The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-10 00:00:00

• • - , Office of the Gas Light and Cote Company, Horseferry-road, Westminster, October 8, 1853. NOTICE is hereby given, that a HALF YEARLY GENERAL COURT of the Proprietors of this Comi.any will be held on TUESDAY, the Ist day of November next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, at the Company's Gas Works, Horseferry-road, Westminster, and that for Seven Days previously the I lal f-yearly Accounts of the Company will be open to the inspec tion of the Proprietors at this Office, and at the Station of the Com pany, in Brick-lane, 0 d-atreet, on an order signed by three of the Directors, to be procured at either station. NOTICE is hereby also giyen, that at the same Meeting, the Annual Election of Auditors will take place; and should a Ballot be required, it will continue open for four hours from its commence ment. By order, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. 11.33 . The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock precisely, ar.d none but Proprietors admitted. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. The SECOND PART of an HISTORICAL LECTURE on "THE THAMES," from its S ource t o it s Estuary, by GEORGE BUCKLAND, _ assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, with NEW SONGS and NEW DISSOLVING SCENERY, on Tuesdays and Fridays at four o'clock, an d every Evening except Saturday at'. ine. Lacruar.s.—By J. H. Pepper, Esq. : On PHOTOGRAPHY, with _ . Illustratkin r 4, ➢fornings and Evenings. By Dr. Baehh 7 offner ortELEOTRO:GILDING and SILVERING. The LANCASHIRE SEWING MACHINE and BATE'S IM PROVED FIRE ESCAPE exhibited in Use and explained Daily. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children tinder Ten years of age Half-price. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CHEAP EXCURSION TO OXFORD, CIRENCESTER STROUD, GLOUCESTER, and CFIELTENHAM. On SUNDAY, October 16th, an Excursion Train for the above Places will leave Paddington Station at 7.46 a.m., returning the St Evening irom Cheltenham, at 6.' , 0; Gloucest r, at 6.50; rond. at 7.20; Cirencester, at 7.35 ; and Oxford, at 3.50. F ares there and 13ack First Class. Covered Carriages. Oxford ...... ** '• ' • '4. 3s. 6d. Cirencester or Stroud .. • • 9s. ss. Od. Gloucester or Cheltenham .... 10s. 6s. Od. No luggage allowed. Tickets can be obtained previously at the us ual places. Paddington Station, Oct. 5, 1853. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN R AILWAY.—EDINBURGH PEACE CONFERENCE. leth "lee Hereby Wye), that on MONDAY and TUESDAY. the ..„,„ and 11th of October, RETURN TICKETS TO EDINBURGH ilattbe issued at E us t on S ta ti on t o Fi rs t and Second-class passengers following fares, : _ _ _ London to E and B. Pirbt-c1a55...... 41.105 d. Sec inburgh ond-class ack ..., • . 31 6s. These tickets will be available for return by any train until j o gaY, October 25th. Pa sengers who would prefer to divide the o r i, resting on Monday night on the way, may do so at 6,..7,°r Carlisle, the same ticket carrying them througu to Edin- C e g r a on the following day. This arrangement will also apply to k e ,„.,_etUrn journey, provi led they leave Edinburgh on or before 24th. These tickets are not transferable. By order, MARK JUTISH. 14, 41 M anager ' s Office, Octobe r, 1853. ••••—_ TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LONDON AND GRAVESEND. MERCHANTS, SHIPPERS, AND THE PUBLIC. COl, - .LNG of the SUBMARINE and EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH — PANIE3' GRAVESEND OFFICE. Great Reduction of ari„ d.. Dov and er and Instantaneous and between Communication between Gravesend, Lon- Gravesend and the Conti ", nt, & Q. , e "mges of 20 Words from Gravesend to London, Dover, or Deal, vice versa, One .4hilling E ach additional 10 words, or fraction of 10 words, Sixpence. ... Porterage charged for delivery for the first mile from any of the Companies' stations. Messages may be sent from Gravesend to nearly every town o iteportAnce on the Continent and in the United Kingdom. Boatmen on the river will bring Messages from th e shi ps to the Companies' Office. Messages sent by boat' to vessels lying off the shore. For further particulars, apply at the Office, 45, The Terra ce, Gravesend (between The Terrace Pier and Custom House, and clos e to the river). Offices :—London: 30, Cornhill; and 43, Regent-circus. Birming ham: 104, New-street. Gravesend: 45, The Terrace. Dover: 7, Clarence-place. Deal : 100, Beach street. Prance: Paris—Rue la Richelieu; Calais—Railway station. Belgium—Brussels: Place de Monnale. G. L. PARROTT. Secretary. CONTRACTS FOR RUM, TEA, SOAP, MUSTARD, AND PEPPER. - Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somersot-place, 6th Oct., 1853 . TRE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the U n i te d Ki ngdom of Great Britain and I reland, do H ere b y Give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 20th i nstant. at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her _ aiestys Victualling St ores at GOSPORT and PLYMOUTH the undermentioned articles, viz : When to be delivered, rHalf in two months, 1 and the remainder in one month after -1 wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. 1 One-half of each in 1 one month, and the remainder in one month afterwards, or earlier if pre ferred by the party tendering. num., TEA (Congou).. lbs. 15,0'0 Tons. SOAP , • IMIISTARD (in Flour)... PEP PER (whole Black) 10,000 Tons. -----. ' I- , The "D Duties l`jo tender will be received fora less quantity Rum, Tea, and Pepper to be exempted from the Customs Kanons—of Tea than 2 ,000 lbs 1 ton and of Pepper than 1 —Of So" of Rum than 3,000 a ag strength h to be sent in pinta not an the t each import mark, and to be stated, and of each mark ex for not an avera2e of different marks or strengths of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to be of the same quality, !nark, or averge strength of the sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the officers ; and samples of the Tea (not less than 2 14 . from the Bonded Warehouse), of the Soap (not less than 2 bars), and or the Mustard and Pepper (not less than 2lbs. of each), must be Produced Tb by the parties tendering. are e sam ples produced by pers o ns who se t en d ers are not accepted, requested to he taken away by them immediately after the con tracts have been decided. The conditions or the revised contracts, to which particular atten tlo.l Is Called, may be seen at the said •office, at the Victualling Levis, l ards at Gosport and Plymouth, attheofficeof C a t Liverpool, and of the Collector of Customs at oni Bristol. aam .No Tender W ll l be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any no ticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly autho rised in writing. Every Tende:r - must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words `• Tender for and must also be delivered at Somerset. place, and those for Rum, Tea, Mustard, and Pepper, mast be accompanied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in a sum of 201. per cent. on the value, for the due per formance of each of the contracts. SIR WILLIAM BURNETT' S DISINFECTING FLUID.—The best Concentrated "CHLORIDE OF ZINC." — Great Reduction of Price.—The merits of this Fluid, invented by Sir W. Burnett, M.D.. F.R S., &c., &c., for the Disinfection of Sick Rooms, Clothing, Linen, &c.; the prevention' of Contagion; the preservation of Animal Matter from Putrescence; the purification of Rilgewater, Cesapools, Drains, Water Closets, &c , are now so well known to the public as to render comment unnecessary. Sold at the Office, 18, Cannon-street, City, London, and by Che ?nista, Shipping Agents, and others throughout the United Kingdcm, Imperial Quart Bottl e s a t 2s. 6d. ; i n Pi n ts at Is. 3d.; in Half pints at 9d.; and in bulk at 6s. per Gallon. CAUTION.— BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.—The only genuine V2sizfectinx Fluid is sealed over the cork with the inscription. " Sir win. Burnett's Disinfecting Fluid," ant accompanied with nume rous Testimonials of the highest order, and instructions for its use. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. bit SAMUEL I A'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, D octor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the Univeraby of E k„... di , nb A urgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical - "Lerf. Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &C., Ecc. A rale,llseineitintibionb consulted, personally, or by letter, OI I various e n disorders e of the nervous and generative system, r larities and excesses, which ave p tire deo e misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema cas- , decay at all stages of life. than perhaps any other class of dis h, ;:s snown to modern athologists. Long and practical experience ~,‘"'" 'ale treatment f these diseases has proved that there are in exist- D s 'ee seer e id disappointed hopes in et causes of self-acquired miseries al bebaree, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to whichN_ervon . s . „ gel. tY, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfulmarl'l andies. beP°t aneY Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their -.. inn... ' Dritt lt e t is abs --.. ohi u t ca ei tions owe their almost entire origin. Y necessary that all men should know that there . are . in vert 13 ,„_ 1 " of Personal management which cannot be violated without the 1"w grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed nlay b e 2',..... e1 , 3 ". of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties Mg I,,,_""mgated, bow the sting of their bitterness may be removed, that t he tile evil and Rs con.equenc es may be avoided, and above all, der.... - are la scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional , 130c e .,,m,,ent to which the timely aid of science cannot applya gaged ni an '''R LA'MERT has for a long series of years been e- plahr_extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate m er ge of rt ie l a and is the only legally qualified Physician who, rega h e 1 1 ;e con ft u ri n ta and envy of thehypocrftical and mock-modest, hashad ",:terttio,;`,..enee, through the medium of the public press, to direc i..ee• in .