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1 - _,L J . , • • 4.. / 7 ' 4— C •\\ , \ t he AL Vtle: tir:l4): 0. 7)17 1,14, r Al'l7/ tqK„ \l 7 , ) ,, ( I b 9 11 N moir • , 'lll.lr NOW— ' ;:r dkri. _ - —a. DIE .111- u 13 , 'aye": DROIT. C ►rHE ANGLO TORTUGUESE BANK (Limited), incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, with limited liability. Capital, £1,000,000 sterling, in 20,000 shares of £5O each. per share to be paid on application and £2 per share on allotment. Future calls not to exceed, per share at intervals of not less than two months. - It ienot intended to call up more than £25 per share. DIRECTORS. Jose Marques Braga, Esq. (Vice-Consul for Brazil), Liver. pool. John Chapman, Esq. (Director of the Union Bank of London). Francis Cramp, Esq. (Messrs. Ofday, Cramp, and. Col, London and Oporto). James Farquhar, Esq. (Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of London). Sebastian Pinto Leite, •Esq.' (Messrs. Pinto Leite and Brothers, London) Charles Edward Mangles, Esq. (Chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company) Robert Russell Notman, Esq. (Director of the South- Eastern Railicty of Portugal) George Barnard Townsend, Esq. (Director of the South- Eastern Railway of Portugal) Francis Morragh Walsh, Esq. (late of Messrs. Morrogh Walsh and Co., Lisbon, 11, Gloucester-square, Hyde- . park. - - - - - Bankers--The Union Bank of Londpn. Solicitors—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and' Leech, 65, Moor'gP fe-stre et, E.C. Brokers—Messrs. J. C. and C, W. Morice, 1, Irarnfora- court, E.C. ' Secretary—John Beaton, Esq. Temporary Offices, 27, Cornhill, E.C. Although few countries present a more eligible field for the establishment of a sound system of joint-stock banking than Portugal, it has hitherto been nearly destitute of this advantage. The increpe in the trade of the country, and its further developrimlt by the opening of its railways renders the introducttilda of such a system.a matter of the utmost importaaeq to Portugal, while it will afford a legi timate source of profit on t)ra capital invested, for that. purpose. - The Operations of the Bank of Portugal (the .only one id Lisbon) ariof a very restricted nature, affording nons of the advantages belonging to the English Joint-Stock Banking system, notwithstanding which its shares com mand a premium of £lllos. per share. In Oporto three local banks have been established within the last few years, and are all in a prosperoue condition, their shares commanding the following premiums :- 1. The Commercial Bank, capital £444,444 (all paid up), amount of share £44, present price £l3 premium. 2. The Oporto Mercantile Bank, capital £333,333 (all paid up), amount of share £.14, preseut price £l3 premium. 3. The Union of Oporto Bank (very recently established), capital £444,444; amount of share £22, Paid up £lB 95., present price Lt premium. In addition'tO ail extensive and profitable business be tween Portugal and the United Kingdom, in Lisbon, and the provinces, large transactions constantly take place in the negotiation of paper from the Brazils, in which country it may found desirable to establish branches. The preliminary expenses will be strictly confined to the actual disbursements attending the formation of a com pany. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained from the brokers, or the Secretary, at the tempor ary offices of the Company. riIHE MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION BANKING COMPANY (Limited). Established under " The Companies Act, 1862," limiting the liability of the Shareholders to the amount subscribed. Capital £1,000,000, in shares of £lOO each, with power to increase. First issue, 5,000 shares. Deposit on application, £1 per share ; and on allotment, £2 per share. Calls not to exceed £.5 2 and three months' interval between each call. It is not Intended to call up more than £25 per share. DIRECTORS. (With power to add to their number.) Sir F. L. H. Goodricke, Bart., Wolverhampton W. F. Drought Stephens, Esq. (Director of the Metropo litan and Provincial Bank), 75, Cornhill, London F. J, Law, Esq., 2, Bedford-square, London Thos. S. Richardst,n, Esq., Merchant, Bermondsey and Rochdale (Director of the Metropolitan and Provincial Bank), London Charles Clark, Esq., J.P., Wolverhampton Leonard Hadley, Esq., City Steam Mills, Upper Thames street, Glocester aad London William Stratford Dugdale, jun., Esq., J.P. Nerevale, At herston e J. W. Cusack, Esq., 13, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park, London. Moses Ironmonger, Esq., J.P., Wolverhampton. J. H. Lance, Esq., Director of the London and South Afri can Bank, London. Bankers—London, Metropolitan, and Provincial Bank, Cornhill ; Wolverhampton, Sir F. L. H. Goodricke,Bart. Solicitors—London, Messrs. Ashurst, Son, and Morris, 6, Old Jewry, City ; Messrs. Kimberley and Pope, 26, Old Broad-street, City ; Wolverhampton, Messrs. Corser and Fowler, Darlington-street. Brokers—London, Sir R. W. Carden and Son, Royal Ex change-buildings, city; Birmingham, Mr. J. W. Hamil ton, Ann-street; Wolverhampton, Mr. John Underhill. Auditors—London, George Derbyshire, Esq., Clearing house, Lombard-street, city; Birmingham, Mr. John Percival, Waterloo. street. Secretary (pro tem.)—Mr. A. F. Foster. Offices-9, Cornhill. This Company is formed for the purpose of facilitating commercial intercourse between the metropolis and the important towns of the Midland Counties. The Company's operations will embrace the whole of the midland district, throughout a great portion of which it is well known that the present banking accommodation is insufficient for the requirements of its increasing population and trade. In Birminghamalone only one new bank has been formed for the last 20 years ; while the p pulation has, in the same space of time, been nearly doubled. It must also be borne in mind, that Birmingham is but the centre of a densely populated mining and manufacturing district, now perhaps the wealthiest and most thriving in the whole kingdom. Throughout the entire area of this important locality the want of adequate banking accommodation is increasingly felt, and the Directors of this Company are maturing ar rangements for dealing comprehensively with this pressing want. The directors call attention to the admitted fact that the banking business of the country is being rapidly absorbed by joint-stock banks, while the private banks are gradually disappearing. One of the main objects of this Company will be to establish branches throughout the district, in which it is proposed to carry on business, by purchasing the interests of existing private banks. In pursuance of this object the Directors have already secured, on most advan tageous teams, the old and valuable banking connexion and premises of Sir Francis L. Holyoake Goodricke, Bart., at Wolverhampton, where