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UNITY JOINT-STOCK BANK. - Office, 10, Cannon-street—NOTlCE is HEREBY GIVEN, That the GENERAL MEETING of the Unity Joint Stock Mutual Banking Association will he hell at the LONDON TAVERN, t ishopßgate-street, on FRIDAY, the 15th day of January next, at Twelve o'clock predsely, for the purpose of receiving the• Director? report. JOSEPH W. TERRY, General Manager. Dec. 18, 1857. Tha Transfer-books will be closed from the 24th Instant until the 16th January, 1858. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE A SSOC I A TlON.—Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Flankcy, Esq., M.P. I Baron L.N. da Rothschild,M.P. TREASURER OF TUE BENEVOLENT FUND. —John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Accumulated fund .............. £95,000 Annual income ...... ...... 27,000 This Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous o assuring. A Benevolent Fund is attached exclusively for clerks. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, December, 1857. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on the ITSDAI, TERMS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE TRIM RATES at this time. Premiums can be pall to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma 4ras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The bisectors also advance Loans on good security for temporary Deriods. The Cohmial have Agencies in every British Colony, where Pre nlinlip! aro received. and claims settled. WILL. TIIO. TIIO %ISDN, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERGUSSON, Resident Secretary in London. L0ND0N..... ............... 81, Lombard-street (E.C.) EDINBURGH (Head-office).... 5, George-street. DUBLIN.. ••.. • . • ....... . 65, Upper Sackville-street. GLASGOW .. E CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, New Bridge-street, London. Chairman—llErrav FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq. Deputy-Chairman—ROßEßT BIDDELPH, Esq. itzVANTAGES-: Mutual Assurance. The lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System. The whole of the Profits divided every Fifth Year. An accumulated Capital of • • • • .. £1,575,000 During Its existence the society has naid in Claims.. 1,455,000 Reversionary Bonuses have been added to Policies to the extent of .. • • • • • • The last bonus, declared in 1851, averazed 671. per cent. on the Premiums paid, and amounted to • - Policies in force .. . The Annual Income exceeds .• .. • • - The next-Division of Profits will boalado In 1859. Assurances effected prior to 31st December,lBs9, will participate the Division of 1863. to Prospectuses and 11111 particulars may be obtained on application ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. 890,000 397,00 0 7,437 240,000 EqT kTILISITF,D 1841. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, pall-mall, London. Empowered by special Act of Parliament. BY the Annual Report of 1853, it appeared that the number o rendes then In force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,500/., and yielding an bleame of 55,2071. , At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held on the 26th November 01 57, It was shown that on the 30th June last — The number of Policies in force was • 6,255 The amount insured was .... 2,917,5081. 13s. 104. The annual Income was • ........... 125,113/. 3s. Bd. Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly Der cent. per annum on the a verago to sums assured, and by which 1 : Policy of 1,0001. issued In 1842 on a healthy life is now increased t , 1,2604 Profits divided every five years—next division in 1858. The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781 p olicies, assuring 312,8841. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as M oderate rates as the most recent data will allow. ...Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities riVen to assurers. Invalid lives assured onf scientifically constructed tables. Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre %Wm. Active working Agents wanted for vacant places. P rospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and every other information, :AY be obtained or the Secretary at the Chief Office, or on applica tion to any of the Society's Agents in the country. C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR ONCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. —POWered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSEIIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D.Chairman. 'vizi • Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Aigustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. l'rofessof Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elilotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. B. B. Woolliouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ♦SSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row. I„?'be next Quinqu enn i a l Diyision of Profits will be declared in - .IT, 1860.. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Policy taken ,Ont in Bonus in Permanent Sum addition Bonus in Re .action of Assured. to Sum _Cash. Annual Pre- Assured. mium x .8. d. .03 v. b. 3,000 867 17 7 42. 1 4 50 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter „,,,unal Life Assurance Society : T he Society was established in 1838. xv ro - thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every 7 year.. ts subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. t o Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted e hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. ? annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. ;bout one thousand new policies are added every year w th n ce Its commencement the Society has paid In claims upwards hUndyid and twenty thousand pounds id in claims upwards 1,2 r Prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair -`u, 1 42, Strand. 142 Strand, London. W.C. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. TO - THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. QUID - ES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford t Dis tarl), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues , to :. on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF CURE" Correspondence =ducted. y e 4 ne first man of the dey in these complaints."—Medical Re -185- true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure." /*versity Magazine. 1.14,fie NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of th e ' - nglish mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to 14., a fflicted, who may safely and easily rezain pristine health by - " l ing the means presented."—Eveaing Star. ARETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of . life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies i t Zrtftin cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, hi s General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when Ranhchild, a daughter , was given up to die. He had heard tio n '.." of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepare -2nade from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to , 'bat he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard, li„falleceeded in realising his wishes. Ills child was cured, and is 1 , 3 7 alive a n d we ll . He has s i nce adm i n i stere d t h e won d er f u l re -ITY to th ousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and he has oer in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing 1 . 6 1;1 ° as Much ood as possible, he will send to such of his afflicted siZvW beings g as request it, this r cipe, with fell and explicit direc i:ns for makin it up and successfully using it. He requires each 4 1) 2 1 elint to enclose him six stamps—one to be returned as postage the recipe, and the remainder to be applied to the payment of advertisement: Address to H. James, M.D., 14, Cecil-street, Shand. ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Joh —The AID of the benevolent is earnestly solicited. n =asterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom nations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers: ~Mea ars. Coutta and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co. ; ..`,,n B OM and Co. ; P resco tt , G ro t e, an d Co. ; Smyth, Payne, and Co.; ."*,!3'llu and Co.; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay aml Co.;Denison and ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Mas k an and Co.; by Messrs. Nisbet and Co Berner s-street ; and at .ne Hospital from Ten till Fi ve. " By order, S. S. SMITH, Secretary. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE etfliES (a ithout Physic) Of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency Phl egm , all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, g m ., neuralgia, Dysent r y, Di arr h oea , A c idity, Palpitation, suma.an,Hr,•ead. ache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Cough. .othzetness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Plaints p " ate effa4ronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com by B ARRY'S delicious REVALENTA Ari j uir Inconvenience CA FOOD, which restores health without purging, rem ed i es. It ! i or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other generally, as i ; moreover, the best food for infants and invalids feres with a n ever turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter and dinner, a nd 4 d liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch rattscular energy l' o estores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and the most enfeebled. We extract few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. nom ril p the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I ha v e derived considerable benefit Barry', Revalent a A ra bi ca F oo d, an d cons id er it duo to Stuart de and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Deeles."— Curi., No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony frost dyspepsia, nerusness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms , sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by 13 andn Ba rry' s L ig, near Din, Nortolk excellent Food. NtariaJolly, Wortham ."—Cu re No. 47, 121. Miss Elizabeth J aco b s , Of ,lazing Yicarage, Waltha m Cross, Ilerts, acureof extreme ner- Va.:snots, indigestion, gatherin g s, l ow spirits, and nervous Cure No. , 48,314. Miss" Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre,nea ra r uc t i lv s e; boot : a Mire of ten ye'a's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous tilt* bility. Cure No. 18, z 16, Dr. Andrew Tire of constipation, dy p - Ma. erveus irritabi l ity. Cure No. 3i,2 1 0. Dr. Sherland o f seP. dropsy and ~ebllity. Cure No. 36,212 . Captain Allan of epileptic tlts. Cure No. 42,116 Major Edit, of enlargement of the liver and total Prost ra ti on of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of !ramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Ear- Vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister, " Paratyals.• Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, of thirt y years diseased lungs, tilt spitting of blood, liver derangement, - partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ,514 Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, Of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castkatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia &piers, cured of con eultption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180, " Twenty-five years nervousness, con atiPation. indigestion and debility, from Which I have suffered great 'nisery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured bp Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. /Leaves, 181, Fleet-street, Londo n ." No. 4,208. "Fight years' dis - Pepsis'. nervousness, debility, with cramps, span's, and nausea, Which my servant had consult e d th e advice of maanny.h av have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness, With pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of RM. Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Ba rry 's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita. fattens:— The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wrod granted an !mune. tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, ter imitating " Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Seitably packed for all climates, and with full instructio n s. I, canisters, lib is 9d ; 21b 48 fd ; 51b lis , 121 b 225. The 121 h car riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry anc Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. pur veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly , ; also at 60, Gracechurch. street ; 330.430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 149, Blehopsgate street ; and 150 and 158 Oxford-street. Age; 1 838 1841 1 845 1 848 1311 (N 20,443.) PUBLICATIONS. NEW NOVEL BY CAPT. BERESFORD. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in three vols., CLARA LEICESTER By Capt. G. DE LA POER BERESFORD. " The sketches of fashion tble life and character will render this tory acceptable to many readers "—,un. Hurst and lilackett, Publishers, successors to henry Colburn. MR. ATKINSON'S TRAYELS, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. Now ready, in royal Svo.. with Niap and 50 Illustrations, including numerous be,utifully Coloured Plates from the Author's Original Drawings, price 21. 25., elegantly bound, ORIENTAL and WESTERN SIBERIA ; A Narrative of Seven Years' Travels in Siberia, Mongolia, the kirghis Steppes, and Central Asia. By Tama/a WITLAX ATKINSON. LONDON, WED " A book of travels which in value and sterling interest must take rank as a landmark in geographical literature. Its coloured illustra tions and wood engravings are of a high order, and add a great charm to the narrative."— Daily News. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlb)rough-street. NEW WORK BY MATTIIEW ARNOLD. Just published, in I vol. fcp. Esvo. price 54. cloth, 3f EROPE, a Tragedy. By MATTHEW ARNOLD _l_ - With a Preface and an Historical Introduction. by- the Author, with the - iiitiv- 7 , POE IS, FIRE'. sERIES, Third Edition, price 53. 6d. POEMS, SECOND SERIES, price ss. cloth. London : Longman, Brown, and Co., Paternoster-row. MR. 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I The Handwriting on the s all. A Week with the " Times." Passages in Irish Ethnology. By A Year of Revolution. R. G. Latham, M.D. Livingstone's Missionary Travels. The Partners. By shlrleyßrookS. Marianne. By W. Charles Kent. Our Foreign Courier.—No. 3. Dublin : Hodges, Smith, and Co. ; London : Hurst and Blackett. Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth, FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALB ER I` FEIST, editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. In addition other useful information. it will contain a complete Record or the Racing and Steeplechase Season in England, Ireland, and Scotland trom the let of January up to the day of publication, Derby Lots for 1855, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next year ; forming one of the most copious works of reference ever published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, Ho! born, London. A New Edition, the Fourth.—Just Published, price as., by pus free, ss. 4d. ON TRUE Az FALSE SPERMATORRELE-' wilt a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in re lation to its Nature, Treatment and Cure. Translated from tee German of Dr. PICKFORD. To wlfch is added, AN ESSAY ON SEXUAL DEBILITIES. By the Editor. "Dt. Pickford is known to elnzaeti readers by his frequent pract:• !al contributionb to Gorman medical literature. This is the firs time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to 'the nou-tnedi 3al reader. We trust this may not'be th e last, If he shell detect say Aber equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to oor reet."