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tir PERSONS SEEKING{ LANDED I,„„ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, p','EROLD AND LEASE HOL D INVESTMEN TS, AND '`,‘'PER ['IFS G'eNERALLY— '..°I/P R&D th ro GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls ,n,itout the kingdom. or at the Auction and Estate Offices, 4T p u ` , l iancerv-I<ine, London. 3fe.ssrs. E. and 11. Lumley's o f i`EE an itiEGISTER," containing a ed selction der' and PROPERTY house properties now in the vari market, e from "72.110, bleman's man s i on , w i t h i ts manox i al d oma i n, t o the with its few acres. t r 'NERs OF PRO PERTIES wishing to Sell or L e t can em e Ifro e r ae the opportunity th a t th e me di um o f this . Register F.st bP sendino• the particu'ars of their properties to the tu ate (Am sit — “ces, Chanc try -lane, London, as the e Bess Where - -eY can in most cases introduce imme di a t e cus t omers, the property is ot chara ter, thereby avoid ,,elliot!ieedisadvantages of delay and its attencant incon rtr, • c h..-z.RE is NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pnr -4,7,7 is introduced throncrh Nfessis. Lumley's Agency, ',then only the ustril moderate commission. auction and Land Oflvies, 67, Chancery-lane, London. NORTH MUM-SIT AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FI RE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. It er ' e l s "nany is now prepared to TStIJE POL ICIES for antile Insurances in the Port of London at te reduced of rates. krleaetr.ticulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle- IMI'ERIAL LIFE INSUR iNCE COMPANY No. 1, old Broad-street, London, E.C. Instituted 1820. HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., Chairman. EDWA RD HENRY CHAPNTAN, Esq„ Deputy-Chairman. tttitl ll _ ni nces effected before the 31st January, MIL will be et k . eu In to Three Years' Additions in the Profits to be de -1866, SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. NOTIDRISTMA.S REEWALS. T-Antile and Pock Insurances at the i r educed rates. ile business of t';e Company exceeds £70,000,000. 41o' fo tt utY paid to Government for the year 1862 was tloc . q 33 ,rd the amount insured on farmi ng stock, o, Porti co , of three-fifths of the profl , s periodically made to eti~ s insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received ,:` i ncßint•ng in the agg-reg•ate to £440,000 and the Society ~.olds a large Ices; rve appli-able to a tuture Bonus. • cli tir "," rates of premium are in no case higher than those thel i ll by the other principal offices making no returns to .urers. Ptre'c't ro t pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey friar ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black -89 C. A.D. 1720. C I YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (tilt ablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First) I' OR , SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. c OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. r•ortGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JoHN HENRY PELLT, Bart., Deputy-Governor. urra Cattl Esq• ITober"' Bainbridge, Esq. I c)h ,t Barclay, Esq. fla k Gurtt fl C‘ ie Cloi p vc„,_ DIRECTORS. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. H Nelsr F Esq. b,"“am Davidson, Esq. Chas Dent, Esq, p'eXander Druee, Esq. p ; P edlc. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. "I'vPrsdale W. Greniell, Esq. /Pc. Amadeus Heath, Esq. a 10. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. - -48 . Stewart Hodgson, Esq. ienry Nelson, Esq. lion. Jose,eline W. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., William Wallace, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. FIRE day IVOTIC E. The usual fifteen s allowea of ORE PREMIUMS falling d ue at Christmas for will p expire on Bth January. r ,PIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this -° rPoration on advantageous terms. I , l,l stirances tvrainst Fire on Merchandize in the dor , ks and 4 , r ehouses in the Port of London are accepted, at the late ', need rates of Premium. feA Ste R NIINGTOC—No e tra charge is made for the use M. a am Thrashing achine. te h e Reversionary Bonus on B r iti s h Lif e P o li c i es h as ave ‘—sd - -i'early.2lper cent. per, annum on the sum as sure d. Da 4qUi valenfleductions have been made in the Pre m i ums Yable by pekons who preferred that form of Bonus. the divisione Of Profit take place every Five years. Life Y SUM not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Till Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. „ A rate of B onus equa l t o the average returns of Mutual soci eties — with the guarantee of a large invested Capital ato c k . The advantages of modern practice,—with the security Pean Office whose resources have been tested by the ex rT ce of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. APULT.IEN'S CONCERTS. • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Positively the Last Night but Two of the Season. Vocali4t, Mdlle. VoLpm. new GRAND QUADRILLE, THE GREAT Or CONGRESS. Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Commence at B.—Admission, One Shilling. 4 0 YAL AGRICULTURAL HALL, ",In' NTGTON.—GRAND TOURNAMENT, HIP hithROMK, and CIRQUE, on a scale of magnifirenee bAro unattempted in o:is cJuntrp, will open on BOXING I VY AL AGRICULTURAL HALL: ISLINGTON.—CROCKETT, the renowned LION RING, will mike his First Appearance in Loadon with tis wonderful troup of Lions on BOXING DAY. Lessees—Messrs. STRANGE and JULLEYN. H E 0 X F OR D, 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. T HIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the i(2llowing Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the 4 OID of MILAN, by Sir H. I<ishop ; also, from LA. FORZA klit• DES l lNO—Verdi ; by the following talented artistes "ea Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, %V nlmsley, Tyrrell etEllison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, ,tc. 180 , Solos on the Violin by viorn COLLINS, the ebrated English Violinist. And Flute by Drew Dean. Pianofort e , Mi ss B ryan t . /b/A., theo, by marv Herr e SC IIou sHALKENBAC instrument, H, the Inventor.the ORCHESTRAL ".' ,Som Director, Mr. F. Jonghmana. w by UNSWORTH ("or any outer man "), Eugen e , 10,,:`,andall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, and the marvel ete ne fiALL has een ne wl D y s. ecorated, and is one of the autiful in t bee Metropoli ai l een at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, 6d.; stalls aleetly is . , private boxes, 10s. 6d. , E GHOST . CLUB" at the 11 n rir cet ‘ I ANTF R BURY HALL.—New and Interesting th4Cal T ableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce Rhaa t hrou_h !he medium of Professor Pepper's World of h41 .1 , 10, , ,,, 8 4 a "GHOST CLUB" is n'ghtly held . at thegArNe l'eopp 'ItY HAL L. The object of the Club is not e the ~,_4 IZ of the Haunted Houses of London ; but, throng Dief u eticy of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) and Mir of the drama of real life, both in its serious to ,e_irthfut aspects; and, by means of spectral . tableaux, lent qv, uV, still further impress on the mind, some ,eachintzs or pleasantries of the best wr ters. At pre kid tWo orders of Slavery—the Slavery of th . e . South, r eceiv e e '` White" Slavers' of a more boastful I)idt,, e4, l 3 hatic illustration The d these life pictures will be sation, ' , ler r ePlacel by otlp rs. pages t , f Shakspere and the Iv! Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., 4 Alil l , t Urns, furnish subjects for illustration. itih id . , ie other Muskat and Pictorial attractions as usual, (the thz. Operatic Selections, Atc. ; Comedy by Uosworth 1.1 riacrlern De , nos•hene E ene George Hodson, E. „............_arshalLand George ' Hutcliensugon. 110YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. IM pb , AriorsF, succEss. Houses Crowded Niehtly. It,IteNCONT'S CI ttQUE IMPEKIAL. The most talented d the 1,7:; _and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, Stud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World. 3it o „,, er Y Evening at Half-past Seven. Day Performances on ",a3's, Wednesdal a, and Saturdays, at T 0 . in . Admission—.lieserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, 20. ; promenade, " private boxes, one guinea. 