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ALOON OMNIBUS COMPANY.- - To the STIA.RE`dOLDEUS of Cie SALOON O MNIBUS COMPANY :- aleiriamEN,—Wben I was solicited to become a director of year Company, I was offered as an inducement one hundred S cares, as a qualification : however, at the first meeting I paid down 251., my qualification on one hundred shares. On r eference to the cash-book I there found the expenses for punting and parading the omnibus in different parts of Lon .,°ll (before I joined the board) very great. This it wa s m y il i t itY to protest against and stop, and I did so. At o ne of 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 ki°l4 l)any, expressing the willingness of the .General Omnibus Company to run the Saloon Omnibuses, a nd pay the sum of 4 , 3 00/. to this Company for the shareholders, whose deposits ady paid amount to 800/. This sum offered by the General Omnibus Compan wou ld have been sufficient to re p a y the de posits to the shareholders, and with the advanc es made b y this Company;to the builder of the omnibuses would have c leared it from debt. The directors, however, thoughtthem calves justified in declining this offer. Conceiving it, there fore, satisfactorily to carry on the business of the rollsany, 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 cash 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 staii44ll of which I consider would bo acts of injustice to the shareholders —I beg leave to tender my resignation of the seat r. 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. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SUNDAY TIMES." Snt,—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 *ern 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 "n*Pany's affairs, and believing from my long experience in t(lnThibus conveyance, that I could be of material assistance to , ' le Company and service to the public by joining the under 114inffilmsdidaite o, and have from that time exerted myself as belt* Iteh iiitenenthe - Saloon Omnibus, which, I I a, Possesses qualifications which would be appreciated. have found, however, that insuperable difficulties have arisen, the shares have not been taken up, an expensive paper Ir arfare has been entered into, and that, a ft er several months 'Pont in endeavours to raise the capital necessary for the un dertaking, the funds are exhausted, and the public confidence a PPareattly 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 Hive the public the advantage of an improved conveyance, would give trial to oar Saloon Omnibus. I was met by them In a fair spirit, and a deputation from the two beards 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 -1)1'414 to raise more capital, will, I fear, involve the Corn- PanY in further difficulties. Under these circumstances, feeling that the public requirements would be fully served by t he London General Omnibus Company working the Saloon "mnibus, and that the interests of our shareholders would be best served by the offer of the London General Omnibus Cora- P ail b __Y being acceded to, I have felt bound to retire from the '" ua •rd, 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, "t7 -road, Feb. 14, 1847. G. SHILLIBEER. riIHE LONDON, HARWICH, and CONTI• 1 NENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. (Limited). Capital 100,000/., in 10,000 Shares of 101. each, with power to increase. 2/. per share payable on allotment. lacorporated under the Act 19 and 20 Vic., chap. 47, by which the liability of the Proprietors is limited to the amount of their shares. TRUSTEES. 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. Jshu Bagahaw, Esq., M.P., Director of the Eastern Counties Railway. AN ACT OF GRATITUDE. —5, 000 Copies of a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—Mr. G. TIRMIAS having been effectually cured of a nervous debility, loss of memory, and dimness of sight, resulting from the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given in a Medical Work by a Ph} sician, he considers it his duty, in gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous sufferers, to publish the means used. lie will therefore send free, to any address, in a sealed envelope, on receipt of a direct ed envelope enclosing two stamps, to pre-pay postage, a copy of the medical work containing every information retnired. Address, Mr. G. Thomas, St. John's-lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIRKCTORS. 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. P. C. Zillesen, Esq., Vice-President of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company, Amsterdam. Bir 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 Fulha m. Andrew Walls, Esq., Lloyd's, and 11, Le adonhall-street. 'ltalia Raymond, Albion-square, Dalston, Managing Direc tor of the Steam Vessels. (With power to increase.) BAAKIMS. The London and Eastern Banking Corporation, 27, Cannon street, City. M.uzs. Cox, Cobbold, Rodwell, and Co., Bankers, Harwich, Essex. &MINUS rt Cinzr—Messrs. Newton arid Faller, 16, King William-street, City. SIIAREBROKERf3. London—Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell,l Threadneedle-street Liverpool—Messrs. H. Davies and Son, 2,Ployal Bank-buildings SHIPPING Aaiun's—Messrs. William Felg'ete and Co., 4, Cle ment's-lane, City; Mr. R. Twiss, H. Son, Rotterdam. STARRING ConNsEL—Alfred Hill, Esq., 44, Chanom-lane. SOLICITORS.—Memrs. Rymer, Murray, Rymer, and Jackson, Hanover-street, Hanover-square, and 59, Chancery-lane. .a.unrroas.—Messrs„ Broom, Bagshaw, and • Westcott, 35, Coleman-street, City„, r SSCRSTARY.—Hume Greenflold, 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, dm, 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 Eelgium, and thence to the northern and central parts of the iliontinent of Europe. _ _ _ _ Passengers proceeding to India via Trieste, by Harwich, Rotterdam, and the Dutch-Rhenish Railway, will effect a Having 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 aro avoided, whereby a saving of time is effected to Hamburgh, Rotterdam, and Antwerp of from 10 to 11 hours; whilst the rout e to Oberhausen ' and thence to the northern parts of Europe is four hours and, a quarter less by Harwich and Rotterdam than that by Dover and Ostend, as per tabular statement, and thus the former must become the direct route of postal communication. Tins PEE SOITTII-EASTEILE TIME PER. RASTERA COITETIES RAILWAY. RAILWAY. London to Dover ...2i hours London to Harwich 21 hours I Harwi c h t o R otter Dover to Ostend ... 