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MARIETTA nnl CINCINNATI RAILROAD COMPANY, as Re -organised issue of 1,500,0'0 dols. SEVEN PER cE:Nr. FIRST MORTGAGE B9NDS, due 18)1, of which the principal and interest are made payable in sterling money at 4s. per dollar. Coupons payable Ist of February and Ist of August at the London Joint-stock Bank. Length of Road in operation, 203 miles. The total F h arc capital authorised is 12,000,00 dols. ; the amount issued 9,172,376 dols. Borrowing powers of the Company are limited by charter to one-third of the amount of share capital after the English method. The maximum amount of bonds secured by the rnortc,rap„ . tr is 3,500,000 dole. of which only 238,00 C dols. are now issued, and the. Company has no other debt. The amount specified above will be all laid out in produc tive works, as explained in the prospectus. To meet the uncertainty of the value of the dollar caused by the depreciation of the American paper currencyate the inte rest and principal will be made payable in 4s. per dollar. Price of bonds at 71 per cent., 4s. ( id . p rdollar being for 1,000 dols. bond £159 15s. ; 50j dots. bond £79 l e 178.6 for d.; £l4 , 1(10 dols. bond £l5 19 , . fd, ; h lt-yearly coup ,s attacd and £1 Ss. respectively per annum, being rather more than 81 per cent. on the cost. A deposit of 5 per cant., or £ll ss. an on e'ch LOCO dols., to be be paid to the banker. on application, d the balance may either paid on allotment or be the 101:owing instalments : Six per cent. (£l3 li s. per 1,00 dols.) on allotment, and 20 per cent. (£45 per I,eo o dols.) on each of the following dßys -Ist Mav, Ist August, and Ist November, with interest at 6 per cent. from Ist February. 5 per cent. Deposit £ll 5 0 6 per cent. on Allotment 13 10 0 20 per cent. Ist May 45 0 0 20 per cent. Ist August .. 45 0 0 20 par cent. let November 45 () 0 N°. 22,022. With Fifty beautiful Illustrations, by Wolf and Zwecker, 215., handsomely bound, BALDWIN'S AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURES FROM NATAL TO THE FALLS OF ZAMBESI. "Will be read with thrilling interest. Some of Mr. Bald win's escapes are so marvellous as almost to excite suspicion did not the simplicity of his unadorned and unpremeditated journal speak for its truthfulness. We shudder while we read the author's desperate and appaling encounters." —Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. In 2 vols., A DAUGHTER OF EVE. A NOVEL. By HAIN FRISWELL, Author of "Sham," "Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies." Richard Bentley, New Burling-ton-street. 71 per cent. £159 15 0 Prospectuses and forms of application may be obtained of D. Alison, Esq., Secretary, 7A, Basing,hall-street ; E. F. Satterthwaite, Esq., No. 38, Thrwmorton -street ; and eserp. Ileseltine and Powell, No. 2, Roya, Exchange-building s. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE MORALS OF MAYFAIR." Now ready at an the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., A POINT OF HONOUR By the Author of "THE MORALS OF MAYFAIR," dre. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE ASIA MINOR COMPANY. (Limited). Capital £500,000. in 50,000 Shares of £lO each. First Issue, 10,000 Shares. Deposit £1 per Share on Application, and £1 on Allotment ; the holders of such Shares to have the preference, pro rata, in all future issues. Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., with Portrait, 215., MEMOIRS OF C HRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN. Calls not to exceed £2 each Share, and Three Months' interval between each Call. DIRECTORS. Thigh Mason, Esq., Ashton-under-Lyne. James Bibby, Esq. (J. Bibby, Sons, and Co., Liverpool. Edward Lord, Esq. (Lord Brothers), Todmorden. Charles Joyce, Esq. (Chas. Joyce and Co.), London. Nathaniel 'Buckley, Esq., Ashton-under-Lyne. Patrick Proudfoot, EKL (P. Proudfoot and Co.), Manchester. James King, Esq. (Jas. King and Sons), Rochdale and Man- BP HENRY WOODIIEAD. Hurst and Macke% 13, Great Marlborough-steeet. Eighth Edition, bound, 65., ASCHOOL HISTORY OF ENGLAND ; with a Copious Chronology, Tables of Contemporary Sovereigns, and Questions for Examination. Abridged from the " Family History of England." London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. SAINT MARK'S HOSPITAL for FISTULA and other DISEASES of the RECTUM. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of GOVERNORS will be he'd at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on THURSDAY, the 12th February next, to receive the Yearly Report of thd Committee of Management, of the Treasurer, and of the Medical Officers of the Charity. To Elect Four new Members of the Committee in room of those who retire by seniority of service. And on other business. The Chair will be taken by the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, M.P., the President, at 3 o'clock precisely. JAMES FULLER WHISKIN, Secretary. City-road, London, E.C., 26th January, 1863. New Zealand's Antipode'an Gaspe Forest-law Chief, in MALTA-ALLIANCE A g GREEK-PALATINE OF CHESTER on, JTILIAN O.S. 1{5.1 4 ` 4] v. Grett'riEn v N.style meansun Calender of Papal-palmer-ST-one,—cancelled. TAX INCH-FULCRUM' OF ARCHIMEI)ES, ON ASIA'S AMERIC' CARIB IND'N § BALTIMOR' RATE. Marlbro'-st. Crt. Coal-hole Dog-set'ng Case, with Inchkeith Fort Garray Gladiator-staff Toga'ry. 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"-p/ot intent to do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. This sinister Bowyer-u.c. z police report—unveils the old Atkins tablets, 52 yrs hid under Clapham Kirk—Cubit'd on ¶ark-harass of 13 Car. is., against plaintiff (the executor and state supporter of Anglo-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter Basquet, 114 yrs)—for holding under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent lease, now 20-yrs title. So forecloses the Woods & Forest law Works' -1582 N. s•• Chili archer 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 chester. Joseph Firth, Esq. (Firth and Howarth), Todmorden. MANAGERS IN SYRIA. George William Benwell, Esq. Thomas Bowen Recs, Esq. BANKERS. Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, London. Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, lianahaster. - • BROKERS. London—Messrs. Philip Cazenove, and Co., 52, Threadneedle street, E.C. Manchester —Henry Rawson, Esq , Exchange-arcade. SOLICITOR. William Slater, Esq , 66, Fountain-street, Manchester. SECRETARY (pro tem).—G. R. Haywood, Esq., Manchester. Temporary Offices—No. 3, Arcade, Manchester. PROSPECTUS. To have relied upon one source of supply for the raw ma terial of the great cotton industry of this country is now proved to have been an almost fatal policy. Whatever, there fore, be the result of the conflict now raging in America, it is clear that, for the future security of our manufacturing inte rests, fresh ground will have to be brought under cultivation in other parts of the world. 1 his Company is formed for the purpose of encouraging the growth of Cotton in Asia Minor—a c untry v4ith soil, climate, and geographical position peculiarly adapted to the production of our invaluable textile, abundance of free labour accustomed to agriculture, natural means of irrigation, and ready channels of transit by railway and otherwise to the p rt of Smyrna, which is within 15 days' steam communica tion with Liverpool, and placed in immediate contact with the manufacturing districts by the electric telegraph. It thus possesses all the advantages fitted to render it immediately available for the object in view. The promoters of the Company have already proved, by satisfactory test, the capabilities of the country, and the desire of the cultivators to improve the quality of their crops. In the spring of last year, by an arrangement with the Cot ton Supply Association, they procured a large quantity of Egyptian and New Orleans seed, which was eagerly received and planted, with most gratifying results. The following is the report of the samples produced from this seed : " Cotton Supply Association, 1, Newall's-buildings, Dec. 10,1862. " Sir,—Your favour of the 9th inst. has been duly submitted to the consideration of the executive committee of this Asso ciation. " I am desired