed "her Majesty's Ministers." Earl RUSSELL, in returning thanks, said—l have already given an opinion, and an account of what have been our doings with regard to foreign policy, and I do not think it would be right in me to trouble you again with any long remarks. My noble friend has very truly said that at pre sent there is no great dispute about principles. I do not know that there is any great difference between the princ i pies of Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby. Gentlemen , in my humble opinion, Lord Palmerston governs a great deal better than Lord Derby—(laughter)—naturally that is my opinion as a member of Lord Palmerston's adminuitra • flea ; but with regard to domestic policy I think we are all pretty much agreed, because the feeling of the country and of those who have conducted great reforms is very much like that of the man who having made a road in your own highlands put a stone on the top of the mountain with an inscription, " Rest and be thankful." (Laughter.) That seems to be very much like our feeling, not that there are not other roads to make and other mountains to climb, but it seems to be the feeling of the country, in which I cannot help joining, that our policy is rather to " rest and be thank ful," than make new roads. (Cheers.) ~~~-~~ ~~ PRICE..... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. THANKSGIVING FOR THE HARVEST. The following circular has been issued by the Bishop of London : "Palace, Bangor, Sept. 36 "Rev. and dear Brother,— There seems now to be no doubt that throughout the country we have been blessed with an abundant harvest. It is natural and right that wo should return thanks to God for His goodness. 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Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St, James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United Eim:, , dom; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, Esq., at the (thee of tho Institution, if John-strect, Adelnkt, London, ti - 1 7 .\;. . SCIENTIFIC BALLOONING, Lord Wrottesley, Sir J. Burgoyne, and a large nntuber of the local gentry were present on Saturday at the Stafford road works of the gas company at Wolverhampton, expecting to see Mr. Glaisher make the last scientific ascent this sea son on behalf of the Balloon Committee of the British As sociation, under the guidance of Mr. Ccxwell, and in the mammoth balloon of that clever aeronaut. It had been in tended to make the ascent on Friday, but when Mr. Glaisher came down from London it was discovered that some repairs were required to the balloon. By the time they were com pleted a thunderstorm prevailed, and Mr. Coxwell deemed it imprudent to venture up whilst the atmosphere was so highly charged with electricity. On Saturday the prepara tions for the inflation commenced at five in the morning, and it was being successfully proceeded with up to eleven o'clock, when it was found that owing to undue despatch the valve• line had escaped from the arm of the man who was holding it, and a large quantity of gas escaped. Whilst the valve-line was being sought for the balloon became slightly rent. By the time all was again taut upwards of 30,000 of the 50,000 cubic feet of gas that had been let into the balloon had escaped, and it was nearly one o'clock. A consultation was held, but as Mr. Coxwell could not pro mise that the arrangements would be complete to enable Mr. Glaisher to leave the earth before five o'clock, the as cent was postponed until to-day (Monday). If the weather of to-day should prove unpropitious, then the proposed as cent will be abandoned. The late Military Outrages in Warsaw. A letter from Warsaw says :—One thousand infantry and cavalry now proceeded in a wide column from the orderly-room in the direction of the spot where the attempt had been made. On their road they arrested in the most brutal manner every person they met, driving all before them with their bayonets. They then entered both the houses of Count Zamoyski, one of which is strictly a pri vate house, occupied by his household exclusively, and the other, perhaps the most magnificent house in. Warsaw, fitted up in a most luxurious style, and occupied by nearly 120 opulent and highly respectable families. That the bomb should have been thrown from one of these houses was most improbable; and I have already pointed out that it was impossible to know which was the house whence it was thrown. What were the scenes that were enacted in these, per haps the most respectable houses in Warsaw, between 5 in the afternoon and 12 at night, God only knows. The crowd outside saw the windows all smashed, and the furniture, books, pictures, mirrors, pianos, dresses, and cupboards thrown into the street; and they heard in the midst of the yells of the savage soldiery the noiso of the breaking of fur niture, and the despairing cries and groans of women. It is as impossible to describe these heartrending scenes as it is for one who was not a witness of then► to form an ilea of what a soldiery, drunk with blood, can do to insult all hu man instincts. After seven hours of destructirn the soldiery dragged the male inhabitants, upwards of 200 in number, covered with wounds and contusions, to the citadel. These poor people were without hats or coats, their clothes were nearly torn off their backs. Among them were several old men, whose weary and despairing looks moved the