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Ip. , 1 , , :; \ ' .4., ~, i to.c., :,- 7 , • ...:'.', , V :i... * t 2 1 ) . 1 / 4 ... -,diik- -- " - AK 4- '; > 4. -'''-',--.''..? ( 41. 14.1) 1...-. 7 tell you any more. . , ~ I‘ 1 1 i r4... . rAL" or., ~.. .15 7 " ~,Il I. Irv - ''. -- "•kk )• • ''''4- , - all" WI '''" rar--zt- - ' \- ' , ' . • ..4.,.. ~ ~,/ , -,.„-, ,„:,,,,.___*----, -- 4,,, t , my.-0-\:1477:14'',' imm , 5t......."' ..... EAST INDIA nougr, 26th OCT 1853, THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA CO CANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a QBARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House in Lead.nhAl-qrcet, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st December next, at Eleven o'clock in the Foroloon. JAIIES C. MELVILL, Secretary. tensive business ,) at an ado n . e r k ; infer It7kl. per 701 b. siv ante of 2s ,_t° e ck flour rilaY des ar er, and OS". o f 6d to ls ole; Po rtgrvellow) ja 'c' / .. 6 ,r1r., being a° LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER 27, 1853. EAT INDIA HOUSE, 26th OCT., 1853. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, TURKEY AND .RUSSIA. That the Rate of Interest p a nnum from and after thii day.ayable upon the Company's Bends will be raised fro m 2/. l'ls per cent. per annum to 31. s e. per cent. per _ . No. 19,060.] r PRICE SD. (Copy.) London and South-Western Railway, Secretary Office, York-read, 20th Oct., 1853. Sir,—l am des'red by the Board to acknowledge the receipt of ; rs tour letter of the 1 ith inst., addressed to the Chairman and Direc ', in which you s t a t e th a t y ou " a tt e nded with an accounta n t o n ,' Secretary, Mr. Crombie, at his office, on the 14th inst., by tpPointmentest , for the purpew of investigating the accounts of the oreher Branch ; but r. Crombie, accord digt, to your instructions, declined to permit me to do to, on the ground that the accountant NVh .to was with as not a shareher,' end conug, that Mr. li 'roMbie said, if m e w eho,e to purchase stock into nL the in accountant's Si ne, I might come again to the office and proceed with the investi gatien." I have to inform you that the circumstances stated by you are not tensely those which tock place. it At not c tMeeting on the 13th you wel'e info/tate:l by the Board that was ompetent for an accountant, or any one not a share °lcier to inspect the books ot the CmAnythat if you (plan ted • any, accountant as a shareholder, o free access to the Company i s ucoks should at once be given to him. • rePotted the same to you on the 14th, on your attending here with A.r. H enderson and an accountant, when you asked me to allow the tatter to investigate the accounts ; but I did not decline to permit 3 ' ol l or Mr. Henderson to examine the accounts. On the contrary, I 14.nggested that Mr. Hendorson miatt co so while you were absent 4 ° l ' the purpose of qualifying the accountant, which you yourself proposed to do. I received no further communication from you on the subject Mltil the receipt of your letter of the 17th. I ' o l state that, "on c nferring with other shartho'ders. It was ;considered that the Board's instru c ti ons t o M r . C rom bi e were im proper and c on t rary t o l aw, and to the spirits of our Acts of Parlia rent, and that you are informed it has been well estaolished that r l7 Shareholder can be accom allied , by a solicitor, or competent (?Jessional assistance, to examine the accounts of a company. Y ou further express, ho wever, t h a t i t was unnecessary for any of the_ shareholders, at th e con f erence w i th the Board on Thursday last ?,0 undertake to hives:l.:ate the subject, as Mr. Mortimer, on that s,ecasion rose in his piece, and, in the m o st i m p ress i ve manner, r,edged his reputation to prove the correctness of the statemen' he ' l ade at the meetinv in May last, that the Dorchester Branch yielded a loss instead or a profit " I ant to acquaint you that the Board entirely approve of the con net which I pursued, and that it is for you, and not for the Board, r determine whether you are satisfied with the pledge and state ment thus given by Mr. Mortimer. The Board has given careful attention, and adheres in every par ticular to the correctness of the accounts connected with the Dor chester line. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, P. Snell, E sq . (Signed) L. CIIOMBIE, Secretary. 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This day is Published, neatly bound, in 2 vols., 215., ALFRED BUNN IN AMERICA. OLD ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND. By ALFRED BUNN, Author of "The Stage Before and Behind the Curtain." SECOND EDITION.-WITH ADDITIONS. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6,1. (}N TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, i with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the 'eerative System, or Sexual ilypoctiondriasis. „ Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD Dr. Picktord is known to English readers by his frequent practi i'' contributions to German medical literature. This is the first „_. -41 % he informs us, that he has as reseed himself to the non-medic eel reader. We trust this may not be the last, if be shall detect any hS equr'ly fiagrani ev' which it may L..) in s 'wer to correct.” ilifmnilon Medical Gazette, Maw ), 1851. The tribe of Quiet Syma ,,-I"rs.'and • Medical k riends,'are - r cilessly expo' ; and if this book Wald find its way haat the hands of those who set cr from the corn aint of which it treats. we are satisfied that many hundreds would 172 ,1 ved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of ;: importance, though it h that which the quacks most prize— ;l4ol money—. —This vo'ume is well qualifed to put an end to the . 4 .Dirical system of tree:lag Spermatorrhrea, and to place the treat nt upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, ''`elY to do much good."—Medical Circular. June 16, 1852. London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. 13 It. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of ..Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical eloeiety, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. 14 AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on ~. the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, Waidng from juvenile irregn and , which have aced more more misery in youth, degradation tiel excesses in manhood, and prempra re decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of die !Wes known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experie n ce ' the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in talatence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous ebility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Mare %get- Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are t i ri ncipies of personal management which cannot be violated without the grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed may heyday of irconsiderate self-indulg e nce, ho w th ese pena lti es "a3' be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, 1,2 d how the evil and its con-equenc es may be avoided, and above all, A oat there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional " r angement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a care DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn and is the only legally qua who, r of the taunts and envy of the hypocr lified Al cal and Physician mock-modest, e has h e ad the t11 ,,e confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct a ttention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is ~ ee- In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply warded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the eltre of unqualified and ignorgnt empirics, who, with their virtues of assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues r_ t heir patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who a. v,e been induced to place faith in their pretensions. ei,!