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A LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, pROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUALMI-TrE ASSURANCE ASSOClATlON.—Established 1840. (N . 20,443.) ,DECEMBER 30, 1857. {.-1 ) 11.10E 40. STAMPED 5 .• URNMq QF THE SA KAY . SANDS TRANSPORT. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Wm. G. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L.N. de Rothschild, M.P. TREASURER Or TIIE BENEVOLENT FUND. —John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Accumulated fund . • • • • • ....... £95,000 Annual income ...... ...... • • 27,000 Tbis Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous o assuring. A Benevolent Fund is attached exclusively for clerks. WIS. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Dloorgate-street, December, D 357. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on the USUAL TE1110,4110 Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE THEIR RATES at this time. Premiums can be pail to the Comnany's Agents at Calcutta, Ma dras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The Directors also advance Loans on good security for temporary Periods. - The Colonial have Agencies in every British Celony, where Pre. Ulhum are received. and claims settled. WILL. TIIO. THO‘ISON, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERGUSON, Resident Secretary in London. LONDON . . ... • ................ SI, T.ombard-street (E.C,) EDINBURGH (Bend-office) .... 5, George-street. DUBLIN.. •• .. •• . .. 65, Upper S'ackville-street. 59, St. Vincent-street. E CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, New Bridge-street, London. Chairman—HENßY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq. Deputy-Chairman —RosEaT BIDDELPH, Esq. AbvsyrSoEs—: Mutual Assurance. The lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System. The whole of the Profits divided every Fifth Year. An accumulated Capital of • • • • . • During its existence the society has paid In Claims.. Reversionary Bonuses have been added to Policies to the extent of .. .. • • • • • • • • The last bonus, declared in 1854, averaged 671. per cent. on the Premiums paid, and amounted to • • Policies in force .. .. • • • • The Annual Income exceeds • • • • •• The next Division of Profits will be made in 1859. Assurances effected prior to 81st December,lBs9, will participate In the Division of 1863. to Prospectuses and full particulars my be obtained on application ALF.XANDER MACDONALD. Se^--.-"• .. £1,575,000 1,455,000 890,000 327,603 7,437 240,000 E4TABLIFIFTED 1841. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL . LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-m3ll, London. Empowered by special Act of Parliament. fly the Annual Report of 1853, it appeared that the number o policies then in force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,5001., and yielding an i lleoMe of *5,207/. At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held on the 26th November 46 57, it was shown that on the 30th June last — The number of Policies in force was The amount insured was 2,917,598/. 13s. 10d. The annual Income was .... • Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly Per cent. per annum on the average to sums assured, and by which Policy of 1,0001. issued in 1842 on a healthy life is 1101 Y increased t, 1 ,2601. Profits divided every live years—next division in 1858. The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781 assuring 312,8841. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as Moderate rates as the most recent data will allow. Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities then to assurers. f Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables. Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre- Active working Agents wanted for vacant places. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and ev'ry other informal ion, 'Pay be obtained of the Secretary at tha Chief Office, or on applica mon to any of the Society's Agents in the country. C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary. rtHE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ISSUE .NCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. ? " 41 POWered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIP% ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. E D M ON D SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D , Chairman. Win. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elllotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. P.R.& Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRET ART. Annstus Blonde!, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.It.ST, and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Fdliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &C. ♦SSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Eat. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Mess's. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared In hay, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Policy taken Out in Bonus in Permanent Sum addition Banns in Re action 01 Assured. to Sum Cash. tnnnal Pre- Assured. mium. £ a. d. J 3 s. 4. .Je s. ' 3,000 8 6 7 17 7 423 1 4 56 a 8 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 2,000 151 0 a 102 10 6 10 11 2 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 G 7 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter- Itational Life Assurance Society : The Societ was established in 1838. T Wo-thirds y of the profits are divided amongst the assured every acre years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. tol ts investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted Its hundred and seventy - one thousand pounds. t_t , annual Income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of, policies now in tore* exce, d six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year ,4 1 lice its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards hree hundred and twenty thousand pounds. - ° ProsStrandpectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair 4a, r l4 2, . Chair , Strand. London. W.C. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. De _ CFIARi ES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford Die is.7s,l7), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues to . on receipt of six stamps, " TEIE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." .oledlcal Correspondence conducted. v i ' The first man of the dey in those complaints."—Medical Re 'llllY. 1856. The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure." I r nlversity Magazine. The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of trtnlish ode of tating such omplaints, will prove a blessin to a affli g cted, m who may c safely and easily regain pristine health g by a 7°Ptin g the means presented."—Vvening Star. A ICETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies Certain cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debility, The remedy was discovered by him when bin only child, a daughter, was given up to die. He had heard Much of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepara tions made from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to him that he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard, and succeeded in realising his wishes. His child was cured, and is now alive and well. He has since administered the wonderful re medy to thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and he has never failed in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing to do as much good as possible. he will send to such of his afflicted fellow beings as request it, this r clue, with fall and explicit direc tions for makin it up and successfully using it. He requires each arlpllcant to enclose him six stamps —one to be returned as postage en the recipe, and the remainder to be applied to the payment of t his advertisement: Address to H. James, 14, Cecil-street, atrand. