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\ 1 4, rITTININI.‘C:-NPETS, TIET)DING, nr4 w FLOO R TIT, CA RR IsIGI4I-FRE Eto any house the kinftrdtm,Ne l l'ra dlss of amount or dis'ance First class Foods at sec and-class prices. Term.; peculiarly liberal to Clerzymen and Gentlpillen. An im nense stock to select from, displayed in Showrooms occupying an acre of ground. Every arriele warranted CL ERGY %1 EN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR /its-ET are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishincr an entirely New Edition of their un t quailed HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, ill - strated by 410 admirable enirravings of every description of Furniture and liethiteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and post-free on application. This costly work contains complete estimates fur furnishin., - en the fallowing revised sale : ~! ,‘ ,1, „ No. 22.318. A gix-roomed Parsonage An Eit.tht-roomed ditto A Tea-rn meo ditto A Twelve-r,omed ditto Together with a l.ist of purified .teldin7,, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring h)uselitld furniture, earPet 4 t or bedding. References kindly permitteri to e'er .y- Men and uenrl men in nr near Great Malvern. Southampton, Chiches'er Bury, 1 4 1 , y, Preston. Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Ox'ont 13noitton, Gainsborouysh, Margate. Kidder- Tninster Wellington. Croydon. Cambrid , re, tables, Dorkl'iff,, St Alban's. Worcester, ieswich, Peterbat °nett, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 550 other places in all parts of G eat MR. TIIOItNBURY'S NEW NOVEL. On Friday, Jan. S, in 3 vols., L F I WALTER TRORNBURY. Also now ready, in 3 vols., THE WIFE'S EVIDENCE. By W. G. WILLS. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. it E Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., IV 0 NI AN'S RANSOM. A By the Author of " Grandmother's Money," &c. " An excellent tale."—Daily News. " A good novel, remarkably clever."—Press. " ' A Woman's Ransom' will fascinate the attention of the reader to the very end."—John Bull. Hurst and Blac,clt, 13, Great Marlboroug,h-street. CoBIIETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridgr,e, London, S.E, ONE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD The undermentioned BANK of ENGLAND NOTES were (wi. h others) fraudulently obt ,fined in London on the 29th day of Aue - ust, 1561, by S gmund Ditrichstein, late of the Jamaiza Coffee-house and of Worthinz. who absconded, and was afterwards arrested in Hungary. viz.:— Now ready, in 2 vols., 218., MENTOIRS OF JANE CAMERON, FEMALE CONVICT. By a PRISON MATROY, Author of " Female Life in Prison." " This narrative, as we can well believe, is truthful in every important particular—a faithful chronicle of a woman's fall and rescue. It is a book that ought to be widely read."— Examiner. - • • 3 of £230, Nos 85124, 85129, and I Dated 4th July, 1862. 84 25 of £ICO, N os. 4tv,1554 to P 651 and „ 19th May, 1863. 12591 26 of £5O, N os. 88309,t 042596 8 ,1 011, to 88017.... Nos. 8Q320 to 88329 „ 20th April, 1863. Nos. 88332 and 88309 to 68346 51 of £2 O , Nos. 22451 to 2 0 50 1 and 21st July, 1863. 19109 .... P ayment of all the said notes has been .topped. ._ noever will dive su h information as shall lead to the re e"erY of the Bank notes above p trticulat ised shall receive a reward of £ l .OOO, o - a proooriionate part thereof, according to the +mount recovered. Information to b' given to Messrs. R. and S. Mull« ns, Sol citora, 7, i'( , ultry, London, E.C., or to I London, E C. Hamilton Detective Police-office, 26, Old Jewry, Lonion, let January, 1861. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., BARBARA'S HISTORY. By AMELIA B. EDWARDS. If Miss F.dw :rd. goes on writing such s.ories as ' Bar bara's History' she will on some bri.'ht day of a lucky -eason wake up and find h rself famous. We give her lull crtdit for havin , r written a thoroughly readable and deeply inter esting novel. Athenaeum.. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LECTURES ut the TNG JRPORATED LAW SOCIETY. h,e ' everal COUR •zES of LEC I TIRES will be resumed by :`, • •ffi Napier Hi , gins on Conveyanein4. Friday, January 8 ; kWilliam Murr-y on Corn on Law and "Mereanthe Law, day, January 11; r. Montague Hughes Cookson oo 11111 tY, F iday, January 15. UNDER TILE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY. Now ready, Thirty.third Edition, 1 vol., with the Arms beau tifully engraved, handsome y bound, gilt edges, 11 s Gd., T, ODGE'S PEERAUE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1864. WHERE CAN WE MEEI' AFIER, THE PANTr►MIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. liINAHAYS LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WIIISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i , Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd,, at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahau's LL Whisky." THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING J. DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Made Dish, Joint, Sweet, &c.. is served daily from 3 to 9 p.m., and on Sunday from 5 to half-past 8 p.m. - - JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington, St. James's-street. Entrance, 160, Piccadilly. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The iron steam floating factory ship Chasseur, 543 tons, attached to the steam reserve squadron in the Medway, is ordered to be removed to Chatham harbour, where its ser vices are required. Instructions have been received at Chatham for the iron frigate Achilles, 1,250 horse power, to be brought forward with all despatch, and fitted for the first division of the steam reserve, in readiness for immediate commission. A serious accident occurred on board the iron frigate Achilles, at Chatham, on Monday evening, by which a me chanic employed on board that vessel named Simon Sher wood was killed, and another man t eriously injured. Since the Achilles has, been removed from Chatham dockyard down the harbour it has been customary for the workmen employed on board to be conveyed from the vessel to the dockyard every evening in three vessels empleyed exclu sively in that du.y. On Monday evening at dusk the work men were preparing to leave the vessel, and were covering over the openings from the upper deck into the hold with tarp :tulip and p!aults, when from some cause which does not appear easy of explanation one of the heavy planks was improperly secured, and before the men had left the vessel it fell trom the deck to the bottom of the frigate, striking in its descent the deceased and a negro named Campbell, also employed on board, both of whom were preparing to leave work. The plank also slightly injured some of the other workmen, who were crowding up from below, but the chief injuries were inflicted on Sherwood and Campbell. Both of the sufferers were immediately placed on board a steamer and conveyed to the dockyard, from which they were con veyed to Melville Hospital, but Sherwood died almost imme diately after his admission, his head having been seriously injured. The wounds sustained by Campbell were a com pound fracture of one of the legs, which yesterday rendered an amputation of the limb necessary. A day or two previ sully a fatal accident occurred on board the same vessel to a workmen named Monk, who overbalanced himself as he was in the act of taking off his coat to commence work, and was precipitated to the bottom of the vessel. A third accident betel a lad named Caddy, working on board, on Monday, who received concussion of the brain from a fall, and is not expected to survive. Capt. G. W. Preedy, C. 8., whose last commands were her Majesty's ships Agamemnon and Liff3y, is spoken of as the officer selected by the Admiralty to command the iron frigate Hector, at Portsmouth, ordered for immediate com mission. Commander Thompson, lately serving as senior lieutenant on board the iron frigate Defence, is named as her commander. Yesterday the shipwrights removed their tool chests, &c., from the Hector to the dockyard jetty, in order to clear the ship up for commission and enable the officials to obtain her present exact draught of water, &c. It is believed that on her final trial of speed, when commis