The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-28 00:00:00

... • - . -6C56 7.1 • • / 1 4f •, , •••ty e „, 4,14, Ir llly 1461‘Vtit (,( ; , • - . . . . • nitr A• - - 77 1 . 1 -• .:1 " 111 11Wejir ;ALI - .`1 4 ‘ 14111 :, DIE 'lO • - D I IT. \\\ . 711 MARIETTA and CINCINNATI RAILROAD COMPANY, as Re-or.anised Issue of 1,500,0'0 doll. SEVEN PER, cENr. FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, 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 share capital authorised is 12,000,00 dole. ; the amount is -ued 9,172,376 dole. 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 mortgagor is 3,500,000 dole., of which only 238,00 C dolts. 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 papfrcurrency the inte rest and principal will be made payable in London at 4s. per dollar. Price of bonds at 71 per cent., 4s. 6d. p r dollar, being for 1,000 dole. bond £159 15s. ; 50 dole. bond £79 17s. 6d.; 110 (lots. bond £l5 19... Cd,; h If-yearly coupons attached for £l4, £7, and £1 is. respectively per annum, being rather more than 81 per cent. on the cost. A deposit of 5 per cent., or £ll ss. on erch 1,000 dole., to be Paid to the banker. on application, and the balance may be either paid on allotment or by the lot owing instalments : Six per cent. (£l3 11s. per 1,003 dole.) on allotment, and 2U per cent. (£45 per 1,100 dole.) on each of the following dsys— let May, Ist August, and let November, with interest at 8 per cent. from Ist February. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28, 1863. PRICE ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. N°. 22,022. With Fifty beautiful Illustrations, by Wolf and Zwecker, 215., handsomely bound, SAINT MARK'S HOSPITAL for FISTULA and other DISEASES of the RECTUM. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING hopsOVERNORS will be he'd at the London Tavern, Bi s ate-street, on THURSDAY, the 12th February next, to receive the Yearly Report of the Committee of Management, of the Treasurer, and of the Medical fibers 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. Mr. Taylor, M.P., and his Constituents. RALDWIN'S AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURES FROM NATAL TO THE FALLS OF ZAMBESI. 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- "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 shud :er while we read the author's desperate and appaling encounters.'' —Morning Post. sent; fir. 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 ao 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 Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. In 2 vols., A DAUGHTER OF EVE. A NOVEL. 5 per cent. Deposit .. . • 6 per cent. on Allotment .. 2') per cent. 1s: May • • 20 per cent. Ist August .. 20 par cent. Ist November .. .£ll 5 0 .. 13 10 0 .. 45 0 0 .. 45 0 0 .. 45 0 0 By HAIN FRISWELL, Author of "Sham," "Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies." New Zealand's Antipode'an Gaspe Forest-law Chief, in MALTA-ALLIANCE A GREEK-PALATINE OF CHESTER on, JVLIA.N O.S. I [4 .1 4 ` 1. I] v. Greg'ricu C N.style meansun Calender of Papal-palmer-sT-onc,—eamelled. TAX INCH-FULCRUM' OF ARCHIMEDES, ON ASIA'S AMERIC' CARIB IND`N § BALTIMOR' RATE. Marlbro'-st. Crt. Ajeinie'in Coal-hole Dog-set'ng Case, Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. was upon that question, that reply being that the 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, 71 per cent. £159 15 0 Propee:uses and forms of application may be obtained of D. Alison, Esq., Secretary, 7A, Basinghall-street ; E. F. Satterthwaite, Neg., No. 38, Throzmorton-st reet ; and ewe. lieseltine and Powell, No. 2, lloya. Exchanze-buildin_ s. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE MORALS OF MAYFAIR." Now ready at all the Libraries , in 2 vols., 218., A POINT OF HONOUR. By the Author of 'THE MORALS OF MAYFAIR," Sc. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. with Inchkeithicrt Garrey Gladiator-stff Togairy. no doubt, that they were thoroughly disgusted with the treatment which the last reform bill received at the hands of the house, and were 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 Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., with Portrait, 215., MEMOIRS OF CHRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN. By HENRY WOODHEAD. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-steeet. Eighth Edition, bound, 6a., 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. seized it at the time, but the cause of truth and justice marches on through all delays and obstacles. When we de- THE 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. Calls not to exceed £2 each Share, and Three Months' interval between each Call. DIRECTORS. Hugh Mason, Esq., Ashton-under-Lyne. James Bibby, Esq. (J. Bitty, 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 Esq. (P. Proudfoot and Co.), Manchester. James King, Esq. (Jas. King and Sons), Rochdale and Man chester. Joseph Firth, Esq. (Firth and Howarth), Todmorden. MANAGERS SYRIA. George William Benwell, Esq. l IN Thomas Bowen Rees, Esq. BANKERS. Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, London. Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Philip Cazenove, and Co., 52, Threadneed:e - street, E.C. Manchester—Henry Rawson, Esq, Exchange-arcade. SOLICITOR. William Slater, Esq , 66, Fountain-street, Manchester. SECRETARY (pro teml.