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, - Gray's-inn-road. John 1 AID of the benevolent is earnestly solicited. d "hn Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom °nations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers: b Yessrs. Coutts an d Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Herries and Co. ; 7,,,n50m and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth, Payne, and Co.; ;;9 1 3 . and Co.; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and C o Williams, Deaeon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney,Mae : 2 11 4 n and Co.; by Messrs. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; and at 4 " e -Tiogpital from Ten till Five. By order, S. S. SMITH, Secretary. NO MORE PILLS NR ANY OTHER M tlrtEs (w About Physic) of O Indigestion (Dyspepsia), EDlClNE Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Ileartburu, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com be'lnts ate effected by II BARRY'S delicious REV ALE NTA f„ ALARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, ' c onvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other retnedies: It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids iene rallY, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feresr with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch 'Lad dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and titiscular energy to the most enfeebled. 'We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of g.rati tUde from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. ~ I have derived considerable benefit born Du Barry'r Revaleuta Arabica Food, and consider it due to Yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies.' Cur:, No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham L lg. near Dlss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of N azing. Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Hurts, a cure of extreme ner- Va.laness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.— Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver pool : a cure of ten ee,'s dy s p eps i a, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep- Ida, crayons irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. St orland of dropsy and . ehility. Cave No. 36,212. C apta i n Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of Cramps, spasms, and da il y vomitin g s, Cure. No. 26,418. D r. li ar- Vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,625. Dr. Wortzer Of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, F.sq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver der angement, Partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ,514. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, Of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castleatnart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguera, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, lin). " Twenty-flue years' nervousness, con stipation, indigestion and debility, from which I have suilered great Misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. " F i g ht years' ,i. pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cr a mps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring I ood• I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Fla yell. R hilinaton Rec tory, Norfolk." No. 32,536. " Three years' excessive nervousness , With pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Rees, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita. tations:— The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In Canisters, llb 25 M ; 21b as fid ; 51b 119, 121 b 225. The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum. 1.1a40n, and Co.. pur veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly; also at 60, Gracechurch street ; 330,430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 149, Bishopsgate- Street ; and 150 and 168 Oxford-street . Age; 1838 1841 1845 ittt PUBLICATIONS. NEW NOVEL BY CAPT. BERESFORD. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in three vols., CLARA LEICESTER. By Capt. G. DE LA POER BERESFORD. " The sketches of fashlon+ble life and character will render this ,tory acceptable to many readers "—Sun. llurst and Blacken, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. MR. ATKINSON'S TRAVELS, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. Now ready, in royal Svo., with slap and 50 Illustrations, including numerous besutifally Coloured Plates from the Author's Original _ _ _ Drawings, price 21. 25., elegantly bound, RIENTAL and WESTERN SIBERIA ; A Narrative of Seven Years' Travels in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, and Central Asia. By THOMAS WITLAN ATKINSON. " A book of travels which in value and sterling Interest must take rank as a landmark in geographical literature. Its coloured illustra tions and wood engravings are of a high order, and add a great charm to the narrative."- Daily News. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlb3rough•street. NEW WORK BY MATTHEW ARNOLD. Just published, in 1 vol. fcp. svo. price 54. cloth, A RNOLD, £ T ERE, W o i P thap a refie Tr agedy. eaild an Historical MATTH EW ricaI Introduction. By the same Anther, uniform with the above, POEMS, FIRST ,ERIES, Third Edition, price ss. La. POEMS, SECOND SERIES, price ss. cloth. London: Lonirman, Brown. nrni r.rrinater-r.w. M it. BEN t LE Y'S POrULAR NEW SERIES. This day, in crown Bvo., 23., T HE CONFESSIONS OF A THUG By CAPT ,IN MEADOWS TAYLOR. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. B EN TL E Y'S MISCELLANY. Price Half-a-crown. CONTENTS FOR JANUARY. No, CCLIII. Our Annual Dissertat on. Faint Heart Never , Von Fair Lady. Chaps. 1., IL, lIL, ant IV. By Dudley Costello. The Bheel Tribes of Candeish. German Almanacks tor 1858. Into Spain The Secret Witness. A Day with the 'rookside Harriers at Brighton. The Causes of the In ian Mutiny. Sint Lvremond. By Monkshood. Oar Popular Amusements—The Circus. An Autumn in Wales. A Literary Dinner—My Fourth (Slow) Move—My Last Move, or Move Off (Life of an Architect). Too Much to Wear. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. T HE DUBLIN 'UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. ,No. CCCI., JANUARY, 1858. Gerald Fitzgerald, " The Chevalier," By Harry Lorrequer. Part I. Buckle's History of Civilisation. , Oriental and Weatera Siberia. The Ear; s of Kildare. The Handwriting on the ‘N , all. A Week with the " Times." Passages in Irish Ethnolugy. By A Year of Revolution. IR. G. Latham, M.D. Livingstone's Missionary Travels. The Partners. By shirley Brooks. Marianne. By W. Charles Kent. Our Foreign Courier.—No. 3. Dublin : Hodges, Smith, and Co. ; London : Hurst and 21ackett. Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth, - - FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALDER I' FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. In addition to other useful information, it will contain a complete Record of the Racing and steeplechase Season in England, Ireland, ana Scotland trom the let of January up to the day of publication, Derhy Lots for 1854, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next year ; forming one of the most copious works of reference ever published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, FulwOod's Rents, Lloi born, London. A Now Edition, the Fourth.