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The only except:gni tb - tiis rtilro are estsblishedin favour of procfedlirgs before court of judicature and speeches in Parliament—the very arenas where the more atrocious libels,obtain the widest publicity. • -- The singular distinction thus establialled by law between printed and spoken libels, and between libellous statements Pronial,rate,-1 iTINKe si- I ",_. ter Hall or th e two Houses of - ParliartienT act" otuez public meetings, is thus supported bY tord Camp bell : . Q ALO ON OMNIBUS COMPANY.— S To the SHAREHOLDERS of the SALOON OMNIBUS COMPANY : OENTLEMEN,—When I was solicited to become a director of your Company, I was offered as an inducement one hundred shares, as a qualification : however, at the first meeting I paid down 2.5/., my qualification on one hundred shares. On reference to the cash-book I there found the expenses for printing and parading the omnibus in diff,rent parts of Lon don (before I joined the board) very great. This it was my duty to protest against and stop, and I did so. At one of the last meetings of the board, a communication was re ceived, and negotiations were opened between the Chairman of the General Omnibus Company and a deputation of our Company, expressing the willingness of the General Omnibus Company to run the Saloon Omnibuses, and pay the sum of 1,3001. to this Company for the shareholders, whose deposits already paid amount to 800/. This sum offered by the General Omnibus Company would have been sufficient to repay the deposits to the shareholders, and with the advances made by this Company to the builder of the omnibuses would have cleared it from debt. The directors,however, thought them selves justified in declining this offer. Conceiving it, there fore, impossible satisfactorily to carry on the business of the Company, from the want of confidence shown by the public (partly through the paper war that existed between the two companies) in not taking up its shares, and coupling that with the trifling balance of c►sh at the bankers, the wishes of certain parties to issue the shares of the Company, and to borrow further capital by adding another solicitor to the staff—all of which I consider would be acts of injustice to the shareholders—l beg leave to tender my resignation of the seat I hold at the board into your hands, and think it my duty, as a publi?, man, to make you thus briefly acquainted with the real state of the affairs —I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, E. T. SMITH. Strewan-house, Chelsea. LONDON - , WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRU Ait Y 18, iti:a7, (N o , 20,177) [PRICE 4D. Sait;xl3rii ANOTHER MEETING OF "UIVEMPLOYED" AT ,SMITHFIELD. - THE LAW OF LIBEL. I :ta ONT BL ANC is CLOSED for the present. PUBLICATIONS. Foot, to be Captain, vice Sir David Baird, Bart., who exchanges. 79th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Gore Currie to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Brevet -Major H. W. Campbell, ro B nl d th F e w S t who reti res ; E ns i gn H er b er t B. Adcock to be Lieutenant, by purchas e , v i ce C urr i e . alth Foot—V a l en ti ne O'Connor, Gent., to be Ensign, ler Milton, f by purchas e , v i ce G ra tt an , promoted in the 2 d Foot. , M v " ice Poulden, appointed to th e St a ff . — ta A ff, ssi t s o tan be t-SAursgsiesotnantN.Vsiullrigaeona n 95th Foot—Lieut. Jobn Telcher has been permitted to resign bis commission ; Chas. Thos. Coote, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, lice Nicholas , p romoted. 98th Foot—Captain Frederick Rhodes, from the 27th Foot; to be Captain, vice Croker, who exohanges ; Capt. Sir David Baird, Bart f r om the 74th Foot , to be Cap t sin, vice Venables, who exchanges. DEPOT BATTALION.—Brevet-Lieut.-Col. Sir J. E. Alex ander from th e 14th Foot, to be Major, vice Holwor-thV, whoexchanges; th e C om mission of Quartermaster Wm. Drage, as a Quartermaster to be dated the 21 st Feb ., 1855 . UNATTACHED. --313jur C. J. Foster, from the 3 d Lig ht Dragoons, to b e Li eutenan t-Colonel, by purchase ; Capt. and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Lowndes, 47th Foot, to have the Substantive Rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854; Brevet-Major George E ward Brown-Westhead, of the 34th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1-351. HOSPITAL STAFF.— Assistant -Surgeon Frederick George Poulden, from the 82d Foot, to be Assiseaut-Surgeon, vice Milton, appointed to the .82d Foot. BREVET. The undermentioned officers of the East India Com pany's Service, retired on full-pay, to have a step of Hono rary Rank as follows : Colonel W. Brett, Bombay Artillery, to be Major- General. Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Boulderson, Madras Infantry, to bo Colonel. "The question was whether accounts of public meetings might be published, in which there might be mater which calu mn i ated individuals. Now, he had no hesitation in saying that as the law then stood there was no such right. It had been deter mined over and over again that it was no justifica tion for the publication of a libel that it had been spoken by another person. As to the report of the proceedings in Parliament, he was most zealously disposed to hold them to be no libel—but Vie case was different in public meetings, and to allow everything there said to be published 'without re medy would be monstrous. The speech did but small injury, but when it was pubtiihed it was carried all over the world. He would not say tt)at there might not be some cases where the publication of public meetings might not be exempted from libel under certain limitations and restrictions, but it was monstrous to suppose that th6se were to make the law who were appointed to interpret it, and he hoped that such a precedentwould never be established." 111iss P. HORTON'S POPULXR ILLUS TRATIONS.—Mr. and Ails. GEn NN REED will give their E,tertainment at the Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent street, with an entirely Nevr Part, "Our Ward's Gov.raess,'t and " Ihe 13nrol'ed Musician," Every Even'ng (except Saturday), at Eight, intrc diming English, French, and Italian Songs. MORNIG PER FORMANCE on Saturday at Three. Admission, 28 19.; Stalls, 35., may be secured at the Gallery, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201, Regent-street. MR. MUSGRAVE'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., with illustrations, 21s , API LGRIMAGE INTO DAUPHINE; with a Visit to the Monastery of the Grand Chartreuse. By the Rev. G. NI. MUSGRAVE, A.M., Oxon. Mint and Blackett, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. (From the times.) We wish to;set - ourselves right with Lord. Camp bell as •to -the- decision or the Court of Queen's Bench in thb case of " Davison v. Duncan." His Lordship gays— "lt would have been a most monstrous usurpation if we h a d decided that the publication before us was not liable to an action ; for if it ha-1 been dAermined over and over again by our predecessors by whoso decisions we are bound that if there.be anything slanderous in a writing it is n o justification to .pload tha the slanderous matter h a s b een written or spoken by another person." Now, we submit to Len Campbell that the "monstrous u surpation,". if any such there be, con sisted in . first enouncin„o• - this proposition. Let us look fora moinent at the history of this portion of our libel law:- In the twAftlt- part of Lord Coke's rap we find the celebrated case of the Eirl of Northamp ton. It was decided so long ago as 1612, and the re solution waS inAde, after solemn argument, by 11. of the 12 judges o f England. The resolution was in these words : " In a private action for a slander of a common person. if J. S. publish that he hath heard J. N. say that J. G. was a traitor or thief, in an action on the case he may justify. Just published, in fivo. with a Map and 8 Coloured Illustration , , price 12s. 6d., cloth, BERMUDA, a COLONY, a FORTRESS, and a PRISON; or, Eighteen Months in the Somers Island!. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and v irious Novelties, Local and Cha racteristic, every evening (except Saturday) at Elea. A NIOR - [N(3 PE RFOR II ANC F. every SA. LIMB AY, at Three. Private Boxes Ind Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. • • By - a FIELD OFFICER. " Bermuda, as a prison, is very important."— Daily News. 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TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SUNDAY TIMES." " Conveys a large amount of information in a pleasing form."— United Service Magazine. " This very interesting volume."—lTnited Service Gazette. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Lon&mans, and Roberts. Here, as we have said, we join issue with the noble and learned lord. We cannot believe that calumnies conveyed in speech are less injurious than when embodied in print, or that it is " mon strous" to exonerate the journalist from responsibi lity when reproducing a speech containing libels for which the speaker himself cannot be made le gally answerable. But the dictum is'finfoded alto gether upon a bygone and obsolete condition of things. It would possibly have been just and right fifty pars since—when the press, paradoxical as it may sound, exerci:ei at once kre +ter-and less influ ence th In it does at pre&nt•---w:OlLit,Was potent to assail and desteoz,„ t,. , t.tiLtlial.Attotit., but far less powerful in its eiray over pa htio•opintoe, or as t.hs guide and censor of public men. At that time it might have bean fc,und just and expedient to fetter the licence of the journalist, and to establish a broad legal distinction between the penalties incur red for the promulgafon of a " libe," iti m-re speech, or by the more permanent and potent ages cies of print. But that time has long since passed away. In lending the sanction of hie authority to the continuance of so antiquated a system, Lord Campbell has shown how difficult it is for a lawyer to escape from the thraldom of precedent. Law, says Bacon, is the perfection of justice. A century ago certain laws might deserve that eulogy. Those laws remain, although circumstances have so changed that what was just in 1757 has become fla grantly unjust and ridiculously inexpedient in 1857. Yet law is law—in the judgment of a law yer. At all events, if we would seek some more rational conclusion, we must not expect to extract it from the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIMENT'S CASINO, Great Windmi'l-street, St. James's.— The above elegant Rooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Co net-a•piston, N. Boulcoart. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that th•s fashionable Waco of resort ha= been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-Fast eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One b hiPing. Just published, New and Improved Edition, price One Shilling, THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTIONs being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By FRANCIS 11. 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Illus trated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of Twenty Years' extensive and successful Practice, and which embrace every variety of Urethral Contraction, together with appropriate Means of Cure. Sia,—l observe in your first edition a letter from Mr. Smith, notifying his resignation of his seat in the direction of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company. As on the same ground I also have found it necessary to withdraw my name from the direction of which I was Chairman, I should feel obliged by your giving place in your columns for the follow ing explanation of my reasons for so doing : At the commencement of the undertaking I was solicited by the promoters to take the chair and chief direction of the Company's affairs, and believing from my long experience in omnibus conveyance, that I could be of material assistance to the Company and service to the public by joining the under taking, I did so, and have from that time exerted myself as much as possible to bring into use the Saloon Omnibus, which, I believe, possesses qualifications which would be appreciated. - I have fotuid, hoprevcr, that insuperable difficulties have arisen, the shares have not been taken up, an expensive paper warfare has been entered into, and that, after several months 'spent in endeavours to raise the capital necessary for the un dertaking, the funds are exhausted, and the public confidence apparently lost. At this juncture I opened a communication with the Lon don General Omni bus Company, in the hope that they being an established Company, and manifesting a willingness to give the public the advantage of an improved conveyance, would give trial to our Saloon Omnibus. I was met by them in a fair spirit, and a deputation from the two boards met with a view to an arrangement of the kind, which resulted in an offer of the London General Omnibus Company to pur chase the interest of our Company for about 1,3001., whereby our shareholders might be reimbursed, and the omnibus worked fer the public benefit, and a ruinous competition with a powerful organised Company prevented ; others of the directors of the Saloon Company have, however, chosen to bring in another solicitor to their Company, who, pro posing to raise more capital, will, I fear, involve the Com pany in further difficulties. Under these circumstances, feeling that the public requirements would be fully served by the London General Omnibus Company working the Saloon Omnibus, and that the interests of our shareholders would be best served by the offer of the London General Omnibus Com pany being acceded to, I have felt bound to retire from the Board, with whose proceedings I can no longer concur, and to take this course of making known to the shareholders, to whom I am accountable, my reasons for doing so. I am your obedient servant, City-road, Feb. 14, 1847. G. SHILLIBEER. THE LONDON, HARWICH, and CONTI NENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. (Limited). Capital 100,00/, in 10,000 Shares •f 101. each, with power to increase. 21. per share payable on allotment. licorporated under tho Act 19 and 23 Vic., chap. 47, by which the liability of the Proprietors is limited to the amount of their shares. TitIISTEES. Ralph Walters, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. Colonel William Petrie Waugh, Director of the London and Eastern Banking Company. David Waddington, Esq., M.P., 4, Spring-gardens. John Bagshaw, Esq., M.P., Director of the Eastern Counties Railway. AN ACT OF GRATITIME.-5,000 Copies of a Medical Boek for Gratuitous Circulation.—Mr. G. TIIO NtAS having been effectually cured of a rervous d:hility, loss of memory, and dimness of sight, resulting from the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given in a ➢iedtcal Work by a Phi sician, he considers it his duty, in gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous sufferers, to pubP.A the means used. He will therefore send free, to any allress, In a sealed enye'ope, on receipt of a direct ed envelope enclosing two stamps, to pre-pay posta,e, a copy of the medical work containing every information required. Address, Mr. G. Thomas, St.Jehn's-lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIRECTORS. Colonel William Petrie Waugh, Branksea Castle, Dorset, Di rector of the London and Eastern Banking Company. Robert L. Leckie, Esq. (late of Bombay), George-street, Port- man-square. William Shaw, Esq., 1, Kensington-park-terrace. Gregor Grant, Esq., late Chairman of the Oriental Bank, Bombay), 4, Great Russell-street. F. C. Zillesen, Esq., Vice-President of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company, Amsterdam. Sir Henry Durrant, Bart., Scottow Hall, Norfolk. Henry Ward, Esq., H.E.1.C.5., K 1, Albany. John Edward Panter, Esq., Director of the St. George's In surance Company, Pall-mall and Fulham. Andrew Walls, Esq., Lloyd's, and 11, Leadenhall.street. Captain Raymond, Albion-square, Dalston, Managing Direc tor of the Steam Vessels. (With power to increase.) BANKRRS. 'rho Landon and Eastern Banking Corporation, 27, Cannon. street, City. Misers. Cox. Cobbold, Rodwell, and Co., Bankers, Harwich, Essex. RgOIXIMIS II( ClVET—Messis. Newton and Fuller, 16, King William-street, City. SIIAREBII.OKERS. London—Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell,l, Threadneedle-street Liverpool—Messrs. H.Davies and Son, 2,Royal Bank-buildings SIIIPPING Aawrs—Messrs. William Felgate and Co 4 Cle- ment's-lane, City; Mr. R. Twiss, H. Son, Rotterdaiil. STANDING COUNSEL—AIfred Hill, Esq., 44, Chas:Try-lane. Soucrroas.—Messrs. Rymer, Murray, Rymer, and Jackson, Hanover-street, Hanover-square, and 59, Chancery-lane. AUDl:oM—Messrs• Broom, Bagshaw, and Westcott, 35, Coleman-street, City. SECEETAIIT.—Hume Greenfield, Esq. Offices of the Company-44, Moorgate-street, City, E.C. This Company is established with a view to afford the pub lic increased facilities in the conveyance of mails, passengers, specie, and merchandise between England, via Harwich, and the ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, &e. A traffic arrangement for a term of years has been entered into with the Eastern Counties Railway Company on advan tageous terms, and the Directors have secured the co-opera tion of the authorities of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Com pany, and the other inland navigation and railway establish ments in Holland and Germany, all of whom are so convinced of the advantages to be derived from this line of communica tion, as the most desirable for passenger traffic, and the speedy conveyance of merchandise and perishable goods, that they are anxious to promote the views of this Company to the fullest possible extent. The town of Harwich is 68 miles from London by railway, and its port is the most convenient for direct communication between London and all the great seaports in Holland and Belgium, and thence to the northern and central parts of the tentinent of Europe. Passengers proceeding to India via Trieste, by Harwich, Rotterdam, and the Dutch-Rhenish Railway, will effect a saving of 48 hours, as compared with the route via Marseilles; the line from Rotterdam to Trieste being on the eve of com. pletion without a break. The harbour of Harwich is safe, commodious, and easy of access in all weathers and states of the tide—advantages which no other port possesses on the eastern coast south of the Humber. By the opening of this route via *Harwich the dangers and delays of the intricate navigation of the Swin and the mouth of the River Thames are avoided, whereby a saving of time Is effected to Hamburgh, Rotterdam, and Antwerp of from 10 to 11 hours ; whilst the route to Oberhausen and thence to the northern part s o f E urope is four hours and a. quarter less by Harwich and Rotterdam than that b Dover and Ostend, as per tabular stat ement, and thus the fo y rmer must become the direct route of postal communication. TINE PER SOUTH-EASTERN TIME PER EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. RAILWAY, London to Dover —.21 „ hours Harwich to Harwich-2i hours Dover to Ostend ~,, to Rotter- Ostend to Oberhausen dam ......... .. .......9 ? (264 miles) ...104 „ Rotterdrai o be " hausen (124 miles)4 „ 20 hours Saving in favour of Harw i FA] 1 .