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WANTED TO CHARTER, A STEAMER, oarryirg about 1,204 Quarters Wheat, to load immediately - Rt Cauckstadt a Cargo of Gra'n tor the Firth of Forth. App'y, ,by letter, to L. W., British Hotel, Coelispur- street, Loudon. NATIONAL (late Cholera) ORPHAN HOME, Ham Common, Richmond.—F,uncled 1A49, after the visita tot of the Cholera. PATRON—FieId-Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G. PATuoNEss—H.R.H. the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. On SUNDAY MORNING next, January 18th, a SERMON will be preached in Christchurch, Blackfriqrs-road, on behalf of the above Institution, by the Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., Rector of the Parish. Divine Service will commence at 11 o'clock. There are seventy-six Orphan Girls in the Home, and an election Of four more will take place the next day, Monday, the 19th. All information will be given by the Secretary, R. W. Newman, Esq., 9, Inner Temple-lane, and by the Matron of the Nome, to 'whom subscriptions may be paid ; also to the Home account, at the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, Henry Kingscote, Esq., Treasurer. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., - 1 Honorary RICH!). WHITTINGTON, ➢I.A., S Secretaries. GREAT -WESTERN RAILWAY.- NO [ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That tile next HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Com tanY will be held in London, pursuant to act of Parliament, at the radding,on Station, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of February next, at half-past 12 o'clock, for the election of four Directors in the place of iscount' Barrington, M. P., chairman of the Company; Lord as eman, the Right Hon. Spencer 11. Walpole, M.P., and David 0 lyy, Esq., retiring by rotation, and for the other purposes of busi fee, The chair will be taken at 1 o'clock precisely. BARRING CON, Chairman. J. W. MILES, Deputy-Chairman. Directors retiring are re-eligible un ler the provisions of the Act, Sind, in compliance with a bye-law, notice must be given to the Secretary on or before the 30th day of January inst. of the names of any Proprietors who are to be nominated for election as Directors at the said half-yearly general meeting. The Transfer Hooka of all stock and shares will be closed on and from the 29th day of January instant, and will not be reopened until Vier the said half-yearly general meeting on the 13th day of Febru- Ary. By order of the Board. CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddington Station, Jan. 15, 1857. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on TUH:SDAY. the 20th of January, the Great Western Railway will be OPENED between 'YEOVIL and WEYMOUTH for the conveyance of Passengers, Par cels, Carriages, and Horses. For particulars of trains over that line applications may be made At any of the Company's stations. By order of the Directors, (Signed) CIIAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddington Station, Jan. 16, 1857. G REAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY. Creatlon of 2,900,00''1. further Capital. The Board of Directors hereby intimate to the Shareholders of the Great - Indian Peninsula Railway Company Halt the Hon. East India Company have sancti ned the raising of further capital in this Com pany to the extent of 2,000,000/., with interest guaranteed at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. It has accordingly been resolved, pursuant to the act, to issue the Said capital rateably among the shareholders, in shares of 201. each, One new share to be given in virtue of every Two shares of 201. value standing on the register of the Company on the 16th January inst. And the Board have, by such resolution, made a call of 21. Per share on every new 201. share so allotted (with the option to the S hareho'der of paying up the whole 201.), which is hereby declared VaYable at the Bank of Messrs. Heywood, Kennards, and Co., Lom bard -street, London, on or before the 26th day of February, 1857. Circular letters of allotment, with directions for payment, and forms of Receipt, will be forwarded to the address of the several Shareholders. The shareholders are hereby informed that share certificates, if left at the office after notice is given that they are ready for delivery, remain at the risk of the propnetors. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Recretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu tion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor ; fi lleted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167 , lec adillY. on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Esta , )lishment, for one month, and for a longer Period If recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1651, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every fo rm of this dreadful malady, have received the baneflts of this ' h aritY. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the S ecre t ar y. C o ntributions to enable the Committee to continue this treat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be Maid to William Loxham Farrar, E.g., the 'treasurer, 66, Lincoln's- Len-fields ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's ValceS, 167, Piccadilly. Ey ()Men W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone ; no re ternmendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal a PPLcation : Week ending 7th November 2,154 Ditto 14th November.... 2,043 Ditto 21st November ..... • 1,972 Ditto 28th November 2,309 9th and 30th November.... Total in November .... • . 8,747 St which 2,775 were new cases, 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 13 held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, When any subscriber may attend, If so ditosed, the Board being at all times desirous of receivim: suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, hut is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and lecacks, which are received by the Treasurer, John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas -lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber tiers-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman. T HIRTY-NINTH REPORT of the LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK. At a GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS, held at the Banking-house of the Company, in Prince's-street, Mansion house, on Thursday, the 15th of January, 1857, PHILIP WILLIAM FLOWER, Esq., Chairman. THOMAS TILSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. DIRECTORS. Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P. William J. Lancaster, Esq. Sir John Nl`Taggart, Bart., M.P. George Meek, Esq. Ambrose Moore, Esq. John Timothy Oxley, Esq. John Joseph Silva, Esq. George Tayler, Esq. Thomas Tilson, Esq. William Bird, Esq. William Blount, Esq. Ald. Sir George Carroll. William Miller Christy, Esq. Ald. Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. Philp William Flower, Esq. George Holgate Foster, Esq. Francis Bennett Geldney, Esq. Will. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. Henry Grace, Esq. THE MANAGER—George Pollard, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Clarke and Iforice. The following Report was presented : With much satisfaction the Directors again meet the Proprietors of the Bank, to place before them the state of their affairs, and the Profit and Loss Account for the Half-year ending the 31st December, 1856. The Proprietors will perceive that, including the stun of 25,0861. 18s. 6d., brought forward on the 30th of June last, there is a net balance of 84,2171.45. 9d., which the Directors have appropriated as follows, viz.:— £37,500 0 0 to the payment of a Dividend of 61. ss. per cent. for the half-year (being at the rate of 12% per cent. per annum) upon 600,000/., the paid-up Capital. 46,500 0 0 to the payment of an additional bonus of 15s. 61 per share, and 217 4 9 to the credit of the Guarantee Fund. 5.84,217 4 9 With this addition the Guarantee Fund amount's to 1 65,9321. 13s. 10d. The following gentlemen retire from the directioni by rotation, viz.:— William Miller Christy, Esq. Francis Bennett Goldney, Esq. William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. Henry Grace, Esq., and Thomas Tilson, Esq. all of whom offer themselves for re-election. The dividend and bonus, free from booms tax, will be payable on and after Friday, the 23d instant. The preceding report having been read to the meeting by the Secre tary, a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, after the rate of 121. 10s. per cent. per annum, and a further division of 155. 6d. per share, out of the net profits of the year ending as above, were declared by the Chairman. Resolved unanimously —•that the report now read be received, and that it be printed for the use of the shareholders. The following Directors having retired by rotation, were unani mously re-elected, viz.:— Fran icis Brn--Miller Christyd, Esq. ey Bennett Goln, Esq. Wi lliam Ormsby Gore, Es M.P. Henry Grace, E sq., and Thomas Tilson, Esq. Resolved unanimously—That the thanks of the meeting, with the expression of its confidence, be given to the Directors for their very able and excellent management. Resolved unanimously—That its thanks be also most cordially tendered to George Pollard, Esq., th e Manager. (Signed) F. W. FLOWER, Chairman. Extracted from the Minutes. JNO. WA_RDROPE, Secretary. LIABILITIES and ASSETS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1856 THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK,' DR. To capital paid up, viz., 60,000 shares at 101. each.. £600,800 0 To amount due by the Bank . ••••••• • • • • • . 