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wtiL_ 4 l TPERSONS SEEKING LANDED ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, PRE E nom) AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER TIES G E NERALLY— , ro GRArns, at the principal Railway Bookstalls t hroughout the kin gdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, 1 (0. 67, Chancery-1 me, London, Messrs. E. and li. Lumley's "FREE PROPERT): tEGMTEE," containing . avaried selection of landed and h,onse properties now in the market, from the nobleman's 'mansion, with its manorial domain, to the COttapre with few acres. OWNERS OP PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Re2isier !Fords, by sending the particu!ars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, Where the property is of an eligible Ohara , ter, thereby avoid ing the disacivantages of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. MERE IS xo criAnon incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, itad then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. PURSUANT to a DPerre of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause MORRIS against PITT he Creditors of and Incumbrancer 4 on the rear rate of Carlile, late of Bow-lane, in the City of L ondon, warehouseman, who died in or about the month of P. 53, are by their Solicitors, on or before the 231 day anuary, 1864. to came in and prova their debts and claims at y.le chambers ~ f the Master of the Rolls , in t h e Rolls b :, T iu. Chancery-lane, Middles. x, or in default thereof they s 4 ecre. be peremptorily sx,:luded from the benefit of th e said , W EDNESDAY, the 27th day of January , 1864, at Twelve I ) clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appoint ed for hear ing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 23d day of December, 1863. GEORGE HUME, Chief Clerk. ASHURST. MORRIS, and KNIGHT, 6, Old Jewry, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. 1118 Company is now prepared to ISSUE PO LICIES for M ercantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced wale of rates articulars . may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle- Street. IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY No. 1, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. In.stitqted 1820. lIENEY DAVMSON, Esq.; Chairman. 4 TYCITARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq„ Deputy-Chairman. InPurances effected before the 31st January, 1864, will be entitled to Three Years' Additions in the Profits to be de- Clared in 1866. SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary. THE MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND AGENCY COMPANY (Limited). To be incorporated under the Companies Act, 186.2, by which the l_labi ity of each shareholder is limit ed to the amount of m shares. "Pita], £250,900, in 12,500 shares of £2O each—of which 1,500 are reserved for Mauritius. 4t Der share to be paid on application, and another £1 on allotment. Further calls to be made as required, at inter 'vale of not less than three months. But it is not contem plated to call up more than £4 per share. • TRUSTEES. si r S. Villiers Suriees, K.B. (Silkmore House, near Stafford), ,late Chief Justice of 1%1 turitius. James du Buis on, Esq. (Messrs. Henckell, du Buisson, and ,CO.) v altes A. Guthrie, Esq. (Messrs. Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co.) DIRECTORS. Nor -General 11. P. Bum, 91, Inverness-terrace, W. (late Member of the Indian Military Financ e C ommissi o n). rge Ireland, Esq., Blackheath Park (Messrs. Ireland, Fraser, and Co., Mauritius% G eorgeLyail, Esq., 9, Mincing-lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still, 4 'd Co.) 1, 4,o bert M'Kerrell. Esq., Inverness-terrace, W. (Messrs. Scott P and Co., Mauritius). 'eter l i an ken. )sq., 9, Idol-lane (late Manager of the Manti llas Branch of the Oriental Bank Corporation). With power to add to their number. MAURITIUS BOARD. 4 1, °111 1 Curr'e, Esq., Merchant and Planter. The Hon. Sir Gabriel Fropier, Member of Council. &c. 41 ,..h' Hon. Lemiere, Mayor of Port Louis, Member of ~„vouncil„tc. Vie II n. Ch ar les Montocchio, Member of Council, ea. upon, EEq , Vice- ['resident of the Chamber of Agri caftan , With power to add to their number. GENERAL MANAGER. C. J. A. Ulcoq, Esq. AUDITOR. John Ball, Esq. (Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and CO.) BANKERS. In London -The Union Bank of London. In Mauritius—The Oriental Bank Corporation. 1 SOLICITORS. T eSsrs,Wilson, Bristows, and Carpmael, 1, Copthall-buildings BROKERS. Diessra. P. Cazenove and Co., Threadneedle-street. Geo. E. Seymour, Esq., Throgmorton-street. The International Financial Society (Limited) have been encouraged to aid in the organisation of this Company by the st rong desire for its success evinced by the Chamb, r of Agri culture and the commercial bo'y in Mauritius, ant by the With e ady support it has met w.th from leading houses connected the colony. ~,he progress of the island as a sugar-producing colony has late been extremely rapid. The production of sugar has snore than doubled within the last twelve years ; and the crop of last year (viz., 186)-63) exceeded 150,00 tons. Within the same period of t , me there has been an increase V 130,000 in the population, consisting, for the most part, of nitisn immigrants who are becoming permanent settlers. Railways, the first section of which will probably be opened earl y next year, are in course of construction ; and cannot fail oirTher to develop the resources of the island. • gs jhe annual exports have for the last.,tive _years exceeded, t il e an average, £2,500,0 0 ; while the imports have, during came period, amounted to little more than 4,001,000. th e ?olonial midgets have, for many years past, shown, on 41 erage . a large surplus. D et , h e legal rate of interest on mortgages in Mauritius is 9 "nt. ; and the Company in raising money in England on d ebentures , for investment in the colony, will preserve such ‘ , 1:11 „ ,a,r gin as, together with the tolecommisson the may receive agrency, should enable them ealise y a large profit the boast mall ess amount of paid-up capital required to conduct With a view to secure the debenture holders, it will be a Vile that the total amount raised by the Company on Deben „ll,.r.fs shall never exceed the amount invested in Mortgages ; gu_, that investments shall be made only in First Mortgaaes, for amounts not exceeding half the estimated