`",these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is tr-aarqml!,.eeting thi4 department of practice, be has been amply te ea r e4 , t alcrit ,/,. t he great success that has attended his efforts the he Du i i l un r „' ',nese eas es w hi c h are too generally confided to or t h h slatto ';'allfled and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated bay .e h ' r o a u te' 4l l imed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues A e t ij e ," In u dn e : * truras, have inflicted serious injury on those who 8 4 tiii -el e fo r e d to place faith in their pLe e te ve n e sio ti ns u . Twe, rami nin F: lght • rp o sultation daily from and from Itcan b, ' letters must containthe fee of IL, and advice and °aid first -'e that p atients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MEET or address. st:lNT:diedaesiTi°rrb:4l:tis'nfearweoupydeloiftohisanwyoinirk tioa: SELF-PRESERVATION. ,s_ en erat ve , eon the Philosophy ot M e and Nervous and '“bing i n a Liebility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and dead eXcesses e ,t i ttil the various disorders resulting from secret habits an vi_ ee rilnio,, - Te Perusal o f this treatise will assist in the correct az rli ct , - ii. 0 . their eas s, nd e be price 2s 6d, in English, nroth er „,' "npaPlh, Dutc e h Italiansmor German, of Messrs. Piper ann , i9' ll „'". Co., 23, Paternoster - row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; by post fo.ruorribill ; Stotie Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or t f eb re t e . aco,-tw stamp' s , to any address from the Author's ------ ----____ IIMD-R ODARY., LONDON. TA NOTICE ! ItES SRS. R. & L. PERRY & CO. CONTINUE TO BE C ONSULTED AS ITSU AL, ON AT 19, Bra OXFORD-STREET, " TI M SECRET CAB I SES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MIS ERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. THE SILENT FRIEND. ullistrated by Onus Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition. DISEASE. .„,_ CoNTArstwo THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF . _ and Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings from the NQ Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 28. 6d., by post, Establishment. 3s. 6cl. in stamps, r-ti- SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on r -.-,, E produced by the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, -- of excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, Mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol or the abuse lowed bY observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which . PERRY and CO.. Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford row, street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co. 23, Paternoster and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Co., Gor ;,orl, 14G, Leade nhall-street ; 95, Fatringdon-street ; W. Sutton, 10, I nw Ch rn nrc h - yard ; Butl er, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Cohill. lanlPAlrr 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive , and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PART I. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the Mental and b.idily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative lnca system, producing pacitY. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. PAlrr 111, treats of the diseases asulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, ani! contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav ngS. PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection Is obviated. PART V. Is devoted to the c onsideration of marriage and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole Subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDIAL nALM OF Svatecura is exclusively employed in trea lug nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 1 is. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic re medy. for purifying the blood in o f sees ot infection, secondary symptons, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills. 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Ils. Der box, as certain remedy for gonorrhcea Meet, stricture, and chronic n mmation of the bladder. co nsultation fee, if by letter, it. A minute detail et the case is required : age, habits, and posi tion in society. Si. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish ment only, by which the fee, I/., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendanee, daily, at 19, Berner ; -street, Oxford-street, Lon don, from ti e vela tLa O4 rive to Eight ; 1: 42 Sunday from 1-43111_ ti) 044 - Two, To be delivered at 1 - Gospoit.i Plwb Gallons. 15,000 No. 19,045.] In a few days, 2 voig, foolscap, cloth, 165., THE POETICAL WORKS of ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Third Edition. W.th numerous Additions and Corrections. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. This day, foolscap, price is.. S KETCHES OF THE HUNGARIAN EIIIGRATION INTO TURKEY. By a 11ONVED. Forming the new volume of "Rea ling for Travellers." London : Chapman and Bid], 193, Piccadilly. NEW VOLUME OF THE CHEAP EDITION OF IR E I3UL WER LYTTON'S NOVELS AND TALES. With a new Preface and Frontispiece. . Price 4s. cloth, H AROLD: THE LAST OF THE SAXON By SIR EDWARD LYTTON ISITLWER, Bart., M.P. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Small Bvo., cloth, 65., THE MANUAL OF FRENCH COOKERY, Simplified for the benefit of the most Unlairned. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. ZADKIEL'S ALMANACK for 1854, Price 6d., just published. Contents highly interesting) :—Fate of Tur. key and emerica— Feari ul A ars in Europe, &c.—Anthropology, or the Science of man—Fulfilled Predictions of Great Earthquakes in Persia, South America, &c. Published by Piper and Co., 23, Pater noster-row, London. .N. 8.-35,000 copies sold last year. T" QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXXVI., will be Published on Saturday, Oct. 15th. CONTENTS : I. The Institute of France. 11. Murder of Thomas A'Becket. 111. The Dauphin in the Temple. IV. The Holy Places. V. Diary of Casaubon. VI. Electro-Biology and Mesmerism. VII. Lire of Haydon. John Murray, Albemarle •strect. NEW CLASS-1300K OF ARITHMETIC. Just Publisbed, price 35., strongly bound, ACOMPLETE SYSTEM of ARITHMETIC, Theoretical and Practical; adapted to the Dee of Schools and Private Students; containing the Fundamental Rules, and their Application to Mercantile Computations ; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ; Invodition and Evolution ; Series ; Annuities, Certain and Contingent. By JAMES TuorrEa, of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, author or A Key to Ingram's Mathematics, &c. This Work contains 3,400 New Exercises, adapted to the business of real life, with 200 Examples wrought out at length and minutely explained. . _ .- Also, A New Edition of Mr. TROTTER'S LESSONS In ARITHMETIC tor JUNIOR CLASSES. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ATKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET MANUFACTURERS, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET ciREHOU-EATEN. 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster bridge-road, Lambeth, London. ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, SILK MERCERS, LACEMEN, &c., 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawis, Furs, Mantles, Family Mourning, &c. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms, (Lessee, Criss. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham road). The above Rooms are now OPEN FOE THE SE.bSON, and will continue open every evening, with LAUREN T', CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, is. Doors open at half-past 8 ; Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. BANK OF DEPOSIT, 7, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a high Rate of Interest may be obtained with perfect security. Interest payable in January and July. PE LER MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses free on application. SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS. To Secretaries of Public Institutions, Clerks, Station Masters, Bail way Officials, Bankers' Clerks, Travellers, and Others. -- rrIMES LIFE ASSURA_NOE and GUARAN- A TEE COMPANY, 32, Ludgate-hill, London. Incorporated ander 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. CHARLES HINDLEY, Esq., M.P.. Dartmouth-horse, Westminster. JAMES KERSHAW, Esq., M.P., Stockport. MINTERS. James Alexander Douglas, Esq., 11, Queen -square. Ambrose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square. James Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Oxford-street. CHAIRMAN—The Hun. Francis Villiers, Berkeley-square. