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s on the r educed . value o f 'ram the D 1 these ye AVe-st corPSI r of the and the r , ° made we r i tee for 1 1 1 ,' were f 12.1 little We 40s to 4 3 : 9 ..34s to 30 ..24s to 234 miller. t e 1 3 8 1 8 s to ( l a Bola at 39 a fair sale, in tolerable 3 l a t e price 6 41a Pe r r wa iting , old (o ' sl e. 13 ° 115 ' 7 20 atone. s6st. s.Per lig b a r IQ O old, 24s Es to 40s. !at to-diti• 3; fine, --0 Ss to 3 00 ' 22. Peas; lot, with a 3 fully suP- .ISs to 2° 6 40s to -- s to - A __. ' flour, a° Nov.X . Dee. "Nov. .?04 9 ~]; Nov. : Nov. 2' 1 , 3 4 ' Nov. ,;;" • • Nov. • • Nov. ...Nov. A O' • Dec. • • Nov. Nov. 2/3 ; • .:Nov• 2°' ~Nov. 25 ' • • 2 0 ' et. Nov• .No • v. 2 0, ..Nov ..Nov Dec. .14‘j* us, biliolls° xe onlY aati ription, RevalO i r; which e No. 62,91 3al men ast stage peetorati oo4 , 4 low ehe e/c a perfeetl9 tmissatre d 6, of Friralei [ blood, liV e ' , 7,121. M D° indigest[ oo, —Cure, Na km, Norfol' bad resisted 48 6d; Co., No. 7/ ; on; and O P I- d liingdol* )re, the wit' .square, lit ° Desford) tile HounolOW, daUOtcri Cir Feorge or of a P arisl3 stead to s 'otter, O id, B sq. , Of V ru.a cress , ti Si r e ° grove, Leic e°ter. LI 58 ' of In, Es c L r y, Lty of 1 0 , Neu*" IP ;apt. I 3 9th Seg N; ' Tice . of le County ERSONS SEEKING LANDED Fit r.STATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, 1 , 1 .6. FIOLD AND LEASEIIOLD INVESTMENTS, AND A JPER Ul ES G ENERALLY 1 0 BE H AD G RATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls ~.cct ig hout the kingdom, or at the Au c ti on an d Estate Offices, 0 . 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's _ FRE E PROPERT Y Tt EGISTER, " containing a varied selection 'Ti lan ded and: ho use properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the Cottage with its few acres. OWNERS or PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can ern ° aPe the opportunity that the medium of this Register affords, Of sendin€ , the partitu!ars of their properties to the t:state Offices, 67; Chancery -lane, London, as the Messrs. -Lumley can in t he dis most cases introduce immediate cust omers , `r lr 'here the property is of an e li g ib le character, thereby avoid ," advantages of delay and its a tt en d an t incon veniences. _ T HERE IS N O CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is i n t roduced throuot Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. TNATIONAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (Limited). ihTishe Directors beg to intimate to applicants for Shares in _ Company that they are proceeding . with the A pit,NT, but that, owing to *me large number of stares appli m ed . pr 'NT' some days in'at yet elapse before it can be n co o. Piteted the time occupi' fi is necessarily prolonged to Directors having (let r ined to grant an allotment to eery applicant, e m By order, November 20 JOSEPH TREFFRY, Secretary, , 1863. THE LAND MORTGAGE BANK OF INDIA ; CREDIT FONCIER INDIEN), Limited. NOTlral IS FIERERY GIVEN, That the Certificates of Sharee, in this Compar4y will be ready for delive ry on and after the 30th inst., i n exc ha nge f or th e B an k ers ' Receipts, 00 P e.e opplieation at Vale Office between the hou rs of eleven and clock. By order of the Board, C. T. C. GRANT, Secretary. Temporary Offices, 69 ,-Lomb ard-street, London, E.O. licivember 24, 1863„ , LivießpooL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. At the ANNUM, MEETING of the Proprietors in this COlrawtny, held on Thursday, 25th of Fetruary, 1863, JAMES ASPINALL TOBIN, Esq., in the Chair, V,te Report of the Directors for the year 1862 was read ; it Allowed : That the Fire Premiums of the year were... £ 1 3 6 , 0 6 5 Against those in 1861, which were 360,131 0 0 Giving an increase in 1862 of That the n ew Life business comprised the 931 0 0 £75 issue of 785 Policies, Insuring On which th e annual premiums were That there was add e d to the life reserve ct the balance of undivided profit was in reased.... . . • ****************** That the invented *************** of the Company amounted to in Fire referenca to the very large increase of £76,000 in th e premiums of the year, it was remarked in the Report, r,,The premiums paid to a company are the measure of that --M PanY's business of all kinds ; the Directors, therefore, .);fer that test of progress to any the duty collected may zi _,rd, as that applies to only a part of acompany's business, N,; i : v a large share of that part may be,•and often is, re-insured le!th other offices. in this view the yearly addition to tile praniums of e Liverpool and London Company must vtl very gratifying tot he proprietors." SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, London. 167,331 0 0 13,935 7 11 79,277 11 4 25,725 9 7 8! - IORTHAN1J.-PITMAN'S PH.ONOGRA- P Ric TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. 84ORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, le. 6d. --_______ Li A 43 0 R THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO the _GRAPTLY forms an exceedingly efficient-probably IZo.alaonsa. iii cient - system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir London: F. Pi itnian, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. CAPTAIN WHITE'S ORIENTAL PICKLE, tu CURRY or MULLIGATAWNY PASTE, rq Powder, And Curry Sauce. may De obtained from all Sauce Vendors, and wholesale of "AOSSE and bLACKWELL, Purveyors to the Queen, Soho-square, London, pE, , CTA.CLES.—The Patent Newly-invented Ivi o b li T t inted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the ord i : 7, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra reit& to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B TONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. GREAT DRAWING OF PRIZES ST . WILL TAKE PLACE AT J OSEPH'S RETREAT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N., ili n "„ n ; THURSDAY, the 26th of NOVEMBER, 1863, to aid in irj i liating the Debt still remaining on the New Church and ; and to assist in establishing the English Mission . of Ivivicholas in Paris, now under the charge of the Passiomst Ters. ob. u e Prizes of the first catalogue consist principally of 1 - 1 i) )?pts of art an d o th er prec i ous ar ti c l es, presen t e d by Hi s ‘ dis,!!ninctiess, seve Roral c ardinals, Princes, and other persons of on in. T T , TICKETS ONE SHILLING EACH. amount realised will be disposed of as follows :—That st .i ng from the sale of tickets in England will be applied to st.N°i,B,Vhlas's, an nd that from the sale of tickets in France to e', Paris. DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE ART UNION. A t i n t Y one purchasing or aiding in selling 25 tickets will be 4 . led to a large Engraving, either of the Death of St. i o ° r tPh, tn. of Blessed Paul of the Cros', which will be C.,IMeAI by post upon receipt of 4 postage stamps. S . `3` 4l 'slelies as well as tickets may be had on application at ugeph's Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris. PRIZE MEDAL -INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. -” ttANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., &C., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, t estifies to ,he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation Which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my tutu, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb Ordinary quality .. .• • • .. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality Second quality •• • • • .. is. sd. p er lb. • .. ls. 3d. per lb. Third quality . • • • • • . .. 15. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in. London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Holton -street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the lige of the Altar. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.--Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir casqan Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. —Can be had only at Madame RACHEL'S, 47A, New Bond-street, 'where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidentiaL ORNAMENTS for the D raw i ng - room , Lib rary , And Dining-room, confil6ting of a new and eAegant assort- Ment of VASES, Figures, T Y:oups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid T ambles, Paperweights, &a, in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Ma'Aile, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. t raported and manufac'nired by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her MajeF Sty, 149, Stand. W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arra Ages elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, RO CKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the int eresting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, end G7SOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICA TA INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE f ALOG r,i'ren by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. TEETJI .—Mr. ESK ELL'S INVENTION in ;.‘the onstruotion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the -0110 ta an ,,, w ,,Tg advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work- P. d i can be made and fitted with the inost r an mec an sm, p a i n r rfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without of i Jr extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes i , ,Anstication and articulation. They are fitted without g gin,: 7, fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the t that t hat they are quite immoveable, except at th e option lust,o"arer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad nt ese teeth to many changes of the mouth without the ti sein , a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always ti e " r : , and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea losa `xPlaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. , tr Pection of specimens andconsultations tree.-B,Grosvenor eet, Bond t t W • and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir tuino, Bond - W . if7‘ll3V AIT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM. - AN or EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels mitt affecti'ap- the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad eon,e,d t. o 'be the best medicine for immediately relieving — ' ,B , colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con pr,7Ptton. It frequently cures persons whom the facult y p ro 7:infice incurable, admirably allays the tickling which It s " P;kes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption e ?.ffects are truly ea beneficial. Persons deprived depend on relief ti l Ny a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by cr • LAMBERT Chemist. 8, Kinp,•••William-street, Charing 11°88, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask en,r ,' , ambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address is raved on the stamp. --____ K UPTURES.-13Y ROYAL .LETTERS PATENT. '%VJIITE'S AIOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT . 7XIIIIIITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of ,„ w o Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective Vention in the curative treatment of HEHN I A. e us 1 8 4 " h eof a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, ere avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the igriy : while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the , n 7f . Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn uit u rin, A. descriptive circular may be had, and the nu w hich cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the dr terence of th e b o d y, t wo i nc h es b e l ow the hips, being eeut to the manufacturer, A Single Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. Doubh, , fuse 7, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. An Umbin et ir„, B " , 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. I'ost-offi ce ' r ums, 425. and 525. Bd. Postage , ls. 10d. ° in ce, -pio.....9rders to be made payable to John White, Post- L A S T 1 l l' e tW PATENT STOCKINGS' Variws S rains, &o. They are kniCeNsi'llinciCstibeilin. ko. g. c : t i:r i e Veins and all oases ot ?orous, light in textur e, att eLegs, p inexpensive, and are drawn on 11/ ean ordinary stocking, p e w 48 6d., 7s. 6d., 10a., to 16s . emit. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Ntatnitaeturar. 221. Piccadilly. Ii EATING'S COUGR 1 ---- : -- -------_________ 0 show that 50,001 persons an Z ENG ES.—Statistics monary Disorders, including eou lallally fall victims to Pul- Chest, and the respiratory organs. I, ol ntio a n ail , ek :i t s h ; t s ah :s em.y o ,eo f luni th a ; better than cure therefore, prep a r r e :,,ention is at 411 times wintry season with a supply of virtue i -i durim.v. the wet and LuZENGES, which possess the virtu e (4 4' 1 3 : : : : : aunrd C l,1 0 108 U r4 1 19 4 m. H . of curing a cough or cold ; they are good or for the aged—they soothe bronchialirritatie f Droving the voice, the preacher, statesman, have long patronised them. ger, and actor " St. Paul's Cathedral, 30th November " Sir,—l have much p leasure in recommendin t.. those who may be distressed with hoarseness. T h 7,,,F,nges afforded me relief on several occasions when scareely•Wbi'ave e to sing from the effects of catarrh. I think they WOUId be very useful to clergymen, bat risters, and public orators. "I ant, Sir, yours faithfully, " TIIO3IAS FRANCIS, Vicar Choral. " To Mr. Keating." Prepared and sold in boxes, ls lid, and tins, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, aml tos rid each, by Thomas Keatityr, chemist, &c., 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Retail by a ll druggists and Patent medicine vendors in the Wor ld ' - 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One shilling (tor Gentlemen only). MR. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH, COMIC VOCALIST. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED at the OFFICE of THIS PAPER for the above artist, suddenly afflicted with Blind ness, and, in his helplessness, having a wife and child de pendant on him. BANKRUPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS.- Mr. WETIIERFIELD, Solicitor, 35. Moorgate-street, City, PRACTISES in COURT, and effects PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS with creditors, without publhity. Charges, the lowest possible, payable by instalments. Coun try cases economically conducted. N.B.—DEBTS recovered on commission, free of law costs. Divorce and Probate business conducted at moderate ex pense. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCTI, K.G• 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 eovernors' letters. it is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom putted by sickness and disease, t d 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 reheve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Alas ternian, Esq. ' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W 'hams, Deacon, and Co. ; Ove r e n d, G urne y, an d Cu.; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barite(' and Co., Liverpool wad at the iloapitaL STANFORD S. SMITH SeQretalll No, 22,280. Now ready, in Bvo., with Illustrations, 145., bound, MAJOR -GENERAL CAMPBELL'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THIRTEEN YEARS' SE It.VICE AMONG THE WILD TRIBICs OF KHONDISTAN, ior the Suppression of Human Sacrifice. " Major-General Campbell's book is one of thrilling inte rest, and must be pronounced the most remarkable narrative of the present season."—Athenwum. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., QECOND EDITION OF QUEEN MAB. K.. 7 By JULIA. KAVANAGH, Author of " Nathalie," &c. "`Queen 'Nab' is a good and intereFting novel. It has a strong, well complicated plot. • Queen Mab,' as she is called, is charming.. The book is ' , Null worth reading, It is well written, and the interest ta sustained to the last page."— Athenmum. Hurst ar.d Blay.kttt, 13, Great liarlboroug,h-street. Thirteenth Thousand, post Bvo., 7s. 6d., PUMMING'S (Dr.) THE GREAT TRIBULA kJ TION ; Or, THINGS COMING on the EARTH. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. This day is published, in 2 vols., post Bvo., price £1 is., cloth, A X T 0 NI A N A: NJ A SERIES OF ESSAYS ON LIFE, LITERATURE, AND MANNERS. By the Author of " The Caxtons," &c. William B'ackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. This day is published, PROFESSOR AYTOUN'S LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, and other POEMS. With Illustrations designed by J. NOEL PATON, R.S.A. Engraved on Wood in the highest style"of the art by John Thompson, W. J. Linton, W. Thomas, J. W. Whymper, J. Cooper, W. T. Green, Dalziels Brothers, E. Evans, J. Adam, Small Quarto, printed on toned paper, bound in gilt . - cloth, 2Is. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. KINGLAKFIS HISTORY of MO - INVASION of the CRIMEA. Vols. L and 11., Fourth Edition, Octavo, 325. In the copious Notes which are inserted in this Edition, the Author deals with questions arisinn out of controverted matters of fact, and produces authority substantiating dis puted statements ; but not a word has been withdrawn from the Text, and not a word has been added to it. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. lIISTORY OF EUROPE, from the Commence ment of the F RENCII REVOLUTION in 17E0 to the BATTLE of WATERLOO. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bait, D.C.L. A New Library Edition (being the tenths. In Fourteen Volumes, Demy Oct .vo, with Portraits, and a Copious Index, £lO lOs. Crown Octavo Edition, Twenty Tolumea, U. People's Edition, Twelve Volumes, closely printed in double columns, £2 Bs., and Index Volume, 3s. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. NOTICE. —ETON SCHOOL DAYS will be ready at all the Libraries on Wednesday, Nov. 25. In one vol., post Bvo., price 10s. 6d. London : John Maxwell and Co., 122. Fleet-street. NOTICE. -A TERRIBLE WOMAN ; OR, STRONG AND TRUE.—The New Novel, by AUST YN lT It ATIAM, will be ready, in two vols., post bye., price 2 is., on Wednesday, Nov. 25. London: John Maxwell and Co , 122, Fleet-Etreet. N3TICE.- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH DETECTIVE, by WATERS, will be ready at all Libraries, in two vols., post Bvo., price 21s. London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. Loudon : 18, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK'OF BEAUTY. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. JUL . LIEN'S CONCERTS. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, at 8. Vocalists—Mdlle. VOLPINI, Mdlle. TREBELLI, Signor BETTINI, Siguor BOS SI, and Mr. SANTLEY. Vioiin— Signor SIVO RI. Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor, M. JULLIEN. Promenade and Gallery, ls. ; Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d., ,Els. is., and .£ i lls. 6d. Places may be secured at the Box-office of the Theatre. T HE X F ORD 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following. Operas, viz., TELE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir Hy. Bishop; also, from ERNANI and LA SONN A MBULA: by the following talented artistes : —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, W almsley, and Elli son ; Messrs. Green, Milan, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Also, Solos on the Violin by Vlol'll COLLINS, the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SUITAL IiENBACH, the Inventor. - - Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by UNSWORTII ("or any °Cher man"), r , Euene W. Randall, E. Marshall, G.llutchenson, &c. The GALL has been newiy Decorated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. "THE GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL. —New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, throuh the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN TERBURY HAL L. The object of the Club is not the re_ peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient pictures of the drama of real lite , b oth in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to . recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best wr,ters. t re sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery ot the . A So p uth, and the " White" Slavery of a more boastfu l civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly replace' by others. The pages of Shakspere and the elaer Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., will, in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - IM MENSE SUCCESS.—ARTHUR and BE RTRAND, the celebrated French Clowns, will appear every evening in an entertainment reserved expressly for their engagement at this establishment -The MARVELS of PERU, the most wonderful Performers in the WorId—LANGLOIS, the great Indian Juggler—The FAIRY FOUNTAlN—Operatic Selec tions —Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family and Mons. Rate!, assisted by 12 Young Ladies. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA.—The Manager has the honour to announce that an arrangement has been made with Mons. BASTIEN FRANCONI, Proprietor of the Grand Cirque Imperiale, the whole of whose UNRI VALLED TROUPE will APPEAR, for a limited period, commencing on the FIRST NIGHT of the CATTLE SHOW, December 7. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Fier Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GUENET. LiEWSPAPER G 74 -";. ----7---- - - I''''- 2 -' . t k...._. , ~„,„ , , z, l.-- • 1.34011k.-7 \'''',...----.... 4 t ...... ,-- -.- ..,...x.,. . . . . 1. 2 1 In ' 1, (61 , (0 `,9 „ „ 0.• Ar. 4 . ), i 7 -.- 't 4 lrk . - • ' ....:,..,.....,_ . • .!,.c.),ltiarc.,,, 1 n .... , \\A , A 101 N " .. .. --• ' ~ : ~.' . , , .. .. + ~, 4 -% . A. r 9 j, . ~ i- 7 •,!.' ' \ \ ' 6,1101 g ?.., „ . .....-, ,_ ./,..-.. 4 4L A- a ,4 -- . , , ap-H -,,- . 0 ~ ~F ~-.9.)killimi., :iiliii.,,,:, -,,-,-- ~.-,„,..„ ~p,.. 0 -5 ..,ii. - DROTr• ' ' 1 --• I .Cr t , 6 ~ : i i \,....:.., . , ' P11.10E.....—..1d. STAMPED ....sd. instead of submitting, ought n ot to have listened to it for a moment. The French papers assert that , in consequence of these objections, the English are t o keep possession of the citadel of Corfu, and that, if no terms of accord can be arrived at, they must treat it like Sebastopol, and blow it up previous to departure. We must confess that this strikes us as a most iun gracious and disgraceful mode of evacuatng the islands. If the act be not accompanied Ly an r engagement of King George, that neither he go. his successors shall ever repair and raise up again th ese battlements, these precautions will have prove u useless. We therefore cannot see what is to be gained by this truckiing to Austria and Turkey, except that we shall wipe all gratitude from the Greek mind for what we have done, and make King George appear to have purchased his crown by the servitude of his people. It may be said that there is little use in these forti cations, at least for such a power as Greece ; and it objections he nlabsoasls assent at b n e adn sa d : r o d a a r , dims a hes t b ed s t ai h bor the same tshToaoumwtrhkeeeevtyeni however, nw e o , d bk t Ai h i enu a cg t st stdr a oi although f h ba o wry u eo g ara h snch t oi le, t o h es a s t io s n til w l it is is wise a and m ere expedient d a i e n n d t a to s symbol. purchasebol. Sym bols y h their ip, people. A n d that of blow especially with a rude ing up the citadel of Corfu will be considered so degrading an act of subservience to Turkish arro gance, that it will completely do away with all the merit and all the graciousness of the cession.— Examiner. Radical Charles Mathews at the Haymarket. Mr. Mathews had been absent from the London stage long enough to render his return an object of curiosity. For some time before his Parisian engage ment, he had been before the public as an " enter tainer," and it seemed probable that he was about to quit the histrionic profession, strictly so called, and to enter into permanen t competition with the Reeds, the Parrys, and the Woodins. But with all his talent, and the prestige derived from his father as the founder of what are now termed " entertain ments," he scarcely raised himself to the head of the class he had joined; and his ultimate return to the profession of his youth seems to indicate that, in the hybrid position proper to halls and galleries, he felt something like a fish out of water. Once more on the boards of the Haymarket, he appeared as pleased to see his old theatrical patrons as they were to give him welcome. No doubt, to a regular actor who, like Mr. Mathews, can hold audiences in his grasp, can make them sympathise with all his humours, and can even take pleasant liberties with them on which a less firmly established favourite would not venture, there must be something ex tremely weak and jejeune in the very warmest applause that the most enthusiastic admirers of en tertainments can bestow. A