—Just Published, price 55., by pus tree, ss. 4d. N TRUE b FA (.SE SPERMATORR LI(EA , with a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in re lation to its Nature, Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. To wh'ch is added, AN ESSAY ON SEXUAL DEBILITIES. By the Editor. "Dr. Pickford is known to Engiish readers by his frequent pract , contribution •to German medical literature. This is the ties. time, be worms., that he has addreesed himself to the noa-medi. eal reader. We trust this may not be the last, it he shall detect any 'ether equally flagrant evil which it may be in a D ^ect. - --tAnnly. csame.e. In we - cenecup and Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book .ould find its way Into the hands of those whe .affer from the com plaint of which It treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be gaved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less .mportance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much motley ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to th. empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and phriological basis. It is, therefore. ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. fondon: 11. Ralliere. 519, Itegont-street. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. - - lEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, tad all Boast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, uid by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to s-rte'tly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe ttird to health. old by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, .ondon, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay tad Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and raer lhants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA nd PERRI NA" are anon the labs and patent cap of the bottle. I) U R Y FOOD, BA for DF. ITE CELEBRATED INFANTS, CINFANTS'DREN and IN: A LIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is more easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than ilk ; aridity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided be it, and perfect regularity of the system and sound sleep in ;tired. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred .ind a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding 4 stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Du Barry and Co., 17, tegent-street, London Prices: —ln Canisters, Is.; 21.; and 121 b. at 21s. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on tweipt of Post Office Order. THE SECRET IgFERMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATITRITY Just publislie , l, price Is., poet free, in an Envelope, for 13 stain" QELF - PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise L - 7 on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, end on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting rom vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth o Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by •rinaryexamination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases., BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their phys.cal condition, and who aro conscious of having hazarded the h.plth. happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated with ut incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc ecd the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bittenress may be removed, find how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, hat there is sca*cely any degree of physicil infirmity or functional erangernent to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 201 tvarwick-lane, Paternoster•row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester-square ; Ocrdon, 146, Leadenhall- street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from f; till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr, Von lilzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. 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It also constitutes s certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula. and all utancous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup ions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate tie virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration 'hrourli the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a ever-is-fling remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately 'he English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitabledestruc ion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in tho world cannot restore. Price 11s., free by post, Is. Bd. extra to any part of the kingdom; or four cases in one for 335., by post, 38.2 d. extra, which saves I Is., and in N. c•ctes, whereby there is a saving of V. 12s. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King William-street. 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CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS and the CHRIST MAS HOLIDAYS.—The " CHRISTY'S " :will appear in Twelve Entertainments this Week. Commencing Every Afternoon at 3 (for this week only), and at the usual hour, R, Every Event - Ig, introducing their Choicest Gems.—Prices, 3s. 2s. and Is. JULLIEN BURLESQUE NIGHTLY. PROFESSOR WILJALBA. FRIKELL, Physician to their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Russia.—ST. JAMES'S TGEATRE.—PHYSIC A.L and NA TOR &I, MAGIC, without the aid et any Apparatus.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSIONS.—Saturday Afternoons at 3, and Every Evening at 8. Stalls, 55.: '3alcony Stills, 45.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gi'llery, Is ; Private Boxes, two guineas; one guinea and a-aalf, and one guinea. —Places to be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. CASINO DE VENISE.—This Establishment will be kept open an hour or two later than usual on THURSDAY NEXT, 31st Dec„ to WELCOME IN THE NEW YEAR. A DELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, A Strand.—Great success of M. 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ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London; and by Chemists and Perfumers. ** BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS I I THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE. The following notice and memorandum have been issued by the military authorities : __ " Horse Guards, S.W., Dec. 29. " Notice is hereby given that the competitive exami nations of candidates for the admission into the junior department of the Royal Military College, referred t• in article 6 of the subjoined memorandum, will be held at Burlington-house, Piccadilly, on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of January "Memorandum. " Horse Guards, Deo. 3. "Her Majesty having been pleased to approve that the education of gentlemen of all arms of the service who do not obtain commissions by direct appointment shall be given at the Royal Military College at Shnd hurst, the following will be the regulations for the future admission of candidates into that College : _ _ " The age of admission to be from 16 to 18 years. " The candidate must apply through his parent or guardian to the General Commanding-in• Chief for per mission to have his name entered on the list of competi• tors for the College. On receiving that permission it will be open to the candidate to coinpate at any one of 'the half-yearly Entrance Examinations which may ocour while he is within the prescribed limits of age. It un successful, he will be allowed a second trial ; but if again unsuccessful, he will be debarred from further competi tion for entrance into the College. _ _ 3. The unsuccessful candidate, however, will still be eligible to enter the army by paeeinsr the examination for 40-mmieeinnf.. "4. The period of study will be two years. It will be terminated by a competitive examination, the most succesAul candidates in which will be permitted to select the Corps of Royal Engineers or Royal Artillery, ac cording to the number of vacancies in those corps, or will receive commissions without purchase in the Ca v4ry, Guards, or Line. Those who select the Ordnance Corps will be removed to the School of Application at Wool wich. " 6. The payments by Cadets at the Royal Military College will be on the following scale, Per annum. For sons of private gentl.men £loo For sons of admirals and general officers having regiments For eons of general officers not having regiments 70 For sons of captains and commanders of the Royal Navy and field officers of