—London Medical Gazette. •• The tribe of • Quiet Sympathisers, and Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book !mild (Ind its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we aro satisfied that many hundreds would be saved web needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrho3a, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. T ondon : IL Hellion, 219, Regent-street. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE .J SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and an Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by Its tonic and Invigorating properties enables the stomach to o +rfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe acrd to health. , old by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenclaurch-street ,onion, and 6s, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and met lhants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitatioms, see that the names of " LEA nd PERRINst" are upon the lab() and patent cap of the bottle. BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELTC ITE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is more easily digested, and imparts more healthfbil nourishment than ilk ; aridity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided lie it, and perfect regularity of the system and sound sleep in aired. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred ni..,n.1 a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding tamped ivid addressed envelope to Barry Da Barry and Co., Ti, rtegeut-street, London Prices: -In Canisters, is.; 25.; and 121 b. ai 2.15. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on r,ceint of Post Odice Order. TUE SECRET TNFIRNUTIES OF YOUTH AND MATTTTtITY Just publish, I. pri k., post rree, in an rtlavelope, for 13 stamps, Q ELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise k_7 on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, ud on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting rom vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth :0 Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology o f Mar riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by !rinaryexamination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases., BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Myrieulated Member of the University of Edinburgh, honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. 'I he essential object of this treatise is to p poi la tes t i i t es the fearful eon soences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, which have produced more misery in Youth, deg Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, n ain cts ru and perhaps, e e xcee any other other class of disease known to modern pathologists, part i cu larly recommended to persons entertaining secret perusal of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the 'width, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It f.bsolutely necessary that all men should know that there are rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated with ut incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret sue eed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed. and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, hat there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional terangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cureand P u bli s hed by J. Allen, 20 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, may be had of Mann, 39, Co rnhill ; Home, 19, Leicester-square ; Gor.don, 136, Leadenhall street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from I I till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, Loudon. The work may be had to India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; C dents—Messrs. C. and J. Ilormusje 3, Apollo-street; Bombay- Cir.ttlator Office ;fanfadras—Motussilite Office A Ira Dodsworth; Co'orebo, Ceylon d of all Books-Hers throughout the Colonies, ONT BLANC TO-NIGHT at 8, and TO-MORROW AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock. • ~~ -- ESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1857. THE NORTHUMBERLAND AND DUE HAM DISTRICT BANKING COMPANY. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor issued an order directing that all parties concerned in the case of the petition for winding-up this bank, just pre sented by Messrs. Tucker, Greville, and Tucker, on behalf of Mr. E. Bourne, of Morden College, Blackheath, do attend before him on Friday, 15th January. The petition states that the bank was started in 1835, and the capital fixed at 600,0001. in 60,000 shares of 10/. each, and had offices at Newcastle, and branches at Sunderland, Durham, Alnwick, Sauth Shields, North Shields, Berwick, flexhatn and Morpe , h. That petitioner is holder iif 20 shares, on which he paid 2001. the full amount thereof. From 1837 to 1857 the directors convened meetings yearly, and dividends of 6 per cent, and recently of 7 per cent. were declared every half-year, with a considerable sum on each occasion to the contingent account. Reports were issued by the directors, but the informa tion in them was scanty and meagre as to the real condition of the company. The directors iu the last report in February 1857, stated that the business during the preceding year had fully answered their expectations, that there was a nett rofit, after all expenses, of 70,2601., giving a divi i-nd of 31. 10s. for th, , half-year ending June, and hat they proposed to declare a like dividend for the De!einbar half-year ; leaving a surplus of 23,8411. rho statement with the report showed, on the debit side, thatthe proprietors' capital, paid up, amounted to 655,491/ , the deposit and credit balances to :3,379,8191., and the guaranteeiuml. to 90,874/. ; al.d on tt;e credit side of the scoount the cash - bills, notes, debit balances, and other securities, amount ed to 4,152,0851., and the value of the bank pre nises at Newcastle and local branches 21,165/. That since the stoppage of the bank petitioner has tiscovered that included in the 4,152,085/. repre gen ted as invested on security, was a very large sum ,dvanced by the directors on mortgage of certain mineral properties in which one or more of the di . ectors were interested personally, and which fact was wholly cone 'afed from the shareholders. It dowfurther appeared that in August last, when the last half-year's dividend was declared, the bank, to the knowledge of the directors, was hopelessly in solvent At a meeting on the 26th Nov. last the shareholders were for the first time made aware of the alarming position of their affairs ; that the as sets were insufficient to meet the thbts and liabili ties ; that not only was the paid-up capital of 101. per share lost, but that the liabilities would require a further contribution of 51. per share, which was made in the shape of a call, but not responded to. That the directors advanced considerable sums to one another on inadequate security, and improvi dently invested it in speculative transactions. The total loss of the capital was concealed from the shareholders,. and the company represented as in a flourishing state. T at the debts and liabilities of the bank amount to several millions ; that the share holders are liable ; and that there is no other equit able method of dealing with the bank and its em barrassments but under the winding-up jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery ; it being understood that any call made by the directors is invalid on the ground that the shares have been fully paid up, and that therefore the directors have no power to make a further call. Petitioner, in conclusion, alleges his belief that the committee appointed to confer with and assist the directors are personal friends and under the influence of the latter. 