13°x- °ffice Open daily from Ten until Four. ARGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN. at Tier "Malcstv's Theatre, the BALI, EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK will c ommence EVERY Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. sManagers2d GRETZET. IF THIS SHOULD MEET TTTi -- ------- EYE f t. ti one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Ind L ,l p ° aDy "t h i°usness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S Wils , lls st il . 1) sir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterlin g :: , 4 all medicine vendors at Is. 10. -nd 2s. 9d. ; 0 - r nerit. ti'it for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, r Ch fr e e ln e i b a Y t Itl'oln, 4ESSRS. 130TT. JACKSON, AND CO, execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the W eii ' t Market price guaranteed. Remittances, Camber- Ivel,..tninster Bank. Post-uffi,:e Orders payable at A'B Aa Park — Betting on the Waterloo Cup. .to re ct s ress—BorT and JACKSON, " Man of the World" Wine , George -street, Camberwell-park, London. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. —Alabaster Powder, eas,l4coBt:ll,,d the Magnetic Hock Dew Wat er f rom Sahara. Cir -61.c0m, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These leq h , and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, h a , and complexion beautiffil beyond comparison. —Can be Nvli er ° !llY at Madame ttACEI PA.'S, 47A, New Bond-street, atn„, She nfidenti can be consulted daily. All com mun i cat i ons are cual. It "TURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. 11 ITE's AMC-MAIN LEVER 'TRUSS 1 -Zr, (Pt FM:IE7ED AND EX lIIBITED IN THE G REAT Tv,IIIITION o F I IND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Medi " eal Gentlemen to oc the most effective i Ch e 122 1 the curative treatment of II ERNIA . 8 herr of a steel spring so otteu hurtful in its eifects, ,1),1 avoided—a soft Candage being worn Found the 1 1;-Zrhile the requisite resisting . power is supplied by the 'ttl 'ill Pad and Patent Lever, fitting In ith so much ease Itlri li e ,',. c *leness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn tt iles' ' l eer). A descriptive circular may he had, And the Nr it ' Which cannot fail to lit, forwarded by post, on the Tr 4hterf:.,(,e Linths body, two inches below the hips, being nufacturer, A Mr. WHITE, 228, flog"gle Truse, 215., 265. ed., and 31e. egl. Postage, is. k zi Truss 31 od 42 and :As. ,is Sd. Poß '4l l , bil , ic el and 6d. a ge,Posta is. led. "1ee,7...,"1ee Orders to be made payable to John White, Post -' NEW PATENT L kv A,STIC STOCKINGS, 2- CAP '3 e• for Varicose Veins and all cases of , :)re, esti and f.rs sprains, &c. They are TIN ti , Avelung ' end are drawn on e 44( , r in texture, i.nd in2xpensive,_ 441 . p cin 'ary stocking. Price Is. 6d., ,s. ed., to a.o osta ge 6d. SVII ITE: Manufacturer, 223, wheat, vas not before. to 373 3 to 34s ; t4' 2 63 -s to ""' Sat WO' e rates. Spring W heat, stone' 38 st• for . qr. , Old) 2" of. o.d )BC. 19° Fan. 4 ‘ )ec. i 9. )0. "' )eC. 19. Deo . 19. )01 )0. 4 " . DEC. Jan. 1. - Dee- Dee. lee• 23' IS. D ec ' 10. lan.4 Fan. Dec. 29' Dec. 29' *JERKS AT mari pa ()flowing Septet' ticed b 1 septera er to see ap point' toped': , _ Lg a drop ige mento 33, a nd 1 atenantos allowe d to thing Lore in Ike, and :he bat. of goo tra ti o• erves ooo 6 . , o leas raan - ., 0 1,0 08 'tilo f 1 .00 1 - stitutio a ;, u late o a rid r 4 tu is I, D i_ have he./ l i fe a roe ....... I _, ............. .....-- ook-vO 4 3. ce, ILexit" nier, of Li ricolnt 1136 flg o Thor°'" -0.09 , to x- , Th i to 3s4•+ '.- ies 13 0 1! ; P ll ° ll 110014 OCA AO " e e 11213°35° Jett k gi 0, a 1 1 1 a 4 lot ill, ieoW Sit llel' ~ JoJ h 3 L t o , ,so• o f ,-.0013tY N°. 22,301. FURNI I'URE, CARPETS, REDDING, and FLOORCLOT IT, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First class Broods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showre urns occupying an acre of ground. Every ar.icle warranted GLEE GYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR- N , 61 - T are respectfully informed that ltessrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURN If...JUNG GUIDE, ill strated by 410 admirable emiraving.s of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A c,:py sent g: atis and post-tree on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates fur furnishing en the fdlowing revised sale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roi , rnea ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto 'i94 it 0 Together with a trice List of purified redding, and a mass of valnable information to all requiring househ)ld furniture, carpets, or bedding. Ref erences kindly permited to CI ere y men and gentltmen in or near Great malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Eiy, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Ox'ord. Brighton, Gainsborouoh, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington. Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking., St Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St, David's, Wrexham, and above 5r..0 other places in all parts of Great Britain. COB SETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, B.E, CHEAP EDITIONS OF FAVOURITE NOVELS. Each Volume Embellished with Two Illustrations. EAST LYNNE. By Mrs. WOOD. Os. The CIIANNINGS. By Mrs. Wool). 6s. MRS. HALIBURTON'S TROUBLES. By Mrs.Woon. 6s. The INITIALS. By the Author of "Quits" and "At Odds." 6s. The LAST of the CAVALIERS. 6s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. CAPTAIN SPEKE'S JOURNAL. This day is published, JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. By JOHN BANNING SPEKE, Captain H.M. Indian Army. In one large volume, octavo, price 21s. With a Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa by Captain Speke ; numerous Illustratt - ns chiefly from Drawings by Captain Grant; and Portraits Engraved on Steel of Captains speke and Grant William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. NOTICE. —CHARLES READE'S Great Story of " lIARD CASH " 13 now Ready, in 3 Volumes, post Svo., cloth, 31s. 6d., and may be obtained at any Library or Bookseller in the Kingdom. _ _ _ London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 14, Ludgate hill. H UME'S SELECT LIBRARY. THE PUBLISHING SEASON. NOTICE.—RFXISED LISTS of the Principal WORKS in eirenlat , on at IIUDIE'S LIB cAItY, CATALOGUES of SURPLUS COPIES v% IT.HDRAWN FoR SALE, and LISTS of BOOKS in Ornamental Bindings, adapted for PRESIeNTS and SCHOOL PRIZES, are Now Ready, and will be forwarded postage free on application. NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON, December 10, 1863. Now ready at all the Libraries, crown Evo., price 65., BEAUTIES OF TROPICAL SCENERY, and Other TROPICAL POEMS. With Notes. By the Author of " The Nuptials of Barcelona." " This work contains many beauties."—Morning Post. "The amatory passages are worthy of Thomas Moore."— Critic. "Eminently successful has the writer been."—Sporting Review. London: Robert Hardwicke, 102, Piccadilly. UNIFORM WITH " THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE." This day, Never before Published, price 25., SE C tt E T -S E RVI C E; Or, The Recollections of a City Detective. London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE. In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) will commence a New Novel, to be continued Monthly, entitled— T HE DOCTOR'S WIFE. By Author of "John Marchmont's Legacy," "Lady A udley 's Secret," drc., ,te. Office of Temple Bar, 122, Fleet-street, London. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " SACKVILLE CIIAUE." In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) of the ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE will commence THE MAN IN CHAINS. By C. J. COLLINS. London: Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. THE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By 3r. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London: IS, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME EACI{EL ON " FENIALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOKOFB E A U T Y. By Madame RACHEL. To be bad at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. 111,NAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, tnd Dining-room, consisting of a new and e.egant assort ment at VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &a., In Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her ilajesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, VI IN ERA LS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate tie interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. Ind GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANr, at 140, Strand, W.C. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent JIILA heavy gales some of the t oats of the Royal Na lonia Lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing - the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 1 7 ; schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 ; pilot boat, of St. Ives, 7 ; schooner Anion, of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1 ; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1 ; fishing boat, of Filey, 2 ; Tenby fishing beat, 3; and barque Providence, of Dantzic, 7. Total lives saved, 55. The lifeboats also assistel in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, die Italian brig Camoglino, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whiiby, the schooner Guilia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress on fourteen occasions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward p tid for all these services was £216. The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTAN,,E to enable them to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's i 25 lileb , at estab lishments. Contributions are receir, d by all the Lon,l9n and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Ade:phi, London. TEETH. —Mr. ESKR.LL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following advantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they a. e quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eske,l's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations ree. —B,Grosvenor street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. PRIZE MED AL-INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., &e., To the Queen and the P, ince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) • The Jurors' Report on Fax and Church Candles, in 1862. testifies 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 Win, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Second quality .• •• :: Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 25. 2d. per lb Ordinary quality 2- Cd. per lb. .. .. .. .. .. .. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a _Mixture of Wax. Best quality Is. sd. per lb. 8, South Motto': Third quaff iy" Carriage pa i d i n " • • • • .• .. .. ls. id. per lb. ANCIS TUCKER AND CO., I,London on Order ... s • of Five P : o : u l n s cl . s 3d. in p v e a r lu lb el The largest "Establish' " (Established 1730). Ileltsriir:orsv th en el - e sci o u f are :he Altar. l‘lnu f aCtOry— of Wax Candles r t in England for the Manufacture y AMBERT'S ASTRm ju EFFECTUAL REMEDY, w*th C ATI iou outconfini n Er the bowels BALSAM. —AN and pleasant, is ad or affecting the head, truly efficacious milted to be the best medicine tor i mmediately relieving whomand incipient con the faculty coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asth In depri sumption. It frequently cures person:•._ pronounce incurable, admirably a ll ays the tickling which coughii beneficial.trr ,-, n aPProaching consumption a lter „hemist. 8, hing-W , II lam - s tree 13darianngdy ved of al l" even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend oneeglioerf ar. and ask in a few te faking it. l'reparea on.y and sold b P i t r s ° eff n e k c e t s s f a r r truly ent cross,London, three quantities in ~ W. L 31 B E minu tes . and . o one, a 1 125. i d d r u e g a g eh s l t ., s h , er3i namene pbaorttatiinceusdi for Lao.bert's Asttuuatio Balsam.address are engraved on the st 'lllO. -.. , Great Northern Rail 's -inn -road. ItOYAI, FR in the immediate vicinity of the. way Terminus. King's-cross. ~ th e QUEEN. Patron—lfer Most Gracious ilfaje,iy i of WA LE S,K.G -EL HOSPITAL, Gray Vice-Patron—II is Royal Highness the Prince President —ills Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. Treasurer —Edward Masterman, Esq. the d- The numerou s and urgent appeals of the ci .k poor for a . mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of . affluent and hu mane, as the medical officers are daily obliized t i treat as out-patients many d:stres-Ing cases which, with more adequate tends, would gladly admit into the wards. Tbedshe premises of the hospital are capable of contai n i ng - 500 The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which arc received by the Treasurer, Edward Alas (Titian, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Ilerries and co. ; Ransom and CO. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne.and Co.: Giyn and Co. ; J ones Loyd and C o. ; B arc l ay ~,,it Denison and Co. ; W Warns, Deacon, and Co. ; overeud, Gurney, an d c 0 . ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masb.rinau .did Co. ; I. Mimed and C o., Liverpool ; and at the ti os piut), irom !0 till 5. bTANFORD S. 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A new Belt can be bad on trial tor a month, tree of charge, for rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, epilepsy, nervous debility, paralysis, lumbago, tic doloureux, bzonchial cough, asthma., spasms, sprains, indigestion, inactive liver, Jrz. By the mild continu ous electric current evolved, exhausted vital ener2y is euec tually restored. Prices, ss. to 15s. each ; for extreme cases, according to size and power. Testimonials sent ft ee.—Depot, 11, Crooked-lane, King William-street, City. AMERICAN ARTILLERY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) RICHMOND, Nov. 14. It is far from flattering to the national vanity of an Eng lishman to be told that the artillery of his country is behind the requirements of the present age, and that in two and a half years of exasperated warfare America has outstripped Europe as regards the size, power, and'efficiency of her cannon. It has been my fortune, however, to hear this language employed and these opinions expressed on many occasions during the last two years, both in .the Northern and Southern States; and it must be avowed that in some instances the spokesmen have been the very highest autho rities upon the subject, of artillery that this continent can boast. When there is such a coincidence of opinion among men who are certainly not yet surpassed in knowledge of their subjects by any of their rivals, it would seem high time that England should satisfy herself as to the faith that is in her, and should fearlessly ascertain the truth, at what• ever ccst or risk. It is very possible that the actual re sults of the experiments at Shoeburyness and elsewhere in England are unknown in this country; but I will repeat what seem to be the radical objections entertained on this If de of the Atlantic to the Armstrong and Whitworth guns. In the first place, there is universal disbelief in the strength of breech-loading cannon. Secondly, there is a gene• ral objection to the rapid twist of the rifling in the rifled ordnance of England. I have mentioned in a previous letter that the rifling of the Brooke gun is very gradual, consist ing of one complete turn in 4011., or one-fourth of a turn in each gun of iOft. When the Armstrong gun was first intro duced it was publicly stated in evidence in England that the resistance to the egress of the shot offered by the circuitous twist is equal to a weight of one ton and a half, and that,con sequently, when the shot leaves the gun its initial velocity is, as is well known, very low. If, in order to increase this velo city, the charge of powder be augmented, the grooves wear very rapidly, and the gun becomes useless. It seems to be believed by Commander Brooke and Admiral Dahlgren that all the advantages of rifling can be gained by a more gradual twist, and a greater length of service elicited from the gun. Be this as it may, there can be no question that, so far as heavy rifled ordnance are concerned, the two great successes of this war are the Brooke and Parrott guns. And it is with reference to the enormously superior powers of these guns beyond those possessed by the English 68- pounder or B.inch smooth bore that the great error of Eng lish opinion seems to be entertained. How far the Brooke and Parrot guns outstrip the Armstrong and Whitworth, their rifled competitors in Europe, it is impossible for tue to say; but by turning to the 10th volume of the professional papers of the Royal Engineers, published at Woolwich in 1861, it will be obvious that an immense stride has been made since the essay from the pen of Sir John Burgoyne— , the then highest authority in England—which