the army having sub stantive rack 5O For eons of all officers of the :Royal Navy and Army under the above ranks For the sons of officers of the Navy and Army who have died in the service, and whose fami lies are proved to be left in pecuniary distress 20 Twenty ' Queen's Cadets,' being sons of officers in the Navy and Army who have fallen in action, or have died from the e&cts of active service, and have left their families in reduced circumstances . Free. " In addition to the above payments, there will be re quired to be deposited on entrance such sum as shall be found necessary for supplying clothing, books, and in struments. " 6. The first competitive examination for the Royal Military College will take place in the month of Jan., 1853, at which 24 of the most successful candidates, if duly qualified, will be admitted. "7. E,,ch candidate will be required to produce a certificate of baptism, or other satitlaetory proof of his age, a certificate from a minister of the Chureh or deno mination to which he belongs that he has bee* dilly in structed in the principles of religion, and a certificate from the master or tutor under whom he has been edu cated of his general moral conduct for at least the two preceding years. "The candidate will be examined by a medical officer to ascertain that he is in every point of view, as regards his physical constitution, fit for military service. "The following will be the subjects in which exami nation papers will be set, and the number of marks assigned to each, viz. : Marks. Classics (Latin 2,000, Greek 1,600) 3,600 Mathematics English language French 1,200' Any other modern language 1,200 History, with geography Natural Sciences—a. e., mineralogy and geo logy Experimental Sciences—i.e., chemistry, heat, electricity, including magnetism Drawing "In mathematics the following elementary branches will be required to be taken up, viz. : " Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fracti ons; proportion, extraction of the squares root, interest, " Algebra, including fractious, simple equations, and questions producing them. " Euclid,' the first two books. "To these two branches 1,200 marks (out of the above 8,600 marks for mathematic:) will be allotted, and ii will be neces. ary for qualification that at least 600 marks in all be obtained. "In the English language 400 marks will be assigned to correct and legible writing from dictation and to coin position, and of these it will be required that at least 200 shall be obtained for qualification. " In the French language 400 marks will be allotted to correct reading and translation from an easy French author, and of these at least 200 will be required for qualification. "In history (with geography), 400 marks will be allotted to that of England with its dependencies, of which 200 will be required for qualification. "And, in addition to the number of marks just stated as indtsperpable for qualification in the required portion of mathematics, English, French, and history, it will be necessary that the candidate shall obtain such a number in these and the remaining Aubj-cts above enumerated as shall raise his total number to 2,400 marks. "No marks will be allowed to count in any subject left optional to the candidate, unless at least one-fifth of the marks allotted to that subject be gained. "The candidate will be required to forward to the Council of Military Education one month before the ex amination a statement of the subject, he desires to take up, in which he will specify the names of the classical authors he has studied, and the course of history he has been reading. "The competitors will be reported to the Commander in-Chief in their order of merit, and those first on the list will succeed to the vacancies at the College. " By command, "G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General." THE STAFF COLLEGE. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The authorities at the War-office having decided on sending out an additional force to India, exclu sive of the troops who are now under orders or on their passage to that country, instructions have been forwarded to the commanding officers of the various depots attached to the Indian establish ment, directing them to hold in readiness troops from their several depots to the number of 1,000 non-commissioned officers and men, with the pro per proportion of officers, the whole of whom will embark at Gravesend early in the ensuing month, tonnage having been taken up for them by the Hon. East India Company. The following are the depots which are ordered to furnish that number of officers and troops for their regiments, the service compa nies of wilieh are now stal jotted in the Bengal Pre sidency—viz. sth (Fusiliers), Bth (King's), 10th, iff 4 asti Fusiliers) : 24th, 27th (High landers), 52d (Light Infantry), 53d, 60th Rifles, Ist, 1 4 1 '14 2 8M i'n 2 5 4 ), a 2 (114 '907 1 32d, 35th, 87 , h, 423 2d, and 3d battalions, 61st, 70th, 75th, 78th (High landers),Blst, 82d, 84th, 87th(Royal Irish Fusiliers), 88th (Connaught Rangers), 89th, 90th (Light In fantry), 93d (Highlanders), 94th, 98th, and the Rifle Brigade. Iu aelditiou to the above troops, 500 non-commissioned officers and men will embark early in January for the purpose of joining the head-quarters of those regiments attached to the Bombay and Madras establishments, together with the 48th Regiment and the 92d Highlanders, which reeimenis are to proceed to I n dia from Gibraltar, where tbey will be relieved by the 22d and the 25th (King's Own Border ers ). An adjour ne d meet i ng was held yesterday morning in the messroom of the officers of the Royal Artill er y, W oo l w i ch, at t h e request of the Commandant of th e G arr i son an d was attended Brown, R. M., C o l onel Brockman , E as t Ke n t Militia, Colonel B ow l es, Oxford Militi a , M a j or Salts, commandin g th e Royal Military Train, and upwards of 100 officers belonging to the various regiments on d uty in Woo l w i c h. Majo r - General Williams announced the , bject of the meet ing from the chair, by s t at i ng that h e b a d reque s ted their attendance t o di scuss the a d van t ages t o b e , derived from a military institute, now in progress, for the benefit aft recreation o f the private soldier, and which he hoped t o see liberally carried out and supported by the contributions of every officer in the garrison. The General, after pointing out the numerous advantages which such an institution would confer on the whole military community, said he was anxious for its [inauguration, as he had wit nessed the benefits of similar est a blishments in other garrison towns. Col. Brow n , R.g., expressed him self highly in favour of forming a n institution which would offer a second home for the leisure hours of the soldier. It cannot be denied(continued Colonel Brown) that the domestic accommodation of a mar ried soldier's quarters, is oftentimes most uninvit ing. In such cases an establishment like the one now under their consideration, would be fraught with marvellous advantages, and would offer a second home at an insignificant expenditure. The Rev. G. R. Glei,, M.A., chaplain-general to the army, enumerated instances of the manifold advan tages which he had observed in Dover, and other places, where these establishments have been created, in order to provide for the relaxation and amusement of the soldier's leisure hours, and said there could not be two opinions on the benefit which a similar home would confer in Woolwich on the well-disposed of every age, but more particularly on the moral and social well-being of the young soldier. Colonel Gardner and other officers sub.ie quently addressed the meeting, when a show of hands was requested by those who were in favour of the institution, and who were willing to contribute towards its establishment and support, and also a show of hands for the contrary object. The BUM iiers exhibited a majority iu favour of the institu tion. Some important