bystanders to tears. In Miodowa-street, where there is a church, these unfor tunate people knelt down to say a silent prayer, but the soldiery rushed upon them with their bayonets, bore them from their kneeling position, and forced them to march on. Meanwhile the women and children, thus deprived of their natural protectors, were exposed to the insults and obscene jokes of the drunken soldiery, without a home—even with out warm clothing against the cold. About 11 p.m., a short time before the men were taken to the citadel, a lurid light was seen in the sky above the spot where these scenes occurred. It was thought that this must be a fire, caused either by accident or despair. The fire brigades immediately collected from all parts of the town, but the soldiers who were posted in the street would not allow them to enter it, and even threw furniture into the tlames as fuel. The fire lasted all night, and this morning three heaps of ashes are all that remain of the residences and homes of nearly 100 families. Among the victims I will only mention Prince Thad deus Lubomirski and Count Stanislaus Zsmoyski (brother of Count Andrew). The residences of both have been razed to the ground, and both are now in prison. The well-known Oriental choler Kowalewski, rector of the university,owed his personal safety to the accident of his absence from home; but of his furniture, his rooms, and his magnificent Oriental library--the fruit of some 30 years' judicious cel -1 lection—nothing remains. The unfortunate old man, not having a home to go to, has been obliged to take lodgings, with his wife and children, in the Hotel de l'Europe. The valuable library of Prince Thaddeus Lubcmirski, who has been for some time occupied in writing a history of Poland, has been completely destroyed in the fire. As for the other articles which, in the eyes of the barbarous soldiery, were of m^re value, such as furs, dresses, gilt furniture, &c., they were taken to the citadel—there is no doubt to be divided among those who showed the most zeal in the work of de struction. The immense stores of the wine merchant Kru pecki have been completely destroyed. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A YOUTIL—About 10 o'clock on Saturday night, as George Young, aged 15 years, living in the Kent-road, was crossing the bridge over the Surrey Canal, in company with a friend, their attention was suddenly arrestad by hearing a violent scream. They found the cry was from a young female who was struggling in the water. While his friend hastened for assistance, Young pulled off his coat and jumped into the water. He succeeded in dragging her in an insensible state to the bank. Assistance was soon rendered, but it was a considerable time before animation was restoi ed. SHOCKING DEATH.—At the London Hospital, on Saturday, Mr. Humphreys held an inquest on Thos. Lownds, aged 53 years. Richard Jones said that the deceased was a gunmaker, in the employ of Messrs. Potts and llunt, and on Monday last ho was at work at No. 33, Leman-street. Ile was doing something; to the por tico, but the ladder was not long enough, and he caught hold of the portico and lifted himself up bodily. He fell, however, on to the spikes of the railing. lle was carried to the hospital, where he died in great suffering. Verdict accidental death. ATTEMPT TO POISON FIVE PERSONS AT HULL. —On Friday, at the Hull Police -court, a little gi r l, named Mary Ann Richardson, was committed fur trial at the sessions on a charge of having- attempted to poison live natmd respectively Sarah Jane Cus.suns, S ara h Alp, oc ITOOI, Matilda Watson , Fanny Ashton, and Mary R . The trial was a some what lengthy ona, and caused consi derable eAcitement in the town. The evidence went to show that, about 10 days ago the accused, who 'worked with the victims of her malevolence at a starch manufactory in Hull, was charged by a parson who . 9 tiv , rintended them with a peeeaaillaccusation o, and the so excessively slightannoyed her that she threatened to exact ven g eance upon her ac cuser and ethers who worked with her. A day or two after wards an opportunity presented itself of puttins* h e r dark design into execution. It seemed that it was cust or sory for these girls who lived in the suburbs to bring their break fasts with them, and for all of them to put their coffee into one pot, and one morning, as soon as the abovenarned girls had placed their coffee in the pot the accused was seen to approach the fire. Shortly after the girls drank their coffee, and were instantaneously seized with alarming symptoms of having imbibed something. poisonous with it. A surgeon was called in, and he administered the usual remedies, and in a short time they sufaoiently recovered to resume their ordinary duties. The police, however, were communicated with, and the prisoner was apprehended, and she was com mitted for trial for die offence, her defence Vali; reserved, 1$ v . ... (:)---------%--2-- ,;',;., THE REPUTED NAN& EWS PAPER ____.. 1 (From the Tinges of India.) ~, , , 14 -:- Al %1 , '", CAWNP 7 , 5 .... ... x egt S z Nan ie .- . . V i z Tieoner yes\es*ilk' • : k -,. , ~,,i . ,, gaol. Ho yaeloN k , jefftlip . 1 4 v-- , three 5ik118. 