7 ,224,527 13 5 To amount of " The Guarantee Fund," June 30, 1856 .. • ..... £163,266 9 2 To six months' interest on ditto, at 31. per cent. per annum • • •• 2,448 19 11 To undtvtded profit for the last half-year ....... To amount carried to profit and loss account...... 165,715 9 1 25,086 18 6 113,424 5 11 £3,128,754 6 11 CR By Exchequer-bills and India-bonds ............ X 1,018,611 5 0 BY cash, loans, bilk discounted, and other securities 7,065,068 1 11 By building, furniture, &c., in Prince's -street By ditto, ditto, in Pall-mall 8 125 0 0 45,075 0 0 £8,128,75 4 6 11 ..komot PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT OF THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK, FOR THE ITALF-YEAS ENDING DEC. 31, 1856. D. To current expenses, proportion of building ex penses, directors' remuneration, bad debts, in come tax, f.te .......-- To amount carried to profit and loss, new account, £26,473 16 being rebate of interest on bills discounted not ---T. 820 ,) yet due To amount tran..sferr .. ic; ............... of " The Gua rantee Fund" .. ........................... • • To dividend account for the payment of half-a-year's dividend, at the rate of 12% per cent. per annum upon 600,000, amount of aid- p capital upon 60,000 shares ...... P u TO share dit for the payme;il .. of a . . 1. i0 . n . u . 5 . . o ' f .. ..... . Gd. per .... •• •• • . .... ......... _ 46,500 0 0 217 4 9 37,500 0 0 CR. By balance brought down half-year By undivided profit brought forward from the last ..... .• £113,424 5 11 ...• .................... £134,511 4 5 25,085 18 6 £138,511 4 5 ~ONDON STOCK BANK. Established in IS 6 . Mansion -house. Head-office — Prince's -str eet Western Branch-69, p ,000,R9. Paid_ulpn'caal 166 ,000. Subscribed Capital, .Z 3 £600,000. Guarantee Fund, £ Accounts of parties are kept agreeably t o the custom of London Ilankers. Parties keeping banking accounts with the Bank can at ransfer to a deposit account such portion of their balaßcealaistitmheeys may not immediately require, upon which interest at the current rate of the day will be allowed. Deposits are also received from parties net customers, either at call, or for fixed periods, or interest at the market rates. The agency of joint-stock and other country and foreign b anks undertaken on such terms as may be agreed upon. Investments in and sales of all descriptions of British and foreign securities, bullion, specie, &c., effected. Dividends on E ng li s h and foreign funds, on railway and other shares, debentures, and coupons, received without charge to cus tomers. Every other description of banking business and money agency transacted, and letters of credit granted en the Continent, and via the chief centraercial town of the world. T" The Third Edition. Just rublished, price Cs. by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRrnEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Heal Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practl :al contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, to informs es, that he has addressed himself to the nou-medi oal reader. 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" A book of greater interest has not come under eur notice for many years."— Guardian. LIVING CELEBRITIES : a Series of PEIOTCGRAPIIIC PORTRAITS, by Metni. and POLIBLANK. The number for January Contains E. M. WARD, Esq., R.A., with Memoir. Maull and Polyblank, 55, Graceehurch-street ; and all book and printsellers. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles I Receipts. opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. 1856. 1857. 1856. --- ---- BILITIRT. £ £ 115 Aberdeen ...• • • .... • • ••..• • .• • •• •• - - 37% Belfast and Ballymena .... •••• - - - 1,102 888 17 Belfast and County Down• • • • • • • • • • •• - - 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,053 1,,10 264 Bolton. Blackburn, and West York •• • • - - 117 Bristol and Exeter - . .• • 5,401 5,472 194 Ca1ed0nian............. ............ 12,702 , 11,183 94 1 4 Chester and Holyhead. ••.. • • ........ 4,570 4,256 614 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • 167 171 20 Cork and Bandon ................ .. 288 198 56 Dublin and Belfastj unction • • .. • . .• 1.1 i 7 956 63 Dublin and Drogheda .. .. .. ....... .. 1,153 1,331 40% Dublin and Kingstown .............. 1,083 958 16% Dundee and Arbroath .............. - - 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 8 - J8 765 36 Dundalk ana Enni5ki11en.........• •• 421 279 67% East Anglian.... -•.....•••• •• •• •• •• 857 811 93 East Lancashire •• • • .......... -•• •• 6,143 5,775 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ......•• •• :: .1 21,445 20,199 . 5.750 5,028 142 Ea s Edinburght e rn Un a i o n n d • G • . I . a . s . go . . v . .. .. •• ••• •• •• •• 128 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee ••• • - 6,043 5,551 6 Exeter and Crediton...• .. - • • •• , • • • - - 22 Furness Railway •• • ••..• • • • .. •• • • - - 183 1 ,,4 Glasgow, and South-Western •••• • • .. 5,587 5,087 283 Great ....................21,46 4 - 21,464 20,674 20314 Great Southern and Western (Ireland; 5,5/8 5,704 388 Great Western •••••••••• •• .. .. • • • • 22,876 21,884 254 Irish South Eastern ••••••.•• • • • • • • • 227 228 90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••.••••• • • •• . • 4,817 4 706 2861 i Lancashire and Yorkshire..• •- • • .... 21,857 20,112 - Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - - 161 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• - - 637 London and North Western .• ••• - - 55,354 51,522 5 % London and 81ackwa11.............. 1,135 1,225 183 % London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 9,876 9,640 267 London and South Western. •• .• •• - 11,677 11,720 60. Londonderry and Enniskillen .• ••• • • . 648 572 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - 173% Manchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire 9,571 8,562 9 ti Manchester and South Junction •••• • . 746 687 28 Maryport and Carlisle • • •... • • • ..... 889 723 498 14 Midland .....- ....... ..... ....... 28 211 26,090 12614 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• •• .. 2,950 2,897 52 Monklands 78 •• •• •••••••• ........ .... • - - 14 Newcastle and Carlisle.. - - 14 North British - -•• •• •• • • • • ••• '•-... . - - - - 5,016 4,845 233 North Staffordshire 7,096 6,645 47 North-Western 724 791 8714 Scottish Centra 1• • - •• •• •• • • - • • :• - 32 Scottish Midlanel • ••• • • • • • • • ~• • • • • • • 29 Shrewsbury and Birmingham •- - •••• •••• - • • • ...... 1,432 1,332 48 Shrews bury ad 30 Shropshire union Chester ............ 2,471 2,311 57% South Devon ... ••••-••- - • • • • • • 698 731 • • 289 South E as t ern.. :•• • •• •• •• • • •• •• •• - - 171 South Wale s ,•••••• ' • • • • - ...... 17,50 17,782 97 South York„ 6,355 5,571 30 Taff Vale .... ..• aster, and Goole •• 2 , 274 2 , 191 3GUlster .--.• •• • '.' ••'••••• •• .• .. - 4,183 3,205 77 Waterford rnd Lirner • ick - •••• •• • • •• - 1,376 1,262 2714 West Cornwall -.• • • 12 Whitehaven Junction ••• ............ 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwl k . - - York and North Midland & c & Leeds.. - - FOREIGN. I 109 I Dutch Rhenish •• •• •• •• •• -•• .....• . 1,711 1,471 328 - - Lyons and Mediterranean ......... 63 Montereau and Troyes .............. - - 1 _.Namur and Liege .• • • .............. - - q;5 Northern of France ••••••• • • • • • • • .. - • • 1 - Orleans and Central .. ..... -•• .• .. - - • 59 Paris and Lyons .• • • - - 1 Paris and Rouen. •• ..:• •• •••• •• •••• - -_ _ _ - Paris and Strasburgh ••-.• .• - ...• • • --- - 11.10 • ... m . LRouen and Ilzvre•• .. •• • •• • •• _ ..... _ - Western of France . . • __.•L • - LIFE-BOAT PRESENTED TO THE CHILIAN REPUBLIC. —Her Majesty's government are about to present to the government cf the republic of Chili a life-boat, in ac knowledgement of the valuable services rendered by boatmen in that country to shipwrecked British seamen, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EtoIIoway's Ointment and Pills have an enviable reputation in all parts of the world, Esther Bessell, of 6, Slaney-street, Birmingh a m, suffered for ten years with an ulcerated leg. She was a patient in two hospitals, and amputation of the leg was consider ed imperative, to which she refused to submit, although, the ulcers being of nine years' standing, the pain was most acute, and the system much debilitated. Hollo way's ointment and pills cured her by a few weeks' steady application, and she is now able to resume her occupation.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and at 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople ; E. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. 7 • .S;#3* / • - 513 • 10, "7 , Ir • ;T: -- 17: 1 ; ; „ r- - - I,\\ • A ' k $ I 4. V 6. ru - • ^.