values of Properties offered as security. I ,rra n gements hay , - already been made for placing the first ue of debmtures on satisfactory terms. or Mortgage Laans In Mauritlus, of slx years and up- Lrds. the borrowers will be required to contribute half - i; e arlY to a Sinking Fund, on the principle of "Credit hnncier," which has been applie w ith so much advantage to sPtli lender and borrower in man d y parts a the Continent of —grop e. i In addition to employing its own capital, the Company will 4 vcst the money of constituents, guaranteeing interest, or Principal and interest, as may be agreed upon. t A here is in Mauritius an efficient register of original titles a ? l an'. connected with the " Land Court" ot the island; and s ° ea . Transcription Office, where successive titles may be tr a o ect. I The mortgage investments made by the Government swa :Zs bank o f Mauritius, during the last twenty-five years, r ove that investments judiciously made under the mortgage 7 of the Island are eminently secure. WA new law which is passing through the Local Legislature . t , reduce the operation of lending on mortgage to a eons:11- ' o )n of still greater simplicity and safety. Ole management of the Company will be vested in the ,oa.rd of Directors in London, assisted by a Board in Mau his I ,The influential support given to the Company both in t :giZland and Mauritius, and the great want of such an insti t't io on,-must secure an ample field for safe and lucrative ope ats. The Directors of the I n t erna ti ona l Fi nanc i a l So c i e ty f ee l, t herefore, V r no hesitation in recommending , the undertaking to he favourable notice of the public. Printed copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Asso ciation may be insp.scted at the Offices of the Policitm s, Mestrs Wilson, Bestows, and Carpmael, 1, Copthall-build- I nzs. v APPl'cations for shares must be addressed to the Interne ,onal Financial Society (Limited), at their Temporary Offices, L I, Old Pro id-street, E.C., in the annex-d form, which must 6 ; leis With their bankers, Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., No. Lombard-street. -u ecerriber, 1863. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. No, (To be left with Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.) To the Directors of the International Financial Society Gentlemen,.—Having paid to d your bankers the sum of 1 9 allot n;e being .£1 per share on shares, I request you shares, of £2O each, in the Mauritius agree Credit and Agency Company (Limited), and I hereby cl e i e to become a member of that Company, and to accept shares or any less number that may be allotted to me, 11 request that my name may be placed on the Register of embers in respect ot the shares allotted to me. anl, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address in full Reference Date MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND AGENCY The DID CIAL SOCIRTy ohl te e — ,-..l'CToits CO MPANY (Limited)• fth INTERNATIONAL FlNAN received after 12 o APPLICATIONS for Sh d) 'esin the above Company will be hereby give Notice, that . NO 'clock on FRIDAY, the Ist January next. By order. WALTER A. MICHAEL , Secretary. 4 ', Old Broad - street, 30th Dec, 1803. 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A leading war journal of this city recommends General Grant for the next Presidency upon the supposition that he is jnt the man to crush the rebellion, restore the Union, drive the French out of Mexico, obtain indemnity from England for the depredations of the Confederate cruisers, or dcclaro war against her, or seize the Canadas and the British West India Islands as an cffiet. Gold, 151. PRIC E... .,, ,,, ~~qd STAMPED ....sd. AMERICA. - --Q--- INEw YORK, Dec. IS, 5 p.m. Despatches from Cumberland Gap of the 16th report that Gen. Longstreet capturf d 22 loads of quartermasters'stores at the fight on t he 1402, wuich is now stated to have occurred at Bc an's Station. The Federal Gen. Wilcox had been driven back to Tazewell, where he was fortifying. Fighting was reported in progress at Blair's Cross reads on the 16th, from which it would seem that the Federals have been also forced tc , retrett towards Knoxville. A body of G en . M os by' s cava l ry cap t ure d one en tire comp any of the 140th New York Regiment one mile and a half beyond Fairfax Courthouse last night. The British brig Ala, from Minatitlan, Al er i eo, November 19, reports that town closely b es i eged by the Frencb. All supp li es were cut off, and the citizens were Luffering frcm want of provisions. The rumoured recapture of Puebla by the Mexicana is alleged to have .een confirmed by late arrivals at New Orleans of vessels from Vera Cruz. There was no resistance. The ntmber of French troops gar , . risoning the town bring small, they retired before the Mexicans, who occu lied the place with 5,000 men. Accounts from Newborn, North Carolina, of the 12th assert that blockade running at Wilmington continues to increase. It is estimated that goods to the amount of one million dollars land at that port every 21 hours. The situation at Chattanooga is unchanged. There is no later news of importance from Charleston or Texas. Advices from Tampico represent the French pr rieon there in a state of siege. No dates are given. The Etna takes 673,393 dollars in specie. .. ; COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE . Gold, 152. Exchange, 167 . United St a t es ' Si xes registered, 1881, 1041 ; Treasury 7-30 Notes, IN!! New wY York C e ntral 119. Cotton, ralll Railway, 1342 Eri es, 108 a. Illinois Centrals, n, 82c. Brendstuffs rising. Provisions improving. Sugars steady. Coffee firm. Dec. 19, 11 exi, OBITITARY FOR 1863. Our record of "death's doings" for the year whhh id just drawing to a close is, we fear, both long and sad. - r a ki ng the "upper ten thousand" fi rs t, w e fi n d that their t an k s ) have been thinned during 1863 to an extent far, in e xcess of . the an nua l , average. In rh: d C a t a l ogue o f R oya lt y d epar t e d, we have to'Oaro- aidle - Aly a si ng l e d ea th, th a t o f F re derick Charles Christian, i'..tk of De:it - nark, whose name mast henceforth disapp ea r trona the ,11»tanaeh de Gotha. Marqui s o f Among the members of the peerage of the United ~ Kingdom there have been no less than 30 deaths to be set against 'l6 deaths in the previous year. The list is as fol lows:--Thethe Archbishop of Dublin, Viscount Templet,own, Lord Waterpark, Lord n , - :eaY, Lord Clyde, Viscount Massareene, Lord Seaton; Lordliatherton, Lord Sandys, the Luke of Midletoa, Earl Poulett, arlemont. Three cut of Grafton, Lord de SaunaL:rnesd:Lwonre: Lauderdale, Lord Macdonald, the Duke of Hamilton, Lord the p o E w a n r e l s, of t C h o e t t Earle nh a i o n f , de Freyno, the Earl of Mornington, the Marquis of Nor manby, Lord Sudeley, Earl Beauchamp, the Marquis 9, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord l tsh ' i o ne w eEl n aa s i hrr Sinclair, n oLf d a , the rd e Elgin,MarquishethhaemE, . a. Viscount s l co i of u u n cri t ht l the above titles, namely, the baronies of Lyndhurst, Clyde, i and Downes, have' bacomo extinct, and the earldom bf Mornington has become merged in the superior hd oours o f : the Duke of Wellington. Chattanooga despatches of the 18th state that Gen. Wheeler has rejoined lien. Hardee at Dalton, where he is reorganising his cavalry for an active winter campaign against the Federal lines of com munication. Ou the 16th the Confederate cavalry commander Ferguson, with a small force, captured the train of the Ist Cavalry Division, while on the route from MiMinnville to Sparta, in Tennessee. No late news from Knoxville had been received. The same despatches announce that General Morgan crossed the Tennessee River at Gillespie's Landing, 60 miles above Chattanooga, on the 13th. Captains William and Robert Cummings, who escaped with General Morgan from Columbus, were captured, together with 14 of their escort, during the ride from that town. General Howard's cavalry is in pursuit of General Morgan. Considerable anxiety is evinced by the public to learn the true situation of affairs at Knoxville. The statement in the despatch from Cumberland Gep on the 16th, to the effect that the union citizens were leaving Knoxville, leads to the belief that General Longstreet is about to again besiege the town. The TVorld remarks : The baronets deceased during the year number thirty- " I ' t five; the following are their names :—Sir M. Brute, Sir M. liakiston, Sir 0- J. Honyman, Sir J. B. Robinson, Sir 11. Lushington, Sir J. patron?, Sir R. Hughes, ,Sir G. C.- , Lewis, Sir J. Louis,. Sic R. Bateson, Sir W. L. Wrazall, Sir J. W. Pollen, Sir A. Warren, Sir C. E.. Eardlcy, Sir A. Campbell, Sir A. Armstrong, Sir Isaac Grant, Sir J. R. Dashwood, Sir J. Bonham, Sir W. Stanley, Sir R. A. Anstruther, Sir T. Sykes, Sir H. Nugent, Sir J. G. Sinclair, Sir . F. , E. Scott, Sir T. G. Skip`vith, Sir'F. W, Slade, Sir H. Martin, Sir J. B. Warren, Sir R. P. Glyn, the Rev. Sir G. Shifter, Sir St. Vincent' Cotton,' Sir 1). ; Cameron, Sir A. Nicolson, and Sir, F: IL. Gilbert. The ' last four mentioned titles have become extinct.: • , " The news from Knoxville has not a very cheer ful look. One of two things, we fear, has happened —either our forces have been two widely scattered, with a view to cut off Longstreet, upon the theory that he was retreating in disorder; or else he has been lately reinforced from General Lee's army. This last is practicable. It would be an awkward circumstance if, after all, Knoxville and East Ten , nessee should be repossessed by the Confederates." The guerilla attacks upon Mississippi river steamers continue, and the Brazil was fired into near Roomy on the 11th, and three women and one man were killed, and several others wounded. The Tecumseh was burnt on the 16th, bat it is not stated at what pint. - In the House of Commons the following deaths have oc curred :—The Hon. William T. Bernard (Bandon), Captain Gladstone (Devizes), Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart. (Radnor, tkc ), Mr. Western Wood (London), Captain Gordon (Berwick), Mr. Francis M.Calcutt (county Clare), Captain J. S. Wiles Johnson (Montgomery Burghs), Mr. Beriah Botfield (Lud low), the Right Hon. Edward Ellice (Coventry), Mr. G. W. Hope (Windsor), Mr. J. H. Langston (Oxford), Mr. William Cuhitt (Andover), and Mr. George Potts (Barn staple). --Fraaafte le , •re , eve order:, that earepere the lerrightage the' .folloisving names will have to be st ruc k ou t : —Si r Ch ar l es s , Sir William Bellairs, Sir Henry William Bruce, K.C.8., Sir James L. Caldwell, G.C.8., Sir John Cbmp. boll, the Right Hon. Sir Cresswell Cresswell, the Hon. S:r George Elliot, K.C.8., Sir George Leigh (3-oldie, K.C.8., Sir Robert Hagan, Sir Hugh Halkett, G.C.H., Sir John Hauburr, K.C.8., Sir Henry Hope, K.C.8., Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.8., Sir John Spencer Login, Sir Thomas Erskine Napier, K.C.8., Sir James li. Plumridge, K.C.8., Sir William G. Power, K.C.8., Sir Henry Roper, Sir William Henry Sewell, K.C.8., Sir William Stevenson, K.C.8., Sir Warwick IL Timkin, Sir William Wightman. Other members of the aristocracy who died during the year were as follows :—Viscountess Boyle, the Hon. and Rev. Thos. R. Keppel, the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Dowager Countess Ashburnham, the Hon. Mrs. W. H. Yolverton G. A. C. Dashwood, Esq., the Hon. Miss Stapleton, Lady Kathleen Tighe, Dowager Lady Bolton, the Hoa. and Rev. Adolphus F, Irby, the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean Pakenham, the Hon. Robert Curzon, the Hon. Mrs. Ca vendish (mother of the Duke of Devonshire), Dowager Viscountess Andover, the Hon. Herbert A. Moreton, Miss Louisa M. Tollemache, the Hon. Charles Bruce, the Hon. Samuel Crichton, the Hon. Samuel Talbot, the Hon. Mrs. Plantagenet Cary, Dowager Lady Foley, the Hon. Lady Rushoat, Viscountess Gough, Lady Olivia Sparrow, the Hon. Lady Maude, Dowager L ad y Headley, Lad y Elizabeth Borough, Dowager Lady Kilmaine, Edward Fox Fitz Gerald, Eeq., Major the lion. H. Powys-Keck, L a d y Frances Wade, the lion. Mrs. Calliphronas, Mrs. James D. Brabazon, Mr. T. C. Robertson, Lady Monson, L a d y Margaret Jane Stuart, the non. Lionel F. Fit zc l arence, the Dowager Lady Ban bur y , the lion. H. Nelson, th e Dowager Lady Fenimore, the Ron. George . 