7 IP Ostend to Oberhausen dam (264 miles) 10i ~ Rotterdam to Ober bausen (1.24 miles)4 „ 20 hours Saving in fayour'otHaryr. FA: • 1 5i hours Ich RES. PER Sorrn V , -__ISTERN RAIL- PER EASTER:NT COIIETIES RAIL WAY. WAY. London, Dover, Ostend, to London,Hazwich,Rotterdam, Cologne. to Cologne. let Class, Rail and Ist Class, Rail and Steam 23 10 6 Steam 42 10 3 24 ditto ditto. 298 2d ditto ditto ll2 5 Saving in favour of Harwich. Ist Class, Rail and 5team........: Ll 0 3 2d ditto ditto ........ . 017 3 the Minister of A deputation has been in Holland, and submitted th . e views_ F r ina ti t e° 4 lll ndth r to the Postmaster-General , their co'rdial e Minister of the Interior, who have promised It is intended confine the open-a -ce -operation in support of the undertaking. tions of this c . is the first instance, to . London, via R ;7anY to the direct This Compa ny wielll4 to Rotterdam. communication from and its manag ement have swift and commodious packets , so as to secure expedilt* carried out with will be the utmost care, ion, safety, and comfort, and .. the di. rectors submit that the traffic cannot fail to realise Pomo dividend to the The capital will be diaTeholders. on which 2/. per share is a bane toded into 1 0,000 shares of 10/. each, Logs per share is to be paidbt°o Paid on allotment. Five shil and their receipt must ace to the bankers of the Company, If less than the number of srl'l'aPan applied 1 otter of application. proportionate part of the de shares il!er share for be allotted, a will be immediately re turned. . No call will exceed 2r it a less interval than three month , and will not be at Forms of application for shares brokers and offices of the Compa 'nay be obt a i ne d a t th e City, London, E.C. ; and a t the offices'n Moorgate-street, liams, Esq., agent to Lloyd' s, and Vie f Olive r J o h n Wil lands, Harwich, Essex. 0 of of the Nether- Application for shares and prospectuses to b Secretary, who will give inform a ti on. e made t o th e All letters addressed " Seel etarr, will receive immediate attention. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR 'SHARES. To the Directors of the London, Har wich, and Continental Steam Packet Company (Limited), 44, xi ...,-oorgate-street City, E.C. ' Gentlemen,—l enclose you a receipt for £ paid to the London and Eastern Banking Corporation, and I hereby request you will allot me 15hares in th e L ondon, Harwich, and Continental Steam Packet Company (Limited); and I hereby agree to accept such shares or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the calls thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds of the Company. I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, • Name in full Address in full...,,.Occupation Date BANKERS' RECEIPT Received the day 1852, the sum of on account of the London , Harwich, and C9lltillOatal Stem Packet %MUM (Limited). Londa,, A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE iplomo d'Ecol d r olle d ge to of the fed fo ici e ne e Vienna. harmacie Patent Office Seal of Grea t OF MED I CINE. Britain. Imperial C separate in the waistcoat pocket. zee, Pbarmacien de Paris. _doses, as administered by TRIEREMAR No. I, 2, and 3 devoid of taste or smell, and can 111PereePareof, alo ,+old in tin cases, divided into and all the distressing Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c•, e restored d a b te excesses, or too for RE -3 intIESEMAR No. 1 i sa d ' c i tein , A. LAXATION, SPERMATORRH In CE dis t ri , ri e(IY bodily and sexual who are consequences arising from early abuse, long residence in hot climates. It has r strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals now in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood whatever may be the cause for DISQU A LIFICATIONS " f I o I° r 9d I4A an R ci - RIAGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Disco very. TRIESEM AR No. 11., effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated torms, Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and than ose d tiisorde forrs which Copaivi and Cubebs h ave so long been thought antidote ,to th e rain of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR No. 111., is the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp. toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its the to corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine , an d is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately ', h i e Enish Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable dastruc -140 . Le the world ofthe patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in street ; which cannot restore. Price Ila., or four cases in one for 338,, streethail id wholesale and retail : o r d b . e hadsaves e." 8., and in 5/. cues, whereby there is a saving of 11.125. in London, of Derby and Gordon, hall-street;n Prout, 229, Strand; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox ringdon. ' ger, 150, Oxford 'street ; Barclay and Son, 97, Far_ Paul's Butler and Harding, 4, Chcapside ; Edwards, St. Churchyard, --. HU MAN FRAILTY ; ' 1 work, price ls., post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 engravings, an containing the opinions of Val eau, Lallemand, Ito" , It , ~ &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoration of tilos who 'are Dr • to the married evented by impediments from entering in a Popular Medical state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhoea, and syphilis, a n d the benefits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatoza by the author's newly-constru cted microscope, with nowArcni f--: Di-,,.. —A r.„ oq p.thrnoster- ( 0 , 20,177.) ift f l ONT BLANC is CLOSED for the present. MISS P. HORTON'S POPULAR ILLUS TRATIONS.-Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED will give their Entertainment at the Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, with an entirely New Part, "Our Ward's Governess," and " he Enraged Musician," Every Evening (except Saturday), at Eight, intrcducing English, French, and Italian Songs. MORNING PER FORMANCE on Saturday at Three. Admission, 25., Is. ; Stalls, 33., may be secured at the Gallery, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co., '2Ol, Regent-street. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and various Novelties, Vocal and Cha racteristic, every evening (except Saturday) at Eight. A MOR K ING PERFORMANCE every SATURDAY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. GORDON CUMMING, the LION HUNTER, will give his new and popular ENTERTAINMENT, descrip tive of his EXPLOITs and ADVENTURES in SOUTII AFRICA every evening, except Saturday, at 8. MORNING REPRESENTA TION every SATURDAY, at 3 o'clock. The Lion Bunter's Bush People, from the great Kalahari Desert, will appear incidental to the Entertainment. Fiano by Mr. Harries Wilson. Area, Is. ; reserved seats, 2s. ; stalls (which may be taken daily between eleven and four, at the Museum), 35.-232, Piccadilly. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James's.— The above elegant Rooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcoart. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that this fashionable place of resort ha‘ been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-pap eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One Shilling. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-sqUare.—Open (for Gentlemen only) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models and preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c Lectures delivered at 12, 2,4, and half-past 7,, by Dr. G. Sarrots, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and highly-Interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. KAHN, at a quarter past 8 p.m. precisely. Admission, One Shilling. Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gratis). PATENT COMPRESSED VEGETABLES, for the supply of Ships, Victualling Stations, and Stores in General.—CHOLLET and CO. (Masson's and Morel Fatio's Patents), Di anufacturers and Purveyors to the French, British, and Sardinian Armies and Navies. Compression gives the twofold advantage of preservation for an indefinite period, in all climates, ar_d of easy stowage, one cubic yard containing as much as 16,000 rations. Our Potatoes, Cabbage, Cauli flower, &c., have been found to retain their original colour and flavour after a sea voyage of 5 years. Be-ides a great many testi monials from Government Offices and Merchants, we refer to the frequent eulogies passed upon our articles in the Crimean Corres pondence of the " Times." The unparalleled success of our enter prise has brought a host of imitations into the market, which a , e offered at a low price. We leave It to the public to compare and judge. _ _ - To supply the large demands made upon us for Government pur poses we are now working in six factories, viz., at Paris, Vilettee, Meaux, Manx, Ruell, and Dunkerque. Wholesale Depot, 123, Fenchurch-street, nearly opposite Mark. lane. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, ind all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, ind by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to p .rfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the beet safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin', 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay end Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and neer thants, London; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Instltu ion has 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 sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each) car. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn-fields; Messrs. Cc.utts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By order, W.J. COCKERILL, Secretary. IR OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. —. . _ The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; ho re commendation 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 application:— Week ending 7th November 2,154 Ditto 14th November.... • Ditto 21st November .... • • 1,972 Ditto 28th November 2,309 9th and 30th November.• .• Total in November ...... 8,747 of 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. licavy 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, 1 early elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual leneral Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at .11 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, Tohn Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts , nd Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; ! , rescott, Groto, 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 ers-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. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, COUGH, ASTHMA, C ONSUMPTION, AND DEBILITY. DU 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, ,cidity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart, nervous headaches, hysteria, neuralgia, deafness, noises in the bead and ears, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, erysipelas, erup tions of the Win, impurities and poverty of the blood, scroftila, 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, delusion., vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melan choly, groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, moreover, the bgenerally, as it never turns rris foodacidf on ' t i h .n e ran w is eak a e n s d t i s n to v m al ac ids h, nor interferes with a t:ood liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for limch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebra tedw r , Dr. i t n , g a r n a d m 0,0 o Lard o Professor of Chemistry Dr An drew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr .Har- Stuart de Decies, the Do „ vey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. aaan.tteirkecro,unDtre.ssV,o" other well-known individuals, whose he alth has been restored by n f C r z a a s r t this useful and economical diet, after all othe r means h ad been tried in vain for many years, and all hopesofrecevery aband oned. Analysis by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew lire, F.R.S., &C., BDc. " London, 24, Bloomsbury-square.. perfectly whole- Arabica I find it to be a pure vegetable Farina, I hereby certify, that having eXamincdDt: Barry's Revalenta some, easily di ges tibl e , lik e l y to pr...mote a healthy action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges tion), constipation, and their nervous consequences. ANDREW Ulm, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Analytical Chemist." , Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dee. 2,1847. 