—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 ;Jolley. 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 ot the world. Phis Company is formed for the purpose of encouraging the growth of Cotton in Asia Minor—a c untry x ith 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 d 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 ot 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 highly 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 ot 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. K. 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 pea-ant -exact payment tekoodaiid is certainly not to be counted upon, perhaps from delay in realising produce, but care is invariably taken to have ample value to meet all contingeacies ; and besides the deposit of the farmer's title-deeds the chiefs or communitys of the vil lages frequently become, collectively or severally, substan tial guarantees for the lo,ns. 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 nine 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 fbrmer 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 fou• d in which the cessionaire cultivates cotton the exemp tion of th • tithe, or any payment in lieu of tithe, shall be ex tended to five yeas s.'e 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 well as in the cleaning of it and separating the ed, shall be exempt from all customs dues, tee." Within the space of two years the exports of the raw ma terial from Smyrna have multiplied nearly tenfold. In 1.60 they were but 6,000 bales. Last year's crop, already coming forward, is estimated at about 60,00 0 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 72,00 1 ,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 correspond in,g progress in cultivation secured in future years, This 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 I hus :- Ist. From advances made to cultivators against the crops. 2d, From the purchase of Cotton on their own account and on commission. 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. (his form must be delivered entire to the Bankers of the Company, who will tear 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 e •ch in the Asia Minor Company, Limited, and I hereby agree to accept such Sh ares , or any smaller number that may beallotted 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 yo .1 may appoint. I am, gentlemen, Name in full Profession or Occupation Address in full. ..... 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"This is a well written tale, and the interest is well sus tained throughout. The different scenes are presented so attractively, and the whole tale is so well told - interspersed, too, with so many delicate touches —that it only requires to be read to be appreciated."—Athenaeum. London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. ►i"'HE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT is fully -1- explained in Professor HUXLEY'S LECTURES TO WORKING HEN. Crown Svo., price 2s. 6d. _... London : Robert u ardwicke, 19.2, Piccadilly. DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES.—For full explanation of this interesting theory, see Prof. HUXLEY'S LECTURES, just published, complete in cloth, pace 2s. 6d. London : Robert Hard micke, 192, Piccadilly. L IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in FUN, every week. One Penny Now Beady, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d.; post free, 55., the i.ZECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with 1, - , numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. IC. L. Blanch ird, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand. Esq Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &e., &o. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY, At 2s. 6d. each Person. SOUPS. Purée of Peas. Madeleine. FISH. Cod and Oyster SauCe. -- Fried Fillets of Brill. ENTREES. Sweetbreads a L'ltallenne. JOINTS. Mutton Cutlets, Sauce Tomate. Haunches of Mutton. SWEETS. Cabinet ruddings. Cheese Cakes. Cheese and Salad. THE LONDON, 19', FLEET-STREET. Ribs of Beef. " 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" r.lOO voices). —The best seats can be secured at Mr. Austin's ticket ofnce.2B, Piccadilly, W.—Admission ls. Sofa stalls (numbered) ss. each. CANTERBURY HA LL. —LAST WEEK of the LANCASHIRE CHAMPION PRIZE HAND-BELL RINGER . 4, at half-past Nine o'clock. oolsifolitalse success of the renowned Pantomimic Entertain ment, THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, solely sustained by E. Marshall. The Comic by Unsworth, Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAN D OPERATIC SELECTIONS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans, r " 0 X F OR D, 16, OXFORD STREET. THE LANCASHIRE CHANIPION PRIZE HAND BELL RINGERS, Twelve Performers on Sixty-six Bells. Conductor, Mr. E. BENSON. Drew Dean's Flute S los lees, four-part Songs, Choruses, Arc., and other music attracti ns, including a Grand Selec tion from GLucit's opera " ALC ESTE," 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. THE LONDON PAVILION.- Messrs. LOIBL and SONNHAMIKFR 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 eq ially gratifying. On the occasion of their Benefit a special programme will be arranged representing such a galaxy of ta'ent as was never presented to the public. The LONDON PAVILION, Tichborne-street. 