improvements and alterations, suggested by the East India Company's Directors on their recent inspection of the light draught gun boats under construction for river service in India by Messrs. Rennie and Sons, having been com pleted, the !three already terminated are being packed for shipment forthwith. Instructions were received yesterday at Woolwich Dockyard relative to paying off and recommission ing the flag ship Fisgard on the 31st inst. Com modore Shepherd will immediately rehoist his flag, and the whole of the numerous officers employed in the contingent s , rvice3, and who are borne on the Fisgard's books, are to be reappointed, with the exception of Mr. Mugford, master who is to be succeeded by Mr. C. T. A. N o d dall i , commandug her Majesty's ship Agame mnon ; and Mr. V . Wil liams, who will retire on th e h a lf- pay list. The Goliath, 80, screw s earner, which has been some time in dock at Sheerness, to be fitted with her machinery, is ordered to be taken to Chatham to be ready for sea. The freight ships Dutchman and Adonis em barked yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard the Ist Royal Surrey Militia for conveyance to Waterford. The Dutchman embarked seven companies, com prising two field officers, four cap t a i ns , eight subalterns, two staff, 32 sergeant s , 10 d rum mers, 21 corporals, 398 privates, 32 so l d i ers ' w i ves, 38 children, and two officers' horses ; and the Adonis embarked three companies, comprising one field officer, two captains, five subalterns, three staff, eight sergeants, 10 corporals, 1 77 privates, 11 sol diers'officers were Col. W. H. Sumne r , Li eu t . -C o l. G. P. Evelyn, Major G. D. Scott, Capt a i ns E. H. L. wives, four children, and on e h orse . The Penrhyn, C. W. Calvert, J. A. Boulcott, C. S. Barrow, W. Platt, A. H. S umner ; Li euto . Re "Horse Guards, Dec. 29. " Notice is hereby given, that the competitive exami nations for admission to the Staff College will be held at Burlington House, Piccadilly, on the lot of F0b.,1858.7 • T.HE .NORTHUMBERLAND AND VUR- Peters, W. H. Wedley, P. A. Carlton, S. Taylor, HAM DISTRICT BANKIIsi G COMPANY. ' A. L. Bayne, G. C. Bayne ; Ensigns W. U. Miller, - A. Harding, J. R. Meeey, G. P. Walker, G. Yesterday the Lord Ch ance y A d Alaskan, C. A. P. *Hock - , B. W. Minchin, directing that all parties conceo Adjutant t a n n . t H. J. Warwick, Prossr the petition for winding-up tt, ~,trY a rm at e:mt ea r s tF e r. R ‘L on ß tr e e l e l , e7 S ; ur A g d eo j sented by Messrs. Tucker, Gra er, and Assistant-Surgeon, H. W. Jackson. Both ships on behalf of Mr. E. Bourne ; of ge, left last evening for Waterford. Blackheath, do attend bef o re hii. ith The Diadem, 32, screw fiigate, Capt. Moorzone, January. The petition slates t, vas C. 8., and the 9, steam sloop, Lieut.- started in 1835, and the cepital '-• )0/. Com ander Gibbon, were officially inspected yes inl,enx6w2whocoi,aacOn issk O ti,il O aaesn: s edoa h su:m a td r h e oo s brnsprh o ae weholhld.hiOseelshT. North each, thoialrstet uinpe sdat sat terd aat Portsmouth by Admiral Sir G. Seymour, sm, K.C. ~ the Commander-in-Chief of the station, ck, prior to their going on a cruise, the former for some full to the Coast of Africa. a . r d e e d r experimental trials in tale Channel, and the latter 'amount thereof. From 1837 to 1S tors The following appointments weremade yesterday convened meetings yearly, and di- ' per at the Admiralty : cent. and recently of 7 per cod every half-year, with a c onsiderak'Lieutenants—A. C. Curtis to the Vulcan ; George A. each Douglas and W. Heaton (for divposal) to the Royal , ccasion to the contingent ace )orts Albert. were issued by the directors, rma- Paymaster—W. G. Parmeter to the Ajax. tion in them was scanty au& .) the real condition of the comp an ctors Surgeon—Nicholas Littleton'to the Fisgard. in the last report in Februarys that Assistant-Surgeons—William Carmichael, Maxwell rte business during the prereti..,,: a , 'fully Rogers, Joseph V. N. Blake, and Richard C. M'Clement, tnswered their expectations, that' OPII3- *as. +1...41ett, „tn-44eVtatery ; Thomas Roe, Andrew Malian, and ofir, after all expenses, of 70,2601.,t.giviiig divi- Edward B. Broster to the Impregnable. :,.nd of 3/. 10e. for the half-yearienti er; June, and Mr. Samuel Irvine has been promoted to a Deputy that they proposed to declare a like divideneati,the Medical Inspector on the retired list. Deannbar half-year; leaving a surpNa of, ,2541./. The statement with the report sloweo, on AO erehit site, thatthe proprietors' capital, paid up, amounted to 655,491/ , the deposit aid credit _balances to 3,379,819/., and the guarantee fund 4 , 90,874/ ; and on the credit side of the wcount cash bills, notes, debit balances, and otier see_a,....ies amount ed to 4,152,0851., and the "Clue of the bank pre nises Netw i cil.stk airri4cal.7j4allob es 21,165/. Thy nc"e Ile opage"WAWWlEk'rkt - tiiinisrlitre oliscovered that included in the 4,152,086/. repro - en teal .as invested on security, was a very large sum advanced by the directors on mortgage of certain mineral properties in which one or more of the di rectors were interested personally, and which fact was wholly cone -a'cd from the shareholders. It iw further appeared that in August last, when the last half-year's dividend was declared, the bank, to the knowledge of the directors, was hopelessly in solvent At a meeting on the 26th Nov. last the shareholders were for the first time made aware of the alarming position of their affairs ; that the as sets were insufficient to meet the debts and liabili ties ; that not only was the paid-up capital of 10/. per share lost, but that the liabilities would require a further contribution of 5/. per share, which was made in the shape of a call, but not responded to. That the directors advanced considerable sums to one another on inadequate security, and improvi dently invested it in speculative transactions. The total loss of the capital was concealed from the shareholders, and the company represented as m a flourishing state. Toat the debts and liabilities of the bank amount to several millions ; that the share holders are liable • and that there is n o o th er equit able method of dealing with the bank and its em barrassments but under the winding -up jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery ; it being understood that any call made by the directors is invalid on the ground that the shareshave been fully paid up, and that therefore the directors have no power to make a further call. Petitioner, in conclusion, alleges his belief that the committee appointed to confer with and assist the directors are personal friends and under the influence of the latter. THE SLAVE TRADE. (Front the Daily News.) The West Indian negro peasant is, according to the Times of yesterday, as much like a beast as ever :" he won't work, he won't cover his person, or shelter himself or his family ; he is vagrant and 42321610100 "-tile - laat deeaer.-..