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I= THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE COSIPANY (Limited.) Incorporated tinder the Companies Act 1502, which specially limits the liability of each Shareholder to the amount of his Shares. Capital, £1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each. With power to increase to £2,0 0,0:0. First , 25,000 Shares. Deposit, on Application, Iss .£ ue l per Share, and £1 on Allotment. DIRECTORS. Archibald Boyd, Director of the Union Bank of London Francis C. Braun, of Blessig, Braun, and Co Liverpool. Thomas Chilton, of Holderness and Chilton, Pre sident of the Chamber of Commerce Francis Anderson Clint, of Clint and Co., Chair 'man of the Ship owners ' A asoc i al i on Liverpool "ms. B. Colchester, of Colchester and Woolner London. William James Pernie, of Ferule Brothers and C 0 ............................ Arthur Bower Forwood, of Leech, Harrison, and l'orwood Liverpool. Peter George Hepworth, of Hepworth, Pearce, .l. and Balnaan Thomas Harrison, of Thomas Harrison and Co Liverpool. Thomas Kendall, of Kendall Brothers Liverpool. Rtlward Lawrence, of E. Lawrence and Co Liverpool. Gc o rE.r.c lyall, of Lyall, Still, and Co London. Andrew Makornson, of J. and D.. alcomson and Co Liverpool. Robert Maxwell, of A. P. and B. Maxwell Liverpool. George M. Papayanni, of Panayanni Brothers Liverpool. John Park, of Williams, Park, and Co . Liverpool. Chas. IC. PI ioleau, of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. Liverpool. John Ravenscrof r, of W. and J. Ravenscroir and Co., Chairman of the North and South Wales Bank James Searight, of James Searight and Co London. Samuel Stitt. of Slit: - Brothers and C Thomas Wilkinson Tetley, of Hollinsheaci, Tet ley, and Co. Liverpool Thomas Stenhonse, Director of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India. AT, henry London . enry Treltall Wil son, of H. T. Wilson and Chambers ...................... SOLICITORS. Messrs. Pletcher and Hull, Liverpool. Messrs. Flux and Argies, Mincing-lane, London. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Auction Mart, Liverpool—. Messrs, E.C. Thomas Tin . ey and Sons. Messrs. G. and T. Irvine. ....... ....... Liverpool. BANKERS. The Union Bank of London, London. The Union Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. TEMPORARY OFFICES OF THE COMPANY. 6 , Cook-street, Liverpool. 39, Lothbury, London, E.C. Notwithstanding that several new Marine Insurance Com panies have been established within the last few years, it is generally recognised that the means of effecting. marine in surances are net sufficient to meet the increasing expansion of trade, insurers being now driven to effect their insurances in remote towns in the provinces, in Ireland and Scotland, and on the Continents of Europe and America. The actual price of shares in the existing Marine Insur ance Companies demonstrate clearly that the business Is highly remunerative. Of th new Companies one only Itas been established in Liverpool, and it has already secured a very large and lucra tive business. More than half the exports and imports of the kingdom Pass through the port o f i.iverpool, and there is no doubt, therefore, that another Company having its Chief Offices in London end Liverpool will meet with ample support. I ..nder these circumstances tne British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company has beim established. The business of the Company will be confined to the issu ing of policies on freight and goods only, and it is expressly provided, as a fundamental element in the constitution of this Company, that no insurance shall be effected on the ships themselves. The principle of limited liability, as applicable to insurance companies, came into operation during the month of Novem ber 1 The Directors, observing that in banking and other important commercial enterprises limited liability has met tv th universal favour, have adopted it as an unalterable principle in the present undertaking.. The Directors, therefore, express the greatest confidence in the success of this C impany. Such provision has been made by the Directors for the pre liminary expenses as will secure the Company against pay ing any promotion money. A copy of the articles of association lies at the offices of the Company for inspection. The prospectus and forms of applications for shares may be obtained of the brokers of the ompany. Application for swill hares to be addressed to the Directors ; but no application be considered unl ess a payment has been made to the bankers of the Company of £1 per share, on the number of shares applied for. This sum will be returned if no allot ment is made to the applicant. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) To the Directors of the British and Foreign Marine Insur ance Comr any (Limit e d) . Clentlemen ,— Having paid to yo ur b an k ers the sum of , being a deposit of £1 per share on shares In the above Company. I hereby request that you will allot The that number, and I agree to become a member of the Company in respect of such shares, or in respect of any l ess number you may all o t me, and to execute the Articles of As be soc placed iation. on wen reuird ; and I reuest that my nae may the R q egis e ter of Memb q ers for the share m s so al lotted. Name in full Residence Profession or Business Date THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MARINE mrsu it A NCE CI)MPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That no further APPLI CATIONS for SHARES i n this undertaking will be received after Three o'clock on MONDAY next, the 19th inst. By Order of the Board. 39, Lotbbury London, E.C., and e, Cook -street, Liverpool, 13th January, 1863. TEE BRITISH and AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANKING CORPORATION (Limited). Established under the Companies Act, 1882, with Limited Capital, £l,OOO Liability. ,000 sterling, in 20,000 Shares of £5O each. First Issue 10,000 Shares. It is not intended to call up more than £?5 per Share. With power to the Sh are h o ld ers to increase the Capital. Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 per Share on allotment. • , Arch ibald Bo DIRECTORS. yd, Esq., Directo r o f th e Union Bank of London Wil liam James P ern i e London. , Esq., ot the firm of Fernie Brothers and Co. Watt, a n d Co., of ' Sydney, Director of the Union Bank of London London. Rob , rt 'tin Esq. of the firm of Gil- J London. lespies, Moffatt. and Co. Harry Gcorire Gordon, Esq., Chairman of the Oriental Bank orporation London. Harold Littledale, Esq., of the firm of T. and i.Littledale and William M. Neill, CoEsq., of the firm of Neill Brothers and Co. .......................... Manchester. Will Thomas Rees, Esq„ of the firm of R. and T. Woodward and Co. im Rennie, Esq., of the • firm of' Cavan, Lubbock, end Co ............................ London. S.arnuel Stitt, Eso., of the firm of Stitt Brothers and Co. ........ Liverpool. BANKEns. London —The Union Bank of Lond on . Liver!), ol—The Bank of E ng l and. Manchester —The Bank of England. India and China —The Orientalßank Corporation. SOLICITORS, L ondon —Messrs. Cot term and Sons. Liverpool—Messrs. Fletcher and Hull. London ---She , 13noxEns. street ppards telly, and Alleard, Threadneedle- Livei ; J. and J. Whi tehead, 8, orgate• street. p o ol — liorsiall Mo and Addison. TEMPORARY OFFICES. R, NeWman's-court, Cornhill, London. Middleton Buildings, Bumf ord-stree, Liverpool. __The British and A mer i can Exchange Banking Corporation -Litn.ted) is formed for the purpose chiefly of dealing in Ex anges, a business which, excepting, with British posses- Mons, has hitherto been mainly in the hands of private firms; and iris well known that with many countries such banking facilities have not been afforded to merchants and others as the va stly extended commerce of the present day demands. and - "him is particularly the case in th e t ra d e b etween England America, and it is t , rovosel that this Corporation shall commence its operations by the establishment of an agency hi N , w York. The profitable nature of exchange business is well known, especially that with the American States, and although the profit is at present greater than can be calculated upon in ordinary years, there is generalTy a much larger margin than is usually found remunerative by bankers. The purchase and sale on commission of securities in New York and London, the dealings in which amount annually to many millions sterling, and the remittances of interest and dividends, will Ford other sources of profit. The practice no w b ecome very general of attaching bills of ladin g than to bills of ex c h ange as collateral security, renders ex men t o oerations more than usually safe, whilst ge f gold involves scarc e l y any risk whatever. the ship 'The ship ments of produce and specie from New York alone tor the past year have amounted to nearly forty millions sterling, and the average of several years has not been Inuch less. There is thus a very extended field for the ope ations of the Corporation, and the facilities which it will ?not nlford, b o th i n this country and America, must tend to pro e, and still furt t ary transactions between the tw __The s ame remarks are applicable to other places in which the establishment of agencies is contemplated. A large business is also anticipated betwixt America and the ports in India and China, which will be carried out in co operation with the Oriental Bank Corporation. The success of Joint-stock Banks dealing in Exchange is evidenced by the present quotations of the shares of the un deramentioned companies ; and it i s somewhat remarkable tht thejoint-stock principle has not yet been adopted in the Ame rican trade, though presenting a wider field for its profit - able operation than any other part of the world. Paid-up Present Price?. B ank of Au s t ra l asia to New S outh Wales 90 25 .. 1 . 40 .... (9 . 49 „ 51 . 49 ~ 5 71 Union of Au s t ral i a . London Chartered of Australia .... 27i Oriental 20 261 „ Agra and United S .......... ▪ 50 .::. 9E " 9 6 Mercantile Bank of India,London, and OttomChina an ................. Colonial 25 .... 41 „ 43 The Corporation will h offices both in London " 3 and LiverpoolofficesThe Corporation is formed under " The Companies' Act, 1162," whereby the liabili ty of the shareholders is strictly limited to the amount of their respective shares. No promotion money will be given for originating the un dertaking, and the preliminary expenses will be strictly con fined to such as arc indispensable. Applications for shares may be addressed in the annexed form to the Directors, or to the Brokers of' the Corrorati and copies of the prospectus may be obtained upon appy ca " .' tion to them, or !o the Solicitors, or at the London and Liver -11,001 OffieeB of the Corporation. No Ponm OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. . To the Directors b o e f re tl t :e dn ß ed rit b i y sli th Exchange a e u E d an A k m er e s r . ican Banking Corporation (Limited). Gen tlemen,—llsving p a id t o y our bankers the stun of a the i being- a depo , it of Li per share on sharesabove Corporation, I hereby request that you t wi h il e l allot me that number, and I agree to become a mem o be a r n e .es .uinp.boerratyi2 m in a r y espect of such shares, or in respect t allot me, and to execute the articles of arson b e elaton when required ; and I request that my name may Flared on the register of members for the shares so allotted. Name in futi Residence Profession or business Date TRE T3RITISH AND AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANKING CORPORATION ,NOTT I (Limited). 'AT —" IS ITEREBY GIVEN, Th a t no f urt h er A rpm (84,1,9N.5• for DAY), the SHAI7 1 S will be received after TO-MORROW ' ulth inst. By rder of the . ROBERT SLATER, JBoardUN., Secretary pro tem. 6, xew man's-court, Cornhill, London, E.C., and Middleton-buildings, Liverpool, 14th January, 1583. 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V;lt Q 4' ' t 7 ) • 04** , • A_ 1 - 10. id ROI IE I s r~~~rE E' iv( (74 7- ) '"1 PRICE .4d. STAMPED been willing to admit that it was a course creditable rather than otherwise to the Government by which it was taken. I should like to see it carried a litt'e further. Many things which I advocate are thought rather foolish at first, but in time people come up to them, and I have the satisfaction of being a little ahead of the Government, and often of the nation. The other day I made a reference parenthetically to the cession of the fortress of Gibraltar, and I can cone , ive how that must have shocked some people. (A laugh.) lam not at fill si zious to press it, but though it is no doubt a more d fll cult question than that of the lonian Islands, yet if men Will only discuss it calmly I think they will come to a tolerably unanimous opinion about it. I observe that the newspapers of Germany, - France, and Spin have argued from what I said in your town-hall three weeks ago that there is a great party in England favourable to the cession of Gib raltar. (Laughter.) Now, I make no such pre tension whatever. I know that in connection with that fortress there are memories and associations which may well make the English people pause when they are asked to give it up to Spain ; they have been told from their childhood that it is im pregnable; and some persons have a notion that what is impregnable must be valuable, but that en tirely depends upon whether it is in such a posi tion that it gives great safety to something which is valuable. Now I believe that most military per sons in this country who are not wishing to make out a case, and especially if they happen to be wholly independent of the powers that be, would admit that that rock is of no value whatever to I.lEi. It is of no value to us in time of peace, except per haps to smuggle a few goods into Spain, and it would also be of no value equivalent to the cost in time of war. It is to me a monument of a very foolish war and a very dishonourable peace. I be lieve when it was taken it was taken in the name of Charles 111., the "lawful Sovereign" of Spain, who never happened to become the lawful Sovereign of Spain, and therefore, when the Treaty of Utrecht was concluded, our allies were sold, and we were permitted to retain Minorca and Gibraltar. Suppose this coun try were the chamber of commerce of the city of Madrid, how should we then be likely to view this matter? We have it on the authority of English, statesmen that all the relations between the coma tries, and every negotiation between them from that time to this has been embitted and thwarted by the exasperation of Spain at England holding a por tion of their territory. In Spain there is a very high protective tariff, but I believe that if this thorn in the side of this country