that vo lume contains, was written. Taking for his text the breach ing of a marten() tower at Eastbourne by three Armstrong guns, and the siege operations conducted by the Prussian Government at Juliers (between Aix-la-Chapelle and Co logne), Sir John Burgoyne points out the superiority, with a view to breaching a fort, of rifled ordnance at a range of 1,000 yards, as compared with the smooth-bare and sphe rical projectiles. Sir John says :—" Up to a range of 1,000 yards (and probably further trials will carry it some hundreds of yards beyond) rifled ordnance has been ascer • tained to give the velocity and precision of practice re quired to effect breaches, whereas with the spherical mis siles 600 or 700 yards may be deemed their utmost practical limits." It was little foreseen by Sir John Bur goyne that, scarcely two years from the publica tion of these words, a fort would be breached by rifled ord nance, not at a range of 1,000 yards, and possibly a few hundred yards beyond, but from a distance of 21 miles. In reference to the practice against the Martello tower Sir John observes :—" Trials were subsequently made to breach a similar tower from smooth bored 68 and 32 pounders at the same range of 1,032 yards, and the result may be deemed altogether a failure, both accuracy of fire and velocity of the missiles being quite deficient for such a range, At 600, or perhaps 6 i 0 yards, the superiority of the . riffed ordnance would have been very little, if any." The guns employed against the tower in question were three Armstrong breech loaders, described as follows :-1. An 82-poun , :er of 6 inches calibre; charge for shot, 101 b ; for shell, Olb. 2. A 7-inch howitzer, throwing 1001 b shells; charge, 91b. 3. A 40-pounder of 4.75 inches calibre, No. 101; charge, 51b. At the conclusion of the second day's practice, after about 160 projectiles from these, three guns had taken effect, the tower was reduced to a heap of ruins. But inasmuch as Sir John speaks vaguely of the possible effect of the fire of rifled ordnance at a greater range, it may be doubted whether the Armstrong gun would be effective against masonry at more than 2,000 yards. Here, however, we have Fort Sumter breached by the Parrott gun at a distance of more than 4,000 yards. It cannot but ba desirable that the attention of England should be drawn to these startling dovelopments, and that she should not suffer herself to bs lulled into a fancied security, and to live a tool's paradise, because she has lavished millions upon the Armstrong gun. But if as regards breaching practice the superiority of the rifled ordnance over smooth-bores is manifestly established, I believe that this superiority will be still more marked when both are tried against iron-plating. There appears to be in England, and especially among naval officers, a very general idea that at a short range there is no gun so formidable against iron plates as the old 68- pounder or 8-inch smooth-bore. I am not at liberty to mention the exact result gained by Captain Brooke's trials against the target with his own gun, but it will be sufficient to state that in my belief they would astonish Europe. It is imagined in England that because s e is birth no t only one of th e Monitors off Charleston has hitherto been sunk, uti the C on f e d erate guns cannot be very f orm id a bl e. T hat the belief of their the guns a epeir, were r re o sapc dismounted)h o nind approaching n withints ( i f Northern r the iron-clad c e l i a e d r als vesselsic evinced oby the t Confer h e r 3 wid derate batteri es . A vast deal of nonsense has been written by onsrodtl3,.i "delivering journals lsivoefrpi ncgrt theiraboutsuSumter fit erre t h. , e (beforeTtThe its Mo nitors truth ready is that no Monitor has ever approached nearer to Forts Sumter, Moultrie, or Johnson than 900 yards, ex cept the Keokuk, which came withi n 700 yards, an d was u sin lt k the :i sked'" Have you any gun i n England w hi ch could Keokuk at that dist ance ?" Thi s quest i on must be answcr 3 d in England itself. N o thi ng i s more certain than that the 68- p ounder co u l d not attempt such a feat. When the wreck o f the Keokuk wa s examined it was s nc. found that, in addition to the Brooke bolt which sunk her, three shots from the 10-inch smooth-bore had riddled her turret through and through. To use anything smaller than the 10-inch smooth-bor3 against iron plating is scoffed at on this continent, Commander Brooke is of opinion that the 430 ball thrown by the Weehawken against the Atlanta would easily crash through the Warrior's sides, and create as much sensation as the large stone ball thrown long ago on the D trdanelles which struck Admiral Duckworth's ship. But Europe and America differ in nothing more than in their conceptions of the right kind of projectile to employ against iron plating, of the velocity at which the projectile should be launched, and of the nature of the iron armour which should be opposed to it. The object of Europe seems to be to pierce or perforate iron armour by elongated bolts driven at immense velocity— th object of America to smash in the sides of iron-clad vessels by ponderous spherical projectiles driven at a low velocity. Again, it seems universally believed in Europe that soli.] iron plates uniformly rolled to a thickness of 4 or 5 inches are vastly stronger than four or five laminae, or layers, each of them an inch in thickness, laid one on the top of the other. Mr. Stevens, of New York, on the other hand, pro leases his belief that laminated iron armour is stronger, as well as being vastly cheaper, than solid. A very superficial examination of the subject will convince every one that men are yet in their infancy as regards knowledge of the dyna mics of artillery, and of the resistance which iron-clad sea going vessels can be made to offer; but our knowledge has now advanced to such a stage as to make it probable that we are on the eve of a momentous discovery. It is for this reason all the more surprising to Englishmen who are resident in North America, and who are cognizant of the strides which the Americans have made, that it has never seemed fit to the English Government to attach to each of the mighty belligerents now arrayed against each other on this continent such commissioners as it has been our prac tice to send with a view to watching and reporting upon European wars in which we wert t neutral--such, for in stance, as were attached to the Aust r i an an d French armies in the Italian war of 1859, or such as President Pierce sent to the Crimea in 1853. In the belief of all who are most conversant with its details, never has there occurred a war so pregnant with instruction to military engineers and artillerists as the present. It is not alone that the battles are fought with an affluence of artillery hitherto unknown, that (as I have heard stated) more shells were discharged in the single battle of Gettysburg than were employed in all the battles that Napoleon ever fought, but that in all which relates to the science of military engineering, whether in relation to sieges or battles, not only on land, but also on the margin of ocean, estuary, lake, river, and ,wamp, such opportunities are daily presented as in all the previous wars of the current century might be sought in vain. It would seem th a t no European Government, with the exception of the P russ i an , has its eyes open to the opportunity now so i gnorant l y or heedlessly thrown away. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. A trial of armour plates took place at Portsmouth, on Monday, at the practice range in Porchester-creek, the plates being affixed to the side of the target ship with tin. through boles, and the shot (cast iron) being fired against them from a 68 pounder gun on the deck of the Foam gun boat, at 200 yards distance. The plates were supplied by the firms of Messrs. Beale, Parkgate Works, Yorkshire; the Thames Ironworks'and Shipbuilding Company; the Mersey Ironworks, Liverpool; and Messrs. J. Brown and Co.,Atlas Works, Sheffield. They were of various thicknesses. The plate sent in by Messrs. Beale was rolled but " surface planed" (according to the established and most objectionable regulations of the Admiralty) from 41 to 4/in., the skin of the plate being thus destroyed and its fibrous strength seri ously damaged. Notwithstanding that the plate was thus injured as much as was possible, from a mechanical point o f view, it emerged from its trial in a very creditable manner . The Mersey plate was of hammered manufacture and of a uniform thickness of 51in. It was severely pounded by clusters of shot at the extremities, and on its left end the plate exhibited several large cracks apparently caused by the defective state of that part of the ship's side which formed its backing. The Thames plate was also hammered and was from 3/ to 31in. in thickness of metal. Being of hammered manufacture it possessed, like all other ham mered and tapered plates, the advantage over Messrs. Beale's tapered plate that its thickness was worked down under the hammer, its skin and fibre being thus left intact in all their rough strength, and not partially destroyed by the application of the planing tool, as must necessarily be the case with all tapered rolled plates under their present conditions of manufacture. As armour plates are generally made in 15ft. lengths, it is obvious that no necessity what ever exists for this planing of rolled plates, and tapering of the thickness of a ship's armour from, say Gin. at the fore chains to 3:n. at the hawse pipes. The same result might be attained by bolting on plates of gradually decreasing thickness, but each uniform throughout its length, and un touched by the planing tool. In fact, this principle would be, as explained some considerable time since to the Admi ralty by one of the most eminent and trusted of our armour plate manufacturers, a planing of the plate's backing in lieu of the plate. The explanation, however, appears not to have been acted upon. The Thames Company's plate stood the impact of the 68 pounder admirably, considering its thick ness and the absurdity of testing a 31 inch plate with the same gun, weight of shot, and powder that were used in the test of the 51 inch plate. As, however, these trials aro car ried on merely to enable the Admiralty to classify and thus obtain a knowledge of the exact quality of the plate's metal and manufacture, the use of one description of gun may, possibly, not seriously affect the results, when the trials are conducted under duly experienced officers. It must be evi dent, however, that, without the exercise of great discre tion, judgment, and experience, there is a chance of consi derable confusion and perhaps discrepancies in the official reports prepared of such trials. The fourth plate under trial, sent in by Messrs. J. Brown and Co., of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, was of rolled make, and of a uniform thickness of 4 inches. The foregoing remarks therefore apply to its trial by the 88 pounder in a certain ratio, according to the diffe rence between its thickness and that of the now established standard 51in. plate. This 41in. plate, however, withstood the shot sent against it in a most extraordinary manner, and fully maintained the high reputation of the firm and the gradual and certain progress they continue to make even on their acknowledged uniform excellence of both material and manufacture. When Whalley Island is fully prepared and entered upon as the Portsmouth armour plate and target testing ground, in the room of the present sys tem of target ships, it will then be worthy of the con sideration of the Admiralty, whether it would not be an advantage if all armour plates after that time were tested without any backing. The object in firing at armour plates at all is merely to ascertain the quality of the metal and manufacture, and these objects would be obtained with far greater certainty if the back as well as the front of the plate was open to inspection on the day of trial, and before Capt. Key's report is forwarded to the Admiralty. There have been many plates of which the outer surface on the day of trial has presented such an appearance that a report has been f or warded to the Admiralty, ac compan i e d by a figure of merit which they certainly would n ever h a ve received had it been possible first to inspect the inner side—that is, the side of the plate next the wood backing, and this has been espe cially the case with some of the rolled plates from their target-shipim in dock, for the has been brought down T dockyard d placed an pur pose of removing from under her quarters and l an ding the th e r e f harbour ect wel a in to g i the two armour •plates which some three months since were coated with copper by the Walenu eleetro-alkaline process. A report of the condition of the plates will now be prepared by the dockyard officials, and forwarded to the Admiralty for their information. This important electro-metallurgical experiment was entertained and carried out by the Admi ralty in the fullest and moat liberal sense, both as regards the inventor and the application of his principle. No posi tive verdict can, perhaps, be given of the results until the plates have actually been taken off the ship's bottom and examined, but serious fears are entertained that the prin ciple of the invention bas utterly failed in th e t est of its sub mersion in salt water owing to an error in the calculations of the person who conducted the operations, The Warrior target', recently experimented upon at Shoe buryness, has, by direction of the authorities at the Admi ralty, been removed to Sheerness dockyard, preparatory to its being taken to pieces by the mechanics employed at that establishment. Since its arrival the target has under gone a min • ute survey at the hands of the leading officials of the yard, in order to ascertain if any and what portions gave evidence of weakness. The workmanship and material are, however, found to be, as nearly as possible, perfect, while no defective portion of the target can be detected. Its battered condition, then, is entirely the consequence of the heavy concussions to which it was subjected from the 600 pounder Armstrong shots, which, it is almost needless to remark, no target yet constructed, or ever likely to be built, will ever effectually resist. One of the 41 inch iron plates has a hole cut right through Lit, as if it had been drilled. This shot passed completely through the wood backing, tearing away enormous pieces of teak and oak, and at th e same time starting one of the massive timber sup perte. Another shot appears to have struck on the edge of one of the other plates, in which it has caused a severe fracture, the bolts which held, the plate being drawn by the force of the concussion some ten or a dozen inches. The target weighs about 18 or 20 tons, and it is stated to have cost 4500. The iron-plated frigate Caledonia,. whist), according to orders previously given by the Admiralty, was to have been fitted at Chathatu, has been placed under the roast ing -shears at Sheerness dockyard, and her iron masts fitted on board. The riggers are getting well on with her wire standing rigging, the line-of -battle ships Goliath and Irre sistible being both ready to be taken in hand. The arma ment for the Caledonia ie now being prepared for that vessel at Chatham. She will mount 35 guns, eight of which consist of the 110 pounder naval Arinstrongs, and the re mainder of the ordinary 68 po unders, Every portion of the broadsides of the Caledonia being armour-plated, there are no scuttles in the officers' cabins, which are completely dark. Ventilation is provided for by a system of tubes which communicate direct from each cabin to the upper deck, while the main and lower decks are ventilated by means of the hollow iron masts. Every exertion is being made to get the Caledonia ready for sea, in order that she may join the Channel squadron. instructions were received yesterday at Portsmouth dock yard to strike off the names of the following vesse2s from the list of those ordered to be built in the yard :--The Kent, screw, wooden line-of-battle ship, the Briton, Baron' Imogene, Crown, and Bacephalus, wooden screw frigates ; also the Protector, Danube, and Bramble, wooden screw gunboats. These vessels have, of course, only existed on paper deposited in the master shipwright's office, but their construction had been decided upon and provided for, and the sent order is therefore a notable illustration of the pre sent transitionary state of the British navy. The Adventure, screw troopship, Commander Curme, was yesterday placed in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth. The general court martial being held at the Royal Marine barracks, Forton, near Portsmouth, for the trial of Captain W. Cosser, paymaster of the division, continued to receive evidence yesterday for the prosecution. At 4p in. the Court adjourned until noon to-day, the case for the prosecution having closed. By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty a number of Royal Marines, the whole of whom are mechanics, skilled in r ome trade, have been selected• from the Chatham divi sion for service at Port Albany, Cape York. The non commissioned officers and men chosen for this service have been tested at the dockyard by the officials, in order to as certain their fitness for the duties on which it is intended they shall be employed. The examination of the junior officers at Chatham dock yard who are candidates for promotion commenced yester • day, and will terminate this afternoon. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS POST.—Additional information has served to dis sipate first impressions respecting the Federal suc cesses in Tennessee. That Bragg was worsted, and compelled to retreat, is true, but it appears equally true that the victors were is no position to pursue the vanquished. The Confederate army has taken up its position somewhere in the vicinity of Dalton and, under the leadership of Hardee, who has superseded Bragg, is reported to be making prepa rations to resume the offensive. This, however, is far from probable. Though Grant may not be in a position to push the campaign into Georgia, he is to all appearances able to hold Tennessee against any forces the Confederate Government cif] des patch against him from the South. It has been a singular but universal characteristic of the many engagements which have taken place between the respective armies of the two Federations that vic tories have never been followed up or turned to any practical account. The defeats of M'Clellan on the Cbickahominy, and of Pope at Bull Run were utterly unproductive to the victors, and when after the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, the Con federateE were obliged to retreat, neither M'Clel len in the one instance, nor Meade in the other, was enabled to follow up the blows which they boasted to have inflicted on the Southern arms. In like manner, in Tennessee, Bragg, either through inca pacity or inability, failed to improve the advan tages he secured at the battle of Chickamauga Creek, and now again, when defeated in turn by General Grant, the latter has, from either of the same causes been precluded from reaping any other fruits of his victory than the mere eislodgment of the Confederate army from a position which, if its leader had exercised an ordinary amount of discre tion, he would have previously voluntarily evacu ated. At Knoxville the sie g e still co nt i nues.. Gene ral Longstreet is said to be reinforced by Buehrod and Johnson with two divisions. On the 29th of November the Confederates attempted to carry the defences by:assault, but were repulsed with loss. According to one report the siege is said to have been raised, and Longstreet to be in full retreat into Virginia. This report, however, needs con firmation. It is now admitted in Washington that the recant operations of Meade have ended in failure; and it is even stated that that general has been superseded by Sedgwick. In the engagement which took place on Nov. 27, near Culpepper, the Confe derates inflicted considerable damage upon their opponents, and necessitated the retreat of the Fede ral army across the Rapidan. One Confederate divi sion is represented as having driven French's corps several miles, and in the retreat which followed the engagement the Federals were obliged to abandon many of their ammunition waggons and horses, Meade's casualties are officially estimated at about one thousand men. It is stated that it is the inten tion of the Federal general to retire into winter quarters in the neighbourhood of Washington ; but, whether or not, it seems that for some time to come offensive operations will be abandoned. It is cer tainly very singular that the fortune of war should so constantly shift from one side to the other. One day is all clouds and the succeeding one sunshine. The defeat of Bragg and the advance of Meade augured badly for the Southern cause, and to many it appeared that the fall of Richmond was at hand. But Grant's victory has led to nothing, and Meade's advance has been converted into an ignominious retreat. The Confederates are undoubtedly i n straitened circumstances; but their position at the close of the third year of the war is infinitely supe rior to that in which at the beginning of the war their most ardent supporters at this side of the At lantic anticipated they would be placed, as against all the boasted successes of the North they are still able to set off the indisputable fact that they main tain their seat of Government within one hundred and fifty miles of the Federal capital. HlinALD.—Although the resolution of the Ger man Diet to proceed with the Federal execution previously determined upon brings back the Schles wig-Holstein dispute for a time to its old propor tions, and may prevent an immediate disturbance of the peace of Europe, the probability of a gene ral war is in no degree lessened, and the position of Denmark instead of being improved is seriously damaged. To the King of Denmark occupation in direct violation of the Treaty of London would be far less dangerous than execution under h cover of the Federal l a w . If the German Di et , supported by the two German Powers, had frankl y Aug declared that it intend ed to violate the treat y an d what ever pretender might make stron g er a claim, the other Great Powers of Euro p e would. have been co mpelled, for very shame, to l en d Denmar k their a t u e d h g b e u rg the to o Duchiest e P r i e of of enburg Holstein, ust Schleswig, and, or i assistance and prevent the consummation of a rob bery which, in its flagrant impudence, would be an insult to them and a nullification of ail the treaties by which the political relations of Europe are re gulated. That interposition would have brought Germany to its senses, saved Denmark, and secured peace. 'The execution, however, although it is avowedly designed to effect objects which are not within the competence of the Diet, but have an in ternatioual character —although in proceeding with it the Diet has expressly plaintained its right to alter the succession esta lished by the London treaty-is treated by these Powers as an excuse for evading their responsibilities, and for avoiding a decisive policy, Denmark is coaxed and bullied into offering no resistance to this measure, and if she yields, as she probably will do, it is only to place herself Ott a worse position for meeting the further aggression ethieh will be made upon her. The exe cution will serte the purposes of the disloyal portion .)f the Holsteiners just as well as occupation. The authority of King Christian will be just as much overthrovni ad if the German troops entered avowedly to take posuession for Prince Frederick. From the moment the Danes cross the Eider, and all authority in the Duchies is exercised by the com missioners of a body which professes it , desire, if! can, to put the pretender on the throne , the inhabi tants favourable to the Danish rule will h f a ri v e a nds chance of making themselves beard. The of the pretender will exercise the Gove . r.7; i ill they will organise troops on his behalf ; the position drive the partisans of Denmark from eivilerflYock back, of influence ; the holstein refugees dwventurers who and with them will go all the a f revolution as who gather about a possible seeneifo the Diet should vultures over a carcass ; so that, (sof concessions,the withdraw its troops in conseq u • en 'o c e whiehwilicompel duchy will be left by it in a concliti But there is every the Danes to conquer it again..Fedral army of execution reason to expect that the army a occupation and will be transformed into ant t and Prussia, cot quest. The &overnreeei _ te trcal t we fear; would gladly viola it hey t amongst the German could. The feelin g .