` 7, • 41 1111 P • :4510 ' 2 PAr 2. ' 1 1 j % LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1857. INSTALLATION OF SIR E. B LYTTON AS LORD RECTOR UP GLASGOW UNIVERSITY On Thursday afternoon Sir E. Bulwer Lytton was in stalled as Lord Rector of Glasgow University, to which office ho was appoin'ed in November last by a majority in all the nations over his opponent, Lord Stanley. A little after 2 o'clock Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, in the robes of the Lord Rector, entered the hall, preceded by the macebearer, and with very great difficulty found, or rather forced, his way through the closely-wedged throng to the chair. He was most heartily cheered. The Lord Rector was accompanied by the Ven. Principal Macfarlan and the Professors of the University, Lord Elgin, the Lord Provost of the City, Sir Archibald Alison, Mr. Hastio, M.P., &c. In other parts of the Hall were Sheriff Bell, Sheriff Smith, Mr. Walter Crum, Mr. Wm. Ewing, Mr. John Blackwood, publisher, Edinburgh, several of the city clergy, &c. The proceedings were opened by a Latin prayer, delivered by the Rev. Principal. Professor Weir read the rc2orcl of his election and administered the oaths. Sir EDWARD BITLWER LYTTON', on rising, was received with immense applause. He spoke as follows :—Mr. Prin cipal and Gentlemen, —lf there be many more deserving than myself of the honour which has been conferred upon me, there is at least no one by whom it could be more highly valued or more gratefully received. (Cheers.) Per haps, indeed, an Englishman has a yet livelier sense than even a native of Scotland of all that is implied in the dis tinction which connects him with this ancient seat of learn ing by the free choice of its youthful students. He knows that he cannot owe so gracious a favour to the accident of birth or to local prepossession—that it must be the recogni tion of some rank or property in repute, which, being achieved by his own exertions, wins the sympathy of the rising generation. For youth, and more especially the hardy youth of Scotland—(cheers)—pressing forward to force way for itself through this crowded world, has a natural interest in seeking to ennoble every instance which confirms its own heroic hopes in the attainment of worldly distinction by the nerve and sinew of intellectual labour. lam sure that no student who has honoured me with his vote from agreement in my political opinions will misunderstand me when I say I era well pleased to believe that it is less as the politician than as the man of letters that you this day re ward my labours and dignify my name. Not because I am not cordially gratified if my views of the policy which should govern these realms find favour with a large pro portion of the intellect among you—not because I do not feel a warm and loyal attachment to the party with whom I act in Parliament, or am indifferent to that sanction of their cause which such a compliment to one of their num ber may convey ; no, but because, now that a contest which I did not seek, and of which I was only aware two days before the issue was made known to me, is peacefully con cluded, I would fain link myself in lasting fellowship with every student among you—and politics can but join us for the day ; literature unites us throughout the ages. (Cheers.) I think that I am the more justified in assigning your kindness to this bond of association, be cause the candidate who was not unreasonably preferred by some of you—a young nobleman whose vigorous intellect and brilliant promise would have done credit to your choice —happens (no matter what differences of opinion on iso lated questions may or may not exist between him and me) to belong with myself to that great party of which his own father is the acknowledged chief. (Cheers, dissent, and renewed cheers.) Nor can I believe that there can be any great disunion between those who profess the same broad outlines of policy as my Lord Derby, because this much at least all who differ from that noble personage will allow— that the principles he does profess proclaim to his parti sans, and utter to the world, are conveyed in a diction unequalled for lucidity and force, and prompted by a mo tive conspicuous for sincerity and honour. (Cheers.) Seeing, then, that the candidate who divided your votes was not taken from the ranks of a hostile party, and that politics, therefore, could not have entered very warmly into the contest, I venture to assume that you designed through me to pay a generous compliment to those English authors and men of letters whose names, nobler than mine, are inscribed in that libro d'ore, or gol den book of self-made aristocracy, a place in which none of us can inherit, all of us may aspire to obtain. Accordingly, it is on their behalf as well as my own that I receive the compliment and return the thanks. Gentlemen, when I look round this crowded hall I am seized with the same idea which presented itself to my great predecessor, Mr. Macaulay. Like him I at once comprehend how, on a simi lar occasion, before a similar audience, Edmund Burke, the most elaborate and the most impassioned orator in the grand ago of orators, suddenly became confused, and fal tered forth the excuse that "he had never before addressed so learned an assembly." And yet it is not the learning of this distinguished audience which most impresses me with a sentiment of diffidence and awe; for, if we were assem bled to witness some exercise of intellectual skill, in which learning alone was to be the judge, I should not be the speaker, but the listener. It is not to men who have matured their full renown—it is not to your ac knowledged chiefs of erudition and science that I could presume to offer suggestive remarks or persuasive counsel. These it is my duty to address to that other part of this audience which, comprising their pupils, represents, as it wore, the generation of their own children. And maxima debetur pvcro reverentia, I am intimidated by a sense of the reverence which is due to the young. Can I glance to wards these ingenious and ardent listeners, whom I am called upon by office to exhort or advise upon the future, and not feel with sincere emotion that the future is their lives, and that in their lives Providence may select the agents to influence a future for unborn generations ? How cautious should lee be who would animate the exertions of youth not to discourage the audacities of genius, nor, on the other hand, to shrink from enforcing the sober doctrine, that to all genius labour is essential ; that the genius that would realise the palace of Aladdin must still be the genius of the lamp. How anxious he must feel to avoid the cold pedantry of conventional admonition, and yet to give a can did utterance to the affection which prompts advice. Above all, students of Glasgow, he who addresses you should have a spirit so warmed by sympathy with the generous aspira tions of youth, so embued with the remembrance of what your fathers have been before you, that his mind may escape from every sentiment unworthy the ears of that young chivalry which Scotland rears and sends forth to the battle of human life, with her lion at their hearts and her white cross of St. Andrew on their shields. (Great applause) An orator of no mean repute in the old French Republic has in one of his speeches a striking address to the 19th century, which was then just dawning over the lurid ashes of the Reign of Terror. In the jargon of that rhetorical philanthropy which then prevailed he foresaw the march of light, and the full development of human faculties and social progress, dating from the downfall of that disciplined order which the philosophers of his day called " privileged usurpation," and the removal of those sacred cheeks which they denounced as "priest craft." Well, the 19th century rose, advanced, it is now more than half completed, and if that orator were (still living he might indeed be startled to see what light has been diffused, what the development of human faculties, what the advancement of social progress ! Dosing the earlier half of this century what great authors have delighted us or refined ! what magical inventions science has conceived and put to use—what continuous efforts have been made, and are making still, to mitigate the severity of laws, and bind us more together, not in deed, in Cain-like fraternity, but in Christian brotherhood! (Cheers.) But how and where have these benignant agen- cies of the 19th century been the most manifestly at work? How ! Not by the disrupture of the old social ties, but by their renewed cement ! Where ! Not in those lands in which to borrow Danton's despairing cry, " Revolution, like Saturn, devoured its own children." No. But in these steadfast kingdoms, where liberty has not violated I order, nor philosophy presumed to depose religion. (Cheers.) Look back at the commencement of this con tury—contemplate the work of that generation which you are now rising to succeed. See what your Scottish fathers have done to snatch the firebrand from the hands of those drunkards of knowledge who, reeling here and there amid palaces and temples, fancied that they illumined society by the conflagration of its fabrics. That brand your fathers snatched, not to extinguish its living flame —no, but to place it, aloft and calm, upon stately watch-towers, a guid ing light, and not a consuming fire. (Cheers.) Already, indeed, during the latter half of the last century, Scotland had produced a school of philosophers who prepared the reason of her sons to resist the plausible, but perilous ma terialism by which Diderot and the writers of the French Encyclopedim sought to quibble away the soul from man, and the Maker from the universe. Already, for more than 30 years, a professor in this university, Thos. Reid, had expanded into an original system the suggestive lessons of Hutcheson, the founder of Scotch metaphysics. Reid died in 1796, but ho left behind him a brilliant pupil, Dugald Stewart, peculiarly adapted by the graces of acquirement and a persuasive eloquence of style, to render popular the doctrines of