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ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London; and by Chemists and Perfumers. *** BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS ! ! ! THE ROY AL MILITARY COLLEGE. The following notice and memorandum have been issued by the military authorities : " Horse Guards, S.W., Deo. 29. " Notice is hereby given that the competitive exami nations of candidates for the admission into the junior department of the Royal Military College, referred twin article 6 of the subjoined memorandum, will be held at Butlington-house, Piccadilly, on the 2813, 29th, and 30th of January : " Memorandum. " florae Guards, Dec, 3. " Her Majesty having been pleased to approve that the education of gentlemen of all arms of the service who do not obtain commissions by direct appointment shall be given at the Royal Military Colleg. , at Sand hurst, the following will be the regulations for the future admission of candidates into that College " The age of admission to be from 16 to 18 years. "The candidate must apply through his parent or guardian to the General Cowmanding_in•Chief for per mission to have his name entered on the list of competi tors for the College. On receiving that permission it will be open to the candidate to compete at any one of the half-yearly Entrance Examinations whioh may occur while he is within the prescribed limits of age. If un successful, he will be allowed a second trial ; but if again unsuccessful, he will be debarred from further competi• tion for entrance into the College. 3. The unsueeasau oandtclate, however, will still be eligible to enter the army by passing the exatoination for direct oommiesione. NAVAL AND MILITA RY INTELLIGENCE. "4. The period of study will be two years. It will be terminated by a competitive examination, the most succes4ul candidates in which will be permitted to select the Corps of Royal Engineers or Royal Artillery, ac cording to the number of vacancies in those corps, or will receive commissions without purchase in the Ca valry, Guards, or Line. Those who select the Ordnance Corps will be removed to the School of Application at Wool wich. " 6. The payments by Cadets at the Royal Military College will be on the tolls wing scale, viz.:— Per annum. For sons of private gentlAmen £loo For sons of admirals and general officers having The authorities at the War-office having decided on sending out an additional force to India, exclu sive of the troops who are now under orders or on their passage to that country, instructions have been forwarded to the commanding officers of the various depots attached to the Indian establish ment, directing them to hold in readiness troops from their several depots to the number of 1,000 non-commissioned officrra and men, with the pro per proportion of officers, the whole of whom will embark at Gravesend early in the ensuing month, tonnage having been taken up for them by the Ron. East India Company. The following are the depots which are ordered to furnish that number of officers and troops for their regiments, the service compa nies of which are now staiioued in the Bengal Pre sidency—viz., sth (Fusiliers), f'''-th• (King's), 10th, I9th, 20th, 23d (Royal Welsh leimiliens), 24th; 27th (Enniskillins), 29th, 32d, 35th. 37th, 42d (High landers), 52d (Light Infantry), s.id, 60th Rifles, Ist, 2d, and 3d battalions, 61st, 70th, 75th, 78th (High landers), 81st, 82d, 84th, 87th(Royal Irish Fusiliers), 88th (Connaught Rangers), 89th, 90th (Light In fantry), 93d (Highlanders), 94t1, 98th, and the Rifle Brigade. In addition to theabove troops, 500 non-commissioned officers and l ien will embark early in January f or th e p urpose of joining the head-quarters of those regiment; attached to the Bombay and Madra s es t a bli s h men ts, together with the 48th Regiment and the 92d Eighlanders, which regiments are to proceed to India from Gibraltar, where they will be relieved by the 22d and the 25th (King's Own Borderers). An adjourned meeting was held yesterday of the yesterday morning in the messroom of tf.e officers Royal Artillery, Woolwich, at tie request of the Commandant of the Garrison, sil d was attended by Major-General Sir W. P. ViLiams, Colonel Brown, R.M., Colonel Bro c k m an, East Kent Militia, Colonel Bowles, Oxf or d Militia, Major Salts, commanding the Roy a l Military Train, and upwards of 100 officers belonging to the various regiments on duty in W o olwich. Major- General Williams announced the abject of the meet ing from the chair, by stating that he had requested their attendance to discu ss t he a d van t ages t o b e derived from a military institute, now in progress, for the benefit and recreation of the private soldier, and which ho hoped to see liberally carried out and supported by the coutribution s o f every officer in the garrison. The General, after pointing out the numerous advantages which such an institution would confer on the whole military community, said he was anxious for its Einauguratiou, as he had wit 'leased the benefits of sim i l ar establishmen t s i n o th er garrison towns. Col. Brown, R.M,, expressed him self highly in favour of f orm i ng an inst i tut i on w hi c h would offer a second home for the leisure hours of the soldier. It cannot be denied (continued Colonel Brown) that the dome s ti c accommodat i on of a mar ried soldier's quarters, is oftentimes most uninvit ing. In such cases an establishment like the one now under their consideration, would be fraught with marvellous advantages, and would offer a second home at an insignificant ex p en dit ure . The . Rev. G. R. Ghee, M.A., ch ap l a i n - geuer M t o the i army, enumerated instances of the manifold advan tages which he had observed in Dover, and other places, where these establishments have been created, iu order to provide for the relaxation and amusement of the soldier's leisure hours, and said there could not be two opinions on the benefit which a similar home would confer in Woolwich on the well-disposed of every ago, but more particularly on the moral and social well-being of the young soldier. Colonel Gardner and other officers sub,,e quently addressed the meeting, when a show of hands was requested by those who were in favour of the institution, and who were willing to contribute towards its establishment and support, and also a show of hands for the contrary object. The num hers exhibited a majority in favour of the institu tion. regiments For sons of general officers not having regiments 70 For sons of captains and commanders of the Royal Navy and field officers of the army having sub stantive rank 5O For sons of all officers of the :Royal Navy and Army under the al ove ranks For the sous of officers of the Navy and Army who have died in the service, and whOse fami lies are proved to be left in pecuniary distress 20 Twenty ' Queen's Cadets,' being sons of offieeis in the Navy and Army who have fallen in action, or have died from the effects of active service, and have left their families in reduced circumstances.. Free " In addition to the above payments, there will be re quired to be deposited on entrance such sum as shall be found ❑ecessary for supplying clothing, books, and in. struments. " 6. The find competitive examination for the Royal Military College will take place in the month of Jan., 1858, at which 24 of the moat successfal candidates, if duly qualified, will be admitted. «7. Etch candidate will be required to produce a certificate of baptism, or other sati-factory proof of his age, a certificate from a minister of the Church or deno initiation to which he belongs that he has bees d'ily in structed in the princip es of religion, and a certificate from the master or tutor under whom he has been edu cated of his general moral conduct for at least the two preceding years. "The candidate will be examined by a medical officer to ascertain that be is in every point of view, as regards hi s physical constitution, fit for military service. "The following will be the subjects in which exami nation papers will be set, and the number of marks assigned to each, viz. : Marks. Classics (Latin 2,000, Greek 1.600) 3,600 Mathematics .... 