7,rThe 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 ; 61h lls ; 121 b 22s ; super refined quality, Ilb 6s 21b lls ; 51b 22s ; 101 b 335. The 101', and 121 b canis ters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co.. 77 Regent-street, London; Fortnum , Mason, and Co.. pu rveyors to her llfalesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch-stre e t ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 68, Cornball ; 49, llishopsgate- a t reet ; 55, Ch ar i ng - cross; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford -street. ..--;-)/ rD --- 6-.--,-- LL .-- -_ e,..7)- ~ . ....,.. ‘,........-..-. ift h..... - ‘ , ...of, ~,, so ~-t.„..x. -c, 10 11 %1, - , -..' '.., - - - ir ~ -.;*: ~.. ,- 1, • ~ .0. i. , ,qi u,., z .," ' . ...,... c._ 1 . -"----: :'! "111 % . .;:• , ,L :. 4* 4 , '''. ' : ____ ___ \ . ,'_....;-,' ... .. 06, . 4 `..i 2' ~ , ,ovi y .4" „o's ~,!- 'e-, , ;--, ii ii 8 , ,,‘ , -,, :i \ -- t - --_ , \ ter—.- , - :-! ..9, --.l.iT 3 ,; , (6) Dri, ~. r rvi,-., ~,,\I, , , r... 4 )R° l ' i''' ‘ r '..A k sh: • r . y •e.,",-. y tr, - 4 .- ~, es:::::00:8;:,,,,:: 2 ,e' ' Z/Z : ;--,V,' ---- (._--- i ,----, - - .....:::-4-... I ''Aii!Vgel,kclt : 4 _ 74PT" 4 . 1 -4 .1 r, ' dfrs l • aot h irf a eT hei v snu. e ades r i se e Twia p :ht o gizi r urr t oel e ean d arl tnyhhdieessxi,cedistinctionspeeche t ion tooexceptions to : i t : I tii •' e ''' . ' 4 : 4O w - L tiously becomes liable to an actiiat:for e - . 7, established in "favour of proceedings before a court moree ches atrociousi itihuParliaments established libels —obtthabei obtain law e r they widest publicity. between printed and spoken libels, and between libellous statement s promulgated in Westminster Hall or the two Houses of Parliament and other bellpublic meetings, is thus supported by Lord Camp- , . . "The question was whether accounts of public meetings might be published, in which there might be matter which calumniated 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 the 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 published it was carried all over the world. He would not say that there mi7ht not be some cases where the publication of public meetings might not be exempted from libel under certain limitations and resVictions, but it was monstrous to suppose that thos,e ware to make the law who were appointed to interpret it, and he hoped that such a precedent would never be established." 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 -hirase)f cannot be. made le- gaily answerable. But the dictum is founded alto 7 getter upon a bygone and obsolete condition of _ things. ' Triiauld possibly have been just and-tight fifty years since—when the press, paradoxical as it may sound, exercised at once greater and less influ ence than it does at present—when it was potent to assail and destroy private character, but far less powerful in its sway over public opinion, or as the guide and censor of public men. At that time it might have been found just and expedient to fetter the licence of the jourtialist, and to establish a broad legal distinction between the penalties incur red for the promulgation of a " libei" in mere speech, or by the more permanent and potent agen cies of print. But that time has long since passed away. In lending the sanction of hie authority to the conii nuance 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 Baccn, 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. [PRICE 4D. SrAmPED SD. THE LA TY OF LIBEL. ( From the Times.) We wish to set ourselves right with Lord Camp bell as to the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in the case of " Davison v. Duncan." His Lordship says — "It would have been a most monstrous usurpation if we had decided that the publication before us was not liable to an action ; for if it hat been determined over and over again by our predecessors by whose decisions we are bound that if there be anything slanderous in a writing it is no justification to plead that the slanderous matter has been written or spoken by another person." Now, we submit to Lori Campbell that the "monstrous usurpation," if any such there be, con sisted in first enouucing this proposition. Let us look fora moment at the history of this portion of our libel law. In the twelfth part of Lord Coke's reports we find the c2.lebrated case of the Earl of Northamp ton. It was decided so long ago as 1612, and the re solution was made, after solemn argument, by 11 of the 12 judges of England. The resolution was in these words':-- , " In a private action for a slander of a common person, if J. S. publish that he bath heard J. N. say that J. G. was a traitor or thief, in an action on the case he may justify " But if J. S. publish that he hath heard generally, without FS, certain author, that. J. G. was a traitor or thief then an ac`aon on the ease lieth against J. S. for this, that he hath not g iv en t o th e p ar ty gr i eve d any cause of action against any but against himself who published the words ; for if any one who hath laesam phantasianu,' or who is a drunkard, or cf no estimation, speak scandalous words, if it should be lawful for a man of credit to report them generally without mentioning his author, that would give greater colour and probability 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 predecessors. A smatterer in Law will obje3t that this resolu .. tion was of - words spoke!), and not of words written. Lord Campbell 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 recent'y as the year 1812 that the distinction between written and spoken defa mation was first formally 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—"l cannot upon principle make any difference between words written and words spoken as to the right which arises on them cf bringing an action." So late as 1824 Lord Tenterden, in the case of " M'Gregor v. Thwaites," very carefully guarded himself against being supposed to decide that the resolution in Lord Northampton's case did not apply to written as 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, uutl in 1829 Chief Justice Best, in the case of "De Cre4- pigny v. Wellesley," stepped out of his way, and, confessedly without any necessity for the purpose of the case before the Court, committed the mon strous ustupation" of enacting from the bench that the law of England as it existed from the time of James I. downwar Is 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 him, and swear not to abrogate decrees until he canes 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 ne7,ro 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." Naval and Military intailigence. 