were removed wo might easily have a very liberal treaty of commerce with her, by which every English production would be admitted upon moderate terms ; and, moreover, I think you would long before this—l will not say compelled, but have persuaded the Spanish Govern ment to make effectual its laws against the traffic in negroes, thus putting an end to that abominable barbarity—the slave trade—between Africa an Cuba. For those of us who believe the Emperor of the French is a very dangerous neighbour, that he is a man of destiny, and that it is written in the Book of Fate that he is to do something dreadful to the Bank of England—to those who think that every Frenchman spends a portion of his time in looking across the Channel in the expectation that they will some day avenge 'Waterloo by traversing this country with the French eagle—(a laugh)—to all such—and I certainly am net among them—this argument ought to be one of force—namely, that if the English Government is anxious for a united Italy to be a counterpoise to France, surely it would also be a great advantage to us, in the same sense, to have a close ally and friend in Spain. That, how ever, you never can have, as long as you hold a por tion of her territory, taken from her and kept from her under circumstances reflecting no honour upon England, especially when it is almost universally admitted that that rock is of no use whatever to ourselves. If England were to become more moral, more just, her influence among the nations would be largely increased, and it would no longer be possible for General Peel, Secretary for War under Lord Derby's Government, to tell his constituents at Huntingdon with truth that England is detested by every country in Europe. (Hear, hear.) There is only one other question to which I shall refer. I have heard that the working men of Bir mingham have subscribed about £3,000 towards the relief of their suffering countrymen in Lancashire. Well, that is a very honourable thing for Birming ham ; and I am only sorry that every one of the men who thus nobly subscribed has not his name on your register of electors, and is not enabled to give his free vote at the poll for my hon. colleague and myself. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) In Lancashire there is now the strangest paralysis probably ever seen in any seat of industry. The American war was com menced—the one contending party refused to export cotton, and burnt not a little of it ; the other block aded the ports, so that cotton should not escape. The result is that gradually the stocks of cotton have been consumed in this country and throughout the world, except that which remains in the United States ; and what that quantity is nobody knows, with any pretence of accuracy. At the same time everybody believes there is a largo stock in the South. It is estimated variously at from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 bales. I believe that whenever it comes it will turn out very much less than the higher esti mate, but that stock being locked up in America, with prices at four times their ordinary rate, you can conceive how much the interests of all who are engaged in the cotton trade are concerned in the time when that stock shall be liberated. East India cotton commonly called Surat, which sells ordinarily at from 3d. to 4 d. per lb., now sells at from l s . 3d . to Is. Sd., and American, which is ordinarily 6d. per lb., is now at more than 2s. A bale of cotton, which used to cost £lO or £l2, now costs £5O. The advice of an armistice in America and the cessation of the war with a view to negociation would produce a great fall and great ruin; and the apprehension of this necessarily interferes very much with the course of business. Now I complain of the official politicians of this country. Last session there was a motion in the House of Lords against the block ade, and the Foreign Secretary made a speech in which he showed that the blockade was very effective, and he concluded his remarks in a very careless manner, as if he were really not think ing of what he was saying, by stating that he hoped in a few months the North would con-, sent to the independence of the South, when, of course, this country would wish prosperity to both States. Well, what was the effect of this in ,er.Lanca shire ? Everybody there thinks a Foreign s tart' is a most profound statesman, an d has every thing written down in the Foreign-office ; but on this question Lord R usse ll knew nothing, and th a t was exactly the position fwai with l the say i r n e g s t nothing g he ; II 0 Lancashire was not, however, content h said that which p eo p le in indi cated that be k new a g reat deal. T he hoped consequence was that w h e n the news reached th e E xchange at M an chester everybody wanted to sell and no one to b uy . I know a man who was just then taking stock with a partner whom he was then about to leave, and the effect of that speech was, by a stroke of the pen, to depreci a t e his share of the business by more than £2,000, Again, there was the speech of Mr. Gladstone at Newcastle. I know the case of a man who a week before bought 300 bales of cotton in Liverpool, intending to work them up, calculating that he would be able to keep his mills going till Christmas. The moment he read the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech he sent word to his broker at Liverpool to sell his cotton instantly, and if he had kept it four or five days he would have lost a very large sum by it. On the delivery of the same speech many persons in this country, to my know ledge, countermanded the orders they had previously sent out for the purchase of Indian cotton ; and everybody knows that the state of the cotton• market in Manchester after that speech Was as dif- IN .E W S PAPER h i " - 7. -- - . '--- - ‘ ._ , ? „k g) rd from kW \ 7 , ~... ..-c- .1. -•- , .. th Ad A v s cell -_ ._ -lecs v . 'ricer ferent as it is possible to a was before it. Again, when India, it was put forth in t, every Bombay house that the stone had created great uneasinestiand - ip , abstained from buying because they thought p. would fall. Thus, the utterances of these men, who knew no, more about it than any one of us, hot who speak from their lofty position and with their sannes-1 ;env' - 'edge, hairi Cost enormous eurna to the county of Lancaster during the lest 12 months, and they are not. the only people to blame. I wish to say a word about the Loudon press. I, of course, don't speak of newspapers that have no force or influence ;—the Morning Herald may rave, aria the Standard may follow suit, but what they r will not atter the value of a pinch of snuff in [ley market in England. (A laugh.) But it happens that, there is a paper which, from .ha long durgiee, the energy with which it has been co'clueted, good things which in times, past it ecciaTonaily !era done, and its alliance with certain influential tions, is accepted by some persons as an atithol on great questions —at the Manchester or Live E xchloge. It may also be on your Exchange wlo it is built ; people will rush to see what there L. in the column s of the Times. Well, the eninrlit] , " l the Tunes nave been filled with al ticles on America for two years, but, ns I have said before, not ono generous article with regard to the Free North hso appeared iv them. The 7 may have Nellee opinions it likes; its writers write under a mask, I do not