—...... ich 41 hours. ES. PER SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL- I PER EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL. WAY. WAY, London, Dover, Ostend, - to I London, Harwich ,Rotterdam, Cologne. to Cologne. Ist Class, Rail and I Ist Class, Rail and Steam ............ 23 10 6 Steam ....... X2 10 3 2d ditto ditt0...... 29 8 I 2d ditto ditto ll2 5 Saving in favour of Harwich. ISt Class, Rail and £1 0 2d ditto ditto "••'0 17 3 i t n l the Minister views A deputation has been raitte M a of this Company to the P i n Holland, Postmaster-General , st ma s ter- GI and en esr a a b l, the Finance, and the Minister of th e Interior, who have promised their cordial co-operation in support It is intended, in the first instance , of the undertaking. to confine the opera tions of this Company to the direct communication from London, via Harwich, to Rotterdam. This Company will have swift and commodious packets, and its ma nagement w ill b e ca rried out with the utmo st care, sc, as to secure expedition, safety, and comfort, and the cdi rectors s u b mit that the traffic cannot fail to realise a hand some dividend to the shareholders. The capital will be divided into 10,000 Five shil on which 2/, per share is to be paid on allotment. Company, shares of 101. each, lingn per share is to be paid to the bankers of the and their receipt mustthe letter of If less than the number accompany sh lied for be allott-d, a proportionate application part of the d a po res it aP w P ill be immediately re turned. No call will exceed 2/ per er share, and will not be at a less interval than three months.' Forms of application for shares may be obtained at the brokers and offices of the Company,44, Moorgate-street, City, Loudon, RC. ; and at theoffices of Oliver John Wil- Hams, Esq., agent to Lloyd's lands, Harwich, Essex. , and Vice Consul of the Nether. Application for shares and prospectusesn to be made to the Secretary, who will give informatio All letters addressed " Secretary', will attention. _ receive immediate FORM OF APPLICATION FOR, S A To the Directors of the London, llarienhrand Continents. Steam Packet Company (Limited), 41c4, Moorgato-street, City, E.C. Gentlemen,—T enclose you a receipt for t the London and Eastern Banking Corporation, and I p h a e i l d •eb t y () shares in the London request you will allot me Harwich, and Continental Steam Packet Company (Limited)'• an d I hereby agree to, accept such shares or any fon a ll4 pay number that may be allotted to me, and to thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds of the I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in ..... Address in ................... . .................... .. .... • ... Occupation .............................. ...... Date .......................................... BANKERS' RECEIPT. Reeeiied the day 1857, the sum of on account of the London, Harwich, and Continental Steam Packet Company (Limited), London. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE Patent p ba nn o Office e ii n t d al e ,,, Pari o :: OF MEDICIN p t ine of Great Britain. 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It also c onstitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, a nd Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course an corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration throu;h the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never -failing remedy for that class of disorders width unfortunately ariaparilla In the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable cUstrue ilasn,do'rvbfindu'rficl t i s t e i ,,l; . one for 335„ itl,ioenwoofritih ecapnantoietnrte'ss zt!titiu,rtilcoen which saves 1 Is., and in Si. cases, whereby there is -. saving of 1/. 12s. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and Gordon. 140, Leadenhall-street; Prout, 229, Strand; Ilannay and Co., 03, Ox ford-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Barel, , y and Son, 97, Far ring(ion.street ; Butler and Harding, 4, Clii.ap;;lde ; Edwards, St. Paul's Churchyard. HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular Medical work, price Is., post free, beautifully illastrated with 100 engravings, and containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ilicord, &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by impediments from entering into the married tate, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrlicea, syphilis, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatoza, by the aut hor's newly-constructed microscope, with powerful lenses.—Piper and C o., 23, phternater fUul . from all agents for thisale Of" Trie/eXiare7 By F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. "We believe 3lr. Courtenay's experience in the treatment of stricture to have equalled, if it has not exceeded, that of any of his contemporaries ; whilst we most certainly know of no man to whose care we would s,oner intrust the treatment of a severe case of stric ture."—Aledical Circular. L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN • AND MIDLAND RAILWAYS. NOTTINGHAM RACES, the 24th and 25th of February. First and second Class ordinary DAT TICKET 4 will be issued at the Etptoo Station, to NOTTINGHAM, by all Trains, an MONDAY, TUESDAY, at.d WEDNESDAY, the 23d, 24th, and 25th of Febru ary, available to return by all trains on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday, the 23d, 24th, 251 h, and 26th of February. The 6.15 a.m train from Euston arrives at Nottingham at 10.25 a.m., and the 9.15 a.m. at 1 p,m. - - By Order. General Manager's OMce, Euston Station, Fab. 16,1557. PURSUANT to an Order of the Highs Court of Chancery, made in a cause, "Martin against Martin," the creditors of GEORGE POITUN MAKTIN, late of East Bridgford, in the county of Nottingham, and of Deptford, in the county of Kent, Esquire, a Captain in the Royal Navy, who died in or about the month of October, 1854, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 26th day of March, 1857, to come in and prove their debts at the cham bers of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Richard Torin Kin lersley, No. 3, Stone•buildings, Lincoln's•inn, 14Lddlesex, or in default thereof they wit be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said order: Monday, the 30th day of March, 1857, at 2 o'clock in the after noon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 14th day of February, 1857. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. FISHER, AND LUCAS, 50, Fenehureh-Street, Plaintiff's Solicitors. From the London Gazette of Last Night. BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, FEB. 14. This day bad audience of her Majesty—The Count de Lavradio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary from his most faithful Majesty, to take leave on going abroad on temporary absence; Gen. Almonte, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Mexican Republic, to deliver his credentials; and the Count de Vitzthum d'Eckstadt, Minister Resident from the King of Saxony, to deliver new credentials as Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Saxon Majesty ; To which audiences they were resr ctively introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 16. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Scheult as Vice-Consul, in the Island of Trinidad, for his Majesty the Emperor of the French. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 16. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Jemmett, Henry James Ross, John Brown, Alexander Bain, Wil• liam M`Ewen, Hugh Henwood, James Nibbs, David Jas. Davison, David William Gibbs, and John M‘Donell, Esqs., to be Members of the Executive Council of the Island of Grenada; and Hugh Henwood, Alexander Bain, and Chas. Alexander, Esqs., to be Members of the Legislative Coun cil of that bland. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint J. Brum mell, Esq., to be Registrar-General of Population and Property for the Colony of British Guiana ; and J. T. Vaughan, G. Tighe, C. A. Fleming, R. S. Turton, M. S. Johnston, and W. J. Jeffrey, Esqs., to be District Regis trars of Population and Property for that Colony, CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 17. MENDERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT.' County of Bute—The Right Honourable James Stuart Wortley, her Majesty's Solicitor General. Borough of Downpatrick—Richard Ker, Esq., in the room of the Honourable Charles Stewart Hardinge, now Viscount Hardinge, summoned to the House of Peers. City of Hereford—George Clive, of Cavendish-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of Sir Robert Price, Bart., who has accepted the office of Ste ward or Bailiff of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead, in the county of York. TREASURY CHAMBERS, FEB. 3. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, in pursuance of the power vested in them by the act of the 17th and 18th years of her Majesty's reign, entitled " An Act to facilitate the Sale and Trarofsr of Encumbered Estates in the West Indies," have appointed the Honour able Edmund Phipps to be Chief Commissioner, and Sir Frederic Rogers, Bart., to be Assistan% Commissioner, for the sale-of encumbered estates in the West In lies. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 17. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Lieutenant-General Tho mas Dyneley, 0.13., to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Walker, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEE. 17. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—William Edward Marsland, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Mitchell, promoted. 2d Dragoon Guards—Veterinary-Surgeon Tom Parinder Gudgin, from the 2d Dragoons, to be Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Opie Smith, who exchanges. 7th Dragoon Guards—H. H. Chilton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lawrence, who retires. 2d Dragoons—Veterinary-Surgeon 0. Smith, from the 2d Dragoon Guards, to be Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Gud- gin, wlio exchanges. d Light Dragoons—Captain the Hoa. 11. M. Momkton to be Major, by purchase, vice Foster, promoted by pur chase to an unattached Lieutenant•Culonelcy ; Lieut. E. H. Vyse to be Captain, by purchase, vice Monckton. 10th Light Dragoons—John Gore, Gentleman, to be Cornet, by purchase, in succession to Lieut. Cuthbert, pro moted by purchase to an unattached Company. Royal Artillery—Lieut. Allan May has been permitted to resign his Commission; Veterinary-Surgeon James Brennan has been permitted to resign his Commission. Royal Engineers— Brevet-Major C. B. P. N. H. Nugent to be Adjutant, vice Somerset, promoted. Bth Regiment of Foot —Ensign William Edward Whe lan, from the 12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Moorhead, who exchanges. 12th Foot—Ensi g n Robert Bradshaw Moorhead , f rom the Bth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Whelan, who exchanges. 11th Foot—Major Edward J. Holdworthy, from Depot Battalion, to be Major. vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J. E. Alexander, who exchanges ; Ensign G. J, N. BeamMt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retiree. 27th Foot—Captain William Croker, from the 98th Foot to be Captain, vice Rhodes, who exchanges. 33d Foot—Lieutenant George Birchall Graham to be Adjutant, vice Ensign Toseland, who resigns the Adju tancy only. 34th Foot—Captain Arthur Trevor Leaks Chapman, from half-pay 34th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major G. E. Brown-Westhcad, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal War rant of 6th October, 1851. 47th Foot—Captain Jasper Lucas, from half-pay 47th General w F o oot le , i t s o u.ii b a e tta C ch aptain, vice Brevet-Lieutenant - Colon el promoteded to the th S e u ß bs o t y a a n i ti w ve ar ß ra a n n t k of 1851. o 6 f t h M O a r, 49th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edgar Gibson to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Lamb, who retires ; Captain George Kemp Chatfield, from half-pay 40th Foot, to ba Captain, vice Gibson, placed upon half-pay. riGth Foot--Eusign H. if. Taylor to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Godley, promoted. . filth Foot — Brevet - Lieutenant-Colon e l J. Draper to ba Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colo nel J. Stopford, killed in action ; Captain G. W. P. Bing ham to be Major, without purchase, vice Draper ; Lieut. R. C. M'Crea to be Captain, without purchase, vice P. Bingham ; Ensign H. Turner to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice ArCrea. , 73d Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Allen Aitchison to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bicknell, who retires; Ensign the Hon. C. R. Maxwell Ward to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, N ice Aitchison ; William Clarke, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Ward. 74th Foot--Captain CAVenai4 Yonabloo, from the 98th ADMIRALTY, FEB. 14. Rear-Admiral of the White Peter Richards, C. 8., hav ing, in pursuance of her Majesty's Order in Council of 30th Jan., 1856, been removed to a Reserved List, which is to consist of Flag Officers holding appointments in Green wich Hospital, the following promotions, dated this day, have taken place : Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Smith, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Robert'Fitzßey, Captain the Hon. Jobn Frede rick Fitzgerald de Ros, and Captain Charles Henry S win burne to be Rear-Admirals on th e R eserve d Li s t. Captain John Nias, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. The following Captains on the Retired List have also been promoted to be Retired Rear -Admirals on the terms proposed in the London Ga :—Captaini Ab ra h am Mill s H aw ki ns, J o h n y d ward Augustus F ran kl an d . ctte of S e pt. 1,184 G, with ou t NS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT , Ip o E° : Cornwall—Sir M enry O ns l ow , B ar t. , an d c•D in r c ca r mko ea ume s ,n e itasy o ns f l Edward Coode, jun., Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants. Ist Rifles Regiment — Lieutenant-Colonel Coiyton to be Lieutenant-Colouel Commandant, vice Colonel the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, resigned; Ensign Thomas Goodricke Wilson, to be Lieutenant, vice Fortoscue, deceased ; Eliott Bushby, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Wilson, promoted. County of Dorset—Anthony Lord Ashley to be Deputy Lieutenant. Warwickshire Militia-Ist Regiment—Ensign George Stawell Webb Ware to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant John P. Wilson, resigned. Worcester Regiment of Militia—Captain Edward Win nington to be Major, vice Webb, promoted. Ist or South Durham Regiment of Militia—Captain William Maude to be Major, vice Grey, deceased ; Lieute nant George Henry Longridge Hawks to be Captain, vice Maude, promoted ; Ensign Compton Legge to be Lieute nant, vice Hawks, promoted. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia — Ensign Riversdale Elliot to be Lieutenant, vice Horne, resigned ; William Croft, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Elliot, promoted. NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Feb. 16.. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri bution of proceeds arising from the Russian barque Clio, the Russian vessel Alku, and the Russian brig Eros, cap tured on the 25th May, 1855, by her Majesty's ships Swal low and Wrangler, will commence on Thurday, the sth March, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset house." Any officer, seaman , marine, or other person, who may &Unite to receive his share from the Collector of Customs or Inland .Revenue within the United Kingdom, is rognired to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On Prise Bud. ness, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in which letter his own place of residence is to be precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector of Customs or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be convenient to receive such share of prize money. Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtee of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of any captor, serving in the above•named ships, are re• quested to present the same at this office. Thu following are the shares due to an individual in each class : CLIO. Flag share £l6o 10 2 Sixth class Commander 228 14 6 Seventh class ... 