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 musters 1 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 Bi,cay. The Wye was formerly the Heels, and bought by the Government from the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company to be con verted int - ) a watertank for distilling water for the use of the fleet, then at 13alakka. 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 to 35,000 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 particularly desirous that the Wye should have barn 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 rMa jesty's ship Cur a g oa ; Mrs. Allen and eon; and Dr. Toms, R.N., in medic a l c h arge , on promot i on. i in T o h t e he ßz et u m c k b , a 6 s . i ri s t a e t a m i.) . arts for vteossebe b l, has oug h b t ee f n or t w a ar ke d n for service. The Plumper, 6, sorew sloop, Capt. Richards, was taken out of dock a t P ortsmouth yesterday, aft er a nd taken under th e s h ears to b e remasted. , f repairs, Vice-Admiral 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 S e y mour, M a id of Honour to the Queen, ' to Colonel Biddulph, Controller of her Majesty's House hold. 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 Mansfields, and Camdeus. 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 he considers he must be bound by as a judge. It is to help him in this work that we have pointed out that this vexatious rule of law is but an "usurpation" of yesterday ; that it is con- The Dee steam store transport is unloading boilers and machinery for the new ships Diadana and Melpomene. The urgent steam troopship, Commander Phillips, was taken ont 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 for warded to Alderehott for the use of the troops at thecamp and yesterday afternoon four 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. trary to all ancient authority, and - but the edict of an old Tory judge whose politics no one respects, and whose learning no lawyer venerates. If Chief Justic) Best's law cannot be overruled there need not be any scruple about repealing it. The Diamond, 27, Capt. C. B. Hamilton (1853), is to be paid off at Chatham this day. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Lieut. Richard C. Mayne, to the Plumper ; E. M. Tap. per, mate, to the Iris; Wm. Parsons, midshipman, to the Victory; A. J. Errington, midshipman, to the Impreg nable; and Robert W. M. Jones, paymasjer, to the Curlew. (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. Lot us see how the question remains, according to the tenour of existing statutes, as interpreted by the judicial tribunals. " Libellous" Statements may be promulgated in 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 slanders may be uttered, either in private conversation 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 nical regulations. Thus every atrocious epithet and insinuation may be freely lavished upon any ob noxious person, if care be taken to avoid callin g him a thief. Over members of the legal p ro f ess i o more especially protection is thrown ; yet even a solicitor can be branded with many terms of oppro brium without finding any legal remedy, u n l ess h e 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 stigmatised in phrases which would condemn her to itiftiny for life ; and yet the cowardly slan derer may laugh at every attempt to bring him within the purview of a legal denalty. With regard to written slander, the question, in a legal point of view, always turns upon the proof 1 of what is called publication. Certain letters, whatever the character of their contents, are con sidere 1, " privileged communications." Of this class are epistles containing the characters of ser vants or other applications for confidentialsi . tuations, and the communications addressed to various per souaqes occupying positions of trust and responsi bility. Letters sent by private hand also enjoy the great negative advantage of putting the plai n _ tiff in any case of libel founded upon their contents to the necessity of proving, by extraneous evidence, the fact of publication. With regard to letters sent by post, this proof is easily procured. By a legal t e ra x n a s m it p u t, the epistles when property i whens fiction, and accepted for the sake of convenience in s o t t o h l e e r n from .e a ects - t a t s er i f t o ir dropped into a receiving -box at any t ffi Pos.-0 Ce be long for the time to the Postmaste Gr- eneral. Be ing thus made public property for a few hours, s tatement contained in the letter legally sup posed to be published in the precise senseofpub lication disseminated, by the a most widely circulated newspaper. This is the l I libels. aw as regard s " written" With respect to p r i n t e d s t atements in which in dividual characters are traduced, the law has no doubt. All s uc h are pu bli shed at the entire risk of the writer, if he can be identified, or, .ie b!,7 absence, of the publisher. The real author, i'b. n i! observed, escapes unpunished. Ther . e h is ar n e e I not (lulu even after him. For libels e rom libellous when merely spoken,. becolwmhic written and printed. The original a therefore, even if ho has been . addressing_scan ulgator, thronged be attested assembly, and although his worci remains by a thousand competent. witnesses,rtwho un assailable. while the JOl 1111a.1,4 liappell4 to such when ORDNANCE SURF EY OF GREAT BRITAIN. The following letter has been addressed to the Tina : Sir,—ln your leading article of to-day on " the pecu niary incontinence of the House of Commons" you have fallen into two mistakes in your observations on the Ord nance Survey of Great Britain, which I feel certain you will be anxious to correct as soon as they are pointed out. You say " the House of Commons has recently sanc tioned a survey of Scotland on the scale of five feet to 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 inches to a mile," which is only linear measure, an one-tenth of the sca d le e e n t l a y te o d n i e n -h t u h n e a T r i e r th , applied to the area of the ground. . as applied to the of that scale as arrangements for the . can obtain