120 P ERFORMERS will appear at the LONDON PAVILION on THURSDAY NEXT, the PROPRIETOR'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. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. ell- Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Establishment a Grand Conversation S aloon, Reading Room, and Smoking 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. ARGYLL ROOMS.-JULLIEN'S PROME NADE CONCERTS will take place Every Evening at the above Rooms. The Pros,►ramme 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 ff. Jullien. Admission, Is. Manager, M. GRENET. THE GALE. 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. 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 a perfect hurricane, which 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 the gale. She was brought into harbour bya powerful tug, and moored at the new quay, but when the gale came away with such fury at about 10 o'clock she dragged her 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 wellel which put to sea yesterday in the face of the gale i 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 exme CHATHtreAM .Tuesday. The wind, which for the last two days had been blowing a moderate gale from the south-vast, 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 ca!ra, 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 ing,and great th the some of them having sustained more or less damage from having broken their moorings. A large fleet of colliers are known to be on their way to this port from the north, eanpxasiettyweisekfehltafvoerbteheenirvsearyfety. Up to the depar turenadnoef this despatch, however, no report of any casualty tIl. a 1 property,en received. _ r from during l T ow he la h n i a g s h f t o i r d e m s which have b oth sds t prevailedhe destructive to Medway,agricul turalm near Maidstone to the Nore, being sub merged. The wind this evening is shifting to the north, and, as the barometer is still rising, there is every proba bility of a frost settin g in The Hants Independent states that the remains of an ancient ship are visible a t l ow water in the river Ramble, near the village of Swanwick, and are supposed to be " one of a Danish fleet, which history records was wrecked at that spot in Xing Alfred's time," JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. MONS. JULLIEN has the honour to announce -U ll - that his PROMENADE CONCERTS will take place Every Evening at the ARGYLL ROOMS. The Programme will Include seleAions and arrangements from the works of the following masters : MOZART, I ROSSINI, I MEYERBEER, I DONIZETTI. A Grand Quadrille from Howard Glover's Opera, " Once too Often," and the ba' let music will be chiefly selected from the repertoire of the l'te M. Jullien. _ _ Admission—One Shilling. Manager, M. GRENET, THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. open daily, trom 11 to 10 (for Gentlem , n only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-snuare, and 4iA, - Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at seven. Illus trated and Dean iptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. Q PECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented 1k.3 Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including• Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary re ief to weak, din, and detecti ve vision.--S. and B. SOLOM ON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle- s t reet, Piccadilly. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits i nto the ear, not perceptib e, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD. — Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre ,ared without an y mercurial in g redient, from the recipe of Dr. :cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who • uffer from b ilious and dyer complaints, indigestion, wind. ,pastne, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. i n one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. London,and by most druggists, in boxes,la. lid., and three times the (mei% Scott's Bilious an Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. The Telegraph of Cl'mas-day states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, agents of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a Le micmac"-plot intent to do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. This sinister Bowyer-R.C. j police report—unveils the old Atkins tablets, 52 yrs hid under Clapham Kirk—Cubit'd on ¶ark-harass of 13 Car. n., against plaintiff (the executor and state supporter of Ang to-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter Basquet, 111 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 Wools & Forest• law Works'-1552 N. S' • Chiliarcher 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 tatchelor building-in his Coal •hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—to tomb.). 'Think !