to inform you that the samples you have submitted, grown from American and Egyptian seed, are of a very superior description, especially the American, and in every way suited to the wants of the trade. " The committee consider your exertions have demon strated that Asia Minor is capable, with proper encourage ment, of rapidly supplying Cotton, of a very superior quality, and they hignly approve of your efforts for the formation of a Cotton Company to achieve this result. They are prepared to render you every assistance and encouragement that fhe Association can afford. " It is desirable that the efforts of the Turkish Govern ment to stimulate the growth of Cotton in Asia Minor should be actively followed up by such enterprises as that which you are setting on foot, in order that the quality may be improved. and that machinery of the best description for cleaning and packing may be introduced. " I am, Sir, yours obediently, . G. N. HAYWOOD, Secretary. " Geo. Wm. Benwell, Esq., Asia Minor Cotton Company." The Company will especially endeavour to stimulate a largely increased production of improved Cotton by the introduction of superior kinds of seeds, the best agricultural implements, and the most improved machinery for cleaning and baling the materiaL It is not the intention of the Company to engage directly in the cultivation of Cotton on their own account, but by means of agencies in the interior to stimulate and offer every assistance to those who are prepared to extend the cultiva tion. Through dealing directly with the producers the Company will, whilst reaping its own advantage, confer great benefit upon the growers, by freeing them from the oppression of the native money lenders, who make them such advances as they require at exorbitant rates of interest, thus keeping them in a state of poverty, which is a serious hindrance to energy and enterprise. The rates of interest charged by these money lenders vary from 20 to 50 per cent. per annum ; yet the sums advanced are always paid in full by the peasant-exact payment to a day is certainly not to be counted uen ki ltwar e t-id; am e realising produce, but care is us art vitleue a to meet all contingencies ; and besides the deposit of f ee's title-deeds the chiefs or communitys of the vil lages frequently become, collectively or severally, substan tial guarantees for the loans. The Company will proceed upon broad and sound commer cial principles, and w 11 make its staff mainly dependent for remuneration upon the profitable results of their respective labours. It will lock up as little as possible of its capital in unrealisable property, and make advances on none but good and sufficient security. The Ottoman Government will protect and give every assistance in furtherance of the objects the Company have in view. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, desirous of encourag ing the culture of cotton in his empire, and of restoring to it the importance it had in former times, has recently issued an ordinance. By the principal clause therein it has been de creed that "whoever shall clear uncultivated and neglected lands, and convert them into cultivated fields, shall receive such lands gratuitously and without charge, and title-deeds shall be delivered to him on the sole condition that he will pay three piastres (sixpence, by way of stamp duty. Further, the produce of these lands shall be exempt from the payment of tithes for one year, or, should the land be stony, for two years. If amongst the lands thus cultivated any should be found in whit h the cessionaire cultivates cotton the exemp tion of the tithe, or any payment in lieu of tithe, shall be ex tended to five years." By a subsequent article it is also de creed that, "In order that the cotton produced may be con veyed with facility to the seaports the roads in the districts where cotton is grown shall, if necessary, be repaired and put into good order. The instruments and machinery imported from Europe, and which may be required in the cultivation of cotton, as welt as in the cleaning of it and separating the seed, shall 1)f exempt from all customs dues, etc." Within the space of two years the exports of the raw ma terial from Smyrna have multiplied nearly tenfold. In if 60 they were but 6,000 bales. Last year's crop, already coming forward, is estimated at about 60,900 bales. Large additional tracts of land are now being prepared for cotton cultivation, and the British Consul of Smyrna, in a recent despatch to Earl Russell, says :—" It is the general expectation that the rend of 1863 will be at least 200,000 bales, or 72,003,000 pounds." No other part of the world can furnish a parallel to this in creased ratio of production. These extraordinary results are due to the almost unas sisted efforts of the native cultivators. With the aid of capi tal promptly and judiciously applied, the <rop of 1863 might probably be considerably increased, and a corres ond ing progress in cultivation secured i n f uture years, PThis Company has therefore a most important and promising field for its operations. The sources from whence the Company confidently look for profit may be briefly enumerated t hus : let. From advances made to cultivators against the crops. 2d, From the purchase of Cotton on their own account and on commission. " DINNA FORGET."-FRIDAY NEXT.- ST. JAMES'S HALL. Grand Attraction.—Sig. Giuglini, Miss Banks, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Fielding, a band of twenty harps, and the "National Melodies Choir" (400 voices). —The best seats can be secured at Mr. Austin's ticket office. 28, Piccadilly, W.—Admission Is. Sofa stalls (numbered) ss. each. CANTERBURY HALL.—LAST WEEK of the LANCASHIRE CHAMPION PRIZE HAND-BELL RINGERS, at half-past Nine o'clock. Immense Tomb.). 'Think I—every day to be one's last, .4 Chandos. - For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.' The papal 1829 Metropolis police act, 3 Wm. 4, c 19, § 15, 39, 44—gives £5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on "Offences against the person, &c, 24-25 Vict., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77---tarot. Chloraformists, and Chester police soc: fire-raisers," by £5 fine or certificate from stipendiary. Whence for 'the King's f wan Ge-a-herding rights,' we refer to this Clapham Atkins case (of City Beam Cygnorum nostr'm Swan-mote River bailiff's seaman of peaceful lake in God's pen'umbrO. Game amphibious to Forest common law—in upper X 0 eygni-nota C night, for lower spirit-level oath Kt. mark (Scot & Stafford)—Rich. 2 and 3 H. 8, c 18 —2 Nic'---St. Ana'rou Sheriff, Glqsgo City arms—Swan's . . G / Mr. Taylor, M.P., and his Constituents. LEICESTER, TUESDAY. Last night Mr. Taylor, M.P., addressed a crowded meet ing of his constituents at the Temperance Hall, about 3,000 of the supporters of liberal politics in that town being pre sent; Mr. Jos. Whetstone occupied the chair. Mr. TAYLOR on coming forward was loudly cheered. After a few introductory remarks he said—ln the first place I must touch on the question of reform, Last session both parties in the house agreed to shelve reform, and so gratified were they at having got rid of the, question for the present. that they loudly cheered the flippant reply of Lord Palmerston to _ _ Mr. Cox, when he asked what the intention of Government was upon that question, that reply being that tho people did not seem to care about it. It is true that the .attitude of people out of doors gave the House of Commons a good deal of pound for avoiding discussion upon the point than they have been on former occasions. There are, however, times for all things, and at that time they did not feel inclined to force on the question. The reason of this is, no doubt, that they were .thoroughly disgusted with the treatment which the last reform bill received at the hands of the house, and wore hopeless of any beneficial result attending its discussion while this House of Com- mons exists. Besides this, there can be no doubt that the attention of the country has been very much diverted to things which were occurring in other countries. This is not to be regretted, because I think we shall get none the worse reform by waiting for it. A faction or a party may lose an opportunity, and be overwhelmed if they have not solely su - siaineci - gy L. Marshall. The Comic by Unsworth, Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAND OPERATIC SELECTIONS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans, I I HE 0 X F ORD, 6. OXFORD STREET. THE LANCASHIRE CHAMPION PRIZE HAND BELL RINGERS, Twelve Performers on Sixty-six Bells. Conductor, Mr. E. BENSON. Drew Dean's Flute Solos. lees, four-part Sonis, Choruses, &c., and other musical attracts ns, including a Grand Selec tion from GLucTE's opera " ALCESTE," now produced for the first time in this country, and supported by the entire company, full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongh mans. Miss Caroline Parkes' Pantomimic Sketch, "Little Red Riding Hood." George Hodson's Irish, Miscellaneous, and Ventriloquial Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Scenas and Dances. W. Randall's New Comicalities, &c., every evening. The provincial Engagements of the Bell-Ringers compell ing them to leave London, their Last Appearance, on SATURDAY, 31st instant, is reluctantly announced. seized it at the time, but the cause of truth and justice THE LONDON PAVILION.