his teacher, and to influence a wide co li t u r e y d . eu ( i C o h g e ju er in s. range of mi n d s th at, whether in literature, or action, have powerfully affected the character of their age and ) upo l n a tat mhnsochtohol of hero to pronouncemetap metaphysics i u c s n qu u a n indeed, of late years, I have had so little leisure to re-exa mine those analytical inquiries into the origin and forma tion of idea which delighted me in early youth that I could not venture to be a criticon metaphysicsbeforean audience of Scotch collegians. But he would wholly fail to appre ciate the immense benefits which Hutcheson, Reid, and Stewart rendered to sound philosophy, and through philo sophy to the direction of popular thought and action, who should overlook the influence which those Scottish specu lative reasoners have exercised over the great schools of Germany—over all succeeding schools, moral or metaphy sical, that have served t paralyse and disperse the ribald builders of the atheistical Babel who Startled the last cen- tury, and left behind them the fragments of their impious labours, a futile monument of the confusion of their own tongues, and the forlorn memento of a vanished deluge (Cheers.) But Scotland was not confining her intellect only to those subtle speculations which act latently on the springs of practical life. Already in this university had been educated, and in this university taught and lectured, the great author of the " Wealth of Nations." Here was a book destined to guide the dawning century, that took the machinery of States out of the hands of dreamers like Condorcet and Sieyes ; laid down those laws for the regula tion of commonwealths which Platohad obscured, and oven Aristotle had left undefined ; showed to monarchs how trea suries might be filled, and to labouring populations how industry might be best applied and rewarded ; here, above all, at a time when liberty was wronged, and multitudes bewildered by schemes for destroying the barriers round life and property—here was a book, written by no servile upholder of antique prejudice, but by the most innovating philosopher since the age of Bacon, which proved that secu rity to life is the first necessary to freedom, and safety to property the paramount interest of the masses. Here was a book that before the dawn of this century had already en tered into the practical government of these kingdoms; for here was the book which, more than all others of that day, skilled and disciplined the mind of William Pitt. (Loud cheers.) Not, however, with this achievement did Scotland halt in her " march of light"—not to that memory do you stint your obligation in your illustrious Academy of Glas gow. In yonder streets, while Joseph Black was deducing his voluminous problems from chemical science—while Adam Smith was tracing the sources of all national wealth —a young man, the listener and friend to both, was pen dating upon the application of chemical science to the wealth of nations, the very vapour in the lamp of philoso phy became the most material agent in the subjugation of time and space to the power of men, and the prophecy of Roger Bacon was realised in the inventive genius of James Watt. (Immense cheering.) But it is not science alone that instructs the world and regulates the actions of man kind. Literature, too, has a noble mission beyond that of mere solace and delight. See at the close of the last cen tury how tame and tawdry a thing was the literature of the Revolution ! Except only the orations of Mirabeau, and a few verses by Andre Chenier, who perished on the guillo tine, sighing forth, as he touched his forehead, "And yet there was something here !" Except these, and what feeble ness and what fustian ! What varnished ignorance both of books and of human nature ! The French authors who wrote under the Empire are certainly better; but they want origi nality and depth. In Italy ono or two fair but sickly plants struggled forth, but the root was not such as to allow much spread to the boughs. In Germany, indeed, a mighty era in literature had commenced, but its influence had not yet extended over the rest of Europe; or where it had become visible it was through wretched translations of that effeminatekotzebue or ballads that enlivened the nursery with skeletons and hob-goblins; and even the gigantic Goethe was chiefly known to Europe as a crackbraincd sentimentalist, who had invited unsympathising readers rather to laugh than to weep over the " Sorrows cf Werter." The first great literature produced by this country which spread over the civilised nations, thrusting back into dusty shelves the verse without soul and the prose without muscle, which had formed the circulating library of Europe—the first great literature that strode forth to civilise and to conquer, restoring the ancestral past to its duo place in human reverence, recalling from exile truth and nature, binding man to man in the genial chain of character and humour, refreshing the work-day world with a joyous holyday of romance, —the first great literature which poured its own young blood into the century, and, rushing over Europe, found a home on every hearth, rose in these islands, and, paramount in that literature for an influence not less beneficent than supreme, towers your immortal countryman Walter Scott. (Great applause.) Measure not Scott's greatness by his effects only on the imagination. (Hear.) By the law of all mental vibration opinion is moved by the sounds that first agitate feeling. What way Scott prepared throughout Europe for the in troduction of our language, and with our language our reasoners as well as our poets ! Before his day how much the language of France had overweighted the balance of intellectual power in Europe ! Scott threw into the op posing scale the language of the Anglo-Saxon, and the in• to!lect of these kingdoms became henceforth, not the casual guest, but ono of the ruling monarchs of the continent. Thus Scotland gathered together the broken and stormy rays of intelligence that had before rather terrified than cheered the dawn of the nineteenth century, and forming them first through science into pure and tranquil light, then dispersed them through literature to beautify the world with all the pomp and variety of colour. (Great applause.) Meanwhile, religion rather encouraged than opposed the culture of the philosophy which did not invade its province. I might say, in passing, that the ge neral character of ecclesiastical eloquence in Scotland, in that peculiarity of subtle disquisition, which has been alleged against it as a fault, has hadem effect akin to phi losophy in the demand it makes on the reasoning and re flective power of the listener. But I hurry on to one illus trious instance of the sympathy established here between the philosopher and the preacher. I remind you of your own great Chalmers. (Cheer s .) I n thi s town he delivered' his famous astronomical discourses, and from the printing press of Glasgow issued those essays in which he has brought to bear upon subjects purely social or p hil o sophical an un derstanding so masculine, cou ched in a style so gravely sweet. Formed by such t e achers, guided by such auspices, your fathers went forth upon the world. indeed, Not, all to be the votaries of literature and science; not all to win distinction for their individual selves ; the large majority were contented with the siusple paths of practical life. But that large majority, still adding to the agg re g ate c haracter of your country, by the attributes of strong sense, patient courage, tranquil honesty, that moral dignity which com mands respect, and thus, spreading ou every soil where they found home the healthful influence of the native soil. (Cheers.) Students, these aro the men you are to succeed, and from the homes and hearths of these men you come here to discipline your ener g i es a nd advance the name that you inherit. And will n o t that thought animate yon more than any dry exho r t a ti on to industry or labour? Why, who among you w ou ld g r u dge any toil that mi g ht make him still more the joy and pride of a Scottish home, or give to Scotland another of those names which preserve her nationality more distinct and so vereign than if the Stuart still reigned in Holyrood, and the thistle were not blended with the rose ? (Loud cheers.) We]!, then, I take your industry for granted ; let us see how and where it should be applied. And, first, there immediately comes before us the learning of Greece and Rome—those still dead languages of that still dead world, which seems to the ignorant so indefi nitely remote, and which to scholars and statesmen is always so intimately near. It has indeed been asked in our day, " But what avail to spend so much time in the acquisition of languages which are only of use to profes sional scholars ? It might be very well in the dark ages, when no other literature existed. But now in modern tongues there is a living literature. Why not confine our selves to the language we may have to talk, and to the books by which modern ideas are conveyed ?" This sounds plausible enough ; but before you allow the argument to weigh with you one jot ask any man not a professional scholar, but who has in youth acquired a fair acquaintance with the classic languages, and who has since attained to eminence in active life, at the bar, in the pulpit, in the senate, in the public offices, iu medicine,—in short, any calling which requires a high degree of education—ask him if he has _found the classics of