_ t t home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from ._•a till Eight. 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Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish aal...ohly. by which the fee, 1/., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, Li-! attendance, daily, at rseet, Oxford-street, Lon onl Eleven till Two, a ci d Five to Eight; on Sunday from Zleyou to one. His Netherlands Majesty's schooner of war Makassar, Captain de Kock, from Niendiep for Malta put into the Sound yesterday with loss of main boom, and wheel carried away. EXPENSE OF PARLIAMENT. — It is shown that the ex pense of the Houses of Parliament, the officers, &c., including the printing and the Speaker's salary of 5,0001., amounted to 100,710/. PROPOSED RAILWAY TO NAIRN.—The committee of the proposed Inverness and Perth Railway have resolved —the state of the money market precluding the p ossibi lity of raising the capital for the entire scheme at the pre sent moment—to confine their attention to the northern most section, and to apply next session of Parliament for a bill for the formation of a railway from Inverness to Nairn. At a meeting of the committee held lately, Captain Fraser Tytler in the chair, it was resolved that, among others, all the members of the acting committee of the Inverness and Perth line be requested to allow their names to be included in the provisional committee of the short line in question. The ground has been examined by Mr. Falshaw, on the part of Mr. Brassey, railway contractor, who reports most favourably, and gave assurance that Mr. Brassey will give an offer of contract at a very moderate rate, stated by him, and such as will insure the remunerative character of the scheme. He will also take a considerable portion of the stock ; there is no reason to doubt that the remainder will readily be disposed of.--Inverness Courier. THE EASTERN QUESTION. ( From the Morning Herald.) We must repeat the warning which yesterday we felt ourselves compelled to address to the people of England. The support of England is not yet ho nestly and unreservedly and energetically given to the Sultan in the war which he has at last been forced to declare. The drivellers of our Cabinet are still dreaming of peace by negotiation, and it has been determined that before England commits herself to actual hostilities with the Czar, the me diation of Prussia shall be invoked. Until the opportunity for this arises nothing is to be done that will commit this country to an open hostility with Russ'a. We may, perhaps, venture to ask of our readers to give credence to this statement upon the faith of the verification of all that we have hitherto pre dicted or told in relation to this question. We may remind them, that at the time whc - 1 every one of our contemporaries represented the Eastern ques tion as brought to a close—when public opinion acquiesced in these hopes, this journal persever ingly repeated the warning that these expectations were mere delusions. With the same confidence in the correctness of our information with which we then maintained our opinions in opposition to those whose judgment we were bound to respect, we now emphatically tell the British public, that it is not settled in our Cabinet that England is to support Turkey in the war which very likely has by this time commenced, but that any active intervention of the British Go vernment is to be staved off until there is time for another attempt at negotiation by the interventiox of Prussia as a mediator. It has been found impossible so to control the movements of the Porte as to afford the opportunity for this before a formal declaration of war. In spite of the treacherous councils of his allies, the Sultan has vindicated his own independence by demanding the evacuation of the Principalities, and declaring war if it be not complied with. This step, we are told, he has taken in opposition to the advice of the representatives of the four Powers. Why was this advice (riven ? Plainly because it was still believed that the door to negotiation had not been closed, and that it was still possible to find a pacific solution of the dispute that threatened the peace of Europe. The Sultan, however, having declared war, it was impossible for France and England openly to desert him. The necessary consequenc , ) of that proceeding was, that our fleets should enter the Dardanelles. It has, however, been intimated by the Emperor of Russia, that if the movements of France and England are confined to this step, his Imperial Majesty will not consider this as an act of war, or as an act necessarily interrupting his friendly relations with the Western Powers. It has accordingly been determined that the move ment of our fleet shall be confined to this. The public must not be deluded by demi official announcements that the fleets of France and England are at the disposal of the Sul tan for any purposes for which he pleases to employ them. We most emphatically and positively state that they are not so. No com munication whatever has been made to the Porte than it can use a British man of war for any pur pose whatever. The magnificent stories about burning Sebastopol and mastering the Euxine, all are dreams of the future. Up to the hour at which the last advices left Constantinople, not a single assurance had been given to the Sultan that Eng land would support him in the war which he has undertaken, and the fleet has not offered its assist ance to the Turkish Government. Thsse, it will be observed, are plain matters of fact, upon which we can be contradicted and ex posed if we are wrong. Lord Clarendon has openly stated that he has in one instance at least sent official documents to the Times. We now defy Lord Clarendon to contradict the statement which we make. No communication has been made to the Porte, assuring it of England's consent to the war. No offer has been made of the services of our fleet, either for the purpose of aggression or de fence. Nay, instructions have been sent which prohibit the employment of our ships in support of any movement that has for its object the dis lodgment of the Russian troops from the Princi palities. In the meantime it is perfectly understood that the Russian Government will abstain for the pre sent from attempting the passage of the Danube. The presence of our fleet in the Sea of Marmora is, therefore, for immediate purposes perfectly useless —Russia can well afford not to resent it. In this state of things intimations have been given both to Austria and Prussia, and indirectly at least to Russia, that the British Government will accept of the mediation of Prussia when that power sees the proper opportunity to interfere. We do not of course profess to detail the precise communications in which this plan has been ar ranged. But we can, and do positively, state that the plan has been arranged, and that it is perfectly understood that no active measures will be taken by our Government to support Turkey until an other effort is made to avert the necessity by the mediation of Prussia. On the other hand, it is equally understood that no movement south of the Danube will be made by the Russian troops until time is given for the intervention of