battle fought by officers only, however skilfully conducted, would be but a dull affair, and the approval of a merely genteel audi ence, in which there is no mob-element, can never amount to what in modern parlance is styled a demonstration. By the artist who burns for public favour, the roar of the pit and gallery is required as a necessary indorsement the gratification expressed by the smile and titter of the boxes and stalls ; and the want of this must be more particularly felt where there are no pit and gallery whatever, and the seats are occupied by persons all more or less strict in their notions of propriety, and many of them uneasily suspicious that they are grazing the borders of sin while participating in any public entertainment that does not resemble the solemn buffooneries of Exeter Hall. The poet who only pens sonnets, the musician who devotes himself to chamber-music, the humourist who exclusively retails such pleasantries as make young ladies simper, may—nay, must—be contented with the approval of the refined few ; but the genuine actor, with the ambition proper to his calling, is essentially a man of the people. He will not be satisfied with a House of Representatives elected by universal suffrage, but requires the actual Demos to be brought bodily before him. Mr. Mathews returns in excellent condition, and those who before his retirement fancied that they could detect the encroachment of time on the vigour and vivacity of the most mercurial of actors, no w feel that the universal enemy has been triumphantly repelled, and that the Mathews who charmed them tiventy years ago is the Mathews who exhilarates ,hem now. Suspected Death from Poison., Last night Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Grey Eagle Tavern, Grey Eagle-street, Spitalfields, into the circum stances of the death of Eliza Marns, aged 34 years. The case seemed to excite great interest in the neighbourhood, and the court was crowded. Jane Syms, 20, Gossett-street, Bethnal-green, said that the deceased was the widow of Edward Morns, a tailor. Ho died on the 29th of last May. The deceased resided at No. 34, Grey Eagle-street. She was a sober woman. She was taken ill at half-past six o'clock on Thursday last. A Mr. Beecher, who witness believed had been living with the deceased, remained upstairs a short time. When he came Ai down the deceased followed him, and said to bo r n . Beecher, "My dear, my God; what have r u ssmo giving me ?" He replied, " I have given Ynsneemed head and stomach pills." Mrs. Marns then seemed Mr to wish to go out. She went to the d Beecher did not oppose her going out.ntVe" with her to Dr. Gayton's. That g eo e u ld not speak. her what she had taken, but mitnae:sawskeendt sbe Two of the neigh- Witness then brought her h bours were sent for, and the, in the bed, then fell u de . ceased was carried :1, over, and stretched upstairs to bed. She sat up back again. She trembled no difficulty in opening poured down he r her arms out. There w Was her mouth. Some watert attack the deceased seemed throat. After the firs t , per. 13 ` i'vh - en Mr. Beechersaid t o B g go i t n h t e o that he ased head and stomach • pills a man had given the dece und was present. named AV-m• VI II Witness could account for her death. She seemed in a kind of not Caokroinnder-- she had resided with her five years. fit. Charlotte Charlotte Mole, 31, Grey Eagle-strect, said ca sed. On arrival she found her da s hing her she wa s sent for last Thursday ev en i ng to see t h e bead about in a dreadful manner, foaming at the mouth, and appearing to fight hard for her breath. sh e could not speak, but was cons c i ou s ; the body wa s straight but stiff, and she worked her arms a nd hands about; h er about to start out of herey es head, looked and asthe if mou they th was drawn on one side. At times her eyes went round like the works of a watch, and she suffered a suc cession of fits, lasting from 10 to 5 minutes each, at which times her back was bowed, the body resting on the head and heels ; altogether she had 24 fits. The usual remedies were applied, and Dr. Gayton was called in. During the night Mr. Beecher came up twice, seeming much cut up, and at about 4 o'clock on Friday morning he proposed that medical, assistance should be procured. The death rattthaets were then in her throat, and witness told him a doctor was then useless. sk the . t The Coroner said it was necs,ssary that,lftr.Be eeeher should be present, in order that hehm ti,,hink proper. witnesses any questions that he mig ed - Mr. Beecher, a respcctably-dtresz 30 years of age, w ho was G rid cet o, 0 a tailor, rcsid rna n, of about spitalfields, then ing at No. 34, Gray p g one himself en two roe seeded to cross-examimi entered the court, anEdngle. the witness as to his havi n g o ccasions for a do ctor. This was admitted. After some F Gayton depos ed that the c'eceased ur ther unimportant e vi d en c a, Dr. William o his shop in Brick-lane between 7 and S o Th u rsday nighL She was at the ti me camp t o t on al i e, and in a few minutes eft the shop and vomited violently. He prescribed for he went home. At half-past 9 o'clock he her at her own house, when she was vom lently. He did not see her after this till On making a post mortem examination he : the brain to be healthy, the lungs highly tong esf.a d, the heart healthy, the liver, spleen, and other o rgan3 healthy, but highly congested. The right al de or the heart was full of liquid 'hick There were patches of illfiaDlL 'id, as were the N' rms. lation through' , the whole surface of the intestines. He removed. the stomach unopened for analysis, as' ,he could not. tell what was the cause of death. The Corone r sa id that the case rue's surrotat d ed by so many serious circumstances which reclzr-red explanation that he should adjourn the i.lquiry for the purpose of allowing a chemical analys i 3 of the contents of the stomach. • , 7•,.. -,-.• 1' - o' l 4\ \ 24. -,. ...,•; ,41 ..„,_.- , :;fr"- a cAtmAr-zlfit licq li PV I I I: -t-7/1 AR 4 1.• v-0. 4,... , ' •' .-,: .441:1% : :: n cil S The Will and Testament of an Amer.'eAll 1 I have just seen a most e merchant, who cer tainly cf Charles P. Hovey, a ztraordinary will—that' a right to the Bost online Appointed Wendell Phillips i s of ." radical aboli tionist;.2' 7 00 moted one of his 1 execn teß, and he bequeaths Lloydollarsd Garrison,. hi s w if e Mrs, Garr ison, S. S. Foster , d o llars each to Par ker Bilsbur y and H. and 2,00 D C.as Wright. These names will a t once be recognised prominent and radi& a b o litionists. The follow.. of oll ow .. ing articles of this will are well worth giving in fall : Art 16. After setting aside sufficient funds to pay all legacies and bequests herein made, I direct mye said trustees to hold all the rest and !endue of my estate, real and personal and mixed, in special trust for the following parposes—namely, to pay over, out of the principal of sold special trust, a cum of , not less than 8,000 dollars annually, until the same , be all exhausted, to said Wendell Phillips, Win- Lloyd Garrison, Stephen S. Footer, Abby lie Foste r, Parker Pilsbury, Henry C. Wright , Francis Sack son, and Charles R. Whipple, and their survivorsand survivor, for them to use and expend at their dis cretion, without any resposibility to any one, for the promotion of the anti-slavery manse and other reforms—such as woman's rights, n en-resistance, free-trade, and temperance—at their discretion. And I request said Wendell Phillips anti his said associate s to expend not less than 8 , 000 do llars an nually, newspapers, o by the preparation and circulation f books, employingintneair judgmentgents,and theohadnegle /while of lectures, that will opinion and secure the abolition of slavery in .the United States, an d promote sa id o th er refore t ai ° . Believing that the chain upon four millions of slay.ea with tyrants at one end and hyp ocrites at the other, has become the stron gest bon of the union of the States, I desire said Philli ps and h i s assoc i a t es to expend such bequests by employi n g b e lieve and practise the doctrin e o f •" such ~ Noun a i g o e n n w ts as ith slaveholders, religiously or politically; and by cir culating such publications as tend to destroy every pro-slavery institution. Art. 17. In case chattel slavery