any use—ask him if he would have changed the ideas he gathered from Greek and Latin for the ideas which any living literature except his own could have bestowed; and I will venture to predict that suchlman, if he pause to analyse his own mind, will answer that to Greek and Latin his obligations are so great that he cannot even tell what ho might have been, or how far he might have succeeded, if you struck from his mind the early habits of accuracy which the study of these dead languages imperatively necessitates ; or if he were compelled to exchange for French, Italian, or even German literature those large and luminous ideas which flash across him at the loosest reference to the City of the Violet Crown—or to the Conscript Fathers and the Roman Capitol. Ask, next, some ma n, also eminent in life, lent who has been deprived of a classical education, if he has ever felt a disadvantage in that loss ; and I am no less confident that he will tell you the loss has been a subject of regret in every stage of his career—that on many occasions it has intimidated his judgment, oppressed him with a sen se o f i n fi rm it y, o b. perhaps con t en t e d w ith some whenb for that l oss h e wou ld h av e justly ob structed the recognition by others o f hi s t a l en t s an d ac sqeueiornedmaeray arrogated the tsg'raadnde,inade himut foremost. (Loud cheers.) Till you have asked these questions and found that I deceive you as to the answers you obtain, take for granted that the uses not only to sc hol a rs, but to men ° o f the f the deadworld,g languages, not testible. And why ? Why ? Ono obvious reason is in their very difficulty, and the con tinuous and symmetrical exercise of the faculties which the contest with that difficulty requires. They discipline the powers which, whatever be our calling, we most need in after life—first, by that minute accuracy which is neces sary to master the roots of the language and the order of Leek construction; and the habit of accuracy thus me chanically contracted gives to after pursuits a truthful closeness in detail and a facility of generalisation. Se condly, in the development of a sound sense and health ful judgment, through the formation of a correct and chast ened taste, accustomed early to distinguish between sim plicity and vulgarity, elevation and bombast—a taste formed, not according to the mannerism of a modern tongue which shifts with each generation, but according to models fixed and perpetual, and received as such in every civilised community, There is, too, this notable advantage in the P ancient tongues over an exclusive or preponderant atten tion to the modern. Study as we will the Greek and Latin, we do not make ourselves less purely national in our own ideas or our own mo les of expressing them. But if, in youth, which is the season of imitation, we were to culti vate exclusively, say the French or the German, ton to one but we should half denationalise ourselves -- we should Frenchify or Germanise our minds and our style ; and I think you must have observed occasionally in Great Britain, but perhaps more frequently in America, that writers who, not having accomplished themselves in classic literature, apply with passionate devotion to a foreign modern language—say the German—do really so corrupt and adulterate sober English that it seems as if they sought to torture their own language into the agonised confession that it was a thievish impostor that had run away from another. (Laughter, and cheers.) And, whether we would or not, I will now show you why those ancient languages must, in preference to all modern tongues, remain the groundwork of a liberal and comprehensive education. I have said that youth is the season of imitation. We place before youth not only books to read, but authors who are to serve as models of ideal excellence, and whom we com mend to its special love and approbation. Where could we agree as to such models in any modern language? Take, for instance, the French. It is clear that models of a language must be sought in the greatest masters of its style and dic tion. Who are the two greatest such masters in French ? Unquestionably still, in their several ways, Rousseau and Voltaire. But what prudent teacher would commend Rous seau and Voltaire as models to be studied night and day by inquisitive and imitative youth? Pass to holy. However we admire the sublimity of Dante, his austere and Gothic beauties cannot furnish the models for general study ; while the other Italian masters, such as Aristo and Boccaccio, who might furnish hints for more flowing and easy graces of style, aro scarcely those whom the people of these king doms would like to see the elementary moralists in a manly and healthful education. Turn to Germany ; and Goethe meets us colossal at the threshold. But would Goethe's warmest admirer commend to his own young sons that calm artist who so profoundly depicts our infirmities and frailties, but who rejects from his canvass the rude outlines of fortitude and heroism—would he commend to his sons as their early study and model the greatest of the Germans whose mind has been compared to a cupola lighted from below,with the same confidence with which ho would dismiss them to their Homer, to learn there " in the large language of the early gods"— learn to love in Hec tor the defender of his country and admire in Achilles the foot that cannot yield, and the lips that hate a lie as the gates of hell ? Again, in the ancient language both the popular mythology and the philosophical freethinking are so wholly remote from us that we have no fear of their injuring the Christian tenets we profess. I apprehend that no student would be tempted to raise an altar to Jupiter, nor be seduced by Lucretius into a belief in the doctrine of atoms. But in the great body of modern continental languages, when we escape from the writers who openly or covertly sap Christianity to the writers who most warmly oppose infidelity, the in separable distinctions between the Roman Catholic religion and all denominations of our Protestant faith obstruct us the moment we come to decide upon models for minute study and passionate attachment. If, for instance, I wore compelled to turn to France for models of eloquence in that language—those who afforded the most classic study for the arrangement and method of discaurse—were the two Roman Catholic preachers, Bourdaloue and Bossuet ; yet would these two ornaments of the Papacy be models as harmless to the creed of Protestant pupils as our old heathen friends, Demosthenes and Cicero ? (Cheers.) For these reasons and for many more, though modern languages must always be a most valuable accessory to a polite educa tion, they can never become exclusively its groundwork ; and, unless we did for hardy youths at college what is done, I suppose, for young ladies at boarding-schools—(a laugh)—mince up the literature of whole nations into sap less extracts ; or sinless we confined ourselves rigidly to the literature of our own (and even there we could scarcely agree upon the authors to be received universally as models), wo must, perforce, come back to the languages of Greece and Rome. Anti is that a subject of regret? What lite rature is so peculiarly adapted as that which thoselanguages contain for citizens and freemen,? In an age when so much more was learnt from conversation than from books the life of study and the life of action were so close to each other that the roar of the Agora shook the Platain trees in the gardens of the Academe. Hence it is the characteristic of ancient literature that it is pre-eminently practical ; it abounds with lessons useful to civilised men in all lands and all times—it never grows old. A newspaper of last year is a stalsr thing, more apart from the talk of the very hour in which I am now addressirg you than a quotation from a speech of the Corinthian ambassadors at Thucydides, or a reference from Horace to the graves principula anticitius. And with this practical character there is nothing mean or cynical. Cast from your memory a few licentious passages episodical to the true spirit of the chaste Caineenve, from which I am sure that you turn with the quick instinct of masculine purity you take from your Scottish homes, and what a mass of healthful literature remains I Love of coun try, recognition of social duties, the spirit that can defy the haughty, the humanity that spares the subjected, re verence to virtue as that celestial something which neither takes nor resigns its dignities'' arbitriopopularissuite"— is it nothing that all these should come before our eyes in youth, radiant with the loveliness of Athens, or stately with the majesty of Rome? Thus far, then, we are agreed, and you will lose no opportunity now presented to you to increase your intimacy with the languages and the authors whose uses in after-life you so evidently appreciate. Bat unquestionably your culture of the ancient learning is not to supersede your natural destination as the examiners and enforcers of the new ideas which link you with the age in which you are to be actors. (Cheers.) You have your choice in the many subdivisions of intellectual labour—tho church, the bar, the various branches of the medical pro fession, commerce and manufactures—in short, the busy callings of life. I pretend not here to add to the lessons of the eminent persons who administer the instruction of the university. I can but suggest a few general hints, which may equally apply to each vocation that you may severally adopt. And, first, let me