they will immediately commence business, and Mr. R. Bigge, Esq., has consented to continue Ir a time to superintend the affairs of the Bank. The Di rectors are thus able to offer to their shareholders the pro spect of an immediate dividend. They are also negotiating the purchase of other banks in the Midland Counties. The management of the Bank will be conducted by the Board of Directors in London, who will have tho assistance and counsel of Local Boards of supervision, to be formed in the principal towns in the country where branches are to be established—the Country Directors being also members of the London Board, and having the conduct of the local busi ness, It is not intended to carry on any banking business in the metropolis other than that arising from the agency of the country branches ; but the establishment of the chief office in London will remove many of those causes of local jealousy and private interest which have, in so many in stances, militated against the success of country banks. It will also afford greater facilities for the judicious invest ment of capital, as well as allow of a more independent con trol of the business of the Bank. It may be well to remark that the proposed system is identical with that so success fully carried out by the National and Provincial Bank of England, and by the Provincial Bank of Ireland. It is not proposed to call up more than £25 per share, the reserve of 175 affording ample security to the customers of the Bank ; power will, however, be taken in the Articles of Association to increase the capital by further issue of shares, when the operations of the Bank have been so extended as to render it necessary. Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association may be seen at the offices of the solicitors to the Company. Forms of application for shares may be obtained from the Company's brokers and solicitors, or of the secretary, at the c om pany's offices, No. 9, Cornhill, London. Should no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. Form of Application for Shares. To the Directors of the Midland Counties Union Banking Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to your Bankers* the sum of being a Deposit of per Share on --- Shares in the above Company, I request that you will allot me that number; and I hereby accept such shares, or any less number which may be allotted to me, subject to the Articles of Association ; and I further request that m y name ma y be placed on the Register of Shareholders for the shares so allotted. Name in full Address Profession or Business .. Date 186 * If the amount be remitted to the Secretary by cheque, it must be crossed with the name of the Company's Bankers. The receipt will be forwarded by return of post. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-L ANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, !laving been Re-modelled, Decorated ? and Embellished in a truly magnificent and costly style, is'now open. Notwithstanding the immenso expenses incurred in the arrangements, the Prices of Admission will be as usual, and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz.:— Private Boxes, 108, 6d., 215., Ils. 6d., 12 25., £3 35., and £4 4s. Stalls, 6s. Dress circle, 4s. First Circle, 3s. Boxes, 2s. Pit, 2 s. Lower Gallery, Is. Upper Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. A MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PANTO MIME EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING will be presented Mr. E. Falconer's Comic Drama, entitled NEXT OF KIN. Principal Characters by Messrs. S. Calhaem, H. Sinclair, Neville, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks ; Mrs. Edmund Fah toner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Annual in the form of an entirely Novel, Original, Bur le.que, Grotesque, Poetical, Pictorial, Pastoral, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES; or, HARLEQUIN and COCK ROBIN! "Little Bird with bosom red, Welcome to my Humble Shed, Daily near my table steal, While I pick my scanty meal, Well rewarded if I spy, Pleasure in thy glancing eye."—Old Poem, The novel Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. GRIEVE and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, JONES, C. FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., TELBIN, Jun., and D ANSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE. The Masks, Designs, and Personal Appointments by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN •, com pleted under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, CHALTON, and numerous Assistants. The Tricks, Pro perties, Changes, and Transformations of the Harlequinade by Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments 1 )y Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The roupes, Tableaux, Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. The Overture and ‘..ut4e composed and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. The OrAning invented 032 d written bYE, L.KfANQBARD, N°. 21,999, Author of "The House that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," "ILobin Hood," &c. r THE VILLAGE SCHCioL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARLY MORNING. Little Goody Two Shoes—Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. " This dear little Girl, whose real name wao Margery Meanwell, once lived," &c.—Old Story. "His kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pair of new Shoes; and she was so pleased with them, a ds n o fond of showing . them to every one she met, saying, o Shoes— Two Shoes,' that she gained the name. of Little Goody Two Shoes.' "—Old .Tory. The Raven, the Pigeon, the Cat, and the White-Rabbit (her pets), Masters Quork, Coo, Mew, and Bunny. . Pet Robin—Master Redbrent. Little Boy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) I.liss HELEN HOWARD. Johnny Stout (the Good Boy) Mr. IT. ROBINS. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy). Mr. G. WESTON.' Day Scholars—Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, Gag, Meg, Tag, &c., and Misses Nimble/ Stmplp, Sample, Rumple, Whimper, Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c.; &C. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. Villagers—Messrs. Bumkin,WhackstraW, Oatcake, Chaw bacon, Thatcher, &c., &c. "The room in which she taught her scholars was very large, so that she could have her children' Stand in front of her while she instructed them.—Old Stork _ Of the proposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. HUNTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF THE FOREST. The Fairy Good Nature (assuming thejorm of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE -SAXON. Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. Footman, Mr. P . owdernob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chiaibiddy. How Little Boy Blue meets with a particular friend, and how the Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate to general destruction, and what ensues thereupon. THE BRAMBLE BRAKE IN THE DEPTHS OF --- THE FOREST.—SUNSET. " When good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her ten seta of letters, she invited a great number of her poor little Companions to meet together under an old oak tree, and there she taught them."—Old Story. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLI/4 DON. Hatred and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE WOOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May, Miss WENT WORTH. Bluebell, Cowslip, Violet, Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, Speedwell, Daisy, Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, Colvolvulus, Wild Rose, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts ease, Fox Glove, &c, (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a host of Corypheea. Pas de Forget-me-not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, The Misses GUNNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR. BYRNE. WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD. " All hail to thee, thou first of May, Sacred to merry sport and play, To wine and jest and dance and song, And mirth that lasts the whole day long." CELEBRATION OF MAY-DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OUTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL BROOK, AND ANCIENT BELFRY. " Who killed Cock Robin ? I, said the Sparrow, with my Bow and Arrow."—Old Nursery Legend. The Sparrow, Mr. Take-an-Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy. The Fish, Mr. Gillbut. The Beetle, Mrs. Gamp. The Linnet, Master Downey. The Owl, Mr. Whit-to-Who®. The Lark, Mr. Highflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackcoat. The Bull, Mr. Roarer, with a Horn accompaniment. The deed done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, and his marvellous restoration by Good Nature, who pro ceeds on her radiated Path of Prisms over the World. Harlequins, Mr. CORMACK and Mr. ST. MAINE. Columbines, Madame BOLENO (her first appearance here these two years) and the 'Misses GUNNISS. Pantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN JOHNSON. Clowns, Mr. HARRY BOLEN 0 (his first appearance here these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. Scene I.—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITION OF FUN ! The Meeting of all Nations—Gold Washing and Gold Finding—Armstrong's Breech-loader—the Exhibition B ells and Belles of the Exhibition—Clown rings one of the Belles --a Belle Savage—the Majolica Fountain—Clown's new Vapourizer—Cent. per Scent—Striking Two—the Exhibi tion Club—a Medicated Vapour Bath—a Piping Bullfinch —(Raree Airs)—the Australian Obelisk makes a decided Move—a Toad in the Hole—a Long Nap (2,000 years)—a Bed in the Coal Hole—Froggy would a-Wooing go—a sud den influx of Strange Visitors and close of the Exhibition. Scene 2.—EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NATIONAL LODGING-HOUSE. Invented and Produced by Boleno (Registered). Pantomimists—HAßßY BOLENO, Madame BOLENO. CORMACK, and TANNER. Trip Storm False—Madame BOLENO and Mr. CORMACK. Landlady, Mrs. Graball; Page, Master Bellbutton ; Housemaid, not yet engaged ; Visitors, Cabmen, Sweeps, Shoe-Black Brigade, &c., by Artists too numerous to mention. Scene 3.—SHELL-FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE ! Invented by Mr. D. Johnson. Pantomimists—Misses GUNNISS and Messrs. ST. MAINE, DEULIN JOHNSON, and C. LAURI. Pas Trois Mansilla Spiritu—The Misses GUNNISS and M. ST. MAINE. Scene 4—THE ISLINGTON!AGRICULTRAL HALL, AND GREAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND FLOWER-SHOW. Invented and Produced by BOLENO (Registered). Pantonsimists—HAßßY BOLENO, EMMA BOLENO, CORMACK, and TANNER. Scene 5--(Comic)—EXTERIOR of MARINE STORES, PUBLIC-HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME. Invented by Mr. J. Cormack. C. LAURI, D. JOHNSON, ST. MAINE, and the Misses GUNNISS. Nautical Hornpipe, by M. ST. MAINE and the Misses GUNNISS. Set a thief to catch a thief—and he will go the " whole Hog or None"—A Sailor, half Seas over, mistakes all he Sees—Old Aunt Sally proves herself, rayther— Shell Hands wanted—and secured by Hook or by Crook—An cient and Modern Warriors—Hearts of Oak—Our Ironsides (not Cromwell's) Al good metal—the great Drainage Question—Pretty Poll of Wapping—she was such a nice young Gal! with Old Ballad, "the Lass that loved a Sailor"—" Home, home, Sweet Home"— The Sailor€ Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce you to Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICHES BROUGHT BY HER OCEAN WAVES I Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open at Half. past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. JULIAN O.S. A [i 4 ' i v 1] Greggrien v N.S. rrAX's INCH! FULCRUM OF ARCHIMEDES. ACKERLEY v. DALTON, TURNER, & OTHERS. Marlbro'-street, late Coal-hole, Dog-set'ng grievance, with its L'EU rs ka Gladiatorial Inchkeith Toga' rry. The Telegraph of Ctreas-day states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, servants of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a " Le Micmac"-plot intent to do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis crepancy in n.c.iPolice reports, induces us to refer to this Park-government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup porter of Anglo-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter Basquet, 11! years)—for holding under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent lease, now a 20-yrs title ; checkmates the WorksiWoods, and Forests' 1582 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 tenantry by their lessee Batchelor building-in his Coal •hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—to Tomb.). 'Think !