propose, although I could do it, to tear that mask away ; but it writes as a great power in the press of this great country; for two • years it, tag taken up its parable against the twenty million of men in the free States of North America, and hen indulged in as many prophecies aslllerlin herself,' (a laugh), or anybody else of whom tradition gives ' us some account, but no one a=ngle prophecy up to this time has been fulfilled. There is not a man oil the commercial class in Liverpool or Manchester who would not admit to-day, if he were asked, that the influence, and, if you like, the ignorance', or if you. • wish to speak correctly, the malice of that palest*S!'" 7 'en e towards the United States has produced disastt oun consequences to very many persons in Lancashire. I know it, and it:is universally known that there has been a constant teaching of the people that the war would come to an end, that .there would, be an armistice, that the North was exhausted, that bankruptcy was inevitable, that the re cent elections would break down President Lin coln's Government, and that everything would happen that has not happened ; the consequence was that while the stock of cotton was constantly being - diminished there has been the greatest fear among all persons having transactions in distant markets to do any business in Manchester, and stocks of'yarn and cloth have never rise.nnin price at all in pro portion to the raw material. At this moment there are 400,000 bales in Liverpool ; there is a very slight increase in the working of the mills, owing to the uncertainty in the minds of all buyers as to whether the high prices will be long sustained. Some of this uncertainty is no doubt the inevitable result of the state of circumstances. None of us can predict with any accuracy the duration of the war ; but surely the inevitable uncertainty is bad enough, without being aggravated by the inconsiderate speeches of the Foreign Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or by the incessant folly and malice poured out from day to day in the leading columns of the 7 lines. (Hear.) But I say that this course, besides doing no kind of good, is making an enemy of a great nation, and sacrificing interests which our statesmen ought zealously to guard. Notwith standing any complaint on this score, I am willing to admit that the world, even in our time, is moving on. Within the last two years we have seen two events which posterity will regard as very impor tant. In Russia serfdom has been put in the way of extinction by the act of the Emperor of Russia and his Government; in the United States, by the most wonderful series of events, there is evidently coming to pass that which no man dared hope for three years ago as likely to be approached during the lifetime of any one of us. I see from the East unto the West, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, in spite of what misled, preju diced, unjust, and wicked men may do, the cause of freedom still moving - onward; and it is not hu man power to arrest its progress, "Fur God from evil still educes good, And Freedom's aced still grows, the' steeped in blood." And, coming back to our own country from this review, I should say there is much to be done hare ; and in this observation—l speak of members of your Chamber who are not of any one political party"there are gentlemen here who, even if they give me credit for honesty and conscientiousness in my course, yet think me mistaken and dangerous in the propositions which I make to my fellow countrymen ; but being here, as we are, of various political parties, way I not say thus much, that if we were to shun a party spirit, if we were to exa mine questions fairly and carefully, if we were to endeavour to decide them truthfully, we might hate hope that we should do much to elevate our people, to improve our institutions, to make broader and safer the foundations of our freedom, and to build up and preserve a commonwealth which should do much to help forward the advancement of the world. (Cheers.) `I he health of the French Consul, M. Verdier de Latour, was then given by Mr. J. B. Goodman ; and briefly acknowledged. "Prosperity to the Town and Trade of Birming ham" and one or two other toasts having been p ro. posed, the proceedings terminated. CARDINAL ANTONELLD—Sir G. Bowyer, in a letter to the Times, says—la your correspondence from Italy of this day Cardinal Antonelli is described as nephew of Gasparone, who was a notorious bandit. I feel it my d u ty to state that Cardinal Antonelli is not in any way connected with any such person. The cardinal is the representative of a family of highly respectable and wealthy country gentlemen, possessing extensive landed property near Terracina. His father was the youngest of three brothers, and, dying, he left the future cardinal a ward of his two uncles. By them he was made to enter the 1 gal profession. On the death of his two uncles he inherited the, family estates, and was thereby placed in a position of in dependence and wealth. He, however, continued his pro fessional career, in which his extraordinary talents enabled him to rise rapidly to high places, until he became, what he is now, one of the most eminent statesmen in Europe. I do not think it worth while to notice the other charges and insinuations contained in the correspondent's letter. trust that you will print this letter, as it regards no matter of opinion, but a mei e matter of fact with which I am per fectly acquainted, and which affects the honour of an illus trious person and a distinguished family. SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH SALIION POACIIERS.--A rencontre of a more sc v a e a r l e as n h a ie t i u s r: a t r h ly a n o h n as wo o : C d e rt.i tl aet r sh r de c ,ll t? this winter happened at morning between the water-bailiffs and a ha n d_ two united bands —of salmon poachers. At half-past four a.m. the bailiffs, ten in number, fell in with the poachers, who were ell disguised and armed with sticks, at a place on the public r oad a little above the town, called Ifemphaugh, the i sa me locality where a serious fight took place last year. Tho I num ber of black fishers is not known, but they outnumbered ftohreemriovset of thepolicerg b,,.),.:nagt least two to one. A seizure of the a woman's cap, was at once made, a man wearing with a red and white muffler tumid his throat, The bailiffs were at once assailed with laro stones and sticks, and a terrible struggle took place for the possession of the prisoner. After fighting for about twenty minutes the prisoner was forcibly rescued from the hands of the police, who were beaten Lack and compelled to leave the ground. A bailiff, named Joseph Ross, was badly cut on the head and bruised on the body, and was on 'Wednes day lying at the Victoria' Hotel so seriously ill that the medical attendant has prohibited any one from seeing him. As yet none of the poachers have been identified. Others of the bailiffs also received various injuries. The poachers had been "burning the water" above Ashiestiel boat-pool during the night.—Scotsman. THE AUSTRIAN DEPARTMENT CF THE GREAT EXIIIBITION.—In consequence of the interest and indefatigable zeal displayed by Dr. Schwa!z in connexion with the Austrian department of the International Exhi titian, the Emperor of Austria has conferred upon him the Franz Joseph Order of the 20 class ; and Chevalier Schaeffer, director of the Austrian consulate in London, is raised to the rank of Councillor. [A DVERTI SEMENT.J — TIIOWay'S Oint ment and Pills.