impress upon you the value o: definite purpose. Having once chosen that calling which then becomes your main object in life, cling to it firmly—bring to bear on it all your energies, all the infor mation you are elsewhere variously collecting. All men aro not born with genius, but every man can acquire pur pose, and purpose is the backbone and marrow of genius —nay, I can scarcely distinguish one from the other. For what is genius ? Is it not an impassioned predilection for some definite art or study, to which the mind converges all its energies, each thought or image that is suggested by nature or learning, solitude or converse, being habitually and involuntarily added to those ideas which are ever re turning to the same central point, so that the mind is not less busily applying when it seems to he the most released from application, That is genius, and that is purpose— the ono makes the great artist or poet, the other the great man of action. And with purpose comes the grand secret of all worthy success, which some men call will, but which I would rather call earnestness. If I were asked, from my experience of life, to say what attribute most impressed the minds of others or most commanded fortune, I should say " earnestness." Take, for instance, the House of Commons as the highest type of a popular assembly. What is the great secret of success there ? You all re member that Demosthenes placed the threefold art of the orator in delivery. I think the word he used was acting or stage play. But though delivery, no doubt, is the ap propriate excellence of the mere orator, the threefold gift of the Parliamentary speaker is earnestness. Have but fair sense and a complete knowledge of your subject, and then be thoroughly in earnest to impress your own honest conviction upon others, and, no matter what your delivery, though your gestures shocked every rule in Quintilian, you would command the ear and in fluence the debates of the most accomplished, the most fastidious, and, take it altogether, the noblest assembly , of freemen in the world ; while some man, in whose deli very no fault could be detected, except the one defect of that earnest conviction which Itoscius himself could not teach if the man has not got it, would be indeed admired as a firework, but would never guide like a star. As it is in the House of Commons, which is but the representative of the national mind, so it is with all life throughout these nations. The earnest man wins way for himself, and ear nestness and truth go together. Never affect to ba other than you are—either richer or wiser. Never be ashamed to say, " I do not know." Men will then believe you when you say " I do know." Never be ashamed to say, whether as applied to time or money, " I cannot afford it"—" I cannot afford to waste an hour in the idleness to which you invite me—l cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw away." Once establish yourself and your mode of life as what they really are, and your foot is on solid ground, whether for the gradual step onward, or for the sudden spring over a precipice. (Cheers.) From those maxims let me deduce another—learn to say " No" with decision ; " Yes" with caution—" No" with decision whenever it resists a temptation ; " Yes" with caution whenever it im plies a promise. A promise once given is a bond inviolable. (Cheers.) A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon hun. I have frequently seen in my life a person preferred to a ' long list of applicants, for some important charge which lifts him at once into station and fortune, merely because he has this reputation, that when he says he knows a thing he knows it, and when he says he will do a thing he will do it. Muse, gentlemen, over these maxims; you will find it easy enough to practise them, for when you have added them altogether the sum total looks very much like Scotchman. (Applause.) Let me now touch, though bat humbly, as becomes a layman, upon those sacred truths which are interwoven with your faith and enforced by to i your pr e s a p a i o ritual u t e a a hers.c re fo r e c l o t 9 is f allen o y u o g u h r for aut I m o ri e e s t a o r n t e h s a t lty Di vine standard of good which wo can never attain, but should ever seek to approach, so that, to use a homely image, the conscience may be the bookkeeper of life. Every man who would perform great actions must perpe tually refer to some judgment or criterion elsewhere, which serves both for his stimulus and his guide. In that terrible and the elephants of is said to have exclaimed, night when Alexander the Great was forcing his way across the swollen waves of tho Hydaspes, thunder and Athenians,hurricaneopows hteatb.dangersa naroundk,he e I bravo to be recorded with praise by you!" But in conquests more arduous and last ing than those of Alexander —conquests which every one has to achieve over his own heart and its tempters, how grand and how accurate becomes the motive that stimu lates and . guides to the man who habitually inquires, " How will this bear a record iu the eyes of Him who Pores lightning on tahneand alone unerringly reads each desire, and alone impartially weighs every deed ?" (Cheers.) Gentlemen, following the example set by more than one of my predecessors, it is my intention to offer some prizes to your generous compe tition. I shall place, for that purpose, the modest sum of 50 guineas in th e h an d s of your professors, leaving it to their discretion to se l ec t suc h subjects as their experience may suggest, most useful or pleasing to the general body pf the students. B u t, i n a dditi on t o th ose p r izes, I myself " 11l now propose to the highest class of your scholars a prize et 30 guineas to the candidate who shall most worthily render into lyrics, Greek or Latin at the choice of the competitors, one of the immortal songs of Robert Burns. (Yehetap plause.) At th a t name I fi n d myself, in conclusion, natu rally carried back to the ideas with which I commenced my direct appeal to you as your Rector. I commenced that appeal by invoking your national pride, so that you might be worthy the heritage and transmission of your national renown. Nor do I believe that there is one thoughtful Englishman who will blame me for that invocation ; for what patriot can desire, what reasoner expect, what states man be enabled, to erase from a laud the traditions that hallow it, or rob from the heart of a free people the history which is its life-blood, beats in every pulse, and tingles in every vein? This is no requisite in the obligations of that union which links the interests and blends the loyalty of kindred races speaking one langua g e an d su bj ec t t o a s i ng l e sceptre. But let us rejoice that we are now advancing on the future, hand in band, every English victory a Scottish tri umph, and every Scottish glory au English boast. (Cheers.) To you, to the men of your generation, is consigned the latter half of that century which your fathers enriched with such stores and adorned with such trophies. Before your energy spreads a dominion never compassed by the eagle of the Caesars, extending from the first well-spring of civilisation, under Indian palm-trees, to the last vent of its redundant flow, amid Australasian pastures. To your aid science contributes inventions which would have seemed to your progenitors fables as wild as the wings of Daedalus or the talisman of Abaris. To you the earth is daily revealing new mines of gold, and the heavens are vouchsafing new stars of intellectual light. Legislation for you has solved many of the problems that perplexed your fathers, and questions which at the dawn of this century threatened to rend society are now peacefully settled. Compared with those who have gone before you you have little to reform — you have infinitely more to gu ,rd. Such is the account which the trustees for half the century have rendered to those who are Lora to enjoy the inheritance of the half that follows. Filled with a sense of that magnificent bequest, and of the sublime responsibility it involves, go forth, students of Glasgow, to be in your turn the administrators of time, for the approval of Providence, and for the benefit of man. (The Lord Rector concluded amid a tremendous shout of applause, which continued for several minutes.) [PR10.1:; 4D. STAMPED SD• THE OVERLAND MAIL. The following is from the summary of the Bom bay Times, of Dec. 17 : " The only tidings that have reached us from the Persian Gulf since the departure of the fleet, in the middle of last month, is the intimation that the steamer Assaye, with the transport Rajah of Cochin in tow, had passed Muscat on the 20th No vember. Despatches are now expected daily, though we do not look for tidings of any great pith or moment. We at Bombay continue to be as much bewildered as ever as to what could be the object of sending forth an army, or what may be intended to be done. There seems no longer auy reason to doubt that Herat has fallen, after a long and most inglorious siege. It is not certain, indeed, but that the people themselves preferred a Persian to an Affghan or an indepen dent indigenous administration. The force of Brigadier Chamberlayne, mentioned in our last as having been within five marches of Cabul, is said to have gone on a demonstration against some recu sant tribes, who paid their arrears without a shot being fired, when they saw opposition hopeless. It is affirmed that there were several motives besides the ostensible one for the march—one being to determine the fact of whether a route