Prussia. Unfortunately the Sultan—the party the most interested—has not been consulted as to this scheme. It is at least possible that as the manoeuvres of diplomatists were before disconcerted by the declaration of war, they may be again thrown into confusion by the passage of the Danube by the Turkish forces. It is hoped, however, by the framers of the scheme that even this untoward event would not disconcert it. A hostile encounter, confined to the Turks and Russians alone, would in their opinion rather promote it. If the Turks were defeated on the northern bank of the Danube it would be an excuse for forcing unfavourable terms on the Porte. It would not precipitate matters if the Russian Emperor observes his implied engagement not to cross to the southern. On the other hand, it is calculated that a defeat of the Russian troops in the provinces might not indispose the Emperor to a pacific accommodation. Upon these miserable calculations the energetic action of England is suspended, and we are incur ring the risk of permitting the hostile armies to cross swords on the Danube before England has declared her position in the contest. We believe the idea of now terminating the dispute by the mediation of Prussia is absurd. The scheme has been invented for the purpose of paralysing the action of England and France, and for the further purpose of attaching Prussia and Austria as allies to the Czar. It is to be observed, of all the schemes that have been propounded for the pacific solution of this question, not one of them has involved the suspension of hostile preparations by Russia. While Turkey was engaged by the protocols of Menschikoff, Russia was concentrating her troops upon the Danube and the Euxine. The Princi palities were seized while diplomatists were framing very clever dispatches. While Europe was amused with the pacific efforts of the Vienna con ference, Russia was strengthening her position, pouring fresh troops into the conquered pro vinces, and sequestering their revenues to her own use. So now she is perfectly willing that Europe should again be occupied in the follies of pacific notes, while sbe is steadily and resolutely pursuing her own course, retaining the pro tinces of Turkey by an armed occupation, and resisting by force any attempt of the Turkish Government to dispossess her. For so far Europe has been nego tiating, while Russia has been making war. Until the Russian troops evacuate the Principalities there is no negotiation on equal terms. To engage in any, while they are occupied by the troops, is to betray the cause of European independence. It is with deep mortification that we repeat our statement, that the resolve of our Cabinet is to keep aloof from active participation in the contest until one more chance is tried for Lord Aberdeen and the interests of peace. And upon this hope less chance our Ministry are perilling the cause of the civilisation of the world. It is absurd to say that these frantic efforts offer the most remote prospect of peace. They are not adopted in any rational conviction that they can do so. They are the struggles of the Cabinet, not to maintain the peace of Europe, but to keep toge ther the Coalition. To postpone the evil day of their dissolution every crotchet is grasped at ; and the determination of the question that must break them up is postponed for even the crotchet of a Prussian mediation. THE CORPORATION AND THE ROYAL COMMISSION.— The following fact, with reference to the forthcoming in quiry into the state of the corporation, and the proba bility of the sittings of the commissioners being open or closed, is given on the authority of the secretary, Mr. J. D. Coleridge :—" It is not the intention of the com missioners to admit reporters from the newspapers to be in the room during their sittings. They propose to have a shorthand writer of their own, and to print and cir culate the evidence given before them from time to time." REMOVAL OF TEMPLE•BAR. (From. the Morning Chronicle. ) Temple-bar is, at the present moment, a conve nient scapegoat for sundry civic sins. It is in dicted on several accounts. It is an obstruction to the traffic—it is ugly—and it perpetuates a ridiculous fiction, viz., that absurd jets civitatis, so dear to the heart of prentice and Common Councilman, by which it is supposed that the Queen has to sue the Lord Mayor for permission to enter within the sacred precincts of his jurisdiction. Upon a recent application to the Court of Common Council for funds to repair the gate, the proposition, though endorsed by a Select Committee, was rejected ; and it is hence concluded that the prospects of the poor old barrier are bad. The City has not actually condemned it, but refuses to repair it. It is said —upon what grounds we are not aware—that the structure is in an insecure state. We do not our selves believe in its danger ; but the conclusion is drawn that, as in the case of an ailing sheep, it must be butchered to save its life. We hardly know which to denounce most—the flimsiness and folly of the arguments used for its retention, or of those employed for its destruction —the excuses we mean, whi c h h ave b een venti lated in the City, where, of course, the real point at issue has been, and not unintentionally, shirked. The state of the approaches to the City is a disgrace ; and of this the public reasonably com plains. But the public is inquiring where the City funds go—the Royal Commission is looming omin ously near—and so Temple-bar, being a solid struc ture, is made to bear the burden of all the inconve nience of the City streets. Temple-bar is the conve nient answex to all complaints of civic mismangem en t. This is more 4poori,iy.- There is not—more shame to the City—a decent and available arterial com munication through it ; and so the citizens lay the blame on a passage which is out of the City. The obstruction in the City always eddies round Lud gate-hill and Fleet-street, rather than at Temple bar. The City authorities seem to have succeeded admirably in bringing a converging traffic to the angle between Farringdon-street and Fleet-street —they have done their best to choke the gorge at that spot—and now they lay the blame on a com paratively open space half a mile further on. The new Cannon-street and the new Gresham-street will be perfectly ineffectual to relieve the traffic, so long as its westward current is confined to Lud gate-hill and Fleet-street. Holborn-hill, on ac count of the draught required, is totally useless ; and simply to drive shafts of communication, to terminate, as Cannon-street at present does, in nothing —or to melt_ off into Ludgate-hill, as it will do—is equally nugatory. Unless a parallel line to Ludgate-hill and Fleet-street is opened westward, Cannon-street might as well have been left unbuilt. Of course, what is wanted is a line of new street carried from the west end of Cheap side annihilating the pestil en ti a l gar b age cel l ars of Newgate-market, removing the Central Criminal Court, absorbing the site of the Fleet Prison, and letting light, moral and physical, through the mass of squalid courts, alleys, and lanes which form a block between Farringdon-street and Charing cross. This, and nothing short of this—for a southern line is, we suppose, hopeless, with the solid ob struction presented by the Temple—would relieve the traffic. Let us see how far Temple-bar inter feres with it. As everybody knows, it is a struc ture of three arches—a roadway and two footways, divided by two piers, each 4 ft. 6 in. wide. Now the real nuisance of Temple-bar is the footways, which are little more than five feet wide. The