—every day to be one's last, { Chandos. For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.' The papal 1829 Metropolis # police act, 3 Wm. 4, c 19, 15, 39, 44—gives L 5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on "Offences against the person, &c, 24-25 Viet., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77—Garot-Chlorclormists, and Chester police soc: fire-raisers," by £5 fine or certificate from stipendiary. Whence for 'the King's /wan Ge-'-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'umbr& Game amphibious to Forest common law—in upper X. Cygni-nota C night, for lower spirit-level oath Kt. mark (Scot & Stafford)—Rich. 2 and 3 H. 8, c 18 —2 Nic'—St.AnCerou Sheriff, Gl4sco City arms —Swan's " Float double so-e -(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 Pe boy Edw. 6th, Swan-herd city grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by 35H. 8, c. 1, he being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem Hospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, as Q. Eliz. Park lodge, 5 Swallow-st. & Ormond-Yard—the people's land. The city w.end onus shift brings back H. s's CKhandos to Swan-nick ' its angeli jimus lady-day non est ltet a coeli,' 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 Vie. as Papal illegitima'd 1397—hook'd on 1752 to Gregerien mytholog mean Sun (non-siderial) Priests' of Peru Indian, on Ego Rex mandate, 1546.7, at H. B's death—cancelled in Emp. Iturbide, Pedro 1., with Egypt's P. and 0. /sigia'.l Co. Morea tribute 'note'. See M. _Post, Jan. 7, '63, p. 7, She was and is. what can there more be said ? N • t On earth the chief, in heaven the second maid.' } 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 November to Indian Peter, Constable of the Tower, as Angl 9 Micmac flag union bearer, for The6cone-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 medallien flag to Fort Gamy military sta.—See Commissary Mil man & Darling's papers, 1671 to 1843, on Car. 2 Hudson's Bay Coruijion of Array. on Eliz. 1672 Raleigh's charge—Rolls, n, ¢ 17. So the tidal 6 & 6 issue of standard Meters for c olonial 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 intermed° Heligo-land supremacy in Sydney—made then S. M elita Goza T asgittal Arch'r inch bearer. So, by Ghent 3ty, 30 May 1814-31-Copartner act, No. 64, 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 100. w., pending on Forts Garry whence the 9 mile sqr. by Russia to Hudson's B iy Co.'s at MINOAN, Labrador, and Buenos Ayres, Castilla like-Gros enclosure, as by the Treasury D. A. Comitry Gr. papers. So, on Sir C. Stuart and MELLO'S Brazil S.A. election, (witnessed in Adm. Hamond and Secretary Hill Sandys), by the 1825 Holy alliance of Kings' abolition, thew Malta Caesar Peru 1547 rota-crown 1829-Protector Lieut Ackerley, u..fs, as King John's Ist Montague 'R/ kin trust, was sworn in as Chief-judge, at Worcester's Crt. in Jan. 1837, by Gold stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose Jon.Dxx-daughter marries the Captain's nephew, by 2nd-branch of Dartmouth's Slane le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Denton Coke, Hun-' lohe gate-Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bar'd in heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by ' Somer set' Hill icasq—as Malcolm in. line of Clare Lincoln-in'- Lacy as Pal6.l"`ten 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 Gra3cina = Plautus, 43 A.D. edict Claudii. " As Chester's Judge—like owl alone u ''' I Hugh '=Loop'd am Braose' 0 one. A.. D. ¶ The same evil influence appears to have closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club, on his £4,000 Co-burn frauddiscovery and U.S. Museum membership, for holding to his 'Furstinthumb' 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. I. 1634 Indian 2-Arrow trust on Cherokee Nation, 1730-74's Cecil N.S* Exeter Change attaint—which Calvin-papist Quakers Percy-Smithsonian ' peculiar insti • tution' on Can'ng's £.Rush native by Gladstone Hs. Com.'- mittee, 1833-37-touch Georgia's Belly •gerant-war for LIN coLN's last Dec. PIRATE Army word Nation. *God's arc -to Ofeilla'tie of pendulum in lat. 510 30 N. the lc 30 taz• to & fro,_ 'A'Nosh go to like polar *declina tion (above 25 M.) below the pols, 29 Sept., for Poor-law Treasury Jury audits, now in ::•• . 0. Style as Cproad ' &Over — .' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix /3* to 510 30 Baw t Bantry, &Male, d runswis. Mansion House 'Market,' London, 2-Jan. 28, 1863. sire extended suffrage, it is not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. The progress of libeeslism 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 reform, I would say we have 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.ley have, indeed, shown a power of oaf - - 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 manfor the bene fit of another. What is it that has given renewed energy to the Conservatives on the question of chur c h r a t es ? D epen d upon it that the cry " the church is in dan ger ," w hi c h h as 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 cr y o f "the church in danger" al wa y s reminds me of the 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. Atter 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 element 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 far 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 maintain a predominant navy and a popu lation that should know how to use the rifle. (Hear.) I now c ,me to by far the most important question that Eng lishmen can discuss at the present moment—one that in cludes within itself the questions of democracy and aristo cracy, of freedom and slavery, of