— Indisputable reme dies for bad legs, old wounds, sores, and ulcers. If used according to directions given with them, there is no wound, bad leg, ulcerous sore, or bad breast.F however obstinate or long standin g , b u t w ill y i e ld t o t h e i r ' hea li ng and curative properties. Numbers cf persona who have been patients in several of the large 11 , spitals, and under the care of eminent surgeons without deriving the slightest benefit have been thoroughly cured by Hollowa3's Ointment and Pills. For glandular swellings. tutnews, scurvy, and oiseases of the skin, there is no medicine that can be used with so good an efEct. In fact, in the worst forms of disease dependent upon the condition of the blood these Medicines are irrreotible. ~ y THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1863, T HE CONTINENTAL BANK CORPO RATION (Limited). To be Established under "The Companies'Act, 180?," where by the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of his Shares. Capital £1,000,000, in 10,000 Shares of £lOO each'. First issue, 5,000 Shares. . . Deposit £1 per Share, with a . fu'rther payment of £2 per Share on allotment. It is not contemplated to call up more than £25 per Share, and no Call shall exceed £5 per Share. DIRECTORS. Paul Broe, Es 4., 41, Threadneedle-street, London. William W. Cargill, Esq., Director of the Oriental Bank Corporation. James 3. Cumming, Esq., Messrs. Cumming, Beaver, and Co., London and Sinzapore. Thomas H. Gladstone, Esq., Messrs. John Gladstone and Co., White Lion-court, Comilla. Salomon IL Godcfroi, Esq., Messrs. De Mattos and Godefroi, Copthall-court William J. Maxwell, Esq., Director of the National Pro vincial Think of r.ngland. The Honourable Roden Noel, Chandos-street, Cavendish square. Robert A. Routh, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the English and Australian Copper Company. Vincent B. Tritton, Esq., Messrs. Kelm, Tritton, and Co., Old Broad-street. Richard B. Wade, Esq., Director of the National Provincial Bank of England. BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., 51, Lombard street, E.C. The National Provincial Bank of England at its various Branches. Saraorrous.-- -Messrs. Wilkinson, Stevens, and Wilkinson, Nicholas-lane, E.C. BROKERS.—Messrs. lichens, Harrison, and Co., 21, Thread needle-street, E.C. - - SECRETARY.—George umming,, Esq. Temporary Offices.-90, Cannon-street, E.C. The application of the joint-stock principle to Banking and Exchanges, under the control and general management of boards.of ill ectors in London, has proved so eminently suc cessful in the British colonies and dependencies, more parti cularly in the East and West Indies, that it is deemed expe dient to intro uce that system into the Continent of Europe, with which our commercial intercourse is now so great as to demand additional facilities and safety in support of our mu tual monetary transactions. Banking on the Engiish system, and with English capital, has already been applied with success to foreign countries in the instances of tie Ottoman Bank as regards Turkey, and the Bank of Egypt in Egypt, both conducted under Royal Charters of Incorporation. Other companies have more re cently been established, with similar objects, under the Limited Liability Act. The Directors propose to take powers to apply for a special Charter for this Bank. In the limits of a prospectus it is impossible to enter into full details, but official statistics are available to show the increase in the totals of our imports and exports of merchan dise with the principal counties of Central Europe, between the years 185 s and 1861, which may be briefly given thus : With France, from 17 to 35 millions ; with Germany, from 11 to 10 millions ; with Holland, from 13 to 18 millions ; with Italy, from 5 to 9 millions ; and with Spain, from 5 to S mil lions sterling. Arrangements are matured to secure the services of gentle• men of large experience to conduct the Foreign Department of the business. The Bank, in addition to ordinary banking operations, will conduct all the business of Exchange Agents. It will Import and Export Gold and Silver. Purchase approved Bills of Exchange, Coupons, Notes, &o. Undertake Fc)reign Financial Agencies. Grant Drafts on its various Agencies, and issue Circular Notes. Buy and Sell Foreign Stocks and Shares on Commission. Applications for Shares must be made in the annexed form, accompanied by a deposit of £1 per share. If no allot ment be made to the applicant, the deposit will be returned without deduction ; audit a less number be allotted than is applied for the surplus will be placed towards the payment on allotment. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the Temporary Offices, 90, Cannon-street, E.C., and from the Brokers of the Company. MALTA-ALLIANCE A GREEK-PALATINE OF CHESTER, on JULIAN O.S. I[l.l t, v Greguiti6n N.style illegal Calendar of Papal-palmer-sz-one, now cancelled. MAX INCH-FULCRUM' OF ARCHIMEDES, ON AMERICA'S CARIB IND'N § BALTIMOR' RATE, '42. Marlbro'-street Coal-hole Anthrax-case,Dog-set'ng harm, with its L'EUreka Gladiatorial Inchkeith Toga' rray. • The Telegraph of Ctmas-day states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, agents of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a "Le Micmac" plot intent to do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis crepancy in R.C.iPolice reports, induces us to refer to this Tark-government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup porter of Anglo-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter Basquet, 11f years)•—for holding under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double -rent lease, now a 20-yrs title ; forecloses the WerksiWoods, and Forests' 1682 N.s . Chiliareher Cowper of St. Mic. Corn hill's gold-key lessees' wish, by Ouster le main to regain a Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in verted tenantcy by their lessee Batchelor building-in his Coal .hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—to Tomb. } 'Think !—every day to be thy last, .< Chandos. For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.' Whence papal 129 Metropolis police act, 3 Wm. 4, 019, 15, 39, 44—gives £5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on "Offences against the person, &c, 24.25 Viet., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77—Garot-Chloreformists, and Chester police soc: fire-raisers" conviction, with £5 fine—recoverable against Stipendiary-justice. In fwain Ge' homage to our readers we refer to this Clapham Atkins case (of City Beam Swan-mote River bailiff's seaman of the peaceful lake in God's umbra stop—in 'upper sphere as in lower, swanns— " Floats double so-e- Swan, and shad6'. ) Sydney-like, 13 Hen. 8 in 1835 standard meter act), wherein the Captain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason of Jul. 3's papal Pk - boy Edw. 6th Swainherd-city grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by 35 H. 8, c. 1, he being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem Hospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, as Q, Eliz, Park lodge, 5 Swallow-st. dc Ormond.Yard—the people's land. The city w.end onus shift brings back H. s's CKhandos under no 'British-crown' Queen's Church head t assump tion from Cardinal (John o'Gaunt's Swinford) Beaufort's bastard niece Joarr- , ---Jaraes I. Stuart 1424 race in Vie. as Papal illegitima'd 1397—hook'd on 1752 to Gregerien mytho/og mean Sun (non-siderial) Priests' of Peru Indian, on Ego Rex mandate, 1546-7, at 11. B's death—cancelled in Emp. Iturbide, Pedro i, See M. Post, Jan. 7, '63, p. 7, N.