- _L Messrs. LOIBL and SONNHAMMER beg respectfully to announce that their ANNUAL BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY EVENING next, the 29th inst. They acknowledge with thanks the very liberal support hitherto awarded them, and trust their future endeavours to please and entertain will prove sufficiently meritorious to meet with a response equally gratifying. On the occasion of their Benefit a special programme will be arranged representing such a galaxy of talent as was never presented to the public. The LONDON PAVILION, Tichborne-street. marches on through all delays and obstacles. When we de sire extended suffrage, it is not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. The progress of liberalism affects all na• tions. If Italy gains its liberty, there is a gain for the liberty of Englishmen. (Hear,) If I am asked who have been your lecturers lately on reformj would.lay wo-havo had one of the most eloquent lecturers ever known. His name is Cot ton Famine, his pulpit Lancashire, and his audience the civilised world. (Cheers.) The course pursued by the Lan cashire operatives in their distress has manifested their abso lute fitness for political freedom and the rights of self-go vernment. They have, indeed, shown a power of self government far beyond that required for the election of a member of Parliament ; they have justified the notion Of philosophers whe argue that the world's progress is taking a newer and higher plane of action than the world has wit nessed before. Hitherto we have known the rise, culmina tion, and fall of empires; but the world has never before witnessed such a scene as Lancashire has presented for the last few months. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, instead of the patience and the manly demeanour displayed by the people, there would have been disturbances little short of insurrection, and instead of sending them loaves and bene factions, we should have been sending them troops and ammunition, What now must be the feeling of those who in times past have uttered predictions and expressed appre hensions of the effect of giving political power to those who might be swayed by passion or poverty ? Of poverty and destitution God knows there has been plenty—of passion none—unless the patience of the people has been sublimated into the elevation of passion. Turning to the question of church rates, I for one say that I am of opinion that there ought to be no compromise. It is not a question that admits of compromise. On the contrary, it is a question of civil and secular honesty, for you ought not to tax one man for the bene fit of another. What is it that has given renewed energy to the Conservatives on the question of church rates ? Depend upon it that the cry "the church is in danger," which has been raised by Mr. Disraeli, is intended to be one of the stock cries at the hustings on the next dissolution of Par liament, which is said to be fast approaching. The cry of "the c h ur ch in danger" always reminds me of th, cry one commonly hears at the crowded door of a theatre, namely, " take care of your pockets." The real danger to the church consists not in assaults from without, but in insur rections within. In the first place, there are the honest, sincere, and intelligent men, who spurn the chains which bind them to the chariot wheels of the State; while on the other hand there are the mere politicians, who look upon those shackles as convenient things to keep down the people. After church rates, probably the question of eco nomy will be raised by the Tories; but before we come to any practical conclusion on that point, it is desirable that we should understand what we want and what we do not. We cannot afford to have the money of the country wasted, jobbed, or trifled with, to see millions spent in building useless wooden fleets, or fortifications so vast that in the event of a war we should be obliged to blow them up to pre vent them becoming a refuge for the enemy; but we can afford every expenditure that may be required for the honour and defence of England. I for one am not going to vote for economy if it is to be an excuse for regarding the Emperor of the French as a lion of such a description as the lamb could lie down with him. I regard him as a dangerous ~.ment in Europe. He has to govern by the force of a predominant army, and to flatter his subjects, who are a good deal more possessed of the mania of seeking for glory than we are. My views have always been that England must, not only for her honour, but her safety and economy be strong enough to stand against the worst that can be done. (Cheers.) We must remember that half a year's war—nay, a single year's threat of war—would cost more to this country than a good many millions spent upon pur poses of legitimate defence. I have always thought that England ought to mainta'n a predominant navy and a popu lation that should know how to use the rifle. (Hear.) I THE GALE. 120 PERFORMERS will appear at the LONDON PAVILION on THURSDAY NEXT, the PROP vIETOR'S BENEFIT. Novelties in abundance will be produced ; all the favourites in London will be there ; the bill of fare will be prolific in sensation and artists of ex • traordinary skill ; in fact, the entertainment will be one of astonishing . magnitude—brimful of talent, and calculated to please everybody. 3d. From gins belonging to the Company established throughout the country, which will clean the Cotton at a cer tain rate per lb. 4th. From the hydraulic presses belonging to the Company engaged in packing the Cotton for shipment. (This form must be delivered entire to the Bankers of the Company, who will tsar off and retain the Form of Applica tion for Shares.) FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Asia Minor Company, Limited. Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers the sum of £ I hereby request that you will allot me Shares of £lO ch in the Asia Minor Company, Limited, and I. hereby agree to accept such Shares, or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, ant pay the depos t and calls thereon, and to sign the articles of association of the Company at such time and in such manner as yoa may appoint. I am, gentlemen, Name in full Profession or Occupation Address in full Date.... A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. CIL Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Establishment a Grand Conversation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smokinm Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. Jullien. - • - The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. SHIELDS, Monday Night. • The weather all day has been squally, but, as the wind has been WSW., the sea has been smooth on the bar, and some laden ships have sailed to-day. There has been a con siderable arrival of light colliers. Freights to London range from 6s 6d to 6s 9d, with a good deal of tonnage in the port. The brig John and Isabella, which has arrived here light, from Dieppe, reports that, when off Filey, that vessel came in contact with the laden brig Gloriana, from Amble for Rouen, coal laden. The John and Isabella's larboard bow is stove in, and stanchions and bulwark carried away to mid ship. Four of the crew of the Gloriana got on board the John and Isabella, and stated to the master of that vessel that their ship was in a sinking state. Mr. Rowell, the master, reports that he requested the master and crew of the Gloriana to get on board his vessel, but the portion left behind refused to do so. ARGYLL ROOMS.