—every day to be thy last, -4 Chandos. For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.' The papal F 29 Metropolis Police Act, 3 Wm. 4, cap. 19, S 15, 39, 44—gives Lti fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on " Offences against the person, &c., 24-2.5 Vict., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77—Garotters and Chloroformists," on mis demeanour conviction, with £5 fine, recoverable against the Stipendiary-justice--therefore in homage to our readers we refer to this case, (of Clapham Atkins City beam and scale Sydney-like title, 13 Hen. 8, in 1835 standard act), 'wherein the Captain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason of the papal tk boy Edw. 6th in-valid City grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by '35 act, 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, 6, Swallow-street, and Ormond-Yard, as the people's land, under no Queen's Church head assumption, t * Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-weight meter from the Exchequer for Pope's mitre-and-key mint in 1838? whence, by Hess City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Mayor Rose, M.P., was mock presented in November to Indian Peter, Constable of the Tower—as Angl 9 Micmac flag unionist. tOn Luther-set 3ty of 21st July, 1521, by Leo X and Ewp. Charles V, for Paduan intermediate supremacy in the land—Sydney was appointed the Archer ), standard inch bearer. In like manner, by 1831's Co-partner Act, No. 64 , for 2.3 Will. 4, caput-81, 92, 1832, for Russian Dutch Loan guarantee—en Submission of the Clergy and restraint of appeals t o Rome, on lack of justice—names 25 Hen. 8, c 19 and 8 Eli z . c 5, for merino causes—whence, on 1825 Holy Alliance of Kings' abolition—the Greek Peru rota-crown Protector' Lieu -Tenant Ackerley, R.N., as King John's Ist Montague 'xi./ kin trust was sworn-in as suprme Statepivot, at Worcester's Crt. toJanuary, 1837 by Gold stick archer-Wm. 4—whose daughter married the Captain's nephew, by the 2nd branch of Dartmouth's Slaney le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Coke, Hun loke gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bard in heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by ' Somer_ set' half-cast. The same malicious isolating influence appears to have closed against him the doors of Junior United 'Service Club, on his £4,000 Co-burn discovery, and United S. Museum membership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and cause of his civil law mixed church imprisonment at Bath, Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil, without crime. God's aro ofcillation of the pendulum in lat. 514 30 N as the 19 30 to and fro in sphere note to like polar * declina tion above (25 M) and below 29 Sept., for Poor-law and Treasury Audits year, now in 0 : : ' , style as rfiroad ' R.' Htkn'ver. ' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix ,9. to 61c 30 pow, Bantry, Pada, tirunswit. Jaanary 1, 1862, THE I N D E X. A Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, and News, Devoted to the Exposition of the Mutual Interests, Political and Commercial, of Great Britain and the Confederate States of America. Published every THURSDAY AFTERNOON. Price ed. ESTABLISHED IST MAY, 1862. THE INDEX contains : Private Letters from the Southern and Northern States. Latest Direct Intelli,(rence from the South. Leaders on Topics of Interest. Reviews of Books. Magazine Articles. 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The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which a ff ect teeth of ordinary const ruction, they are guaranteed to last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains his invention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London; and 39, Demiett'phai, Jur. you k ham, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1862. No. I.—An Abstract. of- the Gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned Periods, with the Corresponding Periods of the Preceding Year. onded Dec. 31, 1862, compared QUARTERS ENDED YEAR 1 QUARTERS ENDED YEAR : . t.;- . --- ______ ~,,______ _.---, ended le ...,. ended _, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, , Dec. 31, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, Dec. 31, .1862 1862 1862 1861 1862 . 18 61 1861 1861 1861 1 861 - £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ CUSTOMS 5,724,000 5,791,006 6,201,000 .6,320,000. 24,036,000 5,824,000 5,821,000 5,982,000 6,147,000 23,774,000 CUSTOMS. EXCISE - 5,044,000 4,886,000 3,604,000 4,000,000 17,534,000 4,873,000 5,171,000 4,221,000 3,896,000 18,161,000 EXCISE. STAMPS 2,293,945 2,253,000 2,180,000 2,1' , 7,000 8,913,945 2,191,170 2,186,000 2,013,000 2,008,000 8,488,170 STAMPS. TAXES PROPERTY TAX 4,427,000 2,772,000 974,000 2,931,000 • 11,104,010. 4,021,000 2,588,000 991,000 3,359,000 9,962,000 PROPERTY TAX. POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS ' MISCELLANEOUS TOTALS 19,606,614 - - 18,409,904 14,600,983 i 18,378,928 70,996,429 18,535,986 18,398,594 14,601,232 17,068,039 68,603,851 TOTALS. No. U.—lncrease and Decrease in the Periods ended Dee. 31, 1862, as compared with the Corresponl the Preceding Year. ig Periods of . . . Nine Months ended Dec. 31, 1862 Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1862. (expired portion of the financial year) Year ended Dec. 31, 1862. .. .. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. - , , ~.XX £ X X X CUSTOMS y.• 175,000 .. • . 362,000 262,000 CUSTOMS. EXCISE lOl,OOO • • 798,000 627,000 EXCISE. STAMPS 89,000 32 . 3,000 425,775 • • STAMPS. TAXES PROPERTY TAX 5772,000 .. 739,000 .. 1,142,000 • • PROPERTY TAX. POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS MISCELLANEOUS 342,889 .. . _ 614,429 • • 1,055,761 .. MISCELLANEOUS. TOTALS 1,322,889 12,003 2,131,950 810,000 I 3,019,578 627,000 TOTALS. . . Net Increase :...£1,310,889 Net. 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One visit only required from country patients, Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. The Great Fortifications at Portland. PORTLAND, DEC. 29. The great Portland Breakwater is by no means the only wonderful work of human skill and ingenuity which is going on in this part of England. To quarry away a mountain and build its fragments into a submarine work is labour enough, but even this astounding effort of patient toil is equalled by the magnitude and importance of the works in progress at the Verne, where a tremendous head land is being shaped and hewn into one of the greatest fortresses in the world. The ielitiVe merits of these de fences as compared with those of iron-clad steam floating batteries is just now a matter of dispute among tacticians. Each party has really so many strong and able reasons to bring forward in support of its own views that the Govern ment very wisely decline to commit themselves exclusively to either, and adopt both. We are building plenty of iron clads, but at the same time we are not neglecting our land defences, which are by no • means the unimportant and auxiliary defences which their opponents would make them out to be. It is quite true that steam batteries can be sent for and concentrated on any supposed point of attack, while fortifications, unless in the neighbourhood of the post of danger, are mere lumps of granite, and, as an active moans of resistance against the descent of invasion, as useless as so many Druidical cromlechs. On the other hand, with movable batteries it must not be forgotten that an enemy always thinks he may elude them by decoying them on a false alarm away from the spot where the blow is to be struck—a hope which is often successful, and which we need scarcely say is never entertained with regard to for tresses. Once built and armed, these grim stone sentinels are always on their posts, never to be eluded or dismayed ; and whereas a landed enemy