at great better maps than the English • 2. You say th a tth e e u S r c v o ey ic o h b p te rc in p e r:e a t t o t r h n e n p d u e b r l t io he ex p p re en se e n e t , • tland are proceeding pari passu, and under Eng land and Sc o tland the fact p rop rietor being that the surveys of personal expense, similar ius . tructions, and although in a numerical counties published in England and Scotland on the largo scales the number . of . English counties appears small, yet when it is borne in mind that Yorkshire alone, the precisely returnplans eise loyf of th which e twhiell engraved sbeeorsee e a on. n f‘ tdehxpaput expenditure d i a s is h t u e f d raer o ai n: ns the six-inch scale, is equal in area to the counties of Edin• burgh, Haddingtore Linlithgow, Fife, Wigton, Kirkend er than another, the English oa b nu t- i ey g p h l t rj , te A oot y fi Ayr, a nd Great ca n aa d nt Bb eiimt Dumfries, aaind er a en nh t have p in s g o to f ecvoeinry m complain of, in Irela n d h ave been long since published on th e s i x-inch scale has never bee n questioned, and m and their great v a lu e The z° m th a many important measures connected with the improvement of the country could not be I carried v enoout desirewh it o t ou t revive in yo ur co l umns t h e di scus ' . civilised count r y ; t h e sub *dons as to th e b es t scales for the of this any other j discussed inParliamentarycommitt a ee r s e , and in both Hou ses subject bas taa l ps ady been en or very fully of Parliament, and the opinions of the most eirdeen t b an i d e practical men conversant with the subject are Set forth the published volume of Correspondence °ll the Scale the may Survey, which has been laid before Parliament; s making observe that the scales now adopted allowance for the difference of the and Bavaria, tries—which are adopted in France, Belgium, by the Statistical and are those which were recommended an, , may be allowed, Congress held in Brussels in 1 i 8 . 51 ' a a ' h great object in view-- to add that, having reference to the means of facilitating viz., the registration of proP ty, the valuation of property, Ineasare.nrest of the eoun the transfer of landed pur poses, property, - civil and military, including gi i an d hydrographical surveys, and all and all engineering • other purpose!) . a__ a dopted, as far as I can judge, after • basis—the eealeenceew geological °which an accurate map is a necessary i n almost every eass of engineering mining, the 1 a long and perfectly suited for the national survey. 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Yesterday the unfortunate men who are at present suffering from want of employment were ind aced to assemble in large numbers at their usual place of rendez vous by an invitation from Mr. Ernest Jones, who pro mised that if they would meet him there he would tell them "how 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 persons, 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. He declared that the existing want of employment arose from permanent, and not from temporary causes. The welts were not frozen, but were dried up, and they must dig deeper if they wished again to open the sources of labour and of prosperity for the people. He ascribed the suspension of the building trade to the national debt, which had impo verished many and enriched a few. Capital was withdrawn from other trades and invested in building, because those who by usury bad 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 houses were no longer wanted, while many that were already built were untenanted, and hence non-employment in that trade. Large numbers of men being thus thrown out of work the labour market became overstocked, and the natural consequence was a fall of wages, the masters in other trades paying off those who were out of work against those whd 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 iron trade could not fall back upon the land, for that resource was closed against them. Again, the price of cotton bad been raised; the United States and many countries on the continent of Europe had 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 were enduring. The only good thing recommended to them by the "Association" which had undertaken to advise them was the cultivation of the waste lands of England, and that was a plan he himself suggested 10 years ago. Thera were 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 were they to obtain possession of it ? They were advised to peti tion Parliament, bat Parliament consisted of the very men who owned the land, and whose interest it was that no more acres should be brought into 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• meat of their own, and that could only be achieved by uni versal suffrage. Let them rally, then, around him, and go for the People's Charter. He would lead them. When they had once obtained Parliamentary power his plan would be to create out of the unemployed 1,000,000 inde pendent farmers by settling them on the waste land. These farmers, so created, would require cottages and clothing, and thus would bo 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 we go ? What shall we do &sliver" Agita tion had obtained for the middle classes a reduction of the income tax ; let 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 for.a show of hands in confirmation of the doctrines he was endeavouring to in culcate. He declared his present object to be to warn Vie Government and the Parliament .If they conceded the waste lands to the working classes ho 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. pIIRSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause, "Martin against Martin," the creditors of GEORGE II OHIJN MARTIN, 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 Klndersley, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they wid 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, Fenchurch-street, Plaintiff's Solicitors. From the London Gazette of Last Night. BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, FED. 14. This day bad audience •of her Majesty--The Count de Lavradio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary from hie 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'Eckatadt, Minister Resid en t 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 respectively 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, Esq.., to be Members of the Legislative Coun cil of that Island. 