retrogression and progress the question of the great war which is now desolating the United States of America. The fi rst thing that occurs to us in discussing this great question is—what a frightful war this is, how awful in its results, bow destructive and demoralising in its tendency. That has been said so much, that I will not repeat it now. This, h owever, I will say, that dreadful as is war, there are things more dreadful than war, things more immoral, more terrible, and more degrad ing. The war in the United States, dreadful as it is, is, in my opinion, a light infliction compared with the alternative th .t 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 ov er the airis 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 have 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, ISladdison, 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. You 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 5,000,000 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 Americais 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 typo 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 made to work at all ex cept under the supervision of the overseer or under the lash of the whip. It is only the rudest and most elementary system of agriculture that can flourish at their hands. They rapidly, by the rough process they follow, exhaust the soil, and they are carried ff 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 Fugitive Slave Bill to pass, by which masters in one state have po wer to cla i m b y law the re d em ption of slaves in another. What is it the North is fighting for? It is that slavery sh a ll not extend itself. N o soo ner was President Lincoln elected than the slaveholding South, finding itself no longer predominant in the Union, and that slavery w as destined to ultimate destruction, rose in arms against the government of the United States, Under these circumstances, then, I say that the North are fighting against slavery. It has Leen 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 the Union 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 1863), 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, dire, ting that all slaves shall be relegated to their mast rs, 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 P Not the people of the North, but Southern filibusters. Our press nea , er 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, together 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 b-en 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 up 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 7k-inch, 69-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 commis ;ion at Portsmouth, on her return from service in China, has been placed in dock at Ports mouth and her bottom 'ound to be covered with barnacles anti other marine adhesions. The Urgent had been previously, during the term of her com mission, carefully coated over her bottom with va rious so-nailed 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 trial 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,2l, screw frgiate, continue to absorb the entire ehergies 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 Sovereige and Royal Alfred will be taken up in earnest, ma less some other exigency should arise. The Columbine, 4, screw steam gunvessel, 200 horse power, which was taken out of the fitting basin at Sheerness on Wednesday last, with Luniley's patent Eteering .apparclttius being fitted iT i S s a n n el P t : Friday taken to the measured mile off for trial. The vessel was in charge o t f C o ip P s t. h C ee h r a n r e l s e s s Wise, A.D.C., Capt..Superintendr Superintendent in Ihe Sint, Dockyard. As previously. the Columbine was fitted with the ordinary rudder and taken out on trial on the 16th of Decemb er last. The tr ial made on Friday was wi w tha h v th ie e w ol t d o com pare the re sults. At the first trial it 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 d e g., the circle Was made iu 4 min. 10 sec. At the 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 sec. At the third trial with the old rud der, at lull speed, helm port, at an angle of 182 deg., the circle was made i❑ 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 dt g., 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 to 26 deg., the circle was turned in 4 min. 20 sec. 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 nun. 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 diamete , sof 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, midshipnien, 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. Mao') zie, assist.