3,600 English language French 1,200 Any other modern language 1,200 History, with geography Natural Sciences—i. e., mineralogy and geo logy 600 Experimental Science:, —i.e., chemistry, heat, electricity, including magnetism Drawing " In mathematics the following elementary branches will be required to be taken up, viz.:— " Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, extraction of the square root, interest. " Algebra, including fractions, simple equations, and questions producing them. " Euclid,' the firbt two books. "To thesis two branches 1,200 marks (out of the above 3,600 marks for mathemalic-) will be allotted, and it will be necessary for qualification that at least 600 marks in all be obtained. Some important improvements and alterations, suggested by the East India Company's Directors ou their recent inspection o f th e li g h t draught gun boats under construction for river service in India j,y Messrs. Rennie and Sons, having been cora- Tleted, the three already t erm i nated are be i ng acked for shipment forthwith. Instructions were received yesterday at Woolwich Dockyard relative to paying off and recommission ing the flag ship Fisgard on the 31st inst. Com modore Shepherd will immediately rehoist his flag, and the whole of the numerous officers employed in the contingent services, and who are borne on the Fisgard's books, are to be reappointed, with the exception of Mr. Mugford, matter who is to be succeeded by Mr. C. T. A. Nodda ll, commanding her Majesty's ship Agamemnon ; and Mr. V. Wil• hams, who will retire on the half-pay li st. The G.,liath, 80, screw 'reamer, which has been some time in dock at Sheerness, to be fitted with her machinery, is ordered to be taken to Chatham to be ready for sea. The freight ships Dutchman and Adonis em barked yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard the Ist Royal Surrey Militia for conveyance to Waterford. The Dutchman embarked seven companies, com prising two field officers, four captains, eight subalterns, two staff, 32 sergeants, 10 drummers, 21 corporals, 398 privates, 32 soldie rs ' w i v es, 38 children, and two o ffi cers! horses ; and the Adonis embarked three companies, comprising one field officer, two captains, five subalterns, three staff, eight sergeants, 10 corporals, 177 privates, 11 sol- THE STAFF COLLEGE. diem' wives, four children, and one ho rse . The "Horse Guards, Dec. 29. officers were Col. W. H. Sumner, Lieut.-Col. G. " Notice is hereby given, that the competitive exami P. Evelyn, Major G. D. Scott, Captains E. H. L. nations for admission to the Staff College will be held at Penrhyn, C. W. Calvert, J. A. Bouloott, C. S. Burlington House, Piccadilly, on the Ist of Feb.,1858."' Barrow, W. Platt, A. H, Sumner; Lieut 9. 8. " In. the English language 400 marks will be assigned to correct and legible writing from dictation and to am; position, and of these it will be required that at least 200 shall be obtained for qualification. " In the French language 400 marks will be allotted to correct reading and translation from an easy French author, and of these at least 200 will be required for qualification. "In history (with geography), 400 marks will be allotted to that of England with its dependencies, of which 200 will be required for qualification. "And, in addition to the number of marks just stated as indispen , able for qualification in the required portion of mathematic. , , English, French, and history, it will be necessary that the candidate alma obtain such a number in these and the remaining rubj.cts above enumerated as shall raise his total number to 2,400 marks. ,0 "No marks will be allowed to count in any subject left optional to the candidate, unless at least one-fifth of the marks allotted to that subject be gained. " The candidate will be required to forward to the Council of Military Education one month before the ex amination a statement of the subjects he desires to take up, in which he will specify the names of the classical Authors he has studied, and the course of history he has been reading. "The competitors will he reported to the Commander• in-Chief in their order of merit, and those first on the list will succeed to the vacancies at the College. • "By c , rnmand, "G. A. WETBERALL, Adjutant-General." C^- c -• 1 1 • • 41 ;? '..77±t 3A r / 411111 • .7 ._ \\V ... 1.41 * Y4,11'4111. _ - ce A • .7• 114 - • 1/77 69 Z. 4 IVA 4,1 ov , \ • • , -•;11 A, Peters, W. H. Wedley, P. A. Carlton, S. Taylor, A. L. Bayne, G. C. Bayne; Ensigns W. U. Miller, H. A. Harding, J. R. Medley, G. P. Walker, G. R. Alaskan, C. A. P. Bullock, B. W. Minchin, Paymaster F. J. Bellew, Adjutant J. Prosser, Quartermaster Rontree, Surgeon R. H. Warwick, and Assistant-Surgeon H. W. Jackson. Both ships left last evening for Waterford. The Diadem, 32, screw frigate, Capt. Mooreom, C. 8., and the Sharpshooter, 9, steam sloop, Lieut.- Commander Gibbon, were officially inspected yes terday at Portsmouth by Adiuiral Sir G. Seymour, K.C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief of the station, prior to their going on a cruise, the former for some experimental trials in the Channel, and the latter to the coast of Africa. The following appointmenta weremade yesterday at the Admiralty : Lieutenants—A. C. Curtis to the Vulcan ; George A . Douglas and W. Heaton (for disposal) to the Royal Albert. Paymaster—W. G. Parmeter to the Ajax. Assistant-Surgeons—William Carmichael, Maxwell Rogers, Joseph V. N. Blake, and Richard C. M'Clement, to the Victory ; Thomas Roe, Andrew Mullan, mid Edward B. Bro•ter to the Impregnable. Mr. Samuel Irvine has been promoted to a Daputy Medical Inspector on the retired list. The West Indian negro peasant- is, aceerfling to the Timts of yesterday, "as much like a beast as ever :" he won't work, he won't cover his person, or shelter himself or his family ; he is vagrant and indolent to th• last degree. Oonsequently, argues our contemporary, West India . planters must be allowed to commit felony by buying Africans, or at all events to import Indians, as French restaurants supply bread, a discretion. This description of the emancipated peasant of the British West Indies is not only, as regards its objects, a foul, but—in the interests of the planters —a very injudicious libel; for it is by exaggerations and untruths of this kini that passions are roused, ill-will and prejudices cultivated and extended, an tagonism established, and all confidence destroyed. The West Indian planters will gain nothing by such falsehoods ; they will only render their cause more odious than it is, and create an opposition to their views and projects that will frustrate and defeat them, even when they may be unobjectionable. That the West Indian peasant can work well and profitably for his employer in the sugar field, the history of sla'rery shows. Why, then, does he not work there now steadily and continuously ? His in terests, his prospects, his improvement, are more or less dependent on sugar production, which is the staple wealth of the West Indies ; why then does he not by his labour maintain and largely augment the production of that staple ? Surely the chief reason is plain and simple enough. You cannot cast your eyes over a book of West Indian statistics but it stares you in the face. Turn, for example, to the tables relating to our Colonial possessions for 1855, lately presented to both Houses of Parliameat by the Queen's command, and then he who runs may read the cause. The reason is the low rate of wages given for work in a country in which labour is not redundant, and where there are many temptations not to work for wages at all. In St Kits the average rate of wages was in 1855 6d. to Bd. a day, in Nevis it was 7d., in Antigua 6d. to ls., in Montserrat sid., in Dominica 7d., in St. Lucia ls., in Barbadoes 