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN —James Wyld, Esq., Charing-cross. " The Times " Company affords guarantee to persons requiring the same at the lowest possible rate, and divides four-fiths of the profits. Thus, by applying the justly popular principle of mutuality to public guarantee, the premiums, instead of being a tax upon honesty, be come a means of saving and investment. Rates —From 7s. 6d. upwards. No charge for stamps or extra charges. An allowance made in the guarantee premium, where a life assurance and guarantee are combined. LIFE ASSURANCE. Life assurance, annuities, and endowments. Payments taken monthly as well as quarterly, &e. Policies indisputable, save in case., of frdnd. Arrangements can be made with this office to pre vent the loss of a policy where the assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment, to keep up the payments. H. B. SHERIDAN, Manager. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. The following testimonial is another proof of the great effi cacy of this medicine : " 157, Nrew Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Sir,—ln acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex perienced by taking ISLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public who may be similarly affected. _ _ "About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout in my hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va riety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and in Spain, under Sir John Moore, in the 18th Hussars. I always pro cured the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential relief, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some thing of this disease. " It was during one of those paroxysms, between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I lost no time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity the pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. "From that moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis ease approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to me is so valuable, that were it not that the days of made have ceased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. Moreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf fered, but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS a towards its improvement. " I have recommended the Pills to many Mends, and the result has always been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, " GARRET FOSTER GILL. "To Mr. Front, 229, Strand." For every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo rena, &c., &c., BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy, contain neither mercury, opium, or any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever In their use, and ter ra pidity of cure and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors. Price h. 9d . per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that " Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the Government Stamp. THE MOST CERTAIN DI COVE RED.PREVENTION OF CHOLERA EVER THE BEST and CHEAPEST DISIN FECTIN., FLUID is CREW'S INIPROVED CHLORIDE of ZINC, for the purification of Dwelling-houses Stables, Dog Ken nels, Ship's Holds, Cesspools, Drains, W ater-closets, &c. ; the Disin fection of Sick Rooms, Clothing, Linen, and for the Prevention of Contagion. Chloride of Zinc, as the best Disinfecting and purifying agent, is now established beyond all doubt. It is perfectly harmless in its application and innoxious In itself. The high price at which it has hitherto been sold has prevented its general use ; to obviate this obstacle to its universal apnlication as a disinfecting and purifying agent, the present manufacturer, who was many years with Sir W. Burnett's Company, has arranged to supply the public with concen trated Chloride of Zinc in its greatest purity and at the lowest price. It is sold by all Chemists and Shipping Agents in the United King dom, In Imperial Quart Bottles at 2s. 6d. each ; in pints, Is. ; half pints, 6d. each ; and in larger ves3els at 6s. per Gallon. Each Bottle will be accompanied with instructions for its dilution and use. Cones. trated Chloride of Zinc in use may be diluted with 200 times its quantity of water. Orders executed by the soie Agents, Messrs. Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bush-lane, Cannon street. Manufactured at H. G. GRAY'S, Commercial Wharf, Mile End, London. STOCKS AT HOME AND STOCKS ABROAD. THE very uncertain state of the Money Market has given cause for serious apprehension, and report says the Australian Markets are so overstocked that shipments are taking place for England and America. This is quite possible, and arises from business founded on wrong principles. It is the worthless and unseasonable articles which will not sell; but the manufactures of E. MOSES and SON meet with a speedy sale at a surprising amount of profit. This is in consequence of their perfect knowledge of the Australian markets, and constant advices from their largeEstablisli ment in Australia. The Winter Clothing now displayed at the Establishment of E. MOSES and SoN, and at its West-end Branch, exhibits Variety, Fashion, and Superiority in numberless artistic styles of Winter Attire. The very extraordinary low prices charged for every article in Dress, Hats, Cars, Hosiery, Furs, Boots, the most favourable circumstance which could occur when money is scarce and provisions charged at a high rate. E. MOSES and SoN's Winter stock affords the best illustration of a magnificent business c o n du c ted with a direct application to the season, and productive of greater advantages in quality,. style, and comfort than any goods offered elsewhere. Merchants, Captains, Shippers, and Emigrants may select from the largest Wholesale Stock in the world, at E. MOSES and Sows'. The general superiority of the goods, and their being made expressly to suit she markets and the season when they will arrive, associated with the most economical charges. deserves the immediate attention of all classes going abroad. Ship-galling information, and full lists of outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, may be had on application, or post free. SPECIAL NOTICE. —The Establishment be' on WEDNESDAY next, October the 12th, re-opening will aseel on CLOSED Tutras- DAY morning at 7 o'clock. CAUTION.—E. MOSER and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-llke falsehood of " Being connected with 'heir Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITII ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford atreet, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Branch, Melbou ne, Australia. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT. —Should any article not give satisfaction, It vrilibe exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lo west price, from which ne abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, A .ew Book,wls , business,,rhe Heraldisre soufmed the till s eas l2 on o , ' , c , o ck 1 . containing full lists , of prices, our system of selfaaeasurement, facts relative to Australia, advice to em igrants, Stc., may be had on application, or post-free to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis an application. Id l'on parle Francais. Qui si parla Italian. Ms spriclat 111311334.2150 be MU 14 /A habllA Eskand _ _ _ 9 t- ' ----- ~....... 40 • &t. . I , ~ 1 1 11. .. , .... : ~. .4 , -... , s *- . *, ..," t %7 ; -I - „ *' ' „. 4 ,, r, 1`':: . . _ • " s -.1.4 17 ~..--,;le • „P: ) ./ I: =..'": 1- , - I'4-.0. - - FM ..r• -tr \ ~..,. . 1 , - 1i" , 14 ei ~,a (., ,.,..„,,..),: i.v. ,,‘ ~•• 7 -\ ,,, ----,,,, ,'e . .. 4 " . ..,.. , ,: :-.. ' ,0 ...,... I L , . , k ,_ ra i, . ~...,. , ~,,,./_,,, . . .• . _ •‘,„ ~. 1 ,.. , : :;' *.&.)...„ $ .,.:1. lif 7 - C"' - Ite,: ' - ?'7. ef:. ~.,_ . ' Zfl''' V., ‹ 't , .‹,(-- .• ~ ,_<- • ‘ k ir 4 ' , P 4 \ \ ~.,' ,N. , ' i 4 4. 1 :.i: i, . I l a ‘ --„,*. i - r -:,...,.. C.:Z.,- ....... 4 11 efli ry: °) t l i , : ' .134 '.1.11.1 ( I . '*',";4l. ~,,-., if' ~....,_,, b „ .., , ... _.,.. -4 ._,00,...,.. al '45/11 / 1 4DIEDIVA.V";! 4' )479/ ' ''l , r 4 ~- . &,. it.......L...........„... } )rr ' S Y. " ` , .y,, L ' ' .../ ~ ..,' / 1 'Ner4t ..oAtCji, Vlli, '''• _ . r PRICE SD• whether their duty to the manufacturing and I shipping interests, which requires them to proclaim the incalculable good thus conferred on English commerce, will get the better of their subservience to the present ministry, which compels them to refuse all merit to the administration of Lord Derby; and more especially the department pre sided over by Lord Malmesbury. Such efforts will be vain. The time is gone by when they could succeed ' • and the clear-sighted com merc i a l men o f England will be quick to perceive that not only are they indebted to the noble earl for this boon, but that also to the promptitude and ability of Sir Charles Hotham it is owing that its attainment I was not frustrated by Lord Aberdeen and Lord Clarendon as " hopeless." While indignant at the thought of what this small-souled caution might have shut them out from, they will do well to reflect that one of the most signal achievements of commercial diplomacy in modern times bad well nigh failed from a beggarly but characteristic cal culation of its " expensiveness." of cases counted for, and would be in e hands of William Thompson a good receipt . for ebt due to John Smith. But there is a special cla of cases (to which this ex env • of payment of money to bankers does not apply, whatever of receipt be adopted. It is specially stated "not to extend to receipts or acknowledgments for sums paid or deposited for or upon letters of allot ment of shares, or in respect of calls upon any scrip or shares of or in any joint stock or other company, or proposed or intended company;"—and it is further enacted that such receipts or acknowledgements, by whomsoever given (whether by the secretary of the company or the bankers) shall be liable to the stamp duty. So that in the case of payments of deposits on letters of allotment or "calls ' of any