3' Milner, the Ponsonby, Lady Elizabeth Dawson, the Dowager Lae Hon. Mrs. Stratford, the Hon. Captain II • Liddell, Lady Sophia Hoare, Lady Amelia C. MarB hami Mr. Chgram, arle the s W. Wi Beauclerk, Lady Seaton, Lady Cathe rine Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderle y , Captain the Hon. Charles Sinclair, Robt. H. Southaven, Esq Lady Camilla Si nc l a ir, Mr. Josep h Weld, o f Lulworth, Mr. John Labou c h ore? the Hon. M rs. Musgrave, Lad Westbury, Ver ; Fane, Esq. , T. 4 Kirkcudbright, Dowager " 4 irkcjdbright, the Dowa ger Countess of Verulam, William Beckett, Lady Beaver, Mr. F. A. Grattanas ew, Mr. George Flndyer, Miss Mr. George Forbes, Mr, White-Jervis,nselm E. Guise, Mr. John Mrs. F. W. Ord, Mrs. Caroline Lamb, Captain Francis Price, the Dowager Lady B E. M. Brownlow, Mrs. Childers, Catherine Scott -Douglas, Mr. W. Gamier, Miss Besides the `DoUglas, and Capt. Edward Wilmot. Arehbishoof Dublin d mentioned), two members p (a rea y year, viz the of the episcopal body have died during the " Bishops of Gibraltar and Quebec. Amongst ;ad the other notable personages whom death has canm off, first and foremost stands the name of William a e Peacenackeray,whose recent loss we are all mourning . . Besides him we have to chronicle the deaths of the Ven. Archdeacon -Bonney, Mr. Justice Wightman, Professor k'Pekerell, R.A., Mr. Augustus Egg, R.A., Mr. Jas.Wm. Gilbert, F;R.S. (founder of the jointestock banking system), ' Mr. James D. Harding (artist in water colours), the Rev. P. Wm. Hope (founder of the Zoological Professorship at Oxford), the Rev. Alexander M'Caul, Mr. Wrn. Mulready, R.A„ Miss Julia Pardee, Mr. Apsley Follett, the Rev. Dr. Ratites (of Liverpool), the Rev. Andrew Reed, the Rev. Dr. Russell (formerly Head Master of Chatterhouse), Mre. Thomson (author of , the " Memoirs of the Duchess of Marlborough"), Mr. William Tooke, F.R.S., the Rev. Richard A. Willmott, lthe Rev. Fredriok William Faber, the:Rev. Josiah Forshall, Mr. J. H. Green, Mrs. Frances Trollope (the novelist), Mr. William B. Turnbull, Mr. Jas. T. Willmore (engraver), and the Rev. Henry Drury. In the list of distinguished foreigners who have died during the year are the names of Mons. 13illanit the French Minister), General Pepe (of Neapolitan fame), the French General Bedeau; the Rev. Dr. L. Beecher (father of Mrs. Beecher Stowe), Delacroix (the historical painter), Said Pasha ,(Viceroy of Egypt), Jacob Grimm (the philo logist), Samuel Houston (the American general and poli tician), Madame Lamartine, General Oadinot, H orace Vernet (the eminent painter), Alfred Victor Vigny (the poet), William Lowndes Yancey (of Alabama ) The Federal steamer Dacotah arrived at Sambro immediately after the capture of the Chesapeake, and her commander ordered both captor and prize into Halifax. The Tribune's Washington correspondent writes that the capture having been made in British waters, the vessel will be surrendered to the pro vincial authorities. A demand, under the Ashburton Treaty, for the return of the vessel and prisoners has, however, been made upon Lord Lyons by Mr. Seward. The official reports of the commanders of the Monitors made to Admiral Dupont immediately after the failure of the attack upon Fort Sumter, in April last, were submitted to Congress by Secretary'. Welles with his annexed report, and show that these vessels were incapable of resisting the concen trated fire of heavy rifled ordnance. Captain Dray ton, of the Passive, says _ _ _ " I was struck in quick succession in the lower part of the turret by two heavy shots, which bulged in its plates and beams, and forcing together the rails on which the carriage of the 11-inch gun worked, rendered it wholly useless for the remainder of the action ; a little after a very heavy rifle-shot struck the upper edge of the turret, broke all of its eleven plates, and then glancing upwards struck the pilothouse with such force as to send it over, open the plates, and squeeze out the top, exposing the inside of rue pilothouse, and rendering it ex tremely likely that the next shot would take off the top entirely." Captain Rodgers, of the Weehawken, reports : _ - " Two or three heavy shots struck the side armour near the same place. They so broke the iron that it only remained in splintered fragments, much of which could be picked off by hand, and the wood was exposed. The deck was pierced so as to make a hole, through which water ran into the vessel; 36 bolts were broken in the turret, and a great many in the pilothouse. To the Patapsco no damage was done which disabled her, although injuries which she received, if multiplied, would do so. Forty bolts in the funnel were broken. After the third shot from the 15-inch gun of the Nantuck a port stopper became jammed,'several shots striking very near the port and driving in the plating. it was not used again. A number of the same pla tes were s ta rte d so much that another shot in their vicinity would have knocked them off. The deck plates were cut and one, in 12 places; one shot cut through the iron, a n d about two inches into the beam, starting th e plates, several bolts, and the planking, for some feet below. The plates on the side armour of the Nahant were badbyly btwrookeenhiontssevineraellpolsaecepsr, proximity, where struck starting backing stripped from the wood,and the Woo d yf back plates started up and rolled back in p l aces . The deck was g iy,one shot near the struck twice propeller wheel, quite P I) ; t o r broken l e y n in, with edging of and tearing the plate in ' s e d t h ß a tt m r t t til i e n gr g iinn g o bolts, anotheras passage, and plates and 20 bolts in the turret. There were marks of nine shots; 66 of the bolts were broken perceptibly, the heads eying off inside the turret, and the bolts starting almost their length outside, some of them flying out completely, and being found at a considerable dis tance from the turret, on the deck. One shot struck the upper part o f the turret, breaking through every plate. The pilot-house was much damaged and wrecked, and four more such shots as it received would have • demolished it. Ono shot at the base broke every plate through, and evidently nearly penetrated it." THE LATE BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON A "WOMAN AT BETIINAL-GREEN—GOVERNMENT REWARD.---It will be recollected that a short time ago a NVOIR was brutally assaulted by three men in. the neighbourhood of Bethnal- . green. This morning the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury issued a bill offering a reward of - e5O for the tc,rJre hension of Joseph Aneeney, one of the men concerned. QUEENSLAND EMIG RATION. --The ship Prince P Consort, 2,500 tons burd en, b elonging to Messrs. T. M. Mackay and Co., sail e d on the 25th inst. from for Queensland, C a pt a i n Aitcheson, commander. The Prince Consort is th e t hi rty-sixth vessel that has sailed on the land order sy s t em of emigration, under the immediate direction of the Q ueensland Government. She contains 73 souls, divided i nto pl ° assisted, and free passengers, vimr, iymputh ::i and consistin g of 111 members o f f a milic.