whole possible obstruction which Temple-bar can offer to the traffic consists in that part of the pier which projects into the roadway—that is, about nine inches on each side. Temple-bar, then, is an obstruction to the extent of exactly a foot and a half. Were it pulled down to-morrow, the road way could not be enlarged two feet in the clear, for any diminution of the present footway, even with the pier space added, would be simply impos sible. If Temple-bar were pulled down, the road way would be only 20 feet wide. The question then arises, is the magnificent gain of two feet worth the destruction of the Bar ? Unless the present roadway could be stretched 10 feet—that is, so as to make Fleet-street at that point 30 feet wide, and thus allow the width of another omnibus or waggon—not a single inch would be gained, nor the remotest relief given to the traffic. We question whether a roadway three carriages wide is of much use. A street four car riages wide is something ; but, with room for only three, there is always a struggle on the opposite lines of traffic for the odd space. It is proposed to pull down the whole north side of Fleet-street from St. Dunstan's Church, and all the houses in the Strand as far as the commencement of St. Cle ment's Crescent—that is, to give room for two car riages going eastward and two westward. This is a sensible plan, and it is quite worthy of being entertained. But this is a very different thing from the demolition of Temple-bar. The mere destruction of the gate, leaving the faeces between Child's bank and the barber's shop as at present, would not relieve the traffic one hair's breadth. And all that is now proposed is to pull down that structure—not to widen the street. But it js said that the Bar is ugly, and there fore o4ht to come down. To which it is replied, It was built by Sir Christopher Wren, and there fore it ought not to come down. We know not whether the attack or the defence is the most irre levant. Its ugliness, which is a matter of taste, is no sufficient reason for its demolition ; nor is the fact that it is Wren's handiwork enough to retain it. The matter ought to be settled on very differ ent grounds. Wren erected as many hideous buildings, in which every principle of art is vio lated, as he built structures which prove his sur passing genius. And if all ugly buildings are to be destroyed, as such, we had better make a clean sweep, and level London from Tyburn to Mile-end. As to ugliness, the jest of the Common Councilmen destroying a building because it is, in their judg ment, unsightly, is a little too absurd. The Cor poration which destroyed the Guildhall Chapel, and which permits the Guildhall to be what it is, to talk of Temple-bar as ugly ! The Bar may be ugly, or it may not ; but the City authorities are no judges. When they have opened the roof of Guildhall, and pulled down its ridiculous front, we will allow them to think of passing judgment on a work of architecture. At present they are quite incompetent to deal with the subject. But Temple-bar obstructs the ventilation, we think we have heard it said. Not nearly so much as the church just beyond it ; and if the Bar is to be sacrificed on this ground, we tremble for St. Clement's, and even for St. Mary-le-Strand. The best argument which can be urged in favour of Temple-bar is, that it is better than nothing. In a bare, naked, hideous agglomera tion of dirty brick walls, which London is, we can scarcely afford to lose one single inch of cut stone, or of anything which affects ornament. Anything which relieves the eye from the painful monotony of range after range of grim brickwork, tastefully diversified with oblong window slits, is not to be lightly flung away. If we were now going to set up a new archway or a barrier, it is possible, per haps probable—though after all doubtful—that the artist of the Coal Exchange and of Billingsgate might build a better gateway than the existing Temple-bar. But as we are not likely to be blessed with Mr. Bunning's triumphal arch—which might, or might not, be better than Wren's, we had rather, on the whole, have Temple-bar than nothing at all. Its friezes are not perfect, but they are better than the leaden sky. Its statues are not equal to Michael Angelo's, but they are something. Temple bar cannot quite compare with the Doge's Palace, or with the Flemish Town-halls • but still, any structure of Portland stone—anything which looks massive, and suggests labour and expense--any thing which breaks the horrible reiteration of dirty house and dingy shop—is better than nothing. It Is, at the worst, a very harmless solecism. It obstructs neither traffic nor air. It has certain historical associations. It recalls the days when it had a purpose. It is the last relic which suggests that London ever was a walled town. Stir ring old memories of murdered Jacobites and non-jurors are connected with it. It is iden tified with the recollections of that great trader, the first Child, who was the father of political science. It does nobody any harm, and there are at least as many who think it not so very ugly as there are high architectural purists who denounce it. At any rate, if it is to he destroyed, let it perish. in the consummation of some grand plan for re arranging the whole neighbourhood. What is at present proposed is pure, wanton, ignorant icono clasm, for no purpose or gain whatever either to trade or taste. Having said thus much in favour of the retention of the gate, we fear that we shall neutralise our ad vocacy, in the eyes of the gentlemen who met on Friday last to protect the poor old unoffending Bar, if say that we cannot sympathise with their pleas for it. They may all be resolved into the de sire to retain " the ancient barrier and landmark , between the city of London and Westminster"--a reason which ought to induce the guardiais of our lacropolis to throw up a rampart, instead of the ideal barricade of Holborn-bars, against the. fierce horde of Westmonasterians pouring eastwar d. If Temple-bar is to be retained only as the symbol of city exclusiveness, we should say, Down with it ; and no better time could be chosen for its demoli tion than that of the inauguration of Ulf) commis sion, which is likely enough to level me ire serious remembrances of civic grasping and isoll.ition than this gateway. Nor are we so enainow:ed of that time-honoured and mystic ceremony iil which the King of London slams the door ii'. the face of the Queen of England, as to desire Its perpetua tion according to the sapient plan of Mr. Com mon Councilman Cox—who proposes to substitute for Wren's structure a neat and portable iron-wire fence, to swing backwards and forwards, for the annual celebration of the great civic rites —or rights. Perhaps Cox is an ironmonger, and wants the contract ; but at any rate we can assure him that, if Temple-bar goes, we are not going to sub mit to the tomfoolery of " bronze gates of a light and elegant appearance." If Temple-bar is to fall, it must fall. We have offered some considerations for its retention ; but, if they do not avail with the public—which, however, we are sanguine enough to believe that they will—let Mr. Cox and the gen tlemen of Farringdon Without be assured that the plea in favour of having something to perpetuate the famous dialogue between the Queen's coach man and the Lord Mayor's lacquey, will not be listened to for a moment. TEMPLE-BAR, FLEET-STREET, AND THE STRAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR,—In your leading article of Monday last, on the subject of the removal of Temple-bar, you insist very properly on the necessity of