--nos_ es • n generally, for that, by the c . ont • the people most vehement advocates of war, is very fiat, and needs to be constantly stimulated, but nhoolittst the classes who have got posseeeion of poiii ic e ! . power —in favour of war is very stroeee. The Prussian House of Deputies, for instance, is about to address t h e King, appealing to him to make war, and it refuses the means which his ir ,: .stErts ask, except et the prier: of a withdrawal troua the Treaty of London, and active assistance to the pretender—the first instance, perhaps, in history in which a consti tutional assembly has made its own dishonour and the shame of the nation t' he condition upon which it grauts its SuWdies. is lt • hardly probable that the King of Prussia, honest man as he is at heart, can resist a movement which promises to secure him all the objects for which he has been contend. ing against the Chamber for the last three years, especially as the military party is for this once on the same side eith its Liberal antagonists. Whether his Majesty will like the indiscreet reference to Olmutz in the address—a reference all the more in judicious that Germany, in pursuing this project of aggrandisemen', needs union more than ever—may be questioned ; but it will be hard for him to resist the pressure, and the pretexts will be too easy to find. The frontier of Holstein and Schleswig is nor determined. The Germans claim as part of Holstein positions which the Danes cannot possibly surrender, because they form part of their line of defenc e i n S c hl esw i g . W a r may easily break out here, and if it should not, the partisans of Prince Frederi c k will contrive to get up some other difficul ties which trill lead to it. And how disadvantage• ous willTbhe enemyethe n the position of Denmark for resist ance. of one of her richestwfi lh provinces;a v e been he in e twhie,ae haven joy ment pre pared everythingor war unmolested; he will have been abl e to e south s of establish relations with the ebeen disaffected in the on the contrary, Schleswi g. w e a r T i e h d e h Dn y a t e h s, e will hav necessity of continual preparation ' • the people will be dispirited, and perhaps disaffected, by the con cessions of the Gciverninent ; the enthusiasm which now animates them will have disappeared. Their o pportunity of inflicting injury up on the commerce pecuniary of Germany will h ave p a ssed away , theerir resourc es will be impaired. The w • Great Powers are so anxious to a vert will bre ak w h ich the at a time when the nation the y ar e bound to tint" port is hardly capable of resistance, and the Ger mans are intoxicated b y the a pp aren t dread of the other Powers to interfere with them. Then a long and bloody war will break out, in which all Europ e will by degrees become involved. France and Eng land cannot permit Denmark to be made the vassal of Germany. Long as they may put it off they must interfere at last, and compel Germany to abandon her unjust pretensions. But terrible in. deed will be the reaction for Germany from the fever which now possesses it. No nation in Europe bee so much to suffer by war; no nation nas so lightly, so unjustly, provoked war. Let the Sove reigns look to it. If a French army again spreads over Germany there will be another bouleversenzent of thrones. Let the people look to it, for if they be willing to get rid of their Princes the cost they will have to pay is enormous. But warning is lost on Germany at this moment, and only sad experience can teach her her folly and her crime. Earl Wes sell might have prevented this war, might have saved Denmark, Germany, and Europe. Ho has contributed more than any other man to bring it on. His recent advocacy of the German contention, in direct contradiction to all his previous declara tions, encouraged the German Diet to decree exe cution. His policy now encourages Germany to proceed to the execution of her aggressive designs. Had he recognised bold:y the duty of England — had be declared distinctly to Germany that Eng land, having acknowledged the rights of King Christian, would maintain them at all hazards—fhe title of King Christian would long since have been recognised by Austria and Prussia and by many of the smaller states. Instead of this he has extorted from King Christian concessions which, useless to prevent execution and war, discontent his people, and imperil his throne. Whatever the evi's which may fall upon Denmark and Europe the respon sibility will rest on his head, for he might have averted it. ~.a.- .. mac - ~' /~ w ships came out of action in thd most beautiful man ner, their rigging appearing as perfect as if they had only been exchanging a as lute." Trial of a British Subject for Murder in Holland. ARNHEIM, Dec. 12.—A criminal charge which has excited great sensation throughout the country, has just been heard by the chitl criminal court of the province of Guelderland. The accused, George Horcidge, alias Henry Charles Somerset Lee, aged 71, a British subject, was chat - god with having maliciously end wilfully murdered his neighbour, Captain Van Dongen Francice, of the Netherlands army. From the evidence it appeared that the pri• soner, who had been an officer in the British army, had fought, in 1824, a duel, in the parish of Bles sington, county of liricklow, with one William Wallace, and had killed his antagonist under cir cumstances which induced him to fly his country. During several years he led a roving life, and at last settled in this quiet town of Arn beim, entering himself in the town-registry as Henry Charles Some7setrLeeaet. Here ho lived quietly for many y ears, seldom visit ing, seldom visited by his neighbours. His next door neighbour, Captain Van Dongen F rancke, bad at first been on terms of friendliness with hi m; but owing to a misunderstanding arising, in a g measure from idle gossipings, a sort of cat•and-dog flin gradually arisen between them. F rancke a e n e dh g i s ; hd wife e were, it would seem, aware of the ritable temperament of their neighbour, and taxed their inventive faculties in finding out means of effortan wantedwas not o t u a n k r e e t h a i l s i ant nap pd theby i n i o o y r i n n i g h d gei. m other would knock at the partition wa l l , or work at iV n This the one a pump, so as to shake the very house in which he lived. When people study to be disagreeable there '4erno limit to the means they can employ, and these PJUCE..... -.Ad. STAMPED ....sd. The Shannon and the Chesapeake, (From Yonge's History of the British Navy.) No ships more nearly equal to one another could have been found in the navies of the two countries. What advantage existed on either side was in favour of the Chesapeake. Her broadside weighed fifty two pounds more than the English ship ; her ton nage exceeded that of her antagonist by nearly seventy tons ; her crew was the more numerous by a hundred and ten men ; a superiority of no small importance is a conflict eventually decided by boarding. Capt. Lawrence did not decline the challenge. In the afternoon of the Ist o' Jane the Chesapeake was seen coming out of the harbour and the whole populace of Boston had assembled on the pier to witnees the combat, and to greet their countryman on his triumphant return. Capt. Broke at once brought his ship into a favourable position, and then hove to to receive his assailant. At half past five the Chesapeake reached him. Neither ship had fired a gun till she came within hail; but then, as she hauled up on the starboard side of the British frigate, both ships, steering full under their top• sails, at the same moment opened their fire. Not more than two or three broadsides had been ex changed, when the superior training of the British gunners began to show itself. The damage they had inflicted on the Chesapeake was already seen in its results. She was no longer steered with the necessary accuracy, but fell on board the Shannon, her wizen-channels locking in with the main rigging of our ship. Capt. Broke went forward to ascertain her position and condition, and observing that many of her crew were deserting their guns, gave the word to prepare to beard. It was eagerly received. As the boarders swarmed up, the Shannon's boatswain, Mr. Stevens, a veteran who had fought in Rodney's great victory at Port Royal, lashed the two chips together, disregarding the sword-cuts which the Americans showered upon him while thus engaged, and which cost him an. arm ; and, in a moment, Capt. Broke himself led his men on to the enemy's deck. The ammunition of the Chesapeake, like that of all the other American frigates, had been curiously made up of novel missiles, such as long bars linked together to cat the shrouds of any antagonist ; and with a view to this particular con flict, in which they expected the British Bailors to board them, they had had recourse to a contrivance which we ourselves had practised, though in a somewhat different manner, in the time of Henry the Third, but which „bid probably never since been used on board a ship. They had prep a red f a quantity