10d., in Grenada 2s. 6 , 1. to ss. a week of five days, in Tobago 10d. a day, in Trinidad ls. 3d., in British Guiana ls. 4d. Now it is to be remarked that the cost of many of the leading articles of provisions, nearly all of which are imported—the cost of clothing, in which the emancipated peasant, or " beast," as the Times calls him, is vain and expensive—and the taxation of all these colonies, are very high. Field work is the lowest kind of labour, and while it is thus miserably underpaid, skilled labour in these colonies is very highly remunerated. It St. Kits, for example, the average wages of tradesmen are Is. 6d. to 2s. Id. a day, in Nevis 2s. 6d., in Antigua 25., in Mont serrat 2s. to 35., in Dominica 25., in St. Lucia 2s. 6d., in Barbadoes ls. Bd., in Tobago 2s. 6d., in Trinidad 4s. 2d., in British Guiana 4s. These statistics establi , h two things—first, that the wages given , for cultivating sugar arrant- no° adequatOrtivt ducementefor the peasantry to cultivate it steadily and continuously, and that the profits of skilled labour are large enough to divert every predial labourer worth his salt to the prosecution of higher class work. [t is further apparent from these tables that it is exactly in those colonies wherein wages for predial labour are highest that production is increasing. In British Guiana wages for field work are Is. 4d. a day, and its exports were valued in 1853 at 1,014,944/. ; in 1854 they rose to 1,405,3321., and in 1855 were worth 1,331,3711. S o a l so i n amaica, where labour bears a higher rate than in the smaller colonies; the value of Jamaica produce ex ported rose from 729,9561. in 1854 to 957,1141. in 1855. To some extent this rise in value may have been caused by a hivher price of sugar ; in that case, however, the profits of cultivation must also have increased, and the planters can have had no excuse in want of pecuniary means for not drawing steady and continuous field labour out of the pea santry by good and adequate wages. The true policy of the West India planter is to purchase at its proper market value the labour he allows to be wasting for sugar purposes around him. But the real object of the West India plant-r is the very reverse of his true policy—it is to lower the rate of wages for field work by immigration. The emancipated peasantrycan live without the planters, and their labour is only to be had for substantial wages; those wages the planters, we have seen, will not pay ; and then, because the peasantry will not work for inadequate remuneration, they are insultd by being told that " they are as much like beasts as ever;" as if at any time or under any circum stances, conscientious, serious, and temperately minded men could or would apply such a term or use such language to describe any of the human race, "heirs to immortality," however low in the scale of civilisation. But if the emancipated peasantry are, in West Indian estimation, like beasts, it is obviously be cause of their Afri;,au origin and of their Negro character. Then surely it is the grossest inconsist ency to ask for more Africans, more Negroes, and more "beasts," unless indeed it is intended to sub ject the now arrivals. purchased in Africa, to that compulsory servitude in the West Indies whichthe British people paid the planters 20 millions sterling to free the " beasts" they already possessed from. If Creole negroes in a state of freedom won't work in the West Indies—where the climate enables them to dispense with the refinements of shelter or ap parel, and the soil provides them with sustenance— surelythere is less reasonableexpectation that newly imported Africans, ignorant of all inducements to work, will toil voluntarily under similar circum stances. There seems to be a hitch here, a sort of hiatus in the West Indian argument, which can only be repaired or filled up by a proposal to re duce the African immigrants to slavery of some sort or other. But if we will not open Africa to the West In dies, can nothing, we are asked, be done in Indian for the West Indian planters, who won't employ the labour they have at home 7 Indian labour has rendered the Mauritius far more profitable, far more productive, far richer under freedom, than that colony ever was under slavery. Why not let the West Indies enjoy all the advantages which the Mauritius possesses ? The answer to this question is twofold. We cannot, if we would, place the West. Indies on the same footing as to Indian labour on which the Mauritius stands. But so far as we safely can do, we have already opened India to our West Indian colonies—a fact of which the Times appears surprisingly ignorant. The Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, within a few days' sail of the Indian coast ; it is of easy and cheap access from India, the return to India from the Mauritius is also cheap and easy, and the voyage has become familiar to the popula tion of India. It is a single colony easily compre hensible to a simple mind. These natural advan tages it is not in the power of man to confer on the West Indies ; and even were there no other adverse agency, this difference must always render any comparison between the Mauritius and the West Indies, so far as Indian emigration is concerned, wholly inadmissible. Take that element which must always chiefly regulate the extent of emigra tion—its cost. The contract price for conveying emigrants from Calcutta to the Mauritius in 1856 —a year of unusually high freights—varied from 2/. 12s. to 4/. 9s. a-head, and from Madras ave raged about 4/. ss. No wonder, then, that the Mauritius can afford to convey 10,000 or 12,000 Indians a-year, to be returned at the expira tion of their terms of service. But from India to the West Indies is a three months' voyage ; the mortality of such a voyage, and of the re turn voyage, must be far greater than to and from the Mauritius ; the coat of transport is more I „e. , • .2/2 EIV S PAP E R 7-, -, , ~ - j Co., became in some way or other e t • — 1 ' - ; 7' system of blood-sucking which ' nlg4 -.1 44,7 destroyed a much more substan ' 4 4cdpe Z bankruptcy examination is but 7,k3e - . : and it would be neither wise *-- t •-; i strongly on such testimony aga '''' lILY have not been heard. WI n Q [P auk STAMPKD 5 13URNING OF THE SAKAI/ . 5.4 ,VDS TRANSPORT. The following letter from Capt. J. S. Castle, the _ commander of the Sarah Sands screw traiesp;.rt - steamer, has been received by Messrs. Walton, shipbrokers, of Gra,cecherch-street, relative to the partial destruction of the ship by fire and the es cape of the troops and crew:— "At about 3 45 p.m., on the 11th of November, I discovered a very strong smell of fire arising from the after orfop deck (where about 120 of the troops were berthed), and upon going into the hold found it to be on fire, and immense volumes of smoke issuing from it. - I immediately ordered all th e eng i nes to be stopped, all sa i l taken in, and the ship brought to the wind ; some hands were at the same time getting fire hoses passed below. " I then requested C o l. M offatt to have all the ammunition thrown overboard, and succeeded in clearing the starboard magazine. By this time the whole of the after part of the ship was so much enveloped in smoke that it was scarcely possibl e to stand, but volunteers came aft and attempted t o clear the port magazine, which they succeeded in doing, with the exception (as we suppose) of one barrel. Several of the men were dragged up sense less from below while thus engaged. " I ordered all the boats to be lowered, placing the ladies in the port lifeboat under the charge of Mr. Verey, third officer, giving him orders to keep clear of the ship until recalled. Mr. We!ch, chief officer, was forward hoisting out the cutter and longboat, which was done without accident. I then commenced constructing rafts, of which I launched two overboard, and safely moored them alongside, keeping a third across the deck forward in readi ness. Shan