a new thoroughfare from the City to the West-end, running parallel to Fleet street and the Strand. You will, perhaps, allow (me, as one whose daily duties oblige him to become cog nisant not only of the crowded state of the Strand be tween St. Mary's Church and Chancery-lane, but of the miserable condition of the worst part of the district which you point out as the site of the new thoroughfare, to call your attention, and that of your readers, once more to this subject. I believe that I am correct in stating that two plans of a thoroughfare in the direction which you point out have,been already submitted to Government in connection with an extension into the City. The first plan crosses Fetter-lane, skirts the new Record-office, perforates Chancery-lane opposite Carey-street, widens that street on the north side, and runs on into Long-acre, after giving off a wide branch into Holborn in a line with the west side of Lincoln's-inn-fields, and two or more branches into the Strand, one of which opens at Pickett-place, within a stone's throw of Temple-bar. Tho second plan differs from the first, partly in widening Carey-street on the south instead of the north side, in order to avoid the new buildings at King's College Hospital, and partly in opening out fewer thoroughfares. This more economical arrangement is understood to be dictated to the Board of Works by want of funds, and as there is reason to fear that even the second and less costly plan may not he carried out for some years to come, I am anxious to suggest the great relief which would be at once afforded to the traffic of the Strand and Fleet-street, in the neighbourhood of Temple-bar, by the opening out of a loop line joining Newcastle-street, in the Strand, to Fetter-lane. As you walk into the City, Newcastle-street is on your left hand, immediately be yound St. Mary's Church. It is a thoroughfare of re spectable width, and ends to the north in Houghton street, which terminates by a cul de sac. The removal of two houses at the end of this street would open a way into St. Clement's -lan en, theho oer a npt n ehfe d wun sr i g tudh i pe v e give rto hfremovalehospital,G direct eenolrni rgd a ee c -court, t thoe o , houses oKP fourpinogsh sot ieunCollege - ct s Hhh t Carey-street, forms e p t frontawl to o lf u e tl of this last-named street as far as Chancery-lane. Be tween this point and the Record-office a small block of houses only intervenes, and bars the access to the south end of Fetter-lane. The destruction of about a dozen houses, some of them of very little value, would, therefore, supply us with a very sufficient present relief to the crowd ed thoroughfares on each side of Temple-bar. Whenever the Strand and Fleet-street, between Somerset House and Fetter-lane, happen to be obstructed by falling houses or disturbed pavements, this new thoroughfare would discharge very efficiently the duty now so slowly and imperfectly performed by Holywell-street. Allow me briefly to point out some of the advantages attendant upon this improvement. In the first place, two important public buildings would be rendered ac cessible—l mean the new Record-office and King's Col lege Hospital. In the next p'ace, a commodious access would be gained to Lincoln's-inn from the Strand, and to Somerset House aid King's College from the northern parts of the metropolis. At present, any one whose business takes him, as mine does, northward from the neighbourhood of Somerset House, must tra verse some one or other of the filthy and crowded streets which constitute that nuisance of nuisances and standing disgrace of the central parts of the metropolis —Clare-market. One advantage of the thoroughfare which you so ably advocate would be the destruction of this most disgraceful assemblage of miserable lanes and broken-down sheds. My more modest improvement would lead ultimately to the same result. I am, sir, your obedient servant, October 25. VIATOR. 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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the Transfer of Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut on Tuesday the k;th December next at 'three o'clock ; and opened again on Tuesday the lith J:inuary, 1854. That the Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock. payable on l'rh lay the 6th January, 1854, under the 11 Sccticn of the Act, 3d 4. 11 d 4th William IV , e ,p. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day . JAMES. C. NI6LVILL, ,ecrAary. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. YORK-ROAD OFFICES, 24th October, 1853, GENTLEMEN, ,Mr. SNELL, has thought proper to publish a letter addressed by Tra to the South-Western Sh•treholders, in reply to the Circular of the hoard of the 17th lust , with confluents thereon, calcu`aled, among other things, to induce you to suppose that the Directors bad to structed their Secretary to refuse access to the a?counts of Mr. Snell, _ a nd that ther e f ore h e h a d not b een a bl e t o exam i ne th ose accounts, Which prevented his testing the truth of my statement to the Share hohlers. It is due to you, as well as to myself, that you should he made ac pin with the answer sent by the Board, at their ear l e st meet • t g , to Mr. letter, from which you will learn the real state of the ease. The Secretary's letter is therefore su'joined. I take this opportunity of statinir, that on the eve of a meeting I " 11 , ,t consider the columns of a public journal the fittest p 1 ce to enter on the discussion of railway accounts. I have the means, which I shall exercise at the proper time, ofrefut it Mistatements made with a coolness and minuteness of detail celcu- Iced to invest them with an air of truth which they do hot possess, a nd o' +tibstantiating to every candid in , nd the statements and figures of the BOlrd, which those who contradict them have not dared to test. 7he same will also be a more proper time than a meeting with a s tall section of sh are h o ld ers , t ) :di scass a pol i cy a ff ec ti ng t h e w h o l e :dY of proprietors. It would be asimproper to withhold it then as it would be to divulge it sooner. The presence of reporters will secure, what was not obtained be fore, a candid and impartial report of the proceedings. should not have added even thus much, hat I not felt that to bane omit o ' leave an impression that the opposite cred i t. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very obedient servant, FRANCIS SCOTT, Chairman. 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Hier srricht man Deutsch. Qui si parla Italian. Aqua se habla Espanol *** SPECIAL NOTICE.—The Establishments will be CLOSED on Monday and Tuesday, Oct 24th and 25th, re-opening, as usual, on Wednesday morning, et I o'clock. RESULT OF THE HARVEST. The following is extracted from the circular of Messrs. Taylor and Bright, of Hull, dated yesterday:— "Although some quantity of spring-sown wheat re mains in the fields, yet the harvest is sufficiently finished throughout this district to enable us to report generally upon its results, and we beg consequently to wait upon you with a few remarks. The character of the season, from seed-time in fhe autumn of 1852, through tho spring, and time of flowering, up to harvest time, was peculiarly unfavourable, so much so as to induce the not unfrequent remark, that if the crop of 1853 proved q a good one, weather had nothing to do in the matter.' A late harvest was the result, and although then favoured with very seasonable weather, it is to be feared sufficient time was not given for the corn to get thoroughly dry in the fields ; this is not unfrequently the case in such seasons, and the result will be , that fo r some consider able time the samples will be wanting in condition. Wheat, in consequence of the very wet autumn, was sown to a less extent than for many years past, and even in spring, thousands of acres were from the same cause, unsown with this grain, and appropriated to barley and other spring corn. This circumstance at once gave the prospect of a deficient crop, which the most unusual yield to the acreage sown could hardly be expected to counterbalance. We regret that it is not in our power.