kind, the receipt must be stamped. Fourth--We are not aware of any good reason why a receipt for a payment into a banker's by a customer, in the manner already described, should not be exempt from stamp duty, simply because it names a time for the repayment of the money, or defines some specific notice to be given before the deposit shall again be demanded. We are aware that similar instruments given by private persons, such as I 0 U's for money borrowed, which specified a given day on which repayment was to be made, had been held by some to come within the Stamp Act as promissory notes. But in the case of a banker's deposits a special exemption from stamp duty is made, and no exception to the exemption is stated on account of the receipt bearing upon it a note of the time when it is to be repaid. But this is a point upon which we shall think it needful to take further advice. Fifth —Much discussion has taken place upon the state of the law under the new act in relation to stamped cheques drawn "to order " and "on demand," and in relation to bills of exchange. What we have formerly stated in respect thereto is strictly in accordance with the law, but the scope an d e ff ec t o f our o b serva tions seem to have been misunderstood. In the first place, the new instrument of a cheque or draft drawn "to order " and "on demand" on a penny stamp, is in every respect subject to the same laws (as bills of exchange, except as regards the exemption of bankers from the duty of ascertaining the genuineness of the indorsement. Now, it is quite true, as we have before stated, that a receipt for the payment of a bill of exchange at maturity, when the money is pal, may be given upon the bill itself, without any further stamp. But if, at the time of taking the bill, a receipt is given as a discharge for the debt which it re presents—for example, if the invoices or account be thus receipted : "Received this day by bill at three months "—such receipt, though only for a bill, must be upon a stamp ; and the party paying a bill, or giving an acceptance in discharge of a debt, has a right to de mand a stamped receipt for it, the same as if the claim were discharged by money. Of course, if the party giving such bill or acceptance is willing to dispense with any receipt for it, he is quite at liberty to do so ; and in many cases, perhaps in most cases, the bill itself when paid at maturity might be so identified with the claim that it was intended to discharge, as to be in his hands a sufficiently valid receipt, and one on which he might safely rely. Thus dispensing with any receipt for the bill at the time it is given, the final receipt by in dorsement upon it at maturity, and when paid, may be converted into a receipt without a further stamp. But by the way of trying the distinction for which we are contending, suppose the same bill of exchange, as is frequently the case, to be used to discharge numerous debts, by indorsement from one person to another, the only person to whom it would finally serve as a receipt would be the first acceptor, when it returned into his hands. None of the intermediate holders, who had dis charged claims with the same instrument, would have any receipt, unless they were taken separately from the bill, and if so taken, for example in this form, " Settled by A.B 's draft upon C.D.," the receipt must in every case be upon a stamp. The same rule precisely applies to stamped cheques payable to order and on demand. The party dis charging a debt by such an instrument has a right to require a receipt for it, and such receipt must be stamped ; though the receipt for the money, when obtained from the banker's upon whom it is drawn, may be endorsed upon the back of such cheque without any further stamp. But if, as in the case of a bill of exchange, the party paying the stamped cheque is willing to dispense with any receipt for the same, and is satisfied to rely upon the endorsement of the person in whose favour it is drawn, and the possession of the cheque after it has been paid, as a legal proof of the dis charge of any particular claim, it is quite competent for him to do so, and there is nothing illegal in the mode of doing it. Legally and technically the receipt written by endorsement upon such cheque is an acknowledgment to the banker for the money that it represents, and not a discharge for the debt for which such cheque was given ; but it may be without much difficulty converted into a collateral evidence of the discharge of such claim, and especially if the cheque bears upon its face any note of the account for which it is drawn. For example, in pay ing a tradesman's account, if the stamped cheque is drawn :—" Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., pay to A. B. or order, for bill to Christmas, 1852," and it is indorsed as being received by A. 8., such paid cheque in the hands of the person giving it, would furnish a sufficient proof of payment. In all cases in which payments are made by means of such cheques direct into the hands of the parties in whose favour they are drawn, such an en dorsement can be obtained at once, and any further re ceipt may be the easier dispensed with ; but in cases where accounts are collected by clerks, the endorsement could only be made afterwards, and no doubt, if genuine, would he equally efficacious as if made at the time; but in such cases the person making the payment would possess no evidence that he had paid the cheque at all, if it were subsequently lost or stolen, and the endorsement forged. What we want to point out is the technical distinction between the stamp which authorises such a cheque to be drawn " to order, ' and the stamp which serves as a legal discharge fora claim. But practically, however, it is plain that, in a great majority of cases, a stamped cheque, by being endorsed by the person in whose favour it is drawn, will serve all the purposes of a legal proof of the discharge of a debt. But let it be borne in mind that if any acknow ledgment is made of the payment by the cheque, separately from the cheque itself— if the person making the pay ment requires a receipt when he parts with the receipt in discharge of a debt, which he is entitled to do, all such receipts must be upon stamped paper, whether the cheque be stamped and drawn "to order," or unstamped and drawn " to bearer." The case has been put very popularly and elearlyin the following paper from a correspondent, which is per fectly consistent with the statements made in the former articles in the Economist on the subject :-- A receipt for a debt requires a stamp of id. A draft payable to order on demand requires a stamp for ld., and on the back of' this draft the give a payee may a valid discharge, either by a simple indorsement, or by prefacing his signature by "Received the within." Now, if an individual pays his tailor by a draft, pay tableake s to a receipt, this mustrequires alsoasitfhep. Bu then stamp penny ; am t d its c i b s arg e, clear arethant o b t o r t e h q these ui r e d , d legal pbee a:onnyd al not practically e u in! l nts, each being a be used. If the debtor takes a receipt duly stamped, be 1? does not w an t another stamped document, and may pay by a chequ e t o " beare 1 2 which requires no stamp. Or if he p re f ers to pay by a cheque to order, as the creditor must indorse it, and thus acknowledge the receipt of the sum mentioned in the cheque, the debtor does not require a further receipt. • The indorsement, though not in terms a receipt for the tailor's bill, is expressly a receipt for the amount named in the draft. Therefore, the case will stand thus ; The debtor has in his possession his tailor's bill, say for 25/. 10s. He draws a draft payable to the tailor's order for 251. 10s., and will have in his possession this draft duly receipted by the tailor, acknowledging, there fore, that he has received the 251. 10s., and this is as perfect a receipt for the tailor's bill as if it were on a separate penny stamp. Sixth—lt was not intended that receipts given to the Postmwiter-General for money orders for 2/. and upwards should be subject to stamp duty ; as the person receiving such orders pay the Post-office a commission for the same ; and again, as in most cases, the persons receiving the orders must give a legal receipt to the persons send ing them to discharge the claims they represent. But as some doubt has been raised on the subject, it is under stood that the Treasury will issue an order to the Post office to authorise the Postmaster-General to dispense with such receipts. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.-- On Saturday morning, as a coal train from Doncaster was proceeding to the south, the axletree of one of the carriages broke near the Bawtry station, and several of i the trucks wer e thrown off the line, some of them very mu ch shattered , an d the others more or less damaged. Th e rails were torn up f or a c o nsiderable distance, rs of train nce, and the road b ein g also covered with c oals and t h e c arriages, it was quite blocked up. Al, passenger cam e up very shortly after the accident, but the it was for tunatelyre serious conse quences.:t m re sustained b e y o nd stopped N o personalin t time ehtvr)ireee some slight bruises. A staff of platelayers was put on the damaged part of the line as COON the course of the day it was re-openedafsor [ADVERTISEMENT. J SPORTSMEN'S, possible traffic. and in ERS', AND TOURISTS' DEER-STALIC ENRAORDINARY MUNICH GERMAN Observe, opposite the York Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.