{' She was and is, what can there more be said ? On earth the chief, in heaven the second maid.' f * Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-wt. from Ex chequer 1838 for Pope's mitre-and-key mint Conefalonier. So, by wine City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Hess Mayor Rose, M.P. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance office-shift), for K. John's Bd-tun,—was mock presented in November to Indian Peter, Constable of the Towen—Angle Micmac flag union The6cone-ic Parliament Succession 6ath'st, 1313 act—on Ackerley's 1837 Siderial voice 'Cwt.' Man-registrar, as the CIIRISTIAN HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES ELECTED PETER their Ashburton Cointron Carib'ean Pope, in 1842. I' On Luther-set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp. Charles V, for Padua!' intermediate Heligo-land supremacy —Sydney was made the ) 1 S•Melita Gozatsagitta/-!,Arch'r inch bearer. Likewise, by 30 May 1814-31's Co-partner Act, No. 64, for 2.3 Will. 4, CAput-81, 92, 1832, (for Russian Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the Clergy and restraint of appeals to Rome, on lack of justice—names 25 Hen. 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5), for 1863 marine link causes, to avoid tedious suits—' now O.S. pending' for peace. Caesar Peru 1547 r o t a - crown ) '29-P ro t ec t or Li eu t A c k er l e y, R. iv, as Kin g J o h n ' s I st M ont a gue ' id kin trust, was sworn - So, on 1825 H o l y Alli ance o f Ki ngs ' a b o liti on ( t h e M a lt a sworn in as Judge, at Worcester's Crt. in January, 1837 by Gold stkic archer-Wm. 4 [whose JORDAN-daughter marries the Captain's nephew, by 2nd-branch of Dartmouth's Slane le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Denton Coke, Hun loke gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bar'd in heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-Bill Egerton, by Somer• set' half-cast],—as Malcolm 111. line of Clare Lincoln-in'- Lacy as Pala' 'ten of Wales-Ireland, since 1825-37 by Holy Alliance in Ackerley's £. mint of Chester by Indian Mary on Xaw Crt-tie 1820 (2d) as the first Civic Christian marriage by Pomponia Gramina Plautus, 43 A.D. edi c t Cl au dii. v.c. " As Chester's Judge—like owl alone t Hugh '=-Loop'd am I,—thy ‘Plautie'a one. lA. D. 4 11 The same illegal Isolating influence appears to have closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club, on his £4,000 Co-burn discovery fraud, and U.S. Museum membership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and civil law mixed church cause (of his imprisonment at Bath, Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil), without crime, So, for a death-rid of Ackerley's Nfndland Bal-timore's Maryland, of Car. L 1631 Ind. 2 arrow life -trust on Cherokee Nation, 1730-74's Cecil ms• Exeter Change attaint--which Calvin-papist Quakers Percy-Smithsonian ' peculiar insti • tution' on Can'ng's L.Rush native by Gladstone Hs. Com.'- mittee, 1833-37-touch Georgia's Belly.-gerent-war for LIN COLN'S last Deo. PIRATE Army word Nation. - - - God's arc .' yailla'tic of pendulum in lat. 519 30 N. as the le 30 Cr to & fro ` in A'rrosh to like polar * declina tion (above 25 M.) below the poll, 29 Sept., for Poor -law Treasury audits year, now in :•• . O. Style as rgroad ' inaver"' It. rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix go to 519 30 /low, Bantry, fiellisle, trunswic. Mansion House 'Market,' London, 2 Jan. 16, 1863. THE CHARING CROSS RAILWAY.—At the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-square, yesterday, before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell, the compensation case, " Marshall v. the Charing-cross Railway," was resumed and con cluded. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., was for the claimant, and Mr. Lloyd, Q.C., for the company. The claim, which, as originally made, was £5,924, was in aespect of the loss of business in Hungerfortb street, cud the expense attending the purchase of other premises near the Lowther-arcade, in the Strand. Mr. Marshall had been a confectioner and baker in Hungerford-street for 27 years, and had a lease for 11 years unexpired at £l6O a year of premises worth £2lO. He had netted as clear profit £l,lOO a year, of which £520 was derived from chance custom About sold on one or t wo occas i o n s 5,000 buns a day. He had expended £2,700 in respect of his new premises, which 1,000,000 persons a year passed to the bridge, and he had were not so eli g ibl e e ith er f or hi s b us i nes s or his customers, and five-sixth s o f hi s c h ance cus t om h a d b ee n destroyed. He considered he had lost beyond his usual prcfits about £3OO by being obliged to remove in the Exhibition year. Mr. nawkins claimed a liberal compensation for the injury done to Mr. Marshall, who had been deprived of an ex cellent site and an increasing business, and on the present occasion he submitted that ho was entitled to £4,483. Mr. Lloyd complained that there had been a good deal of "cook ing" in bringing the case before the Court, and that sums of items of profit had been grossly exaggerated. Mr. Un e e d i e a l ..f u h r y e r:f e n) B u t r h c a h t e t l he l told y xv the re to give a f a i r compensation jury (co m p ose d par tl y o f p for the loss of business sustained by M r. Marshall, and for s r the value of the property and any loss he had sustained. The jurYi niter deliberation, assessed the compensation at £3,000, poses I am not giving the right complexion to the subject, I would ask him to refer to the motion with respect to it which seas last session made by Mr. Horsfall ; in speaking upon which I explained the cause of the proposition made in the Congress of Paris as I have explained it to-night. I may add that Lord Palmerston and Mr. Disraeli seemed to accept that explanation as the true one; and it must, therefore, I think, be admitted as one which is not to be controverted. Under all the circumstances of the case, therefore, it appears to me that the beat course is to go fur ward. You cannot go backward; you have still the United States, with its great mercantile marine, to take into account, and whatever may be the issue of the present strife, you may take it for granted that the free States of America will stand in the first rank as a maritime Power, that being the reason which led to the change at the opening of the Russian war, and which still continues in force; and it would, I think, be wiser aed more libe ral, more philosophic and more humane, to look for ward with a view to progress, rather than to make a retrograde step in the interpretation of interna tional law as between belligerents. There is another and a kindred question in which I should wish briefly to touch. I mean the question of blockade. It is the question which does not usually press very ur gently on a nation at peace; hut our attention is directed to it now because of the blockade of the Southern ports, and of the interrupticn of commerce between them and this country which has in conse quence been