} report any such unusual yield, but unfortunately the reverse ; in fact, the yield to the acre is seriously defi cient, and coupling this fact with the short breadth sown, we estimate the product of wheat at fully one fourth below an average, while compared with the ex traordinary crop of last year the contrast is much more striking, and some of our best-informed friends consider this estimate too favourable. The quality of the new wheat is generally good, and when in condition will show a fair weight, but at present the great proportion is damp, and requires a consider able mixture of old. Taken as a whole, we consider the crop of wheat the worst this country has known since 1816. The stock of old wheat in farmers' hands is, we think, somewhat in excess of . what is usual, th oug h on this point opinions are much divided. In this port we estimate the stock of foreign wheat at 35 to 40,000 qrs., and the principal depots to the west of this (Goole, Wakefield, and Leeds) have about 135,000 qrs. With the exception of a few thousand quarters on passage from St. Petersburg, and a few stray cargoes f rom th e Mediterranean, our import until next spring will be very trifling, and even then we m us t l ook mainly to Russia and America, for the harvest in France is as deficient as our own ; and although a high range of prices, by changing the character of their own consump tion, will cause Germany and Denmark to send us all they can possibly spare, yet their crops are by no means well spoken of. The known defi c i ency o f our own home crop, its unsatisfactory condition, and the large pro portion of it required for seed, will combine to throw an unusual demand upon old foreign wheat, and we see no reason to change the opinion ex pressed more than once in late circulars that the legitimate operation of supply and demand, unassisted by speculation (which prevails to a less extent than, under such exciting circumstances, we ever re member) must cause a considerable advance upon pre sent prices. A tightened money market has already, and may continue to prevent wild speculation—this we shall not regret—but with such solid causes as we feel sure exist, no screw of this kind, in the present condi tion of our labouring population, will prevent an im portant rise in all bread stuffs. We arrive at this con viction unwillingly, after full consideration of the great advance that has already taken place, but it is forced upon us by a calm review of our necessities, and our ability to provide for them." ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF NORWRIEL—The right rev. prelate has been suffering from so severe an attack of illness that he has been compellee to postpone a course of confirmations for which he bad made arrangements. NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS. —It seems that last year the annuities and pensions for naval and military services were 31,625/. THE NAVIGATION OF THE DANUBE. ( From the Times.) The correspondence which has been going on for several years between the British and Russian Go vernments respecting the navigation of the Sulina entrance to the Danube has recently been published, and, in the present state of the corn trade and the political aggression on the Turkish principalities, is a highly interesting document. Since 1849 the representations of the British Government to Count Nesselrode on the total disregard by Russia of the duties imposed upon her by treaty to keep the channel of the Sulina clear, and of the evils sus tained in consequence by the commerce of the world, have been incessant, while the replies re ceived have exhibited a course of policy of which the alternate delays, evasions, and simulated sense of offended dignity, lately witnessed on the Turkish question, have been a perfect counterpart. The Sulina mouth of the Danube has been in possession of Russia 25 years, and ever since that time the greatest injury has been sustained by commerce from the gradual choking up of the bar. When the place was in the hands of the Turks they kept a depth of water in the channel of from 14 to 16 feet, and without incurring the slightest expense, by merely making every vessel going out of the river d rag a h eavy iron rake after her over the bar. The depth thus secured was sufficient for all ordi nary traffic, but the Russians have suffered it to be commonly reduced to 9 feet. This is wholly inade quate to the nature of the vessels employed in the corn trade, and the most ruinous delays and ex penses for lighterage are consequently incurred. The greater portion of the i nconvenience and injury falls upon British traders ; but Austria is also a heavy sufferer, and it was calculated in the autumn of 1850 that the state of the bar at that time would cause a direct loss to the total commerce of the pro vinces of at least 100,0001. for that season alone, while the entire evil could have been removed for less than 1,0001. In 1840 the Austrian Government made a treaty with Russia for 10 years, by which Russia undertook to work continually on the bar, and Austrian vessels going out without incurring lighterage were to pay from $2 to $3 each. This treaty was dealt with by the Russian Government as waste paper. They sent two dredges to be wrought by manual labour which worked one day, and were never afterwards heard of. They con trived, however, in many instances, to levy the tax stipulated, and thus added meanness to the unscrupulous evasion. Sulina is called by Russia a free port, and, although by a treaty with Turkey no establishment is to be permitted there except for quarantine and lighthouse purposes, a small town has sprung up, containing a fixed population of 1,000 inhabitants, and double or treble that number during the season of navigation. They are chiefly lightermen, pilots, tavernkeepers, fisher men, &c. (the latter of whom are all Russian sub jects), and their profits seem principally to arise from the extortions upon vessels and their crews, rendered practicable by the existing impediments to the navigation. If the place were really free it is believed it would become the great depot for all the grain of the Danube. The rival interests of the Russian port of Odessa, however, have evidently always operated to produce a determination that, in the face of the most deliberate obligations to the other Powers of Europe to maintain it in a navi gable state, every means that duplicity could sug gest should be employed to perpetuate the impedi ments complained of. When, in 1849, Count Nesselrode's attention was drawn to the urgent necessity of a less dishonourable course, professions were made of full intentions to do what was re quisite. A steam-dredging machine had been pur chased in England, and this, it was alleged, would accomplish everything. Its natural unfitness for the work, as well as the determination of those employed upon it to prevent its being of any use, was soon demonstrated, and fresh remonstrances were constantly forwarded. All that was wanted was that the old Turkish method of raking should be resorted to, the conviction of every person of