sioned, the ship's ventilation below will be found of a less unsatisfactory nature than was experienced on her two days' trials on the 23d and 24th of December. On those days there was a large number of shipwrights and other mecha nics employed on board, and some of the hatchways may have been partially covered with their gratings and the men's tools. If this was the case it must of course have produced unfavourable results upon the ventilation of the ship's compartments below. With the ship in commission none of these drawbacks will be allowed to exist, and there fore during the forthcoming final trial of the ship at the " mile" the temperature of the engine room and stokehole will be taken under what must be considered the most fa veurable circumstances. The weight of the ship was un dergoing alteration, The Lyra, 9 gun screw sloop, of 60 horse power, Comman der Robert A. Parr, was swung yesterday in Portsmouth harbour, preparatory to going out to Spithead and complet ing stores and ammunition for foreign service. Mr. Henry J. Ray, from the office of the commander in-chief at Ports-. mouth, has joined the Lyra as paymaster. The Orontes, screw troopship, of 500 horse power, Capt. H. W. Hire, refitting at POltdmuuth, is ordered to be ready for sea by the 19th inst. Her first service will, it is said, be in the Mediterranean and West Indies. The Adventure, screw troopship, of 400-horse power, Commander C. T, Curma, is nearly complete in her repairs in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth. When ready for sea she will be despatched to the Mediterranean. Her Majesty's screw yacht Fairy was undocked from No. 1 dock at Portsmouth yesterday, after making good some defects in one of her bottom plates. The Octavia, screw frigate, one of three converted sailing frigates fitted with machinery built by three different makers to fulfil certain peculiar conditions, is rapidly proceeding in E. W. vc ILLIAMSON, Secretary. Law Societyl; Hall, Chancery-lane, London, Jan Ist, 18 4. rEA M from LONDON' Sri NEW YORK he British and American steam Navigation Company (Limited) will DESPATCH one of the undermentioned P:endid Fast Scr,w Steamers TWICE EACH SION TH for eW York : Tons. Horse Power. LONDON 2, .... W ESTM INST ER 2,500 . 5 lO ..... Capt. Couch nURL IN NEW YORK 2 5OO ... 500 .. These mag,nificen' vessels are unQurpass ,, d by any ocean going ste inner, and have accomm 'dation ,for passengers re plete with every comfort. The Line will commence early in March ; the ex ct da eto be fixed in a atter announcement. To load in the Victoria Docks. For freight or passage apply to the Company's Agents, Alfred Laming and C..., 70, Uornhill. MR. REARDEN, LAND ESTATE end Hou=E / 4 i.G . ENP, SU VEYOR and VALUER, 91 and 92, PICCADILLY, near Cambrliive , iouse. opposite the Green-park, Established 23 Years, respectfully invites the partic Oars of Landed Estates, Farm-, and House Property for -. ale. to be Let, or wan ed to Rent or Purehasts, for which no charue is made unless a treat is concluded, and then o n l y hi s usual rates of charge. particulars of which will be Wven on a p p l ication. In all cases of his Letting Farms )Ir. e ' l ' loll charges t 'e T enan t on ly , an d no t the Landlord. Particularspe. of Property f d. Sale and to be Let wi I be Oven a jr n al T. 'or forwarded free of charve. N.B —Several Town e " n trY Residences, L an d e d Properties, ai.d Farms want ed to R ent and Pur hale immediat ly. Direct full particulars to Mr. Reardon as above. TEA.— MOORE BROTHERS rest:wet fully inti znlem ci a mate that t h e i r N ew Prospectus is now ready. t hey Y recommend th e i r improved Family Tea, reduced 2d ll du ee 'd Souchon g' s. 11d. p reduced to 3s. ed. ; mixed Assam, re to 3 t° 38' erl%; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4 s. 4 d. and llInni) -----.E B ROTHERS, 1.3, London-bridge, City, E.C. P tr, _ . lu wi 6 th l Pins ! PIGS!—INDIAN PIG MEAL and In P oe butike, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, equal to ir rY e "ntY in Eng.fland, iffs 6d per cwt. ; cne_c on t. don, / Is ar. bar' ey or anvi l meal. Delivered Iree in L 66, t, Soi4hwark. 'shed 1858 .— THOMAS PE &ROE, Mana g er, —_____ ALGrinE,II,TAN ONYX MARBLE. Messrs. 1113 " JANtEs, and CO., respectfully soliott an 1,01. of their O nn Salon, which contains upwards of tr ardi a cts, Ponsisting of Clock , Candelabra, Lamps,Vases, 4 tticle g , In kstands, l'en-trays, and a variety of smaller hi of taste, at moderate prices. p o a i b i e mt:ful marble is perfectly translucent, bears a very hin t " sq. rresents a diversity of pleasing tints, and can be ° Nam 11 '7 chiselled into an form necessary for utility or "'" --5 , 7,9, Regent-str y street Pall-mall. SCAMP YOUR PAPER, itNyEr•OPES INVOICFS. &c with JONES'S r rh ATENT PERCUSSION EMBOSSING- PRESS. e 4 ll)4 abov e would be found useful to youths at school for con, their Books, Drawinas Payers, &c. The Press Plete, with Plain Cre , t, Name, ' or Business Die, 9s. 6d. Nt 3 1 .„,0 e the Address :—W ELL AM JONES, Din Holbore Sinker, Press .Rer, and Embosser, 3, Queen's-court, Hign (op- PoSiN Day and Martin's). • IIEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabast er Powder, and the Mae - ,netic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cassian Bloom. Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparat ons render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison.--Can be h at only at stadame HACH , US, 47A, New Bond-street, Where she can be consulted daily. All communications are Strictly confidential. ANTF,RBURY HALL—THE GHOST in the C MAGIC FOUNTAINS, surpassing any of the Trans formation Scenes ( f the Season—one of the most beautiful ifferts ever produced. The scene, " The Tempt ;" Ariel, Miss E. Townley. The flight of Arlel through the Fairy Fountains is certainly a triumph of art.—Vide Public t ress. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions of the Estab ishmant as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Ue sworth (the great Stump Orator), Eugene, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson, J. Jester, T. Maclagan, &c. Admission, 6d ; Stalls and Balcony, is. Open every Evening. AlEssßs. BoTr. JACKSON, AND Co. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the 3.ar. Market price guaranteed. Remittances L , ndon and We 11" est minster Bank. Post-vffi,e Orders payable at Camber wellpark. 1%-1 • 1 1. Betting on the Waterloo Cup. ,Add ress—BorT and JACKSON, " Dian of the World" Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. ROYAL ALHAMBRA-FRANCONTS GRAND CIRQUE IMPERIAL, EVERY EVENING, at Halt-past. Seven ; Monday. Wednesday, and Saturday, at Two. " This trou e is certainly one of the best we have had in England for some ye irs. The Cirque Imperial may safely count on a long career 01 prosperity in London."—The Times. S PEC TACLES. —The Patent Newly-invented .„., 0 Tinted Specta , les are patronised by the majority of the i ncludiViscou Palmerston. They afford extra prdinary re ief to weak, dint, and detective vision.—S. and B 6OLO 310 N S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. —_____ PRI Z E ME D A L —INTERNATIONAL FR ANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., &e, To the Qu. en and the P ince of Wales. (Established 1790.) The Juro rs ' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862. testifies to he excellence of the quality ot Messrs. Tuckers' Mann' acture. T - dis ti guished Di gn i tary, i n a l etter a dd resse d t o F ranc i s eker and Co., on th e subject of WA X CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : .Ivh"ll:.,have found them fully eual to the recommendation You g ay ,, COM them, and can sincere.y, in my tuin,. Finest m- end them. to the clergy for the use of the altar." 'i na titY. with Platted Wicks, patented...! d. per lb Ordinary quality VEGETABLEOd. per lb. Best qu a li ty CA. —•• NDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Second quality ••• • • • • Is. sd. per lb. •ls. 3d. per lb. Third qtiali •• Carria ls. ld. per lb. ge • pa.d in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. • FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.. 