=, 17S single men, and 44 s i ng l e females. THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE HOLSTEIN QUESTION.—Our Berlin correspondent writes, under date Dec. 2S :—" On his way hero the Crown Prince had an interview with the Prince of Augustenburg, an old friend of his, who rode with him in the same carriage from Guntershauseu to Gotha. His Royal Highness has _been A very active in the interest of the popular cause ever mu. With what result; the next few days will probably show." The Rick ond Inquirer, in publishing Mr. Lin coln's proclamationo g f u a: . nnesty,_rejects its p ro j ects in the following go . " He is going to forgive na somethingit seems, on certain terms. Forgive us what? Forgive us because he has invaded our States with armed mul titudes to compass our destruction ?;Forgive us be cause he has plundered cur seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, desolated our homes ? Forgive us for the many thousands of brothers and sons whom he has slain upon our soil while repelling his inva sion, and for the many dear mutilated ones who will remain the legacy of the war when the war is over ? He may forgive us for all these his crimes, but so long as we have hearts to feel and hands to strike we shall never forgiva him. But ho goes further, ho makes his forgiveness dependent upon terms. We have to swear that the proclamation of emancipation which we received with mocking last year, and which has since been a general derision, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1863. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by Abe Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky." THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those mad 3 by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond-street. They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy purchasers. "In medio tutisimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the WELLINGTON havincs been CLOSED for repairs, &c., will be RE-OPENED THIS DAY, (THURSDAY), the 31st December, at 5 o'clock p.m. By order, JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington. St. James's-street. Entrance, 460, Piccadilly, W. December 30, 1863. 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Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, vertical, repeating, centre seconds, keyless, astronomical, reversible, and chronograph watches, from 200 to three guineas each. An illustrated pamphlet and price list of every description of watch post free for two stamps. J. W. BENSON, by special warrant of appointment watch and clock maker to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Manufac tory, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, E.C. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent heavy gales some of the Loath of the Royal National Lifeboat institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels:—Schooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17 ; schooner Northern Lights, of -Preston, 4' • pilot boat, of St. Ives, 7 ; schooner Arlon, of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1 ; barque Marietta, of Lisbon, 1 ; fishing boat, of Filey, 2.• ' Tenby fishing boat, 3; and barque Providence, of Dantzic , 7. Total lives saved, 55. The lifeboats also assisted in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camoglino, 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 oceasions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward paid for all these services was £216. The Committee of the Institutionearnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to tenable them to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 'Rebut estab lishments. Contributions are received by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 30. Our new Lord Mayor is resolved to bring out the corporation on New Year's-day with a splendour surpassing anything of the kind known in modern times. It is intended to revive the warlike and picturesque usages of the middle ages. All the city functionaries will figure in the procession in appro priate costumes—from the Recorder and the Presi dent of the Curt of Conscience to the city turn cocks. There will be trumpeters in quaint dresses, knights in brass armour, javelin men, mace-bearers, and gallow-glasses in suits of mail, armed with battle-axes, mounted police, hussars, B,:e. Of late years the corporation seemed to be getting rather ashamed of the antiquated mummeries of the Lord Mayor's show ; but the splendours of which it was shorn will now reappear, brighter than over after the temporary obscuration. It would do Mr. Ruskin's heart good to witness the renaissance of mediaeval art in connection with civic displays; to see the lumber of antiquity, the mouldering relics of departed ages, brought out into the sunlight, freshly painted and decorated, as if to shame the bald utilitarianism of modern civilisation. Happily the Saxon origin of the Irish corporations does not detract from their antique charms to the Celtic imagination. On the contrary, the intention is to make the civic procession of Dublin resemble, as nearly as possible, the same pageant in London, with the addition of our tall gallow-glasses and some other Hibernian variations. In fact, accord ing to the programme that has just been issued by the secretary of the Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Michael Angelo Hayes, there has been no procession to equal this in poetic conception, richness of artistic colouring, and theatrical effects, since the Highland clans were marshalled in Edinburgh by Sir Walter Scott to meet George IV, It is supposed that this revival movement will greatly increase the circulz tion among us of Mr. Carlisle's " Sartor Resartus." The delay of the Galway mail steamer Columbia is accounted for by the following facts : On her out ward voyage she suffered severely from the gales which at that time visited the Irish coast and Channel. Her boats are said to have been carried away, her decks swept,and her paddleboxes stripped. These damages had to be repaired in New York, where she was a day late in starting, and was en gaged in taking in coal when the passengers were all going on board. She was a day late at St. John's, and was delayed 17 hours there in coaling again. She is said to be a slow vessel from being too deep in the water, which is caused by the weight of iron put on to increase her strength. The Commissioners under the late Fishery Act are at present holding a court in Limerick, and are engaged in defining the mouths and the boundaries of the estuaries of the river Shannon and its tribu taries, the Maigne, Fergus, and Deel. The Shannon Fishery Company, the Shannon Fishery Protection Association, the Lower Shannon Protection Asso ciation, the Harbour Board of Limerick, the Lime rick Snap-net Fishermen, as well as Lord Annaly, the Knight of Glynn, and other fishery proprietors were represented by counsel. Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, an eminent and wealthy Manchester merchant, having recently offered to erect a handsome town-hall in Drogheda, his native place, a meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Tholsel last Monday to hear the terms of the offer and make all necessary arrangements. A resolution conveying the thanks of the inhabi tants to Mr. Whitworth for his munificent offer, and gratefully accepting it, was passed by acclamation ; and a committee of 24 (12 Protestants and 12 Catholics) was appointed to select a site for the building and superintend the work. Another public-spirited gentleman, Mr. Smith, offered to give an extensive piece of ground (free of all charge) for the site, which was provisionally ac cepted. The Condemned Convict, Samuel Wright. The execution of Wright has, we learn, been postponed to Tuesday, 12th prox. Strenuous efforts to avert the capital sentence are being made by working men and others in the Lambeth dist r i c t. The all but universal feeling on the subject appear s ttohibsecatsheatwtahse veryincniosupmatmibale with a due regard for ry course of procedu re i n that fairness which has hitherto invariably distin guished British justice in dealing with offences in volving the life of the accused. There is some reason to believe that Wright intended to apply for the postponement of his trial; but it is said that he was overcome and lost his presence of mind at the last moment. This is not to be wondered at when the extraordinary haste with which he was called upon to plead, after being committed by the coroner and magistrate, are taken into consideration. A very general opinion appears to prevail that Wright's sentence will be commuted, arising pro bably from the public feeling being favourable to that course. Wright has himself memorialised Sir George Grey, setting forth his account of the sad affair which has placed him in his present awful position.—Morning Paper. FUNERAL OF MR. THACKERAY, (From the limo.) Yesterday at noon Mr. Thackeray was buried in the cemetery of Kensal-green. The day was so fine that, notwithstanding. the distance from town, a vast concourse of his friends were enabled to sur round his grave, and to pay him the last honour. Many hundreds must have been present of almost every rank and class. Mr. Thaekeray had the gift of associating with a wonderful variety of persons ; to be in his company was in the case of most per sons to be entirely at ease with him ; and it was impossible not to pass from easy intercourse to affection and regard. Among the great throng of mourners we noticed nearly all the foremost men of letters and artists of the day, some of them having travelled far to be present on the sad occasion. It may be enough to state this in general terms, and we forbear to mention names, because in so large and promiscuous a crowd in which there were no signs of arrangement or precedence it is difficult not to overlook some eminent men who might be entitled to mention. Only a ,very few of Mr. Thackeray's most intimate Maids were expressly invited to the funeral. The hundreds - on hundreds who attended came of their own accord to bear witness to the worth of a dear friend and a much admired man ; and of all these we venture to refer to but one name—that of Mr. Charles Dickens. We do so because he is the author most frequently remembered in connection with Mr. Thackeray, and because he has sometimes been regarded as a rival. In point of fact, there can be no rivalry between these two great novelists, and any special comparison between them must proceed on superficial grounds. No one had a greater ad miration for Mr. Dickens than Mr. Thackeray himself, or more unaffectedly rejoiced in his ex ceeding popularity. On the other hand, to no one could all thought of rivalry with Mr. Thackeray be more distasteful than to Mr. Dickens, who always recognized Thackeray's genius, and yesterday came a long journey to testify to the love and the honour which he felt for his great literary brother. For one so distinguished it has been suggested that Westminster Abbey is the only fit resting-place. It must be remembered, however, that Mr. Thackeray desired to be interred in the simplest manner at Kensal-green. He has been laid in a brick•built grave beside one of his children, and his family affections were so strong that we believe it would have been a positive pain to him if, when he was alive, he could have looked forward to being sepa rated from his children in the tomb. Those who were nearest to him, and whom he loved best of all in the world, were so mash in his mind that even in the presence of casual acquaintances whom he saw only at one or other of his clubs he could not choose but let out somewhat of the strong feel ing which stirred within his heart for those who were as the light of his eyes. It was ono of the simplest and most winning traits of his character ; and by those who could not help knowing what he felt in this way no more touching sight could be witnessed than that of his two young daughters, veiled in crape, advancing from the crowd that pressed about the grave, taking a last sad look at the coffin, and then turning suddenly away. These are reasons why Mr. Thackeray should be buried in his own ground at Kensal-green. Mr. Thackeray had a rarer distinction than that of being a great writer ; he was a classical one. He is the greatest master of English prose which the century has pro duced. There may have been men of greater genius than he; there may been more forcible writers than he ; but no one has approached him in the command of polished idiomatic English in all its varieties, in flexibility and richness and finish of style. At first this was not fully understood, but now it is seen more and more clearly every year ; and Thackeray's English, notwithstanding the liberties which he sometimes took with it, is coming to be regarded as the model