experience being that a small steam-boat of 20 or 30-horse power, passing and repassing over the bar, drawing a heavy iron rake after her, would keep the water at 16, or perhaps 18 feet in depth. But, although the old rakes were actually still lying at Sulina, Count Nesselrode would never listen to this simple plan. The Russian Government were most anxious and willing, he averred, to fulfil their treaty pledges at any trouble or expense, but the moment the fact was pres se d th a t no trouble or ex pense was necessary, and that the rakes would do all that was wanted, he invariably evaded it, or took refuge in a fit of indignation that the good inten tions of Russia sh ou ld b e d ou bt e d. Her entire object was to find pretexts for delay, and whenever illogical excuses were upset, and her shameless con duct was made transparent, a resort to that kind of irritability which would prevent the British Minis ter from reopening the discussion was usually found effective. It was known that no war would arise out of the matter, and that, consequently, the course adopted would answer every purpose. In this state the affair remains at the present time. The last letter in the published correspondence is from Sir Hamilton Seymour to Lord Clarendon, dated the 15th of July, in reply to a dispatch from his lord ship reiterating the complaints of the previous four years of " grievous injury inflicted upon English navigation, and upon that of other countries ; and contained the old answer of Count Nesselrode, that the subject should be " carefully examined." If this should be succeeded by a repetition of an inti mation conveyed by the British Government to the Russian Chancellor in September, 1851, to the effect that "Russia, when she compelled Turkey to cede to her the outlet of a great European river which forms the commercial highway for the mutual d in tercourse of many nations, undertopk she i shouldetis an responsibilities to other States take a pride in making good," it which most probably be followed, as it then was, by a " feeling of sore ness on the part of the Imperial Government at the m i s t rus t manifested as to their intentions ;" and i n this way the wrong will be perpetuated. Mean while, with a very deficient harvest, France and England, as well as Austria and the Principalities, are made to suffer a degree of mischief which is in calculable. In 1847 the number of British vessels leaving the Danube was 394, while the total of all countries was 568, with 577,387 quarters of wheat on board. The supply this year could, apparently, have been much more extensive, but the obstacles to the trade have been increased until to-day, owing to the approaching hostilities. The final announce ment has arrived that " the navigation of the Da nube is now impossible." ESCAPE OF THE POLITICAL CONVICT JOHN MITCHEL. The Hobart Town Courier publishes a letter, addressed by Mr. Mitchel, to a friend, dated June 9, 1853, of which the following is a passage. Finding that warrants had been actually issued some weeks ago against me as an absconder, under which warrants a gentleman was hunted like a wild beast, and even taken prisoner by mistake, as John Mitchel, an absconder while I was all the time quietly living at my cottage, and under parole of honour not to abscond I felt outraged by this in sult. I had not reclaimed my parole, had intimated no intention of reclaiming it, and perceiving how little value the convict authorities placed upon that security, and how little respect they paid it (though it has been my only fetter for three years), I resolved to withdraw it in due form, and let them t r y h ow th e y cou ld h o ld me without it. I therefore addressed the following note to the Lieute nant-Governor : " Bothwell, June 8, 1853. " Sir,—l hereby resign the 'comparative liberty' which is called ticket of leave, and revoke my parole of honour. In pursuance of this determination, I shall forthwith a Pre sent myself before the police magistrate a Bothwell, his police-office, show him this letter, and offer , ien r to bo taken into custody.—l remain, your a t ain! , er " Joini vant, This day (Thursday) being post-dayfromßoth_well,. rode into the village, accompanied m y friend I went to the police office (where, al; usual, a constable walked into the was on guard outside the door), police magistrate and magis trate's room, where I found thheepfoe said, " Sir, I police clerk ; and addressing have written to the Lieutenant-Governor, p h l a a v c e . thought it right to sh,(2 e w s, Y ti u d t: a copy " Am I to read it ?" " If ing it in his hands.. .11 "it was for that purpose I gave you please," I replied, it to you." He then looked at the letter f or a moment. Th e purport of that note, " is very plain— you see, it is to revokeimy parole. He looked at me as if for further explanation, so I repeated what I had said : You observe my parole is,no w at an end, and I am here that you may take me into custody." Then, feeling that m y business there was done, and that he had the opportu nity which I was bound to allow him, I turned, and, after wishing the magistrate good morning, put on my hat and left the room. The moment I was out of the office door, and while I was still in the passage, he and the clerk made a loud outcry, calling on the chief constable (whose office is at the other side of the passage) to secure me. The constable, who officiates as clerk to the dis trict constable, immediately rushed out, calling on me to stop. The other constable on guard at the door had fortunately occupied himself in holding two horses, so that my friend and myself passed without the necessity PUPLIC MEETING IN THE TOWER HAMLETS. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower ' Hamlets was held last evening at the Beaumont Institu tion, Beamont-square, for the purpose of giving expres sion to public opinion, with respect to the aggressions of Russia, and considering the steps which ought to be taken by Government and the country. The meeting was well attended, the large room being full. On th• motion of Mr. Newton, Captain Mayne Reid was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN observed that he need not inform them what was the object of that meeting, for there was not a man in the room whose heart did not tell him that he was there as a friend of Turkey. He might urge numerous reasons why they should have that sentiment in their heart. They were thereby supporting the material interests of this country. Even now, the threatening attitude held by the Czar had produced a commercial stagnation that was felt in England, and the present high price of bread was 'the result of that stagnation. What were the designs of the first Czar of Russia ? The mastery of Europe. It was plainly written in his testament, which had been discovered and published. What said Alexander ? " Constantinople is the key of my house ;" but he did not mean that his house should be Russia. He intended to make it a house of many mansions. Europe was the house to which he referred. And what said the present Czar ? Did they think he intended to go back from the testament left him by his predecessor ? No, since the first history of Russia none of its Czars had shown the same energy and determina tion to carry out the designs of Peter the Great. What he wanted was an ocean in which to float his ships, and if he got that he would in a few years create both the ships and the men, and then the material interest of England would suffer, for Russia would become the mistress of the seas. They had farther to think on the violation of international law and of English honour, bo t u n : s The of mgallant and if they all owe d th e C zar o f R uss i a , w h en h e p l eased, to enter a weak coun t ry an d say h e s h ou ld i n t er f ere because the popul a ti on were no t con t en t e d, f rom th a t moment the E m p eror o f R uss i a , or any o th er d espo t, might, wh enever h e pleased, despoil the weaker neigh- Mr. Cobden a n d th e peace party. He characterised the op Cobden ab surdities. M r. Cobden said he did not see on the plat forms at these meetings men who were the recognised representatives of public opinion. Hd (Captain Mayne Reid) replied that the people were there, and they were unanimous in their condemnation of the Czar. If there were any recreants it was these representatives of public opinion. Mr. W. NEWTON then read the following letters, which had been received in reply to invitations to attend . the meeting : "6, Stratford-place, Oxford street, Oct. 24. " Sir,—ln reply to your note of this date, inviting me, in the name of the Tower Hamlets Committee, to a meeting on the Eastern question, to be held in the Beaumont Institution, Beaumont-square, on Wednesday evening next, the 26th, I have to express my regret that an engagement of very long standing makes it impossible for me to attend. "Public meetings on this question, if properly got up and judiciously managed, appear to me calculated to do a great deal of good. But if care be not taken to consult influential persons as to the resolutions to be proposed, their effect will be impaired ; and if topics not connected directly with the main subject have an undue prominence shouldsgiven d to o b a e s e t v o h e e urn likely t e h e e e y s s ai will trym aay d n) e d absoluteresult har m o . f t h l a extension inde pendence t o o f h o l e a r n t y d , all t o er t Hungary, hew be the res t ora ti on o f f t war oarnl d t n o o I t a nt l a y n , a w n i d l t l r h e e . joice at it more than myself. At the same time the object of these meetings is not to ,produce that result, but simply to induce the Government, by resisting the unjustifiable and iniquitous aggressions of Russia upon Turkey, to vindicate the good faith and defend the in terests of our own country. If therefore the enthusiasm of the persons assembled is directed to any other objects, however good in themselves, the demonstration will have a diminished effect, for it will be a demonstration in favour of a different purpose from the one proposed. The letter on the Eastern question addressed to me by Lord ,Beaumont, from Geneva, and published in the morning papers, contains some excellent remarks on the subject of such meetings. I have the honour to be, sir, yours faithfully, "To Mr. Newton." "DUDLEY COUTTS STUART. Letters were also read from Mr. Chas. S. Butler, M.P., and Mr. T. Duncombe, M.P., who expressed their regret that they could not attend. Sir W. Clay, he said, had also been written to, but no answer had been received from him. Mr. NEWTON then moved a resolution, declaring the invasion of the Danubian Piencipelities by the Emperor of Russia, a wanton and unjustifiable aggression on the territories of Turkey, and a violation of international law, calculated to endanger the interests and imperil the liberties of Western Europe ; and also declaring that it is the duty of this country to afford effectual assistance to enable Turkey fo repel this aggression, and to ab stain from diplomatic intercourse with Russia until satisfactory reparation has been made. Mr. Newton argued that we were bound to Turkey, because when the demands on her were made by Russia, the advice of England to Turkey was not to submit to them. Mr. Cobden said the Turkish nation was effete, but the Turkish Government was more tolerant than that of Russia. The Greek Christians in Turkey did not want the protectorate of Russia. The people of this country would all agree with Mr. Cobden and the peace party that war was an evil. They did no t li ke war, but they liked despotism less. Mr. Moofezv supported the resolution. Mr. D. URQUHART said the conduct of the Govern ment had been universally condemned by the people of this country, and yet the people had not the power to change either the men or the measures. It was to dis cuss that question that had brought him there. He contended that Russia had not a victim that was not their victim. He considered it was a delusion to talk of falling nations. Look at Spain. It was overrun by half a million French soldiers, under able generals, but they could not subdue the Spanish people. The Spanish peasants drove the French soldiers out of the country. And so it would be with Turkey and the Russian soldiers. He pointed to the fact that at the recent grand council in Turkey the persons composing it, not having power to impose a tax on the people, voluntarily raised amongst themselves and their friends a sum equal to two thirds of the annual revenue. He did not agree in the opinion that our Government had committed a blunder in this matter. What they had done was intentional. The fleet was ordered to pass the Dardanelles to support the Sultan against his people if he accepted the Vienna note. No, our Government did not act blindly. (A voice — Roguishly.) He was glad of the interruption. He did not want himself to express the term. The whole of the policy of our Go vernment had been to serve Russia. And the people could not replace the Ministry, they could do nothing. (A voice—We have no votes.) The reason was not that they had no votes, but that they were destitute of sense. (Laughter.) If the people were better informed, then they might have the wisdom of the Czar turned into folly, but not till then. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. HOWELL proposed a resolution characterising the conduct of ministers as deficient in energy, and declaring that the people of this country cannot have any confi dence that the foreign relations will be administered with that good faith and energy the occasion demands, so long as they are under the uncontrolled guidance of the present Cabinet. Mr. Manaus seconded the resolution. Mr. CARDOE proposed an amendment that the posi tion now occupied by Russia could only have been brought about by collusion with the English Govern ment. The amendment Was added to the resolution, which then passed. Another resolution was then proposed by Mr. BEARD, and seconded by Captain HAMPTON, and also agreed to, to the effect that it is time that the foreign affairs of a great nation like England were conducted straightfor wardly and openly, and not through the tortuous chan nels of secret diplomacy. The meeting then separated. A SAD STORY.—A boatman on returning to Fanoe, in Sleswig, on the sth inst., reported that he had sighted a vessel at sea capsized ; boats were sent out in search, and 0.1 approaching the hull a tapping was heard. A hole was made in the bottom, and a young Englishman discovered in a most delirious state, standing up to his chest in water. He was taken to Nordby, and carefully tended, but died there on the Btli inst. In his wander ings he continually repeated the inscription of a medal he wore, " Let every man do his duty." It is supposed that the vessel had been bound from Hull to Hamburg, and was lost in the storm of the night of the 26th Sep tember, in which case our hapless fellow-countryman had been in that pitiable position 11 days before he was extricated. THE Loss OF THE ANNIE JANE.—The following names of sufferers lost in the Annie Jane are to be added to the lists which have already appeared : Mrs. Jessie M'Kechnie, and her five children, Cathe• rine, Mary, Jessie, Eliza, and Malcolm, from Paisley.