treble ; the change is in every respect far greater ; and the objections of the. Indian Coolie to cross the " black water" are almost insuperable. The - proximity of the Mauritius to India is so favourable to emigration, that up to 1856 no fewer than 175,388 Indian immigrants had been received in that island, of whom 27,000 had, on the expira tion of their service, returned to India. But even this immigration, carried on under the most encou raging circumstances, has one unpleasant feature— ' which is of course seriously aggravated in the case of the West Indies--in the frightful disparity of the sexes ; for while of this total immigration 135,152 were men, the number of females was only 25,137. Happily however, and owing chiefly to the low cost of transport, this disparity in the Mauritius can be easily removed, and a new scale of proportion has been adopted by Governor Iligginson which will next year raise the. per tentage- of female immi grants to 40, and in 1860 to SCV But the cost of such a per tentage to the West Indies would entirely d.tfeat the operation ; it would render it impossible in a pecuniary sense. But it might be supposed from the manner in which the Times writes that a prohibition of all emigration from India to the West Indies was in force. The very reverse is the case. India is just as open to the West Indies as to the Mauritius ; and if the Times will refer to this year's Report of the Emigration Commissioners, under the head of the West Indies, it will. find the first paragraph commencing thus : The number of Coolies Vred for the West Indies for the-seaso n 1856-7 was ' 60 for British Guiana, 3,000 for Trinidad, and a ship load for each of the islanda,Jf St. Lucia and Grenada. In amsequentrabf Os 'f oitier" .from the West Indies there were actually despatched to British Guiana 2,987 Indians, of whom only 664 were females ; 1,642 to Trinidad, of whom 414 were women ; and 375 to Grenada, of whom but 68 were females. Yet we have the Times exclaiming in December, 1857, " Can nothing of this sort be done for the West Indies ?" At about 8.30 p.m. flames burst through the upper deck, and shortly after the mizen rigging tcok fire. I was then fearful of the ship paying off, bat fortnnately the ufter - brartrivereffettgti and the rnainyard swung round. " About 9 p.m. a fearful explosion took place in the port magazine. By this time the ship was one body of flame from the stern to the main rigging, and thinking it scarcely possible so save herl called Major Brett (in command of the troops) for ward, and told him my opinion, requesting him to endeavour to keep order among the troops till the hist, but at the same time to use every exertion to check the fire. The truth is, that from 1847 to 1856 4very con siderable addition has been made to the labouring population of the West Indies. Sierra Leone has a nt them 6,543 free Africans; St. Helena has furnished them with 7,096 liberated slaves ; Ma deira has given them 9,366 of its distressed labourers ; China has furnished 2,000 of its people ; and India, which the Times treats as closed to them, has sent 20,229 Coolies. In these ten years the total extent of West Indian immigration has reached nearly 50,000 labourers of all classes. Thus we see how very little this great advocate of the West Indies really knows of West Indian affairs—how perfectly unconscious it it is of the radical vico of West Indian political economy— how inconsistent with its libel of the black peasantry is its proposal to import more Africans—how it underrates the advantages which the Mauritius pos sesses for Indian immigration ; and how profoundly ignorant it is that the suggestion it makes has already been actually in operation for the last ten years. It is, in the case of the Times and the West India planters, " the blind leading the blind." " No person can describe the manner in which the men workel to keep the fire back, one party were below keeping the bulkhead cool, several of whom were dragged up senseless, and fresh volun teers took their places, but wore soon in the same state. • "At 11 p.m. the maintopsailyard took fire. Mr. Welch, one quartermaster, and four or five soldiers went aloft with wet blankets and succeeded in ex tinguishing it, but not until the yard and mast were nearly burnt through. About midnight we appeared to have made some impression on the fire, and after that drove it back inch by inch until daylight, when it had been completely got under. " The ship now appeared in a fearful plight ; merely the shell remaining, the port quarter blown out by the explosion, 15 feet of water in the hold, and the ship rolling heavily and taking in large quantities of water aft. "As soon as the smoke was partially cleared away I got spare sails and bla,nke's aft to stop the leak, passing two hawsers round the stern and setting them up. The troops were employed baling and pumping, the ship rolling heavily, and the tanks rolling from side to side in the hold. " About 10 a.m. the ladies joined the ship. I then ordered all the boats alongside, but found the sea too heavy for them to remain there ; the gig, however, had been abandoned during the night, and the craw, under Mr. Ward, fourth officer, got into another of the boats. " The troops were employed during the remainder of the day bailing and pumping, and the crew in securing the stern. Throughout the night all hands were engaged in bailing and pumping. The boats were secured fore and aft, but several were severely damaged. "At daylight on the 13th the crew were em ployed hoisting in the boats, the troops working manfully in bailing and pumping. Latitude at noon 13 12 S. At 5 p.m. set foresail and foretop sail, and bore for the Mauritius. On Thursday, the 19th, sighted the Island Roderigues, and arrived at Mauritius on Monday, the 23d. " J. S. CASTLE, Commander." STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, DEC. 29. We mentioned on Thursday last the existexpolit a better feeling, with steadier prices in yarnraiid cloth, and it is gratifying to repeat the repott to day. Sellers are asking higher prices for cloth, but there has not been so smell business at the adv4i3ce.e. • A considerable number of orders of moderate ,eit tent, in madapollams and ehirtings for India , plaCea" towards the eud of last week, were obtain e d by thei manufacturers who have found themselves uhaele to obtain the same rates now. The market, hc'vw ever, is undoubtedly steadier in most kinds of cloth, and the easier state of the money-market, the higher price of cotton in Liverpool, and better commercial accounts from India appear likely to promote a still firmer market. In yarns there has been more inquiry, but it was checked by spinners to some extent asking higher rates. The advance demanded was id. to id. per lb., and in some few cases an advance of id. per lb. was obtained. The business effected was not inconsiderable in warps and cops for the home trade, and twists for India, the Mediterranean, and German markets. If the prices of this day week had been taken, a consider able business would probably have been done in both cloth and yarn. Messrs. John Slagg 1,3 Co. report : " Since the reduction of the Bank rate of discount on Thursday last the market has been firmer and steadier than for the last few weeks. To-day both spinners and manufacturers are asking higher prices ; but buyers are still acting very cautiously, and, though willing now to operate at the prices asked last week, decline, except in few cases and for small quantities, to give any advance, and there is corsequently but little business doing. " Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co. repo r t : "There is a somewhat firmer market to-day, and in yarns a slight advance is asked, but not generally ob tained, as business still continues on a limited scale and without animation." tf - There is a general impression that the market will go on improving, but that for some weeks to come such