—Q9t9.1 , 1,94) argues our contemporary, West India planters must be - ' allowed to commit felony by buying Africans, or at all events to import Indians, as French restaurants supply bread, a discretion. This description of the emancipate) peasant of the British West Indies is not only, as regards its objects, a foul, but—in the interests of the planters —a very injudicious libel; for it is by exaggerations and untruths of this kin] that passions are roused, ill-will and prejudices cultivated and extended, an tagonism established, and all confidence destroyed. The West Indian planters will gain nothing by such falsehoods ; they will only render their cause more odious than it is, and create an opposition to their views and projects that will frustrate and defeat them, even when they may be unobjectionable. That the West Indian peasant can work well and profitably for his employer in the sugar field, the history of slavery shows. Why, then, does he not work there now steadily and continuously ? His in terests, his prospects, his improvement, are more or less dependent on sugar production, which is the staple wealth of the West Indies ; why then does he not by his labour maintain and largely augment the production of that staple ? Surely the chief reason is plain and simple enough. You cannot cast your eyes over a book of West Indian statistics but it stares you in the face. Turn, for example, to the tables relating to our Colonial possessions for 1855, lately presented to both Houses of Parliament by the Queen's command, and then he who runs may read the cause. The reason is the low rate of wages given for work in a country in which labour is not redundant, and where there are many temptations not to work for wages at all. In St Kits the average rate of wages was in 1855 6d. to Bd. a day, in Nevis it was 7d., in Antigua 6d. to ls., in Montserrat 54d., in Dominica 7d., in St. Lucia ls., in Barbadoes 10d., in Grenada 28.61. to ss. a week of five days, in Tobago 10d. a dav, in Trinidad ls. 3d., in British Guiana Is. 4d. Now it is to be remarked that the cost of many of the leading articles of provisions, nearly all of which are imported—the cost of clothing, in which the emancipated peasant, or " beast," as the Times calls him, is vain and expensive—and the taxation of all these colonies, are very high. Field work is the lowest kind of labour, and while it is thus miserably underpaid, skilled labour in these colonies is very highly remunerated. It St. Kits, for example, the average wages of tradesmen are ls. Gd. to 2s. Id. a day, in Nevis 2s. 6d., in Antigua 25., in Mont serrat 2s. to 35., in Dominica 25., in St. Lucia 2s. 6d., in Barbadoes ls. Bd., in Tobago 2s. Gd., in Trinidad 4s. 2d., in British Guiana 4s. These statistics establish two things—first, that the wages givert for cultivating sugar afford ?10'adeqUate in ducement for the peasantry to cultivato it steadily and continuously, and that the profits of skilled labour are large enough to divert every predial labourer worth his salt to the prosecution of higher class work. [t is further apparent from these tables that it is exactly in those colonies wherein wages for predial labour are highest that production is increasing. In British Guiana wages for field work are ls. 4d. a day, and its exports were valued in 1853 at 1,014,944/. ; in 1854 they rose to 1,405,3321., and in 1855 were worth 1,331,3711. So also in Jamaica, where labour bears a higher rate than in the smaller colonies; the value of Jamaica produce ex ported rose from 729,9561. in 1854 to 957,1141. in 1855. To some extent this rise in value may have been caused by a hiehEr price of sugar ; in that case, however, the profits of cultivation must also have increased, and the planters can have had no excuse in want of pecuniary means for not drawing steady and continuous field labour out of the pea santry by good and adequate wages. The true policy of the West India planter is to purchase at its proper market value the labour he allows to be wasting for sugar purposes around him. But the real object of the West India plant r is the very reverse of his true policy—it is to lower the rate of wages for field work by immigration. The emancipated peasantrycan live without the planters, and their labour is only to be had for substantial wages; those wages the planters, we have seen, will not pay; and then, because the peasantry will not work for inadequate remuneration, they are insultd by being told that "they are as much like beasts as ever ;" as if at any time or under any circum stances, conscientious, serious, and temperately minded men could or would apply such a term or use such language to describe any of the human race, "heirs to immortality," however low in the scale of civilisation. But if the emancipated peasantry are, in West Indian estimation, like beasts, it is obviously be cause of their African origin and of their Negro character. Then surely it is the grossest inconsist ency to ask for more Africans, more Negroes, and more "beasts," unless indeed it is intended to sub ject the new arrivals, purchased in Africa, to that compulsory servitude in the West Indies whichthe British people paid the planters 20 millions sterling to free the " beasts" they already possessed from. If Creole negroes in a state of freedom won't work in the West Indies—where the climate enables them to dispense with the refinements of shelter or ap parel, and the soil provides them with sustenance — surely there i,s less reasonable expectation that newly imported Africans, ignorant of all inducements to work, will toil voluntarily under similar circum stances. There seems to be a hitch here, a sort of hiatus in the West Indian argument, which can only be repaired or filled up by a proposal to re duce the African immigrants to slavery of some sort or other. But if we will not open Africa to the West In dies, can nothing, we are asked, be done in Indian for the West Indian planters, who won't employ the labour they have at home ? Indian labour has rendered the Mauritius far more profitable, far more productive, far richer under freedom, than that colony ever was under slavery. Why not let the West Indies enjoy all the advantages which the Mauritius possesses ? The answer to this question is twofold. We cannot, if we would, place the West Indies on the same footing as to Indian labour on which the Mauritius stands. But so far as we safely can do, we have already opened India to our West Indian colonies—a fact of which the Times appears surprisingly ignorant. The Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, within a few days' sail of the Indian coast ; it is of easy and cheap access from India, the return to India from the Mauritius is also cheap and easy, and the voyage has become familiar to the popula tion of India. It is a single colony easily compre hensible to a simple mind. These natural advan tages it is not in the power of man to confer on the West Indies ; and even were there no other adverse agency, this difference must always render any comparison between the Mauritius and the West Indies, so far as Indian emigration is concerned, wholly inadmissible. Take that element which must always chiefly regulate the extent of emigra tion—its cost. The contract price fer conveying emigrants from Calcutta to the Mauritius in 1856 —a year of unusually high freights—varied from 21. 12s. to 41. 9s. a-head, and from Madras ave raged about 41. ss. No wonder, then, that the Mauritius can afford to convey 10,000 or 12,000 Indians a-year, to be returned at the expira tion of their terms of service. But from India to the West Indio is a three months' voyage ; the mortality of such a voyage, and of the re turn voyage, must be far greater than to and from, the Mauritius; the cost of transport is more 1 thA l L ~ 11 far eble • the change is in every 1411 gre3 - r ; and the objections of the Indio Cooli e to cross the " black water" are almost insuperable. The'proximity of the Mauritius to 'Maid .is so favourable to emigration, that up to 1856 no fewer than 175,388 Indian immigrants.had bee,n'received in pat island, of whom 27,-000 had, on the expira ticti.ottheir service, returned tOlkdia. ,But even t hei migration, carried. OnltOte Indst en cou ra ~ Olicumstances, has fotie'i4leasaut-faature— w, of ,is of course seriously aggravated.inthe case o West Indies—in the frightful disparity of the s s for while of this total immigratioii.l3s,ls2 w _ ,n en, the number of females was only 25,137. H , .1y however, and owing chiefly to thelow cost of sport, this disparity in the Mauritius can be eaiit removed, and a new scale aproportion has beat . dopted by Governor Higginsoi which will 8 j n ' . ear raise the per centage of female immi gr tg to 40, and in 1860 to 50. Bift...the cost of sucli * per centage to the West riAs would entirely defeat the operation ; it wou,l4render it impossible in a pecuniary sense. But it might be supposed from the manner in which the Times writes that a prohibition of all emigration from India to the West Indies was in force. The very reverse is the case. India is just as open to the West Indies as to the Mauritius ; and if the Times will refer to this yea'r's Report of the Emigration Commissioners, under the head of the West Indies, it will find the first paragraph commencing thus : The number of Giolies ordered for the West Indies for the season 1856-7 was 4,360 for British Guiana, 3.000 for Trinidad, and a ship load for each of the islands of St. Lucia and Grenada. In consequence of this "order" from the West Indies there were actually despatched to British Guiana 2,987 Indians,. of whom only 664 were females ; 1,642 to Trinidad, of whom 414 wet. warciest_;-aud 37.5 th,-Grenada, of wlif, - ?