English. We may say of him, as John son said of another, the most classical writer of the last century, " Whoever wishes to attain an Eng lish style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Thackeray." Such a: man, who is something more, something rarer than a great writer, surely deserves a niche in Westminster Abbey. But, in the darkness which for us and all who knew him overshadows this festive season, it is not of the great author and the brilliant wit that we think most; it is of the warm-hearted, simple minded gentleman, honest in all his ways, trans parent in all his words, full of charity in his utmost satire, and ready to give even when he had little to spare. _ _ _ Among the mourners were Mr. Dickens, Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, Mr. Mark Lemon (the editor of the famous periodical in which were laid the foundations of Mr. Thaekeray 's fame), Mr. John Leech (a fellow pupil and friend), Mr.Tenniel, 11r. Horace Mayhew—in short, the whole staff of the c antribators to Punch ; Mr. Robert Browning (the poet), Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. John Hollingshead, Mr. G. H. Lewes, Mr. Dallas, Dr. W. Russell, Sir James Carmichael, Mr. H. Cole, C. 8., Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. O'Neile, R.A., Mr. Creswick, R.A., Mr. George Cruikshank, Archdeacon Hale, Mr. E. Pigott, M. Louis Blanc, Mr. llerman Merivale, Rev. W. Brookfield, Baron Marochetti, A.R.A., Rev. Wm, Mitchell, Mr. Rus sell Sturgis, Mr. George Smith, Mr. Charles Collins, Mr. Palgrave Simpson, Mr. Henry Thompson, Mr. Seymour Haden, Mr. F. Fladgate, Mr. Reeves Traer, Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. F. Elliot, Mr. W. Richmond, A.R.A., Mr. John Millais, A.R.A., Mr. Richard Doyle, Mr. Valentine Princep, Sir Wm. Alexander, Mr. Richard Redgrave, &c. The coffin, which was exceedingly plain, bore upon it the following inscription : " WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, ESQ., DIED 24TH DECEMBER, 1863, AGED 52 YEARS. THE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho-square, founded in 1842, and designed exclusively for the treatment of those peculiar ailments from which neither age, rank, nor character exempt the female sex, was re opened on Wednesday, when a number of addresses were given in the ward by several noblemen and gentlemen. From the statement issued, it appears that, as the building required extensive repairs, and the committee were desirous of providing further accommodation for in-patients, it was determined to add another storey ; but the walls being un equal to sustain the additional weight had to be taken down and rebuilt. Prior to the alterations only 25 in-patients could be received at once, with a yearly average of 135; now 50 patients can be accommodated. The average attendance of out-patients annually is 14,000. The com mittee are earnestly appealing for funds to enable them to discharge their liabilities, and previde for the occupation of all the new wards. DUTIES ON PLAYING CARDS , —ln 1788, and again in 1801, the duty on cards was increased on sixpenny packs, till it reached the sum of half-a-crown a pack. The traffic in cards not duly stamped was powerfully stimulated by the high duty. Various evasive devices were invented, and more than one speculator amassed a large fortune by selling, under various pretences, cards on which no duty had been paid. Under the then arrangements, waste aces of spades could not be procured to any great extent, for the damaged aces were returned to the Stamp-office,and allowed for in the cardmakers' accounts. Packs, therefore, were made up for sale with a blanle card in place of the ace of spades. Cut-corner cards, as they were called, i.e , packs of cards of which one corner wss cut off, and minus the ace of spades, were sold in immense quantities. Cards with a corner cut off were considered by Parliament sufficiently mutilated to render them unfit to be used in play. The pub lic, however, put up with the inconvenience of using cut corner cards rather than pay the high tax. In fact, the law was found powerless to prevent evasions ; every fresh enact ment produced some fresh dodge for driving through it. it was therefore decided to diminish the duty, and to legalise ' under certain res t r i c tions, the sa l e of second-hand cards. In the year 1828 the half-a-crown duty was reduced to ono shilling. The shilling duty was to be denoted on the ace of spades. This was the duty ono shilling ace, called " Old Frizzle," on account of the elaborate flourishes which adorned it, with which all card pl;:yers were familiar up to last year,—Onee a Week. AUTHORS. MR. TROLLOPE'S great glory is in the portraiture of women: ,and his success in this walk, says the 7inies, has made him the pat of our drawing-rooms. The women adore him. Nobody understands the gentle dames and damsels of modern life half so well as this modern Anthony. We do not pretend to speak of him personally ; we are only speaking of him as a book, he is the great lady-killer of the age. He has attained this distinction chiefly by merit, but partly—we were going to say, by demerit—we shall say, by an appeal to the prejudices of society. His merit lies in his charming portraiture of the sex. He has studied all the wiles of the feminine heart, and knows every fold of feeling—how in fashionable life Mamma thinks of the jointure, and how in humble life the worthy dame has thoughts of buttered toast. Emotions great and small he dis cusses with equal facility—the emotion of a lady who is moving heaven and earth to circumvent her lord, and the emotion of a girl who in the midst of a ball discovers that her back hair threatens to fall loose upon her shoulders. He has really a great know ledge of womankind, and paints them lovingly and tenderly, with all their passions and all their foibles. Over and above this, however, he is the apostle of propriety, and appeals to the prejudices of the drawing-room of the exponent of its favourite con ventions. Far be it from us to despise the conven tions of society and to run down the proprieties of life. Our conventions have their uses which no man of sense will deride. The purity of manners requires a ceremonial law which is sometimes as hard to observe as anything in Leviticus. To our thinking, however, Mr. Trollope is more conscious than becomes a good artist of the importance of conventional usage. Ladies, we believe, take a different view. The ceremonial or conventual