16 19 8 Lieut. command 152 9 8 Eighth class 8 9 9 Third class Fourth class 5O 18 9 Tenth class Fifth class 2B 6 1 Flag share £l2l 13 6 Commander 173 7 8 Lieut. command ll5 11 10 Third class Fourth class 3B 12 3 Fifth class 2l 9 0 Flag share Commander IOG 17 1 Lieut. command 7l 4 8 Third class Fourth class 23 15 10 Fifth class :u. Sixth class £l9 6 1 Seventh class l2 17 4 Eighth class 6 8 9 Ninth class Tenth class ;OS. Sixth class I Sevonth class Eighth class Ninth class I Tenth class BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Epifanio Thalmso, merchant, 11, Bury-court, St. Mary. axe, City. William Thomas Gravenor, hatter and milliner, Bir- mingham. BANKRUPTS. Peter George Foscolo, corn merchant and commission agent, 3, Dumiter-c our t, Mi n cing-lane, City, to surrender, Feb. 26, at eleven, an d April 2, at twelve, ar the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, 3, Coleman-btraet buildings ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer; Old Jewry chambers. Richard Fernell, commission agent, Alder manbury, City, p l official 3, a a assignee, g twelve, neet A Feb. 21, at eleven, M arc h 26 , a t t wo , at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official ass i g nee, Coleman-street-buildings; Yenning and N a yl or, T okenhouso-yar d . Thomas Butt, i ronmonger, Littlehampton, Sussex, Feb. 26 an a n n a d n A , 1 d a e t rnathaenh Court ;i r of L B n a k n ia k te ru r pt and Canaan, Hackwood, Sise-lane. George Ingersent, builder, The Mall, Notting-hill, Feb. 27, at half-past one, and April 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Lindus, Gray's-inn. John Smitb, corn dealer, Staplehurat, Kent, Feb. 21, at one, and April 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lawrence, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Henry Canipin, warehouseman, Watling-street, City, Feb. 27, at half-past two, and April 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Cheapsid'. Alfred Blackmer°, hosier, High-street, Shoreditch; March 4, at twelve , and April 6, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street Linklater and llackwocl, Sise-lane, City. James Watts, innholder, Norton Saint Philips, Sower setshire, Feb. 2 i and March 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acranian, official assignee, Bristol; Frome Selwood, Somersetahiro. William Attewell Wane, grocer, Highworth, Wilts, March 2 and 31, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Browne, Swindon; Prideaux, Bristol. Frederick Martin, innkeeper, Brighton, March 3, at half twelve, and March 3i, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Stansfeli, official assignee; Grane, Son, and Feasenmeyer, Bedford-row. James Walker, bridle cutter and innkeeper, Walsall, Stafferdshire, Feb. 28, and March 21, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee,Birmingham ; Sheldon, Wednesbury ; Knight, Birming ham. Joseph Sankey, wheelwright, Salford, March 2 end 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Vickers and Diggles, Manchester. Thomas F. Raymond, ship broker, Liverpool, March 2, and April 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Booker, Liverpool. William Robinson, licensed victualler, Miltithorps, Westmoreland, Feb. 26, at eleven, and March2G, at twelve , at the Newcastle - upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, offi cial assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Wilson, Kendal ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Alexander Alcock Nevins, m erc h an t, Liverpool, Mar. 3 a nd April 6, at eleven, at th e Li verpoo l District Court, Cazenove' official assign ee , Li verpoo l ; E vans and Son, Liverpool. Thomas Barnett, butcher, Ironbridge, Salop, March 4 and 23, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Knight, Birmingham. Joseph Mascall, grocer, Wolverhampton, Feb. 28 and Marc). 21, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Kitson, Wolverhampton ; Knight, Birmiighain. SCOTCII SEQUESTRATIONS. James Carmichael, corn mer ch ant, Dun d ee ., Neil Al`Lean, spirit dealer, Clydebank, Govan, shire. James Greig, farmer, Fallside, Glenbervie, b.'incardinc- James Clubb, painter, Glasgow. Th oma s Russell forgan, f armer, M iddl c h o use, Carluke. James Cunningham, grocer, Kilwin n ing. Hugh Ai`Mahon, clothier, Blairgowrie. CRYSTAL PALACH.—ONN SHILLING DAY. TUESDAY, F EB , 17.—Adn3isaons on payment, 1,120; ditto, by behoon tickets, 283 ; total, 1,403, Yesterday the unfortunate men who are at . present suffering from want of employment were iii - duced to assemble in large numbers at their usual place of rendez vous by an invitation froth Mr. Ernest Jones,, who pro- Mised that if they would meet him there he would tell them " bow to obtain relief now, and how to become in dependent of it very soon." Mr. Jones accordingly ad dressed some 2,000 or 3,000 poisons, a great many of whom, however, evidently did not belong to the " unemployed," in his usual strain of invective against the present holders of property and depositaries of power. Ho declared that tho existing want of employment arose from permanent., and net from temporary causes. The welts were not frozen, but were dried up, and they must dig deeper if they wished agun to open the sources of labenr and of prosperity for the people. Ho ascribed the suspension . of the building trade to the national debt, which had hope. verisbed many and enriched a few. Capital was withdrawn from other trades and invested in building, because those who by, usury had suddenly become rich were not content to live at their warehouses in the city, but must have fine boxes and splendid villas in the suburbs. But that sys tem had run its course. New house& were no longer wanted, while many that were already built were untenanted, and hence non-employment in thet trade. 'Arm() numbers of men_being thus thrown out of work the labour b market became overstocked, and the natur , 1 consequence was a fall of wages, the masters in other trades paying off those who were out of work against those who were in work. Another cause why surplus labour now oppressed the people arose from the fact that the system of railways had run its tether. The great extension of railways called many thousands of persons into the iron trade, but their labour was now no longer required, and those who had been with drawn from agricultural pursuits to the fron.tieade could tot fall back upon' thilind, for that resourc that's closed against them. Again, the price of cottoubed been raised ; the United States and many countries on the continent of Europe bad become manufacturers of cotton goods, and the only means the English manufacturers had to meet this competition was to reduce wages. This being the state of things, the cry of the people was—" Where shall we go? What shall we do to live ?" He would tell them. They had not yet taken one step to better their condition. Emigra tion, workhouse relief, and a national subscription had been recommended to them ; but emigration was imprac ticable, workhouse relief was insulting and degrading, while a subscription was in its nature only temporary, and what they required was some permanent remedy for the evils they thingrecoinua t e o n a d d e, v l i t s o e them them bwye werethe enduring. ,A s "Association" o! i t Theion was the cultivation of the waste lands of England, and that , onl was a plan be himself suggested 10 years ag.). There were a which cl good ha d undertaken 30,000,000 acres of land in this country which had never felt the touch of plough or spade, 20,000,000 of which were good average land and capable of tillage. But how wore they to obtain possession of it ? They were advised to peti tion Parliament, but Parliament consisted of the very men who owned the land, and whose interest it was that no more acres should be brought info cultivation, for that would cheapen food, and cheap food would reduce rents, and the landowners needed high rents to pay the fixed charges on their property, nearly all of which was heavily burdened with mortgages and other charges. What, then, were they to do ? They must obtain a Parlia. merit of their own, and that could only Le achieved by uni versal suffrage. Let them rally, then, around him, and go for tho People's Charter. Ho would lead them. When they had once obtained Parliamentary power his plan would he to create out of the un e mployed I,ooo,oooinde pendent farmers by settling them on the waste land. These farmers, so crested, would require cottages and clothing, and thus would be absorbed the labour of all the brick layers, the masons, the carpenters, the shoemakers, the tailors, and other trades who were now raising the cry, " Where shall wo ' ? What shall we do to live]?" Agita tion had obtained for the middle classes a reduction of the income tax ; lot the working classes weld themselves together, and then Parliament would see what millions of stout hearts, led by honest and intelligent minds, could achieve. (Cheers.) Mr. Jones continued this mode of address for upwards of an hour, and in the course of it he on two or three occasions called fur a show of hands in confirmation of the doctrines he was endeavouring to in culcate. He declared his present object to be to warn the Government and the Parliament. If they conceded the waste lands to the working classes he would retire into private life, and all agitation should cease ; but if they disregarded the just claims of the suffering millions, then he would come forward and aid in the formation of a mighty political organisation, whose demands neither Parliament nor Government would be able to resist. At the close of his speech Mr. Jones hurriedly retired, and the people quietly dispersed, without having at any period during the address evinced any strong feeling of 'zeal or earnestness in favour of the arguments which had been placed before them. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PERRINS' WOROESTERSFIIRE J SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, nd all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, nd by its tonic and Invigorating properties enables the stomach to p •rtectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce Is the best safe. guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrino, 19, Fenchurch-street, Condon, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay ►nd Sons, Messrs, Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and Incr• pants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against hnitaitors, see that the names of " LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of tha bOtVe. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Recretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu ion bas been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per- Qons under treatment as i n or ou t-d oor pat i ents have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each pear. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor perioats, suffering under every `orm of this dreadful malady, have received the lymetlts of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informs. lion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue ;his t_reat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be mild to William Loxham Farrar, E q., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn-fields; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By order. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. T i OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone ; no re commendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benellts ~ f this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal Application:— Week ending 7th November 2,' Ditto 14th November 2,043 Ditto 21st November 1,972 Ditto 28th November...• 2,309 Sth and 30th November.. 269 Total in November ...... 8,747 of which 2,775 were new eases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients. Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting in January. A Board Is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when itny subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at +II times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, john Afasterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts ind Co. ; Drummond and Co.; 'Terries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; tones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospftel. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Clia!ixan. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, NEPVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION. AND DEBTLITT. DII BARRY ' S delicious HEALTH-RESTOR ING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and cures the above complaints and their consequences, such as hemorrhoidal affections, flatulency, disten sion, oddity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart, nervous headaches, hysteria, neuralgia, deafness, noises in the head and ears, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, erysipelas, erup tions of the skin, impurities and poverty of the blood, scrofula, dropsy, rheumatism, gout, nausea and sickness during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea; low spirits, spasms, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blushing, paralysis, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of me mory, delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melan choly, groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a Ood liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebra ted Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, .Ilar vey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Ingram, L.rd Stuart de Decks, the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 other well-known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means had been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery aban toned. Analysis by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S., fie., &c. " London, 24, Bloomsbury-square. " I hereby certify, that having examined Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica I find It to be a pure vegetable Farina, perfectly whole some, easily digestible, likely to promote a healthy action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges tion), COnStipation, and their nervous consequences. ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Analytical Chemist." Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London. Dec. 2,1817. The Consul-General has been ordered to inform Messrs. Barry, Du Barry and Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they had sent to his Majesty the Emperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded to the Minister of the Imperial Palace. Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters,' Ilb 2s 9d; 21b 4s 6d; slb Ile ; 121 b 225; super refined quality. Ilb 6s ; 21b lls ; 51b 29s ; 10Ib 33s The 101 n and 121 h canis ters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry an d C o., 77, Regent..treet. London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. p urveyors t o her Majesty. 182, Piccadilly ; also a t 60 cornt reeburch.street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 4 , Cheapside ; 68, I; 49, Bishcpsgate.strcet ; 55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper Baker -street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street. HEALTH OF LONT)ON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The deaths registered in London iu the week that ended on Saturday were 1,264, and exhibit a decrease on those of the preceding week, when they were 1,368. In the ten years 1547-56 the average number of deaths in weeks cor resp,nding with last week was 1,135. But as the deaths in the present return occurred in au increased population, it is necessary for comparison that the aver.mgo should be raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it will become 1,219. The rate of mortality last week was there fore very near the average rate in the second week of Feb. The decrease on the previous week, amounting to about 100 deaths, is referable in a principal degree to a diminished mortality from pulmonary diseases. Bronchitis carried off 221 persons in the previous week ; last week the number was 178; pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) was re duced from 96 to 90 ; phthisis, or consumption, from 184 to 172. On the other hand, whoopiogcough shows an in crease, 61 children having died of it in the previous week, and 70 last week. Measles presents more decided evidence of having been influenced by cold weather, for the deaths from this complaint, which had risen to 38, again declined to 20. The deaths from smallpox last week were only 3. The mortality from zymotio diseases in the aggregate was not high as compared with the corrected aver age of corre sponding'weeks, but it will be seen that whoopingc ough was much more fatal than any other disease in that class. Three children died of measles on the 2d and sth of Feb. in the workhouse, Norwood. The deaths of six persons (all women, and four of them widows) occurred at ages s anging from 90 to 97 years. The three greatest ages recorded are 94, 96, and 97. Four of these old women died in workhouses. Last week the births of 947 boys and 901 girls, in all 1,851 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor responiling weeks of the years 1817-55 the average number was 1,550. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29•'.37in. The highest reading in the week was 30'26 in., and occurred on Thurs day. The mean temperature of the week was 40'9 deg., which is about 9 or 10 deg. higher than that of the two previous weeks, and 2.4 deg. higher than the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Gla'sher). The highest temperature obtained in the week was 52'2 deg. on Wednesday. The lowest occurred on Friday, and was 31 . 0 dog. The range of the week was 21.2 deg. The mean dew-point temperature was 35'2 deg., and the difference between this and the mean temperature of the air was 51 deg. The wind blew on almost every day from the south west. The rain measured by the gauge was only nine hundredths of an inch. The horizontal movement of the air was 220 miles on Monday, only 15 on Saturiay. THE SARDINIAN LOAN.-1,985,0491. still remains to be discharged of the loan of 2,000,000/. to Sardinia. The sum received from the Sardinian Government blazed ) amounts to 14,950 i. odd. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NITMBER OF DEATHS FROM AIL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 14 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses l3B Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 65 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 6 6 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles .. 9 Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .. 