% but 6S were females. Yet we have the nines exßaiming in December, 1857, " Can nothing of this sort be done for the West Indies ?" The truth is, that from 1847 to 1856 al,very con siderable addition has been made to the labouring population of the West Indies. Sierra Leone has nt them 6,543 free Africans ; St. Helena has furnished them with 7,096 liberated slaves ; Ma deira has given them 9,366 of its distressed labourers ; China has furnished 2,000 of its people ; and India, which the Times treats as closed to them, has sent 20,229 Coolies. In these ten years the total extent of West Indian immigration has reached nearly 50,000 labourers of all classes. Thus we see how very little this great advocate of the West Indies really knows of West Indian affairs—how perfectly unconscious it it is of the radical vice of West Indian political economy— how inconsistent with its libel of the black peasantry is its proposal to import mere Africans—how it underrates the advantages which the Mauritius pos sesses for Indian immigration ; and how profoundly ignorant it is that the suggestion it makes has already been actually in operation for the last ten years. It is, in the case of the Times and the West India planters, " the blind leading the blind." Tlig GLASGOW BANKRUPTCIES. (From the _Worth British Daily Mail.) The two cases of bankruptcy which have given Glasgow an unenviable notoriety at this period, which may be said to have sealed the fate of the Western Bank, and which have had an influence both on public and private interests far beyond what could almost have been believed to lie within the range of such causes, have run their course of investigation before the sheriff, and we are not likely to hear much more of the firms of D. and J. Macdonald and John Monteith and Co. The aspect of these concerns has somewhat changed since they first began to be a subject of rumour. That of the Macdonalds does not appear nearly so good in the examination of the bankrupts, nor that of John Monteith and Co. quite so bad as was predicated. The publication of the bankruptcy examinations, therefore, will be found in a rather signal manner in' these cases to give every man his due, and to prevent what is bad from appearing either better or worse than it ought to do. The history of the firm of D. and J. Macdonald and Co., as disclosed in court, is as melancholy a chapter as could well be gleaned from the annals of private enterprise and speculation. The firm is so interesting and honourable in its origin, and so reckless and revolting in its fall, that one can only trace its progress with the most mingled feelings, while every step in its upward and doivnwald career is fraught with instruction and warning. The father-of these young men had made money in the sewed muslin trade, in Paisley. In 1834 he retired, transferring to his two eldest sons the good will and a balance to their credit of 1,7001. In four years this sum had been ne rly doubled by the profits of the business. Two other brothers were then assumed as partners, the father putting 1,0001. into the firm for them, and each of the four brothers being allotted a share in proportion to their interest. Industry, frugality, and a determination to save and gain by honourable means were then the cha racteristics of the firm, which consequently pros pered and rose gradually to moderate wealth and distinction. In 1841 one of the brothers died, and on a balance it was found that there was 6,1391. to the credit of the firm over and above capital, or what had been left or given to it as such by the father. Up to this time the partners bad restricted them selves to moderate saleries, and drew nothing from the profits. But in two or three years more a change came over the spirit of their dream. The ambition of extending their business, and of seizing the lead ing position in the trade, began to urge them into hazardous courses. In 1845 they bad recourse to 8,0001. of accommodation bills. These were chiefly concocted, however, through their father and one or two agents who had the goods of the firm con stantly passing through their hands. About the same period, or shortly after, and while their accom modation paper was increasing, they entered into larger premises, the annual rental of which was 1,3001. Their business wasalready too large for their capital ; yet they strove eagerly to enlarge it ; and, in doing so, encountered rental, taxes, and expenses which would have been most formidable even with the possession of the requisite funds for carrying on such extensive operations. This was the first step to ruin. Still the firm went on, making profits apparently exceeding losses and charges, one brother going out and a new ono coming in, till in 1851, on the death of James, there WAS found to be a balance at credit of 28,000/., and the firm be came bound to pay 11,0001. to the executors of the deceased partner. In 1852 and 1853 trade was prosperous. The balance of the latter year showed 40,0001. to the credit of the firm, and with this shoal of profit came a new dream of ambition. The money market was easy. The bullion dealers had filled the vaults of the Bank of England with gold, and that establishment was overflowing with paper notes. Credit, loans, and accommodation ware very cheap in terms and unlimited in amount. The Macdonalds in this state of affairs entered into extensive building operations, which cost before [ they were completed no less than 90,000/.. being 20,000/. more, of course, than was estimated. This most unwise speculation, considering that the ordi nary business of the firm was carried on by accom modation bills, now swelled to 80,000/., had scarcely been set afoot when bad debts were made to the amount of 23,000/. The builders were paid by bills at long dates, the rates of interest being as low as 21 to 3 per cent. In 1855-56, when these bills had to be paid off, the accommodation paper of the firm jumped at one leap from 85,000/. to 188,000/., the interest being now from 5 to 7 per cent. Entrance into extensive premises led of course to new efforts to increase a business that had many years been much too 1 age, and consequently to increased business expenses, .which, together with the enormous sums paid for discounts amount ing in one year to 40,000/.), swallowed up not only profits, but capital, stock, credit—all. At this stage a tendency to gamble in paintings was de veloped in the leading partner of the firm. At the balance of 1856 the sums to credit which had hitherto appeared had totally vanished. The course of ruin was run, and everything was pre pared for the moral fall which took place in the spring of this year, when the extraordinary, fatal, and disgraceful expedient of hiring worthless parties in London to sign bills at a commission of 1 and 11 per cent. was adopted and carried out till the accommodation paper of the firm rose in a few months to the verge of 400,000/. Did any history ever exhibit more strikingly the importance of avoiding the beginning of evil ? What a lurid glare does that 400,000/. of wind-bills, all but forged, and the filial catastrophe in which they ex ploded, throw back over the 8,0001. of accommoda tion in 1845, and all the various errors and follies of the intervening years ! . The case of Jogri Monteith and Co., as e x pl a i ned by the bankrupt himself, is that of a firm over whelmed by losses, accommodations to others, and by the ensnearing entreaties of a bank manager to aid in propping up various concerns that were rotten to the core. Much of this may be true. There can be no doubt that John Monteith and The follftwimg..letter front Capt. J. S. Castle, the commander efAhe Sarah Sands screw transport steamer, has been •ree e iv e d by M essrs . .W a lt on , shiFbi.okers,.!aVaa.ceiehtirch-street, relative to. the partial destruefitegpf the ship-by fire - and the es capeflre discovered s tt v e a r f e i d e r a orl v o e p ry deck str4 of the t shs t ma r e o mo o ek p ene s: tii is i mse d usei er e c v ; "A : t about 3 45 p.m., on'th cf November, troops were berthed), an. :'.,,, -- . 