might not be found into the Cabul districts without the necessity of penetrating the Khyber Pass ; and this, it is said, has been satisfac torily determined. There is a talk of trocps mus tering at Peshawur with a view to au advance, and of our sending whatever succour may be required to Candahar. The Friend of India, whose specu lations not unfrequently indicate the supposed views of government, speaks of an armed occupa tion of Affghanistan. The present, like the former Anglian war, is purely an affair of the administra tion, opposed, we have no doubt, now, as formerly, by Leadenhall-street, and by all who are competent to guide our coul.sels. Russia meantime is said to have seized on Astrabad, as a material guarantee, and will in all likelihood be but too glad for an ex cuse for the occupation of Teheran. Where the silver cross banner streams, it is not very easy to put it down again; and if in the course of the next five years it sweeps over a larger expanse of Asia than now, England will have to answer for it. Dost Mahomed is at present said to be in confer ence with Sir John Lawrence at Peshawur. The 60,0001. and 7,000 stand of arms we have sent to Candahar are just as likely to be used against us as in our favour. If it be true that an army is being organised in the Punjaub for an advance north wards, the march cannot be commenced till spring. In December and January the snow frequently lies several feet deep all over the country, and in 154 the thermometer at Cabul stood 40 deg. below the freezing point. " Tranquillity reigns throughout the British dominions in India, and this renders our columns nearly newsless. There have been some disturbances in the Madras Presidency, but apparently of no great moment. " Our railway works are proceeding with unpre cedented activity, and the Great Peninsular is em ploying nearly 50,000 people, each man receiving about ten times as much as the total of his ordinary emoluments. Peace improvements forms our true defences against foreign enemies, they are so easily carried through, so singularly advantageous to the people during their progress, and so certain in the magnificence of their returns, that the miracle is that other works should be thought'of while fields of enterprise so magnificent as those India provides remain unimproved." The Calcutta Englishman learns that a strong force, containing a larger proportion of Europeans, will be immediately despatched, under the com mand of Lieutenant-General Sir H. Somerset, to the Persian Gulf, to support the force previously sent. Mr. Gnat's bill, legalising Hindoo widow mar riage, produced its first fruit yesterday, when a Hindoo gentleman of high caste and social position was married to a young widow of good birth and family, the ceremony being attended by a very large assemblage of the most influential natives of the Brahminical order and other high castes, who fully approved of the step that had been taken. lIERAT. The following Cabul letter, which we extract from the Delhi Gazette, will be read with interest. All the Indian papers now admit the fall of the place. Cabul, Nov. 25.—Two Cossids from the sacred Mu shid came to Cabul, and in confidence mentioned that on the day when they left the sacred Mushid, they met on the road to Herat a party consisting of a thousand horse men who were escorting Esa Khan, the late chief of Herat, to the presence of the King of Persia at Tehe ran. When they arrived at Herat, they say that all the gates of Herat were open ; they went into the city and remained there three days. They heard from the inhabitants that Esa Khan had for a long► time been wishing to secure his personal safety, if he should evacuate the fort. The commander of the Persian forces always replied to Esa Khan, that without the order of the king he could not guarantee his life. A firman at length came from the king ; and in compliance with the orders received, quarter was granted and an assurance of honourable treatment given. Esa Khan surrendered the fortress and presented himself at the Durbar of the Prince of Persia, who conferred on him a handsome and valuable dress of honour and several thousand golden boodkies. Note that each boodkie, like Moor:Ts, is of small intrinsic value, probably not exceeding six rupees. The Prince then providing him with a honour. able escort of one thousand sowars, sent him to the King of Persia, who was at Teheran. The children and family of Esa Man remain in the fort of Herat ; and under orders conveyed i❑ a royal firman, they are residing in the house of the son of Yar Mahomed Khan. BRIGADIER CHAMBERLAIN'S EXPEDI- TION TOWARDS CABUL. In the Bengal Ilurkara we read : We mentioned on Thursday that we bad authentic information to the effect that a part of the so-called Meerunzaie force was actually on its way to Cabul, under com man d o f B r i ga di er N ev ill e Chamberlain,_an ( ! that, according to latest advices, it was within four march of the capital of the Ameer Dust MahoTed . days briefly alluded to the secresy with which this cannot imbutportant military measure had been carried out, but express our surprise that none of the up-couitliatvry. journals,received even the one nearest the frontier, should interesting or furnished any information on this hi g hly move. w hether the detach- We are not in a position to say meat of Brigadier Chamberlain, w hose distinguished ser vices iu AffghanislAn , and intimate acquai . ntance with the country and its people, t peculiarly o fi fi t ll, h i i s m i for the l post be has been so wisely Selected for service, or as our escort under whose wing the ru l er of Cabul is to hold an interview with Sir John Law rence ; but whatever may be the object, there is no doubt that the route selected has been a most judicious one. It com pletely turns the Afreedees of the Khib er , w h ose perm ission to "pass on " it might have been necessary to purchase. The expedition will make us acquainted with a road years ago pronounced the best to Cabul by the sagacity of Major Coke, and the arrangements for its despatch could be, and were apparently, made in that retired nook at Kohat, without exciting the observation which they must have attracted at Peshawur. There fore, the exact force, the strength of which we do not know, is accompanied by Captain Sladen's Punjaub bat tery, with the view, no doubt, of testing the practicability of the route for guns. It is generally believed in the Punjaub, and there seem strong grounds for thinking, that an army will be formed at Peshawur within the next three months, and that the regiments ostensibly on their march to reliev o the curps at that station will form the nucleus of the force. The only indication to the con trary we can find in our letters is that her Ma jesty's 61st Foot are still under orders to march, about this date, for Ferozepore. Her Majesty's 27th Regi ment ought to be close to Nowahera by this time, having marched out of Sealkote on the 15th November, while Captain Rothney's Sikh Regiment are approaching the same point, though their names never appeared in orders. i-Zz z 4<.1 / 7 '; l3 V - 7 47 777,Tkrc., Even the services of the Hill Rangers of Col. O'Brien, Naz who were considered a fixture at Dhurnisala, have been called in to rerp O t-i st) ; they would be oOat!, to the Indus Ai by this had mereli been c , :ustirsbis.ft ,ll 3'f-td/r,ki'4; 4 ' 7 sieliness, S: - ;-;;s4 . In the Cabul correspondence of the beihi Gaze* dated Nov. 23, we read of some slight opposition offered to the force : Rumour says that the Commissioners and Brigadier Chamberlain, Anderson, and Leslie have left Kohat and reached the Koortim, and that on one occasion some shots were fired from a fort on the said Sahibs, which led to the commissioner then and there inflicting sum mary punishment. Having realised from the people the revenue due by them, it was made over to Mahomed Hossein, the servant of Mahoc.med Azzim Khan, the Nazim or Deputy Commissioner of the district on the part of the Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan. The servants of the Dost entertained the said Sahibs just as they ought to have done. The commissioner with the other Sahibs, and a small party of troop., went from the halt ing ground at "Cbuhar Munzil" to Bu'aghien. After the commissioner has visited Kobat and K.oorntn, he will return to Peshawur. The advance tents of Dost Maho med have been sent outside of the town of Cabul, on the road to Jellalabad, and (as it has before been said) it is probable, or rather nearly certain, that there will be a s m i Le e ti r ia , g at be w t h w i e c e h n t D he o c st om Al m a i h s o si md on e er an o d f p th e e sh C a h w i u ef r will Commis- also be present. It is said that Major Nicolson, the deputy commissioner of Bunnoo, has issued stringent orders to the sellers of grain regarding the disposal of their stores, from which it is supposed that prices will be cheaper. At hearing such good news, the poor have been delight ed, and they are inclined to bless the justice and bene volence of the noble Sahibs. Amidst other reports, it is generally asserted here that four Sahibs and one Moos scree will be sent to arrange the affairs of Kahan, Bok hara, and Kboorgunj. The Bombay Telegraph publishes a letter (with out date) from an officer with the force under Bri gadier Chamberlain, who writes : We ate now within 50 miles of Cabal, and for the present ten days our route has lel us through a conntr miserably uninteresting; roads bad in the extreme, to accomplish a march of 10 mile requiring seven hours. Sir J. Lawrence is now at Kohat —he possibly will have had an interview with Dost Mahomed ere this can reach you. We are as supremely ignorant as ever as to whi ther we are bound ; but one thing is certain, that before many days we shall feel ourselves called upon to chas tise the •‘ Tyomosht" A ffehans, who are troublesome. The whole force is remarkably healthy. 