8 , South Molton-street, Grosveno--square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishamt in England for the Manufacture ot Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. A RGYLL ROO NIS, Windmill-street, Hay market. NOTICE. —M. JULLIE N'S PROMENADE CONCE RTS will be continued at the above elegant rooms. Admission la. Con ductor— M. JULL TEN. Solo Performers—Messrs. Uosca, Tyler, Horton, Snelling, Progratski, M`Kenney, dm. Doors Open at 8, commence at half-past. Manager, M. GRENET. 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 upwa , ds of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, Ize. Egyptian Mammies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One bhilling tor Gentlemen only). TF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of Rny one troublPd with Wing in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Tr.eir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. .nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for A or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. TZE A TING'S PALE NEWFOUNDLAND IV COD LIVER OIL. The Finest Imported this Seation. her outfit by the master shipwright's department in No. 4 dock at Portsmouth, and will be shortly taken in hand by the other departments of the yard to carry out their share of the work. The Sparrowhawk, screw gun vessel,of 676 tons and 200- horse power, is lying in the adjoining dock waiting similar preparations for commission, and the Bulldog, 6, paddle, of 1,124 tons and 500-horse, is all but completed by the re- R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER JLI PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre ,nred wittiout any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. 'cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who ' , tiller from bilious ,nd fiver complaints, indigestion, wind, .pasms, giddiness, izziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they Ore truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and gratetul to he stomach, they create appe ite, pro tnote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charin,r-cross. London, and by moat druggists, in boxes,ls. lid„ mid three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask tor Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square g r een een package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the THIS VALUABLE ME nICINE hav ng, of late years come into su h general use, and being, moreover, so exten sively prescribed by the most eminent practitioners both in town and country, Mr. Keating can with the greatest confidence recommend this Oil as being perfectly pure, nearly tasteless, and free from adulteration, having been analysed, reported on, and recommended by Prof. Taylor, of Guys and St Thomas's Hospitals,. Dr. Scott. M.D., L.R.C.P., F.L.S., &c., and IT. Edwin Payne, M D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C. S., who, in the words of the late Dr. Pereira, says that " The bt at Oil is that which is most devoid of colour, odour, and flavour, cha ractx:r this will be found to possess, being purely of hepatic - .)r - gin, a point of great weight with regard to its therapeutic value. RUPTURES. —BY ROYAL L crrii; KS PATENT. W HITE'S MOC-M AIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ( XIIIBITIONB OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two fi undred Medical Gentlemen to :, e the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its -Alecto, ze here avo id e d —a soft bandage being worn round the Indy, while the requisite resistinv, poWer is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitttng with so much ease ,nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn 'luring sleep. A descriptive circular may ),e had, and the truss, whi c h cannot fail to tit, forwarded by poet, on the dr tumference of the b o d y, two inches below the hips, being , ent to the manufacture:, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. AA Single Trues, 165., 216., 265. t,d., and 31s. M. Postsge, lb. o boublo Truss, 31s. ed ., 428., and 528. M. Postage, is Bd. M Umbilical Truss, 426. and Us. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Po st -office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post. "nee, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT LAST IC STO C KINGS, eztitKNEE-CA PS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of 90ro u ` t riot and Swelling oi he Legs, Sprains, &c. They are ibe ah ' light in texture, ..nd inexp ens i ve , an d are d ra wn on (Ada. au, stocking. Mee 48. 6d., 78. 6d., 10s., to 16s. - ostcr e JO - 7' WHITE. Manufacturer. 225. Piccadilly. FREE HOSPITAL. Grav's-inn-road, Way •pn — 'lle immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail -rtubaus, King's-cross. vi _ Patro n _ Her float Gracious Maje-ty the QUEEN. "' ' P atron—His Roy a l Hi g h ness th e P r i nce o f WALE Presi dent—ll is Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. rni,..". e n umerous and urgent app. , als of the si k poor for ad m ' l,ll l cotripcl the Committee to entreat the bounty of the t and humane, as the medical officers are daily oblig:ed i llor eat as out-patients many d stres .ing cases which. with The e adequat e funds, thy wou l d gladly admit into the war S. isPremises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 llospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on b t; untarY contributions and kg•acies, which are received by E l'reasurer, Edward Ms.; erman, Katl., Nicholas-lane; also kl "sra. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and • ; Ransom and Co • Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, awlaYne, and G'im it . 'd Co ;Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay Co.• • ~ _n 1 . aid 'n• Denison and Co. ; 1 / 4 k l MIES, Deacon, and Co. ; It ite " t end. Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. erners-street ; erman and Co. ; I. flamed and Co., Liverpool; and at hospital, from 10 till 5. Sold in Half - pi n t s , l s. 9d. ; Pi n t s. 3 5 . ; Quarts, ss. 6d. ; and Five -E int Bottles, 12s. 6d., imperial measure, by THOMAS KEATING, Chemist 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. TEETH —Mr. EMU LL'S INVENTION in thy' construction of' ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following anvantages :—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 witt,out 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 i ree. B,Grosvenor street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir. minglutra. spective departments in the steam basin. She is still,how ever, in the hands of the shipwright department, owing to an oversight (to use a mild term) on the part of some depart ment at Portsmouth or at the Admiralty. During the past two or three years a good deal has been said and written relative to national and private dockyards. It is admitted that evils do exist in our public yards, as, indeed, is certain to be the case in a greater or less degree in all such large establishments whether they be public or private—but the apologists of our present public establishments maintain that the evils existing in them have been unjustly exagge rated, aid that private yards do not possess that degree of superiority either in system or workmanship over our pub lic yard that it is to the interest of many persons to lead the public to suppose really exists. For any one to assert that the work done in private yards is superior in finish and value to that turned out of hand in public yards would be simply putting forward a statement that probably very few impartial persons would agree with. When it is stated, however, that the " system" of one is very much supe ith general r b i e o t r i e f t o t a h n e d o t t h h e e r t t h h r e e n e i v t e will s be n a m m e met w the Octavia, the Sparrowhawk, and Bulldog are instances in point. The repairs of the two first flawed are taken in hand by the shipwright department, which has a certain amount of work to perform, but this work is not done conjointly with the other "departments," each working independently of the other. The result is that the " gunnery," or any other department which may follow the shipwrights', undoes a portion of the work already done, so that in fact the work on board each ship is done over and over again at increased cost and waste each time. The Bulldog exhibits a fault in the system for