7 ,ng into the hold found it to be on \ -e. :AA immense in, and the ship brought were ordered o e l r ll e m at e s t a o i l l f l e below. -- - -t.,. ''''' ._ll. of lire arising "I then requested Col. aVi.G.L. ..; t to have all the ammunition thrown overboard, an:-1 succeeded iu clearing the starboard magazine.' By this time the whole of the after part of f'n "ship was so much enveloped in smoke that itAvas scarcely possible to stand, but volunteers cane: : vt . --- i'atiernpted to clear the port magazine ?; wi . ; : - 37 succeeded. in doing, with the exception.' id suppose) of one barrel. Several of the men were dragged up. sense- lea ' m below while thus- engaged. e " I ordered all the boats to be, lowered, placing ght. ri to g g te lbi r er h:44 ; . . ;r : 6 :- !„.; n : ic d ' a t h im l so l l os 2m ra s es a oe e il d p l i t a fa a a ss t n k tel ds : h d n ye the ladies in the port life - he-4 iir the chare of Mr. Verey, third officer, . _ 4m orders to keep clear of the ship until rev ~,. . iVe4 - , chief officer, was forward hoi - • ::- ' ,e cutter and longboat, which was de- _ '- - --' o,;cia - ent. 4 then commenced constructing -:, ' .':'' •'-e I raunched ~ . keeping a third across • 1 ,- . . - i in readi ness. two overboard, and safe ~ • :Jai alongside, ~,. v At about 8.30 p.u. through the upper deck, and shortly izen rigging t-ok fire. I was then fearf.: .p paying off, but fortunately the after • burnt through and the ;712.0v-A oirun a , "rc, t he,. a fearful Atiook place in thc4ort magazine. By this time the ship was one .b2dy of flame from the stern to the main riggiog i and thinking , it =timely possibletr gawk ; . - called Major Brett (in command of the troops) for- - ward, and told him my opinion, requesting him to endeavour to keep order among the troops till the last, but at the same time to use every exertion to cheek the fire. " No person can describe the manner in which the men worked to keep the fire back, one party were below keeping the bulkhead cool, several of whom were dragged up senseless, and fresh volun teers took their places, but were soon in the same sta4e. "At 11 p.m. the maintopsailyard took fire. Mr. Welch, one quartermaster, and four or live soldiers went aloft with wet blankets and succeeded in ex- tinguishing it, but not until the yard and mast were nearly burnt through. About midnight we appeared to have made some impression on the fire, and after that drove it, back inch by Inch until daylight, when it had been completely got under. " The ship now appeared in a fearful plight ; n o m u e t re b l y y t t b h e o ezplo~io n ?, n 1 i s n g f e , e t t he of p w o a r t t e ci r u i a n n t e h r e b h l o o w l and the ship rolling heavily and taking in large quantities of water aft. "As soon as the smoke was partially cleared away I got spare sails and blankets aft to stop the leak, passing two hawsers round the stern and setting them up. The troops were employed baling and pumping, the ship rolling heavily, and the tanks rolling from side to side in the hold. "About 10 a.m. the ladies joined the ship. I then orderedall the boats alongside, but found the sea too heavy for them to remain there; the gig, however, had been abandoned during the night, and the craw, under Mr. Yard, fourth officer, got into another of the boats. " The troops were employed during the remainder of the day bailing and pumping, and the crew in securing the stern. Throughout the night all hands were engaged in bailing and pumping. The boats were secured fore and aft, but several were severely damaged. "At daylight on the 13th the crew were em ployed hoisting in the boats, the troops working manfully in bailing and pumping. Latitude at noon 13 12 S. At 5 p.m. set foresail and foretop sail, and bore for the Mauritius. On Thursday, the 19th, sighted the Island Roderigues, and arrived at Mauritius on Monday, the 23d. " J. S. CASTLE, Commander." STATE OF TRADE. M kNCHESTER, DEC. 29. We mentioned on Thursday last the existence of f a better feeling, with steadier prices in yarns and cloth, and it is gratifying to repeat the report to day. Sellers are asking higher prices for cloth, but there has not been so much business at the advance. A considerable number of orders of moderate ex tent, in madapollams and shirtings for India, placed towards the end of last week, were obtained by the manufacturers who have found themselves unable to obtain the same rates now. The market, how ever, is undoubtedly steadier in most kinds of cloth, and the easier state of the money-market, the higher price of cotton in Liverpool, and better commercial accounts from India appear likely to promote a still firmer market. In yarns there has been more inquiry, but it was checked by spinners to some extent asking higher rates. The advance demanded was Id. to id. per lb., and in some few cases an advance of td. per lb. was obtained. The business effected was not inconsiderable in warps and cops for the home trade, and twists for India, the Mediterranean, and German markets. If the prices of this day week had been taken, a consider able business would probably have been done in both cloth and yarn. Messrs. JohnSlagg dr Co. report : " Since the reduction of the Bank rate of discount on Thursday last the market has been firmer and steadier than for the last few weeks. To-day both spinners and manufacturers are asking higher prices ; but buyers are still acting very cautiously, and, though willing now to operate at the prices asked last week, decline, except in few cases and for small quantities, to give any advance, and there is consequently but little business doing." Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co. report : "There is a somewhat firmer market to-day, and in yarns a slight advance is asked, but not generally ob tained, as business still continues on a limited scale and without animation." There is a general impression that the market will go on improving, but that for some weeks to come such improvement will be slow and very gradual. LEEDS, DEC. 28. There is no feature of importance to notice in the cloth halls this morning. The attendan ce o f b uyers has been moderate, but they have purchased as sparingly as they have done for the last month. There is a little more cheerfulness in the trade as to its future prospects, it being generally admitted that the state of the money-market at home and the accounts from America are favourable, and that with the commencement of the ensuing year the beginning of a better state of things is likely to commence. HUDDERSFIELD, Dnc. 28. A slightly improved state of things may be noted here, and the market in the Cloth-hall displays more animation. Business is, of course, chiefly confined to the home trade, but the offers are gene rally freer, and there is greater encouragement to operate. Wool maintains a steady aspect, but sales are not numerous. THE DUKE or SIITHERLAYD MULCTED IN 20001. We understand that an action of damages, for defama tion, was recently raised in the Court of Session by the Rev. 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