4 Premature Birth and Debility 27 Atrophy 43 57 Old Age Mudden 1 Violence, Privation Cold, and Intemperance 24 Causes not specified ' • DUNES nom ALL CAUSES 1,264 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week in the 1851. 0(1856. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 S ou th Districts 61 6 ,635 ...... 264 - - 1 Totals Males F3males BIRTHS IN THE WEEK 606 658 Males Females 947 904 Total 1,851 CITY COMMISSION OF SElrva. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public I 1 busines 4 ; Mr. Deputy Peacock occupied the chair. Dr. LETYIEBY, the Medical Officer of Health, pre sented a report, from which the following is an ex:tract " Tho mortality returns for the week indicate a satis factory state of the public health, the number of eteaths having fallen from 70, the death rate of the prec ediog week, to 54 ; 25 of these arose from diseases of ti to re• spiratory organs. There were also Biz deaths from .fevtr and two from diarrhoea. The mortality from hopping. cough is greatly on the decline, and there were not ..any deaths from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, or alter epidemic disease." The Court, atter inflicting severe penalties on severe 1 of the contractors foi cleansing' the streets, fo r neglect 0 . duty, adjourned. _ " But if J. S. publish that he bath heard generally, without a certain author, that J. G. was a traitor or thief then an action on the case lieth against J. S. for this, that he hath not given to the party grieved any cause of action against any but against himself who published the words ; for if any one who hath imam phantasia,-n,' or who is a drunlcard, or of no estimation, speak scandalous words, if it should be lawful for a man of credit to report them generally without raentioninglis author, that would give greater colour and probsbility that the words were true in respect of the credit of the reporter." This was the old common law ' and the judges who enounced it quoted abundant decisions of their and of Lord Campbell's predeces=ors. A smatterer in law will object that this resolu tion was of words spoken, and not of words written. Lord Camptell is too sound a lawyer to make such a reply. He knows that it is most indubitable that when this judgment was given the Courts recog nised no • distinction between oral and written slander. It was so recently as the year 1812 that the distinction between written and spoken defa mation was first forinally drawn. Lord Chief Jus tice Mansfield, in his judgment in the case of " Thorley v. Lord Kerry," said that he could find it in none of the old books and abridgments, and he used these words—" I cannot upon principle make any difference between words written and words spoken as to the right which arises on them of bringing an action." So late as 1824 Lord Tenterden, in the case of " MGregor v. Thwaites," very carefully guarded himself against being supposed to decide that the resolution in Lord. Northampton's case did not apply to written PS well as to oral slander. We admit that from time to time judges cast evil eyes on the old law ; 'but no Court thought itself strong enough to repeal so solemn a decision, ratified by eleven judges and reported by Lord Coke, untl in 1829 Chief Justice Best, in the case of "De Ores pigny v. Wellesley," stepped out. of his way, and, confessedly without any ne3essity for the purpose of the case before the Court, committed the " mon strSus usurpation" of enacting from the bench that the law of England as it existed from the time of James T. downwards should then be changed. It was old Lord Wynford who, by his - own au thority, made this law, and a more "monstrous usurpation" certainly never was committed by an English judge. We are not aware that there was anything so vast in the intellect of this ancient gentleman, whether as a lawyer, a moralist, or a politician, that we should make a Solon of h;m, and swear not to abrogate hrs decrees until he conies back again. The evil he did might have been undone, and it was quite open to the Queen's Bench in 1857 to say that the judgment of the Common Pleas in 1829 was not law. This has been done before. Thera have been Lord Chief Justices who have not dealt so tenderly with the dicta of their predecessors. Lord Mansfield was told, upon an historic occasion, that the con stant course of precedents was to seize upon negro slaves in England, and send them back to the West Indies. The jUdgments of Lord Talbot and Lord Hardwicke were cited as closing a long series of precedents which ran up into the old feudal slave law of " villein regardant" and " villein in gross." But that Lord Chief Justice said, "I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle. The air of Eng land has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it." Lord Mansfield was a man who dared to overrule " judge-made law," and who could openly say, " We do not sit here to take our rules from Siderfin and Keble." We have shortly sketched the history of this ex crescence upon the libel law, not to criticise Lord Campbell's judicial decision, nor simply to show that it was not quite impossible for his Court to have decided otherwise. Lord Campbell is the only really great lawyer we have upon the bench ; others may be formidable to the bar from a habit of sneer ing safely indulged ; some may be good pleaders, and all are honest, painstaking judges. But Lord Campbell is the only man who will be remembered hereafter as having a spark of the genius which lit up the intellects of our Bacons, and Mansfieldq, and Camdens. While he follows the last precedents he does not forget that his position entails upon him higher responsibilities, and that he can reform as a legislator what be consider.; he must be bound by as a judge. It is to help him in this work that we have pointed out that this vexations rule of law is but an "usurpation" of yesterday ; that it is con trary to all ancient authority, and but the edict of an old Tory judge whose politics no ono respects, and whose learning no lawyer venerates. If Chief Justica Best's law cannot be overruled there need not be any scruple about repealing it. (From the Morning Chronicle.) No one can dispute the law of libel as laid down by Chief Justice Campbell in the House of Lords on Monday night. But with his exposition of the policy on which that law is founded—and, as we gather from his speech, ought in his opinion to be maintained —we feel bound to express our dissent. Let us see how the question remains, according to the tenour of existing statutes, as interpreted by the judicial tribunals. " Libellous" statements., may be promulgated is three forms. They may be spoken—they may be written—and they may be printed. With the first form the law confesses itself wholly unable to deal. Words are but wind, and the most atrocious sl4nders may be uttered, either in private conversat'on or before some crowded public meeting, with perfect impunity. The law cannot touch the slanderer, provided al ways he keeps within the compass of certain tech nic 11 regulations. Thus every atrocious epithet and insinuation may be freely lavished upon any ob noxious person, if care be taken to avoid callipg him a thief. Over members of the legal profession more especially protection is thrown ' • yet oven a solicitor can be branded with many terms of oppro brium without finding any legal remedy, unless he can prove that his calumniator termed him " petti fogger." For the weaker half of humanity, as usual, there is no protection whatever. A woman can be stigma' ised in phrases which would cendemn her to infamy for life ; and yet the cowardly slan derer may laugh at every attempt to bring him within the purview of a legal devalty. With regard to written slan der, the q the roof uestion, in a legal point of view, always b u ss upon p of what is called publication. Certain letters, whatever the character of their contents, are con siderel, " privileged comm unications." Of this class are epistles containing the characters of ser vants or other applications for confidential situations, and the communications addressed to various per sonages occupying positions of trust and responsi bility. Letters sent by private hand also enjoy the great negative advantage of putting the plain tiff in any case of libel founded upon their contents to the necessity of proving, by extraneous evidence, the fact of publication. W ith regard to letters sent convenience e a n l c e e ga in l b fi y eti p o o n s , t e , n t d hi e s e p ee ro p o t f ed is fe e r a t s h il e y d. By w other respects—as, for example, when propertyepistles stolen from a letter in transitu—th e dropped into a receiving -box at any post-office be longsn for the time to the Postmaster-General. Be ing thus made public property for a few hours, any statement contained in the letter is legally sup posed to be published ill the precise sense of a pub lication disseminated by the most widely circulated newspaper. This is the law as regards "written" libels. With respect to printed statements in which in lividnal characters are traduced, the law has no doubt. All such are published at the entire risk