improvement will be slow and very gradual. LEEDS, DEC. 28. There is no feature of importance to notice in the cloth halls this morning. The attendance of buyers has been moderate, but they have purchased as sparingly as they have done for the last month. There is a little more cheerfulness in the trade as to its future prospects, it being generally admitted that the state of the money-market at home and the accounts from America are favourable, and that with the commencement of the ensuing year the beginning of a better state of things is likely to commence. HUDDERSFIELD, Dm. 28. A slightly improved state of things may be noted here, and the market in the Cloth-hall displays more animation. Business is, of course, chicly confined to the home trade, but the offers are gene rally freer, and there is greater encouragement to operate. Wool maintains a steady aspect, but sales are not numerous. THE DUKE or SUTHERLAND MULCTED IN 20001. We understand that an action of damages, for defama tion, was recently raised in the Court of Session by the Rev. Mr Mackeliar, of the Established Church of Clyne , against his Grace the Duke of Sutherland, the damages claimed being 20001. and that a decree for that sum has been obtained, his grace having failed to enter appear mice. The ground of action is said to be founded on a letter written by one of the duke's agents containing defamatory statements regarding Mr. Mackellar.— Northern Ensign. 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CASINO DE VENISE.—This Establishment will be kept open an hour or two later than usual on THURSDAY NEXT, 31st Dec„ to WELCOME IN THE NEW YEAR. THE GLASGOW BANKRUPTCIES. (Front the North British Daily Mail.) The two cases of bankruptcy which have given Glasgow an unenviable notoriety at this period, which may be said to have sealed the fate of the Western Bank, and which have had an influence both on public and private interests far beyond what could ahnost have been believed to lie within the range of such causes, have ran their course of investigation before the sheriff, and we are not likely to hear much more of the firms of D. and J. Macdonald and John Monteith and Co. The aspect of these concerns has somewhat changed since they first began to be a subject of rumour. That of the Macdonalds does not appear nearly so good in the examination of the bankrupts, nor that of Bohn Monteith and Co. quite so bad as was predicated. The publication of the bankruptcy examinations, therefore, will be found in a rather signal manner inithese cases to give every man his due, and to prevent what is bad from appearing either better or worse than it ought to do. The history of the firm of D. and J. Macdonald and Co., as disclosed in court, is as melancholy a chapter as could well be gleaned from the annals of private enterprise and speculation. The firm is so imiaaaating and honourable in its oriein, and so reckless and revolting in its fall, that one can only t trace its progress with the most mingled feelings, while every step in its upward and downward career is fraught with instruction and warning. The father of these young men had made money in the sewed muslin trade, in Paisley. In 1834 he retired, transferring to his two eldest sons the good will and a balance to their credit of 1,7001. In four years this sum had been ne ,rly doubled by the profits of the business. Two other brothers were then assumed as partners, the father putting 1,000/. into the firm for them, and each of tho four brothers being allotted a share in proportion to their interest. Industry, frugality, and a determination to save and gain by honourable means were then the cha racteristics of the firm, which consequently pros pered and rose gradually to moderate wealth and distinction. In 1841 one of the brothers died, and on a balance it was found that there was 6,1391. to the credit of the firm over and above capital, or what had been left or given to it as such by the father. Up to this time the partners had restricted them selves to moderate saleries, and drew nothing from the profits. But in two or three years more a change came over the spirit of their dream. The ambition of extending their business, and of seizing the lead ing position in the trade, began to urge them into hazardous courses. In 1845 they bad recourse to 8,000/. of accommodation bills. These were chiefly concocted, however, through their father and one or two agents who had the goods of the firm con stantly passing through their hands. About the same period, or shortly after, and while their accom modation paper was increasing, they entered into larger premises, the annual rental of which was 1,3001. Their business wasalready too large for their capital ; yet they strove eagerly to enlarge it ; and, in doiug so, encountered rental, taxes, and expenses which would have been most formidable even with the possession of the requisite funds for carrying on , such extensive operations. This was the first step to ruin. Still the firm went on, making profi's apparently exceeding losses and charges, one brother going out and a new one coming in, till in , 1851, on the death of James , there was found to ' be a balance at credit of 28,0001., and the firm be came bound to pay 11,0001. to the executors of the deceased partner. In 1852 and 1853 trade was prosperous. TO balance of the latter year showed 40,0001. to the credit of the firm, and with this shoal of profit came a new dream of ambition. The money market was easy. The bullion dealers had filled the vaults of the Bank of England with gold, and that establishment was overflowing with paper notes. Credit, loans, and accommodation were very cheap iu terms and unlimited iu amount. The Macdonalds in this state of affairs entered into extensive building operations, which cost before they were completed no less than 90,0001.. being 20,0001. more, of course, than was estimated. This most unwise speculation, considering that the ordi nary business of the firm was carried on by accom modation bills, now swelled to 80,0001., bad scarcely been sot afoot when bad debts were made to the amount of 23,0001. The builders were paid by bills at long dates, the rates of interest being as low as 21 to 3 per cent. In 1855-56, when these bills had to be paid off, the accommodation paper of the firm jumped at one leap from 85,0001. to 188,0001., the interest being now from 5 to 7 per cent. Entrance into extensive premises led of course to new efforts to increase a business that had many years been much too 1 rge, and consequently to increased business expenses, which, together with the enormous sums paid for discounts amount ing in one year to 40,0001.), swallowed up not only profits, Lut capital, stock, credit—all. At this stage a tendency to gamble in paintings was de veloped in the leading partner of the firm. At the balance of 1856 the sums to credit which had hitherto appeared had totally vanished. The course of ruin was run, and everything was pre pared for the moral fall which took place in the spring of this year, when the extraordinary, fatal, and disgraceful expedient of hiring worthless parties in London to sign bills at a commission of 1 and 11 per cent. was adopted and carried out till the accommodation paper of the firm rose in a few months to the verge of 400,0001. Did any history ever exhibit more strikingly the importance of avoiding the beginning of evil 1 What a lurid glare does that 400,0001. of wind-bills, all but forged, and the final catastrophe in which they ex ploded, throw back over the 8,0001. of accc e im x :a e . c - i tion in 1845, and all the various errors and follies of the intervening years The case of John Monteith and Co., as by the bankrupt himself, is that of a firm over whelmed by losses, accommodations to othersndby the ensnearing entreaties of a ba n k manager to aid in propping up various concerns that were rotten to the core. 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