'fig The following important indications are found in au article published by the Friend of India of Dec. 4, with the interrogative heading " Can we hold Affghanistan ?" Herat has fallen. Sir 3nhn Lawrence is to meet Dost Mahommed in Khyber. Ten thousand men have been demanded from Bengal to join the Persian expedition. We are drifting fast into the shoreless sea of Central Asian politics. The cmcle has come round once more. We are embarked fur the second time in an undertak ing from which we must not again retreat without the certainty of permanent success. Of that undertaking the invasion of Persia is but one important sec ion. Are the gates of Ind:a to be English or Russian ? Is the Tartar cradle to be ruled from London or St. Petersburg ? That is the question whicb, under petty disguises, seems to be presented to the Government of India. It is too often argued that the struggle with Russia will bo fought out in Europe. This is the doctrine the Bombay Times never wearies of expounding. Be the policy sound or unsound, w e submit that the quarrel will be fought out here. Its unsoundness, however, is open to grave ques tion. By fiatiting in Asia, it is true, we may protract the contest. But we repeat the policy v, hich has for the hour xhausted European Russia. \Ve compel the Czar to fight at a distance from his resources, to urge his troops over half a world of steppe, to exhaust in locomotion the strength scarcely adequate to the day of battle. A❑ army lost in Finland may be replaced. An army lost in the Suliman is the loss of a force, every unit of which is the result of the expenditure of a dozen lives. Russia has posts upon the Caspian. She may have boats upon the Jaxartes. But her true strength is thousands of miles away, and liable to all the incidents of that length of land carriage. She must fight in a country secretly hostile, and hampered by allies whose predilection is for the stronger side. We, on the con trary, enter on the struggle supported by the unimpaired strength of the military monarchy of India. We have a great acclimated army. We have no press impatient of a wise delay, no bourgeoisie to fling aside the fruits of victory in its ignorant horror of taxation. Above all, we have no alliances. There is no Louis Napoleon in Asia to throw down his warder as the warriors warm to the strife. The contest CACI be fought out without the interference inseparable from alliances, or the vacillation inherent in our constitutional scheme. We believe, therefore, that the conflict, if the time has arrived, ought to be transferred to Asia. The second cloud has a darker lining. The popular instinct, often more accurate than the calculations of stattsinen, already reasons thus. If we are really em barked iu this great strife the occupation of Affghanistan sooner or later is a necessity. To such a prospect there was, till 1850, an almost insuperable aversion. The Cabul war, with its fearful catastrophe, was too vividly remembered. The horror excited by that event had dimmed even our perception of facts. Affghanistan was regarded as the Anglo-Indian Circassia. The absolute success of Pollock's expedition was, as it were, ignored. Affghanistan was held to be the limit set by nature her self to the advance of the Angle Saxon. The feeling which produced these views has n'. . yet disappeared. The Cabot catastrophe, it is true, has become the Cabul blunder. Politicians acknowledge that with the annexa tion of the Punjaub the main difficulty has disappeared. Soldiers allow that the Valley of the Indus is now a safe base of operations, that Cabul is but five days' march from our strongest camp. The public has lost its dread of the mountain clans. It appreciates the lesson taught by Sir John Lawrence, and knows that like other wild beasts they can be tamed by hunger and the occasional application of the whip. Yet in spite of all this there is an undefined feeling that Affghanistan would be a dangerous and expensive possession. Why ? The population is not braver than that of the Huzara. It is scarcely so numerous as that of ()vie. It is not so fanatic as that of Malabar. There is no natural diffi culty in Affghauistan which does not equally exist in Kohat. There is no want of experience on our side. There are twenty officers now on the frontier who, it ordered to hold Affghanistan, would know thoroughly what to say, and how to act, how to conciliate the chiefs, and how to einpl .y a half-starving population. The mere danger indeed scarcely deserves discussion. But at what expense would the occupation be main tain d ? The injury to the revenue is at least clear? We venture with profound submission to question even that assertion. Is it cheaper to guard the plain against the mountain, or the mountain against the plain ? We must do one or the other. If not, if Russia is not ads vancing, if there is no danger approaching, we have no business beyond the range or in Persia. \Ye are sending a costly expedition to hunt a will-o'-the-wisp; but if, ae we believe and as our actions prove, there is real danger, the cheapest method of defence is to garrison the natural fortress. It would be chesp even if we turned the Affghans into our most faithful subjects by formally exempting them from all taxation. Half the army now coiled up in the Punjaub would turn Affghanistan into an impregnable fortress. Every rock and mountain, now a terror, would then be a defence. Every Khan of the steppe, now half inclined to join the invader and share the spoils, would take heart to continue a contest of which we reap the fruit without the cost. With the fortress in our hands, and its approaches always exposed to a flank attack from Bushire, the Peninsula would be absolutely safe. That quietude is not, even in the point of view assumed by financial officers, a mean advantage. Let us not be misunderstood. We advocate no insane plunge into the passes, without a reason or a danger. We simply point to facts which, if the danger arrives, are necessary to a calm judgment on the appropriate remedy. THE PERSIAN GULF. The Scindian says :—" A correspondent has kindly placed at our disposal the following more recentintelli gence from the Persian Gulf, which will be found highly interesting under the present aspect of affairs. The Bri tish Agent at Bushire has been ordered away from that place, as well as all Christian residents, Armenians and others, who might be supposed to be favourable to Bri tish interests. A proclam ation was issued by th e Governor of the province , directing its subjects to remove into the egry of interior, it as the the empire, Shah and to d o battle was determined with tain the integrity the British. Most of the inhab i t an t s h ave accordingly move d out of the vicinity of the expected battle-field. Troops are being rapidly collected a b out B ushire, about 40,000 soldiers of all arms h av i ng b een moved towards that point. Russian officers and ev en R uss i an troops are said to form a portion of the Persian force at Bushire, and t i t s h h e y f rConsequentlyeffecting hold n ti d i n h g hop n e s t h o i p r r s e h v o e r n e t s i n . g An the ' island about two miles from Bushire has been fortified with 80 guns." We read in the Bombay Telegraph of Dec. 17 : " From native boats which have arrived at Kurrachee, we learn that the expedition had reached Bassadore in safety ; and it is just possible that our first despatches from the general commanding will contain an account of the bombardment of Bushire. It is also stated by the commanders of native craft that defensive works are being extensively planned and vigorously executed all along the Persian coast, but particularly at Bushire and a small isl an d i n f ron t o f it, name d H a ll a l a y, on which a fort has been constructed, and which is said to be well manned with guns and men. The strength of the Persian force prepared to resist us is estimated at 100,000 men, which will be increased on the commencement of hostili• ties by the addition of several Russian regiments, which are now encamped near Tabreez, and are expecting orders to move towards Bushire." BEXLEY,—THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRIS. TIANITY AMONG THE JEWS.—The Rev, Thomas Hard ing, vicar of this parish, preached the usual annual ser• mon on new year's morning, on behalf of the above society, when a liberal collection was made. We under stand it is very probable that the sermon will be printed, as it was of a peculiarly intere,ting character, both for its Biblical research and c l ass ifi ca ti on , as well as its reference to the signs of the times. THE Loss OF THE POINT OF AIR LIFE.BOAT.—LIVER. POOL, THURSDAY.—The subscription-list in aid of the wi,iows and orphans of the unfortunate men who were drowned i n th e P oin t o f Air life-boat while going to the rescue o f th e cre w of a shipwrecked brigantine off the Welsh coast, continues to till very fast, and up to last evening upwards of 2,650/. bad been subscribed in Liverpool, inclusive of 5001. from the doek committ ee , 1501. collected on 'Change by Mr. Daniel C. Buchanan, and 1001., the contribution of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society.