absence,observed, of the writer, if he can be identified, or, in h? escapes unpunished. of the publisher. The real author, te . it quiry even after him. For libels which i m s niga or, when libelous when merely spoken, become eui?., a h re n w o th n m oi written and printed. The origin therefore, even if he has been addressing a thronged assembly, and although his words can be attested b as y sa a ila th w o e us , and come w hile the journalist who happens to etent witnesses, remains un_ Naval ,and Military lntenigence. The 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, quartered at Portsmouth and Gosport, were inspected on Southsea-common on Mon day afternoon by Major-General Breton, the Commander-in- Chief of the South-West district. The regiment =sterol upwards of 1,500 strong, and went through all the move ments incidental to an official inspection to the satisfaction of the General. The number of troops who have volunteered for the various Indian corps at Chatham is about 800, the whole of whom will join their depots at Chatham-barracks. • Her Majesty's steam-vessel Wye, Master-Commander Moore, 2 guns and 100-horse power, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Mediterranean. She left Gibraltar on the 9th inst. On the 10th and 11th she encountered heavy gales from the north-west, and lost a quarterboat, but had fine weather crossing the Bay of Bh.cay. The Wye was formerly the Hecla, and bought by the Government from the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company to be con verted into a watertank for distilling water for the use of the fleet, then at 13alaklava. She was fitted for this duty by Mr. T. T. Grant, the Controller of Victualling at Ports • mouth Dockyard, in the fall of the year 1855, and sent to the Black Sea in the spring of the—following year, where she has been distilling from 30,000 te•45,000 gallons of water per day of excellent quality. The crew has hal no other water, and there has been no sickness among them. She left Spitbead for Woolwich to be paid off. The Governor of Gibraltar was particularTif desirous that the Wye should have been left there, as when she sailed he had not more than 1,000 gallons of water-in...the garrison. She brought home Captain Ross, R.N.;Mr: -. Goldsworthy, R.N.. Lieutenant Butcher, R.M., invalided from her Ma jesty's ship Caragoa ; Mrs. Allen and son;-and Dr. Toms, R.N ,in medical charge, on promotion. - The Roebuck, 6. steam despatch vessel, has been taken into the steam basin at Portsmouth to be brOught forward for service. The Plumper, 6, screw sloop, Capt. Richards, was taken out of dock at Portsmouth yesterday, after repairs, and taken under the shears to be reznasted. • Vice-Admi,al Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8., struck his ( flag on board the Victory on Monday morning, and pro ceeded to town to be present at the marriage of his niece, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Maid of Honour to the Queen, to Colonel Biddnlph, Controller of her Majesty's House hold. The Dee steam story transport is unloading boilers and machinery for the new ships Diadem and Melpomene. The urgent steam troopship, Commander Phillips, was taken oat of the steam basin at Portsmouth on Monday, after repairs. A portion of the Crimean stores brought to Chatham from Kertch by the engineer corps of the Turkish Contin gent is to be forwarded to Alderahott for the use of the troops at thecamp and yesterday afternoonfour carts filled with artificers' tools were forwarded from Chatham, in ad dition to which 16 of the large pontoons and 8 rafts have also been sent to Aldershott, to be used by the Royal En gineers stationed there. Twelve of General Blanshard's pontoons and six rafts have also been sent to Sandhurst, where they will be used by the young officers. In addition to the stores which have already been forwarded to Alder shott, 12 waggons and carts, laden with intrenching tools, will be sent from Chatham this day. Nearly the whole of the stores have now been removed from the gun-wharf and deposited at Brompton barracks. The Iris, 26, Capt. W. Loring, C. 8., fitting at Chatham for the Australian station, is under orders to proceed to sea to-morrow. . The Diamond, 27, Capt. C. B. Hamilton (1855), is to be paid off at Chatham this day. The following appointments were made yesterdayat the Admiralty : Lieut. Richard C. Mayne, to the Plumper; E. M. Top per mate, to the Iris; Win. Parsons, midshipman, to the Victnry; A. J. Erringtun, midshipman, to the Impreg nable; and Robert W. M. Jones, paymaster, to the Curlew. ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN. -...g,gt,.-..--.- The following letter' has been addressed to the Times : Sir,—ln your leading article of to-day on " the pecu niary incontinence of the Ilouse of Commons" you have fallen into two mistakes in your observations on the Ord nance Survey of Great Britain, which I feel certain you ea su y rv i ` yeth of e Scotland an o d f () Co n will be anxious to correct as soon as th e y are p o i n t e d out. Commons o e n ea s le ha e s f rfievceentfelyetsatenca tioYnoeda a mile," and that " it will give every Scotch proprietor, at the public expense, a better map of his 1,000 or 2,000 acres of moor than is possessed by any English gentleman who has not gone to great expense for such a purpose." Now, the facts are, first, as regards the scale of the plans of the uncultivated districts, the Treasury minute and my orders on this subject direct " that the Highland and other partially-cultivated and thinly-populated districts shall be drawn on the scale of six inebes to a mile," which is only one-tenth of the scale stated in the Tines, as applied to the linear measure, and only one-hundredth of that scale as applied to the area of the ground. 2. You say that the Soo , ch proprietor under the present arrangements for the survey obtains , at the p ublic expense , better maps than the English proprietor can obtain at great personal expense, the fact being that the surveys of Eng. land and Scotland are proceeding pari pa 4,9 u, and under precisely simile' i ns tructions, and although in a numerical re t u rn of the counties published in England and Scotland ou the large scales the number of English counties appears : mail, yet when it is borne in mind that Yorkshire alone, the plans of which have been engraved and published on the six-inch scale, is equal in area to the counties of Edin burgh, Haddington, Linlithgow, Fife, Wigton, 'Kirkcud bright, Ayr, and Dumfries, it will be seen that, as far as any objection can be made on th e score of ' expenditure in one part of Great Britain rather than another, the English have nothing to complain of, The maps of every county in Ireland have been long since published on the six-inch scale, and their great value has never been questioned, and many important measures connected with the improvement ofthe could not country be carried out without it. I have no desire to revive in your columns the discus sions as to the best scales for the maps of this or any other civilised country t the su bje c t d , ...as alr ea d y been very fully discussed inParliamentary committees, and in both Houses of Parliament, and the opinions of the most eminent set forth in practical men conversant with the subject n are 1 3 the ° Scale of the the published volume of parliamentCorrespendeto ; but I may Survey, which has been laid before ed are those—making observe that the scales now adopt he measures of the oonn allowance for the difference2 ft Belgium, and Bavaria, tries—which are adopted in France,commended by the Statistical and are those which were i t 1854 ; and I may be allowed Congress held in Brusselsf renee to the great object in view— to add that, haviitgareof property, the means of facilitating viz., the registry an tl,% pro erty, the valuation of property, the transfer of 1 . au turposes, civil and military, including and a ll eng ineering. 1 .1 and hydrographical surveys, and all . : : n. -he go ologloa . ' nil "' - es for which an accurate map is a necessary • other p - urilsales now adopted, as far as I can judge, after . Basisb—the . -perienco in almost every ems of engineering ng e.- the sub. and after a very careful consideration of works, and perfectly suited for the national survey. - e There are other mistakes in your observations on the survey which I should be happy to explain if I could ven ture so far to trespass on your space. Such, for _exa e mple, -o' d: y a s the statement that the contours are at every I et r de aid as regards the survey of Lewis, alth"gli the n fend the minute details of that portion of . e surve which was made long y, b e f ore my appoli4ment as snperin- tendent, the proprietor of that island, in paying a sum to wards tie expense of the survey, on the condition that it should be proceeded wit h at once, only followed the ex. lnshire in so doin ample of the gentleme n ofe Leijur"' yo b our obedient servant I have the h o nour to b' ,y JAMES, Lieutenant -Colonel R o y al En g ineers, Sa p erin, tendent of the Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Map-office, Southampton, Feb, 16.