1 :8rg..... TV' The man supposed to be the rebel was brought into this station a PI and is now lodged in the station by Captain Carnell with a guard of caused considerable commotion at first, for it believed that the coming prisoner was veritably the ,Nana ; but in a very few hours after he left the railway o.tatien that excitement had quite subsided. Hundreds of people to whom the person of the Nana was well known had seen th prisoner, and all declared that ho was not the man. Amont.l these are people who had been daily with the Nana, and some of them in constant attendance upon him, at Bithoor and elsewhere, for years before his flig : bt. It might be ex pected, of course, that such persons would (most of them) eeny his identity, even falsely; but the tacit .evidence of an entire population, as expressed in the markea and speedy cessation of their anxi,ty about or further into rest in the nian, is matter of great importance. It is, neverthe less, still possible, however improbable, that circumstantial ev.tdenee, added to that of his blind conipanien, who has timed in former, may yet prove him to he the Nana. Numbers of well-at ttsted cases familiar to the physiological student nay serve to explain away diffieulticsarising from the non-recog nition even by men who must necessarily remember welll the features, complexion, voice, attitudes, and general con tour of the arch rebel, as they knew him before ISS at 13ilhoor. But six years of travel, flight, exposure, change of climate, of habits, and of die., superadded to sickness, mortification, and despair—perhaps even remorse—cannot have failed to work considerable physical changes in the Nana, wherever he may be now. Instances are not rams of the really honest repudiation by affectionate wives and mothers of their husbands and children after long and dis tant voyages or travel. Cases are recorded where brothers and sisters, meeting after many years of adventure, have even married in perfect ignorance of each other's identity. It will be admitted, by the lawyer at least, that circum stances such as those which must have attended the life of the Nana since his flight would render his non-identification. by witnesses who judge from his present appearance alone a matter of comparative insignificance in the face of a chain of facts connecting the changed man with the person he has been suspected to be—those facts and circumstances account ing more or less for the change itself. Whether such evi dence is forthcoming is to be seen. But to return to this prisoner more particularly. His appearance indisputably declares his high caste Mahratta origin. He is much darker than the Nana was, but not unlike what the fugitive life the Nana must have led would maim in six years of a for merly delicately nurtured fair Mahratta Brahmin. These are nay impressions, and they may, of course, be wrong. But his height does not correspond with the descriptic n of the Nana, nor does his apparent age. A careful study of the man at the cutcherry yestereay during his examination convinced me not only that ho knows this place, but that he was anxiously observant of faces around hi m , as if i n searc h o f persons w h om ho recog nised, and who might, perhaps, recognise him. The same curious scrutiny on his part was observable as ho passed through the station on his way from the railway to the gaol. He is no stranger to Cawnpore; but that does not prove him to be the Nana. Indeed, he admits that he was here and at Bithoor several years ago, when the Nana was there. It is worthy of note that the personal appearance of the= man is undergoing a slow and gradual, but plain change. I have seen three or four photographs of him taken at diffe rent periods, and, though come bear some resemblance to him, not one is the likeness of the man as I saw him yester day. He grows fairer, though more haggard than these photographs represent him. May not the one be from his being less exposed, and the other from his imprisonment, , _:nd consciousness of the fearful position he occupies, if the Nana ? On the opening of the cutcherry the magistrate (Mr. H. 14 °Lickton, C.S.) at once had the prisoner broui7ht before him, charged with being the rebel Nana Dhoondia Punt. He denies that he is 80, and declares that he is a Brahmin who has been a fakir nearly all his life; that his naille is Appa Ham, son of Datnoodhur, born in a village ort the banks of an obscure river in the Deccan ; and that while he was yet a child his father was murdered there. He says' he had two brothers. On the death of his father ho (then 1 2 years old) with his brothers, adopted the vagrant life of a fakir. His brothers, he says, he has never seen nor hearif of since they set out after their father's death. He states that a few years ago he visited the village where he was born, and was then recognized by three or four persons living there, whom he names ; but they are all dead now. (Hew does he know of their death ?) The village itself, too, lee declares, has now ceased to exist, having been washed away and was entirely destroyed by an encroachment of the river, and its inhabitants aro now undiscoverable r being, as he says, absorbed in the population of the sur rounding country. (A rather suspicious and certainly unsatisfactory tale.) Dr. Cheke and Dr. Jones assisted the magistrate during the first day's (yesterday's) proceedings, which bore solely on the point of his personal appearance. Dr. Cheke was formerly civil surgeon of Cawnpore : Dr. Jones is so now. In his office as civil surgeon Dr. Chel:a attended professionally upon the Nana, but does not recognize the prisoner