which most probably the Admiralty are responsible. In the early part of November last application was made for an official order to alter her torecastle gun ports for the Armstrong pivot gun, with which she was ordered to be fitted. No order was received for some time, and the shipwrights therefore completed the ports on the old-fashioned enlarged style. An order has now been re ceived, and the ports are now being "contracted" to the Armstrong size. When these three vessels are com pleted and commissioned their captains will then have the power to commence any alterations their fancies may create, and more money wilt be expended. The most simple remedy for such a state of things would be to centralize the power over each of these dockyard "departments" in the Admiral or Captain-Superintendent of the yard, giving him a second superintendent, for one must devote his time to the desk alone. This would be investing the Superintendent with a power in his own dockyard nearly similar to that possessed in general by the French Minister of Marine ; but to effect such an improvementin our dockyards a Minister of Marine must preside at the Admiralty. The Admiral and Captain- Superintendents in charge of our dockyards have no power whatever invested in them to restore or create order out of the existing chaos. A letter received at Ply mouth from the iron screw steam ship Black Prince, 41, Capt. James F. B. Wainwright, states that she left the Sound at 4 p.m. on the 15th of December, and after a splendid run out under squared yards, using steam only on departure and arrival, they anchored at Funchal roads about 4 p.m. on the Tuesday following—the 22d. Having at that time scarlatina on board, the Black Prince was sent again to sea, and went 20 miles south of the island, and there remained: The two slight cases they had soon became convalescent, and the ship returned on the 2Gih to Funchal, but did not receive pratique immediately. The Edgar, Warrior, Black Prince, and other ships attached to the Channel squadron ex pected to leave Madeira on Wednesday, the 30th, for No ri-1 ING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greAtr a* and most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSN ELL and CO., 3, King-court,l4 mbard street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to tt3 public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradual) , restv•ss the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at who! age. Ihe Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one appl!cation per month will keel, it in perfect colour Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals t, unnoubted respecta bility. may be seen on application.: Messrs. John Gosnell and co, have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales. JIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Daring the recent j heavy gales some of the r oats of the Royal Na ional lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi- Ins, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norway, V ; schooner Northern Lights, of Presron, 1 : pilot boat, of St Ives, 7; schooner Aron. of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, of Dr, gheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Ja. k, 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 liieboats also assiste in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camoglin ,, , the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, 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 id for all these services was £216. • Teneriffe. The paddlewheel steam surveying sloop Hecate, 6, Capt. Richards, just returned from the Pacific station, left Ply mouth yesterday morning for Woolwich, where her crew will be paid off, The screw steamship Royal George, 78, was removed yes terday from the second division of the steam reserve LOU- fazaroitrg OXlTiii beccetaT. • The Committee of the Itistitutionearnest y AP PEAL to the public for AbSIaTANJb to e, able hem to m- et the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's i 25 lif eb at estab lishments. Contributions are receivtd by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Elq., at the institution, 14, JOll4-street, Aclelphi, Loudon. r. , ',- • 1 / 4 1 . !I • a. • .. . •••.„ ..,.• . • • , KO. , . t r'4' !je • s k l lt 4 40 • • . e jt ‘ • . . l et , lll DIE * 4l r (OPP THE SUN, LONDON, WED.\ESDAY EVENING„JANUARY 6, 1864. moaze to the sheer-hulk to be fitted for coast service. It is reported at Plymouth that all the coast ships are to be relieved this year. The screw steamships Lion, 68, and Brunswick, 68, are to be brought forward with all despatch. A number of artisans were entered for limited service at the Davenport dockyard on Saturday, anti further entries are to be made. In accordance with directions received yesterday at the head-quarters of the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry from the Admiralty the members of the general court-martial which assembled some time since at Chatham for the trial of Mr. M. M. Magrath, 8.A., assist.- surg., Royal Marines, on a charge of having, between the Ist of October and on the 20th of November, 1863, drunk intoxicating liquors to such an extent as to incapacitate him for the performance of his duties, reassembled in the mess-room at the Royal Marine barracks, under the presi dency of Col. W. H. March, for the purpose of revising their proceedings, the decision of the Court not being deemed satisfactory to the Lords of the Admiralty. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Captain G. W. Preedy, C. 8., to the Victory, additional, for service with the Sector ; Robert L. Cleveland, master, to the Wellesley, for the Achilles ; G. F. Banks, eurgeon, to the Rattlesnake; Dr. E. Dunn, assist.-surgeon, to the Indus; Charles Morton, assist.- surgeon, to the Dasher ; Charles J Martin, supernumerary in the Asia, confirmed as engineer; Alexander F. M'lntyre, supernumerary in the Cumberland, confirmed as first-class assist.-engineer; and James Walathan assist.-engineer to the Royal Oak. cious burglary, and the proof of his having committed another burglary in the same neighbourhood was founi upon him ; nevertheless, the judge thought it unnecessary to continue the prosecution for the second offence, and sen tenced him for the first to nine months' imprisonment. if this was the sort of sentence to be passed, it seemed to him that it mattered very little what sort of labour they gave in the gaol. Cases of arson were reported to be very rife in Yorkshire, and the judges away ied three years' penal ser vitude for a crime which a few years ago was a capital one. In one remarkable case that had been tried during the last winter assize, the judge in passing sentence said he believed the punishment was inadequate to the crime, but as he had begun the circuit by passing the Caine sentence for arson he could not alter it. He did not think anything could be done in the way of prison discipline as long as this enceurage meat was given by the judges to crime. (Hear, hear.) Earl DUDLEY said he could not hold out any hope that the Government would do anything in the matter. He be lieved that Government would not touch the matter at all ; and that if anything was to be done it must be done by in dividual zeal. Taking it for granted that he was right in assuming that Government would leave legislation on the subject to individual members of Parliament, then it came to this—What was the opinion of that Court? He did not think that any one would profess to discontinue the system of industrial occupation of prisoners altogether in the gaols; but he must say that they had gone from the one extreme —the treadmill—to the opposite. They had got the plan of introducing industrial employment in the gaols, by which they afforded the prisoners the means of earning their bread when they left the prison. But mat-making, as described by Sir J. Pakington, was not hard labour; and as to the hardship of the treadwheel, he would remark that that depended a good deal upon the previous lives of the convicts. If a man were strong of limb, and used to the open air, he would prefer the treadmill to the solitary mat making in a cell ; but if they had a prisoner from the Kid derminster looms, or from other indoor occupations, they