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. MEMBERS 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 Northsteacl, 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 Transfer 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 Assistant Commissioner, for the sale of encumbered estates in the West Indies. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 17. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Lieutenant-General Tho mas Dyneley, C. 13., to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Walker, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 17. let Regiment of Dragoon Guards—William Edward Mareland, 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 Gad gin, who exchanges. 3d Light Dragoons—Captain the Hon. H. M. Monckton to be Major, by purchase, vice Foster, promoted by pur chase to an unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; 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—Lient. 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—Ensign Robert Bradshaw Moorhead, from the Bth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Whelan, who exchanges. 14th Foot—Major Edward J. 11oldworthy, from Depot Battalion, to be Major, vice Brevet-Lieutenant - Colonel Sir J. E. Alexander, who exchanges ; Ensign G . J, N. Beamish to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires. 27th Foot—Captain William Croker, from the 98th J'oot to be Captain, vice Rhodes, who exchanges. 33d Foot—Lieutenant George Birchall Graham to be Adjutant, vice Ensign Toseland, who resigns the Adjn taneyonly. 34th Foot—Captain Arthur Trevor Leake Chapman, from half-pay 34th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major G. E. Brown-Westhead, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal War rant of 6th October, 1854. 47th Foot—Captain Jasper Lucas, from half-pay 47th Foot, to bo Captain, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel. Lowndes, promoted to the Substantive Bank of Major General Unattached, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1854. 49th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edgar Gibson to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Lamb, who retires ; Captain George Kemp Chatfield, from half-pay 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Gibson, placed upon half-pay. 56th Foot—Ensign H. H. Taylor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Godley, promoted. 64th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colon e l J. Draper to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet -Colo nel J. Stopford, killed in action • Captain G. W. P. Bi n ham to he Major, without purchase, g ase, vice Draper ; Lieut. R. C. M'Crea to be Captain, without purchase, vice P. Bingham ; Ensign H. Turner to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice McCrea. 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 m Clarke, n Gent., to be En cs i h g a n s , e v y i c p e u r A c t a c s h e i , B o v n i . c ; e 1 1 .1 d i a. ADMIRALTY, FEB._I4. Rear-AdmiralWile 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 Bine Henry Smith, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain RoberUitzßoy, Captain the Hon. John Frede rick Fitzgerald de Ros, and Captain Charles Henry Swin burne, to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved List. Captain John Nias, 0.13., 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 Gasitte of Sept. 1, 1816, without increase of pay :—Captains Abraham Mills Hawkins, John Drake, and Edward Augustus Frankland. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LO RDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Cornwall—Sir lienry Onslow, Bart., and o Edward Coode, jun., Esq., to be D e puty - Lieutenants. let Rifles Regiment—Lieutenan t- Colonel Colyton to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant , vic e Colonel the Earl of Mount Edgoumbe, resigned; Ensign Thomas Goodricke 8h Wilsonby,, Gent., t t o ebneLieutenant, b eEa s vice n, v trtescue, deceased ; Eliotte Wilson, p romo t e d. Bu Ensign, 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 Militi a —C a ptain William Maude to be Major, vice Grey, deceas e d; Lieute nant George Henry Longridge Hawks to b o C apta i n, v i ce Maude, promoted ; Ensign Compton Legge to be Lieute nant, vice Hawks, pronsotad. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia — Ensign Riversdale Elliot to be Lieutenant, vine Home, ' 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 28th 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, marina, or other person, who may desir e to receive his share from the Collector of Customs or Inland Revenue within the - United Xingdom, is required to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On Prize Btrd nese, 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 virtue 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. The following are the shares due to an indiviiaal in each class : CLIO. Flag share £l6o 10 2 Sixth class ...... £25 9 5 Commander 223 14 6 Seventh class ... 16 19 8 Lieut. command 152 9 8 Eighth c1a55...... 8 9 9 Third class Fourth class 5O 18 9 Tenth class 216 7 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 u. Sixth c1a55......... £l9 6 1 Seventh class..... 12 17 4 Eighth c1a55...... 6 8 9 Ninth class ...... 4 5 9 Tenth class ...... 2 10 Flag share Commander lO6 17 1 Lieut. command 7l 4 8 Third class Fourth class 23 15 10 Fifth class I S ' Sixth class ...... 211 18 0 Seventh class ..• 718 7 Eighth class ...... 319 4 I Ninth class ...... 212 10 Tenth class ...... 1 6 5 BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Epifanio Thalasso, merchant, 11, Bury-court, axe, City. William Thomas Graveno r , h a tt er an d milliner, Bir mingham. St. Mary- BANKRUPTS. Peter George Foscolo, corn merchant and commission agent, 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, City, to surrender, Feb. 26, at eleven, and April 2, a t t we l ve , a r the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assi gnee , 3, Colemin-straet buildings ; Lawrence,i -ews; and ißoyer, Old Jewry chambers. 2 Richard Fernell, commission agent, Aldermanbury, City, Feb. 24, at eleven, March 26, at two, at the Court of Bank , Coleman-street-buildings; ruptcy. Bell, official assig nee y enn ing and Naylor, Tokenhouse-yard. Thomas Butt, ironmonger, Littlehampton, Sussex, Fab. 26 and April 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canino, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Linklater and Halkwood, Sise-lano. 