- - -A valuable, GLASS TELESCOPES. newly-invented,Hotvele.ry- powerfulTsmheall Royal Exhibition. w a waist oat-pocket - oat-pocket glass, ' the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for sh • ooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 31 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles, They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket. and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful power ; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, have in vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenses. Immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, every object appears clear and distinct; the most aged, defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Deafness—New Discovery— The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful and newly-invented instrument, for Deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been, o, probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same aplour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it enab es deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could bo desired.—S. and B. Solomon, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street. Pit:o4llY, Observe, opposite the York Motel. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1853. EXCHEQUER BILLS. The following announcement of an advance in the rate of interest on all the Exchequer bills now in circulation from ld. per diem, at which they have stood since the 10th of March last, to 2d. per diem from the commencement of the official quar ter, was posted on Saturday afternoon in the Stock Exchange : " To the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England. `• Treasury Chambers, Oct. 8, 1853. " Gentlemen,—The Lords Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury having determined that all Exchequer bills issued under the authority of the acts of the 15th of Victoria, c. 10, and the 16th of Victoria, c. 25, shall, on and after the 11th of October inst., bear an interest at the rate of 2d. per centum per diem, I am commanded by their lordships to request that you will make this determination known at the Stock Exchange, and my lords will forthwith take the necessary steps for carrying it into effect.—l have the honour, &c., "JAMES WILSON." The resolution of the Chancellor of the Exche- quer to advance the rate of interest on Exchequer bills has been expected for some days, and much satisfaction is expressed that he has avoided the mistake committed on some previous occasions of allowing the nature of these securities to be da maged by letting them remain for any lengthened time at a discount. In deciding upon the reduc tion to one penny per day in February last, he fol lowed the sound course of obtaining money for the public on the lowest practicable conditions, and was thus enabled to demonstrate that at periods of ease in the Money-market the obligations of the _ . British Treasury will circulate at a rate of interest unknown in any other country. - Until recently, the premium they still maintained was quite as high as is desirable , if they are to be divested of a specula tive character; -and, althcragartlThrivouldnot have been the case if the quantity in circulation had not been diminished by a large amount being sent in for payment, the intentions of the measure were in every respect realised, inasmuch as the Govern ment had a heavy balance at the Bank, which it was expedient should be employed for the national benefit, instead of being suffered to lie idle or to be used only for the advantage of a private corpora tion. At the same time, while the Chancellor re solved that the interest on these securities should henceforth be conformable to the real position of the money-market at the time of their issue, it being no part of the functions of a Minister to act on his own fancies as to whether the stock-market for the future will rise or fall, he, of course, held himself prepared to increase the rate whenever a change of circumstances might render that step necessary. Since February a deficient harvest, not only in Eng land, but throughout the greater part . of Europe ; a convulsion in the Chinese empire, which has ren: dered it necessary for us to make all our payments in that country in the precious metals, and which has caused our exportations of specie to the East to amount, by the last two steamers alone to 1,000,0001. sterling ; a dispute with Russia of so imminent a nature tat we scarcely know whether we are or are not already at war ; and a sudden change from apathy as regards shipments to Australia to a state of excitement, which has caused, probably, ten millions' worth of the combined produce of labour and raw material to be sent away on an eight months' credit, are the events which have since oc curred to affect the relations of capital, and any one of which would usually be regarded as sufficient to upset all previous calculations. That theyhave all happened together without producing the slightest shadow of discredit in the commercial world fur nishes the strongest possible proof of the soundness of the buoyant view which, judging from facts as they then stood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is believed to have entertained at the opening of the year ; while of course, if he were to pretend to have foreseen then, he would rank only as a charlatan, Even, moreover, if they had been within the pro vince of conjecture, it was not his business to turn speculator upon the strength of any such opinions. His duty was simply to obtain money for the public at a penny a-day, or even a farthing a-day, as long as it might be possible to do so, and to be ready to pay twopence or threepence, or any higher amount, whenever the alteration should be requisite. By following this course, and thus assuring the mer cantile community that, although the interest on Exchequer-bills will always, both for the sake of economy and the dignity of the national credit, be kept at the lowest possible rate, they will never be permitted to remain for many weeks at a discount, he will cause the security to be what it ought to be—one of the most reliable and least speculative that can be selected. Meanwhile, the public, for whose interests alone the Chancellor thus far appears to have acted, will be glad to observe that the measure now adopted seems to indicate a certainty that all his arrange ments for meeting the claims to fall due in January next in connexion with the conversion of the South Sea and other annuities will be completed without difficulty. The last quotation of Exche quer-bills to-day was far below what has usually been the case when they have borne the advanced rate of interest now announced, and the reason for this consists in the anticipation that an amount equal to that withdrawn during the past six months will be re-issued to supply the wants of the Treasury at the period in question, the available surplus re venue being used as far as it will go for the re mainder. Under these circumstances, public ob ligations bearing 3 per cent. in perpetuity will be paid off partly by cash in hand and partly by secu rities carrying interest at the rate of 3/. Os. 10d. per annum that will admit of being reduced when ever the money-market may be favourable for such an operation.—Times Gity Article. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, On Saturday afternoon an accident of a most alarm ing character, and which, we regret to say, was the cause of one person being killed on the spot, and which, it is feared, will prove fatal to several others, occurred at Kensal-green. It appears that Messrs. Lock and Nesham, the well known contractors, were erecting for the Great Wes. tern Railway Company at Kensal•green a new locomo tive factory, which, with the exception of the covering of the roof, was to be composed of iron, after the prin ciple of the Crystal Palace. The building was 400 feet long by 70 broad, the sides of which consisted of iron columns, and the roof was to be supported by what are technically called iron principals or rafters, constructed triangularly, so as to give a full fall for the light. These principals were raised on the top of the columns by means of a " derrick," a perpendicular pole, which was supported by four "guys" (ropes to give it a proper bearing). Nine of the principals had already been erected, and, at the time of the accident, a large number of the workmen were in the act of raising the tenth, which they had nearly got up to the top, when, from some cause which is at present unexplained, the "guys" gave way, and the "derrick" toppled over, thereby causing the "principal" the men were lifting to strike the others, and the consequence was that the whole mass fell to the ground with a fearful crash, burying under it all the men who were engaged in the work. Assistance was immediately procured, and as soon as the principals (each of them weighs about 15 cwt.) could be removed it was found that nearly 20 per sons had been injured more or less severely. The first man who was taken out was John Duay ; he was quite dead, the back part of his head having been completely severed. The others were immediately taken to St. Mark's Hospital, Paddington, where, upon examination, it was found that five were most severely wounded, three of whom, upon inquiry at the hospital at half-past ten o'clock last night, were not. expacted to live till the morning. The names of the sufferers in the hospital, and the nature of their wounds, are as follows :—Thomas Myatt, George-street, Blackfriars-road, fractured hip and in jury to the head ; William Beckingham, 58, Star-street, Paddington, fractured limb and other injuries ; William Wallis, 9, Bradley-street, Harrow-road, fractured thigh and other injuries. The above are fatally wounded. Charles Carpenter, Union-place, St. George's road, fractured ribs; James Sumner, 7, Haverstock-place, Somers Town, several fractures. The other persons, after being examined by the sur geons, were allowed to go to their own homes. NORTH OF LONDON ANTI-ENCLOSURE SOCIETY.