-JULLIEN'S PROME NADE CONCERTS will take place Every Evening at the above Rooms. The Programme will include Selec tions and Arrangements from the Works of the following Masters : ----•— • • • • ......_____ Mozart—Rossini—Meyerbeer—Donizetti. The Dance Music from the repertoire of the late M. Jullien. Admission, Is. Manager, M. GRENET. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. TUESDAY, Noon. After the despatch was sent off last night a storm warning came from Admiral Fitzroy, and the night signals were instantly hoisted. By 8 o'clock the squalls of wind from W.S.W., which had been blowing all day, had increased into a gale, and from half-past 10 it blew aperfect hurricane w hich raged until nearly midnight. As stated in the des patch of last night, several ships put to sea yesterday morning; one of them, a schooner, put back last night being unable to contend with th e g ale. S he was brought into harbour by a powerful tug, and moored at the new quay, but when the gale came away with such fury at about 10 o'clock she dragged hor two anchors and the powerful tug hauling at her over a quarter of a mile towards the harbour's mouth, and it was feared she would have drifted to sea, had not two boats full of company boatmen put off to her assist ance and brought her into the Lowlights. A light vessel, which was towing into the Tyne by two steamers, was car ried by the force of the gale on to the Sand Point, where she remained until this morning. The wind being off shore, we have no disasters to record at sea, but the vessels which put to sea yesterday in the face of the gale will probably drive a couple of hundred miles out of their course, for there is no chance of their getting hold of the land this morning, as the wind is squally and wild in the tre exme. CIIA.THAM, Tuesday. The wind, which for the last two days had been blowing a moderate gale from the south-west, increased to a hurri cane last night. Its violence continued from about 9 o'clock last night till 2 this morning, when it moderated, and to day has been calm, with the barometer at 30.15 and still rising. A fleet of about 100 sail, which had brought up at the . entrance to the river, took their departure this morn ihnagd, been e o e m u e o f he m having sustained more or less damage from having broken their moorings. A large fleet of colliers aarnedekno fown thisto despatch , be on their h o , w w e v a e y r , t o n this i r s e ppoorrttoffrom the north, . tur great anxie is felt for their safety. Up to the depar ebaromtheeteer is s any casualty tdunrr during g l p r t o hpeer ptay s,treceived . week k The high tides which have prevailed from near lowlandslimava beenMaidstone tont: oe v r e t o r m y tlhe destructive oe Nn obreo, t hb to e aindgger sub merged. -e -merged. The wind this is shifting to the north, Medway,d, a st an bility of a frost setting in., there is every proba bility (ARNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, nd Dining-room, consisting of a new and e,erant assort ment >1 VASE S , Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, heautitul inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, dce. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her ilaiesty, 149, Stand. W.C., London. 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The genuine are a square green package, William Lambert," engraved Qll the Ramp, The Hants Independent states that the remains of an ancient ship are visible at low water in the river Humble, near the village of Swan wick, and are supposed wrecked at OW spat in Rog Alfred's time,'. /7 records was to be " one of a Da nish fleet, which history 1 ,, -..,: -.• • . , .7 . ''''./-";-.' _ - .. . ~ . , ~r., • - , 4i, ,, ~,,I, ~ . OA ) I • Atli .0 ,-, ,fi7 - • --, ,, , , , ' ' . i t , ' nl, ~ R.•-• ~,,,- ,F-,--- - „---.,... - '7,4 - 14C - 4 i k lt - I" • _ •''''',,C Cs , / . , - : c . .' -I ? ±: - - X !L -• ,'-- •_l•_.' -',,,-,'- - , ' • . „ ' , \ ---- re ...i • -) z. ,,e ; ` \\ . k, o ~, ,„ qir - 1 •:7 , '' ,l 'i , .. s- • tlib 'ffßorr• -- ~. , . , , ..t....„. ., ,, , 4 LH-, .„,.,„i, .-- 08? , 11:,,, , ,-. '5;0" THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28, 1863. these circumstances, then, I say that the North are fighting against slavery. It has been said, like many other calumnies, that the North would submit to the South again to-morrow, and that if the South would only come back they would consent to restore the Union as it was. No party and no man in the North has ever uttered such a sentiment as that he would restore theUnien with the powers the slaveholders demanded. The President would restore the Union with limited slave power, well knowing that under such circum stances the scorpion slavery would shortly sting itself to death. What they are really now fighting for is, that slavery shall be for ever abolished in the United States. The American Government, free from the stain of slavery, have for the first time strung up at the yard-arm as a pirate the captain of a slave ship, and last and greatest of all, has come the proclamation of President Lincoln (which makes us feel thankful to God that we live in 163), that new de claration of independence and the rights of men, greater, in some respects, than that which inaugurated the republic in 1777. Look at it side by side with the proclamation which it called forth from the Southern chivalry and Jefferson Davis. It would seem as if the spear of Ithuriel had touched at the same moment the two Presidents ; and they came out in their true colours—President Lincoln with a proclamation for the emancipation of 3,000,000 slaves, and Jefferson Davis by hoisting the black flag, directing that all slaves shall be relegated to their mastrs, and that the officers of the United States' army shall be murdered. How can we account for the phenomenon that in freedom-loving England public opinion in certain classes should have gone so widely astray upon this question? It must be confessed, I think, that it is largely in consequence of the want of knowledge natural in regard to everything which takes place 3,000 miles off, and also to the fact that within the last 20 years we have been placed to some extent in antagonism with Ame rica; but who was it that has been constantly urging on . the people to go to war with England, to punish her in the first place, and to divert attention from slavery at home? Southern chivalry. Who proposed to seize Texas and bribe the North by a seizure of Canada as a makeweight ? Southern chivalry. Who seized negroes out of our vessels at Charleston, and put them in prison? The Southern chivalry. Who laid the basis of that antagonism which has grown up between these nations ? Not the people of the North, but Southern filibusters. Our press never pretends to be fair in the discussion of these questions, but according as they go in for the North or South do they villify those they are determined to write down. Only the other day the Times declared that there was not one word in the Bible which could be wrested into an objection against negro slavery. There is, indeed, a change in England from the time when the Ironsides of England went forth to fight for liberty with the sword in one hand, the Bible in the other. I am happy to find that sounder opinions are gradually making their way, and I am satisfied that better feelings will be aroused when the question becomes to be better un derstood. lam not about to prophesy, but I firmly be lieve that success will inevitably attend the North, if it has the courage to stand by its principles. At the same time there must be no more Alabamas, if we wish to maintain our self-respect or to cultivate the good feelings of the American people. If the Alabama had been paid for by Mexican money in order to prey upon French principals, is there one among us who can believe that its character would not have been detected by the British Government, and that it would not have been stopped in its career before many weeks had elapsed? The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid loud cheers, and a vote of confidence was unanimously accorded him, tegether with thanks for his past services in Parliament. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Most of the old line-of-battle sailing ships, fri• gates, and other vessels which have for years past ben lying in what is termed the ordinary, in Chat. ham harbour and various parts of the river, are gra. dually disappearing, the Lords of the Admiralty having wisely determined, instead of allowing them to encumber the harbour and river (necessitating the keeping np an extensive staff to guard them), to sell those which are too rotten and unserviceable to allow of their being again commissioned; while those which are in a sound condition will be con verted into training ships for boys and lads at the various ports, or handed over for the service of the Coastguard. Already several of the largest and best of the sailing ships have been sent from Chatham to the Thames, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, Hull, and some others of our large ports, where they are doing good service as receiving and training ships for the volunteers connected with the naval reserve. Yesterday the sailing frigate Active, one of the old class of 40-gun frigates, was brought up from the ordinary to Chatham dockyard, where she is to be completed in her fittings by the hired shipwrights and mechanics, and sent to Hartlepool as a training ship. In addition to the numerous old sailing ships which have been sold out of the service during the past year there are several which have been sur veyed and are only waiting their Lordships' order for their names to disappear from the Navy List. Yesterday an order was received at the dockyard directing the Terpsichore, 18-gun sloop, to be sold, a confidential report of her value having been made to the Admiralty. Several vessels have also been selected from those in the Medway for the service of the Coastguard. Yesterday the paddlewheel steamer Adder, Mr. Blakey, Master Commander, left Chatham, for Shoeburyness, conveying the remaining portion of the target prepared at Chatham Dockyard to be used in the approaching trials of the 120-pounder Whit worth rifled gun against 7i-inch, 61-inch, and 51- inch armour plates. The Adder attempted to make the passage to Shoeburyness the previous day, but soon after leaving harbour encountered a severe gale, which rendered it unsafe for her to proceed, from fear of an accident occurring to the target. The Rhadamanthus, paddle store steamer, Master Commander Raymond, which arrived at S pithead at 10 o'clock on Saturday evening, from Woolwich, with a large cargo of machinery, including a heavy deck load of boilers, experienced terrific weather on the voyage round. Since arriving at Portsmouth she has discharged the machinery from her hold and her deck cargo, and has taken on board machinery and boilers for Devonport, including two boilers on deck for the Ocean, iron-plated frigate, each boiler weighing 582 cwt. 2qrs. 191 b. The Urgent, iron screw troopship, lately paid out of commission at Portsmouth, on her return from service in China, has been placed in dock at Ports mouth and her bottom found to be covered with barnacles and other marine adhesions. The Urgent had been previously, during the term of her com mission, carefully coated over her bottom with va rious so-called patent preservative compositions. The result has only been to coat her bottom with shell matter and weeds more plentifully than could possibly have been the case without them. We have before had occasion to remark on the apparent use lessness of these anti-fouling preparations, as illus trated by vessels docked at Portsmouth. The Tyrian, screw gunboat, fitted with machinery by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field, commenced her official teal of speed at Portsmouth yesterday, and will bring them to a conclusion to-day, it being our intention to give a report of the whole to-morrow. The Esk, 17, screw corvette, and the Curacoa, 21, screw frgiate, continue to absorb the entire energies of the master-shipwright's department at Ports mouth yard. The first named has between 300 and 400 shipwrights employed upon her, exclusive of other trades and labourers; and the latter is simi larly crowded with men. In the meantime the Royal Sovereign and Royal Alfred, iron-cased ships, continue in the deserted state to which we have of late so often referred. It is understood that as soon as the Esk and Curacoa have had their repairs and outfit completed the Royal Sovereign and Royal Alfred will be taken up in earnest, unless some other exigency should arise. The Columbine, 4, screw steam horse power, which was taken o ut of gtun v h es e se fi l, tt 2 in o g o Mc Capt. i n c Sand sharle s basin at Sheerness on Wednesday last, ra bein g fi n tt o ed with Lumley's patent steering appa ratus, was Friday taken to the measured mile off for trial'. Th e vessel was in charge of Wise, A.D.C., Capt. Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard. As previously reported in Th e Sun, the Columbine w as fitted withtheordinaryreumdbdeerr and taken out on trial on the 16th of Dec last. The trial made on Friday was with a view to compare the results. At the first trial with the old rudder, at full speed, helm starboard, at an angle of 23 deg., the circle was made in 4 min. 26 sec. ; with the new rudder, helm starboard, at an angle of 17 deg,, the circle was made in 4 rain. 10 sec. At the now come to by far the most important question that Eng lishmen can discuss at the present moment—one that in eludes within itself the questions of democracy and aristo cracy, of freedom and slavery, of r etrogression (I progre ss the question of the great war which is now desolating the United States of America. The firs t thing at occurs to us in discussing this great question is—what a frightful war this is, how awful in its results, how destructive and demoralising in its tendency. That has been said so much, that I will not repeat it now. This, howev er, I will say, that dreadful as is war, there are things more dreadful than war, things more immoral, more terrible, and more degrad ing. i The war in the United States, dread ful as t is,is, in my opinion, a light infliction compared with the alternative that the free North should join in subjecting themselves openly to the coercion of the South in regard to slavery. (Hear.) I may compare the present position of the North to that of a territory visited by a tornado. The hurricane levels the works of man, and spreads waste where there has been fertility before, but when it is all over the air is fresher, and sweeter, and purer—(cheers)—and we shall see, I hope, that when the tornado of war shall have passed away from America, the accursed barque of slavery has sunk for ever beneath it. (Hear, hear.) The first thing I have to show is that this war is not a chance occurrence. It was in the nature of things inevitable and unavoidable. It might havo been postponed for a year, or it might have been antedated by a year, but it would have come at last as surely as slavery and freedom cannot co-exist within the same bounds. When the fathers of the United States separated themselves from England, slavery, our bequest to them, I am sorry to say, existed in North America ; it is a great mistake to say that they upheld or defended it. The great men of that period, Washington, Jefferson, Maddison, and others, regarded it as an enormous evil, and though they hardly foresaw how to cut it off, they pro bably foresaw that as the country rose in power and popu lation it would cease to be economical to use slave labour, and that so the thing might die out. They thought they had only a tumour, which in the course of time would be absorbed in the system ; they did not know that planted there was a fearful cancer, which must either destroy their life or be extirpated. (Hear, hear.) But in