in any way. His person does not show the expected marks or traces said to have been left by' surgical treatment for certain minor diseases. In fact, Dr. Cheke is very strongly of opinion that the prisoner is not the Nana. With the assistance of the medical officers above named, the magistrates drew up a most minute description of the prisoner's person, and with that the first day's pro ceedings closed, to be resumed to-morrow (Monday) morning. At present it is the belief of the authorities hero that tho prisoner is not the Nana ; that so far from there being as yet evidence against him proving him to have been a rebel of note, or even a rebel at all, there has not been produced against him evidence sufficient to justify legally his con tinued imprisonment for any long period. The prisoner is confined in a separate ward of the gaol, apart from all other prisoners. Inside the gaol is an additional guard of 12 men, who are quartered in tents immediately adjoining the cell or room where the prisoner lies. The guard is under an European inspector, who remains on duty, in a room close by, night and day. Inside the prisoner's cell a sentinel walks on duty day and night, while one or two others are posted outside. The prisoner seldom speaks, but sits or lies on his rug for hours together, almost motionless, and semingly quite at his ease. He cats nothing, refuting all solid food of every description, even from the highest caste men. Ile lives on milk alone, drinking one seer in the morning and one in the evening. During the day he is fettered only on the legs, but at night he is closely hand cuffed. lie seems to care nothing about the curiosity of people Nrho go to see him as he lies in gaol, and appears, on the whole, to have very little fear as to the result of the case. AUSTRALIAN WINES. .... A report has just been presented by Mr. Keene to the commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, in which the Australian wines are mentioned, and it is to be regretted that more complete opportunities were not af f orded to that gentleman for testing more fully the merits of the wines exhibited by th e the several colonies. He states that he was onl y able to obtain 18 samples of the Australian vin tages, although he had received numerous promises that samples would be supplie d to him. O f the 18 samples which were tested under the s anction of the commissioners of the customs, the repo r t s t a t es that none were of a very high character, b u t th a t those from Sydney poss essed some sound and ex cellent qualities that p romise well under improved culture and more careful manipulation ; but the im portant fact is established that all the samples have a high natural degree of spirit. The wines from Victoria are stated to be inferior to those of Sydney; the body is described as w ea k , and the flavour poor and uninviting. if the samples tested had possessed a it would have been little short n i .l iting qualities, seei ng t h at f or t h ree m onths pl yd i u they were exhibited in u hot glass building at Mel bourne, afterwards mad e a voyage o f four months t o this country, and finally shown in ,in upright position for six Months in the Internat ional Exhi. bition. In the f ace o f these draw backs, however, the wines were " sound and alcoholic,"and this must qualities.that "the names by be considered as no small pro of of their intrinsic The report states are distingui s h e d may, which sever a l o f th e w ines perhaps, indicate the kind of grape used in their of climate, manufacture ; but if s o, the alteration season, or some other circumstance m ust have com pletely changed the ir character, as not a vest i ge o f resemblance remains. The Frontignac here is a red white and luscious; i r c i.l' h attached to the dis. t o c:c L l , v e o r f , N b v C h i s ti o t ti o r p w er i f n u e n , w i: it i : tillate gave indication of its origin in the Muscat The :Hermitage grape.and 80. iiidies ere of a and sickly P alo red colour :"6 thin bad y. Indeed, all t h e new winos have a great family 1ike ,,,,,a to each other, and, as ' well as the white wines, are destitute of any great individuality." We also learn that the Tokay was not like its illustrious namesak e, and that so little pains had been taken in the prepo.ra.tion end selection of many nf th sarn i e -- —l l, es that someof the white w ines o f Victoria Were still in a state of fermentation, The irstio"l f 1 , of N Smith Walc3 wine t-,. 0 t Ile sampies .ow , gave the following results:--T=he Australian hock cave 15.9 per cent. of alcohol ; the lrrawang, 24.6 ; Porphyry (red wine), 25.9; Camden Park, 25.9; lialudah (white), 9 3 3. The Victorian wines were —Mat,iro 20.2 ; Frontignac, 22.0 Hermitage, 20.8; Burgundy, 23.9 ; Red Victoria, 28 . 6 ; White Vic toria, 25 . 9 ; T o kay, 27.9 ; White Pineau, 24.6 ; Sauterne, 24.6; Chasselas, 24.6. The great defi ciency in connection with all these Australian wines was that sufficient attention had not been paid to their manufacture and subsequent manipulation,— Australian and .Neto Zealand Gazette. vv. nd ray ib iat and Iding nver. d re- AVCr. d fine ices, ,wer ; ►tono• er 4r• a per 49 0 3 s ocl :0U ad. Lark 6 S a. o a' _._ 13 q 26 u 14 0 20 ' 25 t) Oa, A ket it - El. nain s. d• .........r m........... e wire athort lytoot ctorY , 13.7 °f •Coln` Dr. l battlt ultov , OW , Eaq•, dhail l ig sox aged Char' I m iral :divd. ;pink, of 63,