-At last monthly meeting of the committee, 6th inst., at Chalk Farm, Mr. E. Land in the chair, the illegal stop page of the " Oak Park" fieldpath to Hampstead-heath was brought under consideration, and proof given of its antiquity. A printed letter from J. Orton Smith, Esq., of Serjeants' Inn, respecting that gentleman's "Rebec ca" treatment of an illegal enclosure at Colney Hatch, was read, which elicited warm commendations, ending in the adoption of the following resolution, viz.:—"That the thanks of this committee be given to J. Orton Smith, Esq., of Serjeants' lim, London, for his spirit e d co nduct in removing obstructions placed across the pub lic footpath which leads from Muswell Hill to the Lu natic Asylum at Colney Hatch, more especially as, in 1 this degenerate age, so few can be found to protect the ' rights of their country, or fieldpaths, which, from their endearing associations, lead, as it were, from our hearts to heaven." The Secretary said, Mr. Smith's public advice to "Rebecca" all obstructions to public foot paths ought to be generally adopted, as experience proved it was useless to expect justice fromthose who, 9. Were so base as to rob the public! of their rights. THE EASTERN QUESTION. (From the Times.) After all the forbearance which political wisdom could suggest, and all the suspense which diplo matic negotiations unavoidably involve, the Turkish question has been brought to a point of practical decision. The Czar has now learnt the terms from which the Western Powers will not swerve, and which they are prepared, even at the cost of war, to maintain. It will be satisfactory to the whole country to understand that these resolutions have been taken with perfect unanimity by the Cabinet, and that between the British and French Govern ments there prevails so entire an accord upon every point of their joint duties that the manoeuvres of Russia to dissolve or inipair the alliance have utterly failed. France and England have announced their de termination to support Turkey, if necessary, by force of arms, in resisting the demands preferred by Russia. They have agreed, in point of fact, to abide by those conditions of settlement which the Four Power conceived themselves to be expressing in their Vienna Note; but which they failed to con vey with any accuracy of language. The modifica tions suggested by the Porte are substantially adopted by the Western Powers as the basis of their terms, and the Emperor Nicholas has not been indulged in his desires respecting the point of form. At Olmiitz, as our readers are aware, the Czar professed his readiness to concede the prin ciple of the Turkish modfications, provided only that the recognition were effected by means of an explanatory " declaration,"and the original Vienna Note still retained as the regulating instrument between the parties. In this particular, however, France and England deolined to yield ; and they have required that the assent of the Czar to condi- tions which he already admits in substance shall be ' expressed and recorded in some document unda maged by a previous false interpretation. A Note which Russia has already publicly declared to mean exactly what the Western Powers think it should not mean can never represen-, a satisfactory settle ment between the Western Powers and Russia. To all but those who entertain positive desires that the liberal States of the West should be brought into decisive collision with the absolute States of the East at the earliest moment, and on the first pretence, we think these sesciutions must appear sufficient. The delays hitherto attending the nego tiations have occurred in the interests of peace alone. At no moment have trey been occasioned, on the part of the Western ?owers, by any dis position to give way to Russia. The terms now categorically preferred are :he identical terms which have been required from the beginning, and are none other indeed than the very conditions to which France and England believed themselves to be adhering when they assented to the Vienna Note. The intervening difficulties originated in circumstances both evident and notorious. As soon as ever the proceedings, and even the intentions of Russia were known in the country, and before the arrogance of her demands upon Turkey had been consummated by the actual invasion of the Danubian Principalities, the combined fleets were despatched to their Eastern anchorage. Immedi ately afterwards a Conference assembled at Vienna to impose terms of moderation on Russia. Had the work of these diplomatists been properly con ducted, the question would have been brought three months ago to the point it has just now reached, and Russia would have received the ulti matum of Europe. But the Conference blundered —there is no disguising the fact. They so expressed their intentions that their expressions were mis construed both by Turkey on one side and Russia on the other, and, as their Note was thus vitiated by its inherent ambiguities, the whole affair had to be commenced anew under greater difficulties than before. Originally the Czar had no standing ground whatever, but, having accepted the terms of the European arbitrators in the form in which they were offered to him, he became possessed of some species of case. He has not, however, been allowed the benefit of the doubt thus created. The Western Powers have declared their own Note void by the Czar's interpretation, and now insist upon a fresh instrument, containing a plainer ex position of their terms. What justifies them conclusively in these resolu- tions is the absolutely indefensible position which Russia has been all along maintaining. Her armed occupation of the Danubian Principalities is a stand ing and perpetual offence against public law—an offence which would have warranted, on the part of Turkey, a declaration of war at the moment of its commission. Russia had no title whatever to enforce her demands upon the Porte. So far as we can judge, she was even without any admissible reasons for preferring these demands at all, for the Greek Christians in Turkey, though kept, as they have always been, in a state of degradation and oppression, had not been exposed to any recent alarms, or induced to make application for extrinsic protection. But, however this may be, there was unquestionably no ground for the exercise of vio lence ; and, although we are not directly bound to guarantee Turkey in her territorial rights, and still less to uphold the dominion of Mussulmans over Christians, we were called upon in self-defence, and in European interests, to oppose this act of vio lence on the part of a Power whose encroaching policy is the subject of common alarm. Our object is, and has been, to procure the withdrawal by Russia of those demands upon Turkey which would invest the Czar with an in definite authority in the dominions of the Sultan, and thus enable him to prosecute clandestinely any designs directed against the security of the Ottoman Empire. It seems that the Conference failed to express this object distinctly in the first propositions of adjustnaent, but we have at any rate, expressed it now, an d i n t erms satisfactory even to the natural suspicions of the Porte. After this it only remains to be seen whether the Emperor of Russia will persist in his aggres sion or yield to reason. We hope and trust that the latter result mai . occur. To all the former evidence against his proceedings the Czar has now added the conclusive testimony of his own confession. By accepting in substance the terms pressed by the Western Powers, he has acknow ledged the justice of the principles on which those terms are based. By undertaking to give, though in form of his own choosing, the guarantees they require, he has practically admitted that those guarantees are reasonably demanded, and the ques tion of his own dignity ought to sink by the side of facts like these. By his own acknowledgments, no less than by the opinion of Europe, he stands con victed of having endeavoured to enforce, by unlaw -1 • invasion, demands which he now consents to retract. This, by his own showing, is the case against him, for his reiterated assurances of desiring nothing beyond what the Western Powers profess to permit supply conclusive evidence against those proceedings which provoked the intervention. We yet trust this protracted dispute may be terminated without war, and that an Emperor who parleys may be found like a fortress under the same circumstances, less disposed to fight than capitulate. That the alternative of war must be accepted, if necessary, we have repeatedly observed; but as the acceptance will at once precipitate us into all those countless and incalculable perils which the modern policy of Europe has been framed to avert, we may well hope to be saved from the extremity. If any reliance, however, has been placed by foreign Go vernments on that insurmountable affection for peace which has recently been attributed, as a national sentiment, to the British people, the mis conception may now be easily rectified. We do not, indeed, believe that war could, even for a mo ment, be really popular with a country so generally enlightened as to its consequences, but it is clear that there is pugnacity enough abroad to make a prudent and pacific policy decidedly more difficult to a Ministry than a policy which should appeal to the foibles of a people or the passions of a moment. England can always go to war soon