-clerks, to the Marlborough. Cooking for the Navy. While everything connected with the construe- 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- rifles 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 boiled 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 vegetables, is a capital 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 changto 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 handkercuief 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 days in the week. They are allowed the same quantity of vegetables for soup that seamen and marines re ceive —viz., half a pound per day ; but, in a ddition to this, and, therefore, in excess of w hat is .talso a llowed to the crews of her Majesty's ships, a receives daily 11b. of potatoes, s e r e f they have been boiled. Such are coatramst d traineden Pe and existing systems of victualling the trusted to fight their country's battles and the con victed felon. To remedy t hi s state of things, and give a greater variety to t h e seaman's dinner, a plan has been su bmitted for the consideration of th e Lords of the Admiralty by an officer of considerable standing in the Victualling Department, which has been most favourably received by their Lordships, w h o have, we believe, issued orders for its imme diate trial on board one of the ships in the home ports; and most probably 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 11,000 each. It is, therefore, evident that an immense plant of such material is on hand, which can only at enormous expense be superseded by any other form of galley. If the present galley can have its oven accommodation in creased, it being efficient in all other respects, this supplementary aid is all that is required with 44 •• • ••( N EWSPIPER - regard to the cooking arrangeme t 4s, y which this is proposed to be a ;- t erect an oven about four feet fares f , p, z coppers, the oven to be, for a c , " five feet high and wide, and two qief- S This oven will contain four shelveKof Itires trays, so as to equalise the heat from top to bottom, which weld, receive the men's mess-dishes containing their rifesh meat and potatoes. A jacket,. or flue, encirclei'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 tee biscuit runs ,short. B trrels of American flour, the best bread making flour in the world, can always beob tamped in any quantity and at moderate cost. ne 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 tho spot, on which they must be otherwise fed. Mr:: 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 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 coat of victualling our seamen and marines about Bs. per head per annum—a mere bagatelle, if we even putt - 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 cligaare 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. RAILWAYS AND OTHER COMPANIES. 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 3i per cent., carrying over a balance of £3,600. 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 Tunebury, at an estimated cost of 1270,000 ; Isle of Purbeck, from Wareham to Swanage, and to raise £95,000 ; Doles 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 Cnes►hire, and to raise £120,000; Carnarvonshire, for new lines to Llan beblig and Llandwrog, and to raise a new capital of £80,000; Farnborough and Aldershot, to run from the South-Western at Farnborough to Aldershot, and to raise £13,000; C./Ledo:3Ln, 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, Radstoc k, 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 fur 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 pity 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 Conn antirople by one about to be constructed by the Ottotuk:.n Government from Diarbekir, on the direct line froLn Constantinople to India, and also by the Persian Git.lf Telegraph with India, by which means a portion, ,acid in case of ac cident to the direct line, the whole of the India and China messages will pass through th.e company's lines. The capital account to the 31st of December shows that £45,175 had been received and £52,995 expended, including £4,538 outstanding accounts, leaving a balance of £7,820 against the company. The revenue account for the half-year shows that £3,691 had been received a nd ec t d 3 l 243 a e c x e p ou en n d t :d l , 4 leaving, with £97 from the pr balance of £495. Importing Tea without colo ur on th e loaf pra. ven t s the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is un co l oure d , t h ere f ore , a l wa ys goo d alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. THE GEORGE GRISIVOLD.—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 Majsstic, to the effect that when the American George Griswold (with provisions fur 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. THE NEGRO AND THE PROCLAMATION.—The Federal " Military Governor of South Carolina," invited the negroes to a feast on the Ist Jan. The cone spondent of the New York Times states that the assemblage was not large, and in explanation be mentions this inci dent :—" I read Gmeral Saxon's address o my negroser vant Sam, a very intelligent contraband , a nd asked him if he wished to join in the jubilee. But no, Sam did not want to go, his wife was sick, and ha wanted 'no w hisky and . feasting.' I then tried to impress up on his mind the tui - portane.i of the day, and told hint with all the solemnit y that I could master . that horn 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, ma , ssa, I know w h a t dat means.' Wh a t does it meal, Sam ? But Sam did not want to tell, Upon my repeating the question, however, and insisting upon an answer, he stepped to the coiner of the room, and taking up the brown stood in the position of ' shoulder arms,' at the same time slowly shaking his head in a very meaning way. This expressive pantomime e xplained more eloquently than words that they wanted to put a musket in his hands and enlist him in the South Caro lina Volunteers, but, in vulgar parlance, he couldn't see it.