calculating on economical reasons for the destruction of slavery they forgot the moral element that slavery produces. Slavery in the Southern States has produced an oligarchy such as we in this country have no idea of. Yon may call it a republic if you will, but it is an oligarchy of the very worst description, an oligarchy of 30,000 or 40,000 of slaveholders, or 4,000,000 of slaves compelled to toil for their livelihood,and of 6,000,000 or 6,000,000 of what are called mean whites, who are brought up by the condition of things, and taught by the very neces sities of the case, that labour is a degradation. They there fore cannot labour, and they lead the life of wild, roving, reckless filibusters. (Hear, hear.) That is the condition of things which has grown up and which maintains itself after the economical question passed away, and it is that which has brought the free men of the North face to face with slavery now. The South wishes to cling to that which gave it territorial possession and dignity. You must remember that the slavery of America is of all slaveries which have disgraced the world the vilest and the worst. The old slavery of classic times was nothing to it—the slavery of the serf of Russia was nothing to it. In the Southern States of America the slaves would be an element of continual danger and in surrection if they were not, like the beasts of the field, de prived of all the means of education, and crushed down to the lowest type humanity would admit of, in order that they should not rebel successfully. (Cheers.) But slavery must extend itself or die. The uneducated masses of slaves can not be employed in any kind of labour that requires intel lect or education—they cannot be m a d e t o wor k a t a ll ex cept under the supervision of th e overseer or under the lash of the whip. It is only the rudest and most elementary s 3 stem of agriculture that can flourish at their hands. They rapidly, by the rough process they follow, exhaust the soil, and they are carried cff to other tracts farther to the west and south to follow the same course. (Hear, hear.) The North made itself a shameful partner in the guilt of slavery for the sake of preserving the Union by allowing the infamous Fugitiv e Sl ave Bi ll to pass, b y which masters in one state have p ower to claim by law t h e re demption of slaves in another. W hat is it the Nor th i s fighting for? It is that slavery s h a ll not extend i tse lf. No soo ner was President Lincoln elected than the slaveholding South, finding itself no longer predominant in the Union , and that slavery was destined to ultimate destruction, rose i n. Amu a ptast the government of the United States. Under ///~ ~ .I ~ /~ / r / r~ &/. €.I 4.--: - -- -; ---- - "7 ' e'::2 - _ ; - --e__ -'''L ..7 i - I PRICE..... —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. regard to the cooking arraugeinenta. The vsay sa which this is proposed to be accomplished is to erect an oven about four feet forward of the ship's coppers, the oven to be, for a crew of 300 men, five feet high and wide, and two feet in depth. This oven will contain four shelves of wire trays, so as to equalise the heat from top to bottom, which would receive the men's mess-dishes containiug their fresh meat and potatoes. A jacket, or flue, encircles the oven from a small fire under neath, the smoke being carried off by a funnel com municating with the larger funnel of the galley. This oven would bake dinners for the whole crew of 300 men. Again, take the instance of a ship on a foreign station, say the Pacific, in which the hiseuit runs short. Barrels of American flour, the best bread making flour in the world, can always be ob tained in any quantity and at moderate cost. The supplementary oven would, therefore, under such circumstances, afford a means of giving a ship's com pany good, wholesome, fresh bread every day, in lieu of the unwholesome biscuit to be allow( don the spot, on which they must be otherwise fed. The exact difference between soft, fresh bread and rotten or flinty biscuit on a distant station like the Pacific can only be realised by those who have served in such latitudes. In addition, however, to providing our ships' crews with the means of baking as well as boiling their fresh beef; and with fresh, soft bread, when necessary, on a foreign station, the pro posed scheme goes still further. It is proposed that the men shall be allowed not the 11b, of potatoes of the convict, weighed after boiling, but half a pound I of potatoes with his fresh meat, in addition to his half pound of shreds of vegetables for soup, and that mutton should be supplied on certain days in har bour in lieu of beef. It is estimated that the cost of this additional allowance of potatoes, and the oc casional substitution of mutton for beef, would in crease the cost of victualling our seamen and marines about Bs. per head per annum—a mere bagatelle, if we even put the question of the men's comfort and enjoyment aside, and look upon it from a merely sanitary point of view. The cost of a supplemen tary oven which would bake sufficient bread and the dinners daily for 300 men would not exceed £35. If, however, the present Board carries out the proposed plan for improving the supply and cook ing of provisions for the crews of her Majesty's ships, they will do more to render the Royal Naval service popular with seaman than has been done by any previous measure. second trial, with the old rudder, from dead stop, helm starboard, at an angle of 351 deg., the circle was made in 4 min. 30 sec.; with the new rudder, at an angle of 30 deg., the circle was made in 4 min. 15 see. At the third trial with the old rud der, at full speed, helm port, at an angle of 18' deg., the circle was made in 5 min. 5 sec. ; with the new rudder at an angle of 18 deg. the circle was made in 4 min. 10 sec. At the fourth trial with the old rudder, from dead stop, helm port, at an angle of 32 deg., which fell off to 27 deg., the circle was made in 4 min. 28 sec.; with the new rudder, at an angle of 30 deg., which fell off t o 26 deg., the circle was turned in 4 min. 20 see. At the fifth trial, with the old rudder, at full speed, helm star board, at an angle of 11 deg., the circle was made in 7 min. 48 sec. ; with the new rudder, at an angle of 10 deg., the circle was made in 5 min. 40 sec. At a similar trial with the old rudder, with the helm to port, the circle was made in 7 min. 20 sec., and with the new rudder in 6 min. 40 sec. The com parative diameters of circles were—Second trial, with old rudder, 818 ft. ; new rudder, 625 ft. Third trial, old rudder, 1,450 ft. ; new rudder, 782 ft. Fourth trial, old rudder, 551 ft. ; new rudder, 291 ft. Fifth trial, old rudder, 673 ft. ; new rudder, 468 ft. When testing the power of the old rudder the trial was made on a calm day, and with little or no wind. The trial of Lumley's rudder on Friday was made in a heavy sea, with a heavy gale of wind blowing from S.S.W., the force of wind being from 7 to 8. Capt. Wise, with a wish to test the strength of the new rudder in the most efficient manner pos sible, turned the Columbine's stern up to the wind in the teeth of the gale then blowing and against the heavy sea, and directed the ship to be steamed astern full speed, which the rudder answered in a most admirable manner, proving the strength and efficiency of the invention when applied to heavy and powerful vessels, and under the most unfavour' able circumstances. The most marked improvement was evident when the small helm was given, such as 11 to 12 deg., the Lumley rudder then gaining as much as two minutes in describing the circle over the old rudder. The diameters of the circles— the true test of the efficiency of a rudder—were found to be in some cases as much as 50 per cent, in favour of the Lumley invention. The trial was considered most satisfactory. The whole of the joiners and smiths ordered to be entered at Chatham dockyard have been obtained, but shipwrights are still required. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Augustus W. Benvon, Charles P. G. Hicks, Alric F. Grant, Godfrey W. M. Eliot, William F. E. Freeland, Cecil G. Horne, George R. C. Eyres, Robert H. Ramsden, and George S. Dea con, midshipmen, to the Revenge ; George March, master, to the Edgar ; John P. P. Warren, master, to the Marlborough; Dr. Edward Heath, surgeon, to the Dauntless ; the Rev. Edward Pemberton, chaplain, has been selected to perform the duties of chaplain of the Asia, temporarily, until another chaplain is appointed; George Woodridge, assist.- ' paymaster, to the Colossus ; Richard H. Byron, midshipman, to the Narcissus; Stuart Banks Ru pell has been nominated to a naval cadetship ; E. R. Brown, Harry H. S. Andrews, Edw. F. Dixon, and K. M'Kenzie, assist-clerks, to the Marlborough. Cooking for the Navy. RAILWAYS AND OTHER COMPANIES. While everything connected with the construe- NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. It appears that, subject to the audit now in pro gress, the dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December will be at the rate of 31 per cent., carrying over a balance of £3,500. tion, rig, and ornament of our ships of war is in a state of revision, it is but just to the crews of those ships that the system of victualling should also be revised, old rules swept away, and the whole sys tem based on - principles in accordance with modern ideas. We are much pleased to find that a step in this direction is about to be taken by the Admiralty with reference to victualling the seamen and ma rines of our fleets, and to which we are about to re- fer. Before doing so we must call attention to the present system, so far as relates to meat and vege tables, and contrast it with that carried out with regard to prisoners undergoing penal servitude. In drawing the contrast there is not the slightest in tention to throw blame on the present or late Boards of Admiralty ; on the contrary, great praise is due to the present Board for the steps they have already taken to do away with this reproach, and still greater praise will be accorded them if they carry out the proposed scheme. Our seamen and marines are now fed exclusively upon beef and pork— that is, they can have boiled salt beef, boiled fresh beef, and bailed salt pork, but all must be boiled in the ship's coppers. From the date of a ship's commission to her paying off there is there fore nothing but " boil." There is a chance, certainly, of a mess obtaining a baked dinner of fresh meat when in harbour about once a fortnight, but from the small amount of oven accommodation in the cooking galleys fitted on board our ships this treat cannot be obtained oftener than the time stated, as the use of the existing ovens is chiefly monopo lised for the messes of the ship's officers. Taking the average of ships in commission, it will be found that nine out of the twelve months of the year are passed in harbour, and during this harbour period fresh beef is served out to the crews five days out of seven. The meat is weighed out and cut up into junks under proper supervision, and handed over to the ship's cook, who bundles it, according to old usage, into the ship's coppers with a small quantity of vegetables, and boils the whole until reduced to a kind of soup that would be uneatable were it not for the few vegetables in it. The meat is at the same time transformed into a pulpy, stringy sub stance which is no longer nutritious. Fresh beef soup, with a few shreds of veget ables, is a ca p ital thing in its way, but if people on shore were com pelled to live on it, with nothing for a change but boiled salt beef or boiled salt pork, the chances are that they would soon pray heartily for a changes of diet. The allowance by Admiralty regulation of vegetables on fresh-beef days to seamen and marines is half a pound of mixed vegetables per man. In tak ing up these vegetables potatoes are generally re fused, for two reasons—first, that a good sized potato would weigh the half pound; and, secondly, that a handkerchief full of biscuit can always be exchanged for a net of potatoes in some boat along side. Now, prisoners undergoing penal servitude, say for six years, in one of our outport prisons, for the first four years of their servitude are fed on boiled meats and soups. As their constitutions, how ever, might be possibly injured if such a course of treatment were long persisted in, they, during the last two years, get baked beef or mutton two day s ' in the week. They are allowed the same quantity of vegetables for soup that seamen and marinesddiroen ceive—viz., half a pound per day ; hut a , in a ddition to this, and, therefore, in excess of w h a co is allowed nvict also to the crews of her Majesty's ships, receives daily 11b. of potatoes, weighed after they have been boiled. Such are contrasted parts of the existing systems of v i c tualling , the men train e d an d t rus t e d to fight the ir country s battles and the of things, Con victed felon. To remedy this state and give a greater variety to the seaman's dinner, a plan has been submitted for the consideration of the Lords of the Admiralty by an officer of considerable standing in the Victualling Department, whi c h h as Lordships, been most favourably rece i ve d by their who have, we believe, issued orders for its imme diate trial on board one of the ships in the home ports; and most pro b ably the Hannibal, screw liner at Portsmouth, selected as a depot ship for the reception of seamen returning to the port from leave, will be fitted on the proposed plan, in order that it may be fully tested and reported upon by the Staff of the Port Admiral. The cost of the existing cooking galleys on board a first-class ship is to the Admiralty about £l,OOO each. 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Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &a, &e., &a Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY, At 2s. ed. each Person. SOUPS. Purée of Peas. Madeleine. FISH. Cod and Oyster Sauce. Fried Fillets of Brill. ENTREES. Sweetbreads a L'ltalienne. Mutton Cutlets, Sauce Tomate. JOINTS. Haunches of Mutton. SWEETS. Cabinet Puddings. Cheese Cakes. Cheese and Salad. THE LONDON, 19', FLEET-STREET. Ribs of Beef. " Float clOuble so -Q- (w.Go'se-dub's) Swan, and shad 6," ('cnyghte') Sydney-like-13 Hen. 8, in 1835-Meter act) wherein the Cap tain (& brother Atkins Chamberlayne, by reason of Jul. 3's papal boy Edw. 6th, Swan-herd city grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by 35 H. 8, e. 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. & Ormond-Yard—the people's land. The city w.end Onus shift brings back H. s's C.H.hand6s to Swan-nick ' its angeli jimus lady-day non est irate cceli,' under no 'British-crown' t Church congregation Queen head from Cardinal (John o' Gaunt's Swinford) Beaufort's bastard niece Joan= - James I. Stuart 1424 race in Vic. as Papal illegitima'd 1397—book'd on 1752 to Gregerien mythotog 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,, with Egypt's P. and 0. Ismail Co. Morea tribute 'note'. See M. Post, Jan. 7, '63, p. 7, N. f Site was and is, what can there more be said ? IS . On earth the chief, in heaven the second maid. f * Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Exchequer Troy-wt., 1838, for the Pope's mitre-and-key 1772 Mint Conefalonier ' So, in City wine charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Hesse Mayor Rose, M.P. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance office-shift), for K. John's Bd-tun,—was mock presented in Novamber to Indian Peter, Constable of the Tower, as AnglQ Micmac flag union bearer, for Thebeone-ic Parliament oath'R, 1843 act—on Ackerley's 1837 Siderial 'Cwt.' JURY voice--whence the Christian HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES elected PETER by Ashburton Capitulation-3ty, their Maori-Antipodean New Zealand Carib POPE, in 1842—by medal/ien flag to Fort Garray military sta.—See Commissary Milman & Darling's papers, 1671 to 1843, on Car. 2 Hudson's Bay Coraiffion of Array, on Eliz. 157 2 Raleigh's charge—Rolls, is, § 17. - - So the tidal 6 & 6 issue of standard Meters for colonial juryman in New Caledonia as BRITAIN'S O.S. Columnbia, tOn Luther-set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp. Charles V, by Pavia'n intermedq Heligo-land supremacy in Sydney—made they S•Melita Goz&T sagitta/ wrist-t,Arch'r inch bearer. So, by Ghent 3ty, 30 May 1814-31-Copartner act, No. b 4, for 2-3 Will. 4, CAput-81, 92,1832, (on Russian Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the Clergy and restraint of appeals to Rome, by lack of justice—names 25 Hen. 