should be abolished in the United States before the expenditure of the said residue of my estate, as stated in said sixteenth article of this will, then in that case I desire that the unexpended part of said residue be applied by said Phillips and his associates in equal proportions for the promotion of non-resistance, woman's rights, and free trade ; requesting that no agent be em ployed by them for the promotion of said causes except such as believe that the natural rights of men and women are equal. Whether slavery be abolished or not, I desire that a part of the said residue of my estate be applied to the promotion of the kindred causes of temperance, woman's rights, non-resist ance, and free trade, at the discretion of the said Phillips and his associates. Art. 22. I particularly request that no prayers be solicited from any person, and that no priest be invited to perform any ceremony whatever over or after my body. The priesthood are an order of men as I believe falsely assuming to be reverend and divine, pretending to be called of God; the great body of them in all countries have been on the side of power and oppression. The world has been too long cheated by them—the sooner they are un masked the better foe humanity. As I have heretofore borne my testimony against slavery, intemperance, war tariffs, and all indirect taxation, bank, and ail monopolies, I desire to leave on record my abhorrence of them all. The fear of being buried before I am dead is slight, nevertheless it is greater than the fear of death itself ; I therefore request my executors not to bury my body until at least three days after my decease. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1863. K INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i+ Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " liinahan's LL Whisky." AN ITALIAN PROFESSOR is desirous to meet in a FAMILY or SCHOOL to Teach ITALIAN and FRENCH - , and have in return Boardiog, Lodging, and Washing, for four or six months. He knows English suffi cientiy for that. He can give unexceptionable references. Address L. M., 58, Upper Stamtord,treet,Waterloo-bridge. BANK RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending Oct. 17. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 14th Oct. (the nearest date furnished by their returns) will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : dept. 19, , ct. 17, ; 1863. 1863. 'lncrease. Decrease Bank of England 20,970,780 21,514,213, 673,4331 Private Banks 3,024,000 3,331,715' 307,715 1 Joint-stock Banks 2,817,377 3,013,250 1 195,873 I ---- Total In England. 26,8 2,157 27,889,178 1,077,021 Scotland 4,104,276 4,338,360 1 234.084 Ireland 5,039„65 u. 5,660,410 6:0,760 —.— United Kingdom. 35,956,083 37,887,9481 1,931,865 j And, as compared with the month ending the 18th Oct., 1862, the above returns show an increase of £241,579 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £485,752 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve ral banks the following is the state of the circulation : The English private banks aro below their fixed issue The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,191,535 The Scotch hulks are above their fixed issue .. £1,589,089 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £694,084 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 14th Oct. was £15,034,343, being a decrease of £368,321 as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of £1,689,231 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 17th Oct. : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,334,771 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 1,923,197 £1, 9 57,968 Being an increase of £47,075 as compared with the previous return, and a decrease of £23,628 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. Sheerness harbour to Chatham dockard by the Locust and Sheerness steamtug, to be fitted and got ready by the mid dle of March next for service as a flagship. It is rumoured that her station will be the coast of Brazil, and that she will carry the flag of Rear-Mmiral the Hon. Charles G. J. B. Elliot, C.B. Mercury, The si e g o f e the th n 1 2 14 d, th h a a a s y t : f a o I F o r w i d i n a g y , n g e a h de d t a detail, chiefly from the Washington Light Infantry, was stationed in the eastern barracks of Sumter, there to be held in readiness incase an assault should be made. Although the fort was subjected to the usual nightly bombardment, which, though light compared with the bombardment of the day, has hitherto been of a sufficiently heavy character, no casualties occurred until a quarter past 4 on Satur day morning. At that hour a Parrott shell from Morris Island struck the iron girder which sup• ported the ceiling of the portion of the barracks to which we have alluded, causing it to fall in and crush thirteen men under its ruins. On Saturday morning the enemy opened from all his land batteries, and Parrott and mortar shells were rained through the day upon the silent work. Occasionally, indeed, the middle battery, by which is meant the battery between Gregg and Wagner, would throw a shell in the direction of Johnson or at Sullivan Island, but for the most part the fire was concentrated upon Sumter. At the hour 12, two of the three monitors which have been playing so conspicuous a part in the pre sent bombardment came up and proceeded to batter the sea face from their usual prudent distance. The shots of the island batteries were chiefly aimed at the south-west angle. The guns in action on Sa turday at Morris Island were two light and two heavy rifled guns at Gregg, three heavy rifled guns and four 10-inch mortars at the middle battery, and four rifled guns at Wagner. In the course of the day, 443 rifled shots were fired at the fort, of which 51 missed. From the mortars 373 were fired, 120 of which did not strike. The monitors fired 86 times, and never failed once to hit their mark. The flag staff wafftwice shot away, and was replaced by Sergt. Graham, Corporal Hill, and Private Swain, of company F, 12th Georgia Battalion. At length the staff was so cut up that it became necessary to raise the battle flag of the battalion just named. The mortar shells thrown by the enemy are so contrived as to explode a few seconds after impact. Of these 33 were fired at the fort on Saturday night, 12 of which passed over. Oa the same night 70 rifled shells were also fired, 10 of which missed. There were several casualties on Saturday at the fort. The story of Sunday is but a repetition of that of Satur day. The enemy's land batteries were served with the same fury, and the monitors assaulted the fort with the same vigour which characterised their fire on the preceding day. About 2 o'clock the firing was very rapid, averaging four shots a minute. The bombardment was still going on at a late hour of the night, bat no resort had reached us at the hour of going to press of the results of Sunday's opera tions. Our own batteries have been by no means inactive during the last two days, but we have learnt nothing of the effect of their fire." Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Rear-Admiral F. Bullock has been making a series of ex. perimental trials on board the paddlewheel steamer Vivid, Commander W. IL Allen, which has been placed at his disposal by the Admiralty, at the measured mile, Maplin Sands, near Chatham, for the purpose of enabling him to form correct tables and lay down a code of rules and regu lations for the use of his newly-invented permanent ship log, which is about to be introduced into the service. The Lords of the Admiralty are so well satisfied of the import-• ante of the invention that orders have been received al Chatham for the new log to be fitted on board the Liver pool, 39, 600 horse power, Capt. R. Lambert, belonging to the Channel squadron—and also the paddlewheel steamer Geyser, 6, 280 horse power, Commander M. R. Pechell. The condemnation of the old class of wooden gunboats at Haslar, and the certainty that iron alone will be used in the construction of this class of vessel in future, has liberated Haslar yard to a great extent from the duties it has hitherto performed as an appendage of Portsmouth dockyard, and raised the all-important question, " What shall we do with it ?" To consider this question it will be necessary here to state the present extent and position of the yard, the amount of plant it contains, and the advantages it offers while remaining still an adjunct to the yard at Portsmouth. Haslar yard stands on the south side of a narrow creek bearing the same name at the entrance to Portsmouth har bour, and is 2,610 ft. in length and 816 ft. in width within the boundary walls ; it has a water frontage throughout its entire length. On the side opposite to its water frontage stand a line of galvanised iron covered sheds for 50 gunboats, divided by five brick walls into as many divisions, the en tire length of the shod line being 1,900 ft. In front of and parallel with these sheds are lines of rail exceeding in their collective width the length of the largest of the gunboats. Over these travels the transporting frame and cradl?., pro pelled by a powerful locomotive engine, which conveys the gunboat to or from the launching and hauling up slipway or the sheds as required. Between this line of sheds and the south boundary wall of the yard is established the nucleus of an engineering range of workshops with the necessary forges, lathes, &c., employing about 30 junior naval engineers and 40 stokers, the latter working at their trades as boiler makers, moulders, coppersmiths, carpenters, &c., or fitting the machinery of the gunboats (which will become available for the ironboats to be constructed) with condensers, and doing, in fact, all the work required for the alteration and repair of machinery, except heavy iron cast ings, which are supplied from the iron foundry at Ports mouth dockyard. About a score of shipwrights are em ployed on four new wooden gunboats, which have now been building there some time, and a gang of hands from the steam factory of Portsmouth dockyard is employed in tak ing the boilers and engines out of the condemned gunboats. A few iron and wooden mortar vessels stand on their blocas in one part of the yard, but as they can only be looked upon as waste material and not as plant, they may be dismissed from all further consideration. The enclosing wall of the yard is of brick, and substantially built, as may be ima gined, with brick sentry boxes at the angle. At the entrance is h spacious guard-house, police-station, and an official residence, now occupied by an acting master shipwright. Such is the present' extent and position of Haslar gunboat yard and slipway. The advantages Has lar yard offers as an adjunct to the main yard at Portsmouth are many, and are not likely to be set aside even by the comprehensive scheme for the extension of Portsmouth dockyard which is about to be carried out under the direc tion of Mr. Stamp, C.E., Deputy-Director of Works to the Admiralty. In the first place the yard may be appropriated as a boat building, repairing, and storing yard, and thus become wholly attached to the department of the master shipwright; secondly, it may be handed over to the chief engineer of Portsmouth yard, and become a part of the fac tory establishment ; thirdly, it may be handed over entirely to the naval engineers in commission afloat, and thus be come the headquarters of the steam reserve ; and, fourthly, it may remain as it is, attached in part to all, and a source of continual disputes. It is evident that, as we are to have iron gunboats, Haslar yard, with all its costly plant of covered berthing, high and dry, for 50 boats, its transport ing lines of rails, and launching and hauling up slipway, will be retained as their headquarters. This at once nar rows the question as to the retention and future use of the yard. As a yard for the storage, repair, and building, if necessary, of iron gunboats, it would come under the ma- nagement of the steam reserve more than any other depart ment, and if the steam reserve is to be continued as a dis tinct department of our chief naval port, then the iron gunboat yard at Haslar appears to offer unusual and ex traordinary advantages as the officially appointed head quarters of the force. We have already said that the nucleus of a naval engineering establishment exists at Hasler, and there is plenty of space to extend the workshops en the present line of ground, so as to afford full employ ment for all the naval engineers and stokers on the books of the reserve in the port, who would thus have the ad vantage of being employed in the shops upon work they might be called upon to do on an emergency at sea. With the captain of the steam reserve in residence on the esta blishment, and the "factory" system of work and accounts introduced (as now arranged in her Majesty's dockyards, and than which nothing can well be more efficient), Haslar, as the head-quarters of the Portsmouth steam reserve, would become a most important and economical esta blishment. There is abundance of room at Haslar to build as well as store 50 gunboats, whether they were built by private contract or not, and there is also abun dance of room—and this is a most important considera tion—for the erection of a building at the southern ex tremity of the yard, which would contain the necessary barrack accommodation for the stokers, quarters for the o fficers of the establishment, including the naval engi neers on duty in port, and the school and lecture rooms Sze., which would form a necessary part of such an csta blishffient. Admiralty orders have been received by th e au th or i ties at Sheerness dockyard that her Majesty's scre w s t eam -b ship p Conqueror, 78 gun s , 2,84 5 tons, 500 h in charge John C. Salfl ee t, b elonging line -of power e f fir a st t tdlei Mastervision of the Sheerness steam reserve, is t o b e immediately got ready for sea as a troopship. Her mai n deck guns are to be removed and the ports closed. W hen ready she will have a complement of 480 men, and be em ployed on the China station. She will take out 600 marines and supernumeraries. The Bombay, 67, screw steam line-of-battle ship, 2,872 tons, 400 horse power, belonging to the second division of the Sheerness steam reserve, was removed yesterday from THE ARMY. The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for War; Major-General Tulloh, 8.A., Director of Ordnance; Capt. Caffin, R N., Naval Director-General of Artillery, and other officials, went down to Woolwich on Sunday, and inspected the two 300-pounder guns intended for experimental practice on board the gunnery ship Excel lent, at Portsmouth, and now lying on the wharf at Wool wich in readiness for embarkation, They afterwards held a lengthened consultation with the heads of departments in the Royal Arsenal relative to the estimates required for 1864-5, and returned to London at half-past 4. It was stated at the headquarters of the Chatham divi sion of Royal Marines, yesterday, that the Government had decided on despatching shortly a battalion of Royal Marines, consisting of artillery and light infantry, to Japan. The Sanitary Condition of the City. Dr. Letheby, the corporation officer of health, has just presented his report as to the sanitary condition of the city of London for the quarter ending September last. In that interval 704 births and 639 deaths have been registered. Both numbers are below the average for the corresponding period of the last 10 years, the births having declined about 11 per cent, and the deaths 5 per cent. The proportion of births to the population of the several unions was stated. In the East London Union it has been at the annual rate of 28 . 5 per 1,000 of the population, in the West London Union 25.1 per 1,000, and in the City of London Union only 20.8, the mean of the whole birthrate being 24 6 for the entire city. This is an unusually small proportion, for the average annual birthrate in the city during the summer quarter is 28'5 per 1,000 of the population, and in the whole of Eng land it is 32.9. Of the 638 deaths in the quarters 363 were of males and 216 of females, and they are thus distributed-232 were in the Eastern Union, 178 in the Western, and 238 in the city proper. They are in the annual proportion of 22.5 per 1,000 of the first-named district, 26 . 