can afford to snap his fingers at the baffled power of all the iron frigates in the world, he must still be oantiotui with-oas Fortreasear—as fbrmidable on the land as on the sea. The enemy knows they give a terrible base of operations against him, while they jeopardise his own ; they must be blockaded at sea by a fleet—avoided by circuitous marches on land ; and even when thus avoided troops must be left behind to watch and keep their garrison, if possible, in check. We, of all people in the world, who so toiled and suffered, lavishing blood and treasure under the walls of Sebastopol, should be the last to underrate the importance of a good fortification as a check to an invading army. The lesson, however, has not been forgotten appa rently. Plymouth has been made secure ; the mouth of the Thames is virtually impregnable—a tremendous chain of forts is fast encircling Gosport and Portsmouth ; and, surely but slowly, as becomes its magnitude and tremendous strength, the Verne at Portland, the Gibraltar of the Channel, is rising into what is probably one of the strongest citadels it. the world. In spite, then, of the popular tradi tion embodied in the old song, that— " Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep," it would seem that bulwarks are now considered indispens able, and towers compact in strength and tremendous in array are rising, or have risen, along the steep in all dii ec tions. The vote taken two years ago for " towers and bul warks" was the largest sum taken for a single object since the days of the Irish famine, and the money was well ap propriated, and has been tolerably well spent. It is a com mon objection of economists to say that, now we have made these places so strong, an enemy will turn aside and attack elsewhere, that is precisely the purpose they were intended to answer, and for which they are built. A prudent man has an iron safe for his valuables, though he does not oase his house with metal. The naval arsenals contain the very germs of our power, and need special protection accord ingly. All our great arsenals are so many national strong boxes, which must be made fire and water and foe proof, and so entirely does this consideration govern the whole subject that the tremendous works at Portland are under taken solely in anticipation of the great naval depot to be formed hereafter in its splendid harbour, It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers of the pe culiar conformation of the Bill of Portland, Both in shape and situation it almost precisely resembles Gibraltar. There are some bold steep headland hills of stone, the Breakwater stands in the place of the Mole, and that geological enigma, Chesil-bank, connects it with the mainland, as the neutral ground does our great Mediterranean citadel with the Spanish shore. Its height, its isolation, and the harbour it commands all pointed it out as a place for an impregnable —we had almost said an inaccessible—fortress. To the late Prince Consort is due the merit of having seen its vast im portance in this respect, as it was also owing to his enlight ened judgment that the Breakwater was begun at last, and he himself laid the foundation-stone. Portland is rising, as we have said, into a first-class fortress, of which the Verne is the great key or citadel. More compact than either Cherbourg, Cronstadt, or Sebastopol, it is more than thrice the elevation of those works from sea, and therefore so much the more unassailable from that point, while such precautions are being taken to secure it from the one or two places on which it might be threatened from the land, that it is not too much to say that when all is finished any engi neer would regard its reduction by other means than starv ing out as almost a physical impossibility. That our readers may understand how perfectly this is so we will explain what the position of the Citadel and nature of its defences are in the plainest and least technical terms that can an swer the purpose. The Verne, then, is on the extreme northern end of the island of Portland—its highest point, in fact, and quiteoverlooking not only the rest of the island, but every part of the harbour within and without the Break water. It is a triangular piece of ground, about 60 acres in extent, on the summit of three or four very steep rounded hills of stone, which rise to a height of some 500 feet above the level of the sea. These hills, though very steep, are by no means inaccessible except on the north side of the island, which overlooks the harbour, where for a length of about one-third the circumference of the Verne they are perpen dicular for 100 feet beneath the summit, and then gradua ll go down to the Breakwater in a broad, rapid slope, called the East Weir. The first and most obvious step therefore towards making the Verne impregnable was to surround it with a deep dry ditch in the form of a horseshoe, the two ends of the horseshoe terminating in t he face of th e perpen dicular cliffs which we have mentioned as protecting it on the north or harbour side above the East Weir. But to speak of this great artificial ravine as a ditch seems absurd. It is a ditch to which a ll other fortification ditches, ancient or modern, are mere g utt ers. Rocks have boon riven as if by a convulsion of nature, and nearly two millions of tons of stone blasted ani quarried away to make it. Its mini mum depth is 80ft ; its minimum width 100. In some parts, as at the angles of the Citadel within it, its width is nearly 200 ft., and as the floor of this immense cutting has been kept at an even level all round the works, where there is a rise in the surface of the ground above there is sometimes A sheer perpendicular depth beneath the bat- PRICE - .4d. STAMPED —.51 teries it protects of 130 ft. In fact, the little mountain which forms the Verne has been rent away and isolated from its fellow headlands by this stupendous chasm. No perfect idea can be got of it till the visitor descends to the floor of the great excavation and traverses its whole length, which is nearly a mile. The sections of the wonderful geological strata which form the island of Portland are seen for the first time in the straight rocky wall of the ditch in all their curious variety. What is most singular is, that at regular intervals of 25 or 30 yards, and commencing about 20 feet below the surface of the ground, are a series of vertical faults or gaps, about 2 feet wide, which, as far as can be judged, penetrate to the lowest substrata of the island and traverse it completely from north to south. In these extraordinary clefts human bones have been found with those of wild boars and the bones and horns of rein deer —not fossilised, but with all their osseous structure as perfect as if they were not 50 years old. Lower still in the oolite the bones of saurians have been brought to light with sharks' teeth, shells