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5), for 1863 marine link causes, to avoid tedious suits now 1000 w., pending on Forts Garry whence the 9 mile sqr. by Russia to Hudson's Bay Co.'s at MINOAN, Labrador, and Buenos Ayres, Castilia like-Gros enclosure, as by the Treasury D. A. Comifry G. papers. So, on Sir C. Stuart and MELLO'S Brazil S.A. election, (witnessed in Adm. Hamond and Secretary Hill Sand ys), by the 1825 Holy alliance of Kings' abolition, thew Malta Caesar Peru 1547 rota-crown 1829-Protector Lieut Ackerley, u..14r, as King John's Ist Montague 'ld kin trust, was sworn -4 Worcigs4cklatim e iB37., by.Ggiti 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-hill Egerton, by Somer. set' Hill ,cast]—as Malcolm 111. line of Clare Lincoln-in'- Lacy as Pale;sten of Wales-Ireland, since 1825-37 by Holy Alliance in Ackerley's L. mint of Chester by Indian Mary on Law Crt-tie 1820 (2d) as the fist Civic Christian marriage by Pomponia Grmcina = Plautus, 43 A.D. edict Claudii. " As Chester's Judge—like owl alone U.C. { Hugh `:=Loop'd am I,—thy Braose' a one. A' D. ¶ The same evil influence appeardto have closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club, on his £4,000 Co-burn fraud discovery and U.S. Museum membership, for holding to his TurstOtthumb' Duplex official duties, and civil law mixed church cause (of his imprisonment at Bath, Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil), without Satrapia crime, So, for a death-rid of Ackerley's Nufndland Baltimore's Maryland, of Car. 1.1634 Indian 2-Arrow trust on Cherokee Nation, 1730-74's Cecil rr.s. 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 •ge'rant-war for LIN COLN'S last Dec. PIRATE Army word Nation. *God's arc ofcilla' tie of pendulum in lat. 510 30 N. as the le 30 tifff' to & fro._ 'A'istosh go to like polar *declina tion (above 25 M.) below the pole, 29 Sept., for Poor-law Treasury Jury audits, now in : : • • . 0. Style as tproad 'R.' an'ver"' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix p* to 51. 30 BOW, Bantry, pellisle, d runswis. Mansion House 'Market,' London, 2-Jan. 28, 1863. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the following railway bills were de clared to have complied with the standing orders : —The Somerset Coal Railway, for a line from Wincanton, on the Somerset and Dorset Railway, to Tunsbury, at an estimated cost of £270,000 ; Isle of Purbeck, from Wareham to Swanage, and to raise £95,000; Dulas Valley Mineral, for exten sions to Brecon and the Swansea Vale Railway, to raise an additional capital of £450,000, and to change the name of the company to that of the Swansea, Neath, and Brecon Railway; Esk Valley, for an extension from the Eskbank-station of the North British to Springfield in Lasswade, at a cost of £27,000; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, for arrangements as to share capital and leasing the line to the London and North-Western Company ; Hoylake, for lines from Birkenhead and Poulton to Hoylake, in Cheshire, and to raise £120,000; Carnarvonshire, for new lines to Llan beblig and Dandwrog, and to raise a new capital of £BO,OOO ; Farnborough and Aldershot, to run from the South- Western at Farnborough to Aldershot, and to raise £13,000 ; Caledoni:n, to merge the Granton branches in the Caledonian, and raise £BO,OOO by new shares, also to deviate and relin quish part of Rutherglen and Coatbridge branch ; North British and Wansbeck, to make financial arrangements. The non-compliances included the Potteries Junc tion ; Bristol Central Station and Railways, and to raise £300,000 ; Bristol and North Somerset, for a railway near Evercreech to Bristol, Radstock, Camerton, and other places, and raise £500,000 ; Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway, and to raise £200,000. TELEGRAPH TO INDIA. The directors of this company in their half-yearly report state that the shareholders were informed last month that the Government had decided to re tain in their own hands the construction of the Per sian Gulf line, and that under those circumstances the directors recommended the shareholders to maintain and work their Egyptian line, and to await the result of the completion and working of the Persian Gulf line before deciding upon the course to be pursued. The directors have since found it necessary to discontinue for the present the station at Jabal, on account of the risk which was considered by the Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to attend their vessels calling for telegrams. Under these circumstances, the directors considered it the best course in the interests of the company to make arrangements with Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., the lessees of the Malta and Alexandria cable, for working the Alexandria and Suez line for four years from the Ist January, under which the line is to be worked and maintained in good condition, without any charge on the company by the lessees who are to pay the company, so long as the Malta and Alex andria cable continue in working order, £2,500 a year during the term of the lease. This will enable the board, unless any unforeseen accident arises, to pay a dividend to the shareholders during the next four years of from 4 to 5 per cent. per annum. The board have obtained the sanction of the Viceroy of Egypt to construct a line to El Arish, with a view to completing the further communication to Bey rout, Iscanderoon, or Aleppo, and so connecting this company's line with Constantinople by one about to be constructed by the Ottoman Government from Diarbekir, on the direct line from Constantinople to India, and also by the Persian Gulf Telegraph with India, by which means a portion, and in case of ac cident to the direct line, the whole of the India and China messages will pass through the company's lines. The capital account to the 31st of December shows that £45,175 had been received and £52,095 expended, including £4,538 outstanding h t the company. c a o c m c accounts, leaving a balance of £7, 820 a g ainst ce The revenue account f or the half- year shows that £3,691 hadbe en 7 received and £3,2o3a p n r d ecedinga expended,o account, nt, a balance leaving, with of £495. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. H orniman's Tea is unco l oure d, th ere f ore , a l ways good al i ke. Sold i n packets by 2,280 agents. THE GEORGE GRISWOLD.—We understand that the Secretary for War forwarded instructions, yes terday, to the commanders of the batteries on each side of the Mersey, and of her Majesty's ship Majestic, to the effect that when the American George Griswold (with provisions for the Lancashire operatives) enters the river, a salute of 15 guns should be fired from each battery, and a salute of 21 guns from the Majestic. TriE NEGRO AND THE PROCLAMATION.—Tho Federal "Military Governor of South Carolina," invited the negroes to a feast on the Ist Jan. The corre spondent of the New York. Times states that the assemblage was not large, and in explanation he mentions thisinci dent :—" I read General Saxon's address to my negr o if Sam. a very intelligent contraband , and asked him f he wished to join in the jubilee. But no, Sam did not want to go, his wife was sick, and he wanted no whisky and feasting.' I then tried to impress upon his mind the im portance of the day, and told him with all the solemnity that I could master that flora that day forward he was for ever free; but he only replied with a broad grin and a shake of the head, ' I ain't no fool, massa, I knew what dat means." What does it mean, Sam ?' But Sau i did not want to tell. Upon my repeating the question, 'however, and insisting upon an answer, he stepped to the corner of the room, and taking up the broom stood in tho position of shoulder arms,' at the same time slowly shaking his head in a very meaning way. This expressive pamtomime explained more eloquently than words that they wanted to put a musket in his hands and enlist him in the S*iuth Caro lina Volunteers, but, in vulgar parlance, he couldn't see it.