9 of the second, and 19.6 of the third, making together a general average of 22.3 for the whole city. In all England the usual mortality for the summer quarter is at the annual rate of 19.8 per 1,000, and in the town districts of England it is 22.4; but, as the last quarter was unhealthy, the deathrate for the whole country rose to 21.7, and for the chief towns to 24.0. Although, therefore, the mortality in the city has been a little above the summer average (21.9) of former years, it has not been so large as in the other towns of England. In the Western Union, however, the deathrate has been as usual high; in fact. if the same mortality had prevailed throughout the city there would have been 771 deaths during the quarter, instead of 639. The cause of this excessive mortality Dr. Letheby ascribes chiefly to the habits of the people. On comparing the condition of the population in the Eastern and Western Unions, where the deathrates are so dis similar, not much difference, he says, is found in respect of density, or poverty, or occupation, or in the number of the infant population, for both of the unions are largely in habited by the labouring classes, and in both there is a large proportion of births; but that which is moat notice able is that the Irish element prevails in the Western Union and the English in the Eastern—a circumstance which makes a great difference in the sanitary conditions of home and in those circumstances which so largely affect the wellbeing of the young. This is manifest on an examination of the ages at which the principal mortality occurs. In the Eastern Union the proportion of deaths among children of less than five years of age is only about 35 per cent of the total mor tality, whereas in the Western Union it is nearly 46. The other ages at death do not present any remarkable feature, except that the proportion of deaths among persons in the prime of life, as from 20 to 40 years of age, amounts to about 12 per cent of the total mortality ; of those in mature life, from 40 to 60, to about 15 per cent ; and of those at 60 and upwards to nearly 19 per cent, the average for the former years being 13, 17, and respectively. These num • hers show that while the mortality of infant life has been greatly diminished during the last ten years, that of old age has been increased. The principal causes of death in the quarter are thus stated :—Phthisis, 64 ; tabes and scrofula, 44 ; hydrocephalus, 18 ; bronchitis and pneumonia, 61; continued fever, 21; scarlet fever, 56 ; smallpox, 10 ; measles, 4 ; whooping-cough, 17 ; croup and diphtheria, 19; erysipelas, 5; and diarrhoea, 45, of which last were among children. Altogether, therefore, there have been 126 deaths from tubercular diseases, 192 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and 177 from diseases of a zymotic character. Looking at the averages of former summers, the first-named diseases have declined from 155 in, the quer • ter to 126, the decline of phthisis having been from 82 to 61, and of tabes and scrofula from 53 to 44. The total num ber of deaths from zymotic diseases is nearly the same as that of former years—but the proport;ons of the individual diseases have been very different. Diarrhoea, for example, has declined from 62 to 45, continued fever from 29 to 21— and measles from 18 to 4—but the number of deaths from scarlet fever has increased from 24 to 56. This is the largest mortality from the disease in any summer quarter of the last eight years, and, although it has declined to some ex tent since the last quarter, when the mortality was 68, yet it has prevailed, as in the rest of England, to an unusual degree. Even swine, Dr. Letheby adds, have been affected with the malady, for the city sanitary inspectors had seized and condemned the carcases of many pigs that had died from it, or been slaughtered while suffering from it, and had been sent to the London markets for food. The cause, he says, of this unusual severity of the disease is involved in mystery, for, unlike many maladies of this class, it has not selected the haunts of poverty or of filth, but has been found in all places and among all grades of society. It has been, in fact, most fatal in the cleanest districts of the city, where it has advanced from a general mortality cf 6 in the ,quarter to 22, while in the filthy purlieus of the Western division of the city the increase in the mortality from it has been only from 6 to 9. Among the other records of death there were 45 from vio lence, privation, and poison, the average being about 40; and 38 from convulsions and teething, the average being 33. As to the sickness returns in the quarter—which are a little under the average—there have been alto gether 2,752 cases of illness attended among the city poor by the union medical officers. Of these, 200 were cases of fever, 382 of diarrhoea, and 73 of smallpox, all of which were the subjects of immediate inquiry as to the sanitary condition of the places where they occurred. As to the sanitary work of the quarter, there have been 1,278 inspections of houses, and 799 visits to the common lodging houses. These had resulted in the issuing of 470 orders for sanitary improvements. The officers had con demned rather more than 31 tons of meat, and 239 head of game and poultry in the city markets and slaughter houses as unfit for human food. The amount of meat condemned in the corresponding quarter of last year was less than half of the quantity seized during the last quarter. The excess is said to be chiefly due to the circumstance that on two occa sions a large quantity of meat became putrid during its con veyance to London, in consequence of the heat of the wea ther; but independently of that, there had been a consider able increase in the dead and diseased meat condemned in the city markets, and legal proceedings had in several cases been taken against the persons concerned. The proceedings in all these cases were taken under the Amended Nuisances A magistrate onths, t i o m i p n r fl is ic o t ua a fine of £2O, withc Act, which the empowersalternative of f the three m THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. To describe it in a few words, the appearance o Sumter is that of a huge honeycomb, manufactured disfigured by the where a few re mainingby gigantic bees for the g ratific ation of the gods. The only part of the fort w hich be ars any traces of identity arches, st:ollth-w cons i derablyes tangle, showers of iron hail which have assailed them, are the only evidences of form er architectural ornament. The balance of the southern wall, exposed so long to powerful and well-directed guns, is a mountain of pulverised brick and mortar, without a lino to indicate J 3 hap° or a single . feature of d es i g n. The eastern or sea face, which is exposed to the ffre both of ships and shore batteries, is, perhaps, the most demolished of all, battered and banged and crushed worse than the countenance of any prize-fighter who had been hammered to a jelly; the great hole that yawns at the sea, as if it would swallow even her if she would but leap into its throat, seeming like the entrance to Chaos. Into the rough heaps of debris the shells go plunging, here crumbling a pile of stuff away and there throwing up another, to be scattered, may be, by the very next shot. The walls are now perfectly capable of being sealed, from 2ft. to 21ft. having been shot away within the past eight days. Perhaps no grander example of stern, stubborn re sistance exists in all modern warfare than the per sistent holding of this point by the rebels ; certainly history does not record one. The flag raised each time, the sunset gun, the watchful sentinels through the night, when at intervals the monstrous dogs of war howl out their deadly rage, cannot fail to stir in the hearts of all men that feeling of respect which the true soldier always has for a brave and determined foe. The Charleston ROSE WATER POLITICIANS. English politicians at present are the most ob• liging people in the world. They would fain save the Poles, without at all wishing to pound Russia into humanity. They would give Rome to the Romans, without flying in the face of France. They are for the integrity of Denmark, but cannot quar relhtheiyeves. And they are oi if would reassured oblige t N h a tt t i t s shall L i h n a o tS become x E o e 0 - m C o e r d g e .n ofT poleon in the matter of a Congress,w more than ever anxious to gratify Greece and King George, if the lonians and Turks would but let them. The lonians, however, are