law of society is their safeguard; and they rather like the man who, without being exactly a prig, is osten tatious in his observance of established custom, and knows exactly how far he may advance and when he ought to withdraw. This is one of the weak nesses of feminine nature. It is pleasant for them to see a great strong fellow like Mr. Anthony Trol lope seriously concerned to decide the precise moment of time when Rachel Ray can allow Rowan to call her by her Christian name, when Rowan can, with out a breach of the proprieties, snatch a kiss from the lips of Rachel, or when it would be correct for the pair to walk out alone together. The pages and pages which Mr. Trollope devotes to the exposition of what is proper in lovemaking seem to suggest a period when ceremony was more conscious than it is now ; and as we began this notice of him by comparing him to Defoe among the writers of the last century we might continue it by comparing him to the great ladies' man of that century— Richardson. He was the great painter of women, the great master of the ceremonies in fiction of the last age, and Mr. Trollops may - ee proud to be men tioned in the same sentence with such a man. He may also, when he is inclined again to write on the proprieties of love, remember with advantage a remark of Walter Scott's, made in connexion with Richardson. Richardson had little acquaintance with the usages of high life, and Lady M ar y Wortley Montague mocks at him for m a ki ng people kiss who ought not to kiss, and who sal u t e at wrong times and in wrong places. Where upon Sir Walter observes,—" It was natural th a t a person of Lady Mary Wortley Monta gue ' s taste and rank should be shocked at the want o f decorum which she complains of, but at this dis tance of time we are not sufficiently acqu a i n t e d with the fashions of George ll.'s reign to share her displeasure. We know in general that salu tation continued for a long period to be per mitted by fashion, and with this general know ledge it is of little consequence to us at what particular year of God men of quality were re strained from kissing their cousins. On the same principle many of Mr. Trollope's discussions on propriety will one of these days be of little con sequence. The Opening of the Charing-Cross Railway. OFFICIAL INSPECTION BY CAPT. TYLER, R.E. Yesterday the official inspection of this important metropolitan railway was made by Captain Tyler, R.E,, the Government inspector, previous to the almost immediate opening of the line for passenger traffic. The inspection, which was of a most rigid character, commenced at the western extremity, or Charing-cross end of the railway, a number of gen tlemen connected with the Charing-cross and South Eastern Railways being present, among whom were Mr. Eborall, the general manager, Mr. Knight, the traffic superintendent, Messrs. Stanton and Barry, for Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Wythes, the contractor, the Duke of Sutherland, Major Malcolm, 1.E., i n _ spector of Indian railways, Mr. Walker, the tele graph superintendent, Mr. Cockburn, the superin tendent of the Charing-cross station, &c. About 12 o'clock the train left the Charing-cross end of the line and proceeded gently along the down rail to the junction at the Waterloo-road, when a minute scrutiny of the signals (Saxby's patent) and the points was made by the inspector. After some time had been spent at this point the train propeeded on its way to London-bridge, pass ing the rlw Blackfriars station, which is provided with two side and one central platform. The whole of the signals, points, stations, and permanent way were carefully examined by Captain Tyler, who we believe expressed his satisfaction at many of the arrangements, and on the arrival of the train at London-bridge the party alighted, and the inspector proceeded to thejunction with the main line, which was closely inspected, together with the working of the points. The new line at London-bridge runs into the Greenwich and North and Mid-Kent ter minus, from which platform the trains for Charing cross and the intermediate stations of Waterloo and Blackfriars will be started. It was nearly 5 o'clock before the examation at this end of the line was completed, and the train then made a return trip along the up'lino of rails, pausing for a few moments at Blackfriars and Waterloo, over the Thames-bridge, to Charing-cross, and running up alongside the platform, which was lighted for the occasion with the globular lamps which have been supplied to all the stations. Here the inspection, which lasted nearly six hours, ter minated. Before leaving the officials who had accompanied him, Captain Tyler expressed his desire to go over the line once more, in order to see that some im provements suggested by him are carried out. The first train which will be run will be between the Charing-cross terminus and the Greenwich and North and Mid-Kent terminus at London -bridge, thus opening a communication between the country intersected by those lines and the West-end of Lon don. The length of the new line is about two miles, and the distance between London -bridge and Charing-cross will be accomplished by the trains in about five minutes, though it can be done in three minutes. The distance between Charing-cross and the Waterloo station is about half a mile, Waterloo and Blackfriars a quarter, and Blackfriars a n d London-bridge one mile. PRIZE DESIGNS.--"As affording the most striking co n . trast, Mr. Benson shows with these a fresh exhibition of modern watches, with cases made from prize designs at the South Kensington Museum, some of which are fine specimens of engraving."—Times, Sept. 15, 1862. Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every description of watch, adapted to all cli mates. Benson's illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by post for two stamps) contains a short history of watchmak ing, with prices, from 3to 200 guineas each. It serves as a guide in the purchase of a watch, and enables those who live in any part of the world to select a watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize medal and honour dile mention, classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 1740. Watch and clock maker by speitil warrant of appointment to 11.1 t, H. the Prince of Wales. INOII r --~+3"~7 BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF B E A U T Y. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. Bd. ;~ +,.i .; ~~