enough. Of this there can be very little doubt, and we trust the obvious conviction may produce its clue effect in quarters where more temperate proceedings have hitherto been of little avail. (From, the Press.) Our readers may remember that in our last week's number we stated precisely the pitch of complexity which the Eastern question had reached, and an nounced that Lord Aberdeen would call a Cabinet Council during the week which is now ending. The Cabinet Council met yesterday ; but, as a preliminary to this phenomenon, certain of its principal councillors had a private, rehearsal, which they thought fit to announce in the Times of Tues day last. If it was not pure hypothesis on the part of their organ, they enabled it to communicate "the intelligence which was the immediate occasion of their meeting—that on the 26th ult. the Grand Council, a body consisting of about one hundred and forty magnates of the Turkish empire, had re commended the Sultan to make a declaration of war." This intelligen9e was, of course, sufficient occasion for the Cabinet to meet ; and, in any event, it was natural that they should prepare theiuselyes for the ford duties they had so lopg suspended, and so grudgingly resumed. But it was a novelty to announce the subject of Privy Council deliberations to the public, and to atone for a fussy reserve towards Parliament by a frank violation of the confidence of the Crown. The Cabinet has a new theory on the subject of "Honour," as we suggested last Saturday; so we let this pass ; for their position —we say it in no odious sense—is comparatively a contemptible topic in face of the contingencies menacing Europe. The magnates of the Turkish empire have recom mended war—or rather, we should say, they have recommended retaliation (for war commenced with the passage of the Pruth by the Russians) ; and retaliation will in natural course ensue if our Cabi net acts with its usual alacrity, and negotiates again with its former success. Further negotiations are, indeed, announced, under new, and it is hoped better, conditions. The apparent energy which at ,last commissioned the combined fleets to the waters of Constantinople has been accompanied by (it would shock too abruptly the Muscovite predilections of Lord Aberdeen to say it has induced) certain overtures on the part of the Czar. The reputed organ of one of the Minis ters has told us in a jaunty air, which betrays its inspiration, that " the fleets did not sail for Besika Bay for a summer's cruise, nor have Admirals Dun das and Hamelin passed the Dardanelles with their whole force for the benefit of change of air." This information, which reassured the British pub lic, has been considerately mitigated to Russian ears, if Lord Westmoreland, as is stated, told the Czar at Olmutz that " his Government would par ticularly guard against making any pledge of mate rial support to the Sultan in case he should declare war against' Russia." But the fleets were, at all events, present, if not with acknowledged hostile intent ; and the Czar has offered terms, though not under acknowledged pressure. Of the respective movements of the Porte for war and - Of the Ciii - ror peace, both may be sincere, and yet at this stage war may be imminent. If, on the other hand, the Czar's predisposition for an ar rangement is avowed in the same sense as his ac ceptance of the Vienna note, war must not only be imminent but unavoidable. If, again, the Czar is sincerely desirous for peace, he can only attain it ' by withdrawing from his position. Prince Mens chikoff's explanation of the grounds of his refusal of the modifications of the Vienna note required by the Porte has placed his Majesty in this humiliat ing alternative—either he must consent to receive a declaration of the meaning of the Vienna note entirely contradictory to his own interpretations and that of the Porte, or he must submit to accept a fresh document framed studiously to exclude the protectorate which he claimed over the subjects of the Porte through the medium of Prince Menschi koff. In either event he must submit to the humi liation of a withdrawal from the terms defined by his diplomatic agent, and must admit peace as a personal confutation and reproach. The inference from this is not only patent but conclusive as to the policy which our own Cabinet has pursued. If the Czar recedes in the face of a threatened resolve, and recedes under the lash of shame and vexation, he would not have advanced had that resolve been notified at an earlier date, with English candour, English consistency, or Eng lish courage. The first defeat which Lord Aberdeen sustained in his own Cabinet is said to have been its resolve to empower Lord Stratford to summon the English fleet as soon as he thought proper. If this be true, his first defeat has been the means of his first and only, though as yet contingent, success. If the peace of Europe is still to be preserved, it is only maintainable in derision of feminine tremors which invited for a time the Cossack's threats ; and thus Lord Aberdeen may obtain a respite, to his country's and his own benefit, though in spite of himself. His organs may be premature in offering any re flections upon this possible issue. But at all events the " moral" which they venture to deduce from this compromising story is designedly remote. The peace of Europe imperilled—the Funds at 90—the operations of commerce paralysed—the balance of power vibrating spasmodically—the approximation of hostile armies, and the threatened resurrection of revolutionary impulses in the interests of peace —all these coincidents—this complexity of hazards, requires some account, and the explanation is found solely in the ambition of the Czar. The encour agements to his ambition are studiously ignored ; but, as divided councils produce opposite explana tions, wa are told. in that organ of one of the Ministers which we have already quoted, that " the truth is that, believing that France and England would not act together or firmly in opposition, the Emperor of Russia seized upon what he imagined to be a good opportunity for gratifying his ambition ;" and we add to this naive admission, which accords with the repre sentations of our party chiefs in Parliament, that distracted councils and despairing timidity have improved this impression to the confusion which prevails. For the " moral" of this conjuncture we have no occasion to travel so far as the Ministerial lEsop. It lies at our own door, and is not to be relegated by a stroke of the pen to Siberian latitudes. A. combination of administrators, some of them states men, has been founded on the abeyance of party . principles ; particular views have met their contra dictories, and the issue of the whole is a compro mised activity. The capacity of the individuals when not controlled by unnatural alliances, may be clear and admitted, but a vicious influence subdues each conviction, and deadens every spontaneous impulse. The result is necessarily a political Coma. The personal weakness of Lord Aberdeen may adapt him for democratic or other pressure, but a medium is required to reduce him to imbecility, and this medium is found in the constitution of his Cabinet. We may not forget that the formation of this Cabi net first invited the Russian menace, which it nursed into the dimensions of a general peril. From this first fruit of its tedious anci, torpid gestation we may infer the abortive nature of its future progeny, and forebode an internal detriment to England from her forced declension in the horoscope of Europe. OUR COMMERCIAL TREATIES WITS PARAGUAY. (From the Press.) It was to the honour of Lord Malmesbury's foreign administration that he conferred on British commerce the great boon of a treaty which opened the Paraguay rivers. The new dictator and bene volent administrator of the republic signalised his accession to power by yielding to the wishes of the British minister. That a commercial treaty had been agreed to which opened the Paraguay to us for ten years was made public during the last sum mer ; but, with a grudging meanness which seems to have spread from the policy to the journalism of the Coalition, not one of the organs of the ministry —the self-dubbed "friends of commerce"—would notice the fact. Will this jealousy, this sinister aversion to acknowledge the good done by Lord Derby's Government, be persisted in, now it has transpired how much further Sir Charles Hotham has been able to carry out the original instructions of Lord Malmesbury ? Will the ministerial jour nals endeavour by their silence to conceal from the public, that in addition to the rights yielded to us on the Paraguay for ten years, we now have secured to us the Parana and the Uruguay gberinagendoutSuincesetToftinlg M c o e n a t s r a u r s e t for ever ? This pe lie la; t o li f e co c nini ond e u r c c t ial of the real and the pretended friends of commerce. Lord Malmesbury opens to us the richest and most fertile portions of the South Ame rican continent, which a jealous and ruthless tyranny had shut out from the world during the best part of half a century. Lord Aberdeen risks in the other hemisphere assured millions of our ex ports. Yet the wrong doing of the one is distorted into a service to the cause of commerce, while the achievement of the other is passed over in studied silence ! This measure is the more to the credit of Lord Malmesbury, inasmuch as it was not, like so many of the measures of " popular" statesmen, fished out of the pigeon -holes of a bureau, but was entirely his own .act. He sent out Sir Charles Hotham to open the three rivers, and the negotia tions were carried out in the most complete and successful manner, in