ashamed to be handed over to Greece if emasculated of their only fortress, and if they are to be the pretext of hard conditions being imposed upon the Greek Crown and Govern ment. Greece, in fact, will not have the lonian Islands, nor will th e lonian Islands belon g toGreece, if both are to su ffer dis g race. And Great Britain, i t n is g fy T in u g rkey and it certain that both, is c e count s on i u r on o tt u r s ioe o ffs f en s d a t h e y are lost if Greece can p oint a g un ove r t he stallth a Austriat m is o.re exceedingly desirous lonian sea. Bot h declare that the y must one da y Both 1 or other bo objects or hostility to young and ardent governments. And they insist on taking precau tions immediately. Had Napoleon the Third taken such a matter in hand, we have no possible doubt as to the answer he would have made to both Turkey and Austria. To tell them to " get oat" for a pair of old women would be the sense of the language addressed to them, however cautiously and diplomatically it might be worded. But we want friends to-day, not knowing what may happen to•morrow, and cannot think of affronting Austria, or even rally ing the Grand Turk for his absurd jealousy of little Greece. _ - - These timid prejudices of political grsndams really will not answer their purposes. When a youth reaches manhood, shows a beard, and puts on the toga zirilis, it is stupid and pernicious mis trust that would tell him not to wear a sword or bestride a horse. His strongest desire is to be a man, and to look a man ; and if parents and guar dians would make a boy of him he will rebel, and probably in rebelling turn scapegrace. It is with nations as with men. When they have reached years of maturity, and thrown off, with the juvenile short jacket, the empire of the usher or the peda gogue, their ambition is for manly attire, even exag gerated, for manly attitude, and for all the appear ances of independence and strength. We see this very frailty e xpressed in all the young countries which the Turks have kept so long in a state of nonage , and which European philanthropy has b re eched. Thus Servia will go armed. Roumania does not think nationality respectable without an army. And as the force of circumstances has en dowed Greece with a fortress or two, the Greeks would feel more than mortified were we to tell them that they must not play with such edged tools. Yet this is precisely what Austria and Turkey have forced us to say to Greece. England, declare these old people, is good enough to make over to you the lonian Islands. We have no objection. You may take the population, and tax them, and swell your armies with their islanders, as well as your treasury with their contributions ; but you must not have fortresses, guns, and armies. We are terrified at the vision of an lonian Sebastopol. For tresses are only for grown nations, and you are but children. This langnage will not do for the descendants of Marco Botzaris and Odusseus. When the Turks had Greece and the Morea in dominion they were not, in peaceful tim es, such tyra nts as would con descend to details. They never preten ded to disarm the Klephts, or deprive the Albanians of their rocky s t ro ngholds. Provided they met with o beisance a nd tribute they were not for crushing manhood a out of the rayahs. But the Turks, s they have gr own more tolerant of politica l rights, hav e become They hold it as more suspicious of martial ones. an axiom, that the Christian races, once subject, and now fortunately independent of them, are predes tined to devour them, and the policy is in conse quence to extract a ll their teeth. This may be natural logic for a Turk, but it is not sensible or ' decorus that we should sanc ti o n such absurdities. Fortresses are defensive weapons. That of Corfu cannot invade Albania, neither can its guns reach the mouth of the Adriatic. In case of the war of combined Italy and Greece against Austria and Turkey, the strug gle will be no doubt by sea a s well a s land. B u t on sea it must be carried on b and not by flee t s , not fortresses, and by a marin e , any a mount of cannon p laced i n embrasures or pa i n ted en. barhette. The fea r s of Austria and Turkey ar e absurb ; nay, so absurd that they can not be sincere. The gist of such objections must be, not really to defend the two potent empires of Austria and Turkey from the lonians, but merely to give a slap in the face to King George. That is the chief aim, that the malignant purpose. And in honour, cerisisteav, Ind common sense, England 4 THE lONIAN ISLANDS, The cession of those islands to Greece, which hum been sanctioned both by the lonian Parliament uud by the Powers concerned in the affairs of the Sep-. tinsular Republic, remains now to be completed by the signature of a formal treaty between this coml. try and the Hellen ic kingdom. To this treaty we understand some objection is offered by the Greek Government. It appears that e at g io r n ea s t has been. the dismantling, of the fortifications of Corfu is dis. tasteful to the Cabinet of Athens. We regret this, wo are completely at a loss to perceive of Greek demolition of b o y f t s h o e me fo o rt f ifi th c urgently . Powers, but the and possible use such a fortress could be to the Greek people. 1 If we are not misinformed, the English Govern under i mea t has several times had t h e advisability of destroying the fortifi ca tions on its consideration s h or e, as being expen s i ve and re presented to them by coet little use. It was mpetent authority that if t he Lido, an island which Commands the harbour of Corfu, were retai ne d as the only fort that would be sufficient, as while that remained in our hands, with the command o f t h e permanent lodgrae sea, no enemy could effect any As far as th e ~ nt on the greater island. demo lition of the own of Corfu is concerned the demo- Works could not fail to offer the same advantages that such a measuce has presented at Vienna, Frankfort, Turin, and many other cities. The works in . s in their present state require about two hundred thousand pounds to put them into effective repair, and would need a garrison of about twelve thousand men to hold them. Under thee© circumstances, while they could really prove but an encumbrance to Greece, they would g i ill, f maintained, offer a temptation to any great Power the con vention ; for,a eiand3a,cconroda. in the event of a European war. We are warranted, then, in believing that the Hellenic Government will presently more ill the course we intend to pursue—the more so that they cannot possibly regard it in the light of any indignity offered to themselves, seeing that in reality they are hardly concerned in tho matter, We propose merely to cede the islands to them. laVnyithstirpeuglaartdiontointhe fortress, that is no matter for ante with the desire of our allies and our own c se o n r se f that the s ignature o f the tre r a a ty ise of a tnhy, neat. five of what is most politic, we shall dismantle it before we proceed to the evacuation of the seven islands. In fact since the Powers a fortnight ago, the fortifications o f ma y be practically regarded as 1 non existent. tip© c onfluent, tiler, went will not be so ill-advised us to Creek- Govern" ter of dispute about what i, n the air." —Pust. " but " a castle in. A M.S. ORATORIO OF HANDN's has been dis covered (according to a French journal), entitled " The Sacrifice of Abraham." THE RUSSIANS SEEM ASSURED THAT WAR WILL COME IN THE SPRING. They are preparing neW works for the defence of Cronstadt, mounting 800-pound guns on them, and facing earthworks with iron. The channels arc filled with infernal inaohines, and a eteam ram is building which is to cost £27,000, and run at hostile vessels under water--a great improvement on all other rams. By Ist June, 1861, the naine Department expects to have sixteen iron-clad vessels in the Baltic, all iu o rder, though with rather thin plates. Cast-steel guns, enormous shells, and every variety of ammunition are being in quantities, and the extra expenditure already collected amounts to fifteen millions sterling. Governthmaetilsotafs Russia is spend such sums without grave reason, and , i c s ti r t a a l a ly t, s w v el s l th iri e fo si r ) m a e l d a . tor, l tl t tat is th s e ca F r r struck. , however, at :IA blow v; iii be