now only found in the Red Sea, huge ammonites of stone and copper, fossil trees, and, near the surface, Phoenician gold coins, ancient British weapons, Roman pottery, and the mysterious flints in the drift. All these " faults" in the strata have been carefully filled from base to summit with solid masonry, so that the sides of the ditch, both scarp and counter-scarp, are almost as smooth as a wall from end to end. It is, perhaps, need less to say that such a gigantic foss as this is unnecessary, and would never have been attempted but that stone exca vated in its formation was wanted for the Breakwater. A dry ditch of 40 feet deep by 50 feet wide would have been of almost unusual proportions, and more than sufficient to protect the Verne from any assault; but the Government wanted cheap stone to make the Breakwater, at_ ', ao that from the ditch round the Verne was already paid for, they naturally took as much as they could get, and in so doing made the foss of the enormous dimensions we have given. Jutting out from the main bony of the fortress into the ditch are to be two bastionettes. One of these is to have eight faces mounting guns on each, so as to sweep with a murderous fire two-thirds of the whole length of the exca vation. The second bastionette is to have three faces, and placed in such a manner as while two of its guns cross fire in the ditch, the remainder of its armament commands every spot in the rest of the foss, where its curve keeps it out of reach of the more important work of the same kind. Both these bastionettes are also pierced with loopholes in all directions for the fire of riflemen. Within the great enclosure of the Verne, and snugly en sconced under the green parapets of the batteries, barrack accommodation has been built for a minimum garrison of 3,500 men ; the size and height of these casemated barracks being calculated on such a liberal scale as to give in the rooms no less than 750 cubic feet of air per inmate. The usual scale on which common barracks are built being at the rate of 350 feet per man, it follows that the peace gar risen at the Verne can in times of danger be increased with out the slightest inconvenience from 3,500 to 10,0J0 men, which is really the number the place can accommodate, and which it might perhaps require to fully man all its works, though it is so strong by nature that its peace garrison could stand a siege with safety. All these barracks are bomb-proof. Their roofs are made of solid brick arches nearly 4ft. thick, over which again is a layer of concrete 2ft. thick, and coated with asphalte to keep it water- tight, then one foot of shingles to arrest the drainage, and over all Bft. thick of solid made earth. There is nothing more difficult in casemated barracks than to keep them free from damp, and give a proper allowance of light and air without interfering with the security of the inmates. These almost irreconcilable conditions have been admirably fulfilled at the Verne. The wide skylights over the parade face of the doors give almost too much light ; the floors raised 4ft. from the ground secure the soldier from damp, and give immense cellarage for provisions ; while a fine corridor running the whole length of the back of the casemates, and communicating by pipes like windsails with the foss out side, gives not only ventilation but a very considerable draught when the wind blows—and it always is blowing over the heights of the Verne. The two ranges of these barracks are almost quite complete. They could all be occupied within a month, and some in fact are occupied by small detachments. Near the barracks is already built a small bomb-proof hospital, with surgeons' quarters and stores, similarly protected; and nearer these a larger hospital, or rather a series of casemates like the barracks, is also to be erected, capable of accommodating, if need be, 500 patients, The Verne has no water supply of its own within the great ditch of the fortress. Every attempt to procur,: a supply by boring through the solid rock has proved fruitless. A number of tanks, each capable of holding 60,000 gallons, have therefore been formed beneath the casemates for the collection of rain -water, and, as rain is as plentiful as wind at the Verne, these are always full and always flowing away. In such an all-important matter, however, the garrison, has not, of course, been left to de pend on the eccentricities of the weather. These great re serve water -tanks have therefore been excavated in the solid rock beneath the parade ground. Each of these tanks is 80ft. long by sffit... wide and 83ft. deep, and,being covered In with the usual shot-proof roofs and the water kept from the light and air, it will remain sweet for centuries. These tanks each hold a three-months' supply for a garrison of 8,000 men at the rate of two gallons per man a day. As a matter of course these important' reserve tanks are always kept full to the top, but never to be used till the emergency of a state of siege arises. The ordinary daily supply is drawn from Chine, a little village about three miles from the Verne, where there is ample water, which is pumped by a 30-horse power engine through underground pipes into the fort. By this engine, in case of a siege being imminent not only the reserve tanks of the Verne could be filled to their utmost cap icity, but the rain water tanks as well, which would at the daily rate of consumption we have men tioned give more than a year's supply to the garrison, ex • elusive of the rain water which would fall during that time, and which, over a surface of sixty acres, where every precaution is adopted to catch and retain it, would probably be as much more. The expense and re serve magazines are on the same scale. There are five expense magazines, built each to hold 100 bar rels of powder, with a proportionate allowance of live shell, with one great reserve magazine cut in the rock, like the tanks, capable of containing 3,000 barrels of powder. The expense magazines are protected, in addition to walls of solid masonry 14t't. thick, with an outer covering of wild earth 18ft. thick. As to the armament of this place of strength, it is, just now, in the undecided state of the competition between Whit worth's and Armstrong's, impossible to say whose guns are eventually to defend it. All that the engineers know is, that the Citadel itself, without any of its outworks or East Weir batteries, will mount at least 200 guns and mortars, at least half of which number, according to pre sent estimates, will be 150-pounders. The whole place is to bristle with cannon, the longest and largest which science can suggest, when it is fully armed. In fact, like Malta, it errs on the side of being rather over than under gunned — with this difference, that whereas the wide defences of Malta would require at least 25,000 men to hold them all, so