unison with the ministers of France and the United States. Nor is this all. With the fact of the successful negotiation of this treaty before us, it is difficult he have to believe the narrow infatuation which could t led the present Administration, in July they(!). Co_n sidered his mission hopeless and expensive more =ake the gallant officer's trii h im ie ph ,, the superiors" the com plete, and the discomfiture ot h crossed the order more signal, Sir Charles Hotham nounng his success will se faint-heartedness and for his recal—because av a e m's dispatches an issued Coalition organs were last year, Blind though the theywell can affect to be igno rantparsimony pronounced that u success impossible ! we do not see how behalf of English commerce, Bury's noble effortclosed waters of these great South of the perfec ceonnsummation of Lord Malmes ,in the hitherto _ te ohau mini to t American riven'. We 0 THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. t v o e_n in u o e n ( ;:tu rn :T the h s e O f l o b o r s t e h rv th e o e r ; Oqueartobteerr,wmill the The Revenue form, and published on Tuesday morning. Until the actual figures are added up to ums au T da h el eothmepariscorrespondingoof theperiod year the latest day, it i s , of course, and o f q r . impossible to be Enough, however, is already k nown to enable us to state that the result of the c ompar i son will be in every respect eminently satisfa c t ory. In spite of jpursetcies ended dineat withh large reductions—or, as it would now almost seem, in consequence of these reductions, all those sources of revenue, in particular, that are moved by the springs of industry and trade, seem to become more and More eimaltrAnd enlarged by every suoeessive removal of restrictions. It is precisely in those departments of the public revenue where the largest reductions have been made that the greatest increase is to be found. Even the abolition of whole items of taxation—such as the soap tax —seems to be met with an increased con sumption of other exciseable articles on the part of the population most affected by the repeal, who are thus enabled to increase their comforts in every way, and still to contribute their due share to the public burdens. The continuous success of the improved commercial policy of late years is the best test of its wisdom, and the highest encourage ment to proceed further boldly on the same path. The revenue for the year ending the 10th of October will exhibit a considerable increase over the year ending 10th of October, 1852. This im provement in the year will show a large increase upon the sum total—whilst almost every particu lar item of taxation will contribute its share to the general result. The income of the quarter, too, notwithstanding the reductions which have been in full force during the last three months, will exhibit an increase upon the corresponding quarter of last year. The in crease, if not so large as the somewhat exaggerated statements that have been prematurely put forth in unauthorised quarters, is certainly not to be over looked. It will be all the more gratifying, as at one time a contrary result was looked upon as the natural effect of the very large reductions of the last session. Both on the year and on the quarter the bulk of the increase will be found to proceed from the departments of the Customs and the Excise. There will be a small—probably a merely nominal decrease in the assessed taxes ; but if so, it will be owing rather to the accidental state of the collec tion than to other causes. Some old stamp duties repealed, and waiting for the new reductions to come into operation to-morrow (this day), have no doubt lessened the receipts from that source in the last quarter. The total abolition of the soap duties, which produced 1,200,0001., a year, the repeal of the advertisement duty upon newspapers, the reductions in posting and carriage duties and other items, have to be taken into account, in estimating the receipts of the Inland Revenue department. In the teeth of these losses it is most gratifying to see the Excise exhibit a decided increase. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate the satisfactory condition of trade, and the enjoyment of comforts, and even luxu ries, by the great bulk of the industrious popu lation. The increase in the Customs, too, is most satisfactory, when we take into account the numerous reductions made in the very last session alone, in addition to those that were made before, during the last ten or dozen years. The next ses sion will probably see the smaller items that still remain struck off altogether. The revenue has not suffered in anything like the estimated amount by the reduction in tea and sugar duties, which have given such general relief. Some portion of the quarter's increase, to be sure, may be attributed to the increased importation of grain, which assists the Customs revenue to some extent, even at the nominal impost of Is. per quarter. Upon the whole it may be confidently stated that all branches of the revenue are understood to be in a most prosperous condition ; and that on a balance of receipt and expenditure a very considerable surplus will remain, in spite of all reductions of taxation, and in the face of the not inconsiderable, but essential, additions made to our expenditure for the necessary purpose of perfecting our national defences. THE NEW PENNY STAMP FOR RECEIPTS AND DRAFTS ON DEMAND. (From the Economist. ) We have several letters before us, raising a number of points in relation to the application of the new penny stamp, which for convenience we will thus classify :--- 1. Does the new act render it imperative to give and take receipts for all payments of 2/. and upwards 2. Whether a stamp receipt is required for a payment made in money when an immediate exchange of the goods and money take place, or when goods are bought over the counter ; and if this be so how far the rule would extend to transactions of a more continuous na ture, such, for instance, as an hotel bill discharged on leaving, or the immediate payment of the last of any series of deliveries included in one purchase ! 3. W hether for a payment into a bank to the credit of a customer of that bank by a third party, it will be required that a stamp receipt be given ? 4. Whether a receipt for a payment into a banker's by a customer, be accounted for only to the same person who pays it in, which shall name a time for the repay ment—for example, "to be accounted for six days after notice, or demand" —may be upon plain paper, the same as when no specific term is named for the re payment ? 5. Whether receipts for debts discharged by bills o exchange, or stamped cheques payable "to order" and " on demand," require to be on stamped paper ? 6. Whether stamps are required for receipts for post. office orders of 2/. to Si. or not ? First, then—Under the new act, as under the present law, it will be perfectly optional with those who pay moneys whether they take receipts or not. There is no penalty for not doing so. But if receipts in any form are given, they must be on stamped paper ; and it is not likely, when so moderate a sum as one penny is charged that any one will not avail himself of such facility of having in his possession receipts for all moneys which he pays, in the chance of their being required. Second—Payments for purchases over the counter, made at the time, or for hotel bills, if receipts are taken at all (which we have already said is entirely optional), as al, will require to be taken on stamped paper, the _saimr any other payment, when the amount is for 2/. o up wards. But nothing will be more simple . than for shop keepers and hotel-keepers to keep Inllheads ready stamped with the penny stamp on which the u accountc receipt be made and the receipt en given on plain paper will expose the shopkeeper or hotel keepersi will to severe penalties. Third—A receipt for a payment into a bank b y wa y of deposit to be accounted t expressed to be received not, provided the same be no thn for, whether w ith interest or a t h e persons to whom of, or by the hands of any other the same is to be accounted for, ma y be given on plain paper, When money ispid into a bank by a third party, as put by our c orresp ondent, it is not, imperati ve r shallgive a receipt at all, and it is very usual in such cases to that the banke r - g i ve no receipt; but if a p recei tis given, it will dep end u p on the form of it, whether it oug ht to be a stamp o r not. If the receipt simply states, i "Received to t h e account of John Smith, (he being the us ier of the bank, to whom the banker i s a l one again to account for it), the sum of one hundred pounds," it is obvious that it would be exempt ; the person paying the money would be regarded si mp l y as the agent of John Smith, and no discharge paying the money into the bank wished the receipt given in such a form that it would serve as a discharge of a debt due by him to the party on whose behalf it was paid in—that is, if the receipt ran thus :—"Received of William Thompson to the account of John Smith, the sum of one hundred pounds"—it is ob vious it would not come under the exemption, but would require to be stamped. In the former case the receipt would not express that the sum was received of any other than the person to whom it was to be accounted for (which is the condition of the exemption), and could not, in fact, be used as a receipt or discharge of a debt from 'William Thompson to John Smith ; while the latter would express the same to be received from a dif ferent person than the one to whom it was to be AC _ r___._._.._ ~,: _.. 1 am 1 , di op o t 110 Seri' a re' lov e 0.1 ~=- -