occasioned. It, however, involveseon siderations with respect to which it is undesirable we should decide absolutely without very earnest and careful consideration. My hon. friend's argument is that taking ships at see, as the Alabama is taking those of the Federal States now, is a description of warfare less horrible than cannonading a town. He says that we are bound to make a war as harassing as we can to those to whom we are opposed, and that then the people engaged in commerce and industrial pursuits generally affected by it will entreat their Government to put an end to it. Lord Palmerston, on the other hand, maintains that no nation is induced to sue for peace as the result of any embarrassment to its commerce ; and so far I believe he is right, for I, for one, do not think you can bring any nation, in op position to its own passions or supposed rights and interests, to consent to peace by the destruction or capture of its vessels. The moment you have a dis turbance such as war creates, the moment you have a host of your merchants whose interest it is that the contest be prolonged,the moment you get large stocks and high prices, that moment you haven party whose; material welfare is deeply involved in its continua ante. What, for instance, would be the result to many men in Liverpool if the news were now to arrive that an armistice had taken place between the contending forces in America ? Ruin to several who to-day consider themselves to be rolling in wealth would be the consequence. It does not, therefore, follow that because war disturbs com a merce you are to bring the commercial element of country vigorously to bear in favour of its cessa-: tion. The great body of the people, those who are struggling to live on from 10s. to 30s. a week, may complain of war and the evils which it entails, but you never find in the history of this country or any other that the mercantile classes strongly urge upon their Government the necessity of making peace when once war with all its horrors has broken out. Now, with respect to the question of blockadei I may observe that so far as the European Powers are concerned, it must appear perfectly clear that the blockade is at an end. You could not blockade Russia during► the European war, for her commerce passed through Prussia. You could not blockade Prussia nor France nor Spain nor Italy nor Austria. Seeing that the railways of Europe enter into and pass out of every considerable country on the conti nent, it is pretty evident that unless you go to war with them all—a view of the matter which I am sorry to see some Englishmen uphold—(a laugh)— a blockade is virtually of little use. As to the United States, it seems to me that a blockade in that quarter is absolutely impossible, and my opi nion therefore is, with regard to the question of in ternational law and the question of blockade—at war though my opinions on these subjects may be with tradition and those which many Englishmen entertain—l yet believe that the more these ques tions are thoroughly investigated the more we are driven to the conclusion that it is the interest of all nations, andespecially of England, instead of going backward, to render its action more humane and more in accordance with the moral code. Who opposes these alterations ? The Government of England only. Russia and France would have ac cepted the propositions of the United States with regard to free ships as well as free cargoes, and so far as putting an end to everything like a commer cial blockade. If war were made less savage, the passions of men less aroused, and peace made more possible, as I think it would be by means of the change which I have indicated, then the minds of men would, when difficulties happened to spring up between nation and nation, be directed to other modes of settling their disputes than a resort to arms. As it is, we are not advanced in point of fact much beyond the savage Red Indian. Twelve months ego, for instance, when this country was told through its press that an insult was offered to it, though no insult was meant, we did not wait to know whether it was intended to insult us or not, but we sent 10,000 men across the Atlantic to threaten a nation which could put a million of men under arms. If a different temper would prevail, and if, when a dispute happened to arise between us and France, or Russia, or the United States, men would in the first instance look to some mode of settlement of the d:spute other than an appeal to arms, my opinion is that the difficulty might be smoothed over much more speedily and with an ex penditure of blood and treasure far less costly than in 99 cases out of 100 we now arrive at. (Cheers.) admit that I have formed strong opinions on this subject. I make due allowance for all those who take a contrary view, and I would advise no Cham ber of Commerce to commit itself hastily to a deci sion on the point one way or the other. Our states men are fearful of going beyond the prejudices of the people they govern, and are tie full of supersti tion as the rest of us in many things. One of our poets says,— " Old politicians preach on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last." Statesmen who commenced their public career during the great war with France are not likely at their time of life to hold opinions so very dif ferent from those which they first found in vogue ; still I must say that Lord Palmerston did on one occasion, at Liverpool, express opinions entirely in accord with those I am now uttering. I suppose. he found that he had gone a little too fat for Lord Derby or Lord Russell, and therefore he was obliged last Session to go back a little, and speak and vote against that which he had himself advo cated, or at least had hoped for in strong language, when addressing the merchants of Liverpool. Yet even these old statesmen learn something. We have lately had an instance of this, which is very conso latory to me. I allude to their willingness to cede the lonian I s l an d s t o G reece . Th a t little Republic is is occupied by a popu l a ti on no t greater whole of Birmin g h am , and which is very thanturbulent. and The effected towards our rule. islands, expense,nt and I think moreover, involved us in heavy highly made . to the I iovisional honourable to the Queen, to have 3 it is very wise in our Governmeeon4anntedd Greece to the habe ens . on this matter. It shows proposal • Gthoavtetrhnemre:u.pht:coihfty for territory has been pretty muc h satiated in this country—a rapacity which h as cost us countless thousands.. - of lives, and countless mil lions of treasure. It shows also that there is a growth of sound opinion th roughout the world, be cause I believe that wh erever the knowledge of that proposition has come, although some may have wished it had not been made, yet every man hae Messrs. Bright and Scholefield at Binning ham. BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY NIGUT. The second anniversary dinner of the Birming ham Chamber of Commerce was held at the Hen and Chickens Hotel, Birminghon3, this evening. Mr. Geo. Dixon, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, occupied the chair, and among the guests were Mr. J. Bright and Mr. Seholtfield, as bOrough members. Apologies for their absence on the occasion were received from Mr. Spooner, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Newdegate, M.P., and Mr. Sheridan, M.P. The healths of the " Queen," and " The Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family" having been duly honoured, Mr. A. RYLAND proposed "The Members for the Borough," expressing the plea Sure with which the Chamber of Commerce welcomed those gentlemen to their festive board. The toast was drunk with great cordiality. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, as the senior member, first re sponded. After referring to various questions de serving the attention of the Chamber of Commerce, he alluded to the alterations made in international law by the declaration of Paris of 1856, especially as regarded neutral rights. Those changes he had always thought to be full of hazard, and they had been effected in an irregular, not to say unconstitu tional manner, Parliatnent'eaßt having been con suited in regard to them; but is now proposed to carry these alterations further, by exempting the merchant ships of belligerents from capture altoge ther. Now, so long as war should be deemed the ultima ratio between contending nations, so long would it be incumbent upon us to use every measure to make it more humane and less a thing of blood shed and carnage. At the present moment the into rests of commerce operate favourably in two ways —first, in averting war ; and secondly, in limiting its duration, when once declared, to the shortest possible time. The moment rumours of war began to spread the influence of commercial men was brought to bear upon the Government in urging the utmost moderation, coolness, and judgment; and when war had begun the same influence urged bringing h t e hofe m ir o B t h ives for this ac ti on on the i r part. e a a n n s a m e of c a b les r r a conciliation everynge upon the Government ips m c every rvoery aboutm p ture, and you at once m withdraw r meanse Free War would then become a mere naval and military duel, in which the nation that could afford to spend most money and sacrifice the largest number oflives would be the winner. Property, it is true, would be Isatvweda,sbsuatidhtuhmatanwe don't ewould be sp en t in proportion. confis ca t e property on land and why should We could not cr i pp l e t h e general commerce ()fan enem y by i so l ated attacks on pro perty by land in the immediate neighbourhood of our armies, but we could almost destroy his com merce by seizing his property at sea. Moreover, it was not the interest of a General to confiscate pro perty on land, foreverysuch confiscation only added to his difficulties, bymultiplyin g his enemies around him; but wherever it was his interest to do this de pend upon it he never had hesitated. At the pre sent moment we had an instance before us of the most gigantic confiscation of property on land that ever occurred. President Lincoln had, avowedly as a war measure, confiscated the slave property of every state in rebellion against the Union. (Hear.) There were other considerations which he might urge, such as that of allowing an enemy's commerce to flourish, and thus literally feed up his resources for carrying on war against you. He might also refer to the special interests of a maritime nation with a comparatively small army, but he did not wish to enter on an exhaustive argument, or to do more than merely call their attention to this im portant subject, and indicate in general terms his own views upon it as one of their representatives. (Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT, who was received with cheers, said —Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—l feel great plea sure in being here to night, and in being greeted as I have been with that cordial welcome which has always been accorded to me ever since I have become connected with Birmingham. I must say, however, that I sho'ild have spent a still more pleasant evening had I anticipated that I was to come here to listen and not to speak. Just now I find it extremely difficult to determine what are the politics which are likely to prove interesting in the least degree, on an occasion like the present, to those whom I have the honour to address. My hon. friend has, it is true, found no difficulty upon this score. I quite envy the felicity with which he has touched upon those subjects to which he has' adverted, although there is one question which I fear I am not likely to regard in the same light as that in which he looks upon it. I asked before I came here a mem ber of the Chamber of Commerce whether there was any point on which he thought it ;particularly de sirable that 1 should make any remarks, but without receiving any satisfactory solution of the question. It seemed to me that the subject of bankruptcy re form was one on which it might be desirable that some comment should be made, but I have come to the conclusion that that reform—very much like others in this country—leaves us precisely in the same position as we were. There is, however, another question —one of international law—to which my hon. friend has referred, which, although it is of considerable importance, does not seem to me to press upon our attention very much at this moment. International law is not very clearly de fined, and the various contradictory opinions which have been expressed, with a view to elucidation, have tended to puzzle, rather than to inform, un learned persons; but, as my hon. friend has alluded to what was done at the Congress of Paris, I may be allowed to say that the Ambassadors of the prin cipal European rowers represented at that Congress agreed to a certain alteration of practice in regard to some points of international law—an alteration whish obtained the assent of, I think, every civilised and Christian nation, with the exception of the United States, the Government of which proposed to accept a portion of the propositions of the Con gress of Paris, while it did not wish to assent to one of them in the shape in which it was offered. Now, my hon. friend seems to think that an attempt will be made to undo in Pat liament that which was ac complished at the Congress of Paris; but I very much doubt whether that wilt be the case. The fact is that that which was done at Paris was not done because our Government particularly liked it, but because there was no other mode of get ting out of the difficulty by which their repre sentatives as well as those of the other European Powers were surrounded. You recollect, when the war with Russia—a war which, I suppose, most persons now wish had never broken out—com menced, the Queen then issued a proclamation that the rights of this country as a belligerent nation would be abandoned during the war, and that the property of Russia, if in neutral vessels, would he safe. The reason why the Government of England came to that conclusion was this—that when the Russian war began she was not, to use an insolent phrase, mistress of the seas, while it was felt by England and France that if the old policy of cap turing the goods of belligerents in neutral vessels were adhered to with respect to the vessels of the United States six months would not elapse before we should have to fight, not Russia alone but that country. It was for that reason, and for that reason only, that our Government assented to the procla mation which was then issued ; for that reason, and that only, it was that the proposition which was adopted at the Congress of Paris was made the law of Europe for all future time. 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