compact is the Verne that its defence might be intrusted safely to the peace garrison against almost any force. To illustrate the almost excessive precautions taken we may mention that the south-east face of the work looks down a steep narrow valley like a funnel, leading to the little vil lage of Fortune's Well. It was thought possible that a mor tar vessel might run into the narrow inlet on which this valley ends, and throw a shell or two into the Citadel. The efforts, therefore, made to guard against this remote eventuality are in much the same scale as the ditch, the tanks, barracks, magazines, and, indeed, all connected with the tremendous strength of the defences. Overlooking the valley, the works have, at this point, a double flank,—that is, there aro two tiers of stone batteries and three tiers of guns of the heaviest kind. The lowest tier is a casemate battery built a la Mao, which means with earth mounds between the stone portholes, throug h which 12 guns will peep. Above these is another tier of 12 guns in earth em brasures lined with stone, and above these again 12 more guns mounted en barbette—tbat is, simply placed in a row on a flat platform. 36 guns in all to sweep a little valley not much wider nor so long as Regent .street, and so steep that it is hard work to climb it I contains Outside the ditch, on the south face, and aboa bout half a mile from it, runs a thin ridge of hill, about a mile long the , t erm inating on the West C liff s. Thi s rider ! quarries where the con victs p ass the time which they ought to devote to labou r . I t i s a mere ' , mg mound of stony ground, exactly like that in sOich the allies had to work against the Redan, and not within some 40 feet of the height of the Verne, t h o sg that an h the highest groun d next to it. It was thought just ,[thin the limits of possi `hole Y hole crest enemy might ge t some cover her e, the hill is to be shaved off 40 feet, so as so thet leave the raw, s of sol id roar to be swept clear by the guns of the Cita. del. in addition to all this there are to be erected here aces beyond the ditch, and distant about three-quarters of a mile from the Verne, two powerful outworks at Easton and Weston. These are to be regular little fortresses, m ou nting 30 or more guns each, and the positions chosen for their site are so commanding to evetything but the "erne, which looks down into each of them, that both would have to be reduced by a regular siege before anything could be attempted against the Verne itself, supposing that an engineer was sanguine enough to hope to do anything but starve it out. In short, the Verne is made, or will be made, to dominate everything in range of cannon, to cover the harbour inside and outside the Breakwater, to com mand all parts of the island of Portland, to sweep he Csil bank, to cross fire with the great North Fort at the head of the Breakwater, and with the still more powerful fort which is being erected on the little headland called the Nothe, which divides Portland proper from the beautiful bay of Weymouth. 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It is to mount 80 guns in dou ,11 . 411kt2V ' none are to be placed in casematos, . hospitals, and buildings for the garristoroi*Olsn4lo4 proof, as at the 'Verne. ar- 7 4rre' a 1 / 4.7,,, We have spoken of the East Weir, thesdiii44-. leads from the scarped cliffs of the Verne on ge hakLtur S . side down to the water, These slopes have been cut away so as to form five powerful and well-constructed earth-. works, which, on a larger scale, very much resemble some of the mole important links in the similar chain of defences thrown up by the Allies round Balaklava. There are to be five of these batteries, the three smallest mounting from 10 to 12 heavy guns each, and two large ones mounting 22 guns each—about 80 guns in all. Each of these batteries, besides being of the most solid description, is lined inside with stone, large and carefully protected magazines, and bomb-proof places to shelter the defenders from the effects of a vertical fire. From the position and different elevations, - varying from 80 to 150 feet above the level of the sea, there is no part of the harbour or approach to it, whether round the head of the breakwater or through the south opening, near the small fort, which is not covered by their fire; and quiet and inoffensive as these neat green lines of i.arapct and glacis appear from the sea, looking at first as if it. vi.ero. intended to lay out the slopes in terrace gardens, th2so massive batteries of the East \Veir would ho quite ir tnidable to ships attempting to enter the bay as the o.ro works of the Verne itself. The rear of each of the ,aorks is left open, as they all rest upon the cliffs of the ir ,, rne it self, with which they have a communication by a deep cut aigzag up the slope, leading under cover to the floor of the great ditch of the citadel. In addition to all these • works it was at one time suggested to form, after the manner of a • breakwater, a small island in the sea, about a mile froni the' fort now building in the extremity of the present break, water, and in this island to erect another circular granite fort of three tiers of guns, similar to that to be built . at Spithead, This idea, however, has for the present beau, : very wisely abandoned, and we hope will never be reviv ed. Apart from its stupenduous cost (and it would bo nothing short of a million), it would, as a permanent defensive IN:Or- 1 5 be utterly superfluous and unnecessary. When the sent and intended works are all completed Portland willi)a; the strongest fortified harbour in the world, and additi towers would be as entirely works of supererogatio were proposed to cover Gibraltar itself with 4-iaCh plates of iron. If anything were ever needed here it would b e is the shoal waters, so as to drive an enemy's veasek as closa over to the guns of the Weir, Verne, North b irt, and Nothe as possible, L atid a ffoefing iron battery would atuply answer this purpose. But even this latter simple_Vilar seems supetfluous when we come taremember hostile fleet bold enough to enter the harbour the works wo have mentioned could concentrate a fire of more than 300 of the very heaviest guns, all so elevated as to be practically out of reach of the guns of a fleet to reply to them. In fact, of the 300 guns more than one-third would be firing almost point-blank down upon an enemy's decks. What has and will be done is not only enough to render Portland harbour secure, but, as far as human skill and caution can foresee, absolutely invulnerable from sea or land. For an enemy to approach it with evil intentions would be, not figuratively but literally, to venture into the cannon's mouth, RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. CENTRAL WALES EXTENSION. The amount of additional capital required by this com pany in