of unslaked lime to cast i n the eyes o their assailants; but they had worse luck with. this device than we had had on th e former oceasemanek; for a shot from the Shannon had struck. the which contained it, and had scattered its Shannon's ovens owners. So that, w h e n the" contents boarders reached their deck, the A themselves deprived of o ne resour t c o e n i: l v e found nlywricans huipcohnthbeit had reckoned, and had nothing A brief but ter their own strength and coura him e n s e t l h f e w h a e s a d d a p n e ra tely wounded by a awn rible struggle ensued. Btrdtgeeut. de w by fr h o is m eid th e e ; shtioscpkurosfera, d de b a l a stillusk e t.m onreisdcalnegrkerfoeulls shipmates, had volunteered to take m clergy the same Enthusiasm th a t I too, who, fired w party, was slain by a rausket tahneimcaotmedmat ofa of our men shot. In less than five minutes fifty fell; but the loss of the Americans was ~ f ar greater. The Chesapeake's maintop was filled With riflemen, but a gallant young midshipman of the name of W. smith, with a small party, stormed their post and drove them down ; and then the Shannon's first lieutenant, Mr. Watt, hauled down the Stars and Stripes, and hoisted the British Union Jack io its was the last act of the gallant o ffi c er; he been s evere l y wounde d , an d now ' had place. already It. w hile thus engag e d , h e fell shot through t h e head, it is believed by a gun from his own s hip, where the men who h a d b een left beh i n d were not aware that the confli c t was over. I n d ee d, some of the American crew, who hid fled down the hold, still kept up a - fire up the hatchways, ed on deck who, in spite of his wounds, still remain of his men till Captain Broke, directing the operations, ordered to fire down below, theyymbilinutes from the I the Chesapealze was ours in tl souirreendered, and commencement of the conatteesd the gallantry of the very heavy, and folly. on which thseller loss had been at e t n e t skill of Captain Broke's crew, and the pre - were killed, her captain, her uring and before the action. arrangement:, botheamd S m e a y s e t n er ty , ,oofdtite;nalleientenants being included in the damaged ; the Ci . e • a hundred were wounded. The hulls of severely eesapee.ee, thickness or e- timber , spitein of the superior :this r es p ect also the greater sufferer ; b u t nboutmhbsebri;ps were being in 80 entirely had both crews agreed in keeping their fire low, that the rigging was almost untouched, an d, accoraiog to Coptida B;oke's report,both two neighbours seem to have availed themselves of every opportunity to annoy end exasperate each other. At length, on the 20th oflast July, Franeke, it seems, irritated at the abuse Hornidge had lavished upon him a short time before, disturbed his neigh bour. in such a way as made his blood boil with Arming himself with deadly weapons, he wentur y . of .8 into his garden, and, forcing his way into that upon after causedhimneighbour,inflicted such h s s d e s v a e t r h e . wounds The as in a shorttime prisoner pleaded in extenuation h. of his crime that his passion had overpowered —that he had been so exas perated by t he petty , annoyances inflicted on him, more especially by that he had lost all co the wife of the murdered man, two witnesses were heardntrol over himself. Twenty three for the defence. Ia for the prosecution, and speech of three hours the Advocate-General detaai' the accused, and worked up 474 the past history of resting narrative the circumstances a painfully inte resting murder. At the conclusion :h a. which preceded is said to have been one of the mostis speech, which efforts of forensic eloquence ever heard magnificent ina Dutch c ourt of justice, he demanded that the court should pass upon the prisoner sentence of death, a n d h inflict on him the — of c o u r se formal —fine fat her er 6(: ) guilders. The counsel f or th e defence pleaded in m itigation of the charge that the crime had b een co mmitted in a fit of exasperation, and that jus tice would he satisfied by a verdict of manslaughter. The court has deferred sentence till 18th December. Throughout the trial the court was crowded ; while the aged prisoner seemed bowed down with a, grief which won for him the commiseration even of those who felt most strongly the condemnatory character of the evidence elicited by the prosecu tion. The opinion generally entertained is that the evidence is not of a character that will permit the court to be influenced by the counsel for the defence, and that sentence of death will accordingly be re corded. The King, however, almost invariably remits the extreme sentence into imprisonment for life. A few years ago, too, an aged Dutch officer was convicted of poisoning his mistress, but his sentence was remitted into a life-long imprisonment, and therefore it is not probable that a petition to his Majesty in this case will be made in vain. Mr. Cobbett, M.P., at Royton. On Monday evening Mr. Cobbett, M.P., was entertained at a dinner at Royston. Mr. John Bentley, the chairman of the Board of Guardians, presided. In replying to the toast of his health, Mr. Cobbett said that during the last session they had passed MO acts of Parliament, and he feared that they had done too much ; for when a Parlia ment passed so many acts, which were so many altera tions in the law, the chances were that what bad been done had not been done very carefully. It was 551 d that the session had been characterised by a great deal of extravagance, and he pleaded more guilty to that than to any other charge. There had been a vast deal of ex penditure ; but when they recollected the excited condi tion of Europe, America, and other parts of the world, and that England had a great deal of communication with other countries, foreign politics must enter into the con sideration of an English Parliament. Neither he nor his hearers could calculate the cost of certain sorts of fortifica tions and of shipbuilding. Experiments were going on from day to day in consequence of alleged discoveries in the mode of preparing instruments of war. Unless they tested these discoveries they could not determine the proper description of fortification or weapon to repel the assaults that might be made upon them. When, therefore, he saw a proposal for reducing a vote brought before the house, he put it to himself whether he was likely t o know the cost of what was required better than those who had brought the matter forward. He listened to t h e arguments of those who knew all about the subject, nad voted accordingly; and he put it to his hearers whether it was not well in a great many cased to be guided by the G overnmen t who introd uced these measures. He hopede that the great com motion in the world would not involve this country in wa r, although no one could sa y YV Rat might arise, and it was better to be prepared. In alluding to the s t a te of trade in Lancashire, he remarked trade that it had been a very gloom,' year, a nd he feared th a t a revival was distant. Th e y must do an y thi ng rather than letf hei r workpeople suffer any great privation. Th ey had managed their affairs remarkably well, and which weather e d thi s ex traordinary storm in a manner ultimate ly they would get through it. convinced him that It was the Ameri can war that had plunged them t o ed distress,erabteutsatalttheso, he hi s feelings were in favour of the Confederate thought that the Government had the responsibility of fix i ng the time f or recoguieing respect to the abolition the Confederacy. With emanicipate the 4,000,00 of slavery, he contended that to which could ° cruel thing slaves at once would be the most tion proclamation issued be done to them. The emancipa tion avow edly a w a r by President Lincolsyna7 measure s from his .opoininonerg, as th a at, if they took these slave ; the owners ought to 1 , ro o m their :v ase -e c orapensated, with the West India planters . He next referred awas to the recent speeches of Ir. Cobden. and Mr. Bright, at R o chdale, an d contended that th e causes of the depreciation of the agricultural labourer were the increased cost of living compared with past times and the transfer of the domestic manufactures from the cottages of agricultural districts to the towns and great factories. Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate in price, and wholesome to nse. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in ackets by 2,280 Agents. 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