made the treadmills most punitive. There was this to be said in favour of industrial employment, that if there was a spark of a chance of reform in the criminal they gave him the chance of going out of prison a better man than he en tered it ; but in doing this they lost sight of the terms of his sentence—" hard labour." They then must remember they could not get hard labour out of an unwilling prisoner in a cell; they could only stop ifs supper. But on the tread wheel they got it out of them by force ; and then they got, what Leicester Gaol had the repute of being, a " hell upon earth" for the prisoners. To meet the objection against ten hours' bed for the prisoners they must introduce gas into the cells, and continue work two hours longer. This would do away with the great irksomeness of solitary con finement, which was a very great punishment to a great many prisoners. Sir J. PAKINOTON desired to explain that he had no wish to abandon the reformatory or industrial system, but wished that they should not fly into the opposite extreme, which rendered imprisonment no punishment at all. He thanked Mr. Curtler for speaking out so boldly in regard to the sen tences passed by the judges. He believed one of the most important points in connection with the great question of the administration of the criminal law was the injudicious leniency of the judges. (Hear.) He would not shrink from adding to what had been said by Mr. Curtler, that it was the general opinion of the Royal Commission on Penal Servitude, of which he (Sir John) was a member, that the injudicious leniency of the judges of late years had produced a great increase of crime. (Hear, hear.) The subject then dropped. offered,— The Address of the French Corps Legislatif. The following is the text of the address proposed by the French Corps 'Aegisletif to the Emperor : " Sire,—The Corps Legislatif shares the confi dence with which the renewal of its powers inspires you. In spite of the vivacity of the struggle, the people have shown that they remain profoundly de voted to the Imperial institutions, to your person, and your dynasty. On coming to take part in the examination of public affairs, we shall never lose sight of these principles and sentiments, and will act in concert with you, so that they may not be weakened. Your Majesty was right in anticipating public opinion in the path of industrial and com mercial freedom. France, which has for a long time instructed herself, has faith now in her own strength. Our industries have been able, by their efforts and sacrifices, to withstand foreign competition, They will display still greater energy when they see the means of transport multiplied and rendered more prompt and easy. For this reason, we wish that the impetus given to public works should not be relaxed ; that the construction of railways should not be delayed, and that the improvement of our ports, our rivers, our canals, our highways, and especially our local roads, should always be the ob ject of your Government's solicitude. Our finances, wisely 'managed, freed from exceptional circum stances which weigh upon them, will be able to meet the requirements of the country, without its being necessary to have recourse to public credits or new imposts. "Your Majesty, whose liberal intentions do not belie you, again announce to us new reforms. We will study those submitted to us with the desire to second your love for triie progress. All the mea sures which shall have for their object to destroy the obstacles now in the way of the freedom of transaction, as well as individual initiative, to re gulate more equitably in questions of labour the relations between citizens placed in different conditions, to increase the functions of the communes and the departments without weakening the cen tral power, will be received by us with fervour and gratitude. We join in the interest which your Ma jesty brings to whatever relates to religion, charity, the arts, literature, and science. Primary instruc tion has been rapidly developed since 1848. We think with you that the number of children de prived of it is still too great ; we desire to see that number decrease every year, and at length to disap pear altogether from our statistics, thanks to the increasing comfort of the population, complemented by gratuitous contributions. We should wish also that the professional and agricultural instruction should be efficiently encouraged, and that the stan dard of those studies leading to a liberal career should be raised. This system, carried out in its entirety, would meet the requirements of families and modern society, by strengthening every career, and sparing the young frequent disappointment. " The Corps Legislatif agrees with you, Sire, that the best governed nations cannot hope always to escape external complications, and that they must appreciate without illusion as without weakness. The distant expeditions of China, Cochin China, and Mexico, which have fcllowed one another, have created considerable anxiety in several minds in France on account of the obligations and sacri• fives they entail. We admit that they inspire in far off lands respect for our countrymen and the French flag, and that they will also tend to the development of our maritime commerce ; we shall, however, be happy to see the good results which your Majesty bids us hope for speedily realised. " The souvenirs of our history, the feelings of humanity which animate us, excite our liveliest sympathies for the fate of Poland. We have seen with pain that the combined efforts of three great Powers have been ineffectual in bringing about a settlement of this grave question according to your benevolent wishes. We cannot, nevertheless, conceal from ourselves that the sincere and cordial support of Russia has been useful to France on an important occasion. We should regret it were our good relations with that Power to cool. It is, therefore, with profound satisfaction that we re ceived that noble idea of an European Congress, the initiative of which will be an eternal honour to 3 our reign. France, ou whom you have conferred splen dour and glory, is well pleased not to compromise her treasures and her children in causes in which her honour nor her interests are involved. " Let then, Sire, without regret, the unjustly pre judiced receive with d'.strust your loyal and public propositions. The sound and noble ideas which God plants in the hearts of sovereigns for the good of humanity, make their way in the world, and take root in the hearts of the people. Await with calm ness the effect of your generous words. France, homogeneous, compact, confident of her strength, relying on you, does not fear any aggression; she has, to-day, no other ambition than that of securing her repose, developing her material welfare by toil and peace, and her moral well-being by the sincere and gradual exercise of civil and political liberty. The Customs receipts at Havre during December, 1563, amounted to 1,825,502 f., being an increase of 403,2861. on the corresponding month of 1662. z P ICE ...4d. 11.PED ....sd. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Jan 4. The Royal Mil steamship Canada, from Boston the 2ai, and ililifax the 25th - December, has arrived. The Provost-Marshal, General Fry, has published his official report relative to the enrolment and draught of the Federal army. As far as the enrol. ment was completed, it showed 3,113,305 men liable for military service, including, however, many who would be entitled to exemption in case of draught. The plan of draughting was to require, as the quota of each district, cne-fifth of the men of the first class on the roll. This method was considered an mprovement on the calls of 1861 and 1862, which were based upon population, and by which the States that contained an excess of females were charged with a greater quota than those in which there was an excess of males. Up to the Ist of November the draught had brought into service about 50,000 men, including those who enlisted and were credited on the quotas after the draught had been ordered. Tables of rejections per 1000 showed 319.1 in the United States, as compared with 324.4 in the French conscription from 1831 to 1843, and 317 in the French conscription of 1859 ; and with 335 from 1842 to 1852, 318 in 1860, and 461 in 1862 in the English recruiting. The riot in New York is attributed to a mob " composed mainly of fo- reigners." Tne writ of habeas corpus had inter posed great difficulties to the execution of the con scription until suspended by the proclamation of the President, dated Sept. 17 ; 10,000,000 do's. commutation money had been received from 35,000 draughted men. Nearly 22,000 deserters and absen tees had been arrested by the officers of the bureau between May 1 and Nov. 1. The expenditure of the department to Nov. 1, including unpaid accounts requiring correction, was 1,911,959 dols. In the Senate on the 22d an amendment relative to classes as settled in the Conscription Bill was " That the national forces of the United States not now in the military service, enrolled under this act, shall be divided into two olasses, the first of which shall comprise all persons subject to do mili tary duty between the ages of 20 and 45 years, and who are unmarried, and the second class shall com- prise all oth©r persons subject to do military duty and persons of the second class shall not i❑ any dis. trict be called into the service of the United States until those of the first class have been called." The amendment, which was supported in a speech, giving reasons why married persons should be exempt until an absolute necessity existed for their services, was rejected. An amendment exempting clergymen was re jected on division by 33 to 8. In the House of Representatives the following preamble and resolution was tabled by a vote of 80 against 43 : ari. ; .,4 , , , ',..: _ - --=:- - -: - .1 ~ -' ,.,37 , A, Z"---..e,„..- t.).-,_ - , -- t" .. '\t-,..\ff , a barrel, and other articles for propor , i , is. , 4 .: , V 91.,,, We left the river at three o'clock in 01-010" ::' 1,;‘ 6. 47 lying to at its mouth all night, eNe r -Vrq4, i p tal schooner with goods we had not disi 6 s"gitti.*„. the morning of Wednesday we steamed, r SII S Mary's Bay, about 90 miles east of Halifax. About nine o'clock on the following morning we saw a steamer. immediately we concealed the vessel by hugging the shore. When the steamer disappeared we started again. We arrived off Sambro without tneeting with any further trouble, and was boarded by a pilot named Flynn, who took the vtsse! i il ia Sambro harbour. Capt. Lc',cke,now satisfying him half there was not coal enough on hoard to complete the voyage, concluded to anchor the ves , el, end he did- so at two o'clock in the aLernoon. In the meantime he started for Halifax to procure coal and engineers for the vessel.. Ee toll (John son) that as soon as he obtained new engineers he intended to release me, and I told him that I would not on any account remain with the vessel any longer. The captain returned about 2 o'clock on the following morning, having been successful in his f- x p e itioc. A schooner came wi:h him. At about 6 o'clock on the same morning tae pilot FAynn in formed the captain that Union ganboats were enter ing the harbour. The captain, satisfying himself that this statement was correcc, ordered me (John son) to scuttle the vessel. 1 replied that I could not do it. The captain then hastily secured what plun der he could, and he and his officers and crew took to the boats as the Ella and Asnie appeared in sight." The New York, World has the following remarks on the Chesapeake affair : " Is there something eter all in a name that the mishaps of a Chesapeake should once more threaten to embroil us with our discomfortable cousins' over the sea 1 ) It was upon the deck of the Chesapeake that an American commander, sent to sea disarmed and short-handed, was compelled half a century ago to see his country's flag itsulted and men taken from beneath its folds by a Br tish man-of-war. It was from the mast-head of the Chesapeake that fur the first time the people of Halifax saw the flag of the Union floating beneath the standard of England over an American frigate captured in single combat by an enemy's ship. Atd now, after the lapse of so many years, it is from the deck of the Chesapeake again that men who had dipped their hands in the blood of American seamen, and had treacherously captured an American merchant steamer, tnt.da their escape through the ranks of a sympathetic population, and defy the justice of t vo empires. To pronounce positively upot the legal character of the prisoners who were taken on the Chesapeake at Sambro by an American gimboat, and who escaped from the grasp of the colonial police at Halifax, would be just now prematnte. The whole case, from its strange beginning to its ending as strange, lies quite outside of the ordinary course of military law. It has a flavour of those medimval times when all was held to be fair in war, when knights were wont " Whereas, the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Pennsylvania has decided solemnly that the act of March 3, 1863, commonly called the Con- scription Act, is contrary to and violative of the provisions of the Constitution, and therefore null and void; therefore, resolve 3, that it is the sworn duty of the Executive Department of the Govern ment either to acquiesce in the decision in that State, or to bring the question involved before the Supreme Court of the United States for final adju dication, to the end that, if Congress shall deem such legislation necessary, a bill shall be prepared not subject to Constitutional objections." The New York papers publish the following nar rative of the captain of the Joseph L. Gerety, cap tured by confederates in a somewhat similar fashion to the Chesapeake : "Captain Nichols reports that he left Matamoros on the 16th November, bciund for New York with a cargo of cotton and six passengers; on the night of the 17th, about 12 o'clock, the captain and two men on deck, one at the wheel and the other aloft, the six passengers made an assault on the captain with revolvers, knocked him down, and threatened to shoot him if he made any noise; they took him forward and locked him in the forecastle, putting a to disguise themselves as pEasants and slips into hostile castles under cover of meal bags and bundles of hay, and princes did not disdain the dagger and the bowl. But, as far as the facts have come to light, it is not easy to see what else can be said of the persons engaged in this business than that they were pirates committing piracy, and that, too, in such circumstances, that the holding of a Confede rate commission would scarcely exonerate them from the charge of its consequences. If this be their true status there can be no doubt as to the duty of the British Government in the premises, and no reason to suppose that Government indisposed to do its duty fully and loyally. The circum stances attending the escape need to be explicated and understood before any inference can be fairly drawn from them, even as to the conduct of the people of Halifax themselves, and it is much to be hoped that nothing may be said or done to prejudice public feeling in this country on the subject. If in the sequel it shall be found that either through official or popular hostility to us in the British colonies the rights of the republic have suffered, it will become us to seek redress in a temper which shall insure it." For the protection of American vessels leaving New York, passengers are to be required to have passports. A New York despatch of the 22d says:-- " The Government has decided that the safety of American vessels leaving this port requires that no person shall be allowed to leave this port as passen gers or otherwise without first receiving a passport from the marshal of this district. It is understood that a gunboat has already been stationer'. at Sandy Hook by Admiral Paulding to intercept every ves sel leaving this port by that outlet, and another vessel at Throgg's Neck to examine vessels leaving this port by way of the Sound, with instructions to detain such as are without passes." The celebrated prize Peterhoff has been put in commission at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a Federal man-of-war, after having been strengthened and getting guns on board. A Washington letter of the 21st mentions the following : "About 3 o'clock on Sunday morning a detach ment of Moseby's guerillas