their application to Parliament for their new exten sion is £160,000, and to make working arrangements with the London and North-Western Railway. ALBERT STATION AND NID.LONDON. This proposed subterranean railw.y is to commence on the east side of St. Martin's-lane, the station being intended to occupy Bedfordbury, runninettence, at a depth below the surface of 40 feet, under the parishes of Westminster, St. George's, Hanover-square, St. James's, Brompton, Old Brompton, Knightsbridge, and Chelsea, into the West London Railway at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, with seven branch lines communicating with the fiensingt. n sta tion and North and South London Junction, Warwick -road on Lord Kensington's-park, the Kensington Canal-burin, the West London Extension, near Hammersmith, Fulham, and other points of the West London Railway. The esti mated cost of the undertaking is £740,000, with powers to borrow an additional sum of £240,000. EVESHAM AND ASHCHURCH. The works of this line are progressing rapidly. It will form a junction railway between the Midland line at Tewkesbury and the West Midland at Evesham, and by ,a junction with the Tewkesbury and Malvern line at Ash church will open a now route from Hereford and South Wales to Evesham and London. EVESHAM AND REDDITCH. This proposed line is intended to join the Evesham and Ashchurch line at Evesham, and the Redditch branch of the Midland Railway at Redditch. INTERCOLONIAL ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKE T. The fourth ordinary meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office in Moorgate-street ; Lord C. Hamil ton in the chair. The report stated the regret of the directors at their in ability to lay before the shareholders any detailed accounts of the profits of the company for the last half-year, owing to the non-delivery of the lett ers and advices cons4queat en the loss of the Colombo steamer. A telegram had be, n re ceived on the 15th of December announcing the total wreck of the company's steamer Lord Worsley, but the particu lars had not yet come to hand. The vessel was insured for £15,006, but this would not cover the entire lo.s. The re sult of the company's working for the half-year ending 30th of June last showed a balance of £1,682, being greater than that of any corresponding period. The £1,682, ratted ti £706, the balance brought forward, made £5,383. In con sequence of the loss of the Lord Worsley the directors did not consider it prudent to recommend the declaration of the usual 71 per cent. dividend on the present occasion, but proposed the payment of a aividend, for the six months ended the 30th of June last, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, leaving a balance of £2,588. The CHAIRMAN having moved the adoption of the report, Mr. PRESTON said he was dissatisfied with the report. He did not think the affairs of the company were conducted in a business-like manner. He moved, as an amendment, " That a committee of shareholders be appointed to inves tigate the affairs of the company." Mr. SPENCE seconded the amendment. After considerable discussion and explanations from the chairman the amendment was withdrawn and the report adopted. The retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. A DAUGHTER OF VIRGINIA.—One of the New - York Times correspondents writes from Acquia Creek :—" An incident which recently transpired near here is worthy of recording, illustrating, as it does, the coolness and courage with which some of the Virginian women are • endowed. A cavalry straggler, after vainly ransacking the outbuildings of a plantation in search of co rn, a pp roached the door in which a young lady was s tanding, and do mended that some of the grain, which ho knew was con cealed in the house, should be given him. We have none,' was the reply. Stand aside until I go in and see for my self,' he rudely retorted, at the same t ime whipping out of its sheath a heavy Colt's revolver. No sooner done than the fair girl planted herself firmly in the doorway, drew a small repeater from her bosom, and deliberately aiming it at the rascal's head, exclaimed, Approach one step further toward this house, and you are a dead man; Cowed and baffled by such an e xhibition of bravery, the trooper turned on his heel and left. It mly, perhaps, be interesting for him to learn that the maiden who placed such a summary check upon his thieving propensities is the intended of G. B. Davis, a nephew of Jell's, and discharges her pocket pistol with an accuracy which has made her famous in this locality." ROBBERY WITH VIoLoNCE. — lt would seem as if Dublin were about to b eco me as unsafe at n i g ht as London. Of late Yo u. § its most lonely streets have been safe at night; but within the last month or so several daring robberies have been perpetrated in them in one or two instances a process something very like garotting being employed. At the police-office, yesterday, two men named Henry Carthy and Patrick O'Keeffe (a re turned convict) were brought up, charged by Mr. J. H. Kearney, of 29, Lower Rutland-street, with having robbed him. It appeared that on the night of the 27th inst., at between 10 and 11 o'clock, Mr. Kearney was proceeding homewards through Lower Gardiner -street, and he saw the prisoner Carthy and O'Keeffe in company, and walking on before him. He passed them by, and immediately after wards he was suddenly pushed off the footway by both the prisoners. Carthy gave him a violent blow on the back of the head, which knocked him down on the footway, wound ing him severely. While he was on the ground O'Keeffe seized the gold guard-chain, which was in his waistcoat pocket, ' and when endeavouring to take the watch be snapped and broke the guard .chain, to which was attached a gold locket, both of which they carried off. Prisoners afterwards ran away together, and prosecubr pursued them. until they were arrested. He identified the prisoners as ' the parties who had assaulted him, and the gold watch chain produced as his properly. The prisoners were sent for trial. THE CESSION OF GIBRALTAR —We read in the riesse of yesterday :—"Letters from Spain mention an extraordinary movement in the political world of Madrid relative to Gibraltar. The cession of the lonian Islands to Greece has awakened old hopes. The Spaniards begin to speak of the cession of Gibraltar to Spain as a necessary consequence of the cession of the Seven Islands ed to G newsreece. -w e s hould add that these hopes are encou ra g w hi c h the Madrid C a binet appears to have received from Lon don. Wh a t ever may b e the presen t disposition of the English G overnmen t, s uch a res ult, sooner or later, is inevitable. Another breach in the old treaties and in the by ancient diplomacy I Another recognition of the great prin ciple of the liberty of the seas! Anotlier triumph of ra tional policy I"