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 Smith, corn dealer, Staplehurst, Kent, Feb. 24, at one, and April 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lawrence, Plews, 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, Cheapside. Alfred Blackmore, hosier, High-street, Sheredit c h; March 4, at twelve, and April 6, at two, at the Court of LBiannkkier and r a u tptcylla ckwNicholson,ood,Sise-lane,official assi ee asinghall-street City, James Watts, innholder, Norton Saint Philips, Somer setshire, Feb. 23 and March 23, at eleven, at the Bristol ghworth, Wilts District Court. Acraman, official assignee, B r i s t o l ; Mil ler, Frome.Solwood, Somersetshire. District Court.' official assignee, Bristol; Browne, Swindon; mmai N ir V lce i hr ll , i 2 am and A 3 t l te , w at el e l le W ven an , e s , t g t r h e e ce ß r r , :s li to i l Prideaux, Bristol. Frederick Martin, innkeeper , Brighton, March 3, a t b alf twelve, and March 31, at twelve , at the Court of Bank ' official F ru e p a t s c e y n . mey S e t r an ß sf e e d l f d o , rd.row. James Walker, bridle cutter and innk eeper , Walsall, assignee ; Grane, S on, an d assignee,n nl d vAji Thomasni i April m1316F: R.nacßothbaeei f n etm a el o reo n nn; : dV' licensed and a r e ii Staffordshire, Feb. 28, and March 21, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Knight, Birming ham. Joseph Sankey, wheelwright, Salford Birmingham; Sheldon, Wednesbury ; atsi Vickers pe h r e bs Liverpool elerrl:p Liverpool,oi g o g l ie District 5 March 2 and 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official Manchester. District Court. Baker, Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Booker, Liverpool. offi cial assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Wil son, Kendal ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. at t Westmoreland, heN ew oss Newcastle-upon 0 2 n 6_ , T a y t n e e l e ven , Alexander Alcock Nevins, merchant, Liverpool, Mar. 3 ajid April 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Evans 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 March 21, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Kitson, knight, Birmingham. Wolverhampton ; 2 3 ' 1 6 , i a lh I I l t t t a h w r o c e h r l pvee 2, , Dundee , Govan. R.ilwinning. - SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James James eem: ,CGLarereamingi„o spirithf aar e r , e corn rd:Fal se t n ifria,s e ii r .cmd c lo h y:T a dG, n e t bime Clydebank, Kincardine• iddlehouse, Carluko. shire. James Clubb, painter, Glasgow. Hugh a h um o g m he s a m s R ‘m u a s hs Cunningham, e o l n l , Fct clothier, grocer, re? rB, CRYSTAL PALAOIL—ONN SHILLINQ FEB. 17.—Admissions 011 payment, 1,120; ditto, by eastann +inirafa 283 total. 1.403. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Prom the Report of the Registrar-General.) The deaths registered in London in 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 1847-56 the average number of deaths in weeks cor responding with last week was 1,135. But as the deaths in the present return occurred in an increased population, it is necessary for comparison that the average should be raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it will become 1,249. 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 224 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, whoopingcough 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 zymotic diseases in the aggregate was not high as compared with the corrected average of corre sponding weeks, but it will be seen that whoopingcough 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 a 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 904 girls, in all 1,851 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor responding weeks of the years 1817-56 the average number was 1,550. . _ At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29'd37in. 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. Glaishor). The highest temperature obtained in the week was 52 . 2 deg. on Wednesday. The lowest occurred on Friday, and was 31'0 deg. 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 5 . 7 deg. The wind blew on almost every clay 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 Saturday. THE SARDINIAN LOAN.-1,985.0491. still remains I* be discharged of the loan of 2,000,0001. to Sardinia. The sum received from the Sardinian Government hithert ) amounts to 14,9501. odd. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL OAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 14 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases t. Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and. Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vegseLs 65 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration 307 _ _ . . Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion _ Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. .. 6 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .. 4 Premature Birth and Debility 27 Atrophy Old Age . .. 57 iudden , -1 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 24 Causes not specified DEATHS IEOII ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- neat's Enumerated. aponding week in the - 1851. of 1856. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts:.:..... 485,522 South Districts _ Total's ......... 2,362,236 1,036 1,264 Males 606 Females 658 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females 947 904 • Total ..•.••••••• 000000000 I NH ••• 1,851 CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public busines4 ; Mr. Deputy Peacock occupied the chair. Dr. LETEMBY, the Medical Officer of Health, pre sented a report, from which the following i-, au extract : - 44 The mortality returns for the week indicate a satis factory state of the public health, the number of deaths having fallen from 70, the death rate of the preceding week, to 54 ; 25 of these Arose- from diseases of the re spiratory organs. There were also six deaths from feet r 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 other epidemic disease." The Court, after inflicting severe penalties on several of the contraotora for cleansing the streets, for neqlect ol duty. adjourned. b