and Stuart's rebel cavalry were found in the neighbourhood of Mor gansburg, Fauquier county, Virginia, by a portion of Gregg's cavalry. The rebels were commanded. by a major cf Stuart's cavalry, and were supposed to number between 250 and 300. Our force numbered some 400, and consequently the rebels, after firing a few shots, retreated is the direction of the Rappahannock, and crossed at Barnett's ford upon pontoon bridges, which the rebels appeared to have had constructed there. The only loss on our side was one man slightly wounded, while we captured 10 prisoners, and it is known four rebels were killed. Among the prisoners was one of Nloseby's lieutenants." A despatch from Washington of the 22d says : " Information received to-night from the Army of the Potomac says there are no indications of a re trograde movement towards Washington, as has been reported, nor is it believed that the enemy, in their present condition, are able to give us r a nch annoyance. Their cavalry, diminished considerably on our front, are not able to the task of mal•;ing any formidable raid on our base of supplies, owing to the impoverished condition of their horses. The insufficiency of shoes and blankets, if the state meats of deserters can be relied on, renders it equally improbable that Lee's infantry can be called from their strong position and comfortable shelters to undertake a campaign during the rigours of winter." guard over him ; foar of them then went aft, and the mate, hearing the noise on deck, came up, and was taken in the same manner, and put in the fore castle with the captain and crew. Mr. Greenough, the supercargo, in attempting to come on deck, was kicked down into the cabin and two shots were fired at him, but fortunately did not hit him ; they confined him to his berth and kept a guard over him, with orders to shoot him if he attempted to make any resistance. After keeping them in confinement for eight days they put all hands into the small boat, and told them to find their way to land the best way they could. They landed on the coast of Sisal, after being two days and nights at sea. There they got passage to Havannah in a Spanish brig, and the crew were sent to New York in the schooner Horace Bell, from Sisal. The six passengers had paid their passage to New York from Matamoras. Their names were T. E. Hogg, of Baltimore, J. Brown, of Canada, James Clements, Kelly, and Brown, and John Wilson. This Wilson was mate with Gordon, the slaver, and he was in the Tombs, in New York, four years and ten months. They say that there are four other parties in Meta moras, waiting for vessels and chances like this, and that they are sure to get them. This same party expected to have had a steamer at Matamoras, but it got away before they had their plans laid. After they had put the captain and crew in the small boat they hoisted the Confederate flag, and fired off their pistols as a salute, saying that they had authority from the Confederate Government so to do. When asked where they were bound they said to Belize, Honduras, where they could sell the vessel and cargo. The vessel was owned by F. Gerety, of New York, and the cotton consigned to Shepler & Co." The Federal Commander Clary, in an official de spatch from Halifax to the Secretary of the Navy, announces that the Chesapeake has been transferred to the British authorities. The following telegra phic despatches have been published:— " Halifax, Dec. 19, 1863. " Tremendous excitement prevails here this after noon in regard to the steamer Chesapeake, She was delivered over to the British authorities to-day ; but upon the landing of the prisoners upon shore they were rescued by the citizens. The Union ves sels Niagara, Dacotah, Ella and Annie, Acacia, and Cornubia, are off the harbour. "10 P.M Furloughs are only allowed to those soldiers who declare their intention of re-enlisting on the expi ration of their term. The probable ❑umber of re enlistments into the veteran corps of the Virginian army in consequence of this order is estimated at 10,000. The following are the latest despatches relating to the state of affairs in East Tennessee, which appears in the New York papers : " Cumberland Gap, Dec. 1 8 - " Gen. Longstreet divided his army on Wednes day, one part making an attack on Bean's Station, and the other at Kelley's Ford, the design being to cut off Generals Shackleford and Foster. A move ment by Gen. Ferrero frustrated the plan. Heavy firing was heard yesterday between Tazewell and Church River. It is reported that Gen. Longstreet is killed, and that his forces are completely sur. rounded." "At 1 o'clock this afternoon the steamer Chesa peake and the prisoners on board of her were de livered over to the Government. Upon the arr ival of the boat containing the prisoners at the Queen's wharf the excitement became intense. The pri soner's were immediately seized by a boat's crew in the ship, and hurried off by the crowd in attend ance. Upon the Government officers moving to arrest the prisoners, under a warrant, they were seized and held by prominent citizens and rendered powerless to perform their duty. The crowd finally succeeded in getting the pirates off in a small boat, which forthwith moved down the bay. The affair causes the greatest excitement throughout the city. What course the authorities will pursue in the matter it is impossible to say. The pirates are now all at liberty, scattered throughout the provinevs. Union gunboats are preparing to leave. Some will take their departure to-night, and probably all of them will leave before Monday? , The first engineer of the Chesapeake affords the following particulars of the capture : "After we left St. John the first port we entered was Shelburne, where we arrived on Thursday night. Here we took in ten tons of coal and some wood. The next morning we left for Lahave river. Seeing a steamer off the mouth of the river, we concealed the vessel as best we could, and ascended the river on Friday night. We laid to at this point until Tuesday night, discharging part of the cargo, for which we received 1,000 dols. We sold the sugar for 3c. a pound, the flour for 3 dole.. " London, Kentucky, Dec. 20. " General Shackleford arrived here en route for home. He left Bair's Cross-roads on the 16. n inst. The battle of Bean's Station commenced on the 14th inst. at 2 o'clock, and lasted ti►l dark. Gen. Shackel ford held the ground until that time, when he with drew with a loss of 150 to 200 men in killtd and wounded. Our forces were concentrating at Blair's Cross-roads when Gen. Shackleford :eft." AN IMMENSE CLOCK.—" The movement of this clock, next to that of Westminster, is the largest in the world, and in point of quality of material, and finish of workmanship, it is unequalled by any knowm"—lllustrated London News, Nov. 8, 1862. Clocks by the first artists of the day for the drawing room, dining room, bed room, library, hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, church, turret, railways, warehouse, count ing house, musical, and astronomicaL Church and turret clocks specially estimated for. Benson's illustrated pam phlet on clocks (free by post for two stamps) viith escriptions and prices, enables those who live in any part of the world to select a clock. 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THIS EVENING, will be produced, supported by the entire company, a new and orizinal ('antati, entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the estab ishment. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS IN GAOLS. At a meeting of the Surrey magistrates, which was held at the Session House, Newington-causeway, yesterday, a discussion took place respecting , the a ppointment of a Ca tholic chaplaitillii~itbnse or Correction a Wiiale.worth. Mr. G. AUSTIN moves., pursuant to notice, "That, in accordance with the intentions of the provisions of the Pri sons Ministers' Act of 183, 26 and 27 Vic., cap. 79, there be appointed a Catholic minister to the House of Correction at Wandsworth, at a salary of £l5O per annum." Sir W. JOLLIFFE, in seconding the resolution, said that he had supported the bill when before Parliament, and he now asked the magistrates of this important metropolitan county not to exclude prisoners from Christian instruction and teaching. The principle of the act had been benefi cially adopted both in the army and the navy, and he trusted that the Court would not hesitate to agree to the proposition . Major PENRHYN understood that the visiting justices had recoromentled the appointment of the Rev. Mr. M'Henry, and it was therefore for the Court to confirm the nomination and decide upon the amount of salary. The re muneration ought to depend upon the number of prisoners under the chaplain's instruction, which would be better than giving a fixed salary. It appeared that out of 136 Catholic prisoners 43 had refused to receive the visits of the Catholic chaplain. He therefore moved, as an amendment, " That, it having been reported to this Court that the visit ing justices have given permission to Catholic prisoners in Wandsworth House of Correction to receive the visits of a priest of their own persuasion, and have appointed the Rev. Mr. M'Henry to attend those v,ho desire his ministrations, the Court confirms that appointment, and resolves that the Rev. Mr. M'Henry be recompensed at the rate of £1 per head per annum." Major SPRING seconded the amendment, which was sup ported by Lord DWAINE, who preferred this mode of pay ment better than that of a fixed salary. Captain KNIGHT thought they should not imprison their fellow-creatures without providing them with moral and religious instruction. He had always found that when Ca tholic chaplains were admitted into gaols thay zealously discharged their duties without infringing the prison regu lations. He begged to support the original motion. Major BERESFORD said that when the subject was first discussed in Parliament he was opposed to it, because he thought it was only a sop in the pan from Government to the Catholics. As the act was passed, and he objected to a sliding scale of payment, he should support Mr. Austin's motion. Mr. Timon - then moved that the Rev. Mr. M'Henry should receive a salary of £lOO per year, which, after some diseusaion, was carried by a large majority. During the disposal of the county business at the Staf fordshire General Quarter Sessions, which were held on Monday, the Hon. and Rev. A. U. Talbot proposed the following motion, of which he had given notice :—" That, considering the number of primers usually confined in the gaol professing the Catholic religion, it is the opinion of this court that a Catholic chaplain should be appointed, and that the visiting justices be requested to frame rules for the guidance of this officer, defining his duties ; and also that the visiting justices be further requested to name at the next sessions the salary which, upon consideration, they shall deem to be an adequate remuneration for the services performed, ' The Right Hon. C. B. Adderley said the question was whether all persons who differed in their religion from that of the Church of England should each of them have their particular religious ministers in these as well as other public institutions. Now, he confessed he had special reasons against the appointment of a Ca tholic chaplain, as compared with the ministers of other denominations. He had found in the course of his experi ence that the priests of the Catholic Church were so com pletely in the habit of looking to foreign jurisdiction, and considering themselves so completely the ministers and ser vants of a jurisdiction outside this kingdom, that he was firmly convinced they were not the most manageable officers to introduce into our public institutions, As ministers of religion they had always shown themselves interfering and inclined to interfere: Mr. Whitgreave—May I ask when that has happened ? Mr. Adderley—l am not in such a case as this called upon to give names. Mr. Whitgreave— You bring grave charges against a most respectable body. Mr. Adderley reiterated his assertion, and then went on to say that his opposition to the motion was simply on the ground of the foreign influence which the Catholics owned. Mr. Buller said the question narrowed itself to this—Were they, in this great county of Stafford, with seventy men under their charge, requiring the attention of a well-edu cated gentleman ; because he had hitherto honestly and conscientiously fulfilled the duties which he had voluntarily taken upon himself, co say that they could not afford to pay £5O, to remunerate him for his services ? The Earl of Harrowby was of opinion that, Parliament having affirmed the principle, all they had to consider was whether they should carry it out. Mr. Hardy, M.P., said he had opposed the bill when it was before Parliament, believing that it was chiefly intended to bring about a separation between Church and State; and for the same reason he should now oppose its application to that county. After some further discussion, the motion was put to the court, and 27 voted in fav ur of it and 31 against, The motion was accordingly declared to have been lost. Lambert, o t Sir h e T quarterly EE. W Quarter Sessions, held at Worces . large attendance of magi . stet rr A a ytteestsh—teeErWdaaryolr, cDtehsuetdreerl Dudley y Worcestershire a very presiding; and on the bench were Lord Lyttleton , Sir J. S. Pakisgton, M.P., Hon. F. L yg on, M. F. W. Knight, M.P., Hon. W. Coventry, &c. On 1" th gton, M.P., Mr. in r n e i p n ort of the visiting justices to the co unt y prison, Sir J. S. PAK INGTON took the opportunity of calling the Seir presentation H. attention of the Court to the irregularity in the system of punishment in our gaols by hard labour, and the uncertain and varying quality of the punishment inflicted after sen tence. He quoted several passages from the report of the committee of the House of Lords on this subject, in which they recommended the more constant use of the treadmill and said he had recently visited Leicester gaol, and spoke favourably of the discipline exacted in that prison, where hard labour, which meant there the treadmill, was rigidly enforced. The House of Lords' committee recommended the use of the crank, the shot drill, and the treadmill by the prisoners convicted and sentenced to hard labour. In Worcester county gaol, however, only those prisoners who had been sentenced to over three months' imprisonment were put to the treadmill. Those sentenced to less than three months were put to mat-making in a comfortable warm cell, which was by no means a primitive employment, and was inconsistent with the term ,6 hard labour." Then, again, the prisoners were allowed ten hours for bed. No human constitution required that amount of sleep, and he strongly condemned the practice. At least two hours of that time ought to be devoted by the prisoners to purposes of in struction or punishment. At a time when the public mind was a good deal turned to the question of prison disci pline, he thought it to be his duty to call attention to the subject. He did not propose to make any motion thereon, first, because he should not like to take any course which might possibly be construed as uncourteous to the visiting justices; and, secondly, because he had strong reasons for thinking that her Majesty's Government would in some way act upon the report of the Committee of the Howe of Lords. He expected that on the reassembling of Parlia ment an attempt would be made to introduce something like an uniform system of punishment in the gaols of the country. In the meantime he would suggest that the visit ing ju-tices of the gaol should during the quarter direct their attention to the subject, so that at the next Easter Sessions they might be prepared to enter into explanations of what changes they would recommend should be made in the system of prison discipline. The Rev. J. PEARSON advocated the continuance of the present deterrent and industrial system in the gaol, and said the experience of her Majesty's inspectors of prisons, and of the gaolers, was in favour of it. Mr. CURTLER (deputy-chairman) said the sentences which had been passed on some of the worst of criminals by her Majesty's Judges